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The wedding march to the people’s drum T last – a call for a plebiscite on gay marriage – where certainly a percentage of voters not in favour will cast their say on an issue they’ll be hard pressed to judge, given they’re not gay and won’t ever face the issue of gay marriage in their personal lives as a choice they can or cannot make.

Parliamentarian Tim Watts’ speech from the heart this week pretty much summed up that ideal suggesting that non-LGBTI people ought not make assumptions about what gay men and women want.

So perhaps more poignant would be a referendum within the LGBTI community to decide for themselves and given the opportunity to legitimise and legalise their long-term relationships, there’s no prizes for guessing what the outcome would be.

Except one. Marriage equality.

Think of all the tax payer dollars saved by not spending the millions to run a plebiscite or referendum for finding out the bleeding obvious.

When the country’s leaders grasp at tired, convenient stereotypes about who LGBTI people are (pigeon-holing gay men alongside eccentric Italian fashion designers, for example) then how can anyone expect the issue of gay marriage to get the serious hearing it deserves.

It’s hard not to gag on the hypocracy of federal and state anti-discrimination laws in this country, which since 1975 have recognised in print at least that a persons’ sexual orientation should not be a point of discrimination.

Primarily laws set down offer protection in the workplace, so there’s at least one place in Australia LGBTI’s could in theory get married without legal opposition.

Not intending to make light of the subject, the federal Marriage Act of 1961 (created 54 years ago, in the same year Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence was banned in Australia and the world’s first openly gay candidate stood for public office in the USA) is the law standing between a country where gay marriage isn’t okay, to one where it is.

Aided by the 2004 amendment, it states “marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life. Certain unions are not marriages. A union solemnised in a foreign country between: (a) a man and another man; or (b) a woman and another woman; must not be recognised as a marriage in Australia”.

That’s 11 years ago. The same year Tasmania became the first Australian state to enact civil union laws between same-sex couples and in the USA, city officials in San Francisco started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in violation of state law opening a flood gate of demand.

And the rest as they say – for that country – is history.

The 2004 amendment was opposed by hu-

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man rights groups and obviously LGBTIs who were experiencing discrimination at an institutionalised level despite existing antidiscrimination laws which say it’s okay to be gay at work, just stop that business when you get home.

Fast forward to this week, when a caller on a phone-in radio debate described gay parents as paedophiles who should never be allowed to have or raise children of their own.

Watch out, they might be raised without bigotry, prejudice and discrimination. It’s an ignorant view born from the sticking point that apparently all gays do is think about sex. Just as for heterosexuals, there’s a lot more going on for someone identifying with the LGBTI community such as whose turn it is to stack the dishwasher and if there’s enough money in the bank to re-register the car this week.

There are plenty of sex workers with children. Does that make them paedophiles too?

Debasing what we don’t understand is a classic fall back position – the premise of school yard bullying Debasing and mighty hard to unlearn what we – because getting educated, don’t really educated on an issue, takes effort. understand Which is why, when it is a classic comes to human rights – and marriage equality is a fallback human right – the discus- position sion needs to keep happening over and over and over because again until enough of the getting right people are engaged and the debate and discus- educated, sion is exhausted in the really public forum, a fair hearing is received and only then educated, decisions made. on an issue As it’s been out there now takes effort. for many, many decades, this might be that time. Gay couples have lived throughout the Australian community for generations and the country has rolled on regardless.

Now they’re asking for legitimacy, tired of living in the shadows, who is anyone to deny them?

It was once okay to keep family members hidden at home who had disabilities, who couldn’t see, hear, walk or speak because they didn’t fit the norm.

This is an age and a country where everyone can be acknowledged for having their own personal “normal”. What’s mine’s not yours.

So bring on the plebiscite or a referendum (the former is non-binding, by the way) and let’s give human rights a fair go.

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Time to get real on school lunches ` If you can’t read it or pronounce it, don’t eat it.”

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH MITH JOURNALIST

ESPITE a full menu of trending diets and more information than ever about what constitutes healthy living, Australians clearly still have a problem with their food.

A recent survey undertaken by the CSIRO has found our junk food intake is three times higher than the recommended daily limit, as people have larger portions of junk food more often – foods high in sugar, saturated fats and foods low in essential nutrients.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports almost two in three Australian adults are overweight or obese – 10 per cent more than 20 years ago; and 25 per cent of children are overweight or obese.

Along with a poor diet this extra weight contributes to a range of diseases including cardiovascular diseases, Type Two diabetes, osteoarthritis and some cancers, estimated to be costing the Australian economy $37.7 billion directly and indirectly (based on modeling undertaken by KPMG Econtech in 2010).

Even within schools, the effects of poor nutrition are being seen in the form of hyperactive and impulsive behaviours through to the inability to concentrate.

This fuels the passion of “whole” food advocate and mother of two, Carolyn Simmonds, who has been delivering talks to schools and parents about how to pack a healthy school lunch of “real” food.

“My eldest started school this year and she’s definitely noticing more packaged foods, asking about things at the supermarket that she’s seen other kids eating.

“Thankfully at our school they’re not allowed to share food and they have to pick up papers if they do, which I think is fantastic.

“I think there’s a real mood for change and what I’d like to see is the kids with healthy lunchboxes influencing all the other kids.

“I know at my son’s daycare there are other kids interested in his lunch, wanting to taste his vegetables. I see that as something really positive.”

While she admits it’s easier to get children on the right path if they’ve always eaten this way, Simmonds is adamant it’s nev-

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– Carolyn Simmonds, whole-food advocate

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er too late to make changes.

“Real food can be both nourishing and delicious and I want parents to believe their kids will eat it...it doesn’t have to be hard.

“Parents do underestimate their kids and I often hear “My kid won’t eat that!”...but kids are often the biggest influence on other kids.”

Real food or whole food is defined by Simmonds as food that has no additives or pre-

servatives, nourishes the body and helps children reach their full potential.

“Unfortunately, it’s a minefield for parents and it can be overwhelming but there are still better choices that can be made at the supermarket.

“I started doing these lunchbox talks to help break it down and to show parents it’s actually really simple to pack a healthy lunch.

“Part of it is helping parents

to read the packets – the back of the packets because there’s so much misleading information on the front.

“With food labeling standards in Australia, if the ingredient is less than five percent of what’s in the product it doesn’t have to be listed...with packaged food you just don’t really know what you’re consuming.”

Simmonds says the key is to read the ingredients, listed from greatest quantity to least,

to understand the fewer ingredients the better, and to look for products with no numbers.

Phone apps can be used to identify additive and preservative numbers, alerting consumers as to which ones to avoid.

“There are 300 additives allowed into food in Australia and we know about 60 of those are potentially harmful, and 30 of those are carcinogenic. If you can’t read it or pronounce it, don’t eat it.”

Sugar and salt are also on the hit list, with Simmonds explaining one of the big concerns is they’re are often not listed because they make up less than five per cent of the product’s ingredients.

“But to be honest, I’m advocating parents make food from scratch so you know what’s in it – keeping it simple, leftovers are one of the best school lunches.”

Dubbo Public School P&C recently invited Simmonds to speak at their school. Parent and committee member, Donna Ambler says she understands the pressure parents are under.

“Many of us are busy working parents and it’s easy to go for convenience foods when we’re time poor, but we often don’t realise what’s in those convenience foods and the impact those ingredients might have.

“One of our teachers recently attended a course that looked at how nutrition affects children’s health and learning, where it was suggested additives in foods can cause everything from hyperactivity to poor short-term memory, difficulty concentrating and impulsive behavior – all challenging behaviours teachers face every day.

“We owe it to our children to provide them with foods that not only give them enough energy to survive a day at school but also to help them learn.

“We also owe it to the teachers.”

Ambler believes a child’s nutrition is ultimately a parent’s responsibility but schools have had to address it as a social issue in the face of growing obesity rates in children.

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No smoke, no fire as prisoners butt out aaa

SW Corrections staff were earlier this week bracing themselves for a backlash as new laws banning smoking in prisons saw some 9600 inmates told to butt out from Monday.

It’s estimated that 80 per cent of the state’s prison population of 12,000 are regular smokers of tobacco, so there were concerns in some sectors that this week’s introduction of the ban would lead to widespread unrest as prisoners struggle to break what’s said to be among the hardest of addictions to overcome.

NSW is the fourth state to introduce such a ban, and authorities feared a similar reaction from inmates as happened in Victoria last month where a 15 hour riot in a Melbourne gaol followed the ban on cigarettes.

However, as the week progressed, it seemed all was quiet on the NSW prisons front even after it was revealed that a loophole in the law would allow guards to smoke in designated areas within prison surrounds.

The smooth introduction of the ban comes as no surprise to Deputy Premier and Police Minister Troy Grant, who told Weekender both the authorities and the inmates have been well prepared for the imposition of the ban. “It’s been in the pipeline for a while, and they’re ready. There are actually a significant number of inmates who have indicated they want to participate and are keen to get off tobacco.�

Grant says fears of a backlash such as happened in Victoria last month are largely

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unfounded – the result, to an extent, of mischievous media. “There was one incident – one – in a corrective facility in Melbourne, which had previously had some other issues with security and procedures.�

Grant says he’s been inside a number of facilities across the state, talking to both prisoners and guards, and that the fear of a backlash this is something “other people� are making more of than those on the ground.

The ban, according to Grant, is primarily a health initiative – it’s not designed purely to make life difficult for inmates. “More prisoners than you would think have embraced this. The challenge for Corrective Services is more in the remand facilities – with people who are coming in for short stints, rather than with those who are serving longer term custodial sentences.�

The Deputy Premier also rejects the suggestion that forcing incarcerated individuals to quit smoking is in any way cruel. “They’re being given (nicotine) patches and transition

support services – it’s not just a case of whacking their baccy away and making them suffer.

It’s a staged and managed process that has been developed in consultation with prisoners themselves. It’s not just something that’s been dropped on them – it’s been coming for a while, and everyone’s ready.�

Prisoners have been offered an eight week supply of nicotine patches and a range of diversionary therapies and activities to help ease the withdrawal from smoking. The cost of the tax-payer funded nicotine replacement therapy is yet to be defined, but Corrections Minister David Elliot defended the measure, saying whatever the cost, it’s likely to be well below the cost to the health care system from the effects of longterm smoking.

Grant concedes that tobacco will, after the three week amnesty is over, be considered contraband, but isn’t concerned about the rise of a black-market in cigarettes within gaols. “Evidence from New Zealand, Western Australia and South Australia where this has been in place for a while indicates it’s

` Inmates will smoke three times more than a “civilian�...the whole place can smell like one big ashtray at times. After a few nervous months the inmates and officers will be happier and healthier from the ban.� – Corrections officer from Wellington Gaol, who asked not to be identified.

been one of the best things to ever happen within the prison system,� he says. “We’re taking lessons out of each of those jurisdictions’ experience, and we’re making sure we’ve picked up the best practice to implement here.�

A corrective services officer who works at Wellington’s gaol and who spoke to Weekender on the condition of anonymity, says he welcomes the measures, as do many of his colleagues. “It will be a good thing in the long run for the health of inmates and officers,� he says. “Inmates will smoke three times more than a “civilian� due to boredom and as the addiction becomes stronger it becomes worse. “The whole place can smell like one big ashtray at times.

But there are quite a few inmates who don’t smoke and with new laws they can’t share a cell with a smoker – that creates logistic headaches as the jails are full as it is. So if noone’s allowed to smoke, that eases that issue.�

The officer, who is a nonsmoker, says many of the inmates struggle to understand that this is a government initiative rather than a measure initiated by corrective services.

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“But many of them are actually happy the ban is now in place. “Tobacco is used as currency often to buy drugs, and so tobacco can be the reason behind violence because some inmates need it because they’re addicted, but they can’t afford it. The officers at Wellington do a great job trying to stamp out drugs and I personally think this will help halt the trade.�

The officer says the Melbourne riot was able to escalate because there were inadequate procedures in place. “They didn’t have officers trained in riots so they all left and handed over to police. It’s different in NSW where there are specialist Immediate Action Teams (IATs), of which I’m a part, and dog squads trained in riot control and disturbances. All other offices are also trained in handling emergency situations. “So if something happens it will be handled. I think after a few nervous months the inmates and officers will be happier and healthier from the ban. Plenty of my mates smoke and they are happy to stop smoking, even though it will be tough.�

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Young Minds Matter but parents falter

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY JOURNALIST

ENTAL health support organisations are calling for more to be done for children and young people in light of this week’s release of the second Australian government funded Young Minds Matter report.

Published by the University of Western Australia, the largest national survey of its kind to date examines the mental health and wellbeing of Australian children and adolescents aged four to 17 from 6,310 households across the nation. “We’ve known since before this report that the number of people who actually access help is only a relatively small percentage. There’s still a lot of work to be done by the community most generally about ensuring that when people are struggling then as many people as possible do reach out and obviously have services that they can go and attend,� said Peter Rohr, operations manager, headspace, Bathurst who is also responsible for Dubbo, Orange and Cowra.

The report concluded that 14 per cent, or 560,000 kids, experienced a mental health disorder in the 12 months previous to their six interviews, which were conducted between 2013 and 2014. “These and other findings, including that one fifth of adolescents have high levels of psy-

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chological distress and one in 13 has seriously considered suicide in the past year, are deeply concerning and highlights what beyondblue sees every day,� said Brett McDermott, beyondblue board director.

ADHD was the most common mental disorder in children and adolescents (7.4 per cent) followed by anxiety disorders (6.9 per cent), major depressive disorder (2.8 per cent) and conduct disorder (2.1 per cent).

This equates to 278,000 suffering from anxiety and 112,000 from depression in varying degrees. “From when headspace Bathurst opened it’s doors in 2008, each year we’ve seen a growth in the number of young people who are using our service. The fact that more young people are coming through our doors is both a positive and a negative,� he said. “It’s a positive that people are seeking out help when they need it. It’s a negative to see there is so much need in youth mental health and getting support.

Headspace CEO Chris Tanti, said: “The mental health system needs to be further simplified to make it as easy and seamless as possible for young people and their parents to get the type of help they need.

One of the ways of doing this is making sure services are well advertised, accessible and delivered face-to-face, online and in schools.� “The importance of mental health has very much been put on the radar,� said Rohr. “There’s still a degree of hes-

` There’s still a lot of work to be done by the community most generally about ensuring that when people are struggling then as many people as possible do reach out and obviously have services that they can go and attend. itation by both young people and their parents, around seeking help when mental health may be an issue. That’s certainly something headspace ensuring, as are other organisations as well, that mental health shouldn’t be seen as something that is kept in the shadows or something to be ashamed of. “That shame and battling on by yourself and those sorts of things can be so damaging.

The more our community do have it as a conversation the more chance we have of getting to things early as well,� he said. “The report’s findings confirm the importance of investing in prevention and early intervention programs. Intervention must happen early as this leads to few complications and better outcomes over the course of a child’s life,� beyon-

dblue CEO Georgie Harman.

The Young Minds Matter report also revealed parents are often unaware their child is experiencing any problem. “Adolescence is a time of change but we would want to look out for change of habits, attitudes, friendships, school attendance, eating. It’s about knowing your children well as individuals,� said Anne Heath, area manager, central west, Interrelate. “We have more parents raising concerns about their children and very high levels of inquiry for our Family Mental Health Support Service in Bourke, Cobar and Coonamble,� she said. “Causes of mental health issues in regional NSW include isolation, distance and less variety of opportunity for self

expression. Also high rates of domestic violence in regional communities mean children may be living in very difficult circumstances,� Heath said. “One of the impetus behind headspace is to ensure we have support for young people and families when issues are not at crisis point. Sometimes those conversations are easier to have and decisions to make when things are not so bad,� said Rohr. “It’s important in the community to have confidence to have those conversations. In the report that’s been released and in what we’ve seen from comments from headspace CEO Chris Tanti, it’s important that family and friends around young people feel confident and comfortable to have discussions with their child or the young person. Some families certainly are and others sometimes might be a little bit afraid of what they might hear. “There’s lots of information around now on how to have those conversations through a centre or e-headspace or other support services. “When you’re talking the central west, that’s a big geographical area so e-headspace is something any parent or young person can access as long as they’ve got Internet or phone.

Online information is also available for parents and youth at www.youthbeyondblue.com, www.beyondblue.org.au and www.interrelate.org.au.

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Junk, black dogs and community lifelines

BY JOHN RYAN N JOURNALIST

ARBAGE, black dogs and lifelines for those in need – all up it’s been a pretty positive week for the Dubbo community.

I’m always critical of the huge waste in our bureaucratic systems, and that’s without factoring in the people who sit in positions of departmental power who are incompetent, lazy or just plain nasty.

For every taxpayer dollar given to a level of government, department or statutory authority, you’re lucky if 20 cents gets to the ground.

Many major organised charities are just as bad.

I’ve seen numerous and enormous amounts of waste at the local government level, so it freaks me out that at a state level it’s worse, and the federal level dwarfs even that leakage.

I’m simplifying and generalising but it’s also basic truth.

This is why shires and councils, many of them no stranger to losing a buck here and there, love the federal Roads to Recovery program which sees dollars for roads go straight to local government, cutting out the state bureaucrats who would use much of the money to plug holes in their own finances, employ more useless mouths to shuffle meaningless paper or just to build ego-satisfying empires.

On the other side of the equation, almost powerless because they don’t have lobbying dollars, are the volunteer organisations and not-for-profits, where people do much with little by galvanising community volunteer efforts.

The Australia Tax Office (ATO) equates an hour of menial labour performed by a volunteer at about $36 value, so the group of people who helped clean up the massive amount of rubbish at Devil’s Elbow just near Dubbo last weekend works out this way: 40 people for six hours at $36/hour = $8640; not bad for an afternoon’s rewarding effort.

Of course that effort shouldn’t have been needed in the first place for all sorts of underlying reasons.

Firstly, people shouldn’t leave rubbish lying around, it needs to go in the bin.

Secondly, it appears much of the mess came via the city’s stormwater drains, even though Dubbo City Council is quick to air the belief that you can’t pinpoint the original source of

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the trash. (That’s bureaucracyspeak for “don’t blame us, it’s not our fault”.)

That’s trash-talk to my mind, as Inland Waterways Rejuvenation Association president Matt Hansen, who led the clean-up effort, pointed out.

“Look at all these tennis balls – 50 of them. They didn’t all end up in the river from people playing cricket, their dogs would have swum in and grabbed those ones,” Hansen said.

That’s not to mention the fact that it’s winter, so not much cricket is currently going on down at good old Devil’s Elbow, although maybe the Aussie cricket team should be out there getting in some practice.

The short fact of the matter is that the city has too few gross pollutant traps (GPTs) for the stormwater outlets and this means rubbish gets from the city streets and other areas around town and ends up in the river.

We’re told council will look at extra GPTs if and when funding becomes available, but for my peace of mind I’d like to see a few independent quotes to have them installed because the ones done by city hall always seem pretty pricey.

It was great to see Councillor

John Walkom paddling along in his kayak, getting his hands dirty with the proletariat.

He’s keen to see the state government introduce a container deposit levy – that is, charge people an extra 10 or 20 cents on each bottle and can when they buy the drink or whatever, then they get that money back when they hand it in.

Industry doesn’t like this because it’s far more worried about private profit than community interest.

The food and beverage companies didn’t have to stump up the $8640 for the clean-up effort so in effect they’re a major part of the problem but don’t want to have to do anything about their mess.

To its credit, Dubbo City Council has been proactive in urging the state government to get a container levy happening, so hopefully that happens in the not too distant future.

Monday morning saw Deputy Premier and local member Troy Grant launch the new “Black Dog” sign-written semi-trailer at the Dubbo Visitors’ Information Centre.

This trailer is a Transforce rig and I have to say, anytime there’s a call out for community support, Transforce owner

Steve Fieldus is about the first to put his hand up.

This is a tremendous example of a local business giving back again and again, doing things not for profit but because it’s the right thing to do.

And unlike many staged corporate publicity opportunities, Steve always stays away from the media spotlight, not just getting involved because he thinks he can get something out of it.

That’s why I’m highlighting his involvement here, even though he probably won’t be happy about that.

As a former cop who suffered major stress from various experiences, Troy Grant said the Black Dog Ride, and the support it gives to Lifeline, was a huge factor in helping people overcome mental health issues such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Locally, the Black Dog Ride is championed by Steve Gower and Wayne Amor, two blokes who love their Harleys and who see the rides as great companionship as well as its core intent of raising funds.

I filmed the ride earlier this year for the boys and saw blokes participating whom I hadn’t caught up with in ages.

` These things are done by local people with either zero funding or on the smell of an oily rag.

One of them told me he normally just rode with his mates but thought he’d support it as it was a good cause, with the side benefits of running into heaps of people he “hadn’t seen for 20 years”, many of whom he didn’t even realise rode motorbikes.

I was also surprised at how many people I saw taking part when I didn’t know the even had bikes.

Black Dog is all about depression awareness and mates helping mates.

The expression was possibly coined by wartime British PM Winston Churchill and I’ve read many of his books including his six volume masterpiece History of the Second World War. He makes many mentions of his “black dog”, so he spoke about it in public many decades before it became fashionable to air such private battles.

This was a bloke at the height of his powers and faculties, surrounded by some of the world’s most brilliant intellects, dubbed the “man of the 20th Century”, yet he suffered from severe and constant depression.

If it can happen to someone like him, it can obviously strike anyone, so we need the awareness out there so people can recognise the symptoms in friends who may not want to talk about it.

So add up the few hundred bikies on that ride, multiply that by the hours of the ride and times that by 36.

Toss in also the huge hours racked up by people like Steve and Wayne and the many people who also help organise the ride.

Then add in the use of the millions of dollars of two-wheeled assets (and trikes) as well as the actual cash raised, and that’s what the Black Dog Ride, just locally, is worth to our communities on a purely cash basis.

The social value of the initiative is probably incalculable, unless anyone has worked out how to put a value on just one life?

These things are done by local people with either zero funding or on the smell of an oily rag.

This is why our bureaucracy at all levels must nurture and help these sorts of grassroots volunteer efforts, it not only makes commercial dollars and (common) sense, it creates the real reasons people are alive, so they can interact, not so processes are satisfied by drones shuffling endless reams of paper and ticking bureaucratic boxes.

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The week’s top stories from around the region

Counter terrorism tour of duty for Grant ROY Grant won’t be getting much sleep over the coming week. The Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier jetted off yesterday for a whirlwind six day tour to Washington, New York and London for a number of counter-terror briefings with US and British agencies. He will meet with the Obama administration’s National Security Agency advisors at the White House, and with both the Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The former cop and now Minister for Police will also visit the New York Police Department’s Real Time Crime Centre to look at technology in the deployment of police – a “new domain” in which closed-circuit television (CCTV) intelligence holdings and use the information to direct police to where crime is occurring.

He will see first-hand a community engagement program being employed by New York’s police department to combat violent extremism on a community scale.

Grant will then fly across the world to London, where he’ll inspect what’s called the Gold Operation – by which all emergency services combine to respond on a greater scale and with greater capacity in a coordinated way.

“What we’re facing now is a global and local challenges in policing and it’s my job to make sure we’re dynamic in all those areas for the future and to maintain community safety at the highest possible standard,” Grant told Weekender ahead of the tour.

A baptism of fire in his new job as Deputy Premier came with the tragic Lindt Café siege in Martin Place in December last year, and Grant is confident in the state’s preparedness for such emergencies and potential terror threats.

“We have a terrorist alert that’s at “high” at the moment and that’s worrying – the prospect of an attack scares the hell out of me,” he said matter-offactly. “But it also motivates me.

We need to look at every option to make sure our capacity is as good as it can be. I don’t think we were found wanting anywhere in regard to what happened in Sydney, but it certainly shook us out of any innocence

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we had.

“The threat is only going to grow and the threat is going to be exponential – particularly because of the way people are being radicalised, and how young they’re getting. There’s also the fact that they don’t come from any one cohort or social demographic, race or religion – and how quickly they’re being radicalised is a real concern.”

Grant’s hopes for the trip centre on gaining access to the world’s best “intel”.

“Obviously, that’s something I can’t talk about, but it’s good to know NSW is linked up with the world’s best intel and I’ll be getting a briefing from the world’s foremost national security agency and England’s highest security bodies as well,” he said, pointing to this as an indication of how seriously the NSW Government is treating the potential threat of terrorism here at home.

“I’ve had initial briefings with all the agencies, and now I’ll be able to see first-hand what we can employ here in NSW. “I just want to make sure we’re as ready as we can be.”

With just six days on the ground on this counter-terrorism tour, there won’t be time for sight-seeing, Grant told Weekender.

“This is just back-to-back meetings and we’ll be flat out.

I’ll be exhausted at the end of it – and we’ll be sleeping on planes most of the time,” he laughed.

But he assured Weekender he won’t be flying first class.

Don’t be so reckless, regional drivers told POLICE have warned the region’s drivers they face still penalties including hefty fines, disqualification and gaol for failing to act responsibly and respect other road users. Since January 1 2014, police across New South Wales have prosecuted 19,827 drivers for reckless behaviour, prompting Assistant Commissioner John Hartley to warn that road users should not tolerate others who put them and other motorists at risk. “With the road toll current at 193 fatal crashes resulting in 204 deaths, which is nine crashes and 12 deaths more than this time last year, our message to motorists is the road is there to be shared,

ers were said to be helping consumers complete required language, literacy and numeracy tests. Some consumers were not told about conditions attached to the offer. They are often only on loan to a student until a course is completed. Some students who have signed up to similar offers in the past never received their promised laptop or iPad. Students carry debt on loans for many years whether or not they complete the course.

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and help us drive down the road toll in NSW,” Hartley said. “Anyone driving in an aggravated, dangerous, furious, predatory or menacing manner faces fines up to $5500, unlimited periods of disqualification from driving, and in some more serious cases, imprisonment between seven and 10 years.” All Highway Patrol vehicles are now fitted with in-car video and Mobile Automatic Numberplate Recognition Technology so those that either are committing offences on the road, or have been previously reported for such incidents and later detected by Highway Patrol vehicles, face the odds of getting caught.

Meanwhile, anyone considering driving while under the influence of drugs this weekend would do well to re-think that choice. Two new specially designed four-wheel-drives equipped to conduct random drug and breath tests have taken to the road in Western NSW. The two vehicles are the first in a new program worth more than $2 million to rollout dedicated drug testing vehicles to every NSW region and make roadside drug testing more mobile. The specially designed four-wheeldrives are able travel to remote rural areas, and on corrugated unsealed roads that traditional highway patrol vehicles were unable to access, to promote and enforce road safety. Police Minister and local member Troy Grant said the government was cracking down on drug driving, including in some of the state’s most remote communities. “This means if you drug

drive, you will be caught. According to Roads Minister Duncan Gay, in 2013, around 16 per cent of all fatalities involved a driver or rider with an illegal drug in their system. The new purpose built drug testing vehicles – worth a combined total of $450,000 – are funded as part the Centre for Road Safety’s Community Road Safety Fund.

Warning on dodgy training operators RESIDENTS across the Orana region have been issued a warning not to fall for offers of “free” laptops or iPads from dodgy training operators, some of whom have been operating in regional areas in past weeks.

NSW Fair Trading says training courses that offer such inducements or loans are failing the fairness test, and aspiring students should be careful to investigate such lures before enrolling in courses. Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe said he was particularly disturbed by the offensive practice of luring people into training courses with offers of free iPads and laptops.

“I am appalled that vulnerable groups such as Indigenous consumers have been a target.

Anyone who signed up to offers of this kind via door-to-door marketing and has concerns should contact Fair Trading.”

People have allegedly been told they did not need to complete a course to get the inducement and would never have to repay the loan. Some consumers were asked to provide their tax file numbers. Spruik-

Complex health care on the agenda for rural doctors RURAL and remote Australians will be the beneficiaries of a discussion paper that seeks to identify ways to better manage patients with complex and chronic disease. The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has welcomed the release of a discussion paper on primary healthcare reform, saying it will be a critical step in ensuring the future sustainability of quality primary care for those with complex and chronic conditions, including in regional areas.

The discussion paper, Better outcomes for people living with chronic and complex health conditions through primary health care, is particularly relevant for rural general practices such as those in the Orana region, given their high caseload of patients with chronic conditions. The discussion paper was developed by the Primary Health Care Advisory Group — which comprises a number of highly-experienced doctors, including from rural areas — and includes a broad range of options to improve patient-centred primary care.

Over the coming month, the Primary Health Care Advisory Group is seeking feedback on the discussion paper through an online survey and public consultations across Australia.

The group encourages all those in rural and remote areas to take part in this discussion, because it is essential that the unique needs of patients in the bush be fully taken into account by this review.

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Upgrade on track for Dubbo triangle

Long awaited weir upgrade approved

DUBBO’S busy central rail junction point has unveiled its $1.66 million facelift, improving access for trains travelling to the north, south and west of the state through the Dubbo Rail Triangle.

The upgrade will deliver improved travel times and increase efficiency for all trains travelling in and around Dubbo, according to Roads Minister Duncan Gay. “Prior to the upgrade, switches for rail and road traffic at the Triangle needed to be manually operated. Now, the Triangle has new automatic switches, which will save trains up to 15 minutes travel time.”

Some of the key routes to benefit include between Parkes and Cobar, northern NSW and Coonamble, and southern NSW and Orange.

Local roads will also benefit from the upgrade, thanks to an easing of the traffic build-up resulting from train delays.

“By cutting travel times at the triangle we also deliver flow on benefits to other critical road corridors, including Wheelers Lane and Cobbora Road with reduced delays at level crossings,” Gay said.

Wheelers Lane in particular experiences 20,000 vehicle movements per day, making it one of the main roads into the city of Dubbo, and the NSW government has promised an extra $865,000 for further upgrades including the installation of high intensity LED lights, bells, reflective boom gates and pedestrian facilities such as automated swing gates to boost safety.

CONSTRUCTION of safety improvements and a fishway at the South Dubbo weir are one step closer after the Development Application (DA) for the project was approved this month and draft design drawings will be on public exhibition next week. The approval will allow Dubbo City Council to complete the detailed designs and call for construction tenders. More than $4 million has been allocated to the project with an aim to start construction by summer 2015. A rock ramp and fishway will be built to improve public safety at the site and to help ensure Dubbo’s future water supply.

According to council, the fishway will allow native fish to move upstream and downstream through the weir, providing great benefits for native fish stocks between Dubbo and Burrendong Dam. The rock ramp will address priority safety issues at the weir, where a number of tragic deaths have occurred in past years. The water at the base of the weir is turbulent and causes a strong undertow current. The establishment of a rock ramp will decrease the depth and reduce the turbulence, thereby minimising the risk of drowning. Rocks will be carefully placed to dissipate the strong surge of water that gushes beneath the surface.

The draft drawings of the Rock Ramp and Fishway design will be on public exhibition from August 6 to September 4 and can be viewed in the foyer of council’s administration building as well as at the Library and on council’s website.

Maurice Campbell, Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant with Bishop Ian Palmer and the painting donated by Grant to Holy Trinity Anglican Church.

