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Walking a thin line Kate Wright’s journey back from the hell of anorexia PAGE 18

NEWS Sculpture culture starts with a lazy weekend

ISSUE The sacred business of foster caring

PEOPLE John Kaldor: The art of philanthropy

TALES Lightning Ridge has another gem in its midst

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Who should get the lion’s share of compassion? ’VE managed to expend a fair bit of emotional energy this week, one way or another.

Quite a bit of it has been devoted to wondering how on God’s green earth someone could line up a magnificent African lion in their sights and shoot it with anything other than a camera.

When news of the killing of Cecil the lion – a rather unique specimen that was lured from a Zimbabwean sanctuary and shot with a crossbow then pursued for 40 hours until he was put out of his misery with a gunshot to the head (which was then removed, along with the GPS tracker he was wearing to help scientists study his movements) – well, the internizzle went nuts.

And I joined in. I added my voice to the outraged chorus – sharing my disgust at the actions of the American dentist who slaughtered this precious beast for nothing more than fun.

In exchange for a reported $US50,000.

The “hunter”, a bloke by the name of Walter Palmer, became the hunted. His claims that, as far as he knew, the kill was legal and all the paperwork was in order only added to the baying for his blood. Just ‘cause it’s legal, don’t make it right, pal.

Amid the global calls for Palmer to be hunted down, stuffed and mounted, a little voice rose above the others from my own Facebook newsfeed. A mate of mine was calling us all out for focussing our outrage on an animal, when around the world every day thousands of children die horrible deaths as a consequence of poverty. For howling for justice to be served on the US dentist, while ignoring the documented and virtually unchallenged atrocities committed by one Robert Mugabe – so-called leader of the very nation on whose soil Cecil was just one of the locals to meet an untimely end.

Fair go, I thought. There’s room in the world – and certainly on social media – for more than one object of outrage. But my friend’s comments made me wince none-the-less, because his comparison is right. We do tend to wring our collective hands more – at least publicly – when the object of the injustice has fur or fins or feathers. Maybe it’s because in most cases, there’s a single identifiable focal point; a particular creature from the animal kingdom – whereas the sheer magnitude of global human suffering overwhelms us. We feel impotent for the lack of both a specific object of our compassion and a particular set of feet at which to lay the blame.

Then I read our story in this week’s edition about foster carers, and my Facebook friend’s assertion that our priorities are out of kilter really hit home. Because this human suffering is playing out every day right here on our very own doorstep. Not just on a national scale, not

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just on a state-wide scale – but right here in beautiful downtown Dubbo. As I type, there are 157 children who are not in the care of their parents; whose right to a safe and loving home and future is denied them through no fault of their own and whose care we leave mostly to others while we shed tears (justifiable as they are) over the death of a lion.

I’ll leave you to read our feature on foster carers down there on page 12 – but something one of these extraordinarily selfless people said brought tears of shame to my eyes.

“Have you heard of “red soup”? You know what that is? That’s the water that’s left over when you boil hot dogs – that’s a meal for a lot of these kids at night, right here in Dubbo.”

From the comfort of a warm loungeroom, with a fridge full of food and a home full of love, I guess it’s just easier to hit the keyboard in outrage over Cecil than it is to roll up our sleeves and find a Should we place and a way to tangibly help ease injustice in our be MORE own community. outraged As coincidence would have it, an email pinged into over the my inbox as I was penning death my thoughts this morning.

It was a letter – which you of a lion can read further on in this – as gutweek’s edition – from the wrenching People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and it re- as it is lates to the global outrage – than over Cecil the lion.

PETA isn’t an organisa- over the tion whose modus operan- systematic di sits well with me. Its extremist dogma usually does abuse and more harm than good for neglect of the genuine cause of wildlife conservation, but in this children? case, the author of the letter has a point.

“The fact that so many people are calling for harsh punishments for Palmer and his cronies shows that more and more people are starting to feel that every life is deserving of consideration and respect, and that we should seek to stop injustice, no matter who the victim is.”

But therein lies the rub. Should we be MORE outraged over the death of a lion – as gutwrenching as it is – than over the systematic abuse and neglect of children? The beast that is social media sure seems to think so.

In the process of fighting all those good fights, perhaps we could spare some of our outrage for the suffering and potential tragedy that’s sitting on the doorstep just beyond our keyboards.

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Sayuri Naga, Ayumu Taguchi and Steven Hornby in the sister city room at the Western Plains Cultural Centre’s Dubbo Regional Museum. PHOTO: CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

Minokamo students rapt in Aussie experience EN Japanese high school students are currently visiting Dubbo as part of the Minokamo sister city exchange program and have completed a two-day tour of the city’s sights.

The students arrived last weekend, and have been attending various schools across Dubbo since Wednesday.

Sixteen year old Sayuri Naga and 14 year-old Ayumu Taguchi were selected by the Minokamo council to join the group and are travelling outside Japan for the first time.

Sayuri has been studying English for a decade since her Australian school equivalent of Year 5, and Ayumu for just three years, but without access to many – if any – English popular culture influences, it’s the first time either has had a real life opportunity to practice their skills.

Speaking to them in the dedicated Sister City Room at the Dubbo Regional Museum, and with the assistance of local translator Steven Hornby, Sayuri and Ayumu explained that a highlight of their visit here is to be hosted by Australian families in Aussie homes.

“I love the fact that we are experiencing real Australian culture with our host families,” said Sayuri.

“I have been so excited about the opportunity to live with a family and use English in a real environment for the

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first time,” said Ayumu. “I’ve felt quite nervous inside about speaking English but am getting confident.”

Although they had only been in Dubbo for three days at the time of our interview, Sayuri commented on some of the differences she’d observed.

“I have noticed quite a lot. I am quite impressed how clean the city is,” she said. “Also in a Japanese home you always take your shoes off before you walk into the home.”

Hornby said: “It’s actually quite a strange feeling for them to walk into a home with your shoes on.”

Ayumu has also been shocked by how much the children in his host family help with housework.

“At home in Japan, we don’t really do much around the house. So we won’t help out our parents with the chores. I am quite shocked how in the family I am living with, all the kids get stuck into helping out around the house.”

At home in Japan, however, there is probably not a lot of time.

Sayuri is either travelling to school, at school or attending after school classes and studies from 9pm to 12 midnight, every night, so spare time is dedicated to study instead of housework.

“In Japan it’s mum who does the work around the house; Dad doesn’t do anything,” said Hornby.

“I was originally an exchange student to Japan back in my high school days, and I came home from school one day and noticed that my host mother was still not home and I couldn’t work out why,” he said.

“The clothes were on the line and it was getting dark and I’d always been raised to think before the night air gets to them, get them inside. So I just took them off the line and she arrived home to find they’d been taken off the line and literally broke down crying that I’d gone ahead and done that. It’s just what the mum does. Mum does everything,” said Hornby.

These small cultural exchanges make a big difference in understanding each other’s lifestyles and an important aspect for the sister city exchange.

“I think it’s most important that the two cities share their culture and it’s from that shared experience you can take things home with us as well,” said Sayuri.

“I also think it’s important,” said Ayumu. “It’s the cultural exchange between people. So what the people of Dubbo don’t know about Japan, maybe we can teach them and at the same time learn some thing about Dubbo people that we can take back to Japan.”

When Sayuri returns to Japan she plans to tell her family she stayed with

a very friendly, kind family in Australia and that things are very different between the way of life in the two countries.

Ayumu will also be sharing the differences including the example of showering in the morning.

“Traditionally in Japan everyone takes their bath at night,” explained Hornby.

“Everyone uses the same bathwater because they don’t actually wash in the bath, they wash outside of the bath and the bath is there for relaxing in, not for washing in.

“I am looking forward to talking to my family about the different in food – which tastes good! – and probably about the size of the portions,” said Ayumu.

Both students have enjoyed their visit and Dubbo will have a place in their lives forever.

“I’ve had a very exciting stay in Australia and I want to thank everybody for that. I want to extend an invitation to the people of Dubbo to come and visit Minokamo as well,” said Ayumu.

The Minokamo sister city exchange students depart Dubbo on Tuesday, August 11, bound for home via a visit to Cowra. In the September/October 2015 school holidays, students representing Dubbo will complete the student exchange by travelling to Minokamo, Japan.

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Sculpture culture start

BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

O over Sculptures by the Sea. ubbo is about to have its very own nod to the ancient art-form, thanks to the collaborative efforts of two iconic locals – a y River and Brett “Mon” arling.

Sculptures by the River launches next weekend, with a threeday workshop during which aspiring sculptors – under the tutelage of renowned artist arling – will create equine themed works made entirely of materials collected from along the banks of the beautiful Macquarie River.

The idea to create ubbo’s very own sculpture culture blossomed from a similar workshop eter Scott attended with his two children at Mudgee recently. Scott and wife am, the owners of a y River state, have borrowed the idea, with the added edge of offering the chance for would-be creatives to pick the brains of one of the nation’s foremost sculptors, who also ust happens to be local. arling will spend three days overseeing the progress of workshop participants’ creations – which must be made from what they’re able to find along the riverbank, and must take the form of a horse. Twelve armatures (the frames over which the sculptures will be created) will be set up along the riverbank at a y River, with the sculptors working in pairs to craft their horses.

The Scott family was so impressed by the experience at the Mudgee workshop, they couldn’t resist the opportunity to replicate the exercise here on the banks of the Macquarie.

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Artist Brett “Mon” Garling

“There’s also a nice synergy with the environment,” says Scott.

“To create a full-si e sculpture of a horse, made entirely from material collected from along the river, be it from a gum tree or a willow or driftwood – it’s a recycling exercise as well. We’ll also have some old discarded wire and tin and that kind of thing that we’ve had here, and they can use that to complement the wood they’ve collected and to make the horses come to “life”, so to speak.”

Scott says it was a “no brainer” to approach Brett arling to take part.

“We’re ust so fortunate to have someone of his calibre right here in our own back yard, and he was only too pleased to get involved.”

For his part, arling is champing at the bit to get started.

“I ust thought, wow – that sounds like fun,” says the acclaimed painter and sculptor, whose affinity with horses is literally cast in bron e as anyone who has visited his Wongarbon studio and gallery or his famed tribute to The Man from Snowy River which proudly graces the main street of Corryong in ictoria can attest.

“It’s going to be a fairly inventive and creative pro ect, given they have to make the sculptures from what they can find on the riverbank. The use of the environment is a nice touch,” says arling.

“There has to be some resemblance to a horse, but it’s entirely up to the workshop participants as

to what the final creation will look like – the beauty of this pro ect is that you really don’t know what you’re going to construct until you get there and see what materials you can find. It will be a progressive sculpture over the three days and it’ll be curious to see what the results will be.”

The equine theme fits nicely with arling’s love of horses, which have been a part of his life since childhood.

“I don’t remember a time when horses weren’t a part of our family’s life, so the theme for this workshop is quite appropriate. I’m really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.”

The sculptures will remain in place until the following weekend for a two-day exhibition, to which members of the public are invited and will be able to “ udge” the works for a people’s choice award. lans are already underway to make this an annual event, says am Scott, who sees an opportunity to add another string to ubbo’s cultural bow.

“This is our first foray into this kind of pro ect – horses is our first one, and next year we’re hoping to open Sculptures by the River up to any kind of sculpture. ext time it might be animals from the oo, for instance. But we’ll definitely be making this a signature event to add to ubbo’s cultural mix.” z The workshop will be held on August 19-21 at Lazy River Estate.

There are 24 places for the workshop, with participants to work in pairs. The cost for the three days is $380 per person, with Lazy River Estate providing all materials as well as lunch, morning and afternoon teas and refreshments throughout the three days. Participants will be asked to bring a hat, sunscreen, gloves and a pair of pliers. For further information, or to register for the workshop, contact Lazy River on 6882 2111 or by email: events@lazyriverestate.com.au

` “We’ll definitely be making this a signature event to add to Dubbo’s cultural mix.”

– Peter Scott, Lazy River

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Curing fear with a doctor’s kit Educator, Sacha Whitehead’s early onset at 36 of Parkinson’s disease has driven her to find new ways of teaching children, especially to not fear doctors. Working with American celebrity doctor, Neil Shulman, she recently introduced his educational Dr’s Kit to the Hear Our Heart organisation in Dubbo. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley What is the background to the Dr’s Kit? The Dr’s Kit was created by well-known American Dr Neil Shulman, also known as Doc Hollywood or Dr Neil Banana Peel. Based in Atlanta, Georgia USA, he has worked across the world to improve health and develop awareness of medical instruments and terminology because he believes it bridges a gap between doctors and communities that may be disadvantaged and lacking medical services.

His mission is to improve health care in a humorous way.

He is a known comedian, humanitarian, writer, co-producer and has aired on TV. He has a passion for helping others. He is one of the kindest men I know and has even flown to Africa and made medical instruments from recycled materials to engage the children.

Dr Neil wants to demystify the terminology, giving children the courage to face a doctor with knowledge and awareness and even identify within themselves if there are concerns for their health or ways they can improve their health.

He has contributed to many voluntary clinics and has volun-

teered in schools and nursing homes.

What’s in a Dr’s Kit? You have the instruments named Otis the Otoscope, Lubba and Dubba the Stethoscope who are twins, BP the blood pressure cuff, Mrs Kneeknocker the reflex hammer, Tempo the thermometer, Woody the tongue depressor and they are so cute, you will never fear a doctor again.

The kit contains a DVD, a book, a Dr’s bag with the toys and a certificate to say you are declared no longer afraid of the doctor.

Why is it so important to have these kinds of learning materials for children?

It is important because we can identify and prevent childhood illnesses that can be very damaging if left untreated. If we can give children and adults some knowledge and terminology they are likely to talk more confidently into a doctor and describe what might be bothering their child.

Too many children with little to no awareness are at risk of disease simply because they are not aware of the danger of leaving things untreated, nor are the family. Using kits like this targets children, gets them

` If we can give children and adults some knowledge and terminology they are likely to talk more confidently into a doctor and describe what might be bothering their child.

interested, excited and gives them a sense of power.

They feel quite knowledgeable and will definitely be less afraid to see a doctor if they already know what an otoscope is. Those big black instruments look scary until you read our books and play with the toys.

When we teach our children, we open up the door to communicate with adults and we all know children will definitely put their parents in there place if they know something they don’t.

Why do children fear doctors?

When do we ever sit with a doctor just for a conversation or a laugh? We only go to the doctor when we are sick and in pain and then they have big scary instruments. Not only this, there are different cultural perspectives or locations that are disadvantaged that may perceive these instruments as threatening without this knowledge.

Simple education can put this to rest so communities can work on a holistic approach and in harmony. Children will feel empowered when they go to the doctor looking for Otis and telling the doctor that is an otoscope.

What’s your involvement in the Dr Kit’s program?

I had to leave teaching at the end of 2012 due to a progressive, incurable neurological disease, Parkinson’s. As the day-to-day teaching and hours were too hard on me I needed a flexible lifestyle because I can have good and bad days and even good and bad hours.

I started then to focus on my

Gordon Rutter, audiometrist, Hear Our Heart, Wade Miller, ex-student of Sacha’s who nearly lost his life to ear disease, Sacha Whitehead, artist, Dr’s Kit collaborator, Kerry Inder, Ear Health Manager PHOTO: DUBBO PUBLIC SCHOOL

creative passion and somehow ended up back doing resources for children. Perfect!

I am the illustrator and coauthor for a screenplay for an animation that I am working on with Dr Neil.

What are the plans for the kit in the future?

We have plans to distribute it as far as we can (globally) as Dr Neil says the terminology is the same everywhere. It is universal. He wants it translated into different languages.

You’re working on a book as well. What’s it about?

It is about Otis the Otoscope who lives on the Planet of the Ears. He is a little bored with his 9-5 job and feels there is more to the universe than checking ears all day. Suddenly germs invade the ears and he decides to travel to the White Blood Cell Planet to seek assistance from Mighty Warriors to defeat the germs and get his ears well again.

The characters are friendly, funny, and it is humorous, light and the comic. It is a modern take on the subject as we see graphic novels on the rise and literacy levels petering out or declining.

There is no doubt in my mind that as an educator I would use this resource. I learned a lot from creating it and had so much fun and the children learn the big terminology (so did I). They learn about germs and white blood cells and the importance of good health in a manner that is so engaging it could have a phenomenal impact here.

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The week’s top stories from around the region

Short-term pain, long-term gain as roadworks resume DUBBO’S commuters and business people are bracing themselves for the resumption of disruption to CBD traffic from this weekend, but it’s all in a good cause. Work recommences on the redevelopment of Darling Street from Sunday. Over coming months, Dubbo City Council will undertake stages 5a, 5b and 6 which includes works on stormwater drainage, street landscaping, traffic management and the reconstruction of the road pavement. This next stage is to duplicate the work that has already been completed on the eastern side of Darling Street between Wingewarra and Church Streets from Church to Talbragar Streets, according to council’s Works and Services manager Ian Bailey.

“This includes installing new underground services, replacing the existing kerb and guttering, extending the footpath and cycleway, installing root cells for replacement trees and building a bus shelter at the northern end of Darling Street,” Bailey said, adding that the redevelopment would significantly change the street design by constructing concrete centre medians.

“These will provide additional midblock pedestrian refuges as well as creating a unique and functional road design. Additional trees and gardens will be planted along the shoulders and in the centre median and line marking will improve overall parking.”

From Sunday (August 9) one northbound lane only will be open on Darling Street between Church and Talbragar Streets, while the southbound lane of Darling Street will be closed from Talbragar to Church. Parking will be unavailable on the eastern side of Darling Street between the two streets. The disruption these works cause isn’t lost on council, which says it will be conscious of trying to minimise any inconvenience and of the importance of keeping the community and local businesses informed. “While the construction works are underway the public is asked to obey all directional and speed signs for the safety of the public and staff in and around the construction site,” Bailey said.

New traffic management plans will be put in place for Stage 5b and 6 scheduled to commence in October. The public will be notified of any new arrangements which include further road closures.

Charges laid over fatal Maryvale crash A MAN has appeared in Dubbo Local Court on a string of charges relating to a fatal crash near Dubbo last month in which an 18 year old woman died.

At about 8.15 on Wednesday, July 15, police attempted to stop a car on the Mitchell Highway at Maryvale with a pursuit being initiated after the driver allegedly failed to stop. A short time lat-

er, the car lost control and crashed into a pole. The driver, 24-year-old Wellington man Scott Allan Thompson, was taken to Dubbo Hospital with serious injuries.

Officers from the Metropolitan Crash Investigation Unit commenced inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident. Following inquiries, the man was arrested at Wellington Police Station about 12.30pm on Tuesday this week and he was charged with a number of offences relating to the fatal crash, including aggravated dangerous driving occasioning death; dangerous driving occasioning death; not stop, police pursuit (Skye’s Law); and negligent driving occasioning death. Thompson was refused bail and appeared at Dubbo Local Court on Wednesday where he pleaded not guilty and was remanded in custody to appear before the court again on September 30.

Ambos keen to rein in horse injuries LOCAL horse riders have been issued a safety warning by NSW Ambulance after statistics revealed more than 1100 people were injured in riding incidents across the state in the past year. During the period from July 1, 2014 to June 30 this year, 669 patients either fell or were thrown from a horse; 71 were kicked; 13 were bitten; and four were crushed. A further 366 cases from a total of 1123 were from unspecified causes. The statistics included an 18-yearold woman who suffered suspected fractured ribs after being kicked by a horse at Forbes and a 39 year old Tamworth woman who sustained head injuries after her horse reared. NSW Ambulance Superintendent Mark Gibbs, a former horse rider, said the potential for injury on a horse is considerable, even before adding such risk factors as riding at speed and riding in unpredictable environments. “No matter how well you think you know the horse, no matter how comfortable you are, there’s always a chance for something unsuspecting to happen. The horse could be spooked or the environment could play a role.

Even things like loading and unloading horse floats can turn sour. There are always those days when a horse refuses to co-operate.” NSW Ambulance said young children in particular should be supervised when around horses. Riders should wear appropriate riding gear including a properly fitted helmet that meets safety standards, a long sleeved shirt, long fitted pants and riding boots.

Off again, on again for seniors housing plan FIRST there was a recommendation for approval, then there was a decision to defer pending a traffic review.

Now Dubbo City Council will convene an extraordinary meeting on Monday to consider withdrawing the resolution to

Peak Hill’s reason to smile PEAK HILL’S young residents will soon be smiling a little wider and a little brighter with the addition of dental services at the town’s Multipurpose Service (MPS).

It’s a fitting time for the announcement, made by Western NSW Local Health District during Dental Health Week. A room at the MPS has been set aside for the services, with $35,000 worth of equipment installed, including a new dental chair and x-ray unit which will be used to provide a regular visiting dental service for children aged 0-17. defer a decision on a development application for an 84-dwelling seniors housing complex to be built on land next to Yarrawonga Estate.

If the rescission motion is carried, a new motion to grant approval will be proposed, including amended conditions relating to the provision of garages to each of the villas within the proposed development.

The proposal to provide garages to each of the villas is as a result of an offer from the developers, Oaktree Group Pty Ltd, with the Conditions of Consent proposing that prior to lodgement of any Construction Certificate, amended plans are to be submitted to council for approval which include garages at each of the villas within the development.

The proposed motion also includes provisions for council to make representations to the Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo, Troy Grant, Roads Minister Duncan Gay and the regional

Senior Dental Therapist, Serena Murray from Parkes held her first clinic in Peak Hill on Wednesday this week, marking the start of a muchneeded service for the town. Murray will also be screening children at local schools throughout this month.

The new clinic will also be used to provide local dental assessments for adults during August, with Dr Aldwin Agcaoili and a dental assistant from Dubbo providing a service every Thursday over the course of the month for adults who are eligible (who hold a Centrelink concession card) for free PHOTO: SUPPLIED dental care. manager of Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) for the Western Region, asking the RMS to compile a traffic review to consider the future availability of access from the Mitchell Highway to future development which may be undertaken on proposed residue land fronting the highway following the subdivision of land for the seniors housing project.

Police urge awareness after four riders killed ROAD users in Dubbo and around the region have been urged to maintain awareness of the motorcycle riders with whom they share the road, with police issuing an appeal following the death of four motorbike riders in just three days across the state. Assistant Commissioner John Hartley of the state’s Traffic and Highway Patrol Command said motorbike riders and other road users should be aware of their abilities, surroundings and responsibility toward each other.

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“These recent deaths have highlighted the need for greater motorcycle awareness on our roads – for everyone. Those that are new to riding, or have returned to riding after some years need to be aware of their abilities,” Hartley said.

“Motorcycle crashes can happen in good conditions with no other vehicles involved. Even experienced riders need time to react to changing situations on the road. Sometimes, you might be going too fast for the road conditions, even though you may be riding below the speed limit.”

According to Hartley, it takes threequarters of a second to make a decision to act once you see a hazard, and the same time again for the action to be effective.

Motorcycles are harder to see than other vehicles because they are smaller, blend easily into the background, can accelerate faster than other vehicles and it can be difficult to judge their approaching speed.

Tips for drivers to share the road with motorcyclists include scanning the road environment and watching for motorcycles, especially when approaching intersections; regularly checking mirrors and blind spots; checking for motorcycles before opening the door of a parked car and being especially conscious of bikes while pulling away from the kerb.

Thirty six riders have lost their lives in crashes so far this year and Hartley said riders and other motorists need to take responsibility by riding safely and being aware of other vehicles on our roads.

He also called on riders to “make the right decisions” – manage risk and

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Schools in the running for Stampede cash THE Dubbo Stampede is on again soon, and local schools could be in the running for a stack of prizes including cash and bragging rights.

Organisers have challenged students, teachers and parents to get their running shoes on to register for the Stampede, and to support their school in the popular dash for cash by nominating their chosen school upon registration.

The community event will be held on Sunday 6 September, with registration also including free entry to Taronga Western Plains Zoo. Runners and walkers can nominate for the 5.5, 10, 21.1 or 42.2 km events at www.dubbostampede.com.au The 5.5 km Dingo Dash is ideal for school groups and families who can walk or run around the zoo and take in a very special day.

Schools Challenge Coordinator Sarah Strahorn is encouraging everyone to get behind their school and register for the popular community event.

“It is great to see young people and families being active and enjoying the outdoors together. The Dubbo Stampede falls on the first weekend of spring and Fathers’ Day – two great reasons to make it the start of a wonderful family day.”

Runners and walkers alike have until midnight September 3 to register, how-

ever Strahorn said categories are filling fast so people should get in early so they don’t miss out.

There are three categories in the School’s Challenge to account for schools in the region of different sizes, the idea being that each school tries to gather as many registrations as they can. The school with the most registrations in each category receives a trophy and $500 cheque.

Parents and children will also have the chance to meet Commonwealth gold medal runner and patron of the Dubbo Stampede, Andrew Lloyd, who is a highly acclaimed distance runner, representing Australia at the 1990 Commonwealth Games and winning many prestigious running events.

Dubbo’s own elite athlete Jane Fardell is also supporting the Dubbo Stampede as ambassador.

Coona local runs from city to surf for a bush icon AND speaking of running, Coonabarabran’s Donna Burton will be pounding the pavements of the annual City2Surf this weekend to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). This will be Burton’s third straight year competing in the iconic Sydney foot race.

“I first did it because the 14 kilometre course was further than I had ever run before and it was a great way to keep myself motivated during my exercise and weight loss program,” she said.

“My original goal was just to finish, now my big aim is to finish in less than two hours. I train all year round and weigh 30kg less than when I first ran in 2013.”

A self-proclaimed “drover’s brat”, Burton grew up on stations all across NSW, Queensland and South Australia and saw first-hand the invaluable work done by the RFDS. “Memories of the Flying Doctor are scattered all through my childhood. A stockman was badly hurt and we kids helped by clearing the landing strip of kangaroos and putting out the kerosene lamps so they could land.

“I remember a pregnant woman getting advice over the radio and people using the body chart to describe their problems and being told what to take from the medicine chest. Also, the RFDS would fly in with a nurse who did clinics for the mission and station folk.”

Burton said that as a bush kid, she always wanted to be a Flying Doctor pilot “because they were the bravest and most heroic blokes around, real unsung heroes in those rural and remote areas”.

“I did learn how to fly a plane, and I still live in the bush (at Coonabarabran) but I became an astronomer instead. But I can still do my bit to support the RFDS and help bridge the access to healthcare gap in this wide brown land of ours.”

Funding boost for environment and land care projects LANDHOLDERS from around the region have been urged to apply for a share of an $860,000 pool of grants to undertake projects supporting sustainable agriculture and the environment.

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Bourke break-ins net firearms and cars

Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton and Board Member of the Central West Local Land Services, Jenny Bradley at the Nyngan Ago Expo on Saturday 1 August 2015

Central West Local Land Services (LLS) issued the invitation during last weekend’s Nyngan Ag Expo, with the grants bucket supported by the federal government’s National Landcare Program. Environment minister Greg Hunt said the grants represent an opportunity for communities to “tackle important onground works aimed at addressing local natural resource management priorities”.

“Through the 2015-16 Incentives Program, landholders are invited to deliver simple, local and long-term solutions to improve the productivity of their land and their local environment,” Hunt said.

The minister was pleased to note that Australia’s 56 regional natural resource management organisations are directing more than 20 per cent

of their National Landcare Program funding to help support grant rounds such as these as well as other local community engagement activities.”

Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton attended the Ag Expo and said it was important to see funding invested locally to deliver real change targeted at the environment and the land.

“This is crucial because farmers, landcarers and community groups know what works best for their environment and their community,” Coulton said.

Central West LLS board member Jenny Bradley said getting involved, farmers and landholders and community organisations working in natural resource management can help ensure the grant program is used to its maximum benefit, target-

POLICE are appealing for information after four firearms and two vehicles were stolen during break-ins in Bourke over the past two weeks.

Sometime between 8.15pm on July 30 and 6.30am on July 31, thieves gained access to a home in Hope Street, taking keys and stealing the resident’s Toyota Landcruiser.

The resident left the location about 7.45am to look for the Landcruiser, and returned about 10.30am.

During this time, it is believed access was again gained to the home, and four firearms were stolen from a firearm safe, including a Ruger M77.222 calibre rifle, a BRNO 1.22 calibre rifle, a Browning GP/TRAP under over 12-gauge shotgun, and a Stoeger X10.177 calibre air rifle.

Between 4.20am and 8am on Thursday last week, police say “unknown persons” gained access to a home on Richard Street in Bourke, also taking keys and stealing the resident’s Holden Commodore.

Police from Darling River Local Area Command are investigating the break-ins, which are believed to be linked.

Late on Friday afternoon, both vehicles were located in bushland between Parkdale Road and the Darling River and have been seized for forensic examination.

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CARES Being a foster carer, according to “Riverbank” Frank Doolan, is a sacred business. He believes in the old saying that it takes a village to raise a child and for some of our kids, that’s how childhood is unfolding. Right now in Dubbo, 157 children are living with people other than their parents; statewide the number is startling. LISA MINNER explores the good, the bad and the ugly of the foster care system and speaks to some of the people about their first-hand experience. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner in 2012/14 there were 18.3 per cent of children WARM bed, a hot meal at night and a in OOHC, including guardianship orders; 19 kind face are something many children in per cent in 2013/14 and the figure is still rising Australia take for granted under the care with 20.2 per cent during 2014-15. This equates of their parents, but not so the nearly 20,000 to around 20,000 children who are not living at children in foster care in NSW alone this year. home with their families right now.

For these children, basic needs are rarely met and trauma and neglect are their reality.

For some that’s a mixed blessing, but the fosIt’s a problem that doesn’t seem to be getting ter system is by no means ideal for the mental any better – the numbers of children in out-ofhealth of a child, with many youngsters passhome-care on the rise. But with out-of-home ing through multiple families – some good, care services being redirected from Family and some less than ideal – without ever knowing Community Services (FaCS) to around 30 nonthe feeling of safety and stability, let alone ungovernment agencies, the potential for meeting conditional love and acceptance. All will exit needs for both child and carer is looking better. the system by the age of 18 and will transition into “adult life”, most without ever having spent Within the Dubbo region there are 157 chiltime in their childhoods engaged in normal sodren placed in out-of-home care (OOHC) through FaCS and various non-government cial experiences on which they can model their future lives. agencies like Burnside, Anglicare and Life Without Barriers.

