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FEATURE

TRAVEL

Mill spins a good yarn for regional produce

Election 2015: The wash-up

Along the road to retirement

Embracing excess in Jakarta

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 History

FEATURED

Letters home from young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid PAGE 14

John Ryan Election 2015: The wash-up PAGE 16

The golden years Lifestyle planning specialist Barry LaValley offers local retirees his tips PAGE 20

Digging Deep

PEOPLE

Mike Augee is caving in to a love for Wellington PAGE 24

Rich Flanagan

BUSINESS

Meet the Small Business Marketing Manager for Google Australia PAGE 38

New food

LIFESTYLE

Kate Wright is packing a sweet punch PAGE 46

Entertainment A show not to miss: Struck by the drums PAGE 52

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If you’re angry and you know it... blame Facebook ’VE heard it said that before you seek help for anger management issues, you should first make sure you’re not in fact just surrounded by idiots.

Good advice. However, seeking that assurance in the cesspool that runs the length of social media’s underbelly mightn’t be the wisest choice.

Because it’s there – in the festering petri dish of viciousness that masquerades as “freedom of speech” lives a whole sub-culture of aforementioned idiots, who are ignorant, ill-informed and completely unapologetic.

What’s prompted this particular fit of pique? Glad you asked.

I’m ashamed to admit that at bedtime these days, I’ll more likely reach for a little hit of social media escapism than a book (forgive me my sin) – and more often than not, that’s a seriously flawed pre-slumber routine.

Thanks to a proliferation of so-called “community” sites on Facebook, I find my newsfeed – on which I enjoy connecting and seeing my friends’ comings and goings – bombarded by foul-mouthed, ignorant creatures to whom the all-but-lawless forum has given license to be offensive, libellous and completely unaccountable.

This week, two particular examples underlined, with screaming clarity, my longheld concerns over that lack of accountability, and the damage it can do to real people in real businesses with real families.

Both involved a perceived slight on the part of the complainants who took to these local “community” sites to vent their outrage. Their targets? Local business people and professionals. Of course, the opportunity to jump aboard the bandwagon was irresistible to the trolls, who crawled out from under their rocks to bay for blood. By the time the objects of these foul rants were aware they’d been hauled into the cyberspace town square for a public flogging, the damage was done. For one of these hapless business people, the whole thing turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Ooops.

Sorry about the damage done to your credibility and professional reputation there, pal.

Oh well....next!

Social media has proved an effective tool in holding providers of goods and services to account. Moderated public feedback forums are healthy; mob mentality witch-hunts unfettered by reason and fact are anything but, particularly coupled with the option of anonymity.

And before anyone justifiably points out that I could always just get the hell outta Dodge, I’m forced by the nature of my work to use social media so flicking the “off” switch, while tempting, is not an option.

Unfortunately, Facebook – of which I’m mostly a devoted fan – is also the favoured stomping ground for a growing legion of keyboard warriors with enough time on their hands to sit in their lounge rooms all day and well into the wee hours with their police scanners glued to their ears, screech-

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ing at every kid that walks past, drooling over the sound of distant sirens and offering barely literate social media commentary on why “crime in this town is outta control” and demanding that “coppers do their jobs” – while said coppers struggle to beat a wave of Facebook misinformation to grieving relatives’ doors, let alone meet unrealistic public expectation.

Your tax dollars at work, folks.

This lot will have a crack at anything and anyone – from crime to customer service, neighbours’ pets; to the quality of hot chips and second hand tyres. They perch like a pack of slavering, rabid mongrels ready to pounce and tear to shreds anyone brave, or naïve, enough to offer an alternative view.

They say whatever they like, whenever they like about whomever they like – and they do so publicly. Very publicly.

It’s not so much the language that offends me – I can turn the air purple with the best of them (and do so every time I step on the scales) although some of the words and terms they’re prepared to type publicly would make Gordon Ramsay blush. No, what bothers me is the damage that can be done to some innocent target’s reputation, livelihood and emotional wellbeing with a few ill-informed and reckless keyboard strokes.

And, to all intents and purposes, there’s precious little redress.

Social media experts and the companies themselves will rightly argue there are security and privacy measures in place – but the value of those measures lies in everyone both understanding and applying them. Just because my privacy settings keep the trolls out doesn’t mean they’re not tearing me limb from cyber-limb on another site somewhere.

I had a yarn with newly anointed Justice and Police Minister Troy Grant during the week – and you’ll find the result down there on PAGE ??? – but I asked him about the lack of accountability from social media users. He, and other public figures, know better than most just HOW vicious people can be when they don’t think they’re bound by any legal, let alone moral code. The laws, apparently, are there – it’s just that rarely are they applied – and he agreed it’s something that needs to be addressed. Sooner the better, Troy. And when the dust settles on the small matter of running the state, we’d all be grateful if you could assemble a posse and go after those who think it’s okay to bully and harass and abuse and to destroy people’s reputations with impunity.

And while I’m on a roll, trolls, could I just point out that there’s no such word as “disCusting”; “then” and “than” aren’t interchangeable; you definitely don’t mean “defiantly”; “yous” isn’t the plural of “you” and the spelling of “Mutha-f...”..., oh forget it.

I know what you’re thinking: Save yourself the angst and simply scroll past. Or put down the damn smartphone and go to sleep.

What? And miss the opportunity for a cleansing rant and the chance to flex my self-indulgent superiority? Youse defiantly must be kiddin’ yourselfs.

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Business women set new record

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

ITH five women elected as new members of the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce, the organisation’s senior vice president Megan Dixon is excited about what it means for the future of the city’s business structure.

“It’s pretty awesome,” she said.

The new members brings the total female representation to six, a record for the organisation.

“What’s really good about it is the diversity that exists in the group,” she said.

“Their age, background and skills they bring to the board really makes it so much stronger.”

The Chamber already supports businesswomen through its Women in Business networking program, which is held on a quarterly basis. This formation has given women the incentive to join the Chamber and take a proactive approach towards advancing the city’s business community.

“The Chamber has worked really hard in the last few years and been mindful of the need to provide a service to members and support business development,” Dixon said.

“The level of interest in the board has improved, the Chamber has improved and we are making sure it’s relevant and that we are providing a service that people want to be involved in.

“The lunches have been getting really good attendance and are well-supported by corporate and business owners and people are taking their staff to the event. Seeing 70 women in one room is brilliant in terms of networking and support.”

Dixon is looking forward to the Chamber’s future prospects, particularly with input from its newest members.

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Toni Beatty, Carol Macrae, Kerrieanne Nichols, Megan Dixon, Kate Pugh, Briggitte Glynn, Alison Raeburn, and Ursula Lindner-Ellis at recent Women in Business lunch. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE “In terms of the representation, all That world is no longer the sole doattending the Women in Business these women actually bring somemain of men either. functions offered by the Chamber of thing different to the table, in terms of Commerce.

“I think women are breaking down their personality and what they hope “I’m really determined and I definitethe men’s club because they network to achieve in terms of being part of the ly want to motivate others.” differently. Personally, I do believe in board.

She agrees there is great diversity the best person for the job, whether they among the new members. are male or female.”

“Some of them have really strong ide“The women who are in the Chamas and joined the Chamber to help steer Motelier and former makeup artist ber are all completely different. And we those ideas and be a part of making Kerrieanne Nichols has been in business are learning from one another. Everythem happen for the Dubbo community. for five years. one brings something so different. For She joined the Chamber this year Dixon believes businesswomen have me, it’s about driving other women and because she is committed to inciting not changed, but are becoming empowlearning from other women.” change in the city where she lives and ered to speak up in the business sector.

Whatever your skill set, Nichols beoperates her business.

“In terms of what I’m seeing, it’s not lieves new passions can be supported by “I want to bring a difference, I’m paschanging the makeup of the communiexisting capabilities. sionate about Dubbo. I’m trying to get ty; women are changing in confidence “Before becoming a motelier, I was a businesspeople to work together to be to be part of the leadership scene of professional make-up artist. Putting on stronger and you need more contacts to Dubbo. The platform has been laid and makeup and changing someone’s immake that happen.”

Chamber is quite passionate about seeage made me proud, and it’s the kind ing women in business roles and being Connecting with other women was of thing that you can put into everyday encouraged and empowered.” part of the plan and Nichols has been life.

“Whatever we do, it’s about Dubbo growing and people connecting with us. Once people start to feel that energy and passion about business, that’s when things get done.

Women are changing in confidence to be part of the “I think the Chamber will go very well leadership scene of Dubbo.” – Megan Dixon this year, we’ll get the job done.”

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Out of the blue The campaign might be over, but Troy Grant won’t be taking a breather any time soon. Along with being Member for Dubbo, Nationals Leader and Deputy Premier, he’s also taken on, amongst others, the Ministry of Police and Justice. It’s not a role the former cop coveted, but as he tells Weekender, he’s ready to walk the thin blue line.

AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley You’ve been named Minister for Justice and Police.

That was a portfolio you recently said you didn’t want.

What were your reservations?

I’d spent 22 years in policing, and I’d sort of left it behind in my mind as a career when I became the Member for Dubbo. While policing is still an important part of my work as a local member and in government, when I was in the police I was focussed on making the place better – that was my single mindset. Once I got into politics, I broadened that focus, I guess. So I’d sort of parked my policing mindset.

But Mike (Premier Baird) asked me to serve as the minister because of the size of the challenges ahead – and I was persuaded by those I respect and admire to take up that challenge.

It’s a double-edged sword in a way – having a former police officer serve as the minister for that portfolio gives a certain insight, but is there a danger that it’s hard, with that personal experience, to keep the issues at arm’s length – to be objective?

Yeah, perhaps. But I think it comes down to my own interaction – I’m not a policeman anymore, so I have to stop thinking like a policeman and think more globally. I have no intention of trying to “re-police”, but I do have a unique insight into the demands of policing.

It also enables me to sort through the wheat from the chaff on issues that come up. My time out of policing is advantageous in that I can think more globally about the portfolio. Had I just left the force and gone straight into the role there would have been a greater risk. But five years out has given me a different perspective.

You talk about the challenges ahead – what are some of those significant challenges?

There are five key things. The most pressing is the (Strike Force) Emblems inquiry (into police corruption) and internal problems on an executive level – the Ombudsman is due to hand down his report in June.

The second is the appointment of the new Commissioner – the current Commissioner (Scipione) expires in September. Then there’s the ice epidemic – which is probably the greatest operational issue that’s having an impact right across the state. The fourth key thing is the emergence of terrorism; the threat to our society and the demand that threat places on police. Then there’s a reform agenda that needs to happen within the police force to make sure the structures are meeting community needs. The current structure has been in place since 1996.

What are some of those reforms going to look like?

It’s about making sure the diversity of the state and the communities are met with the same diversity in the structure of the police. I’m very much opposed to a one

size fits all model. Like for like is how we need to work, and the police structure needs more flexibility to meet different demands across the state.

Will there be flexibility built into those reforms to allow for a holistic approach between various government agencies to issues on the ground in communities?

Most definitely. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. So, for instance, what I’ve been doing with the Minister’s Action Group (MAG) level (in Dubbo) – making our human services responsible in a holistic approach – is pretty much a road-map for how I’d like the police and justice space to play into the future.

So the modelling work we’ve been using with MAG in Dubbo is now being looked at by Department of Premiers and Cabinet for other locations across the state.

With that approach, taxpayers get better bang for their buck if the agencies are physically working together on the ground – not just meeting over tea and biscuits.

Turning to the ice issue – is it an epidemic, or a shifting trend in drug use as a result of the heroin “drought”?

It IS an epidemic. Any of the other drug challenges we’ve had have had a “slow burn” in terms of its impact on the individual and on the community. But this thing has a rapid affect – and I don’t think I’ve seen a more gross impact on human dignity than ice has. It’s expedited the physical and mental health consequences and the criminality consequences of drug use to the fore a lot more quickly. So yes, it’s an epidemic rather than a shift in drug use and patterns.

So is it this ice epidemic that’s fuelling the perception that crime is out of control, particularly in regional communities where it’s so visible?

Look, broadly across the state, crime categories are steady or declining. In regional areas, on a per capita basis they’re rising or above state averages – and that’s unacceptable. But it’s been the same phenomenon for decades and decades – the fact that crime has a greater impact on smaller communities because it’s felt and it’s more visible. So, for instance, 200 break and enters in Surry Hills has a different impact on the community than 200 break and enters will have in Dubbo. So the

I have no intention of trying to “repolice”, but I do have a unique insight into the demands of policing.

volume is the same, but the affect is far greater. Also, the likelihood that the crime will be a repeat offence is higher in regional areas. That’s something we’re going to have to challenge.

So in the case of ice, if you have one dealer coming in and doing 20 deals in a metropolitan area, it’s going to have far less of an impact than in a rural area. And that’s what we’re facing.

You also now have the justice ministry. In layman’s terms what does that portfolio cover?

It covers Attorney General’s department, the oversight bodies, liquor and gaming and corrective services – probation and parole, juvenile justice, all those things. So it’s the overarching broad budgetary portfolio for all those areas. I still have an Attorney General and a Minister for Corrective Services underneath me, they’ll do the operational stuff, whereas my role is more about policy and budgets. The role of justice is to make sure our response across all those portfolios is more cohesive and complementary. Rather than have these areas operate in “silos”, the justice portfolio is to make them operate more holistically – so, for instance, if there’s reform in the Attorney General or the court space, that’s not going to have an adverse impact on corrective services or vice versa.

There’s quite a bit of cross-over between the two portfolios, then – police and justice – so it makes sense to marry them together.

Exactly. That’s why the Premier and I designed it that way – to reduce the amount of duplication or adverse impact from the crossover between the various departments. It’s called a “cluster” – so policy and resources will be more complementary.

There’s a perception of the judiciary being out of touch with community standards. What’s your comment on that and do you have any authority in this new role over the accountability of the judiciary?

The answer is yes. That’s definitely a major challenge. The judiciary, as the pillar of our law, has to be independent so the probity and the integrity of the system remains. But what’s happened is that it’s become isolated from the community and that’s what we need to address – expectation wise and communication wise. So the Attorney General and I will be working closely to improve that by removing that isolation of the judiciary from the community so it is being more reflective and responsive to community expectations.

And yes, I’ll have a significant role to play in that. But I don’t have all the answers just a few days into the job.

It’s a fine line, though, isn’t it? Because community expectation can far exceed reality when it comes to the judiciary.

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In the past decade or more, we’ve gone down the path of a legal system rather than a system of justice and I’d like to restore that balance.

It can, yes. But we can overcome a lot of that by improving communication as to how and why a court has reached a decision. There are restrictions, obviously, from a privacy perspective and a lot of those restrictions are legitimate but there are better ways to communicate court outcomes to the community so that the angst is mitigated and the discussion isn’t hijacked by some commentators above what’s needed.

There’s been a lot of concern about the shifting sands of the bail act – what are your thoughts, and are there any further reforms in the pipeline?

As with anything in law, the bail act has to be a living, breathing instrument. I think it’s now landed a lot closer to what the original intent was and that was to make sure the onus was back on the offender for community safety when bail was considered. The judiciary took greater license with their discretionary ability and the interpretation of the laws than was intended – that’s why the Hatzistergos Review was important. There are still changes that need to be bedded down so that police have confidence in the new act that it’s hitting the mark, but it’s closer now to hitting the mark of what the community wants.

The impact of social media on crime, the discussion and reporting of crime, on the allocation of police resources, and on criminal activity itself – is there any policy in the making, and is it something we need to take more seriously at a legislative level?

I think the laws certainly aren’t up to the same speed as the evolution of social media, that’s for sure. It’s not something I’ve given a lot of thought to yet in these early days, but it’s something we really need to be conscious of. I know just in my day to day work, the impact of social media and the 24 hour news cycle makes my job vastly different as a member of parliament than it would have been 20 years ago. It also makes the job of policing very different. Police have embraced social media – for instance iWatch, an online neighbourhood watch program which was first trialled in Narromine and is now more broadly in Dubbo – so there are some benefits to policing from social media. But again, the most common word I’m using is balance.

One of your predecessors in the role of Police Minister is Mike Gallacher, who’s being hauled before ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) – that must be disap-

pointing for you, but are the parameters of that oversight body something you’ll be looking into?

I think everyone in politics is disappointed with the revelations of the ICAC inquiries – it’s put a blight on all of us and we’ve all been tarnished to an extent by those revelations, although I’m proud that no Nationals have been caught up in all that.

But with all the oversight bodies – the Police Integrity Commission, ICAC and the Ombudsman – my role is to review the functions and operations of all three.

Are they effective as they are?

Well, that’s what we need to look at – are they effective, and are they doing the job the community wants them to do?

There’s a need for our community to have those oversight bodies, so people can have confidence – but are they all still relevant? Or is there a consolidation opportunity there? That’s what I’ll be exploring in the review of these oversight bodies.

One thing I have picked up is that the work of ICAC – which is an inquisitorial model – has revealed significant issues of corruption and potential corruption yet the community hasn’t seen that translated into a justice outcome.

Hence the accusation of ICAC being a “toothless tiger”?

Yes. That’s the disconnect the community sees. So the underlying edict of what I’d like to achieve over the next four years is to give the community confidence that we no longer operate under a legal system – that we have instead a true and reflective justice system. In the past decade or more, we’ve gone down the path of a legal system rather than a system of justice and I’d like to restore that balance.

Just between the two of us, any tips on who the new Commissioner will be?

(Laughs). Ummm, no. I was asked the other day after we were sworn in if I was a (Nick) Kaldas man or a (Catherine) Burn man – to which I replied, “I’m a NSW man”.

I’ll always act in the best interests of the state and the new commissioner will need to do two things: lead the organisation internally, and help me as the Minister to lead the community.

So the best man or woman for the job gets the gig?

Exactly. My preference is to source from within NSW. The experiment in ’96 of installing a Commissioner from overseas didn’t work out that well.

Now, finally – you’ve downsized the number of portfolios you hold, but it’s still a pretty big workload you’ll be carrying.

You’re not going to forget us out here are you?

Not at all. I heard the concerns of the local community in relation to the size of my ministerial portfolio – so while I have a large scale of responsibility within the portfolios I now have, I think the work I do in this space (as Police and Justice Minister) will have a direct impact locally on the communities of my electorate and I think that’s something people will be pleased about.

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Mill spins a good yarn for regional produce

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

WO young engineers have become the driving force behind a move to make the production of alpaca fibre a more viable and accessible product, providing more regional manufacturing jobs in the process.

Adagio Alpaca Mills is only a couple of months away from producing balls of alpaca yarn from its location in the heart of Orange.

Tree-changers, Nadine and Andrew Hulme fell in love with the “colour city” eight years ago, and for the past four years have called home a picturesque block on the banks of the Spring Creek Reservoir, where soft-footed alpacas are perfectly suited to their nine acres.

Nadine Hulme says her family have put their heart and soul into the mill venture, sharing their passion with others through a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise dollars the bank couldn’t provide.

Worth an estimated half a million dollars, the Hulmes have made a significant investment in the industry and the manufacturing sector of their home town.

Balancing six-month-old Xavier on her hip, Nadine Hulme hand feeds her alpacas, calling each by name, grinning widely as she talks about each of her ‘pets’ and the mill project.

She’s juggling the logistics of the project, two small children under three and the alpaca farm, while husband Andrew continues his work as a mining engineer.

Hulme explains it was their own experience of having their alpaca fleeces processed at the nearest mill in Victoria that’s seen them put everything “on the line” for this venture.

“They do a fantastic job and we were really pleased with what we got back, but they have a really long lead time... all the mills had lead times in the order of months. One of our fleeces took about

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four months to come back to us.”

Hulme says this make it very difficult to plan, adding that the small scale of these mini-mills located in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, and the cost of transport to them and back makes the development of an enduser market prohibitive.

“The real cost for us was transport – it added about 20 per cent on top of the price of processing.”

However, the Hulmes believe in the potential of a domestic industry just waiting to take off with a herd of over 300 thousand animals producing 750 tonnes of usable fibre annually, of which only about 2.5 per cent is processed in Australia.

They’re counting on support from breeders and fibre producers, particularly those within NSW, to ensure the success of Adagio Alpaca Mills, believing the Orange based small-scale industrial mill will be the only alpaca dedicated mill in Australia capable of producing yarn at a price that will allow fleece producers to value-add or produce an end-user market for the yarn.

The Hulmes are currently expecting to produce three times more yarn annually than the mini-mills – about 18 tonne of alpaca fleece.

It’s their collective engineering experience now kicking in with logistics and planning for the mill’s June start, informed by the launch of a pre-booking system to ensure product before the alpaca shearing season really kicks off in spring.

“My skills are in delivering a project,” explains Nadine Hulme.

“When we were looking at doing this project, we couldn’t believe no one was

doing it in NSW at the time...then we looked at each other and said ‘We’re the right people to be doing this!’”

After extensive research and several overseas trips they made the decision to have their mill made in Italy by a company able to produce a smaller scale industrial style mill.

They’re now keenly anticipating the arrival and commissioning of the machinery next month.

“We’ll actually be the first people in the world to have an entire mill sourced by this company of this scale, with the capacity to do 10 to 15 kilos an hour.

“Our main processes will include washing, carding, a pin-drafter – one of our critical pieces of equipment, a spinner, a ball winder and a comb winder.”

It’s the pin-drafter that will also set the Hulmes mill aside from other domestic mills, effectively producing a more even product than what would come straight from the carder to the spinner.

“Typically the mills in Australia are woollen mills. By having this pin-drafter in the mill makes us a semi-worsted product.

“That means it’s very, very good for weaving and fabric creation, for being able to do a finer yarn. We’ll still be able to do the bulkier yarns as well, but it’ll allow us to get to a finer point.”

The first ball of yarn to roll off the production line is still a couple of months away and already the Hulmes have ambitious expansion plans mapped out for the next five to 10 years.

Initially they’re expecting to employ six people, but the long-term plan is to build a much larger capacity mill, incorporating a tourism venture, run by as many as 30 to 40 employees.

We’ll actually be the first people in the world to have an entire mill sourced by this company of this scale...” – Nadine Hulme PHOTOS: KIM V. GOLDSMITH

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BELOW | Nadine Hulme with her son, Xavier.

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

Hughie hears our prayers HO needed Easter eggs when liquid gold was falling from the skies?

Hughie heard the prayers of farmers in the region, with up to 50mm of rain received in some parts of the region across the Easter weekend. In general, the Orana region recorded 20-50mm while falls were lighter in the Far West, with 15-25mm.

In Dubbo, 32mm fell across the four days, and the wet weather included a drop in temperature and thunderstorm, including hail, late on Easter Monday. Further west, Trangie recorded 44mm, while Nyngan (9mm) and Walgett (8.6mm) weren’t as lucky.

Coonabarabran received 38.2mm while Mudgee rain gauges were on 35.4mm.

To the north of the state, Inverell has received a massive 112mm so far this month.

The rain was a welcome relief for farmers, with many already looking at sowing winter crops as a result. In terms of the drought though, much more rainfall is needed to have any long-term benefit.

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Taskforce to tackle “ice” scourge PARKES MP Mark Coulton welcomed the establishment of a National Ice Action Strategy to tackle the growing scourge of the drug ice (crystal methamphetamine) in the community.

The first step in developing the strategy will be a National Ice Taskforce. Assistant health minister Fiona Nash and justice minister Michael Keenan will oversee the taskforce and lead the government’s response to the ice issue.

“Ice use is a growing problem that is hitting our regional and rural communities hard,” Coulton said this week.

“It is a substance that literally destroys people’s minds. It causes psychosis and long term psychological issues, not only ruining individual’s lives but destroying families and hurting communities.”

The Taskforce will provide an interim report to the Prime Minister by the middle of this year. The Prime Minister will take the report to the first subsequent meeting of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG).

Accidents aplenty on local roads EASTER proved a busy time for emergency services, with a number of accidents reported on Dubbo roads.

A multi-car pile-up occurred on the LH Ford on the Thursday morning before the four day break, after an under-age driver in a stolen car led police through the city streets before ploughing into the back of stationary vehicles stopped at the intersection of Macquarie St and the Mitchell Highway. Significant damage resulted and the driver at fault was arrested by police.

Later in the day, emergency services were called to a single vehicle accident on the Mitchell Highway at Geurie, near Deep Creek, where a Ford Falcon rolled.

The 71-year-old male occupant was able to escape the vehicle unharmed,

but the 70-year-old female occupant was trapped for an hour until released by emergency personnel and taken to hospital.

On Saturday morning, a 42-year-old female driver crashed her car at the intersection of the Newell Highway and Obley Rd, south of the city centre.

“The driver was travelling south on the Newell Highway before negotiating the turn onto Obley Rd where she lost control and collided with a tree,” Orana Local Area Command Inspector Gemini Bakos told Dubbo Weekender.

The accident impacted on the driver’s door trapping the woman in her car until she was released by members of the Volunteer Rescue Squad.

She suffered minor injuries to her right arm. It is not known whether wet weather contributed to the accident.

Fortunately, there were no serious injuries incurred as a result of car crashes in Dubbo during the four-day weekend.

However, a Dubbo driver was caught driving travelling at nearly 60km/h over the speed limit near Molong on Easter Sunday and has lost his licence as well as being fined more than $2000.

The arrest was made as part of the State-wide Operation Tortoise long weekend traffic operation.

A proud Michael Jeffrey with his Nanga Mai award for Public Speaking.

Intruder on the loose after violent home invasion THE residents of a Darling Street home in Dubbo are still reeling after a violent home invasion in the early hours of Easter Monday. At 3am, one of six residents answered the door to an intruder with a knife.

“They were confronted by a male person who assaulted the occupant at the door before entering the premises,” Orana Local Area Command Inspector Gemini Bakos said.

“He then entered the residence and held the knife towards another resident while making threats.”

He demanded cash and a mobile phone before striking a third resident with the butt of the knife. He escaped through the rear of the home. The assailant is described as being of Aboriginal appearance, of a thin build and aged between 20 and 30. He was wearing dark-coloured clothing and a stocking over his face at the time of the attack.

Gun theft in town A MAN who only left his Dubbo home for a short time was shocked to find he’d been robbed of his firearms after just a two-hour hiatus.

The robbery occurred on an inner city home in the evening on Good Friday.

During the home invasion, give firearms were stolen: a.22 calibre rifle, 12 gauge double barrel shotgun,.22 Magnum rifle, 6.5 calibre rifle and a.30 calibre rifle.

Hard work pays off for public speaker A BELIEF in himself, resilience, dedication and sheer hard work are what Dubbo College Senior Campus captain Michael Jeffrey credits for achieving a

State-wide public speaking award.

The 17-year-old, who has a stutter, has worked tirelessly to master his vocal expression in the public arena and was rewarded with a Nanga Mai award for outstanding achievement in public speaking during a dinner at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney.

Pool closes for winter And as one water feature opens, another is closed, with Dubbo City Council announcing April 2 as the last day of operation for Dubbo Aquatic and Leisure Centre for the 2015 season.

The facility welcomed more than 90,000 visitors through the gates this season. It will remain closed until September 2015.

Suspicious death of Neilrex toddler THE loss of a 20-month-old boy is being investigated by police from Mudgee Local Area Command after his death aroused suspicion.

He died at Coolah District Hospital on March 23 after an ambulance retrieved him from a Merrygoen Road property, 60km south of Coonabarabran.

They responded to a report of a toddler who had been coughing, and who appeared not to be breathing. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

Police have formed Strike Force Toora to investigate the matter.

Police officer injured in crash A POLICE officer has been injured following a three-car crash near Parkes on Easter Monday.

The accident occurred just before 9am, on the Eugowra Road, 15km south of Parkes.

Investigations have led police to believe a man travelling north in a white ute stopped to turn right into a private property.

A Subaru station wagon driven by a woman in the same direction collided with the ute, causing the ute to enter the south-bound lane.

The ute and a Traffic and Highway Patrol vehicle travelling in a southerly direction then collided in the south-bound lane.

The woman, aged 69, was treated at the scene before being airlifted to Orange Base Hospital with serious injuries.

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New-look duck pond for Victoria Park THE water birds of Victoria Park have never had it so good, with the opening of the new-look duck pond in the local public garden.

Dubbo City Council manager horticultural services Ian McAlister said the construction works have included the resealing of the original concrete shell, which was constructed in 1896 and the fountain has been repaired and painted.

The work was completed as part of the Victoria Park Rehabilitation Master Plan after being identified as an issue in 2012 due to considerable water loss.

The reconstructed Rotary Pond was re-opened just in time for Easter.

The new-look duck pond at Victoria Park. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

The police officer, a senior constable aged 34, was treated at the scene for shock and also flown to Orange Base Hospital to be treated for back and neck injuries.

The man in the ute was treated at the scene for shock.

Easter show winners DUBBO’S Roseville Park has collected a number of prizes in the fine wool section of the Royal Easter Show in Sydney.

The local Merino stud took home the ribbon for Reserve Champion Fine Medium Wool August Shorn Merino Ewe, Champion Fine Medium Wool March Shorn Merino Ewe and the Best Exhibit of Five Merino August Shorn Sheep. Elong Elong poultry breeder Brad O’Leary also grabbed the award for Champion Bantam Wyandotte, Champion Belgian and Champion Bantam

Belgian at the annual event which showcases the best of the country in the city.

Meanwhile at the show...

SIX young leaders from regional NSW are on track to turn their dream into a reality with the announcement of recipients of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS) Foundation 2015 Community Futures Grant.

Megan Callow of Junee, Helen De Costa of Braidwood, Chris Duley of Wanaaring, Paris Norton of Coonabarabran, Katie Rowe of Gulargambone and David Ryan of Uralla will each receive a grant, up to the value of $25,000, from the RAS Foundation to activate a project which will benefit their local communities.

The Community Futures Grant is open to NSW residents under the age of 35 and encourages young people living

in rural areas to take a leadership role in improving their community by addressing local issues and needs.

Success for new care service THE Dubbo Gardens independent seniors community is celebrating the first anniversary of its successful Ingenia Care Assist service this month.

In its first year of operation, the free Ingenia Care Assist service – which connects Dubbo Gardens residents with critical health, social and domestic service providers – has given advice and support to three local residents and more than 250 Ingenia Communities residents nationwide.

The free service provides information and advocacy to seniors and their families, giving them peace of mind as Care

Assist assesses their needs and organises the care for them. It also works to increase community awareness of the range of services available to seniors, often for little to no cost at all.

Dream run ends for Nestor stable IT was not the dream run hoped for the Peter Nestor stable when his gelding Dane De Lago finished 15th in the Country Championships final at Royal Randwick Racecourse on Easter Monday. The local horse was the Country Qualifier winner at Dubbo Turf Club.

Gilgandra’s Bruce Parker, who qualified for the final with Yes Zariz after finishing second in the Dubbo heat, finished two places ahead of Dane De Lago.

The races were affected by rain delays.

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Lawyers toast as Bombers cleared after media circus HAT?!

The Essendon players have been cleared of taking banned substances?

Freakin’ what?! More than two years after what was touted as the “blackest day in sport” all 34 players have been cleared of wrong-doing.

The Australian Sports AntiDoping Authority (ASADA) conceded last week that its marathon investigation of illegal substances being used by past and present Essendon players has come to nought.

