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Don’t cry for me, Argentina

Meet the surviving sons of a World War I veteran

Real time online demands challenge small business

Ron Stevens is reaping the rewards from his passion

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FROM THE EDITOR

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The last of our series: Letters home from young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid PAGE 12

Evita: the musical Don’t cry for me, Argentina PAGE 14

A family remembers Betty Walkom and her family remember “Pop” Tim Cox and his experience in Changi prison, PAGE 16

Profile Meet the surviving sons of a World War I veteran PAGE 20

Kim V. Goldsmith

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Poetry in motion Ron Stevens is reaping the rewards from his passion PAGE 54

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Remembering what we’re not supposed to forget HE further away we get from April 25, 1915, the more we seem to have co-opted the sacrifices of our “glorious fallen” for an increasingly idealised and jingoistic grab at the straw of national identity.

A century later, Anzac Day seems to have become more about us than them – and that’s not only understandable, given the passage of time, it’s also okay. As long as we remember that this is a day whose origins lie in solemn reflection and remembrance.

I could count on the fingers of one hand the times I’ve missed the Dawn Service over the past 30 years, but in recent times I’ve had a niggling distaste over the histrionic nationalism this sacred day has come to elicit.

It’s a sentiment shared by many a returned serviceman and woman, this growing notion that Anzac Day is a celebration rather than a commemoration.

Yes, it’s encouraging to see that even as the number of veterans dwindles, the crowds that turn out each year are growing. But it behoves the keepers of the Anzac faith to be mindful of exacerbating the disconnection brought by the passing of nigh on a century, and rendering superficial a solemn and dignified day of reflection. And I think it’s a grave mistake to cede to the temptation to give the growing crowds the ‘entertainment’ they seek and increasingly expect.

A century on, the day will of course now hold different meaning and insight for different people, but if we’re going to continue to observe this as a national day (and I firmly believe we should), can we at least be honest with each other about the inevitable change to what it represents?

The lead-up to this weekend’s Centenary of Anzac has been manna from heaven for marketing, and corporate Australia has been falling over itself to grab a lucrative slice of the national obsession with all things Anzac.

Is that really anything new? Retail giants like Woolworths and Target have been hauled through the court of public opinion, found guilty and soundly flayed in the media’s town square for their audacity in using our de-facto national day to sell their wares.

Are these campaigns opportunistic? Sure. The merchandise crass?

Absolutely. But is flogging Anzac Day stubby holders any more crass than spending a single day of the year professing our devotion to “freedom” and “mateship” and “egalitarianism” and adding “Lest We Forget” to every utterance and Facebook

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post, then forgetting for the other 364 days of the year what it is that we’re supposed to remember?

Is an “I (heart) Anzacs” t-shirt any more distasteful than sporting promoters hijacking the term Anzac to compare the exploits of a team of muddy footballers to the experience of those we apparently gather to honour on this sacred day? As if the on-field toughness of these sportsmen in any way compares with the courage of a terrified 19 year old dragging his screaming, mutilated mate through the blood and mud and fear of a Gallipoli trench?

Could the sale of a Spirit of Anzac hoodie be any more objectionable than Greens MP David Shoebridge saying people are entitled to an extra day off because Anzac Day falls on a Saturday this year?

“Most people don’t work on a Saturday so they won’t be getting the benefit of a day off to commemorate Anzac Day,” he said.

So, having Monday off would signify a more meaningful reflection than observing Anzac Day ON Anzac Day? It wouldn’t just be an excuse to take a long weekend and go camping? Gimme a break.

There’s a level of hypocrisy to ignoring any of this flagrant appropriation of the one day we all pretty much agree is the most sacred on our national calendar while howling our outrage over cunning marketers trying to climb aboard our bandwagon.

The growing engagement of youngsters in the maintenance of the “spirit of Anzac” is all very encouraging, as long as we continue to remind them – and ourselves – what it is we’re not supposed to forget when we say “Lest We Forget”.

For instance, that Anzac Day is a solemn occasion – a day of reflection, and that commemorating war dead should not be a spectator sport.

That the “fair go” ethos, and “egalitarianism” and (shudder) “mateship” are not just slogans to be trotted out with me-too predictability on April 25. Those admirable traits – you know, the ones like freedom that Australian service men and women apparently fought and continue to fight for – are just as valuable on all the other days of the year and not just when they’re applied to the social, political, ethnic or religious community that best reflects our own.

And we’re not supposed to forget that the bodies forever entombed in Australian-flag draped coffins should not still – nearly a century later – be rolling off those aircraft recently arrived from foreign climes.

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Is an “I (heart) Anzacs” t-shirt any more distasteful than sporting promoters hijacking the term Anzac to compare the exploits of a team of muddy footballers to the experience of those we apparently gather to honour on this sacred day?

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Commemoration not celebration

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

HIS year’s ANZAC ceremony will be more commemoration than celebration, according to Dubbo RSL Sub-Branch president Tom Gray, despite the fanfare that surrounds the centenary.

Gray’s ambition has been to make it special and he and fellow sub-branch members have worked closely with Dubbo Youth Council in their staging of this evening’s overnight sleepout which features a lineup of entertainment including live music and a film screening.

“I still think it’s a commemoration,” he said.

“The kids are taught more at school now so the youth have picked it up.”

As well as the sleep-out, there are a few special touches which will make the centenary of ANZAC stand out from other years.

“We have made 256 white crosses to represent the young men killed who came from the Dubbo area. That’s a lot when you consider that we had a population of just 5000 back then,” Gray said.

Another project, which was initiated by the Dubbo RSL Women’s Auxiliary, has been the creation and collection of thousands of red poppies which will be displayed at the Victoria Park Cenotaph this weekend. A community tribute of respect and remembrance, 5000 Poppies has spread like wildfire across the nation.

The local aim was to have one poppy for every Dubbo soldier who fell during World War I as well as those who returned home following their service, totalling more than 2000.

Dubbo RSL Women’s Auxiliary publicity officer Elizabeth Allen said that target had been reached with the help of various community and sporting groups

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Lest we Forget: Members of the Dubbo RSL Women’s Auxiliary (in red) and Dubbo RSL Sub-Branch (in blue) with just some of the floral tribute created as part of the 5000 Poppies project. Pictured is Lee Davis, Greg Jankowski, Marie Willmot, Tom Gray, Maggie May, Larry Furminger and Elizabeth Allen. PHOTO: NATALIE HOLMES

scattered around the city, along with individual contributions.

“We are delighted with the result,” she told Weekender.

“The ANZAC spirit is certainly there, so many people wanted to do it.”

Many participants, including Allen herself, have found a personal connection between their efforts to support the campaign and their own lives.

Through her own research, Allen discovered that a cousin of hers had actually served in the war, something of which she’d been previously unaware.

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Brigadier Kathryn Campbell, Commander of the 5th Brigade will also be the special guest speaker on the day along with a display of the book of Remembrance.

The RSL Sub-Branch are also active for more than just one day of the year, offering assistance and financial support to returned service men and women and their families during times of need.

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The ladies of the women’s auxiliary presented the end result of many hours of hard work creating the poppies to RSL sub-branch representatives late last week.

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Upper House mix makes for strange bedfellows

BY JEN COWLEY, WITH AAP HUNTER, an animal rights activist and a reverend walk into the NSW Upper House... stop us if you’ve heard this one.

The final make-up of the 56th parliament’s Legislative Council was declared late last week, confirming Mark Pearson from the Animal Justice Party along with Christian Democrats leader Reverend Fred Nile and the Shooters and Fishers Party’s Robert Borsak will take their seats on the cross-benches.

The combination might sound like the opening line of a joke, but the serious business of legislative power is no laughing matter, particularly for the re-elected Baird Coalition government whose controversial electricity network leasing plans – and funding for the bulk of its election promises – depend on safe passage of the legislation through the upper house.

Eighty year old Nile is kicking off another eight year term and has said he expects to support the government’s “poles and wires” plan, but only after assessing its merits through the process of a parliamentary inquiry.

While the government seems quietly confident of the support of the Shooters and Fishers Party’s returning representative Borsak, rookie politician Pearson is already making noises of opposition, telling media the electricity privatisation plan isn’t “signed, sealed and delivered”.

“To privatise something which is an essential need is very dangerous,” he said.

Pearson narrowly edged out micro-party No Land Tax for the final Upper House spot, and that party’s head honcho Peter Jones is none too pleased, vowing to “head straight to court” to challenge the entire election result.

But Jones might yet have to fight a war on two fronts, with revelations last week the No Land Tax Party had at that stage yet to pay the workers they recruited with the promise of remuneration to man booths and hand out how-to-vote cards on election day.

Veteran MLC and leader of the government in the Upper House, the Nationals’ Duncan Gay isn’t particularly fazed, as far as the potential passage of legislation is concerned, by the incoming micro-party representative.

“Look, it’s disappointing,” he told Weekender. “We would like to have got our tenth spot up, but it’s going to make no difference in getting legislation through in this term. We have better numbers this time around.”

Gay, who retained his portfolio as Roads Minister, says he’s prepared to work with anyone to ensure the passage of legislation through the Upper House.

“I will try to work with the minor parties where I can, but there are obviously some areas where I just can’t work with them – and we’ll look for other “friends” in those areas. There’s always concern that we’ll have to concede on important points, but these things are always a matter of dialogue – 99 per cent of something you want is always better than 100 per

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cent of nothing.”

The issue arguably most likely to bring the Nats and their new “colleague” from the Animal Justice Party to political blows is farming and animal husbandry.

Among other issues an animal rights party might be expected to raise – including closing puppy “mills” and addressing the so-called “ag gag” laws – Pearson intends to put factory farming firmly on the agenda, and says he’s “happy to work with any member of parliament to fight the good fight for animals”. He’s also flagged an intention to see shooting banned in the state’s national parks.

That’s unlikely to go down well with Borsak and his party colleague Robert Brown, but the newly appointed MLC says he hasn’t ruled out co-operating with the Shooters and Fishers duo. Just moments after his berth in the parliament was confirmed, the Shooters party sent what many interpreted as a tongue-in-cheek Twitter message to Pearson, saying “We look forward to working with Animal Justice Party to promote (the) vital role conservation hunting plays in protecting native animals.”

Pearson says he intends to “change their mind on that point”, and is similarly confident the pair, along with the Christian Democrats under Reverend Nile, will be supportive of his planned bill aimed at phasing out factory farming.

He might have a tougher time with Duncan Gay, himself a sheep grazier, who says it’s “not fear, it’s fact” that Pearson has come to the parliament “to attack conventional farming”.

“He’ll be gunning for people who have invested large amounts of money on the very best principles and practices that have been ticked off (as sound) by RSPCA and governments – in particular, people with laying hens and so forth, who have met all the requirements they’ve asked for and have used their own finances or borrowed money to do it. Suddenly these people want to change the rules.”

Newly anointed Nationals State Director, Nathan Quigley – who hails from Trangie – is similarly wary of the Animal Justice Party’s agenda, and scathing of the process of preference deals that put Pearson on the Upper House cross benches.

“It’s a bit of a travesty. He was elected with a significant flow of preferences and while the Greens have

There’s always concern that we’ll have to concede on important points, but these things are always a matter of dialogue – 99 per cent of something you want is always better than 100 per cent of nothing.” – Duncan Gay, Leader of the Government in the NSW Legislative Council

been running all over country areas for the past four years saying they’re a friend of farmers, they then swing their preferences to the Animal Justice Party, which has an anti-farming agenda.

“They freely admit they’d like everyone to be vegetarians so I think the people of country NSW, those who did vote for the Greens, have been cheated. It’s a continuing example of how these shady preference deals between the minor parties can end up with perverse result once the votes are tallied.”

That Pearson has said he’s prepared to work with the Shooters and Fishers is, Quigley says, an indication of shifting principles.

“It indicates that when push comes to shove in the Upper House a lot of people will throw away their principles at a heartbeat to get a deal done.”

Including the Nats?

“Not at all,” says the party’s state director. “We have proven that on most occasions we work with the Shooters and Fishers and with the Christian Democrats because we have more in common with them than we do with the Greens and Labor. For the same reason, we are unlikely to work with this Animal Justice fellow so much because his views are not aligned with ours.”

Quigley says the Nationals have a good working relationship with Nile and the CDP. “I think they understand that we do play politics fairly; we won’t always agree with them but in the end we treat them with respect.”

Although the make-up of the Upper House this time around throws up the prospect of some strange bedfellows, Quigley is confident in the ability of the Coalition to implement its policy agenda.

“The Legislative Council has a lag based on how it went in the last two elections. We have two good elections under our belt now, so we have more numbers – that means we only have to work with the Christian Democrats or the Shooters and Fishers to get legislation through.”

For his part, Duncan Gay is none too fond of microparties, but he’s reserving judgement on Pearson the person.

“It can all depend on the personality of the person who’s elected, and to be fair, I don’t know this bloke.

But that’s the problem – I suspect no-one else knows him either.

“People might share (with Pearson) a view on animal rights, but they have no idea what he stands for on a whole range of social and economic issues.

“I noticed he’s reported as saying he’s not going to support the leasing of poles and wires; that’s his choice but people are voting for him and wouldn’t have an idea of whether he will support it or not. That’s the risk people run when they vote for someone who might be in a koala suit or standing beside a car or beside a tree with a fishing rod – if you don’t know who they are and what they stand for you should be very careful in voting for them.”

For the record, Pearson says the Animal Justice Party is “not a single-issue party”.

“It’s a single-purpose party.”

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

Grant pleased with crime stats ESPITE a 22.5 per cent rise in break and enters in the region, police minister and Dubbo MP Troy Grant is pleased with the latest Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released this week.

He said the electorate was faring well in the fight against crime, with the latest data painting a positive picture for the region.

“BOCSAR reports some of the most serious offences – like robbery, sexual assault and car theft – have remained stable, while some are also falling,” Grant said.

“This reduction is great news and I thank the community for behaving themselves and looking after one another.

“However, we are also seeing a rise in the number of break and enter incidents to non-dwellings throughout the electorate.

“I’m concerned at the 22.5 per cent rise in these incidents across the Far West and Orana statistical area and I will be working with Local Area Com-

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mands, councils and local business owners to discuss ways to work through this.”

According to NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, 16 of the 17 major offence categories are either stable or falling, with break and enters on the rise across the state.

Dubbo’s broadband footprint set to expand THOUSANDS of Dubbo residents and business owners are one step closer to the reality of fast broadband, with work set to begin in coming weeks.

“The rollout of the NBN continues to gather momentum throughout New South Wales which means more families and businesses are a step closer to being able to benefit from access to fast broadband,” NBN Co spokesperson Darren Rudd said.

“For people in rural and regional areas, NBN will provide access to internet speeds and bandwidth that many in the big cities take for granted.”

Widespread rain welcomed in the west...

WHILE our coastal cousins copped the brunt of wild weather bringing wind and rain, Dubbo and surrounds had a gentler experience of this week’s precipitation. Dubbo received 28mm and Parkes 25mm, while Wellington reached 50mm and to the west, Trangie received a whopping 68mm. Farmers who sowed winter crops on the back of last week’s rain welcomed the follow-up drenching, while those yet to start sowing will no doubt begin as soon as their paddocks are dry enough. Meanwhile, the Macquarie Region SES has provided a number of incident management staff to assist with efforts in the Hunter region.

But...drought support extended for rural communities A drop of rain is not quite enough in some areas of the state, including Dubbo, with an injection of additional funding a welcome announcement for Interrelate’s drought support services.

Cobar, Warren, Walgett and Dubbo will benefit from the funding.

Central West area manager Anne Heath is pleased to be able to continue supporting the local area.

“Interrelate is strongly committed to supporting the drought-affected communities that have been facing ongoing hardships for an extended period of time and we know the toll it can take on individuals, families, relationships and communities,” she said.

Passenger numbers flying high DUBBO City Regional Airport has reported its highest total of passengers for the month of March with 2015 numbers soaring to 16,897.

Airport operations manager Lindsay Mason said the result indicates the strength of regional aviation.

“Already passenger numbers for the financial year are up nearly four per cent on 2013/2014, which is an indicator of the strength of regional aviation and support Council’s ongoing investment in the airport.”

Solar plant all finished THE last of 1.36 million solar photovoltaic modules have been installed at the AGL Solar Plant at Nyngan.

AGL managing director and CEO Andy Vesey visited the site and installed the final modules. He was impressed by progress.

“The Nyngan Solar Plant is an extremely impressive facility on both an Australian and world scale. I am proud to be able to mark this milestone and also see about half the plant now online and delivering clean, renewable energy into the grid.

“We are pleased to be adding to AGL’s and Australia’s portfolio of renewable energy generation and assets.”

Mathew Dickerson, Darren Rudd and Mark Coulton were proud to officially start the NBN construction in Dubbo. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

Land rezone proposal for preschool expansion WITH plans to expand Dubbo and Dis-

trict Preschool, Dubbo City Council’s proposal to rezone the land adjacent to the facility is now on public display.

Community feedback on the potential rezoning of land in Bultje Street and part of Daphne Park is encouraged to enable Council to make a final determination.

“The current zoning does not permit childcare centre developments,” Council’s city strategy services manager Tony Aikins said.

“Therefore, in order to accommodate any proposed future extensions, rezoning of the land is required.

“Daphne Park is Crown Land which Dubbo City Council has care and control of and the proposed rezoning will not impact public access to the existing play equipment in Daphne Park.”

Great Western Plains boosted THE Great Western Plains, Great Big Adventures program has received $120,000 as part of the NSW Regional Visitor Economy Fund.

The funding will be used to instigate a major visitor campaign using television advertising supported by digital media to increase destination appeal and boost visitor numbers to the region in 2015.

The funding forms part of a $21.6 million commitment by the NSW Government to the Regional Visitor Economy Fund over three years.

Mount Panorama receives dual name MOUNT PANORAMA will now also be known as Wahluu after the NSW Geographical Names Board approved a proposal from the Bathurst Local Aboriginal Land Council for a dual name.

Geographical Names Board chair Des Mooney said the dual naming meant the area could be referred to by either name.

“Under the provisions of Section 10 of the Geographical Names Act 1966, Wahluu was assigned as a dual name for the geographical feature already named Mount Panorama in the Bathurst Local Government Area,” he said.

“A dual naming does not intend for one name to take precedence over the other.

“It does however allow either name to be used.”

Wiradjuri Elder Dinawan Dyirribang, also known as Bill Allen, said Wahluu means young man’s initiation place.

“Wahluu was the name of a young Wiradjuri warrior who was killed by his older brother Ganhabula in a dispute over a migay (young unmarried woman),” he said.

“When he was killed by his brother he fell to the ground – blood flowed over the ground and into the cracks of the earth which then made Biame (Wiradjuri word for God) very angry.

“He made a volcano erupt and lava spewed out flowing over Wahluu’s body.

This is the shape of the mountain as it stands today.

“This is a moral story about jealousy and envy and how wrong it is to kill.

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Ruth McAnally has received a certificate and the congratulations of the State Government for her efforts on Graffiti Removal Day.

Wahluu is part of a three brothers’ creation story that connects with Mount Canobolas in Orange and Mount Macquarie in Carcoar.

“Wahluu has been the name for thousands of years and today Wahluu is still seen as an initiation place for young men,” he said.

“It is used today by a number of other tribes including Ford and Holden, which come here every October and February, when young drivers are guided by their elders to navigate the track to complete their challenge.”

The naming decision has been welcomed by the Wiradjuri Council of Elders who have waged a tireless campaign for decades.

Protesters take to the road

Monument to the ANZACs

A DISCO and freestyle motocross performance were part of the fun of the 2015 Youth Week events cohosted by Narromine Shire Council, the Narromine Local Aboriginal Land Council, Narromine United Services Memorial Club and National Youth Week.

Last Friday, more than 450 children and youth converged on Dundas Oval Narromine for the Rampt Mini FMX freestyle motocross performance, sausage sizzle and autograph signings. Bj Kelly and his team were put to the test when 400 youth lined up for a personally signed poster.

A NEW monument to the ANZACs has been unveiled just in time for this weekend’s centenary commemoration.

The structure in Victoria Park is dedicated to 100 years of our Anzacs 1914 – 1919 by the Western Districts sub-branch by all national servicemen and those who died in training and those in conflict.

Anglican Bishop Ian Palmer performed a blessing of the new monument last weekend.

COAL seam gas protesters claimed the Newell Highway as their own last Sunday to show their opposition to the proposal.

People in everything from Kombie vans to tents bore signs in what they described as the ‘longest roadside protest’ from Dubbo to Chinchilla in Queensland.

Organiser Nicole Hunter from Coonabarabran said the Lock the Gate Alliance wanted to send a message to the government that they haven’t given up their goal of protecting water, land and families from coal seam gas.

DUBBO resident Ruth McAnally has had her name added to those taking a stand against graffiti and vandalism in the community by co-ordinating Graffiti Removal Day efforts in Dubbo, Bourke and Broken Hill.

She has received a certificate and the congratulations of the State Government.

“The day was a great success and was widely supported,” Dubbo MP Troy Grant said.

Graffiti and vandalism is an issue across Dubbo and the state that costs the government and local communities millions of dollars each year.

“I am proud to acknowledge Ruth McAnally who made an outstanding effort as a volunteer on the last Graffiti Removal Day and I thank her for her hard work and dedication,” he said.

Graffiti Removal Day was established by the NSW Government as a state-wide event. Graffiti vandalism is a crime and significantly affects community and individuals.

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Captain Barnacle to surface at the library FANS of the children’s television show Octonauts are in for a treat when Captain Barnacle visits the Dubbo branch of Macquarie Regional Library at 4pm on Tuesday April 28.

In their new live show Captain Barnacle and his colourful crew are on a mission to save our Great Barrier Reef and this will be the only opportunity for Dubbo fans to meet Captain Barnacle.

Captain Barnacle and his crew will visit Dubbo again in the Octonauts Live: Operation Reef Shield, appearing at Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre in June.

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PETA twisting the truth Re: Cruelling an industry that rides on the sheep’s back – Weekender 17/04/15 I thank Natalie Holmes for writing the article on the sheep industry.

I have not seen the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) article but have read comments in other media and it is so disappointing to think that somebody can write “25 per cent of the world’s wool comes from Australia and it’s made from 100 per cent cruelty”. That is not truth and the images that have been shown are just distorted and fake. Wool is a superior fibre so Aussies and woolgrowers can be proud to count the enterprise as an extremely valuable Primary Industry.

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differently if there had been an Australian Muslim on the panel.

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BY ELLA MCMILLAN AN STUDENT

Good question DURING Q&A’s Monday night airing on ABC, @JoelStanton tweeted “Finally, #qanda gives a voice to a group of middle-class white people on the topic of Islam.” He’s got a point.

The panel boasted Derryn Hinch, Anna Burke, Dave Hughes, Jane Burns and Andrew Robb, to which the first “question” was “We need Australian Muslims to take a litmus test.

Do they denounce the jihad? Do they denounce the caliphate?” I’m wondering if it would’ve been phrased

Most-used emojis revealed ACCORDING to PC Mag, the international languages of love and music have nothin’ on emojis.

So if someone were to conduct an analysis on your most used, would you let them? Apparently Australia shouldn’t have. In its first emoji report, SwiftKey revealed the top 60 based on usage.

We came out on top for the most common use of alcoholrelated emojis, also scoring the highest for drugs, holidays and junk food. Aussie Aussie Aussie... euw euw euw.

The release of the study could also be an attempted cover-up of the fact that it’s taken a million dollar company years to release racially diverse emojis.

Chicken left IN the world’s most bizarre lawsuit (okay, there’s no shortage of those), actress

Mila Kunis is reportedly being sued for stealing a woman’s chicken 25 years ago.

Yes you read that correctly. The woman’s claim that Kunis stole her pet chicken when they were childhood friends in Ukraine, have left some people wondering if it’s all to get media attention.

If so, I guess it’s working.

What’s worse is the chicken’s name was Doggie. But wait, it just keeps getting better.

Suer Kristina Karo is a singer whose music video titled “Give Me Green Card” has surfaced. I’m calling chicken poop on this one.

Honouring the Anzacs A GROUP of students from a remote Central Australian community has ridden 130km horseback in honour of the Indigenous servicemen of World War I. The group even helped tame the wild brumbies, those very similar to the horses used in the WWI Light Brigade.

Culminating with the Anzac Day parade in Alice

Springs they’ll ride in the march wearing replica uniforms. Closer to home, the Dubbo City Youth Council’s Anzac Centenary Sleep-out will also be held this weekend, commemorating the 100th anniversary. Keeping the spirit alive.

Degrees galore THE ABC’s Four Corners has been said to have “unearthed alarming new evidence of a decline in academic standards” in their Degrees of Deception investigative episode.

The show explored reasons behind the fall saying as government funding decreases, various institutions face pressure to fill the financial gap.

But is it really so much of a surprise?

Currently there are many pathways to university and it’s certainly not as difficult to get accepted, and aided by a thriving plagiarism blackmarket, it’s not that hard to fake it ‘til you make it either.

In saying that, instead of pointing the finger at unethical students, maybe take a look at who’s letting them get away with it.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber

Tony Webber is an Australian citizen who bears neither Bambi nor Bishop Tutu any grudge.

Pop dross brings back to life acid wash jeans and Sir Paul NJUSTICE and cruelty abound but seldom does a sensory affront strike home with the impact of our topic here today.

Rihanna and Kanye West’s latest song is an unrivalled stinker, and for the benefit of mankind we must confront this monster.

Now you’re probably thinking there is putrefying filth in the bottom of people’s fridges that has contributed more to society than my feeble achievements, which extend little beyond a collection of empty beers bottles the size of a Mayan pyramid.

This may well be, but few pop culture offerings rake the nerves with the cold claws of half-hearted mediocrity as flagrantly as Rihanna and West’s “Four Five Seconds”.

And whether by car radio or gym backing track, this appalling tribute to artistic indifference is everywhere.

In fact you get the feeling you could not pass wind in a Belarusian wheat field without activating some remote sensor that would bring this loathsome abomination to one’s ears.

And you might say that compared with the rest of the pop dross doing the rounds Four Five Seconds is hardly remarkable.

Hardly remarkable? It features a geriatric ex-Beatle in Paul McCartney playing guitar for a start.

It is hard to say whose reputation suffers most by Sir Paul’s appearance.

True, it drives a stolen car through the shopfront window of McCartney’s legacy, but employing Mr Mull of Kintyre – who also did “we all live in a yellow submarine” – does little to restore the street cred of his co-performers either to a fan base likely born post Cuban missile crisis.

But there’s more: all three wear acid washed denim, a garment that even the trend-desperate 1980s quickly rejected as too hideous.

To her credit Rihanna wears actual pants, thereby breaking with her practice of performing mostly naked while

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A still from the film clip "Four Five Seconds" by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney. PHOTO: YOUTUBE

presenting for penetration.

Of course in keeping with film clip custom, the only people not dressed as blow-up sex dolls are the males, while Rihanna’s gaping shirt leaves her resembling the victim of a group assault who encountered a cyclone on her way home.

The lyrics are an obscure menagerie of nonsense that, when briefly coherent, suggest 9-to-5 angst and finding relief in drunkenness.

At this point Mr West beseeches his beloved to post bail should he end up in jail, though his prediction that as-yet unspecified behavior on his part could

be sufficiently criminally serious as to warrant incarceration should be reason enough for Rihanna to button her shirt and spend the bail money on a taxi to her mother’s place for the night.

The film clip itself is of the skeletonbudget crap style that David Bowie and Mick Jagger pioneered in their naked grab for easy money otherwise remembered as the single Dancing in the Street, which saw the foppish millionaires prancing in outfits rejected by an op-shop for clowns, in a low-rent video that displayed all the imagination needed to urinate in the shower, and cost about as much.

At one stage he grabs his crotch, a move made infamous by the late Michael Jackson, who presumably only did it so that he could truthfully say an adult hand had touched his genitals.

In Four Five Seconds our trio – who between them and their respective record labels would have looted more money from the music-loving public than the conquistadors stole from South America – cavort stiffly in a video clip produced for less than the price of an overnight stay in a West Wyalong motel.

Finally in Kanye’s dancing we discover the first Afro-American performer in history who is devoid of any rhythm whatsoever.

His anguished writhing resembles a man in a full body plaster cast caught in a cement mixer with a hint of the panicstricken robot from Lost in Space.

At one stage he grabs his crotch, a move made infamous by the late Michael Jackson, who presumably only did it so that he could truthfully say an adult hand had touched his genitals.

It is possible Mr West does so in the hope that squeezing his testicles will take his mind off his part in this tribute to creative stagnation, an impulse I share upon hearing it.

Are bees getting hooked on pesticides?

2015 CHEMICAL LIFE

PARIS: Like nicotine for humans, certain pesticides seem to hold an addictive attraction for bees, which seek out tainted food even if it may be bad for them, research shows.

Not only did bees show no signs of avoiding neonicotinoidlaced food in lab tests, they seemed to prefer it, said a study published on Wednesday in the science journal Nature.

“We now have evidence that bees prefer to eat pesticide-con-

taminated foods,” study author Geraldine Wright of Newcastle University in the UK said.

This suggests, she said, “that like nicotine, neonicotinoids may act like a drug to make foods containing these substances more rewarding”.

Neonicotinoids are lab-synthesised pesticides based on the

chemical structure of nicotine.

They are widely used to treat crop seeds – designed to be absorbed by the growing plant and attack the nervous system of insect pests.

Previous research, however, has linked them to scrambling memory and navigation function in bees, affecting

the pollinators’ ability to forage.

