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No winners in a game of moral hypocrisy B Y the time you read this – barring divine intervention or an event of equally biblical proportion – two more Australians will have either joined the list of those executed on foreign shores, or they’ll be bloody close to it – and I do mean bloody.

Death by firing squad can’t be pretty.

I’ll probably cry. But my tears won’t be for the two apparent ring leaders of the infamous Bali 9. Advocates for Chan and Sukumaran say they’re rehabilitated, and I’ve no doubt they’re deeply remorseful – but as someone wise once said, there are no atheists in a foxhole. These blokes are criminals.

My tears will be for their families, for the families of those dead through drug abuse and for a world that still hasn’t learned the value of empathy and mercy – where moral hypocrisy means that even in the eyes of those who claim religious devotion, some lives are judged more sacred than others.

I have a deep philosophical objection to capital punishment – but it wasn’t always so. Time, a bit of experience and the sometimes painful ability to empathise has softened my attitude over the years. Still, as abhorrent as I find the state-sanctioned taking of any life, I still find myself standing in front of the telly thinking, “just kill the bastard” when I see reports of sickening child abuse or murder or the black-hooded head of a religious extremist executioner.

I understand that gut reaction.

But then I have to take a check on my own hypocrisy. If I’m horrified by the thought of these two drug smugglers being murdered by skewed Indonesian law and bloody-minded pride, how can I honestly reconcile the deliberate killing of any human for any reason anywhere?

There is validity in the argument that the two men who sparked this current wave of debate were involved in the trade of illicit drugs that mercilessly kills our fellow Australians every year. Today’s edition of Weekender carries a very powerful insight from Mel Murray, whose close friend was lost to drug addiction – she argues, convincingly, that for these two convicted drug mules to hope for mercy now is a bit rich.

But she also points out, equally convincingly, that many of those

“standing for mercy” and calling for a boycott of Indonesia, are jumping aboard a bandwagon of empty activism. She’s right.

We’re all so outraged about Indonesia’s “immorality” and their “uncivilised” disregard for human life – but when it comes to the thousands of souls sitting on death row in the US? Silence.

The hypocrisy of vowing never to book another trip to Bali while fawning over all things American is blinding. The death penalty is a legal sentence imposable (although in fairness, not widely used) in 32 of the good ol’ United States – where Texas has a particular penchant for killing people. But then, I guess lethal injection is a far more “civilised” method of dispatching humans than strapping them to a post and filling them with bullet holes, isn’t it?

We’re horrified by the slaughter of journalists in France – and rightly so – but we’re seemingly okay with the continued decimation, sometimes by our own national hand, of swathes of innocents all over the Middle East and we’re not all that fussed about Ebola’s lethal march, as long as “they” don’t bring it here.

We hardly raise a keyboard finger over the rising prison populations and deaths in custody of Aboriginal people here on our own soil, and we turn a blind eye to the global scourge of largely avoidable poverty that kills thousands around the world every week right under our technosavvy noses.

It’s easy to be emotionally removed when you’re not personally involved. We’re able to judge and hypothesise and philosophise because we can keep it all at arm’s length. We dehumanise and depersonalise – it’s how we can manage to make it through the nightly news bulletin without curling up in the foetal position in the corner.

Otherwise, we’d be forced every day to suffer the maddening dilemma of conscience that’s being played out in so many Australian lounge rooms as we watch the grim procession towards almost certain death of these two drug-smuggling sons and brothers.

This is a game that smells of moral hypocrisy on so many fronts – from us, from the Indonesians, from the media – a game where there’s simply no winners.

We dehumanise and depersonalise – it’s how we can manage to make it through the nightly news bulletin without curling up in the foetal position in the corner.

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Up, up and away with the region’s aviation hopes

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HE lack of lobbying power in regional Australia is hurting us in the simplest of ways as we move further towards the corporate economy which has caused the USA so much social, economic and environmental grief in recent times.

One thing is certain – the tiny percentage of super rich are living the capitalist dream of almost total free markets, while daily life across all areas becomes more of a struggle for the majority.

A bloke who wants to fly from Brisbane to Dubbo to meet with me checked out the cost and was horrified. He was nonplussed when I told him that back in the day Dubbo had a direct flight to the Gold Coast; back when a private airline run by local people provided that service.

He remarked that an airline in far north QLD was keeping prices at a reasonable level until a price war by a major airline forced it out of business, now the cost of flights to that town has more than doubled.

This is how the big boys get away with it – they’re prepared to lose money on individual routes to break the competition, and subsidise it with profits from other routes until the pesky competition has been smashed and they can jack their prices up, up and away.

It’s called predatory pricing and the ACCC is woefully poor at even pretending to try to stamp these practises out, the guidelines are so lax.

Planes in general are vitally important to this region and the more real and stable competition we have the more everyone living here benefits, and we need

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strong federal and state laws to allow co-operatives to set up shop.

Imagine this scenario: a group of western councils gets together and approaches a superannuation fund for the money to start flights from Dubbo to Melbourne and Brisbane.

The ACCC is given the power to stop the current airlines, which only fly to Sydney, from operating at below cost, with severe fines the result of any infraction.

Dubbo mayor Mat Dickerson says an average of between 25-30 people fly out of Dubbo each day to get connecting flights to Melbourne, so that means a local co-op could buy a smaller plane and always be full.

A larger plane could also stop at Griffith and pick up or drop off passengers from that city to further subsidise the service.

Similar figures would probably apply for Brisbane and would give western residents far more freedom.

We shouldn’t just settle for the answer from Qantaslink, Rex and even Virgin that they’re not interested even if the numbers stack up.

These days, governments are too scared to look at innovative solutions and offer carrots for those funds to invest in the regions.

Regional aviation is important for a number of reasons.

It’s quick – people often won’t travel

long distances if they can’t fly and this includes visiting medical specialists who mostly live in metropolitan areas.

They can’t afford to spend a day driving just to get somewhere tired and sweaty to do a full day’s work only to have to jump in a car to go back the next day.

The speed is also vital for life-saving services such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the air ambulance; it’s often the speedy trip that means the difference between life and death instead of racing along our bumpy roads for hours.

A strong aviation sector is also important for regional morale and air shows out this way provoke huge interest.

Good airline schedules and aeromedical retrieval services remove much of the sense of isolation and the “tyranny of distance” factor that so often hammers country communities.

You only have to look at the thousands of people who turn up to the regular flying displays at Temora to understand the amount of money it can inject in to local economies.

When Narromine’s Wright ‘A’ Model replica flew on its maiden public display, more than 12,000 people rolled up, four times the town’s population, such is the drawing power of those magnificent men in their flying machines.

There are also moves afoot to turn the Orana region into a hub growing crops which can be turned into green biofuels for the airline industry, and this

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could bring huge economic gains for local farmers which would then flow on throughout the broader economy.

Narromine’s aviation museum is nearing the end of a huge expansion – a massive hangar to house the exhibits in a world class facility. In my day job as Macquarie 2100 executive officer I’m working on a project to engage locals to build 50 life-sized aircraft out of scrap metal and have them strung out along the Mitchell Highway from Dubbo to Nevertire.

There would be a number of positive outcomes, the most obvious being that thousands of people every day would see them, locals and visitors alike, and that would be great awareness for Narromine Aviation Museum without costing the museum a cent in advertising.

It could provide an enormous economic boost for the museum and would become a tourist attraction of note in its own right.

Less obvious is the mental health aspect, but farmers and others doing it tough during extended dry times couldn’t help but smile as they pass an elderly cotton picker with spray boom ‘wings’ and a tail, or a plane with its fuselage made from an old windmill tower.

People will also be encouraged to think about what’s regarded as ‘waste’ in a different way and that’s a positive for the environment.

After the dust settles from the state election, we should start to make noises about making flights to other capitals happen, and we should walk away from the majors and keep the profits in the region through super-backed co-ops.

The big boys have had plenty of chances – make them fly in our planes, or at least walk in our shoes.

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Creative farming: busting through barriers ` “It’s our lack of creativity and courage that stops us from exploring all these opportunities we have.” – Pip Job

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

VER the past five months Pip Job has covered more kilometres than she cares to count, laughing when she says she doesn’t even want to know.

As winner of the National Rural Woman of the Year Award last year she has travelled across Australia, as well as fitting in a trip to New Zealand earlier this year.

Next month it’s Canada and the USA. While all this is recent history, she’s about to embark on a new chapter in her life, preparing to leave her managerial role with Little River Landcare Group after 10 years – a group she has been instrumental in making one of the most effective community-based natural resource managers in the country.

At the end of the month Job starts work with the NSW Department of Primary Industries in Dubbo, continuing her award bursary project of developing a training program for rural families wanting to work through some of the ‘log jams’ of rural life.

She admits the project has grown since its inception, inspired by people she’s met in her travels.

Most recently, it was women of Tasmania.

“I’d met the Tasmanian Rural Woman of the Year, Annette Reid, in Canberra last year. It was there we realised there was a synergy between our projects.

“Annette’s an heirloom, organic tomato and garlic grower. Her project is called Small Farms Big Ideas, which is trying to encourage women in Tasmania with access to smaller parcels of land to enter into the gourmet food industry.

“She wanted me to talk about some of the important social factors of business start-ups that women might need to be aware of.”

Through her own project, Positive Farming Footprints, Job has spent the last 12 months researching barriers to progress for farming families, referring to them as ‘log jams’ – those things that stop the flow of progress on farm, often with unintended consequences.

When she started, she says she was well aware of issues such as succession planning, family communication, mental health, isolation and solitude, business literacy.

However, after further research Job has also included effective leadership, work life balance and the need to align passion within her businesses to her list of barriers.

“In Tasmania I presented the ‘log jams’ I see stopping progress for families at the moment, and what some the questions are that you might want to ask yourself around these issues.

“But the one constant I heard was women who said how much their husbands needed to hear this information.

How they couldn’t be the one to raise it or he’d think, ‘Here she goes again!’

“It reiterates the idea that you can’t just do programs that focus on women. In agriculture there are two sexes involved and generally both have to be involved in these hard conversations.”

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ABOVE | Pip Job. PHOTO: KIM V. GOLSMITH.

LEFT | Pip with the 2014 Tasmanian Rural Woman of the Year, Annette Reed (Tasmanian Natural Garlic & Tomatoes) and the Runner Up, Sarah Hirst (Leaning Church Winery).

OMING from Central West NSW, Job says one of the things that struck her on the Tasmanian trip was the diversity of enterprises represented at the talks she attended.

“There was any type of fruit or vegetable that you could grow, cider makers, beer brewers, jam makers, Belted Galloway breeders for the hide industry – you name it – it was all in this little room.

“It showed me that here on the mainland we have a ‘log jam’ in that we seem

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to think we’re trapped in the (broadacre) enterprises we currently have. It’s our lack of creativity and courage that stops us from exploring all these opportunities we have.”

Job says one of the most interesting comments came from a woman who works in natural resource management, who has traditionally worked with broadacre farmers but has been asked to run a program in the last 12 months with small landholders.

“She made the comment that the

women involved (in that program), and the thinking that exists in the small landholdings, holds a lot more respect for women and they’re far more involved in the business management, the marketing, conceptualisation – they’re seen as equal partners.”

Job compares this with broadacre enterprises she knows, which tend to be more traditional.

“Women’s roles are much more hidden here; they’re not as active as decisionmakers in the business – there’s a very stark contrast. We have a huge amount to learn from small landholdings.

With the trip to Canada and the US looming, Job is keen to see what’s being done in those countries, but is grappling with how to ask the “right questions” about what she calls the “log-jam” issues.

“I have one about the use of our own human creativity. That’s the message I’ve taken from Tasmania – what’s stopping us from using it?

“How do you ask the right question to determine how much of that creativity you’re using so you can then strengthen it?”

Job struggles with these questions, feeling that while she doesn’t have the answers she’s looking for, there’s no doubt one of the struggles for mainland, broadacre farmers is the issue of scale of production.

“What I saw in Tasmania is they’re embracing what can be produced on a small landholding, the profitability of those small landholdings, and the concept of working smarter not harder.

“I think we need to bring that thinking here to our larger regional areas.

“How do we look at increasing the productivity and profitability of what we have?”

She’s adamant though, that women have the skill sets to make this happen; she simply questions what’s stopping them from realising the potential of on-farm innovation, diversity and profitability.

Job relinquishes the role of NSW Rural Woman of the Year in May, handing over the national title in September.

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Shaping tomorrow’s leaders today

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

FOOTBALL field was transformed into a field of dreams this week, when Dubbo’s Caltex Park was used as the venue for a leadership day for Year 5 and 6 students.

The event’s organiser, St Laurence’s School Aboriginal education worker Adam Peckham, had hosted a similar event late last year and seized the opportunity to repeat the exercise.

“Originally, I worked in Juvenile Justice and with Mission Australia with teens troubled by drugs and alcohol,” he explained.

“I’d seen how the lack of education seemed to be leading to these problems.

Kids feel disconnected and that’s where they can fall into street life.

“When I introduced the idea of the leadership day to St Laurence’s, they were all for it and once I had the initial plan in place, they supported it all the way.”

The concept focuses on the topics of leadership, decision-making and goalsetting, nutrition and team-building.

Group leaders from the community work with the kids, basing activities on the goal areas. Work stations are set up and manned by each leader during the four-hour session.

This year, Peckham built on his original idea by extending the time, moving to a bigger venue and expanding the participation to include St Mary’s School Wellington along with the St Laurence’s students.

He invited Aboriginal mentor Josh Toomey, Paralympian Ben Austin, Country Rugby League development officer Ronnie Gibbs, Centacare psychologist Sarah Horsburgh and Parish Priests Fr Greg Kennedy and Fr Joshy.

The event was kicked off by Mayor Mathew Dickerson who spoke about his own interpretation of leadership, advising the students accordingly.

The leaders were all enthusiastic about their roles in helping to shape the young people’s future path and establishing a solid foundation in their lives.

“They are passionate about what they are doing, and it’s good to be able to show the kids how they can build on what they have, what things they can do to tap into better opportunities and networks for themselves.”

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Claire Hargreaves, Ronnie Gibbs, Mayor Mathew Dickerson, Father Joshy, Sarah Horsburgh, Adam Peckham, Ben Austin, and Josh Toomey assisted the primary school students throughout the day. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

Sport is a big factor in influencing children and young adults and its presence at the leadership day was important in many ways.

“It teaches them how to work with another and the importance of communication,” Peckham said, using his own experiences as a golfer, cricketer and basketball player to illustrate his point.

He also pointed out that the age of the pre-teens – 11/12 years – was also crucial in terms of addressing and moulding their development.

“Some of these kids are going into high school next year and they are already taking up positions of leadership in their school communities. This kind of event is helping us to build on that.

Hopefully this contributes to their future roles.”

Because he’s an Aboriginal education worker, Peckham said there was a possibility people thought the workshop was just for indigenous kids.

“All these kids can use these skills, regardless of race,” he said.

Our character is shaped by our experience. If we can give them more experience of how to make good choices and show them the skills involved in building a strong character, they will have these skills to build on in their lives. We are leading by example. – Centacare psychologist Sarah Horsburgh

Centacare psychologist Sarah Horsburgh was one of the community mentors at the leadership day and said it was about giving the children skills and strength. During the course of the morning, they were learning much more than the maths and English knowledge given them in the classroom.

“Giving them this foundation will help them as adults and young adults.

If you have a starting point, you have a way to make decisions by weighing up the consequences and choosing the right path.”

Although she does see some of the impacts of making the wrong life choices in her role, Horsburgh also gets to assist with intervention programs in schools.

“Our character is shaped by our experience. If we can give them more experience of how to make good choices and show them the skills involved in building a strong character, they will have these skills to build on in their lives. We are leading by example.”

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

Men’s work is child’s play UBBO Men’s Shed representatives Phil Knight and John Davis were guests at St Pius X School last week where they presented students with the latest addition to their lunchtime play program.

The gents, with the help of fellow men’s shed members Rob Pfieffer, Doug Ward and Bert Barwick, constructed two wooden doll’s cradles, beautifully handcrafted and polished to perfection.

Knight said the cradles took approximately a day and a half to make and the men were happy to contribute to the children’s development.

“We often do work for the school, we have already given a doll’s house, blocks and other bits and pieces,” he told Weekender.

“It’s good to support child’s play and education.

“This is just a typical example of the men working with the community and gives them a project to work on.”

School assistant Sue Gavenlock said many children engage in quiet play during the lunch break, including board games and cards.

“The kids absolutely love it,” she said.

The affiliation was the brainchild of support teacher Cathy Good.

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Native veg codes explained WORKSHOPS are being held throughout the Central West Local Land Services region to advise farmers of how much clearing they can do without needing approval under the Native Vegetation Act. The sessions will cover what clearing can be carried out to allow for routine agricultural management activities, when a property vegetation plan is needed, regrowth provisions, clearing of paddock trees and thinning native vegetation.

The workshops will be hosted by Central West Local Land Services in Coonabarabran, Coonamble, Nyngan, Forbes, Condobolin and Dubbo throughout March.

Second armed robbery LESS than 24 hours after a service station was held up in Dubbo, a local pizza shop was also robbed overnight last week.

A female employee was threatened during the incident in which a man armed with a knife demanded cash.

She complied and he escaped, with the robbery now the object of a crime scene investigation.

Tyre slasher charged POLICE have charged a man, following multiple tyre slashings in the Dubbo area.

Strike Force Alhambra, comprising detectives from Orana Local Area Command, was established to investigate the string of tyre slashings with up to 50 reported victims, mainly in the south Dubbo area.

Officers arrested a 27-year-old local man in connection with the slashings.

He was charged with 15 counts of destroy or damage property.

He was given conditional bail and will appear in Dubbo Local Court on April 15.

Partnership program launched DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S City Development Partnership Program for 2015/16 was launched this week. Three city councillors, including Mayor Mathew Dickerson officiated at the launch which was done in the company of guests from across the city’s business community. Dickerson said it was encouraging to see 172 local businesses partnering with council to promote Dubbo as a premier destination for events, tourists and potential new residents.

“The City Development Partnership Program plays an integral role in the promotion of the City as a vibrant, regional hub that is a desirable destination to visit, invest in and relocate to,” he said.

Partner businesses will be promoted across a variety of platforms during the next 18 months, including print, online, video and outdoor advertising both locally and in broader markets.

Major infrastructure study

Dubbo Men’s Shed representatives Phil Knight and John Davis were pleased to present two doll’s cradles to the St Pius X School community. Kindergarten students Zahli Swan and Sienna Peckham tried out the new play things.

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Labor policies launched COUNTRY LABOR candidate for the seat of Dubbo, Stephen Lawrence (pictured) has welcomed the new approach to education and healthcare unveiled by Labor leader Luke Foley at this week’s campaign launch ahead of the NSW state election on March 28.

Included in Labor’s statewide list of policy promises is a $1.3b education building fund to improve schools and TAFE; childcare facilities (or before or after school care) at every new public school; $9.5m allocated to train and “pioneer” 200 specialist maths and science teachers in primary schools; a $1.7m investment in building and improving local hospital infrastructure and abolition ent (up of the chemotherapy co-payment to $180) for cancer patients. ch, “At today’s NSW Labor launch, Luke Foley unveiled a new apion proach to improving education oes and healthcare services that does tricnot depend on privatising electricity,” Lawrence said.

The policies Luke announced will make a big dif-

ference to families in the Dubbo electorate – and I’ll be campaigning on them right up to election day.”

Pool owners welcome extension of time STRATA Community Australia (NSW) president Greg Haywood has welcomed the state government’s announcement of an additional extension of time to be given to swimming pool owners to gain certification of their pools.

“We were aware some time ago that there are not enough resources at the Local Government level to carry out the necessary inspections to gain certification on swimming pools by the deadline of April 29,” Haywood said.

“Ou “Our major concern is for resident and landlords who wanted dents s to sell or lease their apartments but would be unable to do so fro April 30, if the certification from fo their common property pool for ha not been provided.” had Th announcement that the The timeframe would be extended for another 12 months is wel-

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA ORANA is undertaking a major infrastructure study, which is set to investigate the infrastructure needs of the region’s business and industry.

CEO Felicity Taylor Edwards has called on the region’s businesses to participate in an online exercise to map the infrastructure projects that would best benefit their industries. The plan is in partnership with the Orana Regional Organisation of Councils, NSW Department of Planning and Environment and NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Club bowled over by funding WELLINGTON BOWLING CLUB has received $3000 under the Community Building Partnerships program which will assist in providing funding for the installation of a security system. Community Building Partnerships is an excellent way of getting much-needed funding for smaller projects in regional communities.

Projects in Wellington range from $3000 to $20,000.

Man wanted over armed robbery AN arrest warrant has been issued for a man known to frequent the Sydney, Mid-North Coast and Moree areas. Beau Robert Bartlett, aged 31, has outstanding warrants in relation to an armed

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Dubbo College South Campus school captain Emily Crampton with Carlo’s South Dubbo IGA manager Wayne Phillips, IGA staff members Jeanette Wallace and Margaret Hagan, South principal Darryl Thompson and P&C president Gerard Crampton.

robbery in Liverpool last December.

He is described as being Caucasian, 180cm tall, with a medium build, hazel eyes and brown hair.

He has a tattoo of a lion on his upper arm and another tattoo with the word ‘player’ written in old English on his lower arm.

Anyone who sees Mr Bartlett is urged not to approach him.

Help to hire mature workers WITH unemployment figures at the forefront of the national agenda, federal employment minister Eric Abetz has reminded businesses in regional NSW that the Restart program provides up to $10,000 to hire an eligible 50-plus job seeker and retain that person for two years.

“As our population ages it is important to ensure that mature-

aged workers are not left out of the workforce.”

“Since its inception last year, Restart has provided a valuable incentive to encourage and assist businesses taking on new mature-aged employees, who we know often face barriers when re-entering the workforce,” Abetz said.

Nationally the top industries hiring people under Restart are accommodation and food services, manufacturing, construction and retail.

Farming manual launched THE Grains Research and Development Corporation has developed a farm business management manual, launched this week. The Farming the Business manual is designed for farmers and their ad-

visers whose farm business management knowledge and skills are at all levels.

Several experts have contributed their knowledge and expertise to development of content for the manual which features farmer case studies to demonstrate the techniques successfully employed by the primary producers to improve their businesses.

Applications open for public reserve funding NATURAL Resources, Lands and Water minister Kevin Humphries is encouraging managers of local parks and reserves, state parks, showgrounds and caravan parks to start preparing applications for funding under the next round of the Public Reserves Management Fund Program.

Humphries said the 2015/16 round of the PRMFP will open in early March, delivering at least $15 million to improve public reserves across the State.

“Public reserves are wonderful assets that are highly valued by local communities. In many cases their ongoing success is vital to local sport and social activities, as well as business and tourism in regional towns. “ The 2015/16 funding program differs from past years as it will be a single round, so it is very important for reserve managers to take note of the application dates when they are announced.

Australia Post to reform its letters service The winning Dubbo College open cricket team of (back) Brandon Dodd, Kyle Munro, Tom Barber, Adlai Shipp, Neil Motbey, Coach Tim Berry, and (front) Martin Jeffrey, Tyler Woodrow, Dalton Medcalf, Mike Jeffrey, Kurt Davernport and Aidan Shields.

Solid effort from local cricketers A SOLID performance from a cohesive and well-balanced cricket team has resulted in Dubbo College making the final eight in the state-wide Alan Davidson Shield.

Coached by PDHPE teacher Tim Berry, the College side defeated Deniliquin High School last Friday and will come up against ei-

ther Picnic Point or Kiama High School in the next round.

Dubbo College has a long history of achievement in the Alan Davidson Shield and made the final of the competition in 2007, with Tim Armstrong and Ryan Medley part of the team coached by Wayne Dunlop.

CHANGES to Australia Post are set to keep post offices open and help to stem growing losses in the mail service. The changes include freezing a concession stamp at 60c, freezing the Christmas stamp at 65c and allowing posties to continue delivery five days a week.

The decision allows Australia Post to introduce a new regular letters service delivered two days slower than the current timetable.

People wanting to send mail to the existing schedule will pay more for a priority service.

Australia Post managing director and group CEO Ahmed Fahourq

CARLO’S South Dubbo IGA is the latest local business to join Dubbo College South Campus in a new community partnership program.

The support program is the brainchild of South Campus P&C president Gerard Crampton, who said it was no longer feasible to rely solely on traditional fundraising activities.

“Activities like cake stalls, pie drives and barbecues have been a staple in the area of fundraising for many years and while they will continue to be a revenue source in the future, we are aiming to broaden our revenue base,” he said.

“We are encouraging local businesses to support us and help guarantee funding for three years, because this will allow us to plan more effectively for the future.”

said they will also look at raising the basic stamp price from 70 cents to $1 to better reflect the total cost of sending a letter. Australia currently has the lowest basic stamp price in the developed world.

Approval for interest rates on hold THE Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to keep interest rates steady at 2.25 per cent has been met with the approval of Real Estate Institute of NSW president REINSW President Malcolm Gunning.

“It is really amazing times because the low interest rates mean that property has never been more affordable despite the high prices,” he said.

However, Gunning said it was important to remember the reality is that as the economy picks up, interest rates will rise and finance will be less affordable.

The official cash rate has fallen 250 basis points since November 2011, with the RBA cutting interest rates twice in 2013 in May and August and once this year.

The RBA will next meet on April 7.

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Help those facing horror HUMANS have an astounding ability to ignore horror. Particularly when it’s not happening to us.

How else can we explain the stunning lack of interest in the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis? Four years of terrible violence in Syria, 16 million people needing aid and yet donations to Syria appeals have slowed to a crawl.

Is it that Australians don’t care? I hope not. Or maybe we can’t see how to make a difference in a crisis this huge?

Two out of three Syrian people need aid, yet Syria’s often forgotten here in Australia.

Imagine if two thirds of your community, your city or your country needed a hand with the basics like food, water and hygiene items to survive.

The basic health and dignity of Syrian people are unacceptably compromised. But small practical contributions can help people survive. We’re aiming to provide Syrian families, with personal care essentials: toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, sanitary pads and much more, complementing other life-saving services that we support.

We may not be able to solve the Syria crisis over night, but in small ways we can make life more bearable for people trapped in its horror. Please help at redcross.org.au Peter Walton Head of International Programs, Australian Red Cross

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Haynes’ highlight reel.

Over which, by the way the international sports scene is going nuts, with NFL writer Will Brinson describing it as “insane”.

High on live TV

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The Hayne Plane lands BIG news for sports fans this week as the Hayne Plane scores a rookie NFL contract with San Fran’s 49ers coincidently the same day everyone decided to become an NFL expert.

Former Eels player Jarryd Hayne left for the States last October to pursue his own American dream and has announced he’s signed on with one of the most successful franchises in NFL history.

However at least Fox Sports US isn’t beating around the bush with its American audience, saying “We won’t bore you with rugby [league] stats no one understands” and instead directing people to

IN a Twittespheric explosion #DrugsLive became trending as viewers tuned in to “seemingly straight-laced” TV presenters Jennie Bond and Jon Snow getting high on cannabis. The UK’s show titled Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial follows 2012’s The Ecstasy Trial where scientists examine the drug’s effects on the brain.

Poor Jon Snow didn’t last long in the MRI scanner as he became increasingly anxious, withdrawing from the process, then expressing his self-disappointment: “If you can stick it out in Benghazi you should be able to stick it out in a bloody scanner.”

The show also discussed both sides of the cannabis legalisation debate with most Tweets damning alcohol as a more harmful poison.

Palmer tells Abbott to “commit suicide” YOU’D think Clive Palmer would have learned a few public speaking dos and

don’ts in his time in the Senate. Nope.

Addressing reporters in Canberra his poor choice of words landed him into a power of trouble when he urged the Prime Minister to commit suicide, saying “So commit suicide Tony Abbott, you know.”

The comment has understandably sparked widespread social media backlash with users offering their words of advice: “Dear Mr @ CliveFPalmer. Words matter.

Please choose them wisely.

Your next words should be ‘I resign from Parliament’”.

Palmer quickly attempted to remedy the awful situation clarifying he meant “political suicide”.

Okay mate – that’ll be enough from you.

Rolf Harris stripped of CBE THE accolade-stripping of disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris continues as an announcement was released this week stating: “The Queen has directed that the appointment of Rolf Harris to be a Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name

shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.”

Harris originally received the honour after painting the Queen’s portrait. It’s been nine months since he was convicted – you’d think officials would’ve acted more swiftly in the removal but apparently it does have to be approved by Her Majesty.

Q and A’s all-female panel TONY JONES, the presenter of ABC TV’s popular current affairs panel program Q and A, will get the temporary boot next week with journalist and commentator Annabel Crabb set to host an allfemale panel. Whether the changes come from criticism about the two-woman vs three-man panel on domestic violence or for International Women’s Day, who knows?

Nonetheless next week’s panel will feature Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, author Roxane Gay, feminist icon Germaine Greer, youth advocate Yassmin Abdel-Magied, and Best & Less CEO Holly Kramer. Sadly the womanstrong panel is the first in the show’s history but let’s hope, not the last.

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Cancer – The treatment dilemma The death last week of alternative cancer treatment advocate Jess Ainscough has again sparked an impassioned debate over the value of non-traditional therapies versus conventional medicine in the treatment of the disease.

Weekender asked some of those close to the debate for their thoughts.

Oliver Crossley – vegetarian and Jess Ainscough follower WAS shocked when I heard of the death of Jess Ainscough, a well-known Australian wellness blogger and health coach. Her battle with cancer ncer and personal wellness journey had inspired me significantly, and d was the catalyst for me deciding ng to adopt a wholefoods plant-based based diet. I did not know Jess personalsonally, nor the specifics of her sevven-year battle with cancer.

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for taking power into her own hands after an unsuccessful treatment of chemotherapy and adopting the Gerson Therapy regime of strict detoxification, but also for her book Make Peace with Your Plate – a pragmatic guide to adopting a wholefoods plant-based pla diet I am neither a specialist in oncology nor Gerson therapy. But I have my personal opinion, developed thro through my own process of reason soning from the information I have com come across in the past four years.

Ge Gerson Therapy, developed by Am American doctor Max Gerson, who as far as I know believed the

human body could rid itself of cancer through its own immune system if given the proper nutrition. The diet involves a complete vegan plant based diet, which in the initial stages involves 5-7 coldpressed vegetable juices a day combined with daily coffee enemas designed to detox the liver (look it up).

Although Gerson Therapy has come under significant scrutiny, and ultimately dismissal from Western medical community, I believe there is an important message in Gerson’s legacy that we keep missing in the argument between “alternative” and mainstream western medicine. That is, that nutrition is of vital importance in

We have an illness based, reactionary viewpoint that dominates western medicine, where for every organ/system there is a specialist, for (almost) every illness there is a pill.

