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Friday 19.06.2015 to Sunday 21.06.2015 In the News...

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It’s a first world issue ACK in the 80s when showerheads across the planet dreaded one more bathroom rendition of ‘We Are the World’, it really did feel like the divide between global poverty and wealth could shrink.

African despots, corporate greed and real estate moguls running for American Presidency aside, the First world regarded the Third’s problems as never before.

So, like commemorating the deeds of a good Viking earl, they wrote a song about it.

In reality though much has changed, and much has stayed the same.

The poor the world over still struggle to find food, shelter, peace, clean water, disease-free living and opportunities to rise above it all, while the privileged struggle to choose one from too many cereal brands; what in-home luxury to buy, how to beat avatars in blood bath wars on the xbox with their feet up on the lounge, or to buy or not buy water by the bottle because of gargantuan energy and water consumption it takes to produce them.

Climate change is a real First world issue.

Yes, climate changes every day but glaciers globally receding by miles over the last five years? That’s something different.

While the majority of us struggle with emerging and considered genuine First World Issues like what filter to use on our Instagram photos or the frustration of your Apple Watch not tracking the 10K you just did, the question of do we farm wind or not, remains unanswered and if feels like the whole world has left Australia behind.

Tony.

It’s not like we need green energy, right? Or clean air to breath, clean water to drink, clean soil to grow food?

Hey, we’ve already got enough coal and natural gas, why bother with an option that yes requires some consumption of resources to produce and then gives back clean energy for 35 years or more, as the first mass-produced wind turbines installed in the 1980s in the USA are stil doing.

Is Australia on the same planet as everyone else?

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s report called Wind Energy by 2030 envisions that wind power could supply 20 per cent of all U.S. electricity, which included a contribution of 4 per cent from offshore wind power by 2030.

That’s only 15 years way, and the US is years ahead.

If all the wind farms in China worked at full capacity simultaneously they can produce more energy than all the nuclear power plants operating in the USA today.

It’s already happening and yet Australians continue – with a 7.5 million square kilometre backyard, mostly empty – to debate over the fact they’re not pretty, they’re noisy and the occasional bird might get clobbered.

At some point someone is going to have to take one for the team.

Tony.

As a national we are expectant of prime ministerial gaffs but this isn’t one of those First World frustrations like you’ve bought a new Samsung and have to (sigh) log back into all your social media, or you’ve discovered you actually asked for a shot of caramel in your coffee and (sigh) got chocolate instead.

It’s an issue that won’t blow over and wind there to be harnessed today, and with the technology we have, wind farms are a sensible solution.

Climate change isn’t like the 1980s First World issue like renting a movie and realising the last user didn’t rewind it. Damn!

You can’t rewind the climate, but green solutions like wind farms are one of the best opportunities our generation has to slowing the process.

It’s not like we need green energy, right? Or clean air to breath, clean water to drink, clean soil to grow food?

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Pathways to community health

BY NATALIE HOLMES S JOURNALIST

NGAGEMENT within the neighbourhood is an important aspect of the Buninyong School as Community Centre, which has two significant projects in the pipeline.

With the assistance of local women’s health nurses, the tiny centre adjacent to the school is set to host a women’s pop-up clinic to deal with everything from contraceptive advice and pregnancy tests, through to post-natal checks, nutrition, osteoporosis and menopause along with information about relationships, sexual health and personal development. They will also offer pap tests and breast awareness information along with referrals to other services – all within the comfy surrounds of the clinic.

With the community centre right next door, women’s health nurse Joanne Phillips said it was easy for women to visit – will all ages welcome.

“The clinic is for all women from 18 to 70, but we would especially want the ladies to come who have never had a pap smear or it’s been three years or more,” she said.

With many women making excuses not to get regular check-ups, Phillips said there would be no reason not to attend.

“We are addressing every barrier so that it’s accessible.

“There’s no excuse – we’ve covered all bases,” she added. “We’ve listened to women and we’re catering for all of their needs.”

Single mum of five Kristy Kerr said she’d neglected her own health, putting her children’s needs first, until late last year when she wound up in hospital with a mouth abscess which required four days’ treatment.

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Women’s health nurse Jane Keys, Buninyong SACC coordinator Lorna Brennan, mum Kristy Kerr with her son Xavier and women’s health nurse Joanne Phillips. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

She’s now determined to ensure that she’s fit and healthy for her kids, with the first step being to attend the upcoming clinic.

“It’s hard for me to focus on myself,” she told Weekender.

“But after being in hospital over Christmas and asking a friend to mind the children, I don’t want that to happen again. I want to make sure I’m there for my kids.

“I think it’s good to have the clinic so close to Apollo Estate – a lot of people will benefit from it.”

There are many factors that keep women away from health clinics, including embarrassment, financial hardship, transport availability and difficulties accessing affordable and reliable childcare. Many also say there’s not enough time in their lives to look after themselves.

Phillips calls it LOL. “Last on List,” she quips.

SACC coordinator Lorna Brennan has

instigated the clinic and says there will be nothing to worry about during attendance – there is playgroup next door where kids can be safe and happy, while the clinic itself is in modern, comfortable surroundings.

“It’s an opportunity for women to access these services – it’s such an important thing for them to be looking after themselves.”

Brennan is also assisting neighbourhood children with the instigation of her Walking Bus service which utilises the help of school aides to collect the children from their homes before school, taking them to breakfast club and then along to class.

“It’s part of PACE (Parents and Community Engagement) and we accessed funding through the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet,” she explained.

The focus is on encouraging students towards school attendance as well as actively engaging their parents and carers.

“A lot of kids were arriving late or not coming regularly for lots of reasons,” Brennan said.

“We decided to organise for classroom aide workers to walk a certain route around Apollo Estate.”

The program is working brilliantly, and engages both children and adults.

“The kids know they’re coming and they have a great time socially. It also helps the school staff to engage with parents at the same time, with some face-to-face contact.”

After nine months of operation, people can now readily identify the walking bus, with more and more residents joining in. Brennan has also arranged for Sydney artist Sam Newman to design special bus stops made from old bus parts which will soon be installed

by Dubbo City Council. Walking bus stamps are now being printed on the footpath along the route, which extends for approximately one kilometre along Collins, Aldrin and Armstrong streets as well as Braun Ave. “What I wanted to do was some sort of visual representation on the estate to encourage the walking bus and the importance of going to school,” Brennan said.

She has been assisted in the project by local businesses and the men’s shed group.

The two projects add to the community centre’s young mums’ group, art buddies, cooking classes and weekly playgroup.

She says it’s all part of the service which she aims to provide.

“The more services we offer here, the more happy people are to come along.” » The women’s health pop-up clinic will be held on July 20 and August 20 from 9am to 12.30pm, offered as a free drop-in service with no referral needed. The walking bus signage is set to be installed during the July school holidays.

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Free trade deal for a flat world

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY JOURNALIST

HE China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), officially signed on Wednesday this week, heralds a new beginning for regional Australia’s existing export markets and small business thanks to the promise of reduced tariffs though concerns remain about labour laws surrounding foreign workers and the threat on employment.

Since the announcement in November last year, unions have raised questions over employers bringing in Chinese workers not having to advertise jobs locally and that on projects of $150 million or more workers can also be brought in under Investment Facilitation Agreements (IFAs).

Chief executive officer, Regional Develoment Australia Orana NSW, Felicity Taylor-Edwards said: “It does challenge some of the paradigms that we’ve had in the past about thinking just locally. We can’t just think locally or we’ll miss the greatest opportunity, which is to be able to participate in a global market and a global economy.

“From a regional business perspective it can only be a good thing to open the doors of free trade and also the on going building of relationships and trust between businesses and industries and governments,” she said.

NSW Business Chamber view the agreement as an opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses under their Export Growth China program to benefit from reduced tariffs.

“The ChAFTA will enable Australian SMEs to apply more competitive pricing to products and services exported to China than ever before. With China’s growing appetite for high-quality Australian products and the proactive buyer matching offered through the Export Growth China program, these businesses could be establishing trade agreements in a matter of months,” said NSW Business Chamber General Manager, Paula Martin.

Export Growth China provides SMEs with a low-risk, low-cost entry point and provides expert assistance in navigating the complexities of the Chinese export market.

Mark Coulton, MP, Member for

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Chinese Minister of Commerce Dr Gao Hucheng and Prime Minister Tony Abbott during the signing ceremony of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries in Canberra, Wednesday, June 17. Australia and China signed the FTA after more than a decade of negotiations. PHOTO: REUTERS/POOL/PENNY BRADFIELD Indications are that resources are not Parkes, said in response to the signing, directed away from local economies but that one of the issues in particular, reindustry is strengthened by demands garded meat and dairy. New Zealand alfrom new markets. ready has a free trade agreement with China and has had a price advantage “The preliminary discussions that over Australia. we’ve had with India, and also the ones

“New Zealand has actually grown their industry considerably on the strength of the free trade agreement so this will definitely give Australia a chance to level things up.

Also there are opportunities for agricultural industry and produce as well as the services sector and education. Universities like CSU could benefit from this with a free movement of people doing courses and an exchange of staff,” he said.

we’ve signed with South Korea and Japan, and we’ve had one with the USA for some years provides a broader trade base,” said Coulton.

“I think any industry would be concerned if they only had one dominant customer, so I think that’s why India is also very exciting. At the moment we have low trade with India but they’re one of the fastest developing nations in the world and like China there’s huge potential to put food, information and

A Flat World is where the labour market and the movement of people across jobs is seamless, as is commodity, as is communication, as is industry and economics.

services and a whole range of other things into these countries.

“Ultimately businesses will go where they can to get the best return, that’s what will drive it. Australia feeds 70 million people. We feed another 50 million people on top of our own, so it’s not that there’s limited resources in that regard. We are an export nation,” he said.

Pre empting inevitable shifts in market relationships, the NSW Business Chamber’s Export Growth China program assures participants that their products or services are marketed to key decision-makers in China.

“We have opened a custom-designed showroom in ShanghaiMart; a 280,000 m2 exhibition centre in the heart of Shanghai’s international trading district and the largest permanent trade centre in Asia,” said Martin.

Wednesday’s historic signing spells even greater opportunities for small and medium sized businesses looking at exporting.

“We have to thinking globally, acting regionally,” said Taylor-Edwards. “Trying to lead the focus to a world of global markets, economies and labour markets and how we capitalise on those benefits and see those opportunities at a regional level.

“It’s a way of thinking. You could easily build the boundaries around yourself thinking we’ve got to protect what we’ve got and in so doing you’re denying greater opportunity.

“We’ve always looked out and yet we’re very protectionist of our own and our own identity but the only way we can survive is if we look outward because we’re such a small population and yet we’ve got such rich resources and what we need to be focusing on is how we can make that a mutual exchange,” she said.

Political and business commentators describe labour markets and economies as operating today in a flat world.

“A Flat World is where the labour market and the movement of people across jobs is seamless, as is commodity, as is communication, as is industry and economics. We need to shift our thinking with that while still ensuring that both our existing businesses and our young people coming through can participate within that and not see themselves limited by the boundaries of their local area,” said Taylor-Edwards.

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

Hands-on training for apprentices TAFE Western’s heavy vehicle mechanical apprentices will gain hands-on experience using specialised mining machinery, thanks to a donation of machinery parts from Newcrest’s Cadia Valley Operations The donation includes two complete axle assemblies for an underground Sandvik loader and 11 steering cylinders for a Sandvik Toro 60 underground dump truck, valued at more than $200,000.

TAFE Western’s Institute Director Kate Baxter said the donation of specialised mining machinery continued a longstanding partnership between TAFE and CVO. “Practical, hands-on experience is vitally important for all apprentices and thanks to the continued support of CVO, TAFE Western will be able to provide the best learning facilities for our students now and into the future.

Paul Mead, James Emblem, Jacob Murkins, Max O’Ryan, Luke Forrest, Dylan Harvey, Curtis Hughes and James Martin with the new machinery parts.

Teen killed in Wagga crash DUBBO teen Peter Murray was tragically killed in a car accident in Wagga Wagga last weekend. Murray was the passenger in a vehicle travelling north on the Pine Gully Road at Estella when the vehicle appears to have crossed to the incorrect side of the road and struck a tree.

The 18-year-old suffered significant injuries in the single vehicle crash and died a short time later.

The driver, also an 18-year-old Dubbo man, suffered a fractured collar bone and head injury and was taken to Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.

The accident occurred shortly after 2.30am on June 13.

Police will prepare a report for the Coroner.

are back at where they were in late 2009 and that is simply unacceptable.

Region-wide, the figures are even more concerning.”

Accelerating commercialisation grant A DUBBO business is among the first to receive a special grant as part of the $10.6 million Accelerating Commercialisation element of the Federal Government’s $484.2 million Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Program.

Locally-owned and operated Maverick Biomaterials Pty Limited is one of 18 businesses nation-wide to receive the funding.

“Australia needs to turn great ideas

into commercial products to keep up with global markets, and this targeted investment, combined with an investment from Maverick Biomaterials itself, contributes to a significant local investment and commitment to the future of the Dubbo area,” Parkes MP Mark Coulton said.

Student of the Year category, Lilly Dawson from Lithgow was named SchoolBased Apprentice/Trainee of the Year, Bourke’s Margaret Stewart won the Vocational Student of the Year category, while Parkes TAFE Western teacher Andrea Lovell was crowned VET Trainer/ Teacher of the Year.

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THREE TAFE Western students and a teacher have been recognised for hard work and dedication to their studies and helping others following the 2015 NSW Regional Training Awards in Orange.

Jordan Sloane from Parkes won the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

THE first sod has been turned at the new Western NSW TAFE redevelopment site in Mudgee.

State skills minister John Barilaro and Dubbo MP Troy Grant were on hand to officially launch what will become a leading training and education facility in the near future. Barilaro said the

Labor member’s call for action on policing Country Labor party member Stephen Lawrence has called for action from police minister and Dubbo MP Troy Grant following the release of staffing numbers in the Orana Local Area Command.

Lawrence has pointed out that the most recent figures released by NSW Police show police numbers at a new post-election low across the western region. He urged Grant to arrest the steady slide in local police numbers after quoting the ‘actual strength’ of the Orana LAC as being at 128 officers, the lowest figure since July 2012.

“The numbers we have at the moment

Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton with workshop leaders and team members from Maverick Biomaterials.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 19.06.2015 to Sunday 21.06.2015 $6M project will support 17 jobs and transform the vocational education and training landscape of the area. “Our investment in these modern education and training facilities will provide students with the skills they need to enter the workforce of the future,� he said.

The project has already been awarded a 5 Star Green Star Education design v1 Certified Rating by the Green Building Council of Australia which represents excellence in environmentallysustainable design.

Sporting schools funding FUNDING opportunities are available to local schools as part of the Federal Government’s $100 million Sporting Schools program, Parkes MP Mark Coulton said. “Being involved in this new programme will expand sporting opportunities for children before, during and after school hours at local primary schools. “Sporting Schools is designed to deliver sports in line with local schools’ needs and ultimately to get the children of the Parkes electorate active, engaged and having fun through sport, more often.�

This year’s round of program delivery grants will enable primary schools across the region to enhance the delivery of sportsbased activities during Term 3 and 4 this year.

Missing Warren man found safe A MAN missing from Warren has been found safe and well this week. Police from Darling River Local Area Command called for public assistance regarding the disappearance of 51-year-old John Towe who left his home last Friday.

He returned to the premises late Saturday morning.

Plans for roundabout upgrade THE roundabout at the intersection of Darling St and the Newell Highway is set for improvement, with $385,000 of the State’s Safer Roads funding earmarked for the project.

The upgrade, which will ena-

ble two lanes of traffic to use the intersection, will begin later this month. It will improve road safety and traffic flow for motorists.

It’s estimated that the intersection is used by 15,000 vehicles per day.

Bin audits reveal waste habits IF you’ve been feeling a bit like a celebrity of late, here’s why.

Dubbo City Council has been conducting an audit of domestic waste in the city, examining household bins during April. It was all in the name of research though, with the audit revealing that, on average, 56 per cent of the waste (by weight) of household garbage bin content is either food or garden waste.

Civil infrastructure and solid waste manager Steve Clayton said it was refuse that could be diverted from landfill and converted to compost.

Council is proposing introduction of a food and garden waste kerbside collection service which would save on landfill and reduce long term costs. “The breakup of the waste in our garbage bins each week shows that 33 per cent is garden waste, and a further 23 per cent is food waste, which could all be diverted to a third bin if the proposal for a food and green waste collection service goes ahead,�

Clayton said. “If the proposal is accepted, 56 per cent of waste that is currently going to landfill could be made into valuable compost,� he said.

My Place program in Far West BOURKE and Brewarrina residents had the opportunity to learn more about their consumer rights and responsibilities this week as part of NSW Fair Trading’s My Place program.

NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe described the benefits of the program. “My Place brings Fair Trading services and support directly to consumers and businesses in communities around the state throughout the year,� he said.

The program includes information about a range of consumer issues including money, motoring, real estate and tenancy.

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South Campus music teacher Emma Kersley with state wind band members Robin Hall, Tara Williamson and Chloe Allen.

State selection for musicians THREE Dubbo College students have been selected as part of the State wind band and will play at the Sydney Opera House later in the year.

Tuba player Robin Hall and clarinettist Tara Williamson, both in Year 9, along with euphonium player, Year 10 student Chloe Allen have all been chosen following nomination by tutors from the Western band camp earlier this year.

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Music teacher Emma Kersley was very proud of the students’ selection. “Their inclusion in the band is a wonderful opportunity for them to meet and mix with other talented musicians from throughout the state, and to spend time with top-class tutors and teachers. “We are really proud of these students and we wish them well for this amazing experience.�

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THE WATERCOOLER

BY ELLA MCMILLAN AN STUDENT

State of Origin A record 91,514 fans filled the MCG for Origin 2 on Wednesday night, a test to attendance in what was a home game for neither side but no doubt the Maroons are in uproar over GI’s denied runaway try, with the video ref ruling a knock-on after Inglis’ impressive 80m sprint.

I don’t mind giving GI a bit of a wrap, considering he was born in Kempsey anyway. Commentators were right, that’s one player you don’t want to drop the ball in front of and “because it’s a try, we go back and apply a

different rule to it.”

Well, people have to make money somehow and you can’t help but think it’s a familiar pattern, QLD win the first game, NSW take out the second and the crowd increases for the final face-off and decider, let’s just hope this year, NSW can hold onto it.

Ramadan RAMADAN begins across the world this month with Muslims fasting from dawn until sunset to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran.

During this Islamic Holy month observant Muslims don’t eat or drink during daylight hours as fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Luckily for Aussie Muslims, we have one of the shortest fasting days in the world at 11 hours and 24 minutes at the start of Ramadan. But for most it also means to refrain from sex, smoking, using foul language and speaking distastefully about others.

Quite the contrary to the supposed Islamic culture the Australian mainstream me-

dia like to portray. So Ramadan Mubarak to all those observing this time of year.

Spreading the love THE ‘explain paradise in four words’ was one of the more positive hashtags trending on Twitter recently with users across the globe giving their take on bliss. From “Pokemon coming to life” to “Our citizens before our corporations” it gave Tweeters a chance to describe their ultimate environment.

Which got me thinking what mine would be, “Unlimited Milo for life”? ‘Her Campus’ heavyweights also jumped on board tweeting “Achieving gender equalywhere” accomity everywhere” panied by a powero of actress ful photo Emma Watson.

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of Ruby Rose higher than ever before and an important discussion about gender identity has begun.

In an interview with ELLE magazine, Rose says “[My character is] not the only androgynous girl on the show, but she’s the only person who really identifies publicly as being ‘gender fluid’.

People are talking about gender fluidity more and more now because once someone opens a door to something like that, people put their hands up and say, ‘That’s me! That’s my friend!

That’s my sister!”

The Huffington Post has said her character transcends labels with a universal sex appeal.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 19.06.2015 to Sunday 21.06.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and long-time inhabitant of the south Pacific.

Terror that’s close to the heart but far from home HEN the Nazis spoke of global domination do you think the indigenous people on Tierra del Fuego shat themselves?

I suspect that even though they probably weren’t privy to the best of top secret Allied intelligence reports, the people at the frozen tip of Argentina retained a sense of perspective.

So when Hitler was ranting about world conquest, they knew some areas would obviously be lower priority than others.

With thousands of mesmerised countrymen hanging on his every word, the Fuhrer couldn’t falter with detail like “...today Germany, tomorrow the world – with the obvious exception of Tierra del Fuego and other remote areas of low strategic value, Antarctica obviously, the Australian deserts, Russia of course, unless somebody has a freakin’ brain snap (laughter)...”

When your kids asked you about bushfires at some stage, did you say the risk in town is fairly low and the emergency response of rich countries like Australia is pretty good?

You didn’t say “imagine the horror as the flames close in on us, trapped in the family home, the terror in our eyes still visible through the thickening smoke”.

So consider the results of the wide-reaching annual Lowy Institute poll, which found Islamic State (IS) ranked the highest threat among the 1200 Australians surveyed.

While IS has some sympathis-

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ers here, its active influence is largely confined to Syria and Iraq some considerable distance away.

There’s some IS franchises up and running in Libya and to an extent places like Yemen and some African countries.

But if you had to rate people at high risk from IS, Australians would be well down the list, especially Australians living here, miles away, in the South Pacific.

Our role as an unquestioning US ally certainly earns us a mention in IS propaganda, but our police and increasingly powerful intelligence services have thus far snuffed out the handful of homegrown Islamist plots and jailed the conspirators.

Given these plots, and IS calls to so-called lone wolf radicals, it is certainly worth keeping the issue on the radar. But the highest threat to us? That’s ridiculous.

According to Lowy 24 per cent of respondents said they felt “very safe”, down from 44 per cent in 2009.

That’s an astounding turnaround, especially if it is driven by fear of an extreme Sunni Muslim group fighting non-Sunni governments in the Middle East.

In 2009 Al Qaeda was still the Islamist bogey man, but almost half of us still felt “very safe,” even though its global reach had been demonstrated with the 9/11 atrocity. What changed?

IS talks about restoring the “Caliphate”, the Islamic empire that once took in the southern ring of the Mediterranean, including northern Africa, and much of the

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. PHOTO: AAP IMAGE/AARON BUNCH

Given these plots, and IS calls to socalled lone wolf radicals, it is certainly worth keeping the issue on the radar. But the highest threat to us?

Middle East, depending on what historic period you reference.

Not really Australia though.

But last week the Prime Minister chose an interesting path to reassuring the nation when he told Sydney’s regional counter terrorism summit: “Daesh is coming, if it can, for every person and for every government with a simple message: submit or die.

“This is not terrorism for a local grievance; this is terrorism with global ambitions.”

The Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had already warned that IS is recruiting “highly trained professionals” to make chemical weapons and has already used chlorine in an attack, though again, nowhere near Australia.

In Perth earlier this month, Ms

Bishop described IS as one of the “gravest security threats we face today”.

“They seek to undermine and overthrow that order and as we have seen, are prepared to use any and all means,” she said.

“That includes use of chemical weapons.”

Cabinet Minister Mathias Cormann added it would be “absolutely terrible” if IS was able to get hold of “chemical, biological or, even worse, nuclear weapons”.

Yes, or trained skinhead dragons as big as the sun that can come down your chimney at tea time, with hydrogen bombs in one hand and Ebola brownies in the other.

Has anybody told Tierra del Fuego?

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The researchers analysed 12 international studies involving more than 1 million people and about 58,000 coronary heart disease cases.

“The link between panic disorders and heart disease remains controversial, partly due to overlapping symptoms such as chest pain, heart palpitations and shortness of breath,” study co-author Professor Gary Wittert said.

“Furthermore, we can’t rule out the possibility that in some people, the symptoms of a panic disorder represent a misdiagnosed heart condition.”

He said it had long been known there were very clear links between cardiovascular disease and emotional

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Anxiety heightened a person’s emotional state, he added.

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Cardiologist and co-author Professor John Beltrame said people who suffered from panic attacks and anxiety should monitor their heart health. AAP Right: The University of Adelaide

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FEATURE.

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THE GIFT OF TIME For Clare and James McKinnon, a move to Dubbo from Sydney under the Evocities program gave them the most priceless gift of all – time. They’re not alone, but with talk of the four year old marketing campaign being wound up, the party could be over for a program that’s brought thousands of people to and poured millions of dollars into the economies of cities like Dubbo. Now the push is on to ensure the funding and the opportunity to sell the benefits of a regional lifestyle continue. WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent LARE McKinnon was sitting at her desk last week when her phone rang.

It was her fireman husband James.

“Just ringing to tell you I’m stuck in a traffic jam,” he told her. “There are two cars in front of me!”

The pair had a good chuckle.

Six months ago, that news would have been anything but a laughing matter.

Then, a peak hour bottleneck would have meant hours stuck in Sydney’s infamously infuriating traffic and an equally frustrating delay in either getting to work or home.

Now, the most a traffic “jam” can add to their daily commute is a minute or two – five if they’re really unlucky.

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Welcome to life in an Evocity.

Evocities is a marketing campaign developed in 2011 to promote, largely to metropolitan residents, the benefits of living in one of seven regional cities – Albury, Armidale, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange, Tamworth and Wagga. Funded through a combination of federal, local and, to a lesser extent, state government coffers, the program has injected millions of dollars into local economies by helping bring thousands of families to regional NSW – including the McKinnons.

Clare and James packed up their lives, their children aged two and three and a mortgage they couldn’t jump over and headed for the bush – bound for Dubbo after the siren call of a better lifestyle lured them over the Blue Mountains.

Although she’s officially been a Sydneysider for more than a quarter of a century, Clare hails originally from Coonamble, so it was something of a home-coming for the young mum, who works in community development. But for husband James, born and raised in the big smoke, it was a complete departure from city living.

They are among a growing number of professional people beating as hasty a retreat as possible from Sydney and its soaring house prices, hectic lifestyle and snarling traffic, and for this couple, it was the concerted marketing efforts of the Evocities program that gave them the reality check they needed.

“Life is too short to spend time stuck in traffic and working just to pay a mortgage,” says Clare. “We’d

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been considering a move to a regional city, and when we saw the Evocities thing, it just made sense. It was simply that little push, a little reminder we needed that it was time to get out of Sydney.”

That there was a $7000-odd dollar relocation incentive mattered little to the couple.

“It wasn’t that at all. We didn’t even really know that was available at first – we just applied for it because we were eligible, but we would have moved anyway.

“We just wanted a better lifestyle for

the children. Sydney is just so expensive. It’s almost not possible to have the kind of life (there) that we want for the children.”

Life has changed for the McKinnons.

All for the better.

“The one thing that strikes me most is that I hardly have to spend any time at all in the car now – that means more time for everything, really. I get to spend more time with my children, doing things we want to do.

“The lifestyle is just so much easier in Dubbo. It’s a much more stressful environment in Sydney. It’s laidback and

relaxed here. We also realised that if we moved outside of Sydney, we would be able to afford a nice house in a nice area that we wanted to choose to live in. And we could have space.”

Clare says her husband was “on board” from the beginning.

“He was ready. He knew it would be better for the kids, and that being closer to my family (at Coonamble) would be a real bonus too. And really, what are we missing in Sydney? We’re still only an easy drive away, or an hour by plane. It’s close enough to be accessible still, but far enough away that we can

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It would be sad to think other people might perhaps miss out on the kind of lifechanging move we’ve made simply because of a lack of awareness.” – Clare McKinnon, Evocities “relocator”

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People might say there’s more to do in Sydney, but what’s the point of having all those things to do if you never have any free time or any free money to enjoy them?” – James McKinnon

really make that lifestyle change. It’s perfect.”

Both McKinnons were able to transfer with their work, an added bonus that’s made the move all the smoother, and Clare says a lack of opportunity is a misconception among Sydneysiders that Evocities helps to address.

“There are opportunities in Dubbo, and in other regional cities. You just have to be prepared to give it a go – take the leap,” she says by way of advice to others who might be jittery about making the change to a regional lifestyle.

“I think some people in the city really have no idea about what Dubbo, or any other regional city is like.

There are a lot of misconceptions – I even had one person ask me if there were shops in Dubbo!”

Clare says the debunking of some of these kinds of myths is just one of the reasons she’d be saddened by the thought of the Evocities program being wound up.

“I also think it would be a shame to stop trying to show people the benefits of making the change – to

more affordable housing, to a more liveable lifestyle, to having more time on your hands, to a less stressful life. It would be sad to think other people might perhaps miss out on the kind of life-changing move we’ve made simply because of a lack of awareness.”

UBBO Mayor Mathew Dickerson is a man on a mission. He’s been an ardent advocate for Evocities and is determined to push whichever buttons are necessary to see its funding continue.

The program has come under fire from sceptics over the years who say its outcomes are unquantifiable, given the difficulty in measuring any such “brand awareness” campaign.

Dickerson, well known for a near-obsessive insistence on facts and figures, says that’s not the case with Evocities.

“The program began as a marketing campaign for regional cities with an injection of funding from the federal government of $1.7 million over the first two

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years and councils have been kicking in over the years, but there’s been very little money from the state. Once the federal money dried up, it was left to the councils to carry the load.

“So some people said, well it’s had its time, it’s done its job and it’s time to wind it up. I don’t agree. You don’t see a company like Coca Cola or McDonalds decide that they have market share so it’s time to stop advertising.”

Dickerson has been beating a path to state parliament’s door – specifically to Minister for Regional Development, John Barilaro – to try to convince those holding the purse strings to commit a further four years’ funding.

“Over the time of the program, $4.705 million has been put in by all three levels of government along with corporates. Of that amount, just over 50 per cent has been put in by the individual councils. Less than five per cent has been put in by the state government.”

Dickerson says that, contrary to naysayers’ claims, the outcomes from Evocities have been carefully researched and measured.

“We can prove that there have been 2313 families move to one of these regional cities as a direct result of the Evocities campaign. That’s a fantastic result. One of the critical figures is that $220 million has been injected into these local economies as a direct result of the program.”

