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PEOPLE

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Planned scrapping of polling booths

Spreading awareness for Mental Health Month

A little bit of Dubbo in the desert

Irissa Knight’s “little flower shop”

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015 QUIT4october

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It’s time to butt out PAGE 04

VALUE YOUR MIND Spreading awareness for Mental Health Month PAGE 12

SEA CHANGE Ash prepares to dance her way through foreign waters PAGE 20

BEVAN YOUNG

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A little bit of Dubbo in the desert PAGE 16

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Irissa Knight’s “little flower shop” PAGE 38

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Kate Wright’s speaking mandarin PAGE 40

THE ARTS Craig Thompson vows to leave ‘em laughing PAGE 46

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Digital detox: the simple pleasure of switching off T O be or not to be...” Had ol’ Hamlet been gazing at his navel in 2015 and pondering the meaning of life, he might well have asked a different question. “To switch on or switch off” would most likely better reflect a modern conundrum. In the opening scene of Shakespeare’s famed play, the despairing prince muses on life and death, bemoaning the heartache and unfairness of life, while conceding the alternative might not be the answer. So too, the challenge of the technologically dependent modern era: In switching on and “connecting” are we actually switching off and disconnecting from the simple things in life? I’m just back – at least my body is back, my colleagues are still waiting for my brain to catch up – from an imposed digital detox during a stint at a remote community smack bang in the middle of this vast nation of ours. A place where smart phones actually aren’t that smart at all and where internet coverage is as about as reliable as the keys to The Lodge and twice as hard to hang onto. The idea of being disconnected from email, mobile phone coverage and social media was at once thrilling and terrifying – a bit like being corralled into a weekend’s health retreat where the days will consist of coconut water enemas, kale smoothies and sitting crosslegged for three hour stretches while some skinnyminnie named Breannah affirms your place in the universe. You know it’ll do you good, but loins must be firmly girded. I spent the first 24 hours stumbling around with my phone held aloft in the forlorn hope of, by some modern miracle, snagging a wayward beam of WiFi. When I finally conceded defeat and put the thing in a drawer, it was as if that simple act of switching it off actually switched me back on. I was able to spend many wonderfully restorative hours sitting atop rocky red hills, watching the night creep across one of the most beautiful parts of my remarkable country, immersed in my own Hamlet-like soliloquising. I sat down in the red dust and talked and learned and absorbed without the distraction of the outside world’s digital intrusion. I spent time with people whose conversation is utterly unhindered by the need to send and receive illusively “urgent” emails – people who are as happy to sit and stare into space and enjoy their own company as they are to actively engage with each other in real time. I walked and walked, uninterrupted and unconcerned with anything other than the pleasure of being in that space at that time with the opportunity for solitude. There were even times I simply dropped the camera to my side – happy just to record the moment in my mind’s eye (although those who’ve seen my Facebook albums since my return to technology might find that hard to believe). I rediscovered the simple pleasure of lulling myself to sleep between the real pages of a real book. And I remembered how nice it is to just sim-

ply do nothing. I left that marvellous liberation from technology reluctantly, and somewhere around Port Augusta the real world again began to intrude. It was about as welcome as a dinnertime telemarketer. At the first set of traffic lights, the urge to turn around and flee back to the desert hit me like a smack on the forehead. But as my phone began to bleep and chime and whistle and buzz with an avalanche of insistent messages collected in cyberspace during the past three weeks, I couldn’t help myself. Turns out most of what I’d missed consisted of what everyone else in my online life was having for lunch or giant selfie heads in front of what may or may not be the Colosseum and the fact that Facebook was about to steal my identity and nick my underwear while I sleep. But buried in the landslide were messages of friendship and support, and photos of people I love laughing and living and connecting with me, along with emails containing positive contributions to the I spent fabric of my personal and the first professional life. And therein, folks, lies 24 hours the conundrum. stumbling The project for which I’d been invited to that closed around Aboriginal community with my would not have been and will not be possible without phone held technology. aloft in My day job – the one that allows me not only to put the forlorn food on the table but the hope of, freedom to pursue and indulge the kinds of adven- by some tures and experiences I’ve modern had – would neither exist nor succeed without miracle, technology. snagging The connections I’ve forged, and re-formed, a wayward through social media en- beam of rich my life in so many WiFi. ways that would practically and realistically lost were it not for the miracle of modern technology, and it enables me to contribute in a voluntary capacity to both my local, national and global community. Our lives have been irrevocably changed by the digital age and while we long to switch off sometimes, I genuinely believe those changes have been largely for the greater good. And as much as I’ve enjoyed the wake-up call of a digital detox, I’m trying not to be too evangelical. Technology is here to stay and, like irritating rellies and supermarket queues, we just have to learn to live with it without doing ourselves or others any significant injury. So, like sav blanc and peanut M&Ms, it’s back to “everything in moderation, including moderation”. I think it was Oscar Wilde who said that. Or did I read it somewhere on Facebook?

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Planned scrapping of polling booths “a blow for democracy” BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

PROPOSAL by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to scrap 20 voting booths in the Parkes electorate has local federal member Mark Coulton seeing red. As part of a review of voter services for the next federal election – set down for November, 2016 unless called earlier – the AEC has slated what Coulton says is almost 20 per cent of the polling places in his 256,000 square kilometre electorate to be abolished, a move he says would significantly disadvantage voters in those centres and is a “blow for democracy”. Under the proposed changes, those polling places to be scrapped are Albert, Baan Baa, Curban, Edgeroi, Emmagool, Enngonia, Euabalong, Euchareena, Goolma, Gravesend, Gurley, Leadville, Lue, Montefiores, Murrin Bridge, Nevertire, Toomelah, Ulan, Weilmoringle and Wollar – some of the smallest and most isolated in the vast electorate. At the last election, says Coulton, some of these booths recorded up to 140 votes on election day, many cast by older residents who are unable to travel further afield to exercise their democratic right. “The people who live in these small communities have just as much right to vote on election day as those in the larger towns in the Parkes electorate.” Coulton – who hails from Gravesend, one of the small communities whose booth is slated for abolition – says the

AEC’s move towards forcing all voters to either pre-poll or use postal or electronic voting is a “bad move” not only for many people across his electorate but for democracy as a whole. He disagrees that the AEC’s restructure of voter services is simply a sign of the technological times and says that given there is not yet a provision for electronic voting federally, voter confusion is a very real risk with postal voting in particular. “In the state election, you can just mark one box for the candidate of choice, but in the federal elections, you must mark every box. My concern is that with postal votes, people are more likely to confuse the two forms of voting. At an actual booth, you have workers there to help people understand how to make a formal vote and give instructions to mark every square or whatever – with postal votes, you don’t have that. “My concern is that there will be a lot of invalid votes. Many older people struggle with understanding the different forms of voting – they like to go and cast their vote; it’s something they’re proud to do and in many cases they’re

going to be denied that opportunity.” The local member is also concerned about the equity of forcing people to cast their vote three weeks out from an election. “A lot can happen in that time. Some people might cast their vote and then something happens in that three weeks that makes them want to change their mind and they’re locked in – they can’t change their vote.” Coulton says for those in the communities whose booths are earmarked for abolition, the only alternative to casting their vote on election day will be to postal vote weeks beforehand or drive to another booth, which can be some considerable distance away. “If people in Dubbo were told they have to drive 30km to vote, there’d be an uproar. But for people in these small communities, there’s an assumption that they’ll just take it on the chin. It’s just the loss of another service.” Further complicating the issue is the looming re-draw of electoral boundaries, set for announcement this month. The redistribution will see Western Australia gain a seat, while NSW will lose

` If people in Dubbo were told they have ve to drive 30km to vote, there’d be an uproar. But for people in these small communities, there’s an assumption that they’ll just take it on the chin.” – Federal member Mark Coulton on

one, and while the WA changes have been revealed, NSW is yet to learn exactly what its electoral map will look like. “It doesn’t matter where they start with the redistribution process, by the time you get out to this part of the world, what might start out as half a suburb in Sydney turns out to be 500km out here. “If they close these 20 booths as well, it’s going to make people very confused.” Asked if he has an inkling as to how a redistributed Parkes electorate might look, Coulton not surprisingly says he’s hoping The Nationals’ submission gets the nod. “I’ve seen the proposals from the Nationals, the Liberals and Labor and they’re all different. Obviously, I hope the Nats’ proposal is adopted because it has (my electorate) getting a bit bigger with picking up extra towns around the perimeter. “The extra work and the extra size doesn’t worry me – what worries me is if they just chop the electorate up and we end up with a mish-mash. But at this stage, we just don’t know.” As to the mooted closure of the 20 Parkes electorate booths, Coulton says he’s submitted his concerns to the AEC asking for a reconsideration of the proposal. He’s urging residents of any of the communities listed to have their say by emailing comments to his office at mark.coulton.mp@aph.gov.au.

*At the time of going to print, the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) had not responded to Weekender’s request for comment.

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Time to butt out Dubbo is one of four regional cities across three states chosen to this month host a pilot quit smoking campaign called QUIT4october, designed to encourage and support smokers wanting to let go of the deadly habit to seek help from doctors or pharmacists across town participating in the campaign. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley MOKING remains the single greatest preventable cause of death and disability in Australia each year, killing about 15,000 Australians with two out of three lifelong smokers dying prematurely from their habit. Smokers lose three months of life expectancy each year they smoke after the age of 35 and on average will live 10 fewer years than non-smokers. The QUIT4october quit smoking campaign being piloted in Dubbo is a month-long initiative dedicated to helping people quit smoking with the support of their healthcare professional. The campaign is being piloted in four areas across Australia including three regional areas: Ballarat (Victoria), Toowoomba (Queensland), Dubbo and Ryde (New South Wales). Championed by Lung Foundation Australia and sponsored by Pfizer PFE Australia Pty Ltd and Johnson & Johnson Pacific it aims to encourage people who are attempting to quit smoking to discuss a personalised smoking cessation program with their healthcare professional. The campaign supports best practice for quitting smoking through behavioural counselling including the support of a healthcare professional and use of medicine to treatment of smoking addiction. People who achieve their goal of being smoke free for 31 days are at least five times more likely to become permanent exsmokers than they were at the start of the 31 days. This is a result of recovering from the most severe cravings and withdrawal symptoms. Dubbo Weekender spoke with

Dr Colin Mendelsohn, a renowned tobacco treatment specialist and Heather Allan, the CEO of Lung Foundation Australia for more information. What does a Tobacco Treatment Specialist do? We are health professionals who help patients to quit smoking. We’re a varied collection of doctors, pharmacists, nurses and psychologists who specialise in this field. I was a GP for 27 years and I had an interest in this field and in the last few years I’ve just worked fulltime as a tobacco treatment specialist. I teach at Sydney University as well and I’m on the committee that develops Australian guidelines for smoking cessation so it’s a passion. What do health professionals need to learn about quitting smoking? I think they just need to be reminded. They all know it’s terribly important. There’s just a lot to do in general practice. There are so many other issues to consider and every now and then they just need to be reminded to give this priority. Like in any field, there’s always new information and

new ways of doing things and we just need to keep updating doctors on the best way to help patients. Why is it a good idea to quit smoking? Quitting is the single most important thing that most people can do for their health. If you’re a smoker, two out three smokers are going to die as a direct result of their smoking. The health benefits are immediate and enormous. It’s the biggest preventable cause of death and illness in Australia. Smokers live 10 years less than non-smokers. One interesting figure is in the 20th century in all the world wars, there were 72 million people killed but in the 20th century 100 million people died from

smoking. It’s just extraordinary the magnitude the health damage from smoking. How long has it been common knowledge smoking is bad for you? The first record came in in the 1950s. There was a big study of British doctors; the Doll and Peto study from the British Medical Journal, and they made the connection between smoking and lung cancer. In the ‘60s the surgeon general put up the first full comprehensive report on the health effects, so we’ve known since the ‘50s and ‘60s. Why do we still do it? The problem with smoking is it’s not a lifestyle choice, it’s an addiction and we know 75 per cent of Australian smokers want to quit, but they’ve lost control of their smoking behaviour. They can’t just quit because they want to. Wanting to just isn’t enough. You need the skills and the support of a health professional to have a better chance of quitting. That’s just the reality. What makes it so addictive? There are two main components of addiction. One is the neurochemical aspect of smoking, that action of nicotine in the reward centre in the brain.

` People who achieve their goal of being smoke e ely free for 31 days are at least five times more likely to become permanent ex-smokers than they were at the start of the 31 days. This is a result of recovering from the most severe cravings and d withdrawal symptoms. – Dr Colin Mendelsohn hn

Just like heroin, cocaine; it works in the same place. It creates that craving and you need to keep using it to feel normal. The other part of it is the behavioural component: the habit. The fact that you learn to pair smoking with other activities; so when you have a cup of coffee the brain is automatically triggered to expect a cigarette to go with it. The neurological aspect we treat with medication and the habit can be treated with behavioural strategies to unlearn that habit and people really need both methods. Is quitting hard for everyone? The problem is, most people try on their own to quit and fail repeatedly. The average 40 year-old smoker in Australia has tried to quit at least 20 times. That’s why this campaign is so vital. We’re encouraging people to get best practice smoking cessation support. It’s really important. Every year you smoke up to the age of 35, you lose three months of life permanently. Life expectancy is lost. It’s not good enough to half-heartedly try each year. You really want to nail it now to extend your life and your quality of life. We know less than one attempt in twenty is successful. Cold turkey is the least successful method but unfortunately it’s still very popular. They think they can do it alone but they can’t because it’s a powerful addiction. It’s not just a matter of wanting to, that’s not enough. You need the skills, the information, the support and the medication to help you with the addiction. What role do cigarette companies play?

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you can get to a month with the support of your health care professional and the campaign and the community resources weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping that a lot more people will be able to quit for good. Why was Dubbo selected? We wanted a range of communities and we approached Dubbo and the Council and there were very supportive. They were one of the early, keen supporters of the campaign. We would like to roll it out nationally and we will learn what we can from these pilots in these locations. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the monetary cost of smoking? Timed with September 1 price rise, is a good time to think about quitting, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just getting more and more expensive. Tobacco tax is going

The World Health Organisation predicts a billion people will die this century from smoking, in the world. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just ridiculous that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allowed to continue but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a whole other area of government policy and economics. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wicked industry. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how people live with themselves. Does it take a community to help someone quit smoking? People can quit with the right kind of help. This QUIT4october campaign is designed to encourage people as a community to quit together, and we know there are people who need that extra support. We know that if they can last for a month it increases their chances of success in the long term by more than five times. Most quitters slip back after a few days, but if

up 12.5 per cent every year, for the last three years, so a cigarette is a dollar now. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about $6,500-$7,000 a year, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a pack a day smoker. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ridiculous. Does smoking help you to relax? One interesting thing that we now know, which we call a smokerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paradox, is that smoking seems to relax people but actually makes things worse. When people quit smoking, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actually happier and relaxed. When people stop smoking, their mood improves substantially. Particularly for people with mental illness, quitting smoking improves their mental health, but for everyone, it improves their wellbeing, their quality of life, and their depression and anxi-

ety levels. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually the opposite to what people think. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an important barrier for some people. How did you come to be involved with QUIT4october? What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asking people to do is to go to the website, www. quit4october.com.au to enroll in the program, enter their details. There are all sorts of resources on the website, videos, other information, they can do a lung health check; download a form with questions they can ask their health care provider. They can upload photos of their quitting journey through Instagram, which is the social media component to it. Most importantly they should go to their GP or their pharmacist for professional advice. We do feel it will help with

the behavioural side to breaking the habit by providing them information and quitting skills and give them support and encouragement and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll suggest the most appropriate medication to those who are addicted to nicotine. About 80 per cent of people are addicted to nicotine and they should be on medication. Are local doctors and pharmacists on board with the program? We held a training session recently for pharmacists and GPs in Dubbo. Primarily this is driven by patients themselves, going to their health care provider and saying; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really want to quit smoking, this is a wonderful opportunity, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best way to make it work this time?â&#x20AC;? Can everyone quit?

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No, but we know that if people try this on their own, the success rate is less than one in 20. With the help of a health professional, success rates are 20 to 30 per cent. These are figures are based on a method and analysis from an American study of guidelines. It’s substantially increased over doing it on their own. It’s urgent that they quit. The sooner they nail it the better. What about eCigarettes? They’ve been around since about 2003 so we’ve had a bit of experience. Public Health England released a report to say eCigarettes are at least 95 per cent less harmful than cigarettes. So they’re much safer, and there’s growing evidence that they help people to quit, so they have enormous promise. We’re still learning about them and more research needs to be done. A lot of people change over to them. Some people just can’t give up the nicotine. If they change over to eCigarettes, it’s a harm reduction option. It’s like taking methadone if you’re a heroin addict. It’s better to stop everything but if you just can’t then this is an alternative. I’m quite excited, as I think they have potential. What is in nicotine? Nicotine is a very addictive drug. It

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activates certain receptors in the brain and releases dopamine. If you use it regularly, the brain creates more receptors and releases more dopamine. Dopamine makes you feel good. When you smoke a lot you get a lot of receptors looking for the dopamine and if you don’t get the nicotine your dopamine levels drop and you feel miserable. Then you need to smoke to feel normal again. Smokers smoke to feel normal and when they don’t smoke, they feel bad. So when they have a cigarette they think they feel better but actually

they’re not; they’re just treating the nicotine withdrawal that’s making you feel bad. They create a situation where they keep needing it. What’s in a modern cigarette? There are thousands of extra ingredients – that we know of – which are put in by tobacco companies. They put all sorts of things in for all sorts of purposes. To make them burn more slowly, to make them more addictive, to make them more alkaline because then the nicotine is absorbed better, there’s all sorts of tricks. But there are other

chemicals from the tobacco leaf, which are addictive, but nicotine is the main drug, which causes the addiction. All nicotine is extracted from tobacco. Nicotine patches come from the tobacco leaf. It’s all natural but certainly not harmless. Nicotine itself is relatively harmless. The main issue is that it’s the main psychoactive agent. It’s the reason why people get addicted, but in itself it’s relatively harmless unless you’re pregnant. Nicotine doesn’t cause cancer. It doesn’t cause lung disease or heart disease. What kills you from smoking is the tar and the carbon monoxide. People smoke for the nicotine because that’s what their brain needs, but they die from the tar – all the products from the combustion. There are 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke. When we give people nicotine patches or gum, for example, they worry that nicotine might be dangerous; in fact it’s not. People are often afraid of nicotine patches but that’s not what kills you.

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Co-payment relief for cancer, chronic disease patients BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY JOURNALIST

HE NSW government has made good on its election promise to cover the co-payments for public hospital patients receiving Section 100 (s100) Highly Specialised Drugs and Section 100 injectable and infusible chemotherapy medicines, which came into effect on October 1. The change is estimated to save patients with cancer or other chronic diseases around $1,400 per year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about time!â&#x20AC;? said Donna Falconer, survivor and founder/president of breast cancer awareness and support group, Pink Angels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Looking back to when I had my chemo I was aware I had to pay the payments and it was extra $1000. Speaking to other patients at the time we did feel it was a bit of an insult. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work and you have to come up with the money to save your life â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had chemo in Dubbo but for women travelling in from around the region to get their treatment they have to cover travel and accommodation costs as well. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard enough going through the loss of income and the financial burden. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure it will make a lot of people happy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating going through what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through, without that as well,â&#x20AC;? said Falconer. Trish Taylor, local community advo-

cate, cancer survivor and volunteer for Cancer Council NSW who worked on the Saving Life 2015 campaign is extremely pleased with the news on the recent change in legislation coming into effect this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three years ago I received six months of chemotherapy and 12 months Herceptin for breast cancer. The removal of co-payments for people affected by cancer in the future will reduce the stress and financial burden for cancer patients and families like mine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be a welcome relief for so many families and I applaud the NSW government for taking action on this issue that affects so many people in Dubbo and Western NSW.â&#x20AC;? Camilla Thompson, community programs coordinator at Cancer Council NSW said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The NSW Government should be applauded for removing the co-payment and easing the burden for patients who would otherwise be left out of pocket for these drugs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know the removal of these copayments will ease some of the financial pressures that many cancer patients

in Dubbo face during their treatment.â&#x20AC;? Leading up to the last election, Cancer Council NSW worked very closely with the Dubbo community through their Saving Life 2015 campaign to address this issue. Thompson added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We worked with leaders and members of the Dubbo community who were instrumental in campaigning for this change, ensuring that those standing for election knew about the chemotherapy co-payment issue and the need to address it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been made possible thanks to the work of the Dubbo community and their support in advocating for this vital change. We look forward to continue working together so we can further reduce the burden of cancer in our communitiesâ&#x20AC;?. Jillian Skinner, Minister for Health, said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This change will benefit many people living with cancer and HIV, patients with organ and tissue transplants, schizophrenia, hepatitis, Crohnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease and cystic fibrosis.â&#x20AC;? Psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis and severe allergic asthma and rare

` We worked with leaders and members of the Dubbo community who were instrumental in campaigning for this change, ensuring that those standing for election knew about the chemotherapy co-payment issue and the need to address it. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Camilla Thompson, NSW Cancer Council

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Butt out during QUIT4October UBBO is one of four regional cities being used to pilot a quit smoking campaign, called QUIT4October, which organisers hope will eventually go national. With strong support from Dubbo City Council, the monthlong initiative is dedicated to helping people to quit smoking with the support of their healthcare professional. The campaign is being piloted in Ballarat (Victoria), Toowoomba (Queensland), and both Dubbo and Ryde in NSW. The QUIT4October pilot program is championed by Lung Foundation Australia and supports best practice for quitting smoking through behavioural counselling including the support of a healthcare professional and use of medicine to treatment of smoking addiction. People who achieve their goal of being smoke free for 31 days are at least five times more likely to become permanent exsmokers than they were at the start of the 31 days. This is a result of recovering from the most severe cravings and withdrawal symptoms. Read more about this initiative inside this edition of Dubbo Weekender back on page 4.

Wellington springs into the season SPRING will be in the air this weekend (October 2-4) with SpringFest showcasing the town’s great community spirit along with some of the best produce and products found within the region. SpringFest chairman, Ian Law, said numbers were flowing in steadily for the street parade, which would be a feature of the celebrations on Saturday, October 3. “Local businesses organisations have really got behind the idea of creating their own floats for the street parade and we can’t wait to see what they come up with,” Mr Law said. Markets, chariot races, a Tug O’ War competition and a range of children’s activities will also be held in Cameron Park during the day before the annual historical re-enactment which will take place in the Sunken Gardens. “This year’s re-enactment centres around Wellington’s first mayor Joseph Aarons and his epic tales of bushrangers, cattle drives, Kangaroo hunts, the town’s first municipal elections and more. A complete list of SpringFest activities can be found at www.wellingtonspringfest.com.au

Man facing historical assault charges POLICE have charged a man with a number of historical child sexual assault offences in Wellington after an investigation in the state’s Orana region. In October 2013, detectives commenced inquiries into allegations a man had committed numerous sexual assaults against two girls between 1978 and 1989 in the town. One of the girls was aged nine at the time the offences began and the other was aged seven. The man was allegedly known to the girls through a church group. Following extensive inquiries, police attended a home on Springwood Road, Dubbo, on the evening of Friday, September 25, where they arrested a 53 year-old man. He was taken to Dubbo Police Station where he was charged with carnal knowledge with a child under ten, twice, and the sexual assault of child under 16, twice. He was refused bail to appear at Dubbo Local Court. The investigation is ongoing and further charges are likely.

Science museum to inspire local students PEOPLE of the Central West and beyond will be able to experience the wonders of the Australian Museum in their own back yard, when the Australian Museum Science Festival visits Dubbo this coming week. The festival, aimed at inspiring school children to take an interest in all things science, will be at the Western Plains Cultural Centre from October 8-10, and Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant couldn’t be happier that the festival has this year expanded its reach to Dubbo. “Western NSW loves art and culture so it’s fantastic organisations like the Australian Museum are recognising that and bringing it to our doorstep,” Grant said. Dr Rebecca Johnson, director of the Australian Museum Research Institute, Science and Learning, said the AMSF goal is to inspire the next generation of scientists, researchers and science enthusiasts. “The festival will provide hands-on workshops, presentations and a science industry expo for both primary school groups (October 8) and high school groups (October 9).” Presenters include the Aus-

School students with Member for Dubbo Troy Grant with Winny the Mutaburrasaurus and Kim McKay (left), director and CEO of the Australian Museum.

tralian Museum, Macquarie University, The University of New South Wales, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Australian Science Innovations, The Office of Environment and Heritage and more. The AMSF covers all aspects of science including physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, forensics and more. Experts from the Australian Museum will stay to present at the Dubbo Sustainable City Expo on October 10. For more information and to book online visit www.amsciencefestival.net

this program,” Coulton said. “Eligible projects aim to stimulate local community spending, employment and use of local businesses and suppliers to provide long-lasting benefits to regional communities,” Mr Coulton said. “Due to the drought, the Coonamble Shire has faced many challenges in these areas for quite some time now and I believe these projects will go some way to turning around the local economy.”

Drought funding on offer for Coonamble

From this week, permits allowing people to collect firewood from NSW state forests will no longer available at several locations due to the risk of fires. Forestry Corporation of NSW’s Snowy region based Stewardship and Fire Manager, Charlie Taylor said permits for firewood collection would not be available during the summer months. “With the arrival of hotter weather, the threat of fires starting from people using chainsaws in forest areas to cut firewood is real,” Taylor said. “Any permits booked online now will only be valid until the closure of the respective areas. From October 1 to March 31, 2016 permits for firewood collection will not be available for pine plantations at Central Tablelands near Bathurst and native State forests in the western region. Visit forestrycorporation.com.au/visit or #visitnswforests on Facebook for more visitor information.

COONAMBLE Shire Council has received approval as a “declared council” under the Australian Government’s new Drought Communities Program. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, Warren Truss said the Drought Communities Program has been introduced to generate greater economic stability in regional areas impacted by low rainfalls. “The Australian Government is providing $35 million over four years to fund local infrastructure initiatives in eligible drought-affected communities to build greater economic resilience for the future,” Truss said. Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton is pleased that Coonamble Shire Council is now eligible for much needed funding. “The Council is now eligible to receive a total funding amount of $1.5 million under

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Fire danger period heats up MEANWHILE, this week marked the start of the 2015/16 bush fire danger period for the Dubbo, Narromine and Wellington Local Government Areas. From Thursday any person wishing to light a fire will require a permit. “A Fire Permit is required for burning activities during the Bush Fire Danger Period and helps to ensure fire is used safely, minimising the danger to you, your property, your neighbours and the community. Permits are free and can be obtained from your local permit issuing officer or Fire Control Centre” Superintendent Lyndon Wieland said. “With conditions becoming more conducive to the spread of fire, people need to be extremely careful when using fire. If a fire leaves your property the landholder is liable for any damages,” Wieland said. “The 2015/16 bush fire season could see above normal fire activity for much of NSW, according to the latest outlook from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre.” Wieland is also urging residents to have a completed Bush Fire Survival Plan available so all members of the household know what to do on days of increased fire danger, and if their home is threatened by fire.

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Grant this week announced the NSW Government will provide funding to help footballers from regional areas of the state attend the 45th Annual NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout to be held in Dubbo over this weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the participants are financially disadvantaged and this subsidy offers them an opportunity to travel to the event which otherwise they would miss out onâ&#x20AC;?. Transport for NSW will assist participants in the Dubbo electorate and surrounds with $10,000 for the Central West (and Riverina Murray) and $5,000 for the Western region. Mr Grant says the knockout is a big deal in Aboriginal communities and it provides a great opportunity to spread some important and targeted road safety messages to the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indigenous communities. The NSW Government prioritises road safety and will have a strong presence at the knockout over the three days of the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sadly, Aboriginal Australians are over-represented in NSW road statistics which is exactly why we support events like this,â&#x20AC;? Grant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drink driving will be a focus this year with our drink drive trailer and team on site reminding people that if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re having a few drinks, driving is not an option, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need

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a Plan B, even the next dayâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plan B messaging will also be on the football goal posts and on road safety banners along roads leading to the grounds, so this message will be spread far and wide.â&#x20AC;? The funding announced today is part of the Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Regional Transport Coordination Program, which provides almost $900,000 every year to community groups for projects that improve transport results for residents living in some of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most isolated areas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleased that the Government can assist in practical ways such as through the Regional Transport Coordination Program and hope every-

Troy Grant (pictured with rugby ball) is keen for Dubbo to host the NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout this long weekend.

one who attends the event this weekend has a safe and enjoyable time,â&#x20AC;? said Grant.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a knockout for cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accommodation MEANWHILE, with the number of visitors flocking to Dubbo for the Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accommodation is full to the brim. As the city prepares to welcome players, coaches, managers, families and spectators, the influx has effectively â&#x20AC;&#x153;sold outâ&#x20AC;? Dubbo. Dubbo Mayor councillor Mathew Dickerson said the knockout would inject some $6.6 million into the local economy through accommodation, meals and other costs incurred by visiting teams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dubbo is expecting an influx of more than 5,000 overnight visitors coming to attend the Aboriginal Knockout,â&#x20AC;? Dickerson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another 5,000 could be expected to travel in from around the region each day of the tournament and spectator numbers could swell to 15,000 including fans and teams from Dubbo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Accommodation is at capacity in Dubbo and motel and other accommodation bookings have spread across the region including Wellington, Narromine, Gilgandra and south to Parkes.â&#x20AC;?