It’s not the fault of carers, neiOf these children, 99 are Abother is it the fault of the governriginal; that’s 63 per cent of chilment and non-government agendren in care in the region. There cies that struggle to cope with are 88 carers in Dubbo regismassive workloads associated tered with FaCS and another 69 with a social problem that’s often registered with non-government volatile and must be dealt with agencies. case-by-case. It’s a huge and often thankless job, where the good A FaCS spokesperson says the intentions of case workers and department is in the process of staff are stymied by a lack of retransitioning all out-of-home“You are sources. Broken families will alcare services to non-government on duty for ways exist; addiction, violence, agencies by 2021. These NGOs poverty and predatory behaviour are looking at new ways to rethese kids will remain in an imperfect socruit foster carers by encourag24 hours a ciety but it’s how we choose to ing gay couples, single people, day, it’s not participate that will see the fall younger carers and empty-nestout – the children of these broken ers to take on children at risk for like a 9 to families – either thrive or fail. both short and long term care, 5pm, job.” but in particular respite care.

Professor Hayes of the AustralStatewide statistics reflect that ian Institute of Family Studies

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has identified six characteristics he considers essential for an effective foster carer: a sense of love, warm attachments, consistency of parenting, stability, financial and material support and successful transmission of pro-social values.

Marissa*: aged 31, single and employed.

BECAME a foster carer because of my involvement in and my knowledge of the criminal justice system.

I guess I thought it would be quite simple (laughs) – the care of the child part of it. Obviously I still knew these children would have ongoing issues with their history of out of home care, but I guess I didn’t realise how complicated it would be because you’re trying juggle something that’s maybe intuitive or nurturing but you’re juggling that with three or four parties – the agencies who still kind of fall back on to the department (Family and Community Services or DoCS) so, four, including me and the child.

I guess the good parts of my experience outweighed the bad and I felt that I was probably the most useful I have ever been in my life, so even if I never cared for another child again, I really think I filled a needed gap that not everyone is prepared to address, and it’s a gap that’s really ongoing. I think it’s one of the most important things you could do because it’s one of the most basic needs of anyone; to have a home and to feel safe and nurtured. Beside from me being useful, I think it really had positive benefits for Alana*. She was with me for about a year and I’ve been told that was the longest placement she’d had in seven years of out-ofhome care. So if you think about it, that’s a lot of short term placements.

Every step of the way though, I found I was not struggling in my role as a carer but more with the agency I was dealing with because if you’re there to provide a stable home you need to be committed like a parent is – that’s the most important thing. So no matter how many downs there are you have to ride those bad times because with any child there will be bad times. So my overall sense of being a carer is there is no encouragement to commit. If you are not encouraged to commit – and not just me but Alana as well, the children have to work at it too – I can’t see it being an effective experience. In the long term if we are both committed then it’s going to be the most positive placement for her, because that’s what will make her feel settled and from there you get the overflow effects of feeling settled in a place.

That was the drawback of the whole thing and why I’d really have to consider if I could be a long term carer again because if you want to provide discipline and healthy habits and role models and routines, that all comes back to commitment; you won’t instill those really important things that will make them a good adult in society if you are only in it for the short term.

I felt like at least once a month Alana might get cranky and ask the agency for a placement somewhere else, and she could do that. Sometimes it could be a reason like she didn’t like the food I was cooking. I don’t know how the model has evolved like that, it feels like the parenting role is taken out of it and you’re more in an administrative role; you’re providing a shell of a house otherwise it’s the child’s call about everything. I would love to see the agencies encourage commitment on both sides, because that’s when the real benefits will come from the placement.

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Jeanette*: carer, aged 43, married, stay at home mother and volunteer ARER, Jeanette, and her husband Michael* are a mixed-race family who live in Dubbo and have fostered 27 Aboriginal children together in eight years, ranging from six months to 12 years old. Many of the children have been fulltime as well as respite care. The couple is dedicated to the role of foster carers but have found over the years that it’s a thankless job in many ways, particularly since the preference of placing Aboriginal children with Aboriginal foster carers has taken hold. But due to the imbalance of Aboriginal carers to foster children ratios, it’s rarely possible.

Jeanette and Michael foster because they care about children; heritage doesn’t even blip on their radar and nor should it, they believe.

“In those eight years I have only ever had one parent say thanks for caring for their kids and that came via a support worker weeks later after the children’s behaviour had improved so much.”

They have heard the horror stories of the many

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We have to separate the emotional from the objective, and the objective as I see it is to raise Australian children – not black children, not white, just our kids.”

– “Riverbank” Frank Doolan

children who have been in their care, and it’s heart breaking.

“Have you heard of red soup? You know what that is? It’s the water that’s left over when you boil hotdogs – that’s a meal for a lot of these kids, right here in Dubbo,” she says, matter-of-factly.

So committed are they to the ongoing care of their children, just these holidays they had five living with them, but were only being paid for the care of two, who they have had in their care for the past two years.

Jeanette says people have the belief that many foster carers are in it for the money, but she laughs at that and says if you break it down you get about $2 per hour per child over the course of a fortnight.

Basic payments range from around $459 to $688 per fortnight per child, depending on age. Additional allowances can apply for children with disabilities or high needs.

“You are on duty for these kids 24 hours a day, it’s not like a 9-to-5 job.”

Jeanette says it’s important to them to try to provide continuity for the children, particulary for respite care.

“If I have said yes once to a child, I will say yes again. I know children who have, by the age of 16, been in to a different house every six weeks for their entire lives if you average it out. So we made a prom-

ise when we first got kids that we’d never say no; once they came that was it, they would never get kicked out – except once when a 12-year-old made death threats to another one of our children.

“And that was hard; it was meant to be a four week placement but after two I pulled the pin and I still questioned if I did the right thing.”

She says the rules are fluid with regard to how long they will keep children.

“The ones we have now came for a wee, two-and-ahalf years ago and that happens because there’s just no-one else to take them. We have more foster carers leaving than coming into the system.”

Asked why that is the case, Jeanette says for many people the whole thing is just too hard. The lack of support from agencies both government and non-government as well as the difficulty of having to deal with the children’s birth parents who in many cases can be demanding and unpleasant.

She recalls a statistic that stuck with her five years ago that stated 1300 kids in NSW lived in a motel every night because there wasn’t not enough foster carers.

“So that’s 1300 children who aren’t kissed goodnight; who don’t have anyone.”

Jeanette says the system needs to change and there has to be a time when someone stands up, takes re-

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sponsibility and makes some hard decisions about ongoing pregnancies. Although she does say things have improved.

“Bronwyn Bishop was brilliant with enforcing the one strike and you’re out, policy. You are now guaranteed to lose your baby if you’ve had a child removed from you and you fall pregnant again and if the child is born “clean” you get to keep it and if it’s born drug dependent, you lose it straight up.”

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Have you heard of “red soup?” you know what that is? that’s the water that’s left over when you boil hot dogs- that’s a meal for a lot of these kids at night, right here in Dubbo.”

– Jeanette, carer

Riverbank Frank Doolan: community spokesperson THINK foster caring is a sacred business and the people who do it are very special people. It’s about taking up the slack and having the mindset that we’re all in it together. So yeah, the people who decide to take on other people’s children? They’re great because let’s face it, there’s much easier ways to make a dollar.

The majority are committed. The children often come from very bad situations and are dysfunctional in so many ways. The care is often short term so there’s no real certainty in the lives of the carers or the children.

I am not stuck on the idea of black kids having to have black foster carers; while it may be an ideal situation, it’s not always possible. I think what’s really necessary is remembering what’s always applied and that is kids are fairly uncomplicated and all they want is some food in their belly and a bed at night.

I know people on both sides of the divide, but if your idea of foster care is to visit your local club once a fortnight and spend a few hours in communion with the poker machines, then you’re probably fostering for all the wrong reasons.

I know it feels like a thankless task, but for all those carers out there looking after black kids, thank you, from Riverbank Frank.

I don’t see the need for us to protect and preserve families and the family unit; I don’t see that as a government responsibility either – I see it as a community responsibility. I believe strongly in the African ex-

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pression that it takes a village to raise a child. The idea to me that a government department can preside over and give direction to lives and the family unit, it’s preposterous. The role of government is to govern.

We need to stop blaming government departments for what is a social issue. It’s too easy to take a big stick to organisations like DoCS. We have to separate the emotional from the objective, and the objective as I see it is to raise Australian children – not black children, not white, just our kids. We have to grow them all up the same way, and in that you can have your culture and your Aboriginal heritage but you can also have it from England, Europe, the Middle East.”

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Lateesha Quinn: aged 18 – former foster child WAS 12 when I went into care. I went into a foster home in Yeoval with my little brother. There were six of us in the family who were fostered out.

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overwhelming; like we didn’t know what was going on, didn’t know who DoCS were and for the first two years because I was traumatised from the neglect and abuse I went through as a child, I wouldn’t even talk to my foster mum for ages. I would write difficult things down, it was my way of communicating.

So we would talk normally unless there were past memories affecting me about my biological family I wouldn’t feel comfortable talking about it. She never asked me about it so eventually with trust and understanding we built a relationship, which was very difficult for me and took a couple of years. But I had counselling from day dot; I’ve been seeing counsellors all my life, even before going into care.

I had a really good counsellor for a couple of years and through her mentoring and guidance and working on building trust in relationships and stuff like that, I was eventually able to talk about it. Now I talk about it openly because I have found a sense of acceptance and I am proud of my foster family and the home I was given.

It took a while; I had post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD), depression, anxiety – I still suffer from anxiety but it’s manageable. I guess I am one of those people who have no regrets about going into the foster care system.

It can be hard too for foster parents when they have kids with disabilities or attachment issues – it’s not like they don’t love you; sometimes they can just never learn to love.

My foster family are everything to me, they’ve had an impact on me in a positive way, for life.

But not all foster carers are as loving as mine and I’m grateful for what I have. I have friends who have moved around a lot or bad things have happened to them while they’ve been in care or they are not treated like part of the family.

My foster family has two biological kids, but we are all treated exactly the same.

I would say to anyone considering fostering or even those people who haven’t thought about it, patience

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If I had stayed in the care of my biological family, I would have been pregnant by the age of 15.� – Lateesha Quinn, former foster child

and unconditional love and regard is the biggest thing you can provide to a foster child and kids are all different; the decision to foster shouldn’t be based on stereotypes. You may have a bad experience once but that’s not to say the next one will be same and I know this because my foster mum at the point of when she was being offered me and my little brother told DoCS because of bad experiences with teenagers before, that she didn’t want boys or teenagers, she only wanted babies. So that would have eliminated me and my brother but she still took us in to give us a chance and now she says it’s one of the best things that’s happened to her.

We’re there for her and she’s here for us.

If I had stayed in the care of my biological family, I would have been pregnant by the age of 15, that’s how I’ll say it. I would have run away as an option; I could have been homeless or pregnant. There were no boundaries. I am also one of those people who never compare my story with someone else’s, or my life to someone else’s because the way one child will react to something – a child with a similar experience or even the same experience – is always different. Their resilience and their intellectual maturity...I had to grow up by the age of 12 as the eldest child of six children, so I matured a lot quicker because of that.

There doesn’t seem to be an ideal age for children to be removed because someone who stays with their biological parents longer will witnesses and experience more neglect and abuse. And sometimes it’s a case that the older one may have been abused and a younger one may have just witnessed it. There are a lot of ways it can affect the kids.

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Walking a

thin line Kate Wright is the very model of self-assurance, but it wasn’t always so. As a teenager, her lack of self-esteem nearly killed her. Now she’s writing a book about finding her way back from anorexia. She talks to WEEKENDER about a very personal quest for a sense of self and about her hope of helping others through sharing her experience. WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent ATE Wright is a striking young woman. She’s selfpossessed, confident, poised. The very picture of healthy vitality.

You’d never guess that as a teenager, a lack of self-esteem nearly killed her.

The now 29 year old, who works in corporate communications, succumbed to anorexia nervosa at the age of 14 and while hers is a story of triumph over the disorder, many don’t have such a happy ending.

Each year in NSW alone, 4200 people will be affected by anorexia. As many as one in 200 girls and young women will develop the disorder, 20 per cent of whom will die as a result.

Wright is hoping her experience might help others to avoid being part of that alarming statistic and, to that end, she’s writing a book to share her story.

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Walking a Thin Line, the book’s working title, is written she says “for anyone who’s ever been told they’re not good enough, that they can’t do something; who is lacking confidence and their own sense of conviction”.

It’s based on a journal Wright kept as a teenager – during a time when she was being subjected to incessant bullying and, as a result, suffered debilitating depression.

She also had anorexia.

“It’s a complete transformational journey of a country girl,” she says. “From a teenager going through this ordeal to a young woman about to leave home with a renewed sense of confidence and self-belief and fire for life.”

It’s a very personal account, but it’s a universal message according to Wright.

“I’m writing it is so that anyone who has suffered through similar ordeals or who knows someone going

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through that kind of thing, or those in the medical profession who are treating someone who is suffering, can get some kind of insight and perhaps learn something that might help them, or help them help others.”

It’s been cathartic to begin the process of publicly telling her story – a decision prompted by serendipity and sheer luck.

“It’s a journey I resumed after meeting Dr Michael Carr-Gregg – the renowned psychologist – here in Dubbo. I went along not realising he was speaking about mental health in teenagers – something just resonated with me.

“I’d always wanted to write this book, but had doubted my ability, doubted my own voice.”

So there were still vestiges of that little anorexic girl sitting just below the confident veneer?

“Absolutely. That’s exactly right. But hearing him speak about this ongoing disease, and especially its impact on young people was a turning point for me.

“He said that for all his experience with treating teenagers for all kinds of emotional issues, anorexia is still the most gut-wrenching health issue he deals with in teenagers because no-one really knows what causes it and while the solution seems so simple – just get them to eat – of course, it’s far from simple.”

Wright says she felt something inside her shift: “And it was begging me to get this message out. I went through it and came out the other end stronger than ever, but if I’m not going to share what I learned

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Everyone can learn so much from other people – there’s a connection you can forge by hearing someone else’s story. through that process, and what my family and friends learned through that process, what’s the point?

“Everyone can learn so much from other people – there’s a connection you can forge by hearing someone else’s story. There’s something about a shared experience, even if it’s just knowing you’re not the only one who’s been through the same thing.”

RIGHT has been an avid journaller since her childhood, so it was a poignant moment to discover during the process of gathering her recollections for the book, that her grandmother had shared a penchant for penning her thoughts and

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experiences.

It was a discovery that, sadly, came after her grandmother’s death, but the connection added a fitting element to the young writer’s sense of self.

“It was really cool,” says Wright, gently thumbing through the pages of the 50 year old journal, its red leather cover and the copperplate handwriting still remarkably well preserved. “To find that not only had I almost retraced her steps while travelling through Europe, but also to discover that there were so many similarities between us.

“These days, no-one really keeps a journal – technology being what it is. But there’s just something about putting pen to paper and recording your thoughts; it’s much more personal, and maybe that’s where my grandmother and I were so similar – that need to put our thoughts down on paper; to record our emotions and what we were going through.

“Now, reading back through my nan’s journal, it’s like she’s here with me. I feel a real connection.”

Wright says it’s fascinating to read our journals side by side – separated by half a century and two generations.

“It’s bizarre to try to explain, but I feel more similar to my Nan now than I would have when I was travelling. I feel much more worldly now – and when I read her diary, I have the sense that she was very worldly; confident and with a very good sense of how she fits into the world. So maybe it was fateful timing that

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it’s only recently that I’ve discovered her journal – it’s like it’s a part of the journey that’s led me to writing my book.”

S we talk, her quiet confidence a hallmark of the woman she’s become, I find it hard to reconcile this visage with that of an emotionally distressed anorexia nervosa sufferer. I’m fascinated by the transformation – Wright now also writes a popular blog to inspire healthy food choices and lifestyle – and I ask her about her recollections of battling anorexia at the age of 14.

She recounts a particular incident that seems to be the defining moment of her battle with the disorder – being force-fed a teaspoon of ice-cream by her desperate father.

“It’s still hard to recall those types of incidents,” she says. “But that’s the thing – everyone thought, and still thinks, that the basic solution is to just get the person to eat. Dad still says that was the hardest thing he’s ever done.”

But family, she says, was her saviour.

“We’d sit down at the dinner table, and they’d just talk to me – encourage me to eat. Encourage me to get well. All that dialogue was key to the healing process. They just invested so much of their energy into me.

“It was a real drain on my family. I remember my brother coming home from school one day and went straight to his room. Mum and Dad knew something was wrong so they went in to him and he had tears in his eyes. He said, “I love Kate, and I want her to get better and I know what you guys are doing, but I feel like I’m just not getting any attention.”

Wright says it nearly broke her heart.

But it was a turning point.

“I knew I had to get better – for my family.”

The disorder came on quickly and brutally, but with the diligent efforts of her parents and family, it was over almost as quickly.

“I got down to 40kgs – that was my lowest point. I lost 25 per cent of my body weight in six months. But I was told I wouldn’t be able to go to boarding school if I didn’t get better, and I really wanted to go to boarding school, so that was also a key motivation to my recovery. It gave me a goal – something beyond the present.”

The most effective tool in Wright’s recovery was the unwavering determination of her family to understand and to do

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whatever they could to restore their daughter’s sense of self.

“It was all those conversations that saved me,” she says.

And that’s the key message she has for others – the love of family is the most effective tool in the anorexia treatment armoury.

More potent than any medical intervention, according to Wright.

HE 2015 version of Kate Wright has a completely different relationship with food.

She throws back her head and laughs when I say this – another indication of just how far she’s come from a near-fatal fear of food.

“I’ve always loved my food. And anorexia, bizarrely, isn’t really about food. It was just a symptom of the bullying I went through and of my lack of self-love, self-belief – all those things manifested in the physicality of anorexia. It’s not about what I put in my mouth, or a vain desire to lose weight – it was so much more than that.”

Now, Wright says she has “zero” fear of food. She writes a blog about food, she contributes healthy recipes and tips to Weekender’s lifestyle pages and she advocates – through word and deed – a healthy, balanced lifestyle and approach to food.

But while her attitude to eating is as healthy as the food itself, the residual effects of anorexia are never far away.

“The twinges, or undertones, I guess, from that period of my life come more in the form of self-doubt – that’s what I have to manage. But it never manifests as a fear of food. Never.”

That, she says, is the key message she’d

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like to impart, particularly to the parents of teenage girls.

“It’s not an issue about weight. It’s about self-esteem. To parents, I say be present; be aware. As the parent of a teenager, I guess you expect them to be showing independence and you feel like you have to back off and let them find their way – but you have to be there.

“That’s the thing that was most important for me. At the time, I found it confronting but at the same time comforting. So parents – stick with it.”

RIGHT’S book, Walking a Thin Line, will be published – she hopes – some time in 2016.

“My publisher Hay House, accepted the book idea based on a proposal rather than a manuscript, so it’s now up to me to get it finished,” she laughs.

“But it’s very exciting. Ever since I went to that talk that Dr Michael Carr-Gregg gave, I’ve wanted to write the book, and I always knew I wanted Hay House to publish it.”

During a workshop hosted by Outback Writers last year, Wright pitched to a number of visiting publishers’ representatives, who were positive but wanted to see a completed manuscript.

“I got great feedback, but I wanted to pitch to Hay House, so when the opportunity to enter a competition with them came up, I went for it and got the news a few months later.

“So now I just have to knuckle down and finish it. And I really hope that somewhere along the way, sharing my story will help others.”

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THE ART OF philanthropy John Kaldor is the doyen of public art in Australia, but this renowned philanthropist, collector and educator has a refreshingly un-pretentious approach to the importance of engaging people from all walks of life in all forms of art.

During his recent visit to Dubbo, WEEKENDER spoke with the man behind Kaldor Public Art Projects – a foundation that’s been inspiring the public with international art projects since 1969. WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Filipe Neves This is your first visit to Dubbo. What were your first thoughts about this pilot project being brought to Dubbo, and what are your impressions now?

I didn’t have any preconceived ideas. I’ve travelled around Australia a lot and seen many regional cities, but this is the first time I’ve been to Dubbo. I’d been told how great the Western Plains Cultural Centre is, and it really is – but I had no expectations. However, I was very impressed with the young students who came to Sydney to spend time with (performance artist) Marina Abramovic.

(Eight local teenagers recently staged a special one-day exhibition of performance art works – What it Means to Be Me – at the Western Plains Cultural Centre as part of the Kaldor Public Art Pilot Regional Engagement Project.)

I’m amazed at how these teenagers, who had very little experience in performance art, were so professional in their presentation, not only in the concept but in the actual presentation. Their performance could have been staged in any capital city in the world – these young people are on par with young professional artists in the way they handle themselves, their attitude and their work. I’m very pleased with the outcome of our first really regional program.

You said you were taken aback when you first heard that the new Arts Minister (Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier Troy Grant) was a former policeman from Dubbo. What are your thoughts now?

He’s fantastic. He listens. He doesn’t pretend he’s an art expert, but also he cuts through to the crux – he’s very precise. I’ve dealt with many arts ministers and there

are all different kinds. There are those who think they know about art, and they’re quite dangerous, and there are those who talk but don’t get anywhere – you leave an appointment after 20 minutes and question what you’ve achieved. But with Troy, even the first time I met him, he covered the agenda and was very down to earth but I thought to myself, “This could work.”

How did you come to establish Kaldor Public Art Projects?

We came to Australia in 1949 when I was 13. I was born in Hungary, and escaped from there with my parents – we were stateless and we were in Paris for four months, where my mother took me to all the museums and galleries and I loved it all. I kept up my interest and I also wanted to share my love of art with the public. When we first started projects in 1969, Australia was very isolated in terms of contemporary art.

So I started to work on projects, and our luck was that the first project, Christo and Jean Claude’s Wrapped Coast in 1969, was a huge success not only Australia wide, but internationally. We’d done some small projects, but that was our first large project.

What an extraordinary project to cut your teeth on.

Yes. Well, when you’re young you don’t know what you’re up to! Now, if I were to think about undertaking something like that I wouldn’t even contemplate it. And you couldn’t do it today anyway – you wouldn’t get the permissions and the clearance. To replicate something like that these days would cost millions and millions.

In bureaucracy if nothing else.

Exactly. Exactly. Christo, today when he does a major project he spends millions

` What’s pleasing for me is that some of our projects, that are nearly 50 years old now, are being taught in schools now as part of our cultural heritage.

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and millions just on getting permission through the bureaucracy and on environmental studies and health regulations. We had none of that in 1969.

So then, while I was still running my business (Kaldor Fabrics) we were doing projects – sometimes one a year, sometimes nothing for five years. It was a labour of love while I was still running a business full time.

Then in 2003 after I closed my business – interestingly enough, the year the government gave us not-forprofit status – we started doing most of the time two projects a year. Since 2005, we’ve also been doing art education projects.

Why public art in particular?

There’s a very simple reason for that. I want to share art with the public, and I think you can be more flexible in having projects that last two weeks or three weeks or a month in various places rather than having a space where you show pictures. That’s the role of galleries or museums.

What does the term “public art” mean to you? How do you define “public art”?

Public art is the work of an artist in any space – in a gallery, in a church or in a park – any interesting place.

All our projects are free and they’re all temporary. But what’s pleasing for me is that some of our projects, that are nearly 50 years old now, are being taught in schools now as part of our cultural heritage.

Has the perception of “contemporary” art changed, then? Because a work that is 50 years old is not necessarily contemporary any more.

No, exactly – it’s not really is it? Although, contemporary art is counted from the end of the 50s – so it’s classical contemporary. Contemporary just means “of today”.

But public art is what it says – it’s available to the public. We try to make it as accessible as possible.

Art, in all its forms, is more accessible to the public these days – it’s not just for the “elite” is it?

No – that’s right. And that’s a perception that was very misleading, and it was a perception that influenced a lot of politicians. It’s okay to give money to sport but not to art because it’s the “elite” that wants

capture. But there’s been so it. That’s so untrue. Audited sta- ` much copying and so much comtistics show that twice as many mercialisation it’s really hard to people went to a cultural event The public art we’re seeing tell between a work in a reputaof some sort as went to a sporting now will become part of our event. If you go to the Art Gallery history – the history of people. ble gallery and a work in a tourist shop at an airport. Maybe it’s of NSW, it’s full of school chileven the same artist – there’s dren, and people from all walks very little policing of it. I’m concerned about that. of life.

How important is art in telling our history?

But this new generation of urban indigenous artists In the end, culture and art really defines a civilisais producing really good work. tion. I love history and I love all forms of art. When Do you think commercial success necessarily destroys the integrity of art?

I’m travelling, I’m just as interested in the great art of the past as contemporary art – all great art is contemCommercial success that’s too quick certainly can. porary, whether it’s a cave painting or something from But it’s okay to be commercially successful – of course 100 years ago or 50 years ago. If it’s really good it’s still it is. The starving artist is a bit of a myth – there are contemporary – it’s what’s remembered. For instance, not many artists who starved and then later became Venice was the biggest naval power in the 14th and known as great. You can go through all the great art15th century. They really invented mass production. ists in history, and they were successful in their own But you don’t remember Venice for its naval power, it’s lifetime. Very few who weren’t. remembered for its beautiful churches, building and In the end, then, the public is actually quite a good judge of art? art.

The public art we’re seeing now will become part of Indeed. Yes. Because it’s about getting people to our history – the history of people. come and look, particularly at public art. I always say How do you see the future of art and art practice in that we want to bring ground-breaking art to Australregional areas? ia – if people like it I’m very pleased. But even if they It’s very hard for me to judge. But the recent project don’t like it I accept that – my hope is that in a year or (the public art performance in Dubbo, “What it means maybe five years, they’ll say “Oh, now I see where that to be me”) is really, really good. We had eight students comes from”. who took part and they were very professional, really You said you wanted to bring ground-breaking art to very good. And I think it’s important that this shouldn’t Australia – can we not break ground ourselves? be a blip – it should be nurtured and encouraged.

Absolutely we can. I mean, just to come back to our Distances are shrinking and technology is also last project with (performance artist) Marina Abramshrinking the world, so I think to connect the regions ovic – the 1980s she spent seven months in the outback is important, both in Australia and internationally. living with Aborigines which transformed her whole How to have an individual personality is a challenge, concept of art. Her most famous work, The Gaze, though – to maintain an identity while still being part which 850,000 people saw in New York, originated of the global community. from that – from Australia and was first shown at the One of the most interesting things happening in art Art Gallery of NSW in 1980. in Australia is what’s happening in urban indigenous It must be very gratifying at the age of 79 to have been able to facilitate such engagement with art? art. The best of indigenous art represents the landscape of Australia much better than any non-AborigiYes. Very much. I work with young people – and I say nal paintings. They have a much more evocative repthat working with young people and art and in this enresentation of the country than any Westerner could vironment keeps me young. Keeps me alive! I love it.

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How your sports activities could be impacting your teeth and gums We Australian’s love our sport.

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SIN 1: Lust for sugary sports drinks Did you know: There are an average of 9 teaspoons of sugar in the average sports drink.

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4. Another trick is to chew some sugarfree gum or rinse your mouth with water straight after you’ve finished the drink.

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The dos and don’ts of sports dental injuries

Don’t hold the tooth by the root Don’t scrub or rub the root surface Don’t let the tooth dry out Don’t store the tooth in water Do seek dental treatment urgently

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Tooth-friendly sports snacks

Use a straw

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3. Counterbalance the damage of the sports drink by staggering a sip of water with a sip of drink. Go one for one and keep having fun.

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Consume the drink with a straw, in one sitting. This lowers the contact of the drink with your teeth.

SIN 5: Wrathful tooth trauma

SIN 3: Gluttony for sports snacks

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1. Don’t brush your teeth straight after consuming a sports drink. It sounds anti-intuitive but wait for half an hour before you brush to avoid corroding the dentin layer below your tooth’s enamel.

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SIN 6: Performance envy You want to perform at your sporting best, but you don’t want to slow down and waste time drinking.

We recommend drinking plenty of water and staying away from sugar drinks.

SIN 7: Greed for speed

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SIN 2: Too proud to wear a mouthguard Every year, thousands of people are treated for dental injuries that could have been avoided by wearing a protective, custom-fitted mouthguard.

SIN 4: Slothful check-up avoidance

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We understand that busy training schedules make it hard to find time for a trip to the dentist, but it’s important to get your teeth checked regularly.

We know you’re raring to start training, but have you taken the time to brush your teeth?

At National Dental Care, we recommend brushing 2 or 3 times a day and spending at least 2 minutes brushing.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 07.08.2015 to Sunday 09.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and taxpayer.

Bishop scandal left looking second rate by UK Lord’s ORRYING about the bogeyman in the wardrobe is nothing compared to having the bastard standing at the foot of your bed.

The furore surrounding the resignation of Bronwyn Bishop was notable not just for her gluttony for subsidised grandeur, but also for confirming for taxpayers what many had only suspected.

But I must say once our money became no object, turning the transport dial up to 11 seems like a distinct lack of imagination on her part.

Limos? Okay, a little bit Snoop, but also a little bit ZZ Top. Choppers? Noisy and naff unless you’re entertaining the troops in Vietnam with Bob Hope.

The rest of the world already laughs at us like we’re being governed by a political class that stepped out of a 1950s home economics textbook.

Now even our scandals are so square you could cut yourself on the creased slacks.

Bishop initially blamed the staff, and if one thing says “Aloof? Moi?” it’s scapegoating the servants.

And it’s 10 times worse if the whole tone of the outcry is one of the Lady of the Manor being too good for the rules, while having made a reputation over time for flogging departmental stablehands for loose spending during budget estimate hearings.

Secondly, the PM blamed “the system,” rather than Bishop, for the situation. I know he meant the entitlements system, but as a choice of words it’s like blaming The Man, when you mean the man in the finance department that signed the paperwork.

Because this would be the first time “the system” has been criticised by members of the privileged classes who run it

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and whom it serves so well.

If the upper echelons of power can now blame The Establishment for their troubles, you might expect the Business Chamber of Australia to call for a proletariat uprising, or the Anglican Church to advocate LSD and free love.

And maybe the parliament’s refusal to adopt 22 of 39 recommendations arising from a review into parliamentary entitlement s five years ago might also be a factor?

Mainstream media and social media – that holy coalition of the most distrusted profession and iPhone-addicted hermits – drove the outrage.

But what happened to the days when Hawkey only put his pants on for parliament, Mal lost his altogether in Memphis, Joh ran a corrupt police state, Chook Fowler ran the drug trade and the national cricket team made Motley Crue look like responsible drinkers?

