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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 09.10.2015 to Sunday 11.10.2015 Terror in Sydney

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Call for calm in the face of an unseen enemy

Jen Cowley editor@dubboweekender.com.au facebook.com/WeekenderDubbo Twitter @DubboWeekender

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John Ryan Food production and the real terror threat PAGE 10

Happiness The pursuit of happiness on World Mental Health Day PAGE 22

Heather Allan

PEOPLE

The CEO of the Lung Foundation Australia is a breath of fresh air

Leaping the generation gap with music to my ears

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Ross McCarthy

BUSINESS

Tourism: What goes around comes around PAGE 32

Camilla Barlow

LIFESTYLE

Exercise makes everyone a winner PAGE 34

Mark Seymour The man from Hunters and Collectors talks to Weekender PAGE 50

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Seven Days What I Do Know Tony Webber Sally Bryant Paul Dorin Watercooler

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PPARENTLY it has nothing to do with the offer (read: bribe) to cover all extra expenses, but m’darlin’ daughter has asked me – me! – if I’d like her spare ticket to see Fleetwood Mac in the big smoke with her later this month.

Does a bear... umm... is the Pope... well, anyway, it’s a yes from me.

The Oracle failed to come up with an acceptable counter-bid – seems his offer of a Stevie Nicks poster from his 1970s bedroom wall didn’t quite cut the mustard – so he’s staying home with the dog while we girls go road-tripping to spend a night with one of the world’s most iconic musical outfits. Seems fair.

I’m as happy as a clam – for two reasons (apart from seeing Fleetwood Mac live, of course). Firstly, I get to spend some quality car time with my little girl – a rare treat. But mostly because our shared taste for “the old stuff” validates her parents’ early efforts at musical indoctrination.

Get to ‘em early enough, and you’ll never have to spend six hours in a car singing “Chugga chugga, chugga chugga, big red car... ” on a loop and genuinely thinking about chiselling out your own teeth just to distract you from a Wiggles ear worm.

From the start, The Oracle and I refused to turn over the car stereo to our offspring’s musical whims. We fed them a steady diet of 70s and 80s classics – everything from Led Zeppelin to Elton John (that’s Sir Elton to you, my young friends) to Billy Joel and Neil Diamond and, when The Oracle could get hold of the controls, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. We chucked in a bit of country, some actual classical music and a smattering of cheesy pop just to keep things interesting.

And it worked just fine, thanks. Our kids have more than just a grudging respect for the music of their oldies’ youth; they actually enjoy it. They’ve paid for tickets to see artists and concerts most young’uns haven’t heard of, much less want to see live (Alice Cooper? Who’s she?) and the contents of their iPods are actually acceptable to the middle-aged ear.

With a few exceptions. The Son and Heir tried to tell me one day, after I did the whole “turn that horrible crap off” parent thing, that foul-mouthed American rapper Eminem is actually a modern day poet.

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I managed to hold onto the contents of my stomach long enough to explain, as calmly as I could, how that title belongs to someone far more worthy, more visionary, more lyrically gifted. “His name is Dylan. Bob Dylan.

“How about this then?” says my smirking son, playing another track from his iPod which was, granted, a bit of a toe tapper but the lyrics left something to be desired: “Well she ain’t into cars or pickup trucks, but if it runs like a Deere, man her eyes light up – she thinks my tractor’s sexy”. Sigh.

Still, it works both ways. Our children have introduced us to some fantastic music and musicians over the years, although it’s been amusing to sing along with a track they’ve just “discovered” only to find it’s actually a cover of an old tune from their parents’ youth. So little that’s new, it seems.

Except technology, of course – and the miracle Get to ‘em early of the iPod. We’ve come a long way from the days of enough, and cruising back to uni with you’ll never have the boom-box beside us on the bench seat, stopping to spend six at every town to buy more hours in a car batteries. singing “Chugga The iPod has made road-trips infinitely more chugga, chugga bearable. Time flies when chugga, big red you’re having fun with your own solo-concert. car... ” on a loop.

Sometimes it flies too fast – like when you’re listening to Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King from the Peer Gynt Suite and your foot is close to the accelerator... and here I was thinking Acca-Dacca was the most dangerous driving music on a double demerit long weekend.

Mercifully, the lapse in concentration was only momentary, and there were no members of the constabulary around during that short moment to worry about a middle aged idiot with an iPod in serious identity crisis.

So, armed with iPods full of both the old and the new, my gal and I are off to see Mick and Stevie and the gang, while her dear ol’ dad mopes around home listening to old Fleetwood Mac tunes with the dog.

Maybe I’ll shout him a new Stevie Nicks poster.

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Study seeks users to boost quad bike safety ` We need to find out how prevalent and how serious the accidents are in order to work out what can be done to prevent them.

– Dr Emma Webster (pictured far left)

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH AN unnecessarily high number of fatalities and injuries from quad bike accidents are under investigation by the University of Sydney’s School of Rural Health in Dubbo, and quad bike users are being asked to help find out more about why these accidents are occurring.

Over the past eight months of 2015, there have been 14 fatalities from quad bikes from both on-farm work activities and recreational use; almost 86 per cent of which were men, and a third of these were aged over 60 and classified as working accidents, according to information provided by Safe Work Australia.

While there’s been a lot of media coverage of quad bike accidents, particularly deaths, the message from organisations with an interest in rural safety doesn’t seem to be getting through.

Senior lecturer in rural research at the School of Rural Health, Dr Emma Webster says they’re keen to speak to people who work or live on farms and use quad bikes, to find out what

safety rules are used.

“Given there are a significant number of deaths on farms annually, it makes sense to investigate to determine if there are additional things that can be done to make quad bikes safer.

“Farmers and rural workers often have their own set of informal safety rules when it comes to their farm equipment.

“We’re interested in understanding what rules farmers have developed that apply to quad bikes, be it a general list of dos and don’ts, or the knowledge that they were taught as they were growing up and now apply themselves.”

Webster says sometimes people aren’t even aware there have been rules developed for the use of quads on farm.

The research in the process of being conducted is solely concerned with keeping people safe in farm environments.

“We really don’t know a great deal about quad bike accidents at this stage and comprehensive research has really only just begun to investigate the topic overall.

“We need to find out how prevalent and how serious the

accidents are in order to work out what can be done to prevent them.”

Webster says initially, the early stages of the research will

provide an idea of the range of tasks quad bikes are used for and the types of rules farmers impose on their own farms in order to keep their families and

workers safe.

“If we can determine the rules and behaviours people have around quad bikes, we can more accurately map this information to the types of injuries people sustain.

“The next stage will identify how prevalent these rules are, and our intention is then to study this in terms of who gets injured doing what.

“Our long term goal would be to contribute to the reduction of injuries and deaths from quad bikes in the farming sector.”

Researchers are looking to interview people who live or work on smaller and larger holdings where quad bikes are in use.

Interviews can be done over the phone or in person, with researchers even able to visit farmers on their properties within 90 minutes of Dubbo.

Interviews for the research have begun, however researchers are still recruiting and would welcome contact from people interested in being interviewed.

Any quad bike users interested in being interviewed may contact Dr Emma Webster on (02) 5809 9423 or email emma. webster@sydney.edu.au.

Hoppers hatching across region SCATTERED reports of hatchings have prompted warnings for central west farmers to check for locust activity, particularly around areas of bare soil like roadsides and contour banks.

Activity has so far focused around the areas of Elong, Coolah, Tambar Springs, Mullalley, Coonabarabran and Mendooran.

While farmers should wait until locusts begin banding to control, early reporting will allow Central West Local Land Services (LLS) to issue chemical and advice beforehand.

Landholders are urged to monitor for hatchings; dig known egg beds and areas of bare soil to inspect; and

report activity and prepare for control during banding.

Warmer weather has brought on hatchings over the past week, with some banding starting to occur from the season’s initial hatching.

The LLS says most reports are of locusts in the first instar stage, having not yet banded. However, some have begun to band together, making the identification and reporting of the sightings even more important according to the LLS, which says the prime time to control is before they take flight.

Locust activity should be reported to the nearest LLS office – call 1300 795 299.

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Call for calm in the face

BY JEN COWLEY EIGHT weeks ago, just days before embarking on a whirlwind tour of the US and the UK to discuss counter-terrorism measures, Troy Grant said in an interview that his greatest fear is the speed at which young people are being radicalised by a predatory Islamic extremists.

Last Friday, at the headquarters of the largest police organisation in Australia – a police organisation for which he has ministerial responsibility – the NSW Deputy Premier’s fear was borne out in bloody reality.

The indiscriminate slaughter of long-serving police accountant Curtis Cheng by a 15-yearold boy of Middle-Eastern heritage, clad in black, toting a.38 calibre Smith & Wesson handgun and reportedly shouting religious slogans was, says Grant, “the realisation of my worst professional nightmare�.

That the victim was part of the police “family� is distressing enough, but for Grant – himself a former police officer – that despair is compounded by the fact that the teenager, whom police shot dead before he could take any further lives, had shown up nowhere on authorities’ radar. “Here’s a kid who has senselessly slain another human being – a kid who was not previously known to police, had not raised any red flags or given any signals with the department of education of his radicalisation.

No traces of his radical behaviour were known to authorities before he carried out this terrible act.�

It’s this unseen threat, this hidden menace and its apparent unpredictability that has Grant and the authorities – and the law-abiding public at large – so deeply worried. “It magnifies what we’re up against,� he says.

In the aftermath of Curtis Cheng’s murder, political and public leaders – from the Prime

NSW Police Minister and Member for Dubbo, Troy Grant, looks at flowers placed for police employee Curtis Cheng outside of the NSW Police Headquarters in Sydney on Tuesday.

Mr Cheng died at the scene after being shot by 15-year-old gunman Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad, who was killed by officers responding to the shooting. PHOTO: AAP/PAUL MILLER

Minister down – have been criticised for tip-toeing around the language of what is now undeniably an act of terrorism. Some commentators have been scathing of the authorities’ initial reluctance to label the teenage gunman an Islamic extremist.

However, as Wednesday dawned and counter-terrorism raids swept across Western Sydney resulting in the arrest of five men – two aged just 16 and 18 – allegedly in connection with Cheng’s murder, there was no denying the reality. This misguided young murderer was part of a much larger and deeply sinister criminal cohort that has Australians in its sights.

Grant says he understands the public’s fears, but will not allow his personal frustration and anger to distract him from the task at hand, and defends the call for calm in the wake of last week’s incident.

He agrees the nature of policing has shifted because of this relatively new unseen enemy, but how does he, as a leader keep that public calm? “That’s a great question. It’s certainly been a focus of the language the Premier (Mike Baird), the police commissioner (Andrew Scipione) and I have used following the Parramatta incident. “There’s a natural instinct of

rage – people who are upset want to act out and seek vengeance. Those are feelings we completely understand but acting on those feelings can actually boil over into more innocent people being affected because of the actions of a minority.�

Grant says the focus needs to be on making sure the greater community “unites rather than divides in times like this�. “We have to look at the evidence and the facts, not deal with anecdotal perceptions or prejudices. We have to manage the community’s reaction at the same time as digging down into the cold, hard facts of what drove a 15-year-old boy to com-

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of an unseen enemy has a clear answer yet.”

The one common denominator in trying to find a solution is to start with families, he says.

“From what I’ve seen internationally and here in NSW, that’s the common thread – families play the most important role in this equation. It doesn’t matter what other strategies are at play through education, law enforcement or broader community engagement, it’s in the family where this kind of thing starts and where it will either end positively or fail.

“So our greatest focus needs to be on educating families and encouraging them to make sure they’re conscious of changes in behaviour and supported to report the kind of behaviour that might lead their children to do this sort of thing; to seek help and intervention. There are strategies we can implement to minimise this kind of threat, but the key will always lie in the hands of family.”

As a parent, a former police officer and now a politician with his hands on the reins of the nation’s most populous state, Grant is conscious of trying to drill down to the core of this apparent wave of disaffected youth. He believes part of it

is the vulnerability of teenagers that leaves the path wide open for predatory zealots.

“It’s the general nature of teenagers to go through a period of feeling disconnected or socially awkward or looking for something to give them a sense of purpose – then, it’s the professionalism of those who want to do evil against us, who tap into that in a predatory way.

“They find these kids and prey on their vulnerability to use them for evil. It’s not dissimilar to how a paedophile grooms children for sexual assault – it’s equally perverse and the outcomes are equally catastrophic.”

During his talks with counterterrorism authorities in the US, the Deputy Premier and NSW Police Minister raised the issue of gun laws, and says there is much to learn from the American experience.

“We certainly discussed the different paradigms we have in our countries. I talked them through the ID scanner strategy to try to combat alcohol related crime in Kings Cross here in Sydney, and in New York in particular they were stunned – they said they’d never be able to implement that. But yet their prevalence of guns on the street

Mr Grant visiting the Real Time Crime Centre in New York.

would never be accepted here.

“There are a lot of similarities, but there are many cultural differences too – so it’s a case of learning from each other as much as we can.

“They don’t seem to have the alcohol related crime we have, but we thankfully don’t have their level of gun-related crime.”

While not denying NSW has its fair share of gun crime, Grant stresses that “ours is a problem with illegal guns, not an issue with legal firearms or their owners”.

Asked about the strength of the link between guns and the threat of terrorism here in Australia, he reiterates the distinction: “Illegal guns are the link – not legal firearms. We have an issue with the black market and how guns are getting into the wrong hands.”

Guns are smuggled into Australia and sold by organised crime groups, he says, citing the lucrative trade in illegal firearms as one of the challenges police are facing.

“The prices people pay are astonishing – a hand gun, for instance, is $10-15,000 on the black market. That’s big coin.

“That’s why, when we recently announced increased penalties for illegal gun possession, we also had to put in place a reward system that matches those black market prices to make it worthwhile.”

While investigations into the Parramatta shooting are continuing to investigate the source of the gun used to murder Curtis Cheng and whether it can be traced back to Middle-Eastern crime gangs, Grant says he’s satisfied the Islamic community is stepping up to the challenge of addressing the radicalisation of its young people.

“They have a very difficult job to do because it’s not just one community – there are different communities and a diverse cultural mix within the Islam-

` We have to manage the community’s reaction at the same time as digging down into the cold, hard facts of what drove a 15-year-old boy to commit a political act of terror on a completely innocent member of the community.

– Troy Grant, who met with the family of Curtis Cheng (above, standing at left) this week.

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ic community as a whole. The whole of government is working closely with Muslim leaders to help bring some balance and rational debate when issues arise – and they do work effectively. We saw that clearly after the Martin Place incident and it’s working now following the Parramatta incident.”

FIFTEEN minutes before his interview with Weekender, Grant met both with the Cheng family and the police officers involved with the murder of the popular police accountant.

“No words of comfort can ease the pain for the Cheng family. They’re appreciative of the support they’ve received from the police and from the general community, and encouraged by the level of respect

by the organisation for Curtis.

But that’s never going to take away their grief.

“As for the Special Constables involved, the Premier and I conveyed to them just how proud we are of their actions.”

Grant says what’s not widely known is that the professionalism of those police officers that afternoon saved lives.

“They weren’t able to save Curtis – a heavy burden they all carry even though they were never in a position to save him – but their response was so professional and so quick and so well executed, they definitely saved other lives. We’ll be forever grateful for that.

“Both the Premier and the Commissioner have called them heroes, and that’s what they are.”

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The week’s top stories from around the region

Weekend’s drink drivers disappointing: police SENIOR police are disappointed with the number of motorists who continued to drink and drive including some drivers who took to the central west’s roads over the long weekend.

Operation Slowdown – the state’s Labour Day long weekend road safety campaign – caught the attention of a 39-year-old woman in Mudgee, around 8.45pm on Saturday, October 3, when she was arrested and charged with midrange PCA after a breath analysis returned an alleged reading of 0.104.

A 30-year-old man was charged with high-range PCA after also being stopped in Mudgee. The breath analysis returned an alleged reading of 0.174.

In Gulgong, a 26-year-old woman was also charged with mid-range PCA after her vehicle was stopped just after midnight on Sunday, October 4. The woman returned a breath analysis of 0.118. Her licence was instantly suspended after she was charged.

“So far this long weekend we have seen far too many people take the unnecessary and irresponsible step of drinking and driving,” Commander of Traffic and Highway Patrol, assistant commissioner John Hartley said.

“In Mudgee alone, in the state’s Central West, three people were breath tested overnight and all three returned a positive result which is extremely disappointing, “If you do drink and drive, you’re not only taking the risk of being caught, but you are putting yourself and other people at significant risk.

“We also need to remind people of the dangers of driving the morning after. If you have been drinking overnight, you should reconsider plans for driving the following day and alcohol can remain in the body and impair people’s ability to drive,” assistant commissioner Hartley said.

On Day Two of Operation Slowdown 2015, 57,099 breath tests were conducted, resulting in 19 positive tests.

New approach for mental health system MINISTER FOR HEALTH Sussan Ley has encouraged all Australians to reach out to friends and family this Mental Health Week, which ends on Sunday, October 10, and has foreshadowed significant structural reform of the mental health system.

Ms Ley said following the recommendations by the National Mental Health Commission’s review of mental health services, a mental health Expert Reference Group was established, and had now presented their implementation plan.

“I have received the Expert Refer-

Operation Slowdown resulted in several drivers being charged around the Western region over the long weekend. PHOTO: AAP

ence Group’s implementation plan, and am now finalising a significant reform package that will better support Australians to receive the most appropriate mental health care first time, when and where they need it,” Ms Ley said.

“I will announce the Turnbull Government’s plans for mental health reform by the end of the year as we work to build the best system possible for Australian patients.”

Ley said the National Mental Health Commission’s review into existing mental health programmes and services found it to be “fragmented, disjointed and tragically people continue to fall through the cracks.

“From this review, it was clear that we needed to re-think our approach to mental health, and change the focus from a service-centred approach to one where services are organised around the needs of the person,” Ms Ley said.

“This is why we have sought advice from the Mental Health Expert Reference Group on how best to translate the National Mental Health Commission’s recommendations into an u

Health Minister Sussan Ley. PHOTO: AAP

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u implementation plan to take the report from paper to policy.”

New website to attract skilled workers to Orana A NEW website www.lovethelifewelive. com.au will focus on encouraging people from metropolitan areas to move to the Orana region, through promoting the relaxed lifestyle, job opportunities, friendly communities and affordable housing across the region. “Our workforce research has shown that employers across the Orana region are experiencing skills shortages. This is affecting the productivity of industry and the region’s productivity as a whole. Our strategy is to overcome some of these skills shortages by attracting new workers to the region and encouraging them to settle here,” said Felicity Taylor-Edwards, CEO of RDA Orana.

Regional Development Australia (RDA) Orana has collaborated with Bourke, Cobar, Coonamble, Gilgandra, Mid-Western, Narromine, Walgett, Warren, Warrumbungle and Wellington Councils to develop the website, which will aim to attract skilled workers to move to and settle in regional areas.

The website includes comprehensive information about employment, housing, education, available services and economic data as well as an event calendar. It showcases the region’s various benefits and demonstrates that new residents will “love the life we live”.

Employers are being encouraged to provide the website URL www. lovethelifewelive.com.au to new and potential recruits as a source of infor-

A screengrab from the Love The Life We Live website

mation about the Orana region. Orana residents could also provide details to their friends and relatives considering a move towards a relaxed lifestyle and improved job opportunities.

Farmers asked to report locust beds CENTRAL WEST NSW farmers are asked to check for locust activity, particularly on bare soil like roadsides and contour banks.

Local Land Services is asking landholders to inspect their land in preparation for the 2015 spring locust campaign. There have been scattered reports of hatchings so far, with activity focusing around Elong, Coolah, Tambar Springs, Mullally, Coonabarabran and

Mendooran.

While landholders should wait until locusts begin banding to control, early reporting will allow Local Land Services to issue chemical and advice beforehand.

Central West Local Land Services’ current advice to landholders is to monitor for hatchings, dig known egg beds and areas of bare soil to inspect and report activity and prepare for control during banding. Chemical advice is available to help landholders control locust.

When receiving chemical for locust control, landholders will need to ensure there is someone on the property with a current chemical user card (AQF3).

The main area of concern centres around the Mollyan area, according to

Local Land Services Senior Biosecurity Officer Rhett Robinson.

“We recently checked properties around Mollyan to find extensive egg beds throughout the area,” said Mr Robinson.

“Locusts will lay their eggs on bare areas, particularly along roadsides. On one property, we found egg beds pretty much anywhere we dug. We need landholders to get out to inspect and report any activity.”

The warmer weather has brought on hatchings over the last week. Some banding is starting to occur from the season’s initial hatching.

“Most of what we are seeing is the first instar stage, which have not yet banded,” said Mr Robinson.

“I saw my first lot of second instar in Elong last week. These were banding together – the prime time to control before they take flight.”

Landholders should report any locust activity to their nearest Local Land Services office, call 1300 795 299 or visit www.lls.nsw.gov.au/centralwest

Audi and Volkswagen Australia affected by devices AUDI and Volkswagen owners in the central west should be aware of an announcement this week by Audi and Volkswagen Australia stating 91,177 vehicles sold in Australia (14,028 Audi; 54,745 VW passenger cars; 5,148 Skoda; 17,256 VW commercial vehicles) are affected by emissions defeat devices.

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Audi and Volkswagen have provided information about how Australian owners of Audi and VW vehicles can check if their vehicle is affected by the presence of an emissions defeat device, as well as provided a commitment that they will temporarily suspend the sale in Australia of certain new diesel powered vehicle models in their range until the emissions issues are addressed in those models.

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Food production and the real terror threat Comment ment by JOHN N RYAN N

` Since its habitat conference in 1990, the United Nations has warned that future conflicts would be fought not over oil, but water...

Dubbo Weekender journalist and columnist

ACK in ancient Rome the citizens were kept entertained by gladiators fighting at the Colosseum, the blood sport so exciting and intense the nation state’s leaders actively used such spectacles to keep the populace from questioning other things that were going wrong.

Here we’ve just had possibly the most exciting grand final of any sport ever, an event which has in many ways overshadowed a domestic terrorist attack, the shooting of civilian police worker Curtis Cheng by a 15 year old.

The Sunday Telegraph, as one example, had the grand final coverage on pages 1, 2 and 3, and the killing on pages 4 and 5, a classic example of a feelgood sporting story overshadowing hard news.

People would have been glad to see this story inside the paper because it’s hard to look at; there are no easy answers and the problem is so complex I’d say most people believe it has no solution and that this sort of thing will become more and more commonplace.

The way our political leaders at the federal level are pussy-footing around this doesn’t inspire much confidence, with everyone too scared to say the ‘T’ word when it appears blindingly obvious that this young bloke was a victim of brainwashing by Muslim hatemongers too scared to do the dirty deed themselves.

Yes, it’s just a very small percentage of Muslims involved in this sort of thing but it’s certainly not a problem that seems to be shrinking, nor one that’s going to disappear if we studiously keep trying to ignore it.

Blaming the current middleeast strife on the USA and its allies such as Australia is a pretty easy case to push because there’s more than a little truth in it. (a) We should never have been involved, and (b) US drones are routinely killing lots and lots and lots of innocent civilians.

If a Muslim country was constantly bombing Dubbo with robotic planes controlled from Syria and killing my family,

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friends and countryman, I’d be an easy target for ‘radicalisation’, just as resistance fighters have been recruited throughout the ages.

I’m not comparing last week’s killing with, say, French Resistance fighters in World War II where the cause was just and noble, but the principle of oppression and disenfranchisement is the same.

If Australia had been invaded and our prime minister hung based on a lie that we’d been building Weapons of Mass Destruction, I wouldn’t be too happy about it.

Mixed up with all this are the fundamentalist religious zealots who are always looking for a fight even if there’s none on offer.

On “our” side we have the giant corporations who’ve been making squillions from this sort of thing since time immemorial, although you’ll notice it’s not the sons of those CEOs doing the fighting and returning home to governments that let their PTSD or physical injuries go mostly untreated.

Former PM Tony Abbott was roundly criticised when he said the Syrian fight wasn’t good guys against bad guys, but rather bad guys against bad guys.

The same holds true in the wider struggle, from international arms dealers and those middle-eastern nations that are constantly stirring the conflicts while they profit from the division and keep any strong regional leaders at bay.

On the reactive front we

should be targeting the people doing the radicalisation but unfortunately our intelligence agencies seem pretty clueless on this front.

Other steps we should be taking, now we’ve well and truly embroiled ourselves in this strife on the other side of the globe, are clear.

Author Julian Cribb wrote about underlying causes of terrorism in his book The Coming Famine (pictured).

It’s subtitled “The global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it” so, unlike our leaders running around in circles mouthing empty platitudes, Cribb poses solutions.

He makes the case that while there’s plenty of focus on conflicts and refugee crises, there’s little work been done on how lack of access to good soil and water creates and exacerbates these wars.

“Most of the “new” conflicts

are to be found in Africa, the Middle-East and parts of Asia – the result of a cycle of constant famine, deprivation, and periodic violence, leading in inevitable sequence to worse hunger, greater deprivation and more vicious fighting,” Cribb writes.

Months ago I saw pictures of tiny kids in the Syrian city of Aleppo forced to walk five kilometres just to get some dirty water to cart back home so their families could stay alive, if they didn’t die from water-borne disease or violence first.

He continues: “When politically dominant groups seize land and food resources, deny access to other culturally or economically marginalised groups and cause hunger and scarcities, violence often flares.”

Since its habitat conference in 1990, the United Nations has warned that future conflicts would be fought not over oil, but water.

