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Taking care of business Why new Chamber boss Matt Wright is excited.

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A show of support

The Paleo phenomenon: Hit or myth?

Firearms theft in rural areas on the rise

Infrastructure investment: Are we ready?

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The Paleo phenomenon: Hit or myth?

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Issue Firearms theft in rural areas on the rise PAGE 14

Good cause Locals riding the Black Dog down PAGE 20

Lyndsay Lowe

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It’s your funeral... do YOU have a plan?

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Q&A: Matt Wright

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Why the new Chamber boss is excited PAGE 38

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Photography Meet artist Jes Drury who is keeping it real PAGE 52

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Can we talk?

HERE are far more important family conversations to be had than how to keep a healthy distance between Great Aunt Beryl and the gin bottle on Christmas Eve or what to do with Great-Granny’s half ton grand piano when she’s gone.

But for some bizarre reason – since along with taxes and Clive Palmer gaffes, death is one of life’s certainties – talking about what happens when we die is a discussion we all tend to put off, or avoid altogether. That’s a shame, because a measure of pragmatism now can help ease a family’s heartache when the grim reaper inevitably comes calling.

In today’s edition, Weekender talks to a local woman who’s put together a “how to” manual for planning one’s own last hurrah – and amid the plethora of self-help tomes now breeding on bookshelves, this one’s an absolute cracker.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve walked away from a wake vowing to leave clear instructions as to how I want my ultimate send off to go. We’ve all sat around a dinner table tossing around thoughts on burial versus cremation, what music we’d like played and whether we want to be put in a rocket and blasted into outerspace, buried in under an azalea at the bottom of the garden or sprinkled gently from the top of Kilimanjaro.

But like most of you, I’ll wager, I get far too busy with living to sit down and actually plan out what will happen when life’s proverbial bus runs me down.

My brother dropped dead five years ago from a heart-attack no-one saw coming, breaking not only our hearts, but any last vestiges of the notion that life is in any way fair or predictable.

Planning his funeral was a surreal exercise, made all the more painful for the one-foot-in-frontof-the-other numbness and shock of his loss. Not that he was a particularly complex kind of a bloke, but having a clear idea of what he would or would not have wanted could have made those dreadful first days a little less stressful – and we would have been able to nurse our hurt together without having to shuffle along make choices we were in no condition to decide.

Last month, my husband’s younger sister – a vibrant, remarkable and adventurous young wife and mother of two equally

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vivacious little girls – died after a short but brutal and ultimately one-sided contest with cancer.

In the fog of hurt and frustration that descended while that vile cancer ate our beautiful girl alive, her practical, no-nonsense instructions helped ease the process of planning a final goodbye.

Ever realistic and knowing her time was growing shorter with every laboured breath, she looked up from her hospital bed one morning and said, “Don’t we have something to talk about?”

What ensued was a surreal but priceless family discussion that, sadly, most people don’t have the opportunity to share.

We’d be much happier, of course, had the conversation never been necessary, but her pragmatism was a precious gift. It made that farewell no less harrowing, but knowing she’d helped plan it herself allowed us feel her largerthan-life presence.

In the final analysis, isn’t that what sustains us all through the loss of someone we love? That ability to remember all the good stuff and to somehow hold on to the essence of the person that was?

I don’t plan on going anywhere soon – I’d like to stick around long enough to hear my daughter say, just once even, “You were right, Mum” – but then fate doesn’t always get the memo.

So thanks to George, my amazingly courageous sister-in-law, I’m off to buy a copy of Lyndsay Lowe’s “how to manual” because one just never knows, do one?

When I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’d like very much not to be at my own send off. Coffins creep me out, thanks to my father’s funeral, so if it’s okay with the management, I’ll be there in photographic form only (and if they could find one from before my arse got its own post-code, that would be grand).

I’d like to think there’ll be mourners. I’d like to think they’ll wear red and sing as loudly as they can while Eric Bogle plays Shelter and my friends form a guard of honour and throw peanut M&Ms in my wake. Just don’t let Celine Dion or James Blunt anywhere near the place.

Sprinkle me into the wind from the top of the Warrumbungle Mountains and I’ll be as happy as Larry for all eternity.

And if George Clooney would like to say a few words, well, that’d be okay too.

I don’t plan on going anywhere soon – I’d like to stick around long enough to hear my daughter say, just once even, “You were right, Mum”.

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Taking the region to the world

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

HE internet has seen the world shrink into a global market where information exchange occurs around the clock and trends spread rapidly.

As a long-standing net exporter, particularly of mining and agricultural products, Australia has been in a strong position to take advantage of the global marketplace, with decades of experience in the business of export.

At the same time, Australian exporters now face challenges from a wider range of competing products and global trends fed by real time communications and volatile economies.

Yet some regionally based businesses in NSW are chiseling out a place for themselves in a number of overseas markets where it’s an advantage to be Australian.

Since 2011, NSW Trade and Investment report to have assisted more than 25 Central West businesses to break into overseas markets and grow export opportunities.

They estimate the value of reported exported sales by these businesses to be $5.4 million.

One local success story has been the O’Leary family’s business, Australian Organic Meats (AOM), producing, processing and exporting organic beef and lamb.

Matt O’Leary has been exporting since 2001, with AOM becoming the first in the world to achieve Japanese Agricultural Standard (JAS) certifica-

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tion for organic livestock.

He describes exporting as both rewarding and challenging.

The business now exports into the USA, several Middle Eastern and Asian countries, and the first shipment into Mexico is expected to happen in the next few months.

Last year they transported in excess of 60 shipments by sea and air and O’Leary expects that number to double this year.

“The limiting factor for us is supply.

It’s seasonal too,” he explains.

“As the organic supply grows we’ve got more product to sell. The demand is certainly there – it’s strong.”

O’Leary sees demand for organic meat product remaining strong for at least the next five years.

“As long as the price is reasonable, consumers will look for an organic product.

“It’s a bit of a trend that started in Europe and is flowing strongly into the US – anything organic over there is very popular. We’re finding the Middle East and Asia are now catching on.”

AOM consciously exports into a niche market.

“I don’t think it will ever be mainstream. Certain areas are better suit-

ed than others for organic production of livestock so there will always be limitations.”

It’s a balancing act of hedging sales around the Australian dollar, transport logistics, and placing product according to market requirements.

“These are the things we have to work with, so we try to work on an average.

“When I first started thinking about exporting I thought it’d be cool to export to Japan or Korea or the Middle East somewhere. I still get a kick out of that when I go to those countries and see our product on the shelf... I think it’s fantastic!

“But I certainly didn’t know about all those things that need to happen to get it there – they’re things I’ve learnt to work through.”

O’Leary says they have used some government assistance on the ground in overseas countries to help set up meetings.

However, when it comes to the logistics of exporting he says it’s something you can only learn for yourself.

“It’s also up to you to maintain contacts and build relationships with end customers.

“Relationship management is huge.

` As long as where you set up p your office you have an internet ernet connection, it doesn’t matter er where you are.” – Matt O’Leary, ary, Australian Organic Meats

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There’ll be hiccups along the line and it comes back to what the relationship is like with your customer to overcome those problems.

“Exporting isn’t for everybody. Like anything, to get the reward you’ve got to get over a few rough speed bumps.

“Financially, if you’re smart about it, the rewards are there. You’ve got to make sure the person you’re selling to is going to pay you at the end of the day.

We’ve had to take some insurances out to make sure that’s the case.

“For us, it helps balance up the carcass cuts. Some cuts are better sold as export, some do better on the domestic market, and what people eat differs seasonally too.

“If you rely just on the Australian market it limits your expansion and scope for where you can sell product.”

O’Leary believes having his business based in regional NSW keeps him grounded and informed as well as close to the supply and processing chain where he can monitor what’s going on.

“As long as where you set up your office you have an internet connection, it doesn’t matter where you are.

“In terms of exporting advice – do your homework, move slowly and don’t just do expor export, maintain a domestic client base as well. w “It’s good and it’s rewarding but it’s a hard slog a and it’s a bit daunting when you first dip d your toe in. Do it slowly than diving in.” rather tha NSW Trade and Investment runs workshops for businesses interested in export bus as well as a various export focussed programs. Further information is program available from www.trade.nsw. availa gov.au/export-from-nsw gov

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A show of support

BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

HE fortunes of country shows have waxed and waned over recent years, with changing demographics, shifting entertainment trends and rising costs.

But as the Dubbo Show Society winds up for its 142nd spin around the arena, those holding the reins say the city’s biggest annual event is on track and shaping up well despite the difficult climate of regional economics.

Sue Hood is arguably the show’s most recognisable public face. She’s been secretary since 1996, involved since 1983 and knows more about staging a threeday regional showcase than most. “Often, the fortunes of the show go with the climate,� she says, admitting there have been times when the society has had to tighten its belt. “But you get through, and things always go in cycles.

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` We carefully prepare and follow ourr budget – that’s what a responsible organisation of any sort does.� – Show secretary, Sue Hood We work within our budget, and we’re in great shape – very healthy.�

Just how healthy is reflected in the contribution the annual three-day show makes to the wider community and the Dubbo economy.

Hood says an exercise conducted by the Show Society to gauge the value of the event in terms of benefit to the city’s coffers was a revelation. “This was about six or seven years ago, and it showed that if we generate between $3-5 million over the course of about three weeks (including the leadup to the show) it generates approximately $40 million for the local econo-

my in and around Dubbo. “I was stunned,� says the experienced secretary. “But they said that with the flow on effect, that’s what it amounted to. So then we did an exercise with the Showman’s Guild, to ask them what they collectively spent and they estimated that for that year, it was around $5 million.�

It’s important to remember, says Hood, that while the show may go for just three days, the preparation and the people coming and going to and from Dubbo lasts for weeks either side. “We draw on the other shows as well, meaning that during the show season,

` IIt’s there as a community service. It’s there to showcase Dubbo and the region, to bring people to town and to give local people a fun couple of days out.� – Show Society president, Marty Morris

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we act as a hub for many exhibitors.

People come out and do what they call a “show run� and they’ll work from our showground and go out to the other smaller towns. That all injects money into our economy because they’re buying feed for their horses and stock, they’re going to the supermarkets, they’re buying meals and fuel... it’s massive.�

For all the value to the local economy, in terms of the Show Society’s budget, there’s no denying the pressures of rising costs. “Of course costs are going up,� says Hood. “But that’s the same with every business and every organisation – and like any other organisation, we have to work with that. That’s why we carefully prepare and follow our budget – that’s what a responsible organisation of any sort does.�

This year, the decision was made to increase entry fees – a modest rise from $10 to $12.50 – the first in five years. “We kept the price down as long as we could,� Hood says. “But we had to put it up this year to keep pace with rising costs.�

It’s still a remarkably reasonable family day out, according to both Hood and her president of five years, Marty Morris. “Where else can you have a whole day out for just $12.50 a head – and spend from 8 o’clock in the morning until 9

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 27.03.2015 to Sunday 29.03.2015 o’clock at night and see all that free entertainment and look at all the exhibits and just generally have a great family day out?” says Morris, who has notched up more than 30 years as a committee member.

Now in its 142nd year, the show is Dubbo’s biggest annual event, and the Show Society one of the longest running organisations in Dubbo’s history, second only to council.

Morris is keen to point out that part of the show’s success is that “it’s not there to make money”.

“It’s there as a community service,” he says. “It’s there to showcase Dubbo and the region, to bring people to town and to give local people a fun couple of days out. We put on as much free entertainment as we can for the people of Dubbo, but we have a responsibility to stay within our budget. A big part of bringing a quality show together is sponsorship – and we’re very appreciative of all our sponsors’ support and the ongoing support of the community.

“Our major sponsor is Orana Community Mutual, and their support is fantastic. There are also many other businesses and individuals that help us out with sponsorship as well – it’s all very much appreciated.”

Hood says that while this year’s sponsorship has been slower than usual to materialise and there is still room for further supporters to come aboard, the society is on track and operating well within its means.

According to Morris, that’s due in no small part to the massive army of volunteers who help out with all facets of the event.

“At show time, there are hundreds of people who give us a hand. So it’s a real community effort, and we’re very proud of that.”

The affable president is also justifiably proud of his family’s lengthy history as part of the local show – his has the longest association with the show of any local family.

“My father and grandfather were involved as well, and Dad used to say that between the three of us we have more than 130 years of involvement with the show. I’ve been involved in the committee for more than 30 years; Dad was a committee member for 63 years right up until he died and his father was involved before him. It’s in the blood,” he laughs. » The 2015 Dubbo Show will run for three days from Friday, May 15 to Sunday, May 17. For information, go to www. dubboshow.org or contact the show office on 6882 4364.

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Cultures fused with a cuppa

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

WO ancient cultures became intertwined when a group of Aboriginal elders was introduced to the traditional Japanese tea ceremony at Dubbo’s Shoyoen Gardens as part of Seniors Week celebrations in the city.

Laughter abounded in the tiny Jurian teahouse as participants initially took their seated places in a horseshoe shape while three of the Friends of Shoyoen, attired in the traditional Japanese kimono in varying colours, began the tea-making and serving process after greeting the guests with the appropriate “konichiwa”.

Helper Mickaela Fairall narrated the activity while Julie O’Connell delicately did the preparation. Although already clean, the drinking vessel used to serve tea was cleaned using an orange cloth as part of the ceremony, before the tea itself was brewed and served. A special type of green tea is specifically made for the occasion, and it is served lukewarm with small candied sweets.

Unusual in both texture and flavour, the tea is somewhat of an acquired taste which the first-time guests were soon to discover.

Once the tea ceremony was under way, the nervous giggles abated as they began to take on the serious tone of the morning as it is done very precisely and with elaborate meaning.

Traditionally, the refined Japanese tea ceremony is a way to welcome guests and offer respect through grace and good etiquette, so it was a fitting way to merge the two cultures. On some formal occasions, the ceremony can take hours to perform.

The tea hut or chaoya is named Jurian which means “happiness and long life house”.

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ret Nolan were the first to be served as is the tradition in Japan for the most respected members of the community to be served first. They enjoyed the honour, uttering the words osaki ne (May I go before you?) and dozo (please) as per tradition.

Dubbo City Council Aboriginal liaison officer Grace Toomey said that many of the elders had never had the experience before.

“The tea ceremony is to celebrate Seniors Week and the Aboriginal Elders Group gathering,” she told Weekender.

“They’ve never really been to the gardens before so we thought this would be an appropriate introduction for them.”

The morning began with an introduction by Cr Rod Towney which was

followed by a Welcome to Country given by Aunty Margaret Walker who also paused for a minute’s silence to honour those who have passed.

Representatives who had attended the Elders Olympics in Orange the previous day also celebrated their success as runners up with the group. There was also an information display and raffle.

A group of IPROWD (Indigenous Police Recruiting Our Way) students joined the elders for the morning’s activities, which was followed by lunch and acoustic entertainment by Pete Riley.

“The IPROWD students are from all over the state. It’s nice for them to be mixing with the elders and meeting local people,” Toomey said.

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Seven Days Fire control still a burning issue The week’s top stories from around the region

Compiled by NATALIE HOLMES

HE end of the statutory Bush Fire Danger Period on March 31 may be close, but NSW Rural Fire Service Orana team manager Superintendent Lyndon Wieland is still urging extreme caution when it comes to fires in the district. In fire terms, daytime temperatures of above 30 degrees and dry fuel on the ground still makes for a lethal combination.

“In some places, there’s still a high to very high fire danger and total fire ban in place – in those conditions, people just should not be lighting a fire,” Wieland said, adding he’d never before seen conditions “as dry and volatile at this time of year”.

Five millimetres of rain received on Tuesday this week was nowhere near enough precipitation to ease the situation.

“Until we get some good soaking rains, it will be nowhere near enough,” Wieland pointed out.

If a rural resident has need to light a fire in the near future, he said there are certain protocols that must be followed.

“Even though a fire permit is no longer a requirement, residents must still notify their neighbours and the local Fire Control Centre 24 hours before burning.

“People should also check whether they need a Bush Fire Hazard Reduction Certificate, and have sufficient equipment to control and contain the fire to their property.”

They must also ensure there is a sufficient firebreak and remain with the fire at all times.

“They can’t just light the fire and walk away from it. Landowners have a legal responsibility and if they light a fire on their property without notifying the appropriate people and taking the appropriate precautions to manage the fire there can be serious legal consequences.”

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ty guards at Orana Mall on March 11 where a smashed door led to detection of the bold robbery.

Further investigations revealed approximately $30,000 worth of jewellery had been taken from the store.

A crime scene was established with specialist forensic officers in attendance.

about the expansion.

“Without them, rural and regional centres would lose access to a lot of health services,” Yeo said.

“By providing more doctors outside of Sydney and providing them with good training programs, it well help solve this problem,” Smith said.

Classy championships

Firearms stolen from Walgett property

There was a touch of class at Dubbo Turf Club when punters and fashionistas were joined by celebrity guests Robert and Lynzey Murphy from My Kitchen Rules and Home and Away’s Nic Westaway for The Championships Country Series last Sunday afternoon. Dining on a gourmet barbecue and entertained by local songstress Kerry Ellen, guests enjoyed a delightful autumn day of racing.

The Championships series final will be held at Royal Randwick Racecourse on April 4.

Great response to antibullying competition

Stolen jewels image released POLICE have released images (below) of approximately $30,000 worth of jewellery stolen from a Dubbo store earlier this month.

The theft was discovered by securi-

An investigation is under way into the theft of 10 firearms from a property near Walgett this week.

Police from Castlereagh Local Area Command are looking into the robbery where the man’s firearms safe was forced open.

The stolen guns were: • Two Remington.22 rifles • Two Winchester.22 rifles • Two Mauser 300 rifles • Two BRN 22 rifles • Two BSA rifles Three boxes of.22 calibre ammunition was also stolen. The owner was fully licensed.

Police are now appealing for anyone who may have information about the theft, or who may be offered one of the guns for sale. **Weekender takes an in-depth look at the issue of rural firearms theft – see Page 14

Petrisse Leckie, Jessica Cowan and Katie Slade enjoying a day at the track. PHOTO: CHERYL HUSBAND

Expansion of GP training program THERE was some good news for rural and regional communities this week, with the announcement of an expansion to the rural generalist training program.

Australian Medical Association (NSW) president, Dr Saxon Smith welcomed the boost to services.

“GPs working outside of major cities have a history of multi-skilling and the rural generalist training program is a formalisation of that process.

“For example, they’re often called upon to deliver babies, anaesthetise patients and do other procedural work in country hospitals.”

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners NSW and ACT Faculty Chair, Dr Guan Yeo was also pleased

A STATE-WIDE competition to raise awareness of bullying in primary schools has received an overwhelming response.

Organised through not-for-profit organisation Interrelate, the competition drew almost twice as many entries as its predecessor.

Interrelate CEO Patricia Occelli was “blown away” by the response. She said the number of entries has almost doubled in 2015, with 174 schools compared with 92 for the inaugural competition in 2014.

“We’re tremendously proud that our competition has seen this issue brought to the fore in so many schools across the State. Over 5000 students have entered the competition, which aims to highlight the importance of assisting victims of bullying rather than being a bystander.”

The competition asked students to draw a picture depicting the theme “how would you help a friend who was being bullied?

“It’s quite obvious to us from the artworks we’ve received that this exercise has really exposed the impact of bullying for some students,” Occelli said.

Darling Street redevelopment milestone THE Darling Street redevelopment has reached a milestone moment with reopening late last week of the intersection at Darling and Church streets. Dubbo Mayor Mathew Dickerson said the refurbished intersection is meeting all project aims of rejuvenating the tired infrastructure while improving the local traffic and pedestrian environment.

“Prior to this redevelopment, the Darling Street infrastructure was seriously degraded,” he said.

“The renewed precinct will be a fantastic backdrop for the Centenary of Anzac commemorations including the annual Dawn Service which will be a particularly moving event this year.”

The Darling Street Redevelopment is now in recess and set to recommence at the northern end of Darling Street mid-year.

Stages 5, 6 and 7 include the renewal of the eastern footpath, tree replacement, renewal of kerb and guttering, installation of centre medians as well as road pavement works and sealing.

The complete redevelopment of Darling Street is expected to be finished by December 2015.

Autumn hazard reduction for national parks THE National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Central West Area will be conducting a series of hazard reduction burns in coming weeks, depending on suitable weather conditions.

NPWS area manager Sarah Carr said they will be working with the Rural Fire Service across several reserves.

“Autumn is the optimum time to conduct hazard reduction burns in the central west, when temperatures drop, making conditions safer to conduct this important work.

“Commencing this week, members of the public are likely to see burning activities underway in Goobang National Park near Parkes, Winburndale Nature Reserve near Bathurst, Mount Canobolas State Conservation Area near Orange and Nangar National Park near Eugowra if conditions are favourable.

“This program builds on previous hazard reduction burns in the local area to create a mosaic of fuel-reduced areas throughout the landscape,” Carr said.

So far this financial year, the NPWS has carried out 97 hazard reduction burns treating more than 48,000 hectares.

Solar plant begins production AGL Energy’s solar plant at Nyngan has started generating power, with the first 25 MW feeding into the National Electricity Market.

AGL Merchant Energy group general manager Anthony Fowler described it as a significant milestone for Australia’s largest utility-scale solar PV plant.

“First generation represents a great achievement for all the project stakeholders,” he said.

Further generation will progressively be brought online over the next three months as the remaining three sections of the plant are individually commissioned.

The AGL solar plant at Nyngan has started to produce 100 per cent renewable energy.

World Meteorological Day WORLD Meteorological Day has provided an opportunity to recognise the

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Solar plant begins production AGL Energy’s solar plant at Nyngan has started generating power, with the first 25 MW feeding into the National Electricity Market.

AGL Merchant Energy group general manager Anthony Fowler described it as a significant milestone for Australia’s largest utility-scale solar PV plant.

“First generation represents a great achievement for all the project stakeholders,” he said.

Further generation will progressively be brought online over the next three months as the remaining three sections of the plant are individually commissioned.

The AGL solar plant at Nyngan has started to produce 100 per cent renewable energy.

valuable contribution of meteorology in everyday lives.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment, Bob Baldwin said the day offered an opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary contribution meteorological science makes to the decisions people make each day and the contribution Australia makes to the world’s meteorological knowledge.

“In Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology provides round-the-clock analysis and prediction to produce weather forecasts and warnings that help people to fly, work and live safely, and indeed prosper, within our vast and varied landscape,” he said.

World Meteorological Day is celebrated on March 23 each year to recognise the anniversary of the establishment of the World Meteorological Organisation,

which first met on that day in 1950.

New gold deposit discovered ALKANE Resources has completed a drilling program at the Elsienora Project near Blayney with what the company says are “encouraging results”.

A zone of gold mineralisation has been identified at the Cuddyong Prospect and a second, unrelated zone of gold-silver-barium mineralisation, was identified at the Picker Prospect.

The Elsienora Project is located approximately 75 kilometres south of Blayney and the McPhillamys gold deposit (Regis Resources).

NSW Ambulance respecting difference

NS W Ambulance has marked national Close the Gap Day with a pledge to increase Aboriginal employment to at least 2.6 per cent, especially in frontline roles like paramedics, patient transport officers, flight nurses and control centre employees, to better provide more culturally respectful and safe health services for Aboriginal patients.

Plans are also underway to expand the Aboriginal Cardiac Care Education Program to reach more people in the Murray and Riverina areas and Central West NSW. Last year NSW Ambulance rolled out “Respecting the Difference”, a mandatory Aboriginal cultural training program for all NSW Health employees which aims to empower employees to deliver more responsive and culturally sensitive health services to Aboriginal patients, their families and

communities.

CTO Trebley, a paramedic for 30 years and educator for 11, was approached to join the NSW Ambulance Aboriginal Cardiac Care Education Program in 2012. It became the start of a major transformation, both personally and professionally.

Parkes man missing PARKES police are seeking community assistance to locate a missing man who disappeared from his home after having a trivial argument with his mother.

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A Jolie good ood rrole ole model ACTRESS and nd noted n Angelihumanitarian eing inunna Jolie is being dated with well wishealing her es after revealing decision to undergo omy fola hysterectomy icious test lowing suspicious results.

Jolie is ever vigilant – with both her mother and sister havbed to caning succumbed h a brood of cer, and with six children to consider, she’s ances. The actress, taking no chances. once named the most beautin the world, is no ful woman in reventative opstranger to preventative

erations – this surgery follows a double mastectomy she had voluntarily a few years ago to ward off breast cancer.

It’s good to see the Jolie-Pitt family is able to find a bit of anonymity during such a personal time – the surgeries were announced only after the events. It’s rare for stars to be able to hide something so significant until after the fact.

Netflix streaming into the market THE video streaming war has begun in earnest with the launch of Netflix into the Australian market.

The promoters of the new kid on the technology market have been spendin spending up big with a whole lotta adgetting some vertising getti brand awareness aware out all the mathere and al jor players a are jumping on the marketing band right ri along with them. Good for those who use the services – now you som negohave some tiating power and po me rea some really good deal a s to boot! al b deals But t e slick th s alll the marketi ting in the keting world will worl still not help those in arth

eas already maxed to capacity on their infrastructure loads.

Take care that you can actually use the service – mine drives me nuts with slow streaming much of the time.

Best foot forward WELL, now I’ve heard it all. This week the “news” carried stories of a podiatrist who thought a stiletto was more important than a few toes – at least, that’s how the media cycle seemed to pitch the story.

Seems an Australian woman went to a podiatrist for what was supposed to be minor surgery on a “hammer toe” – her aim being to be able to wear a particular pair of stiletto boots. No problem, said the now-disgraced Eastern Suburbs podiatrist who proceeded with what the woman was told would be a “minimally invasive” procedure.

The unfortunate result was the loss of three toes. The amputation was necessary after the woman apparently contracted gangrene because the anaesthetic wasn’t appropriate for toe surgery. She’s now suing the podiatrist.

The dangers of allowing surgical authority for podiatrists who haven’t undertaken extensive surgical training should make everyone shudder.

The Australian Medical Association did warn

against such a possibility.

That’s just how we roll DO you roll over or under? The ancient argument has been settled folks.

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I do draw the line at friends’ homes or public toilets but it does really bug me – and I know some of you know exactly what I’m talking about.

Calling all busty wenches BUILDERS are getting busy with the construction of an Australian set for the next instalment in the wildly popular movie franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 27.03.2015 to Sunday 29.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident who hates technology but retains a soft spot for Andean hallucinogens. or Bishop Tutu any grudge.

Nobody likes technology that’s now too big for its boosters AIL is big in the online lexicon.

It translates somewhere between balls-up and faceplant and refers to any undertaking that does not meet its intended outcome. Duh. So I’m saying that household products have evolved to a point where their level of technological success is actually a failing.

I can’t be the only one who microwaves by pushing “one minute” on High whether I’m defrosting a butterfly or cooking a brick.

I can’t be the only one surrounded by digital clocks on the wrong time because I don’t know how to change them.

Several years ago we had the good fortune to be given a TBox as part of a telecommunications company’s package deal of some sort.

Then we waited until our child was old enough to set it up, and that finally occurred at the weekend.

Gosh, what a concept: it helps you retrieve TV that has already past you by, like a time-traveller with all the recreation imagination of the people who watch

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royal weddings.

Because while we’re wasting our lives interacting with friends, playing with the kids, exercising, carousing, having lunch, having sex, lying on the grass watching the clouds contort or ingesting a frighteningly potent Andean hallucinogen, whole episodes of Gilligan’s Island may have been and gone.

But no more. Now we can replay them, and so instead of living a full life we can spend more of our finite existence sitting on our arses watching contestants on If I Was Still A Celebrity I Would Not Be Here In The First Place eat offal and snort maggots.

It’s the same concept as having two cigarettes at a time because you got caught up enjoying yourself and forgot to smoke for a while.

In short, it’s paying to sprinkle more powdered turd on our daily existence.

The irony of it is that this new device, designed to help me watch more TV, now stops me watching TV at all.

You see, if I fall victim to the zombie impulse to stare blank-

While we’re wasting our lives interacting with friends, playing with the kids, exercising, carousing, having lunch, having sex or ingesting a frighteningly potent Andean hallucinogen, whole episodes of Gilligan’s Island may have been and gone.

ly at, for example, “Cops” where skinhead US police officers brutalise underclass, non-violent drug users for our amusement, I now must turn on the T-box, then turn on the TV, not with the “TV” button or the “power” button mind, but with the “program” button of course.

Then I go to “source” where you get several options including “TV” and a few others, like “HDV something” and so on.

Now call me old-fashioned, call me the sort of literalminded, face-value, insidethe-box-thinking, naive Forrest Gump, slack-jawed yokel whose posters are pinned to the bedroom walls of conmen the world over to give them inspiration to get up in the morning.

But I’d near bet at this point that the “TV” icon is the one to click on. I want TV, the options offered include one indicating “TV” – what could go wrong?

Wrong. It’s in fact one of the “HDV” options and I can never remember which.

Japan’s army lures recruits with cute and cuddly smartphone game

2015 MILITARY LIFE

TOKYO: Japan’s military has released a smartphone game featuring cutesy characters who dodge household objects, marking the latest effort to polish the force’s image and lure new recruits.

The game calls on cartoonish figures in military uniforms to protect a home while the owners are away, including crawling on the floor and piloting a jet fighter to avoid flying objects including apples.

Called Jieitai Collection, the game can be played on iPhones and

Android devices with new missions to be launched on the application every month until June.

Pacifist Japan’s Self-Defence Forces (SDF) have launched four promotional videos for the game on YouTube with the tagline “Be an SDF official and protect your home!”

“We want people in a wide age group to learn about what SDF officials do,” a defence ministry spokesman said.

The game is part of efforts to soften the image of the

230,000-strong force, to which the number of applications for positions fell 10 per cent in 2014 from a year earlier.

Critics say the game is too tough to play.

The cute and cuddly approach is in sharp contrast with a videogame released by the Chinese military in 2013 which let players fight enemy forces in islands disputed with Japan – echoing a real diplomatic spat that has marred relations between the Asian powers.

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At this point I generally lose control and swear foully at the black surface, as stress chemicals course through my veins, hardening my arteries in much the same way as TV viewing, but without the ads or casual sexism.

If it’s a TV that under optimal circumstances is too complex to use such that I cannot access free-to-air broadcast services, it’s a fail isn’t it? Without the pictures it’s just a dark, plastic mirror in the corner isn’t it?

It’s about consumer expectation.

If I sell you a house and when you arrive to move in, instead of a contemporary dwelling, you discover instead a sock nailed to a post that you cannot even fit your head in, let alone your furniture, your expectations have not been met and you would be well-positioned to request your money back, had I not already skipped town with it.

Potential is irrelevant. If attempts to operate it leave me feeling like Gilligan, then it’s a freaking failure, Forrest.

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DEBATE.

Friday 27.03.2015 to Sunday 29.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

The Paleo phenom With a growing legion of devoted followers, the Paleo or “caveman” diet has taken the nutritional world by storm, with devotees proclaiming its value as a healthy lifestyle choice, while detractors say there are significant dangers inherent in strictly adhering to the diet’s tenets. So which is it – miracle or myth? Or a bit of both?