Let us look for inspiration across the seas to our beloved UK, where a tradition of incorporating into Tory MPs’ sexual peccadillos the same sadomasochistic abuse they suffered as a student in the British elite school system is common tabloid fodder.

The most recent example concerns deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, Lord John Buttifant Sewel, secretly filmed in women’s underwear snorting cocaine off various surfaces including a sex worker’s bosom.

The comparison is not a faint one as Lord Sewel told his by-the-hour companions that he was effectively paying for their services with his daily parliamentary allowance.

That’s a scandal, and, contemptable as

it is, that’s the way to at least do it with flare.

For a start look at the name: If you are going to suffer lynching by media, you need to have somewhere about your identity a name like Buttifant Sewel.

Secondly, the randy old coke freak is nearly 70.

Multiple prostitutes under the influence of a dangerous stimulant should earn you some level of public recognition, if only by the national health service in an awareness campaign.

“If you’re a senior citizen planning a drugfuelled orgy, ward off thrombosis with supportive socks and keep your blood pressure medication somewhere handy once you’re naked.”

But the best thing about it was Lord Sewel’s reaction. He showed real class by immediately resigning the deputy Speaker role, and then quitting government altogether – no excuses, no hair-splitting, no passing the buck.

There’s a lesson in that.

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Kids from poorer families not immunised

BY GEORGIE MOORE

2015 MEDICAL LIFE

also at risk of not being properly protected.

Out of 9.3 per cent of unimADELAIDE: Anti-vaccination beliefs aren’t the main reason almost 10 per munised children, only one-in-six had parents who disagreed with cent of Australian children remain vaccinations. unimmunised.

“Socio-economic disadvantage Family finances, access to services and chronic health conditions was an important reason why are key factors in why some parents parents had children who were don’t keep their children’s injections either partially-immunised or not immunised at all,” associate professor up to date, a University of Adelaide Helen Marshall said. study has found.

Children living in a large house“Children with chronic medical hold or those of single parents were conditions were also more likely

not to be up-to-date with immunisations.”

The study, published in the journal Vaccine, looked at 5000 children aged between three and 19 months.

Prof Marshall said the findings could help programs designed to increase the uptake of vaccinations.

“Reminders and rescheduling of cancelled appointments and offering immunisation in different settings may help achieve better protection for children and the comAAP munity,” she said.

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Looking for a leadership missing in action T ODAY I am sad for my country and I feel leaderless – much more than at any time in the 15 years since I spent my own little time in Parliament.

Four important words: Adam Goodes, Bronwyn Bishop.

There have been many issues raised during that 15 years that stir great emotion. War, terrorism, global warming, boat people, corporate greed, Global Financial Crisis, continuing indigenous disadvantage, international disasters, humanitarian crises, Kevin Rudd...

There are dozens of relevant arguments as to how we should approach these issues and that our elected representatives have at their fingertips access to information that I, another Joe Public, do not. I have been content to allow our leaders to make decisions on my behalf and accept that our democracy and history of broadly behaving well, meant we would act correctly the majority of the time.

The Goodes and Bishop spectacle when measured against the aforementioned issues should not be of major significance. But they’ve been given greater import because our national leadership has gone missing. In an attempt to avoid being put on the spot by one issue, the need to comment on the other has been ignored.

Having been privileged to see the great work done by both sides of the political divide on hundreds of issues that did not receive emotional commentary from the media, I’ve never thought it appropriate for me, a former member, to comment from the sidelines. I was al-

Comment by TONY LAWLER

Tony Lawler is a former Federal Member for Parkes who, since leaving parliament 15 years ago, has quietly observed the Australian political landscape from a distance...until now.

ways happy to say to those who complained about our Parliament that I was less cynical about our processes when I left than when I started my term.

That confidence in the system is being seriously challenged today and it’s perhaps past the time for me to speak my mind, whether or not my opinion means anything to anyone.

Unlike those earth-shattering issues where we mugs cannot be across all the information, the treatment of Adam Goodes and Bronwyn Bishop was wrong by any measure and should have been addressed immediately by our Prime Minister in strong unequivocal language. Forget carefully chosen words to try not to offend one group or another.

If those who have chosen to jeer Adam Goodes because they don’t like him as a sportsman – the same way I would have booed Wally Lewis the Queenslander or Richie McCaw the All Black – it’s time to stop and take a breather.

Those who booed Adam because he has brought criticism upon himself for not behaving the way they think an Ab-

original sportsman should behave, are in fact racist, and it was time to stop a long time ago.

I don’t care if 90 per cent of those who jeer are fun-loving, passionate sports lovers. They allow the racists to hide in the crowd and to continue their hurtful work, so it needs to stop, even for the rest of this season. Then we can reboot our moral computer and get back to good-natured banter in a climate of pleasant Aussie ratbaggery next year.

I have always been a bit of an apologist for the behavior of our members of parliament. The “system” virtually demands strange behavior at Question Time.

A clever phrase or catching an opposition member unprepared is what the public rewards with ratings, rather than honest bipartisan hard work and consideration of complex and difficult matters which goes on for the majority of the time.

There can be no satisfactory explanation of the approach of the Speaker to her travel spending other than she perhaps started with a little tweak of the rules here and there and observed that others might have been doing the same little harmless things. This may have gradually developed into such a sense of entitlement that there should be no personal cost of travelling anywhere because there was always some vague reason the tax payer should stump up for this particular event.

This attitude is not confined to politicians, nor is it shared by all politicians.

It is the same attitude that guides sen-

ior corporate types to lash out on expensive food, travel and accommodation at the expense of unknowing company shareholders, despite their crazy salaries. I don’t think they see it as rorting because it has gone on for so long and is practiced by their peers and is almost certainly never going to be exposed.

Bishop should have stepped down weeks ago. She may not deserve the embarrassment and the public’s lifelong resentment she will carry, because she was possibly doing what those around her have been doing, but that should not have been the concern of the Prime Minister.

She is not a bad person. Many who have been exposed to the same life and series of situations to which she has been exposed may well have made the same or worse decisions, but those decisions are wrong.

There are thousands of examples where we take a person whose upbringing was in squalid conditions surrounded by alcohol and drugs and little exposure to love and education, and punish them for breaking into a house to get a couple of hundred bucks to eat. However, their reputation in life is not considered of the same value as someone who has had ample opportunity in life and should be much more able to tell right from wrong.

There is no escape Prime Minister, it’s time to be our leader and make us proud again. Tell ‘em this: Those who jeer the Australian of the Year, shut the hell up; and Bronny, you should have gone weeks ago.

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Outrage over lion death shows a shift in compassion

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

THE outrage that erupted worldwide, including in Australia, after Cecil the lion was shot by Walter Palmer, is indicative of the fact that many people are widening their circles of compassion to include animals. Palmer reportedly hired a team to lure Cecil out of his protected sanctuary and blind him with a spotlight while Palmer shot Cecil with a high-powered crossbow and allowed the animal to suffer for nearly two days before he and his accomplices finally killed, skinned, and beheaded him. The future looks bleak for Cecil’s young cubs. It would be more shocking— and alarming—if people weren’t outraged by this horrific crime. If these animals aren’t deserving of compassion and cries for justice, I’m not sure who is.

The fact that so many people are calling for harsh punishments for Palmer and his cronies shows that more and more people are starting to feel that every life is deserving of consideration and respect, and that we should seek to stop injustice, no matter who the victim is.

Jason Baker – PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Australia)

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THE OLER WATERCOOLER

BY JENNA MCKEOWN

Fanning’s generous gesture EVERYONE’S current favourite shark defeating surfer dude, Mick Fanning, has just earned himself a lifetime’s worth of brownie points.

Fanning was paid $75,000 for an interview with 60 Minutes in which he recounts his recent experiences at J-Bay in South Africa – where he was attacked during a surfing contest by a Great White while the world was watching live.

Fanning has donated the entire interview fee to Matt Lee, a fellow surfer who was attacked and mauled by a shark on the far north coast town of Ballina.

Lee has had multiple surgeries since the attack, and Channel Nine also kicked in another $25,000 to support the body boarder to help pay for his medical fees and rehabilitations. What a dude, dude.

#ILookLikeAnEngineer EDUCATORS and recruiters alike have been working for a number of years to attract more people, especially women, to work in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) academics and industries.

A recent recruiting campaign for Onelogin in the UK pictured people who work in STEM, describing what they do.

Isis Wenger drew criticism and cynicism, with consumers questioning if such a good looking young woman could “really” be an engineer.

Software engineer Wenger responded to the trolls on Twitter, starting the hashtag #ILookL i k e A n E n g i n e e r, which called people ple out on reinforcing stereotypes. The hashtag htag quickly grew, with women and men alike sharing images of themselves looking typically selv pically un-nerdy to contradict undict outdated date ideas about to which profession your physical pro ysical appearance should relegate you. sho

Ta Tatum and the ignored X-women X-w EVE EVERYONE’S current favourite male lead Channing Tatum confirmed this week that he would be producing and wee starring in the latest X-Men spin-off, star Gambit.

Gam No shade on Tatum here, but after the N relative failure of the Wolverine solo rela films, why turn to such a boring characfilm ter? Production house Fox has a plethoof kick-arse and interesting female Xra o Men characters at their disposal – why not listen to audiences and critics alike and release a solo flick based on Rogue, Storm or Jean Grey/Phoenix? So much Stor more interesting, and a much needed mor departure from overrepresented, white dep male centred stories. mal

More Golden Gaytime, sir?

JUST as MacDonald’s recently conceded to pressure from the public, Streets – the famed ice-cream maker – has caved to a strong social media campaign.

Golden Gaytime, a beloved Australian ice-cream, is now available in a tub. Coming thrillingly close to sounding like a VERY wild Saturday night in, the problem with Golden Gaytime in a tub means there is no enforced ending as there is when you eat the single icecream on a stick.

Who is going to save us from our impulsive, excitable selves when four litres of the most delicious ice-cream of this southern land is widely available?

Who? Who will think of the children?

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Vivienne Winther & Greg Marginson: Dynamic artistic duo on music and all that jazz Greg Marginson and Vivienne Winther are great supporters of the arts in all their forms and play significant roles in the 25th anniversary of jazz in Dubbo celebrated this weekend. Their individual lifetimes are peppered with significant Australian art and music moments and their vision for developing the same in regional NSW’s artistic future is a work in progress that’s well worth watching. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent

Vivienne Winther: HE first time we met was when my opera company Stopera was doing a project in the festival of contemporary art, which Greg was running because he was manager of Gorman House Arts Centre in Canberra. We met briefly then but started to work together later because Stopera did lots of curated concerts for the National Gallery of Australia; I’d been doing that for a while before Greg got the job of public programs officer there, so that was who I worked with.

We worked on some really fun projects doing music in the gallery and in the restaurant like three centuries of Italian art, and doing three centuries of Italian food, before there were any tomatoes. It was fantastic. There were lots of interesting quirky programs.

After we got together, Greg worked on the really big Stopera productions as he has a production management background.

His background is multi arts but more into visual arts, and I suppose definitely the performing arts and also his background with his dad was very much jazz, because his father and uncle began the Victorian Jazz Archive. They were very prominent and knew all the jazz people around Australia.

Musically he’s not allowed to sing. We say we’ll put out a CD that’s called “If you must sing, this is how it goes”, because I’m always correcting him. He’s not musical in that way but he understands visual arts, which isn’t my area.

He’s run a lot of festivals. Some have been very big and very much about professional musicians and others have had a community focus like Weereewa, which is the festival of Lake George. It was about bringing together the little towns there and had a quite an environmental focus. We’re both reasonably passionate about that.

Probably the bigger festival is the Castlemaine State Festival in Victoria. For him, running festivals is all about getting the community involved and bringing the artists together, face-to-face with the audience. His main idea on how festivals work is they really have to connect broadly with the community.

He grew up in a world where his dad was responsible for a lot of different projects and foundations and worked on a lot of different boards so he had a lot of exposure different arts, and jazz and visual arts and museums.

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Probably what a lot of people don’t know about him is that he was the first chief executive officer of Museums Australia, which is the peak body for museums across the country. When that was founded he was the CEO. When he first came to Canberra he ran a toy library. Toy libraries are set up mainly for children with special needs.

He found that really quite interesting and a community thing to do. This was an educational and developmental library.

He should cook more because he’s actually quite good. I think he doesn’t because I cook a lot and I’m not a good kitchen sharer. Because the bread people stopped coming to the markets I said, well, that’s it, you’ve got to make bread and he’s making fabulous bread.

Greg Marginson: Y memory of Vivienne, the very first time we met is quite confronting really and I find that quite interesting. I was director of Gorman House Arts Centre and she was there as a client. She was artistic director of Stopera and they had rehearsals in one of our rooms. Back then Gorman House had about 40 different arts organisations. It was an old hostel. They had done a thing called a prepared piano, which is when you add all sorts of things to the strings inside it and it makes a whole lot of different sounds.

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Some very nice person had come across this prepared piano and thought someone had been mischievous, so took all the things out they had spent hours preparing.

Of course that was my problem because I ran the centre and she just let fly; she was quite angry.

She’s very loyal and protective of what she’s doing and has a very strong maternal approach to things. I went, “oh, okay” and I felt quite guilty in a way.

Most of our subsequent meetings were quite different.

You can’t be attached to Vivienne Winther and not develop a love of music.

My career has been very peripatetic in that I’ve worked in almost all art forms.

When I started off in my university days I was passionate about Australian art expressing Australian culture and Australian people. I didn’t have a love of opera or a great appreciation for classical music. That wasn’t strong in my family.

Her passion for music and her deeper understanding for music in all its forms and opera particularly, was not something I ever had an appreciation for and it’s grown enormously in the decade we’ve been together, inevitably.

It isn’t music that brought us together in a sense but I have no fear of her great passion for her art form. I have nothing but admiration for her.

She has a deep understanding of it because she’s so incredibly well read. As a

consequence, our friendship, which became a love, grew out of the National Gallery, where I was engaging her to do projects because my brief was to help interpret the work on the walls and I would turn to other art forms to do it, and she was the musician I would turn to.

Vivienne always had a clear understanding of why things happened and how they happened and the stories and the gallery needed people to tell those stories.

One of the things you learn from certain musicians is that they can never have music in the background. It’s because it’s a form they feel you must listen to, so when the music is on they need to listen to it and they can’t tune it out. They get caught up in it. For them it’s a conversation and often for her it’s a bad conversation so she doesn’t want to listen to it.

Vivienne gets very frustrated with people who are limited in their ideas or their vision for what’s possible.

Vivienne’s an absolutely fantastic cook. She probably has 200 cookbooks and has read all of them cover-to-cover.

She was also involved in probably Sydney’s most influential contemporary dance company as a child, the Bodenweiser School and she performed there for a very long time. She had this incredibly artistic upbringing.

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Hitting the high notes As the one time assistant national director for Sing Australia and long time conductor of the Dubbo choir, Margaret Nicolson has heard a lot of singing over the years and as many excuses for why people can’t sing. A firm believer that anybody can sing, and should, she has powerful and positive changes to people’s lives song makes.

WORDS Yvette AubussonFoley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent How did you become involved with Sing Australia?

I became involved in 2002 when a little workshop was advertised in Dubbo and I went along to see what it was all about. It was run by Colin Slater and a group of people from Canberra, and they were at the little room in the Baptist Church. What attracted me to Sing Australia was it was on the same page as me with the philosophy of singing which is in a nutshell, that everybody can sing and everybody should sing.

How did you first start singing?

I have 10 brothers and sisters and we all try to out-sing each other. At teachers’ college I was in the band. I used to sing around with my guitar. Then I got into teaching, which was a bit of an outlet for singing. The first year out I was given the choir. I didn’t know what to do with them but I worked it out. You just did. From choir you go to school musicals, you become the expert. I’m just self-taught. It’s just a love.

Who is Colin Slater and what is Sing Australia?

Sing Australia is a national organisation started by a man called Colin Slater.

He had a background in the corporate world as well as being an opera singer.

The idea for Sing Australia started for him in Italy, where he went to study opera on a Churchill Fellowship.

While he was over there the idea came to him from an incidental thing that happened at night with people from all over the world who were also there for tutorials.

They’d say, “sing a song from your country”. So on the first night he sang Waltzing Matilda and then the next night he did Click Go the Shears, or something like that, and on the next night he didn’t know anymore.

Yet he knew all the operas and all the oldie songs his mum and dad used to sing around the piano but he just didn’t know any Australian songs. He came back and spoke to the Churchill Fellowship and said, “I’ve decided not to pursue my operatic career, I’ve decided to start my own organisation called Sing Australia”.

What was it about Colin’s dream that resonated with you?

Aussies tend to have an idea that if you don’t sound wonderful then you shouldn’t open your mouth and sing, or if you don’t sound like Pavarotti then you shouldn’t sing. As a school teacher for many years, I used to let anyone be in my choirs. If they wanted to sing, let them sing. I didn’t audition and be picky.

sive. It’s easy to be enthusiastic about it I knew you could train a choir to because it’s good fun. sound lovely even if you had froggies in among them or monotones and I knew People who come into Sing Australia that worked. And this is what he was group singing on one note, they tune saying. He was trying to get adults to up because they’re practicing. You don’t sing. Less than two per cent of adults hear the botched notes and even if you are involved in singing in any sort of do, I don’t care. We accept every voice. way. That’s pretty terrible.

In a nutshell Sing Australia is about The other premise is that singing is getting Aussies singing. a natural thing to do. We all laugh beWhat have you seen in people who have held back but give cause that’s a natural it a go anyway? thing to do. We all cry.

Research is proving We all sing. We’re de` that singing and playing signed to sing. His pasmusic and being a singAwoman once sion is to get people singing group, has health ing. So, I came across who was a and social benefits. this strange, charismatic blubbering mess We had a fellow, who’s man that gets everyone all night because since passed away, who up and excited and gets she said, ‘when was in our group eareveryone singing and ly. He had chronic pain sounding fantastic as if I was five I was in his legs and he said they’ve been singing for told I couldn’t when he sang he didn’t years. sing’. She’d tried feel the pain. Another What makes Sing Australia unique to other out for a choir fellow who had somechoirs? thing wrong with him or something in We have to cater for was on high pain medikindergarten everyone. We have some cation and he was able and she was told lovely singers in our to go off the medication. group because it’s reshe couldn’t sing I’ve heard lots of laxed and not stressful. amazing testimonies and wasn’t good They don’t have to be to the value of singing. enough so she worried about not turnFrom people were just carried that hurt ing up sometimes. lonely and people who all her life.

It’s fun, there’s friendwere in pain, or just ship, acceptance, incluneeding something in

life and they’re funny things, like grown men crying because we had given him permission to sing. As if he needed permission!

The federal government recognises the benefits of singing. How has that impacted on you?

That’s how I became employed by Sing Australia, I was offered this position because the federal government gave Colin a grant to start more choirs in the drought areas and we started a drought program.

I took some time off from teaching from 2009 to 2012 and had four years working as the assistant national director, so I travelled around establishing choirs around the country.

Dubbo was the pilot for that. He kept using me for the dummy for everything in the pilot for regional development and coordination. We had a big national gathering here at the showground, to help with the drought.

In tough times people traditionally have come together and sung. People used to sing a lot, and that’s kind of gone out of our society. Singing is a natural thing to do, and we all love to do it, and love to listen to it. People who don’t sing; there’s a reason. Someone’s made them feel like they can’t do it.

Does Sing Australia open doors to a large community of singers?

Sing Australia does do a lot of tours.

I’ve been to Turkey and Greece. My first trip was to Canada, where we sang at the World Peace Forum opening ceremony. We’re talking about 150 choirs around Australia and 6000 members and anyone has the opportunity to do that kind of travel. It doesn’t matter how long they’ve been a member, you can go if you want to be a part of it.

We’ve had a lot go to Gallipoli. The whole singing at Gallipoli was Colin’s idea. He was at Canberra at some bigwig dinner and the Minister of Defense was sitting at his table. Colin said, “how about we have some singing at the dawn service?” Sing Australia (sang at Gallipoli) for about nine years. I went in 2007. We lead the hymns so that’s what you hear over the radio on the ABC, it’s the choir voices. Colin used to get up and sing the national anthem of Australia and every year for about six years the national anthem of Turkey. We all learned the Turkish national anthem and sang along with him.

We also did a Western Front tour.

The year we were there was the same year they discovered the mass grave in Pheasant Wood. We were there just as the grass was growing again after they’d filled it all in. We marched through these fields and we sang the Australian anthem and a few different anthems and hymns. I’ve had amazing opportunities myself but they’re there for anyone.

Sing Australia performs more than just Australian songs these days?

Originally they were all Australian songs to resurrect Australian music but it’s branched out into more than that.

Now it’s everything. Every style. You can go from the sublime to the ridiculous, from Walk a Country Mile to the Hallelujah chorus, to Love is the In the Air, which is our latest book. Bette Midler stuff, the Seekers, Neil Diamond.

You have some big name patrons too?

Ita Buttrose is our patron. Peter Cosgrove is a patron and he sings. Athol Guy from the Seekers and James Morrison.

Tell me about the Quamby Opera House?

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One of our fellows (Steve) is out at Wongarbon on a property called Quamby. He has a grain shed and once, when we were all out there for a barbeque with national director Colin. The grain shed was empty, and Steve said, “Come in here Colin and have a listen to this”.

So Colin was in there singing this operatic aria in the grain shed – the acoustics were unbelievable – and he remarked that we must have a concert in the “Quamby Opera House”. Six years

ago we did the first one.

We all dressed up and we had a classical pianist. We had to get a piano in the shed.

First we had to find a front end loader, then the tuner had to come out, then someone found a second hand stage from Sydney. We rigged up a thing for a curtain so we had a green room, and we all dressed up and the choir opened the afternoon.

So we sang a little bit, with the con-

cert pianist doing Rachmaninov – he’s doing Chopin this year. He’s the brother of one of our members and a concert pianist.

Then there’s another friend who’s a tenor who sings in the Blue Mountains and he’s well known around the musical theatre down there, and then we’ve had different people doing items. It’s pretty much word of mouth. This year it will be on October 10. We have to fit it in before there’s grain in the shed.

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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, it doesn’t have to be bad news ’VE just spent the morning at an Eisteddfod. And just one morning of watching kids on stage has reinforced some ideas of the ideas I had and has changed my mind about a couple of other things.

It has reaffirmed to me how important it is for young people to be given an opportunity to learn how to express themselves; to have the opportunity to perform, to get up on a stage and get over the nerves and the fear of failure. There’s nothing more liberating than to learn that the fear of embarrassment or fear of failure is common enough to us all but that doesn’t mean it has to rule your life.

But why should you wait until you’re in your teens or later to discover the liberating feeling of being terrified and going ahead and doing something anyway? How amazing that you could learn as young as eight or nine that you can be scared of doing something and actually master that fear and do it well? And you could learn that, in mastering that nervousness, and performing anyway, you actually harness the power of nervous energy. And as a result you give a better performance, but more importantly, you have even more fun.

You often hear actors and other performers say it’s the butterflies in their bellies that give them the extra edge and makes them that bit better. The theory is, once you lose that element of nerves, you lose some of the freshness of your performance.

If you’re not nervous any more, maybe it’s time to give the game away.

There are all sorts of other life lessons being demonstrated while watching those kids on stage. You see the ones who just have natural ability and innate talent, and you have to admire them for what they are capable of achieving. Then there are those who might not have been whacked with the talent stick, but they want to do this with every fibre of their being. And you can see they’ve been the ones who have practiced

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and practiced; they’ve taken what natural abilities they have had and polished them and honed them for all they’re worth. Some of them were born with no apparent talent at all, but they’re in there having a crack and they’re having the time of their lives.

From the audience it looks as though they don’t much care if other people are better than they are, they’re just thrilled to be involved. It would seem there’s no right or wrong reason to do this stuff, you just have to enjoy it and work as hard at it as you can.

Of course it wasn’t all hearts and flowers. (There was no beer and skittles at all, this was a family show). The eisteddfod crowd also has its fair share of prima donna, of stage door mummies, of pushiness and preciousness. Wherever there are children competing with parents on the sidelines, you’ll encounter some pettish and precocious behaviour. And I’d like to have the money some people are spending on their kids’ costumes, on the tights, on the tap shoes, on the make-up. If you add up the cost of the lessons and then factor in the cost of travelling away to perform and compete; that comes to a sizable investment in your child’s future. I just wonder how necessary it is to the entire exercise for the performers to be kitted out in costumes that must be worth the GDP of a small island nation. Could we consider an eisteddfod in which kids just wore simple leotards or whatever and relied on the strength of their talent to shine on stage? I’m sure adjudicators are pretty cluey, but it must be easy to be influenced by the flash costume and the quality of the tap shoes when you’re judging the overall effect of a performance.

The biggest impact on me, the thing that most jarred on me, is the sight of pre-pubescent girls getting around in skimpy costumes with make-up plastered all over their faces and looking much older than they should. It must be hard to tread that fine line between giving your child the best

chance to shine in their performance on stage and allowing them to look like a mini-adult.

Maybe I’m oversensitive from working on classification and child abuse material but does an early chance to perform on stage have to then translate into a too-speedy translation into adulthood?

The most significant impact of my morning at the Wellington Eisteddfod has been my amazement that all this fabulousness could take place in a community that much of the media wants to brand as a dysfunctional mess which is the known epicentre of all international ‘ice’ abuse.

` All this fabulousness takes place in a community that much of the media wants to brand as a dysfunctional mess which is the known epicentre of all international ‘ice’ abuse.

Who knew that Wellington could still field a huge force of volunteers, could run an eisteddfod that would go a fair way to rival those put on by much bigger towns? If you read the latest papers or listened to some of the electronic media, you would be amazed to discover that there are still people in this community who aren’t smacked out of their skulls on illicit drugs. You’d be astounded at how many ordinary people there are in the community, going about their business, even in spite of the very valid concerns about drug use and disadvantage in their town. And how many of them are punching above their weight in community involvement.

Actually, I knew that. Me, and all the other residents of Wello and the farming community around the town. If you know the community, if you live in and around it, you see the people who are battling their addictions and you worry about the impact it’s having on their immediate and extended families. You see the impact of drug use in the crime statistics around the town and in the faces of the children and old people.

But every day in Wellington you’ll also see the people who continue to do all the things that make a town strong. The only thing is, you don’t tend to see them on the evening news bulletin.

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Bishop’s giant leap a small step for voters

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USTRALIA’S political class at the senior federal level needs to take a leaf from the playbook of Tim Fairfax.

I was at the Sydney launch for the Australian Futures Actions for NSW Agriculture project last week – it’s a think tank of 60 people from all sides of the industry, supply chain and government looking to see new ways forward to revitalise the sector.

The Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation chairman spoke about the hope for creating a better future for us all and the room was captivated by his real strength, gentleness, compassion and goodwill.

What a chasm between this speech from a national leader when compared with the whining, pettiness and point scoring mouthings from senior Coalition and Labor figures as they busily strut their political class warfare on the Canberra stage.

It’s a pretty depressing national outlook, to say the least, yet what an incredibly different and positive future we could have if we had political leaders who cared more about the millions of Australians than themselves, and the wealthy vested interests they so ardently support to ensure their fundraising coffers are full come election time.

Actions for NSW Agriculture is an intriguing concept, but it’s based against a backdrop where regional Australia as a whole is dying.

We’ve spent decades trying to halt the decline but on every measure, small town wealth and population, general farmer profitability, family farmer numbers, things are far worse than they were in the 1950s and 60s.

The buying power of the average farmer has plummeted and this has created a massive negative flow-on effect for the towns and cities that service regional Australia.

High input costs and concentration of markets has seen enormous external power invested in a few massive corporations who decide what Aussie cockies pay for everything they need to buy, as well as cutting them off at the knees when it comes time to establish farm gate prices.

Essentially, and simply, it means that almost all the things we’ve done in the past 50 years have been wrong, thanks to the lobbying power of rampant free market proponents.

The experts in all these ar-

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eea eass from bureaucrats to statutory boards have, collectively at leas least, got things horribly wrong.

Th This ideology has seen politicall leadership sell-out the national interest to vested interests in an insidious and drawn out process well understood by multinational corporations, and still denied by political leaders.

It’s seen the bureaucracy infested with a culture of doing nothing but tinkering around the margins, when we should be protecting the best interests of Australia from all comers and ensuring the national wealth is kept by those who make it, instead of enshrining in law that middlemen can grab the lions’ share.

Much of the bush is dying slowly; all the people pulling the levers in the past 60 years have failed. Now they need to gracefully step aside to allow new ideas to flourish.

Just like Bronwyn Bishop has been forced to resign as speaker of the house, so we need to ensure the people pushing this new paradigms are not of the old school, part of the systems and structures which have served us so poorly.

The cut and thrust of politics has become the game and this has caused two ramifications that have been extraordinarily harmful to regional Australia.

Firstly, by focussing only on winning the 24/7 media cycle, our national leadership has made it almost impossible to look at significant long term strategies without the baggage that comes with that process – that is, if it doesn’t get us votes, right now, we’ll put it on the endless backburner.

Secondly, with votes in regional Australia so few, there’s no political will to sell a complex narrative to convince city voters that building up capacity in the bush could provide the momentum, the engine room Australia desperately needs so the nation doesn’t go backwards.

As was rammed home to me so forcefully by Tim Fairfax’s speech, philanthropists try to improve the greater good, pollies try to improve their images to stay in power – that’s become, for this crop of leaders, the SOLE objective despite the platitudes they espouse.

We need a new game; one where people aren’t stuck in this pathetic political system of eternal “opposition”, even when they’re prime minister.

We need to ensure we don’t lurch into yet another reactive military action when the domestic polls are flagging.

We need to have a major dis-

` Perhaps with the speaker being forced to resign over flagrant disdain for hard earned public monies we can begin taking some very, very small steps.

ruption of the way we do business in Australia at a national level both politically and bureaucratically.

In the past 20 years I’ve seen penny-pinching destroy hugely positive programs that run on the sniff of an oily rag.

Conversely, examples abound of commonwealth largesse flowing onto “initiatives” that waste billions of our dollars and that village idiots could see were going to fail at a first glance – this despite all the massively expensive protocols and procedures we have in place to allegedly prevent this from happening.

The sad and sorry Bronwyn Bishop saga has only re-emphasised this horrible national failing.

Agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce reportedly said that if we started throwing stones “all MPs would eventually be caught breaching the rules”.