The Middle-East has five per cent of the world’s population but just one per cent of its fresh water supplies, so even if a Utopian society existed over there, things would always be strained – when international interests and politics have made their behind-the-scenes plays for the enormous oil resources, no wonder everyone’s jaded about motives and agendas.

Cribb says rising population and less arable land and fresh water will see all humans affected by food shortages midcentury unless we change our ways, including using those fi-

nite resources far more cleverly.

He says carbon needs to be returned to the soil to transform the ability of livestock industries to sustainably produce from grasslands, pointing to predicted drier climates drying up many of the world’s current grain producing areas.

An often overlooked statistic, according to Cribb is that, with our oil-powered economy so intertwined with global food production, humans “consume” an estimated 4.4 litres of diesel each day thanks to tractors trucks, ships, trains or planes involved in the supply chains from paddock to plate.

He points out that research budgets have been investing heavily in biotechnology and almost ignoring fields of equal promise such as soil microbiology, “the study of the billions of microscopic plants, microbes, fungi and other lie forms that live in the soil”.

He talks about how the globalisation of food “favours large suppliers over small ones... subsidised farmers over unsubsidised ones”.

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Heather Allan, CEO, Lung Foundation Australia: A breath of fresh air it. We’ve been working with the local council. You have 6000 smokers in Dubbo and we want every single one of them to logon for QUIT4october and say they’re going to give it a go.

Dubbo is one of four regional cities chosen to host a pilot anti-smoking campaign called QUIT4october, in the lead up to a national roll-out.

Lung Foundation Australia is a driving force behind the important month-long event, and Dubbo Weekender spoke with CEO, Heather Allan.

We wanted to select a number of regional towns where there was a significant smoking population and an area that would easily be evaluated. We went out to a number of communities and it was the local councils and the level of support they showed for it that lead us to choose.

Lung Foundation Australia is a national not-for-profit. Its role is to ensure lung health is a priority for all in Australia. We do that by promoting good lung health in the community, raising awareness of symptoms of lung disease, supporting patients who have lung disease, supporting clinicians who manage those with lung disease, developing clinical resources, clinical education.

We raise money to support research and of course we advocate in government as well.

We have been working closely with Colin Mendelsohn to initiate this whole program. The reason the Lung Foundation is so passionate about QUIT4October is that smoking is the single greatest cause of preventable illness and death in Australia. Despite the fact we’ve made significant gains in recent years to reduce smoking rates, we still have 15 per cent of Australians over 14 who smoke daily. We know that most of those people want to quit. Seventyfive per cent of current smokers want to quit smoking and we know that 40 per cent try at least once a year.

There are two reasons that make it so hard to quit; the physical addiction to the nicotine and the behavioural issue; so you get used to the habit. We know quitting is hard, it’s one of the hardest things a smoker will do but it’s not impossible to quit, and evidence tells us that if they quit smoking using a combination of counselling from either a pharmacist or GP along with quit smoking medication that their chances of quitting are much greater. If you try to quit cold turkey you have about a five

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Over our lifetime the average nonsmoker will see their lung function decrease at a certain rate. It’s a slow but steady decline, which happens as we age. For a smoker, that decline is a much sharper arch, which means they lose lung function much quicker than a non-smoker and lose years of life lived.

If you think of that arch on a graph and you pick an age; 30, 40, 50, 60 and you quit smoking at any one of those ages, you might not necessarily gain the lung function that you lost but you go back to the same trajectory as a non-smoker.

That’s the reason to quit. Damage will have been done to the lungs and the airways there are immediate benefits to quitting at any age.

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If you use best practice, which is counselling and medication to treat the addiction to the nicotine you go up to 30 per cent success rate. That’s a significant jump.

Your community, your friends and family, they remind you why you’re quitting smoking in the first place. Quitting smoking at any age has its benefits. If you’re 40 years old and you decide to quit, statistics tell us you’ll gain nine years of life. Even if you quit at 60 – it’s possible to quit at 60, it happens all the time – then you’ll gain four years

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is Dubbo resident and former parliamentary staffer

If you can’t say something nice, just sit on the backbench O how’s former Prime Minister Tony Abbott going with his “no sniping” pledge?

At his farewell speech after being rolled by Malcolm Turnbull, Abbott vowed no undermining and no sniping of his replacement.

Of course his first breach of that vow occurred in that very speech, where he criticised the media’s role in promoting “treachery”.

Now, he could have been referring to the Rum Rebellion, but I think by “treachery” he meant the party’s decision by fair ballot that he was an albatross around their electoral necks: a little bit “young fuddy duddy” to quote Paul Keating, a little bit Victorian workhouse admirer.

Of course this was exactly the same manner of treachery that put Abbott in the leader’s job in the first place, but anyway.

It was there, ever so slightly when he first came to office, when he said he would govern for “all Australians, rich and poor”.

Anyone not suspecting the sustained serf flogging to follow – and that was most of us – would have missed the inference.

Because of course you would govern for rich and poor, if you were even wired in such a way, as that’s how you’d categorise the population in the first place.

It’s as unnecessary as saying you would still drive on the same side of the road, continue washing regularly and not bomb Fiji even for a laugh.

But in retrospect it was almost Freudian; as if Abbott himself, in seeking to reassure instead let slip that some would be more equal than others.

Last Thursday Abbott chided his “allies” in the right wing media for not being sufficiently enthusiastic in plugging the 2014 budget, a cruel, class-poisoned exercise rightly rejected from all quarters with the exception of the ghost of Tsar Nicholas and the blokes David Cameron went to uni with.

Firstly, to borrow from the lexicon of seafaring mishap, it was unpluggable, and just on that: since when did media

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outlets become allies, as opposed to just observers and chroniclers?

That transition to openly acknowledging that a clique of shock jocks and a certain stable of newspapers now serve as a cheer squad for whatever their side puts up seems to have occurred somewhat unnoticed in the dust, laughter and fury of the Abbott experiment.

But back to the “no sniping” promise.

If we can excuse his inability to resist a little barb at his last hurrah speech, how would we rate Abbott’s ability to keep the bile in check since, especially during his flurry of shock jock interviews: l A) Notably restrained, using descriptions such as “dirty water under the bridge” merely reflects his environmental sensitivity; l B) Not as bad as Rudd, but it’s early days; l C) He’s called a loyal colleague in

Scott Morrison a liar, branded the nation’s popular new Prime Minister untrustworthy and generally already makes Mark Latham look like a team player.

But the hair-stroking on 2GB is not as damaging as suggesting that while the face might have changed, the policy framework is identical.

Pollsters found that for the most part the community – rich and poor apparently – described their reaction at his removal as being one of “relief”.

` It’s to be hoped Abbott has vented and will let an increasingly promising Turnbull administration govern unimpeded...

If Abbott has decided to portray the future good the Turnbull government might achieve as just a continuation of his solid groundwork, that is his ego seeking to protect his legacy.

But if the community hears instead that nothing has changed and a lick of paint is all that distinguishes the glossy Turnbull galleon from the Abbott whaler they came to abhor, that is far more damaging.

Evidence to the contrary ranges from the release of environmental issues from the Tower and the departure of Maurice Newman, courageous exposer of climate change as a UN plot.

It’s to be hoped Abbott has vented and will let an increasingly promising Turnbull administration govern unimpeded.

Otherwise the only difference between him and Rudd will be that for a while some people actually liked Rudd.

Old gamers never die, they flock to Tokyo

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TOKYO: Tossed aside as outdated junk by some, old video games such as Donkey Kong and Pac-Man are now getting a new lease of life in Tokyo’s vibrant Akihabara district, as growing numbers of die-hard fans seek out vintage classics to relive their youth.

Inside Super Potato, a famed retro video game store, devotees browse aisles packed with everything from Legend of Zelda figurines to immaculately packaged Sega Mega Drives, while Super Mario toys dangle from the ceiling.

“It was our generation, it was our thing,” said Matt, 35, over the constant ping and buzz of video game theme tunes emanating from the screens lining the walls.

The Briton said that buying retro games was one of the main reasons he came to Japan on holiday.

Vintage games have been hitting headlines this year: huge parties were held to celebrate the birthdays of PacMan and Super Mario, while videogame-themed film Pixels has grossed more than $US200 million ($A286.10

million) worldwide.

Big business has been swift to cash in on the trend, with Microsoft and Sony among those releasing products to appeal to older players.

As the home of Nintendo and Sega, Japan has long been a paradise for gamers and now Tokyo is becoming a global hub for collectors of specialist old titles.

Vintage editions still make up only a tiny part of the world video games market – estimated to be worth more than $US90 billion and growing fast –

but avid collectors will pay huge sums for specialist items.

Prices for rare classics have soared, with one example of the Nintendo World Championships cartridge selling for about $100,000 last year.

Even New York’s Museum of Modern Art started collecting older video games in 2012.

Clay Routledge, an associate professor and an expert on the psychology of nostalgia, said old video games could be a particularly potent trigger AFP because they were interactive.

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Don’t look now Malcolm, someone’s watching

BY COLIN BRINSDEN CANBERRA: In the days after snatching the prime ministership, Malcolm Turnbull turned in a polished parliamentary performance, signalling a change to the hostile atmosphere that dominated federal politics in recent years.

It helped that a toppled prime minister was not sitting on the backbench, providing a distracting counter-point to his successor.

Unlike Labor’s Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott so far has avoided the humbling, even humiliating, experience of moving abruptly from parliament’s dispatch box to back of the class.

He was nowhere to be seen for the three sitting days after losing the Liberal leadership in a partyroom ballot mid-September.

Next week, when parliament resumes, Abbott is expected to take a backbench seat for the first time since 2009 when he resigned from Turnbull’s shadow cabinet over climate change policy.

How long that lasts remains to be seen.

Since 2008, party leaders on both sides of parliament have been involved in what Abbott disparages as a revolving door.

The Liberals dumped Brendan Nelson and Turnbull in the two years after they lost government in the 2007 Ruddslide.

Labor dumped Rudd for Gillard in 2010, before dumping Australia’s first female prime minister for Rudd in 2013.

Rudd had stayed the course, first as backbencher and then as Gillard’s foreign minister, before taking his revenge.

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whoever lost the 2013 rematch wouldn’t remain after an election.

She was gone several weeks later, but not before making a highly-emotional and pointed appearance on the backbench.

Nelson gave it almost a year after losing to Turnbull in 2008 before retiring from politics.

Turnbull considered resigning after losing to Abbott by one vote in 2009, but then thought better of it. Now we know why.

Former Liberal prime minister John Howard, of course, didn’t have a choice after losing the 2007 election.

He lost his seat in parliament as well, a feat only achieved once before by a sitting prime minister.

Abbott is publicly telling everyone he won’t be making a decision about his political career

until after Christmas at least. “I’m too young to retire,� he told his local newspaper, the Manly Daily, this week. “I still have a very strong interest in public life. And I don’t think it’s going to be my role to simply surf and cycle for the next 20 years.�

Joe Hockey, eight years younger than Abbott, has no such concerns.

The former treasurer, who holds the neighbouring seat of North Sydney, saw the writing on the wall and is expected to make his final farewells to parliament this sitting fortnight. “For the sake of my young family – to whom I owe so much – I have decided to bring my parliamentary career to a close,� Hockey posted on Facebook shortly after his decision.

Abbott won’t be the only sen-

ior Liberal feeling the relative chill of the backbench.

Offering their former leader some comfort will be a very disgruntled Kevin Andrews and another dumped cabinet minister Bruce Billson.

Not so welcoming will be Bronwyn Bishop, the woman Abbott manoeuvred out as Speaker over an entitlements scandal.

He admits the once thick-asthieves electoral neighbours have “a bit of dirty water under the bridge� to overcome.

Well-placed speculation that had Bishop voting for Turnbull in the leadership ballot hasn’t helped a fraying relationship.

But for many more of their Liberal colleagues, life has moved on quickly.

Opinion polls show the change has been worth it, with

the coalition now in a winning electoral position.

This week Morgan-Gallup had the coalition leading Labor 56-44 per cent in its second poll since the switch to Turnbull.

Essential Research’s traditionally stable weekly survey is moving in the same direction at 52-48 per cent – a complete reversal from a month ago.

Nearly half of the poll’s respondents regard Turnbull as the better prime minister, compared with the one in five who prefer Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

When that question was asked before the leadership spill Abbott trailed Shorten 3235 per cent.

Equally telling, Turnbull has a net approval rating of plus 30, while Abbott as prime minister was on minus 24.

Unlike Gillard in 2010 and Rudd in 2103, Turnbull is under no pressure to call an immediate federal election to frank his mandate.

It means he can take a softly, softly approach to government knowing that he can wait until before Christmas next year to face the voters.

Rather than being forced to take hasty decisions to address troublesome issues – like Gillard’s swift resolution of Labor’s mining tax and Rudd’s equally expedient response to the asylum-seeker boat surge, Turnbull has time on his side to address a busload of baggage leftover from Abbott.

And when the time comes, Turnbull is likely to have the confidence to avoid making a string of unnecessary promises on election eve that would dog his next term in government.

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Sally Bryant

In my book, which has fallen down behind the couch...

HIS week has been a struggle, as I’ve battled to come to terms with the new time regime. There’s a very funny short film on social media depicting the beginning of daylight saving as the trailer for a horror film and it’s not that far from the mark. It’s been the Night of the Living Dead for me this week; a constant state of uncertainty and anxiety. Am I early? Am I late? Am I even on the right day? Who would know?

Part of it has been my fault, I have to admit. Part of it.

About four years ago I bought a new car. Lovely. New. Car. And I have managed to get the hang of my new car pretty well. I know where the jack goes when I get a flat tyre. I know how to open the hood and fill the tomcat reservoir. And I can operate the fog lights now too. Wahoo! Took me four years but I finally worked that out. I can even vary the pitch of my lights to account for the weight of the payload in my boot. There’s no end to how smart this car is.

However one of the tasks that’s been beyond me is setting the time on the clock. And, given I bought the car in November, it’s been keeping daylight saving time from day one.

I did make a bit of an effort that first autumn when the clocks went back again, to adjust the time so that my car clock reflected the time I was meant to be keeping. I pulled the instruction manual out of the glovebox and fiddled around for a bit. And then I think I was distracted by something else, some other flash function like fine tuning all the rear vision mirrors, and I gave it away as a job too hard.

It has ever been thus, at each change of season for the past four years. We go through the whole rigmarole of springing and falling in time, we check the batteries in the smoke alarm and we step

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away from the clock on the dashboard of my smart new car.

Actually, the poor little thing pretty much ceased being my smart new car, about the time a kamikaze wallaby dived into the front passenger mudguard about 18 months ago. I was ducking down “kangaroo alley” near m’father’s place at about dusk one evening, when whoompa! I guess I was lucky the damage was not more severe; it’s caused a bit of a dent and has ever-so-slightly bent the lip of the passenger door, so it groans in arthritic disapproval should I try to install goods, chattels or extra persons.

Nothing quite takes the shine off your brand new car than a dent and a groan.

The clock on the groany red car is not the only one that remains a mystery to me. There’s a clock on my stove in my fabulous new mouse house and that’s proving a conundrum as well. I must have been having a moment of idiot savant when I moved in because I managed to set the time. In a fashion. A rather kack-handed fashion as it happens, because it’s a 24 hour clock and I set it at the wrong end of the 24 hour cycle.

And I lived with that for some days with irritation, and then tried to change it.

And then entered into a swearing competition with said clock beeping and squawking at me. And then I stopped and had a beer. And we’ve been operating at the wrong end of the 24 hour clock cycle ever since.

To compound the issue, our phones at work have the time on them as well.

But I can’t remember if they are on Eastern Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time. So, if I’m going to use them to tell the time, that’s fine. I can see where I am in the hour but I’m not altogether sure which hour that is. So every time I glance at the phone, I’m having to do this small internal adjustment, a bit of a

` I have been operating in the netherworld of a space-time continuum in which every device I encounter is telling me something different...

mental hop, step and jump to work out where I am in the day.

Of course, operating as I do, in the broadcast media, we do have some highly developed timepieces that allow us to coordinate with pinpoint accuracy with all of the rest of the national broadcaster. It was with a feeling of very great security and comfort that I made my way into the office on the holiday Monday to work away in the salt mine all by myself, knowing the time would be right. However, it turns out the pinpoint accuracy side of the clocks needs to be reset each spring forward/ fall back. Foiled again. Dastards.

So, consider this: I have been operating in the netherworld of a space-time continuum in which every device I encounter is telling me something different. Thank God for the advent of the mobile phone and the tablet device, which are tuned to the universe and regularly update their status. They commune with Big Brother and each other and then share what bits of information with me they see fit.

When it comes down to it, it’s these devices that are most important when it comes to keeping me regular. Well, them and my greens.

It’s the mobile phone on the dressing table that I rely on to get me out of bed in the very early mornings, now I’m back on the vampire shift. It’s considerable consolation to me to know they are adjusting their times themselves, that they regularly check in and fix their accuracy.

So when my work mobile, my personal mobile and my tablet device all conspired to let me sleep through my alarm on my first early start this week, I thought to myself “It’s time to get this under control”.

Or it will be in an hour.

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What a finale!

NOT only was Sunday night’s Rugby League grand final one of the most exciting in recent years, it was also historic – for good reasons. For the first time in the game’s history, both teams in the final were captained by indigenous Australians, a wonderful moment for diversity and inclusivity.

The only thing to top such a great sporting moment? Jonathon Thurston, captain of the winning team, brought his young daughter Frankie out on to the field to celebrate. Frankie brought with her a doll, which had social media talking. The black skinned baby doll had viewer swooning as much as the captains’ open display of emotion.

The image of a father, daughter and baby doll will surely be remembered for a long time.

Girls, start your engines THIS weekend, the first all-female racing team in 20 years will compete for a podium place at Bathurst’s famed car races. Renee Gracie and Simona De Silvestro from Queensland and Switzerland respectively only met two weeks ago, according to media reports.

The pair is hoping to do well, and doesn’t mind drawing support or sceptics from spectators, as long as it encourages more girls to get into racing.

“Not just driving, you know, engineering or mechanics,” De Silverstro said.

Here’s hoping the girls drive fast and well, and prove the naysayers wrong!

Simona De Silvestro and Renee Gracie will be driving at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. PHOTO: AAP/EDGE PHOTOGRAPHICS

Hillary hilarious live US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has always been a firm favourite for impressions on popular US TV talk show, Saturday Night Live. Most recently Kate McKinnon has been donning the blue blazer and blonde wig.

Last weekend, Clinton herself made a cameo, as bartender Val. “I wish you could be president,” the SNL Clinton said. “Me too!” replied Val. Clinton demonstrated excellent comic timing, arguing with openly gay Mc-

Kinnon about when she should have started being supportive of equal marriage and changing her mind about environmental matters.

McKinnon, who portrays Clinton with a maniacal thirst for power, ended the sketch by singing a duet with the politician and a rendition of “Lean On Me”. Bring on Trump’s inevitable and hilarious cameo.

Suffering suffragettes NEW film Suffragette follows the stories of Emmeline Pankhurst and her

fellow pioneering feminists as they fought for equal rights in England. As part of the publicity campaign, actress Meryl Streep donned a shirt with one of Pankhurst’s famous lines printed across it: “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave.”

People reacted negatively to the quote, associating the word ‘slave’ with the civil rights movement in America’s history. As some people tweeted, of all of Pankhurst’s slogans, why choose one so easily misinterpreted?

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The pursuit of HA P E S I P N S This weekend’s World Mental Health Day gives mental healthcare providers and organisations the opportunity promote their messages of good mental health. Among them is self-development author, Andrew Matthews who spoke to LISA MINNER this week about “being happy”, incidentally is the title of his first book, which has sold around two million copies worldwide.

OPE AND GRATITUDE CAN TURN THINGS AROUND, says best selling Aussie author and illustrator Andrew Matthews who believes happiness is fundamental to life and something for which we should all be striving.

“When you are happy you are a better lover, a better employee, a better neighbour. If you’re happy you’re more likely to carry someone’s groceries or loan them money, if you’re miserable you’re more likely to steal from your boss or kick a dog,” he explains.

“Happy people focus on what they have and miserable people focus on what’s missing.”

The author believes the happiest of people attract good friends, fulfilling employment opportunities and are more of a magnet for money because what you experience in life depends very much on what you feel.

If you feel bad about yourself, you project that and attract the equivalent. On the flip-side, when you are happy you tend to get what you want and life’s edges seem a bit softer.

He believes with some solid strategies in place and a bit of attitude re-tweaking, we all have the potential to increase our happiness and in turn the happiness of those who spend time with us – like our spouse, family, friends and co-workers.

“Wake up in the morning and look for GOOD things. We find in life what we seek out. If you look for reasons to love your job, your spouse or your life, you will find them. u

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u “If you look for reasons to dislike your job, your spouse or your life and you find them. In other words happiness is a daily decision,” Matthews says.

STARTING out as a law student Matthews quickly realised his desire to become a portrait painter was a much more appealing and exciting career path than law, given his artistic streak.

With his family’s blessings he left for New York to study classical drawing and painting. On his return and while painting portraits, the artist admits that after spending many hours (up to nine) with his subjects, the usual superficiality of conversations was quickly shed and an intimacy with his subjects developed.

They told him about the things that made them happy and the things that weren’t working in their lives.

“While painting I developed this palpable interest in why some people where happier than others and why some people more successful than others- like me, some of these people had more problems than I’d had but were happier than me and it made me wonder how I could do better,” he says.

The information churned around in the artist’s mind and he decided to write a book about it all. He was 29 when he wrote his first best-selling book, Being Happy! It was initially rejected by dozens of publishers, also true of many now famous authors like Rowling, Steven King, Beatrix Potter, Kipling, Joseph Heller to name a few, but he persisted and to date has published nine books in 42 languages about success and happiness with sales well into the millions.

“The books have been popular in countries we never expected, places like Hungary, Croatia and Brazil, they have responded to the drawings and simplicity as well as the content, which means we are all a lot more similar in what we want from life than I’d expected, we all want to be happy.”

So, what makes Matthews books are so popular? Popular enough that psychologists often order them 200 at a time to use in conjunction with therapy.

` Quite often being happy is a decision you make...

His message is delivered simply, in a non-preachy way via cartoons and with succinct strategies on how to improve your daily life by tweaking behaviours and faulty mindsets and beliefs. Prior to writing his first book, Matthews had read some 200 books by well-known motivational and self-development authors, many of which left him dry with their complicated terminology and dull format.

“They were too serious and wordy and mostly aimed at sales people or professionals. I wanted to write a book that was simple and accessible to everyone, students, mothers or office workers, just everyday people who were struggling with aspects of their lives and who may have never laid eyes on a self-development book before mine.”

According to Matthews there is no greater feeling than knowing his bitesized chunks of advice have turned people’s lives around. He gets heartfelt emails every day telling him just that.

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“I had a woman contact me who couldn’t believe her doctor put her on medication instead of recommending my books, first.”

Discussing the issue of labelling people with mental illnesses or conditions, the author says he’s not convinced labels are a productive way of helping people.

While he acknowledges there are obviously cases where people benefit from and require medication, Matthews believes for the average person who dislikes their job or is having relationship or money problems or are just struggling to make life work, positive strategies and looking at alternative options should be explored first.

“We tend to live up to the labels we are given so if we’re told we are depressed we are more likely to remain stuck.

“Quite often being happy is a decision you make.”

Matthews’ books talk about making happiness a priority. He says most people come to a point where they are mis-

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“It’s often when you’re in that frame of mind that you actually start to realise the good things you have in your life and the one thing I can’t talk about enough about is expressing gratitude for the things you already have that are working.

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Eliminating negative thought: Seven strategies DOES this ever happen? You have one slightly negative thought, “I’m short of cash this week”.

This leads to another negative thought... “It’s because I’m underpaid at work“... and another... “and I’m under appreciated at home”... followed by... “Tonight I’ll have to cook dinner; why can’t my stupid husband get off his backside. My mother always told me I was making a big mistake and now I’ve got a headache – maybe it’s a tumour!”

Negative thoughts are like rats. One shows up and before you know it they have taken over. You can beat negative thoughts. Here’s how:

1. When things go wrong ask yourself. “WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT THIS?” There is an upside to every situation.

EXAMPLE: You are drowning in debt.

You say, “What can possibly be good about being broke?” l You develop character and determination. l You learn how to budget. l You discover who your friends are.

EXAMPLE: You break your leg. You ask, “What’s good about this?” l You get to rest. l You learn to empathise with sick people. l You get to read some great books.

EXAMPLE: You spend your workdays serving rude customers. You ask, “What’s good about handling rude people?” l You learn tolerance. l You develop skills that will help you in your next job. l The rude people at work help you to appreciate your husband.

Now you might say, “Let’s be realistic.

Some disasters have no upside!” Here’s “realistic”: l Lousy things happen. l Happy people have the habit of saying, “What’s good about this?”

It’s how you stop negative thoughts in their tracks.

One negative thought attracts another. One positive thought attracts another. When things go wrong, find an upside.

2. When you are sad or grieving: GET INTO NATURE When life hurts, nature heals. Ocean breezes and peaceful forests restore us in ways that stinky pubs and shopping malls and bad TV never can. Walk on the beach or in the bush; sit in a park or a garden. Go fishing. You’ll think better thoughts. There’s nothing to figure out, it just happens.

Get into nature. Make it a habit.

3. When you feel like complaining: DON’T! Stop moaning about the weather, the government and your arthritis. We talk about what we think about. That is obvious. The reverse is also true. We think about what we talk about.

The more you complain, the more you fill your head with unhappy thoughts.

