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DEBATE Vote of confidence: Is 16 too young?

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BUSINESS Encouraging diversity in our own backyard

ARTS Local stars shine with one eye on film

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Grandparents going above and beyond PAGE 14

REGIONAL ROADTRIPPER A pub with no fear PAGE 26

LINDSAY’S LOST LADY One of the most puzzling cases in the Australian art world.

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FARE SHARE

PEOPLE

Richard Harris’ trans-Tasman success PAGE 22

FELICITY TAYLOREDWARDS

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Encouraging diversity in our own backyard PAGE 34

IN THE KITCHEN

LIFESTYLE

With nutritionist Dr Joanna McMillan PAGE 48

THE ARTS Local stars shine with one eye on film PAGE 57

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Payne’s pleasure a sure bet to break barriers ORSE RACING mightn’t be everyone’s glass of chardy, but you’d be hard pressed not to have been moved by the feat of Michelle Payne’s ride into the history books at the Melbourne Cup this week.

Or amused by her off the cuff but vividly succinct swipe at those who doubted the ability of a “girl” to claim such a victory.

It was one of those key moments that will forever fuse to the modern Aussie vernacular – this mere slip of a thing sitting atop her magnificent mount and telling the blokey naysayers of The Sport of Kings to “get stuffed”.

Not exactly erudite, but exquisitely effective.

One sound rose clearly above the cacophony of post-race celebration and commiseration around racetracks and tellies all over the country – the sound of a determined and singleminded young woman smashing another glass ceiling to smithereens.

But it seems not everyone was cheering the pint sized dynamo whose young life reads like a triumph-over-tragedy movie script – the youngest of 10 raised by their trainer/ jockey dad after the death I’m willing of their mother when Payne to bet that was just a baby; a near-fatal in a race in 2004 and what Payne fall the loss of her older sister, said while also a jockey, in 2007.

Her comments in those still out first heady moments after of breath she and Prince of Penzance thundered past the post – in from the which she said also said “it’s history such a chauvinistic sport” – no doubt caused some serimaking puckering of nether-reride of her ous gions around the members’ life actually enclosure and across the wider racing fraternity’s WAS the establishment.

In what he may well ironsanitised ically come to consider his version. own ill-judged fit of pique, veteran cup jockey Glenn Boss reportedly took the whip to the new darling of Australian women’s sport by saying she might come to regret her comments.

Boss has since claimed he was stitched up – and he may well have been – but it’s likely, if social media is any indication, that similar comments have echoed around the traps from some who believe she should have chosen her words more carefully.

A legion of new-found fans would disagree.

And I’m willing to bet what’s left in my wallet after Payne pipped my once-a-year bet to the post, that what she said while still out of breath from the history making ride of her life actually WAS the sanitised version. Maybe her detractors would like to ask her how she really felt?

But the plucky jockey isn’t the only one in the

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Payne family whose high profile day out at the cup has left a significant mark.

Her brother Stevie, who has Down syndrome and who is a strapper for the horse his sister rode to victory, is equally impressive as a flagbearer for people with intellectual disabilities.

His unbridled joy at his sister’s achievement and the displays of genuine sibling affection between the two were more than just a madefor-television “awww” moment. It was another very visual reminder of the significant contribution people with Down syndrome can and do make to and for our communites – where not so long ago, families were told their “afflicted” children should be locked away and all-but forgotten.

Stevie and Michelle Payne’s new-found profiles will do wonders to address a myriad misconceptions. Shame it took a horse race for us all to recognise the accomplishments and significant contribution this dynamic duo is making towards busting through barriers.

Lest We Forget THIS week, on Wednesday, November 11, The Oracle and I will celebrate 26 years of wedded bliss. That date also marks 135 since the hanging of Ned Kelly and 152 years since a publican by the name of Elizabeth Scott became only the second woman to be hanged in Australia.

November 11 is also the day, 40 years ago, that Gough Whitlam went to the political gallows, uttering as he went the now-immortal words, “Well may we say God save The Queen. Because nothing will save the Governor General.”

It’s the week that marks the 26th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (although I was too busy to notice such trivialities at the time, with a wedding just two days away, an’ all) and there’s a black mark on Australian history next to November 11, 1869, which is when the shameful Aboriginal Protection Act was enacted.

It’s also 40-something (quite a few somethings) since Tony Webber made his way into the world.

But this week, as we mark and remember these history making events, one stands out perhaps above all others.

Ninety seven years ago, the German army surrendered to the allied forces at 11am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – Armistice Day – and four bloody years of dreadful fighting across the world ground to an exhausted halt.

So on Wednesday, wish me well for another 26 years of marriage, tell Tony Webber to have a happy birthday and dip your lid to our country’s indigenous heritage.

Then buy a poppy and take a minute of silence at 11am to remember all those things we’re supposed to remember about war and its eternally damning impact.

Lest we forget.

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Gloves off on Boxing Day trading

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY JOURNALIST

HE state’s retail and banking sectors and their employees are currently in the dark as to whether they will have the right, or choice, to open their doors for business or work on Boxing Day this year.

As at October 27, the NSW parliament’s Legislation Review Committee had elected to not comment on the current bill to amend the Retail Trading Act of 2008 when it released its Legislation Review Digest.

On October 22, Duncan Gay MLC (who is NSW Minister for Roads, Maritime and Freight and Vice-President of the Executive Council) read the bill for a second time calling for amendments to provide “greater choice and convenience for consumers, increased competition between retailers, a levelling of the playing field between bricks and mortar retailers and online retailers, and less red tape and administrative costs for businesses while allowing workers to choose how they balance their family life with the opportunity to earn additional income”.

Matt Wright, president of the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce says there would be economic benefits to flow from businesses being able to open on Boxing Day, but questions how significant those benefits would be if watered down as a result of being forced to open the doors.

“From an economic perspective there are a lot of visitors to Dubbo, to all of the towns, as people come in during that holiday period. There’s probably a benefit for businesses to open and try to capture that market,” Wright says.

Penalty rates however would be a deciding factor for businesses on the profitability of trading on Boxing Day. “From a business perspective there’s the whole discussion around penalty.

It’s another public holiday that they’re open, and some might question the viability of opening on another public holiday when the cost of opening the doors is potentially twice as much as their wages. It really does need to be worth their while to open.”

Businesses retailing inside shopping centres may not have the flexibility to choose, should the bill make it legal to trade and the centre choosing to open.

“I like that idea of having that choice – businesses making up their own decision if they want to open,” the local chamber boss says. “The downside to that will be for those businesses that are centre based and under those powerful lease documents they’re forced to signed, they’d be forced to open anyway, but that’s where traffic is generally driven.”

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ESPITE drawbacks for some retailers, while the amendments maintain the freedom to choose to trade or work or not, the National Retail Association (NRA) supports the amendments, citing benefits to employment and profits as worthwhile, as long as there is choice.

“We’ve called on both houses of parliament to back the government’s changes to allow retailers the choice, regardless of where they are as to whether they can trade on Boxing Day,” the peak retail body’s CEO Trevor Evans told Dubbo Weekender.

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Australian consumers at the Pitt Street mall, in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. Consumers are expected to spend more an estimated $2.07 billion dollars in retail sales across Australia today. PHOTO: AAP/SAM MOOY

“That’s not to say they all need to or should be forced to, but it is one of the biggest days in the retail calendar now and it’s growing at a much greater rate than a lot of other days, so it is becoming quite important economically and for the sector.”

Evans suggests that the Boxing Day and post Christmas sales for many retailers are deal breakers for longterm viability.

“For a lot of retailers it can make or break their business model for the year and determine whether it’s worth them staying open and keeping their staff on for the year ahead.

“It’s why you tend to see a lot of retail closures announced in January, in the post Christmas period. Broadly speaking across that December period, a little bit of late November, a little bit of early January, sales on average each day are about twice the typical level as they are for the rest of the year.

“While most of your costs are relatively fixed your profitability is greatly boosted through that period of time.”

Job creation is another reason the NRA is lending support to the bill.

“There’s a huge problem in Australia at the moment with unemployment.

It’s too high, especially in areas such as youth unemployment and through some of the regions. There are very few sectors at the moment that are well placed to provide jobs and a foot in the door for the unemployed. Retail is one of them,” Evans says.

“Masked in those statistics we actually have a huge problem with underemployment. There are people who have jobs but they wish they had more work and more shifts.

“Broadly speaking the idea of shutting all the shops because you’re worried about a few people being forced to work is overlooking the bigger issue – one of the nation’s biggest employers (retail) being forced to shut down for an entire day and not being able to provide jobs to all the people that would like them.”

Legally, Evans says, most employees in the retail space are employed by chains that operate enterprise agreements.

“Every single enterprise agreement I’ve seen has protections in place to prevent retail employees being forced to work on public holidays.

“In other words there’s a huge workforce out that’s willing and wanting additional shifts. It shouldn’t be the experience in the retail sector that anybody’s being forced to work when there are so many other people who want to.”

Evans is voicing feedback from NSW retailers who feel they’re missing out on needed profits because the Act currently bars them from trading on Boxing Day. “We have about 20,000 members nationwide so I speak to them all the time about their experiences. There’s absolutely no doubt when I’m talking to retailerss or store managers or regional managers agers from NSW, the issue of Box-

` There’s a huge workforce out that’s hat’s willing and wanting additional al shifts.

It shouldn’t be the experience in the retail sector that anybody’s being ing forced to work when there are so many ny other people who want to.”

– National Retail Association CEO Trevor Evans

ing Day is at the top of the list for many when it comes to what they can do to boost their performance.”

According to the NSW Retail Trade ACT, the only NSW zones currently allowed to trade on Boxing Day include the Sydney CBD and the Eastern Suburbs.

“There’s a couple of different rules coming into play there,” says Evans.

“One is that areas have been allowed to trade on the basis that they’re a designated tourist area. In those tourist zones everyone is allowed to trade and then outside those zones some types of retailers are and some aren’t, depending on the their size and product category, and so on.”

SW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian recently met with business leaders, retailers and lobby groups to discuss the bill at a Western Sydney Business Forum and was reported as saying the amendment is about people having the ability to work if they want to, to shop if they want to, or to open their business doors.

The amendments have attracted opposition from the union for retail workers which says the changes would rob workers of valuable family time over the festive period proposing workers and their families will be stripped of time together over Christmas.

In one news report a union spokesperson described Gladys Berejiklian as “the Grinch who stole Christmas”.

The Retail Trading Amendment Bill 2015 will allow a shop or bank to be open on Boxing Day; for a shop or bank to receive, unpack and prepare goods for sale on any restricted trading day and to allow a bank to be open on the bank holiday (the first Monday in August) and on other public holidays (other than on Good Friday, Easter Sunday, before 1pm on Anzac Day and on Christmas Day) as long as it’s staffed only by those who have freely elected to work on those days, without obtaining approval under the Retail Trading Act 2008. The proposed Retail Trading Amendment Bill 2015 can be viewed on http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/.

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GR E AT DI V I DE Land access changes reignite mining debate As the impassioned issue of coal mining and coal seam gas exploration continues to top the regional agenda, JOHN RYAN gives an overview of the fight on a new front with changes to land access arbitration legislation again highlighting the divide between agriculture and mining.

HE pipeline of information these days is so extraordinarily rich, it’s difficult to keep up with, and developments can make the news of the last minute the virtual fish’n’chip wrapping for the next snack.

The CSG and coal mining issues have risen above today’s multi-media static to become a household issue in parts of Australia where it’s not a local issue.

The past week or so has seen the issue again highlighted in a number of different ways.

The Baird government (which includes the NSW Nationals who hold many seats in contentious mining and CSG areas) came under heavy fire after introducing and passing the Mining and Petroleum Legislation Amendment (Land Access Arbitration) Bill 2015.

Many landholders have expressed concerns that these changes were “rammed” through parliament without proper consultation.

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According to Greens mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham, these changes won’t resolve the current conflicts which have seen thousands of people engage in civil unrest blockade activities on the north coast to prevent CSG projects from going ahead.

The main NSW battlegrounds have been on the north coast with CSG licences, which were approved by the former ALP state government but have become one of the biggest “handover hangovers” for the current Coalition government.

A couple of hours to Dubbo’s north, there have been intense fights against Santos’ Narrabri gas project, which environmental groups and neighbouring farmers say has already caused environmental dramas.

Coal is the big player when it comes to conventional mining and the push-back against that industry has divided communities in the Hunter Valley where the multi-million dollar thoroughbred in-

dustry claims it’s being put at risk thanks to the proximity and intended expansion of massive coal mines.

To our north, the Lock the Gate Alliance has been calling for the unequivocal protection of “prime farm land” by giving landholders the right to deny miners access to their properties.

To the east, the community of Dunedoo has had its ups and downs after the former state ALP government signed up for the huge Cobbora coal mine.

The town suffered numerous problems when the incoming coalition government first said the mine would go ahead, but was then able to can what it described as a major blunder.

By that time, many properties to the town’s east had been bought out at allegedly hugely inflated sums and that left fewer people on the land, fewer volunteers for organisations such as the Rural Fire Service and devastated local suppliers of rural products and contract servic-

es by wiping out a large portion of their customer base.

Earlier this week came a bombshell announcement that the state government, via taxpayer funds, had offered CSG miner Metgasco $25 million to hand back its licences for the Northern Rivers region.

That’s prompted other areas to want level playing field treatment at taxpayer expense.

Wee Waa landholder Sarah Ciesiolka said 87 communities in the state’s north west have declared themselves “gasfield free”; now she wants the Pilliga project bought out and shut down.

The next few months will be interesting, as proponents and opponents of CSG and coal mining test the changes to the bill, in particular the clause changing the definition of just exactly what is a “significant improvement”.

Until now, some communities have used that as their defence against min-

What stakeholders say Sarah Ciesiolka – Wee Waa landholder

TO date, 87 communities in the North West have already declared themselves “gasfield free” in an emphatic rejection of the coal seam gas industry in our region. Like people in the Northern Rivers, we do not want our rural landscapes industrialised, our precious water resources compromised or our health adversely impacted by industrial gasfields.

The risks of the Narrabri Gas Project to our land, our water and our ability to grow clean, healthy food are simply not worth any dubious benefit, and the NSW Government must now act in the long term sustainable interests of North West NSW landholders and communities by buying back Santos’ CSG licences in our region. Our land is equally precious and our water is equally critical as the Northern Rivers, and our community is equally opposed. Santos has no social licence to operate in our region.

Our farming futures are under a cloud for as long as Santos delays and dithers in the North West and for as long as the NSW Government fails to act to safeguard our groundwater and make the Pilliga and the highly valuable and highly productive farmland that surrounds it no-go area for coal

seam gas.

More than three million hectares of our region has been surveyed by the community and declared gasfield free, with an average of 96 per cent of community members expressing support for this proposition.

The movement against the Narrabri Gas Project will only continue to grow in breadth, depth and strength until such times as the NSW Government takes decisive action and buys back Santos’ licences.

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Troy Grant - Member for Dubbo and NSW Deputy Premier THE recent changes to land access laws in NSW actually strengthen the rights of farmers in land access disputes, not weaken them. These changes follow a review of land access

by Brett Walker SC. The new laws set out a more robust process for arbitration and are to facilitate fairer outcomes by ensuring landholders are better equipped to understand and engage with the process. For the first time companies will be forced to pay the legal fees of landowners for any arbitration.

In respect to the definition of significant improvement, the changes now better recognise the value of significant

improvement to the individual landholder. I know, like farmers know, what is significant to a far-western grain grower is not the same as what is significant to a Hunter Valley equine complex operator.

The legislation does not change people’s rights on significant improvements but gives clarity on how to determine what is classed as a significant improvement, while maintaining a landholder’s right of refusal for areas where significant improvements exist.

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NSW MINERALS COUNCIL: THE New South Wales Minerals Council provided feedback on the bills in the short time that we and other stakeholders were given for consultation.

Given the significant implications of these bills to the mining industry, we look forward to working with the government into the future to resolve any issues that may arise.

Australian Pipelines and Gas Association AS an industry association we’ve not dealt directly with this legislation; however, given that NSW needs to develop its gas reserves, there has been, broadly, real discouragement of development in NSW. Constant reviews of CSG mining and a negative approach to gas will not help NSW to access the natural gas it needs.

Given the changes made to the legislation, it’s sensible to review the Act within a reasonable period.

The development of coal seam gas in Queensland has been expanded to fill international demand, via LNG exports. While this has and will continue to put pressure on prices and availability of gas in the domestic market, Australia has sufficient gas reserves to supply both its export and domestic markets. It’s important to ensure that those reserves are accessed and that gas is available for domestic users.

` Coal seam gas companies do well when they consult with landholders; when they work together with landholders so that all can benefit from the land.

– Australian Pipelines and Gas Association

Coal seam gas companies do well when they consult with landholders; when they work together with landholders so that all can benefit from the land. The Queensland Gasfields Commissioner, John Cotter, has made tremendous improvements to the industry and its dealings with landholders in that state. Many farms and farmers have benefited from the income from CSG on their land. The wells do not prevent use of the land and the extra income allows for improvements to the land and lifestyle of farmers. This can all be achieved by consultation and sharing the benefits of development.

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Jeremy Buckingham – The Greens THE NSW Government’s new mining bills fail to resolve the conflicts over land use and coal and coal seam gas, and follow the pattern of previous policies such as the Strategic Regional Land Use Gateway and the Aquifer Interference policy, that promise much, but consistently fall short and allow coal and coal seam gas to progress virtually unhindered.

These new mining laws fail to address fundamental concerns such as protecting certain areas from mining and

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ers. Now the high-powered legal eagles may test that in court to see if they can get the camel’s nose under the tent.

There are claims that change will mean the onus is now on individual landholders to prove their improvements cannot reasonably co-exist with mining or CSG and that these improvements cannot be reasonably relocated or substituted – if that’s correct, it will make it harder for landholders and easier for corporations to crush them.

The state government will review the legislation, including the recent changes,, in six months.

For the first time companies ompanies will be forced to pay y the legal fees of landowners wners for mber any arbitration. - Member for Dubbo and NSW Deputy puty Premier Troy Grant

coal seam gas extraction, and giving landholders the right to say no. The structural injustices and the systemic failings of the laws remain and so the conflict will continue.

Mining companies will still be able to force their way onto people’s land through compulsory arbitration, and concerns remain about whether mining companies will act in good faith; whether quality and unbiased arbitrators will be appointed; what “reasonable” cost will be covered for landholders dragged through this process; and the subjectivity of the definition of improvements to property and whether they can be reasonably relocated or substituted.

The government has failed to rule out coal or coal seam gas mining in certain areas of the state, despite widespread concern that mining will wreck key food growing areas such as the Liverpool Plains, key water catchments, or important environments such as the Northern Rivers of NSW. The era of fossil fuels should be coming to a close. While amending the Acts to incorporate some anti-corruption measures recommended by ICAC, such as competitive auctions, is important, the more fundamental question is whether any new coal or gas licences should be issued at all, as it is simply incompatible with dealing with climate change.

While it is a step in the right direction to move enforcement out of Industry and Investment and into the Environment min-

Mining Act – Significant Improvement Changes The current definition of significant improvement in the Mining Act 1992, reads: “significant improvement” means any substantial building, dam, reservoir, contour bank, graded bank, levee, water disposal area, soil conservation work or other valuable work or structure.

The new definition passed in the amendments is as follows: “significant improvement” on land, in relation to an authorisation or an access arrangement, means a work or structure that: (a) is a substantial and valuable improvement to the land, and (b) is reasonably necessary for the operation of the landholder’s lawful business or use of the land, and (c) is fit for its purpose (immediately or with minimal repair), and (d) cannot reasonably co-exist with the exercise of rights under the authorisation or the access arrangement without hindrance to the full and unencumbered operation or functionality of the work or

istry, the record of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is absolutely woeful and the public will be watching closely to see if the EPA take on these big corporations or simply drum out the excuses.

The Greens have moved a number of amendments to the Bills to try to improve them.

Amendments to give farmers the right to lock the gate to coal and gas companies, and to rule out mining on the Liverpool Plains were voted down by the Liberal, National and Labor parties.

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Derek Schoen – President NSW Farmers RECENTLY several bills were passed in NSW which impact landholder’s rights and obligations regarding land access for mining and coal seam gas exploration and production. This legislative reform represents the governments attempt to legislate, among other issues, the recommendations from the Walker Report into Land Access and Arbitration.

These amendments represent a mixed bag for landholders, but on balance are predominantly positive. The changes enshrine many rights that had long been campaigned for by NSW Farmers such as a right to legal representation at arbitration.

Also of benefit to landholders are amendments that extend their entitlement to costs for negotiating a land access agree-

structure, and (e) cannot reasonably be relocated or substituted without material detriment to the landholder, and includes any work or structure prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition, but does not include any work or structure excluded from this definition by the regulations”.

In relation to seismic activities on roadsides, the amendment Bill includes a new clause into s31 of the Mining Act 1992 which removes the requirement for consent from landholders as follows: (7) This section does not apply to the holder of an exploration licence who carries out a seismic survey on a road within the meaning of the Road Transport Act 2013, but only if the holder has given written notice of at least 21 days (or such other period as is prescribed by the regulations) of the carrying out of the seismic survey to the owner of the dwelling-house, garden or significant improvement concerned (and, in the case of a dwelling-house, the occupant).

` These amendments represent a mixed bag for landholders, but on balance are predominantly positive.

– President NSW Farmers, Derek Schoen ment. The old position limited the entitlement of landholders to costs for initial legal advice only. The changes extend the compensation to the totality of the negotiation process from start to completion and include non-legal costs such as travel expert reports and time spent.

However the win here is dampened as the legislation provides for a cap on these costs which must be both reasonable and within a limit set by the minister. Until this limit is set the true utility of these reforms is unknown.

Another area addressed by the reforms that was of concern to both sides is that of the definition of “significant improvement” on land. The reforms set out a five-step test for determining significant improvement. While this does provide some clarification on the previous definition of significant improvements there is still a degree of uncertainty about what some parts of the definition mean and how exactly this will affect certain types of improvements. The test for an improvement being “necessary” is problematic from a NSW Farmers’ point of view. An improvement does not need to be immediately “necessary” to be of

value. Government has committed to a review of these laws in six months time and this is one area NSW Farmers would like to see high on the agenda for discussion.

For those negotiating land access agreements there is another positive from the reforms as mandatory provisions in the Exploration Guideline: Petroleum Land Access which until now had been only a guide are will become a compulsory part of land access agreements.

This is a win for landholders as this guideline provides significant protections.

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Sarah Sulman – Liverpool Plains Youth LIVING around a mine or a proposed one is a unique experience. Others read about it in the paper and see images on the news but can then walk away, switch off and think about something else. People living on the Liverpool Plains like the farmers, Gomeroi people and the residents of the Breeza area are faced with the thought of the impending mine every day.

The members of Liverpool

Plains Youth praise the tireless work of the groups and individuals that stood up from the very beginning to fight the same ludicrous proposal for mining on the Liverpool Plains.

Many find the most frustrating part of the whole debate is trying to convey what is happening behind closed doors from both sides. The majority of Australians only see part of the story but they only have to scratch the surface to see that not everything is what it seems.

The local Aboriginal people, the Gomeroi people, are being highly disrespected and have had their voices silenced. They know this land better than any of us and know the consequences ahead. The proposed Shenua mine is not a small mine, it is a mega mine set in the heart of the Liverpool Plains, Australia’s most productive agricultural land. As a result the risks are great and are potentially devastating for the region’s agricultural industries. Why would our government risk this? For a quick dollar now and another term in parliament is about the extent of thinking coming from the political direction.

Money is the driving force behind the mining proposals and controls the intentions of the power holders.

The Liverpool Plains residents should not need to fight this! Australia needs, and will even more require in the future, the best agricultural land it can get. The Liverpool Plains is an Australian asset and needs to be protected! Wrong mine, wrong place.

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Cooking up a storm of support for White Ribbon HITE Ribbon ambassador Kevin Saul says it’s not hard to see how much he loves cooking.

“You can tell by my photo that I love food – all kinds of food!” says the wellknown local advocate for the national anti-violence organisation, who took part in Dubbo Weekender’s free community breakfast to coincide with International Men’s Cooking Day. People availing themselves of an early morning freebie bacon and egg roll were served by a number of Dubbo identities, and encouraged to make a donation to help support the White Ribbon campaign.

But it’s not just about cooking, says Saul, whose work for White Ribbon prompted the decision by Panscott Media, publishers of both Dubbo Weekender and Dubbo Photo News, to direct funds raised by the breakfast to the anti-domestic violence campaign.

“International Men’s Cooking Day is a great idea, not just because a lot of blokes love to cook, but it’s also a great platform to talk to other men about domestic violence, particularly what we at White Ribbon are involved in,” he says of the body of men whose motivation is to stand up against violence against women.

“There are a lot of myths out in the public arena about why violence happens but at the end of the day men cause the majority of violence against women, and it’s up to men to stop it,” says Saul.

“Women can’t stop it. The government can’t stop it. Legislation can’t stop

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White Ribbon ambassador and supporter of International Men’s Cooking Day, Kevin Saul. PHOTO: STEVE COWLEY

it. Other blokes have to stop it. We have to let other blokes know they’re doing the wrong thing and we won’t accept it.”

A concerted effort like today’s barbecue breakfast is symbolic, he says.

“It’s not so much about cooking, it’s about men coming together over something they’re familiar with and they’re comfortable with. Steering away from stereotypical places where men gather – pubs and so on, which is all great, but sometimes we need to be away from other influences when we have a yarn.

“So something like this community brekkie is a great way to come together and have a good old fashioned yarn.”

Blokes in the kitchen isn’t a new phenomenon, says Saul.

“Men have been cooking for centuries – we’re not just hunters and gatherers!

But in recent times, there’s been a genuine trend towards men doing their fair share in the kitchen.

“I wish I could say the split in our house is 50/50 – my wife Patsy does more than I do, but I do get in and try to help.

In these times when we’re all – men and women – so busy with our working lives, cooking is a great way to bring the family together.”

Food plays an important role in the Saul family’s “together time” he says.

“We have an island bench in our kitchen – it’s a family friendly kitchen and a focal point for us to come together and sit around the bench and talk about the day as we prepare meals.”

“Saulie’s” favourite fare Asked to name his favourite dish to cook, White Ribbon ambassador and self-described foodie, Kevin Saul didn’t hesitate:

Veal scaloppine with a creamy mushroom sauce 500g boneless veal steak, cut into 5-mm-thick slices and trimmed Salt and black pepper, to taste 2 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms 1 small onion, peeled and sliced 3/4 cup chicken stock 1/3 cup dry white wine 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary leaves 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley Directions Preparation: 15min › Cook: 15min › Ready in: 30min 1. Cut the veal into serving pieces. Pound both sides of the meat with the flat side of a meat mallet until it is 3mm thick. Dust the flattened veal lightly with flour, sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Melt the butter over medium heat in a large frying pan. Add two of the veal pieces and cook for 1–2 minutes on each side, or until tender. Transfer the veal to a platter; cover with foil and keep warm. Repeat with the remaining veal pieces.

2. Add the mushrooms and onion to the pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, for 4 minutes, or until tender. Stir in the stock, wine, lemon juice and rosemary, stirring and scraping any browned residue off the bottom of the pan. Bring to the boil and cook, uncovered, for 5 minutes, or until slightly thickened.

Stir in the parsley and pour the sauce over the veal. Serve immediately.

Veggies: Brushed potatoes cut to 6-8mm thick pan fry in butter with Italian herbs.

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Vote of confidence: A recent suggestion from Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to lower the voting age to 16 has reignited the debate over whether young people should have more of a say in what is essentially their own future. Are we taking our younger citizens seriously as political agents of change? Can we do better in harnessing their optimism and input? AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley Dr Andrew Fuller – author, psychologist and co-director of Resilient Youth Australia MY group, Resilient Youth Australia, has surveyed 60,000 young people this year and the overwhelming picture we get is of a group of young people who have great strengths and competencies and who are very aware and future oriented. They’re certainly up to considering the challenges facing this country. Involving them as much more responsible and active citizens in our society makes good sense to me.

Whether it becomes a reality will depend on young people starting to talk to politicians about why they should have a say. The first challenge is to

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start lobbying their local representatives. It’s very easy for an adult to scoff at this idea and dismiss it – “they’re too young, too immature” – so there’s an opportunity for young people to stand up and be counted over this issue.

Australia has a long history of being creative and clever in relation to the problems we face – part of that comes from our environment – but if we want young people to be ingenious, clever problem solvers, we need to give them problems to solve.

Our country faces predictable challenges over the next 20-30 years in terms of population growth, agricultural productivity, possible pandemics, climate issues, energy and resources, water distribution. How do we meld those into a vision for the future? Giving those sorts of young people, and the data

around it and possible scenarios, is a good idea. I’d like to see the government setting up those scenarios and giving young people an opportunity to have a crack at solving these problems.

It would be interesting to think about how there could be a component in the curriculum so kids could be required to undertake as part of their schooling, projects related to some of those challenges I mentioned.

But there also needs to be acknowledgement for their input.

Young people are more mature, and more worldly and more aware – so I think giving them the vote at 16 is a reasonable call.

Another interesting approach could be to give those people who are interested and who want to have a say in their electorates the ability to “opt in” rather than making it compulsory. That then would get those young people who are actively interested involved. There’s been a great disaffection from the political process from all young people generally and that’s partly because they’re not involved.

Young people want to help but they don’t know how and we don’t ask them nearly enough – and then we complain about them being irresponsible!

It’s crazy.

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Nicholas Trappett – 17 year old 2016 vicecaptain of Dubbo College Senior Campus HISTORY tells us that in Australia we have been voting since Federation in 1901, but this only applied to men and women over the age of 21, excluding Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. At the 1922 federal election only 59 per cent of the population voted. As a result the elected government introduced compulsory voting and at the 1925 federal election voting increased to 91 per cent.

In 1962 voting numbers significantly increased when Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders were given the right to vote. In 1973 the elected government lowered the voting age to 18.

This occurred because politicians decided young people were paying taxes, driving cars, and serving their country during times of conflict and this entitled them to have a say in the composition of their government. Last month, opposition leader Bill Shorten raised the idea of lowering the voting age to 16.

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Is 16 too young?

16-17 age bracket pay taxes of $41 million annually. However, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 120,000 people make up this age bracket. So only 14 per cent of this group contributes to the Australian budget.

As one of the 86 per cent of the population in this age bracket not contributing to Australian taxes I believe I should not be entitled to vote until I am in full-time employment or undertaking university education after the age of 18. I do appreciate the fact that the government has given me the opportunity to drive a motor vehicle at 16. However, it is only at 17 that I can hold a provisional license and I will not receive a full license without restrictions until the age of 20 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; two years after the current voting age.

Recently the ABC reported that one in four Australian students drops out of high school.

What percentage of students leaving high school help make up the 14 per cent in the workforce? Should these young adults therefore be given the right to vote?

Currently the Australian Defence Force (ADF) requires applicants to be 17 to join the military. I believe it would be highly unlikely anyone of this age would be sent into a conflict zone to defend his or her country. I would assume Australians deployed to a foreign theatre would have achieved the age of 18 prior to departure.

I believe being aged 16 and

17 should not automatically entitle people to vote simply because a small percentage of the group pays taxes and most drive a motor vehicle with restrictions or can enlist in the ADF. I am sure the young people who currently fit into the above-mentioned categories would engage in any debate offered by the government. I strongly support any discussion that would enable our nation to be a stronger and more prosperous global country. â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘

Dom Hopkinson â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NSW Young Nationals chairman ANY activity we can undertake to improve and encourage the participation of people aged 16-18 is good, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think giving them the right to vote is the best way to do that.

We need to ensure that young people are involved pragmatically and practically in the discussion, but the best way to do that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; between the ages of 16-18 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is through the establishment of youth committees that report to their local members of parliament. Any activity we can undertake is valuable â&#x20AC;&#x201C; either through these sorts of youth committees or through the schools â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to get young people thinking about political issues, and how they can get involved in their local community, be that through joining a political organisation, or a service club or even getting on the

board of their local sporting club.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we need to encourage to make sure the next generation of young people want to contribute to the vibrant, pro-active social fabric of communities, instead of just rocking up once every three years to vote.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think young people are as cynical â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always struck by the optimism of young people; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the ones who are interested in the tech start-ups and the emerging economies and how the regions can play a part in that. These days, particularly with the internet, the world is the limit. The sky is the limit as to what my generation can do.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more important to start the habit of people wanting to involve themselves pro-actively and productively in conversations about the kind of community we want to see, rather than fostering the â&#x20AC;&#x153;you have to turn up and vote or you get a fineâ&#x20AC;? approach to politics.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about setting the norm to focus on what and who is going

to be best for your local area. If we get that passion happening, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more important.

Young people have a view that is genuinely valued, but the main thing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the reason Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so optimistic about the future of young people in politics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is the advent of social media. Everyone now has a device in their hand thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more powerful than the computers that sent the rocket to the moon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and with that, we can be part of the conversation that shapes the way our communities will look in the future.

You already see, particularly in regional Australia, how social media is playing such a key role in people getting their issues and their opinions out there into the mainstream, and connecting with like-minded people.

In the Young Nats, for instance, our main method of communication is through our internal Facebook page â&#x20AC;&#x201C; people have their say electronically, and it keeps the conversaonversation flowing.

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Meeting flooded with ideas to keep river clean NUMBER of practical ideas for helping keep the Macquarie River clean have emerged from a community forum held last week to try to formulate a strategy to address concerns over the increasing level of pollution in the waterway. Approximately 50 people from a variety of interest groups, user groups and government agencies attended the meeting, convened after a motion to council from Councillor John Walkom in an effort to develop practical solutions addressing the issue of river litter.

Community concern about the amount of litter in the Macquarie River peaked recently, and Dubbo City Council’s director of Parks and Landcare Murray Wood said it was agreed that for change to occur a community response was needed.

“There were representatives from Inland Waterway Rejuvenation Association (IWRA), Adventure Watersports, NSW Fisheries and a range of people who swim, fish or boat in the river who workshopped a variety of ideas for stopping litter at the source of the problem,” Wood said.

“Some of the ideas included educating people not to leave rubbish or to intentionally litter in the river, rewarding people for keeping the river clean and not littering (as opposed to fines for littering),” he said.

“There was also ideas about working with business and oth-

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Community dialogue continues with council over addressing the issue of pollution in local waterways and strategies to stop the problem. PHOTO: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

er levels of government on projects like camera surveillance in reserves, riverside clean ups with Work for the Dole and Corrective Services.

Aussie first birth boosts rhino breeding program THE birth late last month at Taronga Western Plains Zoo

(TWPZ) of Australia’s first Greater Onehorned Rhino calf will s i g n i f i c a n tly boost the zoo’s breeding program for the species that is listed as vulnerable in the wild.

The male calf was born early on Sunday morning, October 25, to first-time mother Amala, who is being “very protective” according to keeper Jennifer Conaghan. The hefty little fellow is sticking close to mum, and while there’s no word on when he will be making his public debut, he’ll no doubt be not only a drawcard for visitors, but a great ambassador for the wildlife conservation work that’s being done behind the scenes at TWPZ. The zoo is home to three species of rhino – Black Rhino, White Rhino (Africa) and Greater-One horned Rhino (Asia), with breeding and conservation programs for all three species. The Greater One-horned Rhino breeding program commenced in 2009 when Amala arrived from Los Angeles Zoo to join resident male Dora, who came to Dubbo from Nagoya Higashiyama Zoo in Japan.

