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PROFILE

The week’s major news stories around the region

All the action from the Wellington race day

Carol Heuchan: Horsing around with words

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 18.03.2016 to Sunday 20.03.2016 DEBATE

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Backlash as new law closes in on protesters

Yvette Aubusson-Foley editor@dubboweekender.com.au facebook.com/WeekenderDubbo Twitter @DubboWeekender

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FEATURE Students get a taste of life beyond their own backyard PAGE 10

THE BOOT All the action from the Wellington race day PAGE 14

CAROL HEUCHAN

PEOPLE

Horsing around with words PAGE 23

JOHN RYAN

BUSINESS

Stabilising biodiversity through smart, natural production methods PAGE 28

GARDENING

LIFESTYLE

Be winter wise and fertilise PAGE 25

FOOD Energy boost from custard apples PAGE 35

Regulars 06 20 22 23 25 32

Seven Days Tony Webber Paul Dorin What I Do Know Sally Bryant The Big Picture

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Business & Rural Lifestyle Books What’s On 3-Day TV Guide Jen Cowley

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The theory of marriage IVING in the Information Age it’s astonishing that anyone alive today, with access to the Internet and its over 1 billion websites*, could conceivably believe there is only one way to “be” married.

A quick web search of the term “marriage” catapults you headlong into streams of possibilities: historically, politically, through gender, race, nationality, by country, by law, by religion, by money, most recently in this country, by plebiscite … and for each, there are many more subgroups to explore.

It’s a multi-faceted beast, or cash cow, but universally it’s agreed to represent a bond or commitment of some sort; a pledge of unity, and depends on how you personally view the union of two - or more - people.

That’s right. Marriage is not just a union between two people, which is a Christian conjecture and represents 61 per cent of Australia.

There are dozens of union possibilities and includes polygamy, polygyny, polyandry?

Or even sologamy - a marriage to yourself, though described by some critics as selfish and narcissistic (can’t imagine why), it’s mostly practiced by women who are probably tired of being asked, ‘so, when are you getting married?’, by people uncomfortable with them being single or childless, and not conforming to the status quo or expectation of how a woman should live her life.

According to the Yale Human Area Files** there’s a bucket load of families with a mum, a dad, and a mum, and a mum, and a mum. Not so many, but there are also marriages where there’s a mum, and a dad and a dad and a dad (polyandry). The toilet seat in that household would just have to go!

As far back as the Old Testament, polygamy is not forbidden, and the ancients had very practical reasons for extra wives whose monetary value, usually in the form of a dowry gave her equal status to the family goats, donkeys or camels, and made good economic sense.

Then of course there were sons to be made, to carry on the bloodline, and then, if it was a consideration at all, came companionship and that other, forbidden, punishable by death inconvenience, love.

With such a colourful heritage, the merrygo-round debate on legalising same sex marriage in Australia, seems all the more based on semantics.

The resistance and media circus, preventing people from living the one, short life they have in a manner they choose, so long as it does not harm another, simply seems unjust, inhumane and a failure to help our society turn a cog and put social power games aside.

The man/woman marriage is a powerful union concept, which suits many and will continue to prevail, reinforced to the core of some, but not all societies, through couples leading

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by example and other simple means; like the American Kissing rhyme: [insert name] and [insert name] sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby, in a baby carriage!’

It’s short and sweet, punchy and packaged: the concept of marriage served up on a plastic platter under airtight, see-through, cling film.

Only it’s not so see through. Domestic violence statistics would suggest there are flaws in that fundamental concept, the death rates from ovarian cancer whisking young mums to early graves leave Dads and kids to fend, or remarry, and are just two of the many, many speed humps in the traditional perception of what a marriage is, which can render it unrecognisable to, again, the status quo.

In 2012 when the inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill and the Marriage Amendment Bill was held, from those who took part in an online survey, 177,663 people agreed the law should be changed to legalise same sex marriages in Australia. 98,164 said no.Those unsure: just 610.

From the total sample of 276, 437 people; 214,399 agreed authorised celebrants should not be obliged to perform same sex marriages and 177,035 said same sex marriages performed overseas should be recognised in Australia.

Sixty-four per cent supported the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill and 60 per cent supported the Marriage Amendment Bill - four years ago.

Over 285,000 people were compelled to comment as part of the survey.

Some examples: “I am strenuously opposed to same sex marriage as this notion goes against the laws of nature, traditional culture and religion. Having been married to my wife for 40 years, I find it repulsive and insulting that the people supporting this notion are trying to push this legislation through. If same sex couples wish to live together that is none of my business and I would not discriminate against them in any way. However, I feel that the people trying to legalise same sex marriage are trying to gatecrash our sacred institution of marriage between a man and a woman.”

On the flip side: “Marriage, insofar as it concerns the Australian government, is the civil institution created by the recognition of a relationship between two people, and any legal implications that recognition entails. The religious institution of marriage is related, but separate, to this civil institution. There is, therefore, no reason to exclude same-sex couples from legal recognition of their relationship on the basis of religious norms”.

Unless you want to put a dollar figure on it.

Ultimately it appears we will all get to have our say if and when a plebiscite is confirmed despite the fact the people have already spoken.

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Alkane gets green light from EPA

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY EDITOR

ANAGING DIRECTOR, Alkane Resources Ltd, Ian Chalmers, has expressed said he is very pleased with the announcement this week that the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has granted an Environment Protection Licence to Alkane Resources.

“It’s the final major step in the process of getting all the environmental and operating approvals in place, so it’s great to see it done. It frees us up now to be able to get on with the project and get all the financing in place,” he told Dubbo Weekender.

Alkane Resources has been under study for 16 years and the EIS component is five years.

“It’s been a long process to get to the point where all the government departments are signed off.”

“We put a huge study into the local environment situation, where would we impact, how would we impact and how would we mitigate those impacts. At the end of the day it isn’t a mining operation, it’s a small quarry to provide material to our processing plant.

Chalmers said the amount of rock to be moved is approximately a tenth of what is mined at the Tomingley gold mine.

“It’s quite small, nothing in the league of a coal mine or anything like that. In the long term sense there’ll be a quarrylike void that’s visible and that will be left there long term. The biggest effort is being put into the processing plant, where that will be and how that will impact.”

The processing plant’s design incorporates natural water courses and run off.

“We tried to design it so natural runoff that comes in off the hill, should go around the plant or through a plant through specified areas that won’t be contaminated with dust or dirt run off or that sort of thing,” Chalmers said.

Internally all water runoff from the plant will get captured and recycled.

“It’s like all mines these days, they’re non-emission sites. You don’t have any water that runs off the site and back into the environment. It’s just how we operate these days, it’s just the thing we have to do.”

Following an environmental impact study on flora and fauna, Chalmers said the intent is to rejuvenate a thousand hectares of what is currently mixed grazing farmland and rehabilitate it “back to or as near to the original environment … in what’s called biodiversity offset,” he said.

Alkane Resources now has approval to operate for 20 years, to 2035. The resource has a life of 80 years.

Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy, Anthony Roberts, made the announcement this week, that the billion

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dollar project to mine rare metals and rare earths is cleared to operate.

“The mine will produce up to 30,000 tonnes of specialty metals and rare earths per year which are highly sought after to support modern technology and life as we know it today.

“The Dubbo Zirconia Project will provide enormous benefits locally, to the state and indeed Australia,” Roberts said.

Currently, China produces more than 90 per cent of the world’s supply of rare earths and is increasing its output with about 70-80 per cent of the world’s zirconium production.

“The Dubbo Zirconia Project has significant potential to stimulate not only local industry but also NSW manufacturers, Australian industry and exports

across the globe.Customers from around the globe - the United States, Japan and a number of European nations – consider the products of this project to be a critical and strategic importance,” Roberts said.

Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo, Troy Grant, welcomed the investment in the region and the effect it will have on the local economy.

“More than $1 billion will be invested in the project and about $50 million spent in the Dubbo region each year. About 450 people will be employed during construction of the project and more than 250 when it is operating,” Grant said.

The rare earth and metals elements are highly valued because of their diversity of applications in modern and

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green technologies including production of computer and mobile device components, hybrid cars, emissions minimisation and lighter, stronger steel. It also has medical and transport uses.

The Dubbo Zirconia Project will produce zirconium, hafnium, niobium, light rare earths and heavy rare earths. Rare metals elements can also improve the safety of next generation jet aircraft by helping them travel through volcanic ash clouds. The metals can be used as a thermal barrier coating added to alloys in turbine blades and engine components. This allows the blades to withstand extreme heat and prevent metal deterioration (crystal creep) due to foreign materials or external stresses, as well as increasing efficiency in high temperatures.

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Backlash as new law

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

T’S been a huge week across the Australia political landscape, with attempts by the coalition and greens to stomp out micro parties in the federal senate (ironically claiming those senators got there thanks to backroom deals and preference swaps, proving the senate building isn’t built of glass).

In the midst of that jockeying, QLD Independent senator Glen Lazarus is campaigning for ‘landholders to have the right to say no to coal and gas companies coming on to their land.

“I want the senate to consider legislation which will help real Australians – I want the senate to do its job and serve the people of Australia, not the interests of major parties,” Senator Lazarus said.

“The people of Australia are the losers this week. The Turnbull government is in a state of paralysis and nothing is getting done except dirty deals between the Coalition and the Greens.”

These impassioned pleas was set against a background of escalating political activism against coal seam gas and coal mining in NSW, with Greens MLC Jeremy Buckingham facing court charged with entering ‘Inclosed Lands’ when he visited Rio Tinto’s gigantic Warkworth coal mine in the Hunter Valley to film what he believes is an environmental wasteland consciously hidden by Rio behind tree lines, hills and constructed earth mounds.

Buckingham faced a magistrate Kennedy at Downing St Central Court on Monday and had the charge of trespass dismissed, with no fine issued.

Coal Seam gas drilling is an issue which badly damaged the nationals at the last election and judging by the uproar from communities across the state and all sorts of organisations which have little else in common, this will severely hurt the party next time round.

Narrabri-based ‘People for the Plains’ has a court case against Santos’ drilling in the Pilliga due to be heard next month; farmer Sarah Ciesiolka said the government and Santos have been ‘riding roughshod’ over community concerns.

“This is precisely what is driving communities to become activists and protestors: the government is simply not listening, and is making laws for mining companies at the expense of the public and the environment,” Ciesiolka said.

“It’s not too late to learn the lessons of the disastrous Queensland experience of the CSG industry – where peoples’ health has been compromised, our nation’s productive farm-

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land eroded away and the country’s precious aquifers permanently damaged.

“I was one of many local farmers who trespassed on Santos’ CSG operation in the Pilliga recently, this is not a decision I made lightly – I was scared, but I’m more terrified of losing this fight to keep our region gas field free and losing our groundwater or finding my children are sick,” she said.

This sort of passion is being replicated across the state and as the CSG industry expands, the political risks for the coalition will increase.

I’ve never seen an issue which so transcends traditional political allegiances, and when your average farmer starts being arrested and slapped with these fines, I can’t see any message the government wants to push actually getting through.

Australia, for the first time, will have a generation of martyrs, and fighting against that will be an uphill battle.

Jeremy Buckingham, as part of his job is expected to play the political game, but his rhetoric that the Nats have signed their own death warrants may not be an idle boast.

Now people are starting to link these draconian laws to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), claiming that if that spouted ‘free trade’ agreement is, multinational corporations will be able to destroy the nation’s aquifers and then sue Australia if the federal government does decide to take legal action against them.

No wonder there’s so much suspicion out there about the state government’s motives, and just another reason political donations of all types should be banned, so the voters can have confidence the democratic political process isn’t being corrupted by underhand deals brought about by corporate lobbying power backed by huge financial resources, something individual taxpayers and community groups can’t even begin to match.

Groups opposing the new laws have got their legal eagles onto the job and are claiming it’s not just about breaking up the Pilliga protest, but that the underlying issue is all about ‘land acquisition’, having the new laws in place so mining companies can just move straight in with no legal redress available to anyone wanting to stop them.

For journalists reporting politics, these new laws are going to be manna from heaven, and, while some people will no doubt find the laws provide pathways to ever larger riches, it’s not a good look for democracy, no matter how much the state government has dressed the issue up as being all about protecting the protesters from themselves.

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Farmer, Neil Kennedy, locks on to the gate at the Leewood Water Treatment Facility PHOTO: ASWAS PHOTOGRAPHY

Here’s 500 word viewpoints from some of the protagonists and antagonists across this controversial issue:

Neil Kennedy, Coonamble farmer NEVER have farmers been so absolutely betrayed by a traitorous government that claims to represent them.

This Bill represents an unbelievable threat to farming communities and to property rights and interests in NSW. The laws elevate Coal Seam Gas (CSG) companies’ rights above those of farmers on whose land they are operating, and criminalise landholders who take action to protect their property from CSG miners.

The law means that peaceful landholders like us who are simply seeking to protect our land and water resources are likely to face seven-year jail terms if we oppose CSG activities, as a result of this Bill.

The greatest problems with it, are that it means that: Landholders could be arrested on their own properties for peacefully opposing the entrance of CSG mining equipment, via provisions that make hindering CSG activities an offence under the Crimes Act 1900, punishable by a sevenyear maximum jail term.

Farmers and others will be subject to arbitrary search and seize powers, without a warrant, that extend to regular items that we carry in our vehicles with us at all times.

Rural communities will be subject to far-reaching moveon powers that severely curtail the right to public assembly, and which will make gathering together to oppose CSG very difficult.

The laws are extraordinarily anti-democratic, conferring multinational mining companies with rights far above and beyond those granted to rural people and communities.

This is particularly disturbing in regions like north-west NSW, where comprehensive community surveys have found that 96 per cent of landholders across more than 3.2 million hectares, overwhelmingly reject plans for CSG gas fields.

It is the clear failure of the NSW Government to implement its promises to protect farmland and water resources that has catalysed conflict on mining in the bush. How can the government punish farmers and rural communities for that policy failure - by implementing a knee-jerk punitive regime at the behest of the mining industry? As David Shoebridge said in parliament on Wednesday afternoon, how can a government be allowed to steal someone’s property?

Where are our civil rights?

Throughout the world, wherever coal seam gas mining is taking place, it has depleted, contaminated and ultimately destroyed the water Many countries (who are lucky to have responsible governments) have banned it outright.

Sadly, the damage in Queensland is already all too evident. Bores are failing, in many areas the water is unfit for human consumption, and the Condamine River is bubbling with gas.

Our Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is the largest, deepest artesian basin in the world, it is ancient water, millions of years old - and it is rapidly depleting. And, in this driest continent on earth, how can governments even consider

risking the destruction of this water, for the short-term benefits of foreign and multinational mining companies?

Especially when the profits from mining don’t even come to Australia – the mining industry pays little or no royalties or tax – and the only benefits our governments receive are in the huge political donations from the Mining companies (and this is now well documented). We have been told by several members of parliament, that the government gets such minimal royalties from coal seam gas, that if it were to be stopped tomorrow, it wouldn’t show a blip on the government budget!

Agriculture returns huge revenue to the government,, and is such a sustainable industry.

Twenty per cent of people are employed in agriculture and fishing, whereas mining only employs 3 per cent.

And yet this treacherous govt. is prepared to destroy our priceless water, our precious 4 per cent of arable land, and our agricultural industry, for this short term gas mining?

Future generations of Australians will look back on this government’s actions with horror.

I believe that the Ministers who make these decisions, must be held liable. I believe that this govt. should be charged with treason, for crimes against the people.

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Anne Kennedy I AM president of the Artesian Bore Water Users Association, and president of the Great Artesian Basin Protection Group.

Our organisations are desperately concerned about the devastating impact that Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project will have

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closes in on protesters (and is already having) on the Great Artesian Basin, and the disastrous consequences that the loss of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) will have on rural Australia, and indeed, on all of Australia. The impact that coal seam gas mining will have on our immediate and on our long term physical, social, environmental and economic well being cannot be overstated.

Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth - but we have one incredible resource, the Great Artesian Basin.

Forget gold, uranium, coal, shale oil or gas – the single greatest resource this country has, is our groundwater. Almost a quarter of Australia would be virtually uninhabitable, without it.

Without our groundwater, we simply wouldn’t be here. And the govt. must realise how passionately people will fight to save their water.

The GAB water is plutonic, many millions of years old – and scientists now know that the GAB will take many millions of years to replenish. In other words, this is a virtually finite system of ancient water - which makes the narrow recharge areas of the GAB even more critical. And right where Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project is, is the Southern Recharge of the GAB. This is not just about the fight to save our water, our farms, and our communities – this is about the future of agriculture and the future of Australia, and I am not exaggerating one iota when I say that. We cannot live out here without water, water is the one non-negotiable essential for life, and this CSG industry WILL destroy our water. We cannot lose this fight, or we have lost the future of Australia.

All over the world, the aquifers are drying up – and fossil water is becoming far more valuable than fossil fuel.

Experts from all over the world agree, when the groundwater is gone, it’s gone forever - and it is rapidly running out. While I was at a conference a few years ago, one of their guest speakers was Professor Julian Cribb, who spoke of ‘The Coming Famine’. He told how there are 216,000 more people on earth, every day, and that we will need to find food and water for between 10 - 11 billion people, by 2050.

But at the same time, all over the world, groundwater is dangerously depleted.

A “silent revolution” has taken place underground, he warns, as the amount of water sucked from below the surface has tripled in the past 50 years.

“Current estimates indicate we will not have enough water to feed ourselves in 25 years time” (Professor Cribb said).

China has already gone through their top aquifers, and their lower aquifer is depleting rapidly. The Ogalalla Aquifer in the US, is almost gone. In India, Pakistan, Arabia, their wells are running dry.

Agriculture uses three quarters of the world’s water. But coal seam gas will TRIPLE again the use of water by 2050.

And farmers will need to grow 70 percent more food by that time – but that the food-producing land is shrinking at an alarming rate, as urbanisation takes a lot of it – and mining and industry a lot more.

Professor Cribb said history has proven that if you invest in sound, stable food production, then you will have a

stable democracy. But as we are losing our water and our food-producing farmland, we are doubling our need for food production. By 2100 – not far away – we will need 150 per cent more food.

Agriculture is a sustainable industry, that can last for centuries - forever; but CSG mining is a short-term and destructive industry, that will destroy our water and farmland, and leave a wasteland behind. We must protect our environmental assets, our food-producing land, and our water.

The Great Artesian Basin is of such vital importance to rural Australia. The towns, communities, farms and industries rely totally on GAB water. Our greatest resources aren’t coal, gold, uranium, or gas – the single greatest resource Australia has is our GAB. It is inconceivable that governments could allow the mining industry to pollute and destroy this priceless water.

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Anthony Roberts, Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy NEW laws have been passed by the NSW Parliament to increase the practical tools available to police with respect to illegal protests, while not affecting lawful, peaceful protest.

The Inclosed Lands, Crimes and Law Enforcement Amendment (Interference) Bill 2016 has delivered on the NSW Government’s commitment to ensure that the right to peaceful protest is balanced with the need to ensure public safety, the protection of communities and lawful business activity.

Despite the misinformation being spread by The Greens and Labor, the new laws do not affect the right to peaceful protest.

With the introduction of the news laws, the NSW Government made clear its support for the right to legal protests.

These new laws are about ensuring the safety of workers, communities and our emergency service personnel and in no way affect the right to lawful, peaceful protests.

The key reforms passed by the NSW Parliament include: z Trespassing is already illegal. The new offence of ‘aggravated unlawful entry on inclosed lands’, will carry a maximum penalty of $5,500; z Modernising the meaning of a ‘mine’ to cover the nature of mining activities that now take place in NSW. This relates to the offence of interfering with a ‘mine’ under the Crimes Act 1900; z Additional search and seizure powers for Police to deal with people who intend to ‘lock-on’ to equipment or structures which could pose a serious risk to the safety of themselves or others, or who intend to interfere with legal business activities; and z Removing limitations to allow Police to give ‘move on’ directions in public places in the interests of safety or to prevent obstructions to traffic for a demonstration, protest, procession or organised assembly under the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002.

Members of the community who continue to protest peacefully will not be affected.

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Jeremy Buckingham is a Greens MP and Mining and Agriculture Spokesperson.

THE Leader of the Nationals, Troy Grant, is using his position as Police Minister to betray country people and particularly farmers. Mr Grant is the driving force behind new laws that crack down on farmers protesting coal seam gas and coal mining.

Farmers and other people taking action to protect good agricultural land and water resources are true Aussie patriots, not criminals – and they will not be intimidated by Mr Grant’s threats of seven years jail for disrupting any mining or gas related activity, or 1,000 per cent increases in fines for trespass.

Mr Grant needs to understand this is Australia, not Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Australians have a right to free expression and peaceful protest action.

These laws will see a person making a political statement with a banner and a bike lock, or sitting down in front of a truck, potentially facing seven years jail. This is crazy given some of the farm more serious crimes that have potential sentence of seven years or less.

Aiding a prisoner to escape –7 years Recklessly wounding a person – 7 years Setting your dog on someone – 5 years Poisoning a water supply – 5 years Abandoning a child – 5 years Committing Assault occasioning actual bodily harm – 5 years Allowing your premises to be used for child prostitution – 7 years Possessing an explosive in a public place – 5 years Trespassing with a gun – 5 years Participating in a criminal group – 5 years Running an unlawful gambling operation – 7 years Torturing, beating, killing or seriously injuring an animal – 5 years Interfering with political liberty – 3 years These laws are seriously out of proportion and have only been introduced because the government made a promise to the Minerals Council of NSW at a function in Parliament in late 2014.

It’s no coincidence that mining and gas companies have been large donors to the Liberal and National parties.

If the Shenhua Watermark coal mine goes ahead on the Liverpool Plains, will Troy Grant instruct the NSW Police to arrest farmers trying to protect their land and water? Does he want to see them sentenced to seven years jail?

Mr Grant needs to understand that we need a political solution to land use conflict in NSW. It is clear that the vast majority of people want good farmland and water resources protected from coal mining and coal seam gas. The government should respect that opinion rather than turn the NSW Police into a private security force for unwanted industries.

The fact that the President of the National Party was a lobbyist for the Shenhua mine; which Barnaby Joyce has been too useless to stop, and now Troy Grant is pushing laws and threatening farmers with years of jail shows the National Party has lost their way.

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Stephen Lawrence, Barrister IN recent years Australia has seen the emergence of a genuinely popular and important grass roots political movement against CSG. Almost uniquely the movement has seen a coalition between farmers, greenies, Aboriginal people and others. It Includes groups such as ‘Lock the Gate’ and the ‘Knitting Nannas” and has mobilised to protect farmlands, Aboriginal cultural sites and other environmentally sensitive areas.

The NSW Government is about to pass laws to allow a concerted crack down on the anti-coal seam gas protest movement. All citizens of NSW should be very worried. This movement needs to be listened to and engaged with, not cracked down on with more laws and penalties.

The anti-CSG movement is out there on social media, in the mainstream news, running petitions and so on. But a harder edge of the protest movement has been involved in much more direct action against the industrialisation of farmland, forests and other places. Sometimes these protestors break the law and end up in court charged with a range of generally minor crimes, often property damage and trespass, that typically lead to fines or bonds being imposed.

These direct actions have involved tactics such as people using chains to attach their necks or limbs to gates or mine equipment. Others have involved cement and lead filled drums being similarly “locked on” or holes being filled with cement and railway sleepers to block roads.

At a protest in Bentley near Lismore protestors hastily erected large tripods with themselves chained to the top to block roads. These actions are often undertaken in the early hours of the morning when equipment lies idle.

Civil disobedience like this has a fine lineage in western society. It is hard to think of many hard won rights that don’t owe their existence, at least in part, to those willing to run the gauntlet of arrest and prosecution. On the other hand government has a legitimate role in protecting lawful business activities.

The proposed laws are designed to give police and courts the power to in turn shut down and deter such actions.

There will be a massive increase to penalties for trespass that impacts on business. Existing criminal offences relating to mines are to be extended so they apply to conduct at gas and mineral exploration and extraction sites. The intent is clear, protect big business against grass roots protest.

The changes however go much further than penalising criminal conduct.

They will also allow police to shut down lawful demonstrations state wide if they fear a risk to safety or an obstruction to traffic. Once passed these laws for the shutting down of protests will be used far from the gas fields and erode all our rights to protest and be heard. This represents a significant weakening of legal protections legislated for in 2002.

I think we need to take the long view in these matters. Draconian laws are just not the answer to popular movements.

Greater penalties won’t deter protestors nor will additional police powers. Government needs to start listening to communities and move to wind up the CSG industry permanently if that is what the community wants.

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BY JOHN RYAN AN N JOURNALIST

PLANE HORRIBLE I love aircraft of all sorts but people involved in the sport, or industry, are often faced with things that go wrong, and there’s less second chances on offer than when things come unstuck on the ground.

Brad Kerin’s death in a light plane crash has literally left many locals reeling.

Most people are very friendly in Yeoval, as they are in many smaller country towns, and the Kerins are not only as nice a network of families as they come, but they’re also heavily involved in volunteering in just about every community organisation around town, and have done for generations.

In Dubbo, where many people may know just a small percentage of the population, tragedies like this aren’t so numbing to the entire community, but in smaller towns like Yeoval and the surrounding district, it’s a devastating blow when everyone you’re running in to, on a daily basis, would be personally affected.

WATER OVER THE BRIDGE IT’S going to be interesting when the state government unveils potential sites for the promised new high level river crossing for Dubbo.

I’ve been banging on for years about the need for a second, high level river crossing and noted there was always a distinct lack of urgency from DCC on the matter, then of course the 2010 floods, which covered the Serisier Bridge, showed everyone how vulnerable the city is to being cut in half, not to mention the delays for trucks travelling up and down the Newell.