Art-felt gift marks Light Horse battle DUBBO’S Holy Trinity Anglican Church this week made room on the parish office wall for a gift presented in memory of a parishioner who died with the Australian Light Horse in the Battle of Romani in August 1916.

In making the presentation to Bishop Ian Palmer, Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier Troy Grant said it was a chance discovery that led to his decision to donate the painting this week to Holy Trinity.

“I bought this painting and another when Trundle was in the Dubbo electorate because I’ve been a supporter of the Trundle Troopers (a Light Horse tribute brigade) and I donated one to their club-house out at Bogan Gate. The other came to live on the wall in my office, along with some

other Light Horse memorabilia.

“Some time after I lost Trundle in the redistribution, I was sitting in Holy Trinity Anglican Church here in Dubbo at a funeral and I saw that one of the parishioners had died in the Battle of Romani – and that’s what the painting depicts. So I thought, in the Centenary of Anzac year, it would be appropriate to donate it to Holy Trinity. They’re now the proud owners of the painting.”

During the course of donating the painting, Grant also officially recognised the efforts of well-known local unofficial war historian Maurice Campbell, presenting the tireless community stalwart with a plaque in honour of his contributions to the community.

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New owners, Simon Newman and Melissa Culkin, are quickly transforming it into one of the most popular venues in town.

Even on the surface you can see that it is different. The orange paint is gone! Wine barrels and hanging pots give hints of the good mood they are creating.

Together with their small team, Simon and Melissa have created a menu that you won’t find in other pubs and clubs, while not forgetting the Schnitzel lovers out there.

Meals are now available seven days a week, and they have just introduced a delicious breakfast menu, which is available on Saturday and Sunday from 8.30am.

This Sunday, they will kick start their “Brunch’n’Beats” sessions with Sophie Monteiro playing from 10am. Live music creates an amazing atmosphere to relax and enjoy time with friends or family.

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LIVING LEGACY: Plea for help with Nolan memorial team It’s been ten years since Lateesha Nolan left to run an errand and never came back, her murder at the hands of Malcolm Naden leaving four young children to a lifetime of grief. Now, as JOHN RYAN reports, their extended family is hoping the Dubbo community will rally around the kids to help them realise their dream of forming a commemorative team for the Waratah Aboriginal Knockout to be staged in the city next month.

OME stories keep on breaking your heart, but there’s a way you can help ease the pain for at least a short interval for some victims.

Ten years ago I was struggling to write stories about four young kids who saw their mum walk out the door one evening after dropping them off at their grandparents’ house, never to be seen again.

I couldn’t help putting myself in their shoes, imagining how my kids would feel if I went out on a causal errand one night and never, ever came back.

The missing mum was Lateesha Nolan and, while her cousin Malcolm Naden eventually admitted to and was charged with her murder, at the time there were no answers.

In the days that passed the family struggled to hold things together, especially when the kids became panicked.

It began on January 4, 2005 and while we filmed the kids with their recently acquired Christmas presents, there was no joy in their hearts.

Aunt Janette Lancaster vividly recalls that horrific time.

“They then got upset and began to cry and panic and their great grandmother did her best to console them – Kiesha was five, Erica was four, Jayden three and Shaqkaila just 18 months,” Lancaster says.

“Days passed, then months, then years, with them not knowing where she was or what happened to her.

They would ask “Doesn’t Mummy love us anymore?”; “Did she leave us and run away from us?” and “Doesn’t she want us anymore?” and other such comments.

“Their mother would have been heartbroken to hear this because she loved them more than life itself.”

As a journalist, I watched the heartbreak as family and friends searched the riverbanks around the city, the major clue being that Lateesha’s car was found on the banks of the Macquarie.

“For seven years the children joined those searches hoping they would find their mother and bring her home – they didn’t want to play with other children or participate in sports because every free minute was spent searching,” Lancaster says.

“The children saved whatever money they found or were given for birthdays and would put it in a frame with their mother’s photo because they were saving up to pay to get her back.

“Each day they worried if their mum was hungry and each time they went out searching for her they would always want to take food, or buy MacDonald’s when they could, to give to her and they would take a blanket if it was cold to make her warm.”

The kids kept all the drawings they made at school along with the presents they crafted for Mothers’ Day; they sit with the pile of unused Christmas and birthday cards and presents they so longed to give Lateesha.

Their aunt says they cried constantly and each day would ask their Nan if their mother had been found, and break down crying as the same answer was given each of those days for seven years.

“This was their life for seven years, relentless searching, and living with the belief that someday they or someone else would find their mother and bring her home to them,” Lancaster says.

This hope was shattered when their cousin Malcolm Naden (Australia’s most wanted man at that time) was

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What we miss most about our mum Seeing your beautiful face, hearing your amazing voice and cuddling your warm and tight arms. I miss everything about you and I wish you could come home. To use my one and only wish is to see you again. Love you Mum. Kiesha I miss your face and your cuddles heaps. I miss saying Mum and I can’t tell you what I did at school today. If only you were here with me now. Erica I miss you Mum, I miss your smile, I miss seeing your face; I miss you so much that I would give up everything to see you again and I really miss saying Mum. Jayden I miss my Mummy heaps; I miss you giving me goodnight kisses and cuddles and what I really miss is seeing your face and listening to your voice saying I love you, Mummy’s baby. Shaqkaila

From the four of us kids – Love you Mum, forever and always.

(FROM THE SERVICE HELD TO MARK THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF LATEESHA’S DISAPPEARANCE AND MURDER)

arrested and eventually confessed to murdering Lateesha in January 2005 – the children were devastated when they realised their prayers and dreams of seeing their mum again would never be answered.

“Their little hearts were broken,” she says.

While most Australian families went on holidays together and lamented the rising cost of food, petrol, electricity and gas, the Nolans had far more pressing issues on their plates.

During the seven years Naden was on the run, the children lost four more very close family members.

In January 2006, one year after Lateesha’s disappearance, their great-uncle died of cancer, and in December of that year they lost their great-grandmother, also to cancer.

“She was the matriarch of the family and the children’s biggest support,” Lancaster says.

“A few years afterwards, they lost another great-uncle to cancer and then they lost their great-grandfather who was another big support to them.

“All these family members were close to the children and these deaths hit them hard as most of the people they had formed meaningful relationships with had been taken from them.”

Lancaster says they’ve lived with the sense of hopelessness, pain and grief that their grandmother goes through on a daily basis just to keep the family functioning.

Alone, she’s been the sole carer of the four children.

“They live a very poor existence and don’t have much of anything; they are only just surviving.

“Their lives have been dominated by trauma, loss and grief.

“Despite the family trying to shield them as much as possible from the media, their peers have not – they’ve endured bullying at school and taunts by the other students about them not having a mum and they were open to mistreatment by teachers who had little empathy for them.”

Academically all four have suffered.

Each year the family has a remembrance day on January 4, when they light a candle to remember their mother.

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File photos from Lateesha Nolan’s memorial service held to mark the tenth anniversary of her disappearance and murder. PHOTOS: DUBBO WEEKENDER

` This is a one-off opportunity to aid a unique cause; one that will help the grieving process for an entire family and extended community.

ESPITE occasional flare-ups in the media, these are children of Dubbo who the city has essentially forgotten.

They will never forget their mum, but in this tenth anniversary year, the broader family is hoping the community will not forget her either.

Earlier this year the kids joined family, friends, police and supporters to unveil a plaque in Lateesha’s honour at Sandy beach.

Now the family is hoping the Dubbo community will rally around the kids and help them realise their dream of forming a commemorative team for the Waratah Aboriginal Knockout to be staged in the city next month.

This would give family and friends who couldn’t attend the unveiling of the Sandy Beach memorial a chance to play alongside the kids and celebrate Lateesha’s life with them.

They need help to register the team in the knockout and purchase some equipment etc.

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These kids did nothing whatsoever to deserve the cruel cards life has dealt them, so if life has been kind to you, give some thought to supporting a cause that’s really local and extremely worthwhile.

These children aren’t asking for material things; they’re hoping to receive a memory that will support them through the coming years.

The Nolans have long been a respected family in this region and Lateesha was a local girl cut down in the prime of her life; a happy mum who was devoted to her kids.

This is a one-off opportunity to aid a unique cause; one that will help the grieving process for an entire family and extended community. z Donations can be placed at the Dubbo Wespac Bank account number 591265 BSB 032646 Account name: Lateesha Nolan Commemorate Committee. Personal enquiries to Leanne Nolan, BJ Peachey and Warren Towney – or contact Panscott Media if you think there’s some way you can help: 6885 4433.

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PRU GOWARD:

“You need to have a very tough spine and a thick skin...”

She once called NSW Parliament the most sexist place she’d ever worked but in the years since taking her seat in the Legislative Assembly, Pru Goward’s hide has toughened along with her resolve to make her mark on the state’s political landscape. JEN COWLEY spoke with NSW’s first Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, who is also Minister for Mental Health and Assistant Minister for Health – about drugs, domestic violence and why politics isn’t for the faint hearted. AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Jen Cowley third of (Australian) men drink heavily – I think you’d dren who go on to be dysfunctional parents because During your recent visit to Dubbo you announced a $4 million in funding for locally-based programs to be pushing it to find other countries with such a high these children grow up in families where there’s vioaddress the epidemic of the drug “ice”. Are you confiprevalence for heavy drinking. lence, where there’s drug taking, where there’s alcodent this, rather than the establishment of rehabilitahol abuse, there’s mental illness and they don’t have a Perhaps that culture of acceptance of overuse of tion centres, is the right approach? alcohol is what makes it so damaging. chance really. Despite our wonderful education system In regional NSW we need to have some unique initiaand the apparent wealth of Australia, your family is Undoubtedly. We love our beer and we’ve become tives that suit such sparsely populated areas – not the still your most important learning ground. If you learn great beer makers; we export all over the world and same solutions you’d find in the city where you can es- then we discovered we could make wonderful wines as all the wrong things don’t be surprised that as an adult tablish a treatment centre and be confident it’s going you find it very difficult to cope and stay away from well. So it’s not difficult to get drunk in Australia and to have a huge uptake and a large local population to the law and be able to bring up children in a safe and it’s relatively cheap. support it. We have to recognise that in regional areas, happy household.

It is absolutely the number one issue when it comes people are not going to drive hundreds of kilometres to Again across all your portfolios and with your experito domestic violence – there’s no doubt alcohol is a treatment centres. We have to be smarter at developgreat contributor to the sort of chaos in which domes- ence with community services, is enough being done at the outset to ensure children don’t grow up ing how and where we establish them, what outreach tic violence thrives. I see alcohol as absolutely key to in these sorts of destructive circumstances? Are we services we have and how we use online services. Most understanding better what we can do about domeslooking at the wrong end of the duck? of the new services, and the future for Regional NSW tic violence but it also has a significant role in mental Well obviously governments end up spending a lot is going to be in devising delivery methods that reach health as do other drugs. of money at the acute end of each system, whether it’s populations that are inevitably not big enough to supIn your portfolio dealing with domestic violence and the hospital system, the criminal justice system or the port a new centre or a hospital or a specific service. sexual assault, what do you personally see as the child protection system; but I think we’re getting a lot Dubbo might be the exception because of its size, but priority? better at investing in programs that really are good at I think with ice we need to find solutions that service The priority is getting more convictions. After 40 preventing these problems from becoming so serious all our regional centres. years of governments around Australia spending bilthat we have to remove children. There’s been a huge Why do you think ice seems to have suddenly taken lions of dollars, we’ve become much better at supportchange of practice within the Department of Families such a hold? ing victims, much better at accepting their stories, beand Community Services and a greater emphasis on Because it’s so cheap. It’s about equivalent to a glass lieving them and accepting they are innocent. There’s working with families at the early stages rather than of wine. It can produce, I understand, extraordinary a widespread view that domestic violence is a crime leaving it ‘til there’s no choice but to remove the child. mood effects. It’s hard to detect, although we’re getand absolutely unacceptable. But we are really not doYou also hold the medical research portfolio, and the ting better at drug testing. We can tell when someone’s ing much better in terms of perpetrators. The most first trial of medical cannabis has just got underway been drinking but it’s harder to spot someone who’s common punishment for assaulting a women in the in Newcastle. There’s much excitement about that “on” ice. Also, heroin has declined in use because peo- home is an unsupervised bond. No wonder perpetratrial, but why has it taken so long to be put into place? ple see this (ice) as the equivalent, and it’s not immetors continue to be violent; a very large percentage of All the emphasis on marijuana as a recreational diately addictive. People start to use it thinking they perpetrators are actually repeat offenders. And how drug, then seeing the terrible damage it could do to can manage it but after a few years they discover that can we be surprised if all they get is a slap on the wrist, children; its relationship with schizophrenia and with what started out as a party drug every 3-4 months has I think we have to be much more focused on identithe effects on long term users has given cannabis 50 become once a month, once a week...and then sudden- fying perpetrators, making their lives uncomfortable, years of terrible press. Nobody actually looked at it and ly they’re looking for it on Monday mornings before making them account for what they do and making asked how it could be used for good? they go to work. Apparently that journey takes about it clear there are significant penalties. I’m not saying That’s really what this 10 years – maybe that’s why is about. It’s not about leit seems to have suddenly ` galising recreational use, hit, because it’s been around long enough to be at that I’ve certainly seen instances where my children have been singled out not at all. It’s about recognising that there may well stage where it’s really dam- because I’m their mother and I think it’s been outrageously unfair. be good affects from the aging many people’s lives. use of cannabis. Let’s look Weekender ran a story we don’t keep supporting victims, of course we do. at opium. The opium poppy became heroin, which berecently with a reformed addict who said lower socio And we also have to keep supporting victims so they came the basis of organised crime and an enormous economic users are much more visible but the use of are prepared to give evidence in court or support the amount of suffering and tragedy around the world but ice is spread across all demographics. video evidence that’s now available. But we will only it’s also the basis of codeine – those drugs that kill our That’s one of the differences between ice and, for exmanage domestic violence if we reduce offending and pain and help us sleep and can be, in proper dosages, ample, the opiates, addiction to which tends very often reoffending. very well managed. Take methamphetamine – we’ve to be largely in the low socio economics areas which Is that something you, as the Minister, will have the just been talking about what a terrible drug it is when is interesting because it’s always been so expensive. power to bring about when it’s really a judicial area it’s used as ice, but if it’s used wisely it’s the best way But yes, ice is used by doctors, lawyers, young profesof responsibility? of drying up a cold. It’s also used for people who have sionals. I’ve heard young friends of mine say they’ve As the minister, my job really is to work with my colADHD because it’s a form of speed. walked into a night club and realised they’re the only leagues such as the Attorney General, the Police MinSo all these families of drugs often have wonderful person not on some party drug. Ice doesn’t have the ister and there will be other ministers with different qualities; you just need to keep evil away from them. negative status of heroin use and probably for that reaWith cannabis, I guess we’re taking a drug, the medison alone it’s more popular with professionals groups, views of how best to approach this. None of us can deny the importance of better education of young peocal properties of which we’ve known about for a long as well as with people from low socio economic groups ple about respectful relationships, about what domestime, and we’re finally trying to identify how we can who are finding ways of dealing with whatever trautic violence is, about the fact that it’s a crime and that responsibly use it in medical circumstances. It might mas and demons they have. it’s not acceptable. That you don’t get to be captain of end up that there’s insufficient evidence, but we have Ice is very visible at the moment, but as the Minister the football team if you bash your girlfriend. Those to get that evidence scientifically – these will be scienfor the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual messages are absolutely essential. We have to head it tifically valid trials, not just a wink and a nod and a Assault, you’d also be well aware that alcohol is also off before it even starts but if it has started then people a very dangerous substance when abused. It’s been hope and a prayer. There is quite rigorous methodology have to be held accountable. said alcohol is actually a more insidious influence on being applied by the research team at Newcastle and society than illicit drugs. Your thoughts?

There’s a lot of cross pollination between the portfothat’s where every one of our trails will be managed. lios that deal with social and family and community Oh yes, absolutely. Alcohol is the number one drug So you can’t speculate as to whether it might be used issues. in the not too distant future for a wider application? for damage in Australia. We are very heavy drinkOh yes, yes. There are a number of issues at the No. We have to see what the trail says but it’s been ers by world standards and there is an acceptability bottom of generational poverty. It’s not an accident well set up and as the researcher in charge said to me, of heavy drinking in Australia. Recent stats from the AMA (Australian Medical Association) showed that a that dysfunctional families have dysfunctional chil- “Minister I wouldn’t have applied to do this trial if I

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didn’t believe there was strong evidence that it could have an effect.” Nobody’s going in there without some expectation that it will have an effect, but we won’t really know until we do a proper trial.

In the past you were the Commissioner for Sex Discrimination and you have strong credentials with women’s issues. As far as women in politics are concerned, there’s been a push from some quarters, including Liberal Senator Sharman Stone, to introduce quotas. What are your thoughts on the idea of quotas for women in politics?

I personally don’t think we need to do that yet. But we do need to have targets; we absolutely have to aim higher when it comes to (women contesting) winnable seats. The problem with quotas is that no woman wants to admit she got there because she’s in a quota and I detect this with some of my Labor colleagues.

They all want the community to believe they’re there because the party believes they’re the best person for the job. That’s the real problem with quotas.

So it’s a form of tokenism?

It means there’s always going to be a question mark over you. Whether you really are the best person for the job. But targets are important – developing the sort of strategies needed to recruit more women, to

get them into winnable positions and then ensure they understand how hard politics is and that they’re ready.

I think that’s really where the issues are. A lot of women look at politics and just say, “I don’t want a life as hard as that, as critical as that, as personally critical as that. I don’t want my children being teased; I don’t want my family dragged into this”.

Nothing’s off limits for an MP and I suspect there are a lot of woman who just say they don’t find that at all appealing. Putting themselves through that public scrutiny; the nasty comments made about you.

You famously and quite controversially once said the NSW parliament was the most sexist place you had ever worked in. Do you still hold that view?

(Laughs.) Probably not. I think it’s a very hard place.

I think NSW politics is fought very hard by both sides and you absolutely have to be tough and you need to have a very tough spine and a thick skin.

Is that something you’ve developed?

Yes, I have to say I have. You have to or you don’t survive.

You mentioned the relentless pursuit of family and nothing being off limits. Have you experienced that yourself?

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I’ve certainly seen instances where my children have been singled out because I’m their mother and I think it’s been outrageously unfair.

Is that something you resent?

Yes. Yes, I do. They didn’t ask me to do this. I’m their mother; it’s not by their choice and they should be allowed to make their own mistakes and grow up their own way without being dragged into the public arena.

Is there life after politics for Pru Goward?

Ah yes, there’s always lots more to do! Always. And I have wonderful grandchildren. However much longer I remain in politics – and I’m certainly at this stage committed to doing another term – there’s always plenty to do. And I look at people who stop and I don’t know how they fill their days. I know all my girlfriends who have stopped work tell me there’s plenty to do. I can’t imagine not being frantically busy. I guess I just got used to it.

How do you relax?

Gardening; but then I don’t even relax when I garden because I’m always on time restraints, trying to push myself a bit too much. I wrecked my back recently because I decided to trim all my hedges over a weekend.

By the end of it, oh dear, I was in a mess.

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KICKING GOALS The issue of disengaged Aboriginal youth isn’t new and it’s not as though buckets of funding haven’t been thrown at finding a solution. So why is a not-for-profit organisation like the Clontarf Foundation seemingly finding success where others have missed the mark? JEN COWLEY met the foundation’s local rep to ask the question. PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent

HAT young Aboriginal males have the highest secondary school dropout rate in Australia will surprise no-one. Neither will the fact that this cohort is grossly over-represented in gaol populations and in unemployment stats.

So endemic is the disadvantage, it’s almost become something of an accepted reality and frustrated authorities and agencies are all but resigned to the fact of disengaged indigenous youth.

But there’s an increasingly influential non-government organisation that’s challenging the tragic status quo, including here in the Orana Region, by unapologetically tapping into Aboriginal youths’ passion for football.

The Clontarf Foundation – born in Western Australia 16 years ago – is a not-for-profit charitable organisation that’s been slowly making its way across the country with its high-school based academies, to deliver a “wellbeing and engagement” program for indigenous boys enrolled in secondary school.

Its mission is to “improve the education, discipline, life skills, self-esteem and employment prospects of

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young Aboriginal men and by doing so equips them to participate meaningfully in society”.

But the glue that holds the whole program together is football. Working in partnership with existing schools, the Clontarf Academies use rugby league to attract indigenous lads to school and, more importantly, keep them there.

Despite some scepticism from existing agencies who continue to fight for funding for local programs, there’s no denying the Clontarf Academy is, if you’ll pardon the pun, kicking goals.

Since opening the first of its academies in the west 16 years ago – with 25 boys – the foundation now caters for about 3,700 boys in schools across the entire nation, 720 of whom are in NSW including here in Dubbo, where there are academies set up at all three Dubbo College campuses – Senior, South and Delroy.

A recent injection of funding from the NSW Government – to the tune of $8.6million for the next two years will see that state figure grow by 1000. Clontarf has been able to pull the right strings to secure funding, having also been allocated $13.4million in federal

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` Clontarf makes no excuses for only looking after young Aboriginal males – they’re the most at-risk group of people in this country.

government funding in last year’s budget, along with the significant contribution made by private and corporate donors.

This kind of financial support makes it the envy of agencies and programs everywhere, but the foundation maintains its ability to attract funding is thanks to its measureable successes.

Clontarf says year-to-year retention of Aboriginal boys who undertake the program is no less than 90 per cent, and school attendance rates are more than 80 per cent. It also claims that where academies exist, there has been evidence of reduced crime rates in the local community.

YAN Woolfe is the director of the Clontarf Academy at Dubbo College Senior Campus and says those numbers are “fair dinkum”.

Woolfe, a trained teacher, came to Dubbo at the start of 2014, from Katherine, a remote Northern Territory town with a predominantly Aboriginal population where he’d been running an academy for five years.

When he first arrived in Katherine, an Aboriginal

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male had never graduated year 12 from the town’s high school. When he left after five years, there were ten youngsters proudly receiving their certificates.

“Those numbers are increasing each year,” Woolfe says from the academy room at the Senior Campus, where boys are happily making themselves a midmorning snack before kicking a footy around on the oval outside.

He says he’s seeing indications of similar results being replicated here.

“We currently have 10 boys enrolled in year 12 and 42 in year 11. Traditionally, there’s been an issue with young Aboriginal males falling off at the end of year 11, but the work we’re doing has kept a lot of those youths in school. Attendance rates have also risen.”

It’s early days, but Woolfe is confident the program is already making a significant difference in the lives of both the boys and the school itself.

“In Dubbo now we have more than 200 involved in the academy including here, South and Delroy (campuses) and those numbers just continue to increase.

“We are very much outcomes based. Attendance is

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always a huge thing so the people who fund us always want to know whether the kids are actually coming to school. I think the Dubbo academies across the board had about an 87-88 per cent attendance across all 200plus academy members last term,” he says.

While there are, as yet, no benchmarks against which to precisely measure results at the Senior Campus (the academy there only began operating from the start of this year), Delroy’s experience with the program has been “very positive”.

“The principal made comment that of all the different demographics in the school the Aboriginal boys had the highest attendance rate,” Woolfe says.

OOK a little closer and it’s not rocket science at the basis of the Clontarf Foundation’s success so far. Using football as a carrot to dangle in front of kids to get them back into school and engaged with both the learning process and the wider school community just makes good sense – tapping into an existing passion rather than taking a punitive approach to school attendance.

However, it’s important to note that inclusion in the Clontarf program is as much about give as it is about take – and it’s not all just simply kicking a footy around.

Woolfe says the boys are expected to show up and put up.

“They must attend school and they must show they’re trying their best within the classroom. So football is used both as the vehicle and reward.”

“When they first sign up it’s a voluntary thing. Just because you’re an Aboriginal boy at Dubbo College you don’t have to be involved with Clontarf. And in order to be a part of our program they sign an agreement to say they’ll attend school regularly, try their best at their studies, uphold the values of our foundation – none of that is compulsory. Of course from time to time the wheels fall off, but we help them get back on track.”

So why is Clontarf seemingly finding success where so many well-intentioned other programs have failed to hit the mark?

“I think it’s largely because we’re full time at the school. From my experience a lot of the other programs would blow in once a fortnight or once a week or one afternoon after school. Perhaps (Clontarf’s) real strength is that the boys know when they show up to school that day that we’re going to be waiting for them even if it’s to help make a bit a breakfast, catch up on a bit of homework or even just have a yarn about some issues that might be happening at home. If they don’t

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come to school, they know we’ll be knocking on their door to find out why.”

Woolfe says the success story is similar for most young indigenous males with whom Clontarf has worked across the whole country.

“They don’t have any reason for a connection with the school – then suddenly Clontarf’s here. That’s their little patch of the school, whether it be the Academy room or the football field.

The other important element of the program is forging a close connection with parents, he says.

“We connect with all the parents where we can. A lot of the lads are from broken homes, so often we are the main male role model in the boys’ lives. Often in that situation, with mum doing it tough with her teenage son, for instance, I think it’s almost a breath of fresh air having a bloke who cares about their son enough to make sure he’s getting to school. And I think sometimes we hold a little bit more sway than mum.”

Parental engagement is also important to underline the program’s foundations, which could easily be unravelled by a lack of support at home.

“That’s exactly right,” says Woolfe, adding that Clontarf is keen to change the widespread negative imagery surrounding school. “A lot of the parents didn’t necessarily have the best experience while they were at school and their image of what goes on day to day probably isn’t that crash hot. So seeing a program like ours, that’s providing different things, can reshape that negative image.”

But what happens to these “lads” once Year 12 ends?

Where to from there?

Woolfe smiles. “We stick with them for the rest of their lives, basically. It’s another strength of our program – boys who graduated back in 2000 in the very first year are still lobbing into Clontarf over in Perth and saying “Hey, I’m looking for a change in career.

I’ve worked in the mines but I’ve got a young family now and I’m coming back to Perth can you help me out?” So they never leave our lives.

“I guess we’re also kind of their employment agency I suppose. They aren’t always comfortable, or sometimes don’t have the skills, to outsource that type of stuff.

“We have a significant focus on employment – saying to the kids, well you’re here for the next two years.

It’s our job to try to make sure that you’re employable by the end of next year.”

Woolfe says the academy and its staff are there to guide the boys, but they are in turn expected to take responsibility for their own choices.

“By the time they’ve transitioned out of year 12 we want to be comfortable in knowing they are well rounded enough and worldly enough to go into the big wide world. Yes, we will assist them into a job but for the little day to day things that pop up, we want to know they are self-sufficient enough to outsource that type of thing.”

With a program like this – which is clearly based on ethnicity – one would imagine there’s a risk of creating further division within the school community in particular, and I put this to Woolfe, who nods.

“We are conscious of it,” he says. “But a kid in Clontarf is expected to do the exact same classes as every other student in the school. If he gets in trouble the same consequences are imposed – that’s something that’s really important to make sure that there’s no perception that the rules are different for Clontarf lads.

“There’s always some kids who don’t understand the big picture but in general, there’s an acceptance that Clontarf is a good thing and everyone understands why it’s happening, particularly once students realise that us being here it benefits the whole school.”

While we’re on the subject of the whole school, I ask if the foundation ever feels any pressure to open up the program to Aboriginal girls as well.

It’s clearly a question the Clontarf team is well used to answering, and Woolfe doesn’t hesitate.

“Clontarf makes no excuses for only looking after young Aboriginal males – they’re the most at-risk group of people in this country. We’re good at looking after boys – that’s what we do. If someone finds a key ingredient that works for girls, that would be great to see someone set up something equivalent, but at this stage, we still have thousands of boys across the country in towns we want to tap into with Clontarf.”

ITH his young charges happily kicking a football around in the sunshine during the morning recess between classes, Ryan Woolfe looks and sounds as relaxed and happy as any teacher I’ve yet to meet. He clearly loves his job – and the kids whose futures he’s trying to help secure.

“When you have a good day and you go home and you know in your mind that you’ve made a difference to a young fella’s life – that’s what it’s all about,” he says. “When you see kids rolling in, in Year 7, then five years later they’re up on a podium receiving their HSC… Often they’re the first in their family to graduate. Then a couple of weeks later they’re the first person in their family to go on and actually work. Seeing that makes it all worth it.”

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` They must attend school and they must show they’re trying their best within the classroom. So football is used both as the vehicle and reward.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident who spends time gazing aimlessly.

Being connected means not missing out and missing out HEY call it monkey chatter.

It’s a term used by Buddhist meditation types mostly, and it refers to the racing mind, the internal aimless banter that goes on in our heads sometimes.

Meditation is the conscious practice of silencing that prattle and generating the psychological benefits of a becalmed psyche.

I waited 10 minutes for my takeaway the other day alongside two younger female customers, both of whom scarcely strayed from their iPhones the entire time even to interact with each other.

Aren’t handheld electronic devices the behavioural equivalent of monkey chatter?

While the mind thrives on stimulation and learning, ever expanding its neurological network to adapt to the new challenge, science tells us it also benefits from relaxation, inner peace, that is, respite from the monkey chatter of a harried life.

So in carrying with us ready access to mindless trivia, marketing dross, and vainglorious gloating over a meal someone is too busy uploading to eat, we ensure inner peace never intrudes on the shivering simian in our hand.

“We are so made,” wrote Freud, “that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.”

The satisfaction of taking on the day’s pressures can only exist alongside the pleasure of switching off at day’s end.

So too, leisure loses its appeal without a purposeful counterbalance.

If we had never known the refuge of a shady tree we would stand in a baking bitumen carpark squinting into the haze, unable to conceptualise what it is we’re lacking.

Isn’t a life spent gazing at the white noise of a phone the same? We may have a sense that something is missing, that some element of our existence is lacking serenity, that we are somehow existentially unfulfilled, filling the void with consumption.

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Having exchanged the natural ebb and flow of mental demands for the ceaseless torrent of text messages so banal we would reject them if they were exchanged verbally face-to-face, we only ever experience that treadmill state of constant stimulation via short term distraction.

Yet a study published this week reported that two-thirds of survey respondents aged between 26 and 31 years rated online social interaction as valuable as face-to-face socialising.

What TV did to the neighbourhood, iPhones are doing to the individual.

Constantly monitoring our smartphones means we miss the time to sit quietly and watch our day in the world unfold, to nourish our souls with quiet introspection, to relish rest, the brief repose of doing, and concentrating on, nothing.

And those who increasingly never ex-

perience that peace, that downtime, risk forgetting that it exists, and what it feels like, and therefore fail to register it as one of life’s delights in which to indulge.

It is what makes most physical pursuits so attractive, so addictive: the swimmer, the jogger, the cyclist all experience the presence of mind of a chattering gibbon silenced.

So too the bushwalker, the fisherman, the camper, the musician, the painter, the dancer – all capture that sensation of being carefree, of living in the moment, without the pressing need for the latest amusing cat video or photos of someone’s dessert.

In years to come will this handheld digital chimp be just a discarded fad?

Will the hypnotic, mind-numbing allure of such sedentary toys eventually be shunned like cigarettes and sugar?

