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POLITICS

ISSUE

The week’s major news stories around the region

IPROWD does state and region proud

John Barilaro: “I don’t want to waste my time”

Alkane’s mine message for local motels

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FROM THE EDITOR

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Andrew Scipione Trust us, says police commissioner PAGE 4

John Barilaro I don’t want to waste my time” PAGE 12

Dead Men Talking Stage play brings iconic Australian poets to life PAGE 16

Blood brothers

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Ken Archer and Jeff Sargent put local pathology on the world map. PAGE 22

The coal bowl

BUSINESS

Derek Schoen from NSW Farmers on agriculture’s big issues PAGE 44

In The Kitchen

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Grigoryan Brothers The Australian guitar duo will bring their latest music to the Central West PAGE 57

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Love where you live or the joke’s on us all ETTING cranky takes a whole lot of effort so these days, with energy at a premium, I try to avoid letting little things tug on my nerves.

But if you want to see me go off like a dodgy Catherine wheel on cracker night, just start running down my home town.

It happened this week, with an ostensibly light-hearted jab at Dubbo on social media – a “harmless” meme alluding to anti-social behaviour in our fair city – and while I’ve no doubt there was no malicious intent, the truth is that the collective effect of this reinforcement of stereotypes hurts us all.

Funny as some might find it to take the mickey out of a traditionally easy target like Dubbo, those who are trying to run businesses here, entice investment to the region, forge national industry ties and attract a skilled workforce aren’t laughing.

It’s hard enough to make a quid, get ahead and continue to employ people or attract professionals to this city without the unhelpful lobbing of ill-considered grenades from people who should know better – and we’ve all been guilty.

Long, long ago in a galaxy far away (in Melbourne 15 years ago, actually, but what’s a few light years between friends?)

I was presenting at a conference gathering of what I thought were my industry peers.

When I was introduced as being from Dubbo some smug, Armani-clad wanker in the audience guffawed, made what I can only assume he believed was a bovineesque grunt and drawled “Duuuubbboooo”.

Yeah, good one, Bubba. Hilarious. Oh, the temptation to leap off the podium and validate the redneck stereotype with a well-aimed punch between freshly plucked eyebrows...

I settled instead for fixing him with a glare that brought more laughs than his buffoonery (not nearly as satisfying, although infinitely better for good corporate relations, apparently). But by the time I took my seat again, I realised he wasn’t entirely at fault.

My presentation was sprinkled with gentle but self-deprecating one-liners about living in “the bush” and while they elicited the intended laughter (polite and otherwise), they really weren’t doing my ultimate cause any favours.

It’s become a reflex action for many who call Dubbo home – the instinctive girding of loins at the prospect of being identified publicly as one of this city’s good burghers.

Since that moment in Melbourne, I’ve collected and toted around a grab-bag of withering comebacks to sling at my home town’s detractors. The good news is that I rarely have to use them. The bad news is that when it comes to running Dubbo down, we’re actually our own worst enemies.

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Most people beyond our city limits have moved on – most are aware that our city is not, in reality, a boot-scootin’, gun-totin’, bucolic backwater filled with slow-witted, hulking good ol’ boys in blue singlets and cowboy hats.

These days, we’re savvy to the world we’re part of. We’re interested in global and national social, political and economic issues and environmental concerns. We’re well travelled. We’re well read. We can hold conversations beyond wheat and cattle prices (although if you want to know about wheat and cattle prices, we can discuss the impact of geo-politics on international markets if you like). We appreciate art (not just when it’s hanging on a motel wall). We love music (country AND western... see? Couldn’t help myself). We connected, we’re wired; we’re as technologically capable as our city counterparts.

We’re interested and we’re interesting. And we know our macchiatos from our mochas.

So why do we still feel the need to shuffle from one foot to another and apologise, even in the most abstract of ways, for choosing to live here?

Yes, we have crime. Yes, there’s antisocial behaviour on our streets. Yes, we bitch about our council. Yes, we want better health and educational facilities. We’d like more air services (with a nod here to this week’s introduction of flights to Brisbane).

A few more transport options would be great, and hey, I’d like a beach too... Show me a town that doesn’t have its issues and I’ll show you a Hollywood movie set.

By no means do I believe we should pretend these issues don’t exist, and I’m on the record in thought and deed as being among those prepared to kick up a stink to have them aired and addressed.

But sometimes our natural propensity to focus on the negative blinds us to the positives – the reasons we live and love and work and play here, the reasons we stay.

I had the absolute pleasure this week to sit in on a meeting of a handful of young local entrepreneurs – business people, most of whom were born and raised locally, who between them employ upwards of 300 locals. Conventional wisdom says that by extension, those 300 support a further three each, so that’s just about 1000 locals who depend on just that one small group of local business owners.

How funny do you think they find it to know that despite their innovation and courage and hard work, there are those among the number they’re effectively supporting who aren’t returning the favour?

Next time you feel the need to have a bit of a giggle at the expense of your home town, just pull your head in, will you? Or eventually, the joke will be on all of us. ■

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IPROWD does state and region proud

BY JOHN RYAN YEARS ago I used to call every police station in the region, at least twice a day, morning and evening, to see if any news I hadn’t heard about had developed during the course of the day.

Despite having one of the nation’s largest indigenous populations, for most of those years there were only two Aboriginal police in this vast area.

IPROWD (Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery) has changed that, which is why the program has just been granted $2.5 million from the federal government to keep up the essential work of encouraging, then providing pathways, for Aboriginal people to join the NSW Police Force.

That money will be pooled with the NSW government’s existing funding commitments to ensure 270 places will be available from now until 2017.

In Dubbo this week, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione joined local member, Police Minister and Deputy Premier Troy Grant and Skills Minister John Barilaro to make the announcement at TAFE Western’s campus, where it all began.

Commissioner Scipione pointed out that the IPROWD acronym originally stood for Indigenous Police Recruitment Out West, a rapid name change deemed necessary after the program became so successful it was rolled out across the state.

Now police from other states, and even internationally, are wanting to know how to create their own recruitment programs based on this model.

Far left, Deputy Premier Troy Grant with IRPROWD coordinator Peter Gibbs, far right, Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and Skills Minister John Barilaro, with IROWD graduates Katherine Milgate, Shania McDonald, Ricki Johnson and Talisha Kuras.

So far, more than 500 students have enrolled in IPROWD since its inception in 2008 – more than 70 have gone on to join NSW police and 150 others used it as a springboard to other jobs.

Peter Gibbs, who now oversees the program for TAFE, fought for more Aboriginal police after his sister died in the Brewarrina police cells.

His calls didn’t fall on deaf ears, with former western region commander Steve Bradshaw tasking Troy Grant – at

the time a police inspector – with designing a pathway to encourage more Aboriginal cops.

Troy Grant paid tribute to Pete Gibb’s efforts at this week’s ceremony. “This honors the vision of Peter Gibbs and assistant commissioner Steve Bradshaw,� Grant said. “I can’t imagine the pride Peter Gibbs feels.�

And, referring to Andrew Scipione, who supported the IPROWD concept from the beginning: “A lot of that is due to your

leadership, Sir�, Grant said, showing that old police habits die hard given, as Police Minister and Deputy Premier, he outranks the commissioner. “It’s due to these people,�

Commissioner Scipione said, gesturing towards those assembled in the IPROWD classroom.

Skills Minister John Barilaro said IPROWD was a living example of how providing education pathways allowed positive influences to permeate communities. “It’s a worthy program which

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has great benefits including broadening the skills of the participants in all facets of their lives as well as giving so much back to the community.�

The buzz word of the day was “partnership�, and the old maxim holds true in this case, where many heads are better than one; where all the agencies which will derive benefits from a successful IPROWD program should contribute to its well-being. “Community, police, TAFE, Charles Sturt University (CSU), and those partnerships continue into other service providers,�

Troy Grant said.

He advised students in the current class to “learn from the great people here – the personal growth you’ll experience will guide you for the rest of your lives�.

Andrew Scipione said mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy� Forrest had personally called him to see how IPROWD could fit into his indigenous initiatives.

Way back when, I did the very first conceptual news story with Peter Gibbs as he first broached the concept with assistant commissioner Steve Bradshaw, and have seen that basic premise evolve into the IPROWD of today.

So the most compelling comment for me was when Troy Grant said, “Look where we’ve come from; look what it’s become.�

A great idea, championed by a core group of key leaders who happened to hold positions of influence in the right place at the right time, designed in collaboration with educators and driven through the bureaucracy.

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Trust us, says police commissioner For a journalist to “break� stories, it’s said – and known – that you’re only as good as your sources. NSW police commissioner Andrew Scipione says that same type of information flow from the community is the lifeblood of effective policing. In Dubbo to announce the Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery (IPROWD) had received $2.5 million in commonwealth funding to extend the program for the next two years, the commissioner told JOHN RYAN why cops needs the trust of communities.

NSW police commissioner Andrew Scipione.

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Why is it important for police to be connected with people in local communities? It’s important that police and communities work together to solve the problems we can’t solve on our own. I’ve made a serious commitment that we’re going to bring our force as close as possible to community.

We need to treat the community as being something special to police – the things important to you are the things you look after, so we need people to see that we regard them as our priority.

What’s an example of that policy?

Domestic violence. It comes down to the confidence of victims in their police and domestic violence victims are now more confident so they’re reporting incidents and that was the target we set.

As a police force we understand that domestic violence is the single biggest reason why women and children are homeless and that underpins so many other issues and concerns. The more reporting of incidents, the more people we can save from this fate and try and address underlying issues. The more strength in families, the more resilience they have, that flows into communities. If you go into a town and see strong, resilient families,

you generally see low crime rates and good community cohesion.

On communities, you’ve spoken at length about the drug ICE and how that’s ripping some towns and cities apart? The reality is, you can’t arrest your way out of this problem – it’s bigger than just making seizures. At the end of last year we made Australia’s biggest ever seizure, two tonnes coming through the waterfront and it was an enormous victory but this won’t stop the problem.

Police have a major role; we’ll continue to lock up suppliers and do all we can to dismantle and dismember these groups but it’s going to take more, we need to see the demand diminish. We need to see cultural change, in the same way we’ve seen a reduction in the numbers of people smoking, or not wearing seatbelts.

We have to change those community attitudes, change the way people think and for that we need partnerships between police, schools, health agencies, housing, corrective services, juvenile justice and non-government organisations, a hole of community approach and we need to make it work well.

Most importantly, we need to

get family members – mum, dad, grandparents – talking to kids when they’re five and six, well before they become teenagers.

What do parents, family members, school teachers and others have to tell kids and other community members who may be at risk? We need to think through some of the messaging. Like with cigarettes there’s no safe level of smoking, so we need to say with drugs ‘don’t do it’. We need to have this debate.

Instilling this community culture, the idea of broad-based partnerships, really connects to the IPROWD experience doesn’t it?

We do as much as we can to get as many indigenous people as possible into policing and it’s making a huge difference. It’s all about being able to communicate with communities, and you need people who understand those communities, who can be a part of them, to get the best outcomes for everyone.

Your wife was in Dubbo for the first IPROWD graduating ceremony and feels very strongly about the program. She was very excited to be here because she could see it was the beginning of really changing lives, seeing the differences in the lives of the graduates and also the people they’ll be able to help during their careers.

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The week’s top stories from around the region

Cooking up an award winning storm LOCAL lass Brooke Stewart has been cooking up a storm at the RSL Memorial Club, and has been handed a prestigious gong for her efforts. Stewart was named Apprentice of the Year at the Chef’s Table Awards Gala for her contribution to a fantastic three-course meal in the 2015 Chef’s Table competition.

Focusing on challenging club chefs to serve up a gourmet three course meal at an affordable price, the competition saw the talented apprentice work alongside head chef Sally Cornish with a budget of just $22 per person and this year’s key ingredient of rosemary, in honour of the Centenary of ANZAC. ClubsNSW CEO Anthony Ball said entrants in this year’s event took the competition to a whole new level with their unique set of skills and flair with food, “proving you can enjoy a fine dining experience close to home”.

Chef’s Table Head Judge Julio Azzarello said this year’s competition was the best yet for female chefs across NSW, with 11 of the 32 finalist chefs being women, up from just four last year.

“We were blown away by the exceptional talents of our female entrants including Brooke who showed great passion, commitment to new trends and wonderful skill.”

Crime stats welcomed

by Commissioner DURING a visit to Dubbo this week to welcome a funding announcement for the IPROWD (Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery) program, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione also took the opportunity to welcome the state’s latest crime statistics showing reductions in a number of serious crime statistics across the state.

The commissioner (pictured below) was particularly pleased with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showing the homicide rate is down by 18 per cent and robbery, across all categories, is down by 18.5 per cent. Break and enter crime has reduced by 7.4 per cent while motor vehicle theft is down by 6.6 per cent and assault has reduced by 4.9 per cent.

He attributed results to “the hard work

further information on the suitability of vehicle access from Peel Place, building design, stormwater management and waste collection.

“Given the size and type of the development and its location, set back from Peel Place, it is not considered to have a significant impact on the local streetscape. Sufficient spare capacity exists in Castlereagh Avenue and Peel place for traffic volumes to be comfortably accommodated,” Griffiths said.

The DA will be determined at the ordinary meeting of council on Monday night.

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and tenacity of officers, as well as extensive community cooperation and engagement”, saying the police force is committed to “proactive crime prevention to stop crime before it occurs”.

“With the continued help of our community we can continue to make this state a safer place for all,” Commissioner Scipione said.

The statistics reflected a small rise in sexual assault offences, which saw a 0.9% increase in New South Wales.

This reflects a nationwide trend which could possibly be the result of increased reporting.

Good news for Walgett cancer patients GOOD news has been thin on the ground in Walgett lately, but the introduction of a regular oncology clinic at the town’s health service has been welcomed by residents who will no longer have to travel hours to Dubbo to receive cancer services.

The first clinic will take place on Wednesday, August 5 from 10.30am to 3.00pm and then every two months thereafter. Western NSW Health District Director of Cancer Ser-

vices and Innovation Ruth Jones said the Clinic would be run by Dr Florian Honeyball, who is a medical oncologist now permanently based at Dubbo Hospital after being a fly-in fly-out clinical fellow in 2014.

“Through the provision of an outreach service like this, people with cancer from Walgett can get a break from travelling to Dubbo to see their oncologist, which is good news for them and their families,” Jones said.

Walgett Health Service Manager Kevin Behm said the provision of the outreach Oncology clinic will be well received in the community.

“Being able to save over six hours in travel time to Dubbo and back every two months will make a huge difference to our cancer patients,” he said.

“Depending on demand the clinics may even increase to monthly down the track, which would increase opportunities for local treatment and less travel even more”.

Dr Honeyball said he will be focussing on long-term follow up patients to start with at the Walgett Clinic. New patients requiring an oncology review will also be welcome. Outreach clinics have also commenced in Mudgee with plans for a Cobar clinic from September. Dubbo’s Oncology Unit serves a popula-

tion of more than 120,000 people scattered from Stuart Town in the south to the Queensland border.

An outreach clinic appointment for existing patients of the Dubbo Alan Coates Cancer Centre can be arranged through the Dubbo Cancer Centre reception, and new patients can be referred by a specialist surgeon, specialist physician or a general practitioner

Seniors housing recommended DUBBO’S senior residents will soon have further access to residential care with a recommendation this week from Dubbo City Council’s Planning and Development Committee that an 84-dwelling seniors’ housing complex be approved.

The development application (DA) for the complex, to be situated adjoining Yarrawonga Estate, is for a two-lot subdivision, with one lot to be used for seniors housing including 84 dwellings and associated infrastructure. The complex will include a manager’s residence, bowling green and swimming pool as well as 84 single storey dwellings.

Chair of the Planning and Development Committee, Councillor Lyn Griffiths said the applicant responded to requests for

IN the five years since the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) opened its doors, the state-of-the-art facility has raised the curtain on some impressive visitors to the city. But this week, the DRTCC welcomed a new player to centre stage, with the announcement of a special fifth birthday gift of platinum sponsorship from Dubbo Land Rover.

DRTCC Manager Linda Christof said the theatre has provided five years of fun, laughter, dance and drama for people in Dubbo and right across the Orana region.

“From the very first show in 2010 the DRTCC has enjoyed wonderful support from the Dubbo community and 140,369 people have enjoyed one of 483 performances,” Christof said, citing some of the many highlights such as big name performers like Petula Clark, Guy Sebastian and Marina Prior.

On a local level, the DRTCC provides a professional performance space for Dubbo performers including the Dubbo Theatre Company Inc, school students and dance academies.

“Since making the transition from the Civic Centre stage to the DRTCC stage, local productions have drawn large, enthusiastic audiences.

“For example, the Dubbo Theatre Company’s Fawlty Towers, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Shout!

The Legend of the Wild One all had sell-out shows,” the proud manager said during Thursday’s birthday celebrations, during which a change in Platinum sponsorship with a changeover from inaugural Platinum Sponsor David Payne Constructions to Dubbo Land Rover was

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According to Christof, the support of a Platinum Sponsor helps to fund and attract new, quality performances and this new partnership will help ensure we can continue to bring the best performers to Dubbo.

“The support of David Payne Constructions since 2011 and their continued Top Hat sponsorship is gratefully acknowledged as is the overwhelming support of other local businesses in our sponsorship program.”

Ms Christof said the DRTCC has proved itself as a regional venue with 34 per cent of its audience coming from areas outside of Dubbo, including Coonabarabran, Orange, Cobar, Bourke and Nyngan.

Korean visitors to forge regional training ties REGIONAL Development Australia Orana will next week host a delegation from Korea’s Catholic Sangji College (CSC), during which the group will speak with training providers to establish partnerships for academic program articulation, language study, internships and job placements.

CSC will meet with representatives from CSU, TAFE Western and Fletcher International to tour their facilities and discuss the details of the partnership arrangements.

“International education is Australia’s third-largest export,” said Felicity Taylor-Edwards, CEO of Regional Development Australia Orana.

“As we look to diversify the region’s economic base, this is certainly an avenue that should be and is being explored. This visit and the resulting partnerships will not only facilitate the exchange of education, but also promote the Orana region to an international audience and further develop positive business relationships with South Korea.”

Late last year, RDA Orana released a research report titled Workforce Capacity of the Orana Region, which identified a number of strategies to support regional industries with their labour force. The CSC del-

The official cake cutting at Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre on Thursday, July 23, to celebrate the centre’s 5th birthday.

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egates’ visit is part of the wider strategy of the Korean Trainee Project which has been well supported by Orana employers.

Up, up and away to Brisvegas and back DUBBO residents with Brisbane-based holiday, business and family plans were cheering this week with the much-anticipated launch of regular passenger flights between the two cities thanks to JETGO. The first flight from the Sunshine State’s capital touched down in Dubbo on Monday, bringing with it the promise of greater access for the regional travelling public and business community. Aboard the flight was Mayor Mathew Dickerson, who said the direct flights to and from Brisbane were “another step towards making Dubbo

easily accessible to all major cities across Australia”.

The mayor said the community had been vocal in its call for Dubbo to secure regular passenger services to other major ports, and would be pleased to have JETGO aboard as another string to the city’s air-services bow.

“This new service will be of significant benefit to Dubbo residents and businesses. Whether it be a short break to visit friends or relatives or to connect with business clients or head office, connecting Dubbo to Brisbane will have many ongoing benefits. In time there will also be opportunities to attract people from Brisbane to Dubbo for special events, conferences and prospective investors.”

In line with Dubbo City Council’s policy to offer an incentive of subsidised landing fees to any

airline proposing regular passenger flights to any major port other than Sydney landing fees for JETGO have been waived for a 12 month period. The security screening fee will be applied to all JETGO services.

Fair Trading fail on real estate underquoting THE state’s Real Estate Institute (REINSW) has called on NSW Fair Trading to genuinely address the issue of underquoting in the property industry and the various misconceptions surrounding the practice.

Fair Trading has failed to comprehend or address the issue, according to REINSW president Malcolm Gunning, who says the state authority has been “completely and totally ineffective in its approach and policing of underquoting for the

past 13 years”.

“The industry has been tarnished by Fair Trading’s failure to properly understand and address the problem. Fair Trading has preferred to grab headlines rather than seriously address the issue –its persistence with the same old tired strategies does not serve the consumer or the property industry.

Gunning said the greatest challenge is for the Fair Trading to admit its failings to date and commence a constructive and cooperative dialogue with industry.

“REINSW is ready for this change in direction and we would welcome the opportunity to work together to develop strategies to address underquoting which is a blemish on our industry and damages consumer confidence.”

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Taking care of business It was a “new” group of faces from the local small business sector that sat down this week for a round-table with John Barilaro, the state’s new-ish Minister for Skills, Small Business and Regional Development – and they weren’t pulling their punches.

WHEN government ministers roll into town, there’s customarily a line-up of the usual suspects eager to chew the parliamentary ear, but it was a refreshingly new crew of the city’s industry leaders that greeted Small Business, Regional Development and Skills Minister John Barilaro in Dubbo this week.

Over breakfast on a crisp but bright morning, a small but dynamic group of the city’s young entrepreneurs sat down for a round-table with Barilaro, and they weren’t pulling their punches.

It’s tough in small business anywhere in the nation at the moment, but particularly so it seems in regional areas, where economies are increasingly sensitive and vulnerable to the vagaries of climate and ruralbased fortunes and to the policies of government that have been traditionally geared to the needs of larger operations and those in the metropolitan areas that hold greater electoral sway in terms of population.

It was a diverse collection of industries represented around the table – from retail to hospitality, to child-care and trades and consultancy – but among the issues raised with the minister, some common themes emerged.

Chief among them was access – to information, to government, to training, to resources – and the role the government and its representatives should take in making things easier, not harder, for those creating employment in regional areas.

FASHION retailer and manufacturer Camilla Gibson laid it on the line in no uncertain terms: “Government is more punitive than supportive.”

Gibson says that when you’re young and you have a business idea and a dream, often the only thing standing in your way is government policy.

“All the rules and regulations are an impediment to innovation and industry,” the 29 year old owner of Camilla Jayne fashions told Barilaro, later telling Weekender that while the minister was certainly receptive

Small Business, Regional Development and Skills Minister, John Barilaro (second from right) met with Dubbo business operators this week

to her concerns, she felt it was hard for those in government to understand the intricacies of everyday costs associated with running a small business.

“For instance, I was talking about the difficulty in finding skilled employees and one of the minister’s suggestions was to look at migrant labour, under the 457 visa scheme, but there’s a significant cost involved with sponsoring a migrant – and plus, I’d rather train and employ someone local,” Gibson says.

Access to a skilled labour force is something with which the young entrepreneur struggles, and would like to see more training available and tailored to the needs of industry.

“I’m really trying to grow the wholesaling side of my business, but I can’t find people to sew and make the garments, and I particularly can’t find pat-

` Government’s normal approach to fixing problems in any sector is by regulating and increasing red tape – that’s the wrong approach. That’s how we strangle opportunity and innovation, and that’s what we’ve done for decades.

– John Barilaro – Minister for Skills, Small Business and Regional Development.

tern-makers – it’s just not something people are trained in and there’s no training available even if they wanted it,” Gibson says. “Girls just aren’t taught to sew these days, so there’s already a massive skills gap there for industries like mine, and I’m not sure what government can do about that. The minister didn’t seem to have an answer.”

Gibson did, however, come away with a handful of positives from a meeting she describes as “very helpful”.

“I was really interested to hear of the incentives that exist for small business operators to employ people – I didn’t know about those, and that in itself is a problem. Had I not been at this meeting, I wouldn’t have known about that scheme. Perhaps the government could look at disseminating that kind of information more widely to small business owners – for instance, there’s no mention of it on the social media sites that are linked to various departments.”

It was also instructive to meet with other young business people, Gibson says, adding that being in small business can be very isolating.

“So it’s great to have been able to make connections through a meeting like this – it’s always nice to know other people are facing challenges as well.”

THE absence of a pool of suit-

ably skilled employees is also one of the challenges facing Nick Sykes who, with his wife Danielle, is the owner-director of Peppercorn and the newly opened Redgum Childcare centres.

“The problem,” 33 year old Sykes says, “Is that the training for childcare doesn’t include any management skills – or communication or conflict resolution instruction, so while there’s an understandable focus on the care of children in the training, I also need workers who can speak with parents, and who are aware of the management side of things and who can deal with adults.

“I’d like to see more relevance built into the childcare training packages – so they actually fit with what the employers in the industry want.”

Sykes took the opportunity to express to Minister Barilaro his frustration at what he says is the “totally counterproductive” payroll tax.

“It’s just such a disincentive for people to hire employees.

Rather than encouraging businesses to grow their workforce, payroll tax is discouraging it – it’s counterproductive.”

Sykes saw the meeting as productive, and was impressed with the minister’s “street cred” when it comes to understanding small business.

“He comes from a small busi-

ness background, so he knows the challenges and it was good to hear his thoughts on how he can fight for the interests of small business operators in regional areas.

“It was good to meet other young business people – while many of the things we’re facing are industry specific, there are also lots of issues that are common to us all, so it was good to have the opportunity to swap notes with other local business people.”

SHARON CAMPBELL is the owner of Salad Run, one of Dubbo’s most innovative food outlets, but she makes no bones about it: “Business is really tough.”

Part of the value of this week’s meeting, says Campbell, was to sit around a table with other young and enthusiastic local business operators and have “a good natter” about what the minister can do to help in such challenging times for regional small business.

“The problems everyone was talking about were real problems – real issues that the government should be able to help with and that was great; just to hear that I’m not alone.”

She was keen to also bring up some of the positives as well.

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` I particularly can’t find pattern-makers – it’s just not something people are trained in and there’s no training available even if they wanted it.

` Rather than encouraging businesses to grow their workforce, payroll tax is discouraging it – it’s counterproductive.

– Fashion retail and wholesaler, Camilla Gibson

– Nick Sykes, childcare centre owner

u that program is, and that it deserves further financial input from the government.”

Campbell put it straight to the minister: “I’m innovative, I’m unique. The government says it wants to supportive innovation – well, how’s it doing that? I’d like to see more walk, less talk.”

However, as a business operating in the local community, Campbell says it’s not necessarily always up to the government to bolster small business – it’s up to the local community to get behind local operators, she says.

“That’s my biggest issue – the lack of support for local businesses. And for instance, the authorities are spending millions on campaigns like “Make Healthy Normal” but as far as I can see, they’re not enlisting the services of businesses like mine to help promote that message. So I guess the government could do more in that regard to make sure local businesses get a crack at some of those sorts of programs.

“I haven’t had the right contacts before – so maybe that’s something that will also come out of this week’s meeting.”

ACCESS to government programs and contracts is a subject that’s also close to Damien Porter’s heart.

The general manager of construction business, Maas Group, says one of the greatest impediments to their operation is an inability to offer workers any long-term security of employment thanks to the mercurial nature of government contracts.

“We’re doing government work across the board in major infrastructure projects but we can’t get back-to-back conditions in our contracts – if we could, we could offer more secure employment to our staff.

Ninety-plus per cent of our staff is employed as casual, because we can’t get firm commitment from our clients on government-funded projects.”

Another item on Porter’s hit list was the pursuit of a level playing field in terms of access to government contracts and es-

sential services.

“Contribution and essential services costs compared with our city counterparts is a big issue – we’re paying the same as they are in the metropolitan areas, but we’re not getting nearly as much for our land, for instance.”

The minister spoke about a personal preference for exempting small business from a raft of policies, something Porter would endorse wholeheartedly, particularly if those exemptions extended particularly to operators in regional areas.

Like his counterparts around the table, he is also concerned about the relevance of skills and training, and access to an adequately equipped workforce.

“Skilled plant operators are basically non-existent at a young age these days,” Porter says. “There’s no clear pathway for young people and it’s difficult to give them the practical training they need on the machinery, because that’s costly.”

Again, the complaint from business is that the relevance of training offered doesn’t always meet the expectation or needs of the business and industry sectors in which employment opportunities exist – it’s an example of the oft-mentioned “skills gap”.

Overall, Porter found the meeting productive.

“Certainly, for us, it’s opened a clear line of communication with the government. The minister seemed genuinely happy to communicate with us and if

` I’m innovative, I’m unique. The government says it wants to supportive innovation – well, how’s it doing that? I’d like to see more walk, less talk.

` Ninety-plus per cent of our staff is employed as casual, because we can’t get firm commitment from our clients on government-funded projects.

– Sharon Campbell, café owner

– Construction company manager, Damien Porter

that’s going to be the case, that means some barriers have been broken down. Is it another talkfest? Time will tell, but that will come back to us as a business community and as business operators and how much we push the barrow with government.

But I take my hat off to the minister for having an open forum like that.”

FOR his part, Minister John Barilaro spent most of the morning listening rather than talking. The result, he says, is a “good snapshot” of the landscape of the small business sector in Dubbo and in regional NSW. “It was great because I got to meet a range of new business people – younger operators who are innovators and who are passionate about their work.”

Barilaro came away with a clear picture of some of the common challenges facing small businesses, chief among them the issue of access to a skilled workforce that can support growing businesses.

“Traditional skillsets are being lost – we need to put strategies in place to encourage young people back into those sectors,” he told Weekender following the meeting. “We have industries that are transforming and changing and therefore skillsets will need to change, so we need a Vocational Education and Training (VET) system that is flexible enough to meet industry needs.

“Payroll tax was another is-

sue that was raised by some of the business people around the table, as was access to finance and the need for government to assist start-up businesses in the areas of mentoring and resources to help them get over those first early hurdles. There were also issues around procurement – how the government spends money in regional NSW so that local businesses can get a share of that, and can tender for and participate.”

As a small businessman of many years’ personal experience, Barilaro was quick to assure that this was not just another talk-fest.

“I’m using the opportunity to get out and about to see what the needs of small businesses are today and how the policies that are already in place can be tweaked to reflect those needs.

Governments are very slow to react – they’re not innovators. I want to hear what small business wants, so I can make sure our resources are going to where they’re needed. I have given all the small business people I’ve met my contact details and have encouraged them to keep in touch and to keep communicating their needs.”

In addressing small business owner Camilla Gibson’s assertion that government isn’t usually a help, it’s more of a hindrance, Barilaro was refreshingly frank – agreeing wholeheartedly with the young fashion retailer and wholesaler.

“But if people are looking to government for all the solutions

in this sector, I’m sorry to disappoint – governments don’t have all the answers and rarely have the solutions.”

The answer, he says, lies in governments having greater engagement with the business sector in order to make genuine changes.

“And we, as government leaders, need to start thinking like the small business sector and make decisions that will have positive outcomes. We’re only going to do that by engaging with them.

“Government’s normal approach to fixing problems in any sector is by regulating and increasing red tape – that’s the wrong approach. That’s how we strangle opportunity and innovation, and that’s what we’ve done for decades. We have to reverse that – we have to remove the shackles from small business and let them do what they do best.

