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We need to rethink the way we drink UST like waking up to a new prime minister, it’s no surprise October’s coming. In under two weeks the 10th month will draw out an army of the concerned to spruik their wares (see the Do Something National Calendar website) but three causes are standouts. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, has become a movement. Driven by survivors, theirs is a story of loss and hope that cannot be denied when it is wrapped up in a pink and widely endorsed by a cricketing great behind the McGrath Foundation. Even in it’s 10th year however, a gap is widening between supply and demand and predictions are that numbers of McGrath Breast Care Nurses will be inadequate to serve a population which is increasing in its diagnosis and surviving longer with the disease requiring services longer. While these latter two facts are fantastic news for women stricken with this ailment in terms of the survivability of what was once terminal news, walking that path of treatment to remission and getting the all clear is long, painful and frightening without the presence of a health professional who’s sole purpose is to light the way with knowledge, compassion and resources. As Australia slowly turns pink over the next six weeks look out for opportunities to support the McGrath Foundation and what is an essential service to the one in eight women likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Equally as concerning are the numbers associated with mental health, which officially consider one in every five Australians as susceptible to a range of symptoms every year. With a fifth of the nation’s population who could really do with someone asking ‘R U OK?’ at any given time on every journey round the sun, it’s an issue which statistically can touch every single Australian family, workplace and circle of friends. Anxiety is the big one to watch with 14 per cent, or almost three million Aussies, affected every year. The contributing factors are numerous and prevalence is greatest among our 18 to 24 yearolds and genuine action to protect that age group is necessary to prevent long term mental health issues and in some cases, save their lives. Lockout laws in NSW are perhaps the greatest glimmer of hope that a government is exercising a duty of care to it’s people – and youngest voters – by taking some of the responsibility off their shoulders and squarely back on the shoulders of the adults in the room. On Wednesday night this week, one-punch victim Thomas Kelly’s brother Stuart addressed a Take Kare Founcation event attended by Premier Baird where he asked point blank that the government “hold the line on lockout laws “I want to ask all of you in this room right now to think of your children, or the children of someone special that you may know. Would you want them to be here on this stage now

making this speech? It’s time for change. Action is needed through strong leadership from the NSW state government and the federal government. Action is needed by our friends and our families across all of our communities – change to stop the growing epidemic of drug and alcohol abuse and misuse that is turning now into senseless violence,” he said. “Premier will you make this promise tonight? Australia is an alcoholic; we need to rethink the way we drink. Tonight your involvement and your voice can and will make a difference.” (SMH, 17/09/2015) One of the hardest things for an alcoholic to do is to admit they have a problem and the Ocsober campaign – which encourages adults to get on the wagon all month and raise money for Life Education – is an opportunity to rest that elbow, especially at home in front of the kids. Life Education encourages good choices, but those who’s responsibility it is to lead by example – parents, carers, older siblings, extended family – can use Ocsober to reflect on what life looks like for Aussie kids without alcohol in the mix. So what’s not to like with any of these campaigns, which ask the nation to look after itself and each other? They all depend on whether we choose to listen and act and support and push for governance which is driven by wisdom. The poll position of any city, state or country is a glittering prize for the ambitious but to be useful as well, to actually make a difference, is the roll up your sleeves variety of leadership, which means making unpopular decisions. Turnbull’s off to a good start with a challenge and takeover of a leadership, which floundered in a world of unprecedented and rapid change, and which will hopefully stop the country stumbling about in the dark and wake up to many issues which need tackling head on. When Rock@TheMichaelRock on Twitter said this week, ‘People all over the world are anxiously awaiting Facebook to add a dislike button. What a time to be alive’ following Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement to the same, he possibly could have mentioned though six countries ban it outright, and 1.49 billion monthly active users might be interested, almost 5.5 billion people actually won’t care. And while the dislike button is not being introduced as a tool for simpletons to put others down, which Zuckerberg said is not the kind of community his company wants to create, it will be a way of expressing empathy for someone’s post which feels uncomfortable to ‘like’, such as news of a lost loved one or sadness over an issue like the refugee crisis. “It’s important to give people more options than just ‘like’, as a quick way to emote and share with their feelings on a post,” he said during the announcement. I hope adults using Facebook remember though to teach the next generation to “emote” with good old fashioned face-to-face conversation, meaningful hugs and lots of listening, for the sake of their long-term mental health.

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Superintendent Lyndon Wieland, Orana RFS. PHOTO: ELLA MCMILLAN/FILE

Preparing for the worst With above average rainfall across much of the Orana Rural Fire Service (RFS) area over winter and El Niño conditions expected to result in an increasingly dry spring, fire fighters are preparing for the worst. Dubbo Weekender caught up p with head of the RFS to find out where things are at only weeks out from the start of the official fire season on October ober 1.

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ANAGER Orana Rural Fire Service (RFS), superintendent Lyndon Wieland says if the seasonal forecast shapes up as predicted the dry fuel load in the region could see fires occur on bad days that will be extremely hard to control. “Over the last couple of months, because of the good rain, we haven’t been able to do any hazard reduction. “It’s been far too wet to burn and even at the moment we’d get trucks bogged if we went out burning. “The window of opportunity for us to burn is going to get very, very small because we’ll go straight from it being too wet to not being safe enough to burn ... that happens to us quite regularly.” For the RFS the preparation doesn’t just happen on the ground, with an enormous amount of paperwork required to get ready for the season ahead and any hazard reduction burns. Wieland says getting that paperwork ready in advance means that when the window of opportunity to undertake a hazard reduction burn pops open, they’re ready to go on the day. Certain areas of the region cause more concern than others, particularly some peri-urban localities such as the Minore area to the southwest of Dubbo. “We’ve got a lot of structures and homes built through a high to extremely high fire danger area. “If wild fire goes through that area the possibility of us losing life and property on a bad day is very real ... and we need to be very, very aware of those situations when we’ve got fire in those areas. “We’re doing hazard reduction in that area all the time and burning isn’t the only hazard reduction that we do.” The RFS has been working with the community and media to ask people to do some slashing, clean gutters and re-

property for risk of bush fire and to then move vegetation from around homes assist in thinning vegetation or cleaning that could cause a fire risk. up around homes and other structures. Wieland says the responsibility for beThe RFS recognise the aged and those ing ready for a fire season is a whole of with disabilities may be at higher risk community one. on bush fire-prone properties, also pro“People need to work with us to make viding advice about putting a bush fire their property defendable – that’s the survival plan in place. best way for me to explain it. “We’ve got state mitigation crews “We need people to help us help them based here in Dubbo who are eager to ... without that, it’s a recipe for disaster.” help anyone who is unable to do the This message doesn’t really change work to protect their property or unable from year to year, with the RFS issuing to pay someone to do that work. the same or similar warnings as each “There are certainly people using fire season approaches. the AIDER Program in However, there is still Dubbo every year.” undoubtedly an air of ` Wieland adds that complacency amongst while enquiring about some in the community For those who eligibility to access the who having not expeare unable to AIDER Program service rienced a bush fire and is as simple as a phone don’t understand the urundertake fire call to the RFS, it’s not a gency of the message. preparation lawn mowing service for Wieland agrees he people living in town. work on their feels like a broken record “Last year we had at times. property, such phone calls from peo“It does feel like nople wanting us to go as the aged or body is listening at times and mow their lawns for ... people don’t seem to those with a them,” he laughs. really take any notice of “If it’s genuine hazard disability, are fire until the fire is imreduction that needs dopacting on houses. able to access ing around a house we’ll “It’s too late then. assistance certainly do our best to “Preparation for the work with residents to through the fire season should well get the work done.” and truly be underway RFS’ AIDER Preparations aren’t with slashing, spraylimited to those who live Program. ing and grazing around in bush fire prone areas, structures ... all of those with staff and volunteers little things people don’t of the RFS also getting think too much about are important themselves ready for the summer ahead all contribute to making properties by participating in fire exercises. defendable. A four-day regional fire exercise was “I plead with the community – prerecently held at the Canobolas Fire Conpare now ... and burning is not the only trol Centre near Orange, where all the way.” Orana staff honed their skills. For those who are unable to undertake “We do that annually to make sure fire preparation work on their property, we’re ready for the fire season and to such as the aged or those with a disabilmake sure we know how to deal with ity, are able to access assistance through any new issues, such as how to dissemithe RFS’ AIDER Program. nate public information. It’s a one-off, free service to assess

“When we have a fire running, the system we use is an electronic one to type in what’s happening at that time on the fire ground and feeding the information out to the media as public information. “All the things we do in these exercises prepares us to put the right information into the system so the public can get the right information about an incident that might be happening in their area.” In terms of physical preparations, Wieland says the field fire fighters are very knowledgeable about what they need to do on the fire ground. “There’s a lot of difference between chasing a grass fire on the back of a truck to what it is dealing with a fire in steep country where you’ve got to get out on the end of a hose and down and back out of a valley. “Fire fighting puts forward a heap of different situations that people have to be prepared for and most of the volunteers are very aware of that.” Despite the inherent risks, the Orana RFS now has access to more heavy plant and aircraft backup for fire fighting than ever before. “In a big way, aircraft can support our people on the ground very, very well ... they’ve done it in the past and saved a lot of people in a lot of sticky situations. “There are two things to remember – we’re a lot further advanced with heavy plant and aerial fire fighting than we’ve ever been before but we also must remember that when we’re on the fire ground each and every individual must remember to be safe. “We all have a duty of care to make sure ourselves and our mate alongside us is safe.” Ensuring the safety of all during the bush fire season comes down to preparation, including having a survival plan. z Further information is available on how to plan and prepare for the fire season at http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/plan-andprepare.

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Australia’s breast care nursing shortage set to grow BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY JOURNALIST

INDINGS from a study released in a report by the McGrath Foundation to mark its 10th anniversary this week, has revealed a 35 per cent growth in shortage of breast care nurses over the next five years across the country. Research by Australian Health and Hospital Association (AHHA) and the McGrath Foundation identified an increase in breast cancer incidence, a surge of people living with breast cancer, an ageing population and increased patient contacts would mean demand for breast care nurses is and will continue to outstrip supply. The 10 month study, compiled in the McGrath Foundation’s report Keeping Abreast of Future Need: the Growing Demand for Breast Care Nurses found there is a shortage of 79 breast care nurses required today, which is projected to grow to 109 by 2020. Improved diagnosis and treatments also mean more patients are living longer with the disease. Vanessa Hyland, McGrath Breast Care Nurse and Margaret Collins, Breast Care Nurse Specialist – Western NSW LHD currently service the Dubbo area. “Breast Care Nurses provide support and information to clients and their families experiencing breast cancer, coordinating care across different sectors of the health service as well as linking clients into community groups and services,” said Hyland.

“We become the central point of contact across all facets of their treatment and are available to help with concerns, reducing the pressure on other health workers and hospital departments. Our goal is to ensure that clients receive the best quality service and care at the appropriate time,” she said. “Our aim is to help alleviate some of the stress of an unknown situation by being available to answer questions and provide support. In turn we have the opportunity to meet some amazing women/ men and their families and develop friendships that continue well after active treatment is completed.” Current breast cancer client, Kate Craft, who lives on a property near Gulgong, said she could not sing high enough praises of the assistance she received from Hyland and Collins during her treatment. “Had I not had Vanessa or had a breast care nurse it would have been much more difficult. I know Margy in Dubbo as well. They are just brilliant. The help and support they gave me, and I saw them giving to other patients, was just wonderful. Not to have that would have been really a battle,” Craft told Dubbo Weekender. “When I was in hospital Vanessa came and saw me and that was lovely. I had to go back into hospital again a few weeks later and she came to see me again and it was very much appreciated. “Kicking off with the chemo Vanessa was there very day. She was there from the first day, which is pretty terrible and the support was wonderful. If there was ever a query – it’s a whole new world – there was never a

Vanessa Hyland, McGrath Breast Care Nurse. PHOTO: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

problem to ring Vanessa or Margy, they always had time and they’d often ring me too. “I was away in Sydney having my ray treatment and I missed not having that contact. Had there been ray treatment in Dubbo, it would have been lovely because she would have been popping in and out as well,” she said. John Boyages, Professor of Breast Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, said: “Not only do breast care nurses support the patient and

their families, they also reduce the burden on the health system by limiting unnecessary admissions to emergency departments and supporting oncologists and surgeons in their treatment of patients.” McGrath Foundation CEO Petra Buchanan said of the report that it goes beyond compiling incidence and mortality but examines the way that breast care nurses deliver care allowing a better understanding of gaps related in the workforce and plan for future services. “However, this shortage bur-

den is too large for us to carry alone. We must continue to work collaboratively with health services and the government to ensure Australian patients facing breast cancer has access to the best specialised care.” The McGrath Foundation currently has 105 McGrath Breast Cancer Nurses across Australia representing 38 per cent of the national breast care nursing community. Funding these nurses costs $13.3 million per year. “We are focused on creating new breast care nurse positions and supporting more families through increased fundraising, but we will need the support of government, corporations, businesses, and individual donors to make this possible,” Buchanan said. “With every new McGrath Breast Care Nurse we are able to assist more families and patients going through breast cancer. We are proud to say the McGrath Foundation has now supported more than 36,000 families.” The goal of the McGrath Foundation in its tenth year is to increase the number of McGrath Breast Care Nurses to 110 to support 10,000 families through breast cancer. It has been predicted that by 2017 there will be 209,200 women living with a previous breast cancer diagnosis, many of whom will require treatment or post-treatment monitoring and related care – provided by breast care nurses. By 2020, 47 Australians will be diagnosed with breast cancer every day and there will be a shortage of 109 breast care nurses by that year – a 38 per cent increase on today’s shortfall.

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Zoo’s company, three’s a crowd BY JOHN RYAN N JOURNALIST

OURISM is a fickle industry and far removed events can create ripple, or even tsunami-type effects in distant areas. Dubbo has had a chequered history when it comes to tourism. I operated a number of attractions from the late 1980s up until a few years ago and it’s a tough business – there used to be 13 semi-major, privatelyowned attractions in the city which people considered were worth a visit, now we don’t even have a local tourism committee of council. Remember Jedda Boomerangs, Dundullimal River Cruises, Yarrabar Pottery to mention a few extinct operations. Taronga Western Plains Zoo has improved enormously in that time, and has been promised huge funding from the state government to go to the next level. Likewise the Old Dubbo Gaol has seen a fair amount of money spent on it in recent years. But both these are backed by governments of various levels, publicly funded, where the smaller private businesses have either shut up shop or struggle on a daily basis. But just as Australia’s international tourism gets hammered when our dollar is high, many factors can seriously weaken visitor numbers to destinations like Dubbo. When Ansett Airlines collapsed a few years back Dubbo had a mini tourism resurgence because huge numbers of people could no longer afford to fly once the cheap airfares disappeared – they’re back and that’s great for places like the Gold Coast and Coffs Harbour, but don’t help cities out west. Now a proposed $36 million open range zoo at Blacktown in Sydney’s west is on the radar, many in the city believe this could pose a significant threat to the local industry, with our zoo as the major drawcard bringing tourists to this region. Wayne Mawbey currently owns Dubbo Palms Motel and has been in the local accommodation industry for decades, including serving stints as president of the former Dubbo Tourism Committee. He says while it’s not all doom and gloom, he can’t see an upside for Dubbo with an open range zoo situated in western Sydney, the area often spoken of as a major catchment for visi-

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tors to the central west. “We do definitely draw out of western Sydney, particularly for school holiday periods and if this zoo is going to be a fantastic zoo, it will affect us,” Mr Mawbey said. “It’s impossible for anyone to say for sure what the impact will be but to replicate a facility, I can’t see it value-adding for us and it will be a greater challenge for Dubbo’s zoo,” he said. He believes it will be difficult for schools within an hour of the new zoo to justify an extended trip to Dubbo to see our zoo when a wide range of animals will be featured in the Blacktown zoo’s open range concept. “From a cost point of view, schools in Sydney will be able to go to the zoo and back in a day, with no accommodation so it will be a very attractive option,” Mr Mawbey said. “It’s not all doom and gloom, I don’t think it will be dramatic, especially after things settle down, but we need to be realistic and not look at this through rose coloured glasses,” he said. Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson is noted for his constant optimistic outlook and says he doesn’t see the proposed Blacktown zoo as a threat. “There are 4.3 million people in Sydney and Sydney has Oakvale Farm and Fauna World, Oceanworld Manly, Syd-

ney Aquarium, Sydney Wildlife World and Taronga Zoo to name a few. Then there is Mogo Zoo in Batemans Bay and Shoalhaven Zoo and the Hunter Valley Zoo. In Canberra there is the National Zoo and Aquarium,” councillor Dickerson said. “Dubbo has a fantastic Zoo. The number of awards they have won are testament to this (including Silver Award for Best Attraction and Bronze Award for Unique Accommodation at the Australian Tourism Awards 2015) and the improvements they are continuing to make set it “In short, the Taronga Western Plains Zoo is a destination attraction whereas I see Sydney Zoo as a location attraction. In fact, it may even boost tourism at our Zoo as people gain a small taste of the attraction at Sydney Zoo and if they want a richer experience they may venture out to Taronga Western Plains Zoo,” he said. Likewise, Jake Burgess, the man behind the ‘Sydney Zoo’ concept, is keen to downplay any negative impacts on Dubbo tourism. “I want to make the case (perhaps counter-intuitively) that Sydney Zoo has the potential to be positive for Dubbo Zoo,” Mr Burgess said. “Audience participation reduces significantly once visitors need to drive more than about 30 minutes to get to

an attraction. In our view, this is borne out by the local audience penetration of Taronga Zoo versus comparable benchmarks. Taronga’s local audience penetration (local annual visitors divided by city population) is typically slightly less than 15 per cent versus industry averages of around 24 -25 per cent. “This is no reflection on the operations or quality of Taronga Zoo – which are exceptionally good – it is simply the fact that 98 years ago it was built in Mosman, not Parramatta and in the intervening period Sydney has grown enormously, and Mosman is difficult for much of the population to get to now, indeed there are moves in Sydney to shift the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta for exactly the same reason,” he said. “This is further supported by the fact that Melbourne Zoo, which is centrally located, has significantly higher local audience penetration than Taronga despite having two strong alternatives – Werribee and Healesville- co-existing in the same city.” Mr Burgess presents the view that Sydney Zoo has the potential to unlock a latent market of Western Sydney families who currently are not making the effort to get to Mosman, rather than “cutting the lunch” of existing facilities. “Western Plains Zoo is not a

` People do not wake up on a Sunday and say, ‘It’s a nice day – let’s drive five hours to Dubbo, visit the Zoo, and then drive five hours back’. The decision to go to Dubbo Zoo from Sydney is built around a weekend away.

competitor to Sydney Zoo and the purchase decision is completely different’,” he said. “Sydney Zoo will be a 3-4 hour visit time. Dubbo sells tickets over two day periods, people do not wake up on a Sunday and say, ‘It’s a nice day – let’s drive five hours to Dubbo, visit the Zoo, and then drive five hours back’. The decision to go to Dubbo Zoo from Sydney is built around a weekend away. “The trip is planned, accommodation is booked, other activities are scheduled once people get there, it’s a big deal, not a drop-in activity and that is why we think Sydney Zoo will be neutral for Dubbo,” he said. Burgess says visitors to Sydney zoo who have a fantastic and enjoyable experience may build on that by choosing Dubbo as their next weekend away. “We would be happy if this was the case – because at the end of the day, it’s all about the animals, and getting the education and conservation messages across to people,” Mr Burgess said. Taronga Westerns Plains Zoo declined to comment directly, instead referring Dubbo Weekender to a brief statement from Taronga director and CEO Cameron Kerr: “The more high quality zoos people visit, the more conservation minded they become, and the better the result for everyone. “Taronga welcomes the opportunity for the community to have additional options to encounter wildlife and engage with efforts to ensure a sustainable future for people and wildlife.” He said residents in the Blacktown area now have more choice, with Sydney’s integrated public transport system also making it easy to visit Taronga. “As Taronga enters its next decade of development, our focus will continue to be on the work established over nearly a century, expanding our investment in world leading exhibits, scientific research, community education and in-situ conservation,” Kerr said, going on to mention that Taronga was advised of the plans for the proposed Sydney Zoo at Blacktown. “Zoos are an important bridge to the natural world for people that are increasingly separated from the environment and animals,” he said. In the end, people in Sydney will decide whether to visit an open range zoo on their doorstep or make the trek out to Dubbo.

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Amberlilly puts best foot forward at Seymour Centre tonight MBERLILLY GORDON of Dubbo College Senior Campus will be performing as a member of the elite NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company tonight (September 18) at the State Dance Festival at Sydney’s Seymour Centre. The Company is a partnership between the Department of Education Arts Unit and the renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre. “As members of the company [are] mentored by the Bangarra Dance Theatre, which is recognised as Australia’s leading Indigenous performing arts organisation,” said director, specialist programs, Bill Anderson “Through regular workshops in Sydney including at the Bangarra Dance Theatre, they are trained to perform at the highest level. “This is an opportunity that no single school or community can offer and allows the students to explore traditional and modern Indigenous dance and its storytelling as far as their talents and aspirations allow. “Over the last three years students from successive Companies have been chosen for the competitive places National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) Dance College.”

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NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company dancer Amberlilly Gordon of the Dubbo College Senior Campus was mentored at the Bangarra Dance Theatre in Sydney.

grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Sister City Student exchange program and thankful for all the hard work that has gone into making the student exchange successful. Six students will join Kate in Japan: Jett Aubusson-Foley, Holly Adams, Rosetta Betts, Laura Paxton, Thomas Houghton and Jessica Brown, with chaperones Tom and Anna Brain.

Kate Hagan, Minokamo Sister City Student Exchange participant

MEMBER for the Dubbo electorate Troy Grant is encouraging veteran groups, community organisations and councils to apply for grants of up to $10,000 to protect war memorials. The NSW Community War Memorials Fund was established to help repair, conserve and restore war memorials across the state. Grants are offered twice a year and applications for round one close on Remembrance Day – November 11, 2015. All submissions are assessed by the State War Memorials Committee. For more information, including application forms, please visit: veterans.nsw.gov. au/community-war-memorialsfund.

low Minokamo Sister City Student Exchange recipients will wear during their visit to Japan, which departs Dubbo next week on Wednesday, September 23.

Student exchange to Japan, departs next week

Kate depicts the important connection between Australia and Japan represented by the Sister City relationship.

CHRISTIAN School student, Kate Hagan has designed an official T-shirt she and her fel-

The design references Japan’s northern hemisphere location and Australia is Downunder,

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showing a graphic version of Mount Fuji over an inverted Uluru. Through careful choice of symbolism including a red sun referencing the Japanese flag and the Southern Cross, Kate has created a lasting image to accompany the youth ambassadors. Kate said she enjoyed creating the logo because she is very

IN a first act as Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull with the NSW and Victorian governments has signed the first agreements for the full rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The agreements give certainty to around 140,000 people with disability in New South Wales and around 105,000 people with disability in Victoria. They also give certainty to their families and carers. The NDIS is one of the largest social policy reforms in Australia’s history. Working together, our governments are building a sustainable scheme that will stand the test of time.

Western New South Wales, and the Far West regions will start entering the scheme from July 2017.

Wellington Shire Council to join Orana Arts DURING an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, September 9, Wellington Shire Council resolved to engage Orana Arts as its Regional Arts Board. Wellington, which includes the villages of Geurie, Mumbil, Stuart Town, Euchareena and Elong Elong, joins the other Local Government Area’s of Dubbo, Gilgandra, Mid-Western, Narromine and Warrumbungles to make up the Orana Arts region. To engage the Wellington community Orana Arts invites expressions of interest from a community member to join the board. Orana Arts executive officer, Alicia Leggett, said: “There is so much activity happening in the region over the next twelve months particularly with the Regional Arts Australia conference Artlands coming to Dubbo in October 2016. We are going

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Andrew Harvey, new CEO, WPHN THE Board of the Western NSW Primary Health Network (WPHN) announced the appointment of Andrew Harvey (pictured) to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr Harvey will take up this role on October 6, 2015. ‘’I’m looking forward to working closely with the WPHN Board of Directors, staff, and contractors, and with GPs, Local Health Districts, allied health and Aboriginal health workers, local Councils and community organisations on ensuring people in our region are able to access the right care, in the right place, at the right time,” Harvey said. As part of an Australian Government initiative to strengthen and support primary health care, the WPHN has been established by the Western NSW Medicare Local, Far West NSW Medicare Local, and two regional NSW Aboriginal organ-

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Accolades continue for talented young Dubbo chef FRESH from being crowned Apprentice of the Year at the NSW Chef’s Table Awards in Sydney, the 18-year-old TAFE Western hospitality student will soon be whisked away to showcase her skills at the Fine Food Australia trade show in Sydney on September 22. Brooke will represent Dubbo RSL and TAFE Western at the Flavours of NSW stand, meet with some of the state’s leading producers and also meet Minister for Regional Development, Skills and Small Business John Barilaro. As part of winning the NSW Chef’s Table Awards in Sydney, Brooke will now progress to The Clubs NSW Finals in Melbourne. One apprentice will receive direct entry into the 2016 Fonterra Proud to be a Chef mentoring program and the opportunity to win an international culinary scholarship valued at $7,500. The winner will also receive a $2,500 cash prize from HTN Hospitality Employment Solutions.

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Drownings highlight more care needed THE National Drowning Report released this week, revealed that in 2014/15, 271 people drowned, the second lowest number of drowning deaths in the past 13 years and 17 fewer deaths than the 10-year average. Minister for Health and Sport Sussan Ley said there were “mixed results” in the new drowning statistics, including the lowest ever recorded num-

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ber of children aged five to 14 and but a 26 per cent increase on the 10-year average of 45 to 55 year olds. “To see an increase of 26 per cent in the number of middle aged people, particularly men, who have died unnecessarily, is just not good enough. These men need to be more careful and sensible around the water. Ms Ley said the Commonwealth commits approximately $11 million a year to water safety initiatives including a $15 million election commit-

ment over five years for our Water Safety: Reduce Drownings programme. The National Drowning Report 2015 can be viewed via the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia’s website http://www. royallifesaving.com.au/.