Maybe if the

status associated with such costly consumer goods gives way to a realisation that social media is in fact anti-social, rewiring our brains to be eternally attentive to the next fleeting triviality – neither fully concentrating nor resting, not engrossed nor disengaged – will we look up from our nattering hand mandrills.

It’s possible many of the adults of tomorrow will look back on a childhood addicted to screens.

Nobody reflecting on the high points of their life includes Twitter.

Nobody on their death bed will wish they’d spent more time on Facebook.

Nobody finds nirvana on eBay.

` Will the hypnotic, mind-numbing allure of such sedentary toys eventually be shunned like cigarettes and sugar?

All Blacks to become a tourist attraction (as if they weren’t already)

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WELLINGTON, NZ: A visitor attraction focusing on the All Blacks is to be built on Auckland’s waterfront.

The All Blacks Experience is set to open in the Wynyard Quarter in 2017 to showcase the team and the country’s rugby heritage.

“This is will be a special place to enjoy a hands-on, fully interactive experience of New Zealand rugby,” said NZ Rugby chief executive Steve Tew. He said there was a demand for an all-weather attraction serving

international and domestic tourists.

“With tourism numbers growing rapidly, the business case stacks up strongly. We’re confident of delivering an attraction that will set the standard for visitor and fan experiences in this country,” he said.

It will team up with local company Discovery Partners to deliver the attraction.

The “brand tourism” company promises on its website that the All Blacks Experience will offer visitors more than an insight into the

country.

“Once they step inside, they will

become part of one of the most immersive and engaging experiences of its kind.

“They’ll get an insight into the tactics and challenges of the game, the passion and determination that drives the team, and the power and meaning of the haka.”

It is working with English Premier League team Manchester City on its own “experience” and says there was a global trend for visitor attractions based on sports teams, codes AAP and venues.

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F-bomb from Family Feud face GRANT DENYER has dropped the F-bomb on Twitter, ruffling feathers over marriage equality and cat videos. He tweeted: “Am I still asleep? Did Marriage equality just get blocked AND cat videos nearly got one million viewers last night? F*** it. I give up.”

Denyer’s tweet was in response to Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s decision to deny party members a free vote on the issue of marriage equality in addition to Network Seven’s Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud raking in 920 000 viewers in competition to The Great Australian Spelling Bee, which Denyer hosts.

The surprise comes as Denyer’s newfound public potty mouth is far cry from his Family Feud duties. In their reporting of the tweet, BuzzFeed wrote, “He’s had it up to here with you, Australia”.

PM’s missed opportunity WITH everyone fired up following Monday comments by Attorney General George Brandis telling Senator Penny Wong she was “becoming hysterical” and to “just calm” herself in Question Time on Monday, Tony Abbott’s decision to block a vote on marriage equality the following day has added fuel to the fire.

According to Senator Wong, the PM missed a major opportunity to show true leadership; the High Court has left it up to parliament to

reform the marriage act and a bill to allow same-sex marriage has been drafted, backed by cross-party support. Labor’s Tanya Plibersek tweeted an image reading “Love will win. #wecandothis We will keep fighting” following the development.

‘Ear, ‘ear – what’s this, then?

PERTH based performance artist and Curtin University Professor Stelarc is growing an ear on his arm, first conceiving the idea about 20 years ago. He says the ear will be used as a remote listening device, connected with a miniature microphone and Wi-Fi connectivity.

“They’ll be able to follow a conversation or hear the sounds of a concert, wherever I am, wherever you are,” he told ABC News. The implant effectively enables whoever wishes to connect to the ear, to hear what Stelarc hears with his own two ears, with no on-off switch.

I guess when he says he has “something up his sleeve” he really means it. An interesting concept, all in the name of art.

Fallon on trend JIMMY Fallon has created multiple trending hashtags, some of which have had hilarious responses.

Namely #worstgiftever where a tweeter received a $25 Starbucks giftcard with a $10 balance and #myweirdwaiter who sang the song All By Myself to a lonesome diner; but Wednesday night saw #mymemoirwouldbecalled trending on Twitter, prompting a cool collection of tweeters’ self-insights.

Some of my personal favourites included “Never nerdy enough for the nerds, never cool enough for the cool kids”; “How to be a politically correct foul mouth”; “This wasn’t factchecked”; and “A field guide to awkward silences”. What would yours be?

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Sharon Roff and Nathan Budworth: Making a weld of difference There’s recycling then there’s A Mix of Old and New, a two person backyard business tucked away in South Dubbo where Sharon Roff and Nathan Budworth repurpose salvaged machinery, tools and just about anything considered scrap, into lasting home and garden décor. Skilled at cake decorating and folk art, Sharon just had to learn how to weld first. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor ComanSargent

Nathan ‘Doogs’ Budworth HIS is where we exist (inside backyard work shed). This is our whole world. We’ll be in here until 10 o’clock at night most nights. This is where Shaz does her welding and I have my area up the back of the shed, in my fabrication area with all my gear and we sort of have it in two separate spots so we’re not on top of each other.

That’s the one drawer (taps with boot) in the shed I’m not allowed in. That’s the “no-Doogery drawer” where Shaz has stuff that I’m not allowed to make things out of. My one no go zone in the whole shed.

It’s organically growing. I’ve always pottered in little bits and pieces then I showed Shaz how to do it all.

When we go shopping for tools the guys will start talking to me and I’ll go, it’s her you need to talk to.

We do the blacksmithing up the side and the forging. Sharon was very good at learning welding. She listened quite well when I started teaching her, and I thought instead of teaching her on the big heavy stuff to start with, she may as well learn what we’re going to work with so I got her working with fence wire, galvanized iron, all the stuff that people tell you is almost impossible to weld.

I showed her how to do it, set her settings up and being the lovely sort of teacher I am, I said, right, that’s how you do it, I’ll be up that end.

I’d leave Shaz out here to do her thing. She started knowing absolutely nothing at all. She’d never held a welder. That chair (in the garden) was the very first thing she ever made.

It’s all about reusing the old stuff. We love the look of it and the feel of it. You’re not going to buy it in a shop. She loves that even when she’s making a lot of the same thing; they’re all different. Each piece is different because you can’t make everything exactly the same.

If we get someone who wants a custom made piece, we’ll find the bits of salvage parts to make it, but a lot of things just grow. I’ll see something and know straight away what it’s going to be. Shaz is doing the same thing now. She woke up the other morning saying ‘toeballs are mine’ and now she’s making spiders

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out of toeballs. Whatever she makes she usually likes to have moving parts.

Shaz is getting to know her around what’s needed now. When we’re out scavenging she now knows what steel I look for and what we can use it for.

Shaz likes to see people getting enjoyment from what we’ve made as much as she enjoys making them.

It’s satisfaction to her. There isn’t too much we can’t turn into something. There’s not a lot we don’t reuse.

I hate to see old steel go to waste, so does Shaz. It’s the patina on it. It’s the colouring and the old age of the rust. Your new steels is all nice and shiny but something that’s been buried in a paddock for 20 years has that colour to it, and you can’t fake that.

Sharon Roff ’D never welded until six months ago and now I have my own little welder and all that sort of stuff. Doogs taught me to weld and I love it. I’ve always been arty.

I’ve done cake decorating and folk art. Actually I did a cake for my granddaughter’s christening and I was in the house doing the cake and Doogs walked past and said, “No, no, no. You! With pink icing? It’s just not right. I need to see you in a welding helmet or hanging off an angle grinder not spreading pink icing”.

The recycling business is a joint idea. We don’t go to the pub or watch TV because we can’t stand the ads.

We’d rather be out here making stuff.

He bought me a plasma cutter for Valentine’s Day.

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Isn’t that what everybody wants? I walk into Brennan’s and think, oh, an angle grinder.

It was funny the very first time he’d put me in all the gear, the helmet and the gloves, then he said, “right, just put a shot in there”, and I said huh?.

It’s not something I’d ever looked at before. Cake decorating and folk art is a bit different to welding. In saying that I laid all the pavers (around shed) so I’m a Jack of all trades.

Doogs has a passion for old steel. It’s why he does the forging and the blacksmithing. He won’t use new steel.

He says it’s classed as Chinese steel and is inconsistent.

When it glows it should be a cherry red glow but the new steels gets a tiger stripe because there’s different

grades in the steel. It soft and hard. Where its brittle it can break. The old steel is a constant heat because of the way it was made.

He keeps old pick heads because they’re hand forged, not made in a mould. He didn’t learn how to blacksmith. He just does it. Past life experience? It’s just what he does. He says steel’s easy to understand.

You can make it do what you want it to do.

He uses all old antique hammers. He’s made all the new handles. The way he sees it is they were somebody’s grandfather’s and they’ll be his grandkids and they’ll still be going strong. New hammers today can’t handle the big jobs.

When we were breaking up an old pallet, this piece

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actually broke off it and thought it was quite appropriate (it reads RECYCLE). I asked did he break it off intentionally and he no. So it just sits there (shelf above workbench). I picked it up intentionally? He said no and I said, it’s an omen. It’s meant to be there, like a little reminder of why we’re doing what we do.

So many people these days are focused on recycling and saving all the landfill. The fact that more than 99 per cent of what we use is reclaimed is something. The glass is bought. I haven’t mastered blowing glass yet.

The cat literally sits out with us all whole time. The welder doesn’t bother him but he doesn’t like it when the angle grinder’s going and the sparks get onto him.

He’s our shed mascot.

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

In my book, we’re not all in focus ’M sitting watching the telly out of the corner of my eye, with the sound turned down and they’re running one those “health” stories they do from time to time. You know the ones I mean, the ones with gratuitous images of random beer bellies and muffin tops. The cut away shots of some unfortunate’s massive barge-arse, preposterously squeezed sausage-like into a pair of leggings or other skin-tight piece of not-quite-stretchy-enough material.

It must be a rite of passage (or do I mean right of passage?) for burgeoning cameramen working in news coverage for television stations. I can hear the conversation now, at a senior editorial level: “We need more footage of fatties.” Translation: some more cringe-making gratuitous moving images of people who do not suit the world passion for slender bodies and washboard abs.

“Send the trainee out to shoot lunchtime footage of some fat folks grazing. Outside the take-away shops, that’s where they hang out.”

I wonder what instructions are given about filming discreetly. Secretively even? To avoid said cameraman being assaulted with a footlong hotdog or super-sized fizzy drink bottle.

The part of the conversation that always makes me wonder is what they tell the camera operator about the rights of the owners of those bodies. In fact, I often wonder what the law would have to say if someone who had been filmed without giving their permission recognised their less than sylph-like shape and actually raised an objection to being objectified. If they spat the dummy, in effect.

There’s a couple of perspectives on this.

You’d have to think most people would recognise footage of their own bodies, even when it’s shown without including the face.

It’s not just about the belly or the bum or the fadoobadas; it’s about knowing what clothing you have in your wardrobe and seeing it on the telly.

But then there is a school of thought that

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quite a bit of the overtight and unflattering clothing you see on generously proportioned people in those “fatty shots” is only out in public because people don’t get to see themselves as others see them. If you’re like me, you glance in a mirror when you’re about to go out the door and you assess the impact of the outfit as fit or unfit for public exposure.

(Standards are variable, depending on the hour of the day, the destination and the level of enthusiasm I can muster. Standards can be very variable. I have yet to do the Glasgow marathon – the dash to the servo in my jammies and dressing gown – but I make no promises.)

But even those of us who do a quick check in the mirror before we head outside, even we are only getting the front-on image, the most cursory look at the least offensive end of the operation. We don’t get to see ourselves as others see us, not unless we happen to catch sight of ourselves in a shop window as we make our way around the village. That can be disturbing and can result in some serious wardrobe culling and even a couple of days at the gym. If it’s really bad, it could mean a few days on a diet.

But that television news camera? It can catch you at the most excruciating angle and once caught, you are pinned like a moth – electronically captured. Even without the couple of extra pounds the camera is said to add, even before you factor that in, you have to consider that camera can catch you precisely the right angle to highlight your very worst features.

And trust me, if they’ve dispatched someone to the fast food forecourt to capture footage of those socially unacceptable souls who could be said to illustrate overeating and unhealthy lifestyles...they’re going to be working all those angles to the max.

I was with a group of people the other day and the decision was taken that a group “selfie” was in order. A la Ellen De Generes. I’m not sure what the ultimate destination of the photo was to be but there was general sur-

` I don’t much like the way I look in photographs.

I don’t enjoy being photographed and I don’t enjoy the outcome, which is pretty much a reminder that I have a great face for radio.

prise when I wasn’t keen to participate. No-one insisted (in fact, they were probably only being polite and didn’t really need me in the selfie at all) but there was general surprise that I didn’t want to be in it. It was like I’d farted in the lift or made an inappropriate remark about someone’s grandmother.

I don’t much like the way I look in photographs. I don’t enjoy being photographed and I don’t enjoy the outcome, which is pretty much a reminder that I have a great face for radio.

And even more telling is the fact that as I age, the more I am disappointed in how my actual image is so at odds with what I think I look like. I can beetle around the world in my own little cocoon of self-image and not be much bothered by the reality of what I look like. But when I am confronted by how I actually look, it’s a bit of a disappointment somehow. A slap in the face.

I knew a man, years ago, a very fundamentalist Catholic, who thought the Holy Mother Church had wandered too far from the most holy of the sacred rules, the Ten Commandments. He was a delightful bloke but had some very fixed ideas about religion and observant behaviour. (He used to get around in a monk’s habit and sandals; he had long hair and a beard. At one point he took himself to Rome to remonstrate with them at the highest level.

Bless.)

My friend the fundamentalist had some very strong ideas about the sanctity of the Ten Commandments but the one on which he was most insistent was the third commandment – “Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image”.

And in his interpretation of this, he wasn’t just talking about images of God; he was agin any sort of image of any person. So, no photographs of people, no paintings of people could he abide. He said it was fundamentally wrong to depict a person’s image, that it would have far-reaching implications. He felt this at a very basic and visceral level.

I wonder where he is now; what he thinks of Facebook and whether he watches news stories about obesity and diabetes.

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The waft of indecision smells like something else entirely Comment by y WILL GRIFFITHS Will Griffiths grew up in Dubbo and lives now lives in Sydney, where he works in the NSW parliament as a media adviser, but still likes to get home to see his family and friends.

T was with great sadness this week that I watched the final episode of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. For years, Stewart has skewered US politicians who say the most outrageous things and he has limited the careers of many who had hoped their conviction might just hide the stupidity of their ideas. His most recent target, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has provided Stewart with no shortage of material to achieve this end.

But it was Stewart’s parting words, a dissertation on bullshit in modern life, which should be heeded by politicians of all stripes. Bullshit, he says, is everywhere. Not all of it bad, but a great deal of it designed to mislead.

One type defined by Stewart is “the bullshit of infinite possibility”.

“These bullshitters cover their unwillingness to act under the guise of unending inquiry. We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything,” he says.

So when our Prime Minister this week suggested that, by way of a plebiscite, the people of Australia should decide whether same-sex couples can marry in this country, I called bullshit.

On May 27, the Prime Minister told the House of Representatives, “If our Parliament were to make a big decision on a matter such as this, it ought to be owned by the Parliament.”

Not quite the plebiscite he was talking about this week.

My problem with a popular vote is this: we have elected representatives for a reason. We delegate power to our Members of Parliament and they are paid to make difficult and sometimes unpopular decisions on our behalf. If we don’t like those decisions, every few years we have the opportunity to elect somebody else.

The other problem with a popular vote is that it is not binding. Unlike a referendum, where a vote actually changes the Constitution, the parliament is not obliged to amend legislation as the result of a plebiscite. So why bother with the expense? The 1999 referendum cost around $66 million. Parliament isn’t a survey monkey poll and nor should it be.

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So in Jon Stewart’s terms, the Prime Minister could be perceived as acting under the guise of unending inquiry. Or the bullshit of infinite possibility; it really is hard to know. Surely the Prime Minister is not suggesting that Coalition members are incapable of voting on samesex marriage until they know what every single person thinks?

Australia has held two plebiscites, one in 1916 and another in 1917. Both sought a mandate to introduce compulsory conscription in World War I and both were narrowly defeated.

In effect, these plebiscites asked voters if they wanted to send men to their deaths. I don’t believe same-sex marriage is an issue of the same magnitude.

Amending legislation is clearly a matter for parliaments and introducing the idea of another mechanism muddies the waters.

If the public debate on same-sex

` Surely the Prime Minister is not suggesting that Coalition members are incapable of voting on samesex marriage until they know what every single person thinks?

marriage becomes about the process for debating the matter, it avoids the substantive issue.

And avoiding the substantive issue appears to be the source of many of the Prime Minister’s current woes.

Debate on same-sex marriage was brought on in the Coalition party room meeting at late notice this week. According to media reports, this didn’t go down well with some backbench members and highlighted further fractures in the Prime Minister’s leadership.

By not declaring a free vote it becomes harder for supportive members to speak up in the party room and I view the Prime Minister’s actions this week as an attempt to stifle debate within the coalition.

The issue is not that the Prime Minister opposes samesex marriage, he’s obviously en-

titled to his view. But there’s little logic in allowing this to be an issue at another election.

Same-sex marriage will eventually become a reality in this country, as it has in so many other others. Later this month a film called Holding the Man will be released in Australia, an adaptation of a book of the same name written by Australian playwright and activist Timothy Conigrave. It is a true story that chronicles the 15-year relationship between two men who met at school in Melbourne — one was captain of the football team, the other a theatre buff.

It’s not a story about same-sex marriage but it is a story about unconditional love between two people who deserved better than their times presented them.

It’s the best pitch for marriage I can make.

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HELICOPTER VIEW

Cr Mathew Dickerson

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

Decisions, decisions – it’s a case of going through the motions E all make decisions every day.

Do I get out of bed? Do I have toast or cereal? Do I bother to watch the last Ashes Test after the embarrassing defeat in the fourth test?

These are all decisions that don’t require a lot of thought and the consequences are essentially individual. Toast or cereal probably just has an impact on me – or maybe a few people in my household if I use up all the milk. Decision-making therefore may not sound like that big a deal.

There are different levels of decision, though. Every month there are 1,480 councillors who sit at the 152 councils in the state and make decisions at their council meetings. It may be argued that some of these decisions are routine or allowing the process of local government to continue. At most council meetings though there are decisions that are of great importance to the city or impact many residents within the city.

How does decision making work?

There have been vast numbers of psychological studies conducted into the process and trying to identify the steps humans take. The most commonly held belief is that humans go through a seven step process.

Firstly, a problem or opportunity is identified. In a council scenario, that’s often brought to the surface by information presented in business papers councillors receive and read before council or committee meetings. The second step is typically the gathering of information. This is the most time-consuming for a councillor. Residents and other interested stakeholders will call, e-mail or meet with councillors – both individually or in groups. Information is presented from council staff in the business papers. Media outlets may cover the issue. Public submissions are often sought and encouraged so further information is gathered. Different levels of government and government departments may add to the amount of information available. Many councillors use social media where more information is presented. In short, councillors are typically inundated with information from a variety of sources – some more reliable

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than others – to help with the decision making process. And we are only up to step two.

Step three involves the analysis of the information. This is where councillors need to sort the wheat from the chaff in relation to the information gathered. Is some of the information biased? What are the facts versus opinions? How much weight is given to the opinions?

Are there short-term sacrifices needed for long-term benefits? Can the data be interpreted differently? Does the overall good outweigh the needs of a few? Is there another alternative that may well be a better solution? The analysis is a complicated process when there are so many interested parties in many of our

` Councillors are typically inundated with information from a variety of sources – some more reliable than others – to help with the decision making process.

decisions and the impacts of the decision may well be felt for years to come.

Step four involves the development of options. This takes the information from the previous two steps and helps formulate solutions. For councillors, the solutions may come from some of the councillor group or a combination or solutions from the group or they may be solutions presented by the staff. Solutions can be creative and hopefully positive and councillors will often ask “what if” questions. What if council tried this type of approach? What would the implications be?

Getting closer to the end of the process, councillors evaluate the range of alternatives. Sometimes the options might simply be a yes or no to a proposal. More often than not, the alternatives to evaluate are a range of options that are more likely to involve a yes with conditions rather than the binary yes or no. Solutions are evaluated for feasibility; acceptability and desirability. Ultimately, councillors try to decide which alternative best achieves the initial objectives.

Step six is the tough one. The selection of the preferred alternative. Incredible pressure can be mounted on

1. LITERATURE: Who wrote the 20th-century novel “The Sea Wolf”?

2. GEOGRAPHY: The island of Bali is province of what nation?

3. FLASHBACK: Name the group whose debut album was titled “Kissing to Be Clever”.

4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Where is the Mount Palomar Observatory?

5. BIBLE: What Bible verse begins with the words: “The Lord is my shepherd...”?

6. PERSONALITIES: What is

councillors from various stakeholders.

The public gallery can be full of people glaring at councillors ready to put their hands up to vote one way or the other. Opinion polls can be showing what sections of the public think. What are the risks of a decision being made – one way or the other? What are the potential benefits of different decisions?

Lastly, step seven is to act on the decision. Once councillors have made a decision this one is largely up to the staff and the proponents to go through a process and put a plan in place to implement the decision.

At our extraordinary council meeting on Monday night, a particularly tough issue was presented to councillors where we could all see that mutually exclusive viewpoints all had valid points.

Several councillors commented during the debate that it is tough being a councillor but, ultimately, they are in a position to make a decision. No decision is still a decision and, in my belief, a bad decision. The next time you are criticising your local councillors for their latest “terrible decision”, spare a thought for the tough position they find themselves in and think about the process involved in arriving at a decision.

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7. MEASUREMENTS: How many square inches are in a square foot?

8. INVENTIONS: Who is credited with inventing potato chips?

9. LANGUAGE: What kind of animal does the adjective “porcine” refer to?

10. MEDICINE: What causes chilblains?

11. FILM MEETS POP MUSIC: In which film did Elvis Presley

sing “Wooden Heart (Muss I Denn)?”

12. SPORT MEETS CLASSICAL MUSIC: Which opera singer also won the NSW golf championship three times?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “The winter days they last forever, But the weekends went by so quick, Went ridin’ around this little country town, We were goin’ nuts, girl, out in the sticks.”

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Weekender regular Lisa Minner continues to highlight some of the faces, places and hidden gems along our own beautiful stretch of the Macquarie and into the outback.

WHAT A GEM Australia’s opal industry has a global reputation of which we should all be proud, but we should be doing more to promote it, according to Texan-based jewellery designer and opal importer, John W. Ford. Dubbo Weekender caught up with Ford and his son Christopher in Lightning the who’s-who of g Ridge recently where he addressed th the industry about the importance of applying “country of origin� labelling to our national gemstone.

WORDS and gem PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner OW does a jewellery designer from Texas become obsessed with Australian black opal? It’s a question John W. Ford is often asked during his travels and the answer is simple – he fell in love with the stone 30 years ago, and he says it was love at first sight. But the Texan jeweller is concerned with how the gem is being marketed and sometimes misrepresented around the world. He and others in the industry are keen to see “country of origin� labelling on opals so gem lovers know exactly what quality they’re getting and from where.

Australia boasts some of the finest opal globally.

Ford says it’s the “gold standard�, especially when it comes from Lightning Ridge, which is known for its unique and highly coveted black ` opal.

Make no mistake, It should also be noted that these privateers are the opal was doing this around proclaimed Australia’s nationthe world and al gemstone on cumulatively it will July, 27 1993 by then Goveraffect demand and nor-General, Bill field prices here.�

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Ford and his son Christopher were recently in Australia for the Lightning Ridge International Opal Jewellery Design Awards Australia, (IOJDAA) where he was the guest speaker at the IOJDAA Ball. The ball attracts anyone and everyone who has anything to do with alluring world of opal, from miners, to exporters to designers to people who just love the rare gem and want a top night of entertainment and networking. He was also

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in town to catch up with friends and purchase black opal for or next year’s line of jewellery.

John’s speech was impassioned sioned – he wants gem labs around nd the world to use “country of origin� on Australian opal certification. fication.

He and many others believe ve it’s essential to the integrity of the he Australian opal industry. There is a great deal of misinformation when it comes to opal quality, where the averagee buyer may be paying top dollar to what Ford calls “gem privateers� or “pirates,� for a stone they believe to be worth a substantial amount ount of money when in fact it’s an inferior stone (or synthetic) h i ) masquerading di as a solid Australian opal.

A large part of the problem is the increasing amount of Ethiopian Opal (or hydrophane) that’s flooding the market, which Ford notes is also often unethically mined with “abuse of labour�, with workers not properly compensated and the mining practices unsafe.

It’s a worrying trend, given Ethiopian opal is in much greater supply than the Australian gem and needs to be clearly differentiated because, in his opinion, it’s inferior.

Australian opal is created via a sedimentary process where water seeps through layers of sandstone and clay over thousands of years whereas Ethiopian opal is created via a volcanic process.

It’s sometimes similar in appearance to the untrained eye, but altogether different geologically. Australian opal is more stable and it’s non-porous, whereas the Ethiopian equivalent is prone to cracking and colour loss due to being porous, unless it’s artificially treated. “If you put Ethiopian opal in jewellery cleaner and it

hasn’t been trea treated it will lose its colour and it will look wh white and pasty and people will feel ripped-off, ripped-of as they should.�

He says une unethical sellers are often pushing their stone stones as Australian opal and getting much more than it’s worth.

The misrepresentation misrep does the whole industry a disservice, according to Ford who says people feel duped; it ruins integ the integrity of those who are selling genuine quality stones and it creates distrust in the market. “Make no mistake these privateers are doing this around the world and cumulatively it w will affect demand and field prices here,� he says. “It’s our responsibility to set an example in our business practices. Ethiopian opal has a place in the market as long as you know it’s not treated and even if it is it should be disclosed upfront.�

Ford says time and again people who have purchased Ethiopian, synthetic opal or opal backed with ironstone (doublets or triplets) – without realising it – seek him out when the flaws begin to reveal themselves and he says while it’s sad for that person, it gives him an opportunity to educate them for their next purchase. “Personally I feel black opal is currently underpriced; I think it will increase significantly over time only as demand in the United States, Europe, China and India increases because it’s a 100 per cent natural gemstone. “People want to invest their money in what they know is a true gem – that it’s not been doctored-up to make it look good. We don’t talk about it as much in the industry as we should but even diamonds now are being clarity enhanced; they’re taking yellow diamonds and making them pink.�

Ring image: This freeform opal weighing 2.91 carats, set in 18 karats white gold and framed by .61 carats of diamonds just screams sunshine and summer time.

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HILE Ford’s jewellery business is called The Lightning Ridge Collection by John Ford, he proudly calls himself a fifth generation Galvestonian. He graduated in international trade and finance from the Texan A&M Maritime Academy and was offered a commission in the US Navy when he graduated, but instead chose a very different path.

“When I was in school I started selling gold chains from Italy by weight- I was an entrepreneur even then, it was in my blood, so I decided I would give it one year and open up a brick and mortar storefront, where I could operate my business.”

He says it was at this time he was first exposed to black opal and eventually ended up in the diamond business where he started manufacturing his own designs.

Entrenched in the world of precious gems, he became a diamond broker selling 10 to 20 carat diamonds for many years before eventually specialising in opal. Ford says he’s now probably the largest importer of black opal in the US. Asked why Lightning Ridge opal over other Australian opal like “boulder” – found only in Quilpie and Winton in Queensland – Ford says it’s not only because he loves it but it’s also easy for people to look up and research, as the region is so highly regarded in the opal world. That said, other Australian opal like white, crystal, “Yowah nuts” or boulder are also of incredibly high quality and well sought after.

“All opal Australian is the world-wide “gold standard” and should be promoted much more by the Australian government,” he explains.

“The government invests so much into tourism and marketing and should really be doing more to talk-up this country’s incredible opal industry to the rest of the world; even the likes of Columbia 100 per cent value and promote their emeralds – the government here should be promoting what is their national gemstone, with far more vigour.”

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ORD and his son have both dug for opal in the Ridge, and this trip Christopher was given a lesson in cutting it from a rough “nobby” through to a finished opal. It’s given them a greater appreciation and knowledge of the gem from the ground up, literally, which they then share with their customers in America and also via video on their website.

“I’m very lucky with the miners I work with; I have known them as friends from when I was working in the diamond business. They would often come over to Galveston and spend time here, have a few drinks and lock their goods in my vault.

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Featuring four (4) freeform opals each, this pair of earrings has a total of 8.72 carats of black opals; .79 carats of round brilliant cut diamonds, and are set in 18 carat white gold.

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John W. Ford with his son Christopher Ford

“They’re great people – Aussies and Texans have a lot in common. These miners know I am working on a long term project and they know I have the right idea of how the industry should be conducted.”

He believes it should be conducted ethically and Lightning Ridge should stand behind the opal they sell while alerting people and educating them with regard to hydrophane opal.

“This is why I love the Lightning Ridge Opal Miners Association (LRMA) because they represent the miners to the government and work to ensure the rights of the miners to mine opal in an environmentally sustainable way and continue their generational mining in Lightning Ridge.”

ATHER and son both agree opal is a magic stone.

“People’s eyes just light up when they see it for the first time.

“It’s a very niche market, but if you see something you like buy it because you will never see that same

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stone again, it’s like a fingerprint, it awes people,” Ford explains.

Major stores in the New York and Europe have always sold black opal but these are stores that only cater to a fraction of the jewellery market in the world.

The designer says his goal is to market his black opal to the American Gem Trade Association stores (AGTA) along with the American Gem Society stores (AGS), which are bodies that have a sound code of ethics.

Ford’s jewellery line is carried in about seven different states in the US. He says it took him about three years to collect enough black opal to begin the line.

“We did really well at the Oscars this year and we will also have up to three pieces being worn at the Emmys in November – we don’t know who’s wearing the pieces yet, that’s always the big question.”

He’s also confident that there is plenty more great quality opal to come from the Lightning Ridge opal fields in the years ahead.

“I really believe the best is ahead of us yet!”

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The Love Boat: The Lost Years – Part 8 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 Captain Tony he had declared his love for Barnacle Bill in the form of magnetic fridge poetry. Will Tony find the strength to declare this in and open and how are the rehearsals for Oklahoma getting on? The story continues.

APTAIN Tony swept his arm across the whiteboard. Words flew into the air, landing on the floor to form a number of post-modern poem fragments such as “if silver legs water leaves turn brown”. He turned to see if anyone had noticed what he had done, but there no one had. In fact, if Tony had been capable of paying any attention to those around him, he would have noticed that over the past few weeks very few of his crew were paying any attention to him whatsoever.

Julie Token Bishop clearly only had eyes for Barnacle Bill, whose soft hands she was still grasping, painted nails oh so subtly digging into his palms. Doc Turnbull had moved permanently into the Starlight Lounge and seemed determined to be the exact opposite of Tony in all matters. If Tony went to the gym he went to the bakery, if Tony wore a blue tie he wore red, if Tony wore a suit he wore a leather jacket, if Tony blithered like an idiot he appeared reasonably sane.