But the last thing we need is B-Doubles and even bigger vehicles being funneled into a CBD which is already suffering. What we need is a high level bridge at Troy so there’s not only that extra flood-resistant bridge spanning the flooded Macquarie River for those few weeks each decade, but also the advantage of North-South trucks being kept out of the city on a daily basis, day after day, week after week, month after month – that’s the real benefit.

So a bridge at Troy would solve the occasional flooding dramas, the much bigger problem of daily congestion and also prevent the government wasting $50 million taxpayer bucks on a bridge to nowhere, unless of course you count traffic chaos as a desirable destination.

Use the poles and wires money to get that link of the proposed bypass underway, and maybe build another low level crossing to help with daily traffic at the same time, maybe the Tamworth Street option.

‘WEIR’Y OF WAITING I GOT a press release from Dubbo City council this week and it shows George Orwell’s writings from so long ago are alive and well in our fair city of Dubbington (I could almost break into song, but I can’t sing, so I won’t).

The release detailed how construction has begun on a fishway and rock ramp at the notorious South Dubbo Weir and spruiked what a great idea this was, despite the real history being that DCC fought hard against any such project ever happening.

Anyway, that’s all in the past now and it’s great to see that everyone is finally on board with the recognition that this is a good idea.

DCC tech services director, Stewart McLeod, was enthu-

The week’s top stories from around the region siastically quoted in the press release that, “This project will reduce the risk of drowning by creating a much shallower pool of water at the base of the weir which will also be less turbulent”.

“The rock ramp and fishway also achieves important environmental objectives allowing fish to migrate upstream”, McLeod said.

This was pushed by the community in the wake of drowning after drowning over a lot of decades, so to think the powers that be have finally listened to the needs of the community is a great thing.

The fact the Inland Waterways Rejuvenation Association (IWRA) and other groups have achieved an end to cold water pollution and also installed increased habitat in the river means the effectiveness of the fishway to help natives spawn will be multiplied many times – you need to manage the environment in an holistic manner, doing things piecemeal is never as effective or efficient.

DIRTY POOL STILL on water issues and if your pool is hiding a few dirty secrets, if the fence isn’t up to standard or the like, you’ll have a bit of a drama when it comes to selling your property.

New amendments to regulations brought in a while back will help people sort out any problems according to the Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW).

Homebuyers buying properties with pools ‘will have 90 days to rectify non-compliant swimming pool barriers’.

Local government minister said the new regulations governing the sale of properties with swimming pools will come into effect from April 29 this year, which means vendors will need to attach either a certificate of compliance or non-compliance to the contract of sale.

We see too many drownings in backyard pools but it’s a shame we need a red-tape heavy approach, even if the amendments make things easier for all concerned.

UNDERWHELMINGLY DIRTY POLITICS POLITICS may never have been clean but it seems far dirtier of late given the revolving door for prime ministers in recent years.

Malcolm Turnbull commiserated his six months in the top job this week, leading any major federal political party seems like a poisoned chalice these days, with ‘white-anters’ ready to leak all over you if they don’t get their way – and it was the same for Rudd v. Gillard, it was the same when Turnbull’s loyal minions were white-anting Tony Abbott.

We’re not being well served by the Canberran leadership at the moment, luckily we’re used to that – if we ever saw a conviction politician holding a position of power in the national capital we probably wouldn’t be able to handle it.

I suppose at least we’re not scared of ISIS now Tony Abbott’s no longer telling us how scared we have to be – words from the nation’s leadership do affect the national mood – but it’s mostly thanks to the Russians for finally doing something about that militant group our failed middle-eastern policy helped create, the ISIS aura of invincibility has been stripped from that particular brand of terror.

CONVICTED CONVICTION POLITICS OKAY, NSW Greens MLC Jeremy Buckingham didn’t get convicted but he was in court this week facing a real life charge of trespass.

Exciting partnership in the works BOOMDubbo and Dubbo City’s IGNITE Program, announced this week they will be partnering on large scale works in the CBD of Dubbo. Background planning has been underway for a couple of months already and we’re waiting with baited breath to see what excitement this will bring to Downtown!

Pictured are Tara White, Brett Anderson, BOOMDubbo, Richie Gilpin, Kim Goldsmith, project manager, BOOMDubbo, Josie Howard, economic development officer, Dubbo City Council and Nicola Chandler. PHOTO: MADDIE CONNELL.

Apparently he’d entered ‘Inclosed Lands’ while filming the huge hole on the ground at Rio Tinto’s giant Walkworth coal mine in the Hunter Valley.

Escaping a conviction and a fine, Buckingham is leading the charge against the state coalition’s new anti-mining protest laws.

“I maintain that visibly showing just how destructive coal mining is, is in the public interest and an important part of my role as an MP”, Buckingham said.

He used a political allowance to buy a sophisticated drone which captures quality pictures and video, the same allowance most MPs use to produce and send out things like promotional fridge magnets – this is a vertically-integrated media-savvy strategy.

“The mines hide the environmental destruction behind tree lines and rock walls, so it is important that the public understands just how damaging coal mining is, and demand politicians protect our good agricultural land and water catchments”.

“Under Mike Baird’s draconian new anti-protest laws, it will be very hard for MPs to attend anti-mining protests because a conviction for a crime with a possible seven year penalty would mean an end to their parliamentary career”, he said.

My prediction – this is going to be a huge issue and blow up in the government’s face – these past few weeks I’ve talked to many die-hard National supporters who told me they’ll vote Green in the next election because of the mining and CSG industries being allowed to force their way onto private property.

This is an issue which shows the power of multinational companies, who have convinced the Nationals to vote for these new rules even though it’s causing them incredible angst in some of their heartland seats – it really goes to the heart of just why we have to ban totally any and all donations to political parties and individual politicians.

We also need to prevent former politicians from getting tangled up with nudge nudge wink wink sweetheart jobs with large companies after they leave politics – please be satisfied with your extraordinarily generous taxpayer funded pensions.

It’s not just mining, and sometimes there would no doubt be perceived conflicts of interest rather than greed driven concrete conflicts, but if we ban donations and close all the loopholes, that will help stop us going down the disastrous US road.

On this subject of taking action against public scrutiny, which make no mistake, is what this is, we had another interesting sideline, with former

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This mine has put the spotlight on Dubbo, with the US White House having a working brief on the project because at the moment China controls the global marketplace in this highly strategic area.

It’s touted that one billion dollars will be invested into the DZP, and $50 million spent in the local economy each year, with 450 jobs created during the construction phase and 250 needed for the operational side of things.

I wonder when we’ll get trains running on the old Molong rail line to cart material into the mine?

It would mean the railway crossings down the Obley Road would have to be reactivated, and with the Highway Patrol running operations against people not stopping at crossing across the west, that may be another great source of revenue running back into state government coffers – this mine could be a double boon for the Baird government.

Farmers learning Aboriginal Cultural values Farmers across Central West NSW are learning about Aboriginal cultural values on their land through a Local Land Services grants program, giving farmers more context to managing their land.

“Cultural heritage is just another layer of values across the land. Just like a natural resources or soils layers, there is also a cultural layer across the landscape,” said Central West Local Land Services Aboriginal communities officer, Mike Nolan, pictured with farmer, Michael Zell, who is actively protecting an historic burial site on his Gulargambone property.

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Daily liberal editor Linton Besser okay after being ‘detained’ in Malaysia after attempting to question that country’s prime minister.

Reported allegations are that Besser and a camera operator crossed a security cordon.

He’s done no interviews, for which you can’t blame him – I had a very brief text exchange with him and was relieved

that he’s all good.

He does a great job, one of the relatively few investigative journos left in this age of sackings and retrenchments in media.

BILLION DOLLAR BABY AFTER years going through various approvals processes Alkane Resources has finally gotten past the final regulatory

hurdle for its proposed rare earths mine at Toongi.

The Dubbo Zirconia Project (DZP) is expected to ‘produce up to 30,000 tonnes of specialty metals and rare earths per year’ according to Industry minister Anthony Roberts.

As in any mining operation there are environmental concerns, so hopefully this mine, which will actually bring in

GREAT reviews from the Jimmy Barnes headlined concert at Lazy River last weekend, the great man supported by a lineup of stars including my old mates The Angels, Noiseworks, The Badloves and Mark Seymour.

I say ‘my mates’ The Angels because years ago I got them to sing at our Taree pub for free, after offering them free entry rather than paying the $5 surcharge.

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NSW Fair Trading Assistant Commissioner visits Dubbo The NSW Fair Trading assistant commissioner ( Real Estate & Property), Andrew Gavrielatos, and director market relations, Matthew Whitton, were in Dubbo this week to meet Real Estate Institute of NSW-Orana Division members to discuss the application of the new under quoting laws for Real Estate agents which commenced on January 1, 2016 and the banning by NSW Government of the sale of residential property by the “offers over” method and how it was being accepted in Dubbo and rural areas of NSW. Pictured are the NSW Fair Trading assistant commissioner ( Real Estate & Property), Andrew Gavrielato and director market relations, Matthew Whitton, with REINSW deputy, Graeme Stapleton, and acting chairperson REINSW, Bob Berry.

cided to throw in a bomb scare, one we laughed off until they got smart and called the police who then had to take action – those were the days, before red tape and everyone worried about suing everyone else.

The concert was so well supported with 4000 tickets sold last year, and about that number turning up despite the mid30 degree heatwave, that or-

ganisers may make Dubbo a regular venue for the Red Hot Summer Tour - red hot in more ways than one.

LETS ALL RE-BOOT TO WELLO WHY has fuel been so much cheaper in Wellington? I had a pic sent to me showing unleaded at 98.9 cents, at that price

you can almost afford to buy it without breaking down in tears.

While we’re on the subject of Wellington, the BOOT went well again this year, what a great drawcard for the town, especially if the fuel was less than a buck a litre.

And while we’re still on the subject of Wellington, how confident is our neighbouring municipality?

I loved the press release this week from Wello Shire letting everyone know they’ve launched a competition to design a logo for the town’s 200th birthday, which is next year.

Surely the powers that be who’ll be running Dubbington at that stage will want to run any such competition, and design any such logo, in their own hallowed images.

Yep, I know, hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Anyway, proceeding on the assumption that this competition will happen and will in fact proceed into something meaningful, here’s some of the criteria to enter: The logo has to encapsulate Wellington’s uniqueness but also has to be versatile enough to be used on all material relating to the bicentennial celebrations; The only set requirements are that the word ‘Wellington’ and the dates 1817 – 2017 are used; You can submit your Wubbington designs to welling-

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ART LANDS IN DUBVEGAS DUBBO is to host this year’s Artlands, a biennial regional arts conference which mayor Mathew Dickerson expects will inject more than a million dollars into our fair city using the statistical formulas.

One failed formula we won’t be seeing, thankfully, is our mayor singing at the conference – obviously you’d want to put the Dubbington debacle as far behind you as possible, as time goes on it gets more difficult to pretend it was in fact designed to be as bad as it was.

Artlands has elements of festival interposed with the conference side of things so it should be a great addition to Dubbo’s calendar, from October 27 to 30.

SHORT AND SOMETIMES SWEET THE Yellow Pages were handed out across the city this week by a herd of brontosaurus’.

Dubbo has been identified as a hotspot for youth unemployment, but I suppose this column is meant to be about telling people something they don’t know.

Well done to the Zoo2Zoo riders, I thought it was a big ask on the treadlies from Sydney to Dubbo, coming all the

way from Melbourne is a huge accomplishment.

The Paul Kelly Cup hit Dubbo again this week with teams from all over the place having a crack.

12 player teams of Year 5 and 6 students make it easy to field sides and smaller fields are also used.

Well done to Linda Christof who received a highly commended in the 2016 NSW Local Government Awards.

The Fair trading assistant commissioner, Andrew Gavrielatos, who handles real estate and property matters, was in town this week.

Fair Trading can be amazingly effective in many areas, so it’s good to see the bigwigs turning up to our region to check things out first hand and talk to people in the industry.

There’s an upcoming FutureTahs cam for all budding rugby dudes, it’ll be held in the school hols on April 14, for ages 6 to 12 years – if anyone takes an action shot of the next David Pocock or Israel Folau, please let me know.

Federal MP Mark Coulton is hoping he can convince his federal colleagues to set up a cancer treatment service in Dubbo, taking advantage of the huge dollars which have been poured into Dubbo Base or whatever the bureaucracy is calling Dubbo Base these days.

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From bush OOKING for a social inclusion project that actually works? Try this recipe for success.

Take a handful of people with vision, add a dozen enthusiastic children and aspiring young leaders; stir in a heaped helping of positivity and marinate all these ingredients in community spirit for a week. Allow to settle for a while and what you have is a healthy serving of relationship building that, properly digested, lasts a lifetime.

It’s said the proof of the pudding is in the tasting, and this week a group of students from Dubbo’s Buninyong Public School had a taste of life beyond their own backyard with a visit to Macmasters Beach on the Central Coast – a taste that, if the smiles on these young leaders’ faces is anything to go by, will be savoured for years to come.

The visit is the result not of a government-funded program, but of the vision of two key leaders in the respective communities of Macmasters Beach (Macs) and Dubbo.

Nina Angelo – a long time resident of Macs – and

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“Riverbank” shares a quiet moment with one of the students.

her old friend, Dubbo’s “Riverbank” Frank Doolan, regularly visit each other, exchanging bush for beach and vice versa, and the pair thought perhaps such an exchange might be valuable for the children of their respective communities.

Angelo approached fellow Macs resident and renowned philanthropist Jeanette McAlpine, who didn’t hesitate in offering to fund the entire exercise and the plan was born.

The idea behind what those involved are hoping will become an annual exchange program, is to foster community ties through the sharing of experience and to introduce two groups of young leaders whose paths might not otherwise cross.

S the bus pulls up to the gates of Copacabana Public School – at the end of the long ribbon of golden beach that’s shared equally by the communities of Macmasters and Copacabana (Macs and Copa to the locals) – even the crushing humidity can’t wipe the grin off Principal Ben Thomas’ face.

His Years 5 and 6 classes have been preparing

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Take a handful of visionary adults, a group of country kids and a large dose of community spirit and mix well. What you get is a communitydriven and funded young leadership project like this week’s visit from a group of students from Dubbo to the coastal community of Macmasters Beach. JEN COWLEY went along for part of the ride.

WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Jen Cowley

Copacabana-based business owner Joanne Giles’ generous donation of funky new thongs was a huge hit

for this visit from their “country cousins” for weeks, and he’s as excited as they are.

“When Nina first came to me with the idea of the Buninyong students visiting our school, I thought it was the perfect opportunity for our children to get a bit more of an understanding of what goes on outside the bubble of Copacabana, because often our kids live their lives between the surf club, home and school,” Thomas says.

“To set up that connection where we can link to people in communities that are very different to ours, to hear about what goes on in their lives and how they connect to their community – that’s really important.”

Thomas’ hope is that, after this exchange, his school leaders will be able to head out to Dubbo for a similar exercise.

“It would be great to do alternate years.”

While the visit is not specifically aimed at indigenous students or cultural endeavour, there’s a rich Aboriginal history here on the Central Coast, and the week’s plans include an introduction to that culture for both the Copa and Dubbo students.

“We have only a handful of indigenous students here,” says Thomas. “And it will be great for our students to meet some of the students from Buninyong who are indigenous. The whole idea of a project like this is to break down barriers and so that’s important, particularly in a school like ours which has a fairly narrow demographic.

“But it’s more about the exchange of community culture as a whole – the coming together of country/coastal cultures.”

In preparation for the visit, the Copa students were asked to tell their “story” and everything, according to Thomas, revolved around going to the surf club, the beach, growing up on the coast, the ocean.

“They’ll benefit enormously from understanding that not everyone’s life is the same.”

Thomas has focused this exercise on his school’s leaders with the hope of developing greater leadership skills.

“I’m hoping this helps our leaders understand that there’s a much bigger picture out there and that the little things they do as leaders here in our

school have the potential to filter out.

“We talk about the values of tolerance and inclusion and resilience and acceptance. This gives us an opportunity to actually put those values into a real life context.”

That this is not a government program is something of a rarity, and for Thomas, it’s a perfect example for his students of the importance and value of community leadership.

“It takes someone like Nina to bring everyone together and make things happen. It’s great to be able to show the children that there are passionate people who do things for their community.”

Copa’s principal says one of the best things about the program, even before it kicks off, is the connection he’s established with his counterpart at Buninyong.

OR his part, Buninyong’s assistant principal, Michael Darcy – who is travelling with the Dubbo contingent – echoes Thomas’ enthusiasm for the community-driven exercise.

“This is a self funded project, which is great. And it’s thanks to Nina and Frank, who looked at the demographics of these respective schools and came forward with a proposal to bring some of our young leaders down to experience a taste of life on the coast. And it’s thanks to Jeanette McAlpine, whose generosity in funding the whole thing is unreal.”

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While McAlpine’s kindness has allowed the project to proceed, each of the students’ families was asked for a $50 contribution, which Darcy says was important to foster a sense of ownership rather than entitlement.

Some of these youngsters have never been to the beach so that alone will be an experience to behold Darcy says.

“We want it to be fun but we also want it to be about developing our potential leaders – it’s not about just giving kids a holiday. It’s about promoting our leaders by giving them experiences outside their own lives.”

The generosity of the Macmasters community has been an eye-opener for Darcy and the rest of the adults travelling with the group.

“When I opened the itinerary and saw how many activities had been planned and how many community people were giving their time and their resources, I was blown away.

“And I think the fact that it’s community-driven will help it be a success, and help ensure it’s sustainable. When you have people who are doing these sorts of things for genuine reasons, not just because there’s funding attached, that makes all the difference. It’s not a box-ticking exercise.

“We’d like to see it become an exchange where the kids from Copa come out to Dubbo and where we put as much effort as Nina and her friends have put in here to promote our school and our community.”

HE itinerary for the visit could best be described as jam-packed.

From the arrival at Copacabana Public School, where the Buninyong students were greeted by their coastal counterparts and Aboriginal elder Kevin “Gavi” Duncan, the children made their way along the long stretch of sand to Macmasters Beach Surf Club, which would be home for the week, thanks to the generosity of club members.

Community members kept the hungry contingent fed and watered, funded by Jeanette McAlpine’s generous support for the project, and as the week progressed, more and more community members came forward with offers of time and donations.

Among them is local businesswoman Joanne

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Giles whose children attend Copacabana Public School, and who arrives to greet the Buninyong students with a gift of funky new thongs all ‘round.

“I just wanted to do something to welcome the kids and to let them know there are people here in our community who are interested in getting to know their community,” Giles, whose business is called Madil (Making a Difference in Life), tells me as the kids happily choose from the array of brightly coloured thongs.

Also lending a hand is Graham “Jonno” Johnson, who has a deep connection with Dubbo, having grown up there. He’s an active member of Macs Surf Club and a self-described “king of the kids”.

Jonno trains the local “nippers” (junior lifesavers) and is also renowned for his Clean Waterways program, through which he helps teach children about environmental awareness at the same time as enlisting helping little hands to keep the Central Coast’s waterways free from rubbish.

He treats the Buninyong children to a day out on the waterways of the Hawkesbury, and spends each afternoon with them in the surf, assisted by his junior lifesavers – and the smiles and laughter tell the story of what a valuable exchange this really is.

Also included in the week’s activities is a visit out “on country” with Gavi Duncan, an elder and custodian of the land of the Darkinyong people and the children learn a little more about the rich cultural heritage of this region.

No excursion to the coast from the bush would be complete without a visit to “the big smoke”, so the itinerary also includes a trip to Sydney, where the kids visit the Opera House and walk through the Botanic Gardens to Government House, where it’s hoped the Governor himself might greet them.

They’ll also visit the Jewish Museum – an inclusion that’s important to Nina Angelo, whose parents survived the Holocaust and Auchwitz – where they’ll also hear the story of Aboriginal activist William Cooper, who protested outside the German Embassy in 1939 against the persecution of Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis.

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NE evening towards the end of the visit, as we stand together watching the kids “surf” down a grassy slope on borrowed boogieboards, Michael Darcy tells me how deeply he’s been personally touched by the whole exercise.

“We country people think we have the game sewn up when it comes to community, but this community of Macmasters is unbelievably generous,” he says, as we look out over the huge, leafy block of land overlooking Macs that’s been opened up for our use by the private owner.

Joined by members of the Macs junior lifesaving contingent, the kids roast marshmallows and talk happily about their week.

“This is something these kids will remember forever,” Darcy says. “And for some, it will change their lives.”

Riverbank Frank, in his quiet way, is equally delighted by the success of this first foray into what everyone is hoping will become an annual exchange event and he sidles up to me as we stand staring into the camp-fire.

“You said you were impressed that this was just a community-driven project – not a government funded thing. You said you thought it would work because there’s no agenda. But there is an agenda,” he says softly.

“The agenda is to bring people together. Look at all these kids sitting together and playing together and sharing experiences. Look at the adults doing the same thing. That’s the agenda.”

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Principal Ben Thomas introduces his school’s leaders to the delegation of young leaders from Buninyong Public School

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` When you have people who are doing these sorts of things for genuine reasons, not just because there’s funding attached, that makes all the difference. It’s not a boxticking exercise.” – Michael Darcy, Assistant Principal of Buninyong Public School

“Copa” principal Ben Thomas and Buninyong’s assistant principal Mike Darcy both say they made an instant connection and are looking forward to continuing their schools’ relationship.

PHOTO: SALLY-ANN MACKLIN

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Geoff Brasch, Bathurst, Michele Tarpenning, Bathurst Thoroughbred Racing.

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The Wellington Boot has been and gone for another year but the popular Wellington race day was a flurry of colour and high spirits last weekend when Dubbo Weekender dropped in to cover the event.

WORDS and PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa Minner

HE Wellington Boot is a much-loved favourite on the race calendar and this year saw punters and fashionistas pour into the town from as far away as England and Perth, as well as Bathurst, Sydney, Dubbo, Coonamble and Newcastle.

‘The Boot’, as it is known to locals, has attracted a number of celebrity visitors since it kicked off in 1981 including former Miss World Belinda Green and Getaway star Catriona Rowntree. This year Australian film royalty Bryan Brown and wife Rachel Ward graced the track, accompanied by Deputy Premier, Troy Grant, and wife Toni.

A number of races are held over the two days, but it is the iconic State Wide Sheds Wellington Boot Race which really pulls a crowd.

The open two-year-old race is held over 1100 metres with a whopping $100,000 in prize money. The Boot Race runs on the Sunday and is the feature race of the weekend.

The Wellington Boot Racing Carnival also features a $10,000 Trainer’s Bonus - for a Trainer winning either the Boot or Cup and two other races.

For the jockeys, there’s the Jockeys Challenge for male and female on the day with a $300 prize and a trophy.

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C Christie, Claudia and Brodie Walters from Shelley Beach.

Jessica Last, Brooke Thompson and Cathy Cornish from Wellington.

Ch Christina Honeymann, Geurie; Wendy Buckley, Gulgong; Renee Bla Black, Dubbo and Lila and Lucy Cross, Dubbo.

Justine Booth and Caroline Sage from Bathurst.

Kent and Karen Anderson of Dubbo.

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Jacob Musgrave and Ruth Moore, both of Wellington.

Paul Spradcrow and Jenny Smith from Wellington.

Gary Bullock, Sydney, Jen Stanford, Wellington, Jillian Bullock, Sydney, Wendy Pleasants, England, Mike Pleasants, England.

Bryan Brown:

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When asked if he’d ever been to Wellington before, much loved Australian actor Bryan Brown replied, “Not in this country.”

“I love the name Wellington Boot, I think it’s a really fun name,” he said.

When asked how he and fellow actress and wife Rachael Ward were enjoying their trip in the Central West Brown replied that the couple had spent the day, evening and morning at Taronga Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo.

“I was immensely taken by how well run and enlightened the keepers were about the animals they have there. I was very taken by the practical way they do things at the zoo.

And then to come to a country race meeting as well, that’s the best fun in the world.

These kinds of days are just such fun, it’s just a terrific thing. Getting out of the city and meeting people you don’t know and having a chat with them, it’s just been a delight.

It’s been a top weekend for us.”

“Country Racing is really important for the broader industry because it is grass roots; it’s an economic stimulus and it’s a social opportunity. It’s also part of our heritage here in country towns.

Racing has been around us as long as

towns have been around. The recent injection of money is allowing it to be an aspirational industry in sport and the increased prize money as well as the added social benefits and getting stars out to these events and adding glitz and glamour to it as well.

The Wellington Boot is a fantastic event

for Wellington and just goes to show people we can have the best of the big cities right here in the country. All the racing administrators are here, we’ve got a whole heap of television personalities and they are all absolutely loving it.

They’re struggling a bit with the heat but they’re doing ok!

Rachael Ward: “I’ve never been out here, made many attempts when the kids were small and always wanted to go to the zoo and we did this morning and it was for a special reason and that’s because I’m the patron of the Australian Rhino Project. We are trying to import 80 breeding rhinos into Australia, it’s the count down to their extinction, certainly in the wild, so we want to establish a rhino hub in Australia. We’re trying to encourage rhino guardians and that’s part of why we have come to Dubbo to the zoo and hopefully they’ll be a part of this program. We need them very much for the quarantine aspect of the project.

I was particularly interested in talking to the TWPZ rhino keepers and about the rhinos care. Just to see them, they’re amazing, you see them on TV and you see them in books but you have no idea of the size and the power of them and the adorableness of their babies. I have seen pictures where rhinos have been poached and slaughtered and their horns have been cut off with a chain saw and the babies, the noise of the babies is horrendous, when you see those babies and hear their plaintive cry, it’s awful.

In 2007, there was only 13 rhinos poached in South Africa and this year there was 2035 and if we keep this up there will be no rhinos by 2023. That will be it in the wild. We have to be a bit more expansive and say yes a bit more to the idea of having a herd of rhinos here in Australia and stop all those excuses of we can’t and why we shouldn’t. Yes, we love our native species but we have a global economy and we have to think of global preservation as well.

