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The week’s major news stories around the region

Mobile blackspots: the answer’s in the bag

Footy stars talk about life after the game

One mum’s fight to beat the bottle

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 FEATURED

John Ryan

Jen Cowley editor@dubboweekender.com.au facebook.com/WeekenderDubbo Twitter @DubboWeekender

Mobile blackspots: the answer’s in the bag PAGE 7

Chasing up a storm Incredible photos of western storms brewing PAGE 8

The mother of all battles One mum’s fight to beat the bottle.

Winter’s chill leaving our charity out in the cold

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Kiwi A-Team

PEOPLE

Amelia Kininmonth takes the plunge and moves to Dubbo from NZ PAGE 26

Blue skies ahead

BUSINESS

Brendon and Leanne O’Sullivan take their Dubbo business higher PAGE 44

Heart of steel

LIFESTYLE

Terry and Tanya Locke’s five-window Ford Deluxe Coupe PAGE 50

Past, present and future Warwick Keen’s powerful photo exhibition PAGE 58

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OLD, innit?

And thank heavens for extreme temperatures – otherwise, we’d be stuck for something to talk about.

If it wasn’t for the arctic freeze currently gripping Australia’s eastern states, we’d have to talk about stuff like foreign investment, falling commodity prices and Bronwyn Bishop’s penchant for chopper rides. And that’s not nearly as much fun as playing one-upmanship over whose mercury dipped lowest.

Newsflash: it’s winter. And in winter, it gets cold. But this week, “ice epidemic” has taken on a whole new meaning as temperatures dropped lower than A Current Affair’s standards. We’ve all cranked up the heating and relished the opportunity to share war stories of how bloody cold it used to be in the bad old days.

Climate change deniers have had a particularly chirpy week – it’s hard to argue the veracity of global warming when your bathroom floor is colder than Tony Abbott’s reception to a QandA invitation – and our northern hemisphere counterparts have been equally exuberant in their derision as Aussies shiver through temperatures a Canadian would consider balmy.

It’s payback time for the Poms, who regularly come in for a bollocking from antipodeans for squealing “heatwave” when the mercury climbs over the 20 degree mark.

But really, in an age of central heating, air-conditioning and blithe disregard for energy consumption, we’ve gone a bit soft, haven’t we?

Why, back in the day, we just reached for an extra layer or two rather than the reverse-cycle’s remote control. I grew up in the Warrumbungles and up in them thar hills, I tell you folks, winter mornings were colder than charity.

Which brings me to my point.

While we’re all happily comparing notes about the cold, there’s a legion of homeless people making a desperately sad little procession north along our highways and byways to escape the freezing nights, hitchhiking their way to the Sunshine State in the hope of finding a little warmth.

In a tragic snippet of news that should add to our winter shivers, police now say a woman whose body was found on a walking track in Sydney’s northern suburbs may have died from hypothermia – not as the result of foul play, as had been previously thought.

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“sleeping rough” – a handy euphemism for homelessness. If that turns out to be the case, it’s unthinkable. It’s 2016, for heaven’s sake – such a Dickensian tale just shouldn’t be possible.

News reports this week tell of an influx of homeless southern souls heading north to Queensland, where already stretched resources are being pushed to the limit. And it’s the same here in NSW, where the well documented lack of affordable housing has left far too many vulnerable people out in the cold – literally.

According to Homelessness Australia, there are somewhere in the vicinity of 105,000 people currently “living rough” in this lucky country. More than half of them are men and of those, 68 per cent are “sleeping rough” – that is, under bridges, on the street, in parks... It poses an uncomfortable question about the value of gender in securing emergency accommodation, although there’s no doubt a justifiable argument that women often have children afoot and should, therefore, be the priority. Doesn’t make For the especially the figures any cheerier, vulnerable though, does it?

For others who are do- among us, and ing it tough, having a roof there are many, over your family’s head is a start, but it won’t insulate it’s going to be a against rising energy costs, long winter. electricity prices and grocery bills – and organisations like the Salvos will tell you they dread the colder weather for their inability to adequately service the needs of a growing number of people who simply can’t meet the cost of living, let alone heating. For the especially vulnerable among us, and there are many, it’s going to be a long winter. And the cold snap has a consequence far less amusing than being a handy conversation over a latte with the girls.

So when you’ve read Weekender today, and you’ve cranked up that heater and your house is nice and warm, take a walk down the hall to the linen cupboard and see if there’s an extra blanket or two that might be better used by someone who’s doing it hard. Then wander on down to the bedroom, and make a start on those winter woollies that somehow seem to shrink in the back of the wardrobe every year – you know you’re kidding yourself you’ll ever get back into them, but there’s someone out there shivering right now who will be grateful for your cast-offs.

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Community division over Shenhua mine cutting deep

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY JOURNALIST

AN urgency motion passed this week by the NSW Farmers Association at its annual conference in Sydney has called for the approval of the Shenhua Watermark coal mine to be overturned.

Gunnedah Shire Councillor, Tim Duddy, responded to the news by phone from the conference, saying NSW Farmers “have been so supportive right from the very first day. I’m not surprised”.

The decision to give the Shenhua Watermark Coal Project the green light, pending further process, drew Duddy earlier this week to describe the effects on food production in the area as ‘agricultural genocide’.

Member for Parkes Mark Coulton disagrees.

“People are making emotional statements and there’s a lot of stuff on social media,” said the north-west region farmer turned local member.

“I’ve heard words like agricultural genocide or that this will be the end of production on the Liverpool Plains, and that’s just nonsense,” Coulton told Weekender.

“It’s not on the Liverpool Plains, it’s on a hill. There’s a process, which has been followed through, and I firmly think we should believe science and the processes.”

According to a Shenhua Watermark Coal Project Corporate Social Responsibility Report, none of the black soil on the plain will be within 150 metres of mining operations.

However, neither Duddy nor the NSW Farmers is convinced.

“We’re looking at legal options, our appeal options, federal and state decisions, and we’re just coming to terms with what is actually going on and in what time frames, but we’re preparing to keep on fighting,” Duddy said.

Although unavailable for an official statement at the time of going to print, a spokeswoman for the Country Women’s Association (CWA) did confirm the NSW arm of the organisation opposes mining on agricultural land and requests that both state and federal governments develop legislation which protects prime agricultural land from mining activities that could impact on agricultural food production, and ground and surface water systems.

Coulton believes the scientific studies, the most stringent in Australian history, are convincing.

“This process has been going on for over eight years since the

Prime cropping country on the Liverpool Plains near Gunnedah. The Lock The Gate Alliance describes the Liverpool Plains as having “some of the best and most productive agricultural land in the country”, calling it “our national food-bowl”. The group says if the Shenhua mine goes ahead, it will be disastrous for the region. PHOTO: REUTERS/DANIEL MUNOZ

lease was granted.

“I believe the long-term future of the Liverpool Plains is in agriculture and we don’t want to do anything at all that will damage agriculture but we can’t let outlandish statements replace the independent scientific committee that looked at the water.

“This is the committee that (former Member for New England) Tony Windsor insisted on in the last government so when people say “we need to assess the impact on water”, that’s exactly what’s happened,” Coulton said.

“Of all the steps to go through, environmental and scientific experts on water were engaged. That was the announcement Greg Hunt made last week. There was no discretion in there for the minister to make an assumption. They either tick it off or they don’t.

“They’ve ticked it off with some conditions and now it will

proceed through another couple of steps through the state government to decide whether it gets approved or not.”

Communities, including individual families, remain divided over the mine’s economic benefits versus fears of negative effects on productive farmland and the aquifer beneath it.

Since 2009, $1M per year has been spent on community projects in the region and the contributions from Shenhua have brought divisions in the community.

The Greens NSW mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham said this week: “Many people see such large sums of money as corrupting the process and making it near impossible for either governments or planning officials to refuse the mine.

“The $300 million for the exploration licence and a further $200 million on grant of the mining licence has hung over

` I believe the long-term future of the Liverpool Plains is in agriculture and we don’t want to do anything at all that will damage agriculture but we can’t let outlandish statements replace the independent scientific committee that looked at the water.

– Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton.

the planning process like a bad smell.”

Jude Page, Public Health Association of Australia NSW branch president said the decision “is in no-one’s best interests except Shenhua with relatively small government royalties”.

“The PHAA shares the community’s concern that the threat posed by this development to the biggest groundwater system in the Murray-Darling is unacceptable,” Page told Weekender.

“Conditions imposed by the Minister in approving the mine supposedly include the power to stop mining if there are any impacts on agricultural water supply, and if this occurs, the mine must immediately provide an alternate water supply to farmers.

“But where would alternate water come from if this were to occur? If the aquifer is polluted or compromised the water supply will be decimated and there will be no quick fix. Once this prime agricultural land is removed from food production it can never be returned.”

Fears are also being raised that there will be no jobs except for Chinese workers.

“I think that’s nonsense,” said Coulton. “It’s against the law to employ people in Australia in lesser conditions than the average wages. There’s a lot of xenophobia going on about this and a lot of talk about Chinese

cheap workers coming in, is just not correct.”

The ChAFTA (Chinese Australia Free Trade Agreement allows for “Investment Facilitation Arrangements (IFA) for Chinese owned companies undertaking large infrastructure development projects above $150 million” and though ChAFTA eases visa restrictions, immigration law still does apply.

Shenhua Watermark Coal Project Pty Limited has reported a maximum of 600 employees will be working the mine by its 21st year in operation.

However, Tim Duddy and NSW Farmers hope that day will never come.

“It’s absolutely not set in stone. A single day is a long day in politics. This mine has about as much chance of getting over the line – without something terrible happening – as a snow flakes chance in hell,” said Duddy.

Coulton said the division within the community is more the result of the anti-mine campaign.

“It has caused more damage than the mine ever will,” said Coulton.

China Shenhua Energy Company is the largest coal mining state-owned enterprise in mainland China, and the largest coal mining enterprise in the world.

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The week’s top stories from around the region

Wild weather in the west IT’S been a wild week of weather across the region, with temperatures plunging to record lows, snow making for a cold but picturesque vista in higher areas, and extensive rainfall recorded across a number of areas.

Armatree and Quambone, long known for the extremes of Mother Nature’s moods, bore the brunt of what’s been called a “super cell” that cut a brief but destructive swathe through the area on Saturday evening.

Deputy Mayor of Gilgandra Shire and Armatree publican, Ash Walker, was in his shed near the pub when a flash of lightning lit up the sky, revealing to his disbelief the vortex of what can only be described as a tornado – headed for the tiny town and his hotel.

“It started west of Quambone and cut a trail of destruction over probably a 60-70km stretch,” Walker told Weekender of the “twister” that went through at about 6.45pm on Saturday night.

“A property west of Gulargambone lost a woolshed and shearers’ quarters and sheepyards. It took limbs off trees; one family lost the roof off their house and their machinery shed. It just missed the village of Armatree here, just catching the southern end and destroying a granny-flat and a caravan flipped upside down.

The last house in the town had its roof ripped off.”

It’s a minor miracle, he says, that no-one was injured. The wind, he says, was strong enough to blow a grown man off his feet – and was also strong enough to actually blow a B-double off the Castlereagh Highway south of the Armatree turnoff.

“It ended up across the road from table-drain to table-drain – it just twisted in the wind.

“It’s the second one (super cell) we’ve had through this year. I hope it’s not going to become a pattern!”

Ed’s note: Weekender speaks with meteorologist and “storm chaser” Cameron Hines, whose incredible photos of the super cell over Armatree and Quambone have become an internet sensation. See page 8

Horror week claims three on our roads IT’S been a horror week on the region’s roads, with three fatal crashes reported over the past few days.

On Wednesday night, a young female passenger died in a road crash on the Mitchell Highway near Dubbo. A criti-

cal incident investigation has been launched into the crash, which occurred after police activated sirens in an attempt to stop a vehicle that was travelling on the highway near Maryvale, about 40km south east of Dubbo towards Wellington at 8.15pm.

A short time later, police located the vehicle on the same road, crashed into a pole. A female passenger in the vehicle died at the scene.

The male driver of the vehicle was taken to Dubbo Hospital suffering chest, spinal, leg and pelvic injuries.

A critical incident team, overseen by the Professional Standards Command will now investigate all circumstances surrounding the incident and all information surrounding the incident will be provided to the coroner.

The Mitchell Highway remained closed in both directions on Wednesday night, with traffic being diverted around the scene via Cobbora Road and Comobella Road near Geurie.

The highway re-opened early on Thursday morning. Police are appealing for any witnesses to the crash to come forward, urging anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Meanwhile, police investigations are continuing into the death of a woman following a single vehicle crash near Walgett on Wednesday morning.

At about 9.25am, a woman was driving a Diahatsu utility east along Belarra Road, about 20km south of Collarenebri, when she lost control of the vehicle, causing it to roll.

The woman, aged 47, died at the scene while her 43 year old

Above: The damage at Quambone as captured by Cindy Riley.

Right: Justine Bucknell’s photo showsdamage to CoonambleGulargambone signage.

Below: This B-double was blown off the Castlereagh Highway, south of the Armatree turnoff. Photo courtesy Ash Walker

male passenger was uninjured.

Police attached to Castlereagh Local Area Command were called to the location and commenced inquiries into the incident and a report will be prepared for the coroner.

Also on Wednesday morning, an eight year old boy died following a crash near Lithgow.

At about 7.20am, police were called to Pipers Flat Road, Portland where they found a Holden dual-cab utility crashed into a tree.

The driver, a 36-year-old woman, was air-lifted to Westmead Hospital with non-lifethreatening chest injuries, however the only other occupant of the vehicle, an eight year old boy travelling in the back seat, sustained critical injuries.

He was airlifted to Westmead Hospital but later died.

Detectives from Chifley Local Area Command are investigating the incident and have appealed for any witnesses to the crash to come forward.

Police inspector’s charges withdrawn ASSAULT charges against former Orana Local Area Crime Manager Rod Blackman have been officially withdrawn in a Sydney court.

The 44 year old Dubbo police inspector had late last year pleaded not guilty to seven counts of assault relating to allegations of domestic violence, but the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions this week

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 confirmed all seven charges had been withdrawn at the Downing Centre Local Court.

Blackman first faced Dubbo Local Court in February this year, where the magistrate adjourned the matter to be heard in Sydney’s Downing Centre, citing the fact that most of the witnesses resided in Sydney and concerns that Dubbo Local court could not accommodated what was anticipated to be a lengthy hearing.

It was a decision questioned by the NSW Chief Magistrate, Graeme Henson, last month when he posed the question of whether hearing had been moved to Sydney to enable Blackman to avoid facing court in his home town.

Blackman was suspended on full pay in November last year and while NSW Police has confirmed an internal investigation is underway, it’s unclear whether the former OLAC crime manager will return to his Dubbobased post.

Abbott: NSW mine in Baird’s hands EMOTIONS have been running high across the region over the planned Shenua mine approved for the Liverpool Plains last week, but Prime Minister Tony Abbott has passed the buck to his state counterpart, saying the fate of a giant coal mine is in the hands of the state government.

Mr Abbott says the federal government’s approval was just one of 17 stages of permission the Shenhua Watermark coal mine had to obtain.

“A couple more stages are in the hands of the state government but I believe that (NSW Premier) Mike (Baird) was asked about this at a NSW farmers conference (and) as far as he was concerned the mine was going ahead,” Mr Abbott told metropolitan media this week.

Mr Abbott said based on all the evidence he had seen the decision was as environmentally beneficial and appropriate as it could have been.

Mr Abbott acknowledged people in the Liverpool Plains were passionate about their land, but he said mining and agriculture could continue to co-exist as they had for 100-odd years in Australia. The mine was also located away from the premium farmlands of the Liverpool Plains, he said.

Member for Parkes Mark Coulton this week also defended the decision to approve the mine, telling Weekender many

of the arguments against the mine are based on emotion rather than science. (See the full story in today’s Weekender.)

“I’ve heard words like agricultural genocide or that this will be the end of production on the Liverpool Plains, and that’s just nonsense.

“It’s not on the Liverpool Plains, it’s on a hill. There’s a process, which has been followed through, and I firmly think we should believe science and the processes.”

McCalman’s stellar rugby run continues WARREN’S golden boy of rugby, Ben McCalman, has capped off a stellar run by being named recipient of the prestigious Nathan Sharpe Award for the most outstanding player in the Western Force, named in honour of the Wallabies great and inaugural captain of the WA side.

McCalman, the imposing Wallabies No.8, also picked up the Geoff Stooke Award for the second year in a row for his off-field contribution to team standards.

McCalman, who last month signed on for another three seasons with the Western Force, polled the most number of votes across five matches during the season, finishing with a record 378 points, obliterating the previous best of 343 points set by team captain Matt Hodgson last year.

No doubt McCalman’s home town and rugby fans across the region will be cheering for the affable back-rower when the Wallabies take the field for the Rugby World Cup in England and Wales in September.

Zoo boss takes RDA deputy chair TARONGA Western Plains Zoo boss Matthew Fuller has been appointed Deputy Chair of Regional Development Australia Orana for a further three years.

The position is a joint appointment by the Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and the NSW Minister for Regional Development John Barilaro.

Chair of RDA Orana, John Walkom, said the organisation welcomed Fuller’s appointment to the Deputy Chair, a position he’ll hold until mid-2018.

“Matt has continuously demonstrated strong leadership through his various roles as General Manager of Taronga Western Plains Zoo and board member of Inland NSW Tourism in the Orana region,” Walkom.

“A number of other positions u

Matthew Fuller has been appointed Deputy Chair of Regional Development Australia Orana

Ben McCalman (left) receives the ball during the Australian Wallabies team training session at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast last Thursday.

PHOTO: AAP/ DAVE HUNT

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u on our committee will be appointed in the coming months and we are excited about the next three years.”

Mr Walkom said that he was looking forward to working with Mr Fuller and can see a busy and productive time ahead for the Orana region.

Spotlight turns to election conduct RESIDENTS of the Dubbo electorate are being invited to make submissions to an inquiry being held into the 2015 state election.

The Parliament of NSW’s Electoral Matters Committee is conducting the inquiry and as part of the inquiry process, the committee is seeking submissions from a wide range of stakeholders. Public hearings will be held in October and November 2015.

MP Jai Rowell, Chair of the Electoral Matters Committee, said the inquiry is an important avenue for all NSW residents and relevant stakeholders to “let parliament know what they think about the way in which the 2015 NSW state election was conducted”.

The Committee welcomes submissions from all NSW res-

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idents about any aspect of the 2015 NSW state election including the work of the NSW Electoral Commission, ways of voting such as iVote and the rules for election campaign materials.

For more information, residents can visit the Electoral Matters Committee’s website: http://www.parliament.nsw. gov.au/electoralmatters.

Governor joins Walking Wounded NSW Governor David Hurley this week joined ex-soldiers and Families of the Fallen on the Great Australian Traverse’s Gilgandra to Dubbo leg to raise awareness and funds to help wounded ex-soldiers and their families.

Hurley said he was honoured to join the Walking Wounded en route from Gilgandra to Dubbo as part of their epic Tribute to the ANZACs, a three-continent journey to pay tribute to our 41 young men who, sadly, lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Through local community support for events such as this leg of the Traverse from Gilgandra, the home town of the Coo-ee March, Walking Wounded aims to support the

NSW Governor David Hurley. PHOTO: AAP/MICK TSIKAS

psychological recovery and rehabilitation of returned Australian soldiers from recent conflicts.

“In our Centenary Year of ANZAC, I congratulate Walking Wounded and its supporters on this inspiring journey”,

the Governor said.

Gilgandra Mayor Doug Batten and his colleague Councillor Susan Baker will hos a reception in the town today (Friday) where the Governor met and mixed with locals and Walking Wounded personnel.

Tomorrow (Saturday) members of the public are invited to walk or run with the team along the Dubbo Road between 9-11am before the team makes its way to Dubbo and on through other centres in the region.

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Mobile blackspots: the answer’s in the bag

BY JOHN RYAN NEWS COMMENT

REGIONAL Australians, and taxpayers more generally, are being shafted by our federal telecommunications laws, and it all started back in the 1990s, when the analogue “bagphones” were king.

Here’s the timeline: Mobile phones were introduced to Australia in the early 1990s and were a world away from the smart phones of today. They were huge, with the smallest versions referred to as “bricks” and the larger units as “bagphones” because they came in their own carrier, complete with carry handle.

They operated on a different system, pre-digital, called analogue, which could transmit voice but not data.

But they worked – even with far fewer mobile phone towers back in the day, many thousands of people who could get mobile phone service with their bagphones no longer have access to that near necessity.

Under the Howard government the analogue network was phased out and we were left with the digital network, but what most people don’t know, including many in successive governments, was that bagphones were made illegal after pressure from lobbyists – this despite the fact that at least one company manufactured bagphones that worked on the GSM digital signal.

The rationale behind this craziness was that analogue bagphones “jammed” network towers because they transmitted such a strong signal, at a power of three watts, as opposed to the 0.5 watts generated by current smartphones.

The weird thing here is that I was running around reporting on the closure of the analogue network yet no telco ever – ever – brought up that jamming of towers was a problem, and I never saw a story of that nature published, so these lobbying efforts were kept very much under the radar of public scrutiny.

At three watts the bagphones have six times the transmitting power of our current mobiles, so that means many people who have no prayer of getting service would suddenly have great reception.

Worse still, one company manufactured a car phone kit which had a transmitting power of eight watts.

Given our smartphones apparently use some power to run all the data and programs, experts have told me they really have a transmitting power of just 0.35 watts, so an eight watt car phone is probably more than 20 times as effective at picking up service from the nearest tower.

In these days of corporate lobbying, hidden campaign donations and postpolitical consultancies for senior politicians and bureaucrats, it’s really no surprise there are so many people in the system who have worked assiduously behind the scenes to maintain the status quo.

In the meantime, instead of allowing

Writer John Ryan with his original bagphone: Many thousands of people who used to be able to get mobile phone service with their bagphones no longer have access to that near necessity. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

people to purchase phones that will provide them with amenity and security, we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars putting new mobile phone towers in place.

That’s great; I’m glad and grateful it’s happening, but my contention was that the first step should be to allow people to use these more powerful phones, which they’d pay for themselves at zero cost to government.

Then, and only then, should the government spend taxpayer dollars weeding out the much-reduced remaining blackspots and areas of need.

I used to drive the entire region and knew where every blackspot was for our bagphone; so many of those areas which are identified blackspots 20 years on need never have been classed in that situation.

Even more concerning is that Telstra is phasing out its GSM digital network in favour of data prioritised systems, so these current digital bagphones won’t

` Instead of allowing people to purchase phones that will provide them with amenity and security, we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars putting new mobile phone towers in place.

ever get a chance to work, when that GSM network should be continued in the national interest.

That’s going to hurt the many people who’ve imported these GSM bagphones from overseas and have been using them illegally, but harmlessly, to stay in touch in areas where they have no mobile service.

There’s no shortage of high level support for this idea to be investigated, but once again cutting through the endless departmental structures we’ve allowed to be put in place have triumphed, becoming a quicksand which quickly sucks in and buries any low-cost common sense policy ideas.

Last year while I was writing a submission to the commonwealth’s inquiry into how best to spend the $100 million allocated to alleviating mobile phone blackspots I caught up with then NSW police and emergency services minister Michael Gallacher while he was visiting Dubbo police station with local MP and now deputy premier Troy Grant.

I told him about the digital bagphones and he immediately understood how vital a tool they could be for cops, firies and ambos who often face dangerous situations while out of touch with headquarters.

He wrote a letter of support for Macquarie 2100’s submission to run a trial with more powerful bagphones and also penned a personal note to communications minister Malcolm Turnbull.

I met with assistant communications minister Paul Fletcher when he was touring the electorate with Parkes MP Mark Coulton.

He’d been an advisor to John Howard’s communications minister senator Richard Alston at the time the analogue network had been switched off and subsequently worked in a senior role for Optus, yet he thanked me for providing him with the information about digital baghones he said he’d never heard from anyone else.

He later wrote to me that the request for funding to trial bagphones wasn’t covered by the blackspot criteria but that he’d personally written to the Telstra CEO asking him to look at the potential of these more powerful phones.

M2100’s entire submission was also attached in the note to the Telstra CEO. “Could you please advise whether Telstra is interested in exploring Mr Ryan’s ideas and investigating if higher powered phones could be used to improve mobile reception in regional areas?”

Fletcher’s covering letter stated.

Despite that, Telstra has never bothered to so much as send me an email to discuss using these phones. I’ve just drafted yet another submission to the commonwealth’s Regional Telecommunications Review 2015.

Fingers crossed, but I’m not holding my breath.

By the way, I still have my old bagphone, which I haven’t used for a while, and it’s very much for sale.

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NEWS.

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Chasing up a storm Images of the “super cell” that wreaked havoc across the Armatree and Quambone areas this week have been doing the rounds of online media. Weekender tracked down meteorologist Cameron Hines, the avid “storm chaser” who captured the stunning shots.

PHOTOS: CAMERON HINES/SOUTHBRISBANESTORMS.COM

BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

SERIES of stunning images of the “super cell” weather event that wreaked havoc at Armatree and Quambone over the weekend have taken the net by storm, if you’ll pardon the pun.

The ferocity of the sudden storm, which has been dubbed a tornado – destroyed a number of buildings and ripped roofs from homes, uprooted trees, tore fences apart and even blew a B-double truck off the Castlereagh Highway. Miraculously, there were no injuries but the onslaught has left more than a few locals shaking their heads in disbelief.

Among those to witness Mother Nature’s brief but destructive

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hissy fit was Cameron Hines, a Brisbane-based meteorologist who is at the moment doing a stint at Cobar’s Bureau of Meteorology office. The 37 year old is also an avid “storm chaser” in his spare time, and while he sympathises deeply with those affected by the weekend’s wild weather, he can’t help being excited by the shots he managed to capture and the opportunity to witness such an unusual meteorological event.

Speaking as the brains behind storm enthusiasts’ website, southbrisbanestorms.com, Hines says he’s been pursuing his passion since he first earned a driver’s license, which gave him the freedom to “chase” the weather with which he’s been fascinated since childhood.

“My mum tells me how excit-

ed I used to get as a child when there was a storm coming. I always had a deep interest in the weather, and took geography and environmental subjects at school because I knew I wanted to go into a career related to the weather. I also did a geographical science degree in satellite imagery at uni.”

Hines has pursued unusual weather patterns not only here in Australia, but like any serious enthusiast has spent time in the storm chasers’ Mecca – “Tornado Alley” in the United States.

“There are a lot of Australians who go to the US every year to do the peak month in Tornado Alley,” he says, describing the wide belt of tornado prone America that stretches from the Canadian border right down to Florida in the south.

Hines’ most recent trip to the US was just last month, where he and four of his storm-chasing Aussie mates “caught” six tornadoes in the time they were there.

“It was unreal,” he says, his excitement palpable even down a phone line.

The art of photographing storms and weather patterns is a combination of knowing what to look for as well as simply being in the right place at the right time.

“Because I’ve studied the weather, there are a lot of forecasting models and information available that I can analyse for myself and identify an area that might be a target for

storms a week or a few days in advance. I can read the dynamics and know that a particular area looks promising and head out there at the weekend, for instance.

“Sometimes you can just get lucky but there’s usually a lot of planning that goes into it, and not every time it works out but a bit of knowledge helps.”

THE series of photographs Hines took of the storm cell that struck Armatree and Quambone came about as a result of exactly that mix of knowledge and luck.

“I was actually was heading off to check out the snow up in the Warrumbungles,” he says. “I knew there was going to be some thunderstorm activity over the weekend, but didn’t pick it as potentially that intense. I set up my camera because I thought I might see some cool lightning and so on, but not in a million years would I have picked a tornado that day.”

Hines explains in greater detail just how the unusual weather event unfolded.

“It’s probably the strongest cold front we’ve had this year and it was definitely the year’s most dynamic winter system we’ve had. But it was actually quite mild just leading up to the storm – we had these slightly warmer northerly winds feeding in ahead of it. When you have cold air coming along behind that warmer air, it creates a pretty unstable atmosphere

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which is usually the catalyst for thunderstorms. But the thing that made this one so rare is that it’s the middle of July; not often do you get those contrasting systems colliding – that’s usually a springtime thing.”

Hines is “absolutely stoked” with the resulting photographs and with what he says was a case of great timing all ‘round.

“It was just pure luck that I was in the area. But by early afternoon I saw what was happening on the radar and the lightning tracker and I started to get pretty excited. I could see what was happening – I could

see a really intense line of storms stretching from Cobar right down to Victoria, so I tried to position myself on the northernmost edge of the line.”

Mother Nature can be a right bitch sometimes, but Hines says it’s that potential ferocity that makes storm chasing so addictive.

“Just to be close to something so spectacular in nature, but at the same time not putting yourself in real danger or being a hindrance to emergency services – that’s all part of the appeal and it’s something not everyone gets to experience.”

` It was just pure luck that I was in the area.

But by early afternoon I saw what was happening on the radar and the lightning tracker and I started to get pretty excited...

– Cameron Hines Has he ever had some close calls with Mother Nature’s temper in all its glory?

“Oh, yeah,” he says, recounting a recent experience in the US. “We were in a place called Canadian in Texas. We got within about 200-300 metres

of a tornado that did some quite devastating damage to the area – that was pretty hairy. But the thing is, you just don’t put yourself in a position where you can get caught out.

“One of the things I tell people about storm chasing is the

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Hines’ knowledge of weather patterns and meteorology gives him an enviable edge over other storm enthusiasts – a basic knowledge and experience in “reading” and chasing storms helps enormously, he says.

“It’s almost second nature to me now.”

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BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY JOURNALIST

THERE would be few in a better position to know how the Central West is faring, in terms of its general mental health and quality of relationships, than area manager of Interrelate, Anne Heath.

The organisation has been helping NSW families build relationships since 1926 and on average helps 70,000 individuals, couples, families and children every year.

A seasoned professional with more than three decades working in the field, the Coonamble native stepped into the role of area manager last November.

“I have a passion for making sure regional services are good,” Heath says.

Based in Orange, she shares her time and energy between there, Dubbo, Bourke, Cobar and Coonamble, taking in the broad range of needs and issues affecting individuals and whole communities.

Although diverse and with very unique needs, universal to all these rural towns and cities, are the barriers people put up to recognising a need for and seeking guidance.

“We’re not a culture that easily asks for help,” says Heath. “Until very recent times no one discussed the whole mental health thing; no one talked about it and we don’t always recognise when we need help ourselves.

“Often we hear people say, “well I don’t know what we would talk about”, but that’s the counsellor’s job. A good counsellor will be able to get you talking, you don’t have to really worry about that.

“People think relationships are easy; that they’re normal and natural. What we at Interrelate would like is for everybody to do some relationship work before they have any kids.”