Bees have been hit in Europe, North America and elsewhere by a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder”, which has alternatively been blamed on mites, a virus or fungus, pesticides, or a combination of factors.

Bees account for 80 per cent of plant pollination by insects – a function estimated to be worth at least $US153 billion ($A198 billion) a year globally.

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HISTORY.

Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

From Gallipoli, A Dubbo son’s This is the final of Weekender’s five part series of excerpts from “letters home” from young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid. After taking his fateful first steps onto the shores of Gallipoli, Jack is injured by a Turkish bullet. As we prepare for tomorrow’s commemorations of the centenary of Anzac, we share Jack’s thoughts on his homecoming, and his heartfelt note to the parents of the man who saved his life.

A lucky escape FTER a Turkish bullet finds its mark, wounding Jack, the young Dubbo soldier is sent to recover in hospital in Alexandria, in Egypt.

From his bed, he tells his parents of his lucky escape.

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From hospital in Alexandria May 10, 1915 HIS morning I received your cable message, and was very pleased. Now to continue my story. I was taken on board the troopship Ionian, and was very pleased of the opportunity to get to bed, as I was very tired. The boat remained in the harbour waiting to collect the wounded, but early on Tuesday morning the Turks began to fire upon the ships in the harbour, and as the Ionian was in peril of being struck, the anchor was instantly weighed, and the boat went full steam ahead for Alexandria, at which port we arrived on Friday, April 30, and were taken in motor cars to the hospital, where I've been ever since. It is a big military hospital, run by the Royal Army Medical Corps, and each ward is under the charge of a nursing sister. The doctor said I was lucky, for if I had been hit an inch lower I would have been killed outright. It is only a matter of time now for (the wound) to heal and, as cases that take some time for recovery are being sent to England, it is quite probable that I shall get a trip to the homeland. I shall be allowed up in a few days' time, which should aid my appetite, though I'm eating very well even now.

I have just had a remarkable coincidence, for the lad who has been in the bed next to mine for the last four days turns out to be an old acquaintance whom I had met over three years ago in Cobar.

His name is Roy Smith, and he was shot in both legs. We exchanged many Cobar reminiscences,

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The doctor said I was lucky, for if I had been hit an inch lower I would have been killed outright.

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and laughed over many incidents until my head fairly split again.

Yesterday's message was received from Lord Kitchener, saying how much the Government appreciated our gallant work, and asking for the number of wounded in hospital in Egypt. This afternoon Lord Dudley, the late Governor-General of Australia, paid as a visit. He was in the uniform of a Lieutenant-Colonel of the army, and said he was taking a command in the Australian army. He sat on my bed and chatted away quite pleasantly. It's not every day you get a real live lord sitting on your bed.

When you reply I would like you to send some Sydney papers, as the Egyptian papers do not give much detail of the fighting at the Dardanelles. Remember me to all friends.

“A true hero” FROM his hospital bed, Jack pens a letter to the parents of his mate, Les Dinning, whom he credits with saving his life – this is an excerpt from that letter:

May, 11, 1915 T seemed as if the sun would never set. Late in the afternoon our position was repeatedly peppered with shrapnel. A piece tore a hole thro' the side of my boot & passed into the sole without touching my foot, while a poor fellow alongside me was hit twice and fatally wounded.

Our company suffered heavily. Captain McGuire, the OC, was killed, the four platoon commanders wounded, all the sergeants disabled and many of the men wounded.

There was a short lull in the fighting at the close of the day, and we immediately began to entrench ourselves.

Les and I had been separated all day, and we now got together. Les had received a bullet through his upper arm and I now bandaged it up for him.

Fortunately for me, I survived the first day without as much as a scratch. We dug a hole with our entrenching tools and stuck to it through the night. The Turks under cover of the darkness advanced as close as 20 or 30 yards to our trenches, and we could only locate them by the flash from the muzzles of their rifles; and when they

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with love letters home

I look forward to the day when I shall again be able to clasp his hand. He is a true hero. got close enough we opened a heavy fire point blank and drove them back with the bayonet inflicting heavy losses.

About 5 o'clock Monday afternoon, reinforcements were asked for on the left flank, and Les and I with a number of others, went ‘round, and an officer led us to where the Turks were making a special effort to break through. We had scarcely knelt down behind some bushes when I was shot, the bullet passing through the right side of my head above the ear and towards the back of the head.

It was accompanied by no pain and I did not lose consciousness. The blood flowed freely, I was breathing heavily and was prepared to give up the ghost. I called out “It is the end Les, good-bye”.

Strange to say the thought occurred to me that by dying then I left my life incomplete. There seemed to be a big break between this barren peninsula and home and friends.

Les came over immediately and applied my field dressing. And although I was insisting that it was no use, he put my arm round his neck and carried me back. Bullets were still whistling, over so we dropped behind a bush. Les then took of my puttee and bound it around my head. I was feeling a bit groggy, but managed to keep my feet.

We went down a gully towards the beach, where a hospital base had been established. We met one of the Red Cross and he bound my head afresh.

The fact that I remained conscious was reassuring, and I began to think that while there was life there was hope. On reaching the beach, a doctor dressed my head and we were given Bovril to drink.

The wounded were being taken in naval boats to the troopships. As I said goodbye to Les, I felt as if I were deserting him. He had undoubtedly saved my life by his promptness in rendering first aid and in getting me quickly to the base and by doing which he had risked his own life. I pray to God that he may be protected from the dangers of the battlefield for he deserves it, and I look forward to the day when I shall again be

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able to clasp his hand. He is a true hero.

With best wishes, I remain, Yours sincerely Jack Reid.

Coming home MORE than a year after being wounded at Gallipoli, Jack is finally on his way home to Australia.

Themistocles at Sea May 29, 1916 On Monday, May 8, about 600 of us left our camp at Weymouth, and proceeded by train to Portland, where we embarked on the boat for Australia. All doubts were then finally settled, and I got a pal of mine to send you a cable, announcing my departure from England.

"A fair breeze blew, the while foam flew, the furrow followed free" – we were on the deep blue sea, and Merry England had disappeared astern below our horizon.

In passing through the danger zone every precaution was taken-lifebelts were worn, the boats were swung in readiness over the side, and the muzzle of a 4.7 gun gazed astern, and promised a warm reception to any marauding submarine.

I believe one did actually show itself astern of us, and it is evident that we had a narrow escape, for we heard by wireless of the torpedoing of the White Star liner Symrie a few hours after it had passed us.

The time passes quickly enough, mainly in eating and sleeping, between which I sandwich an interesting book or a game of bridge or dominoes.

We passed within some miles of the Canary Islands, the summits of which

were lost to view in the clouds; over the sides were dotted white specks, which, through the glasses, appeared as picturesque white houses, as if some giant hand had scattered them here, there and everywhere amid the dark green patches of banana plantations and orange groves. Our first port of call was Dakar, the capital of French Senegal.

We didn't get ashore. We were chiefly interested in the dusky natives, who came round the ship in canoes, but had nothing more inviting to sell than fresh fish, which was a very poor show in comparison to the eatables procurable over the side at Colombo and Suez. We soon lost sight of land on leaving Dakar, and day after day the scenery remained much of a sameness, except for a variety in the colour of the seas and the sunsets.

There are a couple of other old Dubboites known to me on board – WS Kelk and Eric Woodall.

Yesterday we sighted Table Mountain (Cape Town, South Africa), and from there on have hugged the coast for Durban. The coastline rises in a succession of peaks, many of which are so exalted as to wear a halo of clouds. We arrive at Durban to-night, and as the Themistocles is to coal we will probably be allowed ashore for the day.

We are all anxiously awaiting the chance to stretch our legs on land again.

As the northern constellations disappeared below the horizon we all watched with interest for the appearance of the Southern Cross, which is our first link with home. It has now been shining above us for over a week. A few more weeks now, and I'll be home again, when I'll have much news, to hear and many tales of my wanderings to tell.

I'm afraid I'm returning more as a tourist than a soldier, for I'll have more tales to tell of sightseeing than of the fighting line – such is the fortune of war.

The Great Australian Bight June 18, 1916 The voyage across the Indian Ocean was most enjoyable, and gave the lie to the evil foreboding of the inevitable pessimists, who will look for rough seas and bad weather ahead. Last Tuesday afternoon we arrived at Fremantle, and had our first glimpse of Australia. The West Australians went ashore, and we were bombarded by the crowd on the wharf with oranges and apples. The same evening the pilot towed us out, and we continued on the even tenor of our way.

We learned there for the first time of the mined Hampshire and the loss of Lord Kitchener. His unexpected and untimely death came as a great shock to us.

We are due to gaze upon the lights of Melbourne and to smell the Yarra on Sunday night. As the boat has to unload cargo there we will probably have to remain two or three days, unless we are sent overland to Sydney, which is considered unlikely.

On arrival at Sydney I have no further hospital treatment to receive, and will be allowed home on furlough almost immediately. I've enjoyed very good health during the whole voyage, and should land feeling and looking well.

I'm afraid I'm returning more as a tourist than a soldier, for I'll have more tales to tell of sightseeing than of the fighting line – such is the fortune of war.

When I come to balance my experiences abroad – the pleasures and pains, the joys and sorrows, excitements and dullness, contentment and worries, smiles and frowns – I find I have had a jolly good time, and can draw unlimited dividends of happiness. I'm glad to be coming home.

» Weekender would like to thank noted local historian Sandra Smith for her help and guidance in allowing us to share Jack’s story. Lest we forget.

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FEATURE.

Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Don’t cry for me, Argentina The multi award winning Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical, Evita is a legend in its own right, and is sure to delight Dubbo audiences when the Dubbo Theatre Company takes to the stage this weekend, and next, to breath new life into the story of historical and controversial figure, Eva Péron. WORDS Yvette Aubusson Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Kristie Klaassens F you’ve ever seen the movie Evita, starring Madonna, you’ll be familiar with the character, Ché, who acts as a voice of reason and doubt in the leading lady’s contradictory life.

His name means “dude” and although the character was originally modeled on the Marxist rebel, Ché Guevara, local talent Allyn Smith, who takes on the role for the Dubbo Theatre Company’s performances this weekend, is tonguein-cheek-quick to point out audiences may see a resemblance between his onstage presence and the movie’s counterpart, Antonio Banderas.

Antonio is in a smoldering Latin American league of his own but Smith’s rendition – if past performances are anything to go by – will deliver a stellar appearance as Ché.

“Ché is like the narrator of the show.

He’s neutral but more than that. He doesn’t like Evita. He’s like the Everyman who tells the story through his actions as an observer,” says Smith.

Evita’s director, Chris Bray explains.

“Ché offers critical comment on Evita’s leadership. He’s like her conscience.

Her pulls her up and makes her think.

Sometimes he’s external to the story and sometimes internal to the story.”

The Dubbo Theatre Company has been rehearsing for the short local season of Evita for 12 weeks and the principal singers, Allyn Smith (Ché), Jo Gibb (Evita) and Greg Markwick (Juan Péron), since last November.

“Evita has blown out the voices of so many who have sung the role night after night. The musical requires a woman who is a star vehicle and we have that in Jo. We have someone who can sustain this role – she sings for an hour and a half,” says Bray.

Gibb says to prepare for her role she has sung the whole show through at least twice, every day.

“I’ve had lots of help with Lindy Blekemore (vocal director) and Di Pascoe (musical director) and my good friend Krystal Macbeth has had me over at her place and she’s hammered out some of the songs on her piano so I could get in extra practice.

“It’s a very challenging show vocally and I’m hitting notes I never thought I could hit – I’m surprising myself as well as those around me who have only heard me sing alto – I’m loving this show. I’ve enjoyed growing as a vocalist,” she says.

“The musical is fabulous and widely regarded as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s best,” says Bray. “It is more mature and sophisticated than Cats and Jesus Christ Super Star. It’s a fabulous musical.”

The lead singers agree it’s a musical which, like Eva Péron (Evita), packs a punch.

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“It’s a very rich musical. It tells a story of a very powerful individual and a powerful life,” suggests Smith. “Evita was a leader in her own right, even though she wasn’t’ elected, in a time when women were not given the same stature as men. She defied that and the musical absolutely captures her defiance. It praises her in one way, saying yes she was amazing but she wasn’t perfect, suspected of wrong doings.

Although it’s based on Evita’s life, the musical is a fiction.”

Many of the facts of Evita, born Maria Eva Duarte’s, fairy tale life as Argentina’s 1950s First Lady, are well documented but a halo of legend surrounds her story.

Even from the 1970s perspective when an album of songs was released before the musical was built around them, her tale has been a source of endless fascination.

At its core is the doubt of whether she earned her popular “saint” status from the Argentinian people or if she prised it from their gullible, insular lives in a brilliant piece of political manipulation.

“She was one of the first women to have political power in South America,” says Bray. “She had so many sides to her. What drove her to achieve those things? Was it power or a genuine love for Argentina? That’s the fascination with her story.

“She got women the right to vote and did a lot of work with the unions. She was dubbed the Queen of Hearts and she is very similar in that way to Princess Diana. When she died the reaction was even like Diana. The Argentinians lined up for 30 blocks to see her in state. Eight people died in the crush.

They had to keep wiping the coffin because people were allowed to kiss it.”

OU don’t get that kind of hero worship for nothing and though criticised for her excesses, unlike Marie Antoinette tarred by history’s same brush, she rocked the social status quo in Argentina like no man had.

Many biographies of her life suggest she was a manipulative fake who could draw from her profession as a radio actor and a background in stage and film

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to work the crowd.

While her fairy tale rise from rags to riches is probably down to luck and one seized moment of opportunity, it’s sustained by the same drive for any audience driven to celebrity or Royal mania; the hope that an ordinary life of struggle and want can be changed to something grand and glamorous, personified in someone else’s life, like Kate Middleton, Mary Donaldson or Maria Eva Duarte. The happy ever after.

It’s a phenomenon fuelled by social media today which can make anyone rich and famous for crossing their eyes on You Tube, but in Eva Peron’s case, she didn’t just stand on the Facebook platform of the day – a palace balcony – wave and look pretty, she rolled up her Chanel sleeves and brought lasting social reform, supported by her husband.

Reading endless biographies about her, all mention her dedication to social change but glean over one quintessential act to cement her legend in the hearts and minds of Argentina; getting her president husband to grant women the right to vote.

Like so many of history’s powerful woman their genuinely radical political gestures and successes can so easily get Jezebeled by gowns and hairdos even though their husbands might be riding in the stretch limo beside them in tailored suits and a diamond studded Rolex watch.

It’s quite okay for them to rise from the dirt and make important decisions but for a woman like Evita to do the same, attracts doubts over her motivation.

How can she possibly wear diamonds and furs while the good folk of her youth are still on the factory floor?

Perhaps her biggest secret to success was that she didn’t just give them hope, she gave them real change and the fact she was pretty, stylish and liked a nice frock was irrelevant to the people whose lives she touched the most.

Evita raged against the machine.

Perhaps in that time, she knew she could never be president herself but saw the chance like many First Ladies since to include pillow talk about policies which would actually make a difference, and win votes too.

Evita has blown out the voices of so many who have sung the role night after night. The musical requires a woman who is a star vehicle and we have that in Jo. We have someone who can sustain this role – she sings for an hour and a half.

At the end of her short 33 years, the vice presidency was within her grasp but uterine cancer denied her the chance.

Had she lived, Argentina and the musical about her might be very different today.

“Audiences can decide if she was genuine or fake,” says Bray. “She was a radio personality and she knew how to work a crowd. Was she manipulating crowds?

Was she a fraud?

“It’s a very powerful story, musically very rich and delivered with a lot of energy,” says Greg Markwick, who plays Juan Péron. “It’s a story of how she makes good by her own ambition.

“I think the audience can expect a very entertaining show about an historical figure,” adds Smith. “She’s not a hero but an antihero.” » Evita by the Dubbo Theatre Company will open tonight (Friday, April 24) at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre Tickets available online or from the box office » Friday, April 24, 8.00pm » Saturday, April 25, 8pm » Sunday, April 26, 2pm » Friday, May 1, 8pm

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Family resemblance

Rels in high places: Scott, Keely and Conor Dwarte can claim to be related to Eva Peron. PHOTO: CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

IT’S not every day you can say you’re related to someone whose face is on a 100 pesos bill, but although the spelling of the surname has changed over time, Dubbo resident Scott Dwarte and his children, Keely, 17, and Conor, 14, can claim to share their family tree with Maria Eva Duarte, better known as Evita, the First Lady to president Juan Péron in 1950s Argentina.

A cousin in Port Macquarie who is doing the research has also discovered that Evita has a great grand parentage who once lived in Australia, which further adds to her allure.

“We’ve only really found out about it in the last few years, but it’s interesting,” says Scott.

The shared relative is Evita’s grand uncle who worked on a whale boat aged 14, and whose brother is Evita’s grandfather.

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A FAMILY REMEMBERS As a 16 year old, Betty Walkom waved her father off to war against the Japanese. It would be four long years – three of them thinking he was dead – before she and her four sisters would see him again. This Anzac Day, Betty and her family will be remembering “Pop” Tim Cox and his experience in Changi prison, along with all those thousands of Australians who have not been lucky enough to come home from war.

WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Alexandria Kelly N a bleak autumn afternoon, Betty Walkom sits dwarfed by a comfortable armchair, her hands gently stroking the front page photo of the newspaper lying across her lap.

At nearly 90, those hands have raised seven children and held dozens of grandchildren and great grandchildren, but in that newspaper photo, the hands are those of a 20 year old girl, welcoming home a father long thought lost to the ravages of war.

Betty was just 16 when her father, Tim Cox, joined the AIF 8th Division in defending Malaya during the Japanese onslaught of WWII. It would be four years until she saw her dad again, three spent with the maddening heartache of not knowing his fate.

When Singapore fell to the Japanese army in February, 1942, the family – Betty, her four sisters and their mother Eileen – had no way of knowing if Cox was still alive after what was left of the 8th Division surrendered.

“We honestly thought he was dead,” she says nearly 70 years later.

In reality, Cox had been sent as a prisoner of war to Singapore’s notorious Changi prison.

With Japanese surrender in September 1945, came the news the family never expected to hear: the plucky Dubbo railway worker and father of five daughters had managed to stay alive.

When he set foot on home soil later that month, his “girls” were there to greet him.

A Sydney Morning Herald photographer captured the moment, and that photo graced the Wednesday, September 19 cover of the newspaper – a copy of which, 70 years later, now lies across the lap of his second born child.

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OX had long harboured a desire to serve his country. Born in 1900, he was just 16 when he forged his father’s signature and “choofed off”, says Betty, to enlist in the army during WWI. “But he only got as far as New Zealand when peace was declared, so he never went to the war, thank God. That was a bit of a skeleton in the closet, that fact, because we didn’t find that out for years and years. It wasn’t until we looked up his records in Canberra that we realised what he’d done back during WWI.” When Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies told the nation in September 1939 it was again at war, Cox’s mind again turned to serving his country. He again enlisted, this time without having to forge a signature, and was placed in the AIF’s 8th Division – destination, Malaya.

Throughout his time there, Cox wrote many letters home, keeping his family informed of his day to day movements and of the ongoing – albeit ultimately doomed – campaign to protect the Malay Peninsula, and thereby the northern approaches to Australia.

Those letters stopped when Singapore fell and the Division was captured by the Japanese.

“When the news of the fall of Singapore came, we were dumbfounded. We just fully expected he’d just come home and that everything would be normal, but when Singapore fell, we thought we’d lost him. We didn’t know what had happened to him for a long time,” Betty recalls. “He was just reported missing along with the whole of the 8th Division. It was a dreadful time, just awful. We were just devastated. We didn’t know he was alive. We assumed he was dead.

“So of course, we didn’t know what he was facing in prison in Changi, or how he was surviving and what he was going through. I don’t know if that would have been worse. Thankfully he was never sent to work on the Burma railway, as so many Australians were, so he was very fortunate in that regard.”

It was an understandably difficult time for the family – particularly for Eileen, with five daughters to raise alone.

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A father returns: Tim Cox, with his daughters Pat, Norma, Veronica, Joan and Betty and his wife Eileen.

“It was hard for Mum. She moved to Sydney because she knew she had to get work. She was very fortunate – she managed to get a job at the Bondi hotel as a barmaid and she worked there for many years. She was a wonderful woman, very strong.”

By the time news came of the liberation of the Changi prisoners, Betty was undertaking her nursing training in Wellington and she clearly remembers the joy of learning her father was still alive, but says the elation was tempered by sadness of the loss of so many others.

“We were overwhelmed. Most people had had family killed during the war. There were so many families who were devastated and affected by the war. I remember there was a doctor I was working with at the Wellington hospital who had lost a son fighting over there during the war, and while he was so pleased for me when the news came that Dad was alive, it was awful for him because he didn’t get that good news.

“That was very hard – that feeling of being so happy that Dad was alive, but so sad that so many others weren’t coming home, and that so many families were suffering so much sadness.”

HE day Tim Cox stepped ashore in Sydney is one Betty will never forget.

“I remember it so clearly. The excitement was just unbelievable. My sisters Pat and Joan were both in the WAAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force) and they were there too, along with my other sisters and my mother.

“When they disembarked, they had to go to the hos-

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That was very hard – that feeling of being so happy that Dad was alive, but so sad that so many others weren’t coming home, and that so many families were suffering so much sadness.”

pital to be checked, but then they were allowed to go.

He was in reasonable health – he had Pellagra, which is a vitamin deficiency skin disease because of the dreadful diet he’d been on for the past four years. He certainly wasn’t 100 per cent. He wasn’t well. But he was alive.

“When I first saw him I just said, “Thank God you’re here.” And he said, “I’m just so happy to be home. It’s wonderful.””

Like so many returned servicemen, Betty says her father “didn’t ever really talk much about the war”.

“He talked to the boys more than he ever did to me,” she says, nodding towards her sons – Jimmy and twins Kevin and John.

“The conditions in Changi were dreadful, and the boys have told me some of what he told them. After he came home, his health improved and he didn’t seem to have any lasting mental health issues, although he never slept soundly. He used to have very restless nights.

“He lived until he was 89 and he always commemorated Anzac Day – he marched every year for as long as he could.”

Betty too, along with her children and many grandchildren, hold a special place in their hearts for Anzac Day. “When I think of Anzac Day, it brings back happy memories for me – I suppose because I remember how lucky we were as a family that Dad came back, when so many didn’t from all the wars. I go to the march every year – I don’t march, but I go along and watch from the sidelines.

“It’s a significant day in our family, and all the children and grandchildren know it’s a special day.”

OHN Walkom smiles widely when he talks of “Pop Cox”.

“I remember him so well. I have recollections of him coming home from the bowling club after a few beers and, I suppose he was more relaxed, but he used to tell us some of the stories.”

John and his brother Jimmy recount a particular tale that’s passed into family lore and illustrates the ingenuity and determination that’s become something of a hallmark of Australian prisoners-of-war.

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FEATURE. “He told us one story about Jack Ferris – another bloke from Dubbo – who was in Changi with him. They of course didn’t ever get any meat to eat, and it was Jack’s 21st birthday. So Pop killed one of the Japanese soldier’s dogs and smuggled it back into camp, where they cooked it up for a birthday feast for Jack. He often told that story.”

It seems there was quite a Dubbo contingent in Changi prison.

“Charlie Beasley was another bloke from Dubbo who was in Changi, and he used to just live over the back there,” says John, motioning over his shoulder towards the back yard of his mother’s north Dubbo home. “And a bloke called Jack Furney, and of course Jack Ferris. There were quite a few of them – names that will be familiar to Dubbo people even now.

“Pop also talked about how right at the end of the war, Jack Ferris was about to be executed by the prison guards at Changi – I’m not sure what for – but they were about to kill him when the news came through that the Japanese had surrendered. He survived by the skin of his teeth,” John recounts. “He was lucky. I guess they were all lucky to get out of there.”

Their grandfather also told the boys of befriending a couple of the Japanese soldiers, who turned a blind eye so Cox and his mates could occasionally sneak out of Changi prison at night and look for food – not that there was ever very much.

“Pop said there was one bloke who was there with them who was a really good cook. He used to say this bloke could cook anything – he could even make cockroaches taste good,” John says, and while it’s a good yarn, the implications of the black humour are clear.

“He certainly never had any affection for the Japanese soldiers, other than the one or two they befriended. He never expressed any real bitterness or animosity, but it’s fair to say there was no love lost between him and the Japanese.”

Jimmy chimes in: “Although for the rest of his life, he wouldn’t ever eat rice. If he went anywhere where they served it, he’d make them take it away.

“And he wasn’t exactly a Mussolini fan, because he wouldn’t eat spaghetti either!”

John says with a laugh.

For all his courage and the larrikin tales, Cox also brought some demons home with him from Changi, according to his grandsons.

“He did have restless nights, and you’d hear him – he must have had some terrible dreams, I think. But he’d never impose those troubles on anyone – that was the order of the day with those blokes who came back from the war. Still is.”

Kevin clearly remembers watching “Pop Cox” march in the Anzac and Remembrance Day parades, and says that as he and his siblings grew up they identified more deeply with the significance of those days because of their grandfather’s experiences.

“And we identified with so many of those old blokes because of his experience, too,” says Kevin. “When we were growing up, there were a lot of fathers who had been to war, so we were always very conscious of the commemorations.

“Then it sort of fell off a little bit I suppose for a while with the generation that hadn’t had that kind of direct experience, but it’s great to see the acknowledgement of the significance of Anzac Day coming back so strongly now with the younger generations. It’s important that we remember.

“Yes, it is,” says Mrs Walkom quietly from her chair, gently and absently stroking the aging newspaper photograph.

It’s one of those moments in which there’s really nothing that says more than silence.

Lest we forget.

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There aren’t too many surviving sons of World War I veterans but two of them live right here in Dubbo.

Weekender spoke with Howard and Gordon Wye, who told of their father Sydney’s experiences in Gallipoli, and shared excerpts from his war diary a century after their father’s words were written. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Alexandria Kelly NE hundred years after his great-grandfather was wounded at Gallipoli during World War I, Luke Wye will march in the ANZAC parade at Nyngan, commemorating his ancestor’s service to Australia.

But it’s his grandfather Gordon and great-uncle Howard who can share first-hand information about Sydney Wye, who served in the Australian armed forces in the 2nd infantry of the 1st Battalion.

Gordon and Howard both live in Dubbo and, at the ages of 80 and 78 respectively, are among a small group of remaining offspring of World War I veterans.

Their sisters, Audrey, 82, and Elizabeth (Betty), 76, are also counted

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YDNEY Wye was born at Badgery’s Creek and schooled at Luddenham, with the hardship and physical effort required just to get to school a testament to his ongoing strength and determination. These traits, illustrated in a little schoolhouse located on the fringes of Sydney Town in the late 1800s, were to later hold him in good stead in a war that would test the spirit of every man involved.

He was also a carefree bloke who enjoyed life, although the loss of his older brother when Sydney was just 15 was »

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a life-shattering experience.

On August 17, 1914, at the age of 23, Sydney enlisted in the war effort. He’d already worked as a tram conductor and chauffeur but this would become his greatest life challenge.

Sydney joined the 2nd battalion 1st infantry brigade of the Australian Imperial Force and was aboard one of dozens of ships which departed the shores of Albany, WA bound for Gallipoli.

They sailed across the Indian Ocean and through the Suez Canal to Egypt before the ill-fated landing in Turkey on the morning of April 25.

“He was wounded on the second day,” Howard explains of his father’s experience.

Thinking it was a shrapnel wound, Sydney continued regardless, although he stated that “I have seen and been through enough to write for a week”.

In a letter home, which was also published in the Camden News on July 1, 1915, he wrote: “The Australians were given a tough job, but they did it in a way that those who live through it will not forget.

“We landed at daylight under the fire of the navy, and had to face a terrific fire from machine guns and rifles from the Turks who were waiting for us on the beach and on a steep hill. Very few got ashore from the first rowing boats, and those who did jumped into

Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender the water waist and shoulder deep, and without waiting to be told rushed at the Turks with the bayonets.

“The Turks ran for their lives. The land was very hilly, steep and scrubby and was ideal for snipers, who hid in bushes and in the holes dug in the ground, and many an Australian was shot while going through this thick scrub as if looking for rabbits. The Turks had every advantage and our casualties were very heavy, and have been, or will be, a big shock to Australia...I think I must consider myself very lucky to get off with only shrapnel wounds in both hands.”

Under sweeping shell fire, Sydney was able to get himself back to the beach and on board the ship and to safety.

Three months later, while suffering with a leg wound, Sydney discovered his initial injury was much worse than first thought.

“It wasn’t until he had his hand x-rayed much later that he discovered it was a bullet,” Howard confirms a century later.

After two months in Alexandria (Egypt) recuperating from his first encounter with the Turks, Sydney went back to the frontline.

“He volunteered to go back to the front after recovering from the hand injury,” Howard explains.

“All his mates were going back too – it was either madness or bravery.”

He grew up very quickly in the war. Before that, he was very happy-go-lucky. From there, he ran into reality – if you can call war reality.

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All his mates were going back too – it was either madness or bravery.” – Howard Wye on his father’s return to the frontline after being injured at Gallipoli in 1915.

Sydney was injured again on 17 July 1915.

His diary notes that he was “hit by a piece of Turkish bomb through the calf”.

“He received a shrapnel wound in the back of the leg, and also contracted dysentery which nearly killed him,” Gordon explains. “He was keeping in good health until then but was repatriated early as a result.”