And to get to come to a great place like this, the country races, is just a bonus.”

Troy and Toni Grant, Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown

Dionne Mitchell, Curra Creek, James West, Sydney, Sam McGregor, Rose Bay, Peter Winning from Woollahra, Luke Savage, Newtown, Daryl Knox from Rose Bay, Marianna Lendvai, Rose Bay.

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Tanya, Amanda and Melissa Denny visiting from Penrith.

Dubbo Cr Bill Kelly looking very dapper, with matching tie and cufflinks. Bill dressed by Bill.

Amy and Adrian, Oliver and Georgia Britt from Sydney had a horse running called Song Spur.

Holly Jameson, Dubbo and Zac McManus, Wellington.

Anne Charlesworth, Bathurst and Liz Dutton, Wellington.

Joanne Downy, Sydney, Melinda Bekier, Sydney and Joanne Blair, Dubbo.

Emma Colett, Wellington, Emily Redfern, Wellington, Monique Perrie, Wellington, Rowena Horton, Wellington.

Ashleigh Pedron and Jodie Blackhall from Wellington.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident who can’t always hide his frustration.

Game, set and meh as triviality steals a march on what matters PORT doesn’t matter.

Yet last week the world stood transfixed as it was confirmed that a tennis player ingested a substance that is now banned by her sport’s ruling body, and it may possibly have made her a better player.

Some chucklehead even said it was “a wake-up call for world tennis,” as if an entrenched, high-level match-fixing epidemic wasn’t?

OK, maybe the world wasn’t transfixed, but the media certainly was.

Maria Sharapova’s ‘oops’ moment ran alongside other news items for days on end, as if it actually mattered.

Sports news is not news. Fashion news is not news. Motoring, entertainment, celebrity, real estate – none of it is news.

If you’d lied about doping, and bullied people, for a 1000 years like a prize-winning, parade-leading jerk aka Lance Armstrong, maybe there’s some crossover.

But Sharapova wasn’t caught with a bionic arm. She didn’t peel a mask off to reveal some alien from the planet “Serve and Volley”; beings renowned throughout the universe for their superior net game.

She continued to take something after it was banned, admitted it, said sorry.

As a genuinely mainstream newsworthy event it was up there with getting a haircut or juggling plates.

And it’s not like there’s nothing else going on.

The US seems desperate for a military confrontation with China, seemingly blind to its own disintegration into a corrupt plutocracy, while inequality disastrously undermines domestic cohesion on both sides of the Atlantic.

Donald Trump’s urgings to his followers to assault protesters are hitting home with the mostly white crowd jostling a black woman in Kentucky, punching a black man in North Carolina and his aides and/or security assaulting or manhandling reporters with apparent impunity. In 2016 black people are getting beaten up at rallies to decide the next president.

In Iraq, Mosul’s dam is threatening to

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collapse and take the lives of anything up to 1,000,000 people if it does, the Saudis are destroying Yemen and the Syrian refugee crisis - the worst since WWII – is bringing Europe undone.

Islamic State is strengthening its hold in Libya and none of the scant media coverage includes any mention that European powers – notably Britain and France – supported by the US, laid waste the country for no apparent reason and with no apparent thought to the consequences.

Fresh from narrowly avoiding the pointy end of a US-Israeli military intervention into its nuclear program, Iran cements the new era of goodwill by testing rockets with threats to Israel written on the outside.

Climate change warnings that used to start with “by the end of the century …” now commence with “by 2030.” The two degrees of warming that was once a worst case scenario now seems like a good place to start. With what we’ve already emitted, sea levels will go up 1.7 metres even if we went back to the trees today. If – if – we can keep it as two degrees it will be nine metres.

The ongoing war on peace empowers robotic drones to kill people.

A former US defence secretary said last week that we are now more at risk from a nuclear attack than at the height of the Cold War, due to a return to arms race mindset among superpowers, tension between the US and Russia, historic animosity between India and Pakistan, North Korea’s push for a rocket-borne nuke and, although these are my words, not his, the fact that we are in many respects the same stupid, vicious ape that swung down from the trees; no offence.

Let sportsmen take wizard powder dissolved in the saliva of a Druid if they wish, let them have knife duels between sets, and in the case of Tomic and that other under-fathered narcisstic dickhead it should be firearms at close range.

There is so much happening that we should really know about, that the banal trivialities of the Colosseum chariot racers should be neither of interest, nor presented as such.

` She continued to take something after it was banned, admitted it, said sorry. As a genuinely mainstream newsworthy event it was up there with getting a haircut or juggling plates.

New Zealand cities getting cheaper, Singapore most expensive: report

2016 EXPENSIVE LIFE

AUCKLAND: Auckland and Wellington have plummeted down a list of the world’s most expensive cities, thanks to a weaker New Zealand dollar.

The currency’s drop has seen Auckland go from the world’s 15th most expensive city in 2015 to 38th in the Economist’s annual Worldwide Cost of Living report, while Wellington

has gone from 16th to 42nd in a year.

Singapore retained the title of the world’s most expensive city for the third year in a row, closely followed by Zurich and Hong Kong in joint second place.

Survey editor Jon Copestake said he could not remember a year as volatile as 2015.

“Falling commodity

prices have created deflationary pressures in some countries but in others, currency weakness caused by these falls has led to spiralling inflation,” Mr Copestake said.

The authors said the dollar had fallen significantly from a high two years ago, making cities in New Zealand more affordable to global travelAAP lers.

10 MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES 1. Singapore 2. Zurich 2. Hong Kong 4. Geneva 5. Paris 6. London 7. New York 8. Copenhagen 8. Seoul 8. Los Angeles NEW ZEALAND RANKINGS 38. Auckland (pictured, was 15th) 42. Wellington (was 16th)

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BY ELLA MCMILLAN SETH ROGEN this week released the trailer for his adult animated feature called Sausage Party. Despite sounding like an amatuer porno, it’s actually a comedy based around food’s desire to be picked for consumption before they learn the truth of their fate. Rogen voices a heroic hotdog, while other characters include Kristen Wiig, James Franco and Jonah Hill. So as The A.V Club said, “If you like swearing vegetables, you’ll love the trailer…”. Certainly not your average animated film.

AS if we needed more reasons to avoid McDonalds, Youtuber Tito4re has shared a video in which he pours molten copper onto various layers of a Big Mac. What’s more disturbing is the metal appears to simply roll off and causes minimal damage. What

most of us don’t know is this same effect could be replicated with other burgers regardless of the brand, meaning the reason the copper is seen to be gliding off the patty is due to the creation of an insulating layer.

Still, everything in moderation.

IN an effort to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Syrian conflict, celebrity couple George and Amal Clooney met with Syrian refugees in Berlin. The video was shared by the International Rescue Committee who said the families shared their terror of fleeing a war-torn home in hopes for a more promising start. The two could relate, having also similar histories of the search for a better future. The story was released to promote making all refugees welcome wherever they are.

THE Game Developers Conference in San Francisco hosted a huge announcement for PlayStation virtual reality headset, for a cool $400USD. Sony will release 50 games between October and the end of the year in conjunction with the new technology. The news marks a big year for virtual reality with Facebook’s Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive also due, allegedly at a higher price. Time will tell who will support the move.

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Carol Heuchan: Horsing around with words Carol Heuchan (pronounced Hugh Can) has been a familiar face in the centre ring of the Royal Easter Show for the past six years, a role which grew out of her renown as a bush poet and her strong background with horses.

Seven tours of America under her poetry belt later, she’ll be gracing this year’s Man from Ironbark Festival in Stuart Town over the Easter weekend.

Carol also weighs in on the international horse riding fraternity’s #rideforOlivia.

AS TOLD TO Yvette Aubusson-Foley I was into horses all my life, into very intensive competitions and training horses and teaching riding but also kept a sense of humour. I think you’ve got to do that when you work with animals. I used to write these ditties and a friend nagged me for a while to type them up, and 12 years ago, the manuscript was produced and accepted to be published, and my first book came out in 2003. Then another friend said, ‘oh, you’re a bush poet’ and I said ‘what’s that?’. She carted me off to Tamworth to the Country Music Festival for my first ever proper taste of bush poetry and competition and it sort of went from there. I competed for about two years and then went professional. I don’t read them, they’re all from memory.

My poems are about lots of different things and not only country life. In Australia; Bush Poetry means it’s in metre and rhyme, so it can be about anything, whereas in America, it’s called Cowboy Poetry and it celebrates the heritage of the west and cowboying, so it is exclusively about the rural life. I’m lucky to fit into both.

The American’s are a bit dumb you know, they don’t know what a chook is.

I’ve been going for a while now and they get the gist of what it’s about. I’ve done seven tours of America. I absolutely love it because I sort of grew up with all the cowboy stuff and I fit right in and naturally a lot of poetry is about horses because that’s what I know best, so that sort of stands me in very good stead in the western states in the U.S. I’ve been a commentator at the Royal Easter Show for the last six years. My poetry lead me accidentally to all sorts of different directions and one of those was being asked to put my two skills together; my knowledge of horses, (I’m a national horse judge) and, being used to being on a microphone, and I’ve done that for the last six years.

I’m not actually doing it this year. I’m doing the international commentary for the live streaming for the biggest horse

event in Australia, which is the Grand National down at the Olympic centre.

It’s going to be slightly different this year at the Royal. There’s no school holidays falling when the show’s on and that’s going to hit the RES fairly hard, so they’ve been tightening their belts for the year, and when this contract was offered to me to do the commentary for the international market I said, yes, I’ll give that a go.

People seem to understand dressage because of the Olympics and its coverage. Very few people understand show horses, although it’s been part of this country much much longer than dressage was ever even thought about.

It is hard for people to understand because it is a little subjective. My job is to make it user friendly, entertaining and explain it in layman’s terms, because a lot of people these days have not grown up with the world of horses, as past generations did, so it’s very much removed from the city life. That’s what I do at the Easter Show, to explain the different categories and what the judges are looking for, and a bit from behind the scenes.

The Grand National is a very upmarket event. We bring the judges out from England and they actually ride the finalists horses and that’s always pretty exciting to watch. They have to qualify for the event. It’s very tough. They have

to have won events around the nation, etc, and then they all come together for this competition. People can go on the Show Horse Council’s website, hit the link and if they can’t actually make it to the event, they can sit at home and watch it on their computer.

It’s very popular overseas so we’ll be watched throughout the world. I just hope I remember to say the right things (laughs) and remember I’m in my horse mode and not my usual poetry mode.

I’ve done the #rideforOlivia. I have my photo on there. I think that’s just a way of all us horsey folk getting together and showing how much we deeply, deeply feel for the family and how we share in the loss of one of our horse fraternity.

Owning a horse creates a very, very special bond, and I’m in a position to try to define this, where with other sports, and I’m not saying ours is better or anything like that, it is a 24 hour a day, seven days a week, every day commitment.

You can’t just say, ‘oh, I don’t feel like playing tennis today’ and throwing the racket under the bed; your relationship is totally interdependent on that horse and because you go through fear together - and no horseman can ever deny that that’s not the case - the bond, if I may be so bold, is probably somewhere similar to soldiers in battle because you go through that fear together and you

come out the other end with an understanding between the two.

A horse can teach a person so many things; responsibility, putting something else before themselves, courage.

It is a dangerous sport. I’ve got my war wounds, I can tell you, after being in the game for a long time. It does teach you to toughen up. I’ve had kids come to me who are very, ‘oh, I’ve got an eyelash in my eye’ and within 12 months, if they bite the dust the first thing they say is, ‘is my horse all right?’. It does give a transformation.

Horse people are a funny lot, they will do without everything for that horse, incredibly so. I know that most horse people unless they’re extraordinarily wealthy know 101 different ways to make a meal out of mince, but the horse has got the very best of feed and things to be comfortable. It is a special bond.

I think everyone will be quite amazed for the Ride for Olivia on Facebook.

You don’t have to be a competitive rider. There are people just out on a trail ride with their favourite buddy, all just sharing.

I’ve got five books. “Petunia And The Pony” is my first children’s book. The first three were horse related; “Horsing Around”, “Hold Your Horses” and “Horseplay”, then a book that wasn’t horsey, “Touching Tales” and the latest one is “Petunia And The Pony”, which is the real story this time.

All the horsey little girl books about sweet little girls, and golden curls, and sweet little ponies with long eyelashes and innocent faces, nah, this is about the real thing; a horrid kid and horrid pony and they’re well matched!

I’m looking forward to coming up to Stuart Town. I’ve spent a lot of time in the bush. All my life, travelling around with horses, and people used to say, ‘oh you must have seen a lot of Australia and New Zealand’. No, I’ve only ever seen showgrounds. Later of course in my poetry life, travelling around to all the various festivals and functions, it’s the country towns that hold events and festivals.

It was time for me to step back a little bit from actually competing and I was competing at the highest level and I didn’t want to do it at any other level, but that was getting harder for me physically and financially. I retired my two current show horses at the time, and kept them in the manner to which I’d made them accustomed (laughs) and at the same time the writing was just starting to drift in. It was sheer luck and circumstance. z See Carol at Stuart Town, Man from Ironbark Festival - Easter Weekend z Friday, March 25 to Sunday, March 27. z 9am - 10am, Saturday, March 26 - poetry writing and performance workshop z 10.15 - Carol’s comparing the opening ceremony and re enactment of the Man from Ironbark z 12 noon -1.30 - Poetry in the Park, Carol is compare

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Two sides of the street in judicial bias case MAGINE you have a court case coming up. You’re told the judge has thrown out 99 per cent of cases just like yours.

Do you want a different judge? That was the issue in a recent case in the Federal Court. By the time it ended last week a cast of colourful characters had collided and there was some serious legal blood on the floor.

The case involved a young Muslim, known only as “ALA15” who arrived here in 2010 and sought asylum. He had fallen out with his strictly religious family over faith issues and had fears of severe retribution if sent home, including being forced by his father into the war in Syria. He appealed to the Federal Circuit Court after his asylum claim was knocked back.

ALA15’s case was listed before Judge Alexander Street, another man whose path in life has been defined by family, albeit in a very different way. The famous Street clan have provided three Chief Justices to the NSW Supreme Court, including Street’s famous father, Sir Lawrence. In taking judicial office Street was adhering to a family tradition.

Prior to his 2015 appointment Street was not an uncontroversial barrister.

The Sydney media has followed his personal travails, including facing the threat of bankruptcy after being sued for big money by his mother-in-law, after an acrimonious marriage breakdown.

Judicial office comes with the certainty of a judicial income until aged 72. A lucky man by birth had fallen on his feet.

Street quickly earned a reputation as a ‘tough draw’ in asylum seeker cases, in that sense a man of his times. The public mood of evaporating empathy for the wretched of the earth was seemingly matched by decisions in his courtroom.

Asylum seekers just never seemed to win cases in front of him.

Of course judges are not machines and variation is to be expected. Keen observ-

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Comment by STEPHEN LAWRENCE Stephen Lawrence is a Barrister and Rugby League fan.

ers of the Dubbo courts will no doubt realise much depends on judicial inclination and world view. The city has had ‘’heavy hitters” in Brisbane Street, some “light touches” and others harder to pigeonhole. But on a bell curve, Street was a judicial outlier in the making.

ALA15’s Barrister, Jay Williams, aware of Street’s reputation, arranged a review of all of his decisions in the first six months of his tenure. In 254 refugee matters, the judge had ruled against the asylum seeker in 252. In the other two cases the government had agreed the asylum seeker should win. A 99.21 per cent strike rate, up there with Bradman, compared to an ‘average’ among judges of 12 per cent in allowing appeals in asylum seeker cases.

This kind of statistical analysis of a judge’s track record is unusual in Australia, possibly a first. The legal system necessarily presents all judges as impartial and such data is ‘insider information’. The uncomfortable truth is, that in front of some judges, but not others, a certain decision is sometimes inevitable. This is not necessarily bias of course; proper consistency is an elusive aim in any human system.

There is an interesting local echo.

Some might recall Dubbo City Mayor Dickerson’s call in 2014 for the community to be able to access sentencing data for individual Magistrate’s so as to judge whether Magistrate Eckhold was unduly lenient or not. That such information is strictly guarded was much to the frustra-

previous case, (a practically impossible tion of the Mayor at the time.

That Jay Williams was taking an un- task). The conclusion was that a hypousual course was not surprising. His thetical reasonable observer would have career has included representing Aus- kept faith in Street. An interesting one tralians facing death overseas, being de- for the actual reasonable observer to ported from PNG (twice) for defending consider! detained refugees and so riling up the Street was spared criticism by the apNauru government they refused him a peal judges, Jay Williams was not so visa to return. lucky. The court was savage in its critiIt is not unusual to see Jay making cism of a failure to comply with rules designed to facilitate the hearing of cases. novel arguments and putWhile such non-compliance ting in herculean efforts to is unfortunately common in back them up. (A disclaimer ` unfunded cases, the tone of here, I am proud to call him the criticism was not. One a mate and a colleague in In 254 lawyer commented to me, the legal trenches). refugee “if you’re taking on the sysArmed with these statis- matters, tem, be sure to cross every tics ALA15 applied for Judge ‘t’, and dot every ‘i’”. Wheththe judge Street to disqualify himself er intended or not, there is a on the grounds of ‘appre- had ruled clear message of deterrence hended bias’. The principle to any lawyer bold enough to is that if a “reasonable ob- against the mount a similar challenge to server” would fear a lack asylum the judiciary. of impartiality, the judge The case highlights the should stand aside. The un- seeker in tensions in the federal courts usual application received 252. In the arising from the processing national media coverage, of thousands of asylum seekrehashing Street’s colour- other two er cases. It also underlines ful past, focusing on the 99 cases the professional risks for lawper cent statistic and quesgovernment the yers acting without payment tioning what it meant for the for asylum seekers. But most quality of justice in the FCC had agreed of all it speaks of the need (Federal Circuit Court). the asylum for more financial and mateTerrible publicity for a rial support for brave lawyers proud man and an impor- seeker tant state institution. should win. like Jay and their clients.

The case importantly exStreet, perhaps unsurprisposed to the disinfectant of ingly, held statistics to be “irrelevant” and maintained his ‘batting sunlight an important truth, that a judge average’ by dismissing ALA15’s claim. in Australia had a 99 per cent batting avThe stage was set for an appeal to the erage. What of our cast of colourful charFederal Court of Australia, to be heard acters? Jay, his barristerial bottom duly spanked, was almost immediately on a by three senior judges.

Judgement was delivered last week plane overseas to pursue another human and it wasn’t good news for ALA15. The rights cause. ALA15’s fate is unclear.

On a positive note, Street has lately judges disagreed that raw numbers can prove bias, ruling that individual analy- started upholding some appeals by asysis needed to be done of each and every lum seekers.

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Weekender regular Sally Bryant was born with her nose in a book and if no book is available, she finds herself reading Cornflakes packets, road signs and instruction manuals for microwaves. All that information has to go somewhere...

Having trouble concentrating… ’M on the big countdown to a holiday, to some well-deserved R&R and as the days drag past in this last week of work, I’m finding it harder and harder to keep my mind on the job. It’s excruciating, this anticipation of the glories of a Full Month Off. And the hardest part of it is that I’m trying to completely clear the decks before I leave the office. My plan is that I’d like to see a clean desk and a cleared out task list as I walk out of the office on my final day of toil.

I want to be able to do my chillin’ with a clear conscience, without that sense of dread that I’ve left things undone. Or, as my sister would say, that I’ve left ‘dogs tied up’. And it’s not so much that I’m concerned that I might create a problem for someone else. Nor is it any overweening sense of professionalism on my part (though t’would be nice to think so). No, it’s more to do with the fact that I reckon that anything that I leave behind as I bolt out the door will be still sitting there four weeks later. Just four weeks smellier and more irritating.

The plan is to leave a pristine desktop so that my first day back after all this glorious time off will be a breeze because there’ll be no dead bodies to account for and bury in such a way that they’ll never be found.

And you do have to be practical you know. What would happen if I were to be taken gravely ill, or even be hit by a bus and expire, while I’m on leave?

What then, I ask, if my desk is not all spick and span? I can tell you right now, what then… What would happen is that Someone Else would arrive and sit at my desk and go through the drawers and discover the fearful mare’s nest of disorganisation that passes for a workplace for me.

This carefully cultivated veneer of highly trained mind and keen wit, housed within a psyche of disciplined and forensic inquiry; operating at 100

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per cent capacity all of the time? Well, that my friends would be the end of that little farrago. The bolt would be shot, the gig would be up. Instead of finding a bottom drawer filled with a rigorously tidy set of file notes on a series of investigative stories, potential exposes?

They’d discover some mandarin peel, a half empty bottle of Mylanta and three tins of tuna in olive oil. And some rubber bands.

It’s a bit like the theory that you should always keep some credibly lofty reading at your bedside, on the off-chance that you’ll be taken in the night. (Not by the credit company, or the funny farm, I mean ‘Taken’ by the Grim Reaper).

Because if you die, all of a sudden, you don’t want to be found to have been reading maudlin trash, bodice rippers or sex and shopping blockbusters. If you’ve lost your life, such as it was, it would be the final insult to be discovered to have had intellectual feet of clay.

Which reminds me, I must dust off my copy of the Ed Pols. Literally dust it off, and put some fingerprints on it too, for that matter. One cannot be too careful.

My keyboard needs to be vacuumed and mopped before I can leave the office, that’s another given. Like many overworked hacks, I eat my lunch at the desk most days. In fact, that’s where I eat my breakfast as well. And, office food being what it is, my keyboard has become the repository of a certain quantity of detritus.

Thinking sesame seeds and breadcrumbs, little flakes of sea salt and nuggets of pepper, the odd smear of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Hardly any crisps at all. Which is not enormously disgusting in and of itself. It’s a bit like kitchen cupboards.

You know when you first move into a flat, and you stand on a chair and you look at the tops of the kitchen cupboards. And you know how they are nearly always greasy and quite disgust-

` If you’ve lost your life, such as it was, it would be the final insult to be discovered to have had intellectual feet of clay.

ing? They might be clear of rubbish, but they’re never completely clean. And you sort of wince, and say “well, I can’t be living with that”.

So you get a bucket and a cloth and some Vim, and you climb up there and you clean those suckers, you clean them good. And you stand back and survey your new kitchen with satisfaction, knowing that the tops of those cupboards no longer have the traces of someone else’s Filth.

God is in his Heaven and all’s right with the world. And you never look at the tops of those cupboards again, the whole time you live there. And you don’t clean them when you move out, because you’ve never put anything up there and they’re perfectly clean. Of course they are.

See what I mean?

So, to stretch the analogy to the point of breaking, my keyboard is looking pretty much like the top of every set of kitchen cupboards of every flat I’ve ever moved into to, just before I cleaned them. So that’s another task to be done.

And then there’s all the bloody journalism to be finished, before I can bundy off this Friday. What is it about stories? I’ve been hunting them since January, like Elmer Fudd, wummaging awound in the centwal west, looking for sewiously intewesting stowies and it’s been vewy, vewy slim pickings indeed.

The date is set for my holidays and Nekminnit? Like fleas on a dog they are, all over the place. And not just any stories, either, some cracking good ones and they all should be done straight away, nothing that can keep until I get back to work, all refreshed and revived.

Oh, no, not a bit of it, they all need to be done this week. This week while I’m trying to make my workplace look like a professional sits there.

Eating her lunch and whingeing about how she needs a holiday.

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Move over for MaRLo

Over the next few weeks we are going to profile some of the big names coming to Dubbo for the first, history-making ROAR Festival. This week we take a look at MaRLo, whose fans consider him the king of trance.

The Dutch-born Aussie is a jet-setter, performing across Australia and overseas with recent gigs including Zouk in Singapore, Goodlife festivals in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, ASOT in Utrecht, Haoman in Tel Aviv, and most recently, Atlantis events across the country.

MaRLo takes influences from Trance, Tech-Trance, Hard Trance and Big Room to form his own sound, so unique it has been dubbed ‘The MaRLo Sound’ by a loyal, vocal fan base worldwide.

Signed to Armin van Buuren’s Armada Music, Armin personally noted MaRLo knows how to program the best lead sounds. His festival anthem, ‘Boom’ not only took #3 on Beatport’s charts but carried its weight when Armin Van Buuren shared a moment with tens of thousands of fans in Mexico awakening the “Boom dance” that went viral in just days.

Following on from that was the huge vocal smash ‘Haunted’ with his wife Jano, and the now legendary track ‘Visions’ which is also the title of his latest compilation. Other key releases gaining global support in 2014 include Poseidon,

Barracuda and Strength.

On stage and behind the decks, MaRLo really ignites, which is why he’s in high demand from festivals such as Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival, Creamfields UK, Stereosonic, Electronic Family and Beyond Wonderland USA…and now ROAR Festival Dubbo.

The success of his releases combined with the energy MaRLo brings to every performance, have seen him become one of the most highly anticipated acts at events around the world. He’s certainly been a highlight in the interest surrounding ROAR Festival.

The new track, ‘Titans’ has been the theme of the Atlantis events and we’ve been pumping up the volume on it and the other tracks we’ve shared on the ROAR SoundCloud and Spotify playlists in preparation for his visit to Dubbo.

MaRLo joins Seth Sentry, Hayden James, Tkay Maidza, Slumberjack, Savage, Zac Waters, Young Franco, Human Movement, Wallace, Lisa Viola, Passerine, Kids at Midnight, Risque, Harpoon, Emerson Long, Mad Lucci and two lucky regional DJs on two stages at ROAR Festival in just three weeks.

Tickets on sale online at www.roarfestival.com.au or during business hours Monday – Friday from the Macquarie Credit Union, 165 Brisbane Street Dubbo.

