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Medicinal marijuana milestone ANE DIFFEY is an inspiring leader demonstrating how to turn adversity into opportunity by asking for, and if necessary, demanding change, for the greater good. Acknowledged this week by both the Member for Dubbo, Troy Grant and the NSW Minister for Women, Pru Goward, as the recipient of the Local Dubbo Woman of the Year award, it’s clear Jane is a woman dedicated to sustaining a strong community and working her tail off to make sure that happens, in whatever way she can. She’s been at it for a very long time, but in recent years, the Rett Syndrome diagnosis of her daughter Clare and her daughters subsequent succumbing to the condition, would have left many mothers despondent and consumed by grief, and give up. Not Jane. Aware of many more families facing the same or similar challenges every day, she knows, through her own experiences, the frustration in navigating health care regulations in the urgent quest to help their children. Jane has been pushing many barrows and medicinal marijuana is one of them. At the presentation of her award in Dubbo, on Monday, February 8, she discussed the issue with Goward; a singular voice for many mothers who would have wished for the same opportunity to have five minutes with a policy maker. The NSW Government did, in 2015, commit $9 million for clinical trials, which start this year, and up to $12 million to set up a Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research and Innovation. The Centre works with organisations such as the Lambert Initiative, which was established through a $33.7 million donation to Sydney University for research into medicinal cannabis. As of Monday, legislation to once and for all put this treatment where it needs to be; in the hands of doctors and patients, remained illusive. Then, great news on Wednesday, for Jane’s cause and the families she works hard for; for the people who have to break the law to get relief and doctors who know what could work but can’t prescribe; has come the landmark decision that the Turnbull Government is introducing legislation for patients and their doctors to access “a safe, legal and reliable supply of medicinal cannabis products for the management of painful and chronic conditions. “Amendments to the Narcotics Drugs Act 1967 would allow the controlled cultivation of cannabis for medicinal or scientific purposes through one single national licensing scheme,” an official release says. While stigma prevails around the use of cannabis, as a recreational drug given it is illegal and a criminal act to use it, plus its association with criminal activities; advocates will be cel-

ebrating, especially with the news the legislation is likely to get bipartisan support. From a pool of 644 participants, in a Roy Morgan telephone survey conducted over three nights in October 2015, the results showed nine out of every 10 Australians (91 per cent) believed the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes should be made legal. Seven per cent were against legalisation and two per cent couldn’t say. According to the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) potential medical users are often in the later stage of a battle with painful cancer and have problems with morphine, analgesics or nausea with chemotherapy. Medicinal cannabis helps with conditions such as muscle spasm in multiple sclerosis and is believed to reduce seizures and in some case eliminate them for sufferers of some syndromes. Tragically, Clare Diffey died from a seizure. The legislation will put doctors and other medical practitioners at the centre of the decision making process on whether medicinal cannabis is beneficial for their patient. There has already been some provision in place allowing the legal production and distribution of medicinal cannabis products to patients through various means via the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 and the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989. This has been limited to specialists working with specific patient groups and clinical trials run by research institutions and state or territory governments. It’s hardly been an overnight decision with lengthy discussions held between stakeholders. It has been an agonising wait – quite literally – for the ill. What the legislation will not do is decriminalise cannabis for general cultivation or recreational use. It’s been a sticking point for protestors who reject the possibility an illegal narcotic can be used in mainstream medical treatment. Medical evidence is yet to find a link between cannabis and schizophrenia and the World Health Organisation studies have found no surge of use in the general population of countries where medicinal marijuana is available. Over 20 states in the US have legalised the use of cannabis for medical conditions; Canada since 2001, Israel and seven European countries, including Holland. The Government is adamant these are two issues at play here and in the public discourse need to be kept separate. The legislation is the answer to a long held question asked by carers and individuals suffering pain or chronic conditions on a daily, hourly, moment by moment basis; if we are chronically ill or dying and have the chance at a better quality of life, why deny us that right.

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New primary health network takes on challenges of rural and remote health BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH MITH JOURNALIST

EAD of the region’s new primary health network says there are some major challenges ahead for the organisation that covers about twothirds of the State, and they’re keen to hear about them during community consultations underway across the region. Primary Health Networks (PHNs) were rolled out across the country last year with the objective of improving frontline health services and aligning closely with Local Hospital Networks. The 31 new PHNs replaced the short-lived Medicare Local system. Western NSW PHN formed in the second half of last year with CEO, Andrew Harvey, arriving in Dubbo soon after. Harvey brings a mix of experiences and skills to the position, starting with life on a farm in New Zealand, studying agriculture, working in the private

sector and local government and more recently as the Darling Downs South West Queensland Medicare Local CEO based in Toowoomba. “There are a lot of common interests between the work we did in Queensland around rural and remote health and the work here. “One of the things that really drives me, as much from my own background growing up in a rural community, is a passion for rural and remote health. “It naturally followed that this was a great opportunity to work in western NSW to keep that journey going.” Harvey says the PHN model is quite different to that of the former Medicare Locals with geographic areas now larger and the PHNs not delivering frontline clinical services. “They do what is called commissioning – purchasing services, funding services... that’s quite a big change.” Like the Medicare Locals did, the PHNs do health planning and work to understand the needs of the community as well

` Access becomes a critical issue when you consider how do people get to services four hours away if they don’t have a car and d there’s poor public transport, orr even getting access locally within hin our small towns where there aren’t en’t good transport systems. - Andrew w Harvey, CEO, Western NSW Primary Health Network

as practice support – working with general practice and Aboriginal services to help with patient care. Harvey says in these early days of the organisation’s formation, with a draft strategic plan on the table, it’s really important for he and PHN staff to be consulting across the region. Community consultations have been running from Bathurst to Broken Hill since the beginning of February, concluding in Bourke on February 19. “People need to be able to hear from the CEO and the staff around what [PHN] stands for and what it’s doing, what it needs to do. “We’re in the middle of doing this now in different parts of the region, talking to the community and getting feedback around what’s going on... particularly around the planning. “We’ve got a needs assessment we need to do by the end of March so we think it’s really important to be talking regularly. “Trying to get across this region to see communities, because of time essentially, is very hard, but talking to GPs, stakeholders and local government is all part of it.” After only a few months in the job, Harvey is already getting a clear picture of some of the challenges for health services in western NSW. “The way the State and the Commonwealth funded activities maybe haven’t worked as well together. “This whole idea of coordina-

tion keeps coming up... the idea that patients often fall between the gaps of services, that consumers, people in the community have to navigate their way around the system. “Anyone who has been a large user of the health system would know... they’re the one that has to work their way through this system. “What we’re really working towards is having a much stronger focus around the patient as a person so health care services are coordinated to a much better extent so people don’t fall between the gaps; not getting the right care they need at the right time. “This is why general practice becomes a very important component of the mix because most people have a GP, they see their GP and talk about how their health is going and the GP refers them to different places. “But the GP’s time is very limited to be able give concentrated care and unless they see that patient regularly it’s very hard for them to know how that patient is going. “Through funding and working with our local hospital health districts, our job is to ensure the patient’s care is much better coordinated.” Harvey explains that generally the PHN will fund other organisations to do the work – specialists in various medical disciplines who are the primary contact with the public. “For the person seeing their doctor, the fact a PHN is involved is probably not some-

thing they’ll think about too much. “But the fact the government does make the investment, people do need to know how that service is provided and that’s where the connection with the PHN comes in.” Balancing the needs of a region that takes in an area west of the Blue Mountains to Broken Hill and the far west, from Queensland to the Murray River, is always going to be a juggling act. Harvey concedes the challenge is enormous. “It’s very hard to meet every single need but one thing that’s come up in the consultations, and comes up in most discussions about remote and rural health, is transport. “Access becomes a critical issue when you consider how do people get to services four hours away if they don’t have a car and there’s poor public transport, or even getting access locally within our small towns where there aren’t good transport systems. “Ultimately transport becomes a very big challenge. “We’re a funder of health services, but if people can’t get access to those health services it creates all sorts of problems for people. “We want people to be well and being well means accessing services... that’s just one of the challenges.” Western NSW PHN is also seeking feedback on their draft strategic plan via their website – www.wnswphn.org.au.

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Minister for Women, Pru Goward; winner 2016 Dubbo Local Woman of the Year Award, Jane Diffey, and Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier, Troy Grant. PHOTO: MADDIE CONNELL

Diffey in running for 2016 NSW Woman of the Year Awards BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY Y JOURNALIST

SW Minister for Women, Pru Goward reinforced the importance for all women to accept accolades they receive for contributing to their community, without undermining themselves in the process. “And so, consequently, so does everybody else,” Goward told Dubbo Weekender, after presenting the 2016 Dubbo Local Woman of the Year Award to Jane Diffey, on Monday, February 8 at the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC). “Society will only value something as much as you do. If you sell yourself down, then the community says, ‘oh that’s nothing; that’s just what women do.’ “One of the purposes of the awards is to get communities thinking about the contribution of women and valuing it and realising that what that young woman has done, given that she’s had terrible grief to go through; she’s a full time mum, has been remarkable and not everybody can do it.” Goward presented the award to Diffey during a visit to Dubbo to announce funds for new ICE treatment services in Western NSW. During the presentation ceremony, Goward said: “Every year, every electorate awards this and they’re so often people who say they can think of other people who could have got it.

“That’s really what the awards are for, so much in the community. to recognise women who almost invari“So often they never seek adulation or ably don’t seek recognition, but we need recognition or any credit for the enorto acknowledge that sort of contribution mous work that they do in our commujust as much as we need to acknowledge nity and we have so many.” the person that runs a major company As the local member I get the wonor is a famous public figure,” she said derful opportunity to nominate someto Diffey. one who fits that category; who’s self“I know from comless, who thinks about ments that people have community first, secmade, that your contri- ` ond and third and then bution, Jane, has been That’s really what is not all about talk, but extraordinary,” she said. actually walks the walk the awards are Troy Grant described in the work, in the comthe Minister for Wom- for, to recognise mitment and the hours en’s attendance as a women who almost supported by their woncoup. derful families. invariably don’t “We’ve got 93 elec“We’re just incredibly seek recognition torates in New South proud and very grateful Wales and there’s not but we need to for all the work that you 93 ladies who get this acknowledge that do across so many areas; opportunity. Jane will sort of contribution Clare’s Angels, the Early now be invited to a cerChildhood Intervention just as much as we emony with all the othCentre, the Dubbo Show er nominees in Sydney need to acknowledge Society, the school, the at Parliament House in the person that runs kids, you’re a working March where she’ll be a major company or mother; your dedication honoured amongst othis enormous and you’re is a famous public er winners, and then a very worthy recipient,” the overall state winners figure. Grant said to Diffey. will be announced.” “I just do what I do beGrant said Diffey shows incredicause I feel that it needs to be done,” ble strength and is a true inspiration Diffey said. “My mum and my Nan have to those around her and the wider always set, a very high example of being community. involved in the community and I sup“It is truly a privilege to be able to pose I feel I should follow in their footacknowledge Jane’s work and commitsteps and do the same thing. ment to our community,” he said. “There are always other people as Grant described the awards as an opwell, and I wouldn’t be able to do what I portunity to recognise women who do do, without the support of my husband,

and my mum and dad who are there to look after the children for me as well as Gus; and the committees that I’m on because behind every person there’s a great committee.” Diffeys nomination recognises her outstanding contribution setting up the charity ‘Clare’s Angels’ to raise funds for Rett Syndrome Research. Diffeys daughter Clare was diagnosed with Rett Syndrome, a rare neurological disease, at just 18 months old. Rett Syndrome affects mostly girls, referred to as silent angels, as they have no speech. In 2014 Clare unexpectedly passed away. Together with her committees, Diffey has raised $100,000 in just three years for Orana Early Childhood Intervention, local families in need and the Australian Rett Syndrome Study, and in 2015 successfully lobbied the NSW Government to have a special needs school built in Dubbo to cater for families with special needs children across Western NSW. Finalists for the 2016 NSW Women of the Year Awards A.H. Beard Community Hero Award, the Harvey Norman Young Woman of the Year Award and Rex Airlines’ Regional Woman of the Year Award will be published on the Women NSW website at www.women.nsw.gov. au in February and the public will be asked to vote. Winners for all awards will be announced at the NSW Parliament House on March 9, 2016. z For more information on the 2016 NSW Women of the Year awards visitwww. women.nsw.gov.au.

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The highs and lows of the week that was BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

O much happening, so many things to do, so few positive solutions being found in Dubbo and further afield. Starting on a positive note, it’s great to see so many Dubbo kids signing up for footy this week across all the codes. And it’s always fantastic to see parents and other volunteers giving up their time to help keep junior sport alive and well in the city. With Dubbo aping the rest of the nation with house prices inflated way above what they should realistically be, it’s good to see the Reserve Bank of Australia didn’t raise the cash rate this past week. Many people are on the breadline at the moment and any extra mortgage stress could have dire results. Interest rates should be part of the broader look at our economy, and maybe have sliding scales and different categories. For instance if the RBA had a mechanism which could’ve kept home loan rates much higher for investors, then we wouldn’t have the huge spike in prices which has forced so many first home buyers out of the market – when these cheap rates are coupled with negative gearing we get the perfect storm of circumstances which lead to a housing price bubble. If small business rates were cut and corporations were made to pay anything like a fair measure of tax, we’d see huge numbers of Dubbo businesses booming and employing more locals because despite the lobbying power of the Big End of Town, small business is the jobs’ driver in the economy – if every small regional business could employ just one more person, unemployment in Australia would be solved. It’s been another busy political week for Dubbo at all levels of government. But first, on a personal note, there’s been some pretty disgusting behaviour going on in the city. Troy Grant is the local state MP and deputy premier as well as minister for about half everything so he’s got a bit going on and has developed a fairly thick skin. But nothing could prepare him for the untimely death of his mum recently, who suffered a massive heart attack at just 64.

I asked him if I could do a story about the personal attacks he endured while he was burying and mourning his mum but he politely told me he didn’t want to speak publicly on this issue. But I’m going to, because it’s important the broader public can put these things into context. In the midst of all his personal grief he was hammered for not attending a few meetings and other events around the electorate, and if people were hammering home personal attacks and knew that his mother had just died, that’s inexcusable, if they didn’t know, well, an apology would probably be in order. Those who knew, no apology would ever suffice. He didn’t turn up to the independent amalgamation consultation meetings because he was at his mother’s memorial service, yet he got attacked for that – and that’s notwithstanding the fact he couldn’t involve himself in the process because the government has to remain at arm’s length from the independent process, regardless of anyone’s mindset on whether they believe it is or is not an independent process. And I can tell you we have a deputy premier who is grieving and isn’t handling the surprise death of his mother at all well, a bloke who is struggling with the personal nature of his pain despite 22 years trying to become immune to such feelings as a copper, a bloke who is bitterly disappointed that he was personally attacked during such a vulnerable time. Also state-wise, Minister for Women Pru Goward was in town to present an award to Jane Diffey who was announced as the Dubbo electorate woman of the year. This is a great choice, and will no doubt be a popular one, Jane has been through a lot and on top of that, has been a tireless community volunteer for many years. On a more sombre note, and doubling as minister for mental health, Ms Goward used Dubbo as the podium to announce $1.4 million has been allocated to Lyndon Community to set up a specific program targeting ICE use in western NSW – it will be based at Dubbo and provide outreach services to far flung western communities. More on this in a separate article, but this has to be a good thing, with numbers of ICE addicts presenting to hos-

Things have sunk so low for media in the bush, that deputy premiers are being pressed into service as volunteer (free) labour. PHOTO: MADDIE CONNELL

pital emergency departments escalating 10 fold in just the past four years, and that’s not counting the huge number who don’t actually have to be taken to hospital, or their families who suffer the consequences of the addiction. This is a great thing and hopefully the ‘pilot’ program will lead to a new way of combatting this horrific scourge. There’s been some press lately about how Portugal has had far better community outcomes since legalising all drugs and treating the problem as a health issue, so we need a taskforce over there looking at what we can do here to also minimise the problem. It’s always a good idea to check out programs in countries that are doing it better than us, no matter how counter-intuitive it may seem – maybe taking the criminal money and personalities out of the is-

sue would be better than what we’ve got now, that money certainly underpins many major and minor criminal enterprises. On the National front, both geographically and politically, the ever-inspiring deputy PM Warren Truss announced that rising party star Michael McCormack will tour regional Australia in coming months to widely consult on public policy such as how best to spend the ‘unprecedented’ $50 billion infrastructure investment fund, recent trade agreements and the science and innovation agenda. This sounds great and hopefully it’s not mere window dressing such as that delivered by the state government ‘consultation’ on council amalgamations, which has been happening in recent times in “Dubbington”. This is to most a dry and boring issue and it would probably

have stayed that way except for the bungling way the state government’s research and spin campaign has been handled to this stage. On the ironic side of things, there is an amount of schadenfreude at seeing our local government identities so up in arms at the lack of real consultation – it’d be great if they could shelve their egos and understand that’s how a great many ratepayers feel about Dubbo City Council on a daily basis. It’s a vexing issue with a lot of rhetoric and emotion, yet two public meetings didn’t get as many people as attended the Save our South meeting, so it’s doubtful that poor showing will do much to sway the intent of the board government. There’s plenty of for and against arguments on both sides but to think our current arrangements are some sort of Utopia is absurd, there’s so much waste, incompetence and duplication it’s sad. Will an amalgamation be better than what we’ve currently got? I’d be surprised, and that’s scary. I think we need an independent look at councils on an individual basis by a truly talented task force, which can then weed out dead wood, improve systems and protocols and work on asset sharing arrangements. That ‘solution’ would also upset most of those already cranky, because they’d all be out of a job. One media release that’s been doing the rounds affects most Dubbo families because in most fridges you’ll find milk. Finally, after decades of garbage ‘science’, we’re now being told that low-fat milk could actually be worse for you than full fat milk. A few generations ago, before this low-fat craze, people drank full fat milk and were healthier and skinnier, so to think the public at large drank up this crap for so long doesn’t speak well of our collective intelligence. Professors are being paid to research what common sense already tells us, just another example of the nation’s research dollars being appallingly ill-directed in the most part. It happened with butter versus canola, we now know, as we used to, that the fat on chops is good for us – so many of these eating decisions have seen public policy guidelines influenced by science which is paid for by the corporations which get rich

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Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender selling substandard food, and richer raised so much awareness in the broadwhen that crap makes us sick and they er community to let people know how have all sorts of expensive medications important this sort of stuff is. we need to buy to treat the symptoms. Well done. Processed foods are full of engineered Plenty of other volunteers were out proteins most people know and about and most never little or nothing about and get a mention, so if you’re human bodies can’t evolve ` doing something good, or rapidly enough to cope A few you know of something with these toxins, luck- generations ago, performing vital and unily the state government before this lowsung community work, is spending so many hunor you need some publicdreds of millions build- fat craze, people ity about an upcoming ing new hospitals in the drank full fat fundraising event, drop 7 region. Days an email so we can milk and were help support the fabric A huge thumbs up to the healthier and that glues communities Dubbo Macquarie River skinnier, so to together. Bushcare, Inland Waterthink the public And well done to all the ways Rejuvenation Associvolunteers who helped ation, Northparkes Mine, at large drank stage Dubbo’s first ever the McCutheon boys, DPI up this crap for round of the Australian Fisheries and all the others so long doesn’t Kart Championships. who helped get the grant, arranged the trees, pro- speak well of So much behind-thevided the volunteer work- our collective scenes work goes into force and set up some es- intelligence. these events that most sential habitat near Troy people are never aware of, Bridge by way of resnagbut things like this are a ging on the weekend. wonderful promotion for the city. Well done, again, to Taronga WestOur native fish have suffered huge ern Plains Zoo, this time winning the ecosystem changes which have deciUnique Accommodation Award at the mated their population in past decades Australian Tourism Awards held in Melincluding the introduction of European bourne on February 5. carp, the pulling out of woody habitat to ‘clear’ the rivers, contamination of the The zoo has invested a huge amount water from many sources and cold waof money into different accommodation ter pollution from dam releases which experiences and it appears to be payupset native fish breeding cycles. ing off. People these days are looking for the experience and will pay the big So much positive progress has been bucks to get it, and then tell all their made in just a few short years on so many fronts and it’s all because organi- friends. sations like these, plus Riversmart, have Great to see the Tesla Powerwall bat-

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 teries being installed in Australia, this at the same time there’s a leak at a nuclear power plant in New York state, a massive and seemingly unstoppable methane gas leak from fracking in California which has forced thousands to evacuate and the people power movement helping to stop CSG projects in our own state. I’m not anti-development and we do need power sources, but the record of CSG companies both in environmental destruction and their attitudes towards community concerns has been deplorable to say the least. More on the Trans Pacific partnership in a separate article, but despite claims from the federal government that we should be dancing in the streets, this is a very disturbing development, and one which could potentially see overseas niteclub operators suing Australians for dancing in the street by claiming that it was causing them a loss of profits by luring customers away from their businesses – yep, it really is that bad. In rural news, farmers from across the region checked out a dryland sorghum crop at Ray Mudford’s Gilgandra property this week. There were a couple of new varieties from new kid on the block Radicle Seeds Australia and those in attendance were amazed at many facets of the crop’s existence. It was planted on a desolate paddock with no predictions of rain and managed to get a bit of a drink, but the cost of putting the crop in using Australian Soil Planner’s liquid fertiliser system was so low that it needed to yield very little to pay its way. It’s great to see new Aussie ventures

taking out the multinational middlemen who’ve held local farmers over a price barrel for so long. Another virtue of these new varieties is their hardiness – in a great season they won’t be the highest yielding crops in the district but they’ll hang on and normally deliver returns even in the harshest years – and that’s when the price for gain is far higher and even low yields set the cash registers ringing. Strategically I think it’s of enormous importance that local farmer groups are setting up these sorts of companies and pushing the boundaries in terms of new crops being grown around here. All the predictions regarding climate variability indicate south east Australia is set to lose up to half its annual winter rainfall – total rainfall will stay more or less the same, but it will come in the form of more frequent summer storms. Those dry winters will also increase evaporation loss in our fragile soils, so any winter crops will have to face less rain and less moisture holding capacity, which means many grain growers in this part of the world may find they can no longer grow winter crops – this is a game-changer. So we need people working out new grain varieties we can grow during summer in areas, which have traditionally seen only winter crops such as wheat, barley and oats. It’s also why I’ve been pushing industrial hemp so hard – if we don’t find alternatives and we do lose even a fraction of our winter rain, croppers aren’t going to be able to survive unless they adapt to nature’s new rules.

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Taronga Western Plains Zoo director, Matthew Fuller with executive assistant, Joanne Murphy and the Unique Accommodation Award received at the Australian Tourism Awards gala ceremony held in Melbourne on Friday, February 5, 2016.

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End of $1.4M for loca BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

LTHOUGH ICE has been around for a long while, it wasn’t until the Dubbo New Year’s riots that I realised the extent of the local addiction problem, and that this issue was going to become a very serious one. Years later the broader Australian community, including those who haven’t been personally affected by this scourge, understand it’s a major problem. A number of factors compound the complex nature of the ICE problem, including relative ease of manufacture, the cool image it portrays starting with the very name ICE, and the fact that it vastly increases the physical strength of those high on the drug which makes them a danger to themselves, family and emergency workers who try to

help them. I once covered a story where a kid burnt his housing commission home after his meth lab exploded – this was the same kid who’d staged a home invasion at my house on the one night of the year when I was away shooting feral pigs – oh how I wish I’d been there when he visited at 2am. The fact the then magistrate couldn’t comprehend how the overwhelming evidence wasn’t enough to convict this serial recidivist offender was yet another blow, and yet another story how this drug causes so many problems throughout the community, and in many cases the perpetrators of the crimes get off at court. On top of this criminal kid is his circumstances, a dysfunctional family where the life examples held up to him on a daily basis were so appalling that it would have been a major miracle if he’d turned out any other way. This sort of thing is happening across Australia and it’s an exponentially growing problem in western NSW. Mental health minister Pru Goward, was in

Member for Dubbo, Troy Grant, with Assistant Minister for Health, Pru Goward, announcing on Monday, February 8, a $1.4 million contract over four years, to the Lyndon Community, to deliver new ice treatment services in Western NSW. PHOTO: MADDIE CONNELL

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in sight with al treatment Dubbo this week to launch a $1.4 million pilot program to combat ICE in the region, and said statistics showed that the ICE problem had increased 10 fold in just the past four years when measured by addict admissions to local hospital emergency departments (ED). That’s a frightening statistic when you consider that before these wretched souls make it to ED, that they’ve probably left a trail of destruction in their wake regarding family and friends, and taken up untold man-hours for the local police. Stories behind stories behind stories, and all of this costing our communities dearly in terms of the social and economic impacts when multiplied by the sheer weight of cases, the vast majority of which don’t actually end up in hospitals – the ED dramas are literally just the tip of the ICEberg. The machinery of government normally moves pretty slowly but in this case the minister has moved relatively quickly to set up a pilot program which is evidence of the concern the state government has when it comes to the seriousness of this issue. The funding will enable the Lyndon Community to set up a base in Dubbo and help local addicts as well as providing outreach services as far west as Cobar and Bourke. The specialists will be embedded within local health facilities so no money will be wasted on capital costs like buying or leasing premises, this will also enable good collaboration with the local health professionals. The same will be true at the smaller towns, with existing facilities rolling out the red carpet. I’m always pleading for common sense when it comes to government expenditure and this program looks like it’s off to a good start. The Lyndon team will concentrate on preventative intervention, they don’t want things to get as far as hospital EDs and if that succeeds in any measure, it will save taxpayers a bundle in pure financial costs. And that is the aim of the pilot program – to work

out how to tackle this insidious problem at a local level. Deputy premier and local member Troy Grant stood next to the minister during the launch. “We can’t arrest our way out of this problem, it’s too much burden on police and then the subsequent health services,” Grant said. “In our consultations the community told us they wanted addicts to be treated locally and not sent away to a central facility so we’ve responded to that. “We need a service which can turn peoples’ lives around,” he said. The minister said the Lyndon Community had a long track record in making a difference. “What Lyndon will do is form partnerships with other agencies and skilled staff and work to keep the addicts out of jail, keep families together,” Goward said. “It’s a better investment than putting all our money at the end of the system; we need to educate, get into the schools. “We need to create services which improve the quality of life for addicts and their families,” she said. Lyndon CEO, Ed Zarnow, welcomed the opportunity to expand the organisation, which already

ICE clients are a lot more complex and it is a longer process to resolve issues so it’s a drain on scarce resources – the behavioural issues can be quite challenging,” he said, in what must have been the greatest understatement at the press conference.

works in with Dubbo’s Apollo House on various programs. Zarnow said the focus is always on outcomes. “We’ve found in the last few years with our ICE clients that we can send them to rehab but if they don’t get follow-up support they can relapse,” Zarnow said. This is why he believes bringing the service to western communities will be more fit for purpose than the current model which has seen people leaving their families and support base to seek treatment, then often feeling isolated and left in the cold when they return home. “ICE clients are a lot more complex and it is a longer process to resolve issues so it’s a drain on scarce resources – the behavioural issues can be quite challenging,” he said, in what must have been the greatest understatement at the press conference. Like all organisations competing for funding, he said the increasingly competitive nature for grants has seen extra time and resources tied up in applying for grants to produce applications of the highest quality – the paradox of leaving some essential work undone or risk missing out on the money which makes the wheels go round. “But that’s the way it is,” he said, acknowledging that you have to be in it to win it. Western NSW Local Health chief executive, Scott McLaughlin, is keen to see the new service rolled out across the region. “It will be a huge boost for mental health for us,” McLaughlin said. “Lyndon Community has a great track record and because we can help resource them it will mean they can use the funding to get on with the job. “If they had to set up in their own premises much of the money would be gone in that alone,” he said. A sombre thought, while ICE is the drug in the public spotlight, minister Goward said alcohol, a legal drug, was still by far the biggest addiction problem facing NSW and the western region.