The Mayor agrees it’s difficult to measure the outcomes of such a marketing campaign, but says the regular research conducted throughout the four years to date has avoided the pitfalls of most brand awareness campaigns’ scattergun approach to measuring results.

“We’re not measuring how many ads we’ve placed, or how many times the Evocities “brand” was mentioned – they’re just vehicles to reach the final outcome. What I’m interested in is exactly how many people moved to an Evocity as a direct result of the campaign.

“People are moving and that’s where we’ve done well in terms of gathering that data.”

Representatives from some of the other cities involved have raised the question of whether the money earmarked for Evocities could be better spent elsewhere, but according to Dickerson, the committee of councils is now united in the push to secure ongoing funding.

“They just wanted to make sure, as they should, that ratepayers’ money was being spent in the best possible way. But conversations I’ve had with Orange, Albury and Armidale councils, for instance, revolve around trying to convince the state government that it’s a program that’s working and therefore worthy of support.”

Dickerson has asked the minister for a four year commitment of funds, starting with a $420,000 contribution in the 2015/16 financial year, with an agreement to take the arrangement through to the end of the 2018/19 year and a funding increase of $35,000 each year over that time.

“This matches the financial commitment in the four year MOU signed by all participating councils,” he says. “If the state government signs off on this, it will give the program certainty, and allow Evocities to create better awareness and ultimately deliver more “relocators” to regional NSW.” ATT Wright, president of the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce and Industry is right in Dickerson’s corner.

“The whole concept is fantastic. To make a collective and concerted effort to promote the benefits of living in various locations in regional NSW just makes good sense,” Wright says. “Those benefits really need to be sold to an audience that is largely unaware of what we have to offer.”

He too would be disappointed to see the program wound up, but understands the concerns of those who question the measurability of the Evocities campaign.

“I guess the challenge is to provide quantifiable outcomes. The number of people relocating to Dubbo out of Sydney has certainly increased in past years, based on council’s figures, but it’s hard to know exactly how much of that is the direct result of Evocities and how

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For the record

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9 2,313 families have relocated to an Evocity over the course of the program.

9 At an average of 2.7 people per family, 6,245 people have relocated as a direct result of the campaign.

9 At an initial population size of ~320,000, the Evocities campaign has been responsible for 1.95 per cent of the population growth across the course of the campaign.

9 Research shows that each family boosts the local economy by $94,909 therefore the Evocities campaign is currently responsible for $220 million being injected into the economy of the Evocities on an annual basis.

9 81 per cent of those who relocated had secured a job before moving to an Evocity.

9 44 per cent of these people said they had more disposable income after their move.

9 75 per cent of people said they had more free time after their move.

9 49 per cent said they did not know anyone living in an Evocity before their move.

9 Emphasising the point that exposure and education are vital parts of the campaign, 66 per cent of Sydneysiders would consider a move outside the capital.

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many would have moved here anyway.”

Nevertheless, Wright says the chamber believes that “one voice isn’t as loud as many voices”.

“So in terms of spruiking the benefits of regional cities, if you have a conglomerate of these locations joining forces to encourage people to relocate, then that’s going to be more effective than Dubbo going it alone.”

According to Wright, the chamber sees Evocities as a great investment, particularly as the NBN continues to roll out offering greater technological capability, and with Dubbo becoming more accessible as a transport hub.

“Those things make Dubbo an attractive place to be and we need to continue to promote those benefits.”

The Chamber boss says he’s happy to talk to other business chambers to see if they are similarly inclined to band together to help push for a continuation of the Evocities funding.

“We’re due to catch up with the Mayor (Dickerson) in the next little while to discuss a few different things, so we’ll definitely put Evocities on the agenda.”

OR his part, James McKinnon – a firefighter – is more than happy to spruik the benefits of moving his family out of the daily Sydney grind to an Evocity like Dubbo.

“In Sydney, I was only 15 or 20 kms from work, but it used to take me up to an hour for the commute each way. Now, it takes me three minutes.

“The best thing about that is that it gives me more time with my family. That’s the most important thing.”

James says there’s also been a huge financial consideration in making the move to Dubbo.

“In Sydney, your mortgage

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takes up the bulk of your wage, and it places a huge stress on the family. Here in Dubbo, housing is so much more affordable and the cost of living is significantly lower compared with Sydney. That enables a lifestyle that’s so much better.”

Having grown up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, it might be easy to imagine that’s one thing this firie might miss... the sand and surf. Not so.

“Don’t miss it at all,” he says.

“There’s everything in Dubbo that we need. It’s a city. It’s not a little town – it’s actually pretty big. And there’s plenty to do in Dubbo – the parks and open spaces are great, there’s the Zoo, there are all those walking tracks and there’s a heap of other things to do. I haven’t even really had the chance to explore properly yet.

“People might say there’s more to do in Sydney, but what’s the point of having all those things to do if you never have any free time or any free money to enjoy them?”

He laughs heartily – again – when he’s reminded of that tongue-in-cheek whinge about a two-car “traffic jam” on his three minute commute to work last week.

“It’s unreal, isn’t it? In Sydney, I’d leave home at 6am just so I could get to work before the peak hour traffic really kicked in. And I wouldn’t get home until about 6pm, depending on the shift. Now, I leave home at 7.45, I’m at work five minutes later and I can get home in time to cook dinner for the kids every night of the week. Even when I’m on night shift, I still get to spend time in the afternoons with the kids – and that’s really important.”

James said the most precious thing this move has given his family is the gift of time. “I can’t help wondering why we stuck it out in Sydney so long.”

If you have a conglomerate of these locations joining forces to encourage people to relocate, then that’s going to be more effective than Dubbo going it alone.”

– Dubbo Chamber of Commerce and Industry president, Matt Wright

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PROFILE.

Friday 19.06.2015 to Sunday 21.06.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

A simple red cross on a white background has become one of the most recognisable symbols in the world – and has offered peace, empathy and strength to those in need for more than 150 years. Australian Red Cross CEO Robert Tickner recently visited Dubbo to meet local volunteers and reinforce a united commitment to the global organisation. WORDS Natalie Holmes HEN the CEO of one of the most valued organisations on the planet arrives in town, you’d almost expect an extravagant welcome complete with lavish meal and phony small talk from pretentious colleagues.

But meeting the head of the Australian Red Cross Robert Tickner and various members of his staff was anything but fake and frivolous. They are a group of warm and hardworking individuals led by the former Federal Aboriginal Affairs minister, who enjoys a glass of red and a kayak in Sydney Harbour, and is also hugely passionate about helping people.

Smartly dressed in grey suit and black skivvy matched by polished black brogues, Tickner happily chatted with volunteers over a simple lunch of a delicious tomato soup and sandwiches before addressing the gathering.

“He’s really personable,” one of his staff members said as he took to the lectern.

“He makes everyone feel as though they are important, that’s he’s really interested in their lives and not just listening to them for the sake of it.”

During his half hour talk, Tickner declined the use of a microphone, preferring instead to project his voice to the 30-strong group composed of staff and volunteers from across the state, which included both the regional operations manager and NSW executive director.

He went on to speak about how much he values the volunteers, the organisation’s grassroots approach, international aid, and the incorporation of indigenous workers into the organisation.

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ROM humble beginnings on the battlefields of Solferino, Italy in 1859 when Swiss businessman Henri Dunant felt empathy towards the thousands of wounded soldiers has come a body with such a powerful presence as to be an instantly recognised symbol all around the globe.

“It never ceases to amaze – the power of the ideology of Red Cross and the enormous capacity of humankind to build things that last a long time and are a great achievement.

“It’s not just about the Central West or NSW or Australia, it’s about the movement that is Red Cross, and its global effect,” Tickner emphasised while thanking his audience for their united effort.

“One of my greatest privileges is to work with members and volunteers and I give everyone a vote of thanks.”

Although it has left a great footprint during conflict, Red Cross has also assisted in times of greatest need – during famine, flood and situations of extreme crisis around the world. Tickner listed Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, the Nepalese earthquake, Black Saturday bushfires, Qld floods and Dungog storms as more recent events to which the organisation has responded.

“We already had a strong volunteer base during those critical life-saving times.

“I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot of things. I’ve seen Red Cross operating around the world and it’s truly inspiring.

After more than 150 years, the Red Cross still operates under the same fundamental principles upon which it was established.

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“It all came from the idea to do in a civilian capacity what we were doing during wartime and progress ways to respect human values...volunteer relief in society is still the basis of Red Cross.”

During troubled times, the international aid agency’s response differs from other organisations, and according to Tickner there will always be representatives of Red Cross available wherever disaster strikes.

“As an international movement, people are making a difference and responding to a disaster, offering a coordinated response. We are at the grassroots of the people, for the people. It’s not a fly-in, fly-out response and continues to be a large part of our work.”

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We all have a responsibility to look after the organisation’s future.

ductivity Commission Enquiry into Natural Disaster funding released just last month, Tickner said it was an important time to focus on safety and resilience in the face of emergency.

“We want to show that the work we do in this area has national and international implications, and we want to invest in programs to try and build safer communities, at the same time getting government commitment to human values in a more responsive society.”

Tickner said Red Cross has always been seen as a leader in responding to natural disasters.

“We are a busy organisation which is buoyed by the community with a view to disaster resilience and response from Australia and the rest of the world.”

The aim is to continue at this level, incorporating even more involvement within local communities.

As such, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program is an important step towards that goal.

“The program is making a valuable contribution to the work that we do – the Aboriginal staff are doing beautiful work and deeply believe in Red Cross as much as I do.”

Syrian kids taking hygiene kits for their family in Alyadodeh in the west of Daraa, southern Syria. Families caught in the middle of the war in Syria need essential basic hygiene items, and the Red Cross is calling on Australians to help. PHOTO: AAP/IFRC/IBRAHIM MALLA

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The Red Cross also has programs for youth delegates to expand their knowledge and pathways for asylum seekers and refugees to rebuild their lives.

Aid appeals are a positive reinforcement of the work being done but Tickner hopes to see governments get behind the needs of their people right around the world.

“We openly advocate for freedom from oppressive governments,” he said.

In that regard, Red Cross is part of a renewed global effort to raise awareness of the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons to ensure they are never used again.

Community support for a ban on the use of nuclear weapons was made clear in a survey which revealed that 80 per cent of Australians were against the warheads.

“Nuclear weapons are still prohibited around the world and yet more and more countries are able to acquire them,” Tickner said.

It’s just one of the many focuses which the former politician has for the organisation which he leads. He also hopes to strengthen and expand the ageing volunteer base in Australia to ensure its future prospects continue to shine brightly.

“We are expanding our volunteer base and targeting a new generation of young people. We do need a support and engagement program but our Australian volunteer forces are also thinking and evolving...so I hope we can use the interest in Red Cross to develop further.

“We can make a difference in the not for profit sector by developing more effective partnerships in the community.

“We all have a responsibility to look after the organisation’s future.”

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Man on a Mission Cr Rod Buhr has big plans for a town he’s grown to love as both a local cop, a resident and as Mayor. He talks to Dubbo Weekender about some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead as Wellington strives to become Fit for the Future. Plans for the revitalisation of the CBD are just the beginning of a vision that will ultimately see Wellington return to a thriving rural community of historic significance, different than before, but sustainable. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner OD BUHR is a man on a mission.

The veteran cop and Mayor of Wellington is set to implement some big changes in a town that has in the past few years seen a decline in growth and like many rural communities has its share of social problems and businesses shutting up shop.

Buhr attributes this to a number of factors but believes it’s only a matter of time until the historic town begins to thrive again.

While Wellington is not unique among small inland communities that are growing at much smaller rates than their coastal counterparts, its Mayor remains optimistic the town will find its feet. It won’t be easy. It will need a collective effort, a shared vision.

And it will need “fresh blood�.

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UHR joined the police force in 1995, later in his career, and has served in regional townships like Eugowra, Cowra, Dubbo and later Wellington.

He’s always had “a bit of a soft spot� for Wellington, which he believes is one of the “prettiest towns in Australia�.

Settled at the junction of both the Bell and Macquarie Rivers, it’s the second oldest NSW settlement west of the Blue Mountains.

Buhr was promoted to sergeant in 2007 and offered a position in Wellington, which he enthusiastically accepted. After having purchased a home and with the town’s untapped potential still in the forefront of his mind, he decided to put his money where his mouth was and run for council when the local government elections came up in 2012. “I actually didn’t think I get on; I’d only lived in the town a few years but people I’d spoken to about it were very supportive. Lo and behold, I got on and became Mayor as well.�

He admits that stepping into the role has been a steep learning curve compounded by the potential Fit for the Future amalgamations that have been looming over Wellington, Dubbo and Narromine councils, respectively.

Fit for the Future is a NSW government initiative designed to make regional councils become viable into the future and this means some fairly intense criteria needs to be met for smaller towns to maintain their autonomy.

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“Wellington was earmarked to merge with Dubbo so in the past six months that’s really had to make us focus a lot of attention on our action plan to justify our existence as a stand-alone council,� says Buhr. “We’ve done that and over the time of the business improvement plan we will have met the required financial benchmarks.�

The Mayor says that in the past 12 months, council has “tidied up its act and improved its position already.�

Council had to take a long hard look at some assets and services they’d been maintaining and make the call that they weren’t sustainable. At the same time decisions concerning the town’s growth have been mapped out with a major plan to see the town’s CBD revitalised.

The beautification process of the CBD will involve opening up Cameron Park by removing portions of the concrete wall that faces the main street.

The intention is to reveal and draw people’s attention to the park that is mostly hidden to passing traffic.

The move has been met with mixed feelings by residents, most of whom Buhr says are eager to see fresh energy injected into the lagging CBD and others who see the changes as unwelcome and unnecessary. “One of the things that does make life a bit difficult in Wellington is there are a group of people who are locked in the past, they see absolutely no value in doing things like CBD upgrades,� he says. “Some of these people think we should be focusing on getting more shops here but we can’t physically drag people to Wellington and make them open up shops; that’s a commercial enterprise and to get people

Just about every other town or city in Australia has done something with their main street, including Dubbo, beautifying a town encourages new business and new residents.

to open up shops, they have to see there’s going to be a financial gain to it. It’s a business proposition. “What we can do to make that happen is to improve council’s “shopfront� which is the CBD and we are doing that by beautification.�

Buhr says there is a huge body of evidence that shows beautification is an effectiveapproach to reinvigorating towns. He points to towns like Cowra, Young and Boorowa which have in the past few years turned their city centres around with a similar plan of attack. “Just about every other town or city in Australia has done something with their main street, including Dubbo; beautifying a town encourages new business and new residents,� he says. “When these beautifications have taken place, people will say why didn’t we do this years ago, it’s fantastic.�

EVELOPMENT applications and time frames have hindered the speed with which these changes would ideally take place, but Buhr firmly believes they will go ahead in the next couple of months and sees those changes as Wellington’s strong point in the future.

He sees it as the town’s opportunity to re-badge itself as a weekend destination and stop-over point for tourism.

The traditional retail strip, in his opinion, is unlikely to return to its former glory days given the changes in the way we live and shop. Online shopping, large outlets and malls who can offer discounted prices, have changed the way we shop.

The Mayor sees the Wellington of the future as a CBD which houses niche businesses like gourmet eateries, quirky second-hand furniture stores, galleries and boutique clothing and homewares – some of which are already optimistically and financially braving the quiet main street. “That’s going to take a new group of people coming to Wellington to realise the potential; some fresh blood with a bit of business acumen. We need an influx of people who can see the potential and turn Wellington into that weekend destination and the tourism industry which we know we can beef up and get humming along far better, which will then impact our accommodation providers and attractions like the (Wellington) Caves,� he says.

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The other obvious benefit to people relocating to the town is the affordable housing prices. With a median house price of $145,000 and a residential rental of $220 per week (according to Realestate.com.au), Buhr believes that in itself is a fantastic reason to make the move or to invest.

“Towns like Dubbo, Orange, Mudgee, Parkes and even Geurie, are becoming quite expensive; it’s not uncommon

for people to have to spend half a million dollars to enter the Dubbo property market.

“Here you can get into the property market for very little and if you have considered a lifestyle change you could very easily work from home via the internet or if you want to become a writer or small business owner or any number of things, you can do it pretty much stress free in a nice place.

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“There’s definitely a trickle of those kinds of people moving to Wellington and we encourage and welcome it, there are opportunities here for the taking.”

Buhr forsees a point in the near future at which momentum will gain traction and Wellington will again be a sustainable and attractive destination.

“It’ll happen quite quickly I think and while there are still a few things that

aren’t positive for us like the recent loss of Target and some big holes in the main street, the CBD beautification is definitely a step in the right direction.”

‘We have grant funding of $1.6 million and while that may not be enough to do everything we want to do we are hopeful once we start and get inspired by the results, we’ll have to invest some of our own money in to it – as we should; that’s what councils do.”

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Keerthi Perera: Doctor Delivery From the hustle and bustle of the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo to the urban sprawl of London and the suburban streets of Dubbo, Keerthi Perera has practiced medicine all around the world.

The gynaecologist/ obstetrician and his respiratory physician wife Sugamya Mallawathantri are now making a difference in the lives of local patients. AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Natalie Holmes I was born in Sri Lanka, my hometown was near Colombo, a place called Negambo. It’s a coastal place three or four times bigger than Dubbo, known for its garment industry, fishing and tourism.

From the time I was in Grade 9, I wanted to be a doctor. It was more difficult to accomplish back then – there was no internet, it was all books. I studied hard and got into medical school. The school in Colombo is 200 years old and very well-respected.

I became the first doctor in my family, which made me proud. We were very much a working family – we lost our father when I was in Grade 3. I have an elder brother and two sisters and our mother worked very hard for us.

Medical school was fun; I attended the Bloemfontein Medical Hostel which housed about 200 students. I also played sports – rugby, football, cricket, every weekend there was something different.

Back then, everyone wanted to be a doctor and there were millions of people applying for hundreds of places.

Only the best got into the school, and if you failed, there were no second chances. Sri Lanka is one of the few countries that offers publicly-funded university completely free, which is pretty amazing given that it is considered as a developing country. Health services are also well-established and completely free. I did my basic medical training there over seven years.

It took a little bit longer because of the civil unrest occurring at the time which was really scary. As a student, we also went out in protest against proposed changes to the university system; broadening the spectrum of student entry. We got very political and held public meetings and distributed pamphlets because we felt it was unfair.

I did my internship at Colombo Hospital – at the time my boss wasn’t very nice,

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but he ended up wanting me to come back as a junior consultant (laughs).

After my initial training, I did a Masters in Surgery, also at Colombo. After completing my exams, I did a one-year junior consultancy. It’s the usual practice to do it in a different country, usually the UK. I did study in conjunction with training in the UK and then spent two years as a registrar in Colombo. My wife was an intern at the time.

We ended up in Nottingham in the UK and had a comfortable life there. I was back in Sri Lanka for one year while my wife and two girls stayed in England. Financially and socially, we were happy – the English are very polite and decent but you can be treated as a third-class citizen.

Altogether, I did more than 16 years

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of training, with four of those in the UK. I completed my specialist training there and in Sri Lanka and worked as a fulltime consultant in the UK before coming to Australia.

I really liked obstetrics/gynaecology and used to deliver babies as a medical student – the midwives were happy for us to do it.

I like it because it combines the best of being a surgeon and physician and every day, you feel happy because you have helped someone – whether it’s in obstetrics assisting with fertility, pregnancy, delivery or gynaecology – from pre-teens to menopause, there are so many patients. My clinical training and knowledge has enabled me to offer a competent service and advanced labour ward practice, management of high and

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low risk pregnancies and contraceptive procedures. I have always adhered to Good Medical Practice as outlined by the General Medical Council and practice evidence-based medicine. Compared with Colombo, Dubbo’s maternity unit is quiet. In Colombo, there are 500 babies born per month. In Dubbo, there are 1500 per year.

Comparatively, the easiest way to show the differences between nations is to look at maternal mortality rates – it is one of the major indicators of health.

There are 250 per 100,000 in India, 18 to 20 in Sri Lanka, 11 in the UK and seven in Australia.

We never thought of coming to Australia, but our friend (cardiologist) Kanishka Kamaladasa suggested it. At the time, my family was in Bournemouth and my job was in London. I had to drive 150 miles each way so it wasn’t ideal.

He said we could both get jobs here and that it was a good lifestyle and more relaxed. I was used to 7000 deliveries a year over there, so it’s not that busy here!

Being a doctor in Australia is a challenge. In Sri Lanka, doctors are treated like gods. In the UK, people tell you what to do and in Australia, everyone consults Dr Google. I want to give respect to patients, but I want to gain respect at the same time, and make joint decisions about their health and what’s best for them by discussing the pros and cons.

At the end of the day, you’re trying to help them but it’s their body andthey have the right to make the decisions. I can just advise them, make them look at the complete picture to avoid problems.

I think the main issue is that people are more aware and it’s difficult to handle patients who don’t know the limits or the risks involved.

When it comes to things like pap smears, people are more likely to listen to what’s on TV or in the newspapers than doctors. After Jade Goody died of cervical cancer in the UK, there were a huge number of referrals because she was well-known (Goody appeared on Big Brother). If you treat it in its early stages, there is minimal surgery and a good survival rate.

While I work in Dubbo, I also run outreach clinics in obstetrics and gynaecology in Walgett and Bourke. I would like to increase awareness about cervical cancer among the public and promote cervical screening in order to prevent cervical cancer. I also want to expand the campaign into remote indigenous areas such as Bourke where cervical smear uptake is low.

I hope to see Dubbo become a centre of excellence for health in the future.

It’s all about teaching people that they can do things here, and from a medical perspective, education is paramount.

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I’ve only just surfaced from the depths of the doona after what has to be one of the most testing of all high school sporting pursuits – the North West Equestrian Expo at Coonabarabran.

For the teenagers who compete on behalf of their schools, it is five days out of pure fun – out of the classroom, camping, riding their horses and hanging out with the 600-odd other teenaged competitors.

For the parents who spend that same time driving long hours, grooming horses, cooking meals for about 60 over the campfire, chasing their kids, trying to provide constant pairs of clean white jodhpurs, it’s a test not unlike the Gold Duke of Edinburgh award.

The preparation begins months in advance. Horses have to be fit (Mum’s job), shod (Mum to arrange), uniforms have to be begged, borrowed, bought or stolen (Mum again), the schools have to be coerced to let the kids out for five days without Community Services being alerted (mum’s job), and enormous amounts of food, camping gear, clothing, saddlery and just about everything else packed.

I had just about managed to get through the above list this year and had hitched my float to the car ready to drive the three hours to Coonabarabran, when it became apparent my daughter’s horse was lame. This animal I had ridden for

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weeks, lurched over showjumps on, rugged, and fed and even shampooed and conditioned – was visibly limping when I went to catch him. Disaster.

After hurling myself onto the ground and throwing a tantrum, I had to force myself to think of a solution. The best was to get in the car and tow the float all the way to Singleton and pick up another horse I had left with a trainer there, then drive back to Coonabarabran.

Eight hours of solid driving later I arrived with two horses to find so many horse floats, cars and camping utilities packed into the Coonabarabran showground that I had to ask someone proficient in stunt driving to park my car for me. Even then, the wheel guard of my float nearly took someone’s bull bar off.

That night Mother Nature decided to

add some spice to the whole shebang, by making it rain. She kept it up for five days, turning the showground into a knee deep bog. Horses were slipping and sliding, parents in gumboots and raincoats walked hundreds of kilometres through running water and thick mud trying to watch their kids compete and keep them as dry and warm as possible.

My own gumboots were a size too small, which ensured by day five I was so hobbled I just about needed crutches.

Anyone who knows the horse world will understand when I say it’s a combination of “Toddlers in Tiaras” and State of Origin rugby league. For some events the horses have to be immaculate with plaited manes and tails, make up on their faces, false tails, painted nails – which I was attempting to do in the mud and rain; and for others it’s about being tough, sporty and fast. Different bridles and saddles are required too.

I literally spent hours plaiting manes (sewing in each plait), then unplaiting.

Changing saddles, plaiting and unplaiting tails... depending on the event. My arms felt like lead, my horses’ stables resembled a cross between a beauty parlour and a Chinese laundry.

It’s no wonder that with such effort, some parents find themselves heavily

Anyone who knows the horse world will understand when I say it’s a combination of “Toddlers in Tiaras” and State of Origin rugby league.

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emotionally attached to the outcome of the event. I watched my daughter showjump in knee deep mud and thick fog one morning. She’d done a beautiful round only to knock the last rail and cost herself valuable points. Still clutching my scissors from an unplaiting job, I dug them like a dagger into the arena railing and swore like a shearer – only to discover her school headmaster was sitting behind me.

The night before I’d prepared salads and a barbeque over a campfire in the rain for 60 people. I had been up since 5.30am to give the horses breakfast, remove their pyjamas (rugs) and have them saddled ready to compete.

By day five of this competition I was an emotional and physical wreck. My last big chore was to cart the horses three hours home. By this stage I had the ‘flu, my gumboot-pinched toes looked like those of an aged ballerina, my hair had new silver streaks, the school headmaster had probably blackballed me from all future sporting events and there was so much laundry stuffed into the car I could hardly shut the back doors.

Between them, my two kids had won the grand total of one ribbon..... BUT they had enjoyed every minute of the experience, which I suppose is why we did it all in the first place.

So two weeks later I have finally waded through the laundry and recovered from the flu. I haven’t unpacked the horse float – or even seen the horses – but my son is already gearing up for next year. Sigh.

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Cr Mathew Dickerson Charting the course for democracy Mayor Mathew Dickerson was born and bred in Dubbo and is married with four children.

AVING just returned from Canberra, where all 565 councils from across the nation gather each year at the National General Assembly, the helicopter view of councils is firmly in my mind.

When you sit down and speak with mayors from every part of Australia, it is essential to sit back with a broad view of the role that councils play in our nation. As we shared experiences with each other, it was amazing to hear how similar the view is that communities across the country see mayors and councillors as their first port of call in times of need.

It was quite relevant that the theme for the conference this year was Local Government: Closest to the Community.

People contact councils for so many different issues but typically they are only responsible for twenty per cent of the areas of contact. I often joke that, as a mayor, I wish I had the power that people assume that I have.

Which brings me to the topic that has been somewhat discussed in the media of late. The Magna Carta. This document is often seen as the birth of democracy – and it was borne from one person having too much power. King John was in power at the time and his system of government was based on the principle of ‘vis et voluntas’ (force and will – my interpretation is we will force you and you will do it). King John, and his predecessors, would make executive and arbitrary decisions which he justified on the basis that the king was above the law.

King John raised extensive taxes on the barons to accumulate enough money to fight a war with King Philip II from France. When this ended in expensive failure in 1214, a group of English barons raised an army and forced him to agree to the Magna Carta (great charter) to prevent King John’s continued abuse of the feudal system.

We may well wonder what relevance an 800 year-old document has to us to-

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day. Many of the 63 clauses seem ridiculous when considered in our modern society but were obviously of great significance at the time.

Take for example Clause 8: “No widow shall be compelled to marry, so long as she prefers to live without a husband.” I can only assume that previously a widow was compelled to marry. Clause 31: “Neither we nor our bailiffs shall take,

for our castles or for any other work of ours, wood which is not ours, against the will of the owner of that wood.”

Seems reasonable. Sounds like the alternative would be akin to stealing.

Clause 48: “All evil customs connected with forests and warrens, foresters and warreners, sheriffs and their officers, river banks and their wardens, shall ... be utterly abolished, so as never to be

King John was in power at the time and his system of government was based on the principle of ‘vis et voluntas’ (force and will – my interpretation is we will force you and you will do it).

restored.” This one probably leaves a little bit of room for interpretation. What is the definition of an ‘evil custom’?

Despite some clauses that seem farcical today, it is considered as one of the first steps away from autocracy towards modern democracy. It established limits to the power of the monarch, perhaps most noticeably in the area of taxation, where it was decreed that taxes could not be raised without “the general consent of the realm”.

The great charter was reissued in 1217; 1225; 1258; 1264 and again in 1297. The repeated reissue showed that democracy is not a concept to be chiselled in stone and forgotten about but a living breathing concept that needs to continually change to stay relevant. It has influenced constitutions in the US; India; New Zealand; Canada and South Africa.

The right to justice is an area where many of us, probably without realising it, often quote Clause 39: “No man shall be arrested or imprisoned except by the judgment of their equals and by the law of the land.”

When you compare the situation King John had before the presentation of the Magna Carta to what we have with a modern council, the world has indeed moved forward quite dramatically.

A modern council actively encourages opinions to come forward and, so far at least, I haven’t ordered anyone to be imprisoned or to be sent to the guillotine for having a contrary opinion.

In particular in Australia, the concept of fairness and treating all residents equally is ingrained in our day-to-day lives as much as it is ingrained in our governance processes. No one person – be they mayor or Prime Minister – has ultimate power and I firmly believe that, as Lord Acton said in 1887, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Keep a sharp eye on who’s watching the watchdog HEN the likes of Eddie Obeid are celebrating a new development in the law of corruption, the people of NSW should be afraid, very afraid.

So it was recently when the High Court handed down its controversial decision in Margaret Cunneen v Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and struck down a large part of ICAC’s powers to investigate corruption.

ICAC has had unprecedented success in recent years and enjoys widespread public support. It exposed former Labor politicians (including Obeid) found to have engaged in outrageous corruption around coal mining and other business activities. A cricket team sized group of Liberal MPs were then forced to the cross benches after ICAC exposed corruption in the way politicians were receiving campaign donations. Barry O’Farrell resigned as premier after he denied receiving a lavish gift from a businessman being investigated by ICAC over water dealings. As ICAC gathered political scalps the public gained greater awareness of the cancer of corruption in “the Premier State”.

