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Emmanuel Care empowers self-starters

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Nutritious, humane and sustainable

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HEALTH

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Mossy and Robbo are back!

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IFE used to be so simple. Vinyl bean bags, two television stations. In Cheryl Burke’s comment piece this week, she takes us ‘back in the day’ when microwaves didn’t exist and we cooked popcorn in a saucepan, took messages for whoever missed a call because they’re weren’t home and all listened to the same music at the same time together when CountDown came on TV. Now we’re spoon fed pointless information from every direction, relentlessly, such as what the Kardashian family said to each other today.

Greg Smart’s column puts that phenomenon, or freak show, in its place.

We bid farewell to the mystery writer of an 11-part series called the Love Boat, which sadly goes down with the captain in its last installment, and thankfully not a reality TV star in sight.

On a more serious note, Kim V. Goldsmith takes us out to Gilgandra where the town has been studiously preparing for the reenactment of the Coo-ee March next month, unearthing along the way personal stories of courage and fate.

John Ryan takes the industrial food industry to task begging the question why autonomy in food production and food choices continue to be eroded by corporate giants driven by bottom lines leaving real food options to bottom out.

Sally Bryant takes it one step further and turns back the clock on a time when homegrown and slaughtered meat was the norm and permissible and the consequences were nutritious, humane and sustainable.

Tony Webber redefines the definition of work - when applied to domestic duties - suggesting stocking the beer fridge as an essential service, and light duties like clothes washing or dish washing fall short of the classification, confined to sweat-less button pushing.

Our guests this week come from diverse walks life including a RAAF Roulette pilot, who’ll be flying in Narromine this weekend, one of Australia’s leading travel writers, who’ll be in town for Westwords next weekend, and a husband and wife student exchange chaperone team, on their way to Japan later in the month.

Armchair travellers can recline into our Tales from the Trails this week by Lisa Minner who takes us to the sunny community of Carinda or hear a little about South America from His Excellency Ambassador of Argentina Pedro Villagra Delgado, Dean of the Diplomatic Corp who spoke with Kellie Jenner.

Our regular column, ‘In The Kitchen With …’ goes behind the scenes at Dubbo’s Community Kitchen, a worthy volunteer enterprise creating

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free meals for anyone in need of a night out to socialise over a meal cooked with love.

The Community Kitchen operates under Emmanuel Care Incorporated, a home grown charity organisation. Through it’s op shop takings and generous sponsorship of local individuals and businesses Emmanuel Care also runs a locally developed program called Self Start to empower people to rise from poverty. We talk to manager, Geraldine Tosh for the details.

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of love in the world right now but if the Ashley Madison hack and subsequent scandal suggests, it’s out there with 40 million different email addresses. Lisa Minner puts the issue of infidelity under the microscope and asks the cold hard ‘In The Kitchen question, why do With …’ goes people do it? behind the It’s an edition scenes at Dubbo’s packed with people to see, places Community to go and things Kitchen, a to do and as the worthy volunteer weekend’s forecast is cloudy skies enterprise creating ahead, finding a free meals for sunny spot out of the wind with your anyone in need $2 copy of Dubbo of a night out to Weekender sounds socialise over a like a perfect way to spend a weekend meal cooked with afternoon. love.

That’s if you’re not enjoying the colour and pomp of the Multicultural Festival this Saturday which features a concert in the council car park, a national costume street parade down Macquarie or a 500 seat dinner, or, getting giddy on jet fuel at AUSFLY 2015 at the Narromine Airport watching war birds and model aircraft and Australia’s best aerobatic team the RAAF Roulettes in action.

Now that August has past, and with it Grief Awareness Month, we feature the offerings of participants in the NALAG Centre for Grief and Loss photo treasure hunt, putting into pictures the experiences of loss, love, hope and forever.

In the back of the Weekender is the fun stuff (back of the bus): puzzles, a giant cross word, the funnies and the tele guide.

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Local Land Services and Landcare NSW cement joint future

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

N their second year of operation, NSW rural advisory and services organisation Local Land Services (LLS) are cementing their future alongside Landcare NSW, signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at their first major joint conference together this week in Orange.

After a smaller gathering of the two organisations in Dubbo in March last year, when the newly formed LLS was in its infancy, much negotiation has occurred to reach this point.

LLS executive manager, Tim Ferraro says it’s been some of the actions committed to at the Dubbo meeting that was the subject of a panel session at this week’s conference.

“The partnership between Landcare and the respective State Government organisations has changed, just as the State Government organisations have changed, and Landcare has been the constant through all of this.

“The development of the MoU has taken a bit of time and challenged both organisations at various points but we’ve ended up in a genuine partnership on the basis that we are stronger together.

“The fit for Landcare and LLS is really where Landcare is going, particularly in terms of moving into the biosecurity and emergency management areas.”

Ferraro says prior to taking the job with LLS he did a consulting job for

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the Australian Landcare Council on the multiple benefits of Landcare, looking at the work of Landcare in a different way to just planting trees and fencing off creeks.

“Landcare is about a whole lot of things that I think fit under the banner of individual and community resilience.

“When you look at what Landcare does in the area of biosecurity, recovery from emergencies like bush fires, there are some really good examples of community development.

“Landcare has been a constant in the rural landscape for a long time in Australia now and it’s a good fit for us.”

Despite some criticism during the turbulent transition to Local Land Services, Ferraro says productivity and natural resource management do work hand-in-hand.

“The good operators have been doing that for a while ... they run the farm as a system in an integrated way and LLS is a good fit for that.

“I don’t see any disconnect with NRM and productivity and while it has raised some challenges from time to time, it’s always been something Landcare has

talked about – you can’t be green if you’re in the red, has been the saying.

“I don’t think Landcare is particularly phased by the balance of production and the environment, and likewise LLS sees a really good link between the two.”

Ferraro says historically one of the difficulties between the two organisations has been major changes to the Commonwealth’s Landcare program, which coincidentally coincided with changes at a state government organisation level, such as when former Catchment Management Authorities came into being, and again during the formation of LLS. “Not long before the CMAs were launched there was a decision by the Commonwealth to significantly reduce the number of Landcare staff on the ground – Landcare coordinators were cut back or discontinued ... the CMAs caught some residual flack over that.

“Interestingly at the time of LLS forming there were some Government announcements about Landcare, literally while we were in the conference last hanges to funding with more year ... changes

` “I don’t see any disconnect with NRM and nd productivity and while it has raised some me challenges from time to time, it’s always been something Landcare has talked about – you can’t be green if you’re in the red, has been en the saying.

– LLS executive manager, Tim Ferraro

money going through LLS rather than direct to Landcare.

“Out of that there was a sense of things were changing again, not just because of LLS, but broader changes ... we wanted to work out how we make the best of that.

“So the key thing for LLS is about cementing that long-term relationship.”

Using the road from Dubbo (last year’s meeting) as an analogy to describe the MoU negotiations between the two organisations, Ferraro says there have been road blocks, potholes, and it’s been windy and hilly, but Landcare has been very diligent in pushing LLS to convert it to a dual carriageway.

“I pay tribute to their persistence in this area and really now it’s about getting those white, dual-cab utes on the dual carriageway and getting our people performing and delivering this stuff.

“The MoU and the announcement on the new Landcare Coordinator Program are fundamental to that.

“We have to really make sure the MoU isn’t just a bit of paper but something we’re clear about ... quantifying the behaviours we expect from each other – making each other honest and accountable.”

In terms of future funding challenges, Ferraro is somewhat philosophical about being in a three to four year funding cycle.

“It’s not ideal, it’s a four year program, but it is what it is and we want to make sure we’re clear about the value it’s creating.”

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Emmanuel Care empowers self-starters Emmanuel Care is a homegrown welfare organisation in Dubbo, started in 1988, and has provided a variety of services to the disadvantaged such as emergency accommodation and welfare, supported by an op shop and minimal government funding. Current manager, Geraldine Tosh and her team, are running new services to empower people toward change in their lives, including a locally developed program called Self Start. AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Yvette Aubusson-Foley HROUGH the Emmanuel Care Brisbane Street office, clients can receive emergency relief including food from a community pantry, welfare assistance, counsellng referrals and more, largely funded by the Emmanuel Care pre-loved clothing store on Talbragar Street.

In 2011, a long-term goal was realised for providing a course designed specifically to assist parents in the area of home management skills called Self Start.

What is Emmanuel Care?

People know of us, but don’t. There’s a niche in the community that would know us quite well. Neville and Alison Dorsey started it back in 1988. It was their vision. It didn’t start as an Op Shop; they were just out there helping people.

They provided emergency accommodation with a street beat van, they did counselling and a few other things.

What about now?

We’ve become a stand-alone op shop.

We sit under a locally based body called Emmanuel Care Inc. Included under that there’s a community kitchen and a community garden in Palmer Street beside the Baptist Church.

We’re just funded by our op shop. It’s completely local. It’s been around since 1988 in various forms. We’re really well supported by the community but we need financial support. Donations of clothing are great but it makes it very labour intensive to get the dollar and by the time that’s been sorted and half the time the stuff that we need, is a very low percentage.

What is Self Start?

We get clients who come in who don’t know how to cook. They don’t know how to budget or shop properly. They get their money and they go down to the

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supermarket but they don’t plan.

So when we’re doing the Self Start cooking class, we’re actually teaching them to think differently, plan ahead, and have things in their cupboard.

What kinds of things are they learning?

We got girls in the refuge to make scones, because you really don’t need a lot of things to make scones and they were so delighted, you’ve got no idea. By the time they’d finished it, one of them was in tears when we gave her a certificate. She’d never received a certificate before in her life. It was beautiful and the other girls were going round the refuge trying to find a hammer and a nail so they could put their certificate up on the wall.

How do you approach the subject of cooking?

The recipes in the cookbook only need four ingredients because it’s simple. If there are only four ingredients you don’t have to think too hard about what you need to put on your shopping list. I use it! It’s just so simple. We haven’t got time to be thinking about all this stuff in the cupboard.

It’s based on that, then we get them to plan; what they need to do when they go shopping. It also talks about food hygiene, storage, and just some basic information that we would know but they don’t have any understanding of. Some have a little bit. We do things like involving kids in kid’s lunches.

Is food preparation the only subject they learn?

There’s saving electricity. We got an electrician to come in to talk about saving energy on things like windows and curtains, things to do differently around heating and hot water, like if you turn the hot water tap nearest to the hot wa-

I’ve just done a Bridges Out of Poverter system it will use less electricity. Just simple things. We have someone come in ty course which shows in society there’s to talk about water usage. It’s a package hidden rules. Poverty, middle class and wealth have all got hidden rules. In povthat we do under the Self Start.

How do you promote Self Start? erty, their main hidden rule is around reWe only see our clients for about 10 lationships, middle class is achievement or 15 minutes and we don’t have the re- and possessions and wealth is around lationship. For that realm of people, re- connections. lationships are high on their agenda. If Our middle class world doesn’t get you’re in a relationship with them they’ll what goes on in poverty. It’s a whole come and hang out with you. Half the different mindset. The middle class are time they’re in relationsaying, ‘well, they should ship with their agency, know what they’re dotheir support worker... we ing, they get so many went then to agencies and payments!’ but they don’t said, you’ve got the relaknow their world where tionships, can we come in We’re moving they live. and do it with your client We’re trying to undertowards that base. stand that, so we can deWe’ve done it with Mis- with the Self liver stuff, and teach and sion Australia, which has grow them so they know a kitchen. The refuge has Start program. middle class rules. If you a kitchen. If not we take it It’s giving people give them tools and underup to the Baptist Church standing and knowledge because they’ve got a very understanding – that’s power. They can big kitchen. and power and have the power to choose How important that your and make choices, where a knowledge to clients can make and lot of the time they don’t. have the power to make do something How do people living in choices about their own poverty see the world? lives? different, to be For people in poverty, Choice is a very powerable to improve they see things in conful thing, so we give them understanding about the their quality of life. crete terms. They don’t see things in abstract terms. supermarket. With the suMiddle class see things in permarket we know that abstract, therefore it’s very difficult for the cheaper brands are on the bottom people in poverty to come into the midshelf but you walk in and it’s all set up right there in front of you. They think, ‘I dle class realm.

Agencies, churches, all sorts of organneed this, this, this and this’. They don’t isations are set up in the middle class think, ‘the bottom shelf if the cheaper realm with the abstract. So here’s Jo brand, go for that’.

Blow coming in and they see things in How difficult is it, to impart what is concrete terms, not understanding how knowledge a lot of people take for granted? to operate in the middle class realm.

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Geraldine Tosh, Emmanuel Care coordinator

There’s a program associated with Bridges Out of Poverty called Getting Ahead in a Getting By World and it’s actually gathering people in poverty and some from middle class and teaching them the rules to understand in their own world so therefore they have a greater knowledge base to go out and face it.

What’s an example of a poverty mindset meeting an abstract middle class one?

Even going to into Centrelink. Formal language.

Most people don’t operate in formal language, and when they get hold of formal language, they’re just empowered because they can go and ask for what they want. So we want to run a program like that as a course. So it actually brings some kind of change, but not forced change, it’s their own change, it’s their decision, their choice to make that change.

What is Smart Recovery?

The other thing we want to do is called Smart Recovery, which is self-management recovery training. It’s about addiction. There’s one here that runs out of the Neighbourhood Centre but I want to run it for women.

Get a bunch of women, put a few men in there and women are not going to talk. And it’s a coaching thing as well, it’s all about them discovering what their triggers are and why they do what they do and gain an understanding of that.

It’s about discovering that you’re ok. You were born ok. Most people don’t get that. Crap happens and it beats you up. Whereas, if you actually realise you’re ok and you’re quite capable and competent. I don’t believe anybody is born bad. We’ve all got gifts and talents and strengths and weaknesses, we’ve all got it. You’ve just got to discover it.

Is this coming from a life coach approach?

I’ve become a life coach and I want to do life coaching through Emmanuel Care, and I’m currently doing it with a probation and parole client because we have them come and do community service hours.

I’ve been giving her coaching and she’s gone back to probation and parole saying it’s so good, because she’s just had this substantial change in three sessions, where she’s gone back to them and said mental health, drug and alcohol aren’t doing me any good. I’d prefer to be doing this.

Counselling keeps you there and in the past whereas coaching says, ‘sure that got you here, let’s put that over there and go this way. You’ve probably got a lot of bad things behind you but good things as well, so lets pick that up and move forward with that.’

How does that actually help?

It’s another thing to give people knowledge and selfawareness that actually helps them move. All these things that we’re doing is all about giving choices, and understanding and knowledge to move them on in their life, for their benefit, not ours, because we’re not getting paid. The government pays us a small amount of money to run Self Start and we’ve doubled the amount of people they asked us to do it for in the last 12 months.

How is Emmanuel Care involved in the Work For Dole scheme?

We’ve taken on nine people. While they’re with us they gain skills and we’ll give them a reference and it will give them a step up.

I work with volunteers so you’ve got to learn how to approach people in a certain way. They’re not paid; they don’t have to be there. They do it because they love the place; so to get them to do something is quite

Amanda Radburn, Work for Dole volunteer

an interesting journey. So that skill is really good for the Joblink Plus people because you can guage really quickly what they need.

How long have you been involved with Emmanuel Care?

I’ve only been the manager since 2012, so the other lady prior to me was there for 10 years. She and her daughter developed the Self Start program.

What’s the future for Self Start?

I see now it’s got to move somewhere. We can’t just keep doing the food. When people are in crisis and they need food it is helpful and it has a place.

I would like to empower people to do something different, give people choices. We’re moving towards that with the Self Start program. It’s giving people understanding and power and knowledge to do something different, to be able to improve their quality of life.

You actually give these people words and understanding and they can inform back. They don’t have the words but you give them a voice and they can feed back policy and how services are delivered. z Emmanuel Care op shop is open hours Monday to Friday 9.30am-4pm, Saturdays 9.30am12.30pm. z The Brisbane Street office is open for welfare interviews on receipt of an income statement from Centrelink Monday to Thursday, 10.30am-12.30pm, and 1.30pm3pm.

Would you like to sponsor the Self Start program?

Contact Geraldine Tosh at Emmanuel Care on Brisbane Street for more information.

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New playground for Elston Park UBBO City Council has commenced the installation of the new regional standard playground at Elston Park installing the preferred playground chosen by the community.

Council’s manager of Horticultural Services Ian McAlister said the installation is part of Dubbo City Council’s playground renewal and is the result of a community consultation process, which took place earlier this year in which the community could vote on their preferred playground option.

“The community overwhelmingly voted for the Viva Recreation playground which children from toddlers through to teens will love,” McAlister said.

“The playground is accessible, inclusive and challenging.”

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“For example, the Speed Gyro is set at a convenient height for wheelchair transfer, the Pod Swing has inbuilt buffers which provide support and protection for users and the Ixo provides a balancing challenge for older children. A sensory orb also provides sound and tactile elements which add variety and encourage different modes of play,” he said.

“Council will also be installing an additional piece of play equipment not in the original design – a flying fox, which will be of enormous appeal to all ages,” Mr McAlister said.

“The new playground will be installed on the Gipps Street side of the Water Park area, providing enhanced access to parking and to enable improved supervision of children by par-

ents,” he said.

“A wheelchair friendly access ramp that will connect to a path back to Gipps Street will provide ease of access for all users.”

The playground installation is funded by Council’s Capital Replacement Program is valued at $140,000. The installation is expected to be completed within two weeks, in time for the school holidays. The existing playground remains in use during the installation of the new playground.

RDA Orana Committee announced JOHN WALKOM and Matt Fuller, chair and deputy chair of Regional Development Australia Orana, have welcomed the ap-

pointment of a new committee, comprising 10 members from across the region.

“RDA Orana is a not-for-profit organisation led by a committee, comprising business, community and local government representatives, who are all appointed by the Australian Government and NSW State Cabinet,” said Felicity TaylorEdwards, CEO of RDA Orana.

RDA Orana newly appointed Committee members are: • John Walkom, chair (Dubbo) • Matthew Fuller, deputy chair (Dubbo) • Belinda Colless (Brewarrina) • Peter Yench (Cobar) • Ian Stanford (Wongarbon) • Professor Jeannie Herbert (Dubbo) • Kim Whale (Gollan) • Bill Burnheim (Coonamble)

• Tracey McIntyre (Narromine) • Peter Debus (Dubbo) • Brad Cam (Mudgee) • Ann-Marie Furney (Dubbo)

Funding secured for food and fibre education across Australia NSW Farmers and the Primary Industries Education Foundation Australia (PIEFA) have secured additional funding for food and fibre education across Australia for the next three years.

It follows the threat of a withdrawal of government funding after six years of investment in food and fibre education in primary and secondary education

by PIEFA. Both PIEFA and NSW Farmers

Air Force Roulettes to display at AUSFLY 2015 THE Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes will support the annual AUSFLY event with a 15-minute aerobatic display overhead Narromine Airport on Friday and Saturday, September 4 and 5 at 3:30pm.

AUSFLY 2015 event brings a wide variety of aviation professionals and the general public to Narromine Airfield. The event is expected to include various displays by warbirds, skydivers, helicopters and vintage aircraft.

The Roulettes are the Royal Australian Air Force’s aerobatic display team based at RAAF Base East Sale.

They will perform their display in six Pilatus PC-9/A aircraft: A twoseat, single-engine turboprop aircraft that is the advanced training aircraft of the Australian Defence Force.

Throughout the display each pilot will maintain their aircraft only three metres from each other whilst conducting aerobatics and flypasts down to 70m above the ground and at speeds up to 550km/h.

The team comprises seven members, six of whom fly the display, and Roulette Seven who provides commentary.

The Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes will fly in Narromine this weekend.

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secured the additional funding following representations to the Federal Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce.

NSW Farmers is a strong advocate for improvement in the availability and quality of education opportunities for rural and regional communities while PIEFA’s focus is on ensuring that the next generation of Australians are educated about how it is their food and fibre is produced.

This includes the design and roll out of teacher friendly programs and resources to boost the uptake of food and fibre teaching in Australia’s schools.

PIEFA’s work includes the Primezone website, a one stop online shop for primary industry education resources.

NSW Farmers’ President Derek Schoen commended the Minister for his work in securing the ongoing funding.

“This funding will help grow the next generation of agricultural champions that are vital to maintaining agriculture’s social licence into the future,” he concluded.

Mudgee teacher wins prestigious scholarship TAFE Western Mudgee College teacher Berni Aquilina will use a $15,000 Premier’s Teacher Scholarship she received on Saturday to travel abroad for im-

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TAFE Western Mudgee College teacher Berni Aquilina (middle) with Secretary of NSW Department of Education Michele Bruniges and Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli. PHOTO: SUPPLIED BY TAFE WESTERN

portant study that she hopes will lead to better delivery of fundamental skills to remote and Indigenous learners in NSW.

(Indian) and remote students using technology in effective and culturally appropriate ways.

populations, while in Australia the educational gap has widened slightly - I’d like to see what they are doing right,” she said.

A thrilled Ms Aquilina was one of 19 recipients of a scholarship and will visit Canada for five weeks in 2016 to investigate how adult basic education is delivered to their Aboriginal

“I’ve chosen Canada as it’s similar to Australia in terms of size, remoteness and levels of literacy, yet Canada is narrowing its educational gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous

“Of course the chance for a trip abroad is wonderful, but as I reflect on this opportunity I think the really valuable thing is the chance to focus on our quality of teaching and to re-

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Australian beef sold online to China CHINESE consumers will soon be able to buy Australian chilled beef direct online for the first time in a ground breaking partnership between a premium meat exporter and China’s largest online retailer.

Premium meat exporter Bindaree Beef Group and their meat sales and marketing business, Sanger Australia, have partnered with JD.com, the largest online direct sales company in China, to launch packed-in-Australia chilled retail-ready beef into the Chinese market.

Sanger Australia has brokered a memorandum of understanding, with support from Austrade and Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) who are working to increase trade and open up markets for Australian beef in China and other overseas markets.

Australian beef has a valued reputation in overseas markets because of its safe, traceable, and high quality profile over other imported meats, particularly in China where safety is at the forefront of consumers’ purchasing decisions.

Chinese online shoppers will begin to see First Cut Pure Australian Beef chilled cuts of steak, beef fingers and strips sold through JD.com from late September.

Sanger Australia’s new chief executive James Campbell joined JD.com founder Richard Liu to sign the agreement in China on Friday 28 August, witnessed by Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb and Meat and Livestock Australia.

Launch Night

Open mike with Mike Ladd 7pm Friday 11 September Join us for a night of prose, poetry and music with guest poet, Mike Ladd, at the Outlook Cafe, situated in the grounds of the Western Plains Cultural Centre.

Delegates and local writers are invited to read or recite an original piece of short prose or poetry, up to 3 minutes in length, with prizes in various categories.

Proudly Presents...

11-13 September

Western Plains Cultural Centre - A celebration of words and writing -

Saturday 12th, 9am-10:15am Auditorium, WPCC

Saturday 12th, 10:30am-11:45am Auditorium, WPCC

Saturday 12th, 12:15pm-1:30pm Auditorium, WPCC

Saturday 12th, 2:30pm-6:30pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

- WEST WORDS 2015 Program of Events -

Saturday 12th, 2:30pm-4:30pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

We advise online bookings as workshop seats, critique and pitching opportunities are limited and we cannot guarantee you a place.

Saturday 12th, 2:30pm-4:30pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Saturday 12th, 2:30pm-4:30pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Sunday 13th, 9am-12pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Sunday 13th, 9am-11am Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Sunday 13th, 10-12 and 1-3 Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Sunday 13th, 11:30am-12pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Sunday 13th, 12:30pm-2:30pm Auditorium, WPCC

The best original piece of prose or poetry will be displayed in the WPCC. Come and enjoy the live entertainment, with a chance to win a lucky door prize.

The Outlook Cafe will be open for dinner and drinks.

Find out more about the events, locations, the presenters and bookings by following the links at: www.outbackwriters.weebly.com

Friday 11th, 1pm-5pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Friday 11th, 7pm-10pm Outlook Cafe, WPCC

Saturday 12th, 9am-5pm Community Arts Centre, WPCC

Workshop: Creating Compelling Characters.

With Val Clark.

Cost: $40 LAUNCH NIGHT: West Ward Words. Open mike with prizes, with guest poet, Mike Ladd. (Producer of ABC National Radio’s Poetica for 18 years) Free Event Workshop: Travel Writing. With Sue White.

Cost: $70

The Outback Writers’ Centre is passionate about building a vibrant, accessible, cultural environment for regional NSW writers. WestWords 2015 brings the best industry professionals to Dubbo to demystify the publication process and provide opportunities for writers to both develop their craft and pitch to publishers.

For ongoing information about OWC events, like us on Facebook or go on our e-list by emailing us at: outbackwriters@gmail.com.

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Panel: Traditional Publishers: Headed for Extinction? Is there a future for the physical book?

Presented by Rochelle Fernandez (Harper Collins), Dr David Reiter (IP), Marty Green (Pantera Press). Free Event Panel: Publish or Perish? Pathways to publishing.

How successful are DIY authors?

With Rochelle Fernandez, Dr David Reiter, Marty Green.

Free Event Panel: Publishers: What they are looking for and how to impress them.

With Rochelle Fernandez, Dr David Reiter, Marty Green.

Free Event Workshop: Poetry. With Mike Ladd.

Cost: $40 Workshop: Gilgandra to the Globe. Taming the inner critic. With Kerrie Phipps.

Cost $20 Rochelle Fernandez will be taking 20 minute pitches for Harper Collins.

Cost: $20 Dr David Reiter will be taking 20 minute pitches for IP. Cost $20 Workshop: Writing for Children, Getting it Right the First Time, with David Reiter.

Cost: $40 Round table discussion: Nailing the Synopsis.

With Rochelle Fernandez. 6 places.

Cost: $20 45 minute Travel Writing Critiques. With Sue White.

Cost $70 Rochelle Fernandez will be taking more 20 minute pitches for Harper Collins.

Cost $20 Surviving Submission Spur. With Rochelle Fernandez, Dr David Reiter, Marty Green.

First chapters are read to a panel of publishers. How long will yours survive before all three panellists say STOP? Valuable, on the spot feedback will spur you on to making your manuscript more attractive to a publisher.

Cost: Authors submitting must be members of OWC. $25pa (Audience Free).

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Wall of honour brings Coo-ee marchers to life In a year of remembrance, 100 years on from one of the bloodiest wars ever fought, the community of Gilgandra is continuing to ensure the actions of a group of their men are never forgotten. Dubbo Weekender caught up with two of the Gilgandra locals instrumental in the creation of the latest installment of the Coo-ee story. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Kim V. Goldsmith.

ARMERS, labourers, tradies, a postie, blacksmith, baker, grocer and butchers were among the men who set off from Gilgandra 100 years ago to sign up for the Great War. They were also mates, fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles and sons who left behind families and friends.

What drove these men to march for two months to Sydney to enlist following the Gallipoli disaster and heavy casualties in France can only be surmised – the call of King and country had obviously not been enough as recruitment drives were largely ineffective during this period.

Yet, it was brothers Richard and Bill Hitchen who had an idea to organise a march to Sydney to volunteer for service, enlisting recruits as they went.

The spirit of volunteerism and perhaps some peer pressure saw the idea catch on, with the Gilgandra march the first of several more that saw an upturn in recruitment figures.

A century later and the project to commemorate the Coo-ee March has already received much attention through various events in Gilgandra, including the installation of a life-size Coo-ee in bronze by sculptor, Brett Garling.

This latest chapter in the community’s year of remembrance aims to truly personalise the stories of those men who marched off to World War I not really knowing what they were heading into.

Since 2010, work has been undertaken to bring Gilgandra’s unique Coo-ee March Gallery up to national standards.

With just over $5,000 of funding from the Australian Government Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program the museum was able to purchase preservation boxes to store original photographs during the digitising process, restore and repair frames of original images, employ professionals to design and print the display, as well as printing a booklet to compliment the exhibition.

Gilgandra’s cultural officer, Kylie Moppett says it was identified early on that there was a gap in the museum story with many visitors asking what had become of the Coo-ees?

“With this in mind the Coo-ee Honour Wall concept was developed and we set about how we could bring the personal stories of the men to life.

“While we had a great overview of the story, we didn’t have individual, personalised stories – we wanted to add a bit more beyond their rank, name and number.

“We’ve added a paragraph to each one that’s made them one of us, showing that empathetic side of the story.”

Moppett believes this has been important in the development of the story of men who went off to war and were then sometimes never heard of again beyond being simply put on a list.

“People now have an emotive response when they come into the space.

“I think the renewed interest in World War I with the centenary of the ANZAC landing has brought with it renewed interest in the Australian spirit and culture.”

Gilgandra is widely known as ‘the town of the windmills but home of the Coo-ees’, a title Moppett says reflects not only the town’s history but also its identity.

“It’s something people here talk about all the time, particularly with the march re-enactment coming up ... it’s the Coo-ee year and our year to shine and acknowledge what these people have done for us.

“The legacy of the 35 is a message that, you just have to go and do it and get on with it. Gilgandra is a town that many say is full of volunteers, like Margo Piggott who completed the research on the exhibition.

“We pride ourselves on our volunteerism and it’s certainly part of what makes a small community ... these

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guys went off to join the war and I guess we ponder what we’d do in this situation.