If you want to talk about fixing a problem, wonderful! But mindless complaining sabotages your happiness – and no one cares that you didn’t sleep last night and no one wants to hear about your haemorrhoid operation.

4. When you are feeling overwhelmed: GET RID OF THE JUNK You suffer stress when you are surrounded by junk – psychological tests prove it.

Did you ever get into a friend’s car among pizza cartons, hamburger wrappings and half-eaten apples? It’s hard to

think happy thoughts.

You feel more in control in a tidy office. You feel more peaceful in a clean house. It’s one reason we love to stay in nice hotels – it’s such a joy to check into a clean room and not be surrounded by piles of old clothes and handbags and last week’s newspapers.

Are you too stressed to tidy your whole bedroom? Tidy one drawer today and another tomorrow. Need to organise your office? Do just one shelf today.

You’ll feel better.

Get some garbage bags. Buy a broom!

Better to live in a one-room studio that’s clean than in a mansion that’s a mess!

5. When negative people are driving you nuts: GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK!

` It’s often when you’re in that frame of mind that you actually start to realise the good things you have in your life...

Are you surrounded by people who whinge about the weather, the government, the price of petrol and their bunions? Whingers will drag you down!

Soon enough, you start to think like they think. You start to gripe like they gripe. Negative becomes normal.

What can you do? Spend time with happy people, somehow. If you have only one happy friend, visit him more often. If you don’t know any motivated people, find some. Join a cycling group, a dance class, a church group, a laughing yoga group, a charity.

Mary says, “My husband, Fred, is so negative! How do I make him happy?”

You can’t, Mary, and it’s not your job.

Some people aren’t ready to be happy. The best way to help miserable people is by being a happy example. Have compassion for those who are sad or tortured, but if your partner, mother, boyfriend, colleague or neighbour is dragging you down, you need some space!

Get regular breaks from negative people. And in the long term? You might want to change where you live or work!

6. When you lack confidence: PICTURE YOUR SUCCESS You are about to make a speech in front of two hundred people. You tell yourself, “Don’t be nervous! Don’t forget your lines! Don’t embarrass yourself!”

Then you get onstage and what happens? You screw it up! You even forget your spouse’s name! All those negative thoughts sabotaged your presentation.

Is it that you are a bad speaker? No! The problem is your mental preparation.

What do high achievers do? What is the secret of people like Richard Branson, Serena Williams, Usain Bolt or Hugh Jackman? They visualise their own success. They play movies in their minds.

You can do it too. Before your speech you picture yourself onstage, relaxed and smiling. You imagine the words rolling off your tongue and the audience nodding in approval. You see yourself leaving the stage feeling proud and happy.

Each time you play your little success movie, you will feel a bit more confident. As your confidence grows, your negative thoughts evaporate.

7. Anytime: DO SOME EXERCISE. Any exercise makes you happier. You don’t have to run. Walk, bounce, swim, dance, row. Movement produces happy chemicals in your brain. You know this already.

Fred says, “I’ll exercise when I feel better.” No Fred! Exercise is how you feel better.

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Kate Loudon and Lauren Amor: Cow girls Canada bound Australia might have ridden to glory on the sheep’s back, but it’s bovines that are taking these two dedicated young cattle judges all the way to Canada in pursuit of greater knowledge and a few more adventures to add to their resumes. Meet Dubbo’s most awarded “cow girls” – Kate Loudon and Lauren Amor.

Lauren Amor:

Kate Loudon: CATTLE have been a passion of mine right through school. I finished at St John’s College in Dubbo last year and now I’m at Wagga (Charles Sturt University) doing Agricultural Science.

My parents are both off the land but I was brought up in town, so when I went to St John’s in Year 7, I was just fascinated by the cattle in the ag farm and it just grew from there.

It’s easy to form a close bond with cattle – they’re easy to talk to and they don’t talk back!

Learning about cattle involves a bit of everything – breeding, genetics, judging. Showing is probably the highest profile, but it’s just part of it – it’s just a niche part of the industry, but it gets you “out there” and known to people.

I’ve done quite a bit of travelling so far through showing and I’ve met a lot of interesting people who are also into Limousins (a breed of cattle) – although it’s not just in that breed; I’ve also come to know people who breed Herefords, shorthorns, Charolais – a broad range of cattle and a broad range of people.

At the end of last year, I was nominated for NSW Young Achiever of the Year – that was really good. It made me realise that what I was doing and the hard work I was putting in was being recognised, and that made me pretty proud. I made the top three, which was so exciting.

I’ve also competed at the Sydney Royal (Easter Show) in the NSW championship for junior judging – last year I came fifth, this year I came fourth... so next year maybe third and I can just make my way up to first (laughs)!

That’s the plan. I’ve almost qualified for next year – so how it works is you have to go to a zone final and either place first or second, so things are on track. There are 24 of the state’s best young beef cattle judges there and we all compete against each other – it’s a strong contest.

A good cattle judge needs to really understand cattle, and what breeds have which traits. You can’t for instance, compare a dairy breed with a beef breed and all breeds are different.

But in a good beast, we’re looking for good legs and good feet because they need to be able to walk well; we’re also looking for good structure. We’re also looking for fertility, of course, because

if you’re going to breed, that’s pretty important (laughs) and another thing that’s important is muscle because meat is muscle and meat’s your money!

And no, I’m not a vegetarian.

The trip to Canada is a scholarship arrangement through Canadian Limousin Youth – Lauren and I will go to Canada in November and we’ll be billeted out to three host families who are involved with the Limousin breed of cattle.

What I’m interested in is seeing the difference between Australia and Canada in terms of breeds and how they handle their cattle. They apparently spend a lot more time on grooming – they’ll work on the animals for months beforehand. And they have cool rooms where they put the cattle for a couple of hours a day to make their hair grow faster.

I’ve also done a fair bit with genetics here, so I’ll be interested to learn about how they manage genetics in Canada.

That’s something I’d like to get into as a career eventually.

I’m looking forward to travelling with Lauren. She’s a St John’s girl as well, although she’s four years older than me (I’m 18). We met though our interest in cattle, and she’s taught me a lot. We’ve travelled around shows together and it’s been great to learn from her.

Lauren is a true leader – instead of telling you what to do, she’ll show you how to do it, and that way you learn better. She’ll always help to find a solution to a problem or a way around it – she’s a good mentor.

But now, apparently, she reckons I’ll be taking the lead with the trip to Canada because she’s never been overseas before and she says I’ll have to show her the ropes.

We have a lot of fun together, and we can joke around, but we both take our cattle seriously.

I guess she’s like a big sister in a way.

MY interest in cattle started in Year 7 at St John’s College, when I went to the ag farm one day and pretty much fell in love with the calf I got to lead around. I haven’t looked back.

I worked with cattle all the way through school, and it’s been such an eye opener – I would never have expected that first day that I’d eventually get a career out of it! It’s a school subject, but it’s also an extra-curricular activity and there’s almost no limits as to where you can go.

The highlight for me so far has been going to the Sydney Royal (Easter Show) where I was lucky enough to get second in the state for paraders when I was in Year 11. I’ve also been to Brisbane and Melbourne and everywhere in between.

I’ve met some amazing people. They say it becomes like a “show family” and it definitely is like that.

Canada is going to be awesome.

We’re going to a Irma in Alberta first then to Saskatchewan to the Lloydmister Stockade Roundup then to Farmfair International in Edmonton – so we’ll get a good look around.

I’m at UNE doing my Master’s in teaching, and I’d like to be ag teacher so this experience will be great both personally – I’ve never been overseas before – and in my career because to be able to bring the experience back to help teach students about how things are done in other places in the world will be great.

I’m a little older than Kate, but we’ve formed a really close friendship and it’s become even tighter since we found out we’re going to Canada and making all those plans.

Our families have known each other for as long as I can remember and it’s really nice that we can share this interest and these experiences together.

What I like about Kate is that she gets in and really has a go at things – she’s hard working and she’s a great mentor for younger people. I’ve watched her at shows (during school) where there’s a buddy system for the younger kids, and she’s calm and kind and really patient with them.

You always look up to the people who are older than you at school, and that’s how you learn – so I hope I’ve been able to help Kate out a bit.

But she’s a very level headed person and she has her feet on the ground – it wouldn’t matter what accolades come her way, she’d never get bigheaded. She’s very humble about her achievements.

That’s another great thing about cattle showing – you have good days and bad days and sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t. You can’t get ahead of yourself and that’s what I like about Kate – she just gets on and does her thing.

Can’t wait to travel with her – I’m absolutely stoked!

– As told to Jen Cowley

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LISA MINNER continues with her weekly series exploring the faces, places and hidden gems along our own beautiful stretch of the Macquarie River and into the outback.

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Artist Michael Pospichil is just as comfortable painting portraits as he is drawing and painting landscapes.

Recently in Warren as artist-inresidence at the Windows on the Wetland Centre, he’s twice been accepted into the Moran Portrait prize and has studied with some of Australia’s most highly respected artists. Dubbo Weekender caught up with Pospichil while he conducted a plein-air charcoal drawing class at an old farm house on the outskirts of Warren.

MARSHES ❧ ICHAEL POSPISCHIL ONCE TRAVELED TO Spain intent on meeting the late, great surrealist artist, Salvador Dali – and his dream came true. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that saw the painter camping on a beach for three days, out of cash and feeling vulnerable but with a head full of memories of a man by whom he’d always been inspired.

But Dali didn’t quite live up to his expectations. The painter who is best know for his mind (and clock) bending works – like The Persistence of Memory – seemed a lot more “normal” than the way in which he’d been portrayed during his illustrious career as the father of surrealism.

Pospichil explored many careers before committing to his art full-time. He worked for years as a psychiatric nurse, in a book shop, as a welder, a truck

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` Rod was an amazing man, in fact he was the foreman when Christo wrapped Sydney Harbour- he was the bloke who told everybody how to do it...

driver and a builder as well as a building designer – his own geodesic home a product of his skills.

“I’ve been a lot of things but I have always managed to get out just before I started making a lot of money,” he says with a laugh.

By the age of 18 he had already decided he didn’t want to do anything career-wise for too long.

“I wanted to build my skills up and keep fresh and try new things but I got to a point where building just got too hard on my back so I thought now it’s time to do art, which I had always dabbled in and kicked off seriously in 2000.”

That was two years after he entered the Moran Portrait Prize.

“I was accepted the first time I entered and was a finalist. It used to be held every two years back then and I remember it came to Warwick in the 1960s, I was inspired by it and thought I could do something of that standard.”

Years later, he did just that.

Pospichil had a friend, Marcia Gibbs, who agreed to pose for him and who was seven months pregnant at the time. He describes her as a “tough but feminine” woman.

That experience validated that the work he was producing was of a high enough calibre to be appreciated and gave him the nudge he needed to take on the art world full-time.

Since then the artist has won “a couple of awards” and been accepted into the Moran Portrait Prize, a second time.

POSPICHIL RECENTLY TOOK ON A TWO WEEK artist-in-residency in Warren at the Windows on the Wetland Centre, using the time to stay with local property owners to really sink his teeth into the landscape that fringes the Macquarie Marshes.

Pospichil has always been devoted to water and environmental issues, so when the opportunity arose to entrench himself solidly in a location that depends on water to maintain its environmental equilibrium, he jumped at it. He traveled from his home town of Warwick in Queensland and the end result is an incredible body of work.

“Staying on the properties around the marshes gave me a more in-depth look at the people who live here and all the various concerns they have; having said that I realise I am still only scratching the surface spending three days in each place, “Every place out here I have stayed, I could have

Right: Michael McKay, artist Michael Pospischil, Sue Egan and Jane Ryrie

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` I’ve been a lot of things but I have always managed to get out just before I started making a lot of money.. – Michael Pospichil, pictured easily spent a few weeks at, painting, because it’s such a complex place,� he says, listing some of the places and people with whom he’s recently stayed: Haddon Rig with Sally and George Falkiner, Billabulla with Rod and Kate Mildner and Kiameron with Sue and Michael Egan.

Pospichil has a variety of techniques at his disposal, as evidenced by the resulting exhibition. “The paintings here have switched between breaking down the landscape into more abstract forms to more traditional landscapes, “Some things you have to tighten up on and other things you have to let fly on, so the subject kind of dictates what approach I use.�

Lately Pospichil has been inundated with feedback on the calibre of his drawing, to the point where he’s wondering if that’s where he should be spending more of his energy. “I have always considered myself a painter but maybe I should just bite the bullet and say I am a better drawer than I am a painter – the feedback has been so consistent, especially on this exhibition.�

Regularly working with large pieces of charcoal, the artist feels people often like to fill in the blanks and details – similarly to when reading a book – rather than see the whole thing complete, but then that’s the subjective nature of art.

Pospichil also attended summer and winter art school in Toowoomba and studied with the highly regarded Australian artist and playwright Rod Milgate, considered one of the most influential artists of the 60s and 70s and with a massive haul of art prizes and exhibitions under his belt before he died last year. “Rod was an amazing man, in fact he was the foreman when Christo wrapped Sydney Harbour – he was

the bloke who told everybody how to do it. He also won the Blake prize (a religious art prize) three times which is a bit of a record. “He was one of those tutors who just likes getting inside your head, he’s not about technique, he’s a real philosopher.�

Pospichil said he had always under-valued drawing and didn’t really connect it with painting and on re-

turning to art school in Toowoomba to study under Milgate again, he was surprised to find his mentor was not tutoring and he’d been enrolled in a drawing class with artist and tutor Lynne Eastaway. Armed only with his painting gear, he returned home to gather the materials needed and said she “really opened his eyes to drawing�. “What she had to teach was amazing and from that point on I really appreciated how important drawing was in its own right. I was also made aware that you can draw something and have it be full of life and energy and the traditional method is then to take that drawing home and transfer it onto a canvas and paint over it- use it as an outline, really, “And every time I did that it just turned to crap; all the life went out of it and so I then began experimenting with charcoal and realised I need big chunks and started to make my own.�

His technique now sees him working mostly in charcoal with oil glazes on gesso panels. With his drawings fixed onto the canvas, it allows him to paint over the top, as seen in the paintings for his Warren exhibition. “The charcoal then becomes the dark areas, there’s no need to incorporate blacks into it, so it’s all just colour.�

It’s a style that is pretty unique to him if you don’t include Flemish baroque painter Rubens. “I later discovered he was using a technique quite similar, but it is uncommon because I using a method that’s about capturing the feeling and the moment but then in the studio I’m basically using old masters techniques to paint- so combining the old and the new in a way.� l Artist Michael Pospichil blogs at posp-art.blogspot. com.au

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Tourism: What goes around comes around

BY ROSS MCCARTHY CARTHY DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S OUNCIL’S CITY DEVELOPMENT MENT PROGRAM LEADER DER

ROM an economic point of view, the tourism sector can be considered as an amalgam of activities across various industry sectors such as retail, accommodation, cafes, restaurants, cultural and recreational services.

Last weekend, we welcomed in the vicinity of 10,000 visitors to our city for the NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout. We’re also expecting 2000 people in March next year for the Red Hot Summer Tour; 2500 in April for locally grown music festival Roar; 600 for the in July for the Australian Indoor Cricket Championships and 800 for Artlands in October 2016 – and that’s just for starters.

There are numerous other exciting events in the pipeline.

As far as tourism goes, Dubbo is ideally situated as the city is well connected by traditional road rail and air transport, with regular direct flights from the Dubbo City Regional Airport getting people potentially from Sydney, Brisbane and soon to be Melbourne within an hour, giving us access to 11.5 million people.

One of the exciting things about

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the new Melbourne route – besides only being an hour flight – is that it’s into and out of Melbourne Essendon Airport (MEB), rather than the further out Melbourne (MEL) Tullamarine Airport. This makes it more accessible to Melbourne CBD for air commuters. Dubbo also has XPT services to Sydney, and most importantly is situated on the cross roads of three major highways – all making Dubbo a more accessible destination.

So are events and tourism important to the economy? Well, even though tourism is not officially an industry according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Australian Government thinks so with peak bodies such as Tourism Australia, which is a statutory authority tasked with the promotion of Australia as an international tourism destination, both for leisure and business events. Its purpose is to increase the economic benefits of tourism to our nation.

To do this, it has a new strategic approach called Tourism 2020, aimed at growing overnight tourism expenditure to more than $115 billon by the end of the decade. With the Australian dollar being around 70c to one US dollar now, a tourist from the USA can spend one of their dollars and get one $1.43 in return, making

Thousands affected by dodgy diesel devices MORE than 90,000 diesel powered vehicles sold in Australia by Audi and Volkswagen are affected by the installation of emissions defeat devices, according to a statement issued by the federal government this week.

The Australian arms of the car manufacturers have disclosed that 91,177 Audies, VW passenger cars and commercial vehicles and Skodas have been affected, with Audi and Volkswagen providing information about how Aussie owners can check if their vehicle is affected by the presence of an emissions defeat device. The companies have also provided a commitment to temporarily suspend the sale in Australia of certain new diesel powered vehicle models in their range until the emissions issues are addressed in those models.

Owners they do not need to take any further action immediately and the vehicles remain safe to drive; and the companies will provide further information about corrective actions in due course. Volkswagen and Audi owners with questions regarding their vehicles can refer to the Audi Australia or Volkswagen Australia websites or ring these helplines: VW Australia: 1800 607 822 Skoda: 1800 607 540 Audi Australia: 1800 502 834

Grants help business waste not, want not THE region’s businesses, government bodies and notfor-profit organisations have been urged to apply for grants of between $5,000 and $5 million to reduce the one million tonnes of food and organic garden waste going to land fill each year. The NSW government initiative aims to encourage organisations to invest in the infrastructure and equipment needed to increase on-site processing of organic waste, with grants of up

Australia a great place for international tourists to visit in terms of value.

At a regional level the latest ABS data states tourism as being worth $383M to the Orana Region which represents 2.8 per cent of our economy. In Dubbo tourism is valued at $187M or 4 per cent of our local economy, which is significant. In terms of jobs, 1,059 are directly attributable to the tourism sector. This equates to 6.2 per cent of the workforce of which 58 per cent are related to accommodation and food, 18 per cent to retail, 6.7 per cent to transport to name just the top three. Some $49M in wages is directly associated with tourism across our city.

In Dubbo the tourism sector enjoys attractions such as Taronga Western Plains Zoo, the Old Dubbo Goal, and the Western Plains Cultural Centre. Many of the attractions draw people from outside Dubbo, bringing money into our community. In the case of the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) more than one third of ticket sales are to people outside the 2830 area.

So are events such as last weekend’s Rugby League Knockout really of any economic value to our economy? Rather than pick on any one event, let’s make some assumptions on a general event.

Tourism Research Australia (TRA) data currently reflects an average spend of $149/night and $148/day for visitors. An average stay in the city for domestic visitors is 2.1 nights. If Dubbo has an event that attracts, say, 50 domestic day visitors and 500 domestic overnight visitors for 2.1 nights, that would see a direct economic injection of $163,830 with accommodation, food, retail, arts and recreation all big winners through visitors directly spending money from their own pockets.

What happens next is what economists call the multiplier effect. The multiplier effect or more specially the tourism multiplier effect in this case, is these events not only create jobs in the tourism sector (tertiary), they also encourage growth in the primary and secondary sectors of the industry, for example wholesale food suppliers who may buy food from local farmers, who may in turn spend money on seed and diesel for example. The multiplier effect, in its simplest form, is how many times money spent by a visitor circulates through the economy.

So before you head overseas, consider what you can do in Australia first. If it is a work function, sporting, cultural or a family function maybe Dubbo can play host?

Have a great weekend.

to 50 per cent of costs for businesses and up to 90 per cent for not-for-profits.

State environment minister Mark Speakman said the initiative is part of the $465.7 million Waste Less, Recycle More initiative transforming waste management and recycling across NSW. Applications can be made in four streams: Food and Garden Organics Processing for new and enhanced infrastructure for households or businesses; Business Organics Recycling funds for infrastructure for large businesses, institutions and organisations; Business Organics Recycling to fund the collection and redistribution of edible food waste; and Home Composting funds for small scale infrastructure like compost bins or worm farms.

Applications close on 1 December 2015. For more information and to download an application form, organisations are encouraged to go to www.epa.nsw. gov.au/wastegrants/organic-large-small.htm

Consumer watchdog could have egg on its face THE state’s peak farming body says it’s disappointed by a decision from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to issue guidelines on freerange egg labeling before a it’s decided whether or not a guide is necessary.

NSW Farmers says the ACCC has “jumped the gun” and that it’s hard to see the commonsense in “starting at the finish line”, with the consumer watchdog seemingly having made up its mind on the issue before the consultation process even gets underway.

“NSW Farmers fully supports the ACCC’s important role in enforcing misleading product claims but when this complex issue is viewed in black and white, the result is unintended supply chain regulation out of step with consumer expectations,” president Derek Schoen said this week. “The industry welcomes clarity on ‘free range’ labelling to ensure we can enhance

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Do you know your cash flow break-even point?

Education system failing business: survey

BY COLIN BRINSDEN AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT CANBERRA: You don’t need a university degree to run a small business but neither does the education system provide the skills that are required.

Those are the findings in a new survey of small and medium enterprises by business solutions provider MYOB. It mirrors the views of business leaders at last week’s meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who want a better alignment of vocational and university education with the rapidly changing needs of business.

“There is much more we can do to support innovation across the country,” MYOB’s chief technology officer Simon Raik-Allen says.

Fifty-eight per cent of respondents in the survey of 400 SMEs said the education system isn’t providing the skills students needed to be entrepreneurial and innovative in their future, while two-thirds said it doesn’t give the know-how to run a business.

Over three-quarters said that you don’t need a degree to run a small business, while 43 per cent of owners felt their own education had not helped them running the firm.

“Our business people are learning on the job,” Mr Raik-Allen said, releasing the survey on Thursday.

“We could fast-track our entrepreneurship if we started teaching more of the skills needed in schools, TAFE, private colleges and universities.”

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consumer confidence but the process must first recognise that the vast majority of free range production already meets consumer expectations.” NSW Farmers says the current ACCC definition, producers supplying the vast majority of free range eggs sold in Australia would need to reinvest in new production facilities or be at risk of enforcement action.

Workers urged “be safe, be healthy, because... ” OCTOBER is National Safe Work Month, which helps bring workplace safety into the spotlight, and businesses across the region are being urged to “Be safe, be healthy, and think about “because... ”.

Slater and Gordon Personal Injury General Manager Stuart Barnett said the reasons for workplace safety are mostly universal, but there is an extra degree of importance for NSW workers. “When I consider the “dot dot dot” after because, I think about the family and loved ones of every worker, waiting to welcome them home,” Mr Barnett said.

“That “dot dot dot” represents the future they are safeguarding and the reason they strive to protect the lives they look forward to.

“But for the thousands of Australians injured at work, it’s a reminder that their lives will never be the same.

“And for workers injured in NSW it represents uncertainty about whether they will be fully supported by WorkCover.” Mr Barnett said many workers have been left out-of-pocket and without medical assistance, following the New South Wales Government’s legislative reforms in 2012.

“Since then, there have been many positive steps to restore benefits and support schemes, but more needs to be done,” Mr Barnett said.

“Reduced weekly payments, capped medical payments and no access to additional lump sum payments for those whose conditions deteriorate are just some of the changes that are failing our injured workers.”

E’VE all heard of a break even point for profitability. But I firmly believe a break even point based on cash flow is just as, if not even more important!

So how do we go about working this out?

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1. Understand how long it takes to get paid IT’S always a good idea to work out how long it takes you to get paid. Make sure you get your year-end accounts and look at your debtors and total sales.

Looking at crucial cash flow calculations is paramount.

2. Establish how quickly you turn your stock over IF you sell stock, you need to understand how long you are taking to sell your inventory units. Cash flow is often tied up in slow moving stock.

3. How fast are you paying your suppliers?

DO you pay your suppliers within terms or outside of terms? It’s important to negotiate longer trading terms if possible but do not pay outside of these because, although they could assist your cash flow initially, if your creditors delay supply due to non-payment it could affect sales and overall profitability.

4. What are your loan repayments?

THIS is where it is possible to still go broke with making a profit, and viceversa. Loan repayments in conjunction with poor debtor days, low supplier days and high inventory turnover days can be disastrous! Work out what your principal and interest repayments are for the year. Debt repayment terms can be a cash killer – particularly when the business is just starting!

5. What are your drawings/ dividends?

HOW much do you need to take over and above your salary each year? Don’t forget to include tax on any dividend and other income besides your after tax wage/salary.

6. What are your fixed overheads?

YOU need to know what your fixed overheads are going to be for the year – like the others above and below it is crucial to understanding your breakeven point, regardless of cash flow or

profitability.

7. What are your gross profit margins?

WHAT is your average margin on sales in percentage terms? Again speak to your accountant or business advisor or get them from your accounting software such as Xero or MYOB. Ring your accountant to go through these with you. If you have a cloud accounting system, they should be able to log in and go through the numbers with you.

8. Perform a cash flow forecast ONCE you have the above information, consider 3-way budgets and work out whether you are going to be cash flow positive for the year, or cash flow negative. If it’s negative you need to change something with your business planning. Perform some differing cash flow forecasts to work out what scenarios you could have or would like to see.

7. Calculate cash flow break even sales NOW, if you worked out for example that in terms of cash flow forecasts you will physically be paying $100,000 in loans, $50,000 in dividends and $150,000 in fixed overheads, if your gross profit margin is 30%, then you would work out you need $1,000,000 in sales. HOWEVER, because you know that it takes you 45 days to get paid and your inventory takes 30 days to turn over and your supplier days are 30 days, you work out that you actually need to make approximately $1,100,000 in sales, excluding GST, to make a break even cash flow point.