However, this heady run of successes came to a shuddering halt when the High Court ruled that ICAC could not investigate Margaret Cunneen, a senior prosecutor who gained widespread fame after prosecuting a string of gang rape cases from western Sydney, because the investigation was beyond the powers given it by legislation.

The High Court decision that fundamentally changed the scope of ICAC’s powers had an unlikely genesis. Sophia Tilley, a young Sydney real estate agent with elite social and family connections (and newly inserted breast implants), was t-boned on a Sydney street in May last year by a pizza delivery van. Her boyfriend’s mother, who happened to be one of the state’s most senior Crown Prosecutors, was alerted and quickly

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arrived on the scene to find Sophia in the back of an ambulance. A conversation took place and the young lady was rushed to a nearby hospital. As with all persons hospitalised following a car accident she was blood tested and returned a zero blood alcohol reading.

Allegations then began swirling that Cunneen had advised Sophia to fake chest pains so as to avoid a breath test at the scene. If true such conduct could constitute the serious offence of attempting to “pervert the course of justice”. ICAC initiated an investigation and summonsed Cunneen to a public hearing. Her lawyers however spotted a vulnerability in the law establishing ICAC and she wasted no time in challenging ICAC before the courts.

Under its legislation, ICAC clearly has the power to investigate corrupt public officials and those who seek to corrupt them. It has also long been considered

to have power to investigate conduct that merely “adversely affects” the exercise of public powers; that is, behaviour which undermines public administration without actually corrupting an official. Cunneen argued that this latter power was in fact not authorised by the legislation and that ICAC had been wrongly interpreting the law for years.

Her lawyers argued because it was only alleged she had impeded honest and unwitting police, that ICAC had no power to look into the matter.

The majority of the High Court agreed, quashing the Cunneen investigation and ruling that ICAC is only authorised to investigate conduct intended to induce public officials to act dishonestly. Justice Gageler disagreed and spelled out in his judgment the implications of the decision, which would leave ICAC unable to investigate “state-wide endemic collusion among tenderers in tendering for government contracts”, “serious and systemic fraud in the making of applications for licences, permits or clearances issued under New South Wales statutes designed to protect health or safety” or the same under laws enacted to “facilitate the management and commercial exploitation of valuable state-owned natural resources”.

ICAC has undoubtedly lost the power to investigate a broad range of corrupt conduct. The hugely important investigation into the Obeid linked Austral-

A combination of powerful and in some cases sinister forces, are working to try to prevent ICAC’s powers being restored.

ian Water Holdings that has already brought down a Premier and a federal Assistant Treasurer, is in jeopardy.

Other completed inquiries have already been struck down. While the Cunneen case was hardly an allegation of the crime of the century, the flow-on consequences of the decision are massive.

Powerful forces have celebrated the decision and mounted vicious attacks on ICAC and its staff. News Limited newspapers, Ray Hadley, Alan Jones and Graham Richardson are among those who have publicly lined up to have a shot at ICAC. No doubt others are lobbying behind the scenes and manipulating. Ordinary citizens of the state should be outraged at the prospect of a significantly weakened ICAC, but so far we are like lambs to the slaughter. This public passivity seems to be due, at least in part, to an effective and insidious media campaign run by enemies of ICAC. Former ICAC Commissioner David Ipp said at the time of the decision, “There are a lot of politicians who are going to be jumping with delight as a result of this.” There is no doubt the state parliament can easily legislate to restore ICAC’s powers, but the politicians are yet to act, preferring to delegate the issue to a review headed by a retired judge. With all due respect to the retired judge, this is a policy and political question to which the politicians need to face up.

The fact is that a combination of powerful and in some cases sinister forces, are working to try to prevent ICAC’s powers being restored. The combination of this power, influence and persuasion may mean NSW will permanently lose a fully effective corruption busting body.

In a state long plagued by systemic corruption the losers will be the ordinary people of the state, who suffer from the extra costs, reduced services and unfair disadvantages inflicted by corruption.

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Humanity the hallmark of this equine operation

BY JOHN RYAN N JOURNALIST

OR decades it’s been an article of faith that passionate horse owners look after their animals better than themselves.

That’s probably true for Lee Ann and Jeffery Hall who own and operate Hallmark Farm at Minore, just to the south west of Dubbo.

The stables are immaculate, the laboratory where artificial insemination processes are carried out is spotless, the horse fencing straight and the pastures lush.

But all that housekeeping aside, and ignoring the clients who travel to Dubbo from across Australia and overseas, this farm has a very human soul about it.

I recently saw a story about city students who were able to experience living in conditions which replicated Australian society in the 1800s and when asked why they would like to live in that era, a huge proportion said because they’d be able to have their own horse.

It’s this basic connection between humans and horses that sees Hallmark play host each year to a group of clients from Breakthrough Solutions, where up to 50 people who have little opportunity to be around larger animals get up close and personal with these international quality quarter-horses, Appaloosa and paint horses.

“We bring the horses out; they get to touch and feel them our horses are quiet and used to all sorts of things”, Lee Ann says.

“We call it our special Olympics because it is special, and we get the chickens and dogs to join in as well, and the Breakthrough guys love it.”

I’ve had a bit to do with looking after horses over the years and learned early on that a) I wasn’t a natural and b) it’s bloody hard work.

So it’s great to see busy stud owners taking a week out of their lives to prepare this annual event just because they feel it’s important for the community well-being.

It’s not just locally where the Halls are making their social mark – both Lee Ann and Jeffery operate at many levels in the Australia equine field, including Jeffery being the current vice president of the Australian Paint Horse Association, with Lee Ann an honorary life member of that organisation as well

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a a director of the Texas Paint as Ho Horse Association.

W With everything meant to be big bigger and better in Texas, that’s an achievement all by itself, but just one of many for this unassuming local couple.

There’s also the youth component of their work, with the couple having coached junior Australian teams over many years.

Now they’ve taken that involvement a step further.

Tamworth holds the Paint Horse Nationals and this year the Halls paid for all the youth entrants in Australia to enter those competitions.

“It more than doubled the number of youth competitors which was great,” Lee Ann says.

“It also meant parents could enter in more events so that was a really good flow-on.

“We had an overwhelming reaction and a presentation at the end of the show which we didn’t expect but we just loved doing it and it’s great for the industry.”

But wait, there’s more: “We took a heap of our horses to the Nationals so we were able to lend them to competitors who didn’t have one, or for kids from new Zealand who couldn’t bring theirs across,” Leanne tells me.

“I love to see other kids on our horses at shows; it’s a great feeling.”

No wonder the Halls received that presentation.

Back at Hallmark, and there’s a calmness to the very fabric of the farm despite the daily operations being a hive of activity.

The Halls have a steam of visitors throughout the year, a factor Lee Ann says is a contributor to the broader economy.

“Many of the people who come to the farm end up staying in town for three nights. That means motel rooms, fuel, restaurants and visits to attractions such as the zoo and it all helps.”

Technically, in industry terms, the stud has won so many awards it’s at the pinnacle of the industry.

Stallions from across the country come to stand at stud and mares to be serviced.

This operation is living proof that it’s possible to have an internationally successful business operating in the state’s west, but still take time out to smell the roses, enjoy life and also use the business to give back so much to so many people.

If everyone adopted this unselfish approach to life, this patch of the world would surely be a much better place.

I love to see other kids on our horses at shows; it’s a great feeling.

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Emma Saville Cook of Dubbo with one of the Hall’s champion horses, HMF Perception

Lee Ann and Jeffery with HMF Perfection at the 2014 Paint Horse Nationals.

Emma Saville Cook – winning the Youth Fancy Dress on HMF Perception dressed as a Mexican senorita on a donkey

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Pirates rule: Australian customs must stand firm

BY ROSS MCCARTHY THY DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S CIL’S CITY DEVELOPMENT T PROGRAM LEADER

AST month our headlines and airwaves were filled with the saga of American actor Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard – or more precisely, their Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, who found themselves in a spot of bother when their owners ignored Australian Laws requiring animals being brought into Australia to be declared and quarantined.

So who is Johnny Depp? He’s a 52 year old American actor, producer and musician who started his career in 21 Jump St, played in Platoon, Edward Scissor Hands, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and his most commercially successful films, Pirates of the Caribbean, which is what brought him and his dogs to Australia.

In 2012 he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having earnings of $75 million. Does this put him above the law? Even the Queen doesn’t bring her corgis in.

On the face of it, bringing a couple of dogs into Australia may not seem like such a big deal.

However, our Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce, quite rightly, was upset and famously vocal on the issue.

He said it was time the dogs “buggered off back to the US” and threatened to have them eu-

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Manual focuses on pre-emergent herbicides WITH most of this year’s winter cropping now sown and some much-needed rain received across the district, farmers will now focus on in-crop application of herbicides. The results of pre-emergent herbicide applications will also become evident in coming weeks.

Ineffective performance of pre-emergent herbicides due to a large range of factors can often result in weeds escaping control.

Grain growers and agronomic advisers will now be able to review the performance of presowing or at-sowing herbicide

thanised. Quite apart from Depp setting a bad example with regard to Australia’s bio-security, the dogs could have brought in a number of diseases, parasites or even weed seeds.

It was reported that Australian Authorities had already bent over backwards to get monkeys into Australia for the Pirates of the Caribbean had to try and do everything in their power to get these animals in.

At the time, Joyce told national media: “So they know what the deal is, and that’s why we’re a bit miffed by them”.

In 2001, breeding racing stallions were imported from Japan with first reports of an outbreak of equine influenza reported at Centennial Park in Sydney.

The outbreak in Australia, caused by human error, resulted in 47,000 horses being affected on 5,943 properties in NSW. The impact was huge with pony clubs being shut down, race meetings stopped and all horse movements being stopped for a period of time.

The costs to Australia were huge with more than 2000 peo-

ple deployed in the NSW control program. The costs of the outbreak were reported at $100 million and the cost goes on as people continue to vaccinate horses to this day. This cost does not even include losses by those in the horse industry that were effectively shut down during the period.

Another example of a bio-security breach was the case of Fire Ants that were unknowingly imported into Brisbane in 2001.

These nasty insects have the potential to limit our outdoor lifestyle, devastate our environment and reduce production of some of our agricultural industries, including orchards, crops and pastures. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has predicted the cost to Australia as $8.9 billion over 30 years, if the ant is not controlled.

The Queensland Government has spent more than $270 million on baiting, data collection, chemical nest injections and aerial surveillance and the ant is far from being eradicated.

If, as a nation, Australia had

We once enjoyed natural quarantine. Nowadays you can enter Australia from almost anywhere in the world in fewer than 24 hours, so it’s more important than ever for us all to declare any goods to customs. applications with a new resource manual published by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC).

Titled Soil behaviour of preemergent herbicides in Australian farming systems, the manual covers a broad range of information needed to optimise and understand the outcomes from the application of pre-emergent herbicides. Consultants Mark Congreve (pictured) and John Cameron from the Independent Consultants Australia Network (ICAN) have compiled the material.

“Much of the material included is highly specific, and previously relatively hard to access in a format that meets the needs of grains advisers,” Cameron explained.

“As such, it is a document that a large number of grains advisers will find contains significant new information of value to their day-to-day recommendations.

Congreve pointed out that the manual covers much of the base science that underpins what is represented on the product labels.

“It does not replace the labels, but assists advisers in interpret-

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ing how the pre-emergent herbicides are likely to perform and to understand why they have performed as they have in specific situations,” he said.

As herbicide resistance increases, particularly to knock down and in-crop selective herbicides, greater reliance is often placed on pre-emergent herbicides.

“While not immune from re-

been smarter, we would not have many of the weeds we have today that were imported as “garden plants” or in the seeds of other seeds or attached to animals.

We would not have rabbits, cane toads, foxes and many diseases that Australia, due to our isolation to the rest of the world and managing the risks, would never have had.

We once enjoyed natural quarantine. Nowadays you can enter Australia from almost anywhere in the world in fewer than 24 hours, so it’s more important than ever for us all to declare any goods to customs and let them do their job. That said, how did Depp and Heard and the dogs get through customs?

If the Johnnys and Ambers of the world put themselves above the law, we as Australians risk the introduction of more, previously foreign, diseases, weeds, parasites and insects. Ultimately, we pay the price of increased taxes to control some of these issues, increased food and clothing costs and Australia, potentially not as nice a place to live as it is now.

After you have finished The Weekender, grab a coffee and if you’re after a laugh look at the mock clip of Minster Joyce and Johnny Depp: www.abc.net.au/ news/2015- 05-17/joyce-anddepp-dogs-in-huw-parkinsonmashup/6475662 Or on a more serious note have a look at the NSW DPI site : www. dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecuritys site or www.customs.gov.au sistance, as evidenced by widespread resistance to products such as trifluralin and group B residual herbicides, several key pre-emergent herbicides still have good efficacy on most populations of weeds,” Congreve said.

As such, they provide an excellent buffering tool to maintain profitable farming systems as the industry transitions to a more diverse range of weed management tactics that also includes non-herbicide based management tactics.

“Increased reliance on preemergent herbicides means advisers need to understand how these tools behave in the soil and the environmental factors that influence their performance. It is with this in mind, that the GRDC has published this new manual.”

Issues covered include stubble and crop interception, loss pathways such as photo degradation and volatilisation, the position of the herbicide in the soil, the influence of soil texture and capacity, solubility, the influence of soil moisture, half-life and breakdown mechanisms and impacts on crop rotation.

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Thinking globally, acting regionally

BY FELICITY TAYLORREDWARDS CEO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA)

S we move towards the end of this financial year, business often use this as a point to reflect and to review how they are travelling and to plan for an even more prosperous year ahead. Likewise, it’s a good time for regional development – to learn from the trends in business across the region and take stock of the regional economy.

The Orana includes the areas of 13 local government areas (LGAs), all of which have their unique offerings in the business arena as well as their specific and generic needs. To keep progressing with their customers, they too need to keep looking to ways to decrease costs; maintain their services and products and increasing efficiencies, productivity and growth.

It is with that in mind that we are thinking globally and acting regionally.

What does this look like? Well, first we asked the questions: What is it that we can deliver to a domestic market that will also fill a need in a foreign market? How can we attract the funds to develop infrastructure, business models and marketing to attract customers?

What if we could attract foreign investment that would benefit our regional economy whilst not adding a strain on the regional purse? Who could we approach regionally, nationally and internationally?

Some may be a little nervous about foreign investment, seeing it as a way that we sell our assets and lose control.

Yet, as a nation we have foreign investment in agriculture, business and real estate. We were built on foreign investment with a 2007 figure of 9.6 per cent net foreign equity to Australia’s GDP. “Foreign Investment” as defined by INVESTOPEDIA, as: Flows of capital from one nation to another in exchange for significant ownership stakes in domestic companies or other domestic assets. Typically, foreign investment denotes that foreigners take a somewhat active role in management as a part of their investment. Foreign investment typically works both ways, especially between countries of relatively equal economic stature. Currently there is a trend toward globalisation whereby large, multinational firms often have investments in a great variety of countries. Many see foreign investment in a country as a positive sign and as a source for future economic growth.

Ian Verrender, ABC’s business editor, comments that even with the legitimate concerns around “direct government investment – as opposed to private investment, he calls it a mistake to prevent foreign funds. He gives the example that while the Japanese overpaid for Australian real estate; that

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same real estate still exists. The question is really, what might we lose versus what do we stand to gain?

The consensus from financial experts, the Bureau of Statistics and business networks appears to be that overall, foreign investment in a country is a good sign that often leads to growth of jobs and income. As more foreign investment occurs, more will come because others see the country as economically stable. It stands to reason that the same will apply on a regional scale.

So to our thinking globally and acting regionally. A regional initiative by way of example that has the potential to deliver enormous economic returns to our Orana region, involves creating the business model for Korean investment. On the back of the Korean Free Trade Agreement recently signed and this year’s Sustainable Economic Growth for Regional Australia (SEGRA) conference, held in Bathurst, the Orana will be hosting an industrial tour for a delegation of Korean businesses. This delegation will be returning to our region with a clear business intention, training opportunities and possibly infrastructure.

It is a real step forward in developing workforces for the 21st Century.

In a recent study by KPMG, The Global Skills Convergence Issues and ideas for the management of an international workforce, the argument advanced is that in the 21st century labour and talent is increasingly able to flow seamlessly across the globe. This concept of the free-flow of the elements of business was first put forward by US journalist and author Thomas Friedman in his 2005 book The World is Flat. Friedman argued that the dismantling of political barriers, evolution of technology and the globalisation of business is leading to a ‘flat world’ where capital, technology and information flows between markets.

The Korean delegation is developing traineeships in various industries for international candidates placed here to experience business training across the Orana region; financial injection into our regional infrastructure with buildings dedicated to house special training centres and forging a trade relationship directly between Orana and Korea.

This level of investment is not limited to a foreign source. State and federal government are both keen to support regional economic development, as too are local government and business bodies. In fact, to be successful, this initiative must embrace support from all – our businesses, educational facilities and communities.

Over the next few months, as we consolidate partnerships and prepare for the industrial tour of our region, we look forward to the hearty regional welcome our global partners will receive.

RDA Orana is a state and federal initiative.

As more foreign investment occurs, more will come because others see the country as economically stable.

It stands to reason that the same will apply on a regional scale.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

How should your business use e-newsletters in marketing?

SING e-newsletters is a cost effective way to promote your company’s products and services. But be careful how you use them. In particular, you must comply with Australia’s antispam law.

The Spam Act 2003 encompasses emails and all other electronic communication methods. The law makes it illegal to send unsolicited e-mails with an Australian connection. Generally speaking, an e-mail has an Australian connection if it is sent in Australia or sent from overseas to an address that is accessed in Australia.

There are some exemptions to the general prohibition. For example, if the email is “purely factual”, then it does not fall under the prohibited conduct. However, as a general matter, e-newsletters would not be considered purely factual under the law because their purpose is to promote the products and services of your business.

There are heavy penalties associated with breaching the Spam Act, including fines of up to $1.1 million per day for repeat corporate offenders.

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What must you do to comply?

IN order to comply with the law, e-newsletters must satisfy the following three conditions: 1. Consent – You must only send enewsletters to recipients with their consent, as discussed in detail below.

2. Identity – E-newsletters must contain accurate information about the identity of your business, as well as how to contact it.

3. Unsubscribe facility – E-newsletters must contain an “unsubscribe” feature that allows recipients to opt-out of receiving issues from you in the future.

Unsubscribe requests must be honoured within five working days.

Consent THERE are two types of consent: express and inferred. Whether e-newsletters are sent to existing customers, prospective clients or anyone else, you must have either the express or inferred consent of the recipients.

Express consent: If recipients actually let you know that they are willing to receive the e-newsletters from you in the future, this would constitute express consent. The recipients can give consent in many ways, including filling in a form, informing you over the phone, in faceto-face communication, or by letters.

Note, however, that you cannot send an e-mail seeking consent since such an email would itself constitute spam.

Inferred consent: Implied or inferred permission can be given in two ways.

First, consent can generally be inferred if there is an existing relationship in which the recipient can reasonably ex-

pect to receive e-newsletters from you.

Customers or clients who you deal with frequently would reasonably expect enewsletters from you. It is therefore reasonable to infer consent in this context.

If you are not sure whether some people would reasonably expect e-newsletters from you or not, you should endeavour to obtain express consent.

Second, consent can also be inferred when: 1. A work related e-mail address is accessible to the public. For example, the address appears on a Web site, telephone directory or brochure. This is called “conspicuous publication”.

2. The address is not accompanied by a statement asserting that unsolicited emails are not wanted.

3. The content of the e-newsletters is directly related to the principal role of the recipient (or e-mail account holder).

When inferring consent from conspicuous publication of an e-mail address, there must be a strong connection between the content of the e-newsletters and the recipient’s role. For instance, let’s say the e-mail address of the director of a purchasing department appears on a brochure and the address is not accompanied by a statement saying that unsolicited e-mails are not wanted. Then consent to receive e-newsletters promoting your products and services may be inferred. Please note that consent cannot be inferred merely because you believe that the e-newsletters would benefit recipients.

What about giving someone a business card? This gesture is generally not considered conspicuous publication, although consent could be inferred under certain circumstances. There can be tricky situations involving consent so consult your adviser to ensure compliance.

Burden to Prove Consent UNDER the anti-spam law, your business has the burden to prove that consent exists. If you use another company to send e-newsletters on your behalf, that firm should also take reasonable steps to make sure that the recipients have given consent. You should keep up-to-date records on the circumstances when consent is given. To be safe, it would be ideal for every recipient to confirm consent by using confirmed opt-in or a double optin procedure.

Identity and Unsubscribe Facility GENERALLY, the e-newsletters must accurately identify your business and how to contact it. In addition, every e-newsletter must contain a functional “unsubscribe” facility.

Complying with the Spam Act can be complex so consult with your adviser for details and information in your situation.

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Bob Holland

Online think tank for small business Small business is regarded as a backbone to the nation’s economy, representing the largest workforce in the country but owners can remain isolated. With the intention of building connections between people sharing the same unique business issues, central west businessman, Bob Holland has established the ‘8 out of 10 club’.

AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Melise Coleman What does ‘8 out of 10’ refer too?

Running a business is all about moving forward. Business, and life, requires us to make lots of decisions, often quickly. I’m a decision maker and my philosophy is if I can make 8 good ones out of 10, I’m doing alright. I’ve seen so many business owners procrastinate over decisions, so much so that even small decisions become hard for them to make and it slows their progress. One of my pet sayings is don’t get bogged in the ‘paralysis of analysis’.

What motivated you to start the 8 out of 10 new small business club?

For many years I’ve been giving marketing advice to small business owners, advice that is proven, basic and simple but makes very good sense. There’s not too many people or organisations that do this. Business Chambers and the like should but don’t, and yes, business coaches offer such advice, but often at great cost. I know of no club or website based service that does what 8 out of 10 does.

How important do you think it is for small businesses, in the regions in particular, to connect and communicate about their issues and experiences?

Personally, I find the only people that understand what it’s like to be a small business operator is a small business operator. Many people who provide marketing and business advice are industry professionals and full of theory and often have no firsthand experience in running a business. It’s the way it’s always been but it’s a bit silly when you really think about it. My idea with 8 out of 10 is for people to share experiences and advice who have actually ‘been there, done that’ as they say. Actual experience, not just theory, is the best teacher I know.

It costs $11 to join. What do members receive for their money?

I’ve set the cost at just $11 a month with no contract. I’m asking people to spend $11 to explore the site and then decide if they want to continue. They can opt out after one month if they choose to. My feeling is that once people see what I’m doing they’ll either want to continue or not. For their $11, members can download a handbook I have written called Small Business Advertising Made Easy. It alone is worth $69.95.

Then they can access a variety of information covering a range of issues for running a small business. Information is categorised and covers such topics as Advertising Know How, Money! Money!

Money!, The Daily Grind, The Brains Trust, Members Billboard, Been There – Done That and more.

Each of these contains an ever growing number of articles that are designed to help business owners grow their business first and foremost, but also to enable members to help others as well as draw encouragement from other business owners right across Australia. The material on the site is not rocket science but like most things, often the best advice comes from people who have done the same things before you and are will-

ing to share their experiences.

You are promoting an ebook as part of the membership entitlement. What’s the book about and how will it be useful for small business owners?

The book is one I wrote a few years back and have since updated. It’s more a handbook than a book but contains a lot of very useful advice for anyone interested in not wasting their advertising dollars. It covers a lot of topics that can be summarised this way – ‘an easy to read, straight-forward guide to help you get the most out of your advertising’. The book has helped thousands of regional business owners over the years if for no other reason, it’s given them a sensible and meaningful framework of thinking to apply when they set about doing any form of advertising.

What’s one or two money saving ideas which members will discover in the club?

The best advice I give, and always have, is for business owners to actually think strategically about their advertising. I see so many ads that are poorly thought out or badly designed and have little chance of gaining any real results.

It shouldn’t be surprising when business owners often take their advertising advice from media reps who have often had what appears to be 5 minutes experience, graphic designers who are more concerned about how an ad looks rather than what it’s intended to do and then placing their ads in places that clearly represent poor value for money. Once a business owner applies just a few of the basic principles I teach, this alone will save them thousands of dollars a year by both improving their results and help-

ing them adopt better strategies within their ads. Advertising works, there’s no doubt about that and 8 out of 10 teaches members how to make it work, as it ought.

What is the Member’s Brains Trust and why is it on offer?

This is something I’m keen to see develop. This section is where members can tap into the experience of other members by asking for advice about particular issues or ask questions relating to any business matter. It has the potential for a great deal of practical knowledge and experience to be shared between members. I don’t know everything but I’m sure that someone out there in the world of small business will know something about most things that members may ask.

How will the 8 out of 10 club offer regular encouragement?

Just hearing from one’s peers will often do this. In the case of my membership, my feeling is that just knowing that others out there are experiencing the same feelings and frustrations and hearing how they have overcome them will be an encouragement. Also, I’m sure interaction between members will result in friendships being made and possibly business done, even across the nation.

What are your thoughts on recent budget tax breaks for small business?

Interesting question. Right now I feel I’m the only one who thinks the government doesn’t know much about the people they claim to be helping. A wage subsidy won’t help a business, which can’t afford the extra wages in the first place.

A tax deduction won’t help a business,

My idea with 8 out of 10 is for people to share experiences and advice who have actually ‘been there, done that’ as they say. Actual experience, not just theory, is the best teacher I know.

which can’t afford a new piece of equipment in the first place. A reduction in Company tax won’t help a business that isn’t making a profit in the first place.

And for a business making a $100,000 profit, the reduction represents $1500.

It seems to me the breaks simply help profitable businesses and do nothing for those struggling to make ends meet. I would have preferred to see the government give all small businesses a handout like they did with families after the GFC, maybe $1000 for each full time employee who they kept employed for a full year.

Small business represents 90 per cent of the Dubbo economy, and is possibly true for many regional cities. Is there still a perception however, that small businesses don’t count?

In my view, small business owners, true small business owners, those who rise and fall on their own efforts are not appreciated for what they do for the nation. They deserve much more recognition than they are getting. Today, it’s all about employees. The “Small Business – Too Big to Ignore” campaign in the lead up to the last Federal election showed how hard it is to get the wider community to get behind small business. That campaign was clearly a fizzer with the only people taking any real notice being the business community itself. For the general community it meant nothing and that’s who needed to embrace the message most.

What would you say are the top three most common issues facing small business today?

Employment issues, employment issues and employment issues. The power has to shift from the employee back to the employer.

You’ve had 30 years of experience working with small business. What do you know now, that you wish you knew at the start of your working life as a small business owner?

A good idea and oodles of enthusiasm will only take you so far. Operating a small business is not for the fainthearted. You need to be prepared for a very lot of hard work, a lot of sleepless nights, you need to be prepared to adopt a highly professional approach to your business and be prepared to face obstacles that you never dreamed of at the beginning. You also need to accept the fact that if the going gets tough and money gets tight, it’s you who will have to go without, not your employees.

What are your hopes for the future of 8 out of 10?

8 out of 10 is still in its early days but will continue to grow and develop as more members join and participate.

I genuinely believe the club has merit and would encourage anyone who is even slightly interested to invest $11 and check it out. If it’s not everything you hoped for, enjoy the book at least and then cancel your membership with no more to pay. » Find more information at 8outof10.com.au

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Catering to the masses... naturally Savouring ‘roo stew as a child is just one experience to ensure bush tucker an integral part of who Sharon Winsor is. The Ngemba Weilwan woman and owner of Mudgee business, Indigiearth caters to Sydney’s corporate world while drawing on the natural flavours of her childhood. WORDS Holly Manning OW an international success, Indigiearth had humble beginnings that set the brand up for a place in the pantries of homes around Australia and five star restaurants from Sydney to Shanghai.

A Ngemba Weilwan woman of Western NSW, Indigiearth’s Sharon Winsor, has fond memories of collecting bush tucker as a child growing up in Rocky Glen, a tiny village between Coonabarabran and Gunnedah.

“My parents, brother, myself and extended family would take bush walks and gather nuts and fruit,” Sharon recalls. “My favourite fruit to find was Five Corn. We used to get so excited if we found them before the Emu’s got them.

“Occasionally Dad would kill a roo, and Mum would make a delicious, slow cooked stew with Dough Boys, similar to dumplings. It was a poor mans feed, but we loved it! Mum made her own bread, and we had our cow and fresh milk and we grew our own veggies.”

Sharon and her family moved to Gunnedah where she finished her schooling. “I loved my childhood but when my parents separated we ended up in Sydney and it was a huge culture shock. I started Indigiearth because I wanted my children to experience a little bit of the bush tucker I had grown up with.”

Sharon’s mother is a huge influence in her drive and determination as a businesswoman.

“Mum grew up on the mission at Gulargambone and went to school in Coonamble. She finished school at TAFE and then while studying nursing at Gunnedah and got her truck license and drove semi-trailers with Dad to make money and then, after the divorce she studied Nursing in Sydney.

“I followed in Mum’s footsteps thinking it was the right thing to do. I did a TAFE course then went to uni to do nursing. Mum pushed me into nursing and I hated it. Two years into the course, I knew it’s not what I wanted.”

At age 19 Sharon worked in outreach with homeless people in Darlinghurst through the Wesley Mission. She fell in love with a dancer, Peter, and the couple married and soon expected their first child. Devastatingly, their son, Ngukirri, meaning “to give” was still born due to heart problems.

“It was a really tough time and it made me really think about what I was doing with my life and how I wanted to live it.”

It was then that Sharon decided to start her own business.

“Although Peter wasn’t interested in the business, he taught me dancing and my side of the family taught me what they knew that had been passed down to them. I also loved cooking and wanted to start a bush tucker catering business. I studied community management and began the process of setting up the business.”

Sharon faced an ongoing struggle to get people to see the merits in her business idea.

“I worked at Centrelink at Mount Druitt to put money into the business and was fortunate to receive consultancy support from NSW State and Regional Development of the time,” Sharon said. “The consultant looked over my business and told me to stay in my

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Indigiearth products use natural products such as native jams, spices and teas

government job. They told me it would never work.”