RAW on ROAR RSA qualified help needed Over the last couple of weeks ROAR Festival has had a callout on Facebook for RSA qualified help on the day. Anyone serving alcohol needs to have a current, certifiable RSA qualification, however there are also plenty of behind the scenes jobs we need help with as well. Anyone interested in helping on the day can contact Tara: t@roarfestival.com.au.

A taste of the colour of ROAR Have you seen the new temporary fencing artwork on Macquarie Street this week?

That’s a taste of what’s to come on site at ROAR Festival on 9 April. We’ve had some talented local creatives working with us and BOOMDubbo over recent weeks to make sure ROAR Festival has a unique look about it. El Studio’s Locky Naef is the talent behind the tiger design. He’s also painting up the site office container for the festival and it’s looking very cool.

Get on to the giveaways Our media partners, including Dubbo Photo News, have been and are continuing to run competitions to win tickets and ROAR Festival packages. It’s just too easy to have a go, so look out for the competitions on the Facebook pages of Dubbo Photo News and What’s On In Dubbo, as well as the 93.5 StarFM website.

DJ Comp closes next week Any DJs aspiring to work with Zac Waters and then possibly share the stage at ROAR Festival on 9 April have one more week to get entries in. They close on 25 March (Easter Saturday).

Full details of how to enter and contact Zac for more details are on the website: www.roarfestival.com.au.

ROAR tiger design by El Studio

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

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HELICOPTER VIEW

Cr Mathew Dickerson

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

Growing a city’s economy: protection vs. promotion OCK the gates! I am not talking about a form of anti-CSG protest but economic development.

There are some in any given community (mainly existing businesses) that would be quite happy if their Council froze all existing business development and accepted no new developments.

Unfortunately for those businesses, the last Council election proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that residents like to see new businesses open up in a city. Residents like the additional businesses as they offer choice, competition (which should drive down prices) and I also suspect there is an element of pride there, where residents are impressed that a big-name business wants to be in their city.

So the tricky challenge for all Councils across the state is their position on promotion versus protection. Residents want to see new businesses so a Council may advertise the benefits of being in a particular city and they may even offer enticements (although I think that is fraught with danger).

If a business is attracted to a city by the great work of a Council and the economic development arm, that surely is a positive outcome and a positive tick for that Council. Promotion is the winner!

Hold on one step though.

Where does that leave existing businesses? These businesses are already in a city and employing people and generally adding to the local economy.

They may even be locally owned businesses where the profits are going to a local person who spends money in the city. What if the new business that is brought to the city is owned by people external to the city or is a public company?

Suddenly all of the profits are being drained out of the local economy.

Would protection work better in this scenario? What about an economic development arm that simply said that we already have a local business in a certain sector therefore we don’t need a certain new business?

Block any business development that competes with existing businesses and

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The Baker’s Dozen Trivia Test

see those businesses flourish! That sounds better – now protection is the winner.

Then we hit the first snag.

A little problem of legality. Councils do not exist to determine the competi-

` Items that are impossible to measure – such as the attitude and work ethic of a business owner – are often the items that determine the success of a business.

1. MUSIC: What was the name of the record company founded by the Beatles?

2. ASTRONOMY: Which planet in our solar system spins the fastest?

3. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Which insect can indicate the temperature with accuracy?

4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the fastest known bird in the world?

5. CHEMISTRY: What is the only metal that’s liquid at room temperature?

tiveness of a business. That is for the entrepreneur to make decisions on how they want to risk their money and what business ideas they have.

Council has to determine the legality of an application in relation to zoning and conforming to applicable building laws and the like but Councils are certainly not in the business of determining the success of a particular business in relation to market forces.

Businesses have so many variables it would be dangerous for anyone to make predictions on the success – or otherwise – of any business. Items that are impossible to measure – such as the attitude and work ethic of a business

6. MOVIES: What was Baby’s real name in “Dirty Dancing” (pictured)?

7. GEOGRAPHY: What country is bordered by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?

8. PSYCHOLOGY: What is the fear represented in the condition “herpetophobia”?

9. MEDICAL: What is the common name for hypoglycaemia?

10. TELEVISION: Where does Homer Simpson work?

11. FLASHBACK: Name the artist

who released “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”.

12. SPORT: In 2015, Sebastian Vettel moved to fourth place on the list of most Formula One victories (42). Who had been fourth?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “When I’m feeling blue, all I have to do Is take a look at you, then I’m not so blue, When you’re close to me, I can feel your heart beat, I can hear you breathing near my ear.”

ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

owner – are often the items that determine the success of a business.

Go a step further.

What if a Councillor owned a small independent supermarket and a major supermarket chain wanted to open in a certain city. Council refused the application because the city already has a supermarket. Good luck arguing that the Council made the decision for the good of the existing businesses when a Councillor owned a business in that sector.

Now that we have determined that protectionism isn’t really an option, it comes down to the level of promotion.

Should an economic development arm chase new businesses or just respond to enquiries? Should the red carpet be rolled out when a potential new business turns up or should Council staff throw a few brochures at the entrepreneur and tell them to ‘knock themselves out’?

I have two overall factors that I judge the success of a Council on. Population growth and economic growth. If a city is achieving both (and preferably above the State average) then a city is progressing. Can Council take credit for all of the growth in both factors?

Obviously not – but I learnt a long time ago that enthusiasm covers up many gaps and a business that is enthusiastically welcomed by the staff – and Mayor – of a Council will look at the city much closer.

There are often many cities that are line-ball and that enthusiasm can be enough to get a business over the line. Is that good for existing businesses in the city? Well I am a believer that competition is good and it helps to make everyone better. There is also the potential to grow the overall market with more visitors looking for that product or service coming to that city. The reality is that if a business thinks competitors are only those businesses with bricks and mortar in their same locality then they probably have a short lifespan anyway.

Tell me if you think Council has a role to play in protection or promotion or if Councils should stay completely out of economic development at mayor@dubbo.nsw.gov.au.

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Business & Rural

Stabilising biodiversity through smart, natural production methods

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

E have about 400,000 wild plant species in the world, yet we eat just a few thousand of them according to Emeritus Professor Fred Provenza during a behavioural science course he was speaking at in Dubbo this week.

Of those few thousand, just 100 odd have been domesticated, and just a dozen of those make up 80 percent of the food ‘products’ we consume these days.

“We’ve moved to simplicity and because of this we’re being increasingly confronted with problems,” Professor Provenza said.

He believes biodiversity in nature is the key to good soil health, which translates into good animal health, which flows into good human health.

“Diversity has stability, and it enables systems to respond to what’s happening so you have this incredible dynamic.

“Instead we’ve been looking to increase yields of crops and forages to maximise energy and protein as opposed to total phytochemical richness,” he said.

It’s an important point, and one confronting many Australian farmers who, while they may win their local crop competition with wheat going 24 bags to the acre, it may actually cost them 25 bags to accomplish that feat.

“This monoculture way of farming makes plants more susceptible to environmental hardships so we rely on herbicides to protect plants and now people are trying to genetically engineer into plants the resistance they had originally,” Professor Provenza said.

“Now there are major concerns from consumers about the side-effects, we’ve got pesticide resistant insects, herbicide resistant weeds and pesticide/herbicide residues.

“These residues are really starting to make major threats and now we have 245 species of herbicide resistant weeds globally and glyphosate listed as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organisation (WHO),” he said.

The Behavioural Science course is set over four days of lectures, Q&A’s and practical yard work.

This course attracted almost 40 participants from across the country, and was designed to offer innovative and unique possibilities across the entire spectrum of linkages between animals, plants, soils and people, and offers novel and exciting management options and insights.

People across the globe are reconnecting to the natural world in many ways, now organisations

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like The Australia Behave Consortium, which hosted the course at Dubbo’s Rural TAFE, are getting those case studies together and spreading awareness about people doing all sorts of counter-intuitive things that actually work.

Dean Revell is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and lectured, among other subjects, about the importance of plants in our ecosystems.

He said nature is so complex that, despite our scientific knowledge, in many cases we’re only just beginning to touch on the understanding of how plants and soils work.

“Plants have memories and there is science behind this but people who’ve been saying this are regarded as being wrong – talking about something without understanding it is regarded as kookiness,” Revell said.

From one of his presentations we can expect a lot of new knowledge about the natural world to be unveiled, and backed up with science, in coming years.

He said the soil science we’ve been using for decades is largely based on microbes grown in labo-

ratories, which contains less than 10 percent of the microbes in the soil, and in human and animal guts – that means many complex interrelationships haven’t ever been looked at when designing how humans interact with these systems.

Fred Provenza says these complex relationships means many secondary compounds have to be factored into to any holistic scientific baseline when it comes to working out strategies to best manage our landscapes and the animals on them.

A very basic example would be companion planting in your home garden – it’s a bit like having great neighbours, which can vastly improve your life, or dysfunctional ones which can destroy you.

If you plant corn, you’d know those plants need plenty of nutrients, so a good strategy is to plant things like beans right next door, relying on the fact that legumes work in conjunction with rhizobium, a bacteria which fixes nitrogen, thus improving the soil for both plant species.

Onions and carrots work in natural synergy, with the onions pre-

` This monoculture way of farming makes plants more susceptible to environmental hardships so we rely on herbicides to protect plants and now people are trying to genetically engineer into plants the resistance they had originally.” - Emeritus Professor Fred Provenza

venting carrot fly from hammering their orange playmates, while carrots deter onion fly from coming into the area to wreak their havoc.

Many things are possible without huge workloads and costly synthetic and chemical inputs, and many farmers are utilising this well-known, well-accepted gardening strategy for larger tracts of land, cutting costs and creating more nutrient dense food.

Provenza’s main claim to fame is his work on animal behavior and he says there’s an overriding importance in matching the animal to the environment and to the humans managing them.

He’s a global authority on how to change animal behavior to fit into new systems of management, and his 30 years of experience equips him to lecture on the causes of dietary preference, influences on food and habitat selection and implications for dispersing grazing across the landscape.

Many graziers are now looking to explore the palatability of food, why older more mature plants are in many cases better for their stock, the roles of the nutrients and toxins present in that food and the implications of various supplementation of animal diets.

More often now mainstream science is accepting there’s a lot we don’t know, so more and more we see major research organisations from across the world wanting to learn from the people who’ve been experimenting on the ground for the past 30 years.

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Green Slip Scheme review THE NSW Government’s announcement to conduct a major review of the NSW Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Green Slip Scheme to drive down costs for motorists and better protect those seriously injured in a road accident.

Member for Dubbo and Deputy Premier, Troy Grant, has welcomed the news saying the current scheme, which has been operating since 1999, is now in urgent need of reform to ensure it remains affordable for vehicle owners and delivers the appropriate benefits to injured people in a timely manner.

“Green Slip prices in NSW are now the highest in the country with an average of $630 for a standard passenger vehicle. We have seen a 70 per cent rise in premiums since 2008 and without reform, we are likely to see further significant price rises in coming years” said Grant.

“Apart from being expensive, the scheme is also very inefficient with only 45 per cent of the premiums collected being paid to injured people as benefits and some claims taking over five years to resolve.

“We need to ensure more of the money collected through Green Slip Premi-

ums ends up where it was intended – in the hands of the most seriously injured road users” Mr Grant said.

The NSW Government has released a CTP Options paper and is seeking public comment. The Options Paper is available at www.sira.nsw.gov.au.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF

Premium price for MSA cattle boosts revenue THE Meat Standards Australia (MSA) eating quality program delivered $185 million in farm gate revenue during 2015 thanks to the price premiums paid for MSA accredited and compliant cattle.

According to 2015 MSA program data released this week by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) the number of producers registered and cattle graded are at new highs, driven largely by the continued support from processors and development of brands underpinning their products with the MSA eating quality system.

MSA Program Manager Michael Crowley said that even with the increases in cattle prices generally last year, the average price premiums for MSA cattle were maintained.

“Over the hook differentials for MSA young cattle fluctuated throughout the

year, peaking at $0.47/kg mid-year, but on average MSA young cattle were $0.32/kg above non-MSA young cattle during 2015.

“On a per head basis, non-feedlot young cattle that could meet both MSA and processor specifications were able to achieve $88/head more on average than non-compliant cattle. This equates to over $116 million in additional farm gate returns to those producers throughout 2014-15.

“Similarly, the average over-thehooks prices for MSA grain-fed cattle were $47/head higher than non-MSA equivalents – this equates to $69 million boost to the feedlot sector, which also represented 50 per cent of the MSA graded cattle in 2015.”

Retailers ready for Easter SHOPPING trollies around Australia are

How to build a huge small business valuation you can be proud of L IKE any type of sale – business or otherwise – there can be a huge range in business valuation multiples. This of course will create a large range for higher and lower sale prices, even where the same business can have similar adjusted earnings before income tax (adjusted EBIT).

You see, business valuations aren’t just based on numbers the contained within the financial statements and tax returns alone.

So here are some key steps to help you get your business sold for the higher end.

1. Have a one page business plan that is easy to follow MOST purchasers like to see a business plan. Having a one page plan is generally easier to follow and understand rather than 50 pages of wordy information.

If they can see the business’s goals over the next three years, usually broken down by the number of customers/clients, average sale, number of transactions, the adjusted EBIT and a brief summary of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, this will give them a good overview of what the business is trying to achieve.

2. Engage your team THIS is an area that can be fiercely debated depending on which side of the fence you sit

on.

My view is that if your team doesn’t have a clear idea on what you are trying to get your business to look like over a period of time, getting the business to improve its value will take a much longer period of time. Think of a rowing boat with members trying to go in different directions or at different speeds. If they are aware of what the end goal is it could become chaos!

Your team can be your eyes and ears on the floor and can pick up improvements once they know what the game plan is.

Therefore, getting engagement from your key people (including showing them numbers) can be a very dynamic way of getting the business to improve dramatically.

A team that is engaged will naturally be a team that is proud to contribute to the cause. A team that is left in the dark will generally encourage suspicion and fear and in same cases a sense of little worth.

3. Stand out from the crowd IF you are selling a small business, if you are doing the same as everybody else in terms of your competitors, my reaction is that you are going to be prone to a price war from somebody or some other organisation (e.g. public company) with very deep pockets.

This would make me nervous

to pay a higher amount for your business unless I can allay these concerns.

List down what you do differently, and why your competitors either don’t or won’t do anything to match these nuances.

Yes, the times will come where they try to catch up – so what are you doing to stay one, two and even three steps ahead?

4. Be disciplined GOOD business operators show good discipline with their operations and financial practices. How do they do this? Well usually they have an Operating Procedures Manual which is followed religiously and they meet with their small business accountants regularly to discuss the goals, key performance indicators and other numbers.

Not only will they discuss numbers, but they will talk about the right numbers that will increase the business’s performance and then the business valuation.

Again, if I am buying a business, I will feel more secure if I know how things are being kept on track just like clockwork.

Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports produced will give more comfort that the business can adapt quickly if it starts to get off track.

A business that gets its returns done nine months after the year end, once a year, suggests to me the finger cannot be on the pulse. Therefore, I will either

filingl up fast with Easter goodies this week, according to the Australian Retailers Association (ARA).

Unlike Christmas, shopping for Easter generally takes place in a shorter period of time, with the bulk of Easter related purchases taking place in the fortnight prior to Good Friday.

ARA Executive director, Russell Zimmerman, said that despite supermarkets who begin to push the sale of chocolate eggs and hot cross buns from New Year, the majority of sales do not occur until much closer to Easter.

“Spending on gifts and entertaining for Easter really begins to ramp up from now on, with a peak in Easter-related spending expected in the five days prior, from March 20 to 24,” said Mr Zimmerman.

Hot selling items will of course be chocolate and sweets, hot cross buns, and seafood, and we’ll also see a general spike in sales of food and beverages as consumers make purchases for Easter celebrations with family and friends.

As stores are unable to trade by law on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, shoppers will be stocking up on all the necessities to tide them over for those days when they aren’t able to get to the shops.”

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Ask yourself these questions: z How are your reports produced and over what intervals are they discussed with your key team members and business advisors? z What do successful business owners discuss?

5. Service, service, service & service your customers A solid business will have very satisfied customers who are happy to provide testimonials.

It’s not uncommon for prospective purchasers to ask for testimonials either formally or discreetly. The best testimonials usually come from customers and clients who are serviced above and beyond.

What would your best customers say about your business today if they were asked? If you are not sure, I would recommend that you ask them immediately as they may have some wonderful information that will improve your business valuation several fold!

6. Presentation of premises BE proud of your business but also show your pride! I can never understand business owners who have premises that need a good paint job or clean up. Very rarely will a strong business

have a very ordinary presentation inside and out of its offices and buildings.

Stand across the road from your location. Does it look like you are proud to be in business or does it look like you just don’t really care? Go inside and imagine you are a customer. Does everything look neat and tidy and organised, or is everything all over the shop?

Conclusion: I hope some of the tips above will get you thinking about what you need to consider to get your business ready for maximum sale. It’s never too late – but the earlier the better.

If you happen to get a business valuer to value your business, make sure the report also takes into account matters not always shown within the numbers. If it doesn’t, find out why they were ignored or you could end up with a much lower price.

Consider this: For every dollar you improve your business now, you could see an extra sale price of up to $5 when you sell.

Throw in some capital gains tax concessions (where you qualify) and you may even pay no tax whatsoever on this 500 per cent!

To get the same result not selling could mean you have to earn 10 times your extra profit now before tax.

Please feel free to contact me to discuss the enormous potential and show you how.

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Lifestyle

Be winter wise and fertilise en they take longer to green your lawn, actually feed for longer and don’t require the

BY CHRIS BRAY same amount of watering as the inorganic GARDENING GURU equivalent.

All lawn fertilisers have an NPK (nitrogen, OW that we are into the second half of phosphorus, potassium) rating. Inorganic March, it is time to think about giving fertlisers can vary in this rating and it is alour lawn some attention before the efways worthwhile to check the label to get the fects of winter arrive. required balance for your lawn type, rememTraditionally, March and April can be warm bering that the higher the nitrogen level, the with lower rainfall and so far, this month has faster the greening and generally the more been no exception. watering in it requires.

Organic fertilisers by comparison, generally Fertilising your lawn during Autumn has have a lower NPK rate and can be applied with real benefits, not only for the look of your little watering in. lawn, but also the replenishment of nutrient Before application of your fertiliser, it is alvalue, leached out by watering of the soil and giving your lawn the boost it needs after a hot ways handy to measure the area that you are going to apply it to. The summer, whilst also prepardirections on the bag or ing it for winter. ` container will recommend When choosing a suitathe area that the contents ble granular fertiliser, first- Fertilising your lawn will cover. Always try to ly know the type of lawn or during Autumn has real apply at an even rate, this turf variety that you have, benefits, not only for the will elevate uneven colgiven that there are many or- look of your lawn, but our in your lawn and is ganic and inorganic choices also the replenishment of best applied via a fertiavailable. liser spreader, with many Inorganic or manufac- nutrient value, leached models available. tured fertilisers are usually out by watering of the Lawn fertilisers are not the most popular choice, as soil and giving your lawn only available in granular they green your lawn quickform, but also liquid and ly, producing results in usu- the boost it needs after a hot summer, whilst also hose on form. Importantally around seven days. ly, with the hose-on alterOrganic fertlisers, giv- preparing it for winter.

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How do young people in our region access health services?

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THE NSW Youth Access Survey is a research project from the University of Sydney, which is being championed locally by the School of Rural Health campuses in Dubbo and Orange.

The survey is aimed at youth across NSW ages 12 to 24, including all cities and regional areas.

It is vital the survey is promoted and distributed in our local area, so the responses are not focused on metropolitan areas only.

Catherine Hawke, an associate professor at the School of Rural Health, is a chief investigator for the study and wants to see as many young people from our region as possible filling out the survey.

“The survey encompasses the entire state, but here in western NSW we want to ensure the voices of our young people are heard loud and clear,” Hawke said.

“We particularly want to reach young people who are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, at risk of experiencing homelessness, from a refugee background and those who live in rural and remote areas.

“By examining how young people currently interact with health services – how they get medical advice, how they book appointments, what services they are using – means we can come up with ways to try and improve their experience and get more positive outcomes.”

The survey can be completed online anonymously, or participants can choose to provide their details. Young people can ask for help from parents if needed and

HEALTH IN BRIEF

are also being encouraged to share the survey with their friends on social media.

The survey should take around 20 minutes and all young people who complete it can enter the draw to win one of 20 $50 gift vouchers, to their choice of JBHi Fi, Myer, Dymocks or movie vouchers.

The survey can be accessed online via http://bit.ly/nswyouth

Retirement good for your health A LANDMARK study led by University of Sydney has found that people become more active, sleep better and reduce their sitting time when they retire.

Published in the Journal of Preventative Medicine, the study followed the lifestyle behaviours of 25,000 older Australians including physical activity, diet, sedentary behaviour, alcohol use and sleep patterns.

“Our research revealed that retirement was associated with positive lifestyle changes,” said lead researcher Dr Melody Ding, senior research fellow at the University’s School of Public Health.

“Compared with people who were still working, retirees had increased physical activity levels, reduced sitting time, were less likely to smoke, and had healthier sleep patterns.

“A major life change like retire-

natives, always check the label to see if it is compatible with your lawn variety, as the incorrect active constituent can have harmful effects.

With some of the new varieties of hose on alternatives available, especially for Buffalo turf, be sure to check the label for the rainfast timing and also the recommended temperature for use, as most of the hose-on alternatives recommend use under 30 degrees.

While it’s time to fertlise the lawn, replenish the soil of moisture with the addition of a wetting agent at the same time. By using granular or liquid wetting agents now, your lawn won’t need another application until later in the year. The use of wetting agents enables us to use less water and store water through dryer times and most have an added fertiliser such as a seaweed base.

Tips for this week 1. De-bud spent flowers from roses and watch for insect or fungus attack and treat with a suitable insecticide or fungicide.

2. Spray citrus with a suitable insecticide for aphids, citrus leaf minor and scale.

3. Prepare garden beds for planting of sweet peas, traditionally planted on St Patricks Day. 4. Plant winter varieties of vegetables and seasonal colour.

5. Continue to give lawns one to two good soaks per week, especially while the weather is dry.

ment creates a great window of opportunity to make positive lifestyle changes - it’s a chance to get rid of bad routines and engineer new, healthier behaviours,” she said.

The data revealed that retirees: z Increased physical activity by 93 minutes a week z Decreased sedentary time by 67 minutes per day z Increased sleep by 11 minutes per day z 50 per cent of female smokers stopped smoking The differences were significant even after adjusting for factors such as age, sex, urban/rural residence, marital status and education. There was no significant association found between retirement and alcohol use or fruit and vegetable consumption.

Dr Ding said retirement gave people more time to pursue healthier lifestyles.

“The lifestyle changes were most pronounced in people who retire after working full-time.

When people are working and commuting, it eats a lot of time out of their day. When they retire, they have time to be physically active and sleep more,” she said.

“In terms of sedentary time, the largest reduction in sitting time occurred in people who lived in urban areas and had higher educational levels.

Sugar and fat joint culprits in childhood obesity BOTH fat and sugar are important contributors to obesity in children and teenagers, rather than sugar alone, according to new research from The University of Western Australia.

The study, published in The

Journal of Nutrition looked at the food diaries of 6722 children in the UK and found a high intake of both sugar and fat increased child obesity risk, probably through what scientists have labelled a ‘hedonic synergy’, or sensory pleasure from eating certain foods.

Associate Professor from UWA’s School of Population Health Gina Ambrosini said sugar and fat made foods such as cakes, doughnuts and chocolate hard to resist, undermining an individual’s ability to control their cravings and their overall energy intake.

Associate Professor Ambrosini said the research kicked off following recent debate that sugar is the biggest culprit when it comes to obesity in children and adolescents.

“We found those consuming an energy-dense diet that was high in calories, sugar and fat were more prone to being overweight or obese than those with a diet high in sugar but lower in fat.”

“While our study does not support the contention that sugar has a unique role in the cause of obesity, it does need to be considered as part of the overall dietary pattern.”

Ambrosini said food groups carrying the largest risk for childhood obesity included confectionery and chocolate, cakes and biscuits, sugar-sweetened drinks, crisps, low-fibre breads and lowfibre breakfast cereals, while those that decreased obesity risk included fruits, vegetables, highfibre breakfast cereals and highfibre breads.

“While this might sound obvious, we observed that replacing, for example, a slice of cake with a piece of fruit each day, can make a difference to a child’s fat mass over time,” she said.

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BY COADY LOMONACO This jaw dropping image was taken around 5am on the outskirts of Dubbo. The glow from the sun is just starting to rise under the majestic Milky Way galaxy.

The pinkest glow on the right is light pollution from the town lights; the greenish-red glow to the left of the image is a layer of atmospheric airglow, This image also contains the alignment of Mars, the small red star at the top, Saturn just above the core of the galaxy leaving Venus being the massive star at the bottom with Mercury just below it. Coady LoMonaco is a photographer based in Dubbo.

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Energy boost from custard apples Custard Apples Health Facts Custard apples also boast a range of health benefits to help keep you in peak condition as the weather cools.

Immunity Booster: Custard apples are an excellent source of Vitamin C, with one serve containing 64.5mg, or 161 per cent of the daily target for Australian adults. Vitamin C helps keep your immune system in good shape and fights free radicals Gut Goodness: Custard apples are a source of dietary fibre, necessary for digestive wellbeing. One serve of custard apples contains 3.75 grams of dietary fibre (or 11 per cent of the daily target for Australian adults) Muscle Magic: Custard apples contain potassium, which is responsible for normal fluid and electrolyte balance. They are also a source of magnesium, which is important for normal nerve and muscle function and can help reduce tiredness and fatigue Weight Warrior: Custard apples are low GI, making them a great choice for the weight conscious. Lower GI foods can help keep you fuller for longer and are appealing in the cooler months which can see the winter kilo creep set in.