Curiously however, 12 players from the NRL’s Cronulla club accused of similar behaviour admitted to what now seem nonexistent breaches and received a 12-month ban, albeit back-dated.

Essendon coach, James Hird took 12 months off with pay – what we in the world outside professional sport call a “holiday” – but his reputation was battered.

And in an age when Lance Armstrong’s legacy was ripped to pieces for finally admitting to using performance-enhacing drugs, the very same allegations were levelled again 34 Essendon players, in their prime, who had to wait more than two years to be totally cleared.

That sound you can hear is Melbourne’s legal fraternity popping champagne.

But this was more than sport. If it was just some side-line legalese about who injected what, it would not matter, because ultimately sport doesn’t matter where it extends beyond exercise for individuals to be a silly corporate cult.

It is two teams, in matching outfits, kicking a ball for points and pay, not cancer research.

But there’s egg on more faces than ASADA’s.

The press conference that launched the “Blackest day in

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sport” headlines included not only ASADA but also the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), not one but two federal government Ministers and the heads of the major sporting bodies in this country.

This was at the point where these were, as we now know, allegations without a great deal of substance or evidence to support them, which is the inevitable conclusion you reach when 34 Bombers’ players – that is, every single one of them – are subsequently cleared.

It makes you wonder why the Cronulla Sharks rolled over. That sound you hear is their legal team letting the phone go through to message bank.

But as if still giddy from the whole insane merry-go-round, ASADA boss Ben McDevitt issued a statement last Tuesday following the announcement of the all-clear verdict, saying he was furious that what happened at Essendon in 2012 was, “in my opinion, absolutely and utterly disgraceful”.

Brother Fox, it’s not always my strongpoint either, but sometimes it’s really time to shut up.

And you identify these occasions as those which might follow your organisation kicking off a slanderous investigation – one of the most unsuccessful in modern sporting history, you’d have to think – with the most overblown episode of shameless media grandstanding in recent memory.

The ACC for god’s sake?

How can your organisation find absolutely no evidence of wrong doing against any of those accused after an investigation that spanned two playing seasons and you react by describing that as “absolutely and utterly disgraceful”.

That sound you hear is Es-

ASADA Chief Executive Ben McDevitt speaks to the media during a press conference in Canberra, Wednesday, April 1. ASADA commented on the decision of the AFL Anti-Doping tribunal, after 34 past and present Essendon players involved in the controversial supplements scandal were found not guilty. PHOTO: AAP/LUKAS COCH

That sound you can hear is Melbourne’s legal fraternity popping champagne.

sendon’s lawyers failing to call through to Essendon’s management because Essendon’s management is on the phone trying to call them, as champagne corks ricochet like tracer bullets.

What passes for words of wisdom in the whole bizarre episode, ironically, came from former ASADA chief executive Richard Ings – he of the “blackest day in sport” quote – on the ABC’s 7:30 Report last Tuesday.

Ings said his “blackest day” comment in 2013, in reaction to an ACC report, may have been premature.

“Well, two years ago, some incredibly serious allegations were levelled by the most senior members of sport and politics ... but the problem was those allegations were made before the investigation had in most cases even been started.

“The learning of this is that people should not be making allegations against players of violations of anti-doping rules until the investigation is concluded and the facts are clear and able to be presented and a tribunal rules and issues a verdict.”

You don’t say.

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LONDON: Male long-distance runners are not only fitter than most – they may also find it easier to attract women, researchers say.

People who are better at running half marathons are likely to have been exposed to high levels of the sex hormone testosterone before birth, researchers from the University of Cambridge have found.

This means they not only have better cardiovascular efficiency but also a strong sex drive and high

sperm count – suggesting they have historically been chosen by women as more desirable mates.

Dr Danny Longman, from the university’s division of biological anthropology, said: “The observation that endurance running ability is connected to reproductive potential in men suggests that women in our hunter-gatherer past were able to observe running as a signal for a good breeding partner.”

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The latest research focussed on half marathon competitors and found the faster runners also tended to have longer ring fingers – a signal of hormone exposure in the womb.

Researchers say the finding suggests females may have selected mates for athletic endurance.

This may be because ‘persistence hunting’ – exhausting prey by tirelessly tracking it – was a vital

way to get food.

The team analysed 542 runners at the 2013 Robin Hood half marathon in Nottingham by photocopying hands and taking run times and other key details just after runners crossed the line.

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From Gallipoli, A Dubbo son’s Weekender presents the third of 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. Last week, Jack told of mounting excitement among the ranks that they’ll “soon be in the thick of it”. In this week’s excerpts, that anticipation mounts – and with the hindsight of 100 years, it’s clear the enthusiastic young Aussies have no earthly idea of the horror that awaits them.

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April 15, 1915 E sailed from Egypt on Saturday evening, passing through a forest of masts and tunnels into the open sea. The sun went down on our left, so we moved northwards. Our troopship came alone. The sea was calm, and no one was troubled with mal-de-mer (seasickness).

On Sunday morning Les and I attended a communion service, conducted by Colonel Chaplain Greene and there were three Generals, including General Birdwood, present.

A church parade was held later, and after the service General Birdwood addressed us. He said we were to take part in a big job and he was pleased to lead the Australians, in whom he had every confidence. He concluded by asking us not to waste ammunition, food or water.

We arrived this morning at the base of an island somewhere in the Mediterranean. A torpedo boat met us, and led the ship into the harbour, where we found at anchor English and French warships, a Russian cruiser, and a number of troopships and colliers. At the entrance lay the largest battleship afloat, the Queen Elizabeth, with its big guns pointing threateningly to sea.

But although the scene on the water was exceedingly warlike, the landscape offered a delightful contrast. On the verdant hills cultivated fields stand out; a flock of sheep browse peacefully within a stone’s throw of the shore; wind-mills, like toy houses, appear on the hilltops; and a handful of houses clustering together betray the presence of a village. Our anchor had not been dropped 10 minutes before a number of Greeks were alongside with boats laden with oranges, figs, walnuts, Turkish delight and cigarettes, and as the ship’s canteen supplies had already been exhausted they did a roaring trade.

It won’t be long now before we are in the thick of the fight. There will be a combined attack, and we shall operate with a big fleet of battleships, while aeroplanes will play, or fly, their part. It will be a grand sight to see this triple warfare on land, sea, and in the air. The troops are very cheerful, and the general tone is one of great confidence; and I’m certain that we shall do our share nobly and well.

Les and I are in the best of health, and everyone is fit for war. My kindest regards to all friends.

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FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

15th April, 1915 WROTE from here on Monday, the 12th, and as opportunity and the censor still await, I’ll write again. This land locked harbour has its broad expanse of water covered with troopships and warships, that lie at anchor

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It won’t be long now before we are in the thick of the fight. There will be a combined attack, and we shall operate with a big fleet of battleships, while aeroplanes will play, or fly, their part.

facing the narrow entrance; while naval pinnaces, tugs and rowing boats are constantly on the move.

Helios, flash their messages from ship to ship by day, and the Morse lamps twinkle from mastheads at night.

The weather is delightfully cool, and we have practically nothing to do but rest and sleep. The peaceful surroundings of the hills, with their hue far greener than the sea, seem to offer an Arcadian existence.

Yesterday the battalion went ashore in the ship’s boats, and a route march was taken through one of the villages.

Though compactly built, with narrow streets, everything was neat and clean a fact that we greatly appreciated after the dirt and smells of Arab villages. The windmills that gave a touch of Dutch to the landscape, we found are used for turning stones that grind the grain. I’m enclosing, with other snaps, a view of them that was taken

by Les. We are remaining here longer than we expected, but elaborate preparations are being made for the combined attack that will shortly be made by the army and navy.

The scene of operations is but 50 miles away, and yester-

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A supplied image dated 1915 shows a New Zealand soldier fusing jam tin bombs, Gallipoli, Turkey. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915. PHOTO: AAP/ ALEXANDER LIBRARY WELLINGTON)

We are remaining here longer than we expected, but elaborate preparations are being made for the combined attack that will shortly be made by the army and navy. day the Colonels and the headquarters’ staff made a reconnaissance of the position in one of the battleships.

Rumours are ever with us, and their origin is far more amusing than the information conveyed. The ship’s barber cuts hair, and lifts a veil to a future of

his own making, but this morning one of the lads informed us that he heard he would sail this afternoon from no less an authority than “the man who pulls the flag up”.

The ship’s rations finished for us yesterday, and we have now started on

what is known as iron rations – biscuits and bully beef for breakfast, dinner and tea. Needless to add, the Greek traders now find a big demand for their goods, which help greatly the frugal military meal.

Les, and I are well and contented.

» Next week... Jack goes ashore at Gallipoli: “Men were being hit round about me till the afternoon the uncertainty of when my own turn would come was almost unbearable...”

A supplied image dated 1915 shows Soldiers manning a howitzer gun, Gallipoli, Turkey. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915. PHOTO: AAP/ ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

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With two decades as a local journo under his belt, John Ryan has seen his fair share of election campaigns and he’s seen pollies and issues and slogans come and go. This week, he’s done an “exit poll” following last month’s state election – with the local contenders themselves.

N an era where politics is seen as a cynical power play, can I go on record as saying that the No Land Tax Party is about the worst abuse of the democratic system I’ve seen.

It does rank behind the level of corporate and billionaire influence in politics but it’s pretty much a mirror image of Clive Palmer’s self-serving assault on the corridors of power.

I have in my possession a brochure from this alleged party on how to be a paid worker spruiking the party line on election day and it’s a shocker.

We’ve seen how the payments have turned out, but it’s the last paragraph on the worker instructions that really annoys me.

“Please check out nolandtax.com.au before the day. You DO NOT need to become an expert on land tax – just so long as you’ve got some vague idea of who you’re handing out for...”

I kid you not. That garbage is followed by a digital smiley face and I could even see the tongue in cheek.

Despite the chaos of the Senate and state upper houses we need to allow minor parties and individuals their say in politics.

But to stand candidates around the state, many of whom seem never to have set foot in “their” electorates, is beyond a joke, and electoral reform needs to happen so this becomes illegal – if you don’t live there, you can’t stand for that seat.

My other bugbear is the gutless internet know-it-alls who send comment after comment to newspaper editors and blogs without signing their names.

If you’re not going to put your name to it, don’t say it – if you’re too scared to show your face, your point of view mustn’t be worth printing. It’s truly pathetic.

But wait, there’s more.

“As you hand someone a flyer – please say the words “TEACH THEM BOTH A LESSON”. This is our slogan. This is very important. If a voter starts asking a lot of questions simply refer them to the

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website”, the flyer states.

I think the state government’s first order of business should be to investigate this party and tax the crap out of them.

This whole exercise smacks of allegedly trying to subvert the political process to feather personal nests.

The Dubbo electorate was well served by our four main candidates this time around, Troy Grant, Stephen Lawrence, Matt Parmeter and Col Hamilton.

All four put in enormous hours and, knowing them pretty well, they’re all extremely strong in their convictions – they must be to put themselves through the political wringer.

Let’s hope the Coalition makes an early start in this new term to drive through its various mandates and that regional NSW reaps the promised rewards.

And, whatever you think of the partial leasing of the electricity networks, it’s a credit to Premier Mike Baird and his team that they took such a controversial policy to a general election, we haven’t seen that sort of political courage in Australia for a long time.

So what did those four main local contenders have to say in the wash-up from the March election? Glad you asked:

Troy Grant – Member for Dubbo and Deputy NSW Premier “MASSIVE, mate,” is how Troy Grant describes the personal toll the past four years and, in particular, the short few months since being elevated to the leader of the Nationals and the office of NSW Deputy Premier.

Unlike the other candidates standing for the seat of Dubbo, Grant’s life in the spotlight has been continuous and ongoing, with the recent

campaign to defend the party heartland against protests about coal seam gas (CSG) an added heightening of reality.

“A constant juggling act” is how he describes his current life. “(My wife) Toni’s resigned to being a single mum; it’s the nature of the role.

You make sacrifices to be an MP but MP’s families sacrifice far more.”

He says the Scottish side of his heritage sometimes wants to take over and leave burnt villages in its wake.

“It breaks my heart not to be there for my kids dance, sport, school”, Grant says.

“The kids get commentary on my performance; they get taunts and bullying and it’s tough to ignore, tough to cop, particularly when I can’t be there for them.

“It’s not always done maliciously but bringing my kids into it is unjustifiable – my family pays a massive price to allow me to go off and serve the people of our state”, he says.

Grant says it’s also difficult to reconcile that heartbreaking personal cost with the tremendous sense of personal achievement the opportunity of being deputy premier has given him.

He says he’s humbled by the state’s turnaround from an economic basket case covered in the stench of systemic political corruption to being the national leader in so many areas, especially within such a short timeframe.

“I’m enormously proud.

Barry O’Farrell and Andrew Stoner set up the architecture of government to reform NSW – we had to

do it, we were in a perilous position’, the Deputy Premier says.

“We were last in every economic measure and indicator, behind even Tasmania and on track to lose our AAA credit rating after the ALP sold Lotto and the gen traders to fudge the books and camouflage a near $6 billion black hole.

“We also had to change the investment behaviour of the government into the regions instead of focussing almost solely on Sydney.”

Grant says the “bean counters” in the bureaucracy have been woken up to the fact that they didn’t ever factor in the cascading social outcomes.

“When we build hospitals it’s not considered a “wise” commercial investment because it’s a cost for government.

“But there’s job creation in building those hospitals and then more jobs for permanent employees when the construction has been completed – economists don’t count that social investment.

“I believe that if you build it they will come and since the first upgrade to Dubbo Base Hospital we’ve already attracted 13 specialists to the city and they all employ extra people for administration and the like.”

The ethos amongst the Nats, he says, is to create a natural balance where regional investment is seen as a normal part of the equation; to get rid of the geographical disadvantage country NSW has suffered from for so long.

Grant says he was infuriated by accusations of pork-barrelling during the election campaign and couldn’t believe people were criticising the Nationals for promising to deliver the essential infra-

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structure for which regional NSW had been screaming out in the past few decades.

“We had to overcome the cynicism and we’ve never had a greater cynicism regarding the credibility of politicians after years of political spin dominating substance.

“Politics in general is at its lowest ebb, capped off by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) revelations.

“So when you balance the books and make genuine commitments it’s hard to get the people to believe you.”

It’s a personally hurtful situation Grant says after delivering on all his previous public commitments.

Another gripe is the slipping ethics in debating public policy – he can’t stand people not having the courage of their convictions by putting their names to comments in blogs and online newspapers, and is further upset that newspapers print letters and comments without bothering to insist on names.

“I’m held to the highest standard but the old standards of debate have gone and others aren’t held to the same account,” he says.

Asked to name the most significant thing he’d found out about himself since entering politics there’s a stunned silence, as if things have been far too frantic to allow that sort of introspection.

Eventually, he names a positive and a negative.

“I’m told I have an ability to bring people together and inspire them,” he says, crediting that ability to his years of problem solving and making do with available resources in the NSW Police.

“I’ve learned where my weaknesses are and there’s no-one more critical of them than me. I get intolerant at times so I need to have a bit more patience.”

That intolerance must be hardest to bear when he’s away from home and hears that his kids have been hammered back in Dubbo, and to know that for all his powers as the second in charge of the state, he’s powerless to help them.

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the party selecting Steve Lawrence, the head solicitor at Dubbo’s Western Aboriginal Legal Service who got into a stoush early on with Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson about leniency in sentencing.

That’s a stand that doesn’t get the popular vote in Dubbo and one a party machine adviser would almost certainly advise against, yet Lawrence stuck to his guns despite the potential electoral damage.

He says he found the widespread cynicism and disdain for politics to be disappointing.

“You talk to so many people during a campaign and you realise just how wide the gulf is between the governed and the governors,” Lawrence says.

“Many people you meet believe the solutions to problems are available, simple and being denied them by selfish or incompetent politicians. The truth is largely otherwise – governing is complex and we get the politicians we deserve in my observation; no more or less flawed than the community and people generally.

“I am not sure what the answer is but this gulf and its accompanying burning contempt for politicians (and candidates) needs to be somehow bridged.”

He said his personal highlight was knowing he didn’t disappoint all those who urged him to stand and wanted him to do well.

“I was encouraged and inspired by all the people who told me how well I was campaigning and that they thought I was a credible candidate. One lady told me on election evening she had voted informal all her life but had voted for me. I was a bit tired and emotional at the time and she got a reaction from me. ‘”Having run murder trials and other important litigation in my professional life was good training for the pressure inherent in politics.”

Lawrence says he ran because he loves a challenge and to advocate for things he believes in and is passionate about but the October start, while working fulltime up until February, was a draining experience.

“The combined stress sometimes

Stephen Lawrence – The ALP’s candidate FOR a number of recent elections the ALP “ran dead” in Dubbo, twice selecting very young and inexperienced blokes who didn’t even live in the electorate, bringing the party in for scathing and on-going criticism.

The rationale was that the ALP couldn’t win Dubbo, but running a weak race would see as many votes as possible flowing to the strong independents, the next best thing.

This time it was a different story, with

I am generally a pretty resilient person but the odd social media troll got under my skin which I hate admitting to.” Stephen Lawrence

made me feel very anxious and strung out.

My partner was a huge support and he deserves a medal for what he’s put up with for the past six months,” he says.

“I am generally a pretty resilient person but the odd social media troll got under my skin which I hate admitting to.”

Revealing exclusively to Dubbo Weekender, Lawrence said there’s actually a special place in heaven for people who contest safe conservative seats for the Labor Party.

“Because of my efforts I will be residing in said special place at some point in the hopefully distant future; accordingly I feel entirely satisfied about the investment of my time, energy and resources into the campaign.”

He said he knew from the outset that he “almost certainly could not win Dubbo”.

“Nonetheless you become such a magnet for polarised opinion during a campaign that you can begin to entertain fanciful notions in the back of your mind at times,” Lawrence admits.

“When the results came in largely as I expected I did feel disappointed in some ways but not in any deep way. I mainly felt proud and happy that more people had voted Labor in Dubbo than in a long time.

“I can only imagine how it would feel to lose a winnable seat and I imagine it’s gut wrenching.”

On Labor’s past efforts he said he’s enormously proud of previous candidates Andrew Brooks and Brendan Byron.

“Andrew particularly deserves a medal for running in the 2011 election in the political environment then – I could never have done what they did when I was that age.

“The support from the party was fantastic locally and people like Phil Priest, Joe Knagge and others were of huge assistance to me personally and politically,” Lawrence says.

“Head office supported me as much as they could with resources and excellent advice but ultimately politics is local and you have to take on the challenges yourself.

“The Labor party put unprecedented resources into all seats this time; every seat got a base level generous package of posters, leaflets, hand-outs, t-shirts and so on – obviously everyone could do with more but resources are limited and political parties make political decisions so I’m not complaining.”

Lawrence’s one-word takeaway from the campaign is “challenging”, with the hardest thing being interviewed on live radio, where you have to be on top of an array of complex detail with little latitude for mistakes.

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Matt Parmeter – Seasoned Greens candidate

CLIMATE CHANGE “guru” Al Gore, whose personal CO2 emissions approach those of a medium size airline, once famously said “it’s easy being Green”.

He was subsequently exposed as a huge individual emitter of greenhouse gases which he offset with his great personal wealth, a fortune built on his reputation as a “greenie”.

In Dubbo, especially without Gore’s celebrity-driven advantages, it’s much more difficult to be green.

Just ask local Greens candidate Matt Parmeter, who’s stood for the party in the past five elections, both state and federal.

Asked why he keeps banging his head up against an emissions-laden brick wall, at huge financial and personal cost and all the stress that comes with standing, he said, “John, let me tell you a story”.

“When I was a kid growing up on a small farm we’d go and play in the rocks catching lizards,” Parmeter says.

“I knew every crack in the rocks and where the lizards hid and there used to be heaps. Now, and I was there just three weeks ago, I found just one.”

He says local extinctions are the first phase of things going wrong on a larger scale, the ubiquitous canary in the coalmine.

“Once you join up enough of these local extinctions you’ve lost something, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.

“You have to do what you can and so I’ve been out there standing, getting the message out there on renewable energy, clean jobs, exporting green power from the regions to the cities and hoping to make things better for the future.”

Many Green politicians and identities are renowned for their “take no prisoners” uncompromising and confrontational attitudes whereas Matt Parmeter seems universally liked and respected in a deeply conservative regional electorate, including by his political foes.

“It’s not a political party thing, we all have different personalities,” he says.

“My idea is to all work together on a solution; it’s best to sit and talk things through, get an agreement and put it in place.

“I was just born with that nature –

My idea is to all work together on a solution; it’s best to sit and talk things through, get an agreement and put it in place.” Matt Parmeter

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work out what people’s natures are, and meet in the middle. With most people there’s something you can agree on, some common ground.”

He’s pleased to see the Greens working closely with farmers and country communities on the issue of CSG, which is going to provide continued headaches for state and federal Nats and Libs, but says the Green vote was strong across the board.

“It’s good – inner city and regional Greens elected reflecting various social and geographic parts of NSW,” he says.

Parmeter sees the huge uptake of domestic solar energy and the 80 per cent decrease in photovoltaic panels as driving an unstoppable power revolution, and showing people practically that the Greens, the early adopters of solar power, were right on the money all those years ago.

“Every single person I’ve talked to supports solar energy and it’s across all political parties,” he says.

He points to the SEXI (Solar Energy Exchange Initiative) proposal being passed unanimously through the NSW Upper House and unanimously through the federal senate because people see jobs and other benefits.

In the big picture view he says it’s the Great Transformation – keeping the electricity grid working but without the need to shovel coal in the front end of the system. Matt Parmeter believes it will be as big a change as when regional NSW was hooked up to the grid in the 1920s.

“One of the things that drives me to stand is this Great Transformation.

“But if anyone else wants to stand up and say it, that’d be great.”

Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender ing the campaign.

“I felt so strongly about it I had to give it my best shot, my heart and soul, and you have to do these things properly or not at all.”

Hamilton was disappointed in his final vote but says it’s difficult to sway people from their normal voting patterns, even if many believed the anitCSG was the wrong path to follow.

“I knew it would be tough; we didn’t have the time, experience or resources but I was continually re-inspired by the positive feedback we were getting from people as concerned as we were.”

The “we” he’s referring to is wife Bev who was constantly by his side during the frantic six week campaign.

“I wouldn’t have achieved half if it without her, she’s my rock and sounding board,” says Hamilton.

“It’s very good to have someone on the same wavelength there; it’s easier to juggle all the things that we did.”

His campaign highlight was the attitude of first time youth voters at the Mudgee Show who said the long term future of the environment was their major concern, and who went around all the candidates to find out first hand their views on issues like CSG to ensure they were properly informed.

One word to describe the campaign? “Hectic” says Hamilton, along with “ruthless” as a descriptor of the party machines at booths on polling day.

“It was intimidating for

Col Hamilton - Farmer turned independent candidate A FEW generations ago the concept of kids running away to join the circus was well-known, if little practised.

Not so common, especially in these tough times, is a story of a farmer running away from the land (temporarily) to join in a political race.

But that, undoubtedly, is what happened when Trangie farmer Col Hamilton put daily working life at his property on hold to run as a last minute independent for the state seat of Dubbo.

At the heart of his motivation was the concern that the major players weren’t looking far enough down the track, and of the consequences of CSG allowed to proliferate in NSW. “I feel so strongly for the future, for land and water on which everyone depends, and for what sort of landscape we leave our children and grandchildren,” Hamilton says.

“If CSG gets going what’s our country going to look like? You only have to see the devastation that’s been caused in the US and parts of Queensland.

“The ALP gave the licenses out and the Nationals are keeping many of them going so the people opposed to CSG really didn’t have a seat at the table.”

Hamilton believed that if he didn’t stand, CSG would be a non-issue in the seat of Dubbo, given there hasn’t yet been much industry activity in the region.

“I’d been fighting the establishment of CSG for a while and thought I had to put my hand up so it was talked about dur-

many voters, the workers were out to get every last vote.”

Col Hamilton says he’s pushed his personal boundaries “way out there” by mounting the challenge and following through, and says he now has more confidence to help hold the state government to account for its actions on land and water, especially the granting of CSG licenses to corporates, with talk the commonwealth is pushing for gas so large companies can fulfil export contracts they may fall short on.

“It’s a big unknown – what the federal government influence is, what commitments they’ve given to gas companies.

They should just be open and honest and tell us,” he says.

But for now, it’s back to the daily farm life and a break from the crazy treadmill of campaigning.

(Disclaimer: John Ryan is the Executive Officer of Macquarie 2100, of which Col Hamilton is the chairman.)

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There are plenty of bumps along the road to retirement, but lifestyle planning specialist Barry LaValley offers local retirees and those planning this stage of their lives a few tips to smooth the way. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Kaitlyn Rennie T’S pure coincidence that a seminar focused on the twilight years of life takes place in the Starlight Room of Dubbo RSL. I’m nervous I’ll be the only one in the room with dark hair but as it turns out, those planning their retirement are not necessarily withered and grey. They’re simply smart planners approaching the next phase of their lives with the same vigour as they have every other stage.

Many milestones have already been reached: 21st birthdays, getting engaged, married, the birth of children, and with a bit of luck, significant wedding anniversaries. There’s also work achievements, buying your first home and going into business.

But retirement can be an unknown entity which people find daunting. They often say they’ll do all the things they wanted to do but didn’t during their working lives: travel, spend more time with family, volun-

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An approach to retirement: 9 Make a bucket list; 9 Enjoy things in moderation; 9 Pursue strong relationships and engaging activities; 9 Don’t think you will automatically change just because you have stopped working.

9 Be positive about the future.

You’re not a new person when you retire... If you never did new things before, you won’t start now.

teering, gardening, stuff around the house or further study.

Many people on the verge of retirement also worry more about their financial status than the emotional impact of taking such a huge step.

BREAK Retirement specialist Barry LaValley took a different stance when he was guest speaker at last week’s seminar, providing an engaging and entertaining view of what’s often described as the golden years. Addressing a full house, he spoke from the heart with neither notes nor microphone, and kept the audience interested throughout the hour and a half talk.

Upon retirement, LaValley said there’s a common misconception that everything will magically change when you hang up your working life for the very last time.

The Canadian native, dressed conservatively in tan

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slacks and navy blazer, spoke clearly and concisely about one of the biggest changes that exists in life.

“Retirement is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the world... but it’s as varied as people themselves,” he pointed out.

The best advice is to define retirement in your own terms.

“You’re not a new person when you retire,” LaValley said.

“You decide what you do. If you’re going to be bored, then you will remain bored.

Retirement is what you want it to look like...it doesn’t just happen. If you never did new things before, you won’t start now.

“You are not immune to what life gives you, but instead make your life what you want. Do as much as you can for as long as you can.”

In that regard, he said sometimes it’s a case of not wanting to stop full-time employment.

“People don’t want to leave what they are doing.

They want to keep working.”

People can also struggle without the structure of work to keep them busy and for the first time, feel less than invincible in themselves in terms of health and ability.

LaValley described a recent trip to Hobart where he stumbled and fell on the cobblestone streets of the old city. At the age of 23, he would have done a somersault and landed back on his feet, but at 62, the incident put him in hospital with bruising and suspected fractures.

“I went down like a tonne of bricks,” he told the audience.

“It was a reminder of how fragile life is and that at this age, you can fall and break things.”

However, LaValley said that while he looks older, he doesn’t feel any different than he did 40 years ago.

“Sixty-two doesn’t feel like it was supposed to. I might be bigger and grey, but inside, I don’t feel 62.”

Quoting Satchel Paige, a trailblazing baseball pitcher in America’s Negro Leagues who became the oldest rookie in Major League history, LaValley said: “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”

That led into an anecdote about someone attending their 65th high school reunion and lamenting the fact that they’d “got old”.

“But by the end of the night, we were all 18 again.”

Sometimes, LaValley said, couples can also be at odds about what they want out of retirement, each seeking different things.

“A couple lives on a farm – the wife wants to move into town but she can’t convince him it’s time to go.

And if you move him away from the farm, it will kill him.”

That’s where compromise comes in and LaValley said there is a direct correlation between the person who works at something they love and the length of their lives.

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He also explained that couples don’t have to be joined at the hip to be happy.

“They need to discuss what they each want.”

Some people will also have a false start into retirement.

“In the US, of those people retiring prior to turning 65, 70 per cent will return to the workforce within two years,” he pointed out.

As we get older, it’s easier to fall back on what we already know, rather than attempting new challenges.

“It’s our security blanket. We are less open to new things and we seek comfort at home.”

In retirement, there are six to eight transitions and LaValley said people are either self-directed or other-directed.

“You can make something out of it or you can wait for others to make something out of it.”

People who crave structure in their lives will probably fare better than others in retirement, LaValley said.

There’s also the person who looks upon retirement in a positive way rather than negatively.

“You can look at the glass as being half-empty or halffull. Optimists live 20 per cent longer than pessimists.”

Another piece of advice LaValley gave was not to get bogged down in one interest.

“If you do the same thing every day, you will lose enthusiasm for whatever you are doing. People succeed in those parts of life by doing things in moderation.”

LaValley said there is a common belief that work equals no leisure time and that retirement equals 100 per cent leisure time. A balanced lifestyle will provide a better mix.

“Education, work and leisure happens at all parts of your life.”

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Some people get so busy in retirement that they wonder how they found time to work.

LaValley mentioned a doctor who went to Tuscany to study art history and a grandmother who enrolled in a Master of Business Administration.

“The paradox of leisure is that it becomes something you are doing seven days a week, 365 days a year. You work for 30 years to then switch to solid leisure time. But where is your break? When you retire, you get to do a lot of fun things, but where is it written that you have to stop having relevance in the community?”

O what is the key to a happy retirement?

According to Martin Seligman from the University of Pennsylvania, if you want to be happy in retired life, you need to take the PERMA approach.

“Have a Positive outlook, find Engaging activities, lasting Relationships, Meaning in life and Achievements.

“Value life on a day to day basis. Every day you need to achieve something.

Some people think money is the key to happiness but no matter how much money you have, there

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Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender is no correlation between that and happiness.”

LaValley said “a lot of people don’t want to talk about retirement, because it means you are getting older”.

However, it should be something to be embraced, not rejected.

“Your hearing, vision and shortterm memory may be changing.

“You can get as many pills, creams, salves, gels and products as you like to stop the ageing process but this is a part of your life where you can do something with it. “You have to be positive about it and look forward to it. As you look at this phase, it’s better to be life-affirming rather than in age denial.

“My mother is 83 and dating again. Anything is possible.”

Create a bucket list and take each day as it comes.

“Buy green bananas,” LaValley said.

“When you don’t have all the time you think you have, you start to value what you have. You don’t have time to have bad people in your life or fight with your spouse.

You have the opportunity to have every opportunity to get everything you can. Every moment is precious. Make every minute precious.”

About Barry LaValley: Barry LaValley is the founder of the Retirement Lifestyle Center and a leading educator and authority on the lifestyle transition to retirement. Described as Canada’s selfhelp retirement Guru, LaValley works with individuals, organisations, employers and associations to help them understand and plan for their retirement life. LaValley calls the retirement life phase Prime Time and has developed programs that will help ageing boomers clarify their vision of the future. He has spoken to tens of thousands of pre-retirees in his popular retirement planning workshops.