“We all wondered that as we went through this process and it’s very much relevant given what’s happening around the world today.”

Moppett adds it is without doubt more about the spirit of volunteering and mateship than the glorification of war.

Local historian Margo Piggott spent countless volunteer hours researching, studying and compiling the stories of the 35 men on the honour wall, starting with one of her relatives, Lance Corporal William Howard.

A farmer from near Biddon, Howard was 25 yearsold when he enlisted.

He left Australia for Egypt in March 1916 with the 13th Battalion, before heading to France where he was attached to the 12th Machine Gun Company that was present at Pozieres, Messines, Passchendaele, Polygon Wood and most of the major battles of the Australian AIF on the western front.

Howard returned home three years later in May 1919, to be discharged in July that year.

He received the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

“It took over my whole life, and I’m still researching ... but William started it all off.

“He lost a lot of his mates at Passchendaele and when he came back and got a soldier settlement block he called it ‘Passchendaele’.

“We didn’t think a lot about it until the last 10 years, but ‘Passchendaele’ is a special place in our family.

“Our other grandfather was at Gallipoli, so we grew up knowing about the ANZACS, knowing about the western front and not glorifying war but wanting to know more about the people involved and some of their stories.”

Piggott says through her research she discovered how deep the mateship was between the men, and how they looked after each other on and off the battlefield.

“When they came home they were still looking after each other ... that’s what I saw with my grandfather – he was heavily involved with the RSL, carrying the flag on ANZAC Day. “It was definitely not about glorifying war, it was about looking after your mates.

“I was lucky to have a grandfather who was a quiet, old gentleman who never talked about it (the war), except maybe once, when a few of the grandchildren were around he’d talk about a few of the funny things.

“But of course after he died I got interested in family history ... and the same with William Howard’s family, they were told to just throw his stuff out.

“Many of these guys died early, when they were 50 – probably from the gassing, the physical stuff and some of the psychological issues were hard, but they would

still get together after they came home.”

In reading and watching the documentation of these personal stories over the last five years, Piggott says she’s been struck by how similar many of the stories have been.

“Yes, they had to go to war, but not just for King and country – I think it was the peer pressure of wanting to go with their mates and making Mum proud – but once they got there they had to look out for each other.”

Spending so much time researching the personal stories of these men, it’s not hard to imagine becoming attached to some of them as characters.

Moppett and Piggott laugh when asked who was a favourite.

“Stanley!” they reply in unison.

Stanley was in fact Private Stanley Stephens, a man who got caught up in the fervour of the moment despite being in Gilgandra at the time as a journalist covering the Coo-ee March for the Farmer and Settler newspaper.

A good-looking 25 year-old, Stephens had seen action the year before in New Guinea.

Marching with the Coo-ees to Sydney, he left Australia in 1916 ending up in France early the following year – his final resting place.

Stephens was declared killed in action on April 11, 1917 after the First Battle of Bullecourt where he was reported missing in action along with 367 other men, not including the 25 men who were killed and 118 wounded.

As we wander over to where the information board on Stephens hangs in the museum Piggott remarks, “Isn’t he handsome?

“His father was the editor of the Farmer and Settler and he’d come out to cover the start of the march, but he liked what he heard and he marched all the way to Sydney with them, sending on reports along the way, which is where a lot of the historical reports about the march come from.”

It was Stephens who provided an enormous amount of insight into the Coo-ee March.

Piggott says when doing research into individuals one often brings up stories ‘warts and all’.

“For me, and I know some don’t agree, you tell the story.

“Charles Bean, who wrote the history of the First World War, said something like you can’t change people – they are what they are and they did what they did, the good and the bad.

“Some of the Coo-ees marched all the way but some of them were Absent Without Leave or got in trouble with the law and were discharged.

“They covered over some of this stuff, but we put some of that information in ... as to why they did those things, we’ll never know.

“I do think that’s where the larrikinism of the Aussie soldier came from.”

Six of the 35 men on the honour wall didn’t come home.

Through the process of telling their stories, connections have been made with the families and descendants, and in some cases strong ties are being forged with the Gilgandra community.

Piggott feels the Coo-ees would be pleased to have their stories told.

“Let’s face it, twice a year we stand in front of that war memorial and we say ‘Lest we forget. We will remember them.’

“Yes, we’ll remember the names and the battles but my challenge to the people of Gilgandra and everywhere is to ask who are these fellas, what are their stories?

“To me, it’s these stories that are the most important thing.”

Next month will see the Coo-ee March re-enacted.

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Kylie Moppett and Margo Piggott, Coo-ee Honour Wall, Gilgandra

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REMEMBER Infidelity and online security has been in the news recently thanks to the Ashley Madison marital dating website, leak. But scandal aside, what is the motivation for some 40 million people to sign up to a website to find a partner to cheat with? Dubbo Weekender explores the issue and talks with three local people who anonymously agreed to share the story of their own infidelity. WORDS Lisa Minner HY do people have cheat on someone they love? It’s not a new phenomena but it’s one that’s reared its head very publicly in recent weeks with the data leak linked to the marital affair website, Ashley Madison.

The website’s catch phrase is ‘Life is short.

Have an affair.’ It boasts 40 million members worldwide and invites both men and women to register to seek out an affair.

While the website’s parent company Avid Life Media Inc (ALM) ensured users of absolute privacy, a group of hackers known as Impact Team, compromised the website last month and revealed 32 million users personal information including names, email addresses and credit card details onto the dark web, for anyone to access.

Business Insider said earlier in the year that there were around 910,000 Australian users on the site with 40 per cent of those being women.

The hackers claim to be seeking retribution after Ashley Madison offered a false $20 ‘deletion’ service of member’s personal information, but the people who have copped the fall out are the members themselves, many who are now suing ALM for emotional distress.

Media channels across the world are discussing the ‘data-dumps’ and their repercussions for members who have been ‘outed.’ Impending divorces, blackmail, public shaming and two unconfirmed suicides are just some of the backlash.

This particular hack has touched the lives of millions of people and their families and is a solid reminder that our online actions are in no way secure.

But Ashley Madison isn’t the first dating site hack, it’s just the biggest and most public; Adult Friend Finder and Grindr have also been targeted.

Former CEO and founder of Ashley Madison, Noel Biderman has ‘resigned’ in the last

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week after another wave of bad publicity. He is arguably one of the most disliked men in America and known as the King of Infidelity.

He said on American talk back show, ‘The View’, he believed his site was a “public service helping to save marriages,” because many people find themselves in a sexless marriage and infidelity becomes a way to continue raising children together as an alternative to divorce. He also said most of the online traffic to his sites, occurred via mobile phones and work computers.

His wife Amanda, (the face of AM billboards and their website) believes cheating is destructive and has said she is a traditionalist.

When the episode aired, she insisted she wouldn’t tolerate cheating in her and Biderman’s marriage, but recently leaked emails have allegedly confirmed her husband used his own website to have multiple affairs.

SHLEY MADISON is not the only adult website offering easy and often “guaranteed” ways to connect married people. Others like Heated Affairs, Marital Affair, Affair Hub and Affairama are just a few whose titles sum up what they are about.

With hundreds of marital - affair sites listed online, there are no shortage of places to look - and if you’re not sure if cheating’s your cup of tea, ‘Marital Affair’ offers reasons you should consider it: “Marital affair is a married dating site with a difference, it offers you a bustling and superb community of likeminded individuals all looking to fulfil their ultimate fantasy of dating other married and single people to begin a steamy affair.”

Or, if you’re a single women looking for a married man, there are hints for you too, “This is where we step in and provide the greatest affair site in the world, allowing you to date married men at your leisure, no risk, and a huge community to interact with, al-

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lowing you to begin a steamy love affair. But why stop there? Why not start a string of affairs with married men on Marital Affair?”

There are also websites to help you find the sites best suited to your potential affair needs. haveanaffairguide.com, gives you an easy rating system and reviews of all the sites. You’ll also get tips on how to have an affair without getting caught.

Marital dating is big business online with millions of people signing up. AM is said to have spun around $120 million in revenue this year, alone.

So, this begs the question, why?

What is happening in not just Australian homes (although Australia is ranked up in the top five countries who utilise sites like AM) that married spouses are seeking out infidelity?

In the not too distant past, affairs were

Biderman believed his site was a “public service helping to save marriages,”…. infidelity becomes a way to continue raising children together as an alternative to divorce.

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frowned upon and portrayed as guilt ridden scenarios to be resisted, not sought out. Think of the 1995 film, Bridges of Madison County, where Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood had a liaison that tore at the heartstrings: romanticised? Yes, but perhaps more relatable than the current click and order affair found online.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics website there were 118,962 marriages registered in 2013, there were also 47,638 divorces granted in the same year, while the median duration from marriage to divorce was 12.1 years, a one per cent decrease from the previous year.

Rutgers University biological anthropologist and Kinsey Institute’s Helen Fisher, author of ‘Why Him? Why Her? and Why We Love’ says women are more likely to have an affair because of loneliness and will seek out an emotional connection with their partners where men generally pursue affairs because of a sexual motivation.

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Three people share details of their affairs. Their names and ages have been changed for privacy, but all three are from the Dubbo region and known to DW. Robert, 46: I was working FIFO when the affair occurred. My wife had a busy career and I guess we didn’t make enough time for each other, and you end up in circumstances and situations, things happen.

I met the woman I had the affair with in a motel, being a FIFO you spend a lot of time in motels and she was a medical sales rep so had a similar routine to me.

We met and had a few drinks, some good conversation over dinner and a few laughs and there we were.

She was married too and it became on ongoing thing

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for around two years.

I guess I tucked the whole thing away in a box that was separate to the rest of my life, we both looked at it as though it were therapy. There were things in both our lives that weren’t happening for us at home in an intimate way and with no commitment, but respect, our relationship seemed to flourish.

My marriage eventually unravelled, but not because of that, it was our careers. Her career was more important and I felt like our kids weren’t being looked after properly.

We never discussed the affair, she was too wrapped up in her work but if she’d asked the question I would have answered honestly. I don’t believe in lying and I would have explained why.

I guess had it come out it could have been a catalyst for change, positive or negative, it depends, but it never did. The woman I was involved with admitted to me she’d told her husband she’d had affairs on the road and he seemed to be ok with that. When her

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I’m sure people would judge me and I think that’s fair enough, monogamy is the ideal.

Someone will always get hurt; it’s human nature.

So judge away. But I honestly believe - having been through it - that it IS possible to love two people.

Sydney-based sex therapist Bill Crelley believes marriage in itself isn’t the problem, that it’s not a broken model. He said while he specialises in men’s sexuality he also see couples who are committed to fixing their sexual problems because they want their marriage to work.

“Usually by the time they get to me, there’s been sexual dysfunction in the marriage for a while and quite often it’s the wives who encourage the husbands to come along because they are the ones suffering from lack of sex and intimacy.

“Even when it’s men who contact me independently, it’s usually about keeping their partner happy and they’re not happy either,” Crelley said.

He says most couples want to stay committed to each other and monogamous relationships are about more than just an orgasmic satisfaction, that’s not always at the top of the list; it’s usually always about intimacy or lack of it.

Crelley said with sites like Ashley Madison, it’s a different thing altogether.

“An affair? Well firstly it’s a secret so it has that element of suspense and it’s exciting.

It has the taboo factor which increases desire exponentially because it’s about the chase and finding someone who meets your requirements, so your arousal level goes right through the roof, the more taboo it is the more exciting it is.”

He doesn’t believe an affair is the answer to sexual issues in a marriage but says it’s such an individual thing that there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

“At the end of the day we have no right to judge what anyone else does in or out of their marriage. We may not agree with their choices but we can keep that to ourselves.

Don’t be too heavy on other people because you never no what might come at you in the future.”

The therapist says often one session is enough to help people turn things around, having been able to frankly discuss what is usually an awkward topic and armed with strategies to take away, he says things can change for the better very quickly.

sales schedule changed things gradually died off due to long distances that weren’t realistic for us to cover. But a friend of mine who was also a FIFO got found out during an affair and it was catastrophic failure for him. He got home, his things were on the verandah, door locks were changed and nasty letters from solicitors were waiting.

I think affairs have always been happening. If you look at literature, it’s been going on since Noah was a boy. There’s probably been a fair bit more media scrutiny since the Ashley Madison thing, though.

I think marriage has become a bit of an industry, it’s about the fairy tale for some people, not the blood, sweat and tears that can be the reality of it.

We have also become too individualised, that’s part of it. We’ve become a ‘me’ sociey and not an ‘us’ society.

Matt, 37: I was married for three years before I had the affair. I didn’t look outside the marriage as though I was seeking something, rather I found appealing qualities in another woman and had a connection with her that I couldn’t get in my marriage at the time, despite trying. It just wasn’t happening.

I didn’t seek it out but when the situation and the possibilities presented themselves and there was compatibility, things slowly developed via texting and emails before we actually got together in another town.

I guess I really thought I’d follow through with it when I had established that she was trustworthy and she felt the same way about me as I did to her, it was scary to put that trust in someone I didn’t know well, given my circumstances.

The affair went on for a few years although we didn’t see each other as often as I would have liked because it was hard to juggle time away and I really struggled with my conscience and I still do today. It was incredibly hard to lead a double life, but I don’t regret it at all. The affair actually had an unexpected positive benefit for me in the end; it ended up saving my marriage.

The things that weren’t working for my wife and I got better because I felt better about myself and we slowly worked through the issues and our compatibility returned to what it was like in our premarriage days and I have to say I’m now really happy and so is my wife. I never entertained the idea of moving on to another woman or a similar situation, and I doubt very much I would again.

As far as sites like Ashley Madison, if I had not met the girl I had the affair with I have to be honest and say I may have considered going online, but most of those

sites are geared to hook-ups and short term arrangements and I wasn’t interested in that scene so I’m thankful it never came to that.

People that might judge what I have done in a bad light? I’d say to them, yeah, it is morally wrong, I can’t argue with that but life is all about choices and while I wish my relationship didn’t reach the point that I considered an extra-marital affair - it did.

It got me through a difficult period and probably prevented a separation or divorce. The affair wasn’t a sleazy thing either, it was totally respectful and to this day I remain close friends with the girl.

I guess it’s easy to judge without knowing the full story but it happened and fortunately for all of us it didn’t end badly.

It’s not surprising to me that there are so many online marital dating sites - it’s not: supply and demand work closely together.

If my wife found out she wouldn’t understand and no amount of justification would repair the damage, but it really did help me get things back on track.

Karen, 51: We’d been married seven years when it happened - maybe it was the seven year itch. But we’d been together five years before that. I didn’t actually go looking for it - it just found me, really. It’s odd because I didn’t realise there was anything missing in my marriage until I met this other man and there was a cerebral connection.

It was just that for a quite a while before it became sexual. I guess it kind of made me feel like I had my own identity back - I felt rightly or wrongly, that I’d lost my identity as a woman. I’d become just a wife and a mother (3 kids in rapid succession) and it was an escape from the hum-drum, I suppose.

That sounds selfish and maybe it was.

I loved my husband, that never changed, and I still do. People will say, well how can you love someone and cheat on them but it’s not as simple as that.

It occurred through a work situation and there was a real connection. I became pretty good at compartmentalising my working identity as separate from my home identity.

I’m not sure when I decided it was something I could follow through with, it was a natural progression. I suppose at the end of the day it was the emotional connection for a very long time - that was even stronger than the sexual connection. I guess I needed that more than the physical, had it just been physical it would have been much easier to give up.

I struggled with my conscience - of course. But I think anyone that has ever had an affair becomes very proficient at justifying themselves. It’s like an addic-

tion, you find ways to excuse your behaviour and your lack of will power. It was easy to excuse the time we spent together. I didn’t have to lie about time spent with him because of our work. My husband knew and liked him and that made it worse I suppose. We travelled a lot together for work and that made it easier logistically - it’s not like we had to sneak away.

I think the whole thing had positive repercussions for my marriage. I was and still am - a far more happy person for having had that restoration of self.

I have greater insight into myself now and that’s made me take greater stock of what’s important.

And because I was feeling more invigorated, it made me more passionate about life in general. Looking back I was getting bitter, angry and bored - and the affair which lasted quite a while, made me feel more alive. I was just much happier at home. I was probably trying harder to assuage my guilt.

I’m sure people would judge me and I think that’s fair enough, monogamy is the ideal. Someone will always get hurt; it’s human nature. So judge away. But I honestly believe - having been through it that it IS possible to love two people. I never stopped loving my husband. People will say if I really loved him I wouldn’t have cheated, but love is a very difficult thing to define.

I’m pretty sure my husband knew in his heart-of-hearts, but I think he was worried that if he actually said it out loud that I might leave. I never would have.

And funnily enough, that’s made me love him more. The only person I ever told was a girlfriend - she never judged me but was a good sounding board and made me see things more clearly regarding the children and the harm it could do to them if they were to get caught in the middle.

That’s one thing I feel guilty about - that I took that risk.

I still love the man I had the affair with and we still see each other but the physical side of things stopped ages ago.

Some say emotional cheating is worse, and maybe that’s true, but my marriage is stronger than it’s ever been.

Would that be the case if I’d actually come out and admitted to having sex with another man? Maybe not and I’m not about to tear the scab off that wound.

Sites like Ashley Madison? Funny, but I think it’s abhorrent, which probably sounds rich coming from me, but I think to publicly put yourself out there for an affair is a bit ordinary. Maybe I’m just trying to justify myself by saying I didn’t go looking for it. Having said that who are we to judge anyone else? Noone really know what goes on in a marriage.

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Dubbo Weekender regular Lisa Minner continues with her weekly look at the faces, places and hidden gems along our beautiful stretch of the Macquarie River and into the outback.

The outback town of Carinda may be small but it’s had a pretty colourful past. Dubbo Weekender catches up with some of the locals who are proud to say David Bowie shot a film clip in their pub and a local constable who thinks the town is worth a visit even if his house and work place was originally destined for Quirindi. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner S the last port of call along the Macquarie River, the township of Carinda – situated 276 northwest of Dubbo and 70 kilometres from Walgett – at its height boasted a population of around 180 people, sadly, it now sits at around 40 for similiar reasons many regional and rural towns have gone into decline over the years.

While the town is green at the moment, thanks to much prayed for rain, the ten year drought has pretty much ruined the farming industry and resulted in the closure of the town’s cotton gin, ending an important source of employment for locals.

But all may not be lost for Carinda – the town has it’s own quirky history and the locals who have hung on would love to see that history put Carinda back on the map, especially in a tourism capacity.

Incredibly, this tiny outback town was once the set for mega-star David Bowie’s 1983 hit, Let’s Dance and the film clip is now firmly imbedded in popular culture with its memorable racially focused storyline. Let’s Dance was (at the time) Bowie’s biggest hit.

The Carinda Hotel was chosen as the location for parts of the clip, and areas around Coolah Tops and the Warrumbungles, as well as inner Sydney. When a tanned, 36-year-old blond haired version of Bowie arrived in the remote township, he is said to have thought the place an alien landcape.

The township folk were equally gob-smacked by him and his entourage, those that actually recognised who

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When Bowie’s crew began hauling in cameras and lights, the town new they were in for something very special. Bowie encouraged everyone to come and be a part of the atmosphere and as a thank you, paid for an open bar.

Rumour has it by the final take, the pub was well and truly rocking, with everyone from farmers and labourers to the shop owners, dancing around the bar,

to his music.

The film clip also featured two aboriginal actors/ dancers named Terry Roberts and Jolene King who were sought out to play the lead characters in the clip.

While Terry Roberts has since passed away, the Sydney Morning Herald interviewed Jolene in 2013 at her home in Sydney’s Western Suburbs. Her memories of Bowie were very positive and she said she had no idea at the time that the film clip would be as big a deal as

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it actually was.

Let’s Dance was shot with a message in mind. It made references to slavery, racism and the stolen generation.

Bowie was quoted as saying in a Rolling Stone interview that he found Australia to be an incredibly racist country, at that time.

“As much as I love this country,” he says, “it’s probably one of the most racially intol-

erant in the world, well in line with South Africa. I mean, in the north, there’s unbelievable intolerance. The Aborigines can’t even buy their drinks in the same bars – they have to go round the back and get them through what’s called a ‘dog hatch’, he’d said.

The article paints a pretty scathing account of Carinda and it’s town folk too, as it outlines the set up for the film clip in the

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pub. It’s full of racist Aussie jargon that’s pretty hard to read.

“As a hard-scrub fantasy of a frontier outpost, Carinda might seem overdrawn even to Sergio Leone. There’s no one on the main street except a fly-bitten dog and a town drunk, and at any moment, one expects to see Clint Eastwood stepping out into the glare with a bulge in his poncho, gunning

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Carinda Constable Xavier McCrae

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But wait, it gets better. “The locals soon realise something is up: a lot of impossibly pale-looking people are starting to haul Arriflex cameras and klieg lights and stun-size audio speakers. They’re tacking up glare netting over the open doorway and one of them’s starting to squirt smoke around... They’ve also bought a pair of Abos with them, which must be some kind of un-wished for first. “Where’d you get the dark couple?� asks one tippler in a flat, chilly tone.�

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ESPITE the picture the article painted of the town – which the locals were equally outraged about – the remaining town’s folk are an incredibly friendly and obliging bunch. They love their Bowie connection and the pub is still the main meeting place for community catch-ups and beers after work.

Current owner Malcolm George has owned the Carinda Hotel for the last nine months. He admits he doesn’t know a huge amount about the Bowie shindig but he and fellow hotel employee Lyn Caton would love to play up the connection with Bowie memorabilia and music.

The pub’s just had a bit of a facelift inside, the wall tiles Bowie played against have been taken down, the chequered lino removed and it’s had a lick of white paint recently, but the bones of it are all still there waiting for a bit of colour and the energy it deserves.

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` I came from a previous posting at Lithgow and when I arrived here, I just loved it, I couldn’t believe how friendly the people were urban legend. The local courthouse, police station and police residence are all contained in one large building on the edge of town. It’s a pretty massive set-up for a town whose population peaked at 180 and has a reputation for being quite law abiding. Before renovations in 1980 it also inexplicably contained six prison cells.

In 1968 after the old police station burned down, the current building replaced it and very soon a ru-

mour spread that the building was actually meant to be constructed in Quirindi, not Carinda. The towns folk still cannot confirm or deny the rumour, but you have to wonder.

That said current Carinda Constable Xavier McCrae loves the town and his fairly new home. He’s been in his current role for around nine months and hopes he can stay put.

He agrees the remoteness would not be everyone’s cup of tea but he says the calibre of the Carinda people have made the move an extremely pleasant one for him, and his dogs. McCrae has four dogs, Ayla, Ollie, Penny and Mack, that have become very much at home in the bush and are regularly pampered by the locals.

He said once his German Shepard wandered off (note the tracking device on his collar) and was found curled up sleeping on a neighbour’s bed, much to her amusement. “I came from a previous posting at Lithgow and when I arrived here, I just loved it, I couldn’t believe how friendly the people were. “I’d encourage people to come and have a visit, it’s a great little tourist town. There’s a lot of walking trails from here into the Macquarie Marshes that are worth exploring, the town is in the process of putting a map of them together for easier access,� he says.

OCALS Cheryl Yeo and Bill Masman say the vibe in Carinda is good at the moment although they both agree there’s not much money about. “The river’s dried up here, they cut the river off to us,

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` As much as I love this country,” he says, “it’s probably one of the most racially intolerant in the world, well in line with South Africa. that’s another big issue.

“They bought in the water sharing plan about 10 years ago and they cut the river out here, the water went everywhere but to us, we missed out. The river’s been there for donkey’s years and all of a sudden we’ve got no river and it’s devalued our land prices and changed the whole town,” Bill explains.

“We’ve lost the cotton and that’s a result of having no water, the gin employed 30 people, and now it’s gone too.

You can’t grow cotton without water and the Macquarie Marshes are suffering too, they’re only getting a bit of water. I have marsh country on my property and it’s dry.”

They both said that at the

height of the drought water had to be shipped in to Carinda just for basic needs.

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Cheryl says most people think the Macquarie River ends at the Marshes but it doesn’t, she said political decisions relating to the river (for a variety of reasons) have dwindled their town down to its current tiny population.

But despite these problems, the town remains positive and optimistic about it’s future. The Carinda folk want you to visit. They would love to see more tourists swing by for a beer, a counter lunch and a hello.

Who knows, Bowie might even pop in for some nostalgia, next time he’s in Oz.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident for whom neither tact nor domesticity are strong points.

A woman’s work is never done but is that our fault?

ADIES, there are some very interesting articles in this edition. Now might be the time to seek them out.

Gentlemen, we need to talk.

I am new to what we shall call “housework.”

As a bachelor I lived in squalor that would shock a particularly slovenly warthog.

Standards were such that when a rat dragged a flatmate’s hamburger wrapping partially under the stove, I assumed he’d kicked it there and thought “at least he’s making an effort.”

Therefore my foray into cohabiting with people whose habits are not those of a particularly slovenly warthog has been regularly subject to unfavourable appraisal.

So I did some research and here is what I found. This whole housework thing is not what it appears.

Consider: that large metal box in the laundry is an automatic clothes washer.

When we broach the subject of the odious and apparently exhausting chore that is doing laundry, bear in mind that the “work” in this instance involves pushing a button.

Well, loading the clothes, sprinkling powder on top, then pushing the button, but unless you are particularly frail, or included in your laundry basket is chainmail, it isn’t exactly the sort of work whereby one would find oneself short of breath or terribly weary, unlike, say, cutting sugar cane.

It’s true the clothes then need to be pegged on a wire drying structure out the back, but this is not time-consuming and requires little more than standing up in the fresh air.

Mowing the lawn, by contrast involves sweat, some laboured breathing and a degree of dust, noise, and personal risk for about an hour.

Moving to the kitchen I discovered another metal box, which I have christened the automatic plate washer.

Same deal; fill it up, put in the powder and push the button. Once again there are a couple of minutes needed for mov-

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ing plates into, or out of, a rack, but it’s hardly brick-laying.

You may have heard the expression “vacuuming”? My queries indicate that this ostensibly unpleasant duty involves little more than carrying a lightweight aluminium tube around inside.

But it gets better. Guess what dusting is.

It is flicking dust off one surface either onto the floor or another surface using a tool made mostly of feathers.

If you started doing it now and never stopped you would not become fatigued until the year 2028.

There is some shower substance called mould, which is visible only to women.

Mould requires some, but not many, squirts with anti-mould spray, after which the sprayer simply walks away.

Folding clothes, as far as I am aware, involves bending cloth garments, smoothing them out a bit, and piling

them up.

On an exertion scale of one to 10, where 10 is laying pavers and one is sleeping in, I’d rank it a two.

Ironing seems to involve using heat to flatten garments, at least some of which will never be seen until the next time they are ironed.

This includes, in some households, certain lower torso undergarments,

` ... unless you are particularly frail, or included in your laundry basket is chainmail, it isn’t exactly the sort of work whereby one would find oneself short of breath or terribly weary, unlike, say, cutting sugar cane.

which as I understand it, serve the sole purpose of keeping trousers from coming into contact with the anus.

Yet I cannot imagine a scenario where one would be asked to strip to one’s underpants as part of the working day.

And if I am, I would be hopeful that the circumstances are such that whether or not my knickers are ironed will be one of the lesser considerations.

What we males need to do is get what we do ‘credited’ on the housework register: yard work, fuelling the car, garbage removal and stocking the beer fridge.

How about just washing myself? It’s a big, dirty job and I always get stuck with it.

I raised some of these points with my significant other and as a seeker of knowledge she no doubt appreciated my views. She certainly seemed pensive.

And if you’re looking for me I’ll be in the spare room for a while.

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LOS ANGELES: You can use wearables with GPS to keep track of wandering dogs. Others help you track animals’ physical activity.

Now, two US companies have the latest in wearable pet technology – collars that can check for a fever, monitor pulse and respiration, and even indicate if your pet is in pain.

PetPace, based in Burlington, Massachusetts, has a medical collar that can measure a dog’s vital signs and other information to look for indications of pain.

Irregularities trigger a notice by phone, text or email.

Voyce, based in Chantilly, Virginia, has a consumer version that tracks similar information.

It also has a Voyce Pro that is available to veterinarians to prescribe for pets recovering from surgery or long-term illness.

Both smart collars can be programmed to monitor for a pet’s specific illness.

Kenneth Herring, who lives outside Detroit, uses PetPace to monitor

his five-year-old dog Jack, as part of a test case to see how effective the collar is in helping detect epilepsy.

When Jack has a seizure, he keels over on his side, drools and may lose consciousness, Herring said.

So far, his twitching limbs and lack of motion have been enough to trigger an alert.

PetPace plans to use what they learn from Jack to tailor the collar to other dogs with epilepsy.

PetPace’s medical monitoring collar came out three years ago and

has been tested on thousands of dogs.

Voyce for pet owners was introduced in the northern spring, followed by a professional version for veterinarians in July.

More than 100 animal hospitals in the US have signed on to use Voyce Pro, said Emily Hartman, director of product management.

Herring said the smart collars do have limitations, including batteries that last anywhere from two days to AP eight weeks.

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Viral Pregnancy LAST week a young French woman pleaded for the Internet to help her find her baby daddy. The viral video presented Natalie Amyot who, having experienced the holiday of a lifetime on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, was hoping to hunt down the father of her baby, a man she fell in love with at first site.