Margaret Hays – Practicing dietitian and spokesperson for the Dietitian’s Association of Australia VERY year millions of Australians go on a fad diet to try to lose weight and the sad fact is only a small percentage of these people achieve longterm success*. For many, this is because they are following diets made popular because of a celebrity face, or catchy titles, rather than proven results in weight reduction and health status.

Accredited Practising Dietitians spend years studying nutrition and health science at university and spend many more years practicing and developing their skills in the real world with real people. Yet despite this, a growing number of Australians are ignoring the advice of experienced dietitians and listen instead to nutrition tips from self-appointed “experts”, who have limited or no formal training in nutrition.

Here are a few nutrition myths popular at the moment.

Myth: Wheat is a dietary no-no.

The evidence says...Grain based foods, such as wheat, rye, barley and oats, provide many important nutrients for the body and can help manage body weight. Grains provide essential vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, protein and dietary fibre, all of which are important

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nutrients for a healthy diet. Eating whole grain foods help people to stay fuller for longer, which is good news for anyone wishing to lose or maintain weight.

There is also strong evidence that eating foods made from whole grains is linked with a lower body weight, a smaller waist circumference and a reduced risk of becoming overweight.

Myth: Cooking with animal fat is much healthier for you.

The evidence says... Animal fat is rich in saturated fat and too much saturated fat increases the risk of heart disease. The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend replacing foods containing saturated fats with foods containing unsaturated fats. Cook with healthy fats such as olive oil, canola oil or sunflower oil.

Myth: Coconut cream is a healthy alternative to cow’s milk.

The evidence says...Coconut cream is not a suitable substitute for cow’s milk nor is it a healthy food.

Coconut cream does not provide the same essential nutrients as milk and it contains a large amount of unhealthy saturated fat, which has been linked to increased heart disease and diabetes risk. Reduced-fat and low-fat milks provide essential nutrients, like calcium, magnesium and riboflavin, with minimal fat and saturated fat. Coconut cream contains 19g of saturated fat in a 100g serve which is 23 times the amount of saturated fat found in low-fat milk.

Myth: Legumes are a poor dietary choice.

` A growing number of Australians are ignoring n the advice of experienced dietitians and listen instead to nutrition tips from self-appointed ‘experts’, who have limited or no formal training in nutrition.” – Margaret Hays

The evidence says...Legumes are an exceptional dietary choice, recommended in the Australian Dietary Guidelines. They are an excellent source of (soluble) fibre, which is essential for maintaining healthy bowels, helping lower cholesterol, are low GI, inexpensive and are high in protein, making them an ideal meat alternative for vegans and vegetarians.

Myth: Coconut oil is ‘natural’, making it a better choice.

The evidence says...Coconut oil is no more “natural” than any other plant-based oil. All oils have gone through a degree of processing to turn the whole food from which they are derived into an edible oil product.

The biggest difference between coconut oil and other plant- or vegetable-based oils such as olive, avocado or macadamia oil, is coconut oil contains about 92 per cent saturated fat, which is linked to increasing LDL or “bad” cholesterol levels. While coconut oil contains a “healthier” type of saturated fat – lauric acid, known to improve HDL or “good” cholesterol – the product itself still causes a rise in LDL and total cholesterol, which isn’t good for heart health. Oils made from unsaturated fat sources such as avocado, olive and canola help to raise the good cholesterol and lower the bad cholesterol in our blood, making them healthier options.

Myth: Choose “all organic”, of course!

The evidence says...Both organic and conventionally-grown foods can provide all the nutrients required when included as part of a healthy, balanced diet. Neither is better or worse from a nutrition standpoint. The key is to eat a variety of foods, based on the recommendations of the Australian Dietary Guidelines. Many Australians are not eating enough of foods like fruit and vegetables so, regardless of how these are grown, the priority is simply making sure you eat enough of these healthy staples. So whether you buy organic or conventionally-grown food really comes down to personal preference and price.

The best diet is one based on the Australian Dietary Guidelines, developed using over 55,000 research papers. If you are looking for assistance with losing

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menon: Hit or myth? weight or improving your health please see an Accredited Practising Dietitians for tailored nutrition advice.

• AUSTRALIAN HEALTH SURVEY: NUTRITION FIRST RESULTS – FOODS AND NUTRIENTS (2011-12) – AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS 2014.

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Kate Wright – author and health coach ULL disclosure straight up: I am not “paleo”.

Interesting, isn’t it, that a word used to describe a lifestyle choice is so often preceded by the words “I am”, as if it inherently defines who we are.

Of course, that is untrue. The subtlety, however, means we unwittingly risk an obscured concept of self, limiting beliefs and feelings of failure if we stray from the parameters we’ve constructed by hinging our selfworth on an ability to uphold the expectations associated with whatever is on the other side of that “I am”.

In this case we’re talking paleo. The lifestyle itself is not detrimental to health – far from it, according to much research. So, what is all the recent hullaballoo about?

Well, some “experts” say paleo is dangerous. Bacon and eggs, fish and salad, meat and three veg, some fruit and nuts – sound dangerous to you? These are real, whole foods. Advocates of the paleo lifestyle are criticised for advising that “whole food groups” be reduced or eliminated from the diet – sugar, grains, dairy, and vegetable oils. But the foods readily available to us in these “whole food groups” are highly processed and more often than not contain substances we hardly recognise.

I believe it’s still possible to find these foods in their purest, unadulterated forms – but it’s definitely difficult. This wasn’t always the case. For instance, baking bread at home was once “normal”, but it wasn’t common to add artificial preservatives or to spray crops with toxic chemicals. The price we pay for modern-day convenience is the known and unknown health implications of consuming artificial preservatives that keep food fresher longer and the synthetic chemicals used to protect or “invent” food and make it go further. We place an awful lot of good faith in the makers of “modern day food” and blindly trust those who market the stuff. But there is power in people.

In 2013, fast-food chain Subway stopped using

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azodicarbonamide in its bread after copping backlash that stemmed from one food blogger’s petition. Azodicarbonamide is a chemical used to make plastic but is also approved by America’s Food and Drug Administration for use in food. Subway used it to make its bread light, white and fluffy. Unfortunately, however, love is blind. The taste and convenience of certain foods and the way they make us feel – however brief a period – is all we need to brush over the reality of the situation. It’s the synthetic chemistry of food that has us hooked, not the taste. It’s that our lives are out of balance, not that we lack time to prepare meals from scratch or struggle to find time to enjoy anything other than food (or food-like substances).

Paleo isn’t the only lifestyle choice that’s been subject to criticism of late. Well-known “wellness warrior” Jess Ainscough, who I had the pleasure of meeting last year, passed away last month at age 30. Doctors diagnosed Jess with an incurable cancer at age 23 and said she had six months to live, maybe a couple of years if she underwent chemotherapy and allowed them to cut off her arm.

Facing such news, I imagine one would wonder what they have to lose by choosing an alternative. Very little, it would appear, as Jess managed to live several more years than doctors first granted. Did her nontraditional cancer treatment route, which included complete purification of lifestyle, have something to do with her extended lifespan? At best, yes – after all, haven’t we been told time and time again that a healthy diet and exercise can do just that? At worst, no – it was all just dumb luck and fate. Either way, the criticism and judgement that’s been circulating since her death is helpful to no one and makes me sick when

I think of the pain it must be causing Jess’ family and friends.

The thing is, we all have an incredible and precious gift – it’s called choice. While we are influenced by our environment and experiences, ultimately, we are the only ones responsible for our choices. As individuals we decide what to eat, how to live, and what to believe. If we value our health and lifestyle, we have the opportunity to make educated and informed decisions.

Pete Evans, creator of The Paleo Way, was in Dubbo last week on tour with Luke Hines and Nora Gedgaudas to demonstrate how easy it is to cook real food real quick. He was in Dubbo last year on the same tour to introduce people to the paleo lifestyle. The year before that, Nora was in Dubbo for a near full-day seminar on the science behind the paleo way of living. All three events were near sell-outs. Clearly, there is a hunger among the people of Dubbo and surrounding towns for knowledge about the paleo lifestyle, which has to be a good sign. Knowledge is power. But what has anyone to gain by keeping knowledge to ourselves? As humans who have the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter covered, we thrive on connection and growth – learning and sharing with others, offering them something in return, and discovering things for ourselves. People like Pete, Luke and Nora – or anyone for that matter – who have experienced life transformation and are passionate about sharing their knowledge and wisdom with others should not be vilified for their good intentions.

In the end, we are responsible for ourselves. We have the opportunity to seek knowledge and it is our choice whether we accept and/or apply it or not. It’s a personal choice and our basic human right.

` As individuals we decide what to eat, how to live, and what to believe. If we value our health and lifestyle, we have the opportunity to make educated and informed decisions.” – Kate Wright

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With gun-related crime on the rise across the State, Weekender delves into the issue of firearms theft in rural areas. WORDS Natalie Holmes VERY other day, a gun is stolen from a rural property.

To most people, particularly those living in urban areas, it’s no big deal and it’s a point that would probably fly under the radar. But to property owners, it’s an expensive and frustrating issue.

According to NSW Police, “rural crime costs millions of dollars every year. Theft of livestock, produce and equipment, illegal shooting, trespassing and other crimes affect people’s livelihood and wellbeing”.

NSW Police Western Region Assistant Commissioner and corporate spokesperson for rural crime Geoff McKechnie says that firearm theft from rural properties is increasing, despite crackdowns on gun ownership laws and increased community awareness. He believes it’s a widespread problem.

“It’s an issue that we are certainly dealing with and we are seeing an increase in the numbers of firearms stolen from year to year.”

Statistically, firearm theft from rural properties has actually decreased since the inception of stricter gun laws in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996.

According to the Law Library of Congress, Firearms Control Legislation and Policy for Australia, “prior to this incident, gun laws in Australia could be seen as relatively lenient, and there were large variations in the regulations across the six states and two mainland territories”.

“In response to the Port Arthur massacre, the Australasian Police Ministers’ Council (APMC) convened a special meeting on May 10, 1996, and agreed to a national plan for the regulation of firearms promoted by then Prime Minister John Howard.”

At that time, amnesties were conducted across NSW where gun owners could hand in their firearms to police without conviction if they were unable to comply with the new legislation which involved restricted ownership and tighter policies on storage and use.

However, since that time, figures compiled by the International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting show there has actually been an increase in the number of registered guns in NSW. And they state that although the numbers fluctuate from year to year, firearms theft in NSW has been slowly decreasing since 2001. Those statistics are reinforced by a number of different sources, both nationally and in NSW.

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NDER the National Firearm Theft Monitoring Program, established at the Australian Institute of Criminology, the number of firearms stolen nationally each year during the monitoring period was 1445 in 2005-6 and 1712 in 2007-8, less than half the estimated average of 4195 reported stolen each year in the previous decade.

By 2011, according to the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), a total of 640 firearms were stolen in 203 incidents of firearm theft in NSW.

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Retired police officer and former assistant commissioner Steve Bradshaw believes the gap between the statistical data and reality is due to the fact that more than half of rural crimes are not reported.

Bradshaw originally worked with the state stock squad in the 1980s and later assisted with the establishment of the Rural Crime Investigators (RCI) unit, of which there are now 33 across NSW, administered from Dubbo.

` There are less people living on properties and they are more isolated so there is a greater opportunity for people to steal.” – Retired police assistant-commissioner Steve Bradshaw

In 2014, it was reported in national media that there were 578 firearms stolen in NSW in 2013-14.

However, McKechnie says there is still a burgeoning issue in rural areas.

“While crime trends in general go up and down, we are certainly seeing an increase in the number of firearms stolen, particularly from rural properties,” he tells Weekender.

The number of thefts occurring is largely due to the combination of farms being remote and thieves being opportunistic.

“What we see is the opportunities that criminals take in terms of vacant rural premises where no-one is home.”

In that regard, by using timing and isolation, thieves are able to successfully accomplish their mission.

“The more isolated the area, the easier it makes it,” says McKechnie.

There are other factors at play too, including an increased use of technology and local knowledge, noncompliance with legislation and an unwillingness to either deal with police or incriminate others.

“People have a local understanding and if others are absent from home. History tells us that if there is desire by a criminal to take something, they are prepared to go to any lengths.”

“There are fewer people living on properties and they are more isolated so there’s a greater opportunity for people to steal. There’s still a significant amount of firearm theft.

“A lot of times, they don’t want to bother the police.

Usually, the thief is someone local and they don’t want to dob them in,” says Bradshaw. “They don’t want the police to know their security measures weren’t up to scratch. There might also be a lack of confidence in the police, a lack of confidence in the legal system.

“People have always stolen guns, but you find sometimes that people don’t report that. They might not have taken the proper care in storing their guns, sometimes they don’t take the proper precautions.”

LAINE BARCLAY, Associate Professor in Criminology, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences at the University of New England has written a number of articles and has even co-authored a book on Crime in Rural Australia.

“Farmers report to me that they’ve had guns stolen from locked cabinets,” she says.

“Some have reported thefts but then have also been in trouble because the firearms were not secured.

“The legislation that requires firearms to be locked away frustrates farmers as a gun is an essential tool on

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the land. If you have a wild dog in with your sheep, by the time you go back to the house unlock the gun and return, a lot of damage is done.”

Among landholders, there have been mixed feelings about the incidence of firearm crime and the licencing laws.

Experienced recreational shooter Alan Taylor says that with firearms in general, it’s different nowadays than in the past.

“Safety is a big thing. You can’t just throw them on the backseat of the car. It’s pretty important and there’s a lot of idiots about.”

Mudgee farmer Peter Barton has been the victim of gun theft and his property is also regularly used for illegal hunting against his will.

“My gun was in the safe when it was stolen and yet I was made to feel like the criminal. We used to be able to carry them around but now they’re always locked up, so they become less useful around the farm.

“What I dislike about the gun laws is that to get and hold a gun which you need for your livelihood is extremely difficult. You have to go through so much rigmarole. But we are still being targeted by people who steal them because of the nature of what we do.

“Criminals seem to be getting more guns but it’s harder and harder for us to get them and we’ve got to meet all the criteria. Even transferring gun ownership from my father to me was difficult.”

Former professional shooter and Darling Downs farm manager Peter-John Bradford originally hails from Walgett. He believes there is a high rate of non-compliance in the rural community.

“Unfortunately, I think farmers are way too lax on safe storage of firearms and ammo. Although most farmers have complied with regulations by storing these in safes, in a lot of cases there is a firearm behind the seat in most rural vehicles and ammunition that is viewable inside the vehicle from outside.

“I’ve heard of plenty of instances of firearms being stolen from vehicles or absentee farm houses but never

heard of a safe being cracked and guns stolen.”

In that regard, Bradford believes firearm laws should be stricter.

“I think that ANYONE who is caught with unsecured firearms should forfeit their license for a couple of years...the consequences are just too dangerous not to comply.”

Peri-urban dweller Kim V Goldsmith, who has a 25 acre block on the outskirts of Dubbo, agrees.

“Personally, I don’t think gun laws are tough enough.

From a peri-urban perspective, I suspect there are people with gun licences that shouldn’t have them. We have a lot of recreational shooting that occurs around us and it’s too close...there have been times when I don’t feel safe. The police have come to do checks on our firearms. But they’re not checking those who don’t have licences.”

Steve O’Brien lives and works on the land and is no stranger to hunting.

But he describes the current gun laws as a joke.

“There is a disturbing culture of gunphobia in Australia. They (the laws) are designed to penalise the lawabiding firearm owners. When some criminal in Sydney shoots somebody with an imported Glock 9mm, people start screaming for tougher gun control, but what the anti-gun people don’t realise is the criminals don’t have to worry about licences or registration or following the law.”

Wellington grazier and sheep breeder Pip Smith has been fortunate not to be a victim of rural gun crime and is happy with the legislation as it stands.

“I do know both of my neighbours have been affected in the past. Thieves are opportunistic – they know they can do what they want because no-one is going to hear them.

“The laws are fine for us, they don’t need to be stricter. We have guns purely for the control of pest animals.

I don’t think we feel at all vulnerable.”

McKechnie says stringent licencing requirements have ensured that the vast majority of firearm thefts

` It’s an issue that we are certainly dealing with and we are seeing an increase in the numbers of firearms stolen from year to year. ” – Geoff McKechnie, NSW Police Western Region Assistantt Commissioner and corporate spokesperson for rural crime

YOU must hold a current Firearms Licence or permit issued by the NSW Police Firearms Registry to use, own or possess a firearm in NSW. As a firearms owner you are required to familiarise yourself with the Firearms Act 1996 and the Firearms (General) Regulation 1997, and “take all reasonable precautions to ensure its safe keeping, and that it is not stolen or lost, and that it does not come into the possession of a person who is not authorised to possess the firearm”.

All firearms must be registered with the Firearms Registry, and as a condition of a firearms licence, you must permit a police officer to inspect your firearm storage arrangements at a mutually agreed time.

Part 4, Section 40 of the Act requires category A and B licence holders to comply with the following requirements: (a) when any such firearm is not actually being used or carried, it must be stored in a locked receptacle of a type approved by the Commissioner and that is constructed of hard wood or steel and is not easily penetrable, (b) if such a receptacle weighs less than 150 kilograms when empty, it must be fixed in order to prevent its easy removal, (c) the locks of such a receptacle must be of solid metal and be of a type approved by the Commissioner, (d) any ammunition for the firearm must be stored in a locked container of a type approved by the Commissioner and that is kept separate from the receptacle containing any such firearm, (e) such other requirements relating to security and safe storage as may be prescribed by the regulations.

The Firearms Registry recommends that category A and B firearms be stored in a gun cupboard or commercially-produced display case or gun rack that comply with or exceed the minimum storage requirements for this category. These should be of solid construction, and kept padlocked and secured to the floor and wall in a permanent building with secure locks on all entrances.

Gun cupboards should be fitted with a solid metal lock/s (minimum body width of 40mm, a hardened steel shackle and a minimum of 100 key changes); and the door should be fitted with a three point locking mechanism and padlocked by means of a hasp and staple or lever handle.

If using a display case, the glass panelling must be a minimum grade of 6.38mm and laminated, while the gun rack should be secured with plastic coated flexible steel cable (44mm minimum thickness) or chain of equivalent strength, passing through the trigger guards/s and secured to the wall at each end by expanding anchor bolts/coach screws.

Under Section 41, category C, D and H firearms licence holders must store such firearms ‘in a locked steel safe of a type approved by the Commissioner, that cannot be easily penetrated’, when any such firearm is not actually being used or carried. “Such a safe must be bolted to the structure of the premises where the firearm is authorised to be kept through the back and base (See the Level 2 Recommended Minimum Storage Requirements on the NSW Police Firearms Registry website).

NSW Police advises primary producers to ensure firearms are transported and stored safely ie by ensuring firearms are not loaded and temporarily incapable of firing (remove the bolt, magazine and check the chamber is empty). It is also recommended that you keep an inventory of the particulars of the firearm and ammunition including the registration number, serial number, make, model and calibre.

You should also be aware that you must be licensed by the Game Council NSW to hunt game species on private land, or to hunt game and feral species on declared public land.

SOURCE: NSW POLICE

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are being reported.

However, after attending the 2015 Queensland Stock and Rural Crime Investigation Squad (SARCIS) conference at Millmerran 10 days ago, he says there is certainly still a level of underreporting.

“It’s across the states. It’s certainly not isolated to any particular area.”

The conference covered topics such as DNA identification, statistical data around rural crime and case studies from other agencies.

McKechnie says it was also a good opportunity for NSW, QLD and Victorian representatives to communicate.

In terms of addressing the issue of gun theft from properties, he’s urging licenced firearm holders to be vigilant in terms of protection.

“The legislation as it is is very strong and it ensures that firearms are kept safely. (But) we can encourage people to put in cameras and alarms on their premises for detection. Thinking about home and property and seeing where gun safes are and using CCTV and alarms to make it as difficult as possible for thieves who can be opportunistic or targeted.”

As a victim of rural theft, Goldsmith’s brother has installed surveillance on his property. The Smiths also have a security camera.

“It’s expensive too,” Goldsmith says. “But when you have an extensive area to cover and minimal daily movements on some parts of the farm, there’s not much choice.”

Barton agrees that it’s costly, but with an area of more than 12,000 ha composed of his property and surrounding farmland with very few inhabitants, he says it’s difficult to maintain security control measures.

The social ramifications of gun theft include financial losses such as increased insurance costs, more unlicensed firearm ownership and rising levels of illegal hunting in rural areas along with the possibility of guns resurfacing on city streets.

In her book Crime in Rural Australia, Barclay writes that “farm crime impacts upon society at three levels”.

“First...farmers pay for the loss of the theft of equipment or livestock through high replacement costs, lost work time and higher insurance premiums...Secondly, agricultural crime threatens and undermines the cohesiveness of rural communities. When a victim accuses a neighbour or someone else within a district of theft, rifts occur in the community. Thirdly, farm crime can impact at a national level.”

McKechnie concurs.

“Many firearms are still located within the local community.

“Once you acquire a stolen firearm, you could get rid of it for cash. We just need people to provide us with that kind of information.

Firearms theft in NSW between 2001 and 2011 Year

Number registered

Number stolen

2001

619,643

851

2002

641,468

799

2003

653,834

718

2004

647,138

514

2005

649,467

531

2006

658,808

449

2007

672,957

560

2008

691,724

472

2009

730,420

550

2010

748,216

569

2011

758,802

433

SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR WOMEN IN SHOOTING AND HUNTING

“Pig hunting is big at the moment and firearms are often very expensive therefore it becomes attractive as an item to be stolen.”

Bradshaw also echoes the idea, saying that “one of the increasing crimes is illegal hunting – including unlicensed hunters and trespassing”.

O address the many issues surrounding gun theft from farms, McKechnie said it’s about vigilance.

“Looking around and reporting any suspicious activity like being offered to buy a firearm at the local pub, having sufficient lockable devices and making it as hard as they can.”

Barclay believes police are concerned about the rise of firearm thefts “and they worry that firearms finish up on the streets in the cities”.

But according to McKechnie, this is untrue.

BOCSAR states that rifles are the most common firearm stolen while handguns are the main weaponry used in urban crime.

McKechnie’s colleague Inspector Mark Minehan says many of the guns stolen from rural properties just don’t resurface.

“You’d think they would turn up in organised crime but they don’t.”

One’s things for certain, this issue is causing unease in rural communities, and with the western region representing 65 per cent of the state, it’s a problem that needs to be promptly addressed across the board although stretched resources often mean rural crime investigators don’t get the opportunity to leave the city limits to work on rural crime cases.

As for the country-city connection, McKechnie says they each represent a difficult situation, equally as bad for residents.

“We haven’t seen any link between firearms stolen from rural properties and shootings in metropolitan areas. It’s a different set of circumstances and a different set of problems.”

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From Gallipoli, A Dubbo son’s As the nation prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the famed and fateful landing at Gallipoli of the troops that would become known as the ANZACs, Weekender presents a five part series of excerpts from “letters home” from young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid who was among those who stepped off the ships and straight into the hell of Suvla Bay on April 25, 1915. In this, the first of the series, Jack tells of his adventures in Egypt – Land of the Pharoahs – and of the troops’ anxiousness and excitement at the thought of finally going into battle – destination: Gallipoli.

A DESERT CHRISTMAS

Christmas Day, 1914 BEFORE dawn we were awakened by the bands of the various battalions, which marched through the lines playing Christmas hymns and carols. “Christians, Awake, salute the Happy Morn” echoed as we turned over, and discovered that a pleasant surprise awaited us in a boot or sock.

A few of us had bought trumpets, stockings etc., and hung them over the heads of our sleeping pals, and so we, too, enjoyed the pleasures of Christmas morn. We are having church parades, and have a stock of provisions to adorn our festive board. Five of us are dining together from a somewhat extensive menu, including turkey, cold meats, biscuits, pastry, tinned fruits, confectionery, nuts and drinks; so you may guess we look after the inner man very well.

As the day is a general holiday, we are going to take the opportunity of visiting the zoo, the museum, and other sights of Cairo; and, as a trifling climax, intend dining at the Grand Continental Hotel, which is a spot for the elite that puts the Hotel Australia (Sydney) completely in the shade.

Yesterday we broke the monotony of the ordinary infantry training, and started on something more interesting. With shovels and picks we made our first trench, but it being in the sand picks were scarcely necessary. We started off under imaginary fire, and dug pot holes so as to get under cover, and then extended the alignment, thus making a very fine trench for our first attempt, so we can say we were in the trenches on Christmas Eve. They were 3ft. deep, at which depth we struck water, due to the soakage from the Nile, about a mile away.

Daily, with the exception of Sunday, we are on parade from 8 am to 2 pm, and on certain nights we get a few extras, such as a night attack, outpost duty, or inlying piquet.

From the hills the camp presents a remarkable picture of activity. Troops are marching and manoeuvring on the desert stretches, the horses of the artillery are being exercised, bands are practising, and the whole camp is astir. Four large mess sheds have been erected for each battalion, and we now dine in comfort from tables. There was a scarcity of rations at first but

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now everything is in order.

I’ve visited The Sphinx and pyramids, accompanied by the inevitable guide, who proves very interesting with the tales he tells, and has a romance to spin about coins, jewels, etc., which were probably made wholesale in Germany.

At present an American expedition from Harvard University is engaged in unearthing further treasures of ancient Egyptian art. We climbed to the top of the big pyramid (of Cheops). Some late Pharaoh was kind enough to remove a large area of stone, with which he built a temple, and so left the pyramid assailable. It is 470 feet high, and makes rather a strenuous climb.

From the top one has a view of the surrounding country. The fields along the banks of the Nile appear from that height like so many billiard table-cloths. An Arab, after collecting 20 piastres from the sight-seers on the Pyramid, displays exceptional stamina by running down the pyramid, bouncing like a rock wallaby from stone to stone, and up the next, which is almost as high, in the remarkably short time of 7½ minutes. Descending as quickly as safety would allow, it took us 12½ minutes, a feat which he did in two.

The native population are dirty in their habits, and appear to be on the verge of starvation. They are everywhere and sell everything – it is impossible to get away from them. On the march they follow us with oranges melons, tomatoes, boiled eggs, cigarettes, chocolates, etc.; they frequent the pyramids, ready to pounce like so many vultures on their prey; they act as guides, and are always ready to provide one with a donkey or a camel; an even when on top of the pyramid we were pestered to buy coffee. When in the city we are asked to buy something about 75 times every 100 yards we advance, and the usual price paid is about one third of

Troops are marching and manoeuvring on the desert stretches, the horses of the artillery are being exercised, bands are practising, and the whole camp is astir.

what is first sought.

There are many temptations in the city, the result being that many have succumbed. The Australians had not been here a week before a citadel prison was full, the main offence being drunkenness, absence without leave, and breaking camp.

MARCH 1915

In the land of the Pharoahs EACH night brings fresh rumours. If a kit inspection is held we are supposed to be on the eve of making our departure. The colonel goes into Cairo hurriedly, and the rumoor goes the rounds, increasing in details like a snowball, that we must be going to the front, and so on ad infinitum. Last week a very strong rumour held sway, as its source could be traced from the colonel down to the junior cook. We were to go to Ismailia, on the canal, but when the day named for our departure came round we still remained with the pyramids and sand. However, the New Zealanders have been transferred there, and we may probably join them if the Turku arrive in large numbers.

The hospital ship Kyarra arrived a week ago, and is to return this week with a fairly large number of our troops – 1100 it is said. These are the medically unfit and desirables. Eight are being sent back out of our company and 30 out of the 1st Battalion. They may be fortunate in returning safely to Australia, but I do not envy them. I’d rather go on to the fight and win my laurels, to make the homecoming a worthy one.

One of our platoons was given an extra half-hour’s drill on account of one or two being slow in the slope arms, and on the march home they came to the conclusion that they would object to do it, as one of the officers promise that no platoon would suffer for the errors of a few individuals, and in order to emphasise the necessity of reform in certain respects. When marched off for the “extra” they remained stationary to the sergeant’s order, “slope arms”. The lieutenant repeated the order with a rising inflection, and there was not a move. The captain bustled out and thundered the order again, but they remained like statuary.

The solid determination embarrassed the captain, and upset his equilibrium. He held a hurried consulta-

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Jack Reid, graduation

They may be fortunate in returning safely to Australia, but I do not envy them.

I’d rather go on to the fight and win my laurels, to make the homecoming a worthy one. tion with the colonel, who did not appear to give him any encouragement to put them in the guard tent.

After exhausting all his bluff as to the consequences of the un- usual action, he was compelled to compromise and debate a few grievances for the lads remained as firm as adamant. Captain McGuire, who hails from a bank, had left his manners in the strong room for safe-keeping, with the result that he spoke to the men as if they were dogs. They told him that they didn’t appreciate his swearing and he promised not to offend again. Having gained some satisfaction, and to overcome the awkward situation, the lads of the platoon did their extra after tea. The captain learned one truth, namely, that the army needed gentlemen as well as the bank and since this little episode he has improved muchly.

Yesterday we received instructions that the light was to be put out in tents and elsewhere on hearing the noise of an aeroplane. Whether an aerial attack was expected or not we knew not. However, no aeroplane has put in an appearance yet, and all efforts to imitate its whirr have failed to produce the extinguishing of a light.

Last week when on leave, three of us accompanied by a guide made a very interesting trip through the native bazaars. We passed through very narrow streets and lanes, that branched and rebranched like a veritable maze, and each side was crowded with native traders and their wares. At times it was possible to touch the opposite walls of a lane with outstretched hands, while the stalls or shops were like large chimney places, being no more than three feet deep.

In our meanderings we saw bootmakers at work; goldsmiths with retorts and blowpipes, making jewellery; weavers at work on carpets; women spinning silk; brass bowls and vases being ornamented.

There is no machinery, everything being done by

hand; and we see fez caps being made direct from the wool in a space no bigger than the fireplace of Mar Lodge. We even saw an Arab tramping, with his bare feet, a mixture of seed and oil, in a vat, the substance being afterwards used for making confectionery.

On the out skirts of this native quarter are the old fortifications, consisting of a stone wall, with towers and gateways leading into the streets. These forts were built 1000 years by Saladin, in order to serve as a defence to the city. They were captured by Napoleon during his invasion of Egypt, and the towers have the names of French generals carved on them. We climbed to the top of one of the towers by means of a winding staircase in stone, and passed through various passages and corridors, where many hand-to-hand fights must have taken place, and where it was much safer to be in the last four than the van.

Leaving there we passed a native funeral; it was that of a woman for a shawl was put on top of coffin.

The mourners wept and wailed in a manner that resembled the distant cheering of a crowd at a football match. The coffin was carried on two poles, and there were about 100 women following who, to emphasise their sorrow, had liberally painted their arms and faces with the blue bag. This was an Arab funeral. An Egyptian funeral is much more gorgeous. The coffin is white, and is covered with a canopy of white streamers and flowers, and the whole looks more like a floral decorated exhibit in an eight- hour procession than a hearse.

We next visited the tombs of the Mamulukes. Each tomb has its mosque, and most of them are in ruins. In one, however, we saw most magnificent coloured glass windows. Emeralds, sapphires, rubies, turquoise, and other crystals were used in the designs of the windows leading light up to the top of the dome, and through which the light streamed, giving the place a fairy-like

appearance.