“Even though I’m a politician, and part of the government, I want to change the government mind-set, and I think I have the opportunity to do that because I’m still have a clear understanding of what it’s like to be in small business.”

As a small business operator, Barilaro says he can see where government can make a real difference, “and I can see where it should just get out of the way”.

“Rather than changing existing policy, it’s better to give small business exemptions. We have a lot of red tape around the business sector – the big end of town might have the resources to meet those regulations, but at the small end, they don’t have those resources and that ties people up with the regulatory side of things, rather than allowing them time to innovate and grow.

“The best way around this, in some cases, would be to give exemptions to small businesses that allow them to simplify the running of their business and spend more time working on rather than in their business.

Small business needs a “holiday”, if you like, from red tape.”

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John Barilaro: “I don’t w He’s been in Parliament for four years and in the NSW ministry for a handful of months – but with 25 years’ experience in small business, John Barilaro has no intention of becoming a career politician and he doesn’t intend to waste one minute of his time as Minister for Skills, Small Business and Regional Development. During a visit to the region this week, he talked to Weekender about his portfolios and how he intends to make every day count.

What’s been your experience in your portfolio areas of skills, small business and regional development? I’ve been 20-plus years in a small business in Queanbeyan, manufacturing a niche product (energy efficient windows and doors and other building products) – we employ around 20-25 staff and we employ apprentices. I know what it’s like in small business – I’ve had to mortgage my home; I’ve had to take the risks like all small business owners. Unless you’ve lived and breathed it – trying to work out how you pay your employees every week, or whether you can pay yourself – it’s a different perspective.

Is that what drew you to politics – that insight into the challenges of being in business? I had no connection with politics until 2008, when I ran for Queanbeyan City Council – I wasn’t a member of a political party at that point – but I was concerned for my community.

From there, I realised it was more than just local government that was impacting on our community – it was state as well. And here I am as a Minister – it puts me in a great position to advocate for regional communities.

How is the small businesses sector going in those regional communities? It’s tough out there. We’re at the crossroads now, as a nation, where we need specific policy exemptions and taxation structures just for small business.

Do you feel a frustration with the slow pace at which bureaucratic wheels turn? I come from a hands-on approach to business. You get in, you make decisions – good, bad and ugly. Government somehow has the ability to slow that process down. But further, there’s a lack of true understanding of what it’s like on the coalface. Government truly hasn’t ever really understood small business beyond catch-cries – the talk’s never been followed by the walk.

I want to change that. Government policy is good in many areas, but it’s not adaptable or flexible enough to meet the ever-changing landscape.

What makes you different? Why do you think you’ll be able to affect change where successive predecessors have failed? Again, I think it’s the real life experience. I still think and act like someone who comes from small business – it’s in my DNA. I have the battle scars. I have a practical approach, and I look for opportunities and solutions.

We spend so much time talking about

` I have no intention of being a longterm, career politician – I want to get back into the private sector – so I don’t want to look back and wonder if I wasted my time as minister.

what’s wrong that we miss opportunities. We need to grab opportunity. I have no intention of being a long-term, career politician – I want to get back into the private sector – so I don’t want to look back and wonder if I wasted my time as minister. I’m quite pushy and I’m sure I can push for change.

Does that include making and sticking to electorally unpopular decisions?

We make decisions every day – and this is the same in business – and some of them are tough decisions because you’re looking further than that one day. Business people need to plan strategically and in politics that’s never been the case, because in politics, we’re driven by the electoral cycle. I honestly believe we need to change that mindset, and I think we’re doing that.

Decisions I make and need to make in government may bring some pain in the short term, but there’s the opportunity for great gain in the long term.

It shouldn’t be a case of “what can I do over the next four years that gives me the greatest accolades?” The best legacy I can leave is policy settings from which we don’t see true outcomes for five or ten years but people can look back and say, well yes, that was put in place during 2015 by Minister Barilaro.

It’s about long-term policy.

Speaking of electorally unpopular de-

cisions, Premier Mike Baird has come out very strongly in favour of raising the GST level to 15 per cent. I know it’s ultimately up to the federal government but you must have an opinion?

And do you think NSW is in a position to force that change? The reality is that there’s a looming problem with the federal/state funding arrangements – we can’t hide from the fact that by 2030, the deficits across the commonwealth and the states are going to be around the $45 billion mark. The problem is that the biggest impact around the budget will be health and the cost of health is rising – already we know that by 2030 it’s going to be around $35 billion. So if we’re serious about addressing the shortfall and deficits that lie ahead, while making sure we deliver the services people expect, then we have to have the GST debate.

I’m supportive of broadening the GST and if it means increasing it to 15 per cent, so be it – but it needs to be clearly articulated to the Australian people as to where that money will be going and why. What I’d love to see is the scrapping of inefficient taxes – like stamp duty and payroll tax, which is a tax for employing people. We will have to accept that there will be a need to compensate lower socio economic groups, and look after people who may feel the brunt of any rise in the GST – but I think the debate is a good one.

You’ve been an ardent critic of the payroll tax – but that was just one of the raft of taxes that was supposed to have been abolished in 2000 when the GST came into effect. No state government since has removed those taxes – why is that so, and will this government commit to removing those taxes? Those taxes should be long gone already. Yes, they should be gone. They haven’t. And of course, the revenue for governments since the GST was introduced have fluctuated – payroll tax is in the top three revenue streams for state governments, including NSW. So to remove that tax now without trying to replace that revenue stream in some way is going to be detrimental to service delivery for the people of NSW. So yes, in 2000, these taxes should have gone – they weren’t removed, and that was the decision of governments past. We need to be forward thinking in what we can do now. In the short term, I believe the best thing to do with the payroll tax is to significantly increase its threshold so it doesn’t touch what I would say is that “bracket creep”. We know salaries are increasing and that means small business is paying payroll tax because they’re going over that $750,000 threshold. I’d like to see that increase significantly – doubled, if we can. But the end game is that we have a broader budget debate on how we eliminate

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want to waste my time” those taxes altogether. Payroll tax is the most absurd tax ever – but we have to accept that it’s a significant revenue stream, and I don’t want to see service delivery suffer.

Communities are demanding more from government, so maintaining revenue is vital.

Governments need to be fiscally responsible.

Stamp duty is also a massive revenue stream for the government, but it is also a tax on people’s incentive to get ahead. How will the government bring itself to let go of that revenue stream? Stamp duty revenue in the past financial year played a significant role in the surplus we posted. There are problems with stamp duty – it’s a very regressive tax, one forces inflation in the housing market.

But the reality is that stamp duty revenue is important, and we need to look at a different way of generating that revenue. Lately, there’s been discussion around a broadbased property tax or a land tax where you lessen the burden on every individual but you broaden it across the board – we need to consider that. It’s easy to say get rid of tax, but we have to be mindful of revenue.

You are also responsible for Regional Development.

Where do you see the coexistence of the mining industry and agriculture, and where do you sit on the issue of the use of agricultural land for mining? The use of prime agricultural land for mining purposes is a problem.

If mining is going to be part of the economy – and it is an important sector that employs many – it can co-exist with the important agricultural sector. The best way to do this is to take the emotion out of the decision making and make it evidence based – have the best science, the best advice in place to make sure the government decision makers have the best information. If a mine is put into a part of NSW where it’s clearly demonstrated that mine will interfere or destroy the fu-

` Decisions I make and need to make in government may bring some pain in the short term, but there’s the opportunity for great gain in the long term.

ture of agriculture, be it the aquifers or any other component, it shouldn’t proceed.

NSW has the toughest policy settings around coal seam gas and mining – but the reality is that it must be evidence and science based. Take the politics out of it. We’ve seen harmony in this equation before, and we’ve seen some imbalances. The free trade agreements in place now bring untold opportunity for regional NSW and it’s an area in which we will see significant growth, but we must have the right policy settings and balances in place to protect agriculture. We can have both.

Do you support the Shenhua mine going ahead on the Liverpool Plains? It’s an issue because there are question marks surrounding some of the data. Again, the decision has to be evidence based. If there are gaps, government should be exploring those gaps. It’s one of those areas that is prime agricultural land – if the evidence says the aquifers and the agricultural industry is going to be damaged by those (mining) investments, then we shouldn’t proceed. But it has to be evidence based otherwise we have a scatter-gun approach and in time that kind of approach brings negative outcomes for all sectors.

What I want to see with the Shenhua decision is that all the information comes from the right people and that the decision is evidence based.

There seems to be an inherent distrust of science in some quarters, so will people power sway the decision regardless of the scientific evidence? We live in a democracy, where representatives have the opportunity to advocate for their communities. Members in that part of the world will be vocal about this. They key is that government has to make processes transparent. Experts need to be independent and representatives can’t hide behind the veil of government. We have to include the community in the decision making – it shouldn’t be driven by the economic interests of just one sector. Everyone is a stakeholder, so everyone should have a say. But again, if we make it transparent and independent enough, people will struggle to argue against the evidence either way. Government has been at fault in the past by conducting things behind closed doors. Let’s bring it all out in the open and that way everyone has the right information in front of them.

– As told to Jen Cowley

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Friday 24.07.2015 to Sunday 26.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Mine your own Alkane Resources General Manager Mike Sutherland wants Dubbo’s accommodation providers to be ready and informed on the Dubbo Zirconium Project (DZP) as the first wave of contractors begin seeking out beds in the months ahead. In a meeting this week, he shared strategies to help the operators get the most from the opportunities the mine will present them and for the city and the region. Photos and words: LISA MINNER

ETTING “mine ready” was the message Alkane’s General Manager NSW, Mike Sutherland sought to sheet home to Dubbo’s accommodation providers this week at meeting of the industry’s group this week.

The company’s well-known local “face” spoke with 40 of the city’s motel, B&B and caravan park operators about preparing themselves for the impending influx of construction workers linked to the Dubbo Zirconia Project (DZP). On May 28 this year it was announced that the NSW Planning and Assessment Commission (PAC) had given the development application for the DZL the green light, a significant and exciting milestone for the project.

The result is that Australia Zirconia Limited (AZL) – a subsidiary of Alkane Resources – will now be able to move ahead with its applications for an Environmental Protection License as well as a Mining Lease, all of which Sutherland says will help

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secure further funding for the project.

Should finance fall into place, he said, construction could commence towards the end of this year and the mine would be in production by 2018. During the meeting, he explained to the group the best ways to ensure they can tick the boxes required to make their premises a more attractive option for contractors and their sub-contractors. Once construction begins at DZP, it’s estimated the workforce at AZL will tip 450, but will kick off with about 30 to 50, with peaks of up to 600 to 700 expected as things progress, before balancing back out at around the 400 mark.

This workforce will include Alkane employees, construction teams and consulting engineers, and the construction phase of the mine is expected to take two years. During this period, accommodation occupancy, both short and long term, is predicted to increase around the city and spill over to nearby towns.

SUTHERLAND was clear that the economic benefits will flow not only to Dubbo businesses, but to the region as a whole and will be significant.

His advice to those assembled is to start planning now by considering the experience gained from construction of the Tomingley Gold Project in 2013.

Healthy lunches and evening meals are top of the “wish” list, access or a shuttle bus to the airport, while quiet accommodation and security is also considered very important for people working 12 hour shifts.

Luggage storage is another factor in the equation for those travelling back and forth to Dubbo, many of whom according to Sutherland, will prefer to use the same motel room where possible and pick up and drop off services to the site if there were significant numbers of contractors staying at the same motel. He assured the gathering of accommodation providers that “partying behaviours” will not be a concern as Alkane intends to drug and alcohol test workers each morning before commencing work – enforcing a zero tolerance policy.

He also suggests considering expansion of accommodation premises where suitable, in particular for places like caravan parks, ensuring Dubbo City Council approvals were in place. Sutherland advised operators to monitor Alkane’s website for major contract announcements and updates, and businesses can subscribe on the Alkane website to receive project updates, he says, adding that the group should ex-

` The reality is we haven’t applied to the government to mine uranium, it’s actually illegal to mine uranium in NSW. – Mike Sutherland, Alkane’s General Manager NSW (pictured left)

This week’s meeting of Dubbo accommodation providers, hosted by Alkane Rescources

pect more contractor enquiries in the months ahead and to be ready for them.

SOME of the costings of the DZP were discussed at the meeting, and Sutherland says Alkane will need to secure a billion dollars to build the project, but the benefits to the region would see an additional $34 million in salaries alone injected annually. There will be more than $20 million spent on widening and straightening Obley Road and putting in bridges as well as making the road B-double standard. Ten million dollars is to be spent on local utilities like power and water, while $10 million per annum will be paid in state royalties, $5 million in local goods and services as well a commitment to pay Dubbo City Council more than a million dollars in rates per year. According to Sutherland, Alkane will also be contributing $614,000 under a Voluntary Planning Agreement and that’s to pay 100 per cent of road maintenance for Obley Road.

He was keen to stress that there will be no costs to the community as a result of the mine’s construction and infrastructure. The mine will produce 23,000 tons of rare metal and rare earth products per year and looks like being active for up to 80 years.

Sutherland is conscious that moteliers are some of the very first people with whom visitors to the city engage with when they come to town, so he was keen to convey to the group exactly what the mine was about and to dispel some of the “misinformation” that exists in the community.

Top of that list is uranium, and he was eager to address the issue in the light of the recent visit and protest by Uranium Free NSW in the main street of Dubbo.

“The reality is we haven’t applied to the government to mine uranium, it’s actually illegal to mine uranium in NSW.” He reassured the group the by-products from the mine would be safely processed and neutralised with limestone to form a type of gypsum-like solid waste, but not the sort that can be on-sold to farmers given its content. The waste will be stored in a double plastic lined waste storage facility on site, as well as numerous back up safety systems in place. The waste will remain onsite permanently.

Some of the other information to come from the meeting outlined a range developing opportunities for other rare metals Alkane may be able to produce. Sutherland says Alkane has recently fielded interest from the US aerospace industry in the hafnium contained in

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Business The reaction of accommodation providers:

the Toongi ore body – another rare metal with some properties similar to zirconium.

“It’s looking like something we can extract; six months ago it was going in to the waste stream and it now looks like if we can extract just 50 per cent of the hafnuim out of our ore, it will give us about 200 tons of the rare metal a year.

“That doesn’t sound like much but that will be the largest supply in the world. It’s used in the coating of jet turbines for aircraft engines, so some major aircraft engine manufacturers are very keen,” he told Weekender.

Alkane will also be extracting another rare metal called Niobium. A private company established in the 1880s in Austria called Treibacher Industries will be assisting with

the process. Interestingly, the company invented the gas mantle for hurricane lamps.

Treibacher Industries will help Alkane build a niobium circuit on site and will be involved in the marketing of it and the training of relevant staff to operate the equipment.

Sutherland also notes the many uses of zirconium, the primary metal the mine will be extracting, saying it’s found in engineering ceramics, catalytic converters in cars, in abrasives, fixing pigments in paints, oxygen sensors and a myriad of other uses. Zirconium based paints are a substitute for lead based paints which has environmental benefits. The rare earth are used in permanent magnets for high speed rail, in large wind turbines, batteries for hybrid cars, MRI machines.

` After many years of following the progress of Alkane Resources, I’m excited about the project gaining momentum and hopefully getting off the ground. It will be a big economic benefit for Dubbo and surrounding areas and the NSW economy.

– Motelier Richard Thomson

Owner/Operator Richard Thomson, Tallarook and Centrepoint Motel: After many years of following the progress of Alkane Resources, I’m excited about the project gaining momentum and hopefully getting off the ground. It will be a big, big economic benefit for Dubbo and surrounding areas and the NSW economy.

I could realistically see an increase in 10 to 15 per cent occupancy across the town during the construction phase with ongoing boosts for years to come.

Add to that the prospect of some of Alkane’s other gold and copper projects gaining momentum through the cash flow of this mine.

These workers will bring their families up on weekends – that already happens.

I’d expect a boost in tourism from the additional people in town; even the mine workers will be boosting tourism and hospitality venues – they all have to eat.

I can’t see any negative impact, whatsoever.”

Kerrieanne Nichols owner/operator The Quality Inn International: We are feeling very excited about the future of our business after hearing what Mike had to say today.

It’s fantastic for Dubbo and I actually think with the increase in workers coming to the mine there will be a secondary benefit in that the workers’ families will also bring skills and qualifications with them.

Owner/operator Judy Calthorpe, Bulwarra B&B: I think the main points were the preparations we need to make before the constructions start, so that we are actually ready for people.

They’ve given us a criteria we need to meet and that’s important to give them what they want and what suits them.

During this time I think Dubbo will be very stretched for accommodation.

I’m not sure I am too much of a contender given the small size of my B&B – I don’t have enough rooms to do long term when I have holiday makers who will pay a better price.

I would be happy for them to come, but I don’t think it would be worth me changing my rates

for them.

Plus I’m more set up for kids and families. In that sense I need to stay clear about what

This will also help in areas like hospitality and nursing, all sorts of things – it will create a ripple effect.

The extra business for our motel will certainly make a big economic impact, especially given our ideal location.

We will have more long stays rather than people just coming in for one night and then leaving the next.

Overall, the mine will be great for us.

my target market is.

Mike also said the contractors will be our focus, not Alkane itself.”

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NEWS.

Friday 24.07.2015 to Sunday 26.07.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Dead Men Talking Stage play brings iconic Australian poets to life

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH WO of Australia’s much loved folkloric characters will come back to life next week when a new two-man play comes to Gulgong, Wellington and Yeoval.

Dead Men Talking is a new 90-minute stage musical scripted and performed by award winning veterans of performance, Warren Fahey and Wellington-born Max Cullen, who play AB “Banjo” Paterson and Henry Lawson respectively.

“It was Max’s idea to do it – he’d done a solo play as Henry Lawson for a while and he realised there was a possibility of these two characters having a yarn in heaven,” Fahey explains.

“He rang me and asked if I was up for a challenge, asking me to play Banjo Paterson up against his Henry Lawson.”

Fahey says the play’s first “outing” was in March this year on a 12-day tour of the MidNorth Coast of NSW. “For me it was quite a challenge because although I’ve been on the stage for something like nearly 50 years, singing and telling stories and yarns, to work as an actor is a different sort of challenge.

“I can now boast I’ve had a career change in my 70th year!

“But it was a bit daunting...

I’m essentially a story teller, singer and historian.”

Fahey is in fact the author of 30 books, including the centenary edition of AB Paterson’s Old Bush Songs, published through ABC Books in 2005.

He has a keen interest in cultural history and folklore, making him a perfect fit for the role of Paterson.

“I think we’ve both gone fairly deep into the skins of the two poets now and I feel very comfortable as Banjo Paterson.”

Fahey says in terms of working with the material of Lawson and Paterson, they deal with it “loosely”.

“When I say loosely, even

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Warren Fahey and Max Cullen play AB “Banjo” Paterson and Henry Lawson in a new two-man play, coming to Gulgong, Wellington and Yeoval.

when we do the classics, we’re doing them as two old friends or foes in a bar in heaven.

“But we do take on the persona of Lawson and Paterson...

Max is of the school of acting that he gets into the character at least an hour before we go on stage; he’s almost evolving as Henry Lawson in the wings at the back of the theatre.

“I’ve now tended to the same – sticking the pipe in my gob and taking on the mannerisms that one associates with Paterson.

“It sort of then flows... it’s a bit of magic that I now realise happens.”

The creative scripting of Dead

Men Talking sees the two characters saying things that Fahey admits may not have necessarily been their words.

“It’s creative license to bring the characters to life.

“I don’t think we do them any injustice and you can tell by the way the audience responds to us that we’re obviously credible and stirring something up they’re enjoying.”

Fahey admits audiences “do tend to be of a certain demographic, from about 35 to death”.

“People who have possibly grown up with Lawson and Paterson and they’re relishing that

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“It (the play) says a lot about mateship, unionism, a bit about a different Australia, but it’s definitely set in the 21st century.”

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Barnesy reclaims his song JIMMY BARNES, probably one of the most beloved of Australian musical icons, has gently reminded the nuggets at Reclaim Australia that he himself is an immigrant, who is married to an immigrant. After hearing reports that his iconic rock song, Khe Sanh, had been used as a kind of anthem at rallies populated by people with their faces hidden behind masks and holding posters saying “Australian Law”, Barnsey was not too happy. He wrote a statement on social media platform Facebook, saying these people did not represent him, and that the Australia he loves “is made strong by the diversity of its people”. Onya, Jimmy.

A creepy crawly zoo A JAPANESE zoo is working overtime to turn a much-hated pest into a respected, even loved creature. The Guardian reports that Shunanshi Tokuyama Zoo in Yamaguchi has opened a new exhibit on the humble cockroach. The exhibit includes up to 15 different species and visitors are treated to the spectacle of a cockroach race. Considering a cockroach is considered to be the only life form likely to survive a nuclear bomb blast, maybe this zoo is getting all Kent Brockman, and welcoming our future insect overlords in the hope

A stormy Barnsey: He’s not happy about reports “Khe Sanh” was being used by the Reclaim Australia organisation. PHOTO: AAP

of securing future safety? Is there better explanation?

Americans tackle shark safety AUSSIE surfer Mick Fanning made international headlines following his incredibly lucky escape in South Africa last week, and if you’ve seen the footage, you too have felt your stomach turn in fear. Well, I don’t want to steal his thunder, but a couple in South Carolina may have a better shark-related story. After eight shark attacks in the past two months, a lifeguard had to intervene as a couple tried to enter the water in their own PVC based handmade shark cages, national news reported this week. The cages, spherical and lightweight, were held over the swimmers’ bodies as they entered the water. These flimsy barriers perplexed the lifeguard, and other beachgoers who filmed and photographed the pair. Seriously, Google the images!

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident who lived in the US in the late 1990s.

In Trump’s unlikely success lies a glimpse of our future T’S easy to laugh at Donald Trump, US business mogul, ill-considered buffoon and front-runner for Republican nomination to run for president.

But the last of those two descriptors might give pause for thought.

How is such a man heading the polls over more credible applicants such as Jeb Bush or Scott Walker? How is such a man popular with 24 per cent of Republican voters, when his policy platform makes the script of The Apprentice seem thoughtful and well-supported by comparison?

At the time of writing Trump’s star may be fading, but you’d hope so.

Following his sensitive and respectful observation that the majority of undocumented Mexican immigrants were drug dealing rapists, even the most bigoted Republican may have reconsidered supporting him given that wooing the Hispanic vote is well recognised as the difference between victory and defeat for the Grand Ol’ Party.

Nothing like unfounded, vicious, racial slurs at a minority to get that minority thinking about changing their vote to your side.

But that charm offensive hardly affected Trump’s standing. So he went further, responding to criticism from unsuccessful presidential candidate John McCain, by casting doubt on the Vietnam veteran’s war record, specifically his status as “a hero” having served five years as a POW. McCain was tortured for years and gave up an offer to be part of a prisoner exchange, thereby condemning himself to more ill-treatment. Yet even Trump’s shameful insult has resulted in no real setback in his prospects.

Hamilton Nolan of Gawker defined Trump’s popularity this time around thus: “What accounts for Trump’s wide appeal are the facts that he thinks and speaks about political issues with the same level of contemplation and refinement as most of the voting public.”

Ouch. But that has always been the case, and in previous tilts at public office Trump’s laughing stock status at-

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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Iowa last week. PHOTO: REUTERS/JIM YOUNG

tracted the bright beam of tittering publicity only briefly before settling on more serious candidates (Sarah Palin notwithstanding).

So what has kept a lightweight egomaniac dill like The Don competitive so much longer this time around?

I read somewhere that little of the legislation passed in the US is generated outside the ranks of lobbyists acting on behalf of the most powerful interests.

And that when some rash fool actually elected to govern tries to put up a law that doesn’t steal from the public and funnel that money directly into the pockets of the richest, such as health care for the poor, the political arguments against it are also provided by corporate vested interests.

The point was that the influence of wealth had reached a point where policy direction and policy flowed in the interests of the wealthiest and most powerful

at the expense of all others.

A conservative party exclusively drawn from the ranks of the most privileged class ensured this status quo of stagnating wages, besieging the embattled middle class and heaping injury upon insult with regard to the very poorest.

The disaffected former Republican analyst Mike Lofgren, said of the economic elite running the US: “The rich disconnect themselves from the civic life of the nation and from any

` Does Trump’s longevity indicate that a system geared to ingraining inequality at ever-increasing rates no longer needs a credible custodian to step forward to watch over it?

concern about its wellbeing except as a place to extract loot. Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it.”

Does Trump’s longevity indicate that a system geared to ingraining inequality at ever-increasing rates no longer needs a credible custodian to step forward to watch over it? Is it now somehow instinctive and self-driving, without the need of political impetus.

Has the end of the debate about what economic philosophy makes for a healthy, fair society let free market neoliberalism off the chain, leaving curbs and safeguards in its wake alongside any doubts about the long term impact?

With the US forging a path increasingly then followed by admiring western nations including Australia, we may glimpse in the factors sustaining Trump’s unlikely success a vision of our future.■

How the kiwi became a night bird

2015 KIWI LIFE

AUCKLAND: The shy, nocturnal kiwi may have once strutted around in daylight before being forced to take the night shift by bigger rivals, according to scientists who have mapped the bird’s DNA. A study by researchers in Australia and Germany, has found the kiwi picked up many of its unusual traits – nocturnality, a strong sense of smell and colour-blindness – shortly after arriving in New Zealand about 35 million years ago.

They said it is believed the moa mo-

nopolised food sources during the day, forcing the kiwi to adopt an alternative nocturnal lifestyle.

In mapping the kiwi genome, the scientists also found the bird’s unusual nostrils, at the tip of its beak – something more common on mammals – developed to give the kiwi an unusually strong sense of smell which lets it forage for food at night.

Other adaptations the kiwi picked up to survive at night include colourblindness and the lowest metabolic rate among all birds.

University of Canterbury senior lecturer Tammy Steeves said although it was worrying the study had to be done outside of New Zealand, it would be useful in understanding the lifestyle of the kiwi.

“It should be helpful to those involved in conservation to know the underlying reasons for the special nature of the kiwi in that it has lost genes for colour vision and gained new abilities in smell,” she said.

Te Papa genetics researcher Lara Shepherd said while the research was

positive, protecting kiwi was the priority.

“This extensive new genetic data set won’t stop the decline of kiwi in the wild – currently at 2 per cent per year – which is largely from predation by introduced mammals. New funding for kiwi predator control announced in this year’s budget will hopefully halt this decline,” she said.

The work is published in Genome Biology and was conducted by staff at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and Griffith University.

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Ken Archer, volunteers at the zoo whose animal illness mysteries he has helped to solve.

When Ken Archer and Jeff Sargent took the afternoon off from the Department of Pathology at Sydney Uni one day in the 1960s, a friendship and professional collaboration began which would eventually put the Orana Pathology Service (OPS) under their guidance...and on the world map.

Words: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY and KEN ARCHER. Photos: CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

S I’m ushered into Jeff Sargent’s lounge room in his central Dubbo, federationstyle home, I pass under arched doorways and high ceilings to a sitting room with an open fireplace, not lit, but where I am warmly welcomed and introduced to his friend and colleague, Ken Archer.

What unfolds over the next half an hour is a conversation that floors me – for the camaraderie cemented in the hedonistic ‘60s and brought them together as friends, as well as their ground-breaking achievements as colleagues in pursuit of excellence in their field.

They’ve played hard together, establishing quite a reputation in the years of the Hospital Review as magicians in drag with a memorable disappearing chicken act; and they worked hard together, changing health practices and services, one assay at a time.

Very generally speaking, an assay is the procedure done to analyse what is present in a given sample of blood, for example, and in many ways it’s a process that allowed Archer and Sargent to make a difference.

I sit smugly listening to the two retired pathologists bantering about blood markers and the bottling of diseased organs often in unfamiliar medical terms, content in knowing that despite an enduring reputation across multiple industries that Dubbo is some sort of backwater, here are two more examples of

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Blood minds unaffected by their GPS coordinates, and inspired by what they can achieve within it.

WHICH is why, when the pair eventually converged to work at the Department of Pathology at the Dubbo Base Hospital (DBH) for more than 35 years, they took a long hard look at what needed doing and simply got on with the job.

Back in the day that was what they could do, before hospital management passed from CEOs and hospital boards with cares in the community, to bean counters and bureaucrats in distant locales.

Fortunately they worked in an era that celebrated expertise by granting incumbent autonomy and enabled them to address immediate needs of the district around them.

In 1977, Archer took up the position of laboratory manager in the pathology department at DBH, leading some eight staff. Clinical chemistry, haematology, the blood bank, microbiology and anatomic pathology all fell under his domain.

Sargent did not join his friend until 1980 after finishing his leaving certificate, the equivalent of today’s HSC, at Hurlstone Agricultural High School and testing the waters (although, not literally) in rural jobs around Maitland and the Narrabri Hospital.

It had been some years since they’d seen one another. Archer had married

and moved to Oxford, England to work at the Radcliffe Infirmary and soak up the heady days of “brass rubbing, local fairs and rock concerts with the Stones, Animals – Count Bassie, ballet – they were all tried out in Oxford prior to touring,” Archer recalls.

It’s a world both would have enjoyed thoroughly together having already “drank in the 60s culture, fashion, live bands, jazz, surfing at Cronulla and sleazy wine bars,” as mates at the Sutherland Hospital.

“It was an exciting time of liberation for us “baby boomers” after the war our parents lived and fought through,” says Archer, who moved back from the UK with his wife and son, and came straight to Dubbo.

“We have four children and my wife Jill should be acknowledged. There was no maternity leave back then!” he says.

Once Sargent arrived here a few years later however, the pair set to work, making a difference.

“Jeff’s almost manic passion made our vision to expand the laboratory’s capacity to perform more in-house testing in Dubbo. We refused to concede we couldn’t do an assay simply because we were in Dubbo,” Archer recalls.

The NSW Health department funded a roll-out of new semi-automated chemistry and haematology analysers to allow more local testing with better turnaround times meaning patients could be treated in Dubbo instead of making

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brothers the long trek to a Sydney teaching hospital. It also meant shorter bed stays and fewer delays while waiting for results to come back from Sydney.

Health in the regions was being revolutionised.

“We developed a philosophy of support by the Dubbo Base Hospital Pathology Laboratory to smaller regional hospitals in the greater Orana region.

By 1980, the Orana Pathology Service (OPS) was established, bolstered by then CEO Brian Semmler and board members who came from anywhere between Wellington and the Queensland border,” Archer says.

A courier network was put in place to deliver specimens from outlying communities into the Dubbo lab. Again, using new technology to their advantage, the first facsimile machines were put into Brewarrina, Walgett, Coonamble and Cobar hospitals.

“Results could be transmitted in hard copy the same day. That was ground breaking in a pre-computer era,” Sargent offers.

The next step was for OPS to take existing technology into remote regional hospitals at Cobar, Brewarrina, Walgett, Coonabarabran and beyond to address the immediate community needs of diabetes in the indigenous population, farm accident trauma and obstetric emergencies.