First Officer Pyne was as loyal as ever, but there was little good to be had from a man so fixed on achieving a uniform leg kick height during the chorus lines of Oklahoma. Even Gopher Morrison seemed less enamoured with Tony, although it was hard to tell since the only expression he had was that of a man who can’t open his mouth because he has just swallowed a live rat. For fun.

“Crew,” called Captain Tony. “It’s high time we had a meeting. In that, what I am

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saying here is, I have called a meeting.”

He strode off across the bridge to the internal door, refusing to turn his head to look at Barnacle. He reached the door, paused to make sure that at least some one was following (First Officer Pyne was) and then disappeared into the corridor.

Token Bishop dug her nails more firmly into Bill’s palm. It was her way of saying “I’ll be back”. She slid gracefully off the stool and followed her glorious leader. The still mute Somali unionised pirates looked on longingly; Bill looked on in despair.

In the crew meeting room Captain Tony was bringing the meeting to order.

“Now, let’s start, let’s, how do you say, begin. Now you will notice that I have started the meeting because that is what leaders do. They call meetings; meetings are called by leaders, and then they start them. This has been the way leaders have done things for years and I am a leader.”

Doc Turnbull shifted uncomfortably.

He had noticed that Tony had dressed for the hot weather in a light cotton suit and open collar. Doc Turnbull was dressed as if for an expedition to the South Pole.

“The matter we are here to discuss,” Tony continued, “Is an important matter, an important moral matter, over which we have long debated. And the matter is this: is it lawful for a member of the crew to marry a member who may not be a crew but is in fact a passenger.”

There was a horrified silence. It had been Love Boat law for years that while love between crew members was fabulous, and love between passengers was tolerated, and that it was understood passengers and crew did sometimes meet in dark gangways and, somehow,

lost all their clothes and had to huddle together for the warmth, there could never be the notion of actual marriage between them.

Gopher spoke first, the smallest hint of a tail showing between his lips. “That is outrageous. That is against the law of the sea. If we allowed that then we would allow anything. Why, what would stop a crew member from wanting to marry a dugong?”

“Well that would explain Clive Palmer for a start,” said Token, which brought a wry smile to Doc’s lips.

“This is no laughing matter,” snapped Gopher. “Why, my father has sailed for years upon the open ocean, braving cyclones and tidal waves, pirates and hidden reefs. And he did all that on the understanding that crew and passengers would never be allowed to marry.”

Diamond Joe clapped in agreement.

Tony reflected that perhaps this meeting had not been a bright idea. He turned to someone he thought might support the idea: Doc Turnbull.

Doc Turnbull noticed Tony staring at him in a slightly unsteady manner.

This was usually an invitation for him

Tony knew a good speech when he heard one – normally it was when he wasn’t speaking.

to speak.

“Is that still banned?” he asked rhetorically. “I wasn’t aware. I thought that was all sorted out years ago. On my private yacht I can’t think of a single crew member who isn’t shacked up with a passenger. Been that way for years and it doesn’t appear to have had any effect.

Least of all on the dugongs.”

Token took the stage next. “Although I am sympathetic to the notion of crew/ passenger love I don’t think this is the right time. We need to pay respect to the traditions of the Love Boat. Things such as overt sexism, racial stereotyping, blind ignorance, puerile infantilism, xenophobia, class hatred and environmental destruction on a gargantuan level. If we don’t respect these traditions then how can we expect those who come after us to do the same? What of our children? What legacy will we leave them? How will they know whom to simply hate and whom to actually despise?

Won’t somebody think of the children?”

Diamond Joe and Gopher burst into applause and shouts of “Hear! Hear!” and “Iassac.” First Officer Pyne was curiously silent.

Tony knew a good speech when he heard one – normally it was when he wasn’t speaking. He also knew when he was beaten.

If he was to marry Barnacle Bill, it couldn’t be with Bill as a passenger.

Will Tony be able to make Bill a member of the crew? Just how many rats does Gopher eat each day? Who was Doc Turnbull messaging through the ship’s hull all those episodes ago and why has that never been explained? Next week.

To be continued…

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Business & Rural

Learning from locals with a leading edge

BY ROSS MCCARTHY THY DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S CIL’S T CITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM LEADER

OR most of us it has been a while since we’ve been to school, college or uni. This doesn’t mean we stop learning, but how many of us actually take the time to have any kind of training plan? Something to keep us up to date and relevant in our industry, or keep our skills polished. For some of us continual learning may be reading current trade journals, attending trade shows and demonstration nights for example.

Some professions are required to maintain a certain amount of professional development hours per year to maintain membership.

For example accountants that are Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA) members are required, as part of their continuing professional development (CPD), to demonstrate 20 hours of CPD activities per year and a total of 120 hours for a three year time period.

In Dubbo we are very fortunate to have a number of tertiary institutions, such as Charles Stuart University, University of Sydney (School of Rural Health), TAFE Western and Western College, and great access to a world of online courses with providers such

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as major universities, industry colleges and organisations with specific online facilities, such as Lynda, that claim to have 3,739 video courses and provide training to more than four million people.

If all this sounds a bit heavy, or the whole online thing is not for you, maybe you and your business need to consider a local program such as Your Dubbo, which is designed to grow your business, give you a competitive edge and reenergise you, your business and staff. The program does this via a combination of: • Business development workshops • Expert guest speakers • Panels of local service providers • Extensive customer feedback reports, driven by a $5,000 customer prize (what a carrot) • Grant packages totalling $30,000 in funding, and $9,000 in business development support.

This business development program is designed for all sizes of business as demonstrated by last year’s grant package winners; Adventure Water Sports, EMS and Burgun and Brennan Optometrists.

Well, that all sounds great, but when does it start? The program kicked off last week with a business information evening and registrations are now open. The evening was well supported and the

passion from the guest speakers, ing customers into clients, what which included Karla Strait, Kath- is the difference between customryn Taylor, Andrew Bassett, Ben ers and clients, what products and Luck, Jenny Symons and David services really add value, what do Duffy, was nothing short of sensa- you need to know about your custional, followed by a few cleans- tomers and how to find this and ing ales... sorry, networking. the best ways to connect with As part of the Your Dubbo Busi- your customers. ness Development program there 4) Your Digital Space: with are four workshops designed to Amelia Kininmonth; this workengage managers and staff, and shop looks at the range of digital provide takeaway learnings to solutions you can easily implegrow and benefit your bottom ment to make your business operaline, which include: tions more efficient and effective.

Improve customer’s 1) Your Edge: with accessibility and Darren Schaefer, connection to your which explores ` business even after business branding, your business doors understanding your It’s not just about have closed for the brand DNA, link- the training, the ing your brand to workshops and the evening. your business value survey feedback These panproposition, imporel workshops are tance of brand con- but the networking made up of local sistency and trans- and meeting Dubbo business forming your brand other like-minded people with sucfrom the front win- progressive cessful real tangidow to a customer ble experience and business people. experience business experience, and are just a 2) Your Team: with Sally Sheehan which fo- taste of what the program entails. cuses on what a high perform- For many, it’s not just about the ing team is, identifying the right training, the workshops and the team structure, personalities, survey feedback but the networkteam ownership and delivering a ing and meeting other like mindmemorable customer experience, ed progressive Dubbo business finding the right person and who people and the sharing of ideas and best practices. is best to recruit.

3) Your Clients: with DaFor more information go to vid Duffy which explores turn- www.yourdubbo.com.au.

plication form. Applications close Wednesday, September, 30, 2015.

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF

Rural Scholarship winners THE Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS) Foundation recognised its 2015 Rural Scholarship recipients at a presentation ceremony at Sydney Showground recently. The event followed two regional NSW ceremonies hosted last month in Armidale and Wagga Wagga, where guests celebrated the achievements of the successful Rural Scholars; tertiary students who demonstrate a passion and commitment for careers that will ensure the future success of rural and regional NSW. This latest round of grants saw the RAS Foundation surpass a monumental milestone, reaching two million dollars in giving to regional communities and individuals since its inception in

2007, through 325 grants and scholarships.

RAS Foundation executive officer, Kate Ross, said this year’s Rural Scholars are an example of the type of remarkable stories the RAS Foundation is proud to support, and that the ceremonies were a great opportunity for donors to meet the students they are assisting face-to-face.

“The students come from a variety of backgrounds and each are passionate about why education, as well as giving back to the local community, is so important to them,” Ms Ross said.

Applications are now open for the 2016 Rural Scholarships. Interested applicants are encouraged to visit www.rasnsw.com. au/Scholarships-Grants to find out more about the scholarship and to complete the online ap-

NSW Farmers Association is encouraging grain producers to have their say at a forum on the future of research, innovation and policy in the $9 billion Australian grain industry.

The forum, which kicks off in Moree next week, features senior representative farmers from the Grains Research and Development Corporation and the association’s Grains Committee.

Pullabooka farmer and NSW Farmers’ Grains Committee chair Dan Cooper said growers can voice their ideas and concerns as part of a special panel discussion on current issues impacting grain production.

“It’s a great opportunity for growers to have input into topics such as GTA grain standards, native vegetation laws, transport and the grain harvest management scheme,” he said.

“There is also plenty to talk about in terms of unifying grains industry representation.”

Mr Cooper said NSW Farmers recently progressed policy aimed at unifying the national representation of grain farmers.

The GRDC will update produc-

ers on the grains research, development and extension strategy for the northern region and seek grower feedback on its future direction.

The forum will be held at the Moree Town and Country Club on Monday, August 17 from 12pm to 5pm. To RSVP call NSW Farmers on 1300 794 000 or visit www. nswfarmers.org.au/grainsforum.

Ag White Paper highlights opportunities for farmers REGIONAL Development Australia Central West (RDACW) has welcomed the release of the Federal Government’s Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper, which has highlighted the opportunities for the agricultural sector.

The White Paper outlines a $4 billion investment in agriculture across five key priority areas, which include building infrastructure and accessing premium trade markets.

“It’s great to see the government has recognised the opportunities for our agriculture sector.

Our RDACW committee has already been working on a number of initiatives aimed at attracting the necessary funding and investment to help sustain agriculture

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 14.08.2015 to Sunday 16.08.2015 ADVERTORIAL

NSW Indigenous consumers duped with course incentive SW Fair Trading and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission are jointly investigating complaints about misleading marketing of courses and loans to vulnerable consumers across NSW. Training courses that come with loans and are spruiked illegally have left Fair Trading commissioner Rod Stowe in high dudgeon in past weeks.

“I am particularly disturbed by the offensive practice of luring people into training courses with offers of free iPads and laptops,” the commissioner said. “I am appalled that vulnerable groups such as Indigenous consumers have been a target. Anyone who signed up to offers of this kind via door-to-door marketing and has concerns should contact Fair Trading.”

Consumers in Coffs Harbour, Grafton and Moree, Boggabilla, Goondiwindi and Toomelah after the agency received tip offs about people offering free laptops to people if they signed up for training.

This is in contravention of a ban by the Commonwealth on the promotion of inducements like iPads and laptops to lure consumers into courses funded

by VET FEE. People have allegedly been told they did not need to complete a course to get the inducement and would never have to repay the loan. Some consumers were asked to provide their tax file numbers.

Spruikers were said to be helping consumers complete required lan-

guage, literacy and numeracy tests.

Some consumers were not told about conditions attached to the offer of a free laptop or iPad. They are often only on loan to a student until a course is completed. Some students who have signed up to similar offers in the past never received their promised laptop or iPad. Students carry debt on loans for many years whether or not they complete the course.

Local media and elders are helping promote the warning to Indigenous communities. Misleading marketing is illegal under the Australian Consumer Law and can attract penalties of up to $1.1million.

Check terms and look for any mention of a census date or cooling-off period that allows you to cancel in writing without incurring debt. Consumers who sign up during door-to-door marketing are automatically entitled to cancel consumer contracts within a 10-day cooling-off period under the Australian Consumer Law. If you didn’t receive any contract documents or are concerned you might have been misled into signing up for a loan you should call NSW Fair Trading on 13 32 20 to get more information about your cancellation rights.

Complaints can also be lodged at www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au or in person at any Service NSW Service Centre.

well into the future,” said RDACW Executive Officer Peter McMillan.

“Our recent Freight Study, Export/ Import Contribution Study and last month’s launch of an investment-focussed website are some of the tools we have been working on to identify the issues and opportunities in the supply chain while giving private investors the data they need to secure a business case for value-adding or exporting from the region,” he added.

RDACW has also been working with the Central West region councils (CENTROC) to identify priority infrastructure for the region.

“This work puts us in good stead to identify known pinch points in the supply chain from the farm gate to the consumer.”

“The White Paper outlines that the Government is committed to spending $30.8 million to help farmers access premium markets for their produce.

We can already give the soon-to-be-appointed agriculture counsellors the information they need to work on breaking down those technical barriers to trade in our region and open the door to new markets,” said RDACW Deputy Chairman Reg Kidd.

2016 Rural Industries R&D Corporation (RIRDC) Rural Women’s Award helps boost women’s contributions to primary industries and rural communities by providing financial assistance, mentoring, resources and support for the Award’s state and territory winners.

The Award is open to all women involved in primary industries, who are encouraged to enter themselves or to nominate someone with a commitment and desire to making a real difference to their industry and community.

State and Territory winners receive $10,000 to implement their Award idea and will have the opportunity to participate in leadership development opportunities, including the Company Directors Course run by the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

A national winner and runner-up will be selected from the state winners with a further $10,000 awarded to the winner and $5,000 to the runner-up to support their professional development and contribution to primary industries.

2014 RIRDC Rural Women’s Award winner, Pip Job, said the Award has opened many doors for her.

“I encourage rural women who have a great idea that will benefit their community or industry to nominate for the Award – it’s a fantastic opportunity to expand your leadership skills, develop your networks and make a real difference to rural Australia through your chosen project,” Pip said.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

5 ways to get the best out of your business advisors T EAMWORK is a key factor in achieving the most success in life.

Everybody wants great advice from their trusted business advisors. It’s one thing to hire a business advisory firm but that’s only part of the story. After all, as they say, success is where preparation meets opportunity. What then do you need to do to get great financial advice? Here are five things you should do:

#1. Make sure your business advisor is clear about your end game.

ASK yourself: z Do you have a clear picture on what you want your business to look like in 5, 10 and 15 year’s time? z Have you ever documented it? z Do you want a business by default or a business by design?

If you don’t, write them down or get your accountant to help you formulate these. Once you have done this, you should find that any financial advice you get will be much more relevant and therefore much more valuable. #2. Ensure you can quickly track where your finances are.

GETTING advice when you don’t have a good handle on your finances is almost meaningless.

Consider: z moving your systems to a cloud based accounting system; z religiously updating your numbers by the second week after every month end; z getting a three way budget done (again use your business advisor if you need to); z having a monthly meeting with staff and advisors re your current business performance. #3. Communicate plans with legals,

banks and insurance advisors.

A GOOD financial advisor ensures that any plan is coordinated well with the client’s other professional contacts.

What might work well for one area might undo the work of another. Keep others informed when: z getting succession planning in place; z business plans are complete; z putting together an estate plan. #4. Listen carefully.

YOU don’t have to agree with your financial advisor but at least consider what they have to say. Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, and just talking with somebody can sometimes totally clear your mind when deciding what you need to do. #5. Implement by taking action!

ONCE you have received the advice and have decided to change things to improve, take action and do not procrastinate. If you keep doing the same things that you did before the advice it’s almost guaranteed nothing will change. Implement with discipline even if it’s over a number of days, weeks or months. To do this: z break the actions down into smaller projects; z allocate at least one hour a day to work on the changes (i.e. working ON the business); z meet with your accountant or business advisors to discuss progress or challenges.

CONCLUSION: MAKE the most of your financial advice by considering the above five actions beforehand. Not only will you save yourself a significant amount of money but your path to success will be that much quicker!

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T is probably safe to say that when a baby By the way, pharmacists are easily accessible comes along most mothers will soon look at and right there to talk to whenever you need! taking medicines in a totally different light. For FREE. During Pregnancy the fine line is travelled If you are unsure of something you are to between cautiously checking everything in- take go in and check with the pharmacist if the gested to needing to gorge on rare pickled type, strength and dose is appropriate for you. items which can only be found at Aldi…or Motherhood is stressful enough without beemptying all said contents and just trying to keep afloat with dry biccies and fluids for nine ing sick yourself. I see this all too often – an over-tired, underfed mum who is super exmonths.

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When you hand over any script from the questioning what they take – and rest assured when it comes to medications, this is a good doctor, just mention to your pharmacist that you are breastfeeding; they can be aware of it thing!

Most medicines can pass into breast-milk but and check the medication is okay for you at the please don’t panic! Usually only small quanti- time of dispensing.

Some mums need to take medicines reguties pass through that barrier and generally it larly to treat a medical conis too small an amount to be dition and others may only harmful to your baby. need to take something oc` However, to err on the side casionally to treat an acute of caution I will explain a bit I see this all too condition such as a headache about medicines commonly often – an overor cough and cold. taken by breast-feeding mums. tired, underfed Medicines can be categorised Risk versus benefit is mum who is super into three areas – prescription something that must be tak(only available when you get a en into consideration when exhausted, now script from your GP or specialtaking medicines – this with a heavy ist); over-the-counter (availameans weighing up the bencold, mastitis ble without a script and found efit to the mother compared and emotionally at your pharmacy and some at to any risk it may pose to the the supermarket); and complebaby. This is not as scary as melting down – but mentary (herbal, natural, alit may seem; it just means too scared to take ternative stuff). the mum needs to be at her anything in case I would strongly urge breastbest to care for the baby – if feeding mums who need ANY it can be done safely, then it’s she hurts her baby.

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a win-win situation.

A cough and cold is usually the number one ailment at this time of year. So I try to work systematically with my breastfeeding mums.

We work on the symptoms being experienced one by one – using simple and safe pain relief if needed (the suckling miniature shark on your boob provides enough torture let alone adding sinus pain), avoiding combination cold and ‘flu products that can cause side effects in the baby (such as constipation) and supporting the mums emotional and physical wellbeing as well. By the time they have a cold, a few other things (such as daily supplements and sleep!) have sometimes gone by the way-side.

Gaining some balance back is important to achieve.

Lastly, I will always recommend a bit of “oldschool” remedy – good old steam inhalations, a sinus rinse, Vicks, rest (I know, but it has to happen), drinking lots of water (your bladder will one day be normal again), gargling warm, salty water or the beautifully soothing warm lemon and honey brews.

Some safe herbal tea never goes astray in a breastfeeding mum’s household. It may not be pickled-herring and ice-cream flavoured as you would have liked during pregnancy but it CAN be very restorative and a beautiful relaxing process for a busy mumma.

Before taking any medication while breastfeeding talk with your GP or other health professional or just check with your local friendly pharmacist. We want nothing more than for you and your precious baby to be healthy and happy. z Note: The information contained in this article is not intended as medical advice – it is a guide only. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact your own health professional for individual advice.

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War and peas

Winning the battle over what your kids eat! well, it engages the child and gives off the signals you want them to follow.”

She explains that after playing games and singing songs about a certain food several times a week for four or five weeks, and having tasted it in the process, a toddler will eventually decide they’d like to eat some of the food.

“Away from the table, food shouldn’t have to be about eating – if you remove that pressure and make it fun, engaging and interesting, children’s natural curiosity takes over and they pop it in their mouth.”

BY LISA SALMON EALTIMES have become the all-too-common battlegrounds in the typical family home, with nearly half of mums saying they find it hard to get young children to try new foods – and fruit and veg often being refused altogether.

It’s something that can drive parents to distraction – yet children’s food expert Lucy Thomas insists that simply putting fun into food is the key to making kids voracious vegetable eaters.

The mum-of-one, who runs fun food classes for children aged 18 months plus, is spearheading a new campaign to help show parents how to encourage young children to enjoy healthy food.

“Most parents want their children to eat well and be healthy, and have a good foundation for a healthy diet in adulthood,” she says.

“Usually that entails fruit and vegetables – but they’re what children have the most problems with. A child refusing food certainly pushes parents’ buttons – they’re so desperate for their children to have a good diet, that the pressure is on at mealtimes.”

To reduce that pressure, she says, what parents need to do is make food fun away from the meal table, encouraging children to explore, touch, play games with and sing songs about food so it becomes an enjoyable part of their life.

“Grab whatever’s in the fridge, like a stick of celery,” suggests Thomas, “and ask your toddler to explore it – what does it feel and smell like, what does it sound like when you snap it? Get them doing the hokey cokey with sticks of celery.

“You’re introducing it to them at a fun level, so perhaps later when they see it at the table, they might then be willing to brush their teeth with it or lick it.”

But she stresses: “I always go by the principle of not asking children to eat, try or taste anything.

“Explore food and have fun, and give children lots of opportunities to engage with it other than just at mealtimes.”

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FRUIT & VEG FUN z Show your child how to smell strawberries, lick them to feel the bumpiness of the seeds, and roll them gently on the table. z Cut a grapefruit in half and have fun looking at the pattern inside. Let your child squeeze the juice into a cup. z Buy broad beans in their pods and get your child to help you shell them into a bowl.

Talk about how they feel and see who can find the biggest bean. z Use a knife to slice through the skin of a banana into ‘wheels’ that they can peel. z Hide tomatoes around the kitchen or garden and go hunting for them. z Help your child to line up carrots in order of height or how fat and thin they are.

Explore food and have fun, and give children lots of opportunities to engage with it other than just at mealtimes. PHOTO: PA/THINKSTOCKPHOTOS.

URGH – WHAT’S THAT? THOMAS explains that eating pureed food during weaning means that when babies are eventually presented with whole food, for example broccoli, it looks so different from what the child’s used to eating that it may well be refused.

“A toddler may then seem very fussy, but really they’ve just not had enough experience of exploring and enjoying food to give them enthusiasm for it.”

She stresses that young children need to be presented with a new food at least 15 times before they might be

Amber Hatch, author of Nappy Free Baby.

willing to put it near their mouth.

FOOD REFUSAL FROM about the age of 18 months, children go through a period of ‘neophobia’, says Thomas, when they suddenly restrict their diet and want to eat the same few meals repeatedly. This usually lasts until about the age of three or slightly older. It’s an inbuilt mechanism to protect from self-poisoning, explains Thomas, who says her own daughter Molly, who’s nearly two, has just changed from loving all fruit to refusing to eat any of it.

“She loved fruit – she could scoff a whole punnet of blueberries – and now she just refuses to eat it.

“But I know she’ll come back to it,” she says confidently.

JOIN IN THOMAS stresses that parents should join in the food fun themselves, and be seen to eat it as well. She suggests they spare five minutes to, say, help children peel a banana, or squash some raspberries and use the juice as lipstick.

“Children are great imitators and they want to please, so if their parents can join in as

Q: “What is baby-led potty training, and what are the advantages and disadvantages?”

A: Amber Hatch, author of Nappy Free Baby (Vermilion), says: “Baby-led potty training (BLPT) is a method of using the potty, along with nappies, right from the word go. It hinges on the fact that babies are born with reflexes that make them urinate and defecate at predictable times, and they can quickly learn to use the potty through association.

“Using the potty helps keep your baby drier and cleaner for longer. This prevents nappy rash and reduces nappy use. Supporting your baby in the BLPT ‘squatting position’ also helps him pass waste more effectively – rather like ‘burping’ a baby. This can pre-

LUCY’S TOP TIPS z Never ask a toddler to eat, try or taste anything. Ask them to kiss, lick or crunch it instead. z Explore the different textures of foods using a juicer, blender or grater. z Don’t force your child to eat a meal they don’t like. z Recognise your own hang-ups about food. Do you avoid offering certain foods to your children because you don’t enjoy them? z Get a little messy. Let your toddler squash a tomato while you’re cooking. z Let them have real fruit and vegetables to play with in their toy kitchen.

For more info visit www.organix.com/lovegoodfood.

vent constipation and reduce discomfort. Parents also find that the extra communication increases their confidence and is an enjoyable way to bond.

“The method can be done as much or as little as you like. It can take a day or two of practice to get the hang of it, and some parents feel nervous [about] a nappy-less baby (though BLPT normally leads to fewer surprises and leaks after a day or two).

“You can start BLPT at any age from birth up to conventional potty training age, but it’s easiest the younger you start. It’s best to introduce the potty in the first four to five months, before the infantile reflexes start to fade.”

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Local photographer LISA MINNER snapped this fabulous shot at Falls Road crossing on the Macquarie River in Wellington, on dusk.

The rock formation is moved around by local kids in summer when they swim there, a little reminiscent of the fish traps at Brewarrina.

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‘It was HRT or HMS Holloway for me’

British comedian Jenny Eclair’s new novel tells of memories relived when you sell the house you’ve lived in for more than 50 years.

BY HANNAH STEPHENSON SHE’S been voicing the thoughts of grumpy old women for a decade, both on screen and on stage, but now Jenny Eclair is turning her attention to a subject close to her heart – middle age.

About to embark on a major tour of her home country of England with her new show, How To Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane), she is pictured on the flyer in an unflattering bra and knickers, no airbrush in sight.

Eclair, 55, writes about what she knows. And her latest tour is no exception.

“It’s about the fury of middle age and what you can do about it. I had to go on HRT because my anger issues became insane.

I was dangerous. I was very close to killing something. It was HRT or Holloway [prison] for me. I was angry about everything.

“Geof [her partner] loves the HRT. He really panics if I tell him I’m a bit low, I’m now the nicest I’ve ever been, and the fattest. I’ve bloomed and mellowed.

“I also get cross about the underestimation and the patronising of middle-aged women.

When Kate Bush came back and did those gigs, everybody was very excited, but underneath it all they were thinking, ‘She’s going to make a complete tw*t of herself, run up that hill, fall over, cry and run off stage’.

“And the fact that they’re going to have a woman of 50 having sex with James Bond has caused a big furore. It’s Monica Bellucci, it’s not like it’s a dinner lady with a bandage around her ankle,” she adds, on a roll.

The tour runs for more than six months, although she’ll have some time off at Christmas, so is hoping to slot in a panto.

“Deep down, I’m greedy, lazy, selfish and not very nice, so I have to distract myself with quite a lot of work. I crave a nice, cushy afternoon quiz show. I’ve never had that.”

Eclair is probably best known in Australia for the BBC-produced TV series Grumpy Old Women which ran from 2004 to 2007.

Since then, she has appeared more on stage than on TV, and has been a prolific writer, authoring several books including The Book of Bad Behaviour and Having A Lovely Time.

“Telly’s not interested,” she says with a shrug. “When the Grumpy series finished, they decided they were going to take the ‘old’ out of the title and would just do a series of grumpy women and grumpy men and use much younger people, and of course, it didn’t work. So they

Jenny Ecalir. PHOTO: PA

killed it off on the telly.

“But the brand is really strong on the road, because there’s always an army of middle-aged furious women who like to come together and be in the same room and recognise themselves and laugh at it.”

She lives in London with her daughter Pheobe, 26, a playright, and partner of 33 years Geof Powell. So what’s the secret of their happy union?

“We have no secrets but there are rules. Rules for him: if in doubt, tell her she looks like she’s lost weight; remember the names of her three best friends, do not refer to them as Shorty, Fatty and The Fit One.” And rules for her? “There are no rules,” she says flatly.

I got this absolutely huge wave of fear. I thought I was going to be sick, I thought I was going to faint, I had to hold on to furniture...

She’s guested on TV shows including Stephen Fry’s long-running QI, and Loose Women, and done the reality show circuit, from I’m A Celebrity... to Celebrity MasterChef.

“They’re like panto. It’s an opportunity to make a chunk of money – more than I get for writing a book.

“But TV is not something I rely on. I’d love to do more telly but it doesn’t really present itself that often. I think I’m quite difficult to harness on television. I’m not very well groomed.

I look a bit peculiar. Everyone tends to be a little bit neater and a bit more well behaved.

“I’d love to do a sitcom. Telly and I have unfinished business.

Our relationship hasn’t been bad but I don’t think I’ve ever found my niche there. It’s a tricky beast.

“But it’s good that I’ve never been trapped in one thing. If I’d been a successful TV presenter, I probably wouldn’t write books.”

Eclair has now written four novels, as well as a string of stage shows.

Her latest book, Moving, centres on a woman who is selling the house she has lived in for more than 50 years, and the memories it stirs as she goes

through each room with the estate agent, taking her back to her old life as a young mother, her first husband and their twins, then her second marriage to a very different man with a son, who is difficult, to say the least.

“Houses have always been very important, because I moved a lot as a child and my partner does up houses,” she explains. “Some of my friends have started to think about downsizing and you suddenly become aware of how much your house contains.”

Some of the flashbacks in the novel take place in Manchester where a group of youngsters share a house. It’s a throwback to Eclair’s early years there.

“My memories of Manchester are very much in terms of payphones on the stairs and that tide of post that nobody will claim that builds up behind the front door, light fittings that are broken and nobody fixes, the filthiness of communal stairs and the grottiness of shared bathrooms.”

She attended Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre before moving to London, where she found work doing punk poems, which led to the comedy circuit.

Eclair was one of the first stand-up females. “French and Saunders were doing double act stuff. There was only Victoria Wood, but she was doing stuff that was very different from what I wanted to do, because mine was much ruder and much madder at the beginning, which is why lots of people didn’t like it.”

Like the fictional drama student in her latest novel, she’s suffered stage fright.

“I only got stage fright later on in my career, which came with anxiety. It happened a couple of times.

“I had a wave of it once at the Edinburgh Festival in 2000, and once in Australia when I was on stage in Sydney in Grumpy Old Women. It was a massive theatre and I didn’t think the audience got it in the same way that British audience did.

“I got this absolutely huge wave of fear. I thought I was going to be sick, I thought I was going to faint, I had to hold on to furniture.

“It was paranoia, symptoms of anxiety. Anybody who has a panic attack can tell you that you just feel light-headed and that you’re going to be sick and faint.

“I always had to use valium.

I’d do half a tab – I love a bit of valium – but I don’t do it now. I literally manage to get five valium to last about five years.

“I have high expectations of myself, not wanting to drop the ball, not wanting to fail. I think most performers have an anxiety button they can press now and again.”

She gigs all the time, and tries to keep up with contemporary comedy, going to Edinburgh Festival when she can and to fringe theatre and comedy clubs in London.

“I prefer comedy live and I think the standard’s stronger than it ever has been,” says Eclair. “We’re in really safe hands.”

:: Moving by Jenny Eclair is published by Sphere.

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When is forgetfulness a sign of dementia?

BY ABI JACKSON S the number of people being diagnosed with dementia continues to rise, so too does the need for greater awareness, care services and support – for both the person with dementia and their loved ones – because this is a condition that can significantly impact the whole family.

According to the latest figures from Alzheimer’s Australia, there are more than 342,800 Australians living with dementia, and this number is expected to increase to 400,000 in less than ten years.

Three in ten people over the age of 85 and almost one in ten people over 65 have dementia, and it’s predicted these numbers will keep growing.

Getting appropriate support can make a world of difference for those living with dementia, but spotting possible early warning signs can be very tricky. After all, everybody gets a bit forgetful from time to time, or goes through phases of being ‘out of sorts’ – so how do you know when these things are normal, or a symptom?

