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ISSUE The normal life of being transgender

PEOPLE Michele Barry and her beautiful, local B&B, Immarna

MUSIC One Proud Monkey: putting the life into live music

Centenary celebration Recognising 100 strong years of women in police PAGE 14

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Trending now: #compassion I CAN’T decide if Struggle Street is one of the most important television documentaries to be aired in Australia in a long time or just a shameful exploitation of our society’s most vulnerable and at risk.

To be fair, I only watched 15 minutes of it on Wednesday night, so perhaps have no right to comment, but it seemed more than enough time to get the gist.

The knock on effects of sexual abuse, mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction are travesties that undo so many individuals, not just in Mount Druitt – as some critics of the SBS show suggest – but in every community of the world, these anti-social ailments are taking their toll in epidemic proportions.

Is it a surprise?

Hardly.

The shock and disbelief voiced by viewers however – that anyone could live that way – is.

Newsflash to them: most people in the world are not celebrities swanning about in their McMansions.

It’s easy to take the high moral ground when you haven’t been sexually abused as a child, or don’t suffer from mental illness which can impact your ability to socialise, or you struggle with an addiction from which there may be no return.

Thank fully there is an army of compassionate volunteers and workers throughout our community who, without judgement, reach out to lend a hand.

One of the complaints about the show’s families is the money they receive in government handouts.

To be realistic, how else would they survive?

They are clearly lost. Adrift in a sea of cards life has dealt them, unable to play by the rules. One boy who is being lauded the shows hero because he’s trying to make a better life for himself is a ray of hope. So much about his upbringing is hopeless however and it’s little wonder the social challenges he faces daily, are generational, learned from struggling parents, just as kids whose parents don’t suffer in that way, learn that going to school is good; respecting yourself is good; minding how you speak, is good.

What’s good in one world, however, is a luxury in the next. A life of poverty is tough. It is dog eat dog or you don’t survive. A life dancing to the erratic tune of a mental illness is confusing, scarey, fraught with anxiety, isolation, loneliness, depression.

Our public discussions and debates on these issues are such that you have to be living under a rock to not know you just don’t wake up one morning and tell yourself I won’t have depression today.

It’s the kind of culture shock Australia needs. A wake up call to the fact there really are people in our community who genuinely need help. It takes a village to raise a family and if the pregnant mum is doing drugs what villager in their right mind would just stand by, shaking their head calling her a loser and think they’re helping.

She is a loser. But not in the sense that makes me or you superior because we think we wouldn’t do that. We’re bystanders. Witnesses. Our inertia excused by our judgement.

Somewhere along the line she lost her self worth or self-dignity or was never shown what that means in the first place.

In my job one of the most important things I have to do is ask good questions in order to get good answers.

So ask yourself this. Does a pregnant mum smoke marijuana because she wants her baby to be born addicted? To die? To be taken away from her? Probably the answer to all three questions is yes.

Because despite what we think of her she knows she’s a long way from where she expected to be in life. Her self worth is gone. Everything she does from here on in, is a confirmation of that. A sad cycle of self-sabotage.

There’s a saying that no matter what happens to you in life, you can chose not to be reduced by it.

But if an adult in your family, who you love and trust as an 8 year-old, rapes you, repeatedly, what tools do you have to rise above it all.

If only one day we’d all wake up to discover compassion is the new black. That within ourselves we could rise above our own judgments and know people in trouble when we see them, and feel compelled to make a difference in their lives, rather than compelled to stigmatise them, reject them or ignore them.

As a snapshot of what ails our society at a fundamental level, policy makers have one hell of a job on their hands, if the individuals in Struggle Street and the downward spiral of their lives, are anything to go by.

Hey, it’s still National Volunteer Week and not too late to do something tangible. It only takes one person to make a difference.

It’s easy to take the high moral ground when you haven’t been sexually abused as a child, or don’t suffer from mental illness which can impact your ability to socialise, or you struggle with an addiction from which there may be no return.

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Hitting the streets to help youth on the streets

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

OVEMENT is the link between a fitness initiative being undertaken by local youth workers this month and the broader issue of homelessness among the young people of the city.

Uniting Care’s MOVEability Challenge kicked off across the state at the beginning of May, with members of the Dubbo-based Doorways for Youth getting involved by adding ‘active’ to their daily routines.

“The youth services team are quite interested in our own fitness and health at the moment,” case worker Simone Julius explained.

“This was a community program raising money for homeless youth so we thought it was a great opportunity. It was a good way to combine the two causes.”

In terms of participation, local Doorways manager Angie Weir is paving the way.

She has single-handedly raised $1328 and is pounding the pavement every chance she gets. As a result of her efforts, she topped the leader board this week and was named as the top fundraiser across NSW and ACT. “She has set 20,000 steps as her goal – which is massive - and walks in between meetings,” Julius said. “We have offices in West, Darling, Brisbane and Erskine streets and Angie powerwalks to each location.”

“She’s a real inspiration. It’s definitely a challenge, we have all set our own goals but she has completely outclassed herself.”

The group has even adopted a ‘monster’ mascot which is not allowed to remain idle for more than a day as part of the challenge.

“The monster can’t stay in the office for 24 hours,” Julius laughed.

“Whether it’s walking, bike riding or swimming, any form of exercise is ac-

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Move it: Bec Baker, Angie Weir, Bec Moses and Fiona Smith and Simone Julius. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

ceptable. It’s about making people get out and taking the steps and making time to do something.”

The team has set themselves the goal of raising $5000, of which they are well on their way, with plans to even take the program beyond its May 31 conclusion.

“My goal is $700 and Angie has already raised what she has - and she hasn’t even asked her family for sponsorship yet!”

All the funds raised will go back towards helping young homeless people in Dubbo, with the focus particularly on those aged between 16 and 24, and struggling to find a permanent place to live.

“We will put the money back into Doorways to use on different things

like accommodation and bonds,” Julius explained.

On any given night across Australia, 105,000 people don’t have a place to call home, with 42 per cent of the homeless population under the age of 25.

Julius described it as an issue that’s often invisible.

“It’s actually quite a big problem but it’s definitely something that people don’t see. It’s not quite as visible as people think. In a lot of houses, overcrowding is the issue and there are up to 10 people living in one place. A lot of people also go from couch to couch and couchsurfing is quite common.”

Julius said that keeping active can also offset other problems.

“Health and fitness is important to the

brain as well as the body. If someone is feeling low, going for a walk is good. It’s something we encourage people to do.”

The Dubbo Doorways (Dubbo Orana Options Referral with Brokerage Accommodation and Young people’s Support) was started in 1997 and forms part of the UnitingCare Burnside youth services team. Burnside was created to replace the former crisis refuge and medium-term accommodation service which closed in 1995. Doorways helps young people and their families become active participants in the growth and development of their local communities.

Involvement in the MOVEability will make a difference for youth in crisis who are at risk of becoming or are currently homeless.

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Reforms to advance commercial future of TAFE

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY JOURNALIST

SW TAFE Commission Board chair, Margy Osmond was in Dubbo on Friday, May 8, 2015 to discuss local and state educational and training issues with TAFE NSW’s Western Institute’s Advisory Council.

The TAFE Commission Board makes recommendations to the Minister for Regional Development, Skills and Small Business, John Barilaro, on TAFE NSW policies, strategic planning, the efficiency and effectiveness of TAFE operations and management, commercial activities, and cross-sectoral issues.

“They’re a relatively new group of board members, they keen and they’re bringing some amazing skill sets to the table,” said Osmond. “TAFE Institute Western is a particularly innovative institute.”

With a reputation for it innovative policies and the vast area it services, TAFE Institute is a key voice in reform discussions.

“TAFE NSW is going through some changes at the moment. Most of the VET sector is going through this kind of reform with varying degrees of success, or, just not success and the Victorians would be an example of a less than successful outcome,” Osmand said.

“TAFE does need to innovate, to commercialise, wholly and solely, so it caters to it’s clients better, that’s really the issue here. TAFE and particularly this TAFE and Western Sydney TAFE also have extraordinary commercial relationships in existence already.

“If you look at the Hunter they have established relationships with Telstra, Woolworths, a range of the big mining companies, AGL. Western Sydney has a long standing relationship with SEEK, so what you’ll find is that the TAFE training model is one that people know will lead to a job largely because of those connections to the corporate sector.

“Despite it’s size and enormous breadth of it’s enrolments and committments TAFE Western Institute has the capacity to innovate and that’s part of what we’re cherishing and making sure is what is part of the reform process,” Osmond said.

“As part of the move toward contestability, which is competitiveness in the commercial market place, there is an economic school of thought that says it’s a good idea to make this a much more competitive and commercial environment because that makes better outcomes for the customer, for the students, and businesses,” Osmond said.

“At the same time we realise we have a range of other responsibilities to communities particularly region-

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Chair of the NSW TAFE Commission Board, Margy Osmond (centre) with James Price, chair, TAFE NSW’s Western Institute Advisory Council and Julie Grieg, member. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

al communities which is why it’s more of a judicious and considered process here in NSW. “Smart and skilled is really about government having an opportunity to manage that contestable market place and try to define what sort of skills should be supported by the government.

“We’re in the early stages. The reform process is important, its necessary and TAFE is up for it.

“The issue of the reform process here in NSW is attempting to recognise two things. One there is a need for reform and we need to have a more commercial

... there is an economic school of thought that says it’s a good idea to make this a much more competitive and commercial environment because that makes better outcomes for the customer, for the students, and businesses.

market place that is more competitive. However, TAFE also is an incredibly important part of the structure of many communities and the services and the training that it offers, and in many instances may not be so attractive to the private sector.

“The government has been working very hard to make sure the place that we land on satisfies both those priorities and those markets.

“The issue is what does the future look like and what are the skills that we need for NSW to be as strong as it should be.

“In the service industries, aged care, child servicing support, all the people caring services; you really need to train that locally because if you don’t train that locally it doesn’t stay here.

“In terms of supporting communities there’s a real need to think very carefully about what courses are available and who and how you train,” Osmond said.

“That may mean in the future, students and businesses want more blended, maybe less face to face, more online capacities, more opportunities when they need to do things and not within some sort of rigid term system. These are the things that TAFE itself is considering to service its clients better.”

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

Tertiary information day a hit ITH more than 600 senior high school students attending Dubbo College’s annual tertiary information day, it’s fair to say that the information session was a definite hit with young people planning their futures.

Organised by the College careers team, the event focused on tertiary education and employment training, with 60 information providers on hand to discuss study and employment options with students.

Dubbo College careers head teacher Caroline Watts said the day provided an opportunity for senior students to examine a broad range of opportunities and pathways, whether they were for training, further study, deciding on a career or meeting prospective employers.

“It helps students to know exactly what is available to them and how they can go about achieving successful career outcomes.”

Students from 17 schools across the region attended the day.

Meanwhile, Dubbo MP Troy Grant has welcomed a NSW Government initiative helping students get the preliminary skills they need to enter the workforce and take up opportunities in the growing state economy.

Announced at the Group Training Association Skills Conference, the $2 million pre-apprenticeship training initiative helps young people secure an apprenticeship, find a job and ultimately smooths the transition from school to training and then employment.

“This initiative is about building a skilled workforce for the future that helps students make informed career choices and assists employers to identify skilled staff,” Grant said.

Pre-apprenticeship training includes the automotive, construction and manufacturing sectors as well as stone masonry, hospitality, horticulture and electrotechnology.

A new training program that seeks out job opportunities before the training is delivered has also been launched

by Red Cross Training Services across Australia.

Training Services general manager Chris Casey says: “Our ‘Right Fit’ program turns the traditional VET model on its head by focussing on training for jobs, not just qualifications.

“We are not just a training provider, we are leading the way in job creation.”

The Right Fit team of trainers and placement officers helps match students with host employers in their local community. The Red Cross Right Fit model has been well received by employers, particularly in the aged care industry.

information sessions and via the Council website.

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Alleged abduction attempt on city street POLICE have appealed for information following an alleged attempted abduction in Dubbo. The incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning, May 6 at approximately 1.10am. A 19-year-old woman was walking along North St, near the intersection of East St, when a utility stopped nearby. The

Paws help the law

Dubbo College Year 12 students Joe Crampton, Adam Mitchell and Will Black with Denise Chippindale from the Tractor Graphic and Digital Design School.

driver apparently approached her, grabbed her and pulled her towards the utility. She broke free and reported the matter to police.

Police from Orana Local Area Command would like to speak to a man in relation to the incident. He is described as being of Caucasian appearance, 170 to 175cm tall, about 40 years old, with a medium build, a bald head, trimmed beard, and was wearing an orange highvisibility shirt.

The vehicle was described as a white two-door utility with hunting hooks attached to the rear tray.

Buckingham Drive playground gets new look THE scheduled $50,000 renewal of Buckingham Drive Park Playground has commenced, beginning with the removal of the existing playground this week.

Dubbo City Council’s horticultural services manager Ian McAlister said work was expected to be completed and the grounds open to the public by the end of the month.

Report: regional residents are conscious water users REGIONAL NSW is leading the way in terms of responsible water usage, with annual residential water consumption falling from 330 kilolitres (kL) to 173 kL per connected property.

The data is contained in the 2013-14 NSW Water Supply and Sewerage Performance Monitoring Report which outlines the performance of the State’s 105 local water utilities. The water supply median typical residential bill is now lower than the national median and all reported states and capital city, except for Melbourne and country Victoria. The report also shows that all of the NSW utilities are achieving full cost recovery for water supply and 95 per cent are achieving full cost recovery for sewerage.

Forty kilo baby for new mum ONE of Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s

resident black rhinos, Bakhita, has given birth to a male calf.

With zoo staff expectantly awaiting the new arrival, the bouncing 40kg bub made his first appearance in the early hours of Monday, April 20.

The yet to be named baby rhino is the second calf born to Bakhita, and the third calf in 10 years in the zoo’s internationally-renowned breeding program.

His birth ahead of Mother’s Day is a great reminder of the achievements of the remarkable wild mothers in the zoo’s care.

The pair will go on public display in June.

A PAIR of pups with a dogged sense of justice have contributed to the police investigation of a robbery from an Orange pharmacy.

It is alleged that a man entered the Peisley Street pharmacy, assaulted an employee and then demanded drugs from the safe.

After being given the drugs, the man left the scene on a push bike.

As part of the investigation, two dogs were visible on CCTV footage taken inside the pharmacy at the time of the incident and again seen following the bicycle afterwards. Police from Canobolas Local Area Command spotted them in a local park a short time later, before following them.

The dogs led police right to the robber’s door, with the 36-year-old charged with aggravated robbery as a result.

Aboriginal public art for redeveloped Dubbo hospital TRADITIONAL Wiradjuri headbands and skirts will inspire an impressive public artwork to be permanently displayed in the $91.3 million Dubbo hospital redevelopment. Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathon Jones has been commissioned to undertake the work and will collaborate with local Wiradjuri Elder, Di NcNaboe, to ensure a truly authentic piece. Base Art Inc., who’re overseeing the integration of arts into the Dubbo Hospital redevelopment, received a $60,000 grant from Arts NSW to secure a flagship centre piece.

It will be displayed in a prominent foyer location that will celebrate Dubbo’s rich Aboriginal culture and heritage and add to the welcoming atmosphere for patients, visitors and staff.

Community urged to have their say on organic waste collection DUBBO CITY COUNCIL is urging the community to have their say on the proposed organic kerbside collection service.

In coming weeks, Council will provide information on organic waste and proper use of a third bin while also encouraging community feedback on the proposal through community surveys,

Old trees pose safety risk for public DESPITE public conservation concerns, an old gum tree in Cobra St was removed by Dubbo City Council on Sunday. The removal followed a city-wide audit of street and park trees which were identified as high priority works in order to avoid the risk of falling branches. Tree works are also scheduled from Erskine St near the Serisier Bridge in the near future.

Council’s parks and landcare director Murray Wood said mature trees can become problematic and Council has a process for prioritising works on hazardous trees and removing them if required.

“The works required in Cobra St and Erskine St are high priorities because of the risks to motorists and pedestrians of falling branches,” he said.

“The tree removed from Cobra St (pictured) is a sugar gum that has already lost a large branch. Given the tree is on a State highway with a 60km/hour speed limit, there is no margin for safety in this area.

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Council’s arborists will also inspect nearby trees for signs of disease, ill health and hazards.

At Erskine St, deadwood from an identified River Red Gum will be removed as well as some branches.

Similar works have been carried out on trees in Macquarie Lions Park to ensure the safety of park users.

“The works scheduled are high priority works to ensure public safety and will be carried out in accordance with Council’s stringent tree removal and maintenance practices,” Wood said.

Meanwhile, Dubbo City Council has received a commitment from Essential Energy that an interim suspension of tree pruning works will continue until reviewed.

Wood said a number of outcomes were agreed that will prevent further stress of trees, improve processes for community consultation and tree pruning practices for power line clearance across the City.

“At the meeting, Essential Energy agreed to continue a suspension of clearing near powerlines across the city to allow their staff to review the list of works scheduled,” he said.

Funding for drought and air AIR access to remote communities is set to be improved, with an additional $39.6 million in Federal Government funding announced for airstrip upgrades and essential air services.

Infrastructure and regional development minister Warren Truss said the funding will be available to repair and upgrade runway surfaces, safety equipment such as runway lighting and navigation aids, and infrastructure such as fences and gates.

“Many communities in remote Australia depend on air services for essential supplies, mail, passenger transport and medical care, especially if their roads become unusa-

ble because of the weather,” he said.

Truss was also among a group including Parkes MP Mark Coulton to announce details of much-needed drought assistance for regional communities and farmers.

Rural communities suffering through extreme drought will be eligible for Commonwealth assistance as part of a new $333 million support package.

Coulton believes that this support package is an acknowledgment of the difficulties being experienced by farmers and by the communities they help to sustain.

“Much of my electorate is still in the grip of one of the worst droughts in history and farmers are battling to stay on the land,” he said.

“It is crucial that we provide assistance to the rural and regional communities affected by drought not only for the sake of the communities themselves, but also for the sake of our nation and Australia’s agriculture sector.”

Neighbourhood dispute ends in arrest POLICE have charged four people with affray after an incident in Mudgee last Friday afternoon.

A fight allegedly broke out between two neighbours, aged 22 and 30, with the younger of the two men allegedly knocking the other to the ground and stomping on his head.

About 3.15pm, a third man – aged 48 – allegedly armed himself with a metal pole and wooden stake, and challenged the 22-year-old man to come outside.

It’s alleged the 22-year-old man also armed himself with a metal pole, and the pair began threatening each other.

A fourth man, who also lives in the street, entered the argument.

This man, aged 43, was allegedly armed with two metal poles.

Police were called to the street, where they arrested all four men

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and took them to Mudgee Police Station.

Club fosters arts and culture DUBBO RSL continues to astound with yet another award bestowed on the popular local memorial club. At the 2015 Clubs & Community Awards, the club received the top prize for best club contribution to Arts and Culture for its ongoing financial support of community events.

The category, introduced for the first time this year, recognises the contribution not-for-profit registered clubs make to their area’s arts and cultural scene.

Dubbo RSL Memorial Club’s proven commitment to preserving arts and culture in the Dubbo community, as well as showcasing what the city has to offer, made them the clear winners for the inaugural trophy.

Club Mudgee and Orange Ex-Services Club also took home highly commended awards in the youth and health categories respectively.

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Business Advisor Unhappy with UN IN an accusation one would expect The Avengers to make of the now defunct Hydra (evil, world domination seeking organisation), Maurice Newman has described the UN as an anti freedom, anti capitalist organisation seeking a ‘new world order under (their) control’.

Yes, the chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council has suggested in The Australian that the United Nations is seeking to control the world by warning us of the dangers of climate change, and seeking Australia’s support in looking after our environment.

I knew the Maldives weren’t actually suffering from rising sea levels! The UN must have been secretly excavating the island nation in a bid to make their conspiracy seem more plausible, to eventually gain... what exactly, Mr. Newman?

No More Lady Taxes

IT’S that time of year when taxes either miraculously come to life, or shuffle off this mortal coil.

40,000 people have signed a petition asking Mr. Hockey to remove the goods and services tax (GST) from sanitary items such as tampons, pads and moon cups. Currently, these are considered luxury items (I knew menstruating was a luxury!), while Viagra and tea are not.

The petition ‘Stop Taxing My Period’, started by Subeta Vimalarajah, is close to reaching its goal. C’mon now, enough is enough. Stop taxing women for something that is already, y really, y ‘taxing’ g enough.

Giving Me The e Willies KORBIN SIMS caught ht up with his old mate Willie Mason in what is possibly the weirdest way possible, ossible, by seemingly pinching his genitals tals during a clash between Newcastle and Manly on the weekend.

Mason didn’t seem m all too bothered by it, saying at a postt match interview ‘I knew what he was doing’. oing’. Is this the social evolution of the complex handshake, the fist bump and air kisses? Will the Matildas greet each other er on the court with a swift nipple cripple? ple? Stay tuned, sports lovers.

Swift Domination tion TAYLOR SWIFT continntinues her domination n of the pop world with h the upcoming release off her Bad Blood video.

Swift has been teasing asing

her fans with Sin City inspired posters, introducing characters for the upcoming music clip, due to be released this weekend. Well known for her love life, the recently re-branded as pure pop singer has focused the PR for 1989’s release on her huge collection of female friends, and this video is no exception.

The credits include Girls star Lena Dunham, Oscar nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld, models Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid and Lily Aldridge, and fellow pop stars Ellie Goulding and Hayley Williams. As one TIME reporter suggested,, it seems like Swift is assembling g an army. a my. ar

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is Dubbo resident who is averse to extinction.

Plot to create new world order and other insights CLIMATE SCIENTST 1: “That was close.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “I’ll say.

You know the cat’s almost out of the bag when a major advisor to the government publicly exposes our climate change scam.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “Sounds like Maurice Newman’s onto us and our plot with the UN to bring in a new world order, and destroy capitalism and freedom; if his recent media article is an indication.

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “Luckily he made the mistake of writing it in The Australian newspaper, and not some publication that people still take seriously.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “How could he know that thousands of us – almost without exception – are actively conspiring with thousands more environmentalists and concerned citizens to deceive the world?”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “Maybe Barnaby Joyce told him?”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “Yes, he is getting too close, realising that the reason we are betraying our professional integrity en masse is just for research grants.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “Yes, because everybody knows science research grants are where the big money is – just ask the CSIRO.” CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “Sure, we could tell the truth about climate change being a new world order conspiracy, but those international oil companies are so cash-strapped that their funding largesse could not compete with Friends of the Earth and the Wilderness Society.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “What worries me is that sooner or later, among the thousands of our fellow conspirators, our spouses, friends, and associates – to say nothing of the people who can hack into our bogus research and our conspiratorial communications – someone will spill the beans.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “I know, think of the mega-stardom and astronomical wealth that would be afforded to the person who reveals our global climate change scam.

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “The money they would earn from global media alone would make our grants from Greenpeace look like small change.

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “And yet after all these years and more than 2000

peer-reviewed studies not one of us has broken ranks and admitted it’s all a ruse to take over the world with the UN.” CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “What I love is the other groups that help us in our diabolical quest for ongoing grants funding by incorporating our botched data into their planning forecasts.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “I know: NASA, the US military strategic high

Sure, we could tell the truth about climate change being a new world order conspiracy, but those international oil companies are so cash-strapped that their funding largesse could not compete with Friends of the Earth and the Wilderness Society

command, pffft, amateurs.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “Yet the big worry is those people who call us out on our con who have no scientific experience whatsoever and couldn’t possibly understand the research we’ve concocted.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “Exactly, that’s where the real risk lies: not the thousands of people maintaining complete silence while devoting their careers to undermining their professions and the future of the world, but the laymen, online bloggers, billionaire miners, and the older right wing white business types with some links to fossil fuels who seems most aware of our falsehood.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “Exactly, look at what’s happening in the medical industry.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “I know, the jig is up on vaccinating children and it is the people without any training or background that are leading the charge.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “The experts got smug – they thought that after polio was eradicated due to exposure to DDT and tobacco smoke, that they could sit back on their research grants and just coast.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “The fact is they needed to keep trotting out the false evidence at every opportunity just like we are: sea temps rising, ice sheets thinning, progressively hotter decades, alarming atmospheric readings.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “Just like the ozone layer days. Remember that? How big is the hole now? They’d ask. Can’t tell without more research grants, we’d reply. That went on for years, haha.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 1: “Haha, and asbestos being harmful – faked death stats eventually brought that industry to its knees.”

CLIMATE SCIENTIST 2: “Took a long while though – hating capitalism and freedom is bloody hard work.”

The research proves it: Gentlemen in red look angry

2015 MALE LIFE

PARIS: Bulls have known it forever, but scientists are now saying that men dressed in red appear angrier and more dominant than those in blue or grey.

The study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters was based on the reactions of both men and women to men photographed in different coloured clothing.

“Men wearing red were rated as more aggressive and more dominant and were more often

categorised as ‘angry’ than targets wearing grey or blue,” said the researchers from Durham University in Britain.

Previous research had shown wearing red could increase one’s chances of winning a sports contest, and is also a mark of dominance in other species.

But the new research shows associations between clothing colour and how

a person is perceived, with red apparently triggering certain mental associations in humans.

A hundred people, half of them male and half female, were asked to look at photos of men dressed in red, blue and grey and asked to rate them on how aggressive and authoritarian they seemed to be, as well as their apparent emotional state.

Both men

and women saw anger and aggression in the red-wearing men. But only the male viewers in the study also saw dominance in the photos of those wearing red clothes.

Grey and blue on the other hand transmitted no feelings of aggression or authority to either the men or the women in the study.

“This suggests that the colour red may be a cue used to predict propensity for dominance and aggression in human males,” the study said.

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Local Government Reform

Fit for the future COUNCIL IS SAYING

YES to an Orana Joint Organisation (JO)

INTRODUCTION

Dubbo City Council is seeking community feedback on the draft content and direction of its Fit for the Future submission to the Office of Local Government www.fitforthefuture.nsw.gov.au The submission will be based on Council being part of an Orana Joint Organisation (JO) but not support a merger with any other Council. The submission will further demonstrate Council has the capacity to be certified Fit for the Future.

NO to a merger with any Council including Narromine and Wellington

Putting Dubbo first means saying no to merging Dubbo with any other local government area

Community feedback on the content and direction of this report is encouraged. Public submissions close Friday 5 June 2015.

Dubbo City Council will be part of an Orana Joint Organisation (JO) The role of JOs is to enhance the function of councils and was a recommendation of the Independent Local Government Review Panel. Council will benefit and contribute positively from being a part of the Orana JO as it has benefited from regional cooperation for many years

Dubbo City Council is saying no to mergers A merger with any Council including Narromine or Wellington is not supported by Council and is not in the best interests of Dubbo or neighbouring communities. Such a large footprint is financially unsustainable.

POSITIONING FOR THE FUTURE

Dubbo will be Fit for the Future in all seven financial benchmarks from 2018/2019 onwards.

Fit for the Future is focused on ensuring Council’s capital infrastructure can be maintained, replaced and renewed through sustainable financial management practices.

Dubbo City Council is responsible for assets valued at $1.138 billion (excludes water/ sewer assets). While the population of Dubbo continues to grow there will be continued pressure on this infrastructure which needs to financed with increases in revenue.

Submissions accepted until Friday 5 June 2015

Local Governme nt Reform – Fit for the Fut ure

Putting Dubbo First Dubbo City Counc il is seeking comm unity feedback on the draft conte nt and direction of its Fit for the Future submi ssion to the NSW Office of Local Government.

The submission will be based on Council being part of an Orana Joint Organisation (JO) but not supporting a merge r with any other Council. The submission will further demonstrat e Council has the capacity to be certifi ed Fit for the Future based on the NSW Office of Local Governmen t’s benchmarks.

Council, at an Extrao rdinary meeting held on 4 May 2015, adopt ed the enclosed report from Council’s Gener al Manager dated 1 May 2015 and in doing so conce ptually endorsed the content for the developmen t of Council’s Fit for the Future submission.

Putting Dubbo first means saying yes to an Orana Joint Organisation (JO) and no to merging Dubbo with any other local government area. A larger footprint, significantly more assets and higher cost of infrastructure renewal would undermine Council’s ability to maintain current service levels for the community.

Improvement projects have been identified for the period 2016 – 2020 to ensure Dubbo City Council is certified Fit for the Future.

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2015 marks the celebration of a 100 year milestone for women in police. Once exclusively a man’s domain; attitudes have relaxed and the force has evolved into an employment leader in terms of working conditions and equality for women. Change has come slowly but it’s a great time to be a woman, in the NSW Police Force.

WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent AITING in the foyer of the Dubbo Police Station to rally the police women working there for a group photo I honestly expected to be see just a handful of women.

When the doors to the back rooms opened however, they came out in droves to crowd the front steps.

Turn back the clock 50 years and there might have been one woman standing alone out there and she would most certainly not be wearing pants, carry a gun or have any operational duties beyond administration or community liaison.

One hundred years back and there would be none except two in Sydney: Lillian Armfield and Maude Rhodes, employed as ‘special constables’ and chosen from 400 candidates.

Just four years before they took on the pioneering role, an unknown reporter wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald on ‘A Page Just for Women’, these ground breaking comments: “The idea of a policewoman seems absurd to most of us at first, for great bodily strength is inseparable, in our minds, from the guardians of the peace. But Los Angeles, California, has just appointed to its regular police force a woman who is not an amazon, but who, it is expected, will be as valuable in keeping the public peace as any stalwart man.”