“This birth is a credit to years of work by the Zoo’s dedicated Life Sciences team to successfully introduce the two, an introduction which has produced a healthy calf following Amala’s 15 month gestation,” said TWPZ director Matthew Fuller.

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Dubbo crash claims man’s life A FATAL crash in Dubbo this week claimed the life of a man aged in his 50s, when the van he was driving left the road and hit a power pole.

Police were called to the intersection of Erskine and Darling Streets in the city’s CBD at about 9.45am on Thursday.

The man, who was the only occupant of the vehicle, was taken to Dubbo Base Hospital but died a short time later. Diversions were put in place and motorists were asked to avoid the area while police from Orana Local Area Command remained on the scene. A report will be prepared for the Coroner.

Work continues on CBD street upgrade NEW traffic arrangements will be put in place from Thursday next week in Dubbo when road reconstruction on the western side of Darling Street between Church Street and Talbragar Street begins.

Dubbo City Council manager works services Ian Bailey said the work zone will effectively be flipped from the eastern side of Darling Street to the western.

Eastern side works include reconstruction of the kerb and

Ignite project lights up our centre A PERMANENT light display has been installed at Dubbo’s Church Street Rotunda as a result of feedback from the community during the Ignite Our Centre Engagement Program.

Dubbo City Council’s Economic Development Officer Josie Howard said the lights have been made permanent after overwhelming positive feedback after a trial period during the Ignite Our Centre Engagement Program.

“One of the aims of the Ignite program is to find lighter quicker cheaper initiatives to promote activity and create ambience in the CBD that were workshopped by the community and key CBD stakeholders,” Mrs Howard said.

“The lights will switch on during the evenings and early mornings and have already received great feedback during installation from both retailers and the public.

Dubbo’s CBD alight with an Ignite Dubbo initiative to install a permanent light display near the Cyril Flood Memorial Rotunda on Church Street. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

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guttering, widening of the footpath and cycleway.

From November 12, Darling Street will be closed to northbound traffic from Church Street. One southbound lane will be open on Darling Street between Talbragar and Church Streets. Unrestricted parking will be available on the eastern side of Darling Street facing Victoria Park and temporary access to the Council carpark at the front of the Civic Administration Building will be from Carrington Avenue between the Council building and the DRTCC. “While the construction works are underway the public is asked to obey all directional and speed signs for the safety of the public and staff in and around the construction site and when accessing carparks,” Bailey said.

Construction work for is expected to be complete by December 19.

Development approvals streamlined THE NSW Government has taken steps to help speed up building projects in the Dubbo, MidWestern Regional, Wellington and Narromine local government areas.

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cal government areas to have complying development assessments fast-tracked so builders and renovators can get on with projects in their communities.

“These changes will help save people time and money, and will mean building projects can be delivered faster,” Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier Troy Grant said.

A complying development is a combined planning and construction approval for straightforward developments that can be determined through a fast track assessment by a council or private accredited certifier.

Fast-tracked complying development approvals can be issued on average within 18 days. This compares with the average determination time for a full development application of 70 days. More than $4.4 billion of development was delivered by complying development in 2013-2014.

The changes to the existing Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 will remove the 14-day pre-approval neighbour notification for residential complying development and reduce the preconstruction neighbour notification for new buildings and additions from seven days to two days.

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Aboriginal cultural values A CHANCE encounter by farmer Michael Zell has seen a historic Aboriginal grave site protected on his Gulargambone property.

While inspecting a fox den, Zell discovered the culturally significant burial site.

This led to a chain of events, which saw the site fenced and protected with support from Central West Local Land Services.

Central West Local Land Services currently has grants available to landholders wanting to find out more about Aboriginal cultural values on their land.

Like many properties across Australia, Memsie has signs of historic Aboriginal occupation.

“We have often come across stone tools in paddocks,” Zell said. “As a practice we move them under trees to stop them getting damaged from farm machinery.

After discovering the grave site, Zell first contacted police.

After inspection the officers put him in touch with an archaeologist from the Office of Environment and Heritage who confirmed the burial was of historic Aboriginal origin, ran an investigation and organised an appropriate reburial.

This led to the project with Local Land Services to fence the site and protect it from inadvertent damage.

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“This project is a great example of where a farmer has worked with us and the local Aboriginal community to help preserve our culture,” said Local Land Services Aboriginal Communities Officer, Mike Nolan.

“The wider Aboriginal community is incredibly grateful when people like Michael value the significant areas on their land and work to protect them.

“Michael was very interested in the Aboriginal culture on his property. Though the project we were able to bring in members of the local Aboriginal community to share appropriate knowledge.”

Landholders wanting to better understand the Aboriginal cultural values on their land should nearest Local Land Services office, call 1300 795 299 or visit www.lls.nsw.gov.au/ centralwest

Thanks, paramedics RESIDENTS across the state stopped to pay tribute to ambulance officers this week as part of the annual Thank a Paramedic Day that’s been held each year since 2008 as a publicly celebrated awareness day to recognise the work of NSW Ambulance paramedics.

“Paramedics are role models within our community, who we look upon with the highest

admiration,” said Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier, Troy Grant.

“They are there for us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. Days like today recognise the importance of frontline emergency care and the trauma faced so regularly by our first responders.

“When the community needs you, you are there, and for that, we can only say thank you.”

NSW Ambulance is an integral part of the State’s health care system, providing emergency pre-hospital care and transport, medical retrieval services, and also a significant proportion of non-emergency patient transport services to the community.

Last year, NSW paramedics undertook more than 1.1 million emergency and nonemergency responses. This is equivalent to an ambulance responding to someone across NSW every 28 seconds.

Fair go for Fair Trading Week WHILE we like to think we get a fair go all the time, this week was specifically set aside for Fair Trading Week, which aims to raise awareness about the role the state department of Fair Trading plays in the marketplace on behalf of both consumers and traders across local communities.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 06.11.2015 to Sunday 08.11.2015 Fair Trading celebrated its milestone 10 millionth call to the Fair Trading contact centre, one of the more than 900,000 calls Fair Trading takes every year. NSW Fair Trading also receives more than 45,000 complaints each year and last financial year received nearly 7 million service requests from the public.

“There have also been reforms to residential parks laws, motor vehicle dealers and repairers and broad ranging real estate changes including tougher laws to stamp out underquoting according to Member for Dubbo Troy Grant.

“It’s important that both consumers and traders are aware of these changes and participating in one of these free community events is a great way to ensure you’re informed.”

For more information on Fair Trading Week or to contact Fair Trading for consumer assistance visit www.fairtrading. gov.au or contact 13 32 20.

CATCH program nets drugs, cash TWO men have been charged after police allegedly located drugs and cash in a car near Cowra on Tuesday. Police from Cowra Highway Patrol stopped a South Australian-registered vehicle on Grenfell Road, Cowra, for a random breath test and after speaking with the male driver and a male passenger,

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Map Your Mind to Recovery artwork selections PEN to Power, the working party for an art exhibition planned for 2016 called Map Your Mind to Recovery, met this week to select works for inclusion in the exhibition and contributed by anonymous artists with a mental health story or journey to convey. Works include essays, paintings, digital works, sculptures and video.

Left to right, Karen Romalis, artist and occupational therapist, Allied Health, Karen Hagen, education officer, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Jack Randell, artist and the exhibition’s curator, Tim Carr, senior practice leader, NEAMI National, Toni Grant, and Tim Manning, psychologist. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY.

conducted a search of the vehicle. They allegedly located a bag containing white powder suspected to be a prohibited drug, along with a package containing a large amount of cash. The 48-year-old South Australian driver was arrested and charged with supply prohibited drug, possess prohibited drug and dealing with proceeds of crime. He was refused bail to re-appear at Cowra Local Court in January; while the 39-yearold male passenger, also from South Australia, was charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime and after being granted conditional bail, will also re-

appear before Cowra court in January. Traffic and Highway Patrol Commander, Assistant Commissioner John Hartley, said that this was a prime example of the great results of the CATCH (Crime and Traffic Connecting on Highways) Program.

“This shows how local detectives – in this case, from Canobolas Local Area Command – and Traffic and Highway Patrol Command officers work together to take drugs off our roads,” Hartley said. “We will identify those that are transporting drugs, large amounts of cash, weapons, and other contraband, and prosecute them

off our roads. With our advanced road safety technology, combined with highly-skilled CATCH trained officers, criminals travelling from interstate run a very great risk of being detected.”

Nyngan drug charges A MAN appeared in court this week charged with alleged drug and proceeds of crime offences, following a search warrant being exercised at Nyngan on Wednesday afternoon, with a 25-year-old man arrested and taken to Nyngan Police Station.

A subsequent search of the man resulted in officers allegedly locating drugs believed to be crystalline methylamphetamine (‘Ice’). Further inquiries led police to execute a search warrant at a home on Wambiana Street. Police allegedly located methylamphetamine, cash, scales, power tools, and portable fridges and generators suspected of being stolen. All items have been seized for forensic examination.

The man was charged with supply prohibited drug, two counts of possession of a prohibited drug, and deal with proceeds of crime.

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above and beyond Most grandparents will tell you they cherish time with grandchildren and family, but a growing number are finding themselves going above and beyond in the name of love. JEN COWLEY spoke with the founding members of local support group We’re Always Grandparents (WAGs) about the challenges of assuming a full time caring role.

NYONE who thinks the phrase “be kind – everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about” belongs only on a fridge magnet would do well to spend some time with Sheral Stubbs, Joan Talbot and Elaine Jones.

The three Dubbo women are the founding members of We’re Always Grandparents Support group – WAGS – and while they’re like any other grandparents who cherish time with family, these women – like so many others across Australia – are going above and beyond in the name of love.

All three have permanent care of their grandchildren and while all say they have no regrets about their decision to assume the role, these remarkable women are shouldering the kind of responsibility most people their age have long since left behind for retirement and the

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HE’S coy about her exact age – “let’s just say I’m a young granny” – but there’s nothing timid about Sheral Stubbs’ determination to ensure a network of support for those like her and her fellow WAGS founders for whom the freedom to enjoy their post-child rearing days is a distant memory.

“Elaine, Joan and I met because we had three children in the same class at the same school. We met in the car park one day and started talking. We realised there were many more like us, and we decided we needed to form a support group.”

That was 11 years ago.

From that nucleus of three, the group has grown to ten times that number.

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at our last meeting, and those we know about,” says Stubbs, who believes the number of children being permanently cared for by a grandparent is growing every day.

And it’s mostly thanks to drugs and alcohol, she says without hesitation.

“Sometimes it’s the death of a parent, but mostly it’s because the parents have substance abuse issues, coupled with domestic violence, incarceration… there are a raft of reasons for children having to be raised by their grandparents,” she says, adding that she’s neither professional nor qualified. She’s just experienced.

She is however, the local co-ordinator of Connected Carers – another support group – as well as the driving force behind WAGS, so she speaks with some authority on what’s behind the wave of children being cared for by adults other

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than their parents.

Stubbs herself has had and still has the care of four of her own grandchildren over the years; the result, she says sadly, of her daughter’s ongoing drug addiction and the domestic violence that so often accompanies that circumstance.

“It just kept going from bad to worse.

At first, she had two children, and I removed them from her myself (and went through the courts) – that wasn’t because of an intervention on the part of the authorities. They were 10 months and three years old at the time.

“She was hospitalised, and the hospital rang me and asked me to come and get the children. I did, and I said to my daughter, “I can’t help you anymore, but I can help the children and I’m taking them until you’re clean and stable.””

Stubbs sighs and says it wasn’t as though she hadn’t done everything in her power to help her daughter, but the children’s care became her priority.

“I’d done everything I could – I’d taken her to rehab, I’d picked her up after every domestic violence episode, I’d tried to get her to help herself… you name it, I tried it.”

Her daughter has had two more children since then – both now also in Stubbs’ permanent care. One of those children was born while her daughter was in custody, and the authorities contacted Stubbs to come and take the baby into her care.

Stubbs’ daughter is now living in Sydney, and while their grandmother has never stopped their mother from seeing the children, she says it’s a “hit and miss” thing.

“It’s rare that she has contact with them.”

The children are now 16, 12, eight and four – Stubbs has been caring for them for most of their young lives.

T’S by no-one’s reckoning a storybook family dynamic, but this matter-offact grandmother, like her fellow WAGS founding members, is brutally honest and open – it’s her way of leading by example for a growing number of carers whom she says often feel reluctant to ask for help because of a misplaced sense of shame.

“That’s why our support group is so strong, because we’ll stand up and share our experience, and that’s helped others to ask for support. So many are embarrassed about their situation, and so for us to publicly raise awareness helps to

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let them know they’re not alone.”

Without grandparents, says Stubbs, there would be an almost countless number of children being permanently cared for by authorities, so it’s a massive burden that’s at once lifted from government but at the same time placed on shoulders that aren’t always prepared for the weight.

“These kids would be separated from siblings, they’d be in and out of foster care, or remaining in situations that are unsafe.”

IKE the majority of grandparents – mostly grandmothers, she says – who have sought support from WAGS, Stubbs never envisaged spending her older years caring for young children.

“I’m not complaining. But it IS hard.

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But it’s more than just the responsibility of caring. These are not, according to Stubbs and her fellow members Joan Talbot and Elaine Jones, ordinary children.

“They’re damaged,” says Stubbs.

“By virtue of the situation of having to be removed from their parent or parents’ care, they’ve been emotionally or physically damaged or both.

“They come with issues. Any child that is removed from a parent is damaged. They’re traumatised. They have anxiety. They have separation issues.

They often suffer learning difficulties.

“Then there’s the social and emotional damage that comes with feeling “different” – they go to school and see that they’re not like other kids who have a mum and a dad. That’s tough.

“They’re damaged little souls and it’s difficult.”

It’s not just the children who have to deal with stigma, says Stubbs, who maintains that while she doesn’t “give two hoots” about what others say, she knows that for many in similar situations the shame is hurtful and dangerously isolating.

“So many grandparents won’t ask for help because they’re ashamed – they feel that somehow society is going to harshly judge their own parenting because their son or daughter is on drugs, or in gaol or whatever.

“And if they don’t ask for help, not only are they isolated emotionally, they’re not getting the financial help they need to care for their grandchildren.”

Apart from the emotional impost – including the encroachment on time with other grandchildren – the financial cost can be enormous, says Stubbs, harking back to the fact that these children often have special educational and emotional needs that can be expensive to address.

Friday 06.11.2015 to Sunday 08.11.2015 | Dubbo Weekender But it’s not always about the money, she says.

“Mostly, it’s knowing where to go for help. How to navigate your way around the networks and systems that are in place, but if you don’t know the questions to ask or where to start, it can be overwhelming. That can be very difficult, particularly if you’re older – and of course, we mostly are. But some are really old, and that makes it even harder.

“Some grandparents are working full time jobs, and some have had to go back to work to help care for the kids.”

Stubbs smiles and laughs tiredly at the suggestion that part-time grandparent carers be paid for helping out with their grandchildren’s occasional care.

“Well,” she says. “It’s a bit like being paid to be a mum, isn’t it? At the end of the day what you deserve and what you’re going to get is another thing!”

The difference, she says, is that most grandparents have the choice of how much they can help out, or see their grandchildren. Most others, she says, can enjoy the special role of being a grandparent and all the pleasures that come without full time caring responsibility.

“When you’re the parent, you don’t get to be the “good time granny” – it completely changes the dynamics.

“But do I regret taking over my grandchildren’s care? Not for a minute. Yes, I wish things were different, but they’re not. I’m just glad I’ve been able to give my grandchildren the love and stability they deserve.

“And I’m pretty sure most of the other WAGS grandparents would say the same thing.” z WAGS meets once every two months, but offer support in many ways when needed. To contact Sheral Stubbs or to get more information on how the support group can help, contact the Dubbo Neighbourhood Centre on 6882 2100.

The price of love ECENT mumblings from Senate cross benches with regard to the possibility of offering grandparents an incentive for helping out with child-care for their grandchildren had Treasurer Scott Morrison reportedly giving brief consideration to the proposal – particularly in light of the value of cross bench support for the passing of pass the $3.5 billion Jobs for Families childcare package, announced in the 2015 budget and due to start in July 2017.

While Morrison has effectively put the kybosh on such an incentive, saying the Jobs for Families package includes childcare deductions for families with incomes between $65,000 and $170,000 per year, the proposal has again raised the question of the importance of grandparents in enabling working parents to meet childcare costs.

For his part, Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton, says he doesn’t believe it’s necessary to pay all grandparents for helping out with childcare but that those, like the grandparents who are part of the WAGS group in Dubbo, are deserving of both praise and financial support.

“In some cases there are those who are the primary carers of their grandchildren, for a variety of reasons, and they deserve support,” Coulton told Weekender.

“I have a great deal of sympathy for those who have reached retirement age and who have had to use up their retirement nest egg caring for their grandchildren. I know a number of people in that situation.

“In some cases they end up in conflict with their own children – the parents of the grandchildren – because those parents are eligible for government support and welfare for the

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support of the children, but aren’t passing any of that money on to the grandparents who are actually caring for the kids.

I know of one lady in her 70s who is caring for three grandchildren.

“It’s not just a financial issue, it’s a social issue in our community.”

Of those grandparents who are not primary carers, but still play an enormous role in their grandkids’ lives by helping out with childcare on a regular basis, Coulton says any move to provide incentives should be approached with a great deal of caution.

“I think we need to be very careful with this because so many opportunities would exist for people to rort a system where grandparents become paid child-care providers.

“I can see where, in some cases, some kind of recompense for the time and cost to grandparents would be warranted, and some cases where it wouldn’t. I think it would need to be a case by case prospect.”

Coulton says any move to pay grandparents for their “services” would see costs “go absolutely through the roof”, resulting in a “completely unsustainable” situation.

“The cost of child-care is a problem but it seems the more money that goes in as a government subsidy, the more the fees go up – child care is incredibly expensive.”

Coulton told Weekender he believes that a one-size-fits-all definition of the situation is fraught.

“Yes, there are many families of young children where both parents are forced through economic circumstances and have no choice.

“But there are other situations in which

parents choose to work and where there are drivers other than finances – they’re educated, they’re trained, they want to use their skills to contribute to the workforce, their self-esteem is involved in the work they do.

“So it’s important that they have child care but I don’t think the government should necessarily have to pay all costs for all child care.

“One of the issues we’re facing as a country is to rein in the incredible social welfare cost, because we’re a rapidly aging population.

“The last thing I want to do is set up a standard of lifestyle now that will be on borrowed money that my children and grandchildren will be paying for into the future.”

UBBO grandmother Norelle Campion helps out on a regular basis with the care of her grandchildren, and enjoys every minute of the time she spends with them.

“I help out on set days every week – I have two for Mondays and Tuesdays, one on Wednesdays and Thursdays and then I help out one Friday a month, as well as stepping in where needed and if, say, one of the children is sick and can’t go to day-care or preschool. So yes, I help out quite a bit – and I’m more than happy to do that,” she laughs.

“Generally I come into town and stay overnight to help out because I’m more than 50km out of town.”

Campion says she’s aware of the importance of her role in helping her daughter to maintain full time work.

“If I wasn’t available to help out, it would make life very difficult for my daughter be-

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cause there’s really no-one else to call on. I don’t know what they’d do.

“There’s a massive cost involved with paid childcare, so it’s not really possible for my daughter to use any more paid care than she already does – it’s just so expensive.”

Pressed, Campion says she wouldn’t necessarily knock back some kind of incentive, but she’s certainly not looking for it.

“It would be nice to get some sort of payment, I suppose – a bit of fuel money would help sometimes, given I live so far out of town – but I certainly wouldn’t expect or accept that from my daughter. She and her husband both work because they have to, not because they want extra luxuries or an extravagant lifestyle.

“It’s a case of survival with two children.”

With the benefit of some time to chew over the question, Campion says she believes it would be fair for grandparents to receive some kind of subsidy for the time they spend helping out, particularly because it relieves the burden on already stretched child-care places.

“I also think parents should receive some further subsidies because the cost of childcare is just enormous. With the cost of living as it is, parents have to work because they have to make ends meet.

“But I do what I do because of my love for my daughter and my grandchildren and I certainly wouldn’t stop doing it because I’m not being paid.

“It makes no difference because I love being with my grandchildren, and I get to spend valuable time with them that I may not otherwise have.”

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Norelle Campion with two of her grandchildren, Jesse and Emelia. PHOTO: RUBY JANETZKI

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Mental Health Month ends

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY JOURNALIST

ENTAL HEALTH MONTH awareness activities in Western NSW were brought to a close with the Rural Rainbow Alliance (LGBTI & Straight Allies) Pride March held last weekend.

Despite the rain, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning and asexual (LGBTIQA) community, and their straight allies, brought their own rainbows to mark what is also the region’s first ever Pride March.

The Rainbow Alliance is a branch of the Connected Communities Project and headspace Dubbo, and aims to provide support and reduce social isolation for the LGBTIQA community.

Rainbow Alliance spokesperson, headspace employee and active advocate for LBGTIQA rights, Nicholas Steepe, was integral in the march’s conception.

“It’s very important to those in the LGBTIQA community to feel supported and valued within the community they live,” Steepe says.

“Nicholas conceived the idea and worked incredibly hard to make it a reality with the help a $1000 grant from Mental Health NSW,” says march participant and local campaigner Kris Stevens.

“Other groups involved included the Dubbo Domestic Violence Committee, Dubbo community Connections, Dubbo Sexual Health, ACON (Aids Council of New South Wales), the Transgender and Gender Diverse Network and Rainbow Unity.

“The march was promoted on Social Media where many of these groups connected. It was a great success and we hope it will become an annual event.”

Annie Hartley, a clinical psychologist with headspace says the event is a positive for the wellness of the LGBTIQA community, their supporters (straight allies) and the region for bringing the conversation about LGBTIQA’s into a wider community discussion.

“Having something really bright, and celebratory for LGBTIQA can make people stop and think, “what actually is my opinion on this?”.

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“To be able to do it in such a fresh, inviting way, actually gets people really to challenge themselves. They see people marching who they may associate with or are maybe friends with and think, “well, okay, perhaps I didn’t know you were that sexual gender or orientation or a straight ally” and it starts that conversation. That actually is what gets change going.

“Unless a community sits with itself and really thinks about where our values and beliefs come from and why we think the way we think, we’re not going to have a great deal of personal growth and movement,” says Hartley.

“That’s really import because it’s a great opportunity for individuals but also the community to be reflective about their belief.”

Statistics show rural based LGBTIQA suffer high rates of mental health issues due to exclusion, bullying and isolation.

“In rural areas, the risk factor for LGBTIQA suicides is incredibly high for reasons such as isolation, bullying, lack of appropriate services or lack of a community presence as well,” says Hartley.

“Being able to be visible, being able to have a collective of LGBTIQA and straight allies to show support really sends the message that even if perhaps you don’t have that support within your immediate network, then within the wider community there are people you can talk to, be it community members, services, professionals; there is a wider network that you can be part of.

“I think in terms of mental health, having a social network is a real asset and a protective factor against issues such as depression, anxiety and even suicidal thoughts.

“If you are struggling; whether you’re questioning your sexual gender or orientation or you’re hesitant to disclose your identity to your immediate network, there are people who you can be yourself with and express yourself freely within the community. That’s really important for our mental health and our identity that we are true to ourselves and we are authentic.

“People can be anxious about becoming a part of a social group because they might fear what other people might say.

Whether they will say it or not,

Having something really bright, and celebratory for LGBTIQA can make people stop and think, “what actually is my opinion on this?”.

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th can h they have th thatt ffear, or th they b be d depressed because they feel isolated or they haven’t quite worked through different variables to do with gender or sexuality yet and they’re still processing it all.”

Bizzi Mason, who addressed marchers after the parade, said the march meant she now felt accepted and supported as part of the Dubbo Community.

“In 1975 I didn’t even have the words to describe how I felt and there was no information and no support structures to guide me through her teenage years.

I left the day after I finished my HSC in 1975 and returned 35 years later to a town I can be proud of,” Mason says.

Morgan Williams, another march participant says: “My opinion is that all people are equal and should not be judged on their gender, sexual preference, race and appearance.

“We live in a world that should be supportive of each other no matter the circumstance and we should all have the same legal rights.”

About headspace Dubbo headspace Dubbo has provided over 1,500 appointments and received over 500 referrals into the service since it opened at the start of 2015. headspace offers a range of mental health and related services from the centre which are all delivered free to young people aged 12-25 years.

The primary focus of headspace is the mental health and wellbeing of young Australians. headspace helps 12 – 25 year olds going through a tough time through a national network of over 80 headspace centres and online and telephone counselling service eheadspace.

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T’S as mysterious today as it was when it was handed over by police to the Art Gallery of NSW in 1980. And now, Norman Lindsay’s painting Woman with Satyr-1935 has come to titillate and taunt curious patrons for a year at the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) in Dubbo.

The centre’s collection officer Jessica Moore says that in 1980 police came into possession of the valuable artwork and unable to find an owner, passed it over for safe keeping to the Art Gallery of NSW. According to Moore, the painting may have been collected by police in the late ‘70s in a raid linked to drug crimes, but the information is scant and details vague as to its origin.

Some 35 years later the painting was rediscovered in the vaults of the Art Gallery of NSW – and as before, the find has aroused curiosity as to the painting’s provenance.

In 2010, Operation Matisse was launched by police in a second attempt to track down the rightful owner of the painting and again, noone came forward to claim an artwork that surely would have been missed by its owner.

Given its value at the time was around $AU40,000 dollars, it’s a mystery that no-one came forward to report it missing.

The painting remained in storage, unloved and forgotten, until last year when the decision was made to tour the artwork around Australia’s art galleries, with the hope of triggering a memory of Lindsay’s lost lady.

“It’s a great way to get it back in the public eye but the main reason is to spark a memory with someone – a recollection from childhood of the painting on a wall in an aunt’s or a grandparent’s home… something like that,” Moore says of what she says is a “quite peculiar scenario”.

“A work of this quality by such a well known artist not to be remembered by somebody?

“Most people in Australia know who Norman Lindsay is and the fact this painting hasn’t been on anyone’s radar is very odd.”

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A painting by one of Australia’s most well known and controversial artists is on display at the Western Plains Cultural Centre with the hope that someone may recognise the work and claim it as their own. The origins and ownership of Woman and Satyr – 1935 have been puzzling police and art aficionados for more than three decades. Weekender spoke with WPCC’s collection officer Jessica Moore about one of the most puzzling cases in the Australian art world. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner Moore says the art world is a lot more conscious of provenance now; the origins, history and past owners of an art work. This is in part a consequence of the Second World War when thousands of valuable art works were seized

by Nazis and ended up in scattered in collections around the world.

Galleries now keep detailed sales records so that when artwork changes hands, there is a paper trail to account for it.

“Any big gaps in its ownership history will immediately raise a red flag; people will ask where was it during that time? But for a painting like this back in the ‘70s, documentation was not as diligent.

“These days it’s incredibly rare to have significant artworks disappear which is what makes this such an odd story. Usually it’s the other way around – I’ve lost a painting can you help me find it?”

While Woman and Satyr ended up in the hands of a criminal, no-one is sure how it came to be in their possession.

Theories as to why it hasn’t been sought by its owners have been many and varied. According to Moore, the painting could have been placed in storage and the unit burgled or the theft may have gone unnoticed by an elderly owner who later died with family unaware of the work’s value and absence.

“If a family didn’t have an understanding of art, they may think “Oh, as if grandma would have owned something that valuable” and easily dismissed it.”

Getting the painting back to its owner is the end goal but finding out how it came to be misplaced for more than 35 years is fascinating in terms of how a painting so beautiful hasn’t been missed by someone.

The subject of the painting is said to be a typical Lindsay model – brown haired, doe eyed, red lipped, coy and yet suggestive in her glance.

“He had about three models he regularly worked with and this is one of the later models given it was painted in the 1930s when Lindsay was coming out of his peak,” Moore says.

INDSAY is famously also the author of the iconic children’s series, The Magic Pudding.

“His children’s books and illustrations seem in conflict with the majority of his paintings, which are erotic and overtly sexual,” says Moore. “He seems to have this duality in his nature.”

Woman and Satyr is an example of the sexualised style that makes Lindsay’s paintings instantly recognisable to art lovers.

The satyr is the personification of unbridled lust – a mythical half-man-half-goat creature appearing as a reminder of temptation, desire and sexual recklessness.

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bared, appearing both innocent and knowing, at the same time.

“She looks at us as if to say I know what you’re thinking – I know exactly what your’e thinking!” Moore muses.

Australians who have grown up reading Lindsay’s Magic Pudding are often quite shocked when they see his paintings for the first time.

Moore recalls her own childhood experience of visiting the famed artist’s Blue Mountains gallery as a child.

“We went as a family to his house in the Blue Mountains, it was stunning.

“I must have been 11 or 12 at the time and I saw the Magic Pudding stuff and was excited and then we went in to this glorious red painted room and there were all these nudes on the wall and I remembered thinking at the time, “Who’s all this stuff by?

I don’t understand” – it seemed so separate,” she recalls.

ESPITE being hugely controversial himself throughout his career, Lindsay was also one of the most vocal critics of modern art in Australia in the 1920s. Moore says he dismissed what he saw as happening in the Australian art world as “degenerate”, when his own work was clearly a contender for the same title.

Women like Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington-Smith wore the brunt of his verbal tirades. He despised their colourful, urban, stylised representations of life around them in a changing urban environment.

His issues were focused on their lack of traditional or classical technique.

“Lindsay’s style could be most likened to Rococo-French nudes, all luscious and frothy.

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“He combined a lot of styles but when you see enough of Lindsay’s women, they’re very recognisably Lindsay.”

His fame in Australia is no reflection of how he has been categorised in the art world.

Moore says Lindsay was one of those artists who fell in and out of favour fairly often.

She puts him in a similar category to Ken Done or Pro Hart, in that they are talented, technically skilled and popular with the general public but don’t necessarily have critical value.

“Lindsay’s work sometimes borders on kitsch. At the time his painting was very popular but the women of whom he was critical in the 1920s are now valued and his work isn’t held in the same regard.

“You don’t see masses of his work very represented in the Art Gallery of NSW or the National Gallery,” Moore explains.

“That said, I think this painting is spectacularly beautiful, but Lindsay’s become almost simplified as a randy old grump.”

Prior to its visit to Dubbo, the painting has been on exhibit in Armidale and since arriving at the WPCC has been hugely popular with the WPCC patrons.

“Everyone has loved it and enquired about it – it’s a crowd pleaser for sure.”

Asked if she thought the artist would be revelling in the mystery and attention surrounding Woman and Satyr, Moore’s answer is an unequivocal “yes”.

“I think he would have loved it; he liked being a bit eccentric and notorious.

“He’d definitely get a kick out of knowing 45 years after his death, we are still talking about him and he’s still causing a stir.”

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He’s worked in some of Australia’s best restaurants, built a career around sharing his love of food, and was among the final five contestants in the latest season of MasterChef NZ. But as former Dubbo restaurateur Richard Harris tells JEN COWLEY, his time in the central west has played a key role in his trans-Tasman culinary success.

N the late ‘80s, Dubbo’s culinary landscape was as dry as the western plains themselves. There was little on offer in the way of a dining experience beyond pub fare, and international cuisine came mostly in the form of a night out at the local Chinese.

There were two choices for coffee – black or white – and only the seriously dedicated foodie knew the terms latte, crème brulee or bruschetta, let alone how to pronounce them.

By the early 90s, a few adventurous operators had braved the virtually unchartered waters of modern dining fare, but local tastes largely found the new age epicurean experience unpalatable.

Then in 1994, along came two unlikely blokes and a small and even more unlikely little place called the Echidna, which found its way not only to Dubbo’s stomach, but to its heart.

Today the city has a thriving, growing and, to the pleasantly astonished visitor, surprisingly cosmopolitan café and restaurant culture, with a smorgasbord of smart, exciting and culturally diverse options to suit even the most discerning hipster.

And for that, as many who remember those first heady days of gastronomic discovery will tell you, we have the Echidna – and the two visionaries behind it – to thank.

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NE of them was Stephen Neale, whose kitchen wizardry has continued to push boundaries and delight diners across the region.

The other was Richard Harris – a Kiwi ex-pat whose gentle, affable nature and front-of-house mastery put him, and the Echidna, firmly on the city’s “most popular” list.

When the Echidna closed its doors nearly a decade later, Harris folded up his apron and moved to Sydney to spend the next seven years working with Japanese-born chef Tetsuya Wakuda at his famed restaurant Tetsuya’s, long considered one of Australia’s finest.

But it was a move back to his native New Zealand that saw Harris finally move from his familiar post at frontof-house to where he perhaps always belonged – in the kitchen.

In September this year, he made it to the final five of MasterChef NZ, charming and cooking his way into the hearts of judges, viewers and fellow contestants alike.

The experience has been an eyeopener for Harris – who is now widely recognised as he moves around New Zealand from his home-town of Che-

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viot, on the South Island – but he says Dubbo and the Echidna played an integral part in building the kind of confidence it takes to accept such a high-profile challenge.

“I’ll always have a special place in my heart for Dubbo – it still feels like home, in a way, because of how we were embraced by locals,” he says from the office of his family butchery business in New Zealand.

“Stephen (Neale) and I had both worked at top restaurants in Sydney and we had what was considered at the time quite modern ideas about food. Some people found the Echidna a wee bit of a shock in the beginning, but it made them more adventurous to try different things when they went to the city. “They’d come back and say to us, “Wow – you know, the Echidna is actually better than the place we went to in the city.” That was great for us to hear.

“There was a very loyal group of locals that really appreciated and supported us.”

Harris left Dubbo with fond memories and firm friendships, and says his time here was influential in shaping the future in which he now finds himself.

“It was tough living there, climatically, but the people were what really made it feel like home – it still does when I go back.”

During his visits back to the region, he’s of course noticed the continuing evolution of the restaurant and café culture, but graciously says Dubbo already had something of a head start.

“There was always a quiet food culture there. For instance, the Greek community was doing simple but great food and doing it very well and there were some good Chinese and Thai restaurants.

“So there was a receptive base of people that were ready for something like the Echidna.”

ARRIS’ move back to New Zealand was prompted by a desire to reconnect. He’d faced some heartache in his personal life, and “going home” to family was important.

“I’d been away for 26 years, and I didn’t really know my family so well and I thought it was time to come back and spend time with

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Mum and the rest of my family.”

Food has always been a big part of Harris’ life, the family business Harris Meats having been a local Cheviot institution for 60 years.

“My mother was a great cook – she did simple food, but did it very well. And I’ve always loved to eat. That sounds funny, but I think that if you love to eat you know the difference between good and bad food.

“But it’s also about sharing – you see the look on the faces of people when you’ve cooked something for them. That’s the real joy of cooking – the sharing.”

Harris’ career was built on front-of-house experience – it’s only been in the past few years that he’s ventured into the kitchen in any serious capacity.

“I never really thought about it too much, not that I hadn’t wanted to, but I just thought I’d left my run a bit late. I started working in restaurants in my early 20s and most chefs start their apprenticeships in their teens.”

But Harris knew as soon as he walked into a restaurant to work for the first time that this was the industry in which he wanted to build a career.

“I loved the theatrics of it all – the meeting of people. The daily routine is the same but the customer who sits in the seat is different and it’s fascinating to see all the different personalities of people. You also get to know many of them personally.