HE Aussie custard apple peak season is just around the corner, with growers expecting plenty of sweet and fragrant fruit from March to September.

The season officially begins during the full moon ahead of the Easter weekend, with the fruit flourishing with help from the lunar activity. Strange, but true!

Custard apples are a luscious, refreshing fruit with impressive health benefits.

In case you are unfamiliar with custards apples, they have pale green skin and creamy, smooth flesh. They are grown in subtropical and tropical parts of the country - from The Atherton Tablelands in North Queensland to Lismore in Northern NSW. Picking and Eating Tips A custard apple is ripe when you gently squeeze it and it gives slightly under your hand, similar to an avocado. You can speed up the ripening process by placing it in a paper bag with a banana.

Health Info Custard apples are in season throughout Autumn and Winter, making them a tasty and nutritious choice throughout the cooler months. They are an excellent source of vitamin C, a source of dietary fibre, potassium and B vitamins, plus they’re low in GI. Taste and usage Custard apples are best enjoyed fresh or in simple desserts. Their smooth and silky flesh provides a subtle burst of tropical flavours.

Some ideas include teasing out the flesh from a custard apple, discarding the skin and black seeds, and pop the flesh into a blender with ice cream, milk and honey for a super smoothie or serve on top of fresh walnut (or plain) sourdough with low fat ricotta, honey and cinnamon for a

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tasty custard apple bruschetta.

Australian custard apple grower, Patti Stacey says this bumper crop will extend from Autumn through to the start of Spring, making custard apples a tasty and nutritious choice throughout autumn and winter.

“Custard apples have pale green skin and a deliciously creamy texture, so they’re best enjoyed fresh or in simple desserts. Their smooth and silky flesh provides a subtle taste of tropical flavours. Thanks to the lovely warm spring and summer we’ve had, the custard apples this season are deliciously sweet.

“The custard apple industry in Australia is growing in leaps and bounds, and we’re planting more trees every year which will give custard apple lovers plenty to choose from,” Patti says.

Grower Patti Stacey’s Top Tips For Enjoying Custard Apples 1. Pick a Winner: When choosing a custard apple in store, pick one that is firm. They soften quickly and are quite fragile so it’s better to let them ripen in your fruit bowl at home. You can let your custard apples ripen at room temperature; this can happen within hours or take a few days.

2. Ripe and Ready: A custard apple is ripe when you gently squeeze it and it gives slightly under your hand, similar to an avocado. You can speed up the ripening process by placing it in a paper bag with a banana.

3. Store Safely: Once ripe, custard apples can be refrigerated for one to two days, but can lose flavour if left longer. Wrap them in cling wrap or keep them in an airtight container to keep fresh.

4. Tasty Treat: Custard apples are delicious as a snack or in simple dishes. Some ideas include: z Serve a custard apple for your family to share. Simply pull apart or cut with a knife.

All you need is a spoon! z Pair custard apple with shredded coconut and nuts on top of breakfast cereal for a morning treat z Tease out the flesh from a custard apple, discarding the skin and black seeds, and pop the flesh into a blender with ice cream, milk and honey for a super smoothie z Serve on top of fresh walnut (or plain) sourdough with low fat ricotta, honey and cinnamon for a tasty custard apple bruschetta

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Calgary dishes out a Californian dream

BY GEMMA DUNN AND KATE WHITING WITH her trim figure, long blonde hair and blue eyes, Calgary Avansino looks the epitome of a healthy Californian. But she’s made Britain her home for the past 16 years, where, as part of the burgeoning clean-eating brigade, she’s transforming our daily diets.

New cookbook Keep It Real is packed full of wholesome advice from the mum-of-three (to Ava, Margot and Remy), who arrived here in the winter of 2000, to discover coconut water and quinoa were unheard of, let alone available in local supermarkets.

Now, of course, they’re ubiquitous, but we’re still making bad decisions about what we put in the trolley.

“I think we’ve lost a reality check about what real food is, because we’re so used to going down the grocery store aisles and seeing 50 cereals and 20 salad dressings and actually, none of that is real food,” says the journalist, who, unsurprisingly, looks much younger than her 40 years.

“So, what you’re used to doing – you have to stop that habit. Think about food in terms of where it comes from, what it’s made from, what goes into it, and start caring about what we put in our bodies in a different way.”

Avansino, who started her career in journalism as the assistant to British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman and is now a contributing editor, has a simple set of rules for how to ‘keep it real’, which include: ditching diets, embracing plants, and eliminating sugar.

“When I talk about a plant-based diet, it doesn’t mean you have to be a vegan or veggie at all; if you want to eat lean, good cuts of meat, that’s fine. You just have to look at what else you’re eating,” she says. “I’m not saying make three-starred Michelin meals, I’m just saying chop some spinach.”

It was really important for Avansino that her book be published post-January, so it wouldn’t be part of the “detox, diet mentality”.

“This is forever. You have to

KITCHEN DIVA Garlic: Nature’s pungent secret weapon

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS Of all of the ingredients in my kitchen, garlic is the one I use in almost every savoury dish. Sometimes I want the sharp flavour of minced, raw garlic combined with onion and sautéed until golden.

For lighter dishes, like a cold salad with a cooked meat, vegetables and a dressing, I use garlic that has been infused in olive oil, which tones it down with-

out losing its flavour. Roasted garlic is the perfect topping for a crusty piece of bread or to mix into mashed potatoes or dips.

My new favourite garlic preparation is minced and deep-fried until it’s golden, a product I found in a Filipino grocery store. It makes a flavourful and crunchy topping for everything from hamburgers to casseroles. Garlic is the perfect dinner guest, bringing flavour and personality to the party without outshining the host.

Garlic is believed to have originated in central Asia. It has been a food source for over 7000 years, which makes it one of the oldest vegetables still in use.

While we mainly use garlic as a veg-

etable, it has historically been used for medicinal purposes. Here are some of the ways garlic is used to fight common medical ailments: * Regular garlic consumption is claimed to reduce cholesterol and lower blood pressure. * Eating a small amount of garlic daily is often recommended to help prevent cardiovascular problems. * Fresh or powdered garlic is known to be a topical antibiotic, antibacterial and antifungal.

No matter how you mince it, garlic adds a wonderful flavour to all kinds of savoury dishes and is a great way to protect your health! Try my unusual, budget-friendly dish for Garlic and Lemon

decide if you want to change how you think about cooking and the food you put in your kitchen. It should be a great thing – not a deprivation thing.”

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“Diet is such a negative concept.

It causes this cycle of, ‘I’m not good enough, I’m a failure and I can’t do this – and now I weigh more than I did before’. Because that’s what happens – every time.

“I think there’s a huge movement against dieting and that’s what I want to see – because I don’t want anything I write to be thought of as a diet.”

So that means you can indulge in your favourite food, be that pizza or brownies, but she says: “You just can’t have it all the time”.

“Especially with women, there’s this mentality where if I eat something naughty for breakfast then I think, ‘Oh well, this day is shot, I might as well eat crap all day’.

But think of every meal as a fresh start. Don’t ever beat yourself up about something you ate before – just move on and start with the next meal, day or whatever it is.

Don’t make food the enemy.”

Exercise is also really important – a self-confessed yoga bunny, when she started at Vogue, she would arrive fresh-faced from a morning workout to find her colleagues nursing coffees and giving her odd looks. In her book, she says we must make an effort to move our bodies every day.

“I don’t find exercise a burden – it just makes me feel more levelled, calm and less stressed. I have really good ideas when I’m working out.”

The whole family go hiking when they’re back in California – or walk around the parks in London. She’s bringing up her children to make healthy choices, but she’s careful not to micromanage them so much that they can’t indulge at birthday parties.

“I always try to teach them moderation – just choose what you want most and enjoy it.”

And that sounds like good advice for us all.

Try some of Calgary’s healthy and nutritious dishes for yourself...

Sardines With Parmesan Pasta and get a delicious dose of garlic to keep the doctor away!

GARLIC AND LEMON SARDINES WITH PARMESAN PASTA (Serves 4.)

If you’re not a fan of sardines, replace them with 2 (140-170gm) cans of chunk tuna packed in oil. Just drain off the oil and proceed with the recipe.

225g linguine, egg noodles or fettuccine, white or whole-wheat 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided 4 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 small yellow onion, peeled and diced 2 tablespoons tomato paste

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CALGARY’S CAULIFLOWER COUSCOUS (Serves 4 as a main or 6-8 as a side) 1 large cauliflower (about 750g after trimming) 3tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1/2tsp ground turmeric 1/2tsp ground cinnamon 1/2tsp ground nutmeg Grated zest of 1 lemon Juice of 1/2 lemon 15 mint leaves, roughly chopped 60g pistachios, toasted and roughly chopped 4 spring onions, chopped 100g goats’ cheese, crumbled 1 x 400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1/2 pomegranate, seeds removed (optional) Juice of 1 lime Salt and pepper Core and cut the cauliflower into medium florets.

Blitz the florets in a food processor until they resemble couscous. Do it in two batches if the food processor is more than three-quarters full. Don’t over-blend, otherwise it will become pureed – that’s baby food, not couscous.

Add two tablespoons of olive oil and fluff with a fork, then season with the salt, pepper, turmeric, cinnamon and nutmeg. Then add all the remaining ingredients except the lime juice and toss together. Add additional olive oil, salt and pepper if necessary. Pour the lime juice over the top.

1/2 teaspoon ground sage 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes (divided) 2 slices bread, white or whole-wheat, for breadcrumbs; or 1 cup packaged breadcrumbs (Panko, white or whole wheat, divided) 1/4 cup lemon juice 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper 1 teaspoon salt 2 (85- to 110-gram) cans boneless, skinless sardines, drained and flaked 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley (divided) 1 cup finely shredded Parmesan cheese (divided) * 1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil.

CHOCOLATE, CRANBERRY AND BUCKWHEAT COOKIES (Makes about 15) 125g buckwheat flour (available from Sainsbury’s, Ocado and many other outlets – along with the other less common ingredients in this recipe) 25g cacao powder 1/2tsp Himalayan salt (pink crystal rock salt) 1/2tsp baking soda 120g dark chocolate (70 per cent cocoa solids), roughly chopped 150g coconut sugar 4tbsp coconut oil, melted 2 medium eggs 1tsp vanilla extract 80g dried cranberries Shelled hemp seeds, to sprinkle Combine the buckwheat flour, cacao, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl and mix thoroughly. Set aside.

Put the chocolate in a small heatproof bowl and sit it above a pan of simmering water without letting the bottom of the bowl touch the water. Allow it to melt, stirring occasionally.

In a food processor, blend the coconut sugar with the coconut oil. Add the eggs one by one, then add the vanilla extract and finally the melted chocolate.

Mix until just combined.

Add the chocolate mix to the dry ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula. Then fold in the dried cranberries and mix until combined.

Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment.

Place the mixture in the fridge for 20 minutes to cool down.

Once the dough has cooled a little, you are ready to bake.

Drop tablespoons of the sticky chocolate mix on the prepared baking sheet, leaving 5cm between each cookie, then sprinkle with hemp seeds.

Bake for 10 minutes, then remove from the oven and let them cool on the baking sheet for five to eight minutes before transferring to a wire rack. The cookies will feel quite soft when they first come out of the oven but will firm up when they cool down.

Once cooled, the cookies can be kept in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.

Add enough salt so that the water tastes salty. Add pasta and cook until just tender, 8 to 10 minutes or according to package directions. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup of the water to add to the sauce.

2. Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons oil in a small non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and onion, cook, stirring, until fragrant and sizzling but not brown, about 20 seconds. Add the tomato paste, sage and 1/8 teaspoon of the cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes, and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer the garlic mixture to a large bowl.

3. To make fresh breadcrumbs: Trim crusts from the bread slices. Tear bread into pieces and process in a food processor until coarse crumbs form.

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BROCCOLI ‘MEATBALLS’ (Makes 12, serves 3-4) 275g broccoli florets (about one large head) 125g plain almonds (not roasted, salted or sweetened) 1 large egg 10g basil leaves, finely chopped 10g flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 5g coriander leaves, finely chopped (optional) 10g finely grated Parmesan cheese 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1/8tsp cayenne pepper, or to taste Salt and pepper Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment.

Place your broccoli florets in a steamer and steam for approximately 10 minutes, until tender and still bright green, rather than mushy and going grey; keep checking them with a knife to ensure they don’t overcook. Once steamed, refresh in cold water to stop the cooking and leave in a colander to drain.

In a food processor or high-powered blender, grind the almonds into a fine powder and place in a mixing bowl. Then pulse the steamed broccoli in the food processor or blender until finely chopped (not pureed) and place in the bowl with the almonds.

Whisk the egg in a separate small bowl, then add to the mixing bowl along with the basil, parsley, coriander – if using, Parmesan, garlic and cayenne pepper, and season with salt and pepper.

Mix everything well, until thoroughly combined, then using your hands, make approximately 12 ‘meatballs’, pressing them firmly together to be sure they retain their shape.

Place the balls on the baking sheet, making sure they are not touching. Pop in the oven for 25 minutes or until they are just turning golden brown.

4. Wipe out the pan. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of the oil in the pan over medium heat. Add breadcrumbs and 1/8 teaspoon of the cayenne or red pepper flakes and cook, stirring, until crispy and golden brown, 5 to 6 minutes. Transfer to a plate.

5. Whisk the lemon juice, the pepper and salt into the garlic oil.

Add the pasta to the bowl along with the sardines, 1/4 cup of the parsley, 3/4 cup of the Parmesan and the reserved pasta water, about 1/4 cup at a time, as needed, to bring the sauce together. Gently stir to combine. Serve sprinkled with the breadcrumbs, and the remaining parsley and Parmesan.

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And so to bed

BY SAM WYLIE-HARRIS

WHEN it comes to creating the perfect environment for a good night's sleep, your style is as important as the bed you choose.

Along with the right mattress, your bedstead or divan is the perfect platform to express your personality. And with the first signs that the cooler months are on their way, there couldn't be a better time to drift into comfortable slumber and design the bed (room) of your dreams.

We spend a third of our lives in bed, so having fun with fabrics and bedlinen will not only enhance your sleep experience, but help you unwind and relax in style – with the help of ornate headboards, luxurious thread counts, cosy throws or contemporary furnishings.

MODERN "A busy life doesn't equal busy bedroom decor," says Samantha Parish, interior design account manager at a bed company. "If you're someone that has a hectic work schedule or social life, then your bedroom space should be a sanctuary of clean lines, light colours and soft shades, and completely free from clutter. This bedroom style will help a busy mind to relax, and begin to calmly process the day's thoughts before it's time to sleep."

Parish suggests a mattress with intuitive pocket springs that offer maximum support and helps to relieve pressure in the spine and muscles, allowing your body to fully relax and your mind to unwind.

Contemporary, clean lines complete the look and neutral tones will add a designer hotel bedroom vibe.

CLASSIC "A timeless, classic style has a regal feel and is subtle, formal and elegant," says Parish. "It's suited to the sleeper who likes to drift off to sleep in a calming environment without any form of chaos.

"Incorporate curved, French furnishings and soft feminine touches into the bedroom for a space that is both soothing and beautiful."

Although more expensive than cotton, linen and velvets are on-trend – and a sumptuous satin throw, ornate chandelier and a boudoir cushion will create a feeling of timeless elegance. A grand, curved or winged headboard always looks lavish, or you can recline in comfort against a headboard dressed in silk satin with gorgeous button details.

"For more traditional bedrooms, look towards more ornate headboards with an interesting shape or luxurious detailing such as stud work," says Adam Black, co-founder of a handmade bed and mattress company. "Divans work well in these environments and offer the luxury of extra storage."

Try opting for a handmade, bespoke mattress, filled with organic cotton, wool and

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN Preschool tissue paper jellyfish art

BY DONNA ERICKSON IT’LL soon be that time of year when a trip to far north Queensland sounds like the perfect dream holiday. But most of us don’t have the luxury of flying a family to an exotic destination to snorkel and swim. That’s when a visit to an aquarium can satisfy the longing to be eye to eye with exotic fish and other marine life.

Make a plan to visit your closest aquarium this winter (there’s an excellent one Sydney). If you’re lucky to observe enchanting jellyfish, reinforce

silk, and tailored with genuine hand side stitching for additional edge-to-edge support.

COUNTRY Taking inspiration from her Scottish heritage, British TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has launched a bedroom collection which features an array of checked fabrics alongside a grey, taupe and plum colour palette influenced by the rugged Highlands and Celtic shores. Aussie bed-buyers could take inspiration from her range, particularly if you share some of that Scottish heritage.

Knitted throws and cushions are easily layered to team with the cool natural textures, such as stone and cottons found on lighting, bedding and soft furnishings.

"These are all pieces I would have in my own home and a lot of the collection is very much a reflection of the beautiful landscape, colours and atmosphere of the Outer Hebrides, which is a place I love," says Kelly. "I wanted bring elements of the Scottish outdoors into the home."

Hypnos advises using a storage divan for this type of look, as it provides space to stash away Wellington boots, travel cases and woolly throws before spring.

"For the type of sleeper who likes to have all the comforts of home, but is a fan of the great outdoors, then a rustic country style can work well, says Parish. "Its rich, warm textured fabrics and eclectic collections of furniture, nick-nacks and accessories that hold special memories, mean the bedroom becomes a personal haven from the outside world."

BOTANICAL Textile designer Clarissa Hulse has launched a Boston Ivy range for next season which combines ditsy vine and flowing tendril prints inspired by nature, with throws and cushions to complement the bed linen in Sulphur – a cheerful yellow that pairs well with leaf motifs and trailing plants to bring the outdoors into your bedroom.

By opening the doors to all the lush greens of a garden and the beautiful burnt oranges of the sunset, try using bold, natural prints with a heavy focus on leaves, which will act as a canopy to surround the bed and create the perfect tranquil environment for a day dreamer, suggests Parish.

"If you're after a bed for lounging on in the day, while offering the perfect conditions for sleep at night, then opt for a mattress with naturally soft and breathable layers of organic wool and camel hair, which help to regulate body temperature and ensure a fresh and hygienic night's sleep," says Parish. "Finish it off with an upholstered fabric headboard, which you can sit and read against in the day."

the memory with your preschooler, and make jellyfish art when you get home.

Before you begin, collect illustrated books about jellyfish and photos you took at an aquarium for reference. Or, if you can’t get up close and personal with jellyfish, watch the live-action jelly-cam I found online from the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. The colours and graceful movements will surely inspire this artistic project: www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-experiences/ live-web-cams.

Grab tissue and crepe paper from your stashed-away party supplies, and you’re on your way to making a large, eye-catching jellyfish to display on a bathroom window to let the sunshine through, or hang in your child’s bedroom for under-the-sea decor.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Lavender Double Divan in Brera Cestino Noir

Waxed paper Tissue paper in several colours, such as pink, blue and purple (common jellyfish colours) Six 50cm lengths of crepe paper Pencil Scissors Iron Stapler HERE’S THE FUN: 1. Cut tissue paper into 2.5-3cm squares, triangles and rectangles. You’ll need about 20 pieces. This is good cutting practice for children learning how to use scissors.

2. Sketch a basic 20cm high and 28cm wide (nearly the size of an A4 sheet of paper) dome or mushroom-top shape with a pencil to represent a jellyfish body onto a sheet of waxed paper. The bottom of the shape should be a 22cm horizontal line. With the sketch as a

guide, cut two.

3. Set one body shape in front of your child and let him arrange the cut tissue paper on it. Set the second sheet on top, wax side down, matching the edges. Place on a paper towel on an ironing board. Set another paper towel on top. An adult should iron over it for a few seconds on medium heat until the waxed paper seals together.

4. For tentacles, cut each of the six crepe paper strips in half lengthwise without cutting through the top ends.

Staple the uncut ends evenly onto the horizontal base of the body. You now will have 12 free-flowing tentacles.

5. Tape the jellyfish to a wall or window.

Note: Make smaller jellyfish by reducing the body shape by half. For tentacles, use two 25cm lengths of crepe paper cut into fourths lengthwise.

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Brompton Bed Linen Collection in Silver and Standard Oxford Pillowcase

Boston Ivy Bedding and Housewife Pillowcase

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BY JOANN DERSON * “When you’re slicing some types of meat or chicken breasts (anything that needs to be cut thin and has a lot of skin or fat that makes it hard to trim), try partially freezing the meat beforehand. It makes it much easier to cut, and it defrosts quickly when it’s sliced thin.” – contributed by C.O. * “I make my own biscuits from a recipe that’s been in my family forever. But here’s a tip for people who like to bake: freeze and grate your butter when mixing it into your dry ingredients. Less handling means more flakiness and a more tender texture. It’s just right for biscuits, and for pie crust and scones too.” – contributed by R.L. * Add some shaker pegs or a peg rack to

your closet door. They are great for scarves, necklaces, purses and other bags. You can store many items in places that might otherwise go unused. * “Use plastic food-storage containers to hold your accessory cords in a ‘junk’ drawer.

If you flip them bottoms up, you can see what cord is in the container to access it quickly.

This way, you don’t need to worry about family who don’t put things away in the right box.

Or is that just my family?” – contributed by A.L. * “I purchase big boxes of assorted greeting cards by mail order. They include many generic cards, as well as birthday and other occasions. I donate them to my local nursing home, along with stamps. Many residents love to keep in touch by mail, but aren’t able to go out and choose greeting cards or stationary on their own.” – contributed by M.A. * Substitute 1/4 cup of applesauce or mashed banana for an egg in baking recipes.

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Western Australia’s shipwrecked treasure

BY SARAH MARSHALL LISTENING to calcified coral cracking underfoot, I can almost hear the fragile cries of lost souls buried metres below me. Nearly four centuries ago, 126 men, women and children were massacred during one of the most blood-thirsty episodes in Australia’s maritime history, and many of their bodies were laid to rest here, on Beacon Island.

A local fisherman, Chook, tells me he once spent the night on this “island of angry ghosts”, awaking to the sound of panic-stricken, squawking seabirds.

For now, the windswept, barren coral mound is calm, although a fringe of blood-red fish spawn along the shoreline unintentionally nods to a sinister past.

It’s not an obvious sightseeing attraction, or even one that’s easy to reach, but I’m visiting as part of a small cruise through the relatively unknown Abrolhos Islands. This archipelago of 122 coral and limestone islands strung along the world’s most southerly reef system, 60km offshore from west coast town Geraldton, welcomes only a handful of tourists each year, yet it occupies an important place in Australia’s history.

In 1629, the Dutch merchant vessel Batavia shipwrecked after hitting Morning Reef, which sailors had mistaken for “moonshine on the water”. Of the 322 passengers on board, most managed to swim to shore, although a mutiny reminiscent of Lord Of The Flies ensued.

Hero Wiebbe Hayes eventually reclaimed peace, and

the stone forts he erected on West Wallabi Island are considered to be the first European buildings on Australian soil.

Providing tidal conditions are favourable, tourists can snorkel or dive the Batavia shipwreck, although up until recently, it’s only been possible to reach with expensive charters or by hitching a ride with a fisherman.

A crayfishing industry developed here in the 1920s, with settlements springing up over the course of subsequent decades. But communities collapsed when a quota system was introduced in 2010, meaning it was no longer feasible to fish for more than a few months a year.

Jay Cox, 54, lived on Rat Island for 14 years with his wife, Sonia, and their children. He’s since swapped crayfishing for tourism, and purchased the Eco Abrolhos six years ago, after seeing it for sale in a magazine.

The 38-passenger ship, which formerly operated in the Whitsundays, becomes my cosy home for the next five days. I’m joined on board by a group of 15 hardy, nature-loving Australians, mainly retirees escaping the east coast winter on long caravanning trips.

During our bumpy four-hour sailing from Geraldton, I hear about a 70-year-old vet’s attempts to reintroduce a rare breed of pheasant to NSW, and learn how one couple manage to survive for six months a year camping on a beach with just a couple of fishing rods and a biodegradable toilet.

All the while, I’m distracted by migratory humpbacks breaching on the horizon.

Lying in the stream of the Leeuwin Current, the Abrolhos Islands are surrounded by a mixture of tropical and temperate waters making conditions extremely favourable for marine wildlife and a healthy coral reef.

Belts of turquoise and indigo wrap around the islands, melting into each other like butter in a pan.

Using the gentle current to carry me, I drift snorkel off the shores of Wooded Island, admiring some of the 100 different types of coral found here. Clownfish eyeball me suspiciously from beneath the writhing tendrils of blue-tipped anemones, as I float below a rooftop of large plate corals.

Those who prefer not to get wet take a scenic trip in glass bottom boat, the King Diver, while others fish for squid. That evening, Chook and Jay’s son, Bronson, fillet snapper and coral trout for dinner as the watery silhouettes of salivating reef sharks gather around the boat.

While sitting at the top deck bar built by Jay, I learn more about the local fishing community’s opposition to tourism in the Abrolhos. A story emerges, almost as cut-throat as the Batavia mutiny 400 years ago.

Three days before we’d set off, Jay had received a phone call warning him not to visit any inhabited islands as part of the ship’s itinerary. Local fishermen, it appears, would prefer to keep their idyllic kingdoms to themselves.

It would probably be much easier and more profitable for Jay and Sonia to spend more time in Western

A sublime find in Serbia

BY FRANCES WRIGHT OFTEN overlooked in favour of its popular neighbour Croatia, Serbia doesn’t really register as a top choice for a holiday. I have to admit, my own knowledge of the country, which celebrates a decade of independence this year, is patchy.

Aside from Slobodan Milosevic’s welldocumented years of tyrannical rule in the Nineties, when the country was part of the former Yugoslavia, I know next to nothing about the place.

But images of hardship belong to a distant past; instead a trendy and affordable destination is emerging.

After a two-hour flight from London’s Heathrow airport, I arrive in Belgrade.