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creating and maintaining optimal health – a crucial factor that modern GPs seem to forget, while they continue to prescribe a pill for every ill like some mindless vending machine.

I understand that not all doctors are like this, however my point is that somewhere in medical school, our doctors are not taught enough about nutrition and how it can be used to achieve optimal health and prevent/ treat sickness. We have an illness based, reactionary viewpoint that dominates western medicine, where for every organ/system there is a specialist, for (almost) every illness there is a pill. Lacking in the mainstream is a view that unites the parts, and views the body as a psychophysical (spiritual if you believe in that) whole.

My mother became gravely ill in late 2013. After the initial weeks of confusion over what was wrong with

her, it was discovered that she had a tumour in her common bile duct. What followed were many months in an out of hospital, radical surgery to remove her gallbladder and 80 per cent of her liver.

Luckily as I write this more than 12 months later, I still have my mum – better than I have ever seen her before. I have western medicine to thank for that, but mainly the incredible surgeon who saved her life.

However, while spending time with my mother in hospital, I noticed a few things. Firstly, hospital food is terrible. How in the world is someone meant to heal optimally while being fed a diet of processed, sugarladen food? I’m no medical expert, but the complications that arose post-surgery for my mother due to poor diet recommendations and terrible hospital food lengthened her stay in hospital and overall recovery

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considerably.

Once we eventually got her home and onto an organic wholefoods diet, she flourished. Her health regained, her skin actually glowed, her liver slowly regrew and for a lady who was, less than 12 months ago, struggling to walk, she is now training for an 8km ocean swim.

Most Australians will come to know of Jess Ainscough this week through poorly written articles in tabloid newspapers (cue: NT News), as some stupid young woman who “suicidally” decided to abandon western medicine in favour of some whacked out hippy therapy.

However, I’d like you to know of her as a true Wellness Warrior who, through her own journey, opened the doors to wellness and the importance of a wholefoods plant-based diet to tens of thousands of Australians.»

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Donna Falconer – breast cancer survivor and founder er of cancer support group, Pink Angels Inc. FTER hearing those words, “You have cancer...” there’s an initial shock and your mind races.

And then you know it’s time to make decisions.

In my case I had been around this disease for many years and had seen the good, the bad and the ugly through my charity work particularly being the area coordinator of the Look Good Feel Better program which holds hands-on workshops for cancer patients.

I had heard many stories of conventional treatment and how tough it can be, with some patients I know telling me they chose to stop having conventional treatment like chemo in favour of trying alternative approaches. As with the disease itself, I believe there is no “one size fits all treatment”, as in every case there are different circumstances.

There should be no argument that a person has the right to accept or reject medical treatment and evidence based medicine and instead pursue any kind of lifestyle regime or combination of treatments they choose when dealing with cancer.

Cancer it is not a contagious disease so the only person affected by that decision is the person with the disease. Everyone should have the right to find what feels right for them and I am more than happy to tell people my story of what I did and what worked for me, but I always say you need to get all the information and find what is right for you. You need to make the decision that is right for you – yes, tell your story, share information but don’t give others advice on what will work or might be a cure for them or encourage them to follow a certain person’s advice without having all the facts. As I said everyone and every case is different.

I chose conventional treatment because I had faith in the information I was given and what the outcome would be based on evidence to back it up. I was also aware of the increase in statistics of cancer mortality with conventional treatment, mine being breast cancer. I also knew that, because of conventional treatments like chemotherapy, this type of cancer has the highest survival rate it’s ever had, at 89 per cent.

I don’t believe there is this level of solid evidence of the success of alternative therapy by itself. I am not opposed to the use of alternatives and in fact, I combined the two therapies.

My thinking was that I was only ever going to do this once, so I was going to give it everything I could with what I believed would give me the best chance of survival – having surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, along with juicing, meditation and reiki treatments.

I believe it is not natural therapies that are the threat, but people advocating for untried, untrue and completely unsubstantiated treatments and “cures” is the cause for real concern.

We need to respect that everyone deserves choice and we then need to support them no matter what path they choose. We all have the right to choose the way we want to live and we should respect the choices others make. Everyone should get as much information and evidence to help make their decision.

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It’s not natural therapies that are the threat, but people advocating for untried, untrue and completely unsubstantiated treatments and “cures” is the cause for real concern. Donna Falconer

There is an inherent danger in shunning conventional medicine altogether – I believe you need to do a combination of treatments and therapies, but a lot of it comes down to what’s right for you. - Jenny Barlow The therapy I’ve been campaigning for is called “oncothermia/hyperthermia”, which involves heat treatment but also electromagnetic energy that targets the cancer. I’ve been campaigning now for nearly 10 years.

I don’t use the word “alternative” because that sets it apart from medicine, but to me, oncothermia should be part of the ongoing research efforts.

It’s very much an individual thing with medical practitioners – some are more open minded than others, but I just hope that in the future, more will see it as a valid research option.

We can’t just keep doing the same thing we’ve been doing for 40 years – look at the results. We’re really not much further advanced. Look at chemotherapy – it’s really not that successful. We’re still losing people to cancer, and there’s a lot of suffering during the treatment.

I believe conventional cancer treatments, particularly radiation, can sit alongside other therapies. I think there can be a combination of treatments used to fight cancer, but there’s been resistance from the conventional medical community because the chemotherapy “industry” and the medical oncologist fraternities are very powerful and there’s a lot of money involved.

It’s difficult to get a foot in the door because there’s not been enough research into oncothermia, but they won’t invest in that research. It’s up to “people power” to change this – people have to speak up.

I’m familiar with the Gerson therapy, but my personal opinion is that it’s too severe – diet is important, but it’s not the be all and end all when it comes to treating cancer.

There is an inherent danger in shunning conventional medicine altogether – I believe you need to do a combination of treatments and therapies, but a lot of it comes down to what’s right for you. Each cancer is different because each person is different. And that’s for all sorts of illnesses, not just cancer.

The message is that we need to keep exploring all kinds of different options and not discount anything.

Diet is important, but different treatments will suit different people.

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Jane Pfingst – living with multiple myeloma FRACTURED my fourth lumbar mbar vertebra during a campdraft-ing mishap and while I felt well, I was just losing weight and something obviously wasn’t right. In June of 2007, after a CT scan, I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma – which is cancer of the plasma cells of the bone marrow.

I began chemotherapy straight away and had a six month course to set me up for a stem-cell transplant.

I cruised through the chemo physically, although the emotional side of it was dreadful. But when they did the stem cell collection, the cells were too contaminated with cancer to use. So then they put me on thalido-

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mide – and because I was on the pill as well, there’s a high risk of blood clots, but no-one told me that. So in May 2008, I developed clots on my lungs and I’m very lucky to be here after that. I also went into menopause because of the chemo.

So I’d had enough of all the treatments and I said you can all just keep your drugs for a while. I went to Perth to do radiowave therapy, but with no success. In March 2009, I fractured my eighth rib and had radiation to that rib – and the pain was phenomenal.

In June that year, they’d put a porta-cath in my shoulder to administer the drugs, and a piece broke off and had lodged in the right atrium of my heart. So then I had surgery to remove that.

I started chemo again in August 2009 and while they were putting in the double porta-cath for that, I went into acute renal failure during the surgery.

Then I had intensive plasma exchange for seven months and more chemo, and I developed shingles from the drug Belcade. I finally had the stem cell transplant with my own cells and that was just horrific – I don’t even know how to describe it.

I was in remission from June 2010 to February of 2014, when my blood “markers” started to rise again.

So long story very short, I’ve had a crack at both traditional and alternative therapies. Since it came back last year, I’ve been doing a range of different things and I do believe that’s slowed it. I have one hundred per cent belief that alternative therapies work, I just think I haven’t hit on the one that’s right for me. I’m going to America, hopefully, next month to see a doctor who combines very low-dose chemo with insulin – it’s all determined on the make-up of the blood to determine which chemotherapy will work for me. He also uses an intensive regime of alternative therapies.

I haven’t lost faith in traditional medicine – because I never had any. After watching my mother die of cancer and my mother in law... everyone I know who’s had chemotherapy is dead. So I didn’t want chemo, but you get caught up in the panic – the doctors panic. They just bulldoze you – you get railroaded.

I have belief in alternative therapies because I know people who are still here and living with cancer when they were given six months to live. I am terrified, and I think this is the case with most people – I’m frightened not of the cancer, but of the treatment. I finally said to the doctors, “I’ll accept it if the cancer kills me, but I’ll be buggered if I’ll let your treatments kill me.”

I don’t know where conventional medicos get off criticising alternative therapies, when they can’t answer the question: are their treatments proven? They just take a shot-gun approach and they kill the good cells along with the bad – they destroy the immune system. Alternative therapies treat cancer through boosting the immune system.

I watched my mum die 37 years ago and we’re still watching them die. And it’s the same old thing – nothing changes. And that’s why I find it so frustrating that alternative therapies are still so dismissed by conventional medicine. When alternative therapies do have success, they dismiss it as coincidence.

This whole thing about getting to five years and being a cancer “survivor” is bullshit. If you get to five years and one day, you’re not a survivor – you’re dead.

Try 30 years. Then you might say you’re a survivor. My doctor was happy that I’d made it four years in remission – he said, “Well, you’re lucky, aren’t you?” You’re just another number. And now they want me to try a trial drug – well, how does that differ from trying alternative therapies?

I accept that multiple myeloma may kill me. But I’ll do everything possible to stay alive – and it that includes rejecting conventional treatment, then that’s my choice. I did three years of chemotherapy for four years of good health. I’m no mathematician, but they’re not very good odds, are they?

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Jenny Barlow – “Oncothermia” cancer treatment advocate Y husband died from multiple myeloma in 2006. We travelled overseas in pursuit of alternative treatments but after he died, I began to pursuit it more to see what else was going on in other parts of the world, mostly in Europe.

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I finally said to the doctors, “I’ll accept it if the cancer kills me, but I’ll be buggered if I’ll let your treatments kill me.” - Jane Pfingst

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SCIENCE SCHOLAR With a background as a paediatrician, clinical geneticist, molecular biologist, researcher and academic, Macquarie Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth vice-chancellor Professor S Bruce Dowton also happens to hail from Dubbo. AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Chris Stacey Did you always want to be a scientist?

My aspiration had always been to be a medical doctor from an early age, beginning with experiences as a young boy in outback NSW and witnessing evacuation of a young family member by the Royal Flying Doctor service. This advanced my interest in science as a subject at school and with encouragement from excellent teachers at Dubbo High School, I became interested in research during my schoolboy days.

Were you one of those kids with a science kit always doing experiments?

I did engage in scientific research as a high school student in the laboratories of Dubbo High School. One project involved antibiotic resistance in soil microor-

ganisms, for example.

What was your first major discovery?

Once I began training as a scientist at the Boston Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital and Harvard Medical School following my clinical training as a paediatrician, I was involved in very basic molecular biological research in understanding how genes are turned on and turned off in response to inflammation in the body.

Did it incite you to follow your chosen career path?

My interest in research certainly was an integral part of my decision to pursue medicine as a career. I was curious by nature as a child and inquisitive about how things worked. My research into fundamental biological systems of gene regulation led ultimately to my

decision to pursue a career in medical genetics as a clinician as well as a researcher. In that role, I provided clinical care for many children and families with rare inherited and congenital diseases. In addition to the extraordinary privilege of caring for these youngsters and their families through very different and tragic circumstances, I was continually stimulated to learn and research more about their conditions as many of the conditions were quite rare.

Born in Ivanhoe and raised in Dubbo and becoming the first in your family to go to university is an incredible achievement. Who or what inspired you on that journey to education?

With quite an understated determination to see a bright future for their children, both my parents en-

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couraged my applications to studies in pursuit of career goals from a very young age. Their love and support was an incredibly important part of me getting on the pathway to the career I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy enormously. Other key individuals in that journey were my teachers including several at Dubbo High School. I make particular mention of Donald Bates, an incredible science teacher who has been teaching for some 50 years in the NSW public and private education systems. My interest in studies also extended into the languages where I was extraordinarily privileged to have such wonderful language teachers as Mrs Marjorie Riach for Latin and Mrs Mary Patch for French.

These teachers were incredible role models and pro-

vided continuing support for my aspirations.

My journey into leadership roles at a relatively young career stage after graduating from medical school and moving to the United States was stimulated by a series of incredible mentors, each of whom in their own right had a unique leadership style and provided me with marvellous examples and role models of leading increasingly complex parts of organisations, and ultimately whole organisations. Those individuals included my laboratory mentor Dr Harvey R Colten, Dean of the Washington School of Medicine Dr William A. Peck and the Chancellor of Washington University, Dr William H Danforth.

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you have received numerous awards over the years for your work. Does anything stand out for you above all else?

Far beyond any of the awards that have come my way as a part of my work, I find the most gratifying aspect of every part of my career has been working with people around me, particular the younger people who have gone on to achieve great things in their own professional lives. This is the most enduring and rewarding part of my professional life.

With a background as a paediatrician, clinical geneticist, molecular biologist, researcher and academic, how have you managed to fit so many different professions into life?

I have been very privileged to be able to morph Âť

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and reshape my career a number of times. Ultimately it has developed as I have transitioned from emphasis upon one or more aspects at the same time. That could be at one time a greater emphasis on teaching, at another time greater emphasis upon in-depth application to research at the laboratory bench. As time has gone by, my intellectual interests have turned to organisational development, leadership and organisational dynamics. While I am not formally trained in those, I am widely read in the literature and have studied these disciplines to inform the development of my own ideas around leadership with others around me and in organisations in which and for whom I have worked. I have also been very privileged to work in a number of different countries and cultures in the world, most particularly in my most recent position before returning to Australia to work at Macquarie University, when I worked in a position at Harvard Medical School in the United States. This work involved international consulting around the development of new healthcare institutions and systems, and high education organisations throughout many different parts of the world.

In your role as vice-chancellor of Macquarie University, I understand you are focusing the organisation’s core activities of teaching and research around a concept of “a university of service and engagement.”

Tell me more about that.

We developed the concept of Macquarie University being a university of service and engagement out of a deeply consultative process during my first 12 months as Vice-Chancellor and President. During this process, I met with 40 groups of staff and students across the university and received written submissions from almost 3000 individuals about the future of the University. This allowed us to distil out the essence of what

this University might be for the very long term. The concept of service is one that is both applicable internally to the university and externally. We are committed to the notion of serving our current students and staff so that their lives may be improved as a result of their journey with us in the university. We also have come to a position of believing that universities must move beyond being ivory towers for custodians of knowledge, and instead much more deeply engage with their internal community but particularly also with external stakeholders. We have developed a vibrant program of interaction with corporations, nongovernment organisations, both those very close to the university campus in the northern suburbs of Sydney, but also throughout the metropolitan area, across Australia and the world.

I believe you have a lot of extracurricular responsibilities including as trustee on the Board of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and as a member of the

Far beyond any of the awards that have come my way as a part of my work, I find the most gratifying aspect of every part of my career has been working with people around me, particular the younger people who have gone on to achieve great things in their own professional lives.

Maggie Beer Foundation and Asia Society Australia to name a few. What is your motivation for these involvements?

I have recently been appointed to the board of trustees for the Art Gallery of New South Wales and have also been serving as a member of the Maggie Beer Foundation. In these roles, I am able to bring to bear some of the experience I’ve had in working with other organisations and make a contribution beyond the university. These are areas of personal interest for me but they also provide me with an opportunity to represent the university to different stakeholder groups that we may not have direct access to or involvement with.

What future career goals do you have?

At present, I am fully engaged in working with the community of Macquarie University to further the aspirations of this incredible and vibrant institution, which is on a strong upward trajectory. The role is very full with many diverse aspects and I am thoroughly enjoying this position. I have no plans to move beyond this role. There is much to be done.

Lastly, do you have any hobbies or leisure pursuits?

In the small amount of spare time that I have available, I enjoy travel, particularly to other parts of the world, both places familiar that I have grown to know and like over an adult lifetime of travelling across the globe, but also to new places as well. I also have interests in classical music and photography. I am particularly interested in black and white photography and enjoy having a collection of my own photographs in my residence in the heart of the Sydney CBD. » Professor Dowton is the special guest speaker at the Western NSW Alumni cocktail reception at the University of Sydney’s School of Rural Health at 6pm on Thursday, March 12. ~

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Keeping the ball rolling for flying docs

BY BARRY HILDEBRANDT SOUTH DUBBO ROTARY CLUB MEMBER

OUTH DUBBO ROTARY CLUB is having a ball. Literally.

The club will continue its long and proud association with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) by again hosting a black-tie ball in the hangar at the iconic service’s Dubbo base.

Tickets for the popular event, to be held on Saturday, April 18, have been in keen demand but organisers say there is still a limited number available.

Over the past 25 years, South Rotary has donated close to $1m to the RFDS and more recently the Dubbo base which houses the South Dubbo Rotary Medical Centre.

Event promoter and club member Henry Jom, says the ball is shaping to be a huge success on the back of ticket sales and corporate interest – backed by some wonderful entertainment and fine food and refreshments.

“We held our first black tie ball at the RFDS two years ago and following its success, our club and the organising committee believed we could build on that and make the function a special night on the Dubbo social calendar.”

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Mr Jom says the club is pleased to have eight-piece The John Field Band as special entertainers for the night.

“It’s their first visit to Dubbo and anyone who has seen these great musicians in action can look forward to having them play live at the RFDS hangar.

“The entertainment and dancing will be complemented by a wonderful meal from catering outfit Eat Your Greens, which looked after us at our first ball.”

According to Mr Jom, the ball has received wonderful support from the people and others associated with the fundraising project.

“South Dubbo Rotary Club’s involvement with the RFDS goes back to 1990 when we held the first of our club’s Destination Outback four-wheel drive trips into the outback.

“That project is still held every two years and the South Dubbo Rotary brand is now well known throughout the outback regions of NSW, South Australia, Queensland and more recently in the

Northern Territory where our 2014 trip took in Uluru.”

Mr Jom says the black tie ball is seen as another avenue of fundraising and that club members are looking forward to seeing many of their old friends get together again on a social basis.

“The management and staff at the RFDS Dubbo base have been wonderful to work with while other organisations will come on line with the set-up and promotion of the ball.

“Quite a number of corporate tables have been put together for patrons and we thank those people and individuals who have purchased tickets. And of course, these projects could not happen without the support of our Rotary club president Damien Mahon and his board and members.”

Tickets are available at $150 per person through Henry Jom who can be contacted via email at jomfam@bigpond. com.

South Dubbo Rotary Club’s involvement with the RFDS goes back to 1990 when we held the first of our club’s Destination Outback four-wheel drive trips into the outback.

IN BRIEF

Boost for Aboriginal students’ access to uni TO commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Ride, which recently made its way through the region including a well-attended stop in Dubbo, the University of Sydney has established the NSW Freedom Ride Scholarships Fund.

The fund aims to raise money to support scholarships that will enable more talented young Aboriginal students from NSW to access a University of Sydney education.

Professor Shane Houston, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services), says funds such as this help ensure Aboriginal people can become the future leaders in our society by receiving every opportunity to succeed at university.

“We can all play a part in providing Aboriginal students with the opportunity to study, grow and connect with inspiring learning and research possibilities.”

The fund will help ensure Aboriginal people can build a rewarding career, contribute to the future of our nation and create valuable networks and friendships. To find out how you can support our community, visit http://give.sydney.edu.au/ freedomride

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Sometimes other people have a profound impact on your own values and beliefs, forever changing your psyche and giving you greater insight into life. On the eve of his exhibition, Survivors’ Dubbo debut, Asher Milgate and his beautiful soul became one of those people. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Kaitlyn Rennie SHER MILGATE is so placid by nature that it comes as a genuine surprise when he fires up.

“You’re doing a good job,” he laughs, as we dig deeper into the topic of conversation – his upcoming exhibition of photographs and oral history of the people of Nanima, an Aboriginal settlement on the outskirts of his home town of Wellington.

Gentle and easygoing with an intelligent wisdom that can’t be found in the pages of a book, Milgate is in tune with his surroundings as much as with himself.

His hug and kiss greeting is more like that of an old friend than a new acquaintance, and he makes it feel natural rather than staged.

When he sits back down, the Coogee resident happily sips on a chai latte while hipsters munch on granola and banana bread at a nearby table.

The product of two teachers, he’s obviously well-educated and worldly. He chats easily about friends, fam-

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ily and travelling through Asia.

But when he begins to talk about memories of growing up and the people and places to which he’s returned, he starts to slip into a familiar dialect which shows you can take the boy out of Wellington but not the Wellington out of the boy.

HE current pleasantness of a Dubbo cafe is a far cry from the subjects of his five-year study, who described poor living conditions in dirt floor homes, hunting for rabbits and fetching water from the river for household purposes.

It’s also a bit of a stretch for Milgate himself, whose upbringing was comfortably “normal”.

“I moved to Wellington when I was three from Newcastle,” he explains.

“I did all my schooling in Wellington, played footy in winter, cricket and swimming in summer. All we did

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was play sport,” he laughs.

“We’d also go exploring down the river.”

Being in a town with both an indigenous and nonindigenous population, Milgate says he didn’t look at the colour of his friends’ skin – he just knew that they

At the start, I would have said I knew Aboriginal people because I grew up with them. But now that I’ve done all this and spent hours speaking to elders, I realise that I’m just beginning to understand.

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were his friends.

“We didn’t notice the difference,” he says easily.

At the time, he knew racism existed but admits he “didn’t know a lot”.

To his knowledge, everyone was the same, which is how it should be.

During his childhood years, Milgate was raised at Wuulumun, just out of town. At the age of 13, his family moved into the township itself.

It was an awakening of sorts for the impressionable teen.

“I started experiencing a lot more, there were parties and things like that.”

But with him stuck that sense of self and of others, taught by parents who were accepting and non-judgemental.

“That really rubbed off on me,” Milgate says.

After school, he went off to university at Charles

Sturt to study primary teaching. It was here he first encountered the ugliness of racism – from people who’d been raised in Sydney and showed complete ignorance and very little tolerance.

After three years, Milgate felt teaching wasn’t his forte, and didn’t want to get stuck in a mould of false values and expectations.

“There was something I was searching for and I worked out it wasn’t the form of teaching that I wanted to do. It was a charade.”

Milgate went to work plastering with his brother in Newcastle. While it wasn’t his dream job, it was a time for family and Milgate interacted a lot with his uncle and grandfather.

But he still wasn’t quite satisfied.

“I was never settled. I was always searching for something.”

After Newcastle, Milgate spent eight months in the

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Kimberley region of far north Western Australia, working as a deckhand on a pearl trawler traversing between Broome and Darwin.

When he came back to the east coast, he found photography.

ELF-TAUGHT and with a defined intention to keep his work as pure as possible, Milgate loves to snap his surroundings. Eventually, that led him back to Wello, and to revisiting those old feelings of wanting to combat racism and prejudice in society.

“Some of my best mates are Aboriginal,” he says matter-of-factly.

“But some people think it’s all like Redfern Station, I first noticed it at uni. That’s their only experience (of indigenous people).

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This feeling combined with the thought that he wanted to do a project based in Wellington snowballed into Survivors.

“I knew I wanted to do something on Wellington,” he said.

Milgate spoke to Sandy Edwards, an artist and curator with a strong affiliation with the elite Stills Gallery in Sydney. She is also aunty to Caroline, who happens to work at Dubbo’s own Western Plains Cultural Centre – a happy coincidence for Milgate, with his exhibition to be on display there for the next two months from this weekend.

The next time he visited Wellington, he caught up with friend Jamie Stanley. Until that point, he knew he wanted to do something about the town of his boyhood – he just had no idea what that would be.

“I wanted to do a documentary about Wellington then Jamie suggested the people who grew up on the mission.”

It was a fascinating concept which Milgate grasped with open mind and heart.

He made contact with another old friend, Damien Kelly, whose mother Denise and grandmother Ethel have a strong connection with the Wiradjuri land.

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self,” Milgate admits.

“I sat down with Denise and Ethel and Uncle Budgee and had a yarn.

“That’s a very important part of the culture.”

As opposed to some who don’t care to listen to others because they are so busy rushing around in their own lives, Milgate believes Koori people actually relish just having a chat.

“Looking at it from a non-indigenous perspective, we often come in with our own agenda rather than sitting and listening. But it all takes time and it’s all about your approach and being able to give that time to listen. And we tend to think a lot, they feel a lot, they are very intuitive.”

In undertaking this project, Milgate realised a lot about himself and others.

“At the start, I would have said I knew Aboriginal people because I grew up with them. But now that I’ve done all this and spent hours speaking to elders, I realise I’m just beginning to understand.

“On a surface level, I’ve got a good radar, but on an emotional and spiritual level, it’s different.

“Hearing those stories of being extremely poor and the houses on the common built from scrap they found at the tip, fetching water from the river and using those traditional skills to survive – catching, rabbits, fish and goanna, it really puts things into perspective.”

HE people of Milgate’s study told of family, community and the Stolen Generation – of their fears and their beliefs, savouring that sense of »

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Hearing those stories of being extremely poor and the houses on the common built from scrap they found at the tip, fetching water from the river and using those traditional skills to survive – catching, rabbits, fish and goanna – it really puts things into perspective.

Artist/curator Asher Milgate returns to the town he grew up in, Wellington, to document the life of the traditional owners, the Binjang people of the Wiradjuri nation. Survivors records stories from Wellington's elders and elders in waiting – about life at Nanima, the Common, and on the outskirts of town. In 1832, the first inland Aboriginal mission was established in Wellington, which became the Nanima mission in 1910.

This mission became the longest continually operating Aboriginal reserve in Australia. The elders of Wellington shared with him some of their most intimate memories; tales of their families, of love, regrets and hardships. Survivors uses photography, audio and video to tell their stories. » Survivors will be on display at Western Plains Cultural Centre from March 7 to May 10. The official opening is at 2pm on Saturday, March 14.

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Damien Kelly and Uncle Budgee Ahsee. PHOTO: ASHER MILGATE

history and belonging to the land.

They weren’t all from the mission at Nanima, some lived on the adjoining common, others on the Bell River Flat or Bushrangers Creek.

Initially, he had to earn their trust, and there were many who refused to speak at all. Being Caucasian was an additional challenge, but it was like opening the window on Aboriginality. For those who didn’t want to share, enough people said yes to enable the clarity Milgate now has about that time and those people, as well as their ancestors and their children.

“I tried to paint a picture of what it was like for Aboriginal people,” Milgate explains.

The information isn’t from some ancient time and these are all living subjects giving an oral history, the oldest being 95, the youngest 53.

Milgate says his interview subjects weren’t surprised that non-indigenous people often lack an understanding of their lives, past and present.

One elder told him: “We will always be secondclass citizens no matter what we do.”

It’s a sentiment that’s felt nation-wide, according to Milgate.

As well as documenting lives, he hopes to wipe out ignorance.

“Part of this project is educating non-indigenous people. I learned that there’s a lot more to learn. It’s the same with Islam at the moment; there’s always people who are going to ruin it for everyone else.

But through this project, I met the most humble and beautiful people. I learned a lot about respect and what it means and what it feels like and they accept-

ed me into their community.

“There’s so many stories out there and experiences that have never been told and shared so that nonindigenous Australia can begin to understand and feel what it’s been like for Aboriginal people...about segregation, assimilation, integration and the effect of the Stolen Generation.

“I have reflected on where they have come from and where they are now and where they’ll head in the future. And if just one person listens to these stories, it will change their ideas.”

And as Milgate leaves with the same friendly, caring demeanour and warmth of his initial greeting, I can’t help but admire his optimism...and hope that he’s right.

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Toni Grant and Fiona Nash One met and married a man who later became a politician, the other turned to politics herself after one late night dinner party rant too many. Meet Toni Grant and Senator Fiona Nash, who have a lot more in common than first meets the eye. AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Ella McMillan Toni Grant: ROY and I have been together for 23 years. He was a police officer stationed in Brewarrina when I met him at a mutual friend’s place in Enngonia. I was living in Brisbane at the time but still loved the country and have always had that connection with the bush – I grew up in Bundaberg and went to Gatton College, where I studied business and tourism management.

Troy was in uniform at the time and I thought he looked really young. He was probably 22 or 23 and a constable. But when we started to talk I realised there was more to him than the uniform and he wasn’t as young as he looked. He’d had a really full-on life and was older in his mind than a lot of other people. The uniform didn’t faze me because there are a lot of police officers and nurses in my family although Dad was a farmer and Mum was a teacher.

After 12 months, I moved out to Brewarrina and really loved it there. We had a great time there, it was one of the best places we’ve lived. I loved the open spaces.

Then we moved to Kurri Kurri on the Central Coast, it was really citified and a lot different to Bre. Next was Tocal-Patterson and we moved from there to Toronto on Lake Macquarie when Troy got a promotion into the Child Protection Unit in Newcastle.

He also spent some time in the armed hold-up squad and working undercover. It was about that time that he worked on the case of Father Vince Ryan (who was jailed for paedophilia). It all had a massive impact on us although he never really talked about it. I think he just looked forward to coming home to relax and combat the stress. We part-owned a trotting horse at the time and loved going to the trots, walking our dogs, and living a simple life.

As far as entering politics goes, he’d been asked to join in the past but in the police, you can’t be a member of any political party. If you did, you certainly couldn’t make it known.

When he first decided to run for the seat of Dubbo, he asked my opinion and I told him to go for it. They had to do a background check on me before Troy could stand – it was like stepping back into the 1930s or ‘40s.

I didn’t mind though because I had nothing to hide!

He’d already been asked to run for Local Govern-

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ment independently but had his career in policing and that’s what he wanted to do. When he decided to run for Dubbo, he’d been serving in the police force for 20 years and we were looking around for something different. He always had an interest in politics so when the opportunity came up, he was sure that he wanted to go for it.

It’s a bit daunting – it’s the ultimate popularity contest, but I knew that he could do it and I have never doubted his ability to do the job – ever.

I think he knew it was a big self-sacrifice but one that he was willing to make. The job is always at the forefront of his mind. I wouldn’t say we come second but we have just learned to work around what he does.

When Troy was just the Member for Dubbo (he now has a ministerial portfolio and is Deputy Premier of NSW) the kids didn’t cope very well (the couple has a daughter Taylor (16) and son Hamish (14) because he was away more and more. They had a lot of sporting commitments which kept them focused. We also instigated a few things like Troy buying them mobile phones so that they could text and call him anytime.

