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The sky’s the limit How Chris Ryan turned his childhood passion into a business model PAGE 40

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PEOPLE

BUSINESS

Indulging a Lust for Live

Debunking the myths about women who lift

How Violet Seibert found bliss in the bush

Plan to pump life into city’s “dead” heart

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 26.06.2015 to Sunday 28.06.2015 Our island home

FEATURED

Mark and Kathryn Hurley on helping Vanuatu rebuild PAGE 14

In the spotlight Debunking the myths about women who lift PAGE 18

Tales from the Trails How Violet Seibert found bliss in the bush PAGE 22

North’s Pole

PEOPLE

Rob North proves you can do anything if you put your mind to it PAGE 26

The sky’s the limit

BUSINESS

How Chris Ryan turned his childhood passion into a business model PAGE 38

From the experts

LIFESTYLE

Mythbusting is a great exercise for fitness PAGE 44

In the kitchen With the staff and volunteers behind Meals on Wheels PAGE 46

REGULARS

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Computers rule – Mac my words OMPUTERS are like body parts – you don’t realise just how much you need them until they break down or until you’re forced, through fate and universal conspiracy, to buy a new one.

While I’ve come a long way since the days when I thought a calculator was the ultimate in high-tech, I still have a long way to go along the information super highway.

Over the years I’ve suffered the humiliation of having my offspring bail me out of tight computer spots (which would be bearable if said assistance wasn’t accompanied by rolled eyes and patronising sighs), but on the whole, I’m moderately computer literate.

While my idea of a “main menu” usually has more to do with lattes than lo-gons, these days I know that a “hard drive” refers to an information storage device, not the 12 hour trip we once made to Queensland with a three-year-old and a new baby.

Apparently, “mega bite” is not what put pit bulls on the most wanted list or a new burger from our friends at the golden arches, and a “floppy disc” does not require orthopedic surgery.

You’ll find your “toolbox” at the top of the screen, not rolling around in the back of the ute, and a “powerpoint” is an electronic presentation, not where you plug in your hairdryer.

I know my RAMs, ROMs and read-onlys.

What I don’t know, apart from why you have to press “start” to shut the thing down, is how some pimply faced computer geek sitting in a dingy bedroom adorned with Steve Jobs posters and Star Trek action figures can, with the push of a keyboard button, wreak havoc across the entire Western world.

Anyone who has ever fallen victim to a computer “virus” – the scourge of the 21st century which, like its human equivalent is debilitating, but far more expensive – will have asked the same question.

Computer users the world over know that nothing will induce the same degree of blinding rage as a screen suddenly freezing after two hours solid work (which you havn’t saved because, well, you know... you forgot).

There you are, merrily tapping away at the keys and just minutes from finishing a 3000 word document (hear that sound? that’s the deadline whooshing past...) when bam! Nothing.

You hit “restart” and up comes a blue screen politely informing you that “the program is not responding – strike any key to continue”.

Okay, sure – you can do that. Another blue screen – “strike any key to continue”.

Five computer key strikes later – with the same infuriating result – and you’re bellowing in frustration at the screen: “What about if I strike every *%$#ing key at the same *&%$ing time – with a hammer!”

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ties, it just might hear you and come to its senses.

I know, I’ve been there. Recently. And at the time it helped to imagine a laptopshaped, Wile-E-Coyote-style hole in the wall through which the anti-Christ-like tormenter just flew.

Had the window been open, I’d have heaved the whole evil show through it faster than you could say “backup”.

In fact, I once heard it suggested that perhaps that’s why the once-popular program was called ‘Windows’ – because that’s where you want to chuck the thing most of the time.

But like much of life’s little challenges, it’s a case of the devil you know when it comes to computers.

I’ve recently invested – thanks to a series of technological hiccups – in a stateof-the art Mac-book Pro. Kill me now.

It’s done about as much for my self-esteem as trying on swimsuits at the end of winter. After taking ten years to master the Windows-based technology, a switch to what everyone under the age of 25 assured me would be much easier Mac programs makes me feel more three year old learning to tie shoelaces than bold navigator of the brave new digital world.

The only easy task was opening the bloody box – even that came with its challenges. And the barely disguised frustration from pre-pubescent sales people didn’t help. We should have been on far friendlier terms – particularly given I visited them every day for three weeks. Go figure.

“Have you read the manual, ma’am?”

Honey, I’ll read the manual just as soon as I learn to decipher Cyrillic.

I’m not one to easily admit defeat, but I’ve fired up my old PC again – at least until I can get my 18 year old offspring to sit down long enough to teach me how to use the *&%#ing Mac. (And yes, I’m prepared for more barely disguised frustration, but at least I can refuse to feed this teenager.)

I’m confident – well, semi-confident – I’ll eventually master the Mac, but it’s made me all the more cognisant of the fact that it’s not until you lose computer access that you realise how reliant we are on the damn things. They are at once faithful friend and fearsome foe, and they switch from one to the other with mercurial ease.

So when they crash, it can be more than an inconvenience. It can be debilitating and – most painfully of all – extremely expensive. Not to mention the ignominy of having to start afresh with learning the new realities of the fast moving virtual work space.

So these days I back-up, I save, I download...

Because somewhere, sometime when you least expect it, that little computer nerd will press “go” on the latest virus, just for fun.

You mark my wo....

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Indulging a Lust for Live

BY KIM V.GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

GROUP of music lovers from Dubbo, determined to breath life into the live, original music scene of the region, is launching a six-month program of events starting mid-August that it’s hoped will develop a community of supporters.

Lust for Live Dubbo officially launches next week with a website, Facebook page and poster campaign to get underway around the city promoting an exciting, monthly arts calendar fixture that many have declared overdue.

One of three organisers behind the initiative, Tim Hosking, who is also a member of Dubbo band One Proud Monkey, says they’ve been overwhelmed by interest from bands and venues, with 24 acts already booked in for the next six months.

With the Old Bank Music Shop on board as the major sponsor of Lust for Live Dubbo and each of the pub venues putting money on the table to pay each month’s acts, it’s now just a matter of pulling in audiences to prove the concept is viable.

“In terms of attracting sponsorship, venues and bands to play, it’s been a pleasant surprise. We’ve had really good support,” says Hosking.

“The three venues we’ve lined up are really supportive of the idea of a live music scene in Dubbo.”

Lust for Live Dubbo is modelled on Orange’s successful 4 On The 4loor event, which has been running since 1998.

“In Orange, it’s the same pub each time – here, we’ve decided to try moving the event around between three venues for the first six months, to the Amaroo Hotel, The Pastoral and the Macquarie Inn. “It’s been great to see all those venues grab it and give it a shot because at the end of the day it’s a difficult pitch when you’re talking something new and a bit speculative.

“The bands around town are a variety of genres, so it’s a risk at the end of the day for a pub to step into presenting live music.

“We’re not a guaranteed covers band and we’re not offering a product that currently exists.

“Some of the bands are really good and others are still learning their craft, so it’ll be really interesting mix of people and musical genres – I think that’s exciting.

“Hopefully, it’ll stimulate people to get bands together or to grab their guitar and take to the stage in a proper gig format rather than just the muso nights around town…which are great but they don’t offer the full show like we will be.”

Lust for Live Dubbo will showcase four acts each month, each performing up to an hour of their own music and being paid for their time.

“Typically there’ll be a couple of solo artists and then as the night moves on, probably the louder guys, the rock bands and metal bands, towards the end of the night.

“Because the events are free people can come and go.”

If the example in Orange is anything by which to judge the potential of this event, it’ll soon develop a dedicated audience that’s passionate about the local

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Mick Picton from Old Bank Music Shop and Tim Hosking, Lust for Live Dubbo co-organiser. PHOTO: KIM V. GOLDSMITH

music scene.

“It’s the musicians and people who love it as a good social time who support it.

“I hope we’ll develop that community here …whether you’re 18 and into live music or a bit older, like myself, and just want to have the opportunity to see some live bands.

“We’re hopeful that at the end of the six months we’ll have a crew who come to the pubs to see these acts, and the venues will want to continue funding it because we can bring in a crowd who

are possibly missing in hotels at the moment.”

Significant planning has gone into finding the right time to host the event each month so as to not interfere with other events in the city, and to provide the opportunity for a wider regional audience to also participate.

“Orange’s 4 On The 4loor is the first week of the month and we’re aiming for the third week so we can also harness regional bands and musicians from Orange, Bathurst and around the Central

West and pay them to play.

“It won’t just be Dubbo acts - we’ve also got a couple from Brisbane and Sydney and we’re working on some more exciting news that we’ll hopefully be able announce soon as well…some bigger acts.

The first Lust for Live Dubbo event will be held on August 14 at the Macquarie Inn. Full details can be found on the website at www.lustforlivedubbo. com.au and updates will be posted on the Lust for Live Dubbo Facebook page.

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Online language course makes history

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

ET firmly on Wiradjuri soil and surrounded by native shrubbery, Dubbo’s Yarradamarra Centre was the site for an announcement which made history this week.

The centre forms part of TAFE Western’s main campus, where staff officially launched Certificate I in Aboriginal Languages and Culture as an online course for the first time.

TAFE Western Institute director Kate Baxter, who is herself enrolled in the course, described the team as innovators.

“We are the leaders and this is a first for TAFE NSW,” she said proudly.

The course already forms part of the local curriculum but head teacher Connie Ah See said it was a big step to then go ahead and release it into the ether.

It was a sentiment echoed by language teacher Aunty Beth Wright, a proud Gamilaraay Nation woman.

“We wanted our people to come and learn from us. We wanted to look into their eyes and see if they respect the language,” she said.

However, after requests from as far afield as New York, Arnhem Land and Tasmania, they decided that online delivery would continue to keep the language alive.

“We had to talk to the elders, the AECG (Aboriginal Education Consultative Group) and the elders’ council,” Ah See explained.

“It was done with a lot of talking because that’s what we do in Aboriginal culture but we decided to do it; to give people a taste of our beautiful language and the culture that goes with it.

“It was about putting our language out there for the world to see, reclaiming it, taking the journey of learning, the journey of Wiradjuri and maintaining our language for future generations.”

Ah See said there is strong demand for courses such as this in Aboriginal

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Di McNaboe, Iris Reid, Connie Ah See, Michael Donovan and Beth Wright at the launch. PHOTO: NATALIE HOLMES

culture.

‘We know that Aboriginal people are crying out for Aboriginal language to be taught in the community.”

She added that TAFE has a proven track record in quality training of Aboriginal people, with recent significant increases in enrolment and outreach centres.

The new course mirrors classroom teaching and assists in the ongoing preservation and revival of the Wiradjuri language.

It has a Moodle component, offering practical application of knowledge and pronunciation plus web conferencing and there is a story which accompanies every topic.

“We are doing a mighty job and these resources are much-needed and appreciated,” Ah See said.

The Wiradjuri language almost didn’t survive, with many factors impacting on

its presence in modern society.

“I didn’t have the opportunity to learn because of the Stolen Generation – but I am so excited and proud to see this happening,” Aunty Pat Doolan said.

Wright said that has made people more determined to hold on to Wiradjuri.

“NSW was the first state to lose our language but we are now empowered by our language,” she explained.

She said teaching a child to speak the traditional language was special but ‘teaching an elder who was deprived of the language...it’s beautiful, it’s like lighting their soul again.’

“I hope we enjoy the journey it will take us on, to be able to learn the language that was taken away.”

Ah See believes that sharing Wiradjuri online is adding another element to indigenous traditions.

“This is going to get to a medium of people not here in Dubbo allowing us to

share our culture,” she said.

“I believe this course will break down barriers that people face when accessing training and education options. Barriers such as distance and isolation will be a thing of the past with technology allowing us the opportunity to reach more people in more places.

“Reclaiming language is reclaiming culture.”

Baxter described the occasion as “a very exciting day for us”.

“We are taking forward an innovation and solving a huge geographical issue by bringing knowledge and learning to people through an ongoing commitment to teaching, which is so important.

“We will continue what we are doing in terms of Aboriginal education. I hope it becomes a trigger for further study, and other languages.”

The course is set to begin in Semester 2.

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3D: a new dimension in conservation and innovation

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HEN I tell people 3D printing is going to revolutionise the world, and that I believe it will be bigger than the industrial revolution and internet combined, they find it difficult to believe.

Here’s a couple of things that have already happened in the world of 3D printing: • Criminals have printed non-ferrous pistols that can’t be seen by metal detectors; • A professor in southern California last year built a huge 3D printer, which constructed a two story concrete house in less than 24 hours; • Sydney University has commenced a three year trial to see how macadamia shells and other industry waste can be run through a 3D printer to create microtimber products.

Here’s some future possibilities: • Long range manned space missions may be made possible because instead of carrying huge quantities of spare parts, a 3D printer can make what’s needed, on the go; • If Australian farmers grow industrial hemp on a huge scale, not only would chemical and fertiliser use be slashed, but the material produced in the paddock, as strong as carbon fibre, could underpin a whole new manufacturing and processing industry.

Which brings us very close to home, where this technology could have a major impact on the rhino breeding programs at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. Dubbo’s zoo is at the forefront of international efforts to save and conserve black, white and one-horned rhinos, but it’s an uphill battle.

Many cultures believe rhino horn has mystical health and beauty benefits, which has led to drug cartels paying poverty-stricken poachers to kill rhinos and cut off their horns.

Prices for rhino horn products have outstripped drugs, selling for up to $65,000 per kilo.

Details on remaining population numbers are variable with so many sub-species involved, but there are reports the world’s sole remaining northern white rhino bull is being kept under permanent armed guard.

Keeping wild animals under armed guard is so ludicrous it reads like a BGrade Hollywood movie plot, almost as unlikely as a B-Grade movie actor becoming president of the USA.

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Now biotech start-up Pembient is hoping to change all that by flooding the market with 3D printed rhino horn.

The premise is basic: rhino horns are made up of keratin, so just imagine that huge horn is the rhino equivalent of human fingernails, and Pembient CEO Matthew Markus says no-one is breaking and entering into peoples’ homes to steal discarded toenail clippings.

The company will collect human keratin, add a dash of rhino DNA and whack it into a 3D printer.

This Franken-science is bound to raise a range of practical and ethical questions, but Pembient maintains this case is all about economics, and that a cheaper DNA identical produce will force the illegal trade out of business.

But many in the rhino conservation arena are concerned poachers who are caught could claim the horns in their possession are fake, and that they’ve broken no laws.

Taronga Western Plains Zoo veterinarian Dr Benn Bryant is a leading international expert when it comes to rhino conservation.

“The International Rhino Foundation (of which Taronga is a founding member) opposes the production and distribution of artificial rhino horn...essentially because it perpetuates the myth that rhino horn has medicinal properties,” Bryant says.

“The Foundation argues argue that there is no evidence that availability of a synthetic alternative will reduce demand for genuine horn and may even drive demand up.

“Also, policing of illegal trade in horn could be affected due to potential difficulties in differentiating between (legal) artificial horn and (illegal) genuine horn,” according to Bryant.

This issue poses practical and ethical dilemmas and until it plays out, no one can say for sure if the technology has the capability of helping to save rhinos, or not.

Others claim that if the rhino markets goes belly-up, the drug cartels will swing onto other animals or industries.

In response, Pembient is already working on 3D printed ivory, a market which is seeing elephants killed for their tusks.

However the rhino space plays out, the effects of advances in 3D orienting can’t be imagined.

Australia needs a taskforce on this, the best ideas which will help us into the future haven’t even been thought of yet, and if we don’t have our most creative minds looking into the future, once again we’re going to be left way behind.

Coincidentally this week media arts company dLux ran a workshop in Dubbo as part of a regional engagement program outline the potential of the Makers Movement which included exhibitions of 3D printing.

I’ve worked with dLux in the past and the organisation is all about galvanising “grassroots community development and social enterprise through hands-on and practical engagement with art, science and technology”.

The dLux philosophy is pretty much based on the old premise that you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

In this case, they bring such interesting educational programs to town that young people flock to ‘play’ with the toys, in the process not only learning new and cutting edge skills, but also becoming completely engaged in the process. dLux says it “harnesses the power of new technologies to create meaningful engagements with young people using science and art to ignite a passion for learning”.

The five day program I organised in collaboration with dLux and Warren Central School had 15 participants: at recess on the first day, when students hears it was a full week spent learning about digital art on iPads, the kids in the class told me everyone else at the school was furious they hadn’t signed up.

With little vision coming out of Canberra when it comes to imaginative capacity to prepare for the next big thing, it’s great to see a creative media arts organisation committed to preparing

This issue poses practical and ethical dilemmas and until it plays out, no one can say for sure if the technology has the capability of helping to save rhinos, or not.

regional communities to have the capacity to deal with the next industrial revolution.

If our farmers could produce natural carbon fibre raw material from crops like industrial hemp (iHemp), this region’s profitability could explode, with micro factories on farms and in small towns creating thousands of jobs and multiplying the local economy. dLux has teamed with Three Farm, an organisation which creates not-for-profit “Maker Spaces” to hook up like-minded people passionate about innovation and creating.

Three farm founder Mel Fuller has toured the USA looking at the best ways to connect communities, seeing perspectives from a country where the president has made speeches about the 3D printing revolution to come, and where a Makers Space has been set up on the lawns of the White House.

“3D printing is the great equaliser, it blurs the lines between designers, makers and consumers,” Fuller says.

The space is evolving so quickly it’s almost impossible to keep up.

“I’m always looking at what’s coming next but the kids, they innately do that.

“One young boy told me that if his mum won’t let him go to his mate’s place, he’ll get a 3D scan of himself, email that file to his friend so he (his doppelganger) can be printed out in his room.”

Everyone at this week’s workshop agreed that getting young people from our region involved with digital technology and 3D printing will lead to incredible job opportunities – as Fuller explains, it’s already happening.

“A young aspiring fashion designer came into our maker Space and said she’d bought a 3D printer but was very lonely when it came to operating it.

She volunteered to put her printer in our space for other people to use and she found mentors to help her print 3D shoes. She’s now working in Los Angeles with ‘Shoes of Prey.”

A Dubbo businessman at the workshop found out her could take a 3D scan of his body and email it to his favourite Parisian tailor.

One thing which seemed obvious was that Australia is a long way behind and there’s little mainstream media recognition of the technology which is widely predicted to be the next big thing.

In case you’re thinking this is science fiction, and decades off becoming reality, a US engineer at the workshop told me a 3D printer was set up to the international Space Station two years ago and was busily printing spare parts.

New test to improve melanoma monitoring is a major breakthrough

BY MELISSA GRANT

2015 SKINCARE LIFE

BRISBANE: A Queensland scientist has found new markers for melanoma, which may allow the disease to be accurately monitored via a routine blood test.

The clinical tool could be available within two years and is a major breakthrough in testing for one of the most deadly cancers in Australia.

QIMR Berghofer research assistant and PHD candidate, Mitchell

Stark, discovered seven new melanoma markers, which can be detected in the blood.

The biomarkers can help track melanoma progression or recurrence in patients being monitored by their doctor.

“The blood test could indicate those really early signs of progression you can’t see in the scans just yet,” Mr Stark said on Thursday.

“If your scans are negative and your blood test is positive then you need to be monitored more

closely.”

Mr Stark said this could save lives, given patients could be treated before tumours became too difficult to remove.

Patients with stage three melanoma, with a spread confined to regional lymph nodes, have a fiveyear survival rate of about 50 per cent, compared to less than 15 per cent if metastases are widespread, he said.

The blood test would look for elevated levels of the markers, or

microRNAs, tiny molecules which regulate the amount of protein a gene can produce.

The biomarkers were discovered in a Queensland government funded study of 380 people, including 250 melanoma patients.

Science and Innovation Minister Leeanne Enoch hailed the discovery as a major breakthrough.

About 11,000 Australians are diagnosed with melanoma each year and 1500 deaths annually.

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Seven Days Baby black rhino makes his debut The week’s top stories from around the region

Compiled by NATALIE HOLMES

ARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO’S newest announced arrival is thrilled to be on public display, with Dafari the Black Rhino calf relishing running around his new environment.

The youngster, who came out on into the public pens this week, appears to be very happy.

“Dafari is a very confident calf,” keeper Scott Smith said.

“From an early age, he could be seen running and galloping around his enclosure, and he is much the same now he is on exhibit.”

Dafari is the calf of Bakhita, who was also born at the zoo. He is the third rhino calf to be born at Dubbo during the zoo’s 10-year breeding program.

Dafari is growing well and has progressed from his birth weight of 3040kg to 125kg since he was born on April 20.

“Dafari has a big appetite,” Smith said. “He’s drinking from Bakhita and is also starting to eat a little bit of solid food. Bakhita is continuing to be a great mother, she is alert and protective but is also relaxed.”

Dubbo MP Troy Grant said Dubbo and Mid-Western Regional Council’s applications for Restart NSW funding will now move to the next stage of detailed application among 24 other shortlisted projects under the NSW Government’s Regional Tourism Infrastructure Fund (RTIF) Regional Airports program.

“This is fantastic news for the region and both councils will now be invited to make detailed applications for funding,” he said.

A total of 33 airports applied for the funding.

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Popular footballer fatally injured THE family and friends of James Ackerman are mourning his loss following a fatal football injury last weekend.

The 25-year-old, who lived in Brisbane, had strong ties with the local communities of both Dubbo and Wellington and started his sporting career here as a youngster, playing both rugby league and soccer.

He tragically suffered a severe brain injury while playing for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Intrust Super Cup competition last Saturday and passed away on Monday.

Ackerman loved rugby league, with his family telling media he always played the game with his heart on his sleeve.

Missing woman located A WOMAN reported missing from Cobar has been found.

Danielle Martin, aged 26, was last seen at her Hartmann St home on Monday, June 15 and was reported as a missing person on Wednesday, June 17.

She was located by a member of the public on the Lerida Rd, five kilometres from Cobar, on Saturday, June 20 and was subsequently taken to Cobar Hospital for treatment for hypothermia.

Stars shine in northern league DUBBO’S Western Stars indoor cricket representative team are in for a huge month of cricket as they attempt to maintain their position as champions of the Northern NSW Super League as they get set to host Round 2 of the Northern NSW Super League against Charlestown and Maitland. They have also undertaken to take on the might of ACT cricket after accepting an invitation to contest the Bretland Cup in the ACT Cricket Indoor Super League series.

Dafari the rhino calf in full stride. Keepers say he is a good eater and doesn’t lack confidence.

Coonamble tackles community issues COONAMBLE residents have gathered to address community issues, following the second meeting of the town’s drug and alcohol forum.

Participants have formed working groups to develop long-term options to help tackle the problem, with each group to focus on one of five key areas identified at the forum’s initial meeting in April.

The aim is to improve the wellbeing of the Coonamble community by reducing the harm caused by drug and alcohol problems.

Several consultative meetings have previously been held in both Coonamble and Gulargambone.

Delroy scores new fire truck A $465,000 state-of-the-art firefighting tanker has been delivered to Delroy Fire Station, significantly boosting the ability of local firefighters (pictured) to respond to emergencies, save lives and protect properties.

Fire and Rescue NSW Zone Commander, Superintendent Adam Dewberry said fire and rescue officers at Delroy Fire Station did an extraordinary job in protecting their community and this new fire tanker would help them to perform their work even more effectively.

“Fleet upgrades such as this ensure our fire and rescue officers have the best equipment and the latest technology to ensure the safety and protection of local communities,” he said.

Fit for the Future funding shortfall LOCAL Government minister Paul Toole is concerned about a possible financial shortfall in the Fit for the Future Innovation Fund. The money provides additional funds for regional and rural councils, but is not enough to support all the councils that really need it, he said.

Local Government NSW president Keith Rhoades agreed.

“We welcome any additional funding for councils but are concerned that the NSW Government’s Fit for the Future Innovation Fund will not go far enough.

“If councils apply for the full grant, only 26 of the 52 eligible councils will be covered.

“The fund provides only a fraction of the support needed.”

Leg up for dog control NSW Farmers have welcomed a vital $1.35 million funding injection for the National Wild Dog Action Plan.

The organisation’s national wild dog spokesman Mark Horan said the Federal Government funding would strengthen the nationally-coordinated program and enhance on the ground research and control work.

“We applaud Minister Joyce’s commitment to the Action Plan, especially at a time that farmers in NSW have been coordinating in an unprecedented way to deal with an ever-increasing dog problem,” he said.

Horan believes that future success is dependent on industry, farmers, state and territory governments and the community all playing a role.

“The plan is a model for industry-led action and it is up to all of us to work together.”

New mobile unit for Breastscreen BREASTSCREEN NSW Greater Western has launched its new mobile breast screening unit, servicing women across the Western NSW Local Health District.

The unit is part of a NSW Government investment of $8.8 million to upgrade the existing BreastScreen NSW fleet with state-of-the-art vehicles and screening technology. The Federal Government contributed $4.4 million.

The units will help support early detection for the one in eight women in NSW affected by breast cancer in their lifetime.

“This is a vital piece of health infrastructure, bringing potentially life-saving cancer screening to women without the need to travel long distances to larger towns and cities,” BreastScreen NSW Greater Western manager Meg O’Brien said.

The mobile unit will visit Parkes, Forbes, Tottenham, Tullamore, Trundle, Peak Hill, Narromine, Molong and the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service between July and the end of the year.

Airports shortlisted for funding share DUBBO and Mudgee airports have been shortlisted for consideration for a share of up to $95 million of NSW Government funding for infrastructure upgrades to help boost local tourism and create local jobs.

Referral services for older people THE Western NSW Local Health District’s referral service for older people is set to change from July 1.

A new contact centre called My Aged Care will aim to provide a one-stop shop for assessing and referring older people to the relevant community services.

Western NSW LHD acting director of integrated primary care and partnerships Jackie Corliss said the change is part of the Federal Government’s aged care reforms which were first introduced in 2012.

“The new standardised screening and assessment process will improve the consumer experience and access to information and services in a more simplified system, also providing older people with more choice and better care,” she said.

Backbone to economic development strategy DUBBO CITY COUNCIL has announced that improvements in infrastructure will form the backbone of its new 2015/2016 Economic Development Strategy.

This includes improving road transport through projects such as completion of the Troy Junction Railway deviation, Obley Road upgrades, Dubbo Regional Livestock Markets and implementation of a master plan for Dubbo Showground.

Other themes addressed by the Economic Development Strategy include tourism destination development, agricultural sustainability and diversification, workforce and skills development and advocacy and leadership. The sentiment was echoed at last week’s Regional Capitals Australia (RCA meeting which highlighted how more targeted infrastructure investment in Australia’s 50 regional capitals can ease the squeeze in metropolitan cities and boost regional Australia’s growth.