Tragic cost of delayed access to cures NEARLY 3,000 Australians with hepatitis C have progressed to severe liver disease in the last

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015 year, as thousands continue to wait for affordable access to curative medicines recommended for a government subsidy six months ago. New surveillance data released by the Kirby Institute reveals the number of Australians living with hepatitis C-related severe liver disease more than doubled in ten years (from 18,582 to 44,730) – 2,800 in 2014 alone. The analysis shows that hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver transplantation in Australia and accounted for an estimated 690 deaths in 2014 – a 146 per cent increase in deaths over a ten-year period. Hepatitis Australia’s Acting CEO, Kevin Marriott said: “Interferon-free therapies will allow the vast majority of people living with the hepatitis C virus to be cured, even where treatment has failed previously and without

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Wellington Christian School thrilled with cubby A GENEROUS donation of a cubby house to Wellington Christian School this week was met with laughter, smiles and fun from all 18 children at the school. Head of School Sarah Strahorn believes the donation from TAFE Western Wellington College’s Certificate II Construction students, who spent the past six weeks building the cubby house, will bring hours of pleasure and fun for students. Fifteen TAFE Western students worked part-time on the project and participants were delighted to give something back to their community. Michael Pospischil

Warren artist in residence RIVERSMART and Macquarie Valley Trails are hosting a second artist-in-residence at the WOW Centre in Warren. Michael Pospischil is a regional Queensland artist whose principal interests are landscape and portraiture. He works mainly in charcoal. Michael’s many awards include the Hugh Sawrey Art Award in 2012 and the Heysen Prize for Australian Landscape in 2004. He has been a finalist in the Doug

Moran National Portrait Prize in 1998 and 2004. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. On Thursday and Friday, October 1-2, Michael will run full day classes (9 am – 4 pm) for $50 per person per day. Contact Bill Phillips on ceoriversmart@gmail.com or 0438 187 470 for more details.

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DUBBO photographer, Andrew Wetzel, was on the ground at AUSFLY 2015, held earlier this month at the internationally renowned Narromine Airport, to capture some of the air action. A Sports Aircraft Association of Australia run annual event, the weekend attracts hundreds of spectators and participants to the region who flew in with their warbirds, homebuilt and vintage aircraft, ultralights, gliders and more.

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Teenagers of today lament they were born too late and missed that fabled moment in time – the 1980s. For them and those of us lucky enough to have blossomed under the Australian sun, nurtured by the sounds of Icehouse, Iva Davies, Australian Crawl, James Reyne, Moving Pictures and Alex Smith, to name just a few, a day on the green in Mudgee in October is the portal to take us back in time that we’ve been waiting for. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley NLIKE a good wine, aging may not necessarily be an improvement and though on the outside the laugh lines tell their stories and the silver strands of hair are windswept wisdoms, on the inside it’s incredibly easy to still feel 17, or 18 or 19 again. Of course in ordinary life you’re expected to grow up and leave that behind but a song from the day is all it takes to transport you to an age when – in Dubbo at least – we only had two TV stations and thankfully Aunty was one of them – and she gave us Countdown. With the visual feast of that spectacle and armed with our tape recorders in front of the “tele” to document the new songs live, what was happening inside ‘the box’ was real life to the likes of James Reyne and Iva Davies, Mark Seymour, Alex Smith and and the gang from Pseudo Echo who are playing a day on the green in October. “For me, memory plays tricks and things seem much more glamourous and much more significant in hindsight than they actually were at the time,” Reyne, who believes he’s played here at least 50 times, told Dubbo Weekender. “At the time we were going to Countdown it was just a good way of promoting what you had. I remember bits of it, but it’s like it happened to another guy. I know it was me; because people keep telling me and I see pictures but I don’t remember all of it. People tell you something and I’ll go, no, I don’t remember that,” he said. In hindsight, it doesn’t matter. For audiences who will flow into the Robert Oatley Vineyard on October 31, they remember; every song, every word, every tune, and for Reyne it makes his experience of performing a pleasure. “It’ll be all the stuff that they know. Sometimes we do shows with just new stuff in clubs around Melbourne or Sydney but these sorts of shows, we do all the hits from Crawl and my solo stuff,” he said. “We’re doing a tour at the moment that’s called All Hits and we’ve sold out everywhere because that’s what people want to hear. You’ve got to give ‘em what they want! For Reyne, a day on the green in Mudgee is to return to a performance space he enjoys. “Come along and have a good time. It’s a beautiful place. I’ve played there before. It’s usually a lovely day, good wine, good food and good music. They’ll know pretty much every song that’s played all afternoon so just get quietly merry – responsibly merry – and sing along to everything and have a lovely afternoon,” he said. Iva Davies, front man for Icehouse, which is headlining the event, agrees a day on the green has a special vibe. “About three years ago we did a day on the green supporting Hall and Oates which was incredible fun because I actually wrote Electric Blue with John Oates so I hadn’t seen him for about 20 years or more. “He had his partner out from the United States with him and I had my partner with me and we ended up watching them play every night, from the side of the

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stage which was great fun – fabulous songs – and then of course catching up afterwards, it was a great. For me, that sort of defines the vibe of a day on the green. It’s a really particular thing. It’s a brilliant kind of atmosphere,” Davies said. When asked if he ever sings along backstage to the other performers, Reyne replied tongue-in-cheek, “Depends who it is. “Some of them you might. We’re all friends. You get to know people quite well. I actually quite like those backstage and outdoor things because you’re all together and it’s usually a lovely day and it’s a great way to catch up with people. I have some great acquaintances, and some really great friends, who I’ve got to know just through doing this.” Since reforming after 16 years, Icehouse has been getting reacquainted with original as well as getting to know new audiences. “One of the very first environments that we were put into was the result of an invitation from a promoter of Homebake in Sydney, and his words were along these lines: ‘We’d like you to feature the very first Flowers album which came out in 1980 and oh, by the way, most of the audience will be 20’. “At which point, I kind of freaked out because I said to him, are you completely insane? Most of that audience won’t have been born, that album came out at least ten years before they were even born. He said, ‘no, don’t worry about it.’ “We started playing, I think in front of about 20,000 people, and about two songs in, my base player came

over to me and said, ‘can you see the number of 18 year-olds singing the songs, and the entire audience sang the songs from the beginning of the set to the end. “It was quite extraordinary, and I guess what that did for me was introduce the idea -implausible though it may seem – that the music has actually travelled down, at least one generation, perhaps two. The only explanation that I can give is I believe that technology has done that, and its probably the same for most older bands. “My children who are 21 and 19, now carry around with them tens of thousands of songs from every generation of popular music that’s ever existed whereas when I was their age, I owned three albums and that was it. “And that was the narrowness of the field of my understanding of music so that’s made it easier for me to get up on stage and play those sorts of songs without feeling guilty about it,” Davies said. To be sure audiences need not forgive Davies. His numerous hits with Icehouse, featured on their newest and first double live album; Icehouse in Concert, fit squarely into the mould of what Reyne suggests is the formula for a hit song; “Just a great song, with a great chorus, great melody and great lyrics. That’s your formula.” Says Davies: “Our first live album ever is the result of the recordings of about seven shows in January, February and the end of last year. We tried a little experiment which was to break down the middle of the show

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to one acoustic guitar, just myself. “It was quite a peculiar thing when we first did it because everybody left the stage and there I was on my own, but we then reintroduced everyone in an acoustic environment for a number of songs. “I said to our tour manager when we were talking about putting a set together for this day on the green – and I thought he might be resistant because he likes to move on – but I said ‘Larry, I really want to do the acoustic set or at least a part of it, so the set you hear on the double CD is a longer show than what we’re doing for ADOTG but in essence it probably does reflect a great deal of the content as we will be doing it.” Choosing what not to play is where it gets tricky. “Having the luxury of an audience that mostly knows these songs backwards means where I could probably leave the stage and they’d be quite capable of singing the songs themselves is a fantastic thing,” said Davies. “I think I speak for all the guys in the band, when I say that to walk into that environment and into a lot of love in the room, as it were, for those songs, makes my job very easy indeed.” Though it’s how Reyne has made a living for much of his life, he still finds time to reflect on the doors love for his songs have opened for him. “A couple of times I’ve met someone who’s really famous or something and I’ll think, ‘wow, I’m talking to so and so’. But I do that if I meet someone who does the weather on the news! Or you’re at some place. We’ve played some extraordinary places like the outback in the middle of the Simpson Desert and I’ll think, ‘playing a few songs has got me

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to do this’. “I’ve got to travel the world, I lived in America for a while, I lived in London for a while. I feel very lucky that playing music and writing songs has got me to do some of these things which I would otherwise not have got to do,” Reyne said. “A lot of it’s the right place at the right time, or the right chemistry with the right group of people. A lot of it’s kismet, alchemy and kismet,” he said. Passionate about writing and recording, Reyne also loves going on the road, declaring he’s at the airport three times a week. “I don’t need motivation. This is what I do. This is my job, this is my hobby, its what I always wanted to do. I’m lucky that I’ve got to make a career out of it for as long as I’ve done and I like all of it

now much better than I did. “I never thought it was a drag, I thought it was great. I’m just better at it, because I’ve done it for a long time. So I know a lot more about what I’m doing. I’m a better singer, I’m a better songwriter, I tour better, I know how to do it properly, more frugally, more wisely, we look after ourselves. We know how to travel better. We’ve just got it down because we’ve just done it so much.” Alex Smith from Moving Pictures said in the early days they were too busy to feel special. “It was just part of what we did everyday.” Smith lives in London and will be flying to Australia for the day on the green tour. “I think about Australia all the time, but, my life, my loves, my family are (for the moment) over here in London. I have lived here for 23 years now

and I feel that it has saved my life.” Taking the boredom out of long hot summers for a generation of Australian teens who back then were without iPads, iPhones and all things electronic made songs like What About Me by Moving Pictures, Great Southern Land by Icehouse and Downhearted by Australian Crawl anthems and significant moments in Australian music history. Performing at a day on the green is an opportunity to pay faithful tribute to those experiences for their audience. “I don’t think any of the band feel they want to stray too far from the original versions. It’s a bit like the ethic we had as the Flowers,” said Davies. “When we started out we were a covers band. That was simply because I had never played an electric band before, and literally as Flowers started playing, I was learning how to stand up and play an electric guitar in front of a microphone. “We selected our favourite songs from other artists like T. Rex and Bowie and goodness knows who, and we were playing this string of cover versions, and right from the very beginning, I said to the guys in the band, we are not going to attempt to play anything that we can’t do as faithfully as the original. “So if it’s got something in it like a saxophone solo and we don’t have a sax player, we’re not going to do that particular T. Rex song. And we were driven by this absolute ethic to be as faithful as the original recording as possible, and I don’t think that’s ever changed, really, it’s a case of if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Of course from the luxury of the audiences picnic blankets sipping plastic long stemmed glasses of red, the boys

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What is a day on the green? The upcoming 2015/2016 summer season will be our 15th beginning with concert number 372 – a significant milestone of which we are very proud. On Australia Day, 26 January 2001 Melbourne music promoters Michael and Anthea Newton of Roundhouse Entertainment decided to try a brand new concert experience – contemporary music in a beautiful winery environment. James Morrison, Renee Geyer and Stephen Cummings performed at that very first rst show at MornMorn ent the Newtons ing Star Estate, Mt Eliza in an event called ‘a day on the green’. ers: “At that show As Michael Newton remembers: it was all hands on deck and we had our friends helping us out, but from that very ry first concert n’. The idea of we thought ‘this is such good fun’. enjoying good food and wine with ith your friends, while listening to some great music usic in spectacular environments just seemed like ke a great way to spend a day.” Since then it has grown to become come firmly established as one of Australia’s mostt successful and respected outdoor concert events. nts. A glittering array of International onal and Australian stars have performed during g the past 14 years providing unforgettable musical al memories. a day on the green is far more than a concert event, it is an “experience” and that is whatt sets it apart from other winery concerts. Being able to take your own food, ood, the popular ‘picnic of the day’ prize, our resident dent DJ and party master Grand Master Baitz spinning ning the tunes between bands, the chance to meet artists at the signing desk and our hugely popular pular merchandise range are some of the little extras as that go into making a day on the green such a great reat day. a day on the green runs in the e summer months from October – March with around und 30 concerts per season in the all major wine-growing -growing regions around Australia. The events have ve spawned four albums and three TV specials, als, and the live events are a highlight of the summer mmer concert calendar.

lighting up the stage at a day on the green in Mudgee will be making it all look so easy but an incredible amount of energy and effort goes into creating these special occasions, not unlike, keeping a career alive. “It’s like the old duck analogy, it’s all smooth sailing on the top but underneath the water we work at it. It’s often what you say no to than what you say yes too,” said Reyne. they’ve Fortunately for fans, they ve said yes to perform at a day on the green where the familiar refrains and unmistakable sounds of Davies, Icehouse and Reyne will sing out across vineyard the beside Pseudo Echo and Mark Seymour. For Davies it’s a long way

from a disused chalk mine ingrained in a nation’s memory as the backdrop for the hit song, Great Southern Land’s music video. “Believe it or not, it was filmed in Terrey Hills in Sydney. It’s not the great outback as it appears to be. In fact it was on a very lean budget as most things were in those days. “I remember our very first video was for a song called Can’t Help Myself which was our first single and it was shot in a car park in

Chatswood for the princely sum of about $3000. Great Southern Land was shot in a disused chalk mine somewhere in Terrey Hills.”

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

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the desert The Palace Hotel is a historic three-story hotel in the main street of Broken Hill. The building was also featured in the iconic Australian film, Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Last week was the filmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 21st anniversary and the hotel threw a bash to celebrate the connection by rolling out the Broken Heel Festival over three days. Dubbo Weekender attended the event and captured some of the festivities, which may go on to become an annual calendar highlight. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa MInner HILE it may be a bit of a hike from the banks of the Macquarie, the Palace Hotel in Broken Hill is a destination worthy of the 753km drive from Dubbo. The hotel is a treasure in itself, but last weekend it was celebrating a different aspect of its history. The Palace Hotel played a starring role and was a shooting location for the classic Australian film, Priscilla Queen of the Desert. To recognise the 21st anniversary of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Priscillaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; organisers created the Broken Heel Festival where all things glam, camp and fabulous were encouraged and applauded. Priscilla, (the bus) was parked outside the hotel alongside the large glittery shoe staircase where performers belted out incredible music. DJs spun records

and drag queens mimed and danced to the songs from the Priscilla soundtrack. Events were also held out at the historic Silverton Hotel, known also for its Mad Max connections. For those who havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen the iconic film (surely not!) itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about two drag queens and a transsexual woman travelling through the outback in a silver bus called Priscilla, performing their unique style of song and dance. The film, starring Terrence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce, is said to have set the stage for the ongoing popularity of drag in Australia. And for an inaugural event, it was a win with thousands of visitors coming from across the country to be a part of the glittery festivities. They came in buses, by plane

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and car from Newcastle, Dubbo, Wellington, Melbourne, Bathurst, Sydney, and beyond. Feathers, sparkly eyelashes and glitter hair spray dominated a town known mostly for its mining industry. And while some Broken Hill residents were dubious about the event, others watched the ‘fabulosity’ with a grin and a thumbs up. Co-owner and festival organiser Esther LaRovere said because of the success of the weekend the festival may become an annual event given the positive feedback from those who attended. She said they’d need to wait and see how the glitter settles and debrief. The Palace Hotel was initially built as a coffee house in 1889; it was also the first three story building in the town of Broken Hill. The Temperance Movement (a group who believe in non-licensed venues for communities) commissioned the building with a vision of creating a place specialising in fine dining and great coffee. Licensed hotels were abundant in Broken Hill given the thirsty nature of the mining

industry and the desert heat. But not long after it was built, it became apparent that good coffee was not what the townsfolk were wanting, it ran at a loss and the premises became licensed in 1892 and started serving up the good stuff. In its heyday, the Palace was on par with silver service establishments in any major city. Upstairs provided a family dining room, men’s smoking room, ladies parlour, correspondence room and bridal suites. Under the foyer staircase there is an original timber stairwell that leads to the cellar. This led to another saloon bar and pool hall and when the weather was stifling in the early years, hotel guests would go beneath the hotel to enjoy the cooler environment. Its various incarnations have seen it used as a returned soldiers hostel in 1919 where it was rented by the RSL for one pound a year. During this time the hotel offered indoor bowls and a gym and acted as a place for soldiers to regather themselves and restart their lives after the war. In 1946 the Palace was purchased by the South Australian Brewing Company and

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Hotel co-owner and festival coordinators Ether LaRovere and her partner Brendan Cunningham

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again operated as a hotel while providing accommoda- used as a set during filming. The township of Broken tion. From there it hosted dinner dances in the Pavil- Hill provided the backdrop and has now become enion room in the 1950s, wedding receptions in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s trenched in Australian folklore. and discos in the 1970s. Today, a consortium owns the Palace, which is keen Mario Celetto who itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rumoured offered to buy the to restore it to its former glory. hotel when he was a patron in the front bar in 1973, Haunted Palace Hotel general manager Helen Denton explained bought it in 1974. After he purchased it, it became that the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Palaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is haunted. She knows known as Marioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palace Hotel. because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen apparitions in the A standout feature of the hotel is the building herself-multiple times. In fact many plein air murals which cover the she says during the Broken Heel Festival walls and ceilings. It began when Mario painted a replica a patron reported a strange event. She of Botticelliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Venus on the ceiling. Insaid an ice bucket appeared to jump off a spired, after that he offered one thou- He said there shelf and hit his leg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said there was no one near it and sand pounds to anyone who could match was no one near no reason for it to have happened and the quality of his painting in a section of it and no reason the patron is not the kind of guy who bethe ceiling adjacent to his own. lieves in those kinds of things, but it ratAn Aboriginal artist from Port Augus- for it to have tled him,â&#x20AC;? she said. ta called Gordon Waye took up the chal- happened and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was walking down a corridor and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d lenge and Mario is said to have asked him to paint a wall in the front bar, the patron is not seen something a bit strange the week which Gordon did beautifully in only the kind of guy before which could have been a â&#x20AC;&#x153;ghost or eight hours. a guestâ&#x20AC;?- (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we joke about) Over the years the artist painted all who believes but as I walked towards one of the large the other murals in the hotel in a land- in those kinds mirrors I saw an older man in an old fashscape theme with the only stipulation ioned suit behind me so I spun around reby Mario being that the paintings had of things, but it ally fast because it looked odd and there to include a water feature to create the rattled him was no one there.â&#x20AC;? feeling that the Palace was an oasis in She said many patrons have said they have seen and heard people coming up the outback. behind them as well or have complained about a noisy Interestingly, the blank section on the foyer ceiling remains unpainted. guest in a room next door only to be told the room was Mario also hand stencilled all the wallpaper throughnot occupied. out the hotel in a delicate blue pattern and trim. That Helen said she reassures the patrons that their resident ghosts are friendly. She said many people have alone was a huge effort, given the size of the hotel. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reported seeing a woman dressed as a nurse as well as still there today, faded and worn but clearly a labour the man dressed in a suit. of love. In 1994 The Palace was used for accommodation â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually not sure who they are, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit of a by the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and also mystery,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Libs take a hard line on an unpopular hardliner OU know you’re in trouble when they trot out Cory Bernardi in your defence. As they circled Tony Abbott on Monday night, ABC’s 7.30 program featured Bernardi – relegated by Abbott for linking gay marriage to bestiality (and how are things in the 1700s?) – as one of two government MPs defending the doomed PM. But more damning was the appearance on the same program of Arthur Sinodinos, former Howard chief-of-staff and another member relegated to the backbench by Abbott. As if using the opportunity to stir his cohorts to action, Sinodinos ruthlessly articulated every shortcoming of the Abbott government, speaking quickly to ensure time constraints didn’t cut his mission short. As a respected and experienced political player he must have known his statements would have become the centrepiece of ALP electoral attacks ads come the next election, if Abbott survived. Few will genuinely sympathise with Abbott: a political head-kicker, to borrow a phrase with which the old rugger bugger would be familiar, who had his head kicked in return. Only Harold Holt’s prime ministership was shorter and that probably involved shark attack. Those who know Abbott say he is a likeable bloke, so his ability to conceal that from the electorate can only be another political failing. The federal National Party took hollow threats to a new level in the vote’s immediate aftermath with unnamed MPs proposing withdrawal from the Coalition, and/or places in the ministry. Without their protected status as the sole conservative party contesting much of rural Australia the Nats would face Liberal competition for seats, and while I am sure that National Party ministers would voluntarily abandon well-paid Cabinet benches, you might have time for a solo yacht trip around the globe before they actually do.

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives surrounded by fellow MPs for the leadership ballot of the Liberal National Party at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, Sept.ember 14. Australian Federal Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull won the challenge for the leadership of the Liberal National Party and the Prime ministership. PHOTO: AAP/LUKAS COCH

Those lauding Turnbull’s appeal are forgetting his unfortunate judgement and naivety during his stint as Opposition leader when he put faith in the forged emails of a troubled public servant during the so-called Utegate scandal-that-wasn’t. But it would underestimate Turnbull to suggest he has not learned from that episode, and from watching Abbott’s leadership plod disastrously through the policy and publicity minefield. For all his faults – political, economic, environmental – it is doubtful that Abbott will display the same vengeful bitterness as Kevin Rudd in undermining his party and the government. For all his faults – ideological, strategic, gender-based – Abbott holds the Westminster system in high regard as evidenced by his reverence for all things royal family. The government’s most agile and gifted performer remains deputy leader, Julie Bishop, who has again managed to change horses midstream without get-

ting her boots wet. Of course along with Abbott, the big loser is ALP leader, Bill Shorten, who was already struggling to keep pace with the desperately unpopular Abbott in the preferred PM stakes. Faced with a new PM who is a popular, articulate, more moderate and not at war with the environment, Shorten and the ALP are suddenly badly outgunned. It is true Abbott’s gaffes, captain’s picks and tin ear did not aid his cause, but the beginning of the end was his first budget, a cruel and pitiless affair

` For all his faults – ideological, strategic, gender-based – Abbott holds the Westminster system in high regard as evidenced by his reverence for all things royal family.

that only roaring Tories received without dismay. Australians may have adapted to the end of egalitarianism and a flourishing class system, but the 2014 budget’s naked bias for the wealthy at the deliberate expense of the rest shocked public opinion and destroyed faith in the Abbott government that it could do nothing to restore. Broken promises certainly didn’t help, and knighting Prince Phillip embarrassed the whole country. For Abbott personally too many of his battles were of the student politics variety that he has fought much of his life, such that as PM he squandered scarce political capital backing pointless crusades like repealing racial discrimination legislation, with no public mandate and no need to do so. As has been said here before, every team can use a head-kicker, but as the federal Liberals eventually realised, you probably shouldn’t make him captain.

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LONDON: Perhaps we should breathe a sigh of relief – superadvanced aliens with the ability to harness the power of whole galaxies do not appear to exist, at least in our corner of the universe. Scientists carried out a systematic search for evidence of “Kardashev Type III” civilisations so advanced that next to them humans might be considered barely intelligent apes. Humans have not even achieved “Type I” status on the

Kardashev scale, let alone Type II or Type III. Faced by a Type III invasion, we would not stand a chance. But luckily no such God-like beings are remotely within range of our solar system, according to the new research. The Kardashev scale was drawn up in 1964 by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev as a method of rating a civilisation’s level of technological advancement based on the way it uses energy.

By definition, Type III civilisations can access the energy of entire galaxies. They may, for instance, be able to tap into the energy released by supermassive black holes or active galaxies known as quasars. Such a civilisation would be expected to produce a large amount of waste heat that should be detectable by astronomers. Scientists have now conducted a search for such a Type III civilisation “footprint” among several

hundred nearby galaxies – and discovered nothing that cannot be explained naturally. Professor Michael Garrett, from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, said: “Original research... has already told us that such systems are very rare, but the new analysis suggests that this is probably an understatement, and that advanced Kardashev Type III civilisations basically don’t exist in the local universe. AAP

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Tank That, PM VIVENNE WESTWOOD, fashion royalty, showed the world how protesting is done by rocking up to Number 10 Downing St in a tank. Yes you read that correctly, a 73 year old just showed you how to Shut. It. Down. Westwood is a well-known activist for environmental and civil issues. This latest statement was to protest ‘fracking’, a form of mining for natural gas which leaves ground poisoned and un-usable. The Australian movement ‘Lock The Gate’ protests the same issue down under, but no one has come close to using a stylish white tank to make their point. ‘I’m here to poison the ground under David Cameron’s house’ she said, because that’s what he wants to do to many, many people.

Here’s to no more ‘Captain’s Call’ WHO will eat a raw onion for national amusement and bewilderment? Who will wink awkwardly at the camera? Who will give knighthoods to members of the monarchy? It was with mixed feelings that Australian’s watched Malcolm Turnbull challenge Tony Abbott for the leadership of Liberal party, and the country. Meanwhile, interna-

tional onlookers were just plain perplexed. The Independent in the UK misnamed him ‘Paul Abbott’ and some jokester changed the Wikipedia entry for Australian Sport to include the line ‘The main national sport is the Leadership Spill, which fixates the nation on a random but regular basis’. With an election possibly slated for next year, our five Prime Ministers in five years could very well become six for six, well and truly earning our reputation as ‘the coup capital of the western world’.

Help Is Coming LAST week Ella wrote beautifully about the sad reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. This week renowned British music journalist Pete Paphides enlisted the help of Neil Finn, Benedict Cumberbath and Apple Music to raise funds for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people. The song Help Is Coming is available on iTunes, with all taxes and overheads having been waived so that all proceeds go straight to helping refugees. Many celebrities have encouraged their fans to support the single, including Coldplay, Radiohead and YouTube star PewDiePie. The aim is to bring awareness and support for the humanitarian crisis.