The windows in the modern mosque of the deposed Khedive’s father are far less brilliant than those of 600 years ago. But it is well kept, and situated in large grounds which strange to say, have avenues of Kurrajong and gumtrees.

On Sunday we were out to Heliopolis, Cairo’s most modern and best residential suburb. It is wholly European and was built and laid out by a syndicate that spent £40,000,000 on the construction of grand residences and other buildings. The Palace Hotel cost £1,500,100 in the building alone. It is a magnificent place consisting of 1500 rooms; and spacious marble staircases, oak floorings, and spacious ball-room and saloons.

One long corridor is over 200 yards long. It is the most palatial building I’ve ever entered. The staff and army medical corps that came from Queensland on the Kyarra are stationed here; and a sick soldier as he lies in what was once a concert hall, conservatory, or ball-room, may well picture the scene that would have held sway had there been no war.

I had looked for Dick Cridland in this and other battalions without success, and on going up to the engineers, where I had been told Hube Wheeler, from Dubbo, was located, I found that Dick Cridland was there too. The three of us had a good old yarn about Dubbo and the old times. I have pals in various battalions now, and can make visiting calls of an evening.

Our camp is ever increasing in size. We have three large picture shows in operation, and another is being built. There are so many canteens, shops and stores now that we appear to be a self-contained city. Paper boys bring out the papers daily, and as we can obtain all the English dailies and periodicals in Cairo we have plenty of up-to-date news.

The Seventh and Eighth Battalions marched out today (Wednesday, March 3) bound for the canal, and we gave them some parting cheers. The general impression here is that before we go to the front on the continent we’ll go to England, so it may be a long time yet before we see any fighting.

» Next week... Jack tells of the growing excitement as rumours gather that a move to the front is imminent.

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Black Dog down They ride in pursuit of awareness for the growing issue of depression, but those who take part in the Black Dog Ride are also taking care of their own mental wellbeing, as local organiser Steven Gower tells Weekender.

WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Cowley T looked for all the world like the constabulary’s worst nightmare – 240 black clad bikers and their gleaming two wheeled machines on a bone-rattling convoy through the city’s streets. And the eclectic band of bikers was indeed declaring war – on the Black Dog. Since its inception in 2009 – the brainchild of Steve Andrews, who took to the road to raise awareness of depression and suicide prevention – the Black Dog Ride has raised more than $1.7 million for mental health services.

But it’s not just about money – or even just about making people aware of the rising issue of depression.

The annual ‘round-Australia ride, and the one-dayers such as was held last weekend in Dubbo, is a support network in itself – a chance for like-minded (mostly) blokes to get together, kick back for a day and enjoy the “brotherhood” of a shared love of motorbikes.

And with one in six Australians reportedly set to experience depression at some time in their lives, it’s a fair bet that for many of the 240 men and women who joined the convoy at the weekend, the quest to hunt down the Black Dog is personal.

Black Dog is a term coined by Winston Churchill, who famously struggled throughout his life with depression and anxiety, and the modern-day ride that bears the name is now synonymous with the quest to put that dog back on its leash.

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TEVE Gower flops into a well-loved armchair and puts his head back.

It’s been a hectic weekend for the organiser of this year’s Black Dog Ride “one-dayer” in Dubbo and he’s happy to confess he’s enjoying a well-earned day off.

With nearly $10,000 in the kitty for Lifeline Central West from the weekend’s ride, Gower is justifiably proud of the result, but he’s even more pleased to know that 240 of his fellow motorbike enthusiasts have helped keep the message rolling – that depression is nothing to be ashamed of – and that somewhere along the line, the ride may well have helped save lives.

He knows the message won’t reach everyone, but he’s determined to keep the wheels turning.

“We lost a mate who rode with us last year,” Gower says. “The Black Dog got him. So yeah, it’s personal. It does strike a chord because depression touches everyone.”

During the state ride last year, Gower says it became apparent that everyone has a story – either they’ve suf-

fered personally, or a friend or a relative has battled depression.

But the ride isn’t just about the Black Dog campaign – for Gower and his fellow riders, it’s also an oppor-

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The motto I use is to just “get the conversation going”. Mental health issues and depression have been taboo subjects for a long, long time.” – Steve Gower

tunity to blow off some of their own steam. He quickly discovered through hosting the one-dayer last year that the event isn’t just about promoting awareness of depression or even to raise money for mental health services. It’s also about bringing people together and to, even momentarily, relieve their own stress.

“That’s exactly it. The motto I use is to just “get the conversation going”. Mental health issues and depression have been taboo subjects for a long, long time.

“You get on a bike and the pressures of life can just blow away – no phone ringing, no-one needing your attention. It’s an outlet. I find it a real stress release. I’ve seen blokes come back from the edge – I’ve seen their mental health issues eased and improved through being able to ride their bikes.”

He tells me of a friend he’s made through the Black Dog Ride.

“He came down from Queensland last year for the ride, and we’ve become mates. Turns out he struggles with the Black Dog – and when he finds things getting to him and on top of him, he gets on the bike. He says it’s a way of clearing his head and putting things back into perspective.

“It’s good therapy. I’ve had people say that having depression is like having an injection when you have a tooth pulled – it makes your whole head numb and you can’t clear it, but getting on a bike and just riding is a way of clearing that fog.”

The affable Gower has discovered a knack for “getting the conversation going”.

“When we went on the state ride last year, we went to a little town in Queensland called Texas, which is about the size of Geurie. We went to the show there and the response was great, but I had a lady come up to me and start talking about the ride and what we were doing. Then she opened up to me and told me about losing her son through suicide 25 years ago – and I was looking at her thinking, wow, she’s had this burden of guilt for so long, and you could see that for all those years, she’s had no-one to talk to about it.

“Everywhere we went, someone had a story.”

According to Gower, the network of friends that materialises through the biking fraternity is a valuable spin-off from the popular pastime.

“It’s very much a support network – you meet blokes you feel you can talk to. Like this bloke from Queensland who, because we met through the ride, felt a connection and felt comfortable enough to open up to me and tell me about some of the stuff he’d been going »

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through. I’ve kept in touch with him, and I check in on him.”

Gower says it’s the shared experience that creates an instant connection.

“The thing is that because you ride a motorbike, you’ve already established a link – you know you have something in common. So yeah, blokes might open up to other blokes who ride bikes. And people who ride motorbikes come from all walks of life – from your doctors and lawyers to your average working bloke – there’s a great sort of equalising effect to it. No-one cares what you do for work or whatever – you’re just there with a common interest and enjoying each other’s company.”

T’S clear, as he speaks, that Gower has added a great deal of knowledge to his existing ability to empathise, and I wonder aloud if he finds himself becoming a kind of de-facto counsellor.

“Yeah – I guess that’s pretty right. You do sort of become a sounding board, a shoulder for people.

Gower professes no qualification or counselling expertise, but says it’s perhaps because people see him as someone who won’t impose judgement.

“I guess they see what we’re doing and they understand that I understand.”

While he’s had no personal brush with depression – “I suppose everyone goes through bad patches, but no, I’ve been lucky” – Gower says his business and sporting life has brought him into close contact with the farming sector, where potentially lethal mental illhealth seems to be a growing threat, and where death through suicide is sadly over-represented.

It’s an understanding of that reality that’s motivated him to become involved as the local driver of the Black Dog Ride.

“It’s not just the farmers, the blokes – it’s their families, their wives and children who suffer,” he says.

“The Black Dog’s bite goes deeper than just the sufferer. I saw the devastation caused by one man’s death a couple of years back – a farmer who seemed to have everything to live for – who took his own life and the impact was terrible. I just started thinking, something has to be done about this.

“The more it’s talked about, the better we’ll all be at recognising the signs. And the better it will be for people who are suffering to feel they’re not going to be judged if they seek help. The stigma is still the worst thing about depression. There’s still so much shame,” he says, recounting a telling experience he had during last year’s ride.

“We went to one small rural community and there was a lunch put on. There was a bloke hanging around and he obviously wanted to talk, but he wanted to wait until after the lunch so that no-one would overhear what he wanted to yarn to me about. He was worried that someone might hear him tell me about his experience with suffering depression.

“He told me that what literally saved his life was getting into a hobby – which was breeding a particular kind of sheep. So that goes back to the value of something like riding a motorbike – having an outlet is really important.

“So is having someone to talk to.”

The other challenge, particularly in regional areas, says Gower, is the inadequate allocation of resources available for the identification and treatment of mental ill-health.

“You see a lot of resources put towards drug and alcohol issues, but not nearly enough for mental health, and it’s ironic because so much mental ill-health stems from substance abuse.

“So yes, I’d like to see more emphasis on relevant mental health treatment for depression and more resources made available to help people cope.”

As hectic as the organising schedule for the Black Dog Ride one-dayer is, Gower has no plans to rest on his laurels.

“The thing is,” he says. “If you ride a bike and you break down when you’re out on the road, no biker will ride past you. They’ll always stop to help, no matter what. There’s a saying when you ride motorbikes – you never leave a brother on the side of the road.

“And it’s the same with mental health.”

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When I ride out the driveway, I don’t know whether I’ll go left or right. It’s not the destination that matters, it’s the journey.” – Warren Landsey

FIFTY-SOMETHING bloke plus motorbike equals mid-life crisis, right?

Wrong, according to Steven Gower.

But with a gleaming Harley Davidson Heritage Softail in the garage, he would say that, wouldn’t he?

Gower laughs good naturedly.

“I get it all the time. And any bloke who buys a motorbike will hear the same thing – you’re having a mid-life crisis. But it’s not that at all – it’s just that life evolves.”

Gower says he always had motorbikes as a young bloke – “I had my bike license before I could drive a car” – but that with family and business came responsibilities... and the demise, temporarily, of the motorbikes in his life.

“You have children, you’re working hard, you have a mortgage... and it’s a bit hard to put a baby seat on a motorbike. The first thing that goes when you take on those responsibilities is often the bike.

“So when you reach an age where you have a bit more freedom – financially and otherwise – you sort of come full circle. It’s not a mid-life crisis – it’s just being able to do something for yourself.”

Warren Landsey echoes his fellow enthusiast’s insistence that buying a motorbike doesn’t necessarily mean a bloke’s life is in any kind of crisis.

Like Gower, Landsey is the proud owner of a Harley Davidson, although his is a Wide Glide.

“I bought it in 2004 and you can say it’s a mid-life crisis if you like, but for me, it’s just something I could do for myself. It’s great fun, and there’s a great camaraderie.

“The mid-life crisis thing is a throwaway line. The bottom line is that it’s about having a bit of time to yourself – particularly when you reach a point in your life where commitments are such that you can actually do something for yourself.”

This “time out”, agrees Landsey – who took part in the Black Dog Ride one-dayer on Sunday – can help ease the stresses of modern life that can, and too often do, lead to anxiety and depression.

“For a man to have an interest is really important, whether that’s riding a motorbike or tinkering around in his shed or whatever. Men are notoriously difficult to treat not only physically but emotionally – they tend to shy away from talking about their health.

“Too many men just sit down and fold up as their careers wind down and as they get to retirement, and suddenly, they have nothing in their lives – no interests, no purpose.”

For Landsey, taking part in the Black Dog Ride was a chance not only to support a worthy cause, but to spend a day with like-minded enthusiasts, and yes, to blow off some steam.

“When you read the figures on suicide and depression, it’s frightening – the Black Dog Ride is a tangible way to help do something about kick-starting the conversation about depression. It’s something people just don’t want to talk about.”

Both these “mild hogs” say riding a motorbike has more to do with maintaining good mental health than any vain attempt to recapture lost youth.

“It’s liberating to be able to get on your bike and go and not know exactly where you’re going,” says Landsey.

“I joke with my wife when I go to get on the bike and she says, “Where are you going?” and I’ll say, well, I really don’t know. When I ride out the driveway, I don’t know whether I’ll go left or right. It’s not the destination that matters, it’s the journey.”

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It’s your funeral...

Do YOU have a plan?

Planning your own funeral might sound ghoulish, but Lyndsay Lowe, author of “how-to� manual Life and Beyond, says it’s a conversation we all need to have. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner

OME time around a decade ago Lyndsay Lowe had an idea – one she would pursue for years to come. It was inspired by a funeral home brochure she read on a long bus trip back from Brisbane after the funeral of a family friend.

As she read the brochure, mostly through lack of anything else to hand, an idea began to develop about the sort of information we share (or don’t share) with our families who will have to deal with and sift through our business when we die.

Wills aside, many grieving families have to assume knowledge on end of life decisions, the finer details of which are often not discussed because the subject is uncomfortable. It’s an awkward conversation for most people to have with some they love.

By the time the ten hour bus trip was over, Lyndsey who then owned and operated a typing business in Dubbo, had fleshed out a concept that would eventually become a book entitled Life and Beyond- Instructions for my Family. “After reading the brochure, I started thinking about my own children who were only little at the time. If anything happened to me they’d have no idea what to do.�

Writing the book had to fit around work and raising children so when it was finally finished, Lowe was determined to see it printed and circulating.

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Farewell

BY LYNDSAY LOWE (DIRECTED BY “NANCY�):

In passing from this earthly life I say goodbye to thee.

Take comfort in the knowledge That death has set me free.

Into a garden I have passed T’is such splendor that I see, And though my earthly life is o’er My love abides with thee.

So grieve and miss me if you must But do not dwell too long, For life is but a precious gift And grief must not prolong.

Let happy memories shape a smile To quell your grief and fear, Dwell not on thoughts that sadden you Or ‘cause you shed a tear.

Remember me with thoughts of joy And fear not life alone, For all the while we are apart My soul doth with you roam.

The path that wound us through this life With its twists and turns and bends Will lead us through a journey Until we meet again.

But it wasn’t as simple as that. The printer kept jamming and bringing the process to a screaming halt.

The author believes a little divine intervention then took place, resulting in a better final product. “Years ago, I’d been told I had a spirit guide called Nancy and when I was right at the end of the book I realised I needed something else to include in it like a poem. “So I looked and just couldn’t find anything suitable. But the whole time I had this voice in my head that kept saying just go and write your own. So I did and I added a thank you section to all the people that had helped me – including Nancy – and then it printed straight away. So I figure she was behind that, she approved.�

From there the book was mailed to both Alan Jones’ and John Laws’ radio programs with the hope of securing an interview to discuss her motivation for writing the “how to� manual.

As luck would have it, Alan Jones offered her a three minute interview to do just that. John Laws declined.

The book’s intention clearly resonated with people and the response from the radio interview was overwhelming. “It was incredible – I had to get help because I sold so many books – 600 just from that interview.â€? Âť

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DEBATE.

Friday 27.03.2015 to Sunday 29.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Funerals, families and unfinished business

BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

INCE the first edition was published back in 1998, many people who have purchased a copy have contacted Lowe with suggestions, improvements and additions to the content.

One thing she discovered after approaching the owner of a funeral parlour was the amount of information required as a first step. Pages of information is now required and includes knowing details about the deceased person’s family history, most of which people don’t have on hand at that time.

Lowe says having that information on hand when family members are in a grief stricken state can make the whole process less stressful and more fluid.

And she has taken heed of the feedback, making the latest edition more thorough and up-to-date.

Many businesses around Dubbo including financial advisers and solicitors regularly purchase copies of Life and Beyond for their clients which is testimony to the concept and simple yet sleek design.

She says she recently had a woman buy copies to give to participants in a course run for carers of palliative care patients.

Working fulltime until has recently limited her ability to promote the book. After the first thousand sold, she continued on slowly selling via markets and other channels.

Her plan was to make it happen, once and for all, when she retired.

That time has arrived.

“The plan was always to buy a motorhome, load my books into it and travel around Australia, selling them as I go.”

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OME of the sections in the latest edition of Life and Beyond wouldn’t have been included in the original. With social media firmly entrenched in our lives, a section of the book is dedicated to specifically to the online platform.

There are pages allocated for account passwords for sites like Facebook. Often when someone dies family members either don’t know how to close down a loved one’s page or whether they should close it down. It’s just not something that’s discussed, particularly since the protocol around social media is still evolving.

Lowe has included questions like: Do you want the family to have a viewing? Do you want to donate your organs? What type of cask or coffin do you want? Preferred clothing?

The book also includes questions such as

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whether you want a funeral notice or a death notice in the newspaper, what songs or music you would prefer, relations and friends to be notified, mobile phone data, wish lists, superannuation details, personal and banking information, a brief life history, shares and investment details, solicitors details, points of contact, medical history, clubs and organisations to be notified and more.

“I’ve sometimes had people pick them up and drop them again once they realise what the book is for. I don’t know if they think it’s going to jinx them if they buy it and fill it in,” she says, laughing.

Lowe says the beauty of having the information collated in one small book means family is ultimately saved the extra burden of chasing details and guessing preferences that may be ultimately be incorrect.

“This book does not replace a will but it can assist you with your estate costs and save people hunting around for your paperwork – a big relief for the executor.

“A lot of families wouldn’t have a clue who their parents’ solicitors were.”

Lowe harks back to the experience of trying to find her own father’s will and having to piece together clues to track it down. She says it took months and when it was finally found at a solicitors’ in another town, it turned out to be 20 years old and there were still loose ends with regard to some of his personal information.

In Lowe’s opinion, you’re never too young to prepare.

“I have had a will since I was 13! I have a friend who lost her husband when she was 29. He didn’t have a will and she found it very difficult as all his accounts were frozen and she had no access to any funds. People must have a will.”

The author has given away multiple copies to family and friends including her own mother who thought they were such a great idea she kept giving her copies to other people to use.

As a result, her family had to guess some of her information when the time came.

The final stage in making the process run more smoothly is to make family aware of the existence of the book.

“There is no point having it tucked away in a desk drawer if no one knows it exists and won’t look for it.” » Life and Beyond is available by contacting lifeandbeyond.book@gmail.com or visiting the website www.lifeandbeyond.com.

WITH decades of grief counselling experience under her belt, Trudy Hanson, Dubbo-based manager of the National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG), says it’s often the confusion surrounding a loved one’s wishes that causes the most unnecessary and prolonged pain.

Dying without a formal will or without leaving any clear instructions for funeral and estate matters can create enormous rifts in families at a time already mired in emotion.

“What happens is that people are left to clean up the “unfinished business” – and that’s what they’ll grieve,” says Hanson.

It’s that unfinished business, she says, that people carry as mourners long after the funeral is over.

“It can cause terrible divisions in families and compound grief long into the future.”

Planning for the inevitable, and communicating that plan to family members, can act as a circuit breaker for the confusion surrounding such an emotional time, but it’s not a discussion just for the terminally ill, says Hanson.

“We don’t always get a warning – and people often have no knowledge of grief until they’re dumped in it. So when you’re suddenly dropped into that position, amid all those heightened emotions, is that the best time to make decisions about funerals and estates?”

For some, it’s an awkward conversation – some see it as ghoulish or rude or simply too hard. Hanson says she often sees families struggling because parents or aging relatives won’t engage in such a conversation – “they see it as too confronting”.

“But grief,” she says, “is universal. So is death. And every culture has its rituals surrounding death and dying, including what’s to be done with the body.”

Public rituals, including funerals, are important but according to the seasoned counsellor, it’s sometimes the little practices that can be the most effective in the healing process.

“What we saw in Martin Place after the Lindt café siege, for instance – that outpouring of public grief – that was a ritual on a very large and public scale. But what the research is saying is that it’s the little rituals – the stuff people do on a personal level and mostly in private – that are most important.

“Those bigger rituals – like funerals and public memorials – allow us to express our empathy and sympathy, but it’s those little things people do that really help cope with the chaotic impact of loss. The private spreading of ashes, the planting of a tree... they’re rituals that have meaning on a personal level, and can help the grieving process.”

While planning a final goodbyes and “getting your affairs in order” is vital, it’s important to keep in mind, says Hanson, that funerals are for the living.

“Funerals are what we do to say goodbye to a loved one and begin the process of our mourning – the sadness doesn’t end at the funeral, but it’s a ritual that can kick-start the healing process, and having a plan helps. But funerals are for those left behind.”

When it comes to the actual ritual of a funeral, there’s no right or wrong.

“It’s about what those left behind think their loved one would want. And this goes to the importance of Lyndsay Lowe’s book, Life and Beyond. By recording their wishes, people can help lessen the burden on their family once they’re gone,” Hanson says. “In that atmosphere of chaos and upset in the time following a death, if you have everything written down and the wishes of your loved one recorded, it can make the process smoother and easier.”

While tradition still plays an enormous part, attitudes to the funeral process are much less prescribed these days.

“It used to be that you handed everything over to a funeral director and there was a strict protocol as to how a funeral should be undertaken. These days, you can plan your own – it’s kind of a DIY process, if you like,” says Hanson matter-of-factly.

“And you don’t have to spend a fortune on a funeral – it’s about saying goodbye and paying tribute to a loved one in the way you see fit and that they would have wanted. The pricetag of the funeral isn’t a reflection of how you felt about that person – I think that happens a lot.

“If you have a plan, it can guard against your family feeling pressured to do things they don’t want to do, or spend money where it’s not necessary,” says Hanson.

“It avoids the sort of comments I hear all the time in grief support, like: “That bloody pink coffin they had for Mum, she hated pink...” These can be the small things that create tension and compound grief – the small things get blown out of all proportion.” » IF you, or someone you know, need help or support through your time of loss or grief, contact NALAG on 6882 9222 or go to www.nalag.org.au.

Grief is universal. So is death. And every culture has its rituals surrounding death and dying, including what’s to be done with the body.” – Trudy Hanson, manager of National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG)

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2X2.

Friday 27.03.2015 to Sunday 29.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Billie Palin and Nathan Bryon Bring a soprano and a tenor together and what you get is not only delightful harmonies but a beautiful friendship. Year 12 students Billie Palin and Nathan Bryon are not only great mates, they’re also exploring a mutual love of singing opera and musical theatre together. And as Weekender discovered they’re pretty handy comedians too.

AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Kaitlyn Rennie Billie Palin: Y aunty (actress) Eliza Logan introduced me to performing at a young age. Just watching her perform – she’s been in a lot of TV shows – she’s just the kind of person you want to aspire to be like.

I’ve been singing from a young age and started getting lessons from Dawn Walsh. I started studying opera five years ago and I’m really interested in musical theatre. I’ve been doing acting all through school and joined DATS (now Dubbo Theatre Company), and did a number of productions; Cinderella, Narnia and Shout!

One of my more adult roles was Somebody’s Baby which I did with Western Plains Theatre Company. It’s a lot different to pantomime!

I like doing plays as well as musicals.

It’s good to have a bit of variety.

Last year, I was in a short film called Candy which was a really good experience but you don’t realise how many times it can take to film a scene. You have to do the same thing again but still keep the energy levels there without coming across as too over the top or false.

I’m very passionate about the stage, whether it’s presenting a line acting or being backstage, behind the scenes. I did stage managing for the South Campus show Back to the ‘80s which was extremely stressful but I loved it.

After you pull it off, there’s just such a feeling of euphoria.

I also play a few instruments, some of them unusual – the piano, piano accordion, I used to play the flute and banjolin which is really difficult to play and no-one really knows how to play it!

For me, it’s the audience reacting to what you’re doing in whatever capacity.

I’m on a rest this year; last year was pretty crazy. Although after I decided that, I heard Dubbo Theatre Company was doing Evita!

As for the future, I’m not sure. It will definitely be something in music or theatre. I am looking at places at the moment and might take a gap year or just audition and defer – or just go for it!

I want to have something else as a back-up – I do like scriptwriting too or I could do stage management.

Nathan and I have been friends for a while. I think we’re a good team. Onstage, we’ve done duets. Usually, it’s very nerve-wracking when you’re on your own and you will be looking at the adjudicator if it’s an eisteddfod. But with a duet, it’s not quite as scary (laughs).

Singing solo is not as easy as when it’s a group effort.

Nathan and I have done the national anthem together a few times – we like doing that.

You’d think because we both have such big personalities that we’d clash, but we don’t. It wouldn’t be as much fun without Nathan; he is very energetic and very driven. He knows what he

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wants and he’s not afraid to go for it.

He’s a very positive influence, and working together, we are the only young opera singers in Dubbo so it’s been great to have each other. We are both very, very competitive but I think we push each other on rather than fight. It probably helps that we are a guy and a girl, rather than the same sex.

Nathan is also very good at constructive criticism, which I don’t really get elsewhere as our audience is always very supportive. We have very similar aspirations and I think we will definitely be working on more projects together. Opera and musical theatre definitely overlap. At the end of the day, we’ll both be working in the same area.

Nathan Bryon: ’VE been playing euphonium since I was a little tiny child. I went from euphonium to tuba to voice. Tuba is

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very hard work. I remember going to the Western Plains band camp and it felt like I’d been doing a physical workout!

I started taking singing lessons with Dawn Walsh – she understudied Dame Joan Sutherland so she’s pretty good.

Acting-wise, I auditioned for Annie in Year 8 and it’s gone from there.

Billie and I did Narnia, Cinderella and Charlotte’s Web together. We are also in the Moorambilla Voices program together. Singing and acting, getting the meaning of the song across is important. I remember the first time I sang in public at an eisteddfod and I didn’t realise the calibre of people that would be there. There was a massive prize and it brought people from everywhere. I was absolutely nervous!

Nerves definitely play a part in your performance – it gets so much easier if you can keep your nerves under control.

In terms of my training, there aren’t

that many vocalists doing classical songs and there’s a lot of travel involved in opera, but it’s something I wanted to do. At this stage, I think pop would be hard!

I’ve been doing the Talent Development Project and going to Sydney once a month to perform in front of industry professionals like Julie Goodwin and Peter Cousens. Through that and Mary Lopez has come involvement in the Schools Spectacular.

Because of all these commitments, I have done Year 12 over two years and doing the second part of it now, so I am 18 and Billie is 17. It’s still hard juggling school but it’s worth it. We are both (Billie and I) really lucky to have really supportive parents as well.

In June, I am going to Washington to be involved in the opera program there.

I’ll be going over in June among a group of about 20 students, primarily from the United States.

I am really excited about the opportunity because my aim is to become an opera singer. I hope to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and perhaps overseas after I leave school and ultimately become an opera singer. WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) also has a good course for classical voice.

The Washington National Opera program is one of very few around the world catering for young singers, because in the industry it’s believed the voice doesn’t mature until you reach the mid-20s.

This opportunity is pretty awesome because the program caters for young singers like me and focuses on training and development in a range of areas.

I’ll even be writing essays and potentially studying Italian and German language My aim is to get experience and work with like-minded people.

Billie and I just bounce off each other – one of us will find something and organise recording it. I think we push each other too and because we are such good friends, we don’t take it to heart.

It’s really good to have someone here to drive you other than yourself and Billie is a pretty incredible performer. She’s also pretty motivated. She shoots for the stars – always goes for the top and is the sort of person to have around; you need to have that drive.

We do laugh a lot too but she’s very good at pulling back to serious when we need it. She’s very energetic too which is a good vibe to have. We spend a lot of time together and I think we’ll be definitely be working together in the future.

I don’t think we’ll lose contact. » As part of their Year 12 music assessment, Palin and Bryon are hosting the Forte – Let’s Get Loud concert at Dubbo Regional Theatre at 6.30pm on Monday, March 30. The concert will feature performances by them as well as a range of other performers.

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Get involved Get excited and Ignite Our Centre

Today marks the beginning of an exciting opportunity for you to have your say on the future of our City’s centre. What do you want to see when you are in the City? What do you want to do? What do you enjoy and would like to see more of? Tell us all your big ideas!

What is the CBD Precincts Plan?

It’s a community-led plan to improve the commercial centre of the City. The outcome will be a program of achievable initiatives and activities to bring excitement and activity into our CBD to benefit the whole of Dubbo.

How do I share my big ideas?

Join us at the Rotunda in Church Street for breakfast from 8.30am – 10am and tell us your big ideas, talk to the Dubbo City Mayor and other Ignite Team Members about the future of our CBD, draw your vision, take a survey or make a submission.

After the launch breakfast, you can still have your say:

Just by telling us what you think by completing a survey or submission, you could win a CBD experience voucher.

We’re giving away one each week!

To enter, go online to mydubbomysay.com.au and make a submission, or take our short survey.

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Take the online survey, join the forums or make an online submission at mydubbomysay.com.au

‘Ignition Stations’ will be set up around the City at the Visitors Information Centre, Council’s Civic Administration Building, Dubbo Macquarie Regional Library and at popup locations within the CBD – keep your eye out for them!

Not online? You can post your submission to Council: Ignite Our Centre – CBD Precincts Plan PO Box 81 Dubbo NSW 2830

What happens to my ideas?

Your ideas will be collated and assessed to form the basis of the ‘Ignition Workshop’ where real and achievable activities to ignite our CBD will be developed.

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WHAT I DO KNOW.

Friday 27.03.2015 to Sunday 29.03.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Lara Scolari: Brush with success A bright light is shining on the Sydney art scene thanks to one of Dubbo’s colourful personalities and painters. Lara Scolari is working and exhibiting her creations with resounding success east of the Blue Mountains these days but is always energised by the thought of returning home to the city she loves. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley It’s been a whirlwind since getting the art residency. That’s why I relocated to the Sydney in the first place. I was working for the Western Plains Cultural Centre and I was missing my sons terribly because they were at boarding school, so I went for an Art in Residence. I investigated all of them and the best one was in Ashfield, which is usually for international and regional artists and what they do is give you a house and pay you. I had a dream job at the Western plains Cultural Centre and I would never have left it because I loved it so much.

I just thought if I get this residency I will do it and I bloody got it! I had to do a massive submission. It’s a government thing. My husband Peter’s already had a business in Sydney for a very long time and has been commuting back and forth to Dubbo so it was a good opportunity for us both to have a place in Sydney where he could focus further on the Sydney office.

I could focus on my art making practice as well as be closer to the boys. As a result of that I had my first Sydney solo exhibition at Danks Street in Waterloo.

I had a sell out show. The exhibition wasn’t part of the residency.

Art making is very much about what you do for yourself. I investigated all the different galleries spaces and different options I had. Depot II Gallery for me was the best option at the time. It was connected to other high-end galleries and it also had a really great restaurant next door known as Mojo.

On opening night I always have a big party, it’s what I’m famous for. We had a big opening and a big dinner afterwards. It was fabulous. When I was at the WPCC for many years I worked on Sundays a lot and my boys were away at school so I missed out on a lot, and I’ve

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certainly made up for lost time, that’s for sure. They’re now called weekly boarders because we haven’t as yet fully settled in Sydney so we’re still in between Dubbo and Sydney. We’ve been in Woolwich, basically Hunters Hill, so close to the school.

Of course I connected with the council here because of my past experience in working in local government and in galleries. I connected with this newly formed art gallery – Hunters Hill Art Gallery – and they were great, they embraced me and I’m currently the director! Hunters Hill Art Gallery is an artist run initiative (an ARI) and there are six of us. We circulate the show and also invite other artists to rent this space. Every week there’s a new show. There’s four different spaces within the gallery and the main space turns over every week

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6. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the origin of the international distress

either with a resident or guest artist. We do not have a week free, we’re just so popular.