Dealing with issues at the source meant lives were saved, regional nurses

received training and regional hospitals were self sufficient to handle life-threatening emergencies.

The concept of point-of-care technology, initiated by OPS, continues today – improving with each new technology.

DURING this time of creating health service efficiencies for remote communities, the hospital’s blood bank was put under the DBH pathology labs’ u

` Jeff’s almost manic passion made our vision to expand the laboratory’s capacity to perform more in house testing in Dubbo. We refused to concede we couldn’t do an assay simply because we were in Dubbo.

– Ken Archer

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Jeff Sargent, at his Saturday morning job, Wheelers Cycles

Checking mould in the petri dish at Regional Enviroscience.

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` We didn’t charge.

We thought it was a community service to Dubbo. Saving the hugely valued endangered animals in the conservation program was a nobrainer.

– Jeff Sargent

Jeff and Ken in the lab at Regional Enviroscience

u administration and before too long, Sargent and Archer’s expertise called upon to solve mystery illnesses affecting animals at what was then called Western Plains Zoo. “It became apparent, talking to Marlene Hogno and her husband, Bob who was a project manager of the building of the zoo, and David Butcher, the curator and a vet, that there were sick animals and a pathology service was needed with a quick turnaround,” Archer explains.

“We didn’t charge. We thought it was a community service to Dubbo. Saving the hugely valued endangered animals in the conservation program was a nobrainer,” says Sargent.

Black and white rhinos, cheetahs, lemurs, Tasmanian devils, Mallee fowls – all were affected at different times and some were dying.

Joint autopsies were carried out by the vet surgeons and the OPS taught and allowed a zoo technician to use the lab’s equipment, for testing for the rhino breeding program and helped set up a hormone-testing lab at the zoo.

OPS donated the assays on samples,

which minimised the need to ship rhinos or cheetahs to Sydney, which is no small task.

Data gathered on the zoo animals led the lab to make significant contributions to research being done into the Arbovirus (Ross River Fever) by professors Clem Broughton and Andrew Lloyd.

Further milestones were accrued.

Research into Hep B epidemiology in rural and indigenous populations, working with 6000 children in the western region under 16 years of age, resulted in three papers being published in the MJA (Medical Journal of Australia).

“Our work led to Commonwealth policy to vaccinate all newborns at risk and is regarded as ground breaking research,” says Sargent.

“Sometimes people in the periphery of say, Sydney, have more time to create a vision of what they need to do,” Archer adds.

Among their many achievements was the labs’ earning 10th place in the world in an industry driven test, and acknowledgement by the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) which earmarked OPS to set target values

for the next cycle of the RCPA clinical chemistry quality assurance programs.

Possibly one of the greatest achievements was teaching the next generation, including lecturing Nursing and Aboriginal Health Care Students at CSU and medical students from the Dubbo campus of the Rural Medical School of the University of Sydney.

“In 1998, OPS gained a Commonwealth grant with the support and negotiations of pathologist professor Jack Hobbs and Dr Margot McIver to establish a curriculum for scientists and pathologists. These continue today,” says Sargent.

NOT ones to rest on their laurels, and despite both now being retired, the pair has lent their scientific minds to local business, Regional Enviroscience, to help with water, asbestos and fungal testing and assist with National Australian Testing Authority (NATA) accreditation.

“It is a breath of fresh air for us,” says Archer. “We feel appreciated, have lovely staff to work with and there’s no bureaucracy. It’s a good mix of lab work,

site visits and consultation with clients in situations all over Australia.”

When not thinking about work, Archer can these days be found at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo as a volunteer; and Sargent, a keen cyclist, working Saturday mornings at Wheeler Cycles.

He’s also a dad to five adult children.

Ken Archer and Jeff Sargent’s legacy for pioneering profound change in regional health practices and have made their lifelong collaboration one that will endure.

“It’s been an exciting and satisfying journey over a long history (46 years).

We have similar perspectives on life, but argue – we’re both OCD,” says Archer. “We’re dedicated and have a cynical view of the world and a heightened sense of the ridiculous (we’re Spike Milligan fans). We’re confidantes and supportive in times of trouble.”

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Linda Christof: Artistic temperaments and Divas have been far and few between settles and becomes comfortable as the house lights dim.

When Linda Christof started working for the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre it was little more than a construction site. Now, as manager of the 500-seat theatre she’s busy cementing the city’s cultural memories.

Of all the shows that have taken to the stage here, it’s hard to choose a favourite: we’ve had over 480 shows here!

Ballet Revolution in 2011 was certainly a dynamic Cubin dance production and Michael Jackson History Show in 2012 was the most amazing sound and light spectacular and I swear it was Michael Jackson himself – everything from the moves, the voice, hair was the closest impersonation I have seen of anyone.

Performing arts play a big role in the minds and hearts of audiences. My job is to make sure we have a diverse program of shows on offer so whether you enjoy comedy, dance, plays, music, concerts or opera – you know that you can enjoy quality entertainment in an ambient environment.

Artistic temperaments and Divas have been far and few between. I have to admit, we haven’t come across too many. Generally the cast and crew of touring companies are a delight to deal with. The only time it gets tense is if there was some mishap on their way to Dubbo; a missed plane, flat tyre, costume left behind – that’s when a performer might get a bit antsy, but our staff are well equipped to calm them down and go into damage control and get them back on schedule.

My greatest joy is seeing 500 school children watching a show – they will remember the experience forever just like I remembered seeing my first live stage performance when I was in kindergarten!

My relationship with the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre started as operations coordinator when the Theatre was being built six years ago.

There is no such thing as a best seat in the house because the sight lines are excellent in all the seats! Everyone has their own preference though and mine happens to be from row G to L and seats 10 to 20. There are patrons who like to be on the aisle as they may have a dodgy leg or in row A and B as they don’t like climbing stairs.

My temporary office was similar to a shipping container! It’s certainly changed since being appointed manager – apart from the increased responsibility and accountability – I am able to influence the strategic direction of the facility. I have a wonderful team of professionals who fortunately also share my vision.

Choosing performances for a season is more of a business/industry checklist I work with. I try to be impartial but of course there is always that ‘gut’ feeling whether something has merit or not.

Some of the criteria include the quality, reputation of the performing company, cost, profile of the performers (big names help), marketing collateral, review and to ensure the overall balance in the season program to ensure variety.

Audiences sometimes do surprise me.

There are a few things they do like smuggling food in to munch during the performance and using their smart phones to take photos or film. I don’t think they realise that ushers, staff and the technicians in the Bio Box can see EVERYTHING. Then we have had the odd patron that has walked out at interval to go home thinking it was the end of the show.

Honestly, we like nothing better than to see a full house and mingle with patrons on show nights. Dubbo and the region have been so supportive of the Theatre and that certainly lends itself to job satisfaction.

I performed as a child and my son is a performer and it does make my involvement with the theatre special to me. My son? Not so much! I really

I try to see as many potential shows as possible as that certainly helps with the decision-making.

enjoy working in the arts, whether it is visual or performing arts, however, with live theatre I can walk into the auditorium and immerse myself in the atmosphere and be in the moment and switch off from every day things.

I think as my son is older, he now appreciates being in the audience as well rather than always backstage or on stage. He knows how much I love what

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My favourite time and place in the theatre is when I come in really early to work on projects without the distraction of phones and emails, and I also like the anticipation of the five minutes prior to the show starting when the announcement is made and everyone reaches for their phone to switch it off,

If I didn’t work in the theatre I’d like to be retired, LOL. I would see myself managing a team of some sort. That’s one of the most satisfying parts of my role is to work with people, find out what motivates them, consult with them, laugh with them, share my vision, learn from them, inspire them – that’s what I enjoy most.

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FEATURE.

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STORM Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is one of the world’s most misunderstood diseases – and one of the most vicious. Former Gilgandra woman Mandy Newton talks to KIM V. GOLDSMITH about the myths, the mourning and the mental anguish of losing her much loved father and sister, about living with the threat of CJD and about how music is helping her through some very dark days.

HEN A RARE DISEASE hits the headlines neither those reporting on it nor their audience will pause long to think about those living with it and its aftermath – short news cycles mean it’s quickly old news.

Recent stories of a former Sydney Swans employee suffering from a form of the incurable neurological disorder, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) made national headlines for about 24 hours, many insensitively and sensationally peppered with references to “mad cow disease” or Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

For Gilgandra ex-pat Mandy Newton and her family, these stories add to the anguish and anger experienced when dealing with the daily realities of a cruel disease, on top of stigma stemming a general lack of awareness about the facts of CJD. Newton lost her father and sister to an inherited form of CJD after watching both lose a range of functions, from speech and memories, to finally losing the ability to care for

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themselves; she knows this is what she will die from unless something else gets her first.

After a “typical country childhood” with her two sisters in Gilgandra, where her father Graham Brown was the well-loved local pharmacist, Newton went to school in Sydney with the allure of a strong performing arts program.

Following a few troubled years after school, Newton eventually met Jeff, the man she married two decades ago and with whom she shares a full life centred on two teenage sons, a trauma counselling and consulting practice, performing and recording with her rock band, The Dirty Earth, and following her beloved Sydney Swans – her “religion”.

The storm hanging over Newton’s life and everything she loves, revealed itself in 2004 when Graham Brown died within weeks of being diagnosed with CJD. He was 63.

Ten years later, on Anzac Day, her sister Lisa died – four weeks after her diagnosis was confirmed. She was 47.

Mandy Newton gives Weekender a frank account of what the disease means to her family, and how she continues to sing in the face of the storm. uu

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Mandy Newton singing. PHOTO: SALLY TOWNSEND

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uu When do you first remember hearing about CJD? I can remember first hearing about â&#x20AC;&#x153;mad cow diseaseâ&#x20AC;? back in the 80s when it was on TV with images of stock falling over and collapsing.

I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t connected that, though, with CJD until Dad was dying of it.

I knew you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give blood if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d travelled to the UK during a certain period of time, but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know a lot about it until I was sitting there holding Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand in hospital and the neurologist said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Graham, I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got something called CJD. Do you know what that is?â&#x20AC;?

Dad, with his background in pharmacy and his interest in reading medical journals and being well read â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he knew.

He said he never thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get that.

That was 2004?

Yes. Back then, how would they have known? MRIs have since become really advanced and can pick up early stage CJD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t then.

Dad initially had a CAT scan that showed nothing, and a series of other tests including a MRI that were inconclusive.

We still didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what it was...we had no knowledge of this being in our family at this time.

The only diagnosis they could give Dad at that stage was early stage Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because his mother had Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at that time.

CJD sets an incredibly rapid course and we knew within two weeks of him getting that diagnosis that it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have possibly been it.

A neighbour and friend of Mum and Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Toronto (Newcastle), who was a

neurosurgeon, moved mountains to get more invasive tests done for Dad that included a lumbar puncture, which at that point in time was the only way of getting a pretty good diagnosis of CJD. That was only two or three weeks before he died. Mum had spent all that time between May 14 and early July wondering what the hell was happening.

He died on August 23.

Nothing prepares you for things happening that quickly.

Nothing can. With Lisa, we had expectations. We knew what was going to happen as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen it all before and we knew; Susan (my oldest sister) and I knew.

Lisa had called me in about late January/early February for some professional advice as sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been feeling very depressed and anxious.

At that point, I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thought for a minute that she was developing CJD, but as time went on and she started to show other characteristics weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen in Dad, like having trouble putting words together...when that started to happen, Susan and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shit, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening here?â&#x20AC;?

You had genetic testing after your Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diagnosis, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you?

Yep, yep... (pauses).

In 2005, we all went together when we found out it was genetic.

I think at the time I was sitting there holding Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand when the neurosurgeon told him he had CJD, they thought he might have had variant CJD because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been asking Mum if Dad had been in the UK in the 80s; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d spent a lot of time in the UK. So, I think they were going down that

variant CJD path but they were using the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; word (mad cow disease).

So, at what point did they change their mind about that?

I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t answer that question. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure when the thinking changed that it might have been sporadic CJD. I was handed a lot of literature at the hospital that had come from some medical source; it was all very clinical and it explained there was sporadic CJD and what it was.

Maybe once the doctors were more informed themselves they were able to jump from it being variant CJD to sporadic CJD. Was it then your decision to be tested, or was it a recommendation?

It happened because when Dad was in hospital, a cousin had come to see us... her brother died of CJD two months after Dad. She dropped a bombshell on all of us at the hospital, in front of Dad, when she said CJD was what her father had died of in 1956.

We got a copy of his death certificate and it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say CJD but it did refer to it as transmissible spongiform encephalitis, the family of diseases CJD belongs to.

We did some investigating after Dad died too and discovered an obituary in an old Central Coast newspaper that referred to Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandfather, who was a well-known policeman there, who died after being ill for a brief time. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had to take leave because he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t himself.

It was clear to us that it was CJD. He was 47 too, just like Lis. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d read the literature that said there was a genetic form of it, so after this we

were all absolutely devastated and wondered what that meant for us.

We three girls knew we had a 50 per cent chance of inheriting it because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, which means any child of someone with the gene has a 50 per cent chance of inheriting that gene â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not recessive.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 24.07.2015 to Sunday 26.07.2015 I just couldn’t let it go.

The not knowing was impacting on your life?

It really was. So, then I thought why not rule it out?

But, I have the mutation...(trails off).

Has having that knowledge made you live your life differently?

(Newton takes a big breath.)

It’s funny because you think it will at first; you think you’re going to live life to the fullest and I’m not going to take life for granted, and I’ve been given an opportunity many other people don’t have; I’m going to live my life with passion and do all the things I want to do.

You sort of do for a little minute and you have that headspace for a while but the reality of life sets in and you have the daily struggles with life that you’ve always had.

Life is not always simple and easy and no matter how much you might want to live your life to the fullest and think I’m going to live the best that I can because any day, you know, I could develop CJD – it doesn’t work like that.

I can’t say it’s made my life any better knowing this – it’s probably made my life worse...I deeply regret ever having genetic testing, to be honest.

If you inherit the gene you will die of CJD unless you die of something else first. The onset is determined by the penetrance or the strength of the gene in a person. It was strong in Lisa.

So, we ummed and ahhed for a long time about whether or not we wanted to know if we have the gene.

Originally, I didn’t want to know. I was

very strong about that.

Someone said to me, “Mandy, if you think it will improve your life by having this information and knowledge, then do it. If it won’t, then don’t.”

I thought about it and what way would it improve my life...I thought it wouldn’t for a while but in the end I was worrying about it anyway.

In terms of what it means to you, or to your family?

Both, I suppose.

For me, what you don’t know doesn’t hurt you and I wish I didn’t know – it’s a monkey you can never get off your back.

I just know that whether it’s tomorrow, next year, 10 years or 20 years, that monster is going to get me.

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Mandy Newton singing. PHOTO: SALLY TOWNSEND

` That knowledge of how I’m probably going to die is very hard to live with...

– Mandy Newton u insidious disease and I’ve seen it twice now. I know what I’m in for...it’s a particularly nasty, nasty disease you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy.

No disease is pleasant and there are plenty of diseases you wouldn’t want your families to have to suffer from, but the nature of CJD is wicked.

That knowledge of how I’m probably going to die is very hard to live with.

How do you get through each day?

I drink a lot of wine! (Laughs, jokingly asking not to be quoted.)

“I drink a little bit of wine” maybe? (laughing) How do I get through each day? I don’t always – that’s the reality.

I’m in a very bad place at the moment.

I’m depressed.

I worry about my boys...I’ve always been very honest with them and I told them their grandfather died of a genetic disease that I know I might die from as well. I used to always say “might” when they were younger.

But when Lisa died I felt like I had to have an honest conversation with them even though they’re only 15 and 13; they are mature and they’re sensible boys and I didn’t want them to be reading things on the internet and drawing their own conclusions about what might be happening with our family.

So, where does music fit into your life then, in terms of coping with all of this?

It’s my self-care. As a therapist you have it drummed into you that it’s important to maintain a level of self-care.

But it’s something I’m passionate about and I would loved to have done full-time, but the reality is it’s difficult to make a lot of money out of it unless you’re the Rolling Stones.

It’s everything to me really...(she pauses) and I have to be honest, along with my family, my band is probably what’s keeping me alive at the moment.

I’ve been in a very, very dark place and things like that give you the motivation to keep going.

When you see media headlines about

CJD like there has been recently, how do you respond to that?

I was devastated for his (CJD sufferer Frank Burton’s) family mostly – that was the first thing I thought of because CJD is cruel and I know what that family is going through at the moment... coupled with lies and ill-informed journalism that’s basically just attentiongrabbing sensationalism to try to sell a few newspapers.

I think that comes at a very high cost.

The cost is the mental health of his family members who are trying to love and care for him and be with him in his last few days or weeks.

Then that sadness turned to anger because it’s not correct. CJD is not mad cow disease.

I imagine there’s still a lot to be done in terms of support and research for it?

We don’t get very much funding at all – very, very little.

The Health Department pours a lot of money into diseases that are significantly more prevalent. There’s a lot of money going into cancer because a lot of the population is affected by cancer.

I understand that, but I think a lot of the time that CJD is not a sexy disease – it doesn’t have what a corporate sponsor wants in terms of getting a lot of exposure from working with a more “acceptable” disease.

We’ve always battled to get any funding and awareness. People don’t want to talk about it, and a lot of that is courtesy of the mad cow label.

That’s one of the things I find incredibly frustrating – it’s a constant battle to get people to understand there is no such thing as mad cow disease, it’s a made up name and every time someone uses it we take one giant backslide with advocacy and research.

Slow progress is being made though.

In Italy at the moment they’ve recently developed a nasal test that can detect if someone is in the early stages of CJD, which is pretty amazing when you think back to 2004 when Dad had to have a really invasive procedure like a lumbar puncture to work out whether it was

possibly CJD. Do you hold out hope there will be a major breakthrough in terms of a cure?

Absolutely. My life depends on it, and my sons and nephews (Lisa’s boys) – their lives depend on it.

Grieving the loss of Lisa is not just grieving the loss of her, it’s her boys and mine as well.

My Mum (Ruth) is grieving the loss of Dad and now Lisa, and the reality is that I may have a very high penetrance of that gene as well and it might be sooner than later...it’s been more difficult for her than anybody.

She has all these grandsons too and that’s a terrible thing for her to live with.

Who is your support?

Jeff (my husband) is my rock and it’s not easy for him either. The reality is we don’t know when the disease is going to express itself in me, but he has two sons as well that have got a 50 per cent chance of having the mutation.

He’s just lost his sister-in-law, so it hasn’t been very easy for him.

My mother and sister, Susan, are there for me 24/7 – they’d drop anything to be with me and support me; they’ve been amazing since I got my genetic testing results.

I can’t fault any of my friends though.

Everyone was incredibly supportive when Lisa passed away and her funeral was a testament to the support we’ve had.

Lisa had worked hard on raising CJD awareness herself and did a lot of fundraising.

You have both been involved with the CJD Support Group Network?

I volunteered for that after Dad died in about 2005. I was talking to other families and then because I had the qualifications they applied for funding for me to have a role there putting together a handbook for medical staff and we did a lot of presentations in hospitals.

Those presentations were with staff to tell them you don’t have to wear gloves, or treat patients with CJD like they have

leprosy, because it’s not contagious.

So, with the general lack of awareness about CJD even in the medical profession is there medical discrimination occurring?

(She hesitates.)

I believe so. I’m not involved in the CJD Support Group Network anymore, I couldn’t say with absolute certainty how prolific that is at the moment, but up until a few years ago it absolutely was.

I don’t have to legally disclose that I have a genetic mutation for CJD when I have a procedure at a hospital or dentist.

I always ticked that box though on the form because I felt I had a moral obligation to do it.

What happens though when you tick that box is the drama and scandal it creates makes it just not worth being honest...I know you can’t catch it through blood or blood products but hospital staff are often not informed enough to know that. They treat you like you have leprosy.

My kids don’t even know if they have the gene; there is a 50 per cent chance they might have it, but they’re still treated like they do.

What’s the one thing you’d like people to take away from your story?

I’d really like that ‘M’ word (mad cow disease) gone. It does no favours for anybody affected by it; it just causes more pain and absolute heartache for the surviving family members...and particularly for those with genetic CJD who face discrimination in the medical system – it just compounds it and makes it so much more difficult to live your life.

■ l Kim V. Goldsmith is an old school friend of Mandy Newton.

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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...

Sally Bryant In my book... the slope is gettin’ slipperier AST food was such a great idea.

Back in the day, when we discovered that we didn’t have to actually make the food ourselves but that we could buy it pre-prepared and ready to go – how big an advance was that?

No more of the cutting up fresh ingredients and combining them skilfully into a home-made dish. You could go into a supermarket and buy your food from the freezer. You could buy a jar of sauce to put over the top of your meat or pasta or rice and, hey presto! Instant food. No effort at all.

There was a cost, obviously. With all that extra time we gained, we lost a lot of control over our diets. And, when you look around at how our children behave and at the size of our arses? Well, you have to wonder how much benefit we’re actually getting out of these foods we’re shovelling into our faces.

There’s all the sugars and preservatives, the food colourings and so forth.

All these convenience foods are laden with them. And, in my opinion they’re making us sick as well as fat. And because they’re all hidden inside processed foods, we don’t question what we’re absorbing in our diets, we just keep shovelling it into our faces.

It’s defining our palates as well. If you are accustomed to a diet of processed, pre-prepared foods with high quantities of sugar, salt, preservative and colouring, try sampling something that has “reduced salt”. I say sampling, because you won’t finish it. I bought a low salt version of baked beans the other day and it was tasteless. Because I’m used to eating all that salt in my baked beans.

Happily there’s a swing away from all this processed rubbish; from the quick fix convenience of processed shite food.

And I’m not talking about the mass consumption of reality television cooking competitions here. I’m as happy as

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anyone to sit and watch Two Fat Ladies or the Cook and the Chef or Rick Stein and the rest deconstructing cooking on the telly. I’m always interested in someone else’s way of doing stuff in the kitchen; no one is ever finished learning, particularly in the kitchen. But I can’t be dealing with the competition type cooking shows with their manufactured angst and their self-consciously trendy presentation. And if I hear one more person telling their children “plate up” their meals, I’ll go postal. No, in my view, those productions are adding nothing to our cultural association with food.

But riddle me this: Do you think, as I do, that our relationship with our food is being hijacked by the corporates and we’re losing control of our own diets? If you think, as I do (a conspiracy theorist from wayback) that we’re being farmed by the big end of town. If you think we don’t think nearly enough about what we’re eating? Well, what then about the news we’re absorbing, about the information we’re taking in and using to inform our opinions? And the places we’re

getting that information?

Just as our food is being processed and packaged for us, so is our news. And, if we’re becoming accustomed to getting food in convenient sized packages that’s presented in a way to be most attractive to us? Well, guess what? We’re getting our news exactly the same way.

The news is there at your fingertips every second of the day. And the marvellous thing about modern news and information is there is really no need to do any research or interpretation any more, because it’s all been done for you.

Just as we trust some multinational to combine all the ingredients for us in a pasta sauce or “TV dinner”, that’s what we’re getting in our diet of information.

We are on a drip feed of “news” every day through conventional media and now through social media, and it’s very easy to absorb it all without question.

We’re getting a diet of what it’s someone’s editorial policy for us to get. We’re getting stories that fit into the template stories are allowed to fit into.

There’s a choice, of course. You can go and look for more information on a

` You know how we’re constantly bemoaning the state of our health because of our diets? I wonder if we’re seeing a downturn in our national mental health because of the news and information we’re absorbing every day...

story you see in social media or in the conventional media. And the more you look, then it would stand to reason there will be more information available. And it would stand to reason that if you filter through the information available, you’ll be able to find out what’s known on a given subject and you’ll be able to interpret the information and draw your own conclusions.

Sort of like going looking for some fresh ingredients and cooking your own dinner.

Unfortunately, just like in the case of our diet of food, in many cases we have become accustomed to just absorbing what’s easiest, quickest and available without too much effort.

You know how we’re constantly bemoaning the state of our health because of our diets? I wonder if we’re seeing a downturn in our national mental health because of the news and information we’re absorbing every day.

And it’s not just about the news type information. Think about the celebrity shite we’re absorbing. Think about the commercial pitch that’s constantly in front of us. Think about the barrage of envy marketing we’re subjected to. And even if you’re aware of it, it’s easy to get sucked in.

I have a bit of a fetish for boots. And I feed my fetish by scoping out new boots online on a pretty regular basis. Oftentimes when I’m sitting on the phone at work, while I’m on hold for someone or joining a desultory phone hook up, I’ll find myself on the internizzle, looking at boots.

Facebook has sussed that out. And now I’m getting a constant feed of rather snappy little ankle boots making their way across my screen each day.

“Buy me,” they say. “Buy me...I’ll make you happy.”

Talk about conspiracies.

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Spoiler alert: jumping the shark with telly faves HEN Mick Fanning’s mum said she just wanted to pluck him out of the television away from the shark that was threatening to kill him, that wasn’t a silly thing to say. I knew exactly how she felt. Well maybe not exactly, but sort of.

Until recently I was in love with Patrick Reid. I may have been two years too late joining the masses of woman who fell in lust/love with the smart, brooding, sexy anaesthetist from Offspring, but I truly wanted to push him away from the car that accidently hit and killed him and caused me to get rather angry and yell, and then cry, quite a lot. Perhaps it was not as emotionally charged as a good old days all-in at a 1980s State of Origin game, but more and more I find myself spending a big chunk of my weekend or evening absorbed in good drama, questionable drama, bad reality TV, good reality TV (is there such a thing?) or generally any recommended series that will enable me to join the conversation in the work lunch room and know who and what I’m talking about.

My ideal series is one that has already come to an end. Not of the abrupt, notrenewed-by-the-network kind, but a natural end, like an explosion or a death or a marriage or a baby. Putting in the hard yards and binge watching a complete box-set series can be very fulfilling. Who cares if there is washing in the sink, clothes on the line, texts to be answered? It can be deemed a productive weekend if you have closure and know that Jesse Pinkman escaped and has another chance at life, and that Walter “Heisenberg” White is finally at peace and has left his family financially sound. Maybe less closure if Tony Soprano, a shifty man at the counter, and Holsten’s Diner are involved, but entertaining none-the-less.

Naturally the disadvantage of waiting until a series finishes and is released on DVD is that you’re way behind on any relevant timely conversations that may ensue between friends and work colleagues. There is also a huge risk that someone may let an important plot twist slip, or it will invariably appear somewhere on your Facebook feed or Twitter: “King Joffrey: one glass of one too

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` Spare a thought for those of us who lived in the 80s when we had no choice but to wait to eight long months, with no hints or Google, to find out who shot JR.

many. See you later, you sadistic little punkass” or “@KateySagal I have just watched #SonsofAnarchy and I nearly cried when Jacks shot you! Sometimes I forget it’s not real, well played”. Although remember, if you can’t afford to stay off social media, switch off all your devices or go on holiday to a remote island, spare a thought for those of us who lived in the 80s when we had no choice but to wait to eight long months, with no hints or Google, to find out who shot JR. Understandably there are instances when you cannot wait two torturous years between series seasons. Overhearing snippets of conversation and being asked to leave the room during discussions about how on earth Fr Gabriel could have possibly left the town gate ajar and why Rick didn’t kill Pete a few episodes ago, are sometimes excruciating. Desperate times call for des-

perate measures. I do not condone illegal downloading, but I have watched enough episodes of Wentworth to know that you do not lag on your mates...Your Honour, I have absolutely no idea where that 5TB hard drive labelled “TV Series” came from. Better Call Saul.

And then there’s reality TV. As much as I’d like to wait 24 hours and don my tracksuit pants and hoodie and sneak into the bedroom to enjoy this guilty pleasure, without solid plots, great scriptwriting, and engaging characters I find that I can catch up fairly fast. If I’m watching The Voice, The Block or MKR at the time of screening, my attention span usually lasts through the first half hour of the episode, 20 minutes of which have been ads. I then find my blood pressure rising as I yell at the TV because the judges annoy the bejeezus out of me and make such ridiculous decisions. Then I

get distracted because I check Facebook to reaffirm I am not alone and that other people are sharing my sentiments: “Is anyone else watching The Voice thinking who let these people walk out on stage dressed this way?” – Unnamed Facebook Friend.

But who needs to watch the finale anyway when it will inevitably be the first thing you hear next morning when it headlines the news. Only if they have time remaining after interviewing a surfer who was nearly attacked by a shark, the mother of the surfer, the friend of the surfer, the friend of the surfer’s mum, the shark expert and then cross to the studio for a summary of how the story has trended on social media.

So to Mick Fanning’s mum: compared with the media frenzy, you needn’t worry – your “silly” comment pales in comparison.

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

Digging for answers in a state of political snafu HERE are questions to answer”: It’s been a frequent refrain in the political arena recently – always directed at opposing members of parliament and always with a view to scoring political points.

What a pity politicians seem so willing to pronounce that answers are required, but so unwilling to give an answer themselves. Questions, be they from a journalist at a press conference or from an audience member on (the ABC’s) Q&A, are routinely ignored or deflected. It’s one of the reasons the well of political capital is currently so poisoned.

There are many answers we voters richly deserve, but her are just two:

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1. How did we arrive at the current debacle that is the Shenhua Watermark coal mine in the Liverpool Plains?

The rubber stamping of the mine has managed to both polarise elements within The Nationals and consolidate public opposition.

With the party holding both seats for the area, it’s reasonable to assume The Nationals would have the agricultural interests of its core constituency at heart, and be effective in advocating for them.

Yet here we are, witnessing disaffected farmers protesting at locked farm gates with Australian Greens’ supporters, and the Federal Minister for Agriculture and presumptive future party leader Barnaby Joyce seems to have been keep out of the Cabinet loop in the approval of the mine. His blustering declaration he had done “everything in my power to try and stop the mine” looks like empty rhetoric at best.

On the other hand, Environment Minister Greg Hunt said his approval came after community consultation with farmers and additional scientific research into the project’s effects on water resources. He also pointed to further biodiversity and rehabilitation management plans being required before the start of construction. He believes the site of the mine on the ridge country, not the black soil plains, will mean no impact on the water supply, but stipulated the mine must supply alternative water to farmers if it does. Where this

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alternative water would come from, to replace the water in the water table and aquifers that farmers currently access, was not revealed by Minister Hunt.

Supporters of the Shenhua mine are pushing the economic benefits of regional jobs. That’s a standard response, undermined by the potential for the much heralded Trans Pacific Partnership which facilitates the easy passage of foreign workers on short term visas to work on “major projects”, effectively shutting out qualified local workers.

The Liverpool Plains are in the minuscule percentage of our dry continent

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that enjoys rich deep soil and reliable ground water. We have the agricultural technology to ensure the Liverpool Plains produces food for national and international markets well into the future. This rare earth is essential for our food security and not something to be trading away around a Cabinet room or board room table.