Helpful Pup THE last known surviving search-and-rescue dog that took part in the response to the September 11 attacks in New York was honored this week. Bretagne, a beautiful golden retriever was thanked for her wonderful service fourteen years ago with a luxurious day in the city, and some amazing treats. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during Question Time in the Her handler, Denise Corliss, was moved by House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, the respect shown to her canine partner. September 16. PHOTO: AAP/SAM MOOY

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Kellie Sloane: Sobering message Haley Bracken, former Australian Cricketer and media personality. Their reasons for coming on-board range from a personal or family history with alcohol and that surround alcoholism, to wanting to support Life Education and make a difference to the future generations. It’s very easy to sign up for Ocsober 2015 – just head to www.ocsober.com.au and click SIGN UP! Or, they can support me and donate to my fundraising page here – https://ocsober2015.everydayhero.com/au/kellie At Life Education we educate children on how to make healthy choices whether it’s illicit drugs, alcohol or smoking. We want them to know that each and every child is special and unique and they only get one body! Every dollar raised during Ocsober will enable us at Life Education, with the support of our iconic giraffe mascot Healthy Harold, to continue to deliver health, drug and alcohol education programs in schools across Australia. We currently reach around 600,000 Aussie kids and with the extra funding our aim is to reach 700,000 kids over the next year. $700,000 to empower 700,000 children. Regional areas of NSW have the biggest alcohol problems, too, so we are making it our mission to broaden our reach in regional NSW. We educate the children that not all adults drink. We teach them about the physical and mental impacts of over use. Our support also extends to their teachers and families. I can only encourage families to lead by example and to show children that everyone has the ability to make healthy and smart choices. Most parents know that children don’t always listen to them, though – that’s why we’re here. They seem to listen to Healthy Harold – even the older ones! We love our visits to Dubbo. We’ve very proud of our Mobile Learning Centre in your area that is currently the best in NSW. It’s fully refurbished and now has a wheelchair lift. Make sure your school is on our list. Check with your principal today!

Ocsober, a fundraising initiative which asks Australians to lose the booze for the month of October and raise funds for Life Education which undertakes health and drug education programs in schools with a popular mascot, Healthy Harold. Kellie Sloane has recently been appointed the CEO of Life Education NSW and spoke with Dubbo Weekender about the important campaign. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley Oscober is Life Education’s big fundraiser. As the name might suggest, it’s asking people to give up alcohol for the month of October. (And yes- I’m doing it too!) The money raised during Ocsober goes directly to our health and drug education programs in schools with our popular mascot, Healthy Harold. Life Education is a not for profit and this year’s goal is to raise $700,000 to help 700,000 kids. We’re trying to highlight the dangers of binge drinking and alcohol abuse. A quarter of people between the ages of 16 and 24 consume alcohol at dangerous levels. About 2,500 of them end up in hospital emergency wards each year. We’re saying that’s not cool. Take a stand. Lose the booze to help Aussie kids www.ocsober.com.au Some of our Ocsober ambassadors include TV presenters Georgie Gardner, Natalie Gruzlewski and Jacinta Tynan; the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s Professor Gordian Fulde; Kyly Clarke, model presenter and interior designer; former Wallaby Peter Fitzsimons; activist and musician Angry Anderson; Trent ‘Maxi’ Maxwell, Bondi Rescue Lifeguard; Jake Doran, Sydney Thunder Cricketer; Nathan and

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Calculating the law of averages Comment by y CHERYL BURKE Cheryl Burke has fond memories of chocolate frogs in jelly and would incorporate this dessert in her wedding menu if she were to marry any time soon.

CCORDING to recent data from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), I can be rather grateful that I married before the cost of an average wedding skyrocketed to $36,200. Not least because my first marriage was a bit of a fizzer and lasted somewhere in the vicinity of the union of a Hollywood celebrity couple who were only slightly more dedicated than Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Esposito but not quite as dedicated as Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. But, more likely since the ASIC data attributes the bulk of this dollar figure to catering costs, and I think I would choose to be less than average and swap out the Japanese Wagyu Beef for Scotch Fillet. Call me selfish, but seriously, if I was sitting in the Millionaire Hot Seat opposite Eddie McGuire asking me “what would you do with $36,200?” I highly doubt my answer would be structured as follows. “Well Eddie, I think I’d invite a number of guests equivalent to the population of Vatican City to my wedding, and supply them with copious amounts of alcohol and serve truffles and Russian Beluga caviar atop gold encrusted crackers along with Kopi Luwak as a perfect accompaniment to my imported Platinum Wedding Cake.” Buying into ‘average’ these days is hard work. I don’t think the Jones’ can even keep up and are at risk of being superseded by a gen-

eration who are upping the ante on ‘average’. Its time for them to move on, or double barrel their surname, because well above average is the new average, and if you find yourself in the Millionaire Hot Seat cue this answer. “Well Eddie, now that three of my friends are getting married next year, and two the year after, winning a stack of money would mean I wouldn’t have to worry about the cost of going to the engagement parties for the two who only recently got engaged, nor the baby shower for the friend that is already pregnant with twins, nor the interstate Hen’s Night, nor the offshore dress fitting, nor the destination bridal shower, wedding and buddymoon. Not to mention the ‘trash the dress divorce’ party for the one friend whose marriage statistically won’t last. “The money would also free up a lot of my time, since I wouldn’t need to take on a fourth job or work Sundays, provided the penalty rates aren’t reduced in the near future. My timetable is pretty tight already due to the three two-houra-week flash mob dance rehearsals I attend as part of my role in one of the bridal parties. “Since my fiancé and I are friends with all the same people it will mean we can both go to each destination event and not take it in turns, we won’t need to worry about spending $3k between us at the Hen’s or Buck’s night. We will even come out with change after paying airfares to the wedding location in Mauritius and the buddymoon in Las Vegas. “The destination bridal shower is closer to home and I’m sharing accommodation with the other nine bridesmaids. We’re also sharing the cost of the professional chef who will spend the weekend cooking us nut-free, gluten free, organic, probiotic, antioxidant, energy-boosting whole foods. A fitness instructor is also coming to create a personalised workout re-

` Well Eddie, I think I’d invite a number of guests equivalent to the population of Vatican City to my wedding, and supply them with copious amounts of alcohol and serve truffles and Russian Beluga caviar atop gold encrusted crackers along with Kopi Luwak as a perfect accompaniment to my imported Platinum Wedding Cake.

gime for each of us, although should I win the cash I won’t need to worry so much about the cost of altering my dress if I sneak in a few too many Whopper Meals and KFC mega buckets between now and next year. “I’m pretty excited for the baby shower. I’ve seen the ultrasound on Facebook, we know the twins are both girls, they’ve already picked out names and because the bride-to-be has booked a date for the caesarean, my winnings could go toward my share of the present, two personalised baby cushions, two birth plaques, two name frames, a two month nappy service times two and two Burberry nappy bags. It all adds up with twins, so I’m hoping I can answer the question correctly. “And then there are the wedding gifts. Two of the couples have registered with an online registry and requested we contribute to

their honeymoon, so now we won’t look like bad friends because we can’t afford too much. Because we are both in the bridal party for the third couple we are going on the buddymoon, so on top of the airfares and accommodation in Vegas if I win the cash it’ll go toward one of the gifts from the bridal registry, like the Dyson vacuum, the Thermomix, the Kitchenaid Espresso Machine, the KitchenAid Stand Mixer the Northland refrigerator, the Mugnaini wood fired pizza oven or maybe the king size Kluft mattress. “Best case scenario would be if we had a bit of money left over we’d put it toward a deposit on our own wedding, we like the more simple things and love nature. Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley is much more us. “Well Eddie, let’s get to the root of evil, hit me with the question.”

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Sally Bryant In my book, you can change â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em as often as you like... OLITICS; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a game of musical chairs at the moment. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost as though they think the electorate has had reductive surgery on their attention span and, if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not constant colour and movement, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get bored and lose concentration. And, given the impact of our reliance on social media and the instant gratification of the internet, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just possible â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are correct. Squirrels! I saw a meme on Facebook this week â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keep Calm, only three more Prime Ministers until Christmasâ&#x20AC;?. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a bit bemused by the commentary that surrounds the latest swapsies of Prime Ministerial leadership, the hailing of Malcolm Turnbull as being a softer alternative to Tony Abbott, the sense that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving from the harsh reality of modern life to a marvellous Utopian world of gentler manners and a kinder take on life. Let me know how that works out for you. From where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sitting it looks like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just traded in a Prime Minster with big ears who walked like he has a back problem and who constantly repeated himself in speeches to a legal eagle who made a lot of money as an investment banker and is reputed to have threatened to kill Kerry Packer. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not thinking weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see too much difference in policy; maybe a change in the way itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sold. If you think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see an easing of economic rationalism? If you think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have a massive change to our policies on immigration? Well, I could be wrong, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be disappointed. However, consider this. We have moved back to a leader of the Liberal Party who put his faith in the evidence fabricated by Godwin Grech and used it to try and bring down both Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd. This is the same former leader who was described by Paul Keating as both brilliant and fearless but totally lacking in judgement. Malcolm Turnbull is very articulate,

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charming, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve no doubt heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very clever with money. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just not convinced that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s any more in touch with the common man than any other silvertail from the eastern suburbs. And I reckon heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be just as quick as any other politician to sacrifice the rights of the underdog to ensure political success. I guess I can see why heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be a more appealing choice to the swinging voter. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been touted as the Liberal Prime Minister that most Labor voters would prefer to see in power. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty smooth. I just wonder whether, when it comes down to it, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll vote for him. I wonder. I guess we will see, in a year or so. Because he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t led the Coalition to an election victory before, and there was a theory his leadership didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a sufficient point of difference from the opposition to allow it to be electable. It will be interesting to see if that electorate that apparently struggles to pay attention to longserving Prime Ministers will be sufficiently switched on to differentiate between Mr Turnbull as the leader of the Coalition and Mr Shorten, as leader of Labor. Assuming of course that Bill Shorten remains leader of the Opposition. And speculation is rife that, uncomfortable as he was looking while Tony Abbott was a reasonably unpopular Prime Minister, his situation is going to look even more tenuous as he squares off against the silver fox from Wentworth. Gosh! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun, this politics isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? Thank goodness something has come along, to take the place of The Biggest Loser. My final word on the current situation would be that I was pretty impressed with Tony Abbottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech, in which he conceded the leadership to Mr Turnbull. I thought he was remarkably gracious, considering the circumstances and it was the first speech heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made in a very long time in which he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just spout a series of catch-phrases and repeat them for emphasis. Repeat them for emphasis.

` Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an old joke that politicians are like nappies, they both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Given that we make jokes like that, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit surprising that people keep putting their hands up for public office.

I reckon political advisors have a lot to answer for. In a similar way to the case of Julia Gillard and her ill-advised and distracting wardrobe, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help thinking that Tony Abbott had some bum steers when it came to pitching his message to the mug punter. To the mug punter. Did you catch the footage of Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton demonstrating complete disregard for microphone safety, the other day? Those of us who grew up in the bush know that the dog always bites, the horse always kicks and the gun is always loaded. In other words, always assume that the power is turned on before you grasp the bare electric wire. Basically, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty common sense approach to life. So there they were, three federal politicians, standing in a public place, having a jovial conversation about how Pacific nations had the water lapping at their feet as a result of climate change. Right under a boom mike. Well, to be fair, it really was only Peter Dutton who was dipping his toe in the waters of that particular joke. And Scott Morrison did mention, at the end of the conversation, that there was a boom mike just above their heads. But isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it extraordinary to think that people who live and die by the way they are represented in the media would consider having any sort of unscripted exchange when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a room with a barrage of electronic media? I know thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a constant theme at the moment that we all regret the passing of the era of honesty and openness in public life, in the fact that politicians no longer speak off the cuff, that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so carefully scripted. But look at what happens when they revert to that model, when they slip their leads and escape from their minders. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an old joke that politicians are like nappies, they both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Given that we make jokes like that, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit surprising that people keep putting their hands up for public office.

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Out with the old, in with the new

Comment by WILL GRIFFITHS Will Griffiths grew up in Dubbo and now lives in Sydney. Will works in the NSW Government as a media adviser and likes to get home to Dubbo to see his family and friends.

AVING a new Prime Minister sworn in by Tuesday certainly gave further credence to the expression ‘a week is a long time in politics’. Or perhaps the other idiom, ‘if you want a friend in politics, get a dog’. Amongst all of the drama unfolding this week, I was struck by the magnanimous way in which Mr Abbott handled the decision of his party. Notwithstanding a nearly 24-hour delay in publicly responding to this decision, the former Prime Minister left the position with a gracious observation. “I thank my country for the privilege of service,” he said. “It is humbling to lose, but that does not compare to the honour of being asked to lead.” Compare this with a (choice) extract from another resigning Prime Minister’s speech. In June 2010, Kevin Rudd told reporters: “I’m still the Prime Minister, I think, for another quarter of an hour, so watch out because we can do things. Have you ever thought about this? I’m now not the leader of the Labor Party but I’m the Prime Minister. Anything could happen folks.” It always was a little hard to tell when Rudd was joking or not. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Tom Allard observed that on her first day as Prime Minister, Julia Gillard conceded that her position was not legitimate. “I have not been elected Prime Minister by the Australian people,” she said. “And in the coming months I will ask the Governor-General to call for a general election so that the Australian people can exercise their birth right to choose their Prime Minister.” There was no such concession

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from Prime Minister Turnbull. He has made it clear that he is ready to lead and that the government will serve its full term. And apart from anything else, Australia does not have a presidential system of government. Before the next election, however, he will need to show a solid record of achievement. He was off to an excellent start this week, signing agreements with two States for the full rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. But this record will need to go beyond the implementation of an existing policy. In mounting his challenge, Mr Turnbull explained the problem with the government — failure to explain the problem. “[We need] a style of leadership that respects the people’s intelligence, that explains these complex issues and then sets out the course of action we believe we should take and makes a case for it. We need advocacy, not slogans,” he said. The Prime Minister knows that you do not get credit for solving a problem that does not exist. Australia is at a crossroads with the end of the mining boom. Government coffers have long been strengthened by the proceeds of strong offshore demand for our natural resources. Now that demand is cooling, our economy must readjust. Australia’s leading economist, Deutsche Bank’s Adam Boyton, neatly explains the problem we’re now facing. “Our resource wealth has been masking the slow decline of other things which prop up living standards, most of all productivity. Now that our iron mantle has fallen off, productivity must

` “[We need] a style of leadership that respects the people’s intelligence, that explains these complex issues and then sets out the course of action we believe we should take and makes a case for it. We need advocacy, not slogans

rise,” Mr Boyton says. Mr Boyton states the Federal Government has struggled to explain the need for change from the outset, largely because voters don’t entirely understand how good we’ve had it. So in this light, the Prime Minister’s pledge to more clearly explain our economic challenges, as well as the policy solutions, is encouraging. The Prime Minister has also foreshadowed economic reform. “The big economic changes that we’re living through here and around the world offer enormous challenges and enormous opportunities,” he said. The challenge will be convincing the various interest and lobby groups, many of whom will advocate for the

status quo. Although, the stakeholder group most affected by major economic reform is likely to be the Australian Labor Party. Apart from Turnbull’s natural advantage over Bill Shorten, turning the national debate back to economics will not be a winner for the Leader of the Opposition — a protectionist former union leader. But a further change of leader for Labor now will be very difficult. It’s already hard for Shorten to criticise Turnbull for taking the Prime Ministership, given his role in removing Rudd, installing Gillard and then reinstalling Rudd. If Labor removes Shorten, that criticism is then impossible. Now that’s quite the pickle.

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Greg Smart

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

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.

Passing on with dignity E never complained. He just kept on loving, but he was ready to say goodbye. The morning of his final trip to the vet, he did a tour of our yard, and then lay down under a tree in a secluded part of the garden. He knew it was time and that was his silent signal. Our Dalmatian (Spot the Dog) became part of our family soon after we moved to Dubbo. He had just turned 12, quite old for a Dalmatian, and skin cancer was winning the battle. His ever-joyful disposition had been replaced by discomfort. Our love could only give him quality of life for so long. The drive to the vet was a silent one. He lay on the backseat with his head on our daughter’s lap and didn’t make a sound. There was no conversation and the car radio was off. The act was silent too. He showed no fear, just a calm dignity as he went to sleep. Our vets were incredibly reverential and considerate through the whole process – Thank you. They referred to ending Spot’s life as ‘a return gift we could give him’ to end his pain. For a family who had never had to make this decision before, these were comforting words. The tears flowed, and then we delivered him home to rest. We humans continually search for the meaning of life, as if knowing the answer will somehow confirm us as the most highly developed life form on the planet. Our dog was content to just be in the moment. We patted him, fed him, played with him, and in return he gave us fun, companionship, and an unconditional love that crossed the species divide. He didn’t get caught up in the complexities of existence; he just revelled in the bond between us and him. Yes, there is some evidence we are the most advanced species, that our search for the meaning of life proves the power of our intellect. But is our intelligence a hindrance to actually understanding life?

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We humans can get all existential thinking that life and ‘humanity’, are inexorably linked; thinking we have a monopoly on what it means to be living. Our consumer driven society implores us to ‘live life to the full’ and ‘live large.’ ‘You only live once’ is a credo displayed on car windows and tattoos by those who want it all. Some seek the answer to life from a

` We wrestle with the debate about euthanasia and the right to die at a time of our own choosing. Opponents believe it is nothing but sanctioned murder, whilst supporters believe a terminally ill person should have the right to choose to end their suffering.

1. GEOGRAPHY: In what country is the city of Sao Paulo located? 2. MUSIC: What singer made the song “Mack the Knife” famous? 3. HISTORY: When were the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti executed for crimes that they may not have committed? 4. LITERATURE: Who wrote the children’s book “Charlotte’s Web” (pictured right)? 5. EDUCATION: Which field of study has been described as “the dismal science”? 6. PRIME MINISTERS: Which

higher power, in the belief that faith can reveal how we got here and where we are going, as well as instructions on how to act along the way. We wrestle with the debate about euthanasia and the right to die at a time of our own choosing. Opponents believe it is nothing but sanctioned murder, whilst supporters believe a terminally ill person should have the right to choose to end their suffering. We know organ donation is a proven method of enhancing the lives of others, yet we can’t seem to grasp idea of giving up part of us, and have a very low donation rate compared to other countries as a result. Some humans imprison others in the belief that a miserable life will discourage others from seeking a better life on our shores. The photograph of a lifeless child washed up on a beach provokes worldwide anguish and grief. Yet we are still motivated to bomb the Life out of our

Australian Prime Minister’s wife was born in Holland in 1948? 7. MATHS: What is the decimal equivalent of the fraction 3/4? 8. MOVIES: What film features the theme park “Walley World”? 9. ASTRONOMY: In which constellation is the Big Dipper located? 10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What does a sphygmomanometer measure? 11. FLASHBACK: Who had a

enemy because they believe in a giver of life different to ours, and therefore their life is perceived as less valuable. Perhaps if we didn’t possess the intelligence to ask the meaning of life, we would just get on with living it? This could explain the bond between humans and animals. In seeking the meaning of life, perhaps subconsciously we humans know we will never find it. Bonding with an animal shows the answer could be as simple as seeing life as an animal does – be in the moment and love unconditionally. Our treasured dog showed us what it was like to live a life without judgement or regret. This was part of his gift. He is now resting under a large tree in our garden, one we often pass so we can be reminded of his unconditional love. A photo or a thought still makes the tears flow. Sleep well Spot. Thanks for the life lesson.

mega hit with “You Should Be Dancing”? 12. SPORT: How many years passed between Serena Williams’ (far left) first and second singles titles at the French Open? 13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “When the singer’s gone let the song go on, It’s a fine line between the darkness and the dawn. They say in the darkest night there’s a light beyond.” ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

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Business & Rural

7 Rules for flawless media relations BY CATRIONA POLLARD DIRECTOR OF CP COMMUNICATIONS AND AUTHOR OF FROM UNKNOWN TO EXPERT

ANAGING positive media relations can feel like heading out into uncharted waters and establishing the first contact often feels like the most daunting challenge of all. Though the public relations industry is wrought with conflicting information, there are several proven strategies that can help you successfully navigate the world of pitches, media releases, journalists and editors. Whether you’re just establishing your media plan or are revamping your PR strategy, following these eight simple rules will ensure that you avoid the most common blunders committed by businesses both big and small.

Think like a journalist Journalists are inundated with pitches and press releases every single day and therefore become experts in quickly weeding out corporate doublespeak and pitches that aren’t truly newsworthy. Before emailing, calling, or visiting with a journalist, critically examine what it is you are offering to avoid pestering journalists every time your company changes its filing system.

Calling upon journalists only when you have a worthy pitch will help you establish credibility and healthy media relations that last well into the future.

Be skim friendly Accept that your pitch is likely to receive a once-over glance that will last a matter of seconds which will determine whether or not you ever make it into print. Use short paragraphs and bulleted lists whenever possible. Serve up all the most compelling content in the body of your email and include a link to a single page website with supplemental materials. Don’t attach dozens of supporting media files, because journalists simply don’t have the time to read through them.

Don’t beg, just borrow During periods when your business isn’t booming with new activity, don’t despair. There are always ways to move forward with proactive PR. Simply keep in mind that you can borrow breaking news stories and make them your own; all you have to do is offer a colourful quote or interesting point of view on a relevant topic that is already bound for the headlines. This is known as newsjacking, and can be a viable strategy to get your business’ name or expert view in print.

Offer exclusive access Most PR natives would have you believe that it’s best to cast your

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` The motive for your follow up should not be to pester the journalist into picking up your pitch; your motive should be to offer help and to build authentic media relations that are mutually beneficial. net far and wide when pitching a story to the media. Not so. Strategically target your efforts and focus on a single journalist or media outlet that you think would be ideal to cover your story. Offer them exclusive access to interviews and coverage, then hold tight to see if they take the bait. If the outlet or journalist doesn’t bite, then it’s time to cast a wider net.

more exposure? Throw a media stunt and the journalists will flock to hear what you have to say. Not so. Diligently executing a strategic media plan for your business is a far more effective than hosting a series of expensive events for the press.

Don’t media-train the life away

Once you’ve established the first contact, it’s appropriate to follow up once or twice with your media contacts. However, don’t innocently plead, “Did you get my email?”, Instead, follow up with the purpose of providing additional supporting materials (which may include a study, interview, quote etc.). The motive for your follow up should not be to pester the journalist into picking up your pitch; your motive should be to offer help and to build authentic media relations that are mutually beneficial.

While coaching your business’ spokesperson is certainly advisable, too much media prep can produce a robotically-commercial interaction. If your spokesperson is not naturally a charismatic speaker, it may be best that they offer only pre-recorded and print interviews, while a third party speaker handles the behind-the-camera spots. Authentic interviews will keep the media coming back for more, while robotic speakers run the risk of turning people off for good.

Choose strategy over expensive events Far too often PR activations are used as the one-size-fits all media band-aid. Launching a new product? Host a press briefing. Need

as investment in measures that create efficiency savings both on-farm and off-farm. “The cap on buybacks does not alter the Commonwealth’s ability to achieve the water recovery envisaged, but provides the security that additional water will not be bought back out of productive use,” Dalton concluded.

Global Consumption Trends Break New Records Changes set for Murray Darling Basin Plan NSW Farmers have welcomed amendments to the Murray Darling Basin Plan legislation capping Commonwealth government water purchases, known as buybacks, at 1500GL under the Basin Plan. NSW Farmers water spokesperson and Binya irrigator Helen Dalton says a cap is an extremely important component of the workability of the Basin Plan. “This cap was committed to by the incoming Coalition federal government in November 2012. “The amended legislation will provide security and certainty to irrigators and Basin communities. “The cap is also a sign that the government is acknowledging the significant social and economic impacts that large-scale removal of productive water out of the Basin has. “It will allow the Basin Plan authority to seek water savings through other means such

FROM coal to cars to coffee, consumption levels are breaking records. According to the Worldwatch Institute’s latest report, Vital Signs, Volume 22: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, the acceleration of resource depletion, pollution, and climate change may come with underappreciated social and environmental costs (www.worldwatch.org). “Consumers often do not know the full footprint of the products they are buying, such as the embedded water in a t-shirt or steak, the pesticide exposure of cotton farmers, or the local devastation caused by timber companies

Practice professional persistence

z About the author Catriona Pollard is the author of ‘From Unknown To Expert’, a step by step framework designed to help entrepreneurs develop effective PR and social media strategies to become recognised as thought leaders and influencers in their field.www.UnknownToExpert.com.

cutting down forests to produce paper,” says Michael Renner, Vital Signs Project Director. Global meat production has more than quadrupled in the last half century to over 308 million tons in 2013, bringing with it considerable environmental and health costs due to its large-scale draw on water, feedgrains, antibiotics, and grazing land. For more than 50 years, global plastic production has continued to rise, with 299 million tons of plastics produced in 2013 alone. Recycling rates remain low, however, and the majority of plastics end up in landfills and oceans-polluting ecosystems, entangling wildlife, and blighting communities. Vital Signs, Volume 22 presents these and other global trends and analyses of our planet and civilization. The book uses straightforward language and easy-to-read graphs to present each indicator. Vital Signs is created as a guide to inform governments, businesses, teachers, and concerned citizens everywhere to make the changes needed to build a sustainable world.

` Consumers often do not know the full footprint of the products they are buying, such as the embedded water in a t-shirt or steak, the pesticide exposure of cotton farmers, or the local devastation caused by timber companies cutting down forests to produce paper...