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Cat Fight Yawn THE MTV Music Video Awards have historically provided fabulous micdrop moments such as Britney and Madonna’s kiss, Kanye interrupting Taylor, Lady Gaga’s meat dress and Beyoncé announcing the Coming of Blue Ivy. However in 2015 the controversy felt tired and scripted. Hey! Taylor should present Kanye with an award. LOL. And what if two powerful and talented women have a twitter and publicity war in the lead up?

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MARK COULTON MP Federal Member for Parkes Authorised by Mark Coulton MP, Shop 3, 153 Brisbane St, Dubbo NSW 2830

DUBBO ZIRCONIA PROJECT COMMUNITY CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE The Department of Planning and Environment (Department) has appointed Mr Peter Stanford, as the Independent Chairperson of the Dubbo Zirconia Project – Community Consultative Committee (CCC).

The Chairperson is now seeking nominations from the local community and other stakeholders for membership to the CCC. The Department will appoint the successful candidates in accordance with its’ Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Community Consultative Committees for Mining Projecst 2007, refer (www.planning.nsw.gov.au).

The CCC will meet quarterly at Toongi or in Dubbo.

Nominations must be received by close of business ednesday 6 Septem er 5. Your nomination should be marked, ³3ULYDWH DQG &RQ¿GHQWLDO´ 'XEER =LUFRQLD Project – CCC, and sent to: PO Box 910, DUBBO NSW 2830.

You are encouraged to read the above guidelines before making your application, which should include your name, contact details and a brief statement on why you would make a good committee member.

For further information you may contact the Chair on: 0429 308 367 or email: dzpcccchair@gmail.com

4 - 5 September 2015. Narromine Airport Entrance fees of $15.00 per adult, kids under 15 free

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Flight Lieutenant Andrew Robinson: Blazing a trail sky high Flight Lieutenant Andrew Robinson is a Tassie boy from Hobart. The 32 year-old, joined the RAAF in 2003 working his way through the ranks - and missions - via the Middle East - to join the RAAF’s elite aerobatic team, the Roulettes.

It’s the Roulette’s 45th anniversary this year and Robinson’s first season as Roulette Three. He’ll be wowing the crowds over Narromine this weekend at AUSFLY 2015. AS TOLD TO Yvette AubussonFoley How long have you been flying with the Roulettes?

I’ve been flying with the Roulettes for about a year. I’m not the newest guy on the team, but still pretty new to it. All of us have needed to be flight instructors. We’ve gone through pilot training.

We’ve then gone onto various different aircraft in the air force. I used to fly a P-3 Orion doing surveillance. Others pilots have been on the C-130, the Hercules. Once you finish on that we’ve come back to being flight instructors and after you’ve been an instructor for a while and you happen to get a job at Central Flying School in Sale, Victoria, then that’s where the Roulettes are based and you’ve got a pretty good chance of getting a spot on the team.

Did the Roulettes pick you, or you pick the Roulettes?

I definitely put my hand up! Once I became an instructor, I thought the Roulettes were a bit more of a possibility that could actually happen so I was pushing to get a job in Sale and have a shot at the team, and it worked out in the end. Of the display pilots – the six I’m the youngest. We’ve all been flying for about ten years at least.

Does flying in formation come naturally?

We all learnt basic formation flying in the pilots course so anyone who joins up in the military will learn some basic formation skills but then it’s pretty much not touched again until we were instructing it, and then joining the Roulette’s means we bring those skills a bit more and advance the finesse.

What did flying with the Roulettes teach you, about flying?

Only in training as in teaching and practicing formations, the Roulettes have taught me to do that in a much bigger group, not just two aircraft, but all six of us. We also fly a lot closer to each other than normal formation spacing.

Because we’re quite close to the ground as well, normally we’d do these aerobatic manoeuvres really high but for the

Exciting job: Flight Lieutenant Andrew Robinson once pumped petrol at a servo and now flies a PC-9/A as Roulette Three. PHOTO: AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE

displays we bring them really close to the ground, so I guess it’s really taught me to have a lot of trust in our Lead, because absolutely the conduct and our safety is totally in his hands. We’re just following Lead really, that’s it.

It is a set rehearsed routine, but it will vary slightly when Lead’s going to turn, when he’s going to pull up for manoeuvres because the conditions will change in terms of wind, turbulence, things like that. He still calls on the radio exactly when he’s going to execute his pulling up or his turning.

How close do you get?

It’s about two or three metres spacing. Ideally about three; sometimes a bit less, sometimes a bit more. The first few times I was on board with the previous Roulettes just watching and I remember being quite intimidated and nerv-

ous just watching that, so yes, it’s really close.

What’s going on in the cockpit during the display?

During the displays it’s definitely pretty much all concentration. Even though it is rehearsed, the routine will change slightly just based on being in a different location every time, we’ll be adjusting for wind or turbulence or other factors like crowd position.

During the display we’re just totally committed to concentrating on what’s happening.

After and before the display, and when we’re flying to and from places during a long transit, there’s plenty of time for a bit of a joke and a laugh. It’s good fun.

How does the rest of the air force view you, as a Roulette?

Student pilots have the aspiration to be a Roulette but once they’re qualified as pilots in the air force, we’re pretty much just seen as another job or possibility within the air force. It’s not something that’s unachievable. Apart from the fact we get a blue flying suit (laughs) it not really anything that different.

Do you get to keep your blue flying suit?

I hope so! (laughs) How long do you stay on the Roulettes?

There’s no contract or commitment.

It’s more for staying on for the love of it really. It would be typical for people to stay on the team for 18 months or two years.

How often do you perform?

We have two seasons in the year and its divided between the first and second six months of the year and before each of those start, we do a pretty dedicated training and work up so new members of the team can learn or you can swap positions within the team and practice them.

That’s good because it gives us a good couple of months, nice and stable, at home. Now getting into the second half of the year, there’s a lot of time away.

I think we’ve got about seven or eight weekends away but that said, they’re just short trips, pretty much for the weekends so it’s not like big deployments overseas.

What’s been a highlight of your career?

I guess flying maritime surveillance with the P-3’s. I was able to provide support to troops on the ground in the Middle East, which was really rewarding because you know you’re helping people in desperate need of it. Instructing students as well, teaching basic pilot skills to pilot trainees was super rewarding seeing them get successful and get their wings.

How does flying with the Roulettes compare with your first job?

I was pumping petrol at a service station in Tasmania. I don’t know that there’s much comparison. I guess interacting with the public and that’s about where it stops I reckon. My job now is far more exciting (laughs).

When will the RAAF Roulette’s fly? z See Andrew Robinson and the RAAF Roulettes fly at 3.30pm daily on Friday and Saturday, September 4 and 5. The RAAF Roulette Pilots include Paul Henry (Squadron Leader), Charles Manning, Andrew Robinson, Dion Courtney, Lachie Hazeldine, John Morgan and Tom Sawade flying Pilatus PC-9 A aircraft.

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Anna and Tom Brain: Minokamo, here we come!

Tom and Anna Brain will be winging their way to Japan later this month as official chaperones to the group of local high school students selected to attend the Minokamo Dubbo Sister City student exchange. A teacher of Japanese, Anna meets them weekly for language lessons while Tom makes preparations for the couple’s twoweek sojourn. AS TOLD TO Ella McMillan.

PHOTOGRAPHY ConnorComan Sargent Tom Brain: HE exchange program is part of the Dubbo Sister City relationship with Minokamo city in Gifu prefecture. The exchange allows for young citizens and chaperones of both Dubbo and Minokamo to experience the culture, language and lifestyle of each sister city.

It is only one part of the larger scheme of the sister city relationship and with the councils support provides young people the opportunity to experience something that they may not have had the opportunity to do otherwise.

We were part of the panel in selecting the students to attend. All potential participants for the trip were of a high standard. It was a really difficult task with the other panel members to select who would participate. Dubbo has a lot of really good students who should apply again in the future and encourage their friends to apply.

As Anna has been involved in the teaching part of the exchange program, I too became more interested in the process and applied at the same time with Anna.

Unlike her I’ve never visited Japan.

Anna is my interpreter and I do not speak Japanese. I have never learnt Japanese, as it was not taught in schools in

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my time.

This trip will give me a better idea about Japanese culture after I have been exposed to it in their country.

We are parents of five children so we’ve enlisted our two eldest, who have been on Japan tours before, to take care of the little ones with the help of extended family.

The neighbours know what is going on and hopefully the food Anna makes will go in the freezer and will last more than three days before we get a phone call.

Our kids are used to a busy life. Communication, understanding of boundaries and an organisational system is the key.

Anna Brain: AM a teacher of Japanese and have been providing the intense language and cultural lessons to the students going on the Minokamo trip for the last four years and as such chose to apply to go as a chaperone.

In year 11 I went for a month stay in Fukuoka on a Labo exchange. After the HSC I went to Japan as an exchange student. I then worked in Japan as a golf caddy in Mizunami, which is 30 kilometres away from Minokamo.

After that I worked in Toki hospital, which is 25km away from Minokamo. I returned to Australia to study at university after six and a half years living in Japan. That was seventeen years ago. As part of my teaching, I have taken three groups of students to Japan.

There are too many highlights to think about, however the best thing now is seeing students expressions and hearing their questions as well as them comparing their own culture to that of the experiences they have while in Japan.

I have always been intrigued as to how the Japanese have sustained the old buildings and customs among the modern buildings and the society in which they live.

All participants will be in a home stay situation. That is part of the sister city exchange.

I recall my first time had been the language barrier and some customs that I was not aware about where challenging. I smiled and nodded a lot. It took three weeks before I felt comfortable to

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string a sentence together.

My favourite thing about Japanese culture is the respect. Respect for self, family, neighbourhood and culture (not necessarily in that order). It is very evident that the system is built on loyalty and respect for self and others as well as to customs and beliefs.

I do speak sufficient Japanese. I currently teach Japanese and can teach up to extension Japanese. I started learning in high school when they first rolled out the program to all schools in NSW. I decided to learn Japanese due to hosting students from Japan as a student. I believe Yoko Ono (John Lennon’s niece, not wife) who stayed at our house was the real inspiration to learn Japanese.

I don’t believe that there are ‘barriers’ between Australia and Japan, just cultural differences that exist. Australia is very new to appreciating different cultures considering The White Australian policy existed from 1850 until around 1978.We have been influenced by written text and are so used to assuming things are true based on individual personal views both in verbal and written contexts.

I do believe opportunities such as the Dubbo Sister City relationship with Minokamo is and has been a positive step in improving cultural understanding between both countries.

dents will be when their senses adapt to what they hear, see and smell. The cleanliness of the country is one of the first things I have heard from students, plus they actually have working phone booths.

We will be visiting both modern and historical locations such Disneyland, Tokyo Anime Center and then Meiji jingo and the Imperial palace as well as the local temples and shrines in Minokamo.

The group will be given the opportunity to try a variety of foods that are both available and not available in Australia. It would be nice for the students to try things like Mos burger, okonomiyaki, nikujyaga, ebi pirafu and dango.

Students will get the basic rituals of entering the genkan (opening to the house taking off their shoes) and wearing house slippers. Removing their shoes at the school and changing into wabaki slippers.

Their first obento, their first Japanese style bath, first experience at seeing Japanese television programs and commercials. Chopsticks are a given. They will also do the normal duty of cleaning their host school each day after classes with their host sibling.

I have organised and chaperoned three trips to Japan before. I have taken students on the ten-day tours from Tokyo to Hiroshima, Nara, Miyajima, Kyoto, Takayama and Osaka.

Student learns to anaThe best part is watchlyse their own culture and ing and hearing the stuvalues in both the negadents engage with the tive and positive forms. ` whole experience. I perThey also become more I have always been sonally love that I can reglobal in their thinking invigorate my language intrigued as to and realise that their own skills and utilise the lanenvironment is not the how the Japanese guage in its natural envihave sustained the ronment. It is important only one that exists.

Students gain friends old buildings and as a teacher of languages from the experience as to maintain and extend customs among well as learn to be more my skills in order to be tolerant of people around the modern responsive to the educathem due to having been buildings and the tional needs of language put in a situation that they society in which students. are not use to.

I have had students they live.

The whole process from go on and further their writing an application to studies in Japanese in gaining an interview, hosting a student both Australian and Japanese univerand then going on the exchange prosities. Students who place ‘attendance gram helps them better prepare themon overseas exchange trip’ and ‘learnt selves for the future world of education language to attend the trip’ in their reand the workforce. sume are more employable due to these The initial culture shock for the stuexperiences.

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Giving up liberty for own protection

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HE last headlines I read about food contamination were the ones on Chinese berries, which made plenty of Aussies sick, but only because they were eating el-cheapo imported crap.

Or the fast food giant which had plastic portions show up in its offerings.

Welcome to the age of corporate food where the profit motive guarantees that you won’t get what you pay for, you’ll get what these boardrooms decide they can get away with.

Our food regulators are amazingly efficient when it comes to someone selling sausage sangas at a local farmers market, demanding all sorts of things which would make a top-end restauranteur blush.

These food cops are also pretty good when it comes to demanding all sorts of crazy standards from family operated free range egg suppliers.

Yet when it comes to major players who poison food in shipload lots and try to sell it to us, there’s not too much inspecting going on.

That’s because it’s easier to hammer small operators who spend all their time and efforts on creating great products and don’t have the resources to take the food Nazis on in a legal stoush.

So I loved the pictures sent back from New Zealand by Dubbo Weekender editor Jen Cowley which showed 72 year-old roadside butcher Tim. There he was with a carcass hanging from his truck mounted crane, parked on a track next to a paddock.

Unless I’ve been missing something, I haven’t seen any recent headlines telling me how many people have died from the fact Kiwis are allowed to slaughter and butcher their animals the way mankind has for hundreds of years with about zero ill-effects.

Every year these food bureaucrats make it harder for people to do things, safe things, that they’ve always done.

The world’s most famous ‘alternative farmer’ is Joel Salatin, although that’s a misnomer if ever I’ve heard one.

Why should a cocky who farms naturally have to be labelled ‘al-

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tte ternative’, we really should call hi him a farmer and call today’s conve ventional producers ‘chemical indu dustrial farmers’, because it’s an iindustrial system that relies on chemicals to make it sort of work.

Salatin hails from West Virginia and turned an eroded 100 arable acres into a lush landscape, in the process creating a multi-million dollar business in an almost totally sustainable model.

His food is so coveted people come from around the world and pay him so they can spend time living and working on his farm, yet despite his enormous success he’s constantly frustrated by government agencies preventing farmers from doing their jobs.

‘Everything I want to do is illegal’, is the title of his 2007 book, a volume, which describes his constant, ongoing uphill battles to grow and produce food, far healthier food, than the stuff on supermarket shelves, which people want to buy at a premium, and which creates local jobs.

In one passage he talks about how authorities demanded he put walls in his chicken abattoir because ‘an open air facility is inherently unsanitary’.

Salatin asked this new head of some division if he ever went on picnics to be told ‘that’s just the way I see it, explaining that it didn’t meet ‘compliance’, a favourite word for the bureaucrats.

He had far more dramas when it came to butchering his own cattle and that’s a huge problem in Australia, where almost all our small abattoirs have been shut down.

If NZ can do it in the open air, like humans have done for all except the past 100 years in nations like Australia, why can’t we set up micro abattoirs in all our country towns, let Aboriginal Land Councils set up these operations to supply jobs for local people, cut out the middleman components for producers and keep that money in our own towns?

On the one hand we bemoan the fact there are no jobs for unskilled or semi-skilled in our smaller communities and on the other hand we make it impossible for common sense solutions to be found which will actually create training outcomes, which lead to real ongoing enterprises.

The bureaucracy is so, so entrenched in its opposition to anything which may make it irrel-

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` ‘Everything I want to do is illegal’, is the title of his 2007 book, a volume which describes his constant, ongoing uphill battles to grow and produce food, far healthier food, than the stuff on supermarket shelves, which people want to buy at a premium, and which creates local jobs.

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evant, and brings out the big defence of public health, just a small scale example of the fear campaigns vested interests are so effective at running these days, and pandered to by a compliant corporate media.

And instead of just staying the same, it’s getting worse, because these job descriptions are to increase agency powers and spheres of influence.

While mere mortals work for a living and are pretty much fully occupied, these agency staff are getting paid to cook up ways to extend their power and create ever more compliance positions because they’ve got the time to think up and insinuate ever more regulatory hurdles – you never see red tape backed off, it’s the real growth industry of failing democracies, along with merchant bankers, stockbrokers and jails.

But back to New Zealand, a much smaller country than

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ours and with far less red tape.

You want some adrenaline junkie action, don’t try it here where the fun police and litigation lawyers are ready to pounce, you’ll have to hop over the Tasman where those tourist opportunities have pretty much been exported, along with all those jobs.

It’s shameful that we’re getting our behinds kicked at all male sports by a nation numbering in the very few millions.

While we queue up in a ‘conga line of suckholes’, to quote former Labor leader Mark Latham, spending $80 billion on strike fighter jets which work as well as the Collins Class submarines, NZ plays its own tune and uses its money far more wisely.

Unless we’re planning to invade NZ anytime soon, we should cancel that outrageous order – and if we do use the F35’s to attack our eastern

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neighbour, the way we’ve been going against the AllBlacks, I think we’ll need a bigger start, and NZ doesn’t even have air force fighter planes anymore.

Any objective look at Australia shows that at the highest political level we’re just itching for the US to invite us to escalate the war on terror to help flagging domestic opinion polls.

The recent attempted Border Farce operation in Melbourne shows some elements of our leadership are totally out of step with mainstream Australian desires.

Like the food Nazis, the current administration wants us to be scared so we more likely feel we need loss of liberty for our own protection.

What a shame this culture of compliance doesn’t extend to the sub-standard food we’re importing which is putting our own tax base out of business.

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Sally Bryant

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

In my book, it just needs to be sooner...

SAW a commentary on social media earlier this week, about the milestones and attractions of summer.

It was a small ode to the joys of warmer weather, and went something like this.

Nights are longer, music is louder, skin is darker, hair is lighter, the drinks are colder, the days are brighter, water gets warmer and life gets better.

It has induced in me a passionate yearning for summer. I want it and I want it now.

I want the scent of jasmine and the breeze through the bedroom window. I want to drive my car through the evening with the windows down, with music on loud. Or listen to the cricket commentary as we drive down a bright red dirt road, drinking beer from bottles (not the designated driver of course), like hillbillies.

I’m even looking forward to the sounds of crickets and cicadas.

I want to shuck off the layers I’ve been carting around all winter, and that is not necessarily restricted to the clothing. I want my summer body back, but to dig out my summer body from beneath my winter model, I need some reasonable weather.

I want to contemplate exercise without a sense of dread. I want to be able to swim laps in the indoor sports centre without dreading the impact of cold air on my wet hair as I come back out into the winter. I want to be able to swim at the local baths without an ice pick.

I want the bliss of diving into a swimming pool on a hot day.

I want to look in the mirror and see my teeth white against my brown face. I’m sick of being white with bright pink cheeks. I know you can put on make-up. I know you can get a spray tan. I don’t want them; I want my skin to be brown. And I am well aware that the damage from the UV rays to my skin explains the lines on my forehead and wrinkles around my eyes. The risk of melanoma.

I don’t care. I. Want. The. Sun. On. My.

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Face.

According to the calendar, we’ve entered the days of spring. According to my computer, to my diary, we are in the heady days of rising sap and the promise of growth. We’re climbing out of the depths of winter and we’re on the cusp of something miraculous.

Cusp be stuffed. I want warm weather and I want it now.

I am in the process of rediscovering one of the great joys of my childhood and youth. Home-killed meat.

When we were kids, we ate mutton, pork and, to a lesser extent, beef that was homegrown and home slaughtered. They were animals we had bred ourselves, selected as being in good order for eating and slaughtered humanely, without stress.

Then the carcasses were hung the appropriate amount of time and made their way to the dinner table. And it was there that you could see the difference; in tenderness, in flavour, in general goodness.

The homegrown meat was better than the shop-bought on every count. We became massive meat snobs. We just knew that the meat we had at home was better than that which could be bought in the shops. Homegrown mutton was great, and much more flavoursome than the lamb you could buy in the supermarket or butcher.

The beef was better, it had more flavour as well. It had a really robust character; it was delicious. And we simply didn’t buy commercial pork because it was pretty tasteless. And we would not order pork if we went out to eat, no-one made roast pork or pork chops the way we made it at home. We were in clover, we smug little carnivores.

And then we went away to school, and missed the good, fresh meat from home.

The meat at school was pretty ordinary, both in the quality of the cut and the way it was prepared and presented. So that was six years in which we lived for the school

` According to my computer, to my diary, we are in the heady days of rising sap and the promise of growth. We’re climbing out of the depths of winter and we’re on the cusp of something miraculous. Cusp be stuffed. I want warm weather and I want it now.

holidays and a proper roast and proper chops and cutlets. Not that we were food obsessed, or anything.

And then we found ourselves living in flats and shared houses in Sydney. And money was pretty tight because we were spending it on parties and clothes and other fripperies. So we tended to avoid spending up big on the smart cuts of meat. But every so often, one of the parents or siblings from the core family of the shared household would turn up with an eskyload of frozen meat from the farm. There’d be chops and a couple of legs or shoulders of mutton; there’d be some pork perhaps, or a rolled roast and some steaks. And, lo the flat would rejoice and the penurious flatmates would gorge themselves on the fat of the land.

I don’t want to sound like I think I’ve been hard done by, but it’s years since anyone turned up on my doorstep with an esky load of family raised and butchered meat. The meat wagon has been passing me by.

I’d forgotten how rich one feels when the freezer is filled with the individual packages of fabulousness. The heavily marbled pieces of beef, the steaks, the chops, the roasts. It’s like being a squirrel with a tree full of nuts; I feel like Moley, from The Wind in the Willows, with my little burrow full of all the important things of life. And there’s only one thing to compare with that smug sense of a full larder, and that’s when you crack it open and start to enjoy the bounty.

I’ve started the process this week, the glorious juicy experience of flash frying and devouring a slap-up meal from a slab of steak that has lived the life of Riley on the hoof before it’s come indoors. So far I’ve dived into one package of meat marked ‘blade steak’ and the experience has been sublime. I’m measuring it out, evening by evening. Chew by juicy chew.

It’s sublime.

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Back in my day things went vinyl, not viral ` When I was young there were no cordless phones and there was no message bank, as a middle child I was the answer-machine.

Comment by CHERYL BURKE Cheryl Burke admits to making jam or fudge or generally something that she doesn’t even eat just to avoid a deadline.

F there is one phrase that has likely been repeated a zillion times throughout history, and has likely annoyed countless generations of young people, I would hazard a guess it would comprise four words and go something like this ‘back in my day’ or alternately ‘when I was young’.

They are good old interchangeable chestnut phrases that you can rely upon before jumping on your soapbox and spouting rambling stories that are supposed to be an example of how you had it tough as a child, and of how you believe the current generation have it easy and should count their blessings.

Depending on the memories of others in your family or circle of lifelong friends, these stories often cannot be cross-referenced and can take on a life of their own, depending on the point you are trying to make, if any.

But if not for comparison purposes I would hope that for at least pure entertainment purposes my ‘back in my day’ stories have not fallen on completely deaf ears. If you are a child of the early ‘70s you may relate to some of the following.

Forget Foxtel, Netflix, Stan or Presto, back in my day growing up in regional NSW meant we had a choice of viewing two TV channels, that’s correct, one, two, it stops there. None of this random channel surfing business, blimey, we didn’t even have a remote.

Back in my day you had to physically

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unstick yourself from your vinyl beanbag and walk to the TV to change the channel. And too bad if you weren’t in front of the television or were fixing a snack when your family’s favourite programme was screening. I’m talking pre video recorder, MyStar, T-box or any device that would allow you to watch the program at everyone’s leisure, with no advertisements or the ability to pause it to take a toilet break or answer the phone.

When I was young there were no cordless phones and there was no message bank, as a middle child I was the answermachine. Note the operative word in the sentence before last was ‘family’s’, when I was young there was no such thing as a television in every bedroom.

Colour TV was yet to launch, idevices and tablets were so far ahead in the future you may as well have told me that 60 Minutes would always maintain high quality journalism and never resort to

sensationalistic reporting.

Before microwaves were invented, back in my day you cooked popcorn in a saucepan, there was no such thing as frozen pizza, easy mac or pop tarts. Where we lived there was no McDonald’s, Red Rooster or a Hungry Jacks. Take away was reserved for special occasions, after my weekly sporting fixture I went home and ate a sandwich. I had to walk up and then down a big hill if I wanted to buy an ice cream, and it certainly wasn’t a salted caramel Magnum. Back in my day you didn’t have to be over 18 to buy cigarettes, so sometimes along with my ice cream that wasn’t a salted caramel Magnum I would purchase Craven A cork tip smokes for my parents.

When I was young we bought vinyl records, not to be hipsters or because it was a better sound, but because there were no CD’s, music streaming or media management software. In the quest to know the lyrics of my favourites songs,

when I was young I spent many hours next to the record player putting pen to paper, painstakingly writing each word as I lifted the needle up and down, up and down until the song had finished.

Is it any wonder I still know all the lyrics to Billie Don’t Be a Hero, The Night Chicago Died or Good Morning (How Are You?) 40 years later? If we didn’t have a favourite song in our record collection, the challenge was on to record it on our tape recorder.

Back in my day we would position ourselves in front of the TV on a Sunday evening, and prepare ourselves for Countdown, in an era where everyone for the most part had remembered to wear clothes and buttock implant surgery hadn’t taken off.

As the controller of the machine, there were no second chances when you pressed record; it was a nerve-racking few minutes as you waited for each song to be announced so you could time it right. Invariably the outcome was either a recording with partial intros from Molly Meldrum or Gavin Wood, the screaming and clapping of the studio audience, or myself and my sisters shushing our dad as he walked in the room and asked what we were doing.

Ultimately you may discover you have wasted your breath telling your stories and that the next generation will gazump you with tales of their own misfortune and do not at all think they have it any easier than you did. But at least we now have Facebook, twitter, tumblr, and countless social media platforms so that we can all hear about it. It’s a hard knocks life.

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

Famous for being famous HE following sentence will not make a lot of sense at first, but stay with me.

People recently camped in Sydney and Melbourne for three days for a chance to go into a ballot for the chance to pay $260 for a pair of sneakers designed by a musician who is famous for being married to a woman who became famous for appearing in a sex tape.

Let’s see if we can make some sense of this shall we, working backwards.

The woman who found fame by appearing in a sex tape is Kim Kardashian. She first came to media attention as a friend of Paris Hilton – a talentless socialite, who pioneered the sex tape route to fame – and like Ms Hilton, parlayed her on-screen ability into a reality television series.

“Keeping up with the Kardashians” chronicled the vacuous life of Kim Kardashian and her family, their trips to the shopping mall and their inane squabbles.

Women’s magazines lauded Kim Kardashian for being the shape of a ‘real woman,’ which is code for ‘we can sell more magazines by vilifying her for being either overweight or on a miracle diet, usually at the same time.’

The brain dead public lapped it up.

The product endorsement gurus jumped on the band wagon and soon had Kardashian spruiking clothing, cupcakes, exercise DVD’s, lipstick and perfumes.

The obligatory guest appearance on any low rating television show looking for a ratings boost, several B grade movie roles and a short lived publicity stunt marriage to an athlete did nothing to slow the Kardashian celebrity juggernaut.

The herd mentality of the hoi polloi ensured greater fame and wealth for Ms Kardashian. In something akin to a gathering of the self-obsessed, 34.5 million people follow her on twitter.

Her followers are treated to nothing more intellectually challenging than photos of her artificially enhanced pouting lips/breasts/bottom and luxury lifestyle. Oh and who could forget the time photos of her newly released mega bottom almost ‘broke the internet.’

What this implies in its most innocent interpretation is there are 34.5 million people who aspire to the celebrity lifestyle and don’t care how it is achieved.

What is frightening is simple curiosity has lead many of the 34.5 million down the marketing golden road to worship at this temple of fame and appearance, to become narcissists who don’t care about the consequences of mindless consumerism.

Ms Kardashian’s marriage number three is to alleged musician Kanye West.

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` Egged on by mass media hype and marketing shysters, gullible consumers purchased over priced shoes designed by a tosser who is married to a fame addict with no redeeming qualities.

TV personality Kim Kardashian and Singer Kayne West arrive at the Grammy Awards on February 8 in Los Angeles, CA .

quences. A picture of Kanye West appears under the dictionary definition of narcissist. By being married to each other they are saving the suffering of two other people.

He grabs headlines for crashing the stage during awards ceremonies and profanity laden grandstanding. He believes the rules of civilised society don’t apply to him.

He fancies himself as a music mogul and fashion designer. He designed a pair of sneakers that look like they are inside out, but in the eyes of the herd, celebrity gives them incredible gravitas and desirability.

The shoes probably cost less than $10 to make in an Asian sweatshop. However, given a designer brand, celebrity endorsement and fancy name, cost $260 in a shopping mall in our First World Country. The sneakers already sell on eBay for $1600.

Supply of the sneakers is deliberately limited, with the Adidas store in Melbourne giving away 1,000 tickets to enter the ballot to buy one of the 38 pairs of sneakers they had in stock.