It’s laughable to imagine these attitudes ever existed standing on the footpath with four articulate and stalwart women from the Orana Area Local Command (OALC): between them an executive officer, a senior detective constable, a general administration support worker and an inspector; a snapshot of the diversity of women in the NSW police force today, employed in every department.

We’ve gathered to chat about what the 100 Years of Women in Policing, which carries the theme of celebrating compassion, courage and strength, means to them.

General administration support, OALC, Jackie Kennedy is 34 year veteran of the force and has seen it all.

She remembers a time when women were not allowed to wear pants and call outs to police on the beat were done by one radio: hers.

“I’ve seen a few changes. I started off with a police switch back in the old Triple Zero days when the radios are all ancient compared to what it is today, with the digital era that’s popped in. I’ve seen the changes with the computers and the people that have come and gone, all the adjusting.

“When I came here in 1986 from Sydney there was just one little tiny black box with a little microphone for all the western area. It used to break down a lot.

The tech was on 24/7 call. I talked to areas as far as Broken Hill, Brewarrina, Coonabarabran, out to Collarenebri and Lightening Ridge.”

Executive officer, OALC, Kylie McKeown explains:

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Amy Millgate in 1948

“She did everything. All that we take for granted on the computers today, that was the one person. So, now if you data entry on the computer, someone in Lithgow or Tamworth broadcasts to where ever you are, whereas that’s what Jackie did. She did it all.”

Kylie has spent the better part of this year managing the preparations for the Orana Area Local Command’s celebrations, and the committee, since September last year.

Events to mark the centenary will be taking place next week in Dubbo, including the official 100 Years of Women in Policing Baton Relay, currently doing the

Back in 1948 there’s a story about a woman who was told by her sergeant that she had to choose marriage or the job, you can’t have both. So, back then they resigned.

rounds of the state.

Her research has been an eye opener and by her own admission, has raised her appreciation even more for the policewomen who paved the way before her.

“Reading back through the history has been fascinating. To acknowledge what they’ve done and for us to be standing here now to be able to do what we all do, has been really good for me.

“Looking back through my research, I suppose from when they first started to where we are now, the equality, the changes, even in the uniform and the tasks that are now available to women, I think the NSW Police is very much now about women being equal to men.

They can take on that weapons trainer position if they want to. They can pretty much do any role.”

Deputy Commissioner, Specialist Operations, NSW Police, Catherine Burn is living proof of that. The highest-ranking policewoman in the state she holds the 100 Years of Women in Policing celebrations in the highest esteem.

“As I reflect on 100 Years of Women in Policing and my own experience, I am truly humbled by the female police officers who came before me. They were pioneers who paved the way for future generations of women to enjoy rewarding careers as police officers,” she says.

Inspector, OALC, Gemini Bakos JP, acknowledges the milestone of DCOP Burn: “I think once you achieve that rank the demands are certainly a lot higher than the lower ranks. Her phone would be ringing 24/7 for various operations needs and comments.

“For example at the moment our terrorism alert is quite high. Her phone would be ringing constantly day and night. She’s got pressure in terms of political responses to make on behalf of the way we operate and to have achieved that level she would have been through a lot of hard work, dedication and she’s proved herself as a very competent police officer,” says Bakos.

A woman’s competency in the role of police officer has possibly never been actually in question, but to begin with, from 1915, expectations were excruciatingly low.

“A policewoman’s duties before our time were school liaison officers, lecturing and statement taking. There were no operational duties,” says Bakos, who’s own duties as Inspector also include duty officer, human resources and Western Region Sexuality and Gender Diversity Officer.

“We weren’t issued firearms until the seventies,” explains Sue-Ellen Scott, Detective Senior Constable, OLAC. “That’s only 30 years ago.

“Even back then though, with the gloch, it was a different gloch, because they felt you couldn’t have the same one as a male,” adds McKeown.

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Our policies are representing 100 per cent equality. There are policies now to encourage families, to allow you to have a family as a female and also to have a career.

There are very flexile work agreements in place.

“They were revolvers,” says Scott, sounding mildly offended.

“And they carried them in a hand bag,” added Bakos, which in the context of today’s heavily armed police (Bakos is wearing a semi-automatic weapon) sounds ludicrous. “It doesn’t matter these days if you’re male or female,” says McKeown.

It’s a surreal conversation, standing on the footpath outside the Dubbo Police Station, listening to women, who are probably someone’s mum, aunty or sisters, chatting about guns.

It’s apparent then to me how far the force, and society, has actually come in the quest to achieving equality in the workplace. If the 100 Years of Women in Policing says anything, it’s a declaration of that.

All agree during their time in the police, there have been many occasions when its’ just been women on duty together.

Today NSW boasts 4,542 female sworn officers and 2,581 female unsworn officers.

“I’ve been working in the police for 18 years. I started in the inner west in Sydney, and we had a region commander who was female and when I was on general duties at Glebe it would not be uncommon for our entire shift to be female,” recalls Scott.

“Our policies are representing 100 per cent equality. There are policies now to encourage families, to allow you to have a family as a female and also to have a career. There are very flexile work agreements in place,” explains Bakos. Everyone is nodding in approval.

“Back in 1948 there’s a story about a woman who was told by her sergeant that she had to choose marriage or the job, you can’t have both. So, back then they resigned,” McKeown adds in a tone which acknowledges the real sense of the sacrifice their forebears made, knowing that today, they would never be asked to make that

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Gladys Johnson directs traffic in 1948

decision.

“If you got pregnant, you resigned,” adds Bakos. “There’s a a lot of women that are still working who had to make that choice, choosing a carer and who don’t have family because of it today.

“Women were supposed to be ladies, sitting there prim and proper and not do too much rugged activity,” says Kennedy.

McKeown throws a comment into the ring: “They even had to sit quite differently, everything had a very military style.

The first two female officers had to design their own uniform, and not actually do

police duties, they went into the schools.

I think they didn’t think they were up to the job.”

At the mention of uniforms the conversation erupts and like any circle of girlfriends reliving what they wore in the 70s, the all talk at once.

“They had to wear culottes,” says Kennedy, a little disapprovingly. “We were not allowed to wear pants. We had to wear skirts and stockings.” Bakos pipes in: “I remember in my first week I jumped a fence in my skirt and,” she puts her hands together then quickly separates them indicating a

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tear, “the stockings were split in two,” she laughs.

For a long time, the policing community and the wider community were divided as well, on the role of women in policing.

“I think our role is to represent the community so what better way to have equality in all sections and in the way we do our job,” suggests Bakos.

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male detective here,” says Scott. “There’s always going to be some victims of crime who are going to be naturally comfortable speaking to a woman. That’s not to say you get to choose your investigator or choose

Women in the NSW Police Force are marking 100 years of service this year, with celebrations for the milestone happening across NSW. To help mark this special occasion, a custom-made NSW Police baton is making its way around the state over the next six months, due to arrive in Dubbo on the May 20, 2015.

Locals are encouraged to line the streets outside the Dubbo Police Station and then move to the Rotunda in Macquarie St to witness representatives from NSW Police Force, including local female police, retired police officers, mounted police, dog squad and bicycles, complete the leg of a 3 to 5km relay across town.

The relay will commence at the entrance to the Western Plains Zoo, travel along the Tracker Riley Cycleway, Talbragar St, Brisbane St, outside the Dubbo Police Station and down Church St where it will finish at the Rotunda for local celebrations.

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Deputy Commissioner Burn: inspiring women to join the force NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner, Catherine Burn, Specialist Operations’ Facebook timeline shows a picture of herself, flanked by colleagues, holding the official 100 Years of Women in Policing baton due to pass through Dubbo on Wednesday, May 20. Tasked with heading the States’s counter terrorism and special tactics, State Crime Command and the Forensic and Special Services Groups, she is the highest ranking police woman in NSW. Dubbo Weekender asked her to share her thoughts on the 100 Years milestone.

AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley.

What do women bring to the police force?

Women have made an outstanding contribution to the NSW Police Force and communities across New South Wales over the past 100 years. As they do in all workforces, women bring expertise, resilience, strength and understanding to the challenging police environment.

A modern and competent police force must reflect the community it serves. That means we encourage and recruit women and men to the NSW Police Force, and people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Gender diversity and cultural diversity equips our workforce to engage with communities across the state and understand their concerns.

What challenges or assumptions do police women face from the community, if any, because they are women?

Attitudes towards women and assumptions about women have improved enormously over the years, but there is still a way to go. As a police officer, I am determined to do everything I can to improve the safety of all women, and the respect shown to women.

My experience of the community’s attitude towards female police officers is very positive. I believe there is strong community respect and appreciation for women in policing, and that is very encouraging.

I would also like to think that seeing women succeed in non-traditional roles has a positive impact on the community’s assumptions about women and what they can achieve.

Your position in the police force is a milestone in itself. How has your personal journey been rising through the ranks?

Has your gender been an issue?

Thank you and it is, of course, a privilege to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of Specialist Operations for the NSW Police Force.

When I made the decision to become a police officer I did not view my gender as an obstacle in any way. This was in part due to my family, who encouraged me from a young age to pursue any career or aspiration regardless of gender.

I started my career as a police officer in Chatswood, where I was mentored and inspired by other female police officers. I observed the way these women expected nothing less than respect from their male colleagues, and I have never forgotten their example and their strength.

I have enjoyed many opportunities to work in challenging and senior roles in the NSW Police Force, including as a homicide detective and Commander of Redfern Local Area Command, Professional Standards Command, the Central Metropolitan Region and Deputy Commissioner of Corporate Services.

Is there still resistance to women in the police force?

I am proud to say that the NSW Police Force is an organisation that recognises the value and importance of women in the

the police officer who investigates your matter. As humans we’re always going to be more comfortable talking to one person over another.

“It’s also in the nature of the offense,” continues Bakos, seriously. “For example domestic violence, in previous years I was a domestic violence officer. You look at the numbers it’s predominantly females as victims. Naturally a female would prefer a female officer where that can be facilitated.

“Particularly when they’ve certainly been intimidated or beaten in the home by a male,” adds Scott in a business like tone.

Though our conversation has crossed time, shared experiences with laughter and wonder at

how police women before today shaped the force is it today, McKeown, Kennedy, Bakos and Scott appear unanimous in their admiration for the women who have walked the line, made the sacrifices and made the NSW Police Force a leader in equal employment opportunities.

“There’s got to be an acknowledgement and a celebration because of those woman who blazed the trail for us, 30, 50, 80 years ago,” says Scott.

“I have enormous pride doing what I do, whether its 100 years celebrating women or 150 years of the police force, as an organisation we all do what we do because we absolutely love it and are passionate about making a difference,” says Scott.

Highest ranking NSW policewoman: NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner, Catherine Burn, Specialist Operations PHOTO: NSW POLICE MEDIA UNIT

workforce.

Today we see female police officers succeeding in all aspects of policing, including non-traditional policing and key decisionmaking roles. The NSW Police Force also benefits from the contribution of unsworn female employees across a range of areas including forensics, communications, legal, human resources and administration.

The NSW Police Force’s Women in Policing Strategic Plan documents our resolve to further develop opportunities for women’s advancement in policing, and to address barriers to female retention and success.

The NSW Police Force also has an established Spokeswomen’s Network and a mentoring program, which provide leadership, resources and professional development.

I certainly consider the NSW Police Force to be an employer of choice for women, offering a unique and rewarding career in a supportive and family-friendly environment.

I certainly consider the NSW Police Force to be an employer of choice for women, offering a unique and rewarding career in a supportive and family-friendly environment.

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Robinson’s crusade Knowing what it’s like to feel confused about gender identity, Lee Robinson has turned his experiences into a support group for others, making inroads into a topic that hasn’t received much talk time.

WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent NE day, Lee Robinson hopes that society will progress to the point where going to a public bathroom won’t be an issue for people who are transgender.

The happy-go-lucky 34-year-old is just like any other bloke from Dubbo; he loves socialising, he gets nervous when he goes on a first date and he really enjoys travelling.

The only difference is that Robinson used to be a woman.

Growing up with two sisters, one of whom is his twin, Robinson says he was always the tomboy of the family. Shy and confused, the realisation that he wanted to change gender came even before puberty.

“Everyone’s experience is different,” Robinson says openly.

“For me, I was always a tomboy, the boy of the family. I was about 11 or 12 and just really wished that I was a boy.”

It wasn’t until he was living interstate that Robinson actually began the gender reassignment process.

“I was in my mid-20s when I first started to take it seriously and 27 when I made the leap and began transitioning when I was living on the Gold Coast.

It was a long process that was certainly not just a phase. I had to talk to a counsellor, be referred by a specialist and there were a lot of operations and medications.”

Fortunately, in his workplace, everyone was respectful and accepting of Robinson and his choice.

“I was very nervous and had my doctor write me a letter,” he laughs.

“Of course, I changed locker rooms, but no-one ever said anything.”

Gender reassignment is a very long and sometimes lonely road. But Robinson was fortunate to have the support of family and friends.

A quiet person then, Robinson has really come out of his shell since that time seven years ago. In fact, it’s hard to imagine him as having anything but the bubbly positive outlook on life he has now.

“I was very shy, pre-transition.

“But after the transition, I realised that a lot of the problems that I had growing up related back

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Some people think you go in for an operation and come back the next day as a male or a female.

But it takes time and everybody’s different. It’s just like puberty.

to that time.”

Telling his nearest and dearest of his decision was difficult but it worked out very well in the end.

“It’s very hard to tell people what you’re going to do. But for me, when they saw how happy I was, that was enough. Mum was my biggest supporter.

My friends’ circle has been very supportive. Even my uncles, who are all shearers from Bourke, were accepting. People see how happy I am now and everyone else just fell in line with that and took their cue from that.”

“It’s about how you deal with things too.”

Robinson has changed his name since his transition but did not let it bother him if people temporarily forgot.

“If people called me by my old name, then I wasn’t impatient with them. It takes time.”

Robinson says the desire to change gender is not like wanting a piercing or a new shirt. It’s not about seeking out that difference, but actually having the transition reflect your true self.

“For me, it wasn’t about wanting to change, it was more about wanting to align the outside version of myself with who I was on the inside. It was how I wanted to look compared with how everyone else sees me. I now feel more comfortable in my own skin.”

Robinson grew up in Dubbo and has returned to his hometown for family reasons.

People that see him in the street can’t always tick the box of recognition.

“These days, people look at me like they know me, they tell me I look familiar and ask if I have a twin, which of course, I do,” he laughs.

“I’m not in the closet or anything. If people want to know, I will tell them. But it’s not me to just tell everyone.”

OBINSON says there are plenty of misconceptions about people who are transgender.

One of those is the length of time it takes to transition.

“Some people think you go in for an operation and come back the next day as a male or a female.

“But it takes time and everybody’s different. It’s just like puberty.”

Then there’s bucking the stereotypical image that people have of transgender people.

“A lot of people have that image in their head of a drag queen. They expect us all to be in high heels and makeup. But transitioning and drag queens are completely separate.”

Another problem area is public bathroom use when it’s difficult to ascertain the correct facility in terms of comfort levels.

“You feel like you don’t fit in the normal gender radar,” Robinson explains.

For most people who undergo this experience, acceptance is all that is being sought.

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The group: Robinson, along with his friend Marty, have formed the Central West Trans and Gender Diverse Network which originally started in Dubbo six months ago, and is now inclusive of Orange and Bathurst.

“I was living on the Gold Coast when I transitioned. Up there, there were heaps of groups and heaps of people in the same position.”

Moving home, Robinson discovered that there were groups in Sydney, Brisbane and Newcastle but not in his home town.

“Marty and I decided that we can’t be the only ones in Dubbo. We decided to start the group because it’s good to meet other people who think the way you do.”

The group has been running successfully since December last year, offering support, guidance and friendship to members, in a situation which can be alienating.

“It gives people something to realise that they’re not alone,” Robinson said.

“Because you can feel isolated. In the group, everyone is friendly. Everyone’s a good person.

“So far it’s been really good - we are reaching out and helping other people. I’s really social. We are also creating more awareness … we are offering support and want to help people who have had a lot of trouble.”

The group offers a nice relaxed and private environment which is informal and friendly. It’s also now receiving support from the Rainbow Alliance and Sexual Health Clinic.

I’m sure there are plenty of other people that want to come but get nervous. It takes a lot of guts to walk into something like that. But we are here to help.”

» For more information about the group, contact Lee Robinson on 0434 869 038 or alexkidd@live.com.au or visit their page on Facebook. The next get-together will be a movie day in Dubbo on Sunday, June 14.

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“It can be a struggle - I mean you are asked your gender when booking a train ticket. They shouldn’t need to know your gender to book a train ticket!”

As an avid traveller, changing his passport was a little bit tricky, as is using various amenities in his travels.

“It can be frustrating - backpacking with open showers, but you get around it. The upside is that you meet so many people when you are travelling.”

Gender and sexuality are often confused, and it’s often assumed that if one changes, so does the other.

Transgender people are also often lumped into the category of gay and lesbian, which Robinson says is inaccurate despite his respect for people of all persuasions.

“With gender and sexuality, if you move from a guy to a girl or vice versa, it doesn’t mean your sexuality changes,” he pointed out.

“It’s more about how you feel in your body, being yourself.”

Regarding his body, many people had questions about what was happening to him physically, which Robinson felt was a little bit too close for comfort.

“When I first started transitioning, people wanted to know what was downstairs (in the genital region).

The terminology: Cisgender - an individual’s experience of their own gender matching the sex they were born with Transgender - the state of one’s gender identity or gender expression not matching one’s assigned sex Transsexual - people who experience a gender identity inconsistent or not culturally associated with their assigned sex Sex reassignment surgery - the surgical procedure (or procedures) by which a transgender person’s physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that of their identified sex.

Genderqueer - a catch-all category for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine— identities which are thus outside of the gender binary SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA and cisnormativity.

“It’s a natural curiosity but they don’t realise they are overstepping the boundary. Everyone wants to know but it’s such a personal question!

“People don’t mean to be insulting but it does get old fairly quickly.”

Dating can be awkward too, and not knowing when is the best time to share your news.

They shouldn’t need to know your gender to book a train ticket.

“It’s an ongoing battle for most trans-people and can get very complicated in terms of dating. It’s quite a big bombshell to drop on somebody.”

What Robinson is now hoping for is acceptance, of all people across all situations.

“I can see the world changing, everything is coming along. It’s just happening slowly.

“Gay and lesbians have only been acknowledged in the past 20 years. We as a society are so much more accepting of gay people now and a lot of people are more open in their workplace.”

Whatever the future holds, Robinson just wants to feel acceptance, for himself and others.

“At the end of the day, we like to go out and have a few drinks without having issues.

“We are just regular people.”

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Weekender regular Lisa Minner continues with a weekly series highlighting some of the interesting faces, places and hidden gems along our own beautiful stretch of the Macquarie river.

Michele Barry has explored a variety of careers over the years, covering the gamut from Cleo magazine copy girl to wool classer, to her current role as host at her beautiful B&B, Immarna. Michele tells us a little about her life, her plans for the future and for the historic homestead her family share with visitors from all over the world.

WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner she said.

From copy girl, Michele was offered a role in the fashion department of Cleo, but instead took a position with the popular Studio Collections, a women’s fashion magazine edited by Italian designer Marcello Grand, in Double Bay, Sydney. “It was all such an exciting time, I enjoyed the fashion, the lifestyle and I was even invited to the Cointreau Ball. “I actually still have my dress, my poor mother was mid drought and forked out something like $1000 for this Fredrick Lucas silk and leather dress - I actually still have it, it was amazing.�

With a few great loves battling for her attention around this time, Michele split her time between cooking, writing, real estate and wool classing.

She enrolled at Deakin University to begin a journalism degree but discovered that writing for commercial media wasn’t really her cup of tea. “I worked in a lot of restaurants and clubs in Sydney and had a fabulous time but then I had a phone call from my parents who were in the worst drought of all time, my mother was distraught and my father said, ‘Don’t come home!� “So I came home and did my professional classing certificate through TAFE and went on to do some work out along the Bogan followed by a six year stint at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in hospitality and the Blue Lagoon Motel restaurant.�

All of which have her very well equipped for her current role as host, at the homestead.

ICHELE BARRY sits smiling and fresh faced, with a cup of tea in hand on the sun soaked verandah of the property that is her home, as well as one of the areas most beautiful B&Bs. Hidden off the road on the outskirts of Dubbo’s farming district, it is an oasis perhaps unknown to many, locally. Immarna B&B is situated on 800 acres near Rawsonville. The homestead was built between in 1908 and 1912 by architect Jack McDonald and contains a four bedroom main residence and a separate one-bedroom cottage behind the main house.

The homestead’s gardens sit green and lush amid a working cattle and sheep stud. Three tall palm trees said to be over 80 years old tower over the yard harking back to days gone by.

It’s the perfect day to see the old beauty at its best.

The air is crisp and the sun is shining and Michele is excited to show off the home she has invested so much energy in to over the years.

But Michele has more good news, the phone rings, a call from America, which has left her grinning ear to ear and with a few emotional tears, to boot. “I can’t believe it,� “I just got a publishing deal for my book. I am in shock. All these years this has been my dream, and here you are to share the moment! “My husband Anthony, is going to be so happy for me,� she said, before a whirlwind tour of the property commences.

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BORN and bred Dubbo woman, Michele’s life has been colourful and varied. On leaving her hometown for Sydney in the 80s, she dabbled in a few different careers. One of the most exciting times for her was when she worked for Cleo magazine as a “copy girl.�

It was a pivotal time for her during the late 80s and early 90s when Cleo magazine was considered Australia’s most popular and iconic woman’s magazine.

Launched in 1972 under the direction of Ita Buttrose, founding editor, the magazine is still in publication 43 years later.

Known for its racey content, centrefolds and bachelor of the year, Michele said it was a great time to be at the magazine when everything was all systems go. “When I was at Cleo Jana Wednt was the editor and she inspired me so much to follow my dreams in life,�

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ER life at Immarna began around 1995 when she married her husband Anthony and the two settled in to a rural lifestyle they’ve thrived in ever

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During the drought, far from being defeated by the trying times, Michele installed a commercial grade kitchen in the homestead.

The couple and their daughter Isabella, have plans to make the farming side of their property organic. The kitchen will serve as a “test kitchen� for future bioorganic creations. “We plan to breed organic cattle (organic stud Angus and Baldy cattle) and cross them over with Wagyu from two sources and sell the product in town,� she said.

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Immarna B&B is located at 12r Coolbaggie Road, via Dubbo.

“We want to make a saleable organic product that people can buy. Wagyu is too expensive, most people can’t afford to buy it and the marbling factor is fantastic in the meat.”

Cheese production could be in the wings too. “I want to get a camel for the property, camel’s milk is amazing - it’s very good for you, and from there make organic cheese.”

“I have a pretty good understanding of that world having volunteered with Macquarie’s (Anglican Grammar) Organic Kitchen Garden, for four years, with all

their wonderful volunteers, what a great experience.”

Immarna has seen its fair share of interesting visitors and dinner parties over the years.

“Some of the guests we’ve had have been from The Land, a former editor from House and Garden magazine, Annie Kelly, a famous international photographer Tim Porter, people from W magazine in New York.”

Michele said people who live in cities particularly enjoy the country atmosphere and remoteness of the property. She said because they are a fully functioning farm with livestock, visitors get the best of both

worlds, comfortable old-world accommodation and fine food mixed with exploring a working farm which proudly boasts a branch of Coolbaggie Creek, lots of fun for children to explore.

‘We’ve had a lot of lovely families and children come to stay with us.”

“At the moment we only operate during school holidays because Isabella is still at school but eventually we will operate as a full time B&B and share our beautiful homestead, and organic produce with as many people as we can.”

MY DUBBO MY SAY NOW ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION

FIT FOR THE FUTURE

DRAFT 2015/2016 OPERATIONAL PLAN & BUDGET

Dubbo City Council is seeking community feedback on the draft content and direction of its Fit for the Future submission to the NSW Office of Local Government.

The draft 2015/2016 Operational Plan and Budget is now on Public Exhibition.

COUNCIL IS SAYING

NEW CAPITAL PROJECTS

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to an Orana Joint Organisation (JO)

to a merger with any Council including Narromine and Wellington

Improvement projects have been identified for the period 2016 – 2020 to ensure Dubbo City Council is certified Fit for the Future.

Local Government Reform – Fit for the Future

Do you support Dubbo standing alone? Tell us: Yes or No to a Joint Organisation?

Yes or No to a merger?

Putting Dubbo First Dubbo City Council is seeking community on the draft content feedback and direction of its Fit for the Future submission to the NSW Office of Local Government.

Read the draft content and make a submission at mydubbomysay.com.au

The submission will be based on Council being part of an Orana Joint Organisatio n (JO) but not supporting a merger with any other Council. The submission will further demonstrat e Council has the capacity to be certified Fit for the Future based on the NSW Office of Local Governmen t’s benchmarks.

Council, at an Extraordina ry meeting held 4 May 2015, adopted on the enclosed report Council’s General from Manager dated 1 May 2015 and in doing so conceptuall y endorsed the content for the developmen t of Council’s Fit for the Future submission.

Community feedback on the content and direction of this report is encouraged. Public submissions close Friday 5 June 2015.

$381,058 to footpaths and cycleways $3.1M for urban roads and $3.4M for rural roads $14.4M for water supply services $16.7M for sewer services $476,000 to upgrade sporting facilities $902,557 to upgrade Old Dubbo Gaol.

RATES, FEES AND CHARGES Revenue from rates is proposed to increase 2.4% and the following charges will apply: • Water Use Charge $1.91/kl (up 3.2%) • Domestic Waste Management (Urban) $283.50 (up 5%) • Domestic Waste Management (Rural) $124 (up 4.8%) Read the Draft Plan and Budget 2015/2016 and make a submission at mydubbomysay.com.au

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Chris and Donna Ambler It’s National Volunteer Week, and Chris and Donna Ambler personify this year’s Give Happy, Live Happy campaign. As president and registrar, respectively, of Dubbo junior soccer club, SASS Strikers, they have coached and manage their boys’, teams: Dominic, 13 and Nate, 10, and are the ‘go to’ for 220 other kids in the club as well. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent Donna Ambler: ATTENDED my first live soccer match with Chris early in our relationship and it was probably the first time I met his mates. He was a bit restrained at first when the crowd jumped to their feet to cheer and I sat there dumbstruck.

He soon got over that and was yelling and cheering with the thousands of other Leeds fans. I wouldn’t say I have developed a love for the game, but I certainly have an interest in it and a respect for the skill and talent at an international level.

Chris is passionate about football and has always followed Leeds United in the UK. When our boys were little, one of the earliest things they learnt to do was kick a soccer ball.

He was always keen to be involved and recognises that if he wants to make a difference he has to be on the committee. We both follow the “put up or shut up” philosophy. While Chris is sometimes a reluctant leader, he is a good administrator, very diplomatic and a good negotiator. He also puts a lot of effort into fundraising and applying for grants in his first few years’ of involvement with SASS and can take pride in the gear we now hand out to our coaches at the beginning of the season.

Chris trained as a teacher at uni and is a very patient and tolerant coach. His focus is not so much on winning as it is on developing the children as players and building their skills. We believe it’s important to give kids a chance, regardless of ability and to help them learn and enjoy the sport.

Chris isn’t a yelling and screaming coach – he’s one of the most, calm coaches you will see on the sidelines.

If he raises his voice, everyone notices.

He likes the players to learn through experience and to stop and think about what they could have done differently to achieve a better outcome.

When our youngest son was turning five and ready to form a soccer team of his own, I heard a voice say, “If you can’t beat them, join them”. That’s when I stepped up to coach Nate’s U5s team, the SASS Astronauts. I didn’t think I would last six years in the job because I only know what I have learnt from Chris and several training courses – I only ever played one game of soccer and that

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was for PE in about year 9.

Chris wasn’t a big fan of my coaching style. I found coordinating the subs on the sideline a bit stressful and I’m a far more vocal coach than him. I think he was happy that I was involved and he taught me a lot about the skills the team needed to build and how to develop the players from a technical perspective.

I’m proud of what I achieved with the Astronauts as they were able to be competitive, without always needing to win.

I also take pride in the reputation SASS seems to have developed as a friendly and helpful club to join. But we both agree that I am an over-committed volunteer, so it was time for somebody else to take over the coaching role this year.

Our kids are passionate about soccer and cricket so that’s what we hear about, depending on the season. We encourage them to keep active so there’s nothing usually off the table. However, I often retreat upstairs because I don’t have the appetite for televised sport that they all do.

Chris spends a lot of time checking the UK football and cricket results. He does that even before he gets out of bed in the mornings. When he’s not checking results he’s watching sport on TV. We love watching our kids play sport – we also have rugby with Nate and then travelling for rep soccer in winter, followed by cricket with both boys in summer. Chris love sports statistics and is a diligent scorer for Dom’s cricket team.

We live close to the river (across the road from the soccer fields!) so we have easy access to the walking track to run or walk and to sometimes go kayaking together in the warmer months.

I try to stay healthy and be active to be a good role model for my kids. We strongly encourage them to be involved in team sports. They also see that we put a lot of energy into volunteering through sports and school activities.

Dominic already referees and we talk about the time when they will need to give something back to their sport, possibly by coaching a junior side in the next couple of years.

I think we are in the same category as many volunteers in that we step up to help out when there seems to be nobody else to keep you child’s sporting club or school committee afloat. There are nev-

er enough volunteers.