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HE newly launched genetic selection tool RamSelect.com.au is already proving a winner for both stud sheep vendors and buyers alike in identifying rams suited to individual breeding objectives. RamSelect.com.au is a web-based app that allows commercial sheep breeders to search for and list the most suitable rams available for their production system, drawing on powerful Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBVs) data through software that is extremely intuitive and easy to use. Principal of the New Armatree Border Leicester Stud and member of the SuperBorders group, Craig Bradley, estimates that of the 18 buyers registered at his ram sale last week, more than half were using ASBVs to assist in their selections, of which five buyers had already trialled RamSelect. com.au. Bradley did not hesitate to include his stud’s catalogue on the site, even though it makes it easier for breeders to objectively and critically compare his rams against his competitors. “Some buyers will compare rams from right across the breed and that’s fine – we want to stand up and be known as a progressive operation that adopts the opportunities new technology like this offers,” he said. “Other buyers come here especially to buy our rams and we see value in presenting our offering to them on the RamSelect app so they can compare rams from within our flock that will best meet their individual needs.” The New Armatree sale featured a total clearance of the 80 rams offered at auction, topping at $2400 and averaging $1608, with a further 40 rams sold privately afterwards. While many of the bidders were repeat buyers from the local area, including Nyngan, Tottenham, Armatree and Gulargambone, Bradley noted they would have been able to use the app to compare rams from within the area by using the postcode settings to focus their search. Among those bidding was sheep breeding advisor Allan Casey, of Orange, NSW, who purchased on behalf of a client 15 rams at auction, as well as a further 15 after the sale. “At the New Armatree sale I used RamSelect.com.au to efficiently identify the rams within the flock that best met my client’s breeding objectives

and that’s where the highest value is for me,” Casey said. Casey’s client was seeking a team of rams with high growth rates, combined with specific needs in terms of muscle and fat. “If I was just focussing on growth rates I would just look at the ASBVs for post-weaning weights, but we needed to include other traits in our selection criteria as well and that is where this tool makes the process so much quicker and easier,” he said. “Often I have several clients at one sale all with their particular needs and RamSelect allows me to perfectly match their requirements. I found grading rams was a breeze even though I was a first time user.” When using the tool, Casey set the search to grade all the rams in the catalogue into four price limits plus a group that he considered unsuitable. Given the budget restrictions he was working within, this allowed him to purchase judiciously and fill the order even if he was losing bidder on some lots. Having graded the catalogue before sale day, Casey then visually inspected the offering prior to the auction and adjusted his grades accordingly. “Visual evaluation of traits not covered by the catalogue is still absolutely critical,” Casey said. “The RamSelect App is a winner all round – it helps the Ram Breeder efficiently get their catalogue to clients; it is a huge help to an advisor such as myself to ensure I am in tune with my client before the sale; and for a ram buyer to be sure they can quickly and accurately mark their catalogue. “Being able to easily develop a personalised and correctly balanced breeding objective using RamSelect is such a valuable tool in itself – I would recommend that all ram buyers spend a few minutes to use this feature.” RamSelect.com.au has been developed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation (Sheep CRC) in conjunction with Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications provider; Pivotal Labs in San Francisco, one of the leading software development companies in the world; and the NSW Department of Primary Industries. z More information is available from www.sheepcrc.com.au.

flow? Well now that I have your attention, just like it is possible to have negative cash flow when making a profit, the reverse is also true. Whether you are making money or losing money, in order to get cash in the bank you need to understand a term called marginal cash flow. This is simply working out whether you are collecting your cash more quickly than what you paying out over a period of time. As a business advisor one of the biggest questions I constantly get is, “Where did my money go?”. Let me explain...

1. Debtor days lower z Establish how long it takes to get paid on average; z Change terms or insist on payment up-front or on delivery (why just accept 30 days?); z Sack client/customers who are always slow; z Offer a discount for payment upfront; z Ask for a deposit on order; z Invoice immediately (consider a cloud accounting application like Xero – invoice on the go and email off your phone); z Employ a debtors clerk – ring debtors daily.

order in advance due to impending price increase by suppliers; z Look at seasonal requirements; z Have a sale to clear slow moving items; z Search for consignment stock opportunities; z Have strong stock software intelligence (rather than a gut-feel/manual system).

4. Reduction in debt repayment strategies z See if your bank will consider interest only; z Negotiate better interest rates; z Consider a private investor by giving up a share in the business; z Spread out repayments over a longer term to match business growth and performance (good for start-ups or new business); z Have repayments match receipts on a seasonal basis (popular with primary producers).

5. Reduction in drawings/ dividends z Review private spending (use Xero cashbook); z Set private budget;

6. Cash flow forecast z Get 3-way budgets done; z Change settings above so you can see how much extra cash flows into the business.

2. Supplier days higher

Conclusion:

z Establish how long it takes you pay your suppliers on average; z Change terms to longer or insist on 30 days minimum z Stick to trading terms (don’t pay earlier).

Understanding your marginal cash flow and improving your cash flow is crucial to business survival – both in good times and in bad. Get your business advisors if necessary to do an analysis so you can ensure that it becomes positive rather than negative. If times do get tough, having a positive inflow of cash makes it much easier to turn a loss into a profit rather than the other way around.

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All in the family Julie Cross laughs with friendly warmth a lot when she talks which is an added bonus to her business partner, daughter and chef, Errin Williamson’s menu delights at the Church Street Cafe. Together they own and run the café while busy creating a new dining space on the corner of Church and Macquarie, due to open soon. AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Yvette Aubusson-Foley You’ve had an amazing 18 months in business. What’s the secret to your success? We’ve been very lucky since we opened. Since the first season that we opened we had a dry winter so we were able to establish ourselves. I guess it was to offer something a little bit different to start with. It’s a service-based business. Food’s food, but friendly service, knowing lots of people’s names, being in front of people. You get to know people’s lives. They come in and you enquire about them. It’s just the way it is. They don’t just buy a cup of coffee. They stop to have that little chat. They like the fact we know them and remember them. We’ll know them by their coffee order too. We might be discussing someone and we’ll say, ‘oh, you know, Skim Cap and Two Sugars’ and we’ll know who we mean. Last year on my birthday I had flowers sent to me from ’Regular Skim Cap Two Sugars’. That was what it was signed! It was hilarious. Lots of people have that order but I knew who it was. Just little things like that and it does make a difference to your service. How do you manage your staff? We have nine staff and all our staff is family. When they come in a morning I tell them, read that sign (Every Day is a Good Day) because that’s what we’re going to do. Leave everything else at the front door. We’ve all got issues and problems! We’re really lucky; they’re a great bunch. What’s your background? I’m from Bourke originally. I was a senior coordinator with Catholic Health Care on an aged care program. I’ve mostly worked in customer service industries. What’s a popular item on your menu? One of our biggest sellers is Errin’s brownie. She had a write up online with the Good Food Guide. She won a chef’s profile for that. Everyone loves it. People will come in mid afternoon and there’s none left and they’ll be very disappointed. What can diners expect? We’re always changing the menu. We have our staple but every few weeks we change a few things.

We’re doing breakfasts and lunches at the moment So you can chose four or five dishes between a group. and then we’ll be adding dinner. We like that, as a family and as staff, we like to eat like that, because it creates more conversation among the We try to buy as much locally as we can. Anyone gogroup and it’s more fun. ing to Narromine cannot come back unless they bring How does the Reignite campaign impact your busius a box of oranges. If people come in off the street ness? selling their strawberries and tomatoes we put our With the Reignite the main street campaign, there’s hands up and buy it. It can sometimes be a bit erratic a lot of talk of pop-up markets here on a Sunday. At though so we do shop at Woolworths present we don’t open on Sunday and spend at Midwest Foods so still morning but we’ve just hired anothkeeping the money in Dubbo. ` er chef, so … we just want to see We use a local butcher in Darling Last year on my birthday this whole area utilised more. The Street. We make him a coffee; he council has done a good job withI had flowers sent to me delivers. out spending much money. All this We have the hot bread shop over from ’Regular Skim Cap stuff like the table tennis table is all the road, and they bake us really Two Sugars’. That was recycled. nice focaccia bread, which is better what it was signed! It was We’ve got bats and Mr Bean’s got than anyone else I’ve ever tried, so bats. If we’re here working on a Sunthey make that every day. We do get hilarious. Lots of people day and we see people standing out stuff from Earlyrise Baking Compa- have that order but I there we’ll go out and give them the ny, which is baked here in town as knew who it was. bats and ball. It’s a great spot. I rewell. ally hope the council can get a few What will the new section be like? more tables and chairs out there in the centre. We’ll have 40 seats inside the new section and we’ll What’s your busiest day? still have outside. The current café will become the Have you been here on a Saturday morning? It’s kitchen and prep area, so we’ll have a big cool room in nuts. It’s chaos. Organised chaos. We’re putting the here and it will be closed off. furniture out at about 6.30 in the morning, now that The interior will be a little bit more industrial inside. it’s a bit lighter, and we’ve got people coming in at that It’s all glass. There are no walls on the outside just the hour. We have to say we’re not starting breakfast until glass. We’ve tried to keep the history. It started off life 7.30 but we’ll make you a coffee. The view up to the as the Globe Hotel. It was built in the 1880s. Dubbo’s Cenotaph is fabulous. famous for its red bricks and we’ve left one whole wall Dubbo is good for business? there, which has been cleaned and sealed. There are Dubbo’s the best place in the world, it really is. Esold archways, which were filled in to block next door. pecially now we’ve got a flight to Brisbane. When they As much as possible we’ve left that. Errin and her husbring that Melbourne one, I’m going! I’ve never been band have designed it all. to Melbourne and I am definitely going. Our restaurant is a good edition to his location. It’s surprising how many people travelling up the There’s a kebab shop, the Sushi Train. We’d like to cre- highway to go north who have come here and said ate a food court culture here. to us, ‘this is Melbourne’. To think that we’ve created What will the new menu be like? something that’s similar, that’s so thrilling for us. And Errin: The dinner menu is going to be a share menu. they drop in on their way back through too!

Errin Williamson and Julie Cross, mother and daughter, owners of the Church Street CafĂŠ.

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Dystonia research receives funding BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY JOURNALIST

EUROLOGIST and postdoctoral research fellow at Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Dr Kishore Kumar has formed a team to use Garvan’s whole human genome sequencing capabilities to study dystonia. Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder involving sustained or intermittent involuntary muscle contractions that cause abnormal and often repetitive movements or postures, or both. It is the third most common movement disorder. “Dystonia can affect many different parts of the body,” he told Dubbo Weekender. “For example, dystonia affecting the legs can lead to a tendency for one foot to turn in or drag. If dystonia affects the arms, it can lead to pain or stiffness in the hand. In other cases, the neck may turn or pull involuntarily (cervical dystonia). If dystonia affects the muscles around the eyes, it can lead to ‘blepharospasm’, which involves involuntary twitching, blinking, closure or squeezing of the eyelids. “Dystonia can even affect the muscles in the larynx, or voice box, causing difficulty speaking (spasmodic dysphonia). Generalised dystonia affects the entire body and usually starts in childhood. Some forms of dystonia are associated with a specific task, such as writing (writer’s cramp) or playing a musical instrument (musician’s dystonia),” said Kumar. As there are few treatments

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and no cure for this condition, Kumar’s team, which includes Professor John Mattick, Professor Carolyn Sue, Associate Professor Marcel Dinger and Dr Mark Cowley, will reignite re research thanks to a donation ion from the Paul Ainsworth Fammily Foundation; a cause supportorted by Paul’s family as he suffers ers from the condition himself. “Our study will utilise highly hly advanced gene sequencing techchnology, known as the Illumina ina HiSeq X Ten at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. We think this will be the most accurate and detailed way of studying the genetics of dystonia,” said Kumar. “We will establish a large genomic database of patients with dystonia, making this an innovative and cutting-edge project that other researchers from around the world will follow.” Seventy thousand Australians are impacted by dystonia and the Garvan study will focus on two of the most common which affect the neck and vocal chords. In most cases, the cause of dystonia is unknown, however, several gene changes or faults have already been confirmed as causing dystonia. “Our team is trying to understand the genetic basis for dystonia. By studying the proteins that these genes code for, we hope to identify new disease pathways, which may lead to a cure for dystonia in the future,” Kumar said. “My team is passionate about understanding this disorder and developing better treatments and cures. “You should visit your GP if you are concerned that you may have this condition. Your GP may decide to refer you to a neurologist for further assessment.

Dystonia affecting the legs can lead to a tendency for one foot to turn in or drag. If dystonia affects the arms, it can lead to pain or stiffness in the hand. In other cases, the neck may turn or pull involuntarily... - Dr Kishore Kumar, Neurologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Garvan Institute of Medical Research

The neurologist can help confirm the diagnosis and may arrange additional investigations, which in certain circumstances could involve genetic testing. Paul and Valeria Ainsworth, directors of the Paul Ainsworth Family Foundation, said they decided to facilitate the research after learning about Garvan’s leading genetic research capabilities. “Hopefully as a consequence of this research, new options for treatment, prevention or a cure will eventually emerge,” Paul Ainsworth said. “My wife and I are absolutely confident in Garvan’s researchers and the technology at their disposal to achieve goals otherwise considered unattainable.” Andrew Giles, CEO of the Garvan Research Foundation said philanthropic support of this nature is vital to sustain innovative research projects, such as the Ainsworth Dystonia Project. “Philanthropic support like this is absolutely vital to our work. I’ve been working with dystonia patients for many years and I have seen the debilitating impact of the condition first hand. “We’re very grateful to the Paul Ainsworth Family Foundation for providing important support to a disease area in dire need of more attention. The reality is, for every dollar of funding our researchers receive, we still need to raise another 70 cents in order to sustain research projects. So, the Ainsworth’s philanthropy allows Dr Kumar and his team to focus on dystonia, understand the cause and hopefully, find better treatments or even a cure,” said Mr Giles. The Garvan Institute in Dubbo does not conduct this type of research. It is dedicated to researching osteoporosis.

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A history of breastfeeding of a breastfeeding woman diminished, the communal knowledge and confidence in breastfeeding was lost.” By the 1970s, the breastfeeding rate in Britain was down to 28 per cent, according to Burbidge.

BY KATE WHITING VERY month, it seems, there’s a new headline about breastfeeding and the past month has been no different. There was the case of the Brisbane cafe operator who threw a man out of his establishment after he complained about another patron breastfeeding. Panellists Carrie Bickmore and Steve Price came to verbal blows over the issue on The Project. In the US, there was a huge furore when a man having a meal with his young daughter snapped a photo of new mum Conner Kendall who was breastfeeding three tables a way. Conner wasn’t aware the photo was taken. The man posted it to social media asking if it was appropriate, leaving Conner to defend her actions after the post became widely shared. In England, it’s been the turn of X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson to wade into the ongoing ‘breastfeeding in public’ debate, saying she refuses to feel ashamed for breastfeeding her baby daughter Arabella in public. “I think it’s quite hard as a breastfeeding mum because I feel like there’s a lot of shame involved which is so odd because it’s so natural,” she says. “It’s just weird, but I’m not bothered. I cover myself with a scarf but I think if someone’s got a problem with it, that’s their mind.” Back in 1999, the slogan ‘Breast is best’ opened a can of worms – and made it a divisive issue. A campaign has been launched to encourage more mums to breastfeed, backed by the health messages that breast milk would protect babies against disease and lower the risk of cancer in mothers. But as well as promoting breastfeeding, the slogan also unleashed feelings of pressure and guilt among women who couldn’t, or chose not to, breastfeed – and arguably started a public backlash at the ‘shameless’ women who began breastfeeding more openly, ‘exposing their assets’ for all to see. Also in the UK, BBC radio announcer Alex Dyke was suspended for his comments about breastfeeding in public, includ-

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ing saying: “Breastfeeding is unnatural. It’s the kind of thing that should be done in a quiet, private nursery.”

MUM KNOWS BEST TWENTY years ago in Australia, 86 per cent of infants aged 0-3 years had, at some stage, obtained nutrition from breast milk; six years later it was a similar figure at 87 per cent, according to the National Health Surveys. “This includes those who had been obtaining all nutrition from breastmilk, those obtaining nutrition from both breastmilk, other milk and milk substitutes (e.g. infant formula, cow’s milk, soya milk), and those who obtain their nutrition from breastmilk, other milk, milk substitutes and solids,” according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. At the turn of the century in the UK only two-thirds of mums chose to breastfeed after birth, compared to nearly 100 per cent in Scandinavian countries. So the British government initiated a milliondollar-plus campaign to promote breast over bottle, with the words: “A mother’s breast

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Q: I’m going back to work after having my baby – but I want to continue breastfeeding, as she’s only nine months old. What should I do? A: Anna Burbidge, from breastfeeding support charity La Leche League, says: “Continuing to breastfeed is a lovely way to reconnect with a baby at the end of the day and can help both of you cope with the separation. Breastmilk is packed with antibodies which will be particularly important if your baby is spending time in nursery.

milk is the ultimate designer food for babies.” Rosemary Dodds, senior policy adviser at parenting charity NCT, says of the controversial campaign message: “The benefits of breastfeeding are now widely known, and constantly repeating the ‘breast is best’ message isn’t helpful, as it can add to feelings of guilt for women who decide not to breastfeed. “We want parents to have evidence-based, independent information, so they can make their own decisions, and we support them in the choices they make, whether it’s breast or bottle-feeding or a mixture of both. “NCT also supports mums who want to breastfeed but are struggling. We know that 80 per cent of mothers who stopped in the first six weeks would have liked more help to continue.”

FORMULA TAKES OVER WE’LL have to go further back to understand why the ‘breast is best’ message came about. Over to Anna Burbidge from a

Breastfed babies are sick less often. “There is legislation in place to support breastfeeding women who return to work. You can possibly ask for flexible working hours in order to continue breastfeeding. Talk to your employer before you return about your need for breastfeeding/ expressing breaks.” Many employers would like to provide breastfeeding support but they are often unsure how to do so. Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Accreditation enables them to do so quickly and simply. You can find out more about this from The Australian Breastfeeding Association

breastfeeding support charity for a history lesson: “For thousands of years, women gave birth and nursed their babies, supported by a close-knit group of family and friends.” She says the decline in breastfeeding began with the advent of infant formula in the late 1800s. “Formulas were a useful way to use surplus milk from the dairy industry and were to be used in particular to feed orphans and foundlings who had no other form of nutrition. Wet nursing was on the decline as it had been realised that various diseases could be passed from wet nurse to baby and vice versa. “Formula manufacturers soon realised that there was a wider market for their product, and started selling it to mothers as an improvement on breast milk and the best way a modern mother could feed her baby. “So breastfeeding became ‘old-fashioned’ and something that mainly poorer women might do. As more women formula fed and the sight

(www.breastfeeding.asn.au). “Your baby’s carers should be supportive of and knowledgeable about breastfeeding. Practice pumping or hand expressing; freezing the amounts collected gives a small back-up supply. Any expressed milk can be given by the caregiver in a cup or mixed with solid food. It’s usually best to express milk regularly while you are away but some mothers decide not to express and just breastfeed at home. Breasts will adjust to this, but you may need to express a little at first. “Once back at work, try feeding the baby in bed before you get up

INITIAL breastfeeding rates are on the increase. But many mums aren’t continuing to breastfeed. Australian breastfeeding statistics indicate we are falling well short of the above recommendations. Statistics from the 2010 Australian National Infant Feeding Survey indicate that 96 per cent of mothers initiate breastfeeding. Thereafter, exclusive breastfeeding rates drop off. Less than half (39 per cent) of babies are still being exclusively breastfed to 3 months (less than 4 months) and less than one quarter (15 per cent) to 5 months (less than 6 months), says the Australian Breastfeeding Association. Part of the reason for that could be due to the public perception of it, as Netmums’ Anna O’Leary explains: “Although breastfeeding is greatly encouraged by midwives and medical professionals, in reality we still have a long way to go before a lot of mums feel comfortable feeding out and about without worrying about comments and stares.” The NCT’s Rosemary Dodds adds: “It is important that mums are able to feed their baby whenever and wherever they need to, whether formula feeding or breastfeeding.. The law says that mums cannot be discriminated against, asked to leave a venue or treated unfavourably because they are breastfeeding when out and about. A 2010 survey revealed that 11 per cent of women who had breastfed in public places had been made to feel uncomfortable or asked to stop. O’Leary adds: “While it’s helpful that we now have an equality act that makes it illegal to try to stop mothers breastfeeding their babies in public places, it would be great to see public places being even more supportive and actually advertising this fact.”

and again just before you leave, or allow time at the caregiver’s to settle and nurse the baby. If possible, breastfeed as soon as you collect your baby. Babies often adjust; wanting less food during the day and more evening, night-time and early morning feeds. Listen to your body to avoid problems with blocked ducts and mastitis, and try to get help with the household chores. “Breastfeeding doesn’t last forever and your baby will gradually wean, but continuing to nurse after returning to work can be a positive thing for everyone.”

FOOD.

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Papaya

Tropical d The start of spring marks the best time to get your paws on some Australian papaya and papaw, with a record-breaking supply of great tasting new season produce expected thanks to above average growing conditions. Dubbo Weekender welcomes in the warmer weather with the fruits of the tropics. WORDS Yvette Abusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Papaya Australia HESE two exotic fruits are easy to distinguish – red papaya is often pearshaped, has orange to red flesh and a sweet flavour, whereas yellow papaw is more cylindrical and rounder, with yellow flesh and a less sweet flavour. In addition to their delicious and unique flavour, both fruits

have outstanding health benefits, according to accredited practicing dietitian Caitlin Reid. “From assisting the immune system to digestive wellbeing to being a great choice during pregnancy, papaya and papaw are a great health all-rounder,” said Reid. Both papaya and papaw pack

Australian papaya and papaw have peak seasons in spring and autumn but are available all year round. Red papaya and yellow papaw are predominately grown in the warmer tropical climates of Far North Queensland areas of Tully, Innisfail to Mosman, and Mareeba with new plantings in Lakeland as well as in the Northern Territories and Western Australia. For inspiring recipes and information about red papaya and yellow papaw visit www.australianpapaya.com.au and www.facebook.com/papayaaustralia Share using #aussiepapayapapaw

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a nutritious punch. They: • contain a unique combination of antioxidants that can keep your immune system healthy; • contain soluble and insoluble fibre, necessary for digestive wellbeing; • are suitable before, during and after pregnancy thanks to high vitamin C and folate content, essential nutrients that help promote baby’s growth and development; • are low in energy and fat, making them a great choice for weight loss diets; • contain a bundle of skin-protective nutrients; and • are an excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin A as well as providing nearly • three times as much fibre as 1/2 a cup brown rice per serve.

Caitlin Reid’s top Papaya and Papaw tips 1. To choose a ripe papaya or papaw, lightly press underneath the stem and it will give to the pressure. Ripe papaya has green/yellow skin and bright orange/red flesh; ripe papaw has yellow/orange skin and bright yellow/orange flesh. 2. Papaya and papaw are fragile – a few dark spots or blemishes on the skin are normal and the fruit will still be great quality. 3. Ripen papaya and papaw in the fruit bowl and then store in the fridge and enjoy within two days. For the best taste, remove from the fridge and wait five minutes before enjoying. 4. To get the best taste, remove from the fridge and let it sit for around 5 minutes before enjoying! 5. To speed up the ripening process, you

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Whip up a spicy papaya/papaw salsa by combining it with red onion, coriander, lime juice and red chilli. Perfect for BBQ weather! can also place in a paper bag with a banana. 6. Papaya and papaw are packed with flavour and highly versatile, pairing well with coconut, passionfruit, seafood, salads, curries, pork, chicken, lime, lemon, mango, pineapple, ginger, kiwi, banana and berries.

Get creative with these tasty ideas • For a peppery substitute, don’t toss the papaya seeds, grind them and use in place of pepper. • Poach papaya and cranberries in a syrup of lime juice, cinnamon, star anise, sugar and water for a citrusy dessert. • Whip up a spicy papaya/papaw salsa by combining it with red onion, coriander, lime juice and red chilli. Perfect for BBQ weather!

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Papaya and Banana Bread Serves 6-8 Ingredients 2 cups (300g) self-raising flour 1 cup (200g) brown sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ cup (125ml) mashed papaya ½ cup (125ml) mashed banana 2 eggs, lightly whisked 150g butter, melted, cooled ½ cup (70g) toasted macadamias, coarsely chopped ½ cup finely chopped papaya, extra Method Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and line the base and sides of a 8 x 24cm (base measurement) loaf pan. Combine the flour, sugar and baking powder in a large bowl. Combine mashed papaya, banana and eggs in a small bowl. Add to the flour mixture with the melted butter, macadamias and extra papaya and gently stir until just combined. Spoon into the prepared pan and smooth the surface with the back of a spoon. Place on an oven tray and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove from oven. Set aside for 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool. Cut into thick slices. Serve warm or at room temperature, with honeycomb butter.

Honeycomb butter Ingredients 100g of soft butter, beaten until pale 30g chopped honeycomb 2 egg whites Method Add ingredients together. Stir to combine. Place egg whites in a clean dry bowl, whisk until stiff peak and gently fold through batter. Heat a lightly greased large non-stick frying pan over low to medium heat. Cook 2–3 tablespoons of the mixture per hotcake, in batches, for 2–3 minutes each side or until puffed and golden. Dollop on slices of warm Papaya and banana bread. Transfer to warm serving plates and serve with berries, butter and extra syrup.

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Black to basics

Sometimes we yearn for life to be simple and our choices ‘black and white’ – it’s something you can achieve in home decor BY GABRIELLE FAGAN OMETIMES we yearn for life to be simple and our choices ‘black and white’, in the hope that prevarication and confusion can be avoided. That’s rarely realistic unfortunately, but taking a monochrome approach could be a perfect stress-free solution for decor. No one’s more convinced of the merit and power of a classic black and white pairing than Hilary Robertson, author of Monochrome Home. “White loves black. Black loves white. Exploring their

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relationship builds an interior which is timeless, flexible, practical and liberating,” she enthuses. “By restricting the colour palette, having a colour cleanse if you like, any number of eclectic elements can easily exist happily together; inexpensive or simple things will look more sophisticated and decorating decisions are made easier.” Choosing a monochrome interior is a minimalist stance, she points out, but more than that, it’s a refusal to get caught up in the drama of colour, with all the attendant complications of what goes with what,

` White loves black. Black loves white. Exploring their relationship builds an interior which is timeless, flexible, practical and liberating... a which, all too often, bedevils the amateur decorator. “Once you decide all the colours of the rainbow are not an option and commit to a monochrome scheme, you won’t find it restrictive or as drastic as it sounds,” she reassures. “Creativity can flourish within the boundaries of black, white, grey and all the shades

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1. Adding space is one of the best ways to improve your home and increase its value. If you’ve outgrown your home, but can make it bigger by building an extension or converting the loft, cellar or garage, doing the work is often more economical than moving to a larger property, and gives you a chance to create living space tailored to your needs. However, be careful not to extend your home in the wrong way. For example, if you’re converting the loft to create an extra bedroom and there isn’t enough living space downstairs for the total number of bedrooms, you’ll be making the house

in between. It actually affords the decorator considerable freedom to experiment with mixing pieces from different decades, adding pattern and layering texture.” Deciding which type of ‘monochromist’ you are, she says, will ensure your interpretation truly matches your taste. “Just as there are night people,

too top heavy. If you’re concerned about resale, ask a local estate agent whether the work you’re considering is advisable. 2. Modernising a home stuck in a different decade is always going to add value, and make it more sellable and nicer to live in. Central heating is vital because most of us want it, but installing it is expensive and disruptive – it’s something to do at an early stage of renovating. The same applies to rewiring – old wiring isn’t always obvious, but can be dangerous. Having a property rewired is also expensive and disruptive and can create more work and expense because you often have to replaster afterwards. 3. It’s said the rooms that sell homes most are the kitchen and bathroom. Again, this is because updating them is

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015 who favour black and moody, atmospheric boltholes, there are others who prefer to bathe in light with black merely providing a subtle contrast,” she points out. Choose from a ‘white-out’ or ‘back to black’ approach and transform your home simply into a stylish space.... It might even change your life too!