Mudgee fundraiser exceeds expectations THE Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) Program Auction for Homelessness and Student Work Display has raised $7000 for two important charities, thanks to the hard work of a small group of TAFE Western students and the generosity of the Mudgee community.

Mudgee TAFE Western vocational access teacher Helen Doble said the $7000 figure had surprised everyone involved with the project, with 61 items auctioned including artisan works, vouch-

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Roads a big budget winner FUNDING of $32M will be injected into vital projects in the electorate following announcement of the State Budget this week.

Key road maintenance and safety improvements are high on the list of priorities.

The 2015/16 allocations include: • $9.8M for road and bridge maintenance; • $2.7M for pavement upgrade on Newell Highway 35km north of Peak Hill; • $1.5M, $1.2M and $1M to Narromine, Wellington and Dubbo Councils respectively for road maintenance; • $950,000 for pavement upgrade on Golden Highway 50km east of Dubbo; • $800,000 towards pavement upgrades on the Mudgee-Wellington road; • $750,000 towards the design and rebuild of the Beryle Bridge of Wialdra Creek near Gulgong; • $2.7M towards the installation of railway boom gates at the Victoria St and Mitchell Highway intersection, the Sheraton Rd level crossing and the Yarers donated by local businesses and local wines.

“Initially the students thought we may be able to raise $1000 – I said $3000 but was hoping for $5000 – so the figure of $6800 raised from the auction was fantastic and exceeded all of our expectations,” Doble said.

The $6,800 from the auction will be donated to Barnados Homeless Service in Mudgee, with $200 raised from gold coin donations at the door going to the Nepal Earthquake Appeal.

IPROWD students graduate FIFTEEN new police recruits are now well on their way towards a successful career after graduating from the 2015 Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery (IPROWD) Program.

State IPROWD Co-ordinator Peter Gibbs said Monday’s graduation was an important step for participants and their bid to gain entry into the NSW Police Academy at Goulburn, which is the first step to becoming an officer in the NSW Police Force.

“Now that these participants have completed IPROWD, it opens the door to many exciting careers and I hope they use this as a launching pad to excel in whatever career they pursue,” he said.

randale Rd and Wheelers Lane level crossings; and • $510,000 for road sealing and clearzone widening at Mookerawa Other items in the budget include a $100M crime-fighting technology fund; a record $12.4 billion for NSW schools including allocation for the new Dubbo Networked Specialist School and a $20M Before and After School Care Fund.

The budget also confirmed an earlier commitment of funding for the $50 million duplication of Dubbo’s LH Ford Bridge, with $1 million allocated in this budget to allow planning to begin.

Fire and Rescue NSW, NSW Rural Fire Service and the NSW State Emergency Service will receive $1.14 billion in 2015-16, including funding to equip emergency service workers with the tools they need to better protect communities, while the budget also included a boost of $9.8 million for the Rural Fire Service to pilot large air tankers to help fight bushfires in remote areas.

Awege awarded Student of the Year DUBBO COLLEGE student Jacq Awege has been named the Western NSW VETin-schools Student of the Year for 2015.

As part of her business services course, Awege undertakes administrative work with Housing NSW one day each week of the school term, as well as half of her school holidays.

“I was interviewed for the traineeship in Year 10 and the whole team at Housing NSW has been excellent,” she said.

Awege is also part of the new Transition to Uni program, launched just last week.

“At this stage I would like to study social work and perhaps international studies at university,” she said.

“But the first aim is to achieve my Higher School Certificate and then I will decide on the best university option.”

She will now travel to Sydney to take part in the State VET-in-schools competition later this year. Awege moved to Dubbo when she was 14 to pursue her secondary education. She is now 17.

Lincoln School project benefits breast cancer care A JOINT project between Lincoln School, TAFE Western and Juvenile Jus-

tice NSW is raising funds for the local Pink Angels charity.The project involves the construction of a cubby house by students at the Lincoln School, within the Orana Juvenile Justice Centre. The cubby house will then be raffled, with all monies raised supporting the activities of Pink Angels.The Pink Angels’ mission is to care, help and support local breast cancer patients across the region. The Lincoln students involved in the project are working towards a TAFE Certificate I in Construction and the Record of School Achievement. Most of the young men at Orana come from severely disadvantaged backgrounds and yet they have shown commitment to bettering themselves by participating in the project and supporting the Pink Angels.

Charges for trio over taxi robbery THREE people have been charged over the alleged armed robbery of a taxi driver in Orange.

The 71-year-old driver stopped his vehicle on Jindalee Avenue about 10.30pm last Saturday night where he was approached by a man.

The man allegedly threatened him with a knife and demanded money.

A woman then also approached the driver before the pair fled with his wallet and an amount of cash from the taxi.

A 17-year-old male youth, 19-year-old woman and 20-year-old man were all arrested and charged in relation to the incident.

Art added to maternity ward THE outside will be brought inside at Dubbo Base Hospital’s new maternity ward, with the addition of a NSW Kids and Families grant of $15,000 to integrate culturally respectful artwork into the unit.

The grant money will be used by arts and culture group Base Art Inc to engage local artist and professional photographer Amy McIntyre to capture images that bring the outside inside.

The images will be printed on hospital grade vinyl and applied to the walls, ceilings and floors in selected areas within the maternity unit.

McIntyre, who spent many weeks last year in intensive care units and a palliative care hospice after her baby became seriously ill, believes the nature-themed artwork in the new unit will help represent the natural processes of birth, life and death.

“I’m keen to showcase images women find therapeutic and calming, regardless of whether their experience is joyous, overwhelming or heartbreaking,” she said.

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Evocities’ “rubbery” figures questioned

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Practicing safe text EVERYONE knows what it’s like be walking behind a pedestrian who is texting. It’s slow, frustrating and at the same time alarming, as you see them narrowly miss walking into poles, street signs or oncoming traffic.

The city of Antwerp, in Belguim, has devised a way to keep walking traffic safe and happy, by creating “text

walking lanes” on footpaths throughout the city, according to online news source, news. com.au.

Now slow, bumbling texters can keep themselves safe while remaining glued to their phones – leaving fast paced and self-aware walkers to get to their destination with minimal annoyance.

Can cash trump credibility?

BUSINESS man and reality TV “star” Donald Trump last week officially announced his intention to run for the US presidency.

Promising to bring back the “American Dream”, Trump flaunted his wealth by making the announcement in the lobby of Trump Tower, New York City, telling the press he is “worth more” than fellow candidate Mitt Romney.

He said a wealthy man is exactly what is needed to (according to his slogan) Make America Great Again. If the

presidential race is about riches, he may have a tough time against Hilary Clinton and Jeb Bush, both of whom are incredibly wealthy in their own right.

He may need to focus on what makes him unique. Can a man win the presidency based on his hairstyle?

Frontman fights on DAVE GROHL, lead singer of rock band Foo Fighters, won the hearts of millions of fans with his performance for the crowds at a music festival in Sweden last week.

What was so special about this performance? Well, Grohl had just broken his leg. While he was able to finish that performance it seems age and injuries are catching up with Dave, as the band has had to pull out of appearing at mega music festival Glastonbury, also cancelling the rest of its European tour.

He has apologised to his

fans, but after showing such dedication with a serious injury, he will surely be forgiven.

Nix the Nutella IT’S no surprise that Nutella, food of the gods, is not very good for you. However France’s environment minister is calling for the chocolate spread to be banished for another reason all together.

He wants people to stop eating Nutella because it’s bad for our planet, according to a recent report in The Guardian.

You see, Nutella is made on palm oil.

Sourcing palm oil has led to devastating deforestation around the world, and forced thousands of orang-utans from their natural habitat. Minister Segolene Royal argued that if consuming the product ended, the environment might be saved.

Ugh – puts a bitter taste on something so delicious, doesn’t it?

RE: The Gift of Time – Weekender 19/6/15 THE Evocities project is a good initiative but the figures have always been very rubbery. The figures in the break out box “For the record” come from Evocities themselves and should be carefully scrutinised before being accepted as fact.

IN my time on council the figures of people moving to Dubbo because of Evocities came from internal council sources. These figures were just accepted without much scrutiny or checking.

It was always thought that the figures simply reflected how many people moved to Dubbo each year from Sydney without any attempt to drill down to establish the true reason for such a move.

Perhaps the statistical mad mayor could provide the actual figures for Dubbo for the past five to six years, advise as to the original source of those figures and point to the “ careful and measured research “ that proves without a doubt that it was Evocities which was the main motivating factor in someone deciding to move to Dubbo.

2313 families between seven cities over almost six years equates to about 55 families per year coming to Dubbo on average. How many of these came solely because of Evocities? Has it been worth the ratepayers’ money spent?

Is it worth spending more of ratepayers’ money into the future?

Should the project have a sunset clause?

Obviously some councils are having second thoughts and you can’t blame them.

Peter Bartley Dubbo

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Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident who is apparently in grave danger.

Reality TV hammers home fear of non-existent threat OICEOVER: Modelled on competitive TV cooking and home renovation shows, and inspired by Senator Mathias Cormann’s fear that Islamic terrorists could acquire nuclear weapons, welcome to My Sharia Rules.

Meet competitors Gavin and Mandy.

Tonight on My Sharia Rules their challenge is to produce a nuclear weapon using only materials available to them in war-ravaged Ramadi – and they have just 24 hours.

Gavin is an unemployed plumber and Mandy is his partner, who defected from the west to join Islamic extremists in the Middle East.

The rules stipulate that the bomb must terrify otherwise safe, comfortable western citizens.

They are allowed the services of one tradie and have an unlimited budget from the sale of stolen Iraqi artefacts on the black market.

Gavin: We’re a lightly armed militia really, fighting in a desert region ruined by a decade of war. Undertaking a science project that is still beyond the capabilities of most nations will be a real challenge.

Mandy: Considering the Manhattan project involved countless scientists, unlimited resources and took years, we’ve really got a lot of work to do in a short amount of time.

Gavin: Due to Kurdish pressure on

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supply lines and western airstrikes, we’re finding it difficult to get basic supplies, so heavy water and nuclear precursor ingredients like plutonium are going to be a bit hard to come by.

Mandy: The other challenge is getting the weapon delivered to the target, since we only have some jeeps and light armoured vehicles, and you can’t really just roll a nuclear bomb off the back of a jeep.

Gavin: Yes, or send it by post with instructions not to open unless you are currently at 50,000 feet over a major infidel capital city.

Voiceover: With time running out Gavin tries to borrow a bomb locally.

Gavin: Iran said they wouldn’t give it to us even if they had one, and the Israelis said I had a wrong number.

Voiceover: Enter Deano, a tradie specialising in bathroom tiling and nuclear fission.

Deano: How’s it going? Is that cardboard?

Mandy: Yes, it’s a soft cardboard shell design, with an atomic bomb interior.

Gavin: So with the shell complete, and the clock ticking, we are now moving to the inner atomic weapon construction.

Deano: So using the Manhattan project as a guide, how much of the required raw material, infrastructure and expertise would you say you currently have on site?

Mandy: Including uranium?

Deano: Well, assuming some sort of radioactive material.

Gavin: None whatsoever, but we do have this blanket.

Mandy: In the absence of any aircraft or other delivery system, our plan is to hold the corners of a blanket, put the bomb in the middle, and then climb on top of the target building and throw it over the edge.

Gavin: Once the bomb is built that is.

Mandy: And assuming, as wanted fugitives, were can smuggle a function-

In the absence of any aircraft or other delivery system, our plan is to hold the corners of a blanket, put the bomb in the middle, and then climb on top of the target building and throw it over the edge.

al nuclear weapon and a large blanket through customs without arousing suspicion.

Gavin: A fallback option is to knock up a plyboard intercontinental ballistic missile with the capacity to incorporate a nuclear warhead, along with the required launch technology and associated infrastructure.

Mandy: Of course that will require a change to our design, and I’m not sure how much more cardboard we can get at short notice, so we have a lot of work to do in a short amount of time.

Voiceover: With time running out, our competitors are getting increasingly anxious as they realise that a firststrike missile launch system is as rare as radioactive raw materials in downtown Ramadi.

Gavin: I just got off the phone from the marketplace and they say the only weapons they have are mortars and truck-mounted machine-guns. We are lacking state-of-the-art ballistic weaponry.

Mandy: And a functioning nuke too don’t forget.

Voiceover: Next week on My Sharia Rules Gavin and Mandy suffer a severe setback when their blanket is incinerated in airstrikes.

Gavin: Oh my god!

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Mark and Kathryn Hurley in Vanuatu

Weathering the storm Helping Vanuatu rebuild As residents of Vanuatu for more than 14 years, ex-pat Aussies Mark and Kathryn Hurley had been through tropical storms before – but nothing could prepare them for the ferocity of Cyclone Pam. The couple talked to Weekender ahead of a flying visit to Dubbo for a fundraising event to help their island home rebuild. WORDS Jen Cowley HILE elsewhere in the South Pacific people were preparing for another weekend and for the coming Easter break and school holidays, Mark and Kathryn Hurley were busy making preparations of a different kind.

They weren’t worried. They’d been through cyclones before. They knew what to do.

Having called Vanuatu home for 14 of the past 19 years, the Hurleys knew better than to be complacent, but they set calmly about going through the well-worn motions ahead of what the experts were saying was a bigger than usual storm – gathering supplies of fresh water and food, stockpiling candles, taping windows, battening down the hatches.

But as the tropical low gathered intensity and news reports took on an edge of urgency, the Australian

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ex-pat couple grew more nervous. Two days out from what would be the most devastating weather event in the Vanuatu’s history, the Hurleys realised this was no ordinary storm – Cyclone Pam had the tiny island nation in her sights and wasn’t about to look away.

The category five cyclone struck at around 11pm on the night of Friday, March 13 – leaving 16 dead, many others injured and countless hundreds homeless.

For Mark and Kathryn Hurley it was one of the most frightening nights of their lives.

HE couple will be in Dubbo next week at the invitation of locals John Walkom and Peter Scott and the Rotary Club of Dubbo South, which is hosting a fundraising evening in support of relief efforts for the devastated island nation.

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It wasn’t until about lunch time on Friday that we knew how bad it was going to be and that this time, it wasn’t going to veer away. We thought, yeah – this time it’s really coming.

They’ll share their experience of living through not only that night, but the aftermath of the massive storm and its impact on Vanuatu – a popular holiday destination for Australians.

The Hurleys packed up their lives in Sydney to move to the peaceful Pacific Island locale in 1997, when Mark – a lawyer – answered an advertisement for a two year contract with a private law firm.

“We were only going to stay for those two years – we ended up sticking around for seven years,” says Mark from the couple’s home near the Vanuatu capital, Port Vila.

“By that stage our boys were five and seven – they’ve grown up here and that is pretty much all they’ve known. Going back to Australia was only for holidays.”

Fearing their sons were becoming “a little estranged” from family in Australia, the couple moved back to Sydney, but after five years their feet began to itch.

As fate would have it, Mark’s old job again came up and again, Vanuatu called.

That was in 2008 – and they’ve been there ever since.

It’s the deep ties with their island home that made the devastation wrought by Cyclone Pam all the harder to bear.

Recalling the days before the storm struck, the pair

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Local villagers were hit hard by the ferocity of Cyclone Pam.

says they thought it would be like so many other cyclones they’d lived through.

“It was probably a week out that we knew there was a BIG storm coming,” says Kathryn. “But we had a lot of cyclones come and then veer at the last minute; we get ready and then they just don’t eventuate. By about the Tuesday we knew this one was coming and that we were probably in its path.”

The couple put the cyclone shutters up on their home on Wednesday evening, still unaware of the magnitude of Pam’s might.

“It wasn’t until about lunch time on Friday that we knew how bad it was going to be and that this time, it wasn’t going to veer away. We thought, yeah – this time it’s really coming.”

Having mercifully never lived through a cyclone, I’m fascinated by how one reacts: is there a calmness? A sense of resignation? Or is there panic?

It’s a mixture of both, apparently – even for those used to staring down the vagaries of tropical weather patterns.

“You do go into a bit of a mild panic before-hand,” says Mark, whose voice has an authoritative and measured tone, even down a phone line. “Just making sure you have all of your preparations done – moving eve-

rything in that we could, filling up eskies full of water, making sure we had enough food and candles and all those sorts of things.

“We still had power right up until it struck, which was well into the night, but when the power went out and the house went dark it was nerve-wracking.”

The omnipresent Facebook kept the couple updated until around 9pm, which Kathryn says was both a blessing and a curse.

“We really started to panic, actually, with some of the things we were reading on there. By that stage we were just like, right – when is it coming? And if it’s going to hit, then hit! You just sort of build it up and keep hoping that it’ll veer off but we really knew at that stage that it really was coming and that it was big.”

The couple shares their recollections of that night, taking turns to describe the sounds, the feelings, the fear, the fascination.

“Once it started to intensify, the sound was incredible,” says Mark. “It’s quite eerie. It’s a strange feeling because you have the shutters up and you can’t see out but there’s just this incredible noise – this unbelievable noise.

“It just kept intensifying,” Kathryn says, chiming in.

“We’ve lived through a few cyclones through the years,

but this was by far the worst and the worst Vanuatu had ever experienced.”

According to Mark, the isolation from what’s going on outside in the dark makes the experience all the more unnerving.

“You know that there’s a lot of destruction going on – you can hear things flying around – but you just don’t really know what the damage is, or how bad it’s going to be when the storm is over.

“The difference with this one compared with others is that it just seemed to go on and on for so long. We eventually went to bed, I don’t know how we slept, but then we woke up and it was still going.

“The next morning opening the door and in particular our very large mango tree out the front was completely uprooted. We couldn’t believe it. The wind was just so fierce it just pulled the tree out and threw it down.”

I remark that while it must be terrifying for anyone to go through a cyclone of such ferocity, it must be made particularly gut-wrenching when it’s your own community in the path and when you know that community, by its nature, will suffer terribly.

“Yes, exactly,” says Mark. “We were very concerned, particularly about our own domestic staff and people

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who only lived just up the road from us who live in shanty sort of villages; we were hoping they had managed to find some shelter.”

That hope fortunately proved true and, while any fatalities are tragic, the relatively low death toll surprised not only the Hurleys but experts across the world, given the ferocity of the storm.

“The early reports were that they were talking about a very large loss of life,” says Mark. “But as insubstantial as the housing is here and as bad as the cyclone was, most people were able to get to shelter like churches and that sort of thing – thanks to early warnings. It could have been much worse.”

HEN the Hurleys emerged from the safety of their home and into the morning light, the extent of the damage shocked them deeply – a shock they both say caught them by surprise.

“We were certainly expecting limbs to be down, but the sheer power of the cyclone was obvious. We’d lost a massive mango tree that’s been in our front yard for a long time, and a few doors down, our neighbours lost their roof – they found part of it at the end of the street.”

Mark recalls walking, in something of a daze, to the village at the end of the road and thinking it looked like the images he’d seen of Cyclone Tracey’s devastation of Darwin in the early 70s.

“Things had been just completely destroyed and flattened.”

The pervasive sense of shock settled over the populace and the Hurleys describe feeling a “sort of numbness” for the first 24 hours.

“But then people began to get into the swing of things pretty quickly. After the cyclone, for about a week afterwards we had quite fine weather, which enabled us all at least to dry things out. Everything was just flooded so we were able to get tarps up, get temporary housing sorted and restore some order.

“The local people were incredibly resilient – it was only a few days after and structures were already back up and all hands were on deck.”

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The Hurleys’ neighbours lost their roof, which ended up at the end of the street.

cies and volunteers making the distribution of the precious liquid a priority throughout Vanuatu’s many islands.

“Another huge problem was that all the crops were gone,” says Kathryn. “Everything has started to come back now though and although they are still short in some areas, there are greens in the market. There’s not a lot of fruit but we’re getting back to it.”

The challenges that face a developing nation like Vanuatu in the wake of such an extreme event are myriad, chief among them according to Mark being the country’s isolation.

“Getting supplies and materials here is difficult,” he

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The response from the international community was swift and generous, making the recovery immeasurably easier, but the initial problem of access to building materials and basic supplies was the most pressing need.

Much of that need, according to Mark, was met by NGOs like Rotary, and the North American based charity organisation Kiwanis, of which the Hurleys are part.

“The response was fantastic.”

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Help Rotary help Vanuatu If you’d like to meet Mark and Kathryn Hurley and hear more about their experience, they will be special guests at the Rotary Club of Dubbo South’s fundraising dinner on Saturday, July 4 at Lazy River Estate. There will be a charity auction conducted on the night with a range of impressive lots going under the hammer, and of course, a special address by the Hurleys. Cost for the dinner is $150 per head with both tables and individual tickets available. For further information, or to book your ticket for this special event, contact Lazy River Estate on 6882 1111.

Village children smiling and happy on Easter Saturday, despite the devastation

The local people were incredibly resilient – it was only a few days after and structures were already back up and all hands were on deck.

OUTH DUBBO Rotarian Peter Scott is hoping the response from locals here is just as generous.

He first met Mark while the men were accompanying their teenage sons on the gruelling challenge of the Kokoda Track, and Scott says his first thoughts, on hearing of the cyclone’s fury, was for the Hurley family.

He was on the phone almost immediately to ask what he could do to help – and he wasn’t the only one.

Fellow local community stalwart John Walkom’s thoughts also turned to finding some way to assist – so the two joined forces to help organise next weekend’s fundraiser, for which the Hurleys will fly in at their

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own expense as special guests.

Renowned for stellar fundraising results, the Rotary Club of South Dubbo is shooting for a target of $31,000 which will then enable the Rotary Club of Port Vila to build a much-needed community centre for one of the worst affected villages in Vanuatu.

The Hurley’s are touched by the gesture of a community so far away that would make such an effort to help.

“It’s absolutely incredible. It really does bring tears to my eyes to think of all the people who are getting involved with it,” says Kathryn. “We just can’t wait to get over there and be part of the night. It’s the sort of thing that really does prove how it’s a small world and it doesn’t matter how far apart we are, we’re all connected.”

Rather than diminishing their love for their adopted home, Cyclone Pam has only served to further entrench Vanuatu’s place in the Hurley’s hearts.

“It hasn’t dented our desire to stay here, in our home – it certainly has changed some people’s minds. But this is just the part of the world we live in and you have to take the good and the bad.

“It’s a wonderful place to live.”

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WOMEN WHO LIFT For decades weightlifting has been the domain of men, with only a handful of women dedicated to competitive bodybuilding. But more women are showing up in the weights rooms of gyms or joining dedicated facilities in search of long term health benefits, and dispelling some myths along the way. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor ComanSargent

Peter Brown, trainer and expert in metabolism, nutrition and exercise with Megan Casserly, metabolic nutritionist and personal trainer, Fisique Fitness

PETER BROWN, when you were working for commercial gyms what relationship did you see women have with weights?

I found the gym environment was not conducive with having people who are new to exercise coming in and they got a bit intimidated, especially women.

We almost found ourselves dragging women into the weights room and they wanted to hightail it out of there and get back to the cardio equipment but weights are so much better for women.

Where do you think the resistance toward women doing weight lifting is coming from?

I think (there’s an element of) society’s viewpoint – a lot of men think women are fragile and shouldn’t be doing that sort of physical work. There’s a bit of a trend lately of women working in labouring or quite physical jobs and also in doing the exercise weights men usually do.

Lifting weights is relatively new generally. When you think it only really exploded in the ‘80s, women haven’t had

time to catch up but now they are.

What about weight training and pregnancy?

A lot of people think women are fragile especially during pregnancy where they should stop exercising altogether but exercise during pregnancy can be the best thing for the baby and mother.

For her because she will bounce back more quickly after the baby is born but also for the health of both of them.

How do you help women overcome these common myths about weight training?

We group them together so they don’t only have the professional support but they have the peer support as well. So they can see people who’ve done it for 12 months or two years and can look up to them. Those who are more experienced can look after those who are less experienced.

Is it a myth that women will bulk up with weight training?

You can’t actually build muscle so fast that you can’t stop building it. So you’re not going to look at yourself and think

it’s grotesque and you’ve gone too far.

Building muscle is actually very slow.

Everyone has a condition called sarcopenia which is an age related muscle loss, so after the age of 30 every adult can expect to lose up to or even more than two to five kilos of muscle every decade. But you can use exercise or use nutrition to maintain muscle.

As an overall health management activity, why should women weight train?

Weight training (helps with) all sort of problems like diabetes and heart conditions, the whole lot, so that’s why I do believe a weight training program specifically designed for building muscle or at least maintaining it, should be part of your health routine. The older you get the more important it is. You’re never too old. We have grandmas in here.

••• MEGAN CASSERLY, how long have you been weight training?

I’ve been weight training for about three years. I’ve always been into fitness. I have a dancing background then

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I had the feeling I needed to do something to just feel better all over.” - Helen McGee

got into personal training then I had my little girl and I realised I wanted to empower women but mothers especially – for keeping healthy minds and a healthy body to be all ‘round good mums.

What’s different about the weight training you offer women?

I started personal training at a gym and that’s where I met Peter. We started working together and then we decided to go out on our own and create exactly what we wanted, which is body transformations – real results and changing people’s whole life, rather than just getting them, smashing them in the gym and then they leave to go home with no education on how to eat after exercise, or what to do after a training session.

What do you think about some parts of society rejecting the idea that women can and should use weights?

I understand how intimidating it is for anybody to walk into a gym to make a lifestyle change and walk back out again. To be honest I have no idea because I grew up with a father that would empower me and always told me to improve my health and look after myself. He told me to weight train for many

years and I didn’t listen, because I had that fear of bulking up, as many women do if they do weight work, but that doesn’t happen. It’s a myth.

Where does the myth come from?

A lot of women start training and they don’t know how to eat properly, or how to incorporate eating and exercising so if they get that bulked up look it’s actually fat on top of the muscle.

••• HELEN MCGEE, what’s your experience of weight training?

I do it twice a week – it’s only 20 minutes to half an hour, but oh, you feel so great afterwards, except getting up at 6 o’clock in the morning. I’ve been doing this for 18 months. I had the feeling I needed to do something to just feel better all over.

The feeling you get when you’ve finished a weights session is just fabulous. I do it of a morning because that way I have an allday high basically; the brain’s kicked in, I can function. The day’s I don’t, oh, by three o’clock that afternoon I’m thinking, where’s the chocolate? It really makes a difference.