Heath says Interrelate has for many years runs a course called Prepare and Enrich, which has been updated and modernised with sections that can be done online.

“It’s about investigating your values before you go ahead and have children or buy a house together and discover you have a completely different attitude to money.”

Heath suggests money, children, sex, lack of communication and lack of preparation are all areas that can bring relationships unstuck.

“Some people get into quite serious

` We’re not a culture that seeks help around relationships. People think relationships are easy; that they’re normal and natural.

What we at Interrelate would like is that everybody did some relationship work before they had any kids.

Relationships can be a maze of emotions that sometimes leads to frustrating dead ends. For almost 90 years Interrelate has helped individuals, couples and families resolve their issues, or simply improve what they already do well.

Dubbo Weekender talks to area manager, Anne Heath.

Anne Heath, area manager, Interrelate. PHOTO: CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

relationships pretty young and then have children. If they have never even been able to communicate with each other and the relationship stops working, they’re not going to be able to communicate with each with other over any children they may share but couples with children and families don’t have to go it alone.”

Establishing a clear picture for what it means to be parents is something in which Interrelate specialises.

“I think the lack of preparation around what it means to be part of a couple, what it means to raise a child together, is huge in our society. At the end, it comes down to a lack or capacity to communicate with each other about what everybody needs.”

Sometimes that means separation or divorce for the parents.

“Any family that separates, before they engage in any court proceedings, will be referred to any family relationship centre to try to get people to work stuff out for themselves. When that works well, which is most of the time, then people achieve a parenting plan without having to go into the court system,” Heath explains.

“When they separate, most families manage all this without ever coming near a service like us or a court system.

But when they can’t make an agreement or when there’s issues of violence or control, maybe more than violence, people might then attempt to use their children as part of that control.”

What’s best for children during family

breakdowns, is an important role Interrelate plays.

“A service we offer here and in Orange is the Children’s Contact Service. When parents aren’t able to work out differences for themselves or there might be safety reasons or concerns, children will come here and the parent who doesn’t live with them can visit with them under supervision,” she says.

By law children have the right to have a relationship with both their parents and parents have a responsibility to see that happen.

“The only thing that overrides that is violence.”

Targeting children with education programs is a longstanding service.

“We run a group called Kids ConneXions which is about creating respectful relationships and which we take into primary schools to get kids to think about what is a good friendship, what a healthy relationship looks like.”

Children learn about relationships from three main sources; their peers, the media and their families.

While little control can be had over themes portrayed in the media (aside from the off switch), parents and families do have control.

“We regularly run positive parenting workshops, which is more proactive and really designed for any parent. It encourages people to think about what sort of parent they want to be, how to parent positively instead of negatively,” says Heath.

The other benefit of the parenting

programs, she suggests, is the opportunity for parents to discover they’re not alone in the issues they face.

“You’ll sit there and people will say “this is happening with my teenager” and then another one will say, “oh really, it’s happening to me as well”. It’s always nice when that happens. It makes people realise it’s not just them; everyone struggles with their parenting and their relationships. It’s a myth that it’s always easy. Sometimes they wait until it’s too late to get help as well, particularly in a relationship.”

WITH nine branches across New South Wales currently in operation and the centres of Bourke, Coonamble and Cobar in the process of coming online, there’s a clear demand for relationship services.

“The diversity in the area is really huge when you look at the statistics for things like domestic violence. The difference between Orange and Bourke for example is significant. Income differences are quite startling as well. Orange is not particularly high but it’s the highest in my region and Walgett is maybe one of the lowest in the state,” Heath says.

Interrelate is well equipped to deal with diverse issues, people and challenges but is now itself facing an issue common to many sectors – how to attract and keep staff in the region.

“Across the region, attraction and retention of staff is probably my single biggest issues in the region. We’re offer-

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help ing a complex suite of services and finding people to run those services can be a challenge,” says Heath.

Facing challenges and finding ways of resolving them is something Interrelate has done for almost 90 years.

“Interrelate’s tagline is we’re the relationships experts. We’ve been working in the field of relationships since 1926 and started out as the Father and Son Movement which was set up to educate boys, who’d lost their dads in the war, about sexuality.

“Then we became the Family Life Movement which was the same thing but around mums and dads and girls too. Then in the ‘70s we morphed into relationship counselling as well as education, so our school services are a really big part of our service,” Heath explains.

“It is a nice legacy to have I think. It speaks of the capacity of the organisation to grow and adapt and change to meet modern needs. I suppose our current challenge is how to use electronic media better for all our areas of work.”

GETTING people to understand how to access the help Interrelate offers is part of the challenge.

“We’re one of the services to provide counselling in the drought region and you often read there are no services but there’s always services there,” says Heath.

“Life’s pretty tough and there’s less community support and fewer people and institutions. Some communities haven’t kept their town hall or their school or their pub.”

Heath grew up out in Coonamble where she recalls her parents playing tennis almost every weekend and going to a ball “probably once a month” and church every Sunday.

“There were different issues then,” she says. “I think life was very hard, but there was certainly a greater sense of community connection. I’m not sure every rural town has that anymore.”

While drought can be a leveler and source of common pain, there is little consolation for residents of towns like Walgett.

Tasked with supporting drought assistance packages with relevant counselling and programs, Heath says the community of Walgett is in particular feeling the effects of drought.

“Walgett’s had little rain, so businesses are closing down, there are a lot of issues in the school, kids get taken out of school and sent to boarding school, but issues get worse. It self perpetuates,” Heath says.

“The little towns are already shrinking anyway because you don’t need as many people to run a farm as you used to; industry is mechanised, seasonal work is not happening, rural industries that used to employ a lot of people, employ very few people now. (The population of) Warren halved during the last drought and then the flow on from that was how many school teachers, how many nurses, how many shop keepers (left town)?”

While clients of Interrelate need not have any problems and just be seeking education on how to have better relationships, many do have issues according to Heath couples and families, through counselling and workshops, often leave as success stories.

“Some people do it beautifully as well. I know a young woman who’s just had her second child and she’s about 18 and she’s still going to university; she’s still raising her children and her relationship is okay.”

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Silent but deadly killer stalks Dubbo DUBBO has been bestowed with the dubious distinction of being the state’s third most prolific “hotspot” for diabetes, according to figures released this week to mark National Diabetes Week.

Diabetes NSW statistics show there are 2443 people – or just over six per cent of the population –living with what is dubbed “the silent killer” in Dubbo. Sydney’s Blacktown topped the list at more than 3000 and Port Macquarie narrowly pipped us to the second place post with 2473 reported diabetes sufferers.

Diabetes claimed 5.1 million deaths across the world in 2013 and figures show there are currently 1.7 million Australians living with the disease, 35 per cent of whom live in NSW, where one person is diagnosed with diabetes every 15 minutes.

Diabetes NSW CEO Sturt Eastwood said the figures highlight the “silent but deadly” disease as one of the most significant unresolved public health burdens facing the state and the nation. Diabetes is estimated to have cost Australia more than $14.6 billion over the past year, and Eastwood says that figure is set to rise.

Research conducted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows the level to which Australians underestimate their personal risk of developing diabetes, failing to recognise it as a serious condition.

Eastwood says this is a dangerous perception.

“Diabetes is a serious, progressive and complex condition with serious complications.

There is no such thing as ‘mild’ diabetes. All types of diabetes are serious and can lead to complications if not well managed.

Diabetes can have a significant impact on quality of life and reduce life expectancy.”

Apart from the threat to local health here in the Orana Region, diabetes is fast becoming the planet’s most significant threat to human health and productivity. Worldwide, a staggering 382 million people live with the disease and here in Australia, experts expect that by 2017, it will have overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of disease burden.

“The important message to remember is it doesn’t have to reach this level if we work together to tackle the challenge of diabetes,” according to the NSW Diabetes CEO, urging Dubbo

residents to visit their GP for a check up.

According to diabetes expert and endocrinologist, Associate Professor Alexander Viardot, from research body the Garvan Institute, knowledge and treatment of diabetes have come a long way in recent years thanks to substantial breakthroughs in medical research.

Along with other researchers at Garvan, Viardot investigates the relationship between genetics, factors influencing diabetes and the development of the disease, with the aim of improving the diagnosis, treatment and ultimately, prevention of both Types 1 and 2 diabetes.

The two are distinctly different diseases, with Type 1 typically affecting younger people, half of whom are diagnosed before their 18th birthday. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease which develops when the insulin producing cells in the pancreas have been destroyed by the body’s own immune system.

Type 2 on the other hand, occurs when people develop insulin resistance thanks largely, it’s thought, to genetic and lifestyle risk factors such as unhealthy lifestyle or carrying excess weight.

Viardot’s team at the Garvan Institute is working on developing more personalised treatment for patients suffering diabetes, hoping to move away from what he calls the “one size fits all” model of treatment to find better ways to treat people based on their specific disease “mechanisms” and genetic information.

Some of the signs to watch for if you believe you may be at risk of diabetes include: l Excessive thirst l Unexplained fatigue or lethargy l Constant hunger l Slow-healing cuts l Itchy skin l Blurred vision l Unexplained weight loss l Mood swings l Headaches l Dizziness l Leg cramps However, those with Type 2 diabetes may experience no symptoms at all.

Given Dubbo’s unenviable position at the top of the diabetes “hotspot” list, residents are urged to contact their GP or contact the Diabetes NSW tollfree information line on 1300 136 588.

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THE MOTHER OF ALL BATTLES One mum’s fight to beat the bottle Australia’s booze culture makes it easy to hide addiction and when you don’t fit the stereotype of an alcoholic, denial can be deadly. Just ask Sarah, a young mother of four who’s finally facing her addiction head-on.

STORY by JEN COWLEY ARAH* is 40 years old. She’s the mother of four. She’s intelligent, she’s articulate, she’s immaculately groomed. She’s had a successful career in sales and finance.

She’s also an alcoholic.

She doesn’t fit the mould – or does she?

Sarah is among the 18 per cent of Australians over the age of 14 who drink at levels that put them at risk of alcohol related harm over the course of their lifetime. But for Sarah, binge drinking isn’t a one off, or even occasional occurrence – she’s been slowly drinking herself into an early grave since she was a teenager.

More than two decades and four children later, she decided enough was enough, and finally faced both her addiction and her demons. With the help of a supportive husband and family, Sarah has just been through rehab, and she’s been nearly three months sober.

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She’s determined to stay on the wagon this time, and is telling her story in the hope that her experience might help other young women seek help. Because, while a specific breakdown of statistics is hard to come by, this young mother is by no means alone.

In the Australian culture of acceptance of excessive alcohol consumption, it’s been all too easy to hide her addiction and the fact that she doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of “a drunk” has made that denial easier, but far more destructive.

SARAH’S drinking began, as it often does in Australia where alcohol is the most widely used “drug”, when she was a teenager.

“Most people stop when they get older and start to have responsibilities, I never did. But I always worked – I had good jobs and I managed, I thought, to hide my drinking. At my worst, I was going home after work and drinking two litres of wine – then getting up and going to work the next day.”

Sarah describes reaching the point of “hanging out” for the end of the working day just so she could get home and have that first drink – “throw a few back before I started cooking dinner”.

“Nobody knew. People knew I liked to have a drink, but it got to the point where I drank alone – it stopped being a social thing. My family knew I drank too much, but it never came to the point where they said, “you’re an alcoholic”.”

About five years ago, Sarah took her

first stab at beating the addiction that had consumed her for 15 years, booking herself into a detox centre.

“I came out feeling fantastic – I’d lost weight, I felt much better. But I didn’t do the work after and I gradually slipped back very quickly.”

She says she stopped binge drinking for each pregnancy, but would always go back to her old ways almost immediately after each child was born.

“When my youngest child was about 12 months old, I was at a real low point and my husband and I knew we had to do something. He found Jarrah House for me, and I went there for a short stint which was good, but I didn’t stay long enough – I was only there four weeks,” she says of the program run through the women-only rehab facility in Sydney’s Little Bay. That was about a year ago but she again fell off the wagon – an all too familiar pattern.

“Then I had a car accident on the way home from the bottle shop one day when I’d been drinking again, and that was the reality check I needed. I didn’t have the kids with me, thank God, and I wasn’t injured and the police weren’t involved, but I knew things could have been drastically different.

“The guilt was horrible. Everyone was so disgusted with me and I was disgusted with myself. It was a dark, dark place to be.

“I can tell you so many stories of so many near misses I’ve had over the past 20 years – it’s just been a list of horrible

“could have beens”.”

The accident was the final push Sarah needed.

“There’s a difference between knowing you’re an alcoholic and accepting it.

I knew – I just hadn’t accepted it until I hit rock bottom. You need to get to that absolute low point before you can start to climb out.

“Being an alcoholic is like living a train wreck. You have a binge and then you come to the next day and you feel so bad – but that’s what keeps you drinking. You drink to assuage the guilt. And the people around you who love you don’t know what to say or what to do.”

When Sarah finally went back to Jarrah House and did the full ten week rehab program, she says it was like a fog lifting. She could see things more clearly. She’s been seeing a psychologist and has now been 90 days sober.

“I count it day by day. The way I talk to myself about it is that I can’t say I won’t

` There’s a difference between knowing you’re an alcoholic and accepting it. I knew – I just hadn’t accepted it until I hit rock bottom.

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like to think my experience can help others”.

“The thing is that I know there are women out there like me who think that rehab is for someone who’s in the gutter – not a mum with a good job and a good brain. But there were people from all walks of life when I went to rehab – professional people, well educated people, people you’d think would have it all together.”

Her advice to other young women and particularly young mothers is to know that they’re not alone.

“There will be women and young mothers reading this and they’ll recognise themselves – and I say to them, face up and get help. There’s absolutely no shame in asking for help.”

ever drink again, but I didn’t drink yesterday, I haven’t had a drink today and I’m not drinking right now. That’s the way I think of it.”

The challenge, she says, is that triggers are everywhere when you’re in “addict” mind.

“Someone says something and you take it the wrong way. Going grocery shopping, having money in my wallet. That was always a massive trigger.

When I’m in clear mind, I have to be very careful with my emotional state. I need to deal with things as they come up.”

The day by day approach is one of the strategies imparted by the rehab program and Sarah cites going to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings as an important part of her recovery.

“There’s something really comforting about being around others who know what you’re going through. It keeps you going.”

That raises an interesting point about Sarah’s long term denial, and about being what’s euphemistically referred to as a “functioning alcoholic”. Because there’s a distinct stereotype surrounding alcoholism, those who don’t match the image can easily deny their addiction.

But it takes one to know one, apparently.

“I’ve come across other people, particularly in various workplaces, and I just know they’re like me. And that makes me wonder if they see it in me too – I always thought I was a master at

hiding it, but was I really?

“It’s far more common than everyone thinks. The problem is that when people think of alcoholics, they think of a stereotypical drunken wreck, rolling around in the gutter and completely non-functioning. That’s not necessarily the case. You can, to all intents and purposes, function quite well on the face of it at least.”

It’s one of the things that made it so hard for Sarah to accept her alcoholism.

“I thought, no, that’s not me; I have a job, I’m good with money, I have great kids, a good marriage... I just couldn’t think of myself as that stereotypical image of a drunk.”

SHE’S been nearly three months sober, but Sarah is still stalked by not only the demons from her childhood that contributed to her spiral into alcoholism, but the ongoing fear of failure.

“My greatest fear is falling off the wagon, obviously. It’s the greatest fear of anyone who’s trying to recover from alcohol addiction. But it’s that fear that keeps you going – you need to have that fear, otherwise you don’t feel you have anything to lose. I need to hang onto that fear.

“The other fear I have that alcohol addiction might be inherited. What if I somehow pass this demon on to my kids? The best I can do now, apart from not drinking, is to make them aware – and I’m doing that with my older kids in the best way I can, by being open and honest with them. Finally.”

Adding to that fear is the danger of Australia’s culture of acceptance of alcohol.

“If alcohol was discovered today, I think it would be illegal,” Sarah says emphatically. “Abused, alcohol is as dangerous if not more dangerous and destructive, as any illegal drug. It’s insidious. Alcohol is everywhere – it’s so much a part of our social lives. And that’s not a problem for most people, but when you’re an alcoholic and you’re in that frame of mind, it’s impossible to apply consequential thinking.”

Fortunately, Sarah’s husband isn’t “much of a drinker”, she says. “We don’t have alcohol in the house. He’s been wonderful. So supportive. He’s going to Al-Anon – which is for the family and friends of alcholics – and that’s helped him realise there’s things he can do to help us both, and our kids.”

For now, Sarah says she’s taking her time to just enjoy life again.

“I went to the movies with my daughter this week – she rang me and actually wanted to go with me. That was cool.

Those are the sorts of things I’ve missed out on. Life is going to be so much better without booze. When you’re not focussed on where your next drink is coming from, you can enjoy the things that matter; be yourself again and get back in touch with yourself.

“If I can put as much effort into my recovery as I put into my drinking, I’ll be doing well.”

Sarah says she wanted to tell her story because, “as cliché as it sounds, I would

SANDY KERVIN is the CEO of the centre at which Sarah recently spent time – Jarrah House, Australia’s only not-for-profit, non-government drug and alcohol rehab centre where women can go either on their own or with their children.

According to Kervin, Sarah’s is by no means an isolated case – she regularly sees many young mothers in similar situations.

The issue, she says, is that society tends to think women somehow bring drug and alcohol dependency on themselves, and there’s a huge stigma involved, particularly for women with children.

“Reaching out for help is very hard for these women, but it’s a very courageous thing when they do.

There are a number of barriers that prevent women, particularly mothers, from asking for help, chief among them that societal stigma, says Kervin.

“This comes from the idea that you’ve failed – that you’ve not been able to achieve that ability to stop when everyone else seems to be able to stop at a few drinks. That makes it very much a hidden addiction.

Kervin echoes Sarah’s notion that the Australian culture of acceptance of alcohol use, and to an extent misuse, adds to the extent to which the magnitude of the problem is masked.

“For a start, it’s legal. It’s very accessible. And if you do have a problem with alcohol, you can shop around to get a supply.” u

` If we can build a stronger community, we won’t end up with women falling through the cracks and ending up with issues with drugs and alcohol.

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u Because the addiction is often hidden, statistics on the number of women who misuse alcohol are hard to come by, and Kervin says the poorly defined and highly individual impact of alcohol consumption makes the dissemination of correct information even harder.

“For instance, there’s not been nearly enough research on the effect of alcohol on the unborn baby – we do know about Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and that alcohol has an effect on unborn children, but it’s not a blanket “one drink will cause this effect”. We know there is an effect, but that message hasn’t gone out there about alcohol like it has with cigarettes. They’re hidden away. That’s not the case with alcohol – it’s very much a part of everyday Australian life. And if you don’t have a problem with alcohol, it’s hard to see that there’s an issue.”

At Jarrah House, women are encouraged to do a ten week program. The program is broken into two parts – the first four weeks is focussed on getting “stabilised”, and detox is part of that initial program.

“The last six weeks is devoted to developing skills to enable the women to go back to their environment and think about the stresses that may have led to reaching for a drink at 4 o’clock in the afternoon while you’re cooking dinner,” says Kervin.

“We also help to build the capabil-

` I thought, no, that’s not me; I have a job, I’m good with money, I have great kids, a good marriage... I just couldn’t think of myself as that stereotypical image of a drunk.

– “Sarah”

Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender ity to cope. Once you’ve decided not to drink anymore, then you need some building blocks and strategies – because it is part of life to go to a social or sporting event, or to the supermarket and be surrounded by alcohol.

“People go from our initial rehab to long-term rehab, to continue practicing their coping skills.”

Like Sarah, Kervin wants women, particularly mothers, who are battling addiction to alcohol to know that help is available.

“It takes a village to raise a child, and these days, we’re doing a lot of our parenting in isolation. If we can build a stronger community, we won’t end up with women falling through the cracks and ending up with issues with drugs and alcohol.”

Kervin says Sarah’s decision to tell her story is a very powerful tool for both awareness and for Sarah herself.

“Reaching out is a wonderful way to realise she’s been on a journey and now she has the power to pay this back by sharing her experience.”

DUBBO Drug and Alcohol team leader Jenny Taylor says identifying the reasons some young women and mothers turn abuse alcohol is the first step in prevention.

“Community Drug & Alcohol and MERIT work from a client focus and harm mininisation model,” Taylor says.

“Treatment depends on many factors readiness for change, clients’ wellbeing, belief about drinking, alcohol-related expectancies, social functioning and social supports. Treatment is tailored to the needs of the client and presenting problems.”

Like Sarah and her fellow professional Sandy Kervin, Taylor says the accessibilty of alcohol makes it all the more dangerous if misused, and helps “hide” the extent of the problem among young women.

“Alcohol is an integral part of Australian society and the level of abuse may be underestimated due to the vast number of people who don’t report or aren’t asked about their problems.

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“Genetic make-up, environment, physical dependence, vulnerabilities such as past trauma, mental health, dependency, physical health and stress levels can be risk factors that may lead to alcohol dependency. Therefore it’s important to know your risks especially relating to family history, history of depression, history of trauma and resilience factor,” says Taylor, adding that alcohol can also interact with a variety of medications both prescription and illicit.

The challenges faced by young women and mothers in regional areas challenges relate mostly to limited resources and a lack of accessibility of services, according to Taylor.

“There’s also the cost of travel to services or obtaining transport to detox and rehab, the financial strain of attending detox and rehab and the stress and worry of leaving their children, although there are several good rehabs to which women can take their children with them. Then there’s peer pressure or the normalisation of alcohol consumption within the family.”

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C O M I C R E L I E F | PAU L D O R I N YOUR VIEWS

Need for local palliative care services I LIVE in Dubbo and am concerned because we don’t have enough access to palliative care here, yet we have an ageing population. We have a high cancer rate and we have a lot of heart failure and kidney failure. Our age demographic is slanted because of the 11 per cent Aboriginal population with the gap in life expectancy which that population still, regrettably, has. Otherwise you would see that we have a high proportion of the population approaching their final years and needing more help.

I am concerned about the lack of access to palliative care for people in our town, but even more concerned for people in the outlying areas who have even less access to palliative care than we do here in Dubbo.

Why doesn’t a city the size of Dubbo have a specialist doctor in palliative care? Orange now has a full time specialist palliative physician. Why is Dubbo always the poor relation? Do our elderly have to move to Orange to get the right care? Is it just because once we are dying, we are not going to be on the electoral role much longer?

I would like to be assured that specialist palliative care will be available to me whenever I need it, if I have a terminal diagnosis. I am concerned that, as things stand, that may not be the case in Dubbo.

Barbara O’Brien OAM Dubbo

THE OOLER WATERCOOLER

BY JENNA MCKEOWN

A cool conversation starter THE weather: everyone’s favourite topic of conversation. It’s not controversial, offensive or divisive. It really brings people together and hasn’t it been providing us with much about which to natter?

While us Aussies recently rolled their eyes at the English for complaining about heat in summer (what next, that Coca Cola is fizzy?) when London topped 35 degrees for a day or two, this week it’s their turn to tell us to suck it up.

This Antarctic blast, which sent flurries of snow all around NSW, has actually made (gasp!) winter cold. Social media was flooded with images of smiling children and their very own Olaf snowmen, and taught us a lesson in humility.

The prince and the photographer PRINCE PHILIP certainly isn’t softening in his old age, instead he’s becoming more robust.

Like embarrassing Uncle Cleave at the family wedding, ol’ Phil misplaced his manners last week while posing for official photos at Buckingham Palace for

There has been an up side to the Prime Minister’s boycott of Q&A, hosted by Tony Jones (pictured).

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an event marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Frustrated that the photos were taking too long, Prince Philip brought out his best blue language in a misguided effort to hurry the event along.

It begs the question – after years of public life, shouldn’t he be used to the endless flash of photography, or is he right to be sick of it? Either way, he certainly hasn’t changed.

Han and Leia 4EVA SAN DIEGO Comic Con, which was once Nerd Mecca, and has in recent years blurred the previously clear demarcation lines between Nerd Culture and Pop Culture, was held last weekend.

The Force Awakens panel brought joy to many a Star Wars fan’s heart when Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford rekindled one of the great Hollywood love stories, and kissed onstage.

Sneak peeks of new characters, puppets and props played second fiddle to

the kiss, along with poor Mark Hamill who watched on, wistfully.

Pollies’ no-show a bonus WHILE it is concerning (or seriously problematic) that the current federal government is engaging in wilful censoring of social advocates, public broadcasters and their own front benchers, the silver lining is a more interesting, engaging debate on ABC’s Q&A program.

Interesting people with well-argued points made their way onto the panel this week after Prime Minister Tony Abbot banned his frontbenchers from appearing on the program.

It may not make the same headlines, but the lack of policy rhetoric and political dodging made for a refreshingly open discussion about renewable energy, marriage equality and the role of religion in society. The episode also left many people asking, is Hewson the new Fraser?

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Tony Webber Doubt cast on animal kingdom alarmism as laymen hold sway Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident though the science is not settled, and his temperature hasn’t risen since the ‘90s.

N one hand the federal government prepares to announce its proposed target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020, while cutting funds for solar and wind power.

Elsewhere some WA Liberal MPs demanded scientists explain why cherry-picked misinformation on climate damage is not really where the current thinking is.

So with the emboldened layman, with no expertise and just a gut instinct questioning the science of carbon pollution, I thought I’d have a crack at an area where I have long held suspicions about the “groupthink consensus”.

What passes for knowledge of the animal kingdom is little more than cultural Marxism seeking to distort the reality of other real world common sense scenarios such as guns making us safer and speed limits spoiling the fun.

Sea life: We can’t live under the sea, so how can something as big as a whale?

Similarly if industrial fishing is devastating areas of the seabed and threatening fish stocks, why are prawns still 25 bucks a kilo?

As for transparent creatures at great depths, that has all the likelihood of a socialist utopia and is probably put for-

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ward by perverts to contaminate the minds of the young.

Threatened species: How can anyone know how many lemurs there are in Kathmandu when no-one’s bloody well been there?

Name one animal at serious risk of extinction that you’ve seen lately. Exactly, thus laying bare more hippie extreme green alarmism.

Giraffes: A mythical animal modelled on Gulliver’s erection profile that conveniently eats leaves instead of grass.

Nice try tree huggers.

Sharks don’t hunt humans: For a creature that has made its way through the competitive evolutionary cauldron it sure seems to make that mistake more than most creatures.

Cows don’t accidentally eat humans, neither do fruit bats nor any of the insectivores.

Obviously sharks are the psychos of the sea and demand complete eradication.

Horses in sport: Suddenly every nanny state, helmet zealot thinks horses don’t like racing just because their participation requires a man on their backs whipping them.

Thanks to this high tide of liberationist hysteria, whips have been modified

to be less effective, although we can still give them a knee in the guts while putting the saddle on and they won’t take that away from us without a fight.

Circuses: Admission prices might be cruel, and I’m looking to the ACCC to review the whole industry in that regard, but animals love being in the circus – you only need to look at the zany outfits they wear while prancing up on their back legs.

What’s more, they get to travel, have their food and board paid for and don’t have a care in the world – not unlike dole-bludging surfers and degenerate left-wing academics.

Apart from some chafing where their chains rub, these animals are some of the luckiest in the world and would look at their companions in the wild with pity if they had any cognitive emotions,

` Giraffes: A mythical animal modelled on Gulliver’s erection profile that conveniently eats leaves instead of grass.

Nice try tree huggers.

which of course they don’t.

Big cats: Far from being endangered, I suggest the puma huggers would be in for a surprise if they pitted themselves man-on-maneater and got a first-hand education on where the danger really lies.

Some pissed East European martial artist does it from time to time and that never ends well.

Chicken farming: Anyone not raised in a vegan, same-sex humpy knows very well poultry will carry on about anything: the sun rising, a tasty worm or being locked in a tiny cage for its entire life.

To interpret their squawking as anything other than the small talk that characterises any gathering of vocal females is to be duped by the anti-growth, all-progress-is-bad basket wringers who would have us living in an organic cheese kibbutz if they had their way.

I concede that some of my bold counter theories may confront the orthodoxy of the elite conservationist establishment, and feature crude stereotypes and wild inaccuracies.

But profound ignorance should not exclude the casual observer from the debate.

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Robots in charge at Japanese hotel

2015 HOTEL LIFE

SASEBO, JAPAN: The English-speaking receptionist is a vicious-looking dinosaur and the one speaking Japanese is a female humanoid with blinking lashes.

“If you want to check in, push one,” the dinosaur says. The visitor still has to punch a button on the desk and type in information on a touch panel screen.

From its front desk to the porter, which is an automated trolley, this hotel in southwestern Japan – aptly named the Weird Hotel – is

“manned” almost entirely by robots to save on labour costs.

Hideo Sawada, who runs the hotel as part of an amusement park, insists using robots is not a gimmick, but a serious effort to use technology and achieve efficiency.

Henn na Hotel, as it is called in Japanese, was shown to reporters on Wednesday, complete with robot demonstrations, ahead of its opening to the public on Friday.

Another feature of the hotel is the use of facial recognition technology,

instead of the standard electronic keys, by registering the digital image of the guest’s face during check-in.

The reason? Robots aren’t good at finding keys if people happen to lose them.

Staying at Henn na Hotel starts at 9000 yen ($A100), a bargain for Japan, where a stay in one of the nicer hotels can easily cost twice or three times as much.

The concierge is a doll-like hairless robot with voice recognition that prattles breakfast and event

information. It cannot call a cab or do other errands.

One area Henn na Hotel still relies on human beings is security.

The place is dotted with security cameras, and real people are watching everything through a monitor to make sure guests stay safe and no one makes off with one of the expensive robots.

“And they still can’t make beds,” said Sawada, who has also engineered the rise of a popular affordAAP able Japanese travel agency.

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Going the DISTANCE Reaching the heights of NRL stardom comes with obvious rewards but when retirement comes around, readjusting to a “normal” life can be fraught. So too the path to the NRL for many young junior league hopefuls. Fortunately things are improving at both ends of the spectrum with systems in place to help players adapt to a life that can be both heaven and hell. Weekender talks with three home-grown NRL stars about their experience and their ongoing commitment to making the transition, both ways, a better one.

STORY & MAIN PHOTO by LISA MINNER

HE Western Region punches well above its weight in producing first class NRL players, with Dubbo in particular producing a number of NRL greats over the years. While these men have been lucky enough to chase and realise their dreams, the inevitable crash back to reality when retirement comes – either as a natural progression or through injury – takes its toll in a multitude of ways.

Depression, lack of self-worth, employment struggles and sometimes an inability to adapt to life out of the spotlight – all issues that regularly raise their head.

It’s a concern that has required the implementation of strategies over the years to assist with the transition back to a regular life and all that entails. Having come up through junior league football and out the other side to retirement, Ronny Gibbs, David Peachey and

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Sports psychologist Gareth Mole.