BIT OF ALL WHITE :: You lean to the brighter side of life, preferring shades of white, light-flooded rooms, pale or bleached floors and a smattering of black for details. “White is reflective, peaceful and restorative and maximises daylight. It’s a perfect neutral, unobtrusive canvas for furniture and decorative objects. The white envelope approach – with both pale walls and floors – wraps a space in light but de-

mands some defining characteristics if it is not to turn into a blurry snowy scene,” advises Robertson. “Mixing black furniture, black and white photography and a lamp or two adds punctuation to a room, and a rug combining both colours will ground it, which is essential. There’s something awkward about a room where objects float, offering nowhere for the eye to rest.” TIP: Brilliant whites have a more contemporary feel than softer shades, and sit well next to objects with some patina and age. Consider a palette of three different tones of white and vary the warmth and coolness of these. The lightest should go on the ceiling and mouldings, darkest on the floor, and the middle shade on walls.

For lustre, opt for pearlescent white paint, and for a chalky effect, try unfinished white plaster. MONOCHROME MUSTHAVES: Black details in a pure white landscape pack a mighty punch, so choose with care. Showcase black and white photography. Give a hall va-vavoom with and opt for a traditional black and white tile floor. Storage is essential, and a white with black trim Two Drawer Chest is eye-catching. Complete the picture with a black floral print Roller Blind. Conjure a calm dining room, ideal for relaxing and entertaining. A tranquil but chic monochrome scheme is so appropriate for a bedroom.

ON THE DARK SIDE :: You are temperamentally suited to darkness, would happily swap day for night, and cannot resist the striking effect of light on dark. “Black’s taken it’s time to slink back into our consciousness because it earned a bad reputation in the Nineties where it was all about machismo, with matt black walls, chrome, leather and no feminine balance,” says Robertson. “Now it’s been reinvented for our times. This incarnation is softer, more sensual and complex. There’s something undeniably glamorous, louche and sexy about a dark room. “Texture is all important in this interior, which relies on the tension created between hard, soft, rough and smooth to add character. Employing a mix of finishes and materials,

Black French Bed, Coco print, Geometric Luxe throw

from matt paint to glossy lacquer, gives monochrome rooms depth.” TIP: Going dark takes courage, so if your mood’s sensitive to the amount of available daylight, limit black to contrasting details. Reserve the darkest shade for the ceiling or paint window frames, mouldings and doors for a graphic effect. Chalkboard paint, a softer black, works well with vintage and antique pieces, while gloss and lacquer suits crisper modern areas. MONOCHROME MUSTHAVES: Pick up on two trends – monochrome and geometrics – with Black + White wallpaper. Ramp up the drama with white statement pieces, such as a chair and ottoman footstool, accessorised with a cushion or two.

Wallpaper

Black and white chequer tile

China teapot, coffee pot, jugs, etc

Black roller blind

Large face cushion

Black and white enamel pot, hand painted exotic animal egg cup

Chair and ottoman, cat cushion

Mineral Haze by Dulux

Charcoal Drift, available from Dulux

costly and it’s not easy being without either while the work’s being done. Day to day, replacing a dated kitchen or bathroom with a modern one will make a big difference to your life, and you can fit a new one inexpensively, although it’s not hard to spend a lot. If you can create one, an open-plan kitchendiner/family room is the most popular type of kitchen these days, as it’s ideal for family life and entertaining. 4. En-suite bathrooms are another good way to add value and make your home life easier, especially if you have kids. You should have at least one bathroom for every three bedrooms, but when everyone’s

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getting ready in the morning, there can be a lot of pressure on that one bathroom. This is when another bathroom comes in very handy. It’s also useful to have a bathroom on every floor where there are bedrooms, so, for example, loft-conversion bedrooms with a bathroom are usually more valuable and useful than those without. 5. In areas where parking space is limited, off-street parking is a big plus, although it’s most likely to add value in expensive urban areas. You may need planning permission from your local council for both the off-street parking and a dropped kerb so you can access it easily.

Black and white wallpaper panel

NOW HERE’S A TIP BY JOANN DERSON z Line junk drawers in the kitchen or bathroom with inexpensive sheets of corkboard. Things don’t slide around as much, and you can even use pushpins or finishing nails lightly inserted into the cork to make custom compartments in the drawers so things like pens don’t roll around. z “If your eyeglass screws tend to come loose, just unscrew, brush clear nail

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polish over the threads and re-screw tightly. As the polish dries (in seconds), it will form a tighter bond.” – contributed by I.D. z Shaving cream can be used as a spot cleaner for most carpets. Simply dab a bit of the cream into the stained area, scrape off any excess and wipe away dirt with a clean, damp washcloth. z Ways to remove gum from your child’s hair: laundry pre-treatment rubbed in with the fingers; ice cubes to harden the gum so that it can be picked out in chunks; and good, old-fashioned peanut butter and a comb.

z This one is an oldie, but a preschool goodie, from L.R.: “Use wide rubber bands around a drinking glass for children. It will provide a little non-slip protection, especially if the glass is filled with a cold drink. The rubber band is reusable, and you can write the child’s name on the band with a ballpoint pen in order to identify his or her cup!” z How do you keep cats away from your plants in the garden? One reader suggests strips of tin foil. Another recommends mothballs (which can be toxic, so use carefully and follow all safety instructions).

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Divers take the plunge in Cayman Islands

Diving buddies Hannah and Will. PHOTOS: PA/HANNAH STEPHENSON

BY HANNAH STEPHENSON F you kiss a stingray, it means seven years good luck,” our genial skipper jokes before we tentatively enter the sea, amid what looks like giant flat mushrooms. We’re in Stingray City, the most popular attraction of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean, where the enormous, elegant creatures gather to be petted and fed chunks of squid by the hordes of enthusiastic tourists who come to see them every year. It’s a unique attraction 20 minutes by boat from Grand Cayman, where vessels moor at a sandbank and invite passengers to mingle with the stingrays in the waist-high water. It’s controlled in that about 50 per cent of the rays are “clipped” (their stings removed) but uncontrolled in that it’s in open water, so anything is possible.

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After initial trepidation and reluctance to walk on the sandbar in case we step on one, we are stroking the smooth underbellies of these gentle, gliding fish as they suck the squid from our hands into their powerful jaws. Fishermen used to clean their catch on the shallow sandbars here, unwittingly giving rays a five-star feast of fish guts and effectively luring them to the spot. My 16-year-old son Will and I have come to the Cayman Islands, a trio of islands in the British West Indies – south of Cuba and west of Jamaica – to dive, and specifically to pass our Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) open water certificate which, when completed, will allow us to dive to depths of about 20 metres without an instructor. The Caymans – Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman – are ideal for learners thanks to their calm,

warm waters, high visibility underwater, professional dive schools and English as the first language. They’re still a British territory, but most visitors are American. Normally this PADI course takes between five days and a week but, as we don’t want to spend our holiday time in a classroom, we do a referral course, completing the theory via an e-learning course and pool work at home beforehand. The computer-based study takes around 15 hours to complete, teaching you the basics of diving, section by section, with video illustration and multiple-choice tests, followed by several pool sessions, before completing the final four dives in the resort of your choice. Some dive operators only offer the PADI open water diving course to people who’ve already done the e-learning theory, so check before you book. We set off from the famous

Seven Mile Beach, a dazzling strip of white sand and picture postcard azure sea, for our first dive on a boat captained by Chris ‘Crispy’ Ploughman, an ex-nightclub owner from Middlesbrough, who gave it all up for diving.

BRISBANE: The Queensland building

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where Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers was born is set to be turned into a museum to celebrate her life. The writer, who penned several novels featuring the eccentric nanny, grew up in Australia before moving to England in her 20s. She was born in a Maryborough bank managed by her English father on August 9, 1899. The heritage-listed building, used more recently to house an interior

design business, was purchased this month by Fraser Coast Council. They plan to create a public display. “It’s part of our identity and since we’ve found out that she was born in Maryborough, we’ve held Mary Poppins festivals which have been embraced by the community,” Councillor George Seymour told AAP. “It will be a great tourist drawcard for the region.” The building, constructed in 1882, was the work of famous colonial architect FDG Stanley, who also

“The Caymanians don’t run dive schools as they don’t

Shoals of fish feeding at the reef

Museum for Mary Poppins author set for Queensland BY ETHAN JAMES

He says many of the dive boat captains and instructors are British, because in this tax-exempt haven, the locals would rather be bankers than dive-masters.

designed Brisbane’s Roma Street railway station. Travers, formerly Helen Lyndon Goff, moved to NSW at the age of seven. She relocated to England in 1924 and published her first Mary Poppins novel 10 years later. The books were adapted to a Disney musical film in 1964. The 2013 film Saving Mr Banks – starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson – portrayed Travers’ childhood in Australia and later interactions with Walt Disney.

Qld govt pitches to tourism investors BRISBANE: Queensland’s treasurer is keen for investors to buy and revamp some of the state’s tired resorts while the Aussie dollar is low. Treasurer Curtis Pitt says it’s a great time for local and foreign investors to partner resort owners or buy properties to refresh and rebrand them. “Some of the architecture... is slightly out of date, and I think there’s always an opportunity in that,” Mr Pitt said in Brisbane.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015 make enough money from it, but for me, diving gives you a passport to travel,” Ploughman says. As we prepare for our first dive, our young Canadian instructor Devon tells us to look out for Kiki, a nurse shark with a scar down one side of her face, who may appear from nowhere and gently nudge up to you like a puppy, but never aggressively. Devon says we’re also likely to see turtles – they are prolific around the Cayman Islands, which was originally called Las Tortugas (Spanish for turtles) by Christopher Columbus, who came across the islands in 1503. Right on cue, as we plunge into the tepid waters at Governor’s Reef – no wetsuits needed here where the water remains between 82-85 degrees – we encounter a large green sea turtle foraging for food. Thankfully, we don’t bump into Kiki. Shadowing the reef, we see petrol blue parrot fish, sharp, skinny barracuda, huge, beefy grouper and shoals of tiny multi-coloured fish darting between the coral. It’s a riot of aquatic activity in a world where the only sound is your breathing, or the occasional tap on your oxygen tank when your buddy has seen something he wants to share. Loggerhead, hawksbill and green sea turtles are common on the west side, where hotels line Seven Mile Beach, while you’re more likely to spot reef sharks and nurse sharks at the choppier east end of the island. Grand Cayman also has other attractions – a turtle farm, native blue iguanas, horseback riding in the sea, kayaking and bioluminescence tours at quirky Rum Point for those not seeking other thrills. Once certified, there are many locations to practice. Little Cayman is the smallest of the islands and the one from which you can access Bloody Bay Wall, the most famous reef of the Caymans, which runs alongside a tremendous abyss, a seemingly bottomless blue hole. This is not the place you want to drop your underwater camera. Mixing Bowl offers coral fans and tubes which provide fascinating nooks and crannies for a wealth of sea life, including huge lobsters and grouper, and we look beyond the reef into the deep blue bottomless chasm. Perhaps diving has given ‘Crispy’ Ploughman a passport to travel, but it has also given us a passport to a whole new world – both above and below the surface. * For information about a PADI scuba diving holiday go to www.padi.com/ scuba-diving/scuba-vacations/ dive-travel/ * Hannah Stephenson was a guest of the Cayman Islands Tourist Board

Swimming with horses

A young Caymanian selling conch shells at his garden wall

Will in Stingray City

Pastel coloured buildings in Little Cayman

Seven Mile Beach

Quirky signs at Rum Point

Hannah and Will at Seven Mile Beach

Stingray City. PHOTO: PA/DAVE ROGERS.

Long live The King: govt backs Elvis Fest

Tasmania red hot on Chinese market

SYDNEY: A hunk, a hunk of burning love for

HOBART: A Tasmanian trade delegation to

the Parkes Elvis Festival will smoulder on as the NSW government agrees to fund it for another three years. It started as a small gathering of fans in 1993 and now the January festival in central NSW attracts more than 11,000 quiffed, white jumpsuited, hip-swivelling Elvis enthusiasts, who bling nearly $9 million to the local economy every year. “The music, costumes and entertainment combined with country hospitality ensures this is one of the most fun events you’ll ever go to,” Member for Orange Andrew Gee said in a statement on Monday.

China has highlighted the island state’s growing appeal with keen interest from one of the world’s largest banks, along with airlines wanting to operate direct flights to and from Australia’s southernmost capital. Premier Will Hodgman said the People’s Bank of China had set up a working group to look at Tasmanian investment opportunities and that he spoke with “a number” of airlines showing an interest in setting up a direct Tasmanian route. Mr Hodgman said direct flights would not be a possibility until an upgrade of Hobart Airport is completed in 2017.

Is this the world’s worst airline? BY ERIC TALMADGE PYONGYANG: It’s been ranked the world’s worst airline for four straight years. But don’t let that fool you into thinking North Korea’s airline is unsafe. Its food may look dubious, it’s in-flight entertainment may not match current trends and its cabin crew may not speak your language, all good reasons why Air Koryo is the only carrier to have been awarded just one star in rankings released recently by the UK-based SkyTrax consultancy agency. More than 180 airlines are included in the five-star ranking system, which is widely considered the global benchmark of airline

standards. Among many quirks that may help explain why Air Koryo has earned its singular distinction include flight attendants removing cameras from passengers who ignore the airline’s “no photography” rule and deleting the pictures. Crumpling up a newspaper bearing the image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can also earn travellers a stern lecture, or worse. However, some experts and frequent Air Koryo passengers disagree with the “world’s worst” title. The airline is a definitely a unique ride, but fairly reliable, they say. The SkyTrax ratings are focused on service and not safety. AAP

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Shake rattle and roll 2016 Parkes Elvis Festival UST off those blue suede shoes and get ready to rock’n’roll at the 2016 Parkes Elvis™ Festival! Taking place across five days from January, Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 in Parkes this year’s festival theme is the Elvis Presley Mexican film classic, ‘Fun In Acapulco’. So grab your sombrero and head out to Parkes for a hot and spicy good time, and experience what one of NSW’s most vibrant regional communities has to offer. The program for the 2016 Parkes Elvis Festival has been announced and it’s jam-packed full of entertainment to rock the Central West. Tickets are now on sale to all events including the fabulous 2016 ClubsNSW Keno Feature Concert Series starring leading U.S. Elvis tribute artist Donny Edwards. Donny Edwards will perform four high-octane shows at the Parkes Leagues Club, showcasing the best of The King’s Fifties, Sixties and Seventies sounds. Donny shines with his authentic tribute to Elvis Presley, bringing to life the voice, moves and looks of The King backed by the dynamic eight-piece Elvis In Concert Band. For the first time in its 24-year history, Parkes Elvis Festival will stage a preliminary round of the 2016 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, officially endorsed by Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. Across the Heats on Friday, January 8, and the final on Saturday, January 9, leading Elvis tribute artists from Australia and New Zealand will battle it out at Parkes Leagues Club, with the winner to represent Parkes during the semi final round of the 2016 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest in Memphis, USA, during ‘Elvis Week’ next August. Heats and finals tickets are on sale now. The Elvis Express returns in 2016, rollin’ its way from Sydney to Parkes on Thursday, January 7 with passengers enjoying on board entertainment from a bevy of Elvis tribute artists.

The 2016 Miss Priscilla Dinner on Thursday, January 7 sees the sashing of the 2016 Miss Priscilla as the audience enjoys a two-course dinner and show. And don’t miss the Sunday, January 10, extravaganza, ‘The Ultimates’, starring the very best Australian Ultimate contestants who have previously competed in world titles contests. The 2016 Parkes Elvis Festival offers the annual free festival favourites, fun for the whole family! Don’t miss the Northparkes Mines Street Parade on Clarinda Street Saturday, January 9 at 10am. With Elvisthemed floats, Elvis and Priscilla look-a-likes, vintage cars and marching bands, it’s the highlight of the weekend. In 2016 the Elvis Gospel Service transitions to its new venue, the Cooke Park Main Stage, on Sunday, January 10 at 9am. Reminiscent of a Southern Revival service, Donny Edwards will make a special appearance alongside local choirs and musicians. Following the Service is the beloved ‘Renewal of Vows’ Ceremony at 11.30am, where couples rekindle their love in Parkes and renew their vows before an Elvis celebrant. Talented buskers will line The NRMA Festival Boulevard to wow the crowds and compete for the prize of 2016 Festival Busker. The 2016 Festival’s Wall of Fame honours performer and producer Robie Porter (‘Rob E.G.’). And if that doesn’t satisfy your musical fix, head down to the Cooke Park main stage where you can relax, grab a bite to eat at the Festival Markets and enjoy four days of free all-ages entertainment and competitions. The 2016 Parkes Elvis Festival features more than 150 free and ticketed events, shows, concerts and competitions. The 2016 program is now available online and in print pocket-guide format. The souvenir program is available for pre-order and will be distributed in November. z For all programming and ticketing information, visitwww.parkeselvisfestival.com.au.

Parkes Elvis Festival History Parkes Elvis Festival is held annually in the second week of January in Parkes, New South Wales, coinciding with the birthday of Elvis Presley. Parkes has a population of 12,000 and is located 365 kilometres west of Sydney. In January 2015 over 20,000 visitors attended the Festival, more than doubling Parkes’ population. The Festival began in January 1993 as a small birthday party for the local newspaper editor. It was so much fun they decided to do it again – and again! Over the following 10 years additional events were added and it became a two-day festival. With the vision and effort of the voluntary organising committee as well as the support of Parkes Shire Council, the festival exploded in popularity and word quickly spread across Australia of the fun and unique event in regional NSW. Following its tremendous success, in 2014 the Festival transitioned management to Parkes Shire Council under a Section 355 Festival Committee. The Festival now regularly attracts visitors from all around Australia and stages more than 150 events annually. In January 2015, Parkes Elvis Festival was officially endorsed by Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., the trustees of the estate of Elvis Presley. Official endorsement elevates Parkes Elvis Festival to the ranks of a premiere Elvis tribute festivals in the world. Parkes Elvis Festival is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. Tickets on sale now.

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From bedroom to stage: the complete musician Dubbo’s re-emerging live, original music scene has seen some newly formed bands in the city starting to take centre stage, providing not only opportunities for those musicians involved but providing an alternative view of music to those still playing in their bedrooms. DUBBO WEEKENDER caught up with Civil Hands lead guitarist and Macquarie Conservatorium teacher, Dale Freeman, to find out more about his transition to the stage. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Kim V. Goldsmith OCAL band, Civil Hands formed about 12 months ago by creative, Fred Randell, who had never been in a band before but was keen to start writing and performing his own music after having played around at home making demos. Working with Dale Freeman at the Conservatorium on his guitar playing, the two eventually started working on some of Randell’s original compositions. It’s an arrangement based on mutual admiration as Randell describes Freeman is an outstanding guitar player, bringing the solos and riffs to his music that make them “really rock”. Freeman was clearly intrigued by the music, jumping at the offer to take the role as lead guitarist with the band. “I find Fred’s music interesting ... he doesn’t write to the formulas of most music that are structured in units of four ... he structures in three and two and a half and things like that,” grins Freeman. “It’s so good for your brain.” Civil Hands is made up of Randell (rhythm guitar and vocals), Freeman (lead guitar), Mandi Randell (vocals), Brad Purcell (drums) and Michael Cooper (bass). Having played instruments since he was a kid and building up a vast knowledge of music theory over the following years, Freeman started playing electric guitar before moving into the classical, flamenco and percussion, and eventually finding his way back to the electric guitar through teaching at Macquarie Conservatorium, where he’s now been for 10 years. With this background, Freeman says he initially found Randell’s approach to music difficult. “Most people go and get lessons and they’re told this is how music works ... it’s hard to break the rules when it’s been your discipline for 10, 15, 30 years. “But when you come at it from a fresh angle of there are no rules – you’ve never learnt any rules, then it makes it very interesting. “It took me several weeks to get my head around the songs ... it doesn’t feel natural, but it’s not meant to feel natural.” For Freeman, Civil Hands has been an opportunity to reinvent himself as a musician, at the same time as bringing to it the experience of having been in other bands and working with so many students over the past decade. “I’d been to uni at Newcastle where I’d played rock guitar and lead guitar in bands over there. “But I hated university – it was just like high school all over again. “I decided to come back here, but I didn’t know what I was going to do so I decided to become the best guitarist I could be ... I didn’t have a job. “So I sat there doing 10 hours practise on the electric guitar every day – getting to the point where I could play every song I wanted to and if I couldn’t, I could make something up over the top

of it that sounded amazing. “I couldn’t wait to call all my mates to start a band and then I realised all my mates had left ... while I’d been in my bedroom playing for a year and not talking to my mates.” It was a harsh realisation but one that made Freeman decide to go further with his music, taking up the nylon string guitar to learn classical and Spanish music, as well as teaching himself percussion instruments. Over the next five years he continued to just play at home rather than interacting with others, apart from the people he worked alongside in his job at the pet food factory. Eventually, the job that took Freeman from his bedroom to the public came up at Macquarie Conservatorium. “That really set me up. I’d already been teaching myself so it wasn’t that difficult to start teaching others. “In terms of the most important thing I have to teach people is that performing is the second most important thing to practising...but you have to perform. “I tell all my students that as a musician you’re going to spend 90 per cent of your career practising to be able to perform for three per cent of your career ...

the other seven per cent is sitting backstage waiting for the person before you to get off stage. “You spend more time waiting than you do performing.” Freeman’s face lights up when asked about how it feels to be back in a band. “The thing that’s most fun about it is both the freedom and the creativity. “The boys come in and say here’s an idea, or Fred comes in and says here’s three chords, make something up to go over the top of it ... we fiddle around until we think it sounds good. “Honestly though, Fred often comes in and the songs sound almost complete ... so usually they come together in about 10 minutes. “But as a musician, you’re constantly collecting tricks to put in your bag to pull out when you need. “So when I do my guitar solos, I go in with my eyes closed and absolutely nothing prepared and I just make it up ... it’s so freeing when you can do that. “As a musician that’s where you need to get to. “As I tell everyone, I don’t see any difference between art, music and sport – it’s all about being able to make the perfect decision in that moment ... that perfect note that makes the hairs stand

I don’t see any difference between art, music and sport – it’s all about being able to make the perfect decision in that moment ... that perfect note that makes the hairs stand up on the back of everyone’s neck.

up on the back of everyone’s neck.” Civil Hands bill themselves as a mix of pop rock, indie pop and rock indie pop, yet Freeman says it’s often hard to classify with Randell drawing on a very broad range of influences. “It’s a bit of mix between Pearl Jam and R.E.M., it’s not super, super heavy and some, it’s quite slow and pretty, and some it’s even straight up southern American rock too. “Some people say they have a broad range of influences in their music and I laugh, thinking you have no idea!” With Fred Randell being one of the key organisers of the monthly Lust4Live music events that kicked off last month, Freeman is now relishing the thought of not only now having a stage to perform on but also being able to sit back and enjoy the performances of other local bands. He’s been at the heart of organising these types of events in the past with One Proud Monkey’s Clinton Hoy – the two having spent their teen years running music festivals. “There’s an actual music scene now where there’s five or six good bands where we can sit back and enjoy just being a musician in the scene rather than running the scene. “It’s still developing but without the Lust4Live guys there wouldn’t be much at all for original artists here.” In terms of what’s next for the band, Freeman says they’re going to jump on a recent offer of some recording time in a local studio. In the meantime it’s back to rehearsals and preparation for their live gigs. Civil Hands are part of the Lust4Live line-up tonight, September 18, at The Pastoral Hotel, starting at 8pm. Details at www.lust4live.com.au.

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Everest is an action-packed 'white-knuckle' film EVEREST. Photos: PA/Universal Pictures.

BY DAMON SMITH FILM OF THE WEEK EVEREST (M, 131 mins) Drama/ Action/Romance. Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Kelly, Martin Henderson, Naoko Mori, Elizabeth Debicki. Director: Baltasar Kormakur. ICELANDIC director Baltasar Kormakur heads for the highest peak on earth for a gripping drama based on true events, which cast a deathly shadow over the mountaineering community in 1996. Penned by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, award-winning scribes of Gladiator and Slumdog Millionaire, Everest is a slickly orchestrated recreation of an ill-fated ascent to 29,029 feet above sea level, where altitude sickness silently stalks the most experienced climbers. From this literally breathtaking vantage point, one wrong movement or the slightest change in Mother Nature’s volatile temperament can be fatal. The air is too thin for helicopter rescue, so all that separates expeditions from an icy grave is the eternal flame of the human spirit, which compels men and women to perform superhuman feats of strength and

endurance. Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) lead rival expeditions, racing against one another and the elements to ensure their clients are on top of the world. Unlike his rival, Rob takes a fastidious, cautious approach to each ascent with his company Adventure Consultants, promising his pregnant wife Jan (Keira Knightley) that he will return soon for the imminent birth of their daughter. His base camp team includes mother hen Helen Wilton (Emily Watson), medic Caroline Mackenzie (Elizabeth Debicki) and fellow guide Andy Harris (Martin Henderson). Clients on Hall’s ill-fated May 1996 expedition include respected journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly), postman Doug Hansen (John Hawkes), doctor Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin) and Yasuko Namba (Naoko Mori), who is attempting to become only the second Japanese woman to reach the summits of the highest mountains on all seven continents. As Rob and Scott’s teams approach the summit, a fierce storm rumbles nearby, threatening to trap the climbers and guides on the rock face. “There is competition between every person and this mountain. The last word always belongs to the

mountain,” pointedly observes one of the guides. Everest doesn’t quite scale the dizzy emotional heights to which it aspires and it’s not always easy to distinguish characters when tragedy strikes in the eye of a storm, but there is no escaping the nerve-racking suspense that holds us in a vicelike grip. Performances are occasionally lost to the roar of the sub-zero wind but Watson certainly wrings out tears that remain frozen for other cast members. Kormakur’s decision to shoot his picture in 3D and IMAX 3D adds a vertiginous, stomach-churning extra dimension to this high-wire fight for survival. We experience the relentless, sickening pull of gravity as the camera swoops above and below the characters as they clamber over rickety ladders that traverse gaping crevasses on the treacherous Khumbu Icefall. These brave souls might be instructed to keep their heads up, but we have no choice but to stare at the jagged wall of rock and ice that stretches down towards oblivion. Don’t be afraid to hold on whiteknuckle tight to the armrest of your seat. :: SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 7/10

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Blake Lively in "The Age of Adaline". PHOTO: DIYAH PERA/LIONSGATE

The Age of Adaline (M) – Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) survives a strange car accident while driving one night in 1938. A Very Authoritative Narrator tells us that due to some science-magic whatever, Adaline stopped aging, preserving her elegant blond 29-year-old form for all time. Tragic, I know. After some years, Addy's unaging beauty draws suspicion, so she changes identities every decade to keep her immortality a secret – she's kinda selfish. This keeps her from getting too close to anyone, or falling in love, until she falls in love with a guy whose father (Harrison Ford) recognises her as the lost love of his youth.