We are a bit like a FIFO household where Troy is home or away for 3-4 nights a week. He has a pretty steady routine now and he slots into our life when he comes home rather than the other way around. It’s important, particularly for the kids, that they manage their lives and we have other things to do. Once a year, the kids have a week of Hamish and Dad time where they do whatever he wants to do and Taylor has Taylor and Dad time. I think that we are the same as any other family except they see him on the news sometimes.

(In terms of the political image that’s expected as the wife of a politician) sometimes I wish I could go into town in a shorts and t-shirt but my mum thinks I wouldn’t wear that anyway (laughs).

Other than that, I don’t think about it. I think I’m the same person I was 20 years ago, why be someone you’re not? I hate the formality and ceremony and just enjoy taking each day as it comes.

I like to be in the background while Troy is in the spotlight, I keep a really low profile. They elected Troy, not me!

I’m also very protective of the kids and don’t want them to get caught up in it. I think I’m good at keeping the cogs turning at home and don’t see the point in creating more stress! People also don’t realise how hard

politicians work – from 7am to 11pm most days. With the election coming up, it’s like harvest time for us.

When I met Fiona, I was blown away by her. I thought she was the most amazing woman to be able to stand up and take on that role. I also felt a bond with her as another woman. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot. People like Fiona give women permission to achieve.

As women, we don’t give each other permission to achieve as much as we could – to step outside of our comfort zones and follow our dreams. What Fiona is doing is a lot to take on and I really admire her. She’s across so many issues and her ability to engage with people and talk about issues is admirable. She’s had to put herself out there and when you’re a strong female and you put yourself out there in a public forum, you’re regarded differently.

Women are also more open to criticism for the way they look than a man is.

Fiona Nash: WAS born in Sydney and met my husband in Camden when he was working on a property there. I always loved the rural life and would visit my cousins’

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farm as often as I could to go horseriding and stuff.

I went to uni in Bathurst and was a mother and farmer with my husband when I first got involved in politics in the mid-‘90s. It was after a late-night dinner party and rather than complaining, I decided to get off my tail and become involved. I started from there – firstly on the party’s state committee and central executive and then joining the Senate in 2004.

I think it’s important to put your money where your mouth is, and it evolved from there!

From 1999, I was involved behind the scenes as a ministerial staffer gradually working my way up. I had decided to take some work off-farm and would commute to Canberra from our farm near Young, where we have sheep and canola and wheat cropping.

I don’t feel unique because so many people in rural communities are doing things to keep their families and farms going. It was hard sometimes but as a woman working in rural areas, sometimes there’s things you have to do. We are still on the farm and it’s still really hard and I still miss it when I’m away.

I love harvest time especially. I also used to do woolclassing and I drive the tractor. I remember meeting

the British Minister recently then heading home to the farm and sitting out the back having a beer with some of the guys, and enjoying that more.

But I have the most fantastic husband in the entire universe and my extended family is extremely supportive.

My two sons are now aged 22 and 20 and at uni so I see them when they’re home for holidays and come back to the farm. They are really great boys and really independent. They went to school in Canberra and I would try to arrange to catch up with them there.

There are so many men in parliament and as a woman, it’s a struggle.

Some days, I think why did I want to be in the Senate? But then other days, when I make someone’s day, or pass a bill that will make people’s lives better, it’s so rewarding.

Living in a rural community – we are 35km from town – has kept me really grounded. Rural people are pretty genuine and that kind of common sense is the perfect complement to Canberra. They will always tell it how it is.

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on what I wear, it doesn’t worry me. I have learned to accept that you are never going to change people.

I remember (foreign minister) Julie Bishop telling me that she received more emails about her hairstyle than her policies! But that’s the way it is in politics.

Another thing I’ve noticed with my husband being in the background is that programs for parliamentary partners are more suited to women. David (Nash’s husband) is a strong person but I get really cranky when people call him Denis Thatcher. At the end of the day, politicians are just normal people and no better or worse than anybody else. And David and I are a good team.

I think that the partner of the politician needs to be really understanding and Toni and Troy are good together. And you don’t just get Troy, you get Toni too.

We just need that rock and I’m sure it is the same for Toni and Troy.

Toni is also a very caring, clever and interesting person. » Nash and Grant were guests at a recent International Women’s Day luncheon in Dubbo. The official day is marked globally on March 8.

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WHAT I DO KNOW.

Friday 06.03.2015 to Sunday 08.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Jenny Moulder: Seeing people give their best As director of youth mentoring charity, the Raise Foundation, Jenny Moulder spends her working life helping young people find their way in a difficult world. But this energetic mother of three and former lawyer says she’s gained far more from the program than she could ever give. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Ella McMillan I used to be a lawyer in Sydney and then in London after I moved there with my husband. After we had our second child, we moved to the country – as one does from London! – and then after our third child arrived I really started thinking about my future.

I just found myself wondering what it was I really wanted to do with my life.

I felt I was too young to just play golf all the time. At that stage, we had no intention of moving back to Australia, so I rang King’s College and asked them to send me their booklet for their graduate law programs. They had a Masters in an interdisciplinary approach to young people and their problems, and I thought, “That’s it! That’s me.”

What sparked my interest in that? I’m quite immature (laughs)! No, seriously, I just love the company of young people – I feel very comfortable around young people. This was before I my own children were adolescents, but I knew it was an area I could really get into. I’ve always got along well with young people.

I completed the Masters, and it was fascinating – really inspiring. For me, there was that real sense of finally finding something that I really wanted to do with my life – something where I knew I could really make a difference in the world. After we moved back to Australia, I did my graduate diploma in counselling. As part of my placement, I went Crow’s Nest TAFE in Sydney as part of the youth connections program, and I just never left!

I don’t think I really knew myself when I was younger. I’m not sad I did law, and it’s been very handy, but had I known myself better back then, I probably would have done psychology and law.

The reality is that I didn’t know myself very well.

Our generation really wasn’t taught to know ourselves well – to have that self-

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awareness. I think we were taught to do what our HSC results got us into! I think it’s much better for our kids’ generation, and I really think they’ve benefitted from our experience. They’re more able to do what they really want to do, regardless of their HSC mark or others’ expectations.

If you do something you love, then you’ll be good at it. And if, when you’re young, you don’t know what you really want to do, my advice is to keep it broad. Don’t box yourself in – do lots of things. Experience lots of things.

Being with the Raise Foundation has given me the opportunity to see people

1. GEOGRAPHY: What island is located 18km west of Fremantle, off the coast of Western Australia?

2. AD SLOGANS: Which company had the slogan “You canna hand a man a better spanner”?

3. ART: Who painted a series of famous works of his garden at Giverny?

4. TV: What is the name of the city in TV’s long-running soap opera “All My Children”?

5. LITERATURE: Who wrote the novel “Dragon’s Teeth”?

giving their best, and that’s both the mentors and the mentees. In a world where there’s so much doom and gloom, it’s nice to know humankind still has the capacity to want to give their best.

Young people have a lot to worry about these days – it’s not smooth sailing. People who think kids are either just waltzing through life or that they’re lazy or technology crazed or self-obsessed... that’s just a superficial way to see young people. It’s unfair. We don’t give young people enough credit.

Our generation has a lot to answer for – I mean, they’re our kids, aren’t they?

If they have problems, they’re a product of their parents. Having said that, I’m a helluva lot slacker with my kids than I used to be! But my three all know that they can tell me anything, and they do because they know I’m not going to judge.

Being with Raise has made me so much less judgemental and really just more concerned with them staying safe. I try not to judge friends either – everyone makes mistakes; everyone does stupid stuff. I can’t believe people can’t remember back to their own teenage years and think that they did nothing stupid.

I don’t think you have to give all your secrets away, because that’s just a rod to be beaten with! But I think we could be a bit gentler with our young people – be a little bit more understanding, and to recognise that they’ll work it out. Schools also need to take a more notice of the individual – some schools are doing it well, some not so well. But it’s hard for teachers to take a more individual approach when there are so many different reasons that young people struggle and there are often so many students.

Australia is home, but it took a long time for it to feel that way again. I left after uni, and by the time I came back everyone had scattered – so my friend base was much smaller and it was really difficult. It was quite a shock and that was one of the reasons I went off to do my counselling qualifications – that was when I really feel my life took off.

It’s been SO life changing for me. It’s given me so much more confidence. If you’d asked me six years ago to speak in public, or to work with young people who are really troubled or to put myself out there like I do... I’d have been really nervous. Now I just love it.

Who’da thunk it? That coming back to Australia would be the “start” of my life again? It’s funny isn’t it – the mentors in the Raise program often say they get more out of it than they give. I feel exactly the same way.

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7. FOOD & DRINK: What other spice is similar in flavour to mace?

8. COMICS: What was the name of Superman’s superdog?

9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the first name of the pirate known as Captain Kidd?

10. HISTORY: In what year did Bob Hawke (pictured) become Prime Minister?

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13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “Just tonight I stood before the tavern, Nothing seemed the way it used to be, In the glass I saw a strange reflection, Was that lonely woman really me?”

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 06.03.2015 to Sunday 08.03.2015

Raise a helping hand Youth mentoring charity, the Raise Foundation, is rolling out its successful school program here in Dubbo, and is hoping local volunteers will raise their hands to help out.

S a mother of three, Jenny Moulder knows just what a minefield it can be raising children in an increasingly challenging world. But as director of charitable organisation, the Raise Foundation, the lawyer-turnedcounsellor has learned first-hand the value of the mantra that it takes a village to raise a child.

Raise is putting that global truism to practical use with an innovative volunteer mentoring program aimed at providing community support for disengaged young people, and for the first time since its inception in 2009, the program is being rolled out in regional areas.

Moulder headed west from her base in Sydney last week in search of potential local mentors, the volunteer efforts of whom are vital to the program’s success.

Raise provides “a community of support” through the provision of one-onone mentoring from local volunteers, who are put through a specially designed training program.

Students identified by schools are invited to take part in the program, which entails one dedicated hour of one-onone mentoring a week over a period of two terms.

“Mentoring from a positive role model provides a nurturing pathway for teenagers to feel supported through tough times, particularly if they feel they can’t talk to other significant adults in their lives for various reasons. The power of having someone neutral to talk to, who really listens and actually hears you, is extraordinary,” according to Moulder.

“Mentors help young people to “raise” their voices, improve their relationships, advance in their wellbeing and coping strategies, increase their selfconfidence, identify and achieve their goals, and engage in further education and employment.”

In Dubbo, Raise will be working with Dubbo College South Campus, and Jenny Moulder told Weekender she couldn’t be happier with the way the foundation’s first foray into the bush is shaping up, thanks to funding through the state government’s Youth Frontiers Program.

“This first visit is not only to introduce Raise to the school, but also to find mentors for the program and to employ a local Program Counsellor – having locals is absolutely crucial to the success of the program.”

The school identifies the young people they think would benefit from the program, but it’s a completely voluntary process, she says.

“The kids have to want to be there for that one session a week. But the mentors must be equally committed because by virtue of the fact that the young people they’re working with are disengaged, they’re used to adults letting them down. In our training we say to mentors that they need to be a consistent role model, because for a lot of young people consistency is what’s lacking in their lives.”

It’s not just the identified young people who will benefit from the program, she says.

“Mentors get a lot out of it. They often volunteer for the program with the idea of “giving back” and doing something to help young people, but often when they

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come out they feel they’ve gained so much more personally than they gave.”

The commitment from mentors is for one hour a week on a designated day for mentoring sessions and another hour for debrief – so it’s a total commitment of two hours a week for terms two and three (a 20 week period).

“We don’t accept mentors who haven’t been trained, but if people do the training and decide it’s not for them, that’s fine – there’s no obligation.”

She’s confident Raise will be able to replicate locally the success it’s had in metropolitan areas since it began in 2009.

“We’ve grown exponentially every year, and in particular we’re getting a lot more male mentors, which is really important,” she says of the search for potential mentors, who are carefully chosen and trained.

“It’s self-selective to a degree. It’s a pretty thorough training program and we are very diligent in making sure people take it seriously. Yes, it’s a volunteer role, but if you’re working with a young person you really have to know where

the boundaries are.

“Obviously, you have to know about mandatory reporting and how to identify problems, but also it’s important to learn how to open up a conversation, how to bring an open mind and leave your own judgements at the door.

“We all get so used to telling young people how we see it, or what to do, or downplaying their role and not really listening to what they’re saying. The whole point of this program is to empower them to recognise their ability to make their own decisions. Mentors have to be trained around that.”

Moulder says mentors are “matched” to the young people selected to take part in the program.

“Our program counsellor is the one who has the contact point in the school and we get our mentors together – usually about 15 works well – and run a “jitters” session with the young people the school has identified as mentees. Every mentee then gets the chance to chat with every mentor, and from there, they can tell us if there’s someone they particularly clicked with, and vice-versa.”

The whole point of this program is to empower young people to recognise their ability to make their own decisions.

Part of the training and ongoing support is to ensure mentors know how to set boundaries, to avoid becoming “overly involved”.

“We call it the “continuum of helpfulness” which sounds a bit loopy,” Moulder laughs. “But the point is that we’re aiming to help these young people make decisions on their own. In the debrief that happens after each session, the program counsellor goes through with each mentor how it’s all gone to make sure the mentor is coping with what they’re being told, because some of it can be quite confronting.”

Part of Moulder’s visit to Dubbo is to search for this program counsellor – a part-time position ideally suited to someone who connects well with young people and is available one day a week for the period of the program.

The training provided to mentors is TAFE accredited and completely free of charge. It will be held in Dubbo at the Western Plains Cultural Centre on March 18 from 8.30am to 5.30pm for potential mentors.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer mentor, or in applying for the paid part-time position of program counsellor, you can find more information at www.raise.org.au. To register for the training, please email info@raise. org.au.

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2X2.

Friday 06.03.2015 to Sunday 08.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Matt Kelly and Richard Higgins This children’s comedy duo travels the country making kids laugh, but if interviewing these two is anything to go by, it’s not just the kids who will be LOL-ing when Matt Kelly and Richard Higgins, take to the Dubbo stage next week with their show The Listies Make You LOL. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley Matt Kelly: ’M a Gunnedah boy originally. I had my first taste of theatre on the stage there!

Then I worked in the science centre, Questacon, in Canberra where I did shows for kids and families before going to Melbourne where I learned how to write and put on my own shows.

I’ve always been interested in entertaining rather than educating – in fact that’s something we sort of do deliberately in our shows. We like to provide a space for kids to just be kids – we bill the shows as “100 per cent education free”! Coming to see one of our shows is the opposite of learning (laughs) – because we feel kids are constantly being pushed to learn. Everything they do and see has to be culturally focussed on an educational aspect, but we just want them to laugh and have fun when they go to the theatre.

I love the company of children – I have a niece who I try to make laugh, but she doesn’t think I’m funny... which makes me crazy!

I met Richard at uni, where we were doing adaptations of Roald Dahl and Andy Griffiths as a panto – and we’ve been making the show together as The Listies for about five years now. This show, The Listies make you LOL! is a collection of all the best laughs from over those years.

Being on stage in front of kids and seeing them and their families laugh is such a pleasure, and the things they find funny are the ones we most enjoy doing.

We used to be called The List Operators. We started doing alternative comedy shows for adults, where we made lists with the audience – everything was about making a list. While we were making the shows for adults, we’d often

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say, “If this was a kids’ show, we’d do this or that” because entertaining kids has always been a passion for us both.

When we came back from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, we sat down and wrote a version of the show for kids and from there, everyone started calling us The Listies – so we went with that because I can’t spell “operators” (laughs). Putting on the kids’ show was more fun than I’d ever had – still to this day – those first five shows were great. It just worked.

It’s very liberating to stand on stage and be stupid and just muck around, particularly to do so as adults – we don’t pretend in our show to be kids.

We’re definitely grown men just mucking around and kids don’t see that often.

They live in a world where they’re told to sit down, shut up and stop being silly.

This is a couple of hours of license to be completely stupid.

Rich is a great mate – it’s about trust.

It’s a weird kind of “marriage” that we have – I spend all day every day with him and we spend a lot of time sitting in airports and on planes together and travelling and on tour. I’ve experienced a lot of the world sitting next to him – so yeah, we’re close. I enjoy his company.

He’s the “straight man”, so first and foremost when we’re performing, I try to make him laugh. I usually manage to get him! Being the straight guy is in many ways so much harder than being the funny guy because he gives me the gift of silence – he has to stand there and pivot and anchor the scene, and I bounce around him. Mine is a much more fun job than being the “work horse”.

Those personas aren’t mirrored off stage – not at all! I’m really not sure how that came to be – I have no answer for that question. It’s just naturally how it came together. He has the kind

of skill and technique to anchor a show and that’s not something I have – maybe that’s how the roles came to be.

Richard Higgins: WAS coerced into doing this interview – I’m doing it under sufferance.

I have someone standing next to me with a blunt instrument to make sure I give you nice answers (laughs). I’m joking, you know that, right?

We met at “a” uni – not while we were at uni. We weren’t actually students at the time – we were just doing shows at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). That was back in 2001 and The Listies came to be about seven years later.

We differ in many ways. I’m an older brother and Matt’s a younger brother – and a lot of our dynamic comes from that, I guess. Creatively, Matt’s very interested in audience interaction, and having a very “live” experience. He always wants us to go out into the audience and bounce off them and he’s always looking for how we can get the audience involved. Whereas I’m a bit more traditional in a way – I tend to focus on the stage and on props and jokes.

Matt’s much more experimental in his approach to theatre, but he’s a perfectionist on stage and I’m really not. I’m glad someone is, though. He’s funny though – and audiences really like him.

Don’t know why... (laughs).

Do I prefer doing adults or kids’ shows?

I don’t know, really. It’s great doing children’s shows and we’ve become really professional and good at it, I think. And we play really nice venues and we have a team of technicians and we have wonderful crowds that come to every show.

We don’t have to struggle like we used to when we were doing alternative comedy shows for adults, when we used to

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have to pass out flyers on the street to get people to come (laughs). I don’t miss that at all!

It’s wonderful working with kids. We had an email just yesterday – a mum sent us a video of her son doing a voice over from one of our albums, and it was word perfect. How good’s that? It’s a real privilege to be a part of children’s lives – I don’t think you really get that with adult comedy, to be honest. People say kids can be brutal, but I don’t really see that – sure, kids don’t hide the fact that they’re bored. But I’d rather they did that. The idea of a room full of people pretending they’re enjoying the show but in fact hating it is a nightmare to me. I’d much rather know if they’re not enjoying it because then I can do something about it.

Do Matt and I ever have creative differences? Nooooo. Never. We are completely smooth – like all famous double acts, we’re just all smooth sailing and we’ve never had a disagreement. And I’d never lie to a journalist, either (laughs).

Of course the answer is, yes. All the time!

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 06.03.2015 to Sunday 08.03.2015

Tony Webber

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Tony Webber is a long time Dubbo resident, computer recluse and libertarian.

Do not let the high brow take the highlights out of high tech DON’T want to bore you, but this bit’s boring.

I’m not into social media, being online, net surfing, or any of the activities that come to mind when we talk technology-based consumer goods.

To be frightfully unkind I think it is largely a money-sucking exercise either perfectly attuned to the fact that we are portly narcissists, or playing an active role in us all becoming one.

Like someone said recently, 60 years after we walked on the moon, Twitter can only handle 140 characters, and instead of time travel or sexually receptive holograms, in 2015 we’re typing with our thumbs.

Of course there are benefits but I won’t toss on about them because this boring bit has already droned too long.

Whatever the pros or cons of the online cyber world, can we just leave it alone? For all its faults, can it just stay out of the hands of the people who brought us bike helmets and The Financial Review?

On February 26 the US telecommunications regulator voted not to make changes to so-called “net neutrality,” that is, internet providers treating all content equally.

Yes, there’s appalling depravity aplenty among the galaxies of useful information and entertainment, and in its grottiest corners the worst of mankind festers such that we would hope they find themselves among the general prison population upon conviction as a result of a clerical error.

But what happens when we start fiddling with it, when we start censoring or charging more money for more of it?

It will become victim to the sort of people who feel like it’s their life’s journey to cut the bawdi-

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ness, and offence and vulgarity out of everything for the common good.

The risk is that the sort of people who think things needs censoring are not from the sensible middle, but those more inclined to outrage and a longing for the days of covered ankles, compulsory heterosexuality and blacks knowing their place.

It is the straighteners and correctors who will feel their contribution is to make the social atmosphere just a little more predictable, uptight and conformist than it already is.

And if we start charging more money for more access then cyberspace will undoubtedly become another big, commercial, Anglo sinkhole where the least offence is unpardonable because it might turn away customers or advertisers and therefore leech from the host its precious earning capacity.

What makes the net unique is that it is not at present prisoner to the parameters that moralists, class watchmen and religious superiorists impose on so much of the rest of life.

The feral high country stallions probably live short brutish lives, without the benefits of horse shoes, medical treatment, protection from violent rivals and a warm stable.

But in protective hands they are fenced in, castrated, and hobbled with harness and bit.

Safe is usually bland, and not always better.

That upon which the committee agrees is broadly suitable for all, that which lends itself to our higher notions and brings no outrage to those who sample it, is invariably conformist porridge.

Look at intoxicants: of all the various ones to emerge in western culture in the past two cen-

Safe is usually bland, and not always better.

turies – long after alcohol, tobacco and caffeine found their niche – not one of them has made its way through the moral screening. Not one.

Look at talkback radio in this country: despite the enormous potential for variety of thought and free speech, under a commercial culture what do we get? Identical, cranky, ageing white men spurting contemptuous outrage – under-written with simplistic conventional wis-

dom – about stuff they read in the ‘paper.

The only variety is in public broadcasting, hence the hellbent desire of our betters to rid us of it.

So how much risqué, radical content do you think we’ll find in the wilds of cybernia once the people who brought you the Oscars, take-away food and speaking in tongues get their hands on it?

The last thing this country needs is more sheep.

Zombie apocalypse: The academic advice is ‘head for the hills’

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WASHINGTON: Americans living in the Rockies stand a better chance of dodging a zombie apocalypse than their urban counterparts.

Cities would fall quickly, suggests the “large-scale exact stochastic dynamical simulation of a zombie outbreak” from Cornell University in New York state.

But it would take weeks for a zombie plague to penetrate rural areas, and months to reach the Rocky Mountains, according to the highly mathematical study.

In pop culture, “if there is a zombie outbreak, it is usually assumed to affect all areas at the same time,” said Alex Alemi, one of four graduate students in theoretical physics who undertook the research.

“But in our attempt to model zombies somewhat realistically, it doesn’t seem like this is how it would actually go down,” he said in a statement.

Based on the team’s simulation, the densely populated and highly urbanised east and west coasts would be the first to succumb to a zombie plague.

Much of America would have fallen after four weeks, but it would take “a very long time” for zombies to reach the most remote corners of the nation.

“Even four months in, remote areas of Montana

and Nevada (would) remain zombie free,” the study says.

The study – which mimics the way scientists forecast the spread of a real epidemic – assumes an element of randomness in the way the zombie apocalypse would unfold within the Lower 48 states.

It also doesn’t take into account a US military response: Last year it emerged that the Pentagon has a blueprint for combating the walking dead, which it uses as a training tool for its strategic planners. AAP

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 06.03.2015 to Sunday 08.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

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.

Fighting a war on two fronts ITH world infinitely more complex and dangerous, what to do? Boots on ground sounds good, but how many and where and when? Can't isolate.”

This garbled statement was issued to the world by media magnate Rupert Murdoch via Twitter on February 5 this year, and appears to be advocating the deployment of soldiers to fight an unnamed enemy, somewhere in a “dangerous and complex” world.

“Boots on the ground” works to Mr Murdoch’s benefit, as the deployment of soldiers helps sell newspapers and cable television. The pursuit by the West for regime change, usually in the Middle East, is a boon for a media baron.

But in the pursuit of regime change, be it the desire for compliant leadership or retaliation for terrorism, does the West ever consider the long term consequences before engaging in “shock and awe”?

Iraq is a prime example of the fracturing of a country following intervention by the West. With the militaristic grip of Saddam Hussein removed by a West looking for an enemy following 9/11, the Shia and Sunni Muslim populations both vied for power. Fatigued by Western intervention and fuelled by disaffected former Iraqi army personnel and religious sectarianism, the rise of ISIS was the inevitable result.

Now the West is facing a different type of enemy – an enemy with a specific religiously motivated agenda to create their version of an Islamic State. IS is well funded (by sales of oil and by sympathisers outside Iraq) and has social media savvy. ISIS can target impressionable like-minded minions on Western soils with promises of glory for joining their cause.

Brutal acts of violence laced with antiChristian rhetoric are the stock in trade of IS, which has advanced across Iraq into neighbouring Syria, pushing a bow wave of refugees and leaving a trail of

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott (centre) visiting Australian Defence Force Personnel at the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Compound. Mr Abbott is visiting Baghdad for talks on aiding Iraq in its fight against the Islamic State jihadist group. PHOTO: AAP/ PRIME MINISTER OFFICE

death.

The West is being forced to take notice. Anti-Islamic sentiment is spreading around the world. Various world leaders are vacillating between calm resolve and blatant fear mongering. Importantly, it is very difficult to negotiate with an enemy with little defined structure and no defined borders.

The next battleground is Libya. After deranged dictator Colonel Gadaffi lost power in a Western backed rebel uprising during the Arab Spring, Western leaders assumed a peaceful secular

state would emerge. It was not to be.

Libya (like Iraq) fractured into a divided country and descended into anarchy. Two rival militia backed groups with their own parliaments and ministries claim to be the legitimate government of Libya. With Africa’s largest oil reserves at stake and leaders distracted by civil war, IS has now gained a foothold in Libya. They do not intend to stop there.

IS proclaimed the recent decapitation of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya as a message “signed with blood

With Africa’s largest oil reserves at stake and leaders distracted by civil war, IS has now gained a foothold in Libya. They do not intend to stop there.

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to the nation of the cross”, and warned that the jihadists are “south of Rome”.

With IS now less than 1,000 km from the home of Christianity (and with tens of thousands of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean) the abandonment of post-Gaddafi Libya by the West further highlights the West’s inability to plan past its own short term interests – be they geopolitical, military or religious.

It is likely Mr Murdoch will soon get his wish for boots on the ground granted. The persecution of Christians will raise the ire of Italy and its allies and increase the pressure on NATO, the UN or the US to act with military force. This is a high stakes crusade.

These high stakes are evident on the “home” fronts as well. Consider that in the US, military veterans account for approximately 20 per cent of all suicides.

One in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or depression. Fifty percent of those with PTSD do not seek treatment.

In Australia, the suicide toll is three times that of Australia's combat losses in Afghanistan – PTSD has risen fourfold since Australia joined the war in Afghanistan.

Many Australian veterans fear the mental health system can not cope with the number of PTSD cases, and returning soldiers are reluctant to seek diagnosis.

The hyper-vigilance required on a modern battle field – as the enemy may be a child soldier, a road side bomb or an armed insurgent – lingers into civilian life and reeks havoc on the mind.

Alcoholism, substance abuse and homelessness are too common.

The cost to soldiers and their families is immeasurable. The cost to society colossal.

Unfortunately, governments, dictators, plutocrats and the righteous think it is a price worth paying – by someone else.

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OUT OF AFRICA

Rams Mabote

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

The new “apart” hate that still grips South Africa ATE has taken over my land.

South Africa has turned against its fellow Africans and the world is watching as we kill those who look like us, but speak in “foreign” tongues.

I have always looked at refugees with an emotional eye. I have always felt sorry for a man who ups and leaves his country for political or economic reasons and ends up in lands where everyone looks different, speaks differently and behaves strangely.

I have always spared a thought for that woman who leaves, takes her children on her back and bosom, scales barbed wire, walks through parks inhabited by all sorts of wild animals and marauding gangs of rapists and opportunities, just in search of a better, safer home for her children.

For the past 21 years, since the advent of democracy in South Africa, many foreign nationals from neighbouring and other far-flung African countries have migrated to our shores to seek a better life.

It is not hard to find out why. Not only was this the land of Nelson Mandela, the peacemaker, rainmaker and conciliator, but many of these refugees knew South Africa was small heaven on earth compared with their own countries ravaged by wars, political instability and abject poverty.

After all, South Africa is what I call the first world of the so-called third world. I do not know now, but only a decade ago, this country consumed 75 per cent of the electricity used in all of the African continent.

Of the road network in all 54 countries, South Africa has a fair share of the best and modern roads, byways and highways. The roads in this country compare with any in the best countries in the world.

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South Africa is the proverbial land of milk and honey for many people whose countries are still under-developed; many are still governed by despots, a significant number are still caught in wars and some in the hands of armed rebels who maim and rape citizens.

But in the past 10 years, this heaven called South Africa has turned into hell for the more than 5-million of political and economic refugees. It started around 2008 when residents went on a rampage attacking foreign nationals.

I have not recovered from the images of a Mozambican man who was burned alive in Johannesburg. His crime? He was a Mozambican. He was an alien, legal or not.

Like a lightning bolt from nowhere, South Africans have developed a deep seated hatred foreigners on our soil,

specifically those from elsewhere on the African continent.

It is not as if the only foreigners on our shores come only from the neighbouring countries. Our beauty and freedom have attracted all sorts of people from eastern Europe and China.

But for some reason the only foreigners hated and attacked are the darkskinned ones from all over the continent as well as those from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Most of the latter run informal businesses in the areas populated exclusively by black South Africans. These traders (some of them are from Somalia and Ethopia) rent shops previously run by locals to trade.

Interestingly, because of their methods of using their economies of scale where they club together to buy cheap-

ly and get discounts from wholesalers, these foreign traders now bring necessities very cheaply to locals.

You would think this enterprise would be celebrated and supported. Wrong. Instead, local businesspeople have gone out blaming these foreign traders for “uncompetitive” trading which has led to many local shops closing down.

This of course is utter nonsense. The foreign shop owners have just found a better way of doing business and instead of locals learning from their example, they have resorted to hate, which has resulted in frightening scenes of looting and attacks on people who came here precisely to seek safety, security and relative prosperity.

Our politicians have not helped either in dealing with this. Some have added their xenophobic voice, openly blaming foreign nationals for conducting business in an underhanded manner.

Some other politicians have chosen to avoid the real issue and rather choose the easy route of attributing this scourge to common crime.

I don’t claim to be an expert, but I believe this is untrue. If it was crime, why are the locals not attacking the Chinese shops and big shopping centres that continue to be built in black neighbourhoods?

In my humble view, the slowdown in economic growth (resulting in unemployment and a rise in poverty levels) coupled with years of European colonisation that fostered self-hate, is the reason black South Africans have taken their fear, anger and anxiety out on the people who look exactly like them.