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No bones about it, Mike Augee is a man of many talents, most notably of the palaeontology variety. He’s also an expert on echidnas and has been deputy mayor of the Central West town of Wellington. The Oregon native has a passion for music and hosts a program on a local community radio station.

WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner DON’T like to be called Doctor, people get confused and start telling me they’ve got a backache or ask me about their appendix problem or start showing me their ingrown toenail,” Mike Augee says, with a distinct American accent.

The palaeontologist holds court at Wellington Caves in all matters relating to the ancient bones of mammals.

He left the USA via ship as an assisted migrant keen to study at a university in Australia. Having already begun a degree in medicine back in Oregon, Augee tweaked his area of interest and decided to pursue four legged mammals through Monash University. The study of mammals became his focus, in particular the niche area of hibernation and temperature regulation in echidnas.

He admits he agreed to study echidnas on the advice of a professor without even knowing what they were, initially.

“I couldn’t remember so after enthusiastically agreeing, I ran down to the animal house at the university and here they were these walking pin cushions, echidnas.”

While he can’t say he “loved” echidnas, he did find them fascinating.

“If you want to study mammals, Australia is just the place to do it. There’s a fantastic array of weird and wonderful mammals here.”

He says it was somewhat of an accident that he was drawn into palaeontology at all.

“My best friend at university, Professor Archer, was a palaeontologist and in 1982 he told me he was going to Wellington to look at some fossils and would I like to come along for the ride and that was probably the first time I ever looked at a fossil in-situ, here at Wellington Caves,” he recalls.

From there, Professor Archer asked Augee to supervise a graduate student at the caves, mostly because of his extensive knowledge of anatomy, both human and animal.

And so a visit to Wellington Caves was pivotal in

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changing the course of his career.

“It’s (palaeontology) something you can do for the rest of your life because you don’t require expensive machinery; all you need is time and a brain and people to help you prepare things and fortunately there are a lot of volunteers and school groups who come to visit and wash and prepare fossils for me.”

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ELLINGTON CAVES is the source of the very first mammal fossils collected in Australia by Scottish surveyor, Major Thomas Mitchell in

1836.

This discovery was to fuel the study of megafauna, large mammals that are now long extinct. Animals like diprotodon (giant wombat), megalania (giant lizard) and thylacoleo (marsupial Lion) were known to exist in the Wellington Caves region.

Augee is quick to point out that those large mammals and dinosaurs are two separate species.

“I take tours along the caves with young people and as soon as you say fossils, most people assume that means dinosaurs,” he says. “Dinosaurs are big reptiles which we have none of at the caves, there are very few dinosaurs or Mesozoic remains (250 to 66 million years ago) in Australia at all, as a matter of fact.”

The fossils at Wellington Caves are quite recent in comparison, clocking in at about one million years old.

Some of the deposits that are still present in the walls of the caves are animals still in existence today.

But Augee says everything bigger than a grey kanga-

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roo in the deposits here, like a diprotodon, are long gone.

He says the disappearance of the megafauna from the Wellington region has always been fodder for two schools of thought; climate change (long before the recent discussions on it) and human occupation. Historically, the extinction of megafauna like the mastodons and the sabre-tooth tigers elsewhere in the world, correlates with the arrival of humans.

“The assumption was the extinction was due to the arrival of the first humans into Australia – a new and clever predator- and sadly, the fauna which was not accustomed to this type of predatory behaviour,” he explains.

In conjunction with the University of NSW in 1982, an excavation began to search for evidence that might show a climate change link to the extinction, or not.

He notes that, as is often the case with science, the more data that’s collected the less clear the outcomes can be.

“It wasn’t black and white, it was a bit of each and it’s quite apparent now that by the time humans arrived in Australia the megafauna was already in decline because Australia was dry.”

Augee says most of the fossils present at Wellington were long gone before the arrival of humans.

“We only really have hard evidence in bones mixed with Aboriginal artefacts or middens (a dump for food waste) and if there were bones of diprotodon in the middens you knew he had been dinner and based on that we can only say that six of the megafauna were here when Aboriginals arrived.”

Burning was the way humans controlled their environment. Augee says humans have always controlled their environment to suit themselves and usually to the detriment of other species.

“Burning was an excellent form of agriculture but it was bad news for big grazers and browsers.”

He’d love to see more people from the region frequent the caves which he believes is a significant and well researched historical location right under our noses.

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PROFILE.

Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

On Wellington’s airwaves Mike Augee’s love of Australian music also sweetened the deal when he changed continents, the Little River Band being a long-time favourite of his. That love of music has continued to weave its way through his life and today sees him filling the DJ’s seat once a week at Wellington’s own Binjang Community Radio (91.5).

Binjang has been operational since 2008 and has earned a favoured position in the community with a range of music that seems to resonate with older and younger audiences. Country music has proved very to be very popular with local listeners and Mike believes community radio fills a niche by catering to music that may not be popular on mainstream stations.

“The great think about Binjang is of course the music, but it’s also an important way to let people know what’s going on in the town. “ The station is licenced to run at 1000 watts, as it is it runs on about a 500 watt transmitter which reaches Burrendong Dam and some parts of Dubbo.

To hear Augee’s radio segment tune in on Tuesdays from 12-4pm.

I couldn’t remember so after enthusiastically agreeing, I ran down to the animal house at the university and here they were, these walking pin cushions – echidnas.

TUDENTS from the University of Newcastle and University of NSW are frequent visitors to the caves and study with Augee, who has a wellequipped studio space set up near the caves.

The students come out to Wellington to do field work but a lot more high school groups studying (specifically) earth and environmental science tend to frequent the caves and utilise the experienced palaeontologist’s knowledge of the area.

“Wellington caves is perfect for high school students, what we have here really fits the syllabus in terms of mega faunal extinction and movement of continentsthe geology is fascinating,” Augee says.

The scientist believes there has been a pull away from the study of sciences in the last decade and a push by the government – and to some degree parents – for students to pursue areas that are more “profitable,” rather than areas that expand the knowledge and the mind.

“For example, the CSIRO has been totally emasculated; we have sold the future for immediate gain. Australia used to bat way above its strength in research and science simply because we had excellent universities that were basically cheap or free, so anyone could get into them regardless of their economic background.”

He foresees Australian universities as becoming a place only for those who can afford the exorbitant costs, and no one

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“International students bring in money and take out knowledge. This needs to be addressed unless this country just wants to turn out thousands of worker bees. I think education should be encouraged for its value to the individual as well as its value to the economy- universities around the world are not trade schools.”

Augee’s advice to school and university students is, “Like what you are doing. Don’t just do it because you’re going to make money or your parents say you should otherwise you will probably have quite a miserable life.”

OW firmly entrenched in the township of Wellington, the former councillor of nine years claims his stint as Deputy Mayor of Wellington was also “a bit of an accident”.

“When you live in a town for a while you become very much a part of that community, he says. “When you start agitating and being obnoxious people start to notice you!”

Once elected, and by distance education, he studied local government and law through CSU and Sydney Uni, respectively.

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is an experience everyone should have, he says, because it’s important that as many people as possible participate in local government.

“It is possibly the most frustrating thing you could ever do but it’s so important to see how things work. Knowledge is power in this instance.”

His advice to those considering becoming a councillor?

“The best training would be to watch re-runs of Yes, Minister, that’s the reality, I thought the show was a comedy until I got involved myself!” he adds with a laugh.

WHAT I DO KNOW.

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Jennie Berthet: Food for thought The foothills of the beautiful Warrumbungles have blessed Jennie Bethert with a perfect backdrop for her thriving herbal therapies practice, and with the friendship of a passionate bunch of “wild women” who are helping host to the second Warrumbungle Food Festival next week.

AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Fiona Cormie I’m not native to the Warrumbungles – we’ve only been here 16 years, but that feels like a lifetime of its own.

I felt really welcome from the first few weeks we hit town. I love it. I was originally born and raised in Windsor, then I moved to Wilberforce (in the Hawkesbury region) – so this was kind of a treechange when we moved here.

Until my mid-20s I had no idea there was such a thing as herbal medicine or iridology or any of the things I now do.

But my older son had difficulties with his health that I was introduced to acupuncture as a different kind of therapy we could try where orthodox treatments hadn’t worked. That opened up a new world for me. I went to see a naturopath to see if it was something I might have been doing wrong because my other son hadn’t been sick at all.

The naturopath used iridology to try to assess what was wrong and what foods might be contributing (to his ill health). Once I saw what she did, I thought “Wow, you really can tell from an eyeball what’s going on in the body!”

It was a whole new way of thinking about things.

I looked into what kind of qualifications might be available in Australia and I settled on a college with the (now) late Dorothy Hall who was pretty much this country’s foremost herbalist. I thought if I had any chance of being a reasonable practitioner it would be good to learn from the best. She was a very hard task master but she really knew her stuff. I’m grateful to have had that beginning.

The first fifteen years of my working life was spent as an optical dispenser – so I’ve jumped the fence and am looking at eyeballs from a whole different perspective! Once I’d studied and started in practice, there was no turning back. I just knew it was the right thing for me to be doing.

I really get a buzz out of what I do. I do find it difficult, as does any practitioner, when someone is facing life threatening situations or challenging life episodes, but that’s all part of it.

I’m just so grateful that nature has all the answers for pretty much everything that goes on with our health and wellbeing. We are humans – we are part of nature. I don’t profess to have a silver bullet for everything – and I feel very uncomfortable when people give me the direct credit for any improvement in their health or wellbeing. I just give advice and analysis – that’s just doing my job. All the answers are coming from nature and from people so much

smarter than me who first discovered iridology and how herbs work, and what should and shouldn’t work.

I haven’t been exposed in my own clinic to any concerns over alternative therapies. I find that people who place their trust in me to give them the best advice possible know I can’t offer solutions for everything or every condition.

I don’t see what I do as an “alternative” therapy – I see it as traditional, and I see it as an adjunct to conventional therapies. When it comes to stuff that’s been in the media about natural therapists, I just don’t buy into that. It’s not my story.

Here in the Warrumbungles is a perfect place for me to practice. I can’t even begin to describe how perfect it is.

Our original intention was to move here and build a house and maybe work in Coonabarabran while we were hanging out our shingle and getting things going – and that that would take a few years.

The reality is that I had people asking for me to help them within the first six months of moving to Coona.

I’m blessed that I now have people who come from all over Australia to visit my mud-brick clinic in a paddock in the middle of nowhere! We’ve been out here – 20 minutes from Coonabarabran in the Warrumbungle Mountains – and we set up the practice here and it’s been fantastic. And while locals were a bit worried that people may not drive the

20 minutes out of town, the fact is that that extra time makes no difference when you’re coming from, say, Victoria!

The Warrumbungle Food Festival is a passion of mine. It started after I was given two cookbooks by (wholefood proponent) Jude Blereau and I wanted to bring her up to do some workshops.

Well, it just mushroomed from there and became the food festival. A group of us got together – we wanted to harness what is old fashioned good nutrition and it blossomed from the one workshop to realising, wow, we can have all these different sessions and workshops and events. This year’s festival is growing from that experience and we’re using the feedback from what we did for the first one to address what people have been asking for.

In a climate of drought with shifting corporate control of our regions and political instability, this year’s festival will be the breath of fresh air we all need to ignite passions, inspiration and motivation to help us transition into a brighter future. We base that belief on the fact that the inaugural festival resulted in the formation of what we call the Warrumbungle Wild Women group to ensure success in 2015 in achieving that goal.

If I’m honest, the organising part isn’t exactly a joyful process for me!

I’m just lucky that I’m working with an

incredible team of women and I know and recognise the need and the enthusiasm that’s here in our community. In my own world as a herbalist it’s helpful to me to have access to the knowledge that I hope they can then employ in their own lives. If everyone is happier and healthier, that makes my job easier. Last year’s festival might’ve been my baby, being in a good position to identify the needs as a family health worker – but we all know it takes a community to raise a baby and we are now that community!

We have a four year old granddaughter and a one year old grandson. They’re our first son’s children and that makes me so tickled pink, because he was the sick one who started me on this path as a herbalist. And what’s great to see is that his children are growing up in a far more natural world than he did and I’m grateful to see that. » The Warrumbungle Food Festival will be held over five big days from Friday, April 17 to Tuesday, April 21 at the Coonabarabran Shire Hall. There will be a smorgasbord of workshops, seminars, cooking classes, information sessions, entertainment and, of course, wholefood!

For more information and to check out the line-up of what’s on offer, go to www. stickytickets.com.au/warrumbunglefoodfestival2015.

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2X2.

Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Martin and Jack Wade Martin Wade joined the Navy at 16 and his son Jack decided to follow in his military footsteps by joining the Air Force when he was 18. They talked to Weekender about following tradition, rank and file and what it’s like to forge a career in national defence.

AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPY Ella McMillan Jack Wade: DECIDED to follow in Dad’s footsteps – I wanted to serve the country. I chose the air force because I’m passionate about flying, anything to do with flying and I’m all over it, model aeroplanes and flying lessons.

I didn’t join as a pilot though. When I was in Year 7, we went to Fighter World (aviation museum) at the RAAF Base at Williamtown where I saw the Hornets flying. I’ve been posted with the Hercules since I joined and they’re now my favourite bird (plane).

After I did my training in Wagga Wagga, I was in Townsville for a month then to Katherine and Darwin in the Northern Territory where we did Exercise Pitch Black 14. There were people there from Singapore, the US, France and Indonesia. I was then stationed in the Middle East offering combat support for Afghanistan. I work as a supplier for parts and governance and warehousing procurement to find the parts for the technicians to fix the planes.

I was there for five months and it was interesting to find out more about the Islamic culture and exciting to have my first international deployment; it was definitely something I wanted to do. I was lucky to get the opportunity so early in my career and I jumped at the opportunity to go. Where I was based was just a ‘wow’ city. There were buildings of all shapes and a lot of wealth.

Being in the air force, I will always put my hand up to go to places. But even if I don’t want to go, I have to. It doesn’t worry me though as I am single and don’t have any children. It’s different for workmates who have families, especially on exercises.

Being in the military, there are cer-

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tain rules you have to follow. You have to show up with your hair cut and looking presentable. I didn’t immediately decide what job to do but there are so many different roles. It’s a great career and offers good opportunities to go anywhere and a lot has happened since I joined in 2013.

When I was thinking about joining, Dad talked to me about what to expect.

He advised me not to join the Navy, it’s harder than the Air Force. Now that I am there, we have shared our experiences from his time to mine.

He wasn’t in the military when I was growing up. I think a certain kind of person joins the military, you get a toughness about you.

Dad doesn’t quit. He’s committed and when he does something, he does it properly. When I did my recruit training, it was very physically and mentally tough and there were stages when I said, what am I doing?

But Dad was very encouraging. He said that it was part of the game and just to stick it out. It was good advice because they want to break the weak ones. I decided that if I didn’t do it, if I did quit, that he wouldn’t be proud of me. That kept pushing me through at the worst times. But in Dad’s day, it was a lot tougher.

Martin Wade: ALWAYS liked the ocean. I loved to go deep sea fishing with my grandfather and two brothers. I joined the junior recruit training for the Navy when I left school and joined the HMAS Leeuwin at Freemantle, WA in 1980 where I spent nine months training. I wanted to join anyway but when I saw what was available, I was convinced.

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1. MONARCHIES: Who is the longest reigning monarch of Britain?

2. US PRESIDENTS: Name the only US president who never lived in the White House?

3. MYTHOLOGY: Which one of the Greek Muses was associated with history?

4. GEOGRAPHY: What is the name of the strait that separates Sicily from the Italian mainland (pictured)?

5. LANGUAGE: Who coined the word “utopia”?

I went to Melbourne for six months to do seamanship training and then Sydney to the HMAS Watson to do radar and warfare then I was drafted to an aircraft carrier. I worked on the HMAS Vampire in the early ‘80s and did ballistics and missile work at the naval ballistics unit for two years.

I joined the HMAS Parramatta and spent six or seven years at sea. I went to Pearl Harbour for three weeks in 1986 for combined naval exercise Rimpac, which involved the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. I was also on the fleet oiler HMAS Success, a refuelling ship, in 1989-90 at Watsons Bay doing tactical manoeuvres, radar warfare and communications.

I was a radar plotter ashore and did a lot of naval base security, sometimes working day and night. You can be out to sea for 20 hours a day.

Joining the navy, I felt that I would be doing a worthwhile job protecting the country and I would get to sail the world. You do move around a lot. The travel was very appealing and I went to every Australian capital, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia and the South Pacific, places like Tonga, Suva and Fiji.

When the coup took place in Fiji, we were with the SAS in a war zone. For three weeks, we trained on the ship ready to go ashore – but that’s what you sign up for.

One of the hardest things was that there were no mobile phones back then so no contact with family. Being away from family was hard. It was really important to get an apprenticeship because work opportunities were limited and I wanted to have a career. The Navy was hard, it was extremely strict and the physical training was hard. They used to run us ragged; it was extremely de-

6. MUSIC: Name the song released by songwriter Ned Miller in 1957, Elvis Presley (pictured right) in 1969, and Ricky Van Shelton in 1988.

7. ENTERTAINMENT: Which 20thcentury actress was dubbed “The Legs”?

8. GAMES: In cricket, how many players are on each side?

9. LITERATURE: Who wrote the 19th-century novel “Little Dorrit”?

10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is antimony?

manding. There was a lot of study too. It was military training and we were kids.

But we were all in the same boat and I still have a lot of friends from those days. It was a really good time. Being in the military teaches you survival skills, but there’s also the mateship – you back each other up.

Times (and attitudes) have changed since then. It’s a different world out there and the defence force has its own language. It’s a lifestyle, not a job and it’s a good life, but it’s not an easy life.

The training stays with you, even today. Being in the military helps you as a civilian.

Jack was always interested in joining the military. When he was younger, he was in the Air Force Cadets and because I had been in the Navy, I knew what he was talking about. It was easy for me to understand the culture – I’d had the experience. That’s why I could guide him because it all operates under the same basic principles. I’m really glad that he has stuck it out, I encouraged him through the training. I’m really proud of him and it’s a really worthwhile career.

The time you spend there benefits you for the rest of your life.

Yes, there’s discipline but it’s a lifestyle, particularly for a young guy, it’s a really good experience. I’ve given Jack some advice to get him through, shared my wisdom.

Jack was always disciplined, mentally very tough and you need to have that toughness. I hope it lasts for him and he can go further. There’s definitely opportunity for advancement so I hope he takes as many opportunities as he can.

What he does in life is up to him but I’ll support him in what he does.

My advice would be to pick something you can also use in civilian life.

11. FLASHBACK 1: Which band recorded “A Horse With No Name”?

12. FLASHBACK 2: Who released the song “Cars” in 1979?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “I just feel a sweet contentment deep inside, Holding you at night just seems kind of natural and right, And it’s not hard to see, That it isn’t half of what it’s going to turn out to be.”

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

James Eddy

Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

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.

All hail the great Aussie underdog HHH footy season is back, good and proper.

I’ve gone into my winter-mode, reworking the bum-groove back into the recliner and the remote control is on a cord with a wrist-strap. Alas, summer draws on so long the off-season seems to drag like watching a kettle boil. But when your team takes the field well, it’s like a little bit of Christmas morning.

There’s an expectant grin of something special about to be unwrapped.

For some of us though, the “something special” is about to be shrouded in the shadow of “something notso-special”. From the ref’s first whistle, the very first bounce, the kick off, the pit of our stomach sends the message loud and clear that the inevitable is about an hour and a half away; that we’re headed for our first big disappointment of the season. The only question that remains is exactly how many paper cuts will bring on this slow death?

Friends link arms and unite, for we follow the team that coulda/woulda/shoulda, but sadly.... didna. Ladies and gents, we follow The Underdog.

What is it with underdogs? Why the lure? What is it about a team that’s not expected to succeed, (or at best at team whose successes tend to be measured in brief and highly specific parts of the game) that draws such loyal and stoic support from its followers?

I was fortunate to grow up in an age where Australian sport had entered something of a chrysalis phase. I don’t remember the 1976 Montreal Olympics (it wasn’t as big a deal for a three year-old as you might think), but those who do remember will recall that these were the famous games where the medal tally for our entire national team came to 0 gold, one silver, four bronze and one enormously novelty-sized and highly patronising encouragement award.

This disappointment gave birth of course, to the National Institute of Sport. By 1980, we were doing cartwheels for Michelle Ford and The Mean Machine, for their modest two gold medals in the pool at Moscow.

For the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games, we sat glued to the telly as we raked in gold after gold. But it was in 1984 at Los Angeles where we never really expected very much, and we leapt about our lounge rooms with absolute euphoria for Glynis Nunn, John Seiben, Dean Lukin and the men’s team pursuit cyclists as they brought home four golden goodies. Australia seemed to be the underdog of the world and those four medals really stuck it to the Russians and the Yanks.

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In the early 80s, the West Indian cricket team had a bowling attack where Holding, Marshall, Garner, Roberts and three or four others competed to see who could bazooka the Aussie batsmen to oblivion. Meanwhile Richards, Gomes and Haynes took it in turns to slap our bowlers eight rows into the Brewongle stand.

They were a juggernaut who had everyone on the run.

Our hope lay with Lillee, Marsh and Chappell (who retired all too soon), and gave us aspiration in a time of darkness and peril. At least we could beat the Kiwis...

In 1983, no-one suspected that John Bertrand, Ben Lexcen and an oddly-shaped keel would bring Australian sailing to prominence (albeit briefly). Many of us didn’t even know what a keel was, but one with wings HAD to be good! This famous trio came from obscurity and captured the imagination of the nation for the better part of that decade.

In the 80s in Australia, the underdog became a badge of pride.

Underdog is a culture. Obscurity brings an odd sort of veil of security with it. A door left slightly ajar is available to be prized open just enough to allow a longsuffering contender to create an upset and a headline for the papers. It’s a culture where supporters have to offer their hearts with side of understanding and forgiveness. And it’s a culture where any coup large or small, equates to a triumph worthy of ecstasy. People want to see the down-trodden rise up (except when it’s Collingwood or Manly, those guys can suck eggs into the next millennium).

In 2011 I shamelessly turned coat on my beloved, triumphant Sydney Swans when I signed up for membership at the GWS Giants AFL club in their founding year. It was a relatively easy decision despite the story that preceded it.

I learned the gentle art of how to take a pizzling in the playground on the strength of the weekend’s results. I learned the sheer exhilaration of an unexpected win. But mainly I learned how to take a pizzling.

Having moved from the northern tablelands of NSW to Victoria in the mid-80s, I was asked a very simple question by my new southern primary school chums; “What’s your team?” I think I may have answered “The Sharks”, which was akin to saying “Banana, please” or something similarly incoherent. My answer simply didn’t compute. If you wanted to follow rugby league in Victoria in the 80s, you needed to buy a short wave radio kit and try your luck tuning in through all the hiss and crackle and Russian ham radio enthusiasts. I learned quickly upon observing the dress code of every single boy in the school that I needed to get an Aussie Rules team fast, or be forced to eat my lunch every single day with the crazy kid from Uzbekistan, with the funny pants and the moustache.

Knowing little of the Mexican code, I grabbed at The Sydney Swans (it seemed patriotic) and I started to pay attention. Those were the heady days of Warwick Capper and his aerial acrobatics in painted on shorts. They were days when the Swans were a novelty in what was then the VFL, and they enjoyed a modicum of success for a while, but they soon became an easy four points for their opponents. I learned the gentle art of how to take a pizzling in the playground on the strength of the weekend’s results. I learned the sheer exhilaration of an unexpected win. But mainly I learned how to take a pizzling. From ‘88 to ‘94 the Swans ranged from average to terrible, until they became so bad in the early 90s that a smudge of red on your shirt got you free entry and the seat of your choice at the SCG. They were underdogs of the highest order. Rabbitohs fans will know where I’m coming from.

Now, they have risen to a comfortable perch at the high end of the AFL ladder where they have been for the past 15 years and sadly, I think their success has made things a bit boring.

So, since 2012, I have watched my footy with a reinvigorated passion with the fledgling Giants, and celebrated a very sweet ten wins of their 70 or so games thus far. That’s okay. No-one pictured them taking the premiership flag yet.

I think it’s a bit like celebrating Christmas each week of the year; it’d quickly get a bit mundane. When you ride with The Underdog, each win takes on a particular preciousness as though it may be the last. And furthermore, anyone who wants to sledge them just looks lame. So up the Queensland Reds, go the NQ Cowboys and the Newcastle Jets. We’re rooting for you, (even if we don’t openly admit it).

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Sally Bryant

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

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

In my book, country life comes with responsibilities ’M enjoying my life in the log cabin at the end of the tree-lined drive at the top of the hill on the picturesque farm with the amazing views, but this rural life comes at a cost.

That’s what I was thinking to myself this morning, as I tip-toed out of the house, gently closing and locking the front door and sneaking out to the garage. I quietly reversed out with my headlights off and drove noiselessly down my avenue with the lights on low beam.

Why so surreptitious I hear you ask?

That was in order to avoid disturbing my neighbours, the ewes, who were all nestled up against my garden fence, out of the wind. It was ridunculously early in the morning and I couldn’t bear to think I might wake them needlessly. So I sneaked out like I was doing the walk of shame...

They are delightful neighbours, those ewes. There’s something so comforting about the sight of them cruising around their paddock, delicately nibbling at the best of the green pick that’s come through since that last bit of rain.

They’re happy enough to live in harmony with me, to cohabit with me as it were, provided I don’t make a huge amount of noise or make any sudden movements. They keep a wary eye on me as I potter around the garden and seem to take it all in their stride. They don’t much care for the lawnmower and they were a bit disconcerted over Easter when I was babysitting my Goddaughter the dachshund and her sister the Shar-Pei. It was more or less a case of “there goes the neighbourhood” at

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that stage; they gave the little garden a very wide berth for the entire weekend, while the dogs were doing circle work around the roses.

And that must have upset their dietary routine. Because one of the benefits of the neighbour relationship to my ovine friends is the overlap of my lawn-watering activities. I’ve been assiduously revitalising my garden for the past four months since I moved in, and that has included a nearly constant program of irrigation on the lawn, trees and shrubs. As a result, the house yard has changed from brown, crisp, whispy and sad to something more closely resembling a garden. But, because I’m on a hill, it doesn’t matter how carefully I regulate the water to ensure I’m irrigating only that land I’m leasing, you can bet your life the wind will change and the spray from my sprinklers will be wafted over the fence and do some pasture improving beyond my boundary.

So we have a situation where the garden is greening up beautifully; a little emerald island emerging in a straw-coloured expanse of canola stubble. And out there in the field, around a hundred-odd young ewes with a couple of rams dancing attendance on them. And on the fringes of my patch of heaven, a little fairy ring of pasture has been

springing up in the stubble.

That ring of delicious green grass could well be the main attraction.

My neighbours the young ewes are in dating mode with the rather robust rams, in a stage of life that’s euphemistically referred to as “joined” by we farming types. The ewes and the rams are cohabiting with a view to new season’s lambs in a while.

But one of those young ewes’ “cycle” must be out of sync with all her sisters, because over the Easter break a very young lamb appeared in the paddock.

Little and puny, it miraculously appeared on Easter Monday while I was working from home.

The first I knew of the arrival was while I was sitting in my home office and I could hear the plaintive bleating of the tiny lamb and the echoing bleats of the new mother. And I thought, “How sweet, how lovely to be able to sit at my desk and hear that.”

After about fifteen minutes of listening to “Mum! Mum, where are you?

Mum, Mum, I can’t see you...” and “Junior, Juuuuuuunior! Juuuuuuunior!” I started to wonder what the hell was going on. In my experience, a ewe and her lamb only sing out to each other when they’re stressed or separated. When they’re safe and together, when all’s

right with the world, they don’t make a big fuss.

So I spent the best part of the day peeping out my windows, trying to work out what they were doing. I was concerned – it was a genuine farm welfare issue. And it was more entertaining than the work I was meant to be doing at my desk.

Lambsie was up the top of the paddock, quite near my house, and was singing out to Mumsy, and each time Lambsie called out, one of the mob of ewes would approach and sniff to check if she owned him, and then move off uninterested. (You really have to wonder at the calibre of a dry ewe who has to sniff a lamb to establish whether or not she’s the mother, when she clearly has no lamb at foot...)

And the real Mumsy? Well, she was standing flat footed halfway down the paddock, calling out to her baby. And apparently quite deaf to Lambsie’s heartbroken little bleats.

I tell you, if nature takes its course and all these ewes reproduce successfully and the lambing rate is anywhere near a desirable level, then I hope we see a better standard of parenting. Because if each of them has a lamb (if not twins) and they demonstrate a similar inability to communicate effectively, then the peace of country living will be a laughable case of false advertising.

I just don’t know whether I’ll be able to cope with the responsibility of being Godmother to so many little creatures.

Thank goodness I’m back at the proper office these days, where it’s almost serene by comparison.

I was concerned – it was a genuine farm welfare issue. And it was more entertaining than the work I was meant to be doing at my desk.

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Quiet please, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a muso on stage HERE are some things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never understand as long as I live.

I went out last weekend to hear some music â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to see a particularly talented young musician perform, as advertised, at a local venue.

I ventured inside. I was feeling good.

Then a few steps through the door, I was hit by a wall of sound.

Imagine the sound of five chainsaws being revved one after the other and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sound that greeted my arrival. It was the sound made by a roomful of people, out for a good time.

I have nothing against a good time and I love good conversation, but as my eyes fell on the advertised musician, playing and singing and almost impossible to hear, I struggled to comprehend.

A song finished with barely an acknowledgement.

I looked at this amazing person, whom I have never met, and watched him take a deep breath and begin another song.

The emotion of the moment was too much for me.

I wanted to scream at the ignorant crowd: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shut the *#@* up and listen!â&#x20AC;?

But I had to leave. There was really no other choice.

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Comment by y KEN SMITH Music aficionado Ken Smith doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want much â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just good company, good live music... and a bit of shush.

A night out shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be this hard for a performer or for those who simply want to listen to a live performer, whose appearance has been advertised as a reason to attend.

This is nothing new. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sadly become accepted behaviour in venues, both near and far.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s look at this scenario from another angle.

Later this month a very talented local group of performers, musicians and crew will be presenting the musical Evita.

If a group of people in the audience started talking and laughing loudly midway through the performance, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be asked by patrons close by and theatre staff to shut up or be ejected if their bad

behaviour continued.

If, during a church service, a wedding, in the middle of a conference, or even at your favourite watering hole during a major sporting event, a group of people started talking and laughing loudly, again theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be asked to shut up and threatened with removal.

These are all situations in which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been taught to understand, show some respect and common sense and remain silent.

So whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference with live music?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s none I can see. But the answer, keeping that nod to social norms in mind, is quite simple.

When you are at a venue and there is a performer, whether young and having a go or a more seasoned artist, please take the time to listen.

If the performer is not to your liking, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay.