Selected retailers in Sydney used the same tactic to fuel the hype.

Some lucky buyers with more money than sense and plenty of time on their hands, walked away happy at being one of the chosen few. The experience of shopping for a designer luxury product was enough to satisfy them.

Does this scenario make any sense?

The short answer is, no.

Egged on by mass media hype and marketing shysters, gullible consumers purchased over priced shoes designed by a tosser who is married to a fame addict with no redeeming qualities.

The tosser and the fame addict, along with the fashion label and the retailers all made a tidy profit along the way. The worker on the sweatshop floor barely eked out a living but the fame addict will earn over $US52 million this year by separating fools from their money.

It certainly didn’t make sense to the woman and her son at the edge of the crowd gathered at Westfield in Sydney while this consumer frenzy occurred.

Left homeless after she left her violent husband and reduced to begging for change, she was completely ignored by those who gathered in the hope of buying a pair of poncy shoes.

It appears the cult of celebrity trumps the milk of human kindness, and that makes no sense whatsoever.

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The going down of the Love Boat This week, we end 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 onThe Love Boat - when Tony met Billy. It’s an unlikely – and wholly fictional – love story...

The story of the Love Boat ended many years ago with its mysterious sinking. Since then a rich vein of academic research has examined this period of maritime insanity. This is an edited transcript of a lecture delivered by Dr. Simon Sayze at last weekend’s Dubbo Festival of Insanely Dangerous Ideas.

ADIES and gentlemen, this lecture is not going to be about the eventual sinking of the Love Boat. That topic has been covered in great detail by my colleagues and I fear I have little to add to that mystery. My talk instead will be on some of the people who were on board the Love Boat when it went down, and perhaps, maybe, by learning a little about them we will be that much closer to understanding what decisions finally led to its demise.

I want to start with the event that I argue began this fatal chain of events – the boarding of the Love Boat by Barnacle Bill and his band of Somali unionised pirates.

First, my contention is that this band where not Somali, or pirates, at all. The only evidence we have that they were Somali pirates is that every time they were spoken of they were referred to as Somali.

My research, however, has unearthed a number of surprising facts about them.

One, they were all very, very; two, they all spoke with thick Irish accents; three, every single one of them answered to the name of Paddy; four, instead of tricornered hats and eye patches they wore construction helmets and lanyards labelled CMEFU. Faced with these facts my contention is that they were not Somali pirates but a team of irate Irish construction workers employed to keep Barnacle on the straight and narrow. Other researchers

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in this field have noted that Barnacle never went anywhere without them, my theory is that they wouldn’t let him go anywhere without them.

In any case, Barnacle Bill was let on board the Love Boat by Doc Turnbull.

I know that many photos exist of Barnacle and Token Bishop hand in hand, Barnacle smiling earnestly. But this because Barnacle Bill was a prospective Captain, and though no great student at Love Boat school, at least learnt that when in the presence of a camera one had to smile.

Doc Turnbull let him on board because he admitted that he knew (please note my careful use of language here) that Captain Tony was certifiably insane.

His love of Lycra, his strange manner of speaking, his refusal to admit the obvious with regards to First Officer Pyne – all the signs were there, but Doc was the only one to admit that he saw them.

He had hoped that Barnacle would scare the crew enough that he would be acclaimed Captain and Tony deposed.

That never happened because, as is now legend, Tony and Bill got married.

Legal scholars have long argued about the constitutionality of the marriage.

Was First Officer Pyne legally allowed to perform a marriage? Generally, the law of the ocean appears to say he could. Did Bill understand what he was doing? As much as Bill ever did – it’s akin to asking if an orange can feel love – the question is whether it can feel at all. Finally, did Tony ever make the marriage legal through consummation? That is the big question.

In a tweet Captain Tony made just minutes after Bill said those two words he boasted, “It’s in, I’m surprised it fits”, but this is generally agreed to refer to the Love Boat itself docking at Puerto Vallarta.

Given the tumult that followed the performance of Oklahoma, it is unlikely that any trysts took place that day. The fires that spread from the orchestra pit (from Diamond Joe’s cigar) added to the smoke from the faulty stack above the Lido deck, making any attempt to actually stay on the boat unwise to the point of suicidal.

Numerous eyewitness reports of that day have Tony appearing sweaty, Tony appearing half clothed, Tony fidgeting with his toolbox, Tony pumping his legs for all he was worth but closer examination of all these show that Tony had impulsively joined the Puerto Vallarta Ironman Triathlon as soon as the ship had docked.

My contention is that Tony never saw Bill again. In fact, no one alive today ever saw Bill again.

When the smoke finally cleared from the ship Tony went to find Bill. He looked first in the bedroom and then the kitchen, then, because he had exhausted his sum expectation of where Bill might be,

The phrase ’going down’ refers to the bridge – normally ‘up’ but Tony point blank refused to go to the bridge for fear of being held responsible for anything that was happening up there. Tony captained the ship from a broom closet on Q deck.

checked the bedroom again. It had not occurred to him that Bill could actually be anywhere else.

But he was.

When the Love Boat again set sail after a six month layoff (during which Tony made many promises that he would be a good Captain) it immediately ran aground, hit a lighthouse, set fire to its engines and turned all its lifeboats into topical punch bowls.

During this period the Love Boat sent daily Morse code messages out, every single one stating “All is fine, Captain Tony is the best.”

Every message that is, but one. On the 13th night of the new voyage a message was sent from the Love Boat. It only happened once and two days later the ship sank.

The message was this: “Help. Fixer knows. Threatening to go down.”

This can only be Barnacle Bill. Obviously First Officer Pyne had discovered Bill’s hiding place and was threatening to go tell Tony. The phrase ’going down’ refers to the bridge – normally ‘up’ but Tony point blank refused to go to the bridge for fear of being held responsible for anything that was happening up there. Tony captained the ship from a broom closet on Q deck.

My theory is that Pyne’s discovery led to an altercation that somehow led to the sinking of the ship. I don’t know how or why, but I am sure it did.

The saddest part of the Love Boat’s demise was that it was a fate wished for by nearly everyone aboard. Certainly no one did anything to stop it, least of all the crew.

To quote First Officer Pyne from his auto-biography Seamen and Ships of Fools:, “When we go down, I hope we go down together.”

It appears The Fixer got his final wish.

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NALAG Photo Treasure Hunt C OMPETITORS in the NALAG Photo Treasure Hunt, held on Saturday, August 29, resulted in a variety of interpretations on the themes of loss, hope, forever and love. Participants had three hours to create images to their theme ‘missions’ and could return that evening to the Firestation Arts Centre to see their works exhibited in the gallery.

Dubbo Weekender editor, Jen Cowley was present

to judge the entries on behalf of NALAG, which held the event to mark the end of Grief Awareness Month.

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Business & Rural

What is innovation and why does it matter?

BY FELICTY TAYLOROREDWARDS CEO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA))

NNOVATION – it’s everywhere – from the clothes we wear, to the Hills Hoist we hang them on.

So what is innovation? A quick web search returns the result “a new method, product, idea” [Google]. But in fact, innovation can be defined much more broadly than this. Being innovative does not necessarily mean inventing.

For a business, it can mean “changing an existing business model and adapting to changes in the market to deliver better products or services”. [www.business. gov.au] How do we measure innovation? On a national scale, one way is through Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) as a percentage of GDP. In 1995, China’s GERD accounted for 0.57 per cent of GDP and China was the world’s eighth largest economy. By 2014, this had risen to 2.08 per cent of GDP and China is now the second largest economy in the world.

Similarly, the USA’s GERD has been consistent, increasing from 2.40 per cent in in 1995 to 2.73 per cent in 2014, and it has maintained its standing as the world’s largest economy throughout that time period [OECD].

It’s no coincidence that of the worlds’ top 10 largest public companies, five are Chinese-owned and five are US-owned [www. forbes.com]. Australia currently

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has the twelfth largest economy in the world.

So why does innovation matter?

It’s widely recognised that there is a strong correlation between nations that are great innovators, and those that are progressive and have high performing economies.

A useful tool will be the development of an Innovation Scorecard, to make the link between innovation and international competitiveness by measuring businesses against the European Innovation System, resulting in a global benchmark of innovation for regional businesses.

Businesses can be surveyed about implementing new or improved methods and processes, investment in innovation, in-

ny? Or, that a green technology business in Warren has recently received a Thomas Edison Award for Innovation, an internationally recognised accolade?

Near Cobar, early adopters of government carbon farming initiatives have not only taken advantage of the financial incentives involved, but also found ways to minimise economic risks and increase productivity, particularly relevant during uncertain periods such as drought.

Although there is plenty of new investment in mining throughout the Orana region, one of the key issues currently affecting Australia’s economic development is the overall downturn of the mining sector. So how will we overcome

` ... did you know that our region is home to Australia’s first carbon-neutral transport company? Or, that a green technology business in Warren has recently received a Thomas Edison Award for Innovation, an internationally recognised accolade? house innovation and collaboration for innovation. The results could be revealing. The Innovation Scorecard can promote the region’s innovation and comparative advantages to a national and international audience.

So, how do we apply all this to the Orana? Let’s revisit innovation as “changing an existing business model and adapting to changes in the market to deliver better products or services”.

Innovation at an industry level could mean diversification to spread the economic risk further.

And we’re already doing that. For example, did you know that our region is home to Australia’s first carbon-neutral transport compa-

this? We need to invest in research and development and the result will be a more sustainable economy that is less susceptible to the volatility of the global market.

So what happens next? Innovation must begin at a grass-roots level. This might mean greater emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects during school.

High schools and industry focusing on more STEM related subjects could provide a platform for regional students to gain valuable expertise and work experience.

At an individual business level, innovation could mean incorporating a business strategy to build a culture of innovation through

collaboration – where ideas are brainstormed, developed and implemented.

Margaret Heffernan, an international TED speaker, believes that “companies don’t have ideas only people do.” It is therefore critical that when someone has a good idea, that it is discussed and developed. Heffernan also says, that “...no idea is born fully formed. It emerges a little bit as a child is born, kind of messy and confused, but full of possibilities.

And it’s only through the generous contribution, faith and challenge that they achieve their potential.” [www.ted.com] Innovation through collaboration is one of the primary reasons that companies like Apple and Google have been so successful.

Innovative businesses are more efficient, more productive and higher performing, spelling improved product and service delivery for end-users and more money in the bank.

At a regional level, a stronger emphasis on innovation might also involve focusing on our region’s major industries – agriculture, mining and manufacturing – and/or concentrating on growth industries such as hospitality and tourism. We should also consider what further investment in research and development could mean for NSW and Australia.

With an increasingly globalised economy, it’s now clearer than ever that the key to long-term sustainability, productivity and success must be a strong focus on innovation.

To do this we need to emphasise the importance of research, new ideas and sharing ideas. We need to believe it is possible to live regionally and operate globally.

Exit the credit roundabout NE in two Australians are struggling with credit card debt.

An Australian Senate inquiry is soon meeting to address some of thorny questions many Australians are asking about credit cards – like why some cards are still charging interest topping 20 per cent at a time when the Reserve Bank’s official cash rate is just 2.0 per cent.

In fact, the inquiry couldn’t have come at a better time. Research by ME shows the top financial goal among the nation’s households is to pay off debt as fast as possible.

Yet one in two credit card holders admit to being stuck in a ‘credit card roundabout’, unable to pay off the outstanding balance each month.

These findings are worrying because real problems start to occur when credit cards become the mainstay of household finances.

In particular, snowballing interest charges can make it increasingly difficult to clear the slate.

Urgent action is essential While it’s possible the Senate inquiry will result in some changes to credit card offer-

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ings, it’s a process that will take time – if it gain control of money matters, yet around 57 happens at all. The critical thing is for anyone per cent of Australians don’t consistently set struggling with card debt to take action now. a budget, and 40 per cent fail to stick to the budget they have.

It pays to look closely at the fees and charges on your card. Expensive annual fees and Part of the problem is that we tend to use hidden costs like a higher rate or fees associat‘guesstimates’ for budget figures. ed for cash advances are easily The key to making a budget overlooked. Yet these all add to work is to track household ex` card costs. With a range of credpenses so that the numbers are it cards available that charge A sensible starting realistic. Then commit to stayzero annual fees coupled with a point is drawing ing within set spending limits. single low rate, this is an opporup a budget. It’s For some of us the financial tunity to reduce your costs. discipline of budgeting doesn’t Swing the pendulum in your a tremendously come naturally. useful tool to favour Credit cards are a great cash regain control of Setting up good processes can management tool, but ideally money matters, be helpful here. Arranging autoyou should be paying them off matic transfers for example, is a each month. Ultimately, get- yet around 57 per foolproof way to ensure you are ting – and staying – out of trou- cent of Australians consistently setting some monble with credit cards calls for don’t consistently ey aside for saving. With a pool a rethink of household money set a budget, and of cash to fall back on, chances management. are you won’t need to resort to 40 per cent fail to A sensible starting point is a credit card when bills arrive, drawing up a budget. It’s a tre- stick to the budget and the financial pendulum can mendously useful tool to re- they have. start to swing in your favour.

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Is there a right season to sell?

IMING can be everything when it comes to buying or selling homes says Patrick Nolan, head of home loans for industry super fund-owned bank ME. Your ability to secure a great price for your home, or even attract multiple buyers, can hinge on the time of year.

Spring is widely regarded as the ideal time to sell property. Warmer weather attracts buyers onto the streets and into open home inspections; our gardens tend to look their best in spring; and many buyers want to be settled in their new home in time for the looming festive season.

Don’t despair however if you are selling your home at a different time of year.

The seasons don’t always dictate the best outcome. Indeed, selling in spring may deliver the best price for your current home but it could also mean competing with more buyers for your next property – and that can mean paying a higher price.

Think beyond spring The geography of your home can be a contributing factor to the ideal time to sell. In hot or humid areas for instance, your property may be more appealing during the cooler months.

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` Warmer weather attracts buyers onto the streets and into open home inspections; our gardens tend to look their best in spring; and many buyers want to be settled in their new home in time for the looming festive season. features like an open fireplace or under floor heating that are best showcased during the cooler months.

Remember too, with potentially fewer buyers around in winter or autumn, you could enjoy faster turnaround times on professional services like your solicitor or conveyancer.

If you are selling in winter, be sure

to choose inspection times when your home’s interior receives maximum sunlight.

Focus on the key drivers Should the season influence whether – and precisely when – you list your house for sale or buy another home?

Perhaps. But other factors deserve higher priority, like whether your home is

ready to be shown to buyers; whether you have the time to prepare your home for weekend inspections; and whether you have discussed home loan options with your lender to develop a buying budget for your next place.

These are the key drivers that should really determine the ‘right’ time for you to start your buying and selling activity.

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We’ve all heard of the term ‘business plan’ but how will it make any difference? Well, a great business plan can turn your business and your life around whereas a poor business plan can be extremely dangerous.

Time and time again business owners are told by their business advisors to make sure they have a business plan but the ones I see are often poorly thought through and almost irrelevant!

What then are the things you must avoid when deciding to formulate a solid platform for success?

achieve them: z To make as much profit as possible; z To spend $X in advertising in television, radio and print; z To beat our competitors on price through cheaper buying and aggressive discounting; z To expand interstate and then overseas; z To have a saleable business within five years.

Whilst some of these maybe okay on the surface, not being more clear will make it harder to actually plan to achieve such goals. Get specific!

Having the above goals will only get you a ‘business by default’ instead of a ‘business by design’. Work out profitability and then work backwards to work out what revenue levels you need. This will also let you see what your business value might be worth.

Mistake #1: Objectives are far too vague

YOU may have a clear picture in your head on what you want your business to look like but have you got the most important people on board who share your dream? What affect will your plans have on your family? Will you be travelling away a lot, for example, and if so, does this fit in with your lifestyle plans?

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A great business plan clearly articulates what the business will look like in three to five years’ time including revenue, profitability, number of employees, location(s) and size, and number of clients/customers.

A plan which has the following goals will always struggle to

Mistake #2: No input from team or family

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Encourage input from: z Your team members (for buyin and ideas); z Your family (for lifestyle); z Your financiers (for funding); and z Your business advisors (for assistance to get your there).

Mistake #3: Inaccurate Cash Flow & Profit Projections IT will be very hard to realise your vision and steer your ship if you don’t have some clear and realistic financial goals. Don’t just do an Income & Expenses Budget. Do: z A Cash Flow Forecast; or better still z 3-Way Budgets (i.e. a Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Cash Flow Forecast).

Accurate projections will allow you to assess whether you have the resources for your planned business growth as it is quite possible to run out of cash making a profit!

If you need finance, give your financiers confidence by showing them that you have thought of almost everything when

working out your cash balances.

I see inaccurate projections regularly in the business planning stage and it’s little wonder these plans don’t come to fruition.

to review it (e.g. coffee shop or airplane).

Mistake #4: Business Plan is far too longwinded

REFER to your plan regularly and use the goals contained within it to make sure you stay on track when you work out how you are going.

Do the following: z Build projections into your accounting software; z Review the projections against actuals each quarter (as a minimum); z Have action plans (who, what, when) and discuss these at your quarterly ‘board meeting’; z Buy the book Mastering The Rockefeller Habits – it’s easy to read and simple to follow when implementing your one page strategic plan; z Have 15 minute huddles each day with your team to get ‘rhythm’ and momentum going.

THERE are so many business planning templates out there but most of them go for 30 pages and sometimes even 70 plus pages! That’s great if you need that much detail, but make sure once you’re finished you refer to the plan regularly and not just use it as a doorstop or a token document that the bank manager ticks off their list before lending you the money to achieve your goal.

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Mistake #5: Business Plan is never updated or monitored

Conclusion: Sometimes business plans can be overrated but only if they aren’t done properly! Some of the tips above have worked wonders for our business and I hope these can do the same for yours.

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Mossy and Robbo are back!

Sports commentary team, Mossy and Robbo will be back at this Sunday’s Dubbo Stampede. AKA Silas Moss and Dave Robertson, the dynamic duo will ‘pump up’ the runner and walkers before the main event. A self confessed fitness enthusiast, Robbo is a cofounder of The Naked Runner. Dubbo Weekender caught up with him before the Dubbo Stampede gets underway. AS TOLD TO Ella McMillan What are you looking forward to most about the Dubbo Stampede?

Being part of a unique event that starts and ends in a zoo. Seeing all the runners enjoying themselves and being part of a great team that put on an awesome and smoothly run event.

What will be your role on the day?

Race day MC so announcements, commentary, generally geeing all the runners up so they have a good time, as well as presentations.

If you were to compete, in which section would you race?

I’d love to race the Zebra Zoom Half Marathon!

What’s your fondest memory of last year’s competition?

High fiving all the runners coming across the finish line!

What is ‘the naked runners’ about and where did the idea come from?

Ditching the distractions, and running free of ‘stuff’ while keeping your clothes on! The idea being; to unplug from the gadgets every now and then, and plug back into your own mind/body; those around and the environment around you.

It came from a blog I wrote, and then a long run I had with my mate Silas Moss, and together we founded The Naked Runners... a movement to get more people moving more often.

How did you become a Commentator/MC? Fell into it by accident a bit. I’m actually a Physio by trade but have

always enjoyed speaking g in public and after meeting my mate Silas Moss, ABC Grandstand A League commentator and radio o host at ABC Newcastle.

What made you want to become a Commentator/Event MC? Have always had a love for sports commentary everr since a youngster.

What’s been the most rewarding warding part of your career?

Helping people with their heir journey to moving more often and getting fit and healthy through running/activity.

What has been the most challenging aspect?

Being away from home/family me/family to travel for events.

What power do you think k Commentators/MCs posses?

The ability to talk for or a long time!

Do you have a work ritual al or habit?

Always go for a run thee morning of an event I’m working at.

What’s the best piece of career advice you’ve received?

Slow down and pause occasionally.

What would you be doing g if you weren’t doing this?

Playing professional sport for Australia...cricket, athletics, tics, soccer, rugby, anything. That, at, or be a professional musician.

What’s one of your fondest est moments in your career?

Hugging Sally Pearson after she 14 Comm won gold in Glasgow 2014 Games.

What are you working on n at the uture? moment? Plans for the future?

Video series called FUN’n’GAMES... a light-hearted look at the big games news. It’s aAl part of a plan to get over to the Rio Olympic Games to cover the action.

Who’s your inspiration?

Bruce McAvenay What do your friends and family think of your profession?

Often, envious.

What’s your favourite sport and team/individual and why?

Too hard to choose, but I’ll say running/athletics.

Simplest, easiest sport there is. Favourite runner is David Rudisha, Olympic 800m gold medalist and world record holder.

Seeing South America in Dubbo His Excellency Ambassador of Argentina Pedro Villagra Delgado, Dean of the Diplomatic Corp was in Dubbo recently to officially open the Latin Film festival hosted by the Dubbo Film Society on the last weekend in August. Dubbo Weekender took a moment with the Ambassador to ask him about South America and connections between two cultures through film. AS TOLD TO Kellie Jenner

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Is this your first visit to Dubbo and is there anything about the city, which has surprised you?

No. This is my second visit to Dubbo. The first time was seven years ago when I brought my young son to visit the zoo, which we greatly enjoyed. Two things that have surprised about Dubbo are how green everything looks and the selection of major programs showing at the Dubbo Theatre, such as Hamlet. I am very happy to be here for the first opening of the festival in Dubbo and hope it continues for many more years.

How does Dubbo compare with your home city in South America?

My hometown in Argentina is considerably larger with a population of 800,000, with a history dating back to the 1560’s. We have great mountain terrains and the town is steeped in culture and history.

How does the Latin film festival open doors between Australian and South American cultures?

We hope the Latin Film Festival open doors between the Australian and South American cultures by sharing stories through film. We ensure that every year we select films with

diverse genres and stories and cross-section of communities to ensure there will be a film that everyone can enjoy and relate to.

We also always include films from smaller countries from South America so that the audience gets to see films that might not normally be available.

What are some of the similarities both cultures share?

We have a number of similarities, a main one being a sense of humour.

Have you seen all the films and do you have a favourite, and why?

I haven’t see all the films yet, as I have been travelling between festival locations and unable to see them all, but I definitely plan to watch them all. Of the films I have seen so far, my favourites are The Acacias (Argentina), In the Middle of Heaven (Mexico), and Reaching for the Moon (Brazil).

Can you please briefly explain your pathway to becoming Ambassador?

In order to become a diplomat, you need to study at university at least 5 to 6 years (economics/law/business) after which you can apply to sit exams for further study. Each year of 1000 people apply and there are between

20-40 spots. If you are successful you then do a further 2 years study (more than a masters). You also need to speak a minimum of two languages.

I am career diplomat (38 years). Australia was my first overseas posting and I have been here for 13 years, which is quite unusual to stay in one country for so long, but I love it here.

What are some of the highlights of travelling in South America?

There are a lot of options in South America it depends on what you are interested in personally. I would recommend to learn and experience our culture and enjoy the environment and outdoors as we have very beautiful landscapes.

Australian’s are well loved in North America.

Is this true of South America too?

Yes, Australians are very welcome in South America.

Have any Australian films been successful in the South America?

I can’t recall, but there is an Australian actress in one of the festival films. (Miranda Otto – Reaching for the Moon).

FAMILY.

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Staying flexible Now that paid parental leave has become the norm, many forward-thinking companies are starting to provide more flexible working conditions to accommodate family time.

BY LISA SALMON WORKING flexibly means parents should find it easier to manage their work-life balance, yet a new survey has found that only a quarter of parents work from home or juggle their hours to make family life easier.

Many companies want to be more “family friendly” and so are happy to negotiate with employees to provide more flexible working arrangements. In England, law-makers took this idea a step further last year by giving all employees who’ve worked for the same company for 26 weeks the right to request more flexible working arrangements.

Yet a study by the budgeting account website thinkmoney has found that just 13 per cent of parents take advantage of flexi hours, either starting later or leaving earlier, and only 14 per cent work from home.

Julie McCarthy (inset), who is head of policy at the British charity Working Families, says there hasn’t been a huge spike in applications to work flexibly since the right to request was introduced in that country – although the charity’s own research has found that 61 per cent of parents have access to flexible working, sometimes on an informal basis.

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`14 per cent of parents often receive disapproving looks or banter from colleagues when they leave work on time to pick up children...a Flexible working is usually better for families – the charity’s research has found a third of parents want their children to spend less time in childcare and more time with them, and employers often say flexible working makes staff happier.

“Good employers say flexible working can really engage and empower their employees,” says McCarthy. It’s an attitude reflected here in Australia, and in most other G20 countries.

“And staff want that flexibility – they don’t want their lives to be all about work, they want to do other things. It’s not just mums looking after their kids any more, it’s about everybody.”

Although many workers may not have formal flexible working arrangements,

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some will be able to flex their hours if necessary, says McCarthy, who points out that men are often the ones who take advantage of this opportunity.

The most common way of doing this is flexible time arrangements such as compressed hours, working in term time and so on, plus working from home or other remote office locations.

The same survey found that many respondents who didn’t have access to flexible working said their role didn’t accommodate it – so, for example, they might have been teachers or carers.

McCarthy points out that some people simply don’t want to work flexibly, and say it would reduce their

income, or believe they’d be seen as less committed and it would negatively impact their career.

Certainly, the thinkmoney study found that more than half of parents commit to normal hours so they can be seen to be part of the team, and 15 per cent feel pressured to work longer hours than they’d like to.

In addition, 14 per cent of parents often receive disapproving looks or banter from colleagues when they leave work on time to pick up children, and a quarter felt colleagues without children were less sympathetic to their childcare needs.

Some parents even complained that their employers were equally

Q: “My 13-year-old daughter wants to dye her hair, but I’ve told her she can’t as I think she’s too young to use hair dye and I’m worried she might have an allergic reaction to it.

She thinks I’m over-reacting – am I?” A: Consultant dermatologist Dr David Orton says: “Allergies can have an enormous impact on people’s lives and as such it’s important to be aware of this potential hazard.

“The chemicals used in permanent oxidative hair dyes are well recognised as sensitisers having the capacity to cause allergic reactions. The younger someone starts to regularly use such products, the more will be

unsympathetic – 8 per cent said they received disapproving looks from their boss when leaving work on time, and the same number felt their boss favoured colleagues without children.

Increasing numbers of men are working flexibly, says McCarthy, and she suggests this could help strengthen the belief that flexible working can be for everybody.

“Staff who work flexibly tend to be happier because they’re not having to juggle childcare, or whatever it is they have to do, with their work,” she says.

“If they can manage everything better by working flexibly, it means they’re more engaged in the workplace and happier at home.

“Flexible working has to be good for family life when it’s well managed, and the more we can encourage an equal share of family responsibilities in the home alongside flexible working, the better it can work.”

their lifetime risk of developing contact allergy to its chemical constituents.

“Manufacturers of these cosmetics are well aware of their potential to cause severe allergic reactions, which is why they voluntarily print such warnings on the packaging.

“A recent study has shown that over the last 10 years there has been an increase in child allergies to p-Phenylenediamine (PPD), an ingredient in hair dyes, probably linked to more young people using them. The numbers with a contact allergy to PPD in one patch testing clinic went from 8 per cent of the children they tested to 16 per cent.

“Another important related risk is the trend for young people to have black henna tattoos. Black henna (as opposed to plain henna) often has extremely high and unregulated concentration of PPD added to the henna, and having such a tattoo can greatly increase your risk of becoming allergic to PPD and therefore subsequently reacting to oxidative hair dyes.

“Finally, it’s worth knowing that an allergy to hair dye chemicals can sometimes put people at risk of developing cross-reactions to other chemicals unrelated to hair dyes such as topical local anaesthetics.”

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WELLBEING.

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Retire? No thanks!

BY CLAIRE SPREADBURY EPENDING on your personal circumstances, retirement can be seen in a number of ways: a necessity perhaps, a luxury, or simply an inevitability.

But not everybody wants to stop working just because they’ve reached ‘retirement age’.

EastEnders actress June Brown is a case in point. According to the Daily Mirror, the actress, who plays Dot Branning in the long-running soap, has recently been approached by producers to cut her hours. But despite being 88 years old, the star is having none of it (her character’s currently in prison for killing her son Nick, but is apparently due to be released later this year and will be as central to the storyline as ever).

She’s not the only older person still clocking up hours in the showbiz world, of course. There’s Sean Connery, about to turn 85, Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, who are both 80, and Neighbours actor Tom Oliver, 77. Then there’s the Queen, who, while she’s scaled back a bit in recent years, at 89, still has a very packed schedule.

Granted, being a royal, or a successful, well-paid actor is a world away from the work most people will be familiar with, and there are plenty of jobs where retirement is far more appealing a prospect than carrying on – but if your health allows, and you enjoy your work, could sticking at it be the answer to staying young?

As Henry Ford, American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company, once said: “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

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“Neighbours” actor Tom Oliver

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:: Why working keeps your brain young “Our minds need stimulation,” says renowned hypnotherapist and author Georgia Foster. “They need to be stretched as much as possible. When you stop utilising parts of your mind, it learns that it’s not needed.

“I think self-esteem is key to continuing to work as long as you want.

Everybody wants to belong and the older generation in particular needs to connect as much as possible. Loneliness can be a horrific burden and working can alleviate that.”