MAZINGLY, the story of Sydney’s war service didn’t fully come out until after his death in 1974.

“He never talked about it to me at all,” Gordon says while brother Howard mentions a sad tale told to him by

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“The guy next to him in the trenches died in his arms; it was very tragic.”

The story of Sydney’s service was almost completely lost when his war diary was nearly thrown out in the trash after his death.

Fortunately, the small leather-bound volume was rescued by Gordon’s wife and patiently transcribed by his daughter.

Reading their father’s words was a surreal experience for both men and still touches their hearts more than 40 years after the discovery and a century after the words themselves were actually written.

During his time at war, Sydney be-

came accustomed to the circumstances and his diary contains phrases such as “boots and rum issued to men” (July 1); “usual early morning hail of shrapnel” (June 29); “usual bombs from an aeroplane” (July 6) and “shrapnel with breakfast” (July 7) showing that, despite the hardships, he never lost his sense of humour.

“It was amazing when I read it but it was a shock to us,” Gordon recalls, adding that his father was fastidious with diary entries.

“He wrote nearly every day.

“It makes me feel very proud although it gave me cold shivers,” Howard says of the diary.

He believes going to war was a huge awakening for his father, as with many men of that era.

“He grew up very quickly in the war.

Before that, he was very happy-golucky. From there, he ran into reality – if you can call war reality. It certainly had an effect on him. You couldn’t go through something like that and it not have an effect.

“I think a lot of them just thought it would be a huge adventure.”

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Although he didn’t say much to his family and was more reserved around them, Sydney joined the league of returned soldiers when he returned home and regularly attended services.

“He went to ANZAC marches every year,” Gordon says. “Although he didn’t like the public attention.

“He’d be gone for the day and then back to work,” Howard adds, describing his late father as a hardworking and good man who had a strong sense of decorum with his family.

After the war, Sydney married Ruby and went into farming, passing that particular passion on to his children.

He was generous of his time and gave willingly to the show society and fire brigade in Nyngan. His war medals, including a watch chain bearing the bullet removed from his hand in November 1915 have all been passed on to his descendants.

“His medals have now been handed down to the younger generations,” Howard says.

And Sydney Wye will live in their memories forever. »

Suez Canal: Thursday 3rd December 1914: Cool, breezy. Sixteen more troop ships arrive, haul anchor and enter Suez Canal at 9am. Trees on one side and town with a foul smell the other. Two storey buildings (dirty township behind). Donkeys and camels and Egyptians and soldiers guarding canal. Sheiks digging trenches, aeroplanes flying, dregs and mud houses. Come to Ismailia, a few nice cottages, French cruiser on guard. Pass railway stations, arrive at Port Said at 10am, drop anchor and take on coal and water. Egyptians abroad yelling; busy shipping port. Suez is 90 miles long.

Egypt: Wednesday, January 27, 1915: Fine day; I go to doctor with sprained foot. Stay in camp all day. Sirocco sandstorm comes up on desert. Pay issued. News of Turks advancing on Suez.

Saturday, January 30: Fine cool morning, hot day. Enter trenches dug on previous night at 5 o’clock in the morning. March for camp at 7am. Arrive at camp after a record march at 9am. Receive letter from Lena a month late. Holiday for the rest of the day. I stay in camp, write to Lena. Concert at YMCA at night.

Monday, February 1: Hot day. March across the desert. Home early, go on guard duty. Undesirables start for Australia but return owing to canal being used for fighting purposes and war ships.

Friday, February 5: Fine morning. News of Suez Canal fighting. Prisoners in Cairo. We do field firing and control carrying 20 rounds each man in case of aeroplane raids. Brigadier supervises the firing and is satisfied with it. Lecture at night.

Tuesday, February 9: Fine and warm. Full marching order. March through old villages and cultivated and irrigated lands towards Sakkara Pyramids. Bivouac at night. I go on picket at horse trough while battalion have sham fight and entrenched themselves all night.

I have no blankets and do a freeze all night on the sand.

Turkey: Sunday, April 25: Fine and calm. Leave bay at 2am at report of a gun. Arrive Dardanelles at daylight. Fleet commences bombarding point.

All around us balloon and airships up. Third Battalion land in a torpedo boat. We follow in the torpedo boat Colne Get in small boat and row ashore. Nearly hit by a shell, many wounded, few kill. Bullets flying over in thousands. Indian Mounted battery land. Shrapnel bursts overhead. Turkish trenches charged and taken by the Third Brigade. Turkish bivouac. We get a lively reception from snipers. Stray bullets and shrapnel. Warships bombard all day. We are under a heavy fire all day – a never to be forgotten day. We lose our platoon officers and work on our own all day and rescued many wounded. I have many narrow escapes from shrapnel. Indian Mounted battery lands with mules. Battle still raging at dark. After a hot day we are fired on

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all night, but battalion entrenches ourselves.

Monday, April 26: A wet night, fighting all night and carrying ammunition. A fine morning, wet through, covered in mud and dirt. No pack – having thrown it away previous day. The Queen Elizabeth and other ships commence bombarding using fifteen inch guns. I lie in trench and have breakfast – bully beef, biscuit and water. Three days rations carried and 260 rounds. Getting used to thunder and rattle of machine guns.

Bullets whistle all around us. We join the 4th Battalion. Heavy fighting all day, advance and have to retrieve several times in the afternoon.

At 4.30, every available man called to the firing line. Terrific fire from shrapnel, machineguns and rifles. Scrub, rifles, ammunition and dead men. We pass Turkish trenches; I am lying down firing between two dead men.

After firing about 20 rounds, I get wounded in both hands by pieces of shell. I go back to trenches, have a spell and a drink of water and go back to AMC base...Have hands dressed roughly. Leave rifle and equipment and walk to beach. Still under heavy fire, shells bobbing in water and close to our boats. I get into boats with other wounded and am towed by pinnace to the Ionian, given hot drinks and lie on boat deck and sleep for the night.

Tuesday, April 27: Awaken by shells flying between funnel and mast. Six bells in engine room and we scuttle to safer position further out sea. Short of AMC hands aboard. Worst cases only dressed. We sail for Alexandria at 6pm with two other boats of wounded ahead of us. We arrive at Alexandria on Friday 30, after three days of calm sea; 28 deaths on trip including a wounded Turk or German.

(Sydney sent to Egypt to recuperate before going back to Turkey to fight.)

Saturday, June 19: Fine and warm. Boats come and go leaving barges for horses and stores etc. Horses slung into a barge. I get instructions to see Regimental Medical Orderly immediately. Land at Dardanelles. Tea at 4pm. English leave on Prince Abbas. Australians leave by the mine sweeper Clacton. Two guns aboard. Out of harbour at 7.30. A cruiser escort bombarding heard by our battleships.

Tuesday, June 22: Fine and hot. Up at 8am. Ham, onions and spuds for breakfast. Turks shell us from right and left flank. (Ship) Monitor bombards Turks, also destroyers. Much provisions landed.

Many men swimming on beach are shelled.

Beans, spuds, onions and bully beef for dinner. Re-join company in the afternoon in the trenches. Do a watch in the firing line. Sleep in trenches at night – firing all night and bombarding by ships in the distance. Bombs throw, nine of our men are wounded.

Wednesday, June 23: Fine hot day. Stand to at 3am. I go to doctor with my hands in the morning but am put on light duties at the quartermaster’s stores behind the trenches, 50 yards. Our artillery fires

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at intervals. Herbs in galore about the ground.

Digging for water and carrying it in tins. ALIO ARCH leaves Peninsula. Turks shell us and wound a few. Sleeping in dugout.

Saturday, June 26: Fine and hot. Hail of shrapnel for Reveille, Hillman and another wounded a few yards off, our artillery replies. Stew for dinner for all hands in the trenches. Another forced landing on the beach, Point Suvla. On our left a thunderstorm is brewing. We are shelled from both flanks, bombs thrown at us. We bring up howitzers. Our aeroplane flies over (Turks nearly hit it). I sleep in dugout. Bombs explode close overhead.

Sunday, June 27: Fine and hot. Shell by Turkish artillery, a few casualties. The Turks open rapid fire and waste ammunition for half an hour, our men scarcely fire a shot. Our ships bombard and our howitzers bombard Turkish trenches and blow Turks and rifles in the air. One man wounded over heart beside me. We bury one man. Shots exchanged all day. Fleet appears about 10 miles on our right and lands a force and bombards. Aeroplanes are up and drop bombs. I go to beach, see Jack B. and have a wash. Destroyers with search lights bombard right flank.

Monday, June 28: Fine hot. We are shelled at Reveille. I help issue rations, stew for dinner. Navy bombards Achi Baba ridge on our right. Hill like a bush fire. We watch the dust fly. Turks retreat on our right, a heavy rifle fire on our front. Shells lob beside our fire, hail of shrapnel. A heavy fire all along the line. Third brigade charges on our right and takes two lines of trenches but to retire again owing to infiltrating fire and smell of Turkish dead. Many killed and wounded. British advance 800 yards, our artillery fires illuminating shells at night. Heavy firing. Australians cheer and yell “Allah Allah” in trenches.

Wednesday, June 30: Bombs exchanged all night. Turks attack second brigade, 300 Turks are killed – a fine day. Quiet day in trenches, we send kite up and drop message to Turks. We see flashes of Turkish artillery near Achi Baba. Thunderstorm at night, little rain, Turks open rapid fire.

Monday, July 5: Turks give us a terrific bombardment at daylight for three hours, one gun crew out of action. One gun wheel broken, one artillery sergeant killed, several 8-inch shells in our trenches and a few men bruised and buried.

Rifle fire quiet. We locate a Turkish large gun. Engineers stop diffing for water and go to shrapnel gully. We land more howitzers.

Hydroplane flies over water for hours looking for enemy submarines. Turkish shell our mine sweepers.

The Turks had every advantage and our casualties were very heavy, and have been, or will be, a big shock to Australia...I think I must consider myself very lucky to get off with only shrapnel wounds in both hands.

» Sydney was injured on July 17 1915 and eventually returned to Australia after recuperating in the UK. His diary ends on May 4, 1916.

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In today’s edition, we kick off a new weekly series highlighting some of the interesting faces and places along our own beautiful stretch of the Macquarie River. Weekender regular Lisa Minner embarks on sharing some of the stories of the Macquarie’s hidden gems. We begin this week with a profile on talented and charming Baker's Swamp artist Eris Fleming. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner BOUT a half hour drive on the other side of Wellington at a place called Baker’s Swamp and hidden behind a fairly non-descript hill, the residence and place of inspiration for artist Eris Fleming lies nestled amid both native and cultivated gardens.

A small creek and crossing marks the entrance to a property so beautiful even the most unartistic among us could feel inspired to wield a brush at a canvas.

Fleming and his wife Judith-Ann, a music teacher, have been lucky enough to call the 200 acre property at the base of the Catombal Range in the Wellington Valley home since 1975. In that time the couple has raised three grown sons, numerous cattle and watched Flemings’ career as a painter develop and thrive.

Their home, which was built in the 1880s, was in a state of disrepair when they first bought it. Since then and thanks to the help of friends and a clear vision, the farm has grown to include two separate studio spaces, built by hand and very much in keeping with the cottage atmosphere of the main residence. The garden has been carefully planted over the years to include a variety of trees and shrubs, suited to the slightly cooler environment, as well as vegies and beds full of colourful flowers. In short, it’s amazing and it may well leave you feeling slightly discontent with your own digs back in suburbia.

Eris Fleming is well-known and respected in the art world for the distinctly Australian flavour of his work.

His paintings are easily identifiable thanks to his use of vibrant colours and his subject matter which includes bush architecture, rural scenes and portraits.

He was not always destined to be a painter, despite recognising his creativity at an early age.

An interesting path via a stint as a doctor for many years in both Victoria and NSW, eventually led him back to his passion for drawing a painting and to a life-long career about which he has absolutely no regrets, despite the comments and opinions of many who thought he was mad to give up a lucrative career as a rural GP. Born in 1943 and one of nine boys – as child number five in the pecking order – Fleming grew up outside Delungra in north western NSW, where his childhood involved earthy pursuits like rabbiting, horse riding, skinning snakes and mucking about with his brothers.

He attended a one teacher school at Boonda-near Myall Creek, then boarding school and finally Sydney University where he studied medicine, graduating in 1966.

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The artist says he was warned off art as career.

“Being a fulltime artist was never an option; in those days you left school and pursued one of a handful of professional careers, like law, teaching, medicine, science, vet, that kind of thing. To do otherwise was unheard of.”

He says in that era telling your parents you wanted to be an artist was probably the equivalent of telling them you were going to have a sex-change operation.

“I convinced my parents to send me to the Christian Brothers at Waverley because I knew they taught art there. Then I arrived and the school said they had never taught art and were never going to, so I continued on doing maths and Latin and that sort of thing and playing football.”

Despite well intentioned warnings from "everyone with an opinion", he gradually developed painting and drawing skills and studied techniques from a massive library of books he has accumulated over the years.

“When I resigned from my role as a doctor, you would not believe the shit I copped from people, a lot of people said I’d last three weeks and be back.

“Even artists I knew who could have made a great living often took the safe route and became university or college lecturers rather than take a risk at fulltime art.”

Fleming recalls a visit to another doctor that highlighted the situation perfectly.

“When he found out I'd been a doctor and was now an artist he said, “I bet you copped some shit when you walked away from medicine” and I said “You have no idea!””

Many of his peers didn’t talk to him for 18 months after he resigned.

“People are frightened by change and will generally

When I resigned from my role as a doctor, you would not believe the shit I copped from people; a lot of people said I’d last three weeks and be back.

do anything to avoid it; it scares them.”

Self-taught, he and Judith spent many years frequenting the art galleries of Sydney. They fondly recall a dynamic art scene around the city which inspired and informed them about what was happening in the contemporary Australian art world.

Australian artists like Drysdale and Dobell have continued to inspire Fleming’s practice, as well as European artists like Chagall, Bonnard and Soutine.

His first one-man exhibition in took place in Brisbane in 1972 and since then he has continued to exhibit around the country regularly selling his work to customers, both Australian and internationally.

S we sit on the veranda having a cup of tea and a homemade biscuit, some usually-shy and skittish female fairy wrens join us at the table. Fleming seems to have a way with the birds because they come closer and closer, as a pet bird might. He says quite often they’ll sit on the edge of his plate or tea cup and eat the crumbs. The inquisitive wrens flitting about the couple only add to the magical Norman Lindsay-esque atmosphere of their home.

Fleming reflects on his life and the years it took him to develop his style and says persistence is the absolute forerunner to talent, and that painting is more than anything about technique and the study of how it all works.

“It’s how you manage the surface of your painting, how the paint goes on to that surface, how you prime it and if you study enough you’ll work it out.

“You spend about three or four very painful years because nearly everything you do fails but you eventually have the odd success and you have to figure out what made it a success and you build on that.”

The internet has become the artist’s primary sales avenue, supplementing buyers who visit his gallery.

The internet has created new buying audiences for artists and the ease of selling and shipping work is a great benefit to his and other artists’ careers.

Judith says that when her husband first began selling, the primary market for his paintings were middleaged or older, professionals. She notes that in recent years the people purchasing his work are now generally much younger.

Fleming says it’s become apparent in the past ten years or so that a lot of older people are reluctant to purchase art now – they feel they have to be much more cautious with their spending and consider »

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ent world to which he and Judith and their children have been exposed.

The couple has had all sorts of characters arrive on the doorstep to their gallery over the years, including an Arab sheik in a Rolls Royce, a man who commissioned an art work only to disappear for two years (a suspected stint in jail) before returning to collect his work...and to discover it had been sold.

Fleming says the most satisfying sales have always been to people who really love what they’re buying. He believes the way art is valued is totally artificial and highlighted by the recent sales of Picasso, Gaughan and Van Gogh’s work nudging the $100 million sales mark. “It’s like Lloyd Rees at the end of his life, his paintings were selling for $50,000 to $60000 dollars and he knew they were going to investors who didn’t have a clue about art."

Apparently, Rees had said he would have much rather sold them to someone who really loved them for $5000.�

Fleming agrees.

buying art a luxury over more practical things like financial security. “The biggest competitor for paintings when I first started out was jewellery, and then without question it became travel and now it’s become superannuation, investments, shares and then travel,� he says. “People have been deluged with advice on investment in the news by “experts� and now people are terrified to spend their money. “As a country I feel like we’ve been lobotomized with non-stop talk about “mums and dads� having to invest. I hate that expression, hearing some moronic politician saying, “mums and dads,� it’s so patronising and such a con; fear-mongering.�

Judith adds that she recently read that one million dollars in financial security is required to retire safely now, according to the experts.

She says she and Fleming feel they were lucky to have lived in a time when making an income from art was possible. They both agree artists who made the choices and lifestyle changes her husband did 40 years ago, would probably struggle to sustain a living as a fulltime artist now.

One of the things Fleming has loved about his career as a painter has been the differ-

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John Walker and Seth Toomey There’s no discrimination in the army, according to Vietnam veteran John Walker and former East Timor peacekeeper Seth Toomey whose Aboriginality did not make a shred of difference to their military service. AS TOLD TO Natalie Homes John Walker: WAS born in Cunnamulla, Qld on July 7, 1948; a Moorawarri man. I went to school in Bourke until I was 15. After leaving school, I worked in a garage before moving to Coonamble where I worked at various jobs until I was called up for national service two days after my 21st birthday.

I started rookie training at Kapooka just outside Wagga Wagga July 9, 1969. We had 12 weeks intensive training before transferring to Singleton for more training in infantry tactics and procedures and then onto the jungle training centre at Canungra in Queensland.

After being selected to join 7 Battalion in December 1969, we sailed for South Vietnam on February 27, 1970. On arrival in Vietnam in March we were taken to our new home for the next 12 months at Nui Dat, a rubber plantation that was taken over by the Australians as a main base to operate out of.

My first three months in Vietnam was as a rifle man, making up the numbers in a platoon and then as a forward scout for the next six months, being the main eyes and ears of the platoon out in front. The twelve months we spent in Vietnam was an experience I will never forget.

The mateship and camaraderie of being part of the army was fantastic. We worked as a team at all times, everyone was treated equally and there was no discrimination to be seen. I didn’t see discrimination until I got out of the army and it took some adjusting to everyday life.

The two years I spent in the army were the best two years of my life; my only regret was not staying in for longer and making a career of it.

I met Seth at NAIDOC commemorations at Gilgandra High School in September 2014. He was a guest speaker and awards presenter on the day. He spoke about his time in the army.

My youngest brother Terry has made a career out of the army and has no regrets thus far. When I hear and read about the way our forefathers were treated after they had bled and died fighting for a country that mostly despised them, I wonder what the hell can one do to prove his worthiness of this great nation, a nation that would sooner recognise indigenous persons from other countries than our own.

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The Baker’s Dozen Trivia Test

It’s sad when the only dark face you’ll see in the Australian cricket side belongs to an outsider; to have a refugee playing for our country is a disgrace. For the Prime Minister to want a referendum to recognise Aboriginals in the constitution a century too late is an insight into the thinking of the powers that be.

It is gratifying to see Australians commemorating 100 years since Gallipoli and I hope there is more recognition of the Aboriginal participation in all wars for Australia.

Seth Toomey: WAS in the Australian Regular Army for just short of five years as a signaller, joining in 1998 when I was 18 and leaving in 2003.

I didn’t care what I did in the army, I just knew I wanted to do something. When I first joined, I started wearing my uniform and I wanted to throw out my ordinary clothes. Being in the army wasn’t what I thought I would do in life. When I was 10, I wanted to be a police officer or fireman.

My primary role was to deliver communications to headquarters who were sending information with radio signals. We were sending messages and our course was the last to use Morse code so I’m not sure what signallers do now. Technology has taken over the way they do stuff now; it’s much more modernised. Before it was so slow.

Although I was interested, in reality I was probably better at communications than the combat stuff. When I joined, I just wanted to see a bit of the world. For a long time, I wanted to join the Navy.

I spent six months in East Timor, in 1999 to 2000.

I didn’t feel any different, as a soldier, it’s just a role you play.

It’s all you have trained for and was exciting in the sense that you get to go and do what you have trained for.

At the same time, it’s not like in the movies. We spent most of our time in the communications centre and then the compound where we stayed.

I did do some other things – I was part of the advance party that went to West Timor, so I got to see other parts of the country. In Australia, I also got to work in most states – from Tasmania to sailing across the top of Australia.

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1. LITERATURE: Who wrote the short story “The Lottery”?

2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What “first” did tennis player Althea Gibson achieve in 1951?

3. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the resort city of San Remo?

4. GOVERNMENT: Under the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act, 1916, land was allocated to soldiers who had served in which war(s)?

5. MYTHOLOGY: Which knight supposedly threw King Arthur’s (pictured right) sword Excalibur into the lake?

6. TELEVISION: Who played Detective Sergeant Vic Maddern in “Matlock Police”?

7. PRIME MINISTERS: The government of which Prime Minister oversaw Australia’s conversion to decimal currency?

8. PHILOSOPHY: What philosopher said, “Man is the measure of all things”?

9. HISTORY: In what US city did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a bus?

10. MONARCHIES: Duncan I became the king of what

It’s definitely been an advantage in my life. It’s not until afterwards that you realise the impact it’s had.

At the time, it’s a job and what you do. I’ve been lucky in life and a lot of opportunities came up as a result.

I’ve had mates who went to Iraq and Afghanistan though and they have been messed up by it. One mate lost the plot from whatever he’d seen, he came back a totally different person.

I came out of the army because I missed Dubbo. I came back here and started at the Dubbo Lands Council and I’m now the general manager of the largest community housing provider in NSW, the Mid-Lachlan Aboriginal Housing Management Co-Operative Ltd, a role I’ve had for the past five years. We’ve taken the housing from 150 to 800 in 39 towns. I’ve done more travel, even to Canada for work.

The army was a good opportunity for me and I met a lot of good people. You make lifelong friendships and there are some things you have to be in the armed forces to understand.

Because you become so disciplined, I’ve gained skills I can use in an office, or anywhere. I attribute a lot of what I’ve done to being in the army. You are able to excel at being under pressure. In training, when they are shooting at you, it’s a bit more pressure than a normal work deadline, so it really puts things into perspective.

That’s been a good thing.

During war, a lot of Aboriginal men and women have served. It’s good that people are slowly being recognised. We have to take our hats off to the ANZACs. When you’re in the army, that’s the most important thing and that’s what it was always like. I experienced no racism in the army. First and foremost, you are all soldiers and you are there to do a job.

I also try not to look at things in a negative way.

I think that with a good attitude, anything can be achieved. I would say to others, go and do it, it’s a great job. We serve our country and protect what we have here. We are a very lucky country.

When I met John, I was very interested in what he had to say. He had a totally different experience to my time which was peacekeeping, no wars.

Wherever I am on ANZAC Day, I will march. I love ANZAC Day and I will definitely be playing two-up!

I’m doing it for my kids now, they are proud their dad was a soldier.

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11. FLASHBACK: Name the rock group whose fifth album was titled “Selling England by the Pound.”

12. SPORT: Who holds the women’s tennis mark for longest gap between tournament titles?

13. LYRICS: What is the name of the song by American group The Tokens whose lyrics mostly consist of: “Weeooh wim-o-weh, wee-ooh wim-o-weh.”

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John Walker and Seth Toomey (middle) at Dubbo South Public School.

Above, John Walker in combat and below, today.

Left, Seth Toomey in the army and right, today.

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Style

Style shadows Michelle Kent and Kylie Horder are living proof that some friendships are just meant to be. The creative pair spoke to Weekender about professions, passions and pop-ups.

HE resemblance between Michelle Kent and Kylie Horder is uncanny, but the likeness isn’t so much about their looks – what they share is their professional journey thus far.

It’s as if they’ve lived parallel lives – they mirror each other in their in creative ambitions, the tools of their artistry and a shared vision to empower other women to feel beautiful.

Until recently, the pair were strangers – but they were not destined to remain so. Their paths crossed in serendipitous circumstances and now they’re about to “pop up” together in Dubbo.

Theirs is a story about two local women, seizing a fleeting opportunity to unite forces in an innovative venture. As they swap stories of their pasts, the tales merge into an echo. Both were born in Dubbo. Both knew exactly what they wanted to do with the rest of their lives before they turned four.

Horder fondly recalls how she put her name down to be an apprentice hairdresser before she had enrolled in kindergarten – “Working with hair is something I was born to do,” she says – while Kent recites a similar level of career clarity that most teenagers, and young adults, would envy.

“It wasn’t a choice for me. Fashion was all I thought about. I was certain, I was going to be a designer,” she says.

While one little girl locked herself away in her room to practice cutting the hair of her dolls, the other little girl locked herself away in her room to cut, redesign and re-configure the dresses of her dolls.

Armed with scissors and determination Kent and Horder have sliced their childhood dreams into reality.

While both have traveled around Australia and across the world to advance their understanding and skills, both take pride in bringing their mastery back to central NSW.

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COMPLETED my apprenticeship in Dubbo,” says Horder, who moved from her home town first to the Sunshine Coast, then to Perth and on to London for three years.

“During that time I had the opportunity to work with many talented professionals that have inspired me today.”

After moving back home from the UK 11 years ago, the young entrepreneur decided to open her own hair design studio, and Artology was born.

The business’ name is a testament to its owner’s life long crusade to cut and colour artful locks.

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“I believe hair is the creative expression of oneself. Hair design is about tapping into an individual’s style and personality to create a look that reflects who they are.

“I love coming to work and doing a job I’m so passionate about. I also love being able to be creative, wear what I want and listen to great music.”

As the proud mother of three beautiful girls, aged 14, 5 and 4 years, Horder says keeping her lifelong dream of hair design growing has not always been easy.

“It’s challenging being a business owner with children but I have embraced this and always look at the positives.

“It’s important I teach my girls to choose something they’re passionate about and to do something they love.”

ENT studied fashion design on a scholarship at KVB Institute in Sydney, and after graduating, worked under some of the industry’s most high profile designers – names like Collette Dinnigan and David Lawrence.

“But it wasn’t until I travelled to Europe that I was inspired to find my own distinct fashion design path.”

Inspired by the ateliers of France, Kent returned to settle in Orange where she launched her own online boutique label So Stella.

“So Stella is a label built on my love for old school textile traditions, transparency, ethical production and quality.

“In the modern world of mass production and disposable fashion I’ve been inspired to preserve the art of tailoring garments for individual women in fabrics that will last a lifetime.”

Her journey has taken her on a road less travelled in the fashion world, and as with her friend’s experience, it hasn’t always been easy.

“My greatest challenge has been changing societal perceptions of fast fashion,” she says.

“The label is named in honour of my maternal grandmother Stella Maloney who understood the value of quality natural fabrics that come alive when you wear them and stitching that makes a garment look just as beautiful on the interior as the exterior.

“She always dressed so beautifully because she favoured timeless fashion investments over momentary style fads.

“It is for this reason I use her as a muse when I am conjuring up new So Stella designs and handcrafting them into fruition in my design studio.”

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Kylie Horder and Michelle Kent

Pop in to the pop up AS two local women who are sole owners and operators of their creative businesses, Kylie Horder and Michelle Kent became simultaneously aware of the other’s existence through admiration of each other’s work.

Kent’s sister became a client at Artology and a fan of Horder’s artistry with hair. Each time she would visit, Horder would compliment her clothes, and the loyal sister would remark, “This is from So Stella, my sister’s designs.”

Each time she and her sister met, Kent would compliment her sibling’s stunning locks. “It’s all the work of Kylie from Artology,” was the answer.

Great minds think alike, it seems.

Horder and Kent decided there was much to gain by working together.

“It’s important to connect and feed of other creative women in business to inspire and drive you,” says Horder.

After recently completing a pop-up store in Forbes, Kent was keen to share her passion for ethically handcrafted local designs in her home city, and Horder is happy to oblige, by opening the doors of Artology to the So Stella pop-up store.

“I wanted to create an opportunity to service the stylish women of the central west in a unique and fun way,” she says.

Horder has “a really good feeling” about this enterprise.

“This collaboration really brings out the best in both of us and our businesses.”

Kent adds, “The pop-up is my way of bringing my own version of a French atelier to Dubbo women. What better place to do this than Artology? It will offer a special shopping experience that has the power to totally transform women from top to bottom, and the outside in.” » The So Stella pop-up shop will... well... pop up at Artology (209 Darling Street) in Dubbo from Wednesday, April 28 until Saturday, May 2 – opening from 10am-6pm on the weekdays, and from 10-1pm on Saturday. Join designer Michelle Kent and Artology’s Kylie Horder for a fabulous VIP Fashion Night on Friday, May 1 from 6pm, with complimentary drinks and nibbles. All garments are ethically handcrafted in Orange from the finest fabrics.

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

It’s a bummer when something’s rotten in the state of our guts OU’VE been there before; stuck in Sydney peak hour traffic or some other equally inescapable situation and suddenly, your intestine ties itself into a truckie’s knot as the first alarm that something inevitable is about to happen, and it’s going to happen sooner than is convenient for anyone – with exceptionally noxious consequences if you can’t deal with it in a very private and hygienic manner in the immediate future.

It comes as no surprise that possibly up to 10 per cent of us are strolling about with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Most don’t recognise the symptoms and are happy to meander about their daily lives, with little heed to the semi-regular and urgent threats to one’s dignity and without asking too many questions of their insides. IBS rates have doubled in the past decade and continue on the up today. It seems a modern, western lifestyle may be costing us our abdominal comfort, as recent research is discovering. Is this you? Grab your pen and get ready to start ticking some boxes.

