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FROM THE EDITOR

CONTENTS Jen FEATURED THIS WEEK

Cowley Timely reminder to count our blessings

DUBBO’S ARTLANDS COUP. PHOTO: ORANA ARTS

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The Whitlam legacy

We chat to a few locals about Gough Whitlam, the man who forever changed the face of this nation.

16 John Ryan 20 Starring role

Fortune risks running dry in the lucky country

Talking to full time Rylstone-based astrologer and numerologist, Michael David DeBaat.

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Dubbo’s Artlands coup

Our town is set to host the next Regional Arts Australia (RAA) conference and arts festival.

REGULARS 4 Tony Webber 10 Sally Bryant 14 James Eddy 15 Greg Smart YOU’LL ALSO LOVE...

28 Hear See Do Etc. 30 Play: Puzzles & Stars Front cover image Lisa Minner

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ALL it the residual full moon effect or a pre-menopausal rush of hormones, but last week I had a rare and most unwelcome ‘poor bugger, me’ turn.

I’m not what most people would describe as even tempered (just ask any one of a legion of retail assistants or waiters who’s ever made the mistake of rolling their eyes in my direction) but self-pity isn’t usually my gig.

Nevertheless, I’d been dragging my feet around, wondering why life seemed intent on picking on me. Too much to do, not enough time to do it... other people’s expectations... overworked, underpaid, unappreciated...

I growled at the mailman (for bringing more bills), snarled at the washing machine (for gradually shrinking every pair of jeans I own) and kicked the cat (then remembered we don’t actually have one)...

But then I also remembered that it was my night rostered on for Community Kitchen, and it turned out that a night serving meals, washing up and cleaning floors was just what I needed to knock a bit of perspective back into my lucky, blessed life.

It’s the same every time. There’s nothing quite like a little peek at how the other half lives to bring things back into sharp focus – a reminder that the “there but for the grace of God” clichés only get to be clichés because they’re true.

So I arrive – a little late – just as the sun is going down, and while it’s a mild night, there’s a little nip in the air. There are a few people hovering around outside talking quietly among themselves as they suck down the last of their cigarettes.

There’s a marvellous cloud of garlicky promise wafting out from the kitchen, which is bustling with volunteers – some of them also “guests” – stacking plates, laying out cups and saucers and cutlery, stirring huge vats of pasta and generously meaty cabonara. A small mountain of donated bread rolls teeters at the end of the bench.

People – of all shapes and sizes and ages – are gathered now at the rows of trestle tables, and the smokers begin to filter through the door.

Our supervisor checks his watch. “I think that’ll be it tonight,” he says, and calls for “a bit of shush while we give thanks”.

Some talk straight through the grace, but most politely join the prayer, nodding a quick “amen” – and the rush is on.

Many of the guests are regulars – some of whom pitch in to help, protective of their ‘regular’ jobs and the

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pride maintained therein. Tonight is just a small crowd – but when the weather’s cool, there are always more takers for the weekly hot meal and a bit of welcome company.

It takes all types to push this wheel around.

There’s a well-dressed and impeccably mannered young woman who is vision impaired, another who is deaf, and many who are elderly, or infirm, or both.

Some are simply lonely. Many are battling mental health or substance abuse issues. And there are lots of children.

There’s a lady who comes each week with her three children. One is intellectually disabled and clearly a handful – she smiles tiredly, and shrugs an apology. It’s not necessary.

She has to deal with it every day.

There’s the father who seems slightly humiliated, but whose children are neat and tidy and liberal with their “pleases” and “thank yous”.

One young woman – painfully thin and with eyes red-rimmed and haunted and not a tooth in her head – asks for seconds for her daughter, but she’s barely touched her own meal.

There are a couple of elderly ladies who, it seems, simply come because they’re lonely – a special kind of poverty that’s all too often discounted by census takers.

Seconds are served, and dessert – basic but hearty – is well received.

Most are grateful and polite. Those who aren’t simply come with the territory and they’re in the minority.

But they’re all here because circumstances have been far less kind to them than they have been to me, and I’m reminded of the old saying that it’s only a short fall from the boardroom to the pavement.

It’s easy – from the comfort of a middle-class upbringing, a good education, three square meals a day (and then some) and a home to go to – to judge the kinds of people here tonight as somehow deficient in the game of life.

It’s easy to believe that, with a generous welfare system and a society ostensibly built on a fair go ethos, their circumstances are more bad management than bad luck in the lucky country.

It’s harder to put those judgements aside and simply extend a charitable hand, without expecting a pat on the back for your efforts.

The people who run and volunteer at this unassuming little community kitchen do just that – and it’s not just their guests who should be grateful.

(From the Best of Jen files.)

“ There’s nothing quite like a little peek at how the other half lives to bring things back into sharp focus.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS

Tony Webber

» Tony Webber is a long time Dubbo resident and victim of petty crime.

Mayor right to make comment on issue of community concern Y reading of it is the mayor said he was hearing concerns that the courts are too lenient on repeat offenders.

The local law society took offence and came to the magistrate’s defence.

For the record I don’t think it is out of order for the mayor to raise the matter as part of a call for an informed debate on the local situation.

Property crime and malevolent urchins are an issue in this town, just like a lot of towns, and if the mayor can’t raise it who can?

Mayor Dickerson’s record is one of an energetic, intelligent community advocate.

If I can be critical, actually being armed with the comparative sentencing data he seeks beforehand might have helped his argument.

And bagging courts as too lenient can be a leaf from the talkback radio book of conventional wisdom’s easy solutions that probably gets more than enough airplay already.

It is the right of the Orana Law Society to express its view, though the language did seem a bit heavyhanded, calling the mayor’s comments an “ill-considered attack”, that “isolated (him) from the majority of rational citizens”.

And public threats to refer the mayor to the Attorney General to be prosecuted for contempt do seem at least partly intended to intimidate.

Like the mayor said, he’s got a phone, ring him. A slanging

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match filtered through the media is not a pretty spectacle, nor is it productive.

Nobody likes crime, even the garden variety property offences that most afflict our community.

Because let’s be clear: this is not about drink-driving lunchie mums, domestic violence or cattle duffing.

It is about underclass juveniles breaking into houses and cars, shoplifting and using the c-word downtown like they have a quota to fill.

There are also adults who for whatever reason chose to incorporate theft in their life’s plan.

But mostly it’s juveniles – particularly from the ranks of the poorest and most marginalised – who do it, probably for kicks, driven by a sense of ill-defined resentment.

We were rolled a few months back; I’d left the shed and cars unlocked and now someone is the proud owner of some scratched, crappy CDs, sticky with kiddie fingers and aligned to the musical tastes of a middle-aged schmo.

Wonder what they fetch on the black market?

They also took my pushbike and our sense of security, but insurance covered the former and time fixed the latter.

I get it: part of me understands that for those ostracised from a consumerist society where worth is tied to possessions, the urge to strike at the haves must be very persuasive, as well as exciting fun.

And part of me wants to set

“ Locking up young people makes them more likely to be locked up as adults, and the fear is that young thieves brutalised by incarceration may graduate to worse offences than nicking my CDs.

their heads on fire. So I get it.

I understand the police are frustrated if their considerable efforts are thwarted and I understand it’s probably not members of the law society that find themselves living in neighbourhoods where the critical mass of young miscreants reaches a tipping point where the mail can’t be delivered safely.

But when it comes to juveniles the literature says severity in sentencing doesn’t have an impact on crime rates or likelihood of reoffending.

The prison population has gone up but crime state-wide remains more or less stable, give or take: state-wide serious crime is down for now, property crime too on the back of the her-

oin drought probably, but not in communities like ours it seems.

Locking up young people makes them more likely to be locked up as adults, and the fear is that young thieves brutalised by incarceration may graduate to worse offences than nicking my CDs. And if we are happy to live in a nation of growing inequality and self-serving individualism, where the poor are openly scorned by their federal Treasurer, then our demands that the underclass behave like the middle class will continue to go unanswered.

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2013/2014 Annual Report Dubbo City Council’s 2013/2014 Annual Report will be released in early November.

The report is an annual publication on the performance, achievements and priorities for the financial year 2013/2014.

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25.10.2014 THE DAY IN HISTORY: In 1616, Dutch mariner Dirk Hartog first sights Australia.

In 1854, known to history as the Charge of the Light Brigade, 670 British cavalrymen fighting in the Crimean War attacked a heavily fortified Russian position and were killed.

IN 1874, Britain annexes the Fiji islands.

In 1971, the United Nations admitted China as a member, ousting the Nationalist Chinese government of Taiwan.

In 1983, US troops, supported by six Caribbean nations, invaded the tiny, leftist-ruled island of Grenada.

In 2009, the World Health Organization reported a global death toll from the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, at 5700.

About 440,000 people were confirmed as having the disease.

In 2010, more than 400 coastal residents in western Sumatra were killed and thousands left homeless by a tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake.

BIRTHDAYS: Those born on this date include Austrian composer Johann Strauss in 1825; Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in 1881; author Anne Tyler and pop singer Helen Reddy, both in 1941 (age 73); rock singer Jon Anderson in 1944 (age 70); actress Nancy Cartwright in 1957 (age 57); and singer Katy Perry in 1984 (age 30).

26.10.2014 THE DAY IN HISTORY: In 1878, Australian bushranger Ned Kelly shoots and kills three police officers at Stringybark Creek, Victoria.

In 1920, the lord mayor of Cork, Ireland, Terence McSwiney, demanding independence for Ireland, died after a 2 1/2-month hunger strike in a British prison cell.

In 1964, Eric Cooke, the “Moonstruck Murderer”, is hanged in Perth for multiple killings.

In 1965, the Beatles were presented Member of the Order of the British Empire medals by Queen Elizabeth.

In 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee was assassinated by the director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

In 2005, veteran Australian TV presenter Bert Newton announced he was quitting Network Ten after it axed his long-running show Good Morning Australia.

NEWS ANALYSIS

BY JEN COWLEY

Seven Days Feathers ruffled by Mayor’s court comments Dubbo Weekender Editor

* Natalie Holmes is on leave

Mayor Mathew Dickerson has ruffled some local legal eagles’ feathers with comments about the perception of leniency for offenders in the local court system, with members of the Orana Law Society (OLS) first threatening contempt of court then voting to lodge an official Code of Conduct complaint to Dubbo City Council.

According to OLS president Peter Bartley, his members took a dim view of the Mayor’s comments to local media outlets suggesting leniency on the part of local magistrate Andrew Eckhold was contributing to increasing crime rates across the city.

“Those comments were viewed as wrong and inappropriate, as well as personalising an issue against a judicial officer who, by tradition, is not able to respond,” Mr Bartley said.

OLS members met on Tuesday night to consider what steps the organisation should take to try to redress the Mayor’s comments, and to address the issues being promoted by local media.

Mr Bartley, a former Dubbo City Councillor, said that while he acknowledges a perception in the community of increasing crime rates, and does not dispute the right of the Mayor to comment on issues of community concern, the Mayor had not produced any factual evidence to support his criticism of the judiciary.

“He’s basing it on anecdotal evidence – there is certainly a section of the Dubbo community that believes law and order is out of control and they’re feeding through stories without any evidence.

“The Mayor had a brain freeze and decided to play the man not the ball, and that’s where I think he went wrong.”

Tuesday night’s meeting of the OLS saw a resolution to submit a complaint to DCC General Manager Mark Riley for referral to the Code of Conduct committee to establish whether the Mayor has “brought council and his position into disrepute” and “whether he has failed to treat someone with respect at all times” and whether

he has “intimidated a judicial officer”.

Mr Bartley, who at time of writing had not spoken directly to the Mayor, said OLS had also agreed to invite Mayor Dickerson, along with other councillors, to address the members.

“We want to talk through this to get it off the front page, or at least, if it’s not resolved, for each side to be better informed.”

In a bid to “do something positive” about crime in the city, OLS has also resolved to push for the establishment of a residential drug rehabilitation facility in Dubbo.

For his part, the Mayor says his comments were in fact in response to an “unprompted” press release from OLS member and newly announced Country Labor candidate Stephen Lawrence stating that “sentencing was not too lenient”.

Cr Dickerson says he had been making “quiet enquiries” of local agencies, along with the chief magistrate and both federal and state Attorneys General, in search of actual data but was effectively forced into commenting publicly before he had a chance to collect that evidence.

“The community has certainly been saying to me that there is a real concern about crime, and that the sentencing is too lenient. And this has been coming from all quarters – police, community members and even some people from the legal profession. I’ve always said I only had anecdotal information – but the OLS has come out with all guns blazing, and they don’t have the correct data either. None of us do.”

Of the suggestion of a personal “attack” on Magistrate Eckhold, Cr Dickerson says it’s as if OLS believes magistrates are “untouchable”.

“I think the threat of contempt of court was just an intimidation tactic on the part of OLS, and that’s since not been raised again. But I think that a Mayor making commentary on behalf of the residents of his city is quite a reasonable and sensible thing to do. Making wild threats doesn’t add to the debate at all.

“The magistrate is a publicly employed

officer. We all have comments to say about the Prime Minister, the Premier, the local member, the mayor... and the magistrate should be no different. He should expect to be scrutinised in his job – but OLS seems to be saying he’s beyond that accountability, and I say that about any magistrate, not just our local magistrate.”

The Mayor says OLS is within its rights to submit a Code of Conduct complaint.

“They can do that and that’s fine. But it seems like a tactic to stop the freedom of speech of a duly elected official.”

He says he’s been “overwhelmed” over the past week with support for raising the concerns of the community about crime and the perceived leniency of the magistrate.

“I’m certainly not going to stop talking about this when it’s a genuine concern of the community.”

For the record, Mayor Dickerson says he would welcome and support any move to establish a residential drug unit.