Project brings art to light THE second annual #bringtolightproject was held this week in Dubbo, Geurie, Sunny Corner and Narrandera, with five artists presenting site-specific and digital media works. The project focused on putting contemporary art in ordinary places, such as Kim V. Goldsmithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live video recording of feet passing across a open air mall; Jack Randellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looped video projection in Dubbo and Greg Pritchardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Geurie silos animated projection. The other two works showing further east and south of Dubbo are a site-specific installation of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toys beside a lake (Sunny Corner) and a music video on an iPad in a cafe (Narrandera). For more information visit www.bringtolightprojects.com

Funding to tackle domestic violence welcomed INTERRELATE CEO, Patricia Occelli, has welcomed the $100 million package announced by Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to combat domestic violence but hoped that the package would also include more funding for respectful relationship education. Interrelate has been providing relationship education since 1926 and has seen first-

hand the difference that early intervention and education programs can make to whole families and communities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Already this year, we have seen 63 tragic deaths in Australia as a result of domestic violence, with three deaths just last week in NSW. These statistics are horrifying and clearly as a community we need to do more to tackle this issue,â&#x20AC;? said Occelli. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Research has shown that early intervention and education programs for young people can help to break-down the cultural and social norms that appear to support violence and can assist in breaking the cycle of domestic and family violence,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By teaching children how to be safe in a relationship from a young age we increase their ability to make healthy relationship choices later in life and to be assertive when their relationships are unsafe,â&#x20AC;? Occelli added. Interrelate offers numerous programs through their Dubbo office and to surrounding regions to satellite offices.

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– there’ll be an appreciative crowd of onlookers gathered to send the 18 riders off and again to cheer them on their way through Dubbo. But one local will be following the ride’s progression more closely than others. Rod Crowfoot is chairman of Macquarie Homestay, a notfor-profit organisation formed five years ago with the dream of establishing accommodation

facilities for regional patients needing medical treatment in Dubbo – a dream that’s now become a reality thanks in no small part to the Tour de OROC (Orana Region of Councils). The inaugural event in 2013, organised by Dubbo City Council and avid cyclist Mayor Mathew Dickerson, raised $176,000 for the Macquarie Homestay coffers. This year, under the stewardship of lo-

cal businessman and Tour de OROC chairman David Hayes and his committee, supported by the Rotary Club of Dubbo South, the target of $100,000 has already been met, but organisers are hoping to break their own fundraising record. Crowfoot has similar hopes, but is already delighted with what he says is the “incredible generosity” of the tour organisers and riders and of the general community in recognising the need for Macquarie Homestay. Homestay, as he calls it, grew out of the recognition that with the withdrawal of a number of health services from smaller regional communities, people from those centres now have to travel to Dubbo for a range of treatments. “Unfortunately, the cost of accommodation while in Dubbo has made accessing health services difficult and as a result, some people are either waiting too long or going without treatment altogether. “The idea behind Homestay was to help make the cost of healthcare less of an impost, meaning people would be able to look after themselves the way they need to.” Originally, the concept came about through a lack of maternity services throughout the region, but over time it became clear there were a number of services people from smaller

centres needed to access. “So we decided to open it up and offer a more inclusive facility, where anyone who needs to come to Dubbo for healthcare or surgery could also use Homestay,” Crowfoot says. So far, through sponsorship, donations and government grants, the Macquarie Homestay committee has raised enough money to build stage one of the project, construction on which is hoped to commence in 2016 on a site adjacent to Lourdes Hospital on Yarrandale Road. Fundraising efforts, including those of the Toyota Tour de OROC, will be directed now towards rebuilding the coffers in order to bring stage two to fruition. “Ultimately, the folk of Dubbo won’t be those who use Macquarie Homestay – it will be people from smaller towns and communities around the region who will access the accommodation.” That, he says, makes the generosity of Dubbo’s business and local community even more impressive. “We’ve been so fortunate that our strongest supporters have been Dubbo-based organisations like council, the Rotary clubs, the CWA and other not-for-profit groups that have stepped up in recognition of the need for this service. And that’s extended throughout the

region.” Crowfoot says that while the funds raised by the first Tour de OROC made a significant contribution, equally important was the awareness generated by the tour for just how important the Macquarie Homestay project is in addressing the healthcare needs of the entire region. “It wasn’t a case of sucking money out of the region for the benefit of Dubbo, we’re setting this up in Dubbo for the benefit of the whole region – and the Tour de OROC has been fantastic with getting that message out there.” The Toyota Tour de OROC will cover 1200km and the 12 local government areas (LGAs) of the Orana region in just six days. It sets off from Wellington at 8.30am on Monday, October 5, with locals encouraged to gather in support of the 18 riders and to see renowned Australian cyclist Robbie McEwen, who will accompany the tour on its leg from Wellington to Warren. The ride will travel through Dubbo at approximately 10.30am; Narromine at around 12.30pm and arrive in Warren from 5pm. Donations can be made through www.tourdeoroc.com. Disclosure: Rod Crowfoot is the general manager of Panscott Media, publishers of Dubbo Weekender.

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Mental Health Month runs throughout October inspired by World Mental Health Day on October 10. The awareness generated by discussions around mental illness, its reality and the complex solutions needed to build healthier societies in a modern world are all part of everyday life for Laraine Graham, a ‘lived’ peer support worker with Mission Australia. Her own dark days are now a beacon of hope to others. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent T’S the kind of work where success is measured in smiles. Or moments. When clients show confidence enough – after weeks or months of gentle coaxing – to walk out their front door and interact with the world. Mental illness can be an incapacitating, living hell where normal life patterns are disrupted by fear and isolation and ultimately stigma, for too many. ‘Lived’ peer support worker for Mission Australia, Laraine Graham reaches out every day to her HASI clients living with mental health problems; extending patience, compassion and love, to guide people on a path to recovery. HASI (Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative) is a scheme shared between NSW Health, Housing NSW and various non-government organisations (NGOs) providing people with mental health problems access to stable housing linked to clinical and psychosocial rehabilitation services. “My role is to get the clients to come out of their

Mission Australia The primary objective of Mission Australia is to reduce homelessness by assisting people to get jobs, further education, find housing or develop key life skills. According to the organisation’s website, it takes a close look at the root causes of a person’s predicament and strive to stop problems from spiralling out of control and affecting other areas of their life. “By addressing issues early, [they] have the best chance of breaking the cycle of disadvantage.”

homes and join in three afternoons a week or maybe an outing somewhere, or come in and learn crafts or cooking. It’s about just trying to rehabilitate them and get them to a point where they feel confident to get back out into society,” Graham says. Simple tasks, like cooking, which many people take for granted, can be overwhelming for the mentally ill. “As you can imagine, some of them can’t do that but we’ve got some really great success stories. We have one client here who loves craft and sewing. I suggested we go to a community-sewing group and I went with her for about five months. Eventually she was independent enough to take herself to the group. She’s brilliant. She’s just so good at it. “Then there’s another client, who took some convincing, but who has just become a volunteer. He looked after the groups while I was away on holidays. He’s also very good at what he does.”

T’S a similar path to the one Graham herself followed when she developed depression in 1993 after living in a violent marriage for 27 years. From client, she eventually recovered her health then volunteered with Mission Australia for many years and most recently was offered the job of peer support worker. Although the depression is something she must manage, her experiences uniquely connect her with the people she is tasked to help having shared similar trials. Hence the moniker attached to her title: ‘lived’. “I have experienced mental illness and I still have major depression which is under control at the moment. I’ve had it since 1993 and I’ve had a lot of ups and downs, so when clients come to the group I introduce myself as a ‘lived’ peer support worker. I always tell them I have major depression, I know what they’re going through. “Everyone in the group is in the same situation. We’re

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there for one another, and it seems to make them relax. What we’ve found here is they confide a lot more in me I think because they know I understand.” It’s an increasing trend to find support workers who have journeyed through mental illness before crossing the line to offering a helping hand. “A lot of organisations are just starting to realise now that the ‘lived’ workers have got a really big role to play. I went to Newcastle last week to do a Certificate IV in peer support work. It’s pretty full on and will last for eight months. Every single person sitting in that auditorium was ‘lived’. They’re realising now we have a big role to play.” Something innovative needs to be done in the face of a growing numbers of individuals presenting with mental health issues. “There is an increase of people needing services. We can only take a certain amount of people. The most needy are the one’s we have to have. It’s been very enlightening for me since taking on this peer support

Mental Health Month Dubbo This year, Mental Health Month is promoting the theme Value Your Mind to encourage and promote the practice of self-care and ensures a balanced well-being. Dubbo a Mental Health Month 2015 is a Facebook page listing events and activities happening throughout October. The Mental Health Month Facebook page www.facebook.com/MentalHealthMonth2015 Mental Health Australia 1010.org.au

role. The people living in HASI are single people, living on their own struggling with their own illness,” says Graham. Going it alone is hardly ideal when the lows can paralyse. “I have a lot of family support so I’m really lucky but there’s not enough carers, sad to say. That’s what HA-

SI’s all about. We’re the carers. Basically I think we’re all about caring and looking after them. Making sure they take their medication and are living a healthy reasonable lifestyle. “Caseworkers work side by side with Home Care. A lot of these people are just not capable of living in a clean environment. We feel our role is to support them by suggesting they sweep a floor, take out the rubbish, clean out the fridge. We’re trying to teach them lead a more hygienic life. “Sometimes the case workers see them twice a day, make sure they’ve eaten a meal, take them grocery shopping to be sure they’re buying the right things and not spending their money on cigarettes and coke. We can’t tell people what they can and can’t do, we can only suggest. It’s a pretty big job and it’s pretty full on. There’s never enough hours in the day,” she says. “HASI is all about housing mentally ill people. Even though I came into that area, I didn’t need to be housed. I was put into HASI because basically the

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sicker people are put into HASI and then you go into whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s R&R, Resource and Recovery, and hopefully by that stage, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re prepared to a little bit of volunteer work or even get a job. My goal is to get people to that stage if I can, to go into R&R.â&#x20AC;? RAHAM knows first hand what it means to simply find a place where her issues were acknowledged in a non-judgemental environment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it was just having somewhere to go. Family only want to listen to so much. I felt it was somewhere I could go and talk about things and they were prepared to listen and that they had a fair idea of where I was coming from. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderful that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created a mental health month, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so, so important.â&#x20AC;? She pauses for a moment and her voice falters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mum used to always say to me when I was in and out of psychiatric hospitals, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, Laraine, as sick as you are youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always stayed well-groomed, and if anyone saw you walking down the street they would have no idea how sick you areâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always thought of that, and always thought to myself, how many people do I walk past in the street who are suffering like I was? I know theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there because I know how many people come in to see us. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1993 when I got sick here in Dubbo, there was no help here whatsoever. My dad had to take me to Brisbane. I had family up there. It was either Sydney or Brisbane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was told we had to go to a city to get the help that I needed and that was the beginning of a five or six year

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spiral for me, but anyway, I eventually got out of it and moved to Tamworth where I had a sister and got out of it by volunteering at the Tamworth Hospital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Volunteering is a really good thing because you feel youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not obligated to go. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like a job where if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do your job, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t earn and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat. With a volunteer thing you can ring up and say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not having such a good day today, can I try again tomorrow. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been good. Ten years after I left my first husband I met another man who was just totally the opposite, a wonderful person. We were only together for four years and he died from cancer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wanted to get married, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been told he was terminal and I asked why? He said â&#x20AC;&#x153;because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted toâ&#x20AC;?. He said letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s go home and get mar-

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DUBBO IN THE DESERT During a recent visit to Kaltukatjara community in Australia’s Red Centre, JEN COWLEY found a little bit of Dubbo in the desert, thanks to local artist Bevan Young, whose ingenious artworks were inspired by a visit to Taronga Western Plains Zoo. T’S a crystal clear Sunday morning in Kaltukatjara (Docker River) – a tiny closed Aboriginal community in the far south eastern corner of the Northern Territory, just six dusty red kilometres from the West Australian border. I’m here by invitation, working on a community project and just a week after arriving, the place and its people have already found their way under my skin and all the way to my heart. It’s hardly surprising the Red Centre – with its unique landscape, its improbably vibrant colours and its spiritual mystique – has inspired art and artists in all their forms over the centuries. More surprising is the ability of some artists to find potential beauty and a likely “canvas” in some of the most unlikely places. As a long, quiet Sunday stretches out ahead – there’s not much in the way of entertainment in sleepy, remote Docker River – I take the opportunity of a day off to explore. On the edge of town – where the population waxes and wanes but sits on average around 300 – I find the place where cars come to die when Mother Nature, and the absence of mechanical services, get the upper hand. There are rows of car bodies, some stacked, some simply discarded where they died – most turned to a rusty ochre colour that matches the landscape. It’s perversely picturesque, set with the backdrop of the fluidly hued Petermann Ranges stretching away into the distance. But I’m not the only one who’s seen the potential aesthetics of this scrapheap. Painted on the sides of some of the corroded car cadavers are carefully replicated African animal prints – one upside down ute has been painted with perfectly formed zebra print. Another bears the marking of a giraffe’s hide and still another is covered with black “paw prints” of big cats. I’m surprised by a sudden pang of love for home (Dubbo) and Taronga Western Plains Zoo, which I initially dismiss as indulgent parochialism, but later understand. The artwork makes for the most marvellous juxtapo-

sition – the hallmarks of an African safari here in the years are sketchy, but include a peripatetic life with red dust of the Australian Central Desert. time spent not only in the Red Centre, but in Adelaide, Sydney and Bathurst. But there’s more. “I’m from the Yungundara people, from the coast The imaginative artist – whose works here are unnear Adelaide, but I’ve been all over the place,” he says. signed – has looked at the rusted roof of an overturned “It was good to be with white people because I learned and long-dead van and seen not a decaying eyesore, English.” but a canvas for one of the most ingenious landscape paintings I’ve ever seen. Young finally came to settle – to a degree – in the Red Centre in the early Using the rusty surface as a base, the 80s, having nurtured a love of drawing artist has replicated the backdrop of the since childhood. Petermann Ranges – painting only the sky, the trees, the grass and, in black, the “I started with pencils and paper. I defining folds of the mountains. had a sketch pad and I used to sit in the I paint what I creek beds and draw the East McDonIt’s quite a remarkable work, even withsee – just like ol’ nell ranges. I loved to draw landscapes, out the symbolism of its surroundings, but I also liked drawing people. and I know I need to try to track down Slim Dusty sang the artist. “And then I tried watercolours and it about what he worked out really well,” he grins. I return to town with my photographs, and it doesn’t take long to find the man saw, that’s what I “I bumped into the family of the great I’m looking for. landscape artist Albert Namatjira in the do. I paint what I early 90s – one of his granddaughters, “Oh, that’ll be Bevan’s work,” says just Jillian, inherited his talent for colours about everyone to whom I excitedly show know and what’s and landscapes and she helped guide the photos. around me. me with some of my work.” Young isn’t fazed by the perception BEVAN” turns out to be a local – Bevan Young – whose keen and creative eye makes that all Aboriginal artists – particularly those living in remote communities – adopt the traditional “dot painthim one of Docker River’s best known artists, and ing” style of art. He simply shrugs off the expectation. there are quite a few here. “A lot of people think that being Aboriginal means When I track him down at the Ranger’s Station where you’ll do the traditional dot painting, but that’s only his wife, Ruby, works – he’s more than up for a yarn if you’re painting about dreamtime stories. I prefer to and is happy to wander back out to the edge of town paint the landscape – the mountains, the sky, the gum for me to take photographs of him with his artworks. trees. He’s a fascinating study. His unruly black curls are “Wiya (no),” he says. “As an artist, it’s up to me what tamed with what I’m told is his trademark red bandanna, and even with his dark wrap-around sunnies I paint. I don’t feel I have to do the traditional style at all, although it’s very popular and there are some very in place against the relentless glare of a desert noon, accomplished artists in our region and here in Docker his face bears the hallmarks of real character and a life River. of adventure. “But people like my paintings for some reason. His English is impeccable – which is just as well, givMaybe it’s because I paint what I see – just like ol’ en my Pitjintatjara is non-existent – and as we talk Slim Dusty sang about what he saw, that’s what I do. I back in town over a cup of tea, he relaxes into the kind of eccentricity that makes an interview at once a chal- paint what I know and what’s around me.” lenge and a delight. Our conversation is interrupted by the arrival of the town’s resident donkey that wanders up for a pat and Details and timelines of 48 year old Young’s early

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we talk, bizarrely, about how to train these awkward visit to Taronga Western Plains Zoo. I can’t help but little animals. He insists I take photos and the donkey laugh and he joins in. obligingly poses like a seasoned pro. Like so many “See? That makes you happy and that’s why I did times during my stay in Kaltukatjara, it’s a charmthese paintings. I felt so happy looking at all those ingly quirky moment. African animals living in Australia. And I thought Photos done and donkey rewarded with carrot, we about how African people may not know much about resume our yarn, and I ask how it was that he came Australia. to live here in this tiny community. “When I came home here to Docker River, I thought “I’d been up and down the road past Kaltukatjait would be nice to have an African presence here in ra (Docker River) many times when I was travelling my place, so I decided to paint those animal prints – around the region, but then 15 years the zebra, the giraffe, the big cat.” ago, I met my wife Ruby and she’s from As we sip our tea, he tells me more here. So that’s when I moved here and I about his visit to the zoo, and how the call this my home now. Siamang apes in particular amused him. “I’m a bit of a traveller,” he says, and “The monkeys were sliding along on our conversation again wanders off to I had such a the ropes and they’re tricky little fellas. some of the places he’s been on those There was one who would just wait until happy time travels... Easter Island, Holland, all over the tourists come. He’d sit down under Australia. there (at Taronga the shade of a tree or just hang there in “But I always come back here.” the tree until some people came to look, Western Plains Why is that? then he’d start showing off. He shrugs and holds out his hands, as Zoo) I thought it “I had such a happy time there (at the if to say “isn’t it obvious? would be nice to zoo) I thought it would be nice to bring little part of that here to the bush. And “The colours – look at the colours. The bring a little part apeople have seen it and they really like red sand, the skies, the colour of the it.” mountains when the sun’s going down. of that here to Aren’t they the most beautiful colours? Young says he would like to have the bush. Isn’t this the most beautiful place?” painted one of the car bodies with a tiI look out over the Petermann Ranges, ger print, but to do so would have revibrant even in the harsh early afternoon light, and quired orange spray paint – and ‘round these parts, it’s impossible to argue. spray paint is a rare commodity. “You can’t get it, mostly. The spray paint is locked up because the young people might sniff it. That’s sad.” HEN I finally manage to bring the conversation back to the reason I tracked him down – We talk a while about some of the challenges facing his artwork on the car bodies – I realise why young people in his community and about the diffiI felt that initial twinge for home. culty in bridging the divide between the old ways and the modern reality. The animal prints, he tells me, were inspired by a

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He says his contribution is to try to show people the potential of art as a way to engage with the landscape. “I would like to see more people taking up art and finding beauty in things that are ugly – like the old junk up there,” he says, nodding in the direction of Docker River’s car graveyard. “You can find a place to do art anywhere. I’ll paint on anything, anywhere. It’s not hard to turn something ugly into something beautiful.” Young says he’s hoping to encourage more of the “young fellas” to make the decision to take up art prac-

tice, instead of “making the decision to just be a lazy bugger”. “Being an artist is so much more fun. It makes you feel happy inside. You can create things. If you’re just being a lazy bugger you get lonely and sad.” Although there are many flat surfaces in Docker River that bear the Bevan Young mark, the artist says he’d like to do more mural paintings and for a wider audience. “I really like the one I did at the (Docker River) general store – people really like it and they comment all

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the time. It would be good to do more of that sort of thing. I’d like to do murals in places where tourists will see them and maybe get a feeling for the landscape. “And I’d like to go back to that zoo again – I’d like to see more animals and perhaps come back and paint more of their prints on old car bodies to make them beautiful like the landscape around here. “Were you pleased to see that little bit of Dubbo here in the desert?” he asks me. “Pukulpa.” Indeed I was.

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For most people, being paid to travel the world doing what you love is a dream. When local talent Ashleigh Tegart took the wake up call last week to pack her bags and go live the dream, the opportunity to dance her way through foreign waters on a cruise ship was too good to refuse. The chance of a lifetime, however, is one for which the 26 yearold has worked hard. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent What were you doing when the news came? I was sitting in my office when I received an email with my contract attached! I cried! Who was the first person you told? I went straight to my parents’ work to tell my mum. She was serving so the suspense was killing me. I think she could tell that I had some exciting news though. When I finally told her she was very happy. What did you have to do to try out for this opportunity? I have been attending auditions in Sydney throughout the year for various cruise lines. Open-call auditions are such an incredible experience, not only for the opportunity to be seen by some of the world’s best choreographers and casting directors, but it's also a fantastic way to network and meet other dancers from around the country. When it comes to performing I'm lucky, I never get nervous. I always treat every dance class or audition as if it were the actual performance. I like to keep to myself before an audition to warm up, focus on the task and observe those around me. I think my biggest challenge this year has been trying to maintain my fitness. It was never an issue when I was performing in shows on a weekly basis last year! Who will you actually be employed by? My contract is with Princess Cruise Lines. I will be a dancer on the Regal Princess. What happens now? I fly to Los Angeles on Tuesday. There, I will meet the rest of the cast from around the world and start rehearsals for one month. I will be dancing from 9am to 6:30pm, six days a week at these rehearsals to ensure we know the choreography for all the shows and have it down pat and perfected. After that, we are flown to Florida where the Regal will be waiting. I'll be travelling around the Caribbean for three months and then we sail across to Europe for another three month cruise. What are you most looking forward to? The thing I've been missing the most is just being around dancers who are equally as passionate about being on stage as I am. I am so excited that I will be meeting a whole new group of insanely talented performers and that we'll get to be on stage every single night as well as explore some of the most stunning cities and islands in the world together. What are you least looking forward to? This sounds silly, I know, but I am a movie and TV show tragic! And not the new ones. I love watching the same movies and box sets over and over again. I'm talking from the ‘90s and early 2000s. I will survive, but I will be missing it. You'll be performing a lot. How do you think you'll maintain the energy? As far as I know, I perform at least two or three shows a night depending on how many days we are out at sea. There will always be company classes and rehearsals during the day so that will be keeping me busy. There are also gym facilities for the dancers so that will help out a lot in terms of keeping up my strength. Thankfully, there will be an equal amount of time off as there will be performing so getting that time to recover and re-energise won't be taken for granted. You've travelled before; has it been for dance opportunities? The first time I ever travelled to another country for dancing was when I was 16. I was in a tour group that performed shows in LA and NYC. It was an amazing experience for me, and one I'll never forget. I moved to Hong Kong in 2011 to teach dance at an International School in Repulse Bay and at a Dance Studio in Stan-

ley. The next year I moved to France to work as a stewardess on super yachts in the Mediterranean. I was based in Monte-Carlo but we sailed all around the south of France and Italy. In my experience on the yachts, it wasn't all "glitz and glam", so that was the year I decided that I wanted to move back to Australia and focus entirely on my dancing career. Where did you study dance in Dubbo? How has that training prepared you? I started dancing when I was four. My mum took me along to a little church building (as it was back then) called the Dubbo Ballet Studio (DBS). I grew up dancing with DBS until I was 18. It was all that mattered in my eyes because I knew I'd be doing it forever. I was speaking with another former student recently, and we were both ecstatic about how much discipline was instilled in us as young dancers and how that has been the driving force in both of our successful lives. Not just in dance, but life in general. Learning how to accept; not back-chat. Learning how to encourage, not put down. Understanding the benefits that come with personal presentation. Earning respect from the people who believed in me has been one of my greatest achievements, and I thank ballet for that. You're also a teacher; describe what you do? It's true what they say: You always come back! This year I've had the pleasure of teaching at DBS. My students ranged from the age of nine to 18 and I taught a number of different genres including jazz, contemporary and musical theatre with a little bit of ballet and showgirl thrown in as well. What is it about dance that has a hold on you? Oh gosh, where do I begin? Dance is the thing I've been in love with for the longest in my life, and the thing I always find myself running back to. I have found that as I get older, my dance style matures with me. It's like a partnership. Everything from how I'm feeling emotionally to something as simple as liking a particular piece of music, usually makes me want to move in one way or another. I just let my body go with it. Do you have a favourite dancer/choreographer? Why? My favourite dancer would definitely be Travis Wall. He is an American dancer who was runner-up in season two of SYTYCD. Every time I see him perform it is effortless. That's a skill I aspire to portray. My favourite choreographer is Mia Michaels, also American-based. I can still remember the first time a watched one of her routines and I cried. It didn't matter to me how incredible the dancers were, all I wanted to know was “who created that?” It captivated me in a way I'll never forget. What's your favourite dance form? I love every style of dance, but give me a musical theatre number any day. I guess the beauty of the theatrical genre is that you have to incorporate dance technique from every style, you can show off your personality, getting to sing live is a huge plus; it's guaranteed to entertain and it's the most fun to teach! Dubbo is a bit of a hotbed of dance talent and dancers who do take their skills out into the world and stand up as world class. Is it something in the water? I think coming from a country town has multiple advantages. You're eager and you don't take for granted the opportunities you’re given. Then when you enter the industry at a major academy or just in a bigger city, yes, you are confronted by the talent you suddenly have to compete with, but if you hold onto that discipline and stay grounded and respectful, then you stand out to all the right people.

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do not vault the enclosure and kiss the in arse grenades, resembling deflated inhabitants. basketballs, across the lawn every 24 Dogs’ mouths might be cleaner than hours, meaning I don’t know whether ours – once they swallow the dried foot- the next sentence should be: path turds they’re eating that is. A) I suspect it is having an affair with But so is a death adder’s, yet I don’t a Great Dane when nobody’s home, feel the compulsion to kiss one, much or B) Could the rhino short-cutting less have it sleep at the end of my bed or through our backyard kindly stick to the sniff my crotch. footpath? I am coming to a more pragmatic poI’ve heard people say their dog just sition with the dog’s faults: hole-digging goes down the back and they never so adds character to the yard much as see a bum nut, but and having no lawn left exthe thought of that fills me cuses me from having to wa- ` with revulsion too. ter it, which is handy because Greet a fellow One day they’ll discover a the hose has been chewed to poop-substitute equivalent walker in the smithereens. of the elephants’ graveyard Even after all this time it’s spring and they with years’ worth of shit the poop that I still struggle all but hump piled fence high, and just with. If your sewer backed up your leg before as they reel off to gag in and contaminated your yard the garden they’ll probably the dogs get with fresh human waste, swallow a fly they recogwould you shrug, clean up as a chance. But nise from top of the heap. best you could and otherwise in winter they Walks I can live with. We just tread carefully? were “all” going to walk often just stare Or would you heave your the dog when it was just an back with a innards up? idea – a big fun family outAnd it’s a 10kg dog, yet it blank face and ing, waving to neighbours, seemingly deposits twice that gaping mouth. skipping down sun-kissed

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Not so happy little Vegemite VEGEMITE is racist. Or at least that’s what 20 year old American Cassidy Boon is claiming in a YouTube video – “because it’s black” she’s told the Daily Mail. In believing it’s a tool for racist oppression she’s gone so far as to create a #banvegemite hashtag in the hope of boycotting the spread. “Together, we can get vegemite banned and give Aboriginals the justice they deserve.” Good luck trying to get rid of what is a staple item in every one of our pantries and an Aussie rite of passage, for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians alike.