For the benefit of both the performer and those who are quietly listening, remember this is not your cue to start a conversation; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your cue to wander into another part of the venue and there you can talk to your heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content.

This result is a win-win for everyone,

plus you are displaying common sense and good manners.

Some years ago, I was travelling up the coast and I decided to stay in a small town for the night.

As one does, I went looking for a meal and some music.

The pub in the main street had a tiny sign in the window, advertising a band called INXS. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never heard of them, so I grabbed a steak and a beer and settled in to check them out. INXS played to about 50 people, some appreciative, some yelling requests, some yelling abuse. A lot of locals would remember similar stories about seeing The Brucelanders, an early incarnation of the band that shortly after became The Reels.

My point is simple.

We offer encouragement to those around us every day, simply because it is the right thing to do. This is no different.

It takes a lot of courage to get up in front of a crowd. Show a little love and respect.

You may be witnessing the birth of a legend or your kindness and encouragement may be rewarded with a performance that will turn you into a fan.

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Cr Mathew Dickerson

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

A sporting chance for the budget’s bottom line HERE should councils stand on paying for major events to come to their city? It’s a perplexing issue and one that seems to be brought up more and more. At the heart of the issue is the difference between council’s bottom line and the injection of money into the local economy.

Take a simple example. If a council was approached with an offer for a major event to be brought to a city at a net cost of $10,000 but with a guarantee of 5,000 people who would travel to the city to attend the event and stay overnight, what would most councils say?

If we use Dubbo’s overnight injection number of $132, then such an event would inject approximately $660,000 into the local economy.

This would be go into the hands of hotels; motels; cafes; restaurants; retailers and more in the local economy. It would seem like a fantastic result for a city but the crunch is when it comes to paying the $10,000 – where does that come from? Council’s bottom-line which is ultimately contributed by the ratepayers of the city.

Is it acceptable for a tiny amount of rates money to go towards the $10,000 so the economy of a city can benefit?

There are other benefits that might be harder to measure. Does the city receive significant media exposure from the event? Are there other potential positive flow-on effects? Other benefits might make it easier to justify expenditure on behalf of the community. For a city the

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size of Dubbo, $10,000 would be relatively easy to justify for such a positive outcome – although I’m sure some people would still argue against their small percentage of rate money contributing towards an event that held no interest for them but they would probably see the greater good for the community.

Then there’s the other extreme.

We’ve seen NRL matches played so far this season in Albury and Bathurst. I’m not aware of the exact amounts paid by these communities but I know Group XI in our region was involved in bidding for one of these games and that other media outlets have reported amounts of several hundred thousand dollars being paid to an NRL club to secure a game.

The crowd at Albury was 6,346 and at Bathurst it was 6,240. Obviously many of these people came from the local community with some potentially travelling and staying overnight.

Now the question becomes harder. Is it reasonable for a club – from any sport

– to take money out of a community for the privilege of holding a game in that community? To make the discussion more relevant, we should use some numbers. The NRL, as an example, generated revenue of more than $350 million last year. It funded NRL clubs to the tune of $118 million, with an operating surplus in excess of $20 million. Individual clubs typically generate revenue of between $14-30 million directly from football related activities and, if there is any shortfall, there are typically huge clubs (think Eels, Raiders and Panthers) or rich owners (think Rabbitohs, Warriors and Sea Eagles) to ensure they can continue to survive and thrive.

If an NRL Club approached a council for a cash payment and supporting work to the tune of $300,000 (as an example), with a crowd of possibly only 6,000 with half coming from out of town, is that a reasonable equation? Three thousand people staying overnight may inject $396,000 into an economy – but at a

Is it reasonable for a club – from any sport – to take money out of a community for the privilege of holding a game in that community?

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cost of $300,000 from ratepayers’ pockets it seems a much harder equation to justify. Even when you consider the TV coverage and fantastic exposure for the city, it would be hard to justify to the average ratepayer (especially those who are not NRL fans or who follow a different team to the one playing). This is not designed to target NRL – the same stands for A-League; AFL and Rugby Union.

I have an alternative view. Over the past 20 years in major Australian sports, we have seen a dramatic shift in the number of spectators at games. The AFL is leading the way with an increase of 22 per cent in spectator attendance to lead the way. NRL still sits in second but has dropped spectator numbers by 14 per cent. Soccer is the real sleeper with an increase (from a low base) of 35 per cent and cricket sits in fourth place with a small drop of five per cent. It comes as no surprise to me that AFL generates roughly three times the revenue of the NRL. Where the spectators are, so is the money.

Rather than expect communities – via their councils – to prop up clubs with lazy business models that take money from a community, I think the sports that will be successful in the long-term are the ones that expose their product to a variety of audiences in a variety of areas. TV rights is where the majority of the money lies, so taking your game to an area just once every few years will increase TV viewers in that area.

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Moral compass spins in an anything goes online world VERY day we’re faced with moral dilemmas and we’re constantly subconsciously asking, “What’s okay?”

As frustrating as it is, the answer is never straightforward. Why? Because morals are entirely individual. A decision deemed appropriate by one may be frowned upon by the next – such is the murky water social media moderators are trying to clear.

The World Wide Web is this hugely accessible platform where almost anything goes. If you search in the right cracks and crevices, you can find nearly anything you’re looking for – legal or illegal.

Through the internet and more specifically through social media, we’re able to exercise absolute freedom of speech. Monitoring and mediation of content cannot and does not occur until the content goes live, meaning initially anything can be shared. It’s only when the post is “reported as inappropriate” by another user that the content is brought to the attention of moderators, reviewed and dealt with accordingly.

This happened last week on Instagram – the worlds’ largest photo sharing application. Photographer Rupi Kaur posted an image of a fully clothed woman, curled up in the rumpled sheets of her bed, with a small menstrual stain

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Comment by LYDIA PEDRANA Dubbo born and bred Lydia Pedrana is chasing her dream of a career in the media.

showing between her thighs. The image was removed on the grounds that it did not follow Instagram’s “community guidelines” which prohibit images of sexual acts, violence and nudity.

Fighting back with a lengthy, powerful statement, Instagram issued a sheepish apology to Kaur claiming her image was mistakenly deleted. Arguing that social media reflects society’s acceptance of sexualisation, objectification and pornification, Kaur had posted this photo as a social experiment. Angered by the fact that Kim Kardashian’s greased up derrière is deemed okay for the Internet, Kaur is on a bold mission to “make something innate ‘normal’ again”. Spoiler alert: the image has since been restored.

I’m not so interested in the feminist reaction to all of this – enough has already been said. But I find the ethical and moral dilemma fascinating. It only takes one user to find an image offensive and go to the effort of “reporting” it, to have that content reviewed by moderators.

It’s one person’s opinion thrust against another.

How many times do we see opinions clash in everyday life? It happens in families, in the workplace, in the media and in politics. Growing up, we are each taught to form our own judgements and stand up for what we believe in but when 300 million opinions are active in simulated cyberspace – who is right? The policies of these platforms are lengthy and broad – an attempt to satisfy the majority of morals. Despite this, companies continue to moderate content in a case-by-case manner.

So whose morals really regulate?

Whose rules are right? And more to the point, what is okay? In the prosperous world of the web, users are laden with trust and responsibility to make ethically sound decisions. In real life, we are at liberty to express ourselves as we choose but I think less consideration goes into how we act online given its intangible, instantaneous nature.

Having taken a closer looks at Insta-

gram’s Community Guidelines, I have a great respect for online policy makers.

With the application accessible all over the world, not only do they have to cater for conflicting personal opinions, but also different cultures, socioeconomic statuses and religions. Fairly acknowledging the rules around copyright, the guidelines also politely ask “Please do not post nudity or mature content of any kind” and “Don’t be rude”.

Enough said? Apparently not. There are sections dedicated to warnings against child nudity, eating disorders and self-harm. Not only do the guidelines stipulate the intolerance of these images on the application but they go so far as to list the warning signs of someone who may be suffering from any of the aforementioned conditions.

Gone are the days where the Terms of Use replicate that of an encyclopaedia; Instagram’s “Help Centre” is like Dolly Doctor. I think it’s fabulous that this kind of support is offered, but I can’t help thinking it’s a shame that this is what it has all come to.

The possibilities of the internet are endless, but a streak of danger comes with anything exciting. To keep yourself safe and your decisions ethical, remind yourself of this mantra: if you wouldn’t show it to your boss, your Mother or your Grandma – don’t post it online.

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Home lender wary on life insurance reforms SYDNEY: Home loan writer Mortgage Choice says life insurance could become more expensive if the recommendations of the Trowbridge report are enacted.

The report, by former banking regulator John Trowbridge, recommends adviser commissions for life insurance be capped in order to stamp out unethical practices by financial advisers.

The move is designed to discourage advisers to get clients to change policies so they can receive more commission.

Mortgage Choice Financial Planning’s general manager Tania Milnes said a cap would force advisers to charge a fee for advice in order to remain commercially viable, but there would be no corresponding reduction in premiums.

“If Trowbridge’s remuneration recommendation is ratified, it may stop certain Australians, particularly the wealth accumulators,

` As a result, fewer Australians would be able to access affordable insurancerelated financial advice... a

from accessing quality financial advice,” she said.

“As a result, fewer Australians would be able to access affordable insurance-related financial advice.”

The financial advice sector has been rocked by scandals in recent

years with revelations advisers have pocketed high commissions for putting clients’ funds in highrisk products without their knowledge or consent.

Ms Milnes is worried that the proposed changes might drive some financial advisers out of the

Store count reaches 287 but jeweller Michael Hill’s sales fall in Australia WELLINGTON: Jewellery

chain Michael Hill International says a drop in same store sales in its biggest market of Australia in the first nine months will put pressure on its full-year result.

Australia continued to be a difficult market for the group, with same-store sales down 2.1 per cent to $A220.8 million in the nine months ended March 31.

On an all-store basis for Australia, sales were down one per cent to $A229m.

Chairman Michael Hill said management was focused on correcting the downward trend in Australia and there was still a full quarter to go before the fullyear result.

Overall, the retailer had samestore sales growth of 0.9 per cent to $A358m and all stores up 3.5 per cent to $A382m.

In local currency terms, New Zealand continued to trade well, up 4.8 per cent to $NZ87.4 million ($A85.93 million) while all stores rose 4.3 per cent to $NZ88m.

Canada same store sales rose 2.9 per cent up $C47.9m ($A49.8m) and overall sales growth up 15.5 per cent to $Can60.6m.

The US also had a good result with same store growth of 7.2 per cent to $US6.3 million ($A8.20m) and overall sales growth up 14.2 per cent to

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Big bank blue bound for High Court ANZ bank customers in Dubbo and the region will be watching with interest for the

$US8.2m.

The company opened 11 new Michael Hill stores and closed two during the first nine months, taking total stores to 287 and lifting total revenue by 3.5 per cent.

The group said, as mentioned in the 2014 annual report, it was continuing to refine and test the Emma & Roe retail model and, consequently, this trading update didn’t include financial information for those stores. Two additional Emma & Roe stores opened during the period taking the total to eight stores.

Michael Hill reported a halfyear profit of $A23.7m, up 45.9 per cent.

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outcome of the unfair bank fees case against the giant financial institution, which now looks set to go to the High Court.

The bank’s appeals against the Federal Court’s previous rulings were upheld late this week – almost five years after the stoush began. Last year’s ruling handed down by Justice Michelle Gordon, found that late payment fees charged by ANZ were penalties, and thousands of customers should receive compensation for amounts charged “unfairly”.

The bank challenged the ruling, while the law firm acting for the plaintiffs, Maurice Blackburn, countered that other exception

industry because they would be making less money.

She said that those who did stay in the financial planning industry might be forced to focus on clients with more complex needs, who have a greater capacity to pay fees.

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Mansion with 7 panic rooms up for auction MIAMI: For those who jump at shadows: an opulent mansion with seven panic rooms and a secret staircase goes on the block this week in Florida.

Bidding opens on Friday on the 750 square metre villa in Homestead, Florida.

It has seven bedrooms and the same number of panic rooms, fortified spaces built so residents can safely hide during a home invasion.

The house also has a secret staircase enabling them to enter or leave surreptitiously.

“The seller just started with one safe room. He had so much fun making it, he made a second one, then a third one. He got carried away,” said auctioneer Jim Gall.AFP

fees were not considered penalties.

On Wednesday, the Full Court found in favour of ANZ by overturning Justice Gordon’s original decision that late fees were penalties and rejecting the plaintiffs’ argument that other exception fees ought to have been found to be penalties.

National head of class actions at Maurice Blackburn, Andrew Watson, said the plaintiff’s legal advisors would be reviewing the judgment with a view to making application for special leave to appeal to the High Court.

“There is a public interest in having these issues resolved by Australia’s highest court,” Watson said.

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF Boost to business advice service SMALL businesses in Dubbo and around the region areas will now have access to expanded advisory services thanks to increased funding for the Australian Small Business Advisory Services (ASBAS) program.

Rural Sector Support Inc. was successful in securing three year’s funding for the program, and its business operating unit, Orana ASBAS – based in Dubbo – will from this week begin offering advice and guidance to businesses in the Dubbo, Parkes, Forbes, Wellington, Narromine, Bogan, Gilgandra,

Coonamble and Warren local government areas.

Headed up by CEO Jeff Caldbeck and business advisor Angus Ridge, the ASBAS team aims to support small business owners to develop business growth strategies and plans to strengthen gaps in existing business model and delivering increased capacity for business sustainability, productivity and competitiveness.

The advisory services will be delivered through face-to-face, mobile, video, online and telephone advisory services and public action-learning small group workshops, within five key clients service outcome areas: Funding avenues and financial analysis; Building your business; Making the most of your talent and team; Management capabilities; and Digital engagement implementation.

To make an appointment, contact 6881 8699 or email angus.ridge@oranaasbas.com.au. For more information

on the ASBAS program visit www.business.gov.au/asbas or contact 13 28 46.

New grants program launched online COMMUNITY and not-for-profit groups across the region are being urged to throw their hats in the ring for a chance at a cash injection of up to $10,000 under a new community grants program launched online this week.

Nabo.com.au – a social network for local communities – says the program aims to assist initiatives that build stronger, safer communities. To this end, it will provide funding for a local project or group that best demonstrates the way in which it connects to its community, works for the inclusion of marginalised Australians, or helps the community prepare or respond to a disaster. Examples of eligible concepts may include health education classes

FBT shake up in 2015 K EEPING on top of your Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) obligations this year will be a little more onerous with a temporary increase in the FBT rate from 47% to 49% on April 1, 2015. The FBT rate will then stay at 49% until March 31, 2017.

The change in the FBT rate for the next two years has a number of implications, particularly to those employers with salary sacrifice agreements in place or where fringe benefits form part of your employment agreements.

FBT gross up rates have also changed in line with the rate change. The new rates are: z 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015: 47% (type 1 gross up rate 2.0802, type 2 gross up rate 1.8868); z 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2017: 49% (type 1 gross up rate 2.1463, type 2 gross up rate 1.9608); z 1 April 2017 onwards: 47% (type 1 gross up rate 2.0808, type 2 gross up rate 1.8868).

The FBT rate change is a by-product of the introduction of the 2% Debt Tax (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) on high income earners. The debt tax is payable at a rate of 2% on every dollar of a taxpayer’s annual taxable income over $180,000.

In effect, the top marginal tax rate became 49% from 1 July 2014. The change to the FBT rate is to discourage high income earners from using the FBT system to lower their taxable income.

If your executives and high-income earners have not put in place any arrangements to manage the debt tax, there are still some planning opportunities available.

Review all salary sacrifice agreements IT’S essential that you review all salary sacrifice agreements.

Providing employee benefits is more expensive and potentially less attractive now and over the next few years, unless that cost

is passed through to employees.

And, in some cases, the salary sacrifice agreement may not achieve the intended goals and simply create an administrative burden for little to no benefit.

FBT change and not-forprofit entities FOR employees of charities, not-for-profits and certain other entities, the exemption threshold from FBT will increase to ensure that the total value of cash benefits received by these employees are not affected.

This will mean that: z For public benevolent institutions and health promotion charities the exemption from FBT for benefits will increase to a grossed-up annual cap of $31,177 per employee (currently $30,000) from 1 April 2015. z For public and not-for-profit hospitals and public ambulance services the exemption from FBT for benefits will increase to a grossed-up annual cap of $17,667 per employee (currently $17,000) from 1 April 2015.

Changes to FBT planning opportunities IT seems that as soon as someone promotes a new way to utilise the FBT system for planning purposes or a significant number of taxpayers start using a planning method, the Government or the ATO closes that opportunity. This is the case with: Living away from home allowances – reforms from 22 October 2012 severely limit access to FBT concessions for living away from home (LAFH) allowances particularly for non-residents. The reforms introduce a higher level of substantiation, limit the time the FBT concessions can apply to a LAFH to 12 months (in most cases), and dictate strict conditions such as maintaining a home in Australia for their personal use (no rentals). Special rules exist for fly-in-fly-out and drive-indrive-out employees.

Salary sacrificing goods or services that your business pro-

vides – for many businesses, there was once a tangible financial benefit to packaging up goods or services they provide as part of the remuneration offered to employees. Retailers providing discounted clothes to employees and private schools discounting school fees for children of employees, are just two examples. On 22 October 2012, the FBT concessions that were previously available in this situation were removed.

ATO targets Travelling or living away from home – what’s the difference?

ANOTHER issue that comes up is determining whether someone is living away from home, relocating or just travelling.

The ATO is looking closely at Australian taxpayers claiming living away from home (LAFH) allowances to make sure they are not incorrectly accessing the FBT concessions. If somebody is living in Sydney but travelling to Melbourne on an ad hoc basis every other week for work, they are simply travelling. They may be entitled to travel deductions but are not entitled to the FBT concessions that can apply to LAFHAs. If the person relocates temporarily to Melbourne, keeps their home in Sydney for their use (can’t be rented out), then it’s more likely they can access the living away from home allowance concessions. You need to double check to get the distinctions right.

Motor vehicles WHERE a motor vehicle owned or leased by the business is used by an employee for private purposes (including travelling between home and the workplace), then FBT is an issue that needs to be managed.

Interaction between FBT, income tax and GST IF you pay FBT on a benefit relating to entertainment then the business can generally claim a deduction for the costs associated with providing the entertainment as well as the GST credits. However, if FBT does not apply to the benefit then no

for locals, flood response projects or even support programs for the elderly or disabled.

“Nabo.com.au’s key aim is to connect more people and organisations in their local communities. Local projects and groups are a major part of this interaction. By launching a community grant program, we hope to encourage more local groups to thrive,” according to founder and CEO Adam Rigby.

“The project or group that will receive the $10,000 will be unique, innovative and have a forward-thinking approach to meeting a local need.”

NSW and ACT local residents and community groups can enter by signing up to nabo.com.au and creating an online “group” for their project or organisation and completing an online application. Selection will be through votes from Nabo.com.au members. The NSW and ACT grant applications close 26 April 2015 and the grant recipient will be announced in June.

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Entertainment can be almost anything from food, drink, recreation such as movie tickets, to non-work based travel. If you provide any entertainment benefits to employees, such as an employee attending a business lunch, then FBT might apply.

Structuring employee salaries through a unit trust THE ATO has warned employers against complex structuring arrangements designed to channel benefits to employees using an employee remuneration trust. The most recent ATO alert looks at arrangements where the employer repays an employee’s loan through a trust.

Under these arrangements, employees acquire units in a unit trust funded by a loan from the trustee. The loan is repaid by the employer using amounts salary sacrificed by employees.

The result is that the taxable value of the benefit provided to the employee skirts the FBT system – a big no, no from the ATO’s point of view.

How do I know if I need to pay FBT? IF you are not sure whether you are providing fringe benefits to your employees, here are some key questions you should ask yourself: z Do you make vehicles owned or leased by the business available to employees for private use? z Does your business provide loans at reduced interest rates to employees? z Has your business forgiven

any debts owed by employees? z Has your business paid for, or reimbursed, any private expenses incurred by employees? z Does your business provide a house or unit of accommodation to employees? z Does your business provide employees with living-awayfrom-home allowances? z Does your business provide entertainment by way of food, drink or recreation to employees? z Do any employees have a salary package (salary sacrifice) arrangement in place? z Has your business provided employees with goods at a lower price than they are normally sold to the public?

What is exempt from FBT? CERTAIN benefits are excluded from the scope of the FBT rules. The following work related items are exempt from FBT if they are provided primarily for use in the employee’s employment: z Portable electronic devices (e.g. laptop, tablet, mobile, PDA, electronic diary, notebook computer, GPS navigation device) that are provided primarily for use in the employee’s employment (limited to the purchase or reimbursement of one portable electronic device for each employee per FBT year); z An item of computer software; z Protective clothing required for the employee’s job; z A briefcase; z A calculator; z A tool of trade.

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RICH FLANAGAN

We know it’s out there. We know it’s important. But how do we navigate our way through the brave new world of digital technology? Rich Flanagan is the Small Business Marketing Manager for Google Australia and he spoke with Weekender during a recent visit to Dubbo to help business people get an online start.

AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Noni McCarthy/Google AST week at the invitation of Dubbo’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, representatives from online juggernaut Google were in town to host a series of information sessions to help business people take up the challenge of digital technology. In preparation for the event, 100 Dubbo-based small businesses were surveyed, and the results showed that although each of them knew the internet was important for future growth, fewer than 40 per cent felt they had the skills required to grow their business online. Of those surveyed, 80 per cent said they feared they would be “missing out” on customers and business if they couldn’t be found online, and 63 per cent said they believe Dubbo is ready to “face the digital challenges of the next five years”.

Here’s what Google’s small business marketing representative had to say when Weekender sat down with him to find out more about this brave new digital world:

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You’ve just been to Dubbo – what was your overall impression of the city’s business sector, based on the attendees at those sessions?

Everyone was incredibly engaged and we were impressed at such a large crowd. There was such a breadth – a diversity – of the type of businesses that attended. They were interested in learning about digital technology.

Is that healthy turnout an indication of just how hungry regional businesses are to explore and adopt that technology?

A big, emphatic yes. Every business person I spoke to knows this (digital technology) is a priority now, and will become even more of a priority in the

future. Many have made some good first steps – others were looking to us for advice on how to take those first steps to get their business online for the first time ever. It’s really whet their appetite to do more with digital in the future.

Some of the stats we shared really caught their attention – for instance, research we’ve done in the past showing that businesses with a high level of digital engagement are twice as likely to be growing revenues, and four times as likely to be growing staff compared with a business with no digital engagement. So really, it is a priority if businesses, particularly in regional areas are to thrive.

Do you see signs of frustration from some business people – particularly those who are not “digital natives” – people who know it’s out there but don’t understand, or even fear, it?

Not frustration so much as curiosity – wanting to know what are the right steps to take. Simplicity is uniformly of interest to all small business owners – it’s important to make it as simple and easy to navigate as possible. For example, there was a woman there from a local company who is an older woman, but she’s really wanting to get into digital – it doesn’t come first nature to her, like she says it does to her grandchildren, but she knows it’s a priority and knows she needs to make it work. So she was ready to jump right in and follow some simple tips to make digital technology work for her business.

What are some of the barriers you see to people in small business adopting digital technology?

Time is one of them. People see it as time consuming to make technology work, but our hope is that time actually

saves you time because once you’re set up online, it allows you to be available to potential customers 24/7 – weekends, nights... times customers are looking for you. So it’s not just when the doors of your business are open; it’s any time at all.

The other challenge is cost – or the perception of cost. While marketing can have a cost associated, it should be an investment. With digital marketing, the good news is that it’s immediately trackable. You can see exactly what’s happening in the digital realm and either decide to invest more, or to shift your spend away from things that aren’t working. So while there’s an initial cost, it’s a cost that’s “countable”.

Is there a way for traditional marketing and digital technology to peacefully co-exist?

Absolutely – and hopefully, in most cases, they do. You don’t need to choose between digital and traditional. It’s about looking at how the overall pieces work together. There are many free products out there in digital marketing – and working traditional marketing in alongside that is great, because, for instance, someone might read in the newspaper about your product, and then they’ll Google you and find out about you and how to find you, for instance. So it’s a case of how you fit digital into what you’re already doing. It’s not about rapidly replacing things that have been working. In small business, that physical world is key – so digital should supplement and add to that not entirely replace it.

What are some of the common mistakes small business people make with digital technology?

They try to do too much too quickly.

While it’s great to jump in, you probably want to be a bit more strategic in your initial approach – try one thing, then apply what you learn to your next step.

That really is key – try one thing, then see how it works.

The other mistake is not wanting to rely on “experts”. We have a network of digital partners, including here in Dubbo – and they have experience and expertise to help. They too are small business people. If you’re not an expert that’s okay because there are people out there who are willing and able to help.

There’s an old saying that if you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.

Absolutely! And I think some business owners we talked to felt they’d spent money previously that they wish they hadn’t – and now are looking to spend their money more wisely by getting help from people who know what they’re doing and who can provide that great level of service.

What would you say to business people who think digital technology is not for them?

I’d ask them what happens when someone looks for their business on Google.

Put themselves in the shoes of their customer, or their potential customer – and ask themselves what kind of experience is that customer having of their business in the online world? If you have pride in your business, whether it’s a shop or restaurant, whether we’re talking about the appearance of the business or the type of business you provide to your customers, then you need to have a minimum level of service in the online world too. That doesn’t mean you need the most expensive or complex website

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Media & Marketing Minute Compiled by the Sales & Marketing team at Dubbo Photo News/Dubbo Weekender or spend tens of thousands of dollars on digital marketing, but you need to have some kind of digital experience there – it’s something you shouldn’t ignore. Again, there are simple and free ways to make that happen. And that’s as simple as claiming your listing with Google; making sure we have the best possible description of your business; having photos up there that represent you. And if customers are leaving reviews of your business and you’re aware of them, it’s like having live customer feedback as if you were in your shop, for instance.

Are some businesses better suited to digital marketing than others?

Sure. A business that’s looking to sell services online needs to be doing things in the digital world. For instance, there was a business we talked to that was selling cattle tags all ‘round the state – now, you can go door to door with that, but scale and efficiency and having a really strong online presence will really make a difference.

If you’re selling online, you need to invest in a strong digital marketing strategy and have that experience and expertise either in-house, or be working with a strong partner.

Would you agree, though, that it’s important for businesses not to lose the personal touch?

Oh, absolutely. Technology should enable that personal touch. Things like being able to upload photos and videos, for instance of your customers or products or whatever, that makes the personal touch even better. Because that can happen in your shop, but you can create a lasting connection through technology. That customer might only physically visit your business once a week, but you can still maintain that constant personal connection in the online world.

What sort of technology are you seeing that excites you personally about the future?

Oh, that’s a really good question. Anything to do with mobile technology is really key – businesses that are giving a great mobile experience to their users are going to be on the forefront. Users are increasingly using their phones and they have those phones at arms’ length, so how do you simplify their experience? Getting down to that core offering in that mobile space will be key. There are small businesses that are doing great things with apps, with YouTube, with short videos and so forth – that’s all really interesting.

It’s about being part of the “conversation”, isn’t it?

Absolutely. That conversation is happening all the time and it’s happening everywhere. It’s not just what you’re hearing face to face from your customers – it’s something that’s happening all the time and it’s global. You might be a business based in Dubbo, but your potential customers are from all ‘round the world.

That’s something we get pretty excited about here in Dubbo – the opening up of potential markets we mightn’t have otherwise had access.

Exactly – and technology is leading the charge. We spoke with a gentleman in Dubbo who is in the construction industry and thanks to the internet, more and more of his jobs are in Sydney. Before, he might have been limited by geography, now he has potential clients finding him from Sydney and he’s able to do more business, and potentially hire more staff to be based down there.

That’s a strategy that might not have been possible a decade ago – he’d have had to move himself and his family.

There’s a tendency to think that because a business is located in a metropolitan area, it’s more at the forefront of technology. That’s certainly not what I saw in Dubbo – there’s a keen interest there and great things are already happening.

Internet security and online security is more and more a concern as technology grows. What do you say to people who have these concerns?

From a Google perspective, online security and safety is paramount – it’s at the forefront of everything we do.

That’s absolutely key to everything we do.

For someone who grew up thinking Maxwell Smart’s shoe phone was sheer fantasy, tell me what you think are some of the things we might be looking at, technology wise, ten years from now?

Lots of interesting technology is coming. Devices, and technology is becoming embedded all around us – the power of things like watches, and other “ordinary” devices around your home, that’s quite exciting. And technology can come from anywhere – take Google Maps, for instance, which was founded here in Australia.

It’s hard to know where it’s headed, but I think it will just continue to make our lives easier.

What’s your professional background?

I’ve been at Google seven and a half years – five of them in Australia. I’m from America, but I proudly became an Australian citizen in June last year, with 100 per cent on the citizenship test! Before Google, I worked in digital consulting back in the US – I had more of an interest in how technology has an impact on people so I decided to go into the marketing side of things. I’m not a pure technologist, but I do love to see how people can benefit from technology – not just small business, but society as a whole.

Now, everyone’s seen the movie – so I have to ask: is it really that much fun to work at Google?

Yes. It is a great place to work. Our offices are fantastic, both here and around the world, and colleagues are fun people, so yes – great place to work.

It’s not about rapidly replacing things that have been working. In small business, that physical world is key – so digital should supplement and add to that not entirely replace it.

Why marketing is like driving a car.

I and welcome to the Marketing Minute from Panscott Media.

This week’s opening print ad (above) made us smile. It’s a bit cute – but far more importantly it’s eye catching and the reader is drawn in to find out “what’s that all about?”

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Consistency is key!

HERE’S a great piece of marketing advice we spotted this week that a US advertising company called Thrive has come up with – let’s just say they took the words right out of our mouths with this one!

Why should businesses be consistent with their advertising? Advertising is like driving a car. You have to use a lot of petrol to get up to speed but once you reach full potential you can cruise. But if you slam on the breaks, you have to use more petrol to get back up to speed.

Want to know more? Here’s 10 Reasons why you should always advertise: 1. Your market is constantly changing.

2. People forget fast.

3. Your competition isn’t quitting.

4. Advertising strengthens your identity.

5. Advertising is essential to survival and growth.

6. Advertising enables you to hold on to your existing customers. (We all rely, in part, on repeat business and referrals. Old customers are the key to both. When old customers don’t hear about you, or directly from you, they tend to move on. Cutting your advertising is a negative signal to those who actively patronise you.)

7. Advertising maintains morale.

8. Advertising gives you an advantage over competitors who have ceased advertising.

9. Advertising allows your business to continue operating. (You will always have overheads like bills, telephone, rent/equipment, your time. Advertising creates the AIR that overheads breathe!

Advertising is the portion of your busi-

ness responsibilities that rejuvenates and draws new life (i.e. revenue) into the process.)

10. You have invested money that you stand to lose. If you stop advertising, everything you’ve invested becomes lost, as the consumer’s awareness you’ve purchased slowly dwindles away. Sure you can buy it again, but you’ll have to start from scratch.

Hey big spenders (aka why smart advertisers are using Weekender) THE power of print advertising continues to be the best way to reach more affluent Australians.

Around 5 million Australians read seven or more newspapers a week – that’s three in ten consumers aged 14+, according to official data from media measurement company ‘emma’.