About five years ago I stepped up to fill in as registrar as a short-term succession plan and of course nobody else has wanted to take over since then.

Chris Ambler: ONNA moved out of the coaching role this year and is trying to support both my team and the Astronauts in a managerial role – but felt she had failed in the second week when two parents turned up with oranges for the same team.

I met Donna in England in 1992, a day after my team, Leeds, won the English Premier League title. I was on a high as it was our first title since the mid 70’s.

She nagged me to take her to a game.

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At the first Premier League game I ever took Donna to I could see she had a natural love for the game. Leeds scored a screamer, top corner from 30 yards.

Settling down after the celebration she asked “was that a good goal?” She loves football so much she’ll put off cleaning the oven until half time, even in a JetsMariners 0-0 nail biter.

Donna is an organiser and loves to help people out. She has a keen interest in being fit and healthy and recognises kids need to be active. She goes out of her way to help kids find places in teams, even with other Clubs.

As I said before, it’s her organisation skills and interaction with people. New players to SASS always comment that they have heard it is a well run Club –

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that’s mainly down to Donna and the other committee members, of course.

As a public relations professional Donna was into the latest media technology. I think SASS was the first Club in Dubbo to set up a website. That was all her work, we still have the same web host, Terry Wilcher, and I think they are working on a re-vamped site for us.

She enjoys the social media side too so we have a facebook page.

I can’t say that she’s over passionate about football, although she has been to a few games with the boys and myself – Australia in the Asian Cup, LA Galaxy when David Beckham came over, Del Peiro’s debut for Sydney FC. She’s even been to see the Sykes twins playing for Canberra. Her real passion is fit

and healthy kids and team sports are a big plus in that area. She helps out with Dubbo Rugby Cricket Club and always volunteers at school for things like cross country canteen duty, time keeping at swimming carnivals, etc.

We do like to have a break from it in summer. Ours boys both play cricket for Rugby Junior Cricket Club and Dubbo so we are involved in that, although at a lower level – Donna is the publicity officer and I do match scoring. Her business, The Verb Garden, also sponsors SASS and Rugby Cricket so during the off-season she is organising playing shirts, training shirts, etc.

In the last few years Donna has taken up running. She’s done Dubbo Stampede and other runs around NSW. She’s

also in a book club and avoids watching sport on TV by curling up with a book.

I think she is very supportive about what I do to support junior football and SASS especially. She’s a Dubbo girl and loves the community we live in and recognises the effort that people put in with volunteering for whatever they are passionate about.

I remember collecting some coaching gear from the Club in my first season.

I was surprised as there wasn’t much equipment and it was past its best. From that point I knew I had to get involved to give the SASS committee some new impetus. I started off as Treasurer and was successful in getting some government grants and new sponsors. We were able to buy a lot of new equipment and we

try and update some of this each season.

A couple of years later I became SASS President and then Vice President of Dubbo Football Association. SASS’s long running Registrar Selwyn Dalinger left town so Donna took on the role ‘until someone else is appointed’. She does a fantastic job and the Club has over 220 junior players now in about 25 teams.

I enjoyed football in my childhood but really caught the bug watching the 1978 World Cup and the Dutch team at that time. Here I am nearly 40 years later still following the sport. I hope our kids get as much pleasure out of the game that I have. Hopefully when they’re grown up they’ll also contribute to their community as a volunteer with whatever they are passionate about.

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Esther Eden: The garden of Eden The world is the oyster of actress Esther Eden, who has lived in Australia, Israel and the UK, with a move to the USA on the cards later this year. But it’s when she thinks of her hometown of Dubbo that this global citizen begins to feel nostalgic. AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Kaitlyn Rennie I was born in Dubbo and moved to Sydney at the age of six. Until this visit, I haven’t been back here for a very long time - 15 years, but flying in made me feel very sentimental about my childhood. Of my siblings, I was the only one born here.

I’ve actually visited my old family home in Fitzroy St where my neighbour was my nanny. She still lives there and welcomed me back with open arms. It’s also wonderful to see that Dubbo has embraced the arts.

The performing arts was always encouraged in my family by my mother.

Myself and my older brother and sister were always engaged in creative pursuits, including violin, piano, singing, ballet, gymnastics and drama lessons.

At the age of eight, I moved with my family to Israel. My mother is Jewish so it was nice to go there and learn about the culture. My mother wanted us to know our heritage. Originally, we were going for a year which turned into seven years. I speak Hebrew and my necklace is my name in Hebrew. (Esther is also the name of a Jewish Queen in the Old Testament).

We lived in Jerusalem and I went to school and did rhythmic gymnastics and drama classes after school.

My friends and I would make up skits and perform them on Jewish holidays.

It’s cringe-worthy now, but we had fun.

What I remember of the areas we lived in were the synagogues, the beautiful old architecture, the old city and the Wailing Wall. We also lived in Kiryat Arba which is near Hebron and the home of the tombs of the four fathers and four mothers. At the age of 14, we moved back to Sydney where I continued my dramatic pursuits.

In Israel, I had focused on gymnastics and acting was a sideline. But it became difficult to get to gymnastics back in Sydney so my Mum suggested drama classes. I started getting more involved in Years 9 and 10.

I was studying at a Jewish school at the time, but I was accepted into the McDonald College of Performing Arts for Years 10 to 12 where I got to do drama in the HSC. I also studied music in the HSC and did a lot of theatre.

At the McDonald College, I performed in Restoration comedies, The Country Wife and The Way of the World, Greek tragedy Oedipus, Shakespearean comedy the Taming of the Shrew and Secret Bridesmaids’ Business which was performed at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney.

During high school, I also took extra drama classes at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts and worked on two independent feature films Torn Together and Run Away. After graduating high school, I auditioned for drama schools and was accepted into Screenwise (run by leading actress Denise Roberts), an acting school specialising in screen act-

ing as most of my previous acting was theatrical and I wanted to build my skillset and learn that side and hone my craft that way.

The course was one-year intensive, and during that time we were taught by leading agents, directors and casting directors. I also performed numerous shorts for the students at North Sydney TAFE film school.

At my Screenwise showcase, I met a UK agent who offered me representation. Three months later, in July 2006, I moved to London. I had a friend living there and just thought, why not? At the time, there wasn’t much work in Australia, there’s more now. Work in the UK was more accessible. I had to learn British accents, because when they were casting for Australians, they’d expect blonde hair, blue eyes and tanned skin! (Eden has dark brown hair, hazel eyes and a pale complexion.) I can do a London accent and some of the others but some of them are hard! I continued training at The Actors Centre, did a short course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and workshops at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. I worked on more independent short films with the short film Piano being showcased at the Shortcutz film festival. From 2010/2011, I worked with theatre company Le Nouveau Guignol, performing Grand Guignol theatre at the Old Red Lion Theatre and The Courtyard Theatre.

In 2011, I started doing a bit of modelling on the side, a photo from a retro photo shoot that I did for photographer Nick Dolding was then chosen to be used for a Lighter Life ad campaign.

In 2012, I auditioned and became part of podcast The 313 Show, which is an online comedy show where I voice

sketches and on occasion am the guest co-host. I have also performed sketches with them in live shows and last year we performed at The Kingston Comedy Festival.

When I first moved to London, I had an agent, then I went freelance for a while. Without an agent, you have extra freedom and it also makes you more pro-active in seeking work. I now have a new agent, who was a friend first, but we are keeping it professional while staying friends, so it’s working well.

In 2012/2013, I worked on comedy audio sitcom or Sitpodcom Quiz Masters, about a group of friends who go to a pub quiz every week. I voice the role of Rose Kettering and other minor roles. It did really well, reaching 15th place on the iTunes podcast chart and 5th place on the iTunes comedy chart. In 2012, I also worked on a one act play The Proposal Update, a comedy about the effects of technology and social media on our relationships. I play Hannah who is being proposed to by her boyfriend and can’t stop even for a second from being on Facebook and Twitter. It was selected for Writer’s Bloc, a night of new writing, as their headlining play. It went down so well they asked to perform again that year for their Christmas show.

In 2013, I also performed in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. We performed that in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens as part of St George’s Day and Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations.

Later in the year, I performed Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth, which was set in contemporary England in the banking world and the witches were changed to journalists. It was set to represent the fall of the Royal Bank of Scotland and start of the recession. I played the role of Hecate, which was merged

with the role of Gentlewoman, representing the Editor (head of the witches) who ends up infiltrating the Macbeth’s banking administration. The show had a three-week run at the Cockpit Theatre and received many 4 and 5 star reviews.

Even though I wasn’t the lead, this was one of my favourite roles, and I got to do this beautiful soliloquy.

For me, it’s not about the medium or the number of lines, it’s about the role and the script, and the strength of the character. After Macbeth, at the end of that year, I worked with Working Space Theatre and went on tour around Scotland and the north of England with a production of The Snow Queen for children, where we would perform five days a week, two shows a day. It was just two of us performing and we both played multiple roles, one of mine being the Snow Queen herself.

I also got asked by the director of ScAIRcrows to be in his feature film Dead Love to play the role of Kaitlin. He was so impressed by my work in ScAIRcrows that he sent me the script of Dead Love and if I was happy with the role, it was mine. I loved the script and immediately agreed to do it. It was a rom/ com with a difference and had a bizarre storyline.

In 2014, I auditioned and was accepted into the Professional Actor’s Masterclass run by the Australian Institute of Performing Arts. It’s a course run in LA that includes workshops with top casting directors. In LA, I also filmed an episode of a webseries and a short film.

It’s something I’d love to go back to and I am taking a trip in June. It’s a holiday but I will also be checking out what opportunities are available. I firmly believe that sometimes you have to take risks in life to follow your dreams.

I returned to London in mid-2014, where I started studying the Meisner technique with Tom Radcliffe, who used to study with Sanford Meisner.

I also filmed the third episode of Real Talk, a mockumentary web series about different topical current affairs, my episode was about Camila Lemon, a charity worker who falls in love with homeless men.

I find getting into a role harder than learning the lines. I do a lot of research on characterisation, but I think you never really become a different person, you’re still you. I would love to do some Israeli stuff, just tapping into my cultural heritage some more and I would love to do The Sound of Music, I love musicals.

If I wasn’t acting, I think I would be working in forensics. I have always been interested in criminal psychology, I find it fascinating. There’s just something about the dark side of people that I’m drawn to. I’ve done a bit of horror and black comedy. I’ve been killed a few times and there was one scene where I had acid thrown in my face.

In terms of people I admire, Kristen Scott Thomas is one of my favourite actresses, she is just wonderful. And Johnny Depp is great too, I have followed his career a lot. Tim Burton is a fabulous director and it’s just his ability to do what no-one else does that I admire.

I have also recently joined the production company Demand Horror as one of their Scream Queens. I will be working in most of their productions including webseries Until Dead and feature film Selfie about a serial killer who takes selfies of his victims as they are being killed.

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Hoodwinked no more by corporate spin

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

T should be raining Doritos. If it was, things would be so much simpler and it could have a massive positive impact on the newest federal budget.

US author Mark Schatzker’s new book, ‘The Dorito Effect’, looks at some of the underlying problems facing humanity today, how the billions of dollars we’re spending on our growing health crisis is just plain wrong.

He argues that public health epidemics such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes aren’t related to carbohydrates or the like, but that we have systematically allowed the nutrition our bodies need to be bred out of our corporate food supply chains.

He says the trend started in the 1940s when we began to ‘leech’ the flavour from our food in the quest for supermarket presentation perfection, claiming those luscious looking tomatoes are mostly water; the fat, perfectly rounded chickens grown three times faster to a much bigger size, are tasteless.

Even in 1990 when I was, literally, tripping around Europe in a Kombi, we couldn’t believe how beautiful the local tomatoes tasted on our sandwiches compared to the garbage back in Australia, but until we sampled the flavour, we didn’t realise how we’d been duped for so long – it was a revelation to me that something was seriously wrong with the way we grew food in a country where we pride ourselves on our clean, green produce.

Because we have eliminated the taste from everyday natural foods, Schatzker asserts, Corporate Food Inc. has invented all sorts of health-destroying additives to sweeten the taste, addicting the population and creating the base for an all-encompassing medical industry to fix us up.

So no, I don’t believe we need the federal government to set up a $20 billion dollar medical research fund when a fraction of that money can help farmers change to growing systems which actually produce healthy food containing all the nutrients we need to thrive as a species.

Add into the mix the story doing social media rounds about Nobel-prize

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winning scientist Linus Pauling, who echoes many academics by saying that ‘scientific’ research has been hijacked.

Pauling won the Nobel not once, but twice and is regarded as one of the most important scientists in history, yet he sees paid science as having been corrupted by the people who stand to make huge profits from legitimising their claims.

‘Everyone should know that cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them’, Pauling said.

This is a huge claim, but one that’s being made by many people around the world as the extent of the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying power becomes better understood.

I spent thousands of dollars for decades on all sorts of pharmaceutical fixes for a condition called ‘restless legs syndrome’, an affliction where you can’t sleep because it feels like someone is tickling your feet.

Imagine my surprise when I came across a very cheap, totally natural cure called Karma Rub, a magnesium chloride brine that works instantly, every time, and with zero side-effects.

So for all the scientific research on this, for all the money spent, for all the millions of sufferers forking out billions for some relief, the cure is simple, cheap and natural.

Certainly the huge amounts of money spent on cancer research and drug development are way out of proportion to the results gained in the past 30 years.

And you can see the massive PR ef-

forts now trying to discredit anyone who claims they’ve cured their cancer by lifestyle changes and healthy eating.

This ‘power of money’ is reflected across the spectrum these days.

Mining magnate Twiggy Forest believes BHP and Rio Tinto are using their awesome (ore-some) market power to drive down iron ore prices so they’re the only miners left standing, and it’s pretty obvious that he’s right – these are public companies playing money games which have cost thousands of jobs across the nation and has crippled our budget.

Companies which are profiting from the nation’s irreplaceable national assets and using them to abuse us, the owners, shouldn’t be allowed to operate in Australia.

So for all our mantra about free markets and free trade, major corporations have become so powerful, and so cashed up that in a sense we’re bigger slaves than ever before, acting out our lives under a veneer of freedom and democracy.

How are all these things related?

They’re related by the fact that the God of money at the highest levels is making us all worse off.

The ABC’s Australian Story has in the past couple of weeks run episodes five and six featuring Bylong farmer Peter Andrew’s battle to show the world how his Natural Sequence farming system can rehydrate the Australian landscape and effectively drought-proof the nation.

Yet we’ve allowed his 30 year experiment on ‘Tarwyn Park’ to be gobbled up by a coal mine, and haven’t listened to

... for all our mantra about free markets and free trade, major corporations have become so powerful, and so cashed up that in a sense we’re bigger slaves than ever before, acting out our lives under a veneer of freedom and democracy.

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2. MOVIES: How old in years was Yoda when he died in “Return of the Jedi”?

3. ACRONYMS: What does the first “A” in NASA stand for?

4. TENNIS: As of the 2015 Australian Open, how many Grand Slam singles titles have the Williams sisters won?

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him anyway.

It’s not because the ‘science isn’t in’ – I’ve interviewed scientists from across the globe who tell me his system is the answer.

I’ve seen how properties which have been NSF’d seem to always get rain when even near neighbours miss out, this on a widespread basis.

Because the soil is cooler, because it has vast reserves of water under the ground, because the vegetation is thick and lush, it rains more over those areas, just as deserts reflects the heat back into the sky making rainfall less likely.

And I don’t need a scientist to tell me that can or can’t happen when I’ve observed it myself and know it’s the truth.

Imagine if all properties were fixed the same way, especially after we’ve been so long in drought and with a predicted El Nino coming our way at the back end of this year.

It’s because there’s no corporate profits in NSF, because all of a sudden our farmers wouldn’t be forced to buy expensive chemical sprays and synthetic fertilisers, and that means the lobbyists would lose their high paid cushy positions.

Imagine if the farmers in just our area no longer had to spend most of the money on these industrial inputs, and yet had a far greater productivity – that would mean money in the bank and huge amounts of new farm jobs for local people – but it wouldn’t benefit the one percent who control the wealth.

It’s disruptive technology and until the corporations have found a way to own it and profit from that monopoly, it doesn’t stand a snowflake’s chance in hell of becoming widespread.

Look at British researchers recently who tried an ancient medical text; a veritable witches’ brew and found it worked against resistant bugs which were immune to our very best, scientific-certified antibiotics.

There’s nothing wrong with science, I love science for the good things it’s given us and for the potential advances it will make to help make planet Earth a better place – but when profits creep into the equation, there’s only the certainty that ‘He who pays the piper plays the tune’, and we need far better independent oversight to ensure that any products unleashed on the people are actually good for the people.

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Greg Smart

Friday 15.05.2015 to Sunday 17.05.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

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

Plenty of proof our healthcare system does work EVERAL things I have learned in the last fortnight – Being 400km from home whilst in the midst of kidney stone pain, then finding and driving to the closest hospital, is not exactly a barrel of laughs.

Nursing staff believes kidney stones are more painful then giving birth.

I can’t vouch for the veracity of the pain comparison, after all I have been a witness rather than a participant; but I will vouch for the nursing staff – they were uniformly excellent.

I ended up presenting at three different hospitals during this passing episode of kidney stones. Each time the mechanism of the Emergency Department swung into action.

I received swift pain relief, had my vital signs monitored and was well cared for. Young, older, male, female; all the nursing staff had a reassuring bedside manner and a willingness to make sure I was as comfortable as possible.

Being a fly on the wall in an emergency department for a few days, you can see the pressure the nursing staff is under.

It is both technical work – operating technical equipment, calculating medications; and scientific work requiring knowledge of human anatomy and medical procedures. These functions are carried out in an atmosphere of liberal doses of human emotion – pain, distress, confusion, impatience; topped with the need to document every action.

I couldn’t help but admire the nursing staff for their commitment to the job. Some may declare nursing a calling, and for some it would be, but in the harsh reality of shift work, disrupted social and family life, drug addled and possibly violent patients and life and death situations, it is certainly a tough way to make a living.

I have relatives who work in the emergency department of a large Sydney hospital who will agree with that statement. Barely a Saturday night goes by without some drunken lout or ice addict threatening the staff. Add in the domestic violence and car accident

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victims and there is never a dull moment.

The annual Roy Morgan Research survey has rated nursing as the most ethical and honest profession for the last 21 years in a row. The NSW Nurses and Midwifes Association notes ‘the continuation of universal health care, as a fundamental right for all Australians and they (nurses) want to see a fair and just society that cares for the vulnerable, the sick and the elderly.’

As a ‘mature’ society, we have both a desire and an expectation for universal healthcare – to front up like I did to the closest hospital and receive both urgent and professional treatment. It is a basic tenant of our health care system.

I had multiple hospital visits and did not once put my hand into my pocket. Admittedly, I’m privileged enough to have private health insurance and made this known to the nursing staff, but the economic rationalists will always ask – how sustainable is the nation’s expectation of universal health care?

Very – as a percentage of GDP, Australian government spending on health is the tenth lowest of the 33 countries in the OECD and the lowest among wealthy countries.

In terms of government plus private spending, Australia spends about 9.5 per cent of GDP on health services; the United States spends 17.7 per cent.

The comparison to the USA is interesting. Despite the contributions from government, they have two tiered health system entirely based around how much

you can pay.

Family and friends in the USA have a wealth of stories about the huge expense of even the most basic hospital visits. Health care is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA – harsh when the accidental or unexpected nature of a visit to hospital is considered.

Many in the USA want this two tiered system to continue, with President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act – to expand health insurance coverage and lower health costs for both individuals and government – receiving virulent opposition from opponents of universal health care, and who believe the Act will “undermine fair marketplace competition in the health care industry.”

By good luck and good management, we Australians accept that universal heath care contributes to the well being of our society. The American model is not a system we should aspire to.

Nurses of course are at the front line of health care.

The 12th of May is International Nurses day – something else I recently learned. They deserve the safest and most supportive workplace we can muster, free from the fear of funding cuts and job losses. They deserve nurse-to-patient ratios, which guarantee their job satisfaction and reduce stress levels.

Whilst the kidney stones did pass, my admiration for nurses never will.

Some may declare nursing a calling, and for some it would be, but in the harsh reality of shift work, disrupted social and family life, drug addled and possibly violent patients and life and death situations, it is certainly a tough way to make a living.

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Sally Bryant

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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, there are distractions aplenty....

DON’T want to upset our nice fill-in editor lady, but I’m sitting here at my desk, putatively working on this week’s offering and my productivity is, it must be said, somewhat sporadic. As it turns out there are myriad little joys to be had within arm’s reach, all of which are infinitely preferable to actually putting words on paper.

I honestly don’t know how we’re meant to accomplish anything, in this modern era; there are altogether too many other delights. You can start off with the very best of intentions, with a huge head of steam and fully intending to power through your work. You can set yourself up at your desk, looking all writer-like. All scholarly and intense, with your specs on your nose and your pencils all sharpened and arranged in colour order.

Nekkminit? An email lands on your electronic desktop, something tweets or twitters, or someone faceplants and your eye comes off the ball, your attention slips, your fingers still on the keyboard and all your industry comes to nought. For several hours or more.

It all started with me needing to fix a glitch on my internet connection, so that when I have this written, I can connect to the internizzle and send the wit winging its way through the ether to the big catching glove at the other end, where they receive the brilliance of their talented and youthful genii.

And to do that, I had to update the operating system on my fruity little smart phone. Something in there wasn’t speaking to something out there in the great big World Wide Web and it all needed to be fizzjigged.

So I’ve done that with marvellous results but all sorts of unintended but nonetheless miraculous side effects.

The phone will now speak politely with both my computer and the fancy young people’s internet, so that’s a good thing. And the internet is moving smoothly once more and not all jerkily. And the cat videos all play without stalling (how good is that?). But when you update the operating system on a smart phone, you also streamline the experience and re-design the interface and the colours all change, and that. And that all requires exploration.

There’s all sorts of new gimcrackery to be played with there, in that space alone. (Updating the operat-

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ing system on one’s smart phone is the modern equivalent of tidying one’s sock drawer instead of writing an essay that is worth 75 per cent of your semester assessment.) There are untold treasures hidden in the depths of your phone’s controls. Like fairies at the bottom of the garden. Sometimes harder to find and usually more difficult to control.

Under this new operating system, texting has now taken on a whole new additional attraction, in that you are offered a choice of different words to put into your text. Say, for example you type in an ‘f’, it might suggest you write “for the love of God, would you ever sit down at your desk and write your bloody column – we’re holding deadline for you. Again.� And that’s not the only option either, there’s an entire array of abusive messages to choose from.

Whatever you do, don’t suggest to anyone with any editorial seniority that they should update their operating system on their fruity smart phone.

And, then, just a moment ago, I received a text from a work colleague. (That is, a colleague from the work that actually pays me in cold folding cash, not the workplace that rewards me with forbearance for my fearful tardiness and pays in forgiveness when I fail to deliver anything at all.) Said colleague needs a favour, which is nice because I’ve officially clocked off for the day, and if I come through and deliver on the

My message read “Ar! Yes! I’ll do that indade, me hearty, as soon as Oi’m physically able meself.� Adding layers of drunken Irishman and one legged pirate to what was simply a message promising assistance, at some point in the future. Possibly.

favour, which is the option I’m trending toward at the moment, then that will neatly deliver the Moral High Ground to me, the eternally sought Upper Hand. So I replied in the affirmative that I would do said favour as soon as I was physically able, which I thought was a nice note to strike, as it offers the implication that I am enormously busy and also that I am delivering said favour at great personal cost. High moral ground?

Check.

So, at some point, when I have finished being distracted by the predictive texting on my phone, I’ll drag out all the technology required to work overtime. And ostentatiously do said ‘favoru’.

However, even more satisfactory is the fact that, in attempting to reply to the text while only half concentrating on the phone, (because, it must be said, I’m also mentally composing a witty and erudite thousand words on the vicissitudes of life) I’ve bumped a key on my virtual keyboard on the touchscreen of my fruity smart phone device. And that key has asked me to say out loud what message I’d like to put in the text. Because, with this new operating system, you can now speak your text message to your phone and it will put that into text and send it to your textee. Whoopee!

S’marvellous! All communication managed in mere moments, in a small fraction of the time it would normally take someone of reduced eyesight and fat fingers to peck out a message on the screen of a very clever fruity phone. And, even better, are the rather delicious little misinterpretations it inserts, to further enliven your discussions.

My message read “Ar! Yes! I’ll do that indade, me hearty, as soon as Oi’m physically able meself.� Adding layers of drunken Irishman and one legged pirate to what was simply a message promising assistance, at some point in the future. Possibly.

And what is ultimately most satisfactory about the entire incident is that, with a bit of finagling, some stretching and moulding of actual fact and one or two downright untruths, I’ve managed to spin a little web of some 1,000 words for herself.

The hand is quicker than the eye perhaps, but the tongue is sharper than either.

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Rewinding the clock on a digital revolution HE 80’s, that iconic decade of decadence, power suits, shoulder pads and big hair. Car phones, music videos that were taped on a VCR, video killing the radio star. Information travelled a lot slower back then. We had the morning news, the nightly news, the hourly radio news in between. If we needed to know something we went to a bookshelf or a library and looked it up in a device called an encyclopaedia.

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I consider myself lucky to have been born on the brink of the technological boom. I appreciate disposable forms of media, the CD, the cassette tape, the beta tape, the VHS. I know how lucky kids are today to have video on demand, MP3’s, the World Wide Web, but I wouldn’t swap my childhood for quids.

My age of innocence was extended due to the lack of technology. I see young people today with their screens, and I pity them. My best childhood memories are making up games in the back yard with my siblings, the excitement of hiring a VHS for a week during school holidays, finally getting Triple J when I was 13 years old in Dubbo, lis-

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tening to Take 40 Australia and singing along to the lyrics I had cut out from TV Hits magazine.

This is probably starting to feel like a sad old walk down nostalgia street, but it’s not only my childhood that was saved, it was my teen years and early 20’s as well (when, I think it’s safe to say, girls are at their most vulnerable to outside influence). I returned home from a year in Japan when I was 26 to the news that everyone now had an iPhone (1.0) and my old Nokia was considered ‘vintage’. But hey – in Japan I had learnt about this thing called EMOJI (emoticons) and it was going to be big

news soon!

By the time I had a smart phone, I had done all the things that need not be documented forever in a cloud computing system. I had no snap chats of drunken teenage parties to worry about, and thank GOD no digital photos of my terrible dress sense circa 1999. I avoided the pressure of sexting that so many young women and men have to deal with today. I completely missed out on cyberbullying, which judging by my high school years would have been off the charts.

I only had one identity to forge, IRL. The term In Real Life (IRL) didn’t even exist.

I now work in web production and

I returned home from a year in Japan when I was 26 to the news that everyone now had an iPhone (1.0) and my old Nokia was considered ‘vintage’.

social media. I love the ease of online communication, access to information, keeping in touch with old friends, face stalking old lovers. It’s great! But it almost feels like I was given the keys to the kingdom at an age where I was ready to take on the responsibility, not too young, not too old.

If only we could lock our young ones away until such a time, but the technology has moved faster than us. They are digital natives, they’ve come alive holding screens and playing with apps and simply breath in and download that continuous, overbearing stream of information that is being pulled from every corner of the globe.

It’s amazing, but also terrifying. Their success will be judged by their ability to absorb this bombardment of data, and to move effortlessly between the real and online worlds. I don’t envy them, after all, they will never understand the joy of finally getting your photos printed about a week and a half after that kick ass party, only to discover half of them are totally crap, and being charged $15 for the privilege! Those were the days.

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My how the young grow up Metro – these are now shameless puffs of whimsy compared to the true terror of the early teen.

Anzac just gone came with the news that a 14 year old lad from England had been arrested for inciting a couple of Melbourne teens to behead someone, at some point, some time on Anzac Day. From this naturally came the portentous and unnecessary politician saying that we would not be swayed by these threats, and would continue to go about our daily lives just as we did before, if you don’t count the extra money for the police, complete desecration of the privacy laws and the ability to put people in gaol without change if we think the charge they might get is terrorism. So yeah, life as normal.

I want to repeat that first fact – a 14 year-old boy from England has been arrested for inciting a Melbourne boy to kill someone. Think about it.

When was the last time you listened to a 14 year-old anyone, most especially a boy, and thought, “Well I’ll be blowed, what a thought provoking and logically researched critique of western society by that young scamp. I must admit he lost me a bit during that long section

BY ANDREW GLASSOP N my day, back when men en we w were erree m men, e n, en women were women and nearly everything that was named something was that actual thing, and being young was a time of innocence.

It was a time when you would run gaily through the hills with daisies in your hair, lie on your back making shapes out of clouds (usually fluffy rabbits) and if not having any milk in the fridge in the morning made you upset, then you could be upset: cry, kick your legs, perhaps scream a little.

Eventually milk would be found and those Coco Pops would be one moment closer to a becoming a chocolate milkshake. Mistakes were granted.

Why, you could even stand around grabbing onto your willy like you were afraid it was going to fall off and all you would get was a gentle tutting from your mother while her iron vice grip pulled your hand away from its enjoyable mission. Try doing that as a forty year old and you’ll get more than a tutting. Guaranteed.

The point is that they were simple times. Simple things were done for simple pleasure.

Now, apparently, all that has changed.