Dr Michael Spira, medical director and GP, agrees: “If retirement results in less physical and mental activity, which

so often is the case, the brain may start to slow down, and this can lead to memory difficulties and confusion.

“If you have a job that you enjoy, try to hang onto it for as long as you can!” :: What happens to your ‘grey matter’ when you retire?

“Retirement means you have to ‘reinvent’ yourself,” says Annie Kaszina, coach and author of Do You Choose Your Dog More Carefully Than Your Husband? “For some people that works really well, for others it does not; they struggle to find a sense of meaning and purpose. They become less valuable in society’s eyes. One of the questions we hear all the time is: ‘What do you do?’

It’s a question that presupposes your worth and interests are intimately connected with your working role, not who you are.

“While the capacity for heavy physical work may decline with the years, the capacity for creative thinking does not.

Dame Maggie Smith

June Brown is a case in point. She is perfectly capable of deciding for herself when she needs to scale back. The country needs more icons like her... in the public eye, to remind us that older just means more years on the clock. It doesn’t have to mean physically or men-

tally infirm.

“Besides, working longer may well also save the Government money. An interesting report from the French government suggests that people who work longer are significantly less likely to suffer from dementia.”

TIPS TO KEEP YOUR MIND SHARP :: “Find things to do that make you feel happy with a sense of belonging,” suggests Foster. “Connection to people is very important, as well as finding something that keeps the brain stimulated with lots of positive chemicals, such as endorphins.” :: “Make it your business to learn new skills and take up new hobbies, but don’t just think of them as your ‘little hobbies’ – allow yourself to be passionate about them,” advises Kaszina. “Write a book, take up painting, do a university degree. There are plenty of things you can do where age is no barrier.” :: “Regular physical exercise is important,” says Dr Spira. “But studies also show that activities that stimulate the brain are equally important; reading books, going to lectures, taking part in quizzes, crosswords, other puzzle games, bridge, chess, writing and charity work. Eating a healthy diet with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables can also help keep the mind sharp.” :: “Set some challenging goals that will help the brain to stretch itself in healthy ways,” adds Foster, who offers a new online course on self-esteem. “Start a new course or join a new group of people who will help to stimulate more confidence and a sense of belonging.”

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Dame Judi Dench. PHOTOS: PA

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Fancy joining the grown-up braces brigade?

Braces were once a thing for teenagers, but today’s braces can benefit adults too, ELLA WALKER writes.

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UR smiles play a big role in first impressions, not to mention the fact that being able to laugh and grin freely is part and parcel of being happy, so it’s little wonder that being plagued by self-consciousness due to crooked teeth can have a major dent on confidence levels.

A recent survey commissioned by a group of teeth straightening experts found that one in five (20 per cent ) of adults feel they get judged on the basis of how higgledy-piggledy their gnashers are.

It seems men are more affected, with 23 per cent admitting they feel anxious about people judging their teeth, compared to 17 per cent of women.

However, it’s a myth that if you didn’t get a mouthful of metal braces aged 13, you’ve missed your chance altogether – whatever your age, it’s not too late to get overcrowded, wonky teeth straightened out by an orthodontist.

So, if you do want to neaten up your smile, this is what you need to know.

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:: What treatments are available?

Invisalign works by repositioning teeth little by little, using a series of custom-made clear plastic ‘aligners’ that are changed every two weeks. Digital scanning technology and 3D soft-

ware is used to plot the way the teeth should move over a period of weeks – so you can see how your teeth should look at the end of the treatment before even starting.

Alternatively, you can go classic with traditional metal train tracks which are tightened over time to pull teeth gradually into place. :: Does it matter how old I am?

Karen Coates, from the British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF), says: “You are never too old to get your teeth straightened. There has been a huge surge in people wanting cosmetic orthodontics in recent years from people of many ages and for many reasons. We believe there is certainly no case of age being an issue. Each person has their own individual needs and we feel that as long as their general oral health is good, then they should be free to pursue it as they wish. I personally have heard of people well into their 60s getting their teeth straightened.”

She adds: “One issue which older peo-

ple need to be aware of is that their bone may be less able to regenerate to hold the teeth in their new position than younger people. Following treatment, permanent retention may be necessary to stop the teeth moving back.” :: How long does treatment take?

The BDHF says: “The length of treatment depends on how severe the problem is, and it may take anything from a few months to two-and-a-half years.

Most people can be treated in one to two years.”

:: Can I still eat what I want?

Invisalign put their brand’s popularity down to the fact that “aligners can be removed during treatment for short periods of time to allow you to eat whatever you want, kiss without impediment, play a wind instrument and maintain your normal good oral hygiene routine, so that your treatment can be maintained without impacting on your life”.

They also claim their method is “virtually undetectable”, so no one will even

know you are undergoing treatment.

With traditional train track braces, this isn’t quite the case as bacteria have more hiding places (braces are tricky to brush and keep clean). It’s recommended that you cut out sugary food and drinks to limit plaque build-up. :: How much does it cost?

It depends what procedure you opt for, and which clinic you attend. You’ll need to see a specialist for advice. :: Is it worth it?

Well, according to user Mikala French, who has also been the ‘Face of Invisalign’, it is. “Before my treatment, I was nervous about my smile and hated many photographs of myself because I felt my teeth looked terrible,” she says. “After nine months with Invisalign I feel transformed. With the support of my dentist, the treatment was simple, nobody knew I had the aligners because they were clear, it did not affect my life and there was minimal discomfort. Having nice straight teeth is priceless for me.” :: Find out more about Invisalign in Australia at www.invisalign.com.au. For further information on dental health, visit the Australian Dental Association at www.ada.org.au

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HOME.

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Behind closed doors What goes on inside the minds of people who decorate homes for a living. GABRIELLE FAGAN spoke with six experts who reveal how they approach interior design, as well as some useful tips.

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Polly Dickens, the Creative Director of Habitat.

Laurence LLewelyn-Bowen, interior designer “DINING rooms, once shunned and viewed as over, are enjoying a revival which I welcome hugely. Latest surveys show that people who were seduced by the idea of seamless living in one glass space are now scuttling back under the protective hem of traditionalism and opting for a separate entertaining area. Basically, we’re much more likely these days to have a mini-Downton rather than a Kevin McCloud style-design, that is, the sort you’d see on his ABC-TV series Grand Designs.

“I believe it’s because there’s some part of us hankering after a degree of formality and some rules in our lives, which I think is a reaction against the anything-goes, ‘throw your knickers in the air’ atmosphere so prevalent currently.

“Dining areas have more significance than they’re given credit for. They’re where the family gathers for special occasions and so associated with good memories, and this is a wonderful area for housing memorabilia. This room can almost be a decorative shrine to heirlooms and pieces with relevance and emotions attached, from granny’s ashes to antiques.”

TIP: Avoid falling into the realm of ghastly ‘good taste’, he advises. “Spread your decor wings and fly beyond the conventional box and be confident about what you like. Who cares if it clashes or stands out, and stop obsessing about storage. If you need masses of cupboards you have too much stuff and if you can’t see it, why do you want it?”

MAGIC MIX Sam Hood, creative director, head of buying, luxury interiors specialist “I LIVE in the countryside in a home traditionally decorated but with stylish additions from iconic designer brands such as Kartell, Seletti and Vitra. I love mixing different looks, old and new, and streamlined pieces with those embellished with decorative flourishes.

“The kitchen is the heart of the home and ours is a large open-plan space with a central

The Arundel vintage sofa in velvet. PHOTOS: PA

Make yummy brownies in a waffle iron

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

or scoop some vanilla ice cream on top. Yum! Here’s how to make the kid-pleasing chocolate treat in this off-kilter way:

BY DONNA ERICKSON

WAFFLE-IRON BROWNIES

LOOKING for an easy last-minute chocolate-y dessert idea that doesn’t require heating up the oven (and that makes the home smell beeeeautiful)? Here’s a clever idea you and your kids will enjoy – make yummy homemade brownies in a waffle iron. Then top them with fresh seasonal fruit like raspberries,

(Makes four 18cm round waffles) 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Dash of salt 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, melted and cooled 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1. In a mixing bowl, let your kids

measure and combine the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and salt.

In another bowl, combine butter, eggs and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir with a big spoon until combined, being careful not to over-mix. It will be a thick consistency.

2. Generously spray or brush a waffle iron with oil and set on medium heat.

When ready, an adult may spoon some of the brownie mixture on the waffle iron. I use an ice-cream scoop. Vary the amount according to the size of your waffle iron so that it doesn’t spill over the sides when closed.

3. When the batter is baked (our

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 04.09.2015 to Sunday 06.09.2015 bricked chimney. On one side is our dining area and the other the cooking zone.

It’s where my husband, Andrew, who’s co-founder of our company, our daughters and I spend most of our time. It’s a multi-purpose place for homework and entertaining, so it has all sorts of seating so people can flop down or perch and chat.”

TIP: Work wonders on old pieces by upcycling. “I completely renovated a much loved chair of my mother’s by replacing the back and reupholstering cushions in gold leather. It’s now my most treasured piece.”

LIGHT THE WAY Claire Hornby, creative stylist, furniture specialist “LIGHTING can change the entire perspective of a home, and more importantly, influence its atmosphere, determining how you feel spending time in different areas, so it shouldn’t be regarded simply as functional.

“I love making a feature by grouping ceiling lights in different shapes, sizes and materials and hanging them at varying heights over items such as tables so they become a focal point, adding interest and depth to a room.”

TIP: Have fun with wall art and quirky pieces in all areas. “In the hall I have three orange and yellow deer heads mounted on the wall. Being greeted with a bright colour pop always makes me smile and they surprise and intrigue visitors and make them want to explore other rooms.”

MAKE AN ENTRANCE Alison Cork, founder of her own online interiors company “I think the approach to the front door speaks volumes about a home – and I love mine. Everyone else in my street has flowers or potted trees, but I have a life-size bronze stag called Henry, who’s famous in the neighbourhood. Everyone stops to take pictures of him and a taxi driver even recently suggested that Henry should be recognised as a landmark and included in their drivers’ training manual. Seeing Henry always makes me feel that I have truly come home.

“A home has to be a direct reflection of the people living in it. Mine’s theatrical, warm, eclectic, doesn’t take itself too seriously and is full of colour. Moody slate blues in the entrance, dramatic gold greens and pinks in the sitting room, ‘slutty ‘ mauve in the bedroom and monochrome bathrooms. It’s a subtle riot, each room makes me feel different and it’s full of personal mementoes – one of my favourites is a golden metal pineapple, which was a bargain (at less than $A50), but it looks like an antique.”

TIP: Comfort’s essential in creating a true sanctuary. “No-one should feel ‘on show’ in their own pad. Sofas and beds must induce instant relaxation. My bed’s my favourite place – it’s bespoke, seven feet wide and with a handmade mattress – it cost a fortune but is worth

family likes them crispy on the outside), carefully remove the “waffle brownie” out of the waffle iron with a spatula and cool slightly on a rack or plate.

4. To serve: Sprinkle serving portions of a warm waffle brownie with sifted confectioner’s sugar, raspberries, a scoop of vanilla ice cream or fudge sauce. Store leftover brownies in an airtight container or in your freezer.

Shortcut idea: Use your favourite commercial brownie mix..

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its weight in gold.”

MONOCHROME RECIPE Polly Dickens, creative director, Habitat “HOME for me is about entertaining, relaxing and hands-on creativity. In my working life, I’m constantly generating ideas with a team working alongside me so it’s a treat in my time off to do my own thing, roll up my sleeves and focus on preparing beautiful meals.

“My kitchen’s my sanctuary and is a wonderful convivial space, with a huge sofa, and room for family, friends and my poodle, Otto. One wall of open shelving holds my growing collection of china, decorative plates and containers, collected on my travels sourcing for Habitat. Just outside the back door I have a plethora of pots of herbs and a butler sink crammed with tomato plants, so vital ingredients are on hand and fill the room with scent.”

TIP: A monochrome framework for walls and floors allows you the freedom to introduce colour wherever you want.

“Apart from my bright orange kitchen floor, all the other floors in my home are carpeted or painted black, and the walls are white. I have red sofas, colourful rugs, and a constantly changing display of colourful accessories.”

TOUCH ME TEXTURES Ian Dykes, founder, director, fabric specialist “FOR me, creating a home isn’t about referencing the latest interiors trends, but about injecting personality into a space. This isn’t something that can be created overnight, but needs curating, collecting and honing over time.

“It’s often the small things that shape the character of a home, the details which will bring a look together: an original piece of artwork, a favourite colour, treasures from travels abroad.

All of these elements can be layered to create a style that is uniquely yours. I’ve been inspired by my travels, and I use vibrant colours and fabrics and pieces made by talented people I’ve visited around globe, from craftswomen in Kashmir to Jacquard weavers in Italy.”

TIP: Textures are key. “A piece can’t simply look good, it has to be tactile and feel luxurious. Whether it’s the weave of linen or raised embroidered threads, each piece brings a new dimension to a room, imbuing it with warmth, variety and curiosity. Our latest collection... combines Scottish linens and lustrous velvets and vibrant watercolour designs.”

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The Seletti Twitable gold metal birdcage

Samui Heather Cushion

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BY JOANN DERSON z When I needed a new tyre for my truck because I ran over a nail, the man at the tyre shop suggested I purchase a slightly used tyre that was closer to the age and wear of the others. I spent less on the tyre, and the tyres will wear evenly. They’re always looking out for me! – Contributed by O.E. z When baby’s teething, try this trick from a grandma: Wet

Heritage cashmere wrap in caramel.

a washcloth and put it in a ziptop baggie in the freezer. When frozen, remove it from the bag and let the baby chew on it. Its texture and temperature are soothing to little gums, and it can be rinsed and refrozen easily. z For fresh oil stains, sprinkle with kitty litter and grind into the oil with your foot or a stiff brush. Then sweep up. Repeat as necessary. z Hardware stores sell special bladders that can be filled and put inside a toilet tank to take

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up space, allowing the toilet to use less water per flush.

I use a brick. Same effect. – Contributed by C.L. z Dusting shelves with lots of knickknacks can be a real chore.

Try slipping a knee-high stocking over the hose of your vacuum wand. You can get very close to the items on the shelf without sucking anything up but dust.

If something did get sucked up, the stocking will catch it for you.

This also works for toolboxes. – Contributed by W.U. z Over-the-door shoe racks

are perfect for holding a variety of cleaning products and small canisters of wipes.

I have everything I need at a glance on the back of the laundry door. I even store batteries in various sizes there.

– Contributed by A.A.

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FOOD.

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Roux Jr and the mini master chefs

BY KEELEY BOLGER Michel Roux Jr. PHOTOS: PA/DISNEY.

ROWING up, Michel Roux Jr enjoyed slap up dinners made by his decorated chef dad Albert Roux and uncle Michel. No wonder then, that his memories of school dinners pale in comparison to these veritable feasts.

“Eugh, I don’t want to even go there,” he says, wincing at the thought.

“I did go to English school, and I’m afraid to say, I know exactly what gristly mince and packet mashed potato tastes like,” adds the 55-year-old, who admits he’s had a “bit of a head-start in life”, growing up in a family where food was so important.

While chewy meat and watery mash was common fodder back in his schooldays, the stodgy school dinner stalwarts are certainly off the menu in his new TV cookery competition First Class Chefs.

It’s his first series for the Disney Channel and sees teams of school children putting their kitchen skills to the test, in a bid to transform their relationship with food.

Twelve teams of pairs will take part in a range of tasks, including devising menus, shopping for ingredients and cooking them up in the kitchen. In the final, two school canteens will be turned into restaurants, serving up a spread for fellow pupils, with the winning team scooping funds for a school project.

Roux Jr says he has seen some considerable “talent and knowledge” from the pupils, who are aged between nine and 11 years.

“They’ve been cooking everything from the quite simple to the complex – complex for their age, but dishes even a lot of adults wouldn’t contemplate,” he says. “To be able to cook some of the dishes they’ve been doing, and so competently, is amazing to see.”

Like Jamie Oliver before him, Roux Jr hopes the series encourages more children and their families to whip out the pans and start cooking.

“It’s great to see these children taking such an interest in food, and that comes from their family,” he explains. “Food is not just fuel. Their families are not just buying ready-meals, whacking them in the microwave, and shoving them in front of the kids, in front of the telly.

“No – their kids are taking part in choosing what they’re going to eat, and it’s great.”

His own daughter Emily, who has also followed in his foodie footsteps, will appear as a special guest chef and help with the judging.

“She’s 24 now, so she’s no longer really a trainee,” he says of his “exceptionally talented” daughter.

“She’s earning a good wage and really enjoying herself cooking. We get on very well and she always wants to do her best.”

Likewise, Roux Jr says he’s trying to be on his best behaviour in the kitchen, too. “I mean, I’m a control freak,” he admits. “I hate not being in control and the thing is, if you do lose your temper, it’s because you’ve lost control and that’s something I don’t like.

“I’m like everyone, occasionally I do lose my rag, but I don’t like myself when I do.”

Fancy trying some of Roux Jr’s recipes with your family? Here are three easy-to-follow dishes from his book, The French Kitchen, to get going with.

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A berry delicious taste

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

BERRIES aren’t just a tasty treat; they’re a healthy one, too. A study reported in the journal Circulation found that “women who ate the most strawberries and blueberries – three or more servings per week – were 34 per cent less likely to suffer an early heart attack”.

The findings came from the Nurses Health Study II, which followed some 93,600 women aged 25-42 for 18 years, checking in with them periodically to see what they were eating and how it was affecting their health. The heart health ben-

efits were likely due in part to the presence of anthocyanin, an antioxidant compound found naturally in bright-red fruits like strawberries.

Berries offer other health benefits as well. One cup of strawberries provides 140 per cent of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C – more than a medium orange – and 16 per cent of recommended dietary fibre. This fibre content makes strawberries low on the glycaemic index, meaning they help slow the body’s process of turning the berries into blood sugar. Strawberries also contain more than 25 per cent of recommended manganese, which helps process cholesterol.

Likewise, a cup of red raspberries has nearly 50 per cent of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C, and 30 per cent of fibre, as well as potassium, magnesium, calcium and vitamin A. Most cookbooks tell you not to wash your berries until you’re ready to eat them. One of the cardinal rules of keeping berries from rotting is to leave them unwashed. But by using this simple trick, you can keep your berries fresh for days or even weeks by killing the mould spores that make berries rot.

1. Wash berries in a solution of vinegar and water: In a large bowl, mix 1 cup vinegar and 3 cups water, and immerse the berries. The vin-

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CROQUE MONSIEUR (Serves 4) 8 slices of good sourdough bread 2tbsp unsalted butter 1tbsp plain flour 400ml milk Freshly grated nutmeg Dijon mustard 280g grated cheese (a mixture of Emmental, Gruyere and Cheddar is good) 160g good-quality, sliced ham Salt Black pepper Lightly toast the bread on both sides, then butter one side of each slice.

To make the bechamel sauce, melt the remaining butter in a small pan, stir in the flour to make a roux, then whisk in the milk. Keep whisking it well to avoid lumps and bring the sauce to the boil. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg and cook for three to four minutes, then remove from the heat.

Preheat the oven to 200C/Fan 180C/Gas 6. Spread a little mustard on the buttered side of a piece of toast.

Add a generous amount of bechamel, followed by grated cheese and a slice of ham. Spread some more bechamel on the dry side of another piece of toast and place on top of the ham, pressing a little to stick it down. Spread a little more bechamel on top of the sandwich and sprinkle with grated cheese. Make all the sandwiches in the same way.

Put the sandwiches on a baking tray and bake them in the preheated oven for six to eight minutes until crisp and golden. Serve at once.

OMELETTE WITH GIROLLE MUSHROOMS (Serves 2) 4 free-range eggs (or 6 if greedy) 100g girolle mushrooms (or any wild mushrooms, such as morels or ceps) Vegetable oil 1/2 garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped 1tbsp finely chopped parsley 2tbsp unsalted butter Salt Black pepper Crack the eggs into a bowl, beat them with a fork and season with salt and pepper. Trim and wipe the mushrooms, then fry them in a little oil and add the finely chopped garlic and parsley. Season and set aside.

Heat a 20cm omelette pan until it’s very hot, then add a drop of oil and the butter. The butter should be golden but don’t let it burn. Pour in the eggs and leave the pan for 20 seconds or so before starting to mix them with a fork or spatula. Once the omelette has formed and is holding but still a little underdone, add the mushrooms in the centre and carefully roll the omelette over them to the edge of the pan.

Flip the omelette onto a warm plate and cut it in half to serve. It should have a little colour but be light and fluffy – brush with a little butter to give it a lovely shine and gloss.

egar will eliminate any pesky mould and bacteria. Rinse berries under cool, running water to remove any traces of vinegar. If you don’t have vinegar handy, soak your berries in water between 50C and 60C for about 30 seconds, no need to rinse!

2. Moisture is the enemy of fresh berries.

Use a salad spinner to wick the water from your berries. Line it with about three layers of paper towels to create a pillow for your berries, then spin for about 15 seconds, or until they’re completely dry.

3. Don’t put the berries back into their original containers. Place them in a sealable container lined with paper towels, and leave the lid partially open to avoid trapping moisture.

Remember that seasonal berries can be canned, made into jellies or jams, frozen or

(Serves 4) 1 aubergine 2 courgettes 1 red pepper, peeled and deseeded 1 large onion, peeled 2 tomatoes, peeled and deseeded Olive oil 1 bulb of new season garlic, chopped 1 sprig of thyme 2 bay leaves 2tbsp tomato paste Salt Black pepper Dice the aubergine, courgettes, pepper, onion and tomatoes – large or small, as you prefer – keeping them in separate piles. Heat about 1cm of olive oil in a pan over a high heat and colour each type of vegetable, except the tomatoes, individually, then drain them in a colander.

Preheat the oven to 200C/180C/Gas 6. Place all the vegetables in an ovenproof dish or large pan and add the diced tomatoes, garlic, thyme, bay leaves and tomato paste. Season and cover with greaseproof paper.

Place in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes or so until all the vegetables are tender. If you prefer, you can do this on the hob over a gentle heat. :: The French Kitchen by Michel Roux Jr is published in hardback by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

dried for tasty and healthful eating throughout the year. Try my recipe for Berry Refrigerator Pie and enjoy a “berry” delicious taste of summer!

BERRY REFRIGERATOR PIE You can use strawberries or blackberries instead of blueberries in this wonderful dessert.

3/4 cup water 4 cups fresh blueberries, divided 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons corn-starch 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 baked 9-inch pie crust Sweetened whipped cream or vanilla-flavoured Greek yogurt 1. Pour water into a large saucepan and bring

The French Kitchen by Michel Roux Jnr, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

to a simmer. Add 1 cup blueberries, sugar, corn-starch, salt and cinnamon. Cook over medium-high heat until mixture thickens, stirring constantly.

2. Add remaining 3 cups blueberries and lemon juice; stir gently. Spoon into crust; cover and chill 1 hour or until set. Top pie with whipped cream or yogurt. Makes 1 (9-inch) pie.

GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST 1 1/2 cups (24 squares) crushed graham cracker crumbs 1/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup butter, melted 1. In a small bowl, combine crumbs and sugar; add butter and blend well. Press onto bottom and up sides of an ungreased 9-inch pie plate.

2. Refrigerate 30 minutes before filling, or bake at 190C for 8-10 minutes or until crust is lightly browned. Cool on wire rack before filling.

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IN THE KITCHEN | WITH...

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The Community Kitchen

Food and friendship fo Every Friday night volunteers and guests assemble at the Anglican Church hall on Brisbane Street for a free feed and friendship. Served by the Community Kitchen all are welcome who seek a night out to make new friends or catch up with old, and a free feed thrown into the mix. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent S we enter the Dubbo Community Kitchen, grandmother, Lydia Ogden, is busy preparing a crisp fresh salad of deftly sliced green cucumbers, bottle green spinach and stiff chopped lettuce leaves, shiny red tomatoes and all tossed together to fill three large bowls in a collage of taste-me colours.

In the adjoining Anglican Church hall echoes of guests filter though in short bursts of laughter or a hum of gentle conversation harshly underlined by scraping chairs on the timber floor and above it all the air of anticipation waiting for the evening meal.

“The original people that started ‘Kitchen’ were called Chris and Jeanie, I’m not sure of their last names,” explains Ogden. “They ran it for quite a while, originally for the homeless in Dubbo but because there weren’t very many homeless people back then, they decided to open it up to the community and give people one night off from cooking and get to know other people they’ve never met before.”

Lorna Brennan is another volunteer, who has been involved since the Community Kitchen concept began.

“It’s a place where anybody can come for a free meal on a Friday night. It doesn’t matter what background you’re from, if you want a bit of friendship, companionship, whatever, you’re welcome to come down.

“It’s about the community; it’s about getting people together, about making those connections and firming them up.

“Over the years I’ve seen a huge development in the kitchen where originally we had ‘staff’ who were the volunteers actually doing all the work, and the guests would just come. Now we have much more involvement from the guests. They help and they come and set up.”

During our interview one of those guest walks into the kitchen asking for the cutlery and everyone turns to pitch in to help and locate it.

“We’d been in St Andrew’s hall for quite a few years then when it was sold they asked the Anglican Church could we move here. We’re still finding our feet in this kitchen though we’ve been here since November last year,” explains Brennan.

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hall next to the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre, which has since been demolished.

“It was a tiny little kitchen with one tiny little ordinary stove. I don’t know how we did it,” said Brennan.

“We were in the St Andrews hall and in the Lands Council as well on the corner of Talbragar and Darling streets. That’s got a commercial kitchen there because it used to be the Rugby Club. Then we moved here. We’ve done it in the park a few times when we were allowed,” she said.

Lorna volunteers once a month in the Community Kitchen and is assisted by Lydia to prepare the dinner.

“We’re on a roster. There’s probably about ten every Friday night but then there’s a lot of others who are not actually on the roster who just come and help with tables that have to be set up and everything has to be packed away.”

As coordinator of the community centre at Buninyong School it was a natural progression for Brennan to also help at the Community Kitchen.

“We work with families and children naught to five. A lot of the people I knew through the centre come here and I just thought it would be a great way to help.

We have fun. You make some really good friends over the years. There’s quite a few elderly people coming too. There’s a bus that goes around and picks up in communities in east and the west side.”

The coordinator of the management teams arrives. Megan Rootes is greeted by smiles and cheery hellos, and as more volunteers stream through the door their bodies, greetings, chatter and laughter, fill the kitchen with exactly the sense of community they endeavor to – and effortlessly – create.

“We’d leave a huge hole in the community if we weren’t here, because we’ve been established for quite a long time,” said Brennan.

“You can see this is their regular get together and they’ve really formed a community who support one another. They get so much out of it.

Not just from tonight but they’ve got links that can go on into the rest of their life. We get a little newsletter once a month that keeps us up to date. Not everyone comes all the time,” she said.

“I come every second Friday,” said Ogden. “It’s good I enjoy it. We even had a gourmet chef working with us once. She was a nice lady. She was pretty good. She liked cooking real fancy stuff and some nights she wanted to cook by herself.

“I have four grandchildren, a seven month-

Friday 04.09.2015 to Sunday 06.09.2015 | Dubbo Weekender old grandson. There’s a 7 year-old, an 8 year-old and a 9 year-old and they all went to play group at the Buninyong community centre.”

Rootes explains that the bus service allows for house bound guests You can see this is their to get out at least once a regular get together and week. they’ve really formed a “We use the PCYC bus and the bus driver goes community who support to West and then up to one another. They get so Apollo Estates and down much out of it. Not just Wheelers Lane and then down to the Kitchen. from tonight but they’ve We have someone who got links that can go on comes once a month to into the rest of their life. do Kids Corner.

“Each Friday night there’s probably about 18 volunteers and then on average about 50 guests coming in. There’s four different teams who come once a month plus a shopper and a cook and about six to 10 servers depending on who’s available on the night and people who come help set up and pack up,” she said.

“It’s a free two-course meal for anyone who wants to come.”

It’s not free to the coordinators however who rely on monetary donations though occasionally food will be brought in by guests or volunteers, which they’ve grown themselves.

“We have the Community Garden up at the Baptist Church and they sometimes bring produce down from there,” said Rootes.

“We rely on monetary donations to buy food fresh. We have individuals, churches, the Rotary Clubs, the council. Council is very generous with us. One of the stores up in the Mall ran a raffle and gave us the proceeds so there are different things happening in the community to help us to keep running week to week.

“We also set up a sponsor program this year, which hasn’t quite met our weekly costs yet but we’re getting there,” Rootes said.

Become a Community Kitchen Sponsor z For information on how you can sponsor the Community Kitchen please leave your details at the Dubbo Photo News office at 89 Wingewarra Street, Dubbo.

More information about Community Kitchen is available at Emmanuel Care on Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, Food for Life and the Christian Book Shop.

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Catching the travel bug Sue White currently splits her time between Canberra for the bushwalks and babysitters, Sydney and travel, both internationally and domestically. A 10-year veteran of the travel writing industry she’ll be bringing her expertise to Dubbo for a full day workshop at Westwords 2015. AT TOLD TO Ella McMillan How did you become a writer?