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Andrew Ryan – all legends of the game – know how hard it can be. And as a result, these three men have been collectively involved in different ways in helping smooth the process, not only for those approaching the end of their careers, but also for junior league players about to travel that same road.

PORTS psychologist Gareth Mole from Condor Performance Sports Psychology says the issues facing the sporting elite on retirement or through premature injury can strike a devastating blow to selfesteem and a sense of place and worth. Mole says it’s hard to replicate the feeling of 80,000 fans cheering you on when that part of your life comes to its inevitable end. He says research has conclusively proved the best way to prevent post sporting-career fall-out is to plan ahead while you’re still playing.

“Players need to be working toward something else; if they don’t chase a trade or a degree, particularly if they have to finish because of an injury, they could end up sitting around watching daytime TV, which is a double-blow to their motivation – it’s a bad combination.”

Mole says the majority of sports psychologists now apply strategies where athletes (both younger and older) are coached in what his company calls “the other thing we want to be excellent at”, focusing on other goals to achieve before their sporting career winds up.

For those who haven’t had the advice of psychologists during their sporting career, it’s a lot harder.

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ORMER first grade Rugby League player Ronny “Rambo” Gibbs is now employed with the Department of Sport and Recreation as a development officer based in Dubbo. Gibbs played professionally for East Sydney Roosters, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles (winning the 1987 NSWRL Premiership), Gold CoastTweed and Western Suburbs Magpies. He also played for Castleford in England.

Growing up in Brewarrina, Gibbs who is now in his 50s understands how devastating the letdown can be when the life of an elite sports star comes to a halt.

“In my era it was pretty hard; we had to have a day job plus our football so the transition for us wasn’t too bad but even then if you didn’t have a trade...” he says with a shrug.

“I moved here to Dubbo 23 years ago with no formal education and no trade behind me; the only thing I

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knew was playing football, which is not very good – it’s too hard.”

Gibbs says when he retired he found himself with four children, a wife and not much in the way of support.

“Once football’s finished, everyone wipes you anyhow,” he says, adding that he can understand how hard it is for a lot of young players who devote their lives to the game thinking it will be the “be-all and end-all” of their lives.

Most league careers will see players last around ten years, he says, noting that’s not a long time when you still have a life ahead of you.

Gibbs says the NRL does try to assist with the transition but it’s still an incredibly hard process for many.

“A lot of the time they think there’s no-one out there to really help them. I was lucky I had my wife there to stick by me and my work ethic helped. I wouldn’t want my children to go through what I went through, though.”

He says on the flip-side, he believes a lot of young kids who show promise in junior league are leaving to go to the city too early, encouraged by the Sydney clubs, and in the long run many are not making the grade. That can be devastating in itself.

“There’s so much peer pressure put on them; like, if they haven’t made it to first grade in a couple of years,

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they won’t even come back to their communities because they feel ashamed they didn’t make it. All that peer pressure is too much for them.”

Gibbs says a solution to the problem could be to let the younger players participate regularly in Sydney but keep them based in their communities for longer.

“Let them continue in their local comps while still working with them and that might be the transition they need.”

DECADE further on from Gibbs’ heyday, David Peachey was as a standout regional player who, at 17, was playing first grade for Dubbo’s Macquarie Raiders and was later signed with the Cronulla Sharks, the South Sydney Rabbitohs and later the Widnes Vikings in the English League One competition.

Peachey proved an outstanding young footballer and, further into his career, a highly respected professional player renowned for both his talent and humility.

Peachey tells Weekender his retirement from the NRL at 33 was made easier by staying involved in football from a community perspective. He says it was always important that when retirement came it would be his opportunity to “give back”. And he’s done just that, continuing to be a role model and ambassador for country kids.

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“Being home now two years it’s been quite a journey,” he says. “I’ve been retired eight years and it’s gone fast but I’ve stayed involved by being an ambassador with the NRL’s One Community since 2007 and there’s the Peachey Shield which has been a great thing for kids from all over Western NSW.” Peachey says things have changed for the better for league players facing retirement with the introduction of groups like the Players Association and Men of League.

The primary objective of Men of League is to offer assistance and support to players, coaches, referees, officials and administrators from all levels of the game, as well as members of their families and the broader rugby league community.

“I think one of the best things about Men of League is that for those blokes who are down and out and have found it tough, it’s been a solid foundation to help them and not just your professional league players but those who have been involved right from grass roots to your professional ranks.”

Like Gibbs, Peachey also recognises the challenges associated with younger players coming through.

“I do hear about it and it’s probably one of the things your role models and ambassadors can help with by going into schools and talking to them about what it’s really like.” u

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Above: Ronny Gibbs and David Peachey in a picture taken this week.

` Players need to be working toward something else; if they don’t chase a trade or a degree, particularly if they have to finish because of an injury, they could end up sitting around watching daytime TV. – Sports psychologist, Gareth Mole

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David Peachey playing for Macquarie in the 2008 Group 11 grand final against Dubbo CYMS. PHOTO: STEVE COWLEY/FILE

u He says the current system doesn’t give young kids a lot of time to develop experience. He believes a lot of the promising junior league players coming through often don’t have parents who can provide the commitment that’s needed.

“A lot of them are finishing their schooling at around 17 or 18 years and that only gives them a year and a half to try to make it into the under-20s.

“If you’re a shy kid from the bush and you’re not outspoken but you’re trying to let your talent do the talking, it’s hard. And if that talent isn’t being given the opportunity on the field then you’re sort of in the wings or on the sideline.

“A lot of these kids don’t develop until their mid-20s so they’re going down on a wing and a prayer, one good game and they’re maybe spotted by a talent scout? Rather than developing these kids from early on.”

Peachey says in the early days when he was earmarked for Sydney, there should have been another six good local players accompanying him. Unfortunately, those players didn’t have the support he had. Their families couldn’t make the sacrifice required or they may not have had family in Sydney to help and the financial backing to see them through.

He says he tries to teach young players that the professional ranks aren’t everything.

“I try to teach kids that having the opportunity to go to Sydney or Newcastle and train with professional players is a win in itself, learning from them and then bringing it home to the bush.

“The kids have to realise that even though they didn’t make it as far as they’d hoped, they’ve gone down and given it a crack and from there they can get a Diploma in Sport and Fitness or become a first grade coach.”

He said the definition of “successful” needs to be portrayed differently to these young players.

Peachey says he and Gibbs both went through an under-21s and an under-23s competition into a reserve grade and then into first grade, which he feels was a more natural progression.

NDREW “Bobcat” Ryan – who played at the height of his professional career for both the Parramatta Eels and later as captain of Canterbury Bulldogs – has, like Gibbs and Peachey, successfully transitioned from his NRL career into a role where he can use his experience to help both former players and younger players coming up through the ranks. Ryan works for the NRL in welfare and education and for Country Rugby League (CRL). He also assists players making transition into retirement with Michael Buettner from Men of League.

Ryan says he was always conscious that football would end and with this in mind he says he tried to do as many things as he could to prepare himself for life after football.

He says even though you’re prepared, it’s still hard.

“You miss the training and the camaraderie of the team, so there’s definitely parts of your (football) life you miss.”

Things have changed a lot over the years, he says, and systems are now in place to help former players avoid the pitfalls associated with retirement.

He says specialist career coach Jane Lowder is employed by the NRL to assist players 28 years and older.

“Jane sits down one-on-one with them to help them prepare for life after football, whether that’s five years away or five days’ time.”

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“A career coach and welfare worker are now in place at every NRL club to help both those coming into the NRL and those at the other end so it’s certainly changed a lot over the years.”

Ryan said even with those precautions in place, there’s no guarantee things will be smooth sailing for everyone.

He says players who are facing retirement have had the opportunity to chase their passion and trying to find something that feels even close to that is the hardest part.

“Sometimes players get injured or their contracts just aren’t there anymore, so they’re forced into retirement and pushed into other jobs they may not necessarily want to do so that can be a real challenge for them.”

Ryan also recognises the challenges for the youngsters coming up and the pressure they face finding themselves with a potential professional career on the horizon. His role also involves working with country kids between the ages of 16 and 18.

“We are trying to get to them earlier and earlier so we can prepare them better for what’s ahead.

“It can be hard when you come from a country town and you’re written up a lot in the local paper and they might be moving to Parramatta or Manly, whatever it might be and they’re going to be “the next big thing”. If it doesn’t work out they do feel a bit of that failure so in my role I try and help those kids particularly with the moving away from home, trying to make it smoother for them.

“We still have kids that will move home after three months, it’s massive for them, just the day to day stuff, everything changes for them and they have to train four nights a week and get a job and cook for themselves and clean, “It’s a massive shock to the system for a lot of them.”

In the under 20s, the Holden Cup, Ryan says there’s a rule: “No work, no study, no play”.

He says if the players aren’t either going to TAFE, or have an apprenticeship, they don’t get to play at the weekends.

“About 12 to 15 per cent of that age group will go through and play NRL so unfortunately for the other 85 per cent who don’t, they need to have other things going on in their lives because football might finish pretty quickly.”

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` A career coach and welfare worker are now in place at every NRL club to help both those coming into the NRL and those at the other end so it’s certainly changed a lot over the years.

– Andrew “Bobcat” Ryan (above) PHOTO: AAP/ACTION PHOTOGRAPHICS/COLIN WHELAN

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WHAT I DO KNOW.

Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Doug Sandry: I want to help boys become good young men If you’ve ever had a youngster go through the junior sporting ranks in the region, chances are you’ll have run across Doug Sandry on the sidelines somewhere. He’s been involved with just about every junior sport imaginable, but it’s rugby union that’s proved his greatest passion. Perhaps that’s why he’s just been nominated for the Australian Rugby Union’s prestigious Asteron Life Community Coach of the Year award.

I started coaching sporting teams as a 16-year-old in my home town of Gilgandra – no-one wanted to coach my brother’s rugby league side, so I stepped up. I’ve been coaching ever since – soccer, cricket, league – and now, for 13 years, rugby union. I’m also still a cricket umpire both locally and for zone matches. So I go all year ‘round. I’d love to still be playing cricket but I’m too grumpy now – so the easiest way to be grumpy and get away with it is to become an umpire!

The reason I coach rugby is that I love to “put in” and be involved in that team environment. It’s something I’ve always had and I love it. To have the opportunity to help kids learn and enjoy the game I love is a real privilege.

It’s a buzz. You don’t do it for yourself, though – and while this award nomination is nice, accolades isn’t what it’s about.

In regional areas, without volunteers, there is no sport. And unfortunately, every team or club I’ve been involved with across all types of sports are all the same – there’s a very limited number of people who will volunteer and put their hands up to help. That makes it very difficult and time consuming for those who do step up. But it’s just what you do, isn’t it? Our kids have always played sport as well, so you just get in and help out and it’s great now to be able to help other kids as well.

Satisfaction comes from seeing kids reach their potential. You want them to be the best they can be. That’s what it’s about. My philosophy throughout my coaching career – from day one and in all sports – is that everyone deserves an even opportunity. I don’t care if you’re a rep player or playing for the first time – you deserve an equal opportunity. It’s about building a team and being part of a team.

The biggest issue I’ve found as a referee and an umpire is the abuse. That’s what turns a lot of people off being an official with sport. I heard a story this week about a mother having to walk her son, a young referee, from the field to protect him after a rugby league match. That’s horrendous. And it’s often the parents who are worse than

the kids – parents living vicariously through their kids. You see it so often.

When I first started coaching, I had one parent who had played league at elite level, and he was always coming onto the field to give advice. I was 16.

I told him I was grateful for his advice and help, but that he could have the job if he wanted it – otherwise he could stand on the sideline with the other parents and let me do my job. Parents do it all the time.

I’d like people to remember that we’re volunteers. That we are giving our time and effort so that junior sport can go ahead. I’m in a good situation at the moment because I don’t have children in the side I’m coaching – I haven’t had children playing in a side I’ve coached in rugby for six years. It’s been a real eye-opener to see how people behave – they’re only worried about their little Johnny. That’s not what I worry about; I’m concerned with the 24 little

Johnnies I have – they’re the ones who make up the team.

I want them to learn how to play the game of rugby as a team – not a group of individuals. Parents need to remember the kids are not playing for sheep stations. It’s always nice to win a grand final, but at the end of the day you get a trophy or a medallion. It’s not life and death. But if you’ve had 24 kids who have all contributed throughout the season and they’ve all done their jobs and they win the grand final, then that’s different – because everyone has contributed.

What makes a good coach? Patience.

And you can’t think you know everything. I don’t know everything about coaching and I don’t know everything about rugby. And when I don’t know something, I’ll bring in someone who does. I do my research – I find examples that I can show the team. I feed from other teams – I really enjoy

watching Super Rugby and how they warm up; I watch stuff on the internet and borrow from that. I’ll also look at a good rugby league game and think, “We can use that technique in rugby”. I have also picked up stuff from netball – footwork stuff and drills and so forth.

My wife Terrianne and I are very much a partnership. She’s the one who kicks me out the door and keeps me going – I think I’d annoy the crap out of her if I wasn’t out and about so much. She’s also been a coach for various sports over the years, including netball for about 11 years. She had a crack at soccer and cricket too. If our kids were involved, so were we - that’s what we’ve always done, and still do.

Just because our kids moved on from junior sport, we still remained involved – we just love helping kids. At the end of the day, that’s what we do.

As a rugby coach, I want to help boys become good young men. I also want to see a team come together – if you don’t like the bloke you’re standing next to, it doesn’t matter. You have to come together as a team – and it’s that camaraderie of a team environment that’s so valuable.

Rugby is the best team environment I’ve ever been involved with. I love being around the community of rugby.

Once you get involved you just meet so many wonderful people, not only across the state but across the whole nation. You can rock up to the Gold Coast and have the Dubbo ‘Roos Rugby Club logo on your shirt, and someone will come up and say, “Oh, you’re involved with rugby? My son plays for such and such…” And instantly, you have a connection – a connection all over the world.

With my involvement with the (Dubbo) Rhino’s Rugby, I got to see a lot of international players come through. Just to listen to them talk about the game and their passion for it, that was a real buzz – hearing about what rugby is for them is what I’d love for it to be for the kids out here. I’d love to see Central West with big teams in every age bracket and have really strong competition.

There’s work that needs to be done to develop rugby, and community coaching is where it starts. We need to have the right kind of coaches – who are dedicated to the juniors and to the game – because if you get a bad coach, then that can mean a kid doesn’t come back to rugby.

You have to be not only a good coach but a good mentor, a good friend and a good leader. It’s important to be able to read people, and you have to ask yourself if you’re in it for the right reasons.

I think I’m in it for the right reasons.

I’m doing my best, I’m plugging away and I’m just enjoying it. I love it, I really do. And I’ll probably keep doing it for years to come – if they’ll have me.

– As told to Jen Cowley.

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PROFILE.

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The Kiwi A-Team Before Amelia Kininmonth decided to take the plunge and move to Dubbo from New Zealand, she’d visited many times and thoroughly did her homework on the possibilities to open a business. In the move across the ditch, there was one special friend she just couldn’t leave behind – one who’s something of a media star back home: her Maltese dog, Austen.

What brings you to Dubbo? I was at the point in New Zealand where I had an amazing job; lovely, comfortable, well paying, everything.

I’m a bit of a go getter I guess and I thought if I don’t do it now, I’ll never do it and I just have to take that leap. It’s been amazing.

People here are awesome. The council business infrastructure here is so engaged, progressive, really forward moving and dynamic. It’s probably a wee bit because of the size of the place too but people genuinely want to know how you are.

Visiting is one experience, relocating another. How have you found the transition? It was scary and it wasn’t. I’ve never done anything like this before; I’ve always been a bit of a homebody – I love New Zealand and it’s always home but because I’ve been coming in and out of Dubbo a bit, I was familiar with the place.

I have good friends here; I love the climate, love the lifestyle and I knew my way around pretty easily. I think if I was going somewhere I didn’t know anyone or anything about the place, it would be much scarier. Worst case scenario, if it doesn’t work out, you go home, right?

You have established a business here though, so you seem pretty settled? For about a year now I’d been researching the area and industry.

My background is marketing, PR, communications, sponsorship; all that side of things. I quickly figured out there’s a real opportunity here to get involved and set something up so I worked with

the economic development body and a wee bit with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

My business is called Rosevear PR Strategy and Communication. My mum’s maiden name is Rosevear and my last name is a bit of a mouthful, so I wanted to bring that into it.

Family means a lot to you and you haven’t moved here alone? I brought my Maltese dog, Austen. He came over from New Zealand about a month ago. He’s more two legged than four legged.

In New Zealand he’s been called on twice to be in the media. A couple of years ago, there was a story around whether or not dogs should be allowed in indoor/outdoor flow cafes. Legally cats are allowed but legally it was up to café owners to choose when it came to dogs. Anyway, somehow Austen got roped into a photo shoot to be the dog that was “okay” to sit inside the bar and café.

Then one time he was on TV for a friend who was a journalist who put him on an NZ Day program.

I also have an Anglo-Arab horse at home (in New Zealand) called Ally. I’d love to bring her over. That’s the intention. She’s not a national champion or anything like that, it’s more her personality. I’ve had her for a long time and she’s just a part of me; her nature and her character. Ally, Austen and Amelia – we’re the “A” Team.

Speaking of A-teams, you’ve been working closely with the (Canterbury) Crusaders? My most recent position was with the rugby union in New Zealand. I

I’ve had some amazing experiences, but it’s all about the people you meet along the way and what you learn from them and just being open to gleaning from them, negatively or positively.

New resident and businesswoman Amelia Kininmonth, with her Maltese dog Austen.

spent the last four years working with the Crusaders, doing sponsorship and marketing with them.

I had to find sponsors, then do all the contractual work, so I learned a lot really quickly, about the financials of setting up a business, and that side of things. I got to work with companies like KFC and QANTAS and Caterpillar and was lucky enough to do a bit of travelling with them as well to South Africa, America, Fiji and to Aussie lots.

How did you get into marketing? Accidentally. I went to university quite young, at 16. I loved it, got homesick, wasn’t really sure what I was doing with my life. Came back to Christchurch and did work experience with a lady called Tracey Chambers who owns Chambers PR in Christchurch, and never left.

I started answering the phones, worked through her systems, learned from her how to craft media releases, how to do events, and then went and fin-

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ished my BComm in Marketing and Human Resources.

I worked for the Body Shop and took care of their loyalty program then got a job at Christchurch Casino doing all their marketing and events. In terms of exposure and experience you couldn’t really get any better.

Then I worked for another agency, which launched JetStar into New Zealand. I took care of some winery tourism places as well and then shifted to rugby

union.

I’ve had some amazing experiences, but it’s all about the people you meet along the way and what you learn from them and just being open to gleaning off them, negatively or positively and thinking, “that’s amazing, I love the way you do that”.

What’s one of the projects you’re involved with here? I’m doing a big project with the Far West Academy of Sport around reengagement with their com-

munities, helping streamline some of their communications, helping connect them more with community members, schools, the sport development side of things.

Also looking at sponsorships, so taking all my skills and knowledge from the Crusaders and bringing that to the Far West Academy of Sport to see how they can generate money and put it back out into the community through sports.

They’re based in Warren. I’m so excited

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to work with them.

Moving here has been so rewarding.

With me coming here, money was not the motivator. Some people said “oh you’re just going to go over there and try to build an empire”, but actually I’ve come here for the lifestyle as much as giving something a go for myself.

– As told to Yvette Aubusson-Foley.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

John Ryan Politics and the distraction of rhetoric N many cases, Australia as a nation the Sydney projects such as trams and isn’t getting any sort of value for taxfreeways, but there’s no doubt that bepayer money. fore the Coalition took over, NSW never seemed to have any money for major inFor years it’s been pretty much the frastructure. Now the list of projects acsame old story, with the former NSW tually being built is staggering.

Carr Labor government pioneering cynical announcements that never came to Just as the political spin of the fruition, but rather rolled on in a series Carr government infected Canberra, of endless re-announcements. wouldn’t it be nice if some of the current state policy of infrastructure buildThis has since morphed its way into ing rubbed off on our federal leaders? both sides of federal politics.

Wishful thinking, unless you’re a giI pity hard working local members ant coal company that wants permission such as Parkes MP Mark Coulton who to dig a hole in the nation’s most producputs so much time and effort into chamtive agricultural country. pioning great ideas, only to see the government leaders do what they think will My guess is the federal government, lift the polls for that particular 24 hour after the battering of last year’s abysnews cycle. mal budget, has surrendered any attempt at economic reform for fear of beContrast that with the current Baird ing smashed out of office. state government.

In some ways that’s lucky, because For years we heard why there was no money for Dubbo Base Hospital – since last year’s budget was destined to make the changeover of power the facility is society’s most vulnerable even more so, and more numerous. being turned into the biggest construction project the city’s ever seen.

Australia is exposed both in excessive and poorly directed government exI drove to Wagga last week and on penditure as well as huge reductions in the way you go past the new Peak hill revenues, thanks largely Hospital, the huge new to the collapse of a minParkes Hospital which is ` ing boom which saw being built and the giganmuch more money flow tic Wagga Hospital which Add this to the to multinationals’ overso dominates the street uncertainty seas profits than to the scape it would look more of Greece, the people who owned the at home in New York than natural resources being a regional city.

Eurozone and dug from the ground – us.

That’s just what I could the Chinese And it appears it’s gosee from the road. ing to get worse.

To me it shows our slowdown and As a nation we’re gostate has a clear focus on you’d be forgiven ing to have to find monoutcomes, while the comey for the National Dismonwealth, and this is for thinking it’s ability Insurance Scheme true of both sides of poli- not the time (NDIS) and a range of tics, is all about playing other major expenditures games rather than get- to indulge in ting on with the job. settling scores at that have been locked in but are unfunded.

There’s plenty of conMeanwhile, the comtroversy about some of great expense to

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monwealth has been slashing money flows to the states.

Health has also received a hit of biblical proportions, money the states will have to find elsewhere.

This is a pretty basic political strategy, with treasurer Joe hockey seemingly determined to make the states so poor they’ll get together and vote for a rise in the GST, giving the federal government huge new revenue streams and making the states the bad guys, all the while impacting most on the lowest income earners.

In the midst of all this we have a political witch hunt, spending a minimum $80 million for a Royal Commission into unions.

Yes, this should be looked at, but not in such a partisan political way, and not by paying leading lawyers more than $3 million to play their expensive parts in the process.

That $80 million could have created so much opportunity and wealth in our region it doesn’t bear thinking about, but while necessary and positive projects are finding no success at attracting a sniff of federal funding, this sort of money is thrown away to settle political scores.

Add this to the uncertainty of Greece, the Eurozone and the Chinese slowdown and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s not the time to indulge in settling scores at great expense to the taxpayers.

Add also the fact that we’ve bunkered down to combat the Islamic State threat, spending untold billions of dollars in the process – we’ve stopped the boats so I don’t know how a bunch of rag tag militants in utes is going to drive over the various intervening oceans to threaten my home in Dubbo.

As an outsider, knowing nothing about Australian politics, you’d be forgiven if you thought the elected people

making the decisions have it all wrong.

Everything we’re doing is playing into the hands of these far-off terrorists: Malcolm Turnbull’s speech, in contradiction to what the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister have been saying, shows there’s strong disagreement at cabinet level about the strategy we’re pursuing.

This government has no nation building narrative, but mere rhetoric designed to distract the voters from all the failures to restore balance to the budget.

There’s just a fear mongering campaign against distant threats, and enormously expensive military and border protection budgets which could be much better spent building a proper and practical decentralisation program to take the pressure off our major cities and reinvigorate the bush.

In one go we could build entirely new regional industries and cut out the need for so many imports, creating hundreds of thousands of real jobs, delivering far higher farm gate returns for our farmers and galvanise huge new revenue streams for state and federal governments.

But instead of these low cost strategies we get expensive new border protection uniforms that look like they came from the costume department for a B grade telemovie.

Goering and Mussolini wore flashy, unearned uniforms, and that didn’t end too well for them.

It’s time for the smoke and mirrors to stop and for the people who’re paying for all this to get some actual value for their money, instead of being told we’re facing World War III. The sad thing is, while our federal political leaders believe they have to play this game to hold on to power, or to seize it, as a nation we’ll all be the poorer.

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

In my book... it’s hard to keep track of one’s friends T’S one of life’s great ironies that longer you live, the more friends you accumulate but at the same time as you’re aggregating large numbers of people you like, the less time you have to spend time with them all. You’ll plough through your life meeting fabulous people through work and other activities and enjoy their company for all sorts of reasons.

But the more you gather around you, the harder it can be to find time to spend together.

And then, when life finally calms down a bit as decrepitude sets in, and you think you might spend some time with your cronies, chances are you won’t be able to remember their names.

Or what you had in common. Or your nursing homes will be too far apart.

Sometimes friendship can be based on the strangest things.

There’s an old saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and it’s pretty true that nothing brings two people closer together more than mutual dislike of someone else. So of course, you have to make time to catch up with old pals with whom you share an enemy, particularly if your enemy is falling on hard times or making a cake of themselves somewhere.

The witches from Macbeth have nothing to learn from a couple of malicious onlookers seeing their shared nemesis come a cropper or get their comeuppance.

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you make in the workplace. Another very binding cement in the bonds of friendship is the shared knowledge of where the bodies are buried and who has blood on their hands from some of the bigger train wrecks that might litter your career. The more workplaces you’ve been in, the more diverse the careers you’ve pursued, the better the chances that you have some truly riotous memories that deserve to be shared on a regular basis. Over liquid refreshments.

One of my greatest cronies is a woman I met in a truly bizarre workplace years ago. We meet regularly to chew over the fat, and the bones, of some of the most unlikely stories of all time. Sadly I cannot share those in these pages for a couple of reasons. One is that spilling the beans on those yarns would probably lead to legal action from our former employer.

The other is that it would take the sting out of the truly hysterical film or comedy series treatment we are writing in our spare time.

Oh! Spare time? Did I mention how much of that I have? Don’t expect to see that story on the big screen or even the small screen any time soon. We have the stories, we have the skills and we have the jokes. We just don’t have the time to sit down and write it all. Which is a shame because the time we spent down at the beach, drinking red wine and eating excellent take away? The rent from the holiday house? The receipts from the take

` I’ve spent glorious days at the races with people called Tetanus and Boof and Filthy. And it’s quite a surreal experience to see them all grown up and mature.

away at least? All tax deductible I reckon. We’d be slaying them in the aisles with our humour and gathering our cash from the accountant with impunity.

Friendship and maintaining relationships? A business proposition indeed!

Years ago I worked for a furniture company, which we shall call Dodgy Brothers furniture. I made some great friends there. We made some very dodgy furniture there too. I also made some very satisfactory enemies, and that gave me stuff to do with my friends. See? There’s a natural synergy there, isn’t there? Those of us who were reasonable people, those of us who showed sensible behaviours, we all got on. And then there were all the others. To keep the statistics favourable, every so often when the company was recruiting, I’d suggest to some of my indigent unemployed type friends to come and work for us, and that would add to the store of agreeable, rational people in the office. (On rereading this, it occurs to me that I sound a little like a sociopath, but I’m not, I swear. I’d just rather work in an office with reasonable people.)

If we dig even further back in our pasts, we start to come across all those people we used to hang out with at parties, at B & S balls, at race meetings; back in our salad days when we didn’t have to eat salad to look good. And now I’m closer to *ahem* in age, I’m some-

times brought back to those times with a rush when I run someone I haven’t seen since the days of the Boorowa or Binnaway B & S; since the days when I might have been seen at the Mendooran Races or the Tamarang polo ground. And what a blast from the past that can be.

But it can be tricky too. Back in the day, there were any number of people I knew quite well and liked immensely, but didn’t have much of a grasp of their actual personal details. I’ve spent glorious days at the races with people called Tetanus and Boof and Filthy. And every so often, I’ll find myself at a field day or an industry update and I’ll look up and see someone I’ve known in a former life. And it’s quite a surreal experience to see them all grown up and mature. Clearly we weren’t bosom pals because we haven’t maintained the tie over all those years, but it does give you a sense of perspective to look back and realise the person they had been dancing or betting with was actually me.

I suspect that’s why our memories fade as we get older. Partly because we are not that elastic – there’s a limit to how much of our former activity we can store.

And then partly to cast a tasteful screen over some of our earlier activities; nobody likes someone who has a perfect memory of our bad behaviour of the past.

Thank goodness Facebook wasn’t around then.

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The Love Boat: The Lost Years – Part 4 This week, we continue our series chronicling the outlandish adventures of an ocean liner adrift in tropical 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...

In our last episode Gopher was headed for flags whilst Doc was headed for parts unknown.

SERIES of sharp metallic clangs rang through empty corridors of the engine bay as the massive diesel engines strained to keep the ship absolutely stationary. Doc Turnbull cocked one elegantly tanned ear and listened.

When the clangs finished, he picked up an abandoned spanner and performed his own series of firm taps. The whole scene repeated then itself, with Doc bent almost double next to the steel skin of the ship, wordlessly moving his lips in time with the clangs. This went on for some time.

Up on deck Gopher Morrison was pushing a large black trolley. Inside the trolley were crammed Australian flags.

Just how many flags he was about to tell Captain Tony.

“38 flags sir, one for every week of the year.”

Captain Tony’s brain jerked alive as if it had stepped on a nettle. Something felt wrong. His crew member had just said something wrong, but by definition everything a crew member said was right. It was too much, and Tony’s brain turned itself off and settled down to rerun episodes of Bellbird on its personal inner screen.

“Good,” said the captain. “Put them over there. Make sure they are spaced out.

“Spaced out” was a relative term, somewhat subjective. Gopher could not do subjective, he was strictly objective and objectionable. In any event, he built a massive blockade of flags, a gaudy castellation of red, white and blue that dominated and filled the narrow gang-

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way where today’s press conference would take place. A single microphone stood in front.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the press, Captain Tony is now ready to take questions,” announced Gopher.

The lady of the press (for she was the only one there), the increasingly bemused editor of “Love Boat Letter – your daily guide to fun and frolics on the high sea”, straightened her hair, opened her steno pad and began.

“Captain, can you comment on the fact that the Lido Deck has become a smog filled wasteland?”

A muffled voice could be heard from behind the flags. The voice stopped, started again, and then trailed off. After a pause the Captain shouted from the far end of the gangway, “Gopher, where is everybody?

“We’re on this side sir, the other side of the flags, you’ve come through the wrong door. Just come this way.”

The most rear flags began to wave and stir, like wheat in the wind. The waving flags moved slowly towards the middle then turned sharply, backtracked, turned again, and started going back to where they had started.

“I’m lost,” shouted Captain Tony. “Gopher, turn on my homing beacon so I know where to go.”