A trawl through the media now tells me that the people I should be most afraid of are the youth. Hard bitten men, brought up on a diet of prison time in Goulburn, living rough on the streets, bare knuckle boxing out the back of the

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of the futility of transposing the Hegelian dialectic into post-modern semiotic feminist theory, but his final conclusions on the inherent colonial apartheid of all capitalist cultures has certainly convinced me to strap a bomb to myself and walk down to the local cafÊ.�

It doesn’t happen. Young people are incapable of inciting anyone of any importance (i.e. not a young person) to do anything.

Then just a few days ago a Melbourne 14 year-old was arrested for having explosives in his house. A Melbourne police officer rather dramatically stated that, although they could not find any evidence he actually planned to use the bombs, there was no doubt that there were Victorians alive now thanks entirely to the brave actions of the coppers in arresting weedy, barely pubescent teens across the nation.

Really?

Did the world turn evil so suddenly?

Or have we rather gone off the deep end? Back in the day, when I wasn’t busy hanging on to my John Thomas for dear life, I too made a bomb. It was comprised mainly of the powder from fireworks poured into a large matchbox and

I too made a bomb. It was comprised mainly of the powder from fireworks poured into a large matchbox and wrapped in tape, but it was a bomb in nature and intent. My friends and I used it to blow up a bush next to the soccer pitch we trained on.

wrapped in tape, but it was a bomb in nature and intent. My friends and I used it to blow up a bush next to the soccer pitch we trained on.

If I had had the internet then, and better hand eye coordination, I can promise you here and now I would have made a much larger bomb and blown up a much larger bush.

I may even have spoken to my mates about how much better it would be if we blew up the Principal’s mailbox, or the school bubblers, or my town’s only traffic light. But we didn’t, and we wouldn’t.

Our only targets would have been larger and larger trees and of course our own limbs, the only true potential victims in our lives as teenage terrorists.

We grew out of it. Kids do. I was no teen terrorist on some sort of Bonsai Jihad, I was just a child learning how to be an adult. At some point in our lives we do become better people.

Eventually we all come to understand that it is not acceptable to bitterly scream at those you love that you hate them and wish they were all dead. I don’t know when that is, but it isn’t 14.

The world however is different, I hear you mutter into your morning caffeine; what about 9-11, what about ISIS/ISIL/ IS/the band formerly known as Death Cult? Yes the world is different, but only because we chose to make it so. We have chosen to be scared, irrational, lost little people awash in a sea of raging despair.

We could chose to once again lie on our backs and makes rabbits out of clouds.

We could choose to once again believe in innocence.

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This year with the theme Give Happy, Live Happy celebrating that not only are volunteers helping make the lives of others happier, they too are happier as a result.

Federal Minister for Human Services, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, launched National Volunteer Week at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra.

National Volunteer Week is an annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers. Thousands of events across the country will be held to say thank you to the more than six million Australians who volunteer including thank you breakfasts, morning teas and sausage sizzles as well as open days, awards ceremonies, street parades, garden parties and movie nights.

“Research tells us that volunteering makes a difference in people’s happiness. It’s proven that volunteers are happier, healthier and even sleep better than those who don’t volunteer,” said Brett Williamson OAM, CEO, Volunteering Australia.

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“Just a few hours of volunteer work can make a difference, so pledge to volunteer this National Volunteer Week and you too can Give Happy, Live Happy. We want to make Australia the happiest place on Earth!” said Mr Williamson.

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“National Volunteer Week provides a great opportunity for us all to say thanks to the many volunteers who help make our communities stronger, and let them know their efforts and commitment are appreciated – it’s also an appropriate time to encourage more people to get involved,” said Mr Rutter.

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Ten things you didn’t know about volunteering 1. Volunteers contribute $200 billion to the Australian economy annually 2. Volunteering produces health benefits such a happiness, health and longevity 3. The rate of volunteering by young people in Australia increased from 16 per cent in 1995 to 27.1 per cent, in 2010 4. The number of volunteers in Australia has doubled from 1995 (3.2 million) to 2010 (6.1 million) 5. The average number of hours contributed by each volunteer per year has decreased from 74 hours in 1995 to 56 hours in 2010 6. Of the 600,000 not for profit organisations in Australia only 60,000 have paid staff 7. 50 per cent of volunteers are in employment 8. 44 per cent of volunteers are engaged in short term volunteering roles 9. Volunteering is more common amongst those outside the capital cities, with a 38 per cent participation rate for outside the capital cities vs. 32 per cent in the cities 10. 35 per cent of volunteers who became involved in volunteering in the last ten years were asked by someone to do so

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Why you can’t call customers names on your Facebook page Top tips to help you respond to a negative comment on Twitter, Facebook or a blog.

BY CATRIONA POLLARD DIRECTOR OF CP COMMUNICATIONS

S a PR and social media expert, I have conducted several media interviews recently where journalists have asked for my comments on specific business owners and their behaviour on their business Facebook pages.

Unfortunately I’m not kidding, one was about a business owner who ranted at a customer on their Facebook page calling them something I can’t mention in this article! The customer complained in a private message, and then the owner abused them publicly. I mean, really, who would do that?

My response to the journalist was “Don’t call your customer abusive names. It’s as simple as that.”

Social media has forever transformed the nature of customer complaints. Customers have greater control, a louder voice and much broader reach; which can have serious impacts on your business’ reputation.

So how should you manage these complaints?

1. Facebook is customer service Often we think Facebook interactions are

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• Post a polite public reply in response to the negative comment and offer a clear process for resolving the issue.

• Deal with the issue on a more personal level by asking for their contact details. Send them an email or call them on the phone.

• Always stay calm and do not aggravate the situation further by getting angry or responding negatively.

It’s all about treating people the way we would like to be treated. Speaking up when we need to and always being respectful.

Find more tips and links at www.cpcommunications.com.au

different to customer service when in fact they aren’t – the premise is the same. All businesses rely on customers so we have to treat them with respect whether it’s in person or on social media.

It’s crucial you respond to complaints quickly, be helpful, treat customers with respect and always be friendly and polite.

The worst thing you can do is ignore the tweet or Facebook comment or respond in a negative or abusive way.

2. Deal with it privately The general rule when dealing with customer complaints on social media is move it from public to private as soon a possible.

ation, skills and sustainability will benefit the economy.”

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Budget boosts regional jobs REGIONAL Development Australia Orana has welcomed the Australian Government’s focus on infrastructure and jobs and business in the 2015-16 Budget.

“These are focus areas for Regional Development Australia Orana, and are in line with our current regional plan and project activity,” said chair, John Walkom.

“We have recently undertaken wide-ranging consultation on the region’s infrastructure needs and understand that firstrate infrastructure is needed to improve productivity and drive economic growth. Similarly, our region’s businesses can only continue to grow if they have the right, skilled staff to support them. Any emphasis on job cre-

Job active provider welcomes small business investment VERTO chief executive officer, Ron Maxwell, said the Australian Government’s decision to significantly boost job opportunities and support small business (through a package totalling $5.5 billion) would make a significant difference to communities across New South Wales.

“I welcome the Australian Government’s support of small enterprise through a range of initiatives including a reduction of the small company tax rate by 1.5 per cent.

“As a jobactive provider from 1 July 2015, we are particularly pleased to see a strengthened Restart wage subsidy of $10,000 over 12 months for small businesses that employ older staff.”

Coulton claims budget is a big win for regions A STRONG focus on regional Australia in this year’s Federal Budget will provide a secure

3. Be a respectful customer Complaining has never been so easy. Customers can hide behind anonymity to make complaints that they may not have made in person.

Customers can complain with very little thought or respect for the people that hear it.

Everyone has the responsibility to stop and think about how their remarks impact the business owner or their staff.

I do think that business owners have a “right of reply”, so long as the reply is done in a respectful and tactful way. If a customer is being unreasonable or abusive, comments can be deleted or responded to.

and strong platform for small business, farmers and rural communities in the Parkes electorate according to the Federal Member, Mark Coulton.

“The 2015 Budget is a ‘have a go’ Budget that will help local families and small businesses,” he said. “The big winners in this Budget are families and small businesses.

“It provides a clear direction for the people of Western New South Wales and it will make life easier for everyone to have a go,” Mr Coulton said.

Local roads infrastructure boost DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss confirmed that in the 2015–16 financial year the Australian Government is doubling Roads to Recovery funding from $350 million to $700 million.

“These additional funds mean that each and every council will receive a double payment to accelerate local delivery of vital road maintenance projects,” Mr Truss said.

“This investment will deliver better local roads across the

nation.

“The Roads to Recovery Programme will deliver $2.1 billion over the five years to 2018–19 directly to local councils.

Industry Skills Fund link to grow employment THE Government is investing around $6 billion this year to support training that gives apprentices and vocational students the high quality training they need for modern Australian workplaces.

This includes funding through the Government’s signature Industry Skills Fund, to help employers to skill their staff so they can grow their businesses, increase exports and create more jobs.

The $664 million Industry Skills Fund will support more than 250,000 training places and support services including skills advice for micro, small and medium businesses.

Young employed people will receive skills linked to real jobs, and support to be able to reengage with work, training or school.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Budget gives small business a break

BY MATT WRIGHT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE E

HE Abbott government’s second budget has put small business issues back on the political agenda and delivered more than $5 billion in benefits to the 96 per cent of businesses with turnovers of less than $2 million.

This is a massive win for the national chamber movement which launched the Small Business: Too Big to Ignore campaign at the last federal election.

The chamber has issued the following edited analysis of the budget relating to small business: For the 96 per cent of businesses that have a turnover of less than $2 million the budget provides significant tax relief and new measures to make it easier to invest and grow.

From July 1, 2015, small-incorporated businesses will receive a 1.5 per cent company tax cut and small-unincorporated business owners will receive a 5 per cent income tax discount on their business income up to a maximum of $1000. These measures are worth $3.3 billion over four years.

All small businesses will also be able to immediately deduct the cost of new assets worth up to $20,000 that they start to use, or install ready to use, from now until June 30, 2017.

This measure, which topped the prebudget wish list voted on by NSW Business Chamber members, should provide a big boost to small business cash flow and a strong incentive to increase investment. The total value of this measure is estimated at $1.8 billion over four years.

The budget also includes other positive measures designed to encourage entrepreneurship and reduce red tape, such as changes to the taxation of employee share schemes, deductibility of business start-up expenses, easier access to crowd sourced equity funding and capital gains tax rollover relief for entities that decide to change their legal structure.

An additional $254.7 million for the government’s Digital Transformation Agenda should reduce the time that business owners and their staff spend dealing with government red tape.

The government will give the ATO additional funds to pursue GST compli-

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ance. This will result in increased expenditure of $2.1 billion and increased revenue of $2.5 billion for a net gain of $445 million over three years from 2015-16.

Another concern for some businesses, particularly larger businesses, will be the changes to paid parental leave entitlements. This measure will save around $1 billion over four years.

The government will apply GST to digital goods purchased from overseas companies, which is estimated to raise $350 million over two years from 201718 for state governments. This should also be good news for struggling domestic retailers.

The government has estimated it will raise $735 million over four years by introducing application fees on foreign investment in real estate, business and agriculture.

The government will raise an extra $845 million from 2016-17 to 2018-19 by reducing the generosity of the approach used to calculate work related motor vehicle expenses. This will not however affect those who access motor vehicles through leasing and salary sacrifice arrangements The budget contains a range of measures to boost employment and workforce participation, which is great news for the economy and businesses looking for new staff.

The headline announcement is $3.5 billion over five years for additional childcare support, which should help get second income earners back into the workforce after children are born.

The key challenge will be making sure this increased subsidy doesn’t just push up the price of childcare.

The budget also has various other measures to help parents return to the workforce, including support for universal pre-school and a trial program for funding nannies.

Businesses that employ people struggling to find work will benefit from a simplified wage subsidy program including a reinvigorated subsidy for employing older workers. There will also be $18.3 million over four years for businesses to provide up to 25 hours of unpaid work experience to those under 18.

Community organisations will also receive around $330 million over four years to help young people find work.

Thinking of an acquisition?

A primer in valuing a business F your business is considering an acquisition, it needs to work out how much the business is worth – and that is a complex task.

Valuing a business requires familiarity with the target’s industry, knowledge of the principles of taxation and accounting, as well as awareness of regulatory issues. While you may have extensive knowledge of the target’s industry, you may have only passing comprehension of other issues involved.

To pull off a successful acquisition, and minimise the risk of overpaying, you and your advisers need to address the following issues in determining how much to pay.

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Valuation of the target company TWO methods are commonly used to come up with a value for a business: 1. Discounted cashflow – This method projects the company’s expected net operating cashflows and then discounts them to present values using a discount rate. The valuer uses standard techniques to come up with a discount rate that is based on current interest rates and the riskiness of the business. The higher the rates and risk, the lower the present value.

2. Multiples valuation – Using this technique, the value of the business is determined by estimating the after-tax profit the company will earn during the forthcoming year and multiplying that by a financial metric, or multiple. Multiples often used are earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) or earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). The multiple used generally depends on the nature of the business or the industry in which it operates.

Situations that can produce variations in values IN theory, all valuation methods should

All small businesses will also be able to immediately deduct the cost of new assets worth up to $20,000 that they start to use, or install ready to use, from now until June 30, 2017.

assign the same value to a business.

However, differences can result from the following circumstances. z Synergies – Typically, costs savings result from business combinations. For instance, head office and administration costs can be combined. The lower costs should be reflected in the valuation of the target company. z Restructuring Costs – One-off costs can arise when combining two businesses. During the period of ownership change, for instance, employees can become concerned for the security of their positions. This can lead to expensive costs related to staff turnover. These expenses must be factored into the valuation or you could pay too much. z Tax Losses – The acquired business may have valuable accumulated tax losses that can be used to reduce future taxes of the combined company. The Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 has strict tests which must be satisfied before the combined entity is permitted to deduct prior tax losses on its tax returns. z Competition Law Clearance – Section 50 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 prohibits business acquisitions that would likely lessen competition in the market in which the business operates. If you plan an acquisition, you may apply to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for formal clearance. Approval protects those involved in the transaction from legal action under Section 50. The costs of obtaining clearance ought to be reflected in the valuation. If your company chooses not to seek regulatory clearance, it should include the potential costs of contesting legal action in the value of the target company.

Consult with your adviser, who can guide you on which valuation method provides the most reliable indication of the true value of the business you want to acquire.

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Opportunities for growers to broaden weeds approach

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

PPORTUNITIES exist for grain growers in the southern cropping region to more effectively manage weeds in retained stubble systems, according to new research conducted by the CSIRO and funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC).

CSIRO Farming Systems senior research scientist, Dr Rick Llewellyn (pictured) says the new study has highlighted just how costly weed management has become and that there are opportunities available to reduce further cost increases.

Addressing a meeting of farming systems groups involved in the GRDC’s southern stubble initiative, Llewellyn said data collected through a study of 600 grain growers’ weed management practices showed that while there has been recent rapid uptake of some key integrated weed management practices across the southern cropping region which includes South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and southern and central New South Wales – there were still many areas where adoption remains low, despite the herbicide resistance threat.

“The data shows very large differences between regions for practices like harvest weed seed control, crop topping and double knockdown which reflects past differences in the levels of herbicide resistance, but we’re now seeing resistance issues becoming much more important in all cropping regions,” Llewellyn said.

“Many southern farmers have not yet faced the same herbicide resistance crisis that has come about in Western Australia or cropping-intensive parts of the medium rainfall zone, such as the Mid North of SA, but now there’s the chance to make earlier use of some of the practices that have been refined through farmer experience to extend the life of important herbicides, not just control resistant weeds once herbicides are lost.

“Where an integrated weed management practice can be introduced relatively cheaply, we’re seeing that growers are very willing to take up the practice and narrow windrow burning is an example of that.”

While ryegrass remains the most commonly resistant weed, changing weed dynamics in the southern cropping region mean that long-term strategies are increasingly needed for control of other grass weeds as well, according to Llewellyn.

“Brome grass in particular is really increasing in its spread and importance in much of the region. Recent studies have shown how brome has risen up the charts in terms of costs to growers and implications compared to a decade or two ago.

“Ryegrass has received a lot of the attention in Australia in the past but we’re now working with the University of Adelaide weeds team to look at the most economic long-term strategies of managing brome which has become the driver grass weed for a lot of our cropping land – it’s a weed for which there aren’t a lot of herbicide options and harvest weed seed con-

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Dr Rick Llewellyn: research highlights just how costly weed management is. PHOTO: C. SULLIVAN

trol methods aren’t always highly effective. And what herbicides options there are, are being placed under a lot of pressure.

“There is a requirement of farmers to carefully manage the herbicide options they have over time. We’re aiming to help farmers and advisers take a longerterm seedbank and resistance risk view, by considering when they should use these herbicides to get the biggest bang for their buck and not use them up too quickly, as well as looking at the longer-term value of introducing new weed management practices.”

Llewellyn said the latest study had also shown that summer weeds were likely to be now causing more crop yield loss than winter weeds.

“This is partly because, despite the challenges,

We’re aiming to help farmers and advisers take a longer-term seedbank and resistance risk view, by considering when they should use these herbicides to get the biggest bang for their buck

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growers are continuing to keep winter weed densities in crop quite low, partly because summer weeds are becoming increasingly difficult and costly to control and partly because stored moisture is so often of very high value to crop production.

“Even though about two thirds of land for cropping in the southern region may receive a herbicide treatment for summer weeds and about a third of growers use at least some cultivation for summer weed control, we are still seeing high total costs to yields from summer weeds.

“It’s a part of the farming system that is increasingly costly and is in need of more management options, particularly as new herbicide resistant or herbicide tolerant summer weeds become more important.”

THIS year more than 1.5 million students will gain important skills and nationally recognised qualifications through assistance provided to Australia’s high quality TAFE, community colleges and private training providers.

The 2015 Budget also provides for record Government funding to enable students to undertake higher level diploma and advanced diploma train-

ing through the VET FEE-HELP scheme.

The Government has also introduced tougher new Standards for Registered Training Organisations, and continues delivery of $68.7 million over four years to enable the national training regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority, to undertake regulatory reform and enforce the standards.

The Government is making sure industry is deciding what standards students must be able to meet through their training to ensure their training makes

them work-ready, with plans to implement the new Training Package development model announced on 21 April 2015.

Australian Apprenticeships Support Network FROM 1 July, the Government’s Australian Apprenticeships Support Network will match apprentices to their trade and their employer, and support them throughout their apprenticeship so they complete their training and go on to important work and careers.

More than 350,000 apprentices will be supported through the Apprenticeships Network in the first year, for which the Budget provides up to $200 million in 2015- 16. Around 78,000 employers are expected to also receive incentive payments in the first year to help with the costs of employing and training an apprentice.

More than 22,000 apprentices have accessed the Government’s Trade Support Loans program to assist them with the costs of living and learning while undertaking their apprenticeship.

BROWSING REAL BOOKS IS BETTER

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THE BIG PICTURE.

An aerial view taken from a sea plane shows Yves Rossy from Switzerland (front) and Vince Reffett flying over Dubai’s Palm Island, United Arab Emirates, this week. Yves Rossy is seen by many as ‘the original Jetman’, having been a pioneer user of the unique flying machines. PHOTO: REUTERS/LARA SUKHTIAN

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Attention is the currency of relationships

BY DR JUSTIN COULSON* WWW.JUSTINCOULSON.COM

ARENTS consistently assure me that they want ‘the best’ for their children.

They invest time and money in education, enrichment, and extra-curricular activities to give their children every advantage they possibly can.

These opportunities are important. They help our children grow and develop in valuable ways.

However, the most valuable investment we can make for our children’s development (socially, cognitively, psychologically, spiritually, and even physically) is one that we often overlook because of its simplicity. That one thing is taking the time to be emotionally available for our children.

This idea seems so simple that most of us simply nod your head in agreement, shrug our shoulders, and move on to the next big ‘fad’ in parenting. But if we do that, we will miss offering our children the most valuable advantage they can possibly receive.

Here’s a simple summary of the amazing life outcomes kids are more likely to experience when their parents are emotionally available (when compared with children whose parents are unavailable emotionally): • Better academic performance • Better social skills • More liked by peers, teachers, and other adults • Less likely to engage in delinquent behaviour, early sexual promiscuity, and drug/alcohol consumption and abuse • Less likely to experience ‘internalising’ issues such as depression, anxiety, etc.

• More engaged living in adolescence (characterised by absorption in tasks and social integration) • Being emotionally available requires us to pay attention – close attention – to the emotional world of our children, and to respond compassionately.

Just as dollars are the currency of our economy, attention is the currency of our relationships.

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Activities to try: 1. Identify the barriers to your being emotionally available to your children. Is it other siblings, too much to do, failing to understand your child’s unique temperament, or something even simpler like having the radio, TV, or computer on?

2. Think of at least two things you can do, starting now, to be more available to your children.

3. Set aside some time (about 30 minutes) where each of your children can be with you or their other parent, one-on-one, this week. (If you have too many children, perhaps you might space it over a fortnight).

4. Choose one night this week (minimum) where EVERYONE commits to switch off ALL devices, screens, and other distractions from 5.30

Being emotionally available My eight year-old daughter drove this point home to my wife and I during a recent conversation. We were conducting a parenting performance appraisal (which you can read more about on my blog). My wife asked Ella, “Do mummy and daddy make you feel important?”

Her response: “When you are busy you don’t listen to me properly. Like when Dad’s on the computer or you (mum) are doing craft you’re not available to me. It feels like those things are more important than me.”

Ouch. Those were her words, not mine. Our kids notice when we are not available.

A father told me he was having daily battles with his teenage daughter. I suggested he go for regular walks with her each morning or evening and be emotionally available, even if was just 15 or 20 minutes.

The first few walks were awkward. She felt like he had an agenda. She refused to talk. But within a week they were looking forward to their time together and talking more freely and

pleasantly than they had for months. He complained to me (in jest) that he was thinking of making the walks less regular just so she would stop chewing his ear off!

Invite your children into your space Whether your child is two or twenty-two, being emotionally available will improve your relationships with your children.

Here’s how to do it: turn off your phone, computer, or tablet, and simply be together.

Then listen to your child. Don’t interrupt.

Don’t tell them what you think. Don’t judge.

Just listen.

It may be in a park, at the beach or on a mountain trail. It might simply be wandering around your neighbourhood, or it could be at the local cafe with an iced chocolate.

Just make sure there are no distractions. Then ask questions, listen carefully and suspend judgement.

Your children will love being in your space and will feel special. Invite them to allow you into their space. It may take more than one date. But if you put your attention into your relationships, they’ll become enriching sources of happiness and meaning for you.

Mums and dads who make themselves available for their children have happier families and better functioning children. Kids do best with both parents being there emotionally, regardless of your family structure. Having happy kids and strong family relationships... it’s about time. » Dr Justin Coulson will be guest speaker at the Boarding School Expo at the Dubbo Convention Centre on Darling Street, on Saturday May 16 at 11.30am presenting ‘Parents and teachers are too controlling.’ Admission to the expo and Dr Coulson’s talk is free. Register for his presentation online at http://boardingexpo.com.au/.

*Dr Justin Coulson is a positive psychology researcher, author and speaker, founder of The Real Men Project and a senior associate at the Positive Psychology Institute. He appears regularly on Mornings, the TODAY show, The Project and is the parenting expert at kidspot.com.au.

HEALTH IN BRIEF

Legislation to ban e-cigarette sales to minors THE NSW Government introduced legislation to Parliament this week to prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes and e-cigarette accessories to minors.

The Public Health (Tobacco) Amendment (E-cigarettes) Bill 2015 will amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2008, making it an offence to sell e-cigarettes and accessories, including e-liquids, to anyone under 18.

Health Minister Jillian Skinner tabled the Bill on the first official business day of the new Parliament.

“Today the NSW Liberals & Nationals Government delivers on an election commitment to protect our children from the potential risks of e-cigarettes,” Mrs Skinner said. “This is an important step to ensure children and young people do not fall into the potential trap of nicotine addiction and tobacco smoking.”

Graduating Aboriginal nurses ready to help Close the Gap FIFTEEN cadets will graduate from the NSW Aboriginal Nursing & Midwifery Cadetship

Program on Monday, May 18, 2015 in Dubbo.

The graduates have undertaken the Assistant in Nursing to Enrolled Nursing course, which is a joint program of the Western NSW Local Health District and TAFE Institute Western.

Health District Chief Executive Scott McLachlan said the program aims to provide culturally appropriate education and training for indigenous assistant nurses offering cadets the opportunity of paid work experience in local hospitals while completing their TAFE studies “We are really excited to see the first cohort of cadets graduate from the program and continuing to work in our health facilities,” Mr McLachlan said.

These sites include Dubbo, Nyngan/Bourke, Condobolin, Gilgandra, Wellington, Mudgee and Coonamble.

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Eat your way to a better mood

BY NEL STAVELEY E’RE programmed to reach for certain foods when we’re feeling low, and usually these foods are based on sugar or carbs.

A recent survey by Tilda rice found that seven out of 10 women, and half of men, indulge in cakes, sweets and chocolates when they’re stressed or looking for a mood boost. And even when you’re not looking for it, you’ll probably still get it – 12 per cent of women said they buy their friends or colleagues sugary foods when it seems like they’re a bit down.

The trouble is, these sugary delights will not bring your mood up. Quite the opposite, in fact, and experts say our reliance on sweet treats as a pick-me-up actually means we’re “eating our way to sadness”.

Basically, this is all because of spiking blood sugar levels.

“After eating sugary foods or refined carbohydrates, your blood sugar levels can rise rapidly which may cause feelings of stress and anxiety,” explains clinical dietician Dr Sarah Schenker, “only to crash soon after, which can then leave you feeling lethargic or in low spirits.

“We need to replace the short-lived highs we get from refined sugar and processed fat with healthier options and new long-term shopping and eating habits,” she adds. ‘’It’s shocking to see wholesome eating habits go out the window when we face a challenge in the day, or a lull in a routine. This is when healthy eating is most important.”

So if biscuits and ice cream are out, what should we be reaching for?

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TOP THREE HEALTHY COMFORT FOODS :: Brazil nuts “YOUR thyroid plays a key role in your mood,” explains Fergusson. “However, to work properly it relies on selenium.”

Dr Schenker adds: “Brazil nuts are the richest source of the mineral selenium, containing 10 times more than the next richest source.

Selenium-rich food helps to combat depression, and studies have shown that eating a small handful of Brazil nuts everyday can help to improve mood.”

They suggest incorporating them into your daily diet by having a small handful of Brazil nuts between meals, or chopping and sprinkling them into yoghurt with grated dark chocolate.

:: Rice “WHOLEGRAIN basmati is a great addition to the diet,” says Dr Schenker. “It’s a lowGI food so it contains the type of carbohydrate that releases energy slowly, keeping your blood sugar levels steady and maintaining a more balanced, calm mood.”

“Stacked up against other types of rice, wholegrain basmati is top of the list,” adds Fergusson, who advises upping your intake by serving wholegrain basmati rice with curries, stews, casseroles, tagines and use in pilafs and kedgerees.

:: Broccoli FREQUENTLY lauded as a superfood, it’s no real wonder broccoli makes you happy as well as healthy.

Dr Schenker explains why: “To make the feel-good chemical serotonin, your body needs a healthy supply of B vitamins, including fabulous folate. When our B vitamins are in short supply, we can’t properly metabolise our neurotransmitters, leaving us low in our mood-boosters serotonin and dopamine, which controls pleasure.”

Luckily, “half a cup of broccoli is all you need for 52mg of folate”, notes Fergusson.

“These green leafy vegetables are also amongst the richest sources of B vitamin available, which is also great news for your skin as Vitamin B promotes healthy hair, skin and nails.”

They recommend steaming your broccoli, then adding it to omelettes and risottos.

It’s no wonder broccoli makes you happy as well as healthy.

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:: Things that bring back good memories THIS ‘food’ might be a bit harder to pinpoint, and will depend on each individual, but nutritionist Juliette Kellow believes that when you’re feeling blue, you should eat food that brings back “lovely memories of warm sunny days on holiday as this is a great link to your brain to

boost your mood.

“Florida grapefruits are one of my favourite choices – they’re super sweet and juicy because they’re grown in a subtropical climate, and you can make a delicious dessert, sprinkling the cut side of half a grapefruit with a little mixed spice, then brush it with honey and grill until the top is caramelised and golden.”

Wholegrain basmati is a great addition to the diet.

BEST OF THE REST Here are some other moodboosting bites to stock up on: z Pumpkin Seeds z Chia Seeds z Salmon z Quinoa z Chickpeas z Coconut z Asparagus z Spinach

z Beans z Chicken and Turkey z Avocado z Blueberries z Bananas z Pomegranates z Ginger z Beetroot z Chilli z Yoghurt z Dark Chocolate

Brazil nuts are the richest source of the mineral selenium.

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Store and adore

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN FFAIRS might shatter relationships but household clutter, it seems, comes a pretty close second, not to mention the havoc it wreaks on decor, too.

In the average household, 32 rows a year are caused by couples’ bickering over rooms being overloaded with possessions, according to research by a self storage company, which also reveals that one in ten actually split over the issue.

In desperation, a typical couple reluctantly throws away around $460-worth of possessions they’d rather keep in the first year of living together, with men ditching sports equipment and women dumping sentimental items.

“Inviting someone to live with you can feel a bit like being invaded by someone else’s belongings, and this can result in subconscious ‘space guarding’, where you use your possessions to mark out your territory,” says relationship psychologist Anjula Mutanda. “Any perceived violation of this by your partner can cause tensions – instead, try to negotiate as much as possible on what stays and goes, and be prepared to compromise.”