The film goes for that dreamy, timeless, starlit moody look, and achieves it across different time periods. It all looks good, but the story feels undercooked. Things limp along at times, and the ending feels a little off-kilter. Cyber-Seniors (TBA) – How do you get a senior citizen from knowing nothing about the computers to deftly hustling Facebook friends to check out their latest Youtube video? Very patiently. That's one lesson in this charming documentary about a group of retirees paired with teen volunteers who teach them how to use the Internet. When one senior posts her own cooking video to YouTube, it starts a contest among the old folks to see who can get the most "hits" online. While at first, the cluelessness of the old folks is played for laughs, the real focus of the story

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ALSO NOW SHOWING MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS (M, 131 mins) Action/Sci-Fi/Fantasy/ Thriller/Romance. Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee, Jacob Lofland, Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito, Patricia Clarkson, Aiden Gillen, Dexter Darden, Alexander Flores. Director: Wes Ball. RELEASED in October last year, The Maze Runner – the first film based on James Dashner's post-apocalyptic trilogy for young adults – was unfairly dismissed as a testosterone-fuelled clone of The Hunger Games. Wes Ball's propulsive and refreshingly unsentimental chase through a diabolical labyrinth killed off main characters in a clinical fashion and cleverly negated the need for back stories by burdening the teenage runners with amnesia. Fragmented memories of the past gradually resurface in this equally entertaining sequel, which veers into grisly territory inhabited by The Walking Dead and World War Z, albeit within the boundaries of a 12A certificate. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials fills in some of the narrative blanks but always has one eye on the next thrilling action set piece, including a sprint through a topsy-turvy collapsed skyscraper that proves what goes up must come down... at stomach-lurching speed. The first chapter culminated with Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), Minho (Ki Hong Lee), Frypan (Dexter Darden) and Winston (Alexander Flores) being airlifted to safety from a facility belonging to the World Catastrophe Killzone Department (W.C.K.D.). The teenagers arrive at a fortified research compound where Janson (Aiden Gillen) and his team care for the runners, keeping them safe from W.C.K.D. and its Machiavellian lead physician, Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson). Thomas learns that the maze runners hold the key to a cure for the Flare contagion, which has ravaged the globe and reduced humanity to flesh-hungry predators known as Cranks. "There's something in our blood that W.C.K.D. wants," Thomas informs his pals. When Janson fails to provide the answers that Thomas needs to hear, he spearheads a daring escape with a loner called Aris (Jacob Lofland).

comes from the new connections made and possibilities opened up. It's not meant to be an instructional film, but it does teach us a lot about the generational gap: It sure is deep, but not too wide to cross. Beyond the Mask (TBA) – An English mercenary, Will (Andrew Cheney), working for the British East India company, gets backstabbed by his employer and reinvents himself as a masked vigilante, seeking revenge against his enemies who have relocated to the American colonies just before the revolution. He teams up with an annoying Benjamin Franklin, who spouts popular Benjamin Franklin sayings because that's how he talked, I guess. Will falls in love with a nice lady (Kara Kilmer) and starts to learn that the key to redemption isn't

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Photos: PA/Fox UK.

The teenagers flee into the sun-scorched wilderness where they come face-to-face with the Cranks and forge an uneasy alliance with a gungho girl called Brenda (Rosa Salazar) and her surrogate father (Giancarlo Esposito). Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials unfolds at a brisk pace and fleshes out Scodelario's battle-scarred heroine, who was woefully short-changed in the first film. O'Brien remains a likeable hero, who is blissfully unaware of the sins of his past, and new characters are introduced and – in some cases – swiftly dispatched as the hard fought war with W.C.K.D. intensifies.

vengeance, but good faith and Christianity. He still gets his vengeance, though. American Heist (MA15+) – Frankie (Adrien Brody) served time for a crime that he and his younger brother, James (Hayden Christensen), messed up. A free man again, Frankie gets together with his old robbery pals (Tory Kittles and rapper Akon) and pulls James in as a driver on their next job. James is trying to make a real living and patch things up with his girl (Jordana Brewster), but Frankie reels him in with guilt, and James botches yet another robbery. The two brothers are then forced to help with an even bigger, heist-ier heist. Is this the One Last Job that leads to a better life? Getting the answer might not be as exciting as you think.

Intriguing questions about sacrifice in a world where death is the only freedom provide the cast with plentiful opportunities to wring out tears. Director Ball borrows from The Lost World: Jurassic Park for one of his film's nerve-racking crescendos and orchestrates frenetic encounters with the ravenous zombie-like Cranks. "I think hope is a dangerous thing," counsels one character. Maybe so, but on this evidence, we have every reason to hope for a humdinger finale, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, scheduled for release in January 2017. :: SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 7/10

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office Week ending 16.09.2015 1. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 2. Straight Outta Compton 3. Pixels (pictured) 4. A Walk In The Woods 5. The Gift 6. Southpaw 7. Ricki And The Flash 8. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 9. Last Cab To Darwin 10. Vacation SOURCE: MPDAA

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‘My Everything’: a relationship’s worst moral dilemma BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK My Everything by Katie Marsh is published in paperback by Hodder Paperbacks. KATIE Marsh’s debut novel examines the moral dilemma of a woman trapped in an increasingly unhappy relationship. Her husband suffers a stroke just as she’s on the brink of leaving him. It’s a fascinating Gordian knot and one that adds extra depth and humanity to the archetypal narrative of illness. The book weaves between Hannah and Tom’s present and past. Marsh paints a moving portrait not only of illness, but also of a relationship’s demise, as she charts the journey from the hopefulness of the couple’s early years together to the dark days of their marriage. Tom’s stroke is a life-changing moment for them both, but rather than descending into over-sentimentality, what follows is a compelling tale of second chances and fresh starts. With a career in healthcare, Marsh writes with real-world experience and knowledge, but also with the assurance and finesse of a long-time author. This book is a remarkable debut about remembering what’s important in life and heralds the arrival of a great new talent. 9/10 (Review by Jade Craddock)

O FICTION The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett is published in hardback by Doubleday. TERRY PRATCHETT’S final Discworld novel, published five months after his death, can best be described as a farewell gift to his fans. It is the fifth Tiffany Aching book; a subseries aimed at young adults charting a young girl’s determination to become a witch. Tiffany finds the natural cycle of life and death has weakened barriers between the worlds. There are shocks to overcome, but malevolent elves are preparing to invade and she must face them down to protect everything she holds dear. Newcomers will be baffled by unexplained references to canonical events and characters given the barest introduction – and there are a lot of these cameos by fan favourites. Pratchett’s last adult novel Raising Steam was criticised for lacking his typical biting wit, but this does not seem

Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel has been released, five months after his death. PHOTO: REUTERS/SUZANNE PLUNKETT

as obvious here. Yes, some punchlines are predictable, but nostalgia can forgive many imperfections. 9/10 (Review by Natalie Bowen) Asking For It by Louise O’Neill is published in hardback by Quercus. BEAUTIFUL and popular Emma O’Donovan possesses that typical teenage mix of vanity and insecurity, meaning she isn’t initially the most likeable narrator. When she is discovered unconscious on her doorstep the night after a party with no recollection of how she got there, everything changes. The follow-up to multi award-winning Only Ever Yours – a haunting Hunger Games meets America’s Next Top Model tale – is equally arresting. But whereas O’Neill’s debut read like science fiction, Asking For It is all too realistic. The riveting narrative draws from real life rape cases and

the aftermath that is increasingly played out online. And while the inclusion of iPhones, Twitter and Snapchat in literature is often a dead give away for an adult trying desperately to grasp youth culture, that’s never the case for O’Neill. Her refreshingly empathetic voice shines through despite the abuse her protagonist receives. A timely, gripping and vital novel. 9/10 (Review by Katie Wright) The Girl In The Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz is published in hardback by MacLehose Press. EVA Gabrielsson, Stieg Larsson’s partner of 32 years, called David Lagercrantz “a totally idiotic choice” to write the fourth book in the Swedish writer’s Millennium series. Larsson died before The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was even published, and although Gabrielsson has his notes for

another instalment, she’s refused to hand over the laptop they’re saved on. So, the fact there is a fourth book at all, let alone one penned by the guy who ghost-wrote football autobiography I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, makes delving into The Girl In The Spider’s Web murky enough, before you even reconnect with wiry punk-hacker Lisbeth Salander. Although ‘reconnect’ is perhaps the wrong word... she’s pretty spiky after all. In fact, relief quickly floods in as you realise Lagercrantz’s Lisbeth is intact, as fierce, angry and biting a character as Larsson built her, and the same goes for her foil, investigative journalist extraordinaire, Mikael Blomkvist. This time, the pair are drawn back together to save an eminent scientist and his savant son, who, caught up in the politics of national security, ideas theft and artificial intelligence, might just end up with bullets lodged in their miraculous brains. It is swift, balanced and sensitively wrought. While Larsson’s shoes will never be filled, Lagercrantz hasn’t done too shoddy a job at all. 8/10 (Review by Ella Walker) The Blue Guitar by John Banville is published in hardback by Viking. OLIVER Orme is a painter and a thief – well, was a painter until he lost his muse and stole his best friend’s wife. As the affair unravels, he takes refuge in his childhood home, from which he narrates the story of his life and reflects on why he can no longer paint. Booker Prize winner John Banville’s 16th novel is set in a mystical Ireland that’s both contemporary and timeless. He once again employs an unreliable narrator whose thoughts tumble out onto the page in a stream of consciousness, which at first jars with the reader and then endears them to him. Through his musings, Orme touches on all of life – fatherhood, love and death – and Banville paints his world in such strikingly beautiful detail, he’s a true poet. This is a book to savour. 8/10 (Review by Kate Whiting) Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham is published in hardback by Sphere. PSYCHOLOGIST Joe O’Lough

lin must find a killer before they strike again. But with few clues and public pressure mounting, there is little going right for him and the police officers he is trying to help. All leads are dead ends and the killer appears to be on the point of getting away with murder. As O’Loughlin battles to solve the mystery and calm the local community in rural Avon, various layers of the story unfold and it soon becomes apparent the killer might be hiding in plain sight. But solving the crime comes at a high price for the eminent profiler who struggles to shield those closest to him from the horrors of his vocation. Michael Robotham is a journalist and biographer who has ghost-written autobiographies of politicians and showbiz stars. Close Your Eyes is his tenth novel and in Joe O’Loughlin, Robotham has come up with the sort of analytical mind which is made for adaptation to the small screen. A gripping read for all lovers of crime thrillers, from a writer whose work has been lauded by the likes of Lee Child and Stephen King. 8/10 (Review by Roddy Brooks) The Unexpected Inheritance Of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan is published in hardback by Mulholland Books. MUMBAI-BASED Inspector Chopra is forced into early retirement due to a minor problem with his heart. On his last day of work, two unexpected things show up. The first is the mysterious drowning of a boy in a sewer, while the second is the arrival of a gift from a long-lost uncle. As this is a quirky murder mystery in the vein of Alexander McCall Smith, it is the gift – a baby elephant named Ganesh – who really steals the show. This is a light-hearted read full of colourful characters and insightful details about human motivation. Chopra’s attempts to investigate the death give the author a rich opportunity to explore the stark contrasts between the worlds of slum dwellers and glitterati that characterise the city. But ultimately it is his protagonist’s good heart that wins us over. Further episodes from the lovable Inspector will surely follow. 7/10 (Review by Anita Chaudhuri) Up Against The Night by Justin Cartwright is published in hardback by Bloomsbury. SOUTH African-born writer Justin Cartwright takes us to the land of his birth for this rather pedestrian novel. It follows rich yet earnest middle-

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015 aged banker Frank McAllister as he leaves his comfy houses in Britain, where he’s lived for 30 years, to visit his luxurious gated house in Cape Town, while reflecting on his rural upbringing and modern South Africa. In doing so, he is surrounded by characters from a catalogue of stereotypes: his ex-wife is mentioned only in passing but is, of course, awful. We meet his former-junkie daughter, who’s now groovy and turns up with a bizarrely borrowed child. We also greet Frank’s Swedish fiancee, who could only be more Scandinavian if she lived in a sauna, plus a box-ticking bitter Neanderthal Afrikaner cousin, albeit one with a backstory involving both a shark attack and Scientology. Up Against The Night may be trying to be playfully ironic and light but it requires a better person than I to appreciate it. McAllister is a pretty unlikable protagonist and his in-

teractions with the other characters often grate. One for fans only. 4/10 (Review by David Wilcock)

O NON-FICTION Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century by John Higgs is published in hardback by Orion. HIS entertaining novels and distinctly non-standard biographies have long marked John Higgs out as an ambitious writer, but even by his standards, this is an audacious project. It’s an attempt to explain, in one fairly slim volume, a particularly breakneck hundred years, and how its tumult led to the world we now inhabit. Heroically, he more or less pulls it off. Obviously he can’t entirely avoid standard presences, such as Einstein and Stalin, but the vital roles of less famous figures – modern artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and occultist rocket scientist John Parsons

The thought police A N author went searching the east India area in his quest to write the biography of George Orwell. He had trouble finding anyone who recalled the presence of Eric Blair (his real name) until he came across an old fellow who responded when he was told that Orwell wrote “1984”. “You mean Orwell the Prophet,” was his response. And certainly “1984” and “Animal Farm” reflect what is happening in today’s world. The media has reached the point where it is little more than high school essay writing; where the text composed has to get the highest marks – reality has little to do with the news being fact. Media companies fight against a decreasing circulation challenge. Any propaganda that serves their end is printed, saying what they think people want to hear. When you read “The Secret Club that Rules the World” by Kate Kelly you will recognise George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” in reality. When you think of global finance you think of stocks and bonds. But crude oil, soybeans, copper, wheat and other resources have a low profile, yet they control the price of our daily needs.

It follows a trail from New York to Dubai, on hedge funds, banks and brokers as they continue to drive the world’s wealth into the hands of the top 1 per cent, leaving the rest of us to struggle. “Wealth Secrets of the 1%” written by Sam Wilkin explains how the super-rich made their way to the top. Starting in the ancient world and moving through to today’s wealthy, it examines why it is that 1 per cent of the world’s population owns half its wealth. Wilkin writes on the principles that reveal “why it is so easy for some people to get rich”. A man of great wealth in the USA, Warren Buffett hasn’t written a book but there are several written about him. One book attributed to his creation is a collection of the Hathaway Papers – these are his annual reports to shareholders in the company. When interviewed some years ago about the finance /investment market he replied that he had no problem paying the taxes due. He lived in a country which structured the economy so that it was possible to earn dollars legitimately and

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– are explored just as thoroughly. The recurring theme is the undermining of traditional certainties (in physics, art, finance and more), and the painful adjustments these decentrings brought. Higgs recounts it with wideranging erudition and a delightful deadpan humour; a particular joy is the explanation of quantum theory via an example of Vladimir Putin fighting a kangaroo. 8/10 (Review by Alex Sarll) Latest Readings by Clive James is published in hardback by Yale University Press. UNLIKE Nick Hornby’s Stuff I’ve Been Reading, Clive James’ collection of essays exploring the literature he’s devoured since being diagnosed with leukaemia, lacks pace and punch. Well written yes, but not addictive, and it relies far too heavily on the reader having read as much as James. It should come with a jacket caveat stating: ‘Please read all of Joseph Conrad’s work before opening’. Intriguing as much as it is indulgent, James cannot help repeatedly referencing his impending – but not-quite-imminent – death. Understandable, of course, but it becomes almost blasé. James fans will no doubt be enamoured, but otherwise, stick to your own reading list. 6/10 (Review by Ella Walker)

therefore paying tax was an accepted contribution to running the country so that this could happen. How many Australians think like that? Financially it is a basket case and has been for ten years, and this raises the question whether Buffett still thinks as he did years ago, given he recently invested in Australian companies. Satyajit Das’s book “A Banquet of Consequences” has just been published. It asks the question – have we consumed our own future? No longer can this country stand apart from the global economy when we are so dependent on exports. Das explains the problems confronting us, how we are making them worse and what he believes the solutions are. A section in his text addresses the Global Financial Crisis: the official response to the GFC was a policy of ‘extend and pretend’ whereby the authorities chose to ignore the underlying problem, cover it up and devise deferral strategies. The idea was to increase government spending, lower interest rates, and the supply of cash would create growth. But activity hasn’t responded to this. “Governomics” by McAuley & Lyons asks the question: “Can we afford small government?” One commentator says, “Everybody knows governments are wasteful, incompetent and a drag on the economy.” People have good reason to demand decent public education, a well-funded health system and a small gap between

O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Pierre The Maze Detective: The Search For The Stolen Maze Stone by Hiro Kamigaki and IC4DESIGN is published in hardback by Laurence King Publishing. FANS of Where’s Wally-type books will love this stunning offering from Hiro Kamigaki and Hiroshima-based illustrator collective, IC4DESIGNS. Already a huge hit across Southeast Asia, the original Japanese version has now been translated into English – and yes, while the intricate illustrations are the main appeal, the words are important too. The challenge goes far beyond locating hero Pierre in the jampacked scenes. The reader also has to help him and pal Carmen find clues and various hidden objects, and navigate their way around a series of mazes from the ‘start’ to the ‘goal’ point on each page. This will stop Mr X, the Phantom Thief, turning the whole of Opera City into a maze. Suitable for ages eight and above, it’s a joy to simply gaze and get lost in the labyrinthine scenes, while older kids – and adults – can occupy eyes and brains conquering Pierre’s challenge. A total delight. 10/10 (Review by Abi Jackson)

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stack of books published in the last year which deal with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. One published this year by author Timothy Snyder is “Black Earth” where he writes about the Holocaust as history and as a warning. The book encourages us not to overlook the creation and implications of the holocaust. Yet by overlooking its lesson we have endangered the future. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies are more vulnerable than we would like to admit. What are the parallels with ISIS motivating the refugees with hundreds of thousands pushing across Europe for the best economic resettlement. There is no effort by them to escape Syria and Iraq for destinations like Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and even Russia. We are now looking at most of Northern Africa, most of the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan being evacuated to leave the Orwell “1984” situation. Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Janet Seidel Trio at Macquarie Conservatorium BY ROB THOMSON THE world renowned Janet Seidel Trio graced the Dubbo Conservatorium stage on Friday night, September 11, with their wide repertoire of jazz sounds. From classic to pop to Latin and even country, the trio entertained guests with smooth vocals, brilliant guitar and swinging double bass.

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Carole Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, Judy Prentice and Jane Dowling

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Barb Redgrave and Pam Harris

Melva Blake, Rhonda Luhtasagri and Natalia Lsatief

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St Joseph’s College Cocktail Party BY ROB THOMSON ST Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, provides boarding school facilities for many boys across Western NSW. To celebrate the school's affiliation with the Orana Region, the local organising committee prepared for a weekend of celebration with over 200 families. The festivities kicked off with a cocktail party on Friday, September 11, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre.

Caroline Sedergreen and Christine Cannon

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Nicola Mayes, Natalie Mangelsdorf, Rachael Graham and Heather Bailey

Jacqui Dalby-Payne, Sue Radford, Wendy Bhind, Trish O’Grady and Noreen Walsh

Fiona Legdin, Marina Leong, Anita Setanovic and Gloria Khourys

Julie Moriarty, Carmel Lawler, Prue Duffy and Sonya Spooner

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Orana Dragonboaters’ fundraising event BY ROB THOMSON FRIDAY, September 11, saw the annual Westside Hotel Orana Dragons fundraising event. Running for its eighth year, the hotel donates $1 for every drink or meal purchased on the day, with all proceeds going to the Orana Dragon Boat Club. The club currently has 67 members, four of whom are breast cancer survivors. Keep an eye out for their “Dragons Abreast” come and try day on November 7.

Tricia Pratties, Chris Robinson, Louise Martel, Graeme Board, Corrina Board Robyn Erwin Pratt, Chris Robinson, Louise Martel, Graeme Board, Corrina Board andand Robyn Erwin

Jacki Hutty, Gisela Wallace and Denise Dixon

Margie and Jeff Nott with two gold medals from the 2015 Masters Games in Cairns

Charles and Heather Wright

Joel and Sam enjoying the food

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Westwords 2015 Workshops BY CHERYL HUSBAND THE Outback Writersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Centre is passionate about building a vibrant and accessible cultural environment for regional NSW writers. Westwords 2015 brought some of 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. Westwords was held at the Western Plains Cultural Centre over the weekend; Dubbo Photo News/Weekender dropped by on Saturday, September 12. Everyone who attended Westwords appreciated all the hard work that went into organising the workshops.

Lyndon, Kerrie and Ethan Phipps

Helen Ridley, Lee Robinson, Bob Gibson, Mel Bicket, Val Clark and Kerri Phipps

Chris Walker with Tania Rovere

Dr David Reiter, Lee Chiong, Greg Pritchard and Sally Hopkins

Kerrie Phipps with Helen Ridley

Val Clark, Mel Bicket, Kathielyn Job and Mike Ladd

Jo Keizer with Cathy Proctor

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hear ... that guitar. PHIL EMMANUEL is known as Australia’s Greatest Electric Guitar Player and has a resume of amazing performances with musical legends that any musical enthusiast would envy. Together with Bill Ryan, they will be showcasing a rare musical treat to Dubbo and the surrounding area at The Old Bank Restaurant on Saturday, September 18.

... the choir. JOIN the incredible choirs of Moorambilla Voices as they celebrate 10 fabulous years of this remarkable program. This year will be the first time the Moorambilla Gala Concert is held in Dubbo, presenting two concerts at 4pm and 7pm on Saturday, September 19.

See first-hand the power of the Japanese Taiko drums, the beauty of the foremost vocal ensemble in Australia – The Song Company and musicians of the highest calibre in our own chamber orchestra. They will be joined by the angelic voices of the Moorambilla Regional Girls and Boys Choir and the MAXed OUT Company on stage in a 70-minute concert that will leave you spellbound. These two concerts will feature work of the best of the last ten years as well as a large multidiscipline work on the stories and landscape of Narran Lakes. Fire sculptures and lanterns will follow the 7pm concert, in Victoria Park. For more information contact the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre.

see ... the fireworks. BROKEN HILL’S annual Silver City Show is a true country affair, with something for everyone. Bring the whole family for a day of rides, food, and events. Check out the arts and crafts, the museum of ‘days gone by’ and the animal nursery, before the show-stopping fireworks complete the day. Get to the Broken Hill Silver City Show 2015 running Thursday to Saturday, September 17- 19 at Williams Street, Broken Hill NSW 2880.

...Aladdin’s Cave Bottlehouse. THIS yurt-style building of about 3000 bottles is just a seven-minute drive from Dubbo on the Golden Highway. Items of

interest in the bottles include messages, photos, toys, treasures and much more. There are many surprises including Genie, Harry Potter’s Car, Aladdin’s treasure chest and over 1000 bottles suspended inside on marine rope. In a large shed is an Australiana and heritage collectables display of old bikes, sewing machines, blacksmith tools, saddler, old pots, fans, jugs and rabbit traps. Visitors can also enjoy a ‘gumnut walk’ to view beautiful West Australian flowering eucalypts. The extensive fairy gardens can keep children and adults occupied for hours.

... a selection of the best works submitted for the NSW HSC Visual Arts Course in 2014.

ARTEXPRESS is an annual exhibition of exemplary artworks created by students for the Higher School Certificate. The works represent a broad range of subject matter, approaches, styles and media and reflect the high quality of visual art education in NSW. ARTEXPRESS is coordinated by the Arts Unit and jointly managed by the NSW Dept. of Education and Training and the Office of the Board of Studies. The exhibition has been coordinated by WPCC Education Officer Shona Lane and co-coordinator Suzanne Jones. Held at the Western Plains Cultural Centre from Friday, September 18. Rona Green Brett 2014, Linocut, pigmented ink and watercolour, Collection Western Plains Cultural Centre

do ... spend a day at the Nevertire Family Muster. HELD annually on the first Saturday of the September school holidays, the Nevertire Family Muster offers a fun day out for all ages. Events and activities include horse sports, team penning, dog jumping, market stalls, kids activities,

and the highly competitive lawnmower racing. It’s a day not to be missed! Running on Saturday, 19 September at Noel Waters Oval, Nevertire NSW 2831.