IBS generally comes with strong abdominal pains, a loose bowel or alternatively the opposite or a combination of both, but on a recurring basis. It’ll take you from zero to 100 in seconds and when it strikes, it delivers such an urgent message even a shaolin monk couldn’t shift his focus. It becomes your entire world until you find relief and makes for excellent material in B-grade adolescent comedies. And still many people try to pass it off as a poor tummy turn.

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more than that. Rates of IBS are on the increase for a number of reasons and we really need to take a step backwards and reconnect with some little friends to whom we seem to have turned a cold shoulder – bacteria. Symbiotic bacteria in our gut are crucial for our digestion and according to Dr Andrew Greenhill of Federation University in Victoria, westerners commonly have about 50 fewer species of gut bacteria than rural Papua New Guineans. This represents a significant percentage. Perhaps traditional diets and poorer access to water treatment and sewage removal will do that for you. It seems a little extreme and drastic to go chasing this particular lifestyle to improve your inner health.

And there are no surprises that rural Papua New Guineans deal with some other pretty horrible consequences as well, right?

But perhaps we have gone too far to the other extreme. Is there a middle ground? So many of our foods today have been processed in one way or another and some sources suggest the heavy consumption of preservatives is

causing our corpses to decompose much more slowly than they did in the past.

Surely it makes sense that foods designed to withstand attack from bacteria may also make some sort of impact upon the bacteria in our gut that’s trying to help us out.

Gut bacteria is really important for breaking down the fibre from plant cell walls in our food. However, today our diets tend to be much higher in protein from meat without cell walls. When we eat our fruit and veg, we tend to cook or prepare them in a way that breaks down the cell walls before the food even passes our gums. We cut out the workload for the friendly bacteria anyway.

And food preparation is best done in sterile conditions you would agree?

Doesn’t this limit the new, potentially useful bacteria trying to get into our gut? We seem to be doing everything we can in opposition to the little buggers.

Relax, no-one wants to be fed salmonella or e.coli, but is it worth a thought at least?

Our risk is that in becoming too germ-phobic, in our quest for cleanli-

Our risk is that in becoming too germ-phobic, in our quest for cleanliness and convenience we just end up presenting ourselves with a new problem. Hello, IBS.

ness and convenience we just end up presenting ourselves with a new problem. Hello, IBS. We then have to come up with fancy, westernised solutions and one is to include into our daily routine, a convenient dose of a “probiotic”.

This is effectively a large soluble pill that’s clean and sterile on the outside but contains millions of useful germs on the inside. A sterile pill containing only germs. A regular jar costs roughly a week’s wage.

Slightly more extreme but nonetheless super-effective is the increasingly popular faecal transplant which I will describe in no more detail here today, but is worth a Google inquiry if you’re curious. Both plug thousands and thousands of useful bacteria into your system and will get you firmly back on the path to success. But both I’m sure would have our ancestors turning in their graves, asking “You spent how much?

Doing what? With the what?”

I guess it comes down to the fact that people in modern westernised cultures just crave control... of everything. The more we learn, the more we try to improve on our previous lifestyle, even if only in the name of progress. This to me illustrates a case where we have improved the way we do things so well we’ve now set ourselves back a bit.

Sure, IBS is not a fatal condition; there are no charity fund-raisers for this minnow in the world of ailments.

It’s more of a pain in the arse (or the belly to be more precise). But it could also be a wake-up call for how we are living in 2015 and how the definition of “looking after yourself” is an ever changing concept.

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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, it’s never as easy as you reckon it will be ’M not really a master planner.

I’m more of a “give it a quick estimate and see how it turns out” sort of person meself. And there are times when my lack of planning acuity lands me in some less than ideal situations.

Not life threatening, not even critically problematic. Just tedious situations where you have to deal with things not panning out quite as you had hoped.

I do have my odd flash of brilliance – situations in which I have calculated all the factors and end up with a plan that works with no hiccoughs. I have been known to calculate my movements with such care it almost equals prescience and my operation is seamless.

As you may have gathered, I’m in the thick of something radically different right now.

And the older I get, the more I come to realise what is happening. My subconscious, which has more in common with an irresponsible adolescent than I would care to admit, is working away against me like a recidivist teenager. It all works something like this.

“I think I’m going to do this. I’m going to leave on this date; I’ll visit this number of places and while I’m on the road I’ll also do this and this and this. Excellent plan.”

Then my inner adult kicks in with some detail and some additional information which is not really convenient.

And some questions about the timing of that. And some suggestion that there may be a more sensible way to accom-

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plish this.

That’s when my inner adolescent rolls her eyes and says “whatever” and wallpapers over the cracks in the plan, silencing the doubts of my voice of reason and just forging ahead with the original idea.

Sometimes this works, this rather haphazard approach to planning. And on many occasions you start out with a perfectly executed plan, one that has considered all the implications, where everything is checked and double checked and where there are failsafes and alternatives and all the Is are dotted and the Ts crossed. (That’s as opposed to crossing one’s eyes and hoping like hell.) Even with the best laid and thought-out plans, you can still come to grief and have to go back to the drawing board.

That’s very distressing to someone like me because the plotting and planning takes an enormous amount of energy, particularly as it doesn’t come nat-

urally – it’s something I have to force myself to do.

So when I have actually planned something and it falls over, two things happen. I have to revert to my seat of the pants approach, which reiterates to my inner adolescent the idea that planning is “like, a complete waste of time” and there was no point in all that palaver in the first place. It’s very distressing to my little inner planner, my very underdeveloped seriously organised person who is struggling to emerge. Poor little planner has managed to get her own way and actually put some ideas on paper, lined up some appointments ahead of time, made diary notes and put electronic calendar reminders in place.

(Possibly even colour coded them in the electronic diary, so you can see which ones are actually work related and which are associated with haircuts, facials and trips to the chiropractor.)

And what happens? The whole thing falls over and you have to start again.

Smoke and mirrors has been kinder to me over the years than planning and transparency.

And this means a greater exertion of energy. And a certain amount of obfuscation to the powers that be, about the fact that what you had planned is now mere dust and you are going to be doing Something Completely Different. Something for which you do not Have Official Approval. Something that may or may not come off.

In the same way that it’s easier to apologise than it is to ask for permission, it’s less stressful to keep a cloud of secrecy over one’s plans. So if they change or fall to bits, there’s not this sense of loss and grief over the fact that what you had planned is now no longer going to come to fruition. You don’t have to go through the whole process with your manager, that whole deconstruction of what went wrong and what we could have done differently...

So, if instead of sharing your plans in the first place, you play your cards close to your chest, and then you actually deliver something worthwhile, think of the happy surprise your boss will get. There he was thinking you were just muddling along, and suddenly he discovers you are a master operator instead.

Smoke and mirrors has been kinder to me over the years than planning and transparency.

Another win for the feckless dreamer and once more my careful little industrious planner has lost out.

As it turns out, I’m less into planning – more into wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’.

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Cr Mathew Dickerson

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

Inefficiencies enough to make us sick S many would know, I’ve spent some time in hospital over the past week. We live in an incredibly lucky country and at no stage did I have any concerns about my health and I knew I would be cared for. From my fellow racers who stopped immediately after my crash through to St John Ambulance and the Ambulance Service of NSW all the way through to the staff of the hospital, I felt total confidence in being given a high level of service.

What I did notice with my personal experience going through the hospital system is a problem that all large organisations need to work hard to prevent. I’ve seen it in federal and state government departments and in dealing with large corporate organisations. I even see it with councils. The silo effect.

I believe every person in the organisation was doing their individual best to help me. Unfortunately, various departments were not very effective at communicating with each other. Sometimes communication within the one department was lacking. I also noticed systems that have developed over time for a range of logical reasons – but with no-one having visibility of the overall process, many inefficiencies have crept in.

None of this severely compromised my health care but it meant the cost to the state was much higher than it needed to be.

The first inefficiency I noted was when the ambulance drivers delivered me to hospital. I was delivered safely and checked in to the emergency department but still the ambulance staff waited beside me.

I thought they were being incredibly nice and were staying and chatting to me. As we talked, I found they just wanted their bed back. When I was loaded onto the ambulance bed, it was used to bring me into the hospital. It was more than an hour before I was transferred to another bed so that was an hour these two staff members were not in the field helping someone else – all for the sake of a spare bed. I asked if they had ever considered a system where a hospital has spare beds for ambulances to take when they deliver a pa-

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tient to hospital. That would have the drivers back in the field sooner. The answer related to what budget the purchase of spare beds would come from. The hospital doesn’t want to pay for them as it doesn’t have an impact on their efficiency and the ambulance service doesn’t have the spare resources for additional capital outlay to store beds at hospitals. Classic silos. This is despite the fact that it would put the drivers in the field where they are needed. They told me one story of when their entire shift was spent at a hospital as they delivered a patient and waited for the rest of their shift before their bed was returned.

Once checked in there was argument as to whether I would be under the care of trauma or neurosurgery or orthopaedics. My injuries meant I could be checked in under different areas. I didn’t really care which area had me under their control but this issue was a matter of intense debate among staff.

After twelve hours in the emergency department – and with different people telling me different things in relation to my injuries (you have two fractured vertebrae quickly changed to three vertebrae after someone new looked at the CT Scans but seemingly staff didn’t speak to each other) – I was finally moved to a ward.

The physiotherapists turned up the next morning to help me take my first steps but they were too early.

The neurosurgery team had to give me the all clear to walk first and they hadn’t visited me yet. The physios

promptly left – never to be seen again.

When it was time to have my new neck brace fitted, the waste of resources seemed ridiculous. I had three ladies arrive to instruct my wife how to fit the neck brace. The only issue was that I hadn’t received my discharge neck brace yet – I was still wearing the ambulance-fitted neck brace. It apparently wasn’t appropriate to use this neck brace for the instructions.

Sometime later, a pair of gentlemen showed up with my new neck brace – but they couldn’t show my wife how to fit it as their job was simply to deliver the neck brace. Several hours later the team of three arrived and Murphy’s Law dictated they arrived just when my wife had gone to the shop. Once she returned, the five minute instruction was given. Over a span of half a day, it took five people a total of three visits to show my wife how to fit a neck brace.

Surely we can do better than this.

Again this may sound critical of the largest hospital in NSW but when a hospital has 855 beds; 23 operating rooms and 60 critical care beds administrative processes can often get in the road of the primary focus of providing care.

As we all strive to be Fit for the Future and with buzzwords like sustainability and viability being constantly thrown around, taking a few steps back and looking at a process in a large organisation can often deliver significant efficiencies.

Over a span of half a day, it took five people a total of three visits to show my wife how to fit a neck brace.

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The search for understanding in a minute of silence S a child attending the Anzac Day celebrations in my local town I remember being confused and even a little terrified by the whole spectacle.

My great grandfather was a Major General in the Light Horse in the First World War, and even though I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know him, Sir Granvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence somehow hovered over my primary school self as I sat watching my father, in his 1970s suit, marching in his honour, and also that of my grandfather.

Whenever there was call for a minuteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silence I would scrunch my eyes shut and try my best to picture an appropriate military battle, or to conjure up an image of a soldier â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all the while watching the modern day soldiers at the march and wondering about their rifles.

Even now, as I attend Anzac Day commemorations I find myself doing similar. I shut my eyes and try my hardest to grasp the concept. Sometimes I think about my family and circumstances and focus on feeling grateful for the sacrifice these soldiers made. Sometimes I focus on a group of young people and try to imagine them willingly heading off to the other side of the world to fight a war.

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Day message. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fortunate enough not to have experienced war. Thankfully I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t personally know anyone who has been killed or injured fighting, so like so many others Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reliant on my education to reflect the significance of the occasion.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m currently reading a book which has provided great insight into the First World War. Socks From Bungendore is a compilation of letters written by Lt Col Thomas Rutledge from Gallipoli, England and France to his mother Jean and sister, Elma, in Australia. They have been edited by Rutledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Martha and son William after the latter discovered them in the attic of the homestead on the family property.

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They had been stored in a box for almost a century, with a note on top written by Jean: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letters written during the war â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I would not like to have these burnt, years hence they will be of great interest.â&#x20AC;?

I have found them fascinating. Many of them were written in dugouts and trenches â&#x20AC;&#x201C; often on scraps of paper. He wrote in detail about how he was faring and also provided an insight into how his family members were coping at home.

What I found most interesting was how (relatively) civilised it was. Maybe he was appeasing his worried mother â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he was an officer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but even his dugout in France, made from sandbags and corrugated iron, was described as being â&#x20AC;&#x153;comfortableâ&#x20AC;? with its primus stove and bed. He also keeps up his social norms, arranging for wedding presents to be sent to various people, and diligently visiting relatives and friends on his leave.

The fact a mail service even existed is incredible. Every week Rutledge wrote letters home from battlefields, hospitals and training camps and also received them in all sorts of far flung places. How the mail and its recipients were united is quite staggering.

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Rutledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s younger brother was killed fighting in France, and he also lost many friends and colleagues. Despite this he remains stoic in his letters home to his grieving mother. As a mother myself I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine the worry and the grief she must have experienced. He must constantly ask she does not risk war time travel to England, to visit.

It is this personal account which has provided me to date with the strongest insight into (particularly) the First World War. No amount of school history instruction and the remembering of dates and places at school could really bring home the experience of those thousands of young Australians who travelled across the world a century ago.

I now wonder how to best give insight to younger generations, who are even further removed from war than I. I often watch them during Anzac Day services and wonder what they are thinking. Can they possibly grasp the concept of war and its impact? What do they think of during that minute of silence? Many of them turn up year after year, realising the day marks something important â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but like me they are supremely fortunate not to have really felt the horrific brunt of war.

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Science and research: the truth is out there

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

T’S difficult to know what to believe these days.

Let’s start with Star Wars. That movie’s creator, George Lucas, could have saved himself a lot of time if he’d read the same 1950s books I do. One had a young bloke kidnapped from a world almost covered with oceans and jailed in a huge spaceship. He saw a beautiful young girl, the daughter of a galactic senator, being attacked by an eight foot tall character clad in all-black, who hissed rather than talked. He attempted a rescue and just as this ill-fated attempt was going to be crushed by the villain, the day was saved when the ship was attacked by a swashbuckling space pirate and his seven foot tall furry co-pilot. The young bloke went on to discover that he possessed strange powers which enabled him to tap into the life-force of the universe.

So if George Lucas had just read this book, written 20 years before Star Wars was released and virtually mirroring his own creation, he would have had the plot and characters sorted before lunch.

The name of the book in question: Star Quest.

Make up your own mind about all that, but it shows there’s a lot of information in the world, which makes it difficult to know what has come before, much less determine who’s speaking the truth on any particular issue.

A major problem we have in our commercialised world is that so many people have hidden agendas. So many experts are paid by companies to deliver the commercial results those organisations want.

We have plenty of these issues close to home at the moment, starting with vaccinations. While I agree it’s important to protect against contagious disease and my kids are vaccinated, I’ve done

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eenough research and talked to enough people to believe the official line isn’t p all the truth it’s cracked up to be. I’ve a sseen a child – born to a medical professional – who was born perfectly healthy, i but suffered severe brain damage after being vaccinated.

Again, there are world-girdling commercial interests at play and those profit imperatives have seen the risks vastly downplayed. Government scientists know that to keep their careers they have to toe the line, especially if they want lucrative consultancies to tide their pensions over – rock the boat as a whistle blower and your life will never be easy.

Fluoridisation of our water supplies is another emotional issue where there’s plenty of evidence that the experts pushing this barrow have been on the payroll of companies that benefit by selling the toxic fluoride waste byproduct to councils rather than having to pay vast amounts of money to have it destroyed. The fluoride that helps dental health is not the fluoride that’s put into our water supplies... but there’d be no money in that.

The recent toxic berry scandal shows how commercial profit is trumping public health and the greater good. Our society is now so deep into this global market it seems difficult to know how we could ever opt out.

Just recently, the agricultural chemical Round-Up has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. There’s a worldwide rebellion against the way its man-

ufacturer Monsanto does business and many have believed that the product, which contains the active ingredient glyphosate and underpins the chemical giant’s Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) empire, causes cancer.

Now, with many countries looking to ban, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) says the ubiquitous chemical is probably carcinogenic. The same happened with DDT, or Agent Orange, years ago and the world had to change its practises.

Parkes MP Mark Coulton is concerned about the huge wave of negative publicity this story has generated.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified as “possibly” or “probably” carcinogenic, five chemicals that include glyphosate – this contradicts countless scientific studies by international and national health or regulatory authorities, yet the IARC has not gathered any new data or evidence.

“Glyphosate has been added to a list of substances or activities that include aloe vera, coffee, pickled vegetables and being a hairdresser or carpenter. It has revolutionised farming practices in our part of Australia. The use of glyphosate in no-till farming systems has meant farmers are growing more kilograms of food and fibre per litre of water and diesel than ever,” Coulton said.

If our region had to dump Round-Up tomorrow the dislocation would be immense, with many of the current generation of farmers knowing no other way

Our society is now so deep into this global market it seems difficult to know how we could ever opt out.

of growing crops.

“Indeed, over the past decade of dry weather many farmers have grown profitable crops that would not have been possible without the use of glyphosate,” he said.

“This attack on glyphosate is another example of an orchestrated campaign by international green groups; they are targeting large chemical companies in an attempt to stop GM crops. The irony is that GM crops that have been modified to repel insects and sprayed with glyphosate to control weeds have had a positive effect on the environment.”

Mark Coulton says he doesn’t support the use of a chemical that will harm people, but believes we need to look beyond superficial reports that claim to be based on science.

This is why Australia needs to spend its research dollars on looking for alternative ways of farming.

If glyphosate is banned, we’ll need another way of doing things.

If our export and domestic markets turn away from food farmed with Round-Up, as many are walking away from GMOs, we’ll have to ensure we grow foodstuffs people will actually buy.

There are many farming systems succeeding without these chemicals, yet all our research is directed to helping the big end of town’s chemical agriculture.

That has to change.

Just as pro-GMO advocates say choice must be allowed, so too must public research dollars investigate ways to be free of the chemicals a growing proportion of consumers say they don’t want.

And just as pro-Monsanto chemical farming advocates attack critics as having a “green agenda”, anti GMO activists point to the inside running established by the chemical industry, with US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton as a former Monsanto lawyer.

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Smoke and lava spew from the Villarrica volcano, as seen from Pucon town in the south of Santiago, this week. Authorities have restricted access to the area within 5km of the crater and have put the area under an orange alert due to the volcano's heightened unrest and increased likelihood of eruption.

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Remember the past to prepare for the future

BY FELICITY TAYLOR-EDWARDS RDS CEO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA)

HIS weekend marks 100 years since the Gallipoli landing – 97 since Australian troops reclaimed Villers Bretonneux from German hands.

These two campaigns have left a great legacy for Australians: how we commemorate the stark comparison of success in the Somme after the total devastation of Gallipoli, says something about the nature of what it is to be Australian. This sets us apart from other nations whose main days of national unity spring only from victory.

Just as it is important not to forget what took place on those foreign shores, this weekend also gives us an opportunity to examine how the nation has changed over the past 100 years. By looking at the past, we can understand how we may best prepare for the future.

Soon after troops landed at Gallipoli and reports of heavy casualties hit home, the call for troops spread across the Orana. That call was a loud and clear “coo-ee”, as NSW’s first recruiting march travelled from Gilgandra, through Eumungerie, Mogriguy, Dubbo, Wongarbon, Geurie, Wellington, Dripstone, Mumbil, Stuart Town, Euchareena and on through 18 more townships before arriving in Sydney.

Thanks to the Coo-ee March, our region is significant in our nation’s history.

But the region has changed much since then. Years ago the Orana was made up of a number of smaller communities, all relatively proximate to each other by today’s standards.

Looking back into the establishment of these townships, often a collection of farmers were followed by a shop, a policeman, and a town was born. Given distances were not as easy to travel as they are today, each town needed these essential services to survive.

So what was the pattern for growth in these towns? The strong agricultural opportunities invited landholders to play their own version Squatter. Entrepreneurialism and private investment followed (through the local shop) and this was backed by the introduction of public services. Thus a town was born.

After the war, we know far fewer (particularly able-bodied) men returned to our shores. The workforce was severely reduced.

Just for perspective, it’s interesting to note that in 1926, the same year the growing town first commemorated ANZAC Day, a home in Dubbo cost approximately £1,100. I’m sure many first home buyers would jump at that opportunity now.

But then the country, like the rest of the

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Western world, slipped into the grips of the Great Depression. Work on the Harbour Bridge and Sydney’s underground railway system were stalled. Land was made available for returned servicemen, to reduce the capital expenditure needed to get a foot into farming. Unfortunately, the majority of Australia’s agricultural produce was tied to one market, Great Britain, and our reigning nation had stopped buying.

This uncovered a major flaw in Australia’s economy: its lack of diversity. Australia was becoming a nation of its own right, stepping out from its colonial identity. This needed to happen economically as well.

In wading out from the depression, wages were lowered and Australia become the home of a burgeoning manufacturing industry. For the first time, Australia was not solely riding the sheep’s back.

But then, of course, war struck again. Yet when faced with the same issues at the end of World War II Australia entered into an era of economic prosperity. What changed?

Clearly, the world was not in the same financial state; our export markets remained relatively strong, and in establishing our identity as Australians we had also established an economic identity. We’d diversified our base (even if only slightly) and as the world became smaller our export markets grew.

Australia, as a nation, also began to focus on the three Ps: productivity, population, participation.

Prime Minister Ben Chifley had commissioned a report which showed that without population growth, Australia’s economic growth would be stunted. Aside from the child bearing strategy of “one for the mother, one for the father and one for your country”

tralia (ICA) this morning declared a catastrophe for stormaffected parts of New South Wales, in particular the Central Coast, Hunter, Greater Sydney Metropolitan and Illawarra regions.

By Wednesday morning, insurance companies had received more than 19,500 claims, with losses estimated at $129 million.

That figure is clearly expected to rise as damage is assessed throughout this weekend. Insur-

the nation needed a way to ensure population growth.

The federal Department of Immigration was established in 1945; this did much to create the Australia we know today.

The influx of immigrant workers increased Australia’s productivity. They worked on farms, ran small businesses, and became the backbone of the other projects which ensured major growth: infrastructure investment.

Both fortunately and unfortunately, most of our rail, road and water infrastructure exist because of (and in the same form as) that post-war investment boom.

So when we look back, what do we see has changed?

Certainly not the drivers for growth: a strong, diverse workforce; a growing population; infrastructure investment; a diverse economic base. Agriculture, whether you’re on a farm at Coonamble or offering a professional service in Dubbo, is still the backbone of the region’s economy.

What has changed, for this region at least, is our connections to each other and the rest of the world. Distances are shorter. We now have the technology to share information from the Orana to the shores of Turkey at the push of a button. What was a collection of fairly equal sized towns the Coo-ees marched through is now a major regional hub, with a large city that survives because of its proximate towns.

When we look back this weekend we not only acknowledge what happened on the shores of Gallipoli, but what happened when those who returned came home. They built this region into what we know today. Our challenge is now to honour that legacy by continuing to grow the region into the future.

ance Council CEO Rob Whelan said insurance companies had declared a catastrophe to enable industry resources to be fully harnessed to assist affected communities.

“These storms have caused damage across large parts of NSW. Though most claims so far have been for low-level property damage, mainly from water and wind damage to homes and damage to cars, insurers are also receiving claims for severe

damage to houses and roofs.

Claims are also being received for stormwater inundation,” Whelan said.

“I expect these numbers will rise quickly as home owners and businesses assess the damage to their properties and lodge claims with their insurer or through their insurance broker.”

Whelan said insurers were standing by to assist policyholders and steer them through the claims process.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015

Web technology specialist Brendan O’Sullivan. PHOTO: CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

Real time online demands challenge small business

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

MALL businesses face a raft of challenges to stay afloat and the rapid pace of innovation and development in the online world is creating new ones.

New applications and social media channels pop up on an almost daily basis and staying on top of these new developments and how they work is a big job even for the specialists.

However, given nearly 84 per cent of small businesses in Australia are in the services sector, getting on top of these communication challenges is critical to keeping the doors open.

The recent appearance of two rival video streaming apps, Periscope and Meerkat, is raising questions about how small businesses with limited resources could even attempt to take advantage of this form of real-time communication.

According to the last annual Sensis survey of social media (2014), this form of digital marketing is a low priority for small business – only 36 per cent have a social media presence and even fewer have a social media strategy.

Over the past 20 years Dubbo-based web technology specialist Brendon O’Sullivan has watched the growth, changes and the trends of how small businesses are evolving in the online space.

He’s concerned about how things are currently taking shape for small business operators.

“One of the biggest challenges for small business is to keep on top of it all.

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“The reality is very few businesses would have heard of Periscope or Meerkat. It’s just not one of those things that people have their ear to the ground on.

“When it comes to social media they can’t get past Facebook...that’s about it.

Try to talk to them about LinkedIn or Twitter and they’re just not interested.

“There are even more channels coming out every day – I really feel for small business trying to keep on top of it.”

Blogging and posting on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram don’t really require someone to be active online around the clock. However, as demand grows from Millennial and Generation Z consumers seeking real time responses, so does the requirement for businesses to have more human resources than ever to not only post content but to respond.

“There’s the complexity of developing strategy around it...and a resourcing issue that has to be addressed around that,” says O’Sullivan.

“Then there’s the cost of that, and the proof of the return on investment – probably the largest unknown that small business has at the moment.”

He believes many small businesses struggle to understand how social media is consumed because it’s not seen to be as tangible as radio or television

advertising.

In an opinion piece for media and marketing publication, Mumbrella, social media agency director George Pappas states “with live streaming, an amateur content piece can create a true, meaningful and personable relationship with a social community. A brand, indeed, becomes a person.”

O’Sullivan agrees this takes branding to another level but questions whether many small businesses have the capacity to think of their marketing like this.

“It’s about relationship building and brand awareness and stuff like that. But then you have companies that just don’t even think about their brand.”

While new apps and channels appear and disappear online on an almost daily basis, there are clear trends emerging that will demand small business sit up and take notice or face the consequences.

O’Sullivan says he sees clients come in with great aspirations but come to the realisation they just can’t do it.

“We’re lucky as we’re exposed to multiple industries, markets and sectors and we are literally watching businesses fly or die...it’s happening right now.

“Adding to the confusion for small business is the largest sector of online users (youth) will be on multiple chan-

One of the biggest challenges for small business is to keep on top of it all.” – Brendan O’Sullivan, web technology specialist

nels and those channels can change weekly.

“We talk to our kids and ask them what channels are they on this month.

“Small businesses just don’t ask those sort of questions. Some of them barely know what Instagram is and it’s already passé.”

Another factor impacting on the success of small business in the social media space is the big marketers taking on social media platforms, such as Snapchat, which in turn drives some users away.

“The youth market is not big on brands coming into where they hang out. They just don’t trust any of that stuff.”

Citing the recent Woolworths online Anzac campaign disaster, O’Sullivan adds the failures of big companies in this space are another barrier to small business being prepared to take the risk themselves.

“But the reality is if they don’t move into this space they’ll die.

“In terms of where to start...baby steps and understand it is something you have to do.

“But be aware this will cost you either time or money.”

On a personal note, O’Sullivan says his business hasn’t been immune to the need to evolve to stay in the game either.

“I see that clearly there are four solid states of change we’ve been through over the past 15 years.

“We’ve had to evolve as a business to meet the demands of a growing market whether they realise they need it or not.

“There are things that we do now that 10-15 years ago we never saw happening. We had to evolve to stay in the game.”

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Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

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

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Real estate: As Dubbo’s real estate market is enjoying increased interest from investors, but what’s good for the goose isn’t always good for the gander when it comes to housing and rental affordability. Rod Crowfoot, chairman of the Orana Division of the Real Estate Institute of NSW talks to Weekender about the state of the market and the impact of growth on consumers and investors. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley

A V-dub in the bath.

And being consistent.

WELCOME to our Marketing Minute.

Our opening ad (above) is another from those clever ad-creators as Volkswagen. The catch line reads: “Every Beetle is given 10 baths before painting, to ensure a perfect finish.”

Clever!

Consistency sells ASK the world’s biggest marketers what matters most and one of the Top 5 responses will be CONSISTENCY. There are some key marketing elements that you SHOULD make sure are the same EVERY time. If you have a corporate colour, use it everywhere and every time. If you use a particular font in your logo, make sure you use it every time.

And, believe it or not, some businesses aren’t always consistent with their own name – which makes no sense because, more than anything else, it’s your business name that you want people to remember.

A business name is just as important as a person’s name.

So if your business is called The Gardener’s Friend, stick to it. Close enough ain’t good enough, e.g. the gardners friend, or The Gardeners’ Friend (apostrophe in the wrong spot) are not correct.

Effective ad design tips Use words your audience knows.

IF you want the French to read your ad, write it in French! For your target market, consider their frame of reference and how familiar they are with your industry’s terminology. Avoid acronyms and confusion-creating jar-

gon. It’s always more effective if you can have them reading your ad instead of a dictionary.

Wise words from the Ad Guru WHEN using a graphic element in your ad, such as a picture or drawing, make sure you choose an image which resonates with the message in your ad, otherwise you could send the reader’s mind off in the wrong direction.

Tourism marketing – please try harder A Swedish news outlet conducted a survey of the town slogans for all 290 municipalities in that country and found some leave a lot to be desired.