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The outdoor Olympic pool backs on to the diving centre.

Community makes a splash in the outback town of Lightning Ridge

Build It and They Will Come It’s a resilient town built off the back of opal, but the generous people of Lightning Ridge is what really makes it shine. Lisa Minner spoke with sisters Simone Gibson and Lily Sisa about a massive endeavour undertaken by five young girls a couple of decades ago that saw an Olympic standard aquatic centre built for a township of only 3000 people. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner HE OUTBACK town of Lightning Ridge is well known for its black opal but the small hardworking community proved a couple of decades ago that they also had what it took to see an enormous goal realised. With temperatures reaching the mid-40s in any usual summer, it’s a hot place to live, especially for the many children both on and off the opal fields. As far back as 30 years ago, the community had decided the “Ridge” needed its own swimming pool and thanks to the efforts of a dedicated committee and the ongoing support of the town’s locals – who dug deep both financially and literally – the dream of a world standard aquatic centre became a

reality, ultimately resulting in the Lightning Ridge Sport and Aquatic Complex. In doing so it changed the lives of many in the outback community. Sisters Lily Sisa and Simone Gibson along with Tammy Jakitsch and sisters Crystal and Kelly Mahoney were aged between 10 and 12 years when they first decided to start fundraising for a local pool. There was already $33,000 raised by the previous committee in the kitty, a massive achievement, but in reality, a mere drop in the ocean toward the final figure of $3.5 million in cash that would be needed to make the centre match the vision of its next and much younger committee. In the meantime the girls were

participating in swimming events at the Walgett Swimming Club and the five friends trained together and represented their school. Lily and Simone asked their father, Richard Mallouk, why the town didn’t have its own pool? “Why do we have to travel? It’s so hot in Lightning Ridge, we should have our own pool here,” they had said. Oblivious to the task in front of them, the girls asked Richard if they could raise the money to build their own pool. Richard was supportive of the idea and challenged the girls to see what they could achieve. The result exceeded all their expectations but not without a massive amount of hard work and with

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FEATURE. Richard Mallouk. “Dad was an opal buyer and he used to say to people I’m not going to buy your opal or sell you opal unless you support the pool! And he did that to his Japanese customers as well, he’d be like you have to buy tickets in our raffle or I won’t sell to you, so they bought tickets and a lot of them, a whole book sometimes!” Lily said. “Dad was also the first one to jump off the highest diving board in the diving centre, he didn’t tell us he just snuck in at night and did it before the official opening!”

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a few naysayers telling them it could never happen, especially since they were so young. Undeterred by the pockets of negativity, the girls found most people were receptive to the idea and supported them. In 1988, the wheels began turning in earnest. “We talked to dad, had a meeting, made a committee and voted ourselves into positions. We threw in all our pocket money which at the time equated to about $20,” Lily recalls, laughing. Their fundraising efforts began in the usual way with cake stalls and with the assistance of the girl’s mums who baked up a storm. Soon they were running raffles, chocolate wheels, variety nights, a rock concert, a country music festival, discos and an Art Union Raffle, comprised of two cars and a sapphire ring. They also sold personalised tiles for $5 a pop. To keep the community informed of their achievement, they had a board erected in the town, which was updated regularly with their increasing tally and tiles, sold. Six months later, an adult committee was voted in and given positions alongside the five girls. As a result of their collective efforts the town won an Australia Day award and the young movers and shakers of Lightning Ridge made their thoughts known to the then Prime Minister, Bob Hawke. “Crystal got up and spoke at the Australia Day ceremony and made this amazing speech in a room full of people and she basically said,’ Thank you for the award but can you now help us raise the rest of the money that we need,” Lily said. “Bob Hawke kind of threw his hands in the air and said it was the first time he’d been upstaged on national TV but he said if he got voted back in he’d contribute some money.” Fortunately, the Hawke government was voted back in and it resulted in a $140,000 contribution to the first stage of the aquatic centre. In 1990, the Lightning Ridge Olympic pool was officially opened after having raised a whopping $650,000. The opening illustrated just what a group of determined people could achieve when they had a target. Olympic gold medallist Dawn Fraser officially opened the pool. By now, the complex included the Olympic pool as well as the children’s pools and toilet block. Lily said so many people had come on board with free or reduced labour and materials costs it was truly inspiring. “We had around a dozen Australian naval personnel come out to help build the toilet block and they stayed for two weeks and we looked after them really well, they had a great time.” Garry Stone, a local opal miner donated all his equipment, donated his labour and fuel and he and his staff

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Crystal Mahoney insisting on more financial support from Bob Hawke when the girls efforts were recognised via an Australia Day award. The beginnings of what would become a world class swimming and diving facility in Lightning Ridge.

The five friends that kick started the whole project, Tammy Jakitsch, Crystal Mahoney, Kelly Mahoney, Lily Sisa and Simone Gibson.

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Sisters Lily Sisa and Simone Gibson in front of the diving pool. The locally designed and constructed Lightning Ridge Theme Park.

Richard Mallouk in front of Lightening Ridgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diving pool.

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We really wanted an indoor pool and we thought well why not put diving towers on it? We don’t do things by halves so dad insisted that everything be done to Olympic specifications. The man who designed the Homebush diving tower also designed ours.

dug both the large pool and the children’s pool,” she said. “All the people doing jobs either did them for free or at cost price. Clubs, like Apex and Lions, were onboard, as well as the Primary Club of Australia who alone, donated $20,000. “If it wasn’t for those people helping in that way all the money we’d raised would still have been nowhere near enough,” Lily explained. Local Aboriginal group, Barriekneal contributed labour by laying all the lawn in the complex and completed some fencing. The sisters said at times like that Richard would order fish and chips and beer for everyone out of his own pocket, just to say thank you and to let people know how valued they were. The sisters said by this time, the cynics had had a change of heart, given what had been achieved. Once the first stage had been completed, the girls, Richard and the adult committee members decided to aim for an indoor sports centre with a gym, full sized basketball court with amenities and kitchen. Lily said like before the fundraising took time and around five years later in 1995, the committee had again reached their goal and the sports centre was officially opened. A plan for stage three, the waterpark, was next and opened in 1998. Lily and Richard had planned a trip to Texas to look at styles of other waterparks to give them a starting point. In the meantime, Richard ran into two local men; Lightning Les and Russell Wheeler both of whom had the skills between them to make water features, right here in the Ridge. “Les was incredibly skilled with fibreglass and Russell was an artist,” Lily said. “The guys lived out of town on a bit of a camp and created all 16 of the colourful features. We couldn’t believe it when they bought them in to be installed, they were so freeform, unlike anything we’d seen.” Both women agree that they may have been crazy to even consider taking on the final stage of the project, but like the previous stages with a set target, a lot of community support and hands in pockets, the Lightning Ridge Diving Centre was constructed. It began with an indoor pool. “We really wanted an indoor pool and we thought well why not put diving towers on it? We don’t do things by halves so dad insisted that everything be done to Olympic specifications. The man who designed the Homebush diving tower also designed ours,” Simone said. “We had those guys do some of the work here who had also done Homebush and they said we think yours is better!” Lily said. The diving centre took ten years to finalise and opened in 2011. Commonwealth diver Scott Robertson attended the inaugural opening along with three up and coming divers. “We had a ‘Come and try diving day’, a parade and a marching band who came from Dubbo, and then the diving display.” When asked if over the five years the diving centre had been opened the town had produced any potential diving greats, Lily said that around six local students had been to the nationals for diving, with a couple of locals attending boarding school in Sydney who have diving as part of their curriculum. “One young Aboriginal boy called Feli Ciprian has just gone away, he is a natural talent and another girl Xhana Tishler is great and Sean White, they are just doing so well for little kids from the bush, it’s so great to hear about,” she said. This year Lightning Ridge has been asked to host the Australian All Schools Diving at the end of August, 2016. Lily said the swimming portion of the event will be held in Darwin and the choice was either Homebush or Lightning Ridge for the diving event. “NSW School Sport pushed for it to be here and they said we have to convince Australian School Sport and they did, so it’s going to be held in Lightning Ridge over a week

with 150 students participating. DAD was an overseer, he’s an opal buyer, he doesn’t build pools but he was so backing his kids and their friends that he just inherited this job and if it wasn’t for him we never would have done it, no way. “From the minute we started to when we finished he was at the complex all the time, if anyone needed anything they called him and he’d source it, “He was always really vigilant with thanking people publically, you can’t do a project like this without showing your appreciation and that you value what these people are doing for nothing.” Simone said Richard was always about precision and standards with everything they constructed having to be the absolute best. The girls said Richard wanted big events to be hosted at the complex and ensured everything was built in such a way that any event of any standard could be hosted in Lightning Ridge. His vision for an Olympic standards complex proved to be a wise decision. The Black Opal Classic carnival attracted some of the best swimmers from all over the world. A private donation of $50,000 prize money was

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on offer for anyone who could break a world record. Alexander Popov, Claudia Pole, Vladamir Pyshnenko, Chris Fydler, Susie O’Neill, Glen Hausman, were just a few of the swimmers who participated in the event. “We bought them all out here, we packed every single motel, dad had a huge barbecue at his place and my brothers who lived next door, it was crazy, but everyone had a great time, “The world record wasn’t broken, but it nearly was,” Simone said. The pool is now run by the swimming pool committee and is partly subsidised by council. The kiosk and the gate takings are retained and put toward any future projects. When asked what advice the sisters might give other regional towns that might lack resources, Simone and Lily agree it’s all about single-mindedness. “If you want something bad enough, then go for it. I think this is proof it can be achieved but you must have your heart in it if you really want the end result to happen because it is very easy to give up, “We could have quit in the beginning very easily but we had incredible support from our parents, that made all the difference,” Simone said.

Bob Hawke kind of threw his hands in the air and said it was the first time he’d been upstaged on national TV but he said if he got voted back in he’d contribute some money.

Trudy and Richard Mallouk. “Mum has been amazing over the years, she is still the treasurer and does all the book keeping, all the banking and worked in the canteen for over 20 years as a volunteer. She still bakes sweets at home to sell in the canteen to raise extra money and also to save us money because she knows how much it costs to run the centre. She can’t help herself. Mum and dad have just been incredible and the fact that they are still doing it 25 years after we started it all, says a lot about their character,” Lily said.

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Jane Diffey: Local Woman of the Year for Dubbo A tireless community worker, Jane Diffey, was honoured this week with the 2016 Local Woman of the Year for Dubbo award fittingly presented by the NSW Minister for Women, Pru Goward, who acknowledge Jane’s contribution to our community, including $100,000 raised for Orana Early Intervention, local families and the Rett Syndrome Study. Jane now has her sights set on a special needs school. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley. PHOTOGRAPHY Maddie Connell You never feel like you deserve it because there are so many women in the community that do so much who, you know, float along. It’s always about who you know and I suppose that’s why I’ve been able to do the things I have. I saw the need for things so I went and did it. I was always on the Show Society; I’ve always been involved with that. I was the ’99 Dubbo Show Girl. You pretty much spend a term of 12 months as a Dubbo Show Society member and that was it then, I’ve been there for 16 years, and chief steward of the showgirl competition for the last 10 years, so I’ve always been part of that. Clare’s Angels started, obviously because of Clare, and I probably wouldn’t have been on the board of Early Intervention if Clare hadn’t attended there. My very best friend has a daughter with a disability and Ellie was diagnosed in 2006 when she was five months old. Your heart breaks for them and you watch their journey and then later down the track here we are in the same situation. I knew what Intervention was. Clare started there in the October and I was voted in as a member in the next March and then at the next annual general meeting I was elected as vice chairperson. Clare went to Dubbo and District Preschool. Lucy just left there and started school this year and Maggie starts this Monday. Our voice needs to be heard. It’s so important, just talking to Pru then about medical marijuana, it’s so important. There is another little girl here in Dubbo who has Rett Syndrome who’s just spent three weeks in Westmead and they still don’t have her seizures under control, which is part of Rett. For a lot of girls the treatments don’t work. They never did for Clare. What

Troy actually told me the day of Clare’s funeral that we’d been successful and we announced it informally at the Clare’s Angels ball on New Year’s Eve and then formally on the day that Clare would have started school

she died from in the end was a massive seizure. She was on 20mg of Frisium morning and night, and 12ml of Tegretol morning and night, and we tried Keppra, we tried Epilim. Medical marijuana is an option. There are trials. I was just talking to Pru and telling her we need to be quick. There are little girls whose lives are at risk. One in 12,000 are diagnosed with Rett Syndrome. Probably it’s a lot more common now and I think that will change because girls are a lot more often misdiagnosed as being autistic or having de-

velopmental delays. The first paper on Rett Syndrome wasn’t published until 1983 and they reversed it in mice in 2007, so there are a number of blood trials underway in the United States that are looking at lessoning some of the symptoms; if they can improve behaviour or speech, those sorts of things. None of the trials they’re doing are for complete reversal. When Clare was diagnosed we were doing hydrotherapy at Fitness Focus and they were talking about closing the hydrotherapy pool, and I thought, no,

you can’t do that. It’s the one therapy she actually enjoys and gets the most from. Like all the other treatments, she just didn’t like them, so she knew what she was doing. First I went to Council and didn’t get any response except being told by Mathew Dickerson that it was too expensive. It wasn’t the response I was looking for. So I went to Troy. I knew Pauline McAllister and I hadn’t actually met Troy at that stage. So I rang Pauline and said, ‘look, I need to speak to Troy. We need a hydrotherapy pool here, this is rediculous’. So I met with him and he said, righto, you come up with wish list of what you’d like. I want a hydrotherapy pool, I want a special needs school. I said, ‘I love integration, it’s great, it’s beautiful, not only for the child with special needs but for the typical kids as well. I think Lucy, our 5 year-old, is a very different child to your average 5 year-old because she’s so aware about kids with special needs. She’ll see a kid in a wheel chair and go over and look right at them and say hello, and that’s because of how she communicated with Clare. And it’s the same with Maggie. Integration works, but you should have a choice. The special needs school is at the top of my wish list, but other things as well. Troy asked me then to write a submission and that was tabled in parliament and the school was announced, last year. Troy actually told me the day of Clare’s funeral that we’d been successful and we announced it informally at the Clare’s Angels ball on New Year’s Eve and then formally on the day that Clare would have started school, so it was a very special moment.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident, father of two and grate speller.

There must be some kinda reform of speech said the joker to the thief ’VE been teaching our youngest kid “All along the watchtower” – Hendrix, not Dylan. You might think my efforts would be better spent toilet training him, or providing adequate nutrition. But, firstly, watching a two-and-ahalf-year-old throw his head back and wail, “outside in the cold distance …” is pretty funny. Secondly, I realised when he was born that facing another round of the Wiggles was out of the question. And finally, the ability to convincingly mimic a Hendrix guitar solo will carry major cred at pre-school, no matter how many times he craps himself. His development has not been otherwise neglected and he is making progress with letters, which serves to remind me how silly English is. The little jigsaws have pictures to accompany each letter: A for apple, B for bucket, C for cup; all things the average toddler is familiar with. Then it takes on a distinctly farmyard theme, which is fine is you live in a petting zoo. But D for duck, F for fish, H for horse don’t come up in kiddie conversation very often. “Mum, I’ve pooed my nappy – are we having duck for dinner?” Better than dandruff, fisting and heroin I grant you. Then it starts getting sillier: I for insect? OK if we’re generalising, but none of them specifically starts with I; flies, spiders, body lice. But the rot really sets in for me at Q. On our board it’s Q for quail, because that sub-species of bird is really relevant to someone still in nappies. Or they use Queen, because even young children are aware a foreign monarchy holds our national self-respect to ransom. My issues also extend to Q being a duplication of the cu or kw sound and therefore entirely unnecessary, unless you need to distinguish a billiard stick from a line of people. English is a language that doesn’t bother to distinguish wind as in moving

air, from wind as in twist, or wound as in stab, from wound as in the past tense of wind, as in twist. But just so people don’t confuse a pool cue from patrons waiting to get into a nightclub, we use queue, which is possibly the silliest spelling of a word outside the O in to, do, so and go. Or gone, done and tone. Or some and home. Or word and sword. And ough being either uff in tough (because ough just screams F doesn’t it?); ow as in bough, off as in cough or ort as in nought. And Ph as F? For phucks sake, can we just change that once and for all? The middle ages was a swell time, but the spelling interpretations of superstitious brutes with open sewers for streets and 1 per cent literacy becomes a bit dated after seven centuries.

Anyway, the other thing I have against Q is that you have to use a U after it for no good reason whatsoever in what must be English’s most pointless rule. What, without the U no-one will pick up that it’s a Q? Is that why it’s so incredibly difficult to pronounce Qantas? Then we get to X. Once again the duplication of the ecks sound and so entirely pointless except to brand porn, beer or

` Anyway, the other thing I have against Q is that you have to use a U after it for no good reason whatsoever in what must be English’s most pointless rule.

coughs, sorry, cows. The high farce really starts when the kiddie jigsaw tries to find words that start with X, largely because there aren’t any, or at least shouldn’t be, another small fact that seriously undermines this letter’s worth. X is for x-ray except that it’s not really and if children too young for pre-school don’t relate to ducks, quails or horses, they sure don’t know x-ray. “It’s like radiology. Next to the emergency department.” Or they use xylophone – where the X is a Z sound anyway, should be spelt zilofone and is as familiar to a toddler as any of the glockenspiel family of instruments. Reforming the language would be child’s play, and cood be qite esksiting.

From the royal wardrobe: Fashion exhibitions mark Queen’s 90th

2016 ROYAL LIFE

LONDON: The largest exhibition of the Queen’s clothes and accessories ever shown in Scotland will open at the Palace of Holyroodhouse to mark her 90th birthday. The display being held in Edinburgh from April 21 has been selected to cover the Queen’s life and reign, and includes evening and daywear. It is one of three separate special exhibitions entitled Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from The Queen’s Wardrobe to be held at the

monarch’s official residences during 2016 – each displaying a different selection of outfits. Exhibitions at Buckingham Palace from July 23 and at Windsor Castle from September 17 will follow. In total more than 150 outfits worn by the Queen will be presented across the three sites, many chosen because of their close association with the location. The Palace of Holyroodhouse has been the setting for many significant official occasions during

her reign, including in 1962 when she wore a Hartnell evening gown of pale-blue silk faille for a gala performance of Rob Roy at the Royal Lyceum during the state visit to Scotland of King Olav of Norway. Sir Norman Hartnell, who first worked for the thenPrincess Elizabeth in the 1940s, produced many evening dresses in her wardrobe. The exhibition at

Buckingham Palace will present outfits worn from the 1920s to the 2010s from ceremonial and military attire to ensembles worn at family celebrations, such as weddings and christenings. The Windsor Castle event will bring together outfits from evening gowns and elegant daywear to fancydress costumes worn by the young Princess Elizabeth for wartime family pantomimes. PA

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Prime Premier THE news that 267 asylum seekers, including 91 babies, were to be deported from Australia and sent to Nauru angered and saddened many Australians last week. The movement #LetThemStay caught the eye and heart of the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Andrews wrote to PM Turnbull, offering to take responsibility and offer homes to the refugees. Other premiers quickly followed suit, as did church organisations offering sanctuary. Thousands of Australian’s rallied on Monday to add their voices to the call. Hopefully this will be a beautiful turning point in Australia.

White Wine Whingers IN NSW the debate against the socalled Lockout Laws is getting tense. Punters, club owners and musicians are arguing that the laws are changing the character of the city, claiming that the 1.30 curfew for admittance to clubs is destroying the city’s once vibrant nightlife, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Premier Baird used Facebook to hit back at the claims that the laws were forcing venues to close while not having an impact on street violence, saying that assaults are down in the CBD by 42 per cent. And, if that means ‘you can’t impulse buy a bottle of white’ late in the evening, well, Baird probably thinks you’re buying into the hysteria.

A supplied image of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews during a visit to Melbourne Zoo on Sunday, February 7, with a family seeking asylum who face imminent deportation to Nauru. Andrews has offered to settle refugee children and their families in Victoria, providing housing, health, education and welfare services. PHOTO: AAP/ESSENTIAL MEDIA

Warne and Waugh SHANE WARNE, the Australian cricketer well known for being the shy, modest type, has shared his opinions on former captain, Steve Waugh. Having plenty of down time while appearing on the reality show I’m A Celebrity, Warne said he didn’t like he ex-team mate for a range of reasons but mainly ‘because he is the most selfish cricketer I’ve played with’. His example? When the captain dropped him from the test side following a poor per-

formance of zero wickets. And Warne has been feeling that burn since 1999. Time to move on, mate.

Super50 THE Super Bowl was once known (outside of the United States) as the most expensive time to advertise – and because of that, the most creative adverts would be released for the game. Nowadays the excitement seems to be more focused on the halftime entertainment. This year pop powerhouses Beyonce, Coldplay, Bruno Mars and

Mark Ronson came together to not only perform their own hits and sing a medley from previous performers, but to make strong political statements. Janet and Michael Jackson inspired costumes and choreography was on display as statements supporting the Black Lives Matter campaign, while the entire stadium filled with rainbows and spelled out the slogan ‘Believe In Love’, referring to the 2015 supreme court same sex ruling. All this at a football game? A sign of the (progressive) times, for sure.

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Greg Smart

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

Cruz on a mission E will carpet bomb them into oblivion. I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out!” In the aftermath of the mass shooting in California last December, Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz touched on his national security strategy to deal with ISIS – including this unsubtle statement that advocates the indiscriminate use of nuclear weapons. Spoken in front of 1,500 of His People at a rally hosted by conservative group Freedom Works, devout Christian Cruz railed against Obama administration efforts to introduce stricter gun controls, and championed guns and prayer as the answers to terrorism. “You don’t stop the bad guys by taking our guns. You stop the bad guys by using our guns. “There has never been a time in the history of this country when we needed prayer more.” The son of an evangelical pastor, Cruz is a Christian of the more guns is better variety. When not busy extolling the virtues of detonating nuclear weapons in the Middle East, Texan senator Cruz can be found out hunting or at the gun range. A video which appeared online last year showed Cruz wrapping bacon around the muzzle of an AR-15 automatic assault rifle, then eating the ‘cooked’

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bacon after firing off a few rounds. He revelled in the notion that Texans do things differently to “other folks.” In the deeply religious (and wholly white) state of Iowa, Ted Cruz declared victory in the Republican caucus with the exaltation, “Let me first of all say: to God be the glory.” He followed with a quasi-sermon laced with references to “Judeo-Christian values” and a remark that “joy cometh in the morning... I tell you tonight, Iowa has made it clear to America and the world: morning is coming.” Cruz is the self-anointed chief defender of “Religious Liberty.” A series of tweets last year included the declarations, “Never in the history of our nation have the threats to religious liberty been so great” and,“if I’m elected President, I will instruct every federal agency that the persecution of religious liberty ends today!”; plus, “we stand together because if we lose our religious liberty, we lose every freedom in America.” Or, more precisely, his version of religious liberty.

Cruz would not condemn Donald Trump’s plan to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, as well as previously suggesting a “religious test” be applied to Syrian refugees as a method of giving priority to persecuted Christians over Muslims. Cruz has been calling on “courageous Conservatives” to continue the fight to win back America. He has even gone as far to say, “if we keep on this path, there comes a point of no return. And my prayer is that this awakening continue, that the Body of Christ rise up to pull us back from the abyss.” Be that as it may, but is this guy we want for American President, Commander In Chief of the US military, and leader of the Free World? “My faith will not just influence the way I’ll govern as President, it will influence the way I live my life,” Cruz said several weeks ago. So far his faith has revealed the character traits that mark him as the type of religious extremist that he is so fearful of. He displays a lacking intellectual

` Bearing in mind that Christ was most likely a humble socialist who healed the poor, helped the impoverished and banished the rent-seeking moneylenders from the temple, Cruz comes across as the polar opposite – a fear mongering xenophobic bigot with a gun fetish.