The coal mine is a one shot deal.

Holes in the ground are blasted, facilities are built, workers come and go, and the profits go to the Chinese Government. It was a long political path to get to where we are. The lack of leadership, particularly from the Nationals, is conspicuous by its absence.

2. Why do politicians believe the scope of their entitlements is a “grey area?”

Political leaders seem clear on what the nation needs: mining development, better jobs, border protection and so on. They are somewhat vague on the housekeeping details, such as what constitutes an entitlement of office and is paid for by the Public Purse.

I would have thought it was easy. For example – I’m a federal parliamentarian without a Cabinet portfolio and my elec-

1. STATES: Mount Bartle Frere is the highest mountain in which state?

2. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “crypto” mean?

3. SCIENCE: What does an ichthyologist study?

4. MOVIES: What was the first major movie to show a flushing toilet?

5. ABBREVIATIONS: What does BMW stand for?

6. MUSIC: Who wrote the

torate in on Sydney’s northern beaches.

While in Melbourne, I’ve been asked to speak at a fundraising benefit for a state colleague at Geelong. I could be driven the 75km but charter a helicopter instead and bill the tax payer.

Wrong – that event had nothing to do with your electorate and was clearly party political. See? Easy. Nothing grey there.

It would be unfair to single out Madam Speaker for her latest outbreak of hubris. She has only been in Parliament for nearly 30 years. Both sides of politics are guilty of exploiting the blurred lines of entitlements, whether it’s the definition of “parliamentary business” or the definition of a fundraising event.

It would be easy to be cynical about a few raffle tickets or a bucket being produced to help class an event as a fundraiser. But surely if the money raised goes to the Political Party then the MPs appearance and travel is not an entitlement and should not to be claimed as such? Again, easy.

Same with the stampede of politicians to get to the international terminal when parliament is not sitting, because overseas travel is an “entitlement”.

If Parliament is not sitting, then why not be in your electorate mixing with your constituents?

What the latest entitlements drama has done is cause every Federal MP to duck for cover, but also bring out the usual “we would be happy with transparency” bunkum.

Both the major parties are guilty of putting ethics and morals aside and “inadvertently” claiming for travel to promote their books, attend and compete in charity sports events or attend union conferences.

Only when caught, and only after blaming an “administrative” oversight – one they’d have had to sign off on – are the faux apologies offered and cheques written.

Tighten the rules, put the travel details online, whatever needs to be done must be done. The age of entitlement is over remember, and we are all being asked to tighten our belts. It is not difficult, it just requires the will to see past situation normal to the bigger picture.■

Beatles’ song “Here Comes the Sun”?

7. MEASUREMENTS: The word “octennial” refers to a recurring period of how many years?

8. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is the only mammal that can fly?

9. GEOGRAPHY: What did the African nation of Burkina Faso used to be called?

10. MYTHOLOGY: Who was the Egyptian god of the afterlife?

11. FLASHBACK: Which Four Seasons (pictured) song was

originally titled “Blue Eyes in Georgia”?

12. SPORT: Which is the only South American county to have its men’s soccer team not play in a World Cup? 13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “And the little congregation prayed for guidance from above, Lead us not into temptation, May his soul find the salvation of thy great eternal love.”

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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.

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BIG RIG Known Australia wide for its quality merino stock, Warren’s iconic station, Haddon Rig, is a centre of industry. But the historic property is so much more.

Principals George and Sally Falkiner are passionate about giving people a hand up while embracing keen students, workers and backpackers who regularly visit or take up residence in their midst. Weekender talks with the couple, about their continuing adaption to an evolving industry and a belief that ongoing education is the key to staying relevant in an ever changing world.

AKE A DRIVE OUT ALONG THE Marthaguy-Quambone Road, it’s hard to imagine the lush green country on either side of the road has until recently been more a drought stricken vista of brown and yellow.

But recent rain has been persistent to the point where the ground is at saturation point, it’s “almost” too much. Almost.

Wife, mother and business operator Sally Falkiner

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doesn’t think so, in fact she’s thrilled and relieved at the same time with the rain they have had.

As we walk around the family homestead and surrounding cottages, the gardens are thriving, paddocks and pasture are postcard-perfect and the Marthaguy Creek that weaves through the property is full and flowing. The birds are also loving it.

It is a time of abundance at Haddon Rig and the Falkiners know they’re fortunate.

The property was purchased by Franc Falkiner in

1916 and saw the genetic beginnings of a Merino stud that would come to be considered world class. The stud’s original stock was from Wanganella, the Falkiner’s family stud in the Riverina, and from Ranbouillet in France.

The stud produces around 800 hardy, large-framed horned and poll rams each year for both meat and wool production.

An annual sale on the property sees around 150 of these rams sold to buyers from all around the country

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George Falkiner, Eleanor Falkiner, HR secretary Paula Blake

George and Sally Falkiner.

Above: At Haddon Rig Main photo, left: The Haddon Rig shearing shed.

who travel specifically to acquire their quality stock.

Haddon Rig holdings encompasses three pastoral properties, two of which run along the Macquarie River; including both Boomanulla and Braemar. The family grows up to 30,000 acres of wheat and also breeds moderate numbers of cattle.

Seated in the family’s large sunny kitchen, Sally and George describe what life is like at Haddon Rig. Sally says every month of the year there is something happening, whether that’s planting, selling, sowing,

crutching, shearing or harvesting and that means a lot of people from all walks of life frequent the property, including workers who live there fulltime.

“There are about six families living and working here permanently, as well as contractors coming and going,” she says.

“Most of our families have children, which is lovely and the school bus comes and takes them into Warren; we have 10 children living here.”

It’s not a new thing to have so many children re-

siding on the property. The couple explains that from 1940 to the 1970s, Haddon Rig operated its own school house until the school bus started running, ending the need for onsite schooling. The property’s school bus was a VW Beetle.

HILE the beautiful horned and poll Merinos bask in the traditional limelight and farming is a big part of Haddon Rig, the property is also engaged in a variety of complementary u

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u endeavours that focus on education and skill building. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something about which the family is passionate.

Given the size and reputation of Haddon Rig, Sally and George have always opened up their property to students of all ages to come and see the workings of a large merino stud.

The students range from those in preschool and kindy, who are regularly bussed out to watch the sheep shearing, to uni students visiting from Sydney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sydney uni brings ag students out here annually for a day trip to explore all aspects of the farm and we have work experience students coming out all the time as well,â&#x20AC;? Sally explains.

That was Many students use Haddon Rig as their case study for hilarious, the school projects or their uni Sun-Herald theses, and the family find it interesting working with sent up a them. journalist who Ongoing education is enwas allergic to couraged for everyone who works and lives at Had- sheep to cover don Rig â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sally and George that story. included. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are constantly trying to update our skills, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an important part of our life; things change quickly and you have to keep up with it all,â&#x20AC;? Saleducation and worker education here; ly says. itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to us, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our ethos.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have our boys (jackaroos) doSally explains that there is also a youth ing their Certificates III and IV in Agrifoundation in Warren that encourages culture through Dubbo TAFE,â&#x20AC;? George and creates pathways for young people says. to gain employment. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been embraced â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to promote executive by many local business people who are

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keen to give back and help the town of Warren and its young people to survive and thrive. They are taught skills and gain mentors who accompany them to work. As a result, Haddon Rig has been welcoming some of these teenagers to the property to initially learn fencing.

Above: Rachael, Sophie, Allie Maclean, Bella Pumpa, Olivia and Florence Falkiner, Sally Falkiner in their yard facing Marthaguy creek.

Left: Vogue magazine brought actress Elizabeth Debicki to Haddon Rig for a photo shoot.

Sally Falkiner says the results where nothing short of amazing.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so important that these young people know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to get up every morning, get themselves ready and turn up for a job and keep doing it because by learning a new skill and getting good at it, they achieve things. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for their self-esteem and in so many other invaluable ways, we are certainly happy to help with that process,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Farm work and all it entails aside, Sally also is a passionate artist and time allowing, runs art workshops. She has hosted clay, water colour and acrylic workshops and employs the services of teaching artists to run the sessions. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as often as sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like but the workshops have proved popular, with participants staying in some of the propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group accommodation when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available.

BOUT 500 metres from the main residence is another large building with a separate cottage at the back which is used for the backpackersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; accommodation. Backpackers are welcomed to the property and their input is much needed to keep the wheels rolling at Haddon Rig. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Backpackers come and do all the domestics and generally help on the farm on their work visas. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had young men and women from Ireland, France, Belguim, Sweden, England and Germany; in fact we have had 28 in the past three years stay with us, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They love it out here. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such an adventure and they get to see the bush, the real Australia, so in a sense theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting an education they can take away

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wool industry and its connection to the fashion induswith them as well.” try mostly, but she says it’s also the property itself as Sally says the great thing about backpackers is the a rural backdrop and the appeal of the beautiful light. friendships made.

A combination of all these factors has captured fash“Many of them keep in contact with us by writing ion photographers’ imaginations. letters and they say things like “thank you for teaching me how to work and encouraging me to get my Apart from Vogue, fashion magazine crews from college degree”, which is really nice.”

Germany have visited, as well as the national press Given its proximity to the Macquarie Marshes, Hadon different occasions, particularly when the propdon Rig is also on the hit list for bird lovers, otherwise erty’s innovative breeding centre was first launched. known as “twitchers”.

“Actually that was hilarious, the Sun-Herald sent Sally says the property is like a “bird highway”. up a journalist who was allergic to sheep to cover that During the drought when the family story,” Sally says laughing. used to promote the tourism aspect of She recalls some other unusual groups the property in a full time capacity she who have visited the property like the Vasays Haddon Rig always attracted a lot riety Bash that tore through on a fundraisof bird watching groups and they made ing trip to the outback. The Rolls-Royce the perfect guests. club also made a visit last year and their We’re trying “It’s was lovely, they were usually out classic cars were apparently quite a spectaall day and they were very quiet and the to promote cle amidst farm machinery, trucks and the reason they were here is because they executive usual work utes. love nature; they just did their thing and “There were some beautiful old cars – education we could get on with our work.” around 40 people in 25 lovely old RollsFar removed from the world of farm- and worker Royces, lined up, that was something to ing, Haddon Rig has been used as a locasee!” tion for fashion shoots for magazines on education here; The property also has its own airstrip numerous occasions. it’s important and Sally recalls a situation where her Sally recalls Vogue Australia tried to brother – who is an airline pilot for British to us, it’s our replicate a fashion spread that was shot Airways – made an appearance on Haddon ethos. on the property in the 1960s.

Rig’s landing strip. She says it made quite “When the Great Gatsby was screenan impression on one of the young working, they (Vogue) came out with actress ers who stumbled across him walking away from the Elizabeth Debicki who was featured as the model,” strip still dressed and looking very proper in his unishe says. form with his pilot’s cap under his arm.

She says the photographer tried to create a mood “He captained the plane to Sydney and was picked whereby he portrayed Debicki as a rural women up by a friend, flown straight up here and dropped struggling in the depression era. And Sally admits off on the strip. The plane then flew off and left him that while that did not sound particularly cheery there, so there he is wearing his British Airways uniwhen she first heard of his plans, the results where form wandering along and the jackaroo, unsure, nothing short of amazing. drove past him and didn’t stop until my brother made The original spread was given the rare honour of a point of waving at him and saying hello! being syndicated throughout the world in all Vogue “We have mad things happen here all the time!” ■ magazines.

Asked what the appeal of Haddon Rig is to the magHaddon Rig is available for group accommodation (up azine, Sally says it’s the history of the merino and the to 12 adults) by appointment only.

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The Love Boat: The Lost Years – Part 5 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...

Last week saw Barnacle Bill somehow get on board the Love Boat. Captain Tony and Gopher are rushing to the bridge to confront him.

ARNACLE BILL was not pirate by choice. His soft, faintly feminine hands had scarcely touched anything rougher than a company credit card. No, piracy had been forced upon him, appointed as he was to lead the Somali unionised pirates just days after the Red Priestess had laughed her last and departed for the great speaking tour of small Victorian regional RSLs. But a pirate he was now and so a pirate he would be.

Getting aboard the Love Boat had been easy. At first he had expected to never see the boat again. A roaring crowd had welcomed Captain Tony aboard, massive riggings of streamers and balloons hung off every railing. In normal circumstances the great ship’s engines would have stirred to life, the propellers would have turned and it would have steamed off into the distance, leaving Barnacle behind in his tiny dinghy on the vast southern ocean.

But it hadn’t steamed off. It hadn’t moved. It hadn’t even turned on the boilers. It just sat there, a white monolith of curving lines and potentiality.

All Barnacle needed was to find someone on board to lower a rope ladder.

That had proved easier than even he had hoped. That person was standing next to him on the bridge now. Barnacle turned to his confederate and smiled.

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Down below, no one was smiling.

Captain Tony and Gopher Morrison were furiously arguing with the cashier from the bingo hall, Diamond Joe Hockey.

“You can’t go out there,” an impassioned Joe waved his ams expansively.

“There’s something out there.”

The “there” he was referring to was the outdoor passage to the bridge. A simple set of 13 steep stairs running up the side of the ship to where Barnacle Bill now sat in command of the ship.

“What I want you to do, Joe, what I, Joe, want you to do is this. I want you to move,” demanded Tony.

“No, there`s something out there.

Something horrible, I was just out and there and it was all over me, it was horrible.” Joe’s eyes bulged and swivelled, a disturbing sight.

“What. What touched you?” asked Gopher.

“I don’t know,” whined Joe. “But I went out there and it touched me. There was nothing there but it touched me.”

“What do you mean, meaning, what is it that you mean?”

“I went out for my reward,” Joe held up a somewhat over handled cigar. “And I couldn’t light it. That thing was out there. And then my hair started to move all by itself, and there was this huge noise in my ears. But there was nothing there.”

Captain Tony and Gopher Morrison shared a knowing look.

“Joe,” said Gopher, adopting the tone of a mother practised in getting her

child’s fingers out of its nose. “That’s the wind.”

“The wind,” shrieked Joe, wedging himself even more firmly against the door. “I knew it, the wind. It’ll get you, you know, the wind is everywhere. It’s horrible, like a devil. They say the wind can lift you up, but it can’t, it’s not a lifter, it can’t be, it has to be a leaner.”

Tony and Gopher looked on as Joe began to wail.

“Shall we take the elevator sir?” asked Gopher.

“Oh I suppose we can,” replied the Captain. “But you must remind me to do an extra twenty minutes in the gym tomorrow.”

Gopher turned around and pressed the up button.

On the bridge Barnacle Bill, his compatriot, and the now-boarded Somali unionised pirates were staring out the main window of the bridge to the foremost deck. What had started as a small speck in the sky had grown steadily larg-

“I don’t know,” whined Joe. “But I went out there and it touched me. There was nothing there but it touched me.”

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She placed her left foot onto the crowded deck, and then her right foot onto a palaquin mounted atop an African bull elephant. She settled into her silk lined chair and held on firmly as the elephant walked three unsteady metres towards Sylvester Stallone.

First Officer Pyne had only recently finished a full oiling of Sly and he glistened in the midday sun. Sly effortlessly scooped the small woman into his arms and carried her back to the rocket she arrived in. The lander’s engines fired up and it and the woman within it rose gently into the cloudless sky. Within seconds they were gone.

The only thing that remained of the whole scene was a piece of paper. A travel claim.

The distraction was all Tony had needed. He was back on the bridge but was he still the Captain?

Will Captain Tony resume command?

Who let Barnacle aboard? Will the Somali unionised pirates ever get to speak?

To be continued...

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Business

The coal bowl and a bush administration Derek Schoen, president, NSW Farmers. PHOTO: NSW FARMERS

Derek Schoen was last week voted in as president of the NSW Farmers association.

The gentleman from Corowa once trained to be a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer intends for the association to tackle, head on, the multifaceted issues challenging agricultural industries today including the Shenhua Watermark Coal Project.

What’s been your involvement with NSW Farmers prior to becoming president?

I’ve been a member since 2000.

I used to be on the Corowa Shire Council, and was deputy mayor there for one term. When that finished up, I thought I’d like to get into the NSW Farmers and try to push advocacy on behalf of producers, so I slowly worked my up through the executive council and a number of committees. I was chairman of the cattle committee for three years and it gave me a good grounding; then for two years I’ve been on the board and for one year the vice-president. It’s been a gradual progression and learning the ropes as I go.

What’s your farming background?

In 1983 I took over running the family farm at Corowa. I currently run a mixed farming operation with my wife of 27 years, Leanne.

We have three adult children. I have 1000 ha in Corowa and 1000 ha at Wandsworth on the New England Tablelands.

What are your goals for NSW Farmers in the future?

I want to encourage or try to bed down new constitutional changes; to get a better membership structure, so it’s not such a convoluted process for members to actually progress policy to get new policy on the books. By flattening out the membership structure, it will make it easier to join. We used to have branches, districts and regions so it’s going to just be a branch structure and then executive councillors will be elected from that.

A live cattle trade has been announced this week with China.

How does that impact NSW producers?

That’s a real bonus for NSW producers because China will be looking for a completely different type of stock to the northern live export stock. It probably has to do with the cooking styles in China, more stir fries, so they probably want a more consistent and tender type of animal; a lot of the northern beef will probably go into more slow cooking type methods, which is more suited to

the Indonesian and Vietnam markets, while the Chinese market will be affecting down south here more than the northern market. It will put a base in the market here, which will be good.

Australian pork labelling is undergoing changes over the next 12-18 months. Why is there consumer confusion?

A lot of people don’t realise that pork that off the bone is often imported pork so a lot of your bacon products, and similar, are not made from Australian pork. Once it’s off the bone, you really have to look hard to see if it’s Australian pork, but if you buy something that has bone in it, I’m pretty sure you can guarantee it’s Australian because you’re not allowed to bring bone product in to the country.

The Shenhua Watermark Coal Project. Your thoughts please?

This is an appalling decision – the approval of the Shenhua Mine on prime agricultural land. We don’t have a lot of extremely fertile land in Australia. We’re one of the driest continents. We have very shallow soils and these are our premier soils on the Liverpool Plains.

They are not repeated anywhere else in Australia other than the Darling Downs. It’s unbelievable that we can allow something like this to happen and you have to realise the whole Liverpool Plains is underlined by coal so don’t think that’s its just going to stop with Shenhua. If this goes ahead, the next approval will be BHP and after they’ve exhausted their 30year life the rest of the Liverpool Plains will be mined, I guarantee it. So for short-term gain we’re going to lose this prime agricultural land.

Are there alternatives to the Shenhua site?

There’s plenty of alternatives.

There’s plenty of coal in Australia.

It’s not as though this is the only coal deposit we can access. There is a lot of coal in Australia. Even back home (Corowa) there’s coal just north of us at Oakland. It extends all the way down into the Riverina, so there is coal which can be mined in areas that won’t affect water tables and it won’t absolutely devastate prime agricultural land.

What impact is this mine going to have on farmers in the Liverpool Plains?

Farmers have to relocate because you can’t function with an enormous coal mine beside you. We’ve seen the disruption that it’s had in the Hunter Valley. They say you can rehabilitate the land, but you can’t get the land back to what it was.

What about the water table?

If the water table is interfered with, it’s interfered with permanently. You can not undo that damage. So once that’s done it’s irreversible. Can we run that risk?

I don’t think we can.

The political arena seems mesmerised by the short-term gain.

What would NSW Farmers seek from the leadership?

We need politicians to sit back

` ... in 30 years’ time Shenhua will be out of there, they’ll have made their money but the mess will be left behind – so the destroyed lives and the destroyed environment will be left for us to pick up the pieces...

and think; if something goes wrong this is a long-term problem that can’t be rectified. We have to keep the pressure up on the politicians and it affects all the political players, not just the Coalition. It’s Labor, it’s the Greens, it’s everyone; because they are our supposed leaders and if they can stand by and watch this happen, it is appalling.

It’s disappointing to see a number of the National Party politicians coming out in favour of largescale mining in private agricultural land. They’re supposed to be the politicians representing farmers and here they are advocating mining as a higher priority, so it’s very disappointing.

What does this project mean for Australia?

It just doesn’t effect NSW, it affects every Australian because it means no prime agricultural land is safe and you can have the rug pulled out from underneath your operation at any given time.

Chinese money is already changing the lie the land before one sod has been turned. What effect is this having on communities?

You can’t blame people for grabbing the money if it’s there. Often people have done it very tough for a long period of time and if there’s a wad of money there, some are tempted to grab it. It does cause divisions in families and the community which is a shame because in 30 years time Shenhua will be out of there, they’ll have made their money but the mess will be left behind – so the destroyed lives and the destroyed environment will be left for us to pick up the pieces.

The Liverpool Plains is not just a significant and important food bowl, there is heritage there as well?

Some of the farmers are the same families on properties since “selection”, up to 150 years getting close to 200 years of ownership in one family, and now, none of that counts. It’s all up for grabs with mining. I think it’s a shame we have laws that give mining such precedence over every thing; they’re given precedence over the environment and precedence over freehold land holders.

Is NSW Farmers offering a voice on this issue to the urban or metropolitan community?

We have an online letter on our website. The computer has been working over time trying to process the enquiries so we aim to really get that activated and accessible so that the politicians know what they’re up against. Visit http://www.standupforfarmers. com.au/ to sign the letter.

■ – As told to Yvette Aubusson-Foley

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 24.07.2015 to Sunday 26.07.2015 ADVERTORIAL

Good news, bad news leaves options up in the air

BY MATT WRIGHT PRESIDENT OF THE DUBBO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

O we have both good news and bad news – the opportunity to tap into a new market, on the one hand and on the other, a likely loss of business.

The good news, which readers have probably heard by now, is that JETGO Australia has approval to fly a direct return service from Brisbane to Dubbo, thanks to council’s “persuasive” case to the company. Now our civic leader is pushing for return flights to Melbourne.

Mayor Mathew Dickerson convinced JETGO Australia to have a go at Dubbo, arming himself with information such as that some 30 per cent of the passengers surveyed nominated Brisbane as the top destination for a direct flight other than to Sydney.

The landing of the company’s Embraer 135, twin-jet, 36-seat aircraft, carrying its managing director, Paul Bredereck, showed the mayor’s entreaties had paid off.

Here is a golden opportunity for Dubbo to capitalise on opportunities from the Brisbane/South-East Queensland area and beyond.

Bredereck, who hails originally from Coonabarabran, said he was “absolutely blown away” by the community’s interest in the service – early figures indicated 60 per cent of the bookings originated from Dubbo and 40 per cent from Brisbane.

As a consequence of the service’s popularity Bredereck had more good news: return services on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays would include Sundays, from August 3 – more good news...

It got better: “Our ambition is to get the frequency up to six days a week,” he said.

Now the Brisbane service is under his belt, Mayor Dickerson will continue to press the case for direct flights to Melbourne.

“We’re looking at it, but at this stage we haven’t made the business case for it. The mayor has been very persuasive,” Paul Bredereck told the welcoming party at the airport this week.

The Dubbo Chamber of Commerce and Industry believes the direct 80-minute service enhances Dubbo’s reputation as an easily accessible regional destination for business people, visitors and the community generally, and adds another spoke in the wheel of the city’s transport network rein-

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` The assessment is a wake-up call to accommodation providers. No ifs. No buts.

forcing its role as an important service and economic hub in the Central West.

Opening up the Brisbane/South East Queensland market and beyond to attractions in and around Dubbo is a new opportunity for the regional tourism sector to capitalise on.

Council has been distributing 150,000 copies of a glossy, 64-page Dubbo and Great Western Plains publication to entice such visitors to explore what the Coonamble, Dubbo. Gilgandra, Narromine and Warrumbungle local government areas have to offer.

The bad news, identified in a strategic assessment of tourist accommodation, is the standard of accommodation which could negatively affect the travellers’ experience while in the region – having a pleasant place to stay is a traveller’s expectation and an essential part of the experience.

The assessment, in A Great Western Plains Accommodation White Paper, prepared by Tourism and Hospitality Services Australia, is not favourable.

“To capitalise on opportunities a greater diversity of accommodation is required and much of the existing accommodation requires modernisation and the addition of facilities, services and packages to meet the expectations of today’s travellers,” the document states.

“Much of the accommodation...is old, small and tired. While some operators have undertaken redecoration, few have invested in significant refurbishments or renovations.”

The document notes there are 151 establishments in the region that potentially lack the scale required for contemporary commercial success and are unlikely to have reinvested in contemporary market quality.

“Great Western Plains has an abundance of accommodation [with] some of it not relevant to today’s travellers.

Recent new additions...have demonstrated the value of providing contemporary products, designed to be specific to their market needs, and linked to experiences valued by consumers.”

While it did not identify the number of establishments or sub-standard accommodation in any of the destinations, the report says Dubbo is the significant supplier of accommodation in the region. Nevertheless, the assessment is a wake-up call to accommodation providers. No ifs. No buts.

With the current promotion of the region by councils, the tourism sector and airline and coach operators – and, now, the boost to the industry with the arrival of JETGO – an unknown number of establishments could let the side down without the investment required to improve their “tired” accommodation offerings.

The report emphasises that “quality in all things... is paramount”.

JETGO will heighten the profile of Dubbo in the Queensland market.

The region’s accommodation operators would be wise to consider upgrading their establishments to capitalise on the expectations of passengers from Brisbane and other domestic and international travellers.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

6 keys to selecting the right business structure Introduction WHEN planning to start a business it’s important to use the right business structure. It is also wise to note that “one size does not fit all”. Before you jump in and choose your structure, consider these six important areas that will assist you to set up correctly from the beginning.

Key #1 – Keep things as simple as possible HAVING a business structure that is simple to understand will help you to see why you had such a structure in the first place. If you don’t understand why, you may not be set up in a way that is best for your circumstances because your advisor might not be aware of all of the facts.

Remember that set up costs and ongoing costs should always be taken into account. Generally, the more complex the structure, the more expensive it is to set up and run.

Key #2 – Keep your business separate from valuable assets IT’S generally wise to keep appreciating assets separate from your trading entity. Imagine if your business fell over and the land and buildings you bought were also exposed. Also, over time your business may have built up profits that you have not taken out, meaning that the business has significant assets such as cash at bank or trading stock. It is possible to protect these by having a holding company that operates as the banker and takes security over these assets.

Key #3 – Separate risk from individuals WHERE you have a family group, again for risk purposes, consider only one spouse being the director of operating companies and the other non-director spouse holding the passive and more valuable assets.

Key #4 – Trusts IF you use a trust, where risks are high (i.e. not an investment trust), consider using a corporate trustee so that you are not held personally liable for the debts of the trust.

Key #5 – Get it right first time THINKING ahead and having flexibility with your structure will save you time, money and, in some cases, unnecessary tax. You need to consider whether your needs could change.

Key #6 – What is your exit strategy?

THE right business structure allows for your future exit plans. A family trust might not be as good as, say, a company in certain circumstances where the owner is trying to exit the business down the track. Before setting up, these plans need to be considered.

Conclusion: BEFORE you set up your entity(s), consider the above six keys to assist you with your decision. Whilst it is hard to get exactly what you want, by considering these points you will be well on the way to selecting the right business structure given your specific circumstances. This will save you an enormous amount of time and money in the long run!

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Lifestyle

Heaven in a brekkie bowl

BY KATE WRIGHT INSPIREDMOOD.COM

LIKE to eat vegetables at every meal.

It’s an easy way to help ensure I get plenty of clean nutrition in my daily diet and it’s a brilliant method of “crowding out” less healthy foods. But in winter – when the mornings are cold, wet, windy and overcast – I really can’t go past the comfort of a warming bowl of porridge for breakfast. Porridge and vegetables: How could this work? I recently had the sweetest idea...

Beetroot! It’s a winter root vegetable, so it’s in season. It’s naturally sweet, so you don’t need added sweeteners such as honey or sugar. It throws a vibrant colour, so your day gets off to a bright start.

And it marries perfectly with chocolate (or raw cacao for a healthier option)!

Chocolate for breakfast? Yes please!

This Chocolate Beetroot Porridge is seriously sweet and divinely creamy and delicious. I couldn’t help but think of Cherry Ripes when eating it for breakfast. That’s not natural, is it?

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Serves 1.

* 1 teaspoon vanilla * 1 teaspoon raw cacao powder * 1 cup milk or water (I use The Little Big Dairy Co. full cream milk)

Ingredients: * 1/2 cup organic rolled oats * 1/2 small-medium sized beetroot, roasted, peeled and pureed

Method: 1. Add all ingredients to a medium saucepan and stir to combine.

Chocolate beetroot porridge

2. Cook over low heat, stirring regularly, until porridge thickens and starts to simmer.

3. When the porridge reaches your desired consistency (I like mine just on the other side of runny), turn off the heat and transfer to a bowl.

Enjoy!

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

Stretching: the truth and it’s not hard to do. A simple test of your flexibility can be performed by sitting on the floor with your legs out in front of you, shoulBY ROD FARDELL der width apart – making sure your knees are PERSONAL TRAINER not bent and your feet and toes are in an upORNING, legends. This week’s fo- right position, not pointing out. Simply use a pen and one finger from each hand to push the cus is on stretching.

There’s a lot of information and pen it as far forward as you can without lifting sessions based around stretching, or in your knees or turning your toes out. Imporother words, lengthening the muscles. tant: Do NOT bounce.

Now, measure the distance from your heels In prior times it was always a warm-up necessity to stretch prior to participat- backwards or forwards. If you are below minus 10 centimetres you really need to get into a ing in any sport or exercise session.

This myth quickly dissolved when a stretching routine ASAP. If you measure more number of tests on athletes indicated that it than 10 centimetres you are a legend. Well was much better to progressively warm the done. If you are in between you are average. muscle up by light movement duplicating the This is obviously one stretch for a small numactivities you were about to participate in, ber of muscle groups but a good way to idengraduating to a more intense movement once tify where you are.

Stretching is so essential to our daily functhis process was completed. More importantly, however, it’s essential to stretch AFTER your tion and is very popular in recent time in the workout or sport to lengthen the muscles you forms of yoga, pilates and Tai Chi. These classes focus primarily of stretching and then holdhave just contracted/shortened.

Stretching can be found to improve speed, ing the movement or very slow movements circulation and breathing. It can decrease across a full range.

The feel factor of completing a stretching sesstress and improve power and muscle stimulation. It is very regularly that you will see coach- sion or one of these sessions with most particies and weekend warriors dismiss stretching pants is the release of stiffness in the muscle. post-game or workout, only to struggle with Trainers will often refer to it as being supple. some injury down the track.

These sessions, while not cardio-vascularly demanding, can Ask anyone who has had a be extremely tough but most muscle tear during training and have a graduation process reor a game and they’ll tell you gardless of at what fitness level it is not a good experience. Exyou are. amples of stretches can be eas- Stretching every ily found via the internet and Long story short, everyone most classes will have a stretch- day is a great way should stretch. It will improve as ing phase towards the end of the to remain agile you practise. It will assist you at session. home, at work and in the sportand mobile and ing arena.