And the men and women who can’t return home now get buried by the hatred of those from whom they expected sympathy.

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The obscenity of mercy as a fashion accessory N 1986, my first month of high school, I was given an assignment to present my thoughts about something I'd seen on TV to the class. I chose to do my presentation on a story that was dominating the news at the time. Two guys from Perth were just about to be hung in Malaysia for trafficking heroin. I was horrified, they were only a couple of years younger than my mum and they were going to be killed, halfway around the world away from their families. It's not like they killed someone. The method of execution added to my upset. It just seemed barbaric.

I can still remember standing at the front of that room, body shaking and voice cracking as I said it was cruel and unfair. There had to be something we could do. Then I walked back to my desk and cried. Just before dawn on July 7 that same year, 15 days before my 12th birthday, Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers were walked to the gallows and hanged on the grounds of Kuala Lumpur's Pudu Prison.

Eleven years later, I stood in front of a crowded room to give a speech of a different kind. My friend was 25 years old.

He was funny, charming and to this day one of the best looking men I've ever met. On that particular September day it was my job to stand before his friends and family, in front on his mum who loved him more than anything in the world and find a way to say goodbye at his funeral. His death was drug related.

I was shaking and I could feel my voice crack while I talked about all the nice memories and how much we would all miss him. All I could think about was that it cruel and unfair – why wasn't there anything I could do? Then I went back to my seat and cried.

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have lost what looks like their final appeal. Without some intervening factor, they are likely living their last days inside the wall of their Bali prison.

All the statements I have read from their extended families are understandably impassioned but reasonable. They agree these guys did something terribly wrong and that even if granted clemency they may and should spend the rest of their lives in prison, but these people are begging for the life of someone they love.

That's what any family would do. It's what they should do. Statements from the men themselves seem to echo that sentiment. Given the option, I would have begged for my friend’s life. Sadly there was no one to ask. He was just gone. No chance to say goodbye, no last visit.

As a general rule my political views fall to the left of far left, which is why in the past month my Facebook friends have filled my news feed with the posts about the #standformercy campaign.

There is a certain group that seems to be taking some joy in the fact that these guys will be executed, which from a human level I find a bit sick. But it’s been some of the arguments from those claiming to be "standing for mercy" that I have found the most disturbing.

"I could never support a country that has the death penalty. I'll never go back to Bali if they kill these guys". I un-

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derstand it being a moral absolute for you, a perfectly valid position but the key word for me there is BACK. Indonesia's first execution happened in 1973 and certainly in the past 20 years, travellers have been made well aware that the death penalty is part of that country’s legal system. So it's wasn't a moral absolute for you on your last visit? Or does it only matter now that the guys facing the firing squad flew out of an Australian airport? I'm assuming you’re also boycotting California?

I had one very indignant friend talk about the hide of Indonesia in not complying with requests from our government when we gave them millions of dollars in aid after the tsunami. So we wouldn't have given emergency aid after a natural disaster that killed 170,000 people in their country alone if we had known they would kill two convicted drug dealers? Seems like an odd argument when you’re claming to be on the side on compassion.

Worst of all is when anyone dares to mention the havoc drugs cause in this country, the point is completely dismissed by the notion that drug addicts dying and state sanctioned murder (no matter what crime was committed) are two totally different things and the latter is never acceptable.

I don't remember being inundated with sympathetic hashtags when Saddam Hussein was hanged. Let's at least be honest enough to admit we care more about some deaths than others and "dying drug addicts" aren't currently trending on social media.

At 11, I honestly believed two guys smuggling narcotics into Australia had hurt no one. I no longer believe that's true. Across our country, there are thousands of families dealing with the fallout from drug abuse. Children born to addicted parents, criminal activity and the agony that comes with watching someone you love slowly killing themselves and feeling powerless to do anything.

A study done by the Australian government as part of the National Drug Strategy put the total social cost of illicit drug abuse in Australia in 2004/05 (the period when the Bali 9 were arrested) at $8.2 billion. If there is a war on drugs

An armed Indonesian police vehicle enters the gate to pick up two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, for their transfer in Kerobokan Prison, Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday, March 4th. The duo will be transferred by chartered airplane to Nusakambangan Island prison in Central Java to face the firing squad. PHOTO: AAP/JOHANNES CHRISTO

then we are losing it in a huge way.

According to the Bureau of Statistics, my friend’s demise fell into a category called “accidental drug inducted death”.

The year we lost him (1997) 932 other joined him. In 2005 the year the Bali 9 were arrested, the figure was 1,388. To dismiss the suffering of so many Australian families because it doesn't suit your argument doesn't fall under any definition of mercy that I'm aware of but apparently Shakespeare was wrong.

The quality of mercy is strained. It has become a commodity and there isn't enough to go around.

Do I think all these things or the loss of my friend are the sole responsibility of two mid-level drug traffickers?

No. Do I think they deserve to be taken out to a field and shot? Absolutely not.

But these guys made a choice to go to a poor country and help financially fuel a drug trade the United Nations office on Drugs and Crime links to the funding for, among other things, terrorism and the sex trade. To say they hurt no one is more than naive, it's dangerous. These were not 18 year olds caught with a cou-

So it's wasn't a moral absolute for you on your last visit?

Or does it only matter now that the guys facing the firing squad flew out of an Australian airport? I assume you’re also boycotting California?

ple of joints shoved down their pants.

This was a highly organised smuggling operation, with 8.3 kg of heroin set for distribution on Australian streets and in a country with a very publicly stated drug policy.

My hope would be that whatever the eventual outcome of the current situation in Bali, all the passion and energy people are expending is funnelled into a debate on drugs in Australia; better and more affordable treatment options, intervention and harm minimisation.

I feel compassion for the Chan and Sukumaran families. The thought that these two men may take their last breath in front of a firing squad is heart breaking. It is no less tragic than a parent being told their child's last breath was taken alone in an alley or that they struggled for air on the floor of someone's house because the people around them were too drug affected to notice they were in trouble or to call an ambulance.

I understand a candle light vigil calling for treatment for "a bunch of junkies" is less appealing than a Stand for Mercy event. But it would be about the same thing – saving a life. I haven't yet been invited to the former so I guess it's a moot point.

This week, 17 years after his death, I will be thinking of my friend. About all the things he missed, about all the things he could have been. Where you stand and what you stand for is important. Make it count for something.

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Defence force can help fill a gap STILL wondering what you should do with your (or your teenager’s) gap year?

The Australian Defence Forces might just have the solution.

Applications for the ADF Gap Year Program opened this week, with young people considering taking a gap year in 2016 able to apply now to join the program that kicked off this year and offers a number of diverse opportunities for those aged between 17 and 24 who have completed Year 12.

The “earn as you learn” program offers participants a salary of up to $45,000, and a number of jobs are available across all three arms of the defence forces – army, navy and air force – ranging from administration clerk to artilleryman, driver specialist, rifleman, unit Quartermaster; from airbase protection crew attendant to personnel capability specialist and supply.

The program offers a chance to learn on the job, pick up life skills, and gain experience that will be well regarded by future employers.

While participants in the ADF Gap Year program are not eligible to deploy on domestic or international operations, they do participate in all aspects of training with their allocated unit.

The program offers flexibility to participants who are also free to voluntarily leave the program should they find they’re not suited to the ADF lifestyle.

Once completed, participants then have the opportunity to continue full time service with the army, navy or air-force or transfer to the reserves and continue to use the skills they’ve gained over the course of the program.

Applications are now open to those aged 17-24 who have completed Year 12 or equivalent, and must be submitted online.

For more information or to register for the program, go to www.defencejobs.gov.au/ education/GapYear

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Schools out and so is the jury on absentee crackdown CHOOL’S out: crackdown on students being taken from class on family holidays.”

What did you make of this headline from last weekend's Sunday paper? It certainly has engendered lots of comment, and not much of it positive. I must admit my first thought was to wonder which bureaucrat dreamed up this kneejerk reaction to a minuscule drop in NAPLAN results. Apparently it's okay to be away if you're an elite athlete or performer, but not if your family wants to take you on a holiday. Go figure.

What's the real motivation for this momentous announcement? Is it because a significant number of students who are socio-economically advantaged and therefore more likely to boost a school's NAPLAN results will potentially miss the tests?

The comments on said paper's Twitter feed were also suitably cynical, and ranged from "How about cracking down on businesses inflating airfares and accommodation during school holidays?" to "Travel is an education", both of which are valid points.

The thoughts of a few parents of school age children I just happen to know were a little more forthright. One said, "I'm still going on holiday when it suits me.

School isn't a prison," and another: "Unnecessary holidays? Excuse me much?

Who are these d#%€s?" which pretty much sums it up I would have thought.

Seriously though, school attendance is no laughing matter. There is a very strong correlation between attendance and academic achievement, and sadly it's

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those who most need to be at school who have the most significant attendance problems.

Any teacher will tell you how much regular absences affect a child's learning, whether they be for sickness or anything else. Add the days absent for shopping, for staying home on a birthday, being habitually late, not having food suitable for school lunches and so on, and you get the picture. Most of you probably wouldn't dream of keeping your kids home from school for these reasons, but some parents do, and it's these constant absences over time that do the damage.

As well as the impact of missing out on

academic learning, these absences impact socially. How can you make friends when you're hardly ever at school to spend time with your peers? It’s harder to make friends, harder to cope with the work, so you don't want to go to school.

Your parents like having you home, or they won't or can't make you go, then eventually you drop out. Get the picture?

I don't think the average person understands just how difficult it is to address school absenteeism despite all the regulations. It's easy for politicians to make these proclamations, but hard for those at the coal face to actually enforce them.

What bothers me most though is the potential for this matter to affect relations between principals and parents.

Will all parents be treated equally? Probably not. Will anything much change?

Probably not. The conscientious families with capable academic kids will suffer it or find another school, and the rest will carry on as usual.

In my opinion this announcement is all pre-election pollie waffle; much ado about nothing, and completely put in perspective by this tweet from a parent: "What do students get? An 'unjustifiable' absence on their record? I'm trembling with fear."

It's easy for politicians to make these proclamations, but hard for those at the coal face to actually enforce them.

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Beauty in the eye of the beholder... and popular culture AST week I was in Sydney to see one of my favourite artists, Drake, in concert. For those unfamiliar with this back catalogue, he is a rapper from Toronto in Canada, loves ice hockey, money, his mum and made his start in the industry by playing a rapper/ basketball player in Degrassi: The Next Generation. You may also know him from his highly publicised feud with fellow artist Chris Brown over songstress Rihanna.

With an illustrious career thus far and the release of his new music, his fan base has grown dramatically over the years, particularly among females. This is because of his confidential songwriting style, where he ponders the downsides of fame, whether or not he knows how much money he makes (he does), and if the girl he’s crushing on is good enough to meet his ma.

Listening to Drake’s lyrics, he is looking for a very specific, yet most definitely unattainable woman. Just from the songs I know of, I can list that he’s after a combination of all these: a stripper, someone who is book smart AND street smart, someone who is on his side but doesn’t need him around, someone fancy, someone older with her own money, someone who doesn’t worry where he at

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when he at the club, oh, and someone who is at college but humble about it... to name just a few.

With this microcosm of popular culture as an example, it’s no wonder women (and men) are so confused about what is deemed “attractive”, and that across the western world we are suffering a mass sense of inadequacy about our looks, our smarts, our status.

Yes, it’s a stretch to take that level of

seriousness from rap lyrics, but I know you’re feeling what I am saying. It ties in very neatly with another favourite pop cultural figure of mine, Alain De Botton, and his theory on status anxiety (from which I’m sure Drake suffers on an almost daily basis).

The theory goes that “the attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”

Which, obviously, can be roughly translated to the Drake lyircs: “We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than trying to be happy ourselves.”

I personally suffer from this constant comparing, and the resulting crushing

“It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.” – Michael Leunig

disappointment in my apparent lack of achievements, my haircut, my dress sense, my short legs, my vocabulary... feel free to replace these with your own very long list of inadequacies that keep you up at night, but that no one else really cares about.

It’s the small definition of success in the western world that puts an emphasis on our failures, and it is through popular culture’s relentless fascination with the rich, the beautiful and the brilliant – essentially, the attractive – that’s feeding our shared misery.

I am currently reading the written works of Michael Leunig, and in it he laments: “It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.”

It’s a sorry state we’ve found ourselves in, but the ideal of attraction varies from person to person, culture to culture, and if we can drown out the noise and just be cool, we may even start to have fun.

Yeah, it’s hard not to hate on yourself, but even resident rapper/philosopher Drake can see perfect ain’t all that: “They say real girls ain’t never perfect, perfect girls ain’t never real.”

Amen to that, Drizzy.

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Who’s who in the economic zoo

BY ROSS MCCARTHY DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S CITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM LEADER ADER

E read the paper, watch the news on the TV, listen to the radio and we’re exposed to terms such as ABS, RBA, ABRAE, ASIC, ASX... on and on it goes. But what are these organisations and what do they do? Well, let me run through a few of the more common ones.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia’s official statistical organisation which provides key statistical data for government and business on economic, environment and social issues. This data is used, among other things, to determine the need for new schools, hospitals, roads and upgrades to infrastructure.

The ABS provides other reports such as the CPI (Consumer Price Index) which is a comparison of the price of certain goods from one period to another. It tells us if prices are moving up or down and by how much, giving an indication of inflation.

The December 2014 CPI report reflected a 0.2 per cent rise for the quarter compared with the September 2014 quarter. The ABS also maintains a population clock with the country fast approaching 23,800,000 people.

This gives us an overall population increase of one person every one minute and 18 seconds in Australia.

The ABS is perhaps best known for the Census, which is completed every five years and is next due in August 2016. The Census exercise is expensive (the 2011 Census reportedly cost $440 million) and basic information takes ten months to release. It can take up to two or three years for some of the detailed data to become available, so there has been a move towards the idea to not completely discontinue the Census, but move it to every ten years. The plan is to offset by more electronic

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Call for more women in the workplace AS the business sector around the Orana region marks International Women’s Day this week with a number of gatherings and events celebrating and promoting the contribution of women, a leading women’s advocacy group is calling for a commitment to closing the gap between the number of men and women participating in the workforce.

The Australian National Committee for UN Women is calling for the establishment of a National Women’s Workforce Strategy and implementation plan to ensure that commitments made on women’s workforce participation are “mapped, met and measured”.

The call is rompted by what the organisation says is “the opportunity that women’s workforce participation presents

sampling, more often, with the aim of producing data on the economic and social conditions of Australians more frequently and in a more timely manner.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is our central bank which is an independent Commonwealth Government body. The RBA conducts monetary policy, working to maintain a strong financial system and issues Australia’s notes and coins. This was part of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s function until 1960. The RBA charter includes managing our exchange rate, maintenance of full employment in Australia, economic prosperity and welfare of the people of Australia. The RBA also provides specialised banking services to the Australian Government and various government agencies including bank accounts (but not to the public).

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABRAES) is a research bureau within the Federal Department of Agriculture. ABARES provides economic, commodity forecasts and statistical analysis for government and the private sector, on significant issues affecting Australian agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries.

Among other things, ABRAES produces the Weekly Australian Climate, Water and Agricultural Update on its website – well worth a look if you are the least bit interested in Agriculture. No doubt we will have heard quite a bit from ABRAES given its annual Outlook conference has been held this week in Canberra.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent Commonwealth Government body and is our corporate, markets and financial services regu-

lator. ASIC’s is role is to ensure our financial markets are fair and transparent, contributing to Australia’s economic reputation, and in turn, well-being. It’s like a watch dog, protecting consumers against misleading or deceptive and unconscionable conduct for banking products and services, including insurance products. You may have heard in the media of the ASIC team being involved in tidying up of some “dodgy” operators in the financial planning industry of late. If you run a business, this is the entity with which you register your business name. ASIC is also responsible for the compliance of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). For consumers the ASIC has some great tips and tools on its MoneySmart website www.moneysmart.gov.au Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is a public company (that you can buy shares in), and operates the Australian Securities Exchange where shares and other asset classes are traded. This entity was created in 2006 through the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange. Prior to 1998 the ASX was a mutualised entity and was not listed on the stock exchange. The ASX maintains stock indexes, in conjunction with Standard and Poor’s in relation to shares traded. Often the ASX 200 is referred to; this is the top 200 shares in Australia in terms of market capitalisation (the share price times the total number of shares issued). In terms of share market education, the ASX has the “Sharemarket Game” where you are given a virtual $50,000 to invest and see how you go.

Have a look once you have finished reading the Weekender www.asx.com.au/education/ sharemarket-games.htm.

ABRAES produces the Weekly Australian Climate, Water and Agricultural Update on its website – well worth a look if you are the least bit interested in Agriculture.

around the world and the damage that continued underutilisation is having on global growth and the perpetuation of gender inequality”.

Around the world, women and girls continue to be vulnerable, experiencing poverty at higher rates than men and boys. The International Labour Organisation estimates that the Asia and Pacific region is losing between $42 and $47 billion annually because of women’s limited access to employment opportunities.

In Australia, women continue to earn less than men and are overrepresented in low-paying sectors such as childcare and retail.

Julie McKay is the Executive Director of the committee, and says that over the past 20 years, the number of policies explored and implemented have fallen short of the mark.

“Subsidised childcare, a variety of parental payments and most recently paid parental leave have been considered in attempts to support women’s workforce participation – it’s time to recognise that no individual policy response will solve this problem. Instead, a strategy which seeks to outline the key barriers to women’s full participation and offers actions to overcome these, is necessary.”

McKays says a “fundamental

shift” is needed when it comes to the perception of “women’s roles” and that changes to the structure of work will be necessary.

“We know that while not the only factor, maternity is a major barrier to women’s participation in the workforce. To attract and retain the best talent, employers will increasingly need to support flexible work, which enables people to balance paid and unpaid work commitments”.

The progress towards women’s full participation in the workforce has been too slow, the organisation says. It’s calling for the implementation of a strategy that will help Australia move more than 250,000 more women into the workforce, thereby “realising the full economic opportunity” of such a boost.

Help at hand for training more skilled workers GOOD news for businesses throughout the region looking to boost the skills of their employees, with the establishment of an Industry Skills Fund to the tune of nearly half a million dollars.

The federal government’s fund aims to help businesses “upskill” their workers through

training opportunities and business advice over the next four years.

Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton, says the days of “training for training’s sake” are over and that the fund will help support employers to decide what kind of training is relevant for their business and sector and which training provider they want to work with.

The Industry Skills fund is part of the government’s program of VET (vocational education and training) reform, aimed at lifting the quality of both training providers and the courses they offer.

“This will help boost the contribution VET makes to the employment prospects of students and the competitiveness of Australia’s economy.”

Businesses wanting support to train workers will be required to make a contribution of between 25 and 75 per cent to the cost of training. The co-contribution rate depends on the number of employees, with smaller businesses receiving higher levels of support.

Guidelines and more information are available at www.business.gov.au/industryskillsfund Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, throughout the year.

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Careful cropping needed ahead of hot autumn

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

ITH a hot autumn predicted for the season ahead, Central Tablelands Local Land Services pastures officer Phil Cranney says planning is already under way for getting the best out of winter crops in the district.

“Farmers will be looking at their risk profile and working out whether there will be sub-optimal moisture levels,” he told Dubbo Weekender ahead of Monday’s breakfast meeting for farmers at Yeoval Bowling Club.

The gathering will focus on winter crop variety options, crop nutrition and other frost risk management tools.

Central Tablelands Local Land Services will host agronomists Colin McMaster, Michael Horton and Neroli Brennan who will discuss what to expect and how to best manage the upcoming sowing period.

“Col McMaster’s GRDC and NSW DPI-funded trials have local relevance to growers in the Tomingley, Yeoval, Cumnock and Wellington areas.

“With highly variable weather conditions affecting normal growth patterns of many wheat and canola varieties, it is great to have research being done locally to provide some evidence based options to farmers seeking to spread risk,” Cranney points out.

With the winter planting season set down from early April through to June, depending on the crop itself, Cranney says careful planning is required at this stage.

“So much yield has been lost in previous years, it’s difficult to predict idea planting times, but the aim is to reduce risk to the crop and have maximum yield potential.”

At this time, clearing fallow, ensuring that weeds

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aren’t stealing moisture and ensuring that there’s plenty of nutrients in the ground are the all-important measures that need to be taken.

Of course, farmers will be hoping for autumn rain and minimum winter frost but management of conditions is important too.

Employers in the region are being urged to consider how employing a person with a disability could add real value to their business, with Member for Parkes Mark Coulton embarking on a myth-busting campaign.

He spoke this week in parliament about the barriers that can prevent people with a disability from entering the workforce, saying the productivity levels of employees with a disability are on average equal or higher to that of other workers.

“Workers compensation claims are

Central West Local Land Services cropping officer Neroli Brennan says the information will be useful for farmers who experienced frost losses last year.

“There were some big losses in the Condobolin and Nyngan areas due to frost damage in 2014,” she said.

“Giving producers the opportunity to access the lat-

no higher for people with a disability, and evidence shows these workers have lower rates of absenteeism,” he said.

“One in six Australians of working age has a disability, but often the disability can be minor and the employer may not even know.”

There are a number of employment services available to help businesses and individuals with disability employment, integrating education and training, non-vocational assistance, rehabilitation services, work experience, job search and job placement.

Local Dubbo organisation Break Thru People Solutions came in for special mention, with Coulton commending the operation for highlighting disability employment and encouraging local businesses to consider how employing a person with a disability may work for their business.

Grants help make region “stronger, safer” THE NRMA Insurance Community Grants program is now open for application from groups looking to establish

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est agronomy research will enable them to make better evidence-based decisions on planting time, variety selection and crop nutrition.”

Cranney agrees, saying: “You can delay sowing until moisture levels are ideal or you can make selection according to topography and variety.

“Plant more susceptible crops in lower areas if the frost is severe and review the variety, even choosing a later-maturing plant to avoid maximum damage.”

Ag ‘n’ Vet agronomist for the Wellington and Yeoval areas, Michael Horton, will also be at the meeting to provide a commercial perspective on crop agronomy from the local area along with a local perspective to back up the research done by Colin McMaster, a research agronomist based at Cowra.

“You can delay sowing until moisture levels are ideal or you can make selection according to topography and variety.”

– Central Tablelands Local Land Services pastures officer Phil Cranney local initiatives to make their communities “safer, stronger and more confident” The program provides funding of up to $5,000 for projects in the areas of crime prevention, road safety and emergency readiness and response.

Applications can be made online at www.communitygrantsprogram. com.au, where community groups can also find hints and tips on applying for grants as well as videos from previous grant recipients.

Spokesperson Jennifer Cobley said the grants program provides a great

Neroli Brennan “It is great to see some large quantities of lime go out early this year in some regions,” he says.

“Farmers are keen to plough profits back into their business when the money is there. For those who have controlled the green bridge, their preparation for the 2015 winter sowing season looks great.”

As well as crop agronomy, focus at the pre-sowing meeting will also be on the newly-released self-assessable codes for native vegetation management.

Local Land Services officer Jeff Boyd will be on hand to clarify any queries.

“The codes are fairly straight forward, but producers often have a ‘what if...’ question that can’t be answered by the internet – that’s where I can help,” he says.

The meeting also provides a networking opportunity for farmers and a chance for the land services representatives to receive feedback on what challenges are being faced on the ground. » The breakfast meeting is open to all farmers and starts at 7am (for a 7.30am start) at Yeoval Bowling Club on Monday, March 9, finishing at 9am.

Entry is FREE, but guests must RSVP for catering purposes.

opportunity for local groups to get support for the work they do, or to get a new project “off the ground”.

Last year, the NRMA grants supported a range of projects including those to reduce youth crime, improve bicycle and pedestrian safety, strengthen disaster resilience and minimise recyclable waste.

Applications close at 5pm on Tuesday, March 31, with grants ranging from $500-$5000. Groups interesting in applying can do so online at w w w.communit ygrantsprogram. com.au

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A Buddhist monk prays at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok before a ceremony on Makha Bucha Day March 4, 2015. The Dhammakaya temple members include some of Thailand's most powerful politicians and is regarded as the country's richest Buddhist temple. Makha Bucha Day honours Buddha and his teachings, and falls on the full moon day of the third lunar month. PHOTO: REUTERS/DAMIR SAGOLJ

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A health problem we mustn't forget

BY LISA SALMON STILL ALICE hasn't just scooped Julianne Moore a Best Actress Oscar, the film has also put dementia in the spotlight.

The movie, about a doctor who discovers she has early-onset Alzheimer's, will no doubt resonate with millions – and for composer Ilan Eshkeri, who wrote the film's haunting soundtrack, it was also a chance to express his own experience of the illness.

Eshkeri's grandmother has Alzheimer's, and he says her battle, and the fact two of his friends lost family members to the condition (director Matt Whitecross and Ash lead singer Tim Wheeler, whose fathers both had Alzheimer's), was behind his decision to create the score for Still Alice.

"The subject matter for me was very important. My grandmother has old age dementia, which has been hard for my family," says Eshkeri, 37. "It really connected with me and I knew I had to do it.

"Emotionally, I found it quite a cathartic experience," he admits.

"Some of the lines in the film really hit me, and the process did take me to some dark places."

ON THE RISE The condition is touching more and more lives – there are more than 340,000 Australians living with dementia , and numbers are rising steadily, with one in every 14 people aged 65 and over affected.

Dementia describes many different brain disorders that trigger a progressive loss of brain function, and while Alzheimer's is the most common form, affecting 62 per cent of dementia patients, there are many other types too, including vascular dementia,

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Scooter users urged to stay safe DUBBO’S many mobility scooter users are being urged to put safety first with the launch this

which affects 17 per cent of those diagnosed, and mixed dementia, affecting 10 per cent, according to British research by the Alzheimer's Society .

Symptoms include memory loss, confusion and problems with speech and understanding. The condition is ultimately terminal, but for the most part, it's living with it which is often most difficult – as well as being immensely distressing for the sufferer, it can be devastating and heartbreaking for their loved ones, too.

SEEKING SUPPORT "People with dementia can go downhill very fast, or they can stay well for as long as possible," explains Professor June Andrews, whose new book – Dementia: The One-Stop Guide – aims to help improve the quality of life for people with dementia, and make life easier for those close to them.

"Going downhill fast is expensive and unpleasant, and this book gives the information you need if you're seriously attempting to stay as well as possible for as long as possible," she explains.

She points out that many people with dementia don't get a proper diagnosis, and if they do, they're often not given any useful information about how to help themselves.

"This is getting a little better, but it's a lottery," she warns.

practical issues too, including issues around home care, choosing care homes, and making changes at home.

"It's difficult telling someone they have dementia, but doctors also need to point people in the right direction – although some even think there's no point telling them, because there's nothing they can do.

"Given the right information, families can look after relatives with dementia for a long time, but the problem is when they try to do it without the information they need," she says.

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PRACTICAL MEASURES As well as emotional support, Andrews recognises that a lot of families affected by dementia may need advice and help with

Composer Ilan Eshkeri. PHOTO: PA

week of a nation-wide awareness campaign.

The public at large is similarly charged with being aware of scooters while they’re out and about, and the campaign comes after a survey revealed the number one concern for those using “gophers” and the like was actually simply crossing the road.

Users also told researchers from specialist mobility scooter company Blue Badge Insurance, they were worried about cars reversing from driveways and about poor footpath infrastructure – all of which makes it hard for them to get around and often forces them onto the roads. This presents a significant risk of accidents to both the users, and for the gen-

There are many lifestyle changes that can help keep symptoms at bay a little longer, Andrews says, stressing that one of the most important of these is exercise, which appears to protect the brain.

eral public.

The survey is a timely reminder for everyone in the community to pay attention and keep a look out for “lower profile devices” that are often simply not noticed.

Wild mushies not so magic for health THERE’S a simple pleasure in collecting wild mushrooms – just don’t eat them.

Thanks to an unseasonal rise in the number of reported poisonings across the state, authorities have issued a health warning, taking the humble wild mushie off the menu. Recent wet and humid conditions have combined for ideal growing conditions for wild

Mental stimulation is also vital for people with dementia, from simply doing crosswords to playing bingo. Other potentially worthwhile approaches include not smoking, only drinking in moderation, eating a healthy diet, taking vitamins, getting good quality sleep and socialising.

Andrews warns that while some medication for Alzheimer's can temporarily delay the disease process, other dementia treatment is for symptom control and keeping well. There is currently no cure, and if/when the dementia gets to the later stages, and the patient no longer even recognises family and friends, it can be heartbreaking.

But, she advises: "You should always assume that they are with you right to the very end.

"They may not be able to communicate with you like they used to, but chances are you're communicating with them, and they can tell from your touch or your smile or the tone of your voice that you're there, and they're safe."

mushrooms, many of which are toxic according to Dr Brett Summerell of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

People in the Orana region are well used to seeing mushrooms growing wild, and are mostly aware of the risks, but it’s worth noting again that eating the toxic varieties can make you seriously sick. Dr Jeremy McAnulty, from NSW Health says the warning has been prompted by an increase in poisonings.

“So far in February 10 people have attended NSW hospital emergency departments with poisoning after eating wild mushrooms – eight more cases than is usually recorded for this time of the year.”

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

Is work making you unhealthy?

BY ROD FARDELL PERSONAL TRAINER

PROFESSOR ANDREWS' TOP TIPS FOR KEEPING AN ACTIVE MIND z If you don't use it, you lose it – keep thinking and doing. z Meet other people and talk; gossip is good. z Join a book group and read new things. z Learn how to do a new dance; exercise helps your brain. z Bingo, crosswords – whatever hobby you're most likely to stick with, keep it up.

THOUGHT this week we should focus on the workplace, considering most Australians spend up to 40 hours or more in their allocated work space.

Good health is really based around three things: food intake, physical movement and most importantly how you see the other two (mentally). The human body was made to move and when we don’t move it and continue to eat beyond our metabolic requirements, we can naturally gain weight in the form of fat.

But how is this relevant to our workplace?

In the past, our work environments were a hive of some physical movement. Even office jobs had the benefit of workers getting up and physically lifting paper on and off the photocopier in single copies, or hand delivering messages to others and so on. Hard core labour and building jobs have become so technically advanced that hammering a nail is now an art form. Landscaping is the much the same when you consider the amount of chemical and types of machinery that reduce physical effort. Even farming, whose innovation has become synonymous with more results for less time expended means fewer physical requirements in most cases.

This has given rise to a whole new generation of the workforce who are sitting on their backsides doing what I’m doing now – typing on a computer.