AUSTRALIA’S first aerial adventure park nears completion as the 26 meter-high, $2 million structure is set to open n next month. The West Beach playground nd in Adelaide will feature 120 activities es including suspension bridges, ges, swings, free fall jumps, ps, zip wires and vertical cal climbs, perfect for those afraid of heights. eights. What hat they’re calling ng a playground nd in the sky will be open n in time for the summer, with final touches hes now taking ng place.

girl recently, and she didn’t like it. Rumour mills are churning news that a fan began to kiss UK pop star Perry on the face and neck after she brought her onstage during a performance a at the Rock in Rio festival recently. The poor singer stayed surpri surprisingly composed and joked about abo the incident during which whic she looked incredibly uncomun fortable – maybe it i was the taste of her cherry c Chapstick?

What’s hat’s in a s? kiss? THE Telegraph has reported that apparently, Katy Perry was kissed ed by a

Hold the phones GOOGLE u unveils two new smarts phones for sale in October October. The Nexus 5X is priced at $379 and includes a inclu 5.2-inch screen s and two gigabytes of RAM. The 6P, available for a slightly sl

pricier $499, features a 5.7-inch screen with a 1440p resolution. CNET has taken a first official look at all the specs and details noting the 6P embraces “quite a few trends of the day” but we’re wondering how it’s going to stack up to Apple’s iPhone releases.

Browned off by violence CHRIS Brown has overnight become a domestic violence campaigner in order to help his appeal to enter Australia. After his visa was denied on Sunday, he took to Twitter posting: “The youth don’t listen to parents nor do they listen to PSAs. The power that we have as entertainers can change lives,” he said. I wonder what effect he thought he would have on young girl’s lives when he sang “Let me sex you baby/You better not change your mind” or “You’re irreplaceable/ a collectible / Just like fine china”? Isn’t it so empowering being compared with a dinner plate and labelled as an object? Keep up the good work Chris – changing lives, one at a time.

Phew! We no longer need Bruce Willis as scientists set to test Earth-saving theory

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LONDON: Scientists are to attempt to nudge an asteroid out of its orbital path in a practice run for saving the world. The joint US-European AIDA (Asteroid Deflection & Assessment) mission will crash a probe into the smaller of a pair of binary asteroids to see if the object’s path can be altered. Although the egg-shaped target, known as “Didymoon”, is only 160 metres wide, the test will show if in principle a much

larger asteroid threatening to wipe out human civilisation can be deflected the same way. Two spacecraft, one to smack into the rock and the other to monitor the effect of the impact, will be launched in October 2020, scientists were told at the European Planetary Science Congress in France. They are due to rendezvous with Didymoon and its 750-metre-wide partner Didymos in May 2022.

“To protect Earth from potentially hazardous impacts, we need to understand asteroids much better – what they are made of, their structure, origins and how they respond to collisions,” Dr Patrick Michel, lead investigator for the European Space Agency half of the mission, said. “AIDA will be the first mission to study an asteroid binary system, as well as the first to test whether we can deflect an

asteroid through an impact with a spacecraft.” AIDA is made up of two “submissions”, the ESA-led Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) and the American space agency NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. DART will fire the probe into Didymoon, which orbits diamond-shaped Didymos every 12 hours from a distance of 1.1 kilometres. AAP

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WHAT I DO KNOW.

Brad Cooke: The call of community Brad Cooke might be NITV’s sports commentator for this weekend’s Koori Knockout in Dubbo, but the La-Perouse born and bred Bidjigal man says this “modern corroboree” is as much about community as it is about rugby league. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley I love public broadcasting. It’s actually a second job – I take leave from my full time work to take part in some of these broadcasting jobs. I do live commentary for NITV, particularly around knock-out time and during the season I commentate the NRL games for ABC Grandstand. My “day job” is working with an organisation called Jarwun which is a secondment program where the skills of corporate and government staff are matched for placement in Aboriginal organisations in inner Sydney. I’m a Bidjigal man – that’s my Aboriginal background, from the La Perouse community which is at the northern end of Botany Bay. Like most La Perouse kids, we all went to the local primary school then kicked on to Matraville High School, made famous by the Ella brothers (rugby league and union) and their sister Marcia, who went on to play netball for Australia. At La Perouse, pretty much all we had was the beach and football. Beach in the summertime and rugby league during the winter. Footy has been a passion since I was a kid – from playing in the “nappy” grades (the under 6s) in the South Sydney junior competition and played right through school with La Perouse and a couple of other clubs in the South Sydney area. I played a little union for the Randwick Colts in my teens, but league is my first passion. Our community of La Perouse has always been very strong with rugby league. We’ve always had a passion for it and it really binds the community together. It’s the only thing I can think of that really captures everyone and they really all buy into what it means for the community. The game has always been a great leveller and is now a great way to get a leg up for so many young Aboriginal people. That wasn’t always the case – it used to be that the only way up and out was through the sport of boxing. It’s the only truly colour-blind sport there is – when two people, regardless of background get into the ring it’s one-on-one. Rugby league wasn’t always an opportunity that Aboriginal communities had back in its early days. Opportunities were few and far between, particularly for kids from the bush. To make it into the top grade, they had to move to the big cities and for many that was a huge culture shock and it made it a lot harder. Over the years, with more of the representative group competitions and with youth development programs starting at younger ages, kids are feeling more comfortable and there are more pathways

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opening up. The Koori Knockout is fantastic for everyone. If you’re a rugby league fan generally, the doors are open – there’s no restrictions and everyone, indigenous and non-indigenous, is welcome. It’s a great way to get a taste of our culture and our community. We call this a modern day corroboree. People get together from all over the state and visitors as well and we welcome everyone to come and see that and take part. Non-Aboriginal people who haven’t really been around Aboriginal people much will see that there’s a strong sense of community as well as a strong competitive spirit at these events. There’ll be a lot of laughter this weekend. The majority of Aboriginal get together only on sad occasions, for “sorry business” (funerals) but this is one of the few events we have in this state where everyone can come together in a much happier circumstance. People who haven’t seen each other since the last knockout are hugging each other and catching up – it’s a beautiful occasion. Even though it’s quite fierce on-field, once the games are over everyone’s friendly and supportive of each other – getting together to spend quality time. It’s a fantastic thing and it’s great if other people can come along and see and feel that sense of community. This weekend’s knockout will be a

good chance for talented players to be noticed on a big stage. (The organisers) last year introduced the under-12s, which is getting them involved at a very early stage of their development, and I know the NRL club scouts are out there and they’ll be looking closely at these kids in the youth divisions. The pathway opportunities are getting much stronger now and the Koori knockout is a big part of that. I have lots of friends and relatives spread throughout the region and that makes it a bit of a challenge to call the games (laughs). The very first year I called a knockout was in Tweed Heads, and my community of La Perouse made the grand final – so that tested me very early on. I learned that if you want to be a professional commentator, you can’t be biased. As much as it was a challenge at the time, I tried my best to do the right thing as a future broadcaster and I got through it unscathed; although La Perouse did lose the game I managed my emotions pretty well! I’ve been fortunate not to strike any barriers in the media because of my Aboriginality – I’ve come along at the right time, with he fact that so many great people have paved the way for Aboriginal broadcasters. I’ve been involved in broadcasting since 2000, in community radio in Sydney with a

non-indigenous station. Because I’d put in all that early hard work, when opportunities opened up through NITV, I was able to grasp them – I was in the right place at the right time. So I’ve had fewer barriers put in front of me, but I’ve certainly seen others who have. Some might say my Aboriginality has put me in a better position to be engaged, for instance, with the ABC – for them to embrace diversity in their broadcasting team. In my playing days, I wasn’t the greatest role model in terms of commitment – I probably let opportunities slip by in the playing sense. But now, the one area in which I’d like to encourage kids is to get them to finish school – go through their education and do the best they can for their school. Then, I’d encourage them to look at opportunities to volunteer. All the strength of my career has come off the back of doing a lot of volunteering when I was a lot younger. So many opportunities come to people who are willing to put in the hard work and build some skills. Eventually, if a paid opportunity comes along, they’ll be the ones in the best position to take advantage of that opportunity because people will see that they’ve been willing to do it for nothing and be creative. That’s the advice I give to any young person – indigenous or non-indigenous. The NRL grand final? Well, I’m not one of these parochial NSW fans who get upset if it’s two QLD teams. What we really want to see is a fun, exciting game. I’m a Rabbitohs supporter, but both the teams in this year’s grand final – the Broncos and the Cowboys – they’re entertaining to watch. They throw the ball around, they have creative halves and strong kicking games... it’s fun to watch. And both captains are indigenous players – how good’s that? The Aboriginal community is well served by these men who are not only good leaders in rugby league, but are good community role models as well. There are so many in the rugby league fraternity that are leading the way in showing how much indigenous talent is out there. What I like about coming to knockouts such as this weekend’s is that you get to see community players shine – not just the stars, but people who are great players and who could have made it further with a bit more commitment or if they weren’t homesick or had family issues to overcome back home. These are the players you see at knockouts that you don’t get to see throughout the year playing with the NRL. That’s what makes me excited when I’m commentating. I know that these emerging players, or even those who have passed the opportunity to play at NRL level, will put on some amazing displays of football. That’s what makes knock-outs such a great spectacle for everyone, and so exciting for me. z You can hear Brad Cooke’s commentary of this weekend’s Koori Knockout on NITV (Ch 34 and Foxtel 144), with highlights on Friday and Saturday at 6pm and live on Sunday and Monday between 9am-5pm.

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Domestic violence: Time for a good, long look at ourselves Comment by KEVIN SAUL Kevin Saul is a father, a husband, a son, a brother... and an ambassador for White Ribbon, a national campaign to end men’s violence against women.

IEUTENANT General David Lindsay Morrison AO (Rtd) said in his now famous eulogy to the Australian Army, “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” Last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said: “Domestic violence has been ignored for far too long and we must have zero tolerance for it. Real men don’t hit women, we have to be very determined to eradicate it.” Do you have any idea just how widespread domestic violence is? One in three women – yes, that’s right, one in three – is a victim of domestic violence. In Dubbo that means 7000 women will be victims of domestic violence at some time in their lives. The majority of that violence will be meted out by a partner. Here are a few more alarming statistics: on average, one woman is killed every week as a result of intimate partner violence (this year it has been much worse); a woman is most likely to be killed by her male partner in her home; domestic and family violence is the principal cause of homelessness for women and their children; and the cost to the Australian economy of violence against women is estimated to rise to $15.6 billion per annum. So what can be done to stop this terrible wave of atrocities? White Ribbon Australia is one such organisation that works solely toward the eradication of domestic violence toward women. I am a White Ribbon Ambassador. I have taken the oath: “I swear never to commit, excuse or remain silent about violence against women. This is my oath.” But it is bigger – or smaller, if you like – than just that oath. John F. Kennedy once said: “It is from the numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Every time someone stands up for an ideal, or speaks against an injustice, or moves to improve the lot of a fellow human being, they send a tiny ripple of hope – and crossing one another from a million different centres of energy and daring, those tiny ripples can build up to a tidal wave capable of sweeping away the mightiest walls of resistance and oppression.” If we all stood up, if all the blokes in town “manned up” and refused to let these spineless low-

lifes dole out their version of power over women, then each tiny ripple, each bloke who simply says “enough is enough”, would collectively create a tidal wave of support. Then maybe women in these situations of violence would have the faith to stand up and seek help. How do we, as a society, stop it? I guess if I knew that I’d be Prime Minister, but it needs to start with education. And it needs to start at a very, very young age. We learn to read, write and spell from kindergarten and that’s when we need also to learn about domestic violence and about respect – respect for others, respect for their viewpoints, respect for their differences. This is NOT something that should be added to an already bulging curricula; not added to teachers’ burdens. This requires specialists to do this work – people with real experiences, real understanding of the problem. A “hands-on” approach. The other thing we need to do is stop with the knee jerk, social media/news cycle/never-ending polls type of reaction. Whatever we do must be relevant and real, not driven by Facebook and the 24 hour news cycle. American rapper, Chris Brown, whose visa to this country has been cancelled, is a victim of the news cycle, I believe. Do I like the man? No. Do I agree with what he has done? No. Should he be allowed into the country? Yes. He has been here before, since the incident of domestic violence with which he was charged and convicted in the US. Did we stop him then? No. He toured in 2011

` If we are to do this then we must do it right. No mucking around; no pussy footing about.

and again in 2012. Have the immigration laws changed since then? I’m not aware of that happening, so if that’s the case what is the difference now? And I would also ask this: of the 40 million or so passengers coming in and out of Sydney each year, how many have been charged and convicted of the same offence and are still able to enter Australia? Some other high profile visitors with similar convictions who have toured recently include Tommy Lee and Vince Neil (from the band Motley Crue), Dennis Rodman, Ozzy Osbourne and Mike Tyson. These are just a few of many, so is Chris Brown the token refusal? Will it happen next year when someone else tours and we don’t have Rosie Batty as our Australian of the Year? If we are to do this then we must do it right. No mucking around; no pussy footing about. We need to take a hard line with domestic violence, drugs, and alcohol abuse – everything that tears at the very fabric of our society, our lives and souls. And we must not deviate. We must not allow discretion for magistrates whereby offenders can be set free. We need harsher and enforceable penalties for domestic violence convictions, and we should look at having centralised laws – laws that apply right across the Commonwealth so everyone knows where the line is drawn. But the biggest, most difficult, most intimidating thing we need is to bring self-respect into the lives of those who perpe-

trate domestic violence – teach them, show them, make them understand. My friend Ralph Kelly read this poem at his son Thomas’ funeral (Thomas was the victim of a fatal coward punch in 2012). The poem is called The Guy in the Glass – and that’s where we need to start:

The Guy in the Glass When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, And the world makes you king for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see what that guy has to say. For it isn’t your father or mother or wife, Who judgement upon you must pass. The fella whose verdict counts most in your life Is the guy staring back from the glass. He’s the fella to please, never mind all the rest, For he’s with you clear up to the end, And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test If the guy in the glass is your friend. You may be like Jack Horner and “chisel” a plum, And think you’re a wonderful guy, But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum If you can’t look him straight in the eye. You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years, And get pats on the back as you pass, But your final reward will be heartaches and tears If you’ve cheated the guy in the glass. BY DALE WIMBROW, (C) 1934

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T’D be great to actually be able to believe we’re looking at a new era of accountability. I’ve been a huge fan on VW Kombis over the years and think they’re one of history’s iconic vehicles. I also had plenty to do with convincing a former employer to introduce diesel VW Caddy vans as a far more practical and economical fleet choice than the dual cab pretend four wheel drives we were using at the time. The comfort was so much greater in the Caddies and the fleet manager told me that where the little vans replaced the dual cabs, the fuel bill was cut to about a third, which represented a huge operational saving. Events of the past few weeks have put the motors in these little vans at the centre of a storm engulfing VW, the German economy, and corporate practices world-wide. Firstly, to VW: the short and simplified story is that the company appears to have installed software which fooled the tests in the USA that check for nitrous oxide (NOX) emissions. The software apparently recognised the testing as happening and reduced emissions but after that was done, things reverted to “normal running”, where fuel consumption was far less but NOX spewed out the exhaust at dangerous levels. Research suggests thousands of people die each year thanks to these noxious tail pipe gases. I was talking to a friend from Kansas this week about the VW drama and he was all over the recent GM lawsuit, where the company was fined for ignoring a fault in ignition switches that led to a US$900 million fine after 124 people were identified as dying thanks to faulty ignitions, with at least 275 more being injured because of them. No wonder VW’s shares dropped by a third, because the potential lawsuits could make GM’s day in court look like a

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love tap. As VW is such a huge and vital part of the German economy, and the German economy is the cornerstone of Europe, this could be a major catalyst for all sorts of economic woes. Given the refugee crisis and the Greek meltdown, the clean diesel saga could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. A huge concern is what else remains to be uncovered when a few rocks start being looked under. Corporate culture in many instances is one of secrecy, where short-term shareholder profit is the goal and anything that could interfere with that goal is hidden from view. If GM and VW are covering things up, what about all the other auto manufacturers? It would be foolish in the extreme to think this is limited to the car industry; there are many other corporates out there that don’t have a great track record at being scrupulously ethical. Now the US government is looking at holding not just corporation but also individuals in those organisations to account. The reasoning is that executives and office-holders don’t feel the full force of the law if it’s just the shareholders copping fines for the company’s errant ways. So it looks like employees from the top down, who’ve covered up these sorts of things, could be looked at when it comes to gaol time and personal fines. This isn’t before time. I’ve long called for people at the top to be held accountable, having previously written that executives and board members of CSG (coal seam gas) companies should be held personally accountable for any decisions they make. If their company destroys underground aquifers, they should have signed on to take that blame, especially if they’ve been making statements to the effect that their company’s activities are 100 per cent safe. This should help see those short-cutters not taking lucrative board positions; instead hav-

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ing only people who understand their ethical and community responsibilities, and who are well aware of either discharging them honourably or suffering the personal consequences. On top of all this we have all sorts of new movements looking for an end to “short-termism”. Judith Rodin is president of the Rockefeller Foundation and has written a book titled The Power of Impact Investing in which she sets out how companies that don’t embrace community good will fall behind as investors move their money to businesses that look not just at profit, but at creating a healthier planet and healthier, more robust communities. Ethical investing is also taking hold at a high level in Australia, with many institutions and funds publicly declaring they’re moving out of sunset industries like coal and into renewables.

9. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 19th-century novelist once said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”? 10. MATH: What is the Arabic equivalent of the Roman numeral MCCCXXVI? 11. SPORT: In 2015, American Ryan Lochte became the second swimmer to win the same event (200-metre individual med-

There seems to be a new mood sweeping the globe and Australia is becoming a part of it. Farmers I know who’ve formed a research/buying/awareness raising group recently launched their own brand at a major food fair and were astounded by how many people wanted to get involved – from consumers, bakers, wholesalers and retailers. People are more aware than ever about how disconnected they’ve come from the things they need and with big business looking to be held to account, by regulation and investor pressure, many new opportunities will emerge from the carnage we’ll be seeing from VW and the like. With many ethical opportunities available in the agriculture sector, we need to position ourselves to take advantage of them, make money and rebuild our soils at the same time.

ley) at four straight world competitions. Who was the first? 12. FLASHBACK: Name the 1962 Bobby Vee hit that was covered by The Carpenters (1972) and Mud (1982). 13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “Just say a word and the boys will be right there, With claws at your back to send a chill through the night air, Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?” ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

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

On the road to corporate scandal S corporate scandals go, this one is not a speed bump, it’s a slow motion crash of epic proportion. Automotive giant Volkswagen has admitted to equipping 11 million of its diesel engined cars with a defeat device which allows the car to fraudulently pass an emissions test. Cars fitted with the altered software can detect when the vehicle is stationary in a workshop and being tested, rather than being tested while moving on the road. During testing when stationary, the engine software activates all the emission controls required to pass the test, but then turns them off when the car is being driven on the road. When the emissions software is off, the car reportedly has increased performance and uses slightly less fuel. This is a complicated software solution that did not come about by chance. Plenty of engineers would have been involved, most likely with the approval of management. So why go to all the effort and risk of being caught? A lot has to do with the properties of diesel fuel itself. When diesel is burned, it emits large amounts of nitrogen oxide and particulate matter (or soot.) The nitrogen oxides contribute to lung disease and asthma, while the soot causes air pollution and acid rain. Congested European cities were particularly noted for their diesel fuelled air pollution. Although heavy vehicles such as trucks and buses pump out large

Due to favourable diesel pricing (comamounts, soot emissions in cars have pared with petrol) Europe has long been been largely eliminated by the fitting the centre of diesel engine developa diesel particulate filter in the exhaust system. The filter captures the soot and ment. Some European countries have driving at a consistent high speed heats different registration rates depending on the amount of exhaust emission prothe filter which burns up the soot. duced. Volkswagen has been a player Nitrogen oxide is more problematic. in this market for decades. Its apparent Reductions in nitrogen oxide emissions have been achieved by advancing enengineering solution – to cheat the test gine technology. rather than engineer betIn days gone by, diesel ` ter engines as their comfuel basically flowed into petitors have – has sent the engine cylinder, was This is corporate shockwaves around the compressed, ignited then hubris of the world. burned. The engine was The resignation of Volkswagen CEO Martin Winrelatively lowly stressed highest order terhorn has done nothing but produced copious – the same stop a plunge in the price amounts of nitrogen oxof shares and the loss of ide. Think Uncle Fred’s morally corrupt an estimated $35US Bilold tractor. behaviour as lion off the value of the Modern diesels spray an electronically metered carried out by Volkswagen Group. Juamount of diesel fuel un- investment risdictions in the United and the European der very high pressure banks before the States Union have announced into the engine. The prethey will launch crimicision of the fuel deliv- global financial nal investigations into ery, coupled with a tur- crisis – working the cover-up and masbocharger, which super heats the exhaust gasses, under the sive fines are likely. The achieves a dramatic re- premise of being group has been forced to duction in the emission stop selling diesel Volktoo big to fail. swagen and Audi models of nitrogen oxide. in the United States. This quest for cleanOwners of affected vehicles are curer diesel requires sophisticated engine control electronics and spotlessly clean rently unsure if their vehicle is roadworair and fuel filters – the exact reason thy and face massive depreciation losses. Class law suits by affected American diesels are becoming increasingly diffiowners are being organised and Eurocult to service on an outback farm. pean owners won’t be far behind. But I digress.

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Volkswagen is in public relations damage control mode as its public image takes a hammering. The cost of a possible recall of 11 million vehicles will be staggering. Most staggering I think is that Volkswagen was given the opportunity to fix the issue with their cars 18 months ago and out of the public glare. When the emissions discrepancies were uncovered by the International Council on Clean Transport, it and the Environmental Protection Agency informed Volkswagen. Volkswagen issued a voluntary recall and claimed the issue had been rectified. Follow-up real world testing showed otherwise and Volkswagen admitted the existence of the defeat devices. This is corporate hubris of the highest order. It is the same morally corrupt behaviour as carried out by investment banks before the global financial crisis – working under the premise of being too big to fail. Newly appointed replacement Mathias Mueller has the unenviable task of winning back the trust of customers, law makers and shareholders. “Under my leadership, Volkswagen will do all it can to develop and implement the strictest compliance and governance standards in the whole industry,” he said. Sounds like corporate speak to me. This scandal has a long way to run yet.

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The Roadshow will be arriving in Dubbo on 24th September. This is your opportunity to see and experience some of the most exclusive and exciting models from the Mercedes range at Western Plains Automotive. Amongst the collection of precious metal is the CLA 45 AMG CoupĂŠ, SL 400 and S 500. The much anticipated Roadshow will be in Dubbo for a limited time only at Western Plains Automotive. Visit www.mbdubbo.com.au to find out more before it hits the open road again.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

The procrastinator’s guide to deadlines Comment by CHERYL BURKE Cheryl Burke drinks responsibly due to a propensity to spend most of her money on mint slice and muffins as opposed to alcohol.

RE you in Year 12 with Higher School Certificate exams looming? At university with assessments due? In prison with a parole hearing on the horizon? A contributor to a local publication on a deadline? Well listen up and read on for three of the best ideas going to avoid or prolong any approaching cut-off date you may have. Convince yourself that if you were to buy a laptop it would assist you greatly to meet your deadline. Laptops are extremely portable and can be used anywhere, as opposed to your desktop computer that is positioned near the only power point the cord will reach and sits atop a boring desk with a worn chair with a wobbly wheel. Imagine yourself sitting on your comfortable couch with your laptop rested on a cushion totally ignoring Sam Frost The Bachelorette when she chooses Dave for her first date. Connect to the internet and Google whatever sort of laptop would best suit you, whether you would prefer a Mac or PC. If you can’t decide, go grab a pen and paper and make a pros and cons list. If you don’t have a piece of paper handy, grab your smartphone and search for a free pros and cons app. Or alternatively if you have Word or Excel

try searching the templates for a simi- puppy who is now 21 in dog years. Don’t lar tool. be one of them. It’s about time you put Whether you have chosen the Mac or your photos in order and onto a storage the PC, a plethora of further research device, sorted into categories and rated should be undertaken to ensure the favourites to least favourites. If you have processor, memory, graphics, size and photo editing software watch a few Youweight of your new laptop are suitable Tube videos and learn how to master it; for your needs. Once your decision is you can amaze yourself and your friends made it is necessary to check your bank with your clever ability to apply filters and effects to your photos. balance or devise a budget to determine when you can Because you are unafford to purchase your likely to ever force your laptop. Online price com- ` friends or family to look parisons will save you a lot at your photos once you Imagine of leg work, but should you have transferred them to wish to physically touch yourself a hard drive, the next best and admire your soon-tothing to crowding into the sitting on your be laptop there is nothing lounge-room in the 1970s like visiting the retail store comfortable and watching upsideat least six times prior to couch with down, back-to-front, onhanding over your hard the-side photos projected earned plastic money. Pre- your laptop onto the wall from a slide vious visits to the store rested on a projector is a Photo Book. make your last visit more Bring out your creative enjoyable, because your cushion totally side and sit down on your stalker-like status with ignoring Sam comfortable couch with sales staff makes them less your cushion and new laplikely to take you seriously Frost The top and design a custom aland your request for a sale Bachelorette bum. Although it may take will catch them off guard more time and thought, and they will forget their when she make sure you add some upsell spiel. text so that in the future chooses Dave people who come across it You’ve seen snaps of for her first in a second-hand store will random people on Faknow when and where the cebook captioned “Who date. photos were taken. knows them? Camera found...” and think it will Guaranteed photos never happen to you. The unfortunate aren’t the only thing you need to wipe folk who lose their cameras or smart- from your smartphone photo gallery. phones, or have them stolen, and have Now is as good a time as any to retrieve never backed up or transferred a photo all the recipes captured as screenshots, to a hard drive in the lifetime of their make a shopping list, gather all the in-

gredients from your local supermarket or produce store and get cooking. Should your recipes include somewhat obscure ingredients, set your alarm for a very early supermarket shopping expedition so you are not in anyone’s way as you amble up and down each aisle at least four times, virtually crawl on the floor to check bottom shelves, and if you are lucky find what you are looking for in the aisle where you least expect it to be. I am quite convinced you require a code word at the door to a secret room that houses tapioca and sago in the supermarket so I buy mine at the health food store. Don’t go spending money on unnecessary tools and appliances you will only use once to make a particular item. Once you unpack your groceries ring around and make enquires among friends and family. Your visits to borrow a mortar and pestle, a brulee torch, a fondue set and a tagine will invariably prolong your cooking time by the hours it takes to partake in tea, coffee or a wine at each stop. But ensure it is not extended by the hours it takes for you to phone home and have someone come and collect you by the side of the road because you have lost your licence after having five too many wines. If Judge Judy is a measure I suspect the judge will be far less lenient than your lecturer, exam supervisor or editor when you present your pros and cons list, your keepsake Photo Book and a perfected rainbow cake as evidence as to why you were unable to turn up to court the day on which you were due.

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A Resource to the Community to Empower People to Be Self-Sufficient Giving “Hope for Tomorrow” is a key aspect of Emmanuel Care Centre’s services. Many people, through no fault of their own, are trapped in a never ending cycle of financial hardship, with little chance of escape without the assistance of non-judgmental caring support. Welfare agencies in Dubbo are providing excellent support to people who are finding it hard to cope with the day-to-day struggles of living. Emmanuel Care Centre is committed to working with these agencies and complementing their work. Emmanuel Care Centre is redesigning and including some new activities that will improve the relationships and outcomes of clients, their families, and their community. The starting point for the way through this poverty cycle comes from the work of Doctor Ruby Payne’s understanding of economic diversity. Poverty affects more than 12.8 per cent of Australia’s population – more than 2.5 million people – who are living below the poverty line. Emmanuel Care Centre, along with other agencies, are working to “build bridges out of poverty” with people in Dubbo who are living; without accommodation, or finding it hard to keep their accommodation, without sufficient money to provide adequate food for their families, without an adequate understanding of the significance of a good education, and without so many of life’s essentials, and the list of “withouts” goes on and on. SELF START Self Start began as a program designed to teach parents how to cook, who knew little about providing healthy and nutritious meals for their families; rather than relying on the nearest fast food outlet for their evening meal. Self Start is a six week program empowering parents to make wise and healthy choices concerning food, smart shopping and home management. Participants in this kitchen experience how easy it is to prepare and cook great meals that the whole family can enjoy, and come back wanting more because it tastes so good.