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Eyeing up a rising health concern

BY LISA SALMON S the MI6 chief M in the Bond films, Dame Judi Dench was the epitome of sharp-eyed efficiency.

But reality can be a world away from the movies and in real life, the veteran actress is far from sharp-eyed, as her vision has been badly affected by the eye condition, age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

The Macular Degeneration Foundation estimates that approximately one in seven Australians over 50 have some evidence of Macular Degeneration – that’s 1 million people.

Dench, 80, is one of more than half a million people in the UK living with late-stage AMD, and there are now renewed efforts to draw attention to their condition and highlight what can be done to reduce the risk of developing it.

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Dame Judi Dench.

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CENTRAL BLINDNESS AMD, which mainly affects people over the age of 60, is the most common cause of sight loss in Australia. The prevalence of the condition roughly quadruples every decade from the age of 60, so one in 2000 people are affected at 60, but by the age of 90, the figure goes up to one in five.

The condition causes central blindness, not complete blindness, sparing the peripheral vision (around the edges) and leaving dim images or black holes at the centre.

` “People don’t know that smoking can cause blindness... It’s very bad for your eyes.”a This means people with late-stage AMD may struggle or find it impossible to read, drive, identify faces, watch television, do fine detailed work, go up or down stairs safely and perform other everyday tasks. Dench, for example, now finds it difficult to read scripts and paint, and doesn’t like to travel alone.

AMD can also make it more difficult to see contrast and can change the way colour is seen. But as peripheral vision isn’t affected, people can often see out of the corner of their eye.

Cathy Yelf, chief executive of the Macular Society, explains that there are many types of macular disease, and while some are very rare genetic

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problems affecting younger people, the most common form is AMD. “It’s becoming more common because it’s largely a condition associated with ageing. It’s an urgent, public health issue,” she stresses.

“With late-stage macular degeneration, you can’t see faces, you can’t read, you can’t see the food on your plate and you can’t drive. It can cause enormous depression and suicidal thinking.”

Until recently, AMD wasn’t considered a disease and was just seen as a natural part of ageing.

“We don’t think of it like that any more,” says Yelf. “We’d all be blind in our eighties if it was just a normal part of ageing. There are genetic and lifestyle reasons, particularly smoking, why some people get it.”

The vision loss of AMD is caused by deterioration in the macula, a tiny area of the retina about the size of a grain of rice. There are two forms, known as ‘wet’ AMD and ‘dry’ AMD, which can sometimes occur simultaneously.

Indeed, Dench has wet AMD in one eye, and dry AMD in the other.

if the macula is swollen, distorting the resulting images.

“People can lose all their central vision within weeks if it’s not treated,” warns Yelf.

Wet AMD is treated with the relatively new drugs Lucentis and Avastin, which are injected into the back of the eye to prevent the growth of blood vessels.

“The treatment only slows down the progress – it’s not a cure,” says Yelf. “It may give people relatively good vision for a number of years, but it’s not going to stop the AMD forever.”

Mr Winfried Amoaku, a consultant ophthalmologist who researches AMD at Nottingham University in the UK, explains that the success of wet AMD treatment depends on speed of detection and treatment. It’s recommended that the first treatment is within two weeks of detection or onset, and should be followed up with regular monitoring and treatment.

“In other words, the earlier treatment is received, and the more regular the follow-up visits, the better the outcome,” he says.

He points out that there are around 40,000 new cases of wet AMD every year in that country, and stresses: “This number will increase as the population continues to age. We need to increase patient awareness about the condition.”

DRY AMD

REDUCE THE RISK

Cathy Yelf, chief executive of the Macular Society.

THIS most common form of AMD is the slow process of gradual deterioration of the macula, eventually leading to sight loss.

In the early stages of dry AMD, there are changes in the cells of the retina, and small clumps of lipids and cellular waste called drusen gather within it, interfering with the layers of the retina that support the photoreceptor rods and cones, and leading to cell death.

“Dry AMD is the slow death of the photoreceptor cells,” explains Yelf.

“It’s a bit like a carpet wearing out in patches, and it can take many months – or even years – for people’s vision to decline considerably.”

The first signs of dry AMD can be blurred vision, or seeing colours as more faded. There’s no treatment for this form of the condition, although there’s some evidence that nutritional supplementation can help slow down its progress.

THE most important modifiable risk factor for AMD is smoking.

“People don’t know that smoking can cause blindness,” says Yelf. “It’s very bad for your eyes.”

Smokers are three to four times more likely to get AMD, and even giving up smoking in later life immediately reduces the risk. Smokers who get wet AMD will have more severe symptoms and treatment won’t work as well, says Yelf, who stresses that it’s never too late to stop.

Genes are also a risk factor –

WET AMD IN this type of AMD, tiny abnormal blood vessels grow into the macula, leaking, scarring and causing rapid sight loss.

People can see a change in their vision overnight, noticing that images are distorted and straight lines appear wavy.

This is because light coming through the eye’s lens hits the retina unevenly

Mr Winfried Amoaku, a consultant ophthalmologist.

Dench’s mother had AMD, for example.

If you smoke and have the genes that make you more susceptible, you’re 20 times more likely to develop the condition.

AMD risk factors are similar to those for heart disease, because of the vascular link, so eating a healthy diet including lots of green leafy vegetables like kale, and other vegetables containing lutein, including spinach, broccoli, peas, sweetcorn and lettuce, can help reduce risk, as can maintaining a healthy weight and reducing blood pressure. Protecting the eyes from UV and blue light can also help keep eyes healthy.

GET TESTED BOTH the Macular Degeneration Foundation and the Macular Society recommend that people have their eyes tested regularly, as opticians can detect early AMD. “If you know you’ve got the early signs of AMD, you can at least modify your lifestyle to help slow its progress,” says Yelf, who points out there’s also plenty of practical help available both through registering as sight-impaired and receiving benefits, accessing low vision services to get better lighting, magnifiers etc, and getting help from support groups like the Macular Society.

“It’s important to understand that while there’s nothing that can be done medically for dry AMD, there are lots of things that can be done to help you get on with your life,” says Yelf.

“As many of us will live into our 80s or 90s, we don’t want to live with sight loss in those last years.

“People frequently say that of all the things going on with them in old age, this is the worst. It can be utterly devastating to lose your sight.”

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Prevalence of Macular Degeneration in Australia z Macular Degeneration is the leading cause of blindness and major vision loss z in Australia z 50 per cent of all blindness is due to Macular Degeneration z The prevalence of Macular Degeneration increases with age z The prevalence of Macular Degeneration is four times that of Dementia and more than half that of Diabetes. z Approximately 1 in 7 Australians over 50 (1 million people) have some evidence of Macular Degeneration z The number of people with some evidence of Macular Degeneration will increase by 70 per cent to 1.7 million by 2030, in the absence of effective prevention and treatment measures.

Source: Macular Degeneration Foundation

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IN THE KITCHEN | WITH...

Josh Moon: TAFE

Putting it all on the table Around the year Josh Moon was born, the commercial kitchen at TAFE Western and its Horizon’s Restaurant were being built. Both are teaching facilities for hospitality and culinary students to give them real life exposure to paying diners. Twenty years later, Josh was head chef this week in that same kitchen, taking his final steps toward graduating from a commercial cookery course. Words YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY. Photos CONNOR COMANSARGENT.

VERY few weeks a third year student must put all they’ve learned, both at TAFE and from their apprenticeship roles in commercial businesses around town, literally on the table.

It’s the ultimate test; creating a menu, choosing the recipes, sourcing and buying produce and ingredients, assigning roles in the kitchen to colleagues, then making it all happen behind the scenes in TAFE’s commercial kitchen, so the hospitality students can serve their culinary magic to the front of house in the Horizons Restaurant where customers will be paying $40 a head for the fare.

“He’s put the menu together, worked out all the recipes, given all the other students their jobs for tonight. It’s like their ‘final’,” says Damien Beard, head teacher, who is supervising the preparation of the meals.

“Diners are staff members and an email list is sent out to advise when the next restaurant night is on. The menu’s sent out as well so they have an idea of what to expect.”

This week it’s Josh Moon’s turn in the hot seat and when Dubbo Weekender arrives, the large stainless steel kitchen is humming with activity as his colleagues go about the business of prepping for the that night’s dinner.

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expectant diners start showing up at 6pm, and though he’s the centre of everything, Josh seems to be taking it all in his stride.

Stoves are aflame, chefs are busy chopping and stirring at their respective workstations dressed in white shirts and black pants and caps. Like worker bees, they’re at Josh’s beck and call, turning the chef de cuisine’s menu into the reality of Mexican food.

We’re not talking burritos or tacos here either. Josh’s menu reads: Entrée l Grilled Prawns with Almond Sauce l Grilled Pepper Poppers l Chicken Enchiladas with a Classic Mexican Salsa Main l Penne Pasta with Roast Tomato, Shallots and Rosemary l Spiced Red Rub Chicken Breast with Green Rice l Onion and Garlic Stuffed Beef Tenderloin with Roast Vegetables and a Cheese and Chilli Sauce Dessert l Churros with Raspberries and a Salted Caramel Sauce l Pumpkin in Brown Sugar with Coconut Custard l Poached Pear with Mexican Chocolate Ice-Cream and Biscotti

We find Josh negotiating terms with a stubborn pot of churros mixture. A colleague has struggled with its thick consistency and Josh steps in, taking charge of the wooden spoon to show the dessert who’s boss.

“The whole menu’s Mexican. This is churros,” he says, asking if I’ve heard of the dish. “You take an Australian donut, it’s pretty much a Mexican based-donut but nicer.”

It’s sounding delicious and knowing his version will be served with salted caramel sauce and raspberries I’m wishing I had a ticket to dinner.

“Have you been to The Mexi Co in Dubbo yet?” he asks, churning the mix.

“I’m a regular. Next time you go there, ask for the churros. Especially with the chocolate sauce – it’s beautiful,” he says.

“Tonight I’m serving mine with salted caramel sauce, which should be alright, and raspberries.”

Something tells me it’s going to be better than alright.

“When Spain had their revolution over there, they brought it over, but Mexico has claimed it,” he adds, churning the mix.

I turn my attention to a neighbouring stainless steel pot full of a dark purplish liquid with gleaming white-skinned pears just breaking the surface like pallid

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Stirring the churros mix

Opposite page: Student cooks, Left, back, Jenna Whalebone, Jenny Peisley, Josh Moon, front, Emily Lewis, Damien Beard, Maxine Van Zyl, Addison Currey and Jo Sullivan.

Above: Josh Moon

islands of sweet fruit.

“That’s a red wine poached pear. We’ll serve it with a Mexican chocolate ice-cream and biscotti,” Josh explains.

There’ll be about 30 customers dining in and if the pear dish doesn’t excite them perhaps the pumpkin in brown sugar will!

Working a full week as apprentice at the Commercial Hotel, Josh is like most of his colleagues – spending one day a week at TAFE taking formal learning and the rest of the time as an apprentice in the industry.

“We run the commercial cookery course over two and a half years now, so they come one day a week. Most of them are trade – as in apprentices – so they’re out of the workplace one day a week.

“It’s done that way so it suits industry and their staff’s not out too long,” says Damien Bear, head teacher who teaches both in the Dubbo and Mudgee TAFE Western campuses.

Some of the units studied include produce meat dishes, seafood and desserts.

“Once they’ve completed their time in the industry on the job and their TAFE studies, they’re a qualified cook,” he says.

“If they wanted to, they could progress and do a Certificate IV which gives them more of the management side, which might help them to take on a head chef role or second chef,” according to Beard.

All foods prepared by the student chefs are sourced locally.

“We try to encourage them to use local ingredients if it suits what they’re doing. We might even source things from Mudgee, which I can bring over.

“I encourage them to use seasonal local produce where possible,” he adds.

With a unique chef at the helm at each opening, head teacher (hospitality) Sue Greer says of the Horizons Restaurant: “It’s Dubbo’s best kept secret.”

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Horizons restaurant

Poached in red wine pears

Above: Hospitality students: Kirra Godfrey, Caleb Beasley and Lizzie Clarke.

Left: Poached Pear with Mexican Chocolate Ice-Cream and Biscotti

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The porky dish that pulls in punters

BY KEELEY BOLGER FFORDABLE, tasty and versatile, it’s no wonder our appetite for pulled pork shows no sign of waning.

Everywhere you look, from fast-food chains and highstreet favourites, all the way up to high-end restaurants, it seems some version of the American barbecue classic will be on the menu.

Indeed, you can order it in soft bun at a restaurant, liven up your picnics with a packet of Pulled Pork Sausage Rolls, or slurp on Pulled Pork & Bean soup at lunchtime.

While our craving for this flaky delight is evidently well catered for out and about, affable TV chef Tom Kerridge thinks it’s a doddle to recreate at home too.

Cooked over a low temperature for a long time, there’s limited faff required, and the slow cook time means you can get away with using a cheap cut of meat like pork shoulder.

“A dish like pulled pork really could be the answer for busy families who still want to enjoy a Sunday meal together,” says Kerridge, who is behind a new pulled pork campaign.

“All you need to do is apply a rub to the pork, stick it in the oven and then go enjoy your Sunday, while the oven does all the hard work. It’s much less fiddly than a roast, and pulling it apart with two forks at the end is easier than carving.”

But is “easy” for a Michelin-starred chef “impossible” for me, an enthusiastic but hit-and-miss foodie, who hasn’t cooked meat at home for three years?

To put Kerridge’s claim to the test, I assemble my ingredients and in a moment of misplaced confidence, invite two of my committed carnivore friends around for lunch, to help me and my husband, a lapsed vegetarian, chow our way through a big juicy batch.

With a sizeable six-hour cook time ahead, I heave the

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meat, which I marinaded overnight, into a casserole dish and bung it into the oven – and then leave for a morning yoga class, slightly fearful that my house might burn down while I’m gone.

Fortunately, when I open the front door an hour-and-ahalf later, a welcoming porky aroma greets me, suggesting that the meat is bubbling along just nicely.

With so few steps involved in making pulled pork though, I can’t help worrying that I’ve left something crucial out of the process, and compensate by making a complicated home-made coleslaw, potato salads and slicing a ridiculous number of bread rolls.

After a single check at the four-hour mark, I resist urges to peak again until it’s cooked for six hours, and then take the pork out of the oven.

Carving is one of my least favourite meat-based tasks, so I enjoy the process of shredding the shoulder to smithereens with two forks. Simply speaking, you can’t make a pig’s ear out of a dish which is supposed to look as ‘undone’ as pulled pork is, so there’s no chance of ruining the fruits of my labour at this late stage.

To serve, we leave the juicy shreds in the casserole dish and then load up our buns, adding mounds of coleslaw and washing it all down with plenty of cold beer for good measure (and in case it’s inedible).

To my surprise, it’s not inedible – it’s actually pretty good, and we duly pig out and demolish a whopping 1kg of pork between four of us (which is disgusting or impressive, depending where you sit on the diet spectrum).

Easy to pull off (no pun intended!), affordable and crowd-pleasing, I’d definitely plump for pulled pork again. :: Fancy having a go? Here are three of Tom Kerridge’s recipes.

Find more at www.lovepork. co.uk/campaigns/pulled-porktom-kerridge

Just peachy

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

WHEN they’re ripe, peaches are a sweet taste, whether eaten out of hand or in your favourite dessert.

There are two types of peaches: Early peaches are clingstone (woody centre pit adheres to flesh), and mid-summer peaches are freestone (woody pit falls out easily when fruit is cut in half).

Clingstone peaches are firmer and better for canning, grilling or adding to savoury cooked dishes. Freestone peaches are softer, juicer and more flavourful.

Best of all, peaches are a good source of potassium, vitamin C, vitamin A, niacin and soluble fibre. Peaches also are

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considered a diuretic and a mild laxative.

Peaches spoil very easily, even when unripe. Choose fragrant peaches that are unblemished and not too hard – they should yield slightly to the pressure of a thumb. Avoid peaches with green colouring, as they were probably picked too early. They’re not as sweet and won’t ripen properly.

Peaches don’t get sweeter after they’re harvested, though fruit will become softer and juicer as it matures.

Look for skins that show background colour of yellow or cream – the amount of red or pink “blush” on the fruit depends on variety and is not a reliable indicator of ripeness. Watch out for dark-coloured, mushy, bruised peaches

that are overripe and beginning to spoil.

Tan circles or spots on the skin are early signs of decay.

Don’t pack peaches too closely, or they’ll spoil and cause nearby peaches to rot. Unripe peaches can be left to ripen at room temperature. This process can be hastened by placing them in a paper bag for a few days.

Peaches taste best at room temperature and will keep for 3-4 days, slightly longer in the refrigerator. Wash the fruit just before eating.

Peaches peel more easily if blanched for 1 minute, then cooled immediately in ice-cold water to stop the effect of the heat... do not soak. The flesh of the peach tends to brown on contact

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TOM KERRIDGE'S PERFECT PULLED PORK (Serves 6-8) 1.5kg pork shoulder 1L chicken stock To make the spice rub, mix together: 50g table salt 75g muscovado sugar 1tbsp dried sage 1tbsp English mustard powder 1tsp dried thyme 1tbsp cracked black pepper 1tbsp cumin seeds, toasted 3 star anise, toasted and crushed 1tsp garlic powder

TOM KERRIDGEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BLACK PEPPER PULLED PORK SLOPPY JOE (Serves 6) 2 white onions, sliced 1tbsp garlic powder 3 cloves of garlic, grated 2tsp cracked black pepper 1tbsp tomato puree 1pt chicken stock 400g pulled pork (follow previous recipe to prepare this) 2 green peppers, diced 1 green chilli, sliced 1tbsp American mustard Zest of 1 lime A pinch of cayenne pepper 1tbsp smoked paprika 1tsp marjoram

To serve: 6 glazed hot dog buns 1tbsp pickled green chillies 2 banana shallots, sliced into rings 1tsp toasted yellow mustard seeds 3tbsp sour cream (in a squeezy bottle) 3tbsp American mustard (in a squeezy bottle) How to prepare it: In a heavy based sauce pan, heat a little oil and fry off the onions until golden. Add the garlic powder, fresh garlic, paprika, marjoram and black pepper and sweat down for a few minutes to release the flavour.

How to prepare it: Lay the pork shoulder in a roasting dish and with a sharp knife, score 10 or so deep holes into the flesh. Rub the combined spice mix all over the meat and into the grooves you've made, making sure the mix is fully rubbed in. Wrap the joint completely in cling film and place in the fridge overnight.

The following day, remove the pork from the fridge and take off the cling film. Place in a casserole dish and pour over the

chicken stock. Cover with a lid and place into a pre-heated oven at 150C for five-six hours â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at the four-hour mark, remove the lid for a crispy crust.

Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave to rest for half hour or so before pulling the meat apart with a fork.

For the clotted cream mash: 100g double cream 30g butter 300g dry mashed potatoes Salt and white pepper 100g clotted cream How to prepare it: Fry the onion until soft, then add the cider, all the apples, mustard and stock.

Bring to the boil, then add the pulled pork. Simmer until the mixture has reduced by two thirds, and then remove from the heat.

Leave the mix to cool and then add the brown sauce and sage. Work the mix into 100g balls then put them in the fridge to set.

Once set, wrap each one in a single layer of the caul fat, and then put back in the fridge for the fat to dry a little.

While this is happening,

make the pastry. Put all the dry ingredients into a bowl.

Combine the fat and water in a saucepan, bring to the boil and stir this into the dry mix with a wooden spoon.

Once the mix is fully combined, work with your hands and then divide into six. Roll out and wrap the balls of meat (now out of the fridge) individually. Repeat until you have six lovely round pies, prick a hole in each one and brush with the egg yolk. Season with a little sea salt and thyme.

Bake at 185C for 16 minutes, turning each pie once.

To make the mash, bring the double cream and butter to the boil. Stir this in to warm the dry mash, then season with salt and white pepper.

To finish, stir in the clotted cream.

Add the puree and chicken stock and bring up to the boil.

Once boiling, add the pulled pork and simmer for one hour.

Ten minutes from the end, add the green pepper and green chilli and allow to soften slightly. To finish, add the mustard, lime zest and cayenne pepper.

To serve, spoon the mixture into the glazed hotdog buns, scatter over the pickled chillies, shallot rings and mustard seeds.

Then pipe over the sour cream and mustard.

TOM KERRIDGE'S SCRUMPY AND APPLE PULLED PORK PIE WITH CLOTTED CREAM MASH (Serves 6) 1 onion, diced 550ml dry cider 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced 1tsp English mustard 200ml chicken stock 400g pulled pork (follow first recipe to prepare this) 1tbsp brown sauce 1tsp sage 2tbsp chopped dried apple 200g caul fat (available from the butcher) For the pastry: 125g wholemeal flour 125g bread flour 50g semolina Pinch of mustard powder 90ml water 75g lard Egg yolks to glaze 1tsp picked thyme Pinch of sea salt

with air. To prevent this, eat or cook the peach immediately, or sprinkle it with lemon or orange juice, or an ascorbic-acid product.

Freezing: Select fully ripe fruit. Peel, pit and slice. Treat to prevent darkening. Sugar pack: sprinkle fruit with desired amount of sugar; gently stir; allow fruit to stand until sugar dissolves; pack fruit into freezer container leaving 1-2cm headspace.

Syrup pack: Prepare a light, medium or heavy syrup of your choice. Add 1/2 cup syrup to freezer container; add sliced fruit and gently shake to pack fruit, leaving 1-2cm headspace.

Dehydrating: Remove skin and pits. Cut into 1-2cm slices or circles. Treat to prevent darkening. Dry at 54C until pliable with no moisture.

Drying concentrates the nutrients; dried peaches are especially rich in potassium and iron.

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My recipe for Grilled Peaches with Lemon Honey Cream is an easy way to showcase the delicious flavour of summer peaches.

(Additional information provided by Susan Mills-Gray, Nutrition Specialist.)

ter and sprinkle each with sugar. Remove peaches from grill. Sprinkle half of crushed cookies on each peach. Top with Lemon Honey Cream Topping and sprinkle with remaining cookie mixture.

GRILLED PEACHES WITH TOPPING

Makes approximately 2 1/3 cups 2 cups half-and-half 1/4 cup sugar, stevia or agave nectar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons honey 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice 1/8 teaspoon salt 3 egg yolks How to prepare: Whisk together all ingredients in a heavy 3-quart (2.8 litre) saucepan. Bring to boil over medium heat, whisking constantly. Boil, whisking constantly, for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Serve warm or cold.

Serves 4.

4 large, fresh, ripe peaches, halved 1 1/2 tablespoons butter, melted 2 tablespoons sugar Lemon Honey Cream Topping (recipe follows) 8 gingersnaps or vanilla wafers, crushed How to prepare: 1. Heat grill or stovetop grill pan, and grease the grill or pan with a neutral-flavoured oil. When grill is hot, place peaches, cut-side down, on it for 5 minutes or until peaches soften and have grill marks.

2. Turn peaches cut-side up; brush with melted but-

LEMON HONEY CREAM

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Secret islands of the Venetian lagoon

Once a hospital and haven for the insane, this piece of Venice has been transformed for tourists.

BY SARAH MARSHALL AMOUS for being sticky, sweaty and (some might even cruelly claim) smelly during the height of summer, Venice is rarely relieved by a cool breeze. That probably explains why Isola delle Rose, a 16-hectare island south of San Marco, has always been known to Venetians as a jewel in the lagoon.

With temperatures teetering at a lethargy-inducing 31C, I welcome the salty Adriatic sea breeze billowing ` When the the muslin drapes on my rooftop hospital closed in daybed. Operating as a sanatorium in the 1920s, the island offered the 1970s, the island recuperation to patients with pul- was abandoned for monary diseases. The hospital has decades, and the since been replaced with a hotel, overgrown linden although rest and recuperation forests became are still high on the agenda. a favourite picnic Made from the sand and soil dug out during the construction spot for Venetians of the city’s commercial port, Isosneaking here in la delle Rose is one of 35 islands private boats...a in the Venetian Lagoon. While tourist hotspots such as Burano (famous for it’s colourful fishermen’s houses) and Murano (home to a worldrenowned glass-blowing industry) are firmly on the map, other islands – once used to isolate plague victims or even as lunatic asylums – have been forgotten.

Hoteliers, though, are starting to reJW MARRIOTT VENICE, IN VENICE. PHOTOS: PA/MIRCO TOFFOLO. alise a hitherto missed opportunity; in 2014 the Starwood group relaunched Today, they can still moor up alongMilan-based Matteo Thun. A conveyor the five-star property on Isola di San belt of visitors churns through the busy side the hotel, although the food now Clemente and in March this year, reception area – which at times feels on offer is of a much higher standard.

Marriott opened their swish summer resort on Isola delle Rose. Operating from even more manic than San Marco – but Presided over by Michelin-starred chef quirky touches, such as giant glass jars March to October, the hotel consumes Gianfranco Perbellini, the gourmet filled with complimentary jelly sweets, the peaceful green grounds where cenDopolavoro restaurant is well worth the save the former hospital from feeling tury-old olive groves – quite unheard of 20-minute boat ride from Venice, even if too clinical. this far north – flourish, thanks to the unique microclimate.

Outside the main building, several There are several seasonal hotels in grain stores have been converted into Venice but this is a different concept; garden villas, with private pools and an escape from the summer madness trellises of fragrant jasmine. A pre-Rothat besets the city as cruise liners demanesque church, although not conseposit hordes of tourists in the narrow, crated, is available for event use, and labyrinthine streets. an industrial water tower looks all-tooWhile lazing with a Bellini (try the tempting to climb. Although a frustrathotel’s twist on the classic cocktail, ing inconvenience for hotel planners, made with Ruinart champagne and this protected piece of the Venetian skyfresh white peach) in the rooftop infinline is, to my mind, a defining feature of ity pool, I enjoy a clear, crowd-free view Isola delle Rose. of Venice, or La Serenissima to locals.

I wander through the shady 19th cenI’m told it’s even possible to see the faint tury gardens, landscaped to an origioutline of the Alps on a good day. nal design, listening to birdsong. When It took 350 workers four years to comthe hospital closed in the 1970s, the plete the 250-room hotel, restoring island was abandoned for decades, and original 19th century buildings wherthe overgrown linden forests became ever possible. I stay in the main wing, a favourite picnic spot for Venetians with cool, neutral interiors, designed by Venice sneaking here in private boats.

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you’re not staying at the hotel.

Once used as a social space by hospital workers (even the name, which means ‘after work’, is borrowed), the moody, mirror-filled restaurant is stirring up Venice’s somewhat stale culinary scene with creative dishes such as

Machu Picchu draws one million a year

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LIMA: The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, considered to be one of the seven wonders of the world, welcomes an average of one million visitors a year.

The head of the Decentralised Department of Culture in Cuzco, Ricardo Ruiz Caro, told Peru’s state-run Andina news agency the famous ruins receive an average of 3300 Peruvian and foreign tourists each day.

This is why authorities are planning a series of efforts to better “balance” the visits and relieve congestion at the citadel, he said.

“We want to use the time more efficiently, (and) the load capacity study that is being final-

ised establishes that just two of the more than 12 hours of daylight we have are the ones that are intensively used,” Ruiz Caro said.

He ruled out the possibility of establishing a schedule of night visits to Machu Picchu because it is a very sensitive nature zone from a biological and environmental point of view.

“It would have to be analysed, whether nocturnal use would alter living systems. We believe that in the short term there’s no chance of a nocturnal schedule,” he said.

He also said the large number of visitors who come to the monument is not the problem, but rather the way they are handled.

“Under current conditions, which have not changed in nearly 40 years, we’re very close to the limit of what is reasonable to receive for tourist visits. But we understand that when (there is) a new management model, where the tourist space is multiplied, the number can vary substantially.”

Ruiz Caro emphasised the high number of visitors generates a significant amount of local business and jobs, and he said “just putting in place a policy that limits the number of visitors... creates a problem of lost opportunities for the rest of society”.

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zabaglione topped with caviar, and a pork belly so tender I almost mistake it for a tuna steak.

There are three other restaurants to dine in: breakfast bar Cucina; relaxed Sagra, serving a rotating menu of regional cuisine; and al fresco grill, Giardino.

At the onsite Sapori Cooking Academy, I spend the afternoon with unfalteringly patient chef Matteo, learning the secret to a good tiramisu lies in a vat of mascarpone equivalent to a woman’s annual calorie count. Yet I still order the caffeine-kick dish (which Venetians like to claim as their own) for dessert. Twice a day.

Besides, there’s plenty opportunity to burn off creamy fat in the gym, or cheat with a body contouring treatment at the GOCO garden spa, the largest in Venice with its sauna, steam room and a hydropool looking out to the lagoon. (Access to facilities costs an extra 25 euros.)

I try a QMS facial (169 euros), where oxygen is blasted into my skin, stamping pesky crows’ feet into submission, although less invasive treatments are available with the organic AMALA range.

While Isola delle Rose’s trump card is its separation from Venice, it’s also the hotel’s main drawback. A regular 20-minute shuttle service runs to San Marco until 1am, but the 9am start is a little too late to avoid heaving crowds.

But while Venice first-timers might prefer to be in the thick of the action, returning visitors will relish a chance to weave beyond bricole poles and delve further into the salt marshes, discovering new jewels in the regal city’s crown.

DETOUR TO LESSER KNOWN ISLANDS IN THE VENETIAN LAGOON

A view of Venice.

One of the bedrooms in JW Marriott Venice.

The GOCO Spa garden in Venice.

One of the bedrooms in JW Marriott Venice.

:: San Servolo LYING opposite Isola delle Rose, this island was inhabited by Benedictine monks from the eighth century. It was later used as a military hospital, and then a place to care for the mentally ill.

It’s now home to Venice International University, although the original pharmacy is still open to the public. Explore the pretty gardens, filled with medicinal plants once used by the hospital and now functioning as an exhibition space for the Venice Biennale. Entry is free, but the Insane Asylum Museum (open Friday to Sunday from May to September) costs 6 euros.

Take the vaporetto line 20 (7 euros one way) from San Zaccaria, close to San Marco (10 minutes).

Visit www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it :: San Lazzaro degli Armeni THE next stop from San Servolo, en route to the Lido, this wonderful island belongs to an order of Armenian monks.

Over the centuries, literary figures – including Lord Byron, who allegedly learned Armenian here in six months – have flocked to this retreat. Multilingual monks still conduct public tours

daily at 3.30pm, visiting the church, refectory and library filled with precious books. Lookout for interesting artefacts including an Egyptian mummy! Tickets for the tour cost 6 euros.

The Republic of Armenia was recently announced as the national winner of the 56th Biennale, and the artwork is on display here until November 22. Take the vaporetto line 20 from San Zaccaria, close to San Marco (13 minutes).