The downside to all this as can be clearly seen is the increase of over-weight related issues – diabeties, obesity, heart disease, back complaints, cancer and depression. Sitting for long periods in front of computer is not good for the human body and any occupational therapist will tell you first-hand the effects that long term use has on your physical structure.

While some employees already have a drive for better health though their own physical pursuits, it’s time to move forward from a work place perspective.

So what’s the way forward? A number of bigger corporations in metropolitan areas now have lunch time classes or provide gym facilities through memberships that are subsidised to promote greater health. Better health normally means better productivity, happier work environments, fewer sick days and is a big winner for the employee stuck behind a desk for 8 to 12 hours a day.

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STAY WELL WITH DEMENTIA z Exercise – whatever you enjoy, you will be more likely to keep up. z Hydrate – people who are dry get confused, and also get infections. z Socialise – it makes a real difference, make phone calls or get a pet. z One glass of red wine or champagne a day is said to work. z Don't ever get drunk – it destroys brain cells and you need to conserve them. z Stop smoking – the sooner

the better because the benefits start on day one. z Make design changes in your house to increase light and avoid falls. z Eat well – the Mediterranean diet, including fish and fresh veg, is good. z Sleep well – if you get outside in the day you'll sleep better at night. z Don't worry – stress makes dementia much worse, so try to avoid it.

Dementia: The One-Stop Guide

by Professor June Andrews is published by Profile

Weekender would like to point out that these cases occurred mostly in coastal and metropolitan areas, but warns that those wild-mushroom hunters in this region should still take care. If in doubt, don’t.

Grocers, supermarkets and the farmers’ markets in particular have great mushrooms for sale – a much safer option.

If you experience any symptoms following wild mushroom ingestion, please contact the NSW Poisons Information Centre on 13 11 26 urgently.

In an emergency, Call 000 for an ambulance or seek treatment through your doctor or Emergency Department of your nearest hospital.

People in the Orana region are well used to seeing mushrooms growing wild, and are mostly aware of the risks, but it’s worth noting again that eating the toxic varieties can make you seriously sick.

Regionally, while some groups (in the minority, unfortunately) will run corporate health work-shops, education is only a small part of the cog, most organisations don’t really go to the core of making their work places more productive and health positive. This is mostly due to employees abusing any right they are given to assistance to improve their health and not being motivated for the right reasons in the first place. Your health is most important thing you will ever have.

Making your work place better from a health perspective doesn’t cost the earth and it won’t take away either time or money. It means, as a leader of your organisation, you need to lead from the front on health.

That means leading a healthy lifestyle yourself and promoting that lifestyle among your peers. Filtering down will mean you catch more employees keen on getting involved externally as well. This could be as simple as creating teams that do multi-sport, touch football, walking groups or events that are happening in your community in which employees can get involved. If obesity is a massive problem, running a weight loss competition can be a positive way to boost health.

However, not identifying the issues by talking with your employees is a real negative.

Having someone who is trained in health and fitness come into the workplace from and objective perspective is a fantastic way of bringing the real health issues to the table. It’s not about money and it needn’t be time consuming for the employee or the employer.

While new stand-up desks and exercise cycles are now leading some organisations to consider structural health in the long term, true change can only come from the leaders in the organisation and employees buying in to a life style with greater health and what that brings to everyone.

Time to think outside the box. Reminds of a saying: Be ignited by passion, fuelled by laughter and challenged by creativity.

Have a good one.

Making your work place better from a health perspective doesn’t cost the earth and it won’t take away either time or money.

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A passion for cheesecake... the healthy way

BY KATE WRIGHT WWW.INSPIREDMOOD.COM.AU

NE of the best things about living in Dubbo is its summers. Yep, give me that burning sun and searing, dry heat of summer over muggy northern or cool southern summers any day. However, I’m eternally grateful for the tropical fruits produced in the northern parts of our country. Summer just isn’t summer without mangoes or passionfruit.

It may be now the start of autumn, but there are still some mangoes floating around and – Dubbo being Dubbo – it’s still bloody hot! So I’m hanging onto the taste of summer and cooling down with this decadent dessert – raw, paleo mango and passionfruit cheesecake.

Mangoes are high in Vitamin C (good for the immune system) and Vitamin A (helps your organs work properly). They are also good sources of soluble dietary fibre (for proper bowel function) and Vitamin B6 (for your metabolism and brain function). However,

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it’s important to be aware that mangoes are also high in natural sugar and carbohydrate – too much of either can affect your energy levels, among other things.

I hope you enjoy this delicious dessert, whether it’s for a special occasion or if you’re just holding on to the taste of summer!

Raw Paleo Mango Passionfruit Cheesecake Ingredients Base 1 cup almonds 3 medjool dates, seeds removed 1 cup coconut flakes 1 tablespoon coconut oil Cheesecake 3 mangoes, skin and seed removed 10 passionfruit (approx 1 cup of pulp) 2 cups cashews, soaked in water for at least 4 hours 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract 200mL coconut cream Method Base 1. Combine almonds, dates and coconut in a food pro-

cessor and blend until crumbly.

2. Gradually add the coconut oil.

3. Transfer to a 20cm springform cake pan and press with the back of a spoon to even out the base.

4. Place the base in the freezer.

Cheesecake 1. Strain ½ cup of the passionfruit pulp (reserve the remainder) over a medium sized saucepan and discard the seeds.

2. Add the mango flesh, roughly chopped, to the saucepan. Stir over low-medium heat until it comes to a simmer.

Continue stirring for about 2 minutes then turn off the heat and allow to cool.

3. Combine the mango and passionfruit with cashews, vanilla and coconut cream in food processor until smooth (depending on its size, you may have to blend in two batches).

4. Pour onto the cheesecake base, cover with cling wrap and place in the freezer overnight.

5. To serve, remove from the freezer and allow to sit for 5 – 10 minutes. Remove the sides of the springform pan and slice into wedges. Top with reserved passionfruit and coconut flakes.

Enjoy!

Serves 12.

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Meet the Cupcake King

BY KATE WHITING F there is a “baking royalty” in the cooking world then Tarek Malouf is surely next in line to the throne.

The founder of the exceedingly good Hummingbird Bakery in England brought cupcakes back into fashion when he opened the first of his six bakeries back in 2004, and is just about to publish his fourth – and very eagerly-awaited – cookbook, Life Is Sweet.

It’s the result of a three-week road trip in October 2013, around his spiritual baking home, America, which took him from New York to Atlanta, New Orleans and Dallas.

He stayed with friends and relatives, and demanded one thing: that they show him the best desserts in town.

“Many of the recipes are regional or known in an area in the US, but not known (elsewhere),” he says.

Because American bakery is not too familiar to the rest of the world, “it’s the equivalent of me writing a book on Indian cookery or Thai cookery – you’re teaching a new audience about something that’s already in existence that’s amazing, and you want them to experience it yourself”, he adds.

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They all feature names that defy your mouth not to water; Gooey Butter Cake, Molasses Pecan Crumb Cake, Red Velvet Ice Cream and Alabama Little Layer Cake, and those looking to wow their mums next Mother’s Day would do well to seek inspiration among the book’s brightly coloured pages.

“The rise is home baking is really nice to see,” adds Lebaneseborn Malouf, who moved to London when he was two.

“People are rediscovering the fun you can have making things yourself, and you get more adulation from friends and family when you bring in cookies or a big cake, rather than savoury food. There’s more of a wow factor, and people are always excited.”

For Malouf, the roots of American baking are steeped in traditional British recipes, but with added ingredients over the years, from the country’s rich melting pot of natives and immigrants.

By his own admission, he and his sister grew up in “an American bubble”, both attending an American school in Central London.

“American baking is fascinating to me, I love it,” he says.

“We used to visit the US once a year, and I have a couple of aunts and cousins who live there, so we used to stay with them. And I have a very sweet tooth, so between school and friends’ houses, and visiting and baking with my relatives, I developed a real taste for American desserts and cakes.”

Of course, Malouf has been asked countless times since launching Hummingbird Bakery, whether the cupcake trend is going to last – and 11 years on, he’s still convinced it’s not a passing fad.

“They appeal because they’re smaller, you’re eating it yourself, so you can be picky with the flavour.

It’s just a better version of a fairy cake, and hopefully not as dry!”

Fancy whipping up a batch, or a fancy American-inspired cake?

Below are three of Malouf’s new recipes for inspiration... :: The Hummingbird Bakery: Life Is Sweet: 100 Original Recipes For Happy Home Baking by Tarek Malouf is published in hardback by Fourth Estate

Tarek Malouf.

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HONEY CORNBREAD CUPCAKES (Makes 12) Using cornmeal to make cornbread was something the early European settlers in America learned from the Native Americans they encountered.

These cupcakes are sweet, denser than our normal sponges, and have a tangy cream cheese frosting flavoured with honey.

For the cupcakes: 170g yellow cornmeal (polenta) 135g plain flour 1tbsp baking powder 1tsp ground cinnamon 1/2tsp ground nutmeg 110g caster sugar 1tsp salt 2 large eggs 235ml whole milk 115g unsalted butter, melted 60g runny honey For the frosting: 340g unsalted butter, softened 75g runny honey 285g icing sugar 150g full-fat cream cheese, such as Philadelphia, cold To make the cupcakes, preheat the oven to 175C/ Gas 4, and line a 12-hole deep muffin tin with paper muffin cases.

In a large bowl, mix the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar and salt together thoroughly.

Using a freestanding electric mixer

with the whisk attachment or a hand-held electric whisk, whisk the eggs, milk, melted butter and honey together on a medium speed until very well combined. Add the dry ingredients on a low speed in one slow but steady addition. Mix thoroughly but don't overbeat.

Carefully scoop the mixture into the paper cases until three-quarters full.

Using a 50ml ice-cream scoop can make this process easier and will result in even cupcakes. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the cupcakes bounce back when lightly touched.

Leave to cool slightly before removing from the tin and placing on a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.

To make the frosting, in the bowl of a freestanding electric mixer with the paddle attachment, or using a hand-held electric whisk, beat the butter for a minute to loosen it up, then add the honey and beat for a minute. Slowly add the icing sugar on a low speed until incorporated and beat for two to three minutes until light and fluffy. Add the cream cheese and mix briefly until incorporated – don't overbeat or it will split and become runny.

Pipe or spoon generous amounts of the frosting onto each cupcake, gently smoothing over with a palette knife or spoon and making a nice swirl of frosting on each one.

EARL GREY TEA PIE (Makes a 23cm pie) Tea in the South is drunk often, but almost always iced and sweet. We have used Earl Grey tea to give added flavour to this recipe, but any black tea of your choice can be used. If you're not using Earl Grey, which is flavoured with bergamot, you can omit the grated fruit zest.

500g block shortcrust pastry, or 375g readyrolled shortcrust pastry 225g unsalted butter, softened 430g caster sugar 8 large egg yolks 175ml strong Earl Grey tea, lukewarm 1tbsp fresh lemon juice 1tsp grated mandarin zest (or clementine, tangerine or orange zest) 2tbsp plain flour 11/2tsp yellow cornmeal (polenta) 1/2tsp salt Preheat the oven to 175C/Gas 4.

If using shop-bought pastry, roll it out on a lightly floured surface

until it is about 5mm thick and line a 23cm pie dish. Crimp the edges to suit your decorative style and chill in the fridge for one hour.

Using a freestanding electric mixer with the paddle attachment or a hand-held electric whisk, cream the butter and sugar together for around five minutes on a medium-high speed until light and fluffy.

Add the egg yolks, one at a time, on a lower speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Carefully add the tea, lemon juice and mandarin zest to the mixture and mix in well. On a low speed, add the flour, cornmeal and salt – don't overbeat at this stage.

Pour the filling into the pie crust and bake for about 45 minutes. The pie should be quite firm, but still have a little wobble when you move the dish. Cool completely before serving – it will set as it cools down.

BROWNIE PUDDING (Makes a 23 x 32cm tin, to scoop or serve as desired) This baked pudding ends up with a soft brownie-like texture and is incredibly easy to make, as it doesn't really require much in terms of assembly and mixing. Once it's ready, the top will be firm to the touch, but the middle will still be soft and gooey, so the skewer test shouldn't be used here.

For the pudding: 245g plain flour 31/2tsp baking powder 3/4tsp salt 295g caster sugar 30g cocoa powder 250ml evaporated milk (unsweetened) 2tsp vanilla extract 50g butter, melted 200g chopped pecans For the topping: 275g soft light brown sugar 60g cocoa powder 750ml hot water (boil then let cool

slightly) Preheat the oven to 175C/Gas 4. Grease a 23 x 32cm tin with butter.

To make the pudding, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cocoa in a bowl.

Using a freestanding electric mixer with the paddle attachment or a hand-held electric whisk, beat the evaporated milk, vanilla and melted butter into the dry ingredients until smooth. Fold in the pecans by hand and spread the mixture evenly in the tin.

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T R AV E L | K E N YA

Kenya: Weekender’s resident creative writer-turned-intrepid-traveller, Val Clark, shares some insights from Watamu in Kenya, where she’s finding a country and a people of beauty, charm and contradiction.

PHOTOGRAPHY Val and Martin Clark GENTLE breeze brings relief from the humidity that presses in once we leave the pristine beach. I’ve been supervising two year old water baby, Moha. To keep this intelligent, energetic toddler occupied I’ve invented some games. Crocodile: I breast stroke towards him, blowing bubbles and, when I reach him, yell “Crocodile”, tickle him, pick him up and throw him into the water. Jaws: we throw sea weed and race for it, making Jaws theme-tune noises.

Over a sand dune and in the shade of a lean-to, I change Moha from his rashie into pants and t-shirt.

He plays happily in the sand with lids, bowl and plastic tubs.

I haven’t brought a book. None of my technology is charged or connected yet – but no withdrawal symptoms. It’s more than pleasant to sit and enjoy Moha, the breeze and the bowl of tropical sea just visible at the end of the path.

A Kenyan man approaches, props himself against the sturdy pole of the lean-to, smiles.

“Ah, Moha. Mamma Dawn, is snorkeling, hey? One day I would like to go with Mamma Dawn. For six hours she snorkels.

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“She’s snorkeling with my husband, Babu (grandfather) Martin,” I offer.

He nods, introducing himself as Simon. We shake hands and he tries to get his mouth around my strange sounding name.

He asks me, just as an Australian would, “What do you think of Kenya?”

I sort through my impressions to find the ones that are most flattering.

“Your people are very friendly and helpful.”

And they are.

Christine, who books us through on our flight with Kenya Airways (The Pride of Kenya) to Malindi, our final flight before meeting our friend Dawn, holidays in Watamu.

Informative John drives us 20 minutes to the Nairobi Hotel Apartments.

Long-suffering Mike not only drives us to Watamu, when Dawn fails to arrive at the airport, but up, down and around Turtle Beach Road, knocking on the gates of people who displayed the “Watamu against Crime” sign, asking if they knew where we could find Dawn’s allusive plot number.

Armena, Moha’s mother, is more hesitant to start with.

Lazarus, Dawn’s elderly gardener is low on English but big on smiles and sign language.

Articulate Selina sits next to me in Dawn’s car as we drive to Malindi.

There’s my neighbour, who lives outside our gated guest house, the Blue Bay Blessing, in one room with her husband and two children.

The female security guard at the entrance to the supermarket in Malindi smiles apologetically as she runs her explosives detector over us. Beside me a man undergoes a body search.

I ask Simon about the tourist trade. Watamu is usually busy, but not this year. Not after the terrorist attack in Nairobi in September 2013. I see it in the empty outdoor restaurants. The desperation of the people in the deserted Tourist Craft Markets in Malindi crowding around to sell something, anything to the only two tourist there. The Blue Turtle Resort restaurant, where we are the only customers for lunch.

Will Paris be as deserted when we get there? Or Sydney? How is its tourist trade faring?

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I wonder, also, what the Australian population would think of soldiers, visibly armed with automatic weapons, patrolling our airports and malls and standing behind the doors of banks?

I place my hand, splayed fingered on my heart. “Simon, my heart goes out to so many men who are unemployed. How it must break their hearts to not be able to feed their children.”

Simon nods. He knows. His work is precarious and, to give them the best advantage, he’s educating his two boys at a private school. I can’t tell him how much I hate the signs of poverty.

My neighbour is grateful to have a room to live in, hers is one of three. She prepares food, washes and hangs clothes on the little veranda out the front. Cooks on a small fire between her room and our wall. Her husband appears to have work. So many don’t.

Those who can’t afford to rent one room, what do they do? Where do they sleep? At night hundreds of cooking fires glow in the scrubland along the roadside, in the flat sand before the dunes that lead to the sea or vacant blocks outside Malindi. Daytime comes and they leave behind their rubbish. Black plastic bags

blow across a landscapes of black ash or hang impaled in the bushes like dead crows.

I can’t tell him of this or the stories I’ve heard of wife abuse.

Selina has almost finished a three year degree in social work. As soon as she gets work, she and her daughter will be leaving an abusive father.

Armena, Moha’s mother, came for two weeks to learn some craft skills and make items to sell, five months

Simon nods. He knows. His work is precarious and, to give them the best advantage, he’s educating his two boys at a private school. I can’t tell him how much I hate the signs of poverty.

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later... It quickly became clear she had the mental age of a not very bright eight year old, as well as memory issues. This secret was carefully guarded by her parents during the arranging of her marriage.

Armena was abused by her husband in front of Moha and this has left him disturbed. He wakes, hands clawed, full of uncontrollable anger, throwing around whatever isn’t nailed down. Early some mornings he creeps into Dawn’s bed. When he wakes she gently holds him down and he goes back to sleep, but this might happen several times over many hours. His adrenaline is always pumping.

I have a relative with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). His doctor said he’s always on high alert, adrenaline rushing, from three terms of duty in Vietnam.

I can’t help but wonder if Moha has PSTD after seeing his mother beaten. He will eventually be reunited with his father. Dawn is teaching Moha to severely say “No Pappa.” Dawn has found a free place for him in an international school. I can’t help but grieve for the uncertain future of the children in this beautiful country of contradiction.

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Winning contracts on civic projects is the kind of nod an interior designer or artist would like for their work. While Kyah Wilson has enjoyed exactly that, it’s painting cows that’s making a name for hers. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Ella McMillan YAH WILSON lives three minutes from the city of Dubbo’s CBD but looking across the sweeping views from her studio – over a grassy floodplain and distant stands of gum – she could well be living on well appointed acreage.

The bright-eyed mother of five, whose address actually is Macquarie Street, finds her semi-rural location great for marketing.

“To a lot of people, the country seems really idyllic. I laugh because I get the most beautiful sunsets here and if I get a really good one I'll take a photo of it and put it on Instagram.

I'll get more hits for my sunsets than my art!

“Actually when I went to Melbourne [to exhibit] everyone thought my husband was a cattle farmer. I used to have 12 cows and they’d come and lick the windows and stick their heads in the studio doors.”

The sliding glass doors she speaks of open into her white-walled studio and it was perhaps salt the cows were licking, because the building was trucked from the coast.

“This was my sister’s holiday accommodation on Lake Macquarie,” Wilson explains.

“Anyway, there was a massive windstorm – do you remember the fires? – it blew the roof off and because the roof and everything needed to be replaced we bought it and trucked it here.”

On two long tables pushed against a back wall are dozens of lidless spray cans, multicoloured paint pots and squeezed-flat tubes of oil paints clustered in organised chaos like the colourful leftovers from a feast of creative energy.

Their smell is strong and adds to the ambiance.

On an easel is a canvas streaked with peach and rust coloured paints – a work in progress.

Leaning against a wall is a large blue grey portrait of three doe-eyed cows, staring outward as if your presence there is what distracts them to look your way.

“That’s my money maker,” the popular artist explains cheerfully. “Everyone wants cows.

They sell like ‘that,” she says, flicking her wrists for emphasis. “It’s a niche.”

The former student of fine arts at TAFE and the College of Fine Arts in Paddington sounds genuinely surprised but pleased her creative journey has brought her to this point.

“If someone said to me two years ago that I'd be making a living out of painting cows, I

as an interior designer and just finished the Barden Park Athletic Centre; she’s also designed interiors for the council building and the airport.

“I only say yes to the big ones now. That’s why I said yes to Barden Park. My colour is all around Dubbo and no one knows it,” she says, modestly agreeing that will change once Dubbo Weekender goes to print this week.

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T’S change that first started things rolling for Wilson with her cows.

“When we sold our house in Tamworth Street I quickly did paintings for the sale of that house and a few people had been interested so I thought maybe I should do something.

“I dropped a painting to a friend’s shop in Wellington – she was moving into a new space and it sold by the time I arrived back in Dubbo. She rang me on the way home and said “it's sold”. I screamed. I was just in shock.

Straight away I realised I was onto something because all my friend had said was that she wanted something “a bit country”. The first one was a steer's head, which was really rustic with an old wooden homestead panel frame, very Australiana-type.

“I dropped another one out there, and I went next door to get a drink and it had sold by the time I got back!

“Everything with that sort of theme just sold like that. It was so good. And then within a couple of months I was contacted by a gallery in Wagga, which said they wanted cows, and they sold overnight as soon as they went there,” she says.

“Then I was contacted by a gallery in Moree to exhibit with the established artist, Catherine Stewart, who is amazing.

“I've been thrown in the deep end. Honestly the number of times I've been out of my comfort zone this year has been phenomenal.

Everything I've done I've been asked to do.

I've been approached either through word of mouth, Facebook or Instagram. I've never approached anyone.”

While many artists apply for grants, do shows or aim for prizes to pay for paints and make a living, social media has been a key to Wilson’s success.

“Facebook was my first step to pitch myself out there. I procrastinated about it for so long.

I just didn't want to (do it). As an artist you're always really scared of showing your work. It

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would have laughed in their face. I'm doing it full time. I paint seven days a week, pretty much, and I cannot keep up.”

Keeping up is one reason she doesn’t do commissions because the nature of working to other people’s wishes is all consuming.

“It's hard to read people's minds, especially when you have two people like a husband and wife, and they have two different ideas.

Even though it was really good to do different things, I sort of felt I had to answer to someone all the time.”

Not that answering to others is a problem, per se. For some years Wilson has worked

If someone said to me two years ago that I'd be making a living out of painting cows, I would have laughed in their face.

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makes you vulnerable. You reveal yourself. Obviously there are lots of critics and either they like it or they don't, it’s very subjective, so that was a massive step for me. Instagram too is phenomenal because it's for ‘creatives’. It’s really good.”

Building her art studio and producing work has required many hours of long dedicated periods of time, but the rewards are many.

“A highlight was definitely Melbourne. I was asked to exhibit last year, with a lot of established artists. I was just shocked that they asked me. I went down there for the opening and I won the People's Choice. I couldn't believe it, and it was with a cow, which I never thought would sell in Melbourne.

“But that's what they wanted, they asked for animals. I sold four of them. I did the best out of every artist there.”

LTHOUGH her works strike a chord with buyers, it’s taken some time for Wilson to realise why.

“Men like my art. When I had my exhibition at Moree I had a number of men come up to me and say “I get this”. They'd been to heaps of exhibitions and they just don't get it but they like what I do. Lots of rural people and heaps of buyers say their husbands like my paintings.”

Selling her art is rewarding, naturally, but it’s clear from talking to Kyah Wilson that she just loves what she gets to do every day.

“I love seeing my art in a beautiful shop or a gallery I love it, love it!” she says smiling. “It's really, really nice seeing your artwork in a window of a gallery.

“I get to go on lots of drives. Like I dropped a quirky cows painting to Jumbled, a store in Orange. I walked in there and it’s the most beautiful shop and I said I just love my job, and the girl that was working there said “So do I”. It's relaxing to drive around to drop off my paintings.”

The act of painting is surprisingly not a type of relaxation or meditation for this busy artist – it’s something altogether different.

“I don't even know how I do this,” she points the blue grey cows.

“That took me four days all up. I do spend a lot of hours on it. Plus there's drying in between. I have no idea how I can do it, it just happens. I sit back and have to ask myself, ‘how do I do that?’ I paint and paint and paint. I hate stopping, hence my fitness suffered and my health suffered this last year,” she laments. “I barely cooked dinner last year, and the house... well everything’s changed, for the whole family.”

One certainty in Wilson’s life, which seems to have remained constant, is her relationship with art.

“My parents knew I had some sort of talent. They knew I could draw. Both my parents could draw really well. They didn't care or mind what I did really but I was always going to do something creative.”

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Cultural showcase puts town on the map Nelson Smith. PHOTO: ASHER MILGATE

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

ESPITE a plethora of artists, dancers, musicians and theatrical groups, Wellington has never had, to the best of my knowledge, a dedicated arts body solely operating to benefit the town’s artistic heart. That is until now.

Launched on Saturday, February 28, Wellington Arts 2820 describes itself as a “new and inclusive peak arts organisation for the Wellington (NSW) Local Government Area, focussed on developing and promoting the arts sector of the community, through advocating, representing and expanding the talents and events that are experienced in our beautiful district”.

Saturday’s launch proved a good starting point for that quest with art, dance, music and theatre combining for one big showcase at the Civic Centre venue.

The event began with an introduction by emcee Terry Frost followed by a Welcome to Country then the official opening by the organisation’s founder Danielle Anderson, who also runs Wellington Business Services.

Anderson happily announced that the council had agreed to fund the arts body in its infancy to the tune of $30,000, news that brought a round of applause and plenty of smiles around the room.

“We want to help artists and arts groups to grow and expand...link local artists, performers and arts organisations to regional networks.”

Wellington Arts 2820 has worked closely with Arts Outwest to get off the ground in its opening stages.

That this group has been launched against the tide of closures in the town is a good sign that there is still passion and cohesion in the community which often lives unnecessarily in Dubbo’s shadow.

Of the funding, Wellington Council’s strategic and planning services director Peter Harlow told Weekender they were “committed to developing arts and cultural activities’ in a process that’s inclusive of all groups”.

Anderson’s announcement was followed by a theatrical and dance display by a range of performers including Rick Bremner, Kate Jeffery and members of Circus West.

Next up, singers including Mick Austin, Tracie Budd, Terry Leonard and Ellie Flanagan entertained the

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crowd with their vocal arrangements throughout the afternoon.

Around the room, the works of local artists such as Sue Towney and Eris Fleming hung alongside photos from the resident photo club along with shots by Rebekah Ryan, Mark Griggs and Emmalee Holmes to name a few.

There were stands promoting the Wellington Amateur Theatrical Society and their latest production, Oliver, as well as the upcoming Quota art exhibition along with a display from the local dance troupe, Asher Milgate’s upcoming exhibition and Wellington Show Society.

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Some ecstasy along with the agony

BY CHERYL BURKE DRTCC

WAS surprised to read recently that “agony aunts” originated in the 17th century and as such have existed for a smidgen more than 300 years.

For those defining their family as dysfunctional and thinking a lamb roast dinner with miserable Aunty Beatrice every Sunday is the most torturous day of their week, well, that’s a different sort of agony aunt.

The agony aunt of which I write is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “a person, usually a woman, who gives advice to people with personal problems, especially in a regular magazine or newspaper article”.

Today the ability to seek advice or answers from agony aunts has increased ten-zillion-fold thanks to the World Wide Web. Increasingly both newspapers and magazines are going digital and for people not wanting to put pen to paper, a response can be sought by flicking off a quick email.

There is also the option to consult with countless other agony aunts who have established their reputation as life-advice gurus through their own website or Facebook pages. Or to even seek answers from those who are well established in the literary world, such as Haruki Murakami. Murakami, a Nobel Prize candidate and celebrated Japanese author, briefly entered the domain as an agony “uncle” earlier this year, requesting his readers to surrender their woes and ask him anything they pleased.

Potentially great material for his next novel, questions ranged from how to be a better writer, how to lose weight, how to get over a relationship, how to be accepting of someone who burps in public, is the pen really mightier than the sword and do cats understand how humans feel.

Now, while we at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) may not encounter such a broad array of questions from patrons, as box office staff we often find ourselves inadvertently lending a sympathetic ear and solving dilemmas.

••• Dear DRTCC: Your problems answered...

Recently I had an operation on my left knee. It is still very painful and I am taking a while to recover. My wife has been very patient while I recuperate, making my favourite dinners, driving me to appointments, letting me be in charge of the TV remote control, even mowing the lawn. When I am more active I would like to treat her to a night at the theatre as a thank-you, but I am worried I won’t make it up the stairs and that my knee will still be stiff. What can I do? – Gammy Knee Dear Gammy Knee, We are very sorry to hear of your discomfort and that your recovery is taking longer than anticipated.

Your wife sounds like a good woman and a night at the theatre would do you both the world of good. Should you wish to sit closer to the stage, Door 1 would provide you with easy access and you could book seats in Row A, or in Row B if you can manage a couple of stairs. If you prefer to sit further away you could use the lift and sit in Row O or P. We would suggest you book a seat on the end of the row as we do not have a centre aisle and you will be able to extend your leg should it still not be 100 per cent.

••• LAST week I lost my license. I do admit it was totally my fault but I had just finished looking through the 2015 Oscars Red Carpet Trend: Light Colours photo gallery that had appeared in my Facebook feed and then realised it was 3.17pm. I was in such a hurry to get to school pickup I didn’t notice I was going 57 in a 50 zone. I was so mad I even swore at the police officer; he was very understanding but nonetheless issued me a ticket and now all my points have disappeared. I feel very isolated and out of touch not seeing your flyers in the cafes I would normally frequent weekly with my friends. How can I conquer my loneliness? – Lonely Dear Lonely, It takes a strong person to admit they were wrong

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and your acknowledgement of the mistake will help you become a better driver who observes the speed limit in the future. Although you are without a licence and unable to read our flyers during outings with your friends, you can still keep in touch with us by signing up to receive our eNewsletter, liking us on Facebook and browsing our website from time to time. We often announce special prices and promotional codes on Facebook so while your friends are busy driving around town you will be the first to get the inside scoop.

••• I AM 26, single and currently paying off a mortgage and looking for love. I enjoy going to the theatre and especially liked the matte finish on your 2015 Season Brochure and read it from cover to cover. Recently I met a guy in the supermarket and he seems really nice.

We exchanged mobile numbers while in the produce aisle and have met up for drinks after work and been on a movie date. We have a lot in common and he wants to up the ante and mentioned he would like to take me to the theatre. He appears to be husband material but what if he buys tickets for a show I don’t like and don’t want to see? – Worried Dear Worried,

We are excited to hear you may have a chance at finding love. Meeting in the produce aisle is a good omen and could mean your potential husband avoids packaged and processed foods in the middle aisles and will have a longer life expectancy. You do not want to appear outwardly rude and suggest your new beau purchase you a gift certificate, so it would be a good idea to place post-it tabs throughout your Season Brochure marking the shows you would like to see. By accidently dropping this from your handbag on your next date you will determine two things; a) Your boyfriend is a gentleman because will pick it up for you; and b) Your boyfriend is husband material because he will take the hint and book tickets to at least one of the shows you have bookmarked.