Participants also learn the importance of budgeting and how a simple money plan can make their dollar go further. Included in this program is a session on how to make efficient energy savings around the home through reducing heat loss in winter, making the house cooler in summer and switching off appliances at the wall rather than wasting energy through leaving appliances on ‘stand-by’. SMART RECOVERY SMART Recovery is a voluntary self-help group that assists people in recovering from addictive behaviours. SMART Recovery teaches practical skills to help them deal with problems enabling them to abstain from addiction and achieve a healthy lifestyle balance. The advantage of this program is that it is an ‘open,’ ninety minute group which allows people to attend for as long, or as little as they like. Participants are given the opportunity to discuss difficulties, challenges, accomplishments and successes while focusing on their goals. The groups do not spend time going over the past, but focus on the present and work on making changes to improve the individual’s lifestyle. GETTING AHEAD IN A GETTING BY WORLD A Getting Ahead group consists of people from different backgrounds. They learn the hidden rule of economic differences and become aware of the resources available; they can make wiser choices, which will not only be of benefit to them and their families, but also the community. When a graduate of Getting Ahead becomes aware, they become investigators using life itself as the context for their learning. Getting Ahead is where investigators together learn without being “taught”. This empowers them to overcome the “tyranny of the moment” to find new solutions to the problem of financial hardship. This becomes a significant first step towards taking hold of the life they want, and taking charge of their lives. Philip DeVol, the author of Getting Ahead says,“... the

shift isn’t about taking charge of one’s own life, it’s recognizing the value of the gifts, talents, knowledge, insights and leadership that people experiencing hardship can offer, and it is making room for them at the decision-making table”. LIFE COACHING Life can be so busy that you feel like you are trapped on a treadmill, and just going around in circles. Life coaching is all about making choices to get you off that cycle and help you discover your path to your preferred future – so life doesn’t remain the same year-in and year-out. Through life coaching at Emmanuel Care Centre, you will come to understand your core values (personal beliefs that shape you); recognize how to face and deal with those challenges that may be holding you back, and uncover your personal motivation that makes you the unique person you are, and allows you to be the person you want to be.

Emmanuel Care Centre is passionate about helping people discover simple solutions to the obstacles that get in the way and stop you reaching your life’s potential. Through our life coaching program, you will find your strengths, build a resistance to the things that can pull you down, and recover your passion for living a fulfilling and whole life. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP Would you like to partner with us in bringing long term change and hope for the future for the people suffering hardship in the Dubbo community? If you are interested in partnering with us come and have a chat. We are at 177 Brisbane Street (opposite the RSL), Phone (02) 6882 6755 or email eccdubbo@bigpond.com.

DUBBO TOUCH SOCIAL GALA DAY Saturday 14 November 2015, Riverbank Touch Fields Get your family, friends or work mates together and enter a team for this fun day out, celebrating 40 years of Dubbo Touch.

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Business & Rural

Being a go-getter in the Asian Century BY FELICTY TAYLOR-EDWARDS RDS CEO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA)

HIS week in his Get Muddy blog for The Land, Sam Trethewey describes the three types of people who emerge when you start talking about the relationship between Australian agriculture and Asian markets. There are, what he calls, the “xenophobic know-nothings”, the “fence sitters” and the “go getters”. So in which group does the Orana sit? I would obviously like to think we are a region of “go getters”, and believe that across the region there are positive signs that prove this true. But there is still a long way to go in terms of conducting our businesses with more of a global outlook, whether in agriculture or any other industry, and gathering the momentum jointly to compete beyond parochial issues. We’ve heard the term “Asian Century” again and again and know the realities: out of every 10 people in the world, six are from Asia. The Orana is in a great position to cater to this growing market, both geographically and economically. China and Japan are already our top two trading partners, with South Korea coming in fourth behind the United States. The opportunity is immediate, and it will take formidable business leadership and relationships to realise all that this means. This conversation has been spurred on by the Ag in the Asian Century Forum, hosted in Toowoomba last week. I’d highly recommend anyone interested read through the #aginasia hashtag on Twitter for a more detailed overview than I can provide here. Some of the megatrends discussed were the need to shift volumes from domestic to global while at the same time move from a traditional commodity-based market entry to one of promoting a branded safe product. It seems we need to produce more, but in a way that creates more niche value in our products. This will prove a big shift in thinking for some businesses. Not only do we need to adapt the way our businesses work, but also how we conduct business in general. I was recently at an education and training meeting in Seoul, South Korea and saw first-hand that you can’t short-cut relationships, particularly not in Asian countries. Doing the dance, so to speak – slowly building connections, getting the right introductions and so forth, can seem slow and unnecessary to the “go getters”. We’re used to jumping in and making things happen. Entering into business in Asian markets is a long-

BUSINESS IN BRIEF Ups and downs for building approvals NEW data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABC) shows that while July’s building approvals showed a “fairly strong” results, there was a significant fall in August. According to the data, 18,701 dwellings were approved for con-

Felicity Taylor Edwards and John Walkom with Mr Alfred Chung Exec. Director China Agribusiness Ltd Discuss opportunities for Orana Agribusiness in China and Asia.

term investment of time, money and commit- ing further on one final pet passion of mine ment, but one that if done correctly will return and where it sits in all this. The core focus of the forum was export and innovation. Once long term reward. Of course, when you look around the Orana, again it was brought home how vitally imthere is evidence of these relationships already portant infrastructure is. As food demand in taking shape. Engagement with Asia starts Asia doubles over the next 20 years, requiring with spending time there, and we see the two thirds of the world’s food production, how can the Orana best position itwillingness of Asian economies self to cater to even a portion to do business with us through of that market? Our location their desire to spend time here. ` within the Asia-Pacific will Japan has invested unpreceonly carry us so far. We need dented amounts in student ex- Through the Fair innovation and supporting rechange programs; the largest Trade Agreements gion shaping infrastructure. portion of Australia’s visitor with South Korea, population is from China, with China and Japan, While business works to the annual trip spend from this build relationships and prodthe structures are market now hitting $AU7 bilucts to cater to a growing lion; and the South Korean gov- now in place to fully Asian market, and governernment is targeting the global realise the potential ment sets in place the formal labour market and supporting of the era that has arrangements to make this the Orana trainee program, happen, none of us can afford been dubbed the where our region will directly to lose focus on the enabling Asian Century. benefit from the skills and relainfrastructure that is necestionships that spring from hostsary to put these plans into acing Korean trainees in our busition. Connections to port and efficient affordnesses and undertaking regional training. able logistics and supply are all marketable Opportunities also abound in the reverse, assets that we need to collectively improve in with the Marriott Hotel in Korea seeking order to maintain our competitive edge. TakOrana hospitality students to work with them ing a global view does not mean we lose sight in Asia; also AusTrade hosting investment foof what is happening at home. In fact it is quite rums at home and abroad in which Orana is the reverse. participating and presenting. Through the Fair Trade Agreements with With the current business and government South Korea, China and Japan, the structures leadership on display in the region I believe are now in place to fully realise the poten- we will be seen as the “go getters”, as long as tial of the era that has been dubbed the Asian we remain innovative, dedicated and are able Century. to balance the global opportunity with a supFinally, I hope you’ll indulge me by read- porting and enabling regional view.

struction over the month of August – down 6.9 per cent on the month prior. Mortgage Choice chief executive officer John Flavell said the drop could largely be attributed to a significant fall in the number of apartments approved for construction. “Throughout the month of August, 8,760 private sector dwellings excluding houses were approved – down 11.4 per cent on the month prior,” he said. “While this is a significant drop, it’s not surprising considering the apartment sector is in-

credibly volatile month to month due to the approval of large developments. “If you look at the July data, 9,087 private sector dwellings excluding houses were approved – which was up 6.1 per cent on the month prior. This data would suggest several significant apartment developments were approved in July, and the drop August dwellings approvals is just payback for that.” Mr Flavell said many proposed apartment complexes have been approved in recent months, especially in the outer suburbs of Syd-

ney, where supply is struggling to keep up with demand. “While the overall drop in building approvals was bigger than economists’ predicted 2 per cent fall, there is nothing to suggest the overall level of dwelling construction is sliding into worrying territory.” He said the demand for home loans and, in turn, property is still strong. “The latest housing finance data shows more than 53,000 home loans were approved over the month of July – up 0.3 per cent on the month prior.”

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Federal funding set to benefit all EDERAL government funding for university research should benefit all Australians according to Professor Andrew Vann, vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University (CSU) which has a campus in Dubbo. “The higher education sector needs to move away from self-reinforcing esteem indicators and work towards an inclusive approach that recognises the worth of all Australians and benefits the entire community.” Vann said a call by the Group of Eight (Go8) universities for funding to be tied to the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment was not in the national interest. “There is already a disincentive for universities primarily concerned with the perceived prestige of rankings to produce applied research with practical benefit, or research that delivers a public good,” he said. Universities had a responsibility to ensure research met the genuine needs of the nation and its industries, Vann said in a statement issued this week following the G08’s call.

Less fog, more flavour – what we want in our wine WINE that’s low in alcohol but big in flavour – that’s what people want according to research by Charles Sturt University (CSU) consumer sensory scientist Professor Anthony Saliba. Professor Saliba, from CSU’s School of Psychology, has examined consumer attitudes towards low-alcohol wine in Australia and in the United Kingdom and found taste is the key, not just lower alcohol levels. “A survey of more than 800 Australian wine consumers in 2013 showed there was a significant market opportunity for low-alcohol wine,” said Professor Saliba. “Women were most likely to purchase low-alcohol wine, along with those who drank wine with food. “Reasons for preferring low alcohol wine included driving after drinking, to lessen the adverse effects of alcohol and to be able to consume more. “Importantly, the study showed that taste is a key driver of consumption. It’s not enough just to reduce the alcohol level. “The good news is that the Australian wine industry is developing wines to better meet consumers’ expectations. Saliba says that over the past month, he’s been tasting a range of low alcohol wines and has found many meet the profile of what consumers need in order to fulfil the low-alcohol wine demand. “David Lowe from Lowe Wines is working on a project to produce lower alcohol wines naturally – he does it without post processing and is organ-

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ic, his wines are a great example of the changes.”

Reforms vital to protect “off the plan” buyers THE decision by NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Victor Dominello to consult with the public on the use of sunset clauses in off the plan property contracts will act to benefit consumers, according to the NSW Real Estate. The minister said the government was considering reforms to the Conveyancing Act 1919 to allow only the purchaser to rescind “off the plan” contracts; and requiring a vendor who terminates a contract under a sunset clause, and resells the same unit, to pay damages to the purchaser equal to the difference on the sale price between the two contracts. REINSW President Malcolm Gunning said a public consultation was essential to understand the issues consumers face. “The current legislation is allowing developers to take advantage of a fast moving property market that has exceeded expectations in recent times,” Gunning said. “The issues facing consumers need to be fully explored and the legislation amended to ensure they are protected financially and emotionally. Purchasing a property is a huge commitment and sunset clauses in their current form can see consumers exploited.”

Petrol pump pain for long weekend punters MOTORISTS across the region will be feeling the pain at the pump this long weekend, with prices set to rise “just in time” for the October holiday. Comparethemarket.com.au has unveiled its third national Quarterly Petrol Report for 2015 that confirms the nation’s petrol prices have seen an increase in most capital cities, with some motorists paying an average of 12.4 cents per litre (cpl) more today than the September monthly average. The steady national average prices Australia has enjoyed since June this year look set to change just in time for the October long weekend, with prices potentially rising. The only city that bucked the upward trend was Adelaide, where prices are today averaging 119.2cpl – the lowest average in Australia – compared with 129.3cpl for the month in Adelaide. In Sydney, ULP prices currently sit at an average of 136.2cpl – 4.4cpl more than the city’s month average of 131.8cpl. Unfortunately, the website doesn’t look at what regional motorists are paying compared with their city counterparts, which would no doubt make for interesting reading.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

5 things you must do to make your business valuation higher OST of us know what our end game is when we decide it’s time to exit the business. Selling could be part of our succession planning or retirement planning. Naturally we would want the highest price, or maybe we just want to hand a valuable asset to the next generation or loyal employee. If you put yourself in the shoes of a potential buyer, what would their accountant or business advisors be telling them to look for when purchasing a business? What effect does it have on the final business valuation?

REASON #1 Have a history of solid profit z Businesses that have a consistent level of profitability sell easier and at higher values than volatile ones; z Make sure you understand how profit is adjusted when a business valuation is calculated (e.g. reasonable salary for owners or reasonable rent being charged where you own the premises); z Businesses that are growing give the potential buyer confidence that they are not buying a business on the way out – how are you achieving growth each year?;

REASON #2 Show strong cash flow z Who wants a business that struggles to get cash in?; z Work out whether you have decent cash flow by getting your accountants to do an analysis on your numbers (debtor days, inventory days, supplier days, etc); z Business valuers usually look for strong cash indicators when assessing higher business valuations; z Perform a cash flow forecast – we find 3 Way Budgets are best and very powerful.

REASON #3 Reduce owner reliance z Businesses that rely on you 100%

will raise a big red flag to potential buyers; z Brainstorm ways that can free up your time by firstly sitting down and analysing what it is you do on a daily or weekly basis; z Systems is the key! If something were to happen to you, how would your business perform? Document what, how and when an action should occur at every stage of the business cycle.

REASON #4 Have a vision for the business z Always have a picture of the business 5 years, 10 years, 20 years out; z Generally these businesses will always outperform those that don’t; z Have a business by design, not by default – this is what business planning is all about! z Do not make basic business planning mistakes;

REASON #5 Hold onto your employees! z A business with long-standing employees gives an indication that you have a great workplace environment; z Potential buyers will ask their business valuers to look for volatility in this area and, if there is, discount the sales price accordingly; z Have compliant Fair Work employment contracts in place. This will also ensure concerns that employees might take customers with them cannot occur easily or at least for a reasonable period of time post purchase. Consider these five things if you wish to sell or transfer your business for a higher value down the track. Remember, having these things in place will create a double whammy – higher profits as you go along each year and then a higher sales price when you exit. Every dollar of profit you make could lead to up to five times more your sales price. Now that’s worth putting the effort in place immediately!

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THE BIG PICTURE.

This week’s remarkable “super moon” made for a little slice of photography heaven for avid snappers - this is Weekender regular Steve Cowley’s contribution.

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BUSINESS Q&A.

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Business is With no previous business experience, opening her own “little flower shop” in her home town was a leap of faith for 28 year old Irissa Knight. It’s been a sharp learning curve, but a year after opening the doors of The Meadow, it’s a gamble that seems to be paying off. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Cowley How did you come to be a florist? After school, I worked in retail for a while and dabbled in a number of other career options. When I was 25, I was standing in my kitchen talking to a friend about where I wanted to be and what I wanted to do, and out of the blue she said “Why don’t you try floristry?” And it just struck a chord. I’d always loved flowers, but never really thought of using them as the basis for a career until then. The idea of having a little flower shop really appealed to me, so I moved to Sydney (I’m a Dubbo girl) and went to “flower school” – Pearson’s School of Floristry where I did a Certificate III in floristry. Is that a qualification that’s compulsory for florists? Is there an industry regulation? No, you don’t HAVE to have it – but it gives you a certain legitimacy. People know you’re trained. But having a piece of paper is all very well – you still have to be creative. There was so much theory to it – and at first, I really struggled with the theory because it’s easy to get caught up in that and forget about creativity. When you let your imagination run, it becomes far more natural. It’s like a lot of things – it helps when you can see outside the square of what’s considered “normal”. How long has The Meadow been open and what are some of the challenges you faced in setting it up? I’ve been open just over a year now. The greatest hurdle to overcome was my own confidence. Was Dubbo ready to embrace my different style? I felt it was, but when I compared my own work with other people’s work, I was nervous – so I had to just let that go and take a leap of faith. Then there were the practical challenges – things like getting my head around ordering – gauging how much I needed to order, and the technical side of running a business and controlling stock. Without previous business experience, what were some of the things you had to learn quickly? When we opened we were really, really busy and I thought that was just people’s initial curiosity but it’s continued to be really busy – and that was overwhelming. I was unprepared for how full-on it would be. Not that I’m complaining, it’s great – but just learning how to manage everything and to get the balance between work and life sorted out is a challenge. What was your vision for The Meadow – what made you think you were going to bring a different perspective to the mix? Moving away from Dubbo for a while and seeing how people elsewhere really embraced the idea of flowers as an everyday thing – I really wanted to bring that to Dubbo. I wanted to see people thinking of flowers as something that isn’t just for an occasion, but should be enjoyed for no spe-

cial reason. I felt that providing flowers for everyday life was really going to work, and for a perhaps younger market as well. My vision was to be a retail outlet for flowers so that people could buy flowers for themselves, not just for an occasion – to buy flowers for the sheer pleasure of having flowers rather than feeling like they only buy flowers for someone else. I also wanted it to be an experience for people, and for it not to be intimidating – especially for men. I wanted to create a really lovely space where it’s pleasant to be and they can come in and buy one flower or a whole bunch or nothing at all, even – just enjoy looking at and smelling the flowers. Did you have a business plan? Did you seek any help? My husband and I did put a business plan together – and it’s a real family business because we sought advice from family. It wasn’t easy – we did the costings, of course, but not knowing how it would go in the “real world” means you have to be prepared to evolve that plan. Is that something you’d advise others starting out in business – to have that flexibility? It is a leap of faith but I’d say to other younger people, you will have to learn as you go and adjust where necessary, but just back yourself. Follow a dream. You only live once, and I don’t mean that in a frivolous way – I mean that when you’re young you, hopefully, have time ahead and you should get in and have a go. A lot of younger people don’t have the confidence to follow a dream like this – and it is really scary. You have dreams, but you can actually make them a reality. Of course, you have to be smart about it and get your planning in place, and seek advice, but you can make it happen. What’s the best thing about doing business in Dubbo? The community support. There’s so many people around you that want to see you succeed. Dubbo’s great because it’s big enough for people to be opening new businesses but small enough that you don’t get swallowed up in the crowd. I’ve been so grateful for the local support – it helps having grown up here, of course! How do you feel you add to the mix of similar businesses in town? I feel very mindful of the fact that there are florists here in town who have been in business for many years, and I have great respect for that. I didn’t come in with the intention of drawing their customers away – I’ve actually tried to make solid connections with a few of the other florists, and I feel I’ve done that. It helps – not to just feel isolated; to work together, in a way. It’s like any industry, I suppose – you’re stronger together. And we all have different styles and different tastes and that’s okay be-

` It is a leap of faith but I’d say to other younger people, you will have to learn as you go and adjust where necessary, but just back yourself. Follow a dream.

cause we appeal to different customers. And the more people who are enjoying flowers, the better! Where do you see as the future direction of your business? At the moment, I’m just trying to consolidate. I have some connections with people who do event styling, so I’d eventually like to work more with those sorts of other businesses. How are you using technology in your business? Flowers are a very tactile product and people like to see and touch and smell them – but I use social media to promote my business because it opens up a global market. I also use it to keep in touch with other florists around the world and to keep up with trends and what’s happening in other markets and to come up with new and creative things to do. Were there any barriers you felt were in place to you starting out as a business person? Being a younger person meant I had to work hard to get people to take me seriously – there was a little bit of that at the beginning. But I’ve worked really hard to go the extra mile and I think people quickly saw that I was for real and that I was prepared to really try to meet and exceed customers’ expectations. So customer service is important to you? It’s everything. I spent quite a bit of time in retail and that taught me how to talk to people. You really have the ability to make or break someone’s day. I feel I bring that experience to The Meadow – you want them to have a good experience, and it’s great if you can sell them something in the meantime. I think retail is a great background for anyone who is going into business.

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Lifestyle

Speaking mandarin Raw mandarin cheesecake BY KATE WRIGHT WWW.INSPIREDMOOD.COM.AU

F you have a few mandarins rolling around in your kitchen looking like they have seen better days, don’t throw them out! This raw mandarin cheesecake recipe is one I created when winter had just ended and I was trying to think of ways to use an excess of mandarins. I’d never made one before and I thought it might take a few attempts to get right, but it is honestly a pretty easy dessert to make. It’s also “paleo” (wheat and dairy free), with no added sugar, super smooth, creamy and utterly delicious!

HEALTH IN BRIEF All you need is love... and a pet

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LOOKING for love? Want to find the secret to happiness? Then forget the Prozac and pat your pooch. According to research released this week, pet owners laugh more, stress less and are more sociable than those who are pet-free. In analysing the research – admittedly commissioned by Petbarn – psychologist Timothy Sharp from the Happiness Institute says pets play a significant part in owners’ lives and can positively contribute to a healthy emotional state. Owning a pet is a great way to meet new friends, laugh more, be more active, less stressed and less lonely, so according to the research the key to happiness “can be as simple as having a fluffy, feathery or scaly friend”. On average, the research shows

Ingredients Base 100gm pecans 1.5 tbsp raw cacao powder 1 cm fresh ginger 25gm cacao butter 2 tbsp coconut flakes 1 tbsp mandarin pulp Cheesecake filling 6 mandarins, juiced and strained 400mL coconut cream 4 tbsp brown rice syrup 1 tsp vanilla 25gm cacao butter, melted 1.5 cups cashews, soaked in water for at least 2 hrs, then blended in a food processor until smooth Method Base 1 Base line a 20cm round spring form cake tin with

Australians are talking to their pets 5.7 times a week, stroking their pets 5.5 times a week and cuddling them 4.8 times a week. “While we’re cuddling, stroking and talking to our pets, scientific research has shown that our endorphins are being released and our heart rate and blood pressure are getting lowered. “This natural process leads to our stress levels decreasing and depression dissipating, and in turn improves our mood. The more we do this every day, the better it is for our emotional health,” Dr Sharp says. Of those surveyed, 72% said their mood was uplifted by something their pet did. Not surprisingly, Dubbo Petbarn manager Melanie Currey says the research shows owning a pet “can enrich our lives in so many ways. By being more active, compassionate and kind, as well as less stressed and lonely – pets help make us humans just a little bit better”. Pets also do wonders for their owners socially, it seems. According to the research, on average pet owners have met 1.7

baking paper (there’s no need to use extra oil as the coconut in the cheesecake base will prevent sticking). 2 Blend all ingredients in a food processor until combined. It will still be a little crumbly. 3 Press into the cake tin and place in the freezer. Cheesecake filling 1 Add all ingredients in a large bowl and combine using an electric mixer on high speed for about five minutes, or until mixture thickens. 2 Pour into the cake tin 3 Lift the cake tin about 5cm off the bench top and drop. Do this a few times to let any air bubbles rise to the surface. This will help make your cheesecake more dense and less airy. 4 Cover with cling wrap, allowing the cling wrap to touch the surface of the cheesecake. This will prevent any ice particles forming. 5 Freeze overnight or for at least 6 hours. 6 Top with grated orange rind and cacao nibs (optional).

people, been to 1.3 social events and struck up a conversation 5.7 times in the past month because of their pet. Health is also a significant factor with 40% of Australian pet owners surveyed saying they have become more active since getting a pet – something dog owners in particular feel has made them become a better person. “Happiness is not just a psychological or emotional phenomenon but it’s also very much a physical one; that is, our psychological health is intimately linked to our physical health. So when the research finds that pet owners are more likely to be active and healthy we can conclude that they’re also far more likely to enjoy happiness and a great life,” Dr Sharp says.

Tips for living well after cancer THE NSW Cancer Council’s Living Well After Cancer program is coming to Dubbo this month with free advice and practical information for people who are cancer survivors, carers, family, friends and work colleagues.

The free community education program will be held on Saturday, October 17 from 10am-12.30pm and is open to all. According to the Cancer Council, people may find they see the world differently after cancer. “Perhaps you feel that others don’t understand your experience and expect you to “get back to normal”. Cancer and its treatment can bring a host of practical challenges, from changes in appearance and body function to managing the emotional and social impacts. This two and a half hour program includes practical information and open discussion for people who are cancer survivors, carers, family, friends and work colleagues. Participants will learn about the possible changes, challenges and opportunities they may face after completing cancer treatment. They will also have the opportunity to connect with others on a similar journey, and share tips, ideas and activities to help them live your life well. For venue information and to register phone 1300 200 558.

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The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair has been bringing the work of remote artists to the public’s attention for almost a decade. PHOTO: AAP

Taking indigenous art to the mainstream BY JACQUELINE LE IT is something of a paradox that Australia's longest running indigenous art fair has yet to reach double digits when the culture it represents stretches back tens of thousands of years. But that is a gap the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair hopes to bridge. It has been trying to connect Aboriginal art with the rest of Australia – and the world – since 2007 by bringing remote artists to the public and overcoming the country's geographical barriers. The mix of traditional artists, city slickers, international tourists, curators and buyers at this year's three-day event in August suggests it is succeeding. "Bringing people to an event like this is a way of starting that twoway communication," the fair's event manager, Claire Summers, told AAP. "It's introducing indigenous art at a level where people feel comfortable, where people can communicate." For its ninth anniversary in 2015, the fair hosted more than 40 Aboriginal-owned art centres from across Australia's remote communities. Curators from every national and state

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art institution were present to consider artwork that ranged in price from below $100 to thousands of dollars. But you do not have to be an expert or even an art collector to appreciate Aboriginal art. The fair prides itself on being an entry point for people to wander in off the street and chat to artists and community centres about their work. "It is the oldest living culture in the world and it is our responsibility to bring it to audiences who won't often see it in an urban or big city environment," Summers says. "We're here to celebrate the beauty of indigenous cultures from around Australia and we're here to help people understand it more." It is also less of a physical impossibility to walk around the fair's stalls than it is to visit the remote communities where the works originate. Rather than wait for people to venture to the isolated Tiwi Islands off the coast of Darwin, for instance, the fair is bringing these indigenous communities to the people. It is also a big pow-wow for artists who are separated by distance but joined by

culture. "The artists get so excited about coming as they don't often get to experience different styles of artworks or different mediums since art centres have their own niche," Summers says. But it has not been easy overcoming the geographical and cultural distances between mainland Australian culture and the nation's Aboriginal identity. There is still a collective naivety about indigenous cultural expression, even in 2015, and cuts in government funding for art centres and projects have forced organisations to take a few steps sidewards when they should be looking ahead. "When times are tough the arts is often one of the first things that suffers,"

GETTING THERE z Qantas flies to Darwin daily from Sydney and Melbourne. The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair is held at the city’s convention centre near the waterfront. Entrance to the three-day event is free. z The fair celebrates its 10th anniversary in August 2016. z The writer was a guest of Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and NT Tourism.

Summers says. There is hope, though, that Australians are developing a greater thirst for knowledge and are becoming increasingly willing to connect with Aboriginal Australia. At the very least, people are becoming more aware of its importance amid the outcry over the treatment of AFL player Adam Goodes by footy fans following his indigenous war dance. "Why is he being condemned for standing up for who he is and what he believes in?" Summers asks. Encouraging cultural expression such as dance and art, on the other hand, has helped the fair grow every year since it was established. "It's our irresponsibility to support people who are cultural ambassadors," she says. Buoyed by growth, organisers have their sights on taking the fair to Australia's eastern states and eventually going global beyond their 10th anniversary in 2016. "The art has no limits," Summers says. "This art will live forever. It will always be strong because the people and the stories behind it are strong."

Tas premier confident of walk track funds

Qantas reports ‘moderate rise’ in passenger numbers in August

Mass of Uluru land becomes a protected zone

HOBART: Premier Will Hodgman has hosed down concerns about outstanding federal funding necessary to complete the much-anticipated Three Capes walking track through Tasmania’s scenic southeast. Listed by travel guide Lonely Planet as a hot new experience, the state government has already accepted bookings for the trek which is due to open in December, but a $4 million contribution from Canberra to complete the final stage of works is yet to be secured. “The Three Capes will be world class and it’s ongoing work and construction has a very high priority... we’ll work with the federal government to ensure it’s delivered,” he said.

SYDNEY: Qantas has reported a modest rise in monthly passenger numbers amid hopes that its shareholders could be in line for a $2 billion windfall. The airline lifted passenger numbers by just under one per cent in August, with falls in the domestic market offsetting growth for its international services. Qantas announced its monthly traffic figures amid speculation that it could return more than $2 billion to shareholders and produce a record profit this financial year. The airline said in August that shareholders would receive a $505 million windfall through a 23 cent per share cash distribution.