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maturity, unable to understand the necessity behind the separation of church and state. If he becomes President, it is guaranteed that he will move against the pillars of modern society – birth control, women’s rights, same sex marriage, multiculturalism and secularism – and enact his brand of Conservative Christian values in a fight against what he sees as the decay of conscience. Bearing in mind that Christ was most likely a humble socialist who healed the poor, helped the impoverished and banished the rent-seeking moneylenders from the temple, Cruz comes across as the polar opposite – a fear mongering xenophobic bigot with a gun fetish. The race for Republican nominee will intensify in the coming weeks, as the Primaries swing through the Bible Belt states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Cruz’s trigger happy home state of Texas. Cruz will gain further momentum in these states and we can expect plenty of sermonising. I have had family in America say to me that Cruz, not Trump, is the dangerous one. Trump is a boorish megalomaniac who’ll say anything to win, but Cruz means every word he says. He is the one the world should be most scared of, and the one most likely to be the Republican nominee.

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A supplied image of ministers of the 12 countries pose with the paperwork after the signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, February 4. PHOTO: AAP/NEW ZEALAND FOREIGN AFFAIRS & TRADE, PETER MEECHAM

Trans Pacific Partnership opens a can of litigation worms BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HE messages people hear these days are designed to enrich the people who are already the richest in the world. They own mainstream media, and, in many cases, their financial support means they effectively own the key legislators across the globe. Let’s look at how just a very few people are needed to sway important global decisions when it comes to public policy. If there are 11 people on a tribunal or court, if six of them secretly caucus and vote as a block, the other five are cut out of any real decision making process, with outcomes resulting from an allegedly transparent process totally corrupted. But wait, it gets worse. If four of those people decide to secretly have little get-togethers and vote as an inner bloc, it means, the decision of the 11, is effectively controlled by just four people. And it doesn’t end there, because if three of those four work together inside the system, they’re running the show. And if just two of those three decide they’d like to really control the show, there you have it. And if one of those two is holding some level of blackmail over the other, it’s essentially a dictatorship in all but name. These key influencers are the ones targeted by the monied interests, and corporations have millions of these people floating around the place. Years ago John Cobb was the federal MP for Parkes and prior to that he’d been involved in the upper levels of farmer politics. He told me that at that time, just one chemical company had more than 300 highly paid lobbyists in Washington DC alone. Now, what are they there for other than to persuade, cajole, pressure and influence the politicians, staffers and bureaucrats by fair means or foul, or, in the case of the factory farming chicken industry, fowl.

the Mother of all free trade agreements Corporations only spend money for which will allow these criminal comone reason, and that’s if it’s a good inpanies to sue our government, which vestment to multiply financial returns, means our taxpayer dollars, if our public so these lobbyists sure aren’t there for policy makers dare to enact a law which the greater good. could potentially harm their profits. Watch one episode of House of Cards How the hell could anyone ever sign and it quickly becomes apparent just up to something like that if they have how corrupt the US political and public the best interests of the people at heart. policy making process really is. I have enormous respect for Parkes A growing number of US voters are MP Mark Coulton, but on this one, he supporting social democrat Bernie and his fellow nationals have been sold Sanders, and probably because the rethe Sydney Harbour Bridge at an enorcent version of that nation’s ‘free marmously inflated price. ket corporate capitalism’ has disenfranchised almost an entire The “Nats” have been inmiddle class which used to fected with the ‘free-trade’ be an aspiration of the rest ` mantra for decades now of the world. Bear in mind also as it’s destroyed our processing and manufacturIt should be instead be that enormous ing base. called a ‘distorted market thanks to bribes and lob- numbers of Bear in mind also that bying’, where all the power people in the enormous numbers of peois concentrated in proba- USA are dead ple in the USA are dead bly a scarily small number against this against this new agreeof individuals who are all ment, because they’ve mates, or at the least, con- new agreement, seen first-hand how that because they’ve spirers together. nation’s standard of living has gone from being Australia has been pret- seen first-hand the envy of the world to ty much slavishly follow- how that nation’s struggle street in less than ing the worst of the excesses in the USA for a standard of living a generation. few decades now, into has gone from This agreement is not foreign wars, which have being the envy about trade, although that seen thousands of inno- of the world to serves as a useful window cent civilians killed over dressing to sell it to farmbogus mainstream me- struggle street ers and the like who’ve dia propaganda citing fic- in less than a seen things get far toughtitious Weapons of Mass generation. er since we started signing Destruction. all these sorts of things. If we were brutally honSold over and over again as the bigest with ourselves, we’re part of the real gest boost ever for economic growth, life weapons of mass destruction, layjobs and peace on earth, it’s nonetheing waste to huge tracts of the Middle less been so secret that no-one except East and destabilising things so badly the corporate executives and a few privthat we now have multiple humanitarileged others have been able to read ian crises on our hands. what’s actually in it – that alone tells Vietnam taught us nothing, and the me this thing is no good for the average person, in fact it’s so, so bad they’ve taksame armament manufacturers and en great measures to hide it from us all. suppliers to armed forces are making more cash than ever before. Who would The heart of the matter is the corruphave thought? tion of absolute power – imagine a super conglomeration of world-girdling corpoAnd now we have the same people rations having so much power over alwho’ve caused all this mess for personal legedly independent political states like riches, the Establishment, signing us up us, with no redress in any traditionally to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP),

recognised courts of established law. Tribunals with the last word, which are staffed by minions allied to this corporate conglomerate. Things, which have never been subject to profit before, will all of a sudden fall under the corporate umbrella, thanks to the easing of regulations, which have prevented predatory corporate behaviour, of being able to siphon off money without actually producing anything of value in return. Intellectual property rights will be fought over by these companies, which, even though they have no right to them, will be able to bulldoze anyone in their way, including the Australian government. Look no further than the plain packaging cigarette labelling, a positive proactive public health issue, and cigarettes kill via cancer. Yet the corporates would love to see that initiative removed and the Aussie taxpayers stumping up billions in damages to compensate for the loss of profits. Already, and without the full text of the TPP having been released, commentators are predicting new armies of professional litigators will rise up like a tsunami, solely looking to exploit any money making opportunities like parasites. Even doctors, the ones without borders who endure incredible hardships and devote their lives to actually trying to help the world’s least fortunate, have claimed the TPP is ‘on track to become the most harmful trade pact ever for access to medicines in developing countries’. But don’t just take me at my word, do some simple research and see why huge protests are springing up in countries across the world. And if you have any lingering doubts, ask yourselves why mainstream media isn’t giving these protests the coverage they deserve, purely because the world’s biggest media corporations are in this thing up to their necks, and they don’t want to cook the golden goose. Let’s look at some current real world examples of what we can expect from the TPP.

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Riding h Jessie: ’VE just returned from riding in New Zealand for two weeks, where I rode at two shows and was lucky enough to receive three placings in the 1.10-1.2m (showjumping) events. I was riding a borrowed horse named Rippa, who sure was a ripper! My latest achievement was qualifying for a team for the Australian National Interschools Championships in Sydney, where I took two horses. I was named Australian Champion in one division and reserve Australian Champion in another division, which was cool because there were teams from all the other states competing. It was a bit of a turnaround for me – it kind of gave me more faith in myself. I hadn’t actually lost faith as such, but I’d never really had a crack. It was like I had just gone around nicely to get the experience, but this time I actually had a go and thought I really could have a crack at this. I’m not sure what it was that made me really go for it this time – I suppose I just felt my horse was jumping really well and that I’d give it my best shot because it could turn out really well. And it did. At the NSW titles, I was third runner up Junior Girl Rider in the Junior Championship and before that I won the Pony Grand Prix at the Australian Youth Show Jumping festival. I won that from 2013 to 2015. I’ve just turned 14 and I’ve been riding since I was about two. I’m often asked what I enjoy about riding, and I think it’s just that I love horses in general – they make my heart melt! I love them so much. I love the connection you need to have with your horse. Jock and I get up at 5.45am every day and I ride four horses before school. Mum’s there to saddle them up so I can just jump from one to the next and squeeze them all in before school. We do the same routine in the afternoon. We couldn’t do all this without Mum. It’s that family support – from Mum, Dad and even our grandparents – that’s part of the reason Jock and I have managed to go so far with our riding. Jock is four years older and I’ve followed his lead a little bit, but I’ve actually been riding longer than he has! He started quite late – he was seven. But as we grew up, he was going to the bigger events and I got to

go as well at a younger age, so I guess I can thank him for that experience. We get along quite well now. When we were younger we would have the usual sibling arguments, but we’re much better now. He’s actually just a generally nice person. He really encourages me, and he puts in a lot of effort to help me. Now that I have some of his horses he’s even more helpful. I’ve learned from his experiences and I’ve learned from his mistakes too, which has helped me avoid making those mistakes when I probably wouldn’t otherwise have learned those lessons until I was older. I don’t really get nervous when I’m competing – I actually have pretty good nerves, unlike Jock who used to get very nervous. It’s only really at big events, if there is heaps of pressure, that I get a little bit nervous. I have five horses at the moment; Jock has given me two of his. My youngest is 13 and my oldest is 20. It’s hard to choose a favourite, but the one Jock recently gave me – the one he won reserve Australian Junior Champion on – he’s really cool to ride. I did my first competition on him last weekend and I’m just in love with him. The riding schedule is pretty hectic, and it’s hard sometimes to juggle other things, but I suppose we make do. We’ve made it this far, I guess! The horses are a major part of my life so I put a lot more of my commitment towards them and that’s my choice. Some mornings – not very often – it’s hard to get out of bed, but something else I love about horses is having that responsibility for them. They’re why I get out of bed every morning. Next year the qualifying event for the Youth Olympics is on so we are working really hard towards that. There’s also a thing called the German Friendships next year that I’m aiming for. Having Jock’s horses to ride now gives me faith in reaching those goals, because he’s had such success on them. It gives me that belief that I can go further with them. I guess it makes me a bit more competitive.

Jock: ’VE just come home from an Australian young rider tour of New Zealand, competing on borrowed horses as a team of four against the Kiwis. Be-

fore that we went to Werribee where I was the Reserve Australian Junior Champion and part of the NSW team that was crowned Australian Junior Team. In April, I was most successful junior at Sydney Royal and won the Grand Prix. I’ve just turned 18, and yeah, I’m pretty happy with the way things have panned out and I feel very grateful for all success and all the people who have helped me to get where I am at the highest level. Mum is the reason Jessie and I got into riding – she wanted us to ride because she herself was a good rider. Every morning she wakes us up and is over with us at the stables; she comes up with all the plans and the exercise routines for the horses and she’s also in charge of what shows we go to and all the preparation for the bigger shows. She also organises our lessons with our coaches. Dad helps out a lot behind the scenes – and he’s the designated truck driver! It’s a family affair and it’s a pretty good system. I had a late start to riding. I’d had a few rough experiences when I was younger – fell off a few horses and I was quite terrible, so I didn’t learn to properly ride until I was about seven. Mum basically shipped out a little pony and I learned to ride in about the span of two weeks because she knew I’d get bored with it otherwise. But I kept going and haven’t really stopped. It’s a full-on, hands-on routine we have and that’s the nature of the sport, so yeah, it gets difficult to juggle other commitments, like school. But Mum contacts the school and lets them know when we will be away so I can get work ahead of time and keep up with my class mates. This is HSC year, so I’ll be more focused on school than riding. I want to get the best mark possible so I have as many options as possible besides riding when I leave school. I definitely want to head off to uni, but with the horse riding side of things, I’d love to go overseas and see what it’s like over there. It’s an extremely professional sport in Europe, and America is not far behind – so just having a look over there would be a great experience. Going to the Olympics requires a lot of funding and we probably aren’t in the situation where we could fund an Olympic campaign. But if the oppor-

Siblings Jessie and Jock Rice-Ward might be riding high with a swag of national show-jumping titles on the family mantelpiece, but the dedicated and determined Dubbo teenagers still have their feet firmly planted on the ground. AS TOLD TO Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPY Connor Coman-Sargent

tunity does arise, and I had a wealthy owner that was willing to help pave the way, that might make it possible, but it’s not on the agenda right now. Jessie and I have to spend a lot of time together and it’s always interesting but we get

on pretty well. She’s taken over the riding of my two good horses that brought me a lot of the success I’ve had over the past two years – they’re a bit different to the horses she’s had before so I’ve been helping her out with that.

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I don’t mind giving her a few tips, whether she takes them or not I don’t know! I have a bit to say sometimes (laughs). I don’t really see myself as a mentor figure – Jessie is more like competition, really. She’s certainly stepping up through the grades and she often beats me. It’s al-

ways a long trip home when Jessie beats me at a show. She’s had a lot of achievements and I’m really proud of her. She’s in a better place now than I was at the same age so she’s already surpassing all the achievements I had. She’s destined for bigger and better

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things. She’s taking it very seriously and she knows what she has to do. I admire Jessie’s determination to win – it’s a good habit to have. Her eagerness to get out there and prove herself is one of her best qualities. I’d love to have her nerves –

she doesn’t get worried or overthink anything. She knows she deserves to be where she is so she never gets worried. I’m a bit of a nervous wreck. I don’t really like competing – I try to switch off and relax but it’s really hard. I’ll go back into the truck and put some music on

and try to settle down, but Jessie? She just doesn’t care – she knows what her job is and she goes out and performs. I’d like to do engineering at uni and as a career, but horses will always figure in my future. I don’t think I’ll ever stop riding.

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I remember after school we’d have careers advice and I told the guy I wanted to be a singer, a pop singer, and he told me to get out, and come back when I’d grown up and made up my mind.

Jon English (centre) and the cast from the Trilogy of Rock show, appearing at the DRTCC on Saturday, February 27.

JUST BORN THAT WAY He’s got six Mo awards, two Logies, four Arias, an ACE, two Green Room and an Australian Film Institute for best soundtrack award. He’s won a TV Week/Countdown and three RAM magazine awards, plus best visiting artist in Norway, where he’s been adored since the hit television show, Against the Wind. Rock royalty, Jon English is coming to town with the Trilogy of Rock show and really... needs no introduction. AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley What was it like for you to move to Australia when you were 12? It was 1961. I’d literally just turned 12. We moved to Cabramatta in the western suburbs of Sydney, which was a market garden town full of World War II refugees and immigrants; full of people whose dad worked on the water board but in fact was the qualified chemist from the University of Budapest but not recognised in Australia, which is ludicrous. It was full of people just basically starting again. Then, the western suburbs of Sydney was the great fruit bowl, the great market garden of Sydney which is all gone now due to real estate. It was very, very different. I mean quarter acre, half acre blocks were quite standard and common with your fibro house. When we left England, we thought, we’ll be right on the beach and riding horses to school. Of course Cabramatta couldn’t be further from the beach. Because of that there wasn’t much to do but there were lots and lots and lots of little garage bands starting up. That was when the Beatles broke and all that, and I was exactly the right age. Did you come from a musical family?

Dad was a good piano player, and apparently my grand father, my mother’s father, was a professionally trained singer, an opera singer. I didn’t even know that. Dad could just about play anything he could put his hand too. It was in the days after the war and so, no, you’ve got to have a real job. I remember after school we’d have careers advice and I told the guy I wanted to be a singer, a pop singer, and he told me to get out, and come back when I’d grown up and made up my mind. So I used to tell people I wanted to be a journalist of all things, if you can believe..., because it was only thing they could get their head around that seemed to be a real job but reasonably artistic. What’s the first time you sang in front of a live audience? It was the Railway Hotel and I sang Twist and Shout, I think. I was about 16. The guy across the road had a little twoguitar band thing and he got me up to sing. You weren’t allowed to drink. You were allowed in, in those days, you just weren’t allowed to drink. What’s been a real life drama you’ve seen on stage? Some years ago we were playing in

a picture theatre in Wagga, which was the only venue in town. Today, it’s much better of course. The backdrop caught alight during the support act. It hadn’t been fire treated and it caught alight. Just for that instant, a very brave man from the audience, jumped up, an off duty policeman actually, and pulled the whole lot down and everyone settled down, but the panic in a full house and a fire, was just terrifying. Is there a moment in your career that stands out more than others? When I look at myself, and think, look at you, you old bastard, you’re still doing it. I think after a long period of rehearsal like six weeks or so for a show, specifically the Pirates of Penzance, when you actually get up and do it front of an audience and they love it. You think; it’s worth it. The trouble with that, especially when you’re doing a comedy, you start to think, is this funny? It’s telling the same joke again and again and people are sitting there with stone faces, you think, this is hard work. The sitcom [All Together Now, with Rebecca Gibney] was a bit like that. We were screaming for an audience around about Wednes-

day: ‘Please give me an audience; I want to know if this works, I don’t even think it’s funny anymore!’ Do you ever get anxious acting on stage or in front of a live audience, that things may not always go right? I think its part of the attraction to be honest. You can make educated guesses nowadays because you’ve been around for a long time. Your first reaction is the right reaction so if you laugh the first time then it’s funny, but after the tenth time it’s not funny because you know what’s going to happen, that’s when you start yelling for an audience so you can hope you’re right the first time. Had you always hoped for the life you’ve created? In my heart of hearts, and dream of dreams, I always wanted to do it. Is there something about you people generally don’t know? I’m a member of the most discriminated against minority in the world, even though it’s a huge minority and have been my whole life. It’s slightly better nowadays, but nonetheless, it’s a massive discrimination. I’m left handed. It sounds like you’ve suffered, Jon? Think about, man! Everything’s de-

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 signed for right-handed people. You go to the bank or the post office and the piece of chain is ALWAYS on the wrong side. You go bowling and there’s never enough bowling balls. It’s not terribly hard, but it is a slight indication that the majority still rules, you know. Were you made to write with your right hand at school? My sister was for sure, she went to teacher’s college and they made her learn to write with her right hand, because it a bad thing. Here’s a story, right. I did Spamalot, in Brisbane last year and one of the little chorus guys, was a bit nervous, he was only about 8, and he’d told him mum he was gay. He said, ‘I don’t know if they’ll understand’, and I said ‘I bet they do and I wouldn’t worry too much’ and I said, ‘anyway, it’s a bit like being left handed. You can’t help being left-handed, you just are. I would much sooner be right handed because everything’s designed that way but you can’t, you’re just born that way, so don’t worry about it, there’s nothing you can do about it.” Have you performed in Dubbo before? Oh yeah. I’ve been there quite a few times specifically with the Rock Show. You’ve got a good theatre there. That’s one thing you’ve got that Coffs Harbour doesn’t have. It’s ridiculous. They keep building hockey fields and things like that. If you build it, they will come! What does Trilogy of Rock have in store for the audience? I mentioned the Rock Show before which was a show put together by a group of very young musicians out of Gosford. They wanted to do something that reflected my time as a teenager growing up, to about 1980. The interesting thing is they were 19, 20 and 21. All very accomplished. So we took them away and knocked this show together, which we called The Rock Show, and we spoke about Woodstock and the Beatles and things like that and they played it with all the original energy and exuberance that the original bands played it. It’s an eight piece band, they’re all young and swap instruments. It’s quite extraordinary. People just loved it. We’ve done three versions of it, The Rock Show, Rock Show More and Rock Revolution. The Trilogy of Rock is a nod to all three. What do these young musicians get out of playing songs from 30, 40 or 50 years ago? I think because it has to be played. There’s no sampling, backing tracks, because it literally didn’t exist... well it did exist but that was only on TV. You could sort of sing to your own backing tracks. It has to be seriously played and looked at. You play as a group. There’s no click tracks, there’s nothing like that. There’s not much nowadays that actually happens that way. Its mostly the old stuff that’s like that. It’s why symphony orchestras keep playing Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Bartok and stuff like that because it’s designed for a symphony orchestra. And this is designed for a rhythm section that’s designed for base player and a drummer that look at each other.

You’re not in the hands of some machine. Do you prefer it that way? I think there’s something gained from everyone playing together. We’ve had periods where the young musical director would jump on stage and stamp his feet, and say, look, it’s too fast, it’s not like that on the record. I’d say, of course it’s too fast. We all do that live, it’s what happens. Listen to live versions of the original record. It’s just what happens. They’re learning stuff as well. What do you know now that you wish you’d known when starting your career? It’s a business like everything else. Don’t take it too seriously and above all

have fun. Even if you’re doing a serious part, you’re having fun doing it then it seems to translate across to the audience, they sort of know. That’s what’s translated across all three rock shows, the audience says, ‘you all look like you’re having so much fun’. That’s good, because if we are, they are. It seems a bit trite really but... I really only know one business, the business of show, but all the stuff I talk about that seems to be incredibly specific about show business, I look around and it seems to be the same for every other business. It’s all about teamwork, and collaboration and having fun.

JON ENGLISH and the ‘TRILOGY OF ROCK’ For one night only, be treated to classic rock hits of the ’60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s from such legendary bands as; the Rolling Stones, the Who, Queen, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, the Eagles, Billy Joel, the Easybeats, the Doors, Deep Purple, Simon and Garfunkel, Tina Turner, the Kinks, the Mamas and the Papas, David Bowie... AND MANY MORE!! And, of course, Mr JON ENGLISH himself. » 8pm » Dubbo Regional Theatre » Saturday, February 27, 2016

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

The life of an opal miner is a precarious one with hard work and a lot of luck; the makings of many who dedicate themselves to chasing Australia’s elusive national gemstone. Dubbo Weekender dropped by the remote Glengarry Hilton Hotel to explore a pub brimming with history, yarns and locals who are proud to call this patch of earth their home. WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner F you’re looking for a pub that’s off the beaten track, exudes character and is frequented by some of the friendliest and earthy folk you might hope to make the acquaintance of, look no further than the Glengarry opal fields in north-western NSW. It’s an established mining region with two quirky watering holes in close proximity. The Glengarry Hilton and the Sheepyard Inn, both provide an experience that’s guaranteed to satisfy the most jaded explorer or beer aficionado. The community of Glengarry is situated about 60 kilometres off the Castlereagh Highway near neighbouring outback towns of Walgett, Lightning Ridge and further up the road, Goodooga. If you didn’t know the Glengarry Hilton (or Outback Hilton as it’s also known) was there, there’s a fairly decent chance you would not stumble across it nor bravely venture along the winding dirt roads that lead to this outback oasis. The Glengarry Hilton was launched in the back of a rabbit chiller providing beer for the field’s thirsty miners. As a result of the beer supply being erratic, the miners took it upon themselves to build their own pub, part of which still stands today. While it served its purpose and its patrons well, the pub remained unlicensed. Being fully aware of the opal field’s sly grog shop, police made many attempts to catch the pubs enterprising owner, selling.

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Outback Oasis A community of people as unique and colourful as the rocks they dig

Regulars, Anthony Melonas, John Cook, Miss Hathoway, “Lumby”, “Choppers”, Tony Cummings and Mark Melonas at the Glengarry Hilton Hotel set on the Glengarry opal fields.

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Claire Cummings, 11 yrs

But the bush telegraph was always a bit faster than the arrival of the police and allowed time for the illegal booze to be moved from the premises. In 1993 the Glengarry Hilton obtained a bottle shop license and so the pub still operates technically as a bottle shop today. A man named Charles Phipps in 1905, who worked on Morendah Station, discovered the Glengarry opal fields, on which the Hilton stands. It wasn’t until years later in 1970 that the area really hit its stride as an opal-mining mecca, when a team of fencers digging post-holes struck the gem. Priorities in check and once finished with their fencing job, they returned to what is now the Glengarry fields and began mining the area which turned out to be an incredibly rich one of the world’s rarest gemstones. With tight lips the locals said the miners kept the source of their opal a guarded secret but after having sold their bounty in Lightning Ridge a few times, a group of savvy opal buyers wanted to know where the miners had sourced the much coveted black opal. Determined to keep the township away from their claim, the location remained unknown until one determined buyer who owned a plane, followed the men back to their camp at Glengarry and discovered the source. This revelation resulted in a rush of new miners staking claims in the Glengarry and Grawin areas, keen to strike it rich themselves. It became known as ‘Millionaires Gully’ and it’s estimated that around $40 million worth of opal was recovered around that time. While the mining boom and frenzy that surrounded its discovery has since slowed down, the area still has a solid community of miners who live and work the Glengarry opal fields. Tony Cummings is the owner of both the Sheepyard Inn and Glengarry Hilton Hotel. He’s been steering both for the last three years, with his family and some dedicated staff. “I love the place, the people, the characters; where it is,” he said. “We get every sort of person out here you could imagine, a lot of international tourists, they love it, the wow factor.”

The Sheepyard Inn, currently having a hiatus from business during the hot summer months.

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Mark Barker, Sean and Con Turnbull from Brewarrina take a break from mining at the Hilton.

Like many who live there, Glengarry, Grawin and Sheepyard, are home to both permanent residents and those who spend part of the year there mining in a mish-mash of houses and huts. The quirky style of architecture sprawled across the opal fields reflects the individuality and resourcefulness of the people who call the place their home. And unlike most regional and outback towns it’s game on when it comes to stamping individuality on to these unique abodes. Stone, tin, bottles, concrete, old buses, caravans and whatever else has been in use over the years has been transformed into comfortable housing. Glengarry also has a dusty but popular nine-hole golf course on which as many as 60 people regularly turn up for community matches. While the opal fields might be remotely located, there’s no end of things to do to keep its residents entertained when it’s time to relax. Barb Hosking works behind the bar of the Hilton Hotel and agrees the pub attracts people from all across Australia and the world, as well as a significant number of visitors from the Newcastle region. So many in fact that around the corner at the Ducks Museum, a tin shed entitled the Caves Beach Hotel, stands proudly, albeit somewhat out of context, in the blistering heat. An old outdoor public shower from Merewether beach is perched at the rear of the “hotel” and various signage from the coastal city decorate the walls and exterior of the building. The residents’ sense of humour is obvious as soon as you reach their community. Both the Sheepyard Inn and Glengarry Hilton are overflowing with memorabilia specific to the area. A quick walk around both pubs reveals images of various events that have taken place there and photographs of locals significant to the area. The Sheepyard Inn has a bra tree, decorated in a variety of lacy lingerie and a phone tree, with old mobile phones nailed to it. The Hilton houses pool tables and a dining area set within a tin enclosure. There is a breezeway between the bar and the enCharlie and “Lumby” sifting through the washed dirt for any missed opal.

tertaining area which is the meeting place for many a thirsty local who gather at intervals throughout the day and night, in an attempt to cool down before hitting the fields again. One such miner Con Turnbull turns up with his crew for a bit of respite from the backbreaking work of expanding a new underground shaft. It’s a 38-degree day and the sun is beating down on the fields in a way that only the seasoned miner could tolerate gracefully. The Dubbo Weekender crew are invited to see what

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` We get every sort of person out here you could imagine, a lot of international tourists, they love it, the wow factor.”

a shaft looks like underground. The precarious journey down the ladder in the shaft reveals a small cavern where the business of opal mining takes place. Despite the confined spaces the saving grace is that the outside temperature does not permeate the shaft. The miners say the temperature generally sits around the 23-degree mark, which seems a fair trade-off for the hotterthan-Hades temperatures that beat down on the fields in the summer months. While part of the Weekender team decides she needs a rejuvenating tinnie and a shady spot in the breezeway of the Hilton to regroup and regather, the other member of the DW team immerses himself in the exploratory part of the adventure with Con and his miners. HE locals who are gathered around the bar reminisce about unusual events that have occurred there. They collectively recall the night when nearly everyone saw a large white light blazing across the sky, low on the horizon.