It gets everything going. I am reasonably ac-

tive – I play hockey a couple of times a week and I was at a gym but not doing anything properly. It takes somebody like Megan or Pete to actually show you the correct way of doing things and you don’t need to be at the gym 24/7 – just a couple of times a week, half hour at a time, and it’s doable.

••• JESSICA SWEENEY, how has weight training helped your back problems?

I’ve been weight training for 36 weeks now doing three programs. I initially came here because I had back issues. I had a bulging disk and sciatica caused from a fall. I couldn’t tie my shoes or put my pants on because I couldn’t bend. After the weight training I’m able to do everything now. The back is sore but it used to take two weeks to get over, now I rest for a few hours and I’m over it. So it’s given me back my quality of life. Chiro and physio and doctors all said give it a go, build your muscles and it takes the pressure off my back. I have three aunties who are fitness junkies so it was never a big issue for me to try weight lifting as a woman. Women can do as much as the blokes can, if not more.

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After the weight training I’m able to do everything now.” Jessica Sweeney

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Why the resistance to women who lift?

BY ROSE BLACK ATHLETE AND FIGURE COMPETITOR

HAT do men really think about women who lift? Are women our own worst haters?

In my own experience, I’ve been lucky. I have a dad who thinks my muscles are pretty cool and a husband who finds it attractive – despite his annoyance at my many ‘selfies’.

I know of other women who aren’t so lucky – some partners are intimidated by a strong female – but I often wonder if that’s really about muscle and how it looks or maybe it’s more about the growing self-confidence and inner strength that builds when women start achieving in the gym.

It seems as though women who are fit and are carrying a little muscle are more celebrated now than ever. For instance, the age of the “super booty” has women all over the world squatting, which can only be a good thing.

Women doing a bicep flex are eagerly “followed” and “liked” on Facebook by fitness lovers and again, that’s great stuff.

Men seem to like it too – there’s lots of positive feedback on sites I’ve visited.

Women on the other hand seem super quick to lash out.

Recently in conversations with people and when reading a Facebook page I follow, I’ve

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noticed a lot of the negativity about muscular women or women trying to build muscle is from other women!

Several women shared experiences of negative comments, which came from their own mums. Mums seem really worried their daughters will “get too muscly” or might be doing something illegal or are starting to look “unnatural”.

Female friends seem to be ultra concerned with how much you’re doing – “You’re not going overboard are you?”; “How big do you think you’ll get?”

They also feel they need to tell you in passive aggressive intonation that it’s really great what you’re doing, “but I wouldn’t want to look like that” and that “I enjoy my life, it’s a great goal, but I think drinking alcohol and eating junk food is just so important for my wellbeing”.

I say that with tongue in cheek, but seriously...

We women who lift should be backing one another and boosting one another up – not tearing each other own.

So if you don’t agree with someone’s decision to begin lifting maybe make the decision to keep it to yourself.

If you’re on the receiving end of these silly comments, don’t take it to heart. You’ll be the one laughing at the end of the day when you can still dress yourself and walk when you’re 90.

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

B L I S S I N T H E BU S H Settling in Geurie with her daughter Grace may not have been on Violet Seibertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s must-do list, but life has an interesting way of sometimes serving you up with a good dose of just-what-you-need. And it did. The former Melbournian tells us a little about her new life in Geurie and her plans for the future. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner IOLET SEIBERT admits to having unexpectedly fallen in love with the township of Geurie.

The road that bought her and three year-old daughter Grace to town was not ideal but the move has surprised and delighted her thanks to some great new friends, a little romance, a nurturing community and her next endeavour â&#x20AC;&#x201C; taking the reins of Bliss and Friends coffee shop on the Mitchell Highway.

Sitting at the kitchen table sipping hot Rooibos tea on a chilly winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day, Seibert looks content and happy and so does Grace, who quietly potters around the room humming to herself.

Life wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always this calm for the young family, with Seibert recalling life in Melbourne as a sole parent and the constant battle to stretch every dollar to meet their needs. Each week was a struggle to pay rent and buy food â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it was bare bones living and it was hard. Desperate to give herself and her daughter a better lifestyle, she called on family.

Seibertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father had been living in Geurie for some time so when the offer was made for his daughter to bring Grace to live in the bush with him, she agreed, on the proviso that it would be for a year or so â&#x20AC;&#x153;just to get back on her feetâ&#x20AC;?.

Pretty soon, that deal was null and void because life just got better and better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just love it here; we live on a big hill on the other side of the train tracks where you can see the best sunrises,â&#x20AC;? she says, with a smile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people in Geurie are really interesting and different. There is such a family and community atmosphere here. I feel like I was embraced by the community and also a part of it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I have never had that before, living in cities.â&#x20AC;?

The big plus to their new country life is that Seibert can let Grace have a childhood that affords a lot more freedom and engagement with nature. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a few acres at home and Grace just runs around and does what she wants. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a nice thing to see kids just being allowed to be kids, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just easy.â&#x20AC;?

Her friend, Matilda Julian, is the current owner of Bliss and Friends coffee shop in Geurie, and also a resident of the township. Julian sits across from her friend and laughs loudly recalling how elusive Seibert was when she first moved to town.

Julian opened her popular coffee shop last year in August just after Seibert had been in town a few weeks, and explains that she was desperate to find

Julian recalls their time swimming and chatting down at the Macquarie River at their favourite spot under Scabbing Flat Bridge, and of course, discussing their respective love lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Matilda was trying to set me up with her friend but then I met Chris here in Geurie and it was love at first sight â&#x20AC;&#x201C; instant,â&#x20AC;? she says, smiling.

Their first rendevouz was also down on the banks of the Macquarie with other friends. And the romance is still chugging along nicely, thank you.

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EIBERT has been sharing her other passion with the residents of Geurie.

Weeds. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right â&#x20AC;&#x201C; weeds of the mess-upyour-garden-and-overtake-your-backyard variety.

As part of the Summer Sessions (creative workshops) Julian had been running via Bliss and Friends, Seibert led an edible weed tour through which she explained and identified common place weeds around Geurie that, with a little preparation, could be easily and cheaply incorporated into food dishes.

It was a hit.

Seibertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in edible weeds came about thanks to her brother who gave her a handbook on the subject.

The book is called The Weed Foragerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Handbook â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a guide to edible and medicinal weeds in Australia, and is by Adam Grubb and Anni Raer-Rowland. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become a bit obsessed with weeds; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much fun foraging for weeds and with the changing seasons seeing new weeds come up, we have chickweed around at the moment and stinging nettles,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been making stinging nettle gnocchi â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delicious and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some milk thistle out the back of Matildaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I want and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make a spinach-like sausage roll out of them; the leaf becomes the filling,. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of weeds are great substitutes for leafy greens and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really high in nutrients because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wild and best of all they are free!â&#x20AC;?

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someone to run the coffee shop for her as she had to return for a brief period to her former job as a lawyer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought Violet looked perfect and for the next week and a half I was asking everyone if they knew her, and people would come in to the shop and say have you found Violet yet? So it was weird, everyone knew about her even though no-one had met her.â&#x20AC;?

Thanks to a community effort, Seibert was eventually tracked down and she and Julian have now become great friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so excited to see a coffee shop opening. Coming from Melbourne, well you know... so I took Grace along and met Matilda but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come back for a while and apparently she was looking for me and noone knew who I was. So one day I reappeared in the shop and I was asked to leave my phone number so Matilda could contact me- so much for staying under the radar,â&#x20AC;? she says, laughing.

The people in Geurie are really interesting and different, there is such a family and community atmosphere here. I feel like I was embraced by the community and also a part of it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I have never had that before, living in cities.

AVING worked in the coffee shop for a while now, the pair is excited for ownership of Bliss and Friends to soon transition to Seibert, while Julian will pursue other interests between Geurie and Bilpin.

Asked if she will continue with the same theme of Bliss and Friends as it is now, Seibert smiles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think you have to add your own flavour; it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay the same even if I tried but I do really want to keep

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the core-feeling Matilda has created.

“Matilda and the cafe have touched so many people in a good way that I would like to keep that warm atmosphere going, that’s what drew me to the place.

It’s not just a coffee shop, it’s feels like the heart of Geurie.”

The pair agrees Bliss and Friends has become a place where new friendships have been made and where locals, and those passing through, catch up.

“It will be the perfect job and the best part is I can bring Grace to work with me, how many workplaces allow you that?”

I’ve become a bit obsessed with weeds; it’s so much fun foraging for weeds and with the changing seasons seeing new weeds come up, we have Chickweed around at the moment and stinging nettles.

WAYS WITH WEEDS Stinging nettle gnocchi with field mushrooms Ingredients - The Gnocchi: ½ kg of potatoes 3-4 cups nettle leaves ½ cup cheese (parmesan is best) Two egg yolks 1 ½ cups of plain flour Salt and pepper to taste.

Violet making a coffee at Bliss and Friends.

Method: Peel, chop and boil potatoes until tender, then mash thoroughly.

Boil nettles for about two minutes then run under cold water (this maintains bright green colour of nettles).

Drain and squeeze out excess water then finely chop and stir into mash.

Add cheese and egg yolks and salt and pepper and one cup of flour and quickly mix all together.

When the dough feels not too sticky, take

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a small piece, roll into a ball and drop into boiling water to test. If it floats to the surface and holds its shape then the dough is ready. If not, add more flour and test again.

Flour the bench and roll dough into long sausages (about a finger’s width) and cut into pieces about 1-2 cm long. Keep the gnocchi on a tray dusted with flour to keep them from sticking.

Cook in boiling water in batches. If the pot is too crowded, the gnocchi will stick. They are cooked when they float to the surface

(about a minute).

As they are cooked, tumble them in olive oil to prevent sticking.

Violet Seibert says her favourite sauce to accompany the gnocchi is garlic and bacon fried in olive oil with fresh rosemary and field mushrooms (bought mushrooms are just as good). However, you can mix them with any sauce you like, such as a cream or tomato based sauce. » The website linked to the book is www.eatthatweed.com

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After reaching the highest peak on every continent including the formidable Mt Everest, adventurer Rob North has a very clear message: you can do anything if you put your mind to it. WORDS Natalie Holmes OB NORTH looks just like any other country bloke you’d run into around Dubbo. Tidilydressed, he wears the bush uniform of moleskins and checked shirt, with the latter neatly tucked in to crisply ironed pants.

But the local doctor, who has recently returned to the city where he was born and bred to train in obstetrics, has a fascinating story to tell: of his own courage and resilience; of being the boy from Delroy High who conquered the world, and of how anyone can do anything upon which they set their mind.

As the guest speaker at the University of Sydney’s recent alumni association gathering, North is well-spoken and completely at ease in front of an audience, as though addressing a crowd is something he does every day.

He is introduced as a “man of many great achievements”, who started adventuring around the world as a solo backpacker at age 25.

His interests grew and North rapidly became an intrepid explorer, as though his name was pushing him towards the various compass points, criss-crossing continents and pushing new boundaries with every trip.

The eldest of three boys, North was no stranger to sporting pursuits and was an active swimmer, tennis and soccer player in his youth.

After completing his secondary schooling locally, North briefly toyed with the idea of doing engineering before settling on medicine at the University of Newcastle.

He lived in various places – from Katherine to Coonabarabran and the Victorian Highlands and then set off on the first of many adventures traversing the globe.

Exploring the world gave him the opportunity to not only broaden his own horizons, but the chance to be a role model to others, to “foster young people, encourage them to set their sights on changing the world for the better, and encouraging their passion for life” and

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to always take the road less travelled.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled,” he told the audience, quoting Robert Frost.

His first trip was trekking in South America, which gave North the taste for adventure.

Then he decided to become the base camp doctor at a remote outpost in Antarctica, flying into South Africa where he boarded a Russian plane headed for the world’s most southern location.

“Antarctica was probably the most amazing thing I’ve done in my life,” he says.

North was medic to a population base of just seven people – which left quite a lot of time for other pursuits.

“We refuelled aeroplanes, went camping and went on hikes.”

It was a lot of fun, with 24 hour daylight to boot.

One of the excursions involved the retrieval of a journalist who’d gone trekking with a group of mountaineers. Another experience was to go down a crevasse – which North describes as ‘eerie and dark.’

After heading back to Australia and doing locum work for a while, it was soon time for more adventure.

The young doctor joined a ship visiting a remote group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Circle before heading south again to Antarctica, this time boarding a ship from South America to reach his destination.

“It was so thrilling to see all the wildlife – penguins, whales, and all the rocks, ice and vastness in a completely sterile environment.”

The next adventure was Nepal.

“I’d decided that I wanted to see the Himalayas, but I didn’t want to just join the backpackers at Base Camp.

I wanted to climb the mountain. In the meantime, I went to the Snowy Mountains and climbed Kosciusko, and got the first of the seven summits.”

At 2228m, Australia’s highest mountain is also the smallest of the group. Next up was Aconcagua in South America, which, at 6962m, comes in at number two on the list.

Perched on the border between Argentina and Chile, Aconcagua is the highest peak in the Andes, and in the Southern Hemisphere.

“It’s quite high, but there’s nothing technical about it,” North says of South America’s highest point. “It’s more about trekking.”

After South America, North decided to tackle Kilimanjaro (5895m) – Africa’s highest peak and the world’s tallest free-standing mountain.

North describes it as “fantastic” because it actually features three different climate zones – savannah, tropical and alpine regions.

Next, North set his sights on Mount McKinley in Alaska (6194m); which is also North America’s highest mountain, followed by Mont Blonc (4810m) in France and Russia’s Mt Elbrus (5642m). While in Alaska, North was fortunate enough to go kayaking in Prince William Sound, which was so remote that his group saw only one other party of trekkers during their time there.

“The weather was pretty rugged, but it was a beautiful, remote and vast place to go.”

Soon after, North was contacted by his climbing buddy Duncan Chessell, who was leading an expedition from the coast of Antarctica to the continent’s highest point, this time departing from Chile.

The group of four men reached the summit of Mount Vinson Massif (4897m) in the Ellsworth Mountains after a 400km trek from the frozen expanse of the Weddell Sea to the continent’s vast interior.

Documentary The Distant Peak tells of their experience, which North says was like no other.

“It was the most amazing scenery I have seen in my life,” he says, describing how there was no depth perception there and that you could also see the Earth’s curvature.

Armed with a map produced after an American expedition in the 1960s and a satellite phone, the group had to negotiate their way across crevasse country, unfamiliar terrain where just one wrong step had the po-

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tential to end your life.

They pulled 65kg sleds over what North referred to as a ‘no man’s land’, in temperatures of -10 degrees during the day. There was also the sun’s glare factor to contend with, which was so intense off the ice, it had the potential to cause serious burns.

In one of the coldest places on earth, North recalls having “the worst sunburn I’ve got anywhere”.

With such extremes, getting clothing layers correctly proportioned was of the utmost importance – otherwise, hypothermia could present much more troubling problems.

During the month-long trek, North lost 12kg, and laughingly says it was a “great weight loss program”.

ITH just one peak to go out of the Seven Summits, North set his sights on the mother of all mountains –Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak, standing tall in the Himalayas at an impressive 8850m.

In 2007, he made his first attempt of the climb, only to reach 8600m and psych himself out of reaching the summit. It was his wife who encouraged him to try again.

“The first time I attempted it, I turned around at the point where Lincoln Hall nearly died. I just freaked.

Jodie inspired me to go back and gave me her blessing.

She certainly believes that if you have a dream, you need to pursue it.

“It’s mind over matter,” he says of conquering the climb, which he did a few years later than originally planned.

“In 2010, I wasn’t as fit, but I was mentally ready. It’s something that you certainly have to be fit and prepared for but it’s also a mental game.”

Describing the adventure, North speaks of flying into Lhasa, which is at an altitude of 3500-4000m. Altitude sickness can be crippling, so climbers are urged to acclimatise before ascending the mountains. Even the motel rooms are equipped with oxygen stabilisers.

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Sleeping is difficult at altitude, and North says everyone gets apnoea at that height.

“Each bit of acclimatisation will help you get to altitude.”

After a while, climbers are strong enough to reach Everest Base Camp – an altitude of 6400m, reached by a 22km trek.

Supplies are taken on board a team of strong-shouldered yaks accompanied by sherpas who bless everything before the climb begins in earnest.

North tells of the two main ways of reaching the peak – from Tibet – a much more gradual climb and from Nepal, a steeper, more risky slope where avalanches and crevasses are common.

There are three stages and climbers try to do one stage at a time. Sherpas carry the gear... on their foreheads.

According to North, they’re a pretty hardy bunch.

“Four per cent of summit climbs are without oxygen; that is achieved by either the sherpas or those who do it all year-round.”

At the highest altitude known to humankind, North says it takes two hours to get ready.

“Even putting your boots on is hard and takes a long time.”

On the day he reached the top of Everest, he rose early and started the final climb to the summit. Once there, he spent about half an hour, before descending again.

When I unclipped, it was then that I felt the euphoria because then I knew that I was safe. There were a few tears, and real joy.

“People ask how it felt on the top.

“I remember the last 100 metres or so but you don’t’ exactly run there. There’s a lot to see when you’re nearly there. I got to the top and thought “that’s really good, I’ve got to get down now”.”

North says 80 per cent of accidents occur on the way down from Everest with people overcome by the euphoria of making it to the top.

He ensured he wasn’t going to be included in this statistic by using a rope that links stages of the climb.

“If you do fall, you stop at the next anchor point.

Once off the rope, I was getting more excited. When I unclipped, it was then that I felt the euphoria because then I knew that I was safe. There were a few tears, and real joy.”

F the adventure of mountaineering, North says it’s a tedious process and the sense of accomplishment only comes at the end.

“There’s nothing quick about it. You walk one step every four breaths or so – it’s a slow, slow plod.”

Since conquering Everest, he has dramatically eased off on the mountaineering to focus on family life as a father of four.

“These days, the travel is a bit more sedate and in comfort.”

And of course, North now has his sights set on training to be an obstetrician which he is doing right here in Dubbo.

He also wants to inspire others through his experiences and tell them that being from Dubbo is not a barrier.

“I want young people in particular to get the message that they can grab opportunities when they come up.

“I’m proud to have achieved what I have in life. And one of the main things is that coming from Dubbo does not inhibit you at all.”

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In history’s page Over the course of a 30 year career in the diplomatic corps, he’s had a ringside seat to some of Australia’s most significant political history. But ever the diplomat, Peter Stanford says he’s now happy to just sit back in retirement and observe from a distance. WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Cowley IS gently rounded vowels and an air of measured but firm worldly confidence hint at an anything but ordinary life, so there’s a bit of an “a-ha” moment when people learn that Peter Stanford spent 30 years in the diplomatic corps.

As a diplomat during the 70s, 80s and 90s, Stanford has had a ring-side seat to some of Australia’s most fascinating and turbulent international political history, but the now-retired Dubbo man has a remarkable humility, given the extraordinary experiences he’s racked up in three decades as an insider to the nation’s foreign affairs.

Not that he’s unaware of how interesting his career has been, but he matter-of-factly rattles off a litany of people, places and events that have dotted his adult life like he’s listing the days of the week – from postings in exotic locations to world-shaping political events and some of the most fascinating characters in Asian-Pacific history, Stanford’s resume reads like a screenplay.

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CAREER in law was derailed by a chance opportunity to take up a diplomatic traineeship with the Department of External Affairs soon after graduating from Canberra’s Australian National University (ANU) in 1971.

Stanford hadn’t aspired to join the diplomatic corps – he’d intended to become a lawyer and had already accepted an “article clerkship” with a large Sydney law firm – but a long held interest in international law and relations and public policy made the offer of an opportunity to become involved in Australian foreign affairs public policy hard to turn down. It was a natural fit.

The 70s was an interesting time to be involved with foreign policy – things were shifting in Australian politics, and around the world as a whole.

“Indeed they were,” says Stanford. “I joined in 1972 in the dying days of the McMahon government and before the year was out, we had a significant shift when Mr Whitlam and his government took over and changed many things.

“It was a fascinating time to be a young entrant into the world of diplomacy. Very early in the term of the Whitlam government, I was assigned to Papua New Guinea – that was at a time when the Australian government decided PNG should be hastened to independence and I was privileged, as a very junior officer, to work quite closely in that process – culminating in that country’s independence in 1975.”

Back in Canberra two years later, Stanford went to work on the (United Nations Convention on the) Law of the Sea and the Torres Strait Treaty negotiations for a number of years, and was back and forth to PNG a number of times in pursuit of a peaceful solution – the treaty was eventually signed in 1978.

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“She became an unpaid member of the diplomatic service from then on,” he laughs. “We were posted immediately to Malaysia, and spent the next three years in Kuala Lumpur where our son Alex was born.”

By then, the young diplomat had “crept up the totem pole quite a bit” and was involved in some “quite interesting” developments in Malaysia/Australia relations.

“It was the early years of the Mahathir government and Australia was very active with that country at the time,” he recalls. “I was particularly involved with some work with the ASEAN group of countries but also we had the high point of the visit in 1982 of the then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser – a visit which set the tone for our relationship with Malaysia for many years to come.”

Asked to explain, Stanford is characteristically measured and faintly reticent – choosing his words carefully after a near-lifetime of service to Australia’s international affairs.

“Well,” he says slowly. “Dr Mahathir was a man with very strong views, particularly with regard to things like trade and the regional policies of countries like Australia – and we had a lot of work to do to make sure all those things went smoothly and moved in an appropriate way.”

After Malaysia, in 1985, Stanford again brought his family back to Australian shores in 1985.

“I was working, of all things on refugee policy,” he says with a humourless laugh at the comparison with the current policy formulation that’s so much a part of today’s Australian conversation. “And I also worked on things like inter-country adoptions.”

He’s reluctant to be drawn on details, simply but politely saying, “I worked on those sorts of issues for a while. I had lots of jobs like that because of my legal background.”

HE couple was posted to Fiji in 1986 – an experience he describes, when probed, as “probably the most exciting time in our career”.

“It was about a year before that country’s first coup – a very interesting and tumultuous time.”

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Once you’ve travelled as much as we have, and been involved in so many quite stressful, albeit interesting, exercises – it’s rather nice just to observe, from a distance, the continuance of those things.

Were there any hairy moments?

“Oh, there certainly were,” he laughs. “Elections were held in Fiji in 1987, soon after our arrival, and the rest is well known – the Indian-dominated government was overthrown by the then third in command of the Fiji army – one Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka and a great deal of mayhem ensued.

“Of course, being involved with the Embassy, the safety of Australians in Fiji was our foremost concern. But it was also important to ensure that Australia’s views on these sorts of matters in the region were properly conveyed to a succession of governments that came after that – there were in fact two coups in 1987 and the previous Fijian Prime Minister, Mara, came back to power and we dealt with him.”

Stanford says there were indeed times when he feared for their personal safety. “Although the coups turned out to be largely bloodless – there were one or two people killed and injured – that wasn’t particularly evident at the time,” he says, recalling an evening in September 1987 during the second coup when the military, armed to the back teeth, came pounding on the door of the embassy.

“We decided we should probably stay there all night – nothing happened but that was a little hair-raising,” he says and I can’t help remarking on the delightful understatement.

“After we settled things down in Fiji, we went back to Canberra again for a stint and then I was involved in the background policy areas of the department working on disarmament which nearly resulted in a posting in Geneva.

“But that didn’t happen in the end and we went instead to Micronesia, which is the far-flung islands between The Philippines and Honolulu, where we spent nearly four years looking after Australia’s relations with some of the smallest countries in the world.”

Stanford describes the posting in Micronesia – among his favourites, if he’s pushed to name them – as “fascinating”.

“Micronesia is in an American sphere of influence, but I was responsible for working on a range of issues including the Mururoa Atoll nuclear testing and all sorts of things that happened with Australians in that part of the world. I got to go to all sorts of places and meet all sorts of interesting people – I loved Micronesia.”

The couple’s next posting was to Thailand in 1996 and finally, in the late 90s, back to Canberra, where Stanford worked on the foreign policy aspects of the Sydney Olympics.

“That took me up to the time I retired which I did quite early in my career – in 2000.” »

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FTER three decades criss-crossing the Asia-Pacific region, the Stanfords followed Janni’s family connections back to the central west of NSW, settling in Dubbo in 2011.

“We decided on a change of pace,” says the always understated Stanford.

“We love Dubbo, we love the people, we love the relaxed atmosphere. We can lead a quiet life – which we do.”

I can’t help wondering how one settles down after an entire career at the coalface of international politics and diplomacy, but Stanford insists there’s not a shred of regret.

“Once you’ve travelled as much as we have, and been involved in so many quite stressful, albeit interesting, exercises – it’s rather nice just to observe, from a distance, the continuance of those things. I watch the news very closely these days, but I’m very happy not to be at the coalface any more.”

That he’s a keen observer would perhaps come naturally after so many years in the service of Australia’s foreign policy, but how does Stanford now see Australia’s international and foreign policies playing out?

Has there been a fundamental shift in the way we operate in a global environment or is it a case of the more things change the more they stay the same?

Stanford gathers his thoughts and again, the response is measured.

“Just looking at it from a mechanical point of view, modern communications have greatly changed the role of diplomacy in the world. There was a time when I first joined the service when people used telexes and phone calls and embassies were contacted infrequently and often by ship and so on.

“If governments wanted to do things with other governments, the embassies played a somewhat different role than they do today. These days, with the 24 hour news cycle, there isn’t very much of importance that occurs in the world that isn’t immediately blasted onto CNN, the BBC, Sky News and so forth.”

Embassies, he says, are not so much a conduit of information these days. Their role is now very much a conduit of advice.

“The government no longer expects the embassy to produce pages and pages of reports on the elections in Great Britain or what have you – what they want to know is how they, our government, should handle particular issues.

“In that sense it’s changed, but there’s also the fact that different governments have put different stamps on our foreign policy over the years. Australia has become more regarded than ever as a progressive and productive member of the international community – through our efforts in international organisations, through our efforts bi-laterally, with refugee policy, human rights... all sorts of issues with which Australia has taken a leading role over the years. Our foreign policy has developed very much over the years, and I think very much for the better.”

If, as an observer, Stanford has thoughts on the way Australia is dealing with the current issue of refugees and asylum seekers, he’s keeping his cards very close to his chest.

“One of my principles in life, as a former official, is that I don’t think former officials should go ‘round making comment about current policy issues,” he says.

“But can I say that one of the problems I see is that very

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Janni Stanford, Dalas Hayden, President of the Marshall Islands Amata Kabua, Governor General Bill Hayden, Mrs Kabua and Australian Ambassador Peter Stanford at Government House, Canberra in December, 1993.

often with an issue like refugee policy, you have to be quite firm in defending your national sovereignty in order to avoid even greater tragedy than already exists. One of the classic examples is that by effectively stopping these boats from coming to Australia, where many people used to drown in their quest to reach our shores, that’s no longer happening.”