Devil of a delivery THERE are some cheeky devils out at Taronga Western Plains Zoo – and we’re not just talking about the staff.

This week, the team welcomed some deliciously devilish new additions to the family in the form of four Tasmanian Devil joeys – the result of a behind-the-scenes breeding program that’s helping insure the in-the-wild survival of this iconic species.

The joeys were born in March to first time mum Moretti, but the zoo’s “handsoff” approach to the sensitive little critters means they’ve not been subjected to curious media attention until now.

The four little devils – one male, three females – bring the total number of Tassie Devils held at TWPZ to 22 and are part of a program established in 2008 to help address the devastating Devil Facial Tumour Disease which has been decimating populations in the wild. The decline in numbers of some wild populations has reached a staggering 90 per cent since the disease

BIRTHDAYS: Those born on this date include Australian explorer William Charles Wentworth in 1790; actor Bob Hoskins in 1942; former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1947 (age 67); actor Jaclyn Smith in 1947 (age 67); singer Keith Urban in 1967 (age 47); actor Seth McFarlane in 1973 (age 41); and Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian in 1981 (age 33).

JUST A THOUGHT: “The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship.

We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” – Pope John Paul II

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Delegates could barely contain their excitement, and rightly so. It’s yet another acknowledgement of the depth and breadth of art and culture that exists in this region, and will further help put Dubbo and the Orana region on the map for all the right reasons.

Local state member Troy Grant, who doubles as Minister for the Arts, sent a congratulatory message via video, while Dubbo Mayor and self-proclaimed poet Mathew Dickerson was on hand to deliver a specially penned poem about our city, inviting Artlands 2016 delegates to visit the “hub of the west” for the conference and to stay on to explore the region.

Gold star for HSC maths exam

Orana Arts staff and board members couldn’t contain their excitement at the announcement that Dubbo will host the 2016 Artlands conference: L to R: Alicia Leggett, Orana Arts Chair Les Lambert, Virginia Handmer, Paige Williams and Melissa Ryan. PHOTO: SUPPLIED BY DEREK MOTION

was first identified in 1996, according to proud keeper Denyell Woodhouse.

“The joeys will stay with their mother until approximately 12 months of age, before they will be weaned and become independent,” she said.

“It is hoped that in the future these four joeys will play an important role in the breeding program once fully matured, continuing to create greater genetic diversity in the insurance population.”

Labor names election contender DUBBO-BASED lawyer, Stephen Lawrence, has stepped up to the plate to take a swing at Member for Dubbo and newly named Deputy Premier Troy Grant at the 2015 state election.

Country Labor announced this week that it has anointed Mr Lawrence, Principal Legal Officer for the Western Region’s Aboriginal Legal Service, as its candidate in the run-up to March.

Recently returned from an Australian Civilian Corps deployment to Afghanistan, Mr Lawrence kicked off his campaign this week with a swipe at Troy Grant, whom he says “chooses to further his own career” rather than “stand up for our community”.

Mr Lawrence said the Member for Dubbo’s “backflipping on electricity privatisation” and his continued support for Premier Mike Baird’s “harsh cuts to health and education services” has prompted his decision to take a tilt at the seat of Dubbo, long flagged as a key seat for the government of the day.

“I am running because I believe our community deserves better – someone who is willing to stand up and fight for the local community rather than pursuing their own leadership ambitions. As long as the National Party ties itself to the city-centric Liberals, regional areas like ours will be neglected.”

A statement released this week said Mr Lawrence brings “a wealth of community and legal experience with his candidacy, from his work both in Australia and overseas” and has been “a fierce advocate for victims of sexual assault and family violence (along with) a strong commitment to Indigenous affairs and justice”.

“This election is crucial for western NSW as we are faced with the threat of privatisation of key public assets under a coalition government. I will fight every day until election day to convince people, that the only way to stop the sell-off and to stop harsh cuts to health and education, is to vote for Country Labor,” he said.

Mr Lawrence acknowledges the tough undertaking it will be to unseat the incumbent Troy Grant, but said the task was not insurmountable.

“Unfortunately seats with a high margin can quickly become forgotten seats and I don’t accept ‘postcode’ inequalities facing our community.”

Arts conference coup for Dubbo GREAT excitement at City Hall this week, and the arts community is abuzz with the news that Dubbo has been successful in its bid to host the October 2016 Regional Arts Australia (RAA) conference – now known as Artlands.

When the Artlands roadshow rolls into town, it will mark the first time in 14 years that the conference has been held in NSW, and it’s being hailed a coup not only for the city, but for the entire state.

A delegation from regional arts body Orana Arts, along with representatives from Dubbo City Council, were on hand at this year’s event at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to accept the “handover” of the prestigious conference.

Regional Arts NSW (RANSW) chair Peter White said that although it’s a small organisation, RANSW’s network of 14 Regional Arts Boards would mean towns and communities throughout the state would be able to become involved in what is essentially a showcase of the arts in NSW.

THE NSW Class of 2014 is getting to the pointy end of its schooling years, with some lucky students already finished their HSC program and enjoying some downtime before stepping into the “real world”.

For others, it’s still “heads down” for the remainder of the exam period which finishes on November 4 with Geography.

As is the case each year, reactions to the various HSC papers have been mixed, but this year’s Two Unit Maths paper was deemed “fair” by students and teachers alike at schools across the region, including at Dubbo College Senior Campus.

The College’s maths teacher Jayne Ainsworth this week said she was “relieved” when she saw the paper.

“It was really very fair and much better than the 2013 paper, which was heavily criticised for its level of difficulty,” she said. “This year we’ve seen a return to the style of paper of previous years and if students knew their work they would have been in a position to perform well.”

Ms Ainsworth said there was nothing in the paper that wasn’t “achievable”, and 18 year old student Rachael Baker, 18, agreed. She too was relieved when she first sat down in the exam room and opened the paper.

“It certainly wasn’t as bad as we were expecting after last year’s exam,” Rachael said, adding that she and her fellow students were “well prepared”.

She has just one more exam to go before kissing her school days goodbye forever, and plans a gap year followed by studies in music and science at the Australian National University (ANU).

Fellow soon-to-be-school-leaver Mohammad Hussain, also 18, was less glowing in his assessment of the paper, which he said was “variable”.

“It was easy in some areas and quite difficult in others but I would say it was fairly reasonable. I think I did fairly well but I won’t know until the results are out.”

Mohammad intends to study accountancy at CSU Dubbo next year.

Weekender takes this opportunity to congratulate all students who have completed Year 12 this year and wishes those still with their noses to the grindstone the very best of luck.

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Sally Bryant

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

UR year is marked by some clear seasonal boundaries, and we’ve just passed the most momentous one of all. It’s not one you’ll see on the BOM calendar (the one with all the fabulous images) or even find in the new diaries that are hitting desks all around the office (as we acknowledge that yes, there will be a 2015 and we will be participating).

It’s the time of year when I start sleeping with the window open.

You can keep your first day of spring or your longest day of the year, these are days I look forward to with much greater yearning. I understand we have official dates to mark the progress of the year, but they’re frequently accompanied by weather that’s totally at odds with the change in season. This year we’ve had summer before the real beginning of spring, closely followed by a regression to winter which included hail and snow.

Ridiculous.

However, at some point each spring, something goes click in my head and I decide I can cope with the odd cold chill returning in order to be able to enjoy the fresh air. And it’s great.

I’m now in that delicious part of the year in which going to bed in the evening is an even greater pleasure than normal. It’s that time of year when I stack up my pillows and fling open my bedroom window to let in warm breezes and the smell of citrus flowers and fresh cut grass. I dive into my bed and as I close my eyes, there’s such a sense of contentment imbued from all those combining scents.

And, given I live on the heavy vehicle bypass, that warm wind also often carries the diesel fumes and the sounds

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“ It’s like magic dust, that spring evening breeze; it’s like someone is sprinkling serenity in my dreams.

And I am sleeping like a babe.

of straining motors, grinding gears and excited ute dogs barking their way up my street. No matter; I’m prepared to live with stark reality in order to get the utopian ideal. It’s like magic dust, that spring evening breeze; it’s like someone is sprinkling serenity in my dreams. And I am sleeping like a babe.

And the other seasonal landmark we’ve passed is that which tells me I can no longer put off having my daily swim.

We’re not talking Venus Rising here, it’s not that sort of spiritual cleansing in the rivers of life. We’re talking about flailing up and down the lanes at the pool in an effort to get some fitness happening.

And given I’m an appalling swimmer, it’s remarkably effective because any laps I swim are costing me much more energy than they’d be costing anyone with a modicum of talent.

I’ve been a member of the gym/indoor pool operation in Dubbo for the entire winter. The idea was that, post-operative as I was earlier in the year, I’d do my recovery and fattening-up in the heated pool and on the treadmills of the club and come through the colder months fitter and prepared for my next retro-fitting exercise sometime in the next six months.

It was a great idea. I paid the money.

I went to the gym twice, and to the pool just the once in the cold weather. And then I had excuses. (Actually let’s move on from that because as a cost-benefit analysis, it doesn’t bear thinking about.)

It reminds me of someone I knew in a previous incarnation, who is rumoured to have spoken to her doctor about her inability to get fit and lose weight. And so she used the default method, the “dog ate my homework” or the classic “blame

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the flatmate” method.

“But doctor,” she said, “Giselle drank my Gatorade, and now I can’t exercise.”

But doctor, I don’t like changing into my exercise clothes (or swimmers) at the office and going round to the gym on winter days. It’s cold. Until I get into the building. And then I get sweaty (or wet and chlorinated) and then it’s colder again when I come out of the building.

And then I have to go back to the office and get changed (AGAIN!) and then I have to take two separate sets of clothes home to be washed (EACH DAY!) And I have to wash my hair. And it takes time and I’m Enormously Busy.

Don’t speak to me about first world problems.

Well, I know it’s hard to believe, but one day a couple of weeks ago, I got out of my bed under the open window (at a ridiculous hour of the morning), climbed into my swimmers and put my scruffy clothes over the top. I picked up the bag of slightly more presentable clothing to wear in the office and headed off to work.

And lo, at about 7.00 that morning I left the office and went for a swim. And lo, it was good. And thus and therefore I have swum every morning since then. (Well, all right, that’s apart from that one morning after I may or may not have had a few drinks with my siblings and eating hot chips was a bigger priority than exercise.)

And I’ve been metaphorically skipping back from the exercise factory each day and I’m feeling like a million dollars.

Let’s hope we can keep the exchange rate up for the next six months and I might go into the next fiscal downturn in better shape.

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WHITLAM legacy

He was one of the most influential politicians of our time – his policies both united and divided Australians, but most now agree Gough Whitlam was a man who forever changed the face of this nation. His death this week at the age of 98 marks the end of an era, and had many locals reflecting on his tumultuous time as Prime Minister. Some shared their thoughts with Weekender.

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S a young adult of the 60s, from a rusted-on Country Party family, I wasn’t turned on by politics at all. It wasn’t until I landed in a politically active workplace that I realised there was more going on than what Paul Keating describes as “Menzian torpor”. Around the same time my politically active father had an epiphany and walked away from the Country Party. Bingo!

The rest shall we say is hisGough Whitlam was tory. Gou first politician who the firs me sit up and take made m and it was the same notice an for many man others of my generation. While I may generati not no o have said much about it back then I really did think that 1972 was ‘time’, and as

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Photographer Merv Bishop is shown looking at an exhibition enlargement of his photo of Whitlam symbolically pouring soil into the hands of Aboriginal leader Vincent Lingiari in 1975. This photo was snapped when Merv’s exhibition was showing at the WPCC in 2008.

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history shows, it was.

I never had the honour of meeting Gough, but many people I know did. This week treasured photographs of a handshake, a faded post-election telegram, a friend who decided to stay and become a ‘ten pound pom’ because of Gough have all made their way onto Facebook.

While Gough’s place in history has largely been defined by ‘the dismissal’, it ought not be so, as it was his government that catapulted us headlong into the 20th century. It took us from under Mother England’s skirts, from “going all the way with LBJ” and defined our place in the new world. We have his government to thank for a whole bunch of social reforms we couldn’t imagine life without.

It was, however, his contribution to women’s rights and the recognition of Aboriginal Australians following on from the 1967 referendum that set Gough Whitlam apart in my eyes. Not only did he enact equal pay for women, but he put in place a welfare safety net for single mothers.

Who could forget Merv Bishop’s photograph of Gough and Vincent Lingiari in that defining moment when the Land Title deeds were handed over to the Gurindji people? It was this act that launched the Land Rights movement, inspired the Paul Kelly song From Little Things Big Things Grow, and gave hope to our Indigenous brothers and sisters.

It seems incomprehensible that political foes like Fraser and Whitlam could become friends, but that they did. While they belonged on opposite sides of the political fence the reality was they were on the same page about many things. In answer to Gough’s critics, Fraser said “if he had a fault it was that he tried to do too much too quickly”. He also pointed out the seldomacknowledged fact that Whitlam had to deal with the OPEC oil shock and a deep global recession.

Whitlam was carried to power by the social movements of the 60s and one thing’s for sure everyone has an opinion about him. He led the most progressive and reforming government in our history and his death reminds us just how small Australian politics has become.

I hope the trip back to the 70s this baby-boomer icon’s death has given us will remind the electorate of what we had and what we stand to lose. I also hope it inspires politicians with real guts and vision to look beyond the next opinion poll and rise to the top.

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“Riverbank” Frank Doolan – renowned local identity HATEVER your politics many Aussies would uld agree that Gough Whitlam tlam was a visionary, fearless leader eader and one of few truly Australian ustralian statesmen. ment for A memorable moment nme was his governnt ment’s establishment of a Department of Aboriginal Affairs

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(1972) in which he backed justice, saying we will legislate to give Aborigines land rights.