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Memory loss “IT is common to experience changes in our memory as we get older, so it can be difficult to recognise which changes are normal and which could indicate a problem,” says Dr Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer’s Research UK. “While we all might draw a blank on someone’s name from time to time, or forget where we put our keys every once in a while, repeated and worsening forgetfulness that interferes with daily life could be more of a cause for concern.”

There are various ways this could occur – Dr Karen Harrison Dening, director of Admi-

ral Nursing at Dementia UK, says common examples might include losing items regularly, getting lost or disorientated in seemingly familiar places and repeating oneself frequently.

People might also get confused or muddled when it comes to routine tasks, like preparing a meal, getting dressed or putting the rubbish out.

Personality changes “DEMENTIA affects everyone differently, and memory changes are not the only possible early sign of the condition. Some people might experience per-

sonality changes, such as persistent uncharacteristic anger or irritability, lack of drive or low mood,” explains Dr Ridley.

Somebody might suddenly seem to lose interest in things they were previously very interested in. Personality changes could also include seeming more sensitive than usual, and getting frustrated or upset more easily. Dr Dening notes that mood swings can often occur too, so a person might seem quite “up and down”, and they might not be able to follow conversations like they used to.

Making poor judgements

I’m concerned – what should i do?

A report in the news earlier this month – about an 84-yearold man with dementia, who was repeatedly targeted by scammers and spent thousands on items that he didn’t need – highlights how people with dementia might lose their ability to make sound judgements in certain circumstances, particularly financial ones, which can make them extremely vulnerable.

“This can result in poor financial decisions and the inability to manage a budget,” notes Dr Ridley.

THE signs outlined above don’t always indicate dementia, but it’s a good idea to speak to your GP as soon as you have concerns.

“They will be able to determine whether there might be a need for more in-depth assessment by dementia specialists, and rule out other conditions that could be causing these problems,” notes Dr Ridley. * Call the National Dementia Helpline 1800 100 500 if you or someone you have concerns.

Dementia statistics in Australia

The impact of dementia in Australia

z There are more than 342,800 Australians living with dementia z This number is expected to increase to 400,000 in less than ten years z Without a medical breakthrough, the number of people with dementia is expected to be almost 900,000 by 2050 z Each week, there are more than 1800 new cases of dementia in Australia; approx. one person every six minutes. This is expected to grow to 7400 new cases each week by 2050 z There are approximately 25,100 people in Australia with Younger Onset Dementia (a diagnosis of dementia under the age of 65; including people as young as 30) z Three in ten people over the age of 85 and almost one in ten people over 65 have dementia z An estimated 1.2 million people are involved in the care of a person with dementia z Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia and there is no cure z On average symptoms of dementia are noticed by families three years before a firm diagnosis is made

z Dementia is the single greatest cause of disability in older Australians (aged 65 years or older) and the third leading cause of disability burden overall z Australia faces a shortage of more than 150,000 paid and unpaid carers for people with dementia by 2029 z Total direct health and aged care system expenditure on people with dementia was at least $4.9 billion in 2009-10 z Dementia will become the third greatest source of health and residential aged care spending within two decades.

These costs alone will be around 1 per cent of GDP z By the 2060s, spending on dementia is set to outstrip that of any other health condition. It is projected to be $83 billion (in 2006-07 dollars), and will represent around 11 per cent of health and residential aged care sector spending z More than 50 per cent of residents in Australian Government-subsidised aged care facilities have dementia (85,227 out of 164,116 permanent residents with an ACFI assessment at June 30, 2011) z Almost half (44 per cent) of permanent residents with dementia also had a diagnosis of a mental illness PHOTOS: PA/THINKSTOCKPHOTOS.

SOURCE: ALZHEIMER’S AUSTRALIA, WWW.FIGHTDEMENTIA. ORG.AU

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Make waves at home Segel-Regatta Berlin Wannsee wall print

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN UST the sound of waves crashing on a shore, and the high-pitched cry of seagulls, evokes a coastal scene and all its pleasures – which, unless you’re lucky enough to live by the sea, are usually only enjoyed on holidays.

But conjuring seaside style at home is easier than ever, no matter how close to the beach you live.

Perfect for the coming spring/summer, this look is a perennial favourite, and taking the plunge may only mean a lick of fresh paint (pick a brilliant white or a bright blue) and a few appropriate accessories, such as a sailing boat or-

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nament or a cushion with an anchor emblem.

Before you know it, you will be decked out and shipshape.

“The term ‘nautical’ can inspire many aesthetics, from the traditional images of anchors, lighthouses and buckets and spades, to the more subtle material influences, such as stripped wood, wicker baskets and natural floor coverings like seagrass or jute, for that unspoilt beach retreat look,” says Clotilde Passalacqua, country interior design leader at Ikea.

“Take inspiration from the colours of the seaside and use soft, pastel blues for upholstered furniture or soft furnishings. These will work well paired with driftwood browns

Wood Panelling wallpaper

5 tips for painting with an emulsion roller

BY JULIA GRAY

5 TIPS FOR...

1. Check that the roller has a heavy wire frame and that you'll be able to get replacement sleeves (the bit you apply paint with), so you don't have to bin the whole roller when the sleeve gets worn or you fail to clean it properly. Roller sleeves take a great deal of cleaning (in water) and if you inadvertently leave any paint to dry on the sleeve, it may ruin the finish the next time you paint. If you don't have time to clean the sleeve properly, it's tempting to leave it to soak, but this can cause the frame to rust,

which bleeds into the paint when you use the roller. So take the sleeve off the frame first.

2. The roller should be stiff, otherwise it will bend when you apply pressure, causing you to paint unevenly. To stop a roller shedding fibres, wrap masking tape around the sleeve – when you peel off the tape, any loose fibres should come away with it.

3. The fibres (known as the nap) are made of different materials and come in different lengths. Some are designed to produce a smooth finish on interior walls; others are for rougher surfaces, such as exterior render. Generally, the shorter the nap, the finer the finish will be.

4. It's handy to have a roller with a screw-

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 14.08.2015 to Sunday 16.08.2015 and can combine to create an air of serenity in the home. Whatever your choice – a simple splash of stripes or all the kit for a full captain’s galley – it’s time to make waves with your decor.”

Follow these expert decor tips to ensure your transformation is plain sailing...

CLASSIC COASTAL BLUE’S a classic colour choice for channelling a nautical vibe, and white is its perfect contrasting partner.

“The pairing of white and blue hues never fails to make us smile. Fresh, bright and intrinsically linked to summer, it’s a classic combination which brings a tranquil vibe to any home,” says Claire Hornby, a creative stylist.

“For a new take on this much-loved look, add a touch of urban cool to traditional nautical styles, by teaming rustic finishes with contemporary shapes and clean geometric prints. This will ensure your scheme is visually interesting and gorgeously tactile.”

COASTAL CHIC: If your space is confined, stick to smaller items and dress your home with decorative cushions, patterned throws and rugs in a white and blue colourway, suggests Hornby.

Paint stair risers in different shades of blue for a colourful focal point in a hallway.

SEASHORE STYLE PICK up on the shades of sun-bleached whites, soft sand and creamy corals, for a mellow interpretation of coastal cool.

“Coastal style’s always a hit for the warmer seasons. This summer the look is all about depth, and there’s a whole new choice of textures and prints which could command attention,” says David Roebuck, sales and marketing director

for a blinds and awnings firm.

“Bold block colours have secured their part in the look, with blues ranging from pastel to deepest azure taking centre stage, but always set against a backdrop of sandy yellow, stark white and driftwood brown. For a bold finish, that confident pop of red is a real nautical must-have.

“Base materials are stone, glass, wood – light or painted white and distressed for a ‘sea air-weathered’ look – along with rope and other coarse woven fabrics, like hopsack. As the aim of this look is to bring the outdoors in, windows should contribute all they can to the finished design, by framing and maximising natural light. Cool base colours add an uplifting airiness, while striped or motif-printed curtains and blinds become an instant focal point for the coastal-inspired home.”

Monkton Mirror

Seaside Boats Pitcher

Avocet Preening Wooden Bird

Admiral Ivory/ Navy Indoor/ Outdoor Pillow

Starfish Cushion

Chrome Anchor

Welcome Aboard Life Ring

Crab or Lobster On Stick

Elspeth Ivory Roman Blind Grey Felted Pebbles

Gulls Wallpaper

Samson Coffee Table thread end because this allows you to screw an extension pole into it for painting ceilings and really high walls, although you can get extension poles/rollers in one. For painting behind radiators, use a radiator roller, which has a small head and long handle so you can reach down behind the radiator. You'll have to remove column radiators and heated towel rails to paint behind them – summer's the ideal time to do this job because you don't need the heating on.

5. One of the main problems with rollers is that they leave 'tracks', which are lines of paint from the side of the roller that ruin the finish. The more you try and roller these out, the more they can appear, which is very frustrating. Rollers with bevelled edges are less likely to leave tracks, so look out for these and always check the surface you've just painted for any tracks you've missed – it's often easier to remove them lightly with a paintbrush.

Fisherman’s Pendant Light

Seaside Wall Hooks

MODERN MARITIME

EMBRACE a pared-back modern take on the trend and opt for a fashionable monochrome palette enlivened by metallics.

“The key to the coastal look is keeping it simple and fresh,” says Tim Tatlock, a tile company buyer.

“Be inspired by the seashore and pick from a range of shades, such as traditional deep blues or soft, sea-spray pastels. Or for a clean, more streamlined look, pair with crisp white painted walls and flooring. Compliment decor with elements from the coastline, such as seashells, weathered pieces of driftwood, or wall prints depicting sea and sailing scenes.”

COASTAL CHIC: Use open shelving to showcase coastal accessories and group finds together for an eye-catching display. Fill tall vases with sand and then scatter seashells and coral pieces on top for a focal point feature.

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Driftwood Candle Holder

Seaside Collection cushions, which have crab, lobster, and compass designs

Beachhouse laminate flooring

Shamrock Decorative Boat

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Shaw way to get the glow

BY KEELEY BOLGER HEF and nutritionist Madeleine Shaw’s diet plan doesn’t just help her clients become healthier in the kitchen – it’s improving their relationships too.

“One of the things that comes up all the time, is that people on (my nutritional) programme say they’re less irritable,” reveals the 25-yearold, laughing.

“They say, ‘My boyfriend or my husband or my partner, or whatever, is so happy because I’m less of a moody cow!’”

For Shaw’s most famous client, model Millie Mackintosh, it’s her luminous skin that’s drawing attention, not the inadvertent marriage counselling. The pair worked together before model Mackintosh married rapper Professor Green in September 2013, and have remained friends ever since.

“Millie’s always asking for tips because she’s always doing photo shoots and looking glamorous, so I’m always helping her with that kind of stuff,” says Shaw.

“But she’s an easy client to work with. She’s pretty naturally beautiful.”

Hiring Shaw as a nutritionist may not be realistic for all of us, but at least her first book – Get The Glow – ensures we can try her methods at home instead.

“The programme’s really holistic,” says Shaw, who laughs as she explains how her boyfriend often has tester recipes “shoved down his throat”.

“It looks at cutting out sugar, eating healthy fats and also thinking positively – not only about your health, but about food,” she adds of the book, and her approach to fuelling body and soul. “It talks about mindfulness and meditation to combat stress. The last chapter is called Live Your Glow, which is of huge importance to me; it’s not just about these six weeks, it’s about living it long-term.”

Shaw is radiant, positively glowing with health, but she admits she hasn’t always had such a balanced approach to eating, describing her previous relationship with food as “torturous”.

Up until her late teens, she says she ate “a typical

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magazine diet of Diet Coke and low-fat yoghurt” in a quest to stay skinny, assuming that low-fat options were healthy alternatives to their full-fat counterparts, but found herself constantly counting calories and lumbered with a raft of digestive problems and energy slumps.

That all changed when the UK-born Shaw moved to Sydney aged 18 to study, and started working at a cafe where, she recalls, “everyone was healthy and gorgeous”.

“I had really bad IBS [Irritable Bowel Syndrome], so everything I ate, I felt bloated and tired,” explains Shaw.

“Working at the cafe transformed my diet and my attitude to food. My energy levels have been much higher and I just feel like I can experience life to the maximum, which sounds super cliched but really is true.”

With her IBS under control, her skin and hair “transformed” and a newfound confidence to boot, Shaw trained as a nutritionist and returned to the UK with bucket-loads of energy, keen to share her knowledge via her food and lifestyle blog.

Soon, her reputation spread, and a roster of clients and social media fans followed.

She puts the programme’s popularity down to its positive outlook.

“People think a diet plan is going to be really boring and plain,” she adds. “When it’s like that, you start to hate food and hate dieting, so this programme’s about enjoyment.

“Every meal is delicious. I think you should enjoy everything you eat, you shouldn’t have to put yourself through something [torturous] because you think it’s healthy. I hope it’s something people really take on and think, ‘This is something I can do forever’.”

If you’d like to give your meals and vitality a boost, here are three Get The Glow recipes to try at home... :: Get The Glow: 100 Delicious And Easy Recipes That Will Nourish You From The Inside Out by Madeleine Shaw is published by Orion Books in hardback.

Banana Quick Bread

BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

THE KITCHEN DIVA

SWEET, moist banana bread makes a delicious quick breakfast, snack or healthy dessert.

Serves 12.

Ingredients: * 2 cups white whole-wheat flour * 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder * 1/2 teaspoon baking soda * 1/2 teaspoon salt * 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon * 1/2 cup packed brown sugar * 2 large egg whites * 1 large egg

Madeleine Shaw. PHOTOS: PA/ELLIS PARRINDER.

* 1 1/2 cup (from 4 medium bananas) ripe bananas, mashed * 1/3 cup low-fat buttermilk * 3 tablespoons vegetable oil To prepare: 1. Preheat oven to 175 C. Lightly coat 9- by 5-inch loaf pan with non-stick baking spray.

2. In medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.

3. In large bowl, with mixer on medium-high speed, beat sugar, egg whites and egg until almost doubled in volume. On medium speed, beat in bananas, buttermilk and oil until well-combined.

4. With rubber spatula, gently fold in flour mixture until just combined.

5. Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing top. Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.

6. Let cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool completely on wire rack. Can be stored, tightly wrapped, at room temperature up to three days, or in freezer up to one month. * Each serving: About 170 calories, 4g total fat (1g saturated), 4g fibre, 4g protein, 31g carbohydrate, 16mg cholesterol, 220mg sodium.

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RAW CHOCOLATE AVOCADO MOUSSE (Serves 2) * 1 ripe avocado, stoned and flesh scooped out * 1 ripe banana, peeled * 3tbsp coconut oil * 4tbsp raw cacao powder * Pinch sea salt * 100ml almond milk, coconut milk or rice milk * 1 handful frozen raspberries Put the avocado, banana, coconut oil, cacao powder and salt in a blender, and blend. Slowly add the milk until the mixture becomes creamy and easily moves around the blender; add a little extra milk if the mixture isn’t creamy enough.

Pour the mousse into two ramekins or cocktail glasses, then put them in the freezer for 30 minutes before transferring to the fridge.

When ready to eat, crumble the raspberries in your hands over the top of each dessert, and enjoy.

LEMON SOLE, PANCETTA, PEAS AND SALSA VERDE (Serves 2) * 50g flat-leaf parsley * 50g basil * 100ml olive oil * 1tbsp capers * 1tbsp cider vinegar * 1tsp mustard * 2 lemon sole fillets * 4 pancetta rashers (or Parma ham) * 1/2tbsp coconut oil * 100g petits pois * Juice and zest of 1 lemon * Salt and pepper Make the salsa verde first by blending the parsley, basil, olive oil, capers, vinegar and mustard. Blend until you have a smooth paste, and then set aside.

Salt and pepper the fish fillets and set them aside.

Heat a frying pan over a medium heat and grill the pancetta for one minute on each side, until crisp, then set aside.

Heat the same pan with the half tablespoon of coconut oil over a medium to high heat. Wait until the oil starts to bubble, then fry the fish for two minutes on the first side, then one minute on the second. Put the cooked fish to one side.

Throw the petits pois into the pan and saute them over a medium heat with the lemon juice for a few minutes, then serve to the side of the fish with a smear of salsa verde, the pancetta and a sprinkling of lemon zest.

SUMMER SALAD (Serves 2) * 150g runner beans, ends cut off * 2 nectarines * 30g watercress * 30g rocket * 100g parma ham * 50g feta cheese, cubed * 2tbsp sesame seeds * 3tbsp honey and mustard dressing * Salt and pepper To make the honey and mustard dressing, mix up: (Makes enough for 8 servings) * 8tbsp olive oil * Pinch salt * 1tsp English mustard * 1tbsp runny honey Pop the beans into a pan with a little water and a pinch of salt, and steam for five minutes.

Cut the nectarines into eighths, put them on a griddle pan over a medium heat, and grill for two minutes on each side.

Put the watercress and rocket into a bowl and mix them together.

Scatter the rest of the ingredients over the top, then pour over the dressing and finish with some cracked black pepper.

Bourbon-Glazed Baby Carrots (Makes 8 accompaniment servings) YOU can whip up this tasty side dish in no time with packaged peeled and washed baby carrots.

Ingredients: * 2 bags (450g each) peeled baby carrots * 1/4 cup sugar * 2 tablespoons margarine or butter * 1/2 teaspoon salt * 1 tablespoon bourbon

Get the Glow by Madeleine Shaw, published by Orion.

To prepare: 1. In 12-inch skillet, heat carrots and 1 cup water to boiling over high heat.

Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 10 minutes or until carrots are tender-crisp.

Drain; return to skillet.

2. Meanwhile, in 1-quart saucepan, cook sugar, margarine and salt over medium-high heat 4 to 5 minutes or until sugar and margarine melt and turn golden, stirring frequently.

3. Add mixture to carrots in skillet; stir in bourbon (sugar mixture will harden). Cook

over medium-high heat 7 to 10 minutes or until sugar mixture melts, carrots are tender and glazed, and liquid evaporates, stirring. * Each serving: About 95 calories, 1g protein, 15g carbohydrate, 3g total fat (1g saturated), 2g fibre, 0mg cholesterol, 225mg sodium.

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On the Lego Brick Road to Florida

Eliza Catherall, 6, at the Legoland Florida Water Park. PHOTOS: PA/JOSIE CLARKE.

BY JOSIE CLARKE ANYONE who shares a house with a child aged between two and 15 would be extremely lucky to have never suffered the extraordinary agony of stepping on a piece of Lego.

It’s enormously popular again and it’s a rare parent who doesn’t spend silly amounts of time helping their little darlings put it together – and asking them to tidy it up again.

So imagine the joy my six-year-old daughter Eliza felt, when she learnt she would be staying at a hotel pretty much made of the stuff and where there was no chance whatsoever that anyone – even her mum – would be stifling her creative genius with housekeeping banalities.

Throw into the mix that this hotel is on the doorstep of Legoland in Florida – a place we were reliably informed has the biggest ice creams in the world, temperatures just hot enough to really feel like you’re on holiday and a water park to boot, and suddenly life’s looking pretty rosy indeed.

Legoland Florida has just opened its first on-site hotel on the banks of Lake Eloise at Winter Haven, an idyllic location on and around what was Cypress Gardens, the original Florida theme park established more than 75 years ago.

Merlin Entertainments has big plans for expanding Legoland Florida itself too, and is banking on the expectation that the strength of the brand and its

focus on younger children will encourage families to make the 45-minute drive out of Orlando to visit – and hopefully stay a night or two.

A Lego Friends Heartlake City section opens this northern summer, but Merlin has made a point of carefully restoring some of the loveliest original features of the park, where Southern Belles once paraded in the botanical gardens, with its vast and stunning Banyan tree, and on the lake’s boardwalk.

Even the original carousel has been restored and is in operation, and draws a steady stream of children to its intricate horses and old-school tinkling tunes.

But first things first and we’re checking in to the hotel, where Lego Minifigures are displayed behind the desk. The boring wait while parents complete the formalities is enlivened considerably by an enormous pit of Lego bricks just begging to be dived into.

Look a little further and a multi-level adventure playground, complete with rubber swords, is the perfect place to burn off energy pent up during the flight and drive.

The only thing that could possibly lure children away from this paradise is a Lego-themed room complete with a nightly treasure hunt, and even the journey there is via a lift with feet-activated music and a disco ball.

This is clearly a hotel that has been designed very much for children – and as we all know, happy children make for Lake Eloise, Winter Haven, Florida. happy parents.

Aussies get biggest bang for buck in NZ

BY LUCY HUGHES JONES

TRAVEL BRIEFS

SYDNEY: If you’re looking to book your next holiday, you may want to look across the ditch.

Of Australia’s international favourites, New Zealand is the only destination where travellers will get more bang for their buck than they did a year ago, a new report says.

The Aussie dollar may be struggling against most major currencies, but it’s gained four per cent year-on-year against the kiwi, the Expedia Value Tracker shows.

And while average accommodation prices have risen nine per cent to $180 per night, flight prices have slipped five per cent to an average

of $463.

Managing director of Expedia Australia and New Zealand Georg Ruebensal said demand for New Zealand is on the rise, with destinations including Taupo, Fiordland and Napier experiencing double-digit growth.

Other countries where the Aussie has gained ground are Russia (up 31 per cent against the Ruble), Columbia (up 14 per cent on the Peso), Brazil (up 14 per cent on the Real) and Norway (up three per cent against the Krone).

A vacation to the United States will hurt the wallet, with the Aussie falling 21 per cent against the greenback in the last 12 months.

But the American holiday dream may not be

over for some, with airfares 11 per cent cheaper than last year, and demand still higher.

HOW AUSSIE FAVOURITES RANK z New Zealand: $A up 4pct z Europe: $A down 3pct z Fiji: $A down 8pct z Indonesia: $A down 9pct z UK: $A down 12 pct z Singapore: $A down 14pct z Thailand: $A down 16pct z China: $A down 21pct z USA: $A down 21 pct AAP

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 14.08.2015 to Sunday 16.08.2015 Its location is barely a two-minute walk from the Legoland park entrance, and so after a restorative night in our adventure-themed but luxuriously appointed room, followed by a hearty breakfast, we set off for more Legothemed roller-coaster action.

Some visitors have mentioned that the park is not really big or thrilling enough for teenagers, and understandably so, but for those with young children, it offers a gentler and more manageable experience under the shade of beautiful old trees, without any fear of tears when that exciting-looking ride is only for “children a little bit bigger than you”.

We spend a relaxing day in 30C temperatures on roller-coasters just exciting enough to elicit shrieks from everyone on board, but gentle enough to ensure there’s still a smile at the end, and when it all gets a little hot, we take the World of Chima ride, which leaves us happily drenched from the waterfalls and fellow rider’s water canons.

There are Star Wars, Technic and Imagination zones, but after lunch we make a beeline for the three schools – boating, flying and driving – the latter boasting separate tracks for younger and older children.

My daughter just makes the older age group and sits through the mandatory safety video that explains the importance of stopping and giving way with a slightly furrowed brow, while I fear there’s no way this experience will pass without catastrophe.

Happily, however, it turns out that we parents haven’t given the children nearly enough credit and they display a tolerance and courtesy to their fellow drivers that probably puts most of us to shame. It’s very cute and it’s by far the most realistic children’s driving experience I’ve ever seen.

Legoland Florida also keeps the park’s heritage of water-skiing shows alive with a ‘Pirates Cove’- themed performance featuring swashbuckling baddies, making it safely the only place in the world where you’ll see five fully-costumed Lego figures sailing over a ski ramp behind a jet boat, while parents take in the views of the beautiful Lake Eloise.

It’s the quirky little features of this place that make it such a worthwhile destination, and one of these is the shop selling Granny’s Apple Fries – a Florida original.

You might say that only in the US could you find such an unhealthy version of fruit – the apple fries are served in a thick cinnamon batter with a large dollop of sugary cream – but they are delicious and fortify us for the 200m walk back to the hotel – which by this time of the day, feels like a Himalayan trek.

The Banyan tree in Cypress Gardens, Legoland Florida.

But this is where the hotel comes into its own. Merlin has installed UK bosses at its Florida sites, which – of course – means a fantastic selection of beers are on tap in the bar, just crying out to be enjoyed by the pool.

And it’s no ordinary pool, either, but one of a safe depth, complete with two lifeguards to watch over the children as they build rafts out of large foam Lego bricks while they recalibrate their body temperatures in the balmy evening warmth.

The scene couldn’t be further from that after a day at the bigger theme parks, where chances are, you’d be overseeing an exhaustion-induced meltdown of monumental proportions.

The next morning, we opt for a half day at the on-site Legoland Water Park, which features a lazy river where children can use rafts they have customised themselves with bricks.

In the afternoon, we venture back in to Orlando where Merlin has opened the Orlando Eye, Sea Life Orlando and Madame Tussauds. They offer a calm space where children can escape the heat to ride into the sky and try and spot where they’ve been over the last few days, or wander around the aquarium looking at everything from sharks to stingrays, and learning about the planet’s ecosystem and what they can do to help.

There’s just one thing left to do before we head to the airport and that’s track down that enormous ice cream of legend – cue a stop-off at Ben & Jerry’s for a double scoop.

As first trips to the US go, it doesn’t get much better than this.

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Eliza in her adventure-themed room at Legoland Florida Hotel.

Waterskiing display at Legoland Florida.

The Legoland Florida Driving School.

The adventure playground in the foyer of the Legoland Florida Hotel.

At Sea Life Orlando.

TRAVEL FACTS Q Josie Clarke was a guest of LEGOLAND Florida Resort (www.LEGOLANDHotel.com).

Q Attraction Tickets Direct offers the LEGOLAND Florida Water Park Combo Unlimited Ticket, which gives unlimited admission to LEGOLAND Florida and LEGOLAND Florida Water Park for up to 14 consecutive days. To book, visit www.attraction-tickets-direct.co.uk

Eliza with a Lego figure water skier.

Eliza meeting a Lego Pirate in the foyer of the Legoland Florida Hotel.

‘Notre Dame’ is a calm perch above Jerusalem

Plans for Robyn Hood visitor centre

BY ARON HELLER

LONDON: The home of Robin Hood is to get a new STG5.3 million ($A11.22 million) visitor centre.

Nottinghamshire County Council has invited tenders to develop a centre celebrating the heritage of the outlaw at Sherwood Forest.

The new centre could be open by 2017, and more details about what it will include will be revealed once final contracts have been signed in September.

“A bright new chapter for Sherwood Forest country park and the legend of Robin Hood is a step closer with this announcement as we move to final contract talks with the preferred bidder, says Council leader Alan Rhodes.

JERUSALEM: In one of the most contentious tracts of real estate on the planet, serenity is not that easy to find.

The Old City of Jerusalem is a tourism paradise for history buffs or religious pilgrims, featuring the epicentres of all major monotheistic faiths. But calm it is not.

The major landmarks in the Jewish, Muslim and Christian quarters recall the ancient violence that took place here – the destruction of the Jewish Temples, the crucifixion of Jesus, the massacres of the Crusaders – and the multi-language ca-

cophony of chatter in cramped alleyways and the pushy locals can make even the most spiritual visit unnerving.

The occasional stabbing attack serves as an all-too-real reminder of modern-day tensions that remain between Jews and Arabs. The quietest quarter is the Armenian, and there too you’ll find reminders of their century-old genocide.

If you are looking for a place to soak in the past and present in a more relaxed manner, though, your best bet may be on the picturesque balcony atop the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Centre.

There, just across from the New Gate

into the Old City, you can finally enjoy some quiet and peacefully take in the magnificence of the city below.

A glass of wine helps, and the breezy rooftop wine and cheese restaurant there offers a variety of (albeit pricey) options.

With a nearly panoramic view of Jerusalem you can also get a glimpse of Ramallah to the north, Bethlehem to the south and, on a clear day, Jericho and the road to Jordan to the east.

The building itself is also of interest and provides a quiet alternative to the hectic streets outside.

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TAFE

Breaking A breakdown in your car is a surefire path to emotional collapse but thankfully there’s a world of men and women skilling themselves to get you back on the road.

WORDS Yvette AubussonFoley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent AR ownership is an emotional business. Our wheels have personalities and we christen them Old Bessy, My Other Car’s a Mercedes, Decepticon or Stuart.

They’re our keys to freedom and portals for road trip memories even if it’s just nicking to the supermarket for a tub of late night ice cream.

We value cars too because cheap or expensive, they come with above average price tags and cost money to run.

No-one drives “our” car; we hate it when the carpark elves ding the doors and we get especially unhinged when our car breaks down.

Time and life grind to a halt and we find ourselves inconvenienced, soon to be out of pocket, running late for the most important event of our lives and dependent on a mechanic.

Trained to help in just these situations, mechanics are equipped with a store of increasingly complicated and accurate tools evolved with new automotive technology and brings to your crisis, specialised knowledge, which they’ve had to learn somewhere.

TAFE has long been “that” place and on a hill in West Dubbo is an $11 million, four year-old training centre, for mastering how to fix pretty much anything on wheels, from cars to mining equipment.

Under the leadership of head teachers Paul Chaseling (light vehicles) and Brian Musgrove (heavy vehicles), dozens of students converge from around the region during their apprenticeship years or as mature students retraining or updating skill sets.

Dubbo Weekender’s Under the Hood team dropped in to find out what’s revving in the classrooms and workshops of the Narromine Road campus.

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T’S the end of a typical day. Tall, open roller doors gape at the spacious light vehicle workshop with cars on hoists, tools all around, the smell of oil and grease heavy in the air.

Engines are revving and a huddle of orange vested, safety goggled and head phoned young men have gathered around an engine fuel system to analyse its exhaust gas emissions.

Their laptops are hooked up to take digital readings as they check for carbon monoxide levels.

It’s almost impossible to speak or hear over the din but Chaseling turns our attention to a highly modified vehicle, suspended on a hoist.

“It’s taken seven years to complete.

This is a drag car built by our TVET students,” he explains. (TVET stands for TAFE delivered vocational education and training.)

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“Our school based kids have built it. We look after panel and paint as well here and they’ve designed the artwork and painted it too. We’ve had several different groups and around 100 kids working on it over the years. It’s very close to being ready now.”

Teacher, Paul van der Weegen, adds: “The TVET project has been completely stripped out; the paint and panel section, the body, the auto section has been putting together the engine. It will be a competitive drag car.”

All three teachers are particularly excited about a recent project in progress with Kandos High School.

“We just sent a car over to Kandos too,” says Chaseling. “It’s a Mazda 323 with a little 1.47 litre engine in it. We’ve pulled the engine out and put a 5.7 litre V8 in it. We’ve done that for the high school to engage the students because Kandos has a burn out competition ever year.

“We thought it would be a really good thing if we could engage the kids with something that’s local so they can say they had a part of building that. It’s finished now. They’re just beefing up the suspension.

“The plan next year is to give the little green Mazda a way out there paint job using the mobile spray facility, they’ll switch over to painting next year. They’ll come up with a design with whatever they want,” says Musgrove.

“It probably had 40 horse power in it but it left here with over 400 horse power,” says van

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It’s a two and a quarter hour drive to Kandos but almost 20 high school TVET classes are run out of the Dubbo facility.