Refugee policy is a very complex issue, Stanford says.

“It’s one of the greatest human problems the world has to grapple with because of the huge numbers of people wanting to find other places to live. Australia, of course is a prime candidate because we’re one of the most generous settlement countries in the world.”

With such a sharp focus on global terrorism as a facet of international relations over the past decade or so, it’s easy to imagine that it’s a recent phenomenon. Not so, says Stanford.

“Let me tell you a story. The very first day I joined foreign affairs – in 1972 – the building in Canberra was evacuated because of a bomb threat. And I often think of that because – although things have grown much worse over the past 40-odd years – terrorism has always been an issue. Obviously, since the 9/11 catastrophe in the United States, it’s become even worse, but yes it’s always been a spectre. And we’ve always been concerned with our national security – that’s one of the fundamental tenets of Australia’s relations.”

So what is it that makes a good diplomat?

Stanford laughs. “That’s a very good question! One of the things people forget about diplomats is that they’re essentially the policy tentacles of the Australian government. So good diplomats need to have a good understanding of Australia’s policies and inter-

One of the failings of life as a diplomat is that you’re always an outsider looking in on other countries. One of the reasons we like Dubbo and Rotary is that we’re able to get back to being just ordinary citizens looking out from our own society.

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ests, wherever they are. There are all sorts of technical things that are used.

“People assume diplomats spend their entire lives standing around drinking champagne and there’s a fair bit of that goes on, but it’s all directed to a purpose. It’s not idle chit-chat. A good diplomat is someone who has policy sense and is able to retail that to his country’s best interests.”

INCE his move to Dubbo, Stanford has resumed a long-term connection with Rotary, a global organisation that fits nicely with his former career in that it has such a diverse international reach, and does so much to help the sorts of people he’s worked with in some of the Asia-Pacific regions.

“There’s certainly an element of that. I was a member of Rotary in both Fiji, Micronesia and Thailand, and there are two reasons for my interest in the organisation. One is for the reason you’ve suggested – it is a huge international exercise. But the other is that one of the failings of life as a diplomat is that you’re always an outsider looking in on other countries. One of the reasons we like Dubbo and Rotary so much is that we’re able to get back to being just ordinary citizens looking out from our own society. It’s rather nice to see things from the perspective of people who perhaps haven’t moved around so much.”

With the benefit of that community perspective, does he ever feel like picking up the phone to the government to offer advice?

Stanford laughs quickly and heartily. “Oh, no, no!

Those days are gone.

“I think one of the worst things former diplomats and former officials can do is write kiss-and-tell books about their experiences because good civil servants serve governments of the day and give them their best and most fearless advice, but they don’t go ‘round tittle-tattling about it.

“Many of my colleagues would disagree, and many have written extensively – but there’s no book in me.”

The writer in me also disagrees – and I’d offer my services if I thought I could get past that steadfastly discreet but charmingly diplomatic veneer.

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10. ASTRONOMY: Who are most of Uranus’ moons named for?

11. FLASHBACK: Who wrote and sang the theme song to the television show “Welcome Back, Kotter”?

12. SPORT: Who are the only two male tennis players to have five or more Australian Open singles titles?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “An only child alone and wild, A cabinet maker’s son, His hands were meant for different work And his heart was known to none.”

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The Love Boat: The Lost Years – Part 1 Introducing a 10 part series chronicling the outlandish adventures of an ocean liner adrift in tropical y seas – in which Andrew G gives Weekender readers an exclusive behind the scenes glimpse at what really happened on The Love Boat – when Tony met Billy. It’s an unlikely – and wholly fictional – love story...

APTAIN Tony adjusted his toolbox, which had shifted slightly to the left during his morning stint at the gym. His two-handed ministrations were interrupted by a non-descript, previously non-speaking character.

“Captain, any adjustments to our course?”

Captain Tony stared moodily out across the bridge.

“I can’t help, let me say that I can’t help, it can’t be helped, to notice that we are moving,” he said.

“Yes sir, only slightly, sir “And let me tell you, me tell you, that’s me telling you, that the people of this ship chose me to be captain because I said that I would stop the boat. And that is what I intend to do.

“It’s the current sir. We aren’t doing anything.”

Captain Tony recoiled, his head snapping from side to side. “Quiet, you fool!

Have you forgotten we don’t speak about on-water matters?”

The minion fidgeted from one leg to the other. “But you asked me a question, sir.”

A slight titter echoed from behind the wheel, followed shortly by the slight tit

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from which it came. First Officer Pyne was nominally in charge of activities and entertainment, but the actual role of each officer on board the Love Boat had widened considerably since Captain Tony took charge, meaning that at any moment Pyne could be organising a rousing sing-along of “Up the Khyber” or be covered in oil working the pistons down below.

“Captain Tony doesn’t ask questions,” he challenged. “To ask questions is to infer that he might not know something and we know everything. We have never been wrong and we have never needed to ask anything. Have we?

“That was a question just then, sir,” replied the still fidgeting minion without thinking, a subject he had studied at the Love Boat training school.

Pyne smile turned stick thin, the sort of stick only Bradman could have used

to hit a ball. “I don’t know, was it?” he retorted as the air around him turned suddenly cold. An icy glint twinkled in his right eye.

The minion stopped fidgeting and turned to Captain Tony for advice. Captain Tony stared back blankly. Time stalled, tried to restart itself, kangaroo hopped a couple of times and finally got moving again about 20 metres down the street.

“I have complete confidence in you, Chris,” stated the Captain, which was the universal signal for all officers to run shrieking from the deck. He complied.

“Stop the boat,” commanded the Captain.

The minion prepared his speech. He had practised this countless times in the dank cupboard/bunk room he shared with the rest of the minions, now was the time, his time.

The last words came out in a squeak as his breath came to an end. He had done it; he had dared to speak sense to the Captain. Surely things would change after this.

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“Sir, we have stopped the boat in that we aren’t doing anything to move it.

But we are in the middle of an ocean that moves by itself and so we move with it. We only have two choices. We could stop the current but no one knows how and it might not be possible. Or we could run our engines just enough so it doesn’t look like we are going anywhere but it will use a lot of fuel, more than actually going somewhere, and I don’t think we can keep it up forever.”

The last words came out in a squeak as his breath came to an end. He had done it; he had dared to speak sense to the Captain. Surely things would change after this.

They wouldn’t. For Captain Tony had noticed something off the port side.

Something sinister. It was Barnacle Bill Shorten and his band of Somali unionised pirates, once again trying to board the HMAS Love Boat.

Will Captain Tony stop the boat? Will Barnacle Bill get on board? Will First Officer Pyne finally work out blocking for his stage adaptation of Oklahoma?

All this and more, next week...

To be continued...

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Greg Smart

Friday 26.06.2015 to Sunday 28.06.2015 | 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.

Time for a shift in domestic priorities E should be alert and alarmed. Deadly violence on Australian soil is occurring at an alarming rate.

This year alone, nearly two Australians a week have lost their lives due to hate filled rage and resentment.

These deaths have occurred in full view but behind closed doors.

By year’s end, the number of victims will total at least the number killed in the Bali bombing – a sobering statistic that surely warrants urgent attention from our political leaders.

Instead, domestic violence festers away in Australian households, claiming women, men and children, while our political leaders stand in front of a phalanx of Australian flags and proclaim “the first job of the government is to keep Australians safe”.

Not from ourselves, but the terrorist death cult obviously.

Business As Usual Politics dictates that you follow the bouncing ball of what plays best in the electorate – that is, border protection – while wedging your political opponent by presenting them as weak on the issue.

Domestic violence is no less a crime than terrorism.

Surely it’s in our best interests to exert as much effort to disrupt and degrade domestic violence as we do terrorism?

A reasonable person would think so, but it won’t happen. It is neither a political wedge issue nor an arena for military erections.

Awarding anti-violence campaigner Rosie Batty 2015 Australian of the Year then reducing federal funding for domestic violence and legal support further highlights how priorities are distorted and how thin is the veneer of righteousness.

Why actually do something about preventing domestic violence when you can be seen appearing to do something about preventing domestic violence?

It’s not like the government does not have the capacity.

Incredible amounts of political capital have been expended on the case for cancelling the Australian citizenship of dual-nationals who take up arms for Islamic State. The government has made it its mission to have legislative powers in punish those Australians who seek to “harm the Australian way of life”.

Realistically, how many “radicalised” Australians will be caught in this proposed legislation? Three, four, five? A fraction of the number of victims that will succumb to domestic violence in the time the pollies have been grandstanding about “making Australia safe”.

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A single “one punch” attack on a Sydney street, while tragic in its own right, garners more attention from lawmakers than regular deaths in quiet suburban streets.

Alterations to lock-out laws were swiftly undertaken as an active measure to prevent attacks on late night revellers. Yet many government support services, such as women’s shelters and legal aid services, are having their funding reduced or not renewed – a distorted response to the problem of violence in the community which smacks of sexism. Just compare the political and media responses to the death of one white privileged male to that of numerous poor indigenous women.

The main stream media and its readers are willing

Domestic violence is no less a crime than terrorism. Surely it’s in our best interests to exert as much effort to disrupt and degrade domestic violence as we do terrorism?

participants in this distortion.

A one-punch attack by a testosterone and alcohol fuelled Neanderthal is front page news. An attack on a woman by a testosterone and alcohol fuelled Neanderthal in her own home, her place of security, warrants negligible column space. If the circumstance of the violence are unusual or macabre and adds a dose of sensationalism, then some media outlets may run the story. But crimes within a family, the ones that occur behind closed doors, generally stay there.

I’m not advocating every heartbreaking detail of every violent incident be picked over by the press – domestic violence is heart wrenching and personal. It occurs in all socio-economic groups and impacts all levels of society. The causes are many – poverty, mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse – and the solutions are complex.

But surely a crime that is such an emotional and financial drag on our community, ties up (and traumatises) so many police, court and medical resources, scars children and entrenches generational behaviours, should be exposed to the light of scrutiny and the weight of a whole of government response?

The status quo is not serving us as society. It is time for priorities to shift.

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Sally Bryant

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

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

In my book, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to quote me...

OMEBODY told me this week that something was all very well in theory, but that was only theory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The proof,â&#x20AC;? she said â&#x20AC;&#x153;will be in the puddingâ&#x20AC;?.

Not so much.

It was as much as I could do to restrain myself from correcting her. Because, tip for nothing, the proof is not in the pudding. The proof is somewhere else entirely. And if you want to know about the pudding itself? Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

As I understand it, the rationale behind this familiar saying is that the pudding might look really flash, it could have all sorts of self-saucing on the top; it could be the picture of perfection. However, if you want to know how good the pudding actually is, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to eat it. Hence, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the proof of the pudding is in the eatingâ&#x20AC;?. In other words, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all very well, but letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually test the case before we start celebrating the outcome.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not rocket surgery you know.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m constantly in awe of other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to mangle common popular phrases and expressions.

And it comes from not knowing the background, the provenance of the saying. If you know where it comes from, then you can see why it is said as it is.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where I reckon we go so wrong so much of the time. People are using expressions theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard in common usage but they have no real idea about what it is they are saying. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking something theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard, or misheard, and recycling it.

When was the last time someone wished you â&#x20AC;&#x153;many happy returnsâ&#x20AC;? on your birthday? At the risk of sounding like a complete doofus, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never really understood how that worked, why it was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;thingâ&#x20AC;?. I knew it was a courtly way of wishing someone a happy birthday, but I never really understood it.

But someone congratulated my Dad on his birthday the other day and wished him â&#x20AC;&#x153;many happy returns of the happy dayâ&#x20AC;? and it was like something went clunk click in my head and I understood how that works. (I

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wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t explain it at length, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfectly possible youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve understood it all along, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way of wishing someone a long and happy life.) And it was quite an extraordinary feeling to finally understand something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hearing all my life. I wonder how many other light bulb moments are going to be dotted throughout my dotage.

Of course there is great charm in the way we misinterpret commonly used phrases, a sort unintentional value-adding to the richness of language. Take for example the way some people sing the wrong lyrics or repeat prayers, incorrectly, by rote. Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extraordinarily irritating but quite often what you end up with far surpasses the glory of what was there originally.

Elton John was famous for writing about Stevie Nicks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hold me closer Tiny Dancerâ&#x20AC;?; but that segued into â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hold me closer Tony Danzaâ&#x20AC;?. And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the mangled line from the Hail Mary, that gave Malachy McCourt the title of his second memoir... â&#x20AC;&#x153;And blessed art thou, a Monk Swimming.â&#x20AC;?

And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a litany of lyrics for songs we used to sing at school which grossly misrepresent the intentions of the songwriter. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take the original and swap a word or two around and nekkminnit? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be a gloriously smutty version that we could sing away with impunity, knowing we could deny any malfeasance with a simple â&#x20AC;&#x153;you must have misheardâ&#x20AC;?.

I have an ongoing love affair with language â&#x20AC;&#x201C; some of it happens to be foul. I know swearing is generally accepted to be an indication of a lack of imagination, of a paucity of erudition. But I think that applies to a lower class of foul language. I believe thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a class of cussing that is head and shoulders above the common or garden variety and it saddens me considerably that I cannot give you examples right here which would make my effing case for me. Good swearing rises above the landscape like poetry rises above common or garden prose.

Over the years I have known people who have taken cussing to a higher level; people who are so expressive in their use of crude language that it becomes a sort of poetry. And it is glorious to listen to. In its place. When itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well chosen and appropriate.

There have been people Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked with in the sheep yards who can roundly abuse the sheep, their dog, the other men in such a way that listening to them is like going to the theatre. And then there are those who just make you cringe because they have no fluency, the words donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fly from their lips with such great ease.

I love a well rounded cussing. But it must be fluent and it must have eloquence and energy. And it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be exotic but it has to have style. And spare me from the self-conscious cusser, the mealy-mouthed proper types who only drop their effinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; c-bombs to gain acceptance. Or those who declaim with the gosh darns or the use of â&#x20AC;&#x153;sugarâ&#x20AC;? instead of a well-placed â&#x20AC;&#x153;shitâ&#x20AC;?. Give me instead those glorious declaimers who treat their swears as though they were the richest part of their sentence.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it, coarse language is just language â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tis there to be used, judiciously, like a pinch of salt or leaven in the bread. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tool.

And isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it amazing what language can achieve in expressing who people are, particularly when the use is actually misuse. Writers have created characters like Mrs Malaprop whose misuse of the English language gives us a picture of her thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far stronger than any we could gain from some adjectives strung together on a page.

I know a woman from foreign climes who was once asked whether two people she had introduced were getting along together okay, whether they were simpatico. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ah yes,â&#x20AC;? she said confidently. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are getting on like a house burning down.â&#x20AC;?

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Enough is enough: the mindset killing rural Australia BELIEVE we live in an abundant world; in a landscape that can provide us everything we need and then some; in a mind that will enable us to achieve anything we desire and in a community that will supply us our every want and need.

My daily mantra is there is always enough.

But what I’m finding each day in rural Australia is that most people don’t see it this way. What we see, collectively, is everything we don’t have. What we are aware of is what’s missing and that even when there is bounty, it’s never enough or it never lasts.

In rural Australia we have bought into scarcity thinking. We abide the boom and bust and to a large extent, we’ve created a culture and an economy of “not enough”.

We have deep seeded beliefs that are keeping us in drought. Drought is defined as a “prolonged shortage” and I see the mindset of many rural population lives there and that our environment reflects that collective belief. I call it “neverenoughitis”.

And quite frankly, it’s killing rural Australia and it doesn’t need to be this way.

In my work with rural women I see this every day. I speak with and support women who are highly functioning and capable, crippled by fear and scarcity thinking. They are so deeply aware of what they don’t have they aren’t even aware any more of what they do have or even want.

The symptoms of this scarcity mindset (neverenoughitis) show up as things like poor time management and a belief that there’s “never enough time” or struggles with money – “there’s never enough money” – or a fear of missing out means rushing into things. Even procrastination is a symptom of scarcity.

So many rural women – and rural men are living in survival mode and feel this intensely as discomfort – never seem to have enough time/ money/energy to do anything about changing it.

I often hear the word “scarcity” in our common language and in the media coverage of rural Australia.

We love the Aussie “battler”; we admire those who are “fighting back”. We protest when it rains because it wasn’t enough or it came at the wrong time and we complain that governments are never doing enough or that city people simply don’t understand.

It’s not the environment or the government that’s buggering up rural Australia – it’s the mindset of the people.

The laws of the universe state that what goes up must come down, that there is always an opposite – that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Like attracts like. When we are constantly focused on what we don’t have – and what is wrong – quite simply, we just attract more of that.

Leading American Researcher Dr Brene Brown says three are three elements that define a scarcity bound culture: shame, compar-

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ison and disengagement. She says Americans are living in a “culture of deep scarcity defined by “never enough””.

I believe rural Australians too are living this culture and that we’re seeing this being played out in a big way – but we don’t call it scarcity or even get around to naming it one of these three elements.

We call it an ice epidemic, when really it’s a symptom of people living in pain and shame. We name it as a city/country divide when really it’s comparison; we identify it as increasing unemployment when it’s notably a disengagement issue.

We call for and apply a systems solution to these very real and very changeable human challenges. Law and order. Education programs. Big stick approaches to unemployed people.

Ice users don’t need more punishment and law and order – the need support to heal shame and pain.

City people don’t need to “understand” rural people – rural people need to heal the belief they are not “good enough” and work towards a belief of worthiness.

Unemployed people need support to re-engage with their passions and to define and start claiming their purpose in life.

Until we call scarcity out into the light, name it and own that we are living there, it will continue to infect and drive us in all sorts of negative ways – in our community and in our landscape and environment.

It’s not enough to just have a positive approach – you can paint over graffiti, but the graffiti still exists below the surface and with enough weathering, will always reappear.

Drought is not just about the land – it’s about the people too. And until we start humanising and re-naming the issues, they will remain and even compound.

Let’s inspire a new conversation in rural Australia – one about thriving, healing and evolving. Let’s activate the abundance in our world by first seeing the abundance in our own lives.

Dr Brown says the counter to scarcity culture is wholehearted living.

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THE BIG PICTURE. A Kashmiri woman walks on a footbridge as it rains in Srinagar, India this week. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monsoon rains in India are officially forecast to be only 88 per cent of the long-term average.

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Plan to pump life into city’s “dead” heart

BY MATT WRIGHT PRESIDENT OF THE DUBBO O CHAMBEROF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

YEAR ago the headline on a front-page story in a local paper said the CBD was “dead” and recently a visitor regarded the economic heart of the city as “dull and drab”. True or false?

That Dubbo City Council has been conducting a public-consultation campaign under the “Ignite our Centre” banner is indicative of its response to the community’s concerns about the attractiveness and prosperity of the CBD. The consultation period of the campaign, which is the core of a CBD Precincts Plan, a subsidiary but distinct plan being developed in parallel with overarching Dubbo Commercial Areas Development Strategy, has concluded. Council is assessing the community’s suggestions and a draft plan to “revitalise and reshape” the CBD is expected to be placed on public exhibition by the end of the year.

Council, undoubtedly, will do its part to ignite the future of the CBD with an ongoing program of attractions and activities to tempt residents and visitors to experience the CBD and visit it more often. The ultimate test will be the ongoing boost to business turnover and the CBD economy.

Council’s program will, in effect, act as a stimulus to consumer spending. Smart business owners will find ways of leveraging off the program with their own promotions drawing window shoppers into their retail outlets, cafes and restaurants.

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF Rain prompts bloat warning RECENT rain across the western region has prompted a warning to cattle producers to guard against the deadly condition of bloat. While the growth of clovers and medics is a great source of nutrition for livestock, cattle deaths have been reported around the Coonamble district and Goodooga areas as a result. This spike in deaths is caused by the combination of little dry feed in the paddocks, followed by recent rain and a massive flush of clover growth.

Landholders with these conditions should take steps to prevent livestock deaths due to bloat, according to Central West Local Land Services Regional Vet Dr Jillian Kelly. “These types of pastures cause a gassy froth to form in the rumen (the first stomach) which cannot be burped up,” Kelly says. “The distended rumen puts pressure on the lungs, heart and blood vessels – death is rapid and treatment is usually impossible.”

According to Kelly, prevention is key. “There are a number of bloat prevention options, such as bloat oils, liquids, pellets, blocks and dry licks.” Feeding hay can also help. Some cases of bloat may be pulpy kidney in disguise, so producers should also give a pulpy kidney vaccination booster now. Pasture could be high risk for bloat for

In essence, the success of Ignite our Centre for the prosperity of the CBD will be a three-way collaboration: council maintaining the momentum of attractions and activities, marketing initiatives by business owners and the willingness of consumers to open their wallets.

Josie Howard, council’s economic development officer, said Ignite our City, in part, was about inspiring the business community to implement their own ideas.

The elephant in the room, however, will be state of the national economy – what happens at that level flows through to regional cities and the smallest of towns alike. It affects (a) business investment which, in turn, creates jobs and wages, and (b) consumers’ confidence to spend.

A bright light on the horizon for Dubbo and the region will be the $1 billion Dubbo Zirconia Project, which is closer to construction. It is expected to contribute spending of $50 million annually in the local economy, provide some 400 construction jobs and plus 250 operational positions over a 20-year span.

Similarly, the $91 million redevelopment of Dubbo Hospital will provide the hospital with a state-of-the-art platform from which

It is imperative that the primacy of the CBD be maintained as the focus of the economic and social life of the city.

it can integrate the latest services and technologies which attract highly trained and paid staff, and has a multiplier impact, which affects other employment sectors, including commercial services and retail. All a further boost to the local economy.

The chamber, while seeing great opportunity for maximising the potential of the CBD, notes in its submission to council a number of constraints or challenges to be overcome.

For example, the location and scale of Orana Mall is considered as a barrier to the success of the CBD. Particularly, a multi-million dollar expansion of the shopping centre’s Woolworths store in the next financial year, which retiring Woolworths CEO, Grant O’Brian, announced while addressing 85 members and guests at an ASX200 Chamber Breakfast function at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. While the chamber welcomes this investment in the city and the jobs it will provide, it is imperative that the primacy of the CBD be maintained as the focus of the economic and social life of the city offering a variety of functions including professional, commercial, retail, entertainment, food, drink, accommodation and recreational uses.

The chamber looks forward to the opportunity to engage with council on the CBD Precincts Plan and the overall Dubbo Commercial Areas Development Strategy to discuss how each commercial precinct in the city can function together to improve the overall economy and the pleasure and ease of shopping and doing business in Dubbo.

Thus putting paid to descriptions of the CBD, such as, dead, dull and drab.

at least four weeks or more. Local Land Services recommends producers consult their district veterinarian or private veterinarian to discuss bloat prevention options for their individual situation.

out on our learning support programs – which they desperately need.” Anyone wishing to donate to The Smith Family’s Winter Appeal can phone 1800 024 069 or visit www.thesmithfamily.com.au

Bleak outlook as winter appeal falls short

Home ownership inquiry slammed as “political grandstanding”

ORANA region residents are being urged to open their hearts and wallets as charity coffers fall far short of the funding needed to support disadvantaged children across the nation. The Smith Family says thousands of children may miss out on critical educational support if the shortfall is not urgently addressed. The organisation’s NSW Manager, Steve Macready, this week said a $1.2 million dollar shortfall could see more than 3,000 children miss out on before and after school learning programs across the country. “In New South Wales alone, we still need to raise $446,368 to ensure that 1166 children get the support they need,” Macready said. Financial disadvantage affects a staggering one in 10 children in Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and Macready says these children feel the effects of their situation when they start school, and throughout their education. “Donations to our Winter Appeal will fund vital before and after school learning programs to give 9,575 disadvantaged children across Australia the extra support they need to keep up, fit in, and thrive at school. If we don’t raise $3.5 million dollars before June 30, thousands of children may miss

A WELL-KNOWN mortgage broking business has questioned the purpose of the federal government’s parliamentary inquiry into home ownership, saying the terms of reference smack of political grandstanding. According to Mortgage Choice CEO John Flavell, the inquiry, which started late this week in Canberra, had failed to consult with or brief the housing industry on any specific objectives.

The time for reform in the housing market has arrived, Flavell said, and the government needs to work towards affecting positive change.

“Real solutions are required to make property ownership achievable for our younger generations and as a starting point, outdated policies like stamp duty need to be reviewed in order to keep pace with the market.” The CEO says while his organisation supports “anything that seeks to address some of the key issues...like housing affordability” but that it “seriously questions” the purpose of the inquiry. “The vague terms of reference suggest this inquiry is another case of political grandstanding. Topics the inquiry will cover – from ‘demand and supply drivers’ in the property mar-

ket to the ‘impact of current tax policies’, – are a constant point of discussion in the community and covered by media most days of the week.

Flavell says despite record low interest rates, housing affordability continues to be an enormous barrier for many Australians trying to get their foot on the property ladder. At present, property prices are booming in many property markets. In Sydney and Melbourne, for example, values are climbing at such a speed that first home buyers are finding it hard to keep up and are being priced out of the market. We believe more needs to be done to help make property ownership more achievable for young Australians.

“At present, government policies, like stamp duty, are inhibiting prospective buyers as they are failing to keep pace with the market. The cost of stamp duty has soared by almost 800% across many of our states over the past two decades.

“In New South Wales, stamp duty costs have soared 749% in the past 20 years. At the same time, the median house price has also soared, but the exemptions provided to first home buyers have not been reviewed. NSW first home buyers are provided with a stamp duty exemption on properties under $550,000. But, given that the median property price in Sydney is $752,000, it is fair to assume that a lot of first home buyers are missing out on this exemption altogether. The less help first home buyers are given to get onto the property ladder, the harder it becomes for them to do so.”

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Sorghum is booming this year, with this crop grown south of Dubbo over summer.

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Sorghum boom for country croppers

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

ORGHUM is on the rise, with demand from China pushing up prices for local exporters.

With harvest concluding late last month, Ag Scientia grain analyst Lloyd George said China has been importing upwards of 900,000 tonnes a month so far this year. The US traditionally provides the bulk of trade in grain, but Australian farmers are now cashing in on higher demand from their Asian neighbours along with solid yields this season.

Parkes grower Greg Wright just started growing sorghum last year, but had a positive result first time ‘round.

“We did it mainly as a trial, we’re not really summer croppers,” he told Weekender.

“But we got 3.6 tonnes per hectare, so we’ll let it fallow over winter and do a lot more this year.”