Really?

All the more need then to jump on this harshly, and immediately.

We need to audit all pollies and all travel, throw it open to truly independent auditors who will go after left, right and centre trying to outdo each other in the scalp collecting stakes.

We need to shine such a spotlight onto this sense of entitlement that the only sense pollies will have is one of fear that they can never again do this sort of thing.

We need to highlight pre-selection processes across the nation where every candidate must bare their soul on paper, so everyone can see what background they come from.

We need to be able to make fair judgement on their past so we can have a crack at predicting what future they will offer

us a nation.

If they’ve served only as union functionaries, corporate lobbyists or political staffers we should know those facts, so we can knowledgeably have the opportunity to say NO. If they have demonstrated records of community involvement and achievement, we would understand that they can work above self for the greater good – it wouldn’t be a perfect predictor, but far better than the current opaque system.

Added to these many functionaries who slide into political life we have the major corporations who use their dollars, power and influence to, in effect, “insider lobby” those at the very top of politics and the political organisations that garner funds to support them.

An enduring TV image for me is when Prime Minister Tony Abbott took a jumbo jet load of Aussie businesspeople to China to create economic benefits flowing between the two nations.

I thought that was a great idea but the pictures I saw were those of James Packer walking along while whispering in the PM’s ear – that sort of exclusive access, and attention, shouldn’t be reserved for the most powerful corporate people intent on increasing their own profits, it should be spread across those who actually have the interests of the nation’s taxpayers at heart.

It’s a huge ask, but perhaps with the house speaker being forced to resign over flagrant disdain for hard earned public monies we can begin taking some very, very small steps.

And these start with us being as aware as we can be about exactly who we’re voting for.

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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.

Winds of change blowing marriage myths away UR oldest son and his girlfriend have just become engaged.

The word “soulmates” popped up in conversation occasionally. They are two very special people, a whole greater than the sum of the parts.

The word “marriage” would also occasionally be mentioned, as they have been living together for several years in a house they share with their mortgage and their pets. People on the outside looking in could be excused for thinking they were already married. As parents we love and cherish them, their marital status not nearly as vital as their happiness. But are we chuffed they have reached this milestone.

Human nature being what it is, milestones in our lives are marked with a ceremony. From ancient times birth, coming of age, marriage and death are all marked with a coming together of family and friends, to celebrate and console.

Of these ceremonies marriage has evolved in its meaning and application the most. Marriage between a man and a woman has been around for millennia, but the introduction of love into the equation is a recent addition. Arranged marriages, strategic marriages between families, marriage between cousins and polygamy were hallmarks of marriage for centuries. All the while latitude was given to men to be promiscuous and unfaithful. The notion of the nuptials of two equals, joined in love and companionship, is barely a few hundred years old at most.

Marriage equality between a man and a woman is a recent concept too. Marriage was the providence of the man to grant and control. Gender based roles – he the bread winner, she the little woman at home popping out babies – only become outmoded with the rise of female liberation in the 1960s and 70s.

The role of religion in marriages has also become outmoded, with civil celebrants performing more than 70 per cent of marriage ceremonies annually since 1999. Standing in church and

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having the bridee promise to love, honour nour and “obey” is unnderstandably no longer common. Equality between partners has replaced d the church influluenced male-centric entric imbalance.

With this shift to equality in heterosexual marriages, the way has been opened for same-sex marriage to be accepted and legitimised. The most recent polling reveals more than 70 per cent of Australians support same-sex marriage.

More progressive countries around the world have already legalised same-sex marriage, some like Ireland and the United States of America only this year, while countries like Canada took the plunge 10 years ago –around the same time Australian Prime Minister John Howard changed the Marriage Act to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

So why is Australia so far behind the rest of the world’s pluralist democracies on this issue?

In Australia, opponents of same sex marriage obfuscate behind the veil of the supposed threat to the sanctity of the “traditional marriage”.

Ultra conservatives such as Senator Cory Bernardi love to use the “slippery slope” argument – legalising same-sex marriage will lead to polygamy, negative impacts on children with same sex parents and the destruction of society

` The basic human need for love and companionship will never change, and does not discriminate for gender.

Marriage has changed, but does discriminate for gender.

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as we k know it. This is completely false. com The majority of studies into the s outcomes for children find that children’s wellbeing is the w result of the qualres ity of parenting, not the parental number or gender. A 2013 study by the Australian Institute of Family Studies concluded that “samesex parented children did as well emotionally, socially and educationally as the children of heterosexual couples”.

And history proves that “traditional marriage” included polygamy and close relation marriages. Yet the spokesperson for the recently formed anti samesex marriage group Australian Marriage Alliance remarked that marriage should not change from the way it has existed for millennia. Rather unfortunate choice of words that.

John Howard remarked in 2004 “the definition of a marriage is something that should rest in the hands ultimately of the parliament of the nation”. Taking this remark to heart, politicians on both sides of the aisle have been wrestling with the proposal of a conscience vote if legislation legalising same-sex marriage is presented to parliament this year. I write if, instead of when, because of recent comments by members of a certain parliamentary committee.

Liberal MP Andrew Nikolic, a member of the committee which selects bills to come before the House of Representatives, recently subverted due process and outed the tenor of the committee by declaring “anyone who thinks this should be prioritised over economic or national security issues has got rocks in their head and is totally misreading the needs of the Australian people”. Indeed.

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MPs a conscience vote, not withstanding Bill Shorten’s pledge to move in the parliament for marriage equality within the first 100 days of Labor government.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has tap danced around the debate, but I am reminded of his comments in 2010 regarding what he perceives as the right of things: “Homosexuality? How do you feel about that?” he responded with, “I’d probably say I feel a bit threatened... as do many people.”

What are Mr Abbott and the less than 30 per cent of Australians so threatened by? What goes on in people’s private lives? That children won’t be raised in a loving and nurturing situation? Samesex couples may not procreate in an already overcrowded and resource finite world? Property and finances can’t be inherited or divided to benefit the next generation? Churches continuing to lose business? The injection of up to half a billion dollars into the Australian economy from same-sex weddings?

Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world and I fear it will take a change of government before there is any progress on marriage equality.

This is truly bizarre. The basic human need for love and companionship will never change, and does not discriminate for gender. Marriage has changed, but does discriminate for gender.

Our son and future daughter-in-law will get to stand in front of their family and friends and affirm their love and commitment. And that commitment will be recognised in law and benefits will stem from that. Same-sex couples have no less a level of love and commitment and no less a desire for ceremony.

Similarly they should have no less entitlement to the recognition in the laws that benefit heterosexual marriage.

Legislating against equality is last century thinking perpetuating last millennium prejudices. The world has matured and now it is time for legislators to do the same.

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The Love Boat: The Lost Years – Part 7 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...

When we left the Love boat last, Captain Tony had opened his box of magnetic fridge poetry in order to come up with a three word slogan to force Barnacle Bill off the boat. The story continues.

Captain Tony grabbed a handful of magnetic words out of the box and began to arrange them in groups of three on the board in front of him. As always, First Officer Pyne appeared instantly by his side. “Slogans” was Pyne’s favourite game.

Next to the board was a small mirror.

In its reflection Tony could see Barnacle watching him from the captain’s chair.

Tony reminded himself of how much he detested this poncing pirate. The curve of his lips, which some might find just the right amount of curve, always seemed to sneer; his hair, too long for someone his age (Tony liked a short clip) was fashionable but objectionable none the less; his legendary hands were indeed soft but soft was something he had rejected for years; and finally, his voice, whiny, nasally and without any tone whatsoever was too gauche to mention.

Yes, there was no doubt about it. Tony was in love.

But it was a tricky situation. All the cool guys thought Barnacle Bill was a loser: Bill was a virus and anyone who touched him was an automatic outcast.

Tony remembered that one incident during Question Time at Seaman’s School. The teacher had asked how many passengers had to be consulted if you decided to change the final destination port after you had set sail. He, Gopher, Token, and Diamond Joe had remained silent. Even Pyne had remained

tight-lipped, a rare sight when he was confronted with a Seaman’s curly one.

But Bill didn’t know better. “A clear two-thirds majority, Sir. As it involves a breach of contract you may be liable for damages in any case.”

“No, boy, incorrect,” Sir replied, voice dripping with unconcealed glee at an upcoming kil. “Why don’t you have another go?”

Bill paused, luscious thick brows knotted in concentration.

“Oh, I know. Fifty per cent plus one, as long as there are justifiable reasons such as undue costs or other impositions on the company.”

“Close,” said Sir. “And though you may have the brains of a monkey, still no banana. Have another shot.”

Sir seated himself on the edge of his desk and prepared for the final meltdown.

“Oh,” said Bill, suddenly sensing the danger he was in. “Um. Well, the passengers would...no, that’s not it...if the, if the, if...”

“Come on boy,” said Sir in a voice that shrieked it didn’t need to shout.

“If the decision is made in international waters and you are avoiding civil strife in the stated port then the decision can be made without consulting passengers but must be communicated to them within four hours of the decision being made.”

Bill finished in a rush and gave the sort of smile only the perpetually bullied have perfected. The sort of smile that said “not the face please”.

Sir gave a very different smile, all nic-

otine teeth and spit. He turned towards the others in the class, “Well boys, you heard our little Bill. Has he got it to rights?”

“No sir,” they bellowed back at him.

“So how many passengers need to be consulted?” he asked them.

“None sir,” they answered.

“That’s right, boys, none. And why is that?” Sir rose from his desk and stared down at Bill.

“Because they’re only passengers, sir.”

“That’s right boys, because they’re only passengers.” He stared down at Bill intently. “And tell me one more thing, boys, if you please. Little Bill here, is he a captain or is he a passenger?”

“A passenger sir, a passenger,” they students replied with gusto.

Sir leaned over until his breath swamped Bill in a cloud of Winfield and pickled onions. “Did you hear that Bill, even this lot know you’ll never be anything but a passenger. A miserable, third-class passenger. Now get out of my class before I decide to vomit on you.”

There was no doubt about it, Barnacle Bill was a total knob. But this knob had turned Tony’s heart, although Tony didn’t know why.

Bill turned and ran. Tears were welling in his eyes and a wretched sob was rising up his throat but even in his state he knew he had to be away from the boys before either broke through.

The boys (and Token) cheered and jeered as he fled.

There was no doubt about it, Barnacle Bill was a total knob. But this knob had turned Tony’s heart, although Tony didn’t know why. Now to declare his love for Bill would be in keeping with his firm belief of always doing whatever he felt like, but it would mean giving up the captaincy. “This is a moral conundrum,” a small part of his brain said. He didn’t know what that meant so he stopped and looked up ‘conundrum’ on his iPad. That didn’t help so he looked up ‘moral’. That was even less helpful.

Tony was awash in a sea of love and the only one throwing him a rope played for the other side. What was a boy to do?

He turned back to the board. First Officer Pyne had busied himself with several slogans. From the word cloud he had made “pen is power”, “pen is great” and, confusingly, “pen is purple”. Poor Pyne, thought Tony. Forever obsessed with pens. That last one didn’t even make sense.

But when he looked to see what he had made whilst daydreaming he was horrified to see the words “I love bill” staring back at him.

Will Captain Tony declare his love?

How does Barnacle feel about the whole thing? Will First Officer Pyne ever do anything meaningful?

To be continued... next week...

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Weekender regular Lisa Minner continues with her series exploring some of the faces, places and hidden gems along our own beautiful stretch of the Macquarie River and into the outback.

Carving it up Lightning Ridge has another gem in its midst. Once an aspiring opal miner and now artist and relief sculptor, Ron Canlin has spent much of the past 30 years underground carving out a livliehood that leaves visitors in awe.

The talented Ron talks to LISA MINNER about how he “accidently” stumbled in to a career as an artist and hasn’t looked back.

HE outback town of Lightning Ridge is like another world. It really is. If you haven’t been there for a visit here’s another reason to go and explore a town that has evolved around an obsession with colour, of the opal kind.

“The Ridge” is situated in North-Western NSW near the southern border of Queensland. It’s hot in summer – really hot – and has vast blue skies. Parts of the town look like a moonscape with mounds of sandstone and clay piled up three feet high wherever you look. Mining camps are dotted along the main roads into the town ranging from tin shacks and caravans to more elaborate structures made from local rocks and coloured bottles.

It’s a sight you’ll rarely see anywhere else in NSW or Australia for that matter. It’s a unique town that has attracted a mish-mash of people including those

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from 50 different nationalities from around the world and they all have one thing in common – the love of a stone that’s coveted by gem aficionados across the globe. The town is renowned for its unique black opal. It’s the only place in the world where this extraordinary gem forms. A unique mix of opaline silica creates the rare gem, and has a black or dark base. It flashes its colours from red to yellow, to green to blue and everything in between.

Lightning Ridge is a place where you’ll find multi-millionares comfortably rubbing shoulders with Joe Average. And you’ll be lucky to tell the difference. When you meet the Ridge folk it’s rare you’ll be asked what you do or what you drive; they’ll either like you or they won’t. They’re straight shooters and they’ll make you feel welcome if you’re

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genuine and they’ll let you take a peek into their special world if you’re curious enough to ask. They’ll educate you on the gem that has made their town a destination to which people fly in from all around the world to buy their precious stones.

NE such character is 74 year old Ron Canlin, who’s as humble and earthy as the ground he

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In 1982 Canlin started his career like many in the Ridge, with a newly purchased claim and the hope of striking it rich via the beautiful opal for which the region is renowned. Unfortunately for Canlin, the mine turned out to be a bit of a dud as far as the opal went, yielding only $15,000 worth in the 15 years he chipped away at it.

But sometimes fate has other ideas and while his fortune was not to be made from opal, his artistic streak gave him the opportunity to create something no one else had done before; underground relief carvings. It was quite by accident that he discovered he could tease out incredible works of art on the soft sandstone walls of his mine.

Realising he would have to get involved in the tourism industry of Lightning Ridge to supplement his opal income, he branched out and started running tours underground to show tourists how opal is extracted and cut.

In 1997 Canlin began by digging a set of stairs and a large room to accommodate his visitors. It was at this time he decided to experiment with a couple of small carvings. And that’s where his obsession began.

“Once I’d done a couple I thought this is good fun and it just went from there, but none of it was planned; it was meant to be a cutting room to give demonstrations in,” Canlin says.

Before long though, the tourists were showing more interest in his carvings than his cutting demonstrations.

“They really seemed to appreciate them, so I got a bit big headed and did a few more and a few more and before long the room was filled, so I realised I needed some more canvas, if you like, and I started digging again.”

Asked if he was always a good artist, Canlin humbly says he knew he was “handy” but says his carvings have improved hand-over-fist since he first started.

“I’ve had a lot of practice over the years and I’ve become more ambitious with my subject matter, just bigger and bigger things. I don’t think I will ever get sick of it; it’s a passion now.”

Canlin’s plans are to extend another area to create a room around six by four metres. But he says he’s at an age now where he’s not keen to dig and cart dirt out of the mine so instead he and a friend, Peter, are going to use machinery to dig a large cavern and this cavern will house what will be Ron’s piece de resistance.

“I will really get into it then, I’d like to do The Creation of Adam and I’m into the Sistine Chapel too, so I’m thinking along those lines, life-size and long.

I’m really looking forward to that.”

Canlin wont take all the credit for the The Chambers of the Blackhand – he recognises his business partners Trevor and Cheryl Hudson and their entrepreneurial approach as a major factor in the mine’s success.

“Without them this wouldn’t be what it is today. Trevor is as straight as a die – we get on so well. The partnership allows me to get on with my carving; it’s great for all of us.”

Sue White and other visitors get a tour of the Chambers of the Blackhand.

The egyptian room.

Asked to name his favourite carvings, Canlin struggles to choose just one.

“David, is one of my favourites from the early days; I just love Michelangelo.”

He explains that “David” recently had his manhood kicked off by a young boy.

After some urgent “surgery” the replica of the famous statue was once again intact.

“I also like this one of Jesus on the cross,” he says as we walk through the narrow tunnels between the rooms, “I’m not a religious man but I just like it; it was a nice study, if you like.”

Another favourite is an almost exact replica of the Lion of Lucerne and the stunning Egyptian Room which has been carved and painted. For a split second in the absolute silence you really feel like you might be inside a tomb in a pyramid, being 40 feet underground.

The room is an incredible achievement, complete with sarcophagus, hieroglyphics and Sphinx.

Canlin also has a room dedicated to Buddhism, with three massive carv-

ings of Buddha that took him around six months to complete. He recalls a very special time where a group of Tibetan Monks came to visit the space.

“It was incredible, they began chanting and the acoustics were amazing, the room just rumbled with the vibration, it was very special to have them here.”

ANLIN dedicates about three hours a day to his art and over the years his efforts have equated to hundreds of relief carvings. He paints over some of the carvings he feels need a bit more definition, so there’s a mix of both stone and it’s natural pattern and colour and brightly painted areas.

I ask what kind of legacy he thinks he’ll leave behind, and Canlin answers in typically humble fashion.

“It’s not sunk in really. I mean, when you shift a bit of dirt each day over a period of time you don’t really think about it too much. I think it’s been a great idea and it’s turned out tremendous, I’m so lucky really, and I have something lovely

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His aspirations as a young boy, while ambitious, did not factor in a career as a sculptor.

“I used to play a mouth organ and thought I’d be a fantastic musician and I was into sports I thought I’d be a top sportsman. I can’t believe I ended up doing this and as I said it was all accidental really, with Trevor’s blessing it grew if you like.”

Canlin says if, as a ten year old, he’d been given a peek into the future and seen what he would eventually create, he’d have been gobsmacked.

“Realistically, when I cark it, this should last a fair while if we don’t have an earthquake. I’m happy that my family love it and I’ve done something to please them. And when you hear people say it’s great and all that, it is a lovely feeling.” z The Chambers of the Black Hand is located at 3 Mile Opal Field, Lightning Ridge NSW 2834. Or see their website: www. chambersoftheblackhand.com.au

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World Championships It’s a picture of both speed and grace. Yuliya Efimova of Russia swims in the women’s 100m breaststroke final at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan, Russia this week. PHOTO: REUTERS/MICHAEL DALDER

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Business & Rural

The sky’s the limit on opportunities, so get ready

BY FELICITY TAYLOR EDWARDS ARDS CEO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA)

HE Orana region has experienced quite a few exciting announcements and projects recently in terms of transport and connectivity. With plenty of movement going on in these fields, let’s look at what this means for the region in future terms.

Last month, Jetgo announced that it would commence flying between Dubbo and Brisbane. As I write this, the first Embraer 135 will have just arrived at Dubbo City Regional Airport. While many are dreaming of a winter escape to the sunshine state, we should also consider the regional impacts of this development. Not only will this service encourage more Queensland visitors, but potentially these visitors can extend their visit and see the Warrumbungles, experience Wellington Caves, or head to Lightning Ridge to fossick for opals. The airline has also fielded many phone calls from Orange and Bathurst residents (and further afield) who intend to use the service.

Brisbane is Australia’s second largest airport in terms of passenger numbers and has direct links to 41 domestic and 28 international destinations. So what might this mean for the Orana region? On average, domestic day travellers spend $168 per trip. Domestic overnight travellers stay for an average of 3 nights and spend $414 per trip. International travellers on average stay for 24 nights, and spend $1022 per trip. Say that as a result of this service, we had an additional 1000 (700 domestic, 300 international) visitors making these three-night and 24-night trips to the Orana region within the next year. That’s potentially an extra $1.6m flowing through the region. This is before even considering the flow-on effects. Using this same scenario of 1000 extra visitors, these fig-

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` It will be fascinating to see how many extra visitors this new service will attract to the Orana region... in order to target business investors, our region must position itself as business-ready.

ures could equate to as much as $1.01 million ure in additional output; five new jobs created; around an extra $247,000 for wages and salaaro ries and $490,796 in value-add (REMPLAN). rie Approximately 11 per cent of Orana tourists A originate from Queensland. When we look at the population of south-east Queensland as a catchment area for departures from Brisbane airport, we can realise the potential of this new market opportunity. If you look at just the south-east corner of Queensland (encompassing the Brisbane, Fraser Coast, Gold Coast, Gympie, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Logan, Moreton Bay, Noosa, Redland, Scenic Rim, Somerset, South Burnett, Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba regions) this accounts for over 3.5 million people. This particular region is experiencing high growth, and by 2036 is projected to reach 5.39 million (Queensland Treasury).

It will be fascinating to see how many extra visitors this new service will attract to the Orana region. The word “visitors” applies to holidaymakers, visiting friends and relatives and business travellers. Looking forward, in order to target business investors, our region must position itself as business-ready.

So what exactly does “business-ready” mean? There are a number of factors which govern this: the efficiency of our transport systems, the proficient movement of freight and logistics to ports and the productivity of the broader supply chain. Recently, some major infrastructure studies have been conducted to investigate opportunities around these factors.

Phase One of the Linking the Hunter Orana Region report establishes the case for improving the Golden Highway. It explores the corridor’s importance in terms of key

freight markets, its strategic role in the national road network and the expanding transport task. It states that “the Golden Highway is a critical section of economic and social infrastructure linking the Orana and Hunter regions supporting the movement of export commodity flows, and the inbound flow of goods and services across the region”.

It also states that the current volume of freight, approximately 2.6 million tonnes per annum, will almost double by 2031. We need to ensure that the highway can accommodate such a large increase in traffic.

And it’s not just the highway – through the current Infrastructure Masterplans being developed critical projects have been identified in terms of creating strategic links to both domestic and international locations. Some projects that have been identified include: upgrading various grain handling facilities and railway sidings to link the region to the ports of Port Kembla and Newcastle; upgrading regional airports to support export and emerging industries; coupling stations for heavy transport; and restoring pipelines to secure critical water supplies to support agriculture, mining and communities.

Both studies will now lead in to Freight & Logistics research, to be commenced later this year. This will examine the readiness of the region to manage the freight task as well as issues such as the ageing of road and rail drivers, combined with the doubling of the freight task. To illustrate this, if the Orana region experienced a loss of 50 jobs in the transport, postal and warehousing industry, this could equate to up to $11.27 million being lost from our region’s economy annually (REMPLAN).

There is a critical need to have an enabled and ready workforce to drive this industry.

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said last year, “The reality about transportation is that it’s future-oriented. If we’re planning for what we have, we’re behind the curve.”

This is the situation being experienced all over the world, and really highlights the importance of business leaders and community preparing for our region’s future.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Unusual ally in penalty rate debate A former Labor government minister and head of the ACTU has backed changes in an area once considered sacrosanct – Sunday penalty rates for workers in the retail and hospitality sectors.

Martin Ferguson, now chairman of Tourism Accommodation Australia, says his sector needs an industrial framework suited to the 21st century.

“Not to society as it was 50 years ago, when weekends were sacrosanct and Sunday was a day of rest, when most shops and restaurants were shut,” he said in a statement.

In a draft report on Australia’s workplace relations framework, the Productivity Commission recommended Sunday penalty rates be the same as those paid on Saturday.

It said existing penalty rates should be retained for workers in essential services such as nursing and policing.

Labor and the unions have vowed to fight any changes to penalty rate payments.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he wanted to see a sensible debate.

“This government will make no changes to workplace relations in this term of parliament that are inconsistent with the commitments we took to the election,” he said. AAP MB/EVT

Steady as she goes on interest rates THE Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to keep interest rates steady at 2.00 per cent is music to the ears of those in the property market.

REINSW President Malcolm Gunning said low interest rates were continuing to help boost the market, with great activity across the state since interest rates were cut earlier this year.

“Property buyers are using these record lows to their advantage and as long as they factor in future interest rate rises, now is a great time to upgrade, enter the market or invest,” Mr Gunning said.

The official cash rate has fallen 275 basis points since November 2011, with the RBA cutting interest rates

twice in 2013 in May and August and at its February and May meetings this year.

Farmers slap unions for trade agreement “scare campaign” NSW Farmers has issued a rebuke to unions over what it says it the “deliberate and sustained distortion” of facts surrounding the China Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The organisation’s spokesperson on trade, Peter Wilson, said the union movement’s “scare campaign” on the FTA deliberately misrepresents a section of the agreement that applies to tourists and other temporary visitors who will be excluded from accessing the labour market. He said the federal government has given guarantees that issuing of visas under investment facilitation agreements (IFAs) will still require labour market testing and be part of any labour agreement under IFAs. “It appears the Australian labour movement does not appreciate the difference between a tourist and a tradie,” Wilson said. “Normally that wouldn’t be a problem but in this case, its deliberate misunderstanding is damaging our nation and its future prosperity. The China FTA is a critical tool to enable the Australian economy to grow and the Australian people to prosper.

“It is particularly important as it improves access for a vast amount of critical agricultural exports.

“Agriculture is the only industry in the Australian economy with the potential to double its value by 2030 and improved market access through agreements such as this are fundamental to achieving that.

“If the China FTA is not ratified within the calendar year, agriculture faces $300 million in forgone earnings through reduced tariffs and improved market access arrangements.”

“Australian agriculture cannot afford that and the Australian people should not stand for it. This agreement is too important for petty politics.”

5 reasons why you should get a business valuation D o you really know what your business is worth? Is there any point knowing its true value?

Having worked with many clients over the years, performing business valuations in Sydney, it’s clear that unless the owner understands what drives a business valuation up, the process to get change to occur for the better and to prepare for maximum sale becomes much harder.

Here are 5 key reasons why you should get a business valuation.

Reason #1 – You Want to Sell Your Business as Part of Your Retirement Plans IF you think that you will need to sell your business to help fund your retirement, you should get a business valuation now so you can work out any shortfall (if any). If there is a shortfall you can either revise your retirement lifestyle or start to make changes to get your business value up to where it needs to be.

Reason #2 – More Valuable Businesses Make Higher Profits Consistently WHILST there are a number of ways to value a business, generally businesses will be valued by business valuers on their profitability. Most Small to Medium Enterprises will be valued on a multiple between one to five times after add backs to various line items (e.g. reasonable salaries, market rate of rent, etc). If you focus on getting your business to be more profitable, it’s effectively a double whammy. More profits along the way and a much bigger sale price at the time of sale!

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BEFORE you sell, you want to know

how much capital gains tax there might be on the sale and whether you can access the various reductions that might be available under the Small Business Rollover Concessions. Knowing how much you will walk away with after tax could change your mind on how much you are prepared to sell the business for.

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Reason #5 – Learn What Potential Buyers Are Looking For ONCE you understand what buyers are looking for when purchasing a business, work hard on those areas so that your business becomes easier to sell.

Some things may be obvious but others not. Remember, the less reliable the business is on you as the owner, the better. Have solid management systems in place including a plan on how the business will grow. Buyers will tend to pay higher prices for all of these types of things.

Don’t assume you know what your business is worth. Unless you are clear as to what it might be realistically valued at, you should consider getting advice or you might find yourself having to put off your retirement by another five or 10 years when the time comes. If there is a shortfall in your expectations, now is the time to correct the things that will help push up the valuation.

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New twist

on an old favourite tion to inspire more people to eat vegetables for breakfast... carrot and walnut porridge – a new, healthy twist on an old favourite!

BY KATE WRIGHT WWW.INSPIREDMOOD.COM.AU

OME people have a hard time stomaching the thought of vegetables for breakfast, but what could be more natural? If you’re a sceptic, I challenge you to try adding at least one vegetable to your morning meal. Just try it. It sets a healthy tone for the rest of your day and gives you a kick start on the way to attaining your “five-a-day” target.

Vegetables at breakfast don’t have to be limited to savoury starters, like bacon and eggs or omelettes. Get creative.

In my last column I shared my chocolate beetroot porridge recipe and, seeing as it’s still so cold out, and because cereals are the morning go-to meal for most, I’d like to share another unconventional op-

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Meningococcal: don’t be complacent

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PARENTS across the Orana Region have been warned not to be complacent when it comes to the detection of the deadly meningococcal disease, with many Aussie parents failing to realise the free vaccine only protects against one strain of the disease.

And almost one-quarter would not seek medical attention early enough due to misconceptions about the potentially fatal disease, according to a new survey of 2000 parents.

The findings have prompted Meningococcal Australia to urge people to forget the myths and discover the facts.

The peak season for the disease is from July to September and 15

Carrot and walnut porridge Ingredients 1/2 cup oats 1 cup milk of choice (I use Little Big Dairy Co.’s non-homogenised milk) 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 small carrot, grated 1 small handful of walnuts (optional) Method Combine all ingredients except nuts in a small saucepan over lowest heat on the stove and cook, stirring regularly until the porridge starts to thicken and bubble (about 10 minutes).

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cases have been reported over the past five weeks.

There have been 89 cases this year with the majority in Victoria (27) and NSW (23).

The survey revealed that while nearly all the parents had heard of meningococcal disease, a third didn’t know there were multiple strains of the bacteria which can cause infection.

It also found 23 per cent would wait for a bruise-like rash before seeking medical help but this generally appears in the later stages when it is an emergency.

“We want parents to understand that while the free vaccine on the National Immunisation Program protects against the C strain, there are several other strains of bacteria in Australia which can cause meningococcal disease,” said the organisation’s director Eliza Ault-Connell.

“It is critical that parents don’t

become complacent, thinking their child is fully protected against the disease, but take the time to understand the signs and symptoms and know what to do if they ever suspect meningococcal disease.” * It can strike at any age but those aged up to four and from 15-19 are at higher risk * Hand washing and covering your mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing can help stop its spread * Look out for several of these symptoms - high fever, headache, fatigue or drowsiness, vomiting or diarrhoea, cold hands and feet, cold shivers, pain in the joints or limbs, pale skin, a red pinprick rash * Symptoms in babies could be a high pitched moaning cry, blank staring expression, floppiness or lethargy * Don’t assume the main symptom is a blotchy purple rash - it

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Alcohol and cancer: The (inconvenient) truth d definitely contribute to weight gain if you’re not decreasing the amount of kilojoules you n eeat – and we don’t want you going hungry.

BY CAMILLA BARLOW CANCER COUNCIL NSW To add insult to injury, I am the first one to admit that a greasy kebab can look much more appetising after you’ve had a couple of drinks.