“I go once a week to remote locations, like Kandos, Gulgong, Mudgee, Coonamble, Condobolin, Bourke, Walgett and Nyngan,” said Chaseling.

“A lot of the TVET kids are actually completely disengaged at school and don’t want to be there or learn how to read and write. When my teacher goes in there and does this sort of stuff with them and they’re asking technical questions like, “how tight do I need to tighten this up to?” then the teacher will tell them they have to refer to the workshop manual.

“So they learn they have to read the infor-

We’ve had great reports from schools particularly saying since the kids have been doing this, they now want to get more involved with English and Maths...We’ve just had hundreds of kids and it’s completely changed their lives. – teacher Paul Chaseling

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mation before they can do the task.

They’re interested in doing the task but they’ve got to use their literacy and mathematical skills to put those tasks into action.

“We’ve had great reports from schools particularly saying since the kids have been doing this, they now want to get more involved with English and Maths, and they even attend school, which for some of them that’s a big thing.

We’ve just had hundreds of kids and it’s completely changed their lives,” says Chaseling.

Much of the remote school training is done using mobile workshops and our attention is turned to one being prepared for a visit to Brewarrina.

“We’ll pull into an empty shed and put the trailer in there with a couple of cars and work on that with the students. We have five trailers, four automotive ones and one spray painting and panel beating one.”

RIAN MUSGROVE then leads the way into the heavy vehicle workshop down a long corridor, past several of the seven smart board equipped classrooms and into a vast workshop expanse where a group of safety-gear attired students are knocking off for the day.

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“We probably have around 400 students. We’re teaching a variety of unemployed, high school and trade. Apprentices are here for one week every seven weeks. The unemployed do two days a week. We haven’t run the unemployed program before this year,” he says.

“Apprenticeships have settled for a variety of reasons including a bit of mining down turn so we’re looking at the market where they may not have had the high school results they needed for an apprenticeship. The majority in that group would be up to about 19 years old.”

In the heavy vehicle workshop class however, many mature aged switching from alternate or complimenting existing trades attend.

Musgrove introduces a 40 yearold student, Brendon, who says he was farming, truck driving and factory working for seven years, then the chance to retrain came up and took the opportunity to learn the heavy vehicle trade.

Finishing in October, the Parkes-based employee of Graincorp has been training in Dubbo for a dual qualification.

“Even the class I was in last year, there were a lot of guys pushing 30 years of age,” he said.

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“That 16-to-20 year old apprentice is a mindset,” said Musgrove. “While there certainly is 40-50 per cent of the class in that group, the remaining is retraded, retraining or they’ve done farming for five years, whatever,” says Musgrove.

Back in the light vehicle workshop Paul van der Weegan explains he is fresh out of the trade after closing his business of 20 years in Tweed Heads.

With a passion for teaching he’s relocated to Dubbo 18 months ago to pass on his skills.

“I’ve run my course in business so this is a way to pass on my knowledge,” he says.

“This is a functioning work shop well above the average of normal workshop.

This is like the Taj Mahal compared to what some workshops are,” he says.

All the cars in the workshop are TAFE owned vehicles and includes a turbo charged STI Subaru WRX and a late model hybrid Camry.

“When they’re learning hybrid technology we have it here. We’ll pull this car apart. It will never go back on the road again and it will get pulled apart many times and tested. We test these things to death. By the time we’re finished you wouldn’t want to drive them on the road.”

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Escape Escape

This week’s finalist in the non-fiction category of the Cowley Literary Award is Nicola Barfield, who has put into words what far too many women around the world face every day, but cannot find the similar courage or means to so as our finalist did: Escape.

BY NICOLA BARFIELD HE train lurched forward as a cloud of steam rose from the funnel. As the locomotive picked up speed, I looked into the dead eyes of my tormentor for what I prayed would be the last time. “I’m sorry”, he mouthed just before the train rounded a corner and he disappeared.

People were staring at me, whispering in a foreign tongue, a language that after eight months I still didn’t comprehend. I slumped back into my seat surrounded by my hastily packed suitcases and the realisation of what I had just done began to sink in. A familiar wave of nausea threatened to overwhelm me and I swallowed back the bile. I couldn’t hold back the tears though and they ran silently down my face.

As I leaned back in my chair, lulled into a trance by the soothing motion of the train, my adrenaline began to dissolve and the fear that had been my constant companion for eight months overwhelmed me. Fear of leaving, fear of staying, fear that he would find me, but mostly, fear that I would go back.

I closed my eyes, blocking out the concerned faces of my fellow passengers. How did I come to be in this situation? I’m not a fool... how could I have let this happen to me? Will I ever be whole again?

Nine months ago I thought I’d hit rock bottom. That seems laughable now. After I came home from work early one day to find my husband of two months with another woman I was in despair. When said husband decided he no longer found me attractive and had no interest in repairing our relationship, I was devastated. I put on a brave face and showed the world how strong I was. I left the home in Sydney we’d bought together, and moved back to the UK to lick my wounds.

Ever a slave to my impulses, I decided on a whim that I would travel to India to complete a one month graphic design course as I passed through. After all, I’d always wanted to get more involved in graphics, and what better way to show how strong I was then to travel on my own. It would be just like the book Eat, Pray, Love.

Delhi was more confronting than I anticipated. The destitution and poverty shocked me as I realised how privileged my life was. A Dutch student at my school, Frederick shared similar views to me and was equally passionate about the injustices of the world. When not studying we explored the streets together. He spoke about socialism with a passion I’d never seen before. We were inseparable.

As we went our separate ways at the end of the month I contemplated the life awaiting me in the UK. I craved the rush of adventure, passion and freedom. Frederick invited me to live with him in Belgium and I jumped at the chance, confident in my sexual prowess and our shared vision.

The warning signs were always there, but I was blind to anything that would take away

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the rush I was becoming reliant on. My dad begged me not to go. He urged me not to jump into another relationship so quickly. He saw something in Frederick that frightened him, but I was ignorant to his pleas.

My parents reluctantly travelled with me and all my worldly possessions to Belgium, the concern in their eyes evident to everyone but me. That first night in Belgium I saw the monster inside for the first time. “You aren’t sleeping until I’m completely satisfied” he’d demanded, ignorant to my protests that my parents were sleeping only in the adjoining rooms.

As I gave in and let him have his way with me, a warning bell was ringing loudly in my ear, but I ignored it. He’s just excited to be starting this new chapter, and besides – he wants me, I’d thought to myself as I waved goodbye to my parents and we were alone.

The following months blur into a continual cycle of outbursts, rants, abusive and derogatory remarks and sexual pestering. I quickly realised that what I thought was passion about the injustice of the world was actually blind paranoia and hatred for the society we live in, he couldn’t be reasoned with. He smoked pot from dawn to dusk, playing computer games until the small hours and mounting me at regular intervals through the day, oblivious to my weak protests or need for sleep.

“You’re so stupid I might vomit on you,” was his usual response when I dared to share an opinion or thought. Trying to humour him I once asked him what I could do to help the world, as he was so passionate about its apparent injustice. “The best thing you could do for humanity is to kill yourself,” was his response.

I learned quickly what I could and couldn’t get away with and modified my behaviour accordingly in order to survive, although sometimes just my presence was enough to provoke him. “Your job is to make yourself attractive for me. Look how fat you are, it’s like you’re exploding,” was a favourite taunt of his, although he refused to let me cook anything other than deep fried crap.

At the five month mark I made my first bid for freedom. He wanted me to move to Australia with him, so I told him I’d spend some time with my dad before we left. When my dad arrived with a van to collect all of my things he was visibly shocked to see how I’d transformed from his strong, funny daughter to a trained dog too scared to run away or answer back.

His hooks were in too deep. Instead of be-

Loud noises frightened me and I flinched away. I was conditioned to know that loud noises were a sign that abuse would follow. I suddenly saw things clearly.

ing relieved to have found freedom, I cried the whole way home. I convinced myself that his behaviour was my fault. I’d antagonised him.

If I’d been a better girlfriend it would have been different. He told me he would change once we were in Australia, and like an idiot, I believed him.

After only one week at home, I was back on the train to Belgium. The abuse continued, more frequently than before. I started to believe that I didn’t deserve better. After all, he loved me…didn’t he?

I got sick with shingles and Bell’s palsy.

In hospital no-one spoke English or told me what was wrong. Frederick stayed at home.

He needed to smoke and game. Back at his house, I was forced to sleep in the unheated, cold spare room. He didn’t want me there to ruin his gaming, and I was summoned only to be mounted or to cook.

I started to think maybe he was right. Maybe I should kill myself and do society a favour.

Months of back and forth ensued; profound declarations of love and remorse were immediately followed by paranoid delusions and wild accusations.

Thirty one weeks after moving to Belgium, I looked in the mirror and saw a ghost, a shell.

Loud noises frightened me and I flinched away. I was conditioned to know that loud noises were a sign that abuse would follow.

I suddenly saw things clearly. I called my dad and told him I was done. He didn’t believe me; he’d heard it before but he was hopeful nonetheless. We fabricated a medical scare that would require my presence in the UK. The last two weeks were the worst. I’d learned to deal with the sexual abuse long before, but the mental abuse is something that will never leave me. Over eight months of torment, I’d been conditioned to believe I was less valuable than a dog. Every thought I had was worthless. I was ugly and disgusting. No-one would ever want me. He frequently marched me into the middle of a forest then leave me, lost for hours into the night.

He threw me out of his car in the middle of the country side, driving off and leaving me alone. He tried to throw me down the stairs when I refused to agree with him, yet I was defiant. After months of abuse, I could see the end. If I didn’t make it out this time, I knew I would die, likely at my own hand.

The last day was much like the others. It started with abuse and ended with abuse. Yet as I waited in Brussels for the train that would carry me home I knew this time was different from the seven other times I’d tried to leave.

Something had clicked. I was tapping out.

I felt oddly serene as we travelled under the channel, and the beautiful English countryside came into view. It wasn’t until I was back on English soil that I finally realised what I’d done. I walked, dazed through the sliding doors of Kings Cross station and towards the outstretched arms of my father.

“Daddy, I’m home” I whispered, just before I collapsed.

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House, home and the great Australian dream

BY ANDREW GLASSOP WPCC

OME ownership has been the great Australian dream for decades. This dream takes many forms, from inner city apartments to the quarter acre block, mansion in the suburbs or the house with a shed and room for the chickens.

This is a, if not unique, distinctly Australian trait.

While the English have the saying “a man’s home is his castle” they also have large tracts of council housing where people will live out their entire lives. The Europeans have a long tradition of long term rental – one family staying in a home (and renting it) for decades and decades. Even the Americans, long the proud champions of pure market driven economics, have rent controlled apartments where the limit on rent rises is fixed by the government, not the owner.

Australian, however, remains steadfast in its adherence to the idea that it is the right of every Australian to own their own home. This has many, many effects – not all of them good.

For example, the idea that every Australian is saving, and will borrow heavily, to buy their own home, naturally depresses the market for building new rental accommodation. After all, why build when you know the market is continually in flux with people coming and going? Even if you own a property you are renting out to tenants, the lure of the larger cash injection from actually selling it is too attractive for most.

And those who do rent have to face the general (though rarely openly expressed) opinion that they have somehow failed in life. What could have possibly gone wrong that they haven’t been able to buy their own home? Are they lazy, criminal, stupid – or a combination of all three? Naturally this is a gross distortion of how people choose to live their lives. Yet look at the way in which the two main industries connected to housing deal with the rental market (and here I acknowledge my own gross distortions).

People entering the real estate industry usually start at the bottom, namely the rental division of the firm. Only when they have proved themselves at that coalface will they be allowed to shake the hallowed hand of that most precious of creatures, a motivated buyer.

Similarly, if you happen to be building a house the builder will recommend certain furnishings and finishes dependent on whether it is going to be a “home’” or a rental property (it can’t be both, right?). A home will have stainless steel fridges and cook tops, granite benches and hardwood floors. A rental property will have whatever was in the discontinued bin at the local hardware store.

We could then move on to the struggle of young families struggling to raise a family and pay off a mortgage, but this page is only so long and I have exhausted my understanding of economics.

The point is that Australia is a nation of home owners. We are among the most urbanised peoples in the world. Our cities grow and sprawl and slouch up and down the coastlines. Houses are our castles, our worlds, and often the most public expression of who we are.

For some however, the Australian dream has been about pushing the envelope of what a house can be, how it can be built, and what it can look like. The houses these people build become iconic.

The Western Plains Cultural Centre is pleased to present Iconic Australian Houses from Sydney Living Museums, which opened last Saturday. This exhibition examines the ongoing life of some of Australia’s most distinct, and influential houses. Curated by Karen McCartney it examines houses by some of Australia’s leading architects. Karen is the Editorial Director at Temple and Webster, a home furnishing and design house, and has published Superhouse in conjunction with this exhibition.

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The Philip Island House, architect Barrie Marshall.

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For some, the Australian dream has been about pushing the envelope of what a house can be, how it can be built, and what it can look like.

The houses these people build become iconic.

The exhibition explores the design and building of these houses, as well as the experiences of those who live in them, and illustrates the emergence of a distinctively Australian approach to home design. Vivid photography, rich illustrations, 3D models and filmed interviews look beyond the physical structures to tell the story of how good design can enrich lifestyle.

The official opening last Saturday featured talks by the curator, Karen McCartney, and Professor Peter Phibbs, the Associate Dean of Research and Head of Urban and Regional Planning Policy in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Sydney. An attentive crowd listened to the talks and stayed on for some time, taking in the exhibition and chatting with the speakers and each other – a sure sign that the theme has struck home. House and home, and the difference between the two, clearly strike a chord with Australians.

For those who wish to get their kids thinking about what a home can be, the WPCC is putting on a special family event, The People in My Neighbourhood, this Saturday 15 August. Taking inspiration from Iconic Houses, and with the help of artist Catherine Stein, children will be able to make their own iconic, stateof-the-art home. They’ll learn about houses, sustainability and the way people live their lives. The houses they build will be exhibited in the foyer of the WPCC, creating a neighbourhood of the future for other young visitors to play in.

Some come and discover what houses mean and what they can be.

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MOVIES.

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Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in Trainwreck. PHOTOS: PA/UNIVERSAL PICTURES.

‘Trainwreck’ is anything but a train wreck

BY DAMON SMITH FILM OF THE WEEK TRAINWRECK (MA 15+, 125 mins) Comedy/Drama/Romance. Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Tilda Swinton, Vanessa Bayer, John Cena, Randall Park, Brie Larson, Mike Birbiglia, Colin Quinn, LeBron James.

Director: Judd Apatow.

AWARD-WINNING actress and writer Amy Schumer raises her skirt to political correctness and gleefully flashes sexual inequality with this potty-mouthed comedy that is far from the debacle promised by the title.

Directed at a lick by Judd Apatow, who temporarily lost his mojo after

Knocked Up in 2007, Trainwreck is a hilarious and heart-warming portrait of modern womanhood.

Throughout the uproarious two hours, Schumer is the butt of her own expertly targeted jokes, and she generously shares sparkling one-liners around the excellent ensemble cast.

In particular, she creates a hysterical supporting role for Oscar-winning British actress Tilda Swinton, as a monstrous magazine editor, who demands gung-ho headline-grabbing titillation, not gently worded, sentimental froth.

There’s a thin glaze of sweetness to pivotal moments between female

characters in Schumer’s script and an emotionally raw scene at a funeral deftly tugs the heartstrings.

Yet, for its adherence to rom-com tropes, Trainwreck is laced with sufficient biting wit and self-effacement to drink The Hangover and its crude imitators under the table, and seal victory with a rousing belch.

At nine years old, Amy Townsend (Amy Schumer) learns a most valuable lesson about human relationships from her embittered father (Colin Quinn).

“Monogamy isn’t realistic,” he tells Amy and her little sister Kim, encouraging the girls to chant this as a mantra.

BY SAM STRUCKHOFF

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK

Kate Winslet in “A Little Chaos”

“Far From the Madding Crowd” (M) – Bathesheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) has a rare opportunity for women of her time – she has enough wealth that she doesn’t have to marry for business reasons. She can pick any man she wants, which isn’t as easy as it sounds. She’s got three very different men on the line, but for each one, there are complexities to the relationship.

An adaptation of a romantic and melodramatic English novel hardly seems like the place to look for takes on contemporary love, but in the hands of director Thomas Vinterberg, the country comes to life and the love–quadrangle stays engaging. Carey Mulligan once again

Twenty-three years later, Amy has taken those words to her booze-soaked heart, enjoying numerous anonymous sexual encounters, while dating a musclebound hunk called Steven (John Cena), whose prowess leaves a lot to be desired.

In stark contrast, sister Kim (Brie Larson) has settled down with her knitwearclad husband Tom (Mike Birbiglia).

“You dress him like that just so no one else wants to have sex with him?” quips Amy, mocking her sibling’s domestic bliss.

When Amy isn’t picking up men in bars, she works at lifestyle magazine

shows how she can keep audiences invested in what’s going on behind her eyes.

“The Salvation” (M) – Jon (Mads Mikkelsen, TV’s “Hannibal”), a Danish veteran, takes his family to the Wild West to make a new start, but their bright future is robbed by a pair of drunk dirtbags who murder his wife and son.

Jon gets revenge on the brutes, but raises the ire of the local boss (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Jon is hunted by outlaws and commoners alike, but refuses to back down to the evils of the frontier.

This is a hard-nosed Western shoot’em-up with a strong connection to its Spaghetti Western roots. The hero is as stoic as stone, and the boss is as twisted as the devil. It’s not blazing

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S’Nuff with kooky best friend Nikki (Vanessa Bayer).

Out of the blue, editor Dianna (Tilda Swinton) assigns Amy to pen a profile on sports doctor Aaron Conners (Bill Hader), who is good friends with basketball player LeBron James (playing himself).

Amy knows almost nothing about sport but she obliges and sparks an unlikely romance with the kind-hearted medic that threatens to unravel the tattered fabric of her bedhopping existence.

Trainwreck is a wicked delight that asserts independent, single women have the same right as men to enjoy carefree sexual escapades without being labelled a hussy.

Schumer instantly endears us to her self-destructive 30-something, who has to hit rock bottom before she can begin the slow, painful ascent back to healthy self-respect.

Hader is an adorable comic foil and sparring partner, and on-screen chemistry between the two leads simmers beautifully.

Supporting performances are equally memorable, including amusing cameos from Daniel Radcliffe and Marisa Tomei.

Jump on board Schumer’s runaway, filthy-minded train of thought and hold on tight. :: SWEARING :: SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 7.5/10

ALSO NOW SHOWING THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (M, 116 mins) Action/Romance/ Comedy. Armie Hammer, Henry Cavill, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Jared Harris, Sylvester Groth, Luca Calvani, Christian Berkel, Hugh Grant.

Director: Guy Ritchie.

MORE than 50 years after the achingly cool TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. exploit-

ed Cold War paranoia for rollicking entertainment, director Guy Ritchie continues to explore fractious male dynamics in this globe-trotting spy caper.

The unlikely pairing of suave American agent Napoleon Solo and tightly coiled Ukrainian rival Illya Kuryakin during the Cold War remains unchanged in Ritchie’s script, co-written

by Lionel Wigram.

While the original pairing of Robert Vaughn and David McCallum lent swagger and smouldering sex appeal to the politically divided operatives, Ritchie’s good-looking men from U.N.C.L.E. – Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill – radiate impeccably tailored style over substance and sizzle.

James Bond could arch an eyebrow and exude more charisma than either leading man manages here as they attempt to wrench a nuclear warhead from the clutches of a criminal network.

The film is having a laugh to suggest that these strapping and chiselled agents, both over six feet tall, could conduct covert surveillance without drawing attention.

Ritchie evidently agrees and stokes homoerotic embers with a thinly veiled declaration of sexual preference that will prick up the ears of gay audiences as the men attempt to simultaneously pick two locks on a door and evade capture.

These throwaway moments, including an appearance by Pussy Galore’s helicopter from Goldfinger, are symbolic of a film that has the right ingredients but no clear sense how to blend everything smoothly.

Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki) is the beautiful mastermind of a criminal organisation, which hopes to

a new trail in Western cinema, but it’s good for a night of cowboy commotion.

“A Little Chaos” (M) -– In the opulent gardens of King Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles, there works a surprisingly modern touch.

Sabine (Kate Winslet) is a single garden designer who lost her only child. She’s completely out of place in the elegant palace full of powdered pandering aristocrats.

As a commoner, her romance with her superior is totally forbidden, but in a time of symmetrical and formal design, Sabine believes in employing “a little chaos” in her landscapes. It’s not the historical/fictional romance to win over new fans, but Alan Rickman as the Sun King monarch is very

destabilise global peace using a warhead armed by nuclear scientist Udo Teller (Christian Berkel).

CIA handler Sanders (Jared Harris) instructs his debonair agent Napoleon Solo (Cavill) to join forces with KGB counterpart Illya Kuryakin (Hammer) to thwart Victoria’s nefarious plan.

The two men bicker and brood, give each other pet names (“Red Peril” and “Cowboy”), and dangle Udo’s car mechanic daughter Gaby (Alicia Vikander) as bait to flush the scientist out of hiding.

En route, the agents clash with Gaby’s sadistic uncle (Sylvester Groth) and forge an alliance with an unflappable British agent, Alexander Waverly (Hugh Grant).

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. lovingly evokes the textures, polish and poise of an era that rebelled against post-war drabness, with fine contributions from production designer Oliver Scholl and costume designer Joanna Johnston.

The soundtrack jives to jazzy beats, matched by Ritchie’s measured direction, which thankfully avoids some of his usual showboating.

If looks were everything, the film would twist and shout in snazzy kaleidoscopic split screens.

However, characters are poorly developed and onscreen chemistry between the leading men and a shamefully underused Vikander is tepid.

“For a special agent, you’re not having a very special day,” Waverly quips to Kuryakin after one chase sequence.

On this hanW dsomely crafted yet bland evidence, nor is Ritchie. :: NO SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 5/10

Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill in Man From U.N.C.L.E. PHOTOS: PA/DANIEL SMITH/WARNER BROS.

Hugh Grant.

fun to watch.

“True Story” (classification pending) –Mike Finkel (Jonah Hill) was a disgraced journalist who needed to get his career and credibility back. He found a strange opportunity in the form of a murderer, Christian Longo (James Franco), who was using Finkel’s identity after he killed his own wife and children.

When Longo is captured and imprisoned, Finkel comes to visit him and pick his brain.

The inmate is all too willing to talk, and a lot of these conversations ensue. Unfortunately, both characters are so boring they blow away like dry dirt, along with any hope of a chilling or memorable story.

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office Week Ending 12.08.2015 1. Trainwreck 2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (pictured) 3. The Fantastic Four 4. Last Cab To Darwin 5. Ant-Man 6. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ 7. Paper Towns 8. Inside Out 9. Minions 10. Mr. Holmes SOURCE: MPDAA

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Early One Morning is a feast of a novel

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK Early One Morning by Virginia Baily is published in hardback by Virago.

SECOND-TIME novelist and acclaimed short-story writer Virginia Baily pulls off a triumph with Early One Morning – an exquisitely rendered novel that explores how one powerful and unexpected love can shape a life forever.

The novel opens in Rome, 1943. In the Jewish ghetto, men, women and children are being rounded up by Nazi officers to be shipped off to concentration camps. A passer-by – a young Italian woman, Chiara Ravello, locks eyes with a Jewish mother.

Knowing instinctively what she is being asked to do, Chiara claims the woman’s son Daniele as her own, saving him from a certain death. It is a moment that changes her forever as her life becomes inextricably bound to that of the traumatised little boy.

Thirty years later, we meet Chiara in her sixties; living alone in Rome, she is still trying to move on after the loss of Daniele, who vanished without trace in his twenties. Out of the blue, she receives a call from Cardiff: it is a 16-yearold girl, claiming to be Daniele’s daughter. It is a catalytic event that forces Chiara to revisit the painful memories of what unfolded between her and Daniele in the intervening years.

A complex and multi-layered narrative, the novel slips expertly back and forth between two different time periods, following a handful of characters across numerous locations. The settings are beautifully evoked, creating striking contrasts between the tensions and desperation of war-time and the freedom and stability of the 1970s.

The characters themselves are a gratifyingly unusual collection – among them a grieving spinster, a damaged little boy, a petulant teenager and a guilt-ridden priest – and each one is imbued with a compelling aliveness that draws us into their orbit.

By turns witty, poignant, tragic and uplifting, this feast of a novel will mark out its author as a powerful voice on the literary scene.

9/10 (Review by Lucy Latchmore)

O FICTION You Don’t Have To Live Like This

by Benjamin Markovits is published in paperback by Faber & Faber.

GREG ‘MARNY’ MARNIER, a rudderless Yale graduate in his thirties, is invited by a varsity classmate, the millionaire Robert James, to join a new initiative.

Robert is buying up a sizeable tranche of (currently) cheap housing in a muchdepleted zone of Detroit – focal point of America’s social dysfunctions. His vision? To create ‘the kind of small-town community that we still associate with the founding of this country’.

So Marny and a group of similarly drifting well-to-do WASP friends move in, but this is no idyllic Pilgrim settlement, and soon enough the troubles and tensions begin.

The plan – is it a form of trickle-down philanthropy, or a get-rich-quick gentrification scheme? Can you really build a community overnight? And what are Detroit’s existing citizens – mostly black, mostly poor – to make of their new neighbours? Are these people really doing their bit to make the world a

better place – or are they just crashingly condescending colonials?

Through Marny, Markovits depicts in unhurried, documentary style the gradual unravelling of Robert’s vision.

Marny is a plausibly fallible witness, with his own blind spots about colour, and a pliable liberal conscience that is easily overpowered by stronger personalities and their vested interests.

His relationship with the black teacher Grace is an uneasy mirror of what’s happening too: is he really interested in her – or does he just like the idea of dating a black girl?

Markovits’ sixth novel unpicks with surgical precision the racial tensions of an advanced economy where entrepreneurial opportunity goes hand in hand with massive inequality. Brilliantly plotted, wonderfully nuanced and masterfully controlled, this has the instant feel of an important book.

9/10 (Review by Dan Brotzel) The Mark And The Void by Paul Murray is published in paperback by Hamish Hamilton.

MURRAY’S follow-up to the acclaimed Skippy Dies is set amid the detritus of the Irish financial crash he predicted in his 2003 debut, An Evening of Long Goodbyes.

Working in one of the investment banks insulated from the savage austerity they caused, narrator Claude meets an author (called, inevitably, Paul) researching a book set in a bank... and so begins a yarn which teeters from farce to unflinching bleakness.

Its big problem is that the banks are already too grotesquely absurd to satirise, too horrifically real to amuse.

But they’re surely a necessary topic to address, and Murray’s verve and invention mostly carry him through.

He expands his canvas to address art, mortality, the dissociation of modern life, with the ambition of Jonathan Franzen meeting the metafictional wit of Flann O’Brien; there’s also an element of heist-meets-farce recalling the best of Michael Frayn.

A bold, flawed, magnificent mess of a book.

8/10 (Review by Alex Sarll) The Quality Of Silence by Rosamund Lupton is published in hardback by Little Brown.

WHEN Yasmin travels to Alaska to join husband Matt, a wildlife-photographer, their marriage is on thin ice. Travelling with her 10-year-old daughter Ruby, she is hoping the trip will resolve matters.

But on arrival, she learns that her husband, along with 23 others, has been killed in a fire in a remote village. Al-

though the evidence to the contrary is sketchy, Yasmin refuses to believe her husband has perished, and sets off on a hair-raising journey across the treacherous landscape in search of answers.

It soon becomes apparent that someone is on her tail, and that all is not as it seems.

This is a beautifully written thriller and the way Lupton, author of the bestselling Sister, uses the tundra as a metaphor for both grief and faith is stunning.

The voice of Ruby, who is profoundly deaf, and her compassionate exploration of a life without sound, only adds to the richness of the book.

8/10 (Review by Anita Chaudhuri) Motherland: A Novel by Jo McMillan is published in hardback by John Murray.

SET in the late 1970s, Motherland: A Novel is a politically charged tragicomic tale told from the perspective of Jess, a teenager living in a sleepy West Midlands town in Thatcherite Britain.

Raised solely by her radical socialist mother, Jess is torn between her English hometown of Tamworth and her ideological home in East Berlin.

It’s an ambitious coming-of-age novel from debut author Jo McMillan, which is wonderfully written and filled with quirky details and descriptions, but it’s not a particularly gripping or fast-paced read and the plot occasionally jumps around in a disorientating way.

What holds the book together is the relationship between Jess and her mother, and particularly the heartwrenching belief they both share in the benevolence of the GDR State, despite the cruelty dealt to their own personal happiness.

It’s a touching and poignant read, which uniquely explores this period in time in a way in which few other authors have attempted to.

7/10 (Review by Alison Potter) The Dust That Falls From Dreams by

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 14.08.2015 to Sunday 16.08.2015 Louis de Bernieres is published in hardback by Harvill Secker.

THE novel opens with an idyllic coronation party held in an English country garden at the start of the Edwardian era, but after experiencing the stark horrors of the First World War, its privileged characters are faced with a world forever changed.

On the one hand, this is a family saga, an epic in the vein of the author’s most famous novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin; on the other, it’s a wartorn love story between the pious English rose Rosie and the American-born Ash.

This is clearly a well-researched novel; when writing about trench warfare, Ash’s voice becomes wonderfully involving. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for all the other characters, many of whom seem to speak fluent but indistinguishable Downton.

De Bernieres has a bit of a hard time balancing the gritty war writing and the twee brand of humour the characters indulge in, but fans of the aforementioned drama series will relish the running jokes.

7/10 (Review by Rachel Farrow)

a career spanning half the 20th century, Moses built 27 billion dollars’ worth of public works in New York: parks, roads, hospitals, playgrounds, bridges, and schools. With ruthless and creative vision, he transformed the landscapes and the lives of millions.

Caro’s book is a masterful interweaving of the individual and the political; a biography of 20th-century New York as much as of Robert Moses, its phenomenal detail is endlessly engrossing despite the weight of its thousand pages.

9/10 (Review by Kitty Wheater)

O NON-FICTION The Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall Of New York

by Robert A Caro is published in hardback by The Bodley Head.

ROBERT Caro’s 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of New York City’s greatest urban planner finally arrives in the UK. Educated at Yale, Oxford, and Columbia, Robert Moses began his life in public service as an idealist – but he soon realised that power was the only path to efficacy, and deviousness the best safeguard of power.

The rest of Moses’ working life is a story of brilliance, arrogance, and subterfuge. In

Where’s the wisdom in Canberra?

O N Macca’s program last week an interview with a retiring manufacturer brought to the fore the chronic state of the country’s practical and economic position. His business was closing having operated for two generations, and 45 employees will lose their jobs in the sophisticated machining and metal processing company.

They had produced components for automotive manufacturers, Hills Hoists, Victa lawn mowers – the list went on. Now those companies are importing their fully assembled products from overseas – the jobs have gone and our dollars are exported.

A recent statistic reveals 50 per cent of the world’s wealth is held by one per cent of the population – and 99 per cent of the population can reason that the small minority will do everything to keep it that way.