Let’s just say they need a bit more marketing help!

The town of Kristinehamn was given the “Biggest Name Drop Prize” by for its slogan “Picasso chose Kristinehamn – you’re welcome too.” This, despite the fact the town’s only association with Picasso is that he once visited there for a holiday.

Nykoping’s slogan was dubbed the “Most Boring” for choosing to advertise itself with the plain “a place to live”.

The city of Flen won the “Least Imaginative” prize for its slogan, “Flen: A municipality.”

And the “Worst Slogan” prize was given to Fagersta, which promises newcomers, “You get a life sentence here.”

The lesson here is: only good slogans are good!

– Until next time, keep up the clever marketing!

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha

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What’s the current state of play in the housing and real estate markets in the region?

We’re starting to see a little bit of a change in the market dynamics. In the past 12-18 months we’ve seen a much bigger in increase in investor activity and we’re probably seeing the effect of that now in our rental market. It’s a little easier to find rental accommodation now than it was two years ago.

At its lowest, listings got down to 44 pieces of stock to lease in the whole of Dubbo – at last count it was up to about 176 (in the past fortnight). The volume of stock in the market has increased substantially and that’s taken some of the pressure off the rental increases in some parts of the market.

It’s given tenants more choice.

What about the increases in rent – is that driving house prices up?

It’s certainly giving investors more reason to pay a little bit more for entry level stock. First home buyers are really not an identifiable part of that established market – there are no government grants there; it’s investors and buyers that are battling it out in that early median sale price.

Are those house price increases presenting a barrier to first home buyers getting a start?

Yes, especially with the changes to banking policies as a result of the GFC. Banks now want to see proof of savings over a period of time; they want you to have the five per cent deposit and you need to have your stamp duty and more of the other costs saved as well. That’s a bit of a barrier and we’re seeing more of that first home buyers’ market being driven into the building market and construction, mostly on the basis of government grants.

The government needs to to drive construction of houses. We’ve seen a prevalence of that in Dubbo over in Rosewood Grove, for instance, where at first you could build a brand new home at sub-$300K – now it’s more towards the mid-$300K range. That was affordable especially for first home buyers especially, when they got their first home owners grant of $15,000 and they only had a small amount of stamp duty to pay – it just made the affordability of getting into the first home that much easier.

So where does the average first home owner start?

The first home owners grant expires on January 1, 2016, so it will still run for the next seven or eight months. But other first home buyers will be in the sub-$300K price range and that can buy them a quite comfortable cottage. One of the things we’ve seen identified in the market is the element of keeping up with the Joneses. There is certainly a higher

expectation from lot of our first home buyers, and across the board, of what we should have and that correlates to what we can have.

How is the growth of real estate market affecting people on a fixed income or who are perhaps at the lower end of the demographic scale?

They’re the ones who have felt the most impact of the increases. Families that are on assistance and those who are on income that has no room for absorbing any additional increases, they’re the ones hardest hit. Looking at Dubbo as a balanced city that has something for everybody, the tightest part of the market is that end – these are the people who just can’t cope with these increases.

What do you see as the solution?

While it’s great to look at growth, how are we going to meet the needs of those families and those individuals who need to live in the city and still want to participate? It’s been well documented over the past 18 months that Dubbo has had no high density housing for the past 20 years. Usually those on the fixed incomes are the ones who live in those types of accommodation. And young couples just starting out or leaving home or moving here will choose to live in high density housing, but we haven’t built any for so long, that’s now a niche.

It’s an issue the city has to look at – how are we going to house those on lower incomes, and the young people who leave home? When you look at the rental increases, where are they going to live, particularly in the high density market?

How healthy is the occupancy rate in commercial premises here and across the region? Is commercial a better investment than residential?

In the commercial market there are some sectors that have better strength than others. There’s been a lot of talk by our council around (developing) the CBD and the dynamics that are played out as a result. There are some weaknesses and some strengths in the industrial property market – there are some good industrial sheds for lease at present and there are a number available where previously it was our tighter end of the market. So whether you are talking residential, retail, industrial or commercial, there are ebbs and flows in the market. There are periods where you go through some strong activity and times where it does slow down and we are possibly in a slower period at the moment.

Some of the real estate commentators in mainstream media have said the prospect of capital gain in regional cities is slim. What’s the incentive for people to invest in real estate in Dubbo and other regional centres?

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015

ROWFOOT safe as houses?

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Business structure I T is important to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the various business structures available, and to choose the best structure to suit your circumstances.

Factors to consider include set-up and ongoing costs, tax implications, asset protection and legal requirements. The four main structures are:

Sole trader

I think its security. The main element is pure affordability, in the fact that you can make an acquisition so much more cheaply in Dubbo than in metropolitan areas. I think historically the regional areas don’t have the peaks and troughs of a metropolitan market. Our owner-occupiers appreciate the fact that the market is constant rather than having those massive variables. Over the past 10 years, we’ve had median house price growth of 10 per cent. Dubbo is an area where the numbers are telling us investors are seeing an opportunity and not necessarily short term but long term as well.

What are some of the legislative changes that have had an impact on the real estate industry and consumers?

One of the things the (NSW) government mooted in its pre-election campaign was to tighten up the requirements of under-quoting in the property market. There was an element in that of just stirring the pot.

There’s already legislation in place to cover this anyway – it’s just that Fair Trading is under-staffed and under-resourced to attend to all the issues needing their involvement.

There are agents out there who deliberately flaunt the law and do the wrong thing and there are agents who are doing a great job. As in all industries, there’s a lot of room for improvement, but that was one thing (the government) picked on. I think the Victorian government made legislative changes to the “offers over” practice, believing it was a deceptive and misleading way of marketing. I believe the NSW government is looking at doing the same thing.

Do you agree the “offers over” strategy is a deceptive form of marketing?

I think there is an element of confusion among consumers. Some vendors will have an “offers over” price and will consider selling for less than that, whereas at other times there are instances where the “offers over” price has been substantially exceeded. I think there’s an element in the market where the buyers are not quite sure – is the owner going to take less than the amount or $20,000-30,000 over the amount.

That was the driver in Victoria and why NSW is now looking at the legislation.

There’s a perception among landlords and property owners that the laws and regulations are geared towards the tenant. Is that perception a reality?

There were a number of changes made to the Residential Tenancy Act in 2011 that we (in the industry) believed were more beneficial for the tenant than the landlord. One of the silliest conversations I had was when an adviser to one of the Ministers for Fair Trading said he believed investors entered the property market for social justice reasons – that they had no other reason than genuinely just wanting to help someone find a house for rental accommodation.

He said it with a straight face. He didn’t have any understanding that no-one buys a property for that reason – they buy investment properties with a view to developing additional wealth. Nobody ever buys for that purpose, but when you’re getting bureaucrats giving that sort of advice to politicians then it’s not surprising that we end up with some of the rules we’re governed by.

There were a few changes made to the tenancy act in favour of the tenant that were a little more practical, so I think there’s a balance between getting what’s good for a landlord but not for a tenant and vice versa.

It’s just about getting the right balance with perspective. There’s probably further room for improvement and in some ways some of the changes that were made were certainly in favour of a landlord.

What’s your advice to consumers – what should they be looking for in an agent?

I think the tried and tested method is always good – by referral or recommendation. There are many excellent practitioners in Dubbo and around the region and I think if you are looking in a city you’re not familiar with, go and talk to various businesses and ask who is the best (agent) to deal with. Talk to the local Real Estate Institute (REI) and find out which practitioners are members – you can do that online. Certainly as members of the REI they try to uphold standards – looking after the interests of all the parties, the landlord and tenant. So they try and look at it from a balanced viewpoint. I think the recommendations method is best.

THE owner is a sole proprietor who controls and manages the business.

This structure is appropriate where the business is small and the capital investment is minimal. z Simple and inexpensive to set up with minimal record-keeping requirements for legal and tax purposes; z The owner retains all the profits and is responsible for all debts and liabilities; z The owner has unlimited legal liability for all expenses and debts, which means that personal assets can be used to pay for business debts; z A sole trader pays tax as part of their personal income tax return at their marginal income tax rate – as the business earnings increase, so does the owner’s tax rate; z The business can easily be ceased or sold.

Partnership A partnership consists of two or more people (up to 20) who hold joint ownership of a business. Partnerships are an effective way of combining expertise, knowledge, resources and additional finances to run a successful business. z Partnerships are easy and fairly inexpensive to establish – a written partnership agreement is not mandatory but is strongly recommended; z Profits of the business are distributed to the partners who then pay income tax at their marginal tax rate according to their personal circumstances; z Partners don’t have to hold equal shares in the business, however, each partner is jointly and individually liable for all financial obligations of the business and there is unlimited legal liability for all partners; z Disputes between partners occasionally arise which may hinder operation of the business; z Transfer of ownership from one partner to another person can be complex.

If a partner leaves, retires or dies, the partnership usually has to be dissolved.

Pty Ltd Company A proprietary limited company is a separate legal entity with its own income tax liability. It is incorporated under the Corporations Law and is regulated by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC). A proprietary limited company must have at least one director and one shareholder (who can be the same person) and can have up to 50 non-employee shareholders. Liability of the shareholders is limited to the share capital they have subscribed and any debts which they may

have personally guaranteed, so the personal assets of shareholders cannot be seized to pay company debts. Company directors may still be liable for any debts, liabilities and legal actions held against their company. This type of structure would be useful for a small business which needs restricted liability with flexibility and tax advantages. z Set-up and ongoing costs of a company are higher than those of a sole trader and partnership; z The process of establishing a company is complex and there are stringent tax reporting, administration and record-keeping requirements; z A company pays income tax on its taxable income for the year at a fixed rated (currently 30%); z Transfer of company ownership can be relatively easy; the company doesn’t have to be wound up in the event of the death, disability or retirement of any of the key people in the business.

Trust A TRUST is an arrangement where one party, the trustee (either a person or a company), carries on business and holds assets for the benefit of the other parties, the beneficiaries. The most common form of trust is a discretionary trust, also known as a family trust.

All income of the business goes into the trust and the trustee has the power to decide how to distribute the income to the beneficiaries. The rules by which the trust is managed are contained in a trust deed. z A trust is a complex structure which has to comply with specific regulations, so establishing a trust needs to be done by a solicitor or accountant – this can be expensive; z Ownership of the business by a corporate trustee provides asset protection and limits liability in relation to the business; z Beneficiaries of a trust pay tax on income they receive from a trust at their own marginal rates, therefore, income distributed to children under 18 may be taxed at higher rates than adults; z Beneficiaries of a trust are generally not liable for the debts of the trust – assets of the trust may be controlled by the beneficiaries but they are not owned by them.

Your action plan MAKE an appointment with your accountant and solicitor for advice on choosing the best structure for your business.

Ask about: z Establishments cost; z Maintenance costs; z Record-keeping and reporting requirements; z Tax implications; z Asset protection; z Selling, leaving or transferring ownership of the business.

Contact the Scolari Comerford team today on 1300 852 980 for assistance with this Action Plan!

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Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

PHOTO: KATE WRIGHT

Lifestyle Brekkie bliss

Food Health Travel

BY KATE WRIGHT INSPIREDMOOD.COM

REAKFAST is my favourite meal of the day but this recipe takes mornings to a whole new level. The combination of ingredients may sound a little odd, but Oh Em Gee! You owe it to yourself to give it a try! It’s delicious, satiating and tastes like it should be bad for you, but has just six, real whole food ingredients.

Yep, this is a breakfast your mind and body is going to love you for.

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HEALTH IN BRIEF World-first melanoma drug claim THERE’S new hope on the horizon for melanoma sufferers, with ground breaking results from clinical trials of a new drug showing a greater survival rate for patients with advanced melanoma, which kills an Australian every six hours.

Clinical trials recorded a oneyear survival rate for 74 per cent

Bananas contain tryptophan (an amino acid) and Vitamin B6 – great mood enhancers. They are also rich in potassium and, coincidentally, so are figs! Potassium helps keep your heart healthy, your muscles moving and your nerves working – so this breakfast really is a great way to start the day. And bacon... Who doesn’t like bacon?! Opt for healthier alternatives if you can, such as nitrate (preservative) free, freerange and organic.

Why not change up the traditional Sunday breakfast this weekend and try my bacon and

of patients taking Keytruda, compared with 58 per cent of those on Yervoy.

Associate Professor Georgina Long from the Melanoma Institute Australia said she hoped the results would lead to Keytruda being listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at 834 patients from around the world who had advanced melanoma, meaning it has spread to organs such as the liver or lung.

It found that Keytruda prolonged survival and had less highgrade toxicity and side-effects compared with the drug currently in use, Yervoy.

The new drug also reduced the

banana pancakes with fresh figs and honey. I’d love to know what you think of them.

Bacon and banana pancakes with fresh figs and honey Ingredients 1 large overripe banana, mashed 4 eggs 1 cup almond meal 2 bacon rashers 1 fresh fig, sliced into quarters then each quarter halved again 2 teaspoons of honey Method Combine banana, eggs and almond meal in a medium bowl.

size of the tumours in about 70 per cent of the patients.

"This breakthrough is probably the most important development in the treatment of this disease ever, and a landmark in terms of cancer treatment in general," said Macquarie University's Professor Rick Kefford.

Call for campaign to tackle mental health stigma SPEAKING at the Mental Health in the Australian Workplace conference, Jack Heath, CEO of mental health organisation SANE Australia, called for a five year coordinated national campaign to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness. “Stigma prevents people getting the help they need

Cook bacon in a frypan over medium heat, flipping once.

Remove bacon from pan but leave the oil (from the bacon) in the pan.

Turn heat down to low* and spoon pancake mixture into the frypan (one tablespoon of mixture to make one pancake works well).

Cook for about a minute each side.

Serve pancakes with a rasher of bacon, drizzled with a teaspoon of honey and garnished with fresh figs.

Enjoy!

Serves 2. * Hint: Turn your oven on to a low heat and place your bacon on a plate in the oven to keep warm while you make the pancakes.

early on. Late help is always expensive for both individual lives and Government budgets,’ Heath says. The campaign would target specific groups including mental health professionals, media, youth, and CALD communities and cited the workplace as a critical setting in the national effort.

“For all the progress we’ve made understanding depression we have made virtually no progress in reducing the stigma about the poorly understood psychotic illnesses,” he says.

“We urge the Federal government to put in place a five year national stigma reduction campaign so that we can build a fair, decent and prosperous Australia in which we all have a place and contribution to make.”

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015

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

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BY ROCHELLE BAILEE LEE then discuss this with you.

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I Frank Hattenfels, Hugh Hopkins, and Russell Shinn of the Dubbo Lions Club will be working with Camilla Kenny of the Rural Adversity Mental Health Program. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

Shedding light on mental illness

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

PENING the door on the darkness of mental illness is the aim of a health initiative being delivered in rural areas. The Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) is a state-wide program funded by the NSW Ministry of Health linking rural people to the help they need.

RAMHP has now joined forces with the Dubbo Macquarie Lions Club to host a community support skills training workshop which aims to give guidance and support to not only sufferers, but those around them too.

RAMHP coordinator Camilla Kenny said the initial program was borne from a strategy of the Newcastle University Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health with a focus on developing evidencebased practical skills.

“It’s about learning how to identify someone who’s not travelling so well, what services are available to them and self-care options,” she explained.

“We hope that by delivering this training and increasing awareness of mental illnesses and services available, people will be better-equipped to identify concerns and seek help early.

“It’s important to know what to say, what to do, the services that are available and accessing treatment from a GP, social worker, psychologist or psychiatrist.

“There’s also various other services, including helplines and online therapy.”

Knowing how to approach mental illness and understand the warning signs is also part of the program.

“Noticing a change in mood or behaviour, when the person is having problems carrying out normal tasks, not coping with everyday situations and changes to eating and sleeping habits, their use of drugs and alcohol, and any other uncharacteristic behaviour.”

As well as the community session, there is workplace training which looks at stress, effective communication skills and client relationships.

“We might have different relationships and levels of interaction but when someone is not travelling too well, you don’t have to know their whole back story to

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identify when someone needs some help,” Kenny pointed out.

Knowing how to set up the conversation, to be able to talk openly with someone and showing empathy and good listening skills are all part of the path to improved mental health.

“There are barriers to seeking help and barriers to giving help; we are just encouraging people to look at how to overcome them.”

In terms of our own state of mind, Kenny’s suggestion was to keep an eye on stress levels, have a good diet and exercise regime and get plenty of sleep.

“Being socially and mentally active is important too, catching up with friends, doing a crossword, keep being active and not isolating yourself.”

RAMHP has a specific focus on mental health in rural areas because it can not only be more difficult to access services, but because of the stigma that’s attached itself to seeking help in small communities where everyone knows your business.

“Accessing services is difficult in small communities,” Kenny acknowledged.

“But it’s best to start with your GP and tell them more than just physical symptoms. They can give you the best feedback and treatment for you. Anyone with a phone, car or internet connection can seek help and there is something available.”

As a society, Kenny said we’ve come a long way from keeping mental illness hidden behind the door.

“People didn’t want to talk about it, hear about it, we do still have a long way to go, but we are trying to be more open.”

The Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) is managed by the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH), in partnership with each of the rural NSW Local Health Districts.

The program was first established in 2007 as the Drought Mental Health Assistance Package. From 2010, the program aimed to more broadly address the mental health impacts of rural adversity in NSW, and became known as RAMHP. » The Community Support Skills Training Workshop will be held on Monday, April 27 at Dubbo RSL Club from 6pm for a 6.30pm start. If you or someone you know needs information or support, contact the NSW Mental Health Line on 1800 011 511 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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View from the top of Yacaaba Head

Seize the day in your own backyard T was peak hour on a Friday night when a friend and I set off down the Pacific Highway headed to Hawks Nest for the weekend. The Nest seems to be a popular holiday destination but admittedly it’s a place I’d never visited. As expected, we sat in painfully long traffic jams, the bumper-to-bumper stream of vehicles a candid reflection of day-today life in the city – chaos.

Daylight saving meant the sun set prematurely making it feel much later than it really was. Our anticipation soon escalated into tone-deaf sing-a-long session, followed by the repeated question: Are we there yet? Our excitement went up as the arrival time ticked down on the GPS and we eventually reached the Welcome to Hawks Nest sign.

The absence of street lamps made for a dark and gloomy entrance. You know that feeling where you want to keep looking over your shoulder? We were the only car parked in the pitchblack shopping centre car park and the only customers inside the town’s major supermarket.

We crept along eerie streets searching for our final address, eventually pulling up outside to an empty holiday home.

The rest of our mates finally arrived and the eeriness wore off when the big empty house filled with chatter and uncontrollable laughter.

True to the forecast, the weather re-

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mained a balmy 26 degrees while we walked to fetch a morning coffee and observed a little holiday town lost in past. The dated colorbond homes and old fashioned patios looked like something straight from the 70s. After a barbequed bacon and egg roll on the balcony, we shed the aforementioned calories with a hike up Yacaaba Head – the headland of Port Stephens. The rocky, uneven terrain was not exactly suited to bare legs and white sneakers – every step needed to be closely calculated.

The sweat glands flooded and on the way up and I discovered legs muscles I never knew existed. In layman’s terms, I realised how unfit I am.

Too focused on where to put my foot next, I only looked up for the first time at the halfway point. And the view was simply serene. Looking down through

Hawks Nest Beach with Yacaaba Head in the background low hanging branches over Hawks Nest There was no way I was giving in. Obvibeach was a reminder of how beautiful ously, climbing mountains is not a regular activity for me but the satisfaction the natural world really is. It seemed like I felt when I did reach the top was libsomeone had paused time and thoughts erating. Stoked to have made the peak, as I drank in the spectacular site... until I felt like I was on top of the world. Of I released I had not quite conquered the course, the return trip was much less mountain yet. demanding.

The final 500 metres of walk was the most arduous. It’s funny how personaliOur trek was followed by the most ties become evident in even the silliest refreshing of dips at Bennett’s Beach of situations. I noticed my body fighting where I floated indulgently on the calm with my head, telling it to stop but I adwaves. It’s rare to have a beach entirely mired the determination of my head to to yourself but it is the most peaceful encourage my body to just keep going. feeling. In fact, there were ten of us and

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for a while there we were all so relaxed, barely a word was spoken.

In the evening we took a short drive to Dark Point, also known as Little Gibber. Pristine sand dunes, the likes of which I’ve never before before seen take your breath away. We were all baffled by the beauty of this place. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was like hills covered in a carpet of soft white sand. I half expected a caravan of camels to gracefully appear on the horizon. If you haven’t been, you simply must. After taking a few classic sunset shots to bank

for social media peak hour, I stopped and soaked in the serenity. The atmosphere of this innate environment juxtaposed my natural habitat of the buzzing city and frenzied lifestyle.

If I do still have your attention, you’re probably thinking, so what? And no, I’ve not been paid by the Myall Lakes National Park to boost tourism. The 36 hours I spent in Hawks Nest was a cordial reminder to occasionally just stop. An urge to remember what it feels like to stand on top of a mountain, hover over waves in the ocean and discover the unscathed ex-

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quisiteness of our planet earth.

I think many of us go searching for adventures across the seas and forget to appreciate the gems in our own backyard. We become absorbed in climbing the ladder of life and striving to make something of ourselves. It’s ironic how easy it is to get tangled in our misfortunes, worries and decisions and much harder to seize the day.

Do yourself a favour, decontaminate your mind and sanitise your soul – carpe diem. You’ll be impressed with the aftermath.

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Seniors face job discrimination: report

BY RASHIDA YOSUFZAI ROM being the butt of ageist jokes or threatened with sacking because of their age, older Australians are being discriminated against in the workplace.

And it's putting them off job hunting at a time when the government wants to encourage seniors to stay in the workforce for longer.

More than a quarter of Australians aged over 50 have experienced some form of prejudice because of their age in the past two years, a report from the human rights watchdog released on Thursday says.

Some said they were the target of jokes or derogatory comments from colleagues, missed out on training or promotion opportunities, while others were threatened with dismissal because they were older.

As a result, many said they suffered stress, mental health issues or felt their self-esteem diminish â&#x20AC;&#x201C; besides the impact on their families, career and finances.

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The federal government wants to raise the age pension access age to 70 by 2035.

sion says the results are concerning given a third of those discriminated against simply gave up job hunting as a result.

Almost half began to think about retirement or accessing their superannuation fund because of their treatment.

That may not be good news

for the government, which wants to raise the age pension access age to 70 by 2035 and pare back budget spending on the ballooning payment.

The commission says it's clear that age discrimination is discouraging older workers from remaining in or re-enter-

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ing the workforce.

Older people don't perceive the workplace as a friendly environment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and it's an issue for society as a whole.

"As every one of us is ageing, unfair age barriers can affect all of us," age discrimination commissioner Susan Ryan said.

Â&#x152; Over a quarter of over-50s experienced some form of age discrimination in last two years. Â&#x152; A third of managers say they factored age into their decision-making. Â&#x152; A large number of workers (43 per cent) didn't report discrimination. Â&#x152; Some said they would not be believed, had no proof or that nothing could be done. Â&#x152; Others felt it was too stressful or embarrassing, or it was just easier to keep quiet. Â&#x152; Workers in the lower income bracket were more likely to experience a negative impact as a result of the most recent episode of discrimination. Â&#x152; Half of those polled in the lower income bracket gave up looking for work as a result of experiencing discrimination, as opposed to a quarter (25 per cent) of those in the higher income bracket.

SOURCE: NATIONAL PREVALENCE SURVEY OF AGE DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE.

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Labour of love

BY SAM WYLIE-HARRIS CONTEMPORARY, cool and a little bit edgy, the industrial trend can be defined in many ways. But it’s the strong lines, raw finishes and metallic tones, designed to mirror the urban architecture, that’s inspired interior designers to create modern living schemes that are slick and hard to resist.

Functional and fuss-free, but with a nod to heritage, it’s a clean look that has traditionally been seen as a masculine one. However, women have also demonstrated an equal love for industrial style in recent years, and while it lends itself well to bachelor pads, it can also be channelled by anybody hankering after a touch of loft-style living.

This applies to family homes too, because, the good news is, despite bare and exposed being a key characteristic, this look can still bring warmth and comfort – without the need for expensive curtains and cushions. And best of all, it’s a great excuse to declutter.

Here are some top tips from the experts to take the hard work out of mixing these tough materials, and make a style statement that flows from room to room.

TOUGH LIVING Simple and understated, colour and texture are key, and the industrial look is all about metallics, distressed surfaces and raw wood. But giving your lounge or living room an industrial-style makeover doesn’t mean stripping it of all soft touches.

“It’s a very tactile style, so it works well in the living room,” says Kate Hassard, marketing manager for a furniture company.

Of course, leather sofas – ideally suitably battered and brown – are most synonymous with the industrial look. And while these are an investment which will never go out of style, if the budget doesn’t stretch, or you simply don’t want leather, that doesn’t mean your industrial action is over.

“Start with a relaxed corner

Home Management in the Digital Age

BY SAMANTHA MAZZOTTA

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Home automation is becoming all the rage, but many homeowners balk at rigging up remotely controlled thermostats or security systems because they’re concerned about the cost or about locking into contracts.

And some DIY-ers don’t want automation, but they do want to bring a little order into the chaos of home maintenance and improvement. Fortunately, the explosion of mobile apps is making life a bit easier... and at an affordable price.

Here are some of the latest connected devices that aim to make home management, automation and security easier:

z BrightNest: This home maintenance app for iOS (think iPhones and iPads) and Android platforms helps you set up a maintenance schedule and offers helpful tips on cleaning and maintenance. Free. z Cozi Family: Need to assign chores to the kids or split up home-maintenance tasks? This app can do that. It also syncs with everyone’s device from a single account and has a simple interface. Free. z HomeZada: This desktop software allows you to make an inventory of all your home’s systems for free. For $59 a year, it gives you maintenance reminders and instructions, a calendar, a remodelling budget tool and more. z Nest: While this startup company’s physical products include a “learning thermostat” and a smoke/CO

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sofa in a cool, neutral fabric with texture, such as wool,” suggests Hassard. “Soften the look with cushions, or a throw with a shimmer of silver, glow of copper or glint of brushed steel. And if you don’t have an exposed brick wall at home, make a feature with what you do have.”

Indeed, some vintage and antique frames propped in a casual stack, studio floor lamps, factory-style ceiling lights and a mix of vintage and rustic pieces here and there will go a long way, and you’ll soon realise there’s no need to call in the builders to remove the plaster and clean the bricks.

“If exposed brickwork, concrete surfaces and pared-back minimalism feels a step too far, then incorporate statement pieces, such as a smart clock or statement bookends, for added emphasis,” suggests interior designer Joanna Wood.

Allowing functional items that would normally be hidden away, such as a radiator, to become focal points, is an integral part of the trend for that unfinished, slightly edgy feel.

Plus, the warmth they emit will form a stark contrast to the polished metals and pared-down surrounds.

MEATY EATERY For a chef’s perk, and a hardworking centrepiece that combines all the elements, it has to be a range cooker. With its professional-looking stainless steel

finish and top-notch cooking capacity, it oozes industrialism, yet somehow remains homely.

Match this with a mix of ash and oak for the kitchen table, and the distressed finish morphs into a peaceful pattern of metal and woodgrain effects, which would contrast beautifully with white tableware and bistro-style glasses.

“Matching the kitchen design with stone, concrete worktops and other urban materials, such as worn metals, allows you to create many different looks, which can be used as accents, or as a complete kitchen,” says Matt Thomas, a fitted furniture buyer.

“With today’s technology, it’s very difficult to identify laminated surfaces and robust finishes from the real thing, and many customers are opting for the reclaimed look.”

Some carefully chosen accessories, like stainless steel and copper-finish utensils, and perhaps some vintage advertising-inspired artwork, will help bring the look to the boil.

CLEAN AND COOL A free-standing bath is a big investment, but the materials used are renowned for their durability, and nothing wows like a statement tub. The sculptural splendour can be softened with your favourite fluffy towels, soaps and scented candles, too.

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Invest in items like wooden consoles, metal cabinets, chrome rails and stone-effect accessories for the finishing touch, and enjoy the natural beauty of bath time.

Splashes of deep grey in your colour scheme, along with tough, natural tiles – slate is fantastic for floors and walls – will also put the industrial cogs in motion.

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detector, both of which can be controlled remotely, it’s also partnering with other tech firms to connect systems in and outside your home – from your car to your fitness wristband and more. Products can be found online or at home-improvement stores. z Notion: This home-sensor system goes beyond the standard security system: It senses pretty much anything you want it to, whether it’s an open garage door, an almost-empty propane tank or a window being lifted. The system sends a message to your smartphone. Sensors along with a necessary Wi-Fi bridge are available on line.

TIP: Home security starts with good maintenance, so make sure windows are in good shape and lock tightly, and install sturdy deadbolts at entrance doors.

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BY JOANN DERSON 1. Here’s a handy and fun twine/ string keeper you can make with your kids using two repurposed clay flowerpots with drain holes. Choose a size that can easily fit a ball of twine or thin rope. Set the ball inside and invert one pot on top the other, threading the line through the drain hole of the top pot. Secure with tape or even hot glue. Now you can pull twine through the hole without the ball getting all tangled up!

2. “If you have a poster that has been rolled up and you want to hang it, try rolling it the opposite way and leaving it overnight. When you unroll it, there will be fewer bumps, and the edges won’t curl so much.” – from R.L. 3. The best way to quickly chill canned and bottled drinks is in a mix of ice and water. This works because ice water makes complete contact with the surface of a can or bottle, while ice alone makes only partial contact. To make your ice last longer and stay colder, pour salt on the ice/ water mixture.