I remember him saying “Not just because their case is beyond argument but because all of us as Australians are diminished while Aborigines are denied their rightful place in this nation.”

Was Gough successful with his Aboriginal reforms?

I’m inclined to think he stuffed up. Throughout history great leaders unified the masses, but he created a new kind of separatism and generations of indigenous people have since lived with the notion of black government entitlement. Is it better? You tell me.

Sand through the hand of an old black man was a noble theatrical gesture. What’s it mean? My people still have the worst statistics of any researched group in today’s Australian society. Did Gough Whitlam change Australia for the better for our indigenous? I say that while he made great speeches, in reality things are much the same, maybe even worse.

The Whitlam government’s purchase of the painting Blue Poles was a bold and audacious move. I recall the controversy it caused. Real storm in a teacup, that one.

To me it represented the actions of a visionary – Whitlam saw the future. He knew we’d changed from the boring little backwater we once were and that we were a brave new place, able to hold its own on the world stage. He saw great art as a means of connecting us with the rest of the world.

Ending conscription and bringing home troops was a Whitlam initiative which put young Australian lives before American imperialism. Moves by the Whitlam government to create employment equality with wages and employment for women showed Whitlam to be progressively minded and open to change.

Onya Gough!

And last but not least we can thank Gough for the Abolition of University fees which saw an education revolution of sorts which emanates throughout this great country of ours to this day. Our strengths in the Academic realms and the quality of our arts are a testament to the successfulness of that decision.

Love or hate him, it can never be denied that Edward Gough Whitlam was a giant of Australian politics.

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he actually followed the constitution to the letter of the law. The sacking of Whitlam was triggered

by Joh Bjelke Petersen who, it’s my recollection, replaced a Senator who died with an independent, Albert Fields, who then voted with the Opposition, which then blocked supply. The Constitution says that if there’s a deadlock in both houses of Parliament and the Government cannot govern without supply, then you must go to the people and let the people decide. Whitlam refused to have that election to let the people decide, so the Governor General, Sir John Kerr, had no alternative than to sack Whitlam and remove the government.

He certainly did some extraordinary things when he was in office, but for the first six weeks of his Prime Ministership, he governed without even having a ministry which was a little despotic – he didn’t go to the Governor General with his ministry for a whole six weeks.

His healthcare reforms, and bringing in Medibank were among the good things he did, but I mostly remember his government nearly sending the country broke. He, and Labor, had been in the wilderness for so long, that when they came to office, he spent money like a man with no arms. But he is certainly remembered fondly and as a luminary within the Labor ranks – although not all Australians will agree, yes, he was a prominent figure in history.

One thing his long life points out is the ridiculous practice of giving former Prime Ministers benefits – including gold travel passes, and a pension, and staff and what have you – for the rest of their lives. Gough Whitlam is a prime example – he was Prime Minister for only three years, and yet continued to derive those benefits for 40 years – and it’s the same with every former Prime Minister. I don’t care which side of the political fence they’re from – it’s stupid. Give them a certain length of time, or a stipend to complete official duties and so on, but all these benefits for life? Imagine what that’s costing – it’s an insult to Australians doing it tough, and maybe now we can change it.

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Barry Brebner – Dubbo businessman and long-time observer of politics

CL CLEARLY remember “the dismissal” – I was still livdis ing out west at the time, but I remember being in the Grace rem Bros carpark in Dubbo when someone came up and told me som that Whitlam had been sacked, and I can’t say I recall being very sorry about it. I actually felt so sorry for the Governor General – he was put there by Labor in the first place, but

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E was certainly a statesman, and his name is up there with the great Prime Ministers of Australia in terms of remembrance and what he achieved.

He had vision – he wasn’t an n terms of economic master in paying for them! But he put or projects, forward some major re still benmany of which we’re efitting from. eas about He had grand ideas free university education, and now it o makes me sad to

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see young people coming out of university with massive debts. I think Gough tried hard in those days to put in place education benefits that were universal.

He was a visionary social reformer and he always had a mind for the benefit of all Australians, and their quality of life.

He and his wife Margaret did a lot to promote that together – they were very well respected as a result.

Unfortunately, economic management has always been one of the problems Labor has faced – and largely because of the reforms Whitlam put in place. But Labor has a record of trying to help those in need and it’s a fine balance – sometimes they go over the top.

The dismissal was a sad episode in Australia’s history, but I think Whitlam weathered it pretty well. A lot of people still talk about it – some think it was the wrong thing to do, but some think it was the right thing for the country.

Regardless of whether you agreed or disagreed with him, he fought for his beliefs – and that’s something we’re missing these days. I’m very disappointed in politics these days. I think back to when I first came to Dubbo – we had the likes of Jack Renshaw and Ralph Hunt, two great statesmen politicians who gave everything they could to their electorates. The behaviour of some politicians these days has tarnished the image of all the politicians, even the good ones.

It’s a great innings, 98 – and he achieved so much and will be remembered for a very long time.

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Mary Mathews, OAM Y father was a great Labor Party man, and I remember great excitement and thankfulness when Whitlam came to Government.

He brought a great energy to politics in this country. They achieved so much in such a short time – bringing home the troops from Vietnam, equal opportunity, free university education, healthcare reform... I think Australia really became part of the world in those years. He defied everyone and visited China, and that was visionary.

I appreciated his classical education, but he still had the common touch. I didn’t ever meet him and his wife, Margaret, but I remember them coming to Dubbo for a public meeting. The Dubbo High School auditorium – which is now the museum – was absolutely jam packed.

I remember him striding in – and he was so tall, there was just no ignoring him.

People hung on every word.

He maintained a dignity right up to his death and became a real statesman, as did Malcolm M Fraser when they finally came ttogether in later life life.

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ally changed the nation – they scrapped the Imperial honours, they changed the national anthem, and he was instrumental in the women’s movement. Then of course, he was the first to recognise Aboriginal land rights, and there’s that famous photo taken by Dubbo photographer Merv Bishop of Whitlam pouring the dirt through the hands of an Aboriginal elder.

I remember the dismissal and feeling a combination of anger and shock – but I think it speaks volumes for both Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser that they were able to become friends and colleagues, both statesmen.

I can’t think of any one politician – in any of the parties – that comes close in terms of statesmanlike behaviour.

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Keith “MK” Perkins – Australian Labor Party stalwart HE coming of my awareness of the ALP was basically my awareness of Gough Whitlam – he was a giant among men, a giant among giants. He did so much good, and he didn’t receive the recognition he deserved at the time.

I well remember his controversial decision to visit China, which was seen at the time as a political blunder, and greatly opposed by the Opposition of the day, and also by America. They didn’t see any merit in his visit to China – but now it can be seen that it was a great political victory, because that visit has grown into our great relationship with China.

I remember the sacking – and that famous quote – but it was a distressing day for everyone. I have tears in my eyes when I remember.

He crossed the political divide in so many ways in his later life. I met him once many years ago, and I remember he had such a presence – I think the man was born with a presence. I love his quote that when he meets his maker, he’ll treat him as an equal. His great ego was part of his nature – and he displayed it beautifully.

I think they broke the mould with Gough Whitlam. The three political figures that stand out in history, in my mind, are Whitlam, Chifley and Curtin – they were all remarkable men. I remember the end of the war very well, and the role Chifley played. I turned 18 the year the war ended – I was working in the coal mines. A few of us had tried to put our age up and enlist, but they sent us back to the mines. Might not have been a bad thing, in retrospect.

So many things will be Whitlam’s greatest legacy – he helped the cause of women more than any other politician, and his welfare reforms were far reaching. He’ll be remembered for the dismissal, probably, but it was his visit to China that I think history will record as possibly his greatest legacy.

It’s a great loss to Australia, but 98 is a great age.

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October is the beginning of us all counting down to Christmas and at Dundullimal there is a perfect Christmas present available in our gift shop for your family and friends. The 2015 National Trust diary with drawings and paintings by artist Frank Hodgkinson.

EVENTS COMING UP Thursday, October 30, 6pm – art exhibition – Bill O’Shea Local artist Bill O’Shea shares his art and passion with Dubbo residents and visitors.

Prints and original paintings; good Christmas presents or add to your collection.

Exhibition opens: Thursday October 30 6pm.

Exhibition Starts Friday 31 October till Saturday 16 November 2014

Sunday, November 2, 2pm – High tea and recital by students and teachers – Macquarie Conservatorium A relaxing afternoon of fine music and food; featuring delightful chamber music for violin, cello and piano performed by students and staff from Macquarie

Conservatorium, plus a delicious high tea with a complimentary glass of champagne.

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James Eddy

James Eddy also exercises his freedom of speech on stage with Dubbo Theatre Company, in his classroom at Dubbo College and from the stands at any good AFL match.

Sky’s the limit for the humble jaffle VERY now and then it’s interesting to stop and take stock of how a number of moments in time can come together to create something truly special...

John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, had a great idea to combat his need for a meal at times when he was unable to escape his work desk or the card table (for he did enjoy his cards so).

Nearly 300 years ago he decided to combine his love of thinly-sliced meats with his need for high energy carbohydrates and in so doing solve all of his work/ play/eat problems in one fell swoop. His answer was to order his servants bring him a simple delicacy of two slices of bread separated carefully by the cleverly sliced meat, thereby avoiding any problems associated with being drawn away from his work (or from the cards table).

And so John Montagu (or his servants at least) gave to the world the gift of the ‘sandwich’, (named so by his admiring if not a little bit envious, friends).

Sometime later, the well-to-do identified this novel idea as a tasty and convenient method of catering for worldly people with a busy lifestyle, but also recognised the real potential for this new-fangled sandwich foodstuff and so added other condiments and salad items to really spruce up the otherwise dullish but increasingly trendy snack-cummeal. Another hundred or so years later and Joseph Harding, a humble Somerset dairyman, developed the now very popular cheddar cheese. It had the ideal density and consistency to allow it to be thinly sliced as well, and therefore an excellent contributor towards potential future sandwich projects.

Where am I going with this? Read on...

The sandwich saga didn’t end there.

Through long and bitter English winters, good people had taken on board this convenient and tasty practice of sandwich making as an effective mode of avoiding death by starvation and so it became less and less a delicacy reserved

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for the gentry. But on those typically frigid days, it was a poor second to a deliciously hot, bubbling stew. Of course, the Swiss had an answer and had long been brewing fondues (since 1699 in fact). They had well recognised the value melting cheese into a hot, dribbly delight. Dipping pieces of lightly toasted bread into a pot and drawing out a little piece of culinary magic was nothing out of the ordinary in The Alps. Bread and melted cheese seemed to just work.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Europe, the Belgians had been using a specially designed metallic clamp to create their delightful breakfast waffles since medieval times. It was a simple device that had so much more to give the world.

It was only a matter time before destiny prevailed and all these snapshots of technology married together to create something understatedly spectacular. It was in fact somewhere in the Australian bush about a century ago, that took the design of the Belgian waffle iron and added a long handle so it could be plunged deep into the hot coals of a campfire to heat up whatever leftovers from the night before were held inside and produce a personal meal to warm the soul. Finally, at sometime around 1920, an unknowing somebody provided the masterstroke of moulding one of these irons to be approximately the same size and shape as your standard sandwich.

You’re with me now, right?

While it is quite difficult to pinpoint the actual origin of the toasted cheese sandwich (or ‘jaffle’) and give credit to one single discoverer, and while I cannot guarantee every detail of the story I’ve

presented thus far is factually accurate, it is not such a stretch to liken each of the events leading to this inevitable and glorious comestible delight, the jaffle, as distant ships sailing on a vast, open sea, each set to a course that was destined for an ultimate collision at one precise point in time. We should acknowledge the notso-mysterious wonder of the world that is the humble jaffle.

But wait, there’s more.

On a separate but not altogether unrelated note, well back in the 12th century, Chinese people of the time predicted that one day, people would need to jump out of aeroplanes. An astounding prediction you might contest but a prediction nevertheless that led them to commence work on a method to save people from plummeting several hundreds of metres from the sky to their impending doom.

Their answer lay in the sort of physics that might also lead a young boy of the modern day to the roof of his parents’ garage, dressed in a cape and brandishing an umbrella, and contemplating the size of frictional forces supplied by air resistance on broad bodies.

The great innovator, Leonardo Da Vinci (1514) drew sketches based on those tales from the Orient, depicting a man holding an odd sort of cloth pyramid design above his head as a potential fire escape plan from tall buildings. While there is no evidence of his efforts to test his imagination in a very real sense, quite some time later in the 18th century a Frenchman, Joseph Montgolfier, decided it was time to give the theory a test, and so he took to hurling a number of (presumably willing) animals out of tower windows attached to the first pro-

“ We should acknowledge the not-so-mysterious wonder of the world that is the humble jaffle.

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totypes of the modern parachute. Given its apparent success and his lack of ability to diagnose injuries, he decided it was potentially an enormous amount of fun. Beginning from the roof of his house and progressing gradually higher and higher, Montgolfier truly triumphed when he landed himself safely from a hot-air balloon gondola somewhere up in the wide blue yonder.

This opened the flood gates and “professional exhibitionists” and stuntmen began ejecting themselves from windows and off precipices all over Europe, not always with positive consequences.

From that point, the humble parachute was to undergo regular refinements such that today with a rich history of saving lives, it has been employed as a strategic tool to land troops beyond enemy lines, and it is a mode to keep thrill-seekers occupied. Furthermore, they bring a bunch of pleasure to hordes of junior primary school age children on a daily basis.