On one hand we have corporations and banks paying their top executives million dollar annual salaries with multi-storey payouts on exit. Unions say they work to challenge such circumstances and, after more than a century is Australia’s history, they have caused more economic mayhem than employee benefit.

Duncan McNab has written “Waterfront” which records union graft, corruption and violence – Australia’s crime frontier over time. Eric Hobsbawn has written “Worlds

of Labour” which studies the history of labour. It updates an early publication from 1964 and examples that in the past 20 years it has been a “golden age” for labour history. World-wide it is considered that “all the studies of labour were, of course, political since the subject began to arouse a systematic scholarly interest”.

Where are the Brains for running the nation? For generations the Unions have dictated the terms and wages paid to workers. The drive for money beyond the capacity or willingness of the public to pay for local products has ended a viable and vital part of the economy. Yet the Leader of the Opposition’s quest for popularity in the “interest of the Australian people” is a daily event on the ABC. The same man has had his past life examined in a royal commission to reveal deals with companies paying to the unions with the interests of workers bypassed. And then there is the question – where is there an effective legal entity that challenges the power of big business as it siphons off our hard-earned wages?

Then there is the repeating attention to Canberra’s ex-Speaker taking a $5000 helicopter ride, which extends into other plane hire and overseas travel and $300,000 in travel expenses since becoming Speaker. Depend-

ing on the newspaper one buys, there will be travel rort exposures on both sides of politics.

Former ABC journalist Andrew Fowler as written “The War on Journalism” in which he traces the evolution of the fourth estate and interest driven disruption. He writes that as “issues raised by the likes of Wikileaks and Snowden play out, rattled governments threaten to jail whistle-blowers and those who publish their leaks.

The public’s right to know is a battleground. Will our world be democratic or dominated by executive government?”

Travel rorts are not new. Bob Carr, in his role as Foreign Minister, writes in “Diary of A Foreign Minister“ about his complaints about the poor facilities in 1st Class air travel, no provision for pyjamas, creased suits – one has to feel for these people.

Australia Post continues to run at a billion dollar loss yet this parcel delivery service has a challenging business model. Canberra ignores the GST charge on imports under $1000 on the basis that is too complicated to collect it. One look at your credit card reveals that banks have no trouble adding their fees to your account on such purchases. Australia Post cannot break even with a virtual monopoly in their hands, they are currently confronted with allegations from delivery subcontractors about wages and superannuation, yet try to make revenues as a government

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O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Superhero School: Curse Of The Evil Custard by Alan McDonald is published in paperback by Bloomsbury Childrens.

SCHOOL may be out for the summer, but at Mighty High, the action’s just heating up.

Our gang of pint-sized superheroes – Dangerboy (aka Stan), Frisbee Kid (aka Minnie), Brainiac (aka Miles) and Pudding The Wonderdog – known as The Invincibles, are back for a new school year, but something’s not quite right.

The headteacher Miss Marbles reveals the school’s about to be inspected and asks the trio (plus dog) to show the inspectors around – with just one warning: “behave as normally as possible”. But, unknown to the children, the real inspectors have been tricked and locked in the freezer by the evil Dr Sinister, who wants to test out his latest invention, ‘evil custard’ on the school kids.

Dr Sinister and his henchman pose as the inspectors and tamper with pudding, so when, at lunchtime, the unsuspecting and unusually strong Tank wolfs down a bowl of custard, he is transformed into a sticky custard monster.

It’s up to The Invincibles to save their classmates from a fate worse than death and save the school from being closed by the real inspectors.

With ingenious illustrations by Nigel Baines, Dirty Betty author Alan MacDonald’s latest book is a rip-roaring adventure, with chapters running seamlessly into pacey comic strip, handy (and funny) lists on The Top 10 Superpowers and Top Trumpsstyle Factfiles on the superheroes and the evil villain. Brilliant fun for a rainy summer holiday!

8/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection entity, retailing in merchandise in competition with small businesses – and the CEO gets a $5 million annual salary.

This challenge is not recent.

Step back to the days when the American constitution was being formed. John Ferling wrote “Jefferson and Hamilton”. It was a rivalry that forged a nation with Jefferson believing passionately in individual liberty with a lesser central government and greater powers to the states. Hamilton, considered a brilliant organiser and tactician, feared chaos and social disorder. He sought to build a powerful national government that ensured the nation’s security and drive towards economic greatness. The combination of these shapes the USA to this day.

Chris Bowen has written “The Money Men” in which he studies those he considers to be Australia’s 12 most notable Treasurers. It is interesting that the Loan Council which regulates the borrowing of the States was introduced by Sir Earle Page in 1927 and still applies today.

Bowen describes Wayne Swan’s role and on page 429 notes that:

“Australia’s net debt-to-GDP ratio will peak at 17 per cent of GDP... The average debt level for the OECD is 47 per cent...

Canada is at 39 per cent, and that of Germany, the best economy in Europe, is 52 per cent.”

That is like saying ‘my neighbour has a debt of x per cent and mine is less’ without taking into account the possibility of debt reduction occurring any time soon. As a side issue the book shows how many Treasurers went on to become Prime Ministers.

“When We Were Young and Foolish” is a recent release by Greg Sheridan – “a memoir of my misguided youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr, Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd and other reprobates.” The book traces Sheridan’s journey from an underprivileged childhood to a world of clashing political fronts. And today, they continually fight between themselves rather than make constructive decisions.

If the wisdom of Solomon exists in Canberra, it certainly is well hidden.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Jazz Festival welcome at Monkey Bar

BY RUBY JANETZKI THE Monkey Bar welcomed in the weekend’s Jazz Festival on Friday, August 7, with drinks and live jazz music.

Mary Strong and Ngaire Davis

Tim and Mandy Manning with Sue and Kerry Piper

Riki Rice, Ian McCaig, Cassie Carrington, Christina Cherry and Kimbeerley Pearson

Kevin and Grace Endacott

Julie Wilson with Anne and Greg Shortis

Ingrid Knight and Susan Byrnes

Dallas and Jacinta Keenes

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Dubbo Jazz Festival Fireside Jam

BY ROB THOMSON IN conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Dubbo Jazz Festival, the Quality Inn played host to a fireside jazz jam on Saturday, August 8. The stage was open to musicians of all backgrounds who wanted to jam along with each other to jazz, roots and blues vibes.

Pictured are performers entertaining the crowd.

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Lazy River Jazz Luncheon

BY ROB THOMSON AS part of the 25th anniversary of the first Dubbo Jazz Festival, Lazy River Estate hosted a three-course jazz luncheon on Saturday, August 8. Guests feasted on a New Orleans-themed meal, whilst taking in the sweet sounds of the ‘Jordan C. Thomas Band’ and enjoying the views over the estate. Band members, Jordan C. Thomas (guitar and vocals), Rob Hamilton (double bass), Paul Murchison (trumpet), and Matt Morrison (drums), combine the sounds of jazz, rockabilly, jump and swing to bring the “cool back to old school”.

Jazz musicians entertaining guests

Jazz musicians entertaining guests

Steve and “his groupies”

Jazz musicians entertaining guests

Jazz musicians entertaining guests

Olivia Watson and Tim Chow

Jim, Judy and Bridie Jane

Janette Newman, Rachelle Jane and Edan Fahy

Jason and Dayna Tierney

Scott Feringa and Helen O’Callaghan

Danielle and Joel Fraser

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A Jazz Brunch at the WPCC

BY BETH DAWSON AS part of Dubbo’s 25th Weekend of Jazz, Jordan C Thomas and his band (JCT) featured at Western Plains Cultural Centre on Sunday, August 9. Playing a variety of jazz, from swing to blues, the JCT Band entertained the large audience.

Nena and Bert Stevens

Sue O’Dea and Alice Lockrey

Virginia Madden and Gillian Noller

Rob Hamilton playing double bass

Jordan C Thomas

Warren Holmes and Clare Moon

Mary Strong, Ngaire and Chris Davis

Margaret and David Martin

Paul Murchison playing trumpet

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Jazz Cocktails and Piano Bar

BY BETH DAWSON JAZZ-LOVERS from around Australia joined locals Dubbo's 25th Weekend of Jazz last weekend. As part of the weekend the Quality Inn hosted a relaxed evening filled with Cocktails and Piano music. The star of the evening was Kate Rose from Orange who entertained the crowd by playing a wide variety of music. Also performing were local musicians Eugene and Paul Dunn.

Kate Rose from Orange

Elaine Stanford, Desurae Archer

Chris Rowe, Meryl Usback

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Carol Brett and Leslie Howard

Albert and Nena Stevens

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Opening of Iconic Australian Houses

BY ROB THOMSON WESTERN Plains Cultural Centre is currently hosting Karen McCartney’s exhibition “Iconic Australian Houses”.

The centre celebrated on Saturday, August 8, with an opening ceremony.

The exhibit celebrates

“60 years of Australian architecture”, according to Karen McCartney, “illustrating how we adapt and live to the natural environment that is Australia”.

Karen went on to discuss her favourite houses in the exhibit: “Hugh Buhrich’s The Maverick” and “The Palm House by Richard Leplastrier” showing how “simplicity is sometimes the best architecture”.

One of Karen’s favourite designs, “The Palm House”

Karen McCartney opening the exhibition

The exhibition is filled with stunning photographs and scale models

Guests listen on to the speakers

Speaker Peter Phibbs engaging attendees

Dubbo Multicultural Festival Film Night

BY ROB THOMSON MIDNITE Café played host to a fundraising event for the Dubbo Multicultural Festival with a showing of “The Good Lie” on Saturday, August 8. The festival celebrates the 40 different cultures represented in the Orana Region. The Multicultural Festival is being held on September 5 and will celebrate diversity with a parade and then a night of multicultural entertainment and foods.

Guests enjoying the film

Guests enjoying the film

Barista Adam Boden

Multicultural Festival committee representatives, back, Craig Lesuer, Vic Avila, front, Talieh H. Torbati and Julie Edwards

Guests enjoying the film

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear ... the auctioneers call AT the Rabobank National Merino Sheep Show and Ram Sale, Dubbo, you’ll find the most prestigious Merino show in the country, an event that’s been staged at the Dubbo Showground for more than 50 years.

It draws exhibitors and buyers from across Australia and overseas boasting hundreds of Merino sheep. As the largest display of Merino genetics in the state, it involves more than 50 studs and there’s everything from top show sheep, sires, ewes and on-property sale rams.

Rams have sold here for the highest prices in Australia.

The top price in 2014 was $25,000. August 25-27, the Dubbo Showground.

... Thirsty Merc’s new album IT’S been 12 years since Dubbo-born band, Thirsty Merc, burst onto the Australian music landscape with their first independent EP, three studio albums, an acoustic fan favourites record entitled AAA: Acoustic Anniversary Album and a swag of classic, radio staples like 20 Good Reasons, Someday Someday, Mousetrap Heart and In The Summertime.

Fast forward to 2015 and Thirsty Merc have tackled the recording and release of their fourth studio album – Shifting Gears – and first new material in five years, independently. Grammy nominated Emily Lazar (Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Sia and The Killers) has mastered the record in New York. Out on September 4.

Thirsty Merc. PHOTO: AAP/TRACEY NEARMY

see ... a dysfunctional family

... art in the bush

IT’S the original Game of Thrones. Hamlet is a detailed family portrait in the political landscape of a “rotten” Denmark, a country furiously preparing for war, not realising that the enemy lies within.

AT the Warrumbungles and Pilliga Forest art exhibition, which combines works of flora and fauna from the shire and is presented by the Dandry Dabblers and WAACI Artists. They’ll host a preview evening on Thursday, August 20 from 6pm, which includes champagne and nibbles.

Hamlet is saddened by the sudden death of his father, shocked to find his mother remarried to his uncle – the dead kings brother, and though cruel, misogynistic and vulgar, overwhelmed by insecurities and indecision. He confronts us with just how fragile our ideals of family, love, community, loyalty, faithfulness and the courage to act can be. All does not end well: a stage littered with bodies.” August 18, 7.30pm, Dubbo Regional Theatre.

... critically acclaimed comedy

While you’re there catch a concert, take a hike, enjoy a picnic or explore the iconic Pilliga National Park’s sandstone caves walking trail, the salt caves area, sculptures in the scrub, wild flowers and more. The Warrumbungles and Pilliga Forest art exhibition is free at the Pilliga Forest Discovery Centre, Baradine (2hrs 20min from Dubbo) until Monday, September 28, 2015.

WATCHING The Kransky Sisters deliver their unique style of musical comedy with references to ABBA, Pink Floyd, Beyonce and AC/DC. Eclectic? Yes. Eccentric?

Definitely.

Like the commercial kitchen of musical mayhem, their instruments of choice include cooking pots, an old reed keyboard, a tuba and musical saw as they tell stories of travels from their homeland of Queensland and beyond. They could well be your favourite mad aunties are also critically acclaimed, winning major awards including an Edinburgh Festival’s Herald Angel Award for Excellence in 2006 and a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Cabaret production in 2008. August 29, 7.30pm, Dubbo RSL Theatrette.

do ... ‘Op Till You Drop THAT’S the 2015 campaign slogan for the 2015 National Op Shop Week encouraging everyone to drop into nto your local op shops, pick up a bargain (squeal!) and support local charities because with your support pport they do great things like divert ivert 300,000 tonnes of clothing from kg of landfill (2013/14), save 4kg

CO2 CO for every kilogram of donated clothing (Danish Technological University study published 2010), and give 70,000 Aussies a pu chance to volunteer their time and support. cha Na National Op Shop Week is the initiative of the DoSomething!

Do Charity. August 23-30.

... book boo early for Boom Crash Opera BOOM Crash Cra Opera will be appearing under the

stars at the 2015 Crooked Mountain Concert in a fun event for the whole family. Although the show’s not until November, the early bird limited release on tickets ends on August 31.

Save a packet by picking up a bargain on Moshtix or at the NPWS Coonabarabran area office. Set in open parklands beneath Crooked Mountain you can dance the night away under the stars.

You can bring your own food and alcohol, or buy a bite to eat from food stalls. Early bird, August 31. Concert, November 7, 2015.

etc.

Latin American Film Fest THE 11th Latin American film festival hosted by the Dubbo Film Society features films from Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Cuba, Venezuala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Porcelain Horse (Ecuador) is the opening film, and centres on two brothers from a wealthy but dysfunc-

tional family. After stealing from their parents’ home to fuel their drug habit, the film follows how consequences of that night change the brothers’ lives.

His Excellency Ambassador of Argentina Pedro Villagra, Dean of the Diplomatic Corp who will open the festival. For more information, visit dubbofilmsociety.com. Saturday, August 29-30, August, Dubbo Regional Theatre.

Tulloona Conservation Farming Group Field Day THE Tulloona Conservation Farming Group Field Day will be held in September at the Kildare Shed, Moree.

Some of the topics covered in this year’s field day will be spray application and technology and herbicide resistance and cropping systems. Discussions will

cover drift management, effective coverage, nozzle selection and the use of technology. During the day the status of weed resistance in northern NSW will be reviewed and herbicide choices and crop rotations debated.

There will be an autonomous tractor demonstrations during the day. Wednesday, September 2, 7.30am-5pm. Enquiries 6757 3350.

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Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

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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

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SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ

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GROCERIES KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

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Friday, August 14 Tony Robinson’s Victory In Europe SBS, 7.30pm To commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day and the end of World War II, this doco sees popular TV presenter Tony Robinson reveal never-beforeseen archives of 3D pictures to tell the story of the last days of the Nazi regime. He also explores life in Europe before the war began, looking at Nazi propaganda, the Olympics, the leader’s books and the city of Munich. Delving into the key events during 12 years of Nazi rule, the program also includes secret operations such as the infamous Operation Market Garden. Photos and footage from the time provide a unique view of events that changed the world. A fascinating insight.

ABC

MOVIE: The Sixth Sense

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TEN, 7.30pm

Director M. Night Shyamalan became pretty much a household name because of this knockout. Youngster Haley Joel Osment suffers in bewildered silence at his ability to communicate with the recently deceased, until child psychologist Bruce Willis enters his life with the offer to help him deal with it. The acting is strong but subdued, and extra marks to Toni Collette as Osment’s distraught single mother.

One of the most intelligent and rewarding suspense films in decades, and one that single-handedly raised a wilting genre from the dead with a twist that has since inspired dozens of copycats.

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WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Trust Me I’m A Doctor.

(R, CC) 11.30 Hospital Chaplains.

(PG, R, CC) (Final) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Old School. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Catalyst: On The Road.

(R, CC) 3.40 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather.

9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Breaking The Surface. (M, R, CC) (1997) A diver recalls his rise to fame. Mario López, Michael Murphy.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Easy-to-cook recipes.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC)

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Huey. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.00 The Home Team. (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. (CC) 4.25 Silvia Colloca: Made In Italy Bitesize. (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) Fiona Bruce and the team return to Aberystwyth University, in Wales, where visitors bring in their treasures.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Midsomer’s new DCI, John Barnaby, tackles a spiralling death toll when a local DJ at a girls boarding school is crushed to death, and it quickly becomes obvious that the region hides some dark secrets.

9.30 Line Of Duty. (M, CC) As Lindsay fights for her life, details emerge of a conspiracy involving corrupt police officers.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news, including a look at the latest trends on the international share and currency markets.

11.20 Dirty Laundry Live.

(M, R, CC) (Final) Guests include Marty Sheargold, Angela Bishop and Michala Banas.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Pete visit the Trigg Beach House in WA. Karen shares her recipe for an Almond Macadamia Tart. Dr Harry visits a cat with a serious case of the blues.

8.30 MOVIE: Made Of Honor.

(M, R, CC) (2008) A ladies man realises he is in love with his best friend after she announces she is engaged to someone else.

Heading to Scotland for the wedding, he agrees to accept the role of “maid” of honour, while plotting to sabotage her relationship and win her affections.

Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd.

10.40 MOVIE: The Sixth Sense.

(M, R, CC) (1999) A young boy, who claims to be able to see the spirits of dead people, turns to a melancholy psychologist for help. Although he is at first reluctant to believe the child’s claims, an incident from his own past helps him to overcome his cynicism and offer the support he needs. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 23. Brisbane Broncos v St George Illawarra Dragons. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

10.00 Footy Show Fight Night. (CC) Team Fenech Event. Will Tomlinson v Adones Aguelo. Other bouts include Australian middleweight title between Dwight Ritchie v Luke Sharp. From Melbourne Pavillion, Victoria. Hosted

by Erin Molan, with commentary from Ray Hadley, Anthony Mundine and Billy Dib. 11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room.

(PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown gets “married” on China’s Yangtze River. Chef Miguel Maestre makes lamingtons.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Guests include Lewis Hamilton, Ewan McGregor, Jack Whitehall and Dara Ó Briain.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with comedians Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Kate Langbroek, Glenn Robbins and Kitty Flanagan competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 MOVIE: The East. (M, CC) (2013) An undercover agent is tasked with infiltrating a dangerous eco-terrorist group. Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Brit Marling.

6.00 Raymond Blanc: How To Cook Well. (CC) French chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc gives a masterclass in the basic cooking technique of frying.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Tony Robinson’s Victory In Europe. (CC) 8.25 The Crusades: Holy War. (PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

Historian Dr Thomas Asbridge provides an account of the Crusades, the 200-year war between Christians and Muslims for control of the Holy Land. He begins by tracing the journey of the first crusaders, as they marched nearly 5000km to recapture Jerusalem.

9.25 Who Do You Think You Are? Toni Collette.

(PG, R, CC) Emmy Awardwinning actor and musician Toni Collette sets out to explore her family’s roots.

10.25 World News. (CC) 11.00 MOVIE: The Skin I Live In. (AV15+, R) (2011) A plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin which withstands damage.

Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 Weeds. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.05 MOVIE: Ransom. (M, R) (1974) Sean Connery.

4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.55 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) The doctors meet makeup artist Scott Barnes, who transforms the appearance of three women.

2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

1.10 MOVIE: The Lost Bladesman. (M, R) (2011) A warrior is forced to fight his best friend. Donnie Yen. 3.05 MOVIE: A Happy Event.

(MA15+, R) (2011) Louise Bourgoin.

5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

12.20 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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Friday, August 14 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

7.30pm The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) Family.

Jim Henson, Frank Oz. Kermit and his friends graduate from college. (G) Family

6.30pm Ray Donovan. (M) Showcase

7.30pm Omens Of The Apocalypse. Investigates a wave of global animal deaths.

(PG) National Geographic

7.50pm Football. AFL. Round 20. Sydney v Collingwood. Fox Footy

7.40pm Pioneer (2014) Thriller. Aksel Hennie. The Norwegian government enlists an American diving company to help them tap into the North Sea’s immense oil deposits. (M) World Movies

6.30pm Einaudi: Live At Fabric. The minimalist and contemporary music of composer/pianist Ludovico Einaudi has proven hugely popular throughout the UK and Europe. (G) Arts

10.30pm Filth (2014) Drama.

James McAvoy. (R) World Movies

8.30pm Wahlburgers. When Paul takes the day off work to play a round of golf with Mark, he leaves their mother Alma in charge of their second restaurant Alma Nove. (M) Arena

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (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. (PG, 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) 9.20 Second Chance.

(PG, CC) 9.35 Prostitution: What’s The Harm? (MA15+, R, CC) 10.40 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.20 Sex Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 12.00 The Human Tissue Squad.

(M, R, CC) 1.00 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.45 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 2.25 News Update. (R) 2.30 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. 11.15 Motel Deception. (R, CC) 11.20 Places To Dance. (R, CC) 11.30 Heirlooms. (CC) 11.35 BTN. (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 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) 5.10 Doodles. (R) 5.15 Endangered Species. (CC) 5.25 Operation Ouch!

(R, CC) 5.55 House Of Anubis.

(R) 6.20 The Haunting Hour. (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, R, 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) 10.15 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Match It. (C, CC) 7.30 Ghosts Of Time. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Pipsqueaks. (P, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R, CC) 12.00 Wire In The Blood. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 3.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 3.30 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) The dog team tracks down prowlers.

8.00 Animal Airport. (PG, CC) Tristan and Suzie re-locate two crocodiles.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Alistair Appleton helps three buyers find two separate country homes on the same plot in Gloucestershire.

11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue.

(R, CC) 1.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.30 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 4.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. (R, CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates.

(R, CC) 8.00 Doc McStuffins. (CC) 8.30 Art Attack. (CC) 9.00 Win, Lose Or Draw. (CC) 9.30 Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. (CC) 10.00 I Didn’t Do It. (CC) 10.30 Crash & Bernstein. (CC) 11.00 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Do No Harm. (M, R) 1.00 Operation Repo. (M, R) 2.00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Big Shrimpin’. (PG, R) 4.00 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 5.00 American Chainsaw. (PG, R) 5.30 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG) 6.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R, CC) Ted oversees a field trip.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 20. Sydney v Collingwood.

11.30 Olympians: Off The Record. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: I Am Bruce Lee. (M, R) (2012) Daniele Bolelli.

2.00 MOVIE: The Strangers.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2008) Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman. 4.00 Big Shrimpin’. (PG, R) 5.00 Swamp Men. (PG, R)

7.30pm Video Killed The Radio Star. Reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the production of some of the most iconic music videos ever made. (PG) Biography

8.15pm Netball. INF World Cup. Australia v Wales. Fox Sports 4 9.00pm Tennis. ATP World Tour 250. Moselle Open.

Quarter-final. ESPN

8.30pm Catching Monsters.

(PG) Discovery Paul Wahlberg is the subject of reality series Wahlburgers.

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 Green Lantern.

(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) 6.30 MOVIE: Tom And Jerry: Robin Hood And His Merry Mouse. (R) (2012) 7.40 MOVIE: Mirror Mirror.

(PG, R, CC) (2012) Lily Collins.

9.55 MOVIE: Red Riding Hood.

(M, R, CC) (2011) Amanda Seyfried.

12.00 The Following. (AV15+, R, CC) 2.00 TMZ Live. (R) 3.00 TMZ. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 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) 1.00 MOVIE: Five Golden Dragons. (PG, R, CC) (1967) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 Obese USA. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona and the team head to Essex.

8.30 MOVIE: Love Happens.

(M, R, CC) (2009) A widower falls for a hotel florist. Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart.

10.45 MOVIE: The Graduate.

(M, R, CC) (1967) 12.50 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 1.20 River Cottage Bites. 1.30 MOVIE: A Kind Of Loving. (M, R, CC) (1962) Alan Bates, June Ritchie. 3.35 MOVIE: Floating Dutchman.

(PG, R, CC) (1952) Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler. 5.00 Obese USA. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 9.00 Delivering The Pandas. (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 Rush. (M, R, CC) 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) New mail arrives at the camp.

7.30 Moments Of Impact. (PG) (New Series) Takes a look at life-threatening moments.

8.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 Ross Noble’s Australian Trip. (M, R, CC) Ross Noble explores Australia.

10.30 Netball. World Cup. Day 8. Qualification round.

Australia v Wales.

12.00 Bellator MMA. (M) 2.00 Darren & Brose. (M, R) 2.30 Extreme Fishing With Robson Green. (PG, R) 3.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.30 Netball. World Cup. Day 6. Qualification round.

Australia v South Africa. Replay.

From Allphones Arena, Sydney.

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 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 11.30 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 Raymond.

(R, CC) 4.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 4.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 5.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) 9.00 New Girl. (PG, R) Jess attempts to befriend Coach.

9.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) A group of people undergo make-unders.

10.10 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) 10.50 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 11.20 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.20 Glee. (PG, R) 1.20 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 1.50 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 2.55 Medium. (M, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 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) 4.50 Bruce Lee Played Badminton Too. (R) 5.05 American Ninja Warrior.

7.30 Friday Feed. Hosted by Marc Fennell.

8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (PG) Presented by Tim Ferriss.

8.30 Close Up Kings. (PG) (New Series) Follows the antics of three magicians.

9.25 12 Monkeys. (MA15+) The CIA plots to unleash a virus.

10.15 Black Mirror. (M, R, CC) 11.05 Attack On Titan. (M, R) 11.35 Attack On Titan.

(MA15+, R) 12.35 Friday Feed. (R) 1.05 PopAsia. (PG) 3.05 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Waabiny Time. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked!

9.00 Move It Mob Style. 9.30 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 10.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show.

(PG) 12.30 Skydancer. (PG) 1.00 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 1.50 Custodians. 2.00 Rock Art And Yingana. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids.

3.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 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: Jimmy Little.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 Jazz. (PG) 11.00 NITV News.

11.30 Outback Cafe. 12.00 The Dream And The Dreaming. 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

1.50 Alick Tipoti. (PG) 3.00 Jazz.

(PG) 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Warren Creek v Amata. 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.

2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

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Saturday, August 15 MOVIE: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

MOVIE: The Amazing Spider-Man

WIN, 7pm, PG (2012)

PRIME7, 7pm, PG (2012)

Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty, Melman and Gloria are back in the rollicking and slightly psychedelic spectacle that is Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.

Homesick, the city slicker animals decide to leave Africa and make their way back to New York. Pursued by the delightfully villainous animal control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand), they embark on a madcap chase through Europe, where they join up with a traveling circus full of colourful new characters.

While some tender moments with their new friends are surprisingly moving, it is the dazzling, Cirque du Soleil-esque visuals which really steal the show.

Aside from some intrigue surrounding our hero’s past, director Marc Webb’s contribution to the Spider-Man franchise makes no major departure from the recently tested formula: nerdy kid develops superpowers, hooks up with his crush, battles a super villain. The Amazing Spider-Man is rescued from predictability, however, by Andrew Garfield’s exceptional Peter Parker: twitchy, assertive and convincingly angsty, his chemistry with Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacey is palpable. Their sparky rapport, combined with some creative effects, make for an enjoyable, if unnecessary, rehash of an old favourite.

ABC

PRIME7

MOVIE: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider PRIME7, 9.45pm, M (2001) Based on the butt-kicking video game vixen, this frenetic action blockbuster stars Angelina Jolie (right) as jetsetting adventurer Lara Croft.

Croft’s hobby, searching for lost crypts and ancient artefacts, takes her to the world’s most exotic locations. Her latest challenge is to prevent a monomaniacal adventurer (Iain Glen) from attaining the power to control time.

Jolie fills constricting hot pants and tank tops with flattering aplomb (carrying off a decent English accent to boot), while Simon West (Con Air) directs with panache. Purely escapist fun.

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 First Footprints: The Great Flood – 18,000 To 5,000 Years Ago. (R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Barnaby investigates the death of a DJ. 3.40 Ripples From Wave Hill.

(PG, R, CC) Tells the story of the Wave Hill walk off.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Inspector George Gently. (PG, R, CC) An inspector investigates a murder.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Let It Shine.

(R, CC) (2012) Two boys are reunited with a friend.

Tyler James Williams, Coco Jones.

2.00 Air Crash Investigations: Blind Landing. (PG, R, CC) Investigates why a 747 crashed.

3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Grand final.

5.00 Highway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) Officers pull over a female driver.

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: A Very Brady Sequel. (PG, R, CC) (1996) Shelley Long.

3.00 The Trans Borneo Challenge. (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 RPM. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 The Home Team. (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) Guests include Anna Kendrick.

2.00 Netball. World Cup. Second semi-final.

4.00 Andy & Ben Eat The World. (CC) (Final) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) 5.00 Rugby Union. (CC) Bledisloe Cup. Game 2. New Zealand v Australia.

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 Scotland: Rome’s Final Frontier. (R, CC) 5.30 The Stuarts: A Family At War. (PG, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Jerry visits a curator’s garden.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Last Tango In Halifax.

(PG, CC) (Series return) Gillian goes on a Valentine’s Day date.

Alan and Celia plan a honeymoon adventure to New Zealand.

8.30 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) The team reopens the investigation into the murder of a politician’s staff member.

9.30 Old School. (M, R, CC) Lennie and Ted’s plan to tail a corrupt cop backfires after Lennie smashes into the back of his vehicle.

10.25 The Bletchley Circle.

(PG, R, CC) Part 4 of 4.

Jean reports the murder to the police, only to discover all the evidence has vanished.

11.15 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

11.45 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) Bill Bailey joins Adam Hills,Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker for an off-beat look at events of the week.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Amazing Spider-Man. (PG, R, CC) (2012) A teen abandoned by his parents is raised by his aunt and uncle.

However, after discovering a briefcase which belonged to his dad, he begins investigating his father’s former business partner and ends up developing superpowers after he is bitten by a spider. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen.

9.45 MOVIE: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. (M, R, CC) (2001) After a young female adventurer finds a mysterious clock hidden in the wall of her mansion, it is stolen from her by mysterious assailants. She discovers the attackers work for an evil organisation. Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen.

11.45 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) With his brother scheduled to visit for Thanksgiving, Beverly encourages Murray to drop a long-running feud over a debt not being paid. Adam and Barry put their skills to the test with a game of “Ball-Ball”.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.

(PG, CC) (2012) In the guise of circus performers, a group of former zoo animals struggles to return home to New York via Europe. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer.