4. “After too many mornings of rushing to find sports uniform pieces before a game, we decided to get smart. Now, sports uniforms get hung up with all accessories in the coat cupboard right after washing.

They’re ready as soon as it’s game time – no looking under beds or in the back of overstuffed teenager closets!” – from P.P. 5. “To hold all my daughter’s bobby pins, I mounted a plastic cup with double-stick tape right to her vanity mirror. I used to vacuum them up all the time, but now that she has a place to put them, it’s better.” – from L.E.

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Poetry in motion After 30 years in the military, Ron Stevens turned from supply ships to stanzas, forging an infinite love of poetry. WORDS Natalie Holmes HEN it comes to writing poetry, one could say Ron Stevens was a bit of a late bloomer. After retiring from his military career at the age of 54, the former Naval Commander studied a Bachelor of Arts through Macquarie University, focusing on the English and History. A love of literature developed from there and Stevens began penning his own verse.

“After I retired from the Navy, I was at a bit of a loss of what to do mentally,” he explains.

Some 35 years later and the spritely 89 year old has developed what he describes as “compulsive competition behaviour”, entering as many writing prizes as he can.

“I have been a compulsive entrant in literary competitions,” he admits.

But Stevens is certainly reaping the rewards from his passion and has won awards in every poetry competition this side of the Black Stump.

The wall cabinets of his home office bear the spoils of his efforts with trophies from the Dunedoo Bush Poetry Festival, the Henry Lawson Heritage Festival in Gulgong (where he’s won the Henry Lawson Society of NSW Literary

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Award a massive five times) and Gilgandra’s Coo-ee Festival.

He’s also won Winton’s Bronze Swagman, The Blackened Billy at Tamworth twice and the Banjo Paterson Literary Award at Orange four times, along with the NSW and Victorian Australian Bush Poets Association State Championships.

As well as writing awards, Stevens has also won first prizes in performance competitions such as the John O’Brien Festival, Narrandera and the Leonard Teale Memorial Award, Gulgong.

Stevens rattles off names and dates as quickly as Wilfred Owen’s iconic stuttering rifles and his quick wit and broad knowledge is impressive to say the least.

He explains that his interest in poetry has been long-held.

“I became involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Young St Poets when I lived in Sydney,” he says.

“Before I came to Dubbo, I also became involved in the Australian Bush Poets Association where I’ve been a member for a number of years.

“Since then, I have travelled a lot to attend poetry festivals mainly in the eastern states and have had a number of successful poems in all states. I’m now a life

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THE following poem by Ron Stevens will be read by him at the Dawn Service at this year’s ANZAC Day centenary in Victoria Park.

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member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and been a member of the Outback Writers (Centre) for a number of years.”

The great-grandfather writes about all manner of topics, drawing on his own experiences and adapting them to the poem at hand.

He has written about everything from the centenary of train travel and humorous observations of bush life and being a grandparent to the loss of his own daughter and the tragedy of youth suicide.

The sign of a good poem, in Stevens’ eyes, is when it evokes emotion in the reader.

“When people are affected by it. When people tell me it makes them laugh or cry, that’s when I know.”

HEN it comes to writing, Stevens is a stickler for the old school of style and meticulously spends time counting syllables and matching rhymes as part of his work.

He still writes out each poem in long-hand and has A4 notepad and blotter at the ready on his desk.

Once he’s happy with the work, it’s then transferred onto his computer.

“I get it precise on the pad and then put it on the computer to print copies.”

Stevens admires the work of the greats of Australian poetry, Henry Lawson and AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson and doesn’t have a lot of time for free verse.

“Their style of writing appeals to me. The standard was fairly high in those days and I pre-

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fer the discipline of rhyming poetry. If you have difficulties and overcome them, that’s rewarding. Free verse is too free. It’s a bit like modern painting.”

As a member of the Dubbo RSL sub-branch, Stevens also judges the Australia My Country competition and gets a lot out of encouraging fellow writers and poets.

For the past seven years, he’s also been reciting a poem at the ANZAC Day Dawn Service in Dubbo. This year will be his eighth time.

“The sub-branch asked me if I had a poem that was suitable for the Dawn Service. They felt it was lacking, that people deserved value for their time,” he explains of the involvement.

Stevens is “highly respected throughout the bush poetry community”, according to ABPA secretary Brenda Joy in an article submitted to Free Expression magazine and his war poetry serves as “poetic tributes to our serving men and women which make a significant contribution to the national history of Australians at war”.

But for Stevens himself, he’s just doing what he loves.

He doesn’t want to glorify war, he just enjoys putting pen to paper and creating poetry.

“Something will strike me and I think it would be good to put it down. Competitions aren’t as competitive as they sound and I’ve made a lot of good friends. I get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing a mate win a prize.

“But you never know, at 90, I might call it quits and take up knitting.”

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Please never call us fearless, mate. It’s heard too often Anzac dawns When speakers aim to re-create that April day Australia mourns.

It’s fair enough to call us brave for overcoming numbing fears; That’s how all soldiers should behave – recruits to crusty brigadiers.

Bravado yes, aboard the boats offshore, before the first shells fell; Then phantom fingers clutched at throats as we were guttered into hell Of shouting, bullets, bloodied sand and unexpected stifling fear The fear of failing mates, the brand of coward death now starkly near.

Our Boer War sergeant later said he felt it once again, though showed No signs while leading us through dead and maimed; and steeped in RN code Of Nelson, tiller firmly gripped in boyish hands, a middy steered Us well ‘til hit, then calmly slipped away, no hint of what he’d feared.

The weeks that followed – storming heights and gouging foxholes under fire, Brief rests cut short by nightmare frights, prolonged anxieties and dire Assaults to wrench the mind unhinged for minutes or eternity Surreal rotes of when we’d cringed together, crimped by Turks and sea.

Oh, there were heroes: blokes who rose above us dawdlers to take Machine-gun nests head on, expose themselves to volleys which would rake Our ranks and make the strongest flinch; our stretcher bearers, heroes all, Retrieving wounded, inch by inch in no-man’s land, above the call.

But many of such heroes, we reluctantly would leave behind In Turkish soil, when told to flee in secrecy this site enshrined Forever now as Anzac Beach. Although the guns fell silent, we Still bore the ache, the fear of each new sunrise on Gallipoli.

The last of us are buried now, in France or luckily back home.

But fate has chosen to allow us sight beyond enclosing loan.

We’ve seen our sons in World War Two; watched grandsons fight in Vietnam; Uur Aussies in Korea too, Iraq and then Afghanistan.

I’ve gazed into a thousand eyes and seen the clouds of doubt and fear, Then Anzac spirit exercise control and panic disappear.

For some, when peace has been declared, another struggle would commence.

In World War One, those shell-shocked fared askance by those in governments.

The powers who in World War Two saw battle-fatigue as a free Ride home, and jungle troppo too; unlike a clear-cut amputee.

Yet post-traumatic stress has come to be accepted as a wound To minds; one just as burdensome as gas to lungs or legs roughpruned.

Recalling Anzac Cove, I mourn the mates whose gaze was fixed ahead A thousand yards, who’d bravely worn their shell-shock-hame ‘til safely dead.

I mourn the waste, bright futures torn to shreds by blood so boldly shed And fear for diggers not yet born who’ll follow in our graven tread.

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MOVIES.

Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies with Ian McKellen as Gandalf.

PHOTO: PA/WARNER HOME VIDEO

The Hobbit shows off Peter Jackson’s mastery of action sequences

BY DAMON SMITH

NEW TO RENT ON DVD/ BLU-RAY AND ON-DEMAND DVD OF THE WEEK The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (M, 144 mins, Warner Home Video, Action/Fantasy/ Drama/Romance, also available to buy DVD /Trilogy DVD Box set /Blu-ray /3D Blu-ray /Trilogy Blu-ray Box Set /3D Trilogy Blu-ray Box Set or on-demand from various streaming services) Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Luke Evans, Evangeline Lilly, Orlando Bloom, Aidan Turner, Ryan Gage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee. THE company of dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), including Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), watches in horror as the mighty dragon Smaug (voiced

by Benedict Cumberbatch) incinerates Laketown.

As the flames rise, Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) prepares to launch the last remaining black arrow at the beast. His children seek cover with elf warrior Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) and badly injured dwarf Kili (Aidan Turner).

At Dol Guldur, Gandalf (Ian McKellen) escapes from the clutches of the Necromancer (Cumberbatch again) and beats a hasty path to the mountains, where various tribes will converge. The fate of Middle Earth hangs in the balance and Thorin sacrifices everything in his selfish pursuit of the mythical Arkenstone gem.

The Hobbit: The Battle Of Five Armies bids farewell to the magical creatures of JRR Tolkien’s novels with a whimper rather than a bang.

Comical interludes with snivelling manservant Alfrid (Ryan Gage) seem to jar with the darker tone that pervades this chapter, including the inevitable loss of at least one hero in the melee.

Freeman’s performance provides a flimsy emotional fulcrum while co-stars battle with their characters’ demons or hordes of bloodthirsty orcs.

The script occasionally deviates from Tolkien’s source text, contriving one superfluous and protracted interlude with elvish allies Elrond (Hugo Weaving) and Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and the wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee).

Director Peter Jackson’s

mastery of action sequences is beyond doubt – the two set pieces, which bookend this film, are executed with flair, precision and a miasma of impressive digital effects. A three-disc box set comprising the entire trilogy is also available.

Rating: +++

ALSO RELEASED Big Eyes (M, 106 mins, Warner Home Video, Drama/Romance, also available to buy DVD /Blu-ray ) Starring: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Delaney Raye, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp.

IN 1958 California, Margaret Hawkins (Amy Adams) leaves

her husband “before it became the fashionable thing to do” with young daughter Jane (Delaney Raye) in tow. They settle in San Francisco where Margaret’s spooky pictures of street children catch the eye of fellow painter Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz).

Big Eyes stars Amy Adams as Margaret Keane. PHOTO: PA/WARNER HOME VIDEO.

BY SAM STRUCKHOFF

PICKS OF THE WEEK

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK Liam Neeson in “Taken 3”

Taken 3 (M) – Former special agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) kicks more butt in his retirement than most spies do during their busy season. When Mills is framed for the murder of his ex-wife, he must go on a very “Fugitive”-esque adventure to clear his name and catch the killer. On his tail is a ruthless lawman (Forest Whitaker), who doesn’t seem too interested in the job.

It’s the final instalment of this trilogy, although it feels like we’ve seen at least 50 of these movies since the first bullet-riddled car drove through the box office.

There’s a lot of movies like this, and this one

just doesn’t have the trilogy-ending calibre fans want. You could blame the move to M for watering down the violence, but that doesn’t account for the poor pacing or the overall laziness of the production.

Like Sunday, Like Rain (Classification pending) – Living in a Manhattan palace that easily could be mistaken for a museum, 12-year-old cello prodigy Reggie (Julian Shatkin) is the picture-perfect precocious child in need of human contact.

Eleanor (Leighton Meester) is a doe-eyed, 23-year-old ex-waitress beset by drama from a no-good rocker boyfriend (Billie Joe Armstrong, of the band Green Day) and her folks upstate.

Reggie’s mom (Debra Messing) hires

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 24.04.2015 to Sunday 26.04.2015 They marry and Walter persuades his new wife to let him claim ownership of her haunting depictions of children with over-sized eyes since he has the showmanship to promote the Keane brand.

While Margaret toils night and day in her studio, Walter enjoys the trappings of celebrity. However, not everyone is seduced by Walter, including revered critic John Canaday (Terence Stamp), who despairs at the column inches devoted to the talentless self-publicist.

“He is like the Hula Hoop – he won’t go away!” laments Canaday.

Truth is more bizarre than fiction in Big Eyes, a handsome biopic of artist Margaret Keane, who famously took her husband to court in 1986 to prove he was a fraud.

Tim Burton’s dramatisation of the Keanes’ romance and subsequent legal wranglings is infuriatingly light on fine detail. It’s difficult to understand why Margaret agrees to the deception when she is strong enough to leave her first husband or tell Walter plainly, “The more you lie, the smaller you seem.”

Adams delivers another solid performance while Waltz tempers his usual scenery chewing, apart from the climactic trial when his accused man mounts a legal defence based on everything he has seen on Columbo. Period detail is splendid but quirky style overrides emotion.

Rating: +++ Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast (G, 78 mins, Disney DVD, Animation/Adventure/Fantasy, also available to buy DVD /Blu-ray or on-demand from various streaming services) Featuring the voices of: Gin-

nifer Goodwin, Mae Whitman, Rosario Dawson, Lucy Liu, RavenSymone, Pamela Adlon, Megan Hilty, Melanie Brown, Anjelica Huston, Thomas Lennon.

ANIMAL fairy Fawn (voiced

by Ginnifer Goodwin) has a big heart and often takes pity on wounded creatures that could, when fully grown, pose a threat to the other residents of Pixie Hollow including Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman), Silvermist (Lucy Liu), Iridessa (Raven-Symone), Vidia (Pamela Adlon) and Rosetta (Megan Hilty).

Fawn stumbles upon a hulking creature called a Neverbeast, which has been roused from hibernation by a passing green-tailed comet. She christens her discovery Gruff and becomes deeply attached to the behemoth, which is fearsome at first sight.

Subsequently, Pixie Hollow librarian Scribble (Thomas Lennon) uncovers a drawing, which suggests Gruff will bring about the destruction of the fairy community.

Spear-wielding scouts Nyx (Rosario Dawson) and Fury (Melanie Brown) prepare for a dawn attack on the Neverbeast but Fawn vows to protect her furry friend, regardless of the consequences.

Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast is a feature-length computer-animated adventure, which references Beauty And The Beast and the fable of Androcles and the lion.

Steve Loter’s film casts a sweet, inoffensive and entertaining spell, juxtaposing gentle laughs from vain, imageobsessed fairy Rosetta with Fawn’s assertions that you shouldn’t judge a Gruff by his mane (“I know he’s not what

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they say he is!”).

A simplistic script sets out to teach children – particularly girls – that true beauty comes from within. The animators dilute that message by festooning the screen with pretty, slim, rosy-cheeked and beautifully coiffed protagonists dressed in figure-hugging fairy fashions of every conceivable flattering cut and hue. It’s the thought that counts.

Rating: +++ Dumb And Dumber To (M, 109 mins, Universal Pictures, Comedy/ Romance/Action, also available to buy DVD /Blu-ray or on-demand from various streaming services) Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Kathleen Turner, Laurie Holden, Rob Riggle, Rachel Melvin, Steve Tom. FOR two decades, Lloyd Dunne (Jim Carrey) has been consigned to Baldy View Psychiatric Hospital, where brother Harry (Jeff Daniels) visits and helps the nurses to wash, dress and feed the comatose patient.

Thankfully, Lloyd regains the few senses he possesses and supports Harry through his own medical emergency: an urgent kidney transplant.

Since Harry is adopted, there is no familial donor and the future seems bleak. Out of the blue, Harry learns that he fathered a child in 1991 with old flame Fraida Felcher (Kathleen Turner).

The dim-witted duo tracks down the fruit of Harry’s loins, Penny (Rachel Melvin), to her adopted parents: reclusive scientist Dr Pinchelow (Steve Tom) and his trophy wife (Laurie Holden).

Alas, Penny has already departed for a convention in El Paso to honour her father’s groundbreaking work. So

Dumb And Dumber stars Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey. PHOTO: PA/ UNIVERSAL PICTURES

the simple-minded pals hit the road – and occasionally each other – in order to reunite Harry with his long-lost offspring.

From the eye-watering opening gag of a DIY catheter removal, Dumb And Dumber To is a moronic sequel, which embraces every crude, lewd and inappropriate set-up imaginable in a relentless pursuit of cheap, grubby titters.

The plot is nonsensical and includes pointless diversions

such as a brief reappearance of the Mutt Cutts dog van from the original picture.

Carrey and Daniels fling themselves into the fray with gusto, at the mercy of a script that lacks subtlety, sophistication or any discernible laughs.

If Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s mindless film is the future of comedy, then the art form has flat-lined and we should enforce a Do Not Resuscitate order.

Rating: +

Tinker Bell And Legend Of The Neverbeast: Fawn & Tinkerbell. PHOTO: PA/DISNEY DVD Eleanor to be Reggie’s new nanny, then promptly disappears, leaving the sheltered Reggie in the hands of barely mature Eleanor.

This is one of those slow, somewhat comedic dramas that has to pick and choose which clichés to favour.

Reggie, for one, is too precocious, too snippy and stiffly formal – but he can learn to mellow out from the down-to-earth charms of Eleanor. It’s a heartwarming little tale, assuming the leads don’t annoy you too much before the credits.

Cake (Classification pending) – Claire (Jennifer Aniston) has been in constant pain since a car accident more than a year ago, and it’s taken its toll on her love life, her career and her personality.

Spiralling into prescription abuse and a general feeling of nothingness, Claire can’t get over the suicide of one of the women in her chronic pain support group

(Anna Kendrick).

Clearly, this is heavy drama and a bit of a departure for Aniston, who has been stuck in goofball comedy purgatory. Here, Aniston shows she has the chops to carry that dramatic weight.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Classification pending) – This movie is an absolute surprise and a treat. It’s a suspenseful, sultry, funny and creepy vampire Western from Iran. Oh, and it’s in black and white.

The Girl – as she is known – walks the streets at night in a black veil, completely unafraid of the pushers and punks as she rides a skateboard she stole from a boy.

There is romance, as the girl encounters Arash, a young outcast in the crosshairs of a local thug.

First-timer Ana Lily Amirpour wrote and directed this film, showing stupefying skill with an itty-bitty budget.

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office 1 Fast And Furious 7 (pictured above) 2 Cinderella 3 Home 4 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

5 The Longest Ride 6 Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge Out Of Water 7 Shaun The Sheep 8 The Age Of Adeline 9 Insurgent 10 The Duff MPDAA. WEEK ENDING 22.04.2015

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BOOKS.

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Still Alice’ author’s new novel is a real triumph

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE z BOOK OF THE WEEK Inside The O’Briens by Lisa Genova is published in hardback

by Simon & Schuster.

FOLLOWING hot on the success of the big-screen adaptation of Lisa Genova’s debut novel Still Alice – an exploration of Alzheimer’s disease – the Harvard-educated neuroscientist’s fourth novel, Inside The O’Briens, cements her reputation in another defiant and unforgettable story.

Joe O’Brien is a formidable Boston policeman and proud paterfamilias of the O’Brien clan – wife Rosie and his four grown-up children, JJ, Patrick, Meghan and Katie.

Out of the blue, he gets a diagnosis that sends shock waves through his beloved family – Huntington’s Disease.

As there’s a 50 per cent chance of the illness being inherited, Joe’s diagnosis seals not only his fate but cruelly threatens the lives of his children.

Each sibling faces a choice as to whether to get tested for the disease, and for youngest daughter Katie, it becomes a frightening game of Truth or Dare: to take the test and discover her fate or not to take the test and live with the uncertainty.

Given the subject matter, it would be easy for this novel to slip into sentimentality and despair, but blessed by Genova’s touch it balances poignancy and emotion with a power and optimism that stands in defiance of the disease it portrays.

Crucially, Genova’s novel succeeds in shining a spotlight on one of the cruellest of illnesses – and one without treatment or cure – giving a voice to those who suffer. Yet a curtailed ending and a focus An artist completes a wall painting depicting Nobel-winning US novelist Toni Morrison whose first contemporary novel has just been published. PHOTO: REUTERS/BENOIT TESSIER

on multiple characters ensures that this becomes not so much a story about the devastation of illness, but about the strength of family.

The novel deals some crushing blows but also delivers some rays of hope and is, at heart, a gripping and affecting story. Lisa Genova once again proves herself to be at the forefront of this genre both as an author and a humanitarian.

A real triumph.

9/10 Review by Jade Craddock z FICTION The Salmon Who Dared To Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyeon is published in paperback by Pan. NOVELS designed to appeal to both adults and children are invariably doomed to failure as simplistic language disinterests the former group, or contextual complexities confuse the latter. So rare then, is this wonderfully inclusive modern fable that it must be read and enjoyed by all.

Ahn Do-hyeon’s The Salmon Who Dared To Leap Higher – translated into English for the first time here by Deborah Smith – tells the story of a young salmon with uncharacteristically silver scales which separate him from his peers.

As his shoal journey upstream to achieve their goal of reproduction, Silver-Salmon ponders the meaning of life, questioning his destiny and whether what makes us different really makes us ‘different’.

Do-hyeon’s story is succinct in translating its messages about ambition, love and our relationship with nature in a gentle manner, and the novel’s beauty is in the innocence of it’s language. Elegantly simple and affective, this is a novel for everyone.

9/10 Review by Holly McKenzie God Help The Child by Toni Morrison is published in hardback

by Chatto & Windus.

NOBEL prize winner Toni

Morrison’s first contemporary novel looks at the legacy of child abuse, and at how trauma can play out down the generations if the past goes unacknowledged.

Bride, Booker, and Brooklyn, all outwardly successful, are haunted by pivotal moments in their childhoods, and by the love that was denied them.

All three are oblivious to how their histories have influenced their lives and their relationships; all three wish to believe, as adults, that their slates can be wiped clean.

It is courageous subject matter, but at less than two hundred pages, and with a host of secondary characters on similar journeys of discovery, Morrison’s approach feels scattergun. No character has the space to fully develop, and they drift, at times, into cliche.

Both structure and plot feel loose and flabby, and the work gives the impression of having

been published before its potential has been realised.

5/10 Review by Adam Weymouth Based On A True Story by Elizabeth Renzetti is published in paperback by Corvus.

WHEN Frances left California to become a hard-hitting newspaper journalist in London, she had no idea that redundancy lay ahead of her.

Penniless, jobless and hungry, she starts to lose hope, until an old interviewee offers her an opportunity that she cannot (financially) turn down.

That interviewee is Augusta Price – a once-famous actress who now spends more time in rehab than on TV. When Augusta hears that her former lover is planning to write an autobiography that might contradict her recently published not-so-factual book, Augusta goes on a mission to ensure that her version of events remain the

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While this book has many funny moments, the characters are not wholly original and the pace is at times slow.

Having said that, Augusta’s character does develop throughout the story and her sadness and fragility become clear.

5/10 Review by Sophie Herdman Orkney Twilight by Clare Carson is published in hardback by Head of Zeus.

IT’S the summer holidays before Sam starts university. Her father, Jim, an undercover policeman, is heading off to Orkney, he says, to finish his Open University degree. Convinced he’s up to no good, Sam’s mum asks her to go with Jim, to keep an eye on him.

Sam persuades her friend Tom to tag along and help her discover the real reason for her dad’s trip. It’s a promising premise, but one-dimensional characterisation and a pedestrian pace mean this thriller is decidedly unthrilling and fails to deliver on several counts.

There are so may red herrings – South African assassins, the KGB, a stalker, Norwegian fishermen, an elusive Commander, double agents – it becomes almost farcical.

Possibly, there’s some deeper meaning about families, or the relationship between fathers and daughters, or the ghosts of our past catching up with us, but the characters are so cliched and unrounded that you don’t really care.

4/10 Review by Catherine Small

calling for acceptance of the fact that landscapes and ecosystems are forever changing.

A stimulating read for nature lovers and conservationists.

9/10 Review by Kitty Wheater

z NON-FICTION The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation by Fred Pearce is published in hardback by Icon Books.

NEW Scientist stalwart Fred Pearce’s new book is a richly-exemplified and controversial defence of invasive species.

He takes us on a tour from littleknown ‘new ecosystem’ Ascension Island to the cane toad territories of Australia, investigating the common ecological wisdom that ‘aliens’ do tremendous harm and require expensive human action.

It’s a brief history of ingenious interventions, from paracetamol-stuffed mice parachuted into brown tree snakeinfested Guam, to floating harvesters deployed on water hyacinth in Lake Victoria. But ‘aliens’ are misunderstood, he argues, exposing cherry-picking methodological failures in much of invasive species biology.

Instead, aliens move in and clean up where species are already faltering, filling emerging gaps in the ecosystem.

It’s easier to blame the alien than to examine the human environmental impact that enables their arrival, he says,

All Day Long: A Portrait Of Britain At Work by Joanna Biggs is published in hardback by Serpent’s Tail.

THE concept is simple: select from a variety of professions, settle on a standard line of questioning, and see what happens.

These individually reported interviews, grouped into occasionally oblique groupings, form the basis of All Day Long.

Journalist Biggs avoids cod psychology or sociology, and while occasionally a more academic bent would be welcome, for the most part her simple style and attentive ear do a wonderful job of capturing both profession and person.

Predictable tropes rear their heads – the decline of manufacturing; cuts to public services; continued difficulties facing women across the sectors – only to be lent fresh perspective by the characters she encounters.

Ultimately the book succeeds as a succession of fascinating portraits, eventual attempts to draw any conclusion mildly besides the point: work, in all its forms, ultimately remains an individual pursuit.

All Day Long is a wonderful glimpse into the lives of others.

7/10 Review by Michael Anderson

We will remember them N Sunday 10th October 1915, 35 young men led by William Thomas Hitchen, amidst much patriot fanfare, marched out facing a 320 mile trek to Sydney. They arrived on November 12th having gathered together 263 recruits fit for service.

This March was the first of 16 such recruitment marches during World War I, making Gilgandra a unique and historic town in Australian history.”

Thus runs part of a dissertation written as part of the commemoration ceremony due to be held when a life-sized statue of the “Cooee Call to Arms” Soldier in bronze will be unveiled to coincide with the Centenary of the March.

This statement is copied from the Gilgandra commemoration documents that are being used by that community this week.

This will be a public recognition – but across the nation, countless families will recognise what they do most days; recall and think about relatives and close friends who gave their lives or suffered in the service of our country.

Each of us has that inner image, an uncle dying on the Burma Railway, an uncle killed

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when the bomber was shot up over Nuremburg, an uncle who was wounded and the maggots kept the infection under control. We’re reminded of the long-term affects on families – recently on the front page of a newspaper, a photo showed VC recipient Mark Donaldson with twins, children in the care of Legacy.

Many books have been written trying to capture the ‘Spirit of the Digger’. Among these are the “Water Diviner” by Meaghan A Wilson which is a story about fighting for a principle and the love of family, “War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo, about loyalty and courage, and the picture book “Memorial” by Gary Crew about sacrifice and heroism and remembrance for those who were left behind.

“Bill the Bastard” by Roland Perry is an entertaining yarn about a horse in the Australian Light Horse.

“Lost Soldiers” by Ross Coulthard is an amazing collection of photos taken by a French farmer during the First World War. The glass plates were found in a barn, and even though some were damaged, they are an incredible record of that time.

The Australian War Memorial

` His company was marching through a blizzard so thick that they could hardly see the soldier in front of them. As they were marching they heard a child crying, and found a baby girl with her dead mother.... a

has published a title called “Anzac Treasures” that showcases a wonderful collection of artefacts that are housed in the War Memorial in Canberra.

Les Carlyon’s books include “The Great War” and “Gallipoli”. The publisher states about the latter title: “Carlyon’s book brilliantly captures the tragedy of the Gallipoli campaign, and grippingly tells the story of what was to become our national myth. It is the product of meticulous scholarship and research, it is writing of the highest quality, but above all else it is a work of extraordinary storytelling that has the reader gripped from the very first page until the last.”

There have been many and varied writings about the Second World War, some of the notable titles being Winston Churchill’s own account in the Second World War series of books which includes “Their Finest Hour” and “The Gathering Storm”.

Antony Beevor has many titles about this period including “Stalingrad”, “Berlin” and “The Second World War”.

z CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Squares, written and illustrated by Yusuke Yonezu is published in board book form by Minedition.

Little fingers love to pull open books and the cut-out square windows on the pleasingly symmetrical yellow bus on the cover of Squares are extremely inviting.

“What can three small squares be?” asks Yusuke Yonezu, the Tokyo-born author and illustrator of the popular Guess What? series, Rainbow Chameleon and We Love Each Other.

With his simple, colourful drawings, he invites little minds to think outside the squares and imagine books, teapots, ice cubes, chocolate, presents and trains.

With cut-outs on every other page to add interest and aid imagination, this clever board book will soon become a firm favourite.

9/10 Review Kate Whiting

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From the bookshelves

by Rae Craft The Book Connection The Pacific War is also represented in our Military Section, which is of great interest to a large proportion of our local people as the servicemen recruited from our area were mainly sent to serve in this sphere of the war. Lynette Ramsay Silver, well known Australian Historian, wrote “Sandakan – A Conspiracy of Silence” concerning the loss of almost 2500 Allied POWs in British North Borneo.

“Keep off the Skyline” by Ron Cashman is written about the author’s time serving in Korea during that conflict. One of our customers told me that his main recollection of the Korean War was the cold. He told of when his company was marching through a blizzard so thick that they could hardly see the soldier in front of them. As they were marching they heard a child crying, and found a baby girl with her dead mother. They took this little girl with them until they found a safe place for her. She grew up to be a doctor and the men involved in her rescue attended her wedding. This is the selflessness and courage that is a major part of our Anzac heritage.

One of the newest titles to appear is “The Nashos War” by Mark Dapin. This tells the sto-

ry of the 63,740 young Australian men who were drawn in the ballot to serve in the Vietnam War. Told by 150 of these men, this personalized story tells a tale previously unheard.

Paul Ham’s “Vietnam: The Australian War” is the story of Australian involvement in this military campaign.