And here lies the crux of my spiel this weekend. Imagine taking the clever concept of a parachute and seamlessly melding it with a toasted cheese sandwich. The result is a ton of fun that will also potentially stave off starvation and it’s happening this very Saturday afternoon in Victoria Park. For a small fee, you can have an early evening snack delivered to you by air, ladies and gentlemen! If you are fortunate enough to be reading this on Saturday morning, you still have time to organise your day to include the Dubbo Dream Festival activities where, as a small part of a much bigger community gala event, we will be launching Dubbo’s own version of Jafflechutes (an awesome concept originally developed by the Jafflechute group in Melbourne). And to be a part of the fun, all you have to do is come along and check it out this evening from 4-7pm – I guarantee if three of the things you love most are melted cheese, toast and parachutes, this is going to blow your mind!

See you there.

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Greg Smart

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

The year that was the review that will be N early 2008, the Rudd Labor Government issued a glossy brochure titled First 100 Days, which proclaimed Prime Minister Rudd and his government had “hit the ground running”.

Tony Abbott and his Federal Coalition attempted to score some political points by openly mocking Rudd and declared his government had “hit the ground reviewing”.

Now in power for more than 12 months, it would be fair to level the same facile criticism back at the Abbott government, with a tally of more than 50 reviews, inquires and white papers being commissioned since taking office.

Of course it is the wont of an incoming government to bring its policy ideology and agenda with it. During the 2013 election campaign, the Coalition garnered much publicity with the release of its glossy brochure titled Our Plan – Real Solutions for all Australians, which detailed its policy priorities and the plan to “restore hope, reward and opportunities for all Australians”. The Plan talks of the “five pillar economy – manufacturing, agriculture, services, education and research and mining”, and was accompanied by motherhood statements announcing the incoming Coalition would have polices ready on day one.

Now, more than a year into a three year term, it’s reasonable to suggest the Coalition is suffering from a case of policy paralysis.

This can’t be blamed solely on a recalcitrant Senate. Political commentators knew the likelihood of a Senate unsympathetic to the incoming conservative government was high. Put Clive Palmer and his disparate band of newbie Senators into the mix and the promises of a “calm, methodical, measured government” made by the Coalition seem something of a folly, disconnected from the possible election outcome.

So what is the status of the major reviews commissioned by the new Government?

The Commission of Audit set up by Treasurer Joe Hockey and chaired by former president of the Business Council of Australia Tony Shepherd (who used to be Chair of Transfield Services – the company which runs the Nauru and Manus Island refugee detentions centre) included such ideological allies as former Howard Minister Amanda Vanstone.

The major recommendations of the Commission of Audit included introducing co-payments for all Medicare services including emergency ward visits for non-urgent medical complaints; de-

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regulation of university fees; abolition of Commonwealth vocational education support for apprentices; privatisation Australia Post, the Snowy Hydro Scheme and the payments system of the Department of Human Services; forcing unemployed young people without dependents to move or lose access to benefits; and changing the rate of indexing the age pension.

The commission’s recommendations were broadly and understandably criticised for focussing on government spending and excluding taxation reform while creating further social inequity and cost burdens on lower incomer earners.

A review by the Board of Taxation into the Financial Advice industry was derailed when the then Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos “stood aside to avoid becoming a distraction” following his mention at the NSW ICAC enquiry into improper conduct of the board of Australian Water Holdings. The purpose of the review was to give impetus to winding back the regulation which compelled financial advisors to act in the best interests of their clients, and the regulation that required advisors to contact their client every two years and renew their contract. These regulations were apparently burdensome red tape and a cost to industry.

Groups representing financial advisors and superannuation funds expressed concern that loopholes in the proposed regulation changes would lead to sales commissions and unscrupulous behaviour. Combine concern from the industry itself and Sinodinos’ own behaviour and I wonder what the purposes of the reforms actually were.

Tony Abbott’s marquee Paid Parental Leave (PPL) policy came in for criticism by the Productivity Commission following its review of the childcare system which recommended simplifying the parental subsidies and suggested diverting

funding from the proposed PPL towards early childcare, education and care. The Coalition backed the idea of simpler payments but dismissed diverting funds from the PPL. The policy response to the childcare review is yet to be finalised.

Despite frequent statements in favour of renewable energy prior to the election, a review in to the Renewable Energy Target (RET) was headed by selfconfessed climate change sceptic Dick Warburton. He was hand picked by Environment Minister Greg Hunt and managed to author a report that both stated the RET was fulfilling its objective in encouraging the generation of renewable energy, and should be scaled back because demand for (fossil fuel) energy is falling. “Access to cheap and reliable power helps to underpin Australia’s growth” can be read as “coal is good” – a view point confirmed by PM Abbott’s “coal is good for humanity” statement last week.

Education was always going to be in the ideological cross hairs of the incoming conservative government, but the players involved in the national curriculum review announced by Education Minster Christopher Pyne give an insight to the depth of that ideology.

He tasked Kevin Donnelly (former teacher and ex-chief of staff to Liberal Minister Kevin Andrews) and University of Queensland Professor Ken Wiltshire to review the national curriculum and restore the “focus on the benefits of western civilisation”. Both Mr Donnelly and Professor Wiltshire are on record as supporting compulsory religious education in schools. Mr Donnelly has gone as far as saying Australian education is “too secular” and religion does “not have enough of a presence in Australia’s very secular curriculum” and the curriculum should better reflect the federation’s Judeo-Christian heritage.

I’m not sure this tilt towards the past has much relevance in our multicultur-

“ One year into a three year term, the reviews keep coming. The second year – the year to actually get things done – will soon be over.

al, decreasingly religious society, but the result of the review appears a fait accompli, especially when Minister Pyne is pushing for more focus on Anzac Day in schools and the presence of school chaplains instead of trained councillors. And no mention of ethics classes.

The ethics of a “special consultant” to the curriculum review were called into question last week when racist and sexist remarks written by University of Sydney Professor Barry Spurr were revealed in emails he wrote to colleagues and friends. This person assigned to review the English part of the national curriculum defended the remarks as a ‘whimsical game,’ and Pyne dismissed the protests of students and the Opposition.

The head of the national curriculum review has been completely silent and it was left to the University of Sydney to suspend Professor Spurr.

“Getting on for 12 months into the life of the Rudd government, there’s still really no narrative,” Abbott told the ABC’s Lateline program in 2008.

With Abbott now in the long craved for big chair, let’s look at his 12 month narrative.

Blunt policy goals – axe the tax, stop the waste (see above,) stop the boats.

Varied success there.

2014 Budget – nearly the end of the year and still not finalised, with spending cuts being used as the main economic lever to achieve a surplus, and Clive Palmer calling the shots in the Senate, every budget measure under threat.

Creating 200,000 new jobs – unlikely as manufacturing shrinks, the retail sector is hurting, CSIRO funding is cut and the Public Service is “right sized”.

Changes to the Racial Discrimination Act – announced with fanfare but put back in the drawer until another time.

Carbon tax repeal – done, because something as trivial as the environment shouldn’t get in the way of economic growth.

Ministerial behaviour – wounded by ICAC, tainted by conflict of interest, hard right faction aligned with ultraconservative political and religious elements but all Ministers given an A+ by Abbott.

One year into a three year term, the reviews keep coming. The second year – the year to actually get things done – will soon be over. The third year will be campaigning time again and devoted to re-demonising the carbon tax.

My review? The government seems focused on repeal rather than creation and advancement.

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Fortune risks running dry in the lucky country UGE numbers of former middle class citizens across Australia are hurting but little is being done to address the issue.

While the majority of this group probably still identifies as middle-class, they’re also probably wondering what went wrong and when.

Back in 1981 when I received my first ever pay cheque, the take-home of $109.40 seemed like all the money in the world. Now many families on a combined income of more than $100,000 tell me they’re struggling to pay electricity bills for their large homes.

There are often two car payments, childcare, piano lessons, security fees, rates and charges, escalating insurance costs and of course the weekly grocery bill from our benevolent supermarket duopoly. It’s often a case of just getting on top of things for five minutes before you’re hit with the next bill – and that’s before the unexpected disaster, which is where the nation’s high-profile lack of savings really starts putting the pressure on.

Some people are in very high paying jobs, have a smart and lean small business model or have received a decent inheritance. For them it’s business as usual, but for the majority of the former middle class it’s all about surviving until next week.

Until now there’s been a pervasive feeling that Australia’s the Lucky Country and that times will come good again.

But an increasing number of social commentators are feeling the wind blow from a different direction.

This week US Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen cast a pall over the rampant US capitalism of recent decades, claiming the trend of rising income inequality was “incompatible with American values”.

“I think it is appropriate to ask,” she said, “If this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation’s history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.”

Tens of millions of former middleclass Americans are struggling while the nation’s elite controls a staggeringly high percentage of the country’s wealth.

Globally these days it’s just about as sinister, consider this: if global wealth was divided by world land mass, the bottom 50 per cent of the population would own Mongolia; the former middle-class

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would own Russia and Kazakhstan and the top 10 per cent would own everything else.

The price of one luxury yacht recently purchased by a third generation Australian billionaire could build the nation’s first industrial hemp (iHemp) processing plant and kick-start an industry that could generate billions of dollars for regional economies. Instead it will be guzzling up fuel and belching greenhouse gases as it occasionally takes the idle rich cruising around the Greek Islands.

I’d be the first to accept an invitation to party on Ios and Santorini, but there’s something radically wrong with the structure of our taxation system when there’s so much nation building we need to be doing yet so much extravagant wealth on display.

It hurts even more when data recently released suggests most of our top companies manage to avoid much of their tax obligation, while the former middleclass does the increasingly heavy lifting.

Most disappointingly, what we get for our PAYE taxes seems to be a PAYE taxpayer subsidised mining industry which boomed with financial largesse for a tiny fraction of our population and many foreign companies (the Minerals Council denies the figures touted by The Australia Institute claiming hidden subsidies to miners on a vast scale).

Our processes and structures of government are so riddled with incompetence, acquiescence to corporate interests and a lack of vision that pollies who try to have a go get ground into the dust.

Look no further than the current Ebola outbreak to confirm just how incom-

petent government systems and oversight really is, despite hugely expensive, unwieldy bureaucratic protocols and enormous wages paid to the people running these things.

If the very word ‘Ebola’ didn’t make people take a bit of extra care, I don’t know what would’ve.

I’m not the biggest fan of former state and federal independent MP Rob Oakeshott but a couple of recent opinion pieces he’s written offer some compelling insights from a bloke who was undeniably an insider during the last federal ‘hung’ parliament.

Like me, he sees the recent ICAC revelations as barely the tip of an iceberg of corruption and how big money does routine business in countries around the world. I hope the Royal Commission he’s calling for happens.

We need to have transparent decision making processes so our elected leaders can once again begin making decisions for the good of the people rather than the corporate interests that have highlypaid lobbying power, not to mention the potential to provide great jobs and consultancies long after the political career has ended.

Look at the current madness surrounding coal seam gas (CSG) extraction – this industry has destroyed natural ecosystems and way of life in vast tracts of the USA, yet because multinational companies can make vast profits selling our resources off-shore it’s happening in large parts of QLD and threatening some of the most productive agricultural areas in NSW. This is one issue where we desperately need to adopt the “precautionary principle”; we don’t extract any CSG until we’re 100 per cent sure our vital aquifers won’t be contaminated. The transnational profits can wait – the gas will still be there if the process can ever be guaranteed.

Meanwhile, I think any company extracting CSG should include in its legal agreement to mine that the senior staff and board members personally sign ironclad contracts that any future contamination or problems with natural

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environments or peoples’ health will be fully recompensed by themselves, with suitable damages paid.

If the process is as safe as they say, how could they argue with that? It’s what they expect the people living near the wells to believe, after all.

Peter Andrews’ Bylong Valley farm has been bought to be ripped up for coal – a priceless natural laboratory showcasing more than 30 years of large scale reallife experimentation into the natural sequences which underpin our unique Australian landscape – all in the name of multinational profits.

The powers that be have let us become a dumping ground for crap imported food which runs a legal merry-go-round of ticking boxes on inane bureaucratic forms so it can enter the country “fairly”.

The same is true with petrol and diesel currently invading our shores; it’s cheap, second-rate and inconsistent, which is causing havoc with our national engines but no-one seems concerned enough to stop it happening.

Our inexperienced negotiators give away far too much in free trade agreements because our teams mostly consist of highly paid bureaucrats instead of hard-nosed experience businesspeople.

Our banks make billions and call on the federal government to invest in potential high growth agricultural industries but steadfastly refuse to put so much as one cent into such projects themselves.

We could lose even this crappy fuel supply if troubles worsen in the Middle East, but so far my calls to wealthy fuel companies have failed to conjure up even a tiny investment for our farmers to trial efficient broad-acre biofuel crops so we can at least have some plan for a strategic reserve in the worst case scenario – if we lost our national fuel supply people would be starving to death within a fortnight, yet there’s zero concern at a national level.

And here in regional Australia we have to scratch and scrimp and beg for the scraps and then dance like performing monkeys when we’re thrown a banana peel.

Despite this lecture on doom and gloom, things are generally pretty good in Australia – imagine if we can get our political apparatus to collect all those tax dollars from the non-paying profiteers, and then use them wisely – we really could be called The Lucky Country.

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Healthy praise for lifesavers there when it counts E often hear complaints about health services in the regions and this is understandable. We interact with our health providers when we are most vulnerable. It’s only natural that we become self-interested and demand the best. After all, it’s the wellbeing, or even life, of ourselves or our loved ones, that is at risk.

After some fairly critical interactions with local hospitals I have become a more patient patient, but a more careful advocate. From limb threatening fractures to cardiac arrests, I’ve had to throw myself upon the mercy of a rural health system. And hey, guess what?

My son still walks and my husband still talks!