Another local grower from Peak Hill has switched to full-time summer cropping after observing rainfall patterns in his area.

He now works crops in rotation, and has been growing sorghum for five to six years. This year’s crop was 400 hectares.

“We noted that we were getting more summer rainfall. Sorghum is also more robust and has a far more aggressive root system. We can work it into rotation and use winter fallow to gain a full moisture profile.”

He has a positive outlook of the current marketplace but would like to see further growth of the domestic market, saying it would be ‘”appy days when production and consumption matched up”.

As for the proposed new Free Trade Agreement between China and Australia which still needs to be passed by the respective governments, he said sorghum was already a deregulated commodity.

“I don’t know if the free trade agreement will make a difference with sorghum because it doesn’t have a tariff.

Wheat, barley, canola though – it will certainly be lifted off them.”

According to news service RT, more than 85 per cent of exports will be tariff-free under the deal, rising to 95 per cent on full implementation.

Australian businesses currently face tariffs of up to 40 per cent on goods exported to China.

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Consulting, said the sorghum boom was good for Australian growers.

“It’s a great opportunity that’s been building over the last couple of years as a result of trading tariffs that China put on corn,” he explained.

Dolbel said that imports were considerably affected with buyers forced to pay more for corn, hence the switch to the lower-priced sorghum.

Sorghum is used for stock feed as well as for making alcohol and as a biofuel for heating.

Dubbo-based Robinson Grain Trading manager Adam Robinson said the reason sorghum has increased into China is mainly to supply the alcohol market.

He also pointed out that increased supply from Australia to Asia is directly related to issues around geneticallymodified corn being exported from the USA to China.

As a result, Robinson said the Chinese government provided price floors to local growers to stimulate the domestic corn market. It also paved the way for sorghum imports.

“It’s been good news for Australian sorghum growers in the past few years with the Chinese paying more than local consumers,” he said.

Robinson said this year’s production of 2.2 million tonnes had been high, following the effects of drought on crop yields in many sorghum-growing places last year.

Dolbel said that farmers in the Liverpool Plains area where he mainly operates, were receiving $300-305/tonne ex-farm for their sorghum in the current marketplace.

But he advised not to change longterm plans for what could be a shortterm boom.

“I think it’s good to take advantage of the situation at the moment but I wouldn’t encourage growers to change their operations.”

Robinson agreed saying that “the market into China has been at a premium for Australian growers but sorghum ‘is not something that every farmer in the Central West can grow”.

“It comes down to the soil type and the amount of moisture but generally, sorghum can be grown anywhere that corn or cotton is grown.”

Approximately 60 per cent of Australian sorghum is grown in Queensland and the remainder in northern NSW. It is a good rotation crop that tolerates heat and moisture stress and performs better than maize on soils with marginal potassium levels.

The minimum wage rises again!

Are you ready?

N Australia, 1.8 million employees are set to receive a 2.5 per cent pay increase. From July 1, 2015, the minimum wages in Australia are set to rise by $16 a week.

In this column, we cover what you need to do as an employer, even if your employees are paid above the minimum wage, as well as what you need to do as an employee.

This means that Australia’s minimum wage will go up from $640.90 per week to $656.90, or $17.29 per hour.

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As an employer, what do I need to do?

IT’S important, with July only a few weeks away, to adjust your payroll software rates so that the increase will apply to the first full pay period on or after July 1, 2015, for any employees who are receiving the national minimum wage or are under the modern awards.

My employees are paid above the national minimum wage/modern award rates – do I need to worry about the increase?

YES. Even if you pay your employees a rate above the minimum wage and

modern award rates, you will have to check that they never fall below the new minimum wages rates.

The same goes for any employees you employ under an enterprise agreement, you will need to check that the base rates in their agreement remain at least equal to the new minimum Modern Award rates.

As an employee, what should I do?

CHECK with your employer as to what your current pay rates are, and ensure that when you receive your first full payslip for the period on or after July 1, 2015 any applicable increases that apply to you have been made.

Whether an employer or employee, you can contact Scolari Comerford on 1300 852 980 if you have any queries regarding these changes, or if we can help you even out and maximise your cash flow.

If you have any enquiries regarding the above or need accounting, taxation or require a business valuation, Scolari Comerford will be happy to discuss your needs.

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The sky’s the limit Day dreaming at the back of a high school maths class about one day finding a fortune in helicopters could be dismissed as a teenage pipe dream but former Dubbo man, Chris Ryan, turned that childhood passion into a business model which is hard to simulate.

WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor ComanSargent S with the realisation of most dreams, this hasn’t been an overnight success.

At 47, Chris Ryan’s spent more than a decade dedicated to creating commercial grade helicopter simulators thanks to a chance remark in 2001 from a helicopter instructor.

It was a light bulb moment for Ryan and the tenacity and endurance it’s taken to get the business over the line.

As managing director of Ryan Aerospace, he now travels the world peddling his wares to a clientele that literally has its head in the clouds.

While he too could have that approach, Ryan’s modest beginnings in a Taree garage and lounge room have left him with a decided streak of humility and there’s a touch of the country boy, which, along with support from family has kept him grounded.

“I’ve had undying support from my family watching this business grow, especially from my mentors in Mum and Dad and my two gorgeous girls who have put up with having a factory and workshop in their lounge room for so many years,” he tells Weekender on a recent visit to Dubbo.

His dad in particular made a key investment in Ryan’s future many years ago when he financed a $2000 computer for his son.

“I’m sure he sort of thought it’s a waste of money but it certainly wasn’t.”

Nor were the flying lessons Ryan started taking while still in high school.

“I started flying lessons here in Dubbo when I was 16 on the weekends when I was in high school. At the same time Dad bought me a Commodore 64 computer which had a flight simulator on it and I thought wouldn’t it be good if you could have real knobs and buttons and switches and this flight simulator could be more realistic. I drew a picture of it then,” he says.

“In about 2001 I wanted to convert over to helicopter so I was doing a lesson at Caboolture and after-

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wards the instructor asked me, “How did that go, are you happy with that?”, and I said, yes. But I was a bit disappointed because there was that one time where I put my foot on the pedal and the thing went the wrong way and he said don’t worry about that, it takes a lot of skill. It can take 10, 20 hours just to learn how to hover, some people 30 and some people never get it all.”

At more than $400 a lesson, Ryan could see the switch from fixed wing to helicopter pilot was going to be expensive and to his surprise learned there wasn’t a simulator around that could teach the motor skills required.

“The instructor said someone should invent that. It was one of those classic light bulb moments where you just go, “I’m going to do it”, and I did.”

Once built, Ryan practiced on his homemade simu-

lator and eventually returned for another lesson with the instructor.

“He couldn’t believe it. I could hover and take off and land and fly sideways. He said “I’ve never seen anyone pick up helicopters so quickly, how did you do it? I told him I built the simulator.”

Far from realistic, Ryan describes his prototype as “a bit of PVC pipe stuck to the side and an old gaming joystick that I’ve pulled apart and rewired and a bit of dodgy welding”.

HE instructor suggested he make a commercial version, and Ryan complied.

“I thought it was really innovative at the start, to make it modular and reconfigurable, so I call this first product the Helimod. The idea was you have the

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cockpit, the seat, the cyclic, the pedals and the visual screens but the instrumentation and the collective lever, which is the lever at the side to make the helicopter go up and down basically, are all different in different helicopters so you just take this part off and go and get the next one and put it on. I thought that was really innovative,” he says.

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Once designed and built, Ryan uploaded it to a website and then took a call from Royal Airforce in England who said it was exactly what they’d been looking for to teach their pilots how to fly.

“He was a squadron leader in the RAF based at RAF Halton in the UK. They had an engineering lab. They used to get pilots in to test various human factor-type

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things, and he was commissioned by the Defence Helicopter Flying School which is where every army, navy and air force pilot is trained, including Princes William and Harry.

“He said they needed a basic simulator. Well, I thought it was a joke. I thought it was David, my brother. He’s always pulling practical jokes but I eventually got an official purchase order.

“I just couldn’t believe it, so I went over there in 2006. It was my first sale and I installed a machine.

I took a second one with me thinking I’ll leave it over there with friends and try to sell it and save on the freight, but [the RAF] ended up buying that one as well. So, that was really good.”

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The Ryan Aerospace stand at a trade show in the USA with the team, Sqd Ldr (RET) Jim Cooper and Anné Phillips.

Leader (RET) Jim Cooper, who gave that first foot in the door, now works for Ryan.

“He was the catalyst; the guy who made me think, this could become a business,” Ryan says.

He soon discovered a new market for his products called Combined Arms Training or Mission Rehearsal.

In a world where allies work in the field together, sharing a virtual training space is cost effective and reduces logistical problems.

“Military pilots need to practice a mission before they do it. For example, they might have a partner in Italy and he’s an army attack helicopter pilot in charge of a simulation section in the army and in Afghanistan he has to prepare for a mission in supporting an American contingent.

“So all these Chinooks were coming in to deploy a couple of hundred American troops and he’s in command of the four or so attack helicopters. They are going into a really dangerous situation and they were expecting lots of casualties and so they invested a lot of time prior to going, training for the mission and he was in charge of all of that,” Ryan explains.

“Drones were sent out to take the aerial photos to overlay over the top of the 3D mesh environment and then they could practice the mission. All the pilots are war pilots but they’re using simulators to practice coming in.”

All possible routes can be played out on the simulator, paused and reversed, viewed from multiple perspectives, until the best possible solution to problems like having enough fuel and avoiding enemy fire can be found.

“They’d practice and practice the mission and on the day, they got all the America troops in and there were no casualties. They shot all the bad guys and everyone was happy ... except for the bad guys.”

ISTENING to Ryan talk about the application of his simulators sounds the same as your average 15 year-old discussing virtual war games, and for good reason.

“There’s a term that’s used a lot in this industry – Serious Games. What’s happening is the military used to be stuck with these massive big propriety systems that cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, and now the gaming sector is producing this fantastic stuff, and it’s all being funded by gamers, who are paying a 100 bucks for a game.

“These games are billion dollar industries. They’re making more money out of a Call of Duty than they are out of a box office hit at the movies. So all of the investment that’s going into that gaming engine development now, the military is tapping into and the in between companies are taking these gaming engines and saying, “Well, okay, we’re going to take the gaming element out of this and put a real life application to it”. It allows you to have lots of people in the ‘game’ at once,” Ryan says.

Networking is a new application for Ryan’s Helimod and Helicrew simulators but while graphics and rendering allow for realism, he’s found they don’t need to be full motion with hydraulics or every instrument doing exactly what it’s meant to be doing because the

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training is more about procedures.

“The training is about being able to interact together, because you have people who’ve never worked together going in for a really critical mission and the procedures that they follow have to be well known to both parties, or in some cases, 3, 4, 5 or maybe 10 different parties.

“You might have guys on the ground calling for fire to say they need an attack helicopter to take a sniper in a tower. It’s not like they can ring him up on a mobile and say, “Hey look would you mind just slipping down and taking this guy out?” There’s a whole procedure that has to happen for that to work, so by rehearsing the mission, you reduce a great deal of cognitive load.

“I have customers in Canada who said they’d done the training and when they got to Afghanistan, they felt like they’d already been there. It was all just so familiar. When you can reduce that cognitive load, it allows your brain to have more power to concentrate on more critical things.”

N business of course, critical things include keeping up cash flow and maintaining a competitive edge. Dealing with military clientele can make that difficult.

“Military money and the military market is hard to get into. It takes a long time and people are always changing. So, you make friends with someone in the military that’s a decision maker and you show them what you have and they say, this is great, this is perfect, this is exactly what they want, and then they leave.

And that’s been the biggest challenge,” says Ryan.

“The other big problem I’ve had is people have said this is perfect, this is just what they need, but we didn’t know we needed it, and so then they’ve got to change their whole thinking, realign their budget, redo their whole business plans, and that can sometimes take years. It requires a lot of patience.”

To counter these kinds of industry delays, Ryan is exploring possibilities in the commercial and rescue helicopter emergency markets, competing on pricing.

“There are simulators out there but they’re very expensive, to buy or to hire. It’s about half the cost of the real helicopter but it’s still expensive. Some of these simulators can be in the order of $20 million.

“Pilots are made to test their currency every 90 days and go through a couple of hours of real time flying. I have a customer who said they didn’t have a simulator that can do that, so they have to take the real aircraft up but the real aircraft can’t go up without a full crew and they have eight pilots which costs $11,000 every time they do it, and it has to be done every 90 days. So

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you can see how expensive it is to do this type of work.

“Whereas if you have a simulator that’s certified by CASA (Civil Aviation Safety Authority) it can all be done in the simulator for a fraction of the cost. Ryan Aerospace simulators start at $US25,000 and go up to $US300,000.

While he talks in US dollars, Ryan gets nearly all his manufacturing done in Australia.

“When I was living in Taree, it was nearly all done in Taree. I do all the design then I outsource most of the manufacturing. That includes laser cutters, engineers, powder coaters, injection moulders, 3D printers and 3D scanning, all done by sub-contracters.

“From a business point of view, Taree was a great place to be. The engineers there were fantastic; nearly all the services I needed were there or could be done

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and shipped over there, and it’s certainly a lot cheaper than it is on the Gold Coast.

“There, I have more selection but the customer service in the bigger areas is nowhere near as good. I used to go in and see the guys and say okay I really need you to do this job for me – do you think you could sneak it in for me and they would always try to oblige, whereas up there it takes a while from the customers’ point of view.

“I try to do it the other way around. I look after my suppliers, so I’d pay the invoice the day I get it, even if it’s not due for 30 days, and at the end of the year I’d take a carton of beer around to the major guys and say thanks for those times when you slotted me up front because you knew it was a really urgent thing. So I found in places like Taree, over time, I’d get looked after a lot better.

“That customer supplier relationship management is really an important thing. One of the bad things about moving to the Gold Coast is I’ve had to start on that all over again. I’ve got to build the relationships up. Up there you’re a smaller fish in a bigger pond, which makes it a little bit harder. You’re competing with the guys that are spending 20 times the amount that you’re spending and that actually makes it a little bit hard, but when it comes to attracting customers to

come and have a look at where I am and what I’m doing, it’s more important.”

LTHOUGH the move to Queensland wasn’t because the state offered better business incentives, Ryan, who has a background in economic development working for the Gunnedah Shire and Greater Taree City Councils, has not been disappointed.

“I’m a little bit surprised at how good it is. I worked a lot in NSW in economic development so it was my job to try to attract businesses. I was always trying to access government programs and help businesses. It was tough. It was really hard to try to find the right mix and at times it could be bureaucratic but up there I’m finding it quite easy. I’m accessing some of those programs myself and it’s really good.”

Although there is a cast of local and global contractors contributing to Ryan Aerospace’s operations, much of the time Ryan works alone.

“It’s just me. It’s a strange business model. I do all the design and I’ve got a factory but for the past three weeks I’ve been working from home developing a new simulator.

“I’ll finalise the design, do all the engineering drawings, and just send those off to the various contractors and they’ll start building it and I’ll assemble it all in

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the factory.

“I do have an aerospace engineer starting in a couple of weeks just for three months. There are lots of people involved but as far as the actual business goes I’m a one man show.”

While not always a dream run and with plenty of challenges along the way, including starting out on a dining room table, which doubled as a show room to international clients wanting to see his ‘facility’, Ryan is grateful for the path his business has taken.

“This is where I feel so fortunate that people move along their life and they take different career paths and some know what they want to do and some struggle a little bit more and I’ve always enjoyed my career.

I’ve had lots of different things in my career and I’ve enjoyed all of them but it’s only now I feel like I’ve come back to where I really belong and that is doing all the things I loved doing when I was a kid.

“I loved inventing. I loved drawing. I loved designing. I love building. Things that were a little bit innovative and this business gives me all of that plus all the other great things like the travel.”

But possibly the earliest influence on Ryan’s keen sense of invention came from an investment in his childhood for which he thanks his parents.

“Lego. I was very good at Lego when I was a kid.”

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Mythbusting is a great exercise for fitness

BY ROD FARDELL PERSONAL TRAINER

ERE are a few myths surrounding the subject of fitness that, believe it or not, a lot people still believe. Let’s go myth-busting!

Myth: I am overweight because I am big boned Mmmmm. Yep, this is a favourite. The truth?

If someone is overweight it is predominantly to do with carrying excess fat. Excess fat comes from excess calories which comes from a combination of consuming fats and carbs and not moving enough. Studies have shown that although the heaviest boned humans in the world are Polynesians but unless you can carry this excuse from deep ancestry, check to ensure there is some value in your heritage or perform some form of tribal dance to assist your big bone theory – it’s a myth that’s busted. Even if you are Polynesian there is still a separation in relation to weight, based on what percentage of your body mass is muscle and what is fat. Carrying excess fat is pointless unless you want to become a seal. Maybe you could say you are a Polynesian seal?

Myth: I should go to the gym when I get fit This one is perfect for procrastinators. Con-

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Call for boost to care for young disabled AGED care providers, including those in the Orana Region, should be given extra money and training to accommodate the needs of young people with a disability living in such centres according to the recommendations of a Senate inquiry.

It’s just one of 12 recommendations from the inquiry into the adequacy of existing residential care arrangements available for young people with severe physical, mental or intellectual disabilities. The committee urged government to ensure young people living in aged care homes are “intensively” case managed, with their placement reviewed annually. It wants the establishment of a database of all young people under 65 years of age in such facilities and a placement tool to assess their accommodation and care needs. Accreditation standards for residential aged care should be changed to include those relating to young people.

Supplementary payments should be provided by the government to ensure such standards can be met, alongside an investment in disability specific training for staff involved in the care of young people, it recommends. The inquiry calls for a joint state-federal taskforce to be established and for it to report back twice a year. Previous programs have not adequately addressed the needs of 50-64 year olds, who make up 90 per cent of young people in aged care, the

sulting a professional regarding your health can assist you by making the best changes at your pace through identifying where you are right now. Your first consultation should cover a mobility test, body evaluation, non-intrusive nutritional assessment and a motivational and life style assessment. From there, a program is designed to fit with your budget, your goals and your lifestyle. Please remove this myth from your excuse bank. Remember – there are no excuses.

Myth: If I lift weights I will get big and bulky muscles Ladies this is a special one for you. A lot of women have preconceived ideas that once they pick up a barbell that their arms, legs, chest and back are going to turn them into The Hulk. Some of this basis for this myth comes from a lot of female body builders, some of whom are not so natural but whose photos adorn magazines. Like men, women will increase their lean muscle tissue by lifting weights but only to a certain level. Most females don’t have a lot of testosterone to build large bulky muscles and if anyone has been to body building competition, they’ll see that a lot of the women are extremely small but extremely well defined. When photographed, that definition can seem quite big. Ladies, increasing your lean muscle tissue by lifting

report found. It notes the inquiry was conducted during the National Disability Insurance Scheme transition period. The committee recognises the importance of transitioning disability funding and services towards a personcentred model.

“However, (it) notes that there is a lack of clarity around the delivery of certain services using this model.”

It’s still unclear how capital is to be provided to build the “bricks and mortar” of specialised accommodation for people with a disability, it argues.

“It is the committee’s view that young people living in residential care have waited too long and cannot continue to wait for policy development to improve their lives during this transition period.” WITH AAP

Deal paves way for cheaper drugs THE federal government’s multi-billion dollar deal with pharmacists cleared parliament this week, paving the way for some medicines to potentially become cheaper for consumers.

A bill to implement the sixth community pharmacy agreement passed the Senate on Tuesday with the support of Labor and Greens’ – seven days before the previous five-year agreement ran out.

The $18.9 billion deal, signed off with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia in May, allows 5450 community pharmacies to continue dispensing medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

It includes a $1 optional discount on prescriptions to encourage competition.

The discount will come from the coffers of pharmacists and could save taxpayers $360 million over five years.

While Labor and the Greens backed the package, both were frustrated by the government’s delay in coming to an agreement.

weights including your own body weight is very, very important. Do not give this up!

Myth: I only need to run and I will be fit Sorry, guys. While running is a natural movement and fantastic for strengthening muscles, exercising the heart and burning fat and calories it is not the only component of overall health that needs to be worked on. A training program should predominantly focus on strength, speed, cardiovascular endurance, stretching and agility. There are many forms and combinations of these from dancing to yoga, cross-training to specialised routines. It is important to ensure that you get this combination into play every week. If you play a certain sport you may get all combinations of these together to assist in getting the best out of your routine. In saying that, everyone has specific goals that may take up a larger portion of your training routine. Again that’s fine but taking a small number of other components will make a massive difference.

For instance, running marathons without having any flexibility and/or some strength leads to an imbalance. In particular core strength plays integral part of overall movements from head to toe.

As always – may you be challenged by creativity, ignited by passion and fuelled by laughter. Break some myths and get moving!

Despite having 12 months to shake hands with the Pharmacy Guild on a deal, the legislation was rushed through in the final days before the expiry of the existing agreement. A lack of consultation and scrutiny were Labor’s main concerns. But the government says the deal is the result of extensive negotiations and includes ideas from a wide range of sectors. Greens leader Richard Di Natale also questioned whether including so many measures in the one bill was a strategy to force the Senate to wave them through.

“The Senate is being asked to rush through a major piece of legislation because the government delayed coming up with an agreement,” he told the upper house this week.

The Pharmacy Guild has rejected the $1 discount on prescription drugs, but accepts that’s a matter for government, but both Labor and the Greens welcomed the measure which could save pensioners up to $40 a year.

Opposition senator Jan McLucas noted because the safety net remained unchanged, no one could be worse off under the discount measure, while Health Minister Sussan Ley later thanked senators for realising the bill was a “win-win for consumers and taxpayers” and allowing its passage.

“Consumers are the big winners from the passing of this package, with the overall price of thousands of common medicines to fall by upwards of hundreds of dollars per year,” Ley said.

Both Labor and the Greens also supported a five-year extension to location laws that prevent anyone establishing a pharmacy within 1.5 or 10km from another one, depending on the region.

But these long-standing rules were one of Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm’s main concerns over the package he labelled a “proper curate’s egg, good in parts”.

He failed to amend the legis-

lation to allow people to open a pharmacy “wherever they like”, including within supermarkets such as Coles or Woolworths.

The $18.9 billion deal is a $3.5 billion increase on the fifth community pharmacy agreement, which expires on July 1. WITH AAP

Good news and bad news says peak medical body It was a combination of bouquets and brickbats flying from the Australian Medical Association this week as the peak medical body welcomed the NSW government budget’s record health spend but gave the feds a serve for playing a “game of chicken” with funding.

The AMA’s NSW branch president Saxon Smith is worried about what will happen in June 2017 when the federal government’s flagged cuts to health spending kick in, but pleased with the $21 billion being tipped into the kitty in Tuesday’s budget and the accompanying pledge to add around 1000 new doctors and nurses. Smith praised the NSW government for keeping pace with health commitments but cautioned that the cutoff date for a big slice of federal funding was nearing.

“The drop in services this will equate to will be the same as closing five-and-a-half hospitals the size of Westmead over the next few years,” he said. He criticised the federal government for playing a “game of chicken” with the health of Australians.

State Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the health budget will include $325 million to pay for an extra 90,000 emergency department treatments, 40,000 extra hospital admissions and 3100 additional elective surgeries. The budget also includes $1.7 billion to provide services for the mentally ill – an increase of 6.7 per cent on last year – and $12 million over four years to support medical marijuana research. AAP

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More than just a meal With the logistical precision of a military operation, the kitchen staff at Lourdes Hospital prepare hot meals to be distributed by staff and volunteers from Meals on Wheels to more than 70 of the city’s elderly and in-need. Heading out on the road with the team this week, Dubbo Weekender discovered the service provided is much more than just a meal. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent TANDING in the kitchen at Lourdes watching hot lunches being plated for delivery around Dubbo – the teams of volunteer deliverers waiting eagerly outside – there’s the kind of banter you’d expect from any friendly workplace, liberally tossed across the trays of steaming beef lasagna, silverside and white sauce, mashed potato and golden corn.

It’s week four on the rotating menu schedule, which guarantees more than 70 clients a day a regular but vast array of meal options to choose from during any given month, which includes a hot meal or salad, a dessert and soup, which many clients keep to have for their dinner.

Today it might be lasagna or silverside, tomorrow beef and vegetable casserole or fish cakes with tartare sauce, or on other days there’s roast lamb with mint sauce, chicken schnitzel, salmon patties, apricot chicken, fish, chicken mornay, meat loaf or crumbed steak.

Desserts include berry crumble with cream, banana and blueberry cake, with cream, lemon delicious, va-

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nilla pannacotta and topping, sticky date pudding with … more cream, apple Danish and custard, trifle, tiramisu, cream caramel and peaches and always with the alternative option of fresh fruit or yoghurt.

Each day one option of soup is offered and again the choices are staggering. Leek and potato, cream of pumpkin, farmhouse stock pot, cream of mushroom, spiced lamb, chicken and noodle and French onion, and many more.

Maureen Mackay is a Meals on Wheels board member and is responsible for rallying 10 volunteers each month from the Catholic community to help with deliveries.

It’s her first time in the kitchen.

“I usually just come up here and collect the baskets but the work is all done and it’s incredible what Peter and all the young people do, and in the office. It’s just incredible; the coordination,” she says.

‘Peter’ is Peter English, the service manager for Meals on Wheels who not only coordinates the logis-

tics for Dubbo, with a team of permanent staff in the service’s Mountbatten Drive office and operation centre, but outlying towns as well, to which are sent frozen and long life food deliveries for distribution by local volunteers there.

Frozen meals are prepared in Bathurst and from as far afield as Perth, landing at the Dubbo operation for sorting, and are then shipped out with the generous help of MidWest Food and Garion Food Wholesalers.

“They transport those meals free of charge as part of their community service obligation to those smaller communities so we’re their freezer, then their staff unpack it and put it into individual orders,” English explains.

Back at Lourdes, Marea Josephson, Hotel Services Manager/cook and her team are operating like a welloiled machine preparing for the packing routine. In fact, Lourdes Hospital is still only in its first year of providing meals for Meals on Wheels but given the number of clientele they already serve daily, are well

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set up for the job.

“We serve our own clients too, so we’ve got up to 35 on the ward, and we have 60 down in Holy Spirit who we’re feeding there, plus Meals and Wheels,” she explains.

“Meals on Wheels tell us what they’d like out of their choices and we plate it as we go along. Peter’s found these little heat packs now to make sure everything stays piping hot.