As if from nowhere, Gopher produced an old Toshiba tape deck. He pressed play. The gangway filled itself with the sonorous tones of Robert Menzies. The tape hissed in protest, as if it had been played too many times, but the words were clear.

“I did but see her,” Robert began.

“I’m coming Bob,” shouted Tony. “... passing by, and yet...

We re ui in

“I’m coming!

“I love her...

“Don’t stop Bob, I’m almost there. “’Til I die.” As the words trailed off a flustered and flushed Captain Tony ejected himself from out of the dense path of flags. He looked the editor in the eye and began his answer again.

“What do you see here? What you see here, Mrs Editor, what you see here are flags, many flags, a whole many amount of flags. And what these flags mean, Mrs Editor, is that I love this boat more than any other person has ever loved any boat. I ask you, when the Julia Witch Project was in charge of the boat how many flags were there? I’ll tell you how many flags there were Mrs Editor, one. One flag. And yet you stand here and question me. Why didn’t you ever question them? Why is the only question you’ve ever asked about whatever it was you asked happen on my watch? Because you are biased, that is why Mrs Editor, biased and compromised.

“But Captain, I’ve asked questions every day for the past 17 years.

“Biased and compromised Mrs Editor, and I, look, I have to ask, whose side are you on?

“I wasn’t aware there were sides,” the

As if from nowhere, Gopher produced an old Toshiba tape deck. He pressed play. The gangway filled itself with the sonorous tones of Robert Menzies. The tape hissed in protest...

editor replied. “I just write down what’s happening every day, like what time the bingo starts.

“I’ll tell you whose side you’re on. Not mine. Not my side. And to not be on my side is treason.”

With this Gopher grabbed the unsuspecting editor’s shoulders.

“Your staff card please,” he muttered menacingly into her left ear, his lips brushing against her hair. “Hand it over now.

“But my staff card, that’s what lets me do what I do, use the staff canteen, get into my quarters; without it I’ll be...

“We know what you’ll be,” said Captain Tony as he assisted Gopher in rifling through the editor’s purse. “You’ll be what you deserve.

“Shipless,” said the Captain and Tony together.

The editor began to scream in protest.

Her screams were cut off by the ship’s intercom which buzzed into life with a series of sharp crackles and piercing pops.

A familiar voice rang out.

“Captain Tony, how are you? Barnacle Bill here. While you’re off doing whatever it is that you do I’d thought I’d wander up to the bridge and see if I can’t get this ship back on course. Now, how do you lower a gang plank to let my unionised pirates on board.”

The Captain and Gopher dropped the sobbing editor and ran. Flags were brushed aside and trampled underfoot as the two officers steamed their way towards the bridge.

How did Barnacle Bill get on board?

Will Captain Tony be able to halt the embarkation of the unionised pirates? What time is the bingo?

To be continued...

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Shared economy shows a darker side Comment by y STEPHEN LAWRENCE Stephen Lawrence is a barrister who often dreams of other careers. He hasn’t used Uber and he rarely goes on holidays.

FRIEND recently told me of her plans for a “portfolio career”. I was intrigued. Was my friend, no spring chicken mind you, planning on a modelling career? Upon inquiry, it was not about modelling, or even photography, but rather a plan to abandon having one full time job, to instead earn a living from a range of part time endeavours. In her case, law, editing, writing and consultancy.

It caught my imagination, as an idea and a tag line. I have recently started working for myself and am a freer agent than before; barristers have to be sole traders, and under the “cab rank rule”, can’t even refuse a case that can fit in the diary, but I remain in a real sense a 9-5 worker. I am beholden to the law and at times, it feels, fully submerged in it. The idea of breaking things up is pretty appealing, perhaps mixing the process of the law with the self-expression of some creative writing, combining the conflict and drama of the courtroom with the comparative harmony of, say, tutoring students, segmenting the working week into bite sized parts, reinventing myself as something new.

(I’d probably be a more interesting dinner party conversationalist as well.)

While idly fantasising about my new portfolio career, a brief landed on my desk in “real time” (another good tag line), demanding my immediate attention. The brief was for a big new corporation, a leader in so called “peer to peer” business. Consumers download an application onto their phone and are instantly able to contact other individuals offering a service. The company takes a cut of the fee, but is otherwise uninvolved in the transaction.

The company is part of the so called “shared economy”, a new sector relying on technologies that connect people directly in ways never possible before, cutting out the middle man, allowing individuals to directly engage in economic activities involving the provision of goods and services.

Airbnb is a high profile part of the shared economy. People with a house or room to rent out register with the company and have their

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‘profile’ put online, complete with photos. People looking to holiday in the area browse the website and directly communicate with them.

Someone in Dubbo, planning their trip to Europe, can book a room in a family home in France, then in Italy, then in London for the last leg of their holiday before jumping on the Qantas flight home. No hotel costs and overheads, a personal service and a good way to meet local people. Users rate the service and others can read reviews before making purchasing decisions. Airbnb takes a small commission (enough to make the company now worth $13 billion, mind you) and offers the technology platform, otherwise the individuals deal direct. Have a look at their website, you might be surprised whose house in Dubbo you see on there.

Another is Uber. A company that offers “ride sharing” services in direct competition with established taxi companies. Customers download the UberX app and directly communicate with Uber “partner drivers” to arrange to be transported. The fare is set by a time and distance calculation factoring in supply and demand. During the recent Lindt café siege in Sydney Uber attracted controversy when prices surged on account of the number of users seeking transport out of the Sydney CBD. Uber offered refunds, but reminded the public the surge was designed to

` If the status quo is busted completely by these new players will we look back on the early hype and promise of the shared economy as a mirage?

get more Uber drivers onto the road to meet demand. Uber users can rate their experience and consistently below average drivers are apparently cut. Uber takes a cut of the fee but otherwise it’s a person to person transaction.

But back to the portfolio career.

The shared economy is inextricably linked to the continuing rise of part time, casualised and freer forms of employment and work.

Apparently, on average, Uber drivers work 20 hours a week, and earn $2500 gross per month.

A typical Airbnb host is otherwise employed, but works as a part time new-age hotelier to supplement their income. These new technologies are giving ordinary people a direct cut of parts of the economy previously largely monopolised by corporations. They can facilitate people’s movement out of full time waged work, with all its restrictions and obligations.

But is there a dark side?

The rise and rise of the shared economy has not been without controversy. The taxi and hire car industries have declared war on Uber, warning that standards and service are being undermined.

Taxi licenses have cost a small fortune in the past and people stand to lose their hard earned investment in the status quo. A number of Uber drivers have been prosecuted for offering passenger transport services without the requisite taxi license.

The hotel industry has reacted similarly. Claims of unsafe and generally dodgy accommodation have been made. Some Airbnb hosts have reported problems arising from the presence of strangers in their homes. Neighbours in certain apartment buildings in Sydney have complained of their buildings being effectively turned into hotels and lobbied body corporates to take action. Local councils have imposed large fines in cases where zoning requirements effectively prohibit Airbnb arrangements.

Another more general concern raised about the shared economy is that it facilitates tax avoidance.

Another is that workers’ rights are being undermined, with no provision for workers’ compensation and the payment of other entitlements. Unions and government share concerns in this regard.

Are we heading for a brave new world of freedom and choice, or ultimately a future of low wages, poor services and under regulation? If the status quo is busted completely by these new players will we look back on the early hype and promise of the shared economy as a mirage?

It seems the economy and technology has moved past the law and the regulators. Can the genie be put back in the bottle, and perhaps more importantly, do we want the genie back in the bottle?

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HELICOPTER VIEW

Cr Mathew Dickerson

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

Regional population push a capital idea M AYBE it’s just that I’m more attuned to it or maybe it’s reality – but there seems to have been a significant amount of discussion lately in relation to a focus for more people and investment to go to regional areas.

Surprisingly enough, I have an opinion on this.

If we go way back to a population density map from 1911, NSW is smattered with a significant number of small centres with the population spread among many small towns and villages.

There were some larger population centres (ignoring Sydney for the moment) such as Broken Hill; Newcastle; Bathurst; Goulburn; Wagga Wagga; Inverell; Cobar; Moree and Coonamble.

In 1911, the decision on where to live was driven by where you worked. People lived in regional locations that had employment with farming or mining.

There was low life expectancy (if you made it into your mid-50s you were doing well) and elderly (those who made it into their 60s) lived with their family.

In 1901, Colonel Harry Tarrant began manufacturing on a commercial basis and by 1909 was a manufacturer, importer and distributor. The product in which he saw a future was the motor vehicle. He was astute enough to acquire the Ford franchise in 1909 – the same year Henry Ford began production of his famous T Model.

The car naturally gave people freedom. Car ownership has steadily increased from the beginning of last century to the point where we now have more than 17 million motorised vehicles on the road in Australia.

The other development of significance in locational decision making started very small on November 2, 1922. That was the date on which Alexander Kennedy became the first commercial passenger on a Qantas scheduled flight.

We are now at the point where almost 60 million passengers fly domestically each year in this vast nation.

With the freedom of modern and efficient transport, locational decisions today are made largely based on amenity. Where are the services that I need?

Is there appropriate housing, education and health facilities? The place of residence and the place of work are now uncoupled – perhaps not completely but to a much larger extent than in 1911.

When you look at a population density map from today, the number of small

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` Perhaps the solution to the congestion in our state capitals is not more investment in these capitals.

Perhaps the solution is to move people into regional capitals. a and scattered population centres has decreased and larger centralised population centres now exist. Newcastle; Canberra; Wollongong; Coffs Harbour; Wagga Wagga; Port Macquarie and Dubbo top out the population centres.

Many locations that were significant at the start of last century are now only miniscule dots on the population landscape. We are expected to live into our 80s and there is an entire industry being created in caring for our elderly.

As we continue to approach a more digital age, with NBN rollout occurring across parts of this nation, more and more we will see that you can do anything from anywhere at any time.

Amenity will increasingly be king.

In Australia we have 23.5 million people over 7.7 million square kilometres. A population density of three people per square kilometre.

Which then begs the next question: Why do we then have two thirds of our population – some 15.6 million people – living in our eight state capitals where the population density is 310 people per

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square kilometre and house prices include options on your first three born children?

The simplest answer is awareness.

Many people in our major metropolitan areas are simply unaware of modern, thriving, eclectic cities that we have that are not our state capitals.

There is a group (of which Dubbo is a member) called Regional Capitals Australia. There are 50 identified regional capitals. The combined population of these regional capitals is 4.1 million.

When you consider the population of Sydney is 4.8 million and Melbourne is 4.4 million, the combined population of these cities is similar to one of these major capitals.

Perhaps the solution to the congestion in our state capitals is not more investment in these capitals. Perhaps the solution is to move people into regional capitals. Part of this solution involves investment from the government in additional infrastructure.

Currently the federal government spends $3.5 billion per year on infra-

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structure in the state capitals. The rest of Australia (including regional capitals) has to fight over $200 million.

It is demonstrably cheaper to grow in regional areas rather than in the state capitals. The state capitals grew by 289,000 people last year meaning the cost for the federal government alone for infrastructure was $12,226 per person.

The cost for infrastructure growth across the rest of Australia was only $2,635 per person for the 75,900 people that the population increased by for the rest of the nation.

The regional capitals increased by 60,000 and I believe that, by redirecting some of that $3.5 billion towards regional capitals in our nation and increasing awareness of what regional living has to offer, the congestion in our capitals can be reduced and the viability of regional Australia will be increased, with everyone a winner.

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TALES FROM THE TRAILS.

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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.

IT’S A

WILD LIFE

Some people are just naturally talented when it comes to creating something beautiful from nothing and mere mortals can only admire and envy artists like BRUCE LYNCH. But talent can often come with insecurity and this Warren-based creative has battled debilitating depression and self doubt – the highs and lows are the sum total of a man who, at the end of the day, has made the world a little richer for his contribution.

RTIST BRUCE LYNCH IS ONE OF those rare people who make you sit back and wonder how one person can have so much talent and not just in his current incarnation as a wildlife painter.

Lynch is humble and unassuming about his art but admits to wishing he’d been more of a selfpromoter when he was younger – it’s clearly not in his nature. He just quietly gets on with things. His painstaking attention to detail and endless patience have seen him produce photorealistic paintings of

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such detail they require much more than a fleeting glance to fully grasp.

As testimony to his skills, this year Lynch was announced winner of the 2014 Outback Arts competition in Coonamble, taking out first place in the open section.

Born in Warren and part of the Godson family, Lynch and his wife Cheiko, moved back to his home town after years spent living and working in Cairns, where the couple met and married.

Since arriving back in his home town, the artist leads what he calls the life of a “recluse”, u

Bruce Lynch, his wife Cheiko, and the couple’s dogs.

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Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender “It’s incredibly scary, you leave yourself open to all sorts of comments; you make yourself very vulnerable,” he says.

The artist remembers when he was living in Queensland he had decided, with the help of a therapist, to conquer his demons in small steps.

He needed to face the fear of painting outdoors where tourists could see and judge his work.

And as terrifying as it was for him, he admits it was a small but significant step that helped him move forward as an artist and as a more confident man.

“I got to the point where I was painting to please myself so it was really good and a real turning point in my life,” he says of the experience.

But he admits his greatest accomplishment, artistic or otherwise, is the fact that he is still here at all. He says many times he has had to fight the urge to end his battle, but courageously and with the loving support of his wife, Lynch keeps going. And looking around at his work hanging on the walls and scattered across a nearby table it’s lucky for the art-loving public that he has.

ODAY, Lynch is seated in the WoW centre with two small heaters cranking alongside beside him. His easel and tools are set up around him and he is blissfully unaware of tourists and locals entering the centre, quietly approaching him and watching him apply his minuscule pastel strokes on canon pastel paper.

No-one leaves without expressing complimentary words about the art on display.

Lynch says he hasn’t painted solidly for a long time, years even, so when the opportunity came up to be the first artist-in-residence at the recently opened Windows on the Wetland Centre in Warren (WoW), he put his hand up and was offered the opportunity to paint and exhibit for three weeks in the restored church which sits adjacent to Tiger Bay Marsh.

Lynch moved to Sydney to work as a sign writer when he was 17. It was a good career choice for a young man who had always enjoyed being

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As a child I loved drawing and sports because both of those are pleasures people can’t take away from you.

u spending most of his time at the couple’s home which he is mid-way through renovating. Lynch also does a little spray painting and detail work at a business in town for pin money, while Cheiko works in an aged care facility.

It’s a simple life they share but Lynch admits his nearly 70 years have been a rocky road at times. Haunted by deep bouts of depression and self-doubt that began in childhood, it took him years just to feel comfortable letting people watch him paint.

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creative but had never been encouraged to pursue his talent, or even had it acknowledged. He took to his new career like a fish to water.

“Sign painting is an extension of drawing and painting; you have to paint pictorials to go on the signs and windows, so all those skills kicked in,” he says.

“As a child I loved drawing and sports because both of those are pleasures people can’t take away from you, so by the I used to copy the time I started working in Sydney – withpainting on the in six months – I was painting for myself without ever having had a lesson.” back cover and To practice his technique he tips his that way I learned hat to Readers Digest which, back in those days, featured paintings on the how to blend and back covers of their magazines. mix colours, so “I used to copy the painting on the back cover and that way I learned how yeah, I basically to blend and mix colours, so yeah, I learned from other basically learned from other people’s paintings.” people’s paintings.

In the years that followed he tried painting a variety of subject matter – horses, seascapes, ships, landscapes and nudes before settling on wildlife. Lynch has also explored a variety of mediums but admits he loves and has worked most often with pastels.

“I love the intricacies I can get with pastels; it’s perfect for photorealism, in fact that style’s the mountain.” an obsession. I often think I’d like to loosen up He says the euphoria he achieves from a combut I can’t.” pleted work is short lived and then a recovery period is needed. Then it’s back to deciding on Smiling, he says he paints from photographs the next “mountain”. instead of from real life because he can’t get “aniThe artist has exhibited in Singapore and Jamals to sit still for up to 200 hours”.

Asked what it is about photorealism that ap- pan where he has sold the bulk of his works.

Taking a chance back in the early days, he peals, he says he looks at every art work as if it’s packed up all his paintings with the last of his a mountain he’s about to climb.

“You start to climb the mountain, you know money invested in the trip, with the hope of selling his work. It was a leap of faith that paid off. what you’re aiming to achieve – the summit – “There was a doctor in Singapore who would but on that journey you have very, very difficult buy virtually everything I would paint; there was days and then some days are great,” he explains. a great appreciation for my work in the Asian “Determination, passion, perseverance and patience are all part of the journey to the top of countries,” he says.

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T was through sign painting that Lynch met a spray painter and was so inspired by the craft he set about honing the skill himself. He not only succeeded but discovered he was quite gifted.

Around this time and via the spray painting, Lynch came into contact with the drag racing world. He offered to spray paint a drag car, cold.

He designed the graphics and painted the machine. It was a work that swept him up into the drag car scene for many years to come.

“I ended up driving a ‘nitro funny car’ for six years,” he says. “A funny car in those days – around 1976 – was doing over 300 km per hour.

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Lynch drove a ‘nitro funny car’ for six years, doing over 300km/h.

He also started building drag racing cars

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u did some panel beating and made some fibreglass bodies and then got into photographing the cars at race meets both here and in New Zealand and America.�

It seemed a natural progression that Lynch should learn how to air-brush his art on the cars too and began creating a reputation for himself in the industry as an all-rounder, and then some. He was once flown from Australia to America to paint and “letter� an Australian drag car that was racing in the US. After 20 years in Sydney, when Lynch decided to move to Queensland and try his hand at something new, he began designing T-shirt graphics from hand drawn sketches for a company that was linked to the drag racing industry. He then shifted gears again and went back into air-brush art where he designed and painted imagery for boats, cars and motorbikes for many years.

When the tourism industry in Cairns took a hit, he and Cheiko made the decision to return to Warren, where they’ve comfortably settled in and adapted to country life.

Lynch’s next goal could be a real coup for the community that snaps up this talented artist. He would love to work with regional councils by providing “anamorphic� sidewalk chalk-art.

Anamorphic art refers to three dimensional drawings on footpaths that are eerily realistic and can include what looks like a sudden drop to an underground cavern or a water fall dropping straight down through the path, all sorts of imagery that wow onlookers.

It’s not something everyone can do – it’s a specialised art form but for this versatile artist and his talent for photorealism, it’s another in the long line of crafts he’ll no doubt master. â–

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Stress reliever Participants play “bubble soccer” during lunchtime on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts this week. Organisers say “Bubble soccer”, which is played like soccer with full contact between players wearing large air filled plastic bubbles, is a way to reduce stress during the lunch hour. PHOTO: REUTERS/ BRIAN SNYDER

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Oscar and Bejay Dess: Brothers in arms ` I felt like I had to look out for him because he was my little brother. I’ll do it for the rest of my life. It’s really important.

` He’ll always be my best friend. Some people don’t even have a brother. They must be lonely.

– Oscar

– Bejay

There’s only about 18 months between them, so brothers Bejay, 7, and Oscar, 9, have never known life without each other. While they’re still very young and text book adept at pushing each other’s buttons, they both believe that a bond with a brother, is a bond for life.

Bejay Dess, 7 IF I were to describe Oscar to someone who didn’t know him, I’d say he’s really nice to me. Oscar’s a good sharer. One time we took turns playing with our dog Lulu for three minutes each, so we used the iPod to time us and then after three minutes I went on the chair, so then I knew to wait three minutes. He also lets me go on stuff first, like when we play on Plants Versus Zombies.

My earliest memory of Oscar, was when I was little and we both went on the Penguin Bus when I was in Kinder and Oscar was in Year 1.

We went to Regand Park Day Care and we mostly liked to play with the diggers.

When we came to Dubbo from Queensland, we were like (big gasp) we found a new home! We used to always make things out of the craft box. I used to make puppets. I was maybe about four.

He likes to play Death Run and Monster Legends. He also likes to play outside with the turn-around buggies. He likes to pat our dog, Lulu, and play with her and wrestle with her and stuff. He’s a fun brother.

I enjoy joining him on Minecraft on the Xbox 1 and building the office tower with more than 30 stories. Oscar always likes to join me after he’s been busy doing other stuff. He also likes to play Farming Simulator, and I watch him.

At Nan and Pop’s farm outside of Dubbo we like to play on the swings and crash (big smile). We like to get muddy then we go on the forklift and play on that.

He does annoy me when he makes a lot of crazy sounds like (flapping arms) Dah!-Dah!-Dah!-Dah! It’s hard to share when we’re doing a sign-in on Minecraft and Oscar’s trying to type everywhere and I’m trying to sign-in and Oscar complains like, (high pitched voice) “Stop doing that, Bejay!”

Oscar and Bejay Dess, first best friends, with pet dog, Lulu.

PHOTO: CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

The funniest thing Oscar did was fall in the mud.

He’s interested in guitar. He doesn’t play guitar for me. He practices at home and goes on Thursdays to lessons. He plays at school.

He has a new hobby and that’s the chess club. He’s already an expert at that.

He really likes to play with the buggies and the pogo stick. He’s not really good at the pogo stick. I’m really good at the pogo stick.

He’s going to be an earthmover when he grows up. He likes to play with machines and reading instructions.

We play soccer together on Saturdays.

He always says “pass it to me, pass it to me”. I sometimes pass it, but I mostly pass it to Ed and Joel.

Oscar is my best friend. He’ll always

be my best friend. Some people don’t even have a brother. They must be lonely.

Oscar Dess, 9 IF I described Bejay to someone who didn’t know him, I’d say he’s cheeky, funny, playful, annoying, and also he is a good friend. I enjoy being a brother because I get to play with Bejay. The bad thing about not having a brother is you’d have no one to play with except for your mum and dad and they have to work all the time.

My earliest memory of Bejay is at preschool and we were chatting at Regand Park, when I was five and Bejay was four. I felt like I had to look out for him because he was my little brother. I still do now. I’ll do it for the rest of my life.

It’s really important. I don’t want my Be-

jay to get hurt. He’s my brother so I stick up for him first.

Bejay does gymnastics. I’ve seen him do it three times. He does back flips and front flips and he jumps in a pod of foam. It makes me feel like he’s free when I watch him.

The naughtiest thing he’s ever done was to be very rude to mum and he didn’t get to go to McDonalds and had to go to Nan’s instead.

At my Nan and Pop’s farm, I suggest things and Bejay makes up yes or no, sometimes he makes suggestions. I’ve got a go-kart that just goes flat out. Bejay is old enough to drive it and he does it but sometimes he gets a bit scared. We swing on the swings and do crazy stuff.

They’ve got six chickens, one dog and four cats. I have no idea if Bejay likes animals. That’s for him to answer.

Bejay likes to be my brother and he’s into Pokémon cards. We play together well most of the time.

Minecraft is Bejay’s favourite game.

He likes building office towers. He built one higher than the clouds. You have to see how big it is.

When Bejay grows up he’s going to be taller than me. He was taller than me once, but then I grew.

Bejay is my best friend. He’s my first best friend. He’s always there for me. He always plays with me. He also sticks up for me. He’s a good friend to have.

It’s good to play soccer with him.

Once I asked him to throw the ball in to me and he threw it to me and I passed it and I got a goal with Jack.

I think brothers should always do things together. I’ve always said brothers should stick with brothers and sisters should stick with sisters. We have a good bond.

Brothers should have different friends because they should have different people to understand them and play with.

When Bejay grows up he wants to be a Mod maker for electronic games especially for Minecraft. I’m going to be a café man for five days a week, then for the weekend I’ll do construction. I’m going to work for the council to build houses. I’d like to drive the machinery. I already know how to drive an excavator.

I think it would be better to have just one brother rather than lots of brothers because everyone has a different mind.

So when you say, “what shall we play?” everyone will say, oh, we’ll play this, no we’ll play this. But when you just have one brother you say, we’re going to play this, and I suggest it, and then it’s settled.

– As told to Yvette Aubusson-Foley.

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Business

Blue skies ahead When Brendon and Leanne O’Sullivan made the decision in 2000 to exit the corporate world for good, they evolved a small business journey around the emerging world of website design. Now, the rebrand of their 15 year-old operation reflects not just shifts in the digital marketing and online business software solutions industries of which they’re a part, but their positioning in it. Interview by YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY.

Brendon and Leanne O’Sullivan, owners, Big Blue Digital.

PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/CONNOR COMANSARGENT

Is Big Blue Digital a vision for the future you’ve always had?

Leanne: I think Brendon always had visions for where he thought everything was going to go. One of his phrases is “disconnected islands of information” which was true in the beginning because we didn’t have the technology or capability to share data and integrate things the way we can now.

Brendon always thought we’d have a service centre. From a business perspective I think we’ve survived where others haven’t, because we’re very yin and yang in how we operate. He always had a vision, where I always thought that was ridiculous and I was more interested in actually implementing and working. My approach is “you dream and I’ll implement”.

I think in any business you need to have dreamers and implementers. If you are both dreamers, nothing happens. If you have just implementers you don’t grow or change.

pening, not this far down the track. When we first started, some of the social channels didn’t exist. Facebook didn’t exist. When we were in the business centre, Linkedin didn’t exist. People were still using Yahoo or Altavista back then and most people had an Aussie email address. That was right back at the very beginning and everything was very static.

Brendon: Today, we create digital ecosystems with a focus on outcomes. Where we once built websites, now when a customer comes to us, we ask them why they want to do that? What are they trying to achieve?

From our perspective, in the analytical roles that we’re in, we need to get inside the heads of the customers that we talk to and if we can join them there in their headspace, it’s all good, then the service will come and the products will be by-the-by.

I think our best clients are saying, if you can get inside my head then you’ll understand my business now and in the future.

Leanne: I think part from the way we approach client interactions has matured, but at heart, Brendon and I have always had the same approach to how we approach clients, and work with clients and how we want to grow them. Today, the tools are so different.

How does Big Blue Digital differ from bosweb?

Leanne: We didn’t see this hap-

What are your thoughts on customer service?

Brendon: I read a book a long time

Why have you rebranded your business from bosweb to Big Blue Digital?

Brendon: We want to keep innovating our services in the industry, and enable the business to prosper so we need to shake off old perceptions and Big Blue Digital represents a shift in our position and offerings to clients.

ago by a futurist who saw that business was all going to be about customer service, that the market was going to drive companies, not the other way around. It’s so true.

With Millenials, and all that and all those generations that don’t believe a word that comes of everybody’s mouths these days.

Leanne’s passion is first and foremost customer service and I couldn’t agree more.

While I get excited about technology it doesn’t matter if you don’t have happy clients. That’s been the hardest thing in 15 years is keeping customers happy and that’s getting harder and harder, not just satisfied but excited and passionate about your business. At the moment we talk about wanting them to be raving fans, and we have some like that but we have a diverse range of customers too and I think that’s going to change over the coming years too.

Our only competitive advantage is not the technology it’s the service levels. If you don’t have that, forget it. Anyone can flog their products.

Do you operate outside of Dubbo?

Brendon: Yes. Right now we’re rolling out a sales pipeline, a CRM with partners in the US. One of them is called Affinity Live. It’s a whole of business and a professional business automation system. We’ve rolled it out to ourselves and then to our partners all over Australia. I fell in love with

their product because of their business efficiencies. When you’re a business owner and you really want to see how your business runs it’s a fantastic platform.

There’s another one, it’s a peerto-peer market place, called Near Me. Both those companies are in San Francisco.

What are some of the challenges of being married and working together?

Leanne: You don’t really switch off, though we’re getting better talking about other things. When things were really hard, that’s all we ever had. You’ve either got the strengths to go through those really hard bits and just get over the fact that all of life is work.

Brendon: Leanne is spot on when she talks about the yin and yang thing. I’m the guy out there in the clouds brainstorming, empire building and doing all this weird and crazy stuff that I’m selling to clients: “Hey, I have this vision, I reckon you could go here” and then I come back to her and say, can you implement it now.

That’s what she does really well. I could never have done this without her. She joined not long after I started bosweb. It’s funny I’ve seen a lot of couples in business, which has gone pear shaped and they’ve broken up for whatever reason, so the proof in the strength of our relationship is that we’ve been working together for 15 years. There’s been pressures but we’ve come through.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 ADVERTORIAL

Long-term joblessness stuck over 180,000

BY GARRY SHILSON-JOSLING AAP ECONOMIST SYDNEY: Unemployment may have edged back since its peak late last year but the number of long-term unemployed has hardly budged.

That’s the way it normally happens.

The recent peak for the unemployment rate was 6.3 per cent in January but has since fallen to 6.0 per cent in June.

At the same time the number counted as unemployed – actively looking for a job and ready to start – fell by 32,000, from 788,000 to 756,000.

But the long-term jobless – those out of work for a year or more – are yet to see the benefits of the burst of jobs growth that’s brought total unemployment down.

Their number has fallen by only 3,000 from the January high of 187,000 to 183,000 in June.

The number of jobless for less than a year has fallen by 28,000 to 573,000.

In other words, virtually all of the fall in unemployment has been among, for want of a better term, the shorterterm unemployed.

Not that anything else ought to be expected.

Long-term unemployment usually starts coming down the best part of a

year after shorter-term unemployment begins to drop.

So long-term unemployment should start coming down more noticeably over the second half of the year.

But the progress is unlikely to be either rapid or long-lived.

That’s because progress on shorterterm unemployment has just about ground to a halt.

Late last year, the trend in shorterterm unemployment was downward, taken a modest 5,000 a month off the total.

By June, though, it has slowed to only about 1,000 a month, against the background of an economy stuck in the slow lane.

The decline in shorter-term unemployment may accelerate again after the boost to the economy from the lower exchange rate flows through.

But, for now, the odds favour a burst of improvement in long-term joblessness over the second half of this year that fizzles out by early 2016, mimicking trends in shorter-term unemployment with the normal delayed action.

With luck, long-term unemployment might fall as far as 160,000 before the improvement stalls, but the economy will have to pick up for it do much better than that.

Hockey stands by negative gearing

BY COLIN BRINSDEN AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT CANBERRA: Joe Hockey stands by his opposition to making changes to negative gearing on housing, saying it would lead to rent increases in many cities.

But shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says the treasurer should end his “stupid scare campaigns” and engage in a proper policy development process.

Their comments came after the Reserve Bank called for a review of negative gearing, joining a list of economists and housing experts who believe it should be scrutinised in terms of housing affordability.

The central bank is concerned that the negative gearing regime is overgenerous and, combined with discounts on capital gains tax, could fuel speculative buying in housing.

“The bank believes that there is a case for reviewing negative gearing, but not in isolation,” it says in its submission to a parliamentary inquiry into home ownership.

Mr Hockey said there was a lot of misinformation about negative gearing.

There was more than double the number of people earning less than $80,000 who owned a negatively geared property than those earning more, he said.