K, just ONE more drink – what’s at’s the Your best intentions can simply fly out the harm?” window and the next thing you know you’re It’s something we hear echoed hoed in lining up at 7-Eleven with a basket full of ies and pubs, clubs, wine bars, dinner parties chocolate bars and ice creams that you’d nevny night restaurants all across Australia on any er normally eat, except on special occasions. of the week, and the damage that one ne more drink could be doing is much worse than han we I’ve written about obesity being the highest once imagined. modifiable risk factor for cancer behind smoking tobacco – so the combined factors of high The link between ill-health and alcohol cohol is alcohol intake and obesity are potentially crewidely known and spoken about (and I am not ating a very dangerous cocktail. just talking about the dreaded hangover) ver) but I know this is not what you want to hear the link between alcohol and cancer is quite – especially if you’re reading this on a Saturoften blurred. Whether this is due to Australday morning and you’ve just woken up from ians being in denial about the detrimental ental efa few Friday night drinks with your mates to fects of regularly consuming alcohol, or the blow off some steam after work. Even if you common myth that drinking a small amount enjoy a glass of red wine while you’re cooking regularly can be good for your longevity ty – this your dinner on a Tuesday evening, the trick is is anyone’s guess. knowing how much is too much and when its The inconvenient truth is that the link betime to rein it in. tween cancer and alcohol consumption ption is Hold on though, we’re not saying you can’t much stronger that we’d like to believe – espedrink alcohol. It’s just important to be educatcially in a country where drinking is inbuilt nbuilt to ed in knowing what’s right for your health and our wonderful cultural celebrations and nd comkeeping everything in moderation so you’re memorations, such as Australia Day and ANnot overdoing it.

ZAC Day. We also just happen to havee an inIf you do choose to drink any kind of alcocredible wine industry which produces es some hol, Cancer Council NSW recommends no top notch drops. more than two standard drinks per day Evidence shows that when it comes to canand no more than four standard drinks cer there is no safe level of alcohol consumpnsumpon any one drinking occasion. You can tion. Even small amounts of alcohol increases ncreases find out what a standard drink actualyour risk and the more you drink, the greater ly looks like on the Australian Governyour risk. ment Department of Health website and More specifically, around 3000 cancer er diagthey do vary from beer to wine, to spirnoses every year in Australia are attributed buted to its and beyond, so it’s helpful to know the alcohol consumption and the link between ween a difference. moderate to high intake of alcohol can lead to We have plenty of tips on how to drink an increased risk of cancers including mouth, less and enjoy yourself more on our Canpharynx, larynx, oesophagus, breast,, bowel cer Council NSW website – including aland liver. ternating alcoholic drinks Alcohol consumption also with water (sparkling wacontributes to weight gain and “ ter with fresh lime is a perbeing overweight or obese is sonal favourite), sip away Evidence vidence shows another risk factor for canslowly and don’t feel the cer. Alcoholic drinks are high that at when it need to catch up for the sake in energy (kilojoules) and low comes mes to cancer of missing out on a round, in nutritional value, especially order only half nips or order when they’re added to sugary there ere is no safe your spirits in a tall glass so it mixer drinks, so having a just level vel of alcohol lasts longer, offer to be desigfew drinks on top of your regunated driver, and always try lar diet (even if its healthy) can consumption. nsumption.

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an estimated 400,000 cases of endometrial cancer have been prevented by the pill’s use in high-income countries, including about 200,000 in the past decade.

The findings, published in The Lancet Oncology journal, reveal that every five years of oral contraceptive use reduces the risk of the cancer by about a quarter.

In high-income countries, 10 years of use reduces the risk of developing the cancer before age 75 from 2.3 to 1.3 cases per 100 users.

The strong g protective p effect, which persists for decades after stopping the pill,

means women who use it when they are in their 20s or even younger continue to benefit into their 50s and older, when cancer becomes more common, said study author Valerie Beral, from the University of Oxford.

“Previous research has shown that the pill also protects against ovarian cancer,” Professor Beral said.

“People used to worry that the pill might cause cancer but, in the long term, the pill reduces the risk of getting cancer.”

The T researchers pooled data on 27,276 women with endometrial cancer in 36 wo studies from Australia, North America, st Europe, Asia and South Africa.

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to have at least three alcohol-free days (otherwise known as an AFD) a week.

Finally, when it comes to the idea about red wine being connected to good heart health and long life, I am sorry to say that The Heart Foundation doesn’t recommend any kind of alcohol consumption for the treatment and prevention of disease. To improve your heart health, maybe go for a brisk 30 minute walk instead, and try to avoid the fast food store!

Keep abreast of legal rights, mums urged MOTHERS across the region have been urged to keep abreast of their legal rights, with the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action using World Breastfeeding Week to highlight the struggles some working mothers face.

It is illegal to discriminate against a person either directly or indirectly on the grounds of breastfeeding in Australia, and if a person is legally allowed to be in a certain place, they also have the right to breastfeed. But there are still places where feeding mums aren’t welcome, including many of our parliamentary chambers. The Senate and both the ACT and NSW Legislative Assemblies specifically exempt nursing infants from standing orders regulating “strangers” and visitors.

In all other parliaments, the admittance of strangers/visitors is at the discretion of the Speaker or President. The federal House of Representatives makes special allowances

for breastfeeding members to vote by proxy in divisions if they cannot be present in the Chamber, but does not specifically exempt nursing infants from stranger/visitor regulations.

Slater and Gordon Lawyer Vicky Antzoulatos said a mother’s right to breastfeed any time or place they need to is now well established and protected by federal law.

“However the obligations on employers to facilitate breastfeeding are still unclear and many women are reluctant to make a fuss to exercise their rights. Some mothers find themselves expressing in their cars for want of an appropriate and private space, while others find it difficult to juggle scheduled breaks.”

A national Australian Human Rights Commission survey found a fifth of mothers who experienced discrimination upon returning to work were dealing with issues related to breastfeeding.

Employers can face penalties or be ordered to pay compensation if they breach the relevant legislation.

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Brooke Stewart

Everything’s coming up rosemary

Rosemary goats’ cheese ice-cream might be a test for the imagination but at the hands of Dubbo RSL apprentice chef, Brooke Stewart, recent winner of Apprentice of the Year in the 2015 Chef’s Table competition, many hours perfecting the recipe is a delicious reason for celebration. Under the watchful guidance of head chef Sally Cornish, Brooke is surprised at her success but it’s flavoured the taste for her culinary dreams.

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HE Australian War Memorial’s account of how rosemary came to be worn on Anzac Day leans to ancient times when the herb was widely held to improve memory.

The poignant garland is a nod to the nation’s annual prayer, Lest We Forget.

“Perhaps because of this, rosemary became an emblem of both fidelity and remembrance in literature and folklore,” reads the AWM’s website. “Rosemary has particular significance for Australians, as it is found growing wild on the

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Gallipoli peninsula.”

In honour of the Centenary of ANZAC, ClubsNSW not surprisingly set this year’s key ingredient in their Chef’s Table competition, to rosemary which as it turns out has infinite uses beyond your stock standard baked dinner.

First year apprentice, Brooke Stewart rose to the challenge with head chef, Sally Cornish by her side, to compete in the Chef’s Table apprentice category with a second key criteria in mind: to

create a meal to a budget of just $22 per person.

Did it. Cooked it. Won it.

Stewart’s win means automatic entry into the 2016 Fonterra Proud To Be A Chef program, the industry’s peak opportunity for apprentices to be mentored by elite chefs.

The program only accepts 32 applicants per year from around Australia opening a further opportunity to win an international culinary scholarship

valued at $7,500.

“I didn’t think I would get it because of the apprentices I was versing. One was a second year and the other one a first year but they’re working in Sydney and Newcastle. I just thought they’d have better skills, or were more advanced, but I had a slight hope that I’d get it,” Stewart tells Weekender.

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prentice, studying a Certificate III Hospitality in Commercial Cookery at TAFE Western.

“It goes for three years. The course is two and a half years plus three years at work.

“Work” being the operative word when it came to creating a dessert using a garden-variety herb, steeped not only in the ANZAC tradition, but the stalwart of roasted leg of lamb not a key ingredient, even in a gourmet sweet.

“The rosemary for our dessert was in our icecream. We did a rosemary, goat’s cheese and honey ice cream. It sounds like you wouldn’t have it in ice cream at all but it’s actually really nice.”

Just, not to begin with.

“The first time I tried I thought, yuck! I thought it was disgusting. We worked with it and fixed it up and it turned out really well. It was so much nicer than before, then I couldn’t stop eating it!

“It took us a couple of weeks to get it perfect. Sometimes the goat’s cheese would curdle with the milk and it took a lot of tries; we had to strain it in coffee filters five times, so it’s a lot to do but the end result is really good.”

Nationally accredited culinary judge and head chef Julio Azzarello, who judged the Chef’s Table competition for his ninth consecutive year, must have agreed.

“There were three judges. Julio was the judge in the kitchen so he was in the kitchen watching and marking us. Adam Moore

Friday 07.08.2015 to Sunday 09.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender is a well-known chef who’s won lots of competitions and was the sitting judge. Courtney Roulston was on Master Chef in 2010,” Stewart says.

Moore is currently the executive chef, Australia and New Zealand for food distribution company Cerebos, while Roulston was discovered on Series II of Channel 10’s Masterchef on Channel 10 and is now an in-demand guest chef.

During the competition however there was little time to think about the calibre of the judges. All eyes and thoughts were on making edible magic, using rosemary.

“Our entrée was a sous vide salmon. You cook it in a bag, pressured and sealed and then cook in it water at about 40 degrees, so the

It took us a couple of weeks to get it perfect.

Sometimes the goat’s cheese would curdle with the milk and it took a lot of tries; we had to strain it in coffee filters five times.

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salmon’s soft and tender. The rosemary was in the sorbet to go with the entrée. The sorbet was just rosemary, water and sugar in the churner. That took a lot to get it perfect.

It was such a strong flavour, especially for an entrée. To get it smooth was really hard too so it took a lot of experimenting to get it right.

“The rosemary in our main was in the crème. It’s just cream and rosemary and it absorbs the rosemary when we cook it. Then we cooked our vongole – little clams – in that sauce and we presented the clams on the main.”

Some of the ingredients were prepped before competition started.

“We did pork belly for the main and it had to be layered and that was done the day before. For the ice cream we had a rosewater granita. It was one of the things we had to do the day before so it would set. Nearly everything else was made on the day, or when Julio got there at about 1 o’clock, and we had to start everything else from then.”

It would seem from that moment on, Brooke shone in the competition.

In a release issued by ClubsNSW, CEO Anthony Ball said: “I would like to congratulate Brooke on an outstanding achievement and Sally for the work she’s done to guide her apprentice, and I wish them all the best in their future endeavours.

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ment to new trends and wonderful skill.”

Sally Cornish and Brooke Stewart’s Chef’s Table competition menu: Entrée: Sous vide salmon with black caviar, lemon mustard crème, beetroot gel, asparagus, pickled radish and rosemary sorbet Main: Slow cooked apple cider spiced pork belly with rosemary cream vongole, pressed octopus, brown butter mushrooms, pea foam and celeriac puree Dessert: Tonka bean bavarois coated in tempered Callebaut chocolate with rosemary goats cheese ice cream, lemon saffron sponge, rose water granita, gelled raspberries and rosemary flowers

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, commit-

Stewart’s passion extends far into the years to come, with her dreams firmly set on a career in fine dining.

“I have thought about my long term goal.

First, it’s to finish my apprenticeship in Dubbo or even to finish my third year in Sydney so I have more experience. I’ve always wanted to work in a high class, fine dining restaurant. My dream place to work would probably be at the Matt Moran restaurant, or the Quay, somewhere like that,” she says.

As part of the Chef’s Table award, Stewart and Sally Cornish also won a trip to the 2015 Fine Food Australia Show in Sydney.

The Chef’s Table competition was created to recognise chefs, cooks and apprentices across the ClubsNSW network, which employs 41,400 staff and services 5.7 million members.

Award winning dinner z Head chef Sally Cornish and 2015 Apprentice of the Year Brooke Stewart will prepare their Chef’s Table winning three-course gourmet meal at the One 7 Eight restaurant, Dubbo RSL, on Wednesday, August 12 from 6.30pm.

Tickets are $90 and include beverages and pre-dinner drinks. Contact the RSL for more information, 6882 4411.

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‘What really matters is how you feel about yourself’ Social media creates abnormal expectations for physical fitness and appearance on the vast majority of us.

Reality is far more achievable, writes ABI JACKSON. ‘YOU’RE perfect as you are... Eat well, exercise and meditate for your own enjoyment and enhancement.’

Isn’t that a great philosophy?

The fitness and wellbeing world is full of mottos and maxims that, while on the surface are meant to be motivational, can sometimes be anything but.

Take all those ‘fitspo’ feeds on social media telling us to ‘Go hard or go home’, or implying that being fit means rockhard abs and looking good in teeny-tiny Lycra. What if you can’t really ‘go hard’, but do still fancy doing some exercise?

What if you’ve no realistic desire to ‘achieve’ Instagram-worthy stomach muscles, but do, as it happens, really enjoy working out?

We’re all different – we have different goals, different interests, different strengths and limits – and that’s OK. The point is, we can all still benefit from taking care of ourselves, doing things that are good for us and that make us happy, and we all have the right – and responsibility – to do that. How that looks won’t be the same for everybody – and that’s what I love about the philosophy above.

These are words I heard at the launch of a wellbeing membership scheme that originated in Europe. Members pay a monthly fee and, though an online community, get access to hundreds of fitness classes, as well as things like meditation and nutrition workshops.

The aim isn’t only to give members more choice and access for their money, but to nurture a holistic approach to living.

If holistic sounds a bit hippy-dippy, don’t let that put you off. It basically just means balance, looking at the whole picture, rather than individual components – and that makes a lot of sense.

For example, if you’ve prioritised work to the extent that you’re not getting any decent sleep and are constantly run down and anxious, you might have a big ‘tick’ in the career box, but the whole picture probably isn’t that rosy.

Or if you’ve taken your healthy-eating regime to such extremes that you can no longer socialise with your friends, is it really that good for you?

Balance is far more achievable than perfection, and chances are your life will be more joyful as a result too.

Q&A Somuchmore co-founder Johannes Klose (pictured) shares some more pearls of wisdom: Q: Somuchmore seems to be about fitness, nutrition and mindfulness mediation. Is this ‘whole’ approach central to your philosophy?

Johannes: “100 per cent. How do you propose to get the most out of life and living by ignoring an aspect of your personal being? We are animals who have evolved over time and instinctively had to use all elements of our being to survive. To neglect any part of our persona is detrimental to our general wellbeing, and sanity.

“Why do people go stir-crazy when they haven’t exercised enough, or when they are not feeding themselves with the right nutrients at the right time?

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work, we need to listen to our bodies and nourish them with the movement, food and contact with nature and human contact they deserve.”

Q: Society has tended to put a lot of emphasis on certain things – like career success – and it’s easy to forget, or not realise, how all aspects of our lives (sleep, exercise, socialising...) can all feed into each other. Do you think there’s more to success than selling your soul for your career, could true success be about balance?

Johannes: “We believe eternal happiness stems from revealing, identifying and enhancing your true potential in life. The definition of success can mean many things to many people. Yes, some people still rank their success by their pay check, or the new car they’ve just bought, or even the amount of designer clothes they have. But strip them of their consumerist trophies and they have nothing.

“What really matters is how you feel about yourself, and how your life affects those around you. If you are content that you radiate happiness internally and externally, then to us you have found ‘success’.”

Q: Lots of us have a tendency to compare ourselves to others, and measure our own achievements to others’, particularly where exercise and fitness are concerned, and it can

lead you to think, ‘Well I’ll never be as fast/good/fit as them, so what’s the point?’ What are the rewards of letting go of that urge to compare, and just doing things for ourselves?

Johannes: “Freedom... Once you are at one with yourself, you are at one with the universe. It’s the internal seeking and profound understanding of who you are, and the greater good of the world around you, that humbles humankind and restores a sense of contentment in your daily life.

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to the extent that you’re not getting any decent sleep and are constantly run down and anxious, you might have a big ‘tick’ in the career box, but the whole picture probably isn’t that rosy...a “Digital platforms, press and all forms of media, including the more aggressive and unavoidable social media platforms, feed us with images, photos and videos of societal ‘perfection’. The six-pack, the

bronzed, toned physique, whiter than white teeth, thick manes of hair... Strip yourself away from streams of societal labelling and you will find that by not comparing yourself to anyone around you [including the people you follow on Instagram or watch on TV], you will create a sense of serenity in your life. That’s the ‘Somuchmore’ moment.

The experience of being completely happy with your true self, and smiling as a result.”

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Going global

BY SAM WYLIE-HARRIS RENEWED interest in the Seventies has conjured a fresh approach to the bohemian chic trend, with designers venturing back to favourite farflung haunts through exotic themes.

As a result, it’s never been easier to create a ‘well-travelled’ feel at home. All you need to complement these vibrant prints and textiles are some key accessories, and a little imagination.

Not to be confused with shabby chic – which is more chintzy and distressed than glam, globetrotting gypsy – boho chic is all about texture, colour and pieces with a ‘sense of story’.

The detail is in how you blend gorgeous jewel tones with terracotta hues, to create an eclectic space that can be as subtle or daring as you like.

“Patterns have played their part in many trends of late and this summer’s infatuation with boho chic shows how confident we’ve got at bringing these bold and beautiful designs into our home,” says Ian Dykes, founder and director of Voyage Decoration. “What’s great about this stylish take on a bohemian look, is its inherent lack of rules; anything goes.”

Indeed, Moroccan styles can be combined with Mexican brights and Indian fabrics with English country garden florals – the more creative clashes the better. Soft furnishings, such as cushions and throws, are perfect for building up a boho vibe and will add a concentrated burst of colour and pattern.

“Use them to adorn sofas, window seats and chairs, to create a visually interesting and tactile display,” advises Dykes. “Once you’ve created this foundation, add another layer, using small decorative accessories and treasures from your travels.”

Along with folk art, glassware and fun statement pieces, feel free to mix the look up with woven baskets or something tribal. And don’t forget plants are a great way to bring an air of carefree cool to your scheme, and can be dotted around a room to great effect.

“I love the idea of travelling the world, finding hidden gems on great escapes and bringing back unique, one-off pieces to add charm and character to my home,” says Claire Hornby, a creative stylist. “Many furniture designers are finding inspiration in far-flung places and incorporating ethnic fabrics, reclaimed woods from afar and bold prints into their collections.

“You can completely redesign a room, or simply add a hint of exoticism from overseas by using the right accessories,” adds Hornby. “Start with an eye-catching piece and build your accessories and colour scheme around it. Team with a rich, deep colour on the walls to pull the look together, and bring it to life with an exposed, sanded wood floor for an industrial take on going global. Soften the look with beautiful woven rugs from afar.”

There’s plenty of room in this scheme for your own personal finds, too, so if you’re jetting off for holidays, don’t forget to leave some extra room in your suitcase for those rare finds; treasures and brocades from the souk market, carved decos or even a beaded kaftan if you’re feeling free-spirited.

And if you’re not jetting off overseas any time soon, simply explore the shops at home instead.

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Lucas Table Lamp in Red and Gold and Silk Ikat Shade Feather Salad Servers

Kiku Side Table The Melodie Bedstead, Java Table Lantern, Java Large Pendant Light, Libby Double Bedding Set, Raj Kilim Rug, Velvet Cushion, Elizabeth Peacock Cushion, Patch Jacquard Cushion, La Perla Cushion and Rebecca Floral Pouffe.

The Leyla plate range and bowl.

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Join the country club

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN OUNTRY style’s surely one of the most timeless, adaptable and family-friendly looks around, with its emphasis on comfort and informality.

Even if you don’t live in a picture book cottage adorned with roses, a stately home or a cabin set in the woods, you can still embrace rustic chic.

Well-loved furniture (a distressed finish is an asset), natural materials and interesting textures are vital ingredients. Then all that’s needed is a little flair to choose a look which perfectly suits your rooms.

“I love a traditional, timeless country look and all the charm that comes with

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it,” says Samantha Parish, an interior design account manager. “By using a selective colour palette of soft neutrals, mixed with darker, woodland greens and river blues, you can create a stunning country lodge-style that’s luxurious and homely in equal measure. Play around with different looks and enjoy a pastoral scene no matter the view outside.”

BLOOMING COUNTRY

Nature’s palette and floral designs are the classic decor choice and will create a fresh, colourful interior that brings the outdoors in.

“Once the preserve of the mock-Tudor brigade, country style is fast becoming a multi-faceted look, which is increas-

Library card pays dividends

BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

I’M not a financial analyst, but one thing I do know for sure is that cash is flying out of the door. Today’s $50, $60 or $70 tab to fill the tank in our family car and much more to fill the refrigerator are a clear sign that costs are rising before my eyes.

But wait! There’s one place where the sticker price stays the same: FREE. Grab your kids and jump on your bikes today to check out your local library, the best deal in town. Apply for free library cards to discover how you can fill the weekends and

ingly finding its way into diverse types of property,” says Alison Cork, founder of an online interiors company.

“Florals and toiles are making a comeback, and these can look decorative and feminine set against white-washed walls, or will soften a slightly more macho scheme featuring exposed brick work and wooden beams.

“There’s no end to the versatility of country, which is why it’s endlessly popular and one of the easiest and most affordable schemes to create.”

GET THE LOOK: Laura Ashley’s synonymous with country style, with interpretations to suit every taste. Its Aviary Garden design of delicate leaf and birds is truly charming.

holidays with reading and motivating literacy-based activities. It’s a deal you can’t afford not to invest in, where the dividends count more than dollars and cents.

I saw that one library ran the monthly theme “Look What’s Cookin’ at Your Library” – which got me thinking of some of my favourite foodie-related children’s books and literacy ideas.

Take a look at this menu of practical reading and writing activities you can stir up with your family to keep minds sharp. And remember my tip – there’s no tab!

Box-Top Reading Start the day with some box-top reading and surprise each other with

VINTAGE COUNTRY Play with texture, scale and wellworn finishes for a look which is relaxed and eclectic.

“The country aesthetic can be achieved in many different ways, however, I prefer country with a vintage, rustic feel,” says Jenny Seabrook, a tile company buyer.

“Mixing different textures and materials helps create a subtle layered look, whilst textured linear tiles create a brick effect, perfect for recreating an exposed barn wall.

“For a more traditional style, opt for a pattern and play around with dimensions and different layouts to inject a

the new vocabulary words you pick up. Read ingredients and nutritional information listed on the side panels of cereal boxes and bread packets, or the serving tips on the back of other boxes in the pantry.

Read on the Go Pack a book between the sandwiches and chips in your picnic basket. When you read “The Most Perfect Spot” by Diane Goode, the ants and flies at your spot won’t seem like such a nuisance.

Eat and Read Who doesn’t love savoury spaghetti on Friday night and a platter of pancakes on Saturday morning? Prepare these family favourites with your young kids, and then wind down the

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GET THE LOOK: Opt for a natural palette of shades, ranging from soft browns to mustards and creams.

NEW COUNTRY

This fresh reinvention of country conjures a calm, uncluttered, refined atmosphere, allowing beautifully-crafted furniture and possessions to star.

“New country makes a historical style statement,” enthuses furniture company managing director John Sims-Hilditch.

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“There’s a comfortable confidence about this look that makes it easy to live with and, because there’s no rigidity or rules for this interpretation, there’s the freedom to mix old with new, and contrast tradition with innovation.

“It’s a nod to tradition, yet gracefully chic, so you can celebrate our cultural heritage happy in the knowledge that your rooms will look bang up-to-date.”

GET THE LOOK: Tongue and groove panelling or walls painted in soft stone or cream shades are a perfect soothing backdrop.

Pink Large Floral Lantern

Urchin knitted pouffe

Tingleby wallpaper

Newgate gallery II wall clock

Foxglove cushion Aga cooker in light rose pink

Melrose fixed cover grand sofa, in Darwen French Grey

day with classic picture-book titles such as “Strega Nona” by Tomie dePaola and “Pancakes, Pancakes!” by Eric Carle.

Play With Food Words Enjoy word play around the dinner table. See how many expressions you can think of that use food themes, and then talk about them. For example: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”, “Go bananas”, “Sour grapes”, “Bring home the bacon”, “Icing on the cake”, “That’s the way the cookie crumbles”, etc.

Grandparent Connection Tip: Share memories of a family recipe with your grandchild. WRITE a grocery list for the ingredients and shop for them together, then READ the directions aloud as you prepare the dish.

Extra tip: Keep a basket near your door to gather library books and to store your library cards.

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BY JOANN DERSON z To keep the kids’ word skills fresh during holiday breaks, we play sight word bingo practically every day. It was really easy to make and laminate bingo cards. And I use the flash cards we got from school to “call” the words. Bingo is a win-win!

– JoAnn z “In my house, we love straws.

Because we’re into recycling, we make sure we get the most out of each one. I keep a small jar at the sink, where we rinse straws before setting them in the jar to dry. Reuse at will.” –

Contributed by F.O. z “Is there too much food left at the end of the party? When having a barbecue or other gettogether, make sure you remind your guest to bring some takehome containers. Have them fix a few containers of “seconds” and store them in a big cooler by the front door. Hang a few take-out bags on the doorknob, and your mates won’t forget to take their goodies home!” – Contributed by M.W. z Kids clamouring about whose turn it is? No fear. You’ve got the solution in your desk drawer.

Simply write each child’s name on a self-stick note, and stack them. The kid on top takes the

first turn, and then peels his or her name off and moves it to the bottom. Easy peasy. z Going on a road trip ? Check your tyre pressure to save money. Maintaining the correct tyre pressure can have a direct effect on how many kilometres you get to the litre. It can save you in everyday driving, but it really adds up when travelling longer distances. Check your car’s manual for the correct pressure. Or, some cars have a sticker in the doorwell or glove box with that information.

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This week’s Cowley Literary Award finalist is Reid Jones, whose non-fiction entry, Silence, is an exquisitely drawn portrait of a young man’s awakening.

SILENCE

BY REID JONES HAVE come to this place manifestly unprepared.

I’d thought that late April in the northern hemisphere would be practically like late October in Brisbane. Warm and balmy. Spring.

But I’d been wrong.

I’m sitting in a stadium, rubbing shoulders with ten thousand perfect strangers, and I’m cold. My 35mm camera is out of film. My digital is out of battery. I will have no record of this night or of the coming morning. I resolve to commit everything to memory. I resolve to treasure those memories to my dying day. I resolve to give this night the reverence it deserves, and to experience these hours, sans camera.

I’ve left my suitcase in the hotel (easier to travel light), but my jumper is in that suitcase, and the hotel is hours away by coach. All I have is one of the disposable plastic rain coats being handed out by the officials, just in case, and it strikes me just how unprepared I truly am.

The stadium is full to capacity but an eerie silence hangs over us, the haunted whispers of ages past. It’s dark. Pitch dark. There are no floodlights. Most people were smart enough to have brought sleeping bags, and some of them climb down from the stadium to the open field to lie down and try to get some sleep. That’s against the policy though and the officials remove them, sternly but not unkindly, and return them to the packed stadium.

I am here alone, but I’ve made friends with the girl sitting next to me. We exchange meaningless trivialities to pass the time but the clock moves slowly. The night drags. Surely it must be dawn soon. I check my watch.

Not quite nine p.m.

The temperature continues to drop as the night drags on. By midnight, I am shivering with deep, shuddering tremors that start in my diaphragm and ripple outward to my fingertips. I try to act self-assured, as though I’m not really that cold and as though the reason I don’t have a jumper is because I’m a tough bastard. Not because I was so naïve I thought I wouldn’t need one.

The stadium is even more silent now. People are starting to drift off to sleep, but I am far too cold to sleep. I pull my phone out and use

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its sickly, blue light to illuminate the handbook I was given as I entered the stadium. I immerse myself in the history – the all-toofamiliar stories that we’ve all heard a thousand times throughout our childhoods – and, although I’m not alone, I am lonely.

In my loneliness and in the darkness and in the terrible silence, it is not hard to imagine the ships lurking just off-shore. They must have been cold, too, the men on those ships.

Did they sleep that night or did they sit, silent and scared, awaiting the dawn? Did they talk to each other, meaningless trivialities or were they also lonely in their togetherness?

Did they think of their loved ones at home or did they think only of what was to come?

Did they have any idea what was to come?

Did the others, the ones perched right here upon the peninsula, know what the dawn would bring? Did they know the ships had arrived, or were they blissfully ignorant that tomorrow would be the day their lives would change forever? Were they light of heart, laughing and playing cards and sleeping easily, sound in the knowledge that they were safe in their homeland?

I pull my arms in through my shirt sleeves and wrap them around myself, trying to warm the ice in my veins. It’s 2:30 in the morning.

A sentry on the peninsula, the guide book tells me, has just spotted the ships approaching from the west. The message is relayed to the command post, and the defenders begin to stir. Most of the people in the stadium are asleep and I am alone, like that Turkish sentry watching dim shadows moving in the distance.

I can almost hear the lapping of oars in the bleak ocean. I try to keep myself from shivering. This is the same night, the same westerly wind, that my forefathers endured on their approach. I should not complain. I will not die here. I will not die today. They did not have

“ They must have been cold, too, the men on those ships.

Did they sleep that night or did they sit, silent and scared, awaiting the dawn?

the luxury of such certainty. I can handle a bit of cold weather.

Time speeds up as dawn approaches. The first hint of grey begins to lighten the sky, and the sleeping crowd begins to stir. It isn’t quite light at four thirty in the morning but it’s halflight. This is when the defenders opened fire on the boats and the men who were beginning to come ashore.

With the stirring of the people around me, I start to lose my solemn isolation. I can’t hear the oars any more. I can barely even imagine gunfire... but it was here. In this very spot. I think of John Simpson, whose grave I visited earlier in the day (or yesterday, I suppose that was). It’s easier to imagine the gunfire when I think of the story I was told so many times as a child. As the day slowly emerges from darkness, I stare at the empty beach, seeing in my mind the ghosts of a thousand dead men.

I am privileged. I have not seen the things my forefathers saw. I have not endured such horrors. I may have come here young and naïve but I am welcome, and I am safe. The buzz of gentle conversation rises from the ashes of the night. I ignore it and watch the ghosts as they struggle ashore, only to be mown down by those righteous men who act only in the defence of their homeland.

The battle rages. The sun rises. The crowd falls silent once more.

The first mournful notes of the Last Post call me back to the present.

I mouth the words as the speaker utters them – words as ingrained in my heritage as the anthem – but I can’t speak. I am choked up with unshed tears.

They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

In my infinite, twenty-five-year-old wisdom, it seems so pointless. Such death, such horror, such tragedy. And for what?