“That’s what attracted me, because I’m not exactly a shy person,” he says, chuckling.

HE MasterChef NZ gig came as a bit of a surprise to the now 55 year old.

It wasn’t something to which he’d aspired and he wasn’t making a bid at fame, fortune or his own restaurant – it was an offhand conversation with his sisterin-law that began his roller-coaster ride into the world of reality TV. “We were watching MasterChef on the telly and talking about the different dishes and so on, and she said, “You cook much better than this, Richard – you should give it a go”.

“I thought, yeah, I wouldn’t mind giving that a go,” he says.

His sister-in-law took up the challenge, sending Harris the ap-

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plication forms almost 12 months after that conversation.

“We sat down with a glass of wine one night and filled them out and then they rang me and asked would I come and do an audition.”

Harris laughs and says his first reaction was “oh, shit, what have I done?” – “It was a wee bit frightening.”

Harris passed the audition with flying colours and soon after received the call-up.

“For the first two episodes we were put up in hotels in Auckland, then they chose the final 16 contestants, and we all went home for two weeks before returning to Auckland for the remainder of the show.”

While most rookies would find the first foray into television daunting, Harris laughs and says he “slipped right into the role” from day one.

“I can smile very nicely for a camera now – but it was just easy. Once you get into the routine, it’s actually really fun.”

I remark that from the episodes I managed to see while I was in New Zealand during the course of the show, he genuinely seemed to enjoy not only the cooking side of things, but the company of the other contestants.

“Oh, God yes. They were all just fantastic and we all got on really well. The camaraderie was lovely and everyone was genuinely caring.

“We were competitive,” he insists.

“But we called ourselves “frenemies”!

We were competing in our own little right; we weren’t competing to be nasty.”

The MasterChef moment of which he’s most proud is both a high and a sore

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whispering my name when I walk past – it’s astonishing. But I’m always polite and I say hello to people.

“You can’t be up yourself about things, can you?”

ARRIS’ philosophy – on life and in the kitchen – is simple: “Always try to enjoy what you’re doing. Every day, take a positive attitude with you. And I’m really into the whole caring and sharing thing – I don’t mean that in a flippant way, I genuinely like to care about people and sharing is part of that.

“I try to do that through my food,” he says, adding that the profile he’s gained through his MasterChef gig has given him even greater opportunity to practice his “sharing” mantra.

“I’m doing a lot of work with food festivals and marketing work, cooking demonstrations and other stuff, so it’s all really exciting. It’s an exciting time to be into food, because there’s such a growing trend towards people wanting to know where their food comes from, and getting into good clean, fresh food and seasonal produce.”

As he talks about his trans-Tasman cooking experiences, he tells me a move back to Australia may well figure in his future.

“I’m really happy here at the moment, but I love Australia – it’s really my home.

I feel like a dual citizen.”

Which brings us nicely to the fact that it’s International Men’s Cooking Day, and he hoots with laughter.

“Is it really? Omigod. Oh. My. God! I’ll have to cook a quiche!”

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point for Harris.

“I should have won this particular challenge,” he sniffs, explaining the intricate details of a three-part test. “But the dessert I cooked was a real high point of the show for me. I changed my dish at the last minute because the judges said I’d been too “safe” in the first part of the challenge, so I made a blue cheese panna cotta with an oatmeal biscuit and poached fruit – sort of a cheese plate dessert.

“And you know what? Guess who taught me to make a panna cotta? Stephen Neale at the Echidna!

“The judges were absolutely blown away and said I’d absolutely nailed the dessert part, but then I didn’t win the

overall challenge. I was a bit pissed off,” he says, laughing.

“But I thought right, game on!”

Harris made it to the final five contestants on the show before being eliminated, which he believes came down to the superior “marketability” of his fellow contestants.

“I’m a 55 year old man,” he says, the inference clear.

But that’s showbiz. Harris doesn’t have any regrets – he’s just pleased to have made it so far and the experience certainly hasn’t done his profile, or his business back home in Cheviot, any damage.

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NO FEAR OME might bestow it with the dubious reputation of being the “murder capital” of NSW, but that didn’t stop owners Carol and Darryl “Griffo” Griffiths from purchasing the Burrendong Hotel at Mumbil and making the tiny town their home.

The village sits around about halfway between Dubbo and Orange, in an area historically known for its goldrush in the 1870s.

The couple moved to the township in May this year and took the reins of a pub they’ve now named Griffos Burrendong Hotel. The pub has seen more than its fair share of thirsty locals, fishermen, bikies, boating enthusiasts and tourists over the years – it’s a popular watering hole, given its close proximity to Stuart Town around 10kms away and Burrendong Dam, a mere 9kms up the road in the opposite direction.

Deciding to leave the outer suburbs of Sydney for a new beginning, the couple originally intended to settle on the north coast but their plans did a 360 when they spotted the pub for sale online.

Family members who live in Molong told “Griffo” he’d be mad if he didn’t buy it.

Open to ideas, the couple visited Mumbil and fell in love with the pub and the residence that would become their new

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The couple signed the cheque, and still can’t believe how much bang they bought for their buck.

“We sold our house in Sydney and bought the pub and a house alongside to go with it – cash! Where else could you buy a three bedroom house that comes with its own pub?” says the still grinning pair.

They were sick of the “rat race” in Sydney and welcomed the change of pace; it’s the quiet they’re enjoying most.

“We’ve made plenty of new friends; we don’t miss anything about Sydney, except everything is so laid back here it can take a bit of time to get things done,” Carol says, nodding towards renovations they’ve been working on out the back of the pub that have created the kind of massive entertainment space any city hotelier would envy.

So the trade-off is just fine by the Griffiths.

Not content to just sit back and enjoy their new-found paradise, the couple has raised more than $3000 for charity since May. A series of raffles and a weekly free sausage sizzle has helped to add to the coffers of both the Variety Bash children’s cancer charity and, closer to home, the Mumbil Children’s Charity which raises funds to throw a Christmas party for local kids and to en-

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sure each child in the town gets a gift.

Griffo points to a nearby shed that’s home to a car which will soon become the couple’s own “bash” vehicle.

“A mate from Sydney bought the house next door and it’s in his shed, “We have to get it all ready by July next year. Yeah… can’t wait, and we’ve already sent one cheque of to Variety Bash for $1950 and another one this week for $1200.”

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and friends taking turns selling the tickets and cooking the barbie each week.

In an attempt to “put Mumbil on the map” the couple has also hosted a car and motorbike show and will begin running regular market stalls on the first Sunday of the month along with a pool comp and darts.

“We’ve just started running a courtesy bus to Stuart Town and up to the dam,” he says. “Come and say hi to us!”

Where else could you buy a three bedroom house that comes with its own pub?” – publican Darryl “Griffo” Griffiths

Carol Griffiths, Christine Millard, Kerrie Price and Gail Bennett.

Lance ‘Bar-fly’ Taylor and owner Griffo

The Barfly: Lance Taylor ANCE Taylor refers to himself as Mumbil’s resident barfly.

“Every pub needs one!” he says, beer in hand.

Taylor moved to the village around 30 years ago to do a bit of shooting “up-thepaddock,” and decided he liked the place after living and working in Sydney as a mechanic.

He came out to the bush to retire and slow down. And while things haven’t quite panned out that way for him workwise, he considers himself a Mumbil local and still tinkers with the odd car for a bit of drinking money.

He admits he’s seen many a publican come and go and says he knows the pub’s plumbing inside out – beer and water – and gives a hand with the cellar and cleaning the beer lines each week.

Taylor says the old Mumbil Hotel burned down one New Years Eve in the early 1980s and the existing hotel was built as its replacement. While he can’t compare the atmosphere of the two, he thinks the new pub is a pretty good place

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to have a beer and catch up with friends.

Asked about Mumbil’s notorious history, Lance says matter-of-factly: “Well you get a few murders here, there’s been a few bodies found out here in a trunk at the tip and someone got shot over in the old rail house, someone got capped down the road, other than that…”

Lance also recounts the story – before his time – of a Cessna aircraft going down in Burrendong Dam under suspicious circumstances. It was found 13 years later when water levels had dropped low enough to reveal the remnants of the plane.

On board the ill-fated flight, Taylor says, were a wealthy hotelier from Sydney and three of his staff who accompanied him to Wellington where it’s said he owned a pub.

During the flight back to Sydney, the plane crashed into the dam. Two of the four bodies were retrieved but two remain missing… along with what local gossip says was a sizeable sum of money.

WHILE inside, they’re preparing for Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup celebrations, Perth-based cyclist Mike Balfe parks his bike outside Griffo’s Burrendong Hotel, wipes the sweat off his brow and settles in for a chat and a coldie with the festive locals.

“I cycled from Adelaide to Melbourne last year and travelled through a lot of small country towns like this one and then spent some time this year backpacking around Russia

and Eastern Europe,” he says, to the amazement of nearby publican Griffo who happily rewards him with one of the pub’s branded stubby holders.

“When I got back I told my wife that I wanted to cycle again,’’ says Balfe.

He travels on his bike with a maximum of 6kgs worth of luggage and loves staying in country pubs along the way.

The biggest threat to his wellbeing, he says, has been magpies.

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Ezio and Michelle De Angelis:

IN GOOD SPIRITS A special connection in a marriage is something most couples dream about, but Michelle De Angelis and her husband Ezio – respectively, the 2015 and 2012 Australian Psychic of the Year – say dreams and connections with the spirit world are abilities they uniquely share. Yet they still insist they’re just normal people. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley

Ezio De Angelis: E actually did meet through the work. We both have an interest in the metaphysical side of things; I was focussing on mediumship and Michelle was doing work on other aspects, tarot and mediumship. Eventually it brought us together.

I had various experiences at certain times of my life as a child. My earliest was when I was about three or four and I can remember somebody talking – a spirit voice talking to me – and every five or six years something would happen, like I’d get a vision of some sort or a premonition which kept me in the loop until I was in my 30s when I explored it full time.

In my case it was mainly to do with seeing people who had “crossed over” – John Edwards style (laughs).

I’m constantly fascinated even after all these years. In terms of it being scary, well when you first start it can be.

If you imagine opening up your psychic awareness or your spiritual as a medium in particular, it’s like a window and draft rushes in and you get bombarded from this draft from the other side. It takes a good few years to get that under control so most of us who are this way are led to a good teacher who shows you what to do.

I can pinpoint the first time I helped someone with my ability. It goes back to the early ‘90s where I had been connecting. I was only just starting out and not really sure in what form my abilities would actually work. You never know that when you start. That evolves over time. I was doing a reading for a lady, which seemed pretty innocuous at the time, but she had actually lost a little boy who’d been murdered by his own dad. I gave a little bit of information to her which I thought was not nearly substantial enough but she came to see me again somewhere; she sought me out about a year and a half after that, and she said in all the grief that she had, that was the first glimpse of hope or comfort that she’d felt in the two years since he’d been murdered. So that was pretty impactful for me. My first feeling was that I didn’t feel I did enough to help her, but once she came back to me and told me how I had helped her, it was pretty humbling.

Before Michelle and I had met, I had lost a friend of mine who was only a young man who died of a sudden heart attack at work. I remember being there at his funeral and they had an open coffin. They dressed him completely differently to the way I’d always known him to be dressed, and I was standing by his coffin and I was saying to him he looked like John Travolta. I had a quiet little chuckle to myself in my grief. Michelle did a reading for me, before she knew who I actually was, and told me that

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there was a guy coming through who reminded her a lot of John Travolta. Then she talked about a car that he’d owned which was like the Dukes of Hazard’s, which was his beloved SLR5000 car.

The interesting thing and in our shows too, as much of the subject matter is quite heavy, they’re usually quite uplifting and joyous events. Lots of emotion, lots of release takes place.

I guess it gives people comfort knowing that they will see these people again; that death’s not the end. They tend to be like reunions, when people haven’t seen each other for a long time; they go, “oh my god, do you remember when...” Lots of shared memories, shared experiences, that kind of thing.

The spirits seem to be very grateful to us for doing it. We tend to feel their love quite strongly for the people they want to connect with which is a nice thing to be invited into; somebody’s personal private moments.

I recently said to an audience that when normal people go to work they go to work and they fix cars, or do the banking or accounting or build houses. When we go to work we often suffer cancer, heart attack, stroke, car accidents because we tend to feel a little of all of that. It doesn’t last as long as people who would have had it, and I

think that’s why the spirits show gratitude for it, because they’re always very respectful.

I think what people need to bring to one of these shows is just an open, positive attitude.

Michelle De Angelis: E don’t like to call it a gift; we’d prefer to call it an ability. It’s not like you really know that you have anything different; you might perceive things that other people don’t.

It’s just like having brown eyes or blue eyes; it’s just part of who you are.

I’ve always been interested in the esoteric and the spiritual and as I got a bit older and had my kids, I thought I could look into that.

In my case it’s more about people coming to me in dreams and flying in dreams, and then going to that place in reality and knowing I’d been there before in my dream.

As for being scared, I always say, we live together and we both do this work, and there was this show on TV called Ghost Whisperer and in her house there were constantly plates being thrown around the room and chairs and things being knocked over.

I’m telling you I’d be the first one out of that house if that happened. A: I

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would be petrified, and B: We couldn’t afford the crockery loss!

And we don’t watch scary movies.

(We don’t need that kind of stuff in our head, says Ezio).

What we do is a big responsibility because we’re dealing with a lot of people who are grieving or who have had trauma in their life. Even as a tarot reader, and the mediumship – I do both – it’s a big responsibility.

One of the first tarot readings I ever did was for a complete stranger. I was able to talk to him about some of the things that were going on at work. I said he’d be having more responsibility and that there was a heart condition that someone was going to have that was going to cause a problem. His boss had just been admitted that morning to the hospital with a heart attack. I think (this) gave me confidence. At that stage he was a bit lost. It gave him hope that everything was going to be okay at work, because he was feeling like he was on shaky ground with what was going on.

There’s lots of laughter through the tears. The last time I was in Dubbo I was doing a reading for a lady at the back of the auditorium and she was an older lady who would have been in her 70s and I said, “Oh, my God, they’re saying to me someone fell in the dunny!” and she started killing herself laughing. She said it was her brother. They were only little and they lived on a property and she had to take him to the toilet and he fell in!

Generally most people are excited when you get grandma, grandpa or children and they’re very excited to connect, but when you’re dealing with something like suicide for example, sometimes spirits are a bit sheepish or reluctant to come through. They’re still dealing with some of their issues or not jumping for joy because they’re not sure what kind of reception they’re going to get because of the pain they’ve inflicted.

When you see something, you think that’s not really the end of the world, there’s probably a reason that happened.

Not that that is being glib or explaining away grief or people’s experiences.

Sometimes from stories we’ve heard and from people in the spirit world you get a bit of an insight into the bigger picture but we’re still just people; human beings muddling along like everybody else.

People don’t need to bring objects belonging to their loved ones, but if it shows up in a reading and we say, “Oh, you’re wearing her ring or you have a photo in your handbag, it looks really good for us (laughs). Just bring open hearts and open minds. z Ezio and Michelle De Angelis will appear at the Dubbo RSL Auditorium on Friday, November 13, at 7.30pm. For bookings phone 6882 4411.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and avowed republican.

Turnbull good sense makes it easier to sleep at knight E’RE nice.

Social media is pushing the boundaries, but for the most part civility remains the norm.

We graciously indulge people who hear from their god, we nod politely at iPhone photographers, tolerate sports fans and suffer pet lovers.

But it’s time to stop pretending the arguments in favour of Australia’s monarchy – and royal families generally – aren’t silly nonsense.

When PM Turnbull abolished knights and dames (and presumably knaves, scolds, whipping boys, witches, serfs, vassals, falconers, minstrels and grooms of the stool) the lifting of the whiskered smock of humiliation from our rounded shoulders was largely greeted as a return to the modern era.

You might recall Whitlam ended them first, Fraser restored them, Hawke ended them again, Howard had the good sense to let sleeping dogs lie, but not Abbott who brought them back, only for Turnbull to again make good sense look easy.

It has been however criticised by hardcore Australian monarchists: that rather over-groomed group apparently intent on adding colour to otherwise translucent personalities by admiring foreign aristocrats, and their role without electoral mandate, in our democracy.

Monarchist flag-bearer David Flint quickly claimed Turnbull’s reversal of Abbott’s captain’s pick was part of a plot to avenge the 1999 defeat of the republican referendum.

Yes, that was probably Turnbull’s plan: wait years to become Opposition leader, get rolled, wait for a PM sufficiently witless to reinstate British honours without

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As far as an unwanted accolade being heaped upon undeserved privilege, knighting Prince Phillip is like Jerry Hall getting a $25 gift card for services to the women’s movement.

consulting even his cabinet, wait for that pattern of tin-eared cock-eyed bumbling to fester long enough to get him rolled, get yourself chosen as PM and 16 years later get your revenge.

Reimposing knights and dames and dungeons and dragons may have been tolerated had not our noses been public-

ly rubbed in the stupidity of it all by another captain’s pick – the Australia Day knighting of Prince Phillip.

As if anticipating that even a population as thick-skinned as ours would find that pretty laughable, Flint pre-empted the commoners’ guffawing by praising the sacrifice and diligence of the Duke

of Edinburgh.

“I think it’s about time that we recognised a man who, even at the age of 93, is obviously not going to retire, will receive no superannuation, no golden handshake, has never been paid for the service he gives the country and the Commonwealth,” he said.

As far as an unwanted accolade being heaped upon undeserved privilege, knighting Prince Phillip is like Jerry Hall getting a $25 gift card for services to the women’s movement.

At the risk of being picky, he doesn’t get paid in the literal sense, because he doesn’t work in any literal sense. And he’s not going to retire for the same reason: he was never hired.

He turns up to events as an expensespaid guest, which is sort of like attending family gatherings, in his case where your family are former colonies your divinely appointed forebears invaded, and the relatives cover your costs.

But you could argue that he does sort of get payment, because his entire life and that of everyone in his extended family and indeed aristocratic class has their opulent lifestyle funded by the UK taxpayer.

And you might consider that since he will continue to never pay for anything with money not originally taken from the British taxpayer, he does in fact receive very, very lucrative superannuation and a golden handshake that follows half a century of daily golden handshakes that would make any retirement payout look little better than a golden shower by comparison.

And consider, this is a UK taxpayer who has been told they must endure an austerity drive because there is not enough to fund their extravagant lifestyle, you know, jewel-encrusted hospitals, schools with a daily changing of the guard, and a welfare system that means the unemployed can holiday in San Moritz.

There’s no nice way to say it: a foreign monarchy supervising our government is a national humiliation, and every day it continues is another day we are a laughing stock.

Roo farts experiment has serious side, but how do you collect them?

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BRISBANE: Aussie biologist Adam Munn gets very excited when he recounts the months he and his colleagues spent capturing kangaroo farts.

It sounds like a dangerous pursuit.

And just why anyone would want to is baffling on the surface.

But this myth-busting experiment – which is not as perilous as it seems – has yielded important findings that will inform efforts to fight climate change.

It’s long been known that kangaroos – unlike sheep and cattle – produce little of the potent greenhouse gas methane.

For some time, researchers intent on breeding less windy flocks and herds hypothesised that roos might have unique mix of micro-organisms in their stomachs that produce less of the gas.

The hope was that by transplanting these micro-organisms, cattle and sheep might produce less methane.

But Dr Munn’s findings suggest otherwise and should help refocus sheep and cattle research on alternatives that might yield results.

The experiment saw captive but content red and western grey kangaroos kept in comfy, sealed chambers, allowing researchers to analyse to mix of gases going in, and those coming out.

The battle for less windy livestock is a serious issue when it comes to climate change.

In the year to March 2015, agri-

culture accounted for 15 per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. And the agricultural sector is the nation’s dominant source for methane..

How to catch and analyse kangaroo farts in four simple steps: 1. Obtain roo 2. Put roo in specially designed, sealed chamber 3. Analyse gases in air flowing into chamber 4. Analyse gases in air flowing AAP out of chamber

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Rainbow hued antidote to prejudice against country life Comment by y STEPHEN LAWRENCE Stephen Lawrence is a Barrister and Rugby League fan.

AINBOW pride has come to Dubbo.

Last weekend saw the city’s first pride march, designed to raise community awareness about sexual minorities and gender diversity and to send a powerful message to people out there feeling alone and often struggling mentally: you are not alone.

I must admit I turned up Saturday morning feeling a bit glum; the rain was pouring and I was imagining there might be me and a handful of others marching bedraggled up the main road. But no, scores turned up and the mood was cheerful and proud. As we headed up the main road there was lots of cheers and honks and not a hint of a prejudice or hatred emerged (or dared to raise its head, anyway).

It was impossible not to feel a sense of history. Gay people and others not conforming to gender and sexual norms, have long had a hard time of it in the country areas.

The personal stories of growing up, particularly from older folk, are sometimes harrowing.

Much has changed of course, but much remains to be done if the truth is told. Suicide rates are massively higher among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people than the general population. Suicide rates are also distinctly higher in rural NSW than in metropolitan areas. Throw in elevated risk for kids and Aboriginal people and you have a social disaster for rural communities. (The NSW Government Suicide Prevention Strategy Document 2010-2015 makes grim reading).

Of course suicides generally aren’t reported in the media, neither do gay kids often tell their straight parents what is causing the isolation, bullying and depression that sometimes lead to suicide. This is a hidden epidemic.

Yet despite all this in 2015 there is the sense of freedom and safety to march in the streets of Dubbo.

It was also impossible not to feel the emotion. Bizzi Mason spoke publicly at the gathering after the march about growing up in Dubbo not even knowing the word ‘lesbian’, but knowing she was different and that she had to leave, as soon as possible.

Like so many others she headed to the city, a kind of refugee in her own country. This form of internal

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exile is not just hard on families and people, it’s bad for rural populations and economies. Diversity is good economics. But Bizzi is home now and that’s a great portend for the future of places like Dubbo.

Lots of community groups were represented at the march and different organisations had stalls and information being handed out. I had the good fortune to run into Matt Parmeter, the much loved local Greens Party candidate, the first time I’d seen him since the March election (when he turned up at my election night party and claimed victory!). Matt was decked out in rainbow colours showing his support for the pride day and the communities represented there.

Putting aside our political differences (quite willingly, as usual) we posed for photographs.

I didn’t see any of Dubbo’s political elite at the event – no councillors, no state or federal member. I was a bit surprised, I must admit.

The event was well and truly more than the proverbial opening of an envelope and you’d perhaps have expected at least one or two poli-

Amber Knee, Isobelle Strickland, Nathan Hawkes, headspace Dubbo youth reference group members at the the Rural Rainbow Alliance (LGBTI & Straight Allies) Pride March held last weekend. PHOTO: MORGAN WILLIAMS

` The barrier consists of a largely unfair prejudice held by many city people that country towns like Dubbo are intolerant, closed to minorities and outsiders.

ticians might have been free to make it. You normally can’t keep elected officialdom away from a significant gathering of voters and invites were certainly sent.

A real pity. Diversity is good economics people. The more towns like Dubbo can project an open minded, diverse, modern image, the more people in metropolitan Australia will take the idea of a tree change seriously.

These after all are the people that initiatives like EvoCities are trying to reach.

The only real “vision” of the future for rural NSW is booming and truly diverse large population centres, catering to rural industry as always, but also offering a lifestyle and economy that attracts in its own right such that human diversity and community can truly flourish.

Centres surrounded by boutique towns, (your Wellingtons and Narromines), each offering unique services and also attracting increasingly diverse communities. Ultimately population growth (or lack thereof) underpins almost every single ser-

vice and social issue a town like Dubbo faces.

The Internet age and increasing human mobility is changing the nature of how we work and live and the changes favour rural Australia.

But to my mind one major barrier to towns like Dubbo taking full advantage of it remains.

This barrier consists of a largely unfair prejudice held by many city people that country towns like Dubbo are intolerant, closed to minorities and outsiders to some degree.

I spent years recruiting lawyers to work in western NSW and never ceased to be amazed by the psychological factors that prevented many from making the jump to country work.

Events like Saturday’s march are a powerful antidote to this prejudice against country life.

Hopefully next year the event is treated as an important event in the civic calendar and publicised throughout the state with the message that Dubbo welcomes all people.

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THE OLER WATERCOOLER

BY JENNA MCKEOWN

Home to Haka FOLLOWING a devastating win over the Wallabies in the Rugby World Cup in London, the All Blacks returned home earlier this week to a stunning reception.

Air New Zealand staff stood out in the rain, waiting for the world champions’ plane to land before performing the world famous haka to welcome the victorious players home. The team members could be seen filming the performance on their phones through the windows on the Boeing 777.

More than 2000 fans were waiting inside the terminal to cheer the rugby stars, according to media reports this week. “We can’t wait to...share the cup with everybody,” said coach Steve Hansen of the extra special welcome.

No shoes, no show THE Melbourne Cup is well known for its fabulous fashion face-off. This year the wardrobe drama was so great it prevented Australian music darling Jessica Mauboy from performing. y Rumor has it that Mauboy ed was wearing shoes stocked

Qantas crew members wearing All Blacks jerseys on a Sydney to Auckland flight to fulfil a bet on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. Air New Zealand and Qantas made a wager ahead of the Rugby World Cup final on Sunday - if the Wallabies won, Air New Zealand staff would wear green and gold, but if the All Blacks won, Qantas crew members would dress in black. PHOTO: TWITTER/QANTAS by a rival department store, not by adaptions of The Hunger Games, Jen- Halloween pranks fashion sponsor, Myer. Despite hav- nifer Lawrence, penned an essay last ing two prepared and approved exclu- week explaining her frustration with FOR better or for worse, Australians sive outfits to wear, Mauboy’s manage- the gender pay gap in Hollywood. Pub- are getting more and more into the trament cited a “miscommunication with lished in Lena Dunam’s newsletter, dition of Halloween. One of the greatest modern Halloween traditions is her styling team”, which prevented the Lenny, Lawrence explained how her late night talk show host Jimmy Kimdesire to be liked initially overcame singer from taking the stage. mel’s YouTube Challenge. her desire for equal pay.

She has now Mauboy took to Facebook to apoloEach year Kimmel challenges pargise, and luc luckily there was anoth- vowed to negotiate harder for equal ents to tell their children a simple pay, and has said that her character, perform available to take er performer white lie – that they have eaten all the Katniss Everdeen inspired her. plac Phew! her place.

Katniss takes on a dystopian to- spoils of trick-or-treating, film the kids’ talitarian government and... spoiler reactions and post it to YouTube.

Hungry for H The results are hilarious/awkward/ alert... maybe wins? Let’s hope Lawequal pay rence experiences the same success in strange. Would you play such a prank on the children in your life?

STAR of the film closing the wage gap.

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HELICOPTER VIEW

Cr Mathew Dickerson

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

Pitching our product to a younger audience HE HSC has finished for another year. That is 10,710 hours of class time – and countless hours of study – finished. While 77,000 young adults across the state contemplate the next chapter of their lives, the challenge for regional cities to hold onto their best academics begins in earnest.

When age demographics in regional cities are compared with the major cities, they show a dramatic drop in the number of people in a community in their late teenage years through to their late 20s. This makes sense. School has finished. These newly minted adults are keen to explore the big wide world and see what it has to offer them. Despite modern advances in technology with the connected world we live in and the fact that regional cities are now thriving economic metropolises rather than farming centres, the mass exodus of our youth continues.

The real challenge for a regional city is how to create a paradigm shift. It is accepted – some would say expected – that once you finish your HSC you venture forth for work, study or travel.

Sydney is attractive as are other state capitals such as Melbourne and Brisbane. Even Newcastle and Wollongong are popular destinations. The contradiction seems to be when we look at overall happiness surveys that are conducted across our nation. These show clearly that the happiest people in our nation are living in communities of fewer than one thousand people. Not far behind those residents are people living in regional urban centres (such as Dubbo) and a long way behind are the major cities which are officially the least desirable places to live.

This is based on survey data that asks the simple question of happiness but when survey results are analysed further, it seems obvious why regional living is better. Some may say those of us who live in regional areas would not need survey results. Happier people enjoy a lack of traffic congestion and a lack of crime; they befriend their neigh-

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bours; they live somewhere quiet and they avoid financial stress (with a huge mortgage the main reason for financial stress). Healthier people are also happier and pollution alone in our capital cities robs city-dwellers of 72 days of their life (on average). Finding time to exercise is much easier in a regional area because minutes – not hours – are spent on the daily commute.

With so much data – and commonsense – showing that regional living is superior to city living, is it still relevant in today’s world of decentralisation and high-speed Internet for our graduating students to rush off to the cities at the first available opportunity?

Age typically brings wisdom. It may be easy for those of us in our elder years to point out all the advantages of re-

` Our modesty may well be preventing us from positioning our cities to attract young adults from the cities.

1. MOVIES: What kind of fish is Dory in “Finding Nemo”?

2. PRIME MINISTERS: Which Prime Minister served for the shortest term in Australia’s history?

3. HISTORY: What is the earliest written system of laws known to us?

4. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 20th-century comedian once said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”?

5. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest

gional living but the developing adolescent brain doesn’t always work logically.

We can point out all of the surveys and data in the world to our blooming teenagers but the adolescent brain is more interested in adventure; exploration discovery and thrill-seeking. Regional cities trying to hold onto our youth may be trying to re-wire 200,000 years of evolution, but there are some facets we can work with.

Our data shows that our age demographic population numbers show a marked improvement versus the major cities when people start to hit their late 20s and early 30s. As people mature and wish to settle into a more comfortable lifestyle and as they find partners and wish to raise a family, in addition to people realising the advantages that regional living offers, people start to move back to – and move to – regional areas.

This presents two practical challenges for regional cities. Firstly, ensuring that our cities are attractive alternatives for people to move to as they mature. Part of that attraction is not just having good facilities and infrastructure in place (cultural; sporting; dining; transportation and so on) but also

country in South America?

6. LANGUAGE: What does it mean when someone “bloviates”?

7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How long is the Tour de France bicycle race?

8. FIRSTS: Who was the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup? 9. AUSTRALIAN STATES: Which state’s car rego number plates have carried the slogan “The Place To Be”?

10. TELEVISION: Which Muppet character lives in a garbage can on “Sesame Street”?

11. SPORT: How many losses did heav-

making sure city-dwellers are aware of what is available in regional areas.

Secondly, we need to position regional cities as a place to allow young adults from major cities to look to when they want to spread their wings and discover the world. Each year I have the opportunity to speak with students from the University of Sydney School of Rural Health who spend either Year 3 or Year 4 of their four year medical degree in Dubbo. Many of these students have been born and raised in Sydney or other major cities. When I ask them what was a primary motivator to spend a year in Dubbo many of them tell me they wanted to get out of Sydney and see what it is like to live in a regional area. Our modesty may well be preventing us from positioning our cities to attract young adults from the cities.

The two practical challenges mentioned above are more easily met by having the funds to expose our city in an attractive light and that is where a program such as Evocities is gaining significant traction in metropolitan areas.

We have a wonderful product in regional living but we also need to be able to advertise the product.

yweight boxer Joe Frazier have during his 37-fight pro career.

12. FLASHBACK: How did Fleetwood Mac get its name?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “Seven Jeans, True Religion’s, I say no, but they keep givin’, So I keep on takin’, And no I ain’t taken, We can keep on datin’, I keep on demonstrating... My love (love), my love, my love, my love (love), You love my lady lumps (love)...”

ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

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Business & Rural

Encouraging diversity in our own backyard

BY FELICTY TAYLOR-EDWARDS RDS CEO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUSTRALIA (ORANA)

ITHIN the past few weeks I’ve been fortunate enough to speak at the Sustainable Economic Growth in Regional Australia conference in Bathurst.

Fortunate because I was able to speak with a wide range of people about our amazing region and all the great work occurring here. I was also able to do something not many have had the opportunity to do – inform Don Burke.

Yes, that Don Burke – Australia Day Ambassador and former host of Burke’s Backyard.

In a panel discussion earlier in the day, Burke had lamented an apparent lack of diversity in regional Australia. Diversity, the panel agreed, was vital to Australia’s economic future, to innovation and to building strong, resilient communities.

He was specifically referring to migration, something he was apparently not aware was occurring successfully in regional Australia.

If this is the trend as witnessed by Don Burke, then the Orana certainly doesn’t comply. As part of a regional development body, I am able to travel across the region and see the many great business being established by migrants in our communities; whether it’s running or working in an award winning café in Dubbo or managing the grocery store in Coonamble, or a pharmacy in Gulargambone, there are signs of diversity right across the Orana. It has been demonstrated by researchers, after all, that one in 10 migrants living in regional and rural Australia will successfully operate their own business. Only last year, the city of Dubbo held its largest ever citizenship ceremony, welcoming more than 50 new Australians in one morning.

Diversity, I was confidently able to inform Don Burke, is one of the great strengths of the Orana, although there is always room for improvement.

There are many advantages to living in a diverse community. Potentially the most important, from an economic perspective, is the impact on innovation through diversity in the workforce and the economic benefits that result.

Diversity in the workforce can appear in many guises: Increasing the participation of

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National outlook bright says CSIRO A GROUND breaking report has found Australia is well placed to secure prosperity over the coming decades despite the challenges of an uncertain and possible resource constrained future.

However this prosperity is not a given – instead Australia’s future will be shaped by innovation and technology uptake and the choices we make as a society will be paramount.

The Australian National Outlook, released today, is the most comprehensive quantitative analysis yet of the interactions between economic growth, waterenergy-food use, environmental outcomes and living standards in Australia.

The value of a diverse workforce is in pulling young people in STEM (Science, Technology, Electronics and Maths) subjects in school and together a real range of perspectives, histories, encouraging them into science and technology cultures and skills (sometimes face to face or roles; getting the right mix of experience and virtually). The more we interact with people new ideas through employing a wide-range of whose experiences differ from our own, the age groups; making it more possible for people more we are able to see challenges from difliving with disability to access employment; ferent viewpoints, think creatively and, most and, of course, employing people from around importantly, innovate. It’s how Australia was the world, increasing our own global literacy built. in the process.

I place great value on the role innovative Innovation relies on this mix and, in turn, businesses play in disrupting the norm. It’s economic prosperity relies on innovation. the way this great region continues to grow.

At a regional level, we have a hugely diverse The flip side is that sometimes to be an innoand skilled workforce, although some of our vative business leader we have to be disrupted ourselves along with our communities may feel we are teams and communities. The reaching capacity – there are region’s workplaces are full of more skilled roles than there ` good teams doing good work. are people to fill them. To en- The more we But often it’s the constructive sure the region’s ongoing prointeract with divergent views, discussion and ductivity then, workplaces collaboration to a final solution themselves will need to contin- people whose that make the work we do go ue to become more diverse. experiences differ from good to great.

As a CEO, I can only imagine from our own, the this will lead to great outcomes Truly innovative leaders more we are able for our region’s businesses and know the value of being disto see challenges economy. rupted and being disruptive.

Both are useful in equal measThere is a great saying: “If from different ure. Being able to encourage you surround yourself with viewpoints, think more diversity in the workplace “yes” men, one of you is reduncreatively and, can only assist this and ensure dant.” This comment goes to our region’s businesses aren’t the heart of the value of diver- most importantly, just good, but great. sity in the workplace. innovate.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF CSIRO Executive Director Dr Alex Wonhas said National Outlook focused on the ‘physical economy’ that contributes to about 75 per cent of natural resource use and produces about 25 per cent of Australia’s GDP. “The National Outlook is a first attempt to understand and analyse the connections in Australia’s physical environment many decades into the future,” Dr Wonhas said.