For example, they are planning to spend an average of $31,700 on their next car, $2500 more than the average Australian.

Businesses involved in investment properties will find a strong customer base in heavy newspaper readers. They are 7 per cent more likely to invest in a second property, be it a holiday home or investment property.

They are more likely to go for a drink (+14%) in a local hotel or pub, go to a gallery or exhibition (+22%) and 31 per cent more likely to go to the theatre.

See the graphic below for more.

– Until next week, sell well!

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” – Henry Ford

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A tree is covered with snow on a sunny spring day in the western Austrian village of Absam this week. PHOTO: REUTERS/DOMINIC EBENBICHLER

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Superfoods unpeeled

BY LISA SALMON UPERFOODS are as well known now as Superman was in the Seventies, and are credited by some with almost as much power as the legendary superhero himself.

While they won’t give you powers of flight or the strength to chuck buses, nutrient-dense superfoods – such as pomegranate, coconut oil, kale and red cabbage – are so-called as they’re believed to be ultra good for us, helping boost general health, super-charging the immune system, guarding our memories and keeping illness at bay, including cancers and heart disease.

While kale and cabbages have obviously been around for donkey’s years, the term ‘superfood’ hasn’t, but when something is granted the impressive label, sales often soar. The amount of red cabbage bought in many western counties last year grew by nearly

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50 per cent compared to the previous 12 months, spending on kale has doubled in the last five years, and sales of coconut oil has nearly tripled in just two years.

But are these so-called superfoods the dietary magic bullets they’re made out to be?

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NO, says dietician Kelly McCabe.

While agreeing that certain foods have indeed been reported to have cancer-protective effects and other health benefits, she stresses: “There’s no such thing as a ‘superfood’.

“No one food in isolation can have a profound effect on our health, or provide all the nutrients we need. Instead, we should strive for a ‘super-diet’, which includes a wide range of these socalled superfoods.”

Exotic-sounding and often pricey superfoods – such as goji berries, chia seeds and teff grains – may frequently be in the headlines, and linked with health-con-

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scious celebrities like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow, but the truth is that many of the healthiest foods around can be found in the fridges and cupboards of ordinary folk.

“We forget all the humble things in our cupboards,” says McCabe, a cancer specialist dietician.

“If I had to choose one food, I’d definitely choose an egg. It’s our most easily digestible form of protein, and it contains every vitamin and mineral that we require, with the exception of vitamin C. “It’s a nutritionally complete food – and a normal food we’d eat as part of our everyday diet, as opposed to goji berries, wheatgrass and chia seeds.”

EAT THE RAINBOW

THE other top ordinary superfoods are brightly-coloured fruit and vegetables, like tomatoes, carrots, beetroot and sweet potato.

Fruits, veg, pulses, beans and plants produce a wide variety of compounds called phytochemicals, packed with potential benefits for human health. They include groups of substances such as polyphenols and carotenoids and sometimes produce antioxidant effects, helping mop up free radicals in the body that may trigger disease.

“Think of the colours of your foods,” says McCabe. “Phytochemicals are usually the pigments in the food, so the idea of eating the rainbow is based on science.”

Lycopene, the red pigment in tomatoes and watermelon, is

thought to have anti-inflammatory effects, while orange-coloured vegetables, like sweet potato, butternut squash, and red or orange peppers, contain beta-carotene, an antioxidant and type of vitamin A. Purples and reds, like blueberries, blackberries and red cabbage, will normally contain anthocyanins, powerful antioxidants. Red cabbage also contains sulforaphane, thought to have anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties.

“Sulforaphanes have protective, anti-inflammatory effects on health, and that’s where all the hype about red cabbage comes from,” explains McCabe. “But you’ll get similar compounds from other green leafy vegetables and purple fruits or veg in the diet – you don’t need to eat a whole red cabbage a day.

Eating a large variety of different colours, even if they’re everyday foods, is what should be aimed for, she adds.

ALL ABOUT THE BALANCE A good, varied diet is thought to be important because nutrients have a synergistic effect – they perform best in combination – so different nutrients or phytochemicals will interact with one another to produce beneficial health effects.

“There’s no scientific data to support the idea that one food in isolation can have a significant impact on our health,” explains McCabe.

Food Travel

Eating salad equals eating healthy. PHOTOS: PA/THINKSTOCKPHOTOS.

HEALTH IN BRIEF Mental health funding safe for now MENTAL HEALTH service providers and their consumers can breathe a sigh of relief for now, with a 12 month extension of

funding confirmed by the federal government.

The $300 million extension will allow frontline services to continue being delivered while the current Mental Health Review continues, according to federal health minister Sussan Ley. The review is designed to allow the government to form long term plans “to ensure our high-quality mental health services continue to provide the right care, at the right time in the right setting”.

Ley said most people recognised the need for improvements in the way mental health servic-

Pricey superfoods are often linked with health-conscious celebrities like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. PHOTOS: AP/MICHAEL SOHN; IAN WEST /PA

es are organised and funded and that it’s important for “positive reform” not to be rushed.

“Therefore extending funding for another 12 months will provide frontline mental health services with clarity and certainty while we work through the complex issues raised in the review.”

Heavy breathing could be a life-saver IT may not be what everyone wants to hear, but it’s “official” and it could change the face of conventional guidelines – exercise that makes you sweat and

puff helps reduce your risk of early death.

A six year Australian study by the University of Sydney’s school of public health found that of the 204,000 NSW people aged over 45 surveyed by the study, those who did vigorous exercise were 13 per cent less likely to die prematurely than their counterparts who favoured moderate exercise.

It’s also about volume of exercise according to co-author of the study Melanie Ding who said: “The more physical activity that’s vigorous, the more protected the individual is against all-cause

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 “It’s the diet we eat over a long period that subtly influences our health – not eating a punnet of blueberries every day for a week.”

And for those who aren’t too keen on fruit and veg, many herbs and spices, such as garlic and turmeric, are also packed with health-boosting phytochemicals.

“People will always want to hear that you should go out and buy this really unusual food that’s just been discovered, because the message about everything in moderation is really boring,” McCabe points out.

“But all the science suggests that’s what’s necessary. People want a magic bullet food, a really quick fix, but I don’t believe there will ever be one food that has that desired effect on our health.

“It’s much better to invest your money in eating a wide range of good quality traditional food, rather than spending a fortune on something like goji berries, manuka honey and chia seeds, because you can get all the nutrients you get from those in other foods, in a good balanced diet.”

SHE won’t call them ‘superfoods’, but here are some of the ingredients McCabe says are of “particular interest” when it comes to boosting health and protecting against cancer... :: Turmeric: The active ingredient in this spice is curcumin, a powerful antioxidant believed to have anti-inflammatory properties. :: Chilli Pepper: Chilli or cayenne peppers contain capsaicin, a plant chemical found to reduce pain when applied topically, plus vitamin A and antioxidant carotenoids. :: Ginger: It’s been used as an anti-sickness remedy for centuries as it contains volatile oils like gingerol, believed to stimulate saliva and gastric function. :: Red Grapes: Their skins contain resveratrol, a compound shown to reduce inflammation and have antioxidant properties. :: Avocado: Rich in hearthealthy monounsaturated fatty acids, such as oleic acid, and the antioxidant vitamins C and E. :: Tomatoes: Contain lycopene, an antioxidant chemical found to protect against pros-

tate cancer. :: Cruciferous Vegetables: These leafy greens, including broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, cabbage, cauliflower and rocket, are packed with sulforaphanes which are linked to a lower cancer risk, particularly for prostate cancer. :: Allium Vegetables: Onions and garlic contain sulphur compounds which help lower blood pressure. Garlic also contains allicin, which promotes antioxidant activity and has powerful antibacterial and antiviral functions. Onions have high concentrations of quercetin, which has anti-inflammatory benefits. :: Brightly Coloured Berries: Blueberries, raspberries and strawberries are a rich source of anthocyanins and have been found to have antiviral, antibacterial, antioxidant and antiinflammatory properties. :: Beetroot: Rich in nitrates, beetroot has been linked with improved blood flow and lower blood pressure. It’s also full of antioxidants, potassium, magnesium, vitamin A, B6 and C. :: Pomegranate: Juice from the seed pulp is rich in tannins, flavonols and anthocyanins, all powerful antioxidants. Pomegranate juice has been found to benefit patients with prostate cancer, and it may also help reduce oestrogen production, potentially useful for those with oestrogen-dependent breast cancer. :: Carrots, Peppers and Sweet Potato: Beta-carotene, an antioxidant vitamin present in orange veg, and other carotenoid pigments have been shown to enhance immune function. :: Oily fish: Contains omega-3 fatty acids found to help improve natural inflammatory responses and possibly support heart and brain health. :: Eggs: A naturally-rich source of iron, vitamin D and a rich mixture of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. :: Brazil nuts: One of very few dietary sources of selenium, a mineral integral to immune function. :: Dark Chocolate (cacao): The cacao (or cocoa) bean is full of protective flavonols which have antioxidant qualities and have been shown to improve vascular health. :: Soy: A higher intake of soy products, which contain isoflavones, is linked with reduced risk of certain cancers and lower cholesterol levels.

mortality.”

Most exercise guidelines, including conventional Australian advice, urges adults to spend 150 minutes a week doing moderate activity or 75 minutes of vigorous activity.

But according to Ding, implicit in those guidelines was the amounts of moderate and vigorous activity conferred similar benefits, which was not the case. “Those who were doing more vigorous activity had less deterioration in physical functions over time,” she said.

“There could be potential

cardiovascular and metabolic protection that vigorous activity offers.”

The authors, writing in their study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, said although vigorous exercise was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events and sudden death, the absolute risk of death was extremely low.

“Therefore, in future activity guidelines, it may be reasonable to encourage wider consideration of vigorous activities for those who are capable of doing so,” they said. (WITH AAP)

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Dick Healey and Flo Ashby. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED BY FLO ASHBY FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE DUBBO DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP.

Back, Flo Ashby (Dubbo), Warren Turner (Parkes). Front, Norm Price (Young) and Verna Howard (Orange) at the diabetic zone meeting held at Dubbo.

Colin Hickey receiving his medal and certificate to mark 50 years of living with diabetes. Colin is pictured with his wife.

Forty years of support for diabetes sufferers

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

EACHING its ruby anniversary seems a fitting milestone for a local support group in which blood sugar testing is a daily occurrence for sufferers.

The Dubbo Diabetes Support Group, which turned 40 on August 9 last year has existed since 1974.

Former president John Lampard said it was a milestone for any group to reach.

“Even though the history is sketchy, to remain active for that long is an achievement.

The group is stronger now than it was a few years ago. But out of the 2500 people in Dubbo with diabetes, we only have 17 to 22 members so I would like to see more.”

The group was started in the backyard shed of foundation member Bob Thompson, with just eight members.

Vice president Flo Ashby said the idea stemmed from a book called And Not to Yield

by Margaret Molley and grew from there.

One of the earliest activities was a public awareness campaign, testing 1000 people for the disease which now affects one million people across the nation.

After that, “the main responsibility was to receive and pack up syringes and post them off to those living with diabetes in the area”.

In the years that followed, the group went through a boom time, participating in Buzz Day and holding fundraising raffles. “(President) John and Carlene Lampard built it up; involved more young people and we have raised thousands of dollars selling merchandise, with the money used for research into a cure,” Ashby explained.

Since that time, the group has diminished in numbers again, which she struggles to understand.

“It’s always been hard to get people to the meetings. Many people think they already know enough and they don’t need any help.

But the meetings are informal gatherings where people can talk candidly about their problems and concerns.”

Ashby herself has been wearing her diabet-

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ic bracelet since being diagnosed in 1984, the same year that Diabetes Australia was established. As a nurse, she actually recognised the signs and diagnosed herself.

“I knew I was drinking a lot and going to the toilet a lot. So I went to Dr Jewell and said I think I have diabetes.”

She believes it’s a genetic condition and had relatives on both sides with diabetes.

“Some people say it’s not inherited but I think it is.”

In both a medical and social capacity, a lot has changed in those 31 years.

“It’s advanced a lot since then in terms of treatment, the needles are smaller and easier to use. You do your own testing. But there’s also more people with diabetes now – food and exercise are the main things. Lifestyles are different.”

One of the main achievements for the city has been the creation of the Betty Orth Memorial Unit at Dubbo Base Hospital where diabetes educators, dieticians and doctors collaborate to advise and assist patients. The centre, which shares its home with the oncology unit, was constructed thanks to the help of health campaigner and retired executive Brian Semmler.

For the past few months, Ashby has been attempting to collect information from the past 40 years for the group’s upcoming celebration lunch which will officially mark their four decades in Dubbo. But it’s been a tough job.

“It’s hard to get information from the past 40 years,” she said.

In the future, she and others in the group want to raise more awareness of what is often described as a silent pandemic.

“People think it’s not a big deal but it’s very hard to control. You can go into a coma and die – people have lost a leg and their eyesight.

It might not happen but it’s a possibility and it can be harder to manage, particularly as you get older.

“We are hoping to get a cure.”

» The Dubbo Diabetes Support Group is celebrating 40 years of helping people living with diabetes in the Dubbo area. They are having a luncheon at the RSL Club on Tuesday, April 21, at 12noon. They meet on the third Tuesday of the month at the Masonic Hall, all welcome.

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The Great Indoors

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN LORAL designs are an evergreen favourite in home decorating, but this season designs have gone super-natural, with big, bold blooms, tropical foliage and ultra-bright bouquets.

It’s partly due to modern techniques making it possible to conjure blooms so pin-point accurate that you feel you can almost pick them, and those advances have helped create sophisticated – but affordable – in-your-face flowery patterns, in vibrant shades which shriek colour and style confidence.

If those haven’t yet grown on you, choose from the crop of more gentle, romantic, painterly floral effects.

“This season, floral designs have their rightful place as stars in the decor show,” says Tricia Guild, founder and creative director of Designers Guild.

“I’ve always been greatly inspired by flowers and they feature prominently in many of our collections. Historically, floral fabrics at a window are about extending the eye beyond the immediate physical space of the room, and a floral wallpaper on a feature wall can have a similar effect. Both approaches make it possible to create a vision of your very own garden inside your space.”

Make your home blooming beautiful and celebrate the great indoors...

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PURPLE PARADISE TRANSPORT yourself to a tropical landscape, with hothouse flowers in plum and purple shades.

“Tropical flowers, stylised foliage and botanical references first developed in fashion and have crossed over into interiors,” says Louise Collis, a designer at a wallpaper and fabric specialist.

“The resurgence of florals injects this season’s interior schemes with a sense of optimism and new beginnings, and the strong palette – which can range from vibrant hues through to deep moody shades – is turning heads and giving interiors an extravagance and richness, while at the same time promoting a feeling of sanctuary and escapism.”

TIP: Restrict your colour pal-

PURPLE PASSION. Shanghai garden collection including fabric and wallpaper in a violet shade.

PETAL PINK. Exotica Cream and Fuschia by Julien MacDonald for Graham and Brown.

BOHO BUNCH. Colombia floral bedset; panel bedspread; multi patch bedding set.

ette to three or four shades, ensuring one is natural, and keep patterns within this group of colours. Keep floors and ceilings neutral and combine colour with lots of white and pattern, to maintain a sense of harmony.

BOHO BUNCH THROW away the rule book and splash on colour and a variety of patterns, for a wild gypsy look.

“Homeowners are abandoning beige and embracing colour in their lives, and florals are one of the most decorative ways to make an impact,” says Nichola McFall, a fabric brand manager. “We’re increasingly seeing a more confident customer making bolder colour choices, and this season sees a real diversity in design, from

painterly to ditsy and botanical to abstract.

“For a more bohemian approach, mix up patterns, take some risks and you’ll create a funky, uncontrived look that’s a world away from play-it-safe traditional chintz.”

TIP: If you’re using two or more different patterns together, choose prints with varying scales, so designs don’t compete for attention and make the room look too busy.

PETAL PINK COLOUR up with bright pink blooms in pretty-as-a-picture shades, from rose, fuschia and cherry blossom to lipstick pink.

“How we use colour in our everyday lives has a big effect on our mood and how we feel about our homes. Replacing a

LEFT: PETAL PINK. Albany Botanica, Margarita wallpaper. RIGHT: PURPLE PASSION. Lemur turquoise wallpaper by Laura Allen.

nude lipstick, for example, with a sassy pink one can transform a dull outfit into a glamorous one, and it’s the same when you inject colour and pattern into a room,” says Sarah Quilliam, head of product design for a curtain, blind and shutter specialist..

“Florals are a hardy perennial in interiors and the trend for intensely saturated hues, such a lipstick pink and cerise, bears little resemblance

Sharpening Mower Blades

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BY SAMANTHA MAZZOTTA Q: How do I sharpen the blades on my lawnmower? – Cara, via email A: Dull mower blades are pretty rough on your lawn, tearing grass rather than cutting it, which can turn the tips brown, weaken the grass and promote the growth of fungus.

Sharpening mower blades is something not everyone does routinely, but you should

commit to sharpening them at the beginning and end of the mowing season.

Do you need to sharpen them mid-season? Professional landscapers sharpen or change their mower blades every 12-15 hours of mowing time (yes, that’s every day or two), so it would depend on the size of your yard and length of the growing season.

Here’s how to change a blade: 1. Lay down a plastic sheet or drop-cloth to prevent oil drips and grass cuttings from stain-

to the washed-shades and delicate sprigs of previous seasons.

Painterly style designs are coming through strongly and have less focus on realistic precision, and more on artistic impression, brush strokes and a Monet-style interpretation.”

TIP: Hang small panels of wallpaper and form a frame around them to make them look like a work of art; an on-trend way of brightening up a plain wall. ing the work area.

2. Disconnect the spark plug from the starter wire, remove the spark plug itself, and make sure the fuel cap is tightly closed.

3. Turn the mower on its side. Using a socket wrench, unscrew the centre nut that secures the blade to the mower deck and any other connecting bolts or nuts. If the blade keeps turning as you try to loosen the nut, wedge a piece of wood between a blade and the deck.

Remove the blade and brush off any dried grass clippings.

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5 Tips For: Feature Walls

BY JULIA GRAY 1. You can create a feature wall in pretty much any room – chimney breasts, alcoves and walls behind beds, dining tables and sofas usually work well, but not all rooms have these obvious spots.

That doesn’t mean it can’t still be an option though, you might just have to think more carefully about which is the best wall of the room to focus on – maybe you want to brighten up the darkest wall, or liven up a wall without any other inbuilt features on it.

2. Painted stripes look fabulous on a feature wall, but are fiddly, time-consuming and often frustrating to do properly. You need to use low-tack masking tape for adjoining stripes – and try a tester piece of tape first, in case it’s not as low tack as it claims to be. Alternatively, do freehand ‘rough’ stripes with a paintbrush or roller and no tape – it’s much easier, but more of an acquired taste.

3. Wallpaper is another great way to create a feature wall – if you want stripes the easy way, buy a striped design. Feature walls enable you to enjoy patterned wallpaper without it overpowering the room or making it look too busy.

You can even create a horizontal feature on all four walls by using wallpaper (or a different colour paint) between the picture rail and cornicing, between the picture rail and dado rail, or between the dado rail and skirting board.

A feature wall with a mural in a bedroom. Photos: PA/thinkstockphotos.

A feature wall made with wallpaper.

A feature wall with a mural and chalk board in a children’s bedroom.

4. Murals are similar to wallpaper, but usually depict a scene (a beach, cityscape, mountains, etc) or a large-scale design, such as typography or a map, rather than a more conventional pattern. Unlike wallpaper, which can be hung on as many or few walls as you like, a mural is usually designed to be used on just one, feature wall.

5. Feature walls can be practical as well as pretty. For example, you can have a tiled one in a bathroom or shower room, and a chalkboard one in a kitchen or playroom. Chalkboard paints are available in different colours, so your feature wall doesn’t have to be black. If you’d prefer something less permanent, how about a chalkboard sticker? Wall stickers in general are fantastic for feature walls because they come in lots of different designs, colours and sizes, enabling you to create a unique look.

4. To sharpen the blade, check the angle of the existing edge. You’ll want to sharpen in the same direction as that angle. Run a metal file down the blade at about a 45 degree angle.

Or, use a drill with a bladesharpener attachment.

5. Once sharpened, check the blade’s balance by hanging it from a nail (or buy a blade balancer at the hardware store). If one end of the blade tilts down much farther than the other, file away more metal on that

A feature wall with a fire and large mirror.

A feature wall in a lounge created using stripped wallpaper and a large ornate mirror.

side until the blade stays horizontal.

6. Reattach the blade to the mower, making sure the blades angle downward.

Tighten as much as possible, bracing the blade with the block of wood.

7. Attach the spark plug and wire, and turn the mower upright.

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Snap a picture of the underside with your smartphone before starting the task.

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BY JOANN DERSON z When your cut-up fruit is about to expire and you don’t think you’ll be able to eat it in time, just freeze it for smoothies. Lay it out in a single layer and pop it in the freezer. When it’s frozen, you can put it in a zippertop baggie for easy storage. z If it’s garage sale time, try this trick: Wrap a picture frame tightly with tulle. Then you can hang earrings from the tulle. Maybe someone will think it’s so cute that you’ll

A feature wall in a bathroom made with different patterned tiles.

sell the frame, too! z “Do you have a lot of coffee mugs? Maybe it’s time to show them off! My granny has so many coffee mugs from trips and that she got as gifts. My dad put up five long shelves on one wall of her kitchen.

They are the perfect place to line up and display all the mugs, and each one has a story, which is fun to hear.” – F.E. z “My wife saw a picture of a narrow shelving unit on wheels that fits in the space between your fridge and the wall. It’s really cool, and I made one for her. It’s so handy that

I made another one for my shop. I can store cans and small containers of shop supplies, and I repurposed her spice rack for my most-used hardware.” – J.C. z “I have three girls and one bathroom, so there’s no way anyone gets “ready” in front of the bathroom mirror. Instead, all the girls have a hanging shoe rack on the back of their door for makeup and hair supplies, and a mirror on the wall.” – P.W. z Stubborn stains in the toilet? Try dropping in a few denture tablets before going to bed, then scrub and flush in the morning.

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Packing a sweet punch

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HOPE you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sick of chocolate after Easter because and I have a delicious treat to share with you!

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my take on Reeseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Peanut Butter Cups. The original has been around since 1928, and for good reason â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it tastes great! But my Chocolate Nut Butter Cups (which have been around since 2013) are made from real, homemade chocolate, contain just four ingredients, and are sugar-free. Not only are they better for you than the conventional chocolate treats, but you may just find they taste better too.

Have you ever tried chocolate? I mean, real chocolate? I adore dark chocolate, but the stuff you find on most supermarket and servo shelves doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feature much chocolate at all. Instead itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s packed with sugar

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(up to 60 per cent or more) and other bits and pieces like milk solids and soy lecithin, which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to avoid if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re allergic to soy or sensitive to chemicals (most of the soy grown in the US, at least, are genetically modified and covered in pesticides).

Real chocolate is actually quite bitter but oh, so satisfying. You can make your own chocolate, free from chemicals and stabilisers and added sugar, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprisingly easy. For this particular recipe, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve even used a vegetable as a sweetener â&#x20AC;&#x201C; pumpkin! Meaning, between the cacao, cashews and pumpkin, my Chocolate Nut Butter Cups pack a sweet punch of vitamins A, C and E â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all great for healthy skin, beta-carotene, stress-busting magnesium, oxidising flavonoids, and more antioxidants than red wine and green tea.

Like all desserts though, these should be enjoyed in moderation. While cacao has lots of health benefits, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also high in caffeine and can interfere with calcium retention (if you eat more than six teaspoons a day).

These are so rich though â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be satisfied with less than a whole one!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Ingredients: 100gm raw cacao butter 6 tablespoons of raw cacao powder 6 teaspoons of raw cashew nut butter 6 teaspoons of roasted pumpkin, cooled Method: 1. Melt cacao butter in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, making sure the bottom of the bowl doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come into contact with the water.

2. Add cacao powder to melted cacao butter and whisk until smooth. Pour two teaspoons into eight holes of a 12-hole plastic mould cupcake tray (for optimal results, use mini cupcake trays and adjust quantities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything smaller than a cupcake tray). Transfer tray to fridge to set.

3. Combine cashew nut butter and roast pumpkin until smooth. A food processor would work best, but I just used a fork to smash the ingredients together (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quicker).

4. Dollop two teaspoons of nut butter mixture on top of each chocolate round and smooth out using a butter knife. Top with two teaspoons of melted chocolate (you might have to re-heat over the saucepan if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cold day as it tends to set quickly), 5. Set in the fridge (about 15 minutes).

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Shelling out money advice to the kids is a good move

BY VICKY SHAW HE Easter holiday period often means spending more time with the kids, which could also mean time to spend talking to them about money. It might not sound all that fun, but it’s crucial you crack on with it.

Research suggests that children’s money habits start early – as young as seven – with parents being a strong influence, and yet nearly half of parents don’t regularly talk to their children at all about finances, according to a new British survey. Only 52 per cent of parents it surveyed said they have regular money chats with their children.

The main reasons we feel uncomfortable talking to our children about money are a general sense of awkwardness, because we didn’t have those kinds of conversations with our parents when we were children, and a feeling that children shouldn’t have to worry about money.

But perhaps it’s time to think of money conversations less as burdening our youngsters with money troubles and more as a way of arming them with key skills for financial survival.

So how should you go about it?

Firstly, by starting young. Of the 2000 parents surveyed, the age when they first started talking to their child about money was most commonly eight years old, the age that they start receiving pocket money. But previous research has found that children start to form their money habits at around seven.

It also appears there’s something to be said for giving your child pocket money regularly, rather than $10 one week and nothing the next. A lack of consistency over pocket money could make it harder for children to understand how to manage money and stick to a budget, according to the findings.

Giving parents some encouragement, child psychologist Elizabeth Kilbey says: “Having tough conversations with your children is part and parcel of being a parent and money can be a subject many find particularly hard to cover, especially if it is an area which they struggle with themselves.

“One of the key reasons for many parents is that they feel children shouldn’t be burdened with adult responsibilities, like worries about money.

“But it can in fact be very empowering to give your children skills and confidence with money.”

So how can we be better at talking to our children about money?

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Here are Dr Kilbey’s tips: :: Subtly integrate money. You don’t need a big money chat to raise the idea of good money management. When you go shopping, encourage your child to choose between two items so they understand they can’t have it all. :: It’s never too young to start. Children shouldn’t have to worry about the family finances but they can still be helped to understand about money without needing to know about this. :: Be confident. Help your children to

develop positive, beneficial financial habits. :: Have a go. You may not be a maths whizz yourself, but money is a very hands-on, practical subject. Encourage your child to handle money, such as when you give them pocket money.

Younger children can also benefit from “playing shop”. :: It’s fine to make a few mistakes. It is far better to allow children to make mistakes with small amounts of cash now than have them facing bigger money problems when they are older.

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Be alert (not alarmed): Phone scammers are growing more brazen

BY DAVID UFFINGTON Scammers would rather have a pipeline right into your home rather than take a chance on mail that might get trashed straight out of the mailbox. Hence the rise in telephone scams.

Some of the common phone scams and fraud going on at the moment include: • Slamming – when a phone company changes your service without your permission. If you find charges for this on your phone bill, call to insist you be switched back.

• Caller ID spoofing – makes a phone number show up on your Caller ID that

might encourage you to take the call. For example, it might appear that your bank or credit-card company is calling you, and you might be tempted to go ahead and give the personal information the caller asks for.

• Cramming – is adding charges to your phone bill, likely small ones that you might not notice.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) runs the www. scamwatch.gov.au website which has plenty of useful information you can arm yourself with to avoid being scammed.

You should learn how to handle prerecorded calls, unexpected sales calls and, especially, know the signs of a scam.

The sooner you can identify clues that you’re about to be scammed, the sooner you can just hang up without giving out any information.

Your mobile phone isn’t immune to phone scams. If you enable the GPS on your apps, you’re essentially letting people know where you are, which makes you vulnerable. Disable the GPS feature.

Upgrade plans can be a source of trouble if you don’t ask about future upgrade fees when you buy a new phone. Ask lots of questions about frequency of upgrade, potential down payment and phone condition,

and read the contract carefully.

One-ring scams are one of the new ones showing up in many Western countries. Here’s how it works: Your mobile phone rings once. The calling area code appears to be a domestic one, and the temptation is to call back to see who it was. The problem: The return call actually goes to a pay-per-call international number that might incur fees just for connecting, and more fees every minute.

Be sure you’re familiar with international area codes that are often tied to scams – and don’t return any calls unless you know who it is.

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Embracing excess in Jakarta

Jakarta, Indonesia.

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BY ANDY WELCH AKARTA is a relentless city.

Noisy, humid, traffic in gridlock – the Indonesian capital, on the north-west island of Java, is like nowhere else.

Garuda Indonesia, the country’s national airline, now flies there from Sydney, Melbourne and Perth making it a city open to more visitors than ever before.

During the 1990s, Garuda didn’t have the best reputation. But thanks to a long break and new ownership, the airline has completely transformed.

From hitting rock bottom, it’s now one of only seven five-star airlines in the world, and in 2013, was awarded World’s Best Economy Class by Skytrax, providers of the industry’s top global benchmark.

It’s difficult to judge how far Soekarno-Hatta airport is from the centre of Jakarta. Conservative estimates suggest an hour, although my journey takes more like three hours. So bad is the traffic in Jakarta that lateness to appointments is not just tolerated but factored in.

During peak hours, the city almost completely comes to a standstill, and there aren’t many pavements, so walking is normally out of the question.

In light of this, Jakartans have decided the best way of getting from A to B is by scooter. There are about seven million of the two-wheelers in the city,

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making every traffic light and junction look more like an off-road rally.

Tourists can hire scooters, but it’s not the most relaxing way of getting around.

Instead, it’s best to carefully plan what you’re going to do and set off early.

One place you should visit is the Jakarta History Museum in the old town hall of Batavia. It’s a well-maintained

colonial building dating back to the 17th century (when Jakarta was part of the Dutch empire), as beautiful on the outside as it is interesting on the inside.

There are multiple ornate rooms with maps, furnishings, weapons and artworks detailing the city’s colourful past.

National Monument is another spot worthy of your time. The monument,

not unlike Nelson’s Column in appearance, was built to recognise Indonesia’s struggle for independence in the 1940s.

Here, you can sit, enjoy an ice-cold drink from one of the many vendors, and hopefully take in some rare quiet.

During my visit, there aren’t many people around here at all, giving the place an oddly tranquil feel.

The Lobby area, Hermitage Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Swimming with sea lions off Peru

BY FERNANDO GIMENO

TRAVEL SHORTS A sea lion snoozes on Pervian rocks. PHOTO: AAP

LIMA: Just six nautical miles off Peru’s largest port, Callao, more than 7000 sea lions pack the Palomino Islands, two small rocky outcroppings west of Lima, where the animals swim among visitors who dare to dive in the cold Pacific waters.

Already accustomed to the presence of tourists and sailors, hundreds of sea lions swim playfully around visitors and, sometimes, allow themselves to be touched, jumping around or slapping their flippers on the water to splash the human intruders.