You can then either choose to fix parts of the above ‘recipe’ to reduce this figure and/or increase sales, improve margins, reduce overheads, etc.

The options are endless if you just take the time to explore what could be possible to fix the problem and, even better than that, generate more profit, more cash flow and a higher business valuation for your business!

CONCLUSION: YES, the above might all seem a little complicated but it’s vital you consider the possibilities for your business. If you don’t have a handle on these numbers, seek help from your accountant who should be assisting you with these things.

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Exercise makes everyone a winner CAMILLA BARLOW LOW CANCER COUNCIL IL LN NSW SW

ITH the long weekend behind us and summer fast approaching, getting out and about in the late daylight hours is feeling better than ever. Our quintessential Aussie summer sports are well and truly kicking off; public pools around the region are reopening, so donning the swimming togs might serve as some solid inspiration to shed any of those extra winter kilos we may have kept for the sake of “insulation” through the chilly winter months.

The October long weekend really is one for footy fans and family time. As I reflect on the past 48 hours, I am inspired by the incredible athleticism and Aussie team spirit I’ve witnessed happening all over the world – with the AFL grand final, a nail biting NRL grand final, an epic win for the Wallabies over Rugby World Cup hosts England, and locally, the Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout at Caltex Park in Dubbo.

Whether or not you follow any of these codes, or sport in general – there is so much to be positive about when it comes to physical activity and teamwork.

Being physically active, by definition, involves any activity that makes your body move, your breathing quicker and your heart beat faster – although I’m afraid simply walking from the couch to the fridge doesn’t count, neither does bicep curling your snack to your mouth.

Physical activity is one of the most important things you can do to reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Being physically active is also excellent for your mental health and makes you feel better by giving you more energy and vitality through releasing natural pheromones.

But you don’t need to be Johnathan Thurston or Kurtley Beale, or even run the New York Marathon to reap the rewards of regular exercise.

Research suggests that 60 minutes or more every day of moderate activity, which could include brisk walking, mowing the lawn or medium-paced swimming, or 30 minutes or more of vigorous activity (like jogging or fast cycling) may be one of the best ways to reduce your risk of cancer and other lifestyle diseases – especially those associated with being overweight or obese.

People often create excuses to avoid exercise – being time poor is a classic – and more often than

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Cancer Council volunteers with some of the donated fruits and vegetables given out to event attendees at last weekend’s Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout in Dubbo. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

not this comes down to a simple case of lacking personal motivation. Joining a team sport or finding a friend (even the canine variety) can be a huge help to get you off the couch and into your active wear faster than you can say “I can’t be bothered”.

For those of us who work in a sedentary office environment, getting those 60 minutes in every day is even more important than those lucky enough to be out and about in their employment. Research shows that being sedentary for long periods, irrespective of the overall amount of physical activity, is associated with increased risk of bowel, endometrial, ovarian and prostate cancer, as well as increased overall cancer mortality in women.

The Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines recommend regularly breaking up long periods of sitting each day. Even if you meet

the physical activity guidelines, you can still benefit from minimising time spent sitting. So if you’ve taken too long to read this, I suggest you put down the paper, put on your shoes and go for a brisk walk around the block to get the heart rate up and the blood pumping. You could even invest in a skipping rope – skipping while you watch the news is a great way to build your fitness while staying up to date with current affairs – and you don’t need an expensive gym membership to exercise either, especially in the warmer months.

Choosing activities you enjoy and fit into your routine is a great way to keep motivated. Involving your friends and family is another – I know there have been many, many mornings I would have successfully made excuses to stay in bed over doing some exercise if I didn’t have a buddy

People often create excuses to avoid exercise – being time poor is a classic – and more often than not this comes down to a simple case of lacking personal motivation...

relying on me to pick them up on the way to the gym or the park.

One of my favourite sayings is that you should think of movement as an opportunity, rather than an inconvenience. Its an excellent mantra to live by, and helps you to be active in as many ways as you can. Taking the stairs instead of the lift is a great start, or not always trying to get the closest parking spot to the supermarket doors.

There are so many simple ways you can improve your health and reduce your risk of chronic lifestyle diseases that are increasingly prevalent in our society.

Physical exercise is just one of them – and it’s one you can do with others really easily all while having a great time.

It really impressed me over the weekend, particularly during the NRL grand final between the Cowboys and the Broncos – to see how much air time the players’ loved ones received after the match. This sense of “strength in family” was also very evident at the Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout in Dubbo and this really made me think of these sporting communities as one big team – one big team that’s making positive, healthy choices that will ultimately improve collective physical and mental health – they are the real winners in my eyes.

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25 simple brain-boosters Finally, a healthy solution that doesn’t mean having to give up some of life’s little luxuries!

BY ELLA WALKER

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ANDS up if you wish your memory was a little better? Forgetfulness is something most of us can relate to, whether it’s losing those darn keys time and time again, bumping into someone you went to school with and having to awkwardly sidestep the fact that you can’t for the life of you remember their name, or setting yourself up for another last-minute mad dash for so-and-so’s birthday/that meeting/ the form you were meant to send back.

While it may sometimes seem that a failing memory is an inevitable part of growing older, it’s actually easier than you might think to get your brain’s cogs ticking over more smoothly.

Here are 25 simple steps for keeping your memory in tip-top shape...

15. Eat oily fish

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Omega3 fatty acids can do wonders for your memory, so make sure to have at least one portion of oily fish (mackerel, salmon, tuna) a week.

16. Climb a tree A study by scientists in Florida have found that childhood pastimes, like running barefoot, crawling around and climbing trees, can boost our working memory – the kind we use to remember phone numbers and directions.

17. Get lots of vitamin D Vitamin D is vital for strong bones, but a deficiency in it has been linked to memory loss. Stock up on it by getting enough sunlight and munching on fruit and veg.

1. Get lots of sleep

18. Chew gum

A good night’s sleep is basically a wonder cure. It’s intrinsic for mental and physical health, and, if you haven’t had enough, can affect the quality of the memories you store, and your ability to recall them the next day.

Really! Chewing on a stick of gum uses your jaw muscles, which increases oxygen flow to the brain, and brains love oxygen.

19. Watch trivia game shows Yes, sometimes the questions don’t even sound like questions, but it’s great for getting the recesses of your brain in gear. Who knows what knowledge you might have stored away?

2. Drink lots of water Are you getting your six glasses a day? The brain is 75 per cent water so even if you’re only a little bit dehydrated, it will shrink. Stay topped up for optimum memory power.

20. Play brain training games Sudoku, crosswords (like the ones here in Weekender) and specific brain training apps can all be used to give your memory a workout.

3. Drink coffee The caffeine in coffee is a great stimulant for sharpening your memory and general brain functions. If you don’t like coffee, try green tea instead, it contains the amino acid L-theanine which releases neurotransmitters that jumpstart recall and boost your capacity to learn.

4. Read a book Is there anything a good book can’t do? Read to enhance imagination, vocabulary, mood, intelligence, memory, analytical thinking – and to escape from the world a little bit.

5. Exercise Getting enough exercise will help combat everything from heart disease to diabetes and stroke, and of course, boosts memory.

Go swimming, running, cycling – whatever best suits you, and your brain will thank you for it.

6. Listen to music Apparently, listening to your favourite album uses both sides of your brain, which is unusual and hugely beneficial. Try classical to kick-start your brain power even further.

7. Learn a language Getting your head (and tongue) around a brand new language is like putting your brain through a daily – and rigorous – obstacle course.

The process will boost intelligence and hone your memory skills, as well as make you look good at parties.

8. Meditate Giving your brain a com-

21. Watch thrillers

`The caffeine in coffee is a great stimulant for sharpening your memory and general brain functions.a plete rest – no thinking, no problem solving, no distractions – just peace and quiet for 15 minutes or so, will keep stress at bay, put you in a good mood and increase your focus and attention span, all contributing to better skills when it comes to remembering things.

9. Do yoga Combine meditation with yoga and you’ll be ticking all the boxes: exercise + increased oxygen intake + peaceful mind = one very happy brain.

10. Quit smoking Puffing away increases the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, and releases free radicals (unattached oxygen cells) which attack and kill brain cells. Step away from the nicotine!

11. Reminisce You haven’t lost any of your memories really, they’re just tucked away inside your brain for safe keeping. The more you dredge them up, by talking and reminiscing with friends and family, the more you’ll reinforce neural pathways, making accessing memories easier over

time. And it’s fun!

12. Laugh Laughing has recently been found to tackle the stress hormone cortisol, which, left to its own devices, can cause damage to the brain. So, have a good giggle and beat age-related memory loss.

13. Eat berries

US scientists have found our brains employ tunnel vision when focussing on a particularly tense moment during thrillers, and this has been suggested to enhance memory recall.

22. Breathe deeply Fill your lungs, expel stale air properly and your brain will thank you for it. It relies on oxygen to function at the highest levels and to grow new brain cells which helps it encode information, so feed it with as much as you can.

23. Drink less alcohol Mind blanks after a bottle and a half of wine aren’t good for work the next day, and are definitely not conducive to a healthy, fully functioning brain.

Scoff blueberries – they’re packed with everything from vitamin C and fibre, to manganese and numerous antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. In particular, they are a great source of anthocyanins which have been linked to improving memory and spatial learning.

Cannabis in particular has been found to directly affect the short-term memory, so steer clear unless you want to end up like a goldfish.

14. Don’t binge

25. Have a direction

Don’t take this blueberry news as an excuse to start loading up on pancakes though. As a hangover from our hunter-gatherer days, humans are most efficient and productive when they are hungry but aerobically fit. Scientists have also found obese people had 8 per cent less brain tissue than people with a healthy weight, which impacts on

24. Avoid drugs

If you have a plan of action, a project to finish, a book you’ve always wanted to read – do it! Being motivated lights up your brain, while paying attention to things you want to remember will increase your chances of being able to. Stay active mentally and creatively and your brain will fall in line!

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Beautiful Bell Lisa Minner snapped this peaceful landscape while driving between the townships of Neurea and Molong, recently. Shot from atop a bridge on the Mitchell Highway, she captured the beautiful Bell River as it meandered along on an overcast day.

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Fishy business

BY KEELEY BOLGER ORGET coffee, tea or an icy shower, if there’s anything guaranteed to give restaurant owners Mitch Tonks and Mat Prowse a boost in the morning, it’s their breakfast grappa.

Since travelling around Europe some years ago, on the hunt for culinary inspiration for their celebrated Seahorse restaurant in Devon, England, the two friends have continued the boozy morning ritual, which is popular in food markets in Italy and Spain.

“We like our little drink in the morning,” says Tonks, laughing.

“It’s quite enjoyable,” adds the award-winning chef, who fronted A pay-TV series called Mitch And Matt’s Big Fish Recipes, with former English rugby star Matt Dawson.

“The secret is, it’s only one drink, and for some reason, some days it’s better than others. Some days you don’t really get it, and other days you get really quite smashed and I’m not sure why.”

While the pair’s customary drink, which they quaff alongside their morning coffee, has raised a few eyebrows, it’s part and parcel of the jovial atmosphere they hope to create in the restaurant, with dancing on tables and musical interludes from their maitre d’ Mark Ely encouraged.

“It doesn’t really sound like it’s a very professional place,” says Prowse with a laugh. “It has a life of its own.”

Friends since the late Nineties, Tonks and Prowse – whose experience in kitchens began with pot-washing for a local eatery when he was 13 – have just released a new recipe book, aptly named The Seahorse, based on the dishes they serve in their restaurant.

And while they are both knee-deep in seafood these days, this wasn’t always this case.

“I was working as a head chef at a restaurant in Bath and Mitch came to sell me fish,” explains Prowse of how their partnership began.

“He set up his fishmongers there after giving up his previous life as an accountant. He came into the restaurant one day, trying to sell me fish, and that was it, we just hit it off. We decided to start running cookery classes.”

While he and Tonks, who “wasn’t having a great time” as an accountant and quit aged 27, bonded over their love of seafood, they’re well aware that many people don’t share their enthusiasm for fish.

“It smells. It’s full of bone. It’s going to stick in your throat and you’re going to be dragged to hospital to get rid of it,” exclaims Prowse, with a weary sigh.

“Everything you hear about fish, whether it’s sustainability or cooking it, is all negative. But it’s not. It’s an easy thing to cook. Very simply with the sustainability thing, just find yourself a good fishmonger and trust they’re doing that bit for you.

“Buy the freshest fish you can find, cook it really simply and you’ll have the best meal ever. That’s all we do in the restaurant. Sometimes you feel like a fraud because it is so easy, but behind the scenes it’s not!”

Fancy trying your hand at some simple fishy dishes? Here are three recipes from The Seahorse to try at home...

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Mat Prowse and Mitch Tonks. PHOTO: PA/CHRIS TERRY.

24-hour refrigerator vegetable pickles

BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

ON a recent afternoon when my son texted me to check in, I nimbly replied with sticky fingers, “I’m preoccupied with taking pics of pints of pickled...”

While laughing at the preponderance of Ps, I accidentally pressed “send”. He immediately wrote back, “Pickled PEPPERS?... ha!”

Hmm, OK, so I may have left the peppers out of this recipe, but keeping with the “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled...” verse

that took us back to his childhood, I simply replied, “perhaps”.

Word play and food play are interchangeable with kids, no matter their age.

Preparing pickled veggies this time of year is the perfect antidote for using and enjoying the abundance of fresh, tender and tasty produce in our gardens and markets.

You and your kids can create jars full to stack in the refrigerator in less than an hour for a month of tasty sides. Discover, like my family, that the vegetables will be sweet like bread and butter pickles, but will pack more flavour than the traditional grocery-store fare.

Here’s how to “pickle it” all:

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RED GURNARD WITH PEPERONATA AND SALSA VERDE SEA BASS WITH BRAISED COURGETTES (Serves 4) 100ml plus 1tbsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 4 courgettes, cut into quarters then cut into 2.5cm chunks A good handful of basil, roughly torn 4 sea bass fillets, about 180-200g each, skin on 1 lemon Salt and ground white pepper 1 lemon, cut into wedges, to serve Preheat the oven to 200C/Gas 6.

Heat the 100ml of olive oil in a saucepan over a medium heat. Add the garlic and sweat for a minute without colouring. Next, add the courgettes and basil, then season with salt and white pepper and mix well.

Cook the courgettes for about 15 minutes, stirring regularly until most of the water from the courgettes has evaporated and they have stewed down, leaving some in chunks and some completely broken down. Take off the heat and set aside.

Heat a large ovenproof frying pan with the tablespoon of olive oil over a medium heat. Place the sea bass in the pan skin-side down, season with a little salt and cook for about 12 minutes until the sea bass skin starts to take some colour and begins to crisp.

Carefully turn the fillets over and place the pan into the oven and roast for about five minutes, or until the flesh turns white and flakes easily.

To serve, reheat the courgettes over a low heat until they are just warm. Add a good squeeze of lemon and put a generous spoonful onto each warmed plate. Put the sea bass on top and serve with a lemon wedge.

:: The Seahorse by Mitch Tonks and Mat Prowse, photography

by Chris Terry, is published in hardback by Absolute Press.

(Serves 4) 50ml olive oil 4 red gurnard fillets, about 180-200g each, skin on For the peperonata: 50ml olive oil 2 red onions, sliced 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1tsp dried oregano 1tbsp tomato puree 1/2tsp ground cumin 2 red peppers, deseeded and sliced 2 yellow peppers, deseeded and sliced A pinch of saffron strands For the salsa verde: A handful of flat-leaf parsley A handful of basil A handful of mint 2 garlic cloves 1tbsp capers 1tbsp red wine vinegar 12 salted anchovy fillets 1tsp Dijon mustard 4tbsp olive oil Salt For the pepperonata, heat the olive oil in a lidded saucepan over a medium heat. Add the onions, garlic and oregano and sweat for five minutes, or until soft. Add the tomato puree and cumin and cook for a further two minutes. Next, add the peppers and saffron and mix well, then cover the pan with a lid and stew the peppers for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Uncover and cook for a further 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Check the seasoning then remove from the heat.

Preheat the oven to 200C/Gas 6. To make the salsa verde, place all the ingredients except the olive oil into a food processor and pulse-blend them to a rough paste. Add half the oil and blend again to combine, then add the remaining oil and repeat.

To cook the fish, heat the olive oil in a large, ovenproof frying pan over a medium heat. Add the red gurnard and cook for about two minutes until golden on one side.

Carefully turn the red gurnard over and place the pan into the oven and roast for six to eight minutes (depending on size and thickness of fish) until cooked.

Remove the fish from the oven and serve with a spoonful of the peperonata and the salsa verde.

CARAMEL AND ESPRESSO PANNACOTTA (Makes 12 espresso cups) For the pannacotta: 4 gelatine leaves 220ml freshly made espresso 220ml full-fat milk 120g caster sugar 100ml brandy 360ml double cream For the syrup: 100ml water 300g granulated sugar 125ml freshly made espresso 25ml brandy Place the gelatine in a small bowl and pour over enough cold water to cover. Soak for five minutes, or until soft, then drain and squeeze out the excess water.

To make the pannacotta, warm the espresso, milk and sugar in a saucepan over a low heat, stirring occasionally until the sugar has dissolved. Add the softened gelatine and stir to dissolve in the warm liquid. Take off the heat and allow to cool (not completely cold, just tepid). Add the brandy and cream and mix well until combined, then pour into espresso cups and allow to set for at least four hours in the fridge.

For the syrup, make a caramel: pour the water into a deep heavy-based saucepan, add the sugar, stir and put over a gentle heat to dissolve the sugar; keep stirring until it is fully dissolved. Once the sugar has dissolved, bring to the boil, and boil until the syrup is a light golden colour. Take off the heat and allow to cool slightly, but not get completely cold.

Carefully pour the 125ml of espresso into the cooled syrup and stir until smooth, then add the brandy. Stir to combine and allow to cool.

To serve, pour a little of the syrup over the top of the pannacottas to completely cover the surface.

24-HOUR PICKLES (Makes approx 2.8 litres) For the brine: 5 cups distilled white vinegar 5 cups sugar 2 tablespoons kosher salt 1/4 cup mustard seed 1 tablespoon celery seed 1 tablespoon black peppercorns 6 bay leaves Fresh dill (optional) For the vegetables: 3 cucumbers, sliced in discs or quartered lengthwise 6 medium carrots, peeled and quartered lengthwise 2 big handfuls of green beans

1 medium cauliflower, broken into pieces 2 onions, halved and sliced To prepare: 1. In a saucepan, combine the first six brine ingredients and bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is completely dissolved.

2. Place the vegetables in a large bowl.

3. An adult should pour the hot brine mixture over the vegetables. Cool.

Transfer equally to six clean jars, tucking a bay leaf and dill (if you choose) in each one. Screw lids on tightly and place in the refrigerator.

4. Refrigerate for 24 hours before serving.

TIP: Keep refrigerated and use within one month.

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Decor’s new frontier

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN WOODLAND WAY: cushions, stag head, etc. Photos: PA

LAY-IT-SAFE decorators may already be making seasonal changes all over the home – perhaps putting away those old and familiar cosy throws and cushions – but the adventurous should explore decor’s wild side.

There’s a new rugged and real ‘wilderness’ look sweeping into style, which is either evocative of Wild West plains and cowboy ranches or, for the more intrepid, conjuring the dramatic Arctic tundra.

But don’t fret if your wanderlust only extends to the more sedate British (or even Australian) countryside. A traditional rustic woodland theme, with a style landscape teeming with creatures great and small, is still featuring strongly in collections.

“Warm and cosy in essence, ‘Tundra’ takes its influence from the distinctive timeless native traditions and breathtaking wilderness of the Arctic Circle,” explains Fiona Lambert, vice president of brand design and development at a decor company that is rapidly gaining a reputation for slick on-trend ranges and is embracing both looks.

“We see ‘Hibernate’ as a softer, more tranquil country look, capturing autumn and narrating its colour changes through a subtle print and colour palette, and enhanced by key woodland characters and iconic images of forests and falling leaves for photographic wall prints.”

Whichever way you journey – far and wide or closer to home – it’s nature, tame or wild in tooth and claw, that’s ruling in rooms.

It’s your choice whether you seek refuge with nothing more threatening than possums or squirrels and those ubiquitous stags, or bravely strike out and shelter with bears and wolves...

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WOODLAND WAY

While tranquil rustic sanctuaries reflect a traditional country landscape, there are two trend trails to follow. Take to the Scottish Highlands with huntinglodge style tartan touches and stags heads, or opt for whimsy with quirky animal motifs.

“Combining a sense of adventure and escapism, this trend stems from a love of the outdoors and a back-tobasics approach to rustic living,” says Andrew Tanner, head of a home design team.

“Mixing motifs sourced from the natural world, heavy plaids and Argyll knits, the feel is textural and tactile. Wood and leather finishes and a warm colour palette add to the authentic, aged feel, while enamel and ceramic pieces help create a crisp, contemporary version of country style.”

CAPTURE THE STYLE: Mock stags – still alive and kicking in decor – are an osten-seen trophy for homes mimicking a country lodge look. Yes, some find them goulish, so feel free to get creative and look for another option.

Pheasant-themed accessories, tartan cushions and checked throws also look good.

Kick up your cooking with horseradish

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

KITCHEN DIVA

HORSERADISH is widely used in most of the condiments, dips and spreads that we consume. It’s spicy, flavourful and adds a kick to cocktail sauce, cheese, specialty mustards and many other sauces, hummus, relishes and dressings. It’s also a healthy addition to your daily diet because it is low in fat and high in flavour.

Horseradish is a 3000-year-old plant that has been used as an aphrodisiac, a treatment for rheumatism, a bitter herb for Passover seders and a flavourful accompaniment for meats. Prized for its medicinal and gastronomic qualities, legend has it the Delphic oracle told Apollo, “The radish is worth its weight in lead, the beet its weight in silver, the horseradish its weight in gold.”

In German, horseradish is called “meerrettich” (sea radish) because it grows by the sea. Many believe the English mispronounced the German word “meer” and began calling it “mareradish”. Eventually it became known as horseradish. “Radish” comes from the Latin “radix”, meaning root.

Horseradish is a member of the mustard family. Its “hotness” comes from isothiocyanate, a volatile compound that, when oxidized by air and saliva, generates the “heat” that some people claim clears out their sinuses.

The bite and aroma of the horseradish root are almost absent until it is grated or ground. Isothiocyanates are released as the root cells are crushed. Vinegar stops the reaction and stabilises the flavour. For milder horseradish, vinegar is added immediately.

In the United States, an estimated 24 million pounds of horseradish roots are ground and processed annually to produce

approximately 6 million gallons of prepared horseradish.

They even have an annual celebration for it. Each May, horseradish is celebrated at the International Horseradish Festival in Collinsville, Illinois. Collinsville grows 60 per cent of the world’s supply of the root.

Events include a root toss, a horseradisheating contest and a horseradish recipe contest.

To relish the full flavour of processed horseradish, it must be fresh and of high quality. Colour varies from white to creamy beige. As processed horseradish ages, it browns and loses potency.

For best results, keep horseradish in a tightly covered jar in the refrigerator to protect freshness.

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For a more fanciful woodland interpretation, feature a few of the many critters in clothes scampering over collections. Hats seem to be a favourite for creature comfort, while a Foxy Mug can add a unique touch.

SETTLER SPIRIT

Nomadic, pioneering and free-spirited, this look evokes the rolling prairies of the American Wild West, or for those with real decor wanderlust, the chilly, wintry beauty of a snowbound vista.

“We’ve embraced a raw, innate landscape and underpinned it with a characteristic colour spectrum of brown, charcoal and neutral hues, complemented by rusty orange and golden tones, to add warmth and richness,” says Lambert.

“Add texture with rustic linens, chunky knits, faux fur and mohair for luxurious comfort and detail, in designs featuring tribal prints, animals and embroidered landscapes. Carved imitation bone accessories are a perfect finishing touch.”

CAPTURE THE STYLE: Wood panelling’s essential for a timbered cabin retreat, and faux-effect wallpaper avoids the need for DIY. Alternative wallpapers could conjure a bleak winter forest landscape.

Accessories featuring faux fur and wilderness creatures are perfect for that striking remote log cabin look: a cushion, faux fur throw, or dramatic ram’s head ornament.

Accessories including pheasant feather framed pair of prints.

3D texture cushion

Navajo Cushion

British deer wall sticker

Brushed cotton check duvet set, skull and antlers wall plaque, trunks.

Tapestry bear cushion Large wall hanging reindeer head 3D photographic sheep cushion Two tier antler chandelier

Grey highland cow head

Old wolf cushion

keep it cold. Horseradish tarnishes silver, so serve it in a glass or ceramic bowl, and return the tightly closed jar to the refrigerator immediately.

SAVORY HORSERADISH CHEESECAKE (Makes 12-16 servings.)

THIS is a delicious appetiser or brunch dish to serve with sliced apples or pears, or crunchy vegetables.

1 (20cm) unbaked, prepared deep dish piecrust or 1 (20cm) deep dish, unbaked Butter Cracker and Parmesan Crumb Crust (see recipe below) 3 packages (approx 225g) cream cheese, softened 3 tablespoons prepared horseradish 2 cups shredded, sharp cheddar cheese 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 4 large eggs To prepare: 1. Heat oven to 160C/325F. 2. In a large mixing bowl or in the bowl of a food processor, beat cream cheese, horseradish, cheddar cheese,

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salt, pepper and nutmeg at medium speed until wellmixed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Pour into prepared crust. Bake for 45 minutes or until centre is almost set but still has a slight jiggle.