Personally I have never sought advice or answers from an agony aunt, although I do often wonder if dogs understand how humans feel. Note that the questions posed in this piece are fictitious. Characters and incidents are products of my imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Any non-fictitious characters can direct their agony aunt questions to info@drtcc. com.au •••

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Judi Dench: Dame for a laugh

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with Judi Dench as Evelyn Greenslade.

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BY KEELEY BOLGER AME JUDI DENCH has a problem with growing older.

“I don’t like ‘age’ much. Is getting older better? No. There’s nothing good about it,” remarks the 80-year-old.

Perhaps inevitably, the acclaimed actress often finds herself fielding questions about retirement and advancing years, and she doesn’t care for it – and today, as pleasantly and politely as she addresses it, she isn’t about to be drawn into an involved discussion over whether ageing is something she relishes or not.

As the York-born star has shown us time and time again, though, age is no barrier to performance.

There’s her fantastic turn as M in the Bond films, her Oscar-nominated portrayal of a true-life mother searching for the son she was forced to give up for adoption in Philomena, and of course, her role as sweet-natured widow Evelyn

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in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

Its sequel is released this month and, like the first movie, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, about a motley older community making new lives for themselves in India, also starring the likes of Dame Maggie Smith, Celia Imrie and Richard Gere, elegantly bridges humour and drama.

“Evelyn has much more courage than I would have. I wouldn’t go off to India if my husband had just died. I wouldn’t have had that courage to go to a foreign country, where I didn’t know anything about it. I might, perhaps, go as far as Scotland or Cornwall...” says Dench, who has a 42-year-old daughter called Finty.

“I understand that thing of saying to your children, ‘I don’t want to be a burden, I don’t want to hang around and for you to have to look after me’. But that wouldn’t be me, I’m not brave like that.”

In this latest instalment, Evelyn is now considering a new career in fash-

ion, which was a joy for Dench, who has a healthy disregard for wearing the opposite of “what people think you should wear”.

“What you find is that the thing which is most comfortable, is the thing that probably suits you most and you’ll move best in. Whereas you could be in something that’s frightfully fashionable and probably looks alright, but you can be in agony in it. And all you’ll remember is the agony. Not worth it,” she notes, looking as chic as ever today, with her trademark crop highlighting that enviable bone structure.

Evelyn also finds herself in emotional turmoil this time round, as she grapples with her feelings for the affable Douglas, played by Bill Nighy.

While she never “judges” the characters she plays, preferring instead to “try and understand them – with all their failings, strengths and misgivings”, she did enjoy continuing the will-theywon’t-they love story.

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BY SAM STRUCKHOFF Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (PG) The kooky museum figures who come to life at night are in trouble – their magic spell is fading and they have to go on a cross-continental adventure to fix it! This third instalment in the Ben Stiller action-comedy for kids takes museum guard Larry (Stiller) to London with his crew of animated exhibits – notably Teddy Rosevelt (Robin Williams); Octavius, the tiny centurion (Steve Coogan); and Jedidiah, the tiny cowboy (Owen Wilson).

The movie is (supposedly) the last one

“I think having somebody around to go and do things and have a laugh with is very important indeed,” says the star, whose husband Michael Williams died in 2001 (she’s now in a “lovely” relationship with conservationist David Mills).

Laughing is something Dench, recently seen on British TV in BBC’s big-hearted Esio Trot with Dustin Hoffman, does a lot, whether she’s gossiping with Graham Norton on his chat show, posing in a baseball cap with ‘Dench’ (now a colloquial term for ‘cool’) emblazoned on it, or mischief-making on set.

“I have a reputation for behaving quite badly,” she admits, confessing that she’s been known for playing tricks on her co-stars.

“I don’t do it so much now, but I used to. I have played jokes on people, you know, very, very subtly so the audience can’t see. I find it irresistible.”

During a miserably wet day while filming period drama Cranford a few years back, she started a game where all in the series, and revs up audience-interest early on with the change of scenery and the sense of urgency in the plot. Without a whole lot left in the tank for these characters, the movie goes for a kind send-off to the historical goofballs.

Listen Up Philip (M) Philip’s soon-to-be released book will surely rocket him to the top of the literary world, landing him high among the geniuses. He’s a brilliant success, and it’s frustrating that nobody has realised it yet. Jason Schwartzman plays the self-absorbed author, who ditches his girlfriend (Elizabeth Moss) to spend time on himself at a country home owned by his mentor (Johnathan Pryce).

This protagonist is just so unlikable,

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Judi Dench as Evelyn Greenslade and Bill Nighy as Douglas Ainslie.

the cast had to make a boat out of a piece of paper – but her costar Dame Eileen Atkins didn’t quite follow the rules.

“Eileen made a car out of it,” the actress recalls, laughing. “I said, ‘You’re absolutely disqualified from the game!’”

Doubtless, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel director John Madden can attest to that sense of youthful fun.

He’s full of praise for her “warmth and humanity” and “skill set to die for”, but also says: “She’s funny as hell!”

“I mean she’s totally disrespectful of whatever she’s doing, of everybody around her...

[But] she’s loyal and she gives everything to what she’s doing.

She’s a force of nature, extraordinary. Everything about her is special.”

Dench happily admits she and Maggie Smith were reduced to “giggling girls” during their eight-week shoot in India, passing their spare time playing word game Bananagrams (incidentally, a game Dench taught Smith, who in turn introduced it to her Downton Abbey colleagues).

“I was swimming in the hotel one day and Maggs was in her room. She said, ‘Oh Judi, go and get Bananagrams’,” Dench explains, recalling how their hotel boasted a pool right out-

side their rooms.

“So I swam back, went in, got the Bananagrams, tied it round my head and swam back – and she took a photograph!”

Dench is such a fan of Bananagrams, she credits playing the game, as well as doing crosswords and taking up new activities, for keeping her mind active.

“I think you’ve got to find wit and humour in things. You’ve got to want to learn something all the time. I like being shown.

I’m just learning how to carve soapstone, which I’ve never done before. It’s just a new thing to be excited about.”

While she’s clearly passionate about her hobbies, thankfully there’s no sign she’ll be giving up her day job any time soon. After all, “it’s earning a living and enjoying yourself while you do it”.

“I wouldn’t do it if I really didn’t think I was going to have a lovely time, meet new people, make new friends, and play a few games and a few tricks,” she says.

“That’s the vital thing, isn’t it?”

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that by the end you’ll wonder how you sympathised with him in the first place.

Part of Philip’s creative process is unloading emotional burdens on others and wallowing in the fallout. Still, it’s a fun sort of dark comedy, watching a success grow less and less redeemable.

The Liberator (MA15+) This Venezuelan historical epic chronicles the campaigns of Simon Bolivar, the revolutionary who fought against Spanish rule in South America. History buffs and those hoping for a nuanced character will be disappointed by the flat portrayal of Bolivar as a dashing and determined national hero. Edgar Ramirez has a fine track record playing complex and powerful characters in “Che” and “Carlos”, but

EXTRA TIME – FIVE THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT JUDI z She's surprising – Hot off the back of the Towie vajazzle trend, Dame Judi wowed crowds at the Skyfall premiere by wearing a stunning outfit, finished off with a gemencrusted '007' 'neckjazzle'. z She's coined a phrase – MC Lethal Bizzle is such a fan of Judi, his catchphrase is 'Dench', which he uses to describe something that's really cool. He also has the word emblazoned on a range of clothing. z Her sense of humour – The Dame is renowned for her filthy sense of humour, with Esio Trot's Dearbhla Walsh delighting in tell-

the script and direction of this flick veers strictly for the simplistic interpretation.

Wolfcop (MA15+) Sheriff Lou Garou (Leo Farfard) is a hard-drinking small-town lawman who has some terrible self-control issues. Wild and crazy demons give old Lou the curse of lycanthropy – turning the hopeless drunk into a night-prowling werewolf of justice. With his redneck sidekick, Wolfcop doesn’t just take a bite out of crime, he rips crime into bite-size chunks.

Instead of trying to be utterly terrible and hoping you’ll laugh, this obviously-in-poortaste actually has a sense of humour and makes some good use of it. It’s not solid all the way through, but it makes for a fine grind-tastic horror-comedy.

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office Week Ending 04.03.2015 1. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2. Fifty Shades Of Grey 3. Kingsman: The Secret Service (pictured) 4. Jupiter Ascending 5. Project Almanac 6. American Sniper 7. The Theory Of Everything 8. Paper Planes 9. Birdman 10. Still Alice

ing the press how naughty she was on set. z She stays sharp – At 80, she likes to keep her brain active, and one of her tricks is to memorise a new poem every single day. z Her potty-mouthed presents – She is known for crafting embroideries for her co-stars – with a cheeky twist! Actor Matthew MacFadyen once revealed: "You see she is doing this beautifully, intricate, ornate [work]. You see the work materializing as the shoot goes on, but the messages are like, 'You Are A F**ing S**t'."

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The injustices allowed by the American system Just Mercy makes the reader stop and think what injustices are allowed to be perpetrated in the American justice system, particularly those against children.

The ‘Land of the Free’ comes at a very high price if your life is blighted by poverty or racism.

9/10 Review by Roddy Brooks

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z BOOK OF THE WEEK Just Mercy: A Story Of Redemption And Justice by Bryan Stevenson is published in paperback by Scribe BRYAN Stevenson had no idea what to expect when he met and agreed to represent his first death row prisoner.

The young lawyer was quickly set on a steep learning curve as he championed the cause of many hundreds of clients who were either wrongly convicted or wrongly imprisoned, or both.

Stevenson’s work with the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organisation he set up in Montgomery, Alabama, has led to him winning many accolades and awards.

None other than Desmond Tutu describes Stevenson as “America’s Young Nelson Mandela” and the many he has helped would echo that sentiment.

Just Mercy is Stevenson’s frank account of the injustices he has faced and the wrongs he has helped overturn, some leading to landmark rulings in the Supreme Court which have sent legal shockwaves around America, particularly its anarchic Southern States.

Stevenson has encountered many prejudices in his fight to help the innocent and poor who’ve seen justice stolen away from them by the guilty and rich, aided and abetted by those empowered to uphold justice who have been more interested in seeking retribution regardless of guilt.

In a country still plagued by segregation, where vested interests have allowed racism to rule long after slavery was thought to be a thing of the past, Stevenson and his colleagues have been a shining light for truth and justice.

z FICTION Melnitz by Charles Lewinsky is published in paperback by Atlantic Books HAILED by many critics as Switzerland’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude, this epic family saga from Swiss author and screenwriter Charles Lewinksy finally sees publication in English – almost nine years after its original release in German.

Melnitz charts the lives of five generations of the Meijers, a Swiss-Jewish family, from the Franco-Prussian conflict to the Second World War. When cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer answers a knock at the door on a stormy night in 1871, little does he realise that it will turn his humdrum existence upside down.

Throughout the decades, the Meijers will encounter more strangers on their doorstep, bringing with them their own tempestuous consequences of love, loss and opportunity.

If ever there was a book that makes the reader want to wish away every other commitment, Melnitz is it. In this engrossing saga, Lewinsky has painted a rich and textured portrait of a normal, imperfect family dealing with the everyday challenges experienced by us all.

Within this, he has interwoven the anti-Semitic sentiment faced by Jews during this tumultuous period in history and the inherent guilt of feeling powerless while tragedy unfolds all around – something that is certain to resonate in our turbulent times.

9/10 Review by Zahra Saeed If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie is published in hardback by William Heinemann ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Will Cardiel lives in a small Canadian town with his agoraphobic mother Diane, painting masterpieces in rooms named after famous cities and

ordering all their needs from catalogues.

He knows no other world, but when he ventures Outside and meets a Native American boy called Marcus stealing from his garden, a passionate obsession begins, giving him the impetus to search when his ‘friend’ disappears.

Though struggling to understand society through his skewed education and violent tendencies, Will begins to discover things about his past that Diane would rather hide.

Parallels can be drawn with Emma Donoghue’s excellent Room and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time. Christie’s captivating debut novel has a wider scope and addresses societal tensions and deprivations through Will’s prismatic view.

The reader alternates between knowing more than the characters and searching to unravel the mystery – with creative prose and incremental pay-offs making its 300 pages fly by.

7/10 Review by Natalie Bowen Arab Jazz by Karim Miske (translated by Sam Gordon) is published in hardback by MacLehose THIS French thriller is a timely tale of religious extremists and corrupt cops running up against each in inner-city Paris. Its characters are drawn into a nightmarish plot that makes for uneasy reading in the wake of the murderous reality of the Charlie Hebdo attack.

It starts with Ahmed, a not very devoted Muslim, discovering the dead body of his neighbour and the beginnings of a plot to frame him for her murder.

From there the plot moves backwards and forwards in time and across the Atlantic to New York as a criminal conspiracy involving religious fundamentalists of many different faiths is unravelled.

First time novelist Miske, a filmmaker in his native France, offers up a poetic take on the traditional noir thriller

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which is one for crime fiction fans looking for something different to the usual tales of cops and robbers.

8/10 Review by Robert Dex

ous, once the story gets going, this is a must read for fans of Matthew Reilly and the action genre.

8/10 Review by Rachael Dunn

The Great Zoo Of China by Matthew Reilly is published in hardback by Orion BRACE yourself for non-stop action in this novel that is best described as Jurassic Park with dragons. International bestseller Matthew Reilly, who is renowned for his action and adventure novels, claims Jurassic Park is his favourite novel of all time, but he hasn’t just retold that story and replaced the dinosaurs with dragons. People will draw comparisons, but there are many differences between the two. The book starts with plenty of scene setting, allowing us to get a feel for the characters, the political climate, and the environment in which the novel is set. The Chinese are about to unveil a secret 40 years in the making.

They have managed to create a zoo filled with dragons. Invited on a press trip to write about this new attraction, our female protagonist, Dr Cassandra Jane Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and reptile expert, is about to embark on a fight for survival of epic proportions. Fast and furi-

The Ship by Antonia Honeywell is published in hardback

by Weidenfeld & Nicolson IT’S the near future and environmental disaster has caused worldwide devastation. In London, the Government has bombed the tent dwellers who took shelter in Regent’s Park, while the British Museum has been squatted by desperate survivors.

Now teenager Lalla Paul’s charismatic father Michael has an answer – a ship that will allow a select few to escape the horror.

But as the ship’s voyage commences, troubling questions arise. What is Michael Paul’s real plan? And where exactly is the ship going?

The Ship is a great idea. But it’s almost sunk by its unconvincing main character and uneven tone – it’s not clear what age group this book is aimed at. Still, there are some great touches, like long-dead artists being put on trial for using up natural resources.

If you can appreciate these and overlook the negatives, The Ship might float your boat.

5/10 Review

by Jackie Kingsley

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z NON-FICTION Dementia: The One-Stop Guide by June Andrews is published in paperback by Profile Books A diagnosis of dementia can be frightening for both you and those around you. Many people can find themselves unsure about what the future holds.

This book, written by June Andrews, a dementia expert, is a comprehensive, reassuring and well-researched guide to this anxiety-provoking condition, that serves both people diagnosed with dementia and their family and friends.

Facts, figures and advice cover pretty much everything you might want to know – from what your diagnosis means, to keeping dementia at bay, making your home dementia-friendly, looking for a

care home, what professionals and, in particular, the health services can – and sometimes cannot – offer and some important legal issues. (The book is first published in England and so some legal points might not apply here.)

All of this is interspersed with testimonials from those who have dementia, their family and friends, and professionals.

This not only demonstrates the depth of research that has gone into making this book, but also adds a personal touch that other books might lack.

Dementia is a hot topic in the media right now, which, as Andrews notes, is great for reducing stigma, but this book is not simply riding that media wave – it is a down-to-earth, understanding and helpful read.

9/10 Review by Sophie Herdman

beaches and blissful backpacker adventures. Yet of course the country’s devastating Civil War between the Tamils and Sinhalese only finally ended in 2009, and the country is still far from healed.

Travelling from town to town, Indian journalist Subramanian meets people who were involved in the war in every possible way. From Ravi the Tamil who was part of the Sinhalese army, to Nirmala who helped the Tigers (the violent group who campaigned for an independent Tamil state) until they killed her sister, to those who were even close to the monstrous Tiger leader Prabhakaran.

Piece by piece, the details of the terrible war are put to-

z CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Lulu Loves Numbers by Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby is published in board book by Bloomsbury THERE’S something bittersweet for parents about a toddler discovering a ‘favourite’ book. There’s the initial joy of reading the book together, quickly followed by the trepidation of trying to make it interesting on the 20th

This Divided Island: Stories From The Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian is published in paperback by Atlantic Books FOR some of the younger generations, thinking of Sri Lanka conjures up images of white

Russia N the last three centuries, the control of Russia has experienced a range of social and economic strategies. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Massie has written three texts that study the role of some leaders.

The first is “Peter the Great 1672-1725”. His reign is set against a significant period in Europe and Russia. He was a volatile feudal tsar with a taste for barbaric torture, a progressive, and enlightened the greatest strengths and weaknesses of Russia while being at the forefront of Russia’s development.

“Catherine the Great” follows; the book relates her rise to the position of taking the crown in 1762.

She was born into a minor noble family, but transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For 34 years the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution.

The third book is “Nicholas & Alexandra” which records the period of the Last Tsar and his family. It was the period of the decline and fall of the Romanov family. Tsar Nicholas II’s political naiveté, his wife Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and their

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gether by the stories of those who lived through it. The horrific mass killings and acts of brutality described are truly shocking, and several passages are tear-jerking.

The writing is both sensitive and powerful, but there’s also light humour in parts and a sweet sentimental way of looking at the Sri Lankan people.

As a Tamil himself, the writer is clearly very involved in what happened.

This Divided Island is an engaging and moving education, and one that will certainly increase your fascination with this little, complicated island that is “joined like a tugboat” to India.

8/10 Review by Harriet Shephard

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re-reading.

Lulu Loves Noises is one such book for my 18-monthold – and the latest in the series, Lulu Loves Numbers is likely to go down just as well.

With simple, but eye-catching illustrations by Ailie Busby (with her trademark circular eyes), this lovely lift-the-flap board book follows Lulu and her mum on a trip to the farm, where they spot six cute little piglets, feed nine chickens and Lulu even holds one of 10 tiny little chicks.

Camilla Reid writes in such an engaging way, children will automatically identify with Lulu and, by the end of the book, will be waving bye to the animals just like her – before demanding it’s read all over again.

8/10 Review by Kate Whiting

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son Alexis’s battle with haemophilia. It was a family tragedy that played out at the end on the brutal stage of early 20th century Russian history – it is the tale of a doomed empire.

Anthony Read is the author of “The World on Fire” which deals with the 1919 period and the battle with Bolshevism. While the Western leaders met in Paris drafting a peace treaty following WWI, Bolshevism had become the challenge of the age.

The West’s attempts to destroy the rival ideology at its source was unsuccessful, and bloody counter revolutions of Germany, Hungary, and the Baltic States, plus the massive strikes, riots and unrest, paralysed the rest of the world.

The history of Russian printers and Soviet Socialism in the 1918-1930 period is told in “Republic of Labor” by Diane Koenker. It was a decade that was the beginning of an experiment to create a socialist society. Throughout this period, socialist trade unions attempted to transform the Russian worker into a participant in this new order.

Well-respected historian Nigel Cawthorne has written “Stalin – The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar”. Worshipped by some Russians as a great leader, Stalin was one of history’s greatest tyrants, rivalling Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot – but he had more blood on his

hands than any of them.

Born Josef Dzhuggashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1878, Stalin studied to be a priest, while secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics soon became his religion and under his ruthless rule, up to 60 million people perished. Peasants who resisted Stalin’s policy of collectivization were either shot or sent to the ever-growing network of Gulags in Siberia. Nobody was safe.

From our Used Book shelves is “How Russia is Ruled” by Merle Fainsod. This edition published in 1963 was seen as the most authoritative work in English on government in Russia, and also an achievement in making Soviet modes of thought and behaviour comprehensible to Western readers.

It starts by covering Bolshevism and the rise of the Party – Dictatorship, and the Part Command. One section details ‘Instruments of Rule’ including the use of terror as a system of power. The final section covers the time of Krushchev, and in this period Russia was seen to be transformed from a relative-

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection ly backward country into one of the world’s leading industrial and military powers.

Time moves quickly – Victor Sebestyen wrote “Revolution 1989 – The Fall of the Soviet Empire”. 1989 is a year that defines modern history – within that year, six oppressed European nations had thrown off communism, declared national independence and embarked on the road to democracy. The Soviet empire was brought to its knees, and those months saw almost peaceful revolutions – culminating in the fall of the Berlin Wall – where the peoples’ will triumphed over tyranny.

Conor O’Cleary has written “Moscow December 25 1991” which records the last day of the Soviet Union. He writes that “the Cold War did not end with a bang, but with the scratch of a pen on paper as Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and the Soviet Union was effectively consigned to history”. Separated in this move were Belarus, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan plus others.

“Iron Curtain” tells of the crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956. Following WWII

the Soviets unexpectedly found themselves in control of a huge swathe of that area. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political system: communism.

The author describes how political parties, the church, the media, young people’s organisations, and instruments of civil society at every level were quickly eliminated. She follows the communists’ tactics as they bullied, threatened and murdered their way to power. And she reveals individual lives to show the choices people had to make – to fight, to flee, or to collaborate. It is a haunting reminder of how fragile free societies can be.

At a later time we will discuss the role of Vladimir Putin – he is a subject on his own.

We don’t have to leave home to identify what communism can do to a society. “Australia’s Secret War” by Hal Colebatch reveals how strikes by wharfies and others had catastrophic implications on the WWII effort.

Officers had to restrain Australian and American troops who had sworn to kill trade unionists. And that is also another story.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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WHEN S.J. Watson brought out his debut novel Before I Go To Sleep in 2011, he experienced the stuff of dreams.

Not only did the book – about a woman with amnesia who wakes up each morning unable to remember the day before – become a runaway hit, selling more than four million copies in more than 40 languages, it won the Crime Writers’ Association award for best debut novel, and last year made it to the big screen, in the movie adaptation starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Mark Strong.

Today, Steve John Watson – a balding, bespectacled, bearded 44-year-old former NHS worker – admits he was worried about the level of expectation when he sat down to write book number two, Second Life.

“I wrote Before I Go To Sleep in a state of blissful ignorance. My biggest dream was that somebody else might like it, a literary agent and maybe a publisher. I never allowed myself to think I’d have more than a handful of readers.

“Writing Second Life has been a very different process, to know that I have 40 editors around the world who are interested, but more importantly, millions of readers. For a while, I was finding it difficult to find that space where I wasn’t trying to second guess what people want.

It took a while to find that quietness, and just write what I wanted to write.”

He writes in the first person as a woman in Second Life, whose protagonist Julia is a photographer and recovering alcoholic, who lives with

her kindly surgeon husband and their adopted son, who is her sister’s child.

When her sister is murdered outside her flat in Paris, Julia sets out to find the killer, discovering that her sibling was using dating sites to meet men for sex. She throws herself into her sister’s world to try and draw out the murderer, but ends up coaxed into some sexual experimentation of her own.

“She thinks she’s over her addiction, and doesn’t realise that it’s just turned into a sex and love addiction,” Watson reveals.

So, is internet dating something the bestselling author, who lives with Nick, his partner of 10 years, something he’s familiar with?

“In the past I’ve used dating sites, but I’m in a civil partnership now, so I’m not dating in quite the same way,” he says with a smile.

However, on one occasion, he recalls, he encountered a potentially scary scenario after going to the home of somebody he’d met online.

“I was with somebody I’d just met, and he locked the door and put the key in his pocket. At one point I became a little panicked, because I wanted to leave and he wanted me to stay. It was friendly from his point of view, but I was thinking, ‘This is a potentially risky situation’.”

The last four years have been a whirlwind for the West Midlands-born author who, until his writing success, worked with hearing-impaired children as an NHS audiologist.

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llow for S.J. Watson that direction.

“I was nearly 40. When you’re young, there’s plenty of time. Then you get to an age where there isn’t.

And I always thought that one day I would have a proper go as a writer. When I had my mid-life crisis, I didn’t go and sleep with somebody or crash a motorbike or buy a Ferrari – I just went on a writing course.”

He was accepted on the inaugural ‘Writing A Novel’ course at the Faber Academy in 2009, and on the last day, was then taken on by a literary agent.

The idea of Before I Go To Sleep came from reading a lot about amnesia, discovering that it could be caused by physical or emotional trauma. He decided to write under the initials S.J. because it’s a woman’s story, and his editors didn’t want readers to know it was written by a man.

“Before it was even published there was a buzz about it. It felt like it could be big,” he recalls.

Since his debut, he and Nick have moved to a nicer flat in London – but he still hasn’t bought a Ferrari. He can afford to take more taxis though, he says.

“It was a whirlwind time, but I think I have my feet firmly on the ground, my friends and family see

to that. If I ever showed any sign of developing a big head, they would be the first to say, ‘Oi mate, don’t forget where you’re from’.”

He enjoyed the film adaptation but wasn’t involved in the movie, he says, although he did go on set and met the stars.

“They were very polite and nice. I was a little bit starstruck, like a kid in a sweet shop. The nearest I’d ever been to a film set was watching the DVD extras – I was starstruck by the bloke carrying the camera wires and plugging stuff in!”

There is already interest from the film industry in his second book, and he admits he wrote Second Life with a more cinematic feel, featuring different locations which lend themselves to the big screen, but books have always been his first love.

Brought up in Stourbridge, Watson’s father worked as a metallurgist at the local steel works, while his mother stayed at home.

“I’m an only child. I could easily lose myself in a book.

I wasn’t very sporty – I’m a bit of a cliché for a gay man – so while the other kids were out playing football, I was indoors with a book.”

He was just starting a physics degree at Birmingham University when his parents split up.

“I was 18. In some ways, it wasn’t as much of a trauma as it may have been if I’d been younger. But their marriage hadn’t been happy for a while. It was a difficult time, but in a weird way, I’d grown up being very close to my mother – and still am.”

Now he’s made the big time in publishing, he’s signed up for two more books and already has the idea for the next one – but he’s not sharing it with me.

“I think of ideas in terms of an affair or a relationship. You flirt with an idea because you like the look of it, then you think, ‘I really like you’, so you start a relationship. Then you go through the stage of thinking, ‘I’m a bit bored with you now but we’re kind of committed’.

“Then another idea will tap you on the shoulder and go, ‘I’m quite attractive too’. And you gradually start to have an affair with your other idea. That’s been going on for a while.” :: Second Life by S.J. Watson is published by Text Publishing. Paperback. $29.99

O RECOMMENDED READING Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman, published by Hachette, paperback $29.99 “Many of these stories end badly for at least one of the people in them.”

Perhaps no sentence encapsulates the eerie, vertiginous work of fantasist Neil Gaiman quite like this one from the introduction to “Trigger Warning”, his new collection of short stories. The title refers to the practice of giving advance notice of material that may shock, disturb or offend.

For this book, Gaiman posits that the only warning should be “enter at your own risk”. Sometimes fiction isn’t safe, and shouldn’t be, for it’s often from unsettling and upsetting experiences that one can learn the most. And the subjects of these stories learn a lot: That people are rarely what they seem. That myths rarely ever die. The best way to build a new reality out of books (stick to the paperbacks; hardcovers are too heavy). Why we still don’t have flying cars. And to never trust a duck, especially in a poker game.

Gaiman calls these tales “experiments,” and seems to thoroughly enjoy the eccentricity that label allows. The stories are diverse and eclectic, inspired by fairy tales and ghost stories, Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes, David Bowie and Ray Bradbury. Some revisit established settings, including a new tale set in the universe of Gaiman’s celebrated novel “American Gods”, while others create their own weird worlds from scratch.

But everywhere lurks that familiar Gaiman sense of unease and imbalance: Even in the most mundane of places, even in the happy endings, there’s a feeling that things could turn on the edge of a knife, that the shadows may yet lunge out and bite. In the hands of a good writer, that frisson of danger brings a special thrill to the terrible. In the hands of a master like Gaiman, it can take on a strange wonder and beauty as well.

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WOWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first event for 2015

BY DONNA FALCONER WOMEN OUT WEST (WOW) held their first monthly event at Western College recently. Guests enjoyed delicious finger food and drinks while networking and meeting the Western College team. Guests then learned about the history of the organisation as well as the training and courses offered by Western College before going on a tour of the facilities.

Donna Rees and Chriss Cronin

Ruth Owers and Liz Heilbronn

Emma Johnson and Charlotte Egan

Patricia Bunker, Alana Potter and Cherie Thompson

Sarah Upton and Louise Scifleet

Fran Schubert and Barbara Obrien

The Women Out West team: front, Jan Grady, Cherie Thompson, Alana Potter, back, Louise Thompson, Jan Campbell-Rodgers, Lee Judd and Beth Hattenfels

Central Western Horticultural Society (Dubbo) Inc PR ES ENTS TH E

52nd Annual Dahlia and Flower Show Brennan's Mitre 10 Garden Centre, 64-70 Macquarie Street, Dubbo

Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March 2015 Open to all home gardeners | Free entry to the show Entry details and forms available at Brennan's Mitre 10 | Presentation of awards at 2pm Saturday

This show is also gladly supported by

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Celebrating 100 years

BY KAITLYN RENNIE Nurses from Bourke, Mudgee, Cobar, Coonamble, Coonabarabran, Warren, Trangie, Wellington, Collarenebri and Dubbo gathered at the George Hatch Building at Dubbo Base Hospital to celebrate the 100th anniversary of child and family health nurses.

The first health clinic was opened in Alexandria in 1914, with many towns following. Also, 20 bush nurses were funded by the NSW Department of Public Health to assist those in rural areas access health care. Today, there are more than 500 centres across NSW staffed by qualified child and family health care nurses. At the anniversary celebration, the ladies of the northern sector of Western NSW welcomed the chance to catch up and enjoy a beautiful cake, made by Kate Plasto and Jane Keys.

Marsha Williams, Alexandra Bartlett, Judy Sheppard and Kate Plasto

Alexandra Bartlett, Robyn Hull and Judy Sheppard from Coonamble

Maria Warren, Beth Ginty, Janelle Horwood, Kate Plasto, Jane Keys and Jo Edwards

Sarah Cruickshank and Debbie Irving

Tessa Ponder and Jo Edwards from Wellington

Kim Rice, Lyn Whalan, Jenny Shadbolt, Fiona Quinn, Heather White and Alanna Millar

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Lunch at the Grapevine

BY KAITLYN RENNIE Lunch was being enjoyed by diners at the Grapevine CafĂŠ on Wednesday, March 4. The Grapevine has a wide selection of dishes on the breakfast and lunch menus, along with coffee and cool drinks.