Call +39 (0)41 5260104 for more

information on this island. :: Vignole DOMINATED by poppy fields and allotments, this residential island is visited

by Venetians seeking a sleepy afternoon in the cradle of nature. A public footpath leads to the remains of a seventh century church, but continue over a bridge to the simple, waterfront Trattoria alle Vignole (open for lunch and dinner from mid-May to September), serving pizzas and seafood dishes (from 8

euros). Looking out to San Pietro di Castello, the first cathedral of Venice, it’s a great place to watch the sunset. Just beware of mosquitos!

Take the vaporetto line 13 from Fondamente Nove (20 minutes).

Call +39 (0)41 5289707 for more information.

Surge in interest for popular Oz trek

Troubled WA travel agent strands customers

Eurostar has record traffic, higher sales

AirAsia to restart Japan flights in 2016

HOBART: Tasmania’s popular Overland Track has experienced a surge in interest with bushwalkers rushing to book out the peak summer season within three weeks of passes going on sale. State Parks Minister Matthew Groom on Thursday reported a “massive increase in interest in walking the iconic track next season” and warned the window from December 26 to January 6 is already fully booked. Usually completed in five or six days, the 65km trek – which is known as one of Australia’s favourites – twists through temperate rain forest and crosses wild rivers as it stretches from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair.

PERTH: Dozens of Perth travellers could be left thousands of dollars out of pocket and without a holiday after a local travel agency ran into financial difficulties.

Consumer Protection is urging customers of Fremantle-based Sky Air Services to contact them after receiving numerous complaints that flights and accommodation booked by the company had not been paid in full.

Most of the complaints are from the Croatian and Serbian community as the agency specialised in travel to those countries.

PARIS: Eurostar says it’s seen record passenger traffic and 1.5 per cent higher sales on its trains operating between the UK and the continent during the second quarter of 2015. The 2.8 million customers during the period from April through June was “the largest number of passengers ever carried on Eurostar in one quarter,” the company’s said in a statement, adding that the number of business travellers rose by 10 per cent.

Over all, Eurostar ticket sales increased 1.5 per cent compared to the same period last year to STG232 million ($A486.58 million), contributing to a two per cent rise for the full first semester of 2015.

TOKYO: AirAsia says it will start domestic and international flights from Japan early next year, after a high-profile exit from the market following the collapse of its joint venture with All Nippon Airways. The Malaysia-based company said it has applied to Japan’s transport ministry to operate commercial flights, becoming the latest budget carrier aiming to crack a market long-controlled by ANA and rival Japan Airlines. “AirAsia Japan will launch both Japan domestic and international routes from its base in Chubu Centrair Airport starting spring 2016,” said AirAsia Japan’s chief executive Yoshinori Odagiri on Wednesday.

:: Sarah Marshall was a guest of the JW Marriott Venice (www.jwmarriottvenice. com)

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Fishing for adventure in West Sweden

The West Sweden coastline. PHOTOS: PA/THINKSTOCKPHOTOS.

BY SARAH MARSHALL INDING inspiration to write a postcard home from small Swedish fishing village Fjallbacka isn’t difficult.

Anyone lost for ideas need only glance at the elaborate, adjective-laden travel scripts pinned outside globally-themed rooms in the boutique Stora Hotellet Bryggan hotel.

Each letter was supposedly written by fictional character Captain Klassen, regaling tales of his adventures around the world. Given the breadth of his voyages – from Indonesia to Africa and the Americas – it’s somehow ironic that his words should wind up in a sleepy seaside town barely acknowledged on a world map.

But when hotel manager Susanne Maxvall invented the character, she was clearly tapping into a sense of nautical adventure that drenches Fjallbacka like the spray from the refreshing North Sea. Set along a coastline of rough-hewn bluffs with an archipelago of 8000 islands and skerries, Fjallbacka is the star attraction in the scenic Bohuslan region. An easy 1.5-hour drive from Sweden’s second city Gothenburg, it’s a

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favourite weekend haunt for nature-starved urbanites and also attracts tourists on a city and surf two-centre trip.

I’ve come here for an alternative seaside break, where fish ‘n’ chip shops take the form of seafood safaris and the only sticks of rock I’ll encounter are towering cairns atop the town’s dominating Vetteberget mountain.

Passing rows of classic clapboard houses, and buildings decorated with intricate designs known as snickargladje (carpenter’s joy), I head to the harbour where a bust of Ingrid Bergman is surrounded by wild flowers.

The Swedish Hollywood actress first came here on holiday in 1958, then spent every summer – bar one – until her death in 1982 on nearby island Dannholmen, purchased by her third husband Lars Schmidt. They would regularly throw parties for A-listers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Diana Ross, no doubt helping to fuel the astronomic rise in Fjallbacka’s property prices.

When Ingrid Bergman died, she requested her ashes be cast out at sea and it’s here that the magic of West Sweden really takes hold.

Styrso Island, on the Gothenburg archipelago. PHOTO: PA /STEAMPIPE PRODUCTION STUDIO AB.

Along with seven other tourists, I join fisherman Ingemar Granquist on a boat trip to look for langoustines, a speciality in this region.

Visitors can join seafood safaris throughout the year, although the delicacies on offer differ depending on the season. Langoustines can be fished from spring through to autumn, while the lobster season starts at the end of September.

Shellfish in this part of the world is exceptional. Ingemar, who ditched his office job to become a fisherman in 1990, has supplied langoustines to Saudi Arabian princes and some of his catch was even served at last year’s Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.

Cold water caused by the Gulf Stream means seafood grows more slowly in this part of the world, enhancing the flavour.

Ingemar tells me that while oysters take two years to grow off the French coast, here they require six years.

But it’s not just the thought of fresh catch which grabs my imagination; being out on the water is the best way to enjoy West Sweden’s coastline, drifting past lone lighthouses and isolated islets, arousing a childhood desire to scramble ashore, hoist up a flag and claim them

Flights resume after Indon ash cloud shifts

TRAVEL BRIEFS

SYDNEY: Jetstar has resumed flying to and from Bali while Virgin Australia flights are now running on time, after a volcanic ash cloud hovering around Denpasar airport moved away from the area.

“We’ve determined it’s safe to resume services,” Jetstar said in a statement on Thursday.

Virgin Australia agreed, saying all of its daytime flights from Australian to Denpasar will operate.

The airline will update travellers at about 2pm AEST on the fate of its evening services from Denpasar.

“We are monitoring the situation closely,”

Virgin Australian said.

Unfavourable winds this week pushed ash from the Mount Raung volcano in Indonesia back towards Denpasar, forcing the closure of its airport.

Ash clouds can choke jet engines and destroy bodywork.

Aviation expert Geoff Thomas says while the winds are blowing the ash cloud away from Bali, the threat may not be over.

“This volcano is continuing to erupt,” he told the Seven Network.

“It shows no sign of abating and it really depends on the wind conditions, which way

the wind is going to blow this ash, and so we could have the same situation in 24 or 48 hours.”

Both airlines will operate additional flight in and out of Denpasar to help travellers get to their destinations.

Virgin Australia also said it would waive fare differences for travellers booked to travel to Bali by July 28, but who want to switch to one of 12 other Indonesian islands.

Earlier this month, thousands of Australians were stranded for extended periods in Bali due the threat of the ash cloud.

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Fjallbacka village.

Gefveskar, on the Gothenburg archipelago. PHOTOS: PA/JORMA VALKONEN.

Fjallbacka village.

Fjallbacka village.

Styrso Island, on the Gothenburg archipelago. PHOTO: PA/JOHANNES BERNER.

as your own.

It’s a good job there are plenty of alternative distractions, because our attempts to locate langoustines are largely unsuccessful. As we peer eagerly over the side of the boat, drizzled by a mist of salty water, Ingemar hauls in several empty rope and metal pots with only the odd crab as prize booty.

There are strict regulations governing fishing in the area, and Ingemar carefully casts back the few female langoustines we find in order to stick by sustainable practices.

Along with the 10 professional fishermen who operate in this region, residents are also permitted 14 pots per household. Lobsters in particular are carefully monitored by marine police, although Ingemar hints that sometimes foul play is afoot.

It almost sounds like a case for bestselling crime novelist Camilla Lackberg, whose stories set in Fjallbacka have caused a surge of interest in the town. Every Friday and Saturday at 5pm, 45-minute walking tours (in English) guide tourists around the highlight locations featured in Camilla’s books.

A macabre highlight is the local graveyard, which

provides the opening scene for three of her novels – although the church warden has since asked Camilla to stop including the spot, as residents are now reluctant to be buried there.

In the slow summer twilight, there’s nothing remotely dark or murderous about Fjallbacka, but in winter when the population shrinks and charcoal-grey clouds grow thicker, I imagine it could easily provide fodder for a Scandi noir thriller.

I climb the natural stairwell that winds through the Kungsklyftan ravine, caused by an earthquake 250 million years ago, and stand on top of Vetteberget mountain looking out to Valo Island, where Camilla attended a summer school and which would later become one of her fictional crime scenes.

Anyone keen to explore the outer islands can pay 110 sek (approx $A17.20) to join a

Fishing gear at Vrango Island, on the Gothenburg archipelago.

PHOTO: PA/BEATRICE TORNROS.

post boat delivering mail to residents, which departs at 10.20am every weekday.

But idyllic island life isn’t restricted to this part of the coastline – even back in Gothenburg, where I wind up my weekend break, it’s possible to get out on the water and ferry hop between islands in the Gothenburg archipelago.

I base myself at the Gothia Towers hotel, a slick glass highrise overlooking the Liseberg amusement park, where the rooftop Heaven 23 restaurant serves a piled-high open kingsize prawn sandwich that even the hungriest diner would struggle to scale.

It’s easy enough to get out of the town centre, and a short tram and very pleasant ferry ride later (see www.vasttrafik.se for ferry timetables) I’m in Styrso, one of the larger inhabited islands where visiting Swedes wistfully imagine they might own a summerhouse one day.

With cars prohibited, residents get about in golf carts or motorised scooters with sidecars, to carry luggage, wood blocks or even family members.

I walk along pathways where ruby red plants dress rocks like embroidered shawls, and pass grand canary-yellow properties with fairytale turrets. I stop at a quiet jetty where a crouching child is fishing for crabs with a piece of string, and an old man is sitting on a bench, drinking beer and watching the silhouettes of cruise liners on the horizon.

Fjallbacka village.

Fjallbacka village.

“I come here every evening,” he tells me. “I know it must be 8pm when the Stena Line ship goes past.”

I climb to the top of Stora Ros, a vantage point with a superb panorama of the archipelago, where clusters of boulders arch from the water like semi-submerged turtles.

I’ve no idea whether or not Captain Klassen has passed by here on his travels. But I somehow doubt he’d be lost for words.

• Sarah Marshall was a guest of the West Sweden and Visit Gothenburg tourist boards.

TRAVEL FACTS Q The Crayfish Safari with City Pulse package costs 3,200 sek (approx $A500) pp and includes one night at Gothia Towers in Gothenburg and one night at Stora Hotellet Bryggan in Fjallbacka, both with breakfast. Also includes a seafood safari, one lunch and two dinners. Flights and car hire extra. Visit www.vastsverige.com

Airlines carve US into dominated markets

BY DAVID KOENIG AND SCOTT MAYEROWITZ DALLAS, TEXAS: The wave of consolidation that swept the US airline industry has markedly reduced competition at many of the nation’s major airports, and passengers appear to be paying the price in higher fares and fees, an Associated Press analysis has found.

Over the past decade, mega-mergers reduced nine large US airlines to four – American, United, Delta and Southwest – with the result that travellers are increasingly finding

their home airport dominated by just one or two players.

Over the same period, domestic airfares rose faster than inflation, and analysts believe one leading factor is the decline in competitive pressure.

“Airlines aren’t going at each other like they used to,” said Mike Boyd, an aviation consultant frequently hired by airports.

“They have their turf, and they very rarely go to the mattresses with one another.”

At 40 of the 100 largest US airports, a single airline controls a majority of the market, as measured by the number of seats for

sale, up from 34 airports a decade earlier. At 93 of the top 100, one or two airlines control a majority of the seats, an increase from 78 airports, according to AP’s analysis of data from Diio, an airline-schedule tracking service.

Overall, domestic fares have climbed five per cent over the past 10 years, after adjusting for inflation. And that doesn’t include the $US25 checked bag fee and other add-on charges that many fliers now pay.

To be sure, other factors have contributed to higher fares, among them a stronger economy, longer average flight distances

and, for most of the past few years, some of the highest fuel prices in history. However, analysts believe consolidation freed airlines to charge more.

The strategy is paying off: In the past two years, US airlines made a record $US19.7 billion ($A26.56 billion) in profits, even though air travel is growing only modestly.

The airlines’ main trade group, Airlines for America, said the fare increases reflect stronger demand for travel and are not solely a result of the mergers. The group noted that airlines have used their profits to buy new jets and update airport facilities.

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Goodness gracious Meera The star of The Kumars At No. 42 draws on her own experiences as an older mother for her latest book

BY HANNAH STEPHENSON THE subject of older mothers inevitably arises in conversation with Meera Syal, who had her son Shaan at 44, and whose latest novel features an older woman and her younger husband going to great lengths to have a child.

Yet The House Of Hidden Mothers is not autobiographical. The main theme is surrogacy – the route the fictional couple follow to India – and the relationship which develops between them and the surrogate.

The idea was inspired when The Kumars At No. 42 star watched a documentary about an Indian surrogacy clinic.

“I had no idea at that point that the Indian surrogacy industry was the biggest in the world and unregulated. It was the image of this row of Indian women in saris in a dormitory, all heavily pregnant and waiting to give their babies away, that really moved me.”

Syal’s own situation was very different to that of her characters. She married her Goodness Gracious Me co-star Sanjeev Bhaskar in 2005 and fell pregnant soon afterwards.

“I was very lucky. I just got pregnant immediately,” says the 53-year-old writer and actress, who already had a daughter, Chameli, from her first marriage to journalist Shekhar Bhatia. “ And that actually wasn’t easy, because I had a couple of close friends who were going through infertility problems. I remember not being able to tell either of them for some time because I felt grateful for my own good luck, but so desperately guilty.”

During her research, she spent a lot of time with a couple she found who’d had two children via Indian surrogates – “That was the most valuable part for the emotional journey” – and admits she now has mixed feeling about the process.

“I’m really quite divided about it. I can sit here with my two children and say, ‘It’s wrong, it’s exploitative, no one beyond 45 should even think about it’, but then I’m not that woman or that man.”

There are pros and cons to being an older mother, she reflects.

“It’s tougher in some ways and easier in others. Tougher because you just don’t have the energy you once had. The sleepless nights are torture. You feel like you’re in some kind of seventh level of hell that no one else can understand.

“I had a son who didn’t sleep through the night for two years, whereas my first child slept through from six weeks. Go figure. It’s just the luck of the draw.

“But on the other hand, you are more solvent. I could afford the kind of childcare that kept me sane that I couldn’t afford the first time around. You’re a bit more relaxed about things, you don’t feel obliged to join in with every mother’s group that you do on your first one.

“Where it becomes darker, is thinking, ‘I’m not sure if I’m going to see grand-kids from this child’, and that makes me really sad. My children have had both sets of grandparents for a long time and it’s been a really brilliant thing in their lives. Those are the long-term things that get you a bit.”

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Meera Syal (left) and husband Sanjeev Bhaskar attending the launch party for her new novel The House of Hidden Mothers in London. PHOTO: JOHN STILLWELL/PA PHOTOS.

In the novel, the woman’s older daughter, who’s 19, does not take kindly to the news that her mother will be using a surrogate to have another baby.

Chameli was 13 when Syal fell pregnant with Shaan.

“She found it quite difficult at first, because she’d had me all to herself. There’s also that thought, ‘Ew, my mother’s been having sex!’

But that didn’t last long, because once babies arrive, they’re gorgeous and it all changes. I’m really glad that my children have each other.”

Her daughter still lives at home, as do most graduates, Syal observes.

“Everyone I know is digging out their basement or their loft. Everyone is becoming Indian and doing the joint family thing now. We’re just feeling a bit smug, going, ‘Yep, told you – that’s the way it works’.”

It’s one thing being an older mother, but playing Bhaskar’s grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars was a joy, she recalls, although there are currently no plans to bring back the spoof chat show featuring a fictional British-Indian family.

“We loved that show,” she says nostalgically.

“I love it when you get parts where you don’t have to worry about whether your stomach’s hanging out or if you’ve got a wrinkle. Pile it on! Just make me look as bad as I can possibly look!”

She and Bhaskar will be creating more laughs together, however, as they collaborate on a Goodness Gracious Me special to be shown on British TV in September. She’s unsure whether it will return as a series.

“There’s always interest hovering around, but it has to be the right thing. I think there’ll probably be some hybrid of Goodness Gracious Me before The Kumars. There are certainly plans afoot to do something with the Goodness Gracious Me team.”

Born in England to Punjabi parents, who left Delhi for a brighter future in the UK, Syal used her humour as a defence mechanism to appease the bullies.

“If you ask a lot of comedians, they say they developed a quick tongue because if you make someone laugh, they’re not going to punch you in the face.”

She says everyone encountered racism in that generation.

“It was just part and parcel of daily life, but we hid a lot of it from our parents because we

knew they were going through their own stuff and we didn’t want to worry them.

“When I was growing up, people hadn’t seen anybody that looked like us. People tried to bully me but I was too tough. I was a right old Midland wench!”

She graduated in drama and English from Manchester University and found acting roles during the Eighties, as well as presenting the magazine show Sunday East for the BritishAsian community. Her career took off in the Nineties, as she starred in the radio series of Goodness Gracious Me, which later transferred to TV, and then The Kumars.

Awarded a CBE in May for services to drama and literature, Syal says: “I was surprised, but the reaction of my parents made me realise how much it meant to them. For them, their children’s future and success is the reason they came to this country. It’s some sort of symbol that the sacrifice was worth it.”

She used her experiences growing up in the West Midlands for her first book Anita And Me, which was later adapted for the screen and is now on the English literature GCSE syllabus (the British equivalent of the HSC), and found further acclaim with her second book, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee. Having recently finished a nine-month run at the National Theatre in Behind The Beautiful Forevers, it’s now her husband’s turn to pursue his career, as he goes off to rehearsals for an Anthony Horowitz play, Dinner With Saddam.

That’s how they manage family life – when one works, the other stays and home.

“We team-tag it a bit. We don’t do theatre at the same time, because both of you being out of the house six nights a week is not fair.

When one of us is doing theatre, the other will try and get screen work. It doesn’t always work that way – I’ve just turned down two really lovely theatre jobs because Sanjeev’s doing a play soon and it’s his turn. Much as I grit my teeth, that’s what we agreed.”

So is there as much laughter at home as the couple have created on screen?

“Bitter, hollow laughter,” Syal says, dryly.

“No, really, I think a sense of humour is one of the great glues of any relationship. Frankly, life is so absurd, you’ve got to laugh, or you’d cry.” :: The House Of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal is published by Doubleday.

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This Time: guitar brothers strike a different note Leonard Grigoryan and Slava Grigoryan

BY VIVIENNE WINTHER DIRECTOR MACQUARIE CONSERVATORIUM

USTRALIAN guitar duo, the Grigoryan Brothers, will bring their latest music to the Central West this August, with concerts in Bathurst, Orange and Dubbo. The Grigoryan Brothers have been touring Australia with their new Album, This Time, since March and currently are in Europe giving concerts in Germany and Spain.

Leonard and Slava Grigoryan have been performing as a duo since 2002, and their partnership is as strong as it has ever been. Younger brother Leonard remembers how it all came about.

“Being the older one, Slava had already established his solo career very successfully. I was still at the stage of practising and honing my skills with the goal in my mind of being good enough to play with Slava. When I was in high school, Slava was away in London for four years, and during that time, I had developed my playing to the level where we could play professionally together, which we began to do when he returned to Australia. I was in my final year of school.”

Growing up in a musical family, with their father Edward Grigoryan as their main teacher, the brothers had always made music together, before turning their duo into a professional act.

“We do have a connection we don’t feel with other people. It can be quite hard to get a good ensemble between two guitars, the attack has to be so precise. For us that togetherness comes quite easily; it’s natural, so it doesn’t take as much time to get the ensemble right when we play with each other.”

Both musicians are quite busy with individual projects as well as their duo. In addition to his solo career and recordings, Slava is Artistic Director of the Adelaide Guitar Festival and plays in the

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the Grigoryan brothers. trio MTG with well known internation“We are really fortunate to have these al musicians Wolfgang Muthspiel and pieces written for us. The centrepiece of Ralph Towner. Leonard has produced a the album, and the most complex work, solo recording featuring his own comis by Nigel Westlake and tells quite a sad positions, as well as playing and recordstory, as it’s written in response to the ing with a range of contemporary musicians like Luke Howard and Darryn death of his son. There are also pieces

by Luke Howard, who I play with, and Farrugia. The Grigoryans also combine with the Tawadros brothers, who play Shaun Rigby, who has written for us before. And Ralph Towner, who plays with Middle Eastern oud and percussion, to Slava, wrote us a piece as well.” form a quartet named Band of Brothers.

Also on this album are two works by The Grigoryan Brothers’ latest recordLeonard Grigoryan. ing project, This Time, is their seventh “Both of us compose music, but Slava CD as a duo. has less time for this than I do. It’s some“For a new project like this, we will thing I can see myself doing more and spend a lot of time getting the recordmore. My own projects ing done, and once the often revolve around my program is rehearsed to compositions. On my solo that level, we only need a album, about half were day or two to bring it back my own works, so maybe before each leg of a tour. for my next one they will “Nowadays we tend to Fortunately be the whole album.” tour for about a week or so guitarists are Another feature of their at a time, not do it all in musical partnership is one big hit, which is what quite a forgiving the wide range of musiwe did when we started lot – we don’t cal styles and genre the out. That way you get to brothers play. be home some of the time, get too much “This is mainly because and also keep your other criticism for not of the instrument we play work on track.”

– the guitar sits perfectly Their album continues sticking to one in so many genres. Both a tradition of alternating genre, or for not Slava and I are attracted their duo recordings beto great players of the guitween a classical focus being authentic tar in any style, not just and a more contemporary enough. classical.” style.

Their latest album has “Our latest recording received rave reviews on a number of is definitely more in the contemporary jazz music sites, but their music isn’t category. We didn’t have a particular that easy to pigeonhole. concept in mind, but somehow what has “We don’t consider ourselves jazz guicome together all has a very atmosphertarists, or gypsy, or flamenco, but we ic, contemplative, almost meditative have absorbed a lot of the style and traquality. Musically it all comes from a ditions of those genres, and we like to very similar place, it has a unified feel.” explore what we can do with them in our The album also has an impressive list of names as composers, most being music. Fortunately guitarists are quite a forgiving lot – we don’t get too much friends and professional colleagues who criticism for not sticking to one genre, have written their pieces specifically for

or for not being authentic enough.”

Their guitar training is mainly classical, and they were taught by their father, whose own background is quite eclectic, including both classical and contemporary styles.

“Growing up, our parents, who are both musicians, encouraged us to experiment with different styles. That’s what they did; they were classically trained, but had different phases where they were more interested in jazz or in contemporary music.

“Slava and I are interested in doing something different that blends styles, and also we like to create and commission new music for the guitar. It is great to be able to take this new music from a whole range of composers and styles and get it out to audiences everywhere.”

The Grigoryan Brothers perform music from their new CD, This Time, at Macquarie Conservatorium Dubbo on Sunday August 2 at 3.00pm, with a masterclass open to all interested guitar fans before the concert at 12 midday. Visit www.macqcon.org.au for details and bookings.

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Coming soon... l August 2: Guitar Masterclass with the Grigoryan Brothers, 12.00pm Macquarie Conservatorium l August 2: Grigoryan Brothers in Concert, 3.00pm Macquarie Conservatorium l August 7-9: 25th Weekend of Jazz, various Dubbbo venues, www.dubbojazz. com.au l August 23-24: Youth Music Theatre show ‘Nightingale’, Macquarie Conservatorium l More info: www.macqcon.org.au

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Beautifully written, funny, sad and deeply moving – The Last Act Of Love

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

z BOOK OF THE WEEK The Last Act Of Love: The Story Of My Brother And His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink is published by Picador.

WHEN Cathy Rentzenbrink’s happy-golucky, bright, witty 16-year-old brother was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver, she and her family desperately prayed that he would live.

God may have answered their prayers initially, but the severity of the head injury he suffered followed by the debilitating epileptic fits which followed left him in a permanent vegetative state.

She says now that she was praying for the wrong thing.

The way Cathy, who was 13 months older than Matty, writes about their cheerful and loving family normality and her closeness to her brother – they took the mickey, shared everyday experiences and joshed with each other while working at the pub their parents ran – makes the terrible aftermath of the accident all the more searingly painful.

For a year, they lived in hope that he would miraculously come out of his ‘coma’, refusing to believe that the Matty they knew and loved had gone and was being kept alive artificially.

They brought him home from hospital and cared for him themselves for four long years until they were so exhausted they moved him to a nursing home. Another three years on, Cathy and her parents applied to the courts for Matty’s life-sustaining treatment to be discontinued. The judge agreed. He died in 1998, some eight years after the accident.

But it is the devastating effect on Cathy that is the saddest element of this story.

Unable to move on and drinking heavily, she goes through therapy, marriage and divorce. Work, and particularly books, are her salvation as she throws herself into a job at a bookstore.

The memoir ends on a more optimistic note, as she remarries and has a son of her own, whom she calls Matty. That may seem a bit of a cliche, but it’s not closure to this tragedy. She still cries a lot over the loss of her brother. There’s no fairytale ending.

Beautifully written, funny, sad and deeply moving, Cathy has learned the hard way that “there are many and various fates worse than death”. Keep the tissues handy.

9/10 (Review by Hannah Stephenson) z FICTION My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh is published in hardback by Viking.

IT’S hard to believe My Sunshine Away is the work of a debut author. It’s a page-

turning, gripping and gutsy book about the violent rape of a young girl in a quiet and affluent neighbourhood, as seen through the eyes of her deeply infatuated 14-year-old neighbour.

Now in his thirties, the narrator offers both his young understanding at the time, as well as his adult perspective on the events as they unfolded. It’s a device that works incredibly well, especially in terms of the violent crime, as the innocent young narrator is forced to get to grips with the word rape and the idea of sexual violence – learning his gender is capable of such a thing.

Genre defying, it’s part thriller, part mystery and part coming-of-age drama, with M.O. Walsh vividly capturing suburban life for a child in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, growing up in the 70s and 80s.

It’s an astonishingly inspired depiction of the pain of growing up, the mistakes we make, but ultimately it’s a meditation on love.

9/10 (Review by Alison Potter) The Parrots by Alexandra Shulman is published in hardback by Fig Tree.

THREE years after Vogue’s editor-inchief Alexandra Shulman made her debut with the publication of Can We Still Be Friends? her second serving of fiction has arrived. Her tale focuses on the elite London circle of Katherine, a calligrapher, her gallery owner husband Rick and their teenage son, Josh.

When Antonia and Matteo Fullardi, the emotionally damaged children of an Italian fashion dynasty come to stay, their well-managed lives start to veer off path into dangerous territory.

The title refers to the exotic parrots Katherine notices in her back garden, who cause native birds to complain, mirroring the upset caused by Shulman’s metaphorical parrots, which decimate her regimented nest.

After 23 years at the helm of British Vogue, Shulman is clearly well-placed to observe this privileged world. While the plot is arguably far-fetched at times, her wry observations surrounding her cast of oligarchs, trophy wives and the upper classes and the complicated lives they lead, make this a very enjoyable read.

8/10 (Review by Georgina Rodgers) Summer Secrets by Jane Green is published in hardback by Macmillan.

THE queen of chick-lit returns with her 17th novel and a timely beach read. It follows the rocky life of alcoholic journalist Cat Coombs, who learns one summer that the man she thought was her dad isn’t her real dad – and in fact, he’s an American artist, living on the island of Nantucket with her two half sisters.

Having just discovered Alcoholics Anonymous, she takes an ill-fated

Cathy Rentzenbrink writes of lives changed for ever after her 16-year-old brother was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver. PHOTO: PICADOR.

trip to Nantucket, where she finds and then loses her new family in one go.

Some 15 years later, having become a mother and then lost her husband over her drinking, a sober Cat returns to Nantucket to make amends to those she hurt.

The story’s told through flashbacks to Cat’s life as a 29-year-old, as well her mother’s one reckless summer of love, and the characters are charmingly written. But the pacing slows a little through the middle, as Green attempts to catch the reader up to Cat’s present.

Worth sticking with if only for the heady, wish-you-were-there descriptions of Nantucket island.

7/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

Afternoon Tea At The Sunflower Cafe

by Milly Johnson is published in paperback

by Simon & Schuster.

FOR 20 years Connie Diamond has been playing second fiddle to her husband, Jimmy, his career – and his desire for other women. When she discovers that Jimmy is in the midst of a passionate relationship with his much younger office junior, she decides enough is enough.

No longer content with her lot, Connie sets her sights on bringing down Jimmy’s cleaning company Diamond Shine.

Calling on Jimmy’s woman Friday, Della and the cleaning staff who meet at the Sunflower Cafe, Connie begins to pull at the loose strings holding her husband’s firm together.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 24.07.2015 to Sunday 26.07.2015 What author Milly Johnson has done in her 11th novel is take a wronged wife’s redemption story full of revenge and interwoven it with a death knell of an infertile couple’s marriage, plus a look behind the closed doors of those who hire the cleaners. As the plan takes shape, Connie learns more about herself than she ever thought possible.

7/10 (Review by Rachel Howdle) z NON-FICTION Asap Science: Answers To The World’s Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumours & Unexplained Phenomena by Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown is published

by Scribe Publications.

WITH almost four million subscribers to their YouTube channel and several millions of views every month, Mitchell Moffit and Grey Brown are essentially social media celebrities who have created a wacky, yet wildly successful online platform to explain everyday science.

And now they’ve condensed all those little nuggets of information from their quirky videos into a handy book that offers a scientific explanation for all the weird and wonderful phe nomena we experience on a daily basis.

These 20-something Canadian science wizards answer all those random questions you may have thought to ask in a science class but didn’t have the courage to do so in the most engaging way possible.

For example, can sneezing pop your eyeballs out? Why are men so hairy? Is it possible for humans to spontaneously combust? What happens to your body when you lie? And why you are procrastinating when you should be studying for your exams or getting on with your

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work, Moffit and Brown will explain it all. This is one science book that will make you chuckle as you learn.

7/10 (Review by Nilima Marshall) A Very Private Celebrity: The Nine Lives Of John Freeman

by Hugh Purcell is published in hardback by Biteback Publishing.

SOLDIER, journalist, diplomat and politician – John Freeman’s 99 years should provide enough material for any budding biographer. But after more than 300 pages, the reader will most likely echo the writer in admitting they still hardly know this most private man.