DARWIN: Five million hectares of land around Uluru in the Northern Territory is to be declared an Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), allowing traditional owners to better preserve sites of cultural significance. A ceremony was held at a remote centre between Uluru an the Western Australian border this week, allowing the Anangu people to receive federal government funding to protect sacred sites, native plants and animals around the UluruKata Tjuta National Park. “We really want to teach the young ones how to look after the place properly and strongly,” traditional owner Janie Miama said. AAP

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Chewing the fat BY KATE WHITING N terms of kitchen ‘outlaws’, sugar has completely overtaken fat as public enemy number one. In fact, fat has been making something of a comeback in recent years, and the latest advocates to sing its praises are sports scientist and marathon runner Professor Tim Noakes, nutritionist Sally Ann-Creed and chef and open ocean swimmer Jonno Proudfoot. Their book, The Real Meal Revolution, has taken South Africa by storm, promising to help people lose weight without giving up all that juicy meat, butter and cream. There is a catch, though – carbs are strictly off the menu. This low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) plan has similarities with the Paleo diet, in that it advocates a return to eating what our ancient ancestors, the hunter-gatherers, ate some 200,000 years ago – before we started cultivating grains. It also draws heavily on the Banting diet devised by British undertaker William Banting, who famously gave up the carb-rich eating habits of the Victorians in the 1860s to cure himself of obesity. Of course, low or no-carb/high fat and protein diets have always been somewhat controversial, attracting both fierce critics and fans. Prof Noakes, however, is convinced that this eating regime has benefited his own health. “We’ve been raised to believe that cholesterol, caused by eating too much fat, causes diseases, and that every disease in the book is linked to a high-fat diet. It turns out that’s completely wrong,” claims Noakes, who has Type 2 diabetes but, at 66, says he’s running like a 40-year-old. “What’s killing us is having elevated blood insulin concentrations all the time, and that is caused by highcarbohydrate diets and it’s exacerbated in people like myself, who have insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is the most prevalent medical condition in the world, it dwarves everything else.” To devise their recipes, Proudfoot drew up three lists – green, orange and red – of foods people should eat in abundance, be wary of and avoid altogether, with meat, cheese and leafy greens all on the green list; fruit, nuts and root veggies on the orange list and all flour, grains, cake, rice, pasta, sugar, potatoes and even peas on the red list. So popular has it been in South Africa, that supermarkets have struggled to keep up with demand for Banting ingredients, including cauliflower, which forms the basis of several recipes,

Jonno Proudfoot. Photos: PA

such as cauli-wraps, cauli-mash and have come up with a radical attack on cauli-rice. carbohydrates. “There was a national cauliflower As well as the obvious – ditching shortage,” says Proudfoot. “The price of refined carbs like white bread and pasta cauliflower for 1kg used to be (a dollar) – this trio takes it a hefty step further, and at one point, it went up to $8! One suggesting wholegrains are cut too. Not supermarket chain in particular now that Prof Noakes is convinced they even sells pre-packaged versions of some of really exist, mind you. our recipes, including cauli-rice. “There’s no such thing as wholegrains, “I used to work in fine dining and make because you can’t digest them, that’s a cauli-puree as a fancy alternative marketing angle,” he says. “Our to mash – cauliflower’s just as health deteriorated the minute we started eating grains. nutritious as other veggies but Our teeth went rotten, it has a variety of different the bacteria in the mouth uses, you can make it look changed when we started like all other carbohydrates, eating carbs and then we which is good when you’re lost height and we’ve only coming off carbs.” got back to the height we Proudfoot had the idea for a were 15,000 years ago in the last cookbook when he was training Tim Noakes 20 or 30 years, which is quite to swim from Mozambique to astonishing.” Madagascar and wanted to chart Instead of getting energy from carbs, his diet. He approached Prof Noakes The Real Meal Revolution aims to and Creed, and together the three

A conscious eater BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

Judy Wicks has been a leader in the “slow food” movement on the US East Coast for more than 30 years. She describes herself as “a conscious eater”. When she opened The White Dog in Philadelphia in 1983, it was a tiny muffin shop on the first floor of her historic Victorian brownstone. As her business grew, Wicks turned the muffin shop into a restaurant. She hired a chef who specialised in showcasing fresh, local meats and produce. Wicks convinced her to expand her menu to include even more local farmers and food artisans.

Wicks and her new chef also sought inspiration and guidance from famed West Coast restaurateur and locally grown-food pioneer Alice Waters. The White Dog’s locally sourced menu was considered revolutionary during a time when restaurants focused on French recipes and imported ingredients. The small muffin shop grew into a 200-seat restaurant, and Wicks became one of the forerunners of the fresh, local, farm-to-table movement on the East Coast. Wicks began using The White Dog as a meeting place and training centre for other local business owners who shared her vision of a global economy comprised of a network of self-reliant and sustainable local

‘retrain’ the body to run on fat, which keeps you fuller for longer – meaning lots of butter, coconut oil, full-fat cream and cheese go into the recipes. But neither Proudfoot or Prof Noakes are concerned about cholesterol, with Proudfoot claiming: “If you look at the statistics, it’s clear it’s not an indicator of early death.” Prof Noakes acknowledges it’s not a ‘one-size fits all’ diet, but recommends insulin resistant people, with a family history of diabetes, should try it. “For most people, once you get over 40 and you’re a little overweight, you should be on this diet, because if you’re not, you’re in trouble.” Whether or not you want to go full-on Revolution, here are three recipes from the book to try at home... :: Please consult your doctor before embarking on any extreme diet change, especially if you have a health condition.

economies connected by small-tosmall fair-trade relationships. Her advocacy on behalf of local businesses and creating self-reliant communities began to consume most of Wicks’ time, and she decided to sell The White Dog restaurant to Marty Grimms in 2009. She also created a unique social contract, as she describes it, for the new owner that ensured he maintained the restaurant’s long-standing practice of buying fair-trade products, locally sourced produce from its list of farmers and vendors, and only serving meat from ethically treated animals from local producers. Today, Wicks spends most of her time mentoring entrepreneurs via the Sustainable Business Network

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WARM HADDOCK AND CAULIFLOWER SALAD WITH TAHINI DRESSING (Serves 2.) Many cooks substitute cod for haddock, or flounder or sole. For the dressing: 4tbsp tahini Juice of 2 lemons 1 garlic clove, minced 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil Approx 100ml water For the salad: 100g butter 300g cauliflower, cut into small pieces 300g smoked haddock 60g toasted pine nuts Preheat the oven to 180C (Gas 4). Melt the butter in the microwave or in a small pan. Place the cauliflower in a small oven tray and drizzle with butter. Roast the cauliflower until it is golden on the edges, around 30 minutes. Add the haddock to the tray and return to the oven for about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven, break the haddock up and give everything a good mix, either in a bowl or in the tray. Portion the salad onto plates and scatter with pine nuts. Combine all the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl and while mixing continuously, pour in the water until you reach a good pouring consistency. Drizzle over the salad before serving. Note: if you’ve been good with your carbs for the day, this is epic with some pomegranate seeds scattered over it.

COURGETTE AND GARLIC GRATIN

LAMB BLANQUETTE

(Serves 4) 800g courgettes 1 onion, roughly sliced 1 handful thyme sprigs 1 whole head garlic, cloves peeled 100g butter, broken into pieces 250ml double cream Salt and pepper Preheat the oven to 200C (Gas 6). Cut the courgettes into large chunks. Lay the onions, courgettes, thyme and garlic in an ovenproof lasagne dish (or casserole dish), mix well and then press down. Dot pieces of butter evenly over the top of the dish, then cover everything with the double cream. Season with salt and pepper. Place the tray in the oven, uncovered, and bake for approximately 45 minutes. If you want to thicken the sauce in the bottom of the tray simply strain through a sieve and reduce it on the stove before pouring it back over. Note: If you want some extra goodness, sprinkle a layer of grated cheese on top of the gratin before serving and pop it back under the grill for a cheesy crust.

(Serves 4) 600g lamb shoulder, cut into 20g cubes 8 peeled shallots 4 sticks celery, cut into large chunks 5 sprigs thyme 5 sprigs rosemary 2 whole heads garlic, cut in half across the meridian 2 cups chicken stock 1 cup white wine 125ml cream 2 bunches of leeks, trimmed and cut into big chunks 250g white or button mushrooms, whole Salt and pepper Handful of parsley, freshly chopped 125ml creme fraiche Preheat the oven to 160C (Gas 3). Place the lamb, shallots, celery, thyme, rosemary, garlic, stock and wine in an ovenproof casserole dish. Cover the dish with foil and place it in the oven for two and half hours. Check the meat to see whether it is soft and tender. If it is still tough, pop it back in for another 30 minutes. If it is melt-in-the-mouth tender, drain all of the juices from the tray, including the fat, through a sieve into a pot and simmer to reduce. Once all of the liquid has reduced to about 400ml, add the cream, along with the leek chunks and mushrooms, and reduce the sauce until it goes thick and creamy. Once the sauce is thick and the mushrooms and leeks are tender, add the meat, season with salt and pepper and stir through the freshly chopped parsley. Finally, garnish with dollops of creme fraiche and serve. Note: If you’re splashing out, splash some truffle oil over this before serving. It will be truffle oil well spent.

:: The Real Meal Revolution: The Radical, Sustainable Approach To Healthy Eating by Professor Tim Noakes, Jonno Proudfoot and Sally AnnCreed is published in paperback by Robinson.

of Greater Philadelphia, www.sbnPhiladelphia.org, and the international Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, www.bealocalist.org. Wicks also is a popular speaker and author. Her award-winning book “Good Morning Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer” was published by Chelsea Green in 2013. Her book won the 2014 Gold Metal in the Business Leadership category from Nautilus Book Awards. The White Dog remains a popular restaurant in Philadelphia and has opened three other locations in the area. The menu is a tribute to a visionary woman’s desire to support the community she loves and share her knowledge with others. PHOTO: DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM

STRAWBERRY PARFAIT This delicious recipe for Strawberry Parfait with Homemade Drop Biscuits and Lemon-Scented Chantilly is a featured item at The White Dog restaurant. Homemade Drop Biscuits: (Makes 6 biscuits.) 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter 1 cup whole milk 1. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt

and sugar in a bowl. Cut the cold butter into small pieces; add to flour mixture. Using your hands, work the butter into the flour until pea-sized chunks of butter remain. 2. Add the milk all at once, and carefully fold in using a spatula. Scoop even spoonfuls of batter onto a lined sheet pan, and bake at 350 F for 10 minutes, or until golden. Set aside to cool completely. Lemon Chantilly Cream: (Makes 1 cup.) 2 cups heavy cream 2 tablespoons granulated sugar

Lemon zest from 1 lemon In a stand mixer or by hand, whip cream and sugar to firm peaks. Zest lemon over whipped cream and fold in. Set aside. To assemble: (Serves 4-6.) 2 pints of local sliced berries Cut each biscuit in half lengthwise. Using a mason jar or bowl, layer the Lemon Chantilly Cream first, then half of a biscuit, followed by berries. Repeat until jars are full. Enjoy immediately or prepare ahead and refrigerate.

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Embrace those mo Ziba double duvet cover, navy

The Puccini Drinks Cabinet

Benedict armchair

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN UR homes have a dramatic effect on our mood and spirit, so investing in their visual appeal makes perfect sense. At the time of year when designers and stores release their new collections, it is a perfect opportunity to track new trends – and embrace them if you’re in

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Set up a nature discovery nook BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

Set aside a space on your kitchen counter or a table in your family room to showcase your kids’ summer nature collectibles. Their own museum of natural wonders can be enjoyed by friends and family who come to your home. And when they do, the kids can tell them where they found the treasure, what it’s called and something interesting that captured their imagination. Best of all, this collection zone will be a constant reminder of the time you spent

together discovering the mysteries and beauty of the world we live in. Add collected finds and, for fun, classify and label them with small strips of index cards (date the excursion and describe the item), just like in museums. For example: “This nest fell off the tree in the backyard on a windy day. I found it behind the wheelie bin. I discovered wool and string in the nest. I think the wool came from the bird feeder that was hanging from our swing set last year.” For such an item, encourage your child to find a book about nests or research them online. Find out what kind of bird made the nest and learn the likely colour of the eggs that were in the nest at one

time. If your family travelled to new places during the holidays or if you plan to take weekend trips soon, the items also can be displayed in attractive ways on the table. If you have collected sand from different beaches, for example, layer it in a clean, clear recycled jar. It’s fun to see the range of colours and types of sand from beach to beach. And it’s a unique way to recall a trip to the Gold Coast in 2013, or Bondi in 2015. For indoor rainy-day fun, use some of the sticks and stones for crafting. Here are two ideas: • Flat rocks aren’t just for skipping across the surface of a lake. Make a turtle! Choose

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oody hues the mood for a complete makeover, or simply shake up your existing scheme with some smart new buys. This isn’t a season for the faint-hearted, as there’s a roll call of bold looks: full-on sultry luxe – all dark tones and glittery metallics, a style garden of dark blooms, and a twist on tradition with dark green ‘gentlemen’s club’ style settings, which make a grand backdrop for carefully chosen furniture pieces. If that all sounds a little too rich for your decor palette, go for more subtle interpretations – no trend’s worth following just for the sake of it, it must suit you, your lifestyle and your taste, too. That said, there’s plenty to excite that could bring that requisite personality to rooms, and make your home awesome for autumn...

MIDNIGHT BLOOMS

FEEL free to play with this versatile trend and be as subtle or daring as you wish. Conjure sultry colonial settings with dark, exotic blooms, or whip up a wilder gypsy chic. “We’re seeing a modern take on a classic floral look, which will achieve a bold statement in any room,” says Abigail Bomford, a senior design manager. “Combine dark purple shades and oversized, dramatic floral prints against a neutral backdrop of softer hues of dusky lilacs and blush tones. For the less colour confident, focus on a floral print and pair with washed-out white accessories, to conjure a soft, romantic atmosphere which is so prevalent in the autumn collections.” ON-TREND TREATS: Rich berry shades are perennially popular and most of the leading homes collections have embraced them. Jewel-rich colours and bold patterned upholstery and accessories feature on pieces, for example plum and ruby shades and bold patterns.

GO GREEN

GREEN is the new ‘black’ – that’s the decree of the decor experts who are plumping for a trend already seen emerging strongly in fashion. “Mix deep bottle or racing car greens with ochres, brick reds and aubergine purples to create a luxurious, layered feel,” advises Stephanie Chen, director of home at Marks & Spencer. “Accessories in materials such as marble, polished brass and crushed velvets, will add a further luxury touch and interest to a room.” ON-TREND TREATS: Conjure a wild green backdrop with a tiger and panther print wallpaper. Allow well-selected pieces to star, such as an armchair, 4-door cabinet, and cocktail cabinets

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are back in fashion. If you’re tentative about committing to green, test the decor waters by accessorising. Teal green is a top choice.

DARK MATTER

OPULENCE, decadence and full-on luxury are all being celebrated this season, and the ultimate sanctuary should be sensual, with touch-me textures, moody dark shades and glitzy finishes. “The luxe trend works in any style of home and is all about layering beautiful fabrics and well-chosen metallic pieces – gold, copper or bronze – which can be combined with almost any interior style,” says Sue Roberts, a design director. “Soft and shiny shimmering fabrics, velvets and silks, glowing accents and gilded metallics are all a safe choice, but for added opulence, keep warm hues at the heart of a scheme. Combine bold geometric pattern with rich textures to bring a stylised look home.” ON-TREND TREATS: Create a cocooning bedroom, with a sense of intrigue and tranquillity, with dark textured wallpaper, a lavishly dressed bed and sparkling, shimmering lighting. Find a suitably sumptuous bedlinen range, ramp up the glamour with a chandelier, and cushions.

Madeline Armchair

Gold Effect Pineapple Objet

Midnight Bloom dinner set

Opulence chandelier

‘Lily Bloom’ scented candle

Copper feel side table

The Pineapple table lamp, with black shade

Laura Oakes teal lamp base with printed lamp shade

Designer green beaded pom pom cushion

Eltham chair in lasenby teal

a flat oval stone for the body, and glue small ones underneath, stretching out to the sides for four feet and a tail, with a larger one for a head. Add two pebbles for eyes. • Make a twig vase with a recycled tin can. Use shears to cut similar-width branches two or three cm longer than the height of the can. Place two large rubber bands around the outside of the can, one near the top and one near the bottom. Insert branches side by side, as if building a twig fence around the can. Wind twine or raffia over the rubber bands to cover them, then knot.

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NOW HERE’S A TIP BY JOANN DERSON z “To remove spots from suede, try using an art gum eraser.” – Contributed by J.C. z Wet weather can affect your outdoor appliances, making rust a problem. It can even happen to the metal end of a lightbulb in an outdoor fixture. Coat threads of the light bulb

with petroleum jelly to keep it from rusting and becoming hard to unscrew. z To remove scuffs from linoleum floors, simply cut a small “X” into a tennis ball and push the tip of your broom handle into it. When you come across a sticky spot while sweeping, flip the broom and rub the spot with the tennis ball. z Save your pool noodles to keep boots sitting upright. Simply cut a pool

noodle to the height of the boot top, and insert. Lo and behold, the boots won’t flop over. This will extend the life of your boots. z “You might want to use the water wings for this duty-free alcohol hack: Use blow-up arm floaties to protect your liquor bottles while being transported in luggage. Use one or a set depending on the size of the bottle.” – Contributed by T.T.

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DRTCC Event Booking Officer Craig Thompson. PHOTO: CHERYL BURKE

Leave ‘em laughing BY CHERYL BURKE DRTCC

HIS month we shine the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) staff spotlight on Craig Thompson – Event Booking Officer: Is there such a thing as a typical day for an Event Booking Officer? And what does a typical day at work involve for you? If I was to say there was one constant with this job daily, it’s attention to detail. A typical day is spent liaising with current and potential hirers on venue information and availability, event details, providing quotations and contract administration. The challenge is to ensure we meet the expectations of community and corporate clients and ensure the provision of optimal service and quality. We achieve this daily by working closely with team members providing and receiving information regarding upcoming and past events, and changes to an event details. What was your first experience of the Convention Centre, or Civic Centre? I remember visiting the old Civic Centre on a school excursion from Bourke as a 14 year old to see an orchestral concert. At the time it was the biggest room I had

bit of a “wow” factor. To them it ever seen in my life and I sat there didn’t seem to be an unusual reduring the performance fascinatquest given Dubbo is famous for ed by the huge round light penits zoo. dants in the auditorium. I can What is some of the positive still remember thinking...”how feedback you hear from stakethe hell do they clean those damn holders about their events and things?” It wasn’t until 40 years the venue? later that I learned from Faye Stakeholders often communiWarwick at the DRTCC, that each cate on the professionalism of light consisted of 150 glass flutes our staff and the Dubbo Regionthat created the huge al Theatre and Conball shape. Faye has vention Centre as never forgotten them a quality venue for because cleaning their conference or them was one of her event. The theatre jobs. in particular continWhat has been your ues to surprise and I don’t favourite show amaze people, and you’ve seen at want to they comment that DRTCC? grow up, I for a regional theaThe Michael Jacktre, it sits favourably just want son Tribute Show. with theatres around This show took eveto grow the world. ryone by surprise, old”. If you could throw and the performer any kind of event, actually lived and what would it be like breathed Michael and what would it Jackson in real life. be for? He threw himself into the perIt would be funny to have a reformance and I remember at the gional comedy festival in Dubbo end of the night he could hardly and call it Dry Laughing in Dubbo. walk and his support crew had ice Comedy, variety and street perpacks on him. formances could be organised at What is one of the more unusual available venues and outdoor lorequests you have had from cations over a few days for the ensomeone who was booking the joyment of all. venue for an event? If you had an unlimited budget, An event co-ordinator once what artist or production, would you book at DRTCC and why? asked if it was possible to organise for an elephant to be present Katy Perry. The lady is gorat their conference dinner as a geous, talented and a complete

entertainer. If you were a performer, what food or drink would be a musthave on your catering rider? A packet of snakes or soft lollies. I call it brain food. I am fortunate that I do perform and as I rarely eat before a performance, I tend to snack on soft lollies. What phrase do you use the most? It’s not what happens to you in life, it’s how you deal with it that’s important. Your dream job if you weren’t doing what you were doing? The ultimate dream job would be to perform, travel and make people laugh. Laughter is like sunshine in our hectic world these days. What do you not want to be doing in five years? I do not want to be sitting around idle. If there was a movie made of your life who would you cast as yourself and why? Mr Bean because of his unique humour. I often say “I don’t want to grow up, I just want to grow old”.

Calendar of Events: November 14 – Kitty Flanagan – Seriously? November 27 – Johnny Cash the Concert – Cash 60 November 29 – 2016 Season Launch November 7 – Kinship by Bangarra Dance Theatre

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Building bridges Leon Bridges. PHOTO: PA

BY ANDY WELCH HERE are a few phrases that summon up fear and dread in the workplace. “We’re downsizing” is obviously up there, followed by “pay freeze”, and “the boss will see you now”. Also on the list would be a colleague saying, “You should come see my band”. Yes, they could be good, but chances are they’re dire, and the mere thought of having to hide your true thoughts on their performance the next day is pretty horrifying. Leon Bridges’ co-workers didn’t know how lucky they were... Just a couple of years ago, by day, Bridges was washing dishes in Del Frisco’s Grille in Fort Worth, Texas, while by night, he was singing at open mic events and small gigs around town, a 21st century Sam Cooke. “My co-workers knew what

I was doing at night, I never kept it secret, and they were very supportive,” says the 26-year-old. “They were like my first fans, and they’d come to my show and ask me why I was washing dishes.” Despite their encouragement, he never took music, or indeed his talents, too seriously, believing he’d be stuck in the kitchens of Fort Worth forever. “I didn’t have anyone around me that could show me the way, or tell me that I sounded good. I started singing when I was a kid, and never had anyone say that. My friends in school were way better at singing than me.” He promises he’s not being falsely modest, and that he really doesn’t rate his voice, although he does believe he writes “good” melodies for himself to sing that sound “OK I suppose”, later adding that he thinks confidence, especially on stage, always seemed

like it was for other people. “There’s always room for improvement,” he adds. “I like

to think I can get a whole lot better.” Given how his fortunes have changed, it’s fair to say he’s on a very promising track. Bridges says he was only really interested in ‘90s R&B initially – “Usher and Ginuwine, mainly” – and wanted to dance. After a friend pointed out the similarity between his voice and Sam Cooke’s, however, and after he’d heard Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come on the Malcolm X soundtrack, he began investigating. He first performed on stage around four years ago, but it was only really in the past couple of years that he made the connection between the slick R&B he was listening to and classic soul. “That made me go to the roots. The black music I had been listening to was really just carrying on that golden sound, but as a black man and a musician, I needed to go back to the beginning.” Hours spent on YouTube and streaming service Pandora opened up a new world, until he became almost obsessed with Cooke, admitting to wanting to recreate his sound perfectly. “And I had to really work hard to leave behind the ways of R&B singing. It’s a very different style and I had to leave a lot behind.” Things first started moving for Bridges when he started writing in a new style and performing his now classic-tinged songs, instead of the contemporary covers he had been. One night, Austin Jenkins saw him perform, the soulloving guitarist from garage rock band White Denim. He approached Bridges about working together, and soon, rather than 40 or so people turning up to his gigs, there were 40 or so record labels expressing an interest in signing him. Columbia won out, tipping Bridges for great things. When

Coming Home was released earlier this year, it charted at number eight both in Australia and the UK, and number six in the US, proving Columbia’s faith was well-placed. “It’s all moved so fast,” says Bridges. “I just think it’s amazing to have this platform so I can share my music with people.” He says it’s not really sunk in how much he has achieved, or how far he’s come, although occasionally he’ll allow himself a little time to take stock. “I get numb to it, if I’m honest, there’s so much happening around me. I appreciate it sometimes, mostly when I speak to people and they ask, ‘That must have been amazing?’, and I think, ‘I guess’, and then I think about it a bit more. I think it’s awesome, but not everything goes in.” Early YouTube videos he posted have now notched up close to a million plays each, with his live version of Lisa Sawyer, his ode to his mum, seemingly getting most traction. “Before that, and before we released the song Coming Home for the first time, I would record songs and then I’d have to go back to washing dishes. I thought I’d maybe release an album myself and still wash dishes on the side, but after Coming Home was released, things really changed, and I realised that maybe I could make my money from music after all.” Messages from fans all over the world still blow his mind, as does the revelation that his music might be digested and accepted by anybody, wherever they’re from. “I want to grow as a songwriter, and I really think I can get better at that, and I want to take my music to people all over the world,” says Bridges. “As for me, I’ll keep on doing what I’m doing. “And no more washing dishes. Not any more.”

EXTRA TIME – QUITTING THE DAY JOB Leon Bridges isn’t the only artist who had a less-thanglamorous job before finding success... z David Bowie (pictured) took a job as a butcher’s delivery boy to pay for saxophone lessons, prior to becoming one of the biggest-ever solo artists. z Before Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne worked in an abattoir. “I had to slice open the cow carcasses and get all the gunk out of their stomachs. I used to vomit every day; the smell was something else,” he’s previously said. z Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker worked in a fishmongers before his band took off. His mum apparently hoped grafting with the ‘rough lads’ there would be character-building. z It’s often said that Rod Stewart once worked as a gravedigger in Highgate Cemetery before becoming a global star, although his autobiography says he was actually more responsible for marking out the plots than digging. z Back in 2007, Calvin Harris could be found stacking shelf displays in the Dumfries branch of Marks & Spencer. His debut album was written and produced in his home studio between shifts. z Leon Bridges’ album Coming Home is out now. He begins a UK tour on September 22. Visit www.leonbridges.com

MOVIES.

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The Martian stars Matt Damon. PHOTOS: PA/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX/AIDAN MONAGHAN

The Martian and The Intern: Big names on the big screen BY DAMON SMITH FILM VIEW

THE MARTIAN (M, 141 mins) Sci-Fi/Thriller/ Action. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Michael Pena, Aksel Hennie, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, Kristen Wiig, Mackenzie Davis. Director: Ridley Scott. IN space, everyone can hear you scream and whenever Ridley Scott is nestled in the director’s chair, you can be certain his actors will be issuing bloodcurdling shrieks. In 1979, he unleashed a merciless killing machine on the unsuspecting crew of the Nostromo, giving birth to the Alien franchise. Three years later, the future was exceedingly bleak for Harrison Ford’s blade runner and, more recently, scientists aboard the ill-fated spaceship Prometheus came face-to-face with an extra-terrestrial force of unimaginable power. The life expectancy of characters in Scott’s testosterone-fuelled films can often be measured in hours rather than days or years. So it comes as no surprise that in the opening 15 minutes of The Martian, adapted from the bestselling novel by Andy Weir, the director apparently kills off his leading man during a ferocious sand storm on the red planet.

Unusually, the hero survives and draws upon his scientific knowledge to manufacture water and oxygen to sustain his solitary existence until a rescue mission can be mustered. The film opens with the six-strong crew of the Ares 3, led by Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), gathering samples. Sensors pick up an approaching storm and Lewis gives the order to evacuate. During the trek back to the ship, botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is hit by flying debris. “I know you don’t want to hear this. Mark’s dead,” crew member Beck (Sebastian Stan) informs Lewis, who reluctantly blasts off with the rest of her team: Johanssen (Kate Mara), Martinez (Michael Pena) and Vogel (Aksel Hennie). They begin the long journey back to mission control, crestfallen by their loss. Little do they realise that back on Mars, Watney is alive. “I gotta figure out how to grow three years’ worth of food on a planet where nothing grows,” Mark mumbles, recording a video diary of his exploits. Back on Earth, NASA Administrator Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels), Director of Mars missions Vincent Kapoor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Ares 3 flight director Mitch Henderson (Sean Bean) cut corners to let Mark know the cavalry is coming.

The Martian bears obvious similarities to the Oscar-winning thriller Gravity in both set-up and execution, and Scott employs the 3D format to dazzling effect in turbo-charged action sequences. However, this is primarily a meditation on the endurance of the human spirit and in these quieter moments, Drew Goddard’s lean script and lead actor Damon hold us spellbound. “I’m not going to die here,” Mark tells himself as he faces each obstacle with gritty determination, raising

PICKS OF THE WEEK BY SAM STRUCKHOFF

HOME VIEWING PICKS OF THE WEEK Melissa McCarthy in “Spy”. PHOTO: LARRY HORRICKS/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (M) – Genius inventor and Iron Man, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), creates a powerful artificial intelligence that’s supposed to keep the peace. The program, Ultron (voiced by James Spader), concludes that peace on earth starts with killing the Avengers. The Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Iron Man and Hawkeye demonstrate the value of teamwork through a series of intense battles with evil forces and each other. Also joining the fray are Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, super-powered siblings from the X-Men world. These characters are more developed than the last time, and there are more of them, but that doesn’t produce the same fun atmosphere. What once was a

his spirits (and ours) with flashes of humour including a running joke about Commander Lewis’ disco-heavy music collection. Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski envisages Mars as a vast, barren landscape of shifting red sand. As Mark’s oxygen supply depletes, we hold our breath with the lead character, hoping for a miracle 140 million miles from home. :: SWEARING :: NO SEX :: VIOLENCE :: RATING: 8/10

box-office blast starts to look like another “Expendables” sequel with brighter colours. It’s still an exciting flick, but Marvel had better learn some new tricks before getting the gang back together again. Spy (MA15+) – Melissa McCarthy stars as a CIA agent launched from her usual office-work into the field of high-stake espionage. Susan (McCarthy) normally watches over her CIA colleagues, feeding vital information from a secluded office. When all the more Bond-like agents fall, the Company’s best bet is to send in Susan, the last person the bad guys would suspect of being a spy. Jason Statham does an excellent parody of his usual badass character, and Rose Byrne nails it as a haughty Euro-villain who trades eloquent insults with the more grounded McCarthy. Melissa McCarthy gets back on her feet after some flopular turns in less-funny movies like “Tammy”.