The Serbian capital has been destroyed and rebuilt more than 40 times, result-

ing in a patchwork of architectural designs lining the streets. I gravitate towards the Savamala district with its bohemian bars and riverfront clubs. The streets are heaving with young, cool and creative types.

Seeking penance after a hard night on the tiles, I head west of Belgrade to the Pustinja Monastery in the village of Pocuta, surrounded by steep hills. Originally built in the 13th century during the reign of King Dragutin, the monastery now standing dates back to the 17th century.

I’m greeted by a group of resident nuns, who appear to be almost as old as the monastery itself. Overcoming the language barrier, they welcome us with a traditional offering of honey and hot water and lead us on a tour through the

building decorated with frescoes of Serbian saints, including St Sava.

Even more unusual is fairytale village Drvengrad, part of the picturesque Zlatibor district, surrounded by the Tara National Park and a three-hour drive from Belgrade.

It was built in 2003 as a film set by the acclaimed Serbian film director Emir Kusturica for his film Life Is A Miracle, and is now a fully functioning village where Kusturica still lives and even hosts his annual film festival, the Kustendorf Film and Music Festival, famed for not having a red carpet.

Kusturica grew up in war-torn Sarajevo and has said his desire to build Drvengrad was born from the destruction of his own town. He also hoped to use it as a means to encourage young people

to embrace film.

All the streets are named after people Kusturica respects and admires, such as footballer Diego Maradona, martial arts star Bruce Lee, revolutionary Che Guevara and, of course, national hero and tennis ace Novak Djokovic.

Locals are eager to tell me Johnny Depp once visited while filming in Serbia.

The bizarre settlement has 25 timber cottages where tourists can stay, a church, the Stanley Kubrick cinema and an ideological prison, where imaginary inhabitants include those who still live among us, such as George Bush.

I’m particularly enamoured by the church, a small wooden structure with portraits of Madonna and child.

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Australia’s Kimberley region, where Eco Abrolhos also operates itineraries.

“We put the Kimberleys into a Google algorithms search engine and in a month there were 122,000 searches,” explains Jay. “In the same period there were just 80 for the Abrolhos.”

But a combination of passion and anger spurs them on.

Defying threats, we land on Pigeon Island where one of the few receptive fishermen, Al, has been living since he was 15. At one time, the population swelled to 70.

Faded artwork decorates a schoolroom which closed in 2008, and freshly chalked cues still lie across a pool table in the community centre.

I tiptoe into a corrugated iron “museum piece” house, where a vintage TV set glares at a ripped, monochrome art deco sofa and dirty tea cups sit on a Formica table imprinted with an image of the Venetian lagoon.

Jay reminisces about a care-free past, and I wonder if an element of his determination to set foot on these forgotten islands is bound-up with personal nostalgia.

In reality, he shouldn’t be so concerned.

While dwindling communities are a point of interest, their rundown shacks, strangled in a mass of electrical cables, are, for the most part, depressingly ugly.

For me, it’s the remote, unsullied spots that prove to be the biggest draw.

More than 90 different species of seabird can be found here, including the threatened Australian Lesser Noddy. We go in search of the diminutive birds (which weigh just 100g) on Leos Island, although after lifting up a few bushes, Jay shrugs his shoulders and concludes “they’re not here today”.

Instead, we sit on the banks of a lagoon and watch cormorants skim the water as osprey flit back and forth to their nest.

On East Wallabi Island, one of the few limestone islands with access to fresh water, I spend an afternoon trying to spot timid Tammar wallabies in the dense thickets, while other members of our group attempt to prize free oysters clinging tightly to rocks at Turtle Bay. Not a single – even lost – soul could disturb the peace.

Tourism in the Abrolhos Islands is admittedly in its early stages, and there’s no denying the Cox’s have a challenging ride ahead.

“Sometimes I think this is too hard,” admits Sonia, during a low point.

But their love for the destination is too great to ignore.

Jay recalls a group of visiting scientists who he guided 10 years ago as part of a charter tour. “They were visiting 40 reef systems around Australia and claimed this was one of the best,” he says proudly.

“They said, just keep doing what you’re doing; this could be the next Great Barrier Reef.”

TRAVEL FACTS :: Sarah Marshall was a guest of Western Australia (westernaustralia.com). At time of writing, a five-day cruise with Eco Abrolhos (www.ecoabrolhos.com.au) cost $2,175 pp twin share for a stateroom, including food and tours. A three-day cruise is $1,305 . Qantas (qantas.com) flies to Geraldton from Perth .

is served at the village restaurant, where I dine on meat, cheese and lots and lots of bread – including a cornbread called proja. Another local dish I sample is kajmak, an indulgent dairy product, similar to clotted cream.

Dishes are inspired by a number of cultures, borrowing from German, Greek and Turkish cuisine. Best of all, it’s really cheap – I have a threecourse meal with wine for roughly $A11.

Near to Drvengrad, on the border of Serbia and Bosnia, is the stunning river Drina, where I take a rafting trip. The water is calm and still, so the experience is nothing like the white-knuckle ride I’d been anticipating. We calmly float past rural or-

thodox churches, until we reach an isolated house on stilts in the middle of the river, near the town of Bajina Basta. The small wooden house was built by a group of local boys in 1968 and has been standing on a rock for nearly 50 years, surviving multiple floods.

After we’ve finished gazing at the curious house, we clamber off the boat to a nearby restaurant to sample some trout fresh from the river, which is absolutely delicious.

Serbia really feels like Europe’s best-kept secret, with weird and magical and experiences around every corner. :: Frances Wright was a guest of the Serbian tourist board. Visit www. serbia.travel for more information

Wooden cottages in the village of Drvengrad, Serbia. It was built in 2003 as a film set. PHOTO: BIGSTOCK

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Maria's sporting chance of freedom

BY HANNAH STEPHENSON MOST girls born in South Waziristan, known by locals as 'the most dangerous place in the world', are destined for a life of hardship, arranged marriages and oppression.

In this tribal region of Pakistan bordering war-torn Afghanistan, women stay indoors, aren't allowed an education and are forbidden to do sports.

They can't venture out unless clothed in a burqa and accompanied by a male relative.

"They send girls like me to the crazy house – or simply stone us to death," says Maria Toorpakai, who has faced Taliban threats and escaped bombs and bullets to seek the freedom she has always wanted.

Now 25, Maria is Pakistan's number one squash player and ranked 49th in the world. She lives in Toronto with three girl friends and hopes to one day be a Hollywood actress.

Yet she disguised herself as a boy for around 10 years to give her at least some of the freedoms we in the West take for granted. Her story is charted in her memoir A Different Kind Of Daughter.

Just before her fifth birthday, the feisty, headstrong child dumped all her stifling dresses, embroidered with beads and silk threads, into a cooking pit, dowsed them with kerosene and put a match to them.

Running back into the mud house which she and her family lived, she donned her brother's shirt and baggy trousers (shalwar kameez) and hacked off her long black hair with a sharp knife, adding the clumps to the flames.

From that point, with her liberalminded father's consent, she became known as Genghis Khan.

"I started hanging out with boys, I could explore the area better than any girl could ever do. My sister was eight when she stopped going out, because that's the culture."

The family moved a lot when she was younger because of her father's outspoken pro-women's rights views, which met with disapproval from the tribal elders. He allowed his wife, a teacher, and daughters relative freedom and believed they should have a good education.

"Pretending to be a boy wasn't a pressure for my family until I was 12, when we moved to Peshawar," she recalls.

"That's the age when being a girl is hard to disguise.

"My dad thought that making me become a girl in the local Islamic culture would destroy my personality and my health. He allowed me to keep going."

Channelling her energies into sport, she took up weightlifting, winning a boys' junior competition in Lahore.

Her real gender wasn't discovered until she decided to take up squash at around 15 and wanted to enrol with an academy at her local sports complex.

For that, she had to present her birth certificate. She and her father decided there and then to come clean and, to their surprise, the academy accepted her and she became known as Maria.

Once her male opponents discovered her gender, they subjected her to a barrage of cruel taunts and lewd comments. But the scorn wasn't confined to the squash court.

"People who had been friendly before talked very disrespectfully to me. Shopkeepers wouldn't serve me. Even if I went out on my bike, people would kick me or whack me with sticks."

As Maria progressed in the game,

turning professional in 2006, winning medals and trophies, so the Taliban increased its activities in Peshawar, blowing up schools, booby-trapping towns and targeting bazaars and crowds.

Maria saw the devastation and death caused by suicide bombers and gun-toting extremists.

"Every day I would hear bomb blasts.

It was not once a month, it was every day. Our home sometimes shook from the explosions. I saw people dying and bodies after a bomb went off in the market. The only thing that kept me going was that light at the end of the tunnel – I believed that by training, I would find a way out."

Fearing she was being watched by the Taliban, Maria started taking different routes to and from the squash academy, but that fear intensified when she became Pakistan national squash champion and her picture appeared in the papers, which further drew her to the attention of the extremists.

As a professional female sportsperson who played without a veil and in shorts, she and her family were threatened as her actions were perceived as "un-Islamic".

Her father received a note from the Taliban warning him that if he didn't stop Maria from playing, he would suffer severe consequences.

The squash academy also received threats, there were sightings of strange men hanging around and subsequently undercover officers were assigned to protect Maria.

Eventually, fear wore her down, which led to her being virtually confined to her home for around three years, selftraining, hitting a squash ball against the brick walls inside.

"I was tired of this society. There was no ending," she recalls. She realised she would have to leave the country if she wanted to play.

For three and a half years, she sent emails to clubs, academies, schools, colleges and universities in the West – everywhere she could find squash courts.

By the time she was 18, she had sent thousands.

One of her emails reached Canadian squash legend Jonathon Power, who had set up an academy in Toronto – and

took her on.

Moving to Canada has changed her life, she reflects.

"It's improved my understanding of human beings. I'm from Waziristan, the most dangerous place on earth, known for terrorism. I come from the same tribe as most of the Taliban.

"I wondered if people would accept me, but they didn't ask me for anything, who I am or where I come from. They just accept me as their daughter, their family member. Their love has changed me."

In Waziristan, she was a tomboy, with dusty hair, no shoes on her feet, a slingshot around her neck.

"Now I have really good clothes, I eat with a fork – we eat with our hands in Waziristan – and when I go back, people think I'm a westerner.

"I had a lot to learn. I've become more girlie. I put on a little make-up if I'm going out and I have feminine clothes now too."

She returns to Pakistan frequently for squash tournaments, often staying in the capital Islamabad as it is considered safer, but visiting her family in Peshawar unannounced.

"There is always danger. My sister is in politics (she's a Pakistan parliamentarian) but she doesn't want security.

"It's much better at the moment over there. The Pakistani army are inside Waziristan and have been at war with the Taliban. In the last year and a half, I have seen a lot of change.

"Last time there was an attack on the Bacha Khan University close to Peshawar, the local people brought guns and started fighting the militants, alongside the army, so I think everyone is aware they should protect themselves."

Does she still fear for her own safety?

"If death comes, then it comes. That's how we live," she shrugs. "The fight is going on, but people are tired of war and are starting to understand the importance of education.

"Today, every girl should stand up, stay strong and ask for their rights." :: A Different Kind Of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From The Taliban In Plain Sight by Maria Toorpakai, with Katharine Holstein, is published in hardback

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Helen Stevenson’s memoir of raising a daughter with cystic fibrosis is “beautiful”

BY KATE WHITING BOOK OF THE WEEK Love Like Salt: A Memoir by Helen Stevenson is published in hardback by Virago.

“THE child will soon die whose brow tastes salty when kissed,” warned an ancient medical textbook. Nowadays we know this to be the genetic condition cystic fibrosis, which prevents salt passing easily from one cell to the next.

The life expectancy of such children is improving all the time, but it’s still a diagnosis to drive a dagger into a parent’s heart.

Helen Stevenson’s memoir of raising a daughter with cystic fibrosis in rural France – whilst simultaneously dealing with her mother’s dementia – is far from being a sisterly, accessible account of the Sandwich Generation. Anyone who expects that will be disappointed. Stevenson is not Everywoman, nor wants to be. Instead, she devotes long passages of the book to spiritual and philosophical musings, and penetrating observations about French society.

8/10 (Review by Liz Ryan) FICTION The Senility Of Vladimir P by Michael Honig is published in hardback by Atlantic Books.

NIKOLAI Sheremetev has never quite got the hang of how things work in Russia. During his army service, he was

unable to see that his captain was hiring his troops out on the side to build apartment blocks. Working as a nurse, he refused bribes offered by relatives to give better care to patients, even seeing his own wife die because he would not bribe doctors himself.

He is now faced with looking after former president Vladimir P, a senile old man who spends his days talking to imagined former minions and judo kicking the head of a Chechen fighter he once had shot by firing squad.

Even when he finds out he is surrounded by a whole staff of workers – housekeeper, chef, driver, gardener, security supervisor – at the ex-president’s dacha, who are stealing as if their life depended upon it, Sheremetev cannot hide his shock.

But when his nephew needs a massive bribe to get out of jail, Sheremetev has to balance his conscience against the urge do what Vladimir P had done best during his years in office and line his own pockets.

The Senility Of Vladimir P is former doctor Michael Honig’s second novel and an exciting tale of how even the best of men can face temptation. Right up until the final moments, Sheremetev continues the fight against corruption in an entertaining story which will appeal to anyone with an interest in Russia and all things Russian.

7/10 (Review by Roddy Brooks) Nice Work (If You Can Get It) by Celia Imrie is published in hardback by Bloomsbury.

THERESA, Carol, William and Benjamin have all escaped to Bellevue-SurMer, a picturesque town in the French Riviera. But instead of sitting back and taking life easy, they decide to start a new enterprise: they’re going to open a restaurant.

And when Carol hears about an old property that’s just become available, she bites off the owner’s hand. The offer seems too good to be true, but there’s no time to worry about that, there’s work to be done. Sally turns down the opportunity to join the others in their new venture, happy to carry on with life as it is, but she didn’t count on the sudden arrival of an old associate and a new acquaintance who will shake things up.

Best known as an Olivier Awardwinning actress, Celia Imrie certainly brings her dramatist’s eye for plot to this uproarious caper of a novel.

6/10 (Review by Jade Craddock) The Travelers by Chris Pavone is published in hardback by Faber & Faber.

WILL Rhodes lives in New York and works as a writer for The Travelers magazine. On a trip to the wine-growing regions of Argentina, he is seduced by an Australian journalist called Elle. Except she’s not Australian and she’s not a journalist. She’s an American CIA agent. Or

The power of the word prevails I N recent months our bookstore underwent major change. Noticeable in recent times is the number of people who come into our bookstore and comment with some gratification about the wonderful smell of books. This is not something that we can artificially spray from an aerosol can – it comes from the substantial number of books on the shelves.

Our strategy to compete with e-books and the world wide web has been to increase our selection of titles so that we can say “yes we have that book” more often. And where that cannot occur, our research for hard-tofind titles as well as faster deliveries have been achieved by improved publisher routines and has made a real difference.

One of the growth areas of our bookstore is the second-hand content, and websites and catalogues that market them have some standard descriptions.

Cartoonist Ronald Searle’s book “Slightly Foxed – But Still Desirable” has a collection of illustrations featuring these terms.

Some of them are “Neat underling”, “Evidence of some insect damage”, “Spine defective” and “Lovingly thumbed by former owner”. And each supports an appropriate illustration. The words and illustrations within the covers of a book gain response.

Humans started to record words on papyrus, then on scrolls, and then in the 12th

century books started to evolve further, with the institutions that possessed them chaining their wordsmiths to benches.

In the title “The Book on the Book Shelf”, chapter eight describes the book’s evolution, with Samuel Pepys in 1655 commenting on their role and booksellers dealing in “loose squires”. With the invention of the e-book, books were deemed to be headed for extinction but the e-book is turning out to be just another one of the challenges books have faced over time.

It is by reading the histories, biographies and words of wisdom of people in the past that ensures the role of books. We are encouraged, motivated and driven by the experiences of people who have provided us with examples of living our dream. The following words are extracted from a reference to Abraham Lincoln in a chapter “Success is Sweet”. z Failed in business 1831 z Defeated in legislature in 1832 z Second failure in business in 1833 z Suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836 z Defeated for Speaker in 1938 z Defeated for election in 1840 z Defeated for Congress in 1843

z Defeated for Congress 1848 z Defeated for Senate in 1855 z Defeated for Vice President in 1856 z Defeated for Senate in 1858 z Elected President of USA in 1860 Across the Atlantic and 70 years later Winston Churchill was challenged over an issue in the British Parliament. He rose to address the assembly and in three words stated “Never give up”, and he returned to his seat. There was uproar at his response to challenges from across the floor. Again he went to the podium and said “Never give up” which drew a similar response.

This happened three more times – by then the House was getting the message and following his final statement “Never give up”, the place was silent.

We can learn a great deal – both positive and negative – from what we read in books.

Many people have an almost emotional connection with “their bookstore”. In a book called “My Bookstore”, edited by Ronald Rice, prominent writers celebrate their favourite places to browse, read and shop.

Isabel Allende visited the Book Passage in Corte Madera CA, Ivan Doig’s favourite is University Book Store in Seattle WA,

so she says.

She recruits Will as a spy and soon he’s travelling the world, identifying “targets”. As he is drawn further and further into a web of international intrigue, it becomes apparent that nothing is what it seems and it all goes a bit James Bond (think cameras in tie pins, explosions and leaping from rooftops).

6/10 (Review by Catherine Small) NON-FICTION The Bee Book is published in hardback

by DK. By now everyone knows that bee populations are declining and that’s a very bad thing. But did you know there’s a bee species that has a tongue twice the length of its body? Or that cuckoo bees survive by worming their way into bumblebee nests, overthrowing the queen and enslaving the inhabitants? Or that bees can produce blue honey?

All these and hundreds more fascinating facts can be found in The Bee Book, so whether you’re a casual admirer or a bee obsessive, there’s lots to learn. But this is more than just an entomological encyclopaedia. The second half of the beautifully illustrated tome details how you can play your part in helping the ailing species by planting appealing plants or making a little house to harbour honeymakers.

8/10 (Review by Katie Wright)

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From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection Dave Eggers favours Green Apple Books in San Francisco CA, John Grisham enjoys The Bookstore in Blytheville, Arizona, Chuck Palahniuk supports Powell’s City of Books in Portland Oregon, Ann Patchett writes about McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey MI, Simon Winchester, The Bookloft at Great Barrington MA, and Stephen White supports Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver.

Quoting from a page illustrated with a young couple sitting in a bar, the lass says, “Do you want to go to the Booksmith later?”

Reply: “Of course, don’t you?

“Of course – they are great over there. It’s – what’s the word I’m looking for?”

Fellow: “Well curated. They always have everything I want + 12 things I didn’t know I wanted until they put them on the shelf.”

She: “‘Well staffed’ I was gonna say... They’re always so nice in there. Like, they don’t make fun of you if you’re returning the 2nd copy of the same book you bought ‘cause you were tipsy.”

Him: “Not that that’s ever happened to you. (Snort, still in the bar) Do you think that one reason we like it is that it’s across the street from our favourite bar?

“I dunno – finish that will

you? I want to go and buy that book about that thing by the guy we heard the we heard about that other time.

“OMG me too.”

As they cross the street – him: “Booksmith looks so pretty.”

Her: “And it’s not just the gin talking.”

A recent press article quoted Wesfarmers group’s managing director saying that the incoming presence of Amazon into Australia confirmed that “we are in a disruptive, disruptured world”. Main street operators are “restricted in archaic trading hours and excessive regulation”. The public has no way of knowing whether internet traders are working weekends – it doesn’t cross their minds. And no doubt Amazon will operate at a loss in Australia, backed up by their operations in the US and UK. On a regular basis we have book customers discussing our substantial range of titles, one stating that they were impressed by the personal service, even as consultative resident biblio-therapists. Just last week they included people from Port Macquarie and Mudgee where there are no longer bricks and mortar bookstores. But the power of the word prevails.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Year 6 students go back in time

BY MADDIE CONNELL YEAR 6 Students at St Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Primary School, had been preparing for weeks prior to a special night which took everybody back in time. Held on Thursday, March 10, Year 6 participants invited their family and friends to view their hard work and the research gone into the night. Students picked an historical person which inspired them to create a display and costume to recall the kind acts of their chosen person.

Hugh Sienkiewicz as Frank Hurley

Brock Deveson as RM Williams

Georgia Hill as St Mary Mackillop

Georgette Haycock as May Gibbs

Katelyn Good as Dame Nellie Melba

Madeleine Frith as Quentin Bryce

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Cooper McMullen as Vincent Lingian

Hayden Bax as Sir Peter Cosgrove

Ethan Frandsen as Fred Hollows

Riley Hildebrandt as Lawrence Hargrave

Kyra Williams as Dr Fiona Wood

Amy Alchin-Knights as Tim Conolan

Treesa James as Stella Young

Will Cook as Banjo Patterson

Jason Karam as Howard Florey

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

hear Did you hear about Linda Christof, manager of the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre receiving a highly commended award in the 2016 NSW Women in Local Government Awards Ceremony conducted at Parliament House recently?

The annual Awards recognise excellence and outstanding achievement by women in local government in New South Wales and were presented by the Minister for Local Government, the Hon. Paul Toole MP and the Minister for Women, The Hon. Pru Goward MP. Dubbo City Council Director of Community Services, David Dwyer said: “Linda Christof has made an outstanding contribution to Dubbo City Council and has been promoted to centre coordinator at the Western Plains Cultural Centre before moving to the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre, first as the centre coordinator and then to her current position as Manager.”

During her career with Dubbo City Council Christof has undertaken extensive study including completing a Master’s Degree in Business Administration; public speaking courses through the Australian Institute of Management; Theatre industry training through NIDA; and Certificate IV in Education and Training at TAFE. “There are some great roles for women in local government and many opportunities to develop a successful career,” she said.

All about Artlands 2016. As excitement and momentum builds toward the City’s hosting of Artlands 2016, we

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will be hearing a lot about this significant event which will put Dubbo on the Australian art map.

In latest news, a range of internationally prominent leaders in the field of arts alongside an exciting selection of the best artists and arts companies from around Australia have been confirmed for the four-day conference and festival to be held from Thursday, October 27 to 30.

Mayor of Dubbo, Councillor Mathew Dickerson officially launched Artlands Dubbo 2016 at the Sydney Opera House last week and said hosting Artlands 2016 is a fantastic endorsement of the City’s ability to attract and host high calibre national business conferences, arts and cultural events.

In the past decade, Council has invested in excess of $28 million in the development of major arts facilities within the City, including the construction and development of the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) and the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC).

The WPCC is the largest gallery space west of the Blue Mountains with 706m² of exhibition space incorporating four galleries, and the DRTCC boasts a 500-seat tiered theatre and 700 seat convention centre.

The Old Dubbo Gaol, one of the City’s most iconic cultural attractions has also been undergoing significant upgrades including installation of new exhibitions and restoration of the watch tower.

For festival highlights and conference speakers visit: http://artlands. com.au

Get on your bike for a great cause. The Black Dog Ride’ iconic annual “one-dayer” is a nationwide project to raise awareness of depression and suicide prevention. You can make a difference by joining the local ride on Sunday, March 20.

Registering early helps your local Black Dog Ride Team with safety, catering, and merchandise.

Registration costs $27.50 rider and $12 pillion, online, and $30 rider and $15 pillion on the day.

All registration fees and sale of merchandise assists Black Dog Ride Australia with its nationwide charitable activities. All proceeds from donations related to the “one-dayer”, and fundraising activities on the day, are gifted to local mental health projects or organisations.

Participants in the Dubbo “one-dayer” should assemble at the Macquarie Inn for a 7.30am barbecue breakfast and coffee before the ride heads to Wellington, where, from 10.30am refreshments will be served. The ride ends

at 12.30pm at the Commercial Hotel in Dubbo for lunch and live music.

For more information contact Steve Gower on 0438 842 366 or email dubbo@blackdogride.com.au. Register online at https://dubbonsw1dayer2016.eventbr ite.com.au.

Donations support Lifeline Central West’s suicide prevention projects. Follow this link for more information: https://blackdogride.giveeasy. org /f u ndra isi ng _event /1dayer-2016-dubbo/ Have faith bullying is being addressed in schools.

Tonight (Friday, March 18), Eumungerie, Narromine, Gildgandra and Ballimore are all represented by primary school children whose artwork entries in the Say No to Bullying poster competition, run by Interrelate, will convene in Sydney to hear the winner announcements.

The special awards ceremony is being held at The Concourse, in Chatswood to mark the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence (also March 18).

The MC of the event will be

It’s showtime! The 143rd Orana Mutual Dubbo Annual Show free program is out and you can pick yourself up a copy from the show office on Fitzroy Street or at various locations around Dubbo. The Dubbo Annual Show will be held this year on April 29 and 30, and May 1, 2016.

Inside the program you’ll find all the information you’ll need on the ZOOFM Dubbo Showgirl, Miss Dubbo Teenage Showgirl (14 to 17 years), Kidzoo Mr & Mrs Dubbo Tiny Tot (3 to 5 years) competition including prizes, sponsors, and entry criteria.

Feature attractions this year will include, in Boardy’s Bar; Troy Kemp and band, Franki Valli and the Four Season Tribute Show and the Beach Boys, D-Max Utes and Monster Truck Display, Fireworks, street entertainment, puppet shows, the Golden Axe woodchopping carnival, the grand parade, dog trials, and so much more.

The show opens at 7am, Friday, April 29 and ends, 5pm, Sunday, May 1. Entry is $12.50, children under 5 are free, pensioners (aged, invalid plus carer), $7.50. Buy at the show office or online @123tix.

Ricardo Goncalves, SBS World news presenter and special guests will include the NSW Treasurer, the Hon. Gladys Berejiklian, representing the NSW Premier among others.