Alternatively, avoid losing sports tackle, cuddlies or – worse – love, by following a room-byroom storage plan devised by the experts...

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SMART ENTRANCE

Creating space

CLUTTERED halls are a pretty good clue that the rest of the house isn’t well organised, so tackle this area first. It will also make a good first impression on visitors, especially key if they’re potential house-buyers.

“Nothing’s guaranteed to put me in a bad mood more than opening the front door of my house to be greeted by a tangle of school bags, boots and discarded coats left by my sons,” says Alison Cork, founder of an online interiors company.

“A large trunk’s proved the ideal hiding place. They just have to lift the lid and drop, and it makes a useful seat.”

CLUTTER SOLUTIONS: Instead of bulky wardrobes, display clothes on rails and a dressmaker’s dummy, advises Cork. “It’s easy to see outfits at a glance, and clothes add colour and character to a room. Cheap metal loo-roll holders make brilliant jewellery holders, and put all beauty products on a tray so you can just lift it up to clean the shelf underneath or transport the lot to the bathroom.”

AN ORDERLY RETREAT

Shoe storage bench with drawer.

Crown Imperial Spaceworks, all larder integrated pull out.

CREATE order out of chaos with a well-organised living area where everything has a place, and avoid rows triggered by stumbling over scattered toys and corners clogged with possessions.

“Gone are the days of storing items behind closed doors, as the trend for open shelving is quickly becoming a favourite. This style makes Stand alone compact kitchen. spaces feel more homely,” says creative stylist

Make a handprint bloom card

BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

Young kids can let that someone special know they’re the best, hands down, with this personalised poster card. Their own handprints will create the blooms for an artful flower that the recipient will treasure.

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 large, 30cm-by45cm sheet of sturdy

construction paper or poster board in a light colour such as yellow, pink or lavender several sheets of construction paper in assorted colours colourful tissue paper, cut into thin strips white household glue empty recycled margarine or deli tub Paintbrush, pencil and scissors Here’s the fun: 1. With the pencil, outline your child’s hand with fingers slightly spread apart on a

piece of construction paper.

Cut out tracings (you’ll need at least three per flower).

2. Pour glue into the tub, and dilute with a few drops of water. Brush glue mixture on the cut-out. Wad the tissue strips and press on cut-out to decorate. Make and decorate several hand shapes using at least one hand from each child in the family. Glue the cut-outs on the top half of the large sheet of construction paper in a circular pattern (with palms at centre). Or, arrange three hands with

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“Exposed display works especially well if you want to highlight striking collections as a focal point, and it has the added advantage that you will quickly notice if surfaces are becoming over-crowded.”

CLUTTER SOLUTIONS: Glass bookcases and shelves are a popular choice, particularly for modern spaces that demand a sleek, streamlined aesthetic, says Hornby.

“Shelving designs are moving away from conventional straight-lined surfaces towards curved shapes,” she says. “A smart mix of glass and integrated lighting on shelving is a strong trend, while reclaimed woods and metal finishes are still a favoured choice.”

RECIPE FOR ORDER

KITCHENS are the hub of the home, so every inch of space needs to be used to maximum effect.

“We seem to cram more and more in our kitchens nowadays, as people generally have more crockery thanks to the advent of dishwashers, and that coupled with the growth of hi-tech gadgets, from coffee makers to juicers, means storage is key,” says Tony McCarthy from kitchen specialists, Crown Imperial.

“If you’re planning a kitchen, make a list of all the items you need to store, and always allow for more space than you think you need. Tall larder storage, slim, mid-height cupboards to fill an awkward space between

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a wall and the units, and deep pan drawers can solve a lot of problems.”

CLUTTER SOLUTIONS: Drawer dividers ensure contents don’t descend into chaos, advises McCarthy. “Baskets in cupboards and wall-mounted racks also work well.”

CALM AND CLEAN

BATHROOMS pictured in glossy magazines always seem to have acres of room and stunning views, but the reality for most of us is probably that they’re the smallest room in the house, and overflow with toiletries and towels.

“This space should be calm and relaxing, but a common mistake is to incorporate storage solutions which make a room feel more cramped, rather than enhancing space,” says Sarah Holey, a bathroom company marketing manager.

“Think about how you use the bathroom and which areas attract the most mess, so that you specifically target those with suitable cupboards, then the space will work on a practical level.”

CLUTTER SOLUTIONS: Wallhung storage and freestanding pieces can make a room feel bigger by exposing more floor, suggests Holey. “Modular furniture allows for even greater flexibility and can be mixed and matched to suit storage requirements. Make clearing away easy with a good size laundry basket with a lid, and a netting bag for children’s toys.”

Wall mounted plate rack.

Oslo two drawer tall storage.

Road crew coffee trunk, made from salvaged timber with aluminium trim.

Slimline bamboo storage cabinet.

Coffee table with storage drawers.

Crown Imperial Spaceworks 150mm mid height pull out unit.

Metal storage trunks, with copper detail.

Wall Storage unit.

Silver Portlight design storage mirror.

one hand pointing to the right, one to the left and one straight up. The pattern should resemble a flower.

3. Cut and glue on green paper in shapes of a stem and leaves. Add a circle in a contrasting colour for the centre of the flower.

4. Make a border on the poster card and write a personal greeting, such as “Best Mum, Hands Down!” or “To our Dad the handyman, with love”, or “From your little blossoms: Alice, Mia and Emily.”

TV bench with drawers in gloss white.

Shaker style under sink unit.

Variation: Instead of cutting a hand shape, simply place a child’s hand in poster paint (palm down) and guide the hand on the card. Gently press the hand on the paper, making sure that the palm and five fingers make a print. Repeat with another child’s hand until the flower is complete.

Add paper stem, leaves and centre. z Donna Erickson’s latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families”.

NOW HERE’S A TIP

BY JOANN DERSON z J.C. writes: “The one thing I might add [to your tips about preparing devilled eggs] is to make sure the eggs are point down during storage. That will keep the yolks centred and make stuffing easier.”

Great point! A little vinegar in the boiling water will help to keep egg in the shell if it cracks. z “I love to put photos of family on the fridge. But I found that the photos were getting ruined from grease and moisture in the air.

Palace asymmetric two drawer unit.

To get around that – and to really preserve them – I cleaned and laminated them. Afterward, I hotglued little magnets to the backs, and now I can move them around to accommodate new photos.

There are so many, and it gives me pleasure to look at them.” – C.R. z This is a classic money-saving tip as well as safety advice: Lower your water-heater temperature by five or six degrees C. You’ll save money on heating water, and reduce the risk of a painful burn from scalding. z “Add a cinnamon stick or softener sheet to your vacuum bag when you change it. While you clean, you’ll dis-

tribute the good smell throughout your home.” – F.H. z Got a squeak in your hardwood floors? Dust a sprinkling of baby powder at the source of the squeak, and then use a brush to get it in the cracks. The powder will help to lubricate the boards and remove the squeak. z If you need to clean stained plastic storage or takeout containers that you’ll use again, do it with baking soda. Get the container wet, and then use a liberal amount of baking soda as a scrub. It’s abrasive but gentle – and super safe.

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Eating the Shoku-Iku way OW often do you really think carefully about what you’re putting in your mouth?

After a hard day at work, it’s usually a case of quickly refuelling, isn’t it? And when you’re hungry, you’ll eat anything – never mind the calories. If you’re anything like me, and the brake was well and truly off over the Easter weekend, you’re probably now nursing a sugar hangover.

But there is a different way – and for once, it doesn’t involve a scary-sounding fad diet. Instead, the Japanese approach to food, Shoku-iku, means ‘food education’, and was pioneered alongside macrobiotics in the late 1800s by military doctor Sagen Ishizuka, who believed the secret to health and healing was to strengthen the body from the inside.

In June 2005, concerned by the effects of Western fast food, families not eating together and schoolchildren skipping breakfast, the Japanese government passed the Basic Law of Shoku-Iku, making education about nutrition and food origins compulsory.

As a result – as chef Makiko Sano, author of Shoku-Iku! Japanese Conscious Eating For A Long And Healthy Life, explains – Japanese people are never on diets and never skip meals to lose weight, as they are consciously monitoring their nutritional intake with every meal, every day.

“I don’t believe in diets,” says busy mum-of-four Sano. “I prefer to make sure I eat balanced meals.

“You shouldn’t avoid what you like to eat, but it’s important to think about what you have been eating throughout the day, and make sure you don’t eat lots of your favourite unhealthy food.

Simple food can be delicious too,” she adds.

In her book, she acknowledges that it will take time to retrain yourself to be more mindful about food, and to ditch the “just-grab-something attitude”.

But by choosing food based on its power to invigorate, she insists you’ll feel “better, lighter and in control” – and soon it’ll become a way of life.

According to Sano, who grew up in Tokyo before moving to the UK and opening her own sushi restaurant called Suzu, the ba-

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sic rules of Shoku-Iku include the Buddhist-inspired Power of Five to boost variety: eating foods from five groups (grains, vegetables, fruits, protein and dairy) that appeal to your five senses, that contain five tastes (sweet, sour, bitter, salt and the savoury ‘umami’), and which aim to reflect five colours (green/blue, red/orange, white, black/brown, yellow).

Sano has seen first-hand the difference that being mindful of what we’re eating can make; it helped her son, Leon, who was diagnosed with autism aged three.

“He was very aggressive. I don’t want to say it, because he is my son, but he was like an animal when he was young. He just couldn’t understand the world we live in and I couldn’t take him out to the park or go shopping,” she recalls.

It was Sano’s own mother who encouraged her to think about Leon’s diet. “She never takes medicine and believes food is connected with our bodies,” Sano explains. “For example, I had severe eczema when I was young.

My mother checked which foods I was allergic to and she made everything from scratch, and my eczema disappeared when I was six.”

Following her mother’s advice, she kept a stool diary for her son for a month and took him for an allergy test, but got the all-clear.

“My mother insisted that something must be wrong with his gut, so I searched and found out that autistic children might have problems with gluten and dairy products. So I decided to do a gluten and dairy-free diet. It was easy for me, as [Japanese people] don’t use dairy in our food and we eat [gluten-free] rice every day.”

The switch had a big impact on Leon.

“He is still autistic, but he is very caring and such a fun boy to be around,” says Sano. “He is in a special autistic school at the moment, but he’s doing very well.

And I do believe that what he has been eating has helped him in many ways.”

Feeling inspired? Try these Shoku-iku-inspired recipes for yourself...

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BY KATE WHITING

Japanese people are never on diets and never skip meals to lose weight,

Quesadillas Get a Healthy Makeover

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS AND GINA HARLOW

THE KITCHEN DIVAS

Quesadilla is a Spanish word for “little cheese thing”. The recipe typically calls for mounds of cheese and pork chorizo between two corn tortillas.

Although there’s just a small amount of cheese in this recipe, it’s the lean ground chicken, the spices and the de-

Makiko Sano. PHOTOS: PA licious salsa that are the stars of this healthy dish.

The substitution of lean ground chicken breast for pork chorizo cuts down on the calories without sacrificing any of the flavour.

Chorizo sausage is usually made with ground pork and combined with fat, wine, paprika and salt and stuffed into a casing made of tripe. Paprika and red chillies are the primary spices in Mexican chorizo and infuse it with a deep reddish colour.

This recipe uses the same

spices as the pungent Mexican sausage to marinate the ground chicken, allowing you to mimic the flavour of chorizo while cutting out the fat.

Small, diced potatoes add a distinctive texture and also absorb the spices. The avocado salsa completes the dish and adds a burst of fresh citrus with the addition of the lime juice.

Try one of these healthy quesadillas, accompanied by a dab of fat-free sour cream, if desired, for breakfast, lunch or dinner. You’ll never miss the original recipe!

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DANCING PRAWNS

AVOCADO AND PEAR QUINOA POWER SUSHI

‘FULL JAPANESE’ GARDEN BREAKFAST This is a quick, easy way of having eggs for breakfast.

I always like to eat some greens at breakfast as well, as did all my family before me. This is a fusion of Western and Japanese cooking methods and flavours – why not? I’m Japanese and I live in Britain – so I call it a ‘full Japanese’. Use a lidded saute pan.

(Serves 2) 1tsp rapeseed oil 1 garlic clove, grated Large handful of kale, chopped into 1cm slices Handful of baby spinach leaves 3 cherry tomatoes, quartered 3 shiitake mushrooms, finely sliced 3 regular mushrooms, finely sliced 4 eggs 1 quantity Garden soy sauce dressing (see instructions below)

Finely chopped chilli (optional) Garden Soy sauce dressing: 1 apple, grated 1 carrot, grated 1 onion, grated 100ml soy sauce 100ml rice vinegar 80g honey or brown sugar Heat the oil in a saute pan over a medium heat, add the garlic and stir until fragrant.

Add the kale with any water from washing still clinging to its leaves, the spinach, tomatoes and mushrooms and cook until almost tender.

Hollow out four spaces and drop an egg into each. Put the lid on and cook over a low heat to steam for three to four minutes, depending on how you like your eggs.

Transfer to plates and serve with Garden soy sauce dressing, sprinkled with chilli, if you want.

I always wrap cling film around my sushi rolling mats before using, as this prevents the rice (or quinoa, in this case) from sticking at all.

(Serves 2-3) 200g quinoa 3tbsp pureed or mashed mango (mashed with a fork) 1tsp white wine vinegar 1tsp lemon juice Pinch of sea salt 1 medium pear 4-5 full sheets of dried nori seaweed 1 avocado, finely sliced Place the quinoa into a sieve and rinse well under cold water. Tip the rinsed quinoa into a saucepan, add 400ml of water and cook over a medium heat.

Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer.

Cook for about 13 minutes until soft, stirring frequently. Drain well to remove any excess water.

Put the cooked quinoa in a bowl and let it cool to lukewarm for few minutes. Add the mango puree, vinegar,

CHICKEN CHORIZO AND POTATO QUESADILLAS 225g ground all-natural chicken breast 2 tablespoons chilli powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 small bay leaf, ground in a spice grinder 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1 cup diced and peeled potato 2 teaspoons canola oil 1/2 cup diced, purple onion 1/2 cup shredded reduced-fat

lemon juice and sea salt to the quinoa while still warm and mix well. Transfer to a tray, spreading the quinoa thinly, and allow it to cool completely.

This is really rich in umami flavours and is very easy to make. The flavour of the prawns mixes beautifully with those of the sesame oil and leek.

(Serves 2-3) 1/2 leek, sliced into julienne 5 oyster mushrooms, sliced 1cm thick 250g large head-on prawns 5tbsp sake 1tsp sea salt 3-4 drops sesame oil 1tsp soy sauce 1 spring onion, sliced into julienne Place the leek in a sauce-

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pan that has a lid. Lay the mushrooms on the bed of leek and the prawns on top of those.

Add the sake, cover and cook over a high heat until the sake starts to steam and the prawns start to ‘dance’ (as my grandmother used to say) in the liquid, then reduce the heat to medium so the pot is just simmering and add the salt, sesame oil and soy sauce.

Cover again and continue to simmer for two or three minutes. Transfer to a serving plate and sprinkle with the spring onion.

Meanwhile, preheat the grill. Finely slice the pear and grill the slices for two or three minutes on each side.

Place a nori sheet on a sushi rolling mat, long side towards you and rough side up, shiny side down.

Spread one-quarter to one-fifth (depending on whether you are making four or five rolls) of the quinoa mix from the bottom to two-thirds of the way up the sheet. Place four slices of avocado and three slices of lightly grilled pear along the middle of the quinoa.

Roll the nori tightly up to the end. Leave it to sit for two to three minutes to allow the seaweed to soften.

Repeat to use up all the nori sheets, rice and filling.

Cut each roll into six pieces, then serve.

Cheddar cheese 8 corn or whole-wheat tortillas The Salsa: 1/2 ripe avocado 1/2 cup chopped tomato 1/2 cup diced purple onion 1 large garlic clove, minced 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves 1/2 Serrano chilli, minced 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper To prepare the Quesadillas: 1. Combine the chicken, chilli powder, salt, pepper, bay leaf, cinnamon, Italian seasoning,

Shoku-Iku! Japanese Conscious Eating For A Long And Healthy Life by Makiko Sano (photography Lisa Linderis), published by Quadrill. cloves and vinegar in a bowl, mix well. Set aside.

2. Boil the potato in lightly salted water in a saucepan until tender, drain. Heat 1 teaspoon canola oil in a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté the chicken mixture, stirring to break up the pieces, until the chicken is almost cooked through.

3. Add the potato, onion and remaining canola oil, cook until the potatoes begin to brown. Remove from heat and mash mixture. Top each of 4 tortillas with an equal amount

of chicken mixture. Top with shredded Cheddar cheese, then another tortilla. Spray a griddle or non-stick skillet with nonstick cooking spray.

4. Cook the Quesadillas over medium heat until both sides are crisp, turning once.

To prepare the Salsa: In a small bowl, mix together the avocado, tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro, chilli, lime juice, salt and pepper until wellcombined. Cut Quesadillas into wedges and serve with the salsa.

Makes 4 servings.

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Charlie Creasy

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OCTANE BY NAME, OCTANE BY NATURE Some people’s passion for their cars should never be brought into question, especially when they work as a security guard at the airport! Charlie Creasey’s pride and joy, a 2014 FB XR6 Turbo Ute is one of the last FB’s to be built in Victoria, threatened with closures in 2016 and switching off the engine to a decades long legacy. It does however give Charlie’s ride an historic value as well.

WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOS Connor Coman-Sargent OR a quietly spoken man, the standard colour Charlie Creasey’s chosen for his 2014 FG XR6 Turbo is rather outspoken. An alluring after-burn orange/yellow called Octane it aptly gives that volatile and flammable petrol element a nod of respect and is a the perfect dressing to a turbo powered machine with a lot of grunt.

The current president of the Orana Elite Ford Car Club is also a patient man, waiting over four months for Ford to build his pride and joy and then once received, setting to work with a spare $6,000 to add some finishing touches.

“I waited for 19 weeks to get it built in Melbourne. Nineteen weeks I was pestering Ford every Friday. I wanted a 6-speed manual, a turbo in that colour, then the hard cover was an extra but they supplied and fitted it; then the sports bar, and the extras that I’ve bought, the fin, the back tail bar where the mufflers are, the bonnet with the bulge, the stripes, the wheels and the aftermarket air induction that’s on it,” he said.

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With pride he explains there’s only one XR6 Turbo in Dubbo, though there are three utes and his is the only one with a hard cover.

During a riverside photo shoot Charlie’s quick to draw attention to our ‘luck’ as it’s the first time he’s ever taken the ute on the dirt. It’s a throwaway comment but speaks volumes about how far the Aussie ute has come since the early days as a workhorse to today’s production race vehicle and prized urban possession.

Also, that Charlie’s a security guard at the airport, so, very lucky indeed.

It is a surprise to learn too, that Charlie’s not a born and bred fan, despite his presidency and seven years of vice presidency before that of the local club having only entered the blue oval fold after moving from near Nyngan to Dubbo.

Even he didn’t realise he had a knack for knowing a good car when he saw one, reinforced now, by the 70 or so trophies he’s got at home in his man cave.

“I bought the first one I owned, because it looked nice. The colour was called champagne. Anyway I went to a car show and just parked in the car park, and went in and was talking to the Ford guys. They asked what kind of car do you have and I said I’ve just got an old heap in the car park and they said go get it

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Dice Run this Sunday The Orana Elite Ford Car Club is holding a Dice Run this Sunday, May 17. Owners will assemble at about 10am at Bunnings before heading off for a day’s drive around the region, which will take in The Lion of Waterloo, Wellington, Robin Hood Hotel, Orange, Mudgee, Bathurst and Stuart Town.

and bring it in. I brought it in and they freaked out. I just thought it was normal car,” he recalls.

He starts scrolling through pictures of other Ford’s he’s owned, stopping at a shot of one, laden with trophies on the bonnet. “I bought this gold one as a stock standard car. It cost me $16,000 then I spent $30,000 doing bits and pieces to it, and then it won me a lot of trophies,” he said.

Best Ute, Best Ford, Best Sedan, all accolades for a convert who has travelled as far as Newcastle to show off his wheels, and has plans for a trip later this year to Queensland.

No doubt for our photo shoot he’s given his XR6 a spit and polish, but apologises as he opens the custom fitted XR8 bulge bonnet that he’s not sure how clean

it’s going to be under the hood.

Looks brand new and hardly used though it’s already eight months old.

“I’ve got 8,000 kilometres on it. It’s my every day car. I’ve been to the tip in it today. I’ve been shopping.

I drive it out to work every day, it sits out at the airport for 14 hours and then I come home.”

Occasionally, he admits, he’s taken it out for a spin and has at least one ticket of acknowledgement issued by the constabulary to prove it.

For a production vehicle that’s worthy of a race circuit the 4L, 6-speed manual gives out 270kw and 550nm torque and if fitted with an Aero Flow short shifter, Growler and Big Mouth Cold Air Induction and a Super Pursuit rear bar with quad 2.5” dump pipes.

Not really built for a running about town, Charlie!

As if that wasn’t enough, Charlie’s car has two unique features money can’t buy: the signature of V8 supercar driver David Reynolds, personally signed inside both doors.

Frequenting detailers prior to show time, those particular panels are left well alone, but as it’s Charlie’s father-in-law who owns JR Car Detailing, he knows he’s in good hands.

“I’m lucky enough that my father-in-law owns a car

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detailing business in Dubbo so whenever I’ve got a show I just take it down and give it to the boys and they give it a wash at J R Car Detailing. They do a good job.

“I’ve got a good panel beater too. I had a bloke back into me just before Christmas and I got the new back end, it’s got quad exhausts. One of the panel beaters in town Camo, at Camo Auto Magic; he’s painted it and fitted it for me,” he said.

Other people doing a good job in Charlie’s world are the 35 members of the Orana Elite Ford Car Club who donate proceeds from shows to local charities.

“We had a show three weeks ago at Clancy’s and we gave The Men’s Shed $1000. The year before last we gave Early Intervention $6,500, we did another show for breast cancer, we gave them $7000, the prostate cancer people here, $7000, the Royal Flying Doctors, $30,000. We spread it around and just keep enough to pay our way. We’ve got insurances and a club trailer we have to register.

“We do BBQs too, at Bunnings, and we give to charities like the Pink Ladies, the little charities that other people forget.”

“We’re good guys,” he says. “Our club is very family orientated.

We have a Christmas party every year and buy Christmas presents for the kids. About half the club are women.”

Some members are even … Holden owners.

“Yeah, we have people with Holdens. We don’t discriminate,” says Charlie.

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Slow roads lead to Lefkas

The view from the boat, at Lefkas.

Photos: PA/thinkstockphotos

BY ELLEN MANNING SIDE from the hum of cicadas, punctuated by the odd dog barking and rooster crowing, it is completely silent.

It’s the same on the empty roads, where all the signs are all in a foreign language, with very few of the customary English translations you so often expect to see in this part of the world.

There are no sprawling resorts and strips of neon nightclubs, just picture-perfect towns occupied by a few tavernas, shops and hotels.

It’s a far cry from the stereotypical image of a Greek getaway. Lefkas might be the fourth largest Ionian Island, but it’s the unspoilt stuff of imaginations.

Our accommodation is the perfect example of the trademark seclusion of Lefkas.

From our private poolside terrace, we can sit with a glass of the local wine, enjoying views of the capital, Lefkas Town, and across the water to the mainland.

Once a working windmill, the stone building has been transformed into the perfect

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hideaway: the top floor is dominated by a huge bedroom, and a kitchen, bathroom and dining area occupy the ground floor.

With the nearest neighbour a few hundred metres away, and the pool hidden from view, it’s the perfect place to relax and – literally – get away from it all.

But it’s not just the peace and quiet that makes Lefkas different from other islands.

Just 21 miles long and nine miles wide, Lefkas – which some people also refer to as Lefkada – was a peninsula of Arcanania until it was split by a 28m canal excavated by the Corinthians in 640BC. Now you come and go across a swing-bridge that joins the mainland to the island, enjoying the feeling and culture of being on a Greek island with the freedom to easily explore further afield.

Not that there isn’t plenty to do on Lefkas.

Divided by the towering Mount Stavratos, each corner of the island has its own character – from the sheltered east coast with family-friendly beaches, to the crashing waves and steep cliffs of the dramatic west coast, with luscious rolling countryside dotted with

deserted windmills and watermills in between. It’s here, inland, where you can really soak up the unbelievably slow pace.

Kavalos, the sleepy hamlet where our windmill lies, is the perfect example. From morning to evening, nothing seems to change, except the addition of a few Greek men sitting outside the one establishment that appears to be a bar, drinking coffee, watching the world go by.

The island’s capital, Lefkas Town, is far from a bustling metropolis. We accidentally arrive during siesta time – still very much a thing here – and wander around the narrow streets, thinking we’re in one of those films where the whole world has suddenly disappeared.

The low-key nature of the island brings its own low-key tourist attractions. Near to the windmill, we hunt for the ‘Melissa Gorge’, a small gorge opened up by the local authority and given a paved route running past ruined watermills and windmills. After three days of searching for the ‘gorge’, we finally find it, directed from the road by a tiny sign facing in just one direction.

On the other side of the is-

Tour specials mark Churchill anniversary

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LONDON: As a new government settles into No.10 Downing Street, many Brits are sick to death of hearing about politicians and party manifestos.

But one political figure still set to capture the limelight – now and throughout 2015 – is Winston Churchill, who was appointed prime minister 75 years ago this month.

To commemorate the man who famously steered Britain through the Second World War and mark the 50th anniversary of his death also this year, hotels and tour companies are offering special packages, while exhibitions are

land, just outside the ‘tourist our legs are aching, but I can resort’ of Nidri, a picturesque see why people get addictharbour filled with boats clamed. There’s something about ouring to take people on tours the joy of standing up, sail in of the nearby tiny islands, are hand, feeling the wind propel the Rachi waterfalls. Don’t be you forward, without a clue of expecting anything on Niagara what happens next, that brings levels, more a slow trickle with back those childhood feelings a small puddle at the bottom. of wobbling down the road on From Nidri, you can hire your own little vessel to enjoy a Swallows And Amazons-style adventure across the water.

Boating is just the start of quite a lot of water-orientated action on Lefkas for us. The southern resort of Vassiliki is internationally recognised as one of the leading windsurfing resorts in Europe, so we decide to have a go at the sport.

We spend an afternoon trying to get the hang of first standing up, then actually moving and steering.

A few hours later Rachi Waterfall.

being held up and down the country.

In London, tourists can visit the Churchill War Rooms, a bunker that sheltered the government during the blitz.

Until October 31, The Wellesley Hotel is offering a special package with an overnight stay in the Churchill suite, tickets to the War Rooms and Imperial War Museum, cigar and cognac tasting, and breakfast with a bespoke Churchill blend from the hotel’s tea connoisseur.

Meanwhile, Churchill’s former family home at Chartwell in Kent is packed with paintings and mementos.

Rooms in the grand property remain much the same as when he lived there,

while the hillside garden features lakes, a rose garden created for his wife and a playhouse for his youngest daughter.

Although proudly British, Churchill was also a fan of overseas destinations and tourists can easily visit some of his most treasured haunts.

He spent the winter of 1935-36 on a painting holiday in Morocco and was particularly inspired by the Atlas Mountains that surround Marrakesh, a city he referred to as the “Paris of the Sahara”.

After the war, he stayed at the glamorous La Mamounia hotel and would frequently return for winter visits.

Steppes Travel offers a three-night stay on a B&B basis.

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The watery theme wouldn’t be complete without an exploration of the island’s beaches. A tour of the famous west coast takes in some of the most impressive sights such as Kathisma Beach, where tourists can paraglide from a nearby hill onto the shore, and Porto Katsiki, where steps lead down to perfect white sands backed by high cliffs.

We don’t quite make it as far as Lefkada Cape, described by Byron as the “lover’s refuge”, where white cliffs rise 60m out of the beautiful surf below.

Known for human sacrifices in ancient times, it’s also said that it was here that ancient poet Sappho threw herself into the sea after being spurned by lover Phaon.

There are many more historical sites on the mainland near

Lefkas, from the ancient city of Nikopolis, built in 31BC to commemorate the victory of Octavius over Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Aktion, to Nekromanteion, on a hill above what in ancient times was the mouth of the River Acheron, the mythical River Styx, gateway to the underworld.

It’s clear there is plenty to do and not enough time to do it all. So, our bodies aching from the exertions of windsurfing, we settle in for an evening lapping up the best of Lefkas. With some local fish on the barbecue and a chilled bottle from the local winery, we take up residence on the quiet windmill terrace admiring the twinkling lights of Lefkas Town with just the cicadas for company. :: Ellen Manning was a guest of Greece villa specialist GIC The Villa Collection

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Villa Milos.

Windsurfing in Vassiliki.

Villa Milos.

Villa Milos.

People gather at midday at outdoor cafes on the main square in Karya, on the island of Lefkada.

The traditional village Basiliki on Lefkas island.

NZ brings in code for foreign drivers

Adelaide airport gets environment gong

Mexico’s tourism rises 2.2 Amphibious tour bus per cent launched in Sth Korea

WELLINGTON: A road safety code for foreign drivers will be trialled by car rental companies in New Zealand next month.

It’s been developed by 25 companies following a spate of accidents involving visiting drivers earlier this year.

Associate Transport Minister Craig Foss, who has been working on it with the companies, says a key element is an assessment of a driver’s experience.

Rental companies will provide more pre-arrival information about driving conditions in New Zealand and will co-operate with each other to further develop the code.