“Choppers” has been in the area for 25 years. Harking from Gunnedah originally, he said his grandparents use to mine the area and after travelling around after school for a few years, he decided to make mining and the opal fields’ his life. Choppers said he’s seen pieces of opal come out of the fields weighing as much as 200 grams and valued at around $2 million. And while the thrill of the chase is enough to keep Choppers and most of the miners going, in lean times the structure of the community allows people to live frugally. Crayfish, rabbits and goats still provide a basic meal if times get hard.

Choppers said he could have sworn it was a UFO. “There it was just above us, huge and white and bright, it freaked us out.” Barb thought it looked more like a night train hurtling through the sky, either way it was enough to rattle the tiny community. The following morning they discovered the light had been Russian space debris crashing back into the earth’s atmosphere. “We were saying, ‘They’re here, they’re here, they’ve come!’ I still think space junk; my ass!” Chopper said, laughing. There have also been local sightings of the elusive Min Min lights coming out of the bore heads in the fields. Min Min lights are balls of light that hover and bounce along the horizon and are said to follow people. They are most commonly observed in outback areas of Australia. The Hilton’s chef “Brewie” can also cook up a meal in The Tucker Van that would rival any city establishment and the pub provides back-packer style accommodation (with breakfast) for around $20 per night.

Local lad Jack Cummings, 9yrs.

“Lumby”, proud winner of The Sheepyards ugliest man competition in 2014 and miner of many years declared when he first settled in the area that he would light a fire and not distinguish it again until he’d found opal. “I thought I’d find opal a lot quicker than I did. Turns out that fire was burning for 16 solid months!” he said.

Barb’s partner “Brewie”, the pubs cook, has been on the Glengarry fields for three years. He came here for the freedom, the lifestyle and the open space. “We can cook everything from a Chiko Roll to a Scotch Fillet to a T-Bone steak,” he said.

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Business & Rural

Technology affording pastoralists opportunities to improve bottom line BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH TH JOURNALIST

ARLIER this week livestock producers from the region attended an event in Nyngan aimed at presenting how farms can ‘future proof’ their businesses. One of the speakers was Dubbo-based rural consultant, Mark Gardner, keen to impart a sense of opportunity for pastoralists to supercharge their productivity through the use of existing and developing technologies. Gardner refers to pastoralists from the western reaches of the region, wanting to innovate and engage with technology, as being ‘modern’ pastoralists. “They’re people who are looking to the future of their livestock operation and looking to plan where they want to be in the next two, five and 10 years. “They’re forward thinking people interested in applying new ideas and techniques.” Last year NSW Department of Primary Industries released a report on the State’s sheep industry showing there had been no productivity growth in sheep industries over a period of 33 years, compared to 1.5 per cent per year, productivity growth in the cropping industry. Gardner says there are now people moving into pastoral industries from other backgrounds, or younger people taking on these enterprises, keen to employ some of the innovations and technology that have been successfully employed in cropping enterprises over many years. “No industry can exist on zero productivity gain over a period like that but from my point of view as a consultant there is significant pent up opportunity because we haven’t innovated and we haven’t focused on the opportunity enhancements. “There are now equivalent technologies available for the livestock industries and I think pastoralists are quietly excited that seasonal conditions are improving, livestock prices are fantastic and there’s a good return now, which hasn’t really been there in the past 15 years. “There’s a level of optimism and now they’re looking at improving their pastoral enterprises as they move from surviving into

Mark Gardner, Vanguard Business Services. PHOTO: KIM V. GOLDSMITH

thriving... they’re asking how can we make running these enterprises easier in terms of labour and time, achieve some work life balance, but also how can it be made more profitable by using new ideas, techniques and technologies.” Gardner outlines three key technologies that are ready to go and may provide significant benefits – telemetry, electronic identification and GPS technology. “You can sit in a vehicle and drive the hundreds of kilometres in a week to check water points or you can use telemetry and sit at your computer or check your smart phone to see the same thing ... in fact, getting better information. “Anywhere you have internet coverage you can check your water ... in town, on holidays if you

want to and still check the condition of your stock using a camera, or stock water, using a whole range of technologies. “You can also use this technology for security, which is a massive issue in pastoral areas now.” Gardner’s firm, Vanguard Business Services have run trials showing the payback on telemetry technologies can be less than 12 months. “There’s not a lot of technology in agriculture that will pay itself back in less than a year.” Electronic identification in livestock, more specifically Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID), enables pastoralists to move from managing mobs of animals to managing individuals, with the tags remaining with the animal for life.

` Even with the NBN I think it’s going to be a significant issue; poor connectivity is a major limitation to management, but the thing I like about telemetry is they can now pass digital images through UHF radio signals, so it’s not reliant on the Internet.

While it’s a fairly new technology trials have shown these tags identify significant performance differences within a mob. “There are what we call passengers who are getting what we’d call a free ride, it’s very difficult to identify them visually,” says Gardner. “In one of the trials we looked at a classed mob of animals where the lowest value animal was worth $90 in carcass and wool value, and the highest value animal was valued at $200. “The pay back on this technology is 30 to 50 per cent, so it pays itself back very quickly.” The third technology Gardner believes is significant is what he refers to as GPS technology, that has a range of applications including land planning and land condition monitoring via satellite. However, the application Gardner believes is most important is that of safety on farms, an ongoing issue for the whole rural sector. “A lot of pastoralists are now managing very large areas on their own and safety is a real problem. “A $300 GPS safety device takes away a lot of the risk, to me, that’s very important and I believe every pastoralist should have one.” Internet connectivity in rural and remote parts of the country has and continues to be a major challenge to the uptake of information and technology, as well as the capacity to apply innovative thinking. Gardner admits it is a problem but that many of the technologies he’s promoting to pastoralists are not reliant on a fast broadband service. “Even with the NBN I think it’s going to be a significant issue; poor connectivity is a major limitation to management, but the thing I like about telemetry is they can now pass digital images through UHF radio signals, so it’s not reliant on the Internet. “The RFID tag can be cabled or blue-toothed and GPS is reliant on satellite.” Programs such as the Meat and Livestock Australia and Australian Wool Innovation’s Pastoral Profit, delivered by Gardner, play a role in disseminating information about innovation and technology that more isolated pastoralists normally struggle to access.

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Today’s class: Lessons with Dick BY ROSS MCCARTHY THY DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S CIL’S CITY DEVELOPMENT T PROGRAM LEADER

O doubt you’ve heard of the financial collapse of (electronics retail company) Dick Smith which is now in receivership. This includes approx 390 stores across Australia and New Zealand under four different Dick Smith names, employing about 3,000 people. The woes of the company became public in November when the value of the stock was discounted by 20 per cent which was a $60M write off. On January 5, advisory firm McGrath Nicol was called in as voluntary administrators and banking syndicate, led by National Australia Bank and HSBC had subsequently appointed Ferrier Hodgson as receiver. What, you may ask, does this have to do with Dick Smith the entrepreneur, aviator, and holder of the Order of Australia? Smith started Dick Smith Electronics as a small car radio installation business in Sydney. In 1982 he sold this business to Woolworths for a reported $22m. The business still retains his name. You may recall the fuel tanker company Cootes, and the tanker that was involved in a fatal Mona Vale accident that killed two people when the tanker

exploded. Following this accident, authorities conducted a blitz on the company’s trucks and some 200 defects were reported. The Cootes family, which had sold the business a number of years prior, were put into the position of having to make statements to distance the company from the family name, given they no longer had an interest. Lesson one: consider your business name and possible implications down the track. In 2012, Woolworths announced that the private equity firm Anchorage capital Partners would purchase Dick Smith Electronic for a reported $94M. Investors paid $2.20 a share when Anchorage Capital Partners sold the company for $520 million in December 2013. The shares last traded at 35.5c before the trading halt on January 4 this year. Lesson two: if the increase in value appears too good to be true it probably is. Dick Smith (the company) has been operating in a highly competitive market where consumer electronics has seen years of price erosion (look at how cheap a TV is now compared with a few years ago). The business started out as a hobbyist, niche “techies” business for people who were building, upgrading and repairing their own equipment. Consumer behaviour has changed as technology has become cheaper; we don’t fix electrical equipment now, we throw it out. In recent years Dick Smith

has been taking on major players such as Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi. Some industry experts suggested the company’s TV range was not as big as Harvey Norman and its prices weren’t as low as JB Hi-Fi. Others questioned its focus on private label products and its expansion into small applicants. Lesson three: for a business to flourish it has to stand for something – differentiation. With debts reported at more than $400 million, creditors will be looking for answers. Of interest is that the creditor list is not expected to include high profile brands such as Apple and Samsung, which demand cash-on-delivery terms from Dick Smith. The distributors of second-tier and unbranded products Dick Smith sold under its own names are reported to be not so lucky. Lesson four: maintain tight creditor control. On the consumer side, it was a really bad timing for people who bought gift cards for Christmas, only to find in the New Year that these would not be honoured by Dick Smith. According to the ASIC website, if you have purchased a Dick Smith gift card using a credit or eligible debit card you may have chargeback rights. This means you may be able to get your money back from your card issuer (your bank). You should contact your card issuer straight away, as there are conditions and time limits on mak-

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1. Access from anywhere as long as you have internet WITH cloud accounting, not only will you be able to access your system from anywhere (provided you have internet), but also by being able to use your smart phone or tablet this means you do not have to lug a computer or laptop around to

ing a chargeback claim. You may be eligible for a chargeback even where the gift card has recently expired – check with your card issuer as soon as possible. If you have a gift card purchased with cash, or with card using the “cheque” or “savings” option, or you don’t want to ask the person who gave it to you to request a chargeback, you can contact the voluntary administrators about registering as an unsecured creditor. The insolvency process will determine if you get a full refund, a partial refund or no refund at all. If you can’t get a refund on a deposit you have placed on an item, you can register with the voluntary administrators as an unsecured creditor of Dick Smith. If you paid a deposit with a credit card or eligible debit card, you may have chargeback rights. You should contact your card issuer immediately, as there are conditions and time limits on making a chargeback claim. Either way, secured creditors such as banks will see their money before unsecured creditors such as gift card holders (unless you are eligible for a chargeback claim). So where to for Dick Smith now? Administrators and receivers have been given six months to find a buyer, instead of placing Dick Smith into liquidation where assets are generally sold off piece by piece. To date receivers have reported approx 50 expressions of interest.

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Working out why this is one healthy “addiction” T’S 9pm on a Friday night and I’m Comment by driving through SARAH pouring rain to watch other people “do fit- STANFORD ness”. It’s actions like As an academic, Sarah Stanford has this that make people studied the bonds that forge modcall CrossFit a cult. ern communities and fandoms. As a CrossFit is a brand professional, she’s supported digital of functional fit- communities. As a social animal, she’s ness created by Greg a member of a few modern tribes, Glassman, and including CrossFit. spread throughout the world via a growing number of affiliate “boxes” (or gyms). What has emerged from this combination of weightlifting, gymnastics, general cardio and eagerness to get fitter, is a strong global community whose members pride themselves on cheering louder for the person coming last than the person who finished first. In Central West NSW, the CrossFit community is particularly strong. Dubbo recently became home to a third affiliate – all purveyors of jacked (and we can only hope tan) bodies. The demand for actually getting active in our activewear is growing. And with the growth of CrossFit in the city, our athletes are starting to make their mark among some of the best. A typical session (or class) at a CrossFit box runs for an hour and progresses through a warm-up, strength or skill work (such as improving an Olympic lift) and then a WOD – a Work Out of the Day. If you decide to take it to the next level, and try CrossFit as a sport rather than just a way to maintain fitness, these WODs become the building blocks for competition. I had driven through the rain to watch six of CrossFit Dubbo’s best athletes compete at CrossFit Gosford’s annual Riot competition. On day one, each athlete had to make his or her way through three such workouts. The shortest, a couplet of heavy power cleans and rope climbs and the longest, an event filled with high repetition squats, push presses and pull ups, that very few people managed to complete under the 16 minute time cap. One athlete to do so was Dubbo’s Merrin Starr, who finished that event with the second fastest time. Despite being one of the more skilled athletes and a CrossFit coach, Riot was Merrin’s first individual competition. Consistent placings near the top of the leaderboard, and a very impressive 78kg snatch – the heaviest lift of any female athlete in the competition – saw her finish in fifth place in the Advanced Women’s division. Crossfitter Dusty Elsom. PHOTO: BRAD FORD Riot was also the first individual competition for Jake Walton. At 18, he could have combination of burpees and thrusters called Kalsu: “Don’t you feel the pain in your legs taken an easier road in the teen division, but and need to rest? instead took out 20th place in the Men’s Open “No,” said Ruby. “I’m not thinking about Division, from at least 90 competitors. that. You just focus in on what you have to get Not everyone wants to be the best “funcdone and think about how good it’s going to tional fitnesser” alive. Many members use feel when it’s all over.” CrossFit to support their work or other lifeThere must be something in this. After my style goals. Ruby Kwong, one week into her first session, having not done anything but sit medical internship at Dubbo Base Hospital, at a desk for three years, I completed all Olymalso competed at Riot. She finished 17th in pic lifts with a broom handle...and still could the Women’s Open Division. She’s well known not walk for three days. But I went back. Two around Dubbo for her participation in triathand a half years later, I’m still going back, but lons and ultra marathon running. Each of now I get to use real weights. these support, and are supported by, her acThe majority of the CrossFit Dubbo memtions in “the box”. bers are probably like me – we sit somewhere For Ruby, it seems, workouts also take on between these competitors and the beginners a meditative quality. Jodie Anderson, who who walk in just looking to see some improvefinished in 25th place in the Women’s Open ment in their fitness. Division at Riot, asked Ruby just what went We’re addicted to the feelings of constant through her brain during the last workout progress and improvement that CrossFit can of the competition, a particularly horrible

bring, as well as the social aspects. As Kate Wright, Weekender’s very own food columnist says, “The physical results are awesome, but there’s so much more to it than that.” Recently, Greg Glassman, in a video produced for the CrossFit Games said: “This community loves to work out, loves to do things together. Each box and each tribe that forms that box has a powerful relationship together, they work together.” This is the great universal truth of CrossFit. Through it I have found a fierce group of supportive friends, and have connections that span right across the world, all for the love of fitness. So, are you ready to convert? If you do turn up to CrossFit Dubbo, I look forward to meeting you and handing out some sweaty high fives at the end of the WOD. Tell Duncan I sent you, who knows, he may even give you a discount!

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016

Injury is no excuse to stop moving BY ROD FARDELL PERSONAL TRAINER

VERYONE – and I mean everyone – hates injuries. An injury inhibits your ability to move, particularly injuries that come from exercise or sports, and we can appreciate that some sports, particularly those that involve contact, can have the greatest influence on having an injury. It doesn’t matter at what level of sport or training you are, injuries affect your lifestyle, work and happiness. Recently the Rugby League season kicked off and as we saw, some injuries that occurred during the first 20 minutes of these professional athletes’ game time were devastating. Broken Jaws, concussion, muscle tears – all in a day in the life of people who put a lot of time into getting physically prepared to play a game of sport. First and foremost on treating an injury, it’s so important to identify exactly what the injury is how it can be managed. Only professional sports injury doctors, physios, podiatrists and associated physicians should be consulted in helping to correct your injury or condition. A lot of time and money can be wasted in getting a particularly muscle back to full pain-free mobility. Your professional health care provider should give you not only a timeline but a return to training routine to follow to get the best recovery possible. If you find your physician is putting you on electronic machines and walking away for 30 mins and then taking your money and sending you home without any other support, it’s a good time to think about the service you are getting. Another key factor with treatment is how many times they’re having you come back to see them – is it relevant to the repair of the injury? For example a home gym, personal trainer or physio cost per hour will vary significantly. If

HEALTH IN BRIEF Prostheses pricing reform welcomed by Medibank MEDIBANK welcomes this week’s announcement by the Federal Minister for Health, Sussan Ley, that a Working Group will be established to review and redesign the Australian Government Prostheses List to make it fairer for private healthcare patients. “We’ve been advocating for change to the Prostheses List for some time because of the unfair excessive cost it places on our members,” Medibank managing director, George Savvides, said. “We’re glad the Government has now listened, and we look forward to meeting with the Minister soon on this important reform.” The Prostheses List sets out minimum reimbursement levels for surgically implanted prostheses, human tissue items and other medical devices that private health insurers must pay benefits for when they are provided to a patient with appropriate health insurance cover. This is part of hospital treatment or

` There is so much you can still do in terms of movement, regardless of what injury you have. your injury is so specific it requires an expert to treat it, then by all means use the high end of the spectrum but if not, consider getting a professional program and then following it yourself. The key focus with training with injury is to be pain free and gaining full mobility. While in some cases you will experience some discomfort in getting full range of movement with muscle injuries it should not be beyond your pain scope and understanding that what you are doing is improving the strength and repair process of that injury. Again this should be based around your program and in consultation with your provider. Mentally it is so easy, once you have an injury – say for an example a lower limb injury – to give up and say you have to stop moving altogether. There

is so much you can still do in terms of movement, regardless of what injury you have. At some stage you will have the ability to move in some form. Identifying this and then getting on with it is so important. If you are someone who has set limitations on yourself because you are looking for a reason to stop then think again. Think outside the box. The options available to keep moving – even when you have an injury – are diverse and numerous. There are so many variations to running, for example, that can be adjusted to suit the level of injury you have sustained. To give you some idea of just a handful of movement options you can still perform without impact on lower limb joints and muscles – there are cycles (upright and recumbent), grinders

hospital substitute treatment, and there is a Medicare benefit payable for the professional service. However, the prices currently set out in the List are highly inflated compared to similar health systems both domestically and overseas. “Australians with private health insurance are being forced to pay significantly more for hip and knee replacements, for example, than other patients because of this current regulatory failure,” Savvides said. In its recent submission to the Australian Government’s Review into Private Health Insurance, Medibank recommended the introduction of a reference pricing system for prostheses, using domestic and international benchmarks, and estimated this reform could return an estimated $800 million to Australian consumers. Currently, the prices for identical prostheses products in the public health sector in Australia can be 45 per cent lower than in the private sector. For example, an implantable cardiac defibrillator costs Western Australia Health $19,000, while the current listed benefit on the Prostheses list is $52,000 – $33,000 more expensive. Meanwhile, in countries such as France, Japan, New Zealand, the United States, Italy and Spain, prices are around

50 per cent lower. In France, for example, a triplechamber pacemaker costs €4000 (approximately AUD$5,840), compared to $13,520 on the Australian Prostheses List. “The current system benefits manufacturers and private hospitals at the expense of patients,” Savvides said.

WPHN After hours improvements WESTERN NSW PHN (WPHN) has awarded eight grants to help address difficulties in accessing healthcare during the after hours period and the often resulting problem of unnecessarily overcrowded Emergency Departments (ED). WPHN CEO, Andrew Harvey said they have provided grants to local organisations to improve access to high quality effective and efficient after hours primary health care services in Western NSW. “It’s exciting to see local service providers such as general practices and pharmacies providing new models of care in their local town and area,” said Harvey. One of the grants addresses the very practical issue of lack of transport. “Bathurst has a bulk-billing GP clinic at Bathurst Hospital from 3pm-7pm on weekends and public holidays. However,

and rowers. There’s swimming, running in water, using ellipticals, ski ergs and flotation treadmills just to name a few. As with anything regarding your body and its functions, please ensure you are fully educated on your injury prior to starting any training program to onfirm that it is helping you recover not creating more injuries. But by no means should it ever stop you from moving. Period. As always by challenged by creativity, ignited by passion and fuelled by laughter.

*Note: the information contained in this article should be considered opinion only – it is not intended as medical advice and if you have concerns about your health, please consult your own health professional. it is currently underused,” said Harvey. “This particular grant to Marathon Health will increase transport options so people can attend the service and also further raise awareness of the after hours bulk-billing GP clinic. This will especially help the aged patients, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people access the bulk-billing GP clinic afterhours,” he said. The transport service will operate from 2.30pm – 7.30pm, Saturdays and Sundays. The eights grants will help priority groups including people with mental health issues, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, young children and disadvantaged groups such as housebound aged patients with complex needs. They have been awarded in areas such as Dareton, Collarenebri, Bathurst and Orange. The after hours period is before 8am and after 6pm on weekdays, before 8am and after noon on Saturdays, and all day Sundays and public holidays. WPHN is one of 31 national organisations established to support frontline health services to better coordinate care for their patients and ensure people receive the right care in the right place at the right time.

HEALTH.

Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

5 ways being single can boost your wellbeing BY ABI JACKSON SOMETIMES when you’re single, it can seem the whole world wants to remind you what you’re missing out on. That’s why Valentine’s Day was invented, right – to rub salt in the sorry wounds of pathetic, unlovable singles? There might not be a soppy card and heart-shaped chocs waiting for you this February 14 – but there could be a big bouquet of joy, and VIP tickets to fabulousness up for grabs (sorry – but when else can I be cheesy if not Valentine’s Day?). The catch is, you’ll need to find them for yourself. You see, being single is actually an ideal chance to overhaul your wellbeing. It’s not a question of single vs relationships (they can both be good, and they can both be pretty damn difficult too), but it is about looking on the bright side of singledom – a Valentine’s Day gift that could transform your life and outlook. Here are five ways being single can seriously boost your wellbeing...

Discover true passion... for a hobby MOST of us complain we don’t have enough time, but when you’re single, especially newly single, filling those endless hours you’d usually have spent with a significant other can feel daunting. The quiet weekends you once longed for are suddenly sad reminders of your aloneness. They are also a wonderful opportunity to discover a new passion. Hobbies make life more interesting, make you a more confident, well-rounded person and they’re also a fantastic distraction – backed up by science. There’s good reason music, art and craft activities are used as therapies, and studies have found that engaging in hobbies stimulates the mind, helps slow cognitive decline and reduces depression and the effects of stress. It might take a while to discover your true hobby passion – but get out there and have a blast looking. You’ll find ‘the one’ eventually. Doesn’t matter what it is, and you don’t even have to be any good at it – so long as it reconnects you with a sense of joy and gives those spare hours new meaning.

Fall in love... with fitness THERE’S so much pressure to find love, right? Well I’m all for it. Love is a wonderful thing! Find it – and then, heck, be utterly smug about it too! But before you punch me, let me clarify, I’m not talking about romantic love. I’m talking about being in love with fitness. You don’t need me to tell you how regular exercise will safeguard your future health and help ward off major diseases and depression – you know all that already. What I will tell you though is that since my last break-up, I’m fitter than I’ve ever been – and all the happier for it. At first, getting out on my bike, or heading to the lido on Saturday mornings, gave me a reason to get out of bed and face the day. Over time, it became a source of new-found body confidence, helped me feel physically and mentally stronger, and has transformed my life in ways I never would have imagined possible.

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Again, don’t be put off if you’re not the sportiest/fastest/slimmest... the joys of fitness are just too good to miss, and they’re there for all of us: go fall in love.

Learn to truly appreciate... the quiet moments WE moan and yearn for peace and quiet, and then when we get it, we moan there’s nothing to do and panic that we’re sad and friendless! Here’s the thing: most humans need some downtime. It helps us rebalance, recharge and focus. If you want to fill every moment with activities, and that’s what works for you, fantastic – but there’s real value in saving some time for doing, well, absolutely nothing too. Of course, this doesn’t work if you have too much time doing nothing; it’s always all about the balance. But sometimes, not having any plans IS the plan – and you don’t have to feel guilty about that or justify it to anybody. Embracing those quiet moments, and learning to enjoy them, will not only bring a sense of calm, but mean you’re more present and energised when you are filling your time with activities and other people. So it’s win-win, really.

Indulge in pampering...

yourself GENERALLY speaking, when you’re single, you get less presents and you get spoilt less, because there isn’t a significant other who puts you at the top of their Christmas shopping priority list, splashes out on your birthday or keeps an eye out for restaurants you might like. Oh boo hoo! I’ll tell you what is fun – treating yourself. Life is too short to wait for somebody else to make you feel special, and, since there’s no significant other buying you gifts, you save money on not having to buy them any either! Chances are you’re a good person with a good heart, right? There is nothing shallow or selfish about spending some of your hard-earned cash on a few treats for yourself (within reason); we can all benefit from a little boost every now and then.

Let your heart glow... for others SO it’s not you walking down the aisle and exchanging vows with the love of your life. So it’s not you posting insanely cute baby pics on Facebook. And it’s not you who has a warm hand to hold on cold, winter walks and snugly hugs to come home to after a stressful day at work. No, it’s not you – it’s somebody

else. But one day, it might be you enjoying those lovely things. And one day, that person whose life looks perfect right now will undoubtedly face personal hardships and difficult patches too. We all encounter grief. We all face struggles. And we all get our moments in the sun and our share of blessings and joys as well. And each and every one of us deserves to enjoy those good moments – and maybe, if you make a little more effort to celebrate other people’s blessings too, you’ll start to notice your own blessings more. So savour good fortune, cheer for happy times, and let your heart swell for love, even when it’s not your own.