3. Cool, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 4 hours. Bring to room temperature or microwave for 10 to 15 seconds before serving.

Butter Cracker and Parmesan Crumb Crust: 2 cups finely crushed butter crackers (such as Ritz) 3 tablespoons melted butter 3 tablespoons of Parmesan cheese To prepare: 4. In a large bowl, mix together the crackers, butter and cheese until well-combined. The crumbs should stick together without becoming over-saturated with butter. If crumbs are too oily, add more crushed crackers. If crumbs are too dry and will not stick together, add another tablespoon of melted butter.

5. Gently press moistened crumbs into the pie plate to form a cohesive crust. A measuring cup makes a handy tool to use for this process, as it both tightens the structure of the crumb crust and evens it out, especially around the edges.

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NOW HERE’S A TIP

BY JOANN DERSON z “We are moving out of our apartment, as we finally found a home to purchase. With all the new projects, we’re going to need our deposit back, so we want to leave the old place in tip-top shape. Here’s a trick we learned: Tiny nail holes in drywall are instantly patched by rubbing a bar of soap across the surface.” – Contributed by S.G. z “Before I pluck my eyebrows, I rub on a bit of my granddaughter’s teething gel. She’s done teething and doesn’t need it anymore, but it works well for me. Be very

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careful when applying, though; let dry and wash your hands before touching your eye any further!” – Contributed by M.L. z “Most cake recipes ask you to grease and dust the cake pan to make removal easier.

To avoid unsightly flour marks on the outside of the cake, just dust the pan with a bit of the cake mix instead of using flour.” – Contributed by J.P. z “For troublesome-to-open jars – pickles and such – use a pair of standard dishwashing gloves. It’s a great gripper, especially if your hands are the least bit moist.” – Contributed

by D.L. z “Wear oven mitts to protect your hands when clipping roses or other thorny plants.” – Contributed by O.L.

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Playing the glory game in South Africa

School children learning about the environment. PHOTOS: PA/DAVID DETTMAN PHOTOGRAPHY.

BY SARAH MARSHALL LAMBERING over each other to get a better view, my fellow passengers are stunned into silence by the sight of two stocky, muscular white rhinos.

It is a fairly typical reaction for first-time safari-goers, but what makes our game drive significantly different is the fact these wide-eyed spectators live just a few kilometres from the park, yet have only ever encountered wildlife through TV screens and storybooks.

I have joined a group of 11-year-old pupils from Grahamstown Primary School for a Bush Day in the Amakhala Game Reserve on South Africa’s Eastern Cape, as part of a six-week Coaching for Conservation (C4C) educational program.

Guides from the park’s 11 lodges and camps, such as Bukela, where I am staying, have volunteered to help as drivers for the day, and I have come along to find out how wildlife, tourism and community empowerment are so heavily interdependent.

Originally set up by anthropologist Lesley McNutt as a Botswana-based project in 2004, C4C aims to teach children about endangered species and their environment through interactive games and sport. By translating animal skills to the soccer field, children begin to have a better understanding and appreciation for the world around them.

“The animals we are trying to protect are the coaches; they become the

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heroes,” says Lesley, a Canadian who now lives full-time in Botswana and runs the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust with her husband John. “The lion sits beside Ronaldo and the cheetah alongside Beckham.”

So far, the project has been a huge success, counting Prince William and Prince Harry as supporters, and there are now plans to implement it in other regions of Africa.

In 2013, C4C was invited to join with Investec’s Rhino Lifeline project in South Africa, tweaking the curriculum to focus on the highly endangered African rhino.

The country’s poaching crisis is now so grave, game reserves such as Amakhala refuse to disclose the exact number of rhinos on their grounds, and rangers are banned from even mentioning the animal on radio intercoms.

As we bump across the reserve’s muddy terrain, excited children grip tightly to their seats, frequently losing their orange C4C baseball caps in the wind.

When coach and game ranger Melumzi stops the vehicle to pick up a dry ball of elephant dung, smiles quickly turn into wrinkled grimaces.

“Some people burn this to ward off evil spirits,” Melumzi reveals, pulling apart the fibrous poop. “I even used to wash in the stuff!”

His startling admission is met with looks of amusement and horror.

But when he invites the children to have a sniff, they cannot resist –

between fits of giggles – lowering their noses to the dung.

Along with providing entertainment, Melumzi also has some important lessons to share. He tells the children, who are now listening intently, that on average, three black rhinos are poached in South Africa every day; then goes on to say their prized horns are made of nothing more than calcium and keratin – just like our fingernails.

While the children gaze at two of Amakhala’s white rhinos, Melumzi explains how the animal can quickly divert its course, a skill that can be employed both on the soccer field and in everyday life.

“If your friends do something you think is wrong, then it’s important to change direction and turn away,” he says.

Back at the camp base, which consists of a simple classroom and sports area, the message is further consolidated through games and lessons guided by project co-ordinators Jenny Gush and Kate Muir.

Some children perform a haka-style dance with sticks representing rhino horns, while chanting C4C’s core values: respect yourself, respect each other, respect your environment.

Meanwhile, another small group gathers in a circle, each person representing a different animal or part of the landscape and linked together with pieces of string to form a giant cat’s cradle. I join in as a rhino.

“What happens if we lose rhino?” says

Kate, giving me a cue to release my string. “And then water?”

Another child lets go, causing the entire web to collapse.

Afterwards, the children take part in a series of football skills exercises; first Kate times them dribbling a ball around cones, then they have to pass the ball back and forth for as long as they can until someone loses control.

Over the course of six weeks, their times will be recorded and improvements measured.

Since Lesley and John started C4C, more than 9000 children have benefited from the program in Botswana and South Africa, through courses or day visits to schools.

Data collected demonstrates that not only are they better players on the football field but they also have improved knowledge of wildlife and, most importantly, they greater value the animals and wild spaces in which they live.

The decision to target 11-year-olds is not a happy accident; anthropological studies suggest that age group has the right balance of cognitive understanding and a willingness to learn.

“Their minds are like sponges,” says Jenny, who belongs to one of the farming families responsible for setting up Amakhala in 1999. “They soak up everything.”

Jenny, who runs Woodbury Lodge, recognises the important relationship between tourism, conservation and education. The future of wildlife – and subsequently the success of safaris –

Chinese tourists here to surpass NZ visitors by 2016

BY HELEN VELISSARIS

TRAVEL BRIEFS

SYDNEY: Chinese and Hong Kong tourists could become Australia’s top tourist group in less than a year, surpassing New Zealand, if current growth trends continue.

The low Australian dollar, our proximity to Asia and an unquenchable appetite for Aussie products are all fuelling ticket sales Down Under, CommSec says.

A record 953,200 Chinese tourists visited Australian shores in the year to August, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, nudging close to New Zealand’s 1.29 million.

Coupled with the 212,400 travellers from Hong Kong, CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian predicts New Zealand may be bumped from the top spot in mid 2016.

Chinese holiday makers are more economically valuable than their New Zealand counter-

parts, Mr Sebastian believes, because of their spending habits.

“I think the spending power of Chinese and Hong Kong tourists far exceeds what we see out of New Zealand,” he says.

“We’ve seen ongoing strength in incomes in China, a shift from a low income economy to a middle income economy and that’s probably the key driver, coupled with the fall in currency of the Australian dollar.”

Travel company Extragreen Holidays, which offers Chinese

language tours across Australia, says demand is rising.

“Our exchange rate makes it very favourable for them (Chinese tourists) to come,” inbound and outbound manager Sophia Wong tells AAP. “We expect a growth of no less than five per cent every year.”

Ms Wong said Chinese visitors want to pack a lot in to their Australian holidays.

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Children learning football skills as part of the Coaching for Conservation programme.

Pupils from Grahamstown Primary School perform a Rhino Haka dance.

Sarah, Melumzi and Jenny with children from Grahamstown Primary School.

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Pupils take part in Coaching for Conservation Programme.

Kate Muir teaching on the Coaching For Conservation programme.

White rhino in Amakhala Game Reserve, South Africa.

School children on a game drive through Amakhala Game Reserve.

School children on a game drive in Amakhala Game Reserve.

Sarah joining a game drive with school children from Grahamstown Primary in Amakhala Game Reserve.

A game drive through Amakhala Game Reserve, South Africa.

Coach and game ranger Melumzi educates school children on elephant dung, South Africa.

A school child modelling the Penelope Chilvers 25th anniversary backpack.

in Africa will be shaped by the next generation; in turn, more visitors to the continent can give communities an essential financial boost.

“The schoolchildren we see come from a variety of economic backgrounds, but many have family members employed in the tourism sector,” she says.

While most visitors to Amakhala will not be aware of the C4C project, one per cent of the money they pay for a bed goes to the Amakhala Foundation,

which contributes funds.

Jetstar spreads its wings to Rarotonga

Melb Museum volunteers and visitors drop

Regional Tassie wants more tourists

Taj Mahal tackles pollution

WELLINGTON: Low-cost carrier Jetstar will

MELBOURNE: Volunteers and visitors are

HOBART: Tasmania’s regional councils want

start flying three times a week to the Cook Islands next year.

The year-round Auckland-Rarotonga service will begin in March and will add 25,000 return seats each year to the existing daily flights operated by Air New Zealand.

“The new services will provide a major boost to the country’s economy,” said Cook Islands Tourism general manager Graeme West.

staying away from Melbourne’s museums, with the numbers for both dropping significantly over five years.

Visitation numbers at the Immigration Museum, Scienceworks, IMAX theatre and the Melbourne Museum have dropped from 2.3 million in 2010-11 to about 1.6 million in 2014-15.

The Melbourne Museum’s 2014-15 annual report also shows there were 44,124 volunteer hours in 2014-15, down from 50,120 in 2010-11.

the new federal tourism minister, Senator Richard Colbeck, to make more people visit the bush.

The Regional Councils’ Group says it has requested a meeting with the Tasmanianbased senator to try and drive their economies after traditional industries as forestry and mining take a downturn.

“The Group is also calling for a strategy to ensure the flow of tourists outside the major population centres, as well as the maintenance of essential community services in regional areas,” spokesman Greg Howard said.

z The writer was a guest of The Ultimate Travel Company.

NEW DELHI: The Taj Mahal will need nine years of mud packs to remove yellow stains from its white marble walls caused by air pollution, the Times of India reports.

Archaeologists say the lengthy period is needed to properly and safely clean particles from the four minarets and the main dome of the famed monument to love.

Authorities have taken numerous steps in recent years to try to protect the 17thcentury monument from pollution coming from the busy city of Agra nearby, including banning local coal-powered industries.

The mud pack cleaning was announced last year, followed by a local ban on burning cow dung for fuel.

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NSW Aboriginal Rugby League PHOTOS BY MEL POCKNALL/ POCKNALL PRODUCTIONS DUBBO photographer Mel Pocknall captured much of the action of the NSW Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout, held over the long weekend at Dubbo Apex Club’s Caltex Oval. The stands were packed, and the city all but booked out as Dubbo greeted thousands of players, supporters and fans for what is thought to the largest sports gathering of Indigenous people anywhere in the world.

There was a particularly moving moment (pictured right) when players observed a minute silence for a fallen mate.

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Flute and guitar a hot mix

BY VIVIENNE WINTHER DIRECTOR MACQUARIE CONSERVATORIUM

USICIANS Rebecca Guy and Duncan Gardiner bring their unique performing and composing talents together as flute and guitar ensemble, Duo Caliente.

Both classically trained, they are not afraid to explore as many music styles as possible, from classical to pop, with an emphasis on the sensual dance rhythms and fiery passion of Latin and Spanish music.

They love to share their music with audiences in all sorts of performances, at jazz clubs and art galleries as well as the concert hall.

Based in Perth, Duo Caliente visit Dubbo for a concert and masterclass at Macquarie Conservatorium next week as part of an Eastern states tour which takes in Canberra, Bathurst, Goulburn and the Blue Mountains.

Their concert program features tangos

by Piazzolla, originals by Duncan Gardiner, some bossa nova and samba music, as well as Beatles tunes.

Rebecca Guy gives some insights into the mix of performing, composing, arranging and recording that makes up her life as a professional musician.

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How did you come to form your flute and guitar ensemble Duo Caliente?

DUNCAN GARDINER and I have been playing together for more than 10 years. I run a nationwide artists booking agency, Sweethearts Music, which I began when I was a student in Canberra, but originally I’m from Perth. When I moved back to Perth in 2004, I met Duncan and we began to play together for lots of functions and events organised through my company – flute and guitar is a very popular combo. We enjoyed playing together so much that we decided to make it a more serious artistic partnership and take it to the next level. I love music for flute and guitar, I actually studied and specialised in it for the chamber music component of my university degree. There’s so much great repertoire to explore.

Duo Caliente plays lots of music with a Latin or Spanish influence. What attracts you to this music?

I FIRST experienced this style of music at a concert by flautist Jane Rutter, when she performed with a guitarist. I fell in love then and there with the style, the passion and the rhythms of Latin and Spanish music. I really love tangos and I’d love to travel to Buenos Aires sometime to study it deeply. Duncan is of course attracted to the Flamenco guitar style, so the Spanish influence comes from him as well. Our name is Spanish – “caliente” means hot!

As well as Latin and Spanish styles, you are both at home in many different genres of music, both as performers and composers.

You are classically trained, so what draws you to such a wide range of music?

WE like to play music that is accessible to a wide range of concert-goers and music listen-

Duo Caliente: Rebecca Guy, flute, and Duncan Gardiner, guitar

ers. We play Latin-style dances like tangos, plus our own arrangements of The Beatles and other classic pop, alongside French impressionist music and more classical pieces.

We attract people to our concerts that might not come to a straight classical concert, but once they are there, they enjoy the classical stuff just as much. We also love playing in different spaces, like art galleries, jazz clubs and less formal venues, so we’ve explored music that suits all of those settings.

Both you and Duncan are performers who also compose, music to perform as soloists and for the Duo and other ensembles, and in your case, music for film and TV soundtracks.

I HAVE always composed and arranged music; I started when I was in high school. My flute teacher at the Canberra School of Music, the great Vernon Hill, encouraged me to play my own compositions throughout my undergraduate performance studies, even playing them in my graduation recital. His support gave me confidence to keep going with my compositions, to take them seriously as well as my flute performance. My professional composing kicked off with a commission to write the soundtrack for a Chinese Government film series History of the World.

That gave me a taste for writing for the screen; it was interesting to compose music to fit with the visuals and timing of a film.

Later I studied film and TV as a post-graduate at the West Australian Screen Academy, and through that came the connection to do

a three-month internship as resident composer with a New York post-production company.

It was very intense – New York never sleeps, so everything has to be done yesterday! I ended up being sponsored to stay for three years, and I had some amazing experiences, including working on two Warner Bros films, and meeting celebrities like Vanessa Williams and Eartha Kitt. Writing for film is different to standard classical composition, you have to write to order, and you need to really understand a lot of technology.

On the technology side, you also record and produce your own CDs. I WAS lucky when I was a student at the Canberra School of Music, there were lots of great players who were students at the same time as me, and I still draw on them when I need players for my recordings. Time is money in the recording studio, so you have to be really well-organised. My studies in film-editing help me when I’m in the sound producer’s chair, I know what the sound engineer needs to do technically, so it makes it easy to direct the whole operation. Film-editing has a lot of similarities to both recording and composing; you need a structure, a storyline or form, and then you need to bring it all together and revise and tighten up the endproduct. Just like rehearsing for a concert!

Don’t miss Duo Caliente in concert 7.30 pm Friday October 16 at Macquarie Conservatorium Dubbo, with a masterclass for local flute-players and guitarists at 4.30pm before the concert.

Visit www.macqcon.org.au for more info and bookings.

Events calendar breakout Our name is Spanish – “caliente” means hot!

l October 16: Duo Caliente, Masterclass for flute and guitar 4.30pm and Concert 7.30pm, Macquarie Conservatorium l October 25: Spring High Tea and Recital, 2pm Dundullimal Homestead l More info: www.macqcon.org.au

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Mark Seymour: JUST FOR THE RECO Multi-award winning songwriting sage Mark Seymour’s lyrics are a landmark in Australian entertainment culture. Emerging in the early ‘80s Melbourne pub scene with the Jetsonnes, he then led Hunters and Collectors to distinction wearing little more than a blue singlet and an undeniable talent for writing a cracking good song before morphing into a solo artist, now in collaboration with his band, The Undertow. Seymour spoke with Weekender ahead of his “day on the green” gig at Mudgee this month and a visit to Dubbo next March.

WORDS: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY ARK SEYMOUR knows his way around a song like a sculptor knows clay, shaping words and emotions into melodies and chorus lines to find homes in the hearts, minds and memories of Aussies since the 1980s.

By his own admission there is pure intent in every stroke of the pen – or tap on the keyboard as it is today – and listening between the lines of him talking about his craft it’s clear the 59 year-old doesn’t see the point in writing or performing a song unless he’s absolutely invested.

While a deliberate approach to his work and sense of responsibility to audiences are a big part of who he is, how the Hunters and Collectors’ early singles came about – like Talking to a Stranger, Holy Grail and True Tears of Joy – do seem borne of a bit of luck too, having grown up through the brambles of rising rock star pandemonium.

“Back in the old days you’d sort of stand around in rehearsal room for hours and there’d be beers all over the floor and there was an element of chaos. I was a lot younger as well but those songs have borne fruit,” Seymour tells Weekender.

The “fruit” was fame and record sales for Seymour and the Hunters but today songs like Throw Your Arms Around Me thrive on; music industry fairy tales, reinvented in ways never imagined or intended, that are a litmus for what defines Australian music.

“My starting point with that song... I was deeply, emotionally connected with the subject matter. There’s no question about it. I need to believe in what I’m doing but there are some songs that just have a line in them that instils that in a very economical and easily accessed way and that happened to have that chorus.

“There’s something intrinsic in the structure of the song. You couldn’t trip over it. It’s so “there”. So it’s very easy for people to connect with it. They could be connecting with it for all sorts of reasons, which really don’t have that much to do with me.”

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Mark Seymour and The Undertow: playing at around 5.15pm at a day on the green

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Throw Your Arms Around Me was written in 1984 but still in the late 80s and early 90s it breathed down the neck of many number ones in Top 100 lists for years and in 1998 placed second in Triple J’s Hottest 100 Of All Time.

Still three years later in 2001 the Australian Performing Right Association (APRA) named it one of the top 30 Australian songs of all time.

“That was one of the few songs in those days that had that wow factor from the beginning. It’s definitely got something.

People want to hear it. They’re quite openly disappointed if we don’t play it,” Seymour says.

THE “we” these days is The Undertow – three music vets in their own right; producer Cameron McKenzie (ex-Horsehead) on guitar, John Favaro (ex-Badloves) on bass, and Peter Maslen (Boom Crash Opera) on drums.

Being a part of Seymour’s contemporary world, they join him to celebrate the “Hunnas” moments with fans by playing the hits but Seymour isn’t one to live in the past.

“I freely admit, sometimes, I don’t really want to play [Throw Your Arms Around Me]. I have a lot of other songs that I think are good. It’s a blessing but I’m not so self-indulgent that I’m going to get my head all twisted up by the fact

I have to be convinced that I mean what I’m saying otherwise it just doesn’t make the record...

that I don’t play it all the time.”

When Seymour and The Undertow take to the stage at a day on the green at Mudgee on October 31, or again at Lazy River Estate as a part of the Red Hot Summer 2016 tour, in March next year, fans will be treated to a performance that will bring back memories while creating new ones.

“I work the set out for what’s really powerful and dynamic and works theatrically for the band. You get that all worked out and you just go and play them and somewhere amidst of all that there’ll be these Hunters songs. They’re just part of the show.

“When you’re doing a regional centre – and we don’t get out there that often – people come a long and they don’t really know what they’re going to get. You basically have the attitude that “okay, we’re really going to lay it down, this is it, this is the pointy end, we’re going to put on a show” and that’s what they want.

“When they hear stuff they know that’s a big plus. But I don’t take that attitude that I’m going to try to second guess my audience. I’m going to go out and do my own thing as well as I can.”

Working out his song set for a day on the green probably means Seymour will be backstage writing that up not long before they’re called on stage. With a vast catalogue of songs to choose from, he prefers to wait and get a sense of the mood of the crowd and vibe of the venue.

It’s a decisiveness he applies to writing because while there are dozens of songs he could perform, plenty more have ended up on the cutting-room floor.

“I’m very clear in my mind to what I’m trying to achieve. That said, 90 per cent of stuff never sees the light of day because I know what my starting point has to be. If within five minutes I go back and listen to a song and think, man, you are so full

of shit... that’s it: delete.

“I make that decision very quickly because if I get up in front of an audience, the song’s just not going to work if they can’t look at me and go, “he actually means this”. People really connect with intensity. Pure intensity, they’re very engaged with it.”

Seymour is well known for his intensity, which seems like a very PC way of saying he’s still an angry young man.

“I want the audience to look at a guy and go, “he’s working”. If the song can’t illustrate that point, it’s not going to last.

It just doesn’t have any juice. You’ll do that two or three times and you’ll go, you know, I’m just not connected with this.

“As I said how chaotic it was in the old days, we’d throw songs into the mix and play it for a few days and we wouldn’t really understand why they weren’t working but nine times out of ten I wasn’t connected with what I was singing about. I have to be convinced that I mean what I’m saying otherwise it just doesn’t make the record.

“It’s very definite. I care very deeply about what I’m singing about. I’m fairly emotionally connected to it, but I’m not detached to what I’m saying. I’m directly connecting.

AS with his audiences, having a great connection with his band is also paramount.

“Music, I think, is about the quality of relationships. There has to be some sort of fusion of ideas and beliefs. Relationships are really important to me; they are critical to my creative energy. And I put everything into my relationships with other musicians.”

As testament to their synergy Seymour’s latest album, Mayday, is his third with The Undertow. It’s his ninth as a solo artist.

On Mayday Seymour sings of the Two Dollar Punter who “shook the hand of

the smuggler” for the hope of a better life. In FIFO, he documents the life of a WA miner who has spent 17 years as a fly-in, fly-out worker, “halfway between hell and nowhere”, and Football Train tells the tragic tale of the boy who might not have a home but does have a footy team.

The last time Seymour played a day on the green was during the Hunters & Collectors successful reformation tour.

Knowing the power of a good band he’s looking forward to bringing The Undertow to Mudgee to connect with the regional audience.

“That’s what great about doing a day on the green. They’re a game changer.

Before they came along it was really difficult to financially make [regional tours] work. I know I used to do the odd appearance at the little clubs randomly, any time of the year, so there wasn’t really any sense of occasion about it, and you didn’t really know if a lot of people were going to turn up and see you anyway.

“With a day on the green, the audience is coming along because it’s an event, and they want to have a good time. It’s a really congenial atmosphere and people are relaxed and they want to enjoy themselves.

“It’s a great vehicle for people like me.

You get treated really well, you turn up and the facilities are really good, the production’s great. There’s no down side,” he laughs.

a day on the green l Mark Seymour and The Undertow will take to the stage around 5.15pm joining Icehouse (8pm), James Reyne (6.30pm), Moving Pictures (4pm) and Pseudo Echo (3pm) at a day on the green, Saturday, October 31, Robert Oatley Vineyards, Mudgee. Gates open at 2.30pm. To win a Double Pass plus Icehouse double CD giveaway. See the cut-out details in this edition of Dubbo Weekender or visit our Facebook page to enter.

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Rushdie fans will be satisfied, newcomers will be bemused

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK Two Years, Eight Months And TwentyEight Nights by Salman Rushdie is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape.

MISCHIEVOUS, malevolent jinn (genies) interfere with the human world in Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, which combines a recognisable near-future with the magical world of Arabian mythology.

The plot follows this ‘war between worlds’, fuelled by a fictional, centurieslong disagreement between genuine historical Muslim philosophers Ghazali and Ibn Rushd, the latter of whom purportedly sired a small army of halfhuman children with the disguised, benevolent and extremely fertile jinnia Dunia.

Descendants of these offspring, who include a frustrated comic book artist and a Manhattan gardener, must come together in a battle between followers of God and reason, which is played out over two years, eight months and 28 (or 1001) nights.

Hieronymous ‘Mr Geronimo’ Menezes, the aforementioned gardener, is the closest thing the novel has to a human protagonist: an ageing, salt-of-the-earth Indian man, who battles violent climate change and is unwillingly drawn into the conflict with magical beings he doesn’t believe in.

Rushdie channels the story of Scheherazade for this confusing, twisting novel, which nevertheless weaves readers into its tapestry of sex, death, ideas, arguments and human peccadillos.

He mimics the guise of an oral storyteller, with frequent digressions and explanations, and drops in the occasional muse on concepts that initially seem inconsequential, only to be picked up later in the narrative.

His characters tell each other stories all the time, so their tales go back and forth throughout the book universe’s timeline and layer over each other into a dense compost that turns into the overall plot.

It sounds like a mess, but in fact works tremendously well, with Rushdie managing to be funny and inventive.

Fans should be satisfied and newcomers bemused, then enchanted, by the wordsmithery on show – before running to Google to research all the elements of Eastern history.

9/10 (Review by Natalie Bowen)

O FICTION A Slanting Of The Sun by Donal Ryan is published in hardback by Doubleday.

IN 2013, Donal Ryan won the Guardian first book award for his portrayal of post-crash small town Ireland, The Spinning Heart. This was followed up by the heart-breaking The Thing About December (and yes, this is a phrase used all too often, but here it is entirely accurate).

He returns now with a collection of short stories cut from the same cloth as his previous work – snapshots from lives, each thematically similar yet tightly contained in worlds of their own.