ADELAIDE: Adelaide Airport has become the first in Australia to be recognised by a global accreditation program for reducing carbon emissions.

It has been certified at level three by the Airport Carbon Accreditation program, recognising its work at reducing its carbon footprint.

Airport Carbon Accreditation is a internationally-recognised but voluntary standard for the airport industry.

MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s tourism increased by 2.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2014 compared with the same period of the previous year, the National Institute for Geography and Statistics says.

Spending by domestic and foreign tourists was up two per cent over the comparable span of 2013, the institute said in a statement.

Outlays by domestic travellers increased 0.7 per cent, while foreign visitors spent 6.6 per cent more, the report said.

The 29.1 million foreign visitors Mexico received last year generated revenues of nearly $US16.26 billion ($A20.38 billion).

SEOUL: Visitors to South Korea can now explore the Ara canal that travels between the west coast and the capital Seoul in a colourful amphibious bus.

The bus can travel on land or in the water.

“It is the first amphibious bus for tourists in South Korea,” said a spokesman for the operator, Aqua Tourism Korea.

From mid-May the bus will operate daily between Incheon on the west coast and the city of Gimpo near Seoul.

The tour travels for around 50 minutes on the land along the canal and then AAP spends 15 minutes on the water.

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Top Australian wind quintet to perform at the Con

BY VIVIENNE WINTHER DIRECTOR MACQUARIE CONSERVATORIUM

N the classical music scene, musical ensembles are a bit like rival codes in team sports. Over centuries, various combinations of musical instruments have emerged, shone, vanished, survived or totally reinvented themselves, according to the fashion and needs of the day.

From 1400 to 1600, the word “consort” described sets of instruments generally grouped like with like, and composers began to write with these groupings in mind. Consort music would be played by small groups of professional musicians kept on hand to entertain royal courts and the households of wealthy nobles. Consort music could also be for domestic use by those of the upper classes who pursued the accomplishment of playing an instrument well.

There were consorts of recorders, an instrument that still exists today but whose place in classical music was usurped by the transverse flute, held sideways, that originated from Asia and came to Europe via the Byzantine empire.

The consort of viols was another popular instrument group. Viols were stringed instruments held upright on the lap of the player if small or held between the legs if larger, and played by bowing the strings, rather than plucking as for lutes, another instrument family.

The many different sizes of viols morphed into the four string instruments we have today: violin, viola, cello and double bass.

Another consort combination was made up of ancient wind instruments with extraordinary names like shawm, sackbutt, crumhorn and rackett, just some of the colourful ancestors of today’s woodwind instruments, the oboe, clarinet and bassoon.

Impressive teams of brass and wind instruments were established at royal courts and in armies to add pomp and ceremony to military and regal occasions. Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks are well known examples of that sort of ensemble music from the early 1700’s.

From 1750 onwards, the early Classical period saw the rise and dominance of the genre of the string quartet, for two violins, viola and cello, through the brilliant compositions of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

The development of the robust and expressive pianoforte as an alternative to the weaker sounding harpsichord, saw the piano become the dominant instrument of the 1800’s, and led to the piano trio, made up of piano, violin and cello, emerging as chamber music’s alternate team to the string quartet.

Bubbling away more quietly from about 1800 was the wind quintet, on the face of it a rather unwieldy group of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn.

Three of those instruments, the oboe, clarinet and bassoon, are true woodwind instruments, still made of wood today or at least of look-alike plastic resin, and played by blowing air through either a single or double flexible reed fixed in the mouthpiece, producing quite a strong and penetrating sound.

The flute, once made of wood but now more often made of metal such as brass, nickel or silver, has air blown across a hole in the mouthpiece, resulting in quite a different type of sound to its reed-based colleagues.

The French horn officially comes from the brass family, but is often regarded as a linking instrument between the brass and woodwind families. Its warm mellow sound enables it to blend with the other members of a wind quintet. The French horn also gets a place in the

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Rare opportunity: New Sydney Wind Quintet to conduct a master class and perform student and public concerts. heights, with virtuosic writing for each inbrass quintet, surely the equivalent of playing strument that shared the melody and interest two codes of football.

The origins of the wind quintet as a cham- around all five players.

The third important composer of this period ber music group can be found in an earlier was Franz Danzi, who came from a family of ensemble called the Harmonie, prevalent in German musicians. the courts of German and Austrian royalty in Although a cellist himself, he turned to the 1700’s. writing chamber music for all sorts of instruThis was usually an octet of paired oboes, clarinets, horns and bassoons. It reached its ments as part of his job in the German town of Karlsruhe as “Kapellmeister”, literally chapel high point with the founding of a Harmonie at the Vienna court of the Emperor Francis master, a role that put him in charge of the town’s orchestral musicians and choir.

Joseph the First in 1782, establishing this inDanzi produced nine wind quintets between strument grouping as the must-have for other 1823 and 1824 and like Cambini, his wind courts in the Austrian Empire. quintets have earned him a place in posterHowever, Harmonie music began to disapity, with few of his other works remembered. pear along with its royal patrons as the EmDubbo audiences have a chance to hear one pire crumbled in the early 19th century. of Danzi’s delightful wind quintets played live What emerged from this was the wind quinby the New Sydney Wind Quintet on Friday tet as we know it today, with single players 22 May. to each line of music, and the flute winning This concert will be a great opportunity to a place alongside the oboe, clarinet, French experience first hand one of classical music’s horn and bassoon. more unusual team sports, the performance Part of the success of the wind quintet was of music written for the contrasting instrudue to three composers who wrote convincing music for this combination of instruments in ments of the wind quintet, in this case played by some of Australia’s best wind musicians. the early 1800’s.

The pioneer was the Italian Giuseppe Cambini, who published three wind quintets in Paris in 1802, dedicated to the great French clarinettist Jean Xavier Lefebvre, a champion of what was then still a relatively new instrument.

Cambini’s sparkling quintets remain in the repertoire today and keep this composer from being forgotten, although in his lifetime Cambini was known more for his operas and string quartets.

The most influential and prolific composer of wind quintets would be the Czech Anton Reicha, a lifelong friend of Beethoven. Reicha was a celebrated professor of harmony and composition at the Paris Conservatoire, where his students included Berlioz and Liszt.

His 24 wind quintets were written from 1817 to 1820, and took the genre to new

» Visit www.macqcon.org.au for more information about the New Sydney Wind Quintet and their concert on Friday 22 May 7.30pm. During their two day visit to Macquarie Conservatorium, the New Sydney Wind Quintet will also give a masterclass for wind students and a performance of a special children’s concert featuring Prokoviev’s Peter and the Wolf.

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Macquarie Conservatorium Events calendar May 21: Masterclass for wind students with New Sydney Wind Quintet, 5.30pm May 22: Children’s Concert with New Sydney Wind Quintet, 10.30am – bookings essential May 22: New Sydney Wind Quintet in Concert, 7.30pm May 23: Student Concert, 5pm May 24: Student Concert, 3pm

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Pilot art project launches this weekend

BY JO HIGGINS REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR AT KALDOR PUBLIC ART PROJECT

N 1977 Richard Long walked 100 miless across the Australian desert in what was then the 7th Kaldor Public Art Project (KPAP). This weekend nd we head west again – but this time thankfully not on foot – for the launch of our 2015 Pilot Regional Engagement gement Program in partnership with the Western Plains ns Cultural Centre, Dubbo.

Nearly 12 months in the making, this pilot ot is an important strand of the Public Engagement Program for our 30th project – Marina Abramovi : In Residence, which opens next month at Pier 2/3 in Sydney’s ney’s Walsh Bay. The regionally focused project is a natural al next step in KPAP’s investment in the development of innovative, world-class education and outreach programs, and in finding and supporting new audiences ces for contemporary art.

Envisioned as a productive and ongoing ng dialogue with key stakeholders in the region – including cluding the teams at Dubbo Regional Gallery and Orana Arts, Dubbo City Council, local art teachers, artists and young people – it’s also an opportunity for or us to explore the development of a sustainable model of regional engagement, exchange and future partnerships. artnerships.

We approached Western Plains Cultural ural Centre (WPCC) and began discussions with them m about the pilot last July. We wanted to work with an organisation rganisation whose programming and vision reflected d our own; who had established connections in the community and a strong school network; and who had the resources and facilities to support the project on a logistical level. Thankfully they didn’t take much convincing. nvincing.

In February, along with Sue Saxon, Kaldor’s dor’s Education and Public Programs Manager, we made ade our first visit to Dubbo. The two days of meetings, s, conversations and planning with the teams at WPCC C and Orana Arts, the Mayor and the Chairperson of the he Council’s Youth Committee were a fantastic introduction ction to the region.

Crucially, we also met with a large group p of art and drama teachers, to whom we had reached out to with help from WPCC in the weeks leading up to our visit.

This information session and the resulting ng feedback served to reinforce the value of piloting a project roject dedicated specifically to young people.

It also clearly demonstrated the enormous ous energy and commitment of this special group of teachers in supporting their students to access opportunities unities such as this one. The buy-in and support of teachers, achers, and regular communication with them since hass been critical to this stage of the project, and especially ally for the recruitment of participants.

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programming. The peer-led model of learning we are using has proven to be successful overseas in building young people’s confidence, creativity and critical thinking skills, and is designed to facilitate the development and realisation of the participants’ own ideas in collaboration with each other.

Over four weekends from May to late July the group will work with regional and Sydney-based artists and curators, including director Imara Savage and artist Lottie Consalvo, to explore their own ideas around performance, audience, public space and contemporary art.

On Friday July 3, the participants will experience Marina Abramovi : In Residence in Sydney and, we hope, contribute to the dynamic public program at Pier 2/3 with Dubbo Regional Gallery Curator Kent Buchanan. We’re looking forward to their ideas.

The project culminates on Sunday 26 July with a day of talks and performances led by the group at Dubbo Regional Gallery.

While we hope the participants will create a compelling series of works that reflect both their experiences as teenagers living in regional Australia and their own understandings of performance art, what we really looking forward to is seeing what they make of this pilot experience, in every sense of the word. » Kaldor Public Art Project’s Regional Youth Engagement Program has been supported by the Australian Government through the Ministry for the Arts, Attorney-General’s Department and Arts NSW. Kaldor’s Regional Engagement Collaborators are Western Plains Cultural Centre and Orana Arts. kaldorartprojects. org.au

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ONE PROUD MONKEY: putting the life into live music In an industrial shed, huddled around a collection of cases containing their instruments, a bunch of Dubbo lads with a love of original music share with Weekender what has brought them to the eve of their second EP launch.

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

OMORROW night the boys of Dubbo’s own original music band, One Proud Monkey take to the stage at The Pastoral Hotel to launch their second EP, just 18 months after the launch of their first long play album, “The First LP”.

Clinton Hoy, Dallas Keenes, Tim Hosking and Dave Petty came together in 2012 and have since managed to not only write, produce and perform their own music, they’re also working on nurturing a live, local music scene – something they believe has died off in Dubbo over the years.

In preparation for the EP launch, the Monkeys have been practising “their bums off”, in the words of guitarist Keenes.

Finding the time and creating the discipline required to play at this level is a tough gig with all the band members having family commitments and working full time.

“It can get quite hard tying four dudes into the one time...but we manage,” says Keenes.

“We’ve got one day that we practise no matter what.

Anything else is just a fluke.”

The band’s appointed leader, singer and guitar player, Clinton Hoy says they had to decide on a day early on and stick to it.

It was February 2013 when One Proud Monkey played support to The Whitlams at Flix in the Stix in Dubbo that the band decided playing to a thousand people wasn’t a bad gig and they wanted more of it.

Unfortunately since then, despite their commitment to their music, the crowds haven’t been even half as big – a telling sign of the state of the city and region’s live music scene.

Keenes says as well as the discipline, the difference is also in the group’s dynamics.

Drummer, Perry cuts in to say the decision-making is done by fighting.

“Not really...Clint just tells us what to do,” he grins.

The boys might refer to him as “boss”, but they are unanimous in their support of Hoy as the leader of the

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band, who until now has remained quiet.

“I don’t think anyone is shy on sharing an opinion though.”

“Or ideas,” adds Petty. “Clint generally has the fundamental to every song and then we just add our flavour to it.

“A few times we’ve gone through something and someone will think it doesn’t sound right and they’d like to try it another way, and we’ll try it,” explains Hoy. “I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes it’s better.”

Yet Hoy is honest in saying that originally he probably wasn’t open to the others being part of his creative process.

“I think a lot of that was born out of the first lot of songs we did existing before the band formed. I’d been doing them by myself for two years and in my mind they were set.

“The songs that we’ve written since the original batch have probably had a lot more space in them for other input.

“I feel like my lyrics aren’t as wordy – they don’t fill up so much space because there’s a guitar lead or...

“There’s so many damn chords,” interjects Keenes.

“When I first started jamming with Clint, he’d have a piece of paper with the chords, jamming 10 chords in one bar. It was just him and the guitar so you had to make it sound flashy.

“When a band comes in you don’t need to do that, you just have three or four chords.”

It was feedback from the first album, and the band’s openness to that feedback that has seen a major development occur over the past 18 months.

For Hoy, it was his singing.

“I would have said I rushed a lot and I think it was because some of these songs had been around for a long time. One of the songs we recorded had been around since 2002.

“In a way, it was kind of like throwing out old clothes, and recording that album was a bit like a purge.

“The oldest thing we play now was written after the band formed (in 2012).”

Keenes believes the difference has been remarkable.

“It’s got Dave’s drumming style all through it from start to finish; there’s more of me in there; Clint’s sing-

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ing has improved 200 per cent; Tim’s filling up the spaces and not being told what to do.

“You’ve got four different flavours thrown into one.”

It’s a new, more eclectic sound emerging from the boys, but as original music it’s grounded in the experiences and values formed by their lives in Dubbo, with Hoy at the helm of the lyrics again.

“There’s heavier stuff and poppy songs; rhythmically different songs, they’re not just all straight up four to the floor kind of songs,” says Hoy. The “something for everyone” tag is a double-edged sword that can sometimes suggest there’s nothing really new.

Hoy doesn’t see this as a negative in the case of the material they’re now working with, describing it as a “happy accident”.

Bass player, Hosking jumps into the conversation after a late arrival.

“We deliberately push the music in different directions because we’re not doing this for the cash, it’s about the art.”

Petty explains it in terms of having more ownership of what they’re playing and recording now.

“Before you’d have a whole bunch of songs that we had to put music to. This album feels like we’re all making music.

“I get goose bumps now.”

It’s one thing to write original music and bring it to life, but gaining an audience for this music is a major challenge for the band.

Cracking interest in Dubbo from live crowds and venues, and gaining radio airtime from pop-fed media is something that frustrates all the band members, Keenes explains.

“Any venue that wants to book a band, it comes down to how much money they can make. If you’re a cover band that does all the hits, you’ll get work straight away and at top dollar because it’s what people want.

“I’ve been there and done that and it’s not enjoyable as an artist.

“If it wasn’t for one particular pub in town that lets us play there, we’d be screwed.”

In terms of how the band would like to be seen as a creative entity, Hoy is quick off the mark in saying they’d just like to be seen.

“Damn that was good. How much is that album, I’d like to buy that,” says Keenes.

“Best show ever,” says Petty.

The boys are honest and simple in their expectations, wanting no more than for Dubbo to be curious enough about their music to turn out to a live gig at a local venue to support them.

They have a vision of Dubbo’s live music scene being revived into a thriving part of the city’s cultural life, which they’re hoping to realise through a series of live music events in coming months called Lust for Live. » One Proud Monkey’s second EP will be launched at The Pastoral Hotel tomorrow night starting at 8pm with support acts including more local musicians in Brendon Troutman, Gabrielle Flanagan and Civil Hands. Tickets at the door.

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We deliberately push the music in different directions because we’re not doing this for the cash, it’s about the art.

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Atkinson's new offering earns 10 out of 10

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

z BOOK OF THE WEEK A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson is published in hardback by Doubleday.

IN Kate Atkinson’s bestselling Life After Life, time rearranged itself, chaotic and unremitting, and Ursula Todd’s life perpetually looped back to its beginning.

The masterful A God In Ruins resumes the mantle of World War II and its banal brutality, as Ursula’s brother Teddy joins Bomber Command and attempts to enact a life of love, survival, and approximate honour in the 20th century.

Atkinson uses time once more to tell a multitude of histories as the novel slips between generations and decades: we know Teddy as gauche young pilot, weary wing commander, ‘plodding’ husband, heroic grandfather.

The rebellious hatred of his daughter Viola wreaks equal and opposite damage in the lives of her father and children, from the communes of the swinging Sixties to the care homes of the Noughties.

The generations of post-war Britain navigate lives buffeted by absent parents and the secret legacies of history; all the while, the passage of time and ageing sweep Teddy and his family into an ambiguous present.

Atkinson’s dry, sharp prose gives A God In Ruins a light touch, despite the heavy potential of its finely-wrought historical setting. It paints both the painful and the most ordinary detail of extraordinary times: the worn felt cat that Teddy’s crew carried for luck; the engine mechanics of his clapped-out Halifax bomber; the safely wholesome marriage, fallen into when it was all over.

At Atkinson’s deft hands, the unassuming and pragmatic Teddy sings from the page.

It was a wrench to turn the last one.

10/10 Review by Kitty Wheater z FICTION The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens is published in hardback

by Simon & Schuster.

RIGHT from its opening pages, The Mountain Story has you firmly in its grip.

Immensely readable, beautifully written and incredibly heartbreaking, it’s the poignant tale of one young man, Wolf Truly, who finds himself stranded for several days atop a mountain summit in Palm Springs along with three strangers.

Very slowly, almost teasingly, author Lori Lansens divulges Wolf’s backstory – his mother’s death, his troubled childhood and the reason why he was on the mountain that very day, to end his own life

Kate Atkinson won praise and awards for “Life After Life”. Her new book is “A God In Ruins”. PHOTO: REUTERS/LUKE MACGREGOR

on his 18th birthday, precisely one year to the day when he lost his best friend Byrd on that same unforgiving rocky stretch of land.

The flashbacks are expertly interwoven with Wolf’s current desperate situation, slowly building to a formidable heart-in-your-mouth crescendo as the four survivors try to find a way back to help and civilisation before it’s too late.

Despite The Mountain Story being a fairly quick and easy read, it’s an extraordinary story of survival, heroism and redemption that will stay with you long after you read the last page.

9/10 Review by Alison Potter This House Is Not For Sale by E.C. Osondu is published in hardback by Granta Books.

IT is a truth universally acknowledged that any Nigerian writer who ends up in the United States is still reeling from the after-affects of their vivid childhood. And E.C. Osondu is no exception.

A graduate of Syracuse Uni-

versity’s creative writing programme, he is already wellknown for his short stories – he won the Caine Prize For African Writing (aka “The African Booker”) in 2009.

This is his first published full-length novel. A slim volume, it tells, through the eyes of a young boy, the multiple stories of people – family, servants and hangers-on – who live in the household of his clear-sighted but tyrannical Grandfather.

Grandfather is not a man to overlook the commercial possibilities inherent in other people’s misfortune, and whilst his feudal empire grows rich, it attracts a not-undeserved reputation for evil.

And sure enough the inmates’ stories meld together with gathering horror to describe in microcosm a society where anything is possible.

9/10 Review by Liz Ryan Shoes For Anthony by Emma Kennedy is published in hardback

by Ebury Press.

BESTSELLING author, actress,

funnywoman and all-round good egg Emma Kennedy returns with her ninth book, Shoes For Anthony.

Set in the Rhondda Valley during World War Two the children of Treherbert have a tough life. Everyone is on rations, money is in short supply, those who haven’t been sent to fight are down in the pits or part of the Home Guard.

The kids however, have a type of freedom, never wanting the war to end.

Life gets even more exciting when Polish POW Piotr crashes into the mountain and a battalion of American GIs move into the area to train.

Just as life makes a steady upturn for the Jones family, a tragic mining accident injures Anthony’s father and brother.

Anthony has a decision to make. But can the boy who hasn’t had a new pair of shoes in years pick the right thing, or the popular one?

It’s a slow-burner of a story, well worth the initial stage

setting for when the story really kicks in.

7/10 Review by Rachel Howdle The Killing Of Bobbi Lomax

by Cal Moriarty is published in hardback by Faber & Faber.

WE’RE into the action from page one in Cal Moriarty’s thriller The Killing Of Bobbi Lomax, as cynical detective Marty Sinclair and his partner Al Alvarez rush to the scene of a bombing.

We quickly learn it’s the third in a baffling series of attacks in the mid-American town, with no apparent motive or link between the first victim, pretty teenager Bobbi Lomax, the second who is a middle-aged property developer and the third, a devoutly religious family man dealing in rare books and coins and the only survivor.

Ex-private eye Cal Moriarty keeps the story cracking along, as the police race to find the bomber before they strike again.

The narrative is a little too breathy in places and

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the detective characters feel stereotypical, with gnarled old-timer and cheerful sidekick, but the Bible-belt setting is interesting and it’s certainly an entertaining read.

7/10 Review by Gill Oliver Mockingbird Songs by R.J. Ellory is published in hardback by Orion.

R.J. Ellory puts you deep in the heart of Texas in his new crime thriller Mockingbird Songs – a simple backstory is dealt with quickly enough to put you straight into the main plot.

Starting with two men

parting ways in prison: one a former Country music starturned-killer, Evan Riggs, the other his cellmate and main protagonist Henry Quinn.

Quinn and Riggs had become close friends with the seasoned inmate Riggs looking after Quinn. In repayment for his help, Henry agrees to track down Riggs’ daughter and deliver a letter.

This is where the story becomes another American small-town-with-a-secret tale. Riggs’ daughter is missing and with a whole town, including Riggs’ brother the

sheriff, keeping secrets it will be very difficult for Quinn to get to the bottom of her whereabouts.

Ellory’s descriptive prose really draws you in, however, the storyline is a little flat and I was left disappointed.

6/10 Review by Phil Robinson z NON-FICTION Naked At The Albert Hall: The Inside Story Of Singing

by Tracey Thorn is published in hardback by Virago.

TRACEY Thorn’s bestseller Bedsit Disco Queen told the story of the Everything But The Girl singer’s journey

The life and times of sheep OR some people, sheep are those animals with wool on their back and a leg on each corner. For many rural people, sheep are their livelihood – their fortunes (or lack of same) are directly tied to their production.

We can step through the levels of production and those involved in several stages. There are the breeders of various lines, each having their special features and market applications.

Graziers who select the breeds suitable for their country and intended purpose. There are drovers and truck drivers that transport them to markets, new grazing sites and agistment.

There are shearers and shed hands who take the wool and prepare it for market. There are stock agents who market the livestock and the wool.

Locally, the processing of sheep for local and export meat has developed into an amazing industry. The list goes on with each level of participation creating work and incomes.

There are histories revealing the growth of the sheep industry. One is “To the Savage Land” which tells the life of John Costello. He travelled with the Duracks to be some of the first to follow the tracks of Burke & Wills north through western NSW and into Queensland. In the Nash Lake area, Costello decided to remain there with his herd of cattle – the Duracks continued on to the Kununurra area.

Drought and attacks from the Aboriginal people in 1904

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forced the decision for Costello to return south and he eventually took up country – ‘Tocabil’ near Hillston – establishing a substantial sheep operation which was continued through the family until the 1990s when the properties were converted into National Parks.

A book that follows the breeding and various industry stages is “Unwelcome Partner” by A.W. Cameron. Whilst it has a background of the way the blowfly influenced production, it demonstrates how choices in breeding can have unintended consequences. By 1804 Australia’s sheep numbers was 1204.

The nature of the country presented ideal conditions for this to become a ready source of food. Sheep numbers grew and wool began to have significant value.

In the late 1800s breeding practices saw major increases in heavily wrinkled skins with the idea that more wool could be produced by one animal. However this increased the problem of sheep being easily flyblown.

Further breeding developments almost eliminated the wrinkles to the point where wool weight was achieved from a ‘cleaner’ skin. This evolution is shown in photos on pages 112-114 covering 1895-1935.

West of the Great Divide wool production provided substantial job opportunities for shear-

er, shed hands, wool classers, rousabouts and stockmen.

Geoffrey Barrett has just updated his book “An Inspirational Board” which covers his 50 years of experience in the industry. It includes the biographies of ten high performing ‘gun shearers’ and particularly details the blows used in shearing the various parts of the sheep to produce the fleece and other off-cuts.

Well-respected Australian writer on farm animal care Pat Coleby has a recently updated edition of “Natural Sheep Care”. As with her other titles, she takes a natural approach to the breeding, caring, feeding and covers the breeds Merino, Border Leicester, Suffolk, Southdown, Poll Dorset, Lincoln, Texel, Dorper and others that are raised for meat, hides, and wool for warmth. With the emphasis on quality production, chapters on land management, minerals, vitamins, worms and health problems have an emphasis. A chapter on health is particularly helpful.

From the collection of books

by Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh is

through the pop world.

Topping the charts along with creative sidekick Ben Watt and the fame, if not fortune, which followed made her voice one of the most recognisable on the British music scene.

But what Thorn did not have time or space to tell in her pop memoir was what it was like to be a singer: her emotions, her moods, her hopes and fears.

What her second book shows, as in her first, is she also has an ability to write.

She can pick at the scab of a subject and release some of the unsavoury contents which have been festering under the surface.

Drawing on several interviews with other singers and referencing extensive research of other writers on the subject of singing, Thorn pulls no punches when it comes to examining her own abilities and those of others.

The result is an honest appraisal of what motivates people to stand up in front of hundreds if not thousands of fellow human beings and how they feel about it, whether it rewards them or leaves them a quivering wreck.

8/10 Review by Roddy Brooks

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The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions Into The Lost Delights Of Britain’s Railways

by Michael Williams is published in hardback by Preface Publishing.

From charming rural branch lines to the glamorous Night Ferry, the accounts in Williams’ new book are sure to give a nostalgic thrill to anyone with the least longing for the lost age of steam.

Anecdotes detail eccentric lines where crews would stop services to pick mushrooms, then fry them on the firebox; luxurious carriages are lovingly detailed, producing a pang in anyone familiar with drab modern services.

Alas, at times the detail’s perhaps too loving for the general reader; anyone unaware of the functions of bogies and flanges, for whom even common engines’ names are unfamiliar, will not find Williams holding their hand and explaining.

A shortage of illustrations doesn’t help, and the prose is marred by habits suggesting an over-enthusiastic amateur, in particular an addiction to the seldom-advisable description ‘famously’.

6/10 Review by Alex Sarll

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From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection “Great Australian Shearing Stories”. With the shearer being so much a part of the economy when the country lived on the sheep’s back, it is now beginning to disappear. These stories have been collected over time from outback stations, shearers, larrikins, roustabouts, and the occasional shearer’s cook.

Another author with close connections to the industry is Sandy Thorne who has written several books. One that focuses on stations – and life in the pub bar – in the Bourke district is “Battler’s Block”. As one reader noted, “It is the funniest book that I’ve read,” as it records one yarn after another about sheep west of the Darling.

The challenge today for sheep owners is the costs of shearing.

Shearers are difficult to find as few wish to take on the job. One customer mentioned that at the end of recent shearing 2500 sheep, the cost was $18,000 – almost $14 a head. When the drought in the early 2000s persisted for eight years, the aver-

` As one reader noted, “It is the funniest book that I’ve read,” as it records one yarn after another about sheep west of the Darling... a

age sheep farm made $48,100 profit whist other agricultural activities (e.g. beef and dairy and cropping) lost $46,000.

Sheep have a mentality of their own. As a herd animal they demonstrate group behaviour.

A flock in the paddock, when attacked by a wild dog, compacts into a circle, the outer animals rotate quickly as the dog chases, the sheep placed in the inner circle don’t run as fast but they emerge to the outer rim to take over the role of the chased with the previous runners merging to the centre to rest. Herding is an ancient art, focussing on the development and preservation of the pastures. “The Art & Science of Shepherding” relates the wisdom of French herders and has been used here. It explains the methods for stimulating the appetite of grazing animals, and how the pastures can be conserved.

They have the ability to survive for lengthy periods during droughts and adapt to a range of landscape. Jamie Kirkpatrick is the editor of “People, Sheep and Nature Conservation” and relates how they graze natural grasses, how they interact with native animals. Sheep are a remarkable animal.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Tori and Piper Kleinig, Lucy Powyer, Elly Haksteeg and Courtney Powyer

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Onny Slack-Smith, Maddie Gibson, Immy Slack-Smith and Molly Nelson

Blue Love is a hit

BY KAITLYN RENNIE E audience enjoyed an entertaining performance at the Dubbo Regional heatre and onvention entre on Saturday, May 9. he crowd watched the cast in lue Love attempt to find the perfect relationship in their physical theatre comedy. he stage performance was an ironic take on the clich s of pop culture, romance, coupledom and suburban life.

Kristine Cone and Stephanie Jurd

Rebecca Cannon and Joel Doyle

Alison van der Linden and Jen Hoar

Karen Christensen and Linda Clarke

Vittorina Orbell, Maxine Andrews and Marie Astley

Janet and Michael Mees

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A chance to meet the Dubbo Showgirl entrants

BY KAITLYN RENNIE PEOPLE dressed up in their best to meet the entrants for the 2015 ZooFM Dubbo Showgirl at the cocktail party held at the Dubbo RSL on Saturday, May 9.

With the judges, the members of the Dubbo Show Society, and previous showgirls present, it was a good night for all. Winning the event provides many personal and professional opportunities in the present and future.