“This is a way for people on medium

incomes or even lower incomes to be able to get into the property market,” Mr Hockey told 2UE radio on Thursday.

In its submission, the RBA also notes negative gearing can help to reduce rents.

“So if you were to end negative gearing, you would actually see an increase... in rents... in a number of cities,” Mr Hockey said.

He said tax policy could be a blunt instrument, but the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority could regulate the banks to reduce the amount of money and where they lend, otherwise known as macro prudential policy tools.

“That is a more nuanced, a more precise way of dealing with some of the high property price issues than going down the path of having a blunt instrument that applies everywhere across the country,” the treasurer said.

However, changing negative gearing is not the only issue that the government has ruled out in its tax review. It has also said it will never remove the tax concessions on superannuation.

“Joe Hockey has called for a mature debate about tax reform and then ruled out most tax reform,” Mr Bowen told ABC radio.

“He is all hot air when it comes to tax AAP reform.”

Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Understanding global financial effects OW and why are the world’s financial markets so deeply connected? And what does it mean for your investments?

These days when Spain catches a cold, Australia sneezes. When Japan has a sore leg, the UK limps. When economic giants China and the USA have even the slightest itch, the rest of the world scratches. And the current crisis in Greece is having worldwide ramifications.

The interconnectivity of international financial markets is a reality, which creates both risks and opportunities to investors.

Illiquidity and losses in markets translate increasingly quickly into global asset re-composition, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In other words, when the global economic environment senses a problem, it shifts assets around to make up for, and protect against, that problem. There is little that local administrators can do to avoid or control these changes.

The benefits of a globally connected system mostly involve those of scale, including efficient systems and pooling of risk. Globally connected systems mean upswings translate into profit more quickly, but downturns are also just as quick to be transmitted. The fact that the market has remained on high alert and is therefore quite jittery since the GFC has also meant negative events on the global financial scene are often amplified as they flow through the system.

But why now? Is it simply to do with

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technology, or are there other forces at play? The IMF report says the situation we see today is a result of several unique influences.

In the last three decades, for instance, the external assets and liabilities of nations as a share of GDP has increased more than six-fold. So there is a lot more money on the pot than there ever used to be. At the same time there has been enormous increase in financial interconnectedness between nations, financial institutions and corporations.

So there is more money moving around between more territories and via more systems.

But individual agents, whether they be nations or corporations etc, typically fail to take into account the effects of their actions on others, the report says. The systems and the environment have changed rapidly, but the individual mindsets are slower to catch up, meaning the potential for systemic risk is greater.

The IMF is now mapping the global financial market, figuring out which countries and institutions are at the centre of the action and how those on the outskirts are affected by various shifts. But what does it all mean for you and your investment portfolio?

The effects the global market can have on value of any type of investment must be accepted as both a risk and a benefit.

Your financial adviser is always available to help you understand the make-up of your investments and how it may need to adjust to your changing circumstances.

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Lifestyle

Best of both worlds Beef bourguignon meets osso bucco Serves 4.

BY KATE WRIGHT INSPIREDMOOD.COM

’M one of those people who likes to have the best of both worlds. One evening last weekend, as the rain was pouring and the wind was howling and my toes were freezing, I found myself staring into the fridge – getting colder by the second – and torn between making one of the two most comforting winter casseroles: Beef Bourguignon and Osso Bucco.

I was in such a state of indecision. I just wanted something hearty, warming and relatively quick so I could get back under the doona and snuggle in for movie night.

Eventually, I came to the sweet conclusion that I could have both! I’m not talking about a two-course meal, I mean a compromise of two similar yet different dishes.

The result, I believe, was a divine discovery worth recording and, of course, sharing.

If it’s as cold this weekend as it was last weekend, enjoy! If not, tear out this recipe and keep it handy for when the temperature drops and your body cries out for winter comfort food.

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Remove from the pan.

2. Add bacon and Ingredients: onions and cook until * 30gm butter tender and caramelised. * 4 pieces of osso bucco Return meat to the pan and add stock, wine and * 10 French onions, herbs. Bring to the boil, peeled then reduce heat to low, * 250gm bacon, diced cover and simmer for * 1 cup beef or lamb half an hour. Remove stock the lid, add the carrot * 400gm chopped toand mushroom, stir, matoes (fresh or tinned) then continue to sim* 2 cups red wine mer for a further half * 1 sprig rosemary, hour. chopped finely * 1 sprig thyme, chopped 3. Meanwhile, place sweet potato in a medifinely um saucepan and cover * 2 bay leaves with water. Bring to the * salt and pepper to boil and cook until the taste sweet potato is soft. * 2 carrots, chopped * 1 large flat mushroom, Drain the water then mash the sweet potato diced and stir in fresh chives. * 1 large sweet potato, Serve mashed sweet peeled and chopped potato in a bowl or on a * Small bunch of fresh plate topped with beef, chives, chopped vegetables and juices.

Method: 1. Heat butter in a large 4. Enjoy! heavy based saucepan over medium heat. Add Question: Traditionally the meat and cook, speaking, do you prefer turning once until just Beef Bourguignon or browned on each side.

Osso Bucco?

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

Health Home Food Motor

A killer in our midst T HIS week has been National Diabetes Week and wow, do I have some stories and facts for you!

Many of you reading this would be aware of the disease but do you know what it actually is? Diabetes is a serious and complex condition which can affect the entire body. A diabetic’s body can’t maintain healthy levels of glucose in the blood which, in turn, can lead to short and long term health problems. It is described as a chronic condition, meaning it lasts a long time, often for someone’s whole life. Diabetes requires daily self care and if complications develop, quality of life is reduced. There are different types of diabetes; all types are complex and serious. The three main types of diabetes are Type 1, Type 2 and gestational diabetes.

This disease is plaguing the nation in epidemic proportions and many Australians are oblivious to the seriousness and sheer proportions of diabetes. I am flabbergasted myself at the numbers – in fact I’m speechless (this is how seriously affected I am because that NEVER happens!)

Even I did not realise the statistics were so high. Every day 280 – TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY – people develop diabetes. OMG. That’s one person every five minutes of every day and its just getting worse. Diabetes is predicted to become our number one burden of disease within the next five years. Unfortunately – and I’m not excluded, neither were the researchers – we are ashamedly unaware.

In a recent media release it was revealed that three out of every four Australians underestimate the diabetes epidemic and more than 60 per cent of people don’t link diabetes to its major complications including heart attacks, stroke, anxiety and depression.

What really brought it home for me was hearing on the radio this week a golden statistical

snippet that pricked my ears right up: Dubbo has third highest number of people with diabetes in NSW with more than 2000 people in the city having this chronic condition. Whoa. Now I can visualise it as that’s twice the population of my little old home town.

So I guess I would like to bring it back to YOU and your pharmacist. What can you do?

My main piece of advice would be (if you are not already diagnosed) Know Your Risk. C’mon people! I am at an intermediate risk due to my age and waist measurement. I have things to improve and most likely you do too.

To get an idea of your risk it can be as simple as going into your pharmacy. Many have clinics in store or more simple checks on a daily basis. This can be done using the AUSDRISK Tool, a simple questionnaire, a blood pressure reading and a waist measurement.

We have done hundreds and have had several shocked people who were unaware of the risk factors in their life. Your age, gender (yep men, you copped the raw end of the stick on this one), family history, ethnicity, high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, diet, lifestyle, waist measurement... all of these can tell us if you are in a risk category that warrants a simple trip to the GP for further investigation, or a more urgent referral.

It’s very simple and if you are already aware

` This disease is plaguing the nation in epidemic proportions and many Australians are oblivious to the seriousness and sheer proportions of diabetes.

BY ROCHELLE BAILLIE E PHARMACIST

of your risk get to your GP and start managing your risk factors, pre-diabetes or diagnosed diabetes NOW. Before you suffer horrible complications – before insulin, before vision problems, circulation problems. The list goes on.

Pharmacies will often do blood glucose tests within a clinic situation. For those living with diabetes and on several medications, you may be eligible to Home Medication Review. Talk to your GP to see if you are eligible for a referral to your pharmacist for this service. Go to your local pharmacy to improve your lifestyle risks – for weight loss solutions and supporting you to quit smoking. Go in and see your pharmacy staff and ask the questions you need answered!

Your pharmacy can help with: l Screening tests with referrals to your doctor; l Diabetes management services including monitoring of blood glucose levels, weight and diabetes medicines; l Advice on and review of diabetes medicines; l Weight management services; l Blood glucose monitoring devices; l Supply of blood glucose test strips as part of the National Diabetes Services Scheme; l Quit smoking products and services.

This week’s campaign has been to raise awareness in the general population about diabetes so those who don’t have the disease can better understand the condition and can support those who do. Check out the ad, make yourself aware – check it out on Facebook, Google it. I’d LOVE for you to ask your pharmacist about it. #280aday Note: The information contained in this article is intended as a guideline only. If you have concerns for your health, please consult your own health professional.

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Why childcare needs more men

BY LISA SALMON OST men would love to be ‘a hero every day’.

But although that’s the way working as a male childcarer has been described by men themselves, there are still only a handful of males working in the field.

Despite years of progress to-

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wards greater gender balance in many professions, the early years education and childcare workforce remains stubbornly dominated by female staff – the latest figures show that only two per cent are male.

But in the UK, where the imbalance is much the same, the Fatherhood Institute charity is striving to change this, point-

Mike Abbott of The Co-Operative Childcare.

ing out that although there are plenty of men with experience of looking after their own children, a huge effort is needed to make early years education and childcare jobs more attractive and accommodating for men.

The Institute has produced a Men in Childcare guide, based on work with eight authorities, offering recommendations for how to improve recruitment.

“Governments have been talking about wanting to improve male representation in the early years workforce for many years now, but we’re still a long way from cracking this,” says Fatherhood Institute chief executive Adrienne Burgess. “Our message to men is this: you’re just as capable of making a success of a career in early years and childcare. Be a pioneer.”

The Institute says barriers to male recruitment include: z Lack of relevant information and careers advice about working in early years education and childcare. z Too few vocational training courses marketed at men and designed with men in mind. z A failure among employers to proactively recruit men and ensure workplaces are welcoming to male staff. z Negative attitudes and stereotyping about men who work in childcare. z Low pay, which is also a concern for female recruits.

“Everyone assumes that men don’t go into childcare because of low pay,” says Burgess, “but those who enter childcare jobs without other qualifications

aren’t going to be well paid whatever they do.

“It is a low pay area, but there is career progression, and one of the reasons it’s stayed low paid is that it’s a very satisfying job.”

Career progression, she says, includes advocacy work with children, nursery management, local authority roles in childcare funding and children’s charity work.

Burgess says: “Just as when you have a qualification in catering, it doesn’t mean you remain a cook. Once you have a qualification in childcare, you have a recognised skill that can be used in many related areas – aside from the fact that people who learn to work with children are likely to become better parents.”

Male childcare workers may not even want to change their role, as looking after children for a living can be so rewarding, Burgess points out.

She says male child-carers have told her that, as well as opening up a lot of careers, they felt they were really noticed at work, with one saying, “You’re a hero every day”.

“What he meant is that the children love you,” explains Burgess. “Because men in childcare are unusual, every child who sees a male worker hangs off his hands the whole time.

They stand out and they’re a hero every day.

“Male child-carers say it

Sports nutritionist Gareth Nicholas.

Fatherhood Institute chief executive Adrienne Burgess.

Vitamin D for children Q: “I’ve heard a lot about the importance of vitamin D for children, but I’m not sure about supplements – are there any good food sources of vitamin D?”

ASK THE EXPERT

A: Sports nutritionist Gareth Nicholas says: “For most of us, there’s no substitute for a sunny day, and when it comes to getting our daily dose of vitamin D, it’s no different. The vitamin is produced by our body in reaction to sunlight and we get most of our vitamin D from sunlight on our skin – that’s why it’s called the sunshine vitamin.

“Vitamin D plays an important role in the body’s health – it contributes to healthy muscle function and a normal functioning immune system. It’s also important for helping children to absorb calcium which is essential to build and maintain healthy

` When children walk into a nursery and see an entirely female workforce, they go home believing only women look after children...a

bones and teeth. For children living in sunshinedeprived areas, there are other food and drink sources of vitamin D that we can use as a back-up when the skies are grey.

“Firstly, there’s oily fish such as salmon, sardines and mackerel. Salmon is a great source of vitamin D, but if your children are reluctant to try fish, fortified breakfast cereals can contain approximately 20 per cent of their dietary reference intake [DRI] for vitamin D, and there are drinks that are fortified with the vitamin, with each cup containing 93 per cent of the DRI. Eggs are another great choice for children, as the yolks are rich in the sunshine vitamin.

“Try a combination of these alongside a healthy diet to top up vitamin D levels if you’re reluctant to try supplements.”

doesn’t feel like a job – you learn a lot, and it’s really great fun. They feel that bringing children up is a worthwhile career.”

What is crucial, she stresses, is thorough safeguarding by childcare providers to prevent child abuse of any kind. “Safeguarding is important both for the men themselves, who are always fearful about some allegation being made against them, and for the nurseries,” says Burgess.

If childcare providers, training institutions and local authorities advertise proactively for male child-carers to train or get jobs within childcare, the results are likely to be positive both for men and the children they look after, stresses Burgess.

“When children walk into a nursery and see an entirely female workforce, they go home believing only women look after children. Such gender stereotypes help nobody. We need diversity, and without men, you have the most fundamental non-diversity. Men have no less skills than women in looking after children – it’s not a gender thing.

“And for the nurseries themselves, I think having male staff could be a huge pull for parents if it’s properly marketed. If I was running a nursery, I would use it as its unique selling point.”

Indeed, The Co-operative Childcare, which runs 47 nurseries across the UK,, is aiming to increase the number of men working in its nurseries, saying that male staff have much to offer, not least as positive role models for boys, especially where their own father is absent.

Mike Abbott, general group manager at The Co-operative Childcare, says: “With men under-represented in the childcare industry, we think they should be championed.

“Gender stereotypes in childcare can hold some men back from what could be their ideal career path where they can positively influence our next generation.”

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Granny Berry knows best

BY KATE WHITING VER eight decades, Mary Berry has seen food fads come and go.

And the latest one – kale – she deals with in typically firm fashion.

“No, I don’t like it and I see it everywhere. I grew a new kale, which was rather big and a dark colour, and it looked so pretty in the garden. Then I started to cook it and it was so strong and bitter. I know it’s good for us, but I’d prefer to grow land cress, or something a little bit different.”

But Berry – who grew up with rationing, turned 80 in March and has written more than 70 cookery books since the late Sixties – is softer on other ‘new’ ingredients, including the basil she grows in the garden of her beautiful England home.

“When I trained and when I was a housewife, I automatically used dried herbs. You couldn’t get fresh ones in a supermarket, you could grow them but people didn’t know quite how to do it.

“Basil was something you only got in France, and now we sow basil in the garden... We make our own pesto. Things have certainly changed, and this is the joy of new ingredients. I can remember when butternut squash was new, and we all thought, ‘Butternut squash?!’ But we love it now.

“We also grow fennel,” adds Berry, who makes a fennel slaw in her latest book, Absolute Favourites.

“My husband says, ‘What

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Absolute Favourites by Mary Berry (photography by Georgia Glynn Smith) is published in hardback by BBC Books. Available now.

are you putting fennel in? We didn’t have it [as children], my mother didn’t do it!’ I say, ‘Hard luck, you’re going to have it!’

“I really enjoy fennel, I’ve worked out how to cook it.

People say it tastes of aniseed, but it doesn’t; if you cook it, it’s just the most beautiful vegetable. If you finely slice it and marinate it as the base of the salad, it gives the most beautiful flavour, you’ve just got to convert people to it.

“But I’m never going to convert them to kale, because I think it will come and go, personally. There are certain things I will not do, because I don’t like it myself.”

She’s certainly not a fan of deep fat frying either – “every chef’s programme, they wheel in this machine, but at home, you do it on the cooker and it’s dangerous” – but she gets her fill of chips when she goes out (“usu` I’ve had failures – ally other people’s”), and cooks I’ve used salt instead oven chips at home of sugar, I’ve had for her five grandcakes going down children when they visit, which makes in the middle, her own children but that’s good, admonish her with an “Oh Granny!”. because then we can Her grandchilcommiserate!a dren help in her professional kitchen. Her 12-year-old twin granddaughters, Abby and Grace, make biscuits, while her grandsons are put to work on a pasta bake.

“I’ve learned you don’t have two stirring at the same time!

I gave them their own jobs, I said, ‘You make sauce, you cook the pasta’, so they’re separate, because boys will be boys!”

Food and family have always gone together for Berry, who married husband Paul in 1966 and had three children, Thomas, Annabel, and William who sadly died when he was just 19.

Mary Berry. PHOTO: PA “I’m very lucky to have family and there’s nothing betmuch better than saying you ter than cooking with chilcan’t use a knife, isn’t it?” dren – there’s no happier way For all her success over the of keeping children amused years, Berry still likes to think than teaching them,” she says.

“Our grandchildren can all use of herself as a “family cook, with all the problems that eveknives, they can all use a potato peeler to do Parmesan and ryone else has”. things like that. If you teach “I’ve had failures – I’ve used them the right way, that’s salt instead of sugar, I’ve had

More than skin deep

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

"What is that?" This is what someone is sure to ask you at the checkout counter when you load your Jerusalem Artichoke, sometimes known as a Sunchoke, on the conveyor. You'll proudly do a little promotional pitch for the vegetable.

"You should try them. They're delicious!

Like a cross between an artichoke heart and a potato."

Like many tubers, sunchokes look a little strange. But when it comes to food, looks often can be deceiving. A sunchoke is the tasty, knobby root of a sunflower.

The sunchoke is a hardy perennial that can

cakes going down in the middle, but that’s good, because then we can commiserate!”

As for her absolute favourite meal, she loves nothing more than a nice plate of potted shrimps.

“If ever I was on my own, I would have one of my

grow in a variety of conditions, and is not frost tender. With water shortages and the growing cost of agriculture, farmers were looking for ecologically sustainable crops, and the sunchoke fitted their needs.

Sunchokes now are being grown both commercially and by home gardeners. Many small organic farms also are successfully growing sunchokes, so look for them at farm stands and farmers' markets (they resemble a ginger root). The crop does have its downside: It has a tendency to grow wild, and can be invasive, presenting challenges for farmers and backyard gardeners alike.

As a healthy addition to our diet, sunchokes are a low-glycaemic food, and possess a significant amount of protein and very little starch. They also are rich in inulin, a natu-

son’s hens’ eggs, some really good bread and some potted shrimps, which I would warm through with butter and a bit of spice, on toast. Those are the sort of things I like.”

Try some of Mary Berry’s favourite recipes for yourself at home...

ral fructose type of carbohydrate. Inulin is thought to be better tolerated by those with Type 2 diabetes.

When shopping for sunchokes, look for firm, brown-coloured tubers. If they're beginning to darken, they're not fresh. After you get them home, store in paper towels in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Don't wash your sunchokes until you're ready to use them, as moisture can lead to spoiling.

Sunchokes have a thin skin and don't need to be peeled.

Sunchokes are extremely versatile.

You can use them in the same way you typically use a potato. They have a crunchy texture and are delicious raw.

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MALTED CHOCOLATE CAKE

ROASTED SAUSAGE AND POTATO SUPPER

WATERMELON, FETA, CUCUMBER AND MINT SALAD (Serves 6 as a main dish or 10-12 as part of a buffet) BERRY says: “This is my favourite salad at the moment – fresh, full of flavour and crunchy texture.

Any small black seeds left in the watermelon after deseeding can be eaten, although I prefer to remove the larger ones. This delicious salad is best made and served on the same day.”

1/2 cucumber 1/2 small watermelon, peeled, deseeded and cut into 2cm cubes 200g good-quality feta cheese, crumbled into small cubes 50g pitted black olives in oil, halved 1 small bunch of mint, chopped For the dressing: 4tbsp olive oil (or oil reserved from the olives) Juice of 1/2 lemon Salt and freshly ground black pepper How to prepare: 1. Peel the cucumber with a potato peeler, cut in half lengthways and, using a teaspoon, scoop out and discard the seeds. Cut into crescent shapes.

2. Layer half the watermelon, cucumber, feta and olives in a bowl, repeat again, then sprinkle with the chopped mint. For the dressing, whisk together the oil and lemon juice, season with salt and pepper and pour into the bowl.

Serve chilled.

When roasted, their nutty flavour comes out. Steamed sunchokes can stand alone or mixed with other vegetables, used in a gratin or to make a delicious soup.

If you're using sunchokes in a creamed soup or puree and want to remove the peel for presentation colour, pass them through a food mill or a fine mesh strainer.

This recipe for Sunchoke Chips With Parmesan and Parsley is a delicious alternative to potato chips.

(Serves 4-6) BERRY says: “This will become a firm family favourite as it can be cooked in one dish and is so quick and easy to put together. If you’re making this for young children, you can replace the wine with stock, if you prefer. Choose your favourite type of local sausage for this recipe – my family loves leek and sage.”

2tbsp olive oil 2 large onions, sliced lengthways into wedges 2 red peppers, deseeded and cut into large dice 2 garlic cloves, chopped 1 tbsp chopped thyme leaves 500g baby new potatoes, unpeeled and halved 12 sausages, pricked with a fork 200ml white wine Salt and freshly ground black pepper How to prepare: 1. Preheat the oven to 220C/200C fan/Gas 7.

2. Place all the ingredients except the wine in a large, resealable freezer bag. Seal the bag shut and shake well to coat everything in the oil. Alternatively, put everything in a large bowl and turn the ingredients until they are fully coated in the oil. Tip into a large roasting tin, spreading the ingredients out into one even layer and ensuring that the sausages aren’t covered by any of the vegetables.

Season well with salt and pepper.

3. Roast for about 30-35 minutes until golden, then remove from the oven, turn the sausages over and toss the vegetables in the cooking juices. Pour in the wine and return to the oven for a further 20 minutes, or until browned and the sausages are cooked and the potatoes tender. Serve hot with a dollop of mustard on the side.

SUNCHOKE CHIPS WITH PARMESAN AND PARSLEY Serves 8 900g unpeeled sunchokes (also called Jerusalem artichokes), scrubbed Vegetable oil (for frying) 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup grated Parmesan 1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley To prepare: 1. Fill a large bowl with cold water. Slice sunchokes into thin rounds (about 1/16 inch thick), immediately dropping into bowl of water to prevent browning. Rinse and drain 3 times to remove some of the starch for a crisper chip. Pat dry with paper towels.

2. Pour enough oil into large deep skillet to

(Serves 8-10) Prepare ahead: The filling will remain soft and ready to use in a bowl covered with cling film for two to three days.

The finished cake can be kept in an airtight container for up to a day.

Freeze: Freeze the cake and icing separately, then defrost at room temperature and assemble when ready to serve.

BERRY says: "This cake is the perfect family treat, and a real crowd-pleaser. The malt extract gives a lovely creaminess to the sponge, while the malted chocolate flavour is echoed in the cake's topping."

30g malted chocolate drink powder 30g cocoa powder 225g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing 225g caster sugar 225g self-raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 4 eggs For the icing: 3tbsp malted chocolate drink powder 11/2tbsp hot milk 125g butter, softened 250g icing sugar, plus extra for dusting 50g dark chocolate (at least 50% cocoa solids), melted 1tbsp boiling water About 20 Maltesers, to decorate Icing sugar, to dust How to prepare: 1. You will need two 20cm round sandwich tins. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas 4 and grease the tins with butter and line the bases with baking paper.

2. Measure the malted chocolate drink powder and cocoa powder into a large bowl, pour over two tablespoons of water and mix to a paste. Add the remaining cake ingredients and beat until smooth.

3. Divide evenly between the prepared tins and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes. Set aside in the tins to cool for five minutes, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool completely.

4. To make the icing, measure the malted chocolate drink powder into a bowl, add the hot milk and mix until smooth.

Add the butter, icing sugar and melted chocolate and mix again until smooth, then add the boiling water to give a gloss to the icing.

5. Place one cake on a plate and spread over half the icing.

Sandwich with the other cake and spread (or pipe) the remaining icing on top, using the tip of a rounded palette knife to create a swirled effect from the centre to the edge of the cake. Arrange the Maltesers over the top and dust with icing sugar before serving.

reach depth of 1/2 inch. Submerge bulb of deep-fry thermometer into oil; lean top of thermometer against skillet rim. Heat oil to 190C/375F. Mix salt, Parmesan and parsley together in small bowl, blending well, and set aside.

3. Working in batches, fry sunchoke slices until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Using a skimmer, transfer chips to a wire rack placed over a paper-lined baking pan to drain. While chips are hot, sprinkle with the Parmesan and salt mixture. The chips won't be crispy immediately out of the fryer, so wait a few minutes for them to crisp up. Mound chips in bowl and serve.

To bake the chips: 1. Preheat oven to 200C/400F. Line two

baking sheets with foil and lightly grease with cooking-oil spray. Place slices in a single layer on the two sheets. Spray each slice with oil, then sprinkle salt on top.

2. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes. If they aren't golden brown and crisp, bake in 3 to 5 minute increments until done. Sprinkle with topping of your choice.

Alternate toppings: For protein boost and cheese flavour: sprinkle chips with 1/2 cup nutritional yeast For spicy flavour: sprinkle with 1 tablespoon chilli powder and 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper For salt and vinegar chips: soak sunchokes in vinegar for 2 hours before frying. Drain and pat completely dry. Fry or bake as directed, and sprinkle with salt.

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Terry & Tanya Locke

Heart of steel

It was the year 10,000 died in an earthquake in Nepal; Donald Bradman was bowled out for a Duck and Bonnie and Clyde rampaged across America into bloody legend in a stolen Ford V8. It was also the year – 1934 – that Terry and Tanya Locke’s five-window Ford Deluxe Coupe was being built in Australia.

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

TERRY LOCKE describes his purple 1934 Ford Deluxe Coupe as “a bit cranky” before turning over its engine in his East Dubbo garage. The quiet neighbourhood gets a loud jolt as the 91 yearold violet-coloured beast is brought out on display.

It’s an all steel car, originally timber framed or coach built, and has very few reproduction parts, just the exterior door handles and windscreen frame.

“You can push that fender and it will never bend,” Locke says proudly. u

Terry Locke and the 1934 Ford Deluxe Coupe.

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u When he bought it in 1975, Locke was realising a dream come true – to own a ’34 coupe. It wasn’t until 2002 however, that he finally got it on the road.

“It stood in the shed for 25 years while we had kids,” says Tanya Locke who is a self-confessed spectator to her husband’s passion.

“I don’t even wash them, that’s his job.

“Mortgage and four kids took care of the Hot Rod bug for 20 years,” Locke adds. “We worked on it every night and every weekend for two and a half years to get it where it is now.

“I’m just moral support,” Tanya chimes in. “I just sat down in the shed with him.”

She did in fact do more than that, choosing the unique colour for the coupe.

“A lot of hot rods are black, red or bright yellow and we wanted something different. We have a friend who has a hot rod as well, and it’s about the same colour as the bright green in your scarf,” she says, pointing to my neck.

“Again, it was just something that was different. I chose the colour. There’s no tradition its just personal choice. We kept changing the colour as we were building it. It was going to be red, it was going to be green, it was going to be mint, then it was going to be blue.”

Locke says he wanted it yellow “but every second car now is bright yellow and we’ve seen very few that colour”.

“We get comments about the colour of the car, particularly from ladies, and little girls.

They all love it,” Tanya says.

Another outstanding feature is the front grill, which lunges the full depth of the shapely hood.

Locke suggests that kind of grill isn’t something you just go down and buy from Supercheap Auto.

“And you don’t go and buy one with a couple of hundred dollars in your pocket either,”

Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender Tanya adds.

Someone else also knew the value of what they were looking at not long after Locke bought the Coupe in ‘75.

“When I first took it off the road, the grill and the radiator were stolen. I never got it back although I know where it went. It took me about four months to find a grill in New Jersey in America and it was about $1800 back then, that was ’78 or ’79, and even then it was nowhere near as good as the original,” he says.

“You can pick up a grill now, an original one and you’re probably looking at $3000,” Tanya adds. “Add another $600 to get it chromed or production grills are cheaper around $1500 or $2000.”

Despite the expense, driving a car that’s almost 100 years old is modest motoring. If you want air conditioning “you wind the windows down”.

“Some new hot rods – fandangled high dollar ones as they call them, have air conditioning in them but this one’s quite comfortable; it sits on normal high way speeds, it’s got a V8 in it so it’s just like driving in any other car,” Tanya says by way of reassurance.

“We go everywhere. We’re about to head off

It took me about four months to find a grill in New Jersey in America and it was about $1800 back then, that was ’78 or ’79 – even then it was nowhere near as good as the original.

to Echuca in a few weekends’ time. We took the purple one this Easter just gone, to the Hot Rod nationals in Newcastle.”

What you do not want to do, however, on the open road is open the doors at speed.

“You can’t open these doors while you’re driving along. If they pop open or they’re not closed properly the wind gets them,” she says of the “suicide” door design.

“I had a little Fiat Bambino,” adds Locke. “I was flying in town – they only do about 45 mph – with a big mate of mine on the passenger side and it had suicide doors and the door jumped onto the second latch. He said, “I’ll fix that” and at the same time, I yelled out “No!” and grabbed his shoulder. He flicked it off the second latch and the door went “bang” – 180 degrees – and hit the side of the car. I had a hold of his shirt otherwise he was going too,” Locke recalls.

“We have had an incident with the Coupe.

I was driving,” says Tanya. “I was only doing about 40 and it cracked all the paint on the side and it took Terry a long time to get it right again.

“The ‘34 sedans had suicide doors in the front and rear and in ‘35 they changed the back doors to conventional and just the front doors were suicide.”

Suicide doors were a design cue taken by the automobile industry from horse drawn carriage design. In a car it did pose a greater risk to passengers of falling out with the help of higher wind speeds. The gangsters of the 1930s used it to their advantage for the ease of pushing people out of their moving vehicle.

Going under the hood on the ’34 Deluxe coupe, however, poses no threat, being pristine and colour coordinated with the exterior body paint.

“You could eat your lunch off it,” says Terry.

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Soaking up the park life in Croatia

The Waterfalls in Plitvice National Park, Croatia.

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BY SHEREEN LOW ’VE been coming here every day for more than seven years and I never get tired of the view,” says my guide Ana. The anticipation now building, I push my way through the hordes of tourists and make my way along the rickety wooden walkways which meander around the waterfalls at Plitvice Lakes National Park.

Ana is right – the view doesn’t disappoint.

I can feel the brute strength of the current underneath my feet and the mist on my face as the water thunders away at my side. It’s a scary feeling con-

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` It may be 20 years since the Croatian War of Independence ended in 1995, after four years of fighting, but the wounds are still visible...a sidering just a few planks of wood are protecting me from this tremendous force of nature.