In the opening story, we meet a man just out of jail who forms a bond with the mother of the girl he ran over; there’s the tale of a dedicated mother and wife (even here, Ryan makes the banal beautifully readable) with a shocking twist;

an old man recalls a revenge killing’s effect on his life. Love (needing it and giving it), loneliness and displacement all find a home in these stunning pages.

8/10 (Review by Emma Herdman) Where My Heart Used To Beat by Sebastian Faulks is published in hardback

by Hutchinson.

SEBASTIAN Faulks plunges back into his favourite eddies in Where My Heart Used To Beat. Less cinematic than his biggest hitters to date, Birdsong and Charlotte Grey, he nicks away not-so quietly at his pet topics: memory, war, identity, psychology – and continues on what seems to be a personal quest to write down every facet of trench life, lost love, broken remembrances and a century smeared in mud and blood.

Of course, at this he is a master (he’s had a lot of practise), so the life of Robert Hendricks, a doctor and World War II veteran searching for meaning since his father’s death, materialises almost effortlessly.

From the sloshing trenches of Italy to the arms of a nurse, Luisa, and a remote

island off the South of France where Hendricks’ life story unspools thanks to the prodding of a dying physician, the book spans decades, leaving you quite worn out by the end of it.

However vivid the writing, however tangible the protagonist and his failings, the plot meanders at times, losing pace as Faulks gets bogged down in his ideas and psychological musings to a point that’s almost indulgent. Committed Faulks fans will no doubt be satisfied though.

7/10 (Review by Ella Walker) We Never Asked For Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is published in hardback by Mantle.

THE follow-up to Diffenbaugh’s bestseller about fostering, The Language Of Flowers, We Never Asked For Wings also takes thorny family issues as its theme.

Letty is a young single mum of serious teenager Alex and needy six-year-old Luna. But thanks to her own mother’s well-meaning over-involvement with her grandchildren, she’s never really been allowed to parent them.

Author Salman Rushdie. PHOTO: REUTERS/TOBIAS SCHWARZ

The novel centres around what happens when grandma goes back to Mexico and Letty is left to sink or swim in motherhood’s decidedly choppy waters.

What results is a well-paced, well puttogether story with the right proportions of teenage drama, romance and even a touch of politics, in its handling of the US’ harsh immigration policies.

It’s all a little superficial – this is very much an ‘issues’ book – and the wings motif (Letty’s father creates pictures from bird feathers) doesn’t really take off. But that doesn’t stop it from being an involving read.

7/10 (Review by Jackie Kingsley) Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay is published in hardback by Orion.

FANS of Linwood Barclay will recognise David Harwood, the central character in Broken Promise, from Never Look Away. Then, David was working to prove his own innocence. Here, he becomes would-be investigator again, but this time to determine whether his cousin really has murdered a woman and snatched her baby, as the police believe.

Marla hasn’t got over the death of her own baby about a year ago, yet David can’t accept she would be capable of something so horrific.

There’s plenty going on in this book, with lots of sub-plots that add to the suspense. There is an element of frustration though; taken in isolation, the main storyline is rather predictable, and lacking a twist.

It’s the sub-plots that you find you can’t quite piece together, and the frustration comes from realising that these most intriguing elements of the story won’t be resolved – not yet at least. For that, you’ll need to wait for the next instalment, due out in March.

7/10 (Review by Steph Williams) Submission by Michel Houllebecq is published in hardback by William Heinemann.

FRANCOIS is a typically Houellebecqian protagonist: middle-aged, misogynistic, spiritually bereft and disgusted by his parents, and Submission is a typically Houellebecqian novel.

It is France, 2022, and the Muslim Brotherhood has just swept to power, riding the people’s dissatisfaction with mainstream politics. A professor at the Sorbonne, Francois is well aware that his academic career is in decline, and he takes little interest in his university beyond which student he might sleep with next.

The arrival of Islam, with the promise of polygamy and of giving substance to his existence, sets his life on a new course. Houellebecq’s target, as usual, is the mindless consumerism and vapid intellectualism of modern France, and whilst the premise of the book is new, the satire feels tired and overworked.

It is a work that is certain to provoke, but ultimately it does not have much

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4/10 (Review by Adam Weymouth)

O NON-FICTION The Evolution Of Everything: How Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley is published in hardback by Fourth Estate.

EVOLUTION is not just confined to the species; according to Matt Ridley’s account, it is happening all around us.

Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, likes turning conventional wisdom on its head and in this book argues that top-down control is never as effective as bottoms up, evolving change.

On economic matters, Adam Smith is championed over Marx, population control of China’s one child policy passionately dismissed in favour of natural population growth, and many cultural norms including marriage, money, religion and technological innovation are portrayed as being evolutionary practices, not delivered by Great Men or human top-down systems.

The politics is libertarian;

reading from a UK perspective, positing a private alternative to NHS or voicing climate change scepticism certainly offers an alternative voice to some broad consensus views.

Politicians regularly quoted include UKIP MP Douglas Carswell and Republican Senator Rand Paul, so whilst the evolutionary theory is fascinating and ultimately optimistic about the future of the human species, the arguments on society may fail to break through to the mainstream.

7/10 (Review by Will Ennett) The Pie At Night: In Search Of The North At Play by Stuart Maconie is published in hardback

by Ebury Press.

FOLLOWING on from his pre-

The life of plants W E eat them, we smell them, we walk on them, we mow them, prune them, harvest them, feed them to livestock, appreciate their beauty, spray them with weed killer – the list goes on.

They are as much a part of the planet’s structure as the human being. With warmer weather approaching, their growth and change in appearance encourages us to appreciate their wonderful contribution to life.

A well recognised publisher of books on plant life is Timber Press, based in Portland, Oregon. Just received are some of their latest titles. “Steppes” is a coverage of the plants and ecology of the world’s semi arid regions showing views of landscapes and close up photos of plant species as well as animal life which live there. It is produced by the Denver Botanic Gardens which is on country typified by the Steppes.

Another of their titles is “Therapeutic Gardens” which features designs for healing spaces which combines the studies of landscape architects, garden designers and healthcare professionals. It combines the need to develop gardens that meet the social, physical, psychological, emotional and social needs of a large range of user groups.

One chapter deals with designing a garden for children with cancer.

There are Dubbo folk who study landscape design and Daniela Quartino from Montevideo produced many designs for various countries. “1000 Tips for Landscape Architects”

is described as “the inevitable reference for lovers of landscape architecture”. Collecting the 1000 photos from everywhere from China to Perth, it is a graphic presentation of some of the world’s best features.

Another popular title is “Landscape Graphics” by Grant Reid which uses various illustration styles to provide a plan of a garden layout with plants of different characteristics.

Stepping closer to our own backyard, our bookshelves are well laden with titles such as “Gardening Australia” edited by Annette McFarlane. With contributions from several ABC presenters, it comprehensively covers some of the best from that program, on plants, flowers, trees and vegetables.

Clive Blazey from the Digger’s Club has written “The Australian Vegetable Garden – What’s Old is New”. He reveals the truth about heirloom vegetables, which are the best varieties to grow for taste, ornamental value and self sufficiency, and sets out the details of a 42 square metre garden that will grow a year’s supply for the family.

“Tomatoes for Everyone”

by Allen Gilbert is a practical guide to growing them year round. It includes many varieties, organic methods, growing in pots, composting and nondig gardens.

Thomas Laessoe has complied

vious jaunt around the north of England, Pies and Prejudice, DJ, music critic and fellow northerner Stuart Maconie returns, this time to examine how the locals like to enjoy themselves.

It quickly becomes apparent, however, that they spend their spare time in much the same manner as anybody else, and despite the chapters being divided into relevant themes (sport, culture, food etc.) it’s really just an excuse for Maconie to visit more unfairly maligned towns and offer his musings on what he finds there.

This is no bad thing, as he makes for a genial travel companion with a great ear for dialogue, capturing snapshots of mysterious conversations in Hull pubs, or friendly encounters with dog-walkers on the West Pennine Moors.

Nevertheless, he doesn’t spend long enough in any one place to offer much in the way of insight, and his adventures pass by in an amusing, but insubstantial, blur.

6/10 (Review by James Robinson)

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O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands is published in paperback by Puffin.

NEWCOMER Kevin Sands has chosen the rich historical setting of 17th century London for his debut novel The Blackthorn Key. Potions, codes and explosions are nothing new for young apothecary Christopher Rowe.

But these are dangerous times in London and after a string of murders, Christopher finds himself on the run from the King’s men, with his only allies being his best friend Tom and a bird called Bridget.

As he tries to save himself, his only clues are an encoded recipe for his master’s most dangerous project and a warning that says: “Tell no one!” Will Christopher be able to crack the code or is this his final stand?

This book is cleverly written and has a twist of wit. Though it starts quite like a murder story, it soon becomes more of an adventure story. The characters are very believable and Christopher himself is likeable and makes a great, cheeky hero.

There is quite a surprise at the end and that is what you want from a good mystery story. I could not put it down, a real pageturner. So pick up The Blackthorn Key and join Christopher on his deadly adventure!

9/10 (Review by Noah Sanders, aged 10)

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an illustrated guide to fungi in “Mushrooms & Toadstools”.

Several colour photos of each are supported by descriptions.

The CSIRO has published “The Small Food Garden” by Diana Anthony which deals with growing organic fruit and vegetables at home. It is an encouragement for us to even start small and expand the garden size, with ideas for confined garden beds for growing everything from artichokes to turnips. The features, planting, growth characteristics and care through to picking the beans or pears are well presented.

Composting, pest and weed control are included.

A book with a unique publication history is “Yates Garden Guide” which has recently been published in its 44th edition.

With over 7 million copies sold over the years, it covers growing fruit, vegetables and herbs in a well presented way. It provides guidance to experienced growers and a real encouragement to those starting their own plot.

For something different Denise Grieg has “Field Guide to Australian Wildflowers” in which she features over 1000 common wildflowers. There are more than 20,000 recognised species naturally occurring in the country and these include some of the most fascinating and varied in the plant kingdom. From tiny annuals

From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection and terrestrial orchids to large perennials, shrubs and trees, they present a wide array of shapes and colours. Colour photos are supported by botanical and common names, plus plant descriptions.

Whilst on the subject of self sufficiency, John Seymour has an updated edition of “The New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency” which not only covers growing vegetables and fruit but production of poultry, sheep, pigs, goats and cattle. Milking, butchering, making your own butter and cheese, freezing and preserving are all comprehensively covered.

Another Dorling Kindersley title is “How to Grow Practically Everything” which provides ideas for 200-plus Australian gardening projects. They range from growing vegies in pots to creating show-stopping flower beds. Using step-by-step instructions, it has inspiring photography and advice from the Royal Horticultural Society.

When planning what vegetables to grow, read “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte.

First published 40 years ago

and now updated, it reveals the secrets of companion planting.

It explains the benefits of planting onions between cabbages, corn with potatoes, lettuce and beetroot, but don’t plant radish and hyssop near each other.

The interactions between the plants can aid or reduce growth or insect influence.

Jackie French has a similar title, “Natural Control of Garden Pests”, which covers Australian conditions including a natural pest control calendar.

Without question, the plants we live with add quality and beauty to life. Just released is Janet Hawley’s “Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden”. For over 20 years Wendy Whiteley worked to create a public garden at the foot of her harbourside home on Lavender Bay. It is an amazing photographic coverage of how someone committed to a project can bring out the best in nature’s brilliance.

As Lailah Alita once said, “Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.” (From Pearls of Wisdom).

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Sydney Comedy Festival brings extra laughs to Dubbo

BY ROB THOMSON THERE was lots of laughing out loud when The Sydney Comedy Festival featured at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre on Friday, September 25. Guests enjoyed their favourite standup comedians who had made the trek for this special regional performance.

James Didovich, Ali van der Linden, Brittany Boniface, Tyler Cleary, Sarah and Brad Croxon

Kelvin Chan, Carina Ng and Donna Cong

Ruby Janetzki, Caitlyn Coman-Sargent, Connor Coman-Sargent, Jeff Sargent and Robyn Coman

Mr and Mrs Histon

Kerrie, Lance, Rocket, Judy, Hannah and Marty

Irina and Will

Andy and Sarah

Moon and Jane

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Dinner in the Park helps conquer cancer

BY SERENA PAUL THE Dubbo Rides to Conquer Cancer group held their fundraiser “Dinner in the Park” on Saturday, September 26, to raise money for the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse. The dinner included a three-course meal and entertainment from local bands and artists. Artworks from local artists were also auctioned on the night. Dinner in the Park would like to thank their sponsors for the night which included Wheelers Cycle, Maas Group, Avalon Drafting, Procert, Wayne Mallison Painter & Decorator, Brad Acheson, Western Plains Granite and Simmo Signs.

Chris and Janine Dennis, artist Ava Dennis and Robert Exner

Caitlin and Ben Gray and Adam Winterton

Artist Maria Oates

Mark Barnes and artist Laura Holland

John Walkom and artist Gill Pedrana

Mark Knaggs, Sheri Dunn and Brad Acheson

Shelley Irwin, Hayley Adams and Holly Hunter

Sia Hemvititum, James Nawojczyk, Peter and Gillian Hodge, Craig and Debbie Biles

Richard Tegart, Kathleen Ryan and Steve Hodder

Sophia and Brad Acheson

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Cat’s Cancer Crusaders family movie night

BY SERENA PAUL CAT’S Cancer Crusaders hosted a showing of the movie “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day” on Saturday, September 26, at Dubbo RSL Club to raise money for brain cancer research.

Colleen Taylor, Vicki Harris and Amanda Harris

Colleen and Neil Taylor from Newcastle

Back, Hazel and Bridget Livingstone, Lachlan, Michelle and Liam O’Callaghan, front, Flynn O’Callaghan

Lindy Pearce, Angel Pearce and Trish Robinson

Vicki and Amanda Harris

Mark and Michelle Robinson

Back, Mark and Jessica, front, Jarryd and Lauren

Jess Kerr, Olivia and Melissa Thompson

Jayla Harvey-Horne and Tammy Horne

Michael Bye, Lauren Fuller and Lindy Pearce

Blayne and Jenny Kerr

Noel Manning and Christine Wallace

Back, Kristen, front, Olivia, Ruby and

Angel Pearce, Melissa McDonald and Amy Armstrong

Laura, Paige and Leanne Swinn

Amelia Day and Haylee Fuller

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St John’s 30 Year reunion

BY SERENA PAUL FORMER classmates from St John’s Class of 1985 celebrated their 30-year reunion at the Milestone Hotel on Saturday, September 26.

Tania Cossart, Melissa Colwell and Melissa Walsh

Debbie Usher, Ted Snare and Jason Webber

Cathy Walsh, Michele Harvey, Jude Butcher and Melissa Colwell

Steve Taylor, Adrian McTiernan, Jason Wilson, Jonathan Shirvington and Peter Merchant

Michael Ryan, Leanne Casey, Nicole Grantham and Mark Gray

Lindy Hall, Leanne Casey, Ross Baxter and Deanne Fazio

Ted Snare and Frank Crisante

Damian Meehan, Neil Furney and Frank Crisante

Patrick Everest and Ben Kirkness

Michelle Harvey and Tanya John

Tracey Minney and Karen Burge

Lisa McClelland, Patrick Everest, Alison and John Twohill

Mark McMullan and Derek Barnes

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hear the era of Jackson, Folsom Prison Blues and all the songs that made Johnny Cash the King of Country music. Marion Deaton as the outlaw Willie Nelson is the World’s leading Willie Tribute artist and as well as working with the Kings of Country he also does his own show extensively in the United States.

Marty Edward as Kenny Rogers is no stranger to Australian audiences

The Kings of Country DIRECT from the USA and after sellout shows in North America, Abstract Entertainment presents this unforgettable tribute to the biggest names in Country music this century. Phillip Bauer as Johnny Cash has been recreating the sound and the look since 1985. With his uncanny resemblance and stage presence, Phillip leaves his audience spellbound as he recreates

having toured in Australia twice before to enthusiastic audiences, Kenny has the looks sound and charisma that is Kenny and he is endorsed by the man himself.

Three great performers on stage together combined with their own band make The Kings of Country a must see show. Presented by Abstract Entertainment at the DRTCC on Thursday, October 15.

“Rock This Joint Musical”... ...is one of the programs of Breakthru People Solutions through the Drama group in Dubbo. This bright, loud, funny musical has been put together by staff and customers from Breakthru to promote having fun whilst dancing. Come along, join in and have some fun on Friday, October 16 at 6pm on 178 Brisbane Street, Dubbo.

see Day at Siding Spring Observatory and many more. Held during the month of October, for a full program of activities please visit the Coonabarabran Visitor Centre website and follow the links under Events.

The Warrumbungle Festival of the Stars... ...celebrates the community’s passion for Astronomy and the Arts. The Festival includes events such as the Warrumbungle Arts Expo in conjunction with the annual WAACI Exhibition, Science in the Club, the Bok Lecture, Coonabarabran Cup, an Open

Circus Oz rockets into Dubbo FOLLOWING the 2014 premiere in

Melbourne under the Big Top, an action-packed national tour including Palm Island, and a smash-hit international tour across America to Montreal, Circus Oz rockets into Dubbo with their show But Wait...

There’s More. See the magic of Circus Oz 2015 on Wednesday 14 October 2015, 1.00pm and 7:30pm at Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre, 155 Darling St.

do Events planning ARE you having a wedding, birthday or special celebration? Then you’re invited. The Dubbo RSL events team is holding a pop-up night market at the beautiful night-lit Rooftop Terrace.

Local business who assist in events will be in attendance and the RSL event rooms will be open for display.

They hope to see you there on Friday, October 9 to enjoy a few canapés and a complimentary glass of Emeri Pink Moscato upon your arrival.

Sustainable City Expo & Science Festival DUBBO CITY COUNCIL hosts the 2015 Dubbo Sustainable City Expo & Science Festival this weekend. The 10th annual Expo will be even bigger and better as it partners with the Australian Museum Science Festival, and the Central West Science Hub, to bring a number of exciting new activities to the area.

The Expo & Science Festival aims to

provide information to the Dubbo community about how to live and work more sustainably; promote the won-

ders of science; and highlight how science can help to achieve a sustainable future. The event will feature, sustain-

able living exhibits, with tips on how to reduce household energy and water bills, create less waste, and live in harmony with the environment; hands-on science exhibits to inspire and engage the local community about the wonders of science, live science shows and light refreshments at the Science Café as well as plenty of kids’ activities and competitions to enter.

Starting as an information night in 2006 attracting 13 exhibitors and some 200 people, this Council initiative has grown into the Sustainable City Expo, an all-day event.

The 2014 Expo was held in August in conjunction with National Science Week and showcased over 30 exhibitors, drawing a crowd of over 900 people to the Dubbo Regional Botanic Garden.

Come along to the Dubbo Sustainable City Expo and Science Festival on Saturday, 10 October from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, 76 Wingewarra Street.

etc.

Dye Hard Fun Run LAUGH, dance and run your way to a fun filled day at this year’s Dye Hard Fun Run on Sunday, October 11. Add some colour, bring a friend and enjoy the great outdoors along the beautiful Macquarie River.

There will be markets, music and loads of colour. Year two of the event will see locals and visitors alike enjoy a fun five kilometre event designed for everyone of all ages and all abilities.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

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OPEN WEEKENDER

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY

COFFEE & MEALS

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵ ů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌ ǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵ ů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ Ɵ ŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

THE ATHLETES FOOT

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT

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

WŝĐŬ ƵƉ ĞǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚ ĨƌŽŵ ƚŚĞ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐƚĂī Ăƚ /' tĞƐƚ ƵďďŽ͘

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL

VELDT RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ dƵĞƐĚĂLJ ƚŽ &ƌŝĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϳĂŵ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ͘ Open for dinner Monday to Saturday Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ Žī ĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

CLUB DUBBO

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE

Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩ ĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮ ƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ͕ ŚŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ ƉĂƐƚĂƐ͕ ĐŽī ĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟ ŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽī ĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽī ĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘

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

GROCERIES

178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY

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

^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϱĂŵͲ ϭƉŵ͘ EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟ ŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

IGA WEST DUBBO

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟ ŶĐƟ ǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟ ǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌ Ɛ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10

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

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE

&Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

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

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE

OLD DUBBO GAOL

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

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Friday 09.10.2015 to Sunday 11.10.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, October 9 The Living Room TEN, 7.30pm Minimalism is totally in right now.

It’s not just about organising all your excess crap into neatly arranged Ikea boxes, it’s about getting it all out of your sight and out of your life. What will fill the space you inevitably create, we here you ask? How about clear air and brightness and maybe even a little dance space to boot?

Tonight, Peter Walsh gets busy decluttering an overcrowded garage much to the dismay of its owners who insist those piles of stuff will come in handy one day. Then, resident animal lover Chris Brown swims with the turtles at Lady Elliot Island and Amanda Keller goes for a spin with V8 driver James Courtney.

ABC

MOVIE: There Will Be Blood

Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime

SBS, 8.30pm, M (2007)

ABC, 8.30pm

Daniel Day-Lewis rightly won the Best Performance Oscar for his explosive turn as ruthless oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s hypnotic, poetic and often downright strange epic. Pitting the cold-hearted capitalist’s ambitions against the fanatical evangelism of a young preacher (played to perfection by Paul Dano), the man behind Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love and Magnolia presents another riveting tale of obsession, corruption and greed topped off with an audacious finale that more than delivers on the ominous title.

Who doesn’t love an Agatha Christie mystery? There’s a reason the legendary writer’s words and countless adaptations have lasted so long – they are damned good. In this new series premiering tonight, Little Britain’s David Walliams (right) drops gross-out gags for red herrings and double crosses and it’s a nice change to see his versatility.

Cloaked in the charm of village life in 1952 England, Tommy (Walliams)) and Tuppence (Jessica Raine) have a chance encounter with an agitated young woman on the train whose disappearance inspires the amateur sleuths to follow her trail.

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Inside The Commons.

(PG, R, CC) 11.30 Whatever Happened To The Kibbutzim? (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 1.55 Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 2.55 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) 5.55 Caroline Quentin’s Restoration Home.

(R, CC) Caroline Quentin heads to Shropshire.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Point Last Seen.

(M, R, CC) (1998) Based on a true story. A tracker who is searching for a girl lost in the desert, confronts her own painful past. Linda Hamilton, Kevin Kilner.

2.00 The Daily Edition.

(CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 Today. (CC) Presented by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.

9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking.

(R, CC) Join James Reeson for inspirational, easy recipes that can be cooked at home.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.00 Neighbours. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) Steffy discusses Ivy’s work ethic.

8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) Panel discussion.

11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) Amanda catches up with Matt Damon.

12.00 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 10.

Bathurst 1000. Qualifying.

From Mount Panorama Circuit, NSW. 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 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Roger Waters: The Wall Live. (PG, CC) 3.00 NITV News Week In Review.

3.30 Soccer. World Cup 2018 Qualifier. Jordan v Australia. Replay.

5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the team pay a return visit to Brighton College where they examine some local treasures.

8.30 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime.

(M, CC) (New Series) After an agitated young woman disappears from a train, a married couple decide to investigate.

9.30 Secret State. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 4. Following his shock election victory, Tom Dawkins launches an inquiry into the toxic anomalies at the blast site.

10.15 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

10.45 The Business. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news, including a look at the latest trends on the international share and currency markets.

11.00 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) Joh, Adam and Jason team up to make the ultimate garden display. Karen and Fast Ed cook up a spring BBQ feast. Dr Harry introduces us to some unusual pets.

Graham shares some spring plants.

8.30 MOVIE: The Bourne Identity. (M, R, CC) (2002) A man sets out to discover his identity after being hauled from the ocean with amnesia. It is not long before his quest attracts the attention of members of a shadowy intelligence agency who are more than willing to commit murder, in order to ensure he never learns the truth. Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper.

11.00 The Player. (M, R, CC) A former FBI agent uncovers a conspiracy when he becomes a reluctant player in an age-old secret society’s perverse game of chance, where the stakes are measured in criminal acts and human lives.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Life Story: Parenthood.

(PG, CC) Sir David Attenborough charts the six stages of life animals go through. He continues by focusing on parenthood, taking a look at a chimpanzee teaching its offspring to survive in the jungle and a zebra making life or death decisions when faced with leading its young foal across a river.

8.40 MOVIE: Tomorrow Never Dies. (M, R, CC) (1997) Secret agent James Bond has two days to prevent an all-out war between Britain and China after a manipulative media tycoon sinks a British warship in disputed waters. Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh.

11.10 MOVIE: Pink Cadillac.

(M, R, CC) (1989) A bounty hunter pursues a young mother who is in possession of a small fortune in counterfeit money. Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Dr Chris Brown goes swimming with turtles at Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Guests include Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hiddleston and The Shires.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at the news, with Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Monty Dimond, Jane Kennedy and Marty Sheargold competing to see who can remember the most about the week’s events. Hosted

by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 MOVIE: Parental Guidance. (PG, CC) (2012) An “old school” grandfather meets his match when he and his wife agree to babysit their three grandkids. Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei.

6.00 Classic Floyd: Floyd Around The Med. (CC) British celebrity cook Keith Floyd’s culinary exploration of the Mediterranean continues in Spain.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Bitesize. (PG, R) Award-winning Australian chef and author Shane Delia takes a culinary pilgrimage into Middle Eastern cuisine.

7.35 The Classic Car Show.

(PG, CC) Jodie goes for a ride around downtown Los Angeles in a Porsche 911.

8.30 MOVIE: There Will Be Blood. (M, R, CC) (2007) After agreeing to buy some land from a preacher, a greedy oil tycoon will stop at nothing to keep the proceeds from the man, despite having promised to pay him $5000. Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds.