The local eatery is set in a beautiful heritage building and has a large outdoor dining area, perfect for special occasions or just catching up.

Leonie and Grant Connelly

Sharon MacKenzie, Leah and Stuart Westcott and Shane MacKenzie

Gary Sanders, Kelvin Head and Jeff Tucker

Ignatrus Chida and Aaron Jackson

Maria March and Yangli McKinney

GET YOUR REPRINTS HERE Reprints of most photos you see in Weekender are available to buy. Call 6885 4433 during office hours, or call in to our office at 89 Wingewarra Street Dubbo

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Celebrations for trio who share a birthday

BY KAITLYN RENNIE CELEBRATIONS were held for Jean Fields and twins Kath Bourke and Ken Bambrick on Saturday, February 28. Family and friends gathered at the RSL Club to celebrate the 85th birthday of Jean, and the 80th of Ken and Kath â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all three share the same birthday.

Light snacks and drinks were enjoyed by everyone, followed by a wonderful cake and a catch up.

Kaylene Bambrick (standing in for her father, Ken, who was ill), Jean Fields and Kath Bourke getting ready to cut the cake

Colin and Erin Oscaey

Maxine Hudson, Deena and Oscar Robinson, Helen Howchin and Daisy Robinson

Siblings Doug Bambrick, Kath Bourke, Jean Fields and Dot Robinson

Barbara and Ken Weber

Trisha Bourke, Pat and Fred Merrick, Vicki Bourke and Ngaire Fields

Kath Bourke with Jill Schmitzer, Fay Eakin and Barbara Whitley from Taree

Clare and Margaret Campbell

Dot Williams, Marion Ross, Merle and Reg Carroll, and Maree Adams

Kath with her sons and their wives

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Lunch at Outlook Café

BY KAITLYN RENNIE DUBBO people were out and about, enjoying lunch at the Outlook Café inside the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) when Dubbo Weekender dropped in recently.

Many were enjoying a drink and meal before heading into the gallery to view the latest exhibitions.

Vikki Hemberg, Margaret Rivett, Fay Hunt, Maria Sutton and Sue Howlett.

Kathryn Granger and Adorie Tink

Wendy Watts and Tamaryn Townsend

Cheryl Pieres, Danielle Shuttle and Li-Jen Wong

Gillian Hill, Annette Langdon and Lee Manny

Chloe Seton, Katie Cox, Addilyn Willner, and Edward Cox

Craig and Veronica Hyland

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hear The Seraphim Trio TRIO shines the spotlight on Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano trios, as they celebrate two decades of acclaimed chamber music performances with a national tour. The concert will be held at 7.30pm on Friday, March 6. There will also be a piano and string masterclass with the Seraphim Trio at 11am on Saturday, March 7.

Nick Wall MUSICIAN Nick Wall has been singing and playing guitar his whole life, so far.

He is based in Gulgong and has played

in many bands over the years, including Raise a Rhythm, Box Monster, Foundations Edge and McGee. You can catch him playing solo gigs around the Central West as well as with his current bands Foundations Edge and McGee. Hear him play at the Milestone Hotel on Saturday, March 7. Contact the venue for details.

popular street march by bands along Summer Street from Robertson Park to Cook Park.

The bands will then perform in Cook Park on Saturday afternoon and all day on Sunday. Orange Civic Theatre is the venue for the Saturday evening concert, showcasing the brilliance of brass. Value for money is assured as the City of Orange Brass Band and each of the visiting bands will present their own distinctive programs.

The Brass Celebration concert commences at 7.30 pm. A segment of hymns and community singing at 10am on Sunday morning in Cook Park will be

led by the Sydney Veterans Band of the Salvation Army. Everyone is welcome.

12 – and for a little insight on these two whacky characters, take a look at our 2x2 story on page 25.

8pm on Saturday, March 14.

exhibition is in support of that project along with the PAPA units.

Buddy Holly in Concert

QUOTA INTERNATIONAL OF WELLINGTON is set to host its biennial art exhibition at Wellington Soldiers’ Memorial Club. The exhibition features paintings, photography, textiles and more during one jam-packed weekend from March 13 to 15. The event kicks off with a special opening and wine tasting at 7pm on Friday night, followed by the exhibition being open from 10am to 6pm on Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sunday. There will be craft demonstrations and opening by Hear our Heart ear bus coordinator Leanne Everett. The

Orange Brass Band THE Orange Brass Band Celebrations will be held over the weekend of March 7 and 8. The festivities will commence at 12.30pm on Saturday with the ever-

Conversational English in Dubbo THE Conversational English group meet each Thursday at the Wesley Community Hall, at the corner of Church St and Carrington Ave, between 2.30pm and 3.30pm. Attendance is free and tea and coffee is provided. They hope to contribute to the development of interactions between cultures. All welcome. For further information, please contact Chris Owens on 6884 0407.

see The Listies make you LOL! A FEW years ago, Rich and Matt decided to shake up the world of kids' comedy and The Listies were born. Since then, they have become Australia's most sought-after family comedians who are at onc- hilarious, messy and decidedly insane. Imagine The Young Ones hosting Play School – if The Young Ones had downloaded two gigabytes of fart noises. LOL features alien attacks, toilet paper guns, spew, the rudest word in the world and the most disgusting pair of undies you have ever seen in your entire life. See them live at Dubbo Regional Theatre at 6pm on Thursday, March

IF you knew Peggy Sue...go back to where rock n' roll all began at the upcoming Buddy Holly in concert event.

During this dynamic two-hour production, internationally-renowned Scot Robin, together with his Crickets, will perform more than 30 Buddy Holly hits.

It will surely mesmerise and excite audience members both visually and musically with its high energy performance, brilliant costumes and fantastic musicianship. At Dubbo Regional Theatre at

Quota art exhibition

Gilgandra CWA Market Day HEAD off down the highway to Gil for a feast of new and pre-loved goods including collectables, woodcraft, cakes, jewellery, craft and fresh produce at the Gilgandra CWA Market Day between 9am and 1pm on Saturday, March 7. The market day will be held in the Gilgandra Community Plaza, Miller St, with the Gilgandra CWA Rooms the alternate wet weather venue. For further information, contact Denise on 6847 2912 or Hilda on 6847 1270.

do Small Biz Bus LOCAL small businesses can take advantage of high quality business assistance with the arrival of the Small Biz Bus. The bus will be visiting Wellington and Dubbo on March 16 and 17, giving local small business operators the chance to access personalised advice from business experts. The bus will be parked at the Wellington Library carpark from 9am to 3pm on Monday, March 16 and near the Church St Rotunda, Dubbo from 9am to 3pm on Tuesday, March 17.

To book an appointment on the bus or to speak to your local Small Biz Connect advisor, contact Parkes Forbes Orana Business Enterprise Centre on 1300 134

359 or visit www.smallbusiness.nsw. gov.au/hop-on-the-small-biz-bus.

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Horror Night

GET your cowboy on this Sunday, March 8, at the Rockley Rodeo. Events include open and novice bull ride, saddle bronc and bareback, ladies barrel race and juvenile steer ride. The rodeo will be preceded by a quick shear and band night at the Rockley Hotel on Saturday night.

The Rockley Rodeo is proudly support in the Cancer Patients Assistance Society. Gates open at 7am, with dog trials at 8am and rodeo action beginning at 11am.

THIS Friday 13th, dare to enter Old Dubbo Gaol after dark for their Friday 13th Horror Night. Take a terrifying walk through the Haunted Gaol House and if you make it out alive, huddle together for an outdoor cinema screening of The Conjuring. Bring along blankets, pillows and picnic rugs. No food or beverages may be brought onto the Old Dubbo Gaol site. Bar facilities will be available and food will be sold on the night. The fun begins at 7.30pm on Friday, March 13. This is an adults only event (18yrs+) so please bring

Rockley Rodeo

Active Life weekend LAKE BURRENDONG Sport and Rec-

reation Centre will be the venue for an upcoming active life weekend. Be as adventurous or relaxed as you like, with this being a great opportunity to get active, meet new people and get laughing in the peaceful and picturesque setting of Lake Burrendong and surrounds. All activities are fully supervised by qualified and experienced instructors who can tailor the weekend to match your physical, cultural and medical needs.

Activities include swimming, archery, tennis, bushwalking, canoeing, high ropes and rock climbing. The weekend of fun and fitness will be held from 9am on Friday, March 20, to 2pm on Sunday, March 22. Visit dsr.nsw.gov.au/lakeburrendong for more information.

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Catherine Britt THIS concert is bound to be a sell-out so nab your tickets early! Two-time CMAAA Female Artist of the Year and ARIA Award nominated artist Catherine Britt has announced her Boneshaker Tour in anticipation of her forthcoming album.

Without question, Britt’s unique voice instantly gets your attention. On stage, Britt takes her fans on a journey with a talented melodic storytelling that captivates those who love to engage in her heartfelt stories of love and life. Appear-

ing at Dubbo RSL Club on Friday, April 17, from 8pm.

Tottenham Picnic Races THE annual Tottenham Picnic Races will be held on Saturday, March 7.

The six-race program begins at 2pm, to be preceded by a free luncheon from 12.30pm to 1.30pm.

There will be a courtesy bus from the local hotel, prizes for best dressed including marvellous millinery and kids’ entertainment. Risky Business will also perform for the crowd at the completion of the last race. The Lachlan Valley rail-

way will be running a special train for racegoers from Parkes, Forbes, Bogan Gate and Trundle. For more information, contact Michael Logan on 6892 4238 or Jodi Attenborough on 0428 924 364.

Sunday Sessions Race Day FOR a full racing weekend, get your backside trackside at Dubbo Turf Club on Sunday, March 8, for the Sunday Sessions Race Day. Entry includes beer, wine and soft drink in the marquee, a gourmet steak sandwich and a bus to and from the races. Visit www.dubbotur-

fclub.com.au for more information.

Dahlia and Flower Show THE Dubbo Garden Club NSW Inc presents the 53rd Annual Dahlia and Flower Show at Brennan’s Mitre 10 Garden Centre on Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8.

The garden club is hoping for people interested in gardening to support them with entries and interest in becoming a member of the club. Presentation of awards taking place at 2pm on Saturday. Entry is free. Please call 6885 6038 for further details.

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GROCERIES DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD Open Saturday 6am to 3pm ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

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CLUB DUBBO Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ 6pm to 9pm.

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TED’S TAKEAWAY Open Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-8pm dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

Restaurant open 12-2pm and 6-9pm &ƌĞĞ ĨƵŶĐƟŽŶ ƌŽŽŵ ŚŝƌĞ <ŝĚƐ ƉůĂLJŐƌŽƵŶĚ >ĂƌŐĞ ƐĐƌĞĞŶ ďƌŽĂĚĐĂƐƟŶŐ Ăůů ŵĂũŽƌ ƐƉŽƌƟŶŐ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ 161 Brisbane Street, 6882 4488

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Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL Open Saturday 10am to 4am, Sunday 10am to 9pm.

ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ 8am - 11.30am ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am Restaurant open from 11.45am-2pm and 5.45-9pm.

101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB Open Saturday 7.30am-5pm Open Sunday 8.30am-3pm Gym /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů Sauna Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 3pm ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

THE BOOK CONNECTION Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

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QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY Open Saturday 9am to 12pm. ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ Saturday 8am-4pm Sunday 9am-4pm 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞƌŶĂƌĚŝ͛Ɛ ^hW /' ͘ ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ &ŽŽĚ ŽƵƌƚ Saturday 9.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

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THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL Open Saturday and Sunday 9-5pm >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

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Friday, March 6 Better Homes And Gardens PRIME7, 7pm Look around your home and ask yourself if is there anything you can see that needs a tidy-up or could do with a spring clean and a splash of colour. If you answered yes, then you should make a cup of tea, sit down and watch this show, which is jampacked with ideas and improvement projects for your home and garden, as well as tasty recipes and entertaining ideas. Tonight, Joh drops in on former premier Jeff Kennett and Ed gives tips to host a dinner party with a fabulous menu.

Meanwhile, Tara, Greenie and Adam explore the trend of upcycling by giving junk a designer makeover.

ABC

The Graham Norton Show

MOVIE: Invictus

TEN, 8.30pm Easy-watching entertainment is essential on a Friday night in front of the box, so what better than some comedy, mixed with celebrity gossip and hilarious games in The Graham Norton Show. One of Irish funnyman Norton’s best skills is luring famous faces onto the infamous red sofa on his chat show, and getting them to open up about all manner of topics just by making them laugh with his silly banter and games. Tonight, guests include Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman and Noel Gallagher. Will they be game for a giggle? You bet.

WIN, 10pm, PG (2009) There’s perhaps no other actor in Hollywood better suited to play Nelson Mandela than Morgan Freeman (right) in prolific director Clint Eastwood’s triumphant sports epic. The noble screen veteran is spot-on as the freedom fighter-turned-South African president who champions the national up to help rugby team during the 1995 World Cup heal the racial rifts of his countrymen.. With the ienaar, help of Springboks captain Francois Pienaar, att played with understated charm by Matt Damon, Mandela famously used the o traditionally white-dominated game to help unite his divided country in the wake of apartheid. Eastwood, who at 79 remains at the top of his game churning out thoughtful films such as Gran Torino and Changeling, delivers yet another meticulously crafted drama anchored by superb lead performances.

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 How We Got To Now: Time. (R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

2.00 Serangoon Road.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 Hebburn. (PG, R, CC) A young man returns to his home town.

3.30 Inspector George Gently. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) Hosted by Steve Cannane.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story.

(M, R, CC) (2000) Based on a true story. Penelope Ann Miller, Mercedes Ruehl.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News At 4. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.00 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) Hosted by James Reeson.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.15 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 NITV News Week In Review.

1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Rex In Rome. (PG, R) 4.25 Coast: Wales – Border To Border. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(CC) Fiona Bruce and the team visit Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire, where visitors bring in their treasures.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests Jo Brand, Marcus Brigstocke and Danny Baker join host Stephen Fry for a letter “K”-inspired discussion.

8.30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, CC) Tensions are stirred when police break up a celebration of the Eureka Stockade anniversary, by visiting Melbourne university students.

However, the situation turns deadly after the group’s leader is found dead at a memorial.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) After two women are shot in a basement, Nikki and Jack learn one of the victims was killed by a controlled sedative.

10.30 News: Late Edition. (CC) (Final) 10.45 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) Hardy faces a race against time.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh visits ex-Victorian premier Jeff Kennett. Ed provides tips on how to host a dinner party with a great menu.

Tara, Greenie and Adam explore the trend of upcycling by giving junk a designer makeover.

8.30 MOVIE: Forrest Gump.

(M, R, CC) (1994) A kindhearted and simple man recalls the story of his extraordinary life to anyone who will listen to him, while he waits for the bus to take him to the only woman he has ever loved.

Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Sally Field.

11.30 How To Get Away With Murder. (M, R, CC) Annalise and her students uncover a shocking truth while working on a case in which the founder and CEO of a major brokerage firm has been arrested for insider trading. Wes discovers a mobile phone, hidden by Rebecca, whose contents reveal an unsettling clue in the Lila Stangard murder case.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 1. Parramatta Eels v Manly Sea Eagles.

From Pirtek Stadium, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: Invictus.

(PG, R, CC) (2009) In order to unite his country in the wake of apartheid, South African President Nelson Mandela inspires the national team to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge.

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

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

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Lifestyle program, hosted

by Amanda Keller. Shane Jacobson fills in on the couch. Chef Miguel Maestre visits Dr Chris Brown in his lodge in Africa where he is filming I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman and David Beckham.

9.30 Empire. (M, R, CC) After the head of music label Empire Entertainment, is diagnosed with a fatal illness, he pits his three sons against one another, in order to choose who will run the company.

10.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A panel of multimillionaires is pitched inventions and innovations, including “drinking furniture”.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 How To Cook Like Heston. (R, CC) Heston Blumenthal gives one of the most popular meats in the world a makeover.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 20. Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. From Hunter Stadium, Newcastle.

Hosted by David Zdrilic, with commentary from David Basheer and Lucy Zelic.

10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Jake’s undercover FBI operation ends in a successful sting, until he learns that one mobster has escaped. As Jake enlists Charles’ help to track him down, Holt tests the squad’s patience with some practice drills.

10.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Holt’s nemesis arrives for an inspection of his precinct. Jake and Terry investigate a stabbing at a hipster chocolate milk bar.

11.00 World News. (CC) 11.30 MOVIE: Hardcore.

(AV15+, R) (2004) Two girls turn to prostitution, in an Athens brothel, to support their drug habits. Katerina Tsavalou, Danai Skiadi, Dimitris Liolios.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.40 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.40 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 2.10 MOVIE: The Damned United. (M, R, CC) (2009) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program.

4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) Join David Letterman and special guests for his Top 10 and more.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

1.15 MOVIE: Killer Bees.

(M, R) (2008) 3.00 One Born Every Minute USA. (M, R, CC) 3.50 Chronicles Of The Third Reich. (PG, R, CC) 4.55 The People Who Never Stop. (R) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, March 6 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm Push (2009) Action.

Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning.

A young girl with the power to see the future tries to convince an outcast with special abilities of his own to help her locate a suitcase containing a small fortune. (M) Action

7.30pm Pretty Little Liars.

(M) FOX8

7.30pm Deadly Weapons.

Discovery Science

8.30pm Whitney Cummings: I Love You. An hour-long special stand-up show by Whitney Cummings. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

8.30pm Abalone Wars.

Winter storms are set to rage up from the Southern Ocean with the potential to halt all abalone diving for weeks. (M) Discovery

5.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Highlanders.

Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Draft Day (2014) Drama. Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner. (M) Premiere

8.30pm Drop Dead Diva.

Stacy and Owen try to put their kiss behind them. (M) SoHo

9.30pm Hooked: Illegal Drugs: Marijuana. A look at the rise of marijuana in modern society. (PG) History

7.00pm NAB Cup. Sydney v Brisbane Lions. Fox Footy 7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. Fox Sports 4

8.50pm Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (2013) Animation. Voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris. (G) Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.55 Babar And The Adventures Of Badou. (R, CC) 3.15 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 4.25 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo.

(R, CC) 5.00 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.10 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 5.25 Dinosaur Train. 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.45 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.00 Mouk. 6.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 6.25 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 6.35 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 7.50 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 8.30 Don’t Just Stand There, I’m Having Your Baby.

(M, CC) 9.30 Catfish: The TV Show.

(PG, CC) 10.15 Red Dwarf. (PG, R, CC) 10.45 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 11.25 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 11.50 Coming Out Diaries.

(M, R, CC) 12.45 Pineapple Dance Studios. (PG, R, CC) 1.35 Red Dwarf.

(PG, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 Close. 5.00 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) 5.15 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 9.20 GASP! (R, CC) 9.30 What Do You Know? (R, CC) 10.00 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 10.25 What I Wrote. (R, CC) 10.30 art + soul.

(PG, R, CC) 11.25 BTN. (R, CC) 11.50 Pet Superstars. (R, CC) 11.55 Ace Day Jobs. (R, CC) 12.00 Conspiracy 365. (PG, R, CC) 12.50 Blue Water High. (R, CC) 1.15 Chris Humfrey’s Wild Life. (R, CC) 1.40 Steam Punks! (R, CC) 2.05 Get Ace. (R, CC) 2.20 CJ The DJ. (R, CC) 2.30 Erky Perky. (R, CC) 2.45 The Pinky And Perky Show.

(R, CC) 3.00 Animalia. (R, CC) 3.25 Arthur. (R, CC) 3.50 Vic The Viking. (CC) 4.00 Tashi. (CC) 4.15 Steam Punks! (R, CC) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 The Day My Butt Went Psycho.

(CC) 5.10 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) 5.25 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 5.50 Wolfblood. (PG, R, CC) 6.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 6.40 Handball Heroes. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.30 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.40 Naruto.

(CC) 9.05 Lanfeust Quest. (R, CC) 9.25 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.50 Voltron. (R, CC) 10.15 Close.

Brooke Elliott stars in Drop Dead Diva

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 In Your Dreams. (C, R, CC) 7.30 Teenage Fairytale Dropouts. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. (P, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 Bargain Hunt.

(R) 11.15 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 12.30 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.00 60 Minute Makeover.

(PG, R) 5.15 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Indian Doctor.

(PG, R, CC) Prem and Kamini wait for Kamini’s mother to arrive.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Jonnie Irwin heads to Dorset.

9.30 The House That £100K Built. (PG) A couple plan to move to an eco community.

10.30 Before And After. (PG) 11.00 Front Of House.

11.30 Hotel Secrets: Ireland.

(M, R, CC) 12.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.30 Tennis. Davis Cup. Czech Republic v Australia. Day 1.

From Cez Arena, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Doc McStuffins. (R) 8.30 Sofia The First. (R, CC) 9.00 NBC Today. (R, CC) 11.00 Motor Mate. (R) 1.30 WWE Afterburn.

(M) 2.30 Phineas And Ferb. (R, CC) 4.30 SlideShow. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Cosentino: The Magic, The Mystery, The Madness. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Rat Race. (M, R) (2001) Six teams race against each other for $2 million. John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson.

8.45 MOVIE: Gone In Sixty Seconds. (M, R, CC) (2000) A retired, master car thief must steal 50 cars with his crew, to save his brother’s life. Nicolas Cage, Giovanni Ribisi, Angelina Jolie.

11.15 MOVIE: Wild Things: Diamonds In The Rough.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2005) Two women search for diamonds. Sarah Laine.

1.30 Cosentino: The Magic, The Mystery, The Madness. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 SlideShow. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Motor Mate. (R)

GO! 6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG) 7.00 Yamba’s Playtime. (P, R, CC) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Move It. (C, CC) 8.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 9.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 9.30 Max Steel. (PG, R) 10.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 12.00 Extra. (CC) 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live. 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 3.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes.

4.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: The Water Horse. (PG, R, CC) (2007) Alex Etel, Emily Watson.

8.00 MOVIE: The Wizard Of Oz. (R, CC) (1939) 10.10 MOVIE: Little Shop Of Horrors. (M, R, CC) (1986) Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene. 12.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 12.30 MAD. (M) 1.00 Robotomy. (M, R) 1.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 2.00 TMZ Live. (R) 3.00 TMZ. (R) 3.30 Extra.

(R, CC) 4.00 Monsuno. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 5.10 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Supernanny USA. (PG, R) 8.00 The Baron.

(PG, R) 9.00 Shopping. (R) 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Hot In Cleveland. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: South Of Algiers. (R, CC) (1953) 2.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 Hoarding: Buried Alive. (PG, R) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Hot In Cleveland. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce heads to Charlecote Park.

8.40 MOVIE: Unforgiven.

(M, R, CC) (1992) A retired gunfighter is confronted by his past. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman.

11.20 MOVIE: Firecreek.

(M, R, CC) (1968) James Stewart.

1.25 MOVIE: To The Devil A Daughter. (AV15+, R, CC) (1976) 3.10 MOVIE: Outcast Of The Islands. (PG, R, CC) (1951) Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard. 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 GT Academy. (R) 9.30 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish.

(PG, R) 10.00 Bears On The Brink.

(PG, R, CC) 11.00 Extreme Fishing.

(PG, R) 12.00 Crisis. (M, R) 1.00 Rush. (M, R, CC) 2.00 The Biggest Loser Australia. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 4.30 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R) 5.00 Adv Angler. (R) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Megafactories. (PG, R) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only: Coast To Coast. (M, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.00 Cops: Adults Only: Coast To Coast. (M, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 Basketball. NBL. Grand Final. Game 1. Cairns Taipans v New Zealand Breakers.

11.30 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (R) 12.00 Home Shopping.

2.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.00 GT Academy. (R) 3.30 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R) 4.00 Basketball. NBL. Semi-final Series 1. Game 2. Adelaide 36ers v New Zealand Breakers. Replay.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 90210. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (R, CC) 11.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (M, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 4.00 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy.

(PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Hosted

by Grant Denyer.

6.30 Neighbours. (CC) Georgia gets closer to Dr Nick.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Ray becomes a hit with a hospital’s patients.

7.30 American Idol. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

9.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) A group of people undergo make-unders.

10.50 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.20 Wonderland. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.55 Judging Amy. (M, R) 2.00 Beverly Hills 90210.

(PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Journal. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News.

12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News. 4.05 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.50 American Ninja Warrior. (PG, R) 5.40 The Office.

(PG, R) 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 The Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) 8.30 MOVIE: Appropriate Behaviour. (2014) A woman struggles to fit in with her family. Desiree Akhavan.

10.10 MOVIE: Geography Club.

(2013) Cameron Deane Stewart, Meaghan Martin, Justin Deeley.

11.40 The Feed. (R) 12.10 Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (M) 12.25 Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (MA15+, R) 12.55 PopAsia. (PG) 2.55 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo.

9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 Football.

NEAFL. 1.00 Watchers Of The North. 1.30 Best Of NITV Sport.

2.00 Yarramundi Kids. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo.

4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 The Medicine Line. 6.30 Tangaroa With Pio. 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Away From Country.

(PG) Chronicling the achievements of Indigenous sporting greats.

8.30 Our Songs.

9.00 Lurujarri Dreaming.

9.30 Blackstone. (MA15+) 10.30 The Boondocks. (MA15+) 11.00 NITV News. 12.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 1.00 Rugby League.

Koori Knockout. 2.00 Away From Country. (PG) 3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Rugby League. 2011 Lightning Cup. 5.00 On The Road.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 1.30 News. (CC) 9.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 10.00 The World.

(CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 BBC Impact. 1.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News.

3.30 7.30. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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Saturday, March 7 MOVIE: Mrs Doubtfire

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Gardening Australia

TEN, 7.30pm, PG (1993) The late Robin Williams is terrific as a newly separated husband (from wife Sally Field) who can’t bear the thought of being away from his three children, and so decides to disguise himself as their new housekeeper.

More restrained than the standard outings of the sorely missed comic, his doting creation has the required depth necessary to avoid becoming saccharine whimsy. An absolute crowd-pleaser with excellent laughs (several from Pierce Brosnan as “the other man”) and a touch of serious drama.

SBS ONE, 10.40pm If you are staying in on Saturday night and want to avoid the usual chewing gum TV, then check out this doco that takes a look inside the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The highprofile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore. The fascinating show also follows two gay couples who find their families at the centre of the same-sex marriage controversy. Five years in the making, this is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit. It’s an eye-opener on a very topical issue.

ABC, 6.30pm oice in the Green-fingered viewers can rejoice ack, fact Gardening Australia team is back, offering autumn advice for gardening dening lovers across the country. Tonight, ht, biges a bearded Costa (right) introduces family of horticulture beginners who ckyard are about to transform their backyard blank canvas into a productive and invigorating space. Meanwhile, Tino ting is back in The Patch demonstrating ne how to plant autumn vegies, Jane tive explores the colourful and creative garden of a previous Gardener of the Year winner, and there are tips and tricks galore from the rest of the team. Prepare to be impressed and inspired.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Time Team. (R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Kirstie’s Vintage Home.

(R, CC) 2.45 Gardening Australia Summer. (CC) 3.00 Dig 1940: Battle Of France And Dunkirk.

(PG, R, CC) 3.30 Monty Don’s French Gardens: The Gourmet Gardens. (R, CC) 4.30 Saturday Landline.

(R, CC) 5.00 Miranda. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Death In Paradise.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 The Zoo. (R, CC) A gorilla’s birth is captured on camera.

12.30 My Kitchen Rules.

(PG, R, CC) Childhood friends try to impress the judges.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh visits man caves in Brisbane.

5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike takes a coastal trip to Distillery Botanica.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 Discover Downunder Summer Series. (CC) 12.30 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) The Hecks arrive at Walt Disney World.

1.00 MOVIE: Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan – Lord Of The Apes. (PG, R, CC) (1984) An infant is raised by apes. Christopher Lambert.

3.30 The Block Open House.

(PG, CC) 4.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 A Taste Of Travel. (R, CC) 6.30 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 7.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 7.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) 1.30 Weekend Feast. (CC) 2.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 3.00 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 4.30 Escape With ET. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case. (PG, R, CC) 3.40 A Composer’s Dream. (R) 3.50 Hopper Stories. (CC) 3.55 Brits Who Built The Modern World. (CC) 5.00 Opera Stories: La Clemenza Di Tito. (R) 5.30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat.

(R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) (Series return) Costa visits a family who are about to transform their backyard blank canvas into a productive space.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 New Tricks. (PG, CC) Sasha is forced to work with her ex-husband DAC Ned Hancock to reinvestigate a decadesold murder.

8.30 Grantchester. (M, CC) After Amanda’s engagement ring is stolen on the same night a murder is committed, Sidney and Geordie investigate whether there might be a connection between the two crimes.

It is not long before Jen’s boyfriend Johnny becomes a suspect.

However, Sidney believes he is innocent.

9.20 Scott & Bailey. (M, R, CC) Scott and Bailey finally uncover the truth as to what is motivating the murder spree.

10.05 Shock Horror Aunty.

(MA15+, R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

10.40 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) (Final) UK-based panel show.

11.20 Rage. (MA15+) Mardi Gras Special.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Monsters, Inc. (R, CC) (2001) The lives of two monsters, who make a living from scaring children, are disrupted after a young girl is accidentally let loose into their hidden world. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi.

9.00 MOVIE: Contraband.

(MA15+, CC) (2012) When his brother-in-law falls into debt with a murderous drug lord, a former smuggler must return to a life of crime in order to save him and his family.

Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Kate Beckinsale.

11.10 Carl Barron’s Manny Lewis. (M, CC) A behind the scenes look at comedian Carl Barron’s debut feature film, Manny Lewis (2015), featuring exclusive sneak peeks and an interview with Carl himself.

11.40 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) Dr Mehmet Oz and other leading doctors, hospitals, associations and authors answer the public’s health questions.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Grown Ups. (PG, R, CC) (2010) After their high school basketball coach passes away, five former friends and teammates reunite for his funeral and the subsequent Fourth of July holiday weekend. Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock.

9.00 MOVIE: Swordfish.

(M, R, CC) (2001) A hacker is hired by a rogue government agent to steal $9 billion in exchange for securing custody of his daughter. John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry.

11.00 MOVIE: Blindness.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) After a city is ravaged by an epidemic of blindness, a doctor’s wife who retains the ability to see tries to help her husband and a group of others stay safe in the face of the resulting chaos and rampant crime.

Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover.