One hundred years on from the landings at Gallipoli, many events are planned in the coming weeks and over the rest of the year including those above and in Dubbo itself with the Sleepover leading to the Dawn Service on Anzac Day. I myself am a proud daughter of a returned soldier and the aunt and great aunt of current serving soldiers in the Australian Army. The pride and honour felt by many at the gatherings that will be held this Anzac day are a way of recognising and thanking all those who have served and are still serving this great country of ours.

Throughout this Centenary time, no matter what our opinion on the rights and wrongs of the Anzac legend, there is really only one thing that should be uppermost in everyone’s mind and that is, “We will remember them. Lest we Forget.”

Enjoy your browsing, Rae Craft

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Rotary Club of Dubbo South tops the million dollar mark

BY KAITLYN RENNIE IT must be one of the most remarkable fundraising efforts in Dubbo’s history. The Rotary Club of Dubbo South handed over a cheque for $100,000 to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) on Saturday night, taking the overall figure in donations made by the club since 1990 to more than a million dollars.

The latest presentation was made at a black tie ball held on Saturday, April 18, at the Dubbo RFDS hangar.

Club spokesperson Barry Hildebrandt said the aircraft hangar was “transformed into a ballroom for 420 guests and with good friends, music and fine food the result was an outstanding success”.

“Coordinator Henry Jom played a significant role in the success of the night, as did fellow Rotarian Peter Scott who headed the club’s Destination Outback 4WD trip into the outback last year,” Barry said.

Destination Outback started in 1990 and is held every two years. It is and has been the main source of fundraising for the Rotary club in its commitment to the RFDS. “Adding further prestige to the night was having Deputy Premier Troy Grant as master of ceremonies.”

Entertainment for the night was provided by Sydney-based The John Field Band and the food provided by the celebrated Eat Your Greens from Eugowra.

Peter Scolari, Phil Comerford, Richard Chewings, Julie and Jason Farr

Can Chong, Sue Clark, and Marg Smith

David Elder, Sarah Reynan, Brogan Walsh, Kenny and Hannah Wisse

Brian and Linda Cutler, Greg Sam, Brandon Smyth, Rory and Joan Treweeke

Robert Exner, Sharon MacLeod and Jack Conyn

Kim Dickinson, Vanessa and Steve Gower

Garn Ryan, Judy and Bob Jakins, Marg Smith

Regina and Tony Spiers, Louise and Lloyd Peirce, Corinne and Drew Martin

Michelle Kelly, Jan Gibson, Ngaire Fields, Helen Kinsey

Sharon Allan, Lara Scolari and Penny Koerstz

Karen James, Tim Manning and Rebecca Hobbs

Rachel Cody, Will Cody and Kim Crawford

David Lomax, Damien Mahon and Troy Grant

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Coming Events will be as follows:

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Putting in the hen house

BY KAITLYN RENNIE AFTER a long and much anticipated wait, the official opening of the new hen house, workshop, community garden and smoko room at Kintyre Estate was held on Thursday, April 16.

Residents were very excited about the opening, with many people turning up to have the first look at the new constructions, and enjoy morning tea with fellow residents and staff.

Kintyre residents and staff excited about the new constructions

Robyn Glass, Neredith Huggins, Juliet Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan, Jenny Harland, Carol and Leigh Willocks

Gloria Harper, Chris Weat and Mary Robertson

Ron Weate, Bianca Tulich and Hela Bryan

Sharyn Heydon and Gary Huggins

Liley and Trevor Wykes

Roger Sherwin and Gary Huggins

Ron Weate and Nick Carter

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Breakfast at the Grapevine

BY AMY ARMSTRONG MANY locals and visitors to Dubbo were enjoying the beautiful Sunday morning sun with breakfast and coffee at the Grapevine CafĂŠ on Sunday, April 19, when Dubbo Weekender dropped by.

Imogen Inder, Melissa James, Geoffrey Rush, Jemima James, Matilda James and Mark James

Lesa Harris, Catherine Wiltshire, Elena Mascaro, Dave Evans and Mark McAdams

Christina and Seth Joice

Chris Scales, Kylie Scales and Bec Byrnes

Dining in at the Pastoral

BY AMY ARMSTRONG DUBBO locals were enjoying lunch at the Pastoral Hotel on Sunday, April 19, when Dubbo Weekender visited.

Ashely Dunn, Katrina Tonkin and Amanda Williams

Lisa Goodwin, Erin Rauchle and Alison Piddington

Xavier, Sadie, Judy and James Bryant

Cynthia, Henry and Laura Burbury

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ANZAC tribute at the RSL Club

BY AMY ARMSTRONG THE RSL Club auditorium was packed out for the Dubbo District Concert Bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance on Sunday, April 19.

The band played songs that reflected the ANZAC spirit and commemorated the ANZAC legend in its 100th year anniversary.

Virginia Carter knitting red poppies for the upcoming ANZAC day with Margaret Minney

The Dubbo District Concert Band

The Dubbo and District Concert Band

Isaac, Zoe, Michael and Molly Minney

Up and coming actors

BY KAITLYN RENNIE Those who are enthusiastic and talented in the performing arts were at the Dubbo Regional Theatre on Thursday, April 16, where the Western Plains Theatre Company held an acting superclass for up and coming dramatic artists.

Andy Carolan and Michaela Davis ran the superclass, and it appeared that everyone was having a lot of fun.

Harvey Moore, Jed Bruce, Zajkel Zaia, Amity Coxon and Madi Burden

Holly Keizer, Cassie Shedwell, Olivia Barber, Emilia Proctor and Abe Liddell

Andrew Dickerson, Bella Leggett, Olivia Willocks, Grace Bowen and Ally Dixon

Jordan Davis, Bonnie Vance, Kate Fuller, Libby Dixon and Cia Read

Alice Cavanagh, Angela Hyland, Wade Triplett, Jess Ferraro and Jon Dixon

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Flavours from the farm

BY AMY ARMSTRONG LAZY River Estate held the first of four luncheons in their “Flavours From The Farm” series on Sunday, April 19. Flavours From The Farm allows Dubbo region people to enjoy food produced locally. Flavours From The Farm brings the best of our region’s farmers and their produce together with community members to experience, enjoy and ask questions about food, wine and gourmet products in an intimate lunch setting. The guest farmers and producers of the day describe their farming processes and how the ingredients got to the table. Extraordinary Pork from Dubbo and Orange’s Suspicious Squirrel were the two producers on Sunday.

Sandra Delany, Roz Tiffen and Debi Ruming

Chris and Amanda Mofitt

Catherine Mitchell, Anastasia Hull, Elle Fletcher, Claire Austin and Elsa Mitchell

Alex and Megan McCormack

Aimee Croxon and Kate Green

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear pate or would further details please call 6885 4995.

Country Music Muster THE next Orana Country Music Muster social gathering will be held on Sunday, April 26, at the Dubbo RSL Entertainment Lounge from 2pm to 6pm. They are held on the last Sunday of each month. If you would like to partici-

Dundullimal dinner HEAR how Clive Lucas saved Dundullimal 27 years ago at a special evening at the historic homestead on Friday, May 1 from 7pm. Along with a handful

of locals, the imminent heritage architect worked on restoring the old house back to its former glory, with patience and respect.

Sunday Soapbox LOOKING for a stimulating, alternative weekend activity? Sunday Soapbox is

Dubbo’s newest community activity. Got something you want to talk about? Then here’s your opportunity.

Come along and join on Sunday, April 26, from 11am until 1pm near the Rotunda, Victoria Park.

Take a coffee. Take a friend.

see We don’t need a map: Martu Experience of the Western Desert BRINGING together traditional culture and knowledge of the Martu people with new media artists from across Australia, We don’t need a map features paintings, digital animation, immersive video installations, aerial desert photography and sculptural objects.

The Martu are the traditional owners of a vast area of the Western Desert and their stories are illustrated in a distinctive visual language.

This exhibition provides insight into the Martu way of life and invites audiences to celebrate this lively and enduring culture.

Exhibition on display at Western Plains Cultural Centre until May 31.

Rockin’ with the Vines Marra! (catch it!), Kumpaya Gigirba and Ngamaru Bidu, 2010. PHOTO: GABRIELLE SULLIVAN

ENJOY rock ‘n’ roll dancing combined with a classic car show

and live entertainment at Rockin’ with the Vines at Lazy River Estate on Sunday, May 3.

All makes and models of trucks, bikes and cars are welcome with music provided by Terry Leonard.

The fun begins at 10am and further information is available at www.goldenwestholdens.com or by ringing Andrew on 0428 180 865.

ANZAC Centenary JOIN in the Commemorative Ceremony marking 100 years since the dawn landings at Gallipoli during World War I. There will be a dawn service at the Victoria Park Cenotaph followed by a street march and service including wreath laying mid-morning.

Master of Ceremonies is Geoff Mann, while Brigadier Kathryn Campbell, first female commander of the 5th Brigade, is the special guest.

A sunset ceremony will also be held at the monument at 5.45pm.

do ANZAC snooker competition

Mental illness workshop

DUBBO RSL Snooker Club is hosting a special ANZAC Day Snooker competition on Saturday, April 25. There is a $1000 prize pool in the 3-ball handicap knockout competition and repechage.

There will be trophies for all place winners and everyone is welcome. Newcomers will be graded on arrival. Registrations open from 1pm.

WITH one in five people diagnosed with mental illness in their lives and the ripple effect experienced by their loved ones, a workshop organised by the Dubbo Macquarie Lions Club will benefit the community.

Held in conjunction with the Rural Adversity Mental Health Program, the community support skills training workshop will be held on Monday, April 27 at

Dubbo RSL at 6pm for 6.30pm. RSVP to Sharyl Stewart on 0422 410 536.

ANZAC Day breakfast and talk FOLLOWING the Dawn Service at the Victoria Park Cenotaph, join us for a traditional ANZAC Day breakfast and talk with Western Plains Cultural Centre manager Andrew Glassop on a littleknown aspect of World War I – the Battle for Basra.

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 and draw one from memory. The British were scarcely better and would eventually consolidate their victory by establishing the collection of states and imaginary lines in the sand that would help launch the world into another type of war 90 years later.

etc.

Biggest Morning Tea

Tai Chi

please contact Dick on 0424 226 246 or 6888 5656.

GEURIE CRAFT GROUP is holding a Biggest Morning Tea on Wednesday, May 20, at the Geurie Bowling Club from 9am to 2pm. There will be mini-mart stalls, books, plants, raffles and food available all day. Everyone is welcome.

IF you’re looking for a new hobby, then look no further than tai chi, held in Victoria Park on Saturdays between 10.30am and 12pm, weather-permitting. Find them near the rotunda. Gold coin donation. For further information

Encouraging Positive Behaviour A FREE seminar for parents/carers offering strategies for dealing with difficult behaviour and an opportunity to share

experiences will be held on Wednesday, May 6, at Cerebral Palsy Alliance, 140 Gipps St, from 10am to 12noon.

The seminar will be presented by Psychologist Susan Knight. Morning tea provided. RSVP by Friday, May 1, to Melissa on 6882 1077 or mbrander@ cerebralpalsy.org.au

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

T hey shall not grow old, as we are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them Lest We Forget

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Friday, April 24 MOVIE: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory GO!, 7.50pm, G (1971) Gene Wilder’s mannerisms finally found a home as Willy Wonka, the eccentric and enigmatic owner of the world’s best chocolate factory. Wonka offers five children a chance to enter the mysterious factory. Our hero, Charlie (Peter Ostrum), finds one of the lucky tickets and takes his grandfather into the surreal factory.

Scripted by Roald Dahl from his own novel, Willy Wonka is a delight. The performances of the five winners and their various moral failings are strong and the songs are tuneful without dominating the action. The movie has stood the test of time, quite an achievement for a children’s film.

ABC

American Idol

MOVIE: War Horse

ELEVEN, 7.30pm

PRIME7, 8.30pm, M (2011)

It might not enjoy the popularity it once did and has been muted somewhat by the likes of The X-Factor and The Voice, but the Idol franchise is still going relatively strong, after all it is in its 14th season. America seems to have no shortage of warbling hopefuls confident enough to put themselves out there on a stage that has a whole nation as an audience. Tonight, star judges Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr and Keith Urban judge some stunning perfomances by the wannabe stars before someone is told to leave the competition. Cue guaranteed drama and plenty of tears to be mopped up by handsome host Ryan Seacrest.

This Spielberg opus drew a divided response from many critics on its release. The film opens in early-1900s Devon, England, when a family buys a beautiful thoroughbred despite their poverty. Son Albert (Jeremy Irvine, right) bonds with the horse, but his father, perpetually drunk, sells it to the army.

What follows is an epic war film that hearkens back to bygone one classics, with some of the most stirring sequences Spielberg has put to film.

Certain scenes may be too sugary ary for some, but there’s no denying the he director’s mastery of grand storytelling. rytelling.

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6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Life At 7. (R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Kitchen Cabinet.

(PG, R, CC) Annabel chats with politicians.

2.30 Last Tango In Halifax.

(PG, R, CC) 3.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) 5.55 Australia’s Great War Horse. (PG, R, CC) The story of horses serving in war.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Max And Helen. (PG, R, CC) (1990) A holocaust survivor locates his lost love. Treat Williams.

2.00 The Daily Edition.

(CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams.

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) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 NITV News Week In Review.

1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Rex In Rome. (PG, R) 4.25 Coast: The Mysteries Of The Isles. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

7.00 News: Anzac Eve Special. (CC) 8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Comedy panel game show.

Host Stephen Fry and team captain Alan Davies are joined by guests Danny Baker, Sean Lock and David Mitchell for a letter H-inspired discussion.

8.30 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, CC) A folk festival organiser is killed in a manner reminiscent to the murder described in The Ballad of Midsomer County, a song which features on his estranged wife’s debut album.

However, the victim had made more than one enemy as Barnaby discovers when he investigates.

10.00 The Trip To Italy: Villa Cimbrone, Ravello.

(M, CC) Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan’s road trip around Italy continues with a visit to Pompeii.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

11.05 The War That Changed Us. (PG, R, CC) Part 4 of 4.

As the war builds to a climax, Australian troops are right in the thick of it.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) The team commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli.

Joh pays tribute to our soldiers at Anzac Cove in Turkey. Adam and Jason meet a family with four generations of history in the armed forces. Graham pays a visit to the historic town of Dartmoor.

8.30 MOVIE: War Horse.

(M, CC) (2011) Based on the novel. After a young man and his faithful horse are forcefully parted during World War I, they embark on an epic journey to be reunited. Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson.

11.30 Sunday Night. (E, R, CC) Chris Bath leads a team of Australia’s best reporters, breaking the stories that matter.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 8. Canterbury Bulldogs v Wests Tigers.

From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: The Last Stand.

(AV15+, CC) (2013) After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, a sheriff retires to a sleepy small town but his peaceful existence is shattered at the arrival of a drug kingpin. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville, Forest Whitaker.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Miguel travels to New Zealand to bake Anzac biscuits. Amanda visits The Australian War Memorial.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (PG, CC) Graham Norton chats with Dame Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Jack O’Connell, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) As the investigation into the murder of a US Navy officer continues, Gibbs focuses his efforts on helping a traumatised marine regain the memories he believes will help them locate a terrorist.

10.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A former Big Brother contestant and his business partner are less than forthright with their financials.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and topics.

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (CC) Chef Heston Blumenthal tackles junk food by setting out to prepare a “superior” pizza. After learning the technique from masters in Naples, Italy, he sets out to make his own margherita pizza in less than two minutes.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 27. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets.

From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Jake tries to smooth things over with Sophia’s boss by gatecrashing a cocktail party.

10.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) The squad is invited to a Homeland Security terrorist training simulation.

11.00 World News. (CC) 11.30 MOVIE: 3. (MA15+, R) (2010) Follows a happy couple who separately meet a scientist, and begin to pursue him, each eventually falling in love with him. Sophie Rois, Devid Striesow, Sebastian Schipper

12.00 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

12.20 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

4.25 ABC News Breakfast On Anzac Day: Sydney Dawn Service. (CC) 5.30 Anzac Day: National Dawn Service From Canberra. (CC)

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.10 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.10 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.40 MOVIE: The Island Of Dr Moreau. (M, R, CC) (1996) 3.30 Impractical Jokers. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 News Special: Anzac Dawn Service. (CC) 5.30 The Last Sanctuary: Cane Toads In The Kimberley. (R, CC)

12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) Join David Letterman and special guests for his Top 10 and more.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Home Shopping.

1.35 MOVIE: Angele And Tony. (M, R) (2010) Clotilde Hesme.

3.05 MOVIE: The Father Of My Children. (M, R) (2009) Louis-Do de Lencquesaing.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, April 24 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm 300 (2006) Action.

Gerard Butler, Lena Headey.

Tells the legendary tale of the 480BC Battle of Thermopylae.

(AV15+) Action

5.30pm Family Guy. Bonnie and Lois take a trip to Paris.

Stewie and Brian must rescue Meg after she is kidnapped and sold into slavery.(M) FOX8

6.30pm The Fabric Of The Cosmos. Cutting-edge theories are suggesting our universe may not be the only one. (G) National Geographic

5.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 11. Chiefs v Force. From Waikato Stadium, Hamilton. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Rushmore (1998) Comedy. Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray. A precocious 15-year-old private school student tries to woo a beautiful teacher. (M) Masterpiece

6.15pm QI. Stephen Fry asks questions about body parts beginning with the letter H. The panellists on this episode are Sue Perkins, Bill Bailey, Gyles Brandreth and Alan Davies. (M) UKTV

6.30pm MythBusters. Adam and Jamie explore the most efficient ways to board a plane.

(PG) Discovery

8.30pm American Gangster (2007) Crime. Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe.

(AV15+) Action

ABC2/ABC KIDS 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 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Olivia. (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 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.35 The Midwives. (PG, R, CC) 9.35 Catfish: The TV Show. (PG, CC) 10.20 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.00 World’s Toughest Jobs. (M, R, CC) 12.00 The Undateables. (M, R, CC) 12.45 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 1.10 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 1.55 News Update. (R) 2.00 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (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. 8.35 Jar Dwellers SOS. (R, CC) 8.45 Gawayn.

(R, CC) 9.00 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) (Final) 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 Wacky World Beaters. (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) (Final) 1.00 SheZow. (R, CC) (Final) 1.35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) (Final) 2.10 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. (R, CC) (Final) 3.25 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) (Final) 3.50 Vic The Viking. (R, CC) 4.00 Tashi. (CC) 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (CC) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 5.10 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 5.25 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 5.50 The Next Step.

(CC) 6.15 Slugterra. (R, CC) 6.40 Kobushi. (CC) 6.50 News On 3.

(CC) 7.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 7.30 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. (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) 9.35 Voltron. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

7.00pm Modern Family.

Hayley dumps Dylan, much to Phil’s dismay. (G) FOX8

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 Spit It Out. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle.

(P, 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. 11.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 12.00 Pie In The Sky. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Sunday Night.

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.

Nicki Chapman travels to the Suffolk countryside.

9.30 The House That £100K Built: Tricks Of The Trade. A couple transform their warehouse apartment.

10.45 Make My Home Bigger. (PG) 11.15 Homes Under The Hammer.

12.15 Man About The House. (PG, R) 12.45 Escape To The Country.

(R) 2.00 The Real Seachange.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 3.30 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 4.30 Best Houses Australia. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West.

(CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 8.30 Art Attack. (R, CC) 9.00 NBC Today.

(R, CC) 11.00 Motor Mate. (R) 1.00 Big Easy Justice. (M, R) 1.30 Nitro Circus Live. (M, R) 2.30 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 3.30 Zeke And Luther. (R, CC) 4.00 Star Wars Rebels. (PG) 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 MythBusters: Steam Machine Gun/Nothing But The Truth. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 AFL Pre-Game. (CC) Coverage of the pre-game show.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 4. Richmond v Melbourne. From the MCG. 11.00 MOVIE: Unleashed.

(AV15+, R) (2005) A trained killer tries to start a new life. Jet Li, Morgan Freeman.

1.00 Big Easy Justice. (M, R) 1.30 Operation Repo. (M, R) 2.00 Nitro Circus Live. (M, R) 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.00 Motor Mate. (R)

9.30pm American Meth.

Explores the damage caused by the methamphetamine epidemic across the US. Narrated by Val Kilmer.

(MA15+) Crime & Investigation

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) 1.30 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob SquarePants. 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 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery.

(PG) (2014) 7.50 MOVIE: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.

(R, CC) (1971) Gene Wilder.

9.50 MOVIE: Cop Out. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) Bruce Willis.

12.00 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-GiOh! Zexal. (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol.

(R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 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: Angels One Five. (R, CC) (1952) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 David Attenborough’s Life.

(R, CC) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (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 continues her visit to Hever Castle.

8.30 MOVIE: Sudden Impact.

(M, R, CC) (1983) A San Francisco detective investigates a series of murders. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle.

11.00 MOVIE: Burglar. (M, R, CC) (1987) Whoopi Goldberg.

12.50 MOVIE: Death Is A Woman. (M, R) (1966) 2.25 MOVIE: Rich And Strange.

(PG, R, CC) (1931) Henry Kendall, Joan Barry. 3.55 MOVIE: I Live In Grosvenor Square. (R, CC) (1945) Anna Neagle.

7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 27. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets.From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Fox Sports 4 7.30pm Football. AFL. Round 4. Richmond v Melbourne. From the MCG. Fox Footy

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 1. (R, CC) 10.00 Working Below Zero. (R) 11.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 12.00 A League Of Their Own. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 1600 Penn. (PG, R) 2.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 4.30 Wild Racers.

(R) 5.00 Fishing Edge. (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) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 MOVIE: Welcome To The Jungle. (MA15+, R, CC) (2003) A mobster sends a tough guy to retrieve his son. The Rock.

11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Battle For The Amazon.

(M, R) 4.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. Replay. 5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (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. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Taxi. (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. (PG, R, CC) The family argues about honesty.

7.30 American Idol. (PG) Hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

9.30 Glee. (PG) Rachel faces a decision about NYADA. 10.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) 11.10 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.40 Wonderland. (M, R, CC) 1.40 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.

(PG, R, CC) 2.05 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

Gerard Butler stars in 300

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 UEFA Europa League Highlights.

7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) 8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) A couple go on a naked date.

9.20 Turn Me On: The History Of The Vibrator.

(MA15+, R, CC) 9.40 More Sex Please, We’re British. (MA15+, R) 10.35 Banana. (M) 11.05 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.00 Friday Feed. (R) 12.30 The Story Of Film. (MA15+, R) 1.40 PopAsia. (PG) 3.45 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 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show.

(PG) 12.30 Lurujarri Dreaming.

1.00 Kimberley, The Land Of The Wandjina. 2.00 Knowledge, Painting And Country. (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 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes. 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Rose Against The Odds. (PG) 8.30 Our Songs. (PG) 9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 Express Yourself.

(MA15+) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 The Medicine Line. 12.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater.

(PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.00 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Warren Creek v Amata. 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 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 Big Ideas. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 4.25 ABC News Breakfast On Anzac Day. (CC) 5.30 Anzac Day: National Dawn Service From Canberra. (CC)

ABC NEWS

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Saturday, April 25 Bondi Vet

If You Are The One

TEN, 7.30pm

SBS 2, 7.30pm

Animal lovers are still rejoicing that Dr Chris Brown has finally returned from his stint being a host on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here with Julia Morris, and is back to what he knows best – fixing up sick animals. But he isn’t on home turf tonight, instead the jetsetting doctor is in China volunteering at one of Beijing’s busiest veterinary clinics. His first patient is a hamster with a worrying lump on his chest – surprisingly, it is his first ever hamster. Will the rather large-handed Chris manage to stay cool, calm and collected as he works on his tiny, fragile patient? Tune in to find out.

Dating shows are always guaranteed to be extra-cheesy viewing, and if you like that kind of entertainment then this Chinese version will be right up your alley. Its format is loosely based on the UK show Take Me Out, where a brave (or stupid, depending on your mindset) lone male suitor has to impress a panel of 24 single women, who can then register their interest or lack thereof through the use of their podium lights. Even popular host Meng Fei’s commentary is undeniably cringey. But with more than 50 million tuning in to each episode, it’s obviously got plenty of fans. Is it possible for true love be found? Tune in to judge for yourself.

ABC

PRIME7

MOVIE: Agatha Raisin:: The Quiche Of Death ABC, 8pm, PG (2014) ama This quirky British comedy/drama revolves around public-relations ns agent Agatha Raisin (Ashley Jensen, right), who leaves London for a seemingly ngly idyllic village in the Cotswolds,, and soon finds herself a suspect in a murder case involving a poisoned ned sed quiche. Finding herself ostracised and shunned in the village, Agatha atha begins an amateur investigation n into the death, applying the skills ills she would usually reserve for a thorny PR campaign to get at the he truth of the matter. It’s a rollicking king ride, and one entertaining enough ugh to consider staying in on a Saturday day night for.

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 ABC News Breakfast On Anzac Day. (CC) 9.00 Anzac Day March Sydney. (CC) 12.30 Anzac Day: Gallipoli Dawn Service. (CC) 1.30 Anzac Day: VillersBretonneux Dawn Service. (CC) 2.30 Australia Remembers: Gallipoli 100. (CC) 5.00 Gallipoli From Above: The Untold Story. (R, CC) A look at the Anzac Cove landing.

5.55 Governor-General’s Anzac Day Address.

(CC) Coverage of the Anzac Day Address by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove.

6.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Join Andrew O’Keefe and Monique Wright for all the latest news, sport and weather.

12.30 AFL Pre-Game. (CC) Pregame coverage of the big match between traditional Anzac Day rivals Essendon and Collingwood.

2.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 4. Essendon v Collingwood. From the MCG. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC) Officers square off against an ex-Chinese policeman. A coffeemaker sent through the mail gives the authorities a jolt.

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) Hosted by Sonia Kruger.

12.00 Gallipoli 100 Years: News Special. (CC) Coverage of Anzac Day. 3.00 The First Victory.

(PG, R, CC) Follows the story of the HMAS Sydney and its battle with the SS Emden near the Cocos Islands.

3.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 8. Sydney Roosters v St George Illawarra Dragons. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

6.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 6.30 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Anzac Day 100 Years.

(CC) 1.30 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) 2.00 Tour The World. (CC) 2.30 The Talk. (PG, CC) 3.30 Car Torque. (PG, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) A caravan and camping adventure.

4.30 Escape With ET. (CC) Hosted by Andrew Ettingshausen.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 The Magic Flute.

4.50 Tim Marlow’s Virtual Gallery.

4.55 Little Secrets Of Famous Paintings: Quentin Metsys’ The Money Lender And His Wife.

(CC) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Gurinder Chadha.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 Anzac Day: Lone Pine Memorial Service. (CC) Coverage of the Lone Pine memorial service from Gallipoli, Turkey.

7.00 News. (CC) 8.00 MOVIE: Agatha Raisin: The Quiche Of Death.

(PG, CC) (2014) A public relations agent finds herself implicated in a murder involving a poisoned quiche. Ashley Jensen, Oliver Lansley, Mathew Horne.

9.30 Scott & Bailey. (M, R, CC) Called to the home of an elderly couple, Janet discovers the body of a dead woman whose husband, although alive, is trapped in his bed in an emaciated condition.

As she and her partner delve into the mystery, they must also tackle her own divorce and Rachel’s marriage decision.

10.20 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program.

10.50 Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey. (M, R, CC) Comedian Judith Lucy embarks on a lighthearted quest to explore her “spiritual” side.

11.20 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Brave. (PG, R, CC) (2012) A young Scottish princess defies her mother’s efforts to see her wed a suitable suitor.

However, her rebellion has unexpected consequences after she turns to an eccentric witch for help and potentially dooms herself, her family and her kingdom. Billy Connolly, Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson.

8.45 MOVIE: Beneath Hill 60.

(M, CC) (2010) Based on a true story. During World War I, an Australian officer and his platoon engage in a battle of wits with the enemy as they dig a tunnel under the lines, in hope it can be used to turn the tide of the war. Alan Dukes, Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson.

11.15 Strip The City: Underground City – London. (PG, R, CC) Explores the hidden infrastructure of cities.

Beneath the streets of London lie deep tunnels and more infrastructure than any city in the world.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Rise Of The Guardians. (PG, CC) (2012) After an evil spirit known as Pitch Black launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians, including Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Jack Frost, team up to protect the innocence of children.

Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Isla Fisher.

9.00 MOVIE: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.

(M, CC) (2009) In the wake of his previous encounter with the Decepticons and the Autobots, a teenager heads to university hoping to put his past behind him.

However, he finds himself dragged back into the conflict thanks to a series of hallucinations revealing the location of a doomsday machine.

Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Sergeant Blair Casey and Senior Constable Katy Hardy spot a hatchback that looks to be carrying more than it can handle. However, having pulled the car over, the driver protests their actions.

6.30 Jamie’s Food Fight Club.

(CC) Actor Michael Sheen cooks the national dish of Wales, a delicious lamb cawl.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Bondibased vet Dr Chris Brown heads to China to volunteer at one of Beijing’s busiest veterinary clinics. His first patient is a hamster with a worrying lump on its chest.

8.30 MOVIE: Gallipoli. (M, CC) (1981) Two Australian sprinters face the brutalities of war when they are sent into battle at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Bill Hunter.