But I am privileged. I am far removed. I have not lived beneath the shadow of war. I cannot know the things they knew. I cannot comment on their sacrifice.

I have come to this place manifestly unprepared. I am humbled.

I honour the fallen with my silence.

Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, 25 April, 2007

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BY LINDA CHRISTOF

In the spotlight WORDS Kym Edenborough PHOTOGRAPHY Emily Carroll O equal the large impressive building that is the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) there is a less large but impressive and hard-working team that works behind the scenes, in front of the scenes and all around the scenes to present the shows, events and functions that in five years have brought 376,767 visitors through the doors.

Although they are more familiar with promoting the shows, the venue and the artists, stopping short of putting them on stage, over the coming months we will shine a spotlight on the DRTCC staff and see what makes them tick.

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Kym Edenborough – Ticketing Officer A TYPICAL day in the box office? A typical day consists of answering the phones and greeting the patrons coming into the theatre to purchase tickets. I enjoy the interactions I have with our patrons and hearing them say how much they have enjoyed a particular show or reminisce about when they first saw it. I also update the website constantly, whether it is adding a new show or updating a current show or fixing a typo. I do a lot of behind the scenes work for the website. I build the shows to go on sale and price structures for shows and add the shows to the website and update them as required. I’ll organise e-newsletters to be sent out to patrons to let them know what’s coming up. I also make sure there is current material on display in the box office and on Big Bertha, our pet name for the carousel in the foyer.

Free tickets for staff? You would be amazed how many times we’re asked this question or people ask if we can give them free tickets. I’m sure if I did that though, I wouldn’t have a job! As fantastic as it would be to get free tickets, unfortunately no staff get free tickets to the theatre shows. Having said

“ As fantastic as it would be to get free tickets, unfortunately no staff get free tickets to the theatre shows. – Kym Edenborough, ticketing officer

that, there is an opportunity to see particular shows for professional development purposes; for this there are forms to fill out and approval to be sought.

My first experience of the Convention Centre, or Civic Centre as I used to know it as, would have been in primary school performing at the Eisteddfod. I was in the school choir in primary school, at Orana Heights, and I thought I could sing! I remember the excitement of being backstage and getting ready to perform, we thought it was so exciting. And in high school we had our Year 10 formal in the Convention Centre and I recall the excitement of walking on stage with my date, feeling so grown up at 16 and amazing as all eyes were on me and with my gorgeous dress and beautiful hair and makeup.

I remember the first show I watched at DRTCC was Dora the Explorer with my daughter Charlotte who was maybe two at the time. Watching her excitement at seeing Dora in person and her dancing and singing was such a joy to watch. I love watching the captivation through the eyes of a child.

If I was programming a show on an unlimited budget I would love to see Lion King.

I have wanted to take my girls and have just never had the chance. It’s a stage show I would love to see, or Cirque Du Soleil would also be amazing. If it was a music act or performer I would book Bon Jovi or Matchbox 20 – I can dream if I had an unlimited budget, they are two of my favourite bands!

My rider as a performer? I think wine would definitely be a necessity; anyone who knows me would say so. Also an antipasto platter or even just a cheese platter – I think I enjoy all these a little too much!

Your favourite show? There have been several shows I have enjoyed at the theatre so it is hard to pick just one. Seeing Carl Barron in 2011 was awesome; I absolutely love him and think he is so funny and that particular performance was no exception.

I also enjoyed watching Pete the Sheep with my two daughters; it was very well written and very funny and the performers were fabulous. I also enjoyed seeing my children so engaged and enjoying the show themselves and laughing and shouting at the performers along with the rest of the audience.

I always enjoy Dubbo Theatre Company

productions. I took my dad to see Fawlty Towers a few weeks ago and I haven’t heard him laugh so much! It was a great show.

As a parent I bring my children to the theatre as often as I can. I think it is good for them to experience different types of shows and to be able to see quality live performances without having to travel; it’s something we definitely take advantage of.

I absolutely loved seeing my six year old laughing at a funny show on stage and the interaction she has with the performers in the children’s show is amazing, such as The Listies Make You LOL, even though her favourite part was all the fart jokes and bum jokes! I like exposing them to something apart from television; a show that is live in front of them and something they can feel a part of and interact in.

One of the more common requests we get from patrons is obviously where they like to sit. The middle of the row and middle section of the theatre are the more popular places patrons choose, or on the end of a row if they have a bad knee. I have had a patron ask on one occasion to be seated where there was no one either side of her, which was a slightly unusual request.

A lot of requests we have had from patrons is to ask if we can put a centre aisle in the theatre and sacrifice some seats for this. We quite often get people coming in to look at the theatre. Unfortunately we don’t offer tours of the theatre, although it is something management may consider in the school holidays if there is a demand.

Some patrons will even ask if we can just let them into the theatre and they can have a wander around by themselves – unfortunately Work Health and Safety Regulations doesn’t permit this.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS August 18 & 19 – Hamlet by Bell Shakespeare August 22 – The Paris Underground August 27 – Celtic Illusion September 3 & 4 – I am Jack September 11 – Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Frank Sinatra, starring the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra September 12 – Australia Day September 19 – Moorambilla Voices 10 Year Celebration Concert September 25 – Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase

I HAD the opportunity to attend the Helpmann Awards on Monday 27 July at the Capitol Theatre while I was in Sydney last week.

For those who are unaware, the Helpmann Awards recognise distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in the many disciplines of Australia’s live performance sectors including musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, cabaret, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre. The Helpmann Awards, named in honour of Sir Robert Helpmann to commemorate his memory and achievements, were established in 2001.

So I don my evening gown and faux fur wrap and heels and walk the few blocks to the Capitol Theatre, feeling a little “out there” among the Monday night workers heading home. I arrive and the street is blocked to allow for the limousines and prestige cars to pull up and yes, there is a red carpet but with barriers around it so I couldn’t even set foot on it and take a selfie.

I was celebrity spotting in the foyer and saw David Campbell, Ita Buttrose and Paul Kelly to name a few.

I even brushed shoulders with Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton in the foyer – literally, as we were packed in there like sardines – yes, Cate is a picture of glamour and with beautiful porcelain skin even close up. Mind you I felt like running a comb through Andrew’s hair.

It was a long evening; 42 awards taking four hours in total and without an interval (mental note: buy a bottle of water next time). Of course I was most interested in those nominees and award winners that had graced the stage of DRTCC during the past five years such as David Campbell, Todd McKenney, Lucy Maunder, Sydney Dance Company, Expressions Dance Company, Kate Miller-Heidke, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, Monkey Baa Theatre Company and Belvoir.

The evening was televised live on Foxtel and I sent a text to my sister to tune in as one of the television cameras was poised right near where I was seated. Alas, my sister grew weary watching it and so it would seem the person seated next to me as I could hear them faintly snoring!

At the conclusion of the event, I decided against going to the after party as I had an early flight home. I came out of the theatre to see the waiting limousines and side stepped the gorgeous people waiting to be escorted to their cars and made my way to the hotel with my glossy Helpmann Awards program under my arm and ducked into a 7-Eleven to purchase a bottle of water. It was indeed a memorable evening.

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Maccabees make their mark

The Maccabees. PHOTO: PA/POONEH GHANA.

BY ANDY WELCH “I’VE done nerves,” says The Maccabees frontman Orlando Weeks. “Now it’s just waiting and excitement.”

He’s referring to the band’s fourth album, Marks To Prove It, released on July 31.

He and bandmates Hugo and Felix White, Rupert Jarvis and Sam Doyle worked on the album for two-and-a-half years, so it’s understandable that Weeks isn’t that nervous about its release. He’s had plenty of time for that, as well as every other emotion, along the way.

“It’s natural when you’re working on something for so long to lose sight of what you’re trying to do, or to have a dip in motivation,” he says.

“But that’s the great thing about having five of us in the band. It might mean there are five opinions to wade through, and as a result, everything takes five times as long to do anything. But when one of us is having a dip, there are four people to say: ‘No, come on, it’s great’ and keep things going.”

In truth, the band should be crowing we realised it wasn’t that different from from the rooftops about Marks To the previous album, and where with Prove It. Given To The Wild we’d wanted that big, massive sound, this time around, Their third record, Given To The Wild, we thought it was a bit naff.” released in 2012, was a big move on in terms of sound and scale for the band, The Londoners released their debut, and was easily one of the best albums Colour It In, in 2007; a spiky, angular of that year. Marks To Prove It, while set of songs that was heavily influenced nowhere near as big and grandiose by the likes of XTC, Magazine and early as that album, is another leap again, Blur. and when 2015 comes to a close, The It was a perfectly enjoyable album, Maccabees will definitely be featuring naive as many debuts are, but there was amongst the best records of the year a distinct impression The Maccabees lists, once again. were holding themselves back and not “We work quite slowly,” says Weeks. stretching out as they did on follow-up, “And I’m quite sure we could’ve all Wall Of Arms, released in 2009, which made albums on our own delivered on so much of in the time, maybe two that early promise. each, but it wouldn’t be a Produced by Markus Maccabees record if that Dravs, who had previously were the case. It has to be worked with Bjork, Coldall five of us, doing every- I don’t think we play and Arcade Fire, thing, working together. the latter being the al“We didn’t want to ever thought bum’s most-obvious influspend this long making we’d end up ence, it showed the band a record, and after about getting increasingly sounding the way were eight months of working confident, and better able we thought we’d got it, but we do now... to articulate how they

wanted to sound.

Looking back, Weeks says: “When we started, we’d say things like ‘We want it to sound watery, but with a bit more punch to it’, to a producer. We soon got better at asking for specific sounds and moods. We’ve got our heads around production, basically. Well, Felix has.

He produced this new album. I still don’t know anything, and if I’m honest, I don’t really know what reverb is.”

The desire to get better, and as a result, never repeat themselves, is one of the reasons Weeks believes the band have lasted as long as they have. There are many that broke through around the same time, such as Klaxons or Bloc Party, that peaked with their debut and struggled to follow it up. Maccabees have only ever gotten better.

“We’ve never wanted to make an album that sounded like our last. What would be the point of that?

“I don’t know if we ever thought we’d make two albums, let alone four.

We were just excited to be signed to a record label and be making our first,” he says. “But we have got so much better, and we’re much more aware of our own abilities. And we’re so much more confident now, we can get closer to the thing that we envisage.

“As for how we sound now, I don’t think we ever thought we’d end up sounding the way we do now,” he says.

“This isn’t the music we imagined when we were young or anything like that, it’s been a very gradual thing getting to this point.”

Despite the pride Weeks has for Marks To Prove It, he says if he could, he’d still go back and change everything on the album.

“I would tinker and tinker,” he says.

“That’s not because I don’t like it, it’s because we’re always moving on and an album should capture what you were doing at the time. But I know I can’t change anything – I’d have to get past four other people before I could anyway.”

His attention has now turned to radio sessions promoting the album, a trip to the US, festivals, and his 32nd birthday in August, which he’s celebrating by walking across Transylvania.

“Dracula country,” he says, laughing.

“We have a festival, then five days off, then another in Budapest, so I’m going to walk part of the way.

“I didn’t like turning 30, but 31 was a good year for me. I’m hoping 32 will be even better.”

With a brilliant new album about to be released, followed by festivals all over the world and a year-long tour, he’s unlikely to be disappointed. :: The Maccabees released their fourth album, Marks To Prove It, on July 31.

The new single by The Maccabees: Mark To Prove It.

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Sally Whitwell:

Making music outside the lines Fresh from touring China and Mongolia with two children’s choirs, Sydney-based musician and composer, Sally Whitwell recently spent two days in Dubbo collaborating on a new multi-arts project. DUBBO WEEKENDER caught up with her to find out more about this album-producing artist who doesn’t let her love of classical music box her in. AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Kim V. Goldsmith T’S been a big year of firsts for the dynamic Sally Sydney Children’s Choir and Gondwana Choirs, they Whitwell. Along with the release of her fourth al- already know that because we tell them every two bum with ABC Classics, her first of only her music, minutes how important it is and they can’t progress she’s also penning her first musical for Sydney Philto do fun, amazing stuff unless they have that theory. harmonia Choirs and working in Dubbo on multi-arts Kids outside that realm often don’t understand that it’s production, The Chapel Project. your building block...you’re not even doing music unless you have your building blocks. I worry because I In between these commitments, she rehearses, comsee music schools not prioritising building block type poses, accompanies and fits in a myriad other creastudy. I wonder what these kids are getting in their tive activities; her energy coming from the people she degrees... works with.

During a quieter moment between the workshops What made you want to pursue this path and to put the hard work into learning the theory?

Whitwell tells Kim V. Goldsmith about what drives her: I just always really like theory, which is a really girlyYou’ve just returned from Mongolia and China, and swat thing to say (grinning)! It was always my best you’ve also travelled to other parts of the world subject at university. I always knew I’d be in music but including Europe – is there a commonality among the people you work with across the world?

I didn’t know how. I thought I’d do my first degree in I generally find you have to lead some people on to bassoon, which was great because I got to play in an an idea because they just don’t have the confidence. orchestra and got to see how an orchestra works and No one has come along and told them they’re an exhow it all fits together...and how woodwind players traordinary individual and you can do this thing. So, think, which is different. for some it takes more...something I find I have to do I got to the end of that degree and it wasn’t for me...I with less experienced people. If they have a little bit kind of floated around the world a bit wondering what of experience in writing a tune, or a pop song or even I’d do next, when I decided as I’d always played the pia poem they tend to have stronger opinions and that ano pretty well, I’d do a degree in accompaniment and gives me something to work with. then try and get some work as an accompanist. That’s You’re here with your composer hat on with The basically what I did.

Chapel Project – is part of your job to bring out the Has classical been your favourite genre from day inner creative in people? one?

I do a lot of that in my life and you just can’t know Yeah...but I like doing other things – I’m writing what you’re going to get. some pop songs at the moment with various people, so As much as I’d like to say these are my techniques that’s a new adventure for me. and this is my arsenal – you can’t! People are people I just like to try things I haven’t tried before. and they’re variable.

You’re an accompanist and that requires you work What’s that unknown mean to the creative process? with other people, but you also have a solo career – an album producing solo career...

It just means you have to be brave. I have to be brave I never set out to do that – they came to me. I like myself because I don’t know what I’m going to get and to play a lot of classical contemporary music and they I have to be able to think on the spot and think of saw me doing that. something. I generally translate things into my own When was that first album released? language but if I can find another way to make it more It was 2011...I was totally not expecting that. their language than mine, that’s what I try to do.

So four albums later is it something you’re still not Your language is very refined though from 20 odd expecting? years of practice, study and immersing yourself in what you do. Is it that strong skill set that helps you No, you can’t rely on it. That would be arrogant. get through these situations?

In contemporary culture, some might think that once you’ve released your fourth album you’re pretty The most important skills I have are the music theory I did – harmony and counterpoint aural studies...all much on a rise and you have a stellar career. Is it different in a classical world? that dry theoretical stuff, which you pracI’ve only done one album of my own mutise and practise and practise to the point sic.

Unlike the contemporary world, in the “ where it’s just completely natural to you to classical world you don’t do that. make music in a particular way. My way of I just like Why is that? Is it difficult? music is notated. It’s mostly written down, I don’t know why...but with new music to try new but to get there I do a lot of improvisation. there’s a resistance. If you look on the clasBut I couldn’t do any of those things if I things. I sical charts, it’s heavily concentrated on didn’t have the theory and aural training. think it the nineteenth century, which I find kind You work with a lot of young people – is of extraordinary. There are pockets of new that message of a strong foundation keeps it – you’ll see alongside my stuff, people like something you find yourself imparting all interesting Max Richter and his Vivaldi recomposed, the time? Ólafur Arnalds, those kind of crossover Yes and no. The children I work with at

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people...Jonny Greenwood, who’s with Radiohead, but wrote that fabulous soundtrack to There Will Be Blood.

Where does Dubbo’s The Chapel Project fit into the scheme of things, in terms of your practice?

I just like to try new things. I think it keeps it interesting. I just need to know I could do it and I could learn some new things and find a different way to approach things in the future...but you’ll never, never know if you never, never go. *Kim V. Goldsmith is the artist behind The Chapel Project

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Harper Lee’s dilemma: to publish or not to publish ‘Watchman’?

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee is published in hardback by William Heinemann.

HOW to approach an author’s only other novel, when the first one is a literary icon? And when the details surrounding the book’s publication appear murky at best...

To Kill A Mockingbird, which won Harper Lee the Pulitzer Prize, is a near-perfect tale of childhood set in the American Deep South. Go Set A Watchman, published almost exactly 55 years later, was a first draft of Mockingbird, rejected by Lee’s editor, which has languished in her archives until its recent ‘discovery’. For some, the book should never have been published.

Mockingbird is so beloved in huge part for its depiction of young Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, as described in the firstperson by an adult narrator Scout. In Watchman, we’re in the third person, hearing about Scout as a 20-something New Yorker, who’s returned to Maycomb, Alabama to see her father Atticus and her sweetheart Hank. And that separation hurts – we don’t feel so much for her.

It’s impossible to read Watchman, which Lee calls the ‘parent’ novel to Mockingbird, without continually cross-referencing. Where’s Boo Radley, a silent presence throughout Mockingbird? And if Hank’s so important now, why didn’t he make it into Mockingbird? Scout’s brother Jem, who was her constant companion and conscience in the first book, is also absent.

The Finch house, the setting for summer-long flights of imaginative play, has been knocked down and replaced by an ice cream parlour, symbolic because Lee has somehow demolished our halcyon memories of Mockingbird, even though Watchman was written first. And most cruelly, through Scout’s discovery of her father as fallible

human being, who’s not the bastion of moral propriety she or we thought he was. Now in his seventies, he’s attending a citizen’s council of white folk determined to keep segregation in place.

What we have is a disjointed series of flashbacks to Scout’s Judy Blume-esque coming of age, complete with periods and padded bras, culminating in one incredibly long hatefilled rant at Atticus.

The central case of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape, which Atticus heroically defended in Mockingbird, is dismissed in just four paragraphs in Watchman, as Scout begins to see the cracks appearing in her idealised image of her father. But we the reader are like Scout and we see Watchman for a poor, cynical shadow of its published predecessor.

Just as Scout revisits Maycomb, to discover all is not as it used to be, it’s painful to revisit Mockingbird through its parent novel and realise we too have been naïve. But then that may have been Lee’s intention all along.

6/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

O FICTION Taking Pity by David Mark is published in hardback by Quercus.

IN Taking Pity, the fourth novel of the series, former journalist David Mark continues to follow the tortured souls that are DS Aector McAvoy and DS Trish Pharoah. Grieving for the loss of his family, his home and his job, McAvoy is missing his wife, who has been hidden away for her safety, and after being caught in a blast he is currently off sick.

Pharoah tasks him with an investigation on behalf of the Home Office looking into a 50-year-old case, which isn’t as straightforward as they first thought. As the Headhunters raise their heads again, DCI Colin Ray is on suspension and wanting revenge.

Unlike many murder mysteries of late, Mark takes you on an emotional journey

as the words leap off the page to create a vivid picture worthy of a TV drama. Perfect for lovers of Scandi-thrillers, with noir elements spread throughout, which only a cultural melting pot like Hull can offer.

9/10 (Review by Rachel Howdle) The Girls by Lisa Jewell is published by Century.

YOU can’t pick your neighbours, so can you trust them?

Community, teenage secrets and hidden pasts are explored in this engaging novel from Lisa Jewell, the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In. Within the communal gardens of Virginia Crescent, life seems eternally peaceful until the comatose body of a new 13-year-old resident is discovered in the darkness following a neighbourhood party.

Suddenly everyone seems to be a suspect, and the residents question who they can really trust.

Jewell has crafted a community filled with complex personalities, and as the dark histories of the garden and its residents come to light, you come to trust everyone and no one all at once, leaving you as unsettled as the characters. However, it is in the narration of young adults where Jewell exceeds, as their attention to detail, which is so often overlooked by adults, assists to unravel a tight web of secrets.

Captivating, entertaining and rich with emotion, this is a perfect holiday read.

8/10 (Review by Holly McKenzie) Signs For Lost Children by Sarah Moss is published in paperback by Granta.

SARAH Moss’ latest novel picks up where her successful Bodies Of Light breaks off.

Set in the 1880s, newly married Ally is about to begin a six-month period of separation from her husband, Tom. While he builds lighthouses in Tokyo, she will take up work at the Truro Asylum.

Alternating chapters between Tom and Ally’s new

American novelist Harper Lee, pictured at the White House in 2007 with US President George W. Bush who awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. PHOTO: REUTERS/LARRY DOWNING

experiences, Moss guides us through their individual professional trials, while the basis of their marriage starts to unravel.

Both characters experience deep loneliness; Tom thrown into a culture of which he knows nothing about, while Ally constantly dwells on her sister’s death. At the same time, she strives to prove sceptical nurses wrong, who cannot comprehend the idea of trusting a female doctor.

Moss expertly illustrates the disappearance of identity in this touching novel, however I couldn’t help but feel more drawn into Ally’s story. Tom’s narrative seemed more of a distraction from his wife’s inner turmoil as she struggles to deal with personal grief and professional pressures as an independent woman in Victorian England.

7/10 (Review by Heather Doughty)

The Looking Glass House

by Vanessa Tait is published by Corvus.

VANESSA Tait, the great granddaughter of Alice Liddell, brings to light the imaginings of Carroll’s famous tale. Condensed into the short time frame of one year, Tait explores the struggle between childhood and womanhood in the face of romance and adventure.

Alice, the grotesque outspoken 10-year-old, is in competition with Mary Prickett, her surly jealous governess, for the love of Charles Dodgson. Tait captures the turning of Victorian society and childhood literature, raising questions of religion, Darwin and more overtly, morality and etiquette.

Alice’s stubbornness towards chastisement, reproach and manners clearly mark the path for adventure in a topsyturvy world where the idiom

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Prickett however, is a tragic tale of broken hopes and heart but one that is enticing and relatable for woman today.

Overall, it’s a stimulating observation of the beginnings of Alice’s Adventure and the underworld of Oxford’s elite.

7/10 (Review by Abi Turner)

O NON-FICTION Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered The World by Frank McLynn is published in hardback

by Bodley Head.

THE whole world knows the name Genghis Khan, but for most people that is all they know – historian Frank McLynn digs deep to try and bring the man behind the name to life.

This hefty hardback, covering almost 700 pages, goes to great lengths to show how an illiterate nomad built an empire stretching from Asia to Europe. He spares no detail with the Mongolian weather and even its flora and fauna examined to help explain how the Mongols became one of

the most feared armies the world has ever seen.

McLynn praises his subject’s military genius but does not shy away from the horrific death toll that accompanies his rise to power – estimating he was responsible for the deaths of more than 30 million people.

Even someone who writes as well as McLynn could not make a mass murderer likeable, but he does make you realise just how remarkable he must have been.

8/10 (Review by Rob Dex) A Place Of Refuge: An Experiment In Communal Living – The Story Of Windsor Hill Wood by Tobias Jones is published in hardback by Quercus.

THERE’S something intriguing about communal living, maybe because the idea of sharing intimate space with strangers is so different from the nuclear family set-up most of us have.

A Place Of Refuge offers a window on a community – Windsor Hill Wood in Somerset – founded by writer Tobias Jones and his wife as a sanctuary for people going through a crisis in their lives. Their guests include people with addictions, eating disorders and mental health problems, as well as those just having difficulty fitting into society.

We follow the journey as Windsor Hill Wood evolves from an idealistic venture into something more focused and aware of its limitations.

Like the community itself, this book unfolds gradually and despite the guests’ emotional storms, there’s no great drama here. Rather, it’s a gentle meditation on a brave venture that leaves the reader uplifted and even a little enlightened.

7/10 (Review by Jackie Kingsley)

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O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Crowns And Codebreakers (Marsh Road Mysteries 2)

by Elen Caldecott is published in paperback by Bloomsbury Childrens.

MYSTERY-LOVING author Elen Caldecott is back with the second book in her Marsh Road series. Crowns And Codebreakers sees the return of friends Minnie, Andrew, Piotr, Flora and Sylvie in another intriguing adventure.

Minnie’s Gran has come all the way from Nigeria to visit. Minnie loves her Gran and is over the moon when she arrives, but then disaster strikes! Gran picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport.

The case that she now has is full of a young boy’s clothes.

Minnie sees that her Gran is anxious, but then their house is robbed and the only thing taken is the mysterious case.

This puts Gran in a very bad way and tears Minnie’s family and friends apart.

Will Minnie and the gang solve the mystery of who stole the case and why? This book is perfect for all fans of Enid Blyton, as it is like a modern version of her mystery tales.

I did enjoy the story. However the language was quite basic in parts, so maybe not for anyone who likes more descriptive writing. Although some of the characters’ personalities showed through and you could really grasp what kind of a person they were.

If you like mystery stories or love crime-solving children like The Secret Seven, then buy this book!

7/10 (Review by Noah Sanders, aged 10)

ADVERTORIAL

National Bookshop Day O N Saturday, August 8, we will celebrate National Bookshop Day 2015 at The Book Connection and invite residents in the region to share in the event. The day is an initiative of the Australian Booksellers Association, promoting and emphasising the important role of physical bookstores in communities.

There was a time when bookshops were a popular destination for so many in cities and towns – these stores varied in size, and specialised in various subjects. Our particular aim has been to offer “More books for more people”.

The Book Connection has operated for 32 years, and for most of those years we’ve been based at 178 Macquarie Street in Dubbo. To reassure folk of our intentions, in April this year we purchased the premises, reaffirming our long-term commitment to both the location and the business.

Right now we are in the process of renovating sections – new carpets, new shelving, more books and generally aiming to make our presentation more inviting to customers.

Varying this advertorials usual format, join with us as we browse some departments. An appropriate first pick, with the

` We aim to make your visit satisfying and rewarding, both on knowledge and value... a

cover showing the author sitting on a throne of books, is Dr Karl Kruszelnicki’s latest title “House of Karls”. As always he is in the pursuit of scientific fact, seeking out items of data manipulation and outlandish science propaganda.

Chris Bowen was elected to federal parliament in 2004 and appointed to the Labor government position of Treasurer in 2013. As author of a new book in our Economics department, “The Money Men”, he examines the role of Australia’s 12 most notable treasurers. He brings a unique insider’s perspective to the lessons learned from the successes and failures of those who went before him.

In the World History section we find “The End of Plenty” by Joel Bourne. He writes of how, 50 years ago, as many as one in three people in the world lived in hunger. Today the figure is about one in eight – it’s history’s fastest increase in human well-

being. But now scientists and economists are concerned that, with the world population rising to 10 billion by 2050, agriculture may not be able to feed us all.

Step further through the store to Fiction and we pick up Harper Lee’s new release “Go Set a Watchman”, and also “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins, both of which have been popular in recent weeks. But these are just a couple of the thousands of new and used fiction titles in stock.

The Medical section provides for both professional and lay-person’s reading. And whilst on medical matters, “Never Say Die” is an autobiography of cancer surgeon Chris O’Brien.

Biographies by politicians of various interests – Christopher Pyne has written “A Letter to My Children”, and Stephen Loosley is the author of “Machine Rules – A Political Primer”. Whilst on governmental matters, Rajdeep Saresai has written “2014 – The Election That Changed India”.

Just a few steps away is Middle Eastern History where we look at Yevegeny Primakov’s text covering the Middle East from the Cold War to the present entitled “Russia & the Arabs”.

In another aisle are botanical references covering trees and shrubs – a popular title being “The Plants of Western New South Wales”. Adjacent to these are books on farm water supplies. Ken Yeomans is the author of “Water for Every Farm” in which he details a plan of conserving and storing water on agricultural properties. The

From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection text is updated and edited from the original writings of the late P.A. Yeomans. As one visitor to the store observed: “You have a great range of agriculture books here,” which is easy having lived in the centre of the country’s farming activity for a long time.

Take a few more steps and there is a book on white ants – “Australian Termites” by Hadlington and Staunton.

These are books rarely found in bookstores and likely not stocked in internet warehouses.

This has taken up some minutes of your time but only a small stack of books have been mentioned from just ten departments. Some expansion is in place in our Children’s Section and that can be the subject of another day.

And the foregoing doesn’t even include the selection on the First Floor. Few, if any, bookstores have departments called “Creative Crafts & Art” or “The Shed’ – the latter has become quite an icon, but we haven’t stepped into those areas for this column.

Books are located in 120 subject departments, arranged so

that you can focus your time on the 62,000-plus books – we aim to make your visit satisfying and rewarding, both on knowledge and value. And our experienced staff members welcome the opportunity to discuss and find books of your interest.

In 1980 Bill Hornadge wrote “Australian History” and on page 18 he records the arrival of Josiah Alfred Goode in Dubbo in 1856. He developed many sites including the Exchange Hotel. It was partly demolished in the 1970s and the remaining structure includes our bookstore. From the late 1950s, the bookstore site was a cafe. In 1979 the Orana Credit Union moved in until such time as we occupied it in 1991. We see our role as a long-term one, being passionate about both books and attending to customers.

As the American Booksellers Association said when promoting real bookstores, “Thanks Amazon, the Indies will take it from here.” From the moment you walk into our bookstore it feels as if you should find something interesting here.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Dubbo Farmer Markets

BY ROB THOMSON THE fortnightly farmer markets returned to town on August 1. Visitors were treated to the finest fresh produce from across the region, with stall holders from all across the central west doing a busy trade.

The markets were joined by the launch of Dubbo Jazz

Ros and Ian Nebauer

Alice Brewer and Julia Jefferis

Ricky Harjanto and Alana Gedrose

Jonathan Sandeford and John Finlayson

Rosemary and Trevor Evans

Alexandra Meyer and Caroline Djajadikarta

Amelia Kerridge and Mary Elsley

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Grandpa’s Hat Book Launch

BY ROB THOMSON PEOPLE from as far away as Townsville, Brisbane, Wagga, Newcastle and Sydney gathered at Lazy River last weekend for the launch of Grandpa’s Hat – a children’s book written by Jen Cowley and illustrated by Mark Horton as a resource to help parents and carers to guide children through loss and grief.

Supported by the combined Rotary Clubs of Dubbo and Coonabarabran, all proceeds from the book, the launch and the auction of the original paintings will go to support the work of NALAG – the National Association for Loss and Grief, which is based in Dubbo. Jen wrote the book as a way of saying thank you to NALAG for their support after the death of her brother six years ago and her sister-inlaw earlier this year.