I grew up keen as mustard to be a journalist, but was offered a cadetship only a month before my first big backpacking trip overseas; so I turned them down and spent my 20s travelling and then coming home and doing communications contracts (mostly for NGOs) in between to pay for the travel.

What made you want to become a writer?

I’ve loved writing since I was a kid. Way back in the day, I thought I’d like to be the next Jana Wendt (yes, that’s showing my age).

What’s been the most rewarding part of your career?

As a travel writer it would have to be the chance to go places without having to save up for the trip! But also, as a travel writer, you get amazing access to things the general public would need to not just save up for, but wait a long time to get – obviously companies want to give you early access as you’re then going to tell thousands of potential travellers about it.

What has been the most challenging aspect?

As a freelancer, pitching (the art of selling your story) is usually the part nobody likes. It’s tedious, and always slightly nerve-racking. The good news is it gets easier as you get more established.

What will your role at WestWords involve? Can you give us a glance into your workshop?

Really looking forward to teaching a full day travel-writing course at WestWords. Not only will we be covering things like what sells, what makes a piece of travel writing sing, and how to come up with a story-rich itinerary, but I’ve got a great section on how to make this all work if you are based regionally or rurally.

It’s going to be a packed day.

What power do you think authors and writers possess?

As a travel writer, your job is partly to inform (by giving tips people couldn’t figure out themselves), partly to inspire (who doesn’t love a good armchair travel read?) and I always think, if it’s entertaining, that’s a nice plus too.

Have you ever encountered any ethical dilemmas when writing?

If so, when and what? How did you resolve it?

Yes, these do come up. I went on one trip that was so badly organised that I said to the organisers, “Really, you’ll be much happier if I don’t sell a story on this, as I’d just have to be telling readers not to do it.” They said, “No problem.”

Do you have a work ritual or habit?

I’m really interested in being as productive as possible while on the road. I try to write as much of my story as I can while I’m there, as it’s always going to be more colourful and engaging if I

Sue White, travel writer will be in Dubbo on Saturday, September 12 running a full day workshop.

write it while I’m immersed in the experience.

That can be hard as travel writers already put in some pretty long days. My other habit is to try – where possible – to spend the first half of my time somewhere doing more ‘observing’ than writing. That way I get the best of both worlds: time to really ‘feel out’ the destination, but to write it up while it’s still fresh so it’s a better story for readers.

What’s the best piece of career advice you’ve received?

Never miss a deadline! Really, never. I also realised early on that if you file (submit) your stories early, an editor will be forever grateful.

If you could change anything about the industry what would it be?

I’d probably like it to go back to the world of 20 years ago, when magazines sent both a writer and a photographer out on a story.

Now, budgets are tighter and the writer often needs to organise photos as well, so you’re twice as busy.

What do you have to stay to budding young writers?

Young travel writers specifically? Get out there and try. It’s easy to say “I want to write” but most people never get past that stage.

You’re only going to succeed if you get in and have a go.

What would you be doing if you weren’t doing this?

Well, I wouldn’t be having to figure out how to survive jetlag with a one year old! But I’d still be trying to travel as much as possible - I think that addiction will

never leave.

What’s one of your fondest moments in your career?

I did a trip to the rainforest in Belize a few years back where we spent the week trekking through the jungle to go and talk to farmers growing Fairtrade cocoa. It was hot, sweaty and dirty, but I loved it.

What are you working on at the moment? Plans for the future?

I’m currently wrapping up a bunch of stories about travelling with a baby that I’ve just done in Europe. My son was ten months when we left, and we flew back on his first birthday – six weeks and six countries later.

I’ve got some local travel coming up, and I’m developing a series of websites with practical tips about travelling with babies and toddlers. www.babieswhotravel.com should be launched this year, and next year I’ll start www. toddlerswhotravel.com What are you passionate about?

I love anything outdoorsy, and I’m also really interested in yoga and wellbeing. When travelling with my (gorgeous) son I’ve also been reminded that I can’t go more than a few days without some good old-fashioned adult conversation.

Who’s your inspiration?

Anybody who takes a career risk. I think so many people are too afraid to give something new a go, which is a shame. I don’t think everyone has to do what I did (quit their comfortable six figure job to teach yoga and then become a writer), but you can take

My friends all think it’s great, because they often get to come along as my “plus one” on travel stories.

Although, one friend did say recently, “I used to be really jealous of your travel writing, but now I’ve actually seen what goes into it, I think it looks like a lot of work!”

small steps towards something that will make you happier.

I know it gets complicated when people have family, or debt, but overall, I think this is more possible than many people believe.

What do your friends and family think of your work?

My friends all think it’s great, because they often get to come along as my “plus one” on travel stories. Although, one friend did say recently, “I used to be really jealous of your travel writing, but now I’ve actually seen what goes into it, I think it looks like a lot of work!”

What’s your favourite author/s and why?

Anyone who can write with ‘just’ the right balance of facts and humour. I really enjoy the American journalist AJ Jacobs for this. He always puts himself in the story, which isn’t my own personal thing, but he does it so well it’s page turning (and hilarious).

Have opportunities for writers changed?

The Internet has both opened up more opportunities for writers and heavily disrupted the entire journalism industry. It’s a blessing and a curse I think.

What are you looking forward to most about Dubbo and WestWords?

I always love teaching travel writing because like me, all my participants are usually travel obsessed. But I’m also keen to talk to them about how to make things work from a regional base.

What do you think WestWords mean to writers in Dubbo and Dubbo in general?

These kind of festivals and cultural events are really important. They can inspire and motivate people, and also help people make new connections – even in their own community.

Is there anything else you’d like to add?

Keep an eye out for www.babieswhotravel.com by the end of the year.

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Luke Austin with his son Eli. PHOTO: CHERYL BURKE

A day in the life of a venue technician years. Trying to settle down with a partner and a three year-old boy makes it

BY CHERYL BURKE difficult to travel away for gigs. Seeing DRTCC the position come up at the theatre was a perfect opportunity to do what I love HIS month we shine the Dubbo and keep my feet firmly grounded at the Regional Theatre and Convention same time.

If you had an unlimited budget, what Centre (DRTCC) staff spotlight on artist or production, would you book at Luke Austin, Venue Technician.

DRTCC? As the Venue Technician what does Billy Joel. He’s been an idol since childworking a typical show night involve for you? hood. Penn & Teller would be a very close A show night usually starts second. with a check over the pre-rig ` Your rider as a per(everything we’ve set up for former? the client before their arriv- Guy Sebastian Southern Comfort al, and then tweaked once would have to be and Skittles (but all their crew arrives). pretty close to the the green ones would Firing up the lighting and most enjoyable. have to be removed of sound desks, winding up the amps before making sure we Probably because of course).

Your favourite show? are ready to open the doors the extended time Guy Sebastian would and let the audience in. Af- we had him here. have to be pretty close ter that’s all done, it depends Their management to the most enjoyable. what my role is for the night.

Probably because of the If I’m operating sound for chose DRTCC as the extended time we had ideal venue for their the night or flying (manipuhim here. Their manlating house curtain or back rehearsals before agement chose DRTCC drops), then I’ll get to my po- their National as the ideal venue for sition and read over the cue Arena Tour. their rehearsals belist. fore their National AreIf I’m venue supervisor na Tour. Seeing some for the show, then I’ll sort out the costsongs come together for the very first ing sheet and keep my ears open on coms time was pretty cool. (communication head set system) in case The furthest or most interesting place any problems arise. your work has taken you?

Since shows and functions aren’t held I’ve been lucky enough to travel around every day, what do you do on those ‘off ’ Australia a few times. Darwin is definitedays? ly one of my favourite places. Some of The large amount of equipment in the the smallest towns I’ve played have been theatre and convention centre provides a up in the top end. Getting permission to never ending list of maintenance that can travel beyond Kakadu and through Arnbe done. It can be a time consuming thing hem Land and seeing some communities to reinstate either venue between shows. was an eye opener. Ramingining, ManMore often than not we look ahead to upingrida and then out to Nhulunbuy was coming shows and start planning and liaising with the client to get a jump start a once in a lifetime experience. Working on Thursday Island was pretty amazing on the set up required for them. too, such a different lifestyle. So relaxed What was your first experience of the and laid back.

Convention Centre, or Civic Centre?

As a performer what’s the most embarI actually played in bands in the Civic rassing thing that has happened during Centre 10-15 years ago. We used to play a show? for debutante balls and large functions. I I remember being sponsored by an alcan remember playing a lot of gigs there. coholic beverages company for a lot of When and how did you first become years, and drinking too much of their involved in the entertainment industry? fine product at a gig one night ... not at I’ve been a musician all my life and DRTCC I may add, and then having to made a living out of it for the last 20

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bail off stage half way through a song and ... well you can figure out the rest.

Memorable or stand out shows?

Fawlty Towers – Dubbo Theatre Company Production, would be a bit of a stand out. So much set being built on stage, and a different approach to lighting. It was an eye opener for me.

Your dream job if you weren’t doing what you were doing?

My dream job was always playing music for a living. I was lucky enough to have done that for a long time. I guess now I’d love to work my way up a few steps where I am now. I’d love to be the person deciding what shows to put on at the theatre I’m managing.

Best name-drop?

Keith Urban would probably top the list. I knew Keith when he was an unknown but extremely talented guitarist in Tamworth. I had the opportunity to jam with him as a teenager. He always dreamed of making it big in Nashville.

Everyone who knew him back then knew he’d get there.

Why do you think live theatre is important?

I think being able to provide a wide variety of genres to a regional centre is an amazing thing. We don’t have the same amount of access to some things as those living in Sydney or Melbourne do. Having everything from tribute shows to Shakespeare or the ballet is a great source of education and entertainment to a community that deserves the best.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS October 3 | October 4 – Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts October 14 – Circus Oz 2015: But Wait….There’s More October 15 – Kings of Country October 24 – An Evening At The Proms – A Musical Spectacular October 31 – All My Love

Fringe Festival Forays

BY LINDA CHRISTOF ONE of the joys of being a presenter at a live performance venue such as DRTCC is the opportunity to seek out a variety of season shows that cover all genres including plays, musicals, opera, children and family shows, dance and comedy.

Sometimes you come across something that seems to tick all of the boxes but is not necessarily conventional and sits on the ‘fringe’ of mainstream entertainment. The Paris Underground Cabaret at the DRTCC on Saturday, August 22 was an example of a typical fringe festival piece – it was fun, quirky, risqué and most importantly it was different.

The Adelaide Fringe is an annual open-access arts festival run over four weeks in Adelaide during February and March.

Professional, semi-professional and emerging artists from around Australia and abroad can register for this event. The standard is high and competitive with all entrants aiming to push the envelope of what is considered standard theatre product. The City comes alive with pop up venues in parks, warehouses, lane-ways as well as theatres, galleries and town halls. Apart from ticketed events there are a lot of free events which creates a lively carnival atmosphere. A similar atmosphere will no doubt be created in our city when Dubbo hosts the Regional Arts Australia Conference – Artlands – in October 2016.

I had a phone call from a guy that brings big name bands to regional centres – I can’t say too much at the moment – but I can reveal that he said: ‘We’ve heard Dubbo is a happening place for live performance‘. We can thank our supportive audiences for this flow on affect who are prepared to ‘Shake Things Up! ‘and broaden their palette for performance!

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Straight Outta Compton. PHOTOS: PA/JAIMIE TRUEBLOOD/UNIVERSAL

Straight Outta Compton is a portrait of youthful exuberance, with a ‘rosy tint’

BY DAMON SMITH

O FILM OF THE WEEK STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (MA15+, 147 mins) Drama/Musical/ Romance. O’Shea Jackson Jr, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown Jr, Paul Giamatti, R Marcus Taylor, Keith Stanfield, Marcc Rose, Corey Reynolds, Tate Ellington.

Director: F. Gary Gray.

WHENEVER Hollywood immortalises pages from history at 24 frames per second, it’s wise to treat each lustrous dramatisation with a pinch of salt.

Rigorous factual accuracy is often sacrificed at the altar of artistic licence.

In the case of F. Gary Gray’s engrossing film, you will need to grab bulging fistfuls of sodium chloride.

Not only are two of the key protagonists of this rags to musical riches biopic listed as executive producers, one of the men – rapper turned actor Ice Cube – is portrayed on screen by his own son.

The faint whiff of nepotism is overpowered by heady fumes

of whitewash from Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff’s script, which neglects to address accusations of misogyny and homophobia levelled at California hip hop collective N.W.A. Regardless of the rosy tint to director Gray’s lens, Straight Outta Compton is a fascinating portrait of youthful exuberance, raw ambition and racial divide that rubs some of that salt into the deep wounds inflicted since the police shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson.

The film opens in 1986 with pals Dr Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr), MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) and DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr) searching for an outlet for their creativity.

Tensions are high between police and black youths – random stop and searches are an unwelcome part of neighbourhood life.

“I’m the only gangster round here,” snarls one officer.

With gentle persuasion from his buddies, Eazy-E sets up his own label, Ruthless Records, and the

group’s first release Boyz-n-theHood piques the interest of Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti).

He sweet talks Eazy-E into becoming the band’s manager.

“What does N.W.A. stand for?

No Whites Allowed?” asks Jerry naively.

An electrifying live performance leads to a deal with Priority Records founded by Bryan Turner (Tate Ellington).

Ice Cube grows increasingly concerned about Easy-E’s close working relationship with Heller and the absence of contracts for the rest of the group.

He eventually leaves and goes solo, sparking a bitter war of rhymes between the former band mates.

Ice Cube aligns himself with Suge Knight (R Marcus Taylor) and together they establish Death Row Records.

Meanwhile, Dr Dre also turns his back on Easy-E and N.W.A. and channels his energy into working as a producer for other acts including Snoop Dogg (Keith Stanfield) and Tupac Shakur (Marcc Rose).

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PICKS OF THE WEEK

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK Blythe Danner in “I’ll See You in My Dreams”. PHOTO: BLEECKER STREET MEDIA

“I’ll See You in My Dreams” (M) – Carol (Blythe Danner, making an excellent turn as the lead of a film) is a retired teacher and vocalist, whose been living alone since her husband passed away 20 years ago. She’s trying to find her way without moving into the retirement community with her gal pals. She learns how to enjoy this new phase in her life through an unlikely friendship with her pool cleaner, Lloyd (Martin Starr).

While that friendship helps her connect with a lost part of herself, Carol also is drawn into a romance with the handsome and age-appropriate Bill (Sam Elliot, whom you may recognise as the stoic cowboy from every movie ever).

The script cleverly dodges cliches endemic to retirement-age dramas and lets Danner explore every part of her character. The movie as a whole has a great sense of pacing and balance between heavy and light moments, making it a strong film that’s easy to watch.

“Mad Max: Fury Road” (MA15+) – Mad Max/The Road Warrior rides again in this glorious spectacle of roaring machines and suicidal stunts. Tom Hardy stars as the titular lunatic hero, who starts the film caught in a white-knuckle chase with an army of crazed marauders hot on his dust-trail. Max’s life is in the makeshift mechanical hand of the movie’s real hero, Imperator Furiosa (an almost unrecognizable Charlize Theron, ruling the screen with a steel grip).

Instead of going the usual reboot-route of giving us another origin story for an already-loved protagonist,

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Hawkins, Mitchell and Jackson Jr deliver accomplished performances as the sometimes deluded pioneers of a hip hop revolution.

Musical performances pulse with energy

including a stand-off with police at a concert that culminates in a riot.

This might not be the whole uncomfortable truth, but what we are allowed to see hits the right notes. :: SWEARING :: SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 7/10

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AMERICAN ULTRA (MA15+, 96 mins) CIA agent Victoria Lasseter (Connie Britton) presides over the Ultra program from her desk in Langley, Virginia, which has planted assassins around the country then conditioned them to live normal lives until a series of code words unlocks their true potential.

Unfortunately, the program is deemed a failure and Lasseter’s sworn rival at the CIA, Adrian Yates (Topher Grace), orders the immediate removal of remaining Ultra assets. The only agent left in the field is stoner Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg), who enjoys a simple life as a convenience store clerk in West Virginia.

Lasseter feels a sense of guilt about her failure so she activates Mike with his code words then watches in awe as the stoner recalls his training to outwit Yates’ henchmen and go on the run with his girlfriend Phoebe (Kristen Stewart).

Hiding from the government agency which created him, Mike learns the full extent of his abilities and resolves to strike back at the people who wish to hurt him.

THE TRANSPORTER REFUELLED (MA15+, 96 mins) JASON Statham bids farewell to the franchise which emboldened his action man credentials, handing over the role of Special Ops mercenary Frank Martin to newcomer Ed Skrein.

Frank lives in the south of France, where he is paid handsomely to transport classified packages for his customers – no questions asked. Out of the blue, Frank’s father (Ray Stevenson) visits him on the coast for some long overdue bonding.

The mood of reconciliation sours when a femme fatale called Anna (Loan Chabanol) sinks her claws into Frank and compels him to take part in a daredevil bank heist with her three beautiful yet deadly sidekicks, Gina (Gabrielle Wright), Maria (Tatiana Pajkovic) and Qiao (Wenxia Yu).

The robbery doesn’t unfold as planned and Frank must outrun the vengeful women as well as a sinister Russian kingpin, whose poisonous influence extends far and wide.

this movie has the respect to start us off in the thick of the action and let the pieces of the story jostle into place along the ride – and it works. If we’re going to get a glut of franchise films every year, may there be more like this one: True to what was great about the original, and more than able to rock in their own right.

“Boulevard” (TBA) – Nolan (Robin Williams) is a quiet man dealing with the passing of his parents and a gap between him and his wife (Kathy Baker). On latenight drives from the nursing home, Nolan is drawn to a young male prostitute.

Williams gives a nuanced and restrained performance in this dower drama that’s unfortunately weighed down with some

cheesy dialog. While this is his last dramatic feature, Williams’ final appearance is set to release in a sci-fi comedy with an ensemble of British comedians who can operate at his comic velocity.

“Good Kill” (M) – Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a veteran Air Force pilot, whose latest mission has him blowing up Taliban from an air-conditioned drone-control base in Las Vegas. As his targets erupt on video monitors, the seasoned soldier struggles to make sense of his role in this new kind of war. This struggle pushes him ever further from his vexed wife, Molly (January Jones of TV’s “Mad Men”), and forces him to question his core beliefs about war.

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Hanya Yanagihara writes a novel in praise of friendship – and how it endures

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is published in hardback by Pan Macmillan.

AT the opening of A Little Life, Malcolm, Willem, JB and Jude, all in their early twenties, have arrived in New York, and are attempting to translate the ambitions and friendships formed at college into a harsher world.

Each are wrestling with their own dilemmas: privilege and pennilessness, parents too doting or too absent, but it is Jude, already on his way to becoming a ruthlessly effective lawyer, who appears truly unable to escape the events of a horrifically traumatic past.

Their lives unwind over the next three decades and more than seven hundred pages, and as their relationships deepen and complexify, Jude comes to dominate the narrative, battling his past as the other characters

buoy him up. As we learn, piece by piece, about the abuse to which he was subjected, Yanagihara deftly explores how the experiences of childhood unfold inexorably down the years, and whether individuals have the capacity to ever truly overcome them.

This is no simple redemption story, and she continues to plunge Jude back into the pit from which others are trying to free him.

The characters' unswerving devotion to each other can feel unrealistic, their success in their respective fields – Willem a movie star, Malcolm an international architect, JB exhibiting at MoMA – improbable. The New York they inhabit appears divorced of any historical happening: no AIDS, no 9/11, no Obama.

Yanagihara has created a fairytale, but the novel's ultimate accomplishment is in failing to provide us with a fairytale ending. In the suspension of our disbelief, she is able to utterly immerse us in her charac-

ters, and it is rare and refreshing to see male emotions given so nuanced a portrayal.

Above all, it is a novel in praise of friendship, of how it endures and how it sustains us through the big events of little lives.

9/10 (Review by Adam Weymouth)

oozing from every page and the different narrative perspectives (from Abi and Bea) keep you guessing until the end about the characters' motives.

This is hugely enjoyable and a very addictive read that will leave you at the edge of your seat.

8/10 (Review by Georgina Rodgers)

O FICTION

Every Night I Dream Of Hell by Malcolm Mackay is published in hardback by Mantle.

WHEN Nate Colgan accepts the job of 'security consultant' with the Jamieson organisation, one of Glasgow's most feared gangs, he doesn't realise what he's getting into. Times are tough for the firm, what with their leader and his sidekick both safely locked up in HM Prison Barlinnie.

Matters are not helped by the fact Nate's appointment coincides with the execution of a minor, yet key, member of the enterprise. Someone wants to send them a message. A new gang has arrived in town, from Birmingham of all places. Seeing an opportunity to move in on the Jamieson's turf, they threaten to annihilate the Glasgow firm's power.

And Nate has other troubles to contend with, in the shape of Zara Cope, ex-lover and mother of his child, who mysteriously wants to re-enter his life.

This is Malcolm Mackay's fifth novel and if you like your crime fiction boiled to within an inch of its life, this morally complex, twisty-turny tale won't disappoint.

6/10 (Review by Anita Chaudhuri)

The Sunshine Cruise Company by John Niven is published in hardback by William Heinemann.

WHAT do you do when you're a 60-year-old middle-class housewife and your comfortable suburban lifestyle is destroyed by your husband's eye-watering death in a secret sex dungeon? If you're Susan Frobisher, you recruit your down-at-heel best friend; a wheelchair-bound, obese, octogenarian nymphomaniac from a care home and a straight-laced amateur dramatics fan to rob the local bank.

John Niven's sharp satire on modern British life follows the quartet as they scarper to the south of France with millions in loot, trying to keep ahead of blundering British detectives and the Russian Mafia.

It is profane, raucous and at times makes you wince, yet comes with an undercurrent of tenderness that steers it away from slapstick. The pace is unrelentingly fast like a film script, something the Scots writer and screenwriter perhaps has planned.

If you like your humour dark and your jokes filthy, it should definitely be in the bag for a late holiday.

8/10 (Review by David Wilcock)

If you like your humour dark and your jokes filthy, you’ll like “The Sunshine Cruise Company” by John Niven, pictured. PHOTO: JAS LEHAL/RANDOM HOUSE

The Sisters by Claire Douglas is published in paperback by Harper.

DEBUT authors seem to have dominated the fiction charts this year; from The Miniaturist to the success of The Girl On The Train, fresh voices seem to have caught the public's imagination.

Douglas won the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with this psychological thriller about a girl named Abi, who is making a fresh start in Bath after the death of her twin sister, Lucy.

One day she meets free spirit Bea and her brother Ben, who she is immediately drawn to. She is welcomed into their circle of friends but relationships quickly sour and weird things start to happen.

The plot is very tight, with tension

Among The Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont is published in hardback by Oneworld Publications.

THE most frustrating thing about this debut novel from American writer Julia Pierpont is that it kicks off with a bang.

New York artist Jack Shanley is a serial cheat but up until now, his wife Deb has pretended it's not happening and carried on as though nothing is amiss. But when one of Jack's disgruntled mistresses sends her explicit emails, exposing the details of their long affair, the evidence accidentally falls into the hands of the couple's 11-year-old daughter, Kay, who passes them to her older brother Simon.

Despite this great opener, the rest of the book labours on at a slow, rambling pace with far too much dreary, everyday detail. Unfortunately, none of the

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key characters are likeable or interesting enough to make us care what happens to them, making the denouement a damp squib.

5/10 (Review by Gill Oliver)

O NON-FICTION Think Like An Engineer: Inside The Minds That Are Changing Our Lives by Guru Madhavan is published in paperback by Oneworld Publications.

WE remember the name of penicillin-discoverer Alexander Fleming. But who now recalls Margaret Hutchinson?

It was she who combined her knowledge of fermentation research and petrochemical process engineering to massproduce the contents of Fleming's tiny petri dish. Thanks to her ingenuity, substantial quantities of antibiotics were available in 1944 to treat the wounded from the Normandy Landings.

Biomedical engineer Guru Madhavan's book has many more fascinating illustrations of how engineers have enhanced our lives – from John Shepherd-Barron's invention of the ATM machine, to

David Koon, a bereaved father, who campaigned successfully to have GPS phone-tracking capability installed as part of the US emergency services' response to calls. ("I had to teach legislators starting from latitudes and longitudes.")

Yet Madhavan also hints, intriguingly, that terrorists and fundamentalists may be drawn disproportionately from the ranks of engineers.

Ironic then, that this section of the book, about engineering's downside, is the part that lacks rigour.

7/10 (Review by Liz Ryan)

The propaganda machine RISTOTLE commented on the early scene of democracy in Greece when he wrote “The Art of Rhetoric”.

One has to question that the rhetoric leaders spew forth today is more akin to an apology for reality and are simply personality attacks on those with opposing views.

Given the repeated media commentary on issues that are clearly short on status when it comes to national development and security, it has become clear that an agenda for degradation of our society is in place.

In the last two months one of the Sydney newspapers has run a daily article on Climate Change, a clear recognition of it having emphasis – there needed to be another batch of propaganda.

Paul Sheehan’s recent press article relates a TV drama series in which a journalist kept fabricating stories to advance his career. The hero is a police officer who also fabricates stories to pursue a dangerous criminal because the bureaucracy kept blocking his attempts. The journalist won the Pulitzer Prize – the cop who brought down the city’s drug lord was forced out of the force. Sheehan likens this to current media commentary and Union reaction to the current Union Royal Commission.

“Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for solutions to the climate crisis” by Tim Flannery is due for release this month. Years ago he wrote the book “The Weather Makers” in which he argues that Earth’s climate system is approaching a crisis. In

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his new book, he writes on the trouble we are in with a current analysis of some of the new possibilities for mitigating climate change. We are going to see an ongoing emphasis on this subject in the run up to the United Nations Climate Change Summit to be held in Paris in December. The media makes no attempt to analyse his commentaries yet are prepared to personally reproach scientists such as Ian Plimer.

Ian Plimer has challenged the arguments put forward by the Climate Change agenda and he is well qualified to pursue that effort. He wrote “Minerals & Rocks of Broken Hill, White Cliffs, & Tibooburra districts” revealing him working underground in 1986 at Broken Hill.

After obtaining his PhD he returned to work at university, this practical and academic experience qualifying him beyond question.

He wrote “Heaven & Earth” in 2009 to explain the “Missing Science” in the global warming

issue. In 2014 he wrote “Not For Greens” which challenges the Greens’ agenda. The commentary runs: “Greens may have started as genuine environmentalists Much of the green movement has now morphed into an unelected extremist political pressure group accountable to no one. Greens create problems, many of which are concocted, and provide no solutions because of a lack of basic knowledge.”

It continues “that unless the Greens live substantially in caves in the forest and use no trappings of the modern world, then they should be regarded as hypocrites and treated with the disdain they deserve”. Yet there are those who choose to criticise the person rather than challenge the science.

So much of the emphasis on Climate Change/Global Warming benefit is directed at metropolitan people – that is where most of the votes are. Those of us who have lived in the bush without air-conditioning decades ago know that the climate has changed for as long as we can remember.

“A Book of Traveller’s Tales” collected by Eric Newby features a reference to temperature recordings 170 years ago. In 1844 Sturt left Adelaide on his last expedition to reach the centre of the continent. He set up camp at Depot Glen near Milparinka.

On 27 January 1845 he recorded temperatures of 132 degrees F in the shade, and 157 degrees F in the sun. And people who live in the country will confirm that temperatures and rainfalls

The Secret Of The Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui is published in paperback by Pushkin Children’s Books.

TOMIKO Inui was an award-winning pioneer of children’s fantasy writing in Japan before her death in 2002. English-speaking readers can now enjoy her work for the first time thanks to this translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

In a dusty house in Tokyo live two families.

One is a normal Japanese family. The other residents are what you might call little people. They are Fern, Balbo, Robin and Iris.

All they need is their nightly glass of milk from the human family.

It is a fitting agreement until WWII breaks out. And the little people’s milk from the humans starts to thin out.

But the humans are facing troubles of their own. It will take lots of courage and heart and a very loyal and brave pigeon to bring these

families together again.

This book is, in a word, different. But that does not mean it is not brilliant. The author was very imaginative with the storyline, which flows like a river.

It touched my heart and I really lost myself in it. This book is brilliant for fans of Michael Morpurgo or war stories. So go ahead – explore the journey of the little people and their human friends.

9/10 (Review by Noah Sanders, aged 10)

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We stock a large format map produced by the Australian Climate Bureau and as one browses the 100 years of annual rainfall distribution, not one of them is a replica of another.

The Climate Change issue can be seen as a major detraction from the real problem of threats to legitimate government. Author James Allan identifies five Western countries, one of which is Australia, where the downhill run is in motion.

Published in 2014, his book “Democracy in Decline” says that “something very odd is going on. The core Anglophone democracies – among the oldest, most stable, constitutionally-evolved societies on earth, and the indispensable members of that small group of western nations which resist totalitarian temptations of the 20th century – have been spending the first years of the new millennium in the remorseless retreat from liberty.” It is being replaced by slippery threats to real freedom and representative government from ersatz – “human rights”

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Ramien’s Timber Co. presents Farmpunk

BY RUBY JANETZKI THE Farmpunk exhibition currently showing at Ramien’s Timber combines salvaged farm machinery, photography and recycled timber to “evoke the nostalgia of rural life in Australia”. These sculptures are the collaboration of sculptor and artisan Pete Denison and Ramien’s Timber.