Through this, I have learned that health professionals really are experts at triage. We have no way of knowing why others are sitting in the waiting room.

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But they do. And they act accordingly.

So while the three stitches might seem critical to you, if someone else needs a hundred then it only makes sense they get to see the doctor first. If it takes two hours for my child’s ‘flu to be attended to, it may just be because someone else’s child is suffering pneumonia.

In the end, it’s not the time spent waiting that matters, it’s the quality of the care.

“ Being in a healthcare system so connected to its local community also has pluses our city cousins could only dream about. ”

Indeed, I’ve actually come to admire the once-resented gatekeepers who man the desks and coolly process your personal crisis as though it is no more than a stubbed toe. Probably because it isn’t. Let me tell you, when it really is an emergency you’ll have cuddles from accident and emergency nurses, personal phone calls from general practitioners, private sit-downs with specialists, free helicopter rides and an access-all-areas pass into the inner sanctums of the hospital. Trust me – you really don’t want any of that.

Now I don’t want to sound too PollyAnna because I’ve had less successful interactions with local health services.

And this tends to come when the crisis is over. That’s why I pay careful attention once the adrenalin settles and a cooler head is able to prevail.

I take notes, listen carefully, ask questions and make sure I’m as well armed as I can be in order to make the right decisions. If I’m still not sure, I telephone.

Again, it may take some time but the answers will come and they will help you coordinate everything from babysitting

the other kids while Johnny has his cast removed, to working out costs and recovery times We do have fewer services than our city counterparts. But being in a healthcare system so connected to its local community also has pluses our city cousins could only dream about. You may know the nurse and ask her to go into the operating theatre and check where things are up to, be at a small hospital where all available hands – from nurses, to ambos to GPs – are working on your loved one and telling you exactly what’s going on, or have a nursing home director who can see the love of a family and have a laugh, not just see the slightly demented and high maintenance patient.

And amid the crisis and chaos that saved my husband’s life a few weeks ago, I had to pause at the number and quality of medical professionals that worked to achieve this outcome. After all, how far those resources would go in managing Ebola in Africa?

So I rate our healthcare system, big time. Regional Australia or no, I say we are indeed lucky.

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Maddie and Will Gay

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Six mountains, five countries, four continents, three months, two people, one goal – Maddie and Will Gay are on a very personal quest to conquer not only some of the world’s most renowned peaks but also the issue of regional suicide... and they’ll do so in tribute to their dad.

AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley Maddie Gay: E lost our dad in 2009 to suicide and it goes without saying it was absolutely devastating, but it was also something that resonated within our community of Boorowa.

Dad had suffered depression for many years – we were in drought and there were pressures that just compounded the isolation. In the years after, Will and I have both really wanted to do something about suicide prevention particularly in rural and regional areas where there is still such a stigma, which is a barrier to people seeking help, compounded by distance from services. We wanted to do something specifically for suicide prevention rather than just for mental health in general.

We saw people doing some amazing physical challenges in the name of charity, so we took that idea and ran with it. Our challenge is named 6NIL – six mountains to zero suicides – so, 6NIL. I’m the eldest – I’m 26, Will’s 22. We’re best mates. There were just the two of us, so growing up on the farm 60km from town, we kind of really only had ourselves and our own imaginations.

We’re very similar. We both have pretty easy going personalities and nothing much fazes us, which really helps.

We travelled Africa together, living in a two-man tent for six weeks – and it was the general consensus that if we hadn’t killed each other by the end of that, we must be good mates.

Losing our dad definitely brought us closer together. The terrible thing about suicide is that it doesn’t discriminate. It

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can affect anyone, anywhere but I think everyone’s experience of it is unique.

People experience the resulting grief in different ways, but Will was the only other person in my world who really knew how I felt, because we’d both lost our dad. It’s kind of like an unspoken bond, I guess. We really don’t talk about it that much – we always talk about Dad and we can have a joke, and that’s quite comforting. With Will, I can just talk about Dad and he knows how I feel – I’m so glad I have that. We actually live together now in Sydney so that’s been really great.

Will is a bit of a chameleon. He can go into any situation and he’ll just observe the situation and people’s reactions and then he fits in. He’s quiet, but he makes an impact on people. Much like Dad, he always has the time of day for anyone – he’s not at all judgemental. He just takes people at face value and that’s such a great quality. He also has an amazing sense of humour. When we were going through the aftermath of Dad’s death, even when we were both feeling really, really down, we could always have a joke with each other. It really helped get me through, even though other people thought it was inappropriate to be joking at such a dark time – but we just figured if you don’t laugh you’ll cry.

I see a lot of Dad in Will – they had so much in common. Someone said to me the other day that they’d seen Will and they said, you know it just feels like I’m in the room with Tony. My Dad was my hero, so it’s great that Will’s taking on some of his amazing qualities. Dad is kind of living on in Will.

Will Gay: WAS just in shock when Dad died – it was the last thing I expected to hear.

He’d been sick for a while and he went to hospital a few months before it happened because of his depression. But I remember talking to him after he came out of hospital and he seemed to think there were people a lot worse off than him in there and he said he wouldn’t need to go back to hospital. That obviously wasn’t the case.

That’s one of the reasons we’re doing what we’re doing with 6NIL, because we need to raise awareness that you just never know when this kind of thing is going to happen. People need to know what to look for.

We haven’t climbed any mountains before – but it’s not like we’re climbing Mt Everest by ourselves or anything.

We’ll be on guided tours, so if we do enough training, the six peaks we’ve chosen shouldn’t be unrealistic. We’re heading off in September next year and we start with Mt Kinabalu in Malaysia.

Then we’re off to Tanzania to climb Mt Meru and straight after that we’ll climb Kilimanjaro. Then we go up to Kenya and climb Mt Kenya and then to South America to do Machu Picchu, which is more of a trail than a mountain but it’ll be one of the hardest. Then we finish off back here in Australia with Mt Kosciuszko.

There’s a fair bit of planning to do, obviously, and I’ll help Maddie out with that, but she’s a lot better at that side of things than me – she’s far more organised than I am (laughs).

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Physically, we have to put in a bit of training and we’ve already started doing that with some of the different walks around Sydney. The other day we did The Spit to Manly, which is about 10km. We’re doing gym work – lots of cardio and strengthening of our legs.

It will also be fairly emotional, but we have the motivation of wanting to raise that awareness of suicide in regional areas – to get the word out and get people talking about it... I guess, honestly, to just get people to stop doing it.

I reckon we’ll still be good mates at the end of it. I spent close to seven weeks in a two-man tent with Maddie in Africa and we didn’t fight once. We had a great time – we just laughed the whole time. We get on pretty well, which is just lucky I guess.

Maddie’s a really focused person; she’s determined and she’s good at organising. She also has a good sense of humour which is helpful. We always manage to see the funny side of things and we try to be positive about everything.

Mum is really supportive – she’s extremely proud of us, or she says she is, anyway (laughs). She’s happy that we’re trying to do something positive – something in memory of our dad. » If you would like to help support Maddie and Will’s quest to raise $250,000 for Lifeline, go to their website – www.6nil. com – and follow the links to the “everyday hero” account. All donations go directly to Lifeline. The pair is also hosting a fundraising event at Cowra on November 7, with details also available on the website.

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After walking away from a “dry” career in biochemistry and pathology, full time Rylstone-based astrologer and numerologist, Michael David DeBaat, has now been a practitioner and teacher of the esoteric sciences for more than 22 years. Passionate about his career, he has qualifications in neuro linguistic programming, homoeopathic medicine and kinesiology. Dubbo Weekender spent time with the renowned star-gazer, his clairvoyant partner and their cats Mr Darcy, Miss Lily and Max. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner N a country where astrology and numerology are often regarded as a curiosity, superstition or pseudo-science, Michael David DeBaat has doggedly stuck to his guns and forged a career where many of his contemporaries have either given up or sold-out, professionally.

Softly spoken and articulate with a quirky sense of humour, it’s probably no great surprise that DeBaat’s interest in esoteric science developed into a career path, given the influences surrounding his suburban Sydney childhood.

“Mum had always owned and read tarot cards, so when people ask me how long I have been involved... I don’t know because they’ve always been there.

“I remember when we were little mum had the Egyptian Cartouche deck and we’d be looking at them, but Dad was not accepting of these things (until later in life), so it’d be like quick, Dad’s home, hide the cards!”

DeBaat explains it wasn’t worth the ongoing lecture about what a load of rubbish it all was but says his father went on to have his own spiritual visions later in life and expected everyone to be okay with that, “because it was him!”

A pivotal moment came at about age 13, when the youngster discovered a life changing book in his mother’s library by wellknown Buddhist teacher, Lobsang Rampa.

This was his first encounter with a metaphysical themed book and he soon realised there was another world beyond what he knew and the information resonated with him intensely.

“I knew what I knew but I didn’t know what I didn’t know,” he says. “I wanted continuity and I wanted to find out things metaphysically but I had big gaps in my knowledge.”

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After graduating, DeBaat worked in pathology and biochemistry as well as studying biological science, biological and chemical technology and environmental science at Sydney University, University of Western Sydney and University of Technology.

Conceptually, he thought biochemistry (the science of living things) was fascinating but working in the field of biochemistry was not.

“It was dry and monotonous and not for me.”

A tiny ad in the local paper began the journey into the tarot. Saturday morning classes whet his appetite for what would eventually become a consuming passion. The classes were held in Enmore Road in Newtown, in what he describes as a “fantastic Victorian, gothic double story building.”

In the early 1990s, he signed up for astrological tarot, astrology and numerology

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courses with the highly regarded Australian School of Tarot.

“The man who ran the school looked identical to Harry Potter’s Professor Dumbledore – serious, I’m not joking!

“Ojas Sangoski was a great astrologer and a very challenging teacher. He would throw the black board duster and hit you in the head if he didn’t think you weren’t working hard enough or ridicule you if you didn’t get the concept straight away.

DeBaat says he would listen to everything in class, take notes and then go home and colour code it all.

“I did everything I was told and extra on top. I lived, ate and breathed my studies for four solid years.”

Completing the highest level of diploma in all courses, teaching at the Australian School of Tarot became the logical next step.

“People began transferring from Ojas’ classes to mine because I was bit nicer to them, but Ojas really encouraged me to persevere with my studies and later to branch into teaching despite my initial protests about not being ready; for that I owe him a great debt of gratitude.”

In 1994, DeBaat left the school to become a fulltime astrologer/numerologist before embarking on teaching again.

Earning a living this way required a lifestyle that was constantly on the move, with long hours invested at fairs and in shopping malls, as well as privately arranged meetings in his Sydney office.

“The psychic fairs were popular back in those days and I’d carry around my astrology/ tarot wheel on my back, a bit like a ninja turtle, and cover ground from Fairfield to Maroubra, all over Sydney and Australia.

“It was exhausting; it’d be process-line readings, back to back, from 10am to 7pm with a half hour break for lunch. This made me hone my skills incredibly quickly, though.”

It was also around this time the Mind, Body and Soul Festival kicked off and Michael has until recently participated every year since its inception, often equating to 70 readings over four days.

HIS is a man who takes what he does very seriously and believes his life’s work is an honourable profession. Some of his influences and mentors have been Madame Blavatsky, Edgar Cayce, and Pythagoras in the lineage of numerology and Isaac Newton who is said to have explored the merits of astrology.

“Newton said to his critics, “I sir have studied the matter, you have not”, which mirrors my attitude to critics who are all opinion and no knowledge.”

DeBaat says that throughout all his esoteric studies, astrologer and mentor AT Mann has had the most profound impact. He is still amazed 25 years later by Mann’s game-

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changing discoveries in astrology.

“AT Mann was a former architect who formulated a unique system of astrology which superimposes a logarithmic time scale over the birth chart so you can track the person’s movement through their entire life in real time, a virtual google earth of their life. The system is beautifully illustrated and explained in his book, “The Round Art- the Astrology of Time and Space, (1979).”

Later, he studied and taught with famous numerologist (and later NLP guru) Laureli Blyth. From 1995 to 2000, the two established the Blyth Centre for Intuitive Sciences. Blyth, whom DeBaat describes as “an incredible woman who was constantly recreating herself”, published the book Numerology of Names (1996), the book was so popular it was printed in multiple languages.

“She (Blyth) poached me from the astrology school and we started the Blyth Centre in Burwood, NSW, and built a number of other centres.

“She says to this day I was always her finest student, but she eventually moved into NLP (neuro linguistic programming) and still runs the World Wide Institute of NLP, but I stayed with numerology and astrology and by then had also qualified as a homeopath.”

OMEOPATHY, like astrology and numerology, according to DeBaat, is another modality that cops a bit of flak from the wider community.

“I’ve made myself a master of unemployabilty! That’s another reason I have to be good at what I do because there is no back up profession for me,” he quips.

Asked if he was ever concerned about committing to this as a fulltime profession, the renowned astrologer admits he was. He knew his career would be challenging from the beginning, but was committed. He says his dedication to his work has impacted his relationships, friendships and even ended a marriage.

“It’s in me; what I do has always been a reflection of who I am and any job I’ve done I have done it with that in mind.

There have been many times in my life when I have lived below the poverty line because I’ve stuck with this profession, but I have always seen it as a profession, and I am one of the few who see it that way.”

He admits that, at the age of 50, his fire for the work has waned somewhat. He is disappointed by the reluctance of most Australians to take his skills seriously.

And even worse are the practioners who have “copped out” for fame and money, particularly the ones who have been properly trained.

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“ Newton said to his critics, “I sir have studied the matter, you have not”, which mirrors my attitude to critics who are all opinion and no knowledge.

PROFILE “Everywhere I look I see people disrespecting astrology and numerology, like the people in the profession who have had no proper training and do not know what they’re talking about.