“It has a particular focus on understanding two aspects: The ‘water-energy-food nexus’ and the prospects for Australia’s ma-

terials- and energy-intensive industries.”

National Outlook finds a number of key insights and potential opportunities across the Australian economy.

It also finds as Australia’s population grows, so too does water demand.

“Despite projections of a doubling of our water use, Australia could meet this growth as well as enhance urban water security and avoid increased environmental pressures through increased water recycling, desalination and integrated catchment management,” Dr Wonhas said.

The results of CSIRO’s first National Outlook show that energy and other resources could remain a pillar of the Australian economy well into the future, and that

energy intensive industries could be well positioned to continue to grow, even in scenarios where the world is taking global action to significantly limit greenhouse gas emissions.

“The key to this success will be innovation and application of smart technologies,” Dr Wonhas said.

“We hope the National Outlook will help Australia chart its future in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.”

The National Outlook explores over 20 possible futures for Australia out to 2050 against the backdrop of the past 40 years.

The work was undertaken by a team of 40 CSIRO experts and university collaborators, and draws extensively on observed data and analysis.

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Driving small business success OCAL small business operators soon have the opportunity to take advantage of high quality business assistance with the arrival in the central west of the Small Biz Bus. The bus will be visiting Baradine, Binnaway and Mendooran giving local small business operators the chance to access personalised advice from business experts on December 9, 10 and 11.

According to Minister for Small Business, John Barilaro, NSW is leading the nation on economic performance and retail trade is a strong part of this story. Through initiatives like the Small Biz Bus, the government is supporting small business across to ensure this trend continues, he said, encouraging small business owners and operators to visit the bus when it comes to town.

“Speaking to an advisor can help you take the next step, whether you’re just starting out, wanting to ensure your business is sustainable or hoping to grow,” NSW Small Business Commissioner, Robyn Hobbs OAM, said.

Small business owners can access the support of experienced advisors on the Small Biz Bus at no cost to them.

Peter Croft, chief executive of the Business Enterprise Centre said, “We are excited to have the Small Biz Bus across the Orana region. It’s an excellent opportunity for local businesses to receive advice through the Small Biz Connect Program. We will have expert advisors on-site at all locations and are happy to assist with any small business enquiries”.

To book an appointment on the Bus or to speak to your local Small Biz Connect advisor, call the Business Enterprise Centre on 1300 134 359 or visit www.smallbusiness.nsw.gov.au.

The Office of the NSW Small Business Commissioner also helps small businesses by providing low-cost dispute resolution services, speaking up for small business within government and delivering quality business advice through Small Biz Connect.

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Did you know?

The Office of the NSW Small Business Commissioner has two Small Biz Buses, which travel around NSW to provide face-to-face, personalised advice and information based on individual circumstances.

Services on the Small Biz Bus are at no cost.

Services are provided by independent business advisors with real small business experience and are completely confidential.

Together, the Small Biz Buses made 325 visits to communities in 2014, with more than 60 per cent of these visits in regional areas.

Advice on the Small Biz Bus is delivered through the Small Biz Connect program which is available to you by calling 1300 134 359 or visiting http:// www.smallbusiness.nsw.gov.au

The role The Office of the Small Business Commissioner’s role is to support the sustainability of small businesses in NSW by acting as an advocate where a small business has been dealt with unfairly and speaking up for them within government and providing information, strategic and procedural advice,

Peter Croft, chief executive, Business Enterprise Centre with the NSW Small Business Commissioner, Robyn Hobbs OAM at the Small Biz Connect conference where the BEC Orana was awarded the ‘Outstanding Financial Outcomes Award.

confidential mediation and dispute resolution services.

It also reaches out to regional small businesses through the Regional Activation Program, which is engaging regional communities to activate small business opportunities through specialised programs, assistance and tools.

By supporting small business operators from culturally diverse backgrounds the Office of the Small Business Commissioner translates information into a number of languages and offers multicultural business advisors to provide one-on-one assistance to Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean-speaking small business owners.

Through the Small Business Friendly Councils program – an Australian first – local councils are encouraged and empowered to work proactively with small business communities across NSW providing advice and support though Small Biz Connect.

Small Biz Connect is a high-quality advisory program that helps small businesses to achieve outcomes based on personalised, in-depth and face-toface advice.

Local Small Biz Connect advisors travel around NSW to meet with small business owners in a place convenient for them.

Practical guidance to a business operator at any stage of their journey from idea, to start-up, expansion, or even an exit plan is available through Small Biz Connect.

Where will the Small Biz Bus be next?

Baradine – Wednesday, December 9, Wellington St, (near the newsagency) from 9am to 3pm Binnaway – Thursday, December 10, Corner of Renshaw St and Bullinda St, (near the Royal Hotel) from 9am to 3pm Mendooran – Friday 11 December, Castlereagh Highway, (near the Australia Post Office) from 9am to 3pm To find out where the Small Biz Bus is going or book online, visit http:// www.smallbusiness.nsw.gov.au or call 1300 134 359.

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Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Only Captain Risky says: “Who needs a business plan?”

HY is it that many small business owners seem to want to fly by the seat of their pants?

The “she’ll be right mate” attitude can be regarded as a positive affirmation but it’s a bit like turning up to a place for a wedding on a long weekend only to find that no accommodation is available. You might be lucky but why take the risk?

Here are five things that can go wrong if you don’t sit down and plan ahead.

map for where the business wants to be.

Only those that are prepared to take a big risk will put money into such a business and if they do, because of the risk, they will skew the deal in their favour with higher interest rates or a bigger share of the business for a smaller sum. Any business valuation will take into account whether a business plan exists. If there is not one available, the business multiple on the adjusted earnings will drop.

IF you just turn up to work each day hoping that things will work themselves out, you will end up with a business that just turns out like a pizza (but not the special type!). Wouldn’t it be better to have a vision as to what you want it to look like and then list a set of actions that moulds it into what you dreamt it could be?

someone into the business like a family member or employee if you don’t have a vision for your business, even when it’s time for you to go. If you can’t find somebody to take over, not only do you risk having to close the business but also you may have to keep working for years after your planned retirement date as the business proceeds will not be enough to fund your retirement.

Succession planning is a key component for any exit strategy.

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4. Succession plans will 1. Business becomes a struggle business by default not design IT’S going to be much harder to bring

2. Business runs out of cash BUSINESSES can run out of cash for many reasons. It could be due to: z Growing too quickly; z Lack of profits; z Too much debt; z Personal costs too high; z Theft; z Not collecting debtors; or z Inventory taking too long to turnover.

The business planning process can address these issues as part of the overall design. Getting a cash flow forecast done will allow you to work out ‘what if’ 0scenarios and establish what sort of actions you need to take to make sure you don’t run out of cash. This is where your accountant or business advisor can really assist and provide some value.

3. Cannot get finance THE banks and investors like to see a business plan if you have one. Whilst they won’t always insist on it, seeing that somebody is organised will give them some comfort that there is a road-

5. It just makes sense!

HISTORY will show that the businesses that have taken the time to plan and then make sure they implement that plan, are far more likely to succeed than those who don’t. If you don’t know how to turn this exercise into an exciting and enjoyable process, then get help from the appropriately qualified people. Higher business valuations will ultimately be more likely and, like any game, you are trying to work out how to win in the end.

Business advisors should have a successful business themselves and a strong appreciation of how the numbers tie in.

Conclusion: WHILST the above comments seem fairly basic, remember it’s the simple things that make life successful.

You don’t have to have a business plan, but if you don’t, like Captain Risky your business days could be numbered.

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The bottom line on meat and bowel cancer

BY CAMILLA BARLOW LOW W CANCER COUNCIL NSW S

HERE’S been lots of talk following the research recently released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC) showing that a high intake of processed and red meats can increase your risk of cancer, specifically bowel cancer.

Recent Cancer Council research also estimated that in 2010, one in six (or 2600) new bowel cancer cases in Australia were associated with consuming too much red meat and processed meat.

This is seemingly not great news, given Australia is among the world’s biggest red meat consumers – and that the weekend BBQ is an iconic Australian pastime. But before you throw out your tongs and break up with your butcher, or admit defeat because “everything causes cancer”, it’s important to know what a “high intake” actually means.

Moderation is clearly not a strong point in Australian culture – we are experiencing an obesity epidemic, after all – but is this because people have lost touch with what the idea of what moderation actually is, or do we just not care?

Just like cookies, chips and French Fries, processed meat should be considered only a “sometimes” food. In the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating processed meat is considered a dis-

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cretionary choice. The evidence diet is 65-100 grams (a piece that around processed meat and bowel would roughly fit into the palm cancer risk is not new, and for a of your hand) about three to four number of years Cancer Council times a week; or a total of around has recommended people limit or 455g in a week. avoid processed meats. So if you’re The key message here is that indulging on a bacon and egg roll lean red meat is an important for breakfast every day – maybe part of the Australian diet. It’s a reconsider your choices and leave great source of protein, iron, zinc it just for the weekend. You’ll not and Vitamin B12 you just need to only be improving your health, make sure you’re not eating huge amounts of it every day. Look at but you’ll enjoy it more too.

While not as strong as the ev- your health holistically and balidence linking proance your red meat concessed meat and bowel sumption with other ` cancer, the evidence of smart lifestyle choices. the link between red 350 gram Another really impormeat and cancer was steak is tant thing to do is parsufficient for IARC to not an ticipate in national canconclude that it “probcer screening programs uncommon ably” causes bowel canif you’re within the tarcer. It’s important to re- menu item at get age group. This is member that it’s a high your average often something we just intake of red meat that pub – neither leave out of the picture completely – perhaps increases risk. In terms because people are unof cancer risk there is is a schnitzel aware of their existno reason to cut meat the size of ence, or perhaps due completely from your your face. diet, but there are steps to a denial that they’re at risk. The process of you can take to reduce some screening programs could your risk.

Trouble is, when you go out to seem a bit icky on the surface; undinner or lunch at a typical Aus- comfortable, awkward even. But tralian pub, family restaurant or even if you’re doing everything fast food chain – the ideas of ‘val- in your power to lead a healthy ue for money” and “more is more” lifestyle and avoid cancer, cancer become so blurred they’re almost doesn’t discriminate; so an early as one. A 350 gram steak is not an diagnosis due to being screened, uncommon menu item at your av- plus the benefits of already being erage pub – neither is a schnitzel fit and healthy, could be your best the size of your face – so it’s im- shot at a full recovery.

Screening is particularly imporportant to know that the recommended moderate intake of lean tant for bowel cancer, which often red meat for a healthy balanced has no symptoms in its early stag-

es and as bowel cancer is Australia’s second biggest cancer killer – we need to be doing all we can to avoid it or catch it in its early, very treatable stages.

In Western NSW alone it’s predicted by 2016, 250 people will be diagnosed with bowel cancer in a single year, with 75 deaths expected. Early detection of bowel cancer through screening, which involves getting a home Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) kit from a participating pharmacy, “following the instructions” (the icky part), and safely sending your stool sample back to the return address provided. Easy!

An FOBT does not diagnose cancer, but it helps your doctor decide whether to do other tests like colonoscopies. People over 50 should have an FOBT every two years – but it is only for low risk people without symptoms of bowel cancer, and is not for people with a strong family history or genetic condition linked to bowel cancer. In these cases, speak to your doctor.

Although these screening programs and tests on the surface might seem awkward and uncomfortable, they are a small price to pay and take almost no time out of your day for your peace of mind and long term health benefits. After all, it’s better to be screened than sorry. z Visit cancerscreening.gov.au or call the Cancer Council Information and Support Line on 13 11 20 for more information.

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Is brain fog taking the joy out of life?

BY ABI JACKSON E’VE come to accept tiredness and stress as part and parcel of our busy, modern lives. And sure, it would probably be unrealistic – and also not entirely necessary – to expect to never feel tired or stressed (they aren’t exclusively ‘bad’ things, after all).

But there is a limit as to how much we can manage, and for increasing numbers of us, they’re symptoms of a wider problem: brain fog.

As the term suggests, brain fog is, well, just that – a brain that feels foggy and clogged.

Processing things and concentrating becomes more arduous and draining, there’s a sense of being disengaged, slightly removed, and this often has a big impact on mood too, with lowlevel depression and a loss of joy and motivation.

Brain fog is not an entirely new concept, of course.

It’s long been recognised as a characteristic or repercussion of many long-term health conditions for instance, like MS, head injuries and post-traumatic stress, and also as a sideeffect experienced by people on long-term medication, particularly long-term pain relief.

But can it affect people as a stand-alone condition?

Psychotherapist and author Dr Mike Dow (pictured inset) believes so, and has even dubbed brain fog a “new epidemic”. Its characteristics can be vague, he points out in his new book – Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory And Joy In Just 3 Weeks – and lots of people might not be aware

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that the ‘symptoms’ they’re experiencing are linked.

Dow had noticed similar patterns among a number of his clients and acquaintances.

A sense of being “in a slump”, a bit detached from life. Feeling mentally overwhelmed, unable to really focus and in a permanent state of exhaustion – yet not being able to get a good night’s sleep. Life’s just dragging on and, while it might look as though you’re functioning well and doing a fine job of juggling all those balls, inside you feel as though you’re wading (but you’re not entirely sure you have the energy to really care).

“Some people simply say they just don’t feel like themselves – and haven’t for a long time,” Dow states. :: Part of getting older?

IT’S easy to dismiss things like this as being just a normal and inevitable part of getting older (brain fog is sometimes described as a middle-aged condition), but in his book, Dow is keen to highlight that there’s a lot that can be done to both prevent and address brain fog. :: Chemical imbalance WHILE a lot of brain fog feels emotional – and indeed, psychological and emotional factors could have contributed to its onset, like a period of high stress or emotional trauma – Dow points out that it’s a physiological issue too. “Many of my patients had significant imbalances in their brain chemistry – imbalances that were seriously interfering with their ability to experience their power, joy, and purpose,” he says. “For most, these imbalances didn’t require prescription medication – only a handful of them would have been di-

Q: “What are the advantages of me being present when my wife gives birth to our baby?”

A: Mark Harris, author of Men, Love & Birth (Published by Pinter & Martin) says: “Having been a midwife for 20 years, I have seen many men leave the birth room with mixed emotions. Of course they are elated – witnessing the birth of your baby will be a profound experience – but these feelings of elation may be tempered by a sense of regret at not being able to ‘do anything’ when the

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agnosed with depression. Nor were most of these problems chronic; all of these patients could recall long periods of time when they had been able to think clearly and felt great.

“Unfortunately, many of their diets, lifestyles, and circumstances were conspiring to destabilise their brain chemistry, leaving them thinking badly and feeling worse.” :: Taking control BEATING brain fog therefore means identifying – and also addressing – the factors feeding into the problem, even if they seem insignificant or unlikely to make a make a massive difference. In this age of convenience foods, long working hours and 24-7 access to technology, it can be all too easy to fall into habits that contribute to brain fog.

“The way we eat, sleep, work, and live is flooding, starving, clogging, and disrupting our brains by destabilis-

woman they love needs them most.

“Being prepared increases your ability to create the deep connection needed, that will massively facilitate her production of the birthing process dynamite, [hormone] oxytocin.

“Knowing how human beings have evolved to give birth increases confidence, gives direction to the support you can offer her, and supercharges your ability to be resilient if the birth doesn’t go as expected.

“Having an experience of building this type of connection with your partner before she gives birth, will produce a deepening in your relationship, leading to a strong founda-

ing the levels of three crucial brain chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol,” says Dow. “We experience these biological problems as brain fog, scatterbrain, memory loss, fatigue, anxiety, and the blues.”

Over time, these problems can become chronic and more severe, if nothing is done to address them, and short-term solutions – reaching for the caffeine or sugar, for example – can end up being part of the problem too. :: What your brain needs IN his book, Dr Dow explores brain fog causes and, most importantly, what can be done about them in close detail.

Here’s a quick look at the key things he believes we need to keep brain fog at bay: z Proper nutrients, including the right vitamins, essential amino acids, and healthy fats. z Exercise. z Sufficient restful sleep. z Regular, healthy circadian

tion for your emerging family.

“Preparing via regular massaging, TENs machine use (which can be used to relieve pains during labour), and understanding the so-called ‘latent phase’ of the birthing process, will increase the amount of time you both spend out of the hospital and may reduce the length of her birth experience.

“Understanding the importance of having the goal of connecting with her while she births will produce testosterone in you, reducing your stress response. Having a connection with her as a goal will also cure your habit of wanting to fix stuff.”

rhythms. z Downtime for relaxation and restoration. z Purpose and meaning. z Spiritual practice. z A connection to something larger than yourself.

The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory And Joy In Just 3 Weeks by Dr Mike Dow is published by Hay House

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5 ways to make life a little more adventurous There’s a lot going on beneath the surface during menopause. Here’s the low-down – from the experts – on what to expect and what can help. more grateful for the comfort and safety of your sofa, or leaves you hankering for a bit of excitement, we can all get into a rut sometimes.

Fancy breaking up the mundane with a little bit of adventure? Here are five ways to make daily life a little more daring...

Plan mini expeditions Preparing for and tackling Everest can take years. If a few hours on a Sunday is all you can spare, don’t let that stop you enjoying some outdoor adventure.

Why not look into nature hotspots or walks in your local area that you’ve never explored before? Simon Barnett, a director of walking development, says there’s nothing to enjoy more than walking with his wife and young kids through the magnificent paddocks and bush near where they live. There are mighty trees, and they play a game to try and spot the herd of deer that freely roam. It’s a particularly special place this time of year, he adds. Everywhere has something special to offer when you’re on foot – whether that’s a secluded tiny urban park offering a respite from the stresses of daily life, or a magnificent vista from the top of a mountain that is the just reward for the effort of climbing it in the first place. Simply by putting on a pair of shoes and going for a walk almost everyone can experience this sense of adventure and excitement.

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BY ABI JACKSON ACKLING Everest, the world’s highest mountain, has long held a magical, irresistible appeal for hardcore adventurists and climbers.

But this gruelling – to put it extremely mildly – challenge is not without risk.

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Last year, 16 people died following avalanches at base camp, and back in 1996, 12 climbers died after encountering violent storms.

Their dramatic story has now been turned into a movie – Everest – starring Keira Knightley and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Whether the film makes you even

Jetting off to America, Europe or Southeast Asia might not be an option, but you can still explore far-flung lands – through your taste buds. OK, eating a country’s cuisine is not quite the same as actually visiting the place, but being a little adventurous in your cooking could really spice up the week (literally, if the dish calls for it!) and help break up that rut. After all, who says that you always have to stick to ‘pasta Tuesdays’ and ‘fish Fridays’? Try something exotic and totally out of your comfort zone.

Picnic like a rebel And while we’re on the food theme...

Picnics are one of the joys of summer, right? But they can be enjoyed all year round – even a ‘cold weather picnic’

could be a little bit thrilling and – what with all the walking expeditions you’re going to be doing – you’ll need to refuel with something filling. (Or yes, you could just find a pub.)

Go ‘extreme’ with your fitness classes These days, when it comes to exercise classes, you’ll find so much more than plain old aerobics on offer. From Military Fitness to CrossFit, fitness classes now provide the chance to escape reality and train like the pros.

“While our more traditional classes are still very popular, we have definitely noticed a shift towards people wanting to try more adventurous, unique and even seasonal workouts recently,” says Andy Birch, head of fitness at Virgin Active. “Our new, more adventurous classes, such as Mudder Maker and The Grid, have had an overwhelmingly positive reaction. To meet this demand, we’ve actively been looking for innovations that allow members to keep discovering new ways to keep fit, such as a brand new studio... where you can train at 3000m [with simulated altitude].’’

Sign up for a challenge Everest is probably a step too far for most of us (just slightly!), but that doesn’t mean you can’t experience the rewards of taking on a challenge.

Whether it’s a 5km fun run, half marathon, colour run, or something more gruelling like a Tough Mudder, there are endless opportunities these days. It’s just a question of finding the challenge that appeals to – and is right for – you. Committing to training could bring new focus and purpose to everyday life, not to mention the satisfaction and sense of achievement you’ll gain.

“A big motivator for me is to experience the pure exhilaration of crossing the finish line and completing a long-term goal. Life is for living and I firmly believe in this,” says Matt Tomkin, director at a sportswear company, who has completed four Ironman challenges.

“Everyone has a dash on his or her tombstone, and I intend my dash to have been ‘truly lived’!”

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5 tips for wallpapering IF you’re not sure where to start, take a big piece of the wallpaper and tape it in different places to help you decide. For the best finish, mark out each length of wallpaper with a pencil, so you know where all the joins – and any problems – will be. Take into account obstacles like the doors and windows before deciding how to accommodate them in the neatest way.

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IN period properties, the walls and ceilings may not be level or straight, a problem that can be accentuated by patterned wallpaper. Either avoid it altogether, choose a pattern that won’t look too bad, or confine the pattern to one feature wall. Don’t use windows, door frames or corners as your starting point. Instead, create a straight vertical line using a plumb line or chalk reel, and do this each time you go round a corner.

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PAPERING over existing wallpaper isn’t a good idea, as you don’t know how well it’s adhered to the wall.

If the walls are newly plastered, it’s important to seal them before papering them, because the plaster will sap moisture from the adhesive. Seal the plaster with watered-down emulsion, a plaster sealing liquid or an adhesive solution and allow enough time for it to dry thoroughly before papering.

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BY JULIA GRAY TEXTURED wallpapers and lining papers are ideal for covering up imperfections in walls, while those with a shiny or reflective finish will highlight lumps and bumps and shouldn’t be used on less-than-perfect surfaces. Before you open the rolls,

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check they all have the same batch number. There may be slight differences between batches, which will ruin the finish.

IF you’re using patterned wallpaper expect more wastage from matching up the design.

Plan carefully how you want the pattern to fall, especially if it’s a large one.

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“Thank You” to friends

BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

Say “thank you”. Those two important words are so embedded in our training as children that we pass the gesture of politesse to the next generation as part of the social drill.

My mum was no exception. At a young age, she taught me to get in step every year when my Great-Aunt Miriam sent me a birthday card with crisp $1 notes inside (remember those?), equal to my years.

Since she lived miles away, I couldn’t just “say” thank you. Instead, Mum shared her stationery and showed me how to write, address and stamp a handwritten note to 96 Lyons Ave. Sure, it’s easier nowadays to say “thank you” with email or text. But the handwritten word does so much more. Expressing gratitude with pen on paper says something about how the thankful person went out of his or her way to do something extra special.

That’s why Wendy Brown, former video

The first length of wallpaper should usually be hung in the centre of the most prominent wall, such as a chimney breast. Work outwards from this piece (in both directions, if necessary), but bear in mind the ‘kill point’, which is the final seam. If you’re using patterned wallpaper on every wall, it may be tricky to match up the final piece with the first, so do it somewhere inconspicuous.

producer and mum of three, is passionate about handwritten thank-you notes and started her inspiring blog and unique online paper-goods boutique dedicated to the art of handwriting (www.brownink.com).

At the age of 5, her mum gave her personalised stationary, and she was hooked.

To this day, her prized possessions are shoeboxes filled with letters to and from family, notes to friends and travel journals.

“There has never been a more important time to slow down and relish the power in handwriting and the excitement of receiving a note, especially one that says ‘thanks,’” she says.

Here are two ideas for doing just that with young kids as they reflect and write personalised thank-you notes of appreciation to teachers, coaches, relatives and friends.

Preschoolers: Set out a piece of paper, fold it in half, and let your preschooler stamp or attach stickers of images on the front side of the paper symbolic of things they enjoyed doing with the recipients, such as eating ice-cream cones, going to the beach or catching fish at the dam or river. Prompt your

HOW-TO TIP Creating a wallpaper feature wall can look absolutely stunning. Watch the WoodiesDIY.com video at www.youtube. com/watch?v=MENz-3-ydDM and, among other things, it shows what you need for the job, how to start papering, how to paste and fold the lengths of wallpaper, and how to paper around sockets and light switches.

child to dictate a thank-you message that you write inside.

School-age: Young school-age kids will have fun choosing and printing out their favourite summer photos from your computer and gluing the small prints on paper. Encourage them to write words around each photo describing the activities they did together with the person they are thanking. Show them how to sign, address and stamp the envelope.

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The thunder rolls Weekender photographer Steve Cowley was in the Warrumbungles during last week’s stormy weather, and the ancient mountains provided a dramatic backdrop for the gathering black clouds.

“I was watching the storm roll in and it made for a really interesting view, particularly with the damage from the January 2013 bushfires still very much in evidence,” says Steve. “The rain came in fairly hard when the clouds finally let go, but it mostly hugged the mountains.”

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Anjou extending dining table; and pair of Orsay French chairs

Plank dining table, and button back upholstered chair

Wilmore extending dining table; bench; A Orb Pendant light

Copenhagen extending dining table and six chairs

UR dining dreams are getting grander, and a ‘proper’ dining room is increasingly featuring on home wish lists, as we rediscover an appetite for lingering over meals and savouring the opportunity to connect and socialise with loved ones.

Almost 60 per cent of us prefer dining areas to be a separate room, according to a recent survey by a home improvement company, and hankering for more formality appears to be in tune with a general change in attitude to mealtimes. TV dinners on the couch are falling out of favour, recent research revealed (apparently a round a third of people are cutting back on that habit), while 50 per cent of parents are making a ‘conscious effort’ to gather the family together for at least one meal a week.

“Separate dining rooms fell out of favour at the turn of the Nineties, with hugely popular TV renovation shows focusing on open-plan multi-functional rooms, but as with all trends, it looks as though the modern household could be set for a separate dining room revival,” says Julie Yarwood, an interior designer.

“With increasingly busy lifestyles, the dining experience can be a welcome break from everyday stress and a chance to reconnect with family members and friends. Not only this, a separate room allows us to temporarily remove ourselves from the post-meal clean-up, which often looms over diners in open-plan kitchen and dining areas.”

Post-GFC home-owners have also become more budgetconscious, she believes, and as a result, the ‘big night in’ trend is stronger than ever. “It’s inspired a dinner party revival and those often work best in a separate dining room environment. We all wish to make more of dining, and a beautifully furnished space where we can fully enjoy the moment, is becoming an essential,” she says.

If your dining area’s looking a bit dull, or your dining room rarely used, it’s time to revamp the space. No matter what’s on the menu, this should be a space to suit every occasion...

DOWNTON DINING Arundel oak table and bench

Manon grey dining table and Yasmina dining chair

Shape and bake colourful Leaf Tortilla Chips

BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

In the spirit spring, let an array of edible leafshaped chips blossom on your platters for a tasty, healthy treat for parties, or for a quick and easy eye-catching after-school snack.

Pop the colourful chips, designed by cookie cutters and made from your favourite tortillas and wraps, in the oven, or take the shortcut approach and use your microwave.

Either way, the crispy and crunchy edible “leaves” will be a super family hit.

When you peruse the tortilla and wrap section of your grocery store, the choices for making your chips can be daunting. I grabbed the colourful varieties to mimic the

look of leaves in our backyard. Wholegrain tomato basil wraps, spinach flour tortillas and sprouted grains tortillas were perfect for the project.

My family also likes corn tortillas for their taqueria-style flavour and texture, but the cookie cutters simply didn’t cut through those as easily. For that variety, we used scissors and cut out geometric shapes and capital alphabet letters to spell “LEAF”.

Whatever you choose, here’s how to make this healthy, whimsical snack:

LEAF-SHAPED TORTILLA CHIPS (Serves 4-6.)

6-8 tortillas and wraps in a variety of flavours and colours, such as tomato basil, spinach, sprouted grains and corn Canola oil Salt

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decor and conjure stately home grandeur (butler optional).

“We’re noticing an enormous change in the approach to dining areas,” says Mark Kelly, marketing manager at a furniture manufacturer that recently found 69 per cent of people now regard the dining room as their favourite place in the home, while 89 per cent spent more on furnishing it – around $7,500 – than on any other room.

“This is no longer a room used only for special occasions – it’s the main gathering point for the family and where people lavish a lot of care and attention getting the decor and furnishing right. They want dressers, a console table, wine racks, decorative lighting and accessories such as mirrors. It’s all about creating a stylish sanctuary which combines a cosseting, comfortable atmosphere – essential so you can enjoy a meal – with practicality and good storage.”

TIPS: Round tables generally suit smaller groups better, allowing for intimate gatherings. Avoid large vases and flower arrangements or tall ornaments in the middle of a table, as they can form a barrier and discourage interaction.

Metal and recycled elm dining table, eight seater

Bento six seat table; Touchwood chair and Alphabeta pendant

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Parquet dining table; chair and bench

Padstow round extending table, seats 4-6; slat back dining chair and Celina display unit

Colby dining table; Fardell dining chair and Jacob cluster pendant light, gold effect with three shades

Catalina dining collection, table and six white chairs

room too, to create a more intimate feel.

are back and here to stay. Eight to 12-seater tables are proving extremely popular, as people focus on creating a central hub for family and friends to gather,” says Jenny Hurren, founder of her own interior decorating company.

“This needs to be a multifunctional space – for food, for games, for homework, for catching up over coffee and

cake. There really is no one formula for creating the perfect dining space; it has to work for you and your individual home, and you should feel free to experiment.

“Bold, rich colours can make a separate dining area or room feel snug and cosy, while open plan areas can look stunning decorated in light, neutral tones, which blur the boundary

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your morning oatmeal for a yummy flavoured breakfast.

Or add sliced bananas and a couple tablespoons of milk for a delicious dessert!” – Contributed

by J.S. z To help kids in both becoming responsible for the food choices they make and being a helpful member of the household, encourage them to choose a family meal each week, and then help to prep or even cook the meal according to their ability.

Experts say this offers a good opportunity to talk about nutritional choices and the impact of different food-preparation techniques.

The essential ingredients for this recipe are streamlined tables and chairs and a paredback approach, so clutter is minimal or hidden in extensive storage.

“Dining spaces are one of the hardest working zones in the home and have huge potential when it comes to style. You can opt for sophisticated glamour, think generous tables and overhanging pendant lighting in a combined kitchen/dining area which will make the eating area a stunning focal point,” says Kate Tansley, creative director at a design company.

“Bench seating has come a long way from the schoolroom and can take up less space than individual chairs and looks more modern. Just add cushions for essential comfort!”

TIP: Lighting is key – ensure it’s sufficiently bright for everyday meals (or tasks like homework) but have dimmers to create atmosphere when required. Over-the-table pendant lights are brilliant for creating an instant wow factor, but don’t overlook floor lamps and table lamps around the Assorted metal cookie cutters in leaf shapes Kitchen scissors To prepare: 1. Heat oven to 175C/350F. 2. Place a tortilla on a wooden cutting board, and cut into leaf shapes with metal cookie cutters. If using corn tortillas, use scissors to cut your own leaf designs and alphabet letters. You might cut letters to make a word such as “leaf”, “spring”, “Happy Christmas” or the name of your favourite sports team.

3. Set cut-outs in a single layer on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper or brushed with oil. Lightly brush shapes with oil and sprinkle with salt

RUSTIC RETREAT Natural materials – especially wood – are ultra-fashionable and suit an informal setting.

“While we haven’t seen a huge push for one specific style, one thing which has become clear is that large dining spaces and other favourite seasonings.

4. Bake for 6 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet and bake until the chips are crisp, lightly golden and brown, about 3 minutes more. Serve with salsa and dips. Chips can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days.

SHORTCUT: Make a few chips quickly in your microwave. Cut a tortilla in shapes and set on a paper towel. Microwave on high for about 1 minute. Turn cut-outs over and microwave for 15-30 seconds or until lightly brown and crisp, but not burnt. Keep watch, as microwaves vary. Sprinkle with salt or seasonings and serve.

BY JOANN DERSON z When you make a chicken in the crockpot, use this trick to have it come out moist and delicious: Prepare the bird as normal, rinsing and patting dry, then seasoning. Ball up six to eight wads of aluminium foil – enough to cover the bottom of the crockpot. Put bird in breast-side up on top of the foil balls. The chicken should not be touching the sides of the pot. Cook on low 6-8 hours for a succulent dinner! z “To use the last of the peanut butter in a glass jar, simply add

between the indoors and outdoors, if they look out onto a garden.”

TIP: Establish which size table you need – it’s the main focus of the room and must be large enough to seat the required number of people, but too large and it will swamp a room. If space is an issue, opt for an extendable option for versatility.

z “If you purchase softdrinks or other drinks that are linked together with plastic rings, do the little critters a favour: Cut open the loops with scissors so that there are no rings for animals or sea life to get caught in.” – Contributed by A.A. z When you are zesting or juicing oranges, lemons or limes for a recipe, go ahead and do several at a time. Freeze the citrus zest and juice in an ice-cube tray.

You can pop out the cubes and use them in recipes later on. z Lightly squish your toilet paper roll as you put a new one on.

It will not spin as freely but still functions, meaning less waste.

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BY CLAIRE SPREADBURY INNING a television cooking show in Australia hasn’t proven to guarantee a career as a professional chef, but in England, where the audiences are bigger, even some of the runners-up have managed to launch a cooking career after their reality TV show appearances have been and gone.

Richard Burr might not have won last year’s Great British Bake Off, but he’s definitely one of the show’s most memorable contestants.

Maybe it’s the pencil behind the ear. Maybe it’s the consistency that saw him scoop the most Star Baker accolades the programme’s ever seen. Or maybe it’s his delectable, down-to-earth demeanour, which never saw him flap, fluster or throw a Baked Alaska in the bin.

Since the 2014 series that he appeared on finished, 39-year-old Burr has been beavering away on his first cookbook.

“I got to spend the whole (northern) winter making all of my favourite food,” he tells me in the kitchen of his home, all doeeyed and dimples.

The house, which was derelict when he bought it and lovingly restored with his own fair hands (he runs a building firm with his dad), has seen a fair bit of action of late. The entire book was shot, cover to cover, here (“the crew all but moved in”), and includes lovely images of old tools from Burr’s toolbox, including his beloved grandfather’s saw.

It’s clear that family’s really important to him. He lives with his wife Sarah, who joins in when we’re chatting, nips off to the shops insisting she needs to buy us sandwiches and tells me stories about being woken up at 2am for Bake Off taste tests, and drunkenly devouring an entire Beef Wellington when the pair clambered in after a night out.

And then there’s their two adorable daughters, three-yearold Genevieve, all tousled blonde locks, who chirps away in the background, popping her head up for a spoonful of daddy’s custard, and Elizabeth, six, who’s at a summer camp today. There’s another bundle of joy on the way too, due next month.

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“Mum baked cakes and kept us alive, but I got a Saturday job in a bakery and scrumped as many doughnuts as I could. That’s where my love of baking really comes from,” he says, as he lays out the ingredients to make the millefeuille recipe from his book, BIY: Bake It Yourself.

“And now I cook with the kids.

I’m an early bird, so I’ll often be kicking around with the girls in the morning, and if it’s a choice between cooking in the kitchen or watching Nickelodeon, I’d rather have them in here with me.”

As we get to work on one of Burr’s favourite sweet treats, he’s a pleasure to share a kitchen with, giving me instructions, tips and encouragement as I do my very best not to split the creme patissiere.

After the success of Bake Off and landing a book deal, you’d be forgiven for thinking he might decide to knock the hard graft of building on the head. But building is a big part of Burr’s life – evident as he draws out his steel tape measure to size up the slices of cooked puff pastry.