“I’m from the bush – and I know its beauty and its struggles. These sculptures pay homage to farmers who, for whatever reason, are forced off the land.

This is the story of my own father,” Pete said of his artworks.

“Understanding the disconnect when farmers move to the suburbs, my aim is that these works will bring a little of the land into their life.”

The exhibition is showing until September 28.

The sculptors on display

Pete Dennison introduces his artworks

The sculptors on display

Vicki and Bonnie Vance

Mardi Remond and Andrew Graham

Jane Furney, Brenda Stevenson and Angus McLean

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BY MADDIE CONNELL DUBBO was lucky to have hosted the Latin American Film Festival at the DRTCC. Films were screened on both Saturday and Sunday, August 29 and 30. While it was the first time the festival had visited Dubbo, this is the 11th year the festival has shows films across Australia. It usually only visits capital and provincial cities such as Canberra, Wollongong, Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. The Latin American film festival was a free event with all ages welcome.

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Dubbo Macquarie Lions Club Swap Meet Car & Bike Show RUBY JANETZKI THERE was plenty of vintage, veteran car, motorcycle parts and Australian memorabilia to be found at this year’s Dubbo Macquarie Lions Club Swap Meet Car & Bike Show held on Sunday, August 30, at Dubbo Showground.

There was plenty of vintage wares to be seen

Dean Cole from Shannon’s Insurance

Some of the vintage cars for sale and display on the day

Rose Maros, Andrew Spackman and Amelia Patterson

Some of the vintage cars for sale and display on the day

Pansa the dog enjoying the meet

Emma Munro and Matt van Schyndel

The Kransky Sisters get the laughs at RSL

By MADDIE CONNELL THERE was no better place to be than the Dubbo RSL Club on Saturday, August 29, where the audience enjoyed the Kransky Sisters show!

Chris Franklin and Tracey and Mark Jarrett

Courtney and Craig Granger

Steve Aughey and Danielle Wilson

The O’Brien Family

Wattie and Marlene Cresswell

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National Tree Day at Regand Park RUBY JANETZKI MANY new trees were planted at Regand Park on Sunday, August 30, for Dubbo’s contribution to National Tree Day.

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Des Mackey watering the newly planted trees

Georgia Pillon ready to plant her tree

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hear ... the ruckus at the ...a prisoner’s story at Old National All-breeds Junior Dubbo Gaol.

Heifer Show.

AS one of the most popular tourist atIT’S the region’s mecca for livestock events and the Dubbo Showground will be the venue for this year’s show. This event is open to the public this weekend proving it’s a great occasion for the community and local youth who get an opportunity to improve their knowledge of the agricultural and beef industry.

tractions in country New South Wales, this fully restored 1800s gaol is enhanced with some of the latest technology in entertainment.

Animatronics and hologram exhibits bring to life the stories and atmosphere of this fascinating place and relic of pioneering Australia.

The Old Dubbo Gaol caters for all

levels of interest especially families.

Experience the eerie silence of solitary confinement, view the living conditions and examples of prison labour, inspect actual prisoner records and discover their crimes and sentences. The entrance to the gaol is located off Macquarie Street.

... the sheep complain about sheering THE Grenfell Show is held annually and

this year’s dates are this weekend on September 4 and 5.

The Grenfell Show features old favourites including shearing competitions, yard-dog trials, tractor pull, wood chop, horses, photography, fruit, floral displays and livestock. If you haven’t been to Grenfell, the show is an opportunity to immerse yourself in country hospitality and a day of family fun.

For more information visit www.grenfell.org.au.

see ... Dubbo’s state of the art cultural centre HOUSING both the City’s art gallery and its museum. Exhibitions include travelling displays and permanent collections.

The Gallery’s collection focuses on ‘The Animal in Art’ and includes sculptures, children’s book illustrations, works by George Lambert and other two dimensional works in a variety of media.

The Gallery also offers regular changing exhibitions, currently you can view exhibitions such as Iconic Australian Houses, Stars in

the River, Scanlines and Wildside.

For more information contact the Western Plains Cultural Centre on (02) 6801 4444.

... the RAAF Roulettes on display this weekend AT Narromine Airport, the RAAF Roulettes Aerobatics Display will support the annual AUSFLY 2015 on Friday, 4 and Saturday, 5 September at 3:30pm. AUSFLY 2015 provides an opportunity for Australia’s recreational and sports aviators to enjoy a weekend of air-

borne action.

The Roulettes are the Royal Australian Air Force’s aerobatic display team based at RAAF Base East Sale. They will perform their display in six Pilatus PC-9/A aircraft: A two-seat, single-engine turboprop aircraft that is the advanced training aircraft of the Australian Defence Force.

Throughout the display each pilot will maintain their aircraft only three metres from each other whilst conducting aerobatics and flypasts down to 70m above the ground and at speeds up to 550km/h.

do ... the Dubbo Stampede at the Zoo. ENJOY one of NSW’s most unique running festivals. Walker and runners alike get to run ‘around the world’ in the iconic Taronga Western Plains Zoo. If you’re not a runner experience the ultimate zoofari.

Home to hundreds of rare and endangered animals including giraffes, rhinos, elephants and big cats, get involved in the daily keeper activities and special tours deliver magical experiences you will never forget.

The Zoo’s free access Savannah Visitor Plaza includes a shop, playground and cafe overlooking a lake and islands, home to lemurs and monkeys. Visit www.taronga.org.au for more information.

... join the Multicultural Festival this Saturday, September 5.

ENJOY many events including live entertainment (local and national acts) from 1.30pm – 5pm at Dubbo City Council Car Park.

At 2pm there will be a street parade with national costumes starting at Church Street Rotunda. From 5.30pm, join the Multicultural Festival dinner and concert at Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre.

Enjoy international cuisine by one of Dubbo’s leading chefs, Brian Perera. Multicultural entertainment throughout the night with a kids corner included. Tickets on sale from mid August at Dubbo Visitors Information Centre or online at www. stickytickets.com.au.

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Experience tranquility DUNDULLIMAL is set on four hectares surrounded by farmland but only five minutes from town. Once the property exceeded 25,000 acres and included the land now taken up by the Zoo and extended to Dubbo Airport. Established as the first settlement beyond Wellington, this property pre-dates the establishment of Dubbo.

Experience the tranquility of the unique part of Australian pioneering

history. Enjoy a self guided tour at your leisure and include a visit to the cafe – art gallery where you can choose from the menu with weekly specials.

One of the menu favourites amongst visitors is the ‘Dundullimal Tasting plate or their famous scones’. Stroll through the homestead’s extensive traditional gardens while the children play and visit the ducks and chickens. Volunteer guides can also assist and enhance your experience. More information available on the National Trust website.

... eat local EAT Local Thursday is a weekly farmers market held next on September 10.

Growers and makers bring their carefully and beautifully grown and presented goods to sell directly to eaters in the Wagga region.

Farmers (traders) are coming from Leeton, Griffith, Big Springs, Holbrook, Hume Murray, Tumbarumba, Batlow, Tumut, Junee, Ganmain, Coolamon, and everywhere in between with food

and produce they have grown with love and care. Come and buy straight-fromthe-maker lamb, beef, fruits, vegetables, honey, wines, eggs, sauces, juices, rice, flour, rolled oats herbs, cheeses, preserves, jams, chutneys, spices, breads, organic liquorice and chocolate, olive oils, table olives, dressings, pies, cakes, biscuits, pizzas, gluten-free foods, readyto-eat and take-home meals, healthy snacks, and much much more!

For more information visit www.eatlocalthursday.org.

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KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT

Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞLJ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

dŚĞƌĞ͛Ɛ ƉůĞŶƚLJ ƚŽ ƐĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚŽ Ăƚ ƚŚĞ KůĚ ƵďďŽ 'ĂŽů ƚŚŝƐ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚ͊

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL

VELDT RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ dƵĞƐĚĂLJ ƚŽ &ƌŝĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϳĂŵ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ͘ Open for dinner Monday to Saturday Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE

CLUB DUBBO

Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ͕ ŚŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ ƉĂƐƚĂƐ͕ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ

KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞƌŶĂƌĚŝ͛Ɛ ^hW /' ͘ ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ͕ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

GROCERIES DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϲĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϲƉŵ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϰƉŵ͘ dŚĞ njŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ŽīĞƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 04.09.2015 to Sunday 06.09.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, September 4 Better Homes And Gardens PRIME7, 7pm To make a home a haven, sometimes it’s best to call in the experts. And who better to share their wealth of knowledge than the Better Homes And Gardens team, who are here just in time to give some top tips for sprucing up the house and garden over the weekend. It’s not all hard work, with the gang squeezing in plenty of entertainment, too. Tonight, Joh visits the home of Dancing With The Stars host Shane Bourne, Dr Harry goes to the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra to have a close encounter of the wild kind, and Karen rustles up some tasty potato waffles.

ABC

MOVIE: Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery GO!, 9.50pm, M (1997) The psychedelic ’60s have left behind a force to be reckoned with: swinging British super spy Austin Powers resumes his relentless pursuit of the diabolical Dr Evil, when unleashed three decades later courtesy of cryogenics (like most things here, reality is insufferable). Charmless sexual banter, lascivious babes (including Liz Hurley), lashings of Union Jack kitsch and a beguiling distillation of all 007’s idiosyncrasies – only Mike Myers could pull this one off. His comic nuances are infectious.

Although the laugh/gag ratio isn’t as high as The Spy Who Shagged Me, this one “put the ‘ger’ in swinger, baby, yeah!”

PRIME7

MOVIE: The Waterboy PRIME7, 8.30pm, M (1998) Another mindless comedy from the duke of dumb Adam Sandler (right). This his time he plays the lowly drinks runner for or a college o star gridiron team who is elevated to player by the coach (Henry y Winkler) for his uncanny ability to knock over big guys in helmets. Kathy Bates is inexplicably cast as his overbearing mother, and Fairuza Balk doesn’t wear much as the love interest.

While the sketch comedy-esque premise has potential – Sandler’s films aren’t known for their searing insights into nile the human condition – the juvenile jokes (and jocks) should fall flatt with people over the legal age.

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Fake Or Fortune? (R, CC) 11.30 Holy Switch. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 The Time Of Our Lives.

(M, R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Catalyst. (R, CC) 3.30 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) (Final) George expands the Warleggan empire.

4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) Quiz show.

5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Loss Of Faith.

(M, R, CC) (1998) A writer searches for a kidnapped child. John Ritter, Michele Scarabelli.

2.00 The Daily Edition.

(CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Join James Reeson for inspirational, easy recipes that can be cooked at home.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Huey. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.30 Bold. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals. (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 Soccer. (CC) 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 Salvage Hunters. (CC) (Series return) 4.30 Britain’s Best Drives.

(R, CC) 5.00 Room 101. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Cycling. (CC) La Vuelta a Espana. Stage 12.

Escaldes-Engordany to Lleida. 172.5km flat stage.

Highlights.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona and the team head to Charlecote Park, where they examine some local treasures.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) After Bullard asks Barnaby to investigate the disappearance of a friend’s daughter, he decides to send Jones undercover into the New Age cult the victim belonged to.

9.30 Line Of Duty. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 5. Having realised he was duped into covering up Jackie’s crime, Gates tries to sever his links with her. However, as the investigation by Arnott, Fleming and the anti-corruption unit continues to make headway, Gates finds himself enmeshed in a more perilous situation.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) 11.00 The Business. (R, CC) 11.20 Maximum Choppage.

(M, R, CC) Having become part of the fish-fighting circuit, Mrs Chan loses her shop in a bet with gang leader Kai Le. 11.50 Rage. (MA15+)

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh visits the home of Dancing With The Stars host Shane Bourne. Dr Harry pays a visit to the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra where he has a close encounter of the wild kind. Karen makes potato waffles.

8.30 MOVIE: The Waterboy.

(M, R, CC) (1998) Having been fired from his job as water boy for a university gridiron team, a man with anger problems offers to work for their rivals, who have been on an epic losing streak. Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk.

10.30 MOVIE: Big Daddy.

(PG, R, CC) (1999) A 30-something playboy and failed law student, finds his relationship with his girlfriend in peril after she finally becomes fed up with his lazy lifestyle.

Determined to prove himself to her, he decides to adopt a boy. Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 26. Sydney Roosters v South Sydney Rabbitohs.

From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: Thunderball.

(PG, R, CC) (1965) British secret agent James Bond leads an international contingent to find two nuclear weapons that were stolen by SPECTRE, before they can be detonated. His search leads him to the Bahamas, where he comes into contact with Emilio Largo, the master criminal behind the venture. Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Rick Van Nutter.

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) To celebrate Father’s Day, Barry Du Bois creates a man cave for the “world’s best dad”.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with celebrity guests from Australia, including Nicole Kidman, Margo Robbie, Hugh Jackman, Rebel Wilson, Sia and Kylie Minogue.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at the news, with Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Abby Coleman, Chrissie Swan and Hamish Blake. Hosted

by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 MOVIE: Mona Lisa Smile.

(PG, R, CC) (2003) In the 1950s, a free-thinking art teacher upsets a conservative girls school and the local community.

Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles.

6.00 Floyd Around The Med. (CC) (New Series) British celebrity cook Keith Floyd embarks on a culinary exploration of the Mediterranean.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 The Classic Car Show.

(PG, CC) Quentin Willson goes behind the wheel of an icon of ’70s glam rock, the Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible once owned by a billionaire. Heading to France, Jodie Kidd pays a visit to the classic Circuit de Reims-Gueux.

8.30 JFK: The Smoking Gun. (M, R, CC) Australian homicide detective, Colin McLaren, sets out to discover the truth about who killed John F. Kennedy. Drawing on forensic evidence and eyewitness accounts, he reveals how he believes the fatal gunshot came from a secret service agent, riding in the car behind the president.

10.05 World News. (CC) 10.35 MOVIE: Ages Of Love.

(MA15+, R) (2011) Three romantic short stories exploring the three stages of life and love. Monica Bellucci, Robert De Niro, Riccardo Scamarcio.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Last Resort. (M, R, CC) (Final) The battle for control of the submarine leaves the Colorado vulnerable to capture by the Chinese.

1.30 Home Shopping.

12.40 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.40 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 2.10 MOVIE: Bloodworth.

(AV15+, CC) (2010) A man returns home to his family.

Val Kilmer.

4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.55 The Talk. (PG, CC) Guests include Pat Harvey, Ali Wentworth and Dr Gadget.

2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.50 MOVIE: Vincere. (M, R) (2009) A woman’s marriage descends into madness. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi.

3.05 Falcón. (AV15+, R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.10pm 12 Years A Slave (2013) Drama. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’o. In 1841, a free citizen of New York is kidnapped and sold into slavery. (MA15+) Masterpiece

6.30pm Ella Fitzgerald: Best Of The BBC Vaults. One of the 20th century’s greatest artists is captured live in concert in this veritable treasure trove of recently unearthed Ella Fitzgerald shows. (G) Arts

7.30pm Killer IQ: Lion Vs Hyena. (PG) Animal Planet

6.00am Tennis. US Open.

Day 4. Fox Sports 4

7.30pm Hitler’s Last Secrets.

Follows Hitler’s obsession with Richard Wagner’s music. (PG) History

7.50pm Football. AFL. Round 23. Richmond v North Melbourne. Fox Footy

6.40pm Ray Donovan.

(MA15+) Showcase

7.30pm Rock Legends. This episode looks at Neil Diamond, who has sold more than 125 million records worldwide. (G) Biography

8.30pm Raging Bull (1980) Biographical. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci. (MA15+) Masterpiece 8.30pm Sliding Doors (1998) Drama. Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah. (M) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket.

(R) 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 Dinosaur Train.

(R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, CC) 9.20 Outsiders With Darren McMullen. (M, CC) (New Series) 10.05 Second Chance. (PG, CC) 10.10 Jimmy Fallon. (M, CC) 10.55 Sex Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 11.35 This American Life. (M, R, CC) 12.35 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.20 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 1.40 Jimmy Fallon. (M, R, CC) 2.25 News Update. (R) 2.30 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) 5.15 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.40 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.35 The Story Of Bran Nue Dae. (R, CC) 11.00 Writers On Writing. (R, CC) 11.30 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, CC) 12.45 A Gurls Wurld. (R, CC) 1.10 WAC. (R, CC) 1.35 Lab Rats Challenge. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R, CC) 2.25 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 2.35 The Jungle Bunch. (R) 2.45 Canimals. (R) 2.55 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 3.05 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion. (R, CC) 3.30 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 3.50 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.15 Odd Squad. 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 5.00 RAWR. (CC) 5.02 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (CC) 5.10 Doodles.

5.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 5.25 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 5.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 6.20 Spooksville. (PG, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Horrible Histories.

(R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 7.55 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 8.50 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (PG, CC) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.45 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Close.

10.30pm Frasier. Mel and Donny continue their revenge.

(PG) TV Hits

10.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 26. Roosters v Rabbitohs. Fox Sports 1

Robert De Niro stars in Raging Bull

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Match It. (C, CC) 7.30 Hairy Legs. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R, CC) 12.00 Packed To The Rafters. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 How To Get Away With Murder. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 3.00 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover.

(PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) A dog team clears a derelict building.

8.00 Animal Airport.

(PG, R, CC) Night shift deals with a pet chimpanzee.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

The team heads to the Cotswolds.

10.30 Best House On The Street. (PG, R) 11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.00 Homes Under The Hammer.

(R) 1.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 2.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.30 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 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 8.30 Doc McStuffins. (R) 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 Dream Car Garage. (R) 11.00 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Star Wars Rebels. (PG, R) 3.30 American Stuffers. (PG, R) 4.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 5.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 SCU: Serious Crash Unit: Lincoln/Newton Road.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 23. Richmond v North Melbourne. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 MOVIE: Sniper 2.

(M, R, CC) (2002) Tom Berenger.

12.50 MOVIE: Home Invasion.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1997) 3.00 Jail. (M, R) 3.30 Ultimate Factories. (R) 4.30 Great Escapes.

(R)

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Sonic Boom.

(PG) 7.30 Move It. (C, CC) 8.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Magical Tales. (P, R, CC) 9.30 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 10.30 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 11.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra.

(CC) 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live.

2.00 Mom. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Sonic Boom. (PG) 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) 6.00 MOVIE: Spy Kids.

(PG, R, CC) (2001) 7.50 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks. (R, CC) (2007) Jason Lee, David Cross.

9.50 MOVIE: Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery. (M, R, CC) (1997) Mike Myers. 11.50 Mom. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Sun, Sex And Suspicious Parents. (M, R) 1.20 GO Surround Sound. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. (R) 3.00 TMZ. (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 Cricket. (CC) First Oneday International. England v Australia. Evening session. Game 1. Continued. 7.00 Countryfile.

(PG) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct. 9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: The Oracle. (R, CC) (1953) 2.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 2.50 Poirot.

(PG, R) 4.00 Alive And Cooking.

(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 returns to Layer Marney Tower.

8.30 MOVIE: Chisum.

(PG, R, CC) (1970) A cattle baron battles corrupt officials. John Wayne, Forrest Tucker.

10.45 MOVIE: The Elephant Man. (M, CC) (1980) 1.15 MOVIE: Only Two Can Play.

(PG, R, CC) (1962) Peter Sellers.

3.15 MOVIE: Carry On Screaming!

(PG, R, CC) (1966) Kenneth Williams. 5.15 River Cottage Bites.

5.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 8.30 Adv Angler. (R) 9.00 Working Below Zero. (R) 10.00 Totally Wild.

(R, CC) 10.20 Firies. (PG, R, CC) 10.50 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.50 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 12.50 Burn Notice. (M, R) 1.45 David Letterman. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (R, CC) 4.00 Whacked Out Sports. (PG) 4.30 Operation Repo. (PG) 5.00 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Moments Of Impact.

(PG) Takes a look at lifethreatening moments.

8.30 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) Follows the work of elite lifeguards.

9.30 MOVIE: Bad Ass. (AV15+, R, CC) (2012) A man takes the law into his own hands. Danny Trejo, Charles S Dutton.

11.20 Bellator MMA. (M) 12.20 Shopping. 2.20 Adv Angler.

(R) 2.50 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 3.50 World Sport. (R) 4.00 The Road To 2015. (R) 5.00 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel.

(PG, R) 11.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 11.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (PG, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG) 3.30 Raymond.

(PG, 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 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 New Girl. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Dating Naked. (M, R) Two daring singles go on three dates.

9.30 MOVIE: Housesitter.

(PG, R, CC) (1992) A man’s marriage proposal is rejected. Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin.

11.35 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 12.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 1.00 The Crazy Ones.

(M) 1.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.00 JAG. (PG, R) 3.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Touched By An Angel. (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 The Feed. (R) 4.30 India’s Dancing Superstar. (R) 5.35 American Ninja Warrior. (PG, R) 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed. Hosted by Marc Fennell.

8.00 Brain Games. Hosted by Jason Silva.

8.30 Close Up Kings. (PG) Follows the antics of three magicians.

9.25 12 Monkeys. (MA15+) Ramse tries to protect his family.

10.15 From Dusk Till Dawn.

(MA15+, R) The brothers escape from the motel.

12.00 Friday Feed. (R) 12.30 PopAsia. (PG) 2.35 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 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. 12.30 Away From Country. 1.30 2011 Koori Knockout.

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 Week In Review.

6.00 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. (PG) 6.30 Outback Cafe. 7.00 NITV News Week In Review. 7.30 Kriol Kitchen. 8.00 Characters Of Broome. 8.30 Australian Biography. (PG) 9.00 Go Girls. (M, CC) 10.00 Jazz. (PG) 11.00 NITV News Week In Review.

11.30 Australian Biography.

12.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout.

2.30 Murri Carnival 2012: The Documentary. 3.00 Jazz. (PG) 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Trucking Yards v Central Arre.

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) 4.00 News With The Business. (CC) 5.00 News With Grandstand. (CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News With Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 News With The Business. (CC) 9.00 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, September 5 MOVIE: Look Who’s Talking PRIME7, 2.30pm, PG (1989) A single gimmick showcase headed by principals John Travolta and Kirstie Alley who undergo a courtship which, for the most likeable part, is relayed to the audience via the perceptive observations of the latter’s infant son (voiced by Bruce Willis).

With limited reward you’ll walk away from this no-brainer wondering how the ’80s managed to serve up such sentimental confection. Not to mention bad hair. A case of teething troubles for mercurial director Amy Heckerling (Clueless).

ABC

MOVIE: Dumb & Dumber

Far Flung With Gary Mehigan

GO!, 9.40pm, PG (1994) From the Farrelly brothers (There’s Something About Mary) comes their first serve of gross-out laughs.

Starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, two incredibly dimwitted losers take an interstate expedition to return a suitcase to rightful owner Lauren Holly. The Farrellys’ basic premise is to concoct the most unthinkable connotations of stupidity and outright dumbness and place Carrey and Daniels in the thick of it. A wicked and riotous brew of toilet humour, witty one-liners and naive profanity.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Restoration Australia: Keith Hall. (PG, R, CC) Presented by Sibella Court.

1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

2.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Barnaby investigates a disappearance.

3.30 Kakadu. (PG, R, CC) Part 2 of 4.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Inspector George Gently. (PG, R, CC) A lonely, old man is murdered.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 The Zoo. (R, CC) A love triangle erupts between the lions.

12.30 MOVIE: Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. (R, CC) (2010) Nick Jonas.

2.30 MOVIE: Look Who’s Talking. (PG, R, CC) (1989) A single mother falls for a taxi driver. John Travolta.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh visits ex-Victorian premier Jeff Kennett.

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 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 MOVIE: Did You Hear About The Morgans?

(PG, R, CC) (2009) Hugh Grant.

2.30 House Husbands.

(PG, R, CC) 3.30 Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) 4.00 Adam’s Pasta Pilgrimage. (CC) 4.30 Dr Lisa To The Rescue.

(CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 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) 2.00 iFish. (R, CC) 3.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 3.30 Just Go. (CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams.

(CC) Explores travel destinations.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News.

8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Zumbo. (R, CC) 2.30 Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Wars. (R, CC) 3.25 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne Bitesize. (R, CC) 3.30 James May’s Man Lab. (R, CC) 4.30 Archaeology: A Secret History. (R, CC) 5.30 Cycling. (CC) La Vuelta a Espana. Stage 13.

Calatayud to Tarazona.

Highlights.

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Costa and the team provide some practical, easy to digest advice on what to do for springtime in the garden.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Last Tango In Halifax.

(PG, CC) Caroline is overwhelmed at the prospect of the new baby, until a stranger walks into her life.

8.30 New Tricks. (M, R, CC) Miller faces a dilemma after the revelation of a corrupt senior officer throws a previous conviction into doubt.

9.30 Old School. (M, R, CC) Cath calls on Ted for help with an investigation into a robbery where $200,000 has been stolen.

10.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) (Final) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

11.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (MA15+, R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring guest Katherine Ryan taking an off-beat look at events of the week.

11.45 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by guest programmer, Daniel Johns.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End. (PG, R, CC) (2007) Will, Elizabeth and Captain Barbossa try to free Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones’s locker in the hope of uniting the pirates against the British Navy and its secret weapon, the Flying Dutchman. However, in order to do so they must venture beyond the world’s end. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley.

10.30 MOVIE: S.W.A.T. (M, R, CC) (2003) An elite team of Los Angeles police officers is assigned to transport an international drug kingpin into federal custody after he offers $100 million to anyone who can free him. As a result, it is not long before they find themselves on the run as they fend off all manner of threats. Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Monsters Vs Aliens. (PG, R, CC) (2009) After being transformed into a giant by a meteor, a young woman finds herself imprisoned by the government alongside her fellow “monsters”. However, when a mysterious alien menaces the planet, she and her fellow outcasts are recruited to deal with the problem. Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson.

8.50 MOVIE: You Only Live Twice. (PG, R, CC) (1967) British secret agent James Bond travels to Japan to find an American spacecraft after it disappears in orbit over Russia. Sean Connery, Tetsuro Tamba, Akiko Wakabayashi.

11.15 MOVIE: Extreme Measures. (M, R, CC) (1996) A British doctor working in a New York hospital uncovers a conspiracy after investigating a homeless man’s death. The trail leads to a brilliant doctor, whose experimental surgeries are designed to allow spinal damage victims to walk again. Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman.

6.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (CC) (Final) MasterChef Australia judge and chef Gary Mehigan travels to the food mecca of Hong Kong, where he gets a lesson in how to make dumplings from legendary chef Mak from Tim Ho Wan. 7.00 MOVIE: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

(PG, R, CC) (2011) A group of British retirees travels to India to live in what they have been told is a luxurious hotel. Although the establishment is not what they expected, they soon find themselves charmed by their exotic surroundings. Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith.

9.30 MOVIE: Stepmom.

(M, R, CC) (1998) After learning she has cancer, a divorced woman finds herself struggling to cope with her own mortality while dealing with the fact another woman appears to be replacing her in her children’s lives. Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris.

6.00 Grand Tours Of Scotland: A Bed For The Night. (R, CC) Paul Murton travels from the shores of Firth of Forth into the depths of rural Perthshire.

His trip requires him to face one of the challenges tourists to Scotland have dealt with for ages, where to sleep.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Britain’s Secret Treasure Islands: Atlantic Arks.

(PG, CC) Part 1 of 4.

Explorer Stewart McPherson sets out to visit all 14 of the UK’s Overseas Territories.

8.30 MOVIE: Zero Dark Thirty. (M, CC) (2012) Based on a true story.

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, an elite group of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devote themselves to finding and eliminating the leader of the organisation responsible, Osama bin Laden. Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Joel Edgerton.

11.25 Cycling. (CC) La Vuelta a Espana. Stage 14. VitoriaGasteiz to Fuente del Chivo, Alto Campoo.

From Spain.

1.35 MOVIE: Bad Boys.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1983) Sean Penn.

3.30 Count Arthur Strong. (PG) 4.00 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.05 48 Hours: Father And Son – The Verdict. (M, R) Takes a look at the murder of Uta von Schwedler.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. (R) Religious program.

2.00 Bobby Fischer Against The World. (M, R, CC) Explores the life of Bobby Fischer.

3.40 Masters Of Money: John Maynard Keynes. (R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

4.40 The Wilding. (M, R) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG) 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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Saturday, September 5 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

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6.25pm The Monuments Men (2014) Drama. George Clooney, Matt Damon. During World War II, a unit tries to retrieve artistic masterpieces.

(M) Masterpiece

7.00pm Baby Daddy. Riley and Tucker unintentionally get involved in Sondra’s marital woes. (PG) FOX8

6.00pm Caught Red Handed. Looks at ways in which the police and the public are setting ingenious traps to catch villains in the act. (M) Crime & Investigation

12.30pm Rugby League.

NSW Cup. Finals. Week 1.

Fox Sports 1

7.30pm Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) Family. Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd.

(PG) Family

7.35pm Grey’s Anatomy.

A super storm hits Seattle, putting the hospital into crisis mode and putting pressure on resources, as patients arrive en masse. (MA15+) SoHo

8.30pm Into The Wild (2007) Biographical. Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn. A student hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. (M) Masterpiece

7.40pm Black Sails. (MA15+) Showcase

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket.

(R) 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 Dinosaur Train. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep.