“But what’s worse are the astrologers with a public persona who DO know what to do and are still choosing to accommodate the public’s illusion about it.

“Psychic TV for instance is a total circus and insult to the lineage I am in.

“I am very lenient with a lot of things but I am really serious about my profession and I will continue on with honour or not do it at all.”

On reflection, DeBaat can’t think of any colleagues who are still practicing astrology and numerology, authentically.

“They‘ve all sold out for the golden dollar and I find that really sad; especially people I have known and respected.”

He admits the path he’s chosen is a hard one, but doesn’t regret staying true to the knowledge.

“I carry the banner for those who defended it during the middle ages, when esoteric sciences were persecuted and people died for their beliefs.”

HILE he continues to do readings and restore antique furniture in the workshop (he’s an amateur aficionado), the future may unfold in a different way for Michael and his clairvoyant partner Monica Geraldine Schell.

About to move to their dream home in Ryl-

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stone, Michael would love to resume teaching the skills he has learned over the years to groups of dedicated people around the country. Courses covering subjects like numerology, astrology, nominology, astrological tarot and homeopathic first aid.

He also has four books he’s about to publish on a variety of esoteric modalities.

“I want these books to be my legacy, a way I can pass on information about my profession and the many things I’ve learned and discovered over the span of my career, so far.”

“ Psychic TV for instance is a total circus and an insult to the lineage I’m in. I’m very lenient with a lot of things but I am really serious about my profession and I will continue on with honour or not do it at all.

» Numerology: information derived from the date of birth; » Nominology: derived from names and letters; » Astrology: based on placement of individuals planets at time of birth; » Tarot cards: the “mirrors” of the subconscious, provide a pictorial representation of what the client knows to be true subconsciously; » Homeopathy: uses small doses of medicine to stimulate the bodies healing response; » Kinesiology: developed by osteopaths, uses muscle responses to gain information about the body; » NLP: studies a person’s use of language to understand what programs they are running and if outdated, uses various techniques to install ones that are more helpful; » Esoteric: signifies ideas preserved or understood by a small group of those specially initiated, or of rare or unusual interest.

Michael with his partner, clairvoyant Monica

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Doing a number on Dubbo

Geraldine Schell

PLACES, like people, can also have a chart.

Australia has two- one based on Federation and the other based on Cook’s arrival. The name of Australia (nominology) tells its own story too.

Dubbo, the first letter or cornerstone is D. This is what the city’s personality is and it’s a number four. The number four is all about the earth; it’s all about hard work, containing things and doing what should be done.

The number four has good and bad associated with it and it’s about something that is sequentially built to get a result.

Basically, on the good side there is a natural way about Dubbo and the not so good is a situation where the town can box itself in.

If you are living in Dubbo you want to make sure you have a respect for tradition and you don’t build four walls and cut yourself off with no door or window.

It’s interesting that D is about four and the natural world or earth and Dubbo is home to Taronga Western Plains Zoo. That’s interesting because of all the places the zoo could have ended it up, it was Dubbo.

On face value when you examine Dubbo, it may look a bit “basic”; the people may even seem a bit basic but when you look deeper into that, there is so much more. Especially in regard to nature and the natural world – it all starts to open up.

The full name of Dubbo comes to an eight. And eight is about hard work and getting things to their fruition. Numerically it’s a 17/8 which epitomises the idea of doing things oneself. If anyone’s going to do it, it better be me because that’s the only way it’s going to get done.

It is a place where people will tend to want to do things themselves. The heritage of Dubbo, especially in the home arrangements – home and heritage become quite important because of the four there. Underneath, we separate the consonants and then we get the external view of Dubbo.

That’s how things appear.

Four is work and containment and eight is achievement, force and power. So when we have a look at how Dubbo appears as an eight, it’s about business, upper management; it’s about organisations. I don’t know too much about Dubbo but there must be a lot of committees and groups wanting to make things happen – but quite often going off on a singular tangent, not a cohesive one, a power struggle. Too many separate groups.

There is forcefulness about it, trying to make Dubbo a certain way and then there is the compassion.

If Dubbo were to move forward, given the main number for Dubbo is 17/8, (if it was 26/8 Dubbo would be a lot more cohesive); 17/8 means gifts of the spirit, meaning gifts of nature, talents and the good fortune that comes from hard work. So if Dubbo does the work it’ll get the result.

I don’t think Dubbo will get a numerologist on the council anytime soon, but they really need to look at the spirit of that land, the natural beauty of that land, what does it have to offer? Again the zoo links in to this already. Like the river, the lifeblood of the town, the natural resources and by that I don’t meaning mining –that’s robbing the spirit.

Dubbo has a great heart but it’s not apparent; people see the business infrastructure but there’s a great heart, great soul and great compassion beneath that.

For example bringing business and community groups together could be good for Dubbo and social services. It’s a good town for the artistic community – art is a good way for a town to give self-expression and music; a lot of this is hidden and needs to be brought out more.

So Dubbo’s true face is not one that’s all about business; it’s also about great compassion and service and help but unifying and motivating all the groups for the common goal need to be the focus.

Dubbo at its worst is base, closed minded and sometimes manipulative to get its result, but at its best works to a plan, works consistently, gets the result and gives something back to the community. Which is four – work; eight – get the result; nine – give something back.”

(As told to Lisa Minner)

Business in changing times with Peter Scolari, Scolari Comerford

Check your superannuation salary sacrifice arrangements HE superannuation guarantee rate will incrementally increase until it reaches 12%. Individuals who are salary sacrificing superannuation should examine the impact of the superannuation guarantee rate increases and assess whether their existing arrangements are still meeting their needs.

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EMPLOYER SUPER GUARANTEE RATE The minimum level of quarterly employer superannuation guarantee support has increased from 9.25% for 2013-2014 to 9.5% from July 1, 2014.

Therefore employers are required to increase their superannuation contributions on behalf of employees to 9.5% of ordinary time earnings from July 1, 2014.

The superannuation guarantee rate will stay at 9.5% until June 30, 2018, before increasing by 0.5% each year until it reaches 12% from 2022-2023 (as proposed in the 2014-2014 Federal Budget).

The super guarantee age limit was abolished from July 1, 2013 (previously sat at age 70). Therefore, employers are required to provide superannuation guarantee support (9.5% for 20142015 Federal Budget) in respect of employees aged 70 and over, unless an alternative exemption applies.

SALARY SACRIFICING SUPERANNUATION Salary sacrifice arrangements – via additional employer superannuation contributions above the compulsory employer contributions – can be a taxeffective option for individuals to boost their retirement savings.

The tax benefits available from salary sacrificing into superannuation will largely be determined by the difference between the individual’s marginal tax rate and tax treatment of the contributions in the hands of the superannuation fund. Individuals should consider examining the effectiveness of salary sacrificing arrangements to take into account changes to the individual tax rates and thresholds.

HIGHER INCOME EARNERS From the 2014-2015 income year, the effective top marginal tax rate is 49% (including the 2% temporary budget repair levy and 2% Medicare levy) for an individual with taxable income exceeding $180,000.

As a result, salary sacrifice arrangements, up to the concessional cap, carry an effective tax concession of 34% (i.e. the 49% top marginal tax rate less 15% contributions tax) for individuals with taxable income between $180,000 and the high income threshold of $300,000.

For taxpayers above the $300,000 high income threshold, the tax concession is reduced to 19% (i.e. the 49% top marginal tax rate less 15% contributions tax less 15% Div 293 tax).

HIGHER CONCESSIONAL CAP Tax-effective salary sacrificing arrangements are effectively restricted to the relevant concessional contributions cap. The general concessional cap has been increased through indexation to $30,000 from 2014-2015. A higher concessional contributions cap of $35,000 (not indexed) applies from 2014-2015 for those who are 49 years or over on June 30, 2014. This temporary $35,000 concessional cap will cease when the general gap reaches $35,000 through indexation (expected to be July 1, 2018). As such, individuals should review their salary sacrifice arrangements to take into account the higher concessional caps.

Any excess concessional contributions made on or after July 1, 2013, will be assessed at the individual’s marginal tax rate (including an interest charge to take account of the deferred payment of tax).

The concessional contributions cap applies on a person basis, which means individuals with multiple employers need to be aware that superannuation guarantee contributions from each employer will count towards the individual’s concessional contributions cap. As a result, the effective limit on a salary sacrifice arrangement will be reduced where the individual has concessional contributions from other sources.

REVIEW EXISTING ARRANGEMENTS If an employee is already salary sacrificing more than 9.5% of their ordinary time earnings as at July 1, 2014, the employer is technically already complying with the higher superannuation contributions at the increased rate. However, an industrial award or agreement may require an employer to make superannuation contributions above the standard charge percentage in the superannuation law. Likewise, an employee’s contract of employment or salary sacrifice arrangement may also provide for superannuation entitlement above those specified in the super law.

Accordingly, employees already salary sacrificing above the 9.5% rate (for 2014-2015) should review their employment agreements and salary sacrifice arrangements to clarify that the employer is liable for all payments under the superannuation guarantee regime (at the increased super guarantee rate for the relevant year) on the total remuneration agreed.

Employees may also want to examine the higher contribution caps and assess whether the current arrangements still suit them.

TALK TO US This discussion is not exhaustive and does not cover all relevant matters. Individuals should seek advice tailored to their circumstances. Please contact our office for further information.

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Dubbo’s Artlands coup WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Kim V. Goldsmith AST weekend, there was a range of emotions at play when it was announced at the Regional Arts Australia (RAA) conference and arts festival in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, that Dubbo would host the next event in October 2016.

For those in the know, it was relief that the long-held secret was finally public and planning could start in earnest; for many, it was elation that the event was not only coming to Dubbo, but would be returning to NSW after 14 years.

Under the new brand of Artlands, the Dubbo conference and festival will be held at various venues across the city over the four days of October 27-30. It’s expected to bring about 800 people to the city, generating not only great creative energy, but also economic benefit.

It won’t just be Dubbo on show during the four days delegates are town – it will be the state and the region.

The network of 14 regional arts boards across NSW will be engaging their communities over the coming two years as part of the preparations for the showcase event.

Newly appointed Deputy Premier, NSW Minister for the Arts and Member for Dubbo, the Hon. Troy Grant MP said via video at the Kalgoorlie handover that Dubbo, as the capital of western NSW, had plenty to showcase.

Head of Regional Arts NSW (RANSW), Elizabeth Rogers says the Aboriginal arts program will be a highlight of Artlands 2016.

“The conference program will also feature keynotes of the highest calibre to give delegates the opportunity to consider all aspects of creativity and arts practice in regional Australia.”

Between now and October 2016, Greg Pritchard will be working closely with RANSW as the man in charge of cultural programming at Artlands Dubbo.

“I look forward to working with the Dubbo community in developing artistic projects for the conference.

“This will allow me to spend the next two years putting together an exciting program of artistic events for the festival side of the conference, including theatre, dance, circus, visual arts, music and writing.”

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Opening of RAA Summit, Kalgoorlie, WA. Inset, Greg Pritchard

been so supportive of the conference, realising this will be a great economic opportunity for the area.

“It’s estimated that the recent Kalgoorlie Arts and Edge conference brought $1.5 million (worth) of benefits to that region.”

He adds the festival program will provide a host of fantastic opportunities for artists of the Orana area, leaving a lasting artistic legacy.

Working closely with artists of the region, is Orana Arts’ regional arts development officer, Alicia Leggett who believes the region has a lot to offer to the national stage that will be Artlands 2016.

“It will be an opportunity to engage with our creative communities on a national level and it’ll provide an ex-

tensive experience to anyone participating in just how the arts sector works in regional Australia.

“It’ll also inspire our communities through the sharing of stories and events, at the same time as offering an exciting arts festival for everyone, in the city and from across the region, to participate in.

“While having the conference and festival in NSW in 2016 will be a first in 14 year occurrence; having it in Dubbo is a once in a lifetime event. So, we are very excited.”

More information will be available about Artlands Dubbo 2016 over the coming two years at www.artlands.com.au and on social media.

Art from the golden heart WORDS Paige Williams PHOTOGRAPHY Orana Arts WHEN I arrived in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, in the heart of the Western Australian goldfields region, to attend the Regional Arts Australia (RAA) Summit, I didn’t know what to expect from an event billing itself as “part conference, part festival and all art”, particularly as I sometimes feel like an outsider in the arts world.

The biennial RAA Summits have become the largest arts industry gathering in Australia, bringing together artists of all genres with administrators, to explore the vibrant and varied arts scene in regional Australia.

In Kalgoorlie there were 550 delegates made up of all sorts of important, experienced arts industry professionals.

I was supposed to be one of them.

Grateful for the opportunity to attend a conference in a part of the country I had never visited, I was determined to get as much useful and practical information from my conference experience as possible.

I booked into panel sessions, workshops and ‘in-depths’ all relating to my communications role.

My intentions all went out the window after the official opening, where Kate Fieldings, chair of Country Arts WA and one of the key organisers of the confer-

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ence urged all delegates to forget what they already know and “try something new”. So I did.

On the first day I stood in front of a panel including the Federal Minister for the Arts, Senator the Hon. George Brandis QC, Brian Ritchie (MONA/FOMA), Lindy Hume (Queensland Opera) and Genevieve Greives (Melbourne Museum’s Aboriginal Cultural Centre) and asked a well-rehearsed question, with knees shaking, about the implications of crowd funding on the arts industry.

I listened intently as the panel answered and debated other questions from regional arts workers on topics ranging from accessibility to discretionary funding, freedom of speech and racism.

That same night, in what was perhaps the highlight of the whole conference, I experienced two vastly different but equally thought provoking keynote speeches.