11.25 MOVIE: House Of Pleasures. (AV15+, R) (2011) A madam runs a group of prostitutes.

Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi.

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

12.00 Missing. (M, R, CC) Becca takes matters into her own hands, in order to uncover clues as to where her son is being kept. Michael plots an escape from his kidnappers.

2.00 Home Shopping.

1.40 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 2.40 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 3.10 Spyforce. (PG, R) Erskine targets a Japanese officer.

4.00 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program.

4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC) News and talk show.

12.35 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) Doctors with different specialities provide advice on health issues and medical breakthroughs.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

1.40 MOVIE: Il Divo. (AV15+, R) (2008) Charts the life of politician Giulio Andreotti.

Toni Servillo.

3.40 The Woman Who Wasn’t There. (M, R, CC) 4.50 The Good Life. (M, R) 5.00 CCTV English News. (CC) 5.35 NHK World English News. (CC)

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, October 9 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.35pm The Other Woman (2014) Comedy. Cameron Diaz. A woman discovers her boyfriend is married and sets about to bring him down with the help of his wife and younger mistress. (M) Premiere

6.30pm Rome. After eight years, Julius Caesar returns to Rome after his masterful conquest of Gaul, ready to overthrow the republic and make himself emperor.

(MA15+) Showcase

6.30pm Killer Whales: The Ultimate Guide. (PG) Animal Planet

3.30pm Tennis. WTA Tour.

China Open. Quarter-finals.

ESPN 7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory. Fox Sports 4

6.35pm Charlie’s Country (2013) Drama. David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr. (M) Masterpiece

7.30pm 7 Deadly Sins.

Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock meets a young man who prefers to date women three times his age. (MA15+) Showcase

8.30pm River Monsters.

Explores the mystery behind the disappearance of fishermen in the Alaskan wilderness. (PG) Discovery

8.30pm This Is Where I Leave You (2014) Comedy.

Jason Bateman, Tina Fey. Four siblings live under the same roof for a week. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.30 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.45 Bing. (CC) 2.55 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 3.00 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Bubble Bath Bay. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker Around The World. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket. (R) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.45 Humpty’s Big Adventure. (R, CC) 5.50 Puffin Rock. (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 Ruby Wax’s Mad Confessions.

(M, R, CC) 9.20 Felicity’s Mental Mission. (M, R, CC) 10.20 Second Chance. (M) 10.40 Jimmy Fallon.

(M, CC) 11.10 I Took My Baby’s Life.

(MA15+, R, CC) 12.00 Louie. (M, R, CC) 12.40 Louie. (MA15+, R, CC) 1.00 Louie. (M, R, CC) 1.45 Louie.

(PG, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 Close. 5.00 Penelope. (R, CC) 5.05 Wild Animal Baby Explorers.

(R, CC) 5.20 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.40 64 Zoo Lane. (CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.45 SW: Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 11.05 The Aquabats Super Show!

(R, CC) (Final) 11.30 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) (Final) 12.00 Prank Patrol Road Trip. (R, CC) (Final) 12.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) (Final) 12.55 Wacky World Beaters.

(R, CC) (Final) 1.20 Deadly Pole To Pole. (PG, R) (Final) 1.50 WAC. (R, CC) (Final) 2.40 Handball Heroes.

(R, CC) (Final) 2.45 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) (Final) 3.15 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) (Final) 3.45 Shaun The Sheep. (R) (Final) 3.50 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.15 Odd Squad. 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 5.00 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 5.10 Doodles. 5.15 Roy. (CC) 5.45 World’s End. (R, CC) 6.20 The Next Step. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Horrible Histories.

(R, CC) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 7.55 Seeking Refuge. (R, CC) 8.00 Your Body: Your Image. (CC) 8.05 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) (Final) 8.25 MY:24. (R, CC) (Final) 8.35 Ready For This. (R, CC) 9.20 K-On! (CC) 9.40 Kamisama Kiss. (PG, CC) 10.05 Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

(PG, R, CC) 10.30 Close.

8.30pm A Place To Call Home. (M) SoHo

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) 1.00 Air Crash Investigations.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 3.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 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) 7.30 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) A personalised plate confuses officers.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Nicki Chapman heads to Rutland to help a young couple who are looking for a spacious family home.

10.30 To Build Or Not To Build.

(PG) (New Series) 11.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) Hosted by Gary Takle.

11.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 1.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Art Attack.

(R, CC) 7.30 Handy Manny. (R) 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. (CC) 10.30 Ultimate SpiderMan. (R, CC) 11.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Dog Wars.

(PG, R) 1.00 Charlie’s Angels. (PG, R) 2.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 3.00 Who’s The Boss? (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Married With Children. (PG, R) 5.30 MOVIE: Charlotte’s Web. (R, CC) (2006) Dakota Fanning.

7.20 MOVIE: Big Daddy.

(PG, R, CC) (1999) A playboy adopts a boy.

Adam Sandler.

9.10 MOVIE: American Reunion. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) Old friends attend a high school reunion. Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan.

11.40 MOVIE: Team America: World Police. (MA15+, R) (2004) Trey Parker.

1.50 Locked Up Abroad. (M, R) 3.00 NFL. NFL. Week 4. New Orleans Saints v Dallas Cowboys.

Replay. From Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana.

10.30pm Area 51: The CIA’s Secret Files. Insiders try to prove the truth behind Area 51’s speculation. (M) National Geographic

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 Little Charmers. 7.00 Sonic Boom. 7.30 Move It. (C, CC) 8.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Magical Tales. (P, R, CC) 9.30 Little Charmers. (R) 10.00 SpongeBob. (R) 10.30 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 11.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 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 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG) 6.00 MOVIE: Madagascar. (PG, R, CC) (2005) 7.45 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone.

(PG, R, CC) (2001) 11.00 MOVIE: Jonah Hex. (M, R) (2010) 12.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 1.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 1.30 Beware The Batman.

(M, R) 2.00 Regular Show. (M, R) 2.30 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 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. (R, CC) 6.30 Skippy.

(R) 7.00 Antiques. (R, CC) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct. 9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) 11.00 Friends.

(PG, CC) 11.30 Friends. (R, CC) 12.00 Countryfile. (PG, R) 1.00 Days That Shook The World. (PG, R) 2.00 Cricket. Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. Match 6. Victorian Bushrangers v Queensland Bulls.

Afternoon session. 5.30 Friends.

(PG, R, CC) 6.00 Cricket. Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. Match 6.

Victorian Bushrangers v Queensland Bulls. Evening session.

9.30 MOVIE: Above The Law. (M, R, CC) (1988) A CIA agent uncovers an illegal drug-trafficking ring.

Steven Seagal.

11.30 MOVIE: Return Of The Seven. (M, R) (1966) Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller. 1.30 MOVIE: Night Boat To Dublin. (PG, R, CC) (1946) Robert Newton. 3.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country. (R) 4.00 Alive And Cooking. (CC) 4.30 Friends.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

9.00pm Golf. European PGA. British Masters. Second round.

Fox Sports 1

Noni Hazlehurst stars in A Place to Call Home

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 8.30 Adv Angler. (R) 9.00 Rally Australia ARC Event Review Pt 2. (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) Hosted

by Grant Denyer.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) The camp gets news from home.

7.30 Moments Of Impact. (PG) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only.

(M, R, CC) Follows police officers on patrol.

9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Dark Vengeance. (M, R) (2011) A cop searches for justice. Steven Seagal.

11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 3.30 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 5.00 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 11.30 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.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 5.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.25 Neighbours. (CC) Terese is under suspicion.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 New Girl. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Dating Naked. (M) Two singles spend 10 weeks on an island.

9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 You’re The Worst. (MA15+) 11.00 Movie Juice. (M, 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 Indonesian News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Bosnian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Urdu News. 1.30 To Be Advised. 2.00 Thai News. 2.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 3.00 Bangla News. 3.30 Armenian News. 4.00 The Feed. 4.30 Monster Moves. (R, CC) 5.30 Do Or Die. (PG) (New Series) 6.00 Brain Games.

6.30 MythBusters: Blue Ice. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory. From Adelaide Oval.

10.00 MOVIE: Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate. (M, R) (2011) A fight erupts at a desert inn. Jet Li. 12.15 Space Dandy.

12.45 Assassination Classroom.

1.15 PopAsia. (PG) 3.15 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian 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 Tipi Tales. 9.30 My Animal Friends. 10.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 10.45 Around The Campfire. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 The Medicine Line. 1.00 Mparntwe: Sacred Sites. (PG) 1.30 Survive Aotearoa. 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 Samaqan: Water Stories.

6.30 Outback Cafe.

7.00 NITV News Week In Review.

7.30 Australian Ark: North Of Capricorn.

8.30 Aunty Moves In. (PG) 9.00 Fonko: South Africa And Nigeria. A look at the origins of music.

10.00 Jazz. (PG) 11.00 NITV News Week In Review.

11.30 Australian Biography: Bill Harney.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

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 BBC Impact. 1.30 Lateline. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 7.30. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

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Saturday, October 10 MOVIE: Ocean’s Twelve

MOVIE: Carlotta

WIN, 7pm, PG (2004)

ABC, 9.30pm, M (2014)

Director Steven Soderbergh plays a new card, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and aims for a different hand in this inferior sequel to his five-star 2001 remake. George Clooney suaves it up once more as Danny Ocean, the criminal mastermind who looks to European shores for his gang’s latest score. To accommodate a darker, more complex plot, the hip buoyancy and dynamic wordplay is absent, replaced by an edgier feel that recalls Soderbergh’s low-budget works.

Some things remain the same, however, such as David Holmes’ pulsating jazz/funk score and the original cast.

Jessica Marais breaks well and truly free of her tame Packed to the Rafters role with a spectacular performance telling the true and inspiring story of transsexual performer Carol Byron, more famously known as Carlotta. Get ready to see Marais as you never have before, both as Carlotta’s former male self Richard and as the glamorous and sequin-encrusted, scantily clad cabaret performer with the big voice who took Kings Cross by storm in the swinging ’60s. Byron worked as a consultant on the telemovie, which has been in the making for six years, with Marais the first choice for the challenging role.

The stylish production also stars Alex Dimitriades.

ABC

PRIME7

MOVIE: Star Wars: Episode sode II – Attack Of The Clones PRIME7, 7pm, PG (2002) ers With fewer off-putting characters nts of and less of the infantile elements The Phantom Menace, it’s as if George orge Lucas rediscovered the Force with ed by slick Attack of the Clones. Highlighted ent quotient direction and a previously absent ism, fantasy, of sex appeal, the clash of heroism, destiny and evil contextualises the previous films with conviction and sing logic. It all culminates in a rousing udded multiple climax. With a star-studded gor, line-up including Ewan McGregor, Samuel L Jackson and Natalie on to Portman, it’s a pleasing addition rs the series, even if it is light-years tion away from the organic production smarts of the original trilogy.

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Caroline Quentin’s Restoration Home.

(R, CC) Caroline Quentin heads to Shropshire.

1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 1.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 2.00 Cane Toads: The Conquest. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide: The Wild Years. (R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) Barnaby’s wife is involved in an incident.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 I Dream Of Jeannie.

(R, CC) A jealous Jeannie joins the air force.

12.30 MOVIE: Tinkerbell And The Secret Of The Wings.

(R, CC) (2012) Tinkerbell visits the winter woods.

Mae Whitman, Lucy Hale.

2.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh travels to Kalgoorlie.

3.00 To Be Advised.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 Nine Presents. (R, CC) 12.10 MOVIE: Little Giants.

(PG, R, CC) (1994) A father starts his own kids’ sports team. Rick Moranis.

2.20 Celebrity Apprentice.

(PG, R, CC) A group of challengers battle it out.

3.30 House Husbands.

(PG, R, CC) Mark starts to question his marriage.

4.30 Getaway. (PG, CC) Jesinta takes a look around Kyoto.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (CC)

6.00 RPM. (R, CC) Hosted by Matt White.

7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) Highlights from Studio 10.

10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) Highlights from Studio 10.

11.00 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) A look at performance motoring.

11.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 10.

Bathurst 1000. Top 10 Shootout. From Mount Panorama Circuit, NSW.

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 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Zumbo. (R, CC) (Final) 2.30 Flashback.

2.35 Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Wars. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 3.30 Monster Moves. (R, CC) 4.25 Poh & Co. Bitesize.

4.30 Carthage’s Lost Warriors. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Hundred Years’ War. (PG, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Costa gives some city slickers a gift.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Saturday Night CrackUp. (PG, CC) Variety show, featuring appearances by celebrities, musical numbers and comedy sketches.

8.30 Saturday Night CrackUp. (M, CC) Variety show, featuring appearances by celebrities, musical numbers and comedy sketches.

9.30 MOVIE: Carlotta.

(M, R, CC) (2014) A transsexual performer becomes a Kings Cross legend and daytime TV star during the turbulent ’60s. Jessica Marais, Eamon Farren, Socratis Otto.

11.05 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.

11.40 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) Jack Dee joins Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker for an off-beat look at the events of the week.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones. (PG, CC) (2002) With a galactic civil war brewing, a budding Jedi knight becomes involved in a passionate but forbidden affair with a former queen turned politician, while his teacher investigates an assassination attempt on her. Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman.

10.00 MOVIE: Tron: Legacy.

(PG, R, CC) (2010) A rebellious 27-year-old, haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father decades earlier, is transported into a digital world where he discovers the truth about what happened to his missing parent. Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Jeff Bridges.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Ocean’s Twelve.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) Danny Ocean and his gang plan a series of robberies in Paris, Rome and Amsterdam to pay back the victim of their previous heist, a casino tycoon, who gives them two weeks to recover his funds. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon.

9.30 MOVIE: The Man With The Golden Gun. (PG, R, CC) (1974) After learning one of the world’s most infamous assassins is targeting him, British secret agent James Bond goes in search of the killer.

He heads to Beirut where a dancer is believed to be in possession of a crucial piece of evidence which could help him in his quest.

Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland.

6.00 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda 2.

(PG, R, CC) (2011) A panda and his friends fight a villainous peacock that intends to take over China with the aid of a secret weapon. Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman.

8.45 MOVIE: A Good Day To Die Hard. (M, R, CC) (2013) After learning his estranged son is in trouble, a New York cop heads to Russia to lend him a hand. However, when he discovers he is in reality a CIA operative working undercover the trip takes a deadly twist, and they must join forces to thwart a plot with devastating consequences. Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch.

10.45 MOVIE: Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses. (AV15+, CC) (2014) After a Vietnam War veteran learns a young boxer he has been mentoring at a community centre in Los Angeles has been murdered, he joins forces with an agoraphobic to take down the people responsible. Danny Trejo, Danny Glover, Andrew Divoff.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Wild Arabia: The Jewel Of Arabia. (CC) Part 2 of 3. Explores the nature, people, landscape and history of Arabia. It is a world which has to be seen to be believed.

8.30 MOVIE: Dallas Buyers Club. (MA15+, CC) (2013) A man’s life is overturned when he is diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. He soon discovers that the system is flawed and attempts to get AIDS patients the medication they need.

Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner.

10.35 Fargo. (MA15+, R, CC) A drifter manipulates a disgruntled small-town insurance salesman into embarking on a path of destruction.

11.50 Fargo. (MA15+, R, CC) Molly begins to suspect Lester is involved with the murders, but her new boss points her in a different direction.

12.10 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by guest programmer, The Smith Street Band.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 MOVIE: Redbelt.

(M, R, CC) (2008) Chiwetel Ejiofor.

1.50 MOVIE: Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back. (AV15+, R, CC) (2008) 3.30 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC)

12.40 48 Hours: Blaming Melissa. (M, R, CC) A look at the story of Melissa Calusinski.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) Home, garden and lifestyle ideas.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

12.50 Fargo. (M, R, CC) Molly sets a trap.

3.40 Dangerous Edge: A Life Of Graham Greene.

(PG, R) 4.50 Being Bradford Dillman.

(PG, R) 5.00 CCTV English News. (CC) 5.30 NHK World English News. (CC)

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.30pm The Maze Runner (2014) Action. Dylan O’Brien, Will Poulter. A boy wakes up at the epicentre of a vast maze.

(M) Premiere

6.30pm Game Of Thrones.

Dany makes a difficult decision in Meereen. (MA15+) Showcase

6.00pm Kings Cross ER. A look at St Vincent’s Hospital’s ER. (M) Crime & Investigation

5.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Central Coast Mariners v Perth Glory. Fox Sports 4

7.30pm Paddington (2014) Family. Hugh Bonneville, Nicole Kidman. (G) Family

6.30pm The League. Pete tries to cheer up Andre.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

10.30pm Brokeback Mountain (2005) Drama.

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Two young men form a close bond. (M) Masterpiece

7.30pm Discovering Lennon.

Featuring rare archive footage this documentary tracks the rise to fame and enduring relevance of the late artist, John Lennon. (PG) Arts

ABC2/ABC KIDS

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.55 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 2.05 Bob The Builder: Project Build It. (R, CC) 2.20 Tinga Tinga Tales. (R, CC) 2.30 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.45 Bing. (CC) 2.55 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 3.00 Bookaboo. (CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld.

(R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Bubble Bath Bay. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker Around The World.

(R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket.

(R) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.45 Humpty’s Big Adventure. (R, CC) 5.50 Puffin Rock. (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 The Hoarder Next Door. (PG, R, CC) 8.20 The Home Show. (PG, CC) 9.05 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 9.50 The IT Crowd. (PG, R, CC) 10.15 The Graceland Happiness Project. (M, R, CC) 11.15 Red Dwarf.

(PG, R, CC) 2.10 News Update. (R) 2.15 Close. 5.00 Penelope. (R, CC) 5.05 Wild Animal Baby Explorers.

(R, CC) 5.20 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.40 64 Zoo Lane. (CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.30 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 7.35 YooHoo & Friends. (R, CC) 7.55 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 8.15 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 8.30 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 10.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 11.00 Wacky World Beaters.

(R, CC) 11.30 So Awkward. (R) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 1.30 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 2.10 Big Babies. (R, CC) 2.25 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 4.25 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 4.50 Slugterra. (PG, R, CC) 5.10 SW: Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Operation Ouch! (R) 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 My Life: What’s A Girl? (R, CC) 8.25 Seeking Refuge. (R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 10.45 Close.

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 The Long Weekender. (R, CC) 10.30 Great South East. (CC) 11.00 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 11.30 Melbourne Weekender. (CC) 12.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 12.30 Horse Racing. (CC) Caulfield Guineas Day. Featuring three Group 1 races, including the $1,000,000 Caulfield Guineas (1600m), $500,000 Thousand Guineas (1600m) and $400,000 Toorak Handicap (1600m). Spring Champion Stakes Day. Featuring the Group 1 $500,000 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m).

6.30 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: My Best Friend’s Wedding. (PG, R, CC) (1997) 9.15 MOVIE: Couples Retreat.

(M, R, CC) (2009) Four couples attend therapy.

Jason Bateman, Malin Akerman.

11.30 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Wire In The Blood. (AV15+, R, CC) 2.30 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Motor Racing.

Australian Drifting Grand Prix.

10.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 10.30 Dog Wars. (PG, R) 11.00 The Border.

(PG, R) 1.00 Motor Racing. Targa West Tarmac Rally. Highlights.

2.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG) 3.00 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 3.45 Once Upon A Time. (PG, R, CC) 6.45 MOVIE: The Longest Yard. (PG, R, CC) (2005) A former football star trains prisoners. Adam Sandler, Chris Rock.

9.00 MOVIE: Road Trip.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2000) Four friends embark on a road trip. Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott.

11.00 MOVIE: Van Wilder: Party Liaison. (MA15+, R) (2002) A party animal tries to prove his worth. Ryan Reynolds.

1.00 The Border. (PG, R) 3.00 Motor Racing. Targa West Tarmac Rally. Highlights.

4.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 4.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7.30pm A Fierce Green Fire.

A big-picture exploration of the environmental movement.

(PG) History 8.30pm The Saturn V Story.

Follow the events of when US president Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon. (PG) History

7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Sydney FC v Melbourne City. Fox Sports 4 10.00pm Golf. European PGA. British Masters. Third round.

Fox Sports 1 Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Brokeback Mountain

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! Arc-V. (PG) (New Series) 2.30 GO Surround Sound.

(R, CC) 2.45 MOVIE: Speed Racer.

(PG, R) (2008) 5.30 MOVIE: Meet Dave. (PG, R, CC) (2008) 7.30 MOVIE: Big Momma’s House. (PG, R, CC) (2000) Martin Lawrence.

9.30 MOVIE: Wayne’s World 2. (PG, R) (1993) Two TV show hosts try to organise a concert. Mike Myers.

11.30 MOVIE: Major League II. (PG, R, CC) (1994) Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger. 1.40 Green Lantern.

(PG, R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. (PG, R) 3.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, 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 MOVIE: On The Fiddle.

(R, CC) (1961) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 Antiques. (R, CC) 9.00 Avengers.

(PG, R) 10.00 Countryfile. (R) 11.00 Postcards. (CC) 11.30 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 12.00 MOVIE: Dallas. (R, CC) (1950) 2.00 Cricket. Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. Match 7. Western Warriors v NSW Blues. Afternoon session.

5.30 Rapid Response. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Cricket. Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. Match 7.

Western Warriors v NSW Blues. Evening session.

From Blacktown Olympic Park Oval, Sydney.

9.30 MOVIE: Out For Justice.

(M, R, CC) (1991) A cop hunts down a drug-crazed killer. Steven Seagal, William Forsythe.

11.30 MOVIE: The Magnificent Seven Ride! (M) (1972) Lee Van Cleef.

1.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Rapid Response.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 Rugby Union. World Cup. Australia v Wales.

4.45 River Cottage Bites. (R) 5.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Animal Extra. (R, CC) 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 12.00 River To Reef. 12.30 Car Torque. (R, CC) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Panorama Punks. (R) 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Whacked Out Sports.

(PG, R) 4.00 Megastructures. (R) 5.00 Into Water And Beyond. (PG) (Final) 5.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Sarah Harris.

8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) The team investigates a woman’s murder.

9.30 Graceland. (MA15+) Briggs and Charlie pose as an amorous couple.

10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Movie Juice. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Blokesworld. (R) 12.30 Ripper Street.

(MA15+, R, CC) 1.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 3.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 4.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

Round 3. Replay. From Mount Gambier, 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) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (R) 5.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 6.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) Becker fears a woman is stalking him.

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Ray inadvertently kills Ally’s hamster.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hiddleston and The Shires.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) Aidan overhears Big. 10.10 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie freaks out after her computer crashes.

10.50 Empire. (M, R) Lucious hires a new lawyer.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.20 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (R) 3.25 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 4.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R)

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 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 1. Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory. Replay. 3.00 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 3.50 Departures.

(PG, R) 4.45 Dare 2 Dance. 5.50 Mister Rococo.

6.05 Celebrity Chef.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Survive Aotearoa: Te Haere Ma Raro – Hiking.

(PG) Barrie and Chris demonstrate survival skills.

9.30 MOVIE: The First Grader.

(M, R) (2010) An 84-yearold fights to go to school.

Oliver Litondo.

11.25 MOVIE: Ghost Graduation. (M) (2012) 1.00 MOVIE: The Regatta. (M, R) (2009) Joffrey Verbruggen, Thierry Hancisse, Sergi López.

2.40 MOVIE: The Class. (M, R) (2008) 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 Kriol Kitchen. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review.

12.30 Sisters In League. (PG) 1.30 Australian Ark: North Of Capricorn.

2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint.

4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. Current affairs show.

7.15 Unearthed.

7.30 Kai Time On The Road.

A look at healthy eating.

8.00 We Come From The Land.

8.30 Tribal Showgirls. (M) In the lead up to the Hagen Festival, one tribe uses three French cabaret dancers.

9.30 Kind Hearted Woman.

(M) Part 1 of 2.

11.45 Unearthed.

12.00 Volumz. (PG) Music program featuring interviews.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 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) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 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.

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Sunday, October 11 MOVIE: Conviction

MOVIE: The Silence Of The Lambs

ONE, 9.30pm, M (2010) Hilary Swank plays single mother Betty Anne Waters in this true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Kenny Waters (Sam Rockwell) is convicted of murder and jailed for life, Betty Anne is convinced of his innocence and decides it’s up to her to appeal his sentence. Putting herself through high school, college and law school in an 18-year quest to save her brother, Betty Anne sacrifices her marriage as she sifts through the suspicious evidence mounted by smalltown cop Nancy Taylor (The Fighter’s Melissa Leo). Despite its strong leads and supporting cast including Minnie Driver and Peter Gallagher, the overly earnest tone is hard to take seriously.

ABC

Limitless TEN, 8.30pm

GEM, 9.30pm, AV15+ (1991) Jodie Foster is superb as rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling, who enlists the help of jailed psychiatrist, sociopath and mass murderer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to locate a missing woman and save her from a twisted killer. The winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture, director Jonathan Demme’s disturbing serial killer thriller remains the benchmark of the genre.

The shock value and bold dramatics cast an incredibly entertaining spell, and the climactic “night-vision goggles” sequence is just one of at least a dozen riveting set pieces.

PRIME7

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 Conquest Of Space: SciFi & Art. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Weather. (R, CC) 3.30 I Want To Dance Better At Parties. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Saturday Night CrackUp. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 Kochie’s Business Builders. (CC) 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) Narrated by Grant Bowler.

1.30 MOVIE: Silverado.

(PG, R, CC) (1985) A group of misfits tackles injustices.

Kevin Kline.