Guest speakers include Glen Ella, CEO of Ellavation and former Rugby Union captain, and Leanne Hall, an Integrative Psychologist who specialises in working with young people experiencing depression, self-harm, anxiety, body image issues and eating disorders.

Interrelate’s patron, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor of New South Wales, has also recorded a special video message for the children that will be played at the event.

The event also marks the official opening of the 2016 Say No to Bullying Poster Competition exhibition, which will showcase the winner, finalists and highly commended entries. The Exhibition is being held in Willoughby Council Chatswood Library from Friday, March 18 to April 10, 2016.

More commissioned artwork by BOOMDubbo on Macquarie Street, new this week, near the Milestone Hotel.

BOOMDubbo Inc. is adding value and vibrancy to the CBD of Dubbo through art, increasing visitation to the city, and providing opportunities for businesses, property owners, artists and all who live, work and visit the centre of Dubbo, as well as the wider region.

The IGNITE program, an outcome of Dubbo City Council’s CBD Precincts Plans is enabling people and businesses to take ownership of the CBD space through creative activation activities.

BOOMDubbo is one of the first organisations to form a partnership with IGNITE in order to undertake a range of place activation projects, looking at spaces within the CBD in a new light and creating opportunities for a wide range of businesses and individuals in the process.

Check out the website and follow the development of new works which are being integrated into Google map and notes for self-guided art walks. BOOMDubbo is looking for new opportunities always. Road is a BOOMDubbo project.

For more information, visit boomdubbo.com.

Give back to the community. If engaging with your community is on your to do list, and you’re aged 18 to 30, sign up for Rotaract Club of Dubbo City, a Rotary Club partner targeting the under 30s.

For the entrepreneur or business person, it’s the perfect forum to network and build a family of likeminded peers but the most significant impact you’ll have is on the wider community through the range of activities and fundraisers Rotaract participate in. As a Rotaractor, you’re not just limited to what’s going on in your neighbourhood but you’ll enjoy opportunities internationally as well. You’ll develop leadership skills which will serve you in your membership but also outside in your personal and

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business life as well.

For more information about Rotaract Club of Dubbo City check out their Facebook at Rotaract Club of Dubbo City Inc. Dubbo Rotaract meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at the One 7 Eight cocktail bar at the Dubbo RSL, 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Cost is $20 for a two-course dinner.

If you are interested in attending please feel free to contact them via email at contactus@dubborotaract.org.au or visit the website dubborotaract.org.au.

The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

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OPEN WEEKENDER COFFEE & MEALS

'Ž ǁŝůĚ Ăƚ dĂƌŽŶŐĂ tĞƐƚĞƌŶ WůĂŝŶƐ ŽŽ͘

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

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

VELDT RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ dƵĞƐĚĂLJ ƚŽ &ƌŝĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϳĂŵ͘ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ͘ Open for dinner Monday to Saturday Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

TED’S TAKEAWAY 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

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES STICKS AND STONES 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

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

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

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION

WYLDE BEAN THAI CAFE KƉĞŶ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ůƵŶĐŚ ϲĂŵ Ɵůů ůĂƚĞ 40 Bourke Street, 6885 5999

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ͘KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

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

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

GROCERIES

THE SWISH GALLERY

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD

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

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

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

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

THE PARTY STOP KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ Party Costumes 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

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

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Friday, March 18 MythBusters

The Graham Norton Show

The Doctor Blake lake Mysteries

SBS, 7.30pm

TEN, 8.30pm

ABC, 8.30pm

You don’t need to be a science buff or an experiment nerd to enjoy this long-running series that puts myths and urban legends to the test.

Tonight, daring hosts Adam and Jamie take off on two “Flights of Fantasy”. First up, in U-2 Reconnaissance Adam and Jamie tackle the ultimate aviation investigation. Is the U-2 really the toughest aircraft in regular use to fly and land? Then, they take on the next big technological development in commercial delivery – remotecontrol multi-rotor drones. But with fast spinning blades buzzing around our neighbourhoods, is this an accident waiting to happen?

Graham chats tonight to Concussion star Will Smith, and British actors Catherine Zeta Jones and Toby Jones, who lead upcoming movie Dad’s Army.

But the focus is on US film star Ryan Reynolds, who managed to turn his luck around after the ill-fated Green Lantern (2011). The handsome hunk speaks about his pet project and this year’s box-office success, comedyaction flick Deadpool, which changed his reputation from a throwaway rom-com lothario to a bonafide A-list star. And his passion for his masked crusader character is not hard to see since he spoke about wanting to do the movie 10 years ago. Features singer Laura Mvula.

lake Mysteriess, Craig Before The Doctor Blake McLachlan (right) was mostly known for his blond, curly-haired y-haired soapie days on Neighbours, butt this Ballarat-based period drama has impressed mpressed audiences, thus being a runaway success uccess for the ABC, and it’s hit the career jackpot ackpot for McLachlan.

Now in its highly-anticipated nticipated fourth series, it just seems to get better etter and better. Tonight, a man falls from the he Ballarat Fire Station bell tower and what initially appears to be a suicide turns into a murder investigation on taking Blake deep into the heart of the Regional Fire Association.

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. (R, CC) 11.00 Hello Birdy. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Crownies. (M, R, CC) 1.55 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.50 The Cook And The Chef.

(R, CC) Maggie and Simon cook iconic dishes.

3.20 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 ABC News: Early Edition.

(CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) Presented

by Julia Baird.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Seven Morning News.

(CC) 12.00 MOVIE: The End Of Eden. (M, R, CC) (1996) A famous pianist returns to his Mormon roots, only to find himself an outcast in the tight-knit community.

Jennie Garth, Rob Estes.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 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 featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Hosted by Mario Lopez.

2.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) Hosted by James Reeson.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 Afternoon News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 ET. (R, CC) 6.30 GCBC. (R, CC) 7.00 The Home Team. (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. (PG, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(CC) 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, 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 Fonko. (PG, CC) 3.00 NITV News Week In Review. (R) 3.30 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey. (R, CC) 4.30 Who Do You Think You Are? David Tennant.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

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: Cotswolds. (CC) Griff Rhys Jones explores the Cotswolds, countryside straddling the counties of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

8.30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, CC) An apparently suicidal man falls from the Ballarat Fire Station bell tower.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki and Jack investigate after the remains of a teenager are discovered at an eco-housing project.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news, including a look at the latest trends on the international share and currency markets.

11.20 It’s A Date. (M, R, CC) A woman dupes her employee.

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) Johanna Griggs, Graham Ross and Jason Hodges head to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.

Karen Martini prepares a chicken salad. Tara Dennis shows how to make a nursery space for kids.

8.30 MOVIE: Delivery Man. (M, CC) (2013) After a man finds out he’s fathered 533 children through anonymous sperm donations, he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity. Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders.

10.50 To Be Advised.

11.50 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Murray takes Pops to work at the furniture store with him, in order to keep him out of Beverly’s hair. However, he quickly regrets his decision. Adam reluctantly gives away his toys, hoping it will help him get his first kiss.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 3. Canterbury Bulldogs v Parramatta Eels.

From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

10.30 Jarryd Hayne: Aussie Hero, American Dream.

(CC) Takes a look at the story of former rugby league player Jarryd Hayne, who left behind a successful career in Australia to pursue the dream of joining one of America’s major gridiron teams, the San Francisco 49ers.

11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (CC) Jamie shares the secret to a water-wise and droughtresistant garden. Miguel channels his inner “Kung Fu Panda”.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with actors Will Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Toby Jones. British soul singer-songwriter Laura Mvula performs her single, Overcome.

9.30 The People V. OJ Simpson. (M, R, CC) After OJ Simpson goes missing in a white Ford Bronco, the DA’s office and LAPD begin their search for the fugitive while his lawyers fear the worst after discovering a suicide note.

10.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

6.00 Food Safari. (R, CC) (Final) Maeve O’Meara ends her culinary adventure in Broome, in Western Australia, where she explores the local cuisine.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 MythBusters. (PG, CC) Adam and Jamie tackle two flight-related myths.

Includes claims about the dangers posed by a drone’s propellers and whether the famous U-2 spy plane is one of the hardest aircraft to both fly and land safely.

8.30 Lost Kingdoms Of South America: Lands Of Gold.

(PG, R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

Archaeologist Dr Jago Cooper embarks on an epic journey in search of the truth behind the legend of El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold. Along the way he learns about the Muisca and Tairona cultures, and meets some survivors of an ancient civilisation.

9.30 MOVIE: Joan Of Arc. (MA15+, CC) (1999) A young woman experiences a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors. Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich.

12.30 Home Shopping. (R)

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Stargate: The Ark Of Truth. (M) (2008) 3.20 WIN Presents. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Undateable. (M, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 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 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.25 MOVIE: My Awkward Sexual Adventure. (M, R) (2012) Jonas Chernick.

2.15 Secrets Of The Vatican.

(M, R, CC) 3.45 The Last Dogs Of Winter.

(PG, R, CC) 4.45 Caldera. (PG, 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.

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Friday, March 18 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

8.30pm The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) Comedy. Judi Dench, Bill Nighy. A hotelier tries to juggle a full house and an upcoming marriage. (PG) Masterpiece

7.30pm DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow. A motley bunch of superheroes try to save Earth from an apocalypse. (M) FOX8

7.30pm Digging For Britain.

Dr Alice Roberts continues her archaeological journey. (PG) History

5.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 4. Hurricanes v Force. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Whitney Cummings: I’m Your Girlfriend. The stand-up comedian presents her show from The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Comedy Channel

8.30pm Katherine Mills: Mind Games. The magician and mentalist performs magic illusions. Lifestyle You

8.30pm Rock Of Ages (2012) Musical. Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough. A small-town girl moves to LA. (M) Comedy 10.05pm Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) Comedy. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson. (M) Premiere

10.30pm Top Chef. (M) Arena

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 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’s Little Kingdom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Inside The Body Beautiful: How Cosmetic Surgery Works.

(PG, R, CC) A look at beauty and cosmetic treatments.

9.30 The 45 Stone Virgin.

(M, R, CC) 10.20 My Baggy Body. (M, R, CC) 11.10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.50 Hack Live On Body Obsession. (M, R, CC) 12.50 Tattoo Disasters UK. (M, R) 1.15 I’m Having Their Baby. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 News Update. (R) 3.05 Close.

5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train.

(R, CC) 5.10 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.20 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 5.25 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.50 Masha And The Bear. (R, CC) 3.00 Totally Rubbish. (R, CC) 3.30 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 3.45 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 3.55 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 4.20 Thunderbirds Are Go. (CC) 4.40 Studio 3. 4.45 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 4.55 Danger Mouse. 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 Mortified.

(R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 8.15 Adventure Time. (R) 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) (Final) Drew tries to locate Becky.

8.55 Trop Jr. (Final) A look at a short filmmaking competition.

9.05 Heartland. (PG, CC) 9.45 K-On! (PG, CC) 10.10 Lanfeust Quest. (PG, R, CC) 10.35 Ouran High School Host Club. (PG, R, CC) 10.55 Close.

8.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 3. Canterbury Bulldogs v Parramatta Eels. Fox Sports 1

Wentworth Miller stars in DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow

GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 ZooMoo Lost. (C) 7.30 Sally Bollywood. (C, R, CC) (Final) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle.

(P) 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, R, CC) 1.00 Better Homes. (R, CC) 2.00 Surf Patrol. (R, CC) 2.30 Dealers. (PG) 3.30 Property Ladder. (PG) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Indian Doctor. (PG, R) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

Prospective buyers find their dream homes.

9.30 The House That 100K Built. A woman wants to move to Inverness.

10.45 Front Of House. (R) 11.15 Best Houses Australia.

(PG, R) 11.45 Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.45 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 1.45 The Indian Doctor. (PG, R) 2.45 The House That 100K Built.

(R) 4.00 Front Of House. (R) 4.30 Property Ladder. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 12.00 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 12.30 Batman. (PG, R) 1.00 Sooty. (R) 1.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. (R) 3.00 Wild Kratts.

(R) 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes.

(R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore.

(R, CC) (2010) 7.45 MOVIE: Jack The Giant Slayer. (PG, R, CC) (2013) Nicholas Hoult.

10.00 MOVIE: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2013) Jeremy Renner.

11.45 The Originals. (MA15+, R) 12.40 Surfing Australia TV. (R) 1.30 Batman: The Brave And The Bold.

(PG, R) 2.00 Rabbids Invasion.

(PG, R) 2.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 3.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers.

(PG, R) 4.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 8.00 Engineering Connections. (PG, R) 9.00 Ultimate Factories. 10.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 12.00 Police Woman. (M, R) 1.00 S.W.A.T. (PG, R) 2.00 America’s Money Vault. (PG, R) 3.00 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 4.00 American Restoration. (PG, R) 5.00 American Pickers. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Twister.

(PG, R, CC) (1996) Helen Hunt.

8.30 MOVIE: Safe House.

(M, R, CC) (2012) A CIA agent and his charge go on the run. Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds.

10.50 MOVIE: The Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption. (M, R, CC) (2011) Victor Webster.

1.05 Jail. (MA15+) 1.30 America’s Money Vault. (PG, R) 2.30 Ultimate Factories. (R) 3.30 Engineering Connections. (PG, R) 4.30 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 5.30 Bid And Destroy. (PG, R)

6.00 News. (CC) 9.00 News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News.

(CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 2.00 News. (CC) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 The Business. 5.00 Grandstand. 5.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum.

(R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 ABC News With The Business. (CC) 9.00 Planet America.

9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC Impact. 1.30 Lateline. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera. 3.00 BBC World. (R) 3.30 7.30. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World. 4.30 BBC Africa. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

ABC NEWS

8.30pm The Shelbourne.

Lifestyle

7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 24. Melbourne City v Brisbane Roar. Fox Sports 4

6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Secret Dealers.

(PG, R, CC) 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

(PG, R, CC) 9.00 New Style Direct.

9.30 Global Shop. 10.00 Danoz.

10.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Train Of Events. (PG, R, CC) (1949) 2.50 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 3.20 David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Ellen DeGeneres.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Cricket. (CC) ICC World Twenty20. Super 10. Group 2. Match 17. Australia v New Zealand. From HPCA Stadium, Dharamshala, India.

11.40 MOVIE: Play Dirty. (M, R) (1969) Michael Caine. 2.00 MOVIE: Dracula: Prince Of Darkness. (M, R) (1966) 3.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 4.00 Gideon’s Way. (M, R) 5.00 Monarch Of The Glen. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 What’s Up! Downunder. (R, CC) 8.30 Operation Repo. (PG) 9.30 Epic Meal Empire. (PG, R) 10.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 11.30 Motor Racing.

(CC) Formula 1. Round 1. Australian Grand Prix. Practice and qualifying sessions, as well as coverage of the Porsche Carrera Cup. 7.30 Walker, Texas Ranger.

(PG, R) A ranger’s partner is killed during a robbery.

9.30 MOVIE: Dragon Eyes.

(MA15+, R) (2012) A fighter takes on the drug dealers and corrupt cops who are threatening to destroy his new home. Cung Le, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Johnny Holmes.

11.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 2.00 World Sport. (R) 2.30 Race To The Sky. (PG, R) 3.30 Motor Racing.

Australian GT Championship.

Highlands 101. Replay. 4.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 5.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (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, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel.

(PG, R) 11.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 12.00 Judging Amy. (PG, R) 1.00 JAG. (M, R) 2.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.05 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Steel Magnolias.

(PG, R) (1989) A close-knit circle of friends come together. Sally Field, Dolly Parton.

10.55 Bondi Ink Tattoo. (M, R) 11.55 James Corden. (PG) 12.55 Frasier.

(PG, R) 2.00 JAG. (M, R) 3.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 Touched By An Angel. (M) 5.00 King Of Queens.

(PG, R)

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 My First Place. (PG, R) 8.00 The Block Sky High. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 My First Place. (PG, R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 The Millionaire Matchmaker. (PG, R) 12.00 Housewives Of Beverly Hills. (M, R) 2.00 Tiny House Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 The Block Sky High. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Getaway. (PG, CC) 4.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG) 5.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 6.00 My First Place. (PG) 6.30 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 The Restaurant Inspector. (PG, R) 8.30 Hotel Impossible. (PG) 10.30 Extreme Homes. (R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 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 Dara Ó Briain: School Of Hard Sums. (PG, R) 5.25 The Urban Freestyler Extreme. (R) 5.30 House Hazards. (PG) 6.00 None Of The Above.

6.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.25 Soccer. A-League.

Round 24. Melbourne City v Brisbane Roar. From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

10.00 MOVIE: Project A Part II. (M, R) (1987) A marine is assigned to the police force. Jackie Chan.

11.55 MOVIE: Aftershock.

(M, R) (2010) 2.25 PopAsia. (PG) 3.25 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News.

5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 6.30 Secret Meat Business. (PG, R) 7.00 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 8.00 Chopped. (PG, R) 9.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 9.30 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 10.00 Barefoot Contessa. (R) 10.30 Secret Meat Business. (PG, R) 11.00 Chopped.

(PG, R) 12.00 Mystery Diners.

(PG, R) 12.30 Man Fire Food. (R) 1.00 Giada At Home. (R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 3.00 Chopped. (PG, R) 4.00 Barefoot Contessa. (R) 4.30 Giada At Home.

(R) 5.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 5.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 6.30 5 Ingredient Fix. 7.00 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Secret Meat Business. (PG) 8.00 Man Fire Food. (R) 8.30 Chopped.

(PG, R) 9.30 Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern. (PG, R) 10.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 11.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 11.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 12.30 Man Fire Food. (R) 1.00 Bizarre Foods. (PG, R) 2.00 Diners, DriveIns And Dives. (R) 2.30 Chopped.

(PG, R) 3.25 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 Mugu Kids. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Tangaroa. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 I Live, I Breathe, I Surf. 12.00 Alice And Kevin. 12.20 MOVIE: Canning Paradise. (M) (2012) 1.50 Yorta Yorta Youth. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Move It Mob Style. 4.00 Tipi Tales. 4.30 Bushwhacked! 5.00 Wapos Bay. 5.30 Defining Moments. 6.00 On The Edge. 6.30 Kriol Kitchen. 7.00 Ngurra. 7.20 NITV News Mini-Bulletin. 7.30 Cafe Niugini.

8.00 Fusion Feasts. 8.30 Noah’s Arc. (M) 9.00 The Point Review. 9.30 Chappelle’s Show. 10.00 MOVIE: Salute. (PG) (2008) 11.30 Talking Language. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 5.00 Bush Bands Bash.

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Saturday, March 19 Cuffs

MOVIE: Killers

MOVIE: The Dark Knight ght Rises

ABC, 8.30pm

WIN, 8.45pm, M (2010)

GO!, 9pm, M (2012)

Yet another police procedural on the block, British show Cuffs which depicts the lives of front-line police officers, is an entertaining watch packed full of dramatic incidents and colourful characters. However, it failed to keep audiences engrossed enough to be commissioned for another series, so enjoy it while it’s here. It’s not worth planning your night around but it’s good enough to watch if you’re slumped on the sofa.

Tonight, a potential drug-smuggling ring brings a Tug Master at the local harbour under Felix (Paul Ready) and Carl’s (Shaun Dooley) suspicions, but Carl’s chaotic personal life threatens to collapse the entire operation.

Another action-romance-comedy trifecta arrives, this one from Robert Luketic (The Ugly Truth and Monster-inLaw). Jen Kornfeld (Katherine Heigl) finds true love on the picturesque coast of France with Spencer Aimes (Ashton Kutcher) and three years later, the couple still show all the signs of happily ever after. That is, until they discover they’re targets of a multi-million dollar hit and the truth of Spencer’s double life emerges. This movie seems like an easy please, but be warned, you may feel more déjà vu than satisfaction with the familiar plot of a wide-eyed and gun-clumsy woman discovering that her husband is an assassin.

n arguably has Of all the superheroes, Batman ented as a the biggest cross to bear. Tormented illed, he spent child after seeing his parents killed, his days trying to clean up the streets of the e. But it all most dangerous city imaginable. ker (and the became too much after The Joker g performance) late Heath Ledger’s frightening he Dark Knight. let loose his violent games in The lf-imposed But now, after eight years of self-imposed nticed back to exile, the Caped Crusader is enticed e brutal Gotham City to save it from the Bane (Tom Hardy). This final her instalment in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is the t, darkest and moodiest of the lot, but as we’ve come to expect, it doesn’t go lightly on the action.

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 How Not To Behave.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Restoration Man. (R, CC) 12.50 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House? Invercloy.

(R, CC) 1.20 Griff’s Great Britain: Cotswolds. (R, CC) 2.05 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 3.05 On A Wing And A Prayer.

(R, CC) A look at Carnaby’s black cockatoo.

4.00 Jillaroo School.

(PG, R, CC) Caitlin starts to unsettle the group.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Vera. (M, R, CC) A fatal stabbing is investigated.

6.00 Home Shopping. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 I Dream Of Jeannie.

(R, CC) 12.30 Horse Racing. (CC) Golden Slipper Day. Featuring five Group 1 races, including the $3.5 million Golden Slipper (1200m), $1 million George Ryder Stakes (1500m), $700,000 Ranvet Stakes (2000m), $600,000 Rosehill Guineas (2000m), and $700,000 The Galaxy Handicap (1100m). From Rosehill Gardens, Sydney.

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. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday.

(PG, CC) Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) Dr Lisa To The Rescue.

(R, CC) Party Of Five. (PG, R, CC) Bailey and Sara meet Will’s new girlfriend.

MOVIE: Wild America.

(PG, R, CC) (1997) Three brothers want to become naturalists. Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

The Garden Gurus. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC) News: First At Five. (CC) Fishing Australia. (CC)

6.00 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) Hosted by Lee Rayner.

6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) A decadent food showdown.

7.00 RPM GP. (R, CC) Hosted by Matt White.

7.30 RPM. (R, CC) Hosted by Matt White.

8.30 Studio 10: Saturday.

(PG, CC) Highlights from the past week’s episodes of Studio 10.

10.00 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Round 1.

Australian Grand Prix.

Practice and qualifying sessions, as well as coverage of the Porsche Carrera Cup. From Albert Park, Melbourne.

6.00 France 24. 6.30 Deutsche Welle. 7.00 Al Jazeera. 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 Equestrian. (CC) FEI Jumping World Cup. Western European League.

Highlights.

3.00 Who Do You Think You Are? Minnie Driver.

(R, CC) 4.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.30 Massive Moves: Kingsize Cabin. (R, CC) 5.25 Delphi: Why It Matters.

(R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Jane prunes some native plants. Costa showcases three purple plants. Sophie visits a relaxed, formal garden.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Death In Paradise.

(PG, CC) DI Goodman and the team investigate the murder of a volleyball player.

8.30 Cuffs. (M, CC) Felix and Carl’s investigation into a potential drug-smuggling ring leads them to a suspicious tugboat master at the local harbour.

However, Carl’s chaotic personal life threatens to collapse the entire operation.

9.30 Jack Irish. (M, R, CC) (Final) Jack finds himself on the run from both the police and members of Via Crucis. Terrified but resolved, Linda comes face to face with her captor.

10.25 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring host Adam Hills and celebrity guest Richard Ayoade.

11.10 Luke Warm Sex. (M, R, CC) Luke McGregor takes a look at sex.

11.40 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Planes. (PG, CC) (2013) A crop-dusting plane who is hopelessly afraid of heights dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. With some help from his friends, he embarks on an adventure to conquer his fears. Dane Cook, Teri Hatcher, Stacy Keach.

9.00 MOVIE: Lone Survivor.

(MA15+, CC) (2013) Based on a true story. Four US Navy SEALs are dropped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan to verify the whereabouts of a Taliban commander. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Eric Bana.

11.45 The Amazing Race.

(PG, R) Eleven teams of two, each of which includes an internet “celebrity”, embark on a journey around the world. The competition continues with the contestants travelling around Colombia. Hosted

by Phil Keoghan.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda 2.

(PG, R, CC) (2011) A panda and his friends, a group of martial artists known as the Furious Five, find themselves fighting a villainous peacock that intends to take over China with the aid of a secret weapon. The quest also leads to some unexpected revelations about the dragon warrior’s longforgotten past. Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman.

8.45 MOVIE: Killers. (M, R, CC) (2010) After a government assassin meets the woman of his dreams he decides to get married and gives up his dangerous lifestyle.

Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Selleck.

10.45 MOVIE: Wag The Dog. (M, R, CC) (1997) After a president with little chance of being re-elected is involved in a scandal, his adviser enlists the help of a Hollywood producer to create a war which exists only on TV, to push the president to hero status.

Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson.

6.30 All-Star Family Feud.

(R, CC) AFL and NRL legends compete to raise money for charity by guessing responses to a survey of the public.

7.30 MOVIE: The Monuments Men. (PG, CC) (2014) During World War II, an unlikely platoon is tasked with entering Germany and retrieving artistic masterpieces from behind enemy lines. The odds are stacked against the platoon, and time is running out, as the Reich has given the order to have the masterpieces destroyed. George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray.

9.50 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, R, CC) After a military convoy is bombed on a New Orleans bridge, Pride and the team plan a dangerous undercover operation to retrieve a stolen missile and prevent an attack on a US Navy ship.

10.50 MOVIE: Wild Card.

(M, R, CC) (2013) Two very different lawyers handle the type of problems that happen in Las Vegas after the sun goes down.

Jennifer Finnigan, Ben Lawson, Edi Gathegi.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Who Do They Think They Are? 10 Years, 100 Shows. (CC) Takes a look at memorable moments from the show’s first 100 episodes. Guests including Patsy Kensit, Davina McCall, Graham Norton, JK Rowling, Stephen Fry and Natasha Kaplinsky discuss the surprising truths they uncovered about their ancestors’ lives.