When I was investigating galleries and places to exhibit, I found out just how difficult and expensive it was for emerging artists to get out there. The way we do it here is to really support all art forms and artists to have an exhibition and help them with the process of everything. It’s invaluable. I’m lucky to have the opportunity to practice art full time. It’s a dream come true. It’s my love and I love it!

Everyone is an artist. Everyone is arty, whether they’re creative in the garden, whether they’re cooking, even if it’s the way they style their house or themselves. Everyone has that creative flair, it just comes out all differently with different people of course. My new body

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of work is called Tingle, which I just completed and launched a month ago in Double Bay. It’s a really fresh, new look on processes which I’ve developed over many years, so it’s really light and fun.

I didn’t want to get too caught up in the deep and meaningful of it all. Sometimes it gets too dark. I just wanted to do something light and fun and something people would enjoy in their home.

I’ve met a lot of interior designers and they love my work. I’m very lucky, and it’s gone really well.

My art work is produced in an abstract expressionist style, with focus on the use of line, organic shape, layering, and colour. The automatic process of the art making is very important to me and I try to give each line and mark vibrancy, energy, motion, mystery and emotion that the viewer can experience.

With years of study, and still doing a Masters in Cross Disciplinary Arts and Design with COFA UNSW, I plan and hope for my expressive “style” to continually expand and develop.

I have so much energy and I work in layers usually two to four works at a time. Approaching the art this way limits me, forces me to stop, walk away from the work and then re visit with fresh eyes.

I am inspired by all artists, and love and admire all forms of artistic expression. However that being said, abstract expressionism is my “thing” and artists such as Hoffman, Rothko, Frankenthaler, Miro, Matisse, Pollock and Picasso as well as Australian artists such as Kovacs, Olsen, Tuckson, and Whiteley are a continual inspiration.

I can’t wait to come back in April; I absolutely can’t wait. I’m actually going to Moree to exhibit during the Moree Food and Wine Festival. Them I’m off to Brisbane, to the Brisbane Modern Art gallery and then to Melbourne to Tusk gallery. There’s so much happening, it’s basically ‘hold on tight and enjoy the ride’. People have really responded to my energy and my enthusiasm and it hopefully really comes through my work. I really want that.

I tried for years to subdue myself down and try to be like everyone else, but I’ve given up. The names of the works are always crazy, like songs or movies whatever pops into my head. I’ve been lucky enough too, to get another Art Residency at Gallery Lane Cove in July 2015. This will be where I create my next body of work. With this residency I hope to push my art making further by incorporating my developed techniques and processes into printmaking.

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

How the genetically blessed are bringing up the rear HERE I was, cruising the social network again, when I came across a link to one of those nasty, catty tabloid sites that attack famous humans in their moments of weakness, over their superficial appearance at a particular 1/100th of a second when a camera shutter flickered in their direction.

I almost always pass on these seenone-seen-them-all type of tripe photo blogs, but this one had just the right headline to cause me to click; something about celebrities who have scored poorly in the test to age gracefully (a topic becoming more and more relevant to yours truly).

It kicked off with a low blow on Bridgette Bardot, the original sun goddess.

She’s looking a little aged in her 81st year, partially because of her enormous exposure to UV light since she her time in prominence through the 50s to the 70s and partially because she’s, well, 81 years old. Therefore she should clearly be held accountable to public judgement for this obvious mismanagement of her lifestyle in not dying young and beautiful.

As I scrolled through the Lindsay Lohans and the Bruce Jenners I began to feel more comfortable, accepting that these people had succumbed to pressures of celebrity and enabled themselves to be identified by their worst possible recent photograph contrasted against the best/most glamorously photo-shopped from the past 20 years, and had made some poor life choices that had contributed to this substandard façade (think umpteen rehabs and bad surgeries).

But then I came across the bit about Prince William who has quite obviously failed in taking care of himself and so, carelessly allowed his genetics to run rampant. In short, he has allowed his hair to thin out on top.

Now, I’ve been planning my own comb-over for the past decade as a bit

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of a running gag. But in the past twelve months, the joke has been carrying a little more gravity. As I started to say earlier, aging gracefully has become a bit of a pet topic currently. It’s great to see people who have allowed the grey to creep in but maintained their youthful exuberance to be their act of defiance against the ravages of age. That to me is aging gracefully. And it’s fine... for other people. This pointed public attack on Prince Will however, struck a raw nerve and bristled the steadily increasing hairs on the back of my neck (and my upper back, and shoulders, and a bit of my lower back too). How dare they pick on this awesome bloke who carries such an enormous amount of public pressure on a daily basis and be so petty by poking at his balding head, and...

I started to realise a small part of the inadequacy women must feel when they walk past the magazine stands at the checkout. Women of prominence have always had to punctuate their arguments of policy with apologies for their bad-hair-days or poor choice of jacket.

For the onlooker, you either join the bitchy throng and hope no-one notices the mirror pointing back at you, or you slink into the shadows of your self-consciousness and resort to whatever you can find to throw a makeshift veil over your own insecurity, albeit for the time being.

So I clicked straight off that disgraceful site in protest, and became instantly distracted by an ad filled with Kim Kardashian’s big posterior and the article attached thereby. (I know, I know, but it was late, I was tired, and I should have been in bed, but I wasn’t). But this

article was a bit science – you see, the authors were looking for a bit of redirection of the public psyche. It was all about the evolutionary reasoning behind why big bums on women are a very good thing. Admittedly, the article was from the news.com site, but it caused me to look deeper.

I know my wife is at times a little touchy about such a superficial issue, and so I thought a little background knowledge on this might offer some positive reinforcement on the subject and be constructive in future conversations, which is not to say I think that my wife has a big bum, but she... sometimes... except... (s*%#, what would Homer Simpson do in this situation? dig upwards, DIG UPWARDS!) ...it was an interesting idea (about the bottoms, that is).

The gist is that it seems that in recent research out of the University of Pittsburg, the very fats that go into building the brainy brains in toddlers are shipped directly from the breast-feeding mother’s hips and buttocks. Having these in ample supply is a way of rewarding the suckling child. In the more trialling days of our evolution, a child may have been born more naturally intelligent, to enable a greater chance of survival beyond infancy. In fact it is possible that some men even have this idea genetically hard-wired into their choices of a potential mate.

The fats in a ladies buttock are high in (write this down): docosahaxaenoic acid or DHA. And it just so happens that the fats in nerve tissue also contain a high percentage of DHA. Note: The point that a woman preparing for child

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birth increases her body fat percentage from about 5-10 per cent to a whopping 30 per cent (a mark only seen in the natural world from whales in the Antarctic and bears in hibernation), is not a great one to bring out in conversation with one’s spouse (keep digging UP, digging UP!). And NEVER use descriptors like ‘whopping’, unless you are inside an Abrams tank with the door locked and your spouse outside.

About 80 per cent of the DHA for building a clever baby’s brain comes from the stored fat in the mum’s bum.

Babies obtain this through the breast milk. This is not to say that skinny women (or bottle-feeders) will have dumb kids. I have a number of good friends with a slight figure and very bright children who provide outstanding evidence on this, (getting tired of digging here).

Indeed, since we became a communal, mutually supportive bunch of humans in organised settlements (about 11,000 years ago), there have been a multitude of facets that contribute to a child’s intelligence – access to schooling is only one of them. DHA content in lactation is just one other.

So, in a very round (-about) way, having a big bottom is not something about which someone should be so upset or self-conscious, at least for a woman (men? Well...). While it’s safe to say that 100 per cent of women with a big bottom will outlive 80 per cent of men who mention it to them, indeed having a big bottom is something to be celebrated, dare I say.

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

Mythbusting lessons from Luigi the wife slayer AST week I had the opportunity to spruik the benefits of Dubbo on a Sydney radio station. The interview was going quite well and the two presenters asked relevant and sensible questions about Dubbo until...until the question that went along the lines of, “While there may be a few jobs available in Dubbo they’d be pretty menial jobs such as farm work and fruit picking wouldn’t they?”

I thanked the presenter for walking into a classic regional stereotype and went on to explain that, contrary to his assumption, only 2.8 per cent of jobs in Dubbo are in agriculture or related to agriculture. I further explained that our top three employment sectors are health and social services; retail and education. The presenters gave me a good opportunity to explain the real situation in regional cities, such as Dubbo, but it started me thinking on the big picture.

How long does it take to change the image of a person; an organisation; a business or a city? After South Africa’s loss in the cricket during the week, to a fantastic team performance by the Kiwis, how many people are bringing out the choker tag? When most teams are simply “beaten by a better side on the day”, it appears the any loss for the South Africans involves a “choke”. This

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reputation goes back over several World Cups but most particularly from 1999 when, against Australia in the semifinal, Allan Donald was run out when Lance Klusener went for a suicide run to win the match despite there still being two balls left in the match. Sixteen years later, with an entirely different team, the reputation still hangs on. After two unrelated tragedies for Malaysian Airlines, how long will they live with a tag of being a risky airline to fly with?

There’s a classic joke that epitomises what I’m talking about. An Italian named Luigi is bemoaning his reputation: I make the best wine in all of Italy but when I walk past they do not say, “there goes Luigi, the best winemaker in Italy”. I make the best cheese in all of Italy but when I walk past they do not say, “there goes Luigi, the best cheesemaker in Italy”. I kill one wife and they say, “there goes Luigi, the wife-slayer!”

If I play a game where I think of the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the following names, they are all negative. This is despite the fact that I am sure there are numerous positives associated with these people or organisations. Exxon Mobil; Delta Airlines; Wayne Carey; Goldman Sachs; Trevor Chappell (that one delivery was bowled

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The challenge for a city such as Dubbo is to change the association from a bunch of farmers walking down dusty main streets with six-shooters on our hips to the reality – a thriving proactive modern eclectic city that is an efficient service centre for our residents as well as servicing a huge farming and mining population in the region. That mindset change – for people outside our city – is not something that happens quickly or easily.

There are a number of things I believe a city needs to do if it wants to change its image in the wider world. Firstly, a city needs to be patient. All the best plans and intense focus will still take time to effect change. Keep in mind that most people are driven by the WIIFM (what’s in it for me?) philosophy. If a person in a metro area has a certain image of a regional city, they don’t have a great driver to change their opinion as there is really is no direct benefit to themselves.

Once a city starts with a dose of patience, the next step is to plan out exactly how you want the world to see you.

There needs to be a plan. In Dubbo’s case, we have added cultural facilities; we believe we are a modern progressive proactive city; we believe we have

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It is also important to make small – not large – changes. One of the common criticisms of Gough Whitlam’s brief tenure as Prime Minister of this country was that, despite a number of excellent ideas, he tried to implement them all at once. When you are dealing with something as large as a city, small changes and time will make more of an impact than trying to change an image overnight.

Lastly, it is important to not try to be something you’re not. If Dubbo tried to create an image as a mecca of international tourism and tried to attract businesses based on that premise, it would fail spectacularly. Despite our wonderful zoo, our international tourism is a minor part of our visitation. An honest approach to the world will create more of an impact than trying to fabricate an outcome.

Of course, as I say many times, our residents are our best advocates in creating a change of image. When our residents talk to anyone who cares to listen – and even those who don’t want to listen – about what a wonderful city we live in, the image will slowly start to take a turn for the better. We can all be a part of the solution.

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Bothered by birthdays?

Oh, grow up!

ARLIER this month, I had the good fortune to turn 31 years old.

“31?” I hear some of you exclaim.

“He doesn’t look a day over 29!” (Well, you’re right... it’s an old picture).

Look, as far as birthdays go, it was a good’un. I received plenty of birthday well wishes from family and friends, both near and far. I was fortunate to get some awesome presents (some containing alcohol and some, well, not so useful). And to round it all out, I was blessed with a bunch of friends joining me for drinks which lead well into the night and made for some easily forgotten memories (that is, I have no idea how I got home.)

But for some reason since that day, I’ve had a weird song running around my head. No, not Gangam Style, the Macarena or anything by Justin Bieber.

Something far more obscure and well out of my musical age range (it was released in 1975 – a good nine years before I was brought into the world, thank you very much).

The tune that’s been going ‘round and ‘round in my brain and driving me nuts day and night since I’ve turned 31 is Growing Up is Hard To Do – with apologies to both Neil Sedaka (Breaking Up is Hard to Do) and you, if I’ve just given you an ear-worm. But I’ve had a few

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Comment by TIM MILLGATE Born and bred Dubbo lad, Tim Millgate, was the city’s 2001 Young Citizen of the Year and while he now lives and works in the radio industry in Sydney after graduating from CSU in Bathurst, there will always be a special place in his heart for his home town.

weeks to think about it, and I reckon I know why it’s been in my head.

I graduated high school a good 14 years ago and finished up at university three years after that. This means I’ve now been in the workforce for well over a decade. Wow, how did that happen?

And when I think back to those days at Dubbo South High and CSU Bathurst, I

always imagined by the time I cracked 30, I’d be paying off my own home, living in a picket fenced house with 2.5 kids, a dog and a cul-de-sac of fellow 30-something year olds living pretty much the same way as me.

Funnily enough, life hasn’t panned out that way.

The pressures are real – society is constantly telling you to be wise with your money; to make sure you’re contributing enough to super, reminding you to save for that rainy day or that you should join the property market at the right time.

Then, there’s the relationship expectation: “Met anyone nice lately?” “Sorry it’s just you on the invite – or do you have a plus one these days?” I’ve even heard of people who wouldn’t date a guy without a mortgage – no wonder I’m single!

Yes indeed, I have faults. I’m sure we

I imagined by the time I cracked 30, I’d be paying off my own home, living in a picket fenced house with 2.5 kids, a dog and a cul-de-sac of fellow 30-something year olds.

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could all sit down in front of a mirror and pick out the problems in our lives that have brought us to where we are today. But then I look at my facts. The past 14 years have been pretty awesome – yes, to some people, I may have p*ssed my wage up against the wall, but I’ve managed to score a bunch of mates who are more valuable to me than any house and land package I’ve yet seen on offer.

There have been holidays both overseas and locally, amazing music festivals and concerts, a career I’m proud of and the odd romance now and again. Life has been rich and full of fun.

So although the bank balance probably isn’t where it should be, I’m not with child (try and try as I might) nor have I delved into the property market like so many of my braver friends have done before me, I do feel an emotional prosperity that has come from the life choices and decisions I’ve made over the years. I really can’t complain.

I guess what I’m trying to get to is that perhaps growing up isn’t that bad at all.

Quite the opposite actually. As we all continue to grow up, be it from teens to 20s or from the 50s to the twilight years, perhaps we should aim to be singing a different tune.

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The hit and miss of public blunders XPOSING yourself within the public eye can be both powerful and poisonous. Depending on your socially calculated level of “importance”, it’s possible your every move, every word, every action is watched. Despite the prominence of media training, and that little thing called instinct, public blunders happen frequently and are undeniably media fodder in which the rest of us revel.

Last week we saw the designers of a luxurious Italian fashion label make shocking allegations about the “synthetic” nature of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).

The fashion moguls described IVF babes as “chemical offspring” and surrogacy as a “rented uterus”, igniting heated backlash from stars like Elton John, Victoria Beckham and Madonna.

With all due respect, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but somehow the outrageous statements made by Dolce and Gabbana seem entirely uninformed and quite frankly, unnecessary.

As a “synthetic, chemical” child myself, I felt a peculiar emotional response at these proclamations. Like anyone else in the world, I have a soul, a heart, and feelings and I experience trials and tribulations. Even my scientific genesis does not (unfortunately) make me perfect. The process through

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which I was conceived has never before caused me to question the reality of my existence.

As a test tube child, I have only ever been described as a “miracle” or “very special”. Never before have felt any less than the person next to me. How dare these wealthy fashionistas use their powerful status to proclaim such negative views on what most people see as a beautiful gift.

Okay, so maybe I am biased but this isn’t really about me. What about my parents? Any parents of an IVF baby, for that matter. Snaps to the stars who have intelligently used their power to speak on behalf of the rest of us (Elton),

and thank you to those who have rallied their support (Madonna). What an impertinent insult, D&G. Something else that raised a red flag for me last weekend was an article published in Sneaky Magazine, written by a former Murdoch employee, Will Colvin.

Long story short, Colvin’s article boasts about how little work he got away with when working for online media service news.com.au. Colvin’s witty writingstyle is brilliant, but his self-exposed laziness, ignorance and brashness is completely cringe worthy. The article is coupled with an image of Colvin reclined with a sly grin on his face, eyes half closed and two middle fingers pointing north.

Titled “All the ways I wasted Rupert Murdoch’s money”, the piece is riddled with expletives and immoral confessions. While publicly ridiculing a former employer (Rupert Murdoch, no less) is a brave move, I’m intrigued to see where young William’s career path will go from here. Maybe it’s because I do not have this level of boldness in my genes, but I just can’t help wondering why anyone would frame himself or herself like this.

Purely for the sake of calming my blood pressure, it’s worth mentioning a more light hearted public blunder which

occurred when morning television presenter Cameron Williams overslept and missed his live cross. I can just imagine the anxious scramble of producers when Williams hadn’t turned up on location several minutes before the cross was scheduled, juxtaposed by the innate amusement of his colleagues back in the studio.

Handled brilliantly, his colleagues made light of the mishap and took to social media to jokingly shame him. What had the potential to be a sack-able offence turned into an entertaining and relatable gag. This is a great example of how use public power positively.

Controversial comments, guilty confessions and simple gaffes like sleeping in are something we all do but the point is, there’s a time and a place. Unfortunately, for those in the public eye the choice of that time and place is crucial and has the power to be either constructive or detrimental.

We are all human and mistakes are normal, but if you take anything away from the above, it’s that you should think before you speak. Whether you’re damaging your own reputation or the feelings of someone else, ethical decisions and moral grounds cannot be undermined.

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BY FELICITY TAYLOR-EDWARDS DS DUBBO-BASED CEO OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA) A)

VER the past few weeks it seems infrastructure is the word that’s been on everyone’s lips, with a number of funding announcements, and key research consultations occurring across the region.

Infrastructure is a word that’s at risk of being overused in current political dialogue. We have a federal government with a very strong infrastructure focus and – should the state government return this weekend and lease metropolitan poles and wires – we’ll also see an additional $20 billion infrastructure investment in NSW, with $6 billion earmarked for regional areas.

This poses the question: is the region ready to make the most of the investment opportunities at hand, and who chooses what infrastructure we need?

To answer this, we first have to define what we mean by infrastructure.

Infrastructure refers to the physical assets that enable social and economic activity to occur. It’s enabling networks such as roads, rail and air, services such as energy, gas, water and waste and social assets such as health, education, cultural, tourism and heritage assets. And, of course, everyone’s favourite: decent mobile and internet coverage.

Basically, it’s the stuff you build that creates communities where people want to live and work.

With this broad definition, it’s easy to be overwhelmed when trying to list what the region might want or need. In terms of the Orana, we’re looking at 25 per cent of the state, with thousands of kilometres of roads, pipes, rivers, runways and rail-lines. We need big picture thinking to create a vision for the future which is mindful of our place in the state, Australia and the rest of the world.

This vision is what Regional Development Orana has been building over the past months, and will continue with until mid-year; undertaking a major project to develop long-term

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Infrastructure plan draws on industry input BUSINESS and industry leaders from across the Orana region have been offering input as to the future of infrastructure across the region, thanks to a series of forums arranged by Regional Development Australia (RDA) Orana.

For the past fortnight the organisation’s projects team has been on the road meeting with

infrastructure masterplans for the Orana and Far West regions.

I believe it’s imperative we lead our own vision for the future, rather than accept one set for us from elsewhere. We risk being overlooked and left behind if we don’t start today.

Much of regional NSW’s existing infrastructure was developed during the post-war boom between the 1940s and 1970s. This infrastructure back-log, paired with often confounding planning and approvals processes, means we need to be on the front foot in prioritising major potential infrastructure projects that will drive economic growth. We also need to be proactive and innovative in getting them in front of the people who can fund them either publicly or through private investment.

We are operating in an era where budgets are tight and long-term thinking has been limited. Levels of government are unwilling to publicly list infrastructure projects they have no capacity to finance or deliver. These projects stay hidden, meaning they can never attract private dollars, where local government or other public funds can’t stretch. If this had been the case throughout history, we’d still be without some of the iconic infrastructure Australia is so proud of today.

Additionally, because of the way government and its borders interact, we sometimes miss opportunities for delivering projects due to artificial boundaries, or not understanding the social and economic networks and how they work in relation to each other.

For example at the moment there is limited capacity at the Port of Newcastle. Businesses in the Orana ship via Brisbane, Botany or

It’s imperative we lead our own vision for the future, rather than accept one set for us from elsewhere. We risk being overlooked and left behind if we don’t start today.

businesses either at their place of work, or in one of three sessions held in Dubbo throughout the week.

According to RDA, the forums were well attended by a mix of government and industry representatives, from industries as diverse as health, transport, agriculture, resources, tourism and property development.

Across these forums, there was almost unanimous agreement that the region’s key priorities were water security, more efficient, better integrated transport including regional aviation, greater connectivity via mobile and internet, maintaining regional populations and skills, and being innovative to improve the public/private funding mix.

CEO of Regional Development Australia Orana, Felicity TaylorEdwards said, “I think many par-

Port Kembla, but due to proximity, may prefer Newcastle. Newcastle, luckily for our region, has a plan to expand. Are our connections to that port ready to make the most of this opportunity? At least the attention now paid to the Golden Highway may suggest so. And what of the rest of Australia? Given our location in the state, why do we look east when we could look west and north and tap into growth in both Northern Australia and the Asian market via Darwin?

Once we start dreaming up our boundaryless, big picture vision, a key question that many business people in the region have asked me is who should pay?

While it is the role of government to support and create the conditions under which the economy will flourish, we cannot discount the role of private investment and the potential to leverage private/public partnerships to meet common goals.

But what we as a region need to do is present the business case for why we deserve the attention. The simple assumption that returns on investment are automatically lower in the regions can no longer stand. The Orana far outweighs many other regions in the state, including metropolitan areas, in terms of productivity per worker. The outlook is good for regional Australia, and it’s time that we work to attract the necessary investment.

So do I believe the region is ready to make the most of the investment opportunities at hand? Yes. Or if not, we’re very close.

My own travel around the region and recent discussions with local industry, have shown we do have a shared vision, just approached from different angles. Time and time again I’ve heard common themes – greater water efficiency and the potential of new pipelines; greater transport and telecommunications connectivity; integrated transport planning, intermodal hubs and efficient regional air links. Yes, we need to understand the business cases for these individual projects and report to government and investors in the right format, but that’s the detail.

What I’ve seen is that the leadership, vision and appetite for change exist in the region.

And that, in my book, means we’re getting there.

ticipants were surprised at how quickly such a diverse group of people came to agreement. I think this is a great demonstration of the aligned leadership we have in the region.”

The consultations are one of three methods consultancy firm ARUP is using to collect information that will shape a Regional Infrastructure Masterplan, which is due to be delivered to RDA Orana mid-year.

Don’t be a stranger HOW well do you know your neighbours? Next weekend’s Neighbour Day is a good place to start breaking the ice, according to the Community Justice Centre – a free statewide mediation service.

Sunday, March 29 is set down as a day to encourage people to get to know those living next

door or across the street, with the aim of circumventing neighbourhood conflict. According to the centre’s director, Natascha Rohr, neighbours who know each other can often resolve issues as they arise through good communication.

“When neighbours remain virtual strangers they’re less likely to give each other the benefit of the doubt or talk about issues early, which means small problems become big ones.” Community Justice Centres is partnering with Neighbour Day 2015 to support Australia’s annual celebration of community.

Events will range from street parties and backyard barbeques to neighbours meeting for a cuppa. For more information visit: www.neighbourday.org or to find out more about Community Justice Centres go to: www.cjc. nsw.gov.au

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Innovation scuttled by corporate pirates

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

USTRALIA is open for ... bureaucracy.

This once innovative nation has lost its enterprising mojo and has gone from being ahead of the pack in so many areas of economic and social policy to the status of an also-ran.

Years ago mates living in the UK said they really noticed the class structure and how evident it was in all areas of society – now, with our slavish attention to allowing corporations to dodge taxes, circumvent planning process and run roughshod over our national soil and water resources, we’ve lost much of what made this country great.

It’s great for the fewer than 10 percent of the population who’ve been able to tap into this gravy train by working within the system but for the majority life has become far busier just trying to keep on top of all the new “essential” bills we have to pay statutory authorities and corporations.

Don’t worry about the gay marriage debate, we’ll soon need to allow polygamous relationships enshrined in law just to keep afloat.

When we had far less in material possessions we at least had statesmen who had grand visions for what our nation could be.

These days our politicians have to keep promising new things every five minutes, on the run, to satisfy the social media focus group poll-driven paradigm of our Gutless New World.

So here we sit, on the cusp of incredible opportunities with rising Asian giants, and we’re too scared to do anything but muddle along, or incompetently sell natural gas to the Chinese for a few cents a litre to keep their wheels of industry ticking over for the next few decades while ours pays through the

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Renowned economist Jonathon Pain recently visited Dubbo and he’s an indefatigable optimist.

The author of The Pain Report believes “the rise of the Asian middleclass will be the economic phenomenon of our time – I see Australia as the major beneficiary of this rise”.

Yet those decision makers with the money to position us for the best opportunities are standing idly by looking to take as much as they can by doing the least.

Asked why Australian super funds won’t invest in regional Australia, Pain is nonplussed, despite having asked many industry leaders why not.

“The most significant investment in Australian agriculture is from overseas and for some really bizarre reason the domestic investment industry doesn’t support, sponsor, finance of fund domestic agriculture; there’s a complete disconnect,” he says.

“I’ve noticed this over many years and I’ve asked the questions but I’m not quite sure what can turn the Australian investment industry around. It’s quite bizarre that they invest in strange exotic projects far away that many of them may not have even visited yet in their own backyard is one of the greatest opportunities over the next decade, namely Australian agriculture.”

Yet one of the nation’s most emotion

clad debates is about Chinese investment into Australian land, with concerns we’re literally selling the farm.

Our own money is sitting there to build a Melbourne to Darwin railway and many other important infrastructure projects, but the people who make the decisions don’t need any of this It’s not just the superannuation industry, the major banks have also deserted this space other than providing runof-the-mill loans to farmers, which are cash-cow earners for the shareholders.

The public face of the banking industry tries to paint a different picture.

In its 2014 submission to the federal government’s Agricultural White Paper the Australian Banking Association stated: “The ABA believes that given the volatility of earnings and cash flows and the time it takes for weakened balance sheets of agribusinesses to recover, a multifaceted approach is needed to restore momentum in the Australian agriculture sector, including: adopting strategies to selectively reinvigorate stalled industries with growth potential, sustain and strengthen existing high growth industries, and foster new and emerging agricultural industries around high growth opportunities (i.e. new varieties of oilseeds, advanced biofuels etc).”

When I approached the ABA for a letter of support for some innovative new

The most significant investment in Australian agriculture is from overseas and for some really bizarre reason the domestic investment industry doesn’t support, sponsor, finance of fund domestic agriculture; there’s a complete disconnect.” – Economist Jonathon Pain

crops I’ve been working on, that was denied.

ABA boss Stephen Munchenberg couldn’t spare the time to take my numerous phone calls which is a shame, because I wanted to know why the ABA members wouldn’t put a tiny fraction of the billions they earn from regional Australia into some projects which could help other people in this country get ahead.

These high flying companies were bailed out by a guarantee from hardpressed Australian taxpayers during the Global Financial Crisis, and it doesn’t paint a pretty picture of corporate responsibility in this country.

We really need a week of civil disobedience, people power, to take back control – target the worst community citizen big bank and try to get all those with loans to request the cancellation and have masses of people going elsewhere.

That would rattle the windows and the share price, and serve as an example to the other banks that we’ve had enough.

On the surface it seems a ludicrous plan, but the Coal Seam Gas groundswell activism has shown that Aussie residents still have a community soul buried in there somewhere and that we can take the big boys on across the board.

Let’s start with something easy and flip a coin to decide on Woolies or Coles.

Don’t buy a thing from one supermarket for a week, go to their competition, eat out every night, go on crash diets; shock the CEO and board and promise more of the same unless they pick up their act.

Put the shoe on the other foot for a change. Consumers do have all the power, we’re just disorganised. That’s how corporate pirates get away with this sort of behaviour.

Disclosure: John Ryan is the executive officer of Macquarie 2100.

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TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS There’s been a changing of the guard at Dubbo’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and holding the reins of the new-look board is local businessman, Matt Wright. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent When did you take up the reins of the Chamber, and what prompted your decision to assume the position?

I took the job at the AGM back in January. I joined the Chamber in mid-2013 after chatting to then-president Andrew Toole over a game of golf. Being in business myself, I thought I might as well go along and see what I could offer. I stepped into the vice-president’s role, and it was a bit of a natural progression to the presidency after Andrew left. I saw the opportunity to have a crack for a couple of years. I’m still pretty green – I don’t claim to know everything – but I plan to get out and about and meet a few people and learn as I go.

There’s been a bit of a change of the guard at the Chamber. What are the changes the business community at large will see? Is there a shift in direction?

Reinvigoration is probably the word. There are a lot of new faces right across the board, so we’re looking now for some stability for the next couple of years. But what we offer now is a little bit more diversity – we’re well represented across a few different sectors now. Finance and banking are traditionally well-represented, but now we have people from accounting, hospitality, renewable energy, manufacturing, retail… so we really have a good spread from across the business com-

munity. We’re probably still a little lacking in someone representing the trades – we’d love to have someone who’s in the construction industry, for example.

It’s a healthy sign that we have a full board, and that we actually had other people wanting to join the board and we had to turn them back.

What are some of the things you’re hearing across those sectors? What are the challenges?

There’s a bit of talk about the CBD and its future, and Dubbo City Council is aware of that. There’s talk also about the approaches to the city – how it’s a bit unsightly coming in from Victoria Street.

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But then further afield, from a national level and in conjunction with the Australian and NSW chambers, there’s a big push to lobby government with respect to penalty rates which have a massive impact on businesses, particularly in sectors like tourism and retail.

There’ll be some noise about that over coming months.

So you see it as important that Chamber has an advocacy and lobbying role?

The challenges across the board on a national level are similar to those on a smaller scale, and the same sort of challenges that our local businesses would have, and in that respect, the might of the state and

national bodies is important. But there are certainly some things local businesses are faced with here on a local that aren’t necessarily applicable to small business everywhere. Take, for instance, the implications of the mining industry and the impact it will have on Dubbo businesses over the next two, three, five years.

It’s a matter of us having that representation in those different sectors – understanding what the challenges of businesses are, and bringing them to the fore.

You mention mining – there’s a lot of emotion surrounding the sector at the moment. Where do you see mining sitting in Dubbo and the region’s immediate

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future?

From a business perspective, we see it as an extremely positive thing. It’ll attract employment, not only to the industry itself, but to industry that will be directly associated with it – be that manufacturing or contractors or whatever. But it’s also all the money that will be earned and hopefully spent in town.