... a morning at the markets. THE Dubbo Farmers Markets, held on

the first and third Saturday of every month, is a showcase of the region’s produce, fresh from the soils and water basins of the Macquarie Valley and beyond. Kickstart your morning with the smooth flavours of your favourite coffee and chat with friends over breakfast. The markets offer a range of seasonal fresh produce, fresh fruit and veg-

etables, herbs and plants. There is also fresh bread, a selection of local pork, beef and lamb, award winning olive oils, preserves, jams, marinates honey, wine, nuts and so much more. The wet weather venue for the Farmers Markets is the RSL Club Resort car park – located in Brisbane Street.

tor. Ambassadors for the NRL’s State of Mind program will also be at the Dubbo RSL on Monday, September 21.

door event in Dubbo! With over 160 exhibitors, loads of entertainment for the whole family, camping oven cooking, 4WD display, reptile show, bike show and much more. Discover your next adventure at a Rural Scene Event, the 2015 Orana Caravan, Camping, 4WD, Fish and Boat Show on Friday 18 September to Sunday 20 September.

etc. ... the Youth Mental Health Forum. FOLLOWING the success of the Can We Talk? Forums in Sydney, The Sunday Telegraph will host a series of forums in regional NSW during September 2015, with the sole objective to continue campaigning to break the silence around youth mental health and suicide. The

Sunday Telegraph has partnered with headspace, Black Dog Institute, ClubsNSW and the NRL State of Mind program for the forums. Leading mental health experts and people with personal experience will be speaking at the forum and answering questions from audience members, with The Sunday Telegraph deputy editor Claire Harvey acting as MC and facilita-

... Discover your next adventure. VISIT the Orana Caravan, Camping, 4WD, Fish and Boat Show at Dubbo Showgrounds; the number one out-

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Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞǇ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚǇ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟ ŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

^ƚŽƉ ďǇ KƌĂŶĂ DĂůů ƚŚŝƐ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚ ĂŶĚ ƐĞĞ ƐŽŵĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŐƌĞĂƚ ŶĞǁ ƐƚŽƌĞ ƚŚĂƚ ŚĂǀĞ ŽƉĞŶĞĚ͕ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ dŚĞ Žī ĞĞ ůƵď͘

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 Žī ĞĞ 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 ďĂŐƵĞƩ ĞƐ 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 tŽŽĚĮ ƌĞĚ WŝǌǌĂƐ͕ ŚŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ ƉĂƐƚĂƐ͕ ĐŽī ĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟ ŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽī ĞĞ 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 ĐŽī ĞĞ 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 ďŽŽŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂǌŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟ ŽŶĞƌǇ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟ ŶĐƟ ǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌǇ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟ ǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌǇ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ ǇŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚǇůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌ Ɛ͘ 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 ĞĐŽƌĂƟ ŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌ Ɛ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟ ĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ͕ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ŶƟ ƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵĂŵ Ɵ ů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌǇƚŚŝŶŐ ǇŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Į ƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

GROCERIES DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϲĂŵ ƚŽ ϯƉŵ ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚǇ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵǇƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůǇ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϲƉŵ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůǇ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůǇ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂǇ ŽĨ ĞǆŚŝďŝƟ ŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟ ŽŶĂů ĞǆŚŝďŝƟ ŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, September 18 The Classic Car Show

MOVIE: Austin Powers: Goldmember

SBS, 7.30pm Car lovers are getting revved up over this 13-part series, hosted by journalist Quentin Willson and supermodel Jodie Kidd, which provides unprecedented access to the iconic cars, personalities and events that underpin the classic car world. Tonight, Quentin looks at the success story that is the Range Rover, before he and Jodie head to Monaco for the Grand Prix Historique weekend. Meanwhile, Alex Riley checks out an affordable second-hand Porsche and former Formula 1 star Bruno Senna hits the test track in a 1965 Mustang. So belt up and enjoy all the soupedup gloss and glamour.

ABC

GO!, 9.30pm, M (2002) Mike Myers powers on with the third and arguably cleverest chapter of the shag-mad British spy’s adventures. Pushing the envelope with aplomb, Myers and director Jay Roach have formulated another of Dr Evil’s laughably uninspired plans for world domination, sparking Austin into action in a mission that brings him to the ’70s, where he faces a new adversary: Goldmember, a disturbing Dutchman with flaky skin and an expensive endowment. Joining the nuttiness is Austin’s long-lost father (Michael Caine), a sexy new squeeze (Beyoncé Knowles) and all the old favourites (Fat Bastard, Mini-Me).

PRIME7

ABC2, 8.30pm The dating world has some murky, dark corners where weird things go on (think Tinder or even Dating Naked) g p p with but the No. 1 place for strange people urk has to be the even stranger ideas to lurk internet. Catfish follows the journey of ed an online couples who have formed ever met in relationship but have never meras are on person. Tonight, the cameras Solana and Elijah, who met on MySpace six years ago when she was only 13. He helped her through her parents’ nasty divorce. They fell in cyber love but then a year later – he disappeared. Can the team track him down? Tune in to find out.

WIN

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One: The Road To Alice. (CC) 10.30 Fake Or Fortune? (R, CC) (Final) 11.30 Holy Switch. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 2.00 The New Inventors. (R, CC) 2.30 Catalyst. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG, CC) The latest news and views. 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 Miniseries: Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. 2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams. 3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Contestants race to answer quiz questions correctly to avoid being caught by The Chaser. 4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Fiona Bruce reveals stories and remarkable tales of sacrifice from unsung heroes of war. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program. 8.00 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC) The discovery of a body floating in a cider vat leaves Barnaby with a bad taste. 9.30 Line Of Duty. (MA15+, R, CC) Part 4 of 5. With Arnott no longer on the case, Fleming is determined to save the operation single-handedly. Desperate for proof of Gates’ involvement in Jackie’s crimes, Fleming pushes her relationship with him to the limit. 10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events. 11.00 The Business. (R, CC) 11.20 Maximum Choppage. (M, R, CC) It’s Cabramatta’s food festival and Mrs Chan is competing in the Signature Dish Smackdown Competition. 11.50 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh visits the home of 800 Words star Erik Thomson. Ed goes on a trek through the Kimberley region. Tara makes a 3D-printed dollhouse. Karen makes chilli glazed corn with lime and paprika. 8.30 The X Factor. (PG, CC) Contestants compete to prove they have what it takes to become Australia’s next singing sensation. Hosted by Luke Jacobz, with judges Guy Sebastian, James Blunt, Dannii Minogue and Chris Isaak.

12.30 Missing. (M, CC) A CIA agent who retired in the wake of the death of her husband, is confronted by the disappearance of her son. 2.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

Catfish: The TV Show

Today. (CC) Mornings. (PG, CC) News. (CC) WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell. Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program. Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) Join James Reeson for inspirational, easy recipes that can be cooked at home. News Now. (CC) News. (CC) Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC)

TEN

SBS

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.00 Neighbours. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Bachelor Australia. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 12.30 Dr Phil. (M, 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 Ben’s Menu. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 NITV News Week In Review. 1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Salvage Hunters. (CC) 4.30 Britain’s Best Drives. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. First semi-final. Sydney Roosters v Canterbury Bulldogs. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney. 10.00 MOVIE: Diamonds Are Forever. (M, R, CC) (1971) British secret agent James Bond goes undercover in Amsterdam to expose a diamond smuggling ring. The trail leads him to Las Vegas, where he uncovers evidence of an extortion plot headed by an old enemy whose plans could have dire consequences for the world. Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray.

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) Oprah’s de-clutter guy, Peter Walsh, returns to help out a family with a rapidly expanding home office. 8.30 TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) After living with the four families for the past week, it is time for the trainers to weigh-in. The results leave them, and their families, shocked. Hosted by Fiona Falkiner, with trainers Tiffiny Hall, Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton and Steve “Commando” Willis. 9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Guests include Celia Pacquola, Sam Pang, Dave Hughes, Luke McGregor and Michala Banas. 10.30 MOVIE: Win Win. (M, R, CC) (2011) A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach’s duplicity comes home to roost. Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor.

6.00 Floyd Around The Med. (CC) British celebrity cook Keith Floyd’s culinary exploration of the Mediterranean continues in Turkey. 6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 The Classic Car Show. (CC) Quentin takes a look at the history of the Range Rover, before he and Jodie head to Monaco for the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco weekend. 8.30 Earth From Space. (R, CC) Takes a look at images from space which reveal the complex web of forces and processes that sustain life on our planet. From how the Sahara fertilises the Amazon to the vast underwater “waterfall” off Antarctica, which drives ocean currents, and how the Sun’s warming of the southern Atlantic gives birth to powerful hurricanes. 10.10 World News. (CC) 10.50 MOVIE: Careless Love. (MA15+, R) (2012) A Vietnamese-Australian university student working as an escort becomes involved in a love triangle. Nammi Le, Peter O’Brien, Andrew Hazzard.

12.30 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.30 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Tenderness. (M, CC) (2009) A young killer is released from prison. Russell Crowe. 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.40 The Talk. (PG, CC) Guests include Michael Sheen, Carnie Wilson and Big Boy. 1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.45 MOVIE: Oldboys. (M) (2009) A soccer player gets a lift from a stranger. Kristian Halken. 2.35 MOVIE: 25 Carat. (MA15+, R) (2009) 4.05 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. 5.35 Japanese News.

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Friday, September 18 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

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6.45pm Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa (2013) Comedy. Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll. A man takes a road trip across America with his grandson, playing pranks on people. (MA) Comedy

7.55pm Would I Lie To You? (PG) UKTV

7.00pm Cops. (M) Crime & Investigation

8.30pm Wallander. Wallander is asked to investigate a car accident. (MA) UKTV

8.30pm Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland. Looks at the album seen as the peak of Hendrix’s mastery of the electric guitar. (PG) Biography

7.30pm Golf. Euro PGA. Italian Open. Second round. Fox Sports 3

10.15pm Leap Year (2010) Drama. Monica Del Carmen, Armando Hernández. (R) World Movies

10.30pm Frasier. Niles and Frasier hire an actor. (PG) TV Hits

11.05pm Locke (2014) Drama. Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman. (MA) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 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 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, CC) 9.15 Outsiders With Darren McMullen. (MA15+, CC) 10.00 Second Chance. (M, CC) 10.10 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 10.50 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 11.10 Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 11.50 This American Life. (PG, R, CC) 12.15 This American Life. (M, R, CC) 1.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 1.35 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.35 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 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.10 Writers On Writing. (R, CC) 11.35 Children’s Programs. 12.45 The Sleepover Club. (R, CC) (Final) 1.10 WAC. (R, CC) (Final) 1.35 Lab Rats Challenge. (R, CC) (Final) 2.00 Arthur. (R, CC) (Final) 2.25 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) (Final) 2.35 The Jungle Bunch. (R) (Final) 2.45 Canimals. (R) (Final) 2.55 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) (Final) 3.05 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion. (R, CC) (Final) 3.30 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) (Final) 3.50 Riders 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 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (CC) 5.10 Doodles. 5.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 5.25 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) (Final) 5.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 6.20 Spooksville. (CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 7.55 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 8.50 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (CC) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 9.45 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Close.

8.00pm Athletics. IAAF Diamond League. Eurosport 10.30pm Friday Night Footy On FOX. Fox Footy

10.30pm Homicide Hunter. Detective Kenda ﬁnds the body of a bruised and battered young woman. (M) Crime & Investigation Kenneth Branagh stars in Wallander

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 The X Factor. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 3.30 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) The teams visit Hungerford. 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Hosted by Johanna Griggs. 8.30 Escape To The Country. Alistair Appleton is in East Sussex to help an artistic buyer find an inspirational country home. 9.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) Presented by Gary Takle. 10.00 Tennis. Davis Cup. World Group semi-final. Great Britain v Australia. Day 1. From Emirates Arena, Glasgow. 3.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 4.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 4.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Home Shopping. (PG) 7.00 Art Attack. (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 Pair Of Kings. (R, CC) 10.00 Phineas And Ferb. (R, CC) 10.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 SCU: Serious Crash Unit: Kahikatea. (PG, R, CC) The police investigate the death of a young man whose car came off the road. 7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match. 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Second semi-final. Hawthorn v Adelaide. From the MCG. 11.00 MOVIE: Basic Instinct. (AV15+, R) (1992) A detective encounters a femme fatale. Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone. 1.45 Locked Up Abroad: Conned In Quito. (M) Takes a look at the story of Zoe McGarry. 3.00 NFL. Week 1. Dallas Cowboys v New York Giants. Replay.

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol. 7.00 Sonic Boom. 7.30 Move It. (C, CC) 8.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids Invasion. (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 2 Broke Girls. (M, R, CC) 1.00 The Last Ship. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Mom. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob. (R) 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG) 6.00 MOVIE: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over. (PG, R) (2003) 7.40 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. (R, CC) (2011) 9.30 MOVIE: Austin Powers: Goldmember. (M, R, CC) (2002) Mike Myers. 11.30 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 12.00 MAD. (M, R) 12.30 Big School. (M, R, CC) 1.30 2 Broke Girls. (M, R, CC) 2.00 The Last Ship. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Mom. (M, R, CC) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Countryfile. (PG, R) 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 Syndicate. (PG, R, CC) (1968) 2.50 Poirot. (PG, R) 4.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Items are appraised by experts. 8.30 MOVIE: Maverick. (PG, R, CC) (1994) A card shark joins forces with a lady thief. Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster. 11.05 MOVIE: The Glimmer Man. (AV15+, R, CC) (1996) Steven Seagal. 1.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 2.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 MOVIE: Angels One Five. (R, CC) (1952) Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison. 4.30 River Cottage Bites. (R) 4.45 Rugby Union. World Cup. England v Fiji. From Twickenham Stadium, London.

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 8.30 Adv Angler. (R) 9.00 Motor Racing. (CC) FIA World Rally Championship. Round 10. Rally Australia. Highlights. 10.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 10.30 Firies. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 12.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Burn Notice. (M, R) 2.00 Megastructures. (PG, R) 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 4.00 Whacked Out Sports. (PG) 4.30 Operation Repo. (PG) 5.00 iFish. (R) 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 Cops. (PG, R) Follows police officers on patrol. 9.30 MOVIE: 12 Rounds: Reloaded. (M) (2013) An EMT is pursued by a madman. Randy Orton. 11.25 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.40 Blokesworld. (M) 2.00 Cops. (PG, R) 3.00 Back In The Game. (PG, R) 3.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 4.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 World Sport. (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 Laverne & Shirley. (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 Frasier. (PG, R) 5.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.25 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 New Girl. (PG, R, CC) Jess is focused on her job search. 8.30 Dating Naked. (M, R) Ashley and Alika are getting married. 9.30 MOVIE: Heart And Souls. (PG, R, CC) (1993) Four people find their fate is tied to a child. Robert Downey Jr, Charles Grodin. 11.35 Movie Juice. (PG, R, CC) 12.05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.05 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 2.00 JAG. (PG, R) 3.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News. 4.00 The Feed. (R) 4.30 India’s Dancing Superstar. (R) 5.35 American Ninja Warrior. (PG, R) 6.30 If You Are The One. 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+) Cole’s condition continues to worsen. 10.15 From Dusk Till Dawn. (MA15+, R) Seth and Richie face the labyrinth. 11.55 Friday Feed. (R) 12.25 PopAsia. (PG) 2.25 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 The Black Olive. 10.15 Custodians. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 Away From Country. (PG) 1.30 Kids To Coast. 2.00 From The Western Frontier. 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 Custodians. 6.15 Unearthed. 6.30 Outback Cafe. 7.00 NITV News Week In Review. 7.30 Kriol Kitchen. 8.00 CBQM. 9.00 Kill The Matador. (M) 9.30 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 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 Tag 20: The Documentary. 2.00 Away From Country. (PG) 3.00 Jazz. (PG) 4.00 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. 5.00 Colour Theory. (PG, CC) 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. 5.00 News With Grandstand. 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News With Grandstand. (CC) 7.30 Heads Up: Youth Mental Health Forum. (CC) 8.25 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 19 MOVIE: Around The World In 80 Days GEM, 3.30pm, G (1956) Second only to Robert Altman’s The Player in terms of spot-the-star cameos (44 compared to Altman’s 65-odd), Michael Anderson’s Oscarwinning family favourite follows the grand endeavours of an English gentleman (David Niven) determined to circumnavigate the globe against all the odds and by any means necessary – train, hot-air balloon, boat, elephant etc. Although dated (the location scenery excites intermittently) the three-hour adventure-packed travelogue captures the spirit of the Jules Verne novel and the colourful characters generate a sweeping charm.

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MOVIE: Munich

The Island With Bear Grylls: Reunion

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Steven Spielberg’s shattering account of the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre is both a sobering examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a riveting political thriller. A forceful Eric Bana is Avner, a proud Israeli and humble Mossad employee who is assigned to eliminate the 11 Palestinians behind the hostage tragedy. The jolting, graphic violence is necessarily harsh, and Spielberg’s virtuoso direction is in service of a compelling, intricate script. Like the master director’s best works, Munich is mesmerising cinema that displays his passion for illuminating significant issues. Also stars Geoffrey Rush.

t) conducted the In this series, Bear Grylls (right) ultimate challenge to see if 14 men and 14 eeks on an women could survive for six weeks ic uninhabited island in the Pacific ould Ocean. Surely the film crew would w slip them a Mars bar every now and again, right? No chance. They were completely alone, filming everything themselves, with only a handful of basic d tools and the clothes they stood up in. In tonight’s finale, Bear Grylls returns to meet the men and women who made it through the experiment and sees first-hand how they managed to survive.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Restoration Australia: Harrington Street. (R, CC) Presented by Sibella Court. 1.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce. 2.00 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC) A body is found in a cider vat. 3.30 Kakadu. (PG, R, CC) (Final) Part 4 of 4. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney. 5.00 Inspector George Gently. (PG, R, CC) A racially-motivated murder is investigated.

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week. 12.00 The X Factor. (PG, R, CC) The search for the new sound in Australian music returns in front of the judges. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Ed prepares simple recipes for Easter. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler.

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 Cybershack. (PG, CC) 12.30 MOVIE: Thunderstruck. (PG, CC) (2012) A NBA star switches abilities with a fan. Kevin Durant. 2.30 House Husbands. (PG, R, CC) Lewis struggles with Gemma’s pregnancy. 3.30 Adam’s Pasta Pilgrimage. (CC) 4.00 Dr Lisa To The Rescue. (CC) 4.30 Getaway. (PG, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (CC)

6.00 iFish. (R, CC) 7.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 7.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 St10. (CC) 10.00 St10: Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Just Go. (CC) 1.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 2.30 Movie Juice. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 iFish. (CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under. (CC) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) (Final) 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. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Wars. (PG, R, CC) 3.25 Monster Moves: Historic Homes. (R, CC) 4.25 History Cold Case: The Skeletons Of Windy Pits. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Plantagenets: The Devil’s Brood. (PG, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia. (CC) Jane demonstrates how to espalier, the art of controlling plant growth through the production of fruit. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Last Tango In Halifax. (PG, CC) (Final) After Gillian suffers from a case of cold feet, Caroline tries to get to the bottom of her stepsister’s reluctance. 8.30 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) The team investigates the murder of a young doctor. Danny Griffin is bereft when his daughter leaves home. 9.30 Old School. (M, R, CC) After Margaret is kidnapped by Kurt “The Florist” Meeks, Ted and Lennie must save her before it is too late. 10.30 The Chaser’s Media Circus. (PG, R, CC) Guests include Chris Bath, Tom Gleeson, Hugh Riminton, Alex Lee, Ben Jenkins and Andrew Hansen. 11.05 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring host Adam Hills taking an offbeat look at events of the week. 11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Music video clips.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. First semi-final. Sydney v North Melbourne. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 10.30 What Really Happens In Thailand. (M, R, CC) A look at what really goes on in Thailand. Two Perth beauty queens take on the infamous Full Moon Party. A 23-year-old nurse from Newcastle is rushed to a Phuket Hospital with a mystery illness. 11.30 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Beverly is pitted against a rival meddling mother as she micromanages Barry and Erica’s search for a university. Erica reveals to Pop her efforts to enhance her prospects for a higher education are based on lies. A trip to the local video store turns into a battle of wills for Adam.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Second semi-final. North Queensland Cowboys v Cronulla Sharks. From 1300Smiles Stadium, Queensland. 10.00 MOVIE: The Cold Light Of Day. (M, R, CC) (2012) A young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible for kidnapping his family during a holiday in Spain. The culprits turn out to be intelligence agents, looking to recover the contents of a mysterious briefcase. However, while trying to get to the bottom of the situation, he becomes aware he is now wanted for the murder of a police officer. Henry Cavill, Verónica Echegui, Bruce Willis.

6.00 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) A critically ill swan has been found caught up in a soccer net in a suburban backyard. 7.00 MOVIE: Ice Age. (R, CC) (2002) A troupe of Ice Age animals roam the snowfields in an attempt to return a human baby to its tribe. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary. 8.40 MOVIE: Taken 2. (M, R, CC) (2012) While visiting Istanbul, Turkey, a retired CIA operative and his wife are abducted by the father of a kidnapper he killed while rescuing his daughter from a sex-slavery ring. Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace. 10.35 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) The team tries to save a boy on Christmas Eve after he gets trapped in a beachside cave. 11.35 48 Hours: The Dog Trainer, The Heiress And The Bodyguard. (M, R) The 2009 murder of celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover is investigated. Although the police were quick to identify a suspect, they were stymied as they were unable to find the body.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Britain’s Secret Treasure Islands: To The Ends Of The Earth. (CC) Part 3 of 4. Explorer Stewart McPherson sets out to visit all 14 of the UK’s Overseas Territories. These far flung and little-known islands are home to a host of environments from arid deserts to lush rainforests and icy glaciers, as well as some of the greatest wildlife spectacles on Earth. 8.30 MOVIE: Munich. (M, R, CC) (2005) In the aftermath of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a team of Mossad agents is assigned to track down and assassinate those responsible for the killings, members of a Palestinian terrorist group calling itself Black September. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush. 11.35 MOVIE: Harry Brown. (AV15+, R, CC) (2009) An elderly ex-marine decides to take revenge on some local low-lifes after his best friend is murdered. Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.00 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) Problem teens Euni and Sam are sent to Trinidad to spend a week with the Bachews, a Catholic family. 1.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) Dr Harry deals with a disobedient dog. 1.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 MOVIE: Feeling Minnesota. (M, R, CC) (1996) 2.00 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 3.30 Count Arthur Strong. (PG) 4.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) 5.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC)

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program. 5.00 Hour Of Power. (R) Religious program.

1.30 Sex And Sensibility: The Allure Of Art Nouveau: Paris. (PG, R) Part 1 of 3. 4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) Maeve samples some Aussie truffles. 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul. 5.35 Japanese News.

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015

Saturday, September 19 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.20pm Snowpiercer (2014) Sci-ﬁ. Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton. A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity’s last survivors aboard a globespanning supertrain. (MA) Premiere

6.25pm Game Of Thrones. Dany waits to see if she is a conqueror or a liberator. (MA) Showcase

7.30pm Wives With Knives. Charlene Jackson puts her military career on hold to marry Paul. Crime & Investigation

5.00pm Rugby League. Holden Cup. Finals. Week 2. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Good People (2014) Thriller. James Franco. A young couple ﬁnd themselves the target of a dangerous criminal. (MA) Premiere

8.35pm I Am Cait. A docuseries exploring transgender issues. (M) E!

7.25pm 8 Out Of 10 Cats. (M) UKTV

8.30pm Greatest Cities Of The World. Hong Kong is a mix of the ancient and modern. (G) History

7.30pm Football. AFL. Second semi-ﬁnal. Sydney v North Melbourne. Fox Footy 9.30pm Soccer. English Premier League. Fox Sports 4

10.30pm Whale Wars: Viking Shores. (M) Animal Planet

10.05pm X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014) Action. Hugh Jackman. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.40 Olivia. (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. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket. (R) 5.00 The Legend Of Pirate Hootbeard. (R, CC) 5.10 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Dinosaur Train. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Tom Felton Meets The Superfans. (M, R, CC) 10.25 The IT Crowd. (PG, R, CC) 10.55 Sexy Beasts. (R, CC) 11.25 Archer. (M, R, CC) 11.45 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 12.10 Portlandia. (R, CC) 12.35 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Portlandia. (M, R, CC) 1.25 Portlandia. (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. 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 8.30 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (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. (CC) 11.30 Little Lunch. (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) 3.00 Deadly 60. (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. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Operation Ouch! (R) 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 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 10.45 Close.

Emilia Clarke stars in Game of Thrones

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 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) Naturalism Stakes Day. Featuring the Group 3 $150,000 Naturalism Stakes (2000m). From Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne. George Main Stakes Day. Featuring the Group 1 $500,000 George Main Stakes (1600m). From Randwick Racecourse, Sydney. 5.30 Coastwatch. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: A Knight’s Tale. (PG, R, CC) (2001) Heath Ledger. 10.00 Tennis. Davis Cup. World Group semi-final. Great Britain v Australia. Day 2. 1.00 Wire In The Blood. (AV15+, CC) 3.00 Dr Oz. (M, CC) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. (PG) 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. (PG) 9.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 10.30 Timbersports. 2014 World Championships. Team relay event. Highlights. 11.00 Engineering Connections. (PG, R) 1.00 Ultimate Factories. (R) 2.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG) 3.00 Border Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Trash To Treasure. (PG, R) 4.30 Big Australia. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match. 7.00 MOVIE: Major Payne. (PG, R) (1995) A drill sergeant is put in charge of problem kids. Damon Wayans. 9.00 MOVIE: Bruce Almighty. (M, R, CC) (2003) A man is given supernatural powers. Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston. 11.00 MOVIE: Funny People. (MA15+, R, CC) (2009) 2.00 Engineering Connections. (PG, R) 4.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 4.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping. (PG)

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 SquarePants. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 5.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: Chicken Run. (R, CC) (2000) Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha. 8.30 MOVIE: Little Fockers. (M, CC) (2010) An ailing former CIA agent visits his son-in-law. Ben Stiller. 10.30 MOVIE: Observe And Report. (MA15+, R, CC) (2009) Seth Rogen, Anna Faris. 12.30 MOVIE: S. Darko. (MA15+, R) (2009) Daveigh Chase. 2.30 Sun, Sex And Suspicious Parents. (M, 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 Rugby Union. World Cup. England v Fiji. Continued. 7.00 Count Arthur Strong. (PG, R) 7.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 Antiques. (R, CC) 9.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 10.00 MOVIE: Champions. (PG, R, CC) (1984) 12.15 Postcards. (CC) 12.45 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 1.15 MOVIE: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. (PG, R) (1960) 3.30 MOVIE: Around The World In 80 Days. (R, CC) (1956) David Niven. 7.00 MOVIE: Miss Congeniality. (PG, R, CC) (2000) An FBI agent goes undercover in a beauty pageant. Sandra Bullock. 9.15 MOVIE: One For The Money. (M, CC) (2012) A woman becomes a debt collector. Katherine Heigl, John Leguizamo. 11.10 MOVIE: The Goodbye Girl. (M, R, CC) (1977) Richard Dreyfuss. 1.30 MOVIE: Around The World In 80 Days. (R, CC) (1956) 4.45 River Cottage Bites. (R) 5.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 11.30 Kickboxing. Glory 18 Superfight Series. Replay. 12.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 1.30 River To Reef. 2.00 Motor Racing. Porsche Carrera Cup. Round 6. Highlights. 3.00 Motor Racing. Australian V8 Ute Racing Series. Round 5. 4.00 Grizzly: Nature’s Entrepreneur. (R, CC) 5.00 Into Water And Beyond. (PG) 5.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Sarah Harris. 8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) The team pursues a serial killer. 9.30 Graceland. (M) Mike tries to gain Briggs’ trust. 10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Movie Juice. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.30 Ripper Street. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 3.45 RPM Moment. (R, CC) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 13. San Marino Grand Prix. Replay. From Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Italy. 5.30 Motor Racing. Aussie Racing Cars. Replay.