“The business went huge after Bake Off,” he reveals, whipping out some piping bags and wandering about the hub of his home, sporting a T-shirt, jeans and bright green socks. “I could have just used it to expand, but I wanted to have some fun with food, too. I try not to say ‘no’ to anything.”

Indeed, he has a degree in biodiversity and conservation – which he took on while doing Bake Off and running a building firm, and he somehow managed to get a first.

Burr’s also a keen fisherman.

And now, he’s an author, too.

“My favourite recipes from the book include the blackberry and elderflower pavlovas. My wife is actually pathologically addicted to them. The millefeuilles are great, and there’s a brilliant mincemeat muffin in there, that doesn’t look much, but once you have it, you’ll never eat mince pies again.”

And with that, he shows me how to pipe the custard and stack the millefeuille, we throw a load of icing sugar over the top, skip lunch and go straight to dessert – delicious!

Fancy baking some of Richard Burr’s creations for yourself? Give these tasty treats a whirl...

Battling the Lolly Monster

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

As we’ve recently been reminded, Halloween has become very popular in Australia – it’s become a time of the year when the Lolly Monster stalks the neighbourhood.

Many children and adults eat enough sugar in one night to last for a year, and it’s likely a similar Looly Monster will return around the same time as Santa Claus!

These are great moments in young family lives to set a good example.

With an emphasis on moderation, lollies can be enjoyed without being considered a “forbidden fruit”. Here are tips for maintaining healthy habits and

Richard Burr.

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PUFF PASTRY – FOR THE MILLEFEUILLE AND WELLINGTON RECIPES 225g strong white bread flour, plus more to dust 1/2tsp table salt 225g unsalted butter, chilled 1tsp lemon juice To prepare: z This is very important (and a bit like a chooseyour-own-adventure): If you don’t have a day to prepare, just buy a pack of all-butter puff pastry from the shops and move straight to the millefeuille or wellington recipe. If you do have a day to prepare, to make the puff pastry, first mix the flour and salt in a large bowl, then chop 25g of the butter and rub into the flour with your fingers. z Add the lemon juice and 140ml of cold water and mix with a knife until the mixture is brought together enough to handle. Tip out on to a floured work surface and knead until smooth and elastic (probably five to 10 minutes). Allow the dough to rest for five minutes. z Roll out on a floured surface to a rectangle of 51 x 17cm (or thereabouts). You need quite a bit of worktop space for this. Roll out the remaining 200g butter between sheets of cling film to a large rectangle of 33 x 15cm. You’ll need to peel off and reapply the cling film regularly to stop it ripping. z Working quickly now, peel the top layer of cling film off the butter and flip the butter onto the rolled-out dough, covering two-thirds of the

defeating the Lolly Monster once and for all: • Children need to avoid too many sugary foods and drinks. If they are eating too many high-sugar foods, they don’t have room for the healthy foods that contain the important nutrients they need for growth and development. Limit the amount of sweets you and your children have each day. Use this time to teach your children the importance of eating a nutritious diet while still being able to enjoy treats on special occasions.

• Allow your children to pick a few pieces, but save most of the sweets out of view for another time. Some lollies freeze well. Use those for holiday baking or to decorate gingerbread houses at Christmas time.

• Add some of the sweets and lollies

length of the dough and also leaving a clear rim around all the edges. Fold the unbuttered dough on to half of the butter and press the edges to seal the butter in. Fold this layer over to cover the remaining butter and press down the edges all round to form a 17cm square: two layers of butter separated by three layers of dough. Wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes. z Take out of the fridge and roll back out to about 51 x 17cm. Fold up into thirds as before, to make a square. Turn the square through 90 degrees and roll out to 51 x 17cm again, then fold up as before. Wrap in cling film and chill for another 30 minutes. z Repeat the last step, so the pastry has been folded a total of five times. Chill for another 30 minutes.

Richard making millefeuille in his home

to a nutritious snack mix with whole grain cereal, nuts and dried fruit.

• Remember to stay physically active.

Exercise helps with weight management and improves overall health.

• Lollies and sugary foods contribute to tooth decay. The bacteria in our mouths like to eat sugar, and that produces an acid. This acid is what eats away at teeth, causing cavities.

Emphasise brushing and flossing after eating sweets or any foods that stick to the teeth.

• Make sure that your children have a healthy meal before they indulge in party treats. They’ll be excited and may not want to eat, but you can entice them by making kid-friendly favourites like my Apple and Cheddar Baked Cheese Sandwiches and Easy Tomato Basil Soup in a Pumpkin Tureen.

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FIG AND ANISE MILLEFEUILLE (Makes 10) For the pastry: 2/3 quantity puff pastry dough (or you can cheat and buy it ready-made) Plain flour, to dust Icing sugar, to dust For the custard: 170ml whole milk 3 star anise 2 egg yolks 35g caster sugar 11/2 tbsp cornflour 100ml double cream For the figs in syrup: 4 baby figs Finely grated zest and juice of 1 orange 50g light brown muscovado sugar 1 cinnamon stick To prepare: z Follow the instructions to make the pastry (if you’re not using shop-bought), rolling it out to about 45 x 15cm each time and chilling in the fridge. z Now for the custard. Pour the milk into a saucepan with the star anise and set over a medium heat. Bring to a simmer, then take off the heat and leave to infuse for 10 minutes. z Put the egg yolks in a heatproof bowl and whisk with the caster sugar and cornflour, using a hand or electric whisk. z Once the milk has infused, fish out the star anise and pour the milk into the egg mixture, whisking as you do so. Pour back into the saucepan and set over a low heat.

Stir constantly, using a silicone spatula, until the custard thickens up, then quickly scrape into a clean bowl. Lay cling film on the surface of the custard (to stop a skin forming) and put in the fridge to cool. z While the pastry is chilling in the fridge, you can poach the figs. Cut each fig into sixths, put in a saucepan with the orange zest and juice, sugar and cinnamon stick and set over a low heat. z Once simmering, cook for eight to 10 minutes, occasionally turning the figs. Fish the figs out of the saucepan and lay on a plate. Put in the fridge to cool. z Preheat the oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Line a baking tray with baking parchment and take the pastry out of the fridge. z Roll it out on a floured surface to a neat rectangle 30 x 25cm and lay this on the baking tray. Lay another sheet of baking parchment on top of this and weigh it down with another baking tray to stop the pastry from puffing up too far. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. z Take the tray off the top of the pastry and return to the oven for another 10-12 minutes until golden brown and cooked through. Remove from the oven, take the pastry off the tray and off the baking parch-

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ment. Set on a wire rack to cool down. z Returning to the custard, whip the cream with an electric whisk until it forms soft peaks. Take the now-cooled custard out of the fridge and fold in the whipped cream, a couple of tablespoons at a time. Load into a piping bag and snip the end to make an opening about 5mm in diameter. z Once the pastry is completely cooled, put it on a chopping board and carefully cut into three rectangles of 25 x 10cm.

Cut each of these into 10 pieces, each 10 x 2.5cm, to give 30 neat fingers of puff pastry. Some of the outside ones may be a bit ragged, but those are generally the baker’s treats! z Assemble each pastry: Pipe 14 small blobs (two rows of seven) of custard on to the bottom layer of pastry. Lay the next layer on top and pipe on another 14 blobs of custard. z Take the figs out of the fridge and cut each segment in half (giving you 48 segments). Lay segments of fig on top of the custard, all facing in the same direction.

You might have a few fig pieces left over, depending on size. z Lay a third layer of pastry on top and dust with a little icing sugar. z Repeat to assemble all the pastries.

GREEN OLIVE AND ROSEMARY FOCACCIA (Makes 2) 500g strong white bread flour, plus more if needed 2tsp table salt 1tbsp ‘quick’ yeast 50ml olive oil, plus more to knead, prove and shape 350ml water 20 pitted green olives, in brine or oil A few sprigs of rosemary Sea salt flakes and freshly coarse-ground black pepper To prepare: z Measure the flour, salt and yeast into a bowl, making sure you add the salt and yeast to opposite sides of the bowl, then mix with a wooden spoon. Add the 50ml of olive oil and all the water, and combine with the spoon until you have a wet dough. z Pour about two tablespoons of olive oil on to a work surface and tip out the dough on to it. Knead for at least 10 minutes. The dough will be sloppy and this is going to be a messy business, so don’t worry if you get your hands covered. Use your judgement about whether to add more flour; don’t add too much, as it should remain a wet dough. z Oil an ice-cream tub or any large plastic container (more than 2L capacity) and plop the dough in. Cover with cling film and leave to rise at room temperature for one to one-and-a-half hours, until it has at least doubled in size. It might be worth taking a photo of the dough on your phone so you can compare later to see whether it has risen enough. z Pour another couple of teaspoons of oil on to a work surface and gently tip out the risen dough. Take two long knives and oil the blades. Cut the dough into two equal pieces: use one knife to cut them, then slide the other knife alongside the first and use both knives to push the halves apart. (This is the easiest way of prising the dough into two pieces.) z Gently pick up each half and place on a baking tray, lined with baking parchment,

APPLE & CHEDDAR BAKED CHEESE SANDWICHES (Makes 4 sandwiches) Baking the sandwiches in the oven is faster than trying to do one or two at a time on a grill or in a skillet. Using low-fat mayonnaise instead of butter provides a crisper, evenly-browned sandwich and fewer calories.

What you’ll need: 8 slices whole-wheat bread Cooking oil spray 3 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise 1 apple (Granny Smith, Fuji or Gala), thinly sliced 4 slices Swiss cheese (or substitute another variety) 4 slices Cheddar cheese To prepare: 1. Heat oven to 230C/450F. Place a large baking sheet in oven to heat 3-5 minutes.

2. Spread mayonnaise on one side of 4 slices

forming each into a thin lozenge shape. z Cover with a plastic bag and leave to rise for 45 minutes. (The bag shouldn’t touch the loaves but should form a tent around them.) z Preheat the oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7 and uncover the dough. z Cut the olives in half lengthways and press firmly into the dough. z Drizzle with a few more tablespoons of oil and lay cut sprigs of rosemary on top.

Season with sea salt flakes and pepper. z Bake for 20-25 minutes, then remove and cool on two wire racks. z Drizzle with more olive oil before cutting into strips and eating.

BEEF WELLINGTON (Serves 4-6) For the filling: 1kg good-quality beef fillet 2tbsp olive oil Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 2tbsp vegetable oil 2 shallots, finely chopped 25g unsalted butter 225g button mushrooms 75ml white wine 1tsp thyme leaves 150g Parma ham For the pastry: 1 quantity puff pastry – or buy readymade Plain flour, to dust 1 large egg, lightly beaten To prepare: z Rub the beef with olive oil, then sprinkle with salt and pepper. z Heat the oil in a large frying pan to just smoking, then put the beef in; it will spit, but keep the beef moving so it doesn’t stick to the pan. Sear the beef on all sides until a rich brown colour forms: you really want to get some colour on here, so about 15 minutes spent in the frying pan is perfectly acceptable. Reduce the heat to low and set the beef aside to cool. z Put the shallots in the pan with the butter and half a teaspoon more each of salt and pepper, and cook until they’re translucent. z Put the mushrooms in a food processor with the wine and blitz until smooth. Scrape into the frying pan. Cook for five to 10 minutes to expel some of the moisture, stirring the whole time. Once the mushrooms resemble a fine paste, stir in the thyme, take off the heat and set aside to cool. z Lay two large sheets of cling film on a work surface, overlapping each other by about 5cm, to make a large square. Lay out the Parma ham in a rectangle about 35 x 30cm, overlapping the slices. Using a small

of bread. Remove hot baking sheet from oven.

Carefully spray hot baking sheet with cooking oil spray. Place the 4 slices of bread, mayonnaise side down, on the baking sheet. Arrange equal amounts of the cheese and apple slices on each slice of bread.

3. Spread rest of mayonnaise on one side of the 4 remaining slices of bread. Place the bread, mayonnaise side up, on top of the apples and cheese. Bake for 6-8 minutes. Flip the sandwiches, and bake an additional 4-6 minutes, or until golden brown and the cheese is melted. Slice in half and serve with the Easy Tomato Basil Soup.

EASY TOMATO BASIL SOUP (Makes 6 servings.)

This flavourful soup can be made ahead, covered and refrigerated for up to three days.

You can make a festive soup tureen by cleaning out the inside of a pumpkin and putting the soup in it.

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

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palette knife or a table knife, spread the reduced mushrooms over the ham, covering it totally. z Lay the beef in the middle of the mushroom and Parma ham rectangle and gently lift two corners of the cling film up, to roll half the ham over the meat. Flatten the ham down with your hands and peel the cling film away to lie back down on the work surface. z Roll the other half of Parma ham over the beef in the same way. You should now have the beef totally wrapped in mushrooms and ham. z Fold the ends of the Parma ham neatly and roll up the cling film tightly so that it looks like a massive shiny sausage. Twist the ends of the cling film to seal the wellington together and put in the fridge to cool while you make the puff. (If you’re using packet puff, you still need to chill the beef for one hour.) z Make the puff pastry (see recipe). z Lay a sheet of baking parchment on a baking tray and take the wrapped beef and chilled puff pastry out of the fridge. z Roll the pastry out to 35 x 30cm and peel the cling film off the beef. z Gently lay the beef in the centre of the pastry. Put the beef on upside down: it should have a flattish surface that formed while it was in the fridge – this needs to be facing up. z Fold the pastry over the beef and stick together by liberally painting with beaten egg. Fold the loose ends over, too, and stick down with beaten egg. z Roll the wellington over on to the baking tray, so the seams of pastry are now on the bottom and the top surface is smooth. z Paint the remaining beaten egg over the pastry, then slash the pastry quite deeply (but not all the way through) with a sharp knife. Put in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/ gas 6. z Take out of the fridge. Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown, then take out and allow to rest for 10 minutes before serving.

This will give you a medium-rare wellington, so if you like it cooked more or less, adjust the time to your taste. z Carve to serve and fight over who gets the last slice!

BIY: Bake It Yourself by Richard Burr is published by Quadrille.

3 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper (optional) 2 (28-ounce) cans crushed tomatoes with basil, with juice 1 cup water, chicken or vegetable broth 2 teaspoons sugar, honey or stevia 2 cups milk or half and half To prepare: 1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic, poultry seasoning, salt, pepper and crushed red pepper (if using). Cook the garlic and spices, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the tomatoes with their liquid, water or broth, and the sugar, honey or stevia.

2. Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in the milk or half and half, and simmer about 1 minute.

Serve immediately.

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Planes, trains and more tasty meals

BY KEELEY BOLGER ROM some angles, Rick Stein looks like a victim of his own success.

So inspiring are his televised cookery quests to India, the Mediterranean and the Far East that every year, fellow foodies follow in his footsteps, thus taking the locations from ‘off the beaten track’ to ‘on the tourist trail’.

“I think part of the reason the programmes are successful is because people want to go to the places we’ve been to,” explains 68-yearold Stein, who adds that it’s “lovely” when people are inspired by the shows.

“Sometimes I think, ‘Would you really want to go there?’ Quite a lot of the time, they are slightly quirky places that say something about the area, but we look on the internet and there are people doing tours on the back of where we’ve been.

“Sometimes I say to David, the director, ‘We don’t want people coming here, it will ruin it!’”

Then there’s the way his name is occasionally used in vain after he’s visited an area or a restaurant. For instance, 15 years ago, he had some admittedly “fantastic fish and chips” in a Scottish restaurant.

“They’ve still got this thing up saying, ‘Rick Stein says this is the best fish and chips in the country’,” he explains. “Well it’s changed hands about three times – so some aggrieved customer of the shop wrote to me saying, ‘Do you know we’ve had the most disgusting fish and chips and they’re saying that you’re recommending it?’ I once went in there and actually took the stuff [the sign] down and walked out!”

Last year the chef, who comes to Australia three times a year to work on his restaurants here, headed back to the Mediterranean for his latest six-part TV

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series and accompanying cookery book, From Venice To Istanbul.

Between weaving around the Mediterranean and chatting to interesting local characters, including the Albanian guide who “was a good friend of the prime minister Edi Rama, good at her job and had the additional advantage of looking like Audrey Hepburn”, Stein found himself in a “ludicrous situation” in some of the restaurants he visited en route.

If he was recognised, sometimes the “top person” – the one who wouldn’t usually cook, as they’d ordinarily leave that to the servants and cooks – would take the reigns in the kitchen to have their moment of glory on the camera, despite “almost never having cooked it before”.

“You’re just thinking, ‘Oh for God’s sake, just get the cook to do it!’” Stein recalls with a grin.

“But you can’t tell them that. It can be a bit of a disadvantage if people know who we are and potentially what sort of business that could bring them, so we do try to find people that wouldn’t know us from a bar of soap, but it doesn’t always turn out that way,” he adds.

Though he is recognised in his England home in Padstow, where he “absolutely loves” living and running several businesses, he’s always happy to hop on a plane and explore new nooks and crannies in the world.

“I’ve been travelling a fair bit since I was in my teens, and I just love being away,” he says.

“I don’t know whether it makes you a calmer, happier, more interesting person, but I do like being in other countries.”

If you fancy exploring some of Stein’s recipes, here are three recipes from his new book to try at home.

Slow-cooked comfort

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

I’ve had a long love affair with tortillas.

It’s the perfect foundation for any number of dishes from spicy enchiladas and crunchy tacos to my personal guilty pleasure, veggie-stuffed burritos.

A “burro” is a donkey, and “burrito” means “little donkey”.

The Diccionario de Mexicanismos has an entry for the burrito as early as 1895.

There are many folklore stories about how burritos got their name. Some stories compare the shape of a burrito to a donkey’s ears or the packs and

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bedrolls donkeys carried.

It’s a proven fact that burritos are the perfect way to meld together flavourful ingredients in a hand-held package.

There are a few tricks to making the classic burrito: • Heat the tortilla before making your burrito. You can heat it on the stove, directly on the heating element; you can wrap them in foil and place in the oven; or steam them in damp, food-safe paper towels in the microwave. Heat is necessary to make tortillas pliable enough for folding.

• Make sure the tortilla is at least twice as big as the contents you’ll put into it.

When you fold the tortilla in half, with

the contents inside, both ends should be able to touch with room to spare.

• Join the front and back flap and quickly lift the tortilla into the air to compress the contents. Make sure to keep the contents of the burrito in the tortilla. Set it back down again, open faced.

• Pull the left flap of the tortilla over the burrito contents, toward the centre.

Pull the right flap over the burrito contents, toward the centre. Your tortilla flaps probably won’t overlap at this point.

Don’t pull too hard on the ends of the flaps as you fold them over to the centre or you’ll rip the tortilla.

• Pull the tortilla flap nearest you over the contents and tuck the end

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MESUT’S BLUE FISH STEW WITH CHILLI CORNBREAD (Serves 4. Note: Some cookbooks suggest sardines are a more sustainable alternative to mackerel – why not experiment with your own alternatives if mackerel or herring don’t suit you.)

4 small mackerel or herring, scaled and gutted 1tsp salt 100ml olive oil 1 onion, halved and sliced 6 green finger chillies, split open but kept whole Large handful flat-leaf parsley 12 turns/grinds of the black pepper 3 tomatoes, peeled and chopped 6 cloves garlic, sliced 1 lemon, skin and pith removed, sliced For the Chilli Cornbread: 200g plain flour 70g yellow cornmeal 1tbsp baking powder Pinch salt 4tbsp chopped coriander 2-3 jalapeno chillies, deseeded and finely chopped 50g feta cheese, crumbled 30g soft light brown sugar 6tbsp water 3 large eggs 70ml sunflower oil To prepare: To make the cornbread, first heat the oven to 180C/ gas 4 and warm a baking sheet. Place paper cases in a 12 hole muffin tin.

Sift the flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the coriander, chillies, feta and sugar.

In a jug, mix together the water, eggs and oil. Add to the dry ingredients and mix together until just combined.

Fill each paper case about two-thirds full, then sit the tin on the warmed baking sheet. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a sharp knife inserted into the centre comes out clean. Allow the cornbread buns to cool in the tin for five minutes.

While the cornbread is baking, sprinkle the fish with the salt inside and out.

Pour two tablespoons of the olive oil into a large pan with a lid, scatter the onions in the base and lay the fish on top.

Tuck the chillies and sprigs of parsley in around the fish and sprinkle with the pepper. Add the tomatoes, garlic and slices of lemon, and pour the remaining olive oil over the top. Cover the pan with the lid, bring to a simmer and cook on a medium heat for about 25 minutes.

Serve with warm cornbread.

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PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR’S MOUSSAKA

DALMATIAN FRESH FIG TART

(Serves 6-8) 1 aubergine, sliced lengthways 3 courgettes, sliced lengthways About 300ml olive oil Salt 2 large potatoes, peeled and sliced lengthways 2 small onions, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 750g minced beef 3 beefsteak tomatoes, chopped 1 cinnamon stick 1 bay leaf 12 turns/grinds black pepper For the bechamel sauce: 100ml butter 100g plain flour 750ml full-fat milk 3 eggs 1/4tsp grated nutmeg 150g graviera cheese (or Gruyere if unavailable), freshly grated To prepare: Begin by salting the aubergine and courgette slices and leaving them for about 30 minutes, then rinse and dry on kitchen paper. Fry in plenty of the olive oil over a medium heat until lightly browned and starting to soften, then drain on kitchen paper and set aside. Fry the potatoes in the same way.

In a separate pan, heat 70ml of the olive oil and fry the onions and garlic for five minutes until softened.

Add the minced beef and brown it before adding the tomatoes, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, one-and-a-half teaspoons of salt and the pepper. Simmer for 30-40 minutes. When done, remove the cinnamon and bay leaf.

In a deep, ovenproof dish, about 24cm x 35cm, arrange the potatoes in a layer. Top with a third of the beef, then the aubergine, another third of the beef, the courgettes, and finish with the remaining beef.

Heat the oven to 220C/gas 7.

Make the bechamel sauce: melt the butter in a saucepan over a gentle heat, stir in the flour and cook for two minutes so it loses its raw taste. Slowly incorporate the milk, and continue stirring until the sauce thickens.

Remove from the heat and whisk in the eggs, nutmeg and 100g of the grated cheese. Spread the bechamel over the layered meat and vegetables and top with the remaining 50g of grated cheese. Bake for 30 minutes, then take out and leave to cool. Serve warm. The dish is also very good the following day.

(Serves 8) For the pastry: 170g plain flour, sifted, plus extra for dusting Pinch salt 100g unsalted butter, cubed 50g caster sugar 1 egg yolk 50ml double cream For the filling: 500g mascarpone cheese 6tbsp clear honey 6 large, 7 medium or 8 small fresh figs, stems trimmed, halved To prepare: For the pastry, mix the flour, salt and butter until it resembles breadcrumbs, and then stir in the sugar.

Mix the egg yolk and cream, and add to the flour mixture so that it comes together to form a dough.

On a floured surface, roll out the pastry and use it to line a 26cm, loose bottomed flan tin. (If too difficult to handle, wrap and chill for 30 minutes in the fridge.)

Trim the edges of the pastry, cover with cling film and rest it in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Heat the oven to 180C/gas 4. Line the pastry with baking parchment, fill with baking beans or rice and bake blind for 10 minutes. Remove the paper and beans and cook for a further three minutes.

Take out of the oven and lower the temperature to 160C/gas 3.

Soften the mascarpone with the honey in a small saucepan over a low heat. Pour into the pastry case, then lay the figs on top, cut-side up. Bake for 30 minutes until just starting to turn golden around the edges. To serve, allow to cool to room temperature before removing from the tin and cutting.

underneath the burrito contents, pulling all of the filling toward your body, into the centre of the burrito.

• Starting from your body and moving outward, roll the burrito forward into a cylindrical shape. Let the burrito rest on top of the last little flap for a minute to stick the ends of the tortilla together. Wrap the burrito in foil to help keep the burrito together and warm.

My recipe for Slow-Cooked Burrito Filling is an easy way to prepare burritos for a weeknight meal or a weekend crowd.

SLOW-COOKED BURRITO FILLING (Serves 6 to 8.)

You can put this filling into a bowl instead of a tortilla and finish it with your favourite toppings.

450 to 680 grams boneless skinless chicken breasts, chicken thighs, or a mix, cut into 5cm pieces 1 1/2 tablespoons chili powder

1/2 tablespoon cumin 2 teaspoons salt 1 (400g) can hot or medium diced tomatoes with jalapeno peppers, plus juice 1 cup chicken stock, divided, plus more if needed 1 cup brown rice 1 (425g) can black beans, drained and rinsed 1 cup frozen corn 8 large burrito-style tortillas Optional toppings: shredded cheese, chopped cilantro, sour cream, diced avocado, salsa, hot sauce, diced green onions, shredded lettuce To prepare: 1. Combine the chicken pieces, chili powder, cumin, salt and diced tomatoes together in the bowl of a 2 1/2- to 3 1/2-litre (approx) slow cooker until all of the pieces are coated. Add 1/2 cup of chicken stock or

:: From Venice To Istanbul by Rick Stein is published by BBC Books in hardback.

more as needed to ensure the chicken is covered.

Cover with the lid and cook on low for 3 to 4 hours.

2. Remove the lid and add the rice, black beans, frozen corn and the remaining chicken broth. Replace the lid and continue cooking on low for another 3 to 4 hours. Check the rice periodically in the last hour of cooking, stirring once or twice to make sure rice cooks evenly and adding more chicken broth if the mixture seems dry. Cooking is done when the rice is tender. (If the rice is done while there still is liquid left in the slow cooker, remove the lid and cook on high to let the liquid evaporate.)

3. Roll the chicken filling and your choice of optional ingredients into a warm tortilla and form a burrito, or put the filling into a bowl and add your choice of toppings.

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Dr Joanna McMillan

The fruits of As an honourary Aussie, Brit nutritionist Dr Joanna McMillan is a familiar face and voice on the subject of health and nutrition. Founder of Get Lean, author and columnist, she’s an ambassador for Diabetes Australia, The Skin & Cancer Foundation, FoodBank NSW/ACT and Muscular Dystrophy.

She found time in her busy schedule to talk to Dubbo Weekender about her favourite subject – healthy food. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley What is that you love about nutritious food?

I’ve always welcomed working with fresh food. I feel really passionate about getting Australians eating real food and supporting our local producers. We have such fantastic food here in Australia, and we need to support our farmers and the food producers so we can continue to have a good supply.

It’s very difficult often for fresh food producers to compete in a landscape where they can’t put health star ratings on their products; they can’t put claims and health claims and marketing onto their products essentially because you’re buying the product fresh, so you have limited ability, and they don’t have much money. They’re not lucrative contracts to work with the fresh food industry.

It’s the big multinationals that have the company and big marketing budgets so I’ve always welcomed supporting local producers and local farmers so Australians really do understand what good foods are out there and what we ought to be going back to eating.

You advocate pineapples in particular, what’s the most challenging aspect of working with fruit?

Working with fruit as

well, I’m very passionate about clearing up that whole confusion over sugar. I get that from the public all the time and the notion that fruit’s bad because it contains sugar. It’s absolutely not the case.

The evidence behind eating fruit is rock solid. Fruit is good for us and it’s not to be confused with issues about added refined sugar into products.

I’m very pleased there’s such passion about nutrition these days; it’s great, lots of people talking about it, but on the other hand its lead to anyone and everyone being able to voice their opinion n and of cou course that then just confuses the space, when people listen to self-proclaimed experts who actually have no qualifications w hatsoever a whatsoever and really don’t under the bigger picture, and yyet they have a strong media voicee or a strong social media following so that starts starts to muddy mu the water and people not understandin understanding what might seem really common sense.

What are your thoughts on packaged pa foods?

I think parents get get confused because in the theree’s all this p supermarket there’s packaged stuff marketed at kids sso almost as if parents o it’s almos think, well, that’ss normal, th that’s what we feed kids instead o off just recogn recognising that kids can pretty much eeat at what we eat. So there might be nice things get them for a thin ngs we can g little treat. I’m cer certainly for having some r tainly all fo packaged things for I use some fo or convenience. convenien muesli bars and things I can pop things like that t in their lunch box but don’t forget x for ease, bu that at home you ccan an give them a handful of nuts or a piece of fruit, and th that makes life much easier, and p parents arents seem to be forgetting that.

What’s so special a about bout pineapples? pineap I’ve been involved involveed with Aussie Aus Pineapples for three years and an nd what I think th is a really nice story is that Australian fruit th hat it’s an Au that is available all year round which I think people don’t realise; don’t think about realisse; they don the health benefits. benefitts. They think thin it’s a tropical fruit and that it’s sweet; there’s confusion over sugar and so on. It is an all-natural product. It’s not a ass High GI as people think natural sugars it is. The sugars present are n so they’re totally totallly different tto the types of sugars that wee ought to be cutting down on in our diets. dietss.

Can you explain please fo for readers, what GI is?

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body has to work pretty hard. You release a lot of insulin in order to get that sugar out of your blood and into your cells.

How will low GI foods act, in comparison?

Low GI foods in comparison will have exactly the same amount of carbohydrate. They are digested more slowly; the sugar is absorbed up into your blood stream more slowly so you get a gentler rise in blood sugar levels and your body doesn’t need to produce nearly as much insulin to deal with those foods.

For most of us, though there are implications for people living with diabetes, it’s beneficial to consume lower GI foods because we’re helping our bodies to control those glucose levels.

Pineapples are not a seasonal fruit?

No, they’re grown all year round; they’re a tropical fruit predominantly grown up in Queensland and northern New South Wales. People see it as a summer fruit, like mango, but actually not because the season of the pineapple, different varieties are available and they harvest them all year round, so even all through winter you can enjoy pineapples and know that you’re still getting fresh fruit. It’s not some sort of funny storage thing that people get worried about. They genu-

Friday 06.11.2015 to Sunday 08.11.2015 | Dubbo Weekender inely are getting harvested at several points through the year.

How do we store pineapples once we get them home?

I love to buy two so I’ve got one that looks nice in the fruit bowl for a few days or up to a week, but actually when you buy a pineapple, they’re already ripe and ready to eat when they’re in stores so it’s not some fruit that are picked when they’re not ripe and you ripen them up in the fruit bowl. Don’t keep a pineapple too long. I wouldn’t keep it more than a week in my fruit bowl or it will start to go bad.

Your best bet is to cut it up pretty quickly and then keep it in the fridge and then it will keep for longer.

What I always do is chop up my pineapple. Keep some in the fridge fresh and half of it I cut into chunks and put it into zip lock bags and put them in the freezer then it’s idea for adding to smoothies. Frozen pineapple chunks are brilliant in your green smoothie and you can make frozen desserts for the kids, so having frozen pineapple is a great idea.

What’s your favourite pineapple recipe?

The smoothie is probably the one I use the most, other than just eating fresh pineapple. We always have

some fresh pineapple in our muesli in the morning.

The kids will eat chunks of fresh pineapple as a snack, but aside from that, I guess in my green smoothie is where I use it the most, so instead of putting ice cubes in it, I’ll put my veges and a few cubes of pineapple and it’s just lovely. It adds vitamin C of course but it just adds that level of sweetness that makes a vege smoothie much tastier.

What about using pineapple in savoury dishes?

Pineapple’s really good in savoury dishes, which I think again people forget about. A pineapple salsa is gorgeous with some chili. The Asians do this really well, mixing a salty sweet bitter all in the same dish and that’s where pineapple really well. So if you do pineapple with fresh herbs, some mint and coriander, and those kind of really fresh herbs, and chili and red onion, it’s just a really easy, quick salsa that you can serve with your barbeque or slow cooked or roast pork, it works really, really well.

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behind eating fruit is rock solid. Fruit is good for us and it’s not to be confused with issues about added refined sugar into products.

Pineapple salsa Ingredients 500g fresh pineapple, coarsely chopped 1 small red onion, finely chopped 1 long fresh red chilli, seeded, finely chopped 2 tbs chopped fresh mint 1 tbs fresh lime juice Method Combine all salsa ingredients into a bowl, stir and serve!

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Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa, Pool, Seychelles. Photos: PA

Mission accomplished in the Seychelles

BY SAM WYLIE-HARRIS HERE’S no time for hesitation as I rush towards the waiting helicopter, clinging tightly to my panama hat as the spinning blades whip up a breeze.

Once safely buckled into my leather seat, we soar above Mahe, the largest island in the Seychelles group, and head across the shimmering Indian Ocean to our chosen target, Silhouette Island.

A 20-minute helicopter ride, 20km northwest of Mahe, it’s just the sort of place James Bond might choose to moor up his power boat in between secret missions.

Author Ian Fleming holidayed in the Seychelles in 1958, and even used the sun-splashed paradise as a source of inspiration for some of his famous 007 novels.

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Two years after his visit, he published a collection of five short stories entitled For Your Eyes Only – three of which have been made into blockbuster Bond movies. The final villainous tale in the pentalogy, The Hildebrand Rarity, is set entirely in the Seychelles on-board a luxury yacht named The Wavekrest.

Fleming based himself at the Northolme hotel on Mahe, a secluded hideaway on the northwest coast with picturesque views of Beau Vallon Bay and Silhouette Island.

Originally built by an eccentric, retired English colonel, the Northolme has been revamped several times and is now a boutique resort. Each villa is hidden in the midst of tropical greenery and reflects the Creole architecture of the island.

The Seychelles is a sanctuary for rare flora, including the impressive

cannonball tree, which shades paths to the suites. I cup my hands around a large, spherical fruit which feels as heavy as a cannonball.

As I stroll through the gardens, I imagine a beautiful Bond girl dipping her toes in the water and staring out to the Indian Ocean.

Its warm, tropical waters are home to more than 400 species of reef fish and 300 species of coral. From the tranquillity of our sun deck, I spy a hawksbill turtle not far from the shore, where waves lap the granite rocks.

As Fleming noted in The Hildebrand Rarity, the marine life here is “a riot of colour and movement”, especially in the Northolme’s secluded beach cove.

As I wade into the calm, azure sea, I don’t need a snorkel to see the green parrot fish, schools of reef fish, a baby reef shark and a curious stingray that

seems drawn to my lily white legs.

Keen to explore more, we take a kayak out for a paddle across the cove and as we skirt the edge of the coral-fringed granite boulders jutting out from the sea, we spot armies of red crabs basking in the midday sun.

Eager to discover more about the history of the Seychelles, we temporarily leave our beach idyll behind and take a tour of Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles located on Mahe.

The smallest capital in the world – I count only two sets of traffic lights – it was named after Queen Victoria during British colonial rule.

There are still plenty of nods to those years, including the Victoria clock tower in the centre of town. Inspired by Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, it was shipped from London by mail steam ship and erected in her honour

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COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s Noma, voted the world’s best restaurant four times, will open its doors at Sydney’s Barangaroo next year, with reservations for the 10-week pop-up eatery selling out in less than two minutes.

“We’ve sold out in Australia in just under two minutes,” chef and founder Rene Redzepi said.

Demand for the $345 tickets, of which there were 5600, was so strong that booking system company Tock said it had processed over one $1 million in two minutes.

As the tickets went on sale, Noma received 84,000 page views a minute, according to the ticketing firm.

Redzepi has made several trips to Australia to find inspiration for the menu, which just like the Tokyo pop-up that opened earlier this year will use locally sourced ingredients.

On Instagram, the 37-year-old chef has posted pictures of crocodile fat, an Australian spanner crab and ants.