I suppose the major mine project that we’re talking about locally is the Alkane mine at Toongi – and the guys at Alkane have indicated they’ll try to source as much of the workforce locally as possible. So that’s positive. Alkane has been quite transparent from day »

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The projected population growth for the city over the next 10 or 15 years definitely presents an opportunity for businesses to diversify their offering and take advantage of that growth. one about their processes and while there’s a bit of conjecture out there at the moment about the impact on Dubbo from an environmental perspective, I think much of that comes from a lack of knowledge.

You were talking about the CBD – but in terms of Dubbo’s economic prosperity, it’s not all just about the CBD, is it? There’s been a lot of development in recent years to both the east and west of the centre of Dubbo.

Traditionally, I guess we’ve always looked at the vibrancy of its CBD as the measure of how successful a regional centre or town is – and that’s not the case anymore. Dubbo is a different beast now. We have suburbs.

I had a client just recently who wanted to make an appointment, and I said, “Just pop in and see me…”

She said, “You mean I have to come into town?” She lives over on the outskirts of West Dubbo – she works in west, she shops in west, the kids go to school in west… she doesn’t have to come over the bridge anymore. It wasn’t until then that it struck me that we really do have distinct suburbs now.

The CBD definitely serves a purpose for the city itself, but we’re so spread out now and it indicates that we need more than a vibrant centre – we do need those hubs around the city’s different areas.

What excites you about the future of Dubbo’s development and as a place to do and grow business?

The projected population growth for the city over the next 10 or 15 years definitely presents an opportunity for businesses to diversify their offering and take advantage of that growth. As a small business owner myself, I’m looking at that projected growth and thinking of how I can capture that potential market.

One of the things I look at is what council is doing, particularly in terms of the Evocities program – the number of people who have been encouraged to move here is great. It IS a great place to live and to do business – and I get excited when I see people coming here and taking advantage of what we have to offer.

It’s about population growth, growth of the city over the next decade or so, and about recognising opportunity.

With regard to recognising opportunity, do you think business owners need to shape up and look for potential for growth and help them-

selves more?

I think it’s more about taking advantage of opportunities – recognising areas in their business that they need to change. For example, understanding and embracing the benefits of technology to their business. The world is at our doorstep, really – there are plenty of examples of small businesses, whether they be retail or professional or whatever, where they’ve recognised the value of technology and entered into markets into which they mightn’t have otherwise had access. You’re only a click away from the world. It’s important for businesses to take advantage of opportunities and markets that mightn’t have previously been available to them. There’s also the importance of the NBN roll-out commencing here on those brown-field sites in the middle of this year – with that kind of infrastructure on our door-step, you’d be crazy not to explore the options available.

With this reinvigorated board, what do you say to business people who are not members of the Chamber, or who have the idea it’s a “toothless tiger” when it comes to representation of the business community?

I’d say come along and have a chat to us – especially at some of these networking events we’re running in the next months. We’d like small businesses to get to know what we can offer – and that we are there to help. We want to know about their challenges. It might seem like whinging to a deaf ear but we want to hear about their issues – because if what we hear is an echo, with the same issues coming up all the time, then we know it’s something we can take up and run with in a public forum, and so it’s discussed in front of the right people.

What’s your personal philosophy on business, and how do you apply that as president of the chamber?

We’re in a business that’s all about trust. Yes, we offer finance and different products, but at the end of the day, it’s about trust. I’d like to think that flows into my role with the Chamber of Commerce. And I suppose, the chamber is asking for businesses in the community to place their trust in us to act as their voice. » For more information on the activities of the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce and Industry, go to: dubbochamber. com.au or phone 6884 4883

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Breeding technology helps secure flock future ELECTING the best sire for a sheep herd will assist more than just bloodlines in the future. Breeding for both worm and flystrike resistance has been one way in which farmers have achieved effective management of parasites which regularly plague their stock.

ParaBoss executive officer Lewis Kahn said many breeders had moved out of the industry because they were sick of chasing worms and flies. But choosing the right animals can save on time and treatment costs, as well as improving animal welfare.

“A flock more resistant to worms decreases the number of worm larvae on pasture and increases the time before lost production becomes significant,” Kahn said.

“This means fewer drenches, which not only saves time, but helps to preserve drench effectiveness on your farm. It also means fewer deaths in those regions where barber’s pole can be a problem.

“When choosing rams, use performance and visual data, but also look for rams with lower Australian Sheep Breeding Values for worm egg count, breech wrinkle and dag (in scour worm areas) and if they are not available, ask your stud breeder to start providing these.

“When it comes to flystrike, focus on reducing fleece rot, as it is the main cause of body strike. For breech strike, the first priority is to reduce breech wrinkle and also dag where it is

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“However, wait until breeches are quite plain before selecting for reduced breech cover. There is only so much emphasis you can place on flystrike—other traits are important too—and wrinkle can be reduced much faster than breech cover, so it achieves the fastest benefits.”

The Australian Wool Innovation has initiated a Breech Strike Project on breeding for flystrike resistance.

“Objective selection for fly and worm resistance has been mainstream now for years on quite a few studs. This means that there are rams available with a very high level of resistance compared to 10 years ago,” Kahn said “So, while genetic selection doesn’t happen overnight, the improvement in one generation these days can be surprising, if the right rams are chosen.”

Tullamore breeder Mark Mortimer uses the Australian Sheep Breeding Values and routine DNA testing to assist with running the breeding nucleus of 1200 ewes for the Centre Plus Ram Breeding Group.

“We have always been open to new technology and virtually all the technology in use here was adopted very early,” he said.

“In the early days it was as simple as micron testing of the ewes, now we use ASBVs and routine DNA testing. Whenever the latest genetic tools come on the market we are certainly looking at them and wanting to be involved in using them early.”

By incorporating advanced genetic measurement tools including DNA testing into the business, the Mortimers have been able to introduce proven genetics to the nucleus flock a full year earlier than under traditional manage-

Tullamore breeder Mark Mortimer uses the Australian Sheep Breeding Values and routine DNA testing.

ment systems.

“We are objectively measuring what I call the economic traits – the ones that make you your money, while we need to give up some of our visual selection pressure,” he said.

Mortimer says the eagerness to be at the cutting edge of R&D is built on a belief in new technology as an enabling mechanism for lifting the performance of individual producers, their flocks and the industry as a whole.

“For me there is a real excitement in finding something new, something that hasn’t been discovered before,” he said.

“Certainly, you go down some blind roads before you find the path that you need, but by the time we have bedded down one technology and are using it efficiently, we’ll be trying what the next tool is.”

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BoQ sees uncertain economy... for now SYDNEY: Bank of Queensland is forecasting economic uncertainty after posting a record half year cash profit.

The bank’s new chief executive Jon Sutton says the outlook was unclear for the short to medium term.

“The economy is currently running at a pace below its long-run trend and, while there are some positive factors emerging, any sustained improvement will require a pick-up in consumer and business confidence,” he said.

BoQ’s cash profit rose 19 per cent to a record $167 million during the six months to February 28, compared with the previous corresponding period.

Meanwhile, its statutory net profit was up 14 per cent at $154 million.

The bank said it supported former Commonwealth Bank chief David Murray’s financial system inquiry, and urged the government to make it easier

for smaller, regional banks to compete.

“We continue to wholeheartedly support the findings of the financial system inquiry’s final report and urge the federal government and regulators to move quickly to create a more level playing field,” Mr Sutton said.

Lending growth had improved, thanks to an expansion in mortgage broking and business banking.

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BANKING ON IMPROVEMENTS zCash earnings after tax of $167m in the six months to February 28, up 19pct from $140m zNet profit of $154m, up 14pct from $135m zInterim dividend of 36 cents per share, up 13 pct from 32 cents .

Jewellery retailer Lovisa’s rapid growth has included opening a store at Dubbo’s Orana Mall.

Lovisa snaps up 21 South African stores SYDNEY: Jewellery retailer Lovisa, which has a store in Dubbo, is primed for a $2.25 million acquisition of 21 fashion accessory stores across South Africa.

The transaction takes the company beyond 30 stores in the country.

Chief executive Shane Fallscheer says the extra outlets make Lovisa the largest fashion jewellery retailer in South Africa, giving it “a national footprint of stores in what is one of our most successful markets”.

The rapidly expanding group has now updated it’s global store number forecast from 225 to 244 across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa and the Arabian Gulf.

The acquisition is subject to approval by the Reserve Bank of South Africa, with a store handover date of April 1.

Lovisa will pay an upfront purchase price of $2 million plus a $250,000 deferred payment 12 months down the track.

The company, which listed on the ASX in December, was established in 2010 by retail millionaire Brett Blundy and Mr Fallscheer.

Within one year it had opened 51 stores, and last month it reaffirmed its full year earnings guidance after lifting first half profit by two thirds.

Lovisa said the acquisition and refurbishment costs of approximately A$57,000 per store plus $50,000 of inventory per store will be funded from loan facilities.

The group plans to close five of the 21 stores within six months to avoid crossover from its existing portfolio.

While the new stores are not expected to enhance earnings this financial year, Lovisa forecasts they will contribute $1.75 million next year.

There will be no tax payable on these earnings due to accumulated tax losses AAP of approximately $850,000.

Brickworks wants more land, more tradies MELBOURNE: More land and bricklayers are urgently needed to meet the surging housing demand, says building products group Brickworks, whose NSW business includes Austral Bricks.

Brickworks managing director Lindsay Partridge says there’s a wait of up to a year for new housing in some

markets because of a lack of land releases and tradespeople to build new homes. And that is helping to push up prices.

Mr Partridge said the bricklayer shortage had become critical with the national industry also struggling to find more than 200 apprentices. AAP

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I and welcome to Panscott Media Dubbo’s Marketing Minute.

We’ve mentioned here before the value that a celebrity can bring to a marketing campaign, and airline Etihad has shown over the past fortnight that there’s EXTRA value in the EXTRA free publicity your celebrity can attract.

Etihad launched a new marketing campaign this month, starring Aussie actress Nicole Kidman. The campaign included huge double-page ads in major newspapers including The Australian, the Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald – not a cheap exercise – but the benefit was not only the ‘word of mouth’ that created but the news stories that celebrity magazines produced about Nic’s new job.

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Marketing for Dummies THE “for Dummies” series of instructional books has been around for more than 20 years now, growing from a single book on a single subject to a whole library. The secret of their success is being prepared to explain sometimes complicated subjects in simple terms we can all understand.

The Dummies series includes a Marketing For Dummies, and we’re not ashamed to admit we’ve discovered some excellent ideas and gems of info inside this book. Here’s the first of a series of samples we’ll include over the coming weeks: Making marketing work in your small business YOU don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be a good marketer. But neither is there a silver bullet or one-size-fits-all solution. Every small business is different – the marketing plan and tactics for a mortgage broker are entirely different from those of a computer reseller. However, the process of building a plan, sticking to it and applying the time and resources it needs is the common secret to success in marketing.

The real (estate) power of print RESEARCH released by property research company CoreLogic found that properties advertised in printed newspapers, in addition to online advertising, improved sales outcomes.

The analysis, based on 850,000 homes sold over the past two years, showed including ads in printed newspapers increased the average price achieved, the percentage of properties successfully sold, and consistently reduced the time the property was on the market.

Online real estate advertising works, but properties sell faster and achieve higher prices when printed newspapers are included in the advertising plan.

Results varied by market, with increases in the average price ranging from $19,973 in Melbourne to a very impressive $49,491 in Perth, The Newspaper Works reported.

- Until next week, sell well!

Solar event PARTS of Europe experienced a solar eclipse this month, and advertisers didn’t miss the chance to use the event in their marketing.

Oreo biscuits ran this full page print ad (pictured right) – there were no words, just this clever illustration.

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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Museum employee Vicky records fish and coral in an aquarium at the Natural History Museum in west London March 25. It forms part of a new exhibition, “Coral Reefs: Secret Cities of the Sea”, featuring a panoramic virtual dive and over 250 specimens from the Museum’s coral, fish and marine invertebrate collection, which opens today (March 27).

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Burn those egg-stra calories

BY ABI JACKSON IFE is too short not to eat Easter eggs. But indulging doesn’t have to mean an ever-expanding waistline, providing you stick to that all-important dietary rule: everything in moderation – and offset those extra calories with plenty of exercise.

“Offsetting a bit of seasonal chocolate with some additional exercise is a great way to have your cake and eat it,” says diet and fitness expert Laura Williams.

“Striving for balance between your favourite treat foods and getting sufficient exercise to burn it off gives you a better chance at maintaining your weight, because you’re always aware of the need to balance calories in with calories out, rather than depriving yourself of something then periodically overeating it, and doing the same with your exercise routine.”

Of course, the exact amount of calories in an Easter egg will vary. But to keep things simple, let’s imagine you’re tucking into a large milk chocolate egg, which usually comes with two or three accompanying chocolate bars – at a total of around 1500kcals.

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HATCH A PLAN Before cracking those eggs, a few simple adjustments beforehand could help you savour those treats without that bitter aftertaste of guilt.

Ban all-or-nothing thinking It doesn’t have to be a choice between eating healthily or just not bothering at all. So don’t freak out that the odd indulgence means you’ve ‘undone’ all your good work so far. Instead of thinking you’ve fallen off the diet wagon, see it as a well-earned pit-stop before hopping right back on again.

Muscle in on some strength training “If you’re planning on indulging over Easter [and why not?], we’d recommend adding a couple of HIIT classes such as GRIT to your workout plan, as they will shock your muscles, produce an increase in the growth hormone which builds lean muscle, and then you will burn more calories whilst you’re ‘resting’,” says Dave Kyle, a head trainer for Les Mills.

Weight-based workout classes might not burn as many calories as some others, but “they do build lean muscle mass, which will continue to burn calories long after the class”, explains Kyle.

Make some room Guidelines advise an intake of 2500kcal a day for men and 2000kcal for women. There are occasions however (Easter being one of them), when guidelines can get tossed aside.

HEALTH IN BRIEF Aussies courting chronic disease ABOUT two-thirds of Australians have health issues caused by risk factors that are “modifiable”, such as exercise, diet and smoking, a new report shows.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, which was released on Wednesday, uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to paint a picture of

And that’s OK – providing it’s not too often.

You could lessen the blow-out by cutting back a little in the week before (this does NOT mean going on a crazy crash diet and under-consuming; that would not be healthy and may even lead to yo-yoing and greater weight gain in the long-term). Even swapping your usual snacks for plain fruit, having soup and salad for dinner a couple of times, halving that mound of pasta and topping up your plate with more veg will make a difference.

ONCE YOU’VE CRACKED...

Yum... chocolate. Enjoy it – then have fun working it off too. Here are three egg-cellent workout suggestions.

With the family If you’re entertaining for Easter, why not organise a ‘sports day’ style afternoon at the local park or in the garden? Not only will it help everyone burn off that chocolate and wear out the kids after all that sugar, it’ll be fun too.

“Family activities like soccer and rounders are great informal ways to practise interval training. Sprinting flat out and then recovering will help to boost fitness levels,” says Williams. “Just make sure you warm up sufficiently!”

Some simple stretches and star-jumps will do the trick. You could burn around 400kcals playing rounders for an hour, a bit more if you play footie. A game of tag is a great way to

the multitude of factors that are putting people at risk of chronic diseases.

The study found 95 per cent of adults did not consume the recommended amounts of two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables a day.

Almost two-in-three were overweight or obese and over half were inactive or insufficiently active.

Further, 32 per cent had high blood pressure, 33 per cent high blood cholesterol and 16 per cent smoked daily.

“These are not just statistics, they are early death sentences,” said Mary Barry, CEO of the Heart Foundation.

Overall the study found 66 per cent of the adult population have at least three or more risk factors

engage the kids and get everybody’s hearts pumping, burning up to 100kcals in 20 minutes. A simple 25-minute game of catch could see another 100kcals dissolved – and tone arms and improve hand-eye coordination to boot.

For busy parents If you’re juggling work/chores and childcare, finding time to exercise can seem extra challenging – but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. You could even do a workout at home. If time is an issue, do shorter workouts but do them frequently throughout the week, whenever you can fit them in.

“A 250kcal home workout could include three repetitions of the following circuit,” suggests Williams. “Allow just 10-15 seconds’ rest in-between each set.”

5 mins of skipping intervals (try skipping for 1 minute, resting for 20 secs) 1 min of squats 1 min push-ups 1 min step-ups, each leg 1 min burpees 1 min shuttle runs (sprinting from one end of garden/hallway to the other, touching the floor at each end) For gym class junkies Classes are great for maximum results in a shorter space of time; many are designed to be high intensity and the class environment can also encourage you to work your hardest too.

associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes or chronic kidney disease.

AIHW spokesperson Sushma Mathur said risk factors are behaviours or characteristics that increase the likelihood of developing a particular disease, and people with more than one risk factor are at greater risk.

“The good news is that most of these risk factors are modifiable, or can be controlled to help reduce the risk of developing these chronic diseases,” Ms Mathur said. AAP

Medicare ‘must cater for abuse victims’

BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL THE federal government has to

have a role in providing psychological treatment for sex abuse victims and that means modifying the Medicare system, a law expert has told a national inquiry.

Patrick Parkinson, professor of law at the University of Sydney and a specialist in family law and child protection, was giving evidence on Thursday at the second day of a royal commission hearing into a redress scheme for thousands of child abuse survivors.

He said the issue of legal and moral responsibility is complex but psychological treatment is the most important aspect of the royal commission’s redress proposal.

The federal government has told the commission it would not expand Medicare for abuse survivors other than advertising what was available.

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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

Endo: you don’t have to suffer in silence

BY ROCHELLE BAILLE PHARMACIST

Members of the Heart Support Australia Dubbo Branch Elizabeth Allen, president Rodney Dawson and Libby McMahon have their finger on the pulse of patient support services in the city. PHOTO: NATALIE HOLMES

Ticker group taking action

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

INCE its inception in late 2013, a local group has been at the heart of community support, assisting cardiac patients and their families through the post-recovery period.

Heart Support Australia Dubbo Branch president Rodney Dawson believes the group is making progress but hopes to generate even more interest.

“The heart support group has been coming along well, this will be our second year of operation,” he confirmed.

Dawson aims to keep people notified of the options available to them following a cardiac event. ”We are trying to get the word out to people – the biggest thing after support from staff at the rehabilitation unit is that there is support for them after rehabilitation.”

Plenty of different emotions can surface at this time including anxiety, fear and vulnerability. People can feel depressed and upset about their lives after this kind of major surgery.

“After you first have an event, it’s quite daunting. You think you’re bullet-proof until then.

“But afterwards, you lose your confidence and anxiety and depression can be a sideeffect and there are people who are not seeking the proper treatment or support, so that’s a huge part of it.”

Offering information and friendship, the support group can help remove some of the pain of what follows a heart attack, and assist with future lifestyle options. “(After rehab) there’s not much support out there. The rehabilitation unit is excellent but there is an empty void

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straight after that.

“The rehab program provides us with avenues to take on future exercise activities. We’ve got a walking group now, offering moderate to gentle exercise and we encourage new people in order to help them. We also want to help people regain confidence in their lives.”

Dawson said the support group isn’t just for the former heart patients themselves, but also for their loved ones.

“It’s not only for the person that’s had a heart event, partners and carers have also made a transition into this environment and they are a really huge support.”

He pointed out that the group is friendly and informal and meets on a monthly basis. They have guest speakers along with discussions on personal wellbeing and topics such as diet, exercise, yoga and meditation.

“Some people don’t realise that there is help and support available – that’s what we’re trying to get out there,” Dawson said.

“Some people don’t have any contact so that is what we’re offering, a support network.”

And alluding to the heart surgery scar, he said “you don’t have to have the zipper to join”.

An additional bonus of the group is that they’re also raising funds for cardiac equipment to ensure the future longevity of the hospital service.

Ahead of cancer and car accidents, heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in Australia. » HEART Support Australia Dubbo, promoting healthy hearts and information, next group discussion will be held on Tuesday, March 31, in the Westside Hotel function room at 5.30pm. Guest speaker is Clinton from the Emergency Department, Dubbo Base Hospital. All Welcome. Further enquiries to Rod 0409 929 587 or dawso69@bigpond.net.au

ARCH is Endometriosis Awareness Month – so here I am…making you aware!

Endometriosis is one of those diagnoses people get where everyone just thinks “What does she have?” or as one “endo” ambassador called it, Endo-WTF-sis?

In fact one in 10 women in Australia have the condition – it’s more common than most people realise. Chances are a family member has it, or a friend, a co-worker or that old school mate that always had “bad periods”?

So let’s start with some of the gruesome details of endometriosis (endo). It’s a condition where tissue, which normally lines the uterus, is found in abnormal sites around not only the pelvis but also around the body. These deposits can cause a number of symptoms including pelvic pain and infertility. Other symptoms include (but are not limited to endo) pain at ovulation, pelvic pain between periods, painful bowel movements, painful sex, lethargy and tiredness.

The thing is you can also have it without these symptoms occurring – and the degree of pain or symptoms does not always indicate the damage the disease is causing. They can vary in extremity – pain can be anything from nauseating to being unable to walk. Tiredness can be from lethargic right through to chronic fatigue. This can start from the very first period as a teen (not as common) through to adulthood. Many patients are diagnosed in their teens, but on average endure 6-7 years of pain and distress before being diagnosed.

I won’t go into diagnosis, but know that it is worth getting diagnosed to consider your treatment options. There are three kinds of treatments for endo: medical (medications), surgical (involving an operation) or allied treatments (osteopathy, physiotherapy, psychology and so on). These are what you will discuss with your doctor after diagnosis, and it is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Treatment for endo needs to be personalised according to your specific case. This article is not just for the female population either. Men: YOU also need to be aware that endometriosis is not a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) and although you cannot contract the condition, it may affect many women your lives – and that can impact you guys on a day-to-day basis. The good news is there is support on how to cope with endo sufferers out there for you too.

We see a lot of period pain in pharmacies, and your pharmacists are fully aware of endometriosis and other pelvic pain disorders. I am always quite conscious of the fact someone is regularly needing pain medication for their periods and I am very sympathetic to their needs due to my passion in the area.

I work with diagnosed clients in two ways.

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There is no cure for endometriosis so we need to help ease the burden of pain and fatigue on the body in any way we can.

By providing prescribed medications from GPs and specialists and counselling them on the medications chosen for them. I also help plan a pain relief and healthy living program that’s usually a combination of medicines and natural therapies as well as assessing lifestyle factors that may contribute to exacerbating the symptoms.

I also like to give them the resources to educate them about the condition – as it is so very different for each sufferer. However, it may be worth mentioning to your pharmacy staff or Pharmacist all of the symptoms you are suffering with. The major point is there IS NO CURE for endometriosis so we need to help ease the burden of pain and fatigue on the body in any way we can.

If you or someone you know may have endo – make yourself aware. Mention it to your GP if you think these symptoms read like your life story. My favourite sites are - Endometriosis Australia – www.endometriosisaustralia. org (also on Facebook) and Dr Susan Evans – http://www.drsusanevans.com.au/ Please also go to Blossoms Endometriosis Support Group on Facebook to register your interest in a support group for Dubbo and the surrounding areas.

Until next time, wear YELLOW to support EndoMarch, get people talking freely about Endo (#yellowchallenge #endometriosis) and call into your local Pharmacy for professional service and advice on your women’s health needs…

They are here to help you – whether it’s “that time” of the month or not!!

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FOOD.

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Be a happy Easter feaster

Good Housekeeping Institute cook Cher Loh. PHOTOS: PA/GOOD HOUSEKEEPING INSTITUTE

BY KEELEY BOLGER USTRALIA splashed out around $190 million last year on Easter eggs.

Easter is big business. In fact, our total spending on chocolate, seafood, entertainment and other treats is on target to

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top the $3 billion mark across the four-day Easter holiday, according to IBISWorld – that’s about $130 per head.

But if your favourite egg has already flown off the shelves, or you’ve had your fill of chocolate, you could try making some alternative sugary hits

instead.

I head to the Good Housekeeping Institute for a masterclass with cook Cher Loh, who is here to teach me and a batch of other merry bakers, how to whizz up some Easter biscuits.

He reassures us they are “easy to make” – and for us, it’s

Pretty delicious in pink

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS AND GINA HARLOW

THE KITCHEN DIVAS

Get ready to pucker up. Because it’s time for rhubarb – a sweet, tart treat.

Loved by many, and misunderstood by more than a few, rhubarb with its deeppink stalks is often a little hard to find.

But keep searching because this jewel is not to be missed.

Rhubarb can be a rare discovery, even when in season. (The Victorian Farmers’ Markets Association assures us it’s “in season” now and through until August.)

For many, it’s still a taste never tried.

Others may have tasted rhubarb that had fallen into the wrong hands, leaving them with an unfortunate first impression. So why doesn’t this lovely fruit have a wider appeal?

For starters, it’s not technically a fruit, but a herbaceous perennial vegetable.

made all the easier by the fact that Loh has already mixed up and chilled some dough.

After rolling some out on the work surface, I’m just about to hastily shove my biscuit-cutter into the middle when Loh stops me.

“Start from the edge of dough, so you get as many biscuits as possible from it,” he advises.

After cutting out all our biscuits, they’re arranged on parchment and re-chilled, before baking in the oven and then being left to cool.

Next comes the fun part – decorating.

With a steady hand and using a tasteful palette of three pastel colours, Loh pipes neat lines, squiggles and lattices onto each of his biscuits. They look like edible works of art when he’s finished.

However, in 1947 a US court decided that since it was most frequently used as a fruit, it would be classified for regulation and duty purposes as such.

Rhubarb is at its best when the stalks are thin, red and have a crisp texture.

If the stalks are floppy, it means that it’s not freshly picked. Wrap rhubarb stalks in plastic and refrigerate for up to a week. Rhubarb also is sold frozen in some areas and can be used in place of fresh.

It’s true that some parts of the plant are poisonous. The colourful stalks are what we eat, but the leaves contain toxins. This usually is not a problem, as the rhubarb in the market already has the leaves removed. Those lucky enough to have their own rhubarb plant know about this minor imperfection and handle it appropriately.

The lip-puckering, tart flavour of rhubarb also requires some getting used to.

Some varieties are sweeter than others and can be eaten raw, but that’s not

But with a stack of errands to run and a tendency to become impatient with baking, I stick with a simple pink squiggle, yellow line and pale blue zigzag on mine.

They look a little childlike compared to Loh’s (and the other bakers’ in the class), who’ve carefully piped their names, Easter messages and woodland creatures onto theirs.

Still, it’s the effort that counts, right? And while baking biscuits from scratch has taken a bit more effort than my usual supermarket dash, it’s a lot more fun giving out handmade gifts, and I’m pleased to report that my batch is met with approval from my colleagues the next day.

To try your hand at making your own Easter treats, here are three recipes from the Good Housekeeping Institute...

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Rhubarb really comes alive when it is cooked, either stewed or roasted, and mixed with other ingredients. In sweet and savoury dishes, this tart vegetable lends a special flavour that can’t be compared to anything else.

Its gorgeous pink colour is an indicator that rhubarb is full of antioxidants, as well as calcium and fibre. And while rhubarb will keep in your refrigerator for up to a week, to enjoy its full flavour, use it right after buying or harvesting.

Rhubarb is often called the “pie plant”.

It is delicious when mixed with strawberries and other fruit in pies and cobblers.

It’s also good in relishes and compotes, and in dishes that showcase its tangy flavour.

Rhubarb is the star of this recipe for Pork Chops with Spicy Rhubarb and Golden Raisin Sauce. The tartness of the rhubarb combined with the sweetness of the raisins is the perfect complement for the richness of the pork chops.

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HOT CROSS BUNS

ICED EASTER BISCUITS (Makes 10) 75g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to grease 100g caster sugar 40g condensed milk 1 medium egg, beaten Finely grated zest of 1/2 orange or 1/2 lemon 1/2tsp baking powder 200g plain flour, plus extra to dust Pinch of salt For the icing: 100g icing sugar Food colouring pastes Ribbon, to decorate (optional) Put the butter, sugar and condensed milk into a large bowl. Mix with a wooden spoon until pale and fluffy. Next, beat in the egg a little at a time, then add the zest, followed by the baking powder, flour and a pinch of salt. Bring together with your hands, then wrap in cling film and chill for 30 minutes.

Lightly grease two large

baking sheets with butter.

Lightly flour a work surface and roll out the dough to 5mm thick. Stamp out Easter shapes, re-rolling the trimmings.

Arrange the biscuits on the prepared sheets. If you later want to thread a ribbon through the top, make a 5mm hole in each biscuit with a skewer. Chill for 15 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.

Bake the biscuits for 10-12 minutes until lightly golden. Loosen with a palette knife, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.

For the icing, sift icing sugar into a bowl and add just enough water to make a thick, spreadable icing.

Divide among small bowls and add colouring to each as needed. Pipe or spread over the biscuits and leave to set. If you like, you can thread ribbons through the biscuits and hang them up.

(Makes 12) 300g strong white bread flour, plus extra to dust 1tsp mixed spice 25g cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes, plus extra to grease 50g caster sugar Finely grated zest of 1/2 lemon 1x7g sachet fast-action dried yeast 170ml semi-skimmed milk, plus a dash more if needed 1 medium egg 75g sultanas or mixed fruit for the cross topping 1tbsp plain flour 1/2tsp salt 1tbsp golden syrup, to glaze Put the strong flour, mixed spice, butter and half a teaspoon of salt into a food processor, and pulse until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Alternatively, rub the butter into the flour mixture using your fingers.

Add the sugar, lemon zest and yeast and pulse again (or stir) to combine.

Empty the mixture into a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Gently heat the milk until it’s just warm, then add the milk and egg to the flour bowl and stir quickly to make a soft dough. If the mixture feels too dry, you can add a little more cold milk.

Dust a work surface with flour, then knead the dough for five minutes or until elastic. Transfer

dough to a large, lightly greased bowl, cover with cling film, and leave in a warm place to rise for one hour.

Transfer the dough to a work surface and knead in the sultanas (you may need to flour the work surface again).

Return the dough to the bowl, cover with cling film and leave to rise for 30 minutes.

Lightly grease a baking sheet with butter. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and divide into 12 equal pieces. Shape each into a ball, then flatten slightly. Arrange the balls on the baking sheet, spacing them a little apart.

Cover with a clean tea towel and leave to rise for 45 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. To make the cross topping, put the flour into a small bowl and mix in just enough cold water to give it a smooth, pipeable consistency (about two tablespoons). Put the flour mixture into a piping bag (no need for a nozzle), snip off the tip and, working quickly, pipe a cross on top of each bun.

Bake the buns for 15-18 minutes, or until golden and risen. As soon as they come out of the oven, brush with golden syrup.

Then allow to cool completely on a wire rack – or eat warm with lashings of butter.

SIMNEL CAKE (Serves 12) 225g butter, softened, plus extra to grease 225g self-raising flour 2tsp ground mixed spice 400g mixed dried fruit 150g light muscovado sugar 50g golden syrup Finely grated zest of 2 lemons 4 medium eggs, lightly beaten Icing sugar, to dust 250g marzipan 2tbsp apricot jam Preheat oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3. Grease a 19cm round cake or springform tin with butter and line with baking parchment.