4.30 The Long Weekender.

(CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) Guests Rhod Gilbert, Sally Phillips, Des O’Connor and Tess Daly go head-to-head in a battle of wits.

6.30 Compass: For Better For Worse Pt 4. (CC) Guest presenter Jane Caro explores the secret to successful long-term relationships.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Doctor Who. (PG, CC) On a remote Army outpost, a fearsome alien warlord sets in motion a twisted plan to ensure his own survival.

8.30 Vera. (M, CC) (Final) DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the death of businessman whose body was found floating in the water under a bridge.

10.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki is catapulted into a harrowing case involving the grooming of girls for sex and prostitution.

11.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) (Final) Nikki finds a link between the cases.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

8.00 Beach Cops. (PG, CC) (New Series) Follows NSW police officers on the beat on Sydney’s iconic northern beaches. Narrated by Layne Beachley.

8.30 Quantico. (M, CC) (New Series) A diverse group of recruits arrives at the FBI Quantico Base for training.

They number among the best and brightest of applicants, however, despite the improbability, it seems one of them is also suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.

9.30 Castle. (M, CC) (Series return) Castle and Beckett struggle to adjust to Beckett’s career change and her decision to run for the State Senate, when a call from a mysterious stranger sets off an explosive chain of events.

10.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) Beckett fights for her life in hospital.

11.30 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) (Final) With assassins hot on their trail, Annie and McQuaid work together to escape Argentina.

12.00 Silk. (M, R, CC) (Final) 1.00 MOVIE: Glory. (M, R, CC) (1989) Matthew Broderick.

3.00 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki witnesses a teenager running into traffic.

5.00 Message Stick: The Urab Dancers. (R, CC) Meet the Urab Dancers.

5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.30 Home Shopping.

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

The human brain is a phenomenal enal instrument yet only a portion of it is used for normal function. So imagine ne what you could do if you could tap into the he locked resources of your mind. It’s an intriguing concept and one that was explored ored in the 2011 film of the same name. Here, ere, Bradley Cooper reprises his role as Eddie ie Morra, yet his involvement with the experimental rimental mindopening drug NZT has become one of ambassador as he convinces struggling ruggling artist Brian Finch (Jake McDorman, man, right) to join the revolution. This his Faustian-like pact doesn’t come e without consequences and Brian soon finds himself mixed d up with the FBI after NZT is linked to a murder.

WIN 6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) Surfing. (CC) Championship Tour.

Round 8. Hurley Pro at Trestles.

The Middle. (PG, R, CC) Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (PG, CC) MOVIE: Curly Sue. (PG, R, CC) (1991) An orphan moves in with a lawyer. Alisan Porter.

MOVIE: Thunderstruck.

(PG, CC) (2012) Kevin Durant.

News. (CC) Customs. (PG, R, CC)

TEN

SBS

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) Religious program.

6.30 Hillsong. (CC) Religious program.

7.00 Mass For You At Home.

Religious program.

7.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 10.

Bathurst 1000. Warm Up, Drivers Parade and Race 25. From Mount Panorama Circuit, NSW. Commentary from Matt White, Mark Larkham and Rick Kelly.

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 Motorcycle Racing.

(CC) Superbike World Championship. Round 12.

Highlights.

4.30 Voxwomen Cycling. (CC) 5.00 The Bike Lane. (CC) 5.30 Going To War: Napoleon To Hitler: Staying Alive.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block. (PG, CC) The teams hand over their studies, powder rooms and laundries to the judges.

Its been a huge week of renovating, and Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer are unanimous in awarding high scores to the winning team for their designer look. Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

9.40 Events That Changed The Eighties. (CC) Takes a look at one of history’s most enigmatic periods, shining a light on the people and events that shaped the decade.

10.40 World’s Worst Holiday Horrors. (M, CC) Part 2 of 3. Takes a look at how thousands of passengers were stranded aboard a cruise liner in the Gulf of Mexico.

11.40 Person Of Interest.

(M, R, CC) Reese learns that the newest “person of interest” is a university student.

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) The team goes undercover on a cruise ship to locate and disable some stolen rockets.

7.30 TBL Families. (PG, CC) The most intense weighin yet sees emotions run high and tempers flare, as the challenge-winning team uses their power to nominate who is up for elimination. Hosted by Fiona Falkiner, with trainers Tiffiny Hall, Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton and Steve “Commando” Willis.

8.40 Limitless. (M, CC) (New Series) A man’s life takes an extraordinary turn when he uses a mysterious drug called NZT which allows him to access his full brain capacity. However, after his supplier is murdered, the FBI investigates and becomes suspicious of exactly who is responsible for the drug.

9.40 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Race 15. Russian Grand Prix. From Sochi Autodrom, Russia.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Treasures Decoded: The Sphinx. (R, CC) A look at the Great Sphinx Of Giza, the largest monolith statue which has puzzled Egyptologists for decades.

8.30 The Seventies: Crime And Cults/Battle Of The Sexes. (M, CC) Part 2 of 4.

An examination of the individuals and events that influenced and shaped the ’70s. An unprecedented wave of violent crimes grips the country, as at the same time America undergoes a dramatic shift of sexual mores, customs and gender roles.

10.05 Muscle Shoals. (PG, CC) Takes a look at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and its founder Rick Hall. Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, it would become the destination for a host of iconic performers, including Aretha Franklin, Greg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Wilson Pickett, Keith Richards and Percy Sledge.

12.35 Gotham. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, 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)

12.00 48 Hours: Fall From Grace. (M, R) Takes a look at the death of Bethany Deaton.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC)

12.10 MOVIE: Vargas: The Chalk Circle Man. (M, R) (2009) 1.45 MOVIE: The Stranger In Me. (M, R) (2008) 3.35 A Trip To The Moon. (R, CC) 3.50 Flashback. 4.00 Australia’s Secret Heroes. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. (CC) 5.30 NHK World English News. (CC)

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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.

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6.30pm Serena (2014) Drama. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence. Details the relationship between a timber magnate and his wife.

(MA15+) Masterpiece

6.45pm Nashville. (M) SoHo

7.30pm Wild Scotland: The Western Isles. Autumn arrives with a vengeance in Scotland’s Hebrides Islands. (PG) National Geographic

5.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets. Fox Sports 4

7.30pm Interstellar (2014) Sci-fi. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway. (M) Premiere 8.30pm Whiplash (2014) Drama. Miles Teller. A young drummer is put through his paces by a tough teacher at a cut-throat music conservatory.

(MA15+) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.25 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 1.40 Boj. (R, CC) 1.55 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 2.05 Bob The Builder: Project Build It. (R, CC) 2.20 Tinga Tinga Tales. (R, CC) 2.30 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.45 Bing.

(CC) 2.55 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 3.00 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Bubble Bath Bay. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Grandpa In My Pocket.

(R) 5.00 Bob The Builder On Site.

(R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Dinosaur Train. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Mega Builders. (R, CC) 8.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, CC) 8.30 Sunday Best. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Saturday Night Crack-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder: The Big Clear Out. (R, CC) 1.00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans.

(PG, R, CC) 1.45 News Update. (R) 1.50 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. 6.45 Casper. (R, CC) 6.55 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.05 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.30 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 7.35 YooHoo & Friends. (R, CC) 7.55 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 8.15 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 8.30 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 9.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 10.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 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) 2.25 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head.

(R, CC) 2.50 Handball Heroes. (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 So Awkward. (R) 5.25 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 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.

7.00pm Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central. (MA15+) Comedy Channel 7.30pm 7 Deadly Sins.

Morgan Spurlock meets a group of fight club amateurs who explain their passion behind the rough sport.

(MA15+) Showcase

8.30pm What On Earth?

Images caught by satellites include a blood-red lake. (PG) Discovery

9.45pm Rugby Union. World Cup. Argentina v Namibia. Fox Sports 2 10.00pm Golf. European PGA. British Masters. Final round.

Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Elvis: Complete King Of Rock ‘n’ Roll. (PG) Biography Morgan Spurlock hosts 7 Deadly Sins

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) 12.30 Travel Oz. 1.15 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 The Travel Bug. (PG) 3.00 Lyndey Milan’s Taste Of Australia. (R) 3.30 Command Center. (PG, R) 4.30 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 New Zealand From Above: The Far South. (R) 7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Nicki Chapman heads to Hampshire.

9.30 Escape To The Continent.

A look at homes in Valencia, Spain.

10.45 Best Houses Australia.

11.15 Command Center: DC Fire And Emergency Services, Washington DC. (PG, R) 12.15 Escape To The Country.

(R) Nicki Chapman heads to Hampshire.

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 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 10.30 NFL Game Day. (PG) 11.00 The Hook & The Cook. (PG, R) 11.30 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) (New Series) 12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 1.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 2.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 3.00 Bid America!

(PG, R) 4.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. (PG) 5.00 Turtleman.

(PG) 5.30 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby. (PG, R, CC) (2006) 8.45 MOVIE: The Waterboy.

(M, R, CC) (1998) A simpleminded man becomes a star gridiron player. Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates.

10.45 MOVIE: Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj. (MA15+, R) (2006) 12.45 MOVIE: Bulletproof Monk.

(M, R) (2003) Chow Yun-Fat. 3.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction.

(PG, R) 4.00 NFL. NFL. Week 5. Cincinnati Bengals v Seattle Seahawks. From Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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! Arc-V. (PG) 3.30 Young Justice.

(PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 6.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Escape From Planet Earth.

(PG, R) (2013) Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker.

8.30 MOVIE: Batman & Robin.

(PG, R, CC) (1997) George Clooney.

11.00 Car SOS. (PG, R) 12.00 The Originals. (AV15+) 1.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 1.30 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. (PG, R) 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers.

(PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: The Maggie. (R, CC) (1954) 8.30 Danoz.

9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.00 Cricket. Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. Match 9. Southern Redbacks v Queensland Bulls. Morning session. 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Cricket. Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. Match 9. Southern Redbacks v Queensland Bulls.

Afternoon session. 5.30 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 7.30 RBT. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Death Row Stories: Murder In Miami. (M) A look at the story of Kris Maharaj.

9.30 MOVIE: The Silence Of The Lambs. (AV15+, R) (1991) An FBI agent interviews an insane psychiatrist. Anthony Hopkins.

12.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country.

(R) 1.30 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Rugby Union. World Cup. France v Ireland. From Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales. 4.45 River Cottage Bites. 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 9.00 Car Torque.

(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 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 15. Japanese Grand Prix. 5.00 World Sport. (R) 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) Potter is the subject of complaints.

7.30 Cops. (PG, R) Follows police officers on patrol.

8.30 RPM. (CC) Race previews and reviews, as well as feature stories covering motorsport.

9.30 MOVIE: Conviction.

(M, R, CC) (2010) A single mother puts herself through law school. Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell.

11.40 World Sport.

12.10 RPM. (R, CC) 1.10 48 Hours. (M, R) 2.10 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 3.40 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 4.40 Diamond Divers. (PG, R) 5.40 World Sport. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Santa’s Little Helper rescues Homer from a maze.

7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) Hermes becomes a cyborg.

7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Skinner opens a Counter Truancy Unit.

8.30 MOVIE: Center Stage.

(M, R, CC) (2000) Professional dancers vie for a company spot. Ethan Stiefel, Amanda Schull.

10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 11.50 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 12.25 Nurse Jackie. (M) 12.55 The Crazy Ones. (M) 1.25 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman.

(PG, R) 2.30 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 TMNT. (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 More Reasons To Love If You Are The One. (R) 1.05 Celebrity Chef.

2.20 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo.

(PG, R, CC) 3.10 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (PG, R) 3.40 London Calling. (PG, R, CC) 4.40 The Pitch.

(PG, R) 5.30 Vs Arashi. 6.25 Dare 2 Dance.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) The boys decide to become wrestlers.

9.00 Drunk History. (M, R) Hosted by Derek Waters.

9.25 South Park. (Series return) A new principal takes over the school.

9.55 Ali G: Remixed. (PG, R) 10.20 Air Sex: The Movie. (MA15+) 11.45 In Her Skin. (M) 1.30 MOVIE: No One Knows About The Persian Cats. (PG, R) (2009) 3.25 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 Soccer. AFC Champions League. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Rugby League.

South Australia All Stars. 1.00 We Still Live Here. 2.00 Lagau Danalaig: An Island Life. 3.00 Ningla A-Na. (M) 4.30 Unearthed.

5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant.

7.00 Pipalyatjara And Kalka.

7.15 Ngurra.

7.30 Colour Me. Presented by Anthony McLean.

8.30 Tangaroa With Pio. 9.00 Inside Out: Indigenous Imprisonment.

9.30 MOVIE: The Proposition.

(MA15+, CC) (2005) An outlaw pursues his older sibling. Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone.

11.15 Bush Plum. (PG) 11.45 Ngurra.

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.

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23. Very well-off 25. Half-diameters 27. Electrical pressure 28. Rumba-like dance 30. Had to repay 31. Hold in high estimation 32. Common 33. Carnival 34. Preschool play area 35. Nuisance emailer 36. Roman dress 38. Wound crust 40. Compassionate 42. Historical ages 44. Interrupting cough 45. Potters’ ovens 46. Terrible tsar 48. Painting supports 49. Portent 50. Congers 51. Moistens (meat) 52. Equitable 53. Brazil’s neighbour 54. Ooze 55. Satisfactory 56. Law-abiding 58. Small letters (5,4) 59. Wobble (on brink) 61. Lustre 63. Actor, ... Danson 64. Chinese callisthenics, t’ai ...

65. Capri & Wight 67. Hoisting machine 69. Unsuitable 71. Wall graph 73. Diva, ... donna 74. Keen for action, ... to go 76. Midday sleep 78. Mounds 80. Figure (out) 82. Misfortunes 83. Coronation insignia 85. Feigned 89. Dictators 91. Winter or spring 93. Compete 94. Affection 96. Choux pastries, chocolate ...

98. Period before, ... of 99. Forensic ID check, ... test (1,1,1) 100. Willingly accept (new theory) 102. Substantial 103. Rowing cham-

pionships 104. Absorbs (5,2) 105. Drilling platform 106. Broadcasting frequency (1,1,1) 107. Mosquito & bee 108. Side building 110. Deciduous tree 112. Strangely alluring 114. Firearm report 117. Unoccupied 120. Sneeze sound (1-6) 123. Curved-bill bird 125. Begin voyage, set ...

127. Paltry 128. Stockings 131. Marina craft 133. Pacifies 134. Rationale 135. Archfiend 136. Approval (3-2)

137. Out of style 140. Marriage vow (1,2) 141. Pair 142. Old Testament prophet 145. Famous gift, ...

Horse 147. TV charity appeals 148. Felonies 150. Classic portrait, ... Lisa 151. Obsolete VCR format 152. Three-piece combo 153. Rip 154. Neater 156. Chamber 158. District 160. More plentiful 162. Territory 163. Anorak 164. The N of NB

165. Babbles 166. Noticed 167. Skim swiftly 168. Cipher 170. Heavy-duty farm vehicle 172. Buried Italian city 173. WWII fascist 174. Confused assortment 177. Doorbell trigger 179. As a gamble, on ...

180. Acute anxiety 182. Flight staff 183. Established practice 185. Scratches out 187. Solid ground, ... firma 188. At an angle 189. Misplacing 191. Untrue statement

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29. In ABC order mode (1,2) 37. Headlong surge 3. Attention 38. Burn slowly 4. Changed fabric 39. Overeating colour 40. Patellas 5. Romeo’s lover 41. Analyses 6. Want badly 43. Oxygenate 7. Cinema gangway (water) 8. Welsh poet, ...

44. Snowy peaks Thomas 47. Back of neck 9. Intimate 57. Contactable (2,4) (thoughts) 60. One or the 10. S American other animals 62. Scraping by, ...

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111. Carry 113. Kick out 115. Moves closer to 116. Shout 118. Charged atoms 119. Panache 121. Hard-earned cash 122. Stops 124. Furnaces 126. Organisations 129. Gym garments 130. Commercial traveller 131. Veils 132. Cap & coat rack (3,5) 138. Single-celled organism 139. Numerical records 143. Isolates 144. Shirked 146. Cain’s biblical brother

149. Tomato variety 155. Information banks 157. Alfresco (4-3) 159. Tennis bat 161. Shipboard emergency floats (4,5) 165. Socially refined 169. Confines 171. Betrayed, ... on 172. Sulked 175. Livestock sheds 176. Hymn, Amazing ...

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(4,10,8) 10. Variety of (5,4,3) trees put in the 3. Bird of less soil again (5) importance, one QUICK 12. The look of hears (4) the Gorgon!

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1. Stealing a child during sleep? (10) 7. Disorganised people go off them (5) 8. Given instruction to keep on 7? (7) 10. Stronghold to be built with speed? (8) 11. As reported from every quarter, perhaps (4) 13. Tell about being unpunctual (6) 15. Carried nothing to East Indian island (6) 17. Eat away in discreet Chinese restaurant (4) 18. Creed I’ve worked out for a dishonest person (8) 21. Not returning with certain bald patch (7) 22. Due to victory, go back outside (5) 23. Unwillingness

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was 19th-century French poet and philosopher Henri-Frederic Amiel who made the following sage observation: “Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence.” z You might be surprised to learn that the game of Chinese checkers isn’t actually Chinese in origin; it was invented in Germany. z If you consider all the militaries throughout the world during World War II, seven out of every eight deaths were German or Russian combatants. z In most countries of Western Europe during medieval times, 90 per cent of the population shared about a dozen first names. z A 19th-century Columbus, Ohio, man named Jonathan Jackson was exceedingly fond of cats. He was such a feline devotee, in fact, that upon his death in 1880, his will dic-

by Samantha Weaver tated that his estate was to be used to construct a home for cats, complete with dormitories, an infirmary, a rectory, rat holes, roofs for climbing and areas for “conversation”. There was even an auditorium where the residents would listen to accordion music every day. z During the final 9.5km of a pilgrim-

age to Lhasa, Tibet (pictured), a devout Buddhist will kiss the ground approximately 30,000 times. z Those who study such things say that a properly prepared mummy will be wrapped in about 150 metres of linen. z You may know that Philo Farnsworth invented the television, but you may not realise that his success didn’t bring him much happiness.

Later in life he suffered from depression, developed a drinking problem (and accompanying ulcers) and had a nervous breakdown.

Thought for the Day: “I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics.

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) There are plans afoot for change and exciting options. Freedom-loving Aries may be ready to commit to a more stable home life. Certainly Venus, bringer of harmony, has set up in your camp! Different approaches at work can free up time to pursue the lighter side of life. Who could deny you that? Decisions seem a little easier than usual as you are more likely to know your own mind right now.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) You will be both giving and receiving support this week. An upturn in money matters seems likely.

Take the opportunity to get those finances organised. Work may at times clash with home but, if you explain what is going on, there is no reason for it to be a problem.

It is not communicating that causes strife, Leo. Given the chance to shine in a bright social light, you will take it. Enjoy these moments.

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is a week of passions and high emotions. Love is tracking you down, if she hasn’t caught you already! When romance is on the cards, Taurus, you sometimes resist. We both know why, but what are you afraid of?

There is everything to gain from being brave and making the right move. Choose your companions carefully at the weekend to avoid clashes. Cash certainly needs your attention. Overall, though, it is a lucky week.

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ing the week off right, Venus strides in on that lovely New Moon. Be in the right place for romance and, hopefully, the right person will join you. The strong message is that you need to be active and out there, looking for what you need. Social life, romance or work: it should all be there for the taking.

Do you have a message to get across? The weekend gives you the opportunity. This is no time for weak gestures.

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is an important discussion to be had this week, Cancer, that you may not be looking forward to. However, help is at hand, not least from the glowing New Moon.

Something may have stopped you being in charge of late and it is now time to regain the advantage. By the weekend you will be feeling more like yourself.

Playing second fiddle is not to your liking, Cancer. All the more reason to show your true feelings.

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Mutual

love and support run through this week. You do not give in order to receive, but receive you will. Most action seems to come from work or work colleagues. Perhaps a problem will be solved? More time for your social life can be achieved with a compromise. Working closely with others brings the right results. The weekend is where the romantic action is. To avoid disagreements, stay away from contentious topics.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) This is a week of meeting and greeting, both professionally and personally. Of course, that relies on you getting out and about. Maybe you are inspired to organise some exciting meetings of your own? Being in the right place at the right time is crucial. Temptation is everywhere. An amazing stranger may beckon, but beware. You may think you can take a nibble of the cake, but will you get hooked!

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Temptation comes in very attractive packages. Even a saint might be tempted. You? That depends how right it feels.

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20) Take care of your cash this week. You certainly don’t want to be parted from it. This, the week of the New Moon, makes you a little more vulnerable and more easily persuaded. Getting on with practical tasks and spending time with family keeps you on an even keel. Correspondence midweek reminds you that someone is thinking of you fondly. Could this lead to an enjoyable journey?

Passion, politics and finances all vie for your attention. Romance needs a lot of your time and consideration if it is to bloom.

The best is yet to come Aquarius! Politics revolve around pleasing parents (yours or your partner’s). Are they thinking of moving in with you? Start the conversation early or risk being railroaded. Consider future finances when making decisions. There may be some compromise. If so, let it be on your terms.

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strength of Scorpio really shows this week. You are all fired up to make emotional, and sometimes unpopular, decisions.

The New Moon, however, is urging you to make fresh starts and get rid of dead wood. This may extend to your possessions. Many may end up at the charity shop or on eBay. Although you have burnt a few bridges before building new ones, you are certainly organised! At your best, you show real fire.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Did you have a bit of a shock

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) With

a great New Moon and Venus in attendance this can be a week of fun and frolics. There may be something to celebrate. If not, make something up! Gathering friends for a party at the end of the month (a Halloween bash?) could see you have more fun than you’ve had in a long time.

Getting finances in order has been your goal, and that should now be reached. When approached for cash remember that giving to one person could cause an avalanche.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share the day with X-Men actor Hugh Jackman (below left), 47.

The Libran desire for harmony does get a little stretched at times. If your finances are organised, that may be the best that you can hope for. Later in the year, a few opportunities can tip the scales.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Also celebrating today is swimmer Ian Thorpe (below right), 33. You don’t avoid hard work, Libra. Rather, you realise the value of leisure! Even so, a bit of extra effort will be needed to keep you in the style to which you are accustomed. Nose to the grindstone can bring in the gold.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Still looking for new opportunities, Libra? There will be plenty in the months ahead. The more you put into your enterprises, the more you will be rewarded, so take that dreamy look off of your face and get sharp.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Let’s face it, Libra, you work better in a partnership. The big task now is to keep that partnership sweet. Bide your time when wanting to make changes. Give others the glory from your work. You will still get there!

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

You know what you want, Libra, but have you been going the wrong way about it?

The world is changing, but that has real benefits for you, the great communicator.

See what others are doing and learn.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bringing yourself up to speed on with technology is going to be well worth your while in the months ahead. Libra, the time of opportunity is here. Use that charm and those great communication skills to tap into it.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Increasing your knowledge in the months ahead really makes a difference, Libra. A course, or time spent learning in another way, may not seem attractive, but get started and find out otherwise.

Take those opportunities!

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3513

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Find the Words solution 872 Nice for retirement DUAL CROSSWORD 18,957 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Nancy; 8 Armenia; 9 Operate; 10 Reset; 12 Stony stare; 15 Charge-hand; 18 Light; 19 Apparel; 21 Manners; 22 Lisle.

Down: 1 Unpoetical; 2 Under; 3 Myna; 4 Casein; 5 Imprison; 6 One’s hat; 11 Themselves; 13 Together; 14 Margins; 16 Hoarse; 17 Brush; 20 Pull.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Theme; 8 Tuition; 9 Respect; 10 Prior; 12 Discontent; 15 Interloper; 18 Night; 19 Fervour; 21 Sweeten; 22 Sound.

Down: 1 Attraction; 2 Lease; 3 Mere; 4 Static; 5 Dispense; 6 Divided; 11 Retrograde; 13 Irritate; 14 Stagger; 16 Offend; 17 Bogus; 20 Ruse.

DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 18,899 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Kidnapping; 7 Rails; 8 Trained; 10 Fastness; 11 News; 13 Relate; 15 Borneo; 17 Etch; 18 Deceiver; 21 Tonsure; 22 Owing; 23 Reluctance. Down: 1 Knits; 2 Disunity; 3 Attest; 4 Play; 5 Nankeen; 6 Preferment; 9 Discourage; 12 Note down; 14 License; 16 Reject; 19 Voice; 20 Guru.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Sustaining; 7 Overt; 8 Motored; 10 Fortress; 11 Pass; 13 Remote; 15 Gazebo; 17 Each; 18 Backward; 21 Trouble; 22 Ocean; 23 Resentment. Down: 1 Sheer; 2 Saturate; 3 Almost; 4 Note; 5 Narrate; 6 Conferment; 9 Despondent; 12 Backbone; 14 Microbe; 16 Talent; 19 Avert; 20 Able.

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The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. 30. 2. Pluto. 3. James Jones. 4.

Egypt. 5. Genetics, to calculate genetic traits. 6. Aerosmith. 7. 1000.

8. Vinnie Barbarino. 9. Major Leslie James (Les) Hiddins. 10. Dutch. 11.

Tony Orlando and Dawn, in 1970.

At the time Orlando was working for a rival record label, and he had to record the song on the sly so it wouldn’t find out. 12. It was 2010.

13. “Ride Like the Wind”, by Christopher Cross, 1979. The song, which Cross said he wrote while on drugs on the way to Austin, Texas, is about a condemned man fleeing, hoping to reach the Mexico border.

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