But Sharon was determined to make it work. She began the dancing troupe and catering and it was through the catering that she then developed her own products.

“The products I was purchasing for the catering weren’t authentic. I realised they didn’t have the flavor that I knew from growing up in the bush. Although Sharon can up with the name Indigiearth twelve years ago, it was only five years ago that she rebranded her business to that name.

“It was really tough to start a business with two small children and then a marriage breakup, but with support from my family and friends, I kept going.”

Since then the dance troupe, catering, a skin care range and food products, including biscuits, teas, sauces, chutneys and cooking ingredients have gone from a small concern to a large warehouse,

Sharon with her indigenous dance troupe, which includes her children, Kirralaa and Maliyan.

the employment of several indigenous staff, and Indigiearth products can be found in food providores, supermarkets and hotels throughout Australia and beyond.

“I’m proud that I’ve done it all on my own, without any government or external funding, but with the support of some fantastic companies and organisations who really care about indigenous business success.”

Indigearth products are available from Healthy Life Dubbo on Darling Street but Sharon has in mind to one day expand her reach regionally with dedicated outlets. “Possibly my next step would be to open natural retail shops or Indigearth cafes.”

Sharon counts Sydney lawyer firm Gilbert and Tobin, and the Sydney Observatory as catering clients, serving lunch menus and platters for a reconciliation event and Mabu star naming event, respectively.

“People are loving what we do especially from an educational perspective.

Food always brings people together and gets them talking,” she says.

The addition of traditional dancing to her catering service creates provides a full cultural experience. Sharon’s children, Kirralaa and Maliyan are in their final years of schooling, and are part of the dance troupe.

“We’ve danced for communities, dignitaries and even on America’s Next Top Model with Tyra Banks!”

As well as supporting the indigenous community throughout the mid-western region and beyond, Sharon is passionate about the health and wellbeing of indigenous children.

Over the past 16 years Sharon has personally contributed to Children’s heart and health programs, and is now in the process of setting up the Ngukirri Foundation to support, educate and assist with Aboriginal children to have

Sharon Winsor, founder of Indigiearth, Mudgee.

access to heart specialists around the country and reduce childhood deaths.

“Every little bit counts, no matter how small you may think, can also make a world of difference to children in the community. Overall, we aim to contribute to better healthy lifestyles for Indigenous children, strengthening their cultural, spiritual and holistic wellbeing.”

Sharon continues to develop her business, extending her range into spring water, art, and education with the intention of passing on knowledge of her culture to the next generation.

“I am passionate about educating people in the ways of our culture and our foods,” Sharon says. “Through hard work and a dedicated team, Indigiearth has grown into a brand that’s known not only in Australia but overseas. I can’t wait to see what the next phase of the business brings.”

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Sight for sore eyes

BY CARINA NG OR 563 million people, the world is a blur.

Sight is a basic human necessity, and some would argue that it is the most important of the five senses. It can be the difference between surviving and thriving; it opens up opportunities.

A student learns to read and attains education for a brighter future; a farmer is able to harvest his crops and provide for his family. This can be key in breaking the cycle of poverty.

OneSight has been operating for 25 years to provide vision care access to 8.5 million people in under-served communities worldwide.

OneSight is partnered with Luxottica, the largest eyewear company to provide the best products and eyecare. Onesight conducts vision clinics and also partners with local communities to develop vision centres. This enables permanent access to affordable eye care and eyewear, which meets immediate and long term vision needs.

As an Optometrist with OPSM and Luxottica, I will be volunteering on a local Indigenous clinic in Palm Island, Queensland to screen and test patient’s eyes. This is a remote clinic where access to health services is severely limited. I have also been selected to volunteer with the Global OneSight clinic to Vietnam in December, where employees of Luxottica from all over the world join together to help eradicate blindness.

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Nathan Shooter, Carina Ng and Kelvin Chan working together to raise money for OneSight, a charity taking tangible steps to eradicate blindness. PHOTO: CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

I am passionate about delivering quality eye care to my local Dubbo and surrounding region, and consider myself blessed with this opportunity to serve within Australia and internationally.

I am excited to be able to use my skills and knowledge to help those in need in a tangible, practical way. Apart from my work with OneSight, I have also worked with rural communities in Tenant Creek and Katherine in Northern territory and an eyecamp mission trip to Tanzania, Africa.

As a lead up to my mission trips, I will be fundraising to support and increase awareness of the role of OneSight.

Personally, I will be running 14km in the City to Surf in August and hope that donations

will flow in as my feet beat against the ground between Sydney city and Bondi beach.

My husband, Kelvin Chan and good friend, Nathan Shooter are partnering with me to raise funds for this incredible organisation by Shaving their heads for Sight.

Kelvin is the deputy director of pharmacy of Dubbo Base Hospital and is very encouraging of my work, as he understands the needs of the medical and healthcare world.

Nathan Shooter, founder and director of Thrive Media is passionate about advertising, marketing and spreading the word about charity organisations such as OneSight. They have both volunteered to shave their lovely locks at Javo Hairstyling at Orana Mall on July 4, at 1pm. We are further supported by Paul Stubbs,

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owner of Javo Hairstyling who will provide a venue for this event.

We aim to raise $1000 for Onesight and will allow the largest donor to hold the clippers to their heads. All donations are tax deductible. Online donations can be directed to http://city2surf2015.everydayhero.com/au/ running-to-see, or donations can be made at OPSM at Dubbo Square.

So I encourage you to support this cause, as you will be working with us to eliminate blindness in the world.

All donations, big or small will help others see the world a little clearer. If you would like to speak to me or have any questions, please call 02-68820690 or visit me at OPSM Dubbo Square. „

I have also been selected to volunteer with the Global OneSight clinic to Vietnam in December, where employees of Luxottica from all over the world join together to help eradicate blindness.

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HEALTH IN BRIEF

New project will save lives of Australian men

Men’s Health Week: Time for a tune up!

BY ROCHELLE BAILLIE LIE PHARMACIST

O blokes... where are you up to with your health? How are you feeling? Men’s Health Week is focusing on MoMENts in Time this year – as the campaign outlines “it’s the idea that all those little and non-solittle moments in life that can add up to make a huge difference”. The health and wellbeing of men and boys is an area of national health concern.

There are so many inequalities in men’s health. Consider these unfortunate and gruesome facts: In Australia, men and boys experience significantly higher rates of addiction, violence, crime, accident and premature death in comparison to their female counterparts. Men also show significantly higher rates of death from cancer, heart disease, homicide and suicide.

Sadly, men do not seek help as readily as women do. But rest assured guys... all health professionals are out there ready to help you. Please remember this is not just about ILLNESS or being sick. This is about WELLNESS and being physically and mentally healthy and strong. Our primary aim is to promote healthier lives for men, supporting healthy changes and working on a path to optimal health for the men and boys who seek our help.

As a pharmacist I see the difference represented even in our store. We see

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many more women than men, especially with gender-specific health issues (for instance pregnancy and menopause) but it is important that men know what their local pharmacy can do for you on your path of WELLNESS. Many pharmacies provide a healthcheck service. They sell BowelScan kits if you are not yet eligible to the government scheme of free screening. Call in and see if you can have your blood pressure checked – I am an advocate of men getting to “know your numbers”.

Know your waist measurement, your average blood pressure, your weight and your diabetes risk.

These baseline numbers can help to assess your general health and any goals you might be able work towards.

If we find anything out of the ordinary we can start helping to work on lifestyle factors. Your pharmacy can also provide support and information on quitting smoking and weight loss solutions. Vitamin and supplement support for deficiencies (found through blood tests), boosting energy and promoting vitality is also something you’ll find at your local pharmacy.

We also have a wealth of information on illnesses and can provide you with information regarding health issues you may be experiencing and we are also part of a great professional network and may be able to get you in contact with others who can help with your wellness. I often find myself saying “you wouldn’t let your car go without a service, or petrol, or oil for 30

I am an advocate of men getting to “know your numbers”.

Know your waist measurement, your average blood pressure, your weight and your diabetes risk.

years – your body needs care and maintenance and good fuel too!”

If a pharmacist finds anything alarming in a health check they will refer you to a GP. It is important to remember that you should consult a doctor (and we are lucky to be spoilt for choice with many medical practices in the area) especially if you are over 40, overweight, notice any changes in your bowel habit or urine flow, notice a lump or change in either testicle, are experiencing erectile dysfunction (ED), feel stressed or plan to start exercising.

A quick summary: • Don’t be worried about us, we want you to be healthy!

• Know your numbers; • Be aware of the issues you are susceptible to and discuss any problems with your pharmacist or GP (depression, ED, heart disease, hormonal changes); • Have a look at your lifestyle and work towards healthy changes (we can help!). Quit smoking, limit alcohol, moderate exercise, healthy diet and weight, drink water, learn of ways to relax!

• IMPORTANT – Talk about problems with someone you trust – a friend, relative, your local pharmacist or other health professional.

• Keep your eye out for the next PubClinic. The pharmacies in South Dubbo and The South Dubbo Tavern, along with some other allied-health professionals team up to provide a night where you can get a ‘gist’ of your health in a comfy environment.

Your local pharmacy is your health destination – we are accessible, friendly and we are passionate about the health of our community. Staff are trained and ready to advise on men’s health issues and many pharmacies run men’s health-related services.

A WORLD-FIRST research project involving thousands of men, including former Australian rules footballers, refugees and fly-in-fly-out workers, will aim to end the embarrassment that stops them from getting help for conditions such as depression and anxiety.

The STRIDE (Stigma Reduction Interventions: Digital Environments) project is comprised of six smaller projects that use technology, such as apps and websites, along with evidence-based techniques to show men that taking action on mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. It is funded by beyondblue with donations from The Movember Foundation and has been unveiled to coincide with Men’s Health Week this week. beyondblue CEO Georgie Harman said STRIDE was a response to the shocking number of men who die by suicide in Australia each year, which is almost double the number who die on our roads.

Hospital improvements reported HEALTH MINISTER Jillian Skinner has welcomed the latest Bureau of Health Information Quarterly Report (January-March 2015), which shows NSW hospitals are providing timely access to care for record numbers of patients. Today’s BHI report shows 75 per cent of patients left NSW emergency departments within four hours and elective surgery performance was strong, despite increased volumes. “Compared to the same quarter last year, over 17,000 extra patients visited our emergency departments, over 9,000 extra patients were admitted and more than 370 more elective surgeries were performed,” Mrs Skinner said. “Our skilled staff have dealt with this record demand for their services in a timely, professional manner and I thank them for it.”

Broken Hill Hospital receives $188,000 donation THE Broken Hill Hospital Kiosk Auxiliary will present a cheque for $188,000 to Far West chief executive, Stuart Riley and the Broken Hill Health Service acting general manager, Sam Lazarus, on Monday, 22 June 2015.

The donation is the highest single year donation by the Kiosk. It is the second time the Kiosk has donated to a single major project for the hospital, last year being $160,000 to upgrade a patient clinical monitoring system.

This year’s donation will help buy a Dorrier Laser, Uretro videoscope, Gastro scope and related equipment.

The equipment will be used in theatre for urology and gastro procedures.

Kiosk treasurer, Stephen Bennetts, said: “The members of the Kiosk voted unanimously to support this request from the hospital and are pleased to see their hard work contribute in purchasing this equipment.”

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THE BIG PICTURE.

It’s not like we need green energy, right? Or clean air to breath, clean water to drink, clean soil to grow food?

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FOOD.

FOOD | IN THE KITCHEN WITH...

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Nan Clark

There aren’t many cooks in Dubbo who can wander to their back yard herb garden and spot a giraffe or ostrich in the neighbouring paddock.

Zoofari Lodge’s head chef, Nanette Clark is privileged to work in this unusual kitchen from which she conjures the aromas and flavours of Africa into a banquet every night. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Taronga Western Plains Zoo and Connor Coman-Sargent

ROCODILE meat.

It looks like barramundi but has very un-fishlike, white fat you’d expect on chicken, and to touch; the density of steak.

Nanette Clark, or Nan, chats while she’s waiting for the pan to heat up.

“I just use a bit of salt and pepper, olive and butter. Oil for the temperature, butter for the flavour. I use Nuttelex for the butter because I have to cook for any diet, and it’s lactose free.”

‘Any diet’ means catering to the tastes of 18 month-olds

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to 90 year-olds and everyone in between on any given night, when she prepares a banquet of African fare laid out across communal tables which dominate the Africanthemed dining hall.

Less of a ‘hall’, more of a transportation device.

Outside you’re standing in the Australian bush – even with giraffes on the horizon – and inside, it’s Africa.

Rich, dark timbers, exotic motifs and simple carvings, geometric print fabrics, natural fibres, pottery, long grasses in pots.

The room is warm, inviting and relaxing.

With the crocodile I tell them what it is; that it looks like Barramundi and tastes like chicken.

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When filled with hungry guests however, there’s much for Nan to think about.

“I have to make food for gluten free, lactose free, vegan ... you have to be thinking about dietary needs,” she says. And also, how far to push palettes of the uninitiated to African food.

“I talk it up before the guests eat. In the last two days I’ve had a lot of kids and I’ve given them boerwors sausages with pap which is like a horse chaff, it’s a very stable diet in Africa,” Nan explains.

Afrikaans for maize porridge, pap is a staple served for breakfast, as a side dish and which can be served hot or cold, even fried.

In the back of my mind I’m imagining my own children facing horse chaff for dinner and the rate of success I expect getting them to put it in their mouths.

If the story ends where I think its going, I already decide Nan is super chef.

“I put some plum chutney in, which I made my-

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self, and they ate me out of two kilos of sausages!”

There’s nothing of Bear Grylls about Nan yet she can invite guests on a culinary adventure with great success. “I talk it up,” she says modestly.

“With the crocodile I tell them what it is; that it looks like Barramundi and tastes like chicken. I ask the kids ‘do you want to go back to school and tell them what you ate at Zoofari Lodge?’ The kids are possibly a little bit more adventurous than the adults,” she observes.

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Back in the kitchen, dressed in her shortsleeved black chefs shirt, her short hair a little wild, Nan is ready to cook the croc meat.

“It’s quite tough before you start cooking, so you’ve got to have the pan hot, like when you’re cooking calamari,” she explains, laying each individual strip with care into the sizzling pan.

“Crocodile hasn’t got much taste itself so you can cook it with any sauce. I sometimes do it with apple and different spices. It’s unlimited what you can do with things. I’ve also got Monkey Gland sauce.”

The crocodile meat comes down from the Northern Territory and is stocked by DMC (Dubbo Meat and Seafood Centre) so, yes, you can try this at home.

Then it hits me.

What is it about Nan in these exotic surrounds?

The way she talks excitedly about the food, beckons me to follow her into the cool room to show off the chutneys and sausages and ingredients stored there all made by hand.

The way she rests her hand on a stockpile of dog-eared, red plastic binders stacked, unexceptionally, in a corner on one of the stainless steel workbenches. It’s more than just a collection of recipes at her fingertips.

Like a Believer resting her hand on a Bible; there are stories in these folders, mistakes, triumphs, celebrations, special moments, lessons, parables, warnings, and memories of days she’s rather forget; all tucked within their plastic sleeves.

It’s a history of the accumulation of knowledge on African cuisine, which she has put her heart and soul into personally gathering through years of research and experimentation.

“I’ve been here 28 years, since the Savannah room opened in ‘86. I did that for 20 years, but I’ve been here [at Zoofari Lodge] for the last

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eight,” she explains.

Watching from the kitchen door, there’s a constant stream of Zoofari Lodge staff passing through the space, collecting this or that for delivery to guests in their lodges.

Yes, they’re doing their job but it feels more like of a bunch of kids coming in to grab an apple, say hi to mum – or not – and then head back outside to play.

Nan is quick to stop our dialogue and like a proud mum, point and say, ‘oh, you’ll want to speak to that one’, as they glide in and out.

That’s the atmosphere.

Nan is more than a head chef at work; she’s at home.

OT much comes out of a can in Nan’s kitchen. “I mix all my own spices. They’re all typical African spices,” she says reaching up to many containers stored on a top shelf of the stainless steel workstation running down the middle of the kitchen.

The containers are labelled with names like Harissa, a Tunisian mix of dried hot chillies, garlic, cumin, coriander and olive oil.

Well, that’s the standard recipe. Nan prides herself by giving everything her own touch.

There’ll be something of her own design in there too.

In the cooler she explains: “I make my own chutney and the boerewors sausage. I take it to the butcher and he makes them up. It’s a traditional south African sausage.”

Boerewors is Afrikaans for farmer (boer) and sausage (wors) and has its roots in an older Dutch sausage called verse worst.

Has she ever been to Africa? No, but it’s a dream getting closer.

“One of the guides whose here now does tours three months of the year through Africa,” she

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says.

Her colleagues who do travel to Africa are constant sources of information.

“They all help me and I spend hours and hours putting things together, recipes that I’ve collected.

“For traditional African cooking we use the poike pot and that’s basically used in Africa for their stews to cook up whatever they’ve got,” she says. “My passion’s always been bush tucker.”

Wherever Nan goes there’ll also be a herb garden.

“When I was in Sydney, I did my apprenticeship at the Opera House a long, long, long, long, long time ago. I just always had a passion for different things and growing things and getting back to nature.

“I always enjoy that sort of thing. Everywhere I’ve been, there’s a herb garden. I really like using what Mother Nature’s got out there for you. Everything has its purpose.”

Nan takes us out the back to where her extensive herb garden is planted.

“It’s just all be been ripped out because it got frosted,” she apologises. “It’s usually choc-a-bloc full with parsley, coriander, watercress, marjoram, lemon

thyme, normal thyme, oregano, shallots, chives, leeks, lavender, rosemary, capsicum, chilies. The chilies are all in the freezer. There’s lemons on the lemon tree and a curry plant, which is a traditional perennial. Then, there’s the mints. I’ve got chocolate mint, apple mint and normal mint.

Did someone say chocolate?

“If you rub it and eat it, it absolutely tastes like you’re eating chocolate peppermint. I use it for desserts. I do one called the African Grasshopper. It’s a gluten free chocolate torte with crème de menthe, vanilla bean ice cream, Kahlua and a shot of coffee with it.”

Speaking of shots, the Zoofari Lodge has a fully stocked bar to compliment the African banquet including imported South African wines and Windhoek, a Namibian beer.

“I make my cheesecake out of the Amarula and batter from the Windhoek beer. Do you want to taste the cheesecake?” Nan, asks. “You would, wouldn’t you.”

Not waiting for an answer, she disappears back into the kitchen while I check the Amarula bottle for the alcohol content; 17 per cent.

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cheesecake. Amarula is a South African cream liqueur made from sugar, cream and the fruit of the African marula tree known locally as the Elephant or marriage tree.

Nan calls in a Lodge guide to explain. “Apparently the fruit ferments and the animals get drunk on it.

Windhoek is the capital of Namibia and as it used to be a German colony the beer has a German character,” he says.

Flavours are really a quest for Nan. “I make everything with African flavours inspired by the spices, but I can’t make it too spicy, though I have a chutney that’s got a bit of punch and guests love that. I do serve salad and veges and keep the banquet as organic as possible. Not much comes out of a can in this kitchen.”

And that’s a bit like Nan. She’s the real deal as nature intended and the natural surroundings of the Zoofari Lodge inspire her.

“When you are out here, it’s the most peaceful, tranquil place to work. It’s a beautiful workplace. Everybody’s passionate. You’re inspired and looked after. I really enjoy it. I love it.

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Gluten-free and flavour-full

BY KATE WHITING ROM your first spoonful of cereal at breakfast, to that lunchtime sandwich and cupcake teatime treat, much of what we eat every day contains wheat, and with it, the protein that forms gluten.

Now imagine you were Italian and you’d grown up eating pasta and pizza. You’d trained as a chef to cook the meals you love and then one day, you’re diagnosed with coeliac disease and have to stop eating them altogether.

This is exactly what happened to 63-year-old Giancarlo Caldesi, who runs two restaurants and a cookery school with his British wife Katie, and who also has type 2 diabetes.

“I close my eyes and think of original pizza in Naples – best pizza ever – and it makes me want to sit down and cry,” admits the fa` You eat ther of two boys. something and Just the day before, after a threethen you have year struggle with to run to the loo, “debilitating” sympyou think that’s toms, he’d finally had the official diagnormal...a nosis from his doctor following positive blood test results. Caused by the immune system reacting to gluten, coeliac disease affects one in 100 people, with symptoms including bloating, diarrhoea, constipation, tiredness, mouth ulcers, sudden weight loss, hair loss and anaemia.

The only treatment is to entirely cut out gluten from the diet, which includes cutting wheat, barley and rye, in order to manage symptoms and avoid serious long-term complications.

His own experiences have spurred Giancarlo and his wife on to create a ‘New Food, New You’ cookery course, to show people that it is possible to cook gluten (and sugar) free meals that are still tasty and satisfying.

While Katie does most of the teaching, Giancarlo pops in from the restaurant to make sweet fresh almond milk from whole nuts in his special Kuvings machine. His arthritis is playing up today after a long flight back from Vietnam, but he’s still able to shake hands, something he couldn’t do when he was eating gluten.

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BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

Cucumbers are a go-to vegetable for salads, but there are many ways to incorporate this cool, crunchy vegetable into everything from appetizers to drinks. Cucumbers are one of the oldest cultivated crops and have more than 100 different varieties. It’s believed they were first cultivated in India.

Cucumbers are at their best when young and tender with a crunchy texture. They come in many sizes. Some of the most popular varieties are the Dosakayi, popular in India for curries

and stews; crunchy “slicers,” used in salads; and pickles like gherkins, dills and sweet French cornichons.

The English cucumber is longer and narrower than the slicer varieties. Its seeds are much smaller and the skin is thinner. This type of cucumber is sometimes labelled as “seedless” or “burpless”.

It usually comes wrapped in plastic and unwaxed. The taste of English cucumbers is also less bitter, and some find it almost sweet.

Cucumbers have about 15 calories per 100 grams, and the peel is a good source of dietary fibre and is a mild diuretic, which helps to eliminate toxic materials in the gut. It’s also a great

think everything is normal. You eat something and then you have to run to the loo, you think that’s normal. You tend to find excuses for yourself all the time and you don’t find the truth of what is really wrong,” he says.

“It’s like the engine of a Ferrari, where you get that clean beautiful sound and then you put some sugar or gluten into it, some ghastly stuff, and suddenly that beautiful sound is gone and you know something is not right.

“When you eat the wheat, it makes you feel very sleepy, also your intestines are no good, you rush to the toilet – it’s very debilitating, because you have to think of quick exits. You feel foggy and fuzzy and my arthritis was getting stronger and stronger.”

Together, Giancarlo and his artist wife, who met in 1997 when she came to paint a mural at his first restaurant, devised a menu that is tasty and wholesome, filling but not draining.

Over a buzzy four hours, we make 10 recipes, some from ancient Rome, such as Lagana Seeded Wine Crackers with gluten-free ground flaxseeds and buckwheat flour, a delicious cake with no sugar or gluten, with the very tempting sounding title Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chocolate Mud Cake – and my personal highlights, Sweet Potato and Buckwheat Pizza and Courgetti.

The latter, ‘spaghetti’ made from courgettes, is something of a revelation. Very quick and fun to make, using a spiralizer which shreds the courgette into curly strips, it tastes like a healthier version of the real thing. Katie tells me her 12 and 14-yearold boys don’t even notice the difference, as long as she peels the courgette first to disguise the green.

On this new diet, Giancarlo has lost 11 kilos and feels like a new man: “From the top of my head, three quarters of my body is feeling completely different, liberated actually, full of life. I can rationally think straight and faster, and the magical thing is it’s lasting.

“And also now, if I eat something wrong, I know immediately because of the pain. And I don’t eat those things, because I have decided to be well is worth more.”

Try some of the Caldesis’ recipes for yourself...

source of potassium and is low in sodium, which helps with blood pressure and heart rates.

Cucumbers are high in the vitamin that helps with bone strength. It also has established a role in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease by limiting neuronal damage in the brain.

When purchasing cucumbers, select ones that have a firm texture and a bright-green colour. There shouldn’t be any spots, cuts or breaks in the skin. A wrinkled, large or yellowish cucumber means it is over ripe, lacking nutrients and tough.

Before using or storing, cucumbers should be washed using cool, clear

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keep the mixture as light as possible. z Divide the mixture into four and spoon onto the baking parchment, two per piece.

Spread them out with a metal spoon or a large palette knife into discs around 0.5 to 1cm thick. Put them into the oven to cook for eight minutes, or until firm to the touch and the edges become golden brown.

Remove from the oven and peel away the paper to stop it sweating underneath – keep the paper for later. Put the pizza base onto a wire rack to cool for a few minutes.

This stage can be done in advance, leaving the pizza to be cooked again later after topping. It can also be cooled, wrapped tightly in cling film and kept in the fridge for three days, or frozen for three months at this stage. Defrost before use.

(Makes 4 palm-sized pizzas) For the base: 100g cooked sweet potato, mashed 100g buckwheat flour 15g parmesan cheese, finely grated 2 large eggs, separated 1/2tsp fine salt 3/4tsp gluten-free baking powder 120ml cold water For the sauce: 200g tinned plum tomatoes 1tsp (heaped) dried oregano 1/2tsp fine salt 1tbsp extra-virgin olive oil For the pizzas: 1 x 125g ball of buffalo mozzarella, drained 2tbsp extra-virgin olive oil Handful of basil leaves Further toppings could be olives, rocket, ham, figs, smoked bacon, chorizo, salami, spinach Making it: z Bake the potato in the oven or microwave until soft. Preheat the oven to 200C

COURGETTI WITH RAW SAUCE ‘ALLA CHECCA’ (Serves 4 as a main course and 6 as a starter) 320g gluten-free spaghetti or courgetti from 3 courgettes 3tbsp of extra-virgin olive oil 25g parmigiano reggiano, finely grated – optional 100g ricotta to serve – optional For the sauce: 200g cherry tomatoes, cut into quarters 1 clove garlic, peeled and finely chopped 3tbsp parsley (approx 8g), finely chopped 3tbsp basil (approx 8g), finely chopped 20g capers, rinsed well 80g (stoned weight) olives, cut into quarters 1/2-1 red chilli, finely chopped – taste it

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and put two oven trays inside, spaced apart, upside down so that they become hot. Cut two pieces of baking parchment the size of the trays and set aside for later.

Make up the tomato sauce by blending the ingredients together with a stick blender or liquidiser. z Scoop out the flesh from the potato skin and put into a bowl, mash with a fork or potato masher and allow to cool. It should

be smooth, if it isn’t, use a stick blender to get rid of any lumps. When the potato is at room temperature, add the rest of the ingredients for the base, including the egg yolks, but leave out the egg whites at this stage. Beat together until smooth using a wooden spoon or spatula. Whisk the egg white until it forms stiff peaks and then gently fold into the potato mixture a little at a time. Do not over-mix as you want to

z When you are ready to cook the pizzas, spoon a couple of tablespoons of the tomato sauce over each one and tear over the mozzarella. Dress with any further toppings and slide them back onto the baking parchment into the oven using a pizza shovel or flat tray. Bake for eight to 10 minutes until the mozzarella is bubbling and the crust becomes crisp and browned. Remove from the oven and serve with a drizzle of oil and basil leaves.

and add according to strength Salt and freshly milled black pepper 125g buffalo mozzarella, roughly torn 3tbsp extra-virgin olive oil Making it: z Put the courgettes through the spiralizer on the finer cutter to form long strands like tagliolini. Mix all the ingredients together for the sauce in a large serving bowl. z Heat the extra-virgin olive oil in a large frying pan over a gentle heat. (Giancarlo does this with a crushed garlic clove and a few slices of chilli to flavour the oil, but it’s not strictly necessary). Pan-fry the courgetti tossing them in the pan with tongs for just a minute or two to heat.

Use tongs to remove them from the pan, leaving any water from the courgetti in the pan and stir into the sauce. Top with spoonfuls of ricotta and parmesan, if using. Serve straight away.

water and dried thoroughly to get rid of any surface dirt and pesticide residue. They may require light scrub at spots where prickles or dirt is evident.

Cucumbers can be stored at room temperature for a day or two, but for best results, store them for up to a week in a plastic bag in your refrigerator’s crisper drawer.

You can use cucumbers in a variety of ways. Fresh, cleaned cucumbers can be enjoyed as they are. You also can cut cucumbers into cubes with the skin and add them to vegetable or fruit salads.

BLACK BEAN AND SWEET POTATO CHOCOLATE MUD CAKE

Handful of raspberries or walnuts, for decorating

(Makes 10-12 small slices) 200g cooked black beans 100g cooked sweet potato 4 eggs, separated 75g organic Green & Blacks cocoa powder 125g Total Sweet (xylitol) or 5tbsp of rice malt syrup or 150g medjool dates 75g salted butter or coconut oil 1tsp vanilla extract 1tsp baking powder 3-5tbsp of milk, to loosen the batter A handful of walnuts – optional A handful of raspberries – optional For the coconut frosting: 1 x 400g can organic full-fat coconut milk (chilled overnight in can) Few drops vanilla extract or the seeds from a vanilla pod

Making it: z Preheat the oven to 180C. Line an approx 20cm square or round tin with a piece of baking parchment. Puree the black beans and sweet potato in a food processor or mash them finely with a ricer or potato masher. To this mixture, add the egg yolks, cocoa, sweetener, butter, vanilla, baking powder and three tablespoons of milk. Whizz to blend until smooth. If the batter seems very stiff, add another tablespoonful or two of milk to loosen it. It should be just soft enough to drop from a spoon, rather than firm enough to stay there. This will partly depend on your choice of sweetener and fat. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl. z Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they form stiff peaks. Take a large spoonful and add it to the chocolate mixture to

Finely chopped, fresh cucumber slices are delicious when mixed with yogurt, cumin, coriander, pepper and salt to make cucumber raita, the popular Indian condiment that adds a cooling effect to spicy dishes.