In a large bowl, stir together the flour, mixed spice and dried fruit until combined. Put the butter, muscovado sugar, syrup and lemon zest into a separate large bowl and beat together using a hand-held electric whisk until pale and fluffy (about three minutes).

Gradually beat in the eggs, whisking well after each addition. Add flour mixture and fold in with a large metal spoon.

Empty the mixture into the prepared tin and bake.

Cover with foil after one hour of cooking, then cook for a further 25 minutes, or until the cake is risen

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and springy to the touch.

A skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean, but don’t be tempted to test too early or the cake may sink. Leave to cool completely in the tin.

Take the cake out of the tin, peel off the parchment and transfer to a serving plate. To decorate, dust the work surface with icing sugar and roll out twothirds of the marzipan until large enough for a 19cm circle (cut around base of cake tin).

Heat the jam with one teaspoon of water in a small pan over a medium heat until runny. Brush the top of the cake with some jam, then lay the marzipan circle on top and gently press down to stick. Using a small knife, score lines on top of the marzipan to make a diamond pattern.

Crimp the edge of the marzipan using the thumb and forefinger of one hand, and the index finger of the other.

Roll the remaining marzipan into 11 equal-sized balls. Brush the underside of each with a little jam or water and stick to the top of the cake. If you like, you can use a blowtorch to lightly brown the marzipan balls.

PORK CHOPS WITH SPICY RHUBARB AND SAUCE Serves 4 1/2 cup golden raisins 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon plus 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup finely chopped onion 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 small jalapeno, with ribs and seeds, diced 225 to 280 grams rhubarb, ends trimmed, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces (2 cups) 3 tablespoons sugar 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 1/2 teaspoons ground pepper

2 tablespoons poultry seasoning 4 pork loin chops, (each approx 125mm thick and 170 to 225 grams) 1. In a small bowl, combine raisins with vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and 1/4 cup hot water; let stand 10 minutes to soften.

2. In a small saucepan, heat 1 teaspoon oil over medium-low heat.

Add onion; cook until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Add garlic and jalapeno and cook for another 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.

3. Add the rhubarb and sugar; and bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer until rhubarb has softened, 5 to 8 minutes. Stir in nutmeg; season with 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and pepper. Remove

from heat; keep warm.

4. Generously season both sides of pork chops with the remaining teaspoon of salt and pepper, and the poultry seasoning.

5. In a large skillet, heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil over medium-high heat. Cook pork (in two batches, if necessary, to avoid crowding the pan) until browned and cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Serve topped with the warm Spicy Rhubarb and Golden Raisin sauce.

TIP: The golden raisins can be replaced with other dried fruit, such as cherries or currants and softened as instructed.

O Angela Shelf Medearis’s new cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook”.

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Battling breakdowns, bush bogs and boisterous babies, Weekender regular Val Clark continues her tales from off the beaten African track. PHOTOGRAPHY Val Clark HE loaded roof rack has just detached itself from the roof of the car.

We are lost in the poorly signed Kenya Wildlife Service (KSF) East Tsavo (Wildlife) Park. It’s 13,747 square kilometres and night is rapidly falling.

It looks like the cardinal park rule – do not get out of the car – is about to be broken.

Dawn, our Kenya resident friend, hostess and guide, has also invited two Kenyan women, Selina and Armena and two year old Moha to join us on this part of our journey. We are on our way to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Baby Elephant Orphanage at Ithumba.

We’ve sat for more than eight hours in the back of the car juggling bags, bowls, buckets and Moha, who I silently rename Speedy – I’ll leave the reason to your imagination. Now, even undoing seat belts and negotiating feet over jammed bags becomes an hilarious tangly mess. The act of getting out of the car is as hazardous as a possible encounter with the wildlife.

The problem is, the original roof rack fundi (Swahili for expert) did not account for the fact that the supports that came with the car are plastic. After bouncing over potholes and corrugations, on both sealed and unsealed roads, they broke and the roof rack is now resting precariously on the roof.

Hopes are dashed that we will reach Ithumba before dark.

Knots that have grown infuriatingly tight are untied.

Ropes are thrown to the side of the road. Luggage is hauled from the roof rack and dumped unceremoniously along with the ropes. With all hands on deck, bar Speedy who is enjoying the rocks and the sand, the roof rack joins the luggage.

With slightly more room – the big blue bowl, two buckets and contents have joined the rest of our luggage on the side of the road – we clamber back into the car.

We are close to a river and see hippos and… a somewhat battered troupie.

Dawn exits the car and approaches the troupie, calling “Jambo! Jambo!” (Hello! Hello!)

A disheveled Kenyan, Julias, appears. Where our smart technology won’t pick up a signal, his no-nonsense phone does. I travel in the front of the troupie, Armena and Speedy in the back. Speedy, who is reluctant to be held by his mother who is struggling with the concept of discipline, gets a stern word from me and sits meekly on her knee.

Back at the luggage Julias is on the phone to who knows.

Our camping chairs have been pulled out, but I need some time alone. I wander along the road, enjoying the peace, the sunset and the company of a lone giraffe

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watching from across the valley.

Eventually the cavalry arrives in the form of soldiers bearing AK 101s. They fill their troupie with our luggage and the roof rack and we follow them to the Rhino Platoon Depot KWS Camp.

Led by their corporal, Paul, the soldiers unpack our gear into the radio room. Set up tents for Martin and me and Dawn. Settle Selina, Armena and Speedy on mattresses under insect nets in the radio room.

Once the gas stove and esky are unpacked I cook sausages, Halal chicken for Armena and Speedy, beef for the rest of us. Dishes will wait until the morning.

It’s time for bed, but before that the biggest challenge is yet to come – negotiating the squat toilet, which requires considerable skill and spatial awareness. I’m no longer laughing at the idea of a “she pee”.

I finally lay my head down as the full moon rises above the vegetation to my right.

At 8.15 the fundi, Paul, has arranged for to help get the roof-rack fixed, arrives from Voi, a two hour drive away. The rack and mounts are examined, deemed fixable and Dawn returns to Voi with him.

There’s a day to while away.

NE of the nicest things about camping is that, once we’ve got the site organised for the day, I can do what I like. The day is breezy and overcast. Perfect for sitting around and catching up on my notes and blog posts. However, I’m still having problems connecting with the internet.

At 11am, I decide to try to contact Dawn. I’ve seen the soldiers climb up to the water tanks with their mobile phones.

The saying goes: what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. I have a phobia about climbing ladders and steps or stairs with gaps in them. Enrolling in a theatre lighting course – pre Work Place Health and Safety days – that involved climbing very tall ladders whiles holding heavy lights and attaching them, and their safety chains, to sturdy bars didn’t cure my phobia. I

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The biggest challenge is yet to come – negotiating the squat toilet, which requires considerable skill and spatial awareness. I’m no longer laughing at the idea of a “she pee”.

eye the home made ladder with some trepidation. Still I have a go up this character building ladder, slowly.

Get to the top. No signal.

Speedy is intrigued by a group of soldiers sitting around a table playing draughts. Actually, he’s more intrigued by the coloured plastic lids and keeps grabbing them. He packs a tantrum as I carry him away.

Later I return to chat to the soldiers.

They are, in essence, park rangers. After high school they joined the army, underwent basic training and then chose to work in the wildlife parks because they are passionate about preserving the animals and their habitat.

Paul and his platoon of 30 are responsible for a large portion of the park. They not only watch for poachers but also know the habits and habitats of the animals.

I ask if they stay at the base waiting for something to happen.

With a big smile Paul tells me they are here to look after us. Usually they are on patrol. They don’t seem to mind. Later in the day the Wing Commander arrives.

Smarter uniform. Compact automatic weapon. Beret.

Our lunch is cooking. We offer them some but theirs is already prepared.

Julius returns early in the afternoon with smiles, handshakes (I almost have the hang of the Kenya handshake) and “Jambo” to see if we are okay. He has been a guide in the area for 13 years and knows the best places to see the animals he observes, records and researches, regaling us with stories of elephant behaviour, his particular passion.

At 2.45 Paul gets a message that Dawn is on her way. Apart from a bug tent our campsite is ready to be packed back into the car and onto the roof rack.

Fourish and Dawn returns. The repair looks a bit dodgy.

We won’t be needing tents and camping stuff for the next two nights, so Dawn decides to test the roof rack without luggage for our trip to Ithumba and the elephant orphanage. Leaving all the gear we don’t need we stuff toilet rolls in between the roof rack and the car roof and head off to Ithumba.

Speedy is bored but settles when sung to. We sing versions of the Wheels on the Bus. I make up really badly rhyming songs as Dawn negotiates the potholes and corrugations of the northern area of Tsavo East National Park.

It’s night when we finally arrive at the Ithumba camp.

Tomorrow we must be up and out by 6am to see the orphan elephants being fed.

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Jes Drury: Keeping it real

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ITH a demanding full time job and three children under five, it’s a minor miracle Jes Drury has any time at all to indulge her passion for photography, let alone turn that hobby into a fledgling business.

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COMBINING an agricultural fair with a country show, the Tottenham Expo was a fantastic family day out. When we arrived at 10am on the warm autumn day, there was already a fair amount of activity happening at the racecourse which continued throughout the day.

The first thing we spotted was the remote control aeroplane zooming through the sky, keeping the crowd entertained with plenty of loops, spins and spirals. In contrast, on the ground,

to work her busy life not only around, but into, her photography.

“I’ll take the kids with me if I can – they’re sort of my spotters too. They come on adventures with me.

They see things that I perhaps wouldn’t see, and while they’re discovering things I’m photographing them,” says Drury of her busy brood.

Drury first picked up a camera after her first child was born – “I needed a hobby,” she says. “I also wanted to be able to take nice photos of my kids.”

She says the internet has been her greatest teach-

CULTURE VULTURE horses Guy and Justin were saddled up ready for sulky rides which we later enjoyed. On the kid front, we headed for the merry-go-round, which offered plenty of opportunity for fun.

While the adults kicked back with a coffee and a spot of morning tea, the kids then went on to learn a few new skills thanks to Circus West. Pretty soon, we had tightrope walkers, hula hoopers and stilt experts on our hands!

Next up, the Zumba ladies showed everyone how it’s done, which was followed by a talk from Jane Milburn, an upcycler and natural fibres advocate whose creations are both amaz-

ing and inspiring. Who knew that you could make a skirt out of old business shirts or a handbag out of a jumper?

There was more for the kids, and over delicious steak and coleslaw sandwiches supplied by the pool fundraising committee, we enjoyed Mr Magic’s Magic Show, with some of our little ones even being called up to participate. The magician was very talented and had us enthralled by his tricks, which included pulling not one, but two white rabbits out of his hat.

For the Mums and Dads, there was also a vintage machinery display, livestock, agribusiness and Local Government stands, stalls featuring jewellery, handbags and toys along with a monster raffle, which more than one person was disappointed not to win.

More family fun ensued, with the pet show, a performance by

I just go for natural type shots, rather than the posed style, particularly when it comes to photographing the children.

Circus West and a wander over to the Waste to Art exhibition.

While some of our group listened to Forbes band, the Late Notes, pump out a few tunes, others enjoyed the good oldfashioned sulky ride around the racecourse – I’m pretty sure that is the only time I will be behind a horse on a racetrack!

By this time, the kids were in need of an icy pole and the parents another caffeine hit, so we headed back to the pavilion for another coffee and some delicious cakes supplied

by Tottenham Early Childhood Centre. Relaxing in the shade as the kids enjoyed feeding time at the petting yard and the playdough table, we reflected on what a great day out it had been.

We took home some new plants and chooks, along with some very tired kids, and adults. But I reckon it will be on the calendar again next year...

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er, and it’s from spending time online that she’s developed the kind of technique that makes her photos stand out from the crowd.

“It’s hard to describe my style – but I guess I just go for natural type shots, rather than the posed style, particularly when it comes to photographing the children. I don’t limit myself to one style of photo – I like to change it up, so to speak. Sometimes I feel like shooting landscapes, sometimes it’s the night sky, sometimes I like to do portraits. I’ll have a go at anything.”

Drury recently took the bold step of turning her hobby into a business, and has hung out her shingle as a specialist children’s photographer. She’s also working

on developing a niche business for what she calls “boudoir” or glamour shots.

In an industry awash with photographic aspirants, thanks to the advent of digital photography, Drury is hoping it’s her eye for the unusual that will set her apart.

“The fact that I have my own space out here and that I do explore the more creative style of shot gives me an edge,” she says, referring to the small farm on which she lives. “With the shots of children, I try to capture their character, and sort of let them set the shot up. I prefer things that aren’t posed. I like it to be natural.

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“It feels good to know my shots are out there and that people are seeing them. It’s even better when I get feedback from people saying they really enjoy the photos.

“That helps show me I’m on the right track. It’s a great confidence builder.” » To see more of Jes Drury’s work, and that of other photographers from around the region, go to: open.abc. net.au/people.

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Lily James as Cinderella and Cate Blanchett as the Stepmother.

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Cate Blanchett casts a formidable shadow in Cinderella

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FILM OF THE WEEK CINDERELLA (G, 113 mins) Fantasy/ Romance. Lily James, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Helena Bonham Carter, Stellan Skarsgard, Ben Chaplin, Hayley Atwell, Derek Jacobi, Nonzo Anosie, Rob Brydon.

Director: Kenneth Branagh.

SLAVISHLY adapted from Disney's classic 1950 animated musical, Kenneth Branagh's live action version of the fairy-tale romance doesn't skimp on the period detail.

Sandy Powell's luxurious costumes, Dante Ferretti's opulent set designs and Patrick Doyle's sweeping orchestral score conjure a magical world of unerring love in which even we gasp at the gargantuan splendour of the grand ball where

the prince must choose his wife.

While this Cinderella unquestionably dazzles the senses, screenwriter Chris Weitz is shackled to fond memories of the hand-drawn film and consequently, he has almost no room for flourishes of originality.

The plot arc is predetermined, the ugly stepsisters don't hack off their heels or toes to squeeze into a misplaced glass slipper, and Helena Bonham Carter's fairy godmother isn't quite as eccentric as she or we would like as she engineers the film's best set-piece with a flick of her wand.

"I don't go transforming pumpkins for just anyone!" she chirps.

No, the special effects wizards do and they accomplish the pivotal sequence with aplomb.

Before all of the jiggery-pokery

with a pumpkin, four mice and a goose, Ella (Lily James) is consigned to the kitchen by her vindictive stepmother Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett) and brattish stepsisters, Anastasia (Holliday Grainger) and Drizella (Sophie McShera).

Emboldened by the dying words of her mother (Hayley Atwell) – "Have courage and be kind" – Ella tries to rise above the bullying.

When the name-calling becomes too frightful, she escapes on horseback and catches the eye of the dashing Prince (Richard Madden), who must pick a bride at the behest of the dying King (Derek Jacobi).

So the Prince throws a lavish ball where Ella makes her grand entrance then disappears as the clock chimes midnight, leaving behind footwear that would surely pose a

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a different British genius struggling against non-scientific challenges. Still, Cumberbatch’s performances – and Keira Knightly playing opposite – stand strong.

“The Imitation Game” (M) – Alan Turing was a renowned genius, roboticist, code-breaker, Nazi-confounder and all-around British treasure. In the 1940s he led a team of geniuses who broke the Germans’ “unbreakable” code and laid the foundation for modern computers.

In the ‘50s, Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) was arrested, tried and convicted for the crime of homosexuality. This biopic goes in-depth with a brilliant man’s struggles against persecution.

The film won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, on top of a pile of nominations. Cumberbatch should have taken the Best Actor, but that of course went to Eddie Redmayne, who was in a different biopic about

“Interstellar” (M) – In the not-too-distant future, crops are failing, populations are dwindling and the earth is enshrouded in a new Dust Bowl. Matthew McConaughey stars as Cooper, a brilliant engineer – forced into farming for the past few years, like everyone else – who takes on a last-ditch space mission to find a new home for mankind, somewhere among the stars.

Cooper and scientist Dr. Brand (Anne Hathaway) must travel through a wormhole from which no one has ever returned.

Directed by Christopher Nolan (“Inception”, “The Dark Knight” trilogy), this space adventure has some cool ideas covered up by stretches of boredom and

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"Find that girl – the forgetful one who loses her shoes!" decrees the Captain of the royal guard (Nonzo Anosie).

Cinderella will enchant a generation of girls, who dream of donning the tiara of a Disney princess.

James and Madden are an attractive screen pairing, while Blanchett draws inspiration from Joan Crawford to cast a formidable shadow from beneath the brim of her character's extravagant hats.

"I do love a happy ending, don't you?" gushes one of the characters.

Branagh's film certainly does, without a hint of irony.

The main feature is preceded by the animated short Frozen Fever, which continues the adventures of sisters Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) as they prepare for a birthday celebration.

Loveable snowman Olaf (Josh Gad) and hunky Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) also return and the script includes a cute reference to the blockbusting film when ice queen Elsa sneezes and chirrups, "A cold never bothered me anyway!"

A generation of men, who take to their beds at the first sniffle, would disagree. :: NO SWEARING :: NO SEX :: NO VIOLENCE :: RATING: 7/10

NOW SHOWING THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT (M, 119 mins) Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Action/Thriller/ Romance. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Jai Courtney, Zoe Kravitz, Octavia Spencer, Ray Stevenson, Ashley Judd, Maggie Q. Director: Robert Schwentke.

ADAPTED from Veronica Roth's bestselling trilogy for young adults, Insurgent is a slickly engineered sequel that moves the dystopian narrative along at pace to a startling final revelation.

Robert Schwentke's action-packed film crams its visual pyrotechnics into the climactic 30 minutes when Shailene Woodley's heroine Tris must complete a series of tasks to prove that she possesses the qualities of all five factions: the selflessness of Abnegation, the courage of Dauntless, the honesty of Candor, the intelligence of Erudite and the inner peace of Amity.

These trials include a visually stunning race against time to rescue Tris' mother (Ashley Judd) from a burning building that rotates as it ascends to the heavens and fisticuffs between the heroine and her diabolical doppelganger.

Woodley accomplishes these gymnastic feats with aplomb, but it's during the film's quieter moments that she truly excels.

In particular, a scene of unburdening facilitated by a truth serum is a tour-deforce of raw, tear-stained emotion that bodes well for the concluding chapter Allegiance, which will be released in two parts a la The Hunger Games.

When it comes to milking cash cows, Hollywood prefers them desiccated when the end credits roll.

The second film opens with Tris cheesy dialog. I couldn’t contain laughter when Hathaway ardently declares that love is a quantifiable entity.

It’s a long ride with some cool twists, but the movie ploughs through most of the emotional rest stops along the way.

“Wild” (MA15+) – Reese Witherspoon plays a woman who takes a solo walk for more than 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail – for reasons that aren’t easy to spell out, even for her.

There’s a sense that she has no control over her life. She seems caught between destructive behaviour when she’s alone, and toxic relationships when she tries to connect.

Based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed, this is doubtlessly Witherspoon’s best performance

Theo James as Tobias “Four” Eaton, Miles Teller as Peter Hayes and Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris” Prior in The Divergent Series - Insurgent. PHOTO: PA/ENTERTAINMENT ONE/ANDREW COOPER

(Woodley), her lover Four (Theo James), brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort) and Dauntless traitor Peter (Miles Teller) ensconced in the pacifist enclave of Amity under the jurisdiction of Johanna (Octavia Spencer).

Tensions between Tris and Peter spill over just as the gun-toting forces of Erudite led by Eric (Jai Courtney) gatecrash the bucolic idyll.

Peter betrays the fugitives but Tris, Four and Caleb escape and head for the only sanctuary left to them: the realm of the factionless under the control of Four's conniving mother, Evelyn (Naomi Watts).

"If we were to combine forces, we'd be unstoppable," enthuses Evelyn, sensing an opportunity to overthrow Jeanine (Kate Winslet) and her cohorts from Erudite.

Allegiances are tested as Tris and Four disagree about the way forward, flanked by their Dauntless brethren including Christina (Zoe Kravitz) and Tori (Maggie Q).

Meanwhile, Jeanine hunts down Divergents to unlock a box that purportedly contains the key to eradicating the misfits once and for all.

Although it lacks the sustained visceral thrills and sense of jeopardy that distinguished the first film, Insurgent confidently lays the groundwork for a fraught journey back to humanity.

While Woodley excels in every frame, many of her talented co-stars are underused, particularly Whiplash drummer boy Teller and Elgort.

James continues to brood with his shirt on or off, kindling pleasing sparks of on-screen chemistry with his leading lady.

Director Schwentke, who previously captained Jodie Foster in the airborne thriller Flightplan, safely pilots the sequel through a few moments of dramatic turbulence, knowing the best is yet to come. :: SWEARING :: SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 6.5/10

HOME (PG, 94 mins) Animation/Sci-Fi/ Comedy/Action. Featuring the voices of Rihanna, Jim Parsons, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin, Matt Jones.

Director: Tim Johnson.

HUMANS and cute aliens unite to save Earth in Tim Johnson's entertaining but shamelessly contrived computer-animated adventure.

The new dog performing old tricks on the DreamWorks block, which previously housed Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon, lacks the belly laughs and heart-breaking emotion of those films, but merrily rehashes elements from all three.

Thus the extra-terrestrial invaders discover they like to wave their hands in the air like they just don't care to our music and the central duo discovers that self-sacrifice is an important part of friendship.

Johnson's film has some solid gags and the colour palette is bright, although there are disappointingly few visual tricks up the animators' sleeves to justify the increased ticket price for the 3D version at some cinemas.

In a neat piece of short-hand, the invaders turn out to be the extra-terrestrial equivalent of mood rings, changing colour to reflect their emotional state:

yellow for fear, pink for love, red for anger, blue for sadness and green for dishonesty.

It's a merchandiser's dream and every parent's nightmare: children begging for the same stuffed toy in multiple shades.

An extra-terrestrial race called the Boov invades Earth under the command of power-hungry Captain Smek (voiced

by Steve Martin) with a view to claiming the third rock from the sun as their new home.

The Boov round up the humans and relocate the entire species to Australia.

Back in America, a resourceful 11-year-old girl called Tip (Rihanna), whose mother (Jennifer Lopez) was abducted from their apartment, evades capture and goes on the run with her rotund pet cat.

She encounters a fugitive Boov named Oh (Jim Parsons), who has accidentally sent an email invitation to his "warming of house party" to everyone in the galaxy, including the Boov's sworn enemy, the Gorg.

Tip and Oh are poles apart: she is spunky and brave, while he turns tail at the first sign of peril.

"If probability falls below 50 per cent, the Boov give up," explains Oh. Working together, they forge a touching friendship and Tip helps her extraterrestrial chum to embrace his flaws.

Based on the children's book The True Meaning Of Smekday by Adam Rex, Home ticks all of the boxes, but does so without any obvious verve, originality or sense of urgency.

Parsons riffs on his nerdy character in The Big Bang Theory, while Rihanna lends her distinctive Barbadian tones to the plucky, pint-sized heroine.

She also has two songs on the soundtrack including the dance anthem Only Girl (In The World), which provides moments of unnecessary distraction as Tip talks over the top of the music.

At one point during the chase, Oh turns to Tip and screams, "This is not a sustainable friendship model."

Johnson makes it work for 94 minutes, but only just. :: NO SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 6/10

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since “Walk the Line”, perhaps her best on film.

“The Rewrite” (M) – Hugh Grant has a way of stumbling over his words, fidgeting, looking around and then saying something understatedly clever or disarmingly earnest. It’s his modus operandi. If he were a pro wrestler, stammering through a sheepish grin would be his signature move.

In this way-too-old-for-coming-of-age dramedy, Grant plays a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter who reluctantly accepts a gig teaching screenwriting at a little college in upstate New York. First he’s a jerk, but then he must learn some lessons and repair relationships with the various stereotypical characters he’s offended with his offbeat charm.

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Bannan’s “Weightless” is a clever bird’s-eye view of teenage bullying

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

z BOOK OF THE WEEK Weightless by Sarah Bannan is published in hardback by Bloomsbury Circus BILLED as a book that’ll appeal to Mean Girls fans, I was expecting good things from Weightless. Is there any more compelling backdrop than high school politics? Or any experience so intense as navigating the ups and downs of that transitional life phase, when those fledgling identities and egos are so fragile?

What I wasn’t expecting was a book that would really get under my skin and force me to reconsider my perceptions.

Like Mean Girls, American high school hierarchy (the cheerleaders, the band geeks, the Goths) and popularity rankings are central, but that’s where the similarities end.

Weightless is pretty dark.

Carolyn is the new girl at Adam’s High in Adamsville, Alabama, where not much happens or changes, so her arrival – from the far more exciting and happening New Jersey – is a big deal.

She’s friendly – but also beautiful, skinny, sporty and gets good grades in everything and boys fancy her. Blessings...

or a curse? She gets together with Shane, much to the distress of his previous girlfriend, cheerleader queen bee Brooke.

Things get messy. And these days, with camera phones, texting and social media, the way in which things get messy has changed. Mess accrues far more quickly. It spreads so much easier. And it has an inescapable, wide-reaching and long-lasting impact.

Carolyn is bullied. The story isn’t told from her point of view – instead, Bannan’s narrator is a nameless classmate, and the tale unfolds through observations, actions and events.

It’s immensely effective, providing a bird’s-eye view that forces you to realise that bullying and its consequences are far more complex (and at the same time, so brutally simple) than we might sometimes think, and to see how everybody, somehow, is involved or has their own perception of things.

For Carolyn, the consequences are tragic. But is she the only victim in this tale? Are the obvious bullies her only tormentors? Are witnesses as responsible as perpetrators? And has technology taken high school bullying to a whole new, terrifying level?

9/10 Review by Abi Jackson

z FICTION The Kindness by Polly Samson is published in hardback by Bloomsbury Circus EMOTIONAL, compelling and intensely thought-provoking, The Kindness will haunt long after the last page has been turned.

Julia and Julian appear to be the perfect couple who have it all, but as this story unfolds, it becomes a lesson in how best intentions and white lies can have devastating consequences. When their daughter Mira becomes ill, it becomes ever harder for Julia to keep her guilty secret.

Brighton-based Polly Samson’s writing has a beautifully melodic quality to it, so it is no surprise to discover she has penned a number of lyrics with her husband Dave Gilmour for his legendary band Pink Floyd.

The Kindness, her second novel, sees her return to the familiar theme of unravelling the chaos and pain that comes when kindness creeps in to our dealings with love and loss. Deception and betrayal in all its forms is dragged into a merciless spotlight and laid bare in what is a rather chilling finale.

9/10 Review by Gill Oliver Aquarium by David Vann is published in hardback by William Heinemann CAITLIN, 12, lives alone with her mum Sheri in a subsidised housing complex by Seattle air-

port, a soulless zone of cargo transports and industrial units.

Every day her mum drops her off very early at school, then goes off to her grinding job as a docker. After school, Caitlin must wait till Mum’s done and can take her home again.

She whiles away the time each day at the local aquarium, moonily studying the fish.

But the past cannot be sealed off like a fish tank, and the appearance of Caitlin’s granddad at the aquarium threatens to shatter their precarious equilibrium.

It emerges that Sheri was abandoned by her dad when her own mum fell ill, left alone as a young teenager to care for a chronically dependent, dying woman without any help or support. She cannot forgive her father; her daughter, on the other hand, just wants a granddad.

Families rarely fare well in the works of David Vann, whose own father’s suicide is the subject of his first two books. But the narrative is cool and gripping, the deceptively simple plot builds with great power, and the aquatic metaphor saturates the whole novel to great effect. There’s even a happy ending of sorts in this fine book from a very fine writer.

7.5/10 Review by Dan Brotzel The Whitstable Pearl Mystery b y Julie Wassmer is published in hardback by Constable THE title tells you all you need: our heroine – Pearl, naturally – runs a successful Whitstable restaurant, yet longs for the adventure denied her when a promising police career was cut short 20 years ago; cue a horrific discovery on the eve of the town’s oyster festival, and a franchise-launching adventure.

Two decades’ experience as a scriptwriter on EastEnders have given Wassmer a solid sense of plotting, but broad characterisations and a two-dimensional morality feel soapy and unrealistic.

Returning lovers, local politics, red herrings: genre boxes

are dutifully ticked, but fail to produce the page-turning alchemy the book strives for.

That said, Wassmer clearly loves Whitstable, describing with care everything from alleys to pubs to local history, and although this can sometimes verge on the tourist board, the sense of place is powerful; unfortunately it is matched with sign-posted twists and unadventurous prose, pockmarked with leaden-footed maritime metaphor, amounting to an uninvolving and flat whodunit.

4/10 Review by Michael Anderson z NON-FICTION So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson is published in hardback by Picador JON Ronson’s previous books, such as The Psychopath Test and Them: Adventures With Extremists, have made his name synonymous with the

exploration of unusual characters. But in his latest book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, the focus is more on ordinary people who have had unusual experiences – specifically, as the title might suggest, people who have been publicly shamed.

Among others, Ronson talks to plagiarising journalist Jonah Lehrer, tabloid sex scandal victim Max Mosley and a number of people who have simply made a tasteless joke and paid the price.

This book looks at modernday shaming, particularly that done via social media, and the devastating impact that shame can have on a person.

While The Psychopath Test left readers fretting over whether they, too, were psychopaths, this book makes for an uncomfortable read as you think – could this happen to me?

Beyond that though, this is, as all Ronson reads are, a fascinating, thoughtful and surprisingly funny read that you will struggle to put down.

9/10 Review by Sophie Herdman

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Fashion On The Ration: Style In The Second World War by Julie Summers is published in hardback by Profile Books THOUGH considering the effect war had on the fashion industry seems somewhat trivial, the way the nation dressed itself gives us an intimate insight into the daily impact of conflict.

Summers’ book documents fashion during World War II, from a homeland perspective.

Though war was an ever-present concern, life often continued on as before and, for women, clothing was an important issue.

The clothes that formerly made women feel desirable were now replaced with al-

ien styles and uncomfortable fabrics that made the period disconcerting.

Transitioning from evening gowns to functional dungarees was hard for many, and so ‘upcycling’ clothes became a welcome distraction from the trepidation of war.

Dressing as before gave hope that things would return to normal.

With wonderful photographs, diary excerpts, and magazine quotes, Fashion On The Ration gives the lesser heard but engaging view of the nation at war, contrasting our typical impression of drab clothing with the reality of a nation keeping calm, and carrying on.

8/10 Review by Holly McKenzie

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad is published by Virago WHAT started as an article for Newsweek ended as this captivating account on sociopath Anders Behring Breivik and the lives he so brutally impacted.

Having begun this book by the author of The Bookseller Of Kabul, as much in trepidation as intrigue, it was easy to get wrapped up in what feels the definitive, if at times uncomfortably explicit, account of the events before, during and after July 22, 2011.

That date will forever be remembered as one of the darkest in Norway’s history – a day when 77 people were murdered and countless others were harmed by a warped and twisted compatriot.

Seierstad explores how Breivik became that callous terrorist, with his life moving from awkward, outcast to selfanointed Commander of the Norwegian Anti-Communist Resistance Movement.

When you shut this compelling book, you cannot help but think of the waste of young lives who offered so much more than the inhuman protagonist.