Natural wonders such as the waterfalls at Plitvice are in abundance, once visitors head inland towards the heart of the country.

Croatia has become one of the most popular European destinations in recent years, thanks to a proliferation of twohour flights from the UK, but the majority of tourists are party lovers and sunseekers, heading to the many islands that string the coastline.

Yet there’s plenty for nature lovers to discover once they head inland towards the heart of the country, where the glorious Plitvice and Paklenica parks are located.

The largest and oldest national park in Croatia, Plitvice, which received the honour of being added to the UNESCO

The Plitvice Lakes National Park, in Croatia.

list of World Natural Heritage sites in 1979, consists of 16 lakes and numerous cascading waterfalls.

Sitting down for lunch by the lakeside is a magical moment – it’s probably one of the most scenic spots I’ve ever had a sandwich and chips!

Surrounded by forests of beech and fir trees, this park, accessed by paths and trails, as well as an electric boat across the biggest lake, Kozjak, is a natural treasure and home to more than 1250 different species of plants, wolves, lynxes, wild boar and wild cats.

Ana tells me brown bears also live

here, although luckily we didn’t meet one.

About an hour’s drive from Plitvice is Paklenica National Park.

With the Velika (Big) and Mala (Small) Paklenica gorges incised into the southern slopes of the Velebit mountains, Paklenica is more suited to active types.

Rock climbers of varying ages show off their strength as they take on the Anica Kuk wall, an almost vertical limestone rock face. I’m surprised to see that some even have young children with them on ropes. With over 400 marked climbing routes of different levels and

Disney gives sneak peek into China park

TRAVEL BRIEFS

SHANGHAI: US entertainment giant Disney has unveiled details of its planned theme park in Shanghai, promising Chinese features and new attractions not found in its five other resorts.

The Walt Disney Co and Chinese Partner Shanghai Shendi Group broke ground on the $US5.5 billion ($A7.38 billion) park in April 2011.

The opening was originally planned for this year but Disney has pushed it back to 2016.

“When we began this project, our goal was to create something that was authentically Disney and distinctively China. We believe we’ve achieved the perfect blend,” Disney chairman and chief executive Robert Iger told a media

event on Wednesday.

The company has scrapped its signature “Main Street, USA” for mainland China, using a “Mickey Avenue” to replace the facade of an American town found at its theme parks in Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo as well as those in the US. When the French park was first proposed there was outrage over the prospect of an American cultural invasion, although Europeans later embraced it.

For the Shanghai Disney Resort, cultural considerations include food and attractions – such as a garden mosaic depicting the 12 animals

of the Chinese zodiac using images of Disney characters – as well as the presence of Chinese language throughout the park.

It will also feature the biggest Disney castle in the world and an entire pirate-themed “land” based on the movie franchise Pirates Of The Caribbean”.

The company has not announced a specific start date but Iger reiterated that the doors would open next year.

Shanghai, China’s financial capital, sees the park as a key driver of tourism revenue for the future, as well as a showpiece for an international city.

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For those who, like me, find climbing a challenge, other active options include hiking, trail running, rafting and canoeing on the Zrmanja river. Or, if sport really isn’t your bag, there are photo safari tours, where 4WD vehicles transport budding photographers through the wild terrains.

This is my first visit to Croatia, and I’ve already fallen in love with the country, the friendly people, their customs and the culture.

“Everybody likes to tell you their story and ask you about yours,” my driver Mario tells me.

True enough, every person I meet happily opens up about their life – even the Mayor of Ozalj who takes time out from her busy schedule to join me for a day.

No subject is off-limits, and they are even willing to speak about the impact of the war with Serbia.

It may be 20 years since the Croatian War of Independence ended in 1995, after four years of fighting, but the wounds are still visible.

Empty houses with bullet holes in walls and bombed roofs can still be found on the outskirts of Karlovac. Families have since moved into newer neighbouring buildings, but they don’t intend to

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forget the past, Mario tells me.

“We never want to forget. The scars are still visible and we are proud of the wounds.”

Not all views here are as inspiring as those encountered in the beautiful national parks, but they are all unforgettable.

TRAVEL FACTS :: Shereen Low was a guest of the Croatian Tourism Board. She stayed at Hotel Korana Srakovcic in Karlovac :: Plitvice Lakes National Park is open all year around. :: Paklenica is also open all year around.

Paklenica, in Croatia.

Chinese tourists stir outrage in Thailand

BY MARION THIBAUT CHIANG RAI, THAILAND: Free-spending Chinese tourists are receiving a mixed welcome in Thailand, where their alleged cultural slights such as urinating in public, spitting on the street and kicking a sacred temple bell are being weighed against the benefits of their soaring numbers on the creaking economy.

Growing outrage over the perceived disrespect of visitors from the Asian giant has spurred authorities to print thousands of Chinese-language etiquette manuals this

year in a bid to keep the tourists in check.

Last month it was a photo of a young girl peeing in the grounds of Bangkok’s Grand Palace that triggered the latest round of enraged, and sometimes racist, comments as users of Thai social media claimed she was Chinese.

In March a Thai model’s video of tourists from China jumping the queue at an airport was viewed more than two million times and saw a similarly angry rant against Thailand’s largest group of foreign holidaymakers.

At the gleaming Wat Rong Khun art

exhibit, also known as the White Temple, in northern Chiang Rai province, owner Chalermchai Kositpipat complained about the state of the toilets after a recent visit by a Chinese group.

“We had problems with some Chinese who defecated anywhere, so I asked the guides to explain to them that rules must be respected in Thailand,” Chalermchai told AFP, having earlier threatened to refuse Chinese entry.

But he stopped short of issuing a ban and, like Thai authorities, is loath to cut out the Chinese at a time when they are buck-

ing the trend of dipping visitor figures in the kingdom, where tourism accounts for 8.5 per cent of gross domestic product.

Last year about 4.6 million Chinese nationals visited Thailand, with the average tourist spending 5500 baht ($A217) a day – more than the average European visitor.

Their collective contribution, expected to reach $A7.5 billion this year, is not one the ruling junta can afford to lose as it struggles to revive a sclerotic economy – one of its key promises after seizing power from an elected government in May 2014 that was paralysed by months of protests.

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Pregnant Pause This week’s 2015 Cowley Literary Award finalist in the non-fiction category is Linda Elmslie, who tells a tale of being distracted from earthly reality by the celestial magic of a southern sky.

his nights of ‘sleeping under the stars’ when he was a boy.

“Look for the two pointers low on the hoBY LINDA ELMSLIE rizon. They will show you where to find the Southern Cross,” he reminded me year after SHOULD have turned back. It would have year. been as simple as executing a nifty u-turn “Now follow the direction of the brightest and driving towards Perth again. Less than star, four and a half times the length of the a couple of kilometres, just to capture the constellation,” he would say, tracing a diagosight of the moon’s bulging, pregnant belly. nal line into the night. Then using his other My glimpse had been fleeting. A golden hand, he would guide mine from the pointgoddess displaying her pride, the skin of her ers until our fingers touched. His voice was protruding belly pulled taut. The dark of the always animated when he reached this part hills were her legs spread wide as though with of the story. “Do you see where the two lines one great push, her child would be forced into bisect? That is due south.” the world, sucking in its first breath, little So there it was. The Southern Cross punctuarms flailing, silhouetted against that lumiating the night like my own personal compass, nous light. but I might as well have been a million miles “You’ve already taken two hundred photos away, distance tearing a great divide between today,” my husband exaggerated. the family of my childhood and me. But knowI contemplated for a second whether I should ing that Dad and I look at the Southern Cross push the goodwill of our relationship to capout of the same eyes is a link that can never ture the intensity of the scene. Dithering, with be broken. my foot alternately braking and accelerating I told my husband, “I can find my way anin sequence with my thought process, the moywhere guided by the Southern Cross. With ment of indecision solved the question. its five stars behind my back, I would know “You’ll get a better photo further up the which way to turn to the west until I eventuroad,” he persuaded me, voically found the coast.” ing my reluctance to slow the But he scoffs at my Southlong trip home by turning back ` ern Cross. He sees a landmark, before we had even started.

No noise. No a hill in the distance or where “You think so?” I said, wantthe sun sits in the sky and he ing him to be right, even though cars. Nothing. finds his way with a certainmy gut knew there could be no No one but us ty made of experience. So we better shot of the moon’s size, were discussing our means of accentuated by her position in on the road and mildly arguing our relation to the land. goodness knows navigation, points without listening to one But I had missed the moanother because we were both ment and I knew it. Still, I ap- how far it was to right and we both knew it, proached each new stretch of town. when the car suddenly lurched road for the next hundred kiland slowed. ometres as the one that would “We’ve lost power,” I said, confused, unable display the goddess, ripe and golden, the suto define this unusual turn of events. preme symbol of a woman at her most primiJust before the car slowed to a stop, I pulled tive, powerful potential. Instead, she climbed off the road, noticing the fuel light on the higher in the sky, taking refuge behind the dashboard, glowing pregnant and golden as clouds, as though sweeping a shawl around her newborn, protective as a princess holding the rising moon.

“What?” my husband exclaimed, aghast that the heir of the universe. Reclaiming her aura I could be so unobservant. “You have driven of mystery, growing increasingly cold and rethe past 60 kilometres baying at the moon and mote, she shunned me, refusing to stop in her the stars and you didn’t once notice that the travels just for the sake of satisfying my lust fuel light was on? for a moment in time.

“I’m sorry,” I said feeling very The road was deserted. Our lonely vehicle, un-goddess-like. deceived by the undulating terrain endlessly “You shouldn’t have been driving. I could chased its lights across the golden wheatbelt, tell you were tired. Talk about distracted drivnow ghostly open fields of silver, illuminated ers. You should be booked,” he said, his scoldby the wake of the moon. ing telling me that he was just as fatigued.

Turning my attention to the Southern Cross, I noticed my world in Australia reflecting ex“Well, there was no way you could drive. actly the same stars as my childhood. Stand- You had too many beers this afternoon,” I ing shivery and cold outside the beach house, didn’t say, while he sucked the end of a hose my tee shirt scraping against sunburned shoulto siphon diesel from the emergency containders, Dad would squat behind me so my eyes er now perched on the roof of the car. The could follow the direction of his outstretched sound of liquid flowing into the fuel tank was arm. This was his ritual, the way he shared reassuring, but the fumes, trapped by the still-

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ness of the night, hovered low, making me feel nauseous.

“I’m cold, I’ll wait in the car,” I said.

“You might as well. This won’t take much longer,” he agreed and moments later he was tossing the empty container into the boot before sliding into the driver’s seat.

“Come on, let’s give her a try,” he said, his pessimistic tone a prophesy of an unfavourable outcome.

“Jesus, I can’t believe it. You drove all that way without noticing,” he growled again, shaking his head in disbelief while turning the key in the ignition.

But the engine made only stagnant noises of agreement rather than sparking into life.

“You didn’t exactly think about buying fuel in Perth either,” I was finally goaded into mentioning.

He gave up turning the key and all was silent for a moment. There was just enough light to see that his lips were cast in a grim line. He nodded his head, just slightly in acknowledgement.

No noise. No cars. Nothing. No one but us on the road and goodness knows how far it was to town. Even the moon had abandoned us. I imagined her behind closed doors, singing a lullaby to her infant, its belly round, too satiated to swallow the final trace of breast milk on its lips.

It seemed we could be spending the rest of the night on the road. No self-respecting RACQ-Man would be hovering around us at 9pm on a dark, Saturday night, 230km from Perth.

By this time, the eyes that didn’t see my Southern Cross, were peering beneath the bonnet of the car, lit only by the glow of his iPhone.

“Here, hold this,” he said, passing the phone to me.

“What are you doing?” I asked as he grunted and pounded on something at the back of the motor.

“Bleeding the air out of the fuel pump,” he muttered, his voice tight from the effort of exertion.

“Come on, let’s get out of here,” he finally said, slamming the car bonnet closed.

Gravel crunched around our shoes, the car doors closed in unison.

This time, the car kicked into life.

We didn’t talk much for the rest of the way home and the last thirty kilometres seemed further than the previous 230. Thoughts of the moon and the Southern Cross were replaced by travel fatigue. The sort that pulses through your body even after the car has stopped moving.

The next day, after work, I put fuel in the car even though I still had 116km registering on the dash. The moon jogged my memory. It was a faint white smudge in the clear blue sky.

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Songbirds sought for chapel sized challenge Words: Kim V. Goldsmith Photos: Harmony Singers Dubbo conductor, Lindy Blekemore; Harmony Singers rehearsing inside St. Andrew’s Chapel; Lindy Blekemore conducting Harmony Singers in rehearsal (photos: Kim V. Goldsmith) ****************

Lindy Blekemore conducting Harmony Singers in rehearsal. PHOTO: KIM V. GOLDSMITH

BY KIM GOLDSMITH CREATIVE arts project to be performed next year in Dubbo aims to do something that has never before been done in the city, by creating unlikely and sometimes challenging partnerships between artists and community.

The Chapel Project is what’s known in the arts sector as a multi-arts project, involving about 80 people including many professional artists.

In this case, choral musicians, high school music students and teachers, community members who like to sing are working with digital media and projection artists, combining their passion, their skills and creativity into one outcome – the production of bird inspired choral music and video projections designed to be shown and performed inside Dubbo’s St Andrew’s Chapel.

Underpinning concepts have been developing over the past 12 months with the aim to challenge, inspire and entertain.

It’s a work that seeks to pays homage to the guardians of our natural environment and the collective creativity of regional artists and communities as contemporary storytellers.

At this point I must confess my involvement. I’m the lead artist and producer of The Chapel Project.

My birdsong recordings will provide the inspiration for the commissioned y g choral music – an idea I’ve been p playing uple of years, around with for the past couple w installation in between developing new works and producing films..

However, it wasn’t untill discusny Singsions with Dubbo’s Harmony ers began last year that a breakape of through occurred in the shape classical pianist and chorall composer, Sally Whitwell. ourth alShe’s just released her fourth d as bum with ABC Classics and g we go to print she’s winding

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up a trip to China and Mongolia with the Sydney Children’s Choir and Gondwana National Indigenous Children’s Choir.

Whitwell will be the project’s composer and she’s excited about it, going on the record as saying the appeal of this project is it involves so many members of the local community in the creation of an original work.

“New works that engage so immediately with a community are, I believe, particularly important to the future of the arts in regional NSW and also more broadly throughout Australia,” she says.

“I’ve had the privilege of creating several new works with various youth and community music organisations in some of the major cities, including Gondwana Choirs, Woden Valley Youth Choir and Leichhardt Espresso Chorus, but to connect with a community that is a little further afield is an opportunity I will cherish.”

Whitwell’s involvement is made possible through a Country Arts Support Program (CASP) grant – an Arts NSW devolved funding program administered by Regional Arts NSW and local Regional Arts Boards on behalf of the NSW Government.

The composition of the choral music will come together through workshopping with the choir, school students and community members over two days in Dubbo, starting on July 27.

Harmony Singers Dubbo conductor, Lindyy Blekemore is counting down the days to Whitwell’s arrival, k keen to take full advantage of working with someone of this calibre.

“We’re looking forw forward to seeing the new ideas an and different vocal techniques tha that we’ll learn from Sally.

“The work based o on birdsong differen from the will be very different traditional music w we do, which is sacred, gosp gospel or jazz – it’ll be a very much more

modern take on choral singing.

“On the other hand, she’ll be amazed at what Dubbo can produce because we’ve been generally recognised for our sporting prowess and not necessarily the arts...to be able to showcase what we have and can do will be a positive.”

Blekemore says the response to the project from within the choir has been mixed; there’s a feeling of having been challenged.

“For some in the choir, it’ll take them out of their comfort zone because of the modern vocal techniques, not having music in front of them that has already been written and is an unknown.

“But it’s awesome we’re being challenged and who knows what’ll happen.

It’ll all come together in the end, but I think the process for all of us will be confronting as we’re putting our own talent on the line and asking ‘Are we good enough?’

“It’s putting yourself out there for development as well as criticism.”

The Chapel Project team has put a callout to anyone in the community who enjoys singing to be part of the production by turning up to the first workshop at 6.30pm, July 27 at the Western Plains Cultural Centre Community Arts Centre.

` For some in the choir, it’ll take them out of their comfort zone because of the modern vocal techniques, not having music in front of them that has already been written and is an unknown.

– Lindy Blekemore (left), Harmony Singers conductor

Blekemore says it’s a chance for people who can’t commit to regular, weekly choir sessions to be involved in a group performance and to celebrate their creativity.

“Who knows what talent we have out there – the music scene in Dubbo is fairly tight but a project like this brings people out of the woodwork who have maybe not had the confidence or contacts to know where to go.”

In preparation for Whitwell’s two day visit to Dubbo, Harmony Singers have been working with Dubbo’s public high schools to give band, choir and elective music students an opportunity to be part of The Chapel Project ‘Birdsong’ composition.

Blekemore says the teachers she’s had contact with are excited about the opportunity for their students to work at this level.

“Some of the teachers are looking at it from a professional development perspective, in terms of understanding more about the composition process. So, it’s not just the kids who will benefit.”

She admits she also has another agenda involving the schools in the project’s birdsong composition.

“Singing in choirs isn’t perceived as cool in general, this project will change that,” she grins.

The Chapel Project performances are scheduled for October 2016, with the final show set down for the opening day of the national arts conference and festival, Artlands Dubbo.

In order to finance the development of the project’s video projections and the performance costs, the project team is now waiting to hear about the outcome of Arts NSW grant funding, as well as setting up a crowd funding campaign with the aim of extending the life of the project beyond next year’s one-off performances.

Details can be found at www.theofficialchapelproject.com ■

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Past, present and future As an Aboriginal kid in the 1960s, Warwick Keen felt he had to deny his heritage. Now, the Nowra-based photographer not only acknowledges but embraces his family’s rich history and has put together a powerful exhibition that’s taken him back to his roots at Coonabarabran.

Back to where his great, great grandmother, Mary Jane Cain, fought for land rights for her people. Back to Burra Bee Dee.

BY JEN COWLEY WEEKENDER EDITOR

IT’S more than a century since Mary Jane Cain, a legendary figure in Coonabarabran’s rich history, fought for – and won – indigenous land rights in the area.

But her great, great grandson, Warwick Keen, feels closer than ever to their shared story.

The Nowra based photographer has put together a powerful exhibition of images that cleverly blends the past with the present – an exhibition that’s effectively cementing that history’s place in the future.

By merging old photographic images with new, Keen has created Back to Burra Bee Dee, a visual portrayal of the history and development of a parcel of land bequeathed in the late 19th century to the Aboriginal people of Coonabarabran, thanks to the efforts of his renowned forbear.

Mary Jane advocated for the rights of her people to enable them to be both regarded and treated more equitably within the community. Self-educated, she wrote to Queen Victoria’s NSW representative asking for help to secure a future on more autonomous and equal footing within Coonabarabran. She took the long coach trip to Sydney to speak with the NSW Governor and was given what Keen says was “a fair hearing”.

As a result of her persistence in advocating for the betterment of her people, the Governor initially handed over a 400 acre “parcel of land” – Burra Bee Dee – to which a further 200 acres was gradually added over the next 20 years or so.

Mary Jane Cain, like many other Aboriginal activists of the time, was a leader in the land rights movement. However, outside Coonabarabran itself this remarkable woman’s story remains mostly unheard and untold.

Until now.

Keen says the exhibition represents a reconnection with his ancestry, but it wasn’t always a history of which he was proud.

“Earlier in my life, I had issues with my Aboriginality and where I came from. I denied my Aboriginality,” he says, ahead of the opening of his exhibition in Coonabarabran next week. “I was born in 1958, and when I grew up there were some very negative societal attitudes towards indigenous people. All through school I saw a lot of discrimination towards Aboriginal kids, so I hid my heritage – it was a way to protect myself.

Now, I see that was silly to feel that way.”

As an adult, Keen has not only acknowledged but embraced his Gamilaroi heritage and says this exhibition “brings it full circle”.

“This gives me a chance to celebrate my ancestors more so than I’ve ever done in my life.”

Keen has taken photographs taken in and around the Burra Bee Dee “mission” in the 1950s, blending them with images he’s taken of the modern-day site’s landscape.

The result, he says, is that he’s been able to create “a sense of what it might have been like to live back in that era and then to bring that era back into a more contemporary setting aided by the utilisation of coloured photographic imagery”.

It’s a very personal project for Keen, but it’s equally valuable for the people

of Coonabarabran, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal.

“I don’t think people know what to expect but I hope everyone understands what it is I’m trying to say – which is that the past and the present are connected, and that we need to connect and reconnect with that history.”

Keen says some of the local Aboriginal elders from the community may recognise some of the faces from the older photographs.

“Just as my mother did when I showed her. She’s a fairly measured lady, so she didn’t say a lot, but she said, “Oh, there’s so and so, and there’s someone else...”

She still recalls many people from those early days on Burra Bee Dee.” Keen dabbled with photography extensively as a teenager, and then again as a student of art at Bathurst’s Mitchell College (now Charles Sturt University) but pursued other interests for many years.

Then he won the 2013 UNSW Art and Design Aboriginal Arts Residency Award – part of the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize – and was given access to the College of Fine Arts (COFA) resources in Sydney. He chose to create the body of work that would eventually become the Back to Burra Bee Dee exhibition.

The show has been hung not only at the COFA art space for a time last year,

This gives me a chance to celebrate my ancestors more so than I’ve ever done in my life. but also at Shoalhaven Arts Centre at Nowra, which is where Keen calls home.

Now it’s Coonabarabran’s turn.

It’s an exhibition Keen says has resonated deeply not only with indigenous viewers, but with the wider community.

“I’ve had some great commentary and that’s been terrific, but I’m really looking forward to bringing it “home” to Coonabarabran – Back to Burra Bee Dee.” l Back to Burra Bee Dee will be on exhibit at the Coonabarabran Visitor Information Centre and Arts Space from July 24 to October 23. There will be a special opening of the exhibition by Coonabarabran Mayor Peter Shinton on the evening of Friday, July 24, from 5.30pm, at which photographer Warwick Keen will be special guest and to which the public is warmly invited to attend.

Left, “Trespassers”, and at right “The Shadows Remain”. Photos by Warwick Keen.

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'Nude time travel? It's an interesting one...'

BY JEANANNE CRAIG British actress Emilia Clarke at a preview of Terminator: Genisys’.

PLAYING heroine Sarah Connor in the latest Terminator film required a lot from actress Emilia Clarke.

There were all those fights with evil robots, the nail-biting car stunts on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the daily training sessions with “guns, lots of guns, and then some more guns”.

One section of the Terminator Genisys script was a particular eyebrow-raiser for the Game Of Thrones actress, however: when she and her co-star Jai Courtney travel through time, completely in the buff.

“I double-checked the age-rating and was like, ‘OK, we’re good, there’s only so much you can see!’” admits the actress, who has also appeared nude as silver-blonde exiled royal Daenerys Targaryen in the hit TV show Game Of Thrones.

“Nude harness time travel, it’s an interesting one to add to the CV,” she adds. “You’ve just got to have a sense of humour and laugh.

Loudly.”

Laughter comes easily to Clarke, who is back to her brunette roots and dressed in a powder blue Dolce & Gabbana dress for our interview. And she reveals that Arnie was game for a giggle on set too.

“He’s got really good banter. He had such a calming, gorgeous presence on set that put everyone at ease. And he’s such an iconic figure – there were a lot of ‘pinch me’ moments, when you’re like, ‘I can’t believe I’m actually doing this’.”

Schwarzenegger’s “I’ll be back” line, famously uttered by his robot character in the first Terminator film, was repeated “all the time” on set, she reveals.

“To his face, not to his face, all of it!” confesses the 28-year-old actress, who recalls seeing the violent original while growing up in Berkshire, England.

“My brother forced me to watch it quite young, so I was a bit traumatised by the apparent ketchup in most of the scenes,” she jokes.

“I revisited it as I was getting older, and then in preparation for playing Daenerys, I watched Sarah Connor back, in order to kind of embody some other strong women on screen. So it was funny when this audition came around. I was like, ‘Yes, definitely!’”

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK Lembit Ulfsak in "Tangerines"

PHOTO: AP/JACQUES BRINON/PA.

BY SAM STRUCKHOFF

putting his awesome talent into stuff you’ve never seen.

Tangerines (MA15+) – After the fall of the Soviet Union, a benevolent old farmer finds himself caught in war between Georgia and Abkhazian separatists. When the conflict comes right to his front yard, Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) buries a few soldiers, and finds that two of them are still alive – one man from each side. As they recover in his small shack, Ivo asks each man to swear not to kill the other. The adversaries agree not to shed blood under his roof, but it’s a cramped, fragile peace between sworn enemies.

Before this film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars last year, most of us in the West had never heard of Estonian actor Lembit Ulfsak.

After seeing this performance, it’s like finding out there there’s been another Ian Mckellen just hanging out,

The Wrecking Crew (MA15+) – This is another one of those music documentaries that introduces you to artists who are/were so good that you probably already love their work – but most folks have never heard of them. In the 1960s and 1970s, the “West Coast Sound” that dominated the charts was mostly created by a handful of hardworking session musicians called “The Wrecking Crew”.

With interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and a killer soundtrack, director Denny Tedesco – son of Tommy Tedesco, one of the Wreckers – explores the impact of the Wrecking Crew’s music and industry’s impact on them.

There have been a few similar documentaries in the past few years – “Twenty Feet from Stardom”, “Muscle Shoals” – because it’s a lot of fun hearing about the moment a

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Emilia Clarke plays Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator.

Photod: PA/Paramount Pictures.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Emilia Clarke arrive for the Europe premiere of 'Terminator: Genisys' in Berlin. PHOTO: AP/MICHAEL SOHN/PA.

Emilia Clarke, Arnold Schwarzenegger with Jai Courtney who plays Kyle Reese.

Series T-800 Robot

Set in 2029, Terminator Genisys sees leader of the human resistance John Connor (Jason Clarke) head up the war against machines. He sends Sergeant Kyle Reese (Courtney) back to 1984 to protect his mother – Sarah – and safeguard the future.

Kyle finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he encounters dangerous enemies and unexpected allies, including a new T-800 terminator, the ‘Guardian’ (Schwarzenegger, this time playing a ‘goodie’).

We also see flashbacks to Sarah’s childhood, during which she was orphaned and placed in the Guardian’s care.

“You really get to see how she got to where she is, so there’s a reality to her as a character, that hopefully people can relate to,” Clarke notes.

Shooting all those action sequences did take its toll.

“I naively went into this not quite realising the full extent of how much stunt work you really do on an action movie.

You take it for granted when it’s seamlessly put together in a gorgeous movie, but when you’re there, you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s the gun, OK that’s the hill, brilliant...’

“It was a lot of hard work, but really good for getting into the character of Sarah Connor. To physically put yourself

there was very helpful,” the star adds.

After graduating from the Drama Centre London in 2009, Clarke appeared in BBC series Doctors and the US made-for-TV movie Triassic Attack, before landing her Game Of Thrones role.

Series five of the often bloody and brutal show recently saw several key cast members culled, but Clarke thinks her character is still safe – “for a minute”, at least.

“I’m definitely always on at David and Dan [Benioff and Weiss, the series’ creators], saying, ‘Can I have the scripts, just to see if I’m alive?’ That would be good!”

She dismisses suggestions that the TV show – based on George R. R. Martin’s books and known for its graphic violence, sex and nudity – is too close to the bone.

“I think that the essence of the books is placed very firmly in a shocking territory and there are a lot of shocking realities in real life as well. We’re just echoing that, really. But ultimately, it’s just a story.”

Clarke’s next project couldn’t be further from blood-drenched Game Of Thrones and bullet-splattered Terminator Genisys, however.

Me Before You is the upcoming film adaptation of author Jojo Moyes’ novel, about a young carer (Clarke) who forms

a bond with the recently-paralysed man she’s looking after (played by Hunger Games actor Sam Claflin).

She enjoyed the chance to play a role more rooted in reality.

“I like to stretch myself a much as possible as an actor, and to try as many different things as I can, while I’m in the very fortunate position to be able to do that, and see what shoe fits

legendary riff just popped into somebody’s head. This one stands out because of the director’s personal connection with story, which adds family lore to rock history.

person case. The cold-case stuff is boring as can be, and the family-bonding stuff has some stultifyingly cheesy dialog.

Wild Horses (MA15+) – Written, directed and starring Robert Duvall, this meandering cowboy/family drama/crime story has a lot of heart-to-heart talks, each one seemingly sprinkled into the movie at random. Scott Briggs (Duvall) is a crusty ol’ cowboy who’s fixin’ to set up his last will. He reunites with his youngest son (James Franco), whom he kicked out of the house 15 years ago after catching him in the barn with another boy – that boy soon went missing. Now an oddly stiff Texas Ranger starts suspecting Scott is connected to the 15-year-old missing-

Set Fire to the Stars (M) – Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was a man of gorgeous verse and terrifying appetite – a renowned writer almost as well-known for his drinking and shenanigans as for stirring poetry. This style-conscious black-and-white feature depicts a week when Thomas (Celyn Jones) was brought to New York for a speaking tour, held under guidance of tweeish American poetry professor John M. Brinnin (Elijah Wood). The madness and style of the movie is great, but it goes heavy on the morose and anxious elements of the characters.

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office Week Ending 15.07.2015 1 Inside Out 2 Minions 3 Magic Mike XXL 4 Terminator: Genisys 5 Jurassic World 6 Ted 2 7 Far From The Madding Crowd 8 Amy 9 Madame Bovary 10 Spy SOURCE: MPDAA

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best, really.”

As for another Terminator instalment? “The dot dot dot was there [at the end of the film],” Clarke adds with a smile. “I’m ready to see how that sentence finishes.” :: Terminator Genisys is in cinemas now.

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Orana Combined Pensioners' meeting

BY MADDIE CONNELL PENSIONERS gathered at Dubbo’s Neighbourhood Centre where they were joined by guest speaker Ian to discuss the ongoing issues that affect pensioners in 2015. Vice President of the committee Joan Teale and Assistant Secretary Keith Farrands said, “We all gather together monthly where we work together with a guest speaker to resolve and promote ongoing issues to the government.”

Members Linda Kendall, Elizabeth Moxham and Lorraine Scoble

Guest speaker Ian

Helen Smith, Jane Boyle and Keith Farrands

Lorraine Merriman and Barbara O’Brien

Vice President Joan Teale and Assistant Secretary Keith Farrands

Barbara O’Brien OAM receiving a signature from Linda Kendall in regards to her Palliative Care funding campaign

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Tammy-Lee's 40th celebrations

BY ROB THOMSON THE Commercial Hotel was the venue of choice for Tammy-Lee Collins's 40th birthday celebrations.