English cucumbers are great eaten skin and all, but with some other varieties you may want to peel them first (especially ones with thick skins). If you’re making a salad with seeded or slicer cucumbers, cut them lengthwise and use a spoon to scoop out the seeds.

Cucumbers also can be blend-

ed into a juice and combined with other vegetables and fruits, like my recipe for Strawberry Cucumber Lime Coolers.

STRAWBERRY CUCUMBER LIME COOLER Serves 4.

3 to 4 large peeled, cubed English cucumbers (approx 340g) 2 cups frozen strawberries 2/3 cups sugar, honey or agave syrup 1/2 cup fresh lime juice 4 cups cold water or clear soda water, unflavoured seltzer or

loosen it further. Now gently fold in the rest of the egg whites taking care not to lose the bubbles of air.

If you are going to add walnuts or raspberries, do so now, gently folding them in. Pour the mixture into the tin and use a palette knife or spatula to smooth it down. Put into the oven for 30 minutes or until the top is set firm but the cake has a slight wobble underneath.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool. z For the topping, carefully spoon the dense coconut cream from the top of a can that has been standing in the fridge overnight into a bowl. The underneath coconut water can be kept for smoothies, or using with oats instead of milk.

Whip the coconut cream and vanilla with a whisk until stiff and airy. Spoon on top of the cooled cake and decorate with raspberries or walnuts. :: Recipes courtesy of La Cucina Caldesi.

sparkling water 1. Combine cucumbers, strawberries, sugar, honey or agave, and lime juice in a blender; blend until cucumbers and strawberries are smooth.

2. Pour mixture through medium mesh sieve placed over a pitcher, and press it with a spoon to remove any lumps. Pour cold water, soda, seltzer or sparkling water into the pitcher and stir until wellcombined.

3. Pour into glasses with ice and garnish with thinly sliced strawberries, limes or cucumbers.

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Cooking up a stylish statement

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN ITCHENS are for eating, drinking and socialising, but the heart of the home also speaks volumes about our taste. Annabel Crabb’s ABC-TV series Kitchen Cabinet has revealed a rarely seen side of the Australian politicians who’ve appeared on her show. Some of the kitchens shown seem at odds with the public persona we’ve come to love or loathe.

It just goes to show, the recipe for a perfect kitchen is highly personal. There’s no one right ‘look’ – what matters is that this space suits you and the way you want to live.

“There are several factors to take into account when choosing a kitchen,” advises kitchen company manager Craig Burgess-Allen. “Consider the style of the rest of your home, especially if you have an open-plan layout with spaces flowing into one another, as you want to avoid choosing a style which jars with the rest of your design scheme.

“Equally, don’t feel obliged in a period home to install a traditional kitchen. The priority is for a functional space, which is easy to work in and is visually appealing, and modern ranges can be hugely successful as a stunning, calm pared-back contrast, when the rest of the house is highly embellished with flourishes and detail.”

A kitchen can make or break a property deal, and it’s estimated that it can add up to 7 per cent to the value of a home.

“Bear in mind that adventurous colour choices may look great in the showroom but can be hard to live with, and aren’t generally advisable if you’re considering selling a property,” Burgess-Allen points out. “If you feel colourstarved, play with colour in worktops and tiling.

“Always consider the natural light available, and opt for light reflecting surfaces if it’s limited. On a practical note, avoid glossy kitchen doors if you’re house proud and have small children, as they’ll show up every smudgy fingerprint!”

Check out the essential ingredients for a celebrity-style kitchen; simply add your own taste!

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Fresh Strawberry Arugula Salad

BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

I’m obsessed with strawberries. Sweet to the taste and bright-red to the eye, this luscious berry can be tossed into just about anything to turn an ordinary meal into a celebration.

It may not be prime strawberry season but you can still find them on the shelves at the supermarkets, or if you’re lucky enough, at the farmer’s market.

En route, challenge your family to think of all the ways you can use your bountiful baskets of juicy berries. As kids shout out their favourites, such as strawberries and

waffles, peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches, and strawberry ice-cream cones, you’ll discover how the versatile berries can be worked into any meal of the day.

Back home, learn new ways to use your bounty – like stirring up strawberryrhubarb jam or strawberry salsa. I like to use strawberries as a garnish, I toss them, along with fresh mint, into a chilled pitcher of water, and I’m always incorporating them in supper salads using other fresh local produce, nuts and cheese.

Here is a simple salad. Young kids can prep the berries and peppery arugula while you quickly toast the pecans in a pan on the stove.

STRAWBERRY ARUGULA SALAD Serves 4.

1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries 1 1/2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 3/4 cup pecan halves 2 tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper to taste 4 cups loosely packed baby arugula leaves* 1/2 cup crumbled mild feta cheese (optional) 1. Let school-age kids wash, hull, dry and halve the strawberries. Place in a bowl and toss with 1/2 tablespoon of the balsamic vinegar. Set aside for 5 minutes.

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PREMIER STYLE

A relaxed, informal style, with neutral colour scheme and mix of wood, steel and marble finishes, would appeal to those who want to avoid a conventional contemporary approach.

“Kitchens are no longer the place to hide your personal possessions. It’s time to express your personality and put your worldly goods on display for everyone to see. Glass-fronted cabinets and open shelves make it easy to quickly locate kitchen kit and personalises the room,” says Hayley Shaw, a merchandising boss.

“The polar opposite of high gloss, in 2015 we’re getting touchy-feely in the kitchen, by introducing rich textures to cabinets and worktops. Mixing vintage materials with modern finishes adds instant character, and is extremely indulgent for those seeking cutting edge trends.”

TOP TIP: This year is seeing the emergence of multi-functional kitchens. Expect to see wall-mounted storage transforming into tables, and cabinets into worktops, as designers develop innovative ways to maximise space, predicts Shaw.

COLOUR RECIPE

IF you’ve seen celebrity chef Nigella Lawson’s kitchen, it’s hue undoubtedly puts an individual stamp on the space, but if that’s cooking up too much of a colour storm, simply play safe by using colourful accents for easy-to-change items, such as wallpaper and accessories.

“Colour’s great in a kitchen and massively on trend currently – green and deep cranberry pink are particularly popular. But remember that, although coloured fitted furniture injects fun, and vibrancy can make a statement in a key room, this could affect the saleability of a house,” says Amanda Watson, design head for a home improvement company.

“Painted doors in more neutral colours, like sage, chalk and grey, with maybe a central island painted in a warmer stronger shade, delivers a modern yet timeless look, which might be more advisable for those hoping their kitchen will stand the test of time.”

TOP TIP: Colour in splashbacks, wallpaper and fun paint effects could be the perfect ingredients. “Coloured walls and accessories look amazing against gloss white or wood effect doors, and mean you can fairly inexpensively update or pick up on new trends,” advises Watson.

medium-low heat. Shake the pan to avoid over-scorching until the nuts are fragrant and lightly browned. Cool completely.

3. In a large bowl, whisk together the remaining vinegar, oil, salt and pepper. Add strawberries, arugula and pecans, and toss. Taste and season as needed.

4. Divide mixture on individual plates, and dot with the feta cheese, if you wish.

5. Substitute half of the arugula with fresh spinach for a milder flavour. z Donna Erickson’s latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families”.

COOK UP A REVAMP

EVEN if you don’t have a lot of purchasing power, a simple facelift could be all that’s needed to create the kitchen of your dreams.

“Replacing doors and drawer fronts can transform even the most outdated kitchen – there’s often no need to even empty the cupboards – and could be around half the cost of completely replacing a kitchen,” says Troy Tappenden, managing director of a kitchen makeover company.

“There are also simple substitutions which can gain valuable extra space in an existing kitchen, such as corner pull-out cupboards and extra deep pan drawers. Replacing a stained or damaged worktop is another easy way to refresh an old kitchen, and one popular option is to fit a new overlay over an old worktop. New handles and lighting will complete the transformation.”

TOP TIP: Tiled splashbacks date a kitchen. “Re-tile with classic white tiles and accent with a coloured grout for an up-to-the-minute look,” advises Claire O’Brien, a tile company trend manager.

NOW HERE’S A TIP

BY JOANN DERSON z “Clean and save takeaway food containers rather than purchasing commercial plastic containers.

They are all the same basically, and you will not be at a loss if you need to throw one away, leave it behind or send leftovers home with a guest.” – contributed by M.W. z To preserve your battery life on your smartphone, remember to close out applications that you’re not using. Shut down and restart your phone from time to

time as well. z “After you clip the coupons you want to keep, pass them along to your neighbours. They may use different products and so may want your coupons!” – contributed by I.L. z “Got too many coffee cups? Add potting soil and a small flower to give as gifts to brighten someone’s day!” – contributed by B. z In a pinch, you can use liquid correction fluid to cover up nail holes in a white wall. Dot and smudge as it dries. z Want to eat your nine servings of fruits and veggies a day?

Keep fresh fruit out and in view to increase the amount you eat. Cut and otherwise prepare vegetables and store them front and centre in your refrigerator.

Plan your meals around the vegetables instead of the protein!

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Tourists landing on Enderby Island, New Zealand. PHOTOS: PA/RENATO GRANIERI.

BY SARAH MARSHALL AS mask clasped to my face, I stumble through a thick cloud of sulphurous fumes as helicopters circle overhead. It’s a snapshot pertaining to the Apocalypse and not, as is in fact the case, a bunch of tourists on a cruise holiday.

But a visit to White Island, a 200,000-year-old live marine volcano in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty, is my introduction to the wild, largely uninhabited and relatively unknown outlying islands that hang from the country like a precious necklace in the South Pacific Ocean.

Thanks to the absence of any endemic land predators, several ecologists have described New Zealand as being the best example of how life might function on another planet, and in particular, the Subantarctic islands promise to be like nowhere else on Earth.

Far further south than White Island, the five UNESCO World Heritage Subantarctic clusters – Antipodes, Auckland, Bounty, Campbell and The Snares – serve as some of the world’s most important wildlife sanctuaries. Yet of the 1200 visitor permits available each year, that quota is rarely filled, an indication

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` As wind batters the granite outcrops, birds hang in the ledges, literally clinging to the precipice of existence...a of just how tricky it is to get here in the first place.

Silversea is one of the very few cruise lines offering the itinerary on their adventure-seeking vessel Silver Discoverer, combining expedition-style travel with the comforts of butler service and Moet & Chandon on tap, and I’ve joined them for the inaugural voyage.

Beginning in Auckland on North Island, we travel south, stopping at places where birds rapidly begin to outnumber people. Eradicating invasive species – and that appears to include Homo sapiens – is key to restoring these one-time Gardens of Eden, overrun by rats, sheep and combine harvesters.

It’s true that Pitt Island – part of the Chatham archipelago – looks, somewhat disappointingly, a bit too much like home; rolling hills and grazing livestock were a European introduction.

Ten people on the island (a third of the population) are direct descendants of 19th century settler Frederick Hunt from Lincolnshire, and I’m amazed they’ve maintained the strength of will (not to mention the gene pool) to live in

such a remote place for so long.

A sense of isolation becomes more acute during our long stretches at sea, which I grow to love. Although I could spend days listening to lectures, watching documentaries or burning off decadent gourmet dinners in the ship’s A kaka bird feeding on the flowers of a rata tree, Ulva Island, high tech gym, in- New Zealand. in an explosion of spray. During one stead, I choose to be protracted two-day storm, our vesout on deck. sel tips like a see-saw, sending plates, While crossing the Chatham Rise, we cutlery, waiters and even guests slidsee sperm whales spouting 5m diagoing across the dining room in a way I nal blows, fluking and leaving a trail of smooth ‘footprints’ in the water. Pelagic birds – ranging from graceful, balletic albatrosses, to Wedgewood blue fairy prions and gnarly-beaked northern giant petrels – hang in our slipstream, then disappear into the horizon where grey sea and sky become one. Their swooping flight patterns are as hypnotic as a swinging pendulum.

Rough seas pummel us with 6m waves, and as the bow rears upwards A black-browed albatross in flight above the and crashes back down, rainbows form ocean, New Zealand.

Asian cities costliest for working abroad

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HONG KONG: Asia has become one of the most expensive regions for people working abroad, according to a new survey, with its major cities accounting for half of the top 10 costliest expat destinations.

Hong Kong climbed one place from last year to become the world’s second most expensive place for expats, Mercer said in its annual Cost of Living Survey, with Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul also making the shortlist.

Much of the change in rankings is down to currency fluctuations, with the appreciation of the yuan against

the US dollar pushing up the cost of living in China, which now accounts for nine of the top 30 most expensive expat cities in the world.

By contrast Tokyo, ranked the most expensive city for expats in 2012, fell four places from last year to number 11 due to a slump in the Japanese currency after a massive easing program by its central bank.

Overall, the cost of living in Western European cities dropped due to a slide in the euro. The three cities that made the top 10 – Zurich, Geneva and Bern – use the Swiss Franc, which jumped in January.

Visa changes under northern Aust plan

Jetstar deal secures Avalon future

CANBERRA: Overseas working holiday makers will be have their visas extended by the government for one year if they are employed in northern Australia.

Parts of the north will also continue to be designated areas for skilled overseas workers under a new 20-year plan unveiled by the federal government on Thursday.

The three-year multiple entry visa will be extended to 10 years in a bid to promote more tourists, especially from China.

MELBOURNE: Jetstar will introduce daily return services between Melbourne’s Avalon Airport and the Gold Coast from October.

The deal between the state government and Jetstar will secure the future of the airport for the next 10 years, according to industry minister Lily D’Ambrosio.

As part of the new contract, Jetstar will increase the number of flights from five to seven a day and fly to two new domestic destinaAAP tions.

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But fierce weather brings out the best in the landscape and wildlife. A 15-minute trip through the Bounty Islands, a rare breeding ground for colonies of Salvin’s albatrosses and erect-crested penguins, proves to be the highlight of my voyage. As wind batters the granite outcrops, birds hang in the ledges, literally clinging to the precipice of existence. The waters are so challenging to navigate, it’s the only trip our captain will make that season.

Fortunately, the storms soon subside and we’re able to explore our next stop, the Antipodes Islands, on a Zodiac tour.

Here, waterfalls cascade down columnar rocks, formed like the pipes on a church organ, and trickle over a stratified ‘mille-feuille’ of volcanic ash.

Parakeets hide in the grassy tussocks, and northern rockhopper penguins weave past slithery tendrils of sea kelp snaking in the water. On land, moulting elephant seals are easily mistaken for enormous boulders, and irritable New Zealand sea lions watch us suspiciously.

After so many days at sea, we finally set foot on land at Campbell Island, although we can’t just merrily skip ashore.

In 2003, the most southerly of New Zealand’s Subantarctic islands was declared

rat free and officials are determined to keep unwanted visitors (including animals, insects and seeds) at bay.

Our boots are scraped and dipped in disinfectant, and clothing intimately probed with a vacuum cleaner. Only then are we allowed on shore, where purpose-built boardwalks run through the grassy nesting grounds of 99 per cent of the world’s southern royal albatross population.

The vast ocean void offers little sense of scale, but up close it’s possible to appreciate the sheer size of these mighty mariners who spend most of their lives at sea, only touching land every two years to breed. Yet now, on terra firma, they appear so vulnerable.

They’re not alone. On my way back to the beach, I’m ambushed by some fiercely territorial sea lions, and a plastic camera tripod suddenly feels like lame protection.

My second disconcerting pinniped encounter takes place on Enderby Island, part of the Aucklands. We visit a wooden castaway store used for emergency supplies by 19th century sailors, where only a jar of salt now remains, and hike across bouncy tundra sprouting with supersize cabbage plants known amusingly as megaherbs.

Sea lions seem to lurk behind every wiry mound of tussock grass and, once

disturbed, they give chase with alarming speed, fins rotating like the blades on a propeller.

“Stand your ground,” shouts our expedition guide Keith Springer. But with 400kg of spluttering, barking blubber on my tail, I’m sent scuttling down the hill in the direction of the castaway store, weighing up how long I could survive on salt.

Far friendlier residents are the yelloweyed penguins nesting in the dense silver rata forest and bellbirds whose syrupy electronic song is the sweetest music to my ears.

More symphonies from some of nature’s greatest composers are performed on Ulva Island, much closer to the mainland. Although not part of the Subantarctics, it’s still swathed in primeval forest and, in the absence of predators, is an ornithological paradise.

Above us, parrot-like kaka birds feed on the red flowers of a rata tree, while below, a Stewart Island robin hops on the ground to mimic rain and lure out worms. We sit a metre away and he doesn’t even flinch.

Once home to neighbouring Stewart Island’s first post office, people would sail here to collect or send mail and spend the day enjoying nature.

Volunteer guide Kari Beaven shows us the tough leaves of muttonbird scrub,

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A southern royal albatross nesting on Campbell Island, New Zealand.

used as “the first postcards” and legally franked until 1970.

Thousands of miles from home, I wonder how many months it would have taken to send a letter – or even leaf – across the globe. Even today, New Zealand’s Subantarctic environments are so far from our own reality. True, you have to travel far, but fortunately not to another planet.

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Sunrise on the Southern Pacific Ocean, New Zealand.

The Southern Royal Albatross nesting on Campbell Island, New Zealand.

Waves battering the bow of the Silver Discoverer, New Zealand.

Waves crashing on the Bounty Islands, New Zealand.

The Silver Discoverer, New Zealand.

Sea lions charging out of the water on Enderby Island, New Zealand.

A Zodiac cruise around the Antipodes Islands, New Zealand.

Tourists exploring the marine volcano on White Island, New Zealand.

A yellow-eyed penguin coming out of the water on Enderby Island, New Zealand.

Iconic Waltzing Top Aust chefs guests at Tassie feast Matilda Centre burns HOBART: With a resume that indirector Gill Minervini said.

QUEENSLAND: A Queensland tour-

ism landmark dedicated to the story behind the song Waltzing Matilda has been destroyed by fire.

Firies battled for more than four hours to extinguish the blaze at the Waltzing Matilda centre in Winton on Thursday morning, but the fire destroyed centre, leaving just a few external structures standing, a Queensland Fire Service spokesman said.

Investigators have been called and there are no reports of injuries.

cludes Sydney’s Aria restaurant and London’s Fat Duck, Jake Kellie is the guest chef on the opening night of Hobart’s Dark Mofo winter feast.

Now based at Melbourne’s Estelle, the young chef on Wednesday brought modern British-inspired cookery to the southern capital’s waterfront on the first of five nights of feasting.

Held in Hobart’s dockside Princes Wharf shed, 65 stalls will serve up warm and spicy portions to crowds that are expected to reach 50,000 throughout the event, creative

“Our theme always starts from winter solstice, rich in tradition... so we draw very heavily on that,” she told reporters.

“This year we are particularly inspired by birds because it was thought in pagan times that birds had a connection to the afterlife, so we’ve sort of played with that theme.”

The feast – one of the final events of a 10-day festival – concludes on Sunday, the night of the winter solstice, with the ritualistic burning of Balinese ogoh-ogoh monsters.

Sydney 11th most expensive for break Sydney likes to boast about its spectacular harbour but the city may not be bragging about being voted the 11th most expensive destination in the world for a quick getaway, according to the latest study by TripAdvisor released on Wednesday.

The survey compared the cost of a three-night break for two people during June to August in 40 key tourist cities.

World’s top five cheapest cities for a quick break ($A) 1. Hanoi, Vietnam – $923 2. Warsaw, Poland – $932 3. Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt – $1034 4. Bangkok, Thailand – $1037 5. Mumbai, India – $1067

And the most expensive...

1. Cancun, Mexico – $2546 2. Zurich, Switzerland – $2453 3. New York, US – $2407 4. London, UK – $2368 5. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic $2276 11. Sydney, Australia - $1873

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Ballarat dishes it up for food lovers

BY CHRISTOPHER TALBOT T'S a Friday night in Ballarat and the streets are quiet.

That's the first thing us city folk notice when pulling in to the 'rat – and it was glorious.

Arriving in a place at night is always disorienting, but we find our way through the beautiful 19th century architecture to our little country nook.

The driveway is lined with native plants and Turret Cottage lies at the end, one of two on Braeside Garden Cottages' allotment.

Inside it is like stepping into the welcoming comfort of granny's place.

I half expected to see grandma serving tea, but luckily there were no old people in sight – which would have put a dampener on the romantic weekend getaway.

There is a pot-belly fire, spa bath and beautiful cast-iron bed – all surrounded by ornate stained-glass windows.

Breakfast is already laid out, including freshly baked scones and a loaf of crusty bread.

It is the kind of place that is perfect to snuggle up with a book and enjoy the silence, but with rumbling tummies we head back to town.

We find a little pizza place called The Forge, drawn in by the massive wood-fire ovens and the warm, relaxed vibe.

The staff bustle about in aprons and flat caps and it has the feel of a slightly hipster city restaurant.

It is a cavernous space but feels cosy and intimate, with exposed brick and dark wood throughout.

Their pancetta pizza is now in my top 10.

The base was lightly charred and crisp with the slight chewiness that all good pizzas should have.

Cooked at 400 degrees with thin slices of crisp potato, salty local pancetta, goats cheese and rosemary, it is absolute pizza perfection.

We were full and could not eat another bite – until we saw the lemon meringue pizza.

Charred crunchy base, house-made lemon curd, crisp meringue and vanilla cream. It disappeared in record time.

After a night walk around the beautiful gold-rush city, we retire to Braeside for a glass of wine and some late night TV in the spa. It does not get much better than that.

The next day our Ballarat food journey continues with lunch at Fu Man Lou, a funky dumpling bar that opened 12 months ago in a historic 1850s building.

The juicy dumplings were definitely the star and we tried the steamed pork and wok-tip chicken. There are only seven varieties of dumpling on offer, which is small for a dumpling bar, but they are made to perfection.

The kitsch Asia-inspired interior, with neon pink accents and cute retro cartoons, has a warm modern feel that is begging to be Instagrammed.

After lunch we got lost for an hour in the Known World Bookshop, a dusty treasure trove of secondhand books and eclectic knick-knacks.

Then, as the sun set over Ballarat, we head for dinner at Catfish Thai – a restaurant so good I would drive to Ballarat just to eat here again.

It is the only Ballarat restaurant in the running for a Financial Review Top Restaurants Award, along with the likes of Melbourne's Vue de Monde and Flower Drum.

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Cuisine from Catfish Thai in Ballarat, Victoria. Catfish Thai is the only Ballarat restaurant nominated for a Financial Review Top Restaurants Award. With its range of cuisines, Ballarat is a surprising foodie paradise. PHOTO: AAP

The interior was simple black and red with a minimalist '80s feel.

We started with minced chicken and prawns in palm sugar, peanuts and pineapple. The perfect balance of sweet and salty with the crunch of peanut and a burst of pineapple juice.

Then the star of the night – a spicy red curry of crisp trout with wild ginger, cumin and holy basil.

It was sour, sweet, salty, bitter and very spicy. With eyes and noses watering, we pushed though the fiery sauce, unable to stop because the flavours were so unbelievably good.

But Ballarat's vast food scene extends way beyond its restaurants. There's fantastic coffee to be had at Yellow Espresso and a very satisfying breakfast at L'Espresso accompanied by a music-filled iPod showcasing its extensive ready-to-purchase CD collection that dominates the length of the cafe wall.

Ballarat turned out to be a surprising foodie paradise.

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GETTING THERE: Ballarat is 115km from Melbourne and takes about 75 mins by car. There are also regular trains leaving from Southern Cross Station in Melbourne.

For more details, vline.com.au/pdf/timetables/ ballarat.pdf STAYING THERE: Braeside Garden Cottages offers two self-contained cottages set amid beautiful gardens. A double spa, antique queen-size bed and cosy log pot-belly stove is provided in each cottage. It is within walking distance of the CBD, where you will find a large range of cafes, restaurants, hotels and boutique shops.

For more details, braesidegardencottages.com.au.

EATING THERE: All restaurants featured are located in Ballarat's CBD. For more details, theforgepizzeria.com.au, fumanlou.com.au, catfishthai.com.au. z The writer travelled as a guest of Ballarat Tourism.

Top Sydney museums to be free for kids

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SYDNEY: Kids, get set to don your pith helmets – there’s exploring to be done.

The dinosaurs, birds, mammals and insects, among other things, at the Australian Museum are all awaiting discovery.

Down the road, the trains, the space craft and other technology at the Powerhouse Museum are gleaming and brimful of interest.

And from late June both will be open free to all children under 16 after the NSW government declared on Wednesday it would scrap admission fees

to the two Sydney institutions.

The $2.1 million budget announcement reverses 25 years of a ticketed entry policy for children and comes just in time for the winter school holidays.

“Museums are places of wonder, of learning and discovery... we want to make sure that they (kids) can come here anytime they’d like,” said Australian Museum director Kim McKay. The Australian Museum is the country’s oldest institution for natural history while the Powerhouse Museum showcases arts, science and

technology.

Ms McKay hopes the opendoor policy inspires a new generation of Australian scientists and inventors.

“We want to inspire curious minds, and removing that (cost) barrier for many families is going to make a huge difference,” she said.

From June 27, families will save up to $8 a ticket with the no-cost policy extending to school excursions, too.

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Helena Winchester is this week’s Cowley Literary Award finalist in the fiction category. With its darkly honest glimpse into human complexity, Tragedy on the Tracks challenges us to look inside our own psyche. Faced with a life or death choice, what would you do?

Tragedy on the tracks

BY HELENA WINCHESTER HE LED display showing the arrival and departure times tells me that the train will be arriving in five minutes. I clear my throat, adjust my grip on my laptop bag and look towards the end of the Hoppers Crossing platform. I squint as the sun hits my eyes, the afternoon light bouncing off the rails. To the left of the platform, a chain-link fence separates the rails from the bus stop, shielded from the trains by a large, plexiglass barrier. I can see the school students chatting and laughing, headphones swinging from their ears like strange jewellery. Girls with multi-coloured hair and boys with large holes in their earlobes sit on the grimy footpath; their loud chatter drawing wary looks from the adults around them.

I will admit the corners of my mouth turn down the entire time I watch them. These are not kids who would end up in jobs. No employer in his or her right mind would take a look at these young people and say “you would be the perfect face of my business”. I watch them, frowning, unable to make out anything they’re saying, but imagining it being about how much they hated school or the unpopular band they enjoyed listening to. Or where they could score some drugs. Where are their parents?

I turn away from them to look down the other end of the platform. There are a few more no-hopers, standing in small groups and sharing headphones. There are two mothers with their prams near the coffee cart – mobile phones in one hand, coffees in the other, elbows holding the pram to keep it from rolling away. There are a few older teenage girls crowded around a worn-out bench, their school uniforms immaculate, their hair tied back with matching scrunchies. I half-smile as one of the girls riffles through a mathematics textbook; there is some hope for the future.

The group of them turn and look directly at me and I feel my face flush as I look away. I’m not staring – there’s nothing else to do when waiting for a train but look around the platform. It isn’t like I am watching them with any specific intention... but people can read into things like that these days. Before you know it, you’re a registered sex offender.

I turn away from their stares, trying to calm my flaming face. It is at this point that I notice they aren’t looking at me at all. A few metres behind me, a girl is sitting on the edge of the platform, her legs dangling over the edge. I look up at the display – the train is due to arrive in three minutes. Looking back at her, I can see she is slowly rocking back and forth, sniffing at intervals. I cannot see her face, the hood of her jumper is pulled down close to her face, but I can see the brim of a cap poking out from the front. She’s dressed in baggy black pants and scuffed-up grey Converse high-tops, the laces trailing in an arc when she moves her legs. As I look around the platform, I can

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see that everyone is watching her.

“I want to die. Just let me die now,” the girl suddenly says, her voice warbling out of pitch. My stomach tightens. She repeats the words over and over again, never varying the warbling tone or low volume. She doesn’t look at anyone, and no one comes near her. I hear commotion from across the tracks near the bus stop and see a group of teenage boys, dressed similarly, pointing and laughing at the girl.

“C’mon, kill yourself!” one of them shouts.

“Jump, slut!” another boy chimes in.

“Just fu**in’ die, slut bitch, do the world a favour,” the first continues. I watch in disbelief as they continue to hurl insults. The girl on the edge of the platform sniffs and continues to repeat the words “I want to die”, lowering her voice so that it no longer carries to the boys standing at the bus stop.

Everyone on the platform continues to stare, including me. Is she going to jump in front of the train? Is anyone going to stop her? Should someone call the police?

Why won’t you stop her, my conscience challenges me. What would I be able to do?

I’m dressed for a job interview, not a rescue.

She probably has a knife in the pocket of her jumper. She would stab me and take my laptop to sell for drugs or alcohol. I firmly put the idea out of my mind.

But another intrudes.

I’ve never seen anyone get hit by a train. I have in movies, where the person flies backwards in a ridiculous gravity-defying lob. Or when there’s a close-up of the person screaming before the train appears, and all that is left when the train passes is a bloody smear. Like most things, I am sure that Hollywood is far away from the truth of the matter. Would she disappear under it? Would she get caught on the front of it and be dragged as far as Werribee? Would there be parts of her left behind on the tracks?

I can see the headlines of tonight’s news on Channel 7: Tragedy on the tracks: girl dies in train suicide. There would probably be some social comment about bullying, and the addition of the Beyond Blue or Kids’ Helpline phone numbers added at the end of the broadcast. I wonder if anyone actually calls those things? Did she?

The girl is still sitting there, her legs swinging over the edge, the boys across running out of steam; I can only hear the occasional “bitch” and “slut” from their direction. The people on the platform continue to stare – some with

I’ve never seen anyone get hit by a train. I have in movies, where the person flies backwards in a ridiculous gravity-defying lob.

shocked looks on their faces, some with the same wary look they gave the teens at the bus stop, others with dismay. No one moves.

You shouldn’t wish it to happen, my conscience pipes up. I am not wishing it to happen. No one wishes it would happen! That is disgusting! Abhorrent! Inhumane!