“This is one of Peru’s largest sea lion colonies,” says Mariano Valverde, the director of the national islands, islets and guanera points agency.

The Palomino Islands are among the 25 protected areas in this reserve since 2009, but now they are coming into focus as a nature tourism destination around Peru’s capital.

Sea lions share the outcroppings with a large variety of marine life and birds, including a tiny colony of 25 Humboldt penguins, and this year the National Service for Protected Natural Areas, or Sernanp, stepped in to regulate and promote a tourism route that combines nature and history.

Sea lions thrive around a lighthouse and a derelict pier – ruins from the guano boom

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Tradition is a big deal in Indonesia, and there are many sites explaining the country’s rich and varied past. But with a population of around 240 million, making it the world’s fourth most populous country, and a staggering 50 per cent of the inhabitants aged below 30, the future is going to be infinitely more exciting.

As a result of that youthful boom, Indonesia is in transition from slightly creaking former colony to world-leading technology hub.

WHERE TO STAY :: The Hermitage (www.lhw.com/hermitagejakarta) IT’S among the most luxurious hotels in Jakarta, and is certainly one of the newest. Despite a recent extensive renovation and extension, the beautiful art deco building contains many nods to its former existence as a government office, a school and a telephone exchange.

A swim in the open-air rooftop pool provides the perfect start to a day, and soaking up the view at sunset, while sipping a gin and tonic, is about as relaxing as it gets.

The rooms, all marble and glass, are very tasteful, and the food in the restaurant is second-to-none, catering for any taste. The cheapest room is around $268 a night for real five-star luxury and worth every penny.

The National Monument, Jakarta, Indonesia.

WHAT TO SEE :: Grand Indonesia Shopping Town (www.grand-indonesia.com) THIS is one of the largest malls in Asia, and whether you’re looking to pick up some bargains and visit the high-end boutiques or not, it’s worth seeing simply to experience how big and confusing a shopping centre can be.

WHERE TO EAT/DRINK :: Skye (www.ismaya.com/skye) THE nightlife in Jakarta should be investigated. There’s a thriving ex-pat scene, so if you don’t want to venture too far into the city’s underbelly, you don’t have to.

Skye bar and restaurant is particularly popular with tourists and well-to-do locals. Situated on the 56th floor of an office tower, it’s easy to see why – you get an incredible view of the city, with its neon towers and high-rise apartments. :: Eastern Promise (epjakarta.com) THIS Jakartan take on a pub offers great food, dartboards and pool tables, and it’s nowhere near as seedy as the name suggests. :: Cafe Batavia (www.cafebatavia.com) OPPOSITE the National Museum in Old Batavia, this Dutch colonial restaurant is also the second-oldest building in Jakarta. The menu includes Western, Japanese and delicious local cuisine.

Jakarta History Museum, also known as Fatahillah Museum or Batavia Museum, located in the Old Town of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Rush hour traffic, Jakarta, Indonesia.

TRAVEL FACTS Q Andy Welch was a guest of Garuda Indonesia (www.garuda-indonesia.com).

of the 19th century – the marine mammals reconquered, but the area’s wildlife faces some threats.

In recent years, as unregulated tourism and private visits increased, hungry sea lions took to feeding from the catch in fishing nets, and fishermen “declared war on the sea lions, killing them with clubs, bullets and dynamite”, Valverde says.

Birds in the reserve also face the threat of poachers, “who come to the islands and kill them either to eat them or to sell them”, the natural resources official says.

“We are now working with fishermen and tourism operators so that everyone becomes aware that we need to preserve this site,” Valverde says. Five companies are authorised to take tourists to the islets.

The Dutch Suite bedroom, The Hermitage Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia.

French strike affects hundreds of flights

One World Trade Centre observatory to open

Thracian treasures go on show in Louvre

PARIS: An air traffic controllers’ strike has forced hundreds of flights to and from France to be cancelled, with the situation set to get worse.

France’s civil aviation authority had asked airlines to scrap around 40 per cent of flights, warning of “disruption across the whole country” on Wednesday, and it called on companies to increase cancellations to about 50 per cent on Thursday.

Flag carrier Air France warned of “very severe disruption” to its flight schedule although it pledged to operate “almost all” long-haul flights.

NEW YORK: The observatory at the top of the One World Trade Centre in New York, the tallest building in the US, will open to public viewing on May 29.

At 541 metres high, the building stands in the footprint of the original World Trade Centre, where the iconic twin towers were felled by passenger airplanes hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001.

The observatory will take up three levels, with the main public viewing space on the 100th floor. The 101st floor has been designated for a restaurant and the 102nd floor will serve as a private event space.

SOFIA: A Bulgarian exhibition of ancient Thracian treasures opens in the Louvre Museum in Paris this month displaying artefacts collected from 17 museums across the Eastern European country.

The exhibit entitled “Ancient Thrace – The Odrysian Kingdom” runs from April 15 until July 20 and is the biggest foreign exhibition at the museum for the year with over 1600 exhibits. It is expected to attract up to four million visitors.

Thracian treasures on show include the Panagyurishte Gold Treasure and the AAP bronze head of Seuthes III.

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Struck by the drums

BY NATALIE HOLMES CULTURE VULTURE

HEN a hobby turns into a global phenomenon, you know it’s something special. That’s how it was for Drumstruck creator Warren Lieberman who was working as an engineer in his native South Africa when his life dramatically changed.

“It started in 1994 when I was jamming with a friend,” the music lover says.

“After a while, more and more people started coming along. When you have 200 people playing in your house every week, it gets a bit crowded!”

Lieberman’s idea to get lots of people together to play music grew so much it soon became a Broadway show. Now it’s a worldwide

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hit that includes drumming, singing, fabulous costumes and audience interaction.

“I wrote the show in 2002 and it was performed in Johannesburg for the first time,” he says.

“It really went from there – it was snapped up by Broadway and pretty soon, we were touring the world.

“It’s a pretty amazing journey for an engi-

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neer who was selling tools and hardware – but I was touched by the drum.”

Not only that but cast members were also plucked from obscurity, and went from busking to Broadway.

Lieberman says it’s exciting to be touring with the show and sharing South Africa’s unique sounds and rhythms with the rest of the world.

“Our culture is so inclusive and it’s about everyone participating and sharing. The music is traditional and it’s become second nature for us to jam and share. All of our music is participatory. There are very few performance-based bands, everything is always about others and the performers are at their best when it’s about the audience.”

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show, it’s often something they need to get their heads around in order to participate.

“When children see the drums, they jump right in, but some of the more conservative people hold back a bit but they soon start drumming along with everyone else. It’s very hard to resist the drum.”

Lieberman says people use music and drumming to connect with others and build communities. Music has also become a way to address mental health issues because it’s empowering and uplifting.

“When you’re in a group, you become something bigger

than yourself,” he says.

“You connect and you experience something that heightens your senses and emotions.

It’s a feeling of love and community and it’s enhanced by being in a group of people.

The drumming releases endorphins which is a natural feelgood drug in your system.

“It also has the power to take you out of the past, stop thinking about the future and just focus on the moment. It makes you enjoy life.

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“We did 300 free performances for affected communities after the tsunami in Japan. A lot of people had lost their entire families and said that it was the first time they’d smiled in a year

and a half.”

The group has performed for a range of dignitaries including the late Nelson Mandela, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Queen Elizabeth, Nicole Kidman, Elton John, Richard Branson and at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. They have performed

with Shakira, Linkin’ Park, Joe Walsh and supplied a drum to Ringo Starr.

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THE ARTS.

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On Anzacs, artists and all you can eat A British 2 pounder gun from the Mesopotamian Campaign. IMAGE IN THE

BY ANDREW GLASSOP

PUBLIC DOMAIN. FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

WPCC

ND so the real celebration of the Centenary of Anzac begins.

Enough has been written, in this column and in many others, about the meaning, myth and memory of the initial Anzac Day. Let’s just hope we receive something more from it than synthetic empathy and ill-judged patriotism.

In any event I will be presenting a talk on a little known aspect of WWI – the Battle for Basra – at the traditional Anzac Day breakfast at the WPCC following the Dawn Service. The British led campaign in Mesopotamia (a delightfully Empire tag) was conducted in part to protect Persian oilfields on behalf of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which had the foresight to sell a large part of its oil to the British navy. Friends in high places indeed.

As a campaign, it was an embarrassment for both sides. The Turks, who actually occupied the area, didn’t even have maps and tried the novel approach of getting a few locals together to try to draw one from memory. The British were scarcely better and would eventually consolidate their victory by establishing the collection of states (mainly Iraq) which would help launch the world into another type of war 90 years later.

The talk is free and the Outlook Café’s signature Bacon and Egg rolls with free tea or coffee run at just $10.

••• ANDOS, just the other side of Mudgee, is the site this weekend of a substantial arts event: Cementa. It’s a contemporary art festival bringing the best of current art from both the city and the bush into the normally quiet surrounds of the Kandos streetscape.

A dizzying smorgasbord for the lover of the arts – but as any pursuer of the allyou-can-eat meal will tell you, not every dish on the table is created equal.

In last week’s Weekender editor Jen Cowley let slip the most common words of the armchair art critic: “I just don’t “get it””. The use of the quotation marks underlines the real meaning of that sentence. That is, there is something to “get” and it is the fault of the viewer that that thing has not been “got”. The thing she was not getting was Kim Goldsmith’s Indicatus, a work that will appear at Kandos this weekend.

In art this is not always the case.

Some art is just rubbish, just like some books or some movies or some poems are rubbish. So there is nothing wrong with standing in front of a piece of art and declaring it to be just no good. In fact, that can be part of the fun of any decent gallery visit even though it feels somewhat profane. We are all used to watching a disgrace to civilisation such as The Big Bang Theory and letting loose, for the amusement of our friends, on just why it is the worst show every foisted upon this world and how long the punishment for the producers, writers, actors, directors, best boys and grips, should be.

Art, however, is different. Or at least we treat it differently. Part of this is because although we, as a society, are very educated about how television works, we are not so trained when it comes to art. We assume there is something there because we have all experienced a moment where someone smarter, or more educated, or differently educated, has

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sat us down in front of some incomprehensible swipe of paint on canvas, and explained to us what exactly is going on and why it is important. So we assume that the fault lies in us when we can’t see that for ourselves.

There is madness to that assertion.

Consider this paragraph. “In the peripheral blood, T-PLL consists of medium-sized lymphocytes with single nucleoli and basophilic cytoplasm with occasional blebs or projections. The nuclei are usually round to oval in shape, with occasional patients having cells with a more irregular nuclear outline that is similar to the cerebriform nuclear shape seen in Sézary syndrome.”

If you’re like me that is just about incomprehensible. I can tell it’s something about medicine because I recognise the

word patient – the rest is fog. Does this make me stupid or the sentence nonsense? Of course not, we are able to see that this paragraph is talking to people who are able to understand what T-PLL is, or a cytoplasm or blebs. Doctors perhaps. The writers clearly understood this and made no pretence that everyone in the world should be able to read and understand what they wrote. The audience was understood.

Very often artists want to miss this important step. They want their art to be for all; their gift to humanity. When they make it however they are really making it for a much smaller slice of the population, and then very often they are making it for an even smaller slice – the well-educated art consumer. Explanatory text is at a minimum (and as Jen

Some art is just rubbish, just like some books or some movies or some poems are rubbish. So there is nothing wrong with standing in front of a piece of art and declaring it to be just no good.

noted the artist statement sometimes makes matters worse) and the work is often so disconnected from the viewers’ experience or knowledge there is absolutely no door of perception for them to knock on, let alone open up and wander through.

How to tell the difference? There’s a PHD in that question so I’ll leave that up to others.

The important thing in Jen’s experience of Indicatus was that she did not walk out straight away – she stayed, she asked a few questions, and she eventually got a moment of understanding, joy and experience that made it all worthwhile.

If you find yourself in Kandos over the weekend make the effort to talk to those you meet, ask a few questions and see what happens – you might discover a work that blows your mind.

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Fast & Furious 7. Photos: PA/Universal Pictures

Diesel says a cinematic farewell to Walker in Fast & Furious 7

BY DAMON SMITH FILM VIEW FILM OF THE WEEK FAST & FURIOUS 7 (M, 137 mins) Action/ Thriller/Romance. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kurt Russell, Tony Jaa, Luke Evans.

Director: James Wan. IT’S not the gleaming high-octane motors, scantily clad women or outlandish gravity-defying stunts that will have audiences burning rubber to their cinema to see this seventh instalment of The Fast And The Furious franchise.

Instead, it’s the final screen appearance of handsome leading man Paul Walker, who died halfway through production, which will invariably guarantee supercharged box office returns for James Wan’s sleek sequel.

Fast & Furious 7 is dedicated to Walker’s memory and his unfinished scenes have been respectfully completed using previously unseen footage from earlier films, or by digitally grafting his facial features onto the bodies of his brothers, Caleb and Cody, who act as stand-ins.

The digital trickery is impressive and while the joins aren’t completely seamless, we suspend our disbelief, which is already hovering in the troposphere after the stunt team mocks the laws of physics to drive one car out of the penthouse of an Abu Dhabi skyscraper and across the void to a neighbouring tower block.

Screenwriter Chris Morgan’s desire to top the outrageous set pieces of previous films repeatedly sacrifices realism,

Fast & Furious 7. Photos: PA/Universal Pictures

going for broke when he hopes to persuade us that Vin Diesel, Walker and their co-stars could skydive their vehicles into position on a winding mountain road by driving cars out of an airplane and opening parachutes attached to their plummeting vehicles at the last second.

It’s an understatement when one of the characters whoops, “I can’t believe we pulled that off!”

The action begins directly after events of Fast & Furious 6 with corrupt British soldier Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) on life

support in a London hospital.

Owen’s older brother Ian (Jason Statham) seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (Walker) and their crew.

Ian hacks into the computer of federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to ascertain the whereabouts of the team and doles out a near fatal pummelling to Hobbs in the process.

“I’m gonna put a hurt on him so bad, he’s gonna wish his momma had kept her legs closed,” barks the hospitalised federal agent.

BY SAM STRUCKHOFF

Meanwhile, Dominic’s crew prepare for war.

“It looks like the sins of London followed us home,” growls the bad boy, who reunites with fast-talking Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and technical wizard Tej (Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges) to neutralise the threat posed by Owen with help from a hacker called Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel).

Fast & Furious 7 stitches together all of the previous films including a cameo for Lucas Black as Sean Boswell from the lacklustre third chapter Tokyo Drift. on lovingly telling the story of a kitsch artist admired by the director.

PICKS OF THE WEEK

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK Amy Adams in “Big Eyes”

Big Eyes (M) – Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) was rich and renowned for his eye-catching paintings of tiny girls with big, vacuous eyes.

His wife, Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), enjoyed the fruits of the commercial success, all while suffering under weight of one big lie – she was the painter, she invented the haunting images, and she let Walter talk her into his taking the credit. He told her that people aren’t interested in “lady art”.

Tim Burton directs this true-to-life tale about the artist whose work rose to great commercial heights in the 1950s and ‘60s. It’s not your usual Burton flick – a bit toned down, focused

Maps to the Stars (MA15+) – Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) has just returned to L.A. Just out of the psych ward, she’s speckled with unexplained burn scars, and she has a strange, unwavering look in her eyes. Agatha becomes the personal assistant to a famous actress (Julianne Moore), who is ever melting-down and clawing to get the role that will rejuvenate her career. There also is Agatha’s father (John Cusack), a schlocky guru who counsels Hollywood train wrecks, including Moore’s character.

The seedy, needy, murky and alluring underbelly of Hollywood stars in this tale about awful

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Antonio Banderas (as Burger-Beard) in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of The Water. Photos: PA/Paramount

Fast & Furious 7. Photos: PA/Universal Pictures

Fast & Furious 7. Photos: PA/Universal Pictures

Diesel, Walker and co continue to display superhuman strength and resilience, surviving spectacular crashes with barely a graze, while Statham plies his usual brand of muscular destruction.

A heartfelt, if protracted, coda between Diesel and Walker provides the former with an opportunity to publicly say farewell to his cinematic brother in arms. :: SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 6/10

ALSO SHOWING THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (PG, 93 mins) Animation/Comedy/Action. Antonio Banderas and the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Doug Lawrence, Carolyn Lawrence, Jill Talley, Matt Berry.

Directors: Paul Tibbitt, Mike Mitchell.

IN the pantheon of animated films about absorbent bathroom products dressed in pleasingly geometric undergarments, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie stands tall. people and their tangling webs of intersecting selfish desires. It’s awfully moody and has a rough final act, but it might just be worth it if you’re a fan of director David Cronenberg.

The Babadook (M) – After seeing this movie, it might take you a little longer than usual to get to sleep. This unexpected hit will send shivers down your spine with the story of a creepy, murderous creature who comes into your life and won’t leave you until the awful end.

Shaken little 6-year-old Samuel (Noah Wiseman) finds a pop-up book called “Mister Babadook”, and it gives him terrifying nightmares. His widowed mother, Amelia (Essie Davis), reaches her limit with Samuel’s

The 2004 feature film was a guilty pleasure, retaining all of the madcap charm and childish exuberance of the Nickelodeon cartoon series created by Stephen Hillenburg.

More than a decade later, SpongeBob and the residents of the underwater community of Bikini Bottom hit dry land in this deranged sequel, which splices colourful animation and live action.

Familiarity with the TV incarnation certainly helps because at its worst, Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel’s script is a psychedelic mess that defies reasoning.

For every trippy interlude, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water also delights with its unabashed exuberance and irreverence, cramming in all of the familiar characters plus a flock of seagulls to squawk the infectious theme tune: “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants!

Absorbent and yellow and porous is he?

SpongeBob SquarePants...” constant bad behaviour and wailing about nightmares. Then the Babadook starts to visit her while she sleeps.

Antarctica: A Year on Ice” (PG) – Ever been through a long winter? This documentary shows you the people who can sympathise with that, and then doggedly laugh in your face. The world’s loneliest continent also is the world’s harshest, coldest environment, and yet there are people living there. Their seasons aren’t like ours – it’s always cold, and the nights can last for weeks. This focus on the little things of living life in a frozen, alien world sets this film apart from other nature documentaries that go to extreme places.

Parents with a low threshold to boundless good cheer should prepare for a very long 93 minutes.

SpongeBob (voiced by Tom Kenny) flips burgers in a diner run by the irrepressible Eugene Krabs (Clancy Brown), where he is custodian of the secret recipe of the Krabby Patty.

Arch rival Plankton (Doug Lawrence) attempts to steal the list of ingredients, but the recipe vanishes into thin air.

In the absence of the famed Krabby Patty, Bikini Bottom teeters on the brink of apocalypse.

“The sandwich gods are angry at us,” screams scuba-diving squirrel Sandy (Carolyn Lawrence).

Everyone blames Plankton but SpongeBob knows he is innocent.

It transpires that a greedy pirate called Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas) has stolen the recipe using a magical book, which allows the salty seadog to rewrite history.

Plankton joins forces with his computer wife Karen (Jill Talley) to create a time machine to erase Burger Beard’s meddling, but the plan fails.

Unable to restore balance from beneath the waves, SpongeBob, loyal starfish pal Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke), Mr Krabs, Sandy and curmudgeonly Squidward Tentacles (Rodger Bumpass) venture onto dry land to defeat the pilfering pirate.

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of The Water. Photos: PA/Paramount

Burger Beard is armed to the teeth, so SpongeBob and co use the magical book to adopt superhero identities to defeat their nemesis.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water doesn’t quite match the pure entertainment of the first film but it comes close.

However, a protracted sequence involving a time-travelling dolphin called Bubbles (Matt Berry) is perhaps a hallucinogenic trip too far.

Banderas appears to be having a ball as the hirsute antagonist, who has always dreamt of running his own burger bar.

Vocal performances are as lively as the animation, accompanied by a jaunty soundtrack including one upbeat song with the lyrics: “It’s better when you and me equals we/Working together in harmony.” :: NO SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 6/10

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of The Water. Photos: PA/Paramount

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office Week Ending 08.04.2015 1. Fast And Furious 7 2. Cinderella 3. Home (pictured) 4. Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge Out Of Water 5. Insurgent 6. Get Hard 7. The Duff 8. Shaun The Sheep 9. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 10. Focus

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No flight of fancy for Crowe The Water Diviner with Russell Crowe as Connor. Bottom: Crowe on set as director. PHOTOS: PA/ENTERTAINMENT ONE

BY KEELEY BOLGER USSELL Crowe couldn’t give a monkey’s what others think of him.

In the age of selfies, and the very real possibility for A-Listers to have their mugs surreptitiously snapped and then splashed across social media, many actors would feel the need to preen for their public, both physically and in what they say.

Russell Crowe is not that man. With a full day of interviews to discuss his directorial debut The Water Diviner, in which he also stars, he is relaxed and prepared for battle in his slouchy black hoodie and jeans – a pack of cigarettes closely at hand for a crafty drag.

“I know so many actors who would freak out about going on a television show with all these grey hairs poking out,” says the 50-year-old, shrugging.

“I haven’t had my eyes done or whatever. I am who I am. I’m totally comfortable in my own skin.”

Comfortable – and defiant. Earlier this year, Crowe sparked controversy when he spoke out about how growing older has changed the roles he considers, and suggested his female counterparts who find it hard to land roles shouldn’t look to play the “ingenue” forever.

He went on to name check Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep (even finding an ally in The Iron Lady star) as shining examples of actors who have continued their success well into their 60s.

“The benefit of being an actor, one of the benefits, is there are always roles to play, whatever age you are,” explains Crowe, who was born in New Zealand but grew up in Australia.

“But it never gets less competitive. I think that’s where some people have a fundamental problem. If they’ve achieved a level of success, then [they think] that level of success should remain for the rest of their lives, but that’s not reality.”

He had a firm but fair approach to directing on set, insisting on giving his cast and crew proper time off to see their families, and allowing the odd pint or play on one of the Space Invaders or

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Russell Crowe with his Oscar for Best Actor which he won for his role in the film Gladiator in 2001. PHOTO: IAN WEST/PA

pinball machines he hired for them, in return for giving “their absolute best work” while they were on set.

“Success needs to be constantly nurtured, otherwise it’s a memory of success, if success is important to you,” he adds.

“I’m a very ambitious b*stard and I want to be working at the highest levels of the business, and if you’re going to do that, that takes effort.”

A firm believer in graft, he clearly enjoys throwing his all into a project.

“Nobody hands you a damned thing in this world,” he continues. “It’s only the fact that you apply energy and effort that will give you that [success].

“For me, to say what I said [about ageing], I was just turning it back into myself, and saying it would be embarrassing pretending that I’m still some young buck.”

Granted then, Crowe, who has two sons with his estranged wife Danielle Spencer, isn’t one to rest on his laurels.

After a hugely successful career, finding global acclaim in his 30s for his

Academy Award-winning role in Gladiator and Bafta win for A Beautiful Mind, he has stepped up to direct The Water Diviner.

Also starring Bond actress Olga Kurylenko, the film is based on a true story of a grieving Australian father, who goes to Gallipoli to find out what’s happened to his three sons, who’ve been reported missing in action in the First World War battle.

“When I’m looking for scripts as an actor, I’m looking for one that I have a visceral connection to; goosebumps, churning stomach, sweating brow, making notes immediately on behalf of the character, correcting dialogue,” he says with a gradual smile.

“And that was happening when I was reading the script [for The Water Diviner]. But the other thing that was happening, which I’m totally unused to and has never happened [before], was where I had a fundamental belief that I was the only person in the entire universe that could tell this story the way it [was meant to be told].

“I wanted to be responsible for the story, and I wanted to make sure the story came across to people in the way I was reading it.”

While others might wrangle with the notion of being both director and leading man, Crowe relished the chance to get stuck in.

“Mel Gibson, when he was going to direct his first film, called Jodie Foster and said, ‘Right, you’ve directed yourself in a movie before. Any advice?’ And she said, ‘One word’,” he continues, chuckling.

“And he said, ‘What is it?’ And she said, ‘Don’t do it!’”

But that didn’t put Crowe off, who says the transition was a “natural, easy” one.

Working on films, he says, “you learn the things you definitely want to do, other times you learn sh*t that you don’t want to do”.

“I learned very clearly that film is a relentless pursuit, and you have to match the task with an equally relentless energy.”

And just like his well-documented passion for South Sydney and rug-

by league, Crowe approaches his fame with an equal level of energy. It’s just that rather than gloat about his lot, he’s fully committed to popping the celebrity bubble.

“Twitter has got nothing to do with egotism; it’s actually got to do with simply communicating,” says the actor, who admits the social network is very useful in putting out his truth, if he feels he’s been misquoted.

“If you’re afraid of your audience and of people, or you don’t like talking to people, that’s another thing, but I don’t have any of those fears.

“I think it’s healthy to de-glamorise what I do. I’ve always been that person that says, ‘You put me on a pedestal, and I’ll find a way to torch that pedestal immediately’.”

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Hall’s story of a woman learning the meaning of home Sarah Hall. PHOTO: RICHARD THWAITES.

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE z BOOK OF THE WEEK The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall is published in hardback by Faber & Faber.

SARAH Hall’s distinctly English take on Jurassic Park opens with Rachel Caine’s homecoming to Cumbria after 10 years of self-imposed exile in Idaho, where she has succeeded in avoiding her fractious family history by immersing herself in her work with wolves.

Now she has returned, invited to spearhead the Earl of Annerdale’s project to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to his vast Lakeland estate. The project is controversial and the Earl flighty and eccentric, but it is the challenges of her family that will come to dominate as the novel builds towards the animals’ release.

As Rachel attempts to rebuild lapsed relationships and battles the emotions of an impending and unexpected motherhood, she wonders whether it would be simpler to maintain her seclusion in a less complicated, animal world.

It is a measured telling: no Little Red Riding Hood scare stories here. Hall makes a strong case, both biological and emotive, for the wolf’s reintroduction. The animals are central, but they function primarily as the catalyst for enriching each of the characters’ lives, similar to the presence that they bring

to bear on a landscape where they have been unknown for 500 years.

That Scotland gains independence in the course of the novel lends it an air of fantasy, but Hall is on home territory in the Lakes and her sense of place is visceral, the changing of seasons as dramatic as any of the plot’s set pieces.

For all its uniqueness of subject matter, it is at heart a slow and quiet story about a woman learning the meaning of home.

Such emphasis is wise, for in placing it upon her human characters, it makes the possibility that wolves could once again move through the background of our lives feel all the more realistic.

8/10 Review by Adam Weymouth z FICTION A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale is published in hardback

by Tinder Press.

NOTES From An Exhibition author Patrick Gale’s first historical novel opens rather unnervingly with his protagonist Harry Cane being strapped into a bath. He’s in a Canadian asylum, being treated for mental illness, and his story only starts to emerge when he’s moved to a progressive, therapeutic community, where the kindly psychiatrist Gideon encourages him to talk through the trauma he’s suffered.

Harry is a privileged orphan from Edwardian London, with a brother called Jack and a wife

and daughter, who was forced to flee the country by his brother-in-law, following rumours of his intimate liaisons with another man.

Gentleman Harry joins the would-be farmers who are taming the newly colonised Canadian prairies and meets Paul, the love of his life.

Throughout the book, we return to Harry in the community, until we finally learn the dreadful truth of how he came to be there.

Epic in scale and subject, Gale effortlessly evokes the grand wild landscapes and Harry’s inner turmoil – and it’s all the more compelling because it’s based on the true story of Gale’s great-grandfather.

A deeply touching love story like no other.

8/10 Review by Kate Whiting The Four Books by Yan Lianke is published in paperback by Chatto & Windus.

LIKE many of Lianke’s works, The Four Books is unavailable in his native China; unsurprising, given its subject is the murderous stupidity of the 1958-61 ‘Great Leap Forward’, whose massive, avoidable death toll is still obfuscated by the country’s rulers.

A realist telling would risk being so harrowing as to numb the senses, so instead this fractured fable pieces together four different accounts of one ‘reeducation’ penal camp.

Directed by the monstrous,

passive-aggressive, yet strangely innocent Child (the characters all have titles rather than names), the ‘criminal’ inmates accused of counter-revolutionary actions and beliefs strive madly to fulfil ever-changing instructions from the distant higher-ups, resorting to subterfuge and self-destruction in the effort to meet impossible production quotas.

Famine, disaster and cannibalism inevitably follow, and the book becomes a progressively harder read, albeit one worth struggling through for its reminders of the worst (and very occasionally, best) of which humanity is capable.

7/10 Review by Alex Sarll George’s Grand Tour by Caroline Vermalle is published in paperback by Gallic Books.

GEORGE Nicoleau is 83 years old and not in the best of

health, yet he dreams of doing the Tour de France – not on a bike, but by car. When his overprotective daughter Francoise goes to South America for a few months and is unable to contact him, George seizes his chance and sets off on his tour, with his friend Charles as chauffeur.

His granddaughter, Adele, then starts calling him and George is forced to admit his plans. He promises to text her every day to let her know where and how he is, even though he has no idea how to use a mo-

bile phone.

On paper, this should be a rollicking adventure. It has its moments, but George’s tour is far from grand. It isn’t even much of a tour (spoiler alert: they only get as far as Brittany), and the reader is left feeling rather short-changed.

6/10 Review by Catherine Small z NON-FICTION Ministers At War: Winston Churchill And His War Cabinet

by Jonathan Schneer is published in hardback by Oneworld.

IN England at the moment there is much speculation in the lead-up to a May general election about how a new coalition at Westminister might be composed; and that makes this book about Britain’s all-party wartime coalition government in 1940-45 very timely.

That coalition worked remarkably well, despite inevitable clashes and intrigues.

Jonathan Schneer, an American university professor and historian, has produced a book that is gripping and a pleasure to read. It contains fascinating studies of the leading British politicians of the day.

When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, he had not been a particularly popular choice at Westminster.

France had fallen to the Nazis, and there was pressure from people in high places to do a peace deal with Hitler.

By holding out adamantly against this, Churchill saved

BOOKS.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 10.04.2015 to Sunday 12.04.2015 the day. He dominated his wartime coalition Cabinet, often testily, and even during the war there were unsuccessful attempts to replace him.

He was eventually deposed in the 1945 general election, when Labour swept into power with Clement Atlee as Prime Minister.

The battered and exhausted population simply did not trust Churchill to deliver the costly post-war social reforms that they so desperately wanted quickly, for their near-bankrupt country.

8/10 Review by Anthony Looch Forgetting: Myths, Perils And Compensations by Douwe Draaisma is published in hardback by Yale University Press.

FORGETTING is an odd thing: everyone does it, but by definition cannot discuss it in much detail. Dutch psychologist and ‘memory scholar’ Draaisma makes a game attempt to explore this paradox from numerous viewpoints.

Standalone chapters create a suitably episodic feel, covering everything from the predictable – dreams; Alzheimer’s – to ‘forgotten’ characters of the subject’s history, including a moving piece on Henry M., whose lobotomy-induced par-

Walking On Custard And The Meaning Of Life: A Guide For Anxious Humans by Neil Hughes is published in paperback

by Enthusiastic Whim.

tial amnesia led to his brain becoming the most studied of the 20th century.