Right: Abby Ettershank, Lauren Amor, Katherine Mann, Amy McAneney, Camilla Kenny and Anna Tickle

Wes Temessl, Judy Jakins, Lorna Breeze, Barry Unger, and Marty Morris, President of the Dubbo Show Society

Katherine Mann, Nathan Irwin, Nick Hovey, Monique Gallen and Michaela Davis Right: Kennedy Tourle, Kate Warren, Michaela Davis, Anna Tickle, Jessica Wood, and Jane Diffey

Joe Mason, Kristy Mason and Tim O’Brien

Grace Sandry, Maree McAneney, Terrianne Sandry, Lynne Fiander

Bret Murray from ZooFM, Elizabeth and Alex Tickle from Central West Lifestyle Magazine

Rebecca and Brian Zaia

Angus Diffey and Andrew Scholoefield

Sue and Grahame Tink

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Meet the St Scholastica’s Director

BY KAITLYN RENNIE INTERESTED families had the opportunity to meet the Director of Boarding at St Scholastica’s College, Ms Annie Barnett, and Boarding Administrator, Ms Diane Anderson, as well as some students and families who attend the boarding school in Sydney.

St Scholastica’s College has become a popular place for young women from the Dubbo area.

Parents have many opportunities throughout the year to visit their daughters in Sydney, and also for the girls to go home for special occasions, including Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.

Diane Anderson (Boarding Administrator) and Annie Barnett (Director of Boarding).

The local students attending St Scholastica’s College in Sydney

Andrew, Adine, Rachael, Ben and Kate Hoey

Rana Hunter and Brett Cooper

Liz Densley, Nicole and Jan Green

Dining out at One7Eight

BY NATALIE HOLMES DINING out at the One7Eight Restaurant at Dubbo RSL Club was a special treat for many on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10. Guests enjoyed a two-course meal which included grilled Atlantic salmon, oven roasted rack of lamb with a pistachio parmesan crust, warm chocolate almond tart and baked apple rosette.

Eternal entertainer Terry Leonard provided a musical backdrop for the occasion, while the mums received complimentary pink moscato on arrival. The restaurant is also supporting the Red Cross Nepal Earthquake Appeal.

Monique Cawsey-Ryan, Sebastian Cawsey, Sandra Hortin, Michael Ryan and Heloise Cawsey

Back, John Ryan, Gai and Doug Ford, with, front, Xavier, Kristi and Jude Ryan

Back, Amelia Hickling, Laurel McLeod, front, Jennifer Morris and Kallie Fernando

Elaine and Michelle Osborne and Carissa Vernon

Terry Leonard

Helen Merritt, Jenny Bray and Sonsera Boles celebrate the occasion

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Lazy River luncheon

BY NATALIE HOLMES BEAUTIFUL acoustic music by Paul McMillan and Lizzie Sutton provided the perfect backdrop to the luncheon at Lazy River Estate on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10.

Overlooking the winery, guests dined on a yellow beef curry, chicken, leek and camembert pot pie, penne puttanesca and tempura-battered Barramundi. Delicious dessert included lime cheesecake, chocolate mousse and a fruit and cheese board.

Alan, Mia, Chelsea, Lonnie, Clancy, Cindy and Lily Henderson

Three generations: Mel and Margie Moll, Aylah McMahon, Eva and Dicia Strahorn and Sheri and Rob McMahon

Trish Bullen (centre) took her parents Mark Roxby and Rita Bullen out for lunch

Willow, Tully and Reggie Thomas

Anousha Holland, Lucy Thomas and Marcia Holland

Lunch was an enjoyable affair for these young diners

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The Butterfly Effect

BY KAITLYN RENNIE THE students of TAFE Western, studying Diploma of Photo Imaging, had the pleasure of displaying their photographs at the Fire Station Art Centre, with the opening on Friday, May 8.

The exhibition is titled “The Butterfly Effect” and was officially opened by Kent Buchanan, curator at the Western Plains Cultural Centre.

Milena Sallustio, Vicki and Peter Aland and Vicki Miller

Brook Kellehear-Smith, Jessica Pease, and Jo Lincoln

Robyn Coman, and Greg Adelt

Milena Sallustio with Rosa and Peita Buchanan

Mike and Cathy Parish

Melissa Ryan, Kent Buchanan, and Alicia Rodriguez

Jude Morrell and Robert Salt

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High tea at Dundullimal

BY NATALIE HOLMES A SCRUMPTIOUS high was served at Dundullimal Homestead’s Shed Café to mark Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10.

Guests enjoyed a selection of sandwiches and delicious cakes, while being entertained by a recital by musicians from the Macquarie Conservatorium.

Back, Elizabeth, Rhonda and Leanne McClure, Astra Wilson, front, Renee McClure and Rebecca Wilson

Jenny Hardess, Kathryn and Samara Klante, Kelly Trebicki and Madeline Hardess

Nancye Hinton and Natalie Nissen

Rhonda Matthews, Jean Saffy and Greg Matthews

June Roberts enjoys a cup of tea

Joan Anderson and Kerry Lee

Jo Carroll, Jeff Perry and Joan Scott. Jeff will turn 100 in two weeks’ time.

Mother and son Meg and Max Wood

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear The Martin & Lewis Show DIRECT from Las Vegas on their 70th anniversary tour comes Tom Stevens as Dean Martin and Tony Lewis as Jerry Lewis. The king of comedy Jerry Lewis and the straight-talking smooth singing Dean Martin turned the world on its head when they teamed up in 1946.

Celebrating the music, the madness and the comedy, Tom Stevens and Tony Lewis recreate a timeline of song and comedy from the greatest act of that time. From the duo’s humble begin-

discuss educational needs directly with representatives of the school. Schools participating in the Expo showcase the exceptional opportunities they have to offer, including full-time and weekly boarding, high academic standards, access to modern technology, a caring and supporting academic and boarding environment and a wide range of co-curricular activities.

The expo will be held at Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre from 12.30pm to 6pm on Friday, May 15 and from 9.30am to 3pm on Saturday,

May 16. Admission is free.

Autumn Ball

2015 DREAM Dining is a showcase of the finest restaurants in Dubbo and region. Each month, the region’s chefs will show why Dubbo and region is fast becoming a culinary hotspot. The DREAM dining events are a perfect prelude to

the DREAM Festival held in October and offers an opportunity for a sneak preview into the main festival program.

The first DREAM Dining restaurant is the Outlook Café. Ably managed by Anthony Walkom, the Outlook Café will deliver two courses of the finest French cuisine on Tuesday, May 19. Gather a group or join a table on the night. The evening begins with a 6.30pm pre-dinner drink, with seating at 7pm.

Park with the wet weather venue being the RSL Club Resort Carpark in Brisbane St. The next market day runs from 8am to 12noon on Saturday, May 16.

ing meeting. There will be free entry all morning and a visit from Dougal Bear.

Bring family, friends or colleagues for a morning to be enjoyed.

and children are welcome and dress is smart casual.

Morning tea in gaol

Old Boys’ Union

JOIN the Cancer Council and staff and visitors to Old Dubbo Gaol for a Biggest Morning Tea from 7.30am to 12pm this Thursday, May 21. Grab a coffee on the way to work, some take away morning tea or come down for smoko or a morn-

THE Scots College Old Boys’ Union will be reuniting at the Milestone Hotel on Friday, May 15, from 7pm to 10pm.

Guests will enjoy dinner and drinks as part of the reunion. The occasion will also be a welcome for families. Partners

nings, to their solo careers they will have you believing you are back in 1955.

Appearing at the Dubbo RSL Club on Wednesday, May 20. Doors open, 6.30pm, showtime 7pm.

Boarding Schools Expo THE Boarding Schools Expo takes the time and stress out of finding the right school to meet your family’s needs by bringing the leading schools from NSW and Victoria together under one roof.

The Expo gives families the chance to

Oneproudmonkey DUBBO band Oneproudmonkey will perform a concert when they launch their new 5-track EP on Saturday, May 16, with three local supports acts – Brandon Troutman, Gabrielle Flanagan and introducing Civil Hands for their first performance.

The gig kicks off at the Pastoral Hotel at 8pm. For more information, contact the band on 0438 600 837.

see 142nd Annual Dubbo Show THE Dubbo Show is a recognised social meeting place for families and neighbours. There is entertainment for the entire family across the weekend, including rides, concerts, agricultural displays and of course, showbags! For more information, please contact Dubbo Show office on 6882 4364. [pic]

Smokescreen AFTER opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension – both with the natives and within their own group – as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surround-

ings. Black Narcissus is the latest film to be shown in the Smokescreen series at the Fire Station Arts Centre, and will be screened at 8pm on Thursday, May 21.

Fundraiser for Nick Willetts SEE Pete Riley perform, enjoy a barbecue and finger food for lunch, and bid on the auction, as part of a fundraiser for Nick Willetts (pictured) at the Pastoral Hotel on Sunday, May 17. Nick is currently receiving treatment for secondary lymphoma and friends and family are rallying around him in support.

The event begins at 12pm and there will also be raffles, lucky door prizes and face painting.

do Physie Luncheon DUBBO City Physical Culture will hold a fundraising luncheon on Sunday, May 17 in the Masonic Hall, Church Street, Dubbo commencing at 12 noon. All funds raised will assist team members with equipment purchases for future competitions. Housie will be played after lunch. Come along with your friends and enjoy a home cooked meal and a

chat. All enquiries to Helen on 6882 6270.

Dream Dinners

HEAD along to Eumungerie on Saturday, May 16, and dance the night away to old time new vogue music at the Autumn Ball being held at the Eumungerie Hall commencing at 7.30pm. Evening dress optional and please take a plate for shared supper. Music by Tony.

Phone Tony 0427 472 142 for further information.

etc.

Dubbo Farmers Markets THE Dubbo Farmers Markets is a showcase of the region’s produce, fresh from the soils and water basins of the Macquarie Valley and beyond. Kickstart your morning with the smooth flavours of your favourite coffee and chat with friends over breakfast. The markets offer a range of seasonal fresh produce, fresh fruit and vegetables, herbs and plants and are held at Macquarie Lions

Garden Hotel Speed Shear CATCH the top shearers in action before the show! Featuring a charity Calcutta for the Walking Wounded, the Garden Hotel Speed Shear will be divided into two divisions, open and intermediate for a 6pm start. Families and kids are welcome with friendly entertainment and live band ‘til late.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

WHAT’S ON.

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OPEN WEEKENDER ŶũŽLJ ƚŚĞ ƐŝŐŚƚƐ ŽŶ Ă dƌŝŬĞ ĂĚǀĞŶƚƵƌĞ͘

GYMS

RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ Open Sunday 8.30am-3pm 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵ ů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌ ǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵ ů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Į ƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

SHOPPING DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES

Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 3pm ŶƟ ƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

COFFEE & MEALS OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵ ů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ Ɵ ŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

CLUBS & PUBS

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-8pm dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

PASTORAL HOTEL

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE

Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to 5.30pm.

Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩ ĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮ ƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ Homemade pastas ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ Žī ĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ůů ĚŝƐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŵĂĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞƐŚĞƐƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĞ Į ŶĞƐƚ Ň ĂǀŽƵƌƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵĞĂů͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟ ŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE

Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-4pm 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽī ĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY

Open Saturday and Sunday

ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽī ĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

Open Saturday 10am to 4am, Sunday 10am to 9pm.

ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ 8am - 11.30am ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ Žī ĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

THE BOOK CONNECTION

Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY

Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟ ŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

Open Saturday 9am to 12pm. ŝƐƟ ŶĐƟ ǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟ ǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌ Ɛ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

CLUB DUBBO

&Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ Saturday 8am-4pm Sunday 9am-4pm 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ 6pm to 9pm.

ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL

Open Saturday 10am to 2am, Sunday ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ ŽŵĞ ĚŽǁŶ ĂŶĚ ĞŶũŽLJ Ă ĚƌŝŶŬ ǁŝƚŚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚƐ ŝŶ ŽƵƌ ďĞĞƌ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ͕ Ă ƌŽƵŶĚ ŽĨ ƉŽŽů ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĨƌŽŶƚ ďĂƌ Žƌ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ĚĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ĐŽƵŶƚƌLJ ƐƚLJůĞ ŵĞĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ restaurant.

Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES

Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ and 5.45-9pm.

101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ and Bernardi’s SUPA IGA. ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ Food Court ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP

Open Saturday 9am-4pm Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟ ŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌ Ɛ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟ ĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

GROCERIES DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD

Open Saturday 6am to 3pm ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ 6pm. 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ museums in NSW Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟ ŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟ ŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟ ŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL

Open Saturday and Sunday 9-5pm >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟ Đ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO

Open Saturday and Sunday 9-4pm. dŚĞ njŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ Žī Ğƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

TRIKE ADVENTURES ŽŽŬ Ă ƌŝĚĞ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ Žƌ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ ƚŽǁŶ ƚŽƵƌƐ͕ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ŽĐĐĂƐƐŝŽŶƐ͕ ŽƵƚďĂĐŬ ƉƵď ůƵŶĐŚĞƐ Žƌ ũƵƐƚ ďůĂƐƟ ŶŐ ĂůŽŶŐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ǁŝŶĚ ŝŶ your face 1300 TRIKES (1300 87 45 37)

READINGS CINEMA ŽŵĨŽƌƚ͕ ƐƚLJůĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĂůƵĞ ΨϭϬ Ɵ ĐŬĞƚƐ ϯ ĞdžƚƌĂ͘ ĂŶĚLJ ďĂƌ͖ ϱ ƐĐƌĞĞŶ ĐŝŶĞŵĂ ĐŽŵƉůĞdž͖ ŝŐŝƚĂů ƐŽƵŶĚ ŽůďLJ ŝŐŝƚĂů ϯ ƉƌŽũĞĐƟ ŽŶ >ƵdžƵƌLJ ĂƌŵĐŚĂŝƌ ĐŽŵĨŽƌƚ 49 Macquarie St,6881 8600

CALL FOR A GREAT RATE ON A LIST FOR YOUR BUSINESS HERE! 6885 4433.

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 15.05.2015 to Sunday 17.05.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, May 15 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection SBS ONE, 6pm If you are a person who immediately banishes a meal from your cooking repertoire if it requires more than an hour to create, this isn’t for you.

Similarly, if food that resembles a work of art has a habit of killing your appetite, you might want to turn away – perfectionist and “molecular gastronomist” Heston Blumenthal just isn’t your cup of tea. Yet for many, he is something akin to a food messiah, and in a culture obsessed by what we eat, that is saying something. So, in that spirit, SBS has dug up some old-school Heston from 2007 to pique the ongoing love affair with the British celebrity chef.

ABC

American Idol

MOVIE: The Dark Knight ght Rises

ELEVEN, 7.30pm

GO!, 8.30pm, M (2012)

These singing competitions have become a bit like a broken record that keep playing. American Idol was once the star of the TV schedule and the original reality-TV singing comp that got viewers excited, sprouting off many, many copycats. Now, here we are, faced with the finale for season 13, with Ryan Seacrest still holding on tight as the host since the reality-TV show’s inception all those years ago. Tonight, the final two contestants, Caleb Johsnon and Jena Irene, hit the stage to wow the judges – Harry Connick Jr, Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban – and the public, in hope of becoming the latest in a long line of (mostly forgotten) winners.

Of all the superheroes, Batman n (Christian Bale, right) arguably has the biggest cross to bear.

Tormented as a child after seeing ng his parents killed, he spent his days trying to clean up the streets of the most dangerous ous city imaginable. But it all became too oo much after The Joker (and the late Heath eath Ledger’s frightening performance) nce) let loose his violent games in The Dark rs of selfKnight. But now, after eight years imposed exile, the Caped Crusader ader is enticed back to Gotham City to o save it from the brutal Bane (Tom Hardy). rdy).

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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 9: Independence.

(PG, R, CC) 11.15 Catalyst Bytes. (R, CC) 11.30 Divine Women.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Rake. (M, R, CC) 2.55 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) Quiz show.

5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Murder At My Door. (M, R, CC) (1996) A mother realises her son is a killer. Judith Light, R.H. Thomson.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News At 4. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) 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 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals. (R, CC) 12.30 Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals. (R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Appetite For Change.

(R, CC) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Soccer. (CC) 7.15 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 Inspector Rex. (PG, R) 4.25 Coast: Peril From The Seas. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the team head to the Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, R, CC) Having inherited a grocery store from his miserly uncle, a man runs the business alongside his son.

8.30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. (M, CC) Phryne is called upon by an old flame to discreetly investigate the disappearance of an RAAF officer.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki, Jack and Leo work with incomplete sections of a skeleton they believe to be a missing man captured by the Taliban.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh catches up with Catching Milat star Salvatore Coco as they talk about his latest project. Ed shares some quick midweek meals. Demi draws inspiration from the 80s for a DIY home project.

8.30 MOVIE: Hitch. (PG, R, CC) (2005) A self-styled New York “date doctor” falls for a sassy journalist while helping his latest client, a meek accountant smitten with a celebrity. Despite his best efforts, he quickly forgets all his tricks of the trade and discovers winning the girl of his dreams is much harder than he thought. Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James.

11.00 To Be Advised.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 10. Canterbury Bulldogs v Sydney Roosters. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 10. North Queensland Cowboys v Brisbane Broncos. From 1300Smiles Stadium, Queensland.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

Hosted by Grant Denyer.

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) Barry Du Bois helps young DIYers make their mark on a bathroom and hallway.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with Julianne Moore, Cuba Gooding Jr, Michael Flatley, Bill Bailey and Gregory Porter. Music is provided by Laura Mvula.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, CC) A fastpaced, irreverent look at news, with five comedians competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted

by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A man tries to capitalise on a task that most men put off, buying underwear.

11.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG, CC) Join David Letterman and special guests for his Top 10 and more.

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (CC) Chef Heston Blumenthal, known for his ‘molecular gastronomy’ and use of unusual ingredients, tackles popular recipes to create the perfect version of the dishes.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Machu Picchu Decoded. (PG, R, CC) A new generation of archaeologists decode the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, with new revelations about who built it and why.

8.30 MOVIE: Apocalypto.

(AV15+, R) (2006) A hunter taken prisoner by Mayan warriors, and bound for the sacrificial altar, tries to escape and return home to his wife and son.

Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández, Jonathan Brewer.

10.55 World News. (CC) 11.30 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 7.

Grosseto to Fiuggi.

186km medium mountain stage. From Italy. Hosted

by Michael Tomalaris and Henk Vogels, with commentary from Matt Keenan and David McKenzie.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: On Deadly Ground. (AV15+, R, CC) (1994) 3.30 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.30 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

1.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Jake injures himself on a case.

2.25 MOVIE: Assembly.

(AV15+, R) (2007) Hanyu Zhang.

4.40 Barbie Blues. (MA15+) 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

1.00 Home Shopping.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, May 15 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm High Fidelity (2000) Comedy. John Cusack, Iben Hjejle. A record store owner who is obsessed with pop music trivia revisits old girlfriends. (M) Comedy

6.30pm Family Guy. The Griffins are invited to join a country club. (M) FOX8

7.30pm JFK. A look at the enigma that was American president John F. Kennedy.

(M) History

5.30pm Rugby Union.

Super Rugby. Round 14.

Blues v Bulls. From Eden Park, Auckland. Fox Sports 2

9.30pm Evacuate Earth.

The consequences of rising sea levels. (M) National Geographic

7.30pm Rugby Union.

Super Rugby. Round 14.

Reds v Rebels. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. Fox Sports 2

6.40pm The Wrestler (2008) Drama. Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei. A faded pro-wrestler is forced to retire. (MA15+) Masterpiece 8.30pm Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Action. Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) (Final) 3.20 Bert And Ernie.

(R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 Grandpa In My Pocket. 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 Sexters. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.25 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.05 Weight Loss Ward. (R) 11.55 Daddy Daycare. (PG, R, CC) 12.40 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 1.45 News Update. (R) 1.50 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. 9.10 Corneil And Bernie. (R, CC) 9.25 Oggy And The Cockroaches. (R, CC) 9.30 Move It Mob Style. (R, CC) 10.00 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 10.20 What I Wrote. (R, CC) 10.25 A Journey Through Asian Art. (R, CC) 10.35 The Art Of Australia. (PG, R, CC) 11.35 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 The Assistants. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Round The Twist. (R, CC) 1.10 Ocean Girl. (R, CC) 1.35 Bindi’s Bootcamp. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R) 2.25 Pearlie. (R, CC) 2.40 Hairy Legs. (CC) 2.50 Tashi.

(R, CC) 3.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 3.40 Almost Naked Animals.

(R, CC) 3.50 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.40 News On 3.

(CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Grojband.

(R, CC) 5.05 Doodles. (New Series) 5.10 Handball Heroes. (R, CC) 5.15 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 5.50 The Next Step. (CC) 6.15 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Heartland. (R, CC) 8.55 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 Naruto. (PG, CC) 9.20 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.45 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 10.10 Close.

7.30pm The Carbonaro Effect. Michael gets spooky at an antique store with a vintage voodoo doll. (M) FOX8 8.30pm Saving Hope.

Alex is taking a cardiac course in the pig lab, led by Charlie’s ex-wife Dawn, when her nerves end up getting the best of her.

(M) SoHo

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 DaVincibles. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Man About The House. (PG, R) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 12.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.15 Pie In The Sky. (M, R, CC) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Storage Hoarders.

Presented by Aggie MacKenzie.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Presented by Denise Nurse.

9.30 House Wreck Rescue.

(PG) Presented by Gary McCausland.

10.30 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG) 11.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) 11.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 12.30 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Love Thy Neighbour. (PG, R) 3.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

(R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Handy Manny. (R) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 8.30 Doc McStuffins. (R) 9.00 NBC Today.

(R, CC) 11.00 Motor Mate. (R) 1.00 Nitro Circus Live. (M, R) 2.00 Big Easy Justice. (PG) 2.30 Big Easy Justice. (M) 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.00 Meat Men. (PG, R) 5.00 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 MythBusters: Superhero Special. (PG, R, CC) Superhero myths are put to the test.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 7. Essendon v North Melbourne. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 MOVIE: Repo Men. (AV15+, R) (2010) A man is targeted for “repossession”.

Jude Law, Forest Whitaker.

1.15 Big Easy Justice. (M, R) 1.45 Nitro Circus Live. (M, R) 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.00 Meat Men. (PG, R) 5.00 Motor Mate. (R)

9.30pm Redwood Kings.

In the heart of California’s cowboy country, twin brothers build incredible creations from majestic hunks of reclaimed redwood. (PG) Discovery

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 Magical Tales. (P, 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 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live. 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB Weekdays. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Tom And Jerry.

(R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Looney Tunes: Back In Action. (R, CC) (2003) Brendan Fraser.

8.30 MOVIE: The Dark Knight Rises. (M, R, CC) (2012) Batman returns to battle a new menace. Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway.

12.00 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 2.00 TMZ Live. (R) 3.00 TMZ. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! 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 New Style Direct. 9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Seven Days To Noon. (PG, R, CC) (1950) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 Tigers About The House.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce heads to Aberystwyth.

8.30 MOVIE: Tightrope.

(M, R, CC) (1984) A detective investigates a series of murders. Clint Eastwood, Geneviéve Bujold.

11.00 MOVIE: Out For Justice.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1991) 12.50 MOVIE: Dead Of Night.

(M, R, CC) (1945) Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave. 2.50 MOVIE: Laxdale Hall. (R, CC) (1953) Raymond Huntley. 4.20 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 4.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

8.00pm Football.

AFL. Round 7. Essendon v North Melbourne. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

Fox Footy

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 RPM. (R, CC) 10.00 Retreat Of The Ice Birds.

(R, CC) 11.00 Undercover Boss.

(PG, R) 12.00 Black Ops. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Common Law. (M) 2.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Fishing.

(R, CC) 4.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 5.00 Fishing Edge. (R) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Hosted

by Grant Denyer.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 World’s Toughest Trucker. (PG, R) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 MOVIE: Ambushed.

(AV15+, R) (2013) A DEA agent combats ruthless killers. Dolph Lundgren, Vinnie Jones.

11.35 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.35 Home Shopping. 2.05 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Spanish Grand Prix. Highlights. From Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. 3.05 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 4.00 Ross Kemp: In Search Of Pirates. (M, R) 5.00 Sport Science.

(PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Taxi. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (M, 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) Brad and Lauren spend the night together.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Debra complains about Frank’s driving.

7.30 American Idol. (Final) Hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

9.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) POD meets a Lady Gaga look-a-like.

10.50 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.20 Wonderland. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.55 Judging Amy. (M, R) 2.00 Touched By An Angel.

(PG, R) 3.00 Medium. (M, R) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

Mickey Rourke stars in The Wrestler

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Cycling. UCI America Tour. Tour of California. Stage 5.

Santa Barbara to Santa Clarita.

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) 5.35 Massive Moves. (R, CC) 6.00 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Daily highlights.

From Italy.

6.30 UEFA Europa League Highlights. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) 8.30 Geeks. Eight nerds head to Ibiza.

9.30 A Lady’s Guide To Brothels. (MA15+, CC) A look at what makes a “good” brothel.

10.40 Stripped. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.05 Friday Feed. (R) 12.35 Comedy Bang! Bang! (PG, R) 1.05 PopAsia. (PG) 3.05 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 Around The Campfire. 10.30 Kriol Kitchen.

11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show.

(PG) 12.30 Burned Bridge. 1.30 My Survival As An Aboriginal. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo.

4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 The Medicine Line. 6.30 Kriol Kitchen. 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Rose Against The Odds.

(PG) 8.30 I Heart My People.

(PG) Narrated by Aaron Pedersen.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 My Survival As An Aboriginal. (PG) 11.00 NITV News.

11.30 The Medicine Line. 12.00 Away From Country. (PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

2.30 Ella 7’s 2009 Documentary.

3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Football.

2011 Lightning Cup. Trucking Yards v Central Arre. 5.00 Defining Moments. 5.30 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 1.30 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

ABC NEWS

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Saturday, May 16 Bondi Vet

MOVIE: The Queen

MOVIE: The Heat

TEN, 7.40pm

SBS ONE, 8.40pm, M (2006)

TEN, 8.40pm, M (2013)

Tonight Dr Chris Brown, the vet with the million-dollar smile, treats a kitten that was born with a badly twisted back leg. The poor, little furball of cuteness is only three days old, making it one of the youngest kittens Dr Brown has ever treated – the only thing more endearing would be a litter of sneezing puppies, so if you’re not tuning in tonight, you probably never will. Dr Chris also has to treat a dog that has ingested a troubling amount of rat poison.

Elsewhere, Dr Lisa Chimes treats Eddie the echidna, who has a bleeding beak that needs tending to; and reptile expert Tim is on hand in Bundaberg for a rare event.

The majestic Helen Mirren burns up the screen as Elizabeth II. In this treatment of the monarch’s life, director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, High Fidelity) focuses on one of the most important turning points of her reign – her actions and reaction in the wake of the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. Frears gives us intimate behind-the-scenes access to the interaction between the seemingly glacial Queen and newly elected PM Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) during their struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the royals and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning.

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Jump aboard for the ride.

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 For The Love Of Cars: Triumph Stag. (PG, R, CC) 12.55 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 1.55 The Restaurant Inspector. (R, CC) 2.40 Nigellissima. (R, CC) 3.10 River Cottage Veg Every Day. (R, CC) 4.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, R, CC) A man runs a grocery store.

4.30 Saturday Landline.

(R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(M, R, CC) An amateur astronomer is murdered.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Join Andrew O’Keefe and Monique Wright for news, sport and weather.

10.00 Sydney Telethon. (CC) Telethon to raise $20 million to build a new Ronald McDonald House for sick children and their families.

5.30 Border Security – Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC) Immigration officials have to decide whether to grant entry to a man with no money and few possessions.

Quarantine checks out the contents of a suspicious container.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 Food CIA. (PG, CC) 12.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) The girls visit a sci-fi and fantasy convention.

1.00 Big Families. (PG, R, CC) Meet people who can’t stop having babies.

2.00 MOVIE: City Slickers.

(PG, R, CC) (1991) Three city men take a cattle-driving holiday. Billy Crystal.

4.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 6.30 Fishing Edge.

(R, CC) 7.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Tour The World. (CC) 12.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 3.00 Car Torque. (PG, CC) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Escape With ET. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News.

8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 The Extraordinary Voyage. (R) 3.15 A Trip To The Moon.

(R, CC) 3.30 Ice Music: The Sound Of The North. (R, CC) 4.00 Twiggy: The Face Of The 60s. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Smart Secrets Of Great Paintings. (CC) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Down-to-earth advice for the home gardener from host Costa Georgiadis and his team of experts.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) A priest solves crimes.

8.20 DCI Banks. (PG, CC) While investigating the death of a journalist, Banks and his team discover connections to a suspicious death in the 1980s.

9.05 Scott & Bailey. (M, R, CC) Troubled saleswoman Helen turns up on Janet’s doorstep with information about a previous investigation.

9.55 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

10.25 Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey. (PG, R, CC) Judith Lucy takes a trip to the outback.

10.50 The Moodys. (PG, R, CC) Roger hosts Bridget’s baby shower and to Sean’s delight, Maree digs out Dan’s “crying” baby doll that he had as a kid.

11.20 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Men In Black 3.

(PG, R, CC) (2012) A secret agent who specialises in monitoring and policing aliens living covertly on Earth, must travel back in time to 1969 to save the planet. It appears a criminal has somehow managed to change the course of history by assassinating his partner’s earlier incarnation. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin.