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) 2.30 TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 TBL Families. (R, CC) 4.30 TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Ray and his father play ping pong. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emilia Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal and Cara Delevingne. 9.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (R) Talk show hosted by American comedian Stephen Colbert. 10.30 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) Hosted by James Corden. 11.30 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted by Scott Tweedie. 2.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Pokemon XY. (R) 4.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 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 Cuba With Simon Reeve. (R, CC) 3.00 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 3.45 Cycling. UCI MTB World Championships. Highlights. 4.45 Dare 2 Dance. (R) 5.55 The Date. (PG, R) 6.05 Celebrity Chef. 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Survive Aotearoa: Ko Au Te Awa Whanganui. (PG) (New Series) Barrie and Chris demonstrate survival skills. 9.30 The Island With Bear Grylls: Reunion. (MA15+, R, CC) The men and women discuss their experiences. 10.30 Utopia. (MA15+, R) 1.30 MOVIE: Gigola. (MA15+, R) (2010) 3.25 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Kriol Kitchen. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Football. NEAFL. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint. 4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 7.00 Unearthed. 7.30 Kai Time On The Road. 8.00 Our Spirit To C-Gen. Twenty eight kids go on a journey. 8.30 Away From Country. (PG) Chronicling the achievements of Indigenous sporting greats. 9.30 MOVIE: Girlfight. (M) (2000) Michelle Rodriguez. 11.30 Unearthed. 12.00 When The Natives Get Restless. (M) 12.30 Ningla A-Na. (M) 2.00 MOVIE: Girlfight. (M) (2000) Michelle Rodriguez. 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Press Club. (R, CC) 2.00 News. (CC) 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.15 News. (CC) 3.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 4.30 The Drum Weekly. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Foreign Correspondent. (CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (CC) 8.00 News: Canning By-Election. (CC) 9.00 News, Including Canning By-Election. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 News, Including Canning By-Election. (CC) 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 The Drum Weekly. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World. 3.30 Landline. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera. 5.30 Aust Story. (R, CC) 1909

ABC NEWS

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Sunday, September 20 MOVIE: An American In Paris GEM, 1pm, G (1951) Hollywood musical excellence from Vincente Minnelli (Gigi), boasting a bubbly Gershwin score and breathtaking choreography; best exemplified in the classic closing 18-minute ballet extravaganza. The story follows an ex-GI who remains in Paris after the war to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. The Parisian setting is inventively incorporated throughout, as lovebirds Gene Kelly and iconic French actress and dancer Leslie Caron share some sizzling step routines. This took out the bulk of Oscars in 1951, and has acquired legendary status ever since.

ABC

Doctor Who

Jamie Oliver’s Sugar Rush

ABC, 7.40pm

TEN, 8.30pm

Doctor Who fans can rejoice at the immensely popular revived cult classic’s return tonight. Peter Capaldi is the 12th Doctor, and the new series starts with a bang, as the Doctor and Clara Oswald pair up again to go on a journey that takes them to the very end of time itself. There’s a host of new and old monsters, as well as deadly alien planets, creepy underwater bases, viking villages, a city of Daleks, deadly mercenaries called the Mire, terrifying ghosts and a global Zygon uprising, as well as a guest appearance from Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), so there’s a lot to get excited about.

All these sugar programs highlighting ighting how evil the white stuff is are enough to give you a low, but put in Jamie e Oliver (right) as the host and you’re likely ikely to get us addicted again. But there’s even n more reason to tune in, just to see the revitalised alised chef (he’s a few kilograms lighter and nd sporting a sassy new haircut) after taking on a healthy eating regime. me. It’s heartening to see he practises what he preaches. In this documentary ary Jamie again adopts his serious face (we’ve seen it before in Food e Revolution as he investigates the disastrous effects sugar is having ng on British society). Jamie really brings rings home the anti-sugar message to o the masses.

PRIME7

WIN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Bespoke. (R, CC) 2.30 The Writers’ Room: American Horror Story. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Parkinson: Masterclass. (R, CC) 4.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Last Tango In Halifax. (PG, R, CC) (Final)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 I Dream Of Jeannie. (R, CC) Jeannie sends Tony to ancient Persia. 11.30 800 Words. (PG, R, CC) A man moves his family to New Zealand. 12.30 Miniseries: Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. 2.30 MOVIE: City Slickers II: The Legend Of Curly’s Gold. (PG, R, CC) (1994) Three friends search for treasure. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern. 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

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6.00 Would I Lie To You? The Unseen Bits. (PG, R, CC) Host Rob Brydon showcases previously unseen material from the show. 6.30 Compass: For Better For Worse Pt 1. (CC) Guest presenter Jane Caro explores the secret to successful long-term relationships. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Doctor Who. (PG, CC) (Series return) After the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara turns to the Doctor for help. 8.30 Vera. (M, CC) DCI Vera Stanhope’s investigation into the murder of a pensioner on a busy peakhour train leads her to the victim’s quiet hometown. For DS Joe Ashworth maintaining a professional distance turns out to be difficult, however, as his daughter is key witness to the crime. 10.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) The team continues their investigation into both the deaths of a prison inspector and a child killer. 11.00 Silk. (M, R, CC) A woman is accused of assisting a suicide.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The X Factor. (PG, CC) With the auditions over, the contestants tackle the Five Seat Challenge when they head to Boot Camp. 8.40 Miniseries: Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door. (M, CC) Part 2 of 2. Tells the story of Peter Allen’s rise from country NSW to the Hollywood Hills, becoming part of entertainment royalty along the way. Managed by Judy Garland at 20, married to Liza Minnelli at 23 and the first Australian to win an Oscar and a Grammy, he was a national treasure as well as the man behind some of our most iconic songs. 10.40 800 Words. (PG, R, CC) After his wife dies, a popular columnist decides to move his kids from Sydney to a remote, seaside town in New Zealand. 11.40 Covert Affairs. (AV15+, CC) In the wake of a shocking revelation, Annie seeks out a new ally in order to expose Belenko’s crimes. McQuaid and Joan head into the field while Calder enlists Sydney to make a dangerous gamble.

12.05 MOVIE: The Day Of The Locust. (M, R, CC) (1975) An art director falls in love. Donald Sutherland. 2.25 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) The team continues their investigation. 3.25 Silk. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 Order In The House. (CC)

12.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports. (PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG, CC) Golf. (CC) PGA Tour of Australasia. Queensland Open. Highlights. From Brookwater Golf And Country Club, Brisbane. Who Do You Think You Are? Chris O’Donnell. (PG, R, CC) Chris O’Donnell looks at his family tree. MOVIE: Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. (R, CC) (2008) Abigail Breslin. News. (CC) Customs. (PG, R, CC)

TEN

SBS

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Athletics. (CC) Sydney Running Festival. 10.30 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.30 Animal Extra. (CC) (New Series) 12.00 TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) 1.20 The Offroad Adventure Show. (CC) 1.50 Motor Racing. (CC) FIA World Rally Championship. Round 10. Rally Australia. Highlights. From Coffs Harbour, NSW. 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 Voxwomen Cycling. (CC) (New Series) A look at female cyclists. 5.00 From Scratch: Toaster. (R, CC) 5.30 The Nazis And The Book Of Power. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block. (PG, CC) After the building is evacuated in the lead-up to the guest bedroom and ensuite reveal, the teams are left wondering if they will have time to finish their renovations. Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart. 9.40 The Boy Who Wants His Leg Cut Off. (PG, CC) Takes a look at the story of Dillon Chapman. An 11-year-old boy who persuaded his parents and the medical establishment to amputate his leg as a way of dealing with his neurofibromatosis, a disease which was causing his limb to grow out of proportion to his body. 11.00 World’s Scariest: Animal Attacks. (M, CC) Documents some of the terrifying animal encounters ever captured on camera.

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. Hosted by Grant Denyer. 6.30 Scorpion. (PG, CC) The team helps Ralph after he is questioned by the FBI for inadvertently revealing the location of a CIA safe house. 7.30 TBL Families. (PG, CC) The first weigh-in proves to be very competitive with one contestant losing the most kilos ever at this stage in the competition. Hosted by Fiona Falkiner, with trainers Tiffiny Hall, Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton and Steve “Commando” Willis. 8.30 Jamie Oliver’s Sugar Rush. (PG, CC) English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver investigates the role sugar plays in global health problems, including the growth in obesity and type 2 diabetes. 9.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Race 13. Singapore Grand Prix. From Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore. Commentary from Matt White and Alan Jones.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Ancient Egypt’s Lost City. (CC) Follows a team of maritime archaeologists as they explore the city of Heracleion. Considered the gateway to ancient Egypt, it disappeared mysteriously only to be rediscovered in 2000. 8.45 Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All. (M, CC) Part 1 of 2. Takes a look at the life, music and career of the legendary entertainer, Frank Sinatra. Told using his own words from hours of interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, it provides a portrait of the singer, actor, father, husband and philanthropist. 10.55 The Italian Americans: American Dream (1945 To Present Day) (PG, R, CC) Part 4 of 4. A look at the Italian experience in America concludes with a focus on the post-war period. 11.55 MOVIE: Reus. (MA15+) (2011) Two powerful families battle for control of a neighbourhood in Uruguay. Camilo Parodi, Alberto Acosta.

12.00 A.D. Kingdom And Empire. (AV15+, CC) (Final) 1.00 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) News and current affairs program. 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.00 48 Hours: Cal Harris – Deadlocked. (M, R) Takes a look at the case of Cal Harris. 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)

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1.40 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) Maeve and Joanna sample wild barramundi from the Gulf of Carpentaria. 2.10 Cycling. UCI Road World Championships. Day 1. Team time trial events. From Richmond, Virginia.

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 18.09.2015 to Sunday 20.09.2015

Sunday, September 20 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.25pm Nightcrawler (2014) Thriller. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo. A petty thief stumbles into a new career as a cameraman. (MA15+) Masterpiece

6.30pm A Place To Call Home. George makes an announcement. (M) SoHo

7.30pm Lodging With Lions. A celebrity guest to Antelope Park studying human body language goes on her ﬁrst lion walk. (PG) Animal Planet

8.00am Marathon. From Australia. Eurosport

8.30pm The Monuments Men (2014) Drama. George Clooney, Matt Damon. During World War II, a unit tries to retrieve artistic masterpieces. (M) Masterpiece

7.35pm Fashion Police. Melisa Rivers and her fashion team dissect the week’s celebrities, events and style. (M) E!

6.40pm Orange Is The New Black. (MA15+) Showcase

8.30pm Casino Secrets. Reveals the inner-workings of the casino. (M) Discovery

1.00pm Rugby League. NSW Cup. Preliminary Final 1. Fox Sports 1 2.00pm Golf. Champions Tour. China Championship. Final round. Fox Sports 4

10.30pm Teen Spirit, Teenagers And Hollywood. (MA15+) Biography

10.00pm Be Kind Rewind (2008) Comedy. Jack Black, Danny Glover. (PG) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 The Gruffalo. (R, CC) 5.25 The Gruffalo’s Child. (R, CC) 5.55 Peppa Pig. (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, R, CC) 8.15 Gruen Planet: Cutdowns. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Michael Hutchence: The Loved One. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Rock + Roll Nerd: The Tim Minchin Story. (M, R, CC) 10.25 Outsiders With Darren McMullen. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.15 Louis Theroux. (M, R, CC) 12.15 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide. (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. 6.20 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 Dragons: Defenders 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. (PG, CC) 11.30 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 Really Me. (R, CC) 1.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Horrible Histories. (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, R, CC) (Final) 7.40 MY:24. (R, CC) 7.55 Trop Jr. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 The Haunting Hour. (PG, CC) 8.50 Wolfblood. (R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

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7TWO 6.00 Home 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, CC) 11.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 12.30 A Place To Call Home. (PG, R) 6.30 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways: India. (PG) Chris Tarrant travels the Konkan Railway. 7.30 Escape To The Country. (R) Jules Hudson helps a couple leave London. 9.30 Best Houses Australia. Take a look inside some amazing houses in Australia and meet the professionals who create them. Hosted by Gary Takle. 10.00 Tennis. Davis Cup. World Group semi-final. Great Britain v Australia. Day 3. From Emirates Arena, Glasgow. 3.00 Escape To The Country. (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 NFL Game Day. (PG) (Series return) 12.00 Sound FX. (R) 12.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 2.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG) 3.00 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 MOVIE: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits. (R, CC) (2012) Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek. 7.00 MOVIE: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A man searches for a pirate. Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley. 10.00 MOVIE: Snatch. (AV15+, R, CC) (2000) Crooks try to retrieve a valuable diamond. Jason Statham, Alan Ford. 12.10 Locked Up Abroad: The Real Midnight Express. (M, R) 1.30 Jail. (M, R) 2.00 Leaning Tower Of Abu Dhabi. (R) 3.00 NFL. Week 2. Pittsburgh Steelers v San Francisco 49ers.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (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 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 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: Batman. (PG, R, CC) (1989) 9.00 MOVIE: Pacific Rim. (M, CC) (2013) In the year 2025, earth is being overrun by monstrous creatures. Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day. 11.40 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 12.10 The Originals. (AV15+) 1.00 Big School. (M, R, CC) 2.00 2 Broke Girls. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Sun, Sex And Suspicious Parents. (M, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 Tasty Conversations. (R, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: The Syndicate. (PG, R, CC) (1968) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 10.30 MOVIE: Wherever She Goes. (R) (1951) 12.00 Cycling. National Road Series. Otway Classic. Highlights. 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: An American In Paris. (R, CC) (1951) 3.20 MOVIE: Doctor Zhivago. (PG, R, CC) (1965) Omar Sharif. 7.00 MOVIE: The Illusionist. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A magician must contend with an Austrian prince. Edward Norton. 9.15 MOVIE: Entrapment. (M, R, CC) (1999) An insurance agent befriends a thief. Sean Connery, Catherine ZetaJones. 11.30 Believe. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.30 Rugby Union. World Cup. New Zealand v Argentina. 3.45 River Cottage Bites. (PG) 4.00 Global Shop. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 9.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 9.30 World Sport. (R) 10.00 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 11.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Generation Astronaut. (R) 1.00 Moments Of Impact. (PG, R) 2.00 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R) 2.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Adventure Angler. 4.30 Megastructures. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) Follows police officers on patrol. 8.30 Bondi Ink Tattoo. (M, R) Wendy makes a decision without including Mike and he also dealt another blow at the hands of Megan. 9.30 MOVIE: Along Came A Spider. (AV15+, R, CC) (2001) A US senator’s daughter is kidnapped. Morgan Freeman. 11.35 World Sport. 12.05 The Americans. (M, R, CC) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 48 Hours. (M, R) 3.00 Cops. (PG, R) 3.30 Kickboxing. Glory 18 Superfight Series. Replay. 5.30 World Sport. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Infomercials. (PG) 11.30 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) Zoidberg and Farnsworth harbour a secret. 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Lisa and Bart write for Itchy & Scratchy. 8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Lisa seeks to end a local holiday. 8.30 MOVIE: Not Another Teen Movie. (M, R, CC) (2001) A send-up of Hollywood teen movies. Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans. 10.15 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (R) 11.15 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.15 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 12.55 Nurse Jackie. (M) 1.25 The Crazy Ones. (M) 2.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 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. (PG, R) 3.35 Twiggy: The Face Of The 60s. (PG, R, CC) 4.35 The Pitch. (PG, R) 5.30 Vs Arashi. 6.25 Dare 2 Dance. 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) Randy builds a Pinewood Derby car. 9.00 Drunk History. (M, R) Hosted by Derek Waters. 9.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) Cartman decides to move to Somalia. 10.00 Ali G: Remixed. (M, R) 10.25 Sex Toys: Frisky Business. (MA15+, R) 11.20 Naked News: Uncovered! (MA15+, R, CC) 11.50 In Her Skin. (M) 1.30 MOVIE: Diary Of A Nymphomaniac. (MA15+, R) (2008) 3.20 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 The Long Walk Of Nelson Mandela. (PG) 2.30 Mamu. (PG) 2.45 Murri Carnival 2012: The Documentary. 3.15 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) 8.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 8.30 Jesse Owens. (PG) The story of athlete Jesse Owens. 9.30 Like Water. (M) Follows Ultimate Fighter competitor Anderson Silva. 11.00 The Long Walk: 10 Years. (PG) 11.30 Ngurra. 12.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 1.00 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. 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.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R, CC) 1.00 News. (CC) 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. (CC) 2.30 One Plus One: The Road To Alice. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (R, CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Aust Story. (PG, 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: The Road To Alice. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 The Drum Weekly. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.25 Heywire. (R) 2.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World. 3.25 ABC Open. 3.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera. 5.30 One Plus One: The Road To Alice. (R, CC) 2009

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was noted author and Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway who made the following sage observation: “Never think that war, no matter how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.” He would know; he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War I. z Poets, take note: The words “orange”, “month”, “purple” and “silver” have no rhyming words in English. z Historians say that Queen Victoria didn’t like knocking at doors; she preferred scratching. z If you’re interested in space, you are probably aware that the second person to walk on the moon was Buzz Aldrin (pictured). Most likely, though, you didn’t know that his mother’s maiden name was Moon. Aldrin kept this fact a secret from NASA – he was evidently concerned that his bosses would think he was somehow trying to gain favour.

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– the male’s life, anyway. The female is much larger than the male, and when they mate the male attaches himself to her abdomen – where he remains, living as a parasite, until he dies. z If you have detected the presence of the paranormal by olfactory means, you’ve experienced “clairalience.” z The ancient Inca believed that an eclipse was caused when the mood goddess was under attack by a giant snake. Whenever this event occurred, the Inca made lots of noise, believing that the cacophony would scare the snake away. Thought for the Day: “We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled and recategorised with every act of recollection.” – Oliver Sacks

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) There is a special kind of closeness with partners and neighbours this week. If you are thinking of taking a relationship one step further, then this could be the time. It is not often that the ideas and ambitions of others tally with our own, so this time really is special. Be charming rather than forceful when it comes to getting your way. A soft approach may not be what is expected and this will give you the upper hand.

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TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) By

taking a little more responsibility you both create and enjoy happiness. There are magical times to be had with someone special. Those who are just starting a relationship will want to make an extra effort. Stay calm and appreciate what is being offered midweek. Something that will make a difference to your life is offered. It is not in disguise but you will need to read between the lines.

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) A

crafty approach will give you what you want this week. Rather than touch on someone’s pride, let them think that the matter in question was their idea. Perhaps there is a feeling you should not have to ask for something that should already be yours but you should not suffer from pride. Convince someone that what they are concerned about is really good for them.

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22)

Thoughts of the past may be befuddling your mind as we go into a new week. Look into the eyes of someone who can take you forward. A work mate who seems to be stepping into your territory is probably just trying to help. The chances are they would prefer your friendship to any promotion. Conflicting feelings over a proposed journey need to be simplified. What have to you lose? Is there much more to gain? Probably.

for the week commencing 21.09.2015

BY CASSANDRA NYE

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Never talk down to someone who could one day be able to help you. There is an art in explaining things. Learn tact and patience and the rest will come naturally. There is nothing you like more than being proved superior. However, appearing pompous is damaging. It is important that you form good relationships this week. People of influence surround you. When being offered something that you felt would come your way, appear surprised and pleased.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) It is so

easy to be overwhelmed by what we feel is bad in our lives. Sometimes this feeling is so strong that we forget to look at what is good. Despite experiencing something upsetting, try to see a brighter side this week. A gloomy face could find you on your own. A smile, however tentative, brings others to you. Being kind to others is a good investment of your time and also warms your heart.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Feeling dynamic and ‘go-getting’? Great. Along the way, also take the time to look after your health. Time out with a loved one, albeit small, can make the world of difference to your mood and energy. Don’t lose control of finances by being over-sentimental. Others may be stronger than you think. There is the temptation to overindulge as the holiday period draws to a close. SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) Don’t take anything

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for granted this week as situations chop and change. Keep ahead of any gossip, especially if it involves your work. Something that seems urgent does not need rushing at. Think first for the best results. You want someone to be close to you but they are not a mind reader. Communicate! Hiding your feelings does more harm than risking being open and plain with your words.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) You are strong and capable

of doing what others want. Don’t refuse because someone else thought of it first, as that would seem petty. Be the grown-up this week and let others do the fussing and fighting. When they are finished, walk in and talk sense. The weekend brings good news and excitement in the family. Try being more ambitious if not for yourself, then for loved ones. Efforts made now bounce back to bring good fortune later.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) Mingling socially relaxes

and brings new ideas. There are temptations, maybe in the form of the opposite sex. Flattery comes your way and you find it a delight. Who wouldn’t? By the weekend, however, you see someone in a clearer light. It isn’t that you only want to take, but you simply have nothing to give this person. With your imagination in overdrive by midweek, all sorts of possibilities swim before you. This is not a time to change course.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

This week gives the chance to have another go at a pet project. Keep it under wraps until you are in the running to avoid pressure. Finances are looking up, but counting chickens before they are hatched could leave a bit of a mess. Although you seem to be getting your way in a personal matter at the weekend, be sure that you are seeing clearly. Make the most of a chance to make changes at work.

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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Some-

thing that you see as a chore can be fun. Just get more people involved and explain exactly what you want them to do. Evenings are for relaxation, not more work. Compromising with a loved one is the best that you can do at the moment. Even so, that quality time together should be sooner rather than later. A piece of news, not necessarily connected to you, makes you see the light.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your birthday with Australian actor David Wenham (below left) who is 50. One month you are logical and then you suddenly feel lost. It is in your nature to work in a partnership. Once you realise this, you can be less critical of some feelings. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bring your energy and enthusiasm to the table in the months ahead. Realise that others need to be inspired and energised. Virgo, you have so much to offer and so much to gain. Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Also celebrating today is Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander (below) who turns 56. Logic comes to bear when a business offer arises. There are more questions than answers, but don’t be put off asking them. You need to think more ambitiously and others will help you. Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Trying to keep a constant balance in your life can be tiring, Libra. Be aware that there are times when you need to go out on a limb before balance can be restored. Your instincts will lead you. Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Love and laughter go hand in hand for you, Libra. If you can bring some of that feeling into your work, then so much the better. There are many glum people around. Can you make a difference? Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You will surprise people in the months ahead, Libra. Rarely have you been so ambitious and dramatic in your approach. Could a new person in your life be inspiring you? Love the love. Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Secrets and passions can sidetrack you in the nicest way in the months ahead, Libra. Keep a firm eye on finances, however, as this is your time to tip the balance in your financial favour.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3505

This week's Sudoku

This week's Snowflakes

This week's Go Figure!

Mega Maze

Find the Words solution 869 An addictive sport DUAL CROSSWORD 18,954 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 6 Paladin; 7 Peace; 9 Fleet; 10 Manacle; 12 Stateliness; 14 Just deserts; 18 Stories; 19 Inapt; 21 Break; 22 Earring. Down: 1 Rally; 2 Patent; 3 Tin; 4 Retain; 5 Oculist; 8 Dallies; 11 Steered; 13 Hunters; 15 Thread; 16 Tuners; 17 Spine; 20 Fan. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 6 Sublime; 7 Split; 9 Vogue; 10 Perhaps; 12 Deferential; 14 Sensitivity; 18 Qualify; 19 Query; 21 Askew; 22 Signify. Down: 1 Buxom; 2 Clause; 3 Imp; 4 Upshot; 5 Display; 8 Receive; 11 Testify; 13 Bequest; 15 Solder; 16 Truant; 17 Gruff; 20 Win. DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 18,892 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Picture-books; 7 Sharp; 8 Skate; 9 Sea; 10 Dispenser; 11 Theory; 12 Aboard; 15 Abandoned; 17 Arc; 18 Heave; 19 Green; 21 Newspaper-man. Down: 1 Press attache; 2 Una; 3 Expose; 4 Oysterbed; 5 Keats; 6 Reproduction; 7 Shade; 10 Dark deeds; 13 Again; 14 Enigma; 16 Amaze; 20 Eye. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Eccentricity; 7 Right; 8 Usage; 9 Ado; 10 Existence; 11 Assign; 12 Despot; 15 Apparatus; 17 Ape; 18 Close; 19 Twice; 21 Consistently. Down: 1 Extravagance; 2 Nag; 3 Retain; 4 Countless; 5 Twain; 6 Relentlessly; 7 Rooms; 10 Eagerness; 13 Place; 14 Status; 16 Photo; 20 Ire.

CryptoQuote answer

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Brazil. 2. Bobby Darin. 3. 1927. 4. E.B. White. 5. Economics. 6. Paul Keating’s wife, Anna Johanna Maria (Annita) Keating (née Van IERSEL). 7. 0.75. 8. “National Lampoon’s Vacation”. 9. Ursa Major. 10. Blood pressure. 11. The BeeGees, in 1976. The song climbed the charts worldwide and launched the group into disco. 12. Eleven years (2002 to 2013). 13. “All I Know”, written by American songwriter Jimmy Webb and covered by many, most notably Art Garfunkel in 1973. Webb requested in 2010 that Linda Ronstadt record a duet of the song with him just as she was losing her voice to Parkinson’s disease.

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