“We have a rotating menu every four weeks, which changes summer and winter. In the summer we do more salads and lighter dishes and in the wintertime we do more stewy casseroles and they get a choice of a soup, a sweet and a choice from two hot meals,” she says.

English confirms the meals from Lourdes are being well received.

“We’ve been with Lourdes now for about 10 months and they’ve been fantastic. The kitchen staff, are great.

They love bantering and giving me plenty of stick.”

“We do it to everybody,” reassures Josephson with a smile. “It’s not just for you.”

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Beth and Barry Grady, Meals on Wheels volunteers

“We’ve had lots of compliments for you about the quality of the meals,” McKay pipes in, above the constant hum of cooking equipment to Josephson, who’s ready to start serving the lasagna.

“That’s good,” she replies, smiling.

The clock is ticking.

Everyone is focused on the hurry now to serve, plate, seal and bag the hot meals, get them out the door, packed into the fleet of volunteer cars outside and distributed across town.

Meal bags contain a preheated pack zapped in the microwave and placed in the bottom, with additional heat packs on top of the meals to keep them hot.

“According to safety guidelines they’ve got to be at least 60 degrees or above for the clients. This is the only way that we can do it in the wintertime. Summer time is a little bit easier,” says English.

Each meal is individually labeled according to the client’s order and stacked in bags according to the route on which they’ll be taken.

“They all have the different runs,” explains McKay. “It used to be a taxi driver who worked out the runs so they were efficient. They’re colour-coded, red, orange,

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purple, pink.”

Due to an increase in number of hot meals being delivered in Dubbo, the Purple Run is a recent addition and the seventh on the schedule.

The bags are ready and wheeled outside to where the volunteers wait in the car park in a sort of Le Mans start to receive their deliveries, then jump in and go.

Leaving the kitchen I’m delayed in conversation for what only seems like a minute. Englsih returns to announce they cars have gone.

Time to go, with McKay’s words in mind: “I’ve never been behind the scenes like this. Truly we’ve had lots and lot of compliments for Lourdes about the meals

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Syal’s first novel raises questions about surrogacy – from both sides detail of the cultural divides between Indian generations, the quirks, customs, traditions and attitudes as well as the lifestyle in both India and in Britain, can only come from one who has been immersed in both cultures.

She's shown it humorously in shows like Goodness Gracious Me, but paints a much more serious picture in this novel, which also explores the sexual abuse of women, with references to the Delhi bus rape in 2012.

Raising questions about surrogacy from both sides, Syal remains unbiased, weaving the moral and emotional arguments seamlessly into the storyline and looks at the prejudices faced by women who want children in later life.

9/10 (Review by Hannah Stephenson)

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Author and actress Meera Syal, pictured after being presented with her CBE medal in London. PHOTO: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PA PHOTOS.

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK The House Of Hidden Mothers

by Meera Syal is published in hardback by Doubleday.

ACTRESS and writer Meera Syal has set the literary bar high for herself. Her first novel Anita And Me is now a British national curriculum set text, her second, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, was made into a BBC drama.

Her third novel addresses the topical themes of late parenthood, which Syal has herself experienced, and surrogacy, which she has not.

It centres on Shyama, aged 44 (the same age Syal was when she had her son), a British Indian woman who yearns for a child with her partner Toby, who is 10 years her junior.

They've tried IVF but her eggs are shot, so they pursue the surrogacy route, which takes them to India and its unregulated clinics full of surrogates who see the lucrative procedure as their passport out of poverty.

Mala, a young woman living in New Delhi, becomes the surrogate, but when the couple discover that she has an abusive husband they decide to bring her back to the UK for the duration of her pregnancy, which causes life-changing consequences for all three of them.

Meanwhile, Shyama's 19-year-old daughter Tara from her previous marriage shows total disdain for what her mother is doing but has her own trauma to deal with when she is raped by a fellow student but doesn't report it.

Beautifully written, Syal's

Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf is published in hardback

by Picador.

KENT HARUF'S final novel Our Souls at Night, completed before he died in November last year, is a beautifully poignant swansong for this much-loved American writer.

Neighbours Addie Moore and Louis Waters, both widowed and in their twilight years, have been alone for some time and Addie for one would like some companionship, someone to talk to at night, to overcome the stifling loneliness and isolation of later life, and Louis agrees. So the two begin a wonderfully pure friendship that gives them both something to treasure when they thought it was too late. Sharing their past and present, the future suddenly doesn't look so daunting, but both of them know too that it can't be taken for granted. Tender and heartfelt, this is a delicately bittersweet novel, compounded by the very palpable sense Haruf seems to be aware that this is farewell. And what a beautiful farewell it is.

9/10 (Review by Jade Craddock) The House At The Edge Of The World by Julia Rochester is published in hardback by Viking.

WHEN twins Morwenna and Corwin Venton were 18, their

father John fell off a Devon cliff while stumbling home from the pub. They and their frustrated mother grieve and move on, while their grandfather cocoons himself in the family home, endlessly painting a personal map. But 15 years later, emerging secrets about their unhappy home lives mean the Ventons must re-examine that fateful summer. Rochester gives firstperson narration to Morwenna – a blunt, dislikeable character clinging to teenage misanthropy – and so her debut novel is a slippery tale of perception and manipulation. Trying to distill truth from Morwenna's skewed opinion gives the text echoes of a thriller, though it is really a character study in how much people can alter themselves to meet the wills of others; for marriage, family or the bond of twinship. Its pacing is a little off, dragging in places, but there's a great twist and the mystery papers over the cracks.

8/10 (Review by Natalie Bowen) You Are Dead by Peter James is published in hardback by Pan Macmillan.

PETER JAMES gives Detective Roy Grace one of his most challenging cases to date in the latest in the Dead series: You Are Dead. Grace is handed two seemingly unconnected cases; the first, a woman's body is found buried under a pathway about 30 years ago, the second the abduction of a woman from her parking garage on a cold December night. As the two cases start to overlap, Grace and his team realise they are dealing with a serial killer, Brighton's first since the 1950s, and one that the local council want caught quickly before the tourist trade and people's confidence is ruined. As more women go missing Grace must use all his experience to solve the case. Meanwhile his own past is close to catching him up.

The story moves at a quick pace and as with the other books in the series, James' knowledge and research is apparent.

7/10 (Review by Phil Robinson) London Rain by Nicola Upson is published in paperback by Faber & Faber.

BESTSELLING author Nicola

Upson returns with her sixth novel in her Josephine Tey series. It's May 1937, and the capital is preparing to welcome a new king. At BBC's Broadcasting House, Josephine Tey is overseeing a radio production of her play Queen Of Scots. However, adultery and jealousy spill out from the pages of her manuscript into the corridors of the Radio Times. Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose investigates the murder of one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters, and soon a second victim is found, who just happens to be his mistress, and the play's leading actress. Just how close to home is the killer, and are they linked to a society scandal from 10 years ago? Office politics at the station takes Archie away from the high-profile case and Josephine is left to discover the truth.

5/10 (Review by Rachel Howdle)

O NON-FICTION The Naked Surgeon: The Power And Peril Of Transparency In Medicine

by Samer Nashef is published in paperback by Scribe.

SAMER NASHEF has always been fascinated by the power of numbers to foster transparency in medicine. As a young surgeon, he combed exhaustively through the paper filing systems of his hospital to show that his colleagues had the worst patient outcomes for aorta surgery in the hospital. He was blacklisted from regional jobs, but it was just the beginning. Measurements of risk have become increasingly sophisticated in recent decades, and these have revolutionised responsibility in hospital management as well as medicine. But this book is for patients. Cardiac surgery has never been safer, says Nashef, but he wrote this book to tell you what you need to ask: has your surgeon recently got divorced? Is he about to go on holiday? Did her patient this morning live or die? The answers indicate how likely your surgeon will be to take risks when it's your turn. A readable and generous book.

9/10 (Review by Kitty Wheater)

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 26.06.2015 to Sunday 28.06.2015 The Saffron Road: A Journey With Buddha's Daughters by Christine Toomey is published in paperback by Portobello.

THE Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha's Daughters is an expansive exploration of Buddhism and the plight of Buddhist nuns across the globe. In a trip that extends from remotest Nepal to France and the British Isles, Christine Toomey introduces us to thousands of women, all with a different, fascinating story to tell.

Toomey is an award-winning journalist and author. Working for the Sunday Times, she has travelled extensively writing mostly about conflict. This piece explores a more personal interest for the author, which began as an admiration for the strength of Buddhist nuns.

The sheer number of stories is at times daunting, and it wasn't always easy to follow the thread of the narrative.

Coming to the topic with little prior knowledge of the philosophy, the book was a challenging read – it's packed with detail. But the lengths the women have gone to in search of fulfilment must be admired.

6/10 (Review by Rachel Farrow)

is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape.

BRITAIN in the 18th and 19th centuries saw a trend for 'model villages' – idealised communities built to house workers by philanthropic employers.

In Dreamstreets, Yallop relates the history of the trend in a series of visits to seven such 'village utopias' – among them Saltaire in West Yorkshire, Port Sunlight in Wirral, and the folly-like Portmeirion in Gwynedd. On her way, Yallop teases out the paradoxes and tensions of the paternalist philosophy behind the model village idea. Many of the founders were non-conformist entrepre-

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neurs with radical views about the importance of educating the poor, but they were also unabashed social engineers whose generosity demanded conformism and moral compliance. At the height of the vogue, manuals and patternbooks on how to build your own village abounded; but by the time of Port Sunlight, this Stepford-like quality had become oppressive. Yallop tells an interesting story well and is a skilled describer of the built environment, but what's lacking is any first-hand account of what it was like to live in these contrived environments.

6/10 (Review by Dan Brotzel)

O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Dinoblock by Christopher Franceschelli, illustrated by Peskimo, is published in hardback by Abrams Appleseed.

WITH Jurassic World, the latest instalment in the big-screen dinosaur franchise, taking global box offices by storm, this brilliant introduction to the lost species for little ones could not be better timed. It’s a pleasingly solid board book by the husband and wife design duo Peskimo and author Christopher Franceschelli, following their previous collaborations on Alphablock and Countablock. The thick pages are cut around the shapes of the dinosaurs, which are all preceded by a clue to what’s coming next: “I am horned like a bull... I am Triceratops (tri-SERRuh-tops).” It’s a uniquely simple concept – teaching children about dinosaurs by comparing them to animals that are still alive today – and the pronunciation guide is crucial for parents wanting to look like they know just how to say each one. The whole family will be dino-experts in no time!

9/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

Dreamstreets: A Journey Through Britain's Village Utopias by Jacqueline Yallop

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Some of Africa G ENERALLY accepted as the continent where earliest man lived, Africa has provided an enigmatic concept of human evolution. Springer and McKie have written “African Exodus” which explores the origins of modern humanity. A controversial science matter – it is based on the revolution in the history and anthropology of early humans. As the book says, “If you want a crash course on human evolution, who we are, how we got here and whether we have stopped evolving, then this book is for you.”

A substantial volume by Toby Wilkinson is “Lives of the Ancient Egyptians” which provides a comprehensive insight into this early civilisation, from the dawn of history to the death of Cleopatra. We are shown the lives of men and women, the culture of the pharaohs spanning up to 40 centuries ago.

Discussing Egypt with a bookstore customer she related her visit to the ancient pyramids, and climbing well inside one, she marvels at the intelligence and engineering knowledge expressed in its construction.

It is a continent of extremes.

Congo is covered in dense tropical jungle – and then there’s desert. In 1880 a French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway across the Sahara from their colony in Algiers to the French Territories in West Africa. “Sands of Death” by Michael Asher relates the attempt by the French engineers who did not anticipate resistance from the self-styled “Lords

of the Desert”. Although well armed, they were lured to destruction by the Taureg who outnumbered and outfought them. The French were driven into the desert and very few survived to make their way to a remote outpost.

A country which has undergone radical change is the Congo. David Van Reybrouck studied its history over several hundred years. He wrote “Congo – the Epic History of a People”. It examines the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley, the slave trade, and the ivory and rubber booms, through to the Belgium colonial events under Leopold II. It moves on to independence and Mobutu’s brutal rule, to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still raged in 2013.

Alan Moorehead wrote “The White Nile”. This river is the second longest in the world, flowing from the equator to the Mediterranean – it gets its White nomenclature because of its grey green nature. It has challenged man since time began as it has continued to flow through a thousand miles of desert with hardly a tributary. In the second century A.D. Alexandrian polymath Ptolemy produced a map based on information from a Syrian. Its source is generally recognised as Lake Victoria and its feeder streams. Flowing through Sudan and Egypt it is a source for

irrigation.

In 1788 a group of learned friends met for dinner listening to Captain Cook’s exploits. The group realised that the interior of Africa remained a mystery.

One outcome was to motivate the exploration of the Niger River and its legendary capital of gold – Timbuktu. The African Association was founded, resulting in explorers including Mungo Park, Burckhardt, the discoverer of Petra and Abu Simbel, and later Richard Burton. The routes of these explorers and others are mapped and described in “The Gates of Africa” by Anthony Sattin.

Africa’s booming growth is driven by the hunger for the natural resources of the emerging economies. But in the shadows there are the bankers, traders, and corporate raiders who grease the palms of the local political elites. Much of the remaining population is subject to systematic poverty.

Nigeria is today thought of as “oil-soaked” by the development in the delta areas. Move inland to the eastern Congo and there are highly productive mines. Tom Burgis has written “The Looting Machine” which describes the systematic pillaging of this country. Details and a map of other African countries show the extent of them being exploited in the global economy without due economic

From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection benefit flowing to the countries yielding their resources.

Lisa Blaker used her nursing experience for nine months helping the people subject to civil war in Darfur. She tells of life in that country in “Heart of Darfur” which examples the worst and the best in human practice. Once she was present to give water to a baby who would otherwise have died from dehydration; overall she describes the dignity and determination of the people.

Zimbabwe is featured on the news regularly – Geoff Hill has written “What Happens After Mugabe?” For over 25 years, President Robert Mugabe has entrenched himself in power, but now in his 80s, stands as an anachronism.

What will happen after he goes? Will the 4 million exiles who left the country return, can medical and education standards be restored, should there

` What will happen after (Mugabe) goes? Should there be war crimes trials to punish those who resorted to political violence? a

be war crimes trials to punish those who resorted to political violence? Can that economy be restored, where will the money come from to achieve this, and generally, can Zimbabwe rise from the ashes?

Just 20 years ago the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the worst case of genocide since Hitler’s war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch wrote “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be killed With Our Families” which challenges us to ask, what – if anything – does this mean, being a human at the end of the 20th century.

Today we hear about Libya and the chaos reigning since Gaddafi was deposed. Yet there was a country that he understood and managed without the chaos which exists in almost every other African country. What is the wisdom of the United Nations being involved in those cultures?

The titles mentioned here cover just some of Africa. There are many other books on this complex, diversified continent on our bookshelves.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Martin Tilse is another well-deserving finalist in the fiction category of the 2015 Cowley Literary Awards with The Photograph – his simple but subtly cryptic exploration of how a picture can paint a thousand words, and pose just as many questions.

The Photograph

BY MARTIN TILSE T was simple but not uncomplicated. An old photograph, brown and white, speckled randomly with black silver particles precipitated by time. The frame was unpretentious, lightly vanished wood. It had a direct and business-like feel and I imagined it hanging in a bygone gentleman’s club. A den, an office, perhaps? Certainly a gentleman’s, no riff-raff here! No women either.

A robust man with boots and leather leggings sits on a camp chair, comfortable, at the entrance to an open tent. He is raising a glass and beside his right boot is a dark glass bottle with a long neck and an unreadable label.

Beer? Port? Three other bottles are lined up near a tent peg at the far corner of the photograph just by the frame. But he is not inebriated. He stares out at us with his raised glass, confident in his prowess and confident that we will recognise his success.

A sleeve and shoulder of his military-style jacket protrude from behind him. Clearly he has doffed his jacket and carefully placed it over the back of his chair before sitting and posing for the photograph. One leather-bound shin rests comfortably on his knee and gives him an unexpectedly jaunty air despite his serious moustachioed expression. A fair man? A hard man? A man willing to take risks? A man who expects to win? Yes, that might be him.

So hard to tell in such a grainy photograph, though.

It must be hot. The tent fly has been propped up on a pole to give the sitting man some shade. Despite that, he is still wearing his pith helmet.

My father once brought such a treasure home from an auction. I liked to imagine it on the head of a plucky Englishman, a hunter of wild tigers, back in the days when tigers were still wild animals. The pith was very light. It surprised me, as a child, that such a ferocious hat was so ethereal and weightless.

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And here, in this random collectables shop was my childhood helmet again. The same broad solid brim, the same flat crown, the same thin narrow strap holding it firmly on the man’s head; and the man looking so real in an unreal daguerrotypic way. He looks so content with himself that I expect him to sweep the hat from his head, wipe the sweat from his brow and drink a toast to his success. Not so his companion.

His partner is a much thinner man. He is standing in the sun beside a roughly assembled wooden framework of stout branches, roped together, from which their trophies are strung. Surprisingly he has taken off his topi, his “Bombay Bowler”, and is holding it by his side. It must be so hot but he looks cool and composed. He too has a moustache but nothing as grand as the seated man. His is clipped, thin and controlled not flared and spouting.

He still wears his safari jacket and he too has boots and leather leggings to keep his trousers well away from the dust and pestilence of the sub-continent.

If the seated man is a figure of action and congratulation, the standing one is a man of calculation and contemplation. He is looking towards the seated man with a look that says, “I always told you we would succeed.” But, of course, not without his planning, his aforethought, his hiring of helpers.

The three helpers are in the background. I hadn’t noticed them at first. All are barefoot.

All dark-skinned. All wearing cool white cotton dhoti loincloths and pagri turbans and

nothing else. The two white men are overexposed and their eyes appear as black dots against the white of their faces, topis, shirts and moustaches. The three Indians are black shadows, blending into the dark grainy background. The whites of their eyes gleam directly from dark inquisitive faces. They stand together behind the wooden trophy rack, questioning. “Why?” they seem to ask. Why is all this necessary? Oblivious, the two white men continue their silent endless tableau, the one sitting and staring into the camera and the other standing and looking knowingly at the other.

It is a dry and parched scene from some long forgotten expedition. There is no grass, only dry pebbly ground. One of the Indians is leaning against a leafless tree about twice his height. Support but no shade. There is evidence of water though. The five trophy animals, five foot long, hang by hooks distending their hugely open mouths. Their tails just scrape the dusty earth. The three Indians continue to peep curiously over the wooden branch on which the five fish are hanging.

The fish look prehistoric with large geometrically perfect scales. A small white sticker on the glass just below one of the fish shows $99 neatly written in pencil. Too much!

I thought again of that photograph the other day. It was so clear in my mind. Perhaps I should have bought it? Would, I wondered... would that unseen river just beyond the frame of the photograph still nurture such monsters today?

The whites of their eyes gleam directly from dark inquisitive faces.

They stand together behind the wooden trophy rack, questioning.

“Why?” they seem to ask. Why is all this necessary?

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Ladies day at the union

BY KAITLYN RENNIE IT was a day to get your girlfriends together and watch a game of union at Number 1 oval on Saturday, June 20.

The Ladies Day, hosted by Clareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angels, included finger food, champagne, wine and beer, as well as pop up stalls for a little added indulgence.

The ladies and their friends got to kick back, watch the Dubbo Kangaroos play the Mudgee Wombats, while being spoilt and supporting a great local charity.

Elly Lewis and Kristen Kilby

Sarah Horsburgh, Teagan Hoper, Zoe Westgarth, Errin Williamson and Ash McManus

John Hollow with Lucy, Jane and Maggie Diffey

Tiffany Adcock, Edwina Capell, Lucy Ceach and Toneal Stephens

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Party for the line dancers

BY KAITLYN RENNIE LINE dancers from across NSW were in Dubbo on Saturday, June 20, for their annual workshop and social.

The social was held in the Dubbo RSL Auditorium, with dancers coming from Yeoval, Narromine, Wellington, Orange, Bathurst, Griffith, Cowra and Sydney, with a sea of fluoro covering the dance floor.

The dancers would like to thank Red Hot and Country for running the events and teaching them some new moves.

Beverley Denholm, Hop-a-long Cassidy, Gale Cassidy, Diane Nash, Jenny Shepherd, Bevilee Tikoft, Veronica Robinson and Bev Mooney of Bathurst

The Spence family having a great night

Lina Sarkozi, Johnson Soe and Joan Boyle of Sydney

Lynn Peter and Pattie Severs

Kathy Fardell and Lynn Peters

Meg Wales, John Lipscombe and Bev Robbins of Rylstone

Kathy Fardell and Darren Sloane

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hear The Dirty Red Digger LIVE music, spoken word and documentary film combine in this unique performance about World War I and Australia, told through events in rugby league from 1914 to 1918, and featuring music played in Australia then, and Australian music written since. Together with archival film footage and interviews with young men and women, The Dirty Red Digger is a ground-breaking collaboration exploring the struggle for Australian identity during the First World War, and the complex challenges faced by young men today, and a hundred years ago. The Dirty Red Digger is performed by the Griffyn Ensemble, a genre-breaking sextet of musicians led by composer and director Michael Sollis. To be held at Dubbo RSL Club Theatrette from 7.30pm on Monday, June 29.

Christie Lamb CHRISTIE LAMB is a high energy, passionate performer with an engaging

personality who never fails to impress.

Her music showcases a unique style with a rocking attitude and country kick. Currently on the Girls of Country Tour with Amber Lawrence and Aleyce Simmonds, Lamb will be appearing at the Railway Junction Hotel, Dubbo from 8pm on Saturday, June 27.

Seth Sentry CATCH Seth Sentry on his Strange New Past Tour, appearing at Dubbo RSL Club on Wednesday, July 1. With two high rotation radio singles (Run and Hell Boy), his second album released on June 5, and now the biggest damn Australian tour you have ever seen, he is on a mission. Sentry has embarked on a nationwide tour, covering approximately 50 capital cities and regional centres, following his sold-out Run Tour in March this year. Together with DJ Sizzle, Sentry will bring his trademark charm, quick wit, and the best raps in the game to the stage with a show that is energetic, fast-paced and not to be missed.

Showtime is 8pm.

see Be Your Self THE Australian Dance Theatre is touring the highly acclaimed and electrifying work, Be Your Self across Australia as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. Be Your Self explores the fundamental question about ‘self’ using the body as the focus for this inquiry.

The work integrates contemporary dance, music, spoken word and video into an extraordinary, immersive experience. The result is a performance filled with dynamic vitality that is breathtak-

ing to watch and stimulating to think about.

At Dubbo Regional Theatre, 7.30pm on Tuesday, July 7.

Midnite Cafe JOIN the good folks of Midnite Café every week! From 7pm to midnight every Saturday evening, the café offers music, art, coffee and cake at the Pipe Band Hall in Darling St. There’s always a lovely friendly vibe along with open mic nights, live music

and art sessions. The next session will be a BYO paper and mediums for a portraiture workshop with Matilda Julian on July 27. For more information about the café or upcoming events, contact Matilda on 0439 345 914.

Film Festival WHAT better way to while away a winter’s day than at Dubbo Film Society’s film festival. The society will present a full day of movies on Sunday, July 5, at Dubbo Regional Theatre.

Beginning at 9.30am, the films will be Still Alice, about a lady battling dementia; Charlie’s Country about a man struggling to find his place in society; Finding Vivian Maeir now considered one of the 20th century’s greatest street photographers; Mr Turner, about the life of the English painter, along with 2 days, 1 night which focuses on a woman trying to hold down a job while battling depression. Members and non-members – all welcome. Visit dubbofilmsociety. com for further information.

do Circus Royale ROLL up, roll up, the circus is in town!

Head to Dubbo Showground for performances of Damien Syred’s all-new Circus Royale. There will be circus favourites including aerial acts, contortion, clowns, juggling, cows, camels, dancing horses and football-playing dogs!

And don’t miss the spectacular Globe

of Death – all presented by international and Australian performers under a heated Big Top! Shows will be held between June 30 and July 5. Visit circusroyale.com.au for further information.

on their Birds and Botany trip to the Wongarbon Nature Reserve and Council Tank Reserve from 9am on Friday, July 11. RSVP to Janis Hosking on 6887 2692.

Birds and Botany trip

Handmade Art Markets

JOIN the Dubbo Field Naturalist and Conservation Society as they head out

IF you have an artistic streak, then now is the time to showcase your abilities

Contact Carole O’Connor on 0400 636 708 or Geoff Mann on 0407 871 704 for more information.

Thursdays at 7pm, Saturdays at 1pm and the fourth Monday of each month at 10am. Whether an experienced player or beginner, if bridge is your game, contact Jane North on 6882 5107.

at the Western Plains Cultural Centre’s Handmade Art Markets on July 25.

Whether it’s hand puppets or spoon art, the market day provides a wonderful opportunity for local artisans. Show off your talent, your products or just head along for fun. Contact Western Plains Cultural Centre on 6801 4444 to express your interest.

etc.

Sesquicentenary Mass and Dinner JOIN in the celebration of St Brigid’s Church sesquicentenary mass and dinner on Wednesday, July 1 at Dubbo Convention Centre (DRTCC). The event begins at 6pm with mass followed by dinner at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from the Parish office or after mass.

Dubbo Bridge Club JOIN the bridge players of Dubbo who meet several times a week as well as a full day of play once a month at the Dubbo Bridge Club Hall in Elston Park.

They meet on Wednesdays at 9.45am,

Outback Writers Centre IF you have a desire to put pen to paper and produce something more inspiring than a shopping list, then look no fur-

ther than the Outback Writers’ Centre.

The group meets at Macquarie Regional Library, Dubbo on the first Saturday of each month with the next session planned for July 4.

Upcoming events include the WestWords Festival and Rolf Boldrewood Literary Awards, both in September. For enquiries, contact Ken Windsor at outbackwriters@gmail.com

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

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OPEN WEEKENDER COFFEE & MEALS

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY

ƌŽƉ ďLJ ƵďďŽ Meat and Seafood ĞŶƚƌĞ ƚŚŝƐ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚ ĨŽƌ Ăůů your meat and seafood needs!