Tammy-Lee was surrounded by friends and extended family as she celebrated the big “four-zero”.

Tammy-Lee Collins and father Sid Taylor

Troy, Leanne, Samara and Tammy-Lee Collins, Dylan Large, Justin, Jessica and Jordan Collins

Jake, Holly and Cody Taylor, Hilary Best, Tammy-Lee Collins, Dana Taylor, Brad Rankmore and Jordan Collins

Thomas Ball, Tammy-Lee Collins, Sarah Clark, Donna Daley, Kiarna and Jordan Collins

Sue Towers, Tammy-Lee Collins, Barbara Taylor and Jordan Collins

Justin and Tammy-Lee Collins, Scott, Terrissa, Christine and Chris Taylor and Jordan Collins

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Rotary's Vanuatu dinner

BY ROB THOMSON ON Saturday, July 4, local businesses attended Lazy River Estate for a dinner and auction to raise funds for the Vanuatu cyclone appeal.

G.H. Cole and Son and IGA West Dubbo

Moses Horse Transport

Rivwest Finance

Lazy River Estate

Wright Way Building and Construction

The Walkoms

Peter and Pam Scott, John and Janet Walkom and Mark and Kathryn Hurley

Brownrite

There was great entertainment on the night

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Books that tell stories T HERE is so much going wrong in today’s world that hearing, finding evidence of favourable circumstances takes effort. What can appeal to some in the community is considered detestable to others, thus finding some element that brings wide satisfaction can be a rarity.

Some personalities can be the focus of attention over the long term. The biography by David Nokes describing the life of “Samuel Johnson” takes us back in time. Johnson was born weak and half blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, he became an admired man in the 18th century. He was the author of the “Dictionary.” In 1805 Dr Peter Roget started compiling a list of words and their similar meanings for his own convenience. First evolved into a book, it was published in 1852 and when he died in 1869, 28 editions had been printed. Thesaurus in Latin means ‘treasury’ or ‘storehouse’ as today’s publisher of “Roget’s Thesaurus” notes “classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition.”

Dr W C Minor was described as “a charismatic millionaire

and American Civil War surgeon and homicidal lunatic.”

Following his service in the forces he was confined to a “polite” asylum for recovery, and later released. Moving to England in 1871, he committed a major crime and sentenced to an asylum. Simultaneously some work had been done at Oxford University to identify English as the prime language and in 1755 “A Dictionary of English Language was printed.” In the 1880s James Murray who was in charge of compiling additions to the dictionary called for volunteers and Minor responded. Murray acted in ignorance of Minor’s address but contributions of significant quality continued to arrive from Minor. When Minor did not attend a dinner to celebrate the Dictionary Murray decided to visit him. After an hour’s travel he arrived at a premises – described on page 151, where the person in charge said that he wasn’t Mr Minor “I regret not, sir. I cannot lay claim to that distinction. I am the Superintendent of the Broadmore Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

Dr Minor is an American, is one of our longest staying inmates.

He committed murder. He is

` Word smithing is a valuable talent when one seeks to be involved in critical thinking.

“Asking Good Questions” by Stanlick and Strawser addresses case studies in ethics which move beyond the traditional discussion of ethical theory and real life dilemmas... a

quite insane.” That history was written by Simon Winchester in“The Surgeon of Crowthorne.“ There are many books written about those who have proven worthy to positive accolades.

When it comes to word usage, Robin Gerber is the author of “Katherine Graham” a remarkable lady who went on to head the ‘Washington Post,’ a dominant feature in the USA media in the time of Richard Nixon.

When her husband died, she became directly involved in this prominent media journal and became a leader in her field.

Richard Branson who has risen to prominence in the airline, finance and other industries. His autobiography “Losing My Virginity” tells of a man who nearly met his end early in life in a hot air balloon. He has written several books about his role in business, airlines and technology.

Closer to home is an autobiography by Deb Hunt who many local people came to know through her writings.

From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection One is “Love in the Outback” in which she introduces herself – “I spent most of my life looking for Mr Right, then one day I gave up. I moved to a faraway place as a single woman forever more. But not everything went to plan.” Former London resident, she stopped dating when she turned 50. She was done with love and sick of chasing men who didn’t return her affections. There came a time when she knew it was time for a change. She packed up, came to Australia and when on a trip to Broken Hill, encountered a man in the RFDS unlike any other.

Those of us who have read several books of Bill Bryson will appreciate the personality revealed in his autobiography “The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.” It is about growing up in Des Moines, Iowa and in a most entertaining manner, Bryson tells his experiences in Europe, and the U.K. When he travelled to Australia he wrote “Down Under” – the text tells us as we really are, in a way not told by our own authors.

Just published is a collection of phrases expressions and proverbs and even comments on how to use and misuse them. Colin McNairn is the author of “In a Manner of Speaking” which is described as ‘the complete picture of all the most used and abused phrases in the English language. If you haven’t

worked it out for yourself is explains what “the whole kit and caboodle”, “the whole shebang,” “the whole box and dice,” and “the full Monty” have in common. There are explanations on phrases such as “dressed to kill,” “kick the bucket,” “chasing your tail” and “avoid like the plague.” It is certainly a delight for anyone who wishes to “cast your bread upon the waters,” metaphorically speaking of course.

Word smithing is a valuable talent when one seeks to be involved in critical thinking.

“Asking Good Questions” by Stanlick and Strawser addresses case studies in ethics which move beyond the traditional discussion of ethical theory and real life dilemmas. Issues that impact on our daily lives are considered, and they include a mind mapping technique for analysing and formulating arguments and moral issues.

In a collection of questions levelled at candidates Oxford and Cambridge University applicants, we can have our wits tested on issues such as how to organise a revolution, what makes a strong woman, and whether Fair Trade agreements are really fair. John Farndon tests us with such challenges in “Do You Still Think You’re Clever.”

Enjoy your browsing Dave Pankhurst.

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WHAT’S ON.

Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear ....Jazz tunes from the best DUBBO JAZZ celebrates 25 years of jazz in Dubbo with a toe tapping free weekend of jazz in various venues from August 7 to 9, 2015.

Musicians featured include Simon Bartlett and The Upper House, Jordan C Thomas Trio, David Harvey jazz guitar, The Chalkies and Tin Roof Big Band.

More information about the weekend will be appearing over the coming week on the official website www.dubbojazz.com.au, the Dubbo Jazz Facebook page at www.facebook.com/dubbojazz or can be requested by emailing info@ dubbojazz.com.au.

The celebration is supported by Orana Mutual, Quality Inn Dubbo, Macquarie Conservatorium, Lazy River Estate, Outlook Café, and more.

...the shouts of thank you from Warren THE Warren Window on the Wetlands (WoW) Centre, currently under construction, has a lot of hoped pinned to it with an expected 5000 visitors to WoW and the town, per year.

For a community hard hit by drought, the completed facility promises potential tourist spends of up to $200 per person per day, adding a much need boost to the local and regional economy.

The Warren Rotary Club has tipped in $1500 with local fundraising making a further $3000.

Crowd funding for WoW drew $620 in the first days of going live.

Visit www.riversmart.org.au to see the YouTube clip for more information. Go on, you know you want to.

see acknowledge the benefits of tree planting to address important environmental issues such as the loss of habitat for native wildlife, soil salinity, erosion and long-term carbon offsetting.

...tomorrow’s trees planted NATIONAL TREE DAY is officially July 26 but Dubbo City Council invites the community to join it on August 30 instead, when conditions are warmer and better for tree planting.

Activities will be held on the river flat at Regand Park, with an aim to restore native riverine vegetation.

According to council’s director of parks and landcare, Murray Wood, participation in National Tree Day helps council to make a difference within the community and to

...your teacher celebrated THERE are just two weeks left to nominate a local teacher for the 2015 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards, which recognises and rewards extraordinary teachers developing the essential money manage-

ment skills of their students.

Fifteen teachers from across Australia can earn $10,000 each to further develop their financial learning program, as well as an additional $2,000 personal reward for each winning teacher. This year includes additional awards – a National Winner, an Innovation Award and a Technology Award.

Applications are open to all Kindergarten to Year 12 teachers in all Australian schools. Visit www. commbank.com.au/teachingawards.

do ...talk about pain IT’S National Pain Week between July 20 and 26, and this year’s theme is Pain, Let’s Talk About It. The theme comes from people living with pain who call it an invisible burden other people don’t want to talk about.

Organised by Chronic Pain Australia, National Pain Week aims to raise awareness of the estimated 20 per cent

(more than four million) Australians suffering from chronic pain at a cost of $34.3 billion each year!

For further information about the types of chronic pain which exist, read other people’s stories and to get help, visit www.nationalpainweek.org.au.

...tee off for CanAssist CANASSIST, the Cancer Assistance Network Dubbo and District Branch is

holding a fundraising golf day on Friday, August 7.

Boost your chances of actually placing by “buying” Craig Mears or Pat Wilson, whose talents will be up for auction at 10am.

A four-person Ambrose 18-hole event will Shotgun start at 11, followed by a nine-hole event hitting off at 12noon until 2pm.

Organisers promise special prizes

and a raffle including a Toyota Yaris for the first Hole in One on the 18th.

Costs are $50 per player for 18 holes, $35 per player for nine holes.

Morning tea, lunch and presentation nibbles are included in the price.

Registrations close July 29. Contact the pro shop on 6882 2201.

All funds raised are used to support Dubbo cancer patients.

etc.

Dubbo 300 Mountain Bike Race THE Dubbo 300 is a Mountain Bike Race to be held at Geurie 25km east of Dubbo.

This MTB race is part of the 2015 Evocities MTB Series, Australia’s richest MTB Series.

This is a five-hour race around a 15.7km loop through grassy eucalypt and cypress pine woodlands along Arthurville Road and the Macquarie River.

The trails are challenging and fun, flowy and mostly singletrack but with plenty of areas for passing.

The event centre will offer great spectating, food for friends and family and up to the minute timing. Open for all, pairs or singles and everybody’s welcome.

Snap Shorts short play festival PLAYWRIGHTS from Dubbo, Bathurst and Mudgee will have their works featured at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Conference Centre when the Snap Shorts Central West Short Play Festival takes to the stage on Friday, July 31.

Specially selected plays have been fur-

ther developed and crafted to produce a fantastic night of fun, laughter and drama.

Mentored by Alex Broun, Becky Russell and Fiona Green, the participants have honed their skills and tuned their plays to guarantee a great night of theatre.

Plays include Killing Time by Jodi Cramond, Kandy by Kellie Jennar and The Secret Life of Thomas Sugg. Visit the DRTCC website for tickets and details.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

WHAT’S ON.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 17.07.2015 to Sunday 19.07.2015

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OPEN WEEKENDER

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY

COFFEE & MEALS

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

^ƚŽƉ ďLJ dŚĞ DŽŶŬĞLJ Ăƌ ƚŚŝƐ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚ͘ EŽǁ ŽƉĞŶ ƐĞǀĞŶ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ͘

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

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

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

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

GROCERIES 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

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Friday, July 17 MOVIE: Raising Helen

The Graham Norton Show

Miniseries: Arthur & George orge

PRIME7, 8.30pm, PG (2004)

TEN, 8.30pm

ABC, 8.30pm

In her romantic comedy comfort zone once again, Kate Hudson plays modelling world high-flyer Helen Harris, who puts her hectic social life on hold to care for her nephew and two nieces after their parents die in a car accident. Hudson’s talents are barely taxed, but great supporting turns from Joan Cusack (as her other sister), Sex and the City’s John Corbett (as her priestly romantic interest) and the trio of talented youngsters (Heroes’ Hayden Panettiere, Spencer Breslin and Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin) help raise this above its formulaic roots. It’s directed by Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman).

Graham Norton can charm his guests better than any talk-show host out there. Tonight, colourful nature shines through, even if there appeared to be a black dress code.

Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden appears to be the only one who didn’t get the memo, exuding glamour and sophistication in a rather fetching lavender dress to talk about her new animal-themed show.

Carey Mulligan is aboard to discuss her new flick Far From The Madding Crowd and the dangers of sheep, while Swedish actress Noomi Rapace reveals a little about her new thriller Child 44.

This entertaining British drama, based on the book of the same name by Julian ian Barnes, rtin n) play sees Martin Clunes (right, Doc Martin celebrated novelist and physician Arthur.

Tonight, he is determined to prove e all his doubters wrong, and find out ut for himself if George (Arsher Ali), a young Parsee solicitor recently released from prison for crimes off which he claims innocence, has been een hiding anything. He attacks the case ase with renewed fervour, and manages ges to uncover fresh evidence that suggests a very different explanation ion from the one concluded by the police. lice.

Will Arthur be able to unlock the case and prove to the world that George ge is innocent?

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.30 Kids On Speed?

(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) 3.00 Catalyst. (PG, R, CC) 3.40 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) 4.25 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Out Of Line.

(M, R, CC) (2001) A hit man is sprung from jail to kill a socialite. Jennifer Beals.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Contestants race to answer quiz questions correctly to avoid being caught by The Chaser.

4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC)

6.00 Today. (CC) Presented by Karl Stefanovic.

9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Easy-to-cook recipes.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 Huey. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu.

(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 Tour De France Daily Update. (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 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 12.

Lannemezan to Plateau de Beille. Replay.

3.30 Strip The City: New York Superstorm City. (R, CC) 4.25 Partir. (R) 4.30 Room 101. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 12.

Highlights.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the team pay a return visit to Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (R, CC) Guests John Lloyd, Sandi Toksvig and Johnny Vegas join Stephen Fry for an “H”-inspired discussion.

8.30 Miniseries: Arthur & George. (M, CC) Part 3 of 3. Arthur resolves to take his fight for justice to the highest echelons of the British establishment.

9.20 Line Of Duty. (M, CC) (Series return) A brutal ambush on a police convoy leaves three officers dead and a protected witness fighting for his life.

10.20 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. (M, R, CC) Lawrence Mooney and a panel of celebrity guests pull apart the major popculture stories of the week.

11.55 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh visits the newly-restored St Joseph’s. Jason takes an incredible river trip through Europe. Karen shows how to make toffee hotcakes.

Fast Ed hits the fish markets in Sydney to cook seafood recipes. Hosted by Johanna Griggs.

8.30 MOVIE: Raising Helen.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) A young woman’s carefree lifestyle in New York City comes to a screeching halt after she becomes responsible for her sister’s three children when she and her husband perish in a car accident.

Kate Hudson, Abigail Breslin, Hayden Panettiere.

11.00 The Blacklist. (M, R, CC) The task force tries to save Red after he is arrested and taken to a secret detention facility. Finding himself in custody, Red has his own problems when he tangles with a thief with whom he shares a complicated history.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 19. Parramatta Eels v Canterbury Bulldogs. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 19. Melbourne Storm v Penrith Panthers. From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

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) Amanda Keller catches up with Australian singer Kate Ceberano.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with English actors Carey Mulligan and Amanda Holden, and Swedish actor Noomi Rapace. Music from English singer and songwriter, Jessie Ware.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) After a Mossad agent is killed in the US, while waiting for his contact, the new director of the agency agrees to work with Gibbs.

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) (Final) Chef Heston Blumenthal prepares a Christmas feast for some celebrity guests.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Secrets Of Britain: Secrets Of Scotland Yard. (PG, R, CC) Explores the stories and history behind Scotland Yard, one of the world’s most renowned policing institutions.

8.30 Secrets Of The Castle: Defending The Castle. (CC) Part 3 of 5.

Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold continue to take a look at the reconstruction of Guédelon Castle in France.

Focusing on the colourful world of medieval interior design, they learn how render and lime wash helped transform dark stone walls into a bright space.

9.30 World News. (CC) 10.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 13. Muret to Rodez. 198.5km mediummountain stage. From France. Commentary from Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin, and reports by David McKenzie and Matt Keenan.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.00 The Blacklist. (M, R, CC) With their lives hanging in the balance, Agent Cooper tries to rescue his team in the wake of chaos at a detention facility.

Professional thief Luther Braxton tries to attain confidential information.

1.00 Home Shopping.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: The Driver.

(M, R, CC) (1978) 3.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Doctors. (M, CC) The doctors chat with plastic surgeon Dr Cat Begovic who reveals the most-requested celebrity “body parts”.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping.

2.00 MOVIE: The Last Circus. (MA15+, R) (2010) A trapeze artist is caught between two clowns.

Carlos Areces.

3.50 Sandhurst Military Academy: A Matter Of Life And Death. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, July 17 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.50pm And So It Goes (2014) Comedy. Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas. (M) Premiere

6.30pm Celtic Woman: The Greatest Journey.

(G) Arts

8.30pm Transformers: Age Of Extinction (2014) Action. Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci. Autobots must escape from a bounty hunter.

(M) Premiere

6.35pm Ray Donovan.

Ray drifts from his family while he focuses on his business and desires to be his own boss.

(MA15+) Showcase

6.30pm Alaska Dogs.

Whether hauling goods across treacherous terrain or rescuing people buried by avalanches, dogs are crucial to life in Alaska. (PG) Animal Planet

5.30pm Rugby Union.

The Rugby Championship.

New Zealand v Argentina.

Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Easy Rider (1969) Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper.

Two bikers head off on a journey to find the real America. (MA15+) Masterpiece

7.40pm Hannibal.

Will Graham continues his search for Hannibal Lecter, making his way to Hannibal’s childhood home, Castle Lecter in Lithuania. (MA15+) Showcase

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Thomas. (R, CC) 5.00 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 5.10 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit.

(R, CC) 6.25 Curious George.

(CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.25 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.35 The Undateables. (M, R, CC) 9.25 Secrets Of The Living Dolls.

(MA15+, R, CC) 10.15 Jimmy Fallon.

(PG, CC) 10.55 Sex Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Cherry Healey: How To Get A Life. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 2.10 News Update. (R) 2.15 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: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.05 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.30 The Penguins Of Madagascar.

(R, CC) 7.55 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) (Final) 8.20 Endangered Species. (R, CC) (Final) 8.30 Grojband. (R, CC) 9.15 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 9.35 Slugterra.

(R, CC) 10.20 Prank Patrol Road Trip. (R, CC) 11.10 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) (Final) 11.35 Mal.com.

(R, CC) (Final) 11.50 Canimals. (R) (Final) 12.00 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) (Final) 3.40 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) (Final) 3.50 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) (Final) 4.15 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (CC) (Final) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Roy. (R, CC) 5.15 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. (R, CC) 5.25 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 5.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 6.20 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Girl Vs Boy. (PG, CC) 8.10 My Great Big Adventure. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, CC) 8.55 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (CC) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.15 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 The Woodlies. (C, R, CC) 7.30 In Your Dreams. (C, CC) 8.00 Pipsqueaks. (P, 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. 11.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 11.30 Tennis.

Davis Cup. World Group Quarterfinal. Australia v Kazakhstan. Day 1. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

(R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Animal Airport.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

Aled Jones travels to Cornwall.

9.30 House Wreck Rescue.

(R) Presented by Gary McCausland.

10.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) 1.30 House Wreck Rescue.

(R) 2.30 To Be Advised. 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 4.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 Shopping.

(PG, R) 7.00 Sofia The First. (R, CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Doc McStuffins. (CC) 8.30 Henry Hugglemonster. (R) 9.00 Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil.

(R, CC) 9.30 Kickin’ It. (CC) 10.00 Fish Hooks. (R, CC) 10.30 Crash & Bernstein. (CC) 11.00 Fifth Gear.

(PG, R) 12.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 1.00 Camp. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 4.00 Billy The Exterminator. (PG) 4.30 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 5.30 Guinness World Records Gone Wild. (PG, R) 6.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R, CC) Barney prepares for his wedding.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the big match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 16. North Melbourne v Essendon. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 MOVIE: Desperado.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1995) Antonio Banderas.

1.15 Locked Up Abroad. (M, R) 2.30 Jail. (M, R) 4.30 Fifth Gear.

(PG, R) 5.30 Zoom TV. (PG, R)

7.30pm Pat Benatar: Behind The Music.

From her beginnings studying opera, Pat Benatar became the pin-up rock songstress of the 1980s. (PG) Biography

8.00pm Football. AFL. North Melbourne v Essendon.

Fox Footy 9.30pm Tennis.

Davis Cup. Quarter-final.

Great Britain v France. Day 1.

Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Air Crash Investigations. (PG) National Geographic

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, CC) 8.00 Pyramid. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Surprises.

(P, R, CC) 9.30 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 The Batman. (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 Tom And Jerry.

(R) 1.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 2.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, 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. (PG) 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 Soccer. Friendly. Brisbane Roar v Liverpool FC. 9.00 MOVIE: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

(M, R, CC) (2013) Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi. 11.00 MOVIE: School For Scoundrels. (M, R) (2006) 1.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting. 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Home Shopping. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers.

(PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Swallows And Amazons. (R, CC) (1974) Virginia McKenna, Kit Seymour. 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (CC) 3.30 Big Body Squad. (PG, R) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) Monica invites a friend to Thanksgiving.

7.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Second Test. England v Australia. Day 2. Morning session. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Second Test. England v Australia. Day 2. Afternoon session. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

3.00 MOVIE: San Demetrio, London. (PG, R, CC) (1943) Arthur Young.

5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country. (R) 5.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC)

Peter Fonda hits the road in Easy Rider

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 Monster Jam. 9.00 Bears On The Brink. (PG, R, CC) 10.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 11.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 12.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 David Letterman. (PG, R) 2.00 Monster Jam. (R) 3.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.00 Scrappers. (PG, R) 4.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 5.00 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish. (R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Goodbye, Farewell And Amen.

(PG, R) (1983) 9.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Follows officers on patrol in the US. 9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Angel Of Death. (M, R) (2012) Experts search for two nuclear weapons.

Steven Seagal.

11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.10 World Sport. (R) 1.30 Home Shopping.

2.00 Darren & Brose. (PG, R) 2.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Back On The Frontline.

(AV15+, R) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Race 9. German Grand Prix. Replay. From Sachsenring, Germany. 5.30 Temporary Australians. (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. (R, CC) 11.30 Taxi.

(PG, R) 12.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, 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 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 James Corden.

(PG, R) 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) Hosted by Cat Deeley.

9.30 New Girl. (PG, R) Coach tries to get Nick in shape.

10.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) 10.40 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) 11.20 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 11.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.50 Clueless. (PG, R) 1.25 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 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.

3.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France.

Stage 12. Lannemezan to Plateau de Beille. 195km mountain stage.

Replay. 5.30 Urban Freestyler.

(R) 5.35 American Ninja Warrior.

6.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France.

Stage 12. Lannemezan to Plateau de Beille. 195km mountain stage.

Highlights. From France.

7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (PG) 8.30 Derren Brown: Hero At 30,000 Feet. (M, R) Derren Brown creates a “hero”.

9.30 12 Monkeys. (M) (New Series) 11.10 Attack On Titan. (M, R) 12.10 Friday Feed. (R) 12.40 PopAsia.

(PG) 2.40 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 Waabiny Time. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked!

9.00 Move It Mob Style. 9.30 Go Lingo. 10.00 Around The Campfire. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 Pacific Games. Daily highlights. 1.00 Pacific Games. Daily coverage.

7.30 The Will And The Skill.

A unique annual athletics camp.

8.00 Australian Ark: North Of Capricorn.

9.00 NITV News.

9.30 Go Girls. (PG) The girls are invited to their high-school reunion.

10.30 By The Rapids. (PG) 11.00 NITV News.

11.30 Australian Ark: North Of Capricorn.

12.30 By The Rapids. (PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

2.00 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival.

3.00 Sisters In League. (PG) 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Titjikala v Mulga Bore.

5.00 Korraiyn.

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)

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Saturday, July 18 MOVIE: Coraline

MOVIE: Mission: Impossible

PRIME7, 12pm, PG (2009) Master animator Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) mines more sinister territory in this similarly twisted stop-motion fairytale. Dakota Fanning voices the titular tween, a bored 11-year-old who scrambles through a secret door in her new home to escape her neglectful parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman), only to discover an alternative version of her mundane routine. On the surface, this parallel universe is eerily similar to the life she already knows – only much better – but her eerie adventure takes a turn for the worse and she runs the risk of being trapped in the false world forever. Great entertainment.

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Father Brown ABC, 7.30pm

TEN, 10pm, M (1996) An enlivenment of the cult TV series, headlined by Tom Cruise and starring Jon Voight, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno and Emmanuelle Béart. The ensemble of actors are perfectly cast, but their talents are under-used by director Brian De Palma, who allows little room for character flair. Opting for gimmickry and gadgetry, his Bondstyle set-pieces look spectacular, and the stunts are spine-tingling. Still the best in the series.

PRIME7

We all love a murder-mystery, and this one is one of the murkiest ones around. ing Thank goodness for crime-busting liams, priest Father Brown (Mark Williams, right), who has certainly got hiss work ath of cut out for him tonight. The death barmaid Sylvia Swann (Maya Grant) icken at the stone circle of a polio-stricken hat village leads him to conclude that dark forces are at work. Her friend, Ginnie Godden (Holly he Lucas), is arrested after being the last person to see her alive, but o Father Brown finds evidence to igel link local herbalist Malcolm (Nigel Cooke) to the murder site. Was she ritually sacrificed to heal the polio victims?

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SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Flying Miners: Boom Or Bust. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 To Be Advised.

2.30 Wild Kitchen With Clayton Donovan. (R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Rick Stein’s India. (R, CC) Rick’s journey continues in Lucknow.

4.00 QI. (R, CC) Hosted by Stephen Fry. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Two bodies are found in a garden.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Coraline.

(PG, R, CC) (2009) A girl discovers a door to a parallel world. Dakota Fanning.

2.00 MOVIE: The Makeover.

(PG, R, CC) (2013) An unlikely candidate campaigns for Congress.

Julia Stiles, David Walton.

4.00 Medical Emergency.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh and Ed visit the Capricorn Coast.

5.30 The Lucky Country. (PG)

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 Supernanny: Beyond The Naughty Step. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Mike & Molly. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Flipped.

(PG, R, CC) (2010) 3.30 Australian Geographic Adventures. (CC) 4.00 Adam’s Pasta Pilgrimage. (CC) 4.30 Dr Lisa To The Rescue.

(CC) (New Series) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 iFish. (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 Just Go. (CC) (New Series) 4.00 Andy & Ben Eat The World. (CC) (New Series) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Tour De France Daily Update. (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 Climbing Great Buildings. (R, CC) 1.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 13. Replay.

3.30 D-Day: The Soldiers’ Story: Overlord.

(PG, R, CC) 4.25 Finding Babylon’s Hanging Garden. (R, CC) 5.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 13. 198.5km medium-mountain stage.

Highlights.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Costa profiles indoor plants and how to care for them. Josh visits a small garden packed with big ideas.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) Father Brown investigates after the body of local barmaid is found in a stone circle.

8.20 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) Pullman finds herself clashing with Superintendent Cruz as the murder investigation continues.

9.20 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) When one of his patients has trouble breathing, Martin suspects he may have been exposed to asbestos.

10.05 The Bletchley Circle.

(M, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

Susan discovers a coded message which leads her to a clue to the identity of the killer.

10.55 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

11.25 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) Guests include Joanna Lumley.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor. (PG, R, CC) (2008) After a 2000-yearold curse is broken, a notorious Chinese emperor returns to life and sets out to conquer the world with the help of his terracotta army. He is opposed by a married couple and their son, whose previous adventures had pitted them against a magical mummy. Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li. 9.15 MOVIE: Total Recall.

(M, R, CC) (1990) Experiencing recurring nightmares of life on Mars, a construction worker living on Earth decides to gain some closure by going on a “virtual” holiday to the red planet. Unfortunately the procedure triggers a series of events which lead him to question everything he knows. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin.

11.35 World’s Wildest Police Videos. (M, R, CC) An exotic dancer leads the police on a merry chase. An interrogator tries to match wits with a suspected murderer.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Second Test. England v Australia. Day 3. Morning session. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Second Test. England v Australia. Day 3. Afternoon session. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

6.00 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown must carry out the painstaking job of removing the deformed horns of a dairy buffalo.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) The family holiday gets off to a rocky start with Mitchell determined to play tourist, much to Cameron’s frustration. Claire and Phil try to turn the holiday into their “honeymoon”.

Jay annoys Gloria with his antics. Hayley becomes friends with a group of older boys.

7.30 Rugby Union. (CC) The Rugby Championship.

Week 1. Australia v South Africa. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

10.00 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible. (M, R, CC) (1996) After a disastrous mission in Prague, the leader of an elite undercover unit sets out to discover what went wrong.

It soon becomes apparent to him he is dealing with a mole within his organisation, who appears to be attempting to sell a list of agents’ names on the black market. Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Beart.

6.00 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands: Small Isles – Small Is Beautiful.

(R, CC) Paul Murton explores Rum, Muck and Eigg, a group of islands in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 David Suchet: Footsteps Of St Peter. (CC) Part 1 of 2. David Suchet sets out on a journey to uncover the story of Saint Peter.

8.30 Room 101. (M, CC) Paul McDermott interviews comedian Julia Morris, who discusses her pet hates and the things that make her angry.

9.00 Room 101. (M, CC) Paul McDermott interviews celebrity guests who discusses their pet hates and the things that make them angry. He continues with comedian Dave Hughes.

9.30 Monty Python’s Best Bits (Mostly) (PG, CC) Celebrities pick their favourite Monty Python sketches and explain why they deserve to be considered the best.

10.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 14. Rodez to Mende. 178.5km mediummountain stage.

12.10 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by special guest programmers.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

3.00 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) Michael accompanies Charlie to his prison group.

3.30 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.15 48 Hours: Death After Midnight. (M, R, CC) A look at the death of Ashley Fallis.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

2.00 Living With The Amish.

(PG, R, CC) The teens spend a week with the Burkholders.

4.45 Ebony Society. (M) Short film.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News. News from Tokyo.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

7.30pm The Lego Movie (2014) Animation. Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks. (PG) Family

6.30pm Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars.

Hidden agendas are exposed when stars are forced to make a choice about their futures.

(M) Arena

7.30pm Treehouse Masters.

Pete builds an adventurethemed treehouse. (PG) Discovery

7.30pm Football. AFL. Sydney v Hawthorn.

Fox Footy

8.30pm The November Man (2014) Action. Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey. An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil. (MA15+) Premiere

6.30pm Young & Hungry.

On Gabi’s first day she must cook a lavish meal for Josh’s out-of-town investors. (M) FOX8

10.45pm Force Majeure (2014) Drama. Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli.

(M) Masterpiece

7.30pm Switched At Birth.

Bay faces the fallout of covering for Daphne. (M) FOX8

ABC2/ABC KIDS

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Thomas. (R, CC) 5.00 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 5.10 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit.