WELLBEING FLASH No, booze does not count towards daily fluid intake Experts recommend eight glasses of water a day, as the optimal amount for supporting overall hydration, health and wellbeing. According to a new poll by Robinsons, however, 16 per cent of us think alcoholic drinks also count. The survey of 2000 adults also revealed that less than half (42 per cent) were even aware about the recommended eight daily glasses of water – only a minority are meeting that target.

HEALTH.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016

Six of the most misdiagnosed illnesses BY LISA SALMON SOMETIMES, getting a diagnosis when you’re unwell is simple: you make an appointment, see a doctor, possibly have a straightforward test, then wait for the results – and the vast majority of the time, patients are correctly diagnosed by medical professionals. But this isn’t always the case. Some conditions have symptoms that mimic other health problems, or which can be very vague and inconsistent. Also, there aren’t always straightforward tests available, which can make determining a diagnosis far more complex – or, if a condition is especially rare, it might only be considered once everything else has been ruled out. Here are six of the illnesses that can be harder to spot in initial medical consultations... CERTAIN CANCERS A 2011 Rarer Cancers Foundation study found that a quarter of cancer patients were only diagnosed once the disease had spread, with many having been initially sent home by their GPs, who dismissed the symptoms as something less serious – although misdiagnosed cancers often include the more common types, like breast, colorectal, lung and pancreatic cancer. These might be misdiagnosed because symptoms often mimic other, non-cancerous conditions – inflammatory breast cancer, for example, has similar symptoms to mastitis; colorectal cancer may be mistaken for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or ulcerative colitis; lung cancer symptoms can be similar to those caused by pneumonia, bronchitis and tuberculosis; and pancreatic cancer can be confused with inflammatory bowel diseases, pancreatitis and diabetes. PARKINSON’S DISEASE The symptoms of this degenerative disorder of the central nervous system include tremors, stiff muscles and problems with balance or walking. It can be mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, stress, or even a head injury, as there are no simple lab tests that can diagnose Parkinson’s. COELIAC DISEASE Caused by an inability to digest gluten, which can start suddenly, this digestive disorder can result in abdominal pain, headaches, joint pain, itchy skin, diarrhoea, vomiting and weight loss, although sometimes symptoms can be mild. While a blood test can diagnose coeliac disease, it’s often mistaken for other conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), diverticulitis, intestinal infections and chronic fatigue syndrome, because the symptoms can be very similar and, in some cases, identical. However, correctly diagnosing coeliac disease is crucial as, unlike conditions like IBS, if a strict gluten-free diet isn’t followed, serious long-term complications can occur. LUPUS Fatigue, rashes and joint pain are some of the common symptoms of this autoimmune disease, that can affect almost any part of the body, including organs

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH Can heart surgery cause hot flashes? BY KEITH ROACH, M.D. DEAR DR. ROACH: I have had hot flashes, similar to those experienced by post-menopausal women, ever since my coronary bypass in 1990. I can be sitting quietly in a chair reading or at my computer, and suddenly I find myself dripping with perspiration. I also have had panic attacks, with increased heart rate and other physical symptoms. A few years ago, a 24-hour EKG showed heartrhythm irregularities and that my heart stopped briefly while asleep. If these idiosyncrasies of my autonom-

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like the heart and kidneys, in severe cases. Although blood and urine tests can indicate lupus, such tests are not always conclusive, and it’s sometimes misdiagnosed as things like arthritis or fibromyalgia, or even dismissed entirely for years. HYPOTHYROIDISM It’s thought that around 3 per cent of us have an underactive thyroid, known as hypothyroidism, which can be diagnosed with a blood test and treated with a synthetic hormone. But it can remain undiagnosed for years because symptoms – which include tiredness, weight changes, forgetfulness and lack of concentration – can be very subtle, or might not be recognised as being linked to one underlying cause. Sufferers may be told there’s nothing wrong, or that they’re depressed. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Multiple sclerosis, commonly known as MS, is an autoimmune disease that attacks the central nervous system, resulting in, among other things, problems with muscle movement, balance and vision. There are different types but often it’s progressive, and symptoms – such as muscle spasms, impaired coordination, blurred vision, numbness and tingling – may be quite mild and vague for some time, before getting worse. There’s no single test to diagnose MS, and it can sometimes be misdiagnosed as a viral infection or lupus, or even Alzheimer’s and bipolar disorder. Blood tests can be helpful in ruling out some other disorders though, and tests, including an MRI scan, may indicate MS. Don’t be too alarmed

ic nervous system are a consequence of my time on the heart-lung machine for the bypass, I’m not complaining – just curious. You said that studies have been done on almost everything. Is this one? – W.S.B. ANSWER: I found that a lot of people complain of similar symptoms. I also found that indeed, the autonomic nervous system (the part of the nervous system that regulates temperature, sweat, blood pressure and many other critical aspects of body function without our being consciously aware of it) can be adversely affected by cardiac surgery. Some authors have suggested that the autonomic nervous system changes are one mechanism by which people are more likely to have depression after cardiac surgery. I found several possible explanations why the ANS changes with bypass surgery, but no clear consensus. I would want to be sure that there

While it’s important to highlight conditions that may be missed, it’s also important to remember that it’s not always the case that symptoms like those outlined above actually indicate something more serious. Also, Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard, spokesperson for the Royal College of GPs, points out that GPs have to make decisions based on a single 10-minute consultation. “It goes without saying that some conditions are more difficult to diagnose than others,” she says. “Many have symptoms that are very similar to others, and when one condition is more common than the other, it makes sense that it’s considered the most likely possibility.” She stresses that lists of hard-to-diagnose conditions can worry patients, and break down the trust between them and their GP. “It’s essential that patients aren’t scared by lists that over-exaggerate misdiagnosis, particularly when life-threatening and debilitating diseases such as cancer and Parkinson’s are included.” Dr Stokes-Lampard notes that during more than 10 years of training, family doctors become familiar with a diverse curriculum and will be aware of the different conditions that symptoms could indicate, even if they’re the less likely diagnosis. And when fullytrained, GPs have ongoing appraisals and continued professional development. “The College works to develop new learning tools for GPs at every stage in their careers, and topics include some of the most difficult conditions to diagnose, such as coeliac disease, and cancer,” she adds.

are no other causes of these symptoms. It sounds like you have had an extensive evaluation, but I certainly would be concerned about a sudden fast heart rhythm, such as atrial fibrillation. Consult an appropriate health professional for more information on abnormal heart rhythms. DEAR DR. ROACH: I suffered a long time with GERD. I was diagnosed with Barrett’s oesophagus, a precancerous disease. My doctor recommended a procedure called a Nissen fundoplication. Since the procedure, I have not had heartburn again. I would do it again, after what I went through. I get an endoscopy every two years to keep an eye on my disease. – G.D.B. ANSWER: Barrett’s oesophagus is a complication of longstanding reflux. It is diagnosed when the lining of the oesophagus starts to look like the lining of the stomach. Barrett’s oesophagus

can progress to cancer of the oesophagus. About 0.2 per cent of those with Barrett’s per year will develop cancer, which sounds low, but if you live with the condition for 25 years, that’s about a 5 per cent risk. Surgery for reflux disease is done only rarely. However, it is very effective (85 per cent to 90 per cent). The most common reason to consider surgery is inadequate relief from medications and lifestyle changes. However, severe erosions from acid in the oesophagus, inability to take medications, a stricture (partial closure) of the oesophagus and Barrett’s oesophagus are all reasons to consider surgery. Surgery appears to reduce the risk of cancer more than other treatments. THIS COLUMN IS GENERAL ADVICE ONLY. ALWAYS CONSULT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FOR ADVICE ON YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS.

FOOD.

Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Let’s raise the toast

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BY ED BOLLA IF you love toast, but sometimes yearn for something more exciting than beans to put on it for dinner, then Raquel Pelzel is worth listening to. The US-born food writer has devoted an entire book to the topic of toast and perfect toppings – and as Toast: The Cookbook proves, the possibilities are endless, providing you’re willing to put a little effort in and get creative. “When I was thinking about writing my own cookbook, I was looking for a topic that would allow me to really have fun and explore a lot of different flavours and foods that I know so much about through all my previous collaborations,” explains Pelzel, who spent 12

years co-authoring and ghost-writing cookbooks with other chefs. “I was thinking about trends and what was happening in New York, LA and Chicago, and something that came up time and time again was toast. “Toast – not with eggs for breakfast – but toast as this really elegant, elevated starter or second course that I was starting to see a lot at cafes and in restaurants.” And it turns out serving up the perfect slice is more involved than you might think. Pelzel put a lot of thought into deciding how she wanted to tackle the toast component of her recipes, in the end electing to let the reader decide what bread to use for most of them. “It was a huge consideration, actu-

ally. The kind of bread you use hugely impacts the finished dish. A rye bread or semolina bread? A fruit nut bread or sourdough or ciabatta? They all have a different texture, a different chew and different flavours once they’re toasted,” she explains. “But when I was putting the book together, I didn’t want people to feel, ‘Oh, I can’t get to the artisan bakery at the other side of town to pick up this ridiculously specialised bread’, so I decided to say, ‘Use whatever you happen to have in the house as, in all honesty, most breads work beautifully for toast’.” She knows exactly what her dream slice would be like though... She would choose a sourdough loaf: “It has a really nuanced and a little bit

Drink your almonds BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVAS

ALMONDS are a healthy food choice. They’re high in protein, vitamin E, fibre and minerals such as magnesium, selenium, manganese, zinc, potassium, iron, phosphorus, omega-3 fatty acids and calcium. Almond milk also is a healthy food choice. Drinking almond milk can help to lower LDL cholesterol and protect against heart disease. Almond milk has zero saturated fats and is lower in calories than cow’s milk. It has been used by many people who have allergies, lactose intolerance, diabetes or heart disease. Some consumers prefer almond milk solely because of taste and flavour. Many people are using plant-based milks like almond milk in the place of cow’s milk. Why is it so popular? And which milk is better for you – almond milk or cow’s milk?

of a sour flavour, and makes the most beautiful toast, because there’s so much flavour from the bread itself.” The thickness of the slice – and toasting method – are also vital. “I like to cut my bread between a half and three-quarters of an inch thick, but it depends on the bread and how heavy and dense and crusty it is,” says Pelzel. “When I toast the bread, I like to get it to the point when the surface of the bread on both sides takes on that beautiful, crispy, crackly, brown crust, but then the slice is thick enough that the centre crumb of the toast is still really pliable and soft: it’s the best of all worlds.” Tempted to tart up some toast of your own? Here are three of Pelzel’s recipes to try at home...

Cow’s milk provides many nutrients your body needs. It contains calcium, potassium, vitamin D and protein, all of which help to improve bone health and manage blood pressure. Because of its health benefits, American health authority the USDA recommends three servings of dairy per day for the average adult. Despite the many nutrients cow’s milk provides, the US has seen a decline in sales of cow’s milk and an increase in sales in plant-based milks. Almond milk in particular has grown in popularity since 2011. While it has many healthy factors to consider, almond milk falls short nutritionally in many ways in comparison to cow’s milk. In Australia, there has been little if any decline in recent years, which has been attributed to better production and the supermarket milk price war which has kept the cost of cow’s milk lower. Although many almond milk brands are lower in calories than cow’s milk (unsweetened almond milk has

FOOD.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016

ROASTED BEETS ON TOAST WITH LABNEH AND SAFFRON HONEY (Serves 4) To make the saffron honey and roasted beets: * 1/2tsp saffron threads * 120ml honey * 1/4tsp, plus a pinch, of coarse salt * 3 medium beetroots, ends trimmed * 2tbsp extra-virgin olive oil * 2tsp finely chopped fresh mint leaves * Freshly ground black pepper * For the toast: * Four 3/4inch-thick slices of country-style bread * 240ml labneh (Lebanese-style) yogurt or plain Greek yogurt * 4tbsp toasted and roughly chopped pistachios * Flaky salt Make the saffron honey: Toast the saffron in a small skillet (frying pan) over medium heat, shaking the pan often, until the saffron is fragrant – this should take 30 seconds to one minute. Transfer the saffron to a small dish and use the back of a teaspoon to crush it into a fine powder. Add the honey to the skillet and bring it to a simmer over medium heat. Stir in the saffron and a pinch of salt, remove from the heat, and set aside. Roast the beetroots: Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas 5. Set each beetroot in a large square of foil and drizzle one teaspoon of the oil over the top of each. Wrap the beetroots in the foil, place on a rimmed baking sheet, and roast until a paring knife easily slides into the centre of the largest one, which should take about one hour. Remove from the oven and set aside for 20 minutes before unwrapping. Once the beetroots are cool enough to handle, peel them and chop into bite-size pieces. Toss the beetroot pieces with one tablespoon of the oil, the mint leaves, quarter teaspoon of salt, and the pepper and set aside. Make the toast: Toast the bread to your own taste, be it in a traditional toaster, under a grill, on a barbecue, in a mini oven, pan fried or shallow fried. Let the toasts cool for a few minutes before topping. To serve, spread each toast with labneh. Top with beets, pistachios, a generous drizzle of saffron honey, and flaky salt.

about 40 calories per cup), it’s also very low in protein. Most of the protein is lost during processing, resulting in water and almond water as the main ingredients. Most almond milk provides only 1 gram of protein per serving compared to 8 grams of protein per serving from cow’s milk. Almond milk also is lower in potassium than cow’s milk. Almond milk comes in many varieties, including sweetened, unsweetened, dark chocolate and vanilla. Some of these versions have added sugars, which the USDA warns will count against your maximum limit of “empty calories” (calories from solid fats and added sugars). The US Department of Agriculture states that calcium-fortified beverages such as almond milk may provide the recommended amount of calcium, but may not provide other

SESAME AND HONEY BARBECUE FRIED CHICKEN TOAST (Serves 4) * For the fried chicken: * 240ml buttermilk * 2 1/2tsp coarse salt * 1/2tsp garlic powder * 1/2tsp freshly ground black pepper * 1/2tsp sweet paprika * 680g boneless, skinless chicken thighs, halved crosswise or cut into strips * 125g plain flour * 50g cornflour * 3tbsp barbecue sauce * 2tbsp ketchup * 2tbsp honey * 1-2tbsp hot sauce * 950ml-1.2L rapeseed oil * 2tbsp toasted sesame seeds * For the toast: * Four slices sandwich bread * 3tbsp mayonnaise, for the bread * Coarse salt, for the bread Make the fried chicken: In a medium bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, two teaspoons of the salt, the garlic powder, pepper, and paprika. Add the chicken thighs, cover, and refrigerate for one hour or overnight. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornflour, and remaining half teaspoon of salt. In another large bowl, whisk together the barbecue sauce, ketchup, honey, hot sauce and set aside. Remove the chicken from the buttermilk (discard the marinade). Add the chicken to the flour mixture and turn to coat. Set aside while you heat the oil. Set a wire rack over a baking sheet lined with paper towels or paper bag. In a large, deep, heavybottomed skillet (frying pan), heat the oil over medium-high heat until an instant-read thermometer reads between 180-185C. Add half of the chicken pieces and fry until both sides are golden brown and the chicken is cooked through, around four to five minutes per side. Use tongs to transfer the chicken to the wire rack to drain and fry the remaining chicken. Make the toast: Spread the bread slices with the mayonnaise and sprinkle with salt. Toast the bread using your preferred method (Pelzel recommends grilling or pan frying). Note that mayonnaise browns faster than butter or oil, so keep a close eye on the toast to make sure it doesn’t burn. If pan-frying, you don’t need to melt butter or add oil to the pan first – the mayo coating on the bread is sufficient for browning. Place the fried chicken in the bowl with the barbecue sauce mixture and toss to coat. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, place one or two chicken pieces on top of each piece of toast, and serve.

nutrients found in dairy products. The important thing to remember is to check the nutrition-facts label – look for milk or milk products that have adequate amounts of calcium, vitamin D and protein. Aim for products that are low in added sugars and saturated fats. The bottom line is simple, whether its cow’s milk or almond milk, the value of the product you choose depends on its composition, your nutrient needs and any underlying medical conditions. If you consume dairy, you may want to purchase both almond milk and cow’s milk and incorporate both into your diet to take advantage of their mutual benefits. My recipe for Creamed Spinach with Crunchy Almond Topping uses almond milk in the place of dairy to create a creamy, delicious side dish that’s lower in calories but full of flavour.

SWEET SHRIMP AND FAVA SMASH TOAST (Serves 4) For the tarragon butter and favas: * 60g unsalted butter, softened * 1tbsp finely chopped fresh tarragon leaves * 1 3/4tsp, plus a pinch, of coarse salt * 225g shelled fava beans (from 910g-1.1kg favas in the pod) – or if you prefer, you can use peas * 1 1/2tbsp extra-virgin olive oil * 1/2 sweet onion (such as a Vidalia), finely chopped * 2tbsp double cream * For the toast: * 15g unsalted butter * 225g large prawns, shelled, deveined, and halved lengthwise * Coarse salt * Juice of 1/2 lemon * Four 3/4inch-thick slices country-style bread * Flaky salt A few handfuls of watercress or baby spinach Make the tarragon butter: In a small bowl, mix together the butter, tarragon, and a pinch of course salt. Set aside. Make the favas: Fill a small bowl with ice water and set aside. Bring a small saucepan of water to a boil. Add one teaspoon of the salt and the fava beans and blanch the favas for one minute. Drain and shock favas in the ice water. Once the favas are cool, use your finger and thumb to pinch and slip off the skins. Place the skinned favas in a small bowl. (If using peas instead of favas, skip this step entirely) In a medium skillet (frying pan), heat the oil over medium heat. Add the onion and half a teaspoon of the salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is soft, for five to six minutes. Stir in the fava beans and cook until they are tender, for three to five minutes. Transfer the mixture to a food processor, add the cream, one tablespoon of the tarragon butter, and the remaining quarter teaspoon of salt, and process until smooth. Make the toast: In a medium skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the prawns and cook slowly, spooning the butter over the shrimp, until they start to curl, for about one minute. Season to taste with salt, turn the shrimp over and cook on the other side until they are cooked through, about one minute longer. Transfer to a medium bowl and toss with the lemon juice. Spread the bread slices with the remaining tarragon butter and sprinkle with flaky salt. Toast the bread as you wish (Pelzel recommends grilling, barbecuing or toasting in a mini oven). To serve, top each toast with a generous amount of fava smash. Add the cress to the prawns and toss to combine, and then spoon it over the fava smash. Sprinkle with flaky salt.

CREAMED SPINACH WITH CRUNCHY ALMOND TOPPING (Makes 4-6 servings.) * 4 (140g) bags baby spinach * 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus 1 tablespoon for greasing baking dish * 1/2 small sweet onion, thinly sliced * 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour * 1 teaspoon salt * 1 teaspoon lemon pepper * 2 cups unsweetened almond milk * 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano or Cotija cheese * 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg * 3/4 cup panko (Japanese bread crumbs) * 2 tablespoons finely chopped marcona almonds 1. Heat oven to 220C/425F. In a large saucepan, heat 2.5cm of water. Add

the spinach by the handful; allow each handful to wilt before adding more. When the spinach is wilted, drain it, pressing out as much water as possible. Wipe out the pot. 2. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in the pot. Add the onions; cook over moderate heat until softened. Stir in flour, salt and lemon pepper, and cook for 1 minute. Add almond milk and simmer until very thick, whisking occasionally, 5 minutes. Stir in cheese, nutmeg and spinach. Spoon into a buttered, 2-quart baking dish. 3. In a small bowl, melt remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. Stir in the panko and almonds, and sprinkle over the creamed spinach. Bake for 15 minutes, until golden. PHOTO: DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM

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Shostakovich’s life in a country he hated is novelised in ‘The Noise Of Time’

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BOOK OF THE WEEK The Noise Of Time by Julian Barnes is published in hardback by Jonathan Cape. THIS is the first novel from Barnes, the muchcherished author of Flaubert’s Parrot and A History Of The World in 10 1/2 chapters, since he won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for The Sense Of An Ending. It is essentially a novelisation of the life of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, doomed to live and work under Stalin and his successors, first in fear for his life and then in guilty shame at the enforced compromises that have secured not just his survival, but his canonisation by a regime he despises. Shostakovich is a weak, cowardly man in a period when personal courage counts for nothing. In seeking to avoid denunciation or execution and spare his loved ones, his only defences are evasion, irony and the doubleedged gift of his extraordinary musical ability. This brief, intimately drawn life focuses on three critical moments in his career. In the first, an opera of his is damned in a Pravda editorial, virtually a death threat in itself. Next, we see the composer – back in Stalin’s favour – on a propaganda tour of the US after the war, robotically delivering a ghosted speech in which he must denounce his own work and that of Stravinsky, whom he considers the greatest composer of the 20th century. In the third, the ageing Shostakovich is a puppet celebrity wheeled out to sign articles, make more speeches and denounce his heroes. So abject is his self-loathing at the moral and artistic concessions that have been wrung from him that he lacks now even ‘the self-respect that suicide required’. In this final section, Barnes pulls together all the strands of an artlessly diffuse and meticulously imagined portrait into a powerful study of the ‘complexities of life under tyranny’. It is masterfully done, but so dark is the world he draws on that it is hard to share the optimism of his final scene, in which he seems to suggest that music – art – can somehow transcend fear and ‘unwarranted death’ and perhaps even Stalin. I wonder. 9/10 (Review by Dan Brotzel)

FICTION You And Me, Always by Jill Mansell is published in hardback by Headline Review. JILL Mansell is one of heavyweights of the chick-lit world, and her latest work provides another dose of heart-warming plot lines and relatable characters. Lily, the heroine of the

story, hasn’t had a perfect life. Her mother died when she was just a child, and her absent father wants nothing to do with her. But she lives happily in an idyllic village in the Cotswolds, along with her adoptive mother Coral, unlucky-in-love friend Patsy, and the conveniently good-looking Dan, who she refuses to admit her feelings for. But when a famous actor arrives in the village and Lily makes contact with her mum’s ex-boyfriend, everyone’s world is soon shaken up. Mansell has a great skill for observing people. Whether you’ve lost someone close to you, had your partner leave you or ever fell for your best friend, every reader will see themselves in this tale. She also does comedy rather well, as demonstrated in Patsy’s disastrous date scenes and in the witty back and forth banter between Lily and Dan. The book may not be full of unpredictable twists, but that’s part of its charm. This is an uplifting, easy read, made to brighten up the winter months. 9/10 (Review by Harriet Shephard) Alberto’s Lost Birthday by Diana Rosie is published in hardback by Mantle. ALBERTO has never had a birthday – at least, he can’t remember having one. Scandalised, his little grandson Tino persuades him to retrace his steps, and find where he might have lost it. So begins a charming road trip for the pair – and the reader – through the cobbled towns and lemon groves of dusty, fragrant Spain. With echoes of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, this is a family story with links to world events, and Rosie adeptly balances the wider narratives of 20th century Spanish history and culture with those of her characters – something of a feat in a first novel. While occasionally her choice of language tells, rather than shows, what the characters are doing – a lighter touch would make the plotting less obvious – overall the book’s charm and warmth carries it through. A film script surely beckons. 7/10 (Review by Sarah Warwick) Yuki Chan In Bronte Country by Mick Jackson is published in hardback by Faber & Faber. YUKIKO has travelled all the way from Japan to England, ostensibly to see her sister Kumiko in London, but ultimately to visit Haworth, fabled home of the Brontes. Whilst the older Japanese women on Yukiko’s tour are overcome to be in the mythical Parsonage where the Brontes penned their famed novels and to walk the same atmospheric moors that the sisters walked before them, Yukiko has no inter-

est in some long-dead authors. She is not in Haworth to follow in the footsteps of the literary sisters, but rather the footsteps of another: her mother. Yukiko’s is a personal journey of spiritual and psychical resolution to try and reconnect with her mother and understand her passing. Mick Jackson’s novel is a subtly haunting and strangely affecting read. There’s something hypnagogic about it all, but also very real. And whilst the plot, like Yukiko herself, is somewhat curious, the sentiment of the novel is utterly authentic. 6/10 (Review by Jade Craddock) This Is The Ritual by Rob Doyle is published in hardback by Bloomsbury. ROB Doyle pulls no punches with his uncompromising writing style. The award-winning author of Here Are The Young Men, Doyle singles out a series of eclectic topics for this collection of short stories. Each one deals with the less than appealing aspects of people’s lives, which makes their tales all the more interesting. Ireland and the Irish form a large part of Doyle’s subject matter, a clear case of the writer writing about what he knows best. From the pronounced profanities of John-Paul Finnegan, who is introduced on a ferry trip to Ireland, Doyle skips to the disparate lives of Ireland’s vanished literary outlaw Killian Turner, a woman taking part in a sleep experiment whilst escaping a relationship, a depressed young man encountering a tramp on a Dublin industrial estate and a man’s fixation with his girlfriend’s red shoes. Sketching out the lives of his various subjects across a plethora of European cities, Doyle saves his grittiest prose and most unflinching descriptions for his native Ireland. His hard-hitting style will appeal as much to some as it alienates others, but if you like your reading with a healthy dollop of realism and don’t flinch at the liberal use of colourful language, Doyle’s newest offering will find a happy home on your bookshelf. 6/10 (Review by Roddy Brooks) Paulina & Fran by Rachel B Glaser is published in paperback by Granta Books. SIMILAR in tone to US TV show Girls, Paulina & Fran follows two narcissistic young twenty-somethings who are desperately trying to figure things out and find their place in their world. Initially set at a small art school in an obscure town in New England, halfway through, the action jumps to life outside of the university bubble as the pair try to get their

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 respective careers off the ground. Witty, dark and pretty debauched, Paulina & Fran is an interesting read, but the problem with a book filled with unlikeable characters is that it can be a struggle to get into the story. Paulina and Fran are melodramatic, self-centred and completely devoid of self-awareness. Author Rachel B Glaser is a talented writer and there certainly are entertaining moments in the story, but it lacks pace and it’s difficult not to feel frustrated with the characters, who constantly seem to veer between extreme over-confidence and crippling self-doubt. 4/10 (Review by Alison Potter)

NON-FICTION This Is London: Life And Death In The World City by Ben Judah is published by Picador. LONDON is a kaleidoscopic, ever-changing city as more and more people make it home. Ben Judah, an acclaimed foreign correspondent hailing from the capital, does an exceptional job exploring the lives of those arriving looking for a better life, immersing himself in their world. From cold, hungover mornings at Victoria Station, the capital’s Ellis Island, to sleeping rough with Romanian beggars in a subway at Hyde Park Corner, the writer goes above and beyond to tell the stories of London’s seen but unheard. The book is a wonderfully-written, fascinating account of modern-day life, offering a glimpse of the world from those arriving in the city hoping for a better life. The overriding assessment is negative, whether it be the disillusioned Nigerian police officer claiming “the English are vanishing” or the Roma gypsy bemoaning the deceptive images on television.