Freeman spent five years fighting his way across Africa and Europe and – still in uniform – the recently demobbed rifleman reduced Winston Churchill to tears with his first speech in Parliament.

Bored with party politics, he moved into TV where his Face To Face programme pulled in millions of viewers and introduced the on-screen interrogation. But he remained restless and soon swapped the studio for India and then Washington DC where he was British Ambassador to the US. Throughout his career, and four marriages, he seems to have kept himself hidden from the world and the result is this deeply unsatisfying skim across the surface of one of the 20th century’s most interesting lives – something Freeman would probably approve of.

6/10 (Review by Rob Dex)

z CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Yikes, Ticklysaurus! by Pamela Butchart and Sam Lloyd is published in paperback by Bloomsbury.

THE author of Never Tickle A Tiger, philosophy teacher Pamela Butchart returns to her theme, teaming up with Dino-Baby illustrator Sam Lloyd for a third time (following Yikes, Stinkysaurus! and Yikes, Santa-CLAWS!) to create a whole new kind of dinosaur – with incredibly long arms.

Like a mash-up of Mr Men and Jurassic Park, this colourful book bursts with energy and giggles, as Ticklysaurus instigates a game of tickle chase to cheer up his bored fellow dinos.

Diplodocus has an unfortunate accident and Triceratops laughs so hard he cries, so they all beg him to stop. But will he dare tickle T Rex? Written in catchy rhymes that move the action along at pace, there are also brilliant, built-in moments designed (I think) for adult readers to tickle their little listeners. Lots of giggles will ensue!

8/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

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Vicky Price has written “Greekonomics – the Euro Crisis and Why Politicians Don’t Get It”.

As one commentator notes, “The future of the euro matters hugely to everyone in Europe, whether we are in or out of the single currency.”

The author argues that the Eurozone was doomed from the very start. Politicians ignored common sense and deliberately created a system on political, not economic, motives.

They failed to provide firewalls for inevitable crises and placed little emphasis on practical structural reforms for the countries that needed them.

The book includes comments from Greece’s former Prime Minister, George Papandreou, who observes that when appraising Greece as a member they focused on the debt and deficit, and didn’t consider the structural problems of government.

It emerges that the public service was so heavily over provided, welfare claims were paid for ridiculous, totally unjustified causes, and the community saw that the system was an opportunity for rorting.

Author Pryce lists examples of interaction between politicians and the community: analysis shows how politicians extend financial favours to interest groups, bribes secure contracts, benefits are awarded to unions. The system encourages everybody to avoid their responsibilities. Page 63 shows a chart of the economic sector breakdown of Greece compared with the Eurozone.

But how different is that to this country? Following their referendum, the government’s finance man resigned and a new one installed, with the main qualification stated in the media being that he was a communist.

Eric Hobsbawm has written “Worlds of Labour”. In the early pages he provides a history over the past two centuries and draws on the changes in Europe and USA. Over the last 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well?

These thoughts come from Jared Diamond’s “The World Until Yesterday” in which he studies societies around the world which include financial strengths, but also embrac-

es other elements of society – health, diet, conflict resolution etc.

Except in times of exceptional crisis, countries worldwide have generally embraced a financial responsibility structure that might keep their economic responsibilities in order. But as in Greece, Australians embraced a model in about 2007 which gained popular approval – more people gained increased payouts without working more.

So much of the Western world’s money problems are controlled, manipulated, influenced by a very small few.

Kate Kelly has written “The Secret Club That Runs the World”.

When one thinks of global finance, the thought goes to shares and bonds.

Less consideration applies to crude oil, soybeans, copper, iron ore or wheat. And that is what the elite commodity traders want you to think. They control the prices of petrol, food, and most of our daily essentials but their incredible wealth was created in near-total obscurity.

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot – call it what we like, money matters now more than ever.

Niall Ferguson is the author of “The Ascent of Money” which provides a financial history of

` So much of the Western world’s money problems are controlled, manipulated, influenced by a very small few... a

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection high quality.

Beginning with the banking dynasty that funded the Italian Renaissance, and running through to the recent stock market bubble, this is the story of booms and busts as it has not been told before. One interesting extract runs: “Imagine a world with no money. For over a hundred years Communists and anarchists – not to mention some extreme reactionaries, religious fundamentalists and hippies – have dreamt of just that. According to Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, money was simply an instrument of capitalist exploitation, replacing all human relationships...”

Marx later demonstrated in his writings “Capital” that “the surplus generated by honest toil... is appropriated to satisfy the capitalist’s class for accumulation”.

The general public has reason to be disenchanted with today’s money system given the way remuneration and work opportunity has polarised communities in countries around the world.

“The Ascent of Money” was written in 2009 – it shows how the average American earned $34,000 per year. Compare this with the CEO of Goldman Sachs who earned $73.7 million in salary, bonus and stock awards, up 25 per cent on the previous year, or roughly 2000 times the rate for the average Joe.

That same year Goldman Sachs’ net revenues of $46 billion exceeded the entire GDP on more than 100 countries. The CEO of Countrywide Financial was paid $102.8 million and veteran speculator George Soros made $2.9 billion. Governments don’t generate this type of profit. Some of these were businesses that contributed to the financial crisis a year later.

The chasm between the Haves and the Have-nots cultivates attitudes that have deepened. In past ages such situations resulted in revolutions.

There was a time when towns and cities were compact enough to have the public working for a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, and they could hold the wealthy accountable for intelligent wealth distribution. Those entrepreneurs grew with the acclaim of the communities as their contributions, by various means, were evident.

This could well account for the situation in Greece today where the general public exists on the basis of ‘every man for himself’.

In this country we watch as budgets overrun, and whilst many don’t approve of, or don’t care about, the ongoing growth of major traders and financiers, they still vote for them with their credit cards.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Fawlty Towers opening night

BY ROB THOMSON ONE of the best-loved British TV comedies has returned to the Dubbo stage with Fawlty Towers Revisited premiering at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre on July 17. The season only runs until July 25, so book now to make sure you don’t miss out!

Myrna Eaton and Jan Duncan

Ken, Hulya, Terry, Gai and Jodie

Glen and Debbie Halbisch, with Andrew Willets

Ray Nolan, Annemieke Neville, Peter English and Audrey O’Brien

Rachel Thorncraft and, Alan and Kathie Westcott, from Alectown

Bev Jackson and David Janetzki

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Nicky and David Janetzki, celebrating Nicky’s 22nd birthday

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Ray White Christmas in July

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Walking Wounded

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear ... the chants and devotions of Tibetan monks BEFORE the dissolution of the mandala ceremony begins at 2pm on Saturday, July 25, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre to close the sand mandala program. The Sacred Footsteps from the Roof of the World monks from the Drol Kar Buddhist Centre in India, have visited since Wednesday and the mandala construction is still underway today (Friday, July 24) and tomorrow from 10am until 2pm when fine sands applied in geometric design, are swept

aside to highlight the ephemerality of life. Guided meditation and a public talk on compassionate listening will be held.

... the engines roar with JETGO flights OR why not just book a ticket and go check out Brissy with your bells on!

Monday, July 20 marked the dawn of a new era in aviation for Dubbo with the first of regular, weekly direct passenger flights between Dubbo and Brisbane opening up Queensland and

beyond to residents. Flights depart and return, Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (perfect for a weekend getaway!) and you know you’ll scream when you hear the price. Oh, for a chance to laze in the sun on Queensland’s tropical beaches. Beautiful one day, perfect the next.

... the song birds of The Chapel Project FEELING chirpy? That could mean you! The Chapel Project will bring Sally Whitwell to Dubbo on July 27

and 28 to work with the Harmony Singers Dubbo, community members interested in being part of the project, and, high school students involved in choir, band or elective music, as well as their teachers, held at the Western Plains Cultural Centre Community Arts Centre.

The Dubbo workshops with Whitwell will be on Monday and Tuesday, July 27-28, at varying times for the community, choir, high school student and teachers. For more information on how you can join in, visit theofficalchapelproject.com

see ... performance art expressed ON Sunday 26 July, the Kaldor Public Arts’ pilot regional engagement project culminates with a special oneday exhibition of performance art works created by seven of the teenage participants.

The exhibition, What it Means To Be Me, showcases the works of this group of local young people – exploring ideas of feminism, disconnection, mental health, love, fear and expectation. It forms part of a wider day of events at the Western Plains Cultural Centre exploring public art and performance.

Other highlights include the launch of a new public art website in Dubbo by Deputy Premier and Arts Minister Troy Grant.

... the Alpha Romeo Rally drive to town A convoy of Alpha Romeos will drive into town on Saturday, July 25 when members of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club of Australia celebrate the 105th anniversary of Alfa Romeo with a rally weekend in Dubbo. The convoy will start from the Hawkesbury Visitor In-

formation Centre at 10am on Friday and proceed up the Bells Line of Road.

In Dubbo a full weekend of entertainment will be on offer, including a 105th birthday party at Sainsbury Automotive, along with tours of Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dundullimal Homestead, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo Regional Botanic Gardens and the Old Dubbo Gaol.

... a pop up lecture on modern art YOU know you’re a kulcha vulture, so

get yourself along to see Barry Venning’s presentation called A Child of Six Could Do it! about a cartoonist’s view of modern art. Venning is an associate lecturer and research associate with the Open University in the UK. He’s published books on the works of J M W Turner and John Constable; was the BBC’s script consultant for The Fighting Temeraire and has recently taken part a BBC documentary called The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution. He’s brought to Dubbo through the local ADFAS (Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society.

do Dubbo Regional Theatre.

... stop being so dramatic LEAVE that up to people who know what they’re doing at SnapShorts, the Central West Short Play Festival’s showcase season tour of the region’s best writers, directors and actors, from Dubbo, Mudgee and Bathurst. You’ll meet a roo with a disembodiment complaint, a young boy with a secret, a clown with identity issues and a young girl with a baby that isn’t hers. Participants are mentored by Alex Broun and Becky Russell and the plays’ writers include Jodi Cramond, Kellie Jennar, Jamie McGaw, Lee Robinson, Jill Baggett and Josh Hayward. Friday, July 31,

... take your mum to this one SHE’LL appreciate the over-18 crowd at Badboys Australia, billed as the nation’s hottest male revue who’ve taken the world by storm and won’t stop until they’ve conquered Dubvegas. Said to sizzle, HSDE’s pretty sure this isn’t a cooking show but the Badboys are master chefs at dynamic dance routines, dazzling acrobatics and sensational costumes (though you don’t see those for very long). They bring a new production to town called Most Wanted which, warn your mum, is not a late

night TV show about unsolved crimes.

Hailing from Surfers Paradise, hopefully the RSL venue has sent word it’s a bit nippy here, and best wear something warm. Saturday, August 1, RSL.

... join the Grigoryan Brothers WHO’S that? Australia’s most respected and technically brilliant guitar duo that’s who and they’re returning to Dubbo to perform works from their latest album This Time. If there’s something the Macquarie Conservatorium can guarantee it’s a concert series of intimate gatherings with astonishing world-class talent. The Grigo-

ryan Brothers (pictured) have astounded audiences worldwide with their virtuosity and musicality, touring extensively throughout Australia, Europe, United States, Asia and the Middle East. Slava and Leonard will perform Latin, jazz, folk and contemporary and showcase their improvisational skills in this Sunday afternoon performance, August 2, 3pm, Macquarie Conservatorium.

etc.

Only The Lonely DON’T be. Grab a friend and get out of the house to see, for the first time in Australia, the Roy Orbison & The Everly Brothers two hour international concert experience. Relive the world’s greatest and most successful Rock ‘n’ Roll music legends of all time with internationally renowned artists Dean Bourne and special guests The Robertson Brothers. Bourne has been described as having The Spirit Of Roy Orbison within him as he performs iconic hits such as Pretty Woman, Crying, Dream Baby, Leah, Penny Ar-

cade, Danny Boy, Only The Lonely, In Dreams, Candy Man, You Got It, Workin’ For The Man, Running Scared and many, many more. The magical sounds of The Everly Brothers come alive again thanks to The Robertson Brothers. Friday, August 14, Dubbo Regional Theatre.

Stop and smell the daffodils IF you’re heading on a road trip down Sydney way in August, stop in at Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah between August 22-30 for the Daffodil Festival in support of the

Cancer Council NSW. With optimum growing conditions, the garden will be transformed by a sea of golden hues as massed plantings of daffodils erupt in bloom. Enjoy a picnic, take some photos or simply enjoy the brilliant displays. You can book in for a guided daffodil walk or join the bulb-growing workshop for a small fee. Cancer Council merchandise will be available for sale. August 22-30, Mount Tomah.

Just because we can PLAN to visit Brisbane to see cool things like seeing and hearing astro-

physicist, television personality, author and all-round popular guy Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson bring his undeniable wit and wonder of his genius to the South Bank Courier-Mail Piazza. Dr Tyson’s Ship of Imagination is on a mission to progress critical thinking and the importance of science in our modernday landscapes. Or, on August 2 go to the Carder Cup, an annual polo event where proceeds raised go towards research into superbugs. Or, run the Brisbane Marathon. Or, sashay at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival. The possibilities are endless!

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Friday, July 24 Raymond Blanc: How To Cook Well

Family Feud

Eleven seasons in and this reality series still has no shortage of smooth movers willing to strut their stuff on stage. In fact, after more than a decade on the air, there are almost certainly some aspiring stars on this show who were inspired by it when they were only kids and have been working their way to this stage ever since. This week, Paula Abdul and her fellow judges return to Las Vegas for callbacks where they will each choose 10 stage dancers and 10 street dancers who will advance to the next stage of the competition. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but even this show’s biggest cynics would surely admit the performers put on a hell of a show.

Host Grant Denyer (right) may be small in stature, but what he lacks in height he more than makes up for with his cheeky personality. ity. In this reboot of the popular game show, which ch has just celebrated its first birthday, tongue-in-cheek gue-in-cheek gags and playful banter rule as strange ge and silly questions have families scratching ng their heads for answers. Anyone who watches hes this show can’t help but join in, shouting uting their answers at the TV as family ly members clutch at straws to questions such as “What is something annoying a cyclist might do?” Yup, it may be a family show, but Family Feud isn’t afraid to push people’s buttons, making it even more entertaining (and infuriating).

ELEVEN, 7.30pm

SBS, 6pm

Well, the title says it all, doesn’t it?

But what about those who want to cook amazingly? It just doesn’t have the same ring to it. In any case, French chef Raymond Blanc transcends just “cooking well”. He is a something of a superstar in the food world, with a Michelin-starred restaurant behind his name and a legion of fans. In this helpful series, Blanc demonstrates the basics of cooking, setting us all on the path to be great cooks. Tonight, he gives a masterclass in the technique of slow cooking. Proving he is just as talented at teaching as he is at cooking, this likeable series has something for everyone.

ABC

So You Think You Can Dance

PRIME7

TEN, 6pm

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? (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) (Final) 2.30 The New Inventors.

(R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Catalyst. (R, CC) 3.45 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 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) The latest news and views.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Forgotten Sins.

(M, R, CC) (1996) A girl accuses her father of abuse. William Devane, John Shea.

2.00 The Daily Edition.

(CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC)

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.30 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)

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 18. Gap to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.

Replay.

3.30 Strip The City: Chicago – Swamp City. (R, CC) 4.25 Around Midnight. (R) 4.30 Room 101. (M, R, CC) 5.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 18.

Highlights.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests Danny Baker, Eddie Izzard and Bill Bailey join host Stephen Fry for an “H”-inspired discussion.

8.30 Jonathan Creek.

(M, R, CC) When a glamorous West End star is found dead inside a locked dressing room, her colleagues are baffled.

9.30 Line Of Duty. (M, CC) Following the tragedy at the hospital, Kate Fleming goes undercover in Lindsay Denton’s Missing Persons Unit.

10.35 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

11.05 The Business. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news, including a look at the latest trends on the international share and currency markets.

11.20 Dirty Laundry. (M, R, CC) Comedian Lawrence Mooney and a panel of guests pull apart the major pop-culture stories of the week.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Pete Colquhoun visit an amazingly-designed beach house in Avoca, NSW. Tara and Adam make the perfect floor-to-ceiling creative space.

8.30 MOVIE: Wild Hogs.

(M, R, CC) (2007) Four middle-aged suburbanites on a cross-country motorcycle adventure run afoul of a biker gang.

Desperate to escape the group’s clutches they take shelter in a small country town, only to discover the locals have had similar experiences at the hands of their nemesis. Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence.

10.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) After Barry receives his driver’s license, his mother makes him promise to follow her rules which includes him having to call her at the end of any trip. Frustrated by the stipulation, he decides to rebel and lie about where he has gone, only to have the situation backfire on him.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 20. Brisbane Broncos v Gold Coast Titans. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 20. Wests Tigers v Sydney Roosters. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Barry takes on James Treble in a home office design challenge. Chris and Miguel go cattle droving.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with comedians Miranda Hart and Greg Davies, and actor Rupert Everett. Music from the UK’s Eurovision Song Contest representatives, vocal duo Electro Velvet.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with five comedians competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

6.00 Raymond Blanc: How To Cook Well. (CC) (New Series) French chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc gives a masterclass in basic cooking techniques.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Secrets Of Britain: Secrets Of Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

(PG, R, CC) Explores the real-life stories and history behind Her Majesty’s Secret Service, better known as MI6. Home to the fictional super spy James Bond, the agency has played a major role in intelligence gathering for over a century, but was only officially acknowledged to exist in 1994.

8.30 Secrets Of The Castle: The Castle’s Community Of Skills. (CC) Part 4 of 5.

Ruth, Peter and Tom delve into the secrets of the people who built medieval castles.

9.35 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 19. SaintJean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire-Les Sybelles.

138km mountain stage.

From France. Hosted by Michael Tomalaris and Robbie McEwen.

12.05 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.00 Malibu Country.

(PG, R, CC) After a woman discovers her husband has been cheating on her, she moves to Malibu.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Times Square.

(M, R, CC) (1980) Tim Curry.

3.30 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Doctors. (PG, CC) Four doctors with different specialities provide advice on health issues and medical breakthroughs.

2.00 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping.

2.00 Masters Of Sex. (R, CC) 3.00 Masters Of Sex. (M, R, CC) Masters and Johnson film their work.

4.05 Martin Clunes: The Lemurs Of Madagascar.

(R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, July 24 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.25pm Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) Comedy. Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd. San Diego’s top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to the news desk. (M) Comedy

7.30pm Selling Houses Australia. No-nonsense property expert Andrew Winter helps Australian homeowners who are struggling to sell their home. (G) LifeStyle

7.30pm Fire In The Hole.

Texan explosives expert Matt Barnett and his crew risk their lives every week to blow up things all over the world. (PG) Discovery

5.45pm Motorsport. Formula 1. Hungary Grand Prix. Practice 1. Fox Sports 5

8.30pm Turn: Washington’s Spies. (MA15+) Showcase

8.30pm 1000 Days Of Fear: The Deadly Race At Los Alamos. The inside-the-barbedwire story of the brilliant men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. (PG) History

7.30pm Christmas With The Kranks (2004) Comedy. Tim Allen. (PG) Family 8.30pm Spanglish (2004) Comedy. Adam Sandler, Paz Vega. A housekeeper gets caught up in a couple’s problems. (M) Romance

8.30pm Blood, Sweat And Heels. After an eventful night in the Hamptons, tensions are brewing as Melyssa and Demetria head to a castle for Demetria’s magical cover shoot for a bridal magazine. (M) Arena

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 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, 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 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.20 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.40 The Undateables. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Webcam Girls. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.20 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.05 Sex Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 11.45 The Undateables. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.20 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 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. 10.40 So You Want To Be A Designer?

(R, CC) 11.05 The Shot. (R, CC) 11.10 Australian Artists. (R, CC) 11.30 Heirlooms. (CC) 11.35 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Round The Twist. (R, CC) 1.10 WAC. (R, CC) 1.35 Lab Rats Challenge. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur.

(R, CC) 2.25 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 2.35 The Jungle Bunch. (R) 2.45 Canimals. (R) 2.55 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 3.05 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion. (R, CC) 3.30 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 3.50 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 4.05 Grojband. (R, CC) 4.25 Little Lunch. (CC) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) 5.10 Doodles. (R) 5.25 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 5.55 House Of Anubis. (R, CC) 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. (CC) 8.10 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, CC) 8.55 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (PG, CC) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Match It. (C, CC) 7.30 Ghosts Of Time. (C, R, 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 NBC Today. (R, CC) 12.00 Chicago Fire.

(M, R, CC) 2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Drug Bust. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. The teams head to Sawbridgeworth.

7.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) A police dog hunts a runaway driver.

8.00 Animal Airport.

(PG, R, CC) A consignment of cheetahs is detained.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Nicki Chapman travels to Monmouthshire to help a couple return to their Welsh roots.

10.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 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. (CC) 9.30 Kickin’ It. (CC) 10.00 Fish Hooks. (R, CC) 10.30 Crash & Bernstein. (CC) 11.00 Animal Squad. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 1.00 Covert Affairs. (M, 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) (Series return) 5.30 Guinness World Records Gone Wild. (PG, R) 6.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R, CC) Marshall worries about his past indiscretions.

7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 17. Carlton v Hawthorn. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 MOVIE: Another 48 Hrs. (M, R, CC) (1990) Eddie Murphy.

1.00 Locked Up Abroad. (M, R) 3.30 Jail: Las Vegas Jailhouse. (M, R) 4.30 Animal Squad. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Zoom TV. (PG, R)

7.00pm Golf. Euro PGA. European Masters. Second Round. Fox Sports 3 8.00pm Football. AFL. Round 17. Carlton v Hawthorn.

Fox Footy

Adam Sandler stars in Spanglish

9.30pm Return To Amish.

(PG) TLC

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 TMZ. (R) 1.00 TMZ Live. 2.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 3.00 SpongeBob. (R) 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo! Legend Of The Phantosaur. (PG, R, CC) (2011) 7.30 MOVIE: Zookeeper.

(PG, R, CC) (2011) Kevin James.

9.30 MOVIE: Due Date. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis. 11.30 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 12.00 MAD. (M, R) 12.30 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. (R) 3.00 TMZ. (R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting. (R) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Shopping.

10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Geordie. (R, CC) (1955) Bill Travers. 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) Joey’s name appears in a magazine.

7.30 Soccer. (CC) International Champions Cup. Manchester City v Real Madrid. From the MCG. 10.00 MOVIE: Expendables 2.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2012) The Expendables seek revenge. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham.

12.00 MOVIE: The Mechanic.

(M, R) (1972) A professional killer pursues his mentor.

Charles Bronson.

2.00 MOVIE: Khartoum. (R) (1966) Charlton Heston.

4.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 International Rally Of Queensland Event Review Pt 1. (R, CC) 9.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. London ePrix.

Highlights. 10.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 10.30 Hardliners. (PG, R) 11.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 12.00 Undercover Boss. (M, R) 1.00 David Letterman.

(PG, R) 2.00 Awake. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 4.30 The Home Team. (R) 5.00 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish. (R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Black Gold. (PG, R) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Follows officers on patrol in the US. 9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Dead Drop. (M, R) (2012) A special forces operative tracks a nuke. Steven Seagal.

11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.30 Shopping. 2.00 Darren & Brose.

(M, R) 2.30 Cops: Adults Only.

(M, R) 3.00 Ross Kemp: Back On The Frontline. (M, R) 4.00 World’s Busiest. (PG, R) 5.00 Motor Racing.

FIA Formula E Championship.

Round 5. Miami ePrix. Highlights.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Taxi. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (M, R) 3.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.35 James Corden. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) Hosted by Cat Deeley.

9.30 New Girl. (PG, R) Coach and Cece go on their first date.

10.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(M, R) 10.40 Sex And The City. (M, R) 11.20 Movie Juice. (R) 11.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.50 Glee. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 Clueless. (PG, R) 2.25 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Medium. (M, 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 18. Gap to SaintJean-de-Maurienne. 186.5km mountain stage. Replay. 5.30 Urban Freestyler. 5.35 American Ninja Warrior. 6.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 18. Gap to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. 186.5km mountain stage. Highlights. From France.

7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (CC) 8.30 Derren Brown: How To Control The Nation. (R) 9.25 12 Monkeys. (M) 10.15 12 Monkeys. (MA15+) 11.05 Attack On Titan. (M, R) 12.05 Friday Feed. (R) 12.35 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 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Yarramundi Kids. 10.00 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. (PG) 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 A War Of Hope. 1.30 On The Edge. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Yarramundi Kids. 3.30 Move It Mob Style. 4.00 Go Lingo. 4.30 Bushwhacked! 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News.

6.00 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. 6.30 Outback Cafe. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Kriol Kitchen.

8.00 We Come From The Land.

8.30 Aunty Moves In. (PG) 9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 By The Rapids. (PG) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Outback Cafe.

12.00 Express Yourself. (MA15+) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 1.50 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival.

3.00 Sisters In League. (PG) 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Nyirripi v Plenty Hwy. 5.00 Yarrabah! The Musical. 5.30 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 1.30 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News.

2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

ABC NEWS

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Saturday, July 25 David Suchet: Footsteps Of St Peter SBS, 7.30pm

In the second of this two-part series, actor David Suchet continues his pilgrimage to learn all he can about the man we know now as Saint Peter. The New Testament claims that Peter was the man who took charge of the movement after the death of Jesus.

Renowned British actor of stage and screen, Suchet tries to establish how Peter, who was previously painted as an impulsive and troubled man, could fill the shoes of the charismatic Lord and Saviour. Suchet also tries to discover if there is any evidence to support the claims that Peter was martyred in Rome to become the Roman Catholic Church’s inaugural pope.

ABC

MOVIE: Jack Reacher

MOVIE: Spider-Man

Tom Cruise tries to establish a new blockbuster franchise as author Lee Child’s titular cop-turned-drifter who becomes part of the investigation when a former army sniper takes the rap for gunning down five innocent people. But as defence lawyer Rosamund Pike quickly discovers, Reacher may prove to be more trouble than he’s worth. Directed and adapted from the ninth Reacher novel One Shot by Oscar-winning writer Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), the first movie outing for Child’s vigilante hero tried to do for Cruise what Taken did for Liam Neeson.

From the superb credit sequence it’s immediately ok apparent Spider-Man is a comic-book adaptation of the highest order. On a field trip, high-school nerd Peter Parkerr (Tobey Maguire, right) is bitten by ya genetically enhanced spider. Next day, he’s climbing the walls, shooting hightensile webbing from his wrists and nd admiring his rippling physique. Alter lter ego established, he uses his powers rs to get the girl (Kirsten Dunst), net the he baddies and save New York from the evil Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe)..

Applying fanatical devotion to the e legend, director Sam Raimi does an amazing job of juggling character,, action and plot to stamp his comiccbook sensibilities on the story.

TEN, 8.55pm, M (2012)

PRIME7

PRIME7, 7pm, PG (2002)

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Flying Miners: Money Trap. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Country House Rescue.

(R, CC) Simon Davis meets the Cookson family.

3.00 Rick Stein’s India. (R, CC) Rick’s journey continues in Rajasthan.

4.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Stephen Fry. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Barnaby investigates a widow’s murder.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 MOVIE: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. (R, CC) (2009) A look into the lives of the Jonas Brothers. Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas.

1.30 Dancing With The Stars.

(R, CC) Celebrities show off their dance skills.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Dr Harry meets Mark Beretta.

5.30 The Lucky Country.

(PG, CC) Peter Powers heads to Bowen.

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 Surfing. (CC) 1.00 MOVIE: The Replacements. (PG, R, CC) (2000) A group of misfits play gridiron. Keanu Reeves.

3.30 Australian Geographic Adventures. (CC) 4.00 Adam’s Pasta Pilgrimage. (CC) Adam Swanson heads to Calabria.

4.30 Dr Lisa To The Rescue.

(CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 RPM. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) Talk show.

2.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Movie Juice. (PG, R) 3.30 Just Go. (CC) 4.00 Andy & Ben Eat The World. (CC) 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) 3.30 D-Day: The Soldiers’ Story. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Medieval Fightbook.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 19. SaintJean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire-Les Sybelles.

138km mountain stage.

Highlights.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Costa shares some home remedies for weeds and pests. Jane visits a food garden.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) Father Brown investigates after a body is found inside a locked bank vault during a robbery.

8.15 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) The team investigates after a man convicted of murdering his wife is released from prison on a technicality.

9.20 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) In the wake of the death of Martin’s father, Louisa begins to despair about the state of their relationship.

10.05 The Bletchley Circle.

(PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 4.

When one of her former compatriots is accused of murder, Jean sets out to prove her innocence.

10.55 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Charlie Pickering.

11.25 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring host Adam Hills taking an offbeat look at events of the week.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Spider-Man. (PG, R, CC) (2002) A teenager is transformed into a superhero after being bitten by a genetically engineered spider. Inspired by a tragedy in his personal life, he sets out to clean up the streets but finds himself caught up in a battle with an evil super-villain called the Green Goblin. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe.

9.35 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible III. (M, R, CC) (2006) A secret agent comes out of retirement to rescue his old protégé after she is kidnapped by a ruthless international arms dealer. His quest takes him from Rome to Shanghai, only to discover his enemy also intends to eliminate someone close to his heart, his fiancée. Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, R, 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 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) With help from coaches Ricky Martin, Delta Goodrem, Joel Madden, Benji Madden and Jessie J, a group of contestants set out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation and claim the grand prize of a recording contract.

10.00 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Darren McMullen and Sonia Kruger.

11.30 MOVIE: Be Cool. (M, R, CC) (2005) A former mobsterturned-movie producer tires of the Hollywood scene and decides to enter the music industry. John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn.

6.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (CC) (New Series) Chef Gary Mehigan indulges his passion for fine food and fast bikes with a culinary road trip through Asia.

7.00 MOVIE: The Croods.

(PG, CC) (2013) After their cave is destroyed by an earthquake, a family of early humans goes in search of a new home.

Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Nicolas Cage.

8.55 MOVIE: Jack Reacher.

(M, R, CC) (2012) After five people are shot and killed by an expert sniper, the police quickly arrest a suspect. However, a former US Army military police officer is not as convinced by the authorities’ narrative and decides to investigate.

Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike.

11.35 MOVIE: The Do-DecaPentathlon. (M, R, CC) (2012) Two brothers decide to compete in their own, private 25-event Olympics.

However, it is not long before they must choose between their love for beating each other and the greater good of the family.

Mark Kelly, Steve Zissis, Jennifer Lafleur.

6.00 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands: Islands Of The Forth – Fortress Islands Of The Forth.

(R, CC) Presenter Paul Murton explores islands in the Firth of Forth, from Inchcolm to Inchgarvie.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 David Suchet: Footsteps Of St Peter. (CC) Part 2 of 2. David Suchet concludes his quest to uncover the story of Saint Peter.

8.30 Room 101. (PG, CC) Paul McDermott interviews celebrity guests who discuss their pet hates and the things that make them angry. He continues with five-time Gold Logie winning TV personality Ray Martin, whose issues include a desire to banish parking inspectors, small dogs and the Australian flag.