“Green ants from the stunning area of Arnhem Land in tropical Australia, one of the most exotic

places I’ve ever been to,” he wrote earlier this month.

“They have this explosive taste of kaffir lime, lemon grass, and a touch of coriander. They’ve also been a part of Aboriginal food and medicine culture for the past 60,000 years,” he added.

The Danish eatery will open for business at the Anadara building at the Barangaroo precinct on January 26.

The precinct, set to become a landmark future food and beverage destination, was selected for its

synergy to Noma in Copenhagen, which is also on the water and strongly connected to the sea, Barangaroo South said in a statement.

The two-Michelin-star restaurant grabbed the number one spot in Restaurant magazine’s prestigious annual ranking in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014.

Noma announced in September it would close by the end of 2016 and re-open on an urban farm in 2017 in the self-governed Copenhagen hippie community of Christiania.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 06.11.2015 to Sunday 08.11.2015 displayed in all their freshly caught glory, while barefoot fishermen hose down their filleting stations.

We head to the dry foods section, where bundles of cinnamon sticks, nuggets of ginger and sweet smelling bails of lemongrass are for sale.

Overhead, a kaleidoscope of kaftans and sarongs hanging from the first floor balcony souvenir shops entices me to head upstairs to delve into a treasure box of treats.

I’d heard that in the 17th century,

in 1903. Originally black, it was painted silver to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee and is still as shiny as a bullet.

Victoria is a bustling port and the Sir Selwyn Selwyn Clarke Market is one of the town’s most colourful attractions. Saturday is the busiest day, but we manage to jostle our way into the fishmongers’ corner at the market entrance.

Locals haggle for freshly caught tuna, octopus and red snapper, which are

The Sir Selwyn Clarke Market, Victoria, Seychelles.

Sam with the Zil Air helicopter before take-off.

Hilton Seychelles Labriz Resort and Spa, Seychelles.

Sam Wylie-Harris with a copy of For Your Eyes Only.

pirates would use the Seychelles as a base and many believe there are still hoards of treasure hidden on the islands, including Silhouette, our final destination.

Courtesy of our resort, Labriz, we enjoy a private sunset cruise around the island. As we slice through the waves, I sip champagne with my co-star Giles, whose tastes are as refined as Bond’s.

We marvel at the sheer beauty and scale of the granite rock formations that emerge from the sea.

Sam Wylie-Harris and Giles enjoying a vodka martini, Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa.

An aerial view of the Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa, Seychelles.

The infinity Pool, Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa.

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If he visited now, 007 would surely give Labriz his seal of approval. I can even imagine Daniel Craig emerging from the crashing waves in those famous blue swimming shorts.

More than fifty years after Fleming came here on holiday, the Seychelles is still a place of beauty, mystery and intrigue – the perfect hideaway for a Bond girl and their secret agent. z Sam Wylie-Harris was a guest of Etihad Holidays.

Sam on the Sunset Cruise, Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa.

Les Cocotiers Restaurant, Seychelles.

Sam on Silhouette beach, Hilton Labriz Resort and Spa, Seychelles.

Cannon ball tree, Hilton Northolme Resort and Spa.

Emirates plans world’s longest flight

Tourism needs 120,000 new workers

Sexism row erupts over new British passport design

BERLIN: Emirates Airlines is planning on setting a new world record in February 2016 with flights between Dubai and Panama City.

The company said the connection will result in the longest non-stop flight in the world, needing 17 hours and 35 minutes to cover the 13,821 kilometres.

But what are the world’s current longest non-stop flights? Here are the top five according to the world aviation association IATA. 1. Dallas to Sydney: Qantas flies 13,790 kilometres on this hop, taking nearly 17 hours over the Pacific.

2. Johannesburg to Atlanta: The company Delta flies about 13,580 kilometres from

CANBERRA: More than 120,000 workers will be needed in the tourism industry over the next five years.

That includes about 60,000 skilled workers, The Australian Tourism Labour Force report, commissioned by Austrade and produced by Deloitte Access Economics, has found.

There has also been a reduction in the use of overseas workers, now making up 10 per cent of the sector, down from 13 per cent in 2011.

LONDON: A new British passport design has provoked a sexism row for featuring seven men and just two women to represent the country’s cultural heritage.

The complex design covering the passport pages is aimed to be harder to forge, and depicts mathematician Ada Lovelace and writer and architect Elisabeth Scott.

But the two women are far outnumbered by men, who included playwright William Shakespeare, mathematician Charles Babbage and artists John Constable, Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor.

“Instead of being celebrated and remembered, great British women are being airbrushed out of history,” said Sam Smethers, chief executive of gender equality campaigners the Fawcett Society.

South Africa to the United States. Passengers also have 17 hours to fill.

3. Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles: Etihad Airways allows travellers to board in Abu Dhabi and 13,490 kilometres later land in Los Angeles, about 16.5 hours later.

4. Dubai to Los Angeles: The Emirates flight travels 13,410 kilometres from the United Arab Emirates to the west coast of the United States. The trip also takes about 16.5 hours.

5. Jeddah to Los Angeles: The airline Saudia needs nearly 17 hours to fly the some 13,400 kilometres from the Red Sea to the US West Coast.

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T can be hard to hear an Australian accent while walking along the waterfront esplanade in the far northern city of Cairns.

Tourists from across the globe flock to Cairns (I discover it is pronounced “Kanz”) for easy access to the Great Barrier Reef and some of the world’s most spectacular scuba diving, with plenty of less-crowded but picturesque beach towns nearby.

I went to Australia with my wife after my daughter finished a semester abroad on the Cairns campus of James Cook University. I knew about the Great Barrier Reef but quickly learnt that Queensland, the state that covers the northeast of Australia, is a lot more than beaches, scuba diving and quaint waterfront restaurants.

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An American in ‘Kanz’ An unforgettable family holiday for US journalist WILSON RING gives us a fascinaring outsider’s view of far north Queensland.

GREAT BARRIER REEF BOATS chug out of the Cairns harbour carrying scuba divers and snorkelers to the reefs, about 32 kilometres offshore.

Many boats carry visitors out to the reef and back the same day, but we spent two nights and three days on the Reef Encounter, a 30-metre catamaran. The vessel usually stays on the reef, moving between dive spots, with tourists, supplies and the crew arriving and departing on daily shuttles.

Many of the crew members on the boats are from other countries – taking advantage of an Australian labour shortage that led to a special temporary work visa program.

The first day we were on the boat, 15,000 kilometres from our Vermont home, we met two recent graduates of the University of Vermont, both of whom had set out to travel the Pacific separately and decided to meet in Cairns to go diving. They both ended up working there.

In most places the reef is shallow enough to be enjoyed while snorkelling, but the crew can offer on-the-spot training to uncertified divers and then accompany them on shallow dives.

DAINTREE NATIONAL PARK AND INLAND QUEENSLAND IT should be obvious to anyone who looks at a map, but travelling in Australia adds the exclamation point to the reality that the country is huge. The land mass is about the equivalent size of the continental United States with a population of about 24 million, about 4000km from the east to west coasts and 3685km from its most northerly to its most southerly points.

PHOTO: CHRIS MCLENNAN/TOURISM & EVENTS QUEENSLAND

I was fascinated by the flora and fauna, not to mention the ever-present signs on the Queensland beaches warning about crocodiles or marine stingers, a term that describes a variety of venomous jellyfish. There were ever-present bottles of vinegar left at many beaches to counteract the sting along with instructions to seek medical attention.

Then there are the endangered cassowaries, flightless birds related to the emu, with brilliantly coloured blue necks, heads with red wattles and black bodies. They are known for their unpredictability and their ability to eviscerate threats, thanks to their razor-sharp, three-toed claws.

To the north of Cairns is the Daintree National Park, some say the oldest rainforest – at 250 million years –

in the world. Keep going and you hit an area called the “Far North”, ending at Cape York, the northernmost point of the Australian mainland and just over 145km from Papua New Guinea. The area is sparsely populated but it is popular with tourists, who fill the roads with what they call campervans.

“There are options for accommodation but usually people will camp and four-wheel drive camper trailers are all the rage this year,” said Marion Esser, who runs the Cow Bay Homestay, a bed and breakfast at the edge of the Daintree Rainforest.

“Then most people would be fishing on the way, lots of rivers and coast on either side of the peninsula.”

It was by the side of a road in a park that we happened upon a cassowary.

It was one of an estimated 4400 of the protected bird left in what is known as the “wet tropics”, a 900,000-hectare area of coastal northern Queensland.

Away from the coast, there are also wallabies, small cuddly cousins of the kangaroo. At the Granite Gorge Nature Park outside the town of Mareeba, about an hour west of Cairns, wallabies will sit on your lap while you feed them.

The kangaroos that help give Australia its identity are as common as deer in parts of the US. At one point I had to slam the brakes of our rented van to avoid a kangaroo standing in the middle of the road while we drove through a vast field of sugarcane. We stopped in time, but Australian roadsides are littered with kangaroo carcasses.

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In the Daintree.

PHOTO: SOL DAVEY/TOURISM & EVENTS QUEENSLAND

WE hired our campervan in Cairns, promising to return it in Melbourne almost two weeks later. Adjusting to driving on the left was not as hard as I feared and the drive showed us the country you cannot see from an aircraft.

The trip, about the equivalent of driving from New York to Key West, Florida, mostly on well-maintained two-lane highways, showed the changing geography of Australia from seemingly endless fields of sugarcane in the far north that give way to tropical cattle country before that gives way to vast sheep and cattle farms, called stations.

Australia is paradise for road campers. Not only are camping grounds that would be familiar to Americans plentiful but most towns have free designated camping areas where RVs can stay for free. They always have toilet facilities, and some offer showers and other amenities.

The population centres in Australia are on the southeast coast. Once we reached Melbourne we turned in our campervan and hopped the flight home, an unforgettable family adventure of a AP lifetime.

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DRTCC Venue Technician David McCrae. PHOTO: EMILY CARROLL

“What could possibly go wrong?”

This month we shine the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) staff spotlight on David McCrae – Venue Technician: As a Venue Technician what exactly do you do and what does working a typical show night involve for you?

I’m employed to maintain different aspects of the venue which can involve anything from liaising with clients regarding their technical and artistic needs, predominately lighting for the show, operating shows, general venue maintenance and preparing for upcoming shows.

Since shows and functions aren’t held every day, what do you do on those “off ” days?

Off days, are few currently, and between booked seasonal shows (thanks to Linda) and outside hires they are becoming fewer and fewer.

Upcoming shows are a big part of the workload for all staff members. A lot of people may think it is “down time” for the technical department, but quite the contrary. With advanced technical requirements needed for some shows our department needs to plan well in advance. Unlike working at the coast where equipment for client or show needs is available at short notice, transport time and availability are a big issue for venues in regional areas. Usually the non-show days for me are relatively busier than show days. I have worked in other cities and I truly believe we are a professional and experienced team that delivers a quality service – I’m not just saying that – we receive great feedback from clients who have taken the time to write to management. We can have a semi-trailer back up to the theatre loading dock full of gear and an-

other one waiting – our team has happened during a show you have worked on? to make sure we are ready. I’m Well to date nothing embarrassing has hapfortunate to have a very experipened at DRTCC. Anything else for me... perenced technical and production sonally... I’m not prepared to divulge. co-ordinator whose experience Memorable or stand out shows during your is very much appreciated. Trycareer? ing to interpret the actual needs There are quite a few – they are all difficult of a touring company show is in their own way. Sydney Olympic Games in another ball game all together.

2000 was interesting, the 15th Asian games Maintaining the “standard rig” Closing Ceremony and Rent the musical are of lights for hirers of the venue three things that jump to mind straight away. in between complicated lightBut every show from a band in a nightclub in ing plans for season shows can The Cross to lighting Neil Armstrong poses its be challenging time-wise and own problems. A “professional” touring show sometimes very frustrating but which may have pages of complicated technihey, that’s the job. cal requirements can be far easier than a “non Have you ever performed at the Convention professional” hire that starts off simple but Centre, or old Civic Centre? becomes more challenging as they work out No, respectfully I’ve not been a resident of what they want (and unfortunately more costDubbo for that long to have performed at the old Civic Centre and to be honest I do not have ly). So my advice is, when you hire the venue, have a fair idea of what you want, what you any desire to perform anywhere. It’s not my really need and what your budget is and stick cup of tea.

When and how did you first become involved with that. At the end of the day I just want in the entertainment industry? everyone’s dream to come true in the most I started a little bit too early maybe, lighting cost effective way. bands for friends on the coast, predominantly Your dream job if you weren’t doing what you were doing? in Sydney CBD and Kings Cross where I lived.

If you had an unlimited budget, what artist I’m really interested in aircraft, carpentry or production, would you book at DRTCC? and pinball machine restoration. Restoring a Pink Floyd – next question!

Mustang would also be pretOr my cat Manny who would ty cool. be beautifully lit centre stage Best name-drop? for half a second!

Names, well where do you Your rider as a performer? start? I’ve worked with many Well I’m very much not a that are great and many that performer but I imagine they are not, but should be.

Every show eat caviar sprinkled with What phrase do you use the from a band in a most? gold dust. nightclub in The Your favourite show at “What could possibly go DRTCC? wrong?”

Cross to lighting I think Shout by Dubbo TheIf there was a movie made of Neil Armstrong your life who would you cast atre Company Inc followed as yourself and why? closely by 1984 by shake & poses its own Me – I want the money. It stir Theatre Company. problems. wouldn’t be a very interestWhat’s the worst or most embarrassing thing that has ing movie though.

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Our projects and films are becoming more ambitious in terms of the stories being told and also in our technical production standards.”

- Dubbo Filmmakers member and coordinator, Peter Aland

Local stars shine with one eye on film

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

HE third annual One Eye Film Festival kicks off next week, putting the efforts of local filmmakers firmly in front of a local audience.

An initiative Dubbo Filmmakers, a group of professional and amateur film lovers and makers from the region, the November 13 festival is a partnership with the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) which plays host to the event.

Last year’s crowd of more than 200 people gathered on the northern lawn of WPCC for the night in front of the big screen – something organisers believe is testament to the community’s interest and support for local creatives.

This year, a dozen filmmakers have entered a total of 30 films of varying genres and lengths, but all under seven minutes long.

Dubbo Filmmakers member and coordinator, Peter Aland, says the group sees the WPCC partnership as ideal because many of the films in the program lean towards art, providing content that’s at times funny as well as profound, and all broadening the scope of the Cultural Centre’s appeal to audiences.

“The content is all locally generated and ranges now from doco style pieces through to films with a strong message; to bigger, traditional narrative short films, and a range of art films as well.

“This year there are the bigger production numbers such as The Customer is Always Right and Sam and the Sheepdog – they’ll be fun to watch.

“The ANZAC films produced earlier in the year for the sleep-out event in Dubbo are interesting because they tell little known stories about local people

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Dubbo Filmmakers on the red carpet at last year’s One Eye Film Festival.

who faced extraordinary times, such as the Dubbo man who is the sailor on the Martin Place cenotaph.

“Then there are some deeper films that very briefly challenge the audience to think about the world we live in.”

As a group, Dubbo Filmmakers is constantly evolving to meet the needs of those who make up its ranks, seemingly pitching more ambitious projects as each year passes.

“As we produce more and more films, we’re seeing our standards rise rapidly.

“Our projects and films are becoming more ambitious in terms of the stories being told and also in our technical production standards.

“New filmmakers with new stories to tell have attracted new cast and crew.”

Aland gives examples such as The Station by Sally Hopkins, a story drawn

from her family’s history, with a cast of hundreds of extras, a trailer for which may be shown next week.

The festival is but one calendar entry for the filmmakers, with a growing number of opportunities presenting themselves to what is now a fully equipped and skilled up production team.

These opportunities have included not only producing two Tropfest entries and an international film festival entry, but six films for the ANZAC sleep-out, work with Macquarie Regional Library’s oral history project, as well as many personal projects.

Aland says the film festival is an important inclusion in the group’s calendar though, as it’s where local audiences

can support their local talent.

“Films are made to be seen and showing them to an audience is the point of making the film.

“Showing your film to an audience that knows you and your actors is scary but exciting – filmmakers get to see and hear how people react to our films, and the audience gets to see their community, their stories and sometimes themselves on the big screen.” z The One Eye Film Festival is a free event held outside on the northern side of the WPCC. It’s a family night with pre-screening entertainment at 7pm, films starting at 8pm, and food and wine available. Bring chairs and picnic rugs and maybe a blanket in case the night turns cool.

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WWII espionage: fact was stranger than fiction Paul Willetts’ “Rendezvous At The Russian Tea Rooms” reveals the fascinating and sometime bizarre lives of spies during the Second World War

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK Rendezvous At The Russian Tea Rooms: The Spy Hunter, The Fashion Designer And The Man From Moscow

by Paul Willetts is published in hardback

by Constable.

TAKE a deep breath before you open this book, as from the first page it plunges into the fevered atmosphere of 1939 and the eve of London’s Blitz.

This gripping tale is based on true events which made headlines around the world and were described by one American newspaper as “The greatest spy story of the war”.

Packed with spies, secret assignations, surveillance and kidnapping, it’s an impressive portrait that lays bare the sinister truth behind spy networks of the Second World War. The central characters are a Russian fashion designer with Nazi connections whose clothes were worn by the Duchess of Windsor, an American womaniser who worked at the US Embassy, but was spying for the Russians and an eccentric, but brilliant MI5 spy hunter, who enjoyed taking his pet bear cub for walks around the streets of London.

Rather than detracting from the main story, the long cast list at the beginning, photographs of the main characters in the centre and copious notes at the end serve as a useful reminder that these complicated and at times, bizarre, events actually happened.

This is Paul Willetts’ fourth non-fiction book – his previous works include Members Only, a study of strip-show boss Paul Raymond, which inspired 2013 film The Look Of Love starring Steve Coogan and Anna Friel.

He began researching Rendezvous At The Russian Tea Rooms more than 20 years ago and spent more than five years trawling through hundreds of personal and public documents including letters, photographs, MI5 reports, a summary of a phone tap from the British National Archives and photographs.

His diligence has certainly paid off, in that he has created a powerful and hugely entertaining record of a bygone era.

9/10 (Review by Gill Oliver)

by a SWAT team’s mistaken invasion of their own home, Rudd bounces from one courtroom battle to the next at breakneck speed, and with little regard for the size or standing of the adversary.

Even when he can’t get a cage fighter off a murder charge, there is just enough in Rudd’s favour to leave the reader pulling in his direction. Grisham has made his name with gritty legal characters and his latest is sure to have him raking in big fees once again.

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when, against his better judgement, he decides to investigate the story behind a murder conviction Mickey is convinced is a set-up.

Suspicious that there is something is awry with the original police investigation, he starts to look closely at the case, following his own leads and discovers, with help from his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, things are not as they should be within the police department.

As the truth reveals itself, Bosch becomes the next target.

For a book with so many interlinking tales, it is a slow burn, but it’s worth the persistence as the drama builds – and you don’t need to have read the full Bosch back-catalogue either.

8/10 (Review by Rachel Howdle) High Dive by Jonathan Lee is published in hardback by William Heinemann.

IN September 1984, a bomb planted by the IRA exploded at the Grand Hotel in Brighton with the main aim of killing then prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

This audacious assassination attempt forms the background to High Dive, Jonathan Lee’s third novel.

Opening with a startling initiation into the IRA and ending with the bombing, Lee has crafted an absorbing character piece which feels startlingly real.

My initial concerns that the story would be suffocated by the real-life drama were quickly put aside. Even though the dread of the looming disaster is always there, the main characters’ stories are given plenty of room to breathe and their mundane struggles with everyday life are extremely relatable and familiar.

After tasting success with his last book, Joy, Lee has been called one of Britain’s brightest new literary stars.

High Dive is funny, troublesome and poignant, and will cement his reputation even further.

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O FICTION Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham is published in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton.

SEBASTIAN Rudd is the sort of lawyer that any self-respecting criminal would want to defend them. He is the street lawyer the police hate as equally as the criminals and very possibly the type of legal advocate author John Grisham wishes he could be.

Just to make things interesting, Grisham has got his latest hero grappling with a no-holds-barred custody case with his lawyer ex-wife at the same time as he dodges death threats and car bombs from dissatisfied clients.

From the wrongly accused and falsely prosecuted to the family left devastated

The Crossing by Michael Connelly is published in hardback by Orion.

THE bestselling and award-winning author Michael Connelly returns with his 28th book, the 20th featuring Harry Bosch.

Bosch has now retired from his detective role at the LAPD, and finds himself at a loose end. It’s not long until his halfbrother, The Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller calls on him for help with a murder case.

The little reputation he has left within his old police department is threatened

John Grisham’s gritty “Rogue Lawyer” is published just in time for summertime reading. PHOTO: RANDOM HOUSE

The Lake House by Kate Morton is published in hardback by Mantle.

KATE Morton’s fifth novel is classically Morton-esque: dual narrative, split between the early 1930s and present day, and set in Cornwall and London, it’s replete with tragic pasts and romance, with an onion-layered mystery at its core.

Alice Evadene is the link between the two periods: in 1933, she’s a teenager and aspiring author who we meet on the day of her family’s annual Midsummer Ball at Loeanneth, an ultimately trag-

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Also in the present day is Sadie, a suspended detective on enforced leave, who’s decamped from London to Cornwall to stay with her grandfather. When she uncovers the mystery of Loeanneth, however, her professional interest is piqued, and she and Alice are inexorably drawn together...

Though a little heavy-handed at times, this is a cosy read that will greatly satisfy Morton’s fans.

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O NON-FICTION The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey Of Escape To A New Life In Britain

by Gulwali Passarlay, with Nadene Ghouri, is published in hardback

by Atlantic Books.

THIS shocking memoir tells the story of a young Afghan boy who is sent away from his home country and smuggled to Iran at the age of 12 after his father is killed in a gun battle

with the US army for hiding Taliban fighters.

From Iran, he begins an epic, year-long journey as he tries to make his way across Europe to Britain.

He is thrown into prison, almost drowns on a small boat and is subjected to barbarity at the hands of underground gangs that organise migrant smuggling.

Eventually he makes it to Britain and rebuilds his life, winning a place at a top university, despite the depravity and terror he has experienced.

This powerful and astonishing book is an important tale for our time, where thousands of men, women and children are attempting this journey to lead a better life, and simply do not make it.

9/10 (Review by Georgina Rodgers)

Easily Distracted by Steve Coogan is published in hardback

by Century.

WHEN you’ve spent nearly your entire career playing a character, you can understand how it might be difficult for people to see you as anything else. So, for Alan Partridge fans nationwide, Oscar-nominated film Philomena showed a different side, and skillset, to the Steve Coogan they thought they knew.

In fact, it surprised the man himself, thinking, on the way to a Papal audience during the film’s first release, “All this has happened because I read an article in a newspaper.”

The book also delves into the darker side of the comedian’s previous hedonistic lifestyle, and why he felt it was part of his duty to fight against phone hacking journalists before the whole scandal had come to light.

Whether you are a Partridge fan or not, the book is a wonderful insight into a man who has lived it all, and admits: “I learned that it’s OK to acknowledge your weaknesses.

It’s fine. Not only is it fine, but it makes you stronger, rather paradoxically.”

8/10 (Review by Rebecca Flitton)

The moving finger writes I N 1995 Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and also awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1999 for his translation of “Beowulf”. The story is set, poised between the Bible and folk wisdom and the Dark Ages, with such skill that it has been described that “he made a masterpiece out of a masterpiece”.

The poem “Beowulf” was composed some time between mid-seventh and the end of the tenth century in the Anglo-Saxon language. It is more than 3000 lines long, concerning the deeds of a Scandinavian prince, and it stands as one of the foundation works of poetry in English.

“Its hero, Beowulf is the biggest presence among the warriors a in the land of the Geats, a territory situated in what is now southern Sweden. Early in the poem he crosses the seas to the land of the Danes in order to rid their country of a man-eating monster called Grendel. He later becomes king of his homeland – but a dragon begins to terrorise the land and Beowulf must confront it. He manages to slay the dragon but meets his own death and enters the legends of his people as a warrior of high renown.”

Poetry can be a way of using language to convey a message and some people have or devel-

op a talent to compose a message or entertainment. The metre and flow of words, and the rhyming are usual elements of the composition but that is not essential.

Some of the earliest conversions with young children are in the form of a nursery rhyme.

And we eventually move on classical poetry of Coleridge and eventually to the limerick, a collection compiled by W.S. Baring-Gould who provides us with: A rare old bird is the pelican; His bill holds more than he belican.

He can take in his beak Enough food for a week; But I’m darned if I see how the helican.

In 2014, to commemorate 100 years since the first year of WWI, “Penguin Book of First World War Poetry” was published and continues to have a powerful effect on readers.

This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains, and the themes cover the different experiences of war, not just for the soldiers but for those left behind as well. This book in-

` “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran is considered a heartfelt masterpiece... a

cludes famous works from Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen and the anonymous lyrics of soldiers’ songs.

One in a series of Australian Classics is “Henry Lawson, Poems & Stories” which includes: Our Andy’s gone with cattle now ‘Gainst drought, the red marauder; Our Andy’s gone with cattle now Across the Queensland border.

These tell us a simple view of what life, human and climate was in those days. The details are spoken as they really were – dry, wet, hard work, leaving on distant droving jobs with no certainty of return. How better described than in Lawson’s “The Ballad of the Drover”.

And to observe how education has moved so far forward, read “The Old Bark School”.

Where did Henry Lawson’s talent come from? His early life was not well settled, the family moving around the Central West, but his mother Louisa Lawson had the gift of words.

“The Lonely Crossing & Other Poems” is a collection of 562 poems beginning with a verse: “A man on foot came down to the river, A silent man, on the road alone, And dropped his swag with a chill-born shiver, And sat to rest on a wind worn stone.”

Louisa Lawson was born in 1848 at Guntawang near Mudgee; her father worked as a shearer, carter and timber get-

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O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Railhead by Philip Reeve is published in hardback by Oxford University Press.

SCOPE and potential fizz and pop in Carnegie medal winner Philip Reeve’s latest novel, Railhead. And you’d hope so – a decade of work has gone into the epic tale that sees teenaged thief, Zen, explore a galaxy of planets connected by sentient trains that race along the tracks, spewing feelings, opinions and bullets.

As train-loving ‘railhead’ Zen gets caught up in a game between the Guardians (who invented the interplanetary rail network) and Raven, a pale, semi-supernatural being whose motives are more than murky, he must decide where to draw his own lines and who to trust.

The world itself is magnetic, the idea of trains zigzagging between clusters of humanity quite beautiful – all achieved without being bogged down in sci-fi silliness – but all that promise flounders when it comes to the relationships between characters, they just don’t have the same power and zing as the locomotives.

The supporting cast are flimsy at best, and our ‘hero’ Zen races around all over the place, but lacks the history and personality to keep it punchy.

The Motoriks – conscious robots – have more heart. But, Hollywood is already on board, so a slew of glitzier, brasher sequels is definitely on the horizon.

6/10 (Review by Ella Walker)

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The final verse in his poem “Song of the Federation” differs from the words that we traditionally recognise as the work of Banjo Paterson. It has a depth of thinking and definition that might be more often recognised as part of the character of the Australian nation that some today want to pull apart.

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Poetry can tell us the meaning of life, an example being “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran.

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One part is used as appreciation at funerals.

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Paul O’Grady: ‘Me and Cilla always got into trouble!’

“There’s a book there with me and Cilla, there’s probably a couple. If I do write another memoir I will intertwine that with Cilla.

“We had so many laughs,” he says of his friend, who died suddenly, aged 72, in August. “We had such a good time.

Me and Cilla always got into trouble and I always got the blame!

“She wasn’t scared of The British comedian and anything and she was TV show host has lost two up for anything. I used close friends this year – Cilla to take her to these dogrough Puerto Rican clubs Black and Jackie Collins. Doing in New York, where the the work he loves is helping taxi driver would say, through a tough time, ‘Are you sure you want writes Hannah Stephenson. me to drop you off here?’

But they played fabulous music.

“I’d say to Cilla, ‘Give us your jewellery’, so off would come the diamond ring and the necklace, I’d put them in my pocket and then we’d go in and have a ball! They were working class clubs but there was never any trouble, even though they’d be in the parts of town where you wouldn’t dare tread. But she would always say she felt safe with me.”

He’s kept in touch with her sons, Robert, Ben and Jack. “They are still stunned by it all. It’s so sad. She was such a powerful influence over them.”

How would they feel about him writing a book about their mother?

“Well, they know with me, she’d be safe. They’d rather me do it than anyone else. It would just be about two people having fun and what we got up to.

“I’ve got a great memory for conversations and situations. People say my memory’s scary. There’s loads of material. I would never be disrespectful to her.”

Despite death all around him, O’Grady hasn’t lost his mojo and his conversation is peppered with acerbic wit, although he realises that for work, he adopts a going. When I came back from Bordifferent persona. neo, I said, ‘I must ring Cilla’, and then I “You switch on, whether it’s with dogs thought, ‘What am I talking about?’ You or a baboon, or if you’re interviewing just forget they’re not there any more. someone. You get respite from it. All the And I only spoke to Jackie just before world’s normal.”

I went.

He’s now filming a documentary about “It hasn’t really sunk in. I haven’t the Salvation Army, meeting people the had time to breathe, because we were organisation helps, including ex-gang haring around Borneo with all manner members, the homeless and those who of critters. I haven’t had time to sit and are dying in hospices. dwell on it.

O’Grady, a former care officer (his “Work always helps,” he adds. “It takes job before he developed his drag act your mind off everything. I’m a great and eventually got into TV), seems to believer in that. When you’re working, be drawn to the waifs and strays of this you’re preoccupied, so you have to focus world. He lives in Kent, UK with five all your attention on your work and you dogs and says if he could have brought forget everything else for a few hours.” an orangutan back from Borneo, he He is now promoting his latest mem- would have done. oir, Open The Cage, Murphy – the fourth “I could probably have a nice job in instalment in his life story – which a clean studio where they press a suit, charts more hilarious adventures durput make-up on me and make me look ing his time as Lily Savage, an eventful vaguely human, or I can go out and Australian tour, his foray into TV game crawl ‘round a kennel or be with sick shows and, away from the camera, his people!” then-partner Brendan Murphy’s battle Viewers can also see him in the new with cancer. But O’Grady still has some series of For The Love Of Dogs, shown way to go to bring his story to the prehere in Foxtel’s LifeStyle channel. sent day.

“I’m always getting involved,” he “It’s worse than Harry Potter, this reflects. “I mean, I’ve got five dogs saga,” he jokes. “I don’t think War And because I got involved. Two of them are Peace is this long!” epileptic, one’s got cancer, one’s crippled with arthritis and has an ulcer in his No sooner is this book out than he’s considering writing another – about eye and one’s got personality defects. I his long friendship with Cilla Black and can’t walk away at five o’clock and fortheir many escapades. get about my job. That doesn’t happen.”

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AUL O’GRADY is covered in mosquito bites – but, he explains, he at least managed to extract the leeches from his legs following a trip to the rainforests of Borneo, where he befriended orangutans for a new TV series called “Animal Orphans”.

“We had to wear face masks, rubber gloves and Wellies in case we gave the orangutans any human diseases, because they can’t cope – and the heat was unbelievable,” the comedian, presenter and author recalls.

It’s just one of the projects he’s thrown himself into since the death of his close pals – Cilla Black and more recently Jackie Collins – and, indeed, work has been the best distraction from grief.

“What with Cilla going and then Jackie, I’m just hanging on in there. The effect has been terrible, shocking.

“I still haven’t got to grips with Cilla

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Paul O’Grady as Lily Savage in London in 1998. Photos: PA

With Cilla Black in 2014

As well as filming documentaries, he’s writing a children’s book called Eddie’s Elephant, the royalties of which will go to an elephant orphanage in Lusaka, Zambia, and will be starring in panto – playing the fairy godfather in Cinderella – near his home at Christmas.

The deaths of close friends has made O’Grady consider his own mortality.

He’s had two heart attacks in the past, and recently turned 60.

“My doctor says, ‘Oh God, you’re held together with gaffer tape and staples!

You’re indestructible. But I read that Graham Norton said he was going to retire early because he’d like to be able to do things he wanted to do.

“I actually thought, ‘Well, the things I want to do, now I can’t be bothered doing!’ The things I wanted to do as a teenager I’d be appalled at now! Well, I’ve done most of them and you get a bit world-weary.

“I’ve no time for sickness and I’ve no time for people who enjoy being sick – you know the type. I only go to the doctor’s if I need to go.

“Last time my doctor rang me, he said, ‘I told you to take it easy, then I turned the telly on and there you are, fireeating with McFly!’”

:: Open The Cage, Murphy by Paul O’Grady is published by Bantam

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The blessed life of Brian HERE’S a boundless enthusiasm about Brian Blessed, as he welcomes me into his England home, introducing me to his wife and dog before venturing into a cabin in the garden, where our interview takes place.

His voice and broad frame are still hugely powerful, his language colourful, his anecdotes delivered in a variety of accents, long bushy beard moving up and down as he speaks, eyes almost popping with excitement. Like a lion, he roars through life, both vocally and physically.

The cabin, in Surrey, is an Aladdin’s cave of clutter, peppered with personal mementoes. There are pictures of Everest, a signed photograph of Buzz Aldrin, a variety of buddhas, Sri Lankan elephant statues and a recent contemporary portrait of himself laughing, created by a leading artist in Nepal.

Blessed, 79, barely pauses for breath as he recalls the people he’s worked with, from Peter O’Toole to Katharine Hepburn, his escapades on Z-Cars, Flash Gordon and Star Wars, his early years as an undertaker, his three Everest missions and his friendship with Kenneth Branagh, who happens to live up the road.

It’s fitting that his memoir is called Absolute Pandemonium, because it’s written not in any particular chronological order, his boisterous self bounding out of every page.

Indeed, he asks people to read it with his voice in mind and admits his thoughts are spontaneous, making for a very entertaining and somewhat chaotic read.

“I want to leap out of the pages at you!

Not literally, of course. I mean, where on earth would you keep me? I’m quite a size.”

In the two hours I’m with him, I am able to ask about five questions, and that’s not without raising my voice to try to interrupt him, frequently unsuccessfully. When Blessed is on a roll, he’s like a runaway train.

He talks about O’Toole at length, how wonderful and awful he could be, a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ alcoholic of whom other actors were petrified – but not Blessed.

“I stood up to his violence. I’d been a champion boxer and judo expert. I’d always been tough. I’m not frightened of anything. From the first time I met O’Toole, I loved him on sight, but there was an antagonism as well. I’ve never met anyone who observed acting so well and we challenged each other.”

Katharine Hepburn is another favourite topic. They met in 1971 on the set of The Trojan Women and were to have a close relationship for many years.

“I don’t like words like platonic or organic – it was a very deep friend-

ship. We didn’t make love but we kissed and we held each other. I didn’t make the final move in the end. I didn’t feel anything about me being 31 and she being 61.

“I think we would have gone on, but there was too much pressure from socalled associates and friends.”

Even David Cameron features in the book, for asking him to say his famous catchphrase outside Number 10 when Blessed visited Downing Street for an event. He booms, “Gordon’s Alive!”, Prince Vultan’s famous line, joyously reliving the Flash Gordon moment.