In launching the book,

Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier Troy Grant made the spontaneous gesture of handing over the “official” duties to Jen’s two little nieces, to whom the book is dedicated.

The auction of Mark Horton’s 26 original watercolour illustrations raised just over $17,000, and while an overall tally from the evening is yet to be finalised, NALAG estimates that around $25,000 will have been raised to help the not-forprofit organisation to continue its work around the region and the state in helping people who are grieving.

Proceeds from ongoing sales of the book will also be directed to NALAG, with the book available for purchase online from the website – www.nalag.org. au – or through the offices of Panscott Media in Wingewarra Street, Dubbo and at The Book Connection in Macquarie Street.

Officially launching Grandpa’s Hat

Lyn Everett and Wendy English

Gary and Kerry Frost

David Riley and Paula Hanson

Mitchell Weber and Adam Carr

Saoirse Cowley-O’Sullivan, Emlyn O’Sullivan and Chloe Cowley-O’Sullivan

Nicci Berney, Denise Thomas and Shannyn Stanley

Marie Norris and Diana Brown

Keith Norris and Anne Styles

Michelle Doolan, Pat Doolan and Darryl Gilholme

Mark Horton’s artworks up for silent auction

Framed artworks by Mark Horton

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Jen Cowley, Michelle Doolan, Pat Doolan

Jennifer Perino, Mary Matthews, Cath Brennan and Lou Norton

Rebel Black, Ruth Gobbitt, Kath Readford and Julie Dunsmore

Catriona MacCallum, Emlyn Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan and Nicole Bladwell

Stuart Webster and Mick Davis

Troy Grant, Jen Cowley and Mark Horton

Carla Pittman and Rowena Spink

Susie Rowley, Jack Rowley and Mark Sheehan

Rochelle Baillie and Rita Hermansen

Nicole Alexander and David Officer

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Kris Stevens, Clare Green, Bizzi Mason and Glenys Mulholland

Caitlin Lorang, Alex Cowley and Sally Gavin

Maddison Pilon, Mel Murray and Lyndal Powderly

Patsy Saul, Kevin Saul and Trudy Hanson

Glenys Mulholland, David Lomax and Sue Lomax

Nasser Sedghi and Mark Horton

Marie Knight, Don Chad, Julie Chad, Di Webster and Aileen Bell

Caitlin Lorang, Alex Cowley and Sally Kay

Bob Hanson and John Ballard

Troy Grant, Jodie Lawler and Maree Carolan

David and Sylvia Dunn

Trudy Hanson and Fran Kelly

Kaylene Green and Tim Millgate

Fran Kelly, Judy Kelly and Shirley Heron

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Alfa Romeo celebrates its 105th birthday

BY RUBY JANETZKI THE legendary Alfa Romeo has recently celebrated its 105th birth-

day and, to mark the milestone, a celebratory weekend for Alfa Romeo Club members was held on Friday, July 24.

Happy birthday Alfa Romeo

Artist Rex Newell with his painting of the Alfa Romeo 6C

Chris Muir, Jennifer Newman, and Lawrie and Debbie Rockwell

Wendy Campbell, Jennifer Newman and Beth Grady

Sally Chapp, Lindsay Chugg and Bronwyn Walker

One of the cars outside Sainsbury Automotive

Adele Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghue with Mayor Mathew Dickerson

Peter and Margaret Cowan-Lunn

Dealer Liason officer Colin Grundy and Event Organisers Adele Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghue and Sarah Priestley

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The Chapel Project MORE than 30 musicians and singers from Dubbo and beyond gathered at the Western Plains Cultural Centre’s Community Arts Centre on Monday evening this week for the first music composition workshop of a new multiarts project to be performed in Dubbo, The Chapel Project.

Involving music, video projection, sound and various other elements, it is a site-specific work designed to be experienced inside St. Andrew’s Chapel next year.

Sydney-based classical pianist and composer, Sally Whitwell put singers through their compositional paces over two hours to create lyrics and tunes inspired by the birdsong recordings of Dubbo artist, Kim V. Goldsmith.

During her time in Dubbo, Whitwell also worked with 60 students and teachers from several high school campuses as well as continuing her work with those who attended the first night’s workshop.

Portrait of the artist - Kim Goldsmith’s The Chapel Project underway this week

Alan Diggleman, Maree Barnes, Billie Palin, Lyndal Powderly and Lea Berry

Susie Rowley, Krystal MacBeth, Natalie Waghorn, Alison Jones and Olivia Watson

Renowned musician Sally Whitewell takes workshop participants through thier paces

Michelle Menzies and Sandra Gaffney

Elsie Howe, Justine Kuhner and Louise Lawler

Sally Whitewell

Di Pascoe, Sharon Simons, Nathan Bryan and Ann Brandon

There were many lighthearted moments during a brainstorming session for The Chapel Project

Lyndal Powderly helps by scribing for Sally Whitewall during the brainstorming session

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Antiques & Collectables Fair VIP Launch Night

BY ROB THOMSON THE Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre played host to the opening night of the ‘Dubbo Antiques & Collectables Fair’ on Friday, July 10. Hosted by the Rotaract and Rotary clubs, the event aims to raise funds for several local charity groups. Committee member Carla Pittman said the event is great as there is “something for everyone”!

Greg Ough manning his store

The organising committee: Back, Faye Wheeler, Kelly Rigg, Sally Pittman, Kristy Hoare, Carla Pittman, front, Simone Taylor, Yao Yang and Kristyn Cook

Kay Gregg and Jane Wynne-Reed from ‘Mudgee Antiques’

‘Standing out from the crowd’, a collection of vibrant boots

Ron and Pat Morrison from Tumut

Mark Nugent and Cheryl Burke

Lovingly collected porcelain figurines

‘Just Imagine Collections’ Diana O’Dea and Thomas Vaarzon-Morel as heard on local radio

Stephen and Margaret Illman of ‘Mostly Glass Antiques’

Attendees perusing a vendors antiques

A collection of meticulously arranged antiques

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Theatre celebrates five years RUBY JANETZKI WITH hundreds of shows to its credit and thousands of happy patrons, the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre had good reason to celebrated its 5th birthday on Thursday, July 23. Since its opening the theatre has hosted 376,767 visitors and 103 sold out performances, such as big name performers Guy Sebastian, Marina Prior, Kate Miller-Heidke, The Australian Ballet and Bell Shakespeare.

DRTCC would like to thank David Payne Constructions for their Centre Stage Platinum sponsorship since 2011 and welcome new Platinum sponsors Dubbo Land Rover.

Cr Allan Smith addressing the gathering, right, and cutting the cake, above.

Therese Gaio and Pam Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien

Justine Blacklock, Natasha Bailey, Craig Thompson and Star FMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chris and Juelz

Linda Christof and Councillor Mathew Dickerson

Current councillors Allan Smith, Bill Kelly and Kevin Parker

Sponsors and officials gathered for the cutting of the cake

Left: DRTCC manager Linda Christof.

Right: Mayor Mathew Dickerson

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear ... jazz guitar live with dinner... twice!

mate show. David Harvey’s performance is one of many happening in Dubbo between August 7-9.

AND with a smorgasbord of jazz happening across town this weekend you’ll be hard pressed not to. Listen out for David Harvey, a solo acoustic guitarist who knows his way around the fretboard and whose influences include Django Reinhardt (a French gypsy by birth and lifestyle before gaining fame as a guitarist of note) and Bruce Mathiske (a contemporary virtuoso). Book for dinner at the Monkey Bar on August 7 or the Quality Inn’s Reflections Restaurant on Saturday August 8 for dinner and an inti-

... lectures on how to “get” art EVER stared at an artwork and thought, I just don’t get it!. Art can seem intimidating to many people – a strange, wonderful and at times confusing world. But understanding art need not be a challenge.

In a series of six lectures called “Art is not what you see:

Introduction to Art Appreciation”, Jessica Moore shares with you the tools and tricks to understand not just what art is trying to do, but how it does it and why looking at art is not just about what you see. From August 12. 6884 0638.

... whips cracking in the outback THE Back’o’Bourke Outback Show is back in Bourke NSW in 2015!

The Outback Show returned

to the Back O’Bourke Exhibition Centre in June this year and holds one show a day per week at 11am. With a team of camels, Clydesdales, trick horses, working dogs and bullocks, the show takes audiences on a journey back to a time when larrikins, bush poets and intrepid explorers roamed the bush and there was no such thing as politically correct.

Sounds refreshing. Go and say g’day.

They’re calling it the funniest show this side of the Black Stump.

The funniest show this side of the Black Stump! More info @ visitbourke. com.

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see George and Peter Watt. A festival favourite – the Long Lazy Lunch – returns on the Sunday, this year with former ABC Radio National Book Show host Ramona Koval.

of Australian history. Dead Men Talking finds Henry Lawson (Max Cullen) and Banjo Paterson (Warren Fahey) in the Leviticus Bar and Grill, Heaven’s Gate, yarning about their changing circumstance, literary legacies and infamous ‘war of words’ in The Bulletin magazine.

They sing, recite and generally banter about yesterday’s Australia.

... yourself lunching and brunching to jazz

FOR more food and jazz! Jordan C Thomas Band, with its fresh and authentic swingin’ smooth jazz sounds will go perfectly with your appetizer, main and dessert. While he slaves over his big old 1954 Gibson ES 150 in front of his band (guitar, horns, double bass and drums) you can slave over lunch on Saturday (Lazy River Estate 6882 2111) or brunch on Sunday (Outlook Café, Western Plains Cultural Centre 6884 7977).

Thomas’ band is cool and old school with a blend of jazz, rockabilly, jump swing; you might even want to get up and dance between courses.

... not miss out on some beautiful ballet

... the ancient teachings of Buddha

... learn what makes Aussie architecture A-class

EXPERIENCE the world-class ballet live on stage with The Dancers Company, a select group of dancers from the Australian Ballet brought together annual especially to spring, leap and pirouette their way into a regional touring program. In 2015 the company brings three spectacular excerpts from celebrated classical works to Dubbo. Starring guest artists (or athletes with grace, style, dedication and the endurance of 10 football teams) from The Australian Ballet, and graduating students from The Australian Ballet School, this stunning classical triple bill is perfect for the whole family at the Dubbo Regional Theatre.

GUIDED meditation and in depth talks will be held in Dubbo on August 28, September 25, October 30 and November 27. Held at the Atma Healing at 69 Macquarie Street, a different subject is covered each month and includes: Seeing the Buddha Within; Relationships as a Spiritual Path; Ancient Wisdom, Modern World and, Constant Craving. The Buddhist teacher is Gen Dawa, a resident instructor at the Khedrubje Kadampa Buddhist Centre on the NSW Central Coast and his tour will also be held in Mudgee, Parkes, Orange and Bathurst.

Said to teach with clarity and humour, Gen Dawa’s talks are open to everyone. $15. 4385 2609.

GOING home between the 1950s to the 1990s was a time when lifestyle and culture was redefining itself Downunder and is evident in the way we were designing houses. As the country’s affluence grew the three ducks on the wall went out the window and news ways of architectural design, interior design and their materials, furniture, fixtures, lighting and decorative themes changed. The Western Plains Cultural Centre hosts an exhibition called ‘Iconic Australian Houses’ from August 8 to November 1 and explores the mashup of immigrant thinking with Aussie climate and topography, into iconic Australian architectural styles.

... well known authors mingling in Mudgee THE 6th Mudgee Readers’ Festival is welcoming big-name authors and some exciting new events this year. The 2015 line-up includes: Don Watson, Ramona Koval, Clare Wright, Steven Carroll, Debra Oswald, Wayne Macauley, Bernard Keane and Emily Rodda. The festival, will be held on Saturday and Sunday August 15-16, and will feature in-depth interviews and panel discussions with authors such as Antonia Murphy, Robyn Cadwallader, David Henley, Anna

... dead men talking IT’S a musical play exploring the relationship, music and verse of Australia’s two favourite poets, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Performed by veteran actors, Max Cullen and Warren Fahey, the two-hand play explores a rich vein

Wellington, Thursday August 6, 7pm, Wellington Soldiers Memorial Club.

do

Brodie James and Valerie Tereschenko The Dancer’s Company PHOTO: KATE LONGLEY

etc.

Travel In, online CHECK out a new ground breaking digital platform created to drive, or double overnight expenditure from tourism across NSW, called “Travel In” revealed recently at the Travel In Inland Tourism Awards (INTA) held at Broken Hill, a collaboration between Inland NSW, Central NSW, Riverina and Murray Darling RTOs. ‘Travel In’, with its refreshing ‘Gourmet Traveller’ meets ‘online travel agent’ digital platform approach will allow travellers will be able to build

personalised itineraries, based on time and distance, destinations, experiences and tourism routes, supported by rich content and a powerful booking engine.

By driving economic benefit whilst providing visitors with a better experience, everyone’s a winner. www.travelin.com. au

Travel in ... time NEXT time you have a visitor in town, be sure to take them to the Dubbo Regional Museum’s permanent collection where

they can wander down Dubbo’s memory lane and discover first-hand the city’s stories told through artefacts and histories of individual Dubbo residents. That includes those who were here since before the village of Dubbo was first proclaimed. All have been influenced by their time and the landscape which surrounded them. Personal posses-

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

sions are artfully displayed, and represent significant moments in war, business, culture, flood, loss, life, triumph and tragedy. Take a walk down Dubbo’s memory lane and discover the city’s past. Open daily except Tuesdays, 10am4pm, free admission.

Constance Bayliss, wedding slippers, 1885, Dubbo Regional Museum

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VELDT RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ dƵĞƐĚĂLJ ƚŽ &ƌŝĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϳĂŵ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ͘ Open for dinner Monday to Saturday Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE

CLUB DUBBO

Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ͕ ŚŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ ƉĂƐƚĂƐ͕ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ

GROCERIES KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞƌŶĂƌĚŝ͛Ɛ ^hW /' ͘ ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ͕ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϲĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϲƉŵ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϰƉŵ͘ dŚĞ njŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ŽīĞƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 07.08.2015 to Sunday 09.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, August 7 Neighbours

Better Homes And Gardens

ELEVEN, 6.30pm

PRIME7, 7pm

It might have been more than 30 years since this Melbourne soapie first hit our screens way back on March 18, 1985, but it is proving itself to have no shortage of drama, thanks to another action-filled week in Erinsborough, arguably Australia’s most unlucky neighbourhood for most of its inhabitants. Tonight, Paul (Stefan Dennis) fights hard to keep his daughter and grandson in his orbit, Sheila (Colette Mann) and Russell (Russell Kiefel) waste no time getting to know one another a little bit better and young Ben (Felix Mallard) receives the message he’s been dreading. There really is never a dull moment.

In your average Better Homes and Gardens episode, resident chefs Karen Martini and Fast Ed are doing their own thing, in their usual set kitchen. Probably the most extravagant and different we get, in terms of location, is when they whip up a treat outside the local hardware store. Yet tonight, we’re coming up coconuts because the tasty pair are hitting the road in tropical Far North Queensland in what’ll be a treat for many viewers who are sitting through a very chilly winter. Joh and Pete are also giving the studio lights the cold shoulder, visiting an impressive family home that melds trendy industrial design with some good old-fashioned tranquillity.

ABC

PRIME7

MOVIE: Under The Tuscan Sun PRIME7, 8.30pm, M (2003)

Nights in Rodanthe star Diane Lane ne (right) features in this inconsequential but charming y foreign production as a recently divorced San Francisco writer who a impulsively buys an Italian villa any. while on a 10-day tour of Tuscany. e She soon endears herself to the unky locals, finds romance with a hunky suitor (Raoul Bova) and learns to ctor start her life anew. Writer-director Audrey Wells (Shall We Dance?) capitalises on Lane’s naturally ve sunny disposition, crafting a love gh letter to the Italian town through y and her sweet mix of gentle comedy warm-hearted romance.

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 Lone Pine Centenary Commemoration. (R, CC) 11.00 One Plus One. (CC) 11.30 Hospital Chaplains.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 The Time Of Our Lives.

(M, R, CC) 2.55 Catalyst. (PG, R, CC) 3.40 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) Quiz show.

5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Captive. (M, R, CC) (1998) A man is drawn into a kidnapping plot. Richard Grieco, Marie-Josée Croze.

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) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Join James Reeson for inspirational, easy recipes that can be cooked at home.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Huey. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.30 Bold. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (M, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(PG, CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 NITV News Week In Review.

1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Strip The City. (R, CC) 4.30 Backroads USA. (CC) 5.00 Room 101. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

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) (Final) Guests Sandi Toksvig, Rob Brydon and Fred MacAulay join Stephen Fry for a “H”-inspired discussion.

8.30 Jonathan Creek.

(M, R, CC) (Final) Mystery surrounds the kidnapping of a British cabinet minister’s wife.

9.30 Line Of Duty. (M, CC) Lindsay is granted special dispensation to leave prison to visit her dying mother.

10.30 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 Live.

(M, R, CC) A panel of guests, including Marty Sheargold, Sam Pang and Ash London, pull apart the 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 visit a family home that blends raw industrial design with peaceful tranquillity. Karen and Ed travel to tropical North Queensland for a truly delicious recipe road trip.

8.30 MOVIE: Under The Tuscan Sun. (M, R, CC) (2003) A 35 year-old writer travels to Tuscany, following her divorce, and surprises herself by offering to buy a rundown villa, which she brings to life with the help of a real estate agent and a contractor. Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan.

10.50 The Blacklist. (M, R, CC) After the team is tasked with rescuing an undercover CIA agent who was kidnapped by separatists in Uzbekistan, Red is convinced they are going up against a dangerous past associate known as Ruslan Denisov.

11.50 The Blacklist. (M, R, CC) The team investigates the disappearance of the leader of a polygamous cult.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 22. Manly Sea Eagles v South Sydney Rabbitohs. From Brookvale Oval, Sydney.

9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 22. Brisbane Broncos v Canterbury Bulldogs. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) 7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown swims with sharks in Fiji. In the the Northern Territory, Miguel Maestre prepares a meal in rolled paper bark. Financial whiz Jason Cunningham shows how to transform $1000 from a tax return into big bucks.

8.30 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) Fifty-two of Australia’s brightest young people aged between eight and 13 years are put through their paces as they compete in a spelling bee. Hosted by Chrissie Swan and Grant Denyer.

9.45 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) The top 26 challengers have made it through to the next round of the spelling bee.

11.00 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Guests include comedians Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Abby Coleman, Mick Molloy and Fifi Box.

6.00 Raymond Blanc: How To Cook Well. (CC) French chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc gives a masterclass in the basic cooking technique of baking.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Secrets Of Britain: Secrets Of Westminster.

(PG, R, CC) (Final) Explores the stories and history behind Westminster, the true seat of power in Great Britain.

8.30 Joan Of Arc: God’s Warrior. (CC) Dr Helen Castor tells the story of Joan Of Arc’s three separate examinations by the church.

9.35 Who Do You Think You Are? Geoffrey Rush.

(R, CC) Academy Awardwinning actor Geoffrey Rush sets out to explore his family’s roots.

10.35 World News. (CC) 11.10 MOVIE: Perfect Sense.

(M, R, CC) (2011) In the face of a global pandemic which is robbing its victims of their senses, a chef and scientist fall in love. Ewan McGregor, Eva Green.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 Weeds. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.10 MOVIE: Adoration.

(M, R, CC) (2008) Devon Bostick.

4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.00 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

1.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) Advice on health issues.

2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.50 MOVIE: 13 Semesters.

(M, R) (2009) Max Riemelt.

2.40 MOVIE: Black Heaven.

(M, R) (2010) 4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) Maeve and Joanna learn about grain.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

12.10 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

1.00 Home Shopping.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.50pm Are We Officially Dating? (2014) Comedy. Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan. Three best friends find themselves at a juncture in their relationships where they must discuss if they are “official” or not. (MA15+) Romance

6.30pm Andre Rieu: Live In Australia. (G) Arts

6.30pm The Story Of London. Looks at some of London’s most famous buildings. (PG) History

8.30am Golf. USPGA Tour.

Barracuda Championship. First round. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm S1m0ne (2002) Comedy. Al Pacino. A film producer creates an artificial actress. (PG) Comedy

8.30pm Wahlburgers.

Brothers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg join forces with their brother Paul to open a burger joint. (M) Arena

6.35pm Ray Donovan. Ray finds himself adrift from his family while he focuses on his business and desires to be his own boss. (M) Showcase

7.30pm The Mayan Apocalypse. (PG) National Geographic 8.30pm Animal Cops: Miami.

Investigators and police search for a person killing and mutilating pet cats. (M) Animal Planet

7.50pm Football. AFL. Round 22. North Melbourne v Western Bulldogs. Fox Footy 8.55pm Netball. INF World Cup. Australia v Trinidad and Tobago. Fox Sports 4

8.35pm Babel (2006) Drama. Brad Pitt. (MA15+) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker.

(R, CC) 4.45 Thomas. (R, CC) 5.00 The Hive. (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. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.40 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, CC) 9.25 Second Chance. (M, CC) 9.30 Teenage And Gay. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.20 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.00 Sex Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 11.40 The Human Tissue Squad. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.25 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. 10.30 A Journey Through Asian Art. (R, CC) 10.40 So You Want To Be A Designer? (R, CC) 11.10 Australian Artists. (R, CC) 11.30 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 A Gurls Wurld. (R, CC) 1.10 WAC. (R, CC) 1.35 Lab Rats Challenge. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur.

(R) 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) 6.20 The Haunting Hour. (PG, R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.30 Open Heart. (CC) 7.55 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, CC) 8.50 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (CC) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Close.

Brad Pitt stars in Babel

7TWO 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 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) 10.00 NBC Today. (R, CC) 12.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 60 Minute Makeover. (R) 2.00 Swimming.

FINA World Championships.

Replay. From Kazan Stadium Arena, Russia. 4.30 Swimming.

FINA World Championships. From Kazan Stadium Arena, Russia.

7.00 Coastwatch. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, CC) Something suspicious is detected in a makeup bag.

8.00 Animal Airport.

(PG, R, CC) A quarantine change causes havoc.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Presented by Jonnie Irwin.

10.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.00 Borderline. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Swimming. FINA World Championships.

3.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 3.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 4.30 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Sofia The First. (R, CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Doc McStuffins. (CC) 8.30 Art Attack. (CC) 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 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 12.00 Covert Affairs. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Do No Harm. (M, R) 2.00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 4.00 Billy The Exterminator. (PG) 4.30 North Woods Law. (PG) 5.30 Hillbilly Handfishin’.

6.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 19. Adelaide v Richmond. From Adelaide Oval.

11.00 MOVIE: Jackass 3.5.

(MA15+, R) (2011) Johnny Knoxville.

12.45 MOVIE: Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj. (MA15+, R) (2006) 3.00 Meat Men. (PG, R) 3.30 Jail.

(M, R) 4.00 South Beach Tow. (M, R) 4.30 Iceberg Hunters. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Zoom TV. (PG, R)

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. (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. 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 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 Regular Show. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Stormbreaker. (PG, R) (2006) Mickey Rourke, Alex Pettyfer.

8.30 MOVIE: The Host. (M) (2013) 11.00 MOVIE: Zombie Strippers!

(AV15+, R) (2008) 1.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 1.30 Rabbids Invasion. (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 Secret Dealers.

(PG, R, CC) 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

(PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct.

9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz.

10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Countryfile. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: Arabian Adventure. (R, CC) (1979) Christopher Lee, Milo O’Shea. 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 Obese USA. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) Joey tries to impress a famous actor.

7.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Fourth Test. England v Australia. Day 2. Morning session. From Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England.

10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Fourth Test. England v Australia. Day 2. Afternoon session. From Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England.

3.00 MOVIE: Strange Invaders. (PG, R) (1983) 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country. (R) 5.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 9.00 The One And Only. (R, CC) 10.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 10.30 Hardliners. (PG, R) 11.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 12.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Back In The Game. (PG) 2.00 David Letterman.

(PG, R) 3.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (R, CC) 4.00 Whacked Out Sports. (PG) 4.30 Operation Repo. (PG) 5.00 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) The team executes a raid.

9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Payback. (M, R) (2011) Steven Seagal.

10.30 Netball. World Cup. Day 1. Preliminary round. Australia v Trinidad & Tobago. From Allphones Arena, Sydney. 12.00 Bellator MMA. (M) 2.00 Darren & Brose.

(M, R) 2.30 Cops. (PG, R) 3.30 Ross Kemp: Back On The Frontline.

(MA15+, R) 4.30 Hardliners. (PG, R) 5.00 Temporary Australians.

(PG, R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports.

(PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (M, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG) 3.30 Cheers.

(PG, R) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) Hosted by Cat Deeley.

9.30 New Girl. (PG, R) Jess regrets her decision to be a teacher.

10.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) Looks at some more extreme characters.

11.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 11.30 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.30 Glee. (PG, R) 1.30 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 2.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News.

4.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.45 Vs Arashi. (R) 5.40 American Ninja Warrior.

6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed. Hosted by Marc Fennell.

8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (PG) Presented by Tim Ferriss.

8.30 Derren Brown: The Events. (PG, R) Derren Brown takes a look at gambling.

9.30 12 Monkeys. (MA15+) Cole returns to 2043.

10.20 Black Mirror. (M, R, CC) 11.10 Attack On Titan. (M, R) 12.10 Friday Feed. (R) 12.40 PopAsia. (PG) 2.40 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News.

5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Waabiny Time. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked!

9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Yarramundi Kids. 10.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 Good Tucker. 1.00 Flying Boomerangs.

(PG) 1.30 I Am The River. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Yarramundi Kids. 3.30 Move It Mob Style.

4.00 Waabiny Time. 4.30 Bushwhacked! 5.00 Go Lingo.

5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 6.30 Outback Cafe.

7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Kriol Kitchen.

8.00 Not Just Cricket. (PG) 8.30 Australian Biography: Rosalie Kunoth – Monks: Aboriginal Activist.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 CBQM. 11.05 NITV News.

11.35 Outback Cafe. 12.10 Waru, Kuka And Everything. 12.55 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.10 Yorta Yorta Youth. 2.55 CBQM. 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Ntjalka v CAFL Combined. 5.00 From The Western Frontier. 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) 2.00 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.

2.25 ABC Open. 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 3.55 ABC Open. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

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Saturday, August 8 Wild West With Ray Mears

MOVIE: The Intouchables

MOVIE: Spider-Man 3

SBS, 7.30pm

SBS, 9pm, PG (2011)

PRIME7, 7pm, PG (2007)

Bear Grylls better watch his back because he isn’t the only “survival expert” around. Renowned bushcraft expert Ray Mears takes a more educational approach on his trip to the wild west to explore the awe-inspiring landscape of North America. As Ray travels through each landscape, he discovers how extraordinary topography, extreme weather, wild animals and ecology presented both great opportunity and even greater challenges. He explores how these challenges impacted differently on native Americans, mountain men, fur traders, wagon-masters, homesteaders, gold miners, lumberjacks, cowboys and lawmen of the wild west.

This charming French film, based on a true story, follows Philippe (François Cluzet), a middle-aged millionaire who is paralysed from the neck down. In search of a new carer, he takes a chance on Driss (Omar Sy), a hoodlum from the projects. Unsteadily, Driss settles into his new responsibility and soon his unorthodox but witty methods of care makes way for a strong bond between the two. The playful juxtaposition between the broken but noble aristocrat and a man bred in a grittier world sheds light on the possibilities of breaking free from society’s conventions, and, hardship aside, the importance of appreciating the beautiful things in life.

tor Sam Raimi’s In the third instalment of director covers his lucrative franchise, Spidey discovers dark side. Just as Peter Parker (Tobey nd the Maguire, right) thinks he’s found balance between his love for MJJ (Kirsten Dunst) and his duties as New York’s favourite arachnid superhero, fate steps in. Faced with a hat-trick of enemies, o), including Goblin (James Franco), Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) and Venom (Topher Grace), plus a failing romance me with MJ, can our hero overcome ve his inner demons in time to save the day yet again? More of the same from Raimi, with equal shades light and dark.

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TEN

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(R, CC) 12.00 First Footprints: The Great Drought – 30,000 To 15,000 Years Ago. (R, CC) Part 2 of 4.

1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

2.00 MOVIE: Paper Moon.

(PG, R, CC) (1973) A con man meets his match.

Ryan O’Neal.

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) A worker at a Wild West show is killed.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) A teenager discovers her heritage. Brenda Song, Shin Koyamada.

2.00 MOVIE: Emma. (PG, R) (1996) A young woman plays Cupid. Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh and Ed head to southern Queensland.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 Supernanny: Beyond The Naughty Step. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: We Are Marshall.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) Matthew McConaughey.

3.30 Oprah Down Under: The Next Adventure. (R, CC) 4.00 Adam’s Pasta Pilgrimage. (CC) 4.30 Dr Lisa To The Rescue.

(CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 iFish. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 3.30 Just Go. (CC) Rhys travels to Victoria’s Yarra Valley.

4.00 Andy & Ben Eat The World. (PG, 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 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 The Incredible Spice Men. (R, CC) 2.30 Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Island Feast. (R, CC) 3.25 James May’s Man Lab. (PG, R, CC) 4.25 Meet Caligula. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 The Stuarts: King Without A Crown.

(PG, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Angus visits a native garden. Tips on how to build a three tier planter from Costa.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) (Final) Inspector Sullivan asks for Father Brown’s help after he seeks sanctuary in St Mary’s.

8.20 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) Clothes belonging to a man who was on the run from the law are discovered in a forest.

9.20 Old School. (M, R, CC) An ex-con and a retired cop delve into the mystery surrounding a decade-old, armoured car robbery.

10.15 The Bletchley Circle.

(M, R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

After Millie is kidnapped, it appears the incident could be connected to the postwar black market.

11.00 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

11.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, 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 3.

(PG, R, CC) (2007) An alien symbiote bonds with Peter Parker, which boosts his abilities as Spider-Man to new heights. However, it also bringing out his vengeful side and forces him to face his personal demons. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco.

9.50 MOVIE: Resident Evil: Retribution. (AV15+, CC) (2012) In a post-apocalyptic world, a woman sets out to escape the clutches of an evil corporation which has imprisoned her in a secret facility concealed under the ice of the arctic in order to test her abilities. Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez.

11.40 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Adam befriends his new neighbour, and in an effort to bring the two families together, Beverly extends multiple invitations for a barbeque that Virginia Kremp hesitates to accept.