(R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 The Home Show. (PG, CC) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. (PG, CC) 10.05 The IT Crowd. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Sexy Beasts. (M, R, CC) 11.00 Archer. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.25 The Keith Lemon Sketch Show.

(M, R, CC) 11.45 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 12.55 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 1.20 The Home Show. (PG, R, CC) 2.15 News Update. (R) 2.20 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) 5.20 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.40 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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. (R) 11.00 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 11.25 Trop Jr. (R, CC) 11.30 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 11.55 Pet Superstars. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 1.30 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 2.10 Big Babies. (R, CC) 2.25 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 2.55 RAWR. (CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Pixelface.

(R, CC) 4.25 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 4.50 Slugterra. (R, CC) 5.10 SW: Clone Wars. (R, CC) 5.40 Operation Ouch! (R) 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, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 10.50 Close.

7.30pm The Sixties. Explores the most transformative decade of the modern era. (M) History

1.00pm Football. AFL. Round 23. Geelong v Adelaide.

Fox Sports 3 7.30pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 26. Cowboys v Titans. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Clint Eastwood: A Life In Film. (M) Biography Johnathan Thurston is a star player for the Cowboys

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 The Lucky Country. (PG, 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 Horse Racing. (CC) Dato Tan Chim Nam Stakes Day. Chelmsford Stakes Day. 5.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Animal Airport.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Fawlty Towers. (PG, R, CC) Basil decides to improve the clientele.

8.30 Endeavour. (M, R, CC) A murderer preys on married women.

10.30 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Wire In The Blood.

(MA15+, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: The Saint In London.

(PG) (1939) George Sanders, Sally Gray. 3.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue.

(R, CC) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. (R) 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 10.30 Timbersports. 2014 World Championships. Individual event.

Highlights. 11.00 Great Escapes.

(R) 12.30 Ultimate Factories. (R) 1.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 23.

Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs.

4.30 Trash To Treasure. (PG, R) 5.30 Inside West Coast Customs.

(PG, R) 6.30 SCU: Serious Crash Unit.

(PG, R, CC) A woman is seriously injured in a crash.

7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 23. Sydney v Gold Coast. From the SCG. 10.00 MOVIE: Signs. (M, R, CC) (2002) A crop circle appears on a widower’s farm. Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix.

12.15 MOVIE: 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days. (AV15+, R, CC) (2010) 2.15 Locked Up Abroad. (M) 3.30 Jail. (M, R) 4.30 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.00 Timbersports. 2014 World Championships. Individual event. Highlights. From Innsbruck, Austria. 5.30 Home Shopping.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Pirate Express. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 6.00 MOVIE: Space Jam. (R, CC) (1996) 7.40 MOVIE: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.

(PG, R, CC) (1995) Jim Carrey.

9.40 MOVIE: Dumb & Dumber.

(PG, R, CC) (1994) Jim Carrey.

12.00 Sun, Sex And Suspicious Parents. (M, R) 2.00 Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

(PG, R) 2.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: The Colditz Story.

(R, CC) (1955) 8.00 Danoz Direct.

8.30 The Baron. (PG, R) 9.30 MOVIE: State Secret. (R, CC) (1950) Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glynis Johns. 11.45 Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Postcards. (CC) 1.15 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 1.45 MOVIE: Dark Victory. (PG, R, CC) (1939) Bette Davis, George Brent.

4.00 MOVIE: Cheyenne Autumn. (PG, R, CC) (1964) 7.00 Cricket. (CC) One-Day International. England v Australia. Morning session.

Game 2. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

11.00 AFP: Australian Federal Police. (M, R, CC) A look at the work of the Australian Federal Police.

11.30 Cricket. (CC) One-Day International. England v Australia. Afternoon session. Game 2. From Lord’s Cricket Ground, London.

3.30 MOVIE: The Man Who Finally Died. (PG, R, CC) (1963) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC) The team heads to Mildura.

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 11.00 Kickboxing. Glory 18. Light Heavyweight Tournament. Davit Kiria v Robin Van Roosmalen.

Replay. 1.30 River To Reef. 2.00 Motor Racing. Australian GT Series.

3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Motor Racing.

Race To The Sky. 4.30 Reel Action.

5.00 Into Water And Beyond. (PG) 5.30 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Sarah Harris.

8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) The team investigates a string of infant abductions.

9.30 Graceland. (M) (New Series) An FBI agent is assigned to Graceland.

10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 12.00 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.30 Ripper Street. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 2.30 World Class Bartender Of The Year 2014. (PG, R) 3.30 Extreme Fishing With Robson Green. (PG, R) 4.30 Trans-Tasman Muscle Car Battle.

5.00 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 The Bachelor Australia. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 90210. (PG, R) 4.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG, R) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Ray and Debra deal with constant interruptions.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with celebrity guests from Australia.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Miranda is invited to the opening of Steve’s bar, but is afraid to go as he seems to have moved on.

10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) Hosted by James Corden.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted

by Scott Tweedie.

2.20 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (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 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 Streetosphere. (PG) 2.00 Toughest Place To Be A… (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 3.55 Swim. (PG, R, CC) 4.05 Departures. (PG, R) 5.00 Kung Fu Motion. (PG, R) 5.55 The Globe Collector. (PG, R) 6.05 Celebrity Chef. (PG) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 The Island With Bear Grylls: Women’s Island.

(M, R, CC) The women enter dangerous medical territory.

9.25 The Island With Bear Grylls: Men’s Island.

(M, R, CC) 11.20 MOVIE: 7 Boxes. (MA15+) (2012) Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez. 1.15 MOVIE: Masquerades. (PG, R) (2008) 3.00 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. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Kai Time On The Road.

8.00 Mparntwe: Sacred Sites.

(PG) 8.30 Away From Country.

(PG) Chronicling the achievements of Indigenous sporting greats.

9.30 MOVIE: Salute. (PG) (2008) Peter Norman’s involvement in the Black Power salute. Peter Norman.

11.00 Mparntwe: Sacred Sites. (PG) 11.30 Unearthed. 12.00 Leading The Way. (PG) 1.00 Chocolate Martini. 4.00 NITV On The Road: Yabun. 5.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (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. (Final) 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) (Final) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Landline. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 0509

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Sunday, September 6 MOVIE: You’ve Got Mail GEM, 7pm, PG (1998) As writer of When Harry Met Sally and director of Sleepless in Seattle, the late Nora Ephron was recognised as a leader in the romantic comedy field.

This was Ephron’s second bite at the cherry as writer and director, but the cherry became a little sour. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are true enemies in their shared profession, but are the best of friends in cyberworld. The key is not the destination but the journey and those who take the invitation will be swept up in feel-good waves of romance and sweetness. Ephron did better with Julie & Julia (2009).

ABC

MOVIE: Something’s Gotta Give GEM, 9.30pm, M (2003) A neatly cast Jack Nicholson does his ageing lothario act once more, but this time he’s awarded a love interest closer to his own age, in the form of a very Annie Hall-ish Diane Keaton.

Nicholson plays a 60-something record producer whose predilection for younger women is altered when Keaton’s writer character enters his life. Nancy Meyers’ sprightly and humorous tale of their rocky union is forged by the two stars’ effortless charisma and a shrewdly picked supporting cast (Amanda Peet, Frances McDormand and Keanu Reeves).

It will hardly have you guessing at every turn, but the razor-sharp dialogue will keep you on your toes.

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MOVIE: Transformers ONE, 9.30pm, M (2007) For most children of the ’80s, the names mes rnt into Optimus Prime and Megatron are burnt their consciousness. It might be this that Armageddon director Michael Bay was banking on. But it’s a case of more than meetss the eye for this explosive, action-packed flick in which alien shape-shifting le robot races descend on Earth to battle over their long-lost energy source.

Teenager Sam (Shia LaBeouf) obliviously holds the key to what they’re after, but will he realise his potential in time to save the planet?

With the help of the sexy Mikaela (Megan Fox, right) and a brave bunch of humans (including Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and Aussie starlet Rachael Taylor), he must fight to preserve mankind.

WIN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Bespoke: Rise Of The Makers. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 The Writers’ Room: New Girl. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Lost Tools Of Henry Hoke. (R, CC) 4.00 New Tricks. (M, 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 Making Of Pixels.

(PG, CC) 11.30 MOVIE: Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue.

(CC) (2010) 1.15 Medical Emergency.

(PG, R, CC) A woman is run over by her own car.

1.45 Air Crash Investigations: Death Of The President.

(PG, R, CC) Investigates the crash of a plane.

2.45 MOVIE: You Again.

(PG, R, CC) (2010) Kristen Bell.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 The Book Club. (CC) Host Jennifer Byrne is joined by Will Self and Jon Ronson at the Melbourne Writers Festival.

6.30 Compass: The Meaning Of Life – Sir Michael Parkinson.

(CC) Legendary English talk show show host Sir Michael Parkinson chats with Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (PG, CC) Host Kevin McCloud charts the process of ambitious home design and building projects around the UK. 8.30 Vera. (PG, CC) DCI Stanhope delves into the tangled past of an extreme sports fanatic after he plunges to his death from a Northumberland cliff, in a ball of flames.

10.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki hunts down the original detective on the case, Detective Inspector Gladwyn.

11.00 Silk. (M, R, CC) Clive’s celebration at having become a QC, is cut short after the son of the head of chambers is arrested.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

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) (Final) The team uncovers evidence at a crime scene which indicates they are dealing with a copycat of their old nemesis, serial killer Christopher Pelant.

Angela frets over her and Hodgins’ decision to move to Paris. Booth and Brennan consider a life without the Jeffersonian.

11.00 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) With McQuaid’s health hanging in the balance, Annie embarks on a reconnaissance mission in Istanbul to find Belenko.

Arthur takes over the reins of power at McQuaid Security. Calder recruits a new asset.

12.00 MOVIE: Disgrace.

(M, R, CC) (2008) John Malkovich.

1.55 MOVIE: Maid’s Night Out. (R) (1938) 3.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Silk. (M, R, CC) 5.00 The New Inventors.

(R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.00 Red Widow. (M, R, CC) Marta’s introduction to drug smuggling hits an unexpected snag after one of her contacts tries to blackmail her.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news.

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(PG, CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. (PG, R, CC) Follows the Foo Fighters.

Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Tim takes a trip to Dreamworld.

World’s Scariest.

(PG, R, CC) Documents holidays gone wrong.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 26. Cronulla Sharks v Manly Sea Eagles. From Remondis Stadium, Sydney.

TEN

SBS

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.30 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) Hosted by Paul Worsteling.

3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 RPM. (CC) Hosted by Matt White.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 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 Trawlermen. (R, CC) 5.00 From Scratch: Mower.

(R, CC) 5.30 Cycling. (CC) La Vuelta a Espana. Stage 14.

Vitoria-Gasteiz to Fuente del Chivo, Alto Campoo.

213km mountain stage.

Highlights.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block. (PG, CC) (Series return) Five new teams convert the former Hotel Saville in South Yarra, Melbourne, into apartments. They begin by tackling a 24-hour challenge to make over a room with the winner getting to decide what floor they will live on and renovate for the next 12 weeks. Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.20 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program.

9.30 Inside The Ku Klux Klan. (M, CC) Dan Vernon takes a look inside the Ku Klux Klan, America’s most notorious white supremacist group.

10.30 A.D. Kingdom And Empire. (M, CC) After Saul begins preaching in Jerusalem, an enraged Caiaphas tries to provoke him into a fight. James the Just arrives and offers to help Peter deal with Caiaphas. The Zealots and Ethiopians plot against Rome.

11.30 Stalker. (M, CC) Beth faces tough decisions about her future. Vicki reveals why she is back in Los Angeles.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Scorpion. (PG, CC) (Series return) Sylvester is seriously injured after he accidentally triggers an explosive device during an investigation.

7.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Phil and Jay run an errand together to pick up Lily’s secondhand princess castle for Joe. 8.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Alex is upset to learn she has to share the title of valedictorian with her rival, Sunjay.

8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) (Final) Avery confronts the hacker who released her patients’ information when she was a psychologist.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) DiNozzo returns to the military academy he attended as a teen to investigate the murder of a marine.

10.30 MOVIE: Almost Famous.

(M, R, CC) (2000) A rockobsessed teenager is given a chance to prove his worth as a journalist, by accompanying a band on tour. Patrick Fugit, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson.

6.00 Grand Tours Of Scotland: From Burns To Butlins. (R, CC) Presenter Paul Murton visits some of the places connected to the life of renowned Scottish poet Robert Burns.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 The Inca: Masters Of The Clouds: Clash Of Empires. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 2. Dr Jago Cooper reassess the origins, accomplishments and nature of the Inca Empire.

8.45 The Sugar Conspiracy.

(PG, CC) Exposes claims that the US sugar industry hijacked scientific studies to bury evidence that sugar is toxic. For 40 years, “Big Sugar” deflected threats to its multi-billion-dollar empire through creative PR and tactics strikingly similar to those used by the tobacco industry.

10.25 Italian Americans: Becoming Americans (1910 – 1930) (PG, CC) Part 2 of 4. A look at the Italian experience in America continues.

11.25 Cycling. (CC) La Vuelta a Espana. Stage 15. Comillas to Sotres, Cabrales.

From Spain.

12.30 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 2.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) The team helps an Allied agent.

3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

2.00 Bolshoi Theatre Re-Opening Gala. (R) 3.50 Made In Hollywood.

(PG, R) 4.55 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne Bitesize. (CC) 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul.

5.35 Japanese News.

11.00 1.00 2.00 2.30 3.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.15pm The Expendables 3 (2014) Action. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham. A team of mercenaries battle a ruthless arms trader. (M) Premiere

6.30pm Seinfeld. Elaine gets a new boyfriend. (PG) TV Hits

3.20pm Football.

AFL. Round 23. Collingwood v Essendon. Fox Footy

8.30pm Tammy (2014) Comedy. Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon. A bad day keeps getting worse for a burger-joint waitress. (M) Premiere

8.30pm Mad Men. (M) Showcase

7.30pm Prince Charles’ Other Mistress. The littleknown story of beautiful Australian socialite, Lady Dale “Kanga” Tryon, who won Prince Charles’ heart. (PG) Biography 8.30pm NASA’s Unexplained Files. A UFO crashes in Pennsylvania. (PG) Discovery

10.00pm Red Bull Air Race.

Stop 8. Fox Sports 3

7.30pm CSI: NY. A reformed drug addict is found dead. (M) TV Hits

10.30pm Animal Planet Heroes: Phoenix. (M) Animal Planet

10.45pm Green Lantern (2011) Action. Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively. (M) Action

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.25 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 1.40 Boj. (R, CC) 1.55 Mouk. (R, CC) 2.05 Bob The Builder: Project Build It. (R, CC) 2.20 Tinga Tinga Tales.

(R, CC) 2.35 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (R, 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 Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket.

(R) 5.00 Mike The Knight. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Dinosaur Train. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep.

(R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan. (PG, CC) 8.20 Gruen Planet: Cutdowns.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 The Sunnyboy.

(M, R, CC) 10.00 Outsiders With Darren McMullen. (M, R, CC) 10.50 Louis Theroux. (M, R, CC) 11.55 Lost Children. (M, R, CC) 12.40 The Fades. (M, R, CC) 1.40 News Update. (R) 1.45 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) 5.20 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.40 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Sea Princesses. (R, CC) 6.10 SamSam. (R, CC) 6.20 The New Adventures Of Peter Pan. (R, CC) 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher.

(R, CC) 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles.

(R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants.

(R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Grojband. (R, CC) 10.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.50 Canimals.

(R) 11.00 Wacky World Beaters.

(R, CC) 11.25 Trop Jr. 11.30 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House.

(R, CC) 12.30 M.I. High. (R, CC) 1.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 2.55 RAWR. (CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Horrible Histories. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 4.55 Big Babies. (R, 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, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 The Haunting Hour. (PG, CC) 8.50 Wolfblood. (PG, R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

4.30pm Golf. Asian PGA Tour.

Chiangmai Classic. Final round.

Fox Sports 2

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Michael Youssef.

(PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R) 12.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 12.30 A Place To Call Home. (PG, R) 6.30 Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railways. (PG) Presented

by Chris Tarrant.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Jules Hudson heads to Dorset.

9.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. Jenni Falconer helps a newly engaged couple find a property on the East Sussex coast where they can start their new life.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

Presented by Gary Takle.

11.00 Bridging The Golden Gate. (PG, R) Takes a look at the Golden Gate Bridge.

12.00 Escape To The Country.

(R) Jules Hudson heads to Dorset.

2.00 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 3.00 Hawkins River. (R) 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 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 1.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 23. Melbourne v GWS. 4.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 MOVIE: The Borrowers. (R, CC) (2011) Aisling Loftus.

6.30 MOVIE: Land Of The Lost. (PG, R, CC) (2009) A palaeontologist discovers a space-time vortex. Will Ferrell.

8.30 MOVIE: The Hot Chick. (M, R, CC) (2002) A beautiful, mean-spirited teenager finds herself trapped in the body of a middle-aged man.

Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams, Anna Faris.

10.35 MOVIE: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2005) A scruffy gigolo journeys to Amsterdam. Rob Schneider.

12.15 MOVIE: Wild Things II. (M, R, CC) (2004) 2.15 Locked Up Abroad. (M) 3.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 4.00 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 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 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: National Lampoon’s Vacation. (PG, R, CC) (1983) Chevy Chase.

8.30 MOVIE: Lethal Weapon 2.

(M, R, CC) (1989) Two cops try to bust drug smugglers.

Mel Gibson.

10.50 Car SOS. (PG, R) 11.50 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: A Nightmare On Elm Street. (AV15+, R) (2010) 2.15 Big School. (M, R, CC) 3.20 GO Surround Sound. (M, R, CC) 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: South Of Algiers. (R, CC) (1953) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Secret Dealers.

(PG, R, CC) 10.30 MOVIE: The Angry Silence. (PG, R, CC) (1960) 12.30 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Countryfile. (PG, R) 2.30 MOVIE: Invitation To A Gunfighter. (PG) (1964) 4.30 MOVIE: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. (1966) Alan Arkin.

7.00 MOVIE: You’ve Got Mail. (PG, R, CC) (1998) Two business rivals fall in love over the internet. Tom Hanks.

9.30 MOVIE: Something’s Gotta Give. (M, R, CC) (2003) An ageing bachelor falls for a woman his own age. Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton.

12.00 Believe. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 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)

Sylvester Stallone stars in The Expendables 3

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

Replay. 9.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 9.30 Motor Racing. Race To The Sky. Replay. 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Daryl Beattie Adventures: The Simpson Desert. (R, CC) 12.30 Moments Of Impact. (PG, R) 1.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 2.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 3.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (R, CC) 4.00 Adv Angler.

4.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder? (R, CC) 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Bondi Ink Tattoo. (M, R) The Bondi Rescue boys pop in for a tattoo.

9.30 MOVIE: Transformers.

(M, R, CC) (2007) A teenager is caught in a battle between robots. Shia LaBeouf.

12.20 World Sport. 12.50 The Americans. (AV15+, R, CC) 1.50 RPM. (R, CC) 2.50 48 Hours. (M, R) 3.50 Cops. (PG, R) 4.20 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 5.20 Football’s Greatest Teams. (PG, R) 5.50 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 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 90210.

(PG, R) (Final) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Herbert Powell asks the Simpsons for help.

8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Bart and Lisa endure Krusty’s summer camp.

8.30 MOVIE: Along Came Polly. (M, R, CC) (2004) A troubled man falls for an old classmate. Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston.

10.30 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 11.10 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.10 Nurse Jackie. (Series return) 12.40 The Crazy Ones. (M) 1.05 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (M, R) 4.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. (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. 2.20 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (M, R, CC) 3.10 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (R, CC) 3.35 Dressed Up For. (PG) 4.35 Brazil’s Next Top Model. (PG, R) 5.30 Vs Arashi.

6.25 Dare 2 Dance. (New Series) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R) Stan spends a fortune on freemium games.

9.00 Drunk History. (M, R) Hosted by Derek Waters.

9.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) The boys have an April Fools’ joke played on them.

10.00 Ali G: Remixed. (M, R) 10.25 Sex Toys: Frisky Business.

(MA15+, R) 11.20 Naked News: Uncovered! (MA15+) 11.50 In Her Skin. (M) 12.40 In Her Skin. (PG) 1.30 MOVIE: Eloise. (MA15+, R) (2009) 3.15 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News.

5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. (CC) AFC Champions League. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 1.30 Mparntwe: Sacred Sites. (PG) 2.00 Yorta Yorta Youth. 2.45 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.45 Rugby League.

Koori Knockout. 4.45 Unearthed.

5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken.

7.00 Ngurra.

7.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) Shorts from communities across the country.

8.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 8.30 The Abolitionists. (PG) 9.30 Venus And Serena. (M) 10.30 Born To Run. 11.30 Ngurra.

12.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

1.00 NITV On The Road. 2.00 Backyard Shorts. (PG) 2.30 Not Just Cricket. (PG) 3.00 Kriol Kitchen. 3.30 Mana Mamau. (M) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

5.00 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) (Final) 1.00 News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News.

(CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 News.

(CC) 7.30 Arthur Phillip: Governor, Sailor, Spy. (CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) (Final) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News.

4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 0609

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was 20th-century Hungarian author and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz who made the following sage observation: “The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquiliser, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic – in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea known to medical science – is work.” z The story that’s been adapted to film more than any other is the fairy tale “Cinderella”, the latest being the 2015 version starring Lily James (pictured) and Cate Blanchett. z While it’s true that paying to use transportation routes is nothing new, you might be surprised to learn the extent of some early pay-for-travel routes. In England in the early 1800s, there already were 30,000 miles of toll roads – not to mention 8000 toll gates. z During World War II, money was smuggled into German POW camps using Monopoly games – the real stuff was stashed in among the fake cash. z Twerking may be a modern phenomenon, but in the 16th century, it was not unusual for a gentleman to be caught twirking (with an “i,” not an “e”) in public. Of course, twirling the

by Samantha Weaver hairs of one’s moustache generally didn’t raise an eyebrow in polite society. z If you see a group of ducks in the water, you can call them, collectively, a “paddling” of ducks. In the air, however, the correct collective term is a “team”. z Before he became famous in his eponymous sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld appeared on the TV show “Benson” – he played the governor’s speechwriter. He didn’t last long, though; he was fired after just three episodes.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) A romantic meeting midweek can mean a fresh start. A New Moon at the weekend appears to confirm this exciting meeting of minds. You are inspired to make some changes to your appearance, perhaps adding more colour and glamour. Although work may be taking a back seat, the chance to add to your knowledge comes along. Changes to your lifestyle and diet will boost energy levels.

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TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21)

A meeting early in the week confirms something you have known for a long time. Will you make the changes that are necessary?

Be brave. Having a fear of the new and untested could see you miss out on moving forward. As long as you are practical in your approach, expect success. Someone you admire may seem unresponsive at the moment. It is all a matter of timing. Right now they have something pressing on their mind.

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Love

and luck seem to be coming your way this week. Indeed, the New Moon at the weekend seems especially good for you. In the meantime, aim to be at your best. Certainly don’t let standards slip midweek, when there is an important meeting. Your reputation as a lover may have gone before you! There is inspiration around every corner although it seems that someone is being inspired by your recent activities.

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) There is

sometimes a long road between meeting someone and getting to really know them. With one particular relationship you have only just begun this journey. What is at the end of the road for this liaison?

Do your best and, if that does not seem enough, this person is not for you. When fishing for compliments it is important not to drop hints.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) We all have impossible dreams, sometimes it is just as well. Some realities can throw our lives into disarray.

A current recurring dream is firing your imagination in strange ways. Is a revised version possible? You are writing your own life story, Leo. Bar someone leaping in and tearing up the pages, it should go smoothly. You are on the way to getting that rise or promotion. What will bring you the most success? Knowledge or charm?

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) A crazy

kind of romanticism grips you this week. Your gestures can be bold and even overpowering.

What has brought about this sudden rush to the head? An inspiring event or person is certainly to blame. The question is, have they done you a favour? Take the chance at the weekend to be with someone special.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Brimming with ideas and confidence?

That certainly seems like you this week, Libra. Someone who inspires and makes you see the lighter side of life is a tonic. Now that a big negative influence has gone, life takes on a brighter hue. Changing your surroundings can help. Even a bright new cushion or exciting music download can set the scene. Be prepared to have some fun and leap out of that social rut.

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foot and become frustrated with others. It won’t help. What will help is telling them the right way to go about things. Will they listen? Most likely.

The chances are they are as confused as you are by the situation. Romance can trip you up if you put your foot in your mouth.

Let all words uttered to a loved one be considered.

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Brace yourself for a confession.

This may not be eagerly awaited, but could be very amusing. However, choose your response very carefully.

Much may depend on your words being the right ones. Love can be a minefield at times, can’t it? A lovely bright New Moon at the weekend sees you heaving a sigh of relief.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

The promise of a treat has you licking your lips. Have you been on a diet? Love can be erratic.

Life can be confusing. Chocolate can be fattening. I know which I would choose!

You are so good at being good, Aquarius, but don’t deny yourself a little fun. Children have the right idea.

Your bright and charming character needs to shine through a bit more.

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heart if you do not give it, but you could break your own by not accepting the love offered.

Time to be honest with yourself, Scorpio.

The future can be so different from the past. Someone who gives you advice may not have all of the facts.

Please bear that in mind. Brief sparks in time can be captured if you are quick enough.

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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR

20) You have a sneaking suspicion that someone is not telling you everything. They are, but the feeling can persist. Rather than ask if someone else is being honest, first ask if you are being honest with yourself. Who knows, the answer could clear your head. Being yourself doesn’t always work. We know that. Sometimes you have to play the game and be a bit of a chameleon.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! A long hard look at where you are going throws up new ideas. Do this monthly and many bright sparks will shine.

Being practical, Virgo, is not always your forte. With a sharp mind you can keep moving forward.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! In the coming months you could be breaking the mould, Virgo. Stirring others into action (in the nicest possible way!) works for you. Don’t hesitate to share your ideas.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with British actor Hugh Grant (left), 55, and Canadian singer Michael Bublé (right), 40. Jumping up and down will get you nowhere fast, Virgo. However, jumping ahead can work really, really well! Rather than pass ideas on to someone else, why not make them work for yourself?

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! A leap in the dark can be both informative and amusing. Others may admire your nerve but won’t share any sleepless nights! Get all the facts, Virgo, and be prepared to put on that confident face.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bringing a lot of charm and a bag full of ideas to both work and play is for you, Virgo. Not one to let the grass grow under your feet, be ready for the opportunities ahead.

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Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Congratulations on a recent idea. Keep the momentum going by staying one step ahead. The world changes and you know how to change with it.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bring on the clowns.

It will distract the opposition! Be as entertaining as possible when it comes to any tricky deals. The slower others are, the more success you will have, Virgo.

Mega Maze

Find the Words solution 867 Overland holidays DUAL CROSSWORD 18,952 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 6 Breadth; 7 Overt; 9 Air; 10 Hypocrite; 12 Out of the way; 15 Countryside; 17 In passing; 19 Van; 21 Hello; 22 Swooped. Down: 1 Grain; 2 Wan; 3 Stay; 4 Overheads; 5 Fret-saw; 8 Mouths; 11 Turntable; 13 Onrush; 14 Counter; 16 Gavel; 18 News; 20 Ton. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 6 Vicious; 7 Decay; 9 Egg; 10 Paramount; 12 Pretentious; 15 Equilibrium; 17 Sacrilege; 19 Bet; 21 Width; 22 Private.

Down: 1 Singe; 2 Pin; 3 Pupa; 4 Ferocious; 5 Painful; 8 Garner; 11 Arbitrate; 13 Triple; 14 Squalid; 16 Jetty; 18 Gory; 20 Ave. DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 18,890 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Hard and fast; 9 Mum; 10 Forestall; 11 Tasks; 13 Epistle; 14 Hoards; 16 Indian; 18 Needles; 19 Might; 20 Enactment; 21 Ado; 22 Reading-lamp. Down: 2 Aim; 3 Doffs; 4 Nerves; 5 Fashion; 6 Startling; 7 Empty-handed; 8 Alternation; 12 Space race; 15 Dilated; 17 Astern; 19 Motel; 21 Arm. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Crestfallen; 9 Eft; 10 Associate; 11 Ended; 13 Adipose; 14 Backer; 16 Aghast; 18 Address; 19 Treat; 20 Contagion; 21 Ego; 22 Deferential. Down: 2 Rat; 3 Stand; 4 Fiscal; 5 Lacking; 6 Elaborate; 7 Remembrance; 8 Delectation; 12 Decadence; 15 Elevate; 17 Aspire; 19 Tenet; 21 Era.

CryptoQuote answer

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Solomon Islands. 2. Peterson. 3.

Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. 4. Wales.

5. Cliff Howard, of Gilgandra, at the age of 16. 6. Otto von Bismarck, Germany. 7. A large rat. 8. 1949. 9.

20 years. 10. The goat. 11. Wattle.

12. Diego Maradona, with 16 appearances for Argentina (1986-94).

13. “What a Fool Believes”, written

by Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, in 1979, and recorded by The Doobie Brothers. Legend says that McDonald once fired his whole band because a backup singer hit a sour note during the chorus of the song during a 1979 show in Chicago.

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