8.50 MOVIE: Jack The Giant Slayer. (PG, CC) (2013) After a princess is captured by giants, a young farmhand climbs a magical beanstalk to rescue her from their cloudy stronghold. However, his quest is hampered by the machinations of her father’s manipulative and power-hungry adviser.

Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci.

11.10 MOVIE: The Rite. (M, CC) (2011) A seminary student is sent to study exorcism at the Vatican in spite of his doubts about the controversial practice and his own faith. However, he finds himself forced to confront the possibility of the existence of the supernatural after he is taken in under the wing of Welsh priest. Colin O’Donoghue, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds.

7.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 MOVIE: Transformers.

(M, R, CC) (2007) A teenager becomes entangled in an epic battle between two groups of robots after they land on Earth, in search of an artefact of tremendous power. Complicating the situation are machinations of a secret government organisation that “deals” with alien threats. Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne Bitesize. (CC) A culinary tour of Melbourne.

7.35 James Nesbitt: River Deep, Mountain High.

(PG, R, CC) Irish actor James Nesbitt takes a tour of his adopted homeland of New Zealand.

8.30 Room 101. (PG, CC) Paul McDermott interviews actor Noni Hazlehurst, who discusses her pet hates and the things that make her angry. From painful fashion choices to trendy food stuffs, Noni hopes Paul will help her banish them all.

9.00 MOVIE: Café De Flore.

(MA15+, CC) (2011) A DJ working in present-day Montreal struggles with his feelings for both his girlfriend and his ex-wife.

Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent.

11.10 MOVIE: Gainsbourg.

(M, R, CC) (2010) Charts the life of French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, from his youth in Paris to his death in 1991. Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta.

12.30 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by special guest programmers.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.15 Miniseries: Titanic.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2.

2.15 Last Resort. (M, R, CC) Marcus and Sam hunt for a traitor.

3.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

4.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) Dr Oz takes a look at weight loss.

1.20 MOVIE: The Main Event.

(M, R, CC) (1979) 3.20 Count Arthur Strong. (PG) (New Series) 4.00 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R)

12.20 48 Hours: A Vision Of Murder. (M, R, CC) A look at the murder of a woman.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

1.25 MOVIE: Once Upon A Time In Rio. (M, R) (2008) Thiago Martins.

3.35 Medieval Fightbook.

(PG, R, CC) A look at the 1459 Fight Book.

4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.25pm August: Osage County (2013) Drama.

Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts.

A tragedy brings together a family who have distanced themselves from their dysfunctional mother.

(MA15+) Masterpiece

6.30pm Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars.

Emotions run rampant when the stars reveal dark secrets from their pasts. (M) Arena

6.30pm The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. (PG) History

5.30pm Rugby Union.

Bledisloe Cup. Game 2. New Zealand v Australia. From Eden Park. Fox Sports 2

6.45pm Homefront (2013) Action. Jason Statham, James Franco. (MA15+) Action

6.30pm Young & Hungry.

Gabi fears she’s pregnant and a misunderstanding happens as she prepares an engagement meal for Josh and Caroline.

(M) FOX8

10.10pm The Other Woman (2014) Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton. (M) Premiere

8.30pm Real Housewives Of Melbourne. Cash competes at the Royal Melbourne Show.

(M) Arena

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (CC) 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) 9.15 Live At The Apollo. (M, R, CC) 10.05 Dirty Laundry Live. (M, R, CC) 11.00 The IT Crowd. (PG, R, CC) 11.25 Archer. (M, R, CC) 11.50 The Keith Lemon Sketch Show. (M, R, CC) 12.10 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 12.35 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 1.45 The Home Show. (R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close.

5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.15 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: 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) 10.50 Canimals.

11.00 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 11.25 Kobushi. (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. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 10.50 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 SA Life Favourites. (CC) 2.30 Intolerant Cooks. 3.00 Animal Airport. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Borderline. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) An unlicensed high-speed racer loses his car when he’s caught on radar.

6.30 Castle. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: I Give It A Year.

(M, R, CC) (2013) The trials and tribulations of a couple. Rose Byrne, Simon Baker.

10.30 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Wire In The Blood.

(M, R, CC) 1.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 2.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC)

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 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 11.30 Ice Pilots. (PG) 1.30 Super Factories.

(R, CC) 2.30 Reef Wranglers. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Footy Flashbacks. (R, CC) 4.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 20. Port Adelaide v GWS. 7.15 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 20. Geelong v Hawthorn. From the MCG. 10.30 MOVIE: Trading Places.

(M, R) (1983) Two men have their lives switched. Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy.

12.55 1000 Ways To Die: Eat, Pray, Die. (AV15+, R) 1.30 1000 Ways To Die: Death Be A Lady Tonight.

(AV15+, R) 2.00 Super Factories: Caterpillar. (R, CC) Shows how a mining truck is constructed.

3.00 Ice Pilots. (M, R) Tyler gets to stunt fly in his Cessna 180.

5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7.30pm Terror In The Skies.

Investigates how nature affects air travel. (PG) National Geographic 8.30pm Epic Mancave Builds. Brandon and Tomas help a city dweller. (PG) Discovery

7.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Sydney Roosters v Parramatta Eels. Fox Sports 1 7.30pm Football. AFL. Round 20. Geelong v Hawthorn. From the MCG. Fox Footy Cameron Diaz stars in The Other Woman.

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.

(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 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

(PG, R, CC) (2005) Johnny Depp.

8.50 MOVIE: Starsky & Hutch.

(M, R, CC) (2004) Two cops investigate a drug-running cartel. Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson.

10.50 MOVIE: Scary Movie 2.

(MA15+, CC) (2001) 12.30 The Following. (AV15+, R, CC) 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: Five Golden Dragons. (PG, R, CC) (1967) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 The Baron. (PG, R) 9.30 Countryfile. (PG, R) 10.30 MOVIE: Dangerous Voyage.

(PG, R, CC) (1954) 12.00 David Campbell Sings John Bucchino.

(PG, R) 1.00 Postcards. (R, CC) 1.30 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 2.00 MOVIE: Gunfight At Comanche Creek. (PG, R, CC) (1963) 4.00 MOVIE: 42. (PG, CC) (2013) 6.30 Basketball. FIBA Oceania Women’s Championship.

Game 1. Australian Opals v New Zealand Tall Ferns.

8.30 Basketball. FIBA Oceania Men’s Championship.

Game 1. Australian Boomers v New Zealand Tall Blacks. From Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.

10.30 MOVIE: The Enforcer.

(M, R, CC) (1976) Clint Eastwood.

12.30 MOVIE: Cahill, United States Marshal. (M, R, CC) (1973) 2.30 MOVIE: Accident. (M, R) (1967) Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker.

4.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country. (R) 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) 11.30 Netball. World Cup. Replay. 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Motor Racing.

Dunlop V8 Supercar Series. 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 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. (R) Highlights of monster truck racing.

7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 48 Hours: The Pact.

(M, R, CC) Examines an unsolved murder from 1969 which continues to haunt a Massachusetts community.

9.30 Ross Noble’s Australian Trip. (M, R, CC) Ross Noble explores Australia.

10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 12.00 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 3.30 Shred! (PG, R) 4.00 Netball.

World Cup. Replay. From Allphones Arena, Sydney.

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 To Be Advised. 4.00 90210. (PG, R) 6.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) John becomes jealous of Chris.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Ray turns the table on Debra.

7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Robert discovers Pat smoking.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Lewis Hamilton, Ewan McGregor, Jack Whitehall and Dara Ó Briain.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie is snubbed by Natasha at a restaurant.

10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) Hosted by James Corden.

11.55 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.25 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Bunk. (PG, R) 1.30 The Soup Investigates.

(PG, R) 2.00 Toughest Place To Be A… (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 3.50 Lois. (R) 4.00 Departures. (PG, R) 5.00 Kung Fu Motion. (PG, R) 5.55 Swim. (PG, R) 6.05 Celebrity Chef.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 The Island With Bear Grylls: Women’s Island.

(M, R, CC) An expedition is sent to cross the island.

9.25 The Island With Bear Grylls: Men’s Island.

(M, R, CC) Barney catches the group a meal.

10.25 Utopia. (AV15+, R) 1.20 MOVIE: My Year Without Sex. (M, R, CC) (2009) Sacha Horler, Matt Day, Jonathan Segat.

3.05 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News.

5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 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 Clouded History.

8.30 Eternity.

9.30 MOVIE: Rabbit-Proof Fence. (PG) (2002) Three Aboriginal girls trek across the Outback. Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury.

11.00 Outback Cafe.

11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 Clouded History.

1.00 MOVIE: Rabbit-Proof Fence. (PG) (2002) 2.30 Bury My Heart In Dresden.

(PG) 4.00 Eternity. 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) 3.15 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. (PG, R, CC) 1508

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Sunday, August 16 Dancing With The Stars PRIME7, 8pm Throwing caution to the wind and dancing like there’s no one watching can be one of the most joyful things a person can do. But this Dancing With The Stars business is a whole different kettle of fish: try as they may, these celebrities (including radio personality Emma Freedman) can’t really boogie with abandon. What with the studio audience, host Edwina Bartholomew and millions of people watching from home, not to mention the fact that your efforts learning a new dance routine will be scored by a panel of critical judges (Todd McKenney, Helen Richey and Kym Johnson), this is serious stuff. Until someone makes a rather hilarious mistake, that is.

ABC

MOVIE: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

The Voice WIN, 7pm

ELEVEN, 8.30pm, PG (1986) A hero was born when teen flick doyen John Hughes introduced the world to the charms of Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick), the sleepyeyed high schooler with an unconventional grip on his grades.

His direct-to-the-camera musings on the pros and cons of school life give way to a host of zany shenanigans as he takes the sicky to end all sickies.

The supporting cast including Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey, Mia Sara and Jeffrey Jones as long-suffering school dean Mr Rooney help make it a great day out. Ferris rules.

PRIME7

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WIN

TEN

SBS

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) 1.25 The Mix. (R, CC) 1.55 The A-Z Of Contemporary Art. (PG, R, CC) 2.25 The Writers’ Room.

(PG, R, CC) 2.50 The Lost Tools Of Henry Hoke. (CC) 3.00 Parkinson: Masterclass.

(R, CC) 4.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Last Tango In Halifax.

(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) Bush rats overrun a Sydney suburb.

11.30 To Be Advised.

2.00 MOVIE: Teen Beach Movie. (R, CC) (2013) Two teenage surfers discover they appear to have been swept into the movie “Wet Side Story”.

Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell.

4.00 Air Crash Investigations: Grand Canyon Disaster.

(PG, R, CC) Investigates a midair collision from 1956.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike explores Kiama.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(PG, CC) Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. (PG, R, CC) Follows the Foo Fighters.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Hosted

by Tim Faulkner.

Life Challenge: Kokoda.

(PG, CC) Presented by Gyton Grantley.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 23. Canterbury Bulldogs v Gold Coast Titans. From Central Coast Stadium, NSW.

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

(CC) 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 iFish. (R, CC) 3.00 Netball. World Cup. Day 10.

Finals. Gold medal match.

From Allphones Arena, Sydney.

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 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 Cycling. (CC) UCI BMX World Championship.

Highlights.

5.00 World Of Cycling. (CC) 5.30 Hitler’s People: Total War. (CC) Part 2 of 2.

6.00 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) Hosted by Rob Brydon.

6.30 Compass: Discovering Jesus The Jew. (CC) Geraldine Doogue goes on a personal quest to understand more about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (CC) Kevin is reunited with a couple who were restoring a crumbling manor house in the Creuse region of France.

8.30 Miniseries: The Politician’s Husband.

(M, CC) Part 3 of 3. Aiden has to defend himself from a potentially embarrassing sex scandal.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Harry is called to the scene of a multiple homicide, at a home where he and Nikki attended a christening.

10.30 Finding Vivian Maier.

(PG, CC) The life of prolific street photographer, Vivian Maier.

11.50 MOVIE: Caddie. (M, R, CC) (1976) During the Great Depression, a woman sets out to make a new life for herself and her two children. Helen Morse, Takis Emmanuel.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program.

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) After a cookie-jar collector is murdered, the Jeffersonian team suspects the killer may be a fellow kitchenware enthusiast.

Booth struggles to come to terms with Brennan’s suggestion he move out of their house due to his gambling addiction. Aubrey has his eye on one of the “squinterns”.

11.00 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) Annie is assigned to desk duty after Joan and Calder find out about her heart condition. However, she goes behind the agency’s back, with McQuaid’s help, to investigate a new lead in the bombing.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, CC) 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) Saul intensifies his persecution of the disciples, targeting Peter, causing many to flee the city. With Jerusalem in chaos the Roman Emperor Augustus and his nephew Caligula arrive to decide Pilate’s fate.

11.10 Stalker. (M, CC) After a young woman is harassed by a mob, Beth and Jack realise they are dealing with a rare case of group stalking involving members of a cult. Ray escalates his plan to isolate Beth from her closest allies.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. (PG, CC) After a man waddles to the tower with a dog bite on his manhood, the lifeguards cannot believe their eyes.

7.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, CC) (Final) Constable Mamaril is part of a team raiding the home of a suspected Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club associate.

7.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Gloria wants Jay to teach Manny how to stand up to a bully in his cooking class.

8.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Claire tries to use her computer to get in contact with Hayley after getting stuck at the airport.

8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) A man dies after taking medication he purchased from a hacked ad on a medical website.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) The team finds itself on edge after a government agent arrives to look into their actions.

10.30 MOVIE: This Means War. (M, R, CC) (2012) Two CIA operatives find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman. Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Petra: Lost City Of Stone.

(CC) Takes a look at the ancient city of Petra, in southern Jordan, which was constructed by a mysterious tribe over 2000 years ago.

8.35 Uranium: Twisting The Dragon’s Tail: The Rock That Changed The World. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 3. Australianborn physicist Dr Derek Muller tells the story of uranium, the “rock” which helped shape the modern world. He continues by revealing how in the wake of Hiroshima, the heavy metal was harnessed to generate limitless energy and treat cancer.

9.35 Sex And The West: From Pleasure To Sin. (M, CC) Part 1 of 3. Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how Christianity has shaped Western attitudes to sex.

10.40 Fallout. (M, R, CC) Explores the writings of Nevil Shute, author of one of the most important anti-war novels of the 20th century.

1.35 Crookhat And The Kulanada. (R, CC) 2.00 Miniseries: The Politician’s Husband.

(M, R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

3.00 Finding Vivian Maier.

(PG, R, CC) Takes a look at the life of Vivian Maier.

4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 Order In The House. (CC)

12.00 Do No Harm. (M) (Final) Jason prepares for his brain surgery, to implant the device which will rid him of Ian once and for all.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

12.05 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 1.00 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 1.50 Nine Presents. (R, 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: The Verdict.

(M, R) A look at the death of Robert Cline III. 1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show.

12.20 MOVIE: White Night Wedding. (M, R) (2008) Hilmir Snær Guonason.

2.10 MOVIE: Black And White. (M, R) (2008) Fabio Volo.

4.00 Our Food: West Of Scotland. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

11.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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SPORT

6.25pm Blended (2014) Comedy. Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore. A recently divorced mum and widowed dad let their friends set them up on a blind date. (M) Premiere

6.00pm The Simpsons. Bart and Milhouse use their video game skills to save Springfield after classic board games threaten to destroy the city.

(M) FOX8

6.30pm Australia: Life On The Edge. Looks at the midwest coast. (G) National Geographic

3.00pm Football. AFL. Western Bulldogs v Melbourne.

From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. Fox Sports 3

7.45pm Child Of God (2014) Crime. Scott Haze, James Franco. A harrowing tale following a dispossessed, violent necrophiliac killer. (R) World Movies

7.30pm Orange Is The New Black. The inmates get close to their new admirers.

(MA15+) Showcase

7.30pm Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered. (M) Discovery

10.20pm Soccer.

EPL. Crystal Palace v Arsenal.

Fox Sports 1

8.00pm Great Mysteries And Myths. Explores the Gallipoli campaign. (PG) History

11.30pm Cycling. Eneco Tour.

Stage 7. Eurosport

8.30pm The Soup. (MA15+) E!

10.30pm The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Action.

Andrew Garfield. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.40 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 1.55 Mouk.

(R) 2.05 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (CC) 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 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 5.20 Peppa Pig. (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 Wild Things With Dom Monaghan. (PG, CC) 8.15 Gruen Planet: Cutdowns. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Crossfire Hurricane.

(M, R, CC) 10.20 Louis Theroux.

(M, R, CC) 11.25 Prostitution: What’s The Harm? (MA15+, R, CC) 12.20 Bodyshockers. (M, R, CC) 1.10 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 1.35 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 2.45 News Update. (R) 2.50 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.15 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 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.

9.00 Operation Ouch! (R) (Final) 9.25 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.

(R, CC) 9.50 Studio 3 Gold. 9.55 Grojband. (R, CC) 10.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.50 Canimals.

(R) 11.00 Wacky World Beaters.

(CC) 11.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 11.30 Roy. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House.

(R, CC) 12.30 M.I. High. (R, CC) 1.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 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.

Taylor Schilling stars in Orange is the New Black.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG, R) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG) 12.00 Travel Oz. (PG, CC) 1.30 Lyndey Milan’s Taste Of Australia. (R) 2.00 The Travel Bug. (PG) 3.00 Going Bush.

(PG) 3.30 Borderline. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Coastwatch. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Building Extreme Alaska. (PG, R) 5.30 The Border. (PG) 6.30 Restaurant Australia.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) The team searches for a property in Cumbria.

9.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. Follow Carol as she dreams of a Sicilian retreat.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

Hosted by Gary Takle.

11.00 Building Extreme Alaska.

(PG, R) Takes a look at engineering in Alaska.

12.00 Escape To The Country.

(R) 1.00 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Dr Oz. (M, R, CC) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping. 9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG) 12.30 Football. AFL. Women’s League.

Second exhibition match. Western Bulldogs v Melbourne. 2.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 3.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 20.

Western Bulldogs v Melbourne.

6.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) Elaine suspects Puddy may be religious.

6.30 MOVIE: Grown Ups 2.

(PG, R, CC) (2013) Adam Sandler.

8.30 MOVIE: Elysium.

(M, R, CC) (2013) In a dystopian future, a man tries to find his way onto a space station to receive treatment for radiation poisoning. Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Diego Luna.

10.45 MOVIE: Escape From New York. (M, R) (1981) 12.45 Locked Up Abroad: Philippine Terror. (M) 2.00 Jail. (M, R) 2.30 Lizard Lick Towing. (M, R) 3.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 Captain Flinn And The Pirate Dinosaurs. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes.

(R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG) 11.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 The Crew. (PG, CC) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Arthur And The Invisibles.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) Freddie Highmore, Madonna.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) The girls hold a “do-over” prom.

9.30 MOVIE: Looper.

(AV15+, R, CC) (2012) Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

12.00 Almost Human. (M, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: The Island Of Dr Moreau.

(M, R, CC) (1996) 3.00 The Batman.

(PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: Mutiny On The Buses. (PG, R, CC) (1972) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.00 Avengers. (PG, R) 11.00 MOVIE: Lady Caroline Lamb. (PG, R, CC) (1972) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Ride Vaquero. (PG, R, CC) (1953) 4.00 MOVIE: Comes A Horseman.

(PG) (1978) 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Life: Plants. (R, CC) Narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

8.30 MOVIE: The Fugitive.

(M, R, CC) (1993) A man who is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, escapes from custody and tries to find the real killer.

Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward.

11.10 Believe. (M, R, CC) 12.05 MOVIE: Station SixSahara. (M, R, CC) (1962) 2.00 Danoz Direct. 3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

The 43rd Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic. Replay. 9.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 9.30 World Sport.

(R) 10.00 Reel Action. (R) 10.30 Rugby Union. (CC) Bledisloe Cup. Game 2. New Zealand v Australia.

Replay. 1.00 Netball. World Cup. Day 10. Finals. Bronze medal match. 3.00 Bolt Report. (R, CC) 4.00 Adv Angler. (Series return) 4.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 5.00 Hardliners. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Race 11. Czech Republic Grand Prix.

From Brno Circuit, Czech Republic.

11.00 World Sport.

11.30 The Americans. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Cops. (PG, R) 1.30 Netball.

World Cup. Day 10. Finals. Bronze medal match. Replay. From Allphones Arena, Sydney. 3.30 Netball. World Cup. Day 10. Finals.

Gold medal match. Replay. From Allphones Arena, Sydney. 5.30 World Sport. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 10.30 To Be Advised. 12.30 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) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) The locals emulate Bart’s behaviour.

7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) Fry is befriended by a young alien.

7.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Bart becomes a celebrity.

8.30 MOVIE: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. (PG, R) (1986) After a popular student decides to skip school with his friends, the principal sets out to catch him.

Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara.

10.40 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 11.15 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.15 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 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.

1.00 Celebrity Chef. (R) 2.25 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (M, R, CC) 3.15 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (R, CC) 4.10 Brazil’s Next Top Model.

(PG, R) 5.05 Vs Arashi.

6.05 Secret Life Of… (PG) 6.40 Kung Fu Motion.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R) Stan becomes addicted to a mobile app.

9.00 Drunk History. (M, R) Hosted by Derek Waters.

9.30 South Park. (MA15+, R, CC) Kenny takes his new girlfriend to a concert.

10.00 Swift And Shift Couriers.

(M, R, CC) 10.30 Sex: An Unnatural History. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.30 Naked News: Uncovered!

(MA15+, CC) 12.00 In Her Skin. (PG) 1.40 MOVIE: Zion And His Brother.

(M, R) (2009) 3.10 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

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1.30 Skydancer. (PG) 2.45 Rugby League. Murri Carnival. 3.35 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

4.45 Unearthed. 5.00 Te Kaea.

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7.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) 8.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 8.30 Who We Are: Brave New Clan. (PG) Follows six young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

9.30 MOVIE: Boy. (M) (2010) A boy’s estranged father resurfaces. James Rolleston.

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2.00 Backyard Shorts. (PG) 2.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 3.30 Mana Mamau. (M) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 5.00 Kriol Kitchen.

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They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

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LAFF-A-DAY SNOWFLAKES There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the numbers 1 to 6 around each of them. No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle.

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DOWN 1. Earlier (10) 2. Hasten (5) 3. Nought (4) 4. Receive (6) 5. Ominous (8) 6. Weakened (7) 11. Debar (10) 13. Tale (8) 14. Unavailability (7) 16. Weak (6) 17. Caper (5) 20. Otherwise (4)

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1. Put me back in the coffin to dispose of the body (7) 2. Showing preference for what is not complete (7) 3. Here are the team, one by one (6) 5. Dentures for aristocratic clique?

(5,3) 6. A coat of paint for the detonator (6) 7. Vessels for pleasure trips, we hear (6) 13. Attachments to sound receivers (8) 14. Practicality is apparent in the kingdom (7) 15. How willing people are idly disposed? (7) 16. The girl and I in dilapidated manor (6) 17. Mechanic less likely to be indis-

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by Samantha Weaver z In a 2014 survey conducted by Nutrisystem, 32 per cent of respondents said that they hadn’t worn a bathing suit in public in the past five years, 20 per cent said it had been 10 or more years, and 5 per cent said they had never worn a swimsuit in public. z In ancient Egypt, there was a ban on the export of cats, which, by the law of supply and demand, increased the value of the pets in the rest of the known world. This situation was an irresistible invitation to smugglers, of course; once Phoenician sailors managed to surreptitiously bring some felines to buyers around the Mediterranean, breeders took over and ruined the business. z The vast nation of Canada got its name from the Iroquois word “Kanata”, which means “village.” annually. z Actors Kevin Spacey and Val Kilmer were classmates in high school.

Thought for the Day: “A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.” – Franz Kafka

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) This is a week to indulge yourself. Do the things that please you. This is likely to tie in with having fun with younger members of the family or friends.

A warm fuzzy feeling midweek could see you tempted in the wrong direction. You may have a bit of cash to flash, but keep it safe. Did that great idea come from you or someone else? Something unusual is certainly on your mind.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Something, or someone, you have waited a long time for is finally here.

Don’t waste a moment in moving things along. Sometimes it is hard to believe your luck, even though most of it is down to your own efforts. Venus, the bringer of harmony, is cavorting through your life and telling you to enjoy every minute! In a rewarding week, don’t be sidetracked by negative people or unimportant niggles. Set your path of fun and love and stay on it.

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TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21)

Romance seems to follow you everywhere this week. Someone with an eye to spoiling you wants to spend, spend, spend! Will they want something in return? Probably just your sparkling company. This begins a three-week period when you will be at your most attractive. After all, you are in a very attractive period and admirers could be all around you. Will you choose for the moment or the longer term?

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) The

influence that you have over others is very strong at the moment.

Tempted as you may be to take advantage of this, be guided by your conscience. Something that you look forward to at the weekend could cause disappointment, but, an offer midweek? Well, that’s different! Be flexible and accommodating.

Is someone waiting for you to make a decision you are reluctant to make? Remember, silence is golden.

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Flat-

tery will get you everywhere this week. Someone you are trying to impress, or make up with, will be especially tempted to give in to your whims. Considering further education in the autumn? Sign up early to avoid disappointment. The temptation to do something a bit risky is strong. However, it may set you off in the wrong direction. This is especially true if it involves gambling.

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) This

is a time when memories are made. Get out the camera and invite your friends round. As food and drink play a large part this week, overindulging for more than a day or two could set you back. Being in a good mood means you are more than likely to say ‘yes’ to a business scheme. Give yourself time to sleep on it. You may be well aware of how a certain person sees you. Trying to change their mind, however, is probably a waste of time.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Flattery comes from all sides this week.

You love it, even if you realise it could be a case of ‘cupboard love’! Whatever others want from you, however, you may well enjoy going along with it. A friendship that starts off in a flippant manner could end up being something much more. At the moment it may seem unlikely, but love can be something of a mystery. Sometimes you just need to let things unfold with time.

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SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)

Dynamic moments at work could see you speaking your mind and upsetting someone. Be sure you really know what is going on before you say your piece. Someone close can be annoying, but avoid using a hammer to smash a grape. Gently does it! Plan something quiet and relaxing for the weekend.

Someone is 100 per cent behind you, but maybe you can’t see it. Being defensive is not in your best interests.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) It’s a great thing when you

can forge closer links with family.

Perhaps sometimes you feel unappreciated, but that is unlikely to be true.

When others get busy they do tend to take loved ones for granted. Wonder how someone really feels about you? Ask them. You should start to see the results of work done in the past. Perhaps it is even something you had forgotten about.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN

20) An open mind, especially when it comes to meeting new people, brings refreshing results.

Sometimes it is hard not to mix up the past with the future, especially with certain experiences. However, things change. You may now have a more relaxed attitude, especially with silly, but harmless, people.

Just because you go out and find new people, it does not mean that you have to see them again. Realising this should allay any anxiety.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

Are you looking for a partner or thinking of changing your current arrangement with one?

Think it through this week, but next week would be better for action. At that time conversations are easier and have a gentler nature to them. This week, there are fun things to do, especially if there are young relatives around. Try to have simple fun.

Mine some of the things you liked as a child for ideas.

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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Picking

and choosing what you do, and who with, makes this an enjoyable week. A feeling of freedom fires your imagination. This does not happen often enough. Start planning now to make it happen more regularly. Getting out of a rut is not easy, especially if others rely on you. However, it can be done. With a bit of determination, and help from friends, you will achieve this week.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Leo, having spent a good length of time securing your home and family, you now have time to relax. Of course, business matters are always present, but now there’s more of a balance. Expanding your knowledge can only bring fresh opportunities.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with US actor Robert Redford (pictured), who turns 79.

After some months of hard work it is only right that you now see progress. Getting a good work/life balance is now within your grasp. All you need is a good conversation, both at home and work, to achieve this, Leo. Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! At last there is a way forward that does not mean you sacrificing something, Leo! Make this the period when you communicate with everyone about everything.

Small understandings lead to flashes of inspiration.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! When you are determined to get something done, Leo, you really can be determined! Even so, go easy on the home front. Taking a hammer to crack an egg is not necessary. What you sow emotionally now, will grow in the future.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

Maybe there have been more downs than ups recently, Leo? Well, that is about to change. Patience is needed, but do let others know what you’re thinking. Don’t hide your talents or ambitions.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Plan for a few new responsibilities in the months ahead. They will be welcome but could cause some delays if you are not ready. Leo, your great talents are determination and charm. Use these to your advantage.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Don’t take it for granted that others know your talents, ambitions and needs Leo. You can be king of communications when you are willing to cooperate. Blow your own horn, sharpen your charm and run with the opportunities.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3500

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This week's Sudoku

This week's Snowflake

Find the Words solution 864 Pleasant activity DUAL CROSSWORD 18,949 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Heave; 8 Private; 9 Twister; 10 Harms; 12 Moderation; 15 Courtdress; 18 Dingo; 19 Tension; 21 Mariner; 22 Graze.

Down: 1 White-faced; 2 Rapid; 3 Felt; 4 Sparse; 5 High mass; 6 Hair-oil; 11 Sun-lounges; 13 Outdoing; 14 Runners; 16 Return; 17 Divan; 20 Nigh.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Rouse; 8 Calling; 9 Verbose; 10 Round; 12 Paltriness; 15 Subterfuge; 18 Yield; 19 Eternal; 21 Recital; 22 Stiff.

Down: 1 Previously; 2 Hurry; 3 Zero; 4 Accept; 5 Alarming; 6 Diluted; 11 Disqualify; 13 Anecdote; 14 Absence; 16 Feeble; 17 Antic; 20 Else.

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This week's Go Figure!

Mega Maze

DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 20,306 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 4 Outpace; 8 Really; 9 Optimum; 10 Motive; 11 Reeves; 12 Trainees; 18 Retrieve; 20 Rapier; 21 Scaled; 22 Tilting; 23 Teasel; 24 Ingress.

Down: 1 Cremate; 2 Partial; 3 Eleven; 5 Upper set; 6 Primer; 7 Cruses; 13 Earrings; 14 Realism; 15 Readily; 16 Marion; 17 Fitter; 19 Racket.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 4 Evident; 8 Animal; 9 Promise; 10 Retain; 11 Lordly; 12 Enkindle; 18 Saturate; 20 Decent; 21 Remain; 22 Contain; 23 Detain; 24 Beneath. Down: 1 Barrier; 2 Mistake; 3 Malign; 5 Virulent; 6 Demure; 7 Nestle; 13 District; 14 Far away; 15 Pennant; 16 Revoke; 17 Mettle; 19 Uneven.

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Jack London. 2. Indonesia. 3. Culture Club, in 1982. 4. California, USA. 5. Psalm 23. 6. Eldrick. 7. 144. 8. George Crum. 9. Pigs. 10. Inflammation from exposure to cold, then sudden warming. 11. “G.I. Blues”, in 1960. Presley played a soldier serving in Germany, hence the German lyrics. 12. Joan Hammond. 13. “Cherry Bomb”, by John Mellencamp (aka John Cougar Mellencamp) in 1987. The song title is a fictional name for a teen club in a nostalgic look back at Mellencamp’s early years in Indiana. The real club was called The Last Exit Teen Club.

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