It is, though, a thought-provoking look at London’s underbelly, with one subject telling the author: “London can crush you or London can transform you.” The book lacks a look at the transformative effect life in the city can have, but this is an important, detailed read on the stories of those often unheard. 8/10 (Review by Simon Peach)

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Zoo Boy by Sophie Thompson (illustrated by Rebecca Ashdown) is published in paperback by Faber & Faber. FOUR Weddings And A Funeral actress and Emma Thompson’s little sister, Sophie, has written a zany and charming debut for young readers. Our hero is birthday boy Vince, who has just turned eight. He loves everything orange, but does not like animals, even though his dad’s a zookeeper. His mum’s run off to the circus with a muscly lion tamer and his dad spends all his time at the zoo, so Vince is being brought up by his very flamboyant gran. His eighth birthday marks a rite a passage – he’s got to start helping his dad at the zoo, just as his dad had helped Grandpa Jacko when he was eight. But as soon as he’s among the animals, in his bright orange birthday jumper, a strange thing happens – a penguin in a waistcoat talks to him. Then a badger, then a whole menagerie of creatures, all making demands for food from the outside world. Vince has inherited his Grandpa’s Dr Dolittle-like ability to talk to animals – but it’s more of a curse than a blessing. Laced with Vince’s funny diary entries and cute illustrations from Rebecca Ashdown, Thompson’s writing bursts with life, Gran is a gem of a character, and she doesn’t shy away from introducing big words, such as in badger’s condemnation of the ‘scurrilous, mollycoddled, deplorable oafs’. It’s a wordy delight. 8/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

Brains of a chook R EADING a recent Dubbo Photo News article featuring our Mayor Mathew Dickerson, it was interesting to learn more about the State Government’s attempts to merge several local government councils and, in particular, the plan for Dubbo. What is going on in that government that they have to initiate this agenda as a disguise for their own problems? The lack of intent by superficially involving communities would have to be just part of the process to achieve their goal. There are books from the shelves that the people of Sydney’s Macquarie Street should read. Richard Koch has written “The 80/20 Principle” with a sub-title “the secret of achieving more with less”. Fundamentally the message is that a small amount in number accounts for a large amount of result – regardless of the economic situation. If 80 per cent of the results flow from 20 per cent of causes, apply this to the local government mergers and there would be 20 per cent of the shires that would account for 80 per cent of the problems, and it is on these 20 per cent that they should be focusing their attention. Ken Blanchard wrote “The New One Minute Manager” (updated) and on page 56 it deals with the circumstances where an individual has not conformed with the established disciplines. In seven simple steps it provides redirection for the person to be compatible with the procedures. It takes about 10 seconds to read and one minute to apply. Now, either the government has

ignored this or they have ulterior motives if they proceed with the local merger. In any hierarchy, every person tends to rise to his own level of incompetence. This is the theory of “The Peter Principle” written by Peter and Hull. The cover has the line “why things always go wrong” and one note runs: “The Peter Principle is rife wherever hierarchies exist – multi-national companies, local government, the Civil Service, hospital management, the groves of academe and public transport. There is no escape: promotion, like the paths of glory, leads but to the grave of over promotion.” A book from the shelves is “Catch and Kill – the Politics of Power” by Joel Dean. It is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic nature of the unholy trinity of politics – the winning, the wielding and the losing. George Megalogenis summarises the book saying “the way politics should

be practised: with a cool head, a warm heart and a sense of humour”. So what are the reasons for the State Government deciding to merge so many councils around NSW? It couldn’t be because Local Government gets their spending budgets wrong so often – when that element is stacked up against the expenditure by the State. Can you name one State project which has been completed within budget? A customer mentioned that $6 million is being spent on Walgett High School where there are just 36 high school students. It couldn’t possibly be because there are not enough bureaucrats in State departments to interact with existing Local bodies. Villages, towns, regional cities grow or decline depending on various factors. Changes in local economic factors are major influences. At the centre of this is the particular character of a town – the sum of the contributions made by its citizens. Part of this is reflected in the composition of the local coun-

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That’s GOLD! ABBA’s timeless appeal The unique sound of ‘70s supergroup ABBA is among the truly trans-generational musical phenomena of the modern era – no matter your age, you’ll have a favourite tune from the incredibly timeless Swedish foursome’s repertoire. It’s why two talented young singers can take the stage in an ABBA tribute band and confidently recreate the music their parents – and they – grew up with. Hayley Maybury (who plays Agnetha in the production) and Jessica Brown (Frida) spoke with Weekender’s ELLA McMILLAN ahead of their visit to Dubbo later this month. Tell us a bit about your personal and professional background? Jessica: I’m 23 and a half years old and was born in South Africa. I moved over to Australia going on four years ago – which was the best decision I ever made personally and professionally. I love Australia! I’m incredibly passionate about the arts and performing; it’s all I’ve done all my life and I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be able to do this as a career. I started my studies in dance and musical theatre in South Australia in 2011 which I did for two years and then I moved over to Brisbane where I’ve just recently graduated with my Bachelor in Musical Theatre at Griffith Conservatorium – most wonderfully challenging and rewarding course. Although I’ve been performing all my life, my professional career as a performing artist has only just began which is incredibly exciting and I feel very fortunate to be on this tour doing this show straight out of uni. Hayley: In 2015 I graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Musical Theatre, so after three years of solid training I am

thrilled to finally be putting it all to use! Music has always been a huge passion of mine, and over the years I have been trained in several different instruments, with piano and vocal being my favourites. Musical theatre is the genre in which I spend most of my time, with A Chorus Line, Godspell, The Wizard of Oz, and Oliver making up some of my recent credits. I was born and bred in Brisbane, but have lately been spending much more time “down south” and am loving it! When and why did you start performing? Jessica: I started performing at the age of four when I started ballet dancing. I have always loved performing since I was a little girl. As a child as soon as my parents whipped out the video camera I was in front of it, singing or dancing or telling a very elaborate well acted-out story. It’s what I’ve always done and I love it so much, I feel so blessed to be able to perform. Hayley: When I was little I was always performing to whoever would listen. Whether it was singing I’m a Little Teapot or I’m a Dingley Dangly Scare-

crow on the deck at home, or dancing to the band all alone on top of a sewerage tank at my neighbours’ wedding, I guess I was an unstoppable force! My parents finally decided to put me into piano lessons when I was three, then singing lessons when I was six, and it all just snowballed from there.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 Hayley: Goodness, that was all a long time ago! The earliest memory I have of learning a song is an old folk song called Ghost of Tom. At the age of six I thought it was very scary, so I used to try to scare my younger brother by singing it... It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. He was definitely tougher than I was. Which singers do you admire and have learned from? Jessica: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been a huge fan of those phenomenal singers like CĂŠline Dion and Barbra Streisand, they just have such powerful voices, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if I could even pick a favourite. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I love about art; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so unique and so you can rarely compare. You can always draw inspiration for different things from different artists. Hayley: Sutton Foster was the object of my very first singer crush. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a performer on Broadway and has played some really fantastic roles. Listening to her is a big part of how I learned to belt, and how I found my sound. Jessie J would be my favourite singer from the pop world; her technique is incredible, and the agility she has with her voice is mind blowing. What are your fondest musical memories? Jessica: I have so many, every time I have the opportunity to sing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m filled with such joy! But probably when I won Idols at my high school. I won two years in a row and it was one of the first times I realised how much I loved singing and performing on stage. Hayley: There is nothing better than people coming together and making wonderful music. When I was younger, taking group singing lessons, our teacher would get us singing a basic song and we would get to make up harmonies to it. Whatever we wanted! We would start tapping the rhythm and moving to whatever feeling or harmony took our fancy. Moments like that where people come together to make new sounds are my absolute favourite. Our first ABBA rehearsal was one of those moments. The musical chemistry in the room was just fantastic. It was impossible not to be moved, emotionally and physically â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I was bopping around to the music the entire rehearsal! Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been the biggest challenge in your career? Jessica: I think the biggest challenge in a preforming artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career is learning to believe in your ability and what you can do and never let anyone change or influence that. Because we are constantly in the limelight, constantly putting ourselves out there we are open to a lot of criticism; good and bad. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a personal career, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to take these things to heart. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so important as performers that we trust ourselves and what we can do, believe whole heartedly that this is what Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called us to do and never give up ever. Hayley: This one is a never-ending challenge. As a singer, your voice is very connected to and reliant on your general wellbeing. You need to be emotionally and physically in tiptop shape to perform at your peak. Things like tight muscles, dehydration and a lack of confidence in yourself can all affect your voice in major ways so you always need to be chasing after a perfect balance in your life so that your work

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Stars & Stripes: Haim Steinbach, Untitled (oyster head), 2012. Plastic laminated wood shelf; straw Chinese hat, Plan Toys wooden cone sorting toy; plastic Tim Burton “Oyster Boy” figurine, Whetstone wooden biscuit cutter. Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. PHOTO: SUPPLIED BY JEAN VONG

The conundrum of modern art BY ANDREW GLASSOP WPCC

O – that’s not right – how about controversy of modern art? No – too temporary. The never ending war (with associated sniping, carpet bombing and guerrilla raids) between contemporary/modern artists and traditional artists and their respective acolytes, client states and political movements. It’s a mouthful but it serves the purpose. Well it would if it were not for one salient point. No one, and I mean no one, can actually agree on what is the difference between a modern artist and traditional artists. So this is an argument, a passionate and at times bitter argument, where the actual sides are not clearly defined, where the whole focus of the disagreement is one blurry, ill-defined, hot mess of beige. Think about that for a while. A whole lot of people are arguing over the relevance, importance, or intellectual honesty of a thing they can’t actually describe. Sort of like arguing the pink elephants you see after a night on the town are African or Indian. It sort of misses the point. This war has risen again of late thanks to a video post by Paul Joseph Watson in which he rails against modern art. The video, helpfully titled ‘The Truth about Modern Art’ contains such well thought bon-mots as “Modern art isn’t art at all’, “Works of modern art keep being thrown out because people think they are garbage”, “It’s all just an act to prove... that they are part of the same cult [of elitist snobs]”, and most strangely, “Henri Matisse is adored whilst [realist sculptor] Ron Mueck is shunned,” despite showing image after image in the video of

Consider also a more common figMueck’s work being displayed and adure, the Venus of Willendorf. This small mired in galleries around the world. stone fertility figure, thought to be The video itself is a shambles of hyaround 30,000 years old, shows a heavy perbole, invective, intellectual dishonset woman whose face is covered in a esty, wilful ignorance and childish tanbeaded helmet of some type. The body trums. Paul Joseph Watson himself has and headdress make her anatomically a dubious palmares, being a darling of incorrect and almost alien. Is she modneo-Nazi groups such as Storm Front, ern art? Other figures, such as the Venus claiming that mass shootings in the USA of Lespuge, are even are the work of government agents and believing more physically extreme. Are they modthat the New World Order ern art? is just around the corner. Lets head the other He is a dangerously deludway and consider the ed lunatic. works of one of AusThis is not how this artralia’s favourites, gument should proceed. Tom Roberts. A memPlease don’t interpret ber of the Heidelberg this as a claim that the arSchool nearly everygument should not hap- The world’s oldest one will recognise his pen at all, it should, but art (a hotly contested iconic work, Shearif we are going to have ing the Rams. Surea meaningful discussion title) might be a ly this is traditional lets set a few ground carved shell dated art? It looks like the rules and definitions. thing that it is. Well, My first suggestion around 430,000 perhaps not. A close would be to get rid of the years old. A delicate look at some of the idea that there is such a wooden beams in the thing as modern and tra- zig-zag line runs shearing shed reveal ditional art. Let’s just call over the mussel it all art and start again. curious patches of There is good reason to shell, getting larger blue, grey and purple adopt this line of thought. as it approaches the – curious colours for wood. The shearer’s A common misconcepthemselves are clean, tion is that traditional art edge. Its meaning masculine and musrepresents things as they is lost to time but is cular. No signs of the are, a realist interpretait traditional art. If it ravages of an industion of what can be seen. Consider, however, the were done now it try that could cripple a man in years. So following. would not be. did Tom paint what The world’s oldest art he saw, or what he (a hotly contested title) wanted to see? might be a carved shell dated around 430,000 years old. A delicate zig-zag line Extend this a little further. What if runs over the mussel shell, getting larger what Tom saw was less a national symbol in the making but a blur of colour, as it approaches the edge. Its meaning is energy and life? What if he changed his lost to time but is it traditional art. If it were done now it would not be. painting to again not paint what he saw

but what he wanted to see? Whirls of colour, shape clashing against shape, pools of light and pockets of darkness. See where this leads us? By its very definition any art work of any type is not ‘reality’, it is a version of reality imagined by an artist. This reality might be physical, it might be conceptual, it might be theoretical; it doesn’t really matter. The point is that we are messing around, as I wrote at the start, with a blurry, illdefined, hot mess of beige. So instead of focussing on whether an artwork is modern or traditional, we look at ways of deciding if any particular work is any good. This is the conversation we should be having; one that recognises that some art is great, some is OK and some is utter rubbish. Just as literature can be great or rubbish, or TV or music or architecture or just about anything else we humans create. There is no better place to have this conversation at the moment than at the WPCC. We are enormously lucky to have Stars + Stripes on exhibition, a suite of contemporary American art works from the collection of Danny and Lisa Goldberg. The show includes works of mesmerising beauty and sometimes baffling nuance and abstraction. Not all the works are easy to understand, but each holds a powerful thought. If you want to see a current survey of what is happening in America at the moment in terms of abstract art then this is the show for you. Stars + Stripes officially opens this Friday, February 12, at 6 pm, with the curator of the show, the engaging Richard Perram, OAM, from Bathurst Regional Gallery giving the opening talk. It is an opening not be missed, Richard is intimately connected both to this show and to the greater world of art and what is happening and is a most entertaining and informative speaker. I’ll see you there.

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Anh Do at DRTCC BY HAYLEY FERRIS

THE Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre was buzzing with excitement while guests enjoyed drinks and nibbles before seeing “Anh Do: The Happiest Refugee” on Saturday, February 6. Guests were enjoying mingling and socialising before the much anticipated show.

Kym and Darren Gaffney with Elaine and Roy Hall

Jenny Bremner, Ian and Susan Law, Christine Robinson and Rick Bremner

Julie and Glenn Halliday, Malcolm and Denise Leader and Jack and Susie Rowley

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Pam Ridley, Betty Bruce and Cheryl Tonkin

Suanne and Wayne Taunton with Deanna and Brian Quade

Craig Dunn, Yvonne and John McGuire and Gloria McAllister

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Muso night at the Old Bank Restaurant BY HAYLEY FERRIS

LOCALS gathered at the Old Bank Restaurant on Saturday, February 6, for dinner, drinks and a catch up with friends. They were in for a treat with singer Riley Catherall performing along with young local musician Noah Dorin.

Ajay Isbester-Boss celebrating his 10th birthday with family

Adam Isbester, Ajay Isbester-Boss and Amanda Picton

Louise and Terry Burns

Kate and Colin Brien from Narromine

Jack Lyon, Azalea and Ajay Isbester-Boss, Cameron Lyon, Jack Isbester and Harry Lyon

Lisa Carlaw and Vicki Tanner

Fiona Lasker and Helen Simmons

Emily and Patsy Wheeler

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Night out at the Pastoral Hotel BY HAYLEY FERRIS

LOCALS gathered at the Pastoral Hotel on Saturday, February 6, for drinks in the lane way and live music by Allen “Crash” Landow. Patrons were enjoying their Saturday night out with friends, great music and a great atmosphere.

Luis Perez-Mora, Zak Usher, Lyndall Taylor and Teagan McManus

Trevor Tink and Matt Shirvington

Scott McKinnon, Kirsty Colliver and Trevor Tink

Bree and Bailey Gavin

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear N Sunday, March 6 from 12.30pm, join our very own Weekender Editor Jen Cowley for an innovative afternoon discussing ideas and issues that matter to women, when she hosts a panel discussion as part of the Sydney Opera House’s All About Women event, which streams across Australia and New Zealand. Join in the Satellite at the DRTCC, starting with What Needs to Change – a panel of prominent women discussing what they’d do if they had the power to change things overnight. Then Jen Cowley will facilitate a Q&A with local participants before the next session, Orange is the New Black – a talk with the real life Piper Kerman on what

she’s learned about women during her incarceration and the lessons she carries with her now as an advocate for the rights of prisoners. Whether you’re a ‘happy feminist’ or a ‘feminasty’, an activist, an introvert, a people watcher or a protagonist. If you’re a human being and you live on this planet, this event is for you. LL About Women Satellite Event is presented as part of the Sydney Opera House’s annual talks program Ideas at the House. Dubbo Regional Theatre was invited to be a part of this annual program. Light refreshments will be provided and the Bar will be open to purchase drinks.

OW’S that New Year’s resolution to lose weight and improve your lifestyle going? Monday marks the start of Healthy Weight Week and Dubbo Community Health Centre dietitians will be holding an information stall on Tuesday, February 16 – including lots of advice, freebies and giveaways. There will also be a supermarket tour to show you how to read food labels – what a cracking idea! Swing by Orana Mall on Tuesday from 9am1pm and say g’day to the team, but if you want to do the supermarket tour, bookings are essential, so contact Leslie Tang or Rachelle Lee, your local dietitians at the Dubbo Community Health Centre on (02) 6885 8999 for further information.

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ULARGAMBONE – the tiny town with the HUGE heart – is again

HE Biennale of Sydney is coming to Dubbo! Get a sneak peek of this renowned event at a special preview to be held at the Western Plains Cultural Centre on Saturday, February 20 with a FREE public talk by Alana Ambados, Public Programs and Education Co-ordinator for the Biennale of Sydney. The event will introduce the ideas, artists and programs in the 20th edition of the Biennale, opening on 18 March this year. The Sydney Biennale continues to grow in importance and scope and this is the perfect time to understand why you need to go and see the art event of the year.

PEAKING of the WPCC – check out Stars and Stripes, and exhibition of American art of the 21st

hosting Dinner Under The Stars, which raises funds for the local community, including to support a traineeship for a local student at the town’s renowned 2828 café. Dinner Under The Stars is a phenomenal night that includes top class entertainment, a gourmet three course meal and good ol’ fashioned bush fun – but don’t be fooled, this is a very swish affair and first-timers are always blown away by the incredible standard the volunteer committee sets for the night. To book your tickets and support this gutsy little town, go to 2828.com.au and follow the prompts or phone Sara Roche on 0428 485 328 or email her at reedsdale@bigpond.com for further information. But DO NOT miss this amazing night under the vast, beautiful skies of western NSW.

century from The Goldberg Collection. There will be an official opening tonight, Friday February 12 from 6pm, featuring Richard Perram OAM, Director of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (which is curating the exhibition). It incluces works by leading contemporary artists from the United States and is a major exhibition for the region. It represents the first time in 47 years a major exhibition of contemporary American art has been presented in Australia. Drawn from the private collection of Sydney-based Lisa and Danny Goldberg, the exhibition is a vibrant selection of recent American art by some of America’s hottest names based predominantly in New York and Los Angeles. Don’t miss it.

Dinner Under The Stars 2015

OW long since you’ve been to the Old Dubbo Gaol? Ages, right? Well here’s a fantastic reason to get yourself into gear and support one of the city’s most popular and important tourist attractions. On Friday, March 4, the team at the gaol will be letting its guard down and opening the gates for the third Wine and Nourishment event – which

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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 ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

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

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂǇ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝǌǌĂƐ͕ ŚŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ ƉĂƐƚĂƐ͕ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

THE GRAPEVINE

RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB

^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

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

THE SWISH GALLERY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮƉŵ͘ ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌǇ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌǇ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ ǇŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚǇůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌǇƚŚŝŶŐ ǇŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

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

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10

IGA WEST DUBBO

&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

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

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚǇ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ ĂŶĚ ĞƌŶĂƌĚŝ͛Ɛ ^hW /' ͘ ĂƐǇ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽǆ͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

SPORTIES

THINGS TO DO WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂǇ ŽĨ ĞǆŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞǆŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

OLD DUBBO GAOL

GYMS 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 ďŽŽŬƐ͘KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ďŽŽŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

THE PARTY STOP KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

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

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌǇ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϵͲϱƉŵ >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂǇ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďǇŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϵͲϰƉŵ͘ dŚĞ ǌŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ŽīĞƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůǇ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞǆƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

READINGS CINEMA ŽŵĨŽƌƚ͕ ƐƚǇůĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĂůƵĞ ΨϭϬ ƟĐŬĞƚƐ ϯ ĞǆƚƌĂ͘ ĂŶĚǇ ďĂƌ͖ ϱ ƐĐƌĞĞŶ ĐŝŶĞŵĂ ĐŽŵƉůĞǆ͖ ŝŐŝƚĂů ƐŽƵŶĚ ŽůďǇ ŝŐŝƚĂů ϯ ƉƌŽũĞĐƟŽŶ >ƵǆƵƌǇ ĂƌŵĐŚĂŝƌ ĐŽŵĨŽƌƚ 49 Macquarie St,6881 8600

CALL FOR A GREAT RATE ON A LIST FOR YOUR BUSINESS HERE! 6885 4433.

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, February 12 MOVIE: The Waterboy

MOVIE: Dumb & Dumber

MOVIE: Bad Santa

7MATE, 8.30pm, M (1998)

GO!, 9.20pm, PG (1994)

7MATE, 10.30pm, MA15+ (2003)

Another mindless comedy from the duke of dumb Adam Sandler. This time he plays the lowly drinks runner for a college gridiron team who is elevated to star player by the coach (Henry Winkler) for his uncanny ability to knock over big guys in helmets. Kathy Bates is inexplicably cast as his overbearing mother, and Fairuza Balk doesn’t wear much as the love interest. While the sketch comedy-esque premise has potential – Sandler’s films aren’t known for their searing insights into the human condition – the juvenile jokes (and jocks) should fall flat with people over the legal age.

From the Farrelly brothers (There’s Something About Mary) comes their first serve of gross-out laughs. Starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, two incredibly dimwitted losers take an interstate expedition to return a suitcase to rightful owner Lauren Holly. The Farrellys’ basic premise is to concoct the most unthinkable connotations of stupidity and outright dumbness and place Carrey and Daniels in the thick of it. A wicked and riotous brew of toilet humour, witty one-liners and naive profanity.

A profane comedy from director Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World) that follows the less-than-jolly exploits of perverted, chainsmoking, whisky-swilling Santafor-hire Willie (an incredibly funny Billy Bob Thornton). Aided by his elf sidekick (Tony Cox), the pair parlay their roles as entertainers to annually fleece the department stores they work at. But this year’s heist is complicated when a bullied, lonely youngster (Brett Kelly) latches on to the surly, redsuited crook and adopts him as a father figure.