8/10 Review by Simon Peach

Milly Molly Mandy OR several weeks the selection from the shelves has had an emphasis on serious matters so, prompted by my resident censor to encourage writing something passive, Spike Milligan’s “Man of Letters” has been selected. Finding comedians is not easy these days.

What might appeal as humorous to some will not be seen as such by others. A small edition “Sod Calm & Get Angry” fits that situation, using a sub-title of “Resigned advice for hard times” – and proving the point, the first page quotes, “If you see a light at the end of the tunnel, it is the light of the oncoming train,” (courtesy of Robert Lowell).

William Wordsworth is included with, “In modern business it is not the crook who is to be the most feared, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.” And fitting the political agenda, Keith Davies gets a line: “We didn’t actually overspend our budget.

The allocation fell short of our expenditure.”

For those who have a dad who thinks he’s hilarious a special edition is “The Very Embarrassing Book of Dad Jokes” by

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Ian Allen. He quotes an idiot who dashed into a police station: “My car’s been stolen, but don’t worry, I got the registration number.”

Another has a father talking to his son: “What do you mean by telling your friends I’m an idiot?” The son replies “I didn’t know it was a secret.” They get worse.

For something a little better is Helen Ingram’s “Caustic Quotes” which is an A-Z of quotes, insults and one-liners. She notes that laughter is a tranquiliser without side effects, and also that idealism works better in speeches than in reality. And finally “the problem with political jokes is that they now run the country”.

Some writers can assemble humour so that there is a wide age appeal. Michael Davis has written “Street Gang” – it’s the complete history of Sesame Street. That program has run for three generations with folks having their favourite characters ranging from Kermit to the two elderly guys shown at the end of those earlier shows sitting in the box seats and closing with some appropriate words of wisdom.

Mentioned above is Norma

` A bank teller is telling a customer that the amount on his statement was the fee charged for finding out what the fee they charged him for, was for... a

Farnes’ release of a collection of Spike Milligan’s letters that he wrote over time, the earliest in the 1960s. The letters to and from friends, entertainers and business people provide entertaining reading – with many unexpected comments, and proof that brevity can be the soul of wit. However there is an exchange of letters in 1977 with a Minister of State for the Armed Forces in England which reveals his severe state of depression experienced in the 19th Battery Heavy Regiment.

A likely candidate is “So Anyway” by John Cleese – an autobiography that reveals a number of facts not generally known. His first job was as a teacher but he moves on to his days scriptwriting with Peter Sellers, David Frost and others during his Monty Python days.

Charles Sale wrote “The Specialist”. In it, he relates the specifications, trade skills and empathy a builder had to have to construct the lavatory, the privy, the outhouse, the dunny, depending on the requirement and domestic background. It is seen as an immortal classic of humour ranking with “Three Men in a Boat” and “1066 and all That”.

Listed in the “Times Literary Supplement”, which delicately put it as “the simpler forms of sanitary engineering”, it presents the philosophy of a man who loves his trade and has considered every aspect of it, including how to prevent people taking their time when they communicate with nature.

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“I challenge you to find a more exquisite book.”

z CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Beautiful Birds by Jean Roussen and Emmanuelle Walker is published in hardback by Flying Eye Books

THERE are some books that speak to you however old you are, whether you’re three or 83, reducing age gaps to nothingness in the turn of

a page. Roussen and Walker’s aptly named Beautiful Birds is one of them.

I challenge you to find a more exquisite book. From the cover onwards, it’s a riot of colour and movement capturing some of our favourite species in all their brilliantplumed glory.

Set out as a lyrical A to Z, from albatross “the admiral of the skies” to zos-tero-pi-dae (“finding that bird just made my day”), via ducks, eagles, flamingoes, nightingales and peacocks, illustrator Walker and author Roussen introduce the variety of the bird world in all its vibrancy, with pink neon picking out eyes, beaks, feathers, worms and even the robin’s red breast.

One to read again and again.

9/10 Review by Kate Whiting

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From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection There are lots of fine points in puttin’ up a first class privy that the average man doesn’t think about.” New generation readers will appreciate the developments into the 21st century.

Des MacHale has collected a wealth of comment in “Wit” and offers a whole range of interests.

On politics Lyndon B Johnston says, “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

Spike Milligan advises, “Don’t stand around doing nothing – people will think you’re just a workman.

“I always arrive late for the of-

fice, but I make up for it by leaving early,” says Charles Lamb.

And with typical wit Groucho Marx said, “I’m not feeling very well. I need a doctor immediately – ring the nearest golf course.”

John Clarke and Bryan Dawe are featured in “The 7.56 Report”. As a duo they have been raising a laugh since 2003 and the book copies their interview process, so aligned to political process. John Clarke also wrote “A Complete Dagg” which is a collection of brief articles and interviews with notable personalities.

And if it was not so serious there could be some humour in the book “You Can Bank on the Wails”. A bank teller is telling a customer that the amount on his statement was the fee charged for finding out what the fee they charged him for, was for.

When John Cleese and Tony Cook performed the skit on “The Bookshop”, Cleese started to read “Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying”. Because we don’t have that book in stock, I will read to you “Milly Molly Mandy”. Comfortable?

“Once upon a time there was a little girl...”

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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The Championship Country Series races at Dubbo

BY CHERYL HUSBAND WHAT a magnificent autumn day greeted VIP guests and race patrons on Sunday, March 22, for The Championships Country Series at Dubbo Race Course.

The VIP guests included Robert and Lynzey Murphy from the Channel 7 cooking show My Kitchen Rules, as well as Nic Westaway who stars in Home and Away. Racegoers were entertained by Dubboâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Kerry Ellen and catering was provided by Two Doors Tapas Wine Bar. Robert and Lynzey told the crowd they loved being in Dubbo.

Nic Westaway and his girlfriend Shenae Gillespie both said they just love coming out to the country towns to meet fans of the show.

This lovely trio was enjoying the day

Shenae Gillespie and Nic Westaway

Dayna Cronin and Kym Johnson

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Bruce Keane, Tim Vale and Stuart Webster of Dubbo Rotary Club

Ray and Mary Kennedy from Campbelltown

Wendy and Mollie Cafe

Jeff Pinkard, Donna Falconer with Robert Murphy of MKR

Kylie Roberts, Hans Ptaszinski with Bob Arnold

Carol, Emily and Sally Pixton

Back: Zoe McAneney, Harvey Shepherd, Max McAneney and Finley Shepherd, Front: Kennedy Shepherd and Sophie McAneney

Catering staff with Shenae Gillespie, Nic Westaway, Lynzey and Robert Murphy

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The Championship Country Series races at Dubbo

BY CHERYL HUSBAND

Robert and Lynzey Murphy

Peter Knight and Lynne Pilcher

Dion Comerford with Lynzey Murphy

Joanne Blair, Sharon Astley, Lloyd Blair, Gill Pedrana and Jacqui Tooth

Scott Kennedy (General Manager, Racing NSW) and Peter Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;landys (CEO, Racing NSW)

Rees and Jodie Kesby, Katie McCarthy and Rebecca Griffiths

Rod Archer, Leisa Ross and Deb Archer

Robyn Cook and Anne Hall

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Ray Nolan and Annemieke Meville

Adrian Warrell, Abby Thompson and Beth Palmer. extra just dad Abby

Randell Medd, Robyn Hazelton, Megan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor and Alex Prout

All smiles and enjoying the sunshine

Nancey Bush and Beryl Hutton

Kevin Answerth and Ronny Forrest

Nola Honeysett, Erin, Isla Sparshott, Lara Honeysett and Aram Sparshott

Alison Dent, Lynne Waterford and Anita Murray

Barry Toomey, Angel Stanley and Jyi Newman

Rory Cameron with idols Lynzey and Robert from MKR

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Official opening of historical exhibition

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE official opening of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Asher Milgate was held on Saturday, March 14, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre.

With a focus on the Aboriginal settlement on the outskirts of Wellington, Asher explores the importance of family, community and the stolen generation of the Aboriginal population in this exhibition. Through his communication with the survivors, Asher was able to create a series of artworks to depict what the Aboriginal people went through.

Emma, Maddy, Kalaeah and Louise Austin

Natalie Waghorn, Christine Oldfield, and mother of the artist, Maureen Milgate

Ryan Hauville and Sean Watts

Lynette Riley, Noel Stanley, Diane Riley-McNaboe, Neville Brown, Pam Jeffery and Herb Smith

Sandra Robertson and Jenny Sylvesten

Lorraine and George Greenaway with Terry Allen Bell

Uncle Billy Lou Carr with five generations of his family

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Harmony day for FACS

BY KAITLYN RENNIE FAMILY and Community Services (FACS) staff enjoyed a lunch time celebration for Harmony Day on Tuesday, March 17. The day was to celebrate and include different cultures, with an international lunch being cooked by the attendees, and supported

by Village Hot Bake.

Each dish was judged by the judging panel, with the best tasting dish being given a special award.

The FACS staff who organised and assisted the running of the day

Food judges Gargi Ganguly and Jo Lawrence

Anne Williams, Jenny Stanford, Robert McKechnie and Beckie Wells

Julie Cullenward and Danielle Leigo

GET YOUR REPRINTS HERE Reprints of most photos you see in Dubbo Photo News and Dubbo Weekender are available to buy.

Call 6885 4433 during office hours, or call in to our office at 89 Wingewarra Street.

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The gold and greenies at Orana Gardens

BY KAITLYN RENNIE IT seemed as though there were St Patrick’s Day celebrations all over Western NSW on Tuesday, March 17, and the residents Orana Gardens were among those enjoying the festivities.

The residents were able to enjoy a fantastic Irish lunch, along with songs, jokes, entertainment and more.

From wearing a green T-shirt to dressing up as St Patrick himself, everyone was well and truly in the Irish spirit and able to have a laugh.

Graham Speirs

Peg Newton, Joan McFetridge and Janice Fisher

Molly Forgione, Nola Davies and Ailsa Harvey

Gwenda Vaughan, Doreen and Harrie Mathews, and Michael Vaughan John and Anne Engeler with Nance and Mavis Keir

Jim and Doreen Cullen, Marion Ross and Margaret Carolan Janet McColl, Jan Bennett, Judy and Doug MacDonald

Judy Kelly, Glad Williams, Shirley Heron and Barbara Café

Ruby Riach and Joan Jackson

Noelene Kennedy, Del and Joe Gough and Colleen O’Brien

Michael Patrick Casey and Shirley Casey

Molly McGuinn and Lillian Dulhunty

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Look forward to seeing you there.

LOOKING for a stimulating, alternative weekend activity? Sunday Soapbox is a new community activity. Got something you want to talk about? Then here’s your opportunity.

Come along and join us on Sunday, March 29, between 11am and 1pm at Victoria Park, Darling Street (near the rotunda). Bring a coffee, bring a friend.

Retirement seminar THERE will be a seminar focused on retirement options at Dubbo RSL on Wednesday, April 1, from 6pm to 7.30pm. International guest speaker is Barry Lavalley who specialises in retirement and lifestyle planning.

He helps people to understand the

complexities of transitioning to retirement, such as the role that work plays and how to balance paid work versus volunteering and health issues to consider.

Contact Kate Ellis at Crowe Horwath on 6883 5600 for more information.

Orienteering Town Bush Course HEAR more about orienteering at the

first Western Plains Orienteering town bush course event for 2015, to be held on Sunday, March 29, starting from Homestead Drive, East Dubbo.

You can start your course (easy and or moderate) between 10am and 12noon.

Take a hat, water bottle and watch. The event is open to everyone from children, seniors and very fit competitors.

For more information go to http://westernplainsorienteers.org

see The Last Supper THE Last Supper is a large scale sculptural installation at Western Plains Cultural Centre comprising of a table laid with a variety of foodstuffs made entirely from Murray River salt. The work draws on the still life genre as an artistic tradition that emerged at the same time as current agricultural practices were being developed. The themes of consumption, luxury and mortality portrayed in these early paintings will be re-enacted in this installation. Using salt as the medium brings focus to the environmental cost of agricultural production and connects with the historical associations of salt as a powerful, sacred substance that maintains and destroys life. This exhibition runs from April 4 to June 28, with the official opening at 6pm on April 10.

Cementa15 Ken + Julia Yonetani, The Last Supper (detail), 2014. Commissioned by Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. PHOTO:SILVERSALT. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS AND HAZELHURST REGIONAL GALLERY & ARTS CENTRE.

CEMENTA15, the four-day biennial contemporary arts festival, is just around the corner, from April 11 to 14 in Kandos. The festival brings together artists from urban and regional contexts for a

celebration of contemporary art in Australia. Cementa notes the diversity of voices that can be heard within communities, showcasing from across the spectrum of practice, from the emerging to the established, from the obscure to the prominent. More than 60 artists will exhibit video, installation, performance, sound, 2D and 3D. Venues will include shop fronts, vacant lots, a disused school, the scout hall, local pub, museum, golf course, people’s yards and surrounding bushland. The work will address the identity, history, and current social, environmental and economic context of the town and region.

Craft Alive VISIT this three day craft show extravaganza, with craft of all ranges and for all ages. Exhibitors have everything from supplies to finished goods, covering a wide range of craft. Each show has 60 to 100 exhibitors, workshops, make and takes, demonstrations, a full café, and the local guilds and groups. At Dubbo Regional Theatre from March 27 to 29.

Visit www.craftalive.com.au

do Education matters TO assist parents and carers of children with a disability starting school in 2016/17, the Cerebral Palsy Alliance is hosting an information session with a panel of speakers from the Department of Education as well as the Catholic and independent schools.

Discover the options available and hear more about mainstream versus

special class education. The session will be held from 10am to 12noon at CPA office at 140 Gipps St. RSVO to Melissa Brander on 6882 1077.

Ignite Dubbo YOU’RE invited to be part of an exciting time for Dubbo at the launch of the Ignite our Centre engagement campaign for the CBD Precincts Plan. The aim is

to create a community-led plan to ignite Dubbo’s centre and bring excitement and activity to the CBD for the benefit of the whole city. Meet the Ignite team and bring your ideas to a breakfast gathering at 8.30am on Monday, March 30, at the Church Street Rotunda. Breakfast will be provided. Contact Margie Clatworthy on 6801 4615 for more information.

Acting Superclass

crossings, barbed wire crawls and tyre carries will test you while the mud pits will be downright dirty and leave you in fits of laughter. Complete one lap of the 10km course, or enter for unlimited laps!

Party on afterwards with the live music, bar and food. There will be prizes for teams and individuals. Dress up for fun or come ready for action. Funds raised will go back into the local com-

munity towards outdoor fitness equipment and facilities.

JOIN Western Plains Theatre Company for their 2015 acting superclass. Aimed at young people aged between five and 15, the workshops will be held at Dubbo Regional Theatre from April 15 to 17.

Featuring the talents of Andy Carolan, Michaela Davis, Mel McDonald and Shanae Gosper. Contact the venue for times and bookings.

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Wellington Boot Racing Carnival

Titan Macquarie Mud Run

WELLINGTON is well-known in racing circles for this huge weekend event which includes a Calcutta night, picnic races and the famous Wellington Boot.

Punters travel from across the country to attend this meeting which, this year, will be held on March 28 and 29 at Wellington Racecourse.

SET along the banks of the beautiful Macquarie River, this is sure to be a fitness excursion like no other! The Titan Macquarie Mud Run at Ollie Robbins Oval on Saturday, March 28, will challenge you, inspire you and be lots of fun.

Your grit and determination will push you through the 20+ obstacles including the infamous Mud Mania. River

Early learning fete GOODSTART Early Learning Centre is holding a fete and goods sale on Saturday, March 28, at the centre, 152 Baird Drive from 8am to 11am. There will be a sausage sizzle and homemade goods for sale. Stalls available. Contact 6882 9177 for more information.

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VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to 5.30pm.

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STICKS AND STONES Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ Homemade pastas ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ ŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ůů ĚŝƐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŵĂĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞƐŚĞƐƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĞ ĮŶĞƐƚ ŇĂǀŽƵƌƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵĞĂů͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-4pm 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

CLUB DUBBO Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

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THE BOOK CONNECTION Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

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DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

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QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

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THE SWISH GALLERY Open Saturday 9am to 12pm. ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

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Friday, March 27 American Idol

MOVIE: Safe Haven

The Doctor Blake e Mysteries

Do you think you can sing well enough to impress a panel of global celebrities and musicians? There are plenty of wannabees in the US, with this show on its 14th season, and showing no signs of waning, with everyone from singing grannies to phenomenal hidden talents crawling out of the woodwork to take a shot at winning a lucrative record deal and becoming the next Kelly Clarkson. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, tonight’s nine remaining hopeful Idols will sing in front of a judging panel consisting of Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban, before one is asked to leave. It’s high pressure as the final edges closer, and tears are almost guaranteed.

Sentimentality and big emotions rule with yet another screen adaptation of a novel by romance writer Nicholas Sparks. Katie (Julianne Hough) is desperate to escape a violent past.

Running away to a small and typically charming seaside town, she quickly builds a new life and finds herself falling for local guy Alex (Josh Duhamel, Life As We Know It). The two leads don’t heat up the screen with their chemistry, but they – and the movie as a whole – look handsome.

The plot sticks to a by-the-numbers romance, but manages to throw elements of mystery into the mix.

Palatable fluff for romantics who want to be moved, not challenged.

rder mystery series, In this home-grown murder aig McLachlan, Doctor Lucien Blake (Craig olve a series of right) is in Ballarat to solve strange and mysterious murders. Tonight, when a hardware shop owner dies in suspicious yal Hotel, Blake is on the circumstances at the Royal ed as to how someone case. Suspicions are raised ked hotel room to commit was able to enter his locked o spend the night in the murder. Blake decides to same hotel room only to discover the ried in a key to the mystery is buried all. large painting on the wall. ne Meanwhile, Jean (Nadine Garner) has a big announcement for the ct household that will affect her relationship with Blake for good.

ELEVEN, 7.30pm

ABC

GEM, 8.30pm, M (2013)

PRIME7

ABC, 8.30pm

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. (R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 The Gods Of Wheat Street. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road. (R, CC) Poh heads to Northern Queensland.

3.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A detective investigates murders.

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) The latest news and views.

11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: An American Affair. (M, R, CC) (1997) A district attorney falls for two women. Corbin Bernsen.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News At 4. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.00 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, 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) Easy-to-cook recipes.

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 Indian Ocean With Simon Reeve. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests Victoria Coren Mitchell, Sue Perkins and Rev Richard Coles join Stephen Fry for a “K”-inspired discussion.

8.30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, CC) After the local hardware store owner is found dead under suspicious circumstances in a hotel, Blake decides to spend a night in the same room in order to solve the mystery. Jean makes a big announcement to the household which will affect her relationship with Blake.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki and Jack investigate after the remains of a teenager are discovered at an eco-housing project.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

11.20 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) Beth faces an emotional ordeal.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Graham and Jason visit the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show to check out some of the best ideas, trends and designs of 2015.

Ed prepares simple recipes for Easter. Dr Harry visits some overheated chooks.

8.30 MOVIE: Notting Hill.

(M, R, CC) (1999) The simple life of an English bookshop owner changes after a Hollywood celebrity enters his shop in Notting Hill while promoting her latest movie. The unlikely duo soon faces all manner of obstacles to make their romance work, including the reappearance of her old boyfriend. Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe.

11.10 How To Get Away With Murder. (M, R, CC) After a judge enforces a gag order, Rebecca decides to take things into her own hands.

Michaela is surprised by a pre-nup. Sparks fly between Laurel and Frank. Details of Wes and Rebecca’s relationship are revealed.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 4. Parramatta Eels v South Sydney Rabbitohs.

From Pirtek Stadium, Sydney.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 4. Wests Tigers v Canterbury Bulldogs. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Red Hill.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2010) Ryan Kwanten. On the first day on the job, a young cop working in a small country town must confront an escaped killer bent on gaining revenge on those who put him behind bars.

As he struggles to protect his new charges, he makes a discovery which has him reconsidering everything he knows.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Hosted

by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Project. (CC) 7.30 The Living Room.

(PG, CC) James Treble explains how to recycle empty wine bottles into a contemporary feature light.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (PG, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, former soccer star Gary Lineker, comedian Harry Hill and Academy Awardnominated actor Jessica Chastain. Music is provided by supergroup McBusted.

9.30 The Odd Couple.

(PG, R, CC) After he is kicked out by his wife, a neurotic journalist is forced to move in with an old friend from university.

10.00 The Odd Couple.

(PG, R, CC) Oscar gets some help from an unexpected quarter after he is hired to ghostwrite an autobiography.

10.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) Multimillionaires are pitched ideas, including a unique childcare operation.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (CC) (New Series) British classics sausages and mashed potato, and treacle tart with ice cream, get the Blumenthal treatment.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 23. Melbourne Victory v Central Coast Mariners. From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Jake follows a new lead in the “giggle pig” drug case, only to clash with a US Postal Investigative Service agent.

10.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) After the discovery of a mysterious powder, the precinct goes into lockdown. However, with Holt and Terry away from the office at a meeting, it is up to Jake to ensure the staff and public do not panic.

11.00 World News. (CC) 11.30 MOVIE: The Housemaid.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2010) A maid employed by a wealthy household, falls pregnant to the family’s patriarch. Do-Yeon Jeon, Jung-Jae Lee, Yeo-jeong Yoon.

12.10 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

3.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 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.

1.25 Mad Men. (M, R, CC) A hotel getaway ends in disaster.

4.10 Mad Men. (PG, R, CC) Don makes a snap judgement.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News. News from Tokyo.

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 27 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.35pm Sabotage (2014) Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington. An elite DEA task force takes on the world’s deadliest drug cartels.

(MA15+) Premiere

6.00pm Battle Of The Hollywood Hotties. (M) E!

6.30pm Seconds From Disaster. Looks at how engineers raced to shut down the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after a tsunami surges over it in March, 2011.

(M) National Geographic

10.00am Ice Hockey.

NHL. Boston v Anaheim.

Fox Sports 1

7.30pm One Direction: This Is Us (2013) Documentary.

Liam Payne, Harry Styles. (G) Family

6.30pm BAFTA: A Life In Pictures. (PG) Studio 7.00pm Easy Street. A short silent film set in a slum starring Charlie Chaplin. (PG) Studio

8.30pm Veronica Mars (2014) Drama. Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Olivia.

(R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld. (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 Shaun The Sheep. (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, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 7.50 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 8.40 Home Delivery. (M, CC) 9.30 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, CC) 10.10 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 10.55 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 11.15 Dinner At 11.

(PG, R, CC) 12.05 Pineapple Dance Studios. (M, R, CC) 12.50 Walk On The Wild Side. (R, CC) (Final) 1.20 News Update. (R) 1.25 Close.

5.00 What’s The Big Idea? (R, CC) 5.05 Kioka. (R, CC) 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. 10.00 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 10.25 What I Wrote. (R, CC) 10.30 Places To Dance. (R, CC) 10.35 Dancing Down Under. (R, CC) 11.00 Motel Deception. (R, CC) 11.05 The Shot. (R, CC) 11.20 Lady Vocab.

(CC) 11.25 BTN. (R, CC) 11.50 Pet Superstars. (R, CC) 11.55 Ace Day Jobs. (R, CC) 12.00 The Haunting Hour. (PG, R, CC) 12.50 Blue Water High. (R, CC) 1.15 Stormworld. (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 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 6.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (CC) 7.30 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Lanfeust Quest. (R, CC) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.30 Voltron. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

7.30pm Elvis: Summer Of ’56.

Years before he meets Priscilla, 21-year-old Elvis Presley falls in love with a small-town girl, June Juanico, from Biloxi, Mississippi.

(PG) Biography

7.30pm Soccer.

A-League. Central Coast Mariners v Melbourne Victory.

Fox Sports 4 8.00pm Rugby Union.

Super Rugby. Reds v Lions.

Fox Sports 2

Kristen Bell stars in Veronica Mars

8.30pm Superstorm New York. (PG) National Geographic

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 Spit It Out. (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 Homes Under The Hammer.

(R) 11.30 George And Mildred. (PG, R) 12.00 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) Trefelin is under quarantine.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Presented by Alistair Appleton.

9.30 The House That $100K Built: Tricks Of The Trade.

11.00 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG) 11.30 Best Houses Australia.

(PG, R) 12.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 1.30 George And Mildred. (PG, R) 2.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.00 The Indian Doctor. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

(R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 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 Big Easy Justice. (M) 2.00 WWE Afterburn. (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me! (PG, R, CC) 3.45 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.45 SlideShow.

(PG, R, CC) 5.45 Star Wars Rebels. (PG, R) 6.45 MOVIE: Dr Seuss’ The Lorax. (R, CC) (2012) A boy discovers the story of the Lorax. Zac Efron.

8.30 MOVIE: Waterworld.

(M, R, CC) (1995) A nomad helps a woman and a young girl seek shelter on a futuristic, water-covered Earth. Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper.

11.15 MOVIE: John Carpenter Presents Vampires: Los Muertos. (AV15+, R, CC) (2002) Jon Bon Jovi.

1.15 Big Easy Justice. (M, R) 2.00 Inside West Coast Customs.

(PG, R) 3.00 Motor Mate. (R) 4.30 Motor Mate. (PG, R)

GO! 6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 7.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Move It. (C, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Surprises.

(P, R, CC) 9.30 Max Steel. (PG, R) 10.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra. (CC) 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live. 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 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: Aliens In The Attic. (PG, R, CC) (2009) 7.40 MOVIE: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. (PG, R, CC) (1995) Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice. 9.40 MOVIE: Yes Man. (M, R, CC) (2008) Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel. 11.50 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 12.10 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 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 4.30 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 4.50 Digimon. (PG, R) 5.10 Thunderbirds. (R, CC) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Hoarding: Buried Alive. (PG, R) 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

(PG, R, CC) 9.00 Shopping.

10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Supernanny USA. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Our Man In Marrakesh.

(R, CC) (1966) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 David Attenborough’s Life. (R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) The team heads to Lulworth Castle in Dorset.

8.30 MOVIE: Safe Haven.

(M, CC) (2013) A mysterious woman moves to a small town. Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough.

11.00 MOVIE: Love, Wedding, Marriage. (PG, R, CC) (2011) 12.40 MOVIE: What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (M, R, CC) (1962) Bette Davis, Joan Crawford. 3.10 MOVIE: Mr Forbush And The Penguins. (PG, R) (1971) John Hurt. 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 10.00 Untamed Territory. (R) 11.00 Sport Science.

(PG, R) 12.00 Psych. (PG) (Series return) 1.00 Rush. (M, R, CC) (Final) 2.00 The Biggest Loser Australia.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Fishing. (R) 4.30 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 5.00 Reel Action.

(R) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Megafactories: EA Sports – FIFA 12. (R) A look at Electronic Arts’ factory.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Join dedicated police officers as they patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 MOVIE: Double Team.

(M, R, CC) (1997) Two men battle a terrorist. JeanClaude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman.

11.30 Kickboxing. Glory 18. Light Heavyweight Tournament. Davit Kiria v Robin Van Roosmalen.

2.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. (M, R) 4.00 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 4.30 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (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) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) Chris and Nate make a big decision.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 American Idol. (PG) Hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

9.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) A group of people undergo make-unders.

10.50 Movie Juice. (PG, R) A look into the world of movies.

11.20 Wonderland. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.55 Judging Amy. (M, R) 2.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

(R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News.

4.05 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.50 American Ninja Warrior. (R) 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) Andy tries to make his job exciting.

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

9.30 Comings And Goings Of Live Peepshows. (MA15+) A look at peep shows around the world.

10.30 Banana. (M) 11.05 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.00 Friday Feed. (R) 12.30 Extreme Frontiers: Canada. (M, R, CC) 1.25 PopAsia. (PG, R) 3.25 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 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 Sisters Inside. (PG) 1.00 Burned Bridge. 2.00 Mataku. (M) 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 The Quest Of Jimmy Pike.

8.30 Our Songs.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 The Will And The Skill. 10.30 The Boondocks. (MA15+) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 The Medicine Line. 12.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

2.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Rugby League. 2011 Lightning Cup. Titjikala v Mulga Bore. 5.00 Defining Moments.

5.30 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 1.30 News. (CC) 4.00 News With The Business. 5.00 News With Grandstand. 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News.

12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC Impact. 1.25 ABC Open. (R) 1.30 Lateline. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.25 ABC Open. (R) 3.30 7.30. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.55 ABC Open. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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Saturday, March 28 David Attenborough’s Death Of The Oceans?

Coast

Set in New York, director Jonathan Levine’s focus is on young Luke (Josh Peck), who spends his last summer before university dealing pot around town. Lonely and virginal, he receives counselling from his psychiatrist Dr Squires (Ben Kingsley) in exchange for weed. The prescription for Luke is to get laid, though it’s clear that Squires is trying to live his life through the lad. The friendship between the two male protagonists is heartfelt, and great performances make this coming-of-age tale quite the charmer. The film’s added bonus is seeing Sir Ben lock lips with the unlikeliest of love interests, MaryKate Olsen.

The title might make it sound like ike an Australian soap opera, but this UK he documentary series explores the significance the coast has had on de human history. Tonight’s episode en explores the connection between Britain’s cities and the sea. Geographer ographer and explorer Nick Crane (right)) visits ham, the incredible port of Immingham, one of the busiest ports in the world.

Elsewhere, historian Tessa Dunlop nlop looks at the steps the Brits took k to prevent German planes from overwhelming London during World War II. And things get a little seedy when Ruth Goodman investigates the scandalous secretive retive coastal sex trade of the Victorian an era.

SBS ONE, 10.20pm, MA15+ (2008)

TEN, 6.30pm

Everybody’s favourite naturalist has become a welcome semi-regular on our screens each Saturday night. Sir David Attenborough has been entertaining and educating viewers for generations now. Sir David’s enthusiasm and wonder jumps through the screen. In this documentary, Attenborough reveals the findings of an ambitious scientific study into what is happening to our oceans. You’d have to have your head in the ever-warming sand to not realise the damage we’re doing to our planet, and our oceans are feeling the effect. Enlightening, but you’d expect nothing less with Attenborough involved.

ABC

MOVIE: The Wackness

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SBS ONE, 7.30pm

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) Hosted by Josh Earl.

12.00 Two On The Great Divide. (R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

2.00 Kirstie’s Vintage Home.

(R, CC) Presented by Kirstie Allsopp.

3.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) An aristocratic’s death is investigated.

4.30 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) A pornographer’s murder is investigated.

5.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Sophie plants a herb garden.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

(CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 The Zoo. (R, CC) Two male chimps battle it out.

12.30 Horse Racing. (CC) Western Sydney Legends Day. Featuring two Group 1 races, including the $1.5 million BMW Stakes (2400m) and the $400,000 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m). From Rosehill Gardens, Sydney.

5.00 NSW Election Lead Up. Coverage of the NSW election.

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 Recipes That Rock. (R, CC) 12.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: The Dust Factory.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) A boy is transported to a parallel world. Ryan Kelley.

3.00 Getaway. (PG, CC) David explores Cambodia and Vietnam.

3.30 The Block Open House.

(PG, CC) 4.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 NSW Decides: Election 2015 Early. (CC)

6.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 6.30 Fishing Edge.