9.00 MOVIE: Bad Boys II. (M, R) (2003) Two unorthodox narcotics officers are assigned to investigate an international drugsmuggling ring which stretches from Miami to Cuba. Their assignment is further complicated after one of the cops discovers his sister has become romantically involved with his partner. Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Gabrielle Union.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Wrath Of The Titans. (PG, R, CC) (2012) After Zeus is betrayed by his brother Hades and imprisoned in the underworld, his son Perseus must rescue him before the Titan Kronos is released and destroys the world. His quest is made harder by the fact the other gods have been weakened by a lack of worship. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes.

9.00 MOVIE: The Last Samurai. (M, R, CC) (2003) During the 19th century, an American soldier is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his soldiers and help eradicate the last of the ronin. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton.

6.00 MOVIE: Over The Hedge. (R) (2006) A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt, by invading a suburb that was built while they were hibernating. Bruce Willis, Steve Carell, William Shatner.

7.40 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Dr Chris treats a tiny kitten who was born with a badly twisted back leg. At just three days old, she is one of the youngest kittens ever seen at the clinic.

8.40 MOVIE: The Heat. (M, CC) (2013) An uptight FBI Special Agent and a foulmouthed cop join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord. Along the way, they become the last thing anyone expected, good friends. Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Marlon Wayans.

11.05 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with five comedians competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (CC) With his 1913 guidebook in hand and clad in a luminous pink jacket, improbable Bohemian Michael Portillo explores the stunning art nouveau architecture of the Czech capital. In Marianske Lazne, Michael samples the sulphurous waters and wallows in peat and mud.

8.40 MOVIE: The Queen.

(M, R, CC) (2006) Following the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II retreats behind the walls of Balmoral Castle with her family to mourn in private, unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy. Her actions are misinterpreted by some members of the press, triggering an outcry. Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings.

10.30 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 8.

Fiuggi to Campitello Matese. 186km medium mountain stage. From Italy. Commentary from Matt Keenan and David McKenzie.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.00 MOVIE: Deranged.

(M, R) (2002) An eccentric psychiatrist forced to teach at a local university who wants her own TV show, lets nothing stand between her and achieving her goal. JoBeth Williams, Sally Kirkland, Jason Brooks.

2.00 Home Shopping.

12.00 MOVIE: Out Of Time.

(M, R, CC) (2003) Denzel Washington.

2.00 MOVIE: Lottery Ticket.

(M) (2010) 3.50 WIN Presents. (R, CC) 4.00 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.05 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Winton Super Sprint. Round 4.

Highlights. From Winton Motor Raceway, Victoria.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

1.30 MOVIE: Bad Family. (M) (2010) The ex-wife of a successful judge dies. Ville Virtanen, Lauri Tilkanen.

3.10 MOVIE: The Children Of Diyarbakir. (M, R) (2009) Senay Orak.

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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Saturday, May 16 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

7.20pm Amour (2012) Drama. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva. (M) World Movies

6.00pm Archer.

Archer’s first weekend alone with baby AJ is spoiled by a Pakistani intelligence officer.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.30pm Too Cute! (PG) Animal Planet

1.30pm Football. AFL. Round 7. Adelaide v St Kilda.

From Adelaide Oval. Fox Footy

8.30pm Edge Of Tomorrow (2014) Action. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt. A man defends Earth from aliens. (M) Action

6.40pm A Place To Call Home. Anna acts as matchmaker. (PG) SoHo

10.05pm Chef (2014) Comedy.

Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara.

After a chef quits his job at a prominent LA restaurant, he teams up with his ex-wife, a friend and his son to launch a food truck. (M) Premiere

10.30pm Robin Williams Live At The Met. (M) Comedy Channel

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.50 The Numtums. (R, CC) 2.00 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5.

(R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R, CC) 3.20 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 Grandpa In My Pocket. 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. (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) 10.05 The IT Crowd. (R, CC) 10.30 Louie. (M, CC) 10.55 Louie. (CC) 11.15 Portlandia.

(M, R, CC) 11.40 Bored To Death.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 News Update. (R) 3.05 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) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama: Revenge Of The Island. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species.

(R, CC) 10.50 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 11.10 Dr Dimensionpants.

(R) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 Camp Lakebottom. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 12.50 Grojband. (R, CC) 2.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 4.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 4.35 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 4.55 Young Dracula. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Operation Ouch! (R) 6.00 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 Mortified.

(R, CC) 7.00 Heartland. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 10.45 Close.

7.30pm Herod’s Lost Tomb. Reveals the lesser known side to King Herod.

(PG) National Geographic 7.30pm A Great Welsh Adventure. Welshman and actor Griff Rhys Jones gets the chance to get closer to his Cambrian roots.(G) History

3.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Parramatta Eels v New Zealand Warriors. From Pirtek Stadium, Sydney. Fox Sports 1 4.30pm Football. AFL. Round 7. Carlton v GWS Giants. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. Fox FootySunday May 17 Jon Favreau and Emjay Anthony star in Chef

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. (R) 11.00 Animal Academy. (PG) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 Coxy’s Big Break. (CC) 2.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast. (Final) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield.

Round 9. 5.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 5.30 Four Rooms.

(PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Life On The Edge: Shipwreck Coast. (PG) A look at the Victorian coastline.

8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) A teenage girl’s body is found.

10.00 Wire In The Blood.

(AV15+, CC) 12.00 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 1.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 3.30 The Kitchen Job. (PG, R) 4.30 Animal Academy.

(PG, R) 5.00 Country Calendar.

(PG, R) 5.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast. (R)

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG, R) 10.00 Motor Racing.

AHG Sprintcar Series. General Firecracker 50. John Day Salute Night. 11.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 11.30 Timbersports. 2014 World Championships. Individual Event.

Highlights. 12.00 Bush Pilots. (PG, R) 1.00 Money Barn. (PG, R) 2.00 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 3.00 Footy Flashbacks. (CC) 4.30 Football.

(CC) AFL. Round 7. Carlton v GWS. From Etihad stadium, Melbourne 7.15 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 7. Sydney v Geelong.

From the SCG. 10.30 MOVIE: The FiveYear Engagement.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2012) Jason Segel.

1.00 MOVIE: Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj. (MA15+, R) (2006) 3.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. General Firecracker 50.

John Day Salute Night. Replay.

From Perth Motorplex Speedway track. 4.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 4.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob SquarePants. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 3.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Open Season.

(R, CC) (2006) 7.50 MOVIE: Mousehunt.

(PG, R, CC) (1997) 10.00 MOVIE: Rush Hour.

(M, R, CC) (1998) Jackie Chan.

12.00 MOVIE: Lost Boys 3 – The Thirst. (AV15+) (2010) Corey Feldman, Casey B. Dolan. 1.40 MAD. (M, R) 2.10 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.40 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 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 MOVIE: Seven Days To Noon. (PG, R, CC) (1950) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 Destination WA. (PG, CC) 9.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 10.00 MOVIE: Odette. (PG, R, CC) (1950) 12.25 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 12.55 Postcards.

(CC) 1.25 MOVIE: Casino Royale.

(PG, R) (1967) Peter Sellers. 3.55 MOVIE: Mutiny On The Bounty.

(PG, R, CC) (1962) Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) After a local news anchor is killed during a power outage, interrupting a live broadcast, the team investigates.

10.30 The Mentalist. (M, R, CC) A software engineer’s car explodes.

11.20 Golden Boy. (M, R, CC) A young model is found dead.

12.20 MOVIE: Mutiny On The Bounty. (PG, R, CC) (1962) Marlon Brando.

3.45 MOVIE: Odette.

(PG, R, CC) (1950)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Netball.

ANZ Championship. Round 11.

Queensland Firebirds v Melbourne Vixens. Replay. 10.00 Garage Gold. (PG, R) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (PG, R) 11.00 4WD Touring Australia. 12.00 Motor Racing.

FIA Championship. Formula E. Long Beach. Highlights. 1.00 World’s Toughest Trucker. (PG, R) 2.00 Motor Racing. Dunlop V8 Supercar Series. Round 2. 3.00 Motor Racing. Targa Tasmania.

Highlights. 4.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. (New Series) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 6.00 Garage Gold. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 4.

Winton Super Sprint.

Highlights.

9.30 Blue Bloods. (M, R, CC) A man stabs a priest on Halloween.

10.30 Ross Kemp: Middle East.

(M, R) 11.30 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.00 The Killing. (M, R) 1.00 48 Hours. (M) 2.00 NYC 22. (M, R) 3.00 Cops. (PG, R) 4.00 RPM. (R, CC) 5.00 The Road To 2015. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 2.00 Charmed.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Ray worries about Debra’s motivations for marriage.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham Norton chats with Julianne Moore, Cuba Gooding Jr, Michael Flatley, Bill Bailey, Gregory Porter and Laura Mvula.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(M, R, CC) Carrie becomes upset with Big. 10.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R, CC) 11.30 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.00 Diagnosis Murder.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Mass For You At Home. (CC)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Cycling. UCI America Tour. Tour of California. Stage 6. Big Bear Lake. 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 MOVIE: Asterix At The Olympic Games. (PG, R) (2008) 3.05 American Ninja Warrior. (PG, R) 4.00 Monster Moves. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Departures. (PG, R) 6.00 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Daily highlights.

6.30 Heston’s Feasts.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Vikings. (R, CC) Bjorn steps up as a leader.

9.30 Hunted. (M, R, CC) Turner reveals he has evidence implicating Byzantium’s client in a terrible crime.

11.30 MOVIE: She Monkeys.

(M, R, CC) (2011) 1.10 MOVIE: Chameleon. (MA15+, R, CC) (2008) Ervin Nagy, Gabriella Hámori, Zsolt Trill. 3.05 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 Kriol Kitchen.

2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint.

4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. Current affairs show.

7.00 Custodians.

7.10 Yorta Yorta Youth.

7.50 Custodians.

8.00 Defining Moments.

8.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun.

9.30 Marley Africa Road Trip.

(PG) 10.30 MOVIE: Live And Become. (M) (2005) An Ethiopian Christian boy is tested. Moshe Abebe, Sirak M. Sabahat.

1.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (PG, R) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News.

2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Saturday Landline. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The World This Week. (CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News.

(CC) 6.30 Foreign Correspondent. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (R, 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 Big Ideas. (PG, R) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (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 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 1605

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Sunday, May 17 Reno Rumble

MOVIE: Two Little Boys

Californication

WIN, 7pm

TEN, 11pm, AV15+ (2012)

ELEVEN, 10.15pm

Some of the heroes of the biggest home-renovation shows on TV go head-to-head in this all-new challenge that sees two teams, each representing either The Block or House Rules and made up of four couples who have previously appeared on those shows, given less than a week to completely transform two suburban houses. Tonight another transformed house is revealed to some very happy home owners, which means the teams must face Scotty once again for the weekly elimination. There are tears from one team and triumphs for another, with a huge six-point difference between them and a $100,000 prize at stake.

This comedic Kiwi film, based on the novel by Duncan Sarkies, is the story of Nige and Deano (Hamish Blake), best friends since schooldays – when Deano first stepped in to protect Nige (Flight Of The Conchords’ Bret McKenzie) from being bullied.

So when Nige accidentally kills a backpacker, Deano, the ideas man, has all sorts of helpful hints about how to avoid the law. The story strikes a balance between the outlandish and the recognisable as the boys struggle with their imploding friendship and how to conceal a body. Amusing in parts.

This strictly adult-themed US sitcom seems to have been going on forever, but this is its last season.

Despite the popularity of alcoholic, womanising novelist Hank Moody (David Duchovny) and his tales of debauchery, the show is bowing out on a high after steadily growing to post its highest-rated season ever in season six. Tonight, Julia (Heather Graham) goes on a date with Rick Rath (Michael Imperioli, The Sopranos), Hank introduces son Levon (Oliver Cooper) to a hooker, which leads to some odd complications, and Charlie (Evan Handler) finds himself in deep water with new client, Goldie.

ABC

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.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Birdman: The Art Of William T. Cooper. (R, CC) 2.30 Jeffrey Smart: Master Of Stillness. (R, CC) 3.00 Jane Austen: Her Many Lovers. (R, CC) 4.00 Restoration Home.

(R, CC) (Final) 5.00 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies present highlights from the past week.

11.00 Camp. (PG, CC) It is time for the annual Valentine’s Day in July festivities with all the proceeds benefitting charity.

12.00 To Be Advised.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender.

(CC) At the Vivid Sydney Festival, Mike heads to the hub of the action in Circular Quay.

6.00 The Checkout: Best Before. (PG, R, CC) Julian Morrow presents a look at consumer affairs.

6.30 Compass: Whatever Happened To The RSL. (CC) Host Geraldine Doogue is joined by guest panellists to debate moral, ethical and religious controversies.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Animal Super Senses: Scent. (CC) (Final) Biologist Patrick Aryee and physicist Helen Czerski explore the powerful world of scent.

8.35 Poldark. (PG, CC) With Jim gravely ill in Bodmin jail, Ross and Dwight launch a desperate mission to save him.

9.35 Top Of The Lake. (M, CC) While searching for the pregnant Tui, in the vast southern wilderness, Robin’s list of possible suspects grows to include family members and a local barman with a history of paedophilia.

10.30 Foyle’s War. (M, R, CC) Foyle is drawn into the murder of an ex-Nazi defector and a leading expert on Soviet intelligence.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 House Rules. (PG, CC) It is judgement day in SA as the renovations are unveiled.

8.45 Miniseries: Catching Milat. (M, CC) Part 1 of 2. After the bodies of backpackers are discovered in Belanglo State Forest, the New South Wales police form a task force to search for the killer. With the help of forensic evidence and tip-offs from the public they eventually arrest Ivan Milat.

10.35 Castle. (M, R, CC) As Beckett ponders her future, the team investigates the discovery of a woman’s body in the water tank belonging to a disreputable boarding house. They are surprised to discover the victim had been concealing her true identity from her fellow residents, while pursuing an off-the-books investigation into the death of a friend.

11.30 Cougar Town. (M, CC) Andy rents a special costume for Stan’s birthday, however he has trouble getting it off. Ellie starts ghost tweeting for Laurie, eventually becoming lost in her new character.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Reno Rumble. (PG, CC) Another transformed house is revealed as the contestants face Scott Cam for the weekly elimination.

There are tears from one team and triumphs for another with a huge sixpoint difference between them.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.30 Inside Story: Deadly Revenge. (CC) Investigative series, hosted

by Leila McKinnon. Two women, who dare to say no, are murdered by their spurned lovers hell bent on vengeance.

10.30 Stalker. (M, CC) After a series of eerie threats, the team discovers the victim’s house is believed to be haunted. In order to find the person behind the chilling disturbances, the officers attend a Halloween costume party.

11.30 The Following. (AV15+, CC) After the latest shocking revelation in the case, Ryan and Max attempt to put the pieces together.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) When Phil and Claire take Haley out to dinner to discuss her future, she manages to turn the tables on them.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Phil, Luke and Haley forcefully take Alex out, so she can celebrate her senior ditch day.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) The contestants meet British celebrity chef and restaurateur Marco Pierre White.

9.00 Shark Tank. (PG, CC) A husband-and-wife team enter the shark tank, seeking investment from the entrepreneurs.

10.00 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, CC) (Final) Pride suspects a mole among the ranks of NCIS or local law enforcement.

11.00 MOVIE: Two Little Boys.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2012) When a man finds himself in a spot of bother after a series of unfortunate incidents, he is forced to ask his friend, Deano, for help. Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake.

7.30 The Other Pompeii: Life And Death In Herculaneum. (PG, R, CC) A look at what became of Herculaneum, another site of Roman civilisation that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

8.30 She Wolves: England’s Early Queens: Jane, Mary And Elizabeth.

(PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

Historian Helen Castor concludes her exploration of seven queens who challenged patriarchal dominance.

9.35 Sex, Death And The Meaning Of Life: The Meaning Of Life.

(M, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

Professor Richard Dawkins explores whether science can provide answers to questions usually left to religion.

10.35 Grand Tours Of Scotland: So Near, So Far. (CC) Presenter Paul Murton explores parts of Scotland which have charmed visitors for over two centuries.

11.10 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 9.

Benevento to San Giorgio del Sannio. 215km medium mountain stage.

12.05 Junior Doctors: Your Life In Their Hands.

(M, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: The Whip Hand.

(PG, R) (1951) 2.20 MOVIE: Youth Runs Wild. (PG, R, CC) (1944) 3.25 Top Of The Lake. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 Order In The House. (R, CC)

12.00 Citizen Khan. (PG, R, CC) Mr Khan finds himself on his wife’s bad side when he forgets to book the wedding venue.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

12.30 Almost Human. (M, CC) John pursues a cop’s killer.

1.30 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 2.00 The Strip. (M, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 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.

1.30 MOVIE: Outside The Law. (AV15+, R) (2010) A family becomes separated across the world. Jamel Debbouze.

3.55 Order And Disorder: The Story Of Information.

(PG, R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Boots is turned into a chicken.

7.00 Weekend Today. (CC) 10.00 Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) 1.00 Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Hosted

by Tim Faulkner.

1.30 Reno Rumble. (PG, R, CC) It’s halfway through the renovating week and the first rooms are judged by Darren and Romy.

3.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 10. Newcastle Knights v Wests Tigers.

From Hunter Stadium, NSW.

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Creflo Dollar. (CC) Hillsong. (CC) Mass For You At Home.

Joel Osteen. (CC) (New Series) Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) The Bolt Report. (CC) All 4 Adventure.

(PG, R, CC) The Talk. (PG, CC) Let’s Do Coffee. (CC) Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) iFish. (R, CC) The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars.

Round 4. Winton Super Sprint. Highlights.

Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) 1.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing.

(CC) Superbike World Championship. Round 5.

4.30 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Grand Final. Melbourne Victory v Sydney FC.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.15pm X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014) Action.

Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy.

The X-Men unite to fight a war.

(M) Premiere

6.00pm The Simpsons. (G) FOX8

7.00pm Science Of Stupid.

Hosted by Richard Hammond, it explains the physics, biology and engineering mistakes behind amateur stunts gone wrong. National Geographic

7.00pm Rugby Sevens. IRB Sevens. England. Final Day. From Twickenham Stadium, London. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (2014) Sci-fi.

Gary Oldman, Keri Russell.

Human survivors fight an ape empire. (M) Premiere

7.00pm Mike & Molly. Molly and Peggy plan Mike’s birthday.

(M) TV1 8.30pm A Place To Call Home. George plays host to a trade delegation. (PG) SoHo

10.05pm The World’s End (2013) Comedy. Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman. (MA15+) Comedy.

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.15 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 1.30 LazyTown. (R, CC) 1.50 The Numtums. (R, CC) 2.00 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies.

(R, CC) 2.25 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R, CC) 3.20 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.40 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Bob The Builder On Site. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 Sicko. (CC) 10.35 Sexters.

(MA15+, R, CC) 11.20 Tattoo Tales.

(M, R, CC) 11.50 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Woody Allen: A Documentary. (M, R, CC) 2.25 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. (PG, R, CC) 2.55 News Update. (R) 3.00 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. 6.55 Dex Hamilton. (R, CC) 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) 9.45 Canimals.

(R) 10.00 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.45 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.55 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.20 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 11.40 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.05 Mortified.

(R, CC) 12.30 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (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 Bushwhacked!

(R, CC) 6.00 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 Mortified. (R, CC) 7.00 Heartland. (R, CC) 7.45 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.30 Horrible Histories.

(R, CC) 9.00 Splatalot. (R, CC) 9.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Rage. (PG, R) 2.15 News Update. 2.20 Close.

7.30pm Tony Robinson’s Tour Of Duty. Tony Robinson shows off memorabilia of people’s ancestors. (PG) History

8.00pm Surfing. World Surf League. Dawn Patrol Brazil.

Day 7. Fox Sports 3 9.00pm Golf. Euro PGA. Open de Espana. Final round.

From Real Club de Golf El Prat, Barcelona. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Stars Of Silver Screen. (PG) Biography

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping.

9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 To Be Advised.

2.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 3.30 Life Inside The Markets. (PG) 4.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 4.30 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) The teams travels to Ardingly.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Hosted by Aled Jones.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Presented by Nick Knowles.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

Presented by Gary Takle.

11.00 Front Of House. Presented

by Oliver Heath.

11.30 Mighty Ships: G.O. SARS. (R, CC) 12.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 1.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 2.00 Front Of House. (R) 2.30 Four Rooms. (PG, R) 3.30 Sea Snakes Of Marion Reef. (R) 4.30 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping.

9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Lights Out. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Athletics. Triathlon. Ironman Australia. Port Macquarie, NSW. 1.00 Fifth Gear. (PG) 2.00 Plane Xtreme. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 AFL PreGame Show. (CC) 3.00 Football.

(CC) AFL. Round 7. Richmond v Collingwood. From the MCG. 6.00 MOVIE: The Addams Family. (PG, R) (1991) Con artists infiltrate an eccentric family. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia.

8.00 MOVIE: Addams Family Values. (PG, R) (1993) Uncle Fester develops a crush on a nanny. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia.

10.00 MOVIE: This Is 40.

(M, R, CC) (2012) A married couple turn 40. Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann.

12.45 MOVIE: Road Trip: Beer Pong. (MA15+, R) (2009) DJ Qualls.

3.00 Plane Xtreme. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 4.30 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 11.00 Rabbids.

(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 Thunderbirds Are Go! 6.00 MOVIE: Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite. (PG, R, CC) (2013) Clancy Brown, Troy Baker.

7.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Gotham. (M, R, CC) Harvey Dent and Gordon team up.

9.30 Arrow. (M, CC) (Series return) A new villain emerges.

11.30 The Originals. (AV15+) (Series return) 12.30 Nikita. (AV15+, R, CC) 1.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 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: Bitter Springs. (R, CC) (1950) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Antiques. (R, CC) 10.30 MOVIE: Danger Within. (R, CC) (1959) 12.30 Garden Gurus.

(R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: The Prince And The Showgirl. (R, CC) (1957) 4.00 MOVIE: The Barefoot Contessa.

(PG, R) (1954) Humphrey Bogart.

6.30 River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way. Presented

by Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall.

7.30 Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds: Off The Scale. (PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

8.30 MOVIE: Eat Pray Love. (M, R, CC) (2010) An unhappy woman sets out to “find herself”. Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem.

11.20 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.50 GEM Presents. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct. 2.30 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy star in Mike & Molly

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. (CC) V8 Supercars Championship. Winton Super Sprint. Round 4. Highlights. 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Reel Action. (R) 10.00 Motor Racing.

Targa Tasmania. Highlights. 11.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. 12.00 Netball.

ANZ Championship. Round 12.

Melbourne Vixens v West Coast Fever. 2.00 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder? (R, CC) 5.30 iFish. (CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 4.

Winton Super Sprint.

Highlights. From Winton Motor Raceway, Victoria.

9.30 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Race 5. French Grand Prix.

11.00 Sons Of Anarchy. (AV15+, R) 12.00 NYC 22. (M, R) 2.00 Fast Forward. (M, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Middle East. (M, R) 4.00 Black Ops. (M, R) 5.00 48 Hours. (PG, R)

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) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Bart finds himself the focus of a crush.

8.30 MOVIE: The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear.

(M, R, CC) (1991) A police inspector investigates a scientist. Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley.

10.15 Californication. (MA15+) 10.55 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. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 WeatherWatch And Music. 6.30 Cycling. Tour of California. Stage 7.

Ontario to Mt Baldy. 128 kms. 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. (R) (Final) 2.05 Foodie Planet. (R) 3.05 Bunk. (PG, R) 4.00 Eurovision Quiz Contest 2014. (R) 5.05 Jess Mauboy’s Road To Eurovision. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Cycling. (CC) UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Daily highlights. From Italy.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) Religious leaders descend on South Park.

9.00 The Birthday Boys.

(PG, CC) Sketch comedy series.

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 MOVIE: To Live. (M, R) (2010) 3.00 Cycling. Tour of California.

Stage 8. LA to Pasadena. 105 kms.

5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Second semi-final. Sydney FC v Adelaide United. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 1.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 2.30 Unearthed. 2.45 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.45 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

From Raymond Terrace, NSW. 4.15 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken.

7.00 Native Planet. Hosted by Simon Baker.

8.00 The Deerskins. (PG) 8.30 Fonko: Angola And Ghana. A look at the origins of music.

9.30 MOVIE: The Necessities Of Life. (PG) (2008) A sick Inuit hunter rediscovers his pride. Natar Ungalaaq, Éveline Gélinas.

11.15 Yorta Yorta Youth.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (PG, 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. (PG, R) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 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 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 1705

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) After a couple of weeks when your thoughts have been fairly scattered, this week gets off to a good start. On Monday the New Moon gets you in the mood for making changes.

This may be prompted by some recent unexpected spending. Determined to get organised and bring some extra cash in, you explore all avenues. Lack of imagination could really hold you back. Look at new ways to do and think about the everyday.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Having been able to show off your talents recently you could now be waiting for a call back. While you are not feeling too patient, try doing something to take your mind off it. A strong attitude during this week of the New Moon could see you a little confused. Has someone decided to change a long-standing arrangement? Sometimes it is a case of ‘least said soonest mended’!

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week’s New Moon makes you feel decidedly restless. Get moving or, if you’re stuck in one place for now, plan some travel. When deciding who to go with, however, it is best not to make any firm decisions. Situations can change from one week to the next and misunderstandings are also more likely than usual. However, there are some lucky moments if you keep your eyes and ears open. When a friend makes an uncharacteristic decision, feel free to point the matter out.

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) The

security that you are looking for may be delayed because of a new idea. This often happens around the time of a New Moon, even if it is bad timing. Present plans and commitments do not sit well with extra spending, so be prepared to juggle! At home there is a need to explain yourself clearly to avoid any misunderstandings. Impatience with those close is avoidable and surely nonproductive?

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) With the

New Moon this week comes the chance to get both finances and business sorted out. You could put things off but why not just take the bull by the horns? It is a positive time and one in which a long-standing friendship could begin to be something more. If that is what you want, then state your feelings clearly.

A clear chance to take a different direction with a friendship presents itself. Please try not to over-think it!

about a new friend can be disappointing. Put it down to experience and move on. With a New Moon starting this week, it is a good time for changes anyway. You need to chat with a loved one but may not get the face-to-face opportunity. If you decide to put things in writing, choose your words carefully. Although you may not feel like going out and socialising much, be careful how you decline an invitation.

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What you cannot manage to do this week will probably be further delayed. Mangled communications and misunderstandings could be to blame. Sidestep any chance of arguments, especially midweek. Finances need careful planning, although you should take advice offered by a non-professional with care.

The intention may be good but the solution impractical. A combination of friends and relatives seem able to solve any problem but you will still have to make a big effort and maybe put your hand in the cash bundle.

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) As the

coming week begins, the New Moon heralds change. Perhaps a long-standing relationship will take a different turn. This can be good or disappointing but never uneventful.

There is little to be done to steer this in any chosen direction. It could just be a case of ‘going with the flow’. On the business side, something is at last showing promise. Although you have some doubts, try to be encouraging on the parts that you consider to be good.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Partnerships are strongly

highlighted this week, the time of a brilliant New Moon. An old idea could be given new life by a spirited friend.

Don’t expect everyone to agree with you.

It may be a case of a lack of imagination on their part! If you should decide to speak your mind at the weekend, be prepared for more changes. Be yourself and don’t try and change for the benefit of others.

They will soon see through it and become suspicious.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

Extra care and thought needs to be put into any kind of communication this week. The New Moon makes you feel that a matter is urgent.

Probably it is not. Certainly decisions made on the spur of the moment should be avoided. Demands on your finances next week need to be considered. Be prepared to delegate. While love ticks along nicely for a long time, it could be ripe for a change.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

With the emphasis on personal relationships at the moment, be prepared for change. If faced with too many options it may seem prudent to play it safe, as you have before.

However, if you fully use your imagination, it is possible to pull a really magical rabbit out of the hat! Flexibility brings success.

The chance of closeness is all around you.

Get your priorities right and take full advantage of what is on offer.

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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) An

urge for travel and new experiences is triggered this week. Yes, that New Moon is really pulling at your adventurous spirit! What you cannot do immediately can be planned for. Certainly that can save you some money. Loyalties may change in the next few months as you get to know someone better, so maybe don’t buy their ticket yet?

New chances to shine and new faces keep you on your toes. Where were you this time last year?

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Inspiration comes like a bolt from the blue at times, Taurus. This it is not possible to be prepared for. Even so, keep that pen and paper handy! Information given to you in the near future will send you on a different quest.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with concert pianist David Helfgott (pictured) who turns 68. Taurus, it is so much easier for your imagination to be fired in the months ahead.

Where will it lead you to next? Those who write or create in some other way could really be successful. All should make unexpected progress.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Who said that Taurus was like a bull in a china shop?

It is your sensitivity to others that proves a success for you now. Bring whatever talents you have to discussions both at home and at work. Don’t be shy.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Being aware of your place in the world is essential. In your case life is more fulfilled and comfortable if you have a partner. Sometimes you may wish to deny this. Get this area of your life right and all else works.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: As Gemini is the lover of the universe, so temptation comes your way constantly. Splitting your loyalties in the months ahead, however, could see you failing. Look for what you need rather than what you want.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bringing about change is not always your first choice, Gemini. A big part of you wants to keep the status quo. If that is the case then you need to make far more effort with a loved one. Bring new ideas to your work.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Impressing others with your talents or potential takes time and effort, Gemini. It is so worth the effort though! The months ahead will teach you much about how to realise your ambitions. Mostly that will be by taking advice from others.

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