The first was by Brian Ritchie, drawing on his experience as a regional dweller (of Tasmania), as the curator of MONA/ FOMA and his life as a full-time musician (bass player and founding member of rock band Violent Femmes).

He inspired the audience harness the forces of chaos and chance to create

String making and weaving workshop the best opportunities for their own communities and to reject suggestions that ‘regional’ in any way equated inferior.

Ritchie closed by stirring everyone with a statement that it was “time for everyone to demand a voice for arts in regional Australia”. He spoke with a sense of calm – everything he said seemed powerful, and at the same time, possible.

Following Ritchie were two members of Papermoon Puppet Theatre from Indonesia – Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani and Iwan Effendi, who left everyone speechless, in awe and a little bit emotional after they took us on the personal journey

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of their company, their lives and one of their productions Mwathirika.

I was so mesmerised I forgot about tweeting messages. Even afterwards, I failed to come up with 140 characters that were descriptive of how I felt.

The next day I went to a workshop, where we sat in a circle and learned to weave string while connecting and sharing stories – during which I saw the start of a future collaboration between two interstate artists. I wondered what other stories and projects would develop over coming days.

Over those days, I slowly became aware that in my role with Orana Arts, I am part of a national network made up of many people contributing to promoting, strengthening and growing the diversity of arts in regional Australia.

The last day of conference rolled around and with it the handover ceremony, when the location for the next Regional Arts Australia Summit in 2016 was announced as Dubbo – something I admittedly had known about for months. It didn’t dampen the excitement.

Artlands Dubbo in 2016 will provide a platform for new projects and collaborations, arts audiences and a range of things we can’t even yet imagine.

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Cr Mathew Dickerson

Media & Marketing Minute Compiled by the Sales & Marketing team at Dubbo Photo News/Dubbo Weekender

Mayor Mathew Dickerson was born and bred in Dubbo and is married with four children.

Boy meets girl. Simple writing. Bug fixes.

Right on the MONEY for city’s report card T HERE’S been a lot of discussion lately about NSW returning to the Number One position among the States. I have personally always ranked NSW Number One – even through the dark years of State of Origin domination by QLD – but this ranking is a little more scientific. CommSec, the brokerage arm of the Commonwealth Bank, uses a range of factors to produce a quarterly ranking for the states and territories in the nation.

It made me wonder if there was a way to break this concept down even further and produce an economic indicator for a city. I’m not talking about ranking cities across as they are just too disparate (and we know Dubbo would end up Number One anyway) – I’m talking about an economic indicator to see if there is a way to give an update on how well a city is performing.

While not required to do so, many Local Government Areas (LGAs) across NSW, like Dubbo, choose to give their annual State of the City report to the community, however some of the data that feeds into that report is not updated annually. The State of the City report also takes into account a range of variables based on environmental outcomes and community sentiment.

Think for a moment about the economic indicators I might choose for a city to give a snapshot of its economic health.

Let’s call the index MONEY – Monthly Opulence ‘n’ Economic Yardstick.

Firstly, I’d need updated information on a regular basis. The information, as the name suggests, needs to be available monthly – and not estimated data. It needs to be accurate.

The second criteria for the data is that it needs to be an indication of the health of the economy but not necessarily a driver. It needs to be about the end result.

Not about how the result was achieved.

Lastly, it needs to be reliable and repeatable data that, if need be, can have an index applied for seasonal adjustments.

Think about data that can be fed into MONEY and there are many factors that would be nice to have but on which data is just not reliable or timely enough. Population growth is a great one – but is definitely not reliable enough on a monthly basis, the same with employment numbers. Average income is another good indicator that simply isn’t available on a timely basis to figure in MONEY. Likewise with overnight visitors and day visitors. So what does make the grade?

Firstly, passenger numbers through the local airport. Think about it – the only reason an airport increases its num-

bers is if there’s a reason for residents to travel away (for work or pleasure) which means they’re spending money – or people travel to the city (increasing tourism or to do business) which means that money is being brought in. The data point fed into MONEY may not be an outright number – it may be a percentage change over the previous year so there are automatic seasonal adjustments.

The second indicator is occupancy rates at local motels. The main reason for motels’ high occupancy rates is people visiting the city. Every person who visits Dubbo, for example, injects $132 into the economy for each night’s stay.

The problem with occupancy rates is that they have a limit – 100 per cent – so possibly the number of beds occupied or the percentage change in the total number of beds occupied would be a better indicator.

The first two indicators relate to temporary movements of people in and out of Dubbo. The third indicator is housing commencements. This is directly related to people living in Dubbo. If building commencements are increasing, our economy is improving. At a council level we don’t have building commencements as such but we have building applications. The two are closely linked and the building applications are available on a monthly basis.

The fourth indicator is also related to housing – median house price. If this is increasing, it stands to reason the economy is too. Again this information is available on a monthly basis provided there are enough sales in a city to give statistically valid information.

The fifth indicator that would be nice to include is retail sales or expenditure in a city. This data is not readily available – the banks (via EFTPOS facilities) would have comprehensive information on expenditure but it is not information that can be easily (and cost-effectively) sourced.

For the moment that leaves four data points for MONEY. Airport; motels; building applications and median house price. There would be extensive debate on how the numbers would feed into MONEY – would they be increases on the same month from last year? Would they be based on percentages or outright numbers? I don’t have the answers but I’m proposing the MONEY concept more as a thought bubble than a finished product. It could be used to compare different cities across the state but, more importantly, could be used to gauge the economic performance of a city in comparison with past performance.

elcome to another Marketing Minute.

Ikea’s marketing people do some clever stuff, don’t they? Here’s another example of a good print ad that uses eye-catching layout and a simple message to reinforce what ikea does – and that’s help you furnish a home.

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The very quick guide to writing a media release In this week’s Dubbo Photo News our news editor Natalie Holmes used her column to lament the lack of attention to detail in many media releases put out these days.

With that in mind, and also the fact we’ve suggested a few times in this Marketing Minute that providing media releases can be another good marketing tool, here’s our quick guide on how to make it happen.

1. Gather the facts. Compile all the facts you want to get across and make sure they’re accurate before you type the first word.

2. Start with something catchy. Media outlets get inundated with media releases so make yours stand out. A catchy headline and an REALLY interesting opening paragraph will increase your chances of cutting through the clutter.

3. Who, what, when, where, why, how.

Include ALL the necessary information in your release. You’d be surprised how often we get a release that fails to mention the date the event is on, for instance.

4. Write clearly. It doesn’t have to be fancy – make sure your text is clear and easy to understand.

5. Include your contact details. In case they want more info. And keep in mind some media outlets work outside 9 to 5 hours, so it helps to include after hours contact details.

6. Double check everything. Again, make sure your facts are correct, and then get someone else to proof read it for you to make sure the spelling is correct and that it all makes sense.

When you write: Tip #1 Last week we dot-pointed 10 tips to follow when writing copy for your ad or flyer from Richard Bayan’s book “Words That Sell”. Bayan’s advice is simple and effective, so we’re including a little more detail on each of his dot points this week and in future weeks.

1. Don’t lose sight of your primary goal: and that is to sell your product or service. Your writing should be more than a flat presentation of the facts. (Remember that a copywriter must persuade and motivate.) On the other hand, don’t let runaway creativity bury the message. The most brilliant efforts will be wasted if your audience can’t remember what product you’re pushing.

Write to sell.

Selling soup Just thought we’d drop in this print ad from a series run by Campbell’s soup in North American newspapers (above).

Their clever visual catches the eye.

There’s more than one way to catch a thief A women serving behind the counter of a Pennsylvania store foiled a wouldbe robbery by spraying a can of Raid in the masked woman’s face. The failed robber demanded a black bag be filled with cash, but instead the staff member picked up the can of Raid bug spray... and started spraying. “I kept spraying her as she was walking (out the door empty-handed),” the clerk told the local news.

- Until next week, don’t let the difficult customers bug you, and keep up the good marketing!

“If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.” – Deepak Chopra

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For established shed and emerging local writers The Write Stuff ff is dedicated to helping hed and emerging local both established writers and poets oets explore and deerary art. Each week, velop their literary Val Clark offers rs tidbits of interest e based on her expeand assistance riences as a consumer, onsumer, blogger, teacher and practitioner of the ewarding craft of wonderfully rewarding writing.

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Looking for trouble?

You’re sure to find it A

Testing times for your character T’S been said that if a writer nails their characters the story will virtually write itself.

The start date for NaNoWriMo is a week away and I still have heaps to do in developing my characters. The page length character profile proved really helpful in launching me into the next step.

The next step was, and is, to take my characters through a Myers Briggs personality test.

By answering a series of questions the test determines which of 16 personality types you – or in this case your character – is. The Myers Brigs website says: “The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behaviour is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgement.”

For the writer this means I can work out whether or not my character is acting consistently with their personality type. When they are acting “out of character” it will be my responsibility to make their behaviour plausible to the reader.

Even if you don’t want your character to be “confined” by a personality test, taking time to looking at the questions will help you define your character. Here are some examples of questions and how, knowing the answers, your writing will be enriched.

1. Is my character usually on time for appointments?

What if they are partnered with a personality type who is never late for appointments? On the other hand, if they are often late, how will that impact on their work/home/study life?

2. Does my character have a wide circle of friends, just a few friends or no friends?

The answer to this question will determine who they turn to in times of conflict? Will they be overwhelmed with well-wishers or find, like the prodigal son, their friends run out when the money does? What is it about them that draws so many people to them? Are they vivacious? Funny? Really caring? What jealousies form among friends or family? Why is the loner a loner?

3. Is your character unbiased even if that might mean the end of a friendship?

Does that make them the peacemaker or do they create more conflict and chaos when they refuse to

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take sides?

4. Do they always abide by the rules? If they do what happens when they’re put in a situation where being law-abiding might lead to the death or imprisonment of an innocent loved one? Or what if, by obeying the letter of the law they find themselves on the wrong side of the law?

5. Do they plan carefully or live spontaneously? Partner these opposites and what happens? Does one give way? Why? 6. Procrastinate or leave plenty of time for tasks to be finished by their deadline?

There are several sites with Myers Briggs tests, the one I found the most helpful had more than 70 questions.

Warning – when you put your character through this test, try to disassociate yourself from the character. He or she is not you. How would your character answer the questions? Jordan came out as an ENFP. I am an INTJ. So, I’m writing about someone who is not like me at all; that’s why I find the Myers Briggs personality précis so helpful.

If you’re thinking about writing your novel – 50,000 words in November – sign up online soon so that you have a community of writers around you in the forums. Join Facebook and come to the kick-off party (see below) to throw around your idea and listen to what other writers are doing.

Writing can be a lonely business. If you live in or around Dubbo, you are not alone!

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What’s on and what’s coming up for writers in Dubbo: • Spoken Word event at Midnite Cafe located next to the old Fire Station from 7.30pm tonight (Saturday, October 25). Prose or poetry; recite or read. Maximum five minutes before a friendly audience and a chance to listen to guest poet Billy Marshall Stoneking.

• ABC Open 500 Words for September is Bully – submit online.

• NaNoWriMo Kick-off Party – Saturday, November 1 from 7.30pm at Midnite Cafe, next to the Fire Station, Darling St, Dubbo. Enquiries outbackwriters@gmail.com • NaNoWriMo Writing Day dates to follow.

Val Clark has published short stories, articles and poems in national and international magazines and anthologies, placed and won in writing competitions and written and directed plays for adults and students. She is passionate about creativity and en-couraging new and emerging writers. Val regularly runs creative writing workshops for adults, teenagers and children.

BC TV recently reported young men protesting by entering the high security establishment of Swan Island, Victoria. The TV message was that they were attacked when detected, restrained with plastic shackles and had their trousers pulled down.

The signs shown at the island’s entrance were clear, stating that any trespassing would not be tolerated. The TV interviews portrayed them as victims, physically mistreated, searched and blindfolded before being released.

Would this be manipulation of evidence? Or were they set up by the ABC to replicate the supposed treatment, or could it be interpreted as being supportive of the protesters?

“All About Terrorism” by Keith Suter has the subtitle “Everything you were afraid to ask”. Some questions dealt with include how effective our intelligence agencies are, why would a person agree to become a suicide bomber, and are tolerance and multiculturalism strengths or weaknesses in the war on terror. Suter discusses big issues – from the best way to deal with ‘rogue states’ to the likelihood of a terrorist attack on Australia.

Twenty years ago former Children’s Court Magistrate Barbara Holborow wrote two books based on her experiences on the bench. On a visit to Dubbo she noted that the inspiration for the title “Those Tracks on My Face” came from a child too young to appreciate the reasons she, and her parent, were in the court. During the case the little one, having watched the Magistrate, spoke up and asked, “What are those tracks on your face?”

“The Good, the Bad and the Inevitable” relates stories of hope, loss and apathy that came before Holborow. Some of the kids involved were “so broken they can never be mended. There are stories of kids and parents who simply don’t care and won’t change.” And there are stories of wonderful kids and their carers.

Behind all of them is her belief that everyone in the community has responsibility for maintaining a quality standard in which these young people can grow safely. And this steps beyond those on the bench and the legal aids.

This country prides itself in its technical advances and other achievements.

The sector which has failed dismally is social behaviour. John Heffernan has written “The Last Governor” in which he describes a behind-the-scenes look at the NSW prison system. Over time Heffernan rose through the ranks, eventually becoming governor of Grafton Gaol. Grafton Gaol was considered the most avoided penal site in the state. Bill Hornadge wrote a paragraph in “Hidden History of Australia” about those sentenced there; up until the 1970s they were beaten senseless on their arrival – to leave no doubt who was in charge.