MOVIES.

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The Intern stars Anne Hathaway. PHOTOS: PA/FRANCOIS DUHAMEL/WARNER BROS THE INTERN (M, 121 mins) Comedy/Drama/Romance. Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, JoJo Kushner, Andrew Rannells, Adam DeVine, Zack Pearlman, Jason Orley, Christina Scherer, Linda Lavin. Director: Nancy Meyers. IN an increasingly impersonal age, which gauges success by page impressions and numbers of followers on social media platforms, boardrooms are being led by young, ambitious tech-savvy entrepreneurs, who made their first millions when they were still at university. One world-changing app or website, and these high-fliers look forward to a financially comfortable retirement well before the first buds of a mid-life crisis blossom. The wisdom and experience of an older generation, who toiled for decades before the first modem crackled noisily to life, are often overlooked in this global marketplace. Filmmaker Nancy Meyers reminds us that there is life after 60 in The Intern, a frothy exploration of romantic travails set in the offices of a thriving dot-com fashion business. As she bridges the divide between the old-fashioned ideals of a bygone era and the relentless 24-hour bombardment of information of the present day, the The laughs in this movie show that she hasn’t hit the edges of what she’s capable of. It’s also another gold star for director Paul Feig, who worked with McCarthy on “Bridesmaids” and has my hopes up for the new “Ghostbusters” movie he’s directing. Entourage (MA15+) – As somebody who never watched the show on HBO, I wasn’t sure if this was a movie or somebody’s exercise in getting as many confusing cameos as possible. Of the characters who aren’t cameos, there’s a young actor guy named Vince (Adrian Grenier), and we’re asked to care about the future of his Hollywood career. The poor, bland guy is just a few million short of finishing his terriblelooking Jekyll and Hyde remake, while the

writer-director sketches a touching friendship between a 70-year-old widower and a high-flying young executive. Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) is struggling to get to grips with the gentle ebb and flow of life following the death of his wife. “Retirement is an ongoing, relentless effort in creativity,” he narrates, ricocheting between menial tasks such as fending off the amorous advances of old friend Patty (Linda Lavin). To keep his mind active, Ben applies for a senior citizen internship at a flourishing Brooklyn-based company founded by workaholic, Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway). The dress code is casual but Ben insists on wearing a shirt and tie. “At least I’ll stand out,” he smiles. “I don’t think you need to wear a suit to do that,” replies Jules. As Ben settles into his new role, he befriends Jules’ overworked personal assistant Becky (Christina Scherer), her husband Matt (Anders Holm) and their precocious daughter Paige (JoJo Kushner). He also makes a big impression on in-house masseuse Fiona (Rene Russo), sowing the seeds of a tender romance. When Jules’ position as CEO comes other characters around him – all sporting silly bro-names as if being a man with friends makes you a fighter pilot – confirm that it truly is a great movie worth making. Cop Car (M) – Two young boys running away from home come across an unoccupied police car and take it for a joy ride. It seems like fun because they don’t know what’s in trunk, or that the car belongs to a twisted sheriff in the middle of a deadly scheme. Kevin Bacon stars as the corrupt lawman, playing him as a dangerously devious villain with an unsettling spark of aggression in his eyes and moustache. From the start you fear for these boys – even if they are mischievous and foulmouthed – as they get in over their heads in scenic rural America.

Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro

under threat, Ben provides emotional support in a time of crisis and teaches his boss that success shouldn’t always come at the expense of personal relationships. The Intern bears the thumbprints of Meyers’ earlier pictures, including What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated. Tearful self-discovery is accessorized with broad humour, and De Niro and Hathaway catalyse a winning screen partnership.

Top 10 films at the Aussie box office Week Ending 30.09.2015 1. Everest (pictured) 2. Pixels 3. Pan 4. Oddball 5. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials 6. Sicario 7. The Visit 8. Straight Outta Compton 9. Blinky Bill The Movie 10. Lost In Hong Kong SOURCE: MPDAA

Unfortunately, Jules and Matt’s marriage isn’t scripted with the same amount of care or emotional depth, despite the best efforts of Holm to verbalise the frustrations of his house husband. A hysterical centrepiece sequence, laden with Ocean’s Eleven references, belongs to a different film entirely but suggests that you’re never too old to break the law for a good reason. :: SWEARING :: NO SEX :: NO VIOLENCE :: RATING: 6/10

BOOKS.

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Jackie Collins: I like kick-ass women ACKIE Collins made her entrance to the swanky hotel suite where we’d arranged to meet, dressed in a trademark tailored jacket, black trousers and plenty of bling, her dark auburn hair blow-dried to within an inch of its life. The only incongruous accessory was her footwear – comfy white Nike trainers. And she sported a bandage on her right ankle. “I hurt it playing football with the grandchildren,” said the 77-year-old blockbuster novelist, whose books – including The World Is Full Of Married Men, The Stud and The Bitch – have sold in their millions. “But I love gym shoes,” she added. “I really don’t care what people think. I’ve had my days of Louboutins. But I’ll put on some high heels tonight, even with a bandaged ankle, and stagger into a restaurant.” Indeed, Collins, who was made an OBE two years ago, still had incredible energy. On the week we met, she had a packed schedule of TV and radio appearances, plus a string of print interviews and photo shoots to promote her latest sexy novel, The Santangelos. The grandmother-of-six also found time to catch up with her older sister Joan for tea, she mentioned. They always met up when they were in the same city – Joan lives for much of the year in the south of France with her younger husband Percy, while Jackie lived alone in her palatial home in Beverly Hills, next door to Al Pacino. Over the years, rumours had surfaced that the sisters didn’t get on, but Jackie said this couldn’t be further from the truth and that there’d never been any competition between them. “Joan’s five years older than me and was a movie star in Hollywood when I was still at school. Then I went there and later repaid her by giving her the role in The Stud. I wrote the screenplay for free. That made her career soar. And then Alexis Carrington Colby [Joan’s Dynasty character] was born.” Collins liked writing about strong female characters – “kick-ass” women – and was particularly enthusiastic about Lucky Santangelo, the strong matriarchal figure in her last potboiler, the ninth in the Santangelo series. “Angelina Jolie could be Lucky,” she enthused. “She had the life. She was crazy, into everything and now look at her with six children and everything going for her. “I like strong women,” she continued. “It comes from the fact that I grew up in a rather chauvinistic household. My father [theatrical agent Joseph Collins] was always very chauvinistic and my mother [Elsa] was always very gentle and laid-back. I didn’t like the inequality between them. I felt that she should have had more say in what was going on in the home.” All of Collins’ 32 books are still in print – she has sold more than 500 million novels in more than 40 countries – and as the world moved on, so did she, embracing social media wholeheartedly and boasting some 152,000 followers on Twitter, plus thousands of Facebook fans. She didn’t think much of the competition in sexy female fiction –

The author who invented a whole new genre of sexy books, Jackie Collins, died in September. HANNAH STEPHENSON met with Collins last year for an interview about her latest novel during which the author also revealed much about the lives and deaths of those close to her.

Jackie Collins. PHOTO: PA /EDDIE SANDERSON

Fifty Shades clearly left her cold and her feisty heroine Lucky Santangelo is the antithesis of Anastasia Steele, the subservient student sex slave to billionaire Christian Grey. Collins hated the term ‘Mummy porn’, the so-called genre which has taken off on the back of Fifty Shades to describe erotic fiction aimed at women. “The term ‘Mummy porn’ is derogatory. I mean, do they have ‘Daddy porn’ where guys are hunched over their computer watching porn? No. But women are relegated to ‘Mummy porn’. That’s disgusting. It really makes it look stupid.” The only good thing to come out of Fifty Shades is the fact that E.L. James has encouraged people into bookstores, she observed. While stars in Hollywood come and go, some things don’t change, Collins reflected, including ageism. “The film industry is still run by men and a lot of them want to get laid. They just do these movies where they can coerce young girls into being in the movies. The casting couch is still alive and well in Hollywood. For actresses,

it’s really tough. You’ve got 35-yearold actresses playing grandmas. It’s ridiculous!” Some of her showbiz tales will be included in her autobiography, Reform School Or Hollywood, due to be published next year (“It’s not going to be a kiss-andtell but it is going to be interesting...”). Yet behind the glitz and glamour, Collins had her share of trauma. “There have been tragedies in my life. My first husband [fashion impresario Wallace Austin, with whom she had a daughter, Tracy] was a drug addict. Wallace was bipolar, but back then, it wasn’t diagnosed. They kept on throwing him into psychiatric wards. Then he was put on to speed by a psychiatrist who said, ‘Let me show you how to inject yourself’, and that was that.” After her first short-lived marriage, she was married for 25 years to her second husband, nightclub owner Oscar Lerman – with whom she had two daughters Tiffany and Rory – until his death from prostate cancer in 1992. After Lerman died, she fell in love with Italian businessman Frank Calcagnini.

They were together for six years and engaged when he died from cancer in 1998. “I lost my mother to cancer, my husband of 25 years to cancer and then my fiance. I know a lot about looking after people when they are sick. Oscar was a very strong man who was 20 years older than me. I knew he’d had a fantastic life. My kids looked after him so wonderfully and I just kept writing. “You keep busy and do what you have to do to get through it. With Frank, it was tragic. He was the same age as me and so handsome. He was like a hero from one of my books.” Collins recalled how he’d been diagnosed after having an X-ray due to flu symptoms. Three months later, he was dead. “He had been so healthy, jogged every day, worked out in the gym, swam. I was completely shocked. We went through a lot in that three months.” She was with him when he died in hospital. Coping had become a part of life. “I celebrate their lives. I have pictures of my husband, my mother, my fiance all over the house. I keep them alive through photographs. “I refuse to mourn people, because everybody dies. Death and taxes, you can’t avoid either.” At the time of our interview, she didn’t want another serious relationship. She had three daughters, six teenage grandchildren and all the freedom she needed. “I like the freedom that I have of doing whatever I want to do, when I want to do it. If I want to buy a car tomorrow, I don’t have to consult with somebody about what it’s going to be or what colour it’s going to be. I can do whatever I want. I live my life like a single man. “But then I have so many friends too and an amazing family,” she added. “We rent a house in Maui, Hawaii every year. Twelve of us go – my daughters and their kids come along.” Our meeting ended and another picture was taken to tweet to fans. You get the feeling that Jackie Collins’ string of books will still be ‘kicking ass’ long after Fifty Shades has turned to grey.

:: The Santangelos by Jackie Collins is published by Simon & Schuster

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BOOKS.

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Max Porter offers a ‘stunning examination of mourning’ BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter is published in hardback by Faber & Faber. LIKE love, it’s hard to describe grief without having really known it. And even when someone describes their experiences with gusto, the sense that they don’t really ‘gets it’ remains. In contrast Max Porter is a rare wonder whose poetic characterisations in his debut novel show a deep understanding of human emotion. Porter’s Grief Is A Thing With Feathers tells one family’s journey through grief in three first-person narratives; that of Dad, of The Boys, and of grief anthropomorphised as a crow who lives with them as they struggle to take stock of their new lives. Through lyrical prose, the parties grapple with the idea of grief, as Crow visits the individuals in very different ways. The boys express confusion as they discover the black calling-card feathers of Crow on their pillows. By contrast, their father feels his spiteful, incessant clawing and despairs as the bird heartlessly mocks his sorrow. Having worked as a Commissioning Editor at Portobello Books, taking care of Man Booker prize-winner Eleanor Catton, Porter sure has a lot to live up to with his first foray into novels. However he takes his influences – including Ted Hughes’ poetry collection Crow – and background and runs with it, creating a wonderfully rich scene throughout that feels as though you are peering through a neighbour’s window. Porter adeptly examines the way we understand grief and deal with loss over time in a beautifully bittersweet manner through writing so natural that Dad’s grief feels startlingly personal – I cried throughout. However it is in Crow’s omniscience that his writing really succeeds, and though you often hate the unwanted visitor, his twisted support is understandable and strangely desired. A stunning examination of mourning, this is a difficult yet compelling read that I am recommending to everyone. 9/10 (Review by Holly McKenzie)

O FICTION The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves is published in hardback by Macmillan. FAT, middle-aged detective Vera Stanhope seems an unlikely heroine. But the dishevelled sleuth has won millions of fans through Ann Cleeves’ gritty crime thrillers, and the TV adaptation starring Brenda Blethyn. In the seventh and latest book, Vera is investigating a double murder in a sleepy Northumberland, UK village. The victims make an unlikely pair, with one a fresh-faced graduate and the other an older ‘grey man’ – and no obvious connection between the two. There are no gimmicky plot devices here, as Cleeves, also author of the popular Shetland series which has been adapted for television too, shows she is the master of innuendo, smooth prose and deeply drawn characters. Equally enjoyable is the sub-plot,

poking fun at ‘retired hedonists’ in their 60s who party harder than their children. If there is a successor to Ruth Rendell’s alter-ego Barbara Vine, it must surely be Ann Cleeves; she certainly proves it with this humorous, meaty read. 9/10 (Review by Gill Oliver) Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape. BILL Clegg was a powerhouse literary agent whose crack addiction became both his downfall and the source of his personal renaissance. Having hit rock bottom, his celebrated memoirs on substance abuse, Portrait of An Addict As A Young Man and Ninety Days, pulled him back to the literary top. Judging by his debut novel, Did You Ever Have A Family, the top is where Clegg plans to stay. The story opens with the fatal explosion at a town house the evening before a wedding – four are killed. It is not the cause of the freak accident that proves to be the spine of this tale though. Instead, the elaborate, eventful and unconventional lives of the survivors form the focus. The short chapters, all written from the perspective of individual characters, elegantly detail the storylines as they start intersecting. Through distinctive and instantly recognisable characters, this novel finds beauty in pain, grief and regret. 8/10 (Review by Alexander Santema) Stories From Other Places by Nicholas Shakespeare is published in hardback by Harvill Secker. DIPLOMAT’S son Nicholas Shakespeare is well-travelled, and his collection of short fiction does exactly what it says on the tin: it transports the reader to different places around the globe, and frequently back in time as well. The first story, more of a novella really, is the most important. ‘Oddfellows’ is a tale constructed around a real but half-forgotten incident – The Battle of Broken Hill in 1915. Astonishingly, two Afghan camel herders actually did launch their own do-it-yourself jihad in the middle of the Australian Outback. The historical significance, and tragedy, of the episode might lead one to suppose the book is a difficult read. But Shakespeare writes sympathetically and convincingly about women, and he also believes in the power of love. If the literary integrity of his stories is sometimes undermined by a romantic sensibility that would do credit to a Mills & Boons novel, we can forgive him that, can’t we? 8/10 (Review by Liz Ryan)

The First Thing You See by Gregoire Delacourt is published in hardback by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. GREGOIRE Delacourt’s The First Thing You See (translated by Anthea Bell) sets you off on a vWhat if” story, about that person who changes your life in a special way. Arthur Dreyfuss, a mechanic, living alone in a village in France, is settling down one evening when there is a knock on the door. Standing in front of him is Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson, or so it would seem. You see Arthur had never thought himself special, but when he sees the beautiful actress standing there, he’s on cloud nine. Unfortunately, although possessing a striking resemblance to the actress, Jeanine Foucamprez is not she... and her story is very different from the actress’s. The story centres around Arthur and Jeanine as they enter a relationship that exposes both of their pasts and reveals that, although they have a dark side, love can appear anywhere.

A very easy and at times comical read, if the real-life Scarlett Johansson had had her way, the book would not have published in English. 6/10 (Review by Phil Robinson)

O NON-FICTION Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin is published in hardback by Nicolas Brealey. DESPITE the reassuring title, the first few chapters of Humans Are Underrated present a bleak picture of the future for humans in the world of work. Geoff Colvin, a senior editor at Fortune magazine and author of Talent Is Overrated, demonstrates that the impressive and quickening pace of technological progress means workers who thought their jobs could never be replaced by machines, could find in the not-too-distant future that they too have reason to feel threatened by the rapid advance of infotech – he refers to gardeners and lawyers, cooks and

Nicholas Shakespeare’s “Stories From Other Places” includes a novella about the 1915 Battle Of Broken Hill. PHOTO: RANDOM HOUSE.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015 managers. Stick with Colvin though, and what follows is an insightful exploration of the uniquely human qualities that should ensure there’s always a place for humanity in business. Inspirational case studies show how to get the best out of people by tapping into particularly human skills, and highlight that much more can be made of these skills now; why wait for an uprising of the machines? 9/10 (Review by Steph Williams) Black Earth: The Holocaust As History And Warning by Timothy Snyder is published in hardback by The Bodley Head. TIMOTHY Snyder has fashioned a very cautionary book warning that the kind of crimes that happened in the Holocaust can reoccur in our time given the troubles we face, such as climate change and racial conflict. His case is convincing, especially when he reminds us of the Rwandan massacres of 1994. The exhaustion of Rwanda’s arable land and an absolute decline in crop yields began a chain of events ending in the country’s government turning the nation’s people against each

other, encouraging the Hutus to kill Tutsis, a policy most successful where there were land shortages. Snyder also rightly defends the idea of the nation state, pointing out that a country is most vulnerable to mass killings when the state is at its weakest. The vast majority of the book is given over to the Hitler years and it’s odd and unfortunate that Snyder saves his warnings about our time and the future merely for the book’s 24-page conclusion. 6/10 (Review by Chris Gibbings) The WikiLeaks Files: The World According To US Empire is published in hardback by Verso Books. WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange may have been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past three years, but the whistleblowing publication has continued to unearth secret cables which have caused huge controversy and embarrassment to the United States government.

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A new book, the WikiLeaks Files, analyses some of the revelations unearthed among the 2.3 million diplomatic cables and other US State Department records so far published. In a forward to the book, Assange – who is trying to avoid being extradited to Sweden to be questioned about a sex allegation because he fears being taken to the US – details the anatomy of the US empire. He describes how radio and satellite antennas “scrape the air” in scores of countries, disgorging diplomatic cables or “mass-intercepting” mobile phones. In one of the chapters, WikiLeaks investigations editor Sarah Harrison offers a guide to using the cables. 6/10 (Review by Alan Jones)

Civil disobedience O UR daily dose of crime, domestic violence, child abuse and economic failure flowing from the media is more than any civilised country should experience. As history has demonstrated it is possible to achieve law and order but it takes courage to overcome the agendas of the minority who take a nation down a negative path. The perpetrators need to know that they will experience dramatic physical violence if they commit the crime. Psychological counselling is not the answer. Henry David Thoreau was born in a Massachusetts village in 1817 and later in life lived in isolation for several years in a log hut. He had a preference for simple, austere living and revolted against the demands of society and government. He wrote “Walden and Civil Disobedience”. He presents an interesting view on the role of government, and on page 386 he writes, “Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It doesn’t keep the country free. It

` If anyone thinks this is barbaric, well then, please don’t bring your 18-year-old to Singapore...

does not settle the West. It does not keep, educate.” Adam Nicholson has written “The Mighty Dead” with a subtitle “Why Homer Matters”. The book is a journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by some of the oldest stories we have. Included are the great ancient tales of Homer and their metaphors of life and suffering. It explains why Homer still matters and how these poems – with their focus on the eternal questions about the individual versus the community, honour and service, love and war – tell us how we became who we are. We don’t have to leave Australia to learn that last year the government paid out $240 million in welfare payments. This has to prove that we, and Greece, rely on government for income. TV views of people in Greece demonstrate the views held by people that the government owes them benefits. In the UK a recent article notes the excessive benefit payouts and accommodation provided to refugees – next to it is the pathetic comparison of an ex-military man

wounded in the Iraq war living in poverty. When are we going to make an intelligent distinction between economic and genuine refugees? Reading James Phelps books “Australia’s Most Murderous Prison” and “Australia’s Hardest Prison” demonstrates that the inmates are in control of the asylum. Various cultures within the jails are in physical conflict, drugs are imported, bashings are a regular feature. Capital punishment has been abolished but it is OK for prisoners to murder each other. Now this wasn’t always like that. In the 1970s pressure groups brought about the elimination of physical punishment on inmates – and the system has gone downhill ever since. There was a time when car registration plates, along with other products, were produced by inmates. Have you ever been to Singapore? Many of us might have stayed whist in transit to a further destination but the culture becomes clear. Everyone plays their part to live there and everyone has accommodation. Everyone who can work, has a job. It is a key financial hub of Asia. There is no litter in the streets. Crime is virtually unheard of. And why is this so? Just released is “Lee Kuan Yew – The Man & His Ideas” by Han Fook Kwang; it relates Lee’s profound influence on Singapore’s development. In 1954 he formed the People’s Action Party and became Prime Minister in 1959. In 1962 he led Singapore into a merger with

Asking For It by Louise O’Neill is published in hardback by Quercus Children’s Books. BEAUTIFUL and popular Emma O’Donovan, possessing that typical teenage mix of vanity and insecurity, isn’t initially the most likeable narrator, but 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 drawing 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, whose refreshingly empathetic voice shines through in spite of the torrent of vitriolic abuse her protagonist receives. A timely, gripping and vital novel. 9/10 (Review by Katie Wright)

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From the bookshelves by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection Malaysia but the union lasted only three years. Lee Kwan Yew identified a future for his country. In the 1960s Singapore had a racially mixed population largely of immigrant stock, most of them uneducated. He introduced fine legal principles to suit the society. On page 201 it relates his reactions to a court case where four Muslim men walked free after killing an RAF officer, his wife and child. After that trial he decided that the Anglo-Saxon tradition of trial by jury was not going to work and the measures he introduced went on to make Singapore a much safer place. Take another example from Lee Kwan Yew’s book: on page 193 it discusses what he sees as “the simple matter of crime and punishment. Vandals and other criminals had to be taught not to repeat their misdeeds. Better yet is they were deterred from committing their anti-social acts through the certainty that the law would seek them out relentlessly and inflict tough justice. This included a mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking, murder, armed robbery or

kidnapping, and caning for vandalism, violent rape and molest, and the unlawful possession of a weapon. Lee was unapologetic about this tough minded approach. This was how he had managed to keep Singapore’s once gangster-ridden streets safe.” He goes on, “If anyone thinks this is barbaric, well then, please don’t bring your 18-year-old to Singapore. And if you bring him, please warn him about the consequences.” This matter was discussed at the National Press Club of Australia, drawing applause. I don’t expect that terrorists now being released from Indonesian prisons will seek asylum in Singapore. This model of Law and Order could be looked at by Australia. We have a murder a day, prohibited drugs are traded with little inhibition, and 64 women have been killed so far this year in domestic assaults. And the best we can to is to spend millions upon millions of dollars on soft options. Punishments certainly don’t fit the crimes. Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Moorambilla Voices Year 10 Celebration Concert BY CHERYL HUSBAND DUBBO was privileged to have the Who’s Who of the Arts world at the Dubbo Regional Theatre on Saturday, September 19. From Minister for the Arts Troy Grant and his wife Toni, to local boy Jacob Williams who was the Choreographer along with CEO of Australian Music Centre John Davis. I spoke to some of the audience as they were leaving the evening performance at the DRTCC and they were totally blown away with the show; they were amazed and couldn’t believe that a performance with over 200 participants would flow so well – and be so loud with all the drums! To finish off the night everyone strolled over to Victoria Park for the lighting of the 2015 Moorambilla sign and VIP guests then returned to the theatre for drinks and nibbles.

Entertainment for the evening was ‘Bread and Butter’ Billie McCarthy and Alice Terry

Leichardt Espresso Chorus

John Davis, Troy and Toni Grant with Artistic Director Michelle Leonard

Alice Chance, Jacob Williams and Andrew Howes

Mike Webb, Annette Larke, Melinda Bech, Nigel Cadogan and Jim Heming

Ben Burton, Anthony Pitts, Andrew O’Connor Richard Black and Clive Birch

Caroline Pugh, Samantha Ryan, Barbara Hearne with Elaine Moore

Moorambilla sign

Tony Grant, Taylor Nasmith, Michelle Leonard, Yue Liang with Toni Grant

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Phil Emmanuel with Bill Ryan at the Old Bank BY CHERYL HUSBAND THE Old Bank Restaurant welcomed musicians Phil Emmanuel and Bill Ryan on Saturday, September 19, for a special performance. Patrons were treated a meal, and a stellar show with Phil commonly referred to as Australianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best electric guitarist.

Jade Adams with Mandy Earl

Bill Larsen, Colin Baldwinson, Kent Johnston, Greg Hudson, Judy Baldwinson, Kate Hudson and Pam Larsen

Phil Emmanuel with Bill Ryan at the Old Bank Restaurant

Les Howard with Carol Brett

Tim and Virginia Kwast, Kath and Denise Sheridan

Raine and Burnie McMillan with Mick Picton

Adrian and Jane Driscoll

Gayle Sheppard, Joy Tink, Clare Moon and Warren Holmes

Jo Ellis, Kim Wright, Rex and Kerry Gower

Scott and Alison Fuller

Denise Corse, Enid Botherton with Tammy and Ewen Jones

Jade Adams and Mandy Earl

Sandra Kingston with Rick Davis

Bill Ryan

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School of Rural Health 2014/15 Cohort Farewell BY ROB THOMSON THE Savannah Room played host to a farewell function for the future doctors from The School of Rural Health, Dubbo’s Own Medical School. Each year 32 students from The University of Sydney elect to undertake one year of their training in Dubbo. The students were seen off by doctors from the hospital, and around the region, as well as the clinical school’s staff. The first half of the 2015/16 cohort arrives in a week’s time.

Kiffin Miller, Mark Arnold, Thomas Melhuish and d’Arcy Ferris Baxter

Steve Gluckman, Anna Lawless, Veronica Powys and Anna Rikard-Bell (the 6th)

Shivawn Stevens, Adrienne Cohen and Henry Guo

Veronica Powys, Tim Chow, Olivia Watson, Marley Pulbrook and Jeniffer Fiore-Chapman

Steph Pitt, Jono Sandeford and Paul Roth

Melia Condon, Dinuke de Silva, Abigail Fox, Sarah Minto and Anthony Brown

Nikki Robertson, Gabrielle Arnold, Kate McKellar Stewart and Alana Gedrose

Steve Gluckman receiving the 2015 Community Involvement and Media Award

Sarah Minto, Blake Loughran, Henry Guo and Abigail Fox

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Wine and nourishment at Old Dubbo Gaol BY ROB THOMSON OLD Dubbo Gaol played host to a night of tapas, wine and live music under the stars on Friday, September 25. Guests enjoyed the atmosphere, food and tunes, whilst browsing craft markets from local artists.

John Baylis, Tim Wright, Kate Wright and Amanda Parish-soon-to-be-McKay

Erol, Marty, Kirrily, Madi, Lewis and Jo

Krystle Harvey and Jess English

Noelene Rawson and Rae Ayling enjoying the warmth of the heater

Dennis McGaw, Matt Parmeter and Jenny Hewish admiring the work of Sallie from Arc Art

Judith Kruger and Judith Van Der Wath from Crafts by Crazy J

Ngaire selling delicious treats from Indulge on Macquarie

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hear Garden. Saturday evening brings busking and a sausage sizzle, and the Wellocal Sheep Shinding Dinner. On Sunday, head to the Blackwattle Fair at Mumbil, Burrendong Arboretum will have a plant sale and guided tours, and Yeoval will host Banjo Patterson Museum tours from 9am – 4pm. There’s something for everyone to enjoy on the October long weekend in Wellington! From Friday 02 October 2015 to Sunday 04 October 2015, visit www.wellingtonspringfest.com.au.