Born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, the son of a coal miner, Blessed had to leave school at 15 to earn a wage, after his father shattered his hips in a mining accident. He became an undertaker’s assistant, making coffins and dealing with corpses (there’s a hilarious chapter on this), before embarking on an acting career and, after national service, joined Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

While he has appeared with the great and the good on both TV and in the theatre, adventure has played an equally important part in his life.

At 57, Blessed became the oldest man to reach heights of over 28,000ft without oxygen, and is also the oldest man to reach the magnetic North Pole on foot.

He has climbed Everest three times, but never reached the summit.

“I have a gift for altitude. To go at almost 60 years of age to 400ft below the summit of Everest without oxygen is unheard of. I have lungs twice the normal size.” weights and planning all my expediHe’s once again planning another extions. I am cured! I want to go to the pedition, despite having to pull out of South Pole, I want to go into space, I King Lear in January on the advice of want to go to the moon. his doctor, after collapsing on stage.

“The doctors say, ‘Shall we speed up But he plays down this frightening your heart machine? I event. think we can speed it “I just had to stop up slightly when you No human being has gone to because part of my go to Everest, Brian. machine [pointing high altitudes so many times Maybe we can come to his heart] didn’t at such an old age.

You pay a to Everest base camp work for a few days. and then we can tune It was slight fibrilla- price for that. you’.” tion because of my He has never let age many times at altiinterfere with his ambitions. tude. No human being has gone to high “I think that 40 is incredibly young. altitudes so many times at such an old Middle-age is between 55 and 65. It’s age. You pay a price for that. not how old you are, it’s how you are “My big expeditions started when I old. When my father was 99, I said, was around 55, when many people are ‘Dad, what’s it like being old?’ He said, thinking of retiring,” he adds. “So a part ‘I don’t know what you mean. I’m the of my heart gave me a bit of fibrillation. same now as when I was a child’.

I wanted the best heart specialist on “And regards death, you can give it it, not out of vanity, but because of the a healthy ‘V’ sign. Death doesn’t exist. things I want to do.”

You have always been alive. Life is the He’s had a pacemaker fitted and is last word, death is not. I have no fear of once again raring to go. anything.

“Within minutes, they said, ‘Your “I run between five to 10 miles a day heart is now 100 per cent, you have the and I have my own rough gym, with heart of a 30-year-old’. I have tests all rocks in sacks. I don’t have all that the time. They say I have a massively modern s***. I’m always ready to go.” powerful heart.

“Now I’m bench-pressing, doing He meditates for half an hour every

Blessed at the World Premiere of the documentary, Lion Ark, as part of the Raindance Film Festival, in 2013.

Sara Aimson, James Ellis, Colin Welland, Joseph Brady, Brian Blessed, Donald Gee and Frank Windsor, members of the cast of BBC Television’s ‘Z Cars’ at the BBC Television Centre in London.

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A younger Brian Blessed.

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morning and evening too, and loves being on his own in the wilderness, whether it’s in the countryside or up a mountain.

“People ask me, ‘Is it not dangerous going up Everest or the North Pole?’ I say, the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. When I’m 80, I want to climb Everest to raise money for Nepal.”

He has been married to the actress Hildegarde Neil for 37 years, with whom he has a daughter, Rosalind, who’s also an actress. His wife does not, however, like him going on dangerous expeditions, he admits.

“My wife is very practical. She’s very emotional but she wouldn’t stop me doing what I want to do. She doesn’t quite understand why I’m doing it but I think she secretly admires it.”

In the next year, he hopes to do King Lear again and direct several plays – as well as fitting in a spring expedition.

He’s keen to go in search of yetis in Canada, Russia and Malaysia. Indeed, he has so much more life to live.

Blessed aims to take Katharine Hepburn’s advice, which he recounts: “Always try and say ‘yes’ to life, Brian.

And don’t obey all the rules. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”

Absolute Pandemonium: The Autobiography by Brian Blessed, published

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Official opening of new-look Orana Mall

BY RUBY JANETZKI ORANA Mall celebrated their official opening after major renovations, expansions and improvements. The opening was attended by management, owners, retailers and patrons of the centre.

Darren Inglis, Mathew Dickerson and Deanna Wighton

Back, Steve Gooley, Sharon Naumburger and Neil Midalia, front, Deb Gooley, Ingrid Naumburger and Karen Midalia

Chris Kingsland, Travis Garratt, Russ Peet and Geoff Donnelly

Kerry and Michael Glocker, David Olsen and Richard Adams

Graeme Wallace, Craig Peterie, Trent Sissian, Luci and Greg Spora and Lucy Sissian

Ingrid Naumburger cuts the ribbon

Chris Burr, Terri Rindfleish and Paul Cuskelly

Ingrid Naumburger cuts the ribbon

Back, Mick Carah, James Wall, Karen Hickey and Steve Gooley, front, Cherie Forrester, Amy Whiteley, Maryanne Stewart and Megan Hatton

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An Evening at the Proms BYYVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY THE audience attending “An Evening At The Proms – A Musical Spectacular” at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre on Saturday, October 24, were treated to internationally acclaimed violinist Ian Cooper who was joined on stage by opera stars, prima ballerinas, Australia’s current champion Pipe Band, world famous piano maestro and the Blue Danube Orchestra.

The show’s repertoire included Ave Maria, Time to Say Goodbye made famous by Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman, Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life) from the Barcelona Olympics, Ravel’s Bolero and The Blue Danube Waltz with the ballet.

Jenny, Rachel and Geoff Thomas

Cynthia and Pat Foley

Joan Norman, Anne Wilson, Pat Orbell, Iolanda Battistel

Greg Barker and Roz Pritchard

Annemieke Neville, Ray Nolan, Jane Russ, Ken McAnally

Dawn Serisier and Jill Irving

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Festival of the Nine Nights

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY THE Navratri festival was celebrated by members of ORISCON, a voluntary community organisation based in Dubbo, on Saturday, October 24, at the PCYC Hall on Erskine Street.

Navratri (nava means ‘nine’ and ratri means ‘nights’) refers to nine nights of festival dedicated to the worship of Hindu God Durga which is widely celebrated throughout the world by Hindus. Guests participated in the Garba Dance which originates in the Gujrat state of India and enjoyed traditional food.

ORISCON combines various cultures of India, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bangladesh and more to celebrate their cultural heritage with the aim of passing it to the next generation.

Shiny, Shahini Sinha, Maninder Kawi, Vidya, Harsharan and Lata

Vidhya, Lata, Maninder, Ruby, Supreeth, Harsharan

Jalpa, Falguni, Dipalee, Rajitha, Bhoomi, Naineeka, Grishma, Mahee, Naisheeka, Anushka.

Anushka in traditional Gugurati costume

The ceremony to pay tribute to the Lady Goddess

Radhika, Dipalee, Falguni and Jalpa

Guests pay tribute to the Lady Goddess, Durga

Dipalee and Harry Amin and family pay tribute to Durga

The shrine to the Lady Goddess

Naisheeka, 3 years old

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Bars behind bars at goal night

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY THE Old Dubbo Gaol opened its gates to the public for free on Friday night, October 30, for an evening of gourmet food by Two Doors Café Restaurant, a wine bar, dessert bar and live music. The inaugural Wine and Nourishment night – a play on Crime and Punishment – was enjoyed by a family crowd, with the interesting historic surrounding serving as a unique backdrop to the relaxed event.

The rain did come down during the evening but guests stayed on to support one of Dubbo’s newest nights out. The Old Dubbo Gaol recently announced their selection as finalists in the 2015 NSW Tourism Awards in the Cultural Tourism category. Winners will be announced in November.

Karen-Lea Delaney, Jacki Roberts and Kyle Wallace

David Gaurano, Michael Tran, Christine Pham

Ngaire Davis and Mary Strong

Sarah Derrett and Anna Dawson

Sophia Luff, Kate Belcher, Prue Rutherford

Wendy Cruickshank and Lilly Shoo

Anne and Ken White

Claudia Keady, Frankie Lavelle, Libby Keady, Andrew Lavelle

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear ...the sound of laughter!

...local jazz

IN her brand new show titled Seriously?, comedian Kitty Flanagan gives audiences the inside scoop on gravediggers, cops, Cubans and spaghetti soss.

There’s advice on how to speak to doctors, some funny music from Sister Penny plus a serious attempt to quantify one of life’s biggest mysteries: ‘’How much do old people love salt?’’ See one of Australia’s best loved funny girls, Kitty Flanagan on stage at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) on Saturday, November 14 – visit www.drtcc.com.au for more information.

DUBBO JAZZ invites you to come along and support local band, Chalkies – made up of local school music teachers who get together to play jazz, funk and popular music.

Chalkies will be playing at the Monkey Bar in Wingewarra Street in Dubbo on Friday, November 13 (it’ll only be bad luck if you miss it!) from 7-10pm. Entry is free and there will of course be the opportunity to wind down after work on a Friday evening with great food and a few quiet ones from the bar.

see ...local filmmakers MOST of today’s premiere film directors first found their start in short films, and next weekend, you have the chance to support local filmmakers at the popular One Eye Film Festival.

All the basics are there in these short films that are written, produced and starring locals – plot, character development, beautiful imagery and the dramatic climax.

Sit back on the lawns of the WPCC and watch the latest batch of Dubbo’s short film makers strut their stuff on Friday, November 13.

This event is free, food and refreshments will be available.

...Holding The Man RAINBOW ALLIANCE will be hosting a special one-time screening of the film Holding The Man in Dubbo on Tuesday, December 1 at Reading Cin-

emas – but they need your help to make the screening a reality. Unlike a traditional movie showing, promoters of the film require a certain number of tickets to be pre-sold, and organisers need to fill these pre-orders to ensure the screening goes ahead.

To reserve your tickets, please visit the Tugg Event Page here: www.tugg.com/events/76562 Following the successful campaign to bring the film Gayby Baby to the big screen in Dubbo, organisers are hoping the community again gets behind them to make the screening of Holding the Man a reality.

do ... Get along to the Western Plains Cultural Centre NOW’S the time to get along the the WPCC to see what all the fuss is about.

You can read all about it in this edition of Weekender with Lisa Minner’s story about one of Australia’s greatest art world mysteries, but if you want to see Norman Lindsay’s famed painting, Woman and Satyr, it’s on show now

at the WPCC. So what’s the mystery?

Well, the painting’s origins are unknown – it came into the possession of police some time in the 1970s, but how and why remains a mystery. The painting was handed to the NSW Art Gallery in 1980, and has only just re-emerged and gone “on tour” in the hopes that some information as to the original owners may come to light. While it’s here in Dubbo, perhaps a local memory may be jogged!

...mark this one in the diary!

ON Friday, February 19 (yes, that’s next year) ABBA makes a triumphant return to Dubbo’s stage. Well, a fantastic tribute to the Swedish super group, at least.

Audiences will be thrilled with a brand new show celebrating the 40th anniversary of one of ABBA’s signature songs, Gold – The Ultimate ABBA Show celebrates Dancing Queen: The 40th An-

niversary Tour!

Released in August 1976, Rolling Stone magazine listed Dancing Queen as one of the greatest songs of all time.

So it’s only natural that we bring out the flares and platform shoes and raise the disco ball in a production that will have you shamelessly dancing in the aisles.

Don’t miss this true ABBA experience and your chance to unleash your inner dancing queen. Contact the DRTCC for more information.

at the WPCC is Circa 1915, an exhibition on this hidden side of 1915. Visitors will be able to read stories of things were possibly only marginally important at the time but ground breaking now.

As part of Circa 1915 the WPCC will present a talk by Professor Geraint F Lewis of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. Titled “Einstein’s Wonderful Idea” Professor Lewis will explore the impact of Einstein’s theory on the great fields of cosmology and

space travel and on the more ordinary travels we take on the surface of the earth. This talk will be held on Friday 20 November at 6pm and is free but RSVPs are required to assure a place.

Please RSVP to 6801 4444 or Karen. hagan@dubbo.nsw.gov.au.

••• APPARENTLY it’s only six weeks until Santa comes down the chimney again, and that means it’s almost time for Dubbo’s traditional Rotary Christmas Fair. This year, it’s South Dubbo Rotary

Club that will be hosting all the fun of the fair, with everything from chocolate wheels and children’s rides to entertainment and face painting and market stalls and food and ... well, you get the picture! To be held this year on Saturday, December 12 on the lawns of the Dubbo Visitors’ Centre, this is a FREE entry event and all the proceeds from the day will go to support the fantastic work of Rotary both here in our local community and around the world.

etc.

2015 has been a year of commemoration and celebration for 1915 – 100 years since the troops of ANZAC stormed across the beaches of Gallipoli and into the mythology and immortality of the Australian psyche. But 1915 was an important year for a great many reasons not connected to the world. Things happened across the globe that continue to have enormous consequences for those living today, things we may not be aware of as we move about our daily business.

Opening this weekend, November 7,

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

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT

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

dĂŬĞ Ă ƌŝĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ dƌŝŬĞ ĚǀĞŶƚƵƌĞƐ ƚŚŝƐ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚ͊

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL

VELDT RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ dƵĞƐĚĂLJ ƚŽ &ƌŝĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϳĂŵ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ͘ Open for dinner Monday to Saturday Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ 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

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

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

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟ Đ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

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Friday, November 6 Antiques Roadshow

Dating Naked

MOVIE: Wall-E

Are you hoarding dusty bits and bobs in your attic that you suspect might be worth some money, if only you could find an expert to have a look?

The Antiques Roadshow team specialise in just that, travelling across Britain to examine the potential gems people want priced, and meet antiques enthusiasts, and there’s a higher number of both of those around than you might believe.

Tonight, Antiques Roadshow visits Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire, in England, a romantic ruin originally built to impress Queen Elizabeth I, where exciting finds include a vintage TV set and a wind-up Charlie Chaplin doll.

Dates can be a nightmare at the best of times – from choosing the right thing to wear to making sure you don’t say anything silly to the person you are (hopefully) trying to impress.

At least on this show, the stress of finding the perfect outfit is taken out of the equation altogether, as these body-confident contestants star on a show where they take all their clothes off and go on a date with a stranger in front of a camera crew and, indeed, the whole nation. In tonight’s episode, intriguingly titled “Big Fights And Bald Heads”, Chris plays a sweaty, naked game of basketball with Lauryn and gets dance lessons from bald bodybuilder Amanda.

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6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Do Or Die. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Raw Faith. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 The Midwives: Make Me A Midwife. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Last Tango In Halifax.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Cook And The Chef.

(R, CC) 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) Quiz show.

5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) A discussion of the events of the day.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Deep Family Secrets. (M, R, CC) (1997) A woman uncovers the truth about her family and childhood after she returns to her birthplace. Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson.

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) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

10.00 Cricket. (CC) Trans-Tasman Trophy. First Test. Australia v New Zealand. Day 2.

Morning session.

1.00 The Cricket Show. (CC) Join Michael Slater and Brett Lee for the latest cricket news, updates and expert analysis of the morning session.

1.30 Cricket. (CC) Trans-Tasman Trophy. First Test. Australia v New Zealand. Day 2.

Afternoon session. From the Gabba, Brisbane.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.00 Neighbours. (R, CC) 7.30 Bold. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (M, R, CC) 1.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(PG, CC) 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 4.00 Ben’s Menu. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 France 24 International News. 6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 6.45 Soccer. (CC) 9.00 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 9.45 Soccer.

(CC) 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun. (R) 3.00 NITV News Week In Review.

3.30 Salvage Hunters. (CC) 4.30 Poh & Co. Bitesize. (CC) 4.35 A Great Welsh Adventure With Griff Rhys Jones: Border/ Brecon. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Restoration Home.

(PG, R, CC) Presenter Caroline Quentin meets Kate Armstrong, an Australian who always dreamt of owning a castle.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(CC) Fiona Bruce and the team pay a visit to Kirby Hall, in Northamptonshire where they examine all manner of curios.

8.30 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime.

(M, CC) Tommy and Tuppence continue their search for the elusive enemy agent known as “N”.

9.30 Miniseries: The Town.

(M, R, CC) Part 2 of 3. Mark lands a job at the town council in the department where his mother previously worked.

10.15 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events.

10.45 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton.

11.05 Tattoo Tales. (M, R, CC) Tensions peak at the tattoo studio.

11.40 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Pete visit a home made entirely of cubes. Graham and Adam make the ultimate vegie patch.

8.30 MOVIE: Red. (M, R, CC) (2010) After a retired CIA agent is attacked by a hit squad, he reassembles his old team to uncover the true identity of his enemy.

It appears someone has linked him to a disastrous covert operation he was involved in, and is determined to kill anyone who could reveal what really happened. Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman.

10.50 Blindspot. (M, R, CC) The team unlocks a cryptic tattoo which points to Major Arthur Gibson, a US Air Force pilot with a painful past and a lethal agenda. Jane continues to search for clues to her identity and is haunted when flashes of a disturbing memory force her to question her past.

11.50 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Adam asks Beverly for help avoiding the annual President’s Fitness Test.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Ready For Takeoff. (CC) A behind-the-scenes look at Qantas and the staff and crew whose job it is to ensure the 160,000 passengers a day who pass through their hands have a smooth trip.

8.00 Inside Spectre With Richard Wilkins. (PG, CC) Richard Wilkins takes a behind-the-scenes look at the latest James Bond movie, Spectre.

8.30 MOVIE: Skyfall. (M, R, CC) (2012) In the wake of a botched operation and the apparent death of 007, M finds herself pressured to resign. The issue comes to a head after an attack on the MI6 headquarters, an incident which prompts Bond to return from the “dead” and set off in search of those responsible. Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 The Project. (CC) 7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Host Amanda Keller catches up with celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal.

Dr Chris Brown heads to China.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with Canadian singersongwriter Justin Bieber, and actors Dame Maggie Smith, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, and Alex Jennings.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at the news, with Mick Molloy, Ed Kavalee, Abby Coleman, Sam Pang and Cal Wilson competing to see who can remember the most about the week’s events. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

10.30 MOVIE: Bachelorette.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2012) Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at the wedding of a woman they used to ridicule in high school. Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan.

6.00 Rick Stein Tastes The Blues. (R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Chef Rick Stein embarks on a culinary journey through the Mississippi Delta, birthplace of the blues.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Turkey Bitesize. Award-winning Australian chef and author Shane Delia makes a culinary pilgrimage to Turkey.

7.35 The Classic Car Show.

(PG, CC) Quentin looks at why the Ferrari Testarossa has proved to be a sound investment for its owners.

8.30 MOVIE: Kill Bill: Vol. 1.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2003) After waking up from a coma, an assassin seeks revenge on the gang of killers who betrayed her and left her for dead, during her wedding rehearsal. Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox. 10.30 World News. (CC) 11.00 MOVIE: She Killed In Ecstasy. (MA15+, R) (1971) After her husband commits suicide, a woman sets out to kill those she holds responsible for his death. Susann Korda, Fred Williams, Paul Muller.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Wise Guys.

(M, R, CC) (1986) Danny DeVito.

3.20 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) 4.20 WIN Presents. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.20 The Doctors. (PG, CC) Doctors with different specialities provide advice on health issues and medical breakthroughs.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.30 MOVIE: Sebbe. (M, R) (2010) Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Kenny Wåhlbrink, Eva Melander.

2.00 Miniseries: This Is England ’88. (MA15+, R, CC) 3.55 Miniseries: This Is England ’88. (AV15+, R, CC) 4.55 Mexican Fiesta With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize. (CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News.

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

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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8.30pm The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009) Thriller. Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace. A journalist and a hacker are dragged into a dangerous mystery while exploring the disappearance of a woman years ago. (MA15+) World Movies

6.30pm Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. (PG) Arena

8.30pm Churchill’s Secret Son. Meet the secretive man who Churchill’s family would have liked history to bury. (PG) History

8.30am Golf. Champions Tour. Charles Schwab Cup Championship. First round. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Letters To Juliet (2010) Drama. (PG) Romance

8.30pm Law & Order: SVU. A prosecutor goes after Benson.

(MA 15+) Universal Channel 10.30pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Hosted by Jimmy Fallon. (M) E!

10.25pm The Expendables 3 (2014) Action. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham.

(M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.10 Raa Raa! The Noisy Lion. (R, CC) 2.25 Pocoyo. (R, CC) 2.30 Charlie And Lola. (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. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 5.50 Puffin Rock. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (CC) 6.25 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 TFI Friday.

(PG, CC) 8.40 Age Gap Love. (M, CC) 9.25 Ladyboys: The Band. (M, CC) 10.10 Second Chance. (PG, CC) 11.00 Celebrity Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Jewish Mum Of The Year. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Breaking Bad. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Breaking Bad. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.45 News Update. (R) 2.50 Close. 5.00 Penelope. (R, CC) 5.05 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.15 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.20 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.40 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.30 Your Body: Your Image. (R, CC) 10.35 So You Want To Be A Designer? (R, CC) 11.05 Australian Artists. (R, CC) 11.20 Ace Day Jobs. (R, CC) 11.30 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Wolfblood. (R, CC) 12.25 The Sleepover Club. (R, CC) 12.50 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 1.10 WAC. (R, CC) 1.35 Steam Punks! (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R, CC) 2.25 Hairy Legs. (CC) 2.35 Masha And The Bear. (R, CC) 2.45 Canimals. (R) 2.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 3.00 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 3.25 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 3.50 SheZow. (R, CC) 4.00 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 4.15 A Gurls Wurld.

(R, CC) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 5.00 Endangered Species.

(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 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.20 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 8.30 Ready For This. (PG, R, CC) 8.55 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.05 K-On! (CC) 9.25 Kamisama Kiss. (PG, CC) 9.50 Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

(PG, R, CC) 10.15 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 It’s Academic. (C, CC) 7.30 History Hunters. (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 Dr Oz. (M, CC) 1.00 Storage Hoarders. (R) 2.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 3.00 Animal Squad. (R, CC) 3.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. (R, CC) 4.00 Bewitched.

(R, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover.

(R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 How Britain Worked: Trawler. (PG) Presented by Guy Martin.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

Jules Hudson takes on a property hunting mission in Devon, with a couple who are looking for a country home.

10.30 To Build Or Not To Build.

(PG) 11.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) 11.30 Hotel Secrets. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

(R) 2.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) 4.30 Storage Hoarders. (R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates.

(R, CC) 8.00 Doc McStuffins.

(R) 8.30 Sofia The First. (R, CC) 9.00 Gravity Falls. (R, CC) 9.30 Phineas And Ferb. (CC) 10.00 The Amazing Race: All-Stars. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 11.00 Starsky & Hutch.

(PG, R) 12.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 1.00 Bomb Squad NYC. (M, R) 2.00 Married With Children.

(PG, R) 3.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 4.30 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Wall-E. (R, CC) (2008) Ben Burtt.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Howard’s mum collapses.

9.30 MOVIE: Forgetting Sarah Marshall. (MA15+, R, CC) (2008) A man struggles to avoid his ex-girlfriend.

Jason Segel, Kristen Bell.

11.50 1000 Ways To Die. (AV15+, R) 12.50 Locked Up Abroad. (M, R) 3.25 NFL. NFL. Week 8. Denver Broncos v Green Bay Packers.

Replay. From Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, Colorado.

8.30pm Once Upon A Time In Cabramatta. Part 1 of 3.

(M) Crime & Investigation 8.30pm River Monsters.

Jeremy Wade takes us on a best-of episode where he reveals all of his best monstertracking secrets. (PG) Discovery

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. 6.30 Sooty.

7.00 Sonic Boom. 7.30 Move It. 8.00 Kitchen Whiz. 8.30 Rabbids Invasion. 9.00 Imagination Train.

9.30 Little Charmers. 10.00 SpongeBob. 10.30 Young Justice.

11.00 Tom And Jerry. 11.30 Yu-GiOh! Classic. 12.00 The Batman.

12.30 Green Lantern. 1.00 Young Justice. 1.30 Looney Tunes. 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Sonic Boom.

(PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob. (R) 3.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes.

(R) 4.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. (R) (2001) 7.40 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. (PG, R, CC) (2007) 10.20 MOVIE: Scary Movie. (MA15+, R, CC) (2000) 12.10 MAD. (M, R) 12.30 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 1.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (M, R) 1.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 2.00 Sonic Boom.

(PG, R) 2.30 The Batman. (R) 3.00 Little Charmers. (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. (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Countryfile. (PG, R) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct. 9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 WIN News. (R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: No Time For Tears. (PG, R, CC) (1957) 2.50 Poirot. (PG, R) 4.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) The team return to Lulworth Castle.

8.30 MOVIE: The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert. (M, R, CC) (1994) Drag queens travel across the Australian desert. Guy Pearce, Hugo Weaving.

10.40 MOVIE: A Fish Called Wanda. (M, R) (1988) John Cleese.

12.50 MOVIE: Percy’s Progress.

(M, R, CC) (1974) 2.40 MOVIE: Stardust. (M, R, CC) (1974) David Essex, Adam Faith.

4.50 The Great British Bake Off. (R, CC) 5.50 Tasty Conversations.

(R, CC)

7.30pm Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Illawarra Hawks v Cairns Taipans. Fox Sports 3 7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 5. Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar. Fox Sports 4 Mariska Hargitay stars in Law & Order: SVU

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 8.30 Adv Angler. (R) 9.00 Operation Iceberg. (R) 10.00 Totally Wild.

(R, CC) 10.30 My Surf TV. (R) 11.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 12.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Mr & Mrs Murder. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Megastructures. (PG, R) 3.00 iFish.

(R) 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 5.00 Operation Repo. (PG) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Moments Of Impact. (PG) (Final) Takes a look at lifethreatening moments.

8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Follows police officers on patrol.

9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Brotherhood. (M, R) (2011) A remorseless cop searches for justice. Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory. 11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 2.00 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 3.00 Adv Angler. (R) 3.30 Attenborough’s Life In The Undergrowth. (R, CC) 4.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 5.00 Operation Repo. (PG, 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 Family Ties. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (PG, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 Frasier.

(PG, R) 5.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.25 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) Farnsworth is embarrassed by his peers.

8.30 Bondi Ink Tattoo. (M, R) Megan Massacre joins the team.

9.30 Dating Naked. (M, R) Chris plays a naked game of basketball.

10.30 Gogglebox. (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 Medium.

(M, R, CC) 4.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 5.00 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 Tamil News.

2.00 Thai News. 2.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 3.00 Bangla News. 3.30 Armenian News. 4.00 The Feed. (R) 4.30 Monster Moves.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Do Or Die. (PG) 6.00 Brain Games.

6.30 MythBusters: Spy Car – The Revenge. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Soccer. A-League. Round 5.

Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar.

From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: Thirteen Assassins. (AV15+, R) (2010) Unemployed samurai battle a sadistic lord. Koji Yakusho.

12.15 Space Dandy. (PG) 12.45 Assassination Classroom. (PG) 1.10 PopAsia. (PG) 3.10 NHK World English News. 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 Tales Of Tatonka. 10.00 The Black Olive. 10.15 Custodians. 10.20 Cash Money. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 Best Of NITV Rugby League. 12.30 Dreamtime Machinetime. 1.30 Survive Aotearoa. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids.

3.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 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 The Black Olive.

6.15 Custodians.

6.20 Cash Money.

6.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) 7.00 NITV News Week In Review.

7.30 The Other Side. (PG) 8.00 Froth.

8.30 Aunty Moves In. (PG) 9.00 Who We Are: Brave New Clan. (PG) Follows six young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

10.00 Jazz. (PG) 11.00 NITV News Week In Review.

11.30 Backyard Shorts. (PG) 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. 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, November 7 Gardening Australia

MOVIE: True Grit

MOVIE: 21

Summer is coming, and that means lots of time spent outdoors. And for that, you will want your outdoor space to be as comfortable as possible, right? Luckily, you can count on the solid research and advice of the chilled-out Gardening Australia team to bring you the best trends in keeping your garden looking spruced up and beautiful in bloom. There are plenty of tips and tricks to help you along the way, along with other entertaining segments.Tonight, Angus visits a native botanic garden, Costa visits a specialist perennial nursery and we meet Victoria Museum entomologist, Ken Walker, who specialises in the study of insects.

Jeff Bridges reunites with The Big Lebowski filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen as he takes on the iconic role of Rooster Cogburn in this gritty western. Drawing inspiration from Charles Portis’ original novel rather than the 1969 classic that earned John Wayne an Oscar, the Coens return the focus to Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a vengeful 14-year-old girl who enlists the help of the ageing lawman to track down her father’s killer (Josh Brolin). Matt Damon saddles up alongside the pair as a Texas ranger also hunting down the murderer. The definitive adaptation of the novel that firmly stakes its place in the American Western hall of fame.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Restoration Home.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 1.30 How We Got To Now: Time. (R, CC) 2.30 Reptilian Battleground.

(PG, R, CC) Tracks crocodiles and turtles as they meet on Crab Island.

3.30 The Years That Made Us: Gathering Storms.

(R, CC) Part 3 of 3.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A couple’s murder is investigated.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.30 Horse Racing. (CC) Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Emirates Stakes Day. Featuring two Group 1 races, including the $1 million Emirates Stakes (1600m) and the $1 million Darley Classic (1200m), as well as the Group 2 $300,000 Momentum Energy Stakes (2000m).

From Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) The adventures of six puppies.

6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Cricket. (CC) Trans-Tasman Trophy. First Test. Australia v New Zealand. Day 3.

Morning session.

1.00 The Cricket Show. (CC) Join Michael Slater and Brett Lee for the latest cricket news, updates and expert analysis of the morning session.

1.30 Cricket. (CC) Trans-Tasman Trophy. First Test. Australia v New Zealand. Day 3.

Afternoon session. From the Gabba, Brisbane.

6.00 RPM. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 2.30 Movie Juice. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 iFish. (CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under.

(CC) 4.30 Storm Season. (PG, CC) Follows NSW SES volunteers.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Tales From The Bush Larder. (R, CC) 2.30 Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Island Feast. (R, CC) 3.25 Mexican Fiesta With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize.

(CC) 3.30 Monster Moves. (R, CC) 4.30 Alexander’s Lost World.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Angus visits a native botanic garden. Costa takes a look at a specialist perennial nursery.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 New Tricks. (PG, CC) Ted leads an investigation into the apparent suicide of a city trader.

8.30 Breathless. (M, CC) (New Series) Follows the personal and professional lives of the staff at a London hospital’s gynaecology unit.

9.20 The Beautiful Lie. (M, R, CC) Anna does not like Xander keeping tabs on her. Skeet receives some shocking news.

10.20 Miniseries: Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond. (M, R, CC) Part 4 of 4. Charts the life of author Ian Fleming, whose adventures served as the inspiration for James Bond.

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.

11.45 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) (Final) Celebrity guest is Kevin Bridges.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi. (PG, R, CC) (1983) After rescuing Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, Luke tries to steer his father away from the dark side of the Force, while Princess Leia and Han lead a mission to help destroy the new Death Star.

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford.

9.50 MOVIE: xXx: The Next Level. (M, R, CC) (2005) After a radical group with links to the government plots the assassination of the US president, it seems no-one can stand in their way. However, an NSA operative is able to recruit a former US Navy officer, who is serving time behind bars, to investigate the plot.

Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe, Samuel L. Jackson.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Rango. (PG, R, CC) (2011) A pet lizard accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West populated by his fellow animals, after he falls out of his owner’s car. The locals are in desperate need of a new sheriff to take on a ruthless gunslinger who is threatening them. Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant.

9.10 MOVIE: Octopussy.

(PG, R, CC) (1983) A fake Fabergé egg and the death of a fellow agent lead British secret agent James Bond to uncover an international jewel smuggling operation centred in India which is headed by the mysterious Octopussy. Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan.

11.50 MOVIE: Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever. (M, R, CC) (2002) An FBI agent is assigned to find the son of a government official who has been kidnapped by an old foe, a female spy.

Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Terry Chen.

6.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Having decided not to have any more children, a nervous Phil agrees to have a vasectomy.

6.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) A cat is waiting for adoption at the Bondi clinic, and the nurses suspect they could have found it a new owner.

7.30 Attenborough’s Nature’s Great Events: The Great Melt. (PG, R, CC) Sir David Attenborough looks at summer and the seasonal melting of ice in the Arctic.

8.30 The Greatest Wildlife Show On Earth. (PG, R, CC) Sir David Attenborough narrates a month-bymonth travelogue of the some of the greatest sights of massed wildlife from all over the world.

From monarch butterflies swarming in central Mexico, to flamingos feeding in Africa and the mating frenzy of garter snakes.

9.30 MOVIE: The Wolverine.

(M, R, CC) (2013) After Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is soon embroiled in a conflict.

Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Brian Tee.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Wild Germany: Forests.

(PG, CC) Part 3 of 4.

Explores Germany’s picturesque landscapes and wildlife, focusing on the forests.

8.30 MOVIE: True Grit.

(M, R, CC) (2010) In the Old West, a teenager hires a one-eyed, triggerhappy US Marshall with an affinity for drinking to help track down the man who killed her father. They are joined in their quest by a Texas Ranger, who has his own reasons to see the man brought to justice. Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon.

10.15 The Fall. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 5. A detective superintendent who is dispatched from London to Belfast to help the locals investigate a series of unconnected murders, quickly determines they are dealing with a serial killer. However, not all her colleagues are willing to admit the crimes are linked.

11.25 The Fall. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 5. Gibson takes control of the hunt for the serial killer preying on women in Belfast.

12.05 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos guest programmed

by Australian rock band, My Disco.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.00 Revenge. (M, R, CC) The Graysons’ 25th wedding anniversary proves to be less than celebratory.

1.00 Home Shopping.

1.30 MOVIE: Honky Tonk Freeway. (M, R) (1981) A series of vignettes about America. William Devane, Beverly D’Angelo.

3.30 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.00 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 12.

ITM 500 Auckland. Race 28 and 29. Highlights.

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

12.30 Borgen. (M, R, CC) Birgitte plans a holiday for the family.

3.50 The Network. (M, R, CC) 4.55 Mexican Fiesta With Peter Kuruvita Bitesize.

(CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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8.30pm Crazy, Stupid, Love.

(2011) Comedy. Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone. A middle-aged man’s wife asks for a divorce. (M) Romance

5.30pm The Judy Garland Show. (PG) Foxtel Arts

7.30pm Hipsters. Samuel Johnson looks at “hipsters”.

(PG) National Geographic People

5.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 5. Newcastle Jets v Western Sydney Wanderers.

Fox Sports 4

7.30pm Man Finds Food.

(PG) TLC

7.00pm Golf. Asian PGA Tour.

Panasonic Open. Third round.

Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Wild Card (2015) Action. Jason Statham, Michael Angarano. (MA15+) Premiere

7.00pm The Middle. Frankie takes on their neighbours. (PG) Comedy Channel 7.30pm The Amazing Race.

Hosted by Phil Keoghan. (PG) FOX8

10.30pm Year One (2009) Comedy. Jack Black, Michael Cera. Two hunters embark on a “road trip”. (M) Comedy

8.30pm The Pool Master.

A pair of fitness fiends want a multi-purpose pool. (PG) Discovery

7.30pm Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Adelaide 36ers v Sydney Kings. Fox Sports 3 Steve Carell stars in Crazy, Stupid, Love

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel.

(R, CC) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.50 Puffin Rock. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly.

(R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (CC) 6.25 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. (PG, R, CC) 8.10 Would I Lie To You? Shortcuts.