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Catalyst. (PG, R, CC) 11.15 Pointless. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Crownies. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Grand Designs. (PG, R, CC) 2.50 The Cook And The Chef. (R, CC) 3.20 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote. (PG, R, CC) Two dancers are implicated in a murder. 5.00 ABC News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.25 Grand Designs. (PG, R, CC) (Final) Hosted by Kevin McCloud.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG, CC) The latest news and views. 11.30 Seven Morning News. (CC) 12.00 Miniseries: Molly. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. 2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams. 3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Contestants race to answer quiz questions correctly to avoid being caught by The Chaser. 4.00 Seven News At 4. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Today Extra. (PG, CC) Presented by David Campbell and Sonia Kruger. 11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show. 2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program. 2.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) Host James Reeson demonstrates easy recipes which can be cooked at home. 3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 Afternoon News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Talk. (CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Entertainment Tonight. (CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 The Home Team. (CC) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, CC) Zende sets Sasha straight. 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 France 24 English News. 6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 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 Big Art. (CC) 2.30 Colour Theory. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Island Feast With Peter Kuruvita. (R, CC) 3.30 Heston’s Mission Impossible. (R, CC) 4.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R, CC)

6.15 Pointless. (CC) (Final) Contestants try to score as few points as possible by coming up with answers no one else can think of. 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) The best analysis of local, national and international events from an Australian perspective. 8.00 Griff’s Great Britain: Estuaries. (CC) Griff Rhys Jones explores the picturesque estuaries of Suffolk and Essex. 8.30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, CC) Dr Blake helps the new police chief superintendent investigate the death of a prominent businessman. 9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki, Leo and Jack struggle to ascertain how the granddaughter of a murdered businessman died. 10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news. 11.05 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton. 11.20 It’s A Date. (M, R, CC) An Englishman romances a widower. 11.50 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh travels to South Australia to visit My Kitchen Rules contestants Rosie and Paige, who experiment in the kitchen. Karen goes on a French food cruise. Graham shares simple ways to revive plants. 8.30 MOVIE: Notting Hill. (M, R, CC) (1999) The simple life of an English bookshop owner changes after a Hollywood celebrity enters his shop in Notting Hill while promoting her latest movie. The unlikely duo soon faces all manner of obstacles to make their romance work, including the reappearance of her old boyfriend. Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe. 11.00 Wanted. (M, R, CC) After two women are falsely accused of murder, they go on the run in a car filled with stolen money.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Ultimate Airport Dubai. (CC) Take a behind-thescenes look at Dubai International Airport and its three terminals and 60,000 staff, who are working hard to keep the passengers and planes safe, secure and on schedule. 8.40 MOVIE: The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug. (M, CC) (2013) Bilbo and his companions continue their epic quest to reclaim the lost kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug. However, with the orcs hot on their heels, they find themselves falling into the clutches of the elf king Thranduil, who nurses a long-held grudge against the dwarves. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public. 6.30 The Project. (CC) A look at the day’s news. 7.30 The Living Room. (CC) (Series return) Advice on planting a rose garden from landscape designer Jamie Durie. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) (Series return) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with actors Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Carrie Fisher from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, former soccer player David Beckham, and pop superstar Kylie Minogue. 9.30 The X-Files. (M, R, CC) After a dead body is found in the woods, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate whether it was the work of an animal attack, a serial killer or perhaps a bizarre creature as described by the eyewitnesses. 10.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) DB Russell joins the team as the new Director of Next Generation Forensics. 11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 Poh’s Kitchen. (R, CC) Poh Ling Yeow travels back to Darwin where she meets a local cook who shows her how to cook sand whiting. 6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 MythBusters. (PG, CC) Adam and Jamie set out to tackle two tall tales connected to the street racing technique called drifting. 8.30 Neil Oliver: Sacred Wonders Of Britain. (R, CC) Part 1 of 3. Scottish archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver goes on a journey to reveal the sacred face of Britain. Beginning in the south, he explores some of the great tombs which provide evidence of ancestor worship among the first farmers of the Neolithic period. 9.30 MOVIE: Journey To The West. (M, CC) (2013) An aspiring hero develops strong feelings for a demon hunter while trying to protect a village. Shu Qi, Zhang Wen, Bo Huang. 11.30 The Late Feed. Marc Fennell, Patrick Abboud and Jeanette Francis discuss the latest in news, technology and culture.

12.00 Revenge. (M, R, CC) After discovering her mother could still be alive, Emily returns to the Hamptons, determined to find out the truth. 2.00 Home Shopping.

12.10 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Dorian Gray. (MA15+, R, CC) (2009) A young man becomes immortal. Ben Barnes. 3.30 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, CC) Comedian Stephen Colbert interviews a variety of guests from the worlds of film, politics, business and music. 1.30 Home Shopping. (R)

12.00 MOVIE: Us. (MA15+, R) (2013) Gustaf Skarsgard. 1.45 Shameless. (M, R, CC) 2.40 Shameless. (MA15+, R, CC) 4.35 Perception. (MA15+, R, CC) 4.55 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne Bitesize. (R, 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. 1202

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016

Friday, February 12 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.20pm Thelma & Louise (1991) Crime. Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis. Two smalltown gals on a road trip ﬁnd themselves on the run from the law after a tragic stop-off. (M) Romance

7.30pm BBQ Pitmasters. Leading cooks of America’s burgeoning barbecue circuit put their reputations on the line as they compete for hundreds of thousands of dollars. (PG) A&E

8.30pm Inside The Tower Of London. The Tower of London is one of the world’s most famous buildings. (PG) History

7.00am Golf. USPGA Tour. Pebble Beach Pro-Am. First round. Fox Sports 3

6.40pm Get Hard (2015) Comedy. Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart. A soon-to-be imprisoned millionaire hires a man he believes to be an ex-con to harden him up for prison. (MA15+) Premiere

8.30pm Sons Of Anarchy. Love is in the air for SAMCRO members but death wins the day. (MA15+) FX

9.30pm Drugs Inc. In Silicon Valley, many have turned to drugs for an extra edge. (M) National Geographic

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.10 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Little Princess. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.35 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 6.00 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Doctor Who: Confidential. (R, CC) 8.30 This Old Thing. (CC) (Final) 9.20 Miracle Of The Hudson Plane Crash. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) 10.50 Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.35 Secrets Of China. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 My Mum Is Obsessed. (PG, R, CC) 1.15 On The Verge Of A Midlife Crisis With Sharon Horgan. (PG, R, CC) 2.05 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 2.50 News Update. (R) 2.55 Close. 5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 5.25 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.55 Places To Dance. (R, CC) 11.00 Move It Mob Style. (R, CC) 11.30 BTN. (R, CC) 11.55 Pet Superstars. (R, CC) 12.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 The Crust. (R, CC) 1.10 Heart And Soul. (R, CC) 1.35 Castaway. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R, CC) 2.25 Vic The Viking. (R, CC) 2.40 Pearlie. (R, CC) 2.50 Masha And The Bear. (R, CC) 3.00 Absolute Genius. 3.35 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 3.45 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 3.55 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.15 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) (Final) 4.40 Studio 3. 4.45 Adv Time. (R) 5.10 Slugterra. (R, CC) 5.30 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 5.40 News On 3. (CC) 5.50 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 6.20 Dance Academy. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (CC) 7.30 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (R, CC) 8.00 Adv Time. (R) 8.20 Kobushi. (R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (R, CC) 8.50 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 9.00 Heartland. (PG, R, CC) 9.45 K-On! (CC) 10.05 Lanfeust Quest. (PG, R, CC) 10.30 Ouran High School Host Club. (PG, R, CC) 10.55 Close.

9.30pm Food Porn. Lifestyle Food

8.00am Cricket. Trans Tasman Series. First Test. New Zealand v Australia. Day 1. Fox Sports 2 5.30pm Basketball. NBL. Round 19. New Zealand Breakers v Melbourne United. Fox Sports 3

8.30pm American Idol. (PG) FOX8

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Match It. (C, R, CC) 7.30 The Woodlies. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Larry The Lawnmower. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away: The Early Years. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R) 12.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 1.00 Better Homes. (R, CC) 2.00 Charlie’s Angels. (PG, R) 3.00 Who’s The Boss? (PG, R, CC) 3.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. (R, CC) 4.00 Bewitched. (R, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Border. (PG) Follows the customs and border protection crew. 8.30 Escape To The Country. Prospective buyers find their dream home. 9.30 The House That 100K Built. Piers Taylor revisits Sumati. 10.45 Front Of House. (R) 11.15 Australia’s Best Houses. (PG, R) 11.45 Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.45 Homes Under The Hammer. (PG, R) 1.45 The Border. (PG, R) 2.45 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.45 The House That 100K Built. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Henry Hugglemonster. (R) 7.30 Doc McStuffins. (R) 8.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. (R, CC) 8.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 10.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 11.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 12.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 1.00 Ultimate Factories. (R) 2.00 Turtleman. (PG, R) 2.30 American Stuffers. (PG, R) 3.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 5.30 American Pickers. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Happy Gilmore. (PG, R) (1996) A cashstrapped hockey player plays golf. Adam Sandler. 8.30 MOVIE: The Waterboy. (M, R, CC) (1998) A simpleminded man becomes a star gridiron player after he learns to channel his aggression. Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk. 10.30 MOVIE: Bad Santa. (MA15+, R, CC) (2003) Billy Bob Thornton. 12.30 MOVIE: Changeling. (MA15+, R, CC) (2008) 3.30 Hawaii Air Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 5.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R)

Charlie Hunnam stars in Sons of Anarchy

GO! 6.00 Sooty. 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 7.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 9.00 Magical Tales. (P, R, CC) 9.30 Little Charmers. (R) 10.00 SpongeBob. (R) 10.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 11.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 11.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 12.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 12.30 The Batman. (R) 1.00 Sooty. (R) 1.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 3.00 SpongeBob. (R) 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 4.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: The Cat In The Hat. (R, CC) (2003) 7.40 MOVIE: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. (PG, R, CC) (1994) 9.20 MOVIE: Dumb & Dumber. (PG, R, CC) (1994) Jim Carrey. 11.40 Two And A Half Men. (M, R, CC) 12.05 Sullivan & Son. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Troy. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.30 The Batman. (R) 3.00 Little Charmers. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 4.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (R, CC) 9.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Come Dine With Me. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG) 1.00 MOVIE: Chase A Crooked Shadow. (PG, CC) (1958) Richard Todd. 2.50 Come Dine With Me. (R) 3.20 Blue Planet: A Natural History Of The Oceans. (PG, R) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) Joey tries to make an old girlfriend jealous. 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Grease: Live. (PG, R, CC) A naive schoolgirl falls for a teenage rebel. 10.50 MOVIE: Viva Las Vegas. (R, CC) (1964) A racing car driver enters a talent contest. Elvis Presley. 12.35 MOVIE: The Jazz Singer. (R, CC) (1980) Neil Diamond. 2.45 MOVIE: Out Of Season. (M, R, CC) (1975) Vanessa Redgrave. 4.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 9.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 9.30 What’s Up! Downunder. (R, CC) 10.00 Black Gold. (PG, R) 11.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 12.00 The Biggest Loser USA. (PG) 2.00 Monster Jam. (R) 3.00 Adventure Angler. (PG, R) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 5.00 Operation Repo. (PG) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 48 Hours: Mummy Dearest. (M, R) Two shootings are investigated. 9.30 MOVIE: Enemies Closer. (MA15+, R) (2013) Two sworn enemies deal with a drug cartel. Tom Everett Scott. 11.20 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 11.50 The Home Team. (R, CC) 12.20 Home Shopping. 2.20 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 3.20 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 4.20 RPM Moment. (R, CC) 4.30 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Crocamole. (P, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 12.00 Judging Amy. (PG, R) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 3.30 Everybody Loves 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) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.05 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Rules Of Engagement. (PG, R) Jeff and Audrey attend a cooking class. 8.30 Love Island. (M) (New Series) Host Caroline Flack helps young singles look for a summer of love and romance. 10.00 Sex And The City. (M, R, CC) 11.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 1.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.00 JAG. (PG, R) 3.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 5.00 Family Ties. (PG, 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 Never Ever Do This At Home. (M, R) 5.35 House Hazards. (PG) 6.00 None Of The Above. (New Series) Hosted by Tim Shaw. 6.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) Adam and Jamie look at bomb detonation. 7.30 Soccer. A-League. Round 19. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. 10.15 Vikings. (M, R, CC) Ragnar and King Horik take on Jarl Borg. 12.00 Vikings. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.40 PopAsia. (PG) 4.40 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

NITV 6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bushwhacked! 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Mugu Kids. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 I Live, I Breathe, I Surf. 12.00 MOVIE: Beauty. (2010) 1.30 UnderExposed. 2.00 City Slickers Rodeo. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Move It Mob Style. 4.00 Tipi Tales. 4.30 Bushwhacked! 5.00 Go Lingo. 5.30 Guardians: Evolution. (PG) 6.00 Tangaroa With Pio. 6.30 UnderExposed. 7.00 Ngurra. 7.20 NITV News Mini-Bulletin. 7.30 Treading Water. (PG) Examines the necessity for water. 8.30 Arctic Air. (M) The adventures of a maverick airline. 9.30 Chappelle’s Show. Sketch comedy. 10.00 MOVIE: Wrong Side Of The Road. (M) (1980) Ronnie Ansell. 11.30 Green Bush. (MA15+) 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 5.00 Bush Bands Bash.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 ABC News. (CC) 1.00 ABC News With Capital Hill. (CC) 2.00 ABC News. (CC) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 ABC News With The Business. 5.00 ABC News With Grandstand. 6.00 ABC News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (CC) 7.00 ABC News Evenings With Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 ABC News Evenings With The Business. (CC) 9.00 Planet America. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 ABC News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 ABC 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. (R) 3.30 7.30. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 1202

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Saturday, February 13 MOVIE: Night At The Museum TEN, 6.30pm, PG (2006) If you’ve ever wanted to see a prehistoric man spray a fireextinguisher in a homo sapien’s face, here’s your chance. Bumbling security guard Larry (Ben Stiller) accidentally lets loose an ancient curse that causes all the wax figures, animals and insects on display at New York’s Museum of Natural History to come to life and wreak havoc – think the animal mayhem of Jumanji blended with the historical fantasy of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Cameos abound, including Stiller’s pal Owen Wilson as a cowboy, English comic Ricky Gervais (The Office) as the museum boss and the late Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt.

ABC

Cuffs

MOVIE: Jaws

ABC, 8.30pm

7MATE, 7pm, PG (1975)

Despite solid reviews in the UK, this police procedural was cancelled after only one season to the protests of fans and its stars. Amanda Abbington (Sherlock, Mr Selfridge) heads Brighton’s police force as DS Jo Moffat, whose personal life is just as messy and morally ambiguous as the criminals she pursues. Among the team is widower PC Ryan Draper (Ashley Walters) and new recruit PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan), the son of the region’s chief superintendent who must prove his worth from underneath his father’s shadow. It’s a solid crime drama with impressive performances – take advantage of it while it’s still here.

Four decades after it scared beach-goers clear of the sun and surf, Steven Spielberg’s underwater thriller remains just as powerful. Seamlessly transferring Peter Benchley’s pulp novel to the big screen, Spielberg redefined the scale of the blockbuster. Cinema history aside, despite the hype surrounding the robotic shark used in filming, the simple human fear of the unseen remains Jaws’ greatest strength, and it cleared the beaches in 1975. The dynamic trio of Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss shine as they go on the hunt for the massive shark, while John Williams’ memorable score remains chilling.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.40 Pointless. (R, CC) (Final) 12.25 The Great Australian Fly. (PG, R, CC) 1.20 Restoration Man. (PG, R, CC) 2.10 Grand Designs Revisited. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Monty Don’s French Gardens: The Gourmet Gardens. (R, CC) 4.00 Jillaroo School. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) 5.05 Griff’s Great Britain: Estuaries. (R, CC) 5.30 Inspector George Gently. (PG, R, CC) (Final) Inspector Gently must confront his past.

6.00 Home Shopping. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 I Dream Of Jeannie. (R, CC) 12.30 Bewitched. (R, CC) 1.00 Who’s The Boss? (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: The Tale Of Despereaux. (R, CC) (2008) Three misfits help rescue a princess. Matthew Broderick. 3.30 Nabbed. (PG, CC) 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday. (PG, CC) Australian Geographic Adventures. (R, CC) Party Of Five. (PG, R, CC) Bailey organises a bachelor party. Australia’s Got Talent. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Dave Hughes. Georgy Girl: The Making Of The Musical. (CC) A look at Georgy Girl: The Seekers Musical. Getaway. (PG, CC) A look at travel destinations. News: First At Five. (CC) Fishing Australia. (CC)

6.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 iFish. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (R, CC) 12.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 2.00 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (R, CC) 2.30 The Home Team. (CC) 3.00 Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 What’s Up Down Under. (CC) 4.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 France 24 English News. 6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 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 Figure Skating. (CC) ISU European Championships. Ladies’ Singles and Ice Dance. Highlights. 3.30 Massive Moves. (R, CC) 4.20 Life And Death In The Valley Of The Kings. (PG, R, CC) 5.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC)

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Death In Paradise. (PG, CC) (Series return) After the owner of a rum distillery is murdered during a seance, it appears a ghost might be the killer. 8.30 Cuffs. (M, CC) (New Series) Having been teamed up with a veteran PC, a rookie cop undertakes a challenging first shift in Brighton as he finds himself assisting a suicidal mental health patient and arresting an outrageous shoplifter. A ram-raid by a dangerous gang instigates a high-speed car chase through the city. 9.30 Jack Irish. (M, R, CC) A lawyer-turned-private investigator is tasked with tracking down a man’s missing brother. 10.25 Adam Hills: The Last Leg Down Under. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2. Having driven the length of the NT, Josh Widdicombe, Alex Brooker and Adam Hills head to Sydney. 11.15 Black Comedy. (M, R, CC) The two matriarchs feud over the lucrative rights of the “Welcome to Country” income stream. 11.40 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Monsters University. (CC) (2013) Two monsters attend university where they are taught to be professionally scary. However, after getting kicked out of class, they join a local fraternity in an effort to gain re-admittance to the training regime. Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi. 9.10 MOVIE: The World’s End. (MA15+, CC) (2013) A group of friends reunite, 20 years after failing to finish an epic pub crawl, when one of them becomes fixated on completing the marathon drinking session. Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Nick Frost. 11.15 First Dates. (PG, R, CC) Singles in search of love, whose profiles have been matched by a team of experts, are brought together at a restaurant for a blind first date, with their experiences being captured by a host of cameras.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 RBT. (PG, CC) Follows police units that operate random breath-test patrols around Australia in the never-ending fight against drink driving. 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL All Star Game. Indigenous All Stars v NRL All Stars. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. 10.00 Here Come The Habibs! (PG, R, CC) After winning $22 million in the lottery, a Lebanese-Australian family moves to one of the Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs only to find themselves clashing with their wealthy neighbours. 10.45 MOVIE: The Campaign. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) In the wake of the revelation he had an affair, two CEOs seize on the opportunity to oust a long-term US congressman by promoting a rival candidate, the eccentric and naive director of a local tourism centre. Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis.

6.00 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals. (R, CC) As part of an effort to encourage people to enjoy fast, nutritious, everyday food, chef Jamie Oliver sets out to create a whole new selection of meals which can be completed in just 15 minutes. 6.30 MOVIE: Night At The Museum. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A down-on-his-luck man takes a position as a security guard at New York’s Museum of Natural History, only to discover the exhibits come to life each night. Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Carla Gugino. 8.50 MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. (PG, CC) (2013) A daydreamer, who escapes his anonymous existence working for Life magazine by disappearing into a fantasy world, is forced to embark on a realworld adventure to find a missing photo negative. Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly. 11.05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, CC) Comedian Stephen Colbert interviews a variety of guests.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Coasts Of Ireland: Dublin And The East. (CC) Part 1 of 5. From the traditional pubs in Dublin to the Titanic’s sister ship in Belfast, take a tour of some of the highlights of Ireland. 8.30 MOVIE: The Hours. (M, R, CC) (2002) Three women from different generations struggle to come to terms with depression and suicide in their lives while reading the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, including the author herself. Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep. 10.35 RocKwiz. (PG, R, CC) Music quiz show, from Byron Bay’s Bluesfest. Steve Earle performs his 1988 hit Copperhead Road, Vika and Linda Bull raise the canvas roof with a new Paul Kelly song, and festival favourites Beth Hart and Grace Potter, sing and answer questions. Hosted by Julia Zemiro. 11.35 Vikings. (M, R, CC) Bjorn steps up as a leader. With one last chance to take Paris, Ragnar and his Viking troops take a daring chance.

12.15 Revenge. (M, R, CC) The Grayson family is back in the spotlight as Victoria’s return from the grave becomes public knowledge. 2.00 Home Shopping.

12.30 MOVIE: The Virginity Hit. (MA15+, R) (2010) Matt Bennett. 2.10 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) 3.05 V.I.P. (M, R) 4.00 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC)

12.05 48 Hours: Blaming Melissa. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the story Melissa Calusinski, a young daycare worker who confessed to killing a toddler. 1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

12.25 Miniseries: Life Of Crime. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG, R, CC) 3.55 Wonders Of The Clockwork World. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News. 5.45 France 24 Feature.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 12.02.2016 to Sunday 14.02.2016

Saturday, February 13 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

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SPORT

6.40pm Big (1988) Comedy. Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins. A 12-year-old boy’s dream comes true after he wishes to become “big”. (PG) Comedy

6.30pm My Big Redneck Vacation. (PG) A&E

4.30pm Posh Pawn. (PG) Lifestyle

7.30pm The Shannara Chronicles. (M) SyFy

8.30pm Big Eyes (2014) Drama. Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz. An artist takes credit for his wife’s work. (M) Masterpiece

8.30pm Killjoys. (M) SyFy

7.30pm First Australians. The story of Eddie Mabo’s land rights struggle. (PG) History

1.00pm Basketball. NBA All-Star Event. Rising Stars Challenge. ESPN

8.30pm Blondie’s New York. It’s been more than 35 years since Blondie released its breakthrough album Parallel Lines, yet the songs still sound fresh, and we’re still learning new things about them. (PG) Foxtel Arts

9.00pm Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Adventure. (M) Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.10 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Little Princess. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Curious George. (R, CC) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.35 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 6.00 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 8.45 Adam Hills: Happyism. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.20 Inside Amy Schumer. (M, R, CC) 10.40 The Office. (M, R, CC) 11.10 Extras. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Comedy Up Late. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.15 This Old Thing. (R, CC) 1.00 The Incredible Mr Goodwin. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 Kroll Show. (M, R, CC) 2.10 News Update. (R) 2.15 Close. 5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 5.25 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 6.10 Hairy Legs. (R, CC) 6.20 Tashi. (R, CC) 6.35 Arthur. (R, CC) 7.00 Odd Squad. (R) 7.20 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.30 Total Drama All Stars. (R, CC) 10.15 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.35 Adv Time. (R) 11.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.10 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 11.35 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 11.55 A Gurls Wurld. (R, CC) 12.20 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 4.25 Big Babies. (R, CC) 4.45 The Amazing Extraordinary Friends. (R) 5.05 Handball Heroes. (R, CC) 5.15 Spooksville. (PG, R, CC) 5.40 World’s End. (R, CC) 6.10 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.35 Rocket’s Island. 7.05 Yonderland. (R) 7.30 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Heartland. (PG, R, CC) 9.45 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (CC) 9.30 Austin & Ally. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. (R) 11.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.30 The Long Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 Melbourne Weekender. (CC) 2.00 Horse Racing. Orr Stakes Day. Featuring the Group 1 $400,000 CF Orr Stakes (1400m) and Group 2 $200,000 Autumn Stakes (1400m). 5.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (PG, R) 10.30 House Wreck Rescue. (PG, R) 11.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. (R) 1.00 Great South East. (R, CC) 1.30 Creek To Coast. (R, CC) 2.00 The Long Weekender. (R, CC) 2.30 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 3.00 Melbourne Weekender. (R, CC) 3.30 Grainger’s World: Heroes Of The Amazon. (R) 4.30 Hoofs, Humps And Feathers. (R) 5.30 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 A Football Life. (PG, R) 7.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. (R) 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.00 NFL Game Day. (PG) 9.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG) 10.30 Just 2 Wheelz. (PG) 11.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. Boxing Day Bonanza. 12.00 Motor Racing. Ultimate Sprintcar Championship. 12.30 SA Motorsport Festival. 1.30 Urban Tarzan. (PG) 2.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 3.00 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 4.00 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG) 5.00 Catching Hell. (PG, R) 6.00 Deadly Seas: Gulf Of Alaska. (PG) 7.00 MOVIE: Jaws. (PG, R, CC) (1975) Roy Scheider. 9.30 MOVIE: 2 Guns. (M, R, CC) (2013) Two undercover operatives go on the run. Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg. 11.50 MOVIE: Bangkok Dangerous. (MA15+, R, CC) (2008) 1.50 Urban Tarzan. (PG, R) 2.20 Reef Wranglers. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.00 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG, R) 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping. (R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) (Series return) 7.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 7.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 8.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 9.00 Adv Time. (PG, R) 9.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Buzz Bumble. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.00 My Surf TV. (R, CC) 2.30 Little Charmers. (R) 3.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 3.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 4.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 The Tom And Jerry Show. (R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Superman II. (PG, R, CC) (1980) 8.35 MOVIE: Batman Returns. (M, R, CC) (1992) 11.10 Miniseries: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. (M, R) 12.40 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. (R) 2.00 Little Charmers. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 4.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: Chase A Crooked Shadow. (PG, R, CC) (1958) Richard Todd. 7.50 River Cottage Bites. (R) 8.00 Danoz Direct. 8.30 The Baron. (PG, R) 9.30 Walking The Nile. (PG, R, CC) 10.30 MOVIE: The Man Who Haunted Himself. (PG, R, CC) (1970) Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil. 12.30 Postcards. (PG, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Cimarron. (PG, R) (1960) Glenn Ford, Maria Schell. 4.00 MOVIE: El Dorado. (PG, R) (1966) 6.30 Heartbeat. (PG, R) A local farmer is found dead. 8.45 Agatha Christie’s Marple. (PG, R) Suspecting her sister has been poisoned, a woman asks Miss Marple to investigate. 10.45 Dalziel And Pascoe. (MA15+, R) A man’s body is found in a mine shaft. 11.55 MOVIE: The Wicker Man. (M, R, CC) (1973) A search turns into a nightmare. Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland. 1.45 MOVIE: Cimarron. (PG, R) (1960) Follows a frontier family. Glenn Ford. 4.30 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 5.30 Postcards. (PG, R, CC)

5.15pm Soccer. A-League. Round 19. Sydney FC v Perth Glory. Fox Sports 4 7.30pm Soccer. A-League. Round 19. Melbourne City v Melbourne Victory. Fox Sports 4

Tom Hanks stars in Big

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 9.30 World Sport. (R) 10.00 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 12.00 Whacked Out Sports. (PG) 12.30 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. 2.00 24-7 Heroes. (PG) 3.00 World’s Busiest. (PG, R) 4.00 David Attenborough’s The Himalayas. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Monster Jam. Highlights of monster truck racing. 7.30 Black Gold. (PG, R) A gas build-up threatens the crew. 8.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) Watson wrangles a gig with the FBI. 9.30 Ripper Street. (M) (Series return) DI Reid investigates a train robbery. 10.35 Rush. (M) 11.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 2.00 The Home Team. (R, CC) 2.30 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 3.00 River To Reef. (R) 3.30 Motor Racing. Australian GT Championship. Highlands 101. Replay. From New Zealand. 4.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 5.30 Adventure Angler. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 7.30 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Neighbours. (R, CC) 2.05 Glee. (PG, R) 4.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 6.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) Becker is pressured into hosting a party. 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 Rules Of Engagement. (PG, R) 8.00 Cristela. (PG) Daniela creates an online dating profile for Cristela. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Timothy Spall. 9.30 Sex And The City. (MA15+, R, CC) Charlotte dates a man who wants a threesome. 10.00 Sex And The City. (M, R, CC) Big reveals he never intends to marry again. 11.00 The Loop. (PG, R) 1.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 4.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 5.30 Cheers. (PG, 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 19. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. Replay. 3.00 Thin Air. (PG, R) 3.10 Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers: South Africa. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 The Brain: China. (R) 6.00 MOVIE: The Illusionist. (PG, CC) (2010) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Bear Grylls’ Mission Survive. (M, R, CC) Participants compete in a survival challenge. 9.30 Commando School: Quick Fire. (M, R, CC) A look at Royal Marines training. 10.25 Vikings. (MA15+, R, CC) 1.15 Vikings. (R, CC) 2.05 Vikings. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.55 MOVIE: Running On Empty. (MA15+, R) (2010) 4.30 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

NITV 6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 MOVIE: ThuleTuvalu. (PG) (2014) 11.35 Cultural Flows. 12.00 UnderExposed. 12.30 Treading Water. (PG) 1.30 Aunty Moves In. 2.00 Sun Kissed. (M) 3.00 Surviving. 3.30 Desperate Measures. 4.00 Our Footprint. 4.45 Around The Campfire. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 The Tour: Blunder Down Under. (PG) 7.00 Unearthed. 7.30 NITV On The Road: Barunga Festival. 8.30 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. (PG) Ernie Dingo explores the Ngarrindjeri language. 9.00 Yarrabah! The Musical. 9.30 MOVIE: Black Caesar. (MA15+) (1973) Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry. 11.00 When The Natives Get Restless. (M) 11.30 Unearthed. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 4.00 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. 5.00 NITV On The Road: Laura Festival.