6.00 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) For the first time on the beach, the lifeguards treat a teenager suffering from anaphylactic shock.

6.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities: Life On Ice. (R, CC) Sir David Attenborough looks at how some vertebrates have adapted to cold weather conditions.

7.00 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities: Spinners And Weavers.

(R, CC) Sir David Attenborough looks at some of the creatures which spin silk or weave natural materials.

7.30 MOVIE: Mrs Doubtfire.

(PG, R, CC) (1993) A man resorts to posing as a devoted female housekeeper as a way of keeping in touch with his three children. Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan.

10.05 MOVIE: There’s Something About Mary.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1998) A man hires a private detective to search for the girl he was infatuated with during his high school years. Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Coast: Secret Paths To Hidden Treasures.

(CC) Nick Crane visits the stunning Cape Wrath.

He learns how it was once home to Britain’s smallest school and why this wild landscape had to be abandoned.

Gemstone hunter Adam McIntosh follows a secret underwater path off the isle of Iona, to discover rare and beautiful “green marble”.

8.30 MOVIE: The Company You Keep. (M, CC) (2012) A reporter discovers that a lawyer and single father is the fugitive leader of a 1970s radical anti-war protest group, forcing the lawyer to go on the run and confront his past.

Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon.

10.40 The Case Against 8.

(PG, CC) A profile of events surrounding a historic court case that tried to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Examines the plight of the plaintiffs, two gay couples, who find their families at the centre of the same-sex marriage controversy.

12.30 Home Shopping.

1.20 MOVIE: Acolytes.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) Joel Edgerton.

3.05 Spyforce. (PG, R) 4.05 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 1.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

12.45 MOVIE: Let Me In. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) Chloë Grace Moretz.

2.55 Countdown. (R, CC) 3.40 Benidorm Bastards.

(PG, R) 4.05 Lilyhammer.

(MA15+, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.35pm This Is The End (2013) Comedy. James Franco, Seth Rogen. (MA15+) Comedy

7.35pm Grey’s Anatomy. (M) SoHo

7.30pm The Queen’s Diamond Decades. (PG) Biography

2.00pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 2.

Steel v Tactix. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Jesus: Rise To Power. Dr Michael Scott explores the rise of Christianity.

(PG) National Geographic

2.30pm Basketball. NBA. Mavericks v Warriors. ESPN

8.30pm Sabotage (2014) Adventure. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington. The members of a drug task force are slowly eliminated after the team executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house. (MA15+) Premiere

8.30pm Location Location Location Australia. Veronica steps in to help Andrea and Scott find an art deco beach pad in Bondi. (G) LifeStyle 8.30pm Banshee. As the FBI plans a raid on the Redbone compound, Lucas goes after Chayton on his own. (MA15+) FOX8

10.25pm Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) Action. Chris Pine. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.00 LazyTown. (R, CC) 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.55 Babar And The Adventures Of Badou. (R, CC) 3.15 Peg + Cat. (R) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 4.25 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo.

(R, CC) 5.00 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) (Final) 5.10 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 5.25 Dinosaur Train. 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.45 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.00 Mouk. 6.15 Rastamouse.

(R, CC) 6.25 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 6.35 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (PG, CC) 8.30 Build A New Life In The Country.

(CC) 9.15 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.00 Buzzcocks. (M, R, CC) 10.30 The Inbetweeners. (M, R, CC) 11.00 Plebs. (M, R, CC) 11.25 The Awesomes. (M, R, CC) 11.45 Pramface. (M, R, CC) 12.45 Hit & Miss. (MA15+, R, CC) 1.30 News Update. (R) 1.35 Close. 5.00 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) 5.15 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 8.00 YooHoo & Friends. (R, CC) 8.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 11.25 Canimals. (R) 11.35 Hank Zipzer.

(R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.25 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 2.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Leonardo.

(R, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 4.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 4.35 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 5.00 Young Dracula. (R, CC) 5.30 My Great Big Adventure. (R, CC) 5.45 MY:24.

(R, CC) 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.35 The Haunting Hour.

(PG, CC) 7.20 Wolfblood. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Canimals. (R) 7.50 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 8.15 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.40 Naruto. (PG, CC) 9.05 Lanfeust Quest. (PG, R, CC) 9.25 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.50 Voltron. (R, CC) 10.15 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. 9.00 Good Luck Charlie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping.

11.00 Globe Trekker Specials.

(PG, R) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (R, CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender.

(R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Horse Racing. (CC) Australian Guineas Day. Featuring the Group 1 $600,000 Crown Australian Guineas (1600m).

From Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne. 5.30 Before And After.

(PG, R) 6.00 Escape To The Country.

(R) Nicki Chapman helps a retired couple.

7.00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Taggart. (M, CC) The body of a librarian is found in his car.

10.30 Jonathan Creek.

(M, R, CC) 11.30 Tennis. Davis Cup. Czech Republic v Australia. Day 2.

From Cez Arena, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2.30 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Globe Trekker Specials. (PG, R) 5.00 Escape To The Country. (R)

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.30 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 11.30 Zoom TV. (PG) 12.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

1.00 American Stuffers. (PG, R) 2.00 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 3.00 Turtleman. (PG, R) 4.00 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 5.00 MOVIE: Kicking & Screaming. (PG, R, CC) (2005) 7.00 MOVIE: Land Of The Lost. (PG, R) (2009) A palaeontologist discovers a space-time vortex. Will Ferrell, Danny McBride.

9.10 MOVIE: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.

(MA15+, R) (2005) A scruffy gigolo journeys to Amsterdam. Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin.

10.50 MOVIE: Wild Things: Foursome. (AV15+, CC) (2010) A man becomes involved with three women.

Jillian Murray.

1.00 Bizarre ER. (M, R) 2.00 Scare Tactics. (M, R) 3.00 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 4.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Titans v Tigers. Fox Sports 1

10.30pm Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives. Witness the investigations that took place after nine Russian students mysteriously died in the Ural mountains in 1959. (M) Animal Planet

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Dogstar. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 1.30 Danoz.

(R) 2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 2.30 Search4hurt. (PG, CC) 3.00 America’s Got Talent. (PG, CC) 5.30 MOVIE: Tom And Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes. (R) (2010) 6.30 MOVIE: Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The World. (PG, R, CC) (2011) Jessica Alba, Jeremy Piven.

8.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1. (M, R, CC) (2010) Harry searches for the Horcruxes. Daniel Radcliffe.

11.30 MOVIE: Superman/Batman Apocalypse. (M, R, CC) (2010) Andre Braugher. 1.10 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 1.30 America’s Got Talent. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Monsuno.

(PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 5.10 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic.

(R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: South Of Algiers.

(R, CC) (1953) 7.50 Tasty Conversations. (R, CC) 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.30 MOVIE: Whisky Galore. (R, CC) (1949) 11.15 MOVIE: The Railway Children. (R) (1970) 1.30 Postcards. (CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Moby Dick. (R) (1956) 4.30 MOVIE: The FBI Story. (PG, R, CC) (1959) James Stewart.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) Fiona and the team return to Wimbledon.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) After a bomb kills the driver of an off-road race truck during a competition, the team investigates.

9.30 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) The team searches for a killer.

10.30 Unforgettable. (M, R, CC) An Afghani taxi driver is murdered.

11.20 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: The FBI Story.

(PG, R, CC) (1959) James Stewart.

3.10 MOVIE: Steptoe And Son Ride Again. (PG, R, CC) (1973) 5.00 Supernanny USA. (PG, R)

Sara Ramirez stars in Grey’s Anatomy

ONE 6.00 Basketball. NBL. Semi-final series 2. Game 2. Perth Wildcats v Cairns Taipans. Replay. 8.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Queensland Firebirds v West Coast Fever. Replay. 10.00 Where It All Began. (R, CC) 10.30 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R) 11.00 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

Recap. (CC) 1.00 Motor Racing.

World Series Sprintcars. 2.00 Megafactories. (PG, R) 3.00 People Of The Vines. (R, CC) 3.30 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 4.30 Adv Angler. (R) 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 6.00 GT Academy.

6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) Sherlock investigates a plane crash.

9.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Sarah Harris.

10.30 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan.

(M, R) 11.30 Gang Related. (AV15+, R) 12.30 48 Hours. 1.30 Cops. (PG, R) 2.30 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 3.00 The Pits. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 GT Academy. (R) 4.30 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R) 5.00 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 5.30 Football’s Greatest Managers. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.00 Charmed.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Taxi. (PG, R) 1.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 2.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Infomercials.

(PG, R) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy.

(PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Robert is put in charge of the wedding invitations.

7.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Will Smith.

10.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie’s success brings out the worst in Berger.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.20 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 2.55 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The King Of Queens.

(PG, R) 4.30 The Brady Bunch. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping. 5.30 Mass For You At Home. (CC)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Journal. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News.

12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 20. Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. 3.00 Urban Freestyler.

(R) 3.10 Ultimate Parkour Challenge. (PG, R) 4.05 Beyond Survival. (PG, R) 5.05 Planet Sport.

Manuel looks at long-distance running in Ethiopia. 6.05 Urban Freestyler. (R) 6.10 Knife Fight.

(PG, R) 6.40 No Kitchen Required.

(PG, R) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Extreme Frontiers: Canada. (M, R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

9.20 No Limit. Vincent is told to carry out a hold-up.

10.25 MOVIE: Special Forces.

(MA15+, R) (2011) Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou. 12.20 MOVIE: The Edge Of Heaven. (M, R) (2007) 2.30 Toughest Place To Be A… (M, R, CC) (Final) 3.30 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 11.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review.

12.30 Away From Country. (PG) 1.30 Our Songs. 2.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint. 4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 The Dream And The Dreaming. (PG) In 1877 the Germans arrived.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Roots Music. (PG) 8.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) Hosted by Casey Donovan.

9.30 The Blues: The Godfathers And Sons.

(M) The story behind blues music.

11.15 Not Just Cricket. (PG) Documents a tour of India.

11.45 Unearthed.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Big Ideas. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 State To State Summer. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 AusBiz Asia. (R) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Landline. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The World This Week. (CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 State To State Summer. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 Landline. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 AusBiz Asia. (R) 12.00 Big Ideas. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 State To State Summer. (R, CC) 4.00 Big Ideas. (R) 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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Sunday, March 8 Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras SBS ONE, 8.30pm Be prepared for a big splash of colour and creativity, as Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras hits the streets in its annual parade. Luckily for those who can’t join in the festivities, it is being filmed and broadcast for the first year ever. Hosted by comedian and actress Magda Szubanski, she will be joined by comedian Tom Ballard and journalist and reporter from SBS 2’s The Feed Patrick Abboud. Attended by hundreds of thousands of people from around Australia and overseas, it is one of the largest such festivals in the world, and not to be missed, even if it is from the comfort of your sofa.

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Broadchurch ABC, 8.40pm This British crime thriller has had audiences gripped, as it followed the investigation to track down the killer of a young boy in the small seaside town of the title. Now in its second series, it picks up where it left off, as the community of Broadchurch come to grips with the shocking fact that Joe Miller (Matthew Gravelle), the husband of local cop Ellie Miller (played by Olivia Colman), is accused of the boy’s death. Tonight, Ellie struggles to control her sister, Lucy (Tanya Franks), Mark (Andrew Buchan) must make an important decision for the sake of his family and Alec (David Tennant) has to face his demons.

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MOVIE: School Of Rock ELEVEN, 8.30pm, PG (2003) Jack Black’s (right) inspired and energetic performance, a razor-sharp script from Mike White and the astute direction of Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, A Scanner Darkly) ensures this is a winner. As a rockobsessed slacker, Black drums up plenty of laughs as he assumes the identity of his teacher roommate and decides to shape a class of private school kids into rock gods.

Funny, without being gross, sweet without resorting to sentimentality, this will strike a chord with the whole family, and the AC/DC-led closing credits sequence is fantastic.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.00 Attitude. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Shakespeare Uncovered: Macbeth.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 Basketball. (CC) WNBL. Grand Final. Townsville Fire v Bendigo Spirit.

5.30 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? Wray Avenue. (R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 12.00 The Amazing Race.

(PG, R, CC) Teams struggle with an underwater challenge.

1.00 World’s Strictest Parents.

(PG, R, CC) Hosted by Axle Whitehead.

2.00 MOVIE: Confessions Of A Shopaholic. (PG, R, CC) (2009) A woman struggles with her passion for shopping. Isla Fisher.

4.00 Australia: The Story Of Us. (PG, R, CC) A look at the period from 1862 to 1890.

5.00 News Special. (CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Jillaroo School. (PG, CC) Caitlin starts to unsettle the group.

6.30 Jillaroo School. (PG, CC) (Final) The Jillaroos tackle an outback muster.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Life On The Reef. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 3. Documents life on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef over the course of a year.

8.40 Broadchurch. (M, CC) Ellie struggles to control her sister. Alex has to face his demons.

9.30 Fortitude. (M, CC) Morton discovers a printout of a scan produced by a ground-penetrating radar system at Stoddart’s house.

10.15 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (PG, R, CC) Host Shaun Micallef presents a round-up of important news stories of the week.

10.45 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Rob Brydon.

11.15 Rock ’N’ Roll Exposed: The Photography Of Bob Gruen: Still Focused.

(M, CC) Part 4 of 4.

11.45 MOVIE: Midnight Cowboy. (M, R, CC) (1969) A young man becomes a gigolo. Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) (Series return) Current affairs program. Hosted by Chris Bath.

8.00 Australia: The Story Of Us. (PG, CC) A look at the period from 1915 to 1918, when the nation became involved in global conflicts and Australian nurses helped transform the field of emergency medicine.

9.00 Downton Abbey. (M, CC) Having checked into the hotel, Mary’s secret assignation is in danger of being exposed. A secret from Violet’s past threatens to come back and haunt her. Branson receives an interesting proposition.

10.00 Castle. (M, CC) As Beckett and her team investigate the murder of a young telenovela actor who was found in the alley outside her apartment building, Castle is hired by the show’s star to follow the case from a different angle.

11.00 Resurrection. (M, CC) A troubled Bellamy fears Rachael and her unborn child could be in danger, a situation only aggravated by the loud pronouncements of Preacher James.

1.35 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) Ellie struggles to control her sister.

2.25 Fortitude. (M, R, CC) 3.15 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 3.45 Hungry Beast. (M, R, CC) 4.20 A Quiet Word With Ross Noble. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Order In The House. (CC)

12.00 Happy Endings.

(PG, R, CC) Dave has an odd reaction when his shrink starts dating Penny.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

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6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.00 Where It All Began. (CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) Highlights from Studio 10.

10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 Weekend Feast. (R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Basketball. (CC) NBL. Grand Final. Game 2. New Zealand Breakers v Cairns Taipans.

3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 RPM. (CC) (Series return) Hosted by Matt White.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 Big, Bigger, Biggest.

(R, CC) 1.50 Story Of Him. 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 5.00 Massive Moves: Colossal Church. (R) 5.30 Nazi Megastructures: Hitler’s Jet Caves.

(PG, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Cricket. (CC) ICC World Cup. Match 32. Australia v Sri Lanka. Evening session.

From the SCG. 10.00 MOVIE: The Tourist.

(M, R, CC) (2010) After an American tourist meets a mysterious woman in Europe, he finds himself dragged into a dangerous world of intrigue and espionage. Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany.

12.00 Dallas. (M, CC) In the wake of the kidnapping, Bobby puts everything on the line to save lives. John Ross and Pamela form a truce. After hiding out with Nicolas, Elena finally learns the truth about his connections to the cartel.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (PG, CC) After six weeks, the competition reaches an explosive conclusion with live evictions each night.

8.00 Shark Tank. (PG, CC) Multimillionaires are pitched inventions and innovations, including a reworking of the traditional first-aid kit.

9.00 Empire. (M, CC) Lucious goes into damage control after one of his artists is involved in a shooting, ahead of the stock float.

10.00 MOVIE: Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy. (M, R, CC) (2004) A sexist ’70s TV news anchor finds himself challenged by the arrival of an ambitious female reporter. Her presence on the show not only leads to a fierce rivalry, but a confrontation with a competing network, as well as an embarrassing incident which could cost him his career. Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Lost Kingdoms Of Central America: Kingdom Of The Jaguar.

(CC) Part 1 of 4. Dr Jago Cooper explores the rise and fall of the forgotten civilisations of Central America. He begins by delving into the mysteries of the Olmec, a culture best known for its creation of colossal stone heads.

8.30 Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras.

(M, CC) Coverage of the 37th annual Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Hosted by comedian and actor Magda Szubanski, radio presenter Tom Ballard and journalist Patrick Abboud, from SBS 2’s The Feed.

10.05 Love, Marilyn. (M, R, CC) Documents the private life of Marilyn Monroe, featuring footage and audiotapes, as well as the star’s own handwritten letters, diaries, notes, poems, journals and notebooks. Actors including Adrien Brody, Lindsay Lohan, Uma Thurman and Jeremy Piven narrate her writings.

1.00 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners. (PG, R) 2.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) 3.00 20/20. (CC) 3.30 Danoz Direct.

4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.00 48 Hours: Death At SoHo House. (M, R) A look at the death of Sylvie Cachay.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show.

12.00 MOVIE: The Man Who Will Come. (M, R) (2009) Maya Sansa.

2.05 Countdown. (CC) 2.50 The Secret History Of Our Streets. (PG, R, CC) 3.55 Where Is Flight MH370?

(R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

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PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) The Bottom Line: Sir Michael Parkinson.

(PG, R, CC) Alex chats with Sir Michael Parkinson.

Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) (Series return) Hosted

by Ken Sutcliffe.

NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) (Series return) Hosted

by Peter Sterling.

Cricket. (CC) ICC World Cup. Match 32. Australia v Sri Lanka. Afternoon session. From the SCG. Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 1. Penrith Panthers v Canterbury Bulldogs. From Pepper Stadium, NSW.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.45pm The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Comedy. Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham.

A hotel concierge takes a lobby boy under his wing and together they are thrust into the mystery surrounding the theft of a priceless Renaissance painting. (M) Masterpiece

6.05pm Entourage. After arriving at the Cannes Film Festival, the gang try to secure a buyer for Medellin before the movie is screened. (M) SoHo

6.30pm Stephen Hawking’s Science Of The Future.

Stephen Hawking and his team of scientists explore how deep water is being used to train astronauts and how reengineering a virus to work for us could prevent pandemics.

(PG) National Geographic

2.00pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Fever v Mystics.

Fox Sports 2

7.55pm Gold (2014) Comedy.

(M) World Movies 8.30pm 22 Jump Street (2014) Comedy. Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill. (MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.50 Babar And The Adventures Of Badou. (R, CC) 3.15 Peg + Cat. (R) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 4.25 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo.

(R, CC) 5.00 Octonauts And The Mariana Trench Adventure. (R, CC) 5.20 Octonauts And The Great Arctic Adventure. (R, CC) 5.50 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 6.00 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 6.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 6.25 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 6.35 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Stan Lee’s Superhumans. (PG, CC) 8.15 Would I Lie To You? Shortcuts. (R, CC) 8.30 Crisis. (M, R, CC) 9.20 India: A Dangerous Place To Be A Woman.

(M, R, CC) 10.15 I Am A Girl. (M, R, CC) 11.10 Catfish: The TV Show.

(PG, R, CC) 11.50 Daughter From Danang. (M, R, CC) 1.15 The Real Hustle: Celebrity Scammers. (PG, CC) 1.45 News Update. (R) 1.50 Close. 5.00 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) (Final) 5.15 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.40 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 8.00 YooHoo & Friends. (R, CC) 8.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 11.25 Canimals. (R) 11.35 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Wolfblood. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 Wolfblood. (R, CC) 2.15 Wolfblood.

(PG, R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Leonardo. (R, CC) 3.40 Studio 3. 3.45 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 4.15 Roy. (R, CC) 4.45 Big Babies. (R, CC) 5.00 Studio 3.

5.05 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 5.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 The Haunting Hour. (PG, CC) 7.15 Wolfblood. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Canimals. (R) 7.50 My Great Big Adventure. (R, CC) 8.15 Degrassi – The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 8.35 Good Game: Pocket Edition.

(PG, CC) 8.40 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 9.05 Stoked. (R, CC) 9.25 Rage. (PG, R) 2.00 Close.

6.30pm Elton John: Live In Ibiza. Elton John graces the stage for the 2012 Rocktronic Festival in Ibiza. (G) Studio 7.30pm Outlander.

Claire worries Dougal is showing too little sympathy for the laird’s poorer subjects.

(MA15+) SoHo

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping.

9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Globe Guides.

(PG, R) 12.30 Globe Trekker. (PG, R) 2.30 The Hook & The Cook.

(PG, R) 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG) 3.30 Bush Pilots.

(PG) 4.30 Adventure Golf. (R) 5.00 The Bunker. (PG) 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Fawlty Towers. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) Hyacinth sees a strange man next door.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Denise Nurse heads to Perthshire.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Nick Knowles heads to Portishead.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

(PG, R) Gary explores a house in Melbourne.

11.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 11.30 Tennis. Davis Cup. Czech Republic v Australia. Day 3.

4.30 Globe Guides. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping.

9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 Auction Packed. (PG, R) 11.00 Submarine Patrol. (PG) 12.00 The Border. (PG, R) 1.00 Summernats. (PG, R) 3.00 Dust Up. (PG, R) 4.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Hellboy II: The Golden Army. (PG, R, CC) (2008) A team of outcasts battles a ruthless elven prince. Ron Perlman.

9.00 MOVIE: The Bourne Legacy. (M, R, CC) (2012) A top-secret government project, involving the creation of super soldiers, is threatened with exposure. Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton.

11.45 MOVIE: Escape From New York. (M, R) (1981) Kurt Russell.

1.45 1000 Ways To Die. (AV15+, R) 2.15 1000 Ways To Die. (AV15+, R) 3.00 The Border. (PG, R) 4.00 Auction Packed. (PG, R) 5.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R)

7.00pm Miss Representation. (PG) Biography

2.30pm Cricket. ICC World Cup. Australia v Sri Lanka.

Fox Sports 3 3.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Central Coast v Melbourne City. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm WWII Air Crash Detectives. (PG) History

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 Dennis & Gnasher. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 11.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 12.00 Digimon Fusion. (PG, R) 1.00 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 3.00 Max Steel. (PG, R) 4.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. (PG, R) (2011) 8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Sheldon becomes jealous of a genius.

9.30 MOVIE: Major League.

(M) (1989) A horrible team fights its new owner. Tom Berenger.

11.40 Arrow. (M, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Thumbsucker. (M, R, CC) (2005) Lou Pucci. 3.30 Power Rangers.

(PG, R) 4.00 Monsuno. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 5.10 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds. (R, CC)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: The Ship That Died Of Shame.

(PG, R, CC) (1955) 8.25 Tasty Conversations. (R, CC) 8.30 Shopping. 10.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.30 MOVIE: The Captive Heart. (PG, R, CC) (1946) 12.30 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Bandido. (PG, R, CC) (1956) 3.30 Cricket. (CC) ICC World Cup. Match 32. Australia v Sri Lanka. Afternoon session.

6.00 Customs. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 River Cottage Everyday.

(PG) 7.35 The Devil’s Triangle.

(PG, R, CC) Explores the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.

8.35 MOVIE: The Negotiator.

(M, R, CC) (1998) A police negotiator takes an office hostage. Samuel L. Jackson.

11.20 Longmire. (M, CC) 12.20 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.50 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.20 Adventures In Rainbow Country.

(R) 1.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway.

(PG, R, CC)

Channing Tatum stars in 22 Jump Street

ONE 6.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 7.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 7.30 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R) 8.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Adv Angler. (R) 10.00 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 10.30 Football’s Greatest Managers. (R) 11.00 The Pits. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

2.00 Extreme Collectors. (R) 3.00 GT Academy. (PG, R) 3.30 4x4 Adventures. (R, CC) 4.30 People Of The Vines. (R, CC) 5.00 Megafactories. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 8.00 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Extreme Fishing With Robson Green. (PG, R) Robson hunts for Atlantic sailfish.

9.30 MOVIE: Money Train.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1995) Two New York cops decide to rob a train. Wesley Snipes.

11.50 RPM. (R, CC) 12.55 48 Hours. (PG, R) 2.00 Savage Family Diggers. (R) 2.30 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R) 4.00 Adv Angler.

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ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets.

(C, CC) 10.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 12.30 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Recap. (R, CC) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Simpsons.

The animated misadventures of a nuclear family.

8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) The story of Mr Burns’ long-lost childhood teddy bear.

8.30 MOVIE: School Of Rock.

(PG, R, CC) (2003) A rock guitarist becomes a teacher. Jack Black, Joan Cusack.

10.50 Wilfred. (MA15+) 11.20 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 1.25 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News.

8.30 Journal. (CC) 9.00 PopAsia.

(PG) 11.00 Portuguese News.

11.30 Croatian News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Urban Freestyler. (R) 1.10 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 2.00 Foodie Planet. (R) 3.05 Warrior Road Trip. (PG, R) 4.05 Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience. (PG, R) 4.40 The Pitch. (R) 5.30 Brazil’s Next Top Model. (PG, R) 6.30 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) After a new girl starts at school, Cartman discovers something inside himself he never knew he had.

9.30 Toast Of London. (MA15+) Toast is offered a starring role.

10.00 A-League Extra Time.

11.00 In Her Skin. (M) 12.45 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.40 MOVIE: Ring. (MA15+, R) (1998) 3.25 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. (CC) A-League. Round 20. Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Ochre And Ink. 1.00 The Dream And The Dreaming. (PG) 2.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby League.

Koori Knockout. 4.00 Tag 20: The Documentary. 5.00 Te Kaea 2014.

5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant.

7.00 Ngurra.

7.30 Fit First. (PG) 8.00 Custodians.

8.10 Cash Money.

8.15 Custodians.

8.20 JM’s Healthy Tips.

8.25 Cash Money.

8.30 Catfight. A look at a longstanding taboo.

9.30 Kind Hearted Woman.

(M) Part 1 of 2.

12.30 Ngurra.

1.00 Volumz. (PG) 5.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

(CC)

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 News Update. (CC) 9.05 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 #TalkAboutIt. 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 News Update. 5.35 The Mix. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 News Update. (CC) 7.35 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Big Ideas. (R) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 State To State Summer. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 Big Ideas. (PG, R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) Passionate feelings lead to open and frank conversations this week. At last you feel able to open up and get rid of some of that frustration! Of course, this won’t please everyone. Still you must be true to your own thoughts and feelings.

A sudden call on your finances can be more than expected, so there is the need to negotiate! If you don’t ask for help or concessions, then you won’t be offered any.

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wondering how to make an impression? You know, deep down, that it is a matter of just being yourself. After all, could you really see yourself putting on a false face? Just looking for opportunities to showcase your talents and potential is exciting enough. Helping others is always in the back of your mind. The ideal situation is to be able to help yourself at the same time. This will lead to satisfaction.

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Be a little more relaxed by realising how much you mean to others. Just because there are demands on you, it does not mean that others don’t care.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Having

done well in the recent past, it would now be tempting to just coast along. That is fine but could mean you missing out on developing some new talents. Never assume that you know everything. People, technology, attitudes and possibilities: all of these change. Keep up with these changes and it is full speed ahead. ‘Be good to people on the way up as you may meet them on the way down’ is such good advice. Bear it in mind this week.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Whatever life throws at you, it seems to bounce off those broad shoulders this week! Perhaps you are beginning to realise your own potential. Indeed, the sky is the limit for your imagination which, in itself, provides inspiration. A partner is also inspired and together you form a formidable team. If you are artistic in any way, you will thrive this week. Others can count on your advice when it comes to anything aesthetic. Watch out for the finances, though!

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es are coming that will take even you by surprise. Aim to see any fresh problems as opportunities to showcase your talents. Are you feeling a little rusty in dealing with others?

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effort is too great this week as you ride toward your ambitions. There can be a lot of fun along the way if you are teamed up with the right people.

At this time, you may not be feeling very serious about your social life. Work does sometimes take over what should be spare time. Make sure that loved ones understand this and that it’s finite, OK?

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Having a clear vision and

energy aplenty is such an asset to you. This week will not throw many opportunities your way. Maybe you should be making your own? Call on past contacts to get work and social life moving.

Do you really feel that you are capable of doing better than those around you? Then show it. There is so much more to you than others realise, isn’t there? Sometimes it is necessary to ‘blow your own trumpet’.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

Being over-confident could see you making mistakes this week.

No-one is trying to trip you up, but a high standard is expected of you. Past successes do not have to be exceeded, just met. Sometimes it is lonely working alone.

Look around for someone who you could happily work with and make a few suggestions. Don’t worry if there is not much time for socialising at the moment. These things come in waves and there are areas you need to concentrate on.

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Flattering friends can always make you feel good about yourself. Sometimes, though, it is better to have friends who are always honest.

At the moment, there are some things that you know must change or need progressing. Just take the bull by the horns and get on with it. You will find that you are not alone. Work with others by all means this week. Part of the time should, however, be taken up with being your own best friend.

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instant thought shows a breakthrough. Hold onto it, write it down and carry it forward! This is a week of inspiration and imagination. You should never underestimate the importance of either. A difficult question midweek could prompt a panic but it doesn’t have to. Take control. When opportunity comes along at the same time as changes already working, it can be confusing. Just put one foot in front of the other and make steady progress.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with John Doyle, aka Rampaging Roy Slaven, 62 (pictured). There is a busy time ahead of you and most of it is a joy. At last it is possible to develop and use your talents in a new way. Make sure that you are looking after both your body and mind in order to keep up with these dynamic trends, Pisces.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Health and happiness are in your sights and need ongoing attention. With high demands and equally high energy, it would be easy to burn yourself too low, Pisces. Keeping in tip-top condition means taking charge and really caring for yourself.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Mixing pleasure and business through the months ahead works pretty well for you, Pisces. As well as things may go, avoid being so confident that you take others for granted. They, like you, are only human!

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! There is a temptation to flit from one thing to another, Pisces. You cannot deny your nature but it is possible to direct it.

Keep your serious face for work and continue to enjoy fun leisure time. Sometimes they mix, but take care.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: When doing well, it is tempting to be a little aloof. To keep the support (yes, you do need it!) and love of others it is crucial to remain balanced. You are not a circus act, but you can be sensible! Give and take, Pisces.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Keep confidence high by continuing to build friendships. These can be old or new but need to be nurtured. Pisces, you may choose not to take up all the choices offered to you. Even so, take up at least one that has a future.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! There are many choices available to you in the months ahead, Pisces. Which to run with? Latch on to those that offer longer-term chances of success. The rest you can enjoy at leisure or perhaps with partners.

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