The breadth of sources (literature, history, sociology, anecdote...) occasionally bring an uneven tone but Draaisma is always engaging, a keen sense of irony and down-to-earth sensibility lifting it above the dryly academic, even when rebuking Freud in a slightly confused dissection of repression.

What emerges through the disparate chapters is a fittingly amorphous but striking depiction of the gaps in our mind, and why what really matters is the stuff in between.

8/10 Review by Michael Anderson

BOOKS that fall into the ‘comedy self-help’ section usually take aim at self-improvement literature itself, but Hughes, who has dabbled in stand-up comedy, takes a different tack, poking fun at himself, at the same time doling out practical advice on how to tackle anxiety.

Using a surprisingly sound custard-based analogy, he wants to help people escape the exhausting cycle of trying to stay afloat – merely existing with anxiety rather than feeling genuinely content – starting with immediate coping strategies and winding up at

discovering the meaning of life itself (sort of).

Even if you don’t suffer fullblown panic attacks, there are plenty of excellent tips and techniques offered to reduce the kind of symptoms that stressful jobs, busy lives and unfulfilled dreams often bring about.

Hughes’ unfailing honesty about his own struggle with anxiety makes him an empathetic author, and his debut is as brave as it is funny and pragmatic. Plus he might have just invented a whole new genre: self-help for people who hate self-help books.

8/10 Review by Katie Wright z CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK The Wild Beyond by Piers Torday is published in hardback by Quercus Children’s Books.

PIERS Torday’s thrilling adventure series has already won him praise and awards, including The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2014. Following on from The Last Wild and The Dark Wild comes the third and final book in the trilogy, in which our hero Kester Jaynes faces more challenges than ever before.

After saving the last wild animals and facing off with a ferocious, revenge-driven dog, Kester must now travel to a

Know your competitors UN TZU’S classic “Art of War” is in regular demand from our bookshelves. Sun Tzu was an Ancient Chinese ruler and military genius. His book collects numerous thoughts, strategies and rules which are in turn commented on by his generals and others of his time.

They expand on the theory to provide a better understanding of these rules.

One such rule is ‘Know Your Enemy’, and Sun Tzu provides a careful analysis of where you stand if you know your enemy but don’t know yourself, if you know yourself but don’t know your enemy, if you don’t know yourself and don’t know your enemy, or if you know your enemy and know yourself.

Given that much of Coles-worth operations are based on Wal-Mart strategies, it’s worth reading “What I Learned from Sam Walton”

by Michael Bergdahl who later went to work in other Fortune 500 businesses. His book is helpful for those competing against big businesses with market power.

Bergdahl’s theory uses the POCKET strategy. P – Price, don’t try to compete on price but differentiate your product selection. O – Operations must feature tactics that have a strategy to compete. C – Culture needs to include a strong sense of urgency. K – Key Item products need to communicate your

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brand message. E – Expenses, controlling costs must be an obsession. T – Talent, the need to involve staff with experience and high potential. S – Service means never take your customer for granted.

Collectively these provide strong disciplines for successfully competing.

Bethany Moreton has written “To Serve God and WalMart”. It explains the development of a complex network that united Sun-Belt USA entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students and free-market activists.

The culture was developed from those previously in farm work to the bar-code scanner.

This had the effect of making WalMart union free in much of the South and saw the business bolstered from the top down as well as the bottom up with a vision that sanctifies corporate globalisation.

Mark Brownley effectively discusses a small trader’s potential with the statement that it is easy to get into business, but it is much harder to stay there. His book “The Things Big Businesses Do” reveals what one can learn from the big end of town. Included are processes that motivate how to get bigger, stronger, more competitive, and more efficient. Staying in business and staying successful are

exactly what big businesses are good at.

To help understand the strategy of achieving more with less, Richard Koch has written “The 80/20 Principle”. The updated edition reinforces examples of how 80 per cent of the results flow from 20 per cent of the causes. It shows how a small amount of effort applied, accounts for the majority of the results. It discusses how just a few causes can have dramatic consequences.

With the aim of bringing effectiveness to small business, Michael Gerber wrote “The E Myth Revisited” which looks at why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it. The book is updated from the original edition. Fundamentally it encourages us to work on our businesses rather than working in our business. He provides a dictionary-style explanation: “E-Myth 1: the entrepreneurial myth that most people who start a small business are entrepreneurs. 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does technical work.”

Well known writer on commercial achievements, Dale Carnegie, comments that a book

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mysterious island to find the secret to save his world. Travelling with his best friends Aida and Polly, Kester must stop Selwyn Stone and his relentless cullers from destroying natural life.

Wow is all I can say! Another great book from Piers Torday. I have loved this series ever since I picked up The Last Wild. Great description and I loved the storyline. And so many twists in the book. A sad ending though.

But it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. And what a great idea to say that the world is ending because of the constant battle between man and nature!

9/10 Review by Noah Sanders, age 9

ADVERTORIAL

From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection

by Frank Bettger is “the most helpful and inspiring book on salesmanship that I have ever read”. The book “How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling” contains dozens of sales techniques and secrets developed over the years in all sorts of situations.

Reading through these it becomes clear that they make real sense. People buy from you if they believe that you have treated them fairly – they don’t just buy from you because they become impressed with the product and your presentation. The book has been published in 12 languages – so it must have achieved results.

Joe Calloway is the author of “Becoming a Category of One”.

Most of us support a business where there is a “connect” – in one form or another – that makes us automatically patronise that business when the related product is needed. Calloway’s book shows how extraordinary businesses transcend commodity and defy comparison, and pro-

` 80 per cent of the results flow from 20 per cent of the causes... A small amount of effort applied, accounts for the majority of the results.... a

vides lessons on how to achieve this in the marketplace.

A January newspaper article received from a customer provides a summary of Australia’s retail market. It collected data from 133,375 retail businesses – they account for 10 per cent of all employment in the country (1.27 million workers), 26.8 per cent of them make a loss, and a typical profit margin is 4.9 per cent.

Rent cost of supermarkets as a percentage of sales is 3 per cent in Australia, much less than in the UK and the USA, whereas clothing and other traders pay up to four times the rent of their supermarket competitors. When we operated in a shopping mall our bookstore’s rent costs in the 1980s was almost double that paid by Coles Supermarket who operated just through the wall.

This scenario supports the theory that big business – both the owners of shopping mall sites and the supermarket/ chains – rule the economy. And the Treasury is yet to understand the manipulations that go unchallenged. If small business is to compete in the market, SunTzu was spot on – know your enemy.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Escaping the cold at the cinema

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE cold weather experienced on Wednesday, April 8, forced many people indoors to keep nice and warm. Many decided to take advantage of weather outside and ventured into the comfortable seats at Reading Cinemas to see a variety of great movies available for viewing throughout the school holidays.

Back, Lyn Shirlaw and Eli McNamara, front, Rosie, Zali and Finn Gibson Trinity, Tiffany and Wade Ingham

Lachlan and Kirra Hawke

Lucy, James, Kate and Sophie Kirk

Dianne Hayes and Ella Vinton

Joshua Feringa

Jack Hornby-Tripp

Allysha, Penny and Jorja Wykes

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Easter raffles and family time at Sporties

BY CHERYL HUSBAND FAMILY and friends gathered at Sporties Club on Saturday, April 4, to enjoy each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s company and the chance of winning some choco-

lates or meat during the raffles for their Easter celebrations. Some of the people Dubbo Weekender met during our visit had travelled home to Dubbo from Sydney, Narromine and Orange.

Jeff Barber, Robyn Rawlinson and Mick McDonagh

June and Ron Rawlinson with Barbara Barber

Back, Jake and Troy Mortimer, Emma Apolony and Laura Mortimer, front, Carly Franks, Marilyn and Judy Mortimer

Barry Fernando, John Agnew and Angelo Lomonaco

Greg Primerano, Peter Gallen and Mary Primerano, Naomi Geck and David Payne

Arty Chatfield, Tom Duggan, Beryl Leitch and Kel Duggan Robert Lee and Mark Collin

Loreena and Lachlan Hangan

Ross Besley, Matt Jackson and Toby Besley

Judy and Eric Lawrence

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Holiday activities for the kids

BY KAITLYN RENNIE FAMILIES and day care groups were at Wahroonga Park on Wednesday, April 8, for a day filled with fun hosted by Uniting Care Burnside: Communities for Children.

The day involved a play in the park, face painting, a jumping castle, a game of cricket, kicking a footy around and much more. It was obvious the kids were having a lot of fun, despite the chilly weather on the day.

Malaky Douglas

Dee Mehta, Leena Robinson, Maddee Golding, Emma Robinson, Prisha Joe, Ada Robinson and Ramya Mehta

Isabella Wilson, Edward Knight and Molly Knight

Miah Bourke, Vassic Hawcroft, and Aubrey Hartog

Calyssa Cohen, Latayah Wiseman and Lahmarl Wiseman

Jess, Harry, Lucy and Maddie Cook

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Men’s Probus welcomes new committee

BY KAITLYN RENNIE MEMBERS of the Men’s Probus, along with their wives and partners, enjoyed lunch at the South Dubbo Tavern to announce and welcome in the new committee for 2015.

A large number of members were able to attend, with the previous president welcoming the new president and wishing him well for the next 12 months and beyond.

The Men’s Probus committee for 2015: Norman Volk, Ken Windsor, Neville Floyd, Jack Dunn, Colin Frances, Neil Lander, Howard Wye, Bruce Beattie and Leon Burke

Colin Frances, president, being welcomed by previous president, Neil Lander

Many members and their guests were at the event to welcome in the new committee

Lunch at The Outlook Café

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE Outlook Café was the place to be on Wednesday, April 8, for morning tea and lunch, with many friends braving the cold outside to get to the café. It was a great chance for families to catch up with friends, with the holidays just beginning, and the Outlook Café providing a warm spot to talk, colouring in pages for the kids and delicious food all round.

Kate Street, Paula McGeough, Zoe, Jack and Sam Street, Seamus and Fraser McGeough Kylie Streat, Candice Middleton and Andrea Large

Nancy Tucker and Harry Hawkins

Marina and Ron Ricketts

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear Drumstruck A GUARANTEED spectacle for the senses, Drumstruck, created by Warren Lieberman and Kathy-Jo Wein is a compelling blend of African rhythms, thrilling colourful dancing and the world’s most magnificent voices.

Together as a team they have been

capturing audiences worldwide since 2002 with their energetic presentation and audience interaction. Their show provides every audience member with a drum to play along with performers.

Head to Dubbo Regional Theatre at 7pm on Wednesday, April 15, to experience this exhilarating show for yourself.

ANZAC sleep-out

This is shown alongside more contemporary sculptural works, her response to concerns for the environmental and the cultural and familial future of shell stringing in northern Tasmania. Official opening is on May 2.

woman in Argentina.

This is a very special show, as it is a strictly limited release and Dubbo Theatre Company is one of the few nonprofessional companies in Australia to be given the opportunity. Book for this spectacular show at Dubbo Regional Theatre 8pm, on Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25.

THE entertainment line-up has been announced for the upcoming sleep-out to be held at Victoria Park No. 1 Oval on April 24 and 25.

Featuring renowned Australian performers, The Bushwackers and Celia Pavey, there will also be an outdoor

cinema featuring historical films, documentaries and stories, games and activities, parades as part of the swag-only sleep-out. The event begins at 4pm with the sleepover to lead into the ANZAC Day dawn service, marking the centenary of ANZAC. Phone Dubbo City Council on 6801 4000 for more information.

see Cultural jewels FROM April 18 to June 28 at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, come and enjoy the work of Lola Greeno, an internationally-respected indigenous artist and one of only a handful of Tasmanian Aboriginal women practising the art of shell stringing.

The themes of the exhibition, which features natural materials such as echidna quill, kelp, feather, rare marieener shell and bone, are strongly woven around the traditions of her island home.

Evita EXPERIENCE Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical Evita, based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinean actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinean president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated

Cosi fan tutte COSI fan tutte is a hilarious game where love, trust and pride are at stake. The cynical and wealthy philosopher Don

Alfonso declares to his young friends, Guglielmo and Ferrando, that no woman can be trusted, including their respectful fiancées, Dorabella and Fiordiligi.

Enraged at this slur, the two officers wager that their fiancées will remain faithful even if tested. The men agree to follow Don Alfonso’s plan to test the women’s fidelity and so begins the outrageously funny and moving tale. Written by Mozart and produced by Co-Opera, if you’re after an enjoyable evening of entertainment, come down to Dubbo Regional Theatre at 7.30pm on Wednesday, April 22.

do Staging Stories IF you would like to be a part of a project to support Aboriginal people share their stories through playwriting and performance, come along to the Western Plains Cultural Centre from 10am to 4pm on Sunday, April 12.

This workshop is for Aboriginal people over the age of 16 interested in trying out an acting class.

This is a state-wide project based in Dubbo but anyone living outside Dubbo is welcome to attend. Contact Melissa Ryan on 0409 245 020 for extra details.

School holiday workshops EACH school holidays, the Western Plains Cultural Centre conducts a series of cultural and art workshops to cater to students from ages five to teen. These art workshops are facilitated by professional artists and art teachers. The aim is to develop a love of art and culture by providing opportunities to explore art making techniques.

The workshops go from Monday to Friday, April 13 to 17 between 10am

and 3pm. Booking are essential so make sure you contact WPCC reception to reserve your place.

Harry’s House SUPPORT the family car rally for the Harry Mein Foundation, a charity dedicated to Harry’s House – a retreat for families of children living with cancer or families grieving the loss of a child to cancer.

The rally will be covering 1300 kilometres in seven days through Bathurst, Grenfell, Dubbo, Coonabarabran, Tam-

worth and Maitland from April 10 to 16 with 14 families set to participate.

To make a donation or for more information visit www.harryshouse.com.au There will also be a bucket coin collection day at the annual Grenfell Picnic races on Saturday April 11, and an outdoor dinner and entertainment at the Warrumbungles Mountain Motel on Tuesday, April 14 and raffles at the Family Hotel, West Tamworth on Wednesday, April 15.

Come along to these events to support a good cause.

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Biennial Quilt Show BE inspired by the Dubbo Patchwork and Quilters Biennial Quilt Show on Saturday and Sunday April 11 and 12.

The wonderful quilts on display have all been created by members who attend workshops, complete challenges and enjoy weekend get togethers” which enable them to create quilts for their pleasure and yours.

These activities also enable them to present quilts to organisations such as Meals on Wheels and the Woman’s Shelter. Check out the display at St Brigid’s Hall, entry includes morning or afternoon tea. Open between 9am and 5pm on Saturday and 9am and 4pm on Sunday.

Trivia night for Indianna HEAD to the Commercial Hotel Dubbo

on Friday, April 17 to support Indianna Asimus who has been selected to represent Australia to play futsal in Brazil in November.

A trivia night will be held so Indianna can follow in her dad’s footsteps of representing Australia. Trivia will kick off at 6pm and there will be finger food included in the price starting at 4.30pm.

Please call Gwenny to book your table on 0428 855 229 or 02 6885 5229.

Outdoor cinema night LOOKING for something different to do with your family these school holidays?

Look no further – grab your blankets, pillows and picnic rugs and head down to Old Dubbo Gaol on Saturday, April 11, for a movie night under the stars.

Gates will open at 7pm for a screening of Pitch Perfect on the outdoor cinema screen at 7.30pm.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

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OPEN WEEKENDER ĂƐƚůĞƌĞĂŐŚ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ͗ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ >ƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ŝŶŶĞƌ͘

GYMS

RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ Open Sunday 8.30am-3pm 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

SHOPPING DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 3pm ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

COFFEE & MEALS OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

CLUBS & PUBS

TED’S TAKEAWAY Open Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-8pm dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

PASTORAL HOTEL

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to 5.30pm.

Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

Open Saturday 10am to 4am, Sunday 10am to 9pm.

ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ 8am - 11.30am ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

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

CLUB DUBBO Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ 6pm to 9pm.

ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL Open Saturday 10am to 2am, Sunday ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ ŽŵĞ ĚŽǁŶ ĂŶĚ ĞŶũŽLJ Ă ĚƌŝŶŬ ǁŝƚŚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚƐ ŝŶ ŽƵƌ ďĞĞƌ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ͕ Ă ƌŽƵŶĚ ŽĨ ƉŽŽů ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĨƌŽŶƚ ďĂƌ Žƌ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ĚĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ĐŽƵŶƚƌLJ ƐƚLJůĞ ŵĞĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ restaurant.

Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ and 5.45-9pm.

101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

THE BOOK CONNECTION Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

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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, April 10 Adam Looking For Eve

MOVIE: Conviction

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This Dutch reality dating show is very similar to Dating Naked, in that two candidates meet up with no clothes on, to get to know one another warts and all, presumably, but with the additional twist is that a third party, also in the buff, comes in to fight for some attention. Tonight, confident student Raffaella, 19, fancies muscular men with charisma – just like 22-year-old Maurice, an entrepreneur looking for a steady relationship. Despite meeting each other’s physical credentials, it soon becomes clear these two are not clicking. Enter horse trainer Samantha into the mix, who might be a better match for Maurice.

Hilary Swank plays single mother Betty Anne Waters in this true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Kenny Waters (Sam Rockwell) is convicted of murder and jailed for life, Betty Anne is convinced of his innocence and decides it’s up to her to appeal his sentence. Putting herself through high school, college and law school in an 18-year quest to save her brother, Betty Anne sacrifices her marriage as she sifts through the suspicious evidence mounted by small-town cop Nancy Taylor (Melissa Leo). Its strong leads and supporting cast including Minnie Driver and Peter Gallagher, enhance the earnest tone.

ws around, Midsomer One of the oldest shows Murders is the perfect murder mystery series some, dignified and if you like them wholesome, suitable for watching with your granny.

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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 Life At 5: Resilience.

(R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Kitchen Cabinet. (R, CC) 2.30 The Paradise. (R, CC) Katherine sets out to prove her credentials.

3.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A detective investigates murders.

5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather.

9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Spooky Buddies.

(R, CC) (2011) Puppies battle an evil warlock.

Tucker Albrizzi, Ameko Eks Mass Carroll.

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)

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. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) 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) 4.30 Indian Ocean With Simon Reeve. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests Phill Jupitus, Jack Dee and Ross Noble join Stephen Fry for a letter “H”-inspired discussion.

8.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, CC) (Series return) Barnaby and Nelson investigate after an artist who had a manuscript stolen is electrocuted.

10.00 The Trip To Italy: Da Giovanni, San Fruttuoso.

(M, CC) Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan undertake a series of restaurant reviews, while on a road trip around Italy.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

11.05 The Business. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news, including a look at the latest trends on the international share and currency markets.

11.20 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) (Final) The shocking truth about who killed the Sandbrook girls, and why, is finally revealed.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh travels to Kalgoorlie to meet some of the biggest AFL fans in the country who are also supporters of the Starlight Foundation. Karen samples award-winning cheese.

Dr Harry meets a heroic camel.

8.30 MOVIE: It’s Complicated.

(M, R, CC) (2009) A middle-aged woman has an affair with her remarried ex-husband a decade after their divorce, a situation which is further complicated by her attraction to the divorced architect who is redesigning her home.

Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin.

11.00 MOVIE: Cape Fear.

(M, R, CC) (1991) After serving 14-years for a sexual assault, a psychopath unleashes a campaign of terror against the family of his lawyer, who had been so appalled at his crime he failed to defend his client to the best of his ability. Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 6. Brisbane Broncos v Sydney Roosters.

From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 6. Cronulla Sharks v Newcastle Knights. From Remondis Stadium, NSW. 11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 The Project. (CC) 7.30 The Living Room.

(PG, CC) Lifestyle program, hosted by Amanda Keller. Storage expert Peter Walsh shows how to deal with an overflowing wardrobe. Vet Dr Chris Brown answers some tough questions about strange pet behaviour.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with actors Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters and Hugh Bonneville, best known for his role as Robert Crawley on Downton Abbey. Music provided by pop group Take That.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) Gibbs, McGee and the team investigate the cause of the crash of a US Navy helicopter.

10.30 MOVIE: Conviction.

(M, R, CC) (2010) A single mother puts herself through law school in an effort to overturn her brother’s unjust murder conviction.

Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo.

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (PG, CC) Heston Blumenthal travels to New York in search of the “perfect” steak.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 25. Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets. From AAMI Park, Melbourne. Hosted

by David Zdrilic, with commentary from David Basheer and Lucy Zelic.

10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Jake and Charles embark on a stakeout for eight days straight which threatens to put a strain on their friendship. After Holt’s nephew pays a visit to Brooklyn, he makes an instant impression on Rosa.

10.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) The team is excited to spend the weekend at Charles’ beachhouse for a detectives-only getaway.

11.00 World News. (CC) 11.30 MOVIE: Unresolved Sexual Tension.

(AV15+, R) (2010) A university professor persuades one his students to help him win back his ex-girlfriend.

Norma Ruiz, Pilar Rubio.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Bait. (AV15+, R, CC) (2000) A paroled thief is used to catch a criminal.

Jamie Foxx.

4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.35 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

1.35 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) Join David Letterman and special guests for his Top 10 and more.

2.30 Home Shopping. (R)

1.10 Hunted. (M, R, CC) Sam sets out to investigate a mysterious assassin, who claims he has been trying to protect her.

4.15 Countdown. (R, CC) Presented by Jeff Stelling.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

12.10 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

1.30 Home Shopping.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, April 10 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

8.30pm Juno (2007) Comedy.

Ellen Page, Michael Cera. A quirky teenager unexpectedly falls pregnant. (M) Masterpiece

7.30pm Nana Mouskouri: Live At The Royal Albert Hall. (G) Arts

7.30pm Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere. A fascinating insight into the amazing rise to fame and overwhelming success of the Beatles. (PG) Biography

6.00am Golf. US Masters.

First round. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm My Tiny Terror.

(PG) Animal Planet

8.00pm Football. AFL. Round 2. West Coast v Carlton.

Fox Footy

8.30pm City Slickers (1991) Comedy. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern. (PG) Comedy

8.05pm Killer Magic. The theme is toys as the magicians compete to avoid the Killer Trick.

(M) FOX8

10.05pm Don Jon (2013) Comedy. Joseph GordonLevitt, Scarlett Johansson. A womaniser tries to keep his porn addiction secret from the woman of his dreams.

(MA15+) Premiere

10.20pm The West Wing.

Before signing the Middle East peace accord, Bartlet (Martin Sheen) orders his staff to enlist the support of the House of Representatives and the United Nations. (PG) SoHo

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (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 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack.

(R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Dinosaur Train.

5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.40 A Special Kind Of Mum. (M, CC) 9.35 Catfish: The TV Show. (PG, CC) 10.20 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.05 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 11.25 World’s Toughest Jobs. (M, R, CC) 12.25 Pineapple Dance Studios.

(M, R, CC) 1.10 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 News Update. (R) 2.05 Close. 5.00 What’s The Big Idea?

(R, CC) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 8.05 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 8.20 Get Ace. (R, CC) 8.35 Jar Dwellers SOS. (R, CC) 8.45 Gawayn. (R, CC) 9.00 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) 9.10 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) 9.35 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 10.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 10.10 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head.

(R, CC) 10.40 WAC. (R, CC) 11.05 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 11.35 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 12.00 Grojband.

(R, CC) 12.25 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 1.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 1.35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 2.10 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 3.25 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 3.50 Vic The Viking. (CC) 4.00 Tashi. (CC) 4.15 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom. (R, 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 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. (PG, CC) 7.30 Lockie Leonard. (C, R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Lanfeust Quest. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.30 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 Spit It Out. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle.

(P, R, CC) 8.30 Man About The House. (PG, R) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 11.30 George And Mildred. (PG, R) 12.00 Pie In The Sky. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 How The Other Half Live. (PG, R) 2.00 Air Crash Investigations. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

4.00 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 5.00 Best Houses Australia. (PG, R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Indian Doctor.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

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 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.00 The House That £100K Built: Tricks Of The Trade. (R) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 4.30 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Golf. US Masters. Round 1.

Continued. From Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia. 9.30 NBC Today. (R, CC) 11.30 Motor Mate.

(R) 2.00 Zeke And Luther. (R, CC) 3.30 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.30 Trash To Treasure. (PG) 5.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 MythBusters: Duct Tape Car Lift/Duct Tape Boat Repair/Duct Tape.

(PG, CC) Duct tape-related myths are tested.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 2. West Coast v Carlton. From Domain Stadium, Perth.

11.30 MOVIE: The Frighteners.

(M, R, CC) (1996) A psychic investigates a series of deaths. Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado.

1.45 Scare Tactics. (M, R) 2.45 Operation Repo. (M, R) 3.15 Trash To Treasure. (PG, R) Paul and Dale buy 10 lamp posts.

4.15 The Bunker. (PG, R) 4.45 Golf. US Masters. Round 2.

From Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia.

7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 25. Melbourne Victory v Newcastle. Fox Sports 4

9.30pm Air Crash Investigations. Investigates what caused the flaming crash of a Concorde. (PG) National Geographic

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (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 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra. (CC) 12.30 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Super Fun Night. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 MOVIE: The Secret Garden. (R, CC) (1993) 7.30 MOVIE: Uptown Girls. (PG, R) (2003) Brittany Murphy. 9.30 MOVIE: What’s Your Number? (MA15+, R, CC) (2011) Anna Faris, Chris Evans. 11.30 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 12.30 MAD. (M) 1.00 Robotomy.

(M, R) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Supernanny USA. (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 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Josephine And Men. (R, CC) (1955) 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) Fiona heads to Hever Castle in Kent.

8.30 MOVIE: Now And Then.

(PG, R, CC) (1995) Four childhood friends return to their home town decades later to fulfil a promise they made. Rosie O’Donnell, Melanie Griffith, Demi Moore.

10.30 MOVIE: Hair. (M) (1979) 1.00 MOVIE: Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula. (M, R) (1978) 2.40 MOVIE: The Constant Husband. (R, CC) (1955) Rex Harrison. 4.20 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 5.20 GEM Presents. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC)

Martin Sheen stars in The West Wing

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Swimming.

Australian Championships. Day 7.

Replay. 10.20 Extreme Collectors.

(R) 10.55 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 12.00 Psych. (PG) (Final) 1.00 White Collar. (PG, R) 2.00 The Living Room. (R, CC) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 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: Laverstoke Mill. (R) Learn about the history of Laverstoke Mill.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Join dedicated police officers as they patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 Swimming. Australian Championships. Day 8.

From Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.

10.40 48 Hours: Death At The Parsonage. (M, R) 11.40 Glory Rewind. (PG) 12.40 Home Shopping.

2.10 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.20 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. (M, R) 4.25 The Road To Rio. (PG, R) 5.30 Wild Racers. (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 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Caroline In The City. (PG, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Cheers.

(PG, R) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 American Idol. (PG) Hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

9.30 Glee. (PG) A tween wants to book the club for his bar mitzvah.

10.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) 11.10 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.40 Wonderland. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.05 Caroline In The City. (PG, R) 1.30 Sabrina.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 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.

4.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.45 Vs Arashi. (R) 5.40 American Ninja Warrior. (R) 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) Ann makes a dramatic life decision.

8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) A couple go on a naked date.

9.25 G-Spotting: A Story Of Pleasure And Promise.

(MA15+, R, CC) Investigates the G-spot.

10.30 Banana. (M) 11.00 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.55 Friday Feed. (R) 12.25 Real Humans. (M, R) (Final) 1.30 PopAsia. (PG, R) 3.30 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 Fusion Feasts. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 Tribal Scent. 1.30 My Survival As An Aboriginal. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids.

3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked!

4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 The Medicine Line. 6.30 The Other Side. (PG) 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Fraser’s Story.

8.30 Our Songs.

9.00 Go Girls. (PG) Britta’s good nature gets the better of her.

10.00 Seeking Salvation.

11.00 NITV News. 11.30 The Medicine Line. 12.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 1.00 Rugby League. 2014 Murri Carnival. 2.10 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Titjikala Vs Western Aranda. 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) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.25 ABC Open. (R) 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 3.55 ABC Open. (R) 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 5.00 BBC World News. 5.25 ABC Open. (R) 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

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Saturday, April 11 Jamie’s Food Fight Club TEN, 6.30pm

Globally renowned TV chef, restaurateur and healthy eating advocate Jamie Oliver has cooked up some truly fabulous feasts all over the world, but now he’s back on home turf, joining friend Jimmy Doherty to open a popup cafe in Essex, where they serve up delicious British food, and invite some celebrity guests to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the cooking, too. On the café menu this week, English rapper Tinie Tempah cooks Nigerian street food classic Suya, which is a spicy beef kebab.

Plus, Jamie makes salt and pepper squid. Prepare to have your tastebuds tantalised.

ABC

Great Continental Railway Journeys SBS ONE, 7.30pm

This fascinating British documentary travel series is not to be missed by train fanatics, as it follows British journalist Michael Portillo around continental Europe, using George Bradshaw’s 1913 Continental Railway Guide. Tonight, the journey goes from Madrid to Gibraltar, as Portillo first returns to his native Spain to discover what the intrepid tourists of the Belle Epoque experienced on their travels through the fading Spanish Empire. Then heading south to historic Cordoba, Michael dances with an unusual partner and enjoys all the fun of the feria (free day).

PRIME7

MOVIE: Enchanted PRIME7, 7pm, G (2007)

Disney takes a cheeky dig at itss own back ytale spoof catalogue in this enjoyable fairytale that embraces cartoon clichés. Amy Adams (right) is Giselle, the animated princess given human form when she is banished to an modern-day Manhattan by Susan Sarandon’s evil queen Narissa. But it’s not long before the Big Apple and a divorce umb to lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) succumb ively her wholesome appeal in this lively caper. Mischievous highlights e’s include a re-run of Snow White’s spring clean, except this time the heroine calls on the services of local vermin – pigeons, rats, cockroaches – to perform their own dodgy concept of housework.

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) Hosted by Josh Earl.

12.00 Two On The Great Divide. (PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

2.00 Kirstie’s Vintage Home.

(R, CC) (Final) Presented

by Kirstie Allsopp.

3.00 The Manor Reborn.

(R, CC) Part 4 of 4.

4.00 Saturday Landline.

(R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

4.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A woman is electrocuted.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Horse Racing. (CC) The Championships.

Day 2. Featuring four Group 1 races, including the $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m), $1.6 million Sydney Cup (3200m), $1 million Australian Oaks (2400m) and $1 million Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m).

From Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

(CC) Mike meets some dugongs at Sydney Aquarium.

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) Melanie finds herself in a love triangle.

1.00 Beyond Hard Knocks.

(PG, R, CC) The fate of the original Choir of Hard Knocks.

2.15 MOVIE: Pure Country: The Gift. (PG, R, CC) (2010) A girl pursues her dreams of singing. Katrina Elam.

4.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, 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 St10: Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Tour The World. (CC) 12.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) 1.30 The Hotel Inspector.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 3.00 Car Torque. (PG, CC) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) (Series return) 4.30 Escape With ET. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 The Checkout.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Jerry checks out a hippeastrum farm to find out how new varieties of these flowers are propagated.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 New Tricks. (PG, CC) After a librarian is murdered, Danny finds himself in the spotlight after it is revealed he knew the victim.