...Poetry and music in the pubs! AND SO much more. Wellington’s SpringFest, held on the October long weekend each year, will prove to be bigger and better than ever. On Friday, events get underway with bush poetry and music in the pubs. From 8am on Saturday, there will be markets in Cameron Park, a street parade, bands, dancers, Fowler steam engine, vintage cars, floats, chariot races and a Tug-o-war competition, along with children’s events, food outlets, school art exhibition and competition, and an historical re-enactment in the Sunken

...Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts THINK you know the stories of The

Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Goldilocks and Jack and the Beanstalk? Think again! Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts bursts off the page in a spectacular new live show, taking the world’s best-loved fairy tales and rearranging them with some unexpected and hilarious twists. A visual feast that combines a rocking sound track, immersive lighting design, dance, song, shadow puppetry and four of the country’s best comic actors who bring over 40 characters to life. Held on October 3 and 6, visit www.drtcc.com.au for more information.

see ...All the rugby league action DUBBO is proud to host the 45th Annual NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Championships in October. Some 5,000 people will visit Dubbo over four days to compete and enjoy a feast of top-level rugby league. Teams will be drawn from all corners of the State and will include current and former NRL players. The

region’s premier football venue, Caltex Park will be the venue for the Championships commencing on Friday 2 October.

...Gayby Baby ACCORDING to Benjamin Law, Gayby Baby is “a tender, intimate and unmissable look into the personal lives of families who are needlessly politicised”. Reading Cinemas hosts a movie presen-

tation of Gayby Baby, a portrait of four Australian kids – Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham – whose parents all happen to be gay. As they each wrestle with the challenges of oncoming adolescence, the outside world wrestles with the issue of marriage equality, and whether or not kids like them are at risk. Reserve your tickets online at www.tugg.com/ event/45244 for Wednesday, October 21.

...Disney locked up

ers and children, but also support the Dubbo Women’s and Children’s Refuge in various ways. They want you to know you are not alone on this journey.

ers and watch the parade in the main street, party in the afternoon at Coo-ee Park with stalls, entertainment, Woodchop, Coo-ee calling competition, novelty games, children’s rides, and much more. Start Sunday with the Coo-ee Cup golf competition, children’s activities in Hunter Park, and live entertainment in the evening. On Monday there will be a picnic in the bush at the Native Flora Reserve. Come along and enjoy the fun on the October long weekend.

BRING the family, a picnic rug, your pillows and your inner child to Old Dubbo Gaol’s Disney Locked Up. Screening movies chosen by the public on the Outdoor Cinema Screen, experience Disney magic beneath the stars. Don’t miss out! Held on Saturday, October 3, visit www.olddubbogaol.com.au for more information.

do ...Value your mind

Page to keep updated.

MENTAL HEALTH Month NSW is a part of a national mental health promotion campaign held throughout October each year. To kick off, Headspace in conjunction with StarFM are hosting a Scavenger Hunt. To win prizes, find Nic in Black Betty and grab a package, enclosed will be a green pule, collect all four and enter the draw to win a major prize. Stay tuned to Headspace Dubbo’s Facebook

...Hang up your mops JOINT the Annual Hang Up Your MOPS Market Day Fundraiser on the 17th of October – 8am til 12.30pm at 51 Sheraton Rd, Dubbo. MOPS is a non-profit organisation run by the local church. They provide support and friendship for mothers of young children. At Generocity MOPS Dubbo, they work not only to provide a quality program for moth-

....Coo-eeee COME to the Festival on the October long weekend! The festival will be kicking off with an exhibition and galleries at the Coo-ee Heritage Centre and then onto the Friday night poetry competition. On Saturday enjoy the busk-

etc. Mumbil Blackwattle Fair

formation visit www.mumbil.nsw.au.

THE Mumbil Blackwattle Fair is an annual event, held this year on Sunday, October 4. The main feature of the day is the famous ‘Chuck Akubra’. This is a competition where participants literally throw an Akubra hat. The person who throws the hat the furthest wins a hat donated by Akubra. Other activities on the day include market and food stalls, fashion parade by the Wellington Historical Society, Black Wattle Prince and Princess, (Senior and Junior) fishing competition, (every player wins a prize) chocolate wheel, raffles (win an original painting), and the fire brigade challenge. There will be music at the Burrendong Hotel 4pm to 8pm. For more in-

Mungery Picnic Races GET your backside trackside for the annual Mungery Picnic Races this Sunday, October 4. Six race program with TAB and bookmakers, fashion in the field, mid race auction, Mungery Dash for Cash and children’s entertainment with a jumping castle and more. Enjoy a catered lunch in the Mungery Marquee. For those wanting a more casual meal or snack visit one of the food vans, the coffee van or barbecues. And you are welcome to bring your own picnic lunch. Watch the NRL Grand Final live at the bar and enjoy live entertainment by Tantrum. For more information visit www.mungerypicnicraces.websyte. com.au.

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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

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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

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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

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

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, October 2 MOVIE: Monsters Vs Aliens

MOVIE: GoldenEye

The Project

GO!, 6.30pm, PG (2009)

WIN, 8.40pm, PG (1995)

TEN, 6.30pm

Right before her wedding to selfcentred weatherman Derek (Paul Rudd), a meteorite from outer space transforms young woman Susan (Reese Witherspoon) into the ultimate bridezilla. The gentle giant is quickly taken to a secret government compound where she’s enlisted, along with other monsters including a fish man (Will Arnett) and a moronic blob (Seth Rogen), to fight obnoxious alien Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) and his enormous robot. Monsters vs Aliens is littered with a seemingly endless supply of sharp, smart laughs, making it a battle worthy of spectating.

Pierce Brosnan brought the lucrative franchise back to life with his portrayal of 007. He fights a deadly enemy in Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a former M16 agent who holds the world to ransom with a satellite nuclear weapon. Bond travels to Russia to retrieve “GoldenEye”, secret codes that release the weapon, track down Trevelyan and see that sexy partner Natalya (Izabella Scorupco) doesn’t get harmed in the process. It doesn’t help that the enticingly named Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) is on his tail. Brosnan is suave and charming, and was pivotal in the revival of the popular series.

eps powering on, Defying critics, The Project keeps perhaps stronger than ever, five years after it changed the face of news by y offering a more casual and fluid format. Carrie rrie Bickmore is one of the last original panellists left eft standing, with a host of new faces having joined ned the news desk. Bickmore has proved an asset to the show, winning over audiences iences with her honest approach, so o much so that she snagged a coveted Gold Logie at this year’s ear’s awards. It’s not often a newss reporter gains such a rapport rt and following among viewers. rs. Bickmore is joined by funnyman Peter Heliar and lawyer and writer Waleed Aly (right).

ABC

PRIME7

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 Inside The Commons. (R, CC) 11.30 Whatever Happened To The Charismatics? (PG, R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 2.00 Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Midsomer Murders. (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) 10.00 The Morning Show. (PG, CC) The latest news and views. 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Dadnapped. (PG, R, CC) (2009) After a famous author is kidnapped by a group of overzealous fans, it is up to his daughter to rescue him. Emily Osment, David Henrie. 2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news. 3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted by Bradley Walsh. 4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

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6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Fiona and the team pay a return visit to Seaton Delaval Hall, where they examine some local treasures. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program. 8.00 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC) (Final) Barnaby and Jones investigate after a man’s body is found entangled in a birdcatching net, in a local lake. 9.30 Secret State. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 4. The British prime minister vows to take on the American petrochemical company responsible for a devastating accident which claimed the lives of 19 people. However, the situation takes a twist when the prime minister dies in a mysterious plane crash. 10.15 Lateline. (R, CC) 10.45 The Business. (R, CC) 11.00 Tattoo Tales. (M, R, CC) Takes a behind-the-scenes look inside a busy tattoo studio on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. 11.35 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Ideas and DIY projects for the house and garden, as well as recipes and entertaining tips. Hosted by Johanna Griggs. 8.30 MOVIE: The Break-Up. (M, R, CC) (2006) Feeling under-appreciated and neglected, an art dealer decides to break up with her partner and begin dating other people in an effort to make him jealous. Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams. 10.45 MOVIE: In Bruges. (AV15+, R, CC) (2008) After a hit goes wrong, two professional assassins from London are ordered to go into hiding in the Belgian town of Bruges. Given time to contemplate their lives, they begin to question their views about life and death as their employer makes his own plans for their future. Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes.

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

1.05 Home Shopping.

Today. (CC) Mornings. (PG, CC) News. (CC) WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show. Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos. 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 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.00 Neighbours. (R, CC) 7.30 Bold. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, CC) 2.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals. (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. (R, CC) 4.30 Cindy Crawford: Hospital In The Sky. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Life Story: Power. (PG, R, CC) Sir David Attenborough charts the six stages of life animals go through, from birth to parenthood. He continues by focusing on how an animal’s chances of “winning” the game of life will be a whole lot better if it can first manoeuvre itself into a position of power. 8.40 MOVIE: GoldenEye. (PG, R, CC) (1995) In the wake of an electromagnetic attack on a Russian weapons facility, Bond finds himself teamed up with one of the survivors as he tries to retrieve the key to a space-based nuclear weapon. Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco. 11.20 MOVIE: J. Edgar. (M, CC) (2011) J. Edgar Hoover recounts his career as head of the FBI, serving through eight presidents and three wars as he utilises methods both fair and foul to keep his country safe from those he deemed a threat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes. 6.30 The Project. (CC) 7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Amanda Keller catches up with Matt Damon, star of the new movie The Martian. Jamie Durie creates a revolution in a couple’s front yard. Chef Miguel Maestre makes a caramel macadamia slice. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) (Series return) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with celebrity guests, including Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Bill Bailey and Marion Cotillard, and musical performance by The Weeknd. 9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Guests include Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Cal Wilson, Sarah Harris, Arj Barker and Sam Frost. 10.30 MOVIE: A League Of Their Own. (PG, R, CC) (1992) During World War II, a diverse group of American women bands together to form a professional baseball league. Tom Hanks, Madonna, Geena Davis.

6.00 Classic Floyd: Floyd Around The Med. (CC) British celebrity cook Keith Floyd’s culinary exploration of the Mediterranean continues in Spain. He begins his journey in Barcelona. 6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 The Classic Car Show. (CC) Quentin takes a look at the MGB, a classic sports car which he considers to be underappreciated. 8.35 MOVIE: Animal Kingdom. (M, R, CC) (2010) Following the death of his mother, a teenager moves in with his estranged relatives, a notorious Melbourne crime family, only to find himself caught up in the battle between them and a group of corrupt police. Jacki Weaver, James Frecheville, Guy Pearce. 10.35 World News. (CC) 11.05 MOVIE: Kiss Me. (M) (2011) A woman falls for her future step-sister after meeting her for the first time at their parent’s engagement party. Ruth Vega Fernandez, Liv Mjönes, Krister Henriksson.

1.50 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 2.50 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 3.20 Anger Management. (PG, R, CC) 3.45 WIN Presents. (R, CC) Music special. 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

1.10 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) The doctors look at the role of dads in child birth and whether they should be present in the delivery room. 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 Home Shopping.

1.00 MOVIE: Golden Gun. (M, R) (2008) A labourer tries to hold down two jobs. Alfredo Bertazzoni. 2.50 MOVIE: The Counterfeiters. (AV15+, R) (2007) Karl Markovics. 4.40 You Like It, I Love It. (M) 5.00 Korean News. 5.35 Japanese News.

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CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence. (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks. 0210

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015

Friday, October 2 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.55pm Lucy (2014) Sci-ﬁ. Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman. (MA15+) Premiere

7.00pm Cougar Town. Grayson tells Jules the truth about Laurie. (PG) SoHo

8.30pm Tennis. ATP 250. Malaysian Open. Quarterﬁnals. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Brokeback Mountain (2005) Drama. Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal. The love story of two cowboys. (M) Masterpiece

8.30pm Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker. Chris Rock extols his wit and wisdom on such topics as gun control, President Clinton, homophobia, racism, black leaders and relationships. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.30pm Tony Robinson’s Gods & Monsters. Sir Tony Robinson investigates superstitious beliefs. (M) History

10.20pm The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (2013) Fantasy. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen. Bilbo Baggins continues his epic quest. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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 Around The World. (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, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Winter Wipeout. (R, CC) 8.30 Catfish: The TV Show. (M, CC) 9.15 Outsiders With Darren McMullen. (M, CC) 10.00 Second Chance. (M, CC) 10.15 Jimmy Fallon. (M, CC) 10.55 Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 11.35 Louie. (PG, R, CC) 11.55 Louie. (M, R, CC) 1.20 Louie. (MA15+, R, CC) 1.40 Louie. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 News Update. (R) 2.05 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) (Final) 5.05 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) 5.20 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) (Final) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) (Final) 5.40 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 9.40 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 9.55 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 10.00 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.45 SW: Clone Wars. (R, CC) 11.05 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 11.30 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 12.00 Prank Patrol Road Trip. (R, CC) 12.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 12.55 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 1.20 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R) 1.50 WAC. (R, CC) 2.15 Blue Zoo. (R, CC) 2.40 Handball Heroes. (R, CC) 2.45 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 3.15 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 3.45 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 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 Roy. (CC) 5.45 World’s End. (R, CC) 6.15 Trop Jr. (R, CC) 6.20 Spooksville. (PG, CC) (Final) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.55 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (R, CC) 8.50 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (PG, CC) 9.25 Kamisama Kiss. (PG, CC) 9.45 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Close.

9.30pm Kirstie’s Vintage Home. LifeStyle

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Match It. (C, CC) 7.30 Tashi. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Toybox. (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 Command Center. (PG, R) 1.00 Air Crash Investigations. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 3.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 3.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. (R) 4.00 Bewitched. (R) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) Presented by Tim Wonnacott. 7.30 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Escape To The Country. Jonnie Irwin heads to South Lincolnshire. 10.30 Best House On The Street. (PG, R) 11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 2.00 Command Center. (PG, R) 3.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 4.00 Neighbours At War. (MA15+, R) 4.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 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 Ultimate Spider-Man. (R) 11.30 The Chosen Few 2: Life Of An AFL Captain. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Charlie’s Angels. (PG, R) 2.45 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 3.45 Who’s The Boss? (PG, R, CC) 4.45 MOVIE: Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant. (PG, R, CC) (2009) Chris Massoglia. 7.00 MOVIE: Hellboy. (PG, R, CC) (2004) A demon grows up to become a hero. Ron Perlman. 9.30 MOVIE: Hellboy II: The Golden Army. (M, R, CC) (2008) A team of outcasts battles a ruthless elven prince. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair. 12.00 MOVIE: The Unborn. (M, R, CC) (2009) Odette Annable. 1.45 Jail. (M, R) 2.45 NFL. Week 3. Carolina Panthers v New Orleans Saints. Replay.

7.30pm Secret Tapes Of The O.J. Case. (M) Crime & Investigation 10.30pm Killer Whales: The Ultimate Guide. Looks at the extraordinary variety and complexity of killer whale behaviour. (PG) Animal Planet

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 PAW Patrol. 7.00 Sonic Boom. 7.30 Move It. 8.00 Kitchen Whiz. 8.30 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 9.00 Magical Tales. 9.30 PAW Patrol. 10.00 SpongeBob. 10.30 Rabbids. 11.00 Scooby-Doo! 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 12.30 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 1.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 1.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 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, R) 6.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Monsters Vs Aliens. (PG, R, CC) (2009) 8.30 MOVIE: Superman Returns. (M, R, CC) (2006) Brandon Routh. 11.50 Anger Management. (PG, R, CC) 12.20 GO Surround Sound. (R, CC) 12.30 MAD. (M, R) 1.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 1.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.00 Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. (M, R, CC) 3.00 MAD. (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 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 Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Quiet Weekend. (R, CC) (1946) 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 Kings Cross ER. (PG, R, CC) A look at St Vincent’s Hospital’s ER. 8.30 MOVIE: Hereafter. (M, R, CC) (2010) Three people are touched by death in different ways. Matt Damon, Cecile De France. 11.05 MOVIE: Plenty. (M, R, CC) (1985) A woman struggles to make a life for herself. Meryl Streep. 1.30 MOVIE: The Small Back Room. (PG, R, CC) (1949) David Farrar, Jack Hawkins. 3.30 MOVIE: The Lady With A Lamp. (R, CC) (1951) 5.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC)

9.00pm Baseball. MLB Post Season Impact Games. ESPN 10.00pm Golf. European PGA Tour. Dunhill Links Championship. Second round. Fox Sports 3

Scarlett Johansson stars in Lucy

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 8.30 Adv Angler. (R) 9.00 Rally Australia ARC Event Review Pt 1. (R, CC) 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 White Collar. (PG, R) 2.00 Megastructures. (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) 8.30 Cops. (PG, R) Follows police officers on patrol. 9.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R, CC) Follows police officers on patrol. 9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Deadly Crossing. (M, R) (2011) A squad of cops battle drug dealers. Steven Seagal. 11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 2.00 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Race 14. Japanese Grand Prix. Highlights. 3.00 Cops. (PG, R) 3.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Adv Angler. (R) 4.30 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 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 Caroline In The City. (PG, R) 12.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG) 3.30 Raymond. (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) 8.30 Dating Naked. (M) (Series return) Two singles spend 10 weeks on an island. 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.30 You’re The Worst. (MA15+) (New Series) 11.00 Movie Juice. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 12.30 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 1.30 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 2.00 JAG. (PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, 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 From Cyprus. 4.00 MOVIE: Sophie’s Revenge. (PG, R) (2009) 6.00 PopAsia BigBang Concert Special. (PG) A performance by BigBang. 7.35 If You Are The One. (R) Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.35 MOVIE: The Thieves. (MA15+) (2012) A gang of Korean thieves is challenged to steal a diamond hidden in a Macao casino. Jung-Jae Lee, Kim Hye-Soo, YunSeok Kim. 11.00 MOVIE: Lan Kwai Fong 3. (R) (2014) Whitney Hui. 12.45 MOVIE: 20th Century Boys. (AV15+, R) (2008) 3.20 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 My Animal Friends. 10.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 Froth. 11.30 I Live, I Breathe, I Surf. 12.30 Away From Country. (PG) 1.30 Survive Aotearoa. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 My Animal Friends. 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 Koori Knockout Wrap Up. 6.30 The Wanderers: Football Journeys. 7.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 9.30 MOVIE: Australian Rules. (M) (2002) Nathan Phillips. 11.00 Dead Creek. (PG) 11.30 Australian Biography. 12.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 1.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 3.00 MOVIE: Australian Rules. (M) (2002) Nathan Phillips. 4.40 Mamu. (PG) 4.50 Dead Creek. (PG) 5.00 Defining Moments. 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. 5.55 Heywire. 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News With Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 News With The Business. (CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

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Saturday, October 3 Graceland

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

ONE, 9.30pm No, this US drama series is not about the home of Elvis – no doubt a few fans of The King have been left disappointed after excitedly tuning in. Here, “Graceland” is a confiscated southern California beach house that a bunch of undercover agents from various US law-enforcement agencies call home. Tonight, Mike (Aaron Tveit) is recruited by a Nigerian drug kingpin to teach gang members how to be more accurate marksmen. Elsewhere, Jakes (Brandon Jay McLaren) and Tuturro (Manny Montana) find themselves working with a flirty and dangerous pot farmer. For the residents of Graceland, action and danger are never far away.

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ABC, 8.30pm From the impressive esplanade of Edinburgh Castle in bonny Scotland, the 2015 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, with the massed bands of the RAF and the Queen’s Colour Squadron taking centre stage. First staged in 1950, it combines the traditional sounds of the bagpipes and drums with the modern aspects of the armed forces. It’s a sight to behold, with plenty of men in kilts, bag pipers and drummers, and Highland dancers. Consider it a warm-up for when the real thing comes tooting along to Melbourne in February.

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MOVIE: The Blind Side e GEM, 7pm, PG (2009) Sandra Bullock (right) trumped d Meryl Streep for the Best Actress Oscar in this is warmhearted sports drama based on a true story. tory. Bullock is in stellar form as Leigh Anne Tuohy, uohy, a wealthy Memphis socialite who puts a roof over the head of homeless black teenager er Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) after he befriends ends her precocious son S.J. (Jae Head).. Together with her husband Sean (country singer ger Tim McGraw), the gutsy mother-of-two -two helps the gentle giant overcome a childhood ildhood of poverty and parental neglectt to become a rising star in the NFL. L. Though not without its racist undertones, this underdog tale takes an inspiring real-life story to compose ompose an emotionally involving and satisfying film.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Restoration Australia: Emmaville. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce. 2.00 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC) A body is found entangled in a bird net. 3.30 Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide: The First Steps. (R, CC) Part 2 of 4. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney. 5.00 Inspector George Gently. (PG, R, CC) (Final) A left-wing academic is murdered.

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Join Andrew O’Keefe and Edwina Bartholomew on AFL Grand Final day from Federation Square, Melbourne. 9.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) Host Hamish McLachlan is joined by guests for a look back at the season. 11.00 AFL Grand Final PreGame Show. (CC) Join Brian Taylor, Luke Darcy, Matthew Richardson, Cameron Ling, Sam Lane and Mick Molloy for a preview of the big game. 2.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Grand Final. Hawthorn v West Coast. From the MCG.

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 MOVIE: Mr Troop Mom. (R, CC) (2009) A man attends a scout jamboree. George Lopez, Daniela Bobadilla. 1.40 Celebrity Apprentice. (PG, R, CC) A group of challengers battle it out. 3.00 House Husbands. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Adam’s Pasta Pilgrimage. (CC) (Final) 4.30 Getaway. (PG, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (CC)

6.00 RPM. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics. (R, CC) 7.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Doctors. (PG, 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 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities. (R, CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Zumbo. (R, CC) 2.30 Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Wars. (PG, R, CC) 3.25 Monster Moves: Total Towns. (R, CC) 4.25 History Cold Case: The Woman And Three Babies. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 The Plantagenets: The Death Of Kings. (PG, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia. (CC) Jane checks out a mass planting of daffodils. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) (Final) An elderly woman with dementia turns up at a police station, saying she wants to report a murder. 8.30 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. (CC) A spectacular show of military precision, entertainment, massed pipes and drum performances, marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. From Edinburgh Castle, Scotland. 10.00 When The Beatles Drove Us Wild. (M, R, CC) The story of The Beatles’ one and only tour of Australia and New Zealand in June, 1964. 11.00 The Chaser’s Media Circus. (PG, R, CC) A mix of journalists, comedians and regulars dissect the week’s news and media through a series of satirical games. 11.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) Rafe Spall joins Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker for an off-beat look at the week’s events.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. (PG, R, CC) (1999) In a faraway galaxy, two Jedi are sent to negotiate a settlement over the blockade of a peaceful planet. However, instead they uncover evidence of a conspiracy that threatens intergalactic peace. Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman. 9.45 To Be Advised. 11.45 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) After Barry tells him it is impossible for men and women to be “just friends”, Adam finds himself becoming nervous around Emmy. Erica and Beverly argue about Beverly’s predilection to snoop.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Ocean’s Eleven. (PG, R, CC) (2001) A recently paroled thief recruits an elite team to break into the bank vaults of three casinos in one night. However, their plans are thrown into jeopardy after it turns out the mastermind’s ex-girlfriend has been dating the owner of the businesses they are planning to rob. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon. 9.30 MOVIE: Olympus Has Fallen. (AV15+, CC) (2013) After the White House is taken over by a terrorist mastermind and the president is kidnapped, a disgraced former presidential guard must use his inside knowledge to help save the America’s commander-in-chief. Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart.

6.00 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown continues to lend a helping hand at the Marlin Coast Veterinary Hospital in Cairns. 7.00 MOVIE: Turbo. (CC) (2013) A garden snail obtains the power of super speed thanks to a freak accident. However, he quickly discovers that no one succeeds on their own, as he sets out to accomplish his dream of winning the Indy 500. Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Maya Rudolph. 8.55 MOVIE: Hancock. (M, R, CC) (2008) A public relations expert tries to give a dishevelled, unpopular and harddrinking superhero a public image makeover. An unexpected revelation about the source of his abilities has potentially deadly consequences. Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Charlize Theron. 10.50 MOVIE: The Pursuit Of Happyness. (M, R, CC) (2006) A struggling, single parent sets out to secure an internship with a stockbroking firm. Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Wild Arabia: Sand Wind And Stars. (CC) Part 1 of 3. Explores the nature, people, landscape and history of Arabia. From the oryx which helped inspire the myth of the unicorn to long-legged jerboa, horned vipers, glowin-dark scorpions and nomads racing camels, it is a world which has to be seen to be believed. 8.35 MOVIE: Hotel Rwanda. (M, CC) (2004) Based on a true story. During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, a hotel manager tries to save the lives of over a 1000 refugees by sheltering them at his workplace, despite the risk to himself and his family. Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte. 10.50 MOVIE: Half Of A Yellow Sun. (M, R, CC) (2013) After sisters return home to Nigeria in the ’60s, they find their lives diverging on very different paths. However, when a civil war breaks out, they put aside their differences to join forces and fight to establish an independent republic. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton.

12.05 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by a special guest programmer. 5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.10 Missing. (M, R, CC) Becca and her CIA mentor join forces with Dax Miller to locate Paul’s assassin who she suspects was working for Russian Intelligence. Michael is warned about what will happen if he tries to escape. 1.00 Home Shopping.

12.00 MOVIE: Risky Business. (M, R, CC) (1983) A teenager becomes involved with a call girl. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay. 3.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.00 Count Arthur Strong. (PG, R) 5.00 Extra. (R, CC) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) The latest ideas and inspirations for the home, garden and lifestyle with Walt Collins and Dani Wales. 5.00 Hour Of Power. (R) Religious program.

12.55 Who Do You Think You Are? Ainsley Harriott. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 MOVIE: Storm. (R) (2009) Kerry Fox. 4.50 Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything? (R) 5.00 CCTV English News. (CC) 5.30 NHK World English News. (CC)

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015

Saturday, October 3 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

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6.30pm 22 Jump Street (2014) Comedy. Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill. A pair of underachieving cops go undercover at a college. (MA15+) Premiere

7.30pm Discovering Bowie. Looks at how Bowie has changed the way we look at the world. (PG) Arts

8.30pm Flipping Ships. Edwin and the crew strike gold with a Yukon Delta. (PG) Discovery

6.00pm Grand Final Day. Fox Footy

8.30pm Keeping Up With The Kardashians. (M) E!

9.30pm Mad Dog: Inside The Secret World Of Muammar Gaddafi. (MA15+) History

8.30pm Easy A (2010) Comedy. Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes. (M) Comedy

10.30pm A Touch Of Frost. Jack Frost returns to duty. (M) UKTV

10.25pm Cuban Fury (2014) Comedy. Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd. Follows a 13-year-old dancer’s strive to greatness. (M) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.05 Bob The Builder: Project Build It. (R, CC) 2.20 Tinga Tinga Tales. (R, CC) 2.35 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker Around The World. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket. (R) 5.00 The Hive. (R, CC) (Final) 5.10 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) (Final) 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, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 The Hoarder Next Door. (PG, R, CC) 8.20 The Home Show. (CC) 9.05 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 9.50 The IT Crowd. (M, R, CC) 10.15 Sexy Beasts. (M, R, CC) (Final) 10.45 Archer. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.05 Red Dwarf. (R, CC) 11.35 Red Dwarf. (PG, R, CC) 12.05 Red Dwarf. (R, CC) 3.05 News Update. (R) 3.10 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. 7.45 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 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. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Little Lunch. (R, CC) (Final) 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) 4.00 You’re Skitting Me. (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) (Final) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly 60. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 10.25 Degrassi. (R, CC) 10.45 Close.

9.30pm Treasure Quest: Snake Island. A storm approaches. (M) Discovery

8.30pm Rugby Union. World Cup Classic Match. 2003 Final. Australia v England. Fox Sports 2 9.30pm Soccer. EPL. Fox Sports 4

Kim Kardashian stars in Keeping up with the Kardashians

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 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Horse Racing. Spring Carnival. Features two Group 1 races, the $500,000 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) and the $500,000 Epsom Handicap (1600m). 5.30 Coastwatch. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) A speeding biker claims a medical emergency. 7.00 MOVIE: Phenomenon. (PG, R, CC) (1996) An ordinary man becomes a genius. John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick. 9.40 Castle. (M, R, CC) Beckett’s former partner is murdered. 10.40 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) Two murders are investigated. 11.40 Wire In The Blood. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 3.30 Borderline. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) 11.00 AFL Grand Final Pre-Game Show. (CC) 2.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Grand Final. Hawthorn v West Coast. 6.00 AFL Grand Final PostGame. (CC) Post-match analysis of the AFL Grand Final. 7.30 MOVIE: Arachnophobia. (PG, R, CC) (1990) A small town is attacked by killer spiders which have been accidentally transported from the Amazon jungle. Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman. 9.45 MOVIE: Hannibal. (AV15+, R) (2001) An escaped serial killer, hiding in Italy, is tracked by an FBI agent and a horribly mutilated victim out for revenge. Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Giancarlo Giannini. 12.30 MOVIE: Apocalypse Now. (AV15+, R) (1979) Martin Sheen. 5.00 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Home Shopping.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 ScoobyDoo! (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 Buzz Bumble. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 5.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 6.00 MOVIE: Happily N’Ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite At The Apple. (R, CC) (2009) G. K. Bowes. 7.30 MOVIE: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. (PG, R) (1986) Matthew Broderick. 9.40 MOVIE: Wayne’s World. (PG, R) (1992) Mike Myers. 11.40 MOVIE: Major League. (M, R, CC) (1989) Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen. 1.50 MAD. (M) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Megaforce. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Quiet Weekend. (R, CC) (1946) 7.50 Tasty Conversations. (R, CC) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 Antiques. (R, CC) 9.00 MOVIE: Happy Go Lovely. (R, CC) (1951) 11.00 MOVIE: Wonderful Life. (R, CC) (1964) 1.20 Postcards. (CC) 1.50 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 2.20 MOVIE: Gone With The Wind. (PG, R, CC) (1939) Vivien Leigh. 7.00 MOVIE: The Blind Side. (PG, R, CC) (2009) A homeless teenager becomes a gridiron player. Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw. 9.40 MOVIE: P.S. I Love You. (M, R, CC) (2007) A dying man leaves letters for his wife. Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler. 12.10 MOVIE: The Cruel Sea. (PG, R, CC) (1953) The adventures of a convoy escort ship. Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden. 3.30 MOVIE: Kind Hearts And Coronets. (PG, R, CC) (1949) 5.30 River Cottage Bites. (R) 5.45 Rugby Union. World Cup. England v Australia.