But you’re not doing anything about it.

What could I do? Go to her? She’d rob me. Tell the boys off for bullying her? They’d beat me up. No, I’m not getting involved. Why should I risk my life for someone I don’t even know?

Some no-hoper.

It is at that moment that a woman steps onto the platform. She sees us all watching the girl, listens to her repeat her warbling words and, after looking at each of us watching with a disgusted frown, goes to her. She kneels down next to her, so that she is closer to eye-level with the girl.

“Are you okay?” I hear her say clearly. The girl doesn’t reply.

“You seem like you’re having a really bad day. Did you want to talk about it?” the woman continues. The girl remains silent, staring down at the tracks.

“I have two girls at home,” the woman says after a moment of silence, “and if either of them were here like you are, I would want someone to talk to them.” The woman then begins to ply her with simple questions: Where do you go to school? What music do you like listening to? What TV shows do you like to watch?

This continues for a number of minutes until the police finally approach – it seems that someone must have called them.

“Is everything okay, ma’am?” the police ask the woman. She nods, but the girl whispers something to her.

“Look, she doesn’t want to talk to you. I am happy to stay here with her, until an ambulance can come,” she replies. The policemen look at each other, then nod, backing away to give her some room. It is at this point that I notice the train had stopped short of the station – it had already been a quarter of an hour.

I am going to be late to my appointment.

“Hey, my legs are getting sore, did you mind standing over near the shelter with me?” the woman points at the graffiti-covered shelter towards the end of the platform. The girl nods and stands up shakily, shuffling over with the woman to the shelter, the police following at a distance. I see the girl’s face – it is tearstained and red, but she is pretty. No piercings, no tattoos or strange hair. Aside from the hoodie and baggy pants, she looks like a normal teenage girl.

I watch them walk away with mixed feelings. I feel annoyed that she is going to make me late for my interview, but at least she’s gone and the boys have run off – probably when the police arrived. I can’t help but also feel disappointed. I have never seen someone be hit by a train.

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War and rugby, the people’s game

BY VIVIENNE WINTHER DIRECTOR MACQUARIE CONSERVATORIUM

OMPOSER and artistic director Michael Sollis never takes the obvious path when creating performances for his ACT- based chamber music group, the Griffyn Ensemble.

Past projects have seen Michael team up with scientist and astronomer Fred Watson on two shows exploring astronomy, Southern Skies and Northern Lights.

Other musical performances by the Griffyns have explored the weather and architecture.

So a chance to create a performance for the Anzac Centenary took Michael in a direction noone could gave predicted, except perhaps him.

“I have always wanted to create something that combines the two worlds I’m passionate about: music and sport, particularly rugby league,” says Michael Sollis, who played 95 first grade matches in Canberra before an injury saw him sidelined from footy.

The result of his Anzac research is The Dirty Red Digger, a thought-provoking multi-media performance piece for the seven Griffyn musicians. The show features archival film footage of the war period, live music new and old, spoken word, and filmed interviews with young men and women involved in rugby league today.

“It was a surprise when this Anzac project turned out to be the one where my music and footy interests came together. When I started researching the First World War, I found so many interesting and unusual stories, but what really captured me was the story of Australia creating itself as a nation during the war period, with Australian working-class people finding their voice and identity as well at this time,’” says Michael.

“For the working-class man, rugby league and the clubs that had sprung up just before the War were a big part of that identity.”

Many of the young men going off to war had embraced with a passion the code of rugby league, introduced in Australia in 1908, and already established as the most popular sport in NSW by 1910.

“During the war, rugby league was so

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Griffyn Ensemble will perform The Dirty Red Digger in Dubbo on June 29

popular it continued to be played competitively in NSW; other competitive sports were banned so as not to detract from the war effort,” says Michael.

One of the powerful war stories Michael uncovered was that of Ted Larkin, the first Secretary of the NSW Rugby League Association. Ted’s story combines many of the threads explored in The Dirty Red Digger.

“Ted was a charismatic figure who was instrumental in the ascendancy of rugby league in the pre-war period. He was so popular he was tapped to run for NSW State Parliament and won a North Shore seat for the Labor Party, the first time that had happened. He was also one of only three Australian politicians who went to the war, and he fell on the first day of Gallipoli.”

Other popular sporting figures of the time also feature in the show.

“I’ve written music to accompany film footage of one of Les Darcy’s fights.

There’s also original music of mine to footage of politician Billy Hughes promoting conscription. The conscription debate divided the nation, with 53 per cent voting against it. Conscription was never introduced in Australia in the First World War; enlistment was all voluntary.”

The music used in the show is either Australian music or music performed in Australia during the 1914-1918 period.

“We play music performed at Glebe Town Hall for fund-raising events during the War; the Dirty Red Diggers of the title were the footy team in Glebe at the time. There are songs written by Australian wartime composers that are pretty funny, rather chilling propaganda like “Daddy’s in the Firing Line”.

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for the show, he has arranged Australian folk songs, and songs by Cold Chisel and Eric Bogle for the Griffyn Ensemble forces.

With one singer and five musicians who play violin, double bass, harp, flute, guitar and mandolin, the musical sounds at his disposal are quite rich and varied.

“In the Griffyn Ensemble, we really cross all genres of music; there’s folk, jazz, classical and contemporary expertise among our players.”

The archival materials used in the film and other visual projections were drawn from the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra and the British Film Institute. Footage even includes film of bush footy games of the period.

But another powerful, filmed component comes from the interviews Michael conducted with today’s young men who play rugby league.

“The idea of the interviews was to hear from today’s generation who are of the age of the young men who went to war in 1914. I’ve worked closely on these interviews with the Gungahlin Bulls, a club in Canberra. It was amazing how these young men opened up about the pressures they feel.

“We discussed their attitude to the idea of going to war. What came up were quite a lot of mental health issues – depression, suicide, and how they deal with those big problems. There’s the negative stereotyping of footy players, as well as the positive feelings of belonging and bonding that being in a footy team provides. And then we look at the experiences and feelings of young men 100 years ago; there’s a lot of common ground.”

Michael feels strongly about bringing

sporting culture and music together.

“It always seems to be an either or scenario; either you are ‘arty’ or ‘sporty’.

I’ve always been both and I think that there are lots of people who have genuine interest in both worlds. I want to highlight and explore the similarities rather than the differences.”

Working so closely with rugby league players and exploring the history of the game for The Dirty Red Digger has stirred up Michael’s own sporting interests.

“I am back playing again, and I’m up to 98 first grade games now, so my own centenary is not far away; if I can manage to keep going!”

He’ll have some time away from the game while the Griffyn Ensemble takes The Dirty Red Digger on tour to Newcastle, Armidale, Gunnedah, Dubbo, Temorah, Wagga Wagga, Cooma, Bermagui, Canberra, and in Sydney to the Glebe Town Hall. The project and tour is supported by the Australian Government’s Anzac Centenary Arts and Culture Fund.

“In Canberra, we perform at the Canberra Raiders Belconnen Club, in Newcastle at the Panthers Club. In Cowra we perform at the Ex-Services Club and in Dubbo at the RSL Club. I am really thrilled that the show will be performed in the clubs of both rugby league players and returned soldiers.” » The Griffyn Ensemble perform The Dirty Red Digger at the Dubbo RSL Club Theatrette on Monday 29 June 7.30pm.

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What’s On June 29: The Griffyn Ensemble in The Dirty Red Digger, 7.30pm Dubbo RSL Theatrette July 17: Secondary Schools Music Seminar with composer Elena Kats-Chernin and pianist Tamara Ann Cislowska, Macquarie Conservatorium – bookings essential July 17: Elena Kats-Chernin and TamaraAnna Cislowska in Concert, 7.30pm Macquarie Conservatorium July 18: Masterclass for piano students with Tamara-Anna Cislowska, 11am Macquarie Conservatorium July 19: Centenary of Cobbora Village Hall, High tea and recital by Macquarie Conservatorium students, 2pm Cobbora More info: www.macqcon.org.au

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Mirren, Mirren on the wall...

BY JEANANNE CRAIG FROM her note-perfect performances on the big screen to her stylish turns on the red carpet, everything about Dame Helen Mirren oozes confidence.

It comes as a surprise then, to learn the 69-year-old, who picked up an Oscar for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in 2006’s The Queen, doesn’t feel so self-assured.

“I don’t really have confidence, honestly,” Mirren confesses. “And certainly when I was younger, I was fraught with insecurity, sometimes paralysingly so.”

The notoriously fickle field of acting isn’t the obvious career choice for someone gripped by insecurity, but the star – currently appearing in new film Woman In Gold – believes it was the best move for her as a young woman.

“I think that’s why I became an actress – you have to overcome that, you have to fight through it and come out the other side.

Also, I think, as you get older, a lot of that anxiety just drops away. And it’s a lovely thing.”

Mirren turns 70 on July 26 (“it’s Mick Jagger’s birthday too, and the anniversary of the Cuban revolution – some year I’ll have to go there for it”), but she hasn’t given the milestone much thought.

“Every day’s a milestone. So the fact that it’s this particular day, as opposed to a week’s time, is totally irrelevant to me.

You just roll on through life,” says the actress.

As for the ‘sexy’ tag which so frequently accompanies her name, she regards it as “such an easy, lazy” label.

“We’re all so much more complicated than that,” she adds. “There are so many different kinds of attractiveness in human beings, in human behaviour. I would like to see that

BY SAM STRUCKHOFF Timbuktu (TBA) – In the rolling dunes of Mali, alongside centuriesold cultural artefacts, families face the threat of fundamentalism forcing its way into the rhythm of life.

Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed) lives simply, herding livestock with his wife, daughter and an adopted child who helps with the work. At the outset of the film, foreign jihadists are shown using priceless relics for target practice. The pastoral scene is infested with newly arrived clerics and heavily-armed young men enforcing rules against everything from music and clothing to soccer and socialising.

Director Abderrahmane Sissako creates an enchanting portrayal of fully realised, authentic-feeling characters. Even with the jihadists, you feel like there are real humans under the monstrous deeds. It’s a movie that radiates importance and love for life, without burdening the audience with heavy-handed delivery.

Survivor (MA15+) – Milla Jovovich stars as a London-based American security agent. We’re not

` There are so many different kinds of attractiveness in human beings, in human behaviour.

I would like to see that recognised more often...a

Woman In Gold with Ryan Reynolds as Randol Schoenberg and Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann. PHOTO: PA/ROBERT VIGLASKY/THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY.

recognised more often.”

Indeed, Woman In Gold is more twin sets and pearls than sultry looks, as Mirren plays eighty-something Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jew who was forced to bid farewell to her family and flee Vienna during World War II. Sixty years later, in the late Nineties, having relocated to Los Angeles, Altmann enlists the help of young lawyer E Randol Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds) to try and retrieve the family’s treasured possessions seized by the Nazis. Among the items is painter Gustav Klimt’s prized Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (described in the film as “the Mona Lisa of Austria”), which is hanging in the Belvedere Gallery in the Austrian capital.

For Altmann, who died in 2011 aged 94, the struggle was

about more than just reclaiming a painting from the Viennese bureaucrats determined to keep the treasured piece in Austria.

“Oh, so much more,” Mirren agrees. “Yes, it was worth a lot of money, but [it’s also the idea that] ‘no, it doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to me. It’s what I grew up with and you have stolen it.’”

While her character had a troubled relationship with her home town, London-born Mirren was warmly received in Vienna and was even presented with a medal for services to the city by its mayor.

“I don’t think they were really giving it to me, they were giving it to Maria Altmann. The mayor said to me that, above all, Maria’s efforts to reclaim the paintings had made the city

Helen Mirren attends the premiere of Woman In Gold in New York. PHOTO: EVAN AGOSTINI/ INVISION/AP/PA

the lines I say in the play.

“I guess I could imagine doing that. I love gardening, I love the countryside, I love the British climate.”

When talk turns to the thrill of the stage, however, it seems highly unlikely Mirren will quit acting any time soon.

“There’s something very magical about an empty theatre,” she enthuses.

“I find it the most powerful, moving, incredible place to be.

I love walking out on stage before I do the show and looking out at the empty seats, thinking, ‘You’re mine! All mine!’” :: The Woman In Gold is showing now at Reading Cinemas Dubbo.

Husband and wife, Taylor Hackford and Helen Mirren.

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cuts a deal with Keegan the crime boss (Anson Mount). Keegan will help get Ray an early release from prison, and Ray will forge a Monet painting and swap it with the real-deal in the museum. Ray makes the deal so he can spend some time with his teenage son who has a terminal brain tumour, which doesn’t make much sense, because forging a masterpiece typically takes a while.

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK exactly sure what kind of agent, but she screens visas and rides a motorcycle. She survives a terrorist bombing, and now everyone thinks she’s responsible. The real bad guys send Pierce Brosnan – an expert assassin who looks a little groggy – to kill her while some boring exposition unfolds.

Jovovich has to thwart a terrorist plot before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve in Times Square, but just like in real life, it’s an overhyped event that has most viewers asleep before the end.

Brosnan is usually pretty successful in his non-Bond espionage roles, but he doesn’t seem to relish this one. The action sequences mostly revolve around Jovovich running, when her specialty lies more in butt-kicking.

of Vienna face up to the past.”

The daughter of a Russian father and an English mother, Mirren’s paternal Russian family, exiled after the 1917 Revolution, also knew what it felt like to leave everything behind.

“My grandfather [a tsarist] lost everything. My Russian family were forced out of their home and had to go and to live in one room of an apartment in Moscow, five of them, with my grandmother dying of stomach cancer. It must have been absolutely horrendous,” she says.

“But they were not taken away to concentration camps. I’m not saying there was not unbelievable brutality in Russia during the revolution, there was, but it didn’t particularly happen to my family in that way.”

Mirren, whose career began as a teenager at the National Youth Theatre, is currently depicting the Queen again in The Audience on Broadway, a production she originally appeared in on the West End stage (she recently ruled out playing the monarch again in Netflix’s upcoming drama The Crown, stating, “we must all move on, and me most of all”).

“Acting is the only thing I could imagine doing,” says Mirren, who’s married to director Taylor Hackford.

“I mean, maybe I would have been happy like the Queen, living on a farm, far from anywhere with lots of horses, dogs and children all running around, mucking in, getting grubby; those are

Ibrahim Ahmed in “Timbuktu”

The Forger (M) – John Travolta’s performance in this heist flick/ family drama is unbelievable. As tough-guy art forger Ray Cutter, his sensitive painting talent, his hard-boiled fighting skills, and especially his Boston accent, are thoroughly unconvincing. Ray

If You Build It (TBA) – This documentary traces an innovative educational program that puts students in charge of increasingly challenging and meaningful building projects. Architects Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller run “Studio H”, the hands-on program that teaches kids to make good things with their hands to improve their communities and the lives of others. Running without proper funding – it’s grants, credit and no salary for a year – the students build a new farmer’s market for their struggling North Carolina town. It’s not an easy trip or a perfect program, but the film looks into an inspiring story of hard work and improvement.

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We should be thankful that Stephen King is determined to publish everything he can write

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

z BOOK OF THE WEEK Finders Keepers by Stephen King is published in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton.

WITH more than 50 novels under his belt, it’s admirable that Stephen King still writes his own books, unlike some big authors whose names have been turned into brands.

Better yet, King tries to avoid being repetitious by often breaking out of his default (a writer haunted by evil in Maine) – we’ve known he can do brilliantly outside of horror since 1982 and the novella that became The Shawshank Redemption.

Mr Mercedes, published in 2013, was similarly refreshing: devoid of supernatural spookiness, it was a cat-and-mouse suspense, with expertly delivered thrills and a fun motley trio of crime-fighters. Finders Keepers is its sequel, although it begins with new characters setting up a new plot and is probably enjoyable on its own terms.

Novelist John Rothstein is the crucial character, even though he dies in the first chapter: he lingers through his literary legacy, especially as his obsessed fan of a murderer steals a cache of unpublished notebooks.

Thirty years later and the loot is rediscovered by a teenage boy, who is soon thrown in over his head into a dangerous situation as everyone fights for a scrap of previously-unread genius, eventually turning to the heroes of Mr Mercedes for help.

King has lots to say on the nature of books and their bewitching power over people, a theme he probed best in Misery as introspective terror.

Here the results are frightening but they play out more like a roller coaster of a story, with King’s simple prose whisking readers easily through the plot.

The last pages do hint at something supernatural to come in the next instalment and, unlike John Rothstein, it seems that Stephen King is determined to publish everything he can write. If books such as the effortlessly exciting Finders Keepers are the result, we should all be grateful.

9/10 (Review by Stephen Wood)

O FICTION The Turning Point by Freya North is published in hardback by HarperCollins.

THE Sunday Times bestselling author returns with a tale about finding love in unexpected circumstances.

Divorced children’s author Frankie Shaw lives in Norfolk with her children after recently leaving the hustle and

bustle of London. Unknown to her editor, Frankie is suffering from writer’s block. But when she gets a call to go to London for a meeting, Frankie reluctantly makes the journey.

While having a drink at the hotel, she encounters fellow guest, Canadian musician and single father Scott Emerson, which leads to an enjoyable dinner and conversation.

Despite returning to their respective homes, they begin a tentative relationship through sweet text messages, phone calls and emails. When they make plans to meet up again, Frankie and Scott can’t believe they have another chance of love. But fate has other ideas.

Will Frankie and Scott get their happy ever after? An emotional read following the lives of a pair of new lovers.

8/10 (Review by Julie Cheng) In The Unlikely Event by Judy Blume is published in hardback by Picador.

TO say I was excited to start reading In The Unlikely Event, Judy Blume’s first novel for adults in more than 15 years, is an understatement. Like many girls growing up in the Eighties, her teen stories shaped my childhood, with well-thumbed copies of Forever famously doing the rounds at school.

With Blume’s new book, we’re on familiar ground, as the central character is a teenager called Miri Ammerman. But the story is partly autobiographical.

It’s the tale of three plane crashes that happened over one winter in 1950s Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Blume grew up. Her father was a dentist, who helped to identify the bodies and writing the book was evidently cathartic for Blume.

While the narrative switches between multiple characters’ viewpoints, Miri, who lives with her single mum Rusty, ace reporter uncle Henry and grandmother Irene, is the linchpin of the novel.

Besides dealing with the emotional fallout of each crash, she falls in love with a boy called Mason, and meets her father for the first time – death is juxtaposed with normal teenage life, with its cashmere cardigans and new hairdos.

But there’s no neat story arc for Miri or any of the other characters, this is real life and real adolescence at its most raw. And somehow, it’s strangely not as satisfying as the Judy Blume books for tweens.

7/10 (Review by Kate Whiting) The Versions Of Us by Laura Barnett is published in hardback by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

IN her hotly-tipped debut novel, Laura Barnett plays on the Sliding Doors-style philosophy of ‘What would have happened if...?’ – an exploration into the dynamics of choice verses fate in the game of love.

In a nutshell, three alternative lives are played out. In 1958, Cambridge English student Eva cycles over a nail and fellow student Jim offers to fix it – who she then leaves her boyfriend to marry.

In the second scenario, she misses the nail and marries her boyfriend David and in the third, she meets Jim, but ends up in a loveless marriage with David having attempted to do ‘the right thing’.

Barnett’s use of structure enables multiple insights into marriage and relationships and, in contrast to many, often idealistic, romance novels, Jim and Eva’s experiences are challenging and gritty. But it is as much about the endurance of love as it is about the hardships of relationships.

The interesting structure is undermined by the protagonists, who are unreliable and, at times, unlikeable. Jim morphs from a passionate and caring young man into an unrecognisable cowardly, fickle and vaguely pathetic character. This makes it challenging to fully invest in the relationship between him and Eva. The Versions Of Us contains some touching moments and explorations into relationships of all ages. But the weaknesses in the character development prevent the novel from having a lasting effect.

6/10 (Review by Chloe Chaplain) The Reader On The 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent (translated

by Ros Schwartz) is published in hardback by Mantle.

GUYLAIN Vignolles has a passion for literature and pulps books for a living. Morose and alone, haunted by the geno-

Stephen King’s new release “Finders Keepers” is a sequel to his ‘refreshing’ 2013 release “Mr Mercedes”. PHOTO: REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR

romp.

Hapless singleton Annie McDee hands over a few quid for what turns out to be a multimillion pound 18th-century masterpiece languishing in a junk shop.

Unfortunately, the title of this novel has a double meaning, in that the plot turns out to be pretty improbable too.

Many characters feel drawn from a fairy tale and although it must have seemed like a good idea to write chunks from the viewpoint of the painting, it doesn’t really come off.

All this seems at odds with the rather serious central theme of whether now that owning art has become just another way of showing off wealth, has its beauty and power to move been reduced to nothing but a footnote?

5/10 (Review by Gill Oliver)

cide that is his job, he finds his daily respite on the commuter train, where he reads aloud to the compartment the pages he has salvaged from the pulper.

One day he uncovers the diary of a woman called Julie, and, captivated by her writing, sets about trying to find her.

It is a pleasing fable about the power of literature to elevate our lives: like Guylain, the host of secondary characters are pursuing their salvation through words, from the security guard who speaks only in Alexandrine verse, to Giuseppe, who lost his legs in the pulper and is attempting to find all the books that were made from them.

But the novel lacks the substance to support its many quirks, and ultimately it feels unsatisfying, unable to offer the redemption that it promises.

6/10 (Review by Adam Weymouth)

O NON-FICTION

The Improbability Of Love by Hannah Rothschild is published in hardback by Bloomsbury.

AS a big name in the art world, writer and film director Hannah Rothschild certainly knows her Titian from her Rembrandt and that comes across strongly in this chick-lit

The Life Of Saul Bellow: To Fame And Fortune, 1915-64 by Zachary Leader is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape.

THIS biographical doorstep is billed as ‘THE’ life, not ‘a’ life, and so comprehensive and meticulous and just plain huge is this account that it’s hard to imagine anyone else taking on

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Leader’s account of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist – author of The Adventures Of Augie March and Herzog – weighs in at 812 pages, and this is only Part One, taking us up to the third of Bellow’s five marriages, the writing of Humboldt’s Gift, and a secure position at the very summit of American letters.

Bellow’s life strikes me as characterful rather than eventful. He misses out on most of the Second World War, he moves around a lot for a series of largely unsatisfying teaching jobs, and even his witnessing of the aftermath of Trotsky’s assassination has a second-hand air to it.

But his Yiddish/Chicago background is full of big personalities, like his hoodish brother Maury and his furiously fragile father Abraham, a failed bootlegger.

His adult friendships tend to be spikily paranoid affairs with fellow writers and intellectuals, while his marriages end in bitterness, slow-burning revenge and even physical abuse.

Everyone and everything gets poured into the fiction, and Bellow frequently has to defend himself for invading other people’s privacy. He’s hard to like on this evidence – though he can be

funny and charismatic, he is often described as touchy, self-absorbed, impossible to deal with.

Above all, he is ruthlessly convinced of his ability and mission to write great fiction, a conviction the world has amply confirmed.

Leader’s extraordinarily exhaustive work refreshes our interest in the works themselves, as any great literary biography should.

9/10 (Review by Dan Brotzel)

O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK

Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant is published in hardback by John Murray.

THE life and career of legendary former barrister Lord Hutchinson, who is now a century old but still in remarkably good shape, is the subject of this excellent and long overdue biography.

It was written by a much younger barrister and friend, Thomas Grant, with Jeremy Hutchinson’s cooperation, and focuses mainly on a number of famous criminal trials in which Hutchinson appeared for the defence. He reached the peak of his brilliant career between the 1960s and 80s and retired from the Bar in 1984.

The best known of his groundbreaking cases were to do with alleged breaches of the Obscene Publications Act and the Official Secrets Act. Within the court room and outside, he courageously championed freedom of speech and artistic expression against intrusions by the State, when attitudes were much more conservative than today.

He became a hate figure for “moral crusaders” such as the late Mary Whitehouse, and sometimes incurred the displeasure of formidable luminaries at the upper level of the legal establishment.

This book is a valuable work of social history but is as riveting as any novel. One gains a picture of a man of intelligence, charm and liberal views, who has contributed significantly to the good of the nation.

8/10 (Review by Anthony Looch)

Put decentralisation into effect A RECENT radio interview with a Walgett farmer exampled the issues that confront people on the land.

A family working that country since 1880 had decided to sell their property. The last straw in this worst drought in the region since 1903, was the cutting of his allocation of irrigation water. This meant that the planned crop which would normally yield $750,000 revenue, could not be planted.

Another example of drought effect was replicated where a Narromine farming family decided to sell their water allocation license to liquidate debts incurred over the previous nine years of drought and revert the property to dry land farming.

One view of the rural situation on this dry continent is the uncontrollable risks imposed by nature’s floods and droughts.

Another view is the strategy of how profit margins are decimated by those who have manipulated produce prices to farmers in the last four decades.

An example of the latter is well explained in Charles Massey’s book “Breaking the Sheep’s Back”.

Farmers continue to show extraordinary initiatives to achieve what they have done, exampled over the last few thousand years. Paul Kahl arrived in Wee Waa from California in early 1962, purchased a farm and, in 1963, harvested his first cotton crop. His autobiography “Cotton Pickin’ Pio-

neer” relates the development of his farming activities with the cotton industry being established through his efforts.

The Moree Shire later went on to become the highest dollar earner in agricultural produce in Australia. Cotton production expanded to the Macquarie River locations of Trangie and Warren and then later to the Lachlan River areas of Condobolin and Hillston. But all these initiatives have been dependent on water. A CSIRO title “The Value of Water in a Drying Climate” highlights the intelligent use of fresh water.

In 2011, ABC publications released “Flood” which includes a collection of stories and photographs of the Queensland floods. It provides a view of how Australia’s coastal regions suffer repeated inundations.

On one hand we have floods costing the country people so much of their livelihoods; on the other is a lack of water impacting on so many west of the Great Divide. Our nation’s leaders did something about this in the early 1950s making the Murrumbidgee and Murray River regions highly productive with the Snowy River Scheme.

While all this is occurring, the NSW and Victorian governments have set aside billions of dollars to build freeway accesses in highly congested cities.

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More roads are not the answer: decentralisation of population is.

Just announced are multi-million-dollar exhaust stacks near the M4 in Sydney; the metropolitan locals are objecting to the fall-out. Hundreds of thousands of cars travel across Sydney belching carbon monoxide for the population to breathe.

From an unusual source comes a comment. Recently, the Dubbo Wesley Church pipe organ was overhauled for the first time in nearly 50 years. All the pipes were removed. The technicians commented that the dust collected in the pipes was easily cleaned – it was almost “clean dust”. It contrasted with dust removed from capital city organ pipes that had a greasy attachment. City people breath this same exhaust air with major effect on their lungs – a real motivation to move to the country.

To achieve this decentralisation, employment and facilities must exist. The brains behind the practicality and economics of feeding our population are not engaged.

Sydney and Melbourne have road access plans costing billions. Sydney has a plan for rail movement of its population costing billions. Much of this effort involves tunnelling. If that money was applied to tunnel-

Off The Page by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer is published in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton.

JODI PICOULT and her daughter Samantha Van Leer have once again teamed up to create a great contribution to the ever versatile YA fiction genre.

A follow-up to their 2012 collaboration Between The Lines, which saw Delilah rescue the handsome Prince Oliver from the tedium of her favourite story, Off The Page also stands alone perfectly, introducing quirky teenage characters dealing with an even quirkier literary situation as the fairy tale world and the real world collide both inside and outside of a book.

With a very clear romantic theme, the development of the protagonists’ relationship as Oliver struggles to adjust to the modern world, together these authors manage to make these characters not only likeable, but believable through an unlikely series of events.

They even throw in enough awkward and often funny scenarios to make what could have very easily been a wash-out romance into a novel worthy of more than just the target audience.

It’s fair to say this, not so young, adult was enthralled to the end and only left me wishing that I had the imagination to come up with such a brilliant formula for a story.

8/10 (Review by Sarah Scoffin)

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection ling though the Great Divide, the flood waters frequently endured could be transferred to the Murray Darling System.

Mary White has defined the catchment areas across the whole country in “Running Down”. The distance between the sources and likely locations of dams confirms that diversion of coastal water to the inland is possible.

A geologist who worked on the Snowy River Scheme also designed a scheme for the Clarence River with some flows diverted westward.

This is revealed in Professor Lance Endersbee’s “Voyage of Discovery”.

Also, the Brisbane River which has flooded Brisbane city on a number of occasions has its source just east of Toowoomba.

And a stream that runs westward near Toowoomba flows west into the Darling River.

Farmers not located on river systems take initiatives to handle their soils to retain moisture. A documentary featuring Peter Andrews’ water harvesting methods is also set out in his book “Back from the Brink”.

Recent discussion with graziers in the drought stricken Walgett area indicated the dramatic benefits of Alan Savory’s “Holistic Management”. So committed are those who practice landcare

and, in turn, pasture management, that there is a move to apply drought assistance only to those who demonstrate such effort.

Farmers with sloping land use contour banks to control water flow. Yeomans developed the system described in “The Keyline Plan” which reduces the speed of rain run-off so that it effectively penetrates the soil.

Tony Windsor’s recent biography “Windsor’s Way” comments on his term in State and Federal parliaments. He became an Independent Member when it became clear that the country style of affiliation wasn’t working when $18 million dollar grants to Armidale and Tamworth hospitals were deferred.

When he then sided with the Rudd/Gillard government, his bargaining power improved dramatically as he was part of the “balance of power” they needed. The payoff he gained involved several facilities for his electorate. It reveals that country electorates represent 30 per cent of the population but receive just 8 per cent of the infrastructure investments.