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT

Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞLJ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

GROCERIES ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE

Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ Homemade pastas ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ ŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ůů ĚŝƐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŵĂĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞƐŚĞƐƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĞ ĮŶĞƐƚ ŇĂǀŽƵƌƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵĞĂů͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

CLUB DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ 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 ƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ͕ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ

ϯƉŵ ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞƌŶĂƌĚŝ͛Ɛ ^hW /' ͘ ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ Food Court ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϲĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϲƉŵ͘ '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 ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϰƉŵ͘ dŚĞ njŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ŽīĞƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 26.06.2015 to Sunday 28.06.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, June 26 MOVIE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers GO!, 8.30pm, M (2002) Peter Jackson underlined his status as one of cinema’s true visionaries with his second episode of J.R.R. Tolkien’s vast trilogy. Squeezing the complexity of the novel into three hours, Jackson still finds time to devote around 40 minutes to one of the most spectacular battle sequences ever captured. But the true triumph lies closer to Mordor, where Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) are joined by the slimy, schizophrenic Gollum. Aided by the voice of Andy Serkis, Gollum is cinema’s first truly believable 3D character. A rare sequel that travels onward and upward from a stunning original.

ABC

MOVIE: Tropic Thunder

The Living Room

ONE, 9pm, M (2008)

TEN, 7.30pm

Actor-director Ben Stiller’s starstudded send-up of pampered Hollywood actors and out-of-control action films dares to tread territory laden with minefields. Everyone from Tom Cruise and Jack Black to Matthew McConaughey and Nick Nolte is in on the joke as Stiller mercilessly pokes fun at the excesses and vanity of showbusiness through the making of the most expensive war film ever. But it’s comeback kid Robert Downey Jr, as an Aussie method actor who undergoes a “pigmentation-alteration procedure” to play a black man, who steals the spotlight of this equal-opportunity offender. Outrageously funny.

This is the lifestyle program forr those who tend to look to the funny side of life. Week a Keller, in and week out, hosts Amanda aestre Chris Brown (right), Miguel Maestre and Barry Du Bois do their bestt to poke gether fun at things while cobbling together an entertaining array of home DIY, cooking and travel. The team has a boisterous chemistry that keepss e are things amusing, and tonight we alin treated to a fresh shot of adrenalin er with garden guru and makeover e veteran Jamie Durie joining the e to gang. He takes on the challenge do a complete back-garden makeover in just one weekend. d to Meanwhile, Chris is in England ng. try his hand at Cornish wrestling.

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Making Couples Happy :) (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Hospital Chaplains.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Tractor Monkeys.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 The New Inventors.

(R, CC) 3.10 Catalyst. (R, CC) Adventures in science.

3.35 Unsung. (PG, R, CC) 3.45 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC)

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Dangerous Attraction. (M, R, CC) (2000) An advertising executive finds herself in a murderous power struggle.

Andrea Roth, Linden Ashby.

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. (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. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Join James Reeson for inspirational, easy recipes that can be cooked at home.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 Huey. (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 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(PG, CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(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 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera 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 Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong Bitesize.

4.35 Robson Green: How The North Was Built. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) The team heads to Chatsworth House.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, CC) (Final) There are mysterious sightings in the shop and Granville is convinced the place is haunted by Arkwright.

8.30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. (M, CC) (Final) A prize-winning scientist is found murdered on the same night the man intent on murdering Henry Fisher escapes police custody.

9.25 Janet King. (M, R, CC) In the wake of the attack on her family, Janet suspects she has stumbled onto a wide-ranging conspiracy.

10.25 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

10.55 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

11.10 Dirty Laundry. (R, CC) Lawrence Mooney and a panel of celebrity guests pull apart the major popculture stories of the week.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Ed head to Mudgee to see the sights, sample specialty treats and cook up winter dishes. Try Karen’s hearty pork shoulder casserole.

Dr Harry visits a furry AFL star-in-the-making.

8.30 MOVIE: Bridget Jones’s Diary. (M, R, CC) (2001) Based on a novel by Helen Fielding. Follows a year in the life of a young British woman as she struggles with romantic entanglements with two suitors. One is a wellmannered lawyer and the other a charismatic womaniser who also happens to be her boss.

Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant.

10.30 MOVIE: Premium Rush.

(M, R, CC) (2012) In New York City, a reckless bike courier finds himself pursued by a corrupt police detective who at the urging of a local loan shark, wants an envelope he is carrying which contains a potentially valuable ticket.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 16. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Manly Sea Eagles. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 16. Brisbane Broncos v Newcastle Knights. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

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.

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) Jamie Durie joins the team as they take on the challenge of completing a back garden makeover.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with actor Mark Wahlberg.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) After a marine collapses during training and dies, the team discovers the deceased man had been participating in an illegal-fighting ring.

Their efforts to locate the group responsible hit a dead end, at least until another related death provides them with the clue they need.

10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Five comedians compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (CC) Chef Heston Blumenthal tackles popular recipes to create the perfect version of the dishes.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Blackbeard’s Ship.

(PG, CC) Follows a team of underwater archaeologists exploring a wreck off the North Carolina coast believed to the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

8.30 Knights: The Last Of Their Kind. (M, CC) Part 3 of 3. A look at the time of the knights, and the individuals behind these medieval warriors.

9.30 Sexting Teacher.

(M, R, CC) Explores how illicit relationships between teachers and students are proliferating through social media.

At first what appear to be seemingly innocent exchanges on text, Twitter and Facebook, can instead lead to sexual and emotional entanglements.

10.25 World News. (CC) 11.00 MOVIE: Swimming Pool. (MA15+, R, CC) (2003) A novelist falls for an uninhibited woman.

Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Tequila Sunrise.

(M, R, CC) (1988) Michelle Pfeiffer.

3.50 WIN Presents. (R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Good Wife. (M, R, CC) Alicia and Cary go headto-head with Will and Diane after they agree to represent a suspected terrorist.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.50 MOVIE: The Message.

(AV15+, R) (2009) 2.55 MOVIE: Kicks. (M, R) (2007) Mimoun Oaïssa.

4.55 Silvia Colloca: Made In Italy Bitesize. (CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 WeatherWatch And Music.

5.45 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. First quarter-final.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

8.30pm Hercules (2014) Action. Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt. A Greek demigod has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the king seeks his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.

(M) Action

7.30pm Arrow. Diggle searches for a missing Lyla. (M) FOX8

7.30pm Bahama Blue. The Caves and Blue Holes of the Bahamas house some of the most spectacularly beautiful geological formations in the world. (PG) Animal Planet

6.30pm Golf. Euro PGA. BMW Open. Second round.

Fox Sports 3

7.30pm Cheaters.

Surveillance cameras document the pain of a spouse or lover caused by infidelity.

(M) Crime & Investigation

8.00pm Tennis. ATP Tournament. Semi-finals.

Eurosport

10.20pm Thor: The Dark World (2013) Action. Chris Hemsworth. A hero battles to save Earth from a shadowy enemy. (M) Action

8.30pm Fashion Bloggers.

(M) E! 10.00pm Modern Family.

A Valentine’s Day romp between Phil and Claire’s alter egos, Clive Bixby and Juliana, takes an unexpected turn that lands Claire in the hospital.

(PG) FOX8

10.55pm March Of The Penguins (2005) Documentary. Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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) 3.20 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.15 Pingu.

(R) 4.20 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.40 Chuggington. (R, CC) 5.00 Bookaboo. (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.

6.15 Curious George. (CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.10 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Confessions Of A Nurse.

(M, R, CC) 9.25 Forbidden Love.

(M, CC) 10.10 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 10.50 Unsafe Sex In The City.

(M, R, CC) 11.50 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 12.20 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 1.25 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 2.10 News Update. (R) 2.15 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Louie.

(R, CC) 5.15 Iconicles. (R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.35 A Journey Through Asian Art. (R, CC) (Final) 10.45 So You Want To Be A Designer? (R, CC) 11.10 Designers.

(R, CC) 11.30 The Shot. (R, CC) 11.35 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Round The Twist. (R, CC) (Final) 1.10 Backyard Science. (R, CC) (Final) 1.35 Heart And Soul.

(R, CC) (Final) 2.00 Arthur. (R, CC) (Final) 2.25 Pearlie. (R, CC) (Final) 2.40 Hairy Legs. (R, CC) (Final) 2.50 Tashi. (R, CC) (Final) 3.05 SheZow. (R, CC) (Final) 3.15 The Day My Butt Went Psycho.

(R, CC) (Final) 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 3.50 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 So Awkward. 5.15 Operation Ouch!

(R) 5.50 Dance Academy. (R, CC) 6.15 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Conspiracy 365. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, CC) 8.55 Kobushi.

(R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (PG, CC) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 The Woodlies. (C, R, CC) 7.30 In Your Dreams. (C, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 11.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 12.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Mr Selfridge. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Man Made Marvels: Sydney Opera House. (R) A look at Sydney Opera House.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Nicki Chapman helps a science teacher buy a country home in Cornwall.

9.30 House Wreck Rescue.

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) 2.00 House Wreck Rescue. (R) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Sofia The First. (CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Doc McStuffins. (R, CC) 8.30 Henry Hugglemonster. (R) 9.00 NBC Today. (CC) 11.00 European Games. International multi-sport event. Day 13. 12.00 The Blacklist.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 Pair Of Kings. (R, CC) 3.30 Kickin’ It. (R, CC) 4.00 Zeke And Luther. (R, CC) 4.30 Lab Rats. (CC) 5.00 Ultimate SpiderMan. (R) 5.30 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 6.30 Turtleman. (PG, R) Turtleman must remove some bugs.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the big match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 13. Sydney v Richmond. From the SCG. 11.00 MOVIE: Van Wilder: Party Liaison. (MA15+, R) (2002) A party animal tries to prove his worth. Ryan Reynolds.

1.00 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse.

(M, R) 3.00 European Games.

International multi-sport event. Day 13. Replay.

4.00 Motor Mate. (R)

7.50pm Football. AFL. Sydney v Richmond. Fox Footy

8.30pm Animal Cops: Miami.

(M) Animal Planet

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol. 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, CC) 8.00 Pyramid.

(C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Magical Tales. (P, CC) 9.30 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra. (CC) 12.30 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Gumball. (R) 2.30 Tom And Jerry.

(R) 3.00 SpongeBob. (R) 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Racing Stripes.

(R, CC) (2005) 8.30 MOVIE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. (M, R, CC) (2002) Elijah Wood, Sean Astin. 12.00 Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. (PG, R) 12.30 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 1.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (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 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting. (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: The Frightened City.

(PG, R, CC) (1961) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (CC) 3.30 Inside The Animal Mind. (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) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

8.30 MOVIE: Kelly’s Heroes.

(PG, R, CC) (1970) A US officer plans to steal a fortune in gold. Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas.

11.30 MOVIE: Red Heat.

(M, R) (1988) Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1.45 MOVIE: Entertaining Mr Sloane. (M, R, CC) (1970) Beryl Reid. 3.30 MOVIE: S*P*Y*S. (PG, R) (1974) Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland. 5.30 Friends.

(PG, R, CC)

Julie Bowen stars in Modern Family

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 4WD Touring Australia. (R) 10.00 Independent Future. (R, CC) 11.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 12.00 Wedding Band. (PG, R, CC) 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 Hardliners. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish. (CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 World’s Toughest Trucker. (PG, R) The truckers face their final challenge.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only: Odd Arrests #2. (M, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.00 MOVIE: Tropic Thunder.

(M, R, CC) (2008) A movie cast becomes lost in the jungle. Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. 11.05 Bellator MMA. (M) 12.50 World Sport. (R) 1.05 Home Shopping. 2.05 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 2.35 Ross Kemp: Return To Afghanistan.

(M, R) 3.30 Ross Kemp: Middle East. (M, R) 4.30 Fishing Edge. (R) 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel.

(PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Taxi. (PG, R) 12.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (M, R) 2.00 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 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. (R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) Auditions for dancers continue.

9.30 New Girl. (PG, R, CC) Nick inherits some money.

10.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) Presented by Ellie Taylor.

10.40 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) 11.20 Movie Juice. (R) 11.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.50 Under The Dome.

(M, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News.

4.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.45 Vs Arashi. (R) 5.35 Massive Moves.

(R, CC) 6.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (CC) Presented by Tim Ferriss.

8.30 Ctrl Freaks. Three comedians take control of two players’ lives.

9.25 Lost Girl. (M) Bo undergoes the Dawning ceremony.

11.05 Attack On Titan. (R) 12.05 Stand Up @ Bella Union.

(M, R) 12.35 Friday Feed. (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 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 My Animal Friends. 10.00 Colour Theory. 10.30 Love Patrol. (PG) 11.00 Good Tucker. 11.30 Once A Queen. 12.30 Black Man’s Houses.

(PG) 1.30 Eternity. 2.30 Mugu Kids.

3.00 My Animal Friends. 3.30 Tales Of Tatonka. 4.00 Go Lingo.

4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Outback Cafe.

6.30 Love Patrol. (PG) 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Kimberley, The Land Of The Wandjina.

8.30 Indians And Aliens.

Explores alien encounters in Northern Quebec.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 By The Rapids. (PG) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Outback Cafe.

12.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.00 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Central Arrente v Titjikala. 5.00 Yarrabah! The Musical. 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. 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. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

ABC NEWS

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Saturday, June 27 RocKwiz Salutes The Decades

MOVIE: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

MOVIE: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

SBS ONE, 8.30pm

WIN, 8.50pm, M (2013)

WIN, 7pm, PG (2008)

Lauryn Hill educated us; Tupac told us to keep our head up; Nirvana entertained us with teen angst like nobody else; Shania Twain told us what it was like to feel like a woman; Britney Spears told us she did it again and the divas – Mariah, Whitney, Celine – soared into our hearts. The 1990s was a brilliant decade for music. Sure there were plenty of onehit wonders and cringe-worthy tunes, but across the genres, the decade produced tunes not soon forgotten. So expect plenty of competition when music trivia buffs join forces with industry greats to prove to host Julia Zemiro that they’ve got the right stuff.

Steve Carell enters Will Ferrell territory here, playing the titular over-the-top magician in this crass comedy. After years of success on the seedy Las Vegas strip, Burt’s career starts to lose its magic after his sidekick Anton (Steve Buscemi) quits and he gets fired from his casino gig.

But when edgy and somewhat deranged street magician Steve (Jim Carrey) starts to draw the crowds on Burt’s former patch, he must put aside his ego and his hatred for Anton to fight for their livelihood.

Magic, mischief and a whole lot of laughs.

This sequel is meatier and the animation is even more spectacular ar than the first fun-filled venture.

It features the same loveable quartet of zoo animals out of their element from the original – Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo o (Jada Pinkett Smith), plus their canny anny penguin pals. But it adds dozens more creatures to the mix and moves the he action to the African plains as the foursome tries es to return to New York. At times, the story conjures up associations to animated classic The Lion King, but there’s plenty gle. of room to roam in the movie jungle.

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Two Men In China: Shanghai. (R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 The Restaurant Inspector. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Rick Stein’s India.

(R, CC) The search for the “perfect” curry.

4.00 Still Open All Hours.

(PG, R, CC) (Final) Granville is convinced the shop is haunted.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A woman is hit by a car.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Lego: The Adventures Of Clutch Powers. (R) (2010) A Lego hero and his adventurous friends help the rightful heir to a medieval kingdom. Ryan McPartlin, Yvonne Strahovski.

1.40 MOVIE: Meet Joe Black.

(PG, R, CC) (1998) A young man claiming to be death incarnate befriends an ageing media mogul. Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

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 Cybershack. (PG, CC) 12.30 Food CIA. (PG, CC) Kate travels from Essex to Holland.

1.00 MOVIE: The Color Purple.

(PG, R, CC) (1985) A woman writes to her sister. Whoopi Goldberg.

4.00 Australian Geographic Adventures. (CC) David visits the Daintree National Park.

4.30 Deep Water. (PG, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 RPM. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (PG, CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Soccer. First quarter-final.

Continued. 8.00 WorldWatch.

8.40 French News.

9.15 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. Second quarter-final.

11.30 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Swan Lake: Mariinsky Ballet. (R) 4.20 The Drummer Of Ravel’s Bolero. (R) 4.30 Mel Brooks: Make A Noise. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Lesley Garrett. (R, CC) Lesley Garrett investigates her genealogy.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Sophie looks closer at bugs in her garden.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) After a body is discovered at a local vineyard run by a military officer, Father Brown investigates.

8.20 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) Louisa is Bert’s least favourite person after one of her students publishes a damning review of his restaurant.

9.05 The Secret River.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

Will’s increasing desperation to hold onto ‘his’ land, despite the resistance of the local indigenous people, leads to his involvement in a brutal incident.

10.25 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

11.00 The Wrong Mans.

(M, R, CC) (Final) A case of mistaken identity accidentally traps two council employees in a conspiracy.

11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Featuring a director’s special.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Smurfs 2.

(CC) (2013) The Smurfs work together to rescue Smurfette who has been kidnapped by their old nemesis, the evil wizard Gargamel, because she knows a secret spell which can turn his evil creatures into real Smurfs. Neil Patrick Harris, Katy Perry, Hank Azaria.

9.10 MOVIE: King Arthur.

(M, R, CC) (2004) A Roman officer and his cavalry troop embark on their last mission, to rescue an influential nobleman and his family from a horde of barbarians. However, their pursuers are unwilling to allow them to escape to freedom no matter what the cost. Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Ray Winstone.

11.40 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Beverly discovers her engagement ring is the same one Murray gave his ex-fiancee. Determined to woo his neighbour, Adam seeks inspiration from the cinematic world of romantic comedy. The discovery of a box of old love letters threatens to create havoc in the household.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

(PG, R, CC) (2008) Still stranded in Madagascar, a group of former zoo animals try to leave the island for their former home in New York but instead ends up in mainland Africa, where one of their number is reunited with his family. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock.

8.50 MOVIE: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

(M, CC) (2013) A veteran Las Vegas magician tries to revive his career after his longtime partner quits, he gets fired from his casino act, and an edgy new street performer steals his thunder, by reclaiming his old passion for magic.

Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde.

10.50 MOVIE: Wag The Dog. (M, R, CC) (1997) After a president with little chance of being re-elected is involved in a scandal, his adviser enlists the help of a Hollywood producer to create a war which exists only on TV, to push the president to hero status.

Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson.

6.00 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Bondibased vet Dr Chris Brown travels to remote Christmas Island to help a seabird named Bill.

7.00 MOVIE: School Of Rock.

(PG, R, CC) (2003) A downand-out rock guitarist, in need of money, takes a job as a substitute teacher at a prestigious primary school under false pretences.

Realising his students may actually have musical talent, he decides to recruit them to compete in a battle of the bands event. Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White.

9.20 MOVIE: The Devil Wears Prada. (PG, R, CC) (2006) An ambitious, naive journalism graduate is forced to make tough decisions after she is hired as an assistant to the ruthless editor of a leading fashion magazine in Manhattan. Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt.

11.40 MOVIE: Another Earth. (M, R, CC) (2011) An ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident. Brit Marling, William Mapother.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Secrets Of The Manor House: Chatsworth.

(PG, R, CC) A look at one of England’s most iconic manors, Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire, England.

8.30 RocKwiz Salutes The Decades. (CC) Julia Zemiro, Brian Nankervis and the RocKwiz Orkestra explore the local and international music scene from the 1990s.

9.30 MOVIE: Match Point.

(M, R, CC) (2005) A former tennis pro must choose between his comfortable lifestyle and pursuing an illicit affair with a woman who is dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. However, after he gives into his passions, it leads to dire consequences for them and their partners.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer.

11.50 MOVIE: Potiche. (M, R) (2010) After her husband is taken hostage, a trophy wife takes control of the family business.

Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.45 MOVIE: Summer Coda.

(M, R, CC) (2010) Rachael Taylor.

2.50 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 3.20 WIN Presents. (R, CC) 3.35 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.35 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

1.35 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

1.40 MOVIE: Me Two. (M, R) (2008) Daniel Auteuil.

3.15 Immortal. (R, CC) 4.20 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.50 UK Bitesize. (CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 WeatherWatch. 5.45 Soccer.

FIFA Women’s World Cup. Third quarter-final.

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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SPORT

6.25pm Godzilla (2014) Action. Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. (M) Premiere

6.05pm Sex And The City.

Carrie sets up a date with a fellow author. (MA15+) SoHo

4.30pm Football. AFL. Brisbane v Adelaide. Fox Footy

10.25pm The Other Woman (2014) Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann. After discovering her boyfriend is married, the woman teams up with his wife to get revenge. (M) Premiere

8.30pm The Real Housewives Of Melbourne.

(M) Arena

7.30pm Manhunt. Joel Lambert takes on the New Zealand mountains. (PG) Discovery

11.30pm Family Guy. Peter’s boss dies. (M) FOX8

9.30pm America’s Cutest Pet. (PG) Animal Planet 10.30pm Auction Hunters.

Allen and Ton head to Dallas.

(PG) Discovery

6.00pm Cricket. Second Test.

Sri Lanka v Pakistan. Day 3. Fox Sports 3 7.15pm Motor Racing. Auto GP. First Race. Eurosport

11.40pm Jackass: The Movie (2002) Comedy. Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O. A group of daredevils perform stunts.

(AV15+) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.15 Pingu. (R) 4.20 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.40 Chuggington. (R, CC) 5.00 Bookaboo. (R, CC) (Final) 5.10 Grandpa In My Pocket. (Final) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Olivia. (R, CC) (Final) 5.45 Ben And Holly.

(R, CC) (Final) 6.00 Peter Rabbit.

6.15 Curious George. (CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (R, CC) 8.35 The Home Show. (R, CC) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.05 Dirty Laundry Live. (M, R, CC) 10.55 The IT Crowd. (PG, R, CC) 11.20 Archer. (M, R, CC) 12.05 This Is Jinsy. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 This Is Jinsy. (R, CC) 12.55 This Is Jinsy.

(PG, R, CC) 1.20 This Is Jinsy. (R, CC) 1.45 The Home Show. (R, CC) 2.35 News Update. (R) 2.40 Close.

5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Louie. (R, CC) (Final) 5.15 Iconicles.

(R, CC) (Final) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 The Jungle Bunch. (R) 6.10 SamSam. (R, CC) 6.20 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (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 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

(R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama All Stars.

(R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 10.50 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.10 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) (Final) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 So Awkward. (R) 2.50 Trop Jr. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.50 Studio 3. 3.55 Pixelface. (R, CC) 4.25 The Aquabats Super Show!

(R, CC) 4.50 Slugterra. (R, CC) 5.15 SW: Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

(R) 6.35 Mortified. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (PG, R) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 10.45 Close.

Gina Liano, one of the Real Housewives Of Melbourne.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 Animal Academy. 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 Great South East. 2.30 SA Life.

3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield.

Round 14. Southern Districts v Warringah. 5.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Cities Of The Underworld: Under The Rock – San Francisco.

(PG, R) Takes a look at San Francisco.

8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) The head of a finance group is murdered.

10.00 Mr Selfridge. (PG, CC) 12.00 Cities Of The Underworld. (PG, R) 1.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 3.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 4.00 Drug Bust. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Animal Academy. (R) 5.00 Country Calendar. (PG, R) 5.30 Neighbours At War. (PG, R)

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG, R) 10.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 10.30 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. WA Speedcar Title. 11.30 Turtleman. (PG, R) 12.00 European Games. International multi-sport event. Day 14. 1.00 Turtleman. (PG, R) 1.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 2.30 Swamp People. (PG) 4.30 MOVIE: Project: ALF. (R) (1996) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the big match.

7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 13. St Kilda v Western Bulldogs. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

10.30 MOVIE: Land Of The Dead. (AV15+, R) (2005) Simon Baker.

12.30 1000 Ways To Die. (MA15+) 1.30 1000 Ways To Die. (AV15+) 2.30 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse.

(M, R) 3.30 European Games.

International multi-sport event.

Day 14. From Baku, Azerbaijan.

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. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz.

(C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 3.00 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 5.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Wild Wild West. (PG, CC) (1999) Will Smith, Kevin Kline.

8.35 MOVIE: The Legend Of Zorro. (M, R, CC) (2005) Masked hero Zorro battles a French count. Antonio Banderas, Catherine ZetaJones.

11.10 MOVIE: Once Upon A Time In Mexico. (MA15+, R) (2003) Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp.

1.00 MAD. (M, R) 1.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 2.30 Gumball. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (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: The Frightened City.

(PG, R, CC) (1961) 8.00 Danoz.

8.30 Destination WA. (PG, CC) 9.30 MOVIE: Mayerling. (PG, R, CC) (1968) 12.20 Postcards. (CC) 12.50 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. 1.20 MOVIE: Montana. (R, CC) (1950) Errol Flynn. 2.50 MOVIE: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. (PG, R) (1963) Spencer Tracy.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. (PG, R) A disliked local is found murdered.

9.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) Sara investigates after a car bomb kills the director of a scholarship foundation for the hearing impaired.

11.00 The Mentalist. (M, R, CC) Jane confronts Red John.

11.50 Prime Suspect. (M, R, CC) 12.50 MOVIE: The Horror Of Frankenstein. (M, R) (1970) Ralph Bates.

2.40 MOVIE: Montana. (R, CC) (1950) 4.05 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 4.15 MOVIE: Some Will, Some Won’t. (PG, R, CC) (1970)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Netball.

ANZ Championship. Grand Final.

Queensland Firebirds v NSW Swifts. Replay. 10.00 Fishing Edge.

(PG, R) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats.

(R) 11.00 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 12.00 RPM. (R, CC) 1.00 World’s Toughest Trucker.

(PG, R) 2.00 Motor Racing.

Australian V8 Ute Racing Series.

3.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.00 Merv Hughes Fishing. 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 5.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

9.30 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Race 8. Dutch Grand Prix. From TT Circuit Assen, Netherlands.

11.00 Ross Kemp: Return To Afghanistan. (MA15+, R) 12.00 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.30 The Killing. (M, R) (Final) 1.30 48 Hours. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 4.15 RPM Moment. 4.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 World Sport. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG, R) 1.30 MasterChef Australia. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Debra discovers her parents are unhappy.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with actor Mark Wahlberg.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) Carrie meets her new boyfriend’s very hospitable family. Samantha dates Charlotte’s brother.

10.00 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie gives a guy her phone number.

10.30 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) Hosted by James Corden.

11.30 Under The Dome.

(M, R, CC) Clues to Melanie’s past are revealed.

4.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. (PG, R) 2.05 Kung Fu Changed My Life. (PG, R) 3.00 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 4.00 From Scratch.

(R, CC) 4.30 Cycling. Criterium du Dauphine. Highlights. 5.30 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. Highlights. 6.00 Knife Fight. (PG, R) 6.30 Heston’s Feasts. (M, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers: South Africa. (PG, R, CC) Charley and Russ continue their trip across South Africa.