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Animal Extra. (R, CC) 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 12.00 River To Reef. 12.30 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Sheer Bloody Murder: The Sandakan Story. (PG, R) 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Megastructures. (R) 4.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R) 5.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 5.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) A CIA agent is caught stealing chemicals. 7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) The team pursues a bomber. 9.30 Graceland. (M) Mike is recruited by a Nigerian drug lord. 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) (Final) 1.30 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 5.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. Round 2. Replay. From Murray Bridge, South Australia.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 4.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) (Final) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Ray and Debra renew their wedding vows. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with celebrity guests, including Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. 9.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, R) Talk show hosted by American comedian Stephen Colbert. 10.30 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG, R) Hosted by James Corden. 11.30 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted by Scott Tweedie. 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 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 PopAsia BigBang Concert Special. (PG) 2.35 Vs Arashi. (R) 3.30 MOVIE: Summer Wars. (2009) Michael Sinterniklaas, Brina Palencia. 5.30 PopAsia 101: Your Guide To Asian Pop. (CC) 6.30 We Are Young. 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 MOVIE: 20 Once Again. (2015) A grandmother is transformed into a young woman. Zishan Yang, Ya-Lei Kuei. 10.55 Space Dandy. (New Series) 11.55 Assassination Classroom. (New Series) 12.55 MOVIE: 20th Century Boys Chapter 2: The Last Hope. (AV15+, R) (2008) Toshiaki Karasawa. 3.30 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian 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 NITV News Week In Review. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 I Live, I Breathe, I Surf. 1.30 Froth. 2.00 Surfing. Australian Indigenous Surfing Titles. 3.30 Around The 44. 4.30 Around The Campfire. 5.00 Unearthed. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Koori Knockout Special. 6.30 Unearthed. 7.30 Kai Time On The Road. 8.00 Listen Up! 8.15 Dance Free. (PG) 8.30 Away From Country. (PG) 9.30 MOVIE: Once Were Warriors. (MA15+) (1994) A family who are descended from Maori warriors are treated as societal outcasts. Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell. 11.15 Whadjuk To Wadjemup. 11.45 Unearthed. 12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Landline. (CC) 6.30 The World This Week. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.15 News. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Drum Weekly. 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Foreign Correspondent. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 The Drum Weekly. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Landline. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 0310

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Sunday, October 4 Compass

The Seventies

Scorpion

ABC, 6.30pm

SBS, 8.35pm

TEN, 6.30pm

Forget tender beginnings and Hollywood endings for a moment and think about the real-life nittygritty of long-term relationships. The repetitiveness, the unglamorous division of domestic chores, the fights and the in-laws – all will add strain on even the strongest relationship at one point and in this fascinating series, Jane Caro tries to find the secret to long-lasting coupled bliss. Diving under the sheets of five couples, she explores what happens when the honeymoon period is over and how they deal with sickness, infidelity, addiction, children and death – all the stuff that make or break any relationship.

Disco, mood rings, flower-power, lava lamps and big hair can all be pinned on the 1970s but there was plenty more going on in this decade that had a profound impact across America and the world. This fascinating four-part documentary series examines the individuals and events that marked the turbulent decade starting with the Watergate scandal that led Richard Nixon to become the only president in US history to resign while in office. On the lighter side, we jive back to TV in the ’70s, where new technology sophistication brought shows with unique formats such as Saturday Night Live.

We’ve probably all got that friend nd or colleague an just look at a or infant family member that can u haven’t yet and computer, press the one key you hese smartypants fix the seemingly unfixable. These ttle smug with techo-whizzes may appear a little their skills, but when our next best option was to ndow, we have to throw the computer out the window, ch-savvy crew on love them all the same. The tech-savvy Scorpion have shifted far beyond d simple fix-it g skills to jobs and now use their hacking help the US government keep the de, country safe. In tonight’s episode, g the team has to prod the failing py memory of an injured former spy to prevent nuclear weapons being launched from a secret US base. Stars Robert Patrick (right).

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WIN

TEN

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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 Hannah Gadsby’s OZ. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Making Dust. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Sounds Like Home. (R, CC) 3.30 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. (R, CC) 5.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) (Final)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 Kochie’s Business Builders. (CC) (Series return) 11.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. (R, CC) 12.00 Bewitched. (R, CC) 12.30 The Paleo Way. (R, CC) 1.00 Border Security USA. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 To Be Advised. 2.30 MOVIE: Remember Sunday. (PG, R, CC) (2013) Alexis Bledel. 4.30 The Long Weekender. (CC) (New Series) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today. (CC) News, current affairs and sports. 10.00 Wide World Of Sports. (PG, CC) Hosted by Ken Sutcliffe. 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG, CC) (Final) Hosted by Peter Sterling. 1.00 Rugby League. (CC) Holden Cup. Grand Final. Penrith Panthers v Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 3.45 Rugby League. (CC) State Championship. Grand Final. Newcastle Knights v Ipswich Jets. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home. 7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 11.30 Animal Extra. (CC) 12.00 TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 iFish. (R, CC) 1.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (CC) 2.00 Rally Australia ARC Event Review Pt 2. (CC) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) 4.00 RPM. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 France 24 English News. (CC) 6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. (CC) 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 Cycling. Evocities MTB Series. Highlights. 5.00 The Bike Lane. (CC) 5.30 Churchill’s First World War. (PG, R, CC) Churchill’s experiences during World War I.

6.00 The Book Club. (CC) Jennifer Byrne, Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger are joined by Adam Liaw and Virginia Gay for a discussion about Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt’s latest offering Undermajordomo Minor as well as the classic Gulliver’s Travels by AngloIrish satirist Jonathan Swift. 6.30 Compass: For Better For Worse Pt 3. (CC) Guest presenter Jane Caro explores the secret to successful long-term relationships. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Doctor Who. (PG, CC) The Doctor and Clara pay a visit to an underwater base lying at the bottom of lake. 8.30 Vera. (PG, CC) A suspected poacher is found dead from a single gunshot wound. 10.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Leo is determined to uncover the circumstances surrounding the death of Eve Gilston. 11.00 Silk. (M, R, CC) Martha she defends an old friend who is accused of being responsible for a gangland execution.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) (Series return) Current affairs program. Hosted by Melissa Doyle. 8.00 Border Security: International. (PG, CC) An American hoping to go on a holiday cruise is busted trying to catch a different kind of trip. Multiple currencies may equal one big problem for a returning Canadian. 8.30 MOVIE: Forrest Gump. (M, R, CC) (1994) A kindhearted, yet simple minded man, recalls the story of his extraordinary life to anyone who will listen to him, while he waits for the bus to take him to the only woman he has ever loved. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Sally Field. 11.20 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) Annie and McQuaid’s relationship continues to deepen as they head to Buenos Aires. Joan decides that Belenko’s usefulness has ended.

6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 NRL Grand Final PreMatch Entertainment. (CC) Pre-match entertainment, including a performance from Cold Chisel. 7.15 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Grand Final. Brisbane Broncos v North Queensland Cowboys. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 9.15 NRL Grand Final PostMatch Presentation. (CC) Join the commentary team for views, opinions, analysis and post-match interviews, as well as the presentation and victory lap. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 10.00 The NRL Footy Show Presents Highway To Happiness. (M, CC) Highlights from the show, including an encore of their biggest adventure, The Highway to Happiness. 11.00 The AFL Footy Show Presents: Old Man Crawf. (M, CC) AFL legend Shane Crawford disguises himself as a 90-year-old man and pranks some of the biggest names in the game, including Chris Judd, Bernie Vince, Leigh Montagna, Jarryd Roughead and Mitch Wallis. Hosted by Garry Lyon.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public. 6.30 Scorpion. (PG, CC) Walter and the team help a traumatised former US Secret Service agent regain his memory. 7.30 TBL Families. (PG, CC) The teams get set to face the scales once more, but first they must face another gruelling, last-chance training session with Tiffiny Hall, Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton and Steve “Commando” Willis. Hosted by Fiona Falkiner. 8.30 MOVIE: World War Z. (M, CC) (2013) After a zombie outbreak, a former UN special agent embarks on a worldwide search for the source of the infection hoping the information will give survivors the edge they need to reclaim the planet. Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Matthew Fox. 10.50 MOVIE: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. (AV15+, R, CC) (2012) During the US Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln battles vampires. Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Ultimate Tutankhamun. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 2. Egyptologist Dr Chris Naunton continues to conduct a forensic investigation into the cause of death of Tutankhamun. 8.35 The Seventies: The United States Vs Richard Nixon And Television In The Seventies. (CC) Part 1 of 4. An examination of the individuals and events that influenced and shaped the ’70s. From how a poorly executed burglary led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, to the introduction of sophisticated new TV programming. 10.10 Genesis: Sum Of The Parts. (M, CC) Takes a look at one of the most successful British bands in rock history, Genesis. With former members Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford. 11.50 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro di Lombardia. Bergamo to Como. From Italy.

12.05 MOVIE: Gardens Of Stone. (M, R, CC) (1987) James Caan. 1.50 MOVIE: The Falcon Out West. (PG, R, CC) (1944) Tom Conway. 3.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Silk. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Message Stick. (R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

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

12.00 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Impractical Jokers. (M, CC) 1.30 Extra. (CC) 2.00 Spyforce. (PG, R) 3.00 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.55 48 Hours: Murder In Pinyon Pines. (M, R) A look at the murder of a family. 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program. 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC)

2.20 Passione: A Musical Adventure. (PG, R) A musical tribute to Neapolitan life and lust. 3.55 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (M, R, CC) 4.50 Flashback. 5.00 CCTV English News. (CC) 5.30 NHK World English News. (CC)

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 02.10.2015 to Sunday 04.10.2015

Sunday, October 4 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm Howl (2010) James Franco, Jon Hamm. (MA15+) Arts

6.00pm Screen. Film critic Margaret Pomeranz and author and actor Graeme Blundell discover, digest and review ﬁlm, television and online TV. (PG) Arts

7.00pm Secret Museums. An exploration of curious and bizarre objects. (PG) History

4.00pm Rugby League. NSW Cup. Final. Ipswich v Newcastle. Fox Sports 1

7.30pm Agnetha: ABBA And After. Looks back at Agnetha Fältskog’s music career and her life off-stage. (PG) Biography

6.00pm Tennis. ATP World Tour 250. Shenzhen Open. Final. Fox Sports 3

8.30pm The Fault In Our Stars (2014) Romance. Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort. Two teenagers fall in love at a cancer support group. (M) Romance 8.35pm The Blind Side (2009) Drama. Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron. A homeless teenager becomes a gridiron player. (PG) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.05 Bob The Builder: Project Build It. (R, CC) 2.20 Tinga Tinga Tales. (R, CC) 2.35 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.50 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) (Final) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) (Final) 4.25 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket. (R) 5.00 Octonauts. (CC) 5.20 Octonauts And The Mariana Trench Adventure. (R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) (Final) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Dinosaur Train. (R, CC) 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 To Be Advised. 8.30 Diaries Of A Broken Mind. (M, R, CC) 10.00 I Took My Baby’s Life. (MA15+, CC) 10.50 Inside Solitary Confinement. (M, R, CC) 11.45 Outsiders With Darren McMullen. (M, R, CC) 12.35 The Fades. (MA15+, R, CC) (Final) 1.30 News Update. (R) 1.35 Close. 5.00 Penelope. (R, CC) 5.05 Wild Animal Baby Explorers. (R, CC) 5.20 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.40 64 Zoo Lane. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.55 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) (Final) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) (Final) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) (Final) 8.20 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) (Final) 8.30 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) (Final) 9.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Grojband. (R, CC) (Final) 10.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) (Final) 10.50 Canimals. (R) (Final) 11.00 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 11.30 So Awkward. (R) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.00 House Of Anubis. (R) (Final) 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 Roy. (R, CC) 4.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 4.55 Big Babies. (R, CC) (Final) 5.10 Life With Boys. (R, CC) (Final) 5.35 Sadie J. (R, CC) 6.10 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (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.

6.45pm Nashville. (PG) SoHo 7.30pm Fashion Police. Melisa Rivers and her fashion team dissect the week’s celebrities, events and style, all with a hilarious point of view. (MA15+) E!

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Michael Youssef. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R) 12.00 Travel Oz. (CC) 12.45 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Lyndey Milan’s Taste Of Australia. (R) 2.00 The Travel Bug. (PG) 3.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 3.30 Command Center. (PG, R) 5.30 The Border. (PG, R) 6.30 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) Two women become trapped. 7.30 Escape To The Country. (R) Aled Jones heads to Devon. 9.30 Escape To The Continent. A look at homes for sale in Carinthia, Austria. 10.45 Best Houses Australia. 11.15 Command Center: Eurotunnel, Between England And France. (PG, R) 12.15 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.15 Escape To The Continent. (R) 3.30 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping. 9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Athletics. Townsville Running Festival. 12.00 NFL Game Day. (PG) 12.30 Sound FX. (PG, R) 1.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 2.00 Turtleman. (PG, R) 2.40 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 3.40 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 4.40 MOVIE: Are We There Yet? (PG, R, CC) (2005) 6.40 MOVIE: Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. (PG, R, CC) (2011) Johnny Depp. 9.30 MOVIE: The Running Man. (AV15+, R) (1987) A man takes part in a deadly game show. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso. 11.35 1000 Ways To Die. (AV15+, R) 12.30 NFL. NFL. Week 4. Miami Dolphins v New York Jets. From Wembley Stadium, London, England. 3.30 Sound FX. (PG, R) 4.00 NFL. NFL. Week 4. Washington Redskins v Philadelphia Eagles. From FedEx Field, Landover, Maryland.

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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. (R) 11.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 11.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 12.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Dennis The Menace. (PG, R, CC) (1993) 8.30 MOVIE: Batman Forever. (PG, R, CC) (1995) Batman takes on two new enemies. Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones. 11.00 Car SOS. (PG, R) 12.00 The Originals. (AV15+) 1.00 MOVIE: Rock Star. (M, R, CC) (2001) Mark Wahlberg. 3.10 Green Lantern: The Animated Series. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Megaforce. (PG, R) 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 Australia. Continued. 8.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Skippy. (R) 10.00 MOVIE: Our Man In Marrakesh. (PG, R, CC) (1966) 12.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Rugby League. (CC) Holden Cup. Grand Final. Penrith Panthers v Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. 3.45 Rugby League. (CC) State Championship. Grand Final. Newcastle Knights v Ipswich Jets. 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 NRL Grand Final PreMatch Entertainment. (CC) 7.15 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Grand Final. Brisbane Broncos v North Queensland Cowboys. 9.15 NRL Grand Final PostMatch Presentation. (CC) From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 10.00 MOVIE: The Terminator. (M, R) (1984) Arnold Schwarzenegger. 12.20 Believe. (M, R, CC) 1.20 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct. 3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 9.00 Movie Juice. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 World Sport. (R) 10.00 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 11.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 1.00 Moments Of Impact. (PG, R) 2.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 3.00 Temporary Australians. 3.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R) 4.00 Adv Angler. 4.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up Downunder? (R, CC) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) Potter holds a competition. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) Follows officers on patrol in the US. 8.30 Bondi Ink Tattoo. (M, R) A revelation shocks Wendy. 9.30 MOVIE: Prosecuting Casey Anthony. (M) (2013) A man is tried for his daughter’s murder. Rob Lowe, Elizabeth Mitchell. 11.30 World Sport. 12.00 RPM. (R, CC) 1.00 48 Hours: Wounded By Love. (M, R) 2.00 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 4.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Diamond Divers. (PG, 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) 12.30 To Be Advised. 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) Bender becomes a paparazzo. 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) A filmmaker returns to town. 8.30 MOVIE: American Dreamz. (PG, R, CC) (2006) Contestants compete on a musical talent show. Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid. 10.45 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, R) 11.45 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.45 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 1.25 Nurse Jackie. (M) 1.50 The Crazy Ones. (M) 2.20 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 3.25 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Indonesian News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Celebrity Chef. 2.35 Vs Arashi. 3.35 MOVIE: Wolf Children. (2012) 5.40 Battle For Money. (New Series) 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 MOVIE: Love. (2012) Eight people find their lives inadvertently become intertwined as they search for love. Qi Shu, Mark Jau, Wei Zhao. 10.50 Space Dandy. 11.50 Assassination Classroom. 12.50 MOVIE: 20th Century Boys: The Final Chapter – Our Flag. (AV15+, R) (2009) Resistance fighters battle an evil regime. Teruyuki Kagawa. 3.40 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian 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 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. Day 1. From Dubbo, NSW. 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant. 7.00 Ngurra. 7.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) Shorts from communities across the country. 8.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 8.30 Yalukit Wilam Ngargee. (M) 9.30 MOVIE: What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted? (MA15+) (1999) Five years after splitting with his family, tragedy brings a man to a family reunion, sparking a confrontation with his son. Temuera Morrison, Clint Eruera, Nancy Brunning. 11.30 Seaman Dan And Friends. A look at Seaman Dan. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 12.00 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 0410

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1. Some hated changing dwelling-place (9) 8. How many will be returning in bow-ties? (3) 9. He has an uplifting occupation (5,6) 11. The money that is for the golf club (7) 12. Come again about unfinished remedy (5) 13. It is hard to vary salad food (6) 15. The point at which to find the middleman? (6) 17. Abode of Roman origin (5)

18. More than one summary continues after a break (7) 20. One of the strains of the chase! (7,4) 22. I will follow the Spanish patriarch (3) 23. Unusual places etc. could be something worth seeing (9)

DOWN 2. One using it intends to have a row (3) 3. See 19 Down 4. One who works for his deserts (6) 5. I’d written up poetry that’s different (7) 6. Observed by those who are meticulously on the beat (6,5)

7. Insurance allows for bedlinen (9) 10. Depart from one’s craft (7,4) 11. It’s made to react to pressure (9) 14. They reduce the shock from jumps (7) 16. Trip for one in old-fashioned vessel (6) 19 & 3 Dn. They travel to view a prophet in spectacles! (5-5) 21. In the speculation I lost nothing (3)

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was 20th-century American journalist and cartoonist Robert Quillen who made the following sage observation: “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” z In a recent survey of parents with adult children, 45 per cent of respondents said they would rather stay in a hotel than in the home of one of their kids. z In 2009, the government of Saudi Arabia established a special Anti-Witchcraft Unit to combat the practice of sorcery. By 2011, there were nine bureaus in cities across the country. The following year, 215 people were arrested for sorcery. z Those who study such things say that all kangaroos are left-handed. z When you think of hibernation, you probably picture a bear holing up in a cave for the winter, right? You might be surprised to learn that creatures don’t just hibernate

by Samantha Weaver to get through the winter months; almost any adverse environmental condition can trigger such a response. For instance, on the island of Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur hibernates for seven months during the dry season. z Wildlife biologists say that the milk from a mother hippopotamus is pink. z The size of a 5-cent piece represents the halfway point between the size of an atom and the size of the earth. If an atom were the size of a 5-cent piece, a nickel would be the size of the earth. Thought for the Day: “I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn’t threaten my faith. And if one’s faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people’s lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don’t you think?” – Andrew Sullivan

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QUICK CLUES ACROSS 7. Extemporisation (13) 8. Practise (8) 9. Harden (4) 10. Slumbering (6) 12. Bosom (6) 14. Journalist (6) 16. Last (6) 18. Effigy (4) 20. Cruel (8) 22. Hide (3,3,2,5)

DOWN 1. Dipped (8) 2. Zephyr (6) 3. Across (4) 4. Gather (8) 5. Steady (6) 6. Labour (4) 11. Sponger (8) 13. Direct (8) 15. Fat (6) 17. Purify (6) 19. Stag (4) 21. Handy (4) 18,897

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) As much as you may feel like ‘going it alone’ this week, there is more sense in letting someone help you. There is much to do and missing out on just a few details could be a problem. How can you concentrate when your mind has to deal with too many things at once? As you approach the weekend, you are inspired. Listen to someone who knows you well. You may not like their ideas but their reasoning speaks to your soul.

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TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) It

is great having a busy life and being in demand. Even so, the chances are that lately you have been doing too much. Have a good look now at your overall health and be more realistic. Take on what you need to, rather than what others want you to. There is a big difference, believe me! It comes to your attention that others have differ-ent approaches to your situation. However, check them out for long-term success before adopting them.

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Having

got through a lot of work and organisation recently, you could now be feeling a little flat. Gather your thoughts and energy and look for your next project. Don’t rush into anything but do a bit of research. Someone with experience will likely save you a lot of time and money. Nothing seems very easy this week. Others are a bit lethargic and unimaginative. Perhaps you need to look outside your immediate surround-ings and experience?

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Someone or something is blocking your time and imagination and needs sorting out. An open and honest discussion may be long overdue as, until the air is cleared, it will be hard to make progress. With a bit of compromise, the weekend could bring the solution. Maybe use some of that charm? Sometimes just getting on with some-thing different solves a sluggish situation. It is easier, this week, to deal with matters at home if you do it your way.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Gathering your thoughts and making sense of them is not always easy. At the moment there is some confusion about what you really want. While that is spinning around in your head it is hard to concentrate. Every word gives the chance of a misunder-standing, so take care. A discussion about money at the weekend could involve the welfare of a loved one. You are worried about making the wrong decision. Trying something out be-fore you decide it is the best way forward.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Perfec-

tion is not what you are looking for this week. What you are looking for are simple solutions to many small problems. With high energy and the willing-ness to work hard, you are a real asset. Just make sure partners are pulling their weight. The hand of friendship and the way forward seem to blend together this weekend. You may not want to face certain facts, and that is your decision. However, be wise.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Are you

looking to improve or develop a relationship? With your mind sharp, this is a great week to make a start. Get out of your emotional rut by going and doing something different with your partner. Those who are single could now meet some-one to become close to. The advice is the same, though: get out and land yourself in a new place. Someone who appears to be very needy pulls at your heartstrings. Before you give anything away, however, look a little closer!

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SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) Dreams are bringing you

inspiration and a certain yearning. When you wake, do you feel those dreams are impossible? That is where you need to take control and shape them into a more practical picture. Mystery and intrigue send shivers down your spine. Meeting with others who are new to your experience really opens your mind and heart. Certainly the attraction of the unknown has never been stronger.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Plan properly and you can

now start to take the steps to make your dreams a reality. When someone makes promises, realise it is their intention to fulfil them if possible. That may leave a big question mark over their involvement, of course. A financial blip could leave you feeling low. Has this filtered down from your work? Is someone having a joke? Maybe, but stay cool and calm until you know the facts.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN

20) Getting into the groove is not the same as getting into a rut. In a groove there is room for movement. In a rut you seem to be stuck. What do you have to do to be free to move forward? It would be good to be able to skim over life for a while ra-ther than get bogged down. Someone wants your love. How long will they wait? Your cash is under threat if you let anyone take advantage of you. Be wary of promises and sob sto-ries.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

Get moving in all areas of your life this week. Change something at home, in your work, with your relationships and mainly in your attitude. At times the river of life will run alongside you, sometimes it will wash over you. Don’t force any is-sues but do keep moving forward. Money and romance run alongside each other. Guard your cash but be generous with your love.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Sometimes we

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can all be our own worst enemy. How often have we found ourselves saying or doing something just to make a point? Don’t waste your time with petty matters this week. There is a chance to improve a current relationship that should not be missed. Cash flow problems should clear in the next week. Some days you may not feel that you have enough to offer someone close. Do remember, though, every day that passes sees a new chance to move forward.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Lovely Libra looks always for the good in others. However, be a little sharper in the months ahead. Mixed messages can mean mixed feel-ings. Time will tell if someone is on your side or just playing along. Business as usual, please. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Others can sometimes be a great big puzzle to you, Libra. When you have to rely on them, however, you need to make decisions. Going by the way someone has behaved in the past will tell you a lot. Stay clear and cool. Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with musician and comedian Tim Minchin (below) who turns 40. There are many distractions in the months ahead, Libra. It is up to you to decide who is worth your time and who is not. Sharpen up your instincts and you won’t go far wrong. Listen and you do learn! Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bring experience to bear when dealing with new people in the months ahead, Libra. Relatives can sometimes be more reliable than friends as they tend to have a more informed view. Listen, but not for the sake of gossip. Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Success comes in dribs and drabs. This can be time-consuming and irritating. Someone who has far superior knowledge may be able to help. Could you trade charm for experience? Friendly advice rates highly, Libra. Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Brisk encounters do not rate highly with you, Li-bra. When you realise this is how someone operates at their best, however, you could re-lent. Get to know those you would normally avoid.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3512

This week's Sudoku

This week's Snowflakes

This week's Go Figure!

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Taking the overall picture into account, Libra, you are not doing so badly. If we take into account your impatience, however, maybe a slap on the wrist is in order? Give others a chance to be different.

Mega Maze

Find the Words solution 871 In good hands DUAL CROSSWORD 18,956 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Homestead; 8 Two; 9 Crane driver; 11 Brassie; 12 Recur; 13 Radish; 15 Centre; 17 Manor; 18 Resumes; 20 Hunting song; 22 Eli; 23 Spectacle. Down: 2 Oar; 3 Seers; 4 Earner; 5 Diverse; 6 Strict tempo; 7 Coverlets; 10 Abandon ship; 11 Barometer; 14 Springs; 16 Cruise; 19 Sight; 21 Nil. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Broadcast; 8 Rot; 9 Appropriate; 11 Process; 12 Unite; 13 Sturdy; 15 Relate; 17 Items; 18 Ailment; 20 Exasperated; 22 Tan; 23 Desperate. Down: 2 Rip; 3 Drove; 4 Arrest; 5 Traduce; 6 Predicament; 7 Statement; 10 Procurement; 11 Passivity; 14 Discard; 16 Campus; 19 Large; 21 Eat. DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 18,897 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Piano concerto; 8 Recounts; 9 Mine; 10 Moment; 12 Denise; 14 Stella; 16 Desert; 18 Salt; 20 Alewives; 22 Spinechiller. Down: 1 Dines out; 2 Encore; 3 Icon; 4 One-sided; 5 Yeomen; 6 Sten; 11 Tea dance; 13 Sergeant; 15 Litany; 17 Spills; 19 Alps; 21 Evil. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Improvisation; 8 Rehearse; 9 Bake; 10 Asleep; 12 Breast; 14 Editor; 16 Endure; 18 Idol; 20 Sadistic; 22 Get out of sight. Down: 1 Immersed; 2 Breeze; 3 Over; 4 Assemble; 5 Stable; 6 Work; 11 Parasite; 13 Straight; 15 Tallow; 17 Distil; 19 Deer; 21 Deft.

CryptoQuote answer

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Egypt. 2. Dorrie Evans. 3. Spanish Civil War. 4. Badminton. 5. Cheap booze. 6. South Africa. 7. “Robinson Crusoe”, by Daniel Defoe. 8. Puccini 9. Leo Tolstoy. 10. 1326. 11. Australia’s Grant Hackett did it in the 1500-metre freestyle between 1998 and 2005. 12. “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”. 13. “Bungle in the Jungle”, by Jethro Tull in 1974. Songwriter Ian Anderson explained that the song was a study of the human condition, using animals (monkeys, snakes, tigers, crocodiles) as analogies, all wrapped up in a catchy tune.

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