8.30 Miniseries: Birdsong.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. An officer stationed in the trenches of the Western Front, during World War I, finds himself haunted by memories of an affair he had with a married woman.

10.00 Scott & Bailey.

(M, R, CC) When the authorities look into a gangland slaying, they uncover some disturbing evidence.

10.45 Miniseries: Paper Giants: Magazine Wars.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

Charts the battle between women’s magazine editors Nene King and Dulcie Boling.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Enchanted.

(R, CC) (2007) A lawyer takes a fairytale princess under his wing after she is transported from her magical world to present-day New York City.

However, she is pursued by both the minions of an evil queen who banished her and the brainless prince who hopes to marry her. Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden.

9.15 MOVIE: Liar Liar.

(M, R, CC) (1997) A fasttalking divorce lawyer faces havoc after his son wishes he would not be able to lie for 24 hours.

Even worse, he is unable to aid another in telling a mistruth, making his efforts to win his latest case on behalf of his dishonest client all the more difficult.

Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly.

11.15 MOVIE: Your Highness.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2011) A drug-addled, layabout prince and his servant are forced to embark on a quest with his heroic elder brother after a wizard steals the man’s bride on his wedding day. Danny McBride, James Franco.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Shrek The Third.

(PG, R, CC) (2007) After King Harold falls ill, Shrek must find an acceptable heir to the throne or face the burden of ruling the kingdom himself. However, during his absence, a jilted Prince Charming decides to take matters into his own hands and recruits an army of villains to take over the country. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz.

8.50 MOVIE: Music And Lyrics. (PG, R, CC) (2007) A washed-up ’80s pop singer is given a second chance at stardom after a teen singing sensation asks him to write and perform a duet with her. However, unable to overcome his writer’s block, he tries to convince the woman who waters his plants to help him with the song. Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett.

10.55 MOVIE: Wag The Dog. (M, R, CC) (1997) A presidential adviser enlists the help of a producer to create a war, to help improve his client’s popularity. Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Officers go undercover, conducting surveillance on a male they believe is running a major drug syndicate.

6.30 Jamie’s Food Fight Club.

(CC) English rapper Tinie Tempah learns how to cook suya, a popular Nigerian spicy beef kebab.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown is invited to visit a veterinary hospital in Abu Dhabi which cares for highly prized falcons.

8.30 MOVIE: Die Hard 4.0. (M, R, CC) (2007) A hard-bitten detective is assigned to bring in a prominent computer hacker for questioning after a cyberattack on the FBI. Instead, he discovers the young man is being targeted by assassins in the employ of a terrorist who plans to use the internet to strike at the heart of the US. Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant.

11.10 MOVIE: Along Came A Spider. (AV15+, R, CC) (2001) A detective teams up with a Secret Service agent to investigate the kidnapping of a US senator’s daughter. Morgan Freeman, Michael Wincott.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys.

(PG, CC) (Series return) Michael Portillo takes to rails once more, to experience some of the great journeys of the 19th century. He begins by heading to his native Spain, where he embarks on a trip from Madrid to Gibraltar, along the way visiting the scene of an assassination attempt at a royal wedding.

8.35 MOVIE: We Were Soldiers. (CC) (2002) After undergoing extensive training in the use of helicopters, soldiers of the US 7th Cavalry are deployed to Vietnam, in 1965, and are involved in one of the first major battles of the war. Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear.

11.10 MOVIE: The Round Up. (M, R) (2010) On the order of the Nazis, the authorities in Germanoccupied and Vichycontrolled France begin rounding up the local Jews including thousands of children, for transportation to death camps. Jean Reno, Melanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh.

12.55 MOVIE: Shutter.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) Joshua Jackson.

2.35 MOVIE: Rasputin: The Mad Monk.

(M, R, CC) (1966) 4.20 WIN Presents. (CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

1.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

1.20 Hunted. (M, R, CC) (Final) Sam is exposed as a spy.

2.20 MOVIE: My Brother Is An Only Child. (M, R) (2007) Riccardo Scamarcio.

4.05 Lilyhammer.

(MA15+, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

12.15 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by special guest programmers, Ian Hill, Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton and Scott Travis of Judas Priest.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

1.30 Home Shopping.

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 My Father And The Man In Black. (M, R, CC) 3.30 Freud’s Naked Truths.

(PG, R, CC) 4.20 Kraftwerk: Pop Art. (PG, R, CC) A look at the German band, Kraftwerk.

5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Stephen Fry. (R, CC)

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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6.00pm Stuart Little (1999) Family. Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie. An orphaned talking mouse is taken in by a kind family whose pet cat is less than happy with the situation. Family

6.00pm Archer. Archer must salvage a crashed plane in a jungle filled with relics from World War II. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.30pm Exploring Malaysia.

Singer-songwriter and world traveller Nick Saxon explores the traditions of Malaysia’s Kelantan region as he goes in search of creative inspiration for a new song. (G) National Geographic

6.00am Golf. US Masters.

Second round. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Sex Tape (2014) Comedy. Jason Segal, Cameron Diaz. A married couple make a sex tape to spice up their marriage, but the video accidentally goes public.

(MA15+) Premiere

7.30pm Hawaii Five-0. Chin Ho is drugged, kidnapped, and placed in a maximum security prison as retaliation for Frank Delano’s death. (M) TV1 8.30pm Mob Wives. (M) Arena

8.30pm Up In The Air (2009) Drama. (M) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.50 Penelope. (R, CC) 2.00 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.10 Gaspard And Lisa. (R, CC) 2.25 Rob The Robot.

(R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (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 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack.

(R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Dinosaur Train.

5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 Build A New Life In The Country.

(PG, CC) 9.15 Live At The Apollo.

(M, CC) 10.00 The Inbetweeners.

(M, R, CC) 10.30 Plebs. (M, R, CC) (Final) 10.55 The Awesomes. (M, R, CC) 11.15 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Archer. (M, R, CC) 1.30 News Update. (R) 1.35 Close. 5.00 What’s The Big Idea? (R, CC) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout.

(R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.20 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 8.25 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals.

(R, CC) 11.35 Lockie Leonard.

(R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 2.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60.

(R, CC) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters.

(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) 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.35 Mortified.

(C, R, CC) 7.00 Heartland. (CC) 7.45 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.30 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 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 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.00 Great South East. (CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 Coxy’s Big Break. (CC) 2.30 SCU. (PG, CC) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield.

Round 4. Sydney University v Manly. 5.00 Tom, Rach And Rosso Go Cruising. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG, R) 6.30 The New Reclaimers.

(PG, R) 7.30 Storage Hoarders.

8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) A student, a businesswoman and an artist are all killed in the same manner.

10.00 Wire In The Blood.

(MA15+, R) 12.00 Storage Hoarders. (R) 1.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 MOVIE: The Falcon And The Co-Eds. (PG, R) (1943) Tom Conway, Jean Brooks.

4.00 Cameltrain Downstream. (PG, R) 5.00 Animal Academy. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Golf. US Masters. Round 2.

Continued. 9.30 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

10.30 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. Battery All Types Southern Thunder Series. Round 3. Replay. 11.30 Zoom TV. (PG) 12.00 Motor Racing. Australian Drifting Grand Prix. 1.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 2.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 2. Greater Western Sydney v Melbourne. 5.00 Footy Flashbacks. (CC) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game. (CC) Coverage of the pre-game show.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 2. Port Adelaide v Sydney.

From Adelaide Oval.

11.00 MOVIE: Sniper 2.

(M, R, CC) (2002) Tom Berenger.

1.00 Supersize Me. (M, R) 3.15 Motor Racing.

AHG Sprintcar Series.

Battery All Types Southern Thunder Series.

Round 3. Replay.

4.15 The Bunker. (PG, R) 4.45 Golf. US Masters. Round 3. From Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia.

7.00pm Johnny Cash: Song

By Song. (PG) Biography

5.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 6. Warriors v Wests Tigers. Fox Sports 1 7.30pm Football. AFL. Round 2. Port Adelaide v Sydney. Fox Footy

7.30pm Who Were The Ancient Greeks? Dr Michael Scott travels across Greece, to uncover how the ancient Greeks lived. (PG) History

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Dogstar.

(C, R, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern.

(PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz.

(C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Surfing.

(CC) Hurley Australian Open Of Surfing. Highlights. 3.00 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. 4.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters. (R) (1988) Julie Bennett, Ben Frommer.

7.30 MOVIE: Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow.

(PG, R) (2004) 9.40 MOVIE: The Losers.

(M, R, CC) (2010) 11.40 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. (MA15+, R) (2007) 2.00 Darren Sanders. (M, R) 2.30 Gumball. (R) 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Josephine And Men. (R, CC) (1955) 8.00 Shopping.

9.30 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 10.30 MOVIE: Floating Dutchman. (PG, R, CC) (1952) 12.00 Postcards.

(CC) 12.30 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen.

(R) 1.00 MOVIE: Comanche. (PG, R, CC) (1956) 2.50 MOVIE: East Of Eden. (PG, R, CC) (1955) James Dean, Raymond Massey. 5.15 MOVIE: Casablanca. (PG, R, CC) (1942) Humphrey Bogart.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Items are presented for appraisal.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) The body of a music historian is found in a piano.

9.30 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) A woman is found murdered in Central Park.

10.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) 11.20 Golden Boy. (M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: Casablanca.

(PG, R, CC) (1942) Humphrey Bogart.

2.20 MOVIE: East Of Eden.

(PG, R, CC) (1955) 4.30 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

Super-spy Sterling Archer, the star of animated series Archer

ONE 6.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 6.50 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Round 6. Queensland Firebirds v Adelaide Thunderbirds. Replay.

8.50 Swimming. Australian Championships. Day 8. Replay.

10.00 Where It All Began. (R, CC) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (PG, R) 11.00 Wild Racers. (R) 11.30 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 12.00 RPM. (R, CC) 1.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. 2.00 Motor Racing.

Trans-Tasman Trophy. 2.30 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (R, CC) 3.00 International Fishing Series. 3.30 Megafactories.

(R) 4.30 Reel Action. (R) 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 6.00 Garage Gold. (R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 8.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) Joan’s ex-boyfriend asks for help.

9.30 Blue Bloods. (M, R, CC) Danny pursues a serial killer.

10.30 Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon. (M, R) 11.30 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.00 The Killing. (MA15+, R) 2.00 Cops. (PG, R) 3.00 The Road To Rio. (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 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Infomercials.

(PG, R) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 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. (PG, R, CC) Debra is sick of Ray’s family.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham Norton chats with Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters and Hugh Bonneville.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) The relationship between Carrie and Aleksandr continues to develop, but one thing nags at Carrie.

10.50 Empire. (M, R, CC) 11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.25 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Diagnosis Murder.

(PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Mass For You At Home. (CC)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 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 25. Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets. 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) 5.05 Planet Sport. (PG, R) 6.05 Urban Freestyler. (R) 6.10 Knife Fight.

(PG) (Series return) 6.40 No Kitchen Required. (PG, R) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Vikings. (M, R, CC) Lagertha’s earldom is usurped.

9.20 No Limit. (MA15+) Juliette closes in on Hydra.

10.20 Orphan Black. (MA15+, R) 11.10 Orphan Black. (M, R) 12.00 Orphan Black. (MA15+, R) 12.50 MOVIE: Cherry Blossoms. (MA15+, R) (2008) 3.00 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 The Other Side. (PG) 2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint.

4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Roots Music. (PG) 8.30 Money Power Respect.

(M) A look at the race to become hip-hop’s first billionaire.

9.30 MOVIE: Get On The Bus. (M) (1996) Follows a group of black men on their way to the Million Man March.

Richard Belzer, De’aundre Bonds, Thomas Jefferson Byrd.

11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (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 Saturday Landline. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The World This Week. (CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News.

(CC) 6.30 Catalyst. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 Landline. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 AusBiz Asia. (R) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.25 ABC Open. (R) 2.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. (R) 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 1104

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Sunday, April 12 NCIS: New Orleans

MOVIE: The Impossible

Poldark

It’s a testament to the NCIS creators that in such a fickle, short-attentionspan environment, they can make spin-offs and make them well.

NCIS: New Orleans is the baby of the bunch and is still possibly finding its feet among its many competitors.

That said, it’s still gripping television and tonight’s episode is no exception.

When a sailor is killed in a strip club, the murder weapon is found to be linked to two other unsolved homicides. As the team, led by detective Dwayne Pride (Scott Bakula) investigate, Meredith Brody (Zoe McLellan) is distracted after her former finacé pays her a surprise visit.

The tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004, was a disaster of unprecedented proportions. In the hands of director Juan Antonio Bayona, The Impossible avoids blockbuster action sequences and instead dives deep into the human tragedy. Here we see couple Maria and Henry (Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor) and their three sons on holiday in Thailand. When the wave strikes and chaos ensues, the family are separated and so begins a desperate attempt to find their loved ones. Watts is outstanding and was rightly nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Maria, whose desperation and strength to save her children sends shivers up the spine.

ish television There are a fair few things British does well and one of them is most definitely s, an eight-part period dramas. This new series, m’s Poldark adaptation of Winston Graham’s novels, is a sweeping drama sett in oldark 18th-century Cornwall. Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner, right, The Hobbitt trilogy) returns home from fighting in the d American Revolution a changed g man. But he’s not the only thing o changed – his love is married to nd his cousin, his father is dead and his family’s sweeping estate hass been left in ruins. Rather than be run out of town, Ross decides his place is to stay and rebuild his home to its former glory, but not everyone is pleased about it.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) Jerry checks out a hippeastrum farm.

1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) Hosted

by James Valentine.

2.00 Art + Soul. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Art Of Australia: Strangers In A Strange Land. (R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

3.55 Restoration Home.

(PG, R, CC) 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 Malibu Country.

(PG, R, CC) Kim’s husband gives Reba a kiss.

11.30 The Amazing Race.

(PG, R, CC) Hosted by Phil Keoghan.

1.30 MOVIE: The Sinking Of The Laconia. (PG, R, CC) (2010) Chronicles the sinking of British troop carrier, the Laconia by a German U-boat. Andrew Buchan, Ken Duken.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? Doobawah.

(R, CC) Adam Ford explores the history behind Doobawah.

6.30 Compass: By Compass And Quran. (CC) Retraces the steps of Afghan cameleers.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Inside The Commons: Party Games. (PG, CC) Part 3 of 4.

8.40 Poldark. (M, CC) (New Series) A man returns to Cornwall, in the wake of the American Revolutionary War, to find his world in tatters.

9.40 Fortitude. (MA15+, CC) Frank Sutter takes the law into his own hands and goes after Markus.

10.30 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Shaun Micallef.

11.00 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) Hosted by Rob Brydon.

11.30 The Writers’ Room: Game Of Thrones.

(M, R, CC) A look at Game of Thrones.

11.55 MOVIE: For A Few Dollars More. (M, R, CC) (1965) A bounty hunter chases a deranged killer.

Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 My Kitchen Rules.

(PG, CC) The two teams who failed to brighten the emergency service workers day out with their “fare food” will be entering Kitchen HQ to cook for their right to stay in the competition.

8.30 Sunday Night: The Power Of Ten. (CC) Part 1 of 2.

Ben Roberts-Smith profiles 10 Anzacs awarded the Victoria Cross.

9.30 Castle. (M, CC) Beckett works with a Hong Kong detective to investigate the murder of an ex-conturned-tow-truck driver.

However, the fact her new ally appears to have the career she always dreamed about, threatens to cause some unwanted tension between the partners.

10.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) Holed up in his apartment with a broken leg, Castle begins to suspect one of his neighbours is a murderer.

11.30 Cougar Town. (PG, CC) (Series return) After Jules receives a large commission cheque, she enlists Andy to be her business partner in a getrich-quick scheme.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, CC) The contestants complete four different kitchens, but the judges are not wowed by their efforts. Dea and Darren are disappointed by the feedback.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.30 Stalker. (M, CC) (New Series) Follows officers of the LAPD’s Threat Assessment Unit who investigate stalking crimes.

Lieutenant Beth Davis and Detective Jack Larsen search for a stalker with an affinity for fire. Beth meets a university student who claims his former roommate is harassing him.

10.30 The Following. (AV15+, CC) (Series return) Ryan finds himself called back into action after a multiple homicide in the New York subway.

11.30 Almost Human.

(AV15+, CC) (New Series) In the near future, a technophobic cop is ordered to work with an android.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family. (PG, CC) With teenager Luke demanding his “space”, Phil finds himself growing closer to his assistant.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Claire and Phil once again decide to celebrate Valentine’s Day as their alter egos.

7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, CC) A former Big Brother contestant and his business partner are less than forthright with their financials.

8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, CC) After a sailor is killed in a strip club, the murder weapon is linked to two other unsolved homicides.

9.30 Empire. (M, CC) Lucious tries to brand Empire Entertainment as a familyrun business.

10.30 MOVIE: Water For Elephants. (M, R, CC) (2011) A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a travelling circus.

Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Rome: The World’s First Superpower: Total War. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 4.

Larry Lamb continues to trace the story of Rome’s transition from a city state to empire. By 400 BC, the city state was 300-yearsold and seemed invincible.

However, a prolonged war with the Gauls nearly led to the city’s destruction and had a major impact on it’s future.

8.30 Jesus: Rise To Power: Martyrs. (M, CC) Part 2 of 3. Dr Michael Scott and a team of biblical scholars continue to explore the rise of Christianity. He looks at how Rome’s attempts to stamp out the new religion ended up inspiring the cult of martyrdom, with death considered a “baptism of blood” and a heroic victory.

9.30 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Paris-Roubaix. From France. Hosted by Michael Tomalaris and Henk Vogels.

12.00 Citizen Khan. (PG, R, CC) Mr Khan finds himself on his wife’s bad side when he forgets to book the wedding venue.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

12.30 20/20. (R, CC) News and current affairs program.

1.30 Spyforce. (PG, R) 2.30 The Avengers. (PG, R) 3.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R, CC) 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.

2.00 How To Build A Bionic Man. (M, R, CC) 3.00 First Australians: Freedom For Our Lifetime. (R, CC) 3.55 Jerusalem: The Making Of A Holy City. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

2.05 Poldark. (M, R, CC) A man returns home from war.

3.05 Fortitude. (MA15+, R, CC) Frank goes after Markus.

3.55 Inside The Commons: Party Games. (PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

4.55 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) 5.25 Eggheads. (R, CC)

10.30 11.30 1.30 2.00 3.30

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) The Bottom Line: Lord Jeffrey Archer. (PG, R, CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Hosted

by Tim Faulkner.

The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, R, CC) Hosted by Scott Cam. Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 6. St George Illawarra Dragons v Canterbury Bulldogs. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

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 All 4 Adventure.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) Guests include Taraji P. Henson.

2.00 The Hotel Inspector.

(PG, R, CC) Presented by Alex Polizzi.

3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 RPM. (CC) A look around Matt Burke’s garage.

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 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling. (CC) 5.30 Singapore 1942: End Of Empire. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

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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DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.25pm Chinese Puzzle (2014) Drama. Romain Duris.

A man’s wife announces she’s moving to New York with their kids. (M) Masterpiece

6.05pm Betty White’s Off Their Rockers. Betty White leads a squad of daring senior citizens who are out to prank and cause mayhem against unsuspecting younger generations. (M) Comedy Channel

7.30pm Killers Behind Bars. A frightening look into the mind of Robert Black, a man who has abducted and murdered several children. (M) Crime & Investigation

12.00pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Vixens v Firebirds. Fox Sports 2

7.30pm Mr Peabody & Sherman (2014) Animation.

Ty Burrell, Max Charles. Family 8.30pm Divergent (2014) Adventure. Shailene Woodley, Theo James. In postapocalyptic Chicago a young woman learns of a conspiracy that threatens her life and many others. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.40 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 1.50 Penelope. (R, CC) 2.00 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.10 Gaspard And Lisa. (R, CC) 2.25 Rob The Robot.

(R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (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 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack.

(R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 5.00 Mike The Knight. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.40 Seconds From Disaster.

(PG, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. (M, R, CC) (2010) 10.20 Tattoo Tales. (M, R, CC) 10.55 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Junior Doctors. (M, CC) 12.40 Catfish: The TV Show. (PG, R, CC) 1.25 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. (PG, R, CC) 1.55 News Update. (R) 2.00 Close.

5.00 What’s The Big Idea? (R, CC) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 8.25 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk.

(R, CC) 8.55 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour.

(R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals.

(R, CC) 11.35 Lockie Leonard.

(R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters. (CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 Endangered Species. (CC) 4.20 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. (R, CC) 4.30 Roy. (R, CC) 5.00 Studio 3. 5.05 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 5.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) (Final) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.35 Mortified. (R, CC) 7.00 Heartland. (R, CC) 7.40 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 7.55 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi. (PG, R, CC) 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Total Drama Island. (PG, R, CC) 8.50 Total Drama Island. (R, CC) 9.10 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 9.35 Rage. (PG, R) 2.10 Close.

7.30pm Who Wore It Better.

(PG) E!

7.30pm Wicked Tuna. Looks back at the highs and lows to date for the fishing captains.

(M) National Geographic

7.35pm Cristela. Cristela tries to figure out which family member Isabella learnt her bullying behaviour from. (M) FOX8

7.30pm Tony Robinson’s Tour Of Duty. Tony Robinson encourages locals to show off war memorabilia and tell the stories of veterans. (PG) History

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Downsize My Pet. (R) 12.30 Travel Oz. (PG, CC) 2.00 The Travel Bug. (R) 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG) 3.30 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 4.30 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Vicious. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) Onslow’s birthday causes concern for Hyacinth.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Hosted by Alistair Appleton.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Presented by Nick Knowles.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

11.00 Front Of House.

11.30 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 12.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG, R) 1.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 1.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 2.00 Front Of House. (R) 2.30 The Travel Bug. (R) 3.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Golf. US Masters. Round 3.

Continued. 9.00 Shopping. 9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 12.30 Ultimate Factories. (PG, R) 1.30 The Border. (PG, R) 2.30 AFL Pre-Game. (CC) 3.00 Football.

(CC) AFL. Round 2. Essendon v Hawthorn.

6.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) Jerry turns in Uncle Leo for shoplifting.

7.00 MOVIE: The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift. (M, R, CC) (2006) An American teen moves to Tokyo. Lucas Black.

9.00 MOVIE: Fast Five.

(M, R, CC) (2011) A crew of street racers plans a heist.

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

11.45 1000 Ways To Die: Fatal Distractions. (AV15+, R) 12.15 1000 Ways To Die. (AV15+, R) 12.45 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 1.45 The Border. (PG, R) 2.45 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 3.15 The Bunker. (PG, R) 3.45 Golf. US Masters. Final round.

From Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, 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 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz.

2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 4.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (R) 4.55 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.20 MOVIE: Tom And Jerry & The Wizard Of Oz. (R, CC) (2012) 6.30 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG) (New Series) 7.30 MOVIE: Space Jam. (R, CC) (1996) Michael Jordan.

9.10 MOVIE: 21 Jump Street.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2012) A pair of cops go back to high school. Channing Tatum.

11.20 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 11.45 Arrow. (AV15+, R, CC) 2.30 The Darren Sanders Show.

(M, R) 3.00 The Batman. (R) 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: The Gentle Gunman. (R, CC) (1952) 8.30 Shopping. 10.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.30 MOVIE: The Face Of Fu Manchu. (PG, R, CC) (1965) 12.30 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Waterloo Bridge. (PG, R, CC) (1940) 3.45 MOVIE: Red River.

(R) (1948) John Wayne.

6.30 River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way. (PG) 7.30 Life Flight. (PG, R, CC) Follows the teams responsible for high stakes rescues.

8.30 MOVIE: The Impossible.

(M, CC) (2012) A family on holiday in Thailand is caught up in the chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Geraldine Chaplin.

11.00 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

1.00pm Football. AFL. Round 2. Geelong v Fremantle.

From Simonds Stadium.

Fox Footy 2.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Raiders v Storm. Fox Sports 1 Shailene Woodley and Theo James star in Divergent

ONE 6.00 The Road To Rio. (PG, R) 7.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 7.30 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (R) 8.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Reel Action. (R) 10.00 Bush To Beach. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Motor Racing. Trans-Tasman Trophy. Replay. 12.00 Netball.

ANZ Championship. Round 7.

Melbourne Vixens v Queensland Firebirds. 2.00 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Extreme Collectors.

(R) 3.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.30 International Fishing Series. (R) 5.00 Freddie Flintoff: Lord Of The Fries. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud.

(CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 The Odd Couple.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Officers go undercover.

9.00 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 MOVIE: Ned Kelly.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2003) The life of outlaw Ned Kelly.

Heath Ledger.

11.50 Sons Of Anarchy. (M, R) 12.55 RPM. (R, CC) 1.55 48 Hours.

(PG, R) 2.55 Fast Forward. (M, R) 3.30 Reel Action. (R) 4.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 2. Grand Prix Of The Americas.

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 searches for an old good luck charm.

8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Homer ingests several super hot peppers.

8.30 MOVIE: Wayne’s World.

(PG, R) (1992) Two Illinois slacker friends try to promote their publicaccess cable TV show. Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe.

10.30 Wilfred. (M) (Final) 11.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 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 Be Your Own Boss. (M, R) 2.05 Foodie Planet. (PG, R) 3.05 Toughest Place To Be A… (M, R, CC) 4.05 Bunk. (PG, R) 4.35 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. (R) 4.40 The Pitch.

(M, R) 5.35 Brazil’s Next Top Model.

(PG, R) 6.30 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. (R) 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) Cartman infiltrates the NSA. 9.00 Cockroaches. (M) Tom assembles a team to raid a supermarket.

9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.00 Pizza. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Toast Of London. (MA15+, CC) 11.00 In Her Skin. (M) 12.40 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.40 MOVIE: The Moustache. (M, R) (2005) 3.10 Death Row. (M, R, CC) 4.10 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 25. Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Living Black Special: Eye Of The Storm.

(CC) 1.30 Lurujarri Dreaming. 2.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby League. 2014 Murri Carnival. 4.00 Money Power Respect. (M) 5.00 Te Kaea 2014.

5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant.

7.00 The Brush Sings. Artists paint images and stories of Western Arnhem Land.

7.30 Fit First. (PG) 8.00 Keeper. The comingof-age of an Aboriginal teenager.

8.30 Stockman’s Strategy.

(PG) 9.30 Sunny And The Dark Horse.

11.00 The Dream Of Love.

(PG, CC) 11.50 Custodians.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 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 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 News Update. 5.35 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 News Update. 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 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.25 ABC Open. (R) 2.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.25 ABC Open. (R) 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 1204

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) With romance all around you, it is hard to resist a little flirtation. Venus is flitting through this week and urging you to be cheeky and comehither. Flights of fancy aside, be aware that someone may take things far more seriously than you would like! Those who have a partner already find a flame being rekindled. A passionate time is ahead. At this time someone may try and get you to say a few words that you will regret.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) With love in the air it is not surprising that thoughts turn in this direction.

Perhaps you are being attracted towards someone with a little bit of experience and ‘old world’ charm. Listen to your heart rather than what others tell you.

Some chances come but once and, if not built on, can be fleeting. Decide what you really want. Look out for a chance to make a bit of extra cash this week. It may not seem like a long-term prospect but why not listen?

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Try to stay a bit sensible, however, as you may not want to upset a current relationship. Treading pastures new with a loved one reminds you of your childhood.

Certainly it is a week for counting the good things in your life. An offer on the work front may seem too good to be true, so check out the details.

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one you met quite recently may now be figuring large in your future plans. A few get-togethers with family and friends give a clearer picture. Don’t expect to please everyone, however. What matters is what you really want and think yourself. Someone older and wiser has the right idea. Choose your words carefully midweek to avoid an upset.

You may think that something is very black and white and can be acted on. Wait a minute! Don’t just listen to your own opinion when there are others to be had.

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Venus, bringer of love and harmony, now in your sign, get ready for some action! Your attraction is at a peak and it can be a surprise that you gain so much attention.

Well, sometimes modesty gets the better of you, Gemini. Still, as the great lover of the universe there is a reputation to protect.

Flash those eyes and those pearly whites.

Whatever you want this could be a good time to go for it. A link to the past that was holding you back has now gone.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Hopping and skipping around this week just shows your enthusiasm, Libra! Are you looking for love or thinking of putting your relationship on a higher footing? This is the time. Midweek brings an offer that is hard to refuse and why would you? The chance for some extra cash at the weekend is just what you need. Could it give that fresh start that you want? Certainly it wakes the imagination.

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It seems to be easier to manage the cash now as things even out. Midweek brings a bit extra, which is always useful.

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A mix-up or misunderstanding on the home front needs careful handling.

Even so, you cannot please everyone.

Open discussions are best. A different kind of passion hits you midweek, however.

Someone who intrigues you and sets your heart fluttering arrives. Unexpected, certainly, upsetting for sure.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) A feeling of urgency comes

up in a relationship. Could this be leading in a passionate direction?

Look to what happens midweek to give a clue. Plan the weekend so as to include younger relatives for some relaxation and good old-fashioned fun! With a New Moon set to influence you at the weekend, money matters are highlighted. If you don’t want to spend, then stick to your guns.

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20) A New Moon always means movement of some kind. You, Capricorn, could be making big decisions this week and moving things on fast. The input of a dynamic partner or friend certainly helps. Decisions may need to be made pretty fast. Give yourself time to remember what you are aiming for. Even so, do not over-think something that is, basically, very simple.

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Passion is pouring into your life right now. Although you may have to organise your time cleverly in order to get everything done, be sure not to miss out on any romantic opportunities. The effort that you put into your love life now can see you happy well into the future. Cash may be short but it can go a long way.

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ly warm glow is around you at this time. Although there are many questions in your mind and many desires left unquenched, there is a New Moon at the end of the week ahead. Will this show you the way ahead?

Again, more questions than answers. A bit of extra cash may be a flash in the pan but can be, even so, very useful.

Working with others brings fast results and is not as boring as expected.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

This continues to be a very romantic and inspiring year ahead for you, Aries. At last some of the things that you have often hoped for become reality. It just goes to show that you should never say never!

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share the day with US actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (above), 38. Just when you thought that you would settle for second best, Aries, you get a big surprise. Love and family matters bring about good and lasting changes. Work matters are more settled even if they seem dull at times.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with British actress Emma Watson (below) who turns 25. Increasingly you realise that you cannot fight fate. You are being given a chance to speak out and move on and the rest is really up to you, Aries. Look out for when to go along or when to step aside.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You are still in a position to go down your chosen path. I would never urge you to accept second best, Aries.

This is because I know that it is not something that would sit easy with you. Give it your best shot.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Aries, remember that anything worth having is worth working hard for. Seeing others give up should not stop you from having hope for yourself. Bring loved ones into your heart every day.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Never be too busy to spend time with loved ones, Aries. Whatever the demands on you in the months ahead, try to keep a balance. Looking after your health must be paramount for ideal energy.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Keeping one step ahead may mean getting some further education or, at least, getting the help of friends.

Aries, you can use your charm and patience to good effect here.

Have faith.

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