It is time to renew the 1970s program that brought benefit to Dubbo and western areas and put decentralisation into effect.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Grandparent’s day at Preschool

BY KAITLYN RENNIE & CONTRIBUTED BY DUBBO AND DISTRICT PRESCHOOL GRANDPARENTS were treated to songs, dances and morning tea at Dubbo and District Preschool Grandparents days held on Thursday and Friday, June 11-12. The annual event invites grandparents to visit the children at preschool, have morning tea with them, see their creations and learn what they do every day. Everyone involved had a great time at the morning tea and getting to know the teachers.

Penny Wilson, Judy Layard, Amahlee and Evie Wilson

Trevor Gabb, Mason Weir and Myra Gabb

Bill Snelson, Elva and Richard MacFarlane and Brock Snelson

Nancy, Rosie and Dave Pankhurst

Owen Prout, Ella Howard and Julie Prout

Judy and Bridie Jane

Kye Bywater and Jenny Cook

Isabelle and Joanne Moore

Sue and Eleanor Smith

Eliza Price and Patricia Clark

Alison and Harry Hawkins

Bill and Finlay Bush

Helen and Jimmy O’Brien

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Rawson’s Display Home a success

BY KAITLYN RENNIE The new display home for Rawson Homes was officially opened on Saturday, June 3. The home is located in South Lakes, and is such a beautiful home.

There was a steady influx of people throughout the whole day, with the attraction of a free lunch, face painting and balloon animals a hit with families. Dubbo Weekender, Dubbo Photo News and Star FM were also there on the day, helping to celebrate the brand new home’s opening.

The official ribbon cutting was at 1pm Saturday, with Rawson Home’s executives proudly taking part in the proceedings.

Joey, Jenna and Ella Howard with Alex Prout

Evie, Clint, Simone, Izac and Tasmyn Bennett

Liv and Kim Hamilton with Claudia Bruce

Marni and Jodie Bell

Hollimaree Curtis-Zumbo and Shellie Curtis

Kate Ryan and Jordan Stewart

Natasha Osbourne getting her face painted

Tina Mutluol, Sophie Motluol, and Lyndall Witts

Blanche and Graham Robinson

Monique Daymond and Donna McGann

Lisa and David Starr

Jayde and David Haywood

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Pop-up Restaurant for the Cancer Council

BY KAITLYN RENNIE WITH the Dance for Cancer event coming up in early July, the dancing participants are busy raising money for the Cancer Council.

Church St CafĂŠ, in sponsorship of Julie Cross and John Korff, created a pop-up restaurant on the night of Friday, June 12, to raise funds for the cause.

The night was sold out within two weeks, with a great response seen from the community.

The night included live music, and a several course meal. Despite the cold weather, the atmosphere surrounding the restaurant was warm and cosy thanks to patio heaters.

The night raised a total of $5123.40, well exceeding the amount the duo were aiming for.

Kate and Paul Elliott

Antonne and Mel Vizintin

Sam Reichstein, Matilda Asser, Sophie Halpin and Ben Madigan

Scott Drady, Vanessa Smith, Suzie Foran and Josh Loxley

Sue and Steve Williamson

Jen and Ben Morgan

Emily Trenholme and Jock Rodgers

Locky Simpson, DJ O’Shea and Peta Reardon

Peter Holland and Katie Simmonds

Paul Waine, Peter Diamond, Bob Coverdal, Fiona Fidock, Robyn Diamond, Tricia Pratt and Susie Hill

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Delroy’s Class of 1986

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE Delroy High School class of 1984-1986 had a great night at the Westside Hotel at their reunion. The ex-students enjoyed catching up with each other, and learning what has happened since completing school.

However, there was a hint of rivalry, as the other function room was filled with Delroy graduates from a couple of years later, with arguments as to who was the better year group.

There was a great turn up for the reunion of Delroy Class of 1986

Kelly and Paul Kempston, Nelson Carlow, Chicka Merritt, Leah Williams, Steve Sinclair and Ann Rennie

Denise Sinclair, Sue Hanna and Lisa Pilon

Students and teachers from the class of 1986

GET YOUR REPRINTS HERE Reprints of most photos you see in Dubbo Photo News and Dubbo Weekender are available to buy.

Call 6885 4433 during office hours, or call in to our office at 89 Wingewarra Street.

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear Egyptian Tombs THE Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society is pleased to present Egyptian Tombs: Non Royal at Wesley Hall from 6.30pm on Monday, June 22. Australian lecturer Dr Rodna Siebels, who is an expert on Egyptology, will reveal information about the small but highly decorated tombs belonging to those who served the Kings and Queens of

Egypt. A light supper will follow the lecture along with time for questions. For further information, contact Bruce Gray on 0419 200 795.

VIP Adults Only show JOIN Chris ‘Bloke’ Franklin and Kieran Wicks for a great night out en route to Winton where a show will held for the community, thanks to the Shout A Mate project. They are coming to Dubbo on

June 25 for a very funny music and comedy show beginning at 8pm at Dubbo RSL Club. Doors open at 7.30pm. Entry includes a meal from the club’s grill and carvery plus a complimentary drink from the sports bar. Check out www. shoutamate.com.au

Pedals, Pets and Pedestrians THE Tracker Riley Cycleway will come

alive with walkers, runners, cyclists and pooches-on-leads on Sunday morning June 21, at the inaugural Pedals, Pets and Pedestrians event organised Dubbo City Council. Head along for a morning of fun, giveaways, prizes and refreshments, while getting some fresh air, exercise all while enjoying the beaut Macquarie River views. The fun begins at 9am at Ollie Robbins Oval with prize draws being held after the walk at 11am.

see NSW Kart Championship DUBBO Kart Club will host the second round of the NSW Kart Championships from 9am to 5pm from Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21.

Up to 150 go-karters, including a large number of local drivers, will converge on Dubbo from all across the state to compete for points in the NSW State Title.

Entry is free and there will be canteen facilities available all weekend. Enquiries to Cheree Everingham, 0490 101 894.

High Country Gothic THE Western Plains Cultural Centre is pleased to present High Country Gothic, a Gippsland Art Gallery Touring Exhibition of paintings by London-based Welsh artist Daniel Crawshaw.

For the last two decades Crawshaw has been travelling the world in the tradition of the artist/explorer, seeking out spectacular land-

scapes yet to be altered or damaged by humankind.

His expeditions have taken him to the national parks of Canada, Switzerland, Spain, and his native Wales, in search of pristine alpine environments. In 2012, he visited Australia, spending two months based at the Cowwarr Art Space in Central Gippsland. Crawshaw’s Australian paintings confront the unforgiving landscape head on.

From June 6 to August 2.

Willy Wonka CATCH the iconic film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at Old Dubbo Gaol on Saturday, July 4.

Take a pillow and blanket, and experience a candy-licious themed movie night including Oompa Lumpas.

There will be sweets, lollies, candy floss and popcorn galore!

There’s also five golden tickets to be won. Gates open at 6.30pm, movie starts at 7.30pm.

do Pink day at the basketball

5pm. All proceeds to go to Pink Angels.

ADD a dash of pink to your outfit and head to the Dubbo State League Basketball at Dubbo Sportsworld on Saturday, June 27.

From 3pm, it will be a battle of the emergency services, with ambulance versus police, while the Dubbo Rams men’s team will take on Queanbeyan at

Family fun night DUBBO Harness Racing Club will host a family fun night on Friday, June 26, in support of Jessica Sutton who is battling cancer.

There will be full TAB and race facilities along with a twilight market, face painting, foot race, raffles, crazy hair

styling, jumping castle, lucky gate prize and charity auction. So get your backside trackside, because every paying person through the gate is donating to this charity event and helping Jess.

The Legend Begins AHEAD of the third and final State of Origin game, enjoy an evening out with former Origin greats Graham Eadie

(NSW) and Colin Scott (Qld) as part of a charity night and dinner to raise money for Give me 5 for Kids.

The event, to be held at South Dubbo Tavern from 5.30pm on Saturday, June 20, includes a sporting memorabilia auction and a ticket in the draw for NSW photo memorabilia signed by Tom Raudonikis as well as dinner, drinks and an original origin teams photo.

etc.

Mitch Mackay Memorial

Flavours from the Farm

DUBBO Dirt Bike Club’s Mitch Mackay Memorial will be held on Sunday, June 28. The main event is the Mac Daddy Cup, Round 2 held at Morris Park Speedway at 9am, with sign-on from 7.30am.

Prizemoney of up to $500 will be up for grabs in the shoot-out.

EXPERIENCE the gastronomic delights of the next Flavours from the Farm at Lazy River Estate on Sunday, June 21.

Hear about preserving, farming and food, with a producer Q&A with the Gourmet Goat Lady and Badlands Brewery. There will be canapes, a two-course

luncheon with matched beverages as well as take-home recipes. The event will run between 11am and 3pm.

Day at the footy FOOTY season is well and truly underway, so what better way to spend the day than by heading out to support one

of our many local teams.

This Saturday, June 20, the Macquarie Raiders will take on Cobar at Caltex Park in rugby league, with games commencing at midday, with under 18s, reserves and first grade.

CYMS next home game will also be played at Caltex Park on July 4.

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OPEN WEEKENDER

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY

COFFEE & MEALS

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT

Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞLJ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

THE ATHLETES FOOT ZŽĐŬŵĂŶƐ ŚĂƐ ũƵƐƚ ŽƉĞŶĞĚ ŝƚ͛Ɛ ďƌĂŶĚ ŶĞǁ ƐƚŽƌĞ Ăƚ KƌĂŶĂ DĂůů Ͳ ƐƚŽƉ ďLJ ĂŶĚ ŚĂǀĞ Ă ůŽŽŬ͊ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE

Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ 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

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ Homemade pastas ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ ŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ůů ĚŝƐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŵĂĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞƐŚĞƐƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĞ ĮŶĞƐƚ ŇĂǀŽƵƌƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵĞĂů͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

CLUB DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ ŽŵĞ ĚŽǁŶ ĂŶĚ ĞŶũŽLJ Ă ĚƌŝŶŬ ǁŝƚŚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚƐ ŝŶ ŽƵƌ ďĞĞƌ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ͕ Ă ƌŽƵŶĚ ŽĨ ƉŽŽů ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĨƌŽŶƚ ďĂƌ Žƌ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ĚĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ĐŽƵŶƚƌLJ ƐƚLJůĞ ŵĞĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ͕ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ

GROCERIES ϯƉŵ ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ 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 ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 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 Food Court ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϲĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϲƉŵ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

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Friday, June 19 MOVIE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring GO!, 8.30pm, M (2001) From the opening scenes that masterfully detail the back story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s tale, to the seamlessly integrated special effects, director Peter Jackson presents a powerful and thoroughly engrossing tale that never lets up on its frenetic pace. Managing to keep the heart of the novel, with only minor tailoring to trim the mammoth detail, Jackson presents a marvellous realisation of mythical Middle-earth.

However, the real triumph lies in the casting: Elijah Wood is a revelation as the reluctant hero, hobbit Frodo, and Ian McKellen revels in his role of the enigmatic wizard Gandalf.

ABC

Sex For Sale With Rupert Everett SBS ONE, 9.30pm About 10 per cent of British men admit to having used a prostitute.

What does that tell us about male desire? In this daring under-thecovers two-part doco, dapper English actor Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding) asks why people really buy and sell sex, getting deep into the nitty gritty by talking to sex workers and their clients. Prostitutes are often seen as either immoral individuals or exploited victims, but Everett delves behind the stereotypes and hears the unvarnished truth. Controversial viewing and definitely not for the prudish.

PRIME7

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries ABC, 8.30pm Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis, right) ht) has been digging to the bottom of some of 1920ss Melbourne’s grisliest crimes forr almost hryne three seasons now. Tonight, Phryne aise hosts a tennis tournament to raise hey money for female players so they can compete for prizemoney. One nis of the people she invites is tennis coach and old pal Stanley Burrows, who brings along his new wife, rising tennis star Constance Burrows. But when Constance’s practice partner ider suffers a deadly funnel-web spider bite, Phryne has a fresh murderr case to solve and, with the killer’s intended victim still alive, Misss me.

Fisher might not have much time.

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Making Couples Happy :) (PG, R, CC) 11.20 Catalyst Bytes. (R, CC) 11.30 Divine Women. (R, CC) (Final) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Rake. (M, R, CC) (Final) 3.10 Catalyst. (R, CC) 3.40 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) Quiz show.

5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: A Clean Kill.

(M, R, CC) (2000) A woman claims her lover murdered his wife, but he insists he’s innocent. Roxana Zal, Perry King.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News At 4. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Join James Reeson for inspirational, easy recipes that can be cooked at home.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, R, CC) 12.15 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(PG, CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (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 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 NITV News Week In Review. 1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Inspector Rex. (R) 4.30 Fugu & Tako.

4.40 Trevor McDonald: Mighty Mississippi.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) The team heads to the British Museum in London, where they examine a pair of wooden pillars from HMS Victory.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, CC) Granville purchases a lot of bargain stock. However, he needs a clever plan to sell it all and a visiting salesman gives him a great idea.

8.30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. (M, CC) Phryne hosts a tennis tournament to raise money for female players.

9.30 Janet King. (M, R, CC) Janet faces humiliation after Dianne Vasilich appeals her conviction for murder.

10.25 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

10.55 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

11.10 Dirty Laundry. (R, CC) Lawrence Mooney and a panel of celebrity guests pull apart the major popculture stories of the week.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Pete visit a hideaway tree house in New Zealand.

House Rules contestants Bronik and Corrine team up with Adam for a DIY project. Dr Harry meets some creatures of the deep. Jason provides tips on building a water feature.

Ed cooks great meals for kids.

8.30 MOVIE: Tower Heist.

(M, R, CC) (2011) A building manager and his staff join forces with a petty thief to take revenge on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days to go before the billionaire gets away with his crimes, they must work out how to relieve him of the fortune he has hidden in his penthouse. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck.

10.45 To Be Advised.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 15. Manly Sea Eagles v Wests Tigers. From Brookvale Oval, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: Hard To Kill.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1990) After waking from a years long coma, a renegade cop seeks revenge on the gangsters who attacked him in his home, killing his wife and injuring his young son. Steven Seagal, Kelly Le Brock, Bill Sadler.

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) 7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Miguel goes head to head with the meatball champs in a ‘street fight’style meatball challenge.

Chris introduces some normal pets with unusual behaviours.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Graham is joined by Samuel L Jackson, Stephen Merchant, Amy Schumer and Muse.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) After a marine collapses during training and dies, the team discovers the deceased man had been participating in an illegal-fighting ring.

Their efforts to locate the group responsible hit a dead end, at least until another related death provides them with the clue they need.

10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Five comedians compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. Chef Heston Blumenthal recreates Chilli Con Carne.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 The Easter Island Heads.

(CC) Explores the world’s most recognisable statues, with a look at how and why the giant stone heads of Easter Island were made.

8.30 Knights: For Fame And Honour. (M, CC) Part 2 of 3. Takes a look at the time of the knights, and the individuals behind these medieval warriors.

Investigates the medieval fascination with gaining honour, respect and glory.

9.30 Sex For Sale With Rupert Everett. (MA15+, R) Part 2 of 2. Prostitutes are often seen as either immoral individuals or exploited victims, however Rupert Everett gets behind the stereotypes and hears the unvarnished truth from both sex workers and their clients.

10.25 World News. (CC) 11.00 MOVIE: The Sex Of The Angels. (MA15+, R) (2012) A dancer is tempted by a neighbour. Llorenc González, Astrid BergèsFrisbey.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: The Brothers Bloom. (M, R, CC) (2008) 3.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Good Wife. (PG, R, CC) Alicia agrees to represent a group of computer programmers in a contract dispute, as a favour to her mother.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.50 MOVIE: The Country Teacher. (MA15+, R) (2008) A man’s life is thrown into chaos. Pavel Liska, Zuzana Bydzovská.

3.00 The Young Montalbano.

(M, R) Montalbano throws himself into his work.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

1.00 Home Shopping.

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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Friday, June 19 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.40pm 300: Rise Of An Empire (2014) Action.

Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green.

(MA15+) Premiere

7.30pm Arrow. Oliver tends to a wounded Canary. (M) FOX8

6.30pm MythBusters. The boys look at sound frequencies.

(PG) Discovery

5.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. First quarter-final. Fox Sports 2

7.30pm Railroad Alaska. A porcupine infestation threatens the electricity. (PG) Discovery

7.50pm Football. AFL. Richmond v West Coast. Fox Footy

8.30pm Aftershock: Disaster In Nepal. Discovery

8.00pm Tennis. WTA Tour.

Birmingham quarter-final. Fox Sports 4

9.00pm Free Birds (2013) Animation. Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson. Two turkeys team up to travel back in time to get turkey meat off the holiday menu for good. Family

8.30pm Sleepy Hollow.

Ichabod and Abbie hunt for a mysterious silver coin. (M) FOX8 9.25pm Wentworth. (M) SoHo

10.40pm French Kiss (1995) Drama. Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline.

(PG) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.50 The Numtums. (R, CC) 2.00 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies.

(R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R, CC) 3.20 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 3.55 Emma!

(R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas.

(R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Around The World. (R, CC) 4.40 Chuggington. (R, CC) 5.00 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 5.10 Grandpa In My Pocket. 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit.

6.15 Curious George. (CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.45 Confessions Of A Nurse. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Forbidden Love. (M, CC) 10.15 Jimmy Fallon.

(PG, CC) 11.00 Unsafe Sex In The City. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.55 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. (PG, R, CC) 12.25 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 1.10 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close.

5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Louie. (R, CC) 5.15 Iconicles. (R, CC) 5.40 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.30 What I Wrote. (R, CC) 10.35 A Journey Through Asian Art. (R, CC) 10.45 So You Want To Be A Designer? (R, CC) 11.10 Designers.

(R, CC) 11.30 The Shot. (R, CC) 11.35 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Round The Twist. (R, CC) 1.10 Backyard Science. (R, CC) 1.35 Heart And Soul. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R, CC) 2.25 Pearlie.

(R, CC) 2.40 Hairy Legs. (R, CC) 2.50 Tashi. (R, CC) 3.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 3.50 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 So Awkward. 5.20 Operation Ouch!

(R, CC) 5.50 Dance Academy. (R, CC) 6.15 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Open Heart. (CC) 8.05 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, CC) 8.50 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (CC) (New Series) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Close.

Stephen Amell stars in Arrow

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 The Woodlies. (C, R, CC) 7.30 In Your Dreams. (C, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (PG, R) 11.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 12.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Mr Selfridge. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Animal Academy. (PG, R) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Border. (PG, R) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

Presented by Aled Jones.

9.30 House Wreck Rescue.

(PG) Presented by Gary McCausland.

10.30 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG) 11.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) 11.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 12.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 1.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.00 House Wreck Rescue. (PG, R) 3.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Sofia The First. 7.30 Handy Manny. (R) 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 8.30 Doc McStuffins. (R) 9.00 NBC Today.

(R, CC) 11.00 Starsky & Hutch.

(PG, R) 12.00 Charlie’s Angels.

(PG, R) 1.00 European Games.

International multi-sport event.

Day 6. From Baku, Azerbaijan.

2.00 Family Guy. (M, R) 2.30 American Dad! (M, R, CC) 3.00 Pair Of Kings. (R, CC) 3.30 Kickin’ It. (R, CC) 4.00 Zeke And Luther. (R, CC) 4.30 Lab Rats. (CC) 5.00 Ultimate Spider-Man. (R) 5.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 6.30 Turtleman. (PG, R) Follows the adventures of a Kentucky woodsman.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the big match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 12. Richmond v West Coast. From the MCG. 11.25 Horse Racing. (CC) Royal Ascot. Day 4.

3.00 European Games.

International multi-sport event. Day 6. Replay.

4.00 Repo Games. (MA15+, R) 4.30 Motor Mate. (PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, CC) 8.00 Pyramid. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Magical Tales. (P, CC) 9.30 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra.

(CC) 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live.

2.00 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 SpongeBob. (R) 3.30 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Rise Of The Guardians.

(PG, R, CC) (2012) Hugh Jackman.

8.30 MOVIE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. (M, R, CC) (2001) Elijah Wood.

12.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+) 12.30 MAD. (M, R) 1.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live.

(R) 3.00 TMZ. (R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting. 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct. 9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Lady Godiva Rides Again. (R, CC) (1951) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 Inside The Animal Mind. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona visits Seaton Delaval Hall.

8.30 MOVIE: Blood Work.

(M, R, CC) (2002) A profiler pursues a serial killer. Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels.

10.45 MOVIE: Showdown In Little Tokyo. (AV15+, R, CC) (1991) 12.25 MOVIE: Don’t Look Now. (M, R, CC) (1973) Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland. 2.30 MOVIE: Heart Of The Matter. (PG, R, CC) (1953) Trevor Howard. 4.30 Days That Shook The World. (PG, R) 5.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Motor Racing. (CC) Australian Rally Championship. National Capital Rally. Event review. Replay. 10.00 Fraser Island. (R, CC) 11.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 12.00 Wedding Band. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Rush. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Black Ops. (M, R) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 4.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 5.00 Hardliners. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 World’s Toughest Trucker. (PG, R) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Vengeance Is Mine. (M, R) (2012) Steven Seagal.

11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Return To Afghanistan. (AV15+, R) 4.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Second semi-final. Waikato Bop Magic v NSW Swifts. Replay. From Claudelands Arena, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Taxi. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (PG, 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. (R, CC) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) (Series return) 9.30 New Girl. (M, R, CC) Schmidt causes trouble for Nick and Jess.

10.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(M, R) 10.40 Sex And The City. (M, R) 11.15 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.45 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.45 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 1.20 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.55 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News.

4.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.45 Vs Arashi. (R) 5.35 Massive Moves. (R, CC) 6.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (CC) 8.30 Ctrl Freaks. (M) (New Series) Three comedians take control of two players’ lives.

9.25 Lost Girl. (M) Trick prepares Bo for a Fae rite of passage.

10.15 Lost Girl. (MA15+) 11.05 Attack On Titan. (R) 12.05 Stand Up @ Bella Union. (M, R) 12.35 Friday Feed. (R) 1.05 PopAsia. (PG) 3.05 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Colour Theory. (PG, CC) 10.30 Love Patrol.

(PG) 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 Burned Bridge.

1.30 The Quest Of Jimmy Pike.

2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Tales Of Tatonka. 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 Love Patrol. (PG) 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Frontier. (PG) 8.30 Indians And Aliens.

Explores alien encounters in Northern Quebec.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 By The Rapids. (PG) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Outback Cafe. 12.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby Sevens.

4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Trucking Yard v Mt Allen. 5.00 Characters Of Broome. 5.30 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 1.30 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News.

2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

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Saturday, June 20 MOVIE: The Smurfs PRIME7, 7pm, G (2011) Anyone who has watched the Smurfs’ 1980s cartoon series will know exactly what to expect from this half-animated 3D family film. The sugary plot revolves around the boisterous blue gang being forced to flee from evil wizard Gargamel (played by The Simpsons’ Hank Azaria, who provides most of the humour) and, after being sucked through a wormhole, they find themselves in good ol’ New York.

Celebrities popping by to hang out with the tiny little fellas in the grownup world are How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris and aptly cartoonesque pop starlet Katy Perry. While the ‘‘smurfology’’ is overbearing and gimmicky, it’s perfect silliness for kids.

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Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers: South Africa SBS 2, 8.30pm Charley Boorman is on another of his epic adventures, and luckily we get to come along too. Tonight, he heads to the stunning Kruger National Park in Africa, where he enjoys spectacular wildlife, sunsets and scenery while travelling to Crooks Corner. He then rides to Johannesburg, stopping at a market with delicious local produce so he can cook up a traditional South African meal, before learning about the history of Soweto on a bicycle.

Lastly, he take a thrilling four-wheel drive on some adventurous offroad trails.

PRIME7

MOVIE: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines PRIME7, 9pm, M (2003) Big Arnie returns to his signature cybernetic role and is at his brawny best, given a wellchosen supporting cast to play off. Arnie’s cyborg killing machine is sent from the future to protect the would-be leader of the human resistance, John Connor (Nick Stahl), from the attentions of the sexy and lethal Terminatrix (Kristanna Loken, right). Along for the bruising ride is Claire Danes, a vet who proves to be rather handy with a Kalashnikov and who’s a highly effective foil for Arnie.

Taking over directorial duties from James Cameron, Jonathan Mostow (U-571) offers a tight, entertaining action fest that isn’t averse to playing the self-parody card.

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TEN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Two Men In China.

(PG, R, CC) 1.05 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.05 The Restaurant Inspector. (R, CC) 3.00 Nigellissima. (R, CC) (Final) 3.30 Wild Kitchen With Clayton Donovan. (R, CC) 4.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Barnaby investigates the death of a cricketer.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 World’s Strictest Parents.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 The Making Of Inside Out. (PG, CC) A look at the making of the new movie, Inside Out. 1.30 Medical Emergency.

(PG, R, CC) Disaster hits two young jet skiers.

2.00 MOVIE: The Women.

(PG, R, CC) (2008) Meg Ryan.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (R, CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 Food CIA. (PG, CC) 12.30 Supernanny: Beyond The Naughty Step. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) Joy starts an internship.

1.30 Mike & Molly. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Rocky IV. (PG, R, CC) (1985) Sylvester Stallone.

4.00 Australian Geographic Adventures. (CC) 4.30 Deep Water. (PG, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 RPM. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (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) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Josh shows how to overcome one of the trickiest spots in gardens, the south facing aspects that get deep shade for most of the year.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) Father Brown and his friends find themselves stranded at a hotel with a group of hedonists.

8.15 Doc Martin. (R, CC) After taking offence at Martin’s diagnosis of her skin problem, the new nanny walks out.

9.05 The Secret River.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. In 1813, an ex-convict settles on the Hawkesbury River.

However, his plans are misunderstood by the local indigenous people.

10.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Charlie Pickering.

11.00 The Wrong Mans.

(M, R, CC) Sam and Phil bring the dangerous plot right to their doorsteps and nowhere is safe.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by special guest programmer, The Vines ‘ frontman Craig Nicholls.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Smurfs.

(R, CC) (2011) After the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they unexpectedly tumble out of their own magical world and into New York’s Central Park. However, they must find a way to return home to their village before their nemesis manages to track them down. Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays.

9.00 MOVIE: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines.

(M, R, CC) (2003) A cyborg is sent back in time to protect a future resistance leader from a robotic female assassin. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes.

11.20 World’s Wildest Police Videos. (M, R, CC) A gang fight in Pelican Bay Prison explodes into a jail-wide free-for-all. Silver-haired pharmacists fight back against a pistol-packing thief. Police go bumper-tobumper with a crook in a stolen school bus.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Madagascar.

(PG, R, CC) (2005) Four animals from a New York zoo are shipwrecked on their way to Africa and find themselves stranded in Madagascar. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer.

8.45 MOVIE: Blast From The Past. (PG, R, CC) (1999) Romance blossoms between a streetwise young woman who grew up in LA and a naive man who has spent the past 35 years in a bomb shelter with his family. Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken.

11.00 MOVIE: Malice. (M, R, CC) (1993) A young husband finds himself undermined and drawn into a web of deceit when a surgeon moves into the house he is renovating with his new bride. When the surgeon performs an emergency operation on the man’s wife, the three are fatefully thrown into a world of betrayal. Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin, Bill Pullman.

6.00 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Dr Chris travels to Edgar’s Mission, on the outskirts of Melbourne, where he is faced with a sheep that was rescued after five years on the run.

7.00 MOVIE: Ice Age: Continental Drift.

(PG, R, CC) (2012) A trio of animals, Manny, Diego, and Sid, embarks on an adventure after their continent is set adrift. Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo.

8.45 MOVIE: X-Men: First Class. (M, R, CC) (2011) During the ’60s, a diverse group of mutants find themselves united under the leadership of a telepath, as they match wits with a former Nazi scientist who is determined to start a nuclear war. However, before they are able to defeat their enemies, they must confront their own demons. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence.

11.05 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 5.

SkyCity Triple Crown. Sprint Cars. Highlights. From Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin.

12.30 Home Shopping.

1.10 MOVIE: Captivity.

(AV15+, R) (2007) Elisha Cuthbert.

2.45 MOVIE: Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb.

(M, R, CC) (1971) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R)

12.05 48 Hours: The Accidental Husband. (M) Real-life mysteries and crimes.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 1.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

SBS ONE 6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Tamara Rojo’s Swan Lake. (R, CC) 3.10 Mastroianni, The Ideal Italian. (CC) 4.10 Souvenirs De Serge.

(PG, R, CC) 4.55 Contact: David Hurn – The Beatles. (PG, R) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? David Baddiel.

(PG, R, CC)

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Secrets Of The Manor House: Hampton Court.

(PG, R, CC) A look at one of England’s most iconic great houses, the so-called pleasure palace of King Henry VIII, Hampton Court. Originally built by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the 16th century, it was heavily modified in later years with baroque modifications to its original Tudor style.

8.30 RocKwiz Salutes The Decades. (PG, CC) Julia Zemiro, Brian Nankervis and the RocKwiz Orkestra explore the local and international music scene from the 1980s. Features performances by iconic musicians as well as trivia.

9.30 MOVIE: La Vie En Rose.

(M, R, CC) (2007) Charts the life of French singer Edith Piaf, whose personal troubles stood in stark contrast to her iconic status as a performer.

Marion Cotillard, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gérard Depardieu.

12.05 MOVIE: Coco Chanel And Igor Stravinsky.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2009) Anna Mouglalis.

2.10 MOVIE: Sita Sings The Blues. (PG, R) (2008) 3.45 How Small Is The Universe?

(CC) 4.45 Tender. 5.00 Korean News. 5.35 WeatherWatch And Music. 5.45 Soccer.

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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8.30pm A Most Wanted Man (2014) Thriller. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams.

An escaped militant’s attempt to claim an inheritance gives a German agent the chance to lay a trap. (M) Premiere

8.30pm Location Location Location Australia. A couple want to swap their snowy English winter for fun in the sun on Sydney’s northern beaches. (PG) LifeStyle

7.30pm Sean Bean On Waterloo. Hollywood actor Sean Bean tells the story of Waterloo, one of history’s most decisive battles. History

7.20pm Football. AFL. Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions. Fox Footy

8.30pm Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa (2013) Comedy.

Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll. (MA15+) Comedy

8.30pm Australia’s Next Top Model. (M) FOX8 10.10pm Sex And The City.

Big decides to move away from New York.

9.50pm How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) Animation.

Voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett. Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.40 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 1.50 The Numtums. (R, CC) 2.00 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R, CC) 3.20 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah.

(R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 3.55 Emma! (R) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Around The World. (R, CC) 4.40 Chuggington.

(R, CC) 5.00 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 5.10 Grandpa In My Pocket. 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Curious George. (CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (R, CC) 8.30 The Home Show. (R, CC) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. (R, CC) 10.05 Dirty Laundry Live. (M, R, CC) 10.55 The IT Crowd. (PG, R, CC) 11.20 Louie. (M, CC) 12.05 Archer. (M, R, CC) 1.35 News Update. (R) 1.40 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Louie.

(R, CC) 5.15 Iconicles. (R, CC) 5.40 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.20 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 8.25 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

(R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama All Stars. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.10 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 Grojband. (R, CC) (Final) 1.15 So Awkward. (R) 2.40 Spectacular Spider-Man. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole.

(R) 3.30 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 4.20 Big Babies. (R, CC) 4.40 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 5.00 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 5.25 Operation Ouch! (R) 5.55 Mal. com. (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.35 Mortified. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 10.45 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 Animal Academy. 11.30 Animal Academy.

(PG) 12.00 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (R) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG) 2.00 Great South East. 2.30 SA Life. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 13. Eastwood v Manly. From TG Millner Field, Sydney. 5.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 5.30 Life On The Edge. (PG) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) The teams head to Westpoint Fair.

7.30 Cities Of The Underworld: Underworld Bootleggers – Portland.

(PG, R) Hosted by Don Wildman.

8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) A local activist is found dead.

10.00 Mr Selfridge. (PG) 12.00 Life On The Edge. (PG, R) 1.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Cities Of The Underworld.

(PG, R) 3.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 4.30 Animal Academy. (R) 5.00 Country Calendar. (PG, R) 5.30 Neighbours At War. (PG, R)

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG, R) 10.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. Gold Cup. Grand Final. 11.00 European Games.

International multi-sport event.

Day 7. From Baku, Azerbaijan.

12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 1.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 3.00 Crossing The Line. (M, CC) (New Series) 4.30 Football.

(CC) AFL. Round 12. GWS v North Melbourne. From Spotless Stadium, Sydney.

7.15 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 12. Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.10 Horse Racing. (CC) Royal Ascot. Day 5. Featuring the Group 1 $1,000,000 Diamond Jubilee Stakes (1200m) and the Group 2 $400,000 Hardwicke Stakes (2400m).

3.00 European Games.

International multi-sport event. Day 7. Replay.

4.00 Crossing The Line.

(M, R, CC) 5.30 Home Shopping.

9.30pm America’s Cutest Pet. (PG) Animal Planet 11.00pm Hour China: Pandamonium. Follow four-year-old Mei Sheng a panda born in San Diego Zoo, California, as he moves to a new home. (PG) Discovery

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz.

(C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 3.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 5.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: The Cat In The Hat. (R, CC) (2003) 7.45 MOVIE: Ella Enchanted.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) Anne Hathaway.

9.45 MOVIE: Take The Lead.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) Antonio Banderas.

12.05 MOVIE: Amusement.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) Keir O’Donnell, Katheryn Winnick. 2.00 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 2.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball.

(R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Lady Godiva Rides Again. (R, CC) (1951) 8.00 Danoz.

8.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 9.00 Destination WA. (PG, CC) 9.30 MOVIE: Hobson’s Choice. (PG, R, CC) (1954) 11.45 Postcards. (CC) 12.15 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. 12.45 MOVIE: Follow That Dream. (R) (1962) Elvis Presley. 3.00 MOVIE: How The West Was Won. (R, CC) (1962) John Wayne.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. (PG, R) A woman’s body is discovered.

9.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) After discovering the bodies of three women, the team realises they are dealing with a serial killer.

11.00 The Mentalist. (M, R, CC) The Red John list is narrowed down.

11.50 Prime Suspect. (M, R, CC) 12.50 MOVIE: How The West Was Won. (R, CC) (1962) John Wayne.

3.30 MOVIE: Baxter! (PG, R) (1973) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

7.30pm Cricket. One-day International. England v New Zealand. Game 5. Fox Sports 4 9.00pm Tennis. WTA Tour.

Birmingham semi-final. Fox Sports 3

The cast of Sex and the City.

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Fishing Edge. (R) 9.30 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (PG, R) 11.00 4WD Touring Australia.

(Final) 12.00 RPM. (R, CC) 1.00 World’s Toughest Trucker. (PG, R) 2.00 Monster Jam. (R) 3.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 5.30 Extreme Fishing With Robson Green. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 5.

Super Sprint. Highlights.

From Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.00 Ross Kemp: Return To Afghanistan. (M, R) 1.00 The Killing. (M, R) 2.00 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 4.00 Cops. (PG, R) 5.00 Hardliners. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 1.30 MasterChef Australia. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Frank and Marie make new friends.

8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Robert is cranky.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham is joined by Samuel L Jackson, Stephen Merchant, Amy Schumer and Muse.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) Miranda is shocked when her decorator and a friend announce their engagement after knowing each other for only a few days.

10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) Hosted by James Corden.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.20 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 2.50 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 12.55 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. (PG, R) 2.30 Soccer. (CC) FIFA U-20 World Cup. Grand Final. Replay. 5.30 Knife Fight. (PG, R) 6.30 Heston’s Feasts.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers: South Africa. (PG, R, CC) Charley and Russ continue their trip.

9.30 Dig. (M, R, CC) Peter uncovers an ancient coded secret.

10.20 Real Humans. (M, R) Tobias takes the law into his own hands.

12.35 24 Hours In Emergency.

(M, R, CC) 1.30 Autopsy: Life And Death.

(MA15+, R, CC) 3.20 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 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 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style.

10.00 Love Patrol. (PG) 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review.

12.30 Football. NEAFL. 2.45 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. Maori Television’s flagship current affairs show.

7.00 Fit First. (PG) 7.30 Sitting Bull: A Stone In My Heart. (PG) 8.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun.

9.30 Hi Ho Mistahey! (PG) 11.30 Rock Art And Yingana.

(PG) 12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (PG, R) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News.

2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Saturday Landline. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The World This Week. (CC) 5.00 News. 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. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 Landline. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Big Ideas. (PG, R) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 2006

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Sunday, June 21 MOVIE: Ted

Bully

The Secret River

7MATE, 9pm, MA15+ (2012)

ABC2, 8.30pm

ABC, 8.30pm

From the mind of Seth MacFarlane comes this film about Boston stoner John (Mark Wahlberg) and his foulmouthed best mate, a talking teddy bear named Ted (voiced by MacFarlane).

After John chooses to hang out with his stuffed buddy over girlfriend Lori (Mila Kunis) one too many times, things start to fall apart. If you know MacFarlane’s work you’ll know the type of crude and absurd comedy to expect, though freed of the network-TV shackles MacFarlane certainly makes the most of his MA rating – the profanity coming thick and fast. Ted dishes up its share of chuckles for an hour or so before running out of steam and eventually going off the rails in the last half-hour.

Bullying is universal in its impact. In every corner of the globe, in schoolyards, backyards and workplaces, bullies bring people down to make themselves feel bigger, better, more loved. But this most common form of violence is brutal and can have devastating consequences. In this eye-opening documentary, we follow five of the estimated 13 million kids who will be bullied in America this year, including Ja’meye, 14, who ends up in reform school after pulling a gun on those who tormented her for years. Unflinching and unmissable.

Every so often a series comes along and really knocks you for six. The Secret River is one such show. Based on Kate Grenville’s bestseller, tseller, it brings to life the tale of Will Thornhill hill (Oliver onvict ship to Jackson-Cohen) his journey on a convict ation to Australia and his dogged determination ty of the build a life on the land. The brutality terrain and his interactions with Aboriginal people is believable and confronting – this is not a tale that washes over past horrors. In tonight’s final part, Thornhill’s refusal to leave the land he has claimed, despite the desperate pleas from his wife Sal (Sarah Snook, right), sets in motion a n bloody battle that will forever be on his conscience.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders.

(CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Margaret Olley: A Life In Paint. (R, CC) 3.00 Last Night Of The Proms Pt 2. (R, CC) 4.25 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 4.55 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Restoration Man. (R, CC) Architect George Clarke helps Pete and Nikki restore an old windmill located in a picturesque region of Kent.

6.00 Home Shopping. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

11.00 Camp. (PG, CC) The counsellors-in-training prepare for the annual rite of passage of spending a night on Bear Mountain.

12.00 To Be Advised.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike checks out the flying fruit fly circus of Albury.

Jack gets creative with clay at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

Surfing. (CC) World Surf League. Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. Highlights. From Queensland.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Hosted

by Tim Faulkner.

Reno Rumble. (PG, R, CC) Presented by Scott Cam. Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 15. Melbourne Storm v Brisbane Broncos. From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Let’s Do Coffee. (CC) Hosted by Toni Pearen.

1.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 2.00 RPM. (CC) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) 4.00 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 5.

SkyCity Triple Crown. Sprint Cars. Highlights.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. 8.00 WeatherWatch.

8.15 Filipino News.

8.40 French News.

9.15 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. 11.30 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 World Of Cycling.

(CC) Hosted by Michael Tomalaris.

5.00 The Bike Lane. (CC) Showcases the world of cycling.

5.30 Stalin’s Daughter. (CC) Explores the life of Joseph Stalin’s daughter.

6.30 Compass. (CC) Artist Wendy Sharpe draws portraits of asylum seekers as they share their powerful stories of survival and integration.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Martin Clunes: Man And Beast. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 2.

Martin Clunes travels the world to uncover some of the unique relationships between man and beast.

8.30 The Secret River.

(M, CC) Part 2 of 2. Will’s increasing desperation to hold onto ‘his’ land leads to his involvement in a brutal incident.

9.50 MOVIE: Sisters Of War. (M, R, CC) (2010) Based on a true story. A nurse and a nun experience mistreatment in a World War II PoW camp. Sarah Snook, Claire van der Boom, Susie Porter.

11.30 Sisters Of War: The Women Behind The Film. (PG, R, CC) The making of the telemovie Sisters Of War, featuring interviews with Sister Berenice Twohill and Lorna Johnston.

11.35 The Fatwa: Salman’s Story. (PG, R, CC) A look at controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 House Rules. (PG, CC) Over one massive week, the teams will undertake the biggest renovation in the show’s history.

8.15 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program.

Hosted by Chris Bath.

9.15 Bones. (M, CC) (Series return) On the eve of the late Sweets’ birthday, the team investigates when the remains of a psychic are found in the trunk of a tree. Booth and Brennan are divided about how to deal with Christine’s new imaginary friend.

10.10 Bones. (M, CC) After a teacher is found dead in an abandoned bookstore, her peers and the students at her school become suspects in the case.

Brennan’s publisher encourages her to promote herself on Twitter.

11.10 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) (Series return) After four months of being “dark”, agent Annie Walker emerges from the shadows to rejoin the DPD. It is not long before she is thrust back into the field, however, courtesy of the threat of a terrorist attack on US soil.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Reno Rumble. (PG, CC) Finale nerves set in as the Blue Tongues change their living room plans.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.35 Jailhouse Girls. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 3. Follows the lives of the prisoners, officers and medical staff who populate Holloway Prison, the largest women’s prison in Europe.

10.45 Stalker. (M, CC) The unit investigates a psychiatrist’s claims he is being stalked by a suicidal patient, unraveling a tangled mystery involving a suspect who has gone to great lengths to terrorise the victim.

11.45 The Following. (AV15+, CC) Complications result after Ryan, Max and Weston uncover information about the identity of the mole within the FBI. Joe and Micah enact a plan which threatens the cult in order to announce a message to the world.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Phil fails at his one task, to stay home and wait for the repairman, forcing him to tell an elaborate lie to Claire.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) With the cost of Mitch and Cam’s wedding getting out-of-hand, they resort to selling some of their prized possessions.

Jay, Gloria and Manny step out of their comfort zones.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) The contestants tackle a mystery box challenge, devised by British celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal.

9.10 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) In the wake of a roller-coaster crash, Avery and the team’s investigation reveals it was caused by someone who hacked into the ride’s internal computer and disabled all failsafe braking systems.

9.55 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Round 8.

Austrian Grand Prix. From Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Michael Scott: Who Were The Greeks?

(PG, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Classical scholar Dr Michael Scott investigates the ancient Greeks.

8.45 Easter Island: Mysteries Of A Lost World.

(PG, R, CC) English archaeologist Dr Jago Cooper looks at the rise and fall of Easter Island’s Rapa Nui civilisation.

Commonly thought to be the victim of an ecological collapse, Cooper believes new evidence indicates the indigenous people’s demise was due to far more complex circumstances.

10.25 Dateline Presents: Ebola Outbreak. (PG, CC) Filmmaker Dan Edge traces the devastating outbreak of Ebola through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

11.25 Inspector Montalbano.

(M, R) A camera crew films Inspector Montalbano as he enters the house of an elderly religious couple who have barricaded themselves in their home.

12.30 Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.

(M, R, CC) A portrait of Marina Abramovic.

2.15 MOVIE: The Little Minister. (R, CC) (1934) 4.25 Eggheads. (R, CC) Quiz show.

5.00 Order In The House. (CC) A review of parliament.

12.10 Do No Harm. (M) A highly respected neurosurgeon battles Dissociative Identity Disorder, a secret he has hidden for years.

1.05 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

12.45 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 1.40 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 2.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.00 48 Hours: Murder In Aspen. (M, R) A member of Aspen “royalty” is slain in her sleep.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

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

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC)

1.20 Tale Of Two Thieves: The Great Train Robbery.

(M, R, CC) 2.35 Luke Nguyen’s United Kingdom Bitesize. (CC) 2.45 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 WeatherWatch. 5.45 Soccer.

FIFA Women’s World Cup.

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2.00 2.30 3.30

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 Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014) Action. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana. A brash space adventurer finds himself the quarry of relentless bounty hunters after he steals an orb coveted by a powerful villain.

(M) Premiere

6.00pm The Simpsons.

Homer is recruited as a referee.

(PG) FOX8

6.30pm Bear Grylls: Breaking Point. Discovery

3.00pm Football. AFL. Geelong v Melbourne. Fox Footy

8.30pm Philomena (2013) Biographical. Judi Dench. (M) Masterpiece

6.55pm Fawlty Towers. (PG) UKTV 7.30pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. A local news anchor is murdered. (M) TV1

7.30pm The Last Frontiersmen. A group of people fend off nature’s onslaught. (M) Discovery 8.30pm Battle Of Kings: Bannockburn. A look at the Battle of Bannockburn.

(MA15+) History

6.00pm Motorcycle Racing. World Superbike Championship. Round 8. Fox Sports 4 10.00pm Tennis. WTA Tour.

Birmingham quarter-final. Fox Sports 1

10.15pm The Legend Of Hercules (2014) Fantasy.

Kellan Lutz, Gaia Weiss. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Sesame Street. (R, CC) 12.30 Arthur. (R) 12.45 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 1.00 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 1.15 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 1.30 Little Princess. (R, CC) 1.40 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 1.50 The Numtums. (R, CC) 2.00 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5.

(R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu.

(R) 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.40 Chuggington.

(R, CC) 5.00 Mike The Knight.

(R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (CC) 6.15 Curious George. (CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout.

(PG, CC) 8.30 Bully. (M, CC) 10.05 Forbidden Love. (M, R, CC) 10.50 Bodyshockers. (M, R, CC) 11.35 Louis Theroux’s LA Stories. (M, R, CC) 12.35 Don’t Blame The Dog. (M, R, CC) 1.35 News Update. (R) 1.40 Close. 5.00 The Numtums.

(R, CC) 5.05 Louie. (R, CC) 5.15 Iconicles. (R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.20 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 8.25 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

(R) 8.55 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama All Stars. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 Camp Lakebottom. (PG, R, CC) 11.10 Dr Dimensionpants.

(R) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 M.I. High. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Endangered Species. (R, CC) (Final) 4.20 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. (R, CC) 4.30 Roy. (R, CC) 5.00 Life With Boys.

(R, CC) 5.25 Mal.com. (R, CC) 5.40 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

(R) 6.35 Mortified. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.30 Yonderland. (PG, R) 8.50 Karaoke High. (R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.25 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

Judi Dench stars in Philomena

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 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG) 12.00 Downsize Me. (PG, R) 1.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 3.30 Life Inside The Markets. 4.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 4.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 5.30 The Border. (PG) (Series return) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) The teams head to Peterborough.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Nicki Chapman helps a couple find a period property.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Presented by Nick Knowles.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

Presented by Gary Takle.

11.00 Mighty Ships: North Star.

(R, CC) Follows the North Star.

12.00 The Border. (PG, R) 1.00 Neighbours At War. (M, R) 1.30 Downsize Me. (PG, R) 2.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping.

9.30 Zoom TV. (PG) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 12.00 European Games. International multi-sport event. Day 8. 1.00 Trash To Treasure. (PG, R) 2.00 Big Australia. (R, CC) 3.00 Big Australia. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Seinfeld.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 MOVIE: Flushed Away. (R, CC) (2006) Hugh Jackman.

7.10 MOVIE: Jurassic Park III. (PG, R, CC) (2001) A sightseeing flight goes wrong. Sam Neill.

9.00 MOVIE: Ted. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) A teddy bear brought to life courtesy of a child’s wish, manages to cause his now adult owner problems.

Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane.

11.15 Family Guy. (MA15+, CC) 12.45 European Games.

International multi-sport event. Day 8.

2.00 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse.

(M, R) 4.00 Trash To Treasure. (PG, R) 5.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 11.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz.

2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 4.00 Yu-GiOh! (PG) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG) 6.00 MOVIE: Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back.

(R, CC) (2010) 7.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Gotham. (M, CC) Gordon and Bullock hunt down a killer.

9.30 Arrow. (M, CC) Arsenal and Diggle confront Laurel about fighting crime.

11.30 To Be Advised. 12.30 The Cube. (PG, R) 1.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.30 The Batman.

(PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.

(PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: Warlords Of Atlantis. (PG, R) (1978) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.00 MOVIE: Jules Verne’s Rocket To The Moon.

(R, CC) (1967) 12.30 Australian Geographic Adventures. (R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: The Monte Carlo Story. (PG, R) (1957) 4.00 MOVIE: The Teahouse Of The August Moon. (R, CC) (1956) 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Life: Mammals. (R, CC) A look at mammals.

8.30 MOVIE: Clear And Present Danger.

(M, R, CC) (1994) A CIA agent uncovers corruption.

Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe.

11.30 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Weekend Aristocrats.

(PG, R, CC) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct. 3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

Round 2. Replay. 9.00 Fishing Edge. (R) 9.30 4WD Touring Australia. (R) 10.30 Reel Action.

(R) 11.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Grand Final. Queensland Firebirds v NSW Swifts. 2.00 Hardliners. (PG, R) 2.30 Temporary Australians.

(PG, R) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Nature’s Great Events. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder?

(R, CC) 5.30 iFish. (CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 5.

Super Sprint. Highlights.

From Hidden Valley Raceway, Darwin.

9.30 MOVIE: Jarhead.

(AV15+, R) (2005) Jake Gyllenhaal.

12.05 World Sport. 12.35 Sons Of Anarchy. (AV15+, R) (Final) 1.35 RPM. (R, CC) 2.35 Black Ops. (M, R) 3.35 48 Hours. (M, R) 4.30 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 5.00 Motor Racing. Porsche Carrera Cup. Replay.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets.

(C, CC) 10.30 Brady Bunch. (R) 11.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 11.30 MasterChef Aust. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) The crew visits an alternate dimension.

7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Homer becomes a church deacon.

8.30 MOVIE: EuroTrip. (M, R) (2004) A university student travels through Europe, with his friends, in search of his pen pal. Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Travis Wester.

10.15 Californication. (MA15+) 10.55 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 11.55 Nurse Jackie. (MA15+, R) 12.30 The Brady Bunch. (R) 1.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

(R) 2.30 Mork & Mindy. (R) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation.

(PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 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 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold.

(PG, R) 2.00 Lily Cole’s Art Matters.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Jo Whiley Sessions. (R) 3.30 Brazil’s Next Top Model. (R) 4.30 Vs Arashi. (R) 5.30 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. Highlights. 6.00 Secret Life Of. (PG) 6.30 The Bike Lane. (CC) 7.00 Benidorm Bastards. (PG) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment. (New Series) Presented by comedian Nick Helm.

9.00 Drunk History UK. (New Series) 9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.00 Pizza World Record.

(M, R, CC) 10.30 Indie Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.45 The Sex Show. (MA15+, R) 12.15 In Her Skin. (M) 1.55 MOVIE: Il Mare. (PG, R) (2000) 3.40 CCTV News In English From Beijing.

5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 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 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. (CC) UEFA Champions League. Matchday 13.

Final. Juventus v Barcelona. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Living Black. (CC) 1.00 Fusion Feasts. 1.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun. 2.30 Unearthed. 2.45 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.45 Rugby League.

Koori Knockout. 4.45 Unearthed.

5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant.

7.00 Ngurra.

7.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) Shorts from communities across the country.

8.00 The Deerskins. (PG) 8.30 CBQM. A look at CBQM, the radio station that operates out of Fort McPherson.

9.30 Trick Or Treaty? (PG) A look at the history of Treaty 9.

11.00 The Boys Of Baraka. (M) 12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 Saturday Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 News Update. 5.35 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Big Ideas. (R) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News.

4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 2106

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FIND THE WORDS This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 12 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Gambling ways

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

GRIN & BEAR IT

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LAFF-A-DAY SNOWFLAKES There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the numbers 1 to 6 around each of them. No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle.

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18. As a literary pot-pourri, it’s cheap (8) 21. The cavalry surrounding a group of attackers (7) 22. Kind of boom in which coins become involved (5) 23. Affirmations meant to be modified in trials (10)

DOWN 1. The sort of case used for the flight (5) 2. The opposite to what talkers do! (8) 3. Atomic pieces disintegrate in clue (6) 4. Come across a rhyme for 20 (4) 5. Revolutionary means of getting power (7) 6. His products

may be near at hand for the present time (10) 9. Indulge in some physical exercise, as the convict will! (2,1,7) 12. A kind of halberd for the resistance fighter (8) 14. Refuse to go through the cases (7) 16. Busy Lizzie, the healing agent (6) 19. Weather signals provided by an individual in the Civil Service (5) 20. Cattle undiminished in strength (4)

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cut (10) 7. Hang in the air (5) 8. Captain (7) 10. Imperil (8) 11. Wealth (4) 13. Scoffed (6) 15. Example (6) 17. Vault (4) 18. Dais (8) 21. Miner (7) 22. Faint (5) 23. Great merit (10)

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GO FIGURE >> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

DOWN 1. Plunged (5) 2. Runner (8) 3. Religious festival (6) 4. Slender (4) 5. Weigh down (7) 6. Unemotional (10) 9. Cultivation (10) 12. Throw overboard (8) 14. Intricate (7) 16. Flowery (6) 19. Sea-air (5) 20. Long (4)

MEGA MAZE

>> AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW: One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each week the code letters are different.

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PRINCE VALIANT

by Murphy & Gianni

KING CROSSWORD

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AMBER WAVES

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A TOUCH MORE DORIN

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JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

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3 Lima’s land 4 Embrace 5 Somewhere out there 6 Decorator’s concern 7 Mr Burns’ employee 8 Exist 9 Legislation 10 Golfer Ernie

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z King James VI of Scotland (pictured) was also, after the crowns of England and Scotland were united in 1603, King James I of England. He may have been doubly noble, but those who study such things say that his personal habits would not have been out of place in a commoner of the time period. He reportedly never bathed, claiming that baths were an unhealthy practice, and he would wear the same clothes for months on end. z Three of the first five presidents of the United States – John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe – died on July 4.

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by Samantha Weaver z Fans of the long-running sitcom “Scrubs” will be familiar with the main character, Dr John “J.D.” Dorian, and his best friend, Dr Christopher Turk. You might not realise, though, that the actors who played those roles – Zach Braff and Donald Faison – also are best friends in real life. z The game of tag may seem like an innocent children’s pastime, but in some countries it has a sinister undertone. In Italy, players pretend that anyone getting tagged has caught the black plague. In Madagascar, leprosy is the contagion that is being supposedly spread by the game, while in Spain, they’re spreading

relatively harmless fleas. z It was Alice Roosevelt, prominent socialite and daughter of US President Theodore Roosevelt, who declared that her purpose in life was to “empty what’s full, fill what’s empty, and scratch where it itches”. z Taking the stairs may be good for your cardiovascular health, but there are dangers you might not know of. In an average year, approximately 27 people are killed while using an elevator, while 1600 die while taking the stairs.

Thought for the Day: “Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.” – Lewis Perelman

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) The chance to forget silly problems and concentrate on having some time off comes this week. Say what you will, you are overdue a bit of pampering and care. Putting yourself first, at the moment, is a kindness to others. Perhaps they are inclined to be a little selfish? Showing a cheerful face is so worthwhile when it comes back 10 times over.

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spent recently with family and friends reminds you of your priorities. This, in turn, may spur you on to organise a get-together later in the year. Booking early can save you money but be sure to get everyone’s deposit! Cash flow may not be easy but you can see a time ahead when this could change. Work towards that with a smile on your face and it will come all the sooner!

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) It is a sparkling week socially, so get any travel or legal business out of the way early on. This is a time to give friends and family what they need from you as long as it does not cause you stress. After all, there is a limit to what anyone can do! Looking back, something that you were involved in a few years back may be worth doing again.

Another busy week could see you finding it hard to relax. Getting some ‘me’ time is more important than ever if this is so. Set aside a couple of hours in the evening or early morning to slow down and let your mind clear. Maybe going for a walk or listening to music is what will help. Being with one other person is probably better than rushing around in crowds.

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ily feelings are very strong at the moment, as is the ‘nesting instinct’. This week could see you spring cleaning with relatives, perhaps helping out an older person. This makes you feel good and gives them a perk to get the new season underway. Leos in love will feel a surge of contentment, especially when discussing holiday arrangements. Check travel plans carefully.

the planets on your side this week, anything that you attempt will be backed up with strong determination. The Bull is truly ‘going for it’ and can be expected to resist any criticism. Should loved ones try to interfere on a business matter, choose your words carefully so as not to offend. A celebration brings home to you just how important family is to you.

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23) This is an easy-going week when life plods along at a good but not hectic pace. Take the chance to have conversations with people who are normally too busy to stop.

Chances are that they need the contact as much as you do. Travel should still go well although if you are going away later in the month, do double check arrangements.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Fully enjoy this lovely week

and add into the mix as many friends and family as you are able. There is something quite magical about being with loved ones and your priorities certainly seem strong. Turning over a new leaf may mean, for you, making the time that you spend with others longer and more communicative. There is nothing like a reassuring natter, is there?

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This has to be one of the most active and fun weeks of the year for you, Capricorn. Go all out to join in activities either at home or with others. At the moment there seems to be a lull in major problems and so don’t dwell on minor irritations. Bear in mind, midweek, that some chances do not come again. Being at the forefront of a new development at work can be pretty exciting.

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When thinking of buying something very expensive this week, take care. If possible look around for a bargain before making a final decision.

Letting your heart rule your head could come at quite a price! On the other hand, nobody is expecting you to be mean, especially when you are in such a good mood.

There are celebrations to be enjoyed and the expense can be shared.

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you are enjoying the outdoors and friends this week, be aware of any security problems or things that might break down in the home.

Small precautions are worthwhile so please leave nothing to chance. Having said that, celebrations seem to be in order and love is definitely in the air. A gesture from the heart is more appreciated than something expensive.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

You share the day with Prunella Scales who played Sybil on TV’s Fawlty Towers (pictured above) – she turns 83 today.

Throw your efforts into the here and now rather than wait for something to come along. Taking control of your destiny starts with small and practical steps. Be prepared to accept advice, Cancer.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share the day with Australian actor Joel Edgerton, 41 (below, far left).

You don’t have to listen to others, Cancer.

However, you have something to learn about a business matter. You will make good progress by taking it one step at a time and tying up loose ends.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood, 68 (below). When feeling enthusiastic and excited it is easy to make fast decisions.

Are they the right ones, though, Cancer?

Asking for advice is not a sign of failure but a sign of intellect.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Work closely with others in areas where you are unsure of the ground.

Always willing to give advice, Cancer, you are sometimes unwilling to accept it. Be sensible and things will work out.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

It is a time to be realistic. Some dreams may be put on hold but don’t let go of them. Times change fast in the months ahead. Be ready for that smoother ride, Cancer.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Cancer, others understand you more than you realise. Keep communications open and don’t try to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes. Use your charm in business but keep a cool head.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Expect more of others and don’t just expect everything of yourself, Cancer.

People who are not helpful have no place in your working life, much as you may be saddened by it.

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The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Bastille Day. 2. A bruise. 3. A rafter. 4. Kato. 5.

“Telephone”, by Lady Gaga. The correct lyric is, “I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.” 6. Restructuring. 7. Nevada. 8. Dentist. FRACDS stands for ‘Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons’. 9. I.M. Pei. 10. 590. 11. Leo Sayer, in 1983. The song was based on an all-night phone booth call to his estranged wife. 12. Nine – the first was in 1959 (British Open) and the last was in 1978 (Masters). 13. “Mrs Robinson” by Simon & Garfunkel in 1968. The duo had been asked to create a few songs for the coming film “The Graduate”. At the time they were working on a song tentatively titled “Mrs Roosevelt” and changed the name.

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