9.00 Monty Python’s Best Bits (Mostly) (PG, CC) Celebrities include Paul Whitehouse, Simon Pegg, Dara O’Briain, Seth Green and Charlie Higson.

9.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 20. Modane Valfréjus to Alpe d’Huez.

110.5km mountain stage.

From France.

12.10 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by special guest programmers.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.05 Harry’s Practice. (CC) Dr Harry Cooper and Dr Katrina Warren present information about animals and pet care.

12.30 Home Shopping.

1.45 MOVIE: Carrie. (AV15+, R) (1976) Sissy Spacek.

3.35 The Avengers. (PG, R) A scientist avenges the death of his brother.

4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) Frankie is arrested.

5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

1.30 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

1.30 Masters Of Sex. (R, CC) 2.30 Masters Of Sex. (R, CC) The staff takes part in a civil defence drill.

3.30 Iceman Autopsy. (R, CC) 4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (2013) Adventure. Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig. A daydreamer embarks on an adventure. (PG) Comedy

6.30pm Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. (M) Arena

7.30pm Warwick Davis: The 7 Dwarfs Of Auschwitz.

Warwick explores the history of the Ovitz family of seven Jewish dwarf performers. (PG) History

2.00pm Football. AFL. Adelaide v Gold Coast Suns.

Fox Sports 3

8.30pm The Giver (2014) Sci-fi. Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges. A young man discovers the dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past.

(M) Premiere

8.30pm Ordinary Lies. In a desperate bid to save his job, Marty tells an unforgiveable lie about his wife. (M) BBC First 9.30pm Raising Hope.

Natesville hosts International Grocery Games. (PG) Comedy Channel

9.05pm Hook (1991) Adventure. Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman. (PG) Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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, 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.

(R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 The Home Show. (CC) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.05 Dirty Laundry Live. (M, R, CC) 10.55 The IT Crowd. (PG, R, CC) 11.20 Archer. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable.

(M, R, CC) 12.10 Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable. (PG, R, CC) 12.40 Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable.

(M, R, CC) (Final) 1.05 The Home Show. (R, CC) 1.55 News Update. (R) 2.00 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) 11.00 Camp Lakebottom. (PG, 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) 1.25 Officially Amazing.

(PG, R, CC) 1.55 Officially Amazing.

(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 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 10.50 Close.

8.30pm Inside Afghan Heroin. Investigate how the War on Terror in Afghanistan has inadvertently unleashed a massive narcotic supply to the world. (MA15+) National Geographic

3.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 20. New Zealand Warriors v Manly Sea Eagles.

Fox Sports 1 8.30pm Golf. Euro PGA. European Masters. Third round. Fox Sports 2 Lucas Neff stars in Raising Hope

8.30pm Epic Bars. (PG) Discovery

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast.

(CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender.

(R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 SA Life Favourites. (CC) 2.30 Intolerant Cooks. (PG) 3.00 Rugby Union. (CC) Shute Shield. Round 9. Eastwood v Sydney University.

Replay. 5.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 Dancing With The Stars.

(R, CC) 9.00 MOVIE: Indecent Proposal. (M, R) (1993) A wealthy financier threatens an idyllic marriage. Robert Redford, Demi Moore.

11.30 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 1.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 2.00 The World Around Us. (R) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

4.00 Inside Ireland. (R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Home Shopping.

(PG, R) 9.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 10.30 Market Values. (PG, R) 11.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 12.00 Selling Big. (PG) 1.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 17. GWS v Geelong. From StarTrack Oval, Canberra.

4.30 Footy Flashbacks. (CC) 6.00 Billy The Exterminator: Bobcat Invasion. (PG, R) Billy deals with an elusive bobcat which is responsible for killing a family’s pet.

6.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 17. Essendon v Port Adelaide. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

10.30 MOVIE: 12 Monkeys.

(M, R, CC) (1995) A man claims to be a time traveller. Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe.

1.15 MOVIE: Target Earth.

(M, R) (1998) Christopher Meloni.

3.30 Jail. (M, R) 4.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

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 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 Gumball.

(R) 4.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: The Ant Bully.

(R, CC) (2006) 7.45 MOVIE: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White And Blonde.

(PG, R) (2003) Reese Witherspoon.

9.45 MOVIE: Easy A. (M, R) (2010) Emma Stone.

11.40 MOVIE: Youth In Revolt.

(MA15+, R) (2009) Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday. 1.30 MOVIE: Meatballs 4. (M, R) (1992) Corey Feldman. 3.10 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (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: Geordie. (R, CC) (1955) 8.00 Shopping. 8.30 Avengers. (PG, R) 9.30 River Cottage Bites. 9.45 Soccer.

International Champions Cup. Fiorentina v S.L. Benfica. 12.00 Postcards. (CC) 12.30 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (Final) 1.00 MOVIE: Bachelor In Paradise. (PG, R, CC) (1961) 3.20 MOVIE: Where Eagles Dare. (PG, R, CC) (1968) 6.30 Kalgoorlie Cops.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 MOVIE: Funny Farm.

(PG, R, CC) (1988) A couple buy a farm beset by problems. Chevy Chase.

9.30 Soccer. International Champions Cup. Milan v Internazionale. From Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre, Shenzhen, China.

12.00 MOVIE: The Pledge.

(M, R, CC) (2001) 2.20 MOVIE: Revolt At Fort Laramie. (PG, R, CC) (1957) John Dehner, Gregg Palmer.

3.45 MOVIE: The Pink Panther Strikes Again. (PG, R) (1976) Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom. 5.45 Soccer.

International Champions Cup. Manchester United v Barcelona.

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Golf. Open Championship.

Highlights. 11.00 Shred! (PG, R) 11.30 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 12.00 Black Gold.

(PG, R) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Motor Racing. Porsche Carrera Cup Australia. Round 4. Highlights.

From Townsville Street Circuit, Queensland. 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Ozzie Holiday.

(PG) (Series return) 5.30 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. A review of the monster truck racing.

7.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 8.30 48 Hours: The Devil’s Twin. (M, R) A look at a young mother’s murder.

9.30 Ross Kemp: Back On The Frontline. (M, R) Kemp returns to Afghanistan.

10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Movie Juice. (R) 12.00 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 3.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 5.30 Shred! (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG, R) 1.30 MasterChef Australia. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Robert and Amy’s wedding day is finally here.

8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Amy and Robert return from their honeymoon.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include comedians Miranda Hart and Greg Davies, and actor Rupert Everett.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) After Big confesses to Carrie that his relationship with Natasha is not going well, they return to their old ways.

10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG, R) Hosted by James Corden.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.25 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, 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 19. Saint-Jean-deMaurienne to La Toussuire-Les Sybelles. 138km mountain stage.

Replay. 5.30 Knife Fight. (PG, R) 6.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France.

Stage 19. Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire-Les Sybelles.

138km mountain stage. Highlights.

From France.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle: Texas.

(PG) Part 4 of 4.

9.30 Dig. (MA15+, R, CC) (Final) 10.20 Real Humans. (M, R) 12.40 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.35 MOVIE: 2 Days In Paris.

(MA15+, R) (2007) 3.20 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style.

10.00 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Football.

NEAFL. 3.00 Desperate Measures.

3.30 Our Footprint. 4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed.

5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Seeking Salvation. A look at the history of the Black Church.

8.30 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival.

9.30 MOVIE: Wrong Side Of The Road. (M) Follows two reggae bands. Ronnie Ansell, Peter Butler.

11.00 Fit First. (PG) 11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 Seeking Salvation. 1.00 From The Heart Of Our Nation.

3.00 Bury My Heart In Dresden.

(PG) 4.30 Lurujarri Dreaming.

5.00 Away From Country. (PG)

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) 2507

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Sunday, July 26 MOVIE: Clash Of The Titans

CSI: Cyber

How is it that a ruthless killer and gangster achieved a celebrity status whose name conjures up images of pinstriped suits, gun battles and bloody violence? Debate circles around whether Al Capone was a quintessential self-made American man, or nothing but a dangerous thug. Capone, who ran the notorious Chicago Outfit for seven years in the 1920s, was a complicated figure to say the least. Perhaps one of the first celebrated anti-heroes, he had a hand in killing hundreds while maintaining a hugely popular public profile and was known for his dynamic charisma. So what made him a crime boss instead of a powerful politician? A fascinating insight.

Bullying has been around for as long as sad people with low self-esteem have taken n out their worries by picking on others. Butt the rules have changed since our lives have ve shifted online for so much. Cyberbullying ying is silent but can escalate before you have e the forethought to select-all+delete. And when your whole school is seemingly on the hate-sharing bandwagon, life can become one most unpleasant experience. As tonight’s CSI: Cyber episode highlights, intense cyberbullying can quickly get out of control and when a bullied student makes a promise to retaliate against her bullying classmates, the situation becomes deadly. Stars Patricia Arquette (right).

SBS, 8.30pm

GO!, 6.30pm, PG (2010) Aussie Sam Worthington squares off against Greek gods as Perseus, the mortal son of Zeus (Liam Neeson), king of the gods, who swears revenge when his family is killed by underworld ruler Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the enemy of mankind. Watching over Perseus on his quest is ethereal spiritual guide Io (Gemma Arterton) but he’s on his own when faced with Hades’ deformed servant Acrisius (Jason Flemyng). French director Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) employs plenty of stunning visual effects and climaxes with an awe-inspiring finale in this affectionate remake of the 1981 original.

ABC

Al Capone: Icon

PRIME7

TEN, 9pm

WIN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Ochre And Ink. (R, CC) 2.40 Once My Mother.

(PG, R, CC) 3.55 Fake Or Fortune? Van Dyck. (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) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 MOVIE: Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2. (R, CC) (2011) Puppies get caught up in a bank robbery. Odette Annable.

1.00 The Zoo. (R, CC) Narrated

by Melissa Doyle.

1.30 To Be Advised.

4.00 Air Crash Investigations: Caution To The Wind.

(PG, R, CC) A look at the crash of Singapore Airlines Flight 006.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender.

(CC) Mel looks at Sydney Olympic Park.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.30 Compass: The Moral Compass. (CC) Hosted by Geraldine Doogue.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (PG, CC) Kevin McCloud meets a creative couple who have decided to build an “urban shed” in a former milk yard.

8.30 Inspector George Gently. (M, R, CC) Inspector Gently and Sergeant Bacchus investigate after a young woman is found murdered in a coastal village. Initially, it appears the victim’s estranged husband may be responsible for her death.

10.00 The Darkside. (PG, CC) Part 5 of 5. Steven recounts the tale of a racist cowboy in outback Queensland.

10.30 David Bowie: Five Years In The Making Of An Icon. (M, R, CC) Examines the career of David Bowie from 1971, and the creation of Ziggy Stardust, through to 2013.

11.30 MOVIE: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

(M, R, CC) (1966) Three men search for a missing fortune. Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Dancing With The Stars.

(CC) 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 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program.

10.30 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) In order to find out who funded the bombing, Auggie turns to an old flame for help hacking a Parisian bank. Arthur has a busy day in the field dealing with McQuaid Security. Joan asks Calder to get the heat off of them.

11.30 The Mindy Project.

(PG, CC) Mindy begins dating an arts writer, but it is not long before he decides she is not “cultured” enough for him.

Determined to prove him wrong, she invites him to a show featuring nude photos of Danny.

2.20 Inspector George Gently. (M, R, CC) (Final) A young woman is found murdered.

3.55 David Bowie: Five Years In The Making Of An Icon. (M, R, CC) 5.00 The New Inventors.

(R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.00 Do No Harm. (M) Dr Marcado spends a night with Ian, causing him to question his previous assumptions.

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) Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. (PG, R, CC) Follows the Foo Fighters.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Tim returns to Devil Ark. Tigers About The House.

(PG, R, CC) Presented by Giles Clark.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 20. Canterbury Bulldogs v Cronulla Sharks.

From Belmore Sports Ground, Sydney.

TEN

SBS

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 Rugby Union. (CC) The Rugby Championship.

Week 2. Argentina v Australia.

10.30 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.30 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (CC) 2.00 International Rally Of Queensland Event Review Pt 2. (CC) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) 4.00 RPM. (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 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw. 7.35 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 Baisikeli. (R, CC) 1.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 20. Replay.

3.30 Speedweek. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling.

(CC) Hosted by Michael Tomalaris.

5.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 20. Modane Valfréjus to Alpe d’Huez.

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.

9.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

10.10 A.D. Kingdom And Empire. (M, CC) Pilate orders mass crucifixions in response to the attempt on his life and the death of a Roman soldier. Caiaphas puts John and Peter on trial. Two followers are divinely punished for their lack of faith in the cause.

11.10 Stalker. (M, CC) After a popular anchorman’s home is broken into, Beth and Jack investigate claims a stalker who had previously harassed the celebrity could be responsible. Perry gets more of an insight into Beth’s past.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Phil and Claire are uncertain about how to respond when Haley and Andy begin spending time together.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Phil offers to cook Thanksgiving dinner.

A worried Claire decides to prepare her own turkey.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) The stakes are high as the remaining contestants fight it out for the two places in the finale.

9.00 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) Agent Ryan searches for a missing high-school student at the behest of her father, a former patient.

10.00 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.

11.00 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible II. (M, R, CC) (2000) A special agent is ordered to find a deadly virus stolen by a criminal mastermind. Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott.

6.00 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands: Skye – Against The Odds.

(R, CC) (Final) Presenter Paul Murton concludes his exploration of Scottish islands with a look at Skye and Raasay.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Byzantium: A Tale Of Three Cities: From Constantinople To Istanbul. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 3. British journalist Simon SebagMontefiore continues to chart the history of Istanbul.

8.30 Al Capone: Icon. (M, CC) Takes a look at one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th century, Al Capone. Despite his reputation as a killer, Capone was a charismatic public figure who some consider to be the quintessential self-made American man, leaving a lasting impression on the public’s psyche.

9.30 Tour De France Review Show. (CC) A panel of experts review and analyse all the action from the Tour de France so far.

10.30 Cycling. (CC) Women’s La Course by Le Tour de France. From Paris, France.

12.00 The Following. (AV15+, CC) 12.50 Arrow. (AV15+, R, CC) 1.40 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.

12.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Final stage. SèvresGrand Paris Seine Ouest to Champs-Élysées, Paris.

109.5km flat stage. From France.

4.00 Our Food. (PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 4.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

11.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.40pm Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Comedy. Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck. (PG) Comedy

6.20pm Who Do You Think You Are? Actress Julie Walters follows her roots back to rural Ireland. On the trail of her great grandfather, Anthony Clarke, Julie’s journey takes her to County Mayo where she discovers Anthony was at the centre of a revolutionary movement. (PG) UKTV

8.30pm Witness 1939: When War Broke Out. (PG) History

8.30am Rugby Union.

The Rugby Championship.

Argentina v Australia. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm The Maze Runner (2014) Action. Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario. A boy, whose memory has been erased, wakes up at the centre of a vast maze and must find a way to escape. (M) Premiere 10.10pm The Blind Side (2009) Drama. Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron. (PG) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.30 Arthur. (R) 12.40 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 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 A Franklin And Friends Adventure.

(R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Curious George. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep.

(R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 Louis Theroux. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Russell Brand: End The Drugs War. (CC) 10.30 Webcam Girls. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.20 Bodyshockers. (M, R, CC) 12.10 Louis Theroux. (M, R, CC) 1.15 News Update. (R) 1.20 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 Operation Ouch! (R) 9.25 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 9.50 Studio 3 Gold. (R) 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) 2.55 Trop Jr. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole.

(R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. (R) 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. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Yonderland. (R) 8.50 Karaoke High. (R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

7.30pm Million Dollar Listing NY. (M) Arena 8.15pm Beethoven, Symphony No 5.

(G) Arts

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dancing With The Stars. (R, CC) 2.30 The Travel Bug. (PG) 3.30 Life Inside The Markets. (PG) 4.00 Dog Squad. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 5.30 The Border. (PG) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) The teams head to Peterborough.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Jules Hudson heads to Devon.

9.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. A retired city couple, Tony and Candace, dream of relocating to the South Cornwall coast.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

Presented by Gary Takle.

11.00 The Border. (PG, R) Follows the officers who patrol the US-Mexican border.

12.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 Four In A Bed. (PG, R) 3.30 Dog Squad. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Home Shopping. 9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Great Escapes.

12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 1.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG) 2.00 Treasure Trader. (PG) 3.00 Building The Interstate. (PG, R) 4.00 Seinfeld.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 17. West Coast v Sydney.

From Domain Stadium, Perth.

7.30 MOVIE: The Karate Kid III. (PG, R, CC) (1989) A man seeks revenge on a karate champion. Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita.

9.50 MOVIE: Rambo III. (M, R, CC) (1988) Rambo sets out to rescue his former commander.

Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna.

11.50 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 17. Melbourne v St Kilda. From the MCG. 3.00 Jail. (M, R) 4.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) Nick and Andrew go fishing.

5.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R)

8.30pm Bing: His Legendary Years. An inside look at Bing Crosby’s career in music, movies and television. Hosted

by Dennis Miller. (PG) Biography 10.30pm Epic Bars. No task is too big or too small for the Heineman Bar Company, and in this case, no bar is too portable.

(PG) Discovery

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. (R) 11.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 3.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 4.00 Yu-GiOh! (PG) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 6.00 Lip Sync Battle. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Clash Of The Titans. (PG, R, CC) (2010) Sam Worthington.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Penny rethinks her life choices.

9.30 Gotham. (M, CC) Gordon and Bullock investigate a cold case.

10.30 Arrow. (M, CC) 12.30 Almost Human. (M, CC) 1.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.30 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 Soccer. International Champions Cup. Manchester United v Barcelona. 8.00 Soccer.

International Champions Cup. Chelsea v Paris Saint-Germain.

10.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.30 River Cottage Bites. 10.45 MOVIE: Trapeze. (PG, R) (1956) 1.00 Australian Geographic Adventures.

(R, CC) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Bandido. (PG, R, CC) (1956) 4.00 MOVIE: Mame. (R, CC) (1974) 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Life: Birds. (R, CC) Examines the diverse abilities of birds.

8.30 MOVIE: The Untouchables. (M, R, CC) (1987) A Treasury agent sets out to catch Al Capone. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery.

11.00 Person Of Interest.

(M, R, CC) 11.55 MOVIE: Hoffman.

(M, R, CC) (1970) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

4.30pm Football. AFL. West Coast v Sydney Swans. Fox Footy 7.00pm Golf. European PGA. European Masters. Final Round. Fox Sports 4 Dylan O’Brien stars in The Maze Runner

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

Round 7. Night 2. Replay. 9.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 9.30 Emergency Search & Rescue.

(R) 10.00 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 Hardliners. (PG, R) 11.30 Rugby Union. (CC) The Rugby Championship. Argentina v Australia. Replay. 1.30 Shred! (PG, R) 2.00 Temporary Australians.

(PG, R) 2.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (R, CC) 5.00 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 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. (M, R, CC) 9.00 Territory Cops. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 9.30 MOVIE: Tomorrow, When The War Began. (M, R, CC) (2010) Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood. 11.35 World Sport.

12.05 The Glades. (M) 1.05 The Americans. (M, R, CC) 2.00 RPM. (R, CC) 3.00 Monster Jam. (R) 4.00 Emergency Search & Rescue.

(PG, R) 4.30 Shred! (PG, R) 5.00 Motor Racing. FIA Championship.

Formula E Long Beach. Highlights.

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) 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) Kif ends his relationship with Amy. 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Mr Burns terminates the employee prescription medicine program.

8.30 MOVIE: Me, Myself & Irene. (M, R, CC) (2000) A mild-mannered, smalltown police officer reveals he harbours split personalities. Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Robert Forster.

10.55 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 11.30 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.30 Nurse Jackie. (MA15+, R) 1.10 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 3.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 3.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News.

8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 11.00 Portuguese News. 11.30 Croatian News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Advance Australian Film.

(PG, R) 2.10 Lily Cole’s Art Matters.

(PG, R, CC) (Final) 3.00 The Jo Whiley Sessions. (R) 3.30 Cycling.

(CC) Tour de France. Stage 20.

Modane Valfréjus to Alpe d’Huez.

110.5km mountain stage. Replay.

5.30 Beach Soccer. FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. Highlights.

6.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France.

Stage 20. Modane Valfréjus to Alpe d’Huez. 110.5km mountain stage.

Highlights. From France.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (MA15+, R) 9.00 Drunk History UK. (M) 9.30 Housos. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.00 Swift And Shift Couriers. (M, R, CC) 10.30 The Sunny Side Of Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.30 Tent And Sex. (MA15+) 12.00 In Her Skin. (M) 1.40 MOVIE: Family Tree. (M, R) (2010) 3.25 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. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 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.

7.15 Ngurra.

7.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) Shorts from communities across the country.

8.00 The Deerskins. (PG) 8.30 Catfight. A look at a longstanding taboo.

9.30 MOVIE: Baby Boy. (MA15+) (2001) Tyrese Gibson.

11.45 Ngurra. 12.00 Catfight. 1.00 MOVIE: Baby Boy. (MA15+) (2001) Tyrese Gibson. 3.15 Ngurra. 3.30 Mana Mamau. (M) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 5.00 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 #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 IQ2. (CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 #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) 2607

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FIND THE WORDS This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 16 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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with expensive pottery (6) 5. Sensitive editor made an offer (8) 6. Infantry decapitated by bowmen (7) 7. An attractive device in current production (13) 12. Coal-user in a roundabout way (8) 13. Pelt with what will explode on a road (7) 15. He shoots at the woodcock on the right (6) 18. One who often changes gear while working (5) 19. It’s a mistake to move on the ice (4)

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1. Take in water when the plug is out (4) 3. Quietly change nappies with an instrument (8) 9. Beat an animal in front of a holy man (7) 10. Steel is terribly loyal (5) 11. Party of the right and not vice versa, perhaps (12) 13. Nudity is made out to be slovenly (6) 15. The doctor sees 11 across about fungal decay (3,3) 17. Talk of conservation? (12) 20. Strange enigma when I leave a girl (5) 21. A fir cone falls from this tree (7) 22. Is ‘artist’ appropriate for this type of writer (8) 23. Mary goes

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Tiny earmuffs, I imagine. z Have you ever heard of pink turtle-head, creeping Charley, scarlet monkey, lady’s ear drops, painted tongue, false dragonhead or the beefsteak plant? If you’re a horticulturist you may have; they’re all names of flowers. z The ferret (pictured), a domesticated relative of the weasel, gets its

by Samantha Weaver name from the Latin word for “little thief.” z If you’re a fan of the classic film “Casablanca”, you know that actors Claude Rains and Sydney Greenstreet portrayed the characters Renault and Ferrari. Interestingly, those characters’ names also are the names of two leading European auto manufacturers. z Until 1928, women who wanted to swim at the beach in Atlantic City, USA were required to wear stockings. z Noted American composer and conductor

John Phillip Sousa started out as an apprentice in the US Marine Corps band at the tender age of 13. z Those who study such things say that among all prison inmates convicted of violent crimes, murderers are the ones least likely to have tattoos. z It caused a bit of a scandal in the art world when a paper-cutting of a sailboat by famed French artist Henri Matisse hung upside-down in New York’s Museum of Modern Art for more than a month. It seems that in the artwork, the water’s reflection of the boat was mistaken for the boat itself, causing the mishap. z When the tide changes in San Francisco Bay, fully one-sixth of the water is moved in or out.

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YOUR STARS 坥

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) This week is all about letting go. There are plenty of options here. Clear out your clutter, let a friendship go that is proving too negative, simplify things at work or be a bit more spontaneous. The need for change is strong and even exciting. What weighs most heavily on you? It is time to be honest. The Full Moon at the weekend encourages you to work more with others and lighten the load in other areas.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) There seems to be one challenge after another thrown at you this week.

Most are regarding your social life and a current relationship. You already know what you will do and there is no easy way to do it. Your instinct tells you that you are on the right track, but when is the train coming? The full moon at the weekend is there to guide you.

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big event for you this week is the full moon at the weekend. This brings a focus on your working life and career. Things are moving and you need to be ready to act. A reminder that you also need to pay attention to close friends is necessary. Having a network of helpful and encouraging people will not happen by chance. Whatever you put into this week you will be sure to see progress.

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Unex-

pected twists and turns at home and work could cause delays.

These will, however, give you time to rethink a personal decision. Something that is not set in stone may need changing or rejecting. Although you like a peaceful life, being too passive this week could lose you an opportunity. Someone who has a strong romantic interest in you is having a hard time getting their message over. Either you are too occupied or have misread the attention given.

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Mingling with others

brings home the feeling you are living on a certain level. Maybe a bit of adventure is what you need? Start with a holiday or by joining a group venture. What you feel about this at the beginning could change rapidly. Why? Because of the people involved. A firm decision needs to be made and, although it may not be easy, it will take you in a better direction.

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Brace

yourself for a bit of a hectic week ahead. Socially there are choices to be made which can be tricky.

Perhaps you are sure to upset someone by not being able to accept an invitation. Don’t just offer to get in touch later, make a firm date. That way you will soften the blow. Consider this as a time of adjustment and consideration.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) It is very satisfying this week when you find your instinct for a certain situation was spot on. So clear is your vision right now that there is insight into many situations. Certainly, if someone wants a problem solved, you are the one to come to. It being a sharing time, others will be willing to confide readily, but keep your own secrets under wrap for now.

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) A

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this week, everything seems crystal-sharp and doable. You will wonder what you were worrying about before and realise that time has been wasted.

So, get moving in the right direction. Those you want to talk to may not be immediately available, but be sure to catch up with them soon. There is everything to play for and, as the weekend approaches, the full moon makes things even clearer.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN

20) A good-natured and happy feeling runs through the week.

Getting together with someone new at the weekend can be fun. The full moon at that time cautions against lending money. Perhaps someone will suggest a joint venture. Do you know them well enough? Find out more. Where there is love, you are there. Chase dreams but not shadows. When seeking something important to you, try a different approach.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Ad-

miring glances come your way, especially at the weekend. This is when the lovely full moon shines a light on your love life. Of all the signs, you are chosen to see something special. Is this a clear picture of what could lie ahead?

Don’t assume that what you sense is just wishful thinking. Be open to new people and possibilities. This is a week when you must have confidence in yourself.

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sudden rush of clarity brings revelations. Problems you felt awkward about find solutions.

Difficult people seem to be occupied elsewhere. A financial worry can be reorganised to your satisfaction. Where you need to concentrate now is on the weekend. Although the full moon does not throw up any problems, it does present you with a question.

Talk and sort things out.

You will feel much better.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) With a wonderfully clear mind

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20)

Someone who you have not seen for a very long time should be sought. Remember the lovely feeling they gave you when you were together. Could this be rekindled? The chances are you will be pleasantly surprised by the answer. Sometimes we neglect those we take for granted. It is always a big mistake.

You don’t even have to make an effort to be happy at the weekend.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Also celebrating today is former Australian cricketer Allan Border (above), 60.

Strong relationships come together with big opportunities in the months ahead, Leo. At times there is a conflict between the two. Avoid this by letting partners know what is going on all the time. Joint decisions are best.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Governor General and former Australian Defence Force Chief, Peter Cosgrove (below), 68. Leo, your strength and success lie in working with others and showing them how flexible you can be. They, in turn, give you quite a bit of leeway to be yourself.

That ‘being yourself’ is what brings others to your side.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Avoid negative people and harsh realities if you must, Leo. However, they are real and part of everyday life. Why not try using some of that well-honed charm and social fun to melt them?

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! All that you need for slow but sure success, Leo, is the right mixture. Yes, coupling determination and charm can mean less work and more success. No. You are not taking advantage, just allowing others to do their best.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

Staying ahead of others always finds you in the right place, Leo. Don’t let laziness stop you from being sharp at all times.

There is more to gain in the months ahead than you can imagine.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! When Leo is determined to do well, Leo will. Going about it with a sense of caring humour is essential though. One thing you dislike is being disliked. Stay popular by being socially charming.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Sparkle and bang to be noticed and then turn the volume down.

Negotiations, especially in business, need to be one-to-one and low-key. It is what goes on behind closed doors that gets you there in the end, Leo.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3331

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This week's Sudoku

This week's Snowflake

Find the Words solution 861 Capturing the past DUAL CROSSWORD 18,946 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Get on; 4 Methane; 8 Incomes; 9 Niche; 10 Gash; 11 Interest; 13 Bear; 14 Less; 16 Compound; 17 Emma; 20 Roads; 21 Paladin; 22 Saddler; 23 Pilot.

Down: 1 Going concerns; 2 Tacks; 3 Name; 4 Musing; 5 Tendered; 6 Archers; 7 Electromagnet; 12 Carousel; 13 Bombard; 15 Sniper; 18 Model; 19 Slip.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Corps; 4 Plaster; 8 Neglect; 9 Front; 10 Cute; 11 Innuendo; 13 Idea; 14 Ante; 16 Tentacle; 17 Pass; 20 Orbit; 21 Stimuli; 22 Sketchy; 23 Piece.

Down: 1 Conscientious; 2 Right; 3 Shed; 4 Potent; 5 Affluent; 6 Trounce; 7 Retrogressive; 12 Pedantic; 13 Ignoble; 15 Fleshy; 18 Amuse; 19 Wisp.

CryptoQuote answer

This week's Go Figure!

Mega Maze

DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 18,889 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Gulp; 3 Panpipes; 9 Lambast; 10 Alloy; 11 Conservative; 13 Untidy; 15 Dry rot; 17 Conversation; 20 Megan; 21 Conifer; 22 Satirist; 23 Army.

Down: 1 Golf club; 2 Lemon; 4 Active; 5 Plaster saint; 6 Palaver; 7 Stye; 8 Water diviner; 12 Stingray; 14 Thought; 16 Precis; 18 Infer; 19 Imps.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Clap; 3 Edginess; 9 Outlast; 10 Taunt; 11 Circumscribe; 13 Entrap; 15 Grieve; 17 Distractions; 20 Lager; 21 Purloin; 22 Reserved; 23 Oral.

Down: 1 Crotchet; 2 Alter; 4 Detest; 5 Interpreters; 6 Equable; 7 Site; 8 Manufacturer; 12 Personal; 14 Twinges; 16 Sample; 18 Odour; 19 Slur.

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. In Queensland, at an elevation of 1622 metres.

2. Hidden or secret. 3. Fish. 4. “Psycho”. 5. Bavarian Motor Works. 6. George Harrison. 7. Eight. 8. A bat. 9. The Republic of Upper Volta. 10. Osiris. 11. “My Eyes Adored You”, a hit in 1974. 12. Venezuela. 13. “The Three Bells”, also known as “Jimmy Brown” or “Little Jimmy Brown”, by The Browns (no relation) in 1959. The song is about the three stages in the life of Jimmy Brown: birth, marriage and death.

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