10.50 MOVIE: Hitchcock.

(M, R, CC) (2012) Follows the love story between filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, during the filming of Psycho (1960). Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (CC) Michael Portillo heads to Germany, a country that tourists in the early 20th century, would have admired and feared. He begins by visiting Dresden, where he learns about one of his favourite composers, Richard Wagner.

8.30 MOVIE: Kokoda.

(M, R, CC) (2006) During World War II, a platoon of Australian soldiers is ordered to patrol the Kokoda Track. However, after falling prey to attacks by the Japanese, they are forced to make their way back to safety through some of the most unforgiving terrain on Earth. Jack Finsterer, Simon Stone, Ben Barrack.

10.15 MOVIE: The Counterfeiters. (AV15+, R) (2007) During World War II, a Jewish counterfeiter is sent to MauthausenGusen concentration camp where he is given the task of producing perfect forgeries of British and US bank notes, for the Third Reich. Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow, August Diehl.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 MOVIE: My Own Private Idaho. (M, R, CC) (1991) Keanu Reeves.

2.00 MOVIE: Griff The Invisible. (M, R, CC) (2010) 3.50 WIN Presents. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Anger Management. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

12.05 MOVIE: Black Out. (M, R) (2009) 1.45 MOVIE: The Equation Of Love And Death.

(M, R) (2008) 3.25 MOVIE: Outbound.

(MA15+, R) (2010) Ana Ularu, Mimi Branescu, Andi Vasluianu.

5.00 Korean News. 5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.00pm Mulholland Drive (2001) Drama. Naomi Watts, Laura Harring. An amnesiac Hollywood beauty sets out to uncover her true identity with the help of an aspiring actress.

(MA15+) Masterpiece

6.00pm Archer. Archer, Lana, and Ray climb their way to the top of an assassin’s hit list.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.00pm Ed Sullivan’s Rock ’N’ Roll Classics. For an unprecedented 23 years, Ed Sullivan presented some of music’s biggest stars. (PG) Biography

11.30am Rugby League.

NRL. Round 8. New Zealand Warriors v Gold Coast Titans.

From Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland. Fox Sports 1

6.10pm Noah (2014) Adventure. Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly. Premiere

6.05pm Sex And The City.

Carrie wonders why she has never become friends with an ex-boyfriend.(M) SoHo

8.30pm Dirty Dancing (1987) Romance. Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey. A teenage girl falls in love with a dancing teacher. (M) Romance

8.30pm David Bowie: A Reality Tour. Filmed over two nights at Dublin’s Point Depot, David Bowie performs some of his greatest hits, including Rebel Rebel, All the Young Dudes and Heroes. Arts

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 The Furchester Hotel.

(R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Olivia.

(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) 8.25 Australian Encounters. (R, CC) 8.30 Build A New Life In The Country. (CC) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) (Final) 10.05 The Inbetweeners.

(M, R, CC) 10.30 The Awesomes.

(M, R, CC) 10.55 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 11.15 True Stories. (M, R, CC) 12.05 True Stories. (PG, R, CC) 1.35 News Update. (R) 1.40 Close.

5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (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) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) (Final) 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. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Camp Lakebottom. (PG, R, CC) 1.25 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 1.50 Horrible Histories. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 WWI Centenary, A Behind The News Special. (R, CC) 2.35 Small Hands In A Big War. (PG, R, CC) 2.55 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 Wacky World Beaters. (CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 4.25 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Young Dracula. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Operation Ouch! (R) 6.00 Horrible Histories. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 WWI Centenary, A Behind The News Special. (R, CC) 6.45 Harriet’s Army. (PG, R, CC) 8.05 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.30 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.55 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.45 Voltron. (R, CC) 10.05 Close.

6.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Home Shopping. 11.00 Anzac: Bardia - The First Battle.

(R) 11.30 Anzac: Kokoda Trail. (R) 12.00 Anzac: RAAF Over Europe.

(R) 12.30 Anzac Day. (CC) 7.00 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG, R) Jonnie Irwin heads to West London.

7.30 Storage Hoarders. Aggie MacKenzie helps a storage hoarder.

8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) Burke is shot in the neck as he takes a fishing break. As he fights for his life, another cop is killed.

10.00 Wire In The Blood.

(MA15+, R) A murder brings Tony back from a publicity tour.

12.00 Escape To The Country.

(R) Denise Nurse helps a couple find a country home.

1.00 Storage Hoarders. (R) 2.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 3.30 MOVIE: The Navy Comes Through. (R) (1942) Desi Arnaz.

5.30 Anzac: Bardia - The First Battle. (R)

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 9.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 10.30 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. QUIT Krikke Boys Shootout. Preliminary.

Replay. 11.30 Zoom TV. (PG) 12.00 American Chainsaw. (PG, R) 12.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 1.30 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 2.30 Turtleman. (PG) 3.30 Gator Boys.

(PG, R) 4.30 Surfing. Noosa’s Festival Of Surfing. Eight Days Of Pure Stoke. 5.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 4. GWS v Gold Coast.

8.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 4. Fremantle v Sydney. From Domain Stadium, Perth.

11.30 MOVIE: I Am Bruce Lee. (PG, R) (2012) Daniele Bolelli.

1.30 Surfing. Noosa’s Festival Of Surfing. Eight Days Of Pure Stoke.

From Queensland. 2.30 American Chainsaw. (PG, R) 3.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. QUIT Krikke Boys Shootout. Preliminary.

Replay. From Perth Motorplex Speedway track. 4.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 4.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping.

7.30pm Treehouse Masters.

An Ohio family who run a hope centre want to build a therapeutic space in the trees.

(PG) Discovery 7.30pm Errol Flynn: A Fast And Furious Life. A look at the life of the notorious actor and writer. (M) Biography

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 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG, R) 4.00 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Looney Tunes.

(R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Dennis The Menace Strikes Again! (R, CC) (1998) Justin Cooper, Don Rickles.

7.30 MOVIE: Happy Feet Two. (PG, R, CC) (2011) 9.30 MOVIE: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. (M, R, CC) (1999) Mike Myers.

11.30 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Wildcats.

(M, R, CC) (1986) Goldie Hawn.

2.00 Darren Sanders. (M, R) 2.30 Gumball. (R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Angels One Five.

(R, CC) (1952) 8.00 Shopping.

9.30 MOVIE: My Learned Friend.

(PG, R, CC) (1943) 11.00 Return To Anzac. (PG, CC) 12.00 Destination WA. (PG, CC) 1.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 1.30 Postcards. (R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: The Dam Busters.

(R, CC) (1955) Richard Todd. 4.30 MOVIE: The Green Berets. (PG, R, CC) (1968) 7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Viewers from all corners of the UK present items to be appraised by antiques experts.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) Russell’s son becomes involved in an investigation after his basketball coach is killed.

9.30 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) Mac looks into a double murder at a grocery store.

10.30 Unforgettable. (M, CC) 11.20 Golden Boy. (M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: The Green Berets. (PG, R, CC) (1968) John Wayne.

3.00 MOVIE: The Dam Busters. (R, CC) (1955) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

2.10pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 9.

Central Pulse v NSW Swifts.

From TSB Bank Arena, Wellington. Fox Sports 2 2.30pm Football. AFL. Round 4. Essendon v Collingwood.

From the MCG. Fox Footy

ONE 6.00 Motor Racing. Aussie Racing Cars. Replay. 6.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Argentine Grand Prix. Race 3. Replay. 8.00 Netball.

ANZ Championship. Round 8.

Sydney Swifts v Northern Mystics.

Replay. 10.00 Where It All Began.

(R, CC) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (R) 11.00 Wild Racers. (R) 12.00 Sheer Bloody Murder: The Sandakan Story. (PG, R) 1.00 11 Days In Afghanistan. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Bandages And Battlefields.

3.00 International Fishing Series.

3.30 Megafactories. (R) 4.30 Garage Gold. (R) 5.00 Freddie Flintoff: Lord Of The Fries. (PG, R) 6.00 Garage Gold. (R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) A body is found in a washing machine.

9.30 Blue Bloods. (M, R, CC) A detective is taken hostage.

10.30 Ross Kemp: In Search Of Pirates. (M, R) 11.30 Blokesworld.

(MA15+, R) 12.00 The Killing. (M, R) 1.00 48 Hours. 2.00 Cops. (PG, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. (M, R) 4.00 GT Academy. (R) 5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (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. (M, R) 2.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Raymond. (PG, 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 tries to change Ray’s pessimism.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (PG, R, CC) Graham Norton chats with Dame Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Jack O’Connell, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Petrovsky leaves Carrie behind in Paris.

10.30 Empire. (M, R, CC) Lucious tries to control the company’s image.

12.30 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted

by Scott Tweedie and Ash London.

3.00 Diagnosis Murder. (M, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Mass For You At Home. (CC)

Sarah Jessica Parker stars in Sex And The City

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 27. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. Replay.

2.55 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. 3.00 Ultimate Parkour Challenge. (PG, R) 3.30 Venice 24/7. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Beyond Survival. (PG, R) 5.00 Planet Sport. (R) 6.00 Knife Fight. (PG, R) 6.30 Heston’s Feasts. (M, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 Vikings. (R, CC) The Viking fleet approaches Paris.

9.25 Hunted. (M, R, CC) A spy returns to work after nearly being killed.

11.25 MOVIE: Babycall. (MA15+) (2011) 1.10 MOVIE: Samurai. (AV15+, R) (2002) Maï Anh Le, Cyril Mourali, Saïd Serrari. 2.50 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 Frontier Wars 2011.

2.15 Frontier Wars 2012.

2.30 Surviving.

3.00 Desperate Measures.

3.30 Our Footprint.

4.00 Around The Campfire.

4.30 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes.

5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. Current affairs show.

7.00 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes.

8.30 A War Of Hope.

9.30 Anzacs: Remembering Our Heroes.

12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 ABC News On Anzac Day. (CC) 12.30 Anzac Day: Gallipoli Dawn Service. (CC) 1.30 Anzac Day: Villers-Bretonneux Dawn Service.

(CC) 2.30 Australia Remembers: Gallipoli 100. (CC) 5.00 Gallipoli From Above: The Untold Story. (CC) 5.55 Governor-General’s Anzac Day Address. (CC) 6.00 Anzac Day: Lone Pine Memorial Service. (CC) 7.00 News. (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. 2.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 2504

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Sunday, April 26 MOVIE: The Eye Of The Storm ABC, 10.30pm, M (2011) Australian novelist Patrick White was not known for easy, sympathetic depictions of characters, and that is perhaps why it took so long for one of his works to be adapted for film. It’s a challenge that director Fred Schepisi is up to, and he is supported by a notable cast. Charlotte Rampling plays wealthy matriarch Elizabeth Hunter, whose children (Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis) return from afar when she falls ill, both with their eyes on the inheritance. There’s not a lot to like about many of the characters, but with the assured direction and skilful performances, the end result is a rewarding piece of cinema.

ABC

Empire

Stalker

TEN, 10.30pm

WIN, 9.30pm

In the music business, the wants of the artist and the money-makers controlling the purse strings at the top are likely to clash on many levels, none more so than the commercial chops of a song. When Andre (Trai Byers) enters into a partnership with singer Michelle (Jennifer Hudson), the merits of their partnership are questioned. One thing’s for sure though, Hudson can belt out a tune like no other and Empire is a great platform for audiences to be reminded of her talent. Then, as Jamal (Jussie Smollet) works with his father Lucious (Terrence Howard) on a new deal, Lucious’ game-changing secret threatens to bring it all down.

It is a description far overused these days, on trying to whereby any undesirable person win your affection more than once can be labelled a stalker when you’re relaying the story to friends. But legitimate stalking is no ghtening, casual laughing matter. It is frightening, el for unrelenting and a ferocious fuel h this show anxiety. So perhaps don’t watch me. alone if it’s close to your bedtime. iper Tonight, a bride is shot by a sniper during her wedding ceremony and mott) detectives Jack (Dylan McDermott) and Beth (Maggie Q, right), re experts on stalker behaviour, are called in to determine whether her past stalker has come back d to haunt her. A frightening and exhilarating new thriller.

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

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: Canberra Special. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Art + Soul. (R, CC) 3.00 The Art Of Australia: Coming Of Age. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Muriel Matters! (R, CC) 4.30 MOVIE: Agatha Raisin: The Quiche Of Death.

(PG, R, CC) (2014) Ashley Jensen.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) Dr Oz looks at black soybeans.

12.00 Camp. (PG, CC) The camp prepares for a ‘Capture the Flag’ tournament.

1.00 MOVIE: The Suite Life Movie. (PG, R, CC) (2011) Zack and Cody uncover a conspiracy. Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse.

3.00 MOVIE: Crazy On The Outside. (PG, R, CC) (2010) A paroled ex-con moves in with his sister’s family. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Dora pursues a cakesnatching bear.

7.00 Weekend Today. (CC) 10.00 Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

1.00 The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, R, CC) Dan offers a helping hand to Tim and Anastasia. Jess chooses a sculpture for the common area.

3.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 8. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Canberra Raiders. From Barlow Park, Queensland.

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 iFish. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 All 4 Adventure.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Hotel Inspector.

(PG, CC) 1.00 Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Quit Forest Rally Event Review Pt 2. (R, CC) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) 4.00 RPM. (CC) Matt White hosts an Anzac Day special.

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. News from Dubai.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Soccer. FA Cup. Semi-final.

Highlights.

4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling. (CC) 5.30 Khrushchev Does America. (PG, CC)

6.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? Peter Pan. (R, CC) Adam Ford explores the history behind Peter Pan, a home built during the heyday of Western Australia’s Coolgardie gold rush.

6.30 Compass: Walk The Talk. (CC) A look at Emily Simpson’s passion for walking labyrinths.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Inside The Commons: Reinventing The House.

(M, CC) Part 4 of 4. Michael explores the upstairsdownstairs world of the UK’s House of Commons.

8.40 Poldark. (PG, CC) Ross celebrates the opening of Wheal Leisure as rumours spread of a scandalous relationship between him and Demelza.

9.40 Fortitude. (MA15+, CC) Dan has an emotional encounter with Morton.

Vincent has a brainwave which could lead him into danger.

10.30 MOVIE: The Eye Of The Storm. (M, R, CC) (2011) The estranged son and daughter of a wealthy eccentric try to reconcile with her before she passes on. Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 My Kitchen Rules.

(PG, CC) As the competition heads into the final phase, teams prepare for their ultimate instant restaurant.

Hosted by Pete Evans and Manu Feildel.

8.30 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program.

Hosted by Chris Bath.

9.30 Castle. (M, CC) Beckett and Castle are faced with a large list of possible suspects after a personal injury lawyer is murdered.

However, they discover a secret that deepens the mystery.

10.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) During a raid on a suspected killer’s apartment, Beckett becomes trapped after she accidentally steps on a pressure-sensitive trigger linked to a bomb. Unwilling to leave her alone while experts defuse the device, Castle remains behind and tries to distract her with flashbacks to their past.

11.30 Cougar Town. (PG, CC) After winning Cul de Sac Crew Trivia, Tom gets to pick the location of the next group vacation. The gang is less than thrilled, however, when Tom opts for a stay-cation.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, CC) As the end of the final week approaches, the terraces are inspected by the judges. One team triumphs with a perfect thirty, but one team is unable to complete their terrace.

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) After a sniper shoots a bride during her wedding ceremony, Jack and Beth are called in to determine whether her past stalker has come back to haunt her.

10.30 20/20. (CC) Former Olympian and reality star Bruce Jenner breaks his silence amid growing speculation about the father of six’s transition to a woman and his involvement in a deadly car crash in California.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Phil, Luke and Manny try to take down a peeping Tom’s drone that’s spying on a sunbathing Gloria.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Haley tries to take Alex’s mind off school by taking her to a music festival.

7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, CC) A entrepreneurial mum is one of four to enter the tank seeking investment from the sharks. Hosted by Sarah Harris.

8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, CC) A navy commander’s car is stolen with his baby inside.

The team investigate to determine whether it was a targeted abduction.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) The team suspects a cyberstalker could be responsible for kidnapping a teenage girl and killing her friend’s father.

10.30 Empire. (CC) Andre enters into a musical relationship with Michelle. Hakeem falls under Camilla’s influence at a family gathering.

11.30 MOVIE: Morning Glory.

(M, R, CC) (2010) A TV producer tries to save her show. Rachel McAdams.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Rome: The World’s First Superpower: Caesar.

(PG, CC) Part 4 of 4.

Larry Lamb continues to trace the story of Rome’s transition from a city state to empire by focusing on the story of Julius Caesar.

The former bankrupt civil servant’s rise to invincible general is catalogued by his own memoirs.

8.30 Dateline Presents: Are Our Planes Safe? (PG, CC) Takes a look at the safety of flying and the tragedy of Germanwings A320 Airbus which crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 passengers on board.

9.25 Dateline Presents: Surviving An Air Crash.

(PG, CC) Follows the emotional aftermath experienced by survivors of major aviation disasters. In the history of commercial aviation there have been 14 large airplane crashes with a lone survivor.

10.25 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Liège-BastogneLiège.

12.25 Junior Doctors: Your Life In Their Hands.

(M, R, CC) 1.20 Paul Merton’s Adventures. (PG, R, CC) 2.05 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) 3.05 Fortitude. (MA15+, R, CC) 3.55 Inside The Commons. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Collectors. (R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.00 Citizen Khan. (PG, R, CC) Mrs Khan is very keen to go on a holiday, but Mr Khan is reluctant to spend the money.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

12.30 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 1.00 The Strip. (M, R, CC) A surfer is shot by a sniper.

2.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) 3.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 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 Death Unexplained.

(M, R, CC) 2.50 The Lala Road. (PG) 3.00 First Australians: An Unhealthy Government Experiment. (PG, R, CC) 3.55 SAS: The Search For Warriors. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.30pm Ender’s Game (2013) Sci-fi. Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin. A young boy is chosen to defend Earth from a hostile alien race. (M) Premiere

6.00pm Betty White’s Off Their Rockers. Betty White leads a squad of senior citizens on a series of pranks against unsuspecting younger generations. (M) Comedy Channel

7.30pm Air Jaws: Fin Of Fury.

Using high-tech underwater cameras, shark filmmaker Jeff Kurr and his team embark on a mission to track down Colossus. (M) Animal Planet

2.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 8. Penrith Panthers v Cronulla Sutherland Sharks. From Penrith Stadium, Sydney. Fox Sports 1

6.55pm The Babadook (2014) Horror. Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall. A single mother grows fearful of a sinister presence in her new home. (M) Masterpiece 8.30pm The Fault In Our Stars (2014) Romance.

Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Thomas And Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery.

(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 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) 7.40 Seconds From Disaster. (PG, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. (M, R, CC) (2011) 10.15 Tattoo Tales.

(M, R, CC) 10.45 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (PG, R, CC) 11.35 Catfish: The TV Show. (PG, R, CC) 12.20 The Best Of Junior Doctors.

(M, R, CC) 1.20 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 News Update. (R) 1.55 Close. 5.00 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (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) 8.55 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama: Revenge Of The Island. (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 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 1.15 The Next Step.

(R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 Endangered Species. (R, 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. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 Mortified. (R, CC) 6.55 Pet Superstars. (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) 8.30 Total Drama Action. (R, CC) 9.15 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 9.40 Rage. (PG, R) 2.10 Close.

6.30pm Project Runway All Stars. Hosted by Angela Lindvall. (PG) Arena 7.30pm Cristela. Cristela is excited when she fills in as Trent’s assistant for the week.

(M) FOX8

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, CC) 12.00 Downsize My Pet. (R) 12.30 Travel Oz. (PG, CC) 2.00 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 6. 5.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG) 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Vicious. (PG, R, CC) Freddie and Stuart have an anniversary party.

7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) 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) 2.00 Downsize My Pet. (R) 2.30 Front Of House. (R) 3.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) 3.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 The Travel Bug. (PG, R)

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 7.30 Shopping.

9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Fifth Gear. (PG) 12.30 Ultimate Factories. (R) 1.30 The Border. (PG, R) 2.30 AFL Pre-Game. (CC) 3.00 Football.

(CC) AFL. Round 4. Geelong v North Melbourne. From Simonds Stadium, Geelong.

6.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) The gang becomes stuck in traffic.

6.30 MOVIE: The Avengers.

(PG, R, CC) (2012) A diverse group of heroes to meet an alien threat. Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans.

9.30 MOVIE: The Incredible Hulk. (M, R, CC) (2008) An experiment causes a mild-mannered scientist to turn into a giant green monster when he gets angry. Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth.

11.45 MOVIE: There Will Be Blood. (M, R) (2007) Daniel Day-Lewis.

3.30 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 4.30 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R)

7.30pm Tony Robinson’s Tour Of Duty. Tony Robinson presents memorabilia of people’s ancestors. (PG) History 7.30pm Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered.

Discovery

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 Invasion. (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) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG) 6.30 MOVIE: Richie Rich.

(PG, R, CC) (1994) 8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) The boys help Penny.

9.30 MOVIE: Mad Max. (AV15+, R) (1979) A cop seeks revenge on a gang.

Mel Gibson.

11.30 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Nuts.

(M, R, CC) (1987) Barbra Streisand.

2.30 The Batman. (R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 6.45 MOVIE: Carry On Nurse. (R, CC) (1959) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 New Style Direct. 10.00 Antiques. (R, CC) 11.00 MOVIE: Let’s Be Happy. (R, CC) (1957) 1.15 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 1.30 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Vera Cruz. (PG, R, CC) (1954) 4.00 MOVIE: Never So Few. (PG, R, CC) (1959) 6.30 River Cottage: Autumn Collection. (PG) Hosted

by Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall.

7.30 Journey To The Bottom Of The Ocean. (PG, R, CC) Presented by Richard Hammond.

8.30 MOVIE: Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves. (M) (1991) An outlaw wages warfare against a Sheriff.

Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman.

11.30 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 12.30 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct. 3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

3.00pm Football. AFL. Round 4. Geelong v North Melbourne. From Simonds Stadium, Geelong. Fox Sports 3 3.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 27. Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC. From Westpac Stadium, Wellington. Fox Sports 4

ONE 6.00 Sport Science. (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 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 10.00 Enchanted Kingdom.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 9. West Coast Fever v Waikato Bay Of Plenty Magic. 2.00 Car Torque.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 The Road To 2015.

(R) 3.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.30 International Fishing Series. (R) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder? (R, CC) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 The Odd Couple.

(PG, R, CC) 8.00 Last Man Standing.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Officers stop a suspicious hatchback.

9.00 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 MOVIE: The Peacemaker.

(M, R, CC) (1997) George Clooney.

12.00 Sons Of Anarchy. (AV15+, R) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Fast Forward. (M, R) 3.00 48 Hours. (M, R) 4.00 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan.

(M, R) 5.00 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (R, CC)

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) The crew is enslaved by a pharaoh.

8.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Marge becomes a church volunteer.

8.30 MOVIE: Dance Flick.

(M, R, CC) (2009) Two dancers team up for a competition. Damon Wayans Jr, Marlon Wayans.

10.10 Californication. (MA15+) 10.40 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 11.10 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 1.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 2.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 3.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 3.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

Essie Davis stars in The Babadook

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. (PG, R) 2.05 Foodie Planet. (PG, R) (Final) 3.05 My Mum Talks To Aliens. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Bunk. (M, R) 4.40 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. (R) 4.45 The Pitch.

(M, R) 5.35 Brazil’s Next Top Model.

(R) 6.30 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo.

(M, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) Cartman starts a pandemic panic.

9.00 Cockroaches. (M) Tom’s mother-in-law arrives at the camp.

9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.00 Pizza. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Toast Of London. (M) 11.00 In Her Skin. (M) 12.40 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.35 This Is Not A Film. (R) 3.00 Death Row. (M, R) 4.00 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News.

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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 27. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review.

12.30 Football. NEAFL. 2.45 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.35 Cash Money. 3.40 JM’s Healthy Tips. 3.45 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. From Raymond Terrace, NSW. 4.45 The Black Olive. 5.00 Te Kaea 2014.

5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant.

7.00 Native Planet. Hosted by Simon Baker.

7.50 Oh My God. (PG) 9.30 Like Water. (M) Follows middleweight Ultimate Fighter competitor Anderson Silva, and looks at what it takes to become a champion.

12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 Saturday Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News.

(CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 News Update. 5.35 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story.

(R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 News Update. (CC) 7.35 The World This Week. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Big Ideas. (R) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 2604

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Want to stay

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Being active, having a sense of belonging and a purpose in life all contribute to happiness and good mental health.

So how can YOU help keep yourself and others and your community mentally healthy? act

It’s about staying physically, mentally, socially and spiritually active. Take a walk, say g’day, visit a friend, play cards, have a yarn with a mate, ride your bike… By being, and staying, active we keep ourselves mentally healthy – and that makes for healthy communities, too!

belong

Belonging is all about joining in and connecting with others. Join a club or a sporting team; get involved with community groups and events. When we feel like we belong, we feel pride in our community and in ourselves – and that plays a big part in staying mentally healthy.

commit

Take that extra step – that commitment to a group or a good cause. Help out a neighbour, volunteer for something you care about. Join a sporting club or a community group, or step up and take on a role in a group. When you make a commitment to a good cause, you’re working towards staying mentally healthy too!

Interested in getting involved?

The ACT BELONG COMMIT team will be hosting events in around the region:

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FIND THE WORDS This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 9 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

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LAFF-A-DAY STAR + MAP Draw a star in exactly 10 of the empty squares in the diagram below so that each numbered square accurately indicates how many immediately adjacent squares (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) contain a star.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) This week begins a period of lightheartedness and sparkling conversations. Your social life really gets a boost with friends and family wanting to get out and about. Will you be invited? Be sure to let them know that you are available! Sometimes others assume that your diary will be full but we all have slack periods!

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) You just can’t wait to get the social scene buzzing. Do you have something special to share? Making an occasion of it pleases both your partner and your friends. Those who are, at the moment, unattached, keep your ears open.

More than one exciting thing is happening that you should know about. Do others assume that you are busy?

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fairly quiet week there is time to make adjustments to your image ready for those upcoming trips.

Bright colours and more flowing clothes give the right message. You may decide to have a weekend party or to visit a friend somewhere exotic. Whatever you are doing, though, don’t rule out romance!

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Looking

forward to a break or holiday plans? A change of venue could give you even more to get excited about. The chances are that you have been working very hard and that your head is positively buzzing. Take a break for a day and try to go somewhere new.

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Maybe you have been brightening up the home or garden? Decided to cook more exotic food? Whatever it is, you now realise that it was worth the effort and was appreciated. Fish for compliments if you want to know how someone feels about you.

to travel that were just a vague notion a month ago now start to take on some form. As you want to stretch yourself and get some new experiences, you could well travel alone. A sense of freedom is very attractive to you at the moment after a restrictive period. Although you love partnerships, this is a time to grow.

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Getting together over a shared project brings you closer, and doing a bit of cooking together can be real fun.

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There is still a light-hearted and optimistic attitude to life that makes you a delight to know. Some financial matters need sorting out but don’t let that get too heavy. This is a fun week when you may try out new experiences and attitudes. A partner or relative may be on course to cramp your style. Try to see it coming and avoid it.

Taurus: Australian singer and TV personality Mark Holden is 61 on Monday, April 27.

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of year. Be sure to make the most of it by sharing your social plans and getting others together. You have a way of uniting people, often from quite different backgrounds. Use this talent to be in places that you love with people that you admire. Adventures are go!

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your birthday with former NSW premier Nick Greiner, right, who turns 68 today. Of course you hope for an easy ride this year. Who wouldn’t? However, success depends almost entirely on hard work and good, thorough research. As a special time comes round, you need to step up.

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20) This is a week of confessions and propositions. Getting things out in the open and speaking your mind is quite refreshing. Through an older friend or member of the family you can be given the chance to meet someone special. Play it cool until you know their position. An old romance could fizzle out.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Taurus, a fresh start is indicated but by no means for sure. What will make it so? A great deal of effort and a big bit of teamwork! Yes, working with others is the key to success now.

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Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bring on the bling and phase out the austerity, especially in thought. Having been protective of your situation for so long it is hard to see that things have changed. Opportunities are back, Taurus.

bumpy start to this week could see you feeling a little apprehensive. If you take an honest approach, however, it all settles down.

Don’t take it for granted that someone can be easily hoodwinked. Keep up a good diet and exercise regime to avoid being beaten by fatigue. Energy may be limited.

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Tip-toeing around a relative is preferable to getting into an argument about them. Practical solutions can sometimes be hurtful to others.

Social life comes in fits and starts and seems to defy your attempts to organise it.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Times for celebration are many in the months ahead, Taurus. It is as good to see others thriving as it is to be thriving yourself. Continue to gather brownie points by helping others. It brings big benefits.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

Taking your place alongside others’ success stories can be very satisfying. There are more needs that remain unsatisfied, though. We never want to see you settle for less than you are due. Keep your foot firmly down, Taurus.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Taking the bull by the horns means that you have to gain a lot of courage in the months ahead. When you feel that anything is possible you may be right. On the other hand, success could mean just stopping someone else.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! What a lovely time to get together with family and friends. A business venture could really take off if you continue working together. Negative thoughts could derail you, however, if you listen to gossip.

Taurus birthdays: Cold Chisel singer Jimmy Barnes is 59, and American actress of “Fantastic Four” fame, Jessica Alba, is 34.

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3. Italy. 4. World War I and World War II. 5. Bedivere. 6. Michael Pate.

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9. Montgomery, Alabama.

10. Scotland. 11. Genesis, in 1973.

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Numerous folk artists put their own spin on it over the years, including The Weavers and The Kingston Trio.

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