(R, CC) 8.30 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. (M, R, CC) 9.15 Live At The Apollo. (M, R, CC) 10.00 The IT Crowd. (M, R, CC) 10.50 Inside Amy Schumer. (M, R, CC) 11.10 Red Dwarf. (R, CC) 11.40 Red Dwarf. (PG, R, CC) 12.40 Red Dwarf. (R, CC) 1.10 Red Dwarf. (PG, R, CC) 1.40 Red Dwarf. (R, CC) 2.10 News Update. (R) 2.15 Close.

5.00 Penelope. (R, CC) 5.05 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.15 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.20 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.40 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 8.15 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 8.30 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 8.55 Studio 3 Gold. 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.50 Studio 3 Gold. 9.55 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 10.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 11.05 Prank Patrol Road Trip. (R, CC) 11.30 So Awkward. (R) 12.00 Dani’s House.

(R, CC) 12.30 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 2.15 Pocket Protectors. (R, CC) 2.20 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head.

(R, CC) 2.50 Canimals. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 Splatalot.

(R, CC) 3.50 Studio 3. 3.55 Horrible Science. (R, CC) 4.15 The New Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 4.30 Big Babies. (R, CC) 4.45 Kobushi. (R, CC) 4.50 Slugterra.

(R, CC) 5.10 SW: Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 Operation Ouch! (R) (Final) 6.10 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) (Final) 8.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation.

(PG, R, CC) 9.20 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (R, CC) 9.40 Degrassi. (PG, R, CC) 10.25 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 The Long Weekender. (R, CC) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 Melbourne Weekender. (CC) 2.30 Intolerant Cooks. 3.00 Malaysia Kitchen. 3.30 Storage Hoarders.

(R) 4.30 Mr Selfridge. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Horse Racing. (CC) Melbourne Cup Carnival. Emirates Stakes Day. Featuring two Group 1 races, including the $1 million Emirates Stakes (1600m) and the $1 million Darley Classic (1200m), as well as the Group 2 $300,000 Momentum Energy Stakes (2000m). 6.00 Animal Squad. (PG, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: You, Me And Dupree. (PG, R, CC) (2006) Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson.

9.30 MOVIE: 21. (M, R, CC) (2008) Jim Sturgess.

12.30 Animal Squad. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Dr Oz. (M, CC) 2.30 MOVIE: Sealed Cargo. (PG, R) (1951) 4.30 Storage Hoarders. (R) 5.30 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. 9.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 10.00 Fifth Gear.

(PG, R) 11.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. 12.00 Motor Racing.

Ultimate Sprintcar Championship.

12.30 Urban Tarzan. (PG, R) 1.00 Ultimate Factories. (R) 2.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG) 3.00 North Woods Law. (PG, R) 4.00 Dust Up. (PG, R) 4.30 The Border. (PG, R) 5.30 Ultimate Factories. (PG) 6.30 Air Crash Investigations.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Air Crash Investigations: Alarming Silence.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 America’s Hardest Prisons: Inside The Kill Fence. (M, R) A look inside the world of America’s toughest prisons.

9.45 Louisiana Lockdown.

(M, R) 10.45 Locked Up Abroad. (MA15+) 12.00 Jail. (M, R) 1.00 The Border.

(PG, R) 2.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 3.00 Fifth Gear.

(PG, R) 4.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 4.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport.

(PG, R) 5.30 Shopping.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho.

(C, R, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (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 Fishing Australia. (CC) 2.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. (PG) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 4.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 5.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 6.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Shrek. (PG, R, CC) (2001) 8.20 MOVIE: Racing Stripes. (R, CC) (2005) Hayden Panettiere. 10.20 MOVIE: The Girl Next Door. (MA15+, R, CC) (2004) 12.30 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 1.30 Looney Tunes. (R) 2.00 Green Lantern.

(PG, R) 2.30 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. (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: We Joined The Navy. (R, CC) (1962) 8.00 Danoz.

8.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 9.00 MOVIE: Summer Holiday. (R, CC) (1963) 11.15 MOVIE: The 14. (R, CC) (1973) Jack Wild. 1.30 Postcards.

(CC) 2.00 MOVIE: The Gypsy Moths. (PG, R, CC) (1969) Burt Lancaster. 4.20 MOVIE: Dial M For Murder. (PG, R, CC) (1954) Grace Kelly, Ray Milland.

6.30 MOVIE: How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. (PG, R) (2003) A man tries to win over a woman for a bet.

Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey.

9.00 MOVIE: Sex And The City 2. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) Four friends embark on an overseas holiday. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall.

12.00 MOVIE: What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

(M, R, CC) (1962) Bette Davis.

2.30 MOVIE: Dial M For Murder. (PG, R, CC) (1954) Grace Kelly.

4.30 Cricket. All-Stars Series.

Warne’s Warriors v Sachin’s Blasters. Game 1. From Citi Field, New York City.

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Animal Extra. (R, CC) 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 11.00 Monster Jam. (R) 12.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Car Torque. (R, CC) 2.30 Motor Racing. Aussie Racing Cars. Round 1. Replay. 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show.

(CC) 3.30 World Sport. (R) 4.00 Megastructures. (PG, R) 5.00 Into Water And Beyond. (PG) (Final) 5.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 12.

ITM 500 Auckland. Race 28 and 29. Highlights. From Pukekohe Park Raceway, New Zealand.

9.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 12.00 Graceland.

(AV15+) 1.00 Ripper Street. (AV15+, R, CC) 2.00 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 4.00 Motor Racing. Targa Tasmania. Highlights. From Tasmania. 5.00 Motor Racing.

World Series Sprintcars. Round 7.

Night 1. Replay.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (R) 5.30 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Ray and Debra meet a similar couple.

8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Marie drives everyone crazier than usual when she gets glasses and starts pointing out personal flaws.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham chats with Justin Bieber, Dame Maggie Smith, Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Alex Jennings.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Carrie struggles to live with Aidan.

11.30 The Loop. (PG, R) Music and entertainment program.

2.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (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 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 5.

Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar. Replay.

3.00 Planet Sport. (PG, R) 4.00 Departures. (PG, R) 4.55 Dare 2 Dance. (R) 6.00 MOVIE: A Monster In Paris. (2011) 7.40 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.40 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle: Georgia, USA. (M) Part 1 of 4.

9.30 MOVIE: Winter’s Bone.

(AV15+, CC) (2010) A teenager searches for her drug-dealer father.

Jennifer Lawrence.

11.20 MOVIE: We Are The Night. (MA15+, R) (2010) 1.10 MOVIE: Ultraviolet. (R) (2006) 2.45 MOVIE: Sphinx. (AV15+, R, CC) (2010) 4.40 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Froth. 10.30 Our Spirit To C-Gen. 11.00 Australian Ark: North Of Capricorn. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 The Other Side. (PG) 1.00 Goin’ Troppo In The Toppo. (PG) 1.30 Who We Are: Brave New Clan. (PG) 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.

7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 Kai Time On The Road.

8.00 Protecting Manuwangku. A look at a community’s struggle.

8.30 Paddocks Alight.

9.00 All Our Relations: Santee Smith. Indigneous celebrities go on journeys.

9.30 MOVIE: Backroads.

(AV15+) (1977) Bill Hunter.

10.30 Oondamooroo. (M) 11.30 Unearthed. 12.00 Volumz.

(PG)

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) 9.25 Think Tank. (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, November 8 Doctor Who

Limitless

MOVIE: Scooby-Doo

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his many fans have had time to get used to this new incarnation now and the results are in: he’s a hit. Capaldi brings out a different side to the timetravelling Doctor – he’s more experienced, a little grumpier at times and still holds control despite evergrowing danger lurking behind the next bend. Tonight, the peace between the humans and Zygons remain in tatters and the Doctor and Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) find themselves on the run from their once allies who have turned into enemies. With all this going on you can still tell the Doctor is still having the time of his life – but will he be able to save Earth?

What if you could turbo-charge your brain by popping a single pill every day? In this thrilling crime show, which was adapted and re-imagined for the small screen thanks to the 2011 film starring Bradley Cooper, the delectable Jake McDorman plays Brian Finch, a slacker whose life enters the fast lane, thanks to a dose of an experimental drug. Tonight, in “Personality Crisis”, following a meth lab raid, the FBI believe the criminals could be making bombs. Meanwhile, Brian learns a shocking secret about Rebecca’s (Jennifer Carpenter) late father but worries telling her will land him in big trouble. Watch out for guest star Desmond Harrington (Gossip Girl).

The meddling kids of Mystery Inc. switch from animated characters to real people in this adaptation that keeps allusions to the TV cartoon’s famous subtext to a minimum. After going their separate ways after a heated argument – much to the astonishment of Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and his computer-generated canine buddy Scooby – a creepy amusement park entrepreneur (Rowan Atkinson) with an evil plan gives them cause to reunite. Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar (right) and Linda Cardellini give it their best shot, but this one’s a dog.

ABC, 7.40pm

ABC

TEN, 8.30pm

PRIME7

GO!, 6.30pm, PG (2002)

WIN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Soccer. (CC) W-League.

Round 4. Canberra United v Melbourne City.

4.30 Miranda. (PG, R, CC) Miranda grows attracted to Gary.

5.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) Ted investigates a city trader’s death.

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) A woman stands out at the border.

1.30 MOVIE: The Interpreter.

(PG, R, CC) (2005) An agent protects a UN translator.

Nicole Kidman.

4.30 The Long Weekender.

(CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Dora continues on her quest.

7.00 Weekend Today. (CC) 10.00 Cricket. (CC) TransTasman Trophy. First Test.

Australia v New Zealand.

Day 4. Morning session.

From the Gabba, Brisbane.

(Please note: alternative schedule may be shown due to changes to cricket coverage).

1.00 The Cricket Show. (CC) The latest cricket news.

1.30 Cricket. (CC) Trans-Tasman Trophy. First Test. Australia v New Zealand. Day 4.

Afternoon session. From the Gabba, Brisbane.

6.00 Kitchen Cabinet. (R, CC) Annabel Crabb sits down for a cross-party lunch with Christopher Pyne and Anthony Albanese.

6.30 Compass: Too Young For Bingo. (CC) The story of three young adults who have been forced to spend a protracted period in aged-care facilities.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Doctor Who. (PG, CC) With the delicate peace in tatters, the Doctor and Osgood find themselves on the run.

8.30 The Beautiful Lie. (M, CC) The realities of living with Skeet sink in for Anna as she goes into labour.

9.30 Death In Paradise.

(PG, R, CC) After a local gigolo is murdered, DI Goodman and his team must mix with the social elite of Saint-Marie to find the killer.

10.30 The Ex-PM. (M, R, CC) Andrew encounters an old rival.

10.55 Humans. (M, R, CC) Joe gets too close to Anita.

11.45 Rake. (M, R, CC) Felicity comes back into Cleaver’s life after some of her friends are accused of murdering a security guard.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

8.00 Beach Cops. (PG, CC) A storm has caused a house to lose its foundation and it’s about to collapse onto the street. An officer delivers his first death notification. A man takes his anger out on a pokie machine. Narrated by Layne Beachley.

8.30 Quantico. (M, CC) The trainees leave the campus for their first undercover assignment.

Alex decides to tell her side of the story and gives her first interview, leaving everyone to wonder who is really telling the truth.

9.30 Castle. (M, CC) Castle and Beckett must work with a witness to track down a killer who stole a valuable painting.

10.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) Castle and Beckett investigate the murder of a museum curator which coincided with the theft of a sculpture.

11.30 Royal Pains. (M, CC) Evan and Paige decide to throw a welcome bash for Emma, but an errant party trick quickly causes problems.

12.45 MOVIE: Genova.

(M, R, CC) (2008) A family is relocated to Italy. Colin Firth.

2.15 Rage. (MA15+) 4.05 Humans. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Message Stick: A Dancer’s Journey Home.

(R, CC) 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.

TEN 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 8.00

SBS

Creflo Dollar. (CC) Hillsong. (CC) Mass For You At Home.

Joel Osteen. (CC) Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) The Bolt Report. (CC) Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) Animal Extra. (CC) TBL Families. (PG, R, CC) All 4 Adventure. (PG, CC) Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. (CC) The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars.

ITM 500 Auckland.

Highlights.

Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 Cycling. (CC) Crocodile Trophy. Highlights.

5.00 From Scratch: Toaster.

(R, CC) 5.30 Poh & Co. Bitesize.

(R, CC) 5.35 D-Day: The Soldiers’ Story: Overlord.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block. (PG, CC) After nine weeks of renovating, the teams are exhausted but ecstatic to reveal their completed apartments.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program.

9.40 KKK: The Fight For White Supremacy. (CC) Takes a look at the modern face of the notorious supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan.

With access to the leaders of the Loyal White Knights chapter in North Carolina, gains a unique insight into their secret rituals and finds out why their members choose to don the hood.

10.40 The Verdict. (M, R, CC) Karl Stefanovic hosts a weekly talk show featuring a panel of experts discussing current events.

11.40 Person Of Interest.

(M, R, CC) Reese, Shaw and Fusco protect an unassuming office worker who has stumbled into a dangerous conspiracy while moonlighting as a fake detective. Finch travels to Hong Kong as part of his cover identity.

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 tries to protect a key government witness from a notorious drug cartel by going on the run.

7.30 TBL Families. (PG, CC) In a dramatic turn of events, two contestants find themselves up for elimination.

8.30 Limitless. (M, CC) In the wake of a drug lab raid, the FBI believes the criminals involved may be making bombs. Brian learns a shocking secret about Rebecca’s late father, but worries that telling her will land him in big trouble.

9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) Gibbs and McGee’s latest case leads them to an Afghani women’s shelter linked to Gibbs’ former mentor.

10.30 MOVIE: G.I. Joe: Retaliation. (M, R, CC) (2013) An elite military unit is attacked by the authorities after they are framed for a crime they did not commit. Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Adrianne Palicki.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Building The Ancient City: Athens. (CC) Part 1 of 2. Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores how ancient metropolises worked, without the benefits of modern technology. He begins in Athens, 2500 years ago, a city where every aspect of daily life was controlled, not by a king, but by the Athenians themselves.

8.35 Genius. (CC) Part 1 of 4.

Documents the innovators and inventors, and their rivals, who helped change the world. From the Americans’ and Soviets’ decades long space race, to Philo Farnsworth and RCA founder David Sarnoff, over the rights to, and the future of, the electronic television.

10.20 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. Director Martin Scorsese charts Bob Dylan’s musical journey between 1961 and 1966, from his roots in Minnesota to his impact on American culture.

12.35 Gotham. (AV15+, R, CC) 1.30 Impractical Jokers.

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

12.40 48 Hours: Who Killed Amy Gellert? (M, R) A look at the murder of Amy Gellert.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC)

12.25 Miniseries: Vargas: Neptune’s Thunder.

(M, R) Part 2 of 2.

2.05 Hunted. (M, R, CC) Sam remains undercover.

4.00 Iceman Autopsy.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

8.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00

5.00

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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Sunday, November 8 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

8.30pm The Imitation Game (2014) Drama. Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley.

During World War II, a cryptanalyst tries to unravel a secret code. (M) Premiere

9.30pm Made in Chelsea: LA. The Chelsea elite decide on a change of scenery and head out to Los Angeles for a summer party. (M) Lifestyle You

7.30pm Mass Extinction. (M) Discovery

3.00pm Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Melbourne United v New Zealand Breakers.

Fox Sports 2

8.30pm P.S. I Love You (2007) Drama. Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler. (M) Romance 11.30pm Boyhood (2014) Drama. Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette. The joys and pitfalls of growing up, seen through the eyes of a child. (M) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.25 Pocoyo. (R, CC) 2.30 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 2.45 Bing. (R) 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 The Furchester Hotel.

(R, CC) 5.00 Meet The Small Potatoes. (R, CC) 5.50 Puffin Rock.

(R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (CC) 6.25 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 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. (R, CC) 8.30 SuperSize Me. (M, R, CC) 10.05 Ladyboys: The Band. (M, R, CC) 10.50 Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family In America. (M, R, CC) 11.50 Reggie Yates: Extreme Russia. (M, R, CC) 12.50 Stan Lee’s Superhumans. (PG, R, CC) 1.35 The Hoarder Next Door. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close.

5.00 Penelope. (R, CC) 5.05 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.15 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.20 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.40 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.20 The Little Prince. (R, CC) 6.45 Casper. (R, CC) 7.00 Odd Squad.

7.05 Totally Rubbish. (R) 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) 11.05 Prank Patrol Road Trip. (R, CC) 11.30 So Awkward. (R) 12.00 Dani’s House.

(R, CC) 12.30 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.20 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head.

(R, CC) 2.50 Canimals. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 Splatalot.

(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) 5.40 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. (R) 6.05 Odd Squad. 6.10 Riders Of Berk.

(R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories.

(R, CC) 7.00 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) 7.30 Operation Ouch! (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) 1.50 Close.

7.30pm Modern Family.

Gloria teaches Jay a lesson. (M) FOX8 8.30pm The Soup. (MA15+) E!

8.30pm Bondi Vet. Identical twins ask Chris to the Sunshine Coast. (PG) National Geographic People 9.30pm Strip The Cosmos.

Explores the mysteries of asteroids. (PG) Discovery Science

7.00pm Golf. Asian PGA Tour.

Panasonic Open. Final round.

Fox Sports 1 7.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 5. Perth Glory v Melbourne Victory. Fox Sports 4 Ellar Coltrane stars in Boyhood

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Michael Youssef.

(PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R) 12.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Lyndey Milan’s Taste Of Australia. (R) 2.00 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Animal Squad. (R, CC) 3.30 Animal Squad. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 The Border. (PG, R) 5.30 Mighty Planes. (R, CC) 6.30 New Zealand From Above: Northland. (R) A look at New Zealand’s far north.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Denise Nurse helps a newly engaged couple.

9.30 Escape To The Continent.

A look at homes in Brittany, France.

10.45 Best Houses Australia.

11.15 Mighty Planes: C17 Globemaster. (R, CC) 12.15 Escape To The Country.

(R) 2.15 Escape To The Continent.

(R) 3.30 New Zealand From Above. (R) 4.30 The Border. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.00 NFL Game Day. (PG) 7.30 Shopping.

(R) 9.30 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R) 10.30 Triathlon. Highlights. 12.00 The Hook & The Cook. (PG, R) 12.30 The AFN Fishing Show.

(PG) 1.00 Fishing The Wild. (PG) 1.30 Big Angry Fish. (PG) 2.30 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates.

(PG) 3.00 Rocket City Rednecks.

(PG, R) 3.30 Star Wars Rebels. (PG, R) 7.00 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) The gang stages an intervention.

8.30 MOVIE: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. (PG, R, CC) (1999) Two Jedi trying to end a blockade of a peaceful planet uncover evidence of a conspiracy. Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman.

11.15 MOVIE: Unleashed.

(AV15+, R) (2005) Jet Li. 1.15 Locked Up Abroad. (M, R) 2.30 Jail. (M, R) 5.00 NFL. NFL. Week 9. Carolina Panthers v Green Bay Packers. From Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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) 11.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 12.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! ArcV. (PG) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 5.30 Looney Tunes.

(R) 6.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG) 6.30 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo. (PG, R, CC) (2002) Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. 8.30 MOVIE: Casino Royale.

(M, R, CC) (2006) James Bond must stop an evil banker. Daniel Craig.

11.30 Car SOS. (PG, R) 12.30 The Originals. (AV15+) 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. (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 Cricket. All-Stars Series.

Warne’s Warriors v Sachin’s Blasters. Game 1. Continued. 8.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Skippy. (R) 10.00 MOVIE: Billy Liar. (PG, R, CC) (1963) 12.00 Cycling. National Road Series. Grafton to Inverell Classic. Highlights. 12.30 Rapid Response. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: 633 Squadron. (PG, R) (1964) 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 5. Melbourne United v New Zealand Breakers. 5.00 MOVIE: Colt .45. (PG, R, CC) (1950) 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 7.30 Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story: Traces Of Guilt.

(PG) 8.30 Death Row Stories: Ride To The Rescue. (M) A look at the case of Gloria Killian.

9.30 MOVIE: Seven.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1995) Two cops investigate themed murders. Brad Pitt.

12.00 Believe. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct. 3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer.

(PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 9.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 9.30 World Sport. (R) 10.00 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 11.00 Fishing Edge. 11.30 International Fishing Series. (R) 12.00 Snap Happy. 12.30 Moments Of Impact.

(PG, R) 1.30 4x4 Adventures.

(R) 2.30 Driven Not Hidden.

3.00 Temporary Australians.

(PG) 3.30 Car Torque. (R, CC) 4.00 Adv Angler. (Final) 4.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up! Downunder. (R, CC) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 12. ITM 500 Auckland. Race 30.

Highlights. From Pukekohe Park Raceway, New Zealand. 9.30 MOVIE: American Psycho. (AV15+, R) (2000) Christian Bale. 11.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 18. Valencian Community Grand Prix. 1.00 World Sport. 1.30 48 Hours. (M, R) 2.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R) 3.00 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 4.00 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 5.00 Race To The Sky. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Kuu-Kuu Harajuku.

(C, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 11.30 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Dr Quinn.

(PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) A popular local passes away.

7.00 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Homer’s old pen pal pays a visit.

8.30 MOVIE: DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story.

(M, R) (2004) A team of underachievers enters a dodgeball competition, in order to prevent the take over of their local gym.

Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor.

10.30 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 11.00 Nurse Jackie. (M) 11.30 The Crazy Ones. (M) 12.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 1.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.

(PG, R, CC) 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 MOVIE: A Monster In Paris. (R) (2011) 2.40 Benidorm Bastards. (PG) 3.05 Secret Life Of… (PG, R) 3.35 The Pitch. (R) 4.25 Heston’s Feasts. (PG, R, CC) 5.25 Vs Arashi. 6.25 Dare 2 Dance.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R) The boys visit Splashtown waterpark.

9.00 Drunk History. (M) Hosted

by Derek Waters.

9.25 South Park. Cartman is the victim of body shaming.

9.55 Ali G: Remixed. (M, R) 10.20 Miss Pole Dance Australia: Blood, Sweat And Sequins. (M, R) 11.20 Sex With Sunny Megatron.

(MA15+) 11.50 In Her Skin. (M) 1.30 MOVIE: Memories Of My Melancholy Whores. (MA15+, R) (2011) 3.15 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. (CC) FIFA Women’s World Cup. Match 32. Australia v Sweden. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Rugby League.

South Australia All Stars. 1.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. Men’s second semi-final.

Kulpiyam v Southern Dingoes Black. 2.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. U-15’s Boys Final.

Barwon United Swans v Kempsey United. 3.00 Best Of NITV Rugby League. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken.

7.00 Ngurra.

7.30 Sheltered. Follow Aboriginal carpenter Derek Marsden.

8.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 8.30 Flying Fox: The Wings Of The Night.

9.30 MOVIE: ThuleTuvalu.

(PG) (2014) Rasmus Avike.

11.15 Rock Art And Yingana.

(PG) 11.45 Ngurra. 12.00 Volumz. (PG)

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. 5.25 Think Tank. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Planet America. (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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26. Able to be overcome 29. Near miss (6,6) 37. Enfold 38. Highway reflectors 39. Self-centred people 40. Delicate gauze 41. Duck-billed Aussie river mammal 43. Situation comedy 44. Abel’s brother 47. Roast lamb herb 57. Accompany 60. Lesser white herons 62. Mexican friend 66. Address crowd 68. Forbidden 69. Religious offshoot 70. Prince Charles, ... of Cornwall

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They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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tion of letters at military funeral (4,4) 21. Give now (7) 22. Also only half sees the mountains (5) 23. Ace astronaut in the team? (4,6)

DOWN 1. Give instruction in public transport (5) 2. Link rage with Shakespearean monarch (4,4) 3. Dog made a meal of the cleric! (6) 4. Intends to produce firstclass manuscript (4) 5. Shine – like rubbish at Gateshead! (7)

6. Does it shed light on seances? (6,4) 9. It sifts wouldbe film-stars, of course (6,4) 12. Not carry out, as clashing (8) 14. Again negotiate a withdrawal (7) 16. Claret possibly produced by syndicate (6) 19. Instruct class (5) 20. Bring up the back (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1. Split-up (10) 7. Scriptures (5) 8. Feign (7) 10. Menace (8)

11. Semi (4) 13. Craze (6) 15. Ransom (6) 17. Eject (4) 18. Obscene (8) 21. Cheat (7) 22. Coach (5) 23. Over and over (10)

>> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

DOWN 1. Serious (5) 2. Ready (8) 3. Sword (6) 4. Consequently (4) 5. Daunt (7) 6. Temperate (10) 9. Calumnious (10) 12. Turned down (8) 14. Scorn (7) 16. Overrun (6) 19. Admittance (5) 20. Not working (4)

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3. Access to a confession (9) 8. Bird alters the rent (4) 9. Determine the outcome of sectarian troubles (9) 10. Express sorrow at mental problems (6) 11. A good start for the airman (5) 14. Let it change the name (5) 15. The remainder take it easy (4) 16. Gets rid of outbuildings (5) 18. The price of company on the street (4) 20. Lance is broken, but not dirty (5) 21. The team-leader requests jobs (5) 24. Ring the artist to get the right speaker (6) 25. Unusually attentive but hesitant (9) 26. It’s good to have a dress (4) 27. Cry about barren

conditions for producing fruit (9)

DOWN 1. Various lithe acts (9) 2. Playwright was a tot at first (9) 4. Clean up the stud (4) 5. I do business – perfect! (5) 6. A model you shouldn’t miss (6) 7. Leave out some indomitable characters (4) 9. And get bearings on the mountains (5) 11. Insects can be wickedly false (5) 12. It may be thrown after a wedding (9) 13. IRA intent on upsetting the traveller (9) 17. The total number of points is twenty (5) 19. Sailor getting a brown sailing vessel (6) 22. The girl I take around (5) 23. Look at the Lord (4) 24. More than six balls? (4)

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STRANGE BUT TRUE z It was early 20th-century American horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft who made the following sage observation: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” z Those who study such things say that Australians spend about $93 million every year on tattoos. 14.5% of Australians have at least one tattoo – or to break it down by gender, 15.4% of men have tattoos and 13.6% of women have tattoos. z Ancient Aztecs believed that when a warrior died, he became a hummingbird. z In 1974, fast-food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken launched a new marketing campaign in their Japanese stores. Called “Kentucky for Christmas”, it has had a lasting impact on the habits of the Japanese. More than 40 years later, the special fried

by Samantha Weaver z Scientists have identified fruit flies that are genetically resistant to getting drunk. It seems the insects have a certain gene that influences their susceptibility to the effects of alcohol; those with the inactive version of the gene are far less likely to get drunk.

Those conducting the studies are calling the gene “happyhour”. z The average citizen of France drinks six times as much wine as the average American. z You might be surprised to learn that acclaimed author (and noted recluse) J.D. Salinger once worked as an entertainment director for a Swedish cruise line. chicken meal, which comes complete with cake and sparkling wine, is offered every Christmas. It’s so popular that those who fail to order theirs months in advance end up waiting in line for hours on Christmas Day to get their traditional holiday meal.

Thought for the Day: “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” – Leo Tolstoy

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 3. Benefit (9) 8. Impecunious (4) 9. Very pretty (9) 10. Badge (6) 11. Guide (5) 14. Swarthy (5) 15. Clergyman (4) 16. Fewest (5) 18. Terrible (4) 20. Awaken (5) 21. Train (5) 24. Gun (6) 25. Perpetual (9) 26. Retain (4) 27. Warlike (9)

DOWN 1. Attachment (9) 2. Pompous (9) 4. Judge (4) 5. Mature (5) 6. Followed (6) 7. Adhesive (4) 9. Gem (5) 11. Store (5) 12. Diminution (9) 13. Break (9) 17. Track (5) 19. Human (6) 22. Morose man (5) 23. Only (4) 24. Go by (4) 18,903

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) This is a week of trial and error or, as an optimist would have it, experiments and revelations! You should expect to be both surprised and delighted. Someone who has been less than careful with money (maybe yours) seems to be taking your comments to heart at last. Inject some passion and humour into a loving relationship. Imagination and an adventurous spirit could make an upcoming night very special and fun.

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TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) Taking

a step up in your working life seems to coincide with doing the same in your love life. Well, the sparks are sure to fly in November. Maybe something you see as ‘old hat’ would be an exciting venture for someone close? What really excited you when you were a child?

Would that activity be possible again?

Brighten your life this weekend by going somewhere you loved in the past.

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Love

and laughter are in the air, as well as the chance to make changes.

These may be small and seem unimportant; even so, they can make quite a difference to your overall mood. A group or community venture you rejected earlier in the year now seems to be a good idea.

Has someone made you realise they are having fun being involved? Doing something slightly different with new people may seem a bit daunting. However, you will soon feel right at home!

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Cash

and romance seem to spin alongside each other now.

Perhaps a loved one is treating you. Are you planning a holiday for next year? It would certainly lighten your spirits! Not that you are a grouch. In fact, it is often your cheery attitude that brings a smile to others. Whatever you give to loved ones this week, you will certainly get back.

A new lease of life comes from feeling more energetic or sorting out a long-term problem – probably both!

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Has your heart been ruling your head when it comes to money? That is about to change as a sharp dose of reality lands in your lap! It is not as bad as you might think, though, as cashflow problems become a thing of the past.

Some will make money out of a hobby or turning out the attic. What treasures lie there? Once you get the bit between your teeth, there is no stopping you. Bright of mind and full of good intention, that’s you.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) This is

a time to let others know how you feel. Declare your feelings on all kinds of matters and expect some astonishment. After all, you don’t usually rock the boat! A clear head starts with being honest and open this week. Relatives who need your input should be given priority, and it could mean working with others.

With a busy and exciting time ahead it is important to clear the ground for sowing the seeds of the future.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Your goodwill and charm can really cheer others up. The coming holiday season can be a sad time for some. They will look to you for some fun activities or jolly get-togethers.

Changes to your usual plans for the festive season should be discussed now so as not to upset anyone. What you love more than anything is to make others happy. You have so much to give, and pine if you cannot.

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and match your relationships now to get the best of both worlds. Stimulate your mind and body. Maybe it is possible to do both in one activity, but probably not. It means being more active than usual and not making any excuses!

A big boost to your confidence comes in the form of someone from the past. Some intensive reading or networking brings an old interest to life. Could this be offered as a source of much-needed cash?

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DEC 21) Have you been hiding

your feelings about a friend or colleague? Give yourself a good talking-to and be honest about any action needed. You may decide that no action is the best action. Arrangements for holidays should be flexible as you are likely to change your mind in view of travel disruptions. Being open-minded and flexible can make a great difference to your contentment levels in the weeks ahead.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

Lots of chit-chat and comings and goings lead to some fun arrangements. As these could be in the long to medium term, it is necessary to be flexible on numbers. Creative ideas about a holiday next year could include house-swapping or some time spent in a forest home. Does this surprise you? Be open and share your thoughts and feelings with your partner or companion. You are more alike than you think.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) It

is a somewhat confusing week, there are legal or financial matters to be dealt with. Sharpen your mind and tighten your belt as things progress. Those who are doing something different or exciting should enjoy every minute without worrying about what’s next. Reading between the lines may not be your idea of fun as you hurtle through the days, however, there are clues to be had about how someone feels towards you.

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PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) You

should be feeling perky this week. There is something to look forward to. To make the most of it, use your imagination when deciding what to do and where to go. It could be tempting to tread the same old path, but not necessary.

The more you take care of finances, the better the festive season will be. I only mention this because there are temptations a-plenty to buy what you don’t need.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with Australian singer-actress Delta Goodrem (below left), born in 1984. Although the months ahead may not be the most comfortable, Scorpio, they will bring about necessary change. Make your finances and health a priority, even if you are super-busy. Loved ones need extra attention.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Also celebrating is comedian-actor Chris Lilley, aka Ja’mie: Private School Girl (pictured below), 41. Scorpio, you have a need to make changes to accommodate others. Before you take that on board, however, look after yourself. Making everything good in your own world should be the priority.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Pay close attention to your health if you are to make the most of the months ahead, Scorpio. Why waste time on timewasters when you can treat yourself a little more kindly?

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Bringing someone back into your everyday life could mean a commitment, Scorpio. They need attention, but so do you. The best way to keep health and energy is to look after what you have.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday!

Scorpio, brighten up your life by giving yourself a bit of pampering and care. Colours and rainbows are where you should be. Get those health checks and take up Tai Chi or join a walking group.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! A bit more movement in your life can make a big difference, Scorpio. Socially and physically you need to keep moving and enjoying new things. Don’t let petty people scatter your thoughts.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3521

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Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Improvements in your life and loves are all too possible in the months ahead, Scorpio. However, they sometimes need a big effort from you to keep things moving. Determination means progress.

Mega Maze

FIND THE WORDS solution 876 In New South Wales DUAL CROSSWORD 18,961 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS. Across: 1 Take charge; 7 Plain; 8 Remains; 10 Ringlets; 11 Stir; 13 Turban; 15 Course; 17 Asti; 18 Last post; 21 Present; 22 Andes; 23 Star player.

Down: 1 Train; 2 King Lear; 3 Curate; 4 Aims; 5 Glitter; 6 Spirit lamp; 9 Screen test; 12 Contrary; 14 Retreat; 16 Cartel; 19 Order; 20 Rear.

QUICK SOLUTIONS. Across: 1 Separation; 7 Bible; 8 Pretend; 10 Threaten; 11 Half; 13 Madden; 15 Redeem; 17 Oust; 18 Indecent; 21 Swindle; 22 Tutor; 23 Repeatedly. Down: 1 Sober; 2 Prepared; 3 Rapier; 4 Then; 5 Overawe; 6 Abstemious; 9 Defamatory; 12 Rejected; 14 Despise; 16 Infest; 19 Entry; 20 Idle.

DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 18,903 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS. Across: 3 Admission; 8 Tern; 9 Ascertain; 10 Lament; 11 Flier; 14 Title; 15 Rest; 16 Sheds; 18 Cost; 20 Clean; 21 Tasks; 24 Orator; 25 Tentative; 26 Gown; 27 Cranberry. Down: 1 Athletics; 2 Dramatist; 4 Dust; 5 Ideal; 6 Sitter; 7 Omit; 9 Andes; 11 Fleas; 12 Reception; 13 Itinerant; 17 Score; 19 Tartan; 22 Katie; 23 Peer; 24 Over.

QUICK SOLUTIONS. Across: 3 Advantage; 8 Poor; 9 Beautiful; 10 Emblem; 11 Steer; 14 Dusky; 15 Dean; 16 Least; 18 Grim; 20 Rouse; 21 Coach; 24 Pistol; 25 Continual; 26 Hold; 27 Bellicose. Down: 1 Appendage; 2 Bombastic; 4 Deem; 5 Adult; 6 Tailed; 7 Glue; 9 Beryl; 11 Stash; 12 Reduction; 13 Interlude; 17 Trail; 19 Mortal; 22 Cynic; 23 Sole; 24 Pass.

CryptoQuote answer

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. Blue tang. 2. Francis Michael Forde.

He was the 15th Prime Minister of Australia and was in office for only seven days in July 1945. 3. The Code of Hammurabi (Babylonian) was inscribed around 1750 BC. 4. Groucho Marx. 5.

Brazil. 6. Speaks pompously at length.

7. 23 days covering about 3540km.

8. Michelle Payne, in 2015. 9. Victoria.

10. Oscar the Grouch. 11. Four – two to George Foreman and two to Muhammad Ali. 12. Band founder Peter Green combined the last names of two of the original members, Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie. 13. “My Humps”,

by Black Eyed Peas, which reached No.1 in Australia in 2005.

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