9.30 Dig. (MA15+, R, CC) Peter delves further into Emma’s past.

10.20 Real Humans. (M, R) 12.35 24 Hours In Emergency.

(M, R, CC) 1.30 Autopsy: Life And Death. (MA15+, R) 3.25 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 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Love Patrol. (PG) 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show.

(PG) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Football. NEAFL. 2.45 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 Fit First. (PG) 7.30 Eternity.

8.30 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival.

9.30 MOVIE: Empire Of Dirt.

(M) (2013) Cara Gee, Shay Eyre.

11.00 Ningla A-Na. (M) 12.30 The Blues. (M) 2.00 Dreamtime Machinetime.

3.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

4.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival. 5.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (PG, R) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 Big Ideas. (CC) (Final) 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) (Final) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (R, CC) (Final) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 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) 2706

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Sunday, June 28 CSI: Cyber

MOVIE: Over The Hedge

Grand Designs

TEN, 9pm

GO!, 6pm, G (2006)

ABC, 7.40pm

The internet can be a dark and dangerous place, with villainous hackers working to steal money and shut down vital utilities, among other crimes, so luckily we have “whitehats” out there keeping us safe from cyber-crime, as CSI: Cyber, the latest spin-off of the popular franchise, depicts. Tonight, in the intriguingly titled episode “Killer En Route”, Avery (Patricia Arquette) and the team pursue a serial killer who has hacked the website of an online car service to use it to locate and murder the service’s customers.

Meanwhile, Daniel (Charley Koontz) confronts his murky past.

A man-versus-nature tale of scheming racoon RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis), who makes the mistake of stealing a surly bear’s (Nick Nolte) stash of food and is given a week to pay it back. Gathering a mismatched family of animals to help him, he sets out to repay the debt, only to stumble across a suburban shopping strip that has sprung up during the winter hibernation. The story affords plenty of digs at the excesses of modern life – urban sprawl, 4WDs and junk food.

The top-notch voice cast includes Steve Carell, Garry Shandling and William Shatner. It’s no Shrek or The Incredibles, but the laughs are there to be had by all ages.

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ABC

PRIME7

WIN

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 Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Pina. (R, CC) 3.50 Google And The World Brain. (R, CC) 4.45 The Lost Tools Of Henry Hoke. (R, CC) 4.55 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Restoration Man. (R, CC) Architect George Clarke helps the owners of old and neglected buildings transform them into dream homes, unearthing their history and stories.

6.00 Home Shopping. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Camp. (PG, CC) 12.00 To Be Advised.

3.00 Air Crash Investigations: Fight For Control.

(PG, R, CC) The story of Reeve Aleutian Airways flight 8.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh provides a bedroom makeover.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike goes hunting for truffles.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.30 Compass: The Moral Compass. (CC) Host Geraldine Doogue is joined by guest panellists to debate moral, ethical and religious controversies.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (CC) (Series return) Kevin McCloud meets Rob Hodgson and Kay Ralph, who plan to build a house on a cliff top in North Wales.

8.30 Inspector George Gently. (M, CC) (Series return) Investigating a sexual assault, Inspector Gently is dismayed to discover how similar cases have been handled.

10.00 The Darkside. (PG, CC) (New Series) Ghost tales from across Australia, including the story of a woman who has trouble with some ancient shoes.

10.30 MOVIE: Rites Of Passage. (M, CC) (2013) A series of six short stories about Australian teenagers responding to the challenges surrounding them. Chaise Barbaric, Skie Carlson, Tiran Dingle.

11.50 Don’t Try This At Home.

(MA15+, R, CC) A look at performance art.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 House Rules. (PG, CC) With two hours until the big reveal, all teams are battling to finish their top secret zones in an effort to impress the judges.

8.45 Sunday Night. (CC) Hosted

by Chris Bath.

9.45 Bones. (M, CC) After an ex-con is murdered, the team investigates a local bakery known for employing former felons.

Arastoo has to decide whether or not to return to Iran to visit his dying brother, which causes friction between him and Cam. 10.40 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) Annie heads to Venezuela, in search of a terrorist who was involved in the Chicago bombing but managed to escape.

During the mission, she is surprised to encounter Ryan who has been tasked with the same objective.

11.35 Cougar Town. (PG, CC) (Final) It appears Jules is in for a rough birthday after her friends reveal they are moving away. Grayson is on hand to help her cop with the unexpected news with the help of a very special surprise.

12.20 MOVIE: The Great Gatsby. (M, R, CC) (1974) A man becomes fascinated by his neighbour. Robert Redford.

2.40 Inspector George Gently. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 Order In The House. (CC) A review of parliament.

12.00 Do No Harm. (M) Ruben arranges for a gang to “mug” Ian so that he can get a sample of his spinal fluid.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

PAW Patrol. (CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

Surfing. (CC) World Surf League. Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach. Highlights. From Victoria.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Tim visits a wildlife park.

Reno Rumble. (PG, R, CC) Presented by Scott Cam. Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 16. Wests Tigers v Penrith Panthers. From Leichhardt Oval, NSW.

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Let’s Do Coffee. (CC) (Final) 1.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) Hosted by Iain Hewitson.

2.00 iFish. (R, CC) Hosted by Paul Worsteling.

3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 RPM. (CC) Hosted by Matt White.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. Third quarter-final.

Continued. 8.00 WeatherWatch And Music.

8.10 Filipino News.

8.40 French News.

9.15 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. Fourth quarterfinal.

11.30 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Tour De France 2014 Review Show. (CC) 5.00 The Bike Lane. (CC) (Final) Showcases the world of cycling.

5.30 Hitler And The Spear Of Destiny. (R, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, CC) (Series return) With some help from coaches Ricky Martin, Delta Goodrem, Joel Madden, Benji Madden and Jessie J, a group of contestants sets out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation and claim the grand prize of a recording contract. Hosted by Darren McMullen.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.40 Jailhouse Girls. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 3. Follows the lives of the prisoners, officers and medical staff who populate Holloway Prison, the largest women’s prison in Europe.

10.45 Jailhouse Girls. (M, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

11.50 The Following. (AV15+, CC) With his power over the cult growing, Joe sets a deadly plan into motion.

Ryan and Max devise a plan to contact Joe, in hopes of tracking down his whereabouts. Weston meets with a face from the past.

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) Mitch and Cam’s big day arrives, but an unexpected challenge puts their wedding planner to the test.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) The wedding day continues to devolve into chaos.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) The winner of the mystery box challenge will gain control of the invention test.

9.00 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) The team pursues a serial killer who hacked the website of an online car service to find his victims.

10.00 NCIS. (M, R, CC) Ducky and Palmer are kidnapped on their way back to headquarters with the body of a navy lieutenant.

11.00 MOVIE: Over/Under.

(M, CC) (2013) After moving neighbourhoods, a man with a gambling problem finds an unlikely partner in his neighbour.

Steven Pasquale, Caroline Dhavernas.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Michael Scott: Who Were The Greeks?

(PG, CC) Part 2 of 2.

Classical scholar Dr Michael Scott concludes his exploration of the world of the ancient Greeks. It was a region filled with strange and sometimes outrageous customs and beliefs.

8.40 The Missing Eighth Wonder Of The World.

(R, CC) Documents the search for the Amber Room, a Soviet national treasure which was looted by the Nazis. Considered by some to be the Eighth Wonder of the World, this unique series of panels went missing at the end of the war but are still being searched for.

9.40 West Of Memphis.

(MA15+, CC) Documents events surrounding the so-called West Memphis Three, Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin. The trio spent 18 years behind bars for the murders of three children, crimes they claimed they did not commit, and for which a much clearer suspect existed.

12.45 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 1.40 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 2.35 Impractical Jokers.

(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, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

12.15 Inspector Montalbano.

(M, R) A dead body is found in a dinghy.

2.10 MOVIE: The Blacks.

(M, R) (2009) Ivo Gregurevic.

3.30 The Battle For Rio. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

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8.30pm The Expendables 3 (2014) Action. Sylvester Stallone. A team of mercenaries battle a ruthless arms trader.

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6.30pm Project Runway Threads. Actress and singer Zendaya joins the show as a guest judge and is blown away by what the designers bring to the world of fashion. (PG) Arena

6.30pm Bear Grylls: Breaking Point. Discovery

2.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Sydney Roosters v Gold Coast Titans. Fox Sports 1

8.35pm Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Biographical. Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto. A hustler helps AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease. (MA15+) Masterpiece

6.35pm Nashville. Rayna and Luke try to take the family out for a fun night of bowling. (M) SoHo 7.00pm Cristela. (M) FOX8

10.35pm Topsy-Turvy (1999) Comedy. Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner. (M) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.40 Angelina Ballerina. (R, CC) (Final) 1.50 The Numtums. (R, CC) (Final) 2.00 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) (Final) 2.10 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) (Final) 2.25 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.40 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) (Final) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 This Is Scarlett And Isaiah. (R, CC) (Final) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Pingu. (R) (Final) 4.20 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.40 Chuggington.

(R, CC) (Final) 5.00 The Gruffalo.

(R, CC) 5.25 The Gruffalo’s Child.

(R, CC) 5.50 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 6.00 Peter Rabbit. 6.15 Curious George. (CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) (Final) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep.

(R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (PG, CC) 8.30 Point And Shoot. (M, CC) 9.50 Forbidden Love. (M, R, CC) 10.35 Bodyshockers. (M, R, CC) 11.25 Louis Theroux’s LA Stories. (M, R, CC) 12.25 Don’t Blame The Dog. (M, R, CC) 1.20 News Update. (R) 1.25 Close. 5.00 The Numtums.

(R, CC) 5.05 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.15 Guess With Jess.

(R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina.

(R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 The Jungle Bunch. (R) 6.10 SamSam. (R, CC) 6.20 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood.

(R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher.

(R, CC) 7.20 Dr Dimensionpants.

(R) 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) (Final) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) (Final) 8.25 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 8.55 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama All Stars.

(R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.35 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 11.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 11.30 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 M.I. High. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 The Legend Of Dick And Dom. (R, CC) 4.30 Roy. (R, CC) 5.00 Life With Boys.

(R, CC) 5.25 Mal.com. (R, CC) 5.40 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

(R) 6.35 Mortified. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.30 Yonderland. (PG, R) 8.50 Karaoke High. (PG, R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah.

(PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Wimbledon Preview. 12.30 Wimbledon – The Film. (PG) 1.30 Downsize Me. (PG, R) 2.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 3.30 Life Inside The Markets. 4.00 Neighbours At War. (PG) 4.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 5.30 Border Patrol. (PG) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) David Barby travels to Builth Wells.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Nicki Chapman heads to Devon.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Nick joins a couple renovating a 19-room house.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

11.00 Mighty Ships: Le Boréal.

(R, CC) 12.00 Border Patrol. (PG, R) 1.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 1.30 Downsize Me. (PG, R) 2.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 3.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 4.30 Best Houses Australia. (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 Construction Zone. (PG, R) 12.00 Triathlon. Ironman 70.3 Cairns. 1.00 European Games.

International multi-sport event.

Day 15. Replay. 2.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG) 3.00 Supercarrier. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Super Factories. (R, CC) 5.00 MOVIE: Mars Needs Moms. (PG, R, CC) (2011) Seth Green.

6.45 MOVIE: Despicable Me. (R, CC) (2010) A super villain adopts three orphans. Steve Carell.

8.45 MOVIE: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. (M, R, CC) (1991) A cyborg is sent from the future to protect a teenager who will grow up to lead humankind’s resistance. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong.

11.30 Family Guy. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Eastbound & Down.

(MA15+, R) 4.40 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 5.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R)

7.30pm Vanity Fair Confidential. Explores a mystery taken from the pages of the magazine and transforms it into an hour of thrilling crime television. (M) Crime & Investigation

3.00pm Football. AFL. Carlton v Gold Coast Suns. Fox Footy 5.10pm Cricket. Second test.

Sri Lanka v Pakistan. Day 4. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Beasts Of The Bayou.

Local fishermen in Louisiana are searching the bayou for “The Rougarou” – a Cajun werewolf thought to haunt swamps. (PG) Animal Planet

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, R, 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. (R) 11.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R, CC) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Power Rangers.

(PG, R) 3.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 4.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 4.30 The Batman. (R) 5.30 Thunderbirds Are Go! (PG) 6.00 MOVIE: Over The Hedge.

(R) (2006) 7.40 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Sheldon and Wolowitz feud.

8.40 Gotham. (M, CC) Gordon and Bullock set out to stop Dr Crane.

9.40 Arrow. (M, CC) Vertigo attacks Black Canary.

11.40 Almost Human. (M, R, CC) 12.30 The Cube. (PG, R) 1.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.30 The Batman. (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 Skippy. (R) 6.30 Tasty Conversations. (R, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: The Divided Heart. (PG, R, CC) (1954) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Antiques. (R, CC) 10.30 MOVIE: Duel In The Jungle. (PG, R, CC) (1954) 12.30 Australian Geographic Adventures. (R, CC) 1.00 Getaway.

(PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: How To Succeed In Business. (R) (1967) 4.00 MOVIE: The Pride And The Passion. (PG, R) (1957) 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Life: Reptiles And Amphibians. (R, CC) A look at reptiles and amphibians.

8.30 MOVIE: Fallen. (M, R, CC) (1998) A detective tracks a demon. Denzel Washington, John Goodman.

11.00 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) The team identifies the serial killer.

12.00 Weekend Aristocrats.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club.

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

Round 3. Replay. 9.00 Fishing Edge. (R) 9.30 Monster Jam. (R) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 World Sport. (R) 11.30 Undercover Boss.

(PG, R) 1.30 Snow Babies. (R, CC) 2.30 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Nature’s Great Events. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder? (R, CC) 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) Hawkeye pens a letter to President Truman.

7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) The team must help protect Cabe’s ex-wife.

9.30 MOVIE: The Quick And The Dead. (AV15+, R, CC) (1995) A gunslinger gets revenge. Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman.

11.45 World Sport.

12.15 The Americans. (M, R, CC) 1.15 RPM. (R, CC) 2.15 RPM Moment. (R) 2.30 Ross Kemp: Return To Afghanistan.

(MA15+, R) 3.30 Undercover Boss.

(PG, R) 4.30 Fishing Edge. (R) 5.00 Big Fish, Small Boats. (PG, R) 5.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (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) 11.05 MasterChef Aust. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (R) 5.30 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) Bender becomes a firefighter.

7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Bart kills a bird.

8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Homer stumbles across a holiday home.

8.30 MOVIE: Joe Dirt.

(M, R, CC) (2001) After being abandoned by his parents, at the Grand Canyon, a young man tells the story of his search for his family. David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller.

10.25 Californication. (MA15+) Hank’s job is imperilled.

11.05 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.05 Under The Dome.

(M, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News.

8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 11.00 Portuguese News. 11.30 Croatian News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold.

(PG, R) 2.00 Lily Cole’s Art Matters.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Jo Whiley Sessions. (R) 3.30 Brazil’s Next Top Model. (PG, R) 4.30 Vs Arashi. 5.30 Soccer. FIFA Women’s World Cup. Highlights. 6.30 The Bike Lane.

(CC) 7.00 Benidorm Bastards. (PG, R) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment. (M) Presented by Nick Helm.

9.00 Drunk History UK. (M) A retelling of historical events.

9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.00 Pizza World Record.

(M, R, CC) 10.30 Indie Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.45 The Sex Show. (MA15+, R) 12.20 In Her Skin. (M) 2.00 MOVIE: The Fish Child. (M, R) (2009) 3.45 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News.

5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. (CC) OFC Champions League. 11.45 Unearthed. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Living Black. (CC) 1.00 Fusion Feasts.

1.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun.

2.30 Unearthed. 2.45 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.45 Rugby League.

Koori Knockout. 4.45 Unearthed.

5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken.

7.00 Ngurra.

7.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) 8.00 The Deerskins. (PG) 8.30 Rainforest: The Limit Of Splendour. (M) A look at ancient forestry.

9.30 MOVIE: Drunktown’s Finest. (MA15+) (2014) Jeremiah Bitsui.

11.00 Trudell. (PG) 12.00 Skydancer. (PG) 1.15 Two Laws. (PG) 3.30 Defining Moments. 4.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 5.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas.

(R) 1.00 News. 1.30 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. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.10 IQ2. (CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Big Ideas. (R) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 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) 2806

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FIND THE WORDS This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 18 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Names of the games

OUT ON A LIMB

by Gary Kopervas

FLASH GORDON

by Jim Keefe

Barassi Beetson Border boxers Brabham Bradman Brock Churchill Court Curry Cuthbert

Eadie Elias Ella Elliott Fenech fit Fraser Fulton Gasnier Hunt Kenny

Lew Hoad Lewis Lukin Meninga Mossop Nagle Newcombe Norman O’Oonnor Price Roach

Rose Saxby Sedgman Sieben Simpson Thomson Theile

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

GRIN & BEAR IT

by Wagner

LAFF-A-DAY SNOWFLAKES There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the numbers 1 to 6 around each of them. No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle.

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1. Disturbed son I calm with a bonus (2-6) 5. A number said to be in favour (4) 9. Back on the right ear (4) 10. Song about Ian being in America (8) 11. Play for time in the market (5) 12. The same clothes (7) 13. Independent organisation that might get under your skin? (8,5) 18. Age-timer used to leave the country (8) 19. A legend in imperial meas-

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urement? (4) 20. No right to generate problems for the adolescent (7) 21. Material dug up (5) 22. Flower found in lines, say (4) 23. Counselling about saving Di (8)

DOWN 2. Monotonous dance? (3-4) 3. Knowledge of a Hawaiian garland worn by a siren (7) 4. What the tyre inspector did at a steady pace?

(8,5) 6. Otherwise I have no company on the river (7) 7. Chart Pam returns, by the

way (4,3) 8. To fetch nothing in is tedious (6) 13. Jersey tree was broken (7) 14. Hangs around to stir Leo up (7) 15. A man like William? (6) 16. Fliers take rest up in the roof (7) 17. Turn top man into dreamer (7)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1. Sarcastic (8) 5. Competent (4) 9. So be it (4) 10. Candidate (8) 11. Structure (5) 12. Embed (7) 13. Prank (9,4) 18. Infirm (8) 19. Defeat (4) 20. Vent (7) 21. Fume (5) 22. Monarch (4) 23. Tube (8)

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GO FIGURE >> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

DOWN 2. Fan (7) 3. Forceful (7) 4. By nature (13) 6. Swagger (7) 7. Permit (7) 8. Dissipate (6) 13. Small field (7) 14. Sale (7) 15. Essay (6) 16. Juror (7) 17. Hand-joint (7)

MEGA MAZE

>> AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW: One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each week the code letters are different.

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PRINCE VALIANT

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by Murphy & Gianni

KING CROSSWORD

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AMBER WAVES

by Dave T. Phipps

A TOUCH MORE DORIN

by Paul Dorin

JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

1 Cleopatra’s snake 4 Easter entree 7 Robust 11 Masticate 13 Venusian vessel?

14 By word of mouth 15 Actress Spelling 16 Gun, slangily 17 Kittens’ comments 18 “The ... of Music” 20 Anger 22 Weep loudly 24 History-making events 28 Lost 32 “Nonsense!”

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34 Sticky stuff 36 Greek vowel 37 Angry look 39 Satchmo’s instrument 41 Hearty laugh 43 Extra Sensory Perception 44 Yoked team

46 English composition 50 Lather 53 Charged particle 55 ... podrida 56 Actress Hathaway 57 Genetic letters 58 Void partner 59 Bruin 60 Pooch 61 “Catcher in the ...”

DOWN 1 New Testament book 2 “Scat!”

3 Lima’s land 4 Embrace 5 Somewhere out there 6 Decorator’s concern 7 Mr Burns’ employee 8 Exist 9 Legislation 10 Golfer Ernie

HOCUS-FOCUS

STRANGE BUT TRUE

by Samantha Weaver

z Chop suey is not actually a Chinese dish; it was invented in California. z Dick Simon, one of the founders of the Simon and Schuster publishing company, was struggling in his business when he visited his aunt in 1924. She had been looking for a book of crossword puzzles to give to her daughter, but the puzzles being relatively new (first appearing in newspapers in 1913), there was no compilation available.

Seeing an opportunity for his fledgling business, Simon and his partner, Lincoln Schuster, published a book of puzzles right away. The puzzle book was an instant best seller, and its revenues supported Simon and Schuster while the publishing company was establishing itself. z You might be surprised to learn

the American Revolution for being too sexually suggestive. z It was US Vice President Hubert Humphrey who made the following sage observation: “Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” z If you have a particularly quiet friend, he or she might suffer from laliophobia, a fear of speaking. z Those who study such things say that if you’re playing a game of Monopoly, you’re most likely to land on (in the Australian version) Flinders Street Station and Wickham Terrace.

that in 1967, the Monkees chose Jimi Hendrix to be the opening act for their summer tour of the US. The pairing didn’t last long, though; Hendrix discreetly left the tour after he was banned by the Daughters of

Thought for the Day: “The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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by Henry Boltinoff

See page 79 for all the Solutions and Answers

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planets driving you ahead, there is much that can be done. On the other hand, others may find you over-ambitious and pushy. Well, you can’t hope to please everyone, can you?

Travel can take some of the frustrations out of waiting for others to make decisions.

Socially there is some extra free time to enjoy what you like most: being the centre of attention.

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you feeling strong and demanding? This is, indeed, a week to get the ball rolling in the direction of your goals. Some patience is needed but don’t let others hold you up.

They will catch up as and when they are able. Travel shows signs of success and the chance of meeting someone important. Being a bit ‘pushy’ in general shows that you mean business.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Some hiccups with finances are soon overcome by a strong feeling of wellbeing. This has more than a little to do with your romantic inclinations, which are super-strong this week! You see romance everywhere, including where you work. With so much choice you can afford to be picky. Do avoid treading on someone else’s feet romantically. The last thing that you feel like right now is rivalry.

tendency to only believe what is in front of you could lead to a missed opportunity this week.

Be prepared to use your imagination and accept some ideas, at least initially, on face value. Someone close may be proving a problem when dealing with a move or new approach. First you have to win them over. Don’t give them too much attention, though.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) Prepare for a mixture of fun and finances this week. Perhaps you will make some cash from a hobby, or it could be that you pick up a money-making idea whilst taking a break. Whatever it is, keep a keen eye on the possibilities! Someone who made a promise may wish to take it back but find it difficult. Look out for strange behaviour from someone close.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) A bout

of impatience with others could cause you to speak out of turn.

This is not like you at all, Libra, and quite shocking to others. Try to have something else to do when this feeling comes. Going and getting on with something different is the best policy.

You are not very interested in money at the moment but remember that it always comes in handy.

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As career and work take a back seat this week, your thoughts turn to romance and nest building. A certain amount of flirting comes naturally.

This does bring a stronger response from others. Even so, be careful what you wish for in this direction.

Someone may be feeling just as dynamic as you are!

A change of pace brings more leisure time.

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someone reveals their feelings this week it puts you on the back foot. What should your reaction be? Play for time as you try to figure it all out. Generally you feel at home in your present situation but, as always, you like to see an even flow of possibilities.

Be aware that you could be tempted to throw over one relationship for another.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) A real sense of frustration that

something is not being done fast enough for you could set in. If you are going to make a complaint, then get it over and done with. However, choose your words carefully so as not to make a big upset. That does not, though, stop you from getting your voice over loud and clear. There are some things, Sagittarius, that really get you going!

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

Everyone and his dog seems to need your attention and impatience sets in. Getting yourself out of a rut or awkward situation is easy. Surely there is some business that means you need to make a trip? This can be as short as a day or as long as a week but solves many dilemmas. Bits and pieces of work seem to be making the most money. This is fine.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

Someone is out to impress and care for your needs and it really makes you sit up and take notice this week. Not that you are needy, but sometimes of late there may have been feelings of loneliness. Oh, we can all be lonely in a crowd, can’t we? A one-on-one relationship seems right up your street at the moment.

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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) The

usual tricky people and frustrating moments are scattered through this week. Having been forewarned, try to avoid them! A bit of time spent on yourself and your own needs is essential. Look to relax more, get out and about and get stuck into that healthy diet.

What you may find boring now gives you super results a few months ahead.

Please don’t doubt your abilities!

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

You share your day with former Home and Away actor Christopher Egan, 31 (below, far left). Opening your mind is something that you do all the time, Cancer.

All the same, be fussy when it comes to partnerships. Make your own terms or decide to go elsewhere as necessary.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Murray Cook, the Red Wiggle (above), who turns 55. Use your talents and charm to get your way. There is a lot to be gained in romance, which could even help finances!

You have to make the effort, though, Cancer. Nothing is for nothing.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Jamie Farr, the actor who played Klinger on long-running TV show M*A*S*H (below), who is 81 today. By all means analyse your life. Perhaps you will learn something. Be aware, though, that sometimes this can lead to negativity. Why do you need everything to be perfect, Cancer?

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Being yourself is what you do best, Cancer. Sometimes, though, not being able to take criticism gives a bad impression. Bring a little humility into the mix for more success.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

Changing your fortunes cannot be done alone. You are not so much asking for help as working as a team, Cancer. When the need is mutual then so are the benefits.

Don’t forget to have fun!

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You are the best person to decide what you want, Cancer, but others may have more of an idea of how you may get it. Be prepared to ask questions and listen to the answers for real success.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Highs and lows are natural but it is up to you to pick yourself up and get going again, more than once if necessary.

Success now depends on determination, Cancer.

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Down: 2 One-step; 3 Lorelei; 4 Measured tread; 6 Orinoco; 7 Road map; 8 Boring; 13 Sweater; 14 Loiters; 15 Norman; 16 Rafters; 17 Utopian.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Sardonic; 5 Able; 9 Amen; 10 Aspirant; 11 Frame; 12 Implant; 13 Practical joke; 18 Decrepit; 19 Rout; 20 Orifice; 21 Smoke; 22 King; 23 Cylinder.

Down: 2 Admirer; 3 Dynamic; 4 Instinctively; 6 Bravado; 7 Entitle; 8 Dispel; 13 Paddock; 14 Auction; 15 Thesis; 16 Juryman; 17 Knuckle.

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Batman. 9. Sleepwalking. 10. Characters in Shakespeare’s plays. 11. John Sebastian, formerly of the Lovin’ Spoonful. The name of the show had to be changed from just “Kotter” because Sebastian couldn’t find a rhyme for the name. 12. Roy Emerson (six titles) and Novak Djokovic (five). 13. “Leader of the Band” by Dan Fogelberg in 1981. He wrote the song as a tribute to his musician father, who was still alive when the song came out. His father died the following year.

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