Barry and Erica battle for control of the family’s one telephone line.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Hotplate. (PG, R, CC) Unsung local restaurant owners from around the country compete to impress judges Scott Pickett and Tom Parker Bowles and win a $100,000 prize while realising their culinary dreams.

8.10 The Hotplate. (PG, R, CC) Unsung local restaurant owners from around the country compete to win a $100,000 prize while realising their culinary dreams.

9.20 The Hotplate. (PG, R, CC) With judges Scott Pickett and Tom Parker Bowles.

10.30 MOVIE: Leap Year.

(PG, R, CC) (2010) Inspired by an Irish tradition which allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, a woman follows her beau to Dublin to propose to him.

However, ending up on the wrong side of the island by accident, she must enlist the help of a local to complete her quest. Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott.

6.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (CC) MasterChef Australia judge and chef Gary Mehigan indulges his twin passions for fine food and fast bikes, as his culinary road trip through Asia continues in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) With everyone departing for different destinations over Christmas, the family decides to celebrate the festive season early at Phil’s urging.

7.30 Rugby Union. (CC) The Rugby Championship.

Round 3. Bledisloe Cup. Game 1. Australia v New Zealand. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

Commentary from Matt White, Scott Mackinnon, Gordon Bray, Matt Burke and Nathan Sharpe.

10.00 MOVIE: The A-Team.

(M, R, CC) (2010) Members of an eccentric special forces group are courtmartialled, for a crime they did not commit.

Liam Neeson, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Wild West With Ray Mears: Great Plains.

(PG, CC) Part 2 of 3. Ray Mears looks at how the Great Plains challenged the early American pioneers.

8.30 Room 101. (M, CC) Paul McDermott interviews renowned food critic Matt Preston, who discusses his pet hates and the things that make him angry. From omnipresent baked goods to terms of familiarity and a seemingly harmless hospitality icon, Matt hopes Paul will help him banish them all.

9.00 MOVIE: The Intouchables. (PG, CC) (2011) After becoming a quadriplegic in a paragliding accident, a wealthy widower hires a young man to be his live-in caregiver after he finds himself intrigued by his attitude towards his disability. Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny. 11.10 MOVIE: Welcome To The Sticks. (PG, R) (2008) A French postmaster from Provence finds himself exiled to a remote village in the far north. Kad Merad, Dany Boon.

12.15 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by special guest programmer Seth Sentry.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.05 Last Resort. (M, R, CC) In an effort to end the standoff on Sainte Marina, Marcus and Sam enter negotiations with the US Government. Grace takes command after a critical system is damaged and the Colorado must repair it.

1.00 Home Shopping.

12.35 MOVIE: The Square.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) David Roberts.

2.35 MOVIE: Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1985) 4.15 WIN Presents. (R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.25 48 Hours: The Ultimatum. (M, R, CC) Two daughters try to find their mother’s killer.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

1.00 MOVIE: Overheard.

(AV15+, R) (2009) Three cops succumb to greed.

Ching Wan Lau. 2.55 MOVIE: Rivals. (AV15+, R) (2008) Guillaume Canet.

4.50 Luke Nguyen’s France Bitesize. (R) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.25pm Valkyrie (2008) War. (M) Masterpiece

6.30pm Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. Couples are stunned when they undergo surprise shock therapy to learn how to communicate. (M) Arena

7.30pm The Sixties. (PG) History

3.15pm Netball. INF World Cup. Australia v Barbados. Fox Sports 4

6.40pm The Rover (2014) Crime. Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson. Years after the collapse of society, a hardened loner tracks down the gang of thieves who stole his car.

(MA15+) Premiere 8.30pm The Judge (2014) Drama. Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall. A man returns to his hometown after his father is accused of murder.

(M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 The Hive. (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. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 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, R, 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 Portlandia.

(M, R, CC) 12.30 Portlandia. (R, CC) 12.50 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 1.15 The Home Show. (R) 2.00 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. 6.20 The New Adventures Of Peter Pan. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles.

(R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants.

(R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 8.55 Studio 3 Gold. (R) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 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 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 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) 5.10 SW: Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 10.50 Close.

7.00pm Baby Daddy. Ben tests Riley’s feelings for Danny by writing a love note to him and forging Riley’s signature on it. (PG) FOX8

7.30pm Treehouse Masters.

Pete builds an adventurethemed treehouse. (PG) Discovery 8.30pm Epic Bar Builds. The Heineman Bar Company takes on the ultimate project. (PG) Discovery

7.30pm Football. AFL. Round 19. West Coast v Hawthorn. Fox Sports 3 8.00pm Rugby Union. The Rugby Championship. Bledisloe Cup. Australia v New Zealand.

Fox Sports 2

8.30pm The Real Housewives Of Melbourne.

(M) Arena

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 SA Life Favourites.

(CC) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Swimming. FINA World Championships. From Kazan Stadium Arena, Russia. 2.30 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Semifinal. 4.30 Swimming. FINA World Championships. From Kazan Stadium Arena, Russia.

7.00 MOVIE: Raising Helen.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) A woman cares for her late sister’s children. Kate Hudson, Abigail Breslin.

9.00 MOVIE: The General’s Daughter. (M, R, CC) (1999) A detective has 36 hours in which to solve the sexual assault and murder of a general’s daughter. John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell.

11.30 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) An expert equestrienne is killed.

12.30 Swimming. FINA World Championships.

3.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Home Shopping.

9.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 10.30 Hawaii Air Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Iceberg Hunters. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Meat Men. (PG, R) 1.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 19.

Collingwood v Carlton. From the MCG. 4.30 The Billion Dollar Car. 5.30 Bid America! (PG, R) 7.00 Football. AFL. Round 19.

Geelong v Sydney. From Simonds Stadium, VIctoria.

10.00 MOVIE: Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) A rescue mission is sent to an alien planet. Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock.

12.15 MOVIE: Arachnophobia.

(PG, R, CC) (1990) A small town is attacked by killer spiders. Jeff Daniels.

2.35 Locked Up Abroad: Colombia Ambush. (M, R) A backpacker attempts to hike from Panama to Colombia.

4.00 The Billion Dollar Car. (R) 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 To Be Advised.

Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson star in The Rover

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Pirate Express. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 The Crew.

(CC) 2.30 The Crew. (PG, CC) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Tom And Jerry.

(R) 5.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 6.00 MOVIE: TMNT. (PG, R) (2007) 7.40 MOVIE: Man Of Steel.

(PG, R, CC) (2013) A young man tries to discover where he came from.

Henry Cavill.

10.30 MOVIE: Catwoman.

(M, R, CC) (2004) 12.40 MOVIE: One Missed Call.

(M, R, CC) (2008) Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon. 2.30 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: Arabian Adventure.

(R, CC) (1979) 8.00 Danoz Direct.

8.30 The Baron. (PG, R) 9.30 Avengers. (PG, R) 10.30 MOVIE: Spring And Port Wine. (PG, R, CC) (1970) 12.35 Postcards. (CC) 1.05 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 1.35 MOVIE: Calamity Jane. (R, CC) (1953) Doris Day, Howard Keel.

3.40 MOVIE: Friendly Persuasion. (PG, R, CC) (1956) 6.30 Kalgoorlie Cops.

(PG, R, CC) A look at the Kalgoorlie cops.

7.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Fourth Test. England v Australia. Day 3. Morning session. From Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England.

10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes.

Fourth Test. England v Australia. Day 3. Afternoon session. From Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England.

3.00 MOVIE: Spring And Port Wine. (PG, R, CC) (1970) A man’s attitudes conflict with his family. James Mason, Susan George.

5.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen.

(R) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Shred! (PG, R) 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 12.00 Netball. World Cup. Day 1. Preliminary round. Australia v Trinidad & Tobago. Replay. 1.30 World Sport. (R) 2.00 Motor Racing. Dunlop V8 Supercar Series. Round 4. 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Ozzie Holiday. (PG) 5.30 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. (R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) Follows officers on patrol in Palm Beach.

8.30 48 Hours: The Hit. (M, R) A look at the death of an entrepreneur.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 Netball. World Cup. Day 2. Preliminary round.

Australia v Barbados. From Allphones Arena, Sydney.

12.00 Blokesworld. (R) 12.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 3.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.30 Cops. (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 Diagnosis Murder. (PG) 4.00 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) The P.T.A. want Ray to talk to Debra.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Hosted

by Irish comedian Graham Norton.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) The girls spend a second week in Los Angeles.

10.10 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) 10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 11.55 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 5.00 Shopping.

(R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Bunk. (PG, R) 1.30 The Soup Investigates.

(M, R) 2.00 Toughest Place To Be A… (M, R, CC) 3.00 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 4.00 Cycling. (CC) UCI BMX World Championship.

Highlights. 5.00 Kung Fu Motion.

(PG, R) 5.50 Along The Road. (PG, R) 6.00 Celebrity Chef.

7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 The Island With Bear Grylls: Women’s Island.

(M, R, CC) Fourteen women are stranded on an island.

9.30 The Island With Bear Grylls: Men’s Island.

(MA15+, R, CC) 10.30 Real Humans. (MA15+, R) 12.50 MOVIE: Sex, Parties And Lies. (MA15+, R) (2009) 2.45 MOVIE: Hardcore. (AV15+, R) (2004) 4.30 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Kriol Kitchen.

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. Current affairs show.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Trudell. (PG) 8.30 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival.

9.30 MOVIE: Good Hair.

(M) Chris Rock explores the wonders of AfricanAmerican hairstyles.

11.15 Mamu. (PG) 11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 MOVIE: Good Hair. (M) 1.45 Dead Creek. (PG) 2.00 The Brush Sings.

2.30 The Blues. (PG) 4.00 Trudell. (PG) 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) 0808

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Sunday, August 9 Miniseries: The Politician’s Husband ABC, 8.30pm Politics can be a dirty game. It’s also the kind of job that doesn’t really fit in the regular nine-to-five nor allow you to completely switch off when you leave the office. Its impact on relationships is sure to be great but what happens if both partners play the same game? In this gripping miniseries boasting a stellar cast including David Tennant and Emily Watson, we follow former British cabinet minister Aiden (Tennant) as he struggles to deal with his wife Freya (Watson) and her meteoric rise within the parliament.

Increasingly consumed with jealousy and paranoia, Aiden begins to plot his wife’s political downfall.

ABC

MOVIE: Rambo

Covert Affairs

7MATE, 9.30pm, AV15+ (2008)

PRIME7, 11pm

Sexagenarian Sylvester Stallone brought everybody’s favourite Vietnam vet with post-traumatic stress disorder out of retirement 26 years after his first grunt. John Rambo (Stallone) has given up his old fighting life and now lives in solitude in the jungles of Thailand. But when missionaries Julie Benz and Paul Schulze go missing, the world-weary warrior sets out with a team of mercenaries, including Graham McTavish and Matthew Marsden, to rescue the pair from the Burmese junta’s army camp where they are being held captive. A straight-up action bloodbath, Rambo is a pleasure of the guiltiest, most gratuitous kind.

Apart from the threat of violence, ce, inability to settle into a normal routine, trust ust anyone and the extensive security measures, sures, being an undercover agent kind of sounds unds fun.

When Covert Affairs first began, Annie (Piper Perabo, right) “worked” at the Smithsonian Museum. But now, in season five, ve, the CIA agent’s new cover is that of a glamorous lamorous and well-connected importer/exporter, exporter, with expensive tastes. Hard work, ork, but somebody’s got to do it. Tonight, ht, Annie and McQuaid (Nic Bishop) travel vel to Azerbaijan to find an ex-CIA employee connected to the bombing. mbing.

Then, Auggie (Christopher Gorham) rham) struggles as his relationship with th Natasha (Liane Balaban) hits the rocks.

PRIME7

WIN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Gallipoli Symphony: A Creative Journey. (CC) 2.20 The Gallipoli Symphony.

(R) A performance of the Gallipoli Symphony.

3.45 As You Dreamt It. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) 5.15 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Zoo. (R, CC) A langur monkey baby is abandoned.

11.30 To Be Advised.

4.00 Medical Emergency.

(PG, R, CC) A man is injured by falling concrete. After being attacked while out walking, a young woman is rushed to The Alfred.

4.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Hosted by Mike Whitney.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) Guests Robert Webb, Terry Wogan, Katy Wix and Kevin Bridges go head-to-head in a battle of wits.

6.30 Compass: Limited Partnership Pt 2. (PG, CC) Continues to chart a gay couple’s 40-year fight for recognition of their marriage.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (CC) Kevin meets a couple who want to build the UK’s first “amphibious” house on an island in the Thames.

8.30 Miniseries: The Politician’s Husband.

(M, CC) Part 2 of 3. Driven by a desire to get revenge for his political downfall, Aiden plots against his old friend.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) The team turns to Janet for help profiling the personality of the female serial killer known as The Wraith.

10.30 Misery Loves Company.

(MA15+, CC) Filmmakers, writers and comedians try to answer the question “Do you have to be miserable to be funny?”.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program.

Hosted by Chris Bath.

8.00 Dancing With The Stars.

(CC) A new group of celebrities are partnered with professional dancers to see who has the fanciest footwork. Hosted by Shane Bourne and Edwina Bartholomew, with judges Todd McKenney, Helen Richey and Kym Johnson.

10.00 Bones. (M, CC) While in Iran to be with his sick brother, Arastoo is kidnapped by a member of the local government who wants his help in solving a murder. Brennan discovers the truth about Booth’s gambling addiction.

11.00 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) Annie and McQuaid go to Azerbaijan to find an ex-CIA employee connected to the bombing. Auggie’s relationship with Natasha is in jeopardy. Calder’s call-girl acquaintance is in trouble with the law.

12.05 Alias Ruby Blade.

(M, R, CC) 1.25 ProppaNow. (R, CC) 2.05 Miniseries: The Politician’s Husband.

(M, R, CC) 3.05 Misery Loves Company.

(MA15+, R, CC) 5.00 The New Inventors. (R, CC) 5.25 Eggheads.

(R, CC)

12.00 Do No Harm. (M) After Jason collapses in front of Dr Young, an MRI reveals Jason has a brain tumour.

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) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. (PG, R, CC) Follows the Foo Fighters.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Hosted

by Tim Faulkner.

World’s Scariest: Drivers.

(PG, R, CC) A look at near misses on the roads.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 22. Newcastle Knights v Sydney Roosters.

From Hunter Stadium, NSW.

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 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (CC) 2.00 Netball. (CC) World Cup. Day 3. Preliminary round.

Australia v New Zealand.

From Allphones Arena, Sydney.

4.00 RPM. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 Monster Moves. (R, CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing.

(CC) Superbike World Championship. Round 10.

Highlights.

4.30 Football Asia. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling. (CC) 5.30 Hitler’s People: Conformity. (CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, CC) With 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 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, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

10.10 A.D. Kingdom And Empire. (M, CC) Having failed to silence the disciples, Caiaphas is challenged for the position of high priest. He authorises Saul of Tarsus to begin a bitter campaign of persecution against Jesus’ followers. Herod and his wife decide to pay an unexpected visit to the Nazarene’s encampment.

11.10 Stalker. (M, CC) After a popular high school coach is nearly crushed by a set of bleachers, Beth and Jack investigate.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. (PG, CC) A fight breaks out after a man confronts a photographer who has been taking pictures of his girlfriend.

7.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, CC) Senior Constable Bloomfield and Sergeant St Clair execute a search warrant.

7.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) With teenager Luke demanding his “space”, Phil finds himself growing closer to his assistant.

8.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Claire and Phil once again decide to celebrate Valentine’s Day as their alter egos.

8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) The team investigates after nine planes, that departed from the same airport, face a coordinated wi-fi attack.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) The team searches for Bodnar, the man they hold responsible for the murders of Ziva’s father and Vance’s wife.

10.30 MOVIE: Midnight In Paris. (PG, R, CC) (2011) A screenwriter travels through time. Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Secrets Of The Colosseum. (PG, CC) Takes a look at efforts by a team of engineers to replicate the methods by which the Romans were able to manage spectacles in the Colosseum. They are hoping to build a trap door-pulley system capable of making a beast “magically” appear in the arena, as in the tales from antiquity.

8.35 Uranium: Twisting The Dragon’s Tail. (PG, CC) Part 1 of 3. Australian-born physicist Dr Derek Muller tells the story of the “rock” which helped shape the modern world, uranium.

From its creation in an exploding star before the Earth was even formed, to its use in nuclear weapons, power and medicine, its history is revealed.

9.40 The Bomb. (CC) Using recently declassified images, the history of the atomic bomb is explored.

11.45 MOVIE: Max Manus.

(M, R) (2008) A Norwegian becomes a freedom fighter after returning home to find his country occupied by Nazis. Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen.

12.05 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 1.00 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 1.50 Nine Presents. (CC) 2.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.30 48 Hours: Crazy Love.

(M, R) A look at the murder of Benji Novack.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show.

1.50 MOVIE: If You Are The One. (M, R, CC) (2008) A man falls for a jaded air hostess. You Ge, Qi Shu. 4.00 Our Food. (R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News. News from Tokyo.

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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GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.25pm Crazy, Stupid, Love.

(2011) Comedy. Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling. (M) Romance

6.30pm Orange Is The New Black. Piper gets creative to grow her business while Alex doesn’t trust new inmate Lolly.

(MA15+) Showcase

6.30pm Sri Lanka: Elephant Island. A look at elephants in Sri Lanka. (PG) Animal Planet

2.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Melbourne Storm v Gold Coast Titans. Fox Sports 1

7.00pm The Queen’s Cavalry. (PG) Biography

2.15pm Netball. INF World Cup. Australia v New Zealand.

Fox Sports 4

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(R) 11.00 Wacky World Beaters.

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(R, CC) 12.30 M.I. High. (R, CC) 1.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 The Legend Of Dick And Dom. (R, CC) 4.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 4.55 Big Babies.

(CC) 5.10 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 5.35 Sadie J. (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 The Haunting Hour. (PG, CC) 8.50 Karaoke High. (R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah.

(PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG) 12.00 Swimming. FINA World Championships. 2.30 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Grand Final.

4.30 Swimming. FINA World Championships. Day 10.

6.00 Olympians: Off The Record: Matt Mitcham.

(PG, CC) 6.30 Man Made Marvels: Sydney Opera House.

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9.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. Jenni Falconer helps Phil and Linzi.

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Fourth Test. England v Australia. Day 4. Afternoon session.

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Scott Darley Challenge. Night 2.

Replay. 9.00 Rugby Union. (CC) The Rugby Championship. Round 3. Bledisloe Cup. Game 1. Australia v New Zealand. Replay. 11.30 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) 2.00 World Sport. (R) 2.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 3.00 Bolt Report.

(R, CC) 4.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (R, CC) 5.00 Shred! (PG, R) 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) Follows cops on patrol across the US. 8.30 Bondi Ink Tattoo. (M, R) Mike brings in a new apprentice.

9.30 MOVIE: The Siege.

(M, R, CC) (1998) Terrorists plot to bomb New York City. Denzel Washington.

11.50 World Sport. 12.20 The Americans. (AV15+, R, CC) 1.20 RPM. (R, CC) 2.20 Cops. (PG, R) 3.20 RPM Moment. (CC) 3.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 10. Indianapolis Grand Prix. From Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

5.00 World Sport. (R) 5.30 Shred!

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ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets.

(C, CC) 10.30 90210. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) 7.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Homer enrols in university.

8.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Bart becomes convinced his life is in danger after Sideshow Bob is paroled from prison.

8.30 MOVIE: Napoleon Dynamite. (PG, R, CC) (2004) An eccentric teenager tries to help his friend win an upcoming school election. Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Efren Ramirez.

10.20 House Of Lies. (MA15+) Marty and Jeannie launch a duplicitous plan.

11.10 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) Hosted by James Corden.

12.10 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (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 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.

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(M, R, CC) 10.30 Sex: An Unnatural History. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.30 Naked News: Uncovered! (MA15+, CC) (New Series) 12.00 In Her Skin. (M) 12.50 In Her Skin. (PG) 1.40 MOVIE: Portrait Of A Beauty.

(MA15+, R) (2008) 3.40 CCTV News In English From Beijing.

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2. A lucky strike that reduces friction (3) 1. Warning letters 3. Capital in the from the watch? bank – a bullion (4-3,4) robbery’s proceeds 9. Misfortune of (5) learner doubled 4. Country having after one (3) 10. Sudden inspira- something of a drug and a narcottion to be couraics problem? (6) geous about a 5. Writers I have poor win (9) found to be 11. Somewhere to thoughtful (7) stay where it’s very 6. The best in the warm to the Span- astronomy class? ish (5) (4,5) 13. Allowed drop7. Liquor served outs? (7) on flight leads to 14. Aspire to com- gaiety? (4,7) mendation (6) 8. Front of wing 16. Pea now used obtained from in pea-shooter, for jumble gained in example (6) shelf (7,4) 18. Purpose in torn 12. Do art in it as clothing (7) practice handed 19. Loves to find down (9) the answer (5) 15. The person 20. Lowest of three who dispatched speeds is very it is about 50 and poor (5-4) slim (7) 21. Jailbird to loiter 17. Violent efforts to (3) produce tune? (6) 19. 17 is up to the 22. It brings an admission, but not night before (5)

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AMBER WAVES

by Dave T. Phipps

A TOUCH MORE DORIN

by Paul Dorin

JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z The average Australian drinks 100 litres of soft drink per year. To put it another way, that’s about 280 cans of drink that each of us drinks each year. z Another good reason to recycle: The energy saved by recycling one glass jar is enough to watch TV for three hours. z There are many laws that have been passed in days gone by that make you think that some of our early legislators had a bit too much time on their hands. Take the USA, for example, where in Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from an airplane; an Illinois law states that a car must be driven with the steering wheel; in West Virginia, you can be imprisoned for cooking sauerkraut or cabbage, due to the offensive odour; and a California law of 1925 made it illegal to wiggle while dancing. z The same man who discovered the planet Uranus also invented

by Samantha Weaver contact lenses. z A giraffe can use its tongue to clean its ears – not too difficult a task, I suppose, if your tongue is 21 inches, or 53cm, long. z Everyone has seen bonsai – those tiny trees that are pruned into aesthetically pleasing shapes.

Many people don’t realise, though, that even trees that grow to be giants of the plant world, such as redwoods and giant sequoias, can be used to create these miniatures. z The United States once issued a bill of currency that was worth 5 cents. z The name of the popular Japanese

dish teriyaki literally means “shiny and broiled”. z There is only one bird that can swim but not fly: the penguin, of course.

Thought for the Day: “A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.” – La Bruyere

21. Be prostrate through falsehood? (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1. Aqueduct (11) 9. Longing (3) 10. Mature (9) 11. Bit (5) 13. Club-shape (7) 14. Ditch (6) 16. Standing (6) 18. Erase (7) 19. Weird (5) 20. Nomadic (9) 21. Curve (3) 22. Easily lit (11)

DOWN 2. Barley beard (3) 3. Clothe (5) 4. Hollow (6) 5. Most unsightly (7) 6. Partisan (9) 7. Understanding (11) 8. Youth (11) 12. Immunity (9) 15. Coagulate (7) 17. Soothe (6) 19. Additional (5) 21. Every (3) NO. 20,305

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 07.08.2015 to Sunday 09.08.2015

YOUR STARS

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) It is a good time to be creative. Is there something you love doing but normally don’t have time for? This could be when you finally show your talent. Overall there is a need for more satisfaction in your life. Relationships with younger members of the family are highlighted now. Give them quality time.

You don’t need any encouragement when it comes to romance, Aries. Even so, avoid getting into a rut.

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TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) There

may not be much time to spend by yourself this week, Taurus. Still, you prefer a crowd around you anyway. Make the most of a sparkling time by accepting invitations and issuing some of your own. Finances should be showing an improvement, even though there is a lot to pay out this month. Those on holiday won’t feel like holding on too tightly to the purse strings. Romance is in the air and someone who fires your imagination is not far away.

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Some-

one you met at the beginning of last week seems set to come back. This will certainly make life more exciting. Likewise, at work, something that you started last week really comes together. Using some of those forgotten talents? Fine. You may even develop some more. Working with others seems to suit you fine this week, although that is not always the case. Love may come knocking on your door at the weekend. The question is, are you listening?

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) A situation or relationship that has given you some concern sorts itself out this week. Maybe you will make a move or someone else will decide to take control. Whatever this is will be short-lived if you make the right decision.

Remember, holding on to something that gives you nothing but grief cannot be right.

With the New Moon at the weekend comes a lovely feeling that things are moving on.

That is just what you need right now.

for the week commencing 10.08.2015

BY CASSANDRA NYE

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) The good news is you can now let go of any negative feelings toward someone. The not-so-good news is that you have to tell them. Life is often swings and roundabouts. This week it is more like a seesaw! Still, you will feel so much brighter once things have balanced out. Be brave in your decisions. There is good news about a young relative or friend. Feel free to be proud about your part in their success.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) This

is definitely a party week. Are you on holiday or anticipating a get-together? Being at your most relaxed is always the best time to find out what others are thinking. A young relative could, perhaps, benefit from a few wise words. Don’t feel that you are interfering.

Everyone needs help at some time. Someone you met recently comes back into your life in a different way. This gives your relationship a boost.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Some-

one will appeal to your ego and vanity this week. It is important to realise they may have a hidden agenda. Of course, people are normally very responsive to charming Libra. It is to be expected. Even so, be aware you have something that someone else wants. Could it just be your attention they are seeking?

Being in a holiday mood makes you more sensitive to anyone who would pull the wool over your eyes.

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SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV

22) If you have some time

off, be sure your hobby or special interest gets the attention it deserves.

Some say they will draw in their spare time and others wish to play music. What would really give you pleasure and satisfaction? Go in that direction. You have much to give and may think you do not have time to give it. Wrong.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) You will not be unmasked

as a secret genius this week.

However, others may realise what an asset you really are! So often you hide your talents. You are far too modest.

When considering how much it would help others to use your talents, you know it has to be done. Being with someone who really understands your feelings and motives is important.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

A block may have been put on an important relationship. Is that because one or other of you is unwilling to ‘open up’? Hard as it may be to start that conversation, please do it this week. The feeling of relief and satisfaction you will get cannot be emphasised enough. The New Moon is asking you to make a fresh start. Perhaps organise things better at work. Some truths need to be told.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

This is a very romantic and even passion-fuelled week for you, Aquarius. Current relationships take on a fiery aspect. Expectations are high and someone may be listening for a question. If you are not ready, do not be rushed! Meeting someone new and exciting should be good but there is jealousy around. Read between the lines when it comes to others. What you hear may not be what they are saying in their heart.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20)

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Although this is a week of oneon-one chats and revelations, you feel somewhat divided.

On the one hand there are those who would like to make you their friend. On the other are those who feel they can demand time with you. Don’t forget to make time for what you want. Otherwise, where is the incentive to move forward?

Don’t start believing things that are not true just because others think it.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Oh lucky Leo who can attract so much admiration and respect! It is a lot to live up to at times, isn’t it? Still, in the months ahead you could use this to your advantage.

Use contacts to boost business.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You may feel, Leo, that mixing business with pleasure is not a good idea. Think again. Such is your popularity it would be silly not to bring the two together. A partner can be relied on to help in this.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Leo, have a little more confidence in those with whom you work.

Thinking that you can do everything yourself is short-sighted. Teamwork is not always for you as you like to be the boss.

There are exceptions.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Cuban leader Fidel Castro (above), 89. When looking to the future, Leo, try not to see it as one-sided. Although you realise that some things are more easily achieved if you do them alone, there are other ways.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Australian swimmer Kieren Perkins (below) who turns 42. The self-absorbed everyday attitude that you sometimes adopt will not bring success, Leo. Even if you don’t want to open up to others, you can appear to do so. Appearing human can bring more cooperation.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Some things seem rather alien to you at times, Leo. One of those is letting others know what you are thinking. On the surface you seem open. Sharing your worries will, actually, lift a weight from your shoulders.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Although you are a person who wants to keep control, showing a more vulnerable side can be to your advantage.

This is especially true in your more intimate relationships. Get a balance.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3333

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This week's Sudoku

This week's Snowflake

Find the Words solution 863 Needs to be skilled DUAL CROSSWORD 18,948 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Acclaimed; 8 Vat; 9 Assassinate; 11 Bristle; 12 Robin; 13 Legacy; 15 Impale; 17 Purge; 18 Dismiss; 20 Disentangle; 22 Nag; 23 Dispenser.

Down: 2 Cos; 3 Asset; 4 Mailed; 5 Diagram; 6 Overbearing; 7 Sternness; 10 Swing bridge; 11 Ballpoint; 14 Creased; 16 Adonis; 19 Stage; 21 Lie. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Defrosted; 8 Coo; 9 Predecessor; 11 Hapless; 12 Romeo; 13 Pundit; 15 Gentle; 17 Child; 18 Rapport; 20 Uncivilised; 22 Sir; 23 Salvation.

Down: 2 Err; 3 Obese; 4 Theism; 5 Deserve; 6 Scrumptious; 7 Somnolent; 10 Expenditure; 11 Hypocrisy; 14 Indices; 16 Grovel; 19 Polka; 21 Ego. CryptoQuote answer

This week's Go Figure!

Mega Maze

DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 20,305 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Look-out post; 9 Ill; 10 Brainwave; 11 Hotel; 13 Dripped; 14 Praise; 16 Weapon; 18 Raiment; 19 Solve; 20 Third-rate; 21 Lag; 22 Entrance fee. Down: 2 Oil; 3 Kabul; 4 Uganda; 5 Pensive; 6 Star pupil; 7 High spirits; 8 Leading edge; 12 Tradition; 15 Slender; 17 Strain; 19 Sieve; 21 Lie. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Watercourse; 9 Yen; 10 Developed; 11 Piece; 13 Trefoil; 14 Trench; 16 Status; 18 Expunge; 19 Eerie; 20 Itinerant; 21 Arc; 22 Inflammable. Down: 2 Awn; 3 Endue; 4 Cavity; 5 Ugliest; 6 Supporter; 7 Sympathetic; 8 Adolescence; 12 Exemption; 15 Congeal; 17.Becalm; 19 Extra; 21 All.

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. South America. 2. James Brown, in 1965. For that version, the song’s tempo was increased. The 1991 box set has the song as originally written. 3. A long-winded and often pointless anecdote. 4. D.H. Lawrence. 5. Debussy. 6. 1921. 7. A fear of poison. 8. Harry Shearer. 9. 1943. 10. Trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. 11. Greg Page. 12. Lindsay Davenport, who completed the feat in 2000. 13. “To Her Door” by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, released in 1987.

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