Things changed when Grafton Gaol closed and now Long Bay is considered the toughest, as de-

scribed by James Phelps who has written “Australia’s Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail”. It delves into the personal accounts of the prison guards – as they talk about their experiences dealing with some of the most dangerous men in the country.

The idea of prisons being correctional centres is questionable given that the murders, conflicts between prisoners, and other abuse continue.

A crime holding international media attention is now reviewed in “Behind the Door” written by Weiner and Bateman. It records the fatal shooting of model Reeva Steenkamp by her boyfriend, the athlete Oscar Pistorius. So much emphasis has been on Pistorius, but now June Steenkamp, the victim’s mother will release a book in November about her daughter’s life entitled “Reeva: A Mother’s Story”. A briefing says “includes the true story behind the Oscar Pistorious trial”. And now he gets five years for the crime.

The role of courts and lawyers has always been under observation by the community. Caroline Overington has just launched “Last Woman Hanged” about a woman who had two husbands who died. There were four trials, and the author writes that there was questionable evidence that the ‘Last Woman Hanged’ committed the crimes.

Courts are not much different to main street businesses when it comes to attracting repeat trade. If one wants to get customers back into our shops, we make attractive deals. Over time we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of repeat offenders of drunk driving, driving without a license, break and enter, shop lifting and theft.

Step up the scale nationally and the country averages a murder a day.

A case featuring the wisdom in determining legal process is contained in the Bible – 1 Kings Ch3, verse 16.

It describes Solomon making a judgement brought before him involving two women who were disputing the motherhood of a baby. Read the case – and we could question whether the process of quality judgement continues today.

The deterioration of behaviour standards can be examined to include the Human Rights people. No attention is given to the victims and the rights of citizens to live in peace. Today the courts’ aim seems to override government decisions even though the processes followed traditional constitutional structure.

We are supposed to live in a Democracy. We see laws established by our elected government later challenged in the unelected High Courts, Supreme Courts, etc., challenging what the elected entities passed. And apparently the Swan Island intruders were not on their first visit – the system is not working.

In an earlier age the adage was, “If you go looking for trouble, you’re sure to find it.”

Enjoy you browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Cathy Neely She’s lived in Dubbo all her life and Cathy Neely is happy to say so. She’s a proud mum, Nan and was a volunteer for the recent Relay for Life where she says serving afternoon tea to cancer survivors left her in awe of the wonderful, strong people around her..

AS TOLD TO Alexandria Kelly On my bedside table at the moment is... Vicks Vapour-rub Life has taught me that when it comes to the opposite sex... have a bourbon.

My top five albums (artists) of all time are... Meatloaf’s albums, Sweet, Suzi Q, Baycity Rollers and ABBA If I had to name my five best loved movies they would be... Life of Meatloaf, Australia, Harry Potter, Thor and Happy Feet I draw inspiration from...

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The one thing that will always make me cry is... my grandson Nicholas.

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I never thought I’d... be surrounded by so many family and friends.

z Theatre season launch THE Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) will proudly launch it’s 2015 Season on Sunday, November 16 – and you’re all invited! Spend a decadent afternoon sipping champagne (or something softer) while you get a sneak peek at the fantastic line-up on offer for the coming year. There will be a live performance with glimpses of what’s on offer at DRTCC in 2015 and you will have a chance to win the lucky door prize of a $500 gift voucher to put towards your new season show purchases. Dress up and come along to have a bit of fun – Adults $25, concession/student $20 – bookings through the box office. z Livin’ the DREAM AS part of this year’s DREAM Festival, Victoria Park will tonight (Saturday, October 25) light up with a wonderful display of magical lights and lanterns with the DREAM Lantern Parade.

The parade will start at the library in Macquarie Street and proceed along Talbragar Street to enter Victoria Park via Memorial Drive and finish up at the DREAM Twilight Markets. The parade will start at 7.30pm, while the markets will get underway at 4pm. If you have your own lantern it will need to be checked for safety, and you can register at the marshalling area behind the library. Or if you’re quick, you can buy a lantern at the markets beforehand. z Talk, talk, talk... BIG talk IT’S on again! The Weekender Big Talk is less than a week away – do you have your ticket yet?

On Friday, October 31 at the Western Plains Cultural centre, Team Weekender will line up against Team Arts for a lively, robust and traditionally hilarious debate on this year’s theme: Public opinion is a thug! Tony Webber, James Eddy and Steve Cowley will pit their wits against Andrew Glassop, Allyn Smith and Mark Horton – with Sally Bryant as the impartial adjudicator. NOT to be missed – tickets are $55 ($50 for Friends of WPCC), which includes a three course meal. Bar facilities available. Numbers are limited – don’t be the one to miss out! z Spooky camp out for charity GET your Halloween on and help support a great charity at the same time, by joining in the scary fun at Dubbo’s BIG4 Parklands on Friday, October 31. For just $20 you can camp overnight under the stars at the Camp and sCare night, with proceeds going to children’s family cancer charity, Camp Quality. Because it’s Halloween, this year’s event will have a spooky theme with campers treated to free games, activities and delicious treats. There will also be a gold coin donation sausage sizzle and team activities at the park’s pool. To book in for the fun, go to www. big4.com.au/comecamp or call 6884 8633. z A healthy night at the pub WE hear a lot about women’s health, but what about the blokes? This one’s for you, boys. Dubbo Grove Pharmacy has teamed up with the South Dubbo Tavern to hold a men’s clinic, and the catchy theme is Tools for Your Health. Dubbo City Council’s and Medicare Local are also aboard and together, they’ll all host a PUB-Clin-

ic designed to give Dubbo’s blokes the tools they need to manage their health. There will be information on heart and mental health, diet and exercise and a range of other health-related areas, supported by pharmacists and other health professionals who will be available on the night for a yarn. PUB-Clinic is to be held at the Tavern on Wednesday, November 19 from 6pm and it’s FREE! There will also be a range of “tools� themed prizes on the night. z Derby Day off and racing AAAAAND they’re rrrracing! Well, almost – but you can start getting into the Spring Racing season spirit right now by booking your berth to Dubbo’s racing day of days – Derby Day. Widely renowned as one of the best events on the city’s social calendar, Derby Day will be held on Saturday, November 1 and as usual, the Dubbo Turf Club has a massive day planned. Gates will open at 11am, and entry to the course is $20 per person on the day, or $35 per double if you book early. There will be two marquee packages this year – one from the Milestone Hotel ($130pp) and one from the Pastoral Hotel ($110 pp) – which include entry to the course, a drinks and lunch package and live entertainment. Call either hotel to book. Courtesy buses will also be running on the day, and of course there’ll be Fashions on the Field. Oh, and if you actually want a day’s racing, there’ll be tote and bookies there too! z Free sticky beak at Zoo stays HAVE a little time free today (Saturday, October 25)? Take a run out to Taronga Western Plains Zoo for a FREE sticky beak at the updated and new accommodation facilities at our amazing zoo! The team there is inviting members of the community to come along and inspect both Zoofari Lodge and the recently opened Savannah Cabins, and there’ll be fun activities, guided tours and a FREE sausage sizzle, with the added bonus of a chance to win an overnight stay! Entry is a little different – it’s off Obley Road opposite Dundullimal, and gates will open between 11am1pm. And you don’t even have to book! z Calling all book lovers THIS is a must on any book lover’s calendar – the Macquarie Regional Library is hosting a “massive� pre-loved book sale on Saturday, November 1 between 8am and 1pm, and everything has to go! Pick up a bargain across a huge range of reading genres – non-fiction, fiction, large print, children’s... and there’s even some computer gear that’s surplus to requirements. Entry is FREE – and the sale will be held in the library’s carpark on the corner of Macquarie and Talbragar Streets. z Beth’s beautiful garden IF you have a few moments spare next weekend, pop out to Beth Ireland’s garden open day on Sunday, November 2 – where you’ll be delighted by a relaxed and peaceful wander around this very special little patch of gardening beauty. Entry price is $5 per head, and all proceeds will go to a children’s cancer charity. Gates open 9am4pm, and you’ll find Beth’s garden at 7L Cooba Road, Dubbo.

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PUZZLES & PLAY FIND THE WORDS

WEEKENDER SUPER CROSSWORD

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.

Creativity

artist awls batik calico calligraphy canvas colour creates crochet daub

decorate draw dyes easel fabric jewellery knit link models make

needles oil paintings origami philately photography pottery raffia ribbon satin sewing

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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.

Theme: PRIMATE CENTRE

ACROSS 1. Oscar-winning film director Frank 6. Playful sea animal 11. Happy tunes 16. Parent’s bro 19. As slippery as 20. “Way to go!”

21. Actress ...

Aimée 22. Japanese theatre 23. Newport News is on it 26. Genetic strand 27. Guanaco kin 28. Kitchen stove 29. In and of 31. Loose stone used for foundations 35. Wife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” 37. Post-seminar session 41. Legendary Giant Mel 42. Curse 43. Greek war deity 44. “- wait” (“The issue isn’t that urgent”) 45. By land 47. Associations 49. “I taut I – a puddy tat!”

50. Lang. of Iran 51. Snaky curve 53. Naval letters 55. Anti vote 56. Meyers of TV 57. Have existence 58. They’re milder than jalapeños 62. Scratchyvoiced 64. Judges’ org.

66. Petri dish gelatin

67. In-favour vote 68. 2012 film taglined “25 events, 2 brothers, 1 champion” 74. Discharge from the military, informally 75. Comet Hale- 76. Queens loc.

77. As – (at present) 79. Result in formal punishment 84. Klink’s title: Abbr.

86. Span. lady 87. IM giggle

88. Uno tripled 89. Caddy quaff 90. – -dieu (prayer bench) 91. Bit of wit 92. Door fixture 94. Ensnare 97. Gold-medal figure skater Oksana 99. “- la vie!”

100. Visionblocking mist 102. Hawaii’s Mauna 103. Rubberlike gum used as a dental cement 105. Journalists and the like

108. See 7-Down 109. Deportee, e.g.

110. Guanaco kin 112. Light, nutritionwise 116. Vigoda or Lincoln 117. Alternate title for this puzzle 122. Hi- – screen 123. Arctic dweller 124. “Impossible!”

125. Mall lures 126. Comic actor Carney 127. Abnormal sacs 128. Wowed

129. Royal decree

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36. Delighted in 37. Doha’s land 38. Noah’s Ark landing site 39. Relatively recent 40. Draft-ready 45. Inedible kind of orange 46. Have – (plop down) 48. Pt. of OS 50. Miner’s goal 52. Fruitopia rival 54. Door opening for peeping 58. Pork product 59. Role for Fran Drescher 60. Dilettantish

61. Filthy riches 63. Lima’s land 65. Entertainer Neuwirth 69. Joan 70. Beat – to one’s door 71. Interest accumulation 72. How freelancing may be done 73. “Take your time” 78. “Polly – cracker?”

79. Kind 80. Club outsider 81. Most overcast 82. Positivethinking pastor 83. Perfume name that sounds verboten 85. Tree yielding a highly saturated fat 90. Gyro wrap 93. Naval jail 95. Collection for a handyman 96. Easy-toswallow pills 98. Ga.’s ocean 99. Lobster’s cousin 101. Of the fate one merits 103. Zodiac twins 104. Plaza Hotel girl of fiction 105. Comic Anne 106. Spring flower 107. Set (down) 111. 9-Down and 113. Nero’s 451 114. Sir Guinness 115. “- we forget...”

118. Xi preceders 119. Pan Am rival 120. “Yee- -!”

121. Uvea’s place

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GO FIGURE

>> How to figure it out: This is a simple substitution cipher in which each letter used stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. The solution is accomplished by trial and error.

0929 Solution next week

TRIVIA TIME 1. LANGUAGE: What is the most commonly used letter in the alphabet?

2. GEOGRAPHY: In what body of water can the island of Santorini be found?

3. ACRONYMS: YMS: To an engineer, er, what does the acronym cronym CAD stand for?

4. GENERAL AL KNOWLEDGE: DGE: What is a shillelagh? gh?

5. POP MUSIC: USIC: Name the virtually ignored d 1977 Charlene ene song that gained seri-ous traction when it was re-released d in 1982.

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6. ANATOMY: What is the glabella?

7. ACADEMIA: What does a vexillologist study?

8. MOVIES: What was the title of the movie that featured the liline, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry?” s 9. MUSIC: Name N the song that co contains the phrase “I know” 26 times.

10. GAM GAMES: How many playing p pieces do you have to remove from a body in the game ““Operation” (picttured)?

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>> 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.

GF0929 Solution next week

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PUZZLES & PLAY THE WEEK AHEAD

week commencing 27.10.2014

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SEP 23-OCT 22 Financial matters once again figure in any major action you might take regarding career, travel or other endeavours. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want a ready reserve to help you back up those moves.

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OCT 23-NOV 21 Trying to resolve a problem in a personal relationship could be more difficult than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expected. Look into the possibility that someone might be interfering for his or her own reasons.

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NOV 22-DEC 21 A project you once rejected might be more attractive because of changes that you feel you can now work with. The weekend is especially favourable to family matters.

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JUN 21-JUL 22 A previously overlooked opportunity could re-emerge with a new travel-related matter. Check this out carefully to see if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you really want before you decide one way or another.

DEC 22-JAN 19 This is a good week for the gregarious Goat to enjoy being with people you care for. You might even want to show off those creative kitchen skills youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so adept at.

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Good luck.

JAN 20-FEB 18 A colleague might think your attitude is patronising or even outright insulting. True. That might be his or her problem. But you might want to take some reassuring steps anyway.

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BORN THIS WEEK: You like to analyse a puzzling situation before you try to resolve it. This makes you excel at getting things done the right way.

Be creative in applying your forecast to the actual circumstances of your life. For entertainment purposes only.

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