(R, CC) 6.25 Curious George. (CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.25 The Home Show. (CC) 9.15 Live At The Apollo. (M, R, CC) 10.00 Dirty Laundry Live. (M, R, CC) 10.50 The IT Crowd. (PG, R, CC) 11.15 Archer. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.35 Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable.

(PG, R, CC) 12.05 Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable. (M, R, CC) 1.05 The Home Show. (R, CC) 1.50 News Update. (R) 1.55 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: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama All Stars. (R, CC) 9.55 Grojband. (R, CC) 10.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.40 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 11.30 Roy. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 2.50 Trop Jr. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. (R) 4.00 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) (Final) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.55 Grami’s Circus Show. (R) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 9.40 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (R, CC) 10.25 Degrassi. (PG, R, CC) 10.50 Close.

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 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 11.30 Tennis.

Davis Cup. World Group Quarterfinal. Australia v Kazakhstan. Day 2. 2.30 Intolerant Cooks. (PG) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 17. Northern Suburbs v Easts. From North Sydney Oval. 5.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 Castle. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Forces Of Nature.

(M, R, CC) (1999) A soonto-be-married man, on his way to his wedding, embarks on a road trip with an eccentric woman. Ben Affleck, Sandra Bullock, Maura Tierney.

11.00 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 1.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 2.30 MOVIE: Five Came Back. (PG, R) (1939) Chester Morris, Lucille Ball.

4.00 Drug Bust. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 9.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 10.30 Meguiar’s MotorEx. (PG, R) 11.30 Selling Big. (PG, R) 1.00 Super Factories. (R, CC) 2.00 Football.

(CC) AFL. Round 16. Gold Coast v GWS. From Metricon Stadium, Queensland. 5.00 Construction Zone. (PG) 5.30 Big Australia. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the big match.

7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 16. Sydney v Hawthorn. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

10.30 MOVIE: Forgetting Sarah Marshall. (MA15+, R, CC) (2008) A man struggles to avoid his ex-girlfriend.

Jason Segel, Kristen Bell.

12.45 Locked Up Abroad: Bangkok Underworld.

(M, R) 2.00 Operation Repo. (M, R) 2.30 South Beach Tow. (M, R) 3.30 Selling Big. (PG, R) 4.00 Super Factories. (R, CC) 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

8.30pm Epic Bars.

The Heineman Bar Company travels back in time to revive an infamous speakeasy in the heart of Philadelphia. (PG) Discovery

7.30pm Football. AFL. Fremantle v Carlton.

Fox Sports 3 8.00pm Rugby Union.

The Rugby Championship.

Australia v South Africa.

Fox Sports 2

10.30pm Cyber Bully.

Exposes the growing problem of bullying through mobile phones and the internet. (M) Crime & Investigation

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Pirate Express. (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 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, R, 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 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 4.30 The Tom And Jerry Show. (R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs Evil. (R) (2011) Red Riding Hood searches for Hansel and Gretel. Glenn Close.

7.30 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Darren McMullen and Sonia Kruger.

12.00 MOVIE: West Side Story.

(PG, R) (1961) 3.00 MAD. (M, 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 MOVIE: Swallows And Amazons. (R, CC) (1974) 8.00 Home Shopping. 8.30 Avengers.

(PG, R) 9.30 MOVIE: My Brother Jonathan. (R, CC) (1948) Michael Denison. 11.45 Postcards. (CC) 12.15 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. 12.45 Soccer. International Champions Cup. Club América v Manchester United. 3.00 River Cottage Bites.

3.10 Sea Patrol UK. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 MOVIE: Goal 2: Living The Dream.

(PG, R, CC) (2007) Kuno Becker.

6.30 Soccer. International Champions Cup. Roma v Real Madrid. From the MCG. 9.00 MOVIE: Gran Torino.

(M, R, CC) (2008) A Korean War veteran sets out to reform a teenage neighbour who tried to steal his prized possession.

Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley.

11.30 MOVIE: The Hawaiians.

(M, R) (1970) Charlton Heston.

2.00 MOVIE: My Brother Jonathan. (R, CC) (1948) 4.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 5.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen.

(R) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

Will Arnett lends his voice to The Lego Movie

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 9.00 Shred! (PG, R) 9.30 Emergency Search & Rescue.

(PG, R) 10.30 MOVIE: Goodbye, Farewell And Amen. (PG, R) (1983) 1.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. London ePrix.

Highlights. 2.00 Motor Racing.

Porsche Carrera Cup Australia.

Round 4. Highlights. 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 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) 8.30 48 Hours: Blaming Melissa. (M, R, CC) Tells the story of daycare worker Melissa Calusinski.

9.30 Ross Kemp: Back On The Frontline. (M, R) Ross Kemp returns to Afghanistan.

10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Blokesworld. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Elementary. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 2.40 Cops.

(PG, R) 3.40 Monster Jam. (R) 4.35 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 5.05 Shred! (PG, R) 5.35 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) Becker learns Linda and Reggie are dating the same guy.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Raymond lies to Debra.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Carey Mulligan, Noomi Rapace, Amanda Holden and Jessie Ware.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) Aidan is waiting until the time is right to sleep with Carrie, despite her attempts at seduction.

10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) Hosted by James Corden.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted

by Scott Tweedie.

2.25 Becker. (PG, R, CC) Becker has an unexpected visit from his godson.

4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (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 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 The Fabric Of The Cosmos.

(R, CC) 3.05 The World Of Jenks.

(PG, R) 3.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 13. Muret to Rodez.

198.5km medium-mountain stage.

Replay. 5.30 Knife Fight. (PG, R) 6.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 13. Muret to Rodez. 198.5km mediummountain stage. Highlights.

7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle: New Zealand. (PG) Part 3 of 4.

9.30 Dig. (MA15+, R, CC) Peter learns of his mission.

10.20 Real Humans. (M, R) 12.40 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.35 MOVIE: Un Secret.

(M, R) (2007) 3.30 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 Football. NEAFL. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 Pacific Games. Daily highlights.

1.00 Pacific Games. Daily coverage.

8.00 Pacific Games Closing Ceremony 2015.

10.00 NITV News Week In Review.

10.30 Express Yourself. (MA15+) A look at some of the best indigenous comedians and hip-hop artists. Hosted by comedian Sean Choolburra.

12.30 NITV On The Road: Laura Festival.

1.30 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater.

(PG) 2.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun.

3.30 Goin’ Troppo In The Toppo. (PG) 4.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival.

5.00 Away From Country.

(PG) Chronicling the achievements of Indigenous sporting greats.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News.

2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. 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. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Landline. (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) 1807

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Sunday, July 19 MOVIE: Inkheart

MOVIE: The Truman Show

Grand Designs

GO!, 6.30pm, PG (2007)

ELEVEN, 8.30pm, PG (1998)

ABC, 7.40pm

This enchanting fantasy adventure tells the story of book collector Mo Folchart (Brendan Fraser) and his 12-year-old daughter Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), who find themselves drawn into a very real adventure when the characters from the fairytale they’re reading, Inkheart, spring from the pages and into life.

Helped by fire-eater Dustfinger (Paul Bettany), Mo’s aunt (Helen Mirren) and the book’s author (Jim Broadbent) the pair set about stopping villain Capricorn (Andy “Gollum” Serkis) from summoning up an evil force. A magical delight.

Nothing is real in the sedentary life of desk-bound Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey). Unbeknown to poor Truman, his life is one big soap opera and the world is his audience. But what happens when the charade is broken? That’s the crux of Peter Weir’s haunting assessment of the decline of modern television, based on Aussie director Andrew Niccol’s savvy script. Touching, funny and perhaps clever enough to reverberate for decades to come, this durable drama features a fine cast (including Laura Linney and Ed Harris) and the score is a gem, lifting Truman’s fairytale awakening to majestic heights.

en the beautiful Irish The juxtaposition between g modernist design countryside and a striking make tonight’s viewing a special treat. Host Kevin McCloud (right) meets ambitious young architect Patrick Bradley,, who has designed e idyllic a home for himself in the ry, in surrounds of County Derry, ther than Northern Ireland. Bur rather taking his cues from the rustic dley’s surrounds of nature, Bradley’s n of his blueprint is a celebration gn and love of mid-century design atrick’s clean, bold lines. Even Patrick’s ied family seem a little worried ipping about his plans to use shipping g’s containers as his building’s e end main component, but the result is amazing.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders.

(CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 A Beauty Is Born: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty. (R, CC) 2.55 Skullbone Plains. (R, CC) 3.25 Polly Borland: Polymorphous.

(PG, R, CC) 3.55 Fake Or Fortune? (R, CC) 4.55 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Restoration Man. (R, CC) Presented by George Clarke.

6.00 Home Shopping. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Join Andrew O’Keefe and Monique Wright for all the latest news, sport and weather.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 MOVIE: Treasure Buddies. (R, CC) (2012) A group of puppies sets off on an adventure to Egypt in search of a mythical jewel. Tim Conway, Adam Alexi-Malle.

1.15 To Be Advised.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike Whitney visits the Sydney Fish Market.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.30 Compass: Modern Day Missionaries.

(PG, CC) A look at Urban Neighbours Of Hope, an order which strives to make life better for those living in poverty.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (PG, CC) Kevin McCloud meets a young farmer who has designed his own unique home for his property in Northern Ireland.

8.30 Inspector George Gently. (M, CC) (Final) On Christmas Eve 1969, Gently investigates a bank robbery by a gang armed with World War II-era submachine guns.

In order to uncover the identity of the criminals, Rachel follows up on a lead by going undercover within the local skinhead community.

10.00 The Darkside. (PG, CC) Part 4 of 5. Delise recounts how she heard her deceased brother crying in her room, in the weeks following his suicide.

10.30 The 50 Year Argument.

(MA15+, CC) A profile of the publication The New York Review Of Books and its founding editor, Robert Silvers.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Dancing With The Stars.

(PG, CC) (Series return) A new group of celebrities, including Ash Pollard, Emma Freedman, Kelly Cartwright, Lynette Bolton, Samantha Harris, John Paul Young, Jude Bolton, Larry Emdur, Mat Rogers, Matthew Mitcham and Tim Robards, are partnered with professional dancers to see who has the fanciest footwork. Hosted by Shane Bourne and Edwina Bartholomew.

9.30 Bones. (M, CC) After a private high school student’s body is found in a ditch, Brennan discovers similarities between her own teen years and the victim’s. The investigation also uncovers the possibility the girl’s peers might have had a hand in her untimely demise.

10.30 Covert Affairs. (M, R, CC) Annie has an accident that could reveal her heart condition to the agency and cost her her job.

11.30 The Mindy Project.

(PG, CC) Morgan sues Mindy for sexual harassment after she backs out of helping him test his “love” theory.

12.10 MOVIE: Mad Dog Morgan. (MA15+, R, CC) (1976) Dennis Hopper.

1.50 Inspector George Gently. (M, R, CC) 3.20 The 50 Year Argument.

(MA15+, R, CC) 5.00 The New Inventors.

(R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.00 Do No Harm. (M) Having ingested the experimental drug, Jason discovers Ian is able to take control of his body during the day.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(PG, CC) Surfing. (CC) World League. Men’s Championship Tour.

Round 5. Fiji Pro. From Namotu, Tavarua, Fiji.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Tim goes night hunting.

Tigers About The House.

(PG, R, CC) Presented by Giles Clark.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 19. Brisbane Broncos v Wests Tigers.

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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 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 1.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (CC) 2.00 International Rally Of Queensland Event Review Pt 1. (CC) 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 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Tour De France Daily Update. (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 Climbing Great Buildings. (R, CC) 1.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 14. Replay.

3.30 Speedweek. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling.

(CC) Hosted by Michael Tomalaris.

5.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 14. Rodez to Mende. Highlights.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, CC) 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 and Sonia Kruger.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program.

9.40 A.D. Kingdom And Empire. (M, CC) Zealot revolutionaries try to assassinate Pilate during the Festival Of Pentecost, earning a bloody retribution from the Romans. The disciples start to preach the Gospel.

Caiaphas orders Peter and John arrested.

10.40 Stalker. (M, CC) The team investigates after the mayor of Los Angeles is victimised by a stalker.

11.40 The Following. (AV15+, CC) Ryan tracks down the location of the Korban compound with hopes of infiltrating the cult and capturing Joe.

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) After the house next door goes up for sale, Claire is overjoyed at the possibility of having new neighbours.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Claire allows Phil to take over the task of decorating the house for Halloween.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) It is finals week, and the top five contestants are entering the kitchen to face the last mystery box challenge.

9.00 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) The team investigates after it appears a murder victim was alive for three days after her official time of death.

10.00 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, R, CC) A team of NCIS agents operating out of New Orleans investigates the murder of a petty officer.

11.00 MOVIE: The Rum Diary.

(M, R, CC) (2011) A journalist struggles with life in Puerto Rico. Johnny Depp, Amber Heard.

6.00 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands: Lismore And Colonsay – Island Pilgrimage.

(R, CC) Paul sets sail on an island pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints, visiting Lismore, Colonsay and Oronsay.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Byzantium: A Tale Of Three Cities: From Byzantium To Constantinople. (PG, CC) Part 1 of 3. British journalist Simon Sebag-Montefiore charts the history of Istanbul, the capital city of three empires, each with its own faiths, beliefs and traditions. He begins by focusing on Byzantium, at the time of the ancient Greeks, before it became the centre of Emperor Constantine’s Christian empire.

8.30 Stephen Hawking: The Interview. (CC) Dara Ó Briain interviews renowned theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking.

9.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 15. Mende to Valence. 183km hill stage. Hosted by Michael Tomalaris and Robbie McEwen.

12.35 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 1.30 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 2.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

2.00 Skins: The Final Series.

(MA15+, R, CC) Effy goes to work at a hedge fund.

2.55 Skins: The Final Series.

(M, R, CC) 3.50 Boob Tube: Sex TV And Ugly George.

(MA15+, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

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7.30pm How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) Animation.

Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett.

(PG) Family

8.10pm Beethoven, Symphony No. 4.

Composed in the summer of 1806, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 is conducted here by Herbert von Karajan and performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. (G) Arts

7.30pm Guarding The Queen. Inside the world of the most recognisable soldiers in the world, Buckingham Palace’s Grenadier Guards.

(PG) Biography

2.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 19.

Sydney Roosters v New Zealand Warriors.

Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Lucy (2014) Sci-fi.

Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman. A woman’s life, inside and out, changes forever after she becomes trapped in a drug deal gone wrong. (MA15+) Premiere

8.30pm A Place To Call Home. Jack learns his daughter’s identity. (M) SoHo

8.30pm Iris (2001) Biographical. Kate Winslet, Judi Dench. (M) Romance

9.30pm 24 Hours In Emergency. (M) LifeStyle

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.30 Arthur. (R) 12.40 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 12.55 Pingu. (R) 1.00 Humf.

(R, CC) 1.10 Postman Pat. (R, CC) 1.25 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 1.40 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 1.55 Mouk. (R) 2.05 Elmo The Musical.

(R, CC) 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School.

(R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas.

(R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Thomas.

(R, CC) 5.00 Bob The Builder On Site. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly.

(R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Curious George. (CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (PG, CC) 8.30 In Bob We Trust. (PG, CC) 10.15 Secrets Of The Living Dolls. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.05 Bodyshockers. (M, R, CC) 11.50 Louis Theroux. (PG, R, CC) 12.50 Don’t Blame The Dog. (PG, R, CC) 1.45 News Update. (R) 1.50 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: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Sea Princesses. (R, CC) 6.10 SamSam. (R, CC) 6.20 The New Adventures Of Peter Pan. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 9.25 Total Drama All Stars. (R, CC) 9.55 Grojband. (R, CC) 10.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.40 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 11.30 Roy. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 M.I. High. (R, CC) 1.55 House Of Anubis. (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 Hank Zipzer. (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 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 8.30 Yonderland. (PG, R) 8.50 Karaoke High. (R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

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) 11.00 Animal Airport. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Tennis. Davis Cup. World Group Quarter-final. Australia v Kazakhstan. Day 3. From Marrara Sports Complex, Darwin. 4.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 5.30 The Border. (PG) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Jules Hudson helps a self-employed couple.

9.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. Since retiring from the armed forces, Steve has dreamt of running a BnB on the North Yorkshire Heritage coast.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

Presented by Gary Takle.

11.00 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 12.00 The Border. (PG, R) 1.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 3.00 Escape To The Country.

(R) 4.00 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (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 Great Escapes. (PG) 12.00 Running. Gold Coast Marathon.

1.00 Footy Flashbacks. (CC) 2.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 16. Port Adelaide v Adelaide.

6.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) Kramer is in trouble with the law.

6.30 MOVIE: The Karate Kid II. (PG, R, CC) (1986) A master and student travel to Okinawa. Ralph Macchio.

8.50 MOVIE: Rambo: First Blood Part II. (M, R, CC) (1985) A Vietnam War veteran is offered his freedom in exchange for going on a covert mission.

Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier.

10.50 MOVIE: Death Race.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2008) Jason Statham.

1.00 MOVIE: Death Race 2.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2010) 3.05 Repo Games. (MA15+, R) 3.30 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse.

(M, R) 5.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R)

8.30pm Gary Cooper.

A biographical portrait of the life and times of Academy Award-winning movie star Gary Cooper. Presented by Clint Eastwood. (PG) Biography

6.50pm Cricket.

One-day International.

Sri Lanka v Pakistan. Game 3.

Fox Sports 3 8.00pm Golf.

British Open. Final Round.

Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Mission Pluto. (G) National Geographic

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 Captain Flinn And The Pirate Dinosaurs. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes.

(R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 11.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob SquarePants. (R) 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. (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 6.00 Lip Sync Battle. (M, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Inkheart.

(PG, R, CC) (2007) 8.40 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Leonard buys a dining room table.

9.40 Gotham. (M, CC) Fish’s allegiance with the prisoners is questioned.

10.40 Arrow. (AV15+, CC) 12.40 Almost Human. (M, R, CC) 1.40 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.40 The Batman. (PG, 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: Trent’s Last Case. (R, CC) (1952) 8.30 Shopping.

9.30 River Cottage Bites. 9.45 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.15 Soccer.

International Champions Cup. Paris Saint-Germain v Benfica.

12.30 Australian Geographic Adventures. (R, CC) 1.00 Getaway.

(PG, R, CC) 1.30 Absolutely Fabulous. (PG, R) 2.10 MOVIE: Exodus. (PG, R) (1960) 6.30 David Attenborough’s Life: Fish. (R, CC) Hosted

by Sir David Attenborough.

7.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Second Test. England v Australia. Day 4. Morning session. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

(Please note: alternative schedule may be shown due to changes to cricket coverage).

10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Second Test. England v Australia. Day 4. Afternoon session.

3.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

Scarlett Johansson stars in Lucy

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

Round 7. Night 1. Replay. 9.00 Shred! (PG, R) 9.30 Monster Jam. (R) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 Rugby Union. (CC) The Rugby Championship. Week 1.

Australia v South Africa. Replay.

1.30 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. London ePrix.

Highlights. 2.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 4.30 David Attenborough’s Lions: Spy In The Den. (R, CC) 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Territory Cops. (PG, R, CC) A man is stabbed in the leg.

9.30 MOVIE: The Hunt For Red October. (PG, R, CC) (1990) A Russian submarine captain goes rogue. Sean Connery.

12.20 World Sport. 12.50 The Glades. (M) 1.45 The Americans.

(M, R, CC) 2.40 Awake. (AV15+, R, CC) 3.35 RPM. (R, CC) 4.30 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 5.00 Scrappers. (PG, R) 5.30 Shred! (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG) 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. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Bart must perform community service.

8.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Mr Burns tries to win adoration.

8.30 MOVIE: The Truman Show. (PG, R, CC) (1998) A man is unaware that his life is on TV. Jim Carrey, Laura Linney.

10.35 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 11.10 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.10 Nurse Jackie. (MA15+, R) 12.50 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(R, CC) 3.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 4.30 Mork & Mindy.

(PG, R) 5.00 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) 2.05 Lily Cole’s Art Matters. (PG, R) 3.00 The Jo Whiley Sessions. (R) 3.30 Cycling.

(CC) Tour de France. Stage 14.

Rodez to Mende. 178.5km mediummountain stage. Replay. 5.30 Secret Life Of… (PG) 6.30 Cycling.

(CC) Tour de France. Stage 14.

Rodez to Mende. 178.5km mediummountain stage. Highlights. From France.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment. (M) Presented by Nick Helm.

9.05 Drunk History UK. (M) 9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.00 Swift And Shift Couriers. (M, R, CC) 10.35 The Sunny Side Of Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.30 Tent And Sex. (MA15+) 12.00 In Her Skin.

(M) 1.40 MOVIE: Maiko Haaaan!!!

(PG, R) (2007) 3.50 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 Pacific Games.

Daily highlights. 1.00 NITV News Week In Review. 1.30 NITV On The Road: Yabun. 2.30 Custodians.

2.40 Cash Money. 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. (CC) 7.00 Good Tucker.

7.30 NAIDOC Awards 2015. (PG) Recognises contributions of indigenous Australians.

9.30 MOVIE: Blackfellas.

(MA15+) (1993) John Moore, David Ngoombujarra.

11.10 Yorta Yorta Youth.

12.00 From The Heart Of Our Nation. 2.00 Backyard Shorts. (PG) 2.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

3.30 Mana Mamau. (M) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 5.00 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 #TalkAboutIt. (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 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 #TalkAboutIt. (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) 1907

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(6,5) 18. He should of course be able to choose the right type (7) 19. Mali’s religion (5) 21. Number observed – about five (5)

1. Put to the courting test, perhaps (5) 2. It is turned upside down (6) 3. & 20 Down.

Disclose tear by mistake (6) 4. Make a stand, but is contained by the others (6) 5. Post on the line (7) 8. Leave an orchestra performing (7) 11. Vessel weighing less (7) 13. Fish coloured and burnt (7) 15. Right to vex park-keeper? (6) 16. Close relative of 4 (11) 17. To do so does not show single mindedness (5) 20. See 3 down.

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was 19th-century French journalist, preacher and political activist Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire who made the following sage observation: “Neither genius, fame nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.” z Walt Disney wanted at first to use the name “Mickey Mouse Park” for what we now know as Disney World. z The first successful human organ transplant occurred in 1950. It was a kidney. z You might be surprised to learn that manatees (pictured) have fingernails on their flippers. Flippernails, perhaps? z Thanks to the schedule of the American school system, with its main holiday during the northern summer, US sales of peanut butter increase dramatically in September and suffer an equally dramatic drop in June. z If you’ve ever gone to a shoe

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Charles F. Brannock, the son of a shoe industry entrepreneur, patented his first prototype in 1926, and his invention is still the industry standard. Some early models are even featured in the Smithsonian Institution. z In India of long ago, it was considered ideal for a man to be three times the age of his wife. z Those who study such things say that the younger you are, the longer your baths tend to be. z A friend of Sir Isaac Newton first came up with the symbol we use to

represent the concept of infinity, but he originally meant it to mean a very small quantity. z Until 1836, the river that formed the border between the United States and Mexico was not the Rio Grande; it was the Colorado.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) Looking for adventure? The restless you is in peak form this week. The thought of staying in one place for too long simply does not appeal. Those who are not on holiday will look to the weekend to liven life up. Is it time for that barbecue? Maybe you will decide to throw a party for a friend? Getting the best out of your social life probably means organising something yourself. That way, Aries, you can get exactly what you want.

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is a time of expansion for you, Taurus. It could mean making your home bigger and growing your circle of friends. As everyone is in the mood for a party, why not throw one?

Cramped for space? Organise a picnic or take friends to the beach. Getting them out of their rut also gives your own system a boost. Is your body feeling a bit sluggish?

Getting out into the fresh air and enjoying an exercise app could be just the ticket!

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Going

all-out to be attractive? Change can be fun but be careful what you wish for! You may be like a flame to a moth but there are lots of different kinds of moth, Gemini. Someone you attract may not be so easy to shake off.

Keep your romantic signals clear. In all this activity, leave time to be quietly creative.

Instead of pouring your leisure time into the usual activities, look to learn something.

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Listen to your

instincts when meeting new people this week. If you get that warm, fuzzy feeling, it is probably good. A twinge of doubt should be listened to. Anyone can be charming if they put their mind to it and, when it comes to trusting people, your mind is your defence. There can be fun and lots of it but you have to get it started yourself.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Big fun this week, Leo! A partner may prefer one-to-one time rather than opening the door to all and sundry. Try to get a balance. Although you may want to get friends involved in a holiday, would it be more romantic with just the two of you? Those who are unattached, however, might consider a singles holiday or music event to meet someone new.

Trust your instincts when someone shiny and new comes along. They may turn out to be far from ideal.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Do you feel like throwing the cushions around the room or ignoring the dog just to see his tail droop? Bad. Get that excess energy controlled with some physical activity outside of the home. Look for something that stretches you and is a new experience.

It does not have to cost you money. Maybe start with a walk, then go and take a ball to the park.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Love takes many different forms. You know this. This week, Libra, there is a feeling that more time should be spent with children and older relatives. At first it seems like one more chore. Believe me when I say that it can be fun. Take an enthusiastic approach to start with and you will soon see what I mean. Right now it is not important to focus on the longer term, but rather more in the ‘here and now’.

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your mind this week. Are there certain ties that you regret having formed? We all feel this way at some time or another, of course.

Someone needs a bit of sympathy just as much as you need some space. A compromise involves letting something go. Be honest with others.

Romance can be hard to find and, when it comes, can be fleeting. Even so it is worth making the most of.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) It will be people rather than

places that give you the most pleasure. Although travel is exciting, new vistas are occupied by people.

When you find that special place or person it is suddenly as though what has gone before was just a rehearsal. Do you have a cosy, rosy view of someone? Why not! A big part of life is what you make of it. Some people, like you, are capable of taking an opportunity and running with it.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

Emotional fireworks are of the good kind, heralding a rekindled or new romance. At times you may wish to slow down, but when will you get these sparks again? Probably not until much later in the year. Go with the fun and sparkle. The chance to build emotional bridges and help others is ever-present.

Being a part of something personal is great.

Being a part of something bigger, even more so.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

They say that there is nothing new under the sun. That may be partly true but there is also still a lot to discover. This week you are in line to discover something or someone who makes life sweeter. This is fleeting. If you want more, then let it be known, and fast! Delays in travel, however unlikely, can bring romance. Being flexible and able to compromise brings you into new and exciting situations.

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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) The

world may be your oyster but maybe you don’t care for oysters or want to have the world in your pocket. Bring the opportunities nearer to home, however, and the future is exciting.

Insecurity can make you worry even when things are going right. Keep those positive thoughts coming. There is no reason to be so pessimistic. Start afresh on things if you want to. Every day should be approached as a new beginning.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: You share your day with Terri Irwin (above), American naturalist and widow of Steve Irwin, who is 51 today. You are oozing positive energy and enthusiasm. However, there are those who continually put a damper on things. This negative attitude should be avoided, even if it means dropping contact with friends or relatives for a time, Cancer.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Some upcoming changes could make you feel a little negative about the future.

However, if you deal with the present right away and be decisive, the future won’t be a problem. Practical solutions are best, Cancer.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Little bumps of confusion are scattered throughout the months ahead, Cancer. Sometimes you feel on the brink of something big and then nothing happens. Stay positive and keep moving forward.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Leo, who would ever dampen your amazing spirit? Well, some will try. Don’t let the word ‘guilt’ creep up where it is not true. Although there are some detours on the path to success, see them as minor.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: You share your birthday with Australian actress Rose Byrne, whose recent movies include Spy (far left) – she turns 36. If the world was easy to navigate then you would get bored, Leo. See any blips as problems to be solved, and fast! Avoid dwelling on any failures.

See them as a source of experience.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Some areas of life, especially in business, seem unimportant to you. Even so, keep an eye on them. Things change quickly. Taking on board a new technology takes effort but saves time, Leo. Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Also celebrating today is Sandra Bullock, star of Gravity (left) who turns 51.

You may roar as much as you like when you think someone or something is trying to hold up progress. It won’t help, though, unless you have a long-term plan. Your biggest asset is your brain.

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Find the Words solution 860 In Australia DUAL CROSSWORD 18,945 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 3 Adventure; 8 Rare; 9 Represent; 10 Dodgem; 11 Menus; 14 Taste; 15 Elan; 16 Range; 18 Odes; 20 Nonet; 21 Nancy; 24 Potent; 25 Philately; 26 Heat; 27 Murderess. Down: 1 Erudition; 2 Tradesmen; 4 Deem; 5 Eyrie; 6 Tissue; 7 Rent; 9 Refer; 11 Money; 12 Slandered; 13 Institute; 17 Envoy; 19 Sailed; 22 Cater; 23 Thou; 24 Plus.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 3 Implement; 8 Next; 9 Loathsome; 10 Ensued; 11 Drain; 14 Tread; 15 Cope; 16 Spats; 18 Once; 20 Pious; 21 Empty; 24 Senior; 25 Warranted; 26 Pull; 27 Sedentary. Down: 1 Inception; 2 Existence; 4 Mood; 5 Later; 6 Mystic; 7 Name; 9 Lends; 11 Diary; 12 Notorious; 13 Leisurely; 17 Speed; 19 Emerge; 22 Tenet; 23 Face; 24 Sage.

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DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 20,303 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 6 Aroused; 7 Keats; 9 Yeats; 10 Obviate; 12 Resignation; 14 Church mouse; 18 Printer; 19 Islam; 21 Seven; 22 Madeira. Down: 1 Tried; 2 Turtle; 3 Bet; 4 Resist; 5 Station; 8 Abandon; 11 Lighter; 13 Charred; 15 Ranger; 16 Sister; 17 Marry; 20 Ray. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 6 Glacier; 7 Gamut; 9 Braid; 10 Regatta; 12 Memorabilia; 14 Compilation; 18 Whimper; 19 Faith; 21 Onset; 22 Enquire. Down: 1 Glory; 2 Scribe; 3 Beg; 4 Safari; 5 Curtail; 8 Penalty; 11 Boulder; 13 Nothing; 15 Pummel; 16 Opaque; 17 Stark; 20 End.

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Froot Loops cereal. 2. Richard Adams. 3. Emma Thompson. 4. The skull. 5. The length of a forearm, from the middle finger to the elbow. 6. Venus. 7. A piece of music intended to be sung to express patriotism, love or commitment. 8. Ransom Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile. 9. Bookkeeper. 10. Little Rock. 11. “Take Me to the River”, written by Green in 1974.

12. Chris Evert and Serena Williams, each with six titles. 13. “Everybody’s Talkin’”, by Harry Nilsson in 1966, netting a Grammy for the song in the film “Midnight Cowboy”.

Songwriter Fred Neil had recorded it in one take because he wanted to get home to Miami and the ocean. For a real treat, go to YouTube and compare both versions.

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