(R, CC) 7.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 7.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud.

(R, CC) 8.30 St10. (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) (Final) 2.30 The Bold And The Beautiful: 7000th Episode. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Car Torque. (PG, CC) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 Appetite For Change.

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 The Secret Of The Violin.

(R, CC) 3.10 Lost Action.

3.20 Simon Schama: Shakespeare And Us. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Steve Schapiro: An Eye On American Icons.

(PG, R) 5.30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat.

(R, CC)

6.00 NSW Votes. (CC) Coverage of the NSW state election results. Hosted

by Chris Uhlmann, with commentary and analysis from state political reporter Brigid Glanville, election analyst Antony Green and journalist Juanita Phillips.

6.15 News. (CC) 6.30 NSW Votes. (CC) Coverage of the NSW state election results. Hosted

by Chris Uhlmann, with commentary and analysis from state political reporter Brigid Glanville, election analyst Antony Green and journalist Juanita Phillips.

10.30 NSW Votes: Call Of The Board. Political analyst Antony Green conducts the night’s call of the board in the NSW Election.

11.00 Miniseries: Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2. With CLEO’s publishing debut proving a success, editor Ita Buttrose faces the challenge of maintaining the magazine’s fresh perspective. Kerry Packer makes a bid to secure control of the family’s empire from his ailing father.

6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 NSW Election. (CC) Coverage of the NSW election, featuring an informed overview of the events as they unfold.

10.30 MOVIE: Panic Room.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2002) A woman and her teenage daughter become imprisoned in the panic room of their house, by three burglars. However, it is not long before they realise what the intruders must want is where they are sheltering. Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto.

6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 NSW Decides: Election 2015. (CC) Coverage of the NSW election. Hosted

by Peter Overton, with commentary from a panel of experts.

10.00 MOVIE: The Switch.

(M, R, CC) (2010) A man comes to the realisation he was the sperm donor for his best friend’s son.

Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Jeff Goldblum.

12.00 MOVIE: One Missed Call. (M, R, CC) (2008) Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon. After four of her friends meet an untimely demise following chilling cellphone messages from the future detailing their deaths, a university student joins forces with a cop to uncover the truth behind the mystery.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) A P-plate driver unwittingly gets in the way of the police.

6.30 David Attenborough’s Death Of The Oceans?

(PG, CC) Sir David Attenborough investigates what is happening to earth’s oceans and their biodiversity. He travels from the North Atlantic’s cold waters to tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef, to meet scientists who are transforming our understanding of this unique habitat.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown heads to the Kyabram Vet Clinic in country Victoria to help out a friend.

8.30 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Supershow. (M, CC) Local and international talent takes to the stage for the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow.

From the Palais Theatre, Melbourne.

10.45 To Be Advised.

11.45 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 2.

Tasmania Super Sprint.

Races 4 and 5. Highlights.

From Launceston.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Coast: Sea And The City. (PG, CC) Nick pays tribute to the UK’s biggest seaport, the Port of Immingham. Join Tessa as she discovers the ingenious schemes devised to prevent the Germans from destroying the embankments that contain the River Thames during World War II. Ruth explores the 19th-century sex trade.

8.30 MOVIE: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.

(M, CC) (2010) Hoping to relive the pleasures of youth, a man dumps his wife of 40 years to pursue a young call girl. As a result, it is not long before it becomes obvious that other members of his clan are also struggling with their passions and their dedication to long-term commitments. Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin.

10.20 MOVIE: The Wackness.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2008) A lonely teenager spends his last summer in New York City, before going to university, selling drugs.

Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Olivia Thirlby.

12.30 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by special guest programmers, Australian indie rock band British India.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.45 Happy Endings.

(PG, R, CC) Alex’s line of slogan T-shirts for babies becomes inappropriately popular with teen girls.

1.30 Home Shopping.

2.00 MOVIE: Face To Face.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2011) 4.00 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.45 48 Hours: Sole Survivor.

(M, R) Tells the story of Robin Doan.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

12.10 Mad Men. (PG, R, CC) Don tries to comfort Joan.

1.55 Mad Men. (M, R, CC) Lane’s world comes crashing down.

2.50 Mad Men. (PG, R, CC) 3.40 Crossing Salween. (M) 4.05 Lilyhammer. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.35pm 22 Jump Street (2014) Comedy. Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill. Officers Schmidt and Jenko go deep undercover at a university.

(MA15+) Premiere

6.30pm Top 20 Funniest.

(MA15+) FOX8

6.30pm Dolly Parton: Song

By Song. (PG) Biography

7.30pm Saturday Night Live.

(M) Comedy Channel

7.30pm Merlin: The Legend.

Explores the origins of wizard Merlin in art and literature. (G) History

7.30pm Rugby League.

NRL. Dragons v Sea Eagles.

Fox Sports 1

8.30pm I, Frankenstein (2014) Fantasy. Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy. (M) Premiere 10.10pm Vampire Academy (2014) Fantasy. Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry. A half human/half vampire must protect humans from bloodthirsty immortal vampires. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld.

(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 Shaun The Sheep. (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, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (PG, CC) 8.30 Build A New Life In The Country. (PG, CC) 9.15 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.00 Buzzcocks. (M, R, CC) 10.30 The Inbetweeners. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.00 Plebs. (M, R, CC) 11.25 The Awesomes. (PG, R, CC) 11.45 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 12.10 Cherry Healey: Old Before My Time. (R, CC) 1.05 The Armstrong And Miller Show. (M, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 Close. 5.00 What’s The Big Idea? (R, CC) 5.05 Kioka.

(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. 7.40 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 8.00 YooHoo & Friends. (R, CC) 8.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra.

(R, CC) 10.40 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals.

(R, CC) 11.35 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 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. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 5.45 MY:24.

(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. (R, CC) 7.40 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Lanfeust Quest. (PG, R, CC) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.30 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

8.30pm Relocation Relocation Australia. Bryce and Veronica help a couple searching for a Cairns dream home and a Brisbane shortterm home. (G) LifeStyle

7.30pm Treehouse Masters.

An Irish family in California has the perfect olive tree in their backyard to nestle a Celticthemed cottage. (PG) Discovery

7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Melbourne City v Brisbane Roar. Fox Sports 4 9.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Perth v Western Sydney Wanderers. Fox Sports 4

Veronica Morgan and Bryce Holdaway host Relocation Relocation Australia

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 Animal Academy. (PG) 11.30 Great South East. (R, CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast.

(R, CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender.

(R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 Coxy’s Big Break. (CC) 2.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 2. Randwick v West Harbour. 5.00 Horse Racing. (CC) Western Sydney Legends Day. 6.00 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG, R) 6.30 The New Reclaimers.

(PG, R) 7.30 Storage Hoarders. (PG) 8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) A young wife is murdered.

10.00 Wire In The Blood.

(AV15+, R, CC) Carol is promoted to DCI. 12.00 Storage Hoarders. (PG, R) 1.00 The Kitchen Job. (PG, R) 2.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 3.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features.

(R) 4.30 The Food Truck. (PG, R) 5.00 Country Calendar. (PG, R) 5.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast. (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) 10.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 11.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 11.30 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series.

12.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 1.30 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 2.40 Turtleman. (PG) 3.40 Gator Boys.

(PG, R) 4.40 MOVIE: Smokey And The Bandit. (M, R) (1977) 6.40 MOVIE: Jaws: The Revenge. (M, R) (1987) A man-eating shark pursues a widow and her family. Lorraine Gary.

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. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Sally Field.

11.30 MOVIE: We Own The Night. (AV15+, R) (2007) 2.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 3.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 4.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. From Perth Motorplex Speedway. 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping.

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. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 2.30 Search4hurt. (PG, CC) 3.00 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 3.30 America’s Got Talent.

(PG, CC) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Tom And Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes. (R) (2010) Michael York. 7.30 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked.

(R, CC) (2011) Jason Lee, David Cross.

9.20 MOVIE: Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance.

(M, R) (2011) Nicolas Cage.

11.30 MOVIE: Batman: Year One. (M, R, CC) (2011) 1.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 1.30 America’s Got Talent. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 4.30 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 4.50 Digimon. (PG, R) 5.10 Thunderbirds. (R, CC) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Our Man In Marrakesh. (R, CC) (1966) 8.00 Shopping. 9.30 Rainbow Country.

(R) 10.00 MOVIE: Dentist On The Job. (PG, R, CC) (1961) 11.55 Postcards. (CC) 12.25 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 12.55 MOVIE: Viva Las Vegas. (R, CC) (1964) 2.40 MOVIE: Any Wednesday. (PG, R, CC) (1966) Jane Fonda. 4.55 MOVIE: Northwest Passage. (PG, R, CC) (1940) Spencer Tracy.

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

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) The team investigates a mass shooting at a popular diner in which eight people were killed.

9.30 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) Jo’s daughter witnesses a murder.

10.30 Unforgettable. (M, CC) A murder in The Hamptons is investigated.

11.20 Golden Boy. (M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: Northwest Passage. (PG, R, CC) (1940) 2.40 MOVIE: Any Wednesday.

(PG, R, CC) (1966) 4.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Football’s Greatest Managers.

(PG, R) 6.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 7.00 RPM. (R, CC) 8.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Round 4. Adelaide Thunderbirds v Melbourne Vixens. Replay. 10.00 Where It All Began. (R, CC) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (PG, R) 11.00 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 12.00 The Road To 2015. 1.00 Motor Racing.

World Series Sprintcars. 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.00 Megafactories.

(R) 4.00 Highlands 101. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 6.00 GT Academy. (Final) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 2.

Tasmania Super Sprint.

Races 4 and 5. Highlights.

From Launceston, Tasmania.

9.30 Blue Bloods. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan.

(M, R) 11.30 Gang Related. (AV15+, R) 12.30 Gang Related. (M, R) 1.30 48 Hours. (M, R) 2.30 Cops. (PG, R) 3.30 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 4.00 The Pits. (CC) 5.00 Savage Family Diggers. (R) 5.30 Savage Family Diggers. (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 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 2.00 Brady Bunch.

(R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 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) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Ray decides to get even with Debra.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (PG, R, CC) Graham Norton chats with Sir David Attenborough, Gary Lineker, Harry Hill and Jessica Chastain.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) Carrie and Stanford attend a baby shower.

10.10 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie’s highschool boyfriend calls.

10.50 Empire. (M, R, CC) 11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.20 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 2.55 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R) 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 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Soccer. (CC) A-League. Round 23. Melbourne Victory v Central Coast Mariners. Replay. 3.00 Urban Freestyler. (R) 3.10 Ultimate Parkour Challenge. (PG, R) 3.40 Venice 24/7. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Beyond Survival. (PG, R) 5.10 Planet Sport. (R) 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 Vikings. (R, CC) King Ecbert visits the Viking settlement.

9.20 No Limit. (M) Vincent tries to steal a drone prototype.

10.20 MOVIE: Unit 7. (M) (2012) 12.00 American Weed. (M, R) 1.55 MOVIE: The Dope. (M, R) (2003) 3.35 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 The Marngrook Footy Show.

(PG) 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 Maori TV’s Native Affairs.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Roots Music. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE: Poetic Justice.

(MA15+) (1993) A young African-American poet gets mixed up with a mail carrier. Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King.

10.30 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater.

(PG) 11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Big Ideas. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 State To State. (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 NSW Votes. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 AusBiz Asia. (R) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (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. (R, CC) 4.00 Big Ideas. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (CC)

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Wilfred

MOVIE: Twilight

Working with family has got to have its ups, but with them come plenty of downs as record label owner Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) is finding out all too well. He’s trying to choose which one of his three sons is worthy enough of taking over the reins of the business but, with an ex-wife back on the scene after a stint in jail, things are not going to be as easy as picking a name out of a hat. Tonight, in a bid to elevate his son’s status, Lucious takes charge of Hakeem’s (Bryshere Y. Gray) first video shoot. Meanwhile, Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) receives an anonymous gift from an admirer she believes may be a thinly veiled threat from a dangerous cell-mate from her prison past.

When the decision was made that the fourth season would be Wilfred’s last, co-creator and star Jason Gaan (who also wagged his tail in the original Australian production) lamented the idea, stating it was “crazy” to quit a job like that. But every dog has his day and tonight’s episode marks the third-last of the odd but charming comedy series. In tying up loose ends, we’re able to learn a bit more about how and why Ryan (Elijah Wood) sees his neighbour Jenna’s (Fiona Gubelmann) dog as a man in a dog costume, but don’t expect the mischievous dog to go out with his tail between his legs. He’s up to his old tricks tonight when he convinces Ryan to withhold information from Jenna.

The prospect of reliving high school is scary enough; imagine having to do it overr and over again for all eternity. That hellish premise is the reality of vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson, ngs in this right) and his clan of adoptive siblings g youngfaithful adaptation of the bestselling ings adult novel by Stephenie Meyer. Things become even more complicated for the rcing brooding bloodsucker when his piercing a gaze settles on new girl in town Bella ne (Kristen Stewart). Director Catherine b Hardwicke (Thirteen) does a solid job ’s of capturing the dark tone of Meyer’s beloved book but, considering its target market, if it doesn’t frighten you, it will make you laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.

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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. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Art Of America: What Lies Beneath. (PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

4.00 Restoration Home.

(PG, R, CC) Presented by Caroline Quentin.

5.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 Discovery Road. (CC) 12.00 The Amazing Race.

(PG, R, CC) Teams race through Malawi.

2.00 MOVIE: A Walton Wedding. (R, CC) (1995) The Walton family are reunited in New York to celebrate the wedding of one of their own. Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned.

4.00 To Be Advised.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike relaxes in the Hunter Valley.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) The adventures of six puppies.

6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today.

(CC) News, current affairs and sports.

10.00 The Bottom Line: Kate Ceberano. (PG, R, CC) 10.30 Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) Hosted by Ken Sutcliffe.

11.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 4. New Zealand Warriors v Brisbane Broncos. From Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand.

2.00 Cricket. (CC) ICC World Cup. Final. Afternoon session. From the MCG.

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) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 Weekend Feast. (R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 2.00 RPM. (CC) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 Motor Racing.

(CC) V8 Supercars Championship. Round 2.

Tasmania Super Sprint.

Highlights. From Launceston, Tasmania.

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 Metropolis. (R, CC) 1.30 Motorcycle Racing.

(CC) Superbike World Championship. Round 2.

Highlights.

2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling. (CC) 5.30 PQ 17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster. (PG, CC)

6.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? The Sheiling. (R, CC) Adam Ford explores The Sheiling, a stone home in Pontville, Tasmania.

6.30 Compass: Taste Of Memory. (PG, CC) Three Jewish women share their stories.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Inside The Commons: Lifting The Lid. (CC) Part 1 of 4. Journalist Michael Cockerell takes a candid look inside UK’s House of Commons.

8.40 Broadchurch. (M, CC) In a turn of events she could have never foreseen, Ellie finds herself exposed and alone.

9.30 Fortitude. (MA15+, CC) Yuri reveals who killed Pettigrew. A frightened Carrie Morgan tries to call Fortitude police for help.

10.20 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) 10.50 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) Contestants include Rhod Gilbert, Miranda Hart, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Rufus Hound.

11.20 The Writers’ Room: Dexter. (PG, R, CC) 11.45 MOVIE: Play Misty For Me. (M, R, CC) (1971)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program.

Hosted by Chris Bath.

8.00 Border Patrol. (PG, CC) A man is caught with drugs in his undies. Illegal weapons are stopped at both the airport and the mail centre.

8.30 Castle. (M, CC) With the help of officers at the 12th Precinct, a frantic Castle searches for a missing Beckett as the serial killer 3XK and his student, Dr Kelly Nieman, continue to play mind games with them.

9.30 MOVIE: The Invention Of Lying. (M, R, CC) (2009) An ill-fated man who inhabits a world where people are conditioned to tell the truth, spontaneously invents lying. His new ability brings him many advantages, including a chance with a previously unattainable woman he is in love with.

Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill.

11.30 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) After Adam announces his plans to attend the school dance with Dana, Beverly insists on acting as chaperone.

6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Cricket. (CC) ICC World Cup. Final. Evening session.

From the MCG. 10.00 MOVIE: Limitless.

(M, R, CC) (2011) An aspiring author suffering from chronic writer’s block, has his life changed after an old friend introduces him to a revolutionary new drug which allows him to tap his full potential. However, it is not long before he begins to experience mysterious side effects to the medication. Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 Modern Family. (PG, CC) The Dunphys have a near-death experience which causes everyone to reevaluate their lives.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Claire is furious at her neighbours for keeping their boat on their front lawn. Jay tries to potty train Joe. 7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, CC) Multimillionaires are pitched ideas, including an Italian fast food franchise.

8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, CC) Convinced his nemesis, Baitfish, has returned, Pride instructs the team to search for evidence of his presence at a variety of crime scenes in a chase which leads them from New Orleans to Charleston.

9.30 Empire. (M, CC) Cookie receives an anonymous gift from an admirer which she believes might be a veiled threat.

10.30 MOVIE: Black Swan.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2010) A ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake and slowly begins to lose her mind. Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Lost Kingdoms Of Central America: The Place Where Time Began. (PG, CC) Part 4 of 4. Dr Jago Cooper explores the rise and fall of the forgotten civilisations of Central America. He concludes by focusing on the city state of Teotihuacan, which featured monumental pyramids and temples and controlled a vast empire for hundreds of years.

8.30 Last Days In Vietnam.

(CC) Examines the final days of America’s presence in Saigon, in April of 1975, and the efforts to help evacuate 135,000 South Vietnamese. The chaos of the event is documented through archival footage, as well as an interview with then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

10.25 The Unknown Known.

(CC) An investigation into the career and philosophy of former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld. With the help of declassified memos, he discusses his role in four different presidential administrations.

1.25 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) Paul helps a woman in distress.

2.10 Fortitude. (MA15+, R, CC) 3.00 Inside The Commons: Lifting The Lid. (R, CC) 4.00 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 Order In The House. (CC)

12.00 The Cult. (M, R) Following the shooting, a paranoid Edward takes action by making some “friends”.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

12.05 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 12.35 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners. (PG) 1.30 Spyforce. (PG, R) 2.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

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

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

12.20 MOVIE: Rescue Dawn.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2006) Christian Bale.

2.30 The Burnt Cork. (M, R) 2.45 First Australians.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 Jerusalem: The Making Of A Holy City. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.15pm Pain & Gain (2013) Action. Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson. A group of personal trainers in 1990s Miami get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong. (MA15+) Premiere

7.00pm The Doors: Live In Europe. A collection of rare footage from The Doors’ 1968 European tour.

(G) Arts

7.30pm The Plantagenets.

Ruling for more than 300 years as kings of England, dukes of France and counts of Anjou, the Plantagenets were one of Europe’s most dysfunctional yet longest ruling royal dynasties.

(PG) History

6.35am Soccer. European Qualifier. Bulgaria v Italy.

ESPN

8.30pm The Other Woman (2014) Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann. (M) Premiere

7.30pm Thank God You’re Here. Each week four special guests step through a door into a scene where everyone has a script – except them. (PG) Comedy Channel

8.30pm Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem (2007) Sci-fi. Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth.

(AV15+) Action

8.30pm Russell Howard’s Good News. Hosted by Russell Howard. (M) Comedy Channel

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.50 Penelope. (R, CC) 2.00 Milly, Molly.

(R, CC) 2.15 Florrie’s Dragons.

(R, CC) 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.20 dirtgirlworld. (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 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 5.20 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.45 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) (Final) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Seconds From Disaster. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Twilight. (M, R, CC) (2008) 10.25 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (M, R, CC) 11.20 Visionaries: Inside The Creative Mind. (CC) (Final) 12.00 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, R, CC) 12.45 News Update. (R) 12.50 Close.

5.00 What’s The Big Idea? (R, CC) 5.05 Kioka. (R, CC) 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 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) (Final) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.40 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals.

(R, CC) 11.35 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) (Final) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) 1.25 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Leonardo.

(PG, R, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 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. (R, CC) 7.40 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 7.55 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi. (R, CC) 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 9.10 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 9.35 Rage.

(PG, R) 2.10 Close.

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) 1.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Charity Adventure: Sunshine Coast. (PG, CC) (New Series) 3.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

4.00 The Bunker. (PG) 4.30 Bush Pilots. (PG) 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Vicious. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Jules Hudson helps a couple move to the country.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Presented by Nick Knowles.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

11.00 Front Of House.

11.30 Bush Pilots. (PG, R) 12.30 The Bunker. (PG, R) 1.00 The Real Seachange. (R, CC) 1.30 Best Houses Australia.

(R) 2.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (R) 2.30 Front Of House. (R) 3.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (PG) 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping. (PG) 9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 11.00 Fifth Gear.

(PG) 12.00 Triathlon. Mooloolaba Festival. 1.00 Urban Tarzan. (PG, R) 1.30 The Border. (PG, R) 2.30 Ultimate Factories. (R) 3.30 Selling Big. (PG) 4.30 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Failure To Launch. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A couple try to get their adult son to move out.

Matthew McConaughey.

8.30 MOVIE: Trading Places. (M, R) (1983) Two millionaires use their grand-niece’s fiancé and a street hustler as guinea pigs to prove their opposing views. Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Denholm Elliott.

11.00 Locked Up Abroad: The Real Midnight Express.

(M) (New Series) 12.15 Locked Up Abroad. (M) 1.30 Urban Tarzan. (PG, R) 2.00 The Border. (PG, R) 3.00 Ultimate Factories. (R) 4.00 Selling Big. (PG, R) 5.00 Fifth Gear.

(PG, R)

7.30pm When Bjork Met Attenborough. Björk and David Attenborough examine music’s influence on the natural world. (G) Biography

12.30pm Cricket.

ICC World Cup. Final.

Fox Sports 3 2.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Roosters v Raiders.

Fox Sports 1

The extraterrestrial star of Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem

8.30pm Serial Killers. Crime & Investigation

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. (R) 11.00 Survivor.

(PG, R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: The Pink Panther. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A French inspector tries to solve a murder. Steve Martin, Beyoncé Knowles.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) After Amy suggests he meet her mother, a panicky Sheldon makes a knee-jerk decision.

9.30 MOVIE: Arthur. (PG, R, CC) (2011) A man stands to lose his inheritance. Russell Brand, Helen Mirren.

11.50 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 12.50 Arrow. (AV15+, R, CC) 1.50 MOVIE: Waiting For Guffman.

(M, R, CC) (1996) Christopher Guest. 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 4.30 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 4.50 Digimon Fusion. (PG, R) 5.10 Thunderbirds. (R, CC) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: The House In Nightmare Park.

(PG, R, CC) (1973) 8.30 Shopping.

10.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.30 Avengers. (PG, R) 11.30 MOVIE: Second Fiddle. (R, CC) (1957) 1.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: A Big Hand For The Little Lady.

(R, CC) (1966) 4.00 MOVIE: Task Force. (PG, R) (1949) Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt.

6.30 River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way. (PG) 7.30 Kalgoorlie Cops.

(PG, R, CC) A look at the Kalgoorlie cops.

8.30 MOVIE: L.A. Confidential.

(M, R, CC) (1997) Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal 1950s LA police force use different methods to uncover a conspiracy.

Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce.

11.20 Longmire. (M, CC) 12.15 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.40 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.05 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 7.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 7.30 Savage Family Diggers. 8.00 Sport Science. 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Reel Action.

10.00 The Road To 2015. (R) 11.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Miami. 12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 5. West Coast Fever v Adelaide Thunderbirds. 2.00 Car Torque.

(R, CC) 2.30 Extreme Collectors.

(R) 3.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.30 GT Academy. (R) 5.00 Echo: The Unforgettable Elephant.

(PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 2.

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Race 6. Highlights.

9.30 MOVIE: Shaft. (AV15+, R) (2000) 11.35 Sons Of Anarchy.

(AV15+, R) 12.35 RPM. (R, CC) 1.35 48 Hours. (M, R) 2.30 Savage Family Diggers. (R) 3.00 Savage Family Diggers. (PG, R) 4.00 Reel Action. (R) 5.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Grand Prix Of Qatar. Race 1.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, CC) 10.30 Brady Bunch. (R) 11.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) Fry experiences the internet of the future.

8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Skinner is fired from his job.

8.30 MOVIE: Coneheads.

(PG, R) (1993) Aliens crashland in New Jersey. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin.

10.20 Wilfred. (MA15+) Ryan withholds information from Jenna.

10.50 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 11.20 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) A startling surprise awaits the crew.

1.30 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 2.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation.

(PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News.

8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 11.00 Portuguese News. 11.30 Croatian News.

12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Urban Freestyler.

1.10 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 2.00 Foodie Planet. (PG, R) 3.05 Toughest Place To Be A… (M, R, CC) 4.05 Bunk. (PG, R) 4.30 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. (R) 4.40 The Pitch.

(PG) 5.30 Brazil’s Next Top Model.

(PG, R) 6.30 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) A beloved icon admits to using drugs.

9.00 Cockroaches. (M) (New Series) 9.30 Toast Of London. (MA15+) (Final) 10.00 A-League Extra Time.

11.00 In Her Skin. (M) 12.45 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.40 Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life. (M, R, CC) 3.35 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 23. Melbourne Victory v Central Coast Mariners. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

(CC) 1.30 Not Just Cricket. (PG) 2.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 4.00 30th Anniversary Commonwealth Games. 4.30 Eat Like An AFL Star!

(PG) 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.

8.30 From The Western Frontier.

9.00 Toonooba Voices. A look at preparing kangaroo tail.

9.30 MOVIE: Manganinnie.

(1980) Mawuyul Yanthalawuy, Anna Ralph, Phillip Hinton.

11.00 Yudum.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

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. (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. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

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LAFF-A-DAY STAR + MAP Draw a star in exactly 10 of the empty squares in the diagram below so that each numbered square accurately indicates how many immediately adjacent squares (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) contain a star.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) It is natural enough to look around every now and again to see if your life could be improved. This week you should find little to concern you.

Even so, a little ambition is good and will stop you from becoming bored. What is it that you have always wanted to do but never made the time for? Always looking ahead can bring discontent and lead to not being able to enjoy the present. Right now, however, there is something calling you.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) It is with great relief that you realise something you thought was impossible is certainly not! Once a new way of seeing is mastered, your whole life can open up. Try to do something new each week, even if it is as simple as talking to a neighbour. We all have a damper put on our confidence at this time of year.

Cooler days, however, should not lead to a cold heart. Reach out to others and you can be surprised at the warm response.

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attracted to someone this week can leave you feeling uncomfortable. Why is that? When we think of going down a new path, it is important to shine a light on the future. Don’t think six months ahead, think six years ahead.

This will strongly affect your actions. Will crossing this boundary make you stronger or leave you vulnerable? If we never take risks then we will make slow progress in our personal development.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) En-

counters of a romantic kind may not be on your list of ‘things to do’ right now. As the weather starts to turn, give a thought to forming a warmer relationship. This can be with your present partner or with someone new. The important thing is to have a well-rounded life. Why deny yourself the best of human contact? Getting involved with a group activity, even if it is only for a day or two, can turn out to be fun.

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all need some luck in our lives.

When it seems thin on the ground we can despair. It is possible to make your own luck, though, by being hard-working and determined, even if it takes a little longer. Boost experience by talking to those who know what you do not. Act on information that gives you a head start on any competition. Don’t miss a trick when given the chance to win by charm.

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though you like to deal with one thing at a time, other opportunities come along. Should you ignore them and finish what you started?

You have it in yourself to investigate the possible while dealing with the practical.

Would your partner really like to be more involved with your everyday life? That is just one possibility. Imagination can take you anywhere this week. One step on from that could be reality, and an attainable one at that!

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Something very small and insignificant seems to be holding you back.

Well, it isn’t really, you only think it is! What could be causing a problem in your life is the feeling that you have to tackle something alone. You do not. Once you are working with others you will wonder why you did not do it before. Don’t allow a lack of confidence or knowledge to stop you from doing something important.

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you being asked to go down a path that is alien to you? What is it that you would do if left to your own devices?

You want to be true to yourself.

Maybe some help would be the answer? Of course, that means having determination and courage. Do you have what it takes to walk your own path? We may make our own future but sometimes it is far from easy. Still, there is so much for you to gain.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) There is a lot to be said for

working hard to achieve your ambitions. This week it is quite okay for you to let others take some of the load. No one expects you to be superhuman, but isn’t that what you are asking of yourself? Make time for relaxation but, if that is not easy, get out in the fresh air. As music soothes the savage breast, maybe it is time to get listening! Channel any anger or negative energy into good energy.

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Something in your life this week needs close attention and even scrutiny. Assuming that everything is okay could leave you at a disadvantage. Thoughts of the family and the future spark a strong emotion midweek. You are not the only one feeling this. Be one step ahead emotionally by taking what loved ones say seriously. Not doing this could lead to some confusion and disagreement later.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

Somewhere ahead of you is a brighter future. You feel this.

Sometimes a dream comes and it seems all too real. Is there anything that you can do to start making this dream a reality? Remember that small steps can lead to great leaps. Sit down midweek and really consider your options. There may only be one, but it is there. Sometimes we want to reach for the moon. Do you feel that would be too ambitious? What would you do with it anyway?

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spark of recognition comes this week when meeting someone new. This is one example of how our past can colour the future. It is also a very good reason to live more in the present. You are a worrier about both the past and the future. Stop now and look at what you already have and what is already happening. See? Sometimes we can be very unobservant. We take things for granted that are precious to us.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share the day with English guitaristsinger Eric Clapton, 70 (above). Aries is full of fun and expectation. Use this trait to start planning the months ahead. New hope is on its way, especially in your case.

You do not ask for much. However, realise that you have to get it yourself.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your birthday with Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, 44 (pictured below). You have nothing against relying on others, Aries. Some of your relationships are very productive. Doing things by yourself, however, can often give you more control. That can be both fun and instructive!

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Emotional moments are coupled with strong progress in the months ahead, Aries. Allow yourself to dream but also aim to make those dreams a reality. Progress can be quicker alone. Alliances are great for leisure time.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Do you find that others are not as cooperative as they used to be? Why do you think that is? Giving is even more important than receiving, Aries. When you give someone is taking an attitude towards you. Make it a good one.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Increase your popularity by considering others more, Aries. You can be a great friend but sometimes, just sometimes, a little self-centred.

Both in business and at home in the months ahead, put in that extra effort.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Aries, Are you looking forward to something very special in the coming months? Great.

Leading up to that, though, a few opportunities come your way. Yes, you have time to spot them and act on them.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Attending to what is happening close to you is essential to success in the coming months, Aries. Opportunities to progress can be snatched away if someone else gets there first.

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Down: 1 Proviso; 2 Pretend; 3 Bleak; 4 Jittery; 5 Civil; 6 Verge; 9 Telegraph; 14 Playful; 15 Divulge; 16 Revelry; 19 Weary; 20 Cease; 21 Foray.

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Down: 1 Primate; 2 Lighter; 3 Reach; 4 General; 5 Appal; 6 State; 9 Undermine; 14 Cluster; 15 Pageant; 16 Pasture; 19 Agate; 20 Forms; 21 Harps.

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