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 ABC News. (CC) 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 ABC News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 The Mix. 3.00 ABC News. (CC) 3.30 Tonic. 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 The Drum Weekly. 5.00 ABC News. 5.30 One Plus One. (CC) 6.00 ABC News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 #Talk About It: Best Bits. (R) 9.00 ABC News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 ABC News. (CC) 10.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 ABC 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. 1302

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Sunday, February 14 MOVIE: Django Unchained

Limitless

Vera

7MATE, 9pm, MA15+ (2012)

TEN, 9.30pm

ABC, 8.30pm

After taking on the Nazis in Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino has set his sights on slavery in the South and has come up with an exhilarating, appalling and incessantly entertaining spaghetti western-style movie. Although the film combines an intriguing story with dazzling dialogue, it’s the casting which stands out. Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German dentist turned bounty hunter, frees Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave who’s hellbent on rescuing his wife from the Mississippi plantation owned by the sadistic Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Samuel L Jackson is outstanding as Candie’s house slave.

It seems a dream come true for a fast way to turbo-charge your brain – just pop a single pill every day. In this fast-paced crime show, which was adapted for the small screen after the 2011 film starring Bradley Cooper, a brooding Jake McDorman plays Brian Finch, a sluggish slacker whose life enters the fast lane, thanks to a dose of an experimental drug. Tonight, in “This Is Your Brian On Drugs”, an internal investigation is launched by the FBI after it appears that Agent Casey Rooks (Desmond Harrington) and his SWAT team have skimmed 80 NZT pills for themselves from the recovery of stolen inventory.

se, Brenda Blethyn is a no-nonsense, anhope in middle-aged detective Vera Stanhope this mystery crime series where, e, with her caustic wit and charm, she and her trusted right-hand man DS Joe Ashworth (David Leon) face a series of captivating murder mysteriess set against the gorgeous English n countryside. In tonight’s season he finale, Stanhope investigates the murder of a young man who is found dead with heroin in his blood and a stolen credit card in his wallet. But only when Vera learns details of his mother’s life does a motive for murder emerge, and she starts peeling back the layers of his life to discover a deeper truth.

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WIN

TEN

SBS

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: Canberra Special. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Chopin Saved My Life. (R, CC) 3.00 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel. (R, CC) 4.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Rebel Wilson. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Death In Paradise. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week. 12.00 Lyndey Milan’s Summer Baking Secrets. (CC) (New Series) Australian TV personality Lyndey Milan reveals the secrets to baking. 12.30 To Be Advised. 4.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler. 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

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PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (CC) Weekend Today. (CC) The Conversation With Alex Malley. (CC) My Surf TV. (CC) The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (PG, CC) Endangered. (CC) Cycling. (CC) Santos Women’s Tour. Highlights. Santos Tour Down Under Review Show. (CC) A review of the Santos Tour Down Under. Ironman. (CC) Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Series. Round 4. Explore South Korea. (CC) News: First At Five. (CC) Customs. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Creflo. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass. 7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 The Home Team. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 12.00 Just Go. (R, CC) 12.30 People Of The Vines. (R, CC) 1.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 2.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 2.30 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. (R, CC) 4.00 iFish. (R, CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 France 24 English News. 6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 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 Trawlermen. (PG, R, CC) 4.35 Berlin Wall: Closing The Iron Curtain. (PG, R, CC) A look at the construction of the Berlin Wall. 5.30 Tony Robinson’s WWI. (PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 4.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (CC) Fiona and the team examine treasures brought in by the public while visiting Lowther Castle in Cumbria. 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.40 Doc Martin. (PG, CC) Martin attends his first session with psychotherapist Dr Rachel Timoney. 8.30 Vera. (M, R, CC) (Final) After a young man is found dead in the back of a truck, Vera and the team investigate. 10.00 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical. 10.30 Redfern Now. (M, R, CC) After being knocked down by a stolen car, a woman returns home to be cared for by her granddaughter. 11.25 MOVIE: Balibo. (M, R, CC) (2009) A war correspondent teams up with a young local to search for five missing journalists in East Timor. Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac, Bea Viegas.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 My Kitchen Rules. (PG, CC) The competition travels to NSW where Luciano and Martino host an instant restaurant with an Italian feast in an effort to impress judges Pete Evans and Manu Feildel as well as their fellow contestants. 8.30 Miniseries: Molly. (M, CC) Part 2 of 2. Molly finds himself the power broker of pop, the most influential name in Australian music. However, behind the scenes, Molly longs to be loved for who he really is in the midst of his colourful life. 10.30 Wanted. (M, R, CC) After two women are falsely accused of murder, they go on the run in a car filled with stolen money. 11.30 Heroes Reborn. (M, CC) As the end of civilisation quickly approaches, Erica sets her startling survival plan in motion with the help of Tommy. Malina races to unite with Tommy and is joined by Luke. Matt Parkman has plans of his own to ensure the safety of his family that might put Taylor in danger.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 Australia’s Got Talent. (PG, CC) A variety of acts perform in front of a panel of celebrity judges, including Kelly Osbourne, Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Eddie Perfect and Sophie Monk, hoping to prove they have what it takes to become a star. Hosted by Dave Hughes. 8.15 60 Minutes. (CC) Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart. 9.15 MOVIE: Salt. (M, R, CC) (2010) After being accused of being a Russian spy, a CIA agent goes on the run. However, with her husband kidnapped and in the hands of a rogue group of operatives, she has only a limited amount of time to prove her innocence and prevent an assassination. Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor. 11.15 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) Mac and the team investigate after a body, dressed as a referee, is discovered in a tarp. They discover the victim perished after organising a video gaming tournament.

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 I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! (PG, CC) One of the celebrities puts their life on the line as they tackle a 30m challenge on Valentine’s Day. 8.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Mitch takes a job with Jay’s biggest rival. Determined to prove he is a “cool dad”, Phil helps Haley convince Claire to allow Dylan to move in temporarily. 8.30 The X-Files. (M, CC) Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the seemingly inexplicable murder of a city official. In the wake of a personal tragedy, Scully finds herself dealing with her feelings about the child she gave away for adoption. 9.30 Limitless. (M, CC) An internal investigation is launched by the FBI when it appears that Agent Casey Rooks and his SWAT team have skimmed 80 NZT pills for themselves after they are recovered from a gang of criminals. 10.30 To Be Advised.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 The Great Wall Of China: The Hidden Story. (PG, R, CC) Take a look at the Great Wall of China, and at what new discoveries tell us about this structure and its origins. 8.30 Planes That Changed The World: Douglas DC-3. (PG, R, CC) Part 2 of 3. The stories of three of the most important aircraft ever to take to the skies, including the Douglas DC-3. The so-called Gooney Bird played a crucial role in the war effort. 9.25 MOVIE: Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. (M, R, CC) (1979) During the Roman occupation of Judea, a young man’s actions lead to him being mistaken for the Messiah. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin. 11.05 Monty Python’s Best Bits (Mostly) (PG, R, CC) Part 2 of 5. 11.40 MOVIE: In The Beginning. (M, R) (2009) A con man falls for a village mayor. François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos.

1.15 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming. 3.25 Vera. (M, R, CC) A young man’s death is investigated. 5.10 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) Martin attends his first session with psychotherapist Dr Rachel Timoney.

12.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 Sunrise. (CC) David Koch and Samantha Armytage present the news, sport and weather, with business and finance updates.

12.10 Person Of Interest. (M, R, CC) Reese and Finch protect a CEO. 1.05 V.I.P. (M, R) 2.00 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program. 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

2.05 MOVIE: Happy Few. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) Two couples in their 30s fall in love. Marina Fois. 3.55 Hostile Environment. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News. 5.45 France 24 Feature.

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Sunday, February 14 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.15pm Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) Action. Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson. A troubled boy is recruited into a secret British spy organisation. (MA15+) Premiere

7.00pm It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Mac’s dad is a murder suspect. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.30pm A Place In The Sun: Summer Sun. Couples try to ﬁnd “the perfect property” on the market in the UK, overseas and abroad. (PG) Lifestyle Home

3.00pm Basketball. NBL. Round 19. Melbourne United v New Zealand Breakers. Fox Sports 3

8.30pm 127 Hours (2010) Biographical. James Franco, Kate Mara. (MA15+) Masterpiece

7.30pm Modern Family. Manny is bullied at cooking class. (M) FOX8 8.30pm War & Peace. (M) BBC First

8.30pm Oprah: Where Are They Now? Revisits some of Winfrey’s most-famous guests to see what they’re doing today. (PG) TLC

10.30pm Maggie (2015) Drama. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 2.40 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.10 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Little Princess. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 The Furchester Hotel. (R, CC) 5.00 Thomas And Friends: King Of The Railway. (R, CC) 6.00 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.15 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.40 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Build A New Life In The Country. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Dream Build. (R, CC) 8.25 Gruen Pitch Rewind. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Funny As. (M, R, CC) 9.35 Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos. (R, CC) 10.25 Buzzcocks. (M, R, CC) 10.55 Louis Theroux’s LA Stories. (M, R, CC) 11.55 Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures. (R, CC) 12.45 Swamp Brothers. (PG, R, CC) 1.10 Deadly 60. (R) 1.40 News Update. (R) 1.45 Close. 5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 5.25 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.35 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.20 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 8.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) 9.00 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 9.30 Total Drama All Stars. (R, CC) 9.55 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 10.15 Adv Time. (PG) 10.35 Adv Time. (R) 11.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.10 RAWR. (CC) 11.15 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 11.35 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 11.55 A Gurls Wurld. (R, CC) 12.20 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Horrible Histories. (PG, R, CC) 4.25 Big Babies. (R, CC) 4.40 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) 5.05 Handball Heroes. (CC) 5.15 Roy. (R, CC) 5.45 Secret Life Of Boys. (R, CC) 6.10 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.35 Rocket’s Island. 7.05 Yonderland. (R) 7.30 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Heartland. (R, CC) 9.45 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (R, CC) 9.55 Rage. (PG, R) 2.25 Close.

7.30pm Inventions That Rocked The World. (PG) Discovery

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Shopping. 9.30 Australia’s Best Houses. (PG, R) 10.00 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, CC) 12.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 1.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.30 Original Features. (PG, R) 3.30 House Wreck Rescue. (PG, R) 4.30 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. Presented by Tim Wonnacott. 7.30 House Wreck Rescue. (PG, R) First-time developers take a gamble. 8.30 Escape To The Country. Prospective buyers go in search of the “perfect” home in the country with the help of an expert. 9.30 Escape To The Continent. Presented by Nicki Chapman. 10.45 Best Houses Australia. 11.45 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.45 House Wreck Rescue. (PG, R) 2.45 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.45 Escape To The Continent. (R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 Motor Racing. Alpine Classic Rally. Replay. 7.30 Shopping. (R) 9.30 Danger: Diggers At Work. (PG, R) 11.30 Goldfathers. (PG, R) 12.30 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 1.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 2.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. (PG, R) 3.00 Fishing Western Australia. (PG) 3.45 Summernats. (PG) 5.45 Ice Road Truckers. (PG, R) 6.45 MOVIE: The Longest Yard. (PG, R, CC) (2005) A former gridiron star trains prisoners. Adam Sandler. 9.00 MOVIE: Django Unchained. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) A German bounty hunter helps a former slave liberate his wife from the clutches of a Mississippi plantation owner. Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz. 12.30 1000 Ways To Die. (MA15+, R) 1.00 Ice Road Truckers. (PG, R) 2.00 Goldfathers. (PG, R) 3.00 Danger: Diggers At Work. (PG, R) 4.00 To Be Advised. 5.00 Gravity Falls. (R, CC)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 8.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 9.00 Adv Time. (PG, R) 9.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 11.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 12.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Little Charmers. (R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 4.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 5.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: 17 Again. (PG, R, CC) (2009) 8.30 MOVIE: The Sum Of All Fears. (M, R, CC) (2002) 11.00 Troy. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Southern Justice. (M) 1.00 The Cube. (PG) 2.00 Little Charmers. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG, R) 4.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: The Iron Maiden. (R, CC) (1962) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.30 Come Dine With Me. (PG) 11.00 Heartbeat. (PG, R) 12.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 MOVIE: The Horse Soldiers. (R) (1959) 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 19. Melbourne United v New Zealand Breakers. From Hisense Arena, Melbourne. 5.00 Helicopter Heroes. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 6.30 As Time Goes By. (PG, R) 7.50 Are You Being Served? (PG, R) The staff get jealous of a new worker. 9.10 MOVIE: The Pelican Brief. (M, R, CC) (1993) A law student investigating the deaths of two Supreme Court judges exposes a sinister conspiracy. Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard. 12.00 Missing. (M) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz Direct. 3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

5.00pm Soccer. A-League. Round 19. Western Sydney Wanderers v Wellington Phoenix. Fox Sports 4 7.00pm Cricket. One-day International Series. South Africa v England. Game 5. Fox Sports 1 James Franco stars in 127 Hours

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 8.30 GT Academy. (PG, R) 9.00 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Reel Rock. (PG, R) 10.30 World Sport. (R) 11.00 Fishing Edge. 11.30 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 12.00 Black Gold. (PG, R) 1.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.00 4WD Touring Australia. (PG, R) 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 4.00 Megafactories. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up Down Under. (R, CC) 5.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 David Attenborough’s Africa: Savannah. (R, CC) Hosted by Sir David Attenborough. 9.30 MOVIE: Natural Born Killers. (R) (1994) Two lovers become serial murderers. Woody Harrelson. 12.00 World Sport. 12.30 Black Gold. (PG, R) 2.30 World’s Busiest. (PG, R) 3.30 River To Reef. (R) 4.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 4.30 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 11.30 Mork & Mindy. (R) 12.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 2.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 7.30 Rules Of Engagement. (PG, R) 8.00 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) Marge becomes concerned by Lisa’s boyfriend. 9.30 Get Me Out Of Here! NOW! (M) 10.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 11.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 2.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 TMNT. (R) 4.30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. (PG, R) 5.30 Mork & Mindy. (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 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: The Illusionist. (PG, R, CC) (2010) 2.30 Girls Get Out There. (PG, R) 3.35 The Maker. (R) 3.40 Be Your Own Boss. (PG, R) 4.50 We Are Young. (PG) (New Series) 5.50 The Brain: China. 7.30 If You Are The One Australia Special. Part 1 of 2. 9.00 Tropfest Australia. (M, CC) Prestigious short film festival. Hosted by Marc Fennell, Adam Spencer and Jeannette Francis. 11.40 Boob Tube: Sex, TV And Ugly George. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.45 In Her Skin. (M) 2.30 MOVIE: Mommo The Bogeyman. (PG, R) (2009) 4.15 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

NITV 6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Go Lingo. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 19. Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets. 12.00 The Medicine Line. 12.30 NITV On The Road: Barunga Festival. 1.30 Talking Language With Ernie Dingo. (PG) 2.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. Round 2. Northern Gomeroi v Narwan Eels No 1. 3.00 Rugby League. Men’s Grand Final. Saguci Tigers v Southern Dingoes Black. 4.15 Yorta Yorta Youth. 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 MOVIE: White Tuft, The Little Beaver. (2008) Benoît Brière. 7.00 Marley Africa Road Trip. (PG) 8.00 Mparntwe: Sacred Sites. (PG) 8.30 Our Story: Six Sisters Of The Stolen Generation. (PG) 9.30 MOVIE: Jedda The Uncivilized. (1955) Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Robert Tudawali. 11.00 Around The 44. A look at surfing competitors. 12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 ABC News. (CC) 11.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 ABC News. (CC) 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 ABC News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 ABC News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (CC) 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 ABC News. 5.30 Tonic. (R) 6.00 ABC News. (CC) 6.30 Back Roads. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 ABC News. (CC) 10.30 Planet America. (R) 11.00 ABC News. 11.30 Conflict Zone. (CC) 12.00 Landline. (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. 1402

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again with an artist (7) 6. Draws a beer for many in America (10) 9. Its branches are relatively spread out (6,4) 12. Suggested the trick has to be acknowledged (8) 14. Salesman often told to get on his bike, say (7) 16. Got rot treated in the cave (6) 19. What’s left of an old flame (5) 20. Only a lake (4)

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From the pages of America’s most popular newspapers

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1. Moo goo gai pan pan 4. Snitch 7. Prop for Sherlock 8. Intrinsically 10. Insertion mark 11. Mountaineering tool 13. New Orleans section 16. Scoundrel 17. Storefront sign info 18. Raw rock 19. Olympic sled 20. Desert-like 21. Harvests 23. Ski trail 25. Nevada city 26. Sex Pistols genre 27. Suitable 28. Highlanders

30. Island garland 33. “3rd Rock From the Sun” cast member 36. Baltimore bird 37. Change 38. Hairnet 39. Carry 40. Mimic 41. Crafty

DOWN 1. Sent a telegram 2. Admitting customers 3. Burger enhancer 4. Happen again 5. Neighbourhoods 6. Despot 7. Prefix with legal or medic 8. Resentment 9. Blackmail 10. Ozone depleter

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by Samantha Weaver z It was beloved American astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan who made the following sage observation: “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.” z You probably are well aware of the fact that caffeine enhances memory and learning in humans – if you’re not a coffee addict yourself, you almost certainly know someone who is. But you probably didn’t know that the substance has the same effect on bees. More than half of all flowering plants produce caffeinated nectar, and tests recently conducted by researchers at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom demonstrate that bees strongly prefer nectar with caffeine to the decaf version. z Some ancient Greeks believed that baldness could be cured by applying to the hairless area a mixture of horseradish and pigeon droppings. z Parents of younger children prob-

ably will not be surprised by the following factoid: Six eight-stud Lego bricks can be put together in a whopping 915,103,765 different ways – and at least one of those bricks will end up being stepped on by a barefoot adult. z If you’re planning a trip to Nevada, you might want to keep in mind that in that state, it is technically illegal to kiss if you have a moustache. z For reasons that are not entirely clear at present, in the spring of 2010 a 28-year-old man in South Korea married a large pillow printed with the image of an anime character. At the wedding, the pillow wore a white dress. The man has been seen taking his “wife” to an amusement park and out to dinner – he even orders “her” a meal. Thought for the Day: “A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.” – Georges Clemenceau

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) This is a powerful week when you will feel strong and attractive. Indeed, your charm positively shines through. When embarking on a new plan, have alternatives and be flexible. Changes in your romantic life can be unsettling, but you know they make sense. In quieter moments you may wonder where you are going in the longer term. This is not the time to question your instincts. TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) Although

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approach rather than a rose-tinted one. Loving Venus is hovering and hoping to have an influence. Will you relax and take a chance on love this week?

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Keeping up

with the latest technical moves can seriously benefit your working life right now. Break down any mental barriers and be prepared to be amazed! You look good, feel good and a bit of romance would cer-

it is a busy time, you should feel able to tackle anything that comes along. Realising that you have backup gives extra confidence. In both a loving and sensuous week, personal satisfaction seems that much closer. An ‘over the top’ reaction from someone around the time of Valentine’s still makes you smile. Give others the benefit of your charm and humour. Their reaction will be more than worth the effort.

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Jump at

any opportunity that helps move plans forward. This can be a very progressive week in all areas. Finances are highlighted, but be sure to seek out the best deal. It is out there! This week can be as romantic as you care to make it. The planets are urging action, but do you know where you are going? If you want that relationship to last a long time, then really get to know them properly.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Being at your charm-

ing best pays dividends when it comes to romance and cooperation with others. Someone from the past is setting their sights on you and maybe this time it will work out better. Still, take a practical

better understanding of those who are close to you. An idea that didn’t get off the ground in the past could now have found its time. A chance meeting or conversation at work leads to a quite radical (for you) idea. If this touches on a holiday with someone rather different, so much the better!

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) A

certain kind of detachment from your daily life is pushing you in the direction of a more social approach. Have you been working too hard or giving up leisure time for others? This is a week to give something back to yourself! Secrets and passions are not far from your mind. With Mars on your doorstep, be prepared to open the door to new and exciting people.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) A certain lack of energy this week gives you the chance to catch up on paperwork. Finances can be tightened up and work plans made more efficient. A couple of possibilities touched on in the past now seem to be coming together. Giving a bit more attention to your love life is essential and will be fun. Cash flow may be a bit of a problem right now, but dealing with this can be an intellectual challenge.

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Move

forward with ambitions and don’t be coy about showing your talents. Although you may be quite prepared to go it alone, there are those who are willing and eager to back you up. Be optimistic about finances and get your house in order. This leaves you clear to plan a trip that is long overdue. It will be easier to find the right words for the right occasion.

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Something tainly do you good. Let optimistic Jupiter guide you towards a more spontaneous and romantic weekend. Where you are at the weekend, and who you are with, can bring special importance.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Information com-

ing your way through others this week really gets you thinking. Your personal charm is at a peak as this period begins. New people help to put the focus on future plans. Some of you who have a serious relationship already will feel like making a proposal. I don’t want to take the shine off, but work out finances first!

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) A change

in plans as the week begins is just a blip. Family matters are fun and give you a

you once thought could provide an income has the chance to become a satisfying hobby instead. Be with your friends at the weekend to avoid a flat period. Indeed, you need to organise your own fun this week! Waiting for others to get moving can be frustrating. Give them the knowledge they need to do it though and you all get ahead.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Are you feeling

a little put upon? Well, don’t let it concern you. Practise, this week, saying ‘no’. Contrary to what you may think, you will still be as popular. Indeed, doing so can make a romantic interest even more interested. Feel like spreading your wings? Doing something different? Well, let someone else organise it for a change. You will be surprised how much more enjoyable it will be.

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You can be a great problem solver, Aquarius. In the months ahead you will use this talent to help yourself and others. Just make sure that, if your finances are involved, it is the right time. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Aquarius, who will inspire and drive you forward in the months ahead? Partnerships bring both delight and financial relief. Just be sure your relationship is simple. Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Lucky you, Aquarius. This year your work colleagues and your home partnerships bump along happily. Of course, this is mainly due to your expert attention. Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! There is a lot of hope associated with success in the coming months. At a time when you have done your best, it is wise to sit back and wait. Be flexible though, Aquarius. Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! More success in the months ahead seems to come from an odd direction. How much you analyse this is up to you, but ask yourself if it really matters. Certainly, it is not a time to fuss over small matters. Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! In your world, Pisces, there is delight to be found in most things. Sometimes it is hard to relax, though. Try yoga or meditation. Keep an open mind. Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Being flexible is the difference between an easy year and a difficult one, Pisces. So, with that in mind, trust your instincts more and use that sense of humour often!

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Across: 1 Supplicate; 7 Prior; 8 Control; 10 Regulate; 11 Disc; 13 Budded; 15 Reveal; 17 Itch; 18 HumorDUAL CROSSWORD ous; 21 Meander; 22 Idler; 18,971 23 Fellowship. CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Down: 1 Sling; 2 ParalAcross: 1 Play-acting; lel; 3 Locate; 4 Cane; 5 7 Torch; 8 Distaff; 10 Turbine; 6 Opprobrium; 9 Lessened; 11 Palm; 13 Lacklustre; 12 Demolish; Maples; 15 No-ball; 17 Tide; 14 Dictate; 16 Furrow; 19 18 Transept; 21 Solvent; 22 Orlop; 20 Idol. Table; 23 Freeloader. Down: 1 Paris; 2 AthTHE BAKER’S DOZEN letes; 3 Addled; 4 Task; 5 TRIVIA TEST: Niagara; 6 Stalemates; 9 1. Central America. 2. Family tree; 12 Connoted; South Africa. 3. Massa14 Peddler; 16 Grotto; 19 chussetts. 4. Nostromo. Ember; 20 Mere. 5. France. 6. A lion’s body QUICK SOLUTIONS with an eagle’s head,

wings and claws. 7. Lurch. 8. “Sweeney Todd”. 9. John Lennon and Paul McCartney. 10. The Greek sun god Helios. 11. Brazil’s Marta, with 15 goals. 12. He lost to Lamon Brewster in 2004. 13. “If I Could Turn Back Time”, by Cher in 1989. The video was filmed aboard the battleship USS Missouri. Cher’s outfit consisted of a skimpy one-piece bathing suit covered by a fishnet body stocking. There have been no music videos filmed on Navy ships since then.

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