8.35 MOVIE: Shine. (PG, R, CC) (1996) Based on a true story. An eccentric pianist suffers a nervous breakdown as he pursues a career in music.

Relegated to a psychiatric institution, his genius is recognised by a woman who encourages him to play once more, earning him acclaim in concert halls around the world.

Geoffrey Rush, Sonia Todd, Armin Mueller-Stahl.

10.30 RocKwiz. (R, CC) Special guests include Tim Levinson, better known as Urthboy, Beatrice “Bertie” Blackman and Mark Seymour.

11.35 24 Hours In Emergency.

(M, R, CC)

12.40 Home Shopping. (R)

12.40 MOVIE: Tank Girl. (M, R) (1995) Lori Petty.

2.35 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 3.05 Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (PG) 4.00 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo.

(R) 5.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program featuring Christian music with a choir, and guest speakers.

12.30 Cycling. Milan-San Remo Race. From Italy.

3.00 MOVIE: Symbol. (PG, R) (2009) Hitoshi Matsumoto.

4.40 Dave’s Dead. (MA15+, R) Short film.

5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.00 12.30 1.00 2.00

4.00 4.30 5.00 5.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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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 Fail Army. The best fail clips on the internet today.

(M) FOX8

6.30pm Dr Lisa To The Rescue. Dr Lisa helps a family find a dog. (PG) Animal Planet

7.00pm Hot In Cleveland.

The girls compete for a lawyer’s affection. (PG) 111

6.30pm Selling Houses With Amanda Lamb. (PG) Lifestyle Home

5.00pm Soccer.

A-League. Round 24. Central Coast Mariners v Sydney FC. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Cake (2014) Drama.

Jennifer Aniston. (MA15+) Masterpiece

8.30pm Killjoys. (M) SyFy

10.30pm The Wombats At Hurricane Festival. The pop band performs at Germany’s Hurricane Festival. (PG) Foxtel Arts

10.15pm Run All Night (2015) Action. Liam Neeson, Ed Harris. A hit man helps his estranged son flee a crime boss.

(MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 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’s Little Kingdom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. (M, R, CC) 8.35 Inside The Body Beautiful: How Fat Works. (PG, R, CC) 9.35 I Want To Change My Body. (M, R, CC) 11.00 Glamour Models, Mum And Me. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Glamour Model Mum, Baby & Me. (PG, R, CC) 12.55 Mock The Week. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Swamp Brothers. (PG, R) 2.40 News Update. (R) 2.45 Close.

5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.20 Bert And Ernie. (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.

9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.30 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 9.50 Danger Mouse. (R) 10.05 Adv Time. (R) 10.50 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 11.10 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 11.35 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 11.55 Make It Pop. (R, CC) 12.20 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Absolute Genius.

(R) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.25 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) (Final) 4.50 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.15 Spooksville.

(PG, R, CC) 5.40 World’s End. (R, CC) 6.10 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 6.35 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.05 Yonderland. (PG) 7.25 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) Dallas wants to win Alli’s affections.

9.00 Heartland. (CC) Ty plans a visit to Mrs Bell.

9.45 Close.

7.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 4. Reds v Blues.

Fox Sports 2 The Blues take on the Reds in round 4 Super Rugby

7TWO

GO!

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 The Great Australian Doorstep.

11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.30 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.00 WA Weekender. (CC) 1.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 2.00 Melbourne Weekender. (CC) 2.30 Surf Patrol. (R, CC) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 1.

Sydney University v Eastwood.

5.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Horse Racing. (CC) Golden Slipper Day. Featuring five Group 1 races, including the $3.5 million Golden Slipper (1200m), $1 million George Ryder Stakes (1500m), $700,000 Ranvet Stakes (2000m), $600,000 Rosehill Guineas (2000m), and $700,000 The Galaxy Handicap (1100m).

Replay. 6.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 Secret Location.

(PG, CC) (Series return) 7.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Original Features. (R) 10.30 Air Crash Investigation. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Secret Location. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Late Programs.

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.00 Heidi. (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 Fishing Australia. (R, CC) 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 3.30 Little Charmers.

(R) 4.00 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.30 Batman. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright. (R) (2013) 7.30 MOVIE: Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite. (PG, R, CC) (2013) Clancy Brown.

9.00 MOVIE: The Dark Knight Rises. (M, R, CC) (2012) Batman returns to battle a new menace. Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway.

12.15 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Little Charmers. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch.

(PG, R) 3.00 The Tom And Jerry Show. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal.

(PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 4.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 A Football Life. (PG, R) 7.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. (R) 8.00 Shopping.

(R) 9.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.30 Inside West Coast Customs.

(PG, R) 10.30 Just 2 Wheelz. (PG) 11.00 Motor Racing. Australian Drifting Grand Prix. Replay. 12.00 Motor Racing. Ultimate Sprintcar Championship. 12.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Outlaw Nitro Funny Cars. 1.30 Turtleman. (PG, R) 2.00 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG, R) 3.00 Swamp People. (PG) 4.00 Catching Hell. (PG, R) 5.00 Doomsday Castle. (PG) 6.00 Doomsday Preppers. (PG) 7.00 MOVIE: Top Gun. (PG, R, CC) (1986) Tom Cruise.

9.30 MOVIE: Snatch.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2000) Jason Statham.

11.40 Locked Up Abroad. (M) 12.50 Doomsday Castle. (PG, R) 1.50 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 3.00 Catching Hell. (PG, R) 4.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 4.30 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

6.00 Landline. (CC) 6.30 World This Week. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 News. 1.30 Planet America. (R) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Tonic. 4.00 IQ2. (R) 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 One Plus One. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 Press Club. (R, CC) 1.00 BBC World. 1.30 The Drum Weekly.

(R) 2.00 Al Jazeera. 3.00 BBC World. 3.30 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

5.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 3. Newcastle Knights v Canberra Raiders. Fox Sports 1

6.00 MOVIE: Train Of Events. (PG, R, CC) (1949) 7.50 GEM Presents.

(R, CC) 8.00 Danoz Direct. 8.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country.

(R) 9.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) 10.00 MOVIE: Danger Within. (R, CC) (1959) Richard Todd. 12.05 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 12.35 Postcards Summer. (PG, CC) 1.05 MOVIE: The Wings Of Eagles.

(R, CC) (1957) John Wayne. 3.20 MOVIE: Paint Your Wagon. (PG, R) (1969) Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood.

6.30 Heartbeat. (PG, R) Greengrass befriends a novelist.

8.45 Agatha Christie’s Marple. (PG, R) Miss Marple investigates after the dedicated fan of a Hollywood actor dies at a party.

10.45 Dalziel And Pascoe.

(M, R) Dalziel investigates a woman’s murder.

11.55 MOVIE: Hud. (M, R) (1963) Paul Newman. 2.05 MOVIE: The Wings Of Eagles. (R, CC) (1957) 4.10 MOVIE: Danger Within. (R, CC) (1959)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 RPM GP. (R, CC) 8.30 Hogan’s Heroes.

(R) 9.00 World Sport. (R) 9.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG) 10.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 12.00 Rugby Sevens. World Series.

Round 6. 12.30 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 1.00 Motor Racing.

World Series Sprintcars. 2.00 From The Quadrangle. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Moments Of Impact. (PG, R) 4.00 David Attenborough’s Africa. (R, CC) 5.00 Tiger: Spy In The Jungle. (PG, R) 6.00 Places We Love: An Earth Hour Special.

6.30 Attenborough’s Great Natural Wonders Of The World. (R, CC) 7.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 8.30 The X-Files. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Ripper Street. (M) An aristocrat is arrested for murder.

10.35 Rush. (MA15+) 11.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 1.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 3.30 Motor Racing. Targa Tasmania. Replay. 4.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (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 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 3.35 Family Ties. (PG, R) 5.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Epic. (PG, R, CC) (2013) A teen is transported to a magical world. Colin Farrell, Beyoncé Knowles.

8.00 Cristela. (PG) Wanting to expose the kids to more cultural opportunities, Cristela tries to convince Felix to let Henry see West Side Story.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr, Stephen Fry and U2.

9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted

by Scott Tweedie and Olivia Phyland.

1.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 2.00 Neighbours. (R, CC) 4.30 Cheers.

(PG, R) 5.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 The Block Sky High. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 9.30 My First Place. (PG, R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters.

(R) 11.00 The Restaurant Inspector. (PG, R) 12.00 Hotel Impossible. (PG, R) 2.00 Domestic Blitz. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 My First Place. (PG, R) 4.00 Tiny House Hunters. (PG, R) 5.00 Million Dollar Rooms. (PG, R) 6.00 My First Place. (PG) 6.30 Selling LA. (PG) 7.30 House Hunters. 8.30 House Hunters International. 9.30 House Hunters Renovation. 10.30 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Selling LA. (PG, R) 1.00 House Hunters. (R) 2.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 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 24.

Melbourne City v Brisbane Roar.

Replay. 3.00 Planet Sport. (R) 4.00 The Brain: China. (R) 6.00 MOVIE: Wolf Children.

(PG, R) (2012) 8.05 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 9.05 Bear Grylls’ Mission Survive. (M, R, CC) (Final) The final three contestants fight it out.

10.00 Commando School: Commando Tests.

(M, R, CC) 10.55 MOVIE: Killing Them Softly. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) 12.45 MOVIE: Kalifornia. (MA15+, R) (1993) Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny. 2.50 MOVIE: Julia’s Eyes. (MA15+, R) (2010) 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 6.30 Secret Meat Business. (PG, R) 7.00 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 8.00 Chopped.

(PG, R) 9.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 9.30 5 Ingredient Fix. (R) 10.00 Barefoot Contessa.

(R) 10.30 Secret Meat Business.

(PG, R) 11.00 Bizarre Foods. (PG, R) 12.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 12.30 Man Fire Food. (R) 1.00 Giada At Home. (R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 3.00 Chopped.

(PG, R) 4.00 Barefoot Contessa.

(R) 4.30 Giada At Home. (R) 5.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 5.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 6.30 Save My Bakery. 7.30 Secret Meat Business.

(PG) 8.00 Chuck’s Eat The Street.

(New Series) 8.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 9.30 Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern. (PG, R) 10.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.

(R) 11.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 11.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 12.30 Bizarre Foods. (PG, R) 1.30 Chuck’s Eat The Street. (R) 2.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 2.30 Bizarre Foods. (PG, R) 3.25 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Goin’ Troppo In The Toppo. (PG) 10.30 MOVIE: Salute. (PG) (2008) 12.00 The Point Review.

12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 Goin’ Troppo In The Toppo.

(PG) 2.30 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 3.00 Surviving. 3.30 Desperate Measures. 4.00 Our Footprint. 4.30 Around The Campfire. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 Move It Mob Style. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 6.30 Down 2 Earth. (PG) 7.00 One With Nature. (PG) 7.30 Native Planet. 8.30 Forgotten Bird Of Paradise. (PG) 9.00 Unearthed. 9.30 Rain In A Dry Land. (M) 11.00 Kill The Matador. (M) 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 4.00 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. 5.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 1903

NITV

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Sunday, March 20 Call The Midwife

Fameless

The People V. OJ Simpson mpson

ABC, 8.30pm

SBS 2, 8.30pm

TEN, 8.30pm

It’s easy to be nostalgic about the past, but perhaps not so much when it comes to childbirth. Medicine (namely, pain relief) has come a long way since the 1950s and ’60s. While the lovely ladies in Call The Midwife possess the utmost care and concern for their patients, most of us wouldn’t want to go back to these simpler times, no matter how captivating they can be. Tonight, Nonnatus House is a frenzy of activity, with the midwives dealing with one of their busiest nights ever. Meanwhile, Sister Winifred (Victoria Yeates) helps a pregnant prostitute and Trixie (Helen George) and Tom’s (Jack Ashton) romance has some of the polish taken off.

From the questionable hands of David Spade (who else just found him slimy in Rules of Engagement?) comes this reality-TV series that makes fun of people who aspire to being well, famous. Half of Hollywood must have been lining up for this show, only to find themselves the butt of the joke.

Lured on with the promise of starring in (fake) shows such as “Siamese Survival”, wherein the person is attached to a stranger and left in the wilderness, they can really only blame themselves, can’t they?

Tonight, Kat Von D inks an aspiring rapper with a humiliating tattoo and a cocky host crumbles while live on air. It’s cruel, but it is kind of funny.

One of the most infamous criminal iminal cases of the 20th century comes to the he screen in this riveting miniseries that focuses ses on the arrest and trial of American sporting ng superstar O.J. Simpson for the brutal 1994 murder of two people, including his ex-wife e Nicole Brown Simpson. It boasts an all-starr cast, with John Travolta playing Simpson’s lead ead lawyer Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer playing Simpson’s best friend Robertt Kardashian and Simpson himself mself is Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (right) Tonight, in “The Dream Team”, Clark (Sarah Paulson) and the prosecution team realise the case is quickly becoming a matter of race.

ABC

PRIME7

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.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Clive James: The Kid From Kogarah. (R, CC) 3.00 Google And The World Brain. (R, CC) 4.00 Myf Warhurst’s Nice: And Tasty. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Miranda Tapsell. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Death In Paradise.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Lyndey Milan’s Summer Baking Secrets. (CC) (Final) Australian TV personality Lyndey Milan reveals the secrets to baking.

12.30 To Be Advised.

4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Dr Harry Cooper and Jason Hodges embark on a trip-of-alifetime through Canada.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike swims with dolphins in the ocean.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) The Conversation With Alex Malley. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(PG, CC) The Wildlife Man Featuring David Ireland: The Wildlife Boy. (PG, R, CC) Presented by David Ireland.

Jarryd Hayne: Aussie Hero, American Dream.

(R, CC) Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 3. St George Illawarra Dragons v South Sydney Rabbitohs.

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries.

(CC) Religious program.

6.30 Hillsong. (CC) Religious program.

7.00 Mass For You At Home.

Religious program.

7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) Religious program.

8.00 Studio 10: Sunday.

(PG, CC) Highlights from the past week’s episodes of Studio 10 featuring Ita Buttrose, Denise Drysdale, Jessica Rowe, Joe Hildebrand and Sarah Harris.

10.00 Motor Racing. (CC) Formula 1. Round 1.

Australian Grand Prix. Race day. From Albert Park, Melbourne.

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. News from Dubai.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The World Game. (CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Cycling. (CC) Milan-San Remo Race. Highlights.

From Italy.

5.00 InCycle. (CC) (New Series) 5.30 Dan Snow: Last Heroes Of D-Day. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Australian Story: How I Met Your Father. (R, CC) A look at the story of Aminah Hart.

6.30 Compass: Melany’s Remedy. (PG, CC) A look at the story of Melany Clark.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.40 Doc Martin. (CC) Dr Timoney, upon hearing news of Louisa and Martin’s failed date night, questions their compatibility.

8.30 Call The Midwife. (M, CC) The midwives face one of their busiest nights to date. Sister Winifred concentrates her efforts on the prostitutes of Poplar.

9.30 Joanna Lumley’s TransSiberian Adventure.

(R, CC) Part 1 of 3. Actress Joanna Lumley embarks on a rail journey from Hong Kong to Moscow.

10.20 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

10.50 Redfern Now. (M, R, CC) A man faces the possibility he could lose his child.

11.50 Luther. (M, R, CC) Luther pursues a vigilante.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

8.00 Border Security: International. (PG, CC) The Halifax canine unit makes a find. An American discovers she has a friend in high places. Vancouver mail officers become suspicious of the contents of some juice pouches.

Narrated by Grant Bowler.

8.30 The Blacklist. (M, CC) After the founder of an internet start-up is killed, Red suspects it is the work of a notorious serial killer who targets the wealthy and poses his victims’ bodies as “performance art”. Liz considers options for her baby.

9.30 Odyssey. (M, CC) (New Series) Three strangers find their lives colliding when they uncover an international conspiracy.

10.30 Odyssey. (M, CC) Still on the run with the evidence she has uncovered, Odelle joins a pilgrimage to Timbuktu.

11.30 Royal Pains. (M, CC) Hank treats a transgender teenager and learns her life is more complicated than he expected.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

8.00 The Mad World Of Donald Trump. (PG, CC) A look at the colourful and mad world of presidential hopeful Donald Trump, whose meteoric political rise comes amid one of the most controversial political campaigns America has ever seen.

9.10 Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown To Off The Wall. (M, CC) Takes a look at the evolution of The King Of Pop, Michael Jackson, and the cultural significance and lasting impact of his seminal first solo album as an adult, Off The Wall.

11.10 Major Crimes. (M, R, CC) A 17-year-old case is reinvestigated after a man who was recently released from prison, still proclaiming his innocence, is murdered. Rusty discloses the reason behind his suspicious behaviour.

6.30 Scorpion. (PG, CC) (Series return) The team is reunited in order to stop a Russian satellite from detonating over California.

7.30 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Jay and Gloria plan a surprise getaway to Miami for the entire Pritchett clan.

8.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) A therapy session with the author of a self-help book draws different reactions from the Pritchetts.

8.30 The People V. OJ Simpson. (M, CC) Marcia Clark announces that OJ Simpson has been charged for the double murder.

9.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

(M, CC) After the team investigates the murder of a blogger dedicated to exposing government corruption and cover-ups, they uncover information about a CIA humanitarian mission with a dark secret.

10.30 Limitless. (M, CC) Sands enlists Brian’s help eliminating an immediate threat he needs to keep secret from his employer.

11.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham Norton chats with Will Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Toby Jones.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 The Story Of Egypt: Chaos. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 4. Professor Joann Fletcher explores the 5000-year history of ancient Egypt. She continues by documenting the end of the age of the pyramids and how wracked by civil war and invaders, the nation was fractured only to be reunited in what would become its largest empire.

8.35 Rome: What Lies Beneath. (PG, R, CC) Presenter Dan Snow joins forces with archaeologist Sarah Parcak to uncover secrets of the Roman Empire, using satellite technology.

10.20 Netanyahu At War. (CC) Part 1 of 2. Traces the history of the United States-Israeli relationship through the eyes of Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, two men with fundamentally different views of the world.

11.20 Tale Of Two Thieves: The Great Train Robbery. (M, R, CC) Gordon Goody, one of the thieves involved in the Great Train Robbery, goes on record about the crime.

12.50 Scott & Bailey. (M, R, CC) Janet investigates a woman’s death.

1.40 Rage. (MA15+, CC) 3.15 Call The Midwife.

(M, R, CC) 4.15 Google And The World Brain. (R, CC) A look at the internet and copyright.

5.10 Doc Martin. (R, CC)

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

12.10 The Last Ship. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Impractical Jokers.

(M, R, CC) 2.30 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 1.30 Home Shopping.

4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning talk show hosted

by Charlie Rose, Gayle King, and Norah O’Donnell.

12.40 MOVIE: The Anarchist’s Wife. (M, R) (2008) 2.45 How To Build A Bionic Man. (M, R, CC) 3.40 Miniature Britain.

(PG, R, CC) 4.40 The External World. (M, R) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News. 5.45 France 24 Feature.

10.30 11.30 1.30

2.30 3.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 18.03.2016 to Sunday 20.03.2016

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Sunday, March 20 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm Blended (2014) Comedy. Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore. Two single parents find themselves stuck together on holiday. (M) Romance

7.30pm Modern Family.

Gloria and Mitch go clubbing with Haley. (PG) FOX8

6.00pm Gardeners’ World.

Toby makes a seaside-inspired seat made from sea-washed pebbles. Lifestyle Home

11.30am Basketball. NBA. Golden State Warriors v San Antonio Spurs. ESPN2

8.30pm Spy (2015) Comedy.

Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne.

A bumbling, desk-bound CIA employee goes undercover to infiltrate a nuclear weapons ring. (MA15+) Premiere

7.35pm Bones. The team deals with a copycat killer. (MA15+) SoHo 8.30pm The Real Housewives Of Melbourne.

(M) Arena

7.30pm 200 Years Of Verdi: A Gala Concert. A celebration of the works of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Foxtel Arts 8.30pm The Secret Life Of Four-Year-Olds. (PG) Lifestyle

2.00pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 3. New Zealand Warriors v Melbourne Storm.

Fox Sports 1 3.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 24. Wellington Phoenix v Perth Glory. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Edward Scissorhands (1990) Fantasy.

Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder.

(PG) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 5.00 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’s Little Kingdom. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Gok’s Teens: The Naked Truth. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 Dream Build. (R, CC) 8.30 Jo Brand: Barely Live.

(M, R, CC) From the Adelphi Theatre, London.

9.20 Bodyshockers: Nips, Tucks And Tattoos.

(M, R, CC) 10.10 The 45 Stone Virgin. (M, R, CC) 10.55 My Baggy Body. (M, R, CC) 11.45 Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures. (PG, R, CC) 12.35 Swamp Brothers. (PG, R) 1.40 Build A New Life In The Country. (PG, R, CC) 2.25 News Update. (R) 2.30 Close. 5.00 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.10 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 5.20 Bert And Ernie. (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. 11.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.10 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 11.35 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 11.55 Make It Pop. (R, CC) 12.20 Secret Life Of Boys. (R, CC) 12.30 Dance Academy. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 2.55 Absolute Genius.

(R) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. 4.00 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.25 Camp Lakebottom.

(R, CC) 4.50 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. (R, CC) 5.00 Grojband.

(R, CC) 5.25 Roy. (R) 5.50 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 6.05 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Yonderland. (PG) 7.25 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Heartland. (PG, CC) Tim’s racehorse is stolen.

9.40 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) A look at the Australian video game scene.

9.50 Rage. (PG, R) 2.20 Close.

Johnny Depp stars in Edward Scissorhands

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping.

(R) 9.30 Australia’s Best Houses.

(PG, R) 10.00 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R) 12.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. (R) 1.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.30 Original Features. (R) 3.30 Storage Hoarders. (PG, R) 4.30 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Air Crash Investigation. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 A Very British Airline.

(PG) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

Hosted by Jules Hudson.

9.30 Escape To The Continent.

A look at homes.

10.45 Before And After. (Series return) 11.15 World’s Strictest Parents. (PG, R, CC) 12.15 Air Crash Investigation. (PG, R, CC) 1.15 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 1.45 A Very British Airline. (PG, R) 3.15 Escape To The Country. (R) 4.15 Escape To The Continent. (R) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs.

12.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.00 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 2.30 Little Charmers.

(R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.00 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino.

(PG) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 6.00 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Racing Stripes.

(R, CC) (2005) 8.30 MOVIE: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

(M, R, CC) (2013) A magician tries to revive his career. Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi.

10.35 MOVIE: I Love You, Man. (MA15+, R) (2009) Paul Rudd, Jason Segel. 12.35 The Cube. (PG) 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. (R) 2.00 Little Charmers. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 Tom And Jerry.

(R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 4.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Shopping. (R) 9.30 Combat Dealers. (PG, R) 11.30 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 12.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 1.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 2.00 Fishing Western Australia. (PG) 2.30 Big Australia. (R, CC) 3.30 Prospectors. (PG, R) 4.30 Bomb Hunters. (PG, R) 5.30 Gator Boys.

(PG, R) 6.30 Swamp People. (PG) 7.30 Highway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 8.00 Surveillance Oz. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Surveillance Oz: Dashcam. (PG, R, CC) A look at dashcam footage.

9.00 MOVIE: Rambo.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2008) A veteran rescues aid workers. Sylvester Stallone.

10.45 MOVIE: Blue Thunder. (M, CC) (1983) Roy Scheider, Warren Oates. 1.00 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 2.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 3.00 Prospectors. (PG, R) 4.00 Bomb Hunters. (PG, R) 5.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R)

6.00 Planet America. (R) 6.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 World This Week.

(R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Offsiders. (CC) 4.00 News.

4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 Tonic. (R) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Foreign Corre. (R, CC) 7.00 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 News. (CC) 10.30 Planet America. (R) 11.00 News. 11.30 Conflict Zone. (PG) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 BBC World. 1.30 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

GO!

6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: Man About The House. (PG, R) (1974) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 New Style Direct. (R) 10.00 Heartbeat. (PG, R) 11.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 11.30 Our Town Queensland.

(CC) 12.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Bombers B-52. (R, CC) (1957) 3.00 MOVIE: Northwest Passage. (PG, R, CC) (1940) Spencer Tracy. 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (CC) 6.30 Are You Being Served?

(PG, R) 7.10 As Time Goes By. (R) 8.30 MOVIE: The Untouchables. (M, R, CC) (1987) A Treasury agent sets out to catch Al Capone. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery.

11.00 Rizzoli & Isles.

(MA15+, R, CC) 12.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Danoz.

3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 4. NSW Waratahs v Highlanders. Replay.

10.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 10.30 Attenborough’s Great Natural Wonders Of The World. (R, CC) 11.30 Temporary Australians.

(PG, R) 12.00 Moments Of Impact.

(PG, R) 1.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.00 4WD Touring Australia. (R) 3.00 World Sport. (R) 3.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 4.30 Megafactories.

(R) 5.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 6.00 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 CSI: Cyber.

(M, R, CC) 8.30 Making Of David Attenborough’s Africa.

(R, CC) 9.30 MOVIE: Red Dragon. (MA15+, R, CC) (2002) Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins. 12.05 World Sport. 12.30 The Killing. (M, R) 1.30 Cops. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 3.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 3.30 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 4.00 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R) 4.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 1. Qatar Grand Prix.

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) 6.30 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Futurama. (PG, R) Leela becomes a Hollywood big shot.

8.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: House Of Versace. (M, R, CC) (2013) The story of Donatella Versace. Gina Gershon, Enrico Colantoni.

10.30 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.

(PG, R) 5.30 Mork & Mindy. (R)

6.00 Domestic Blitz. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (R) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 My First Place. (PG, R) 10.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 11.00 House Hunters. (R) 12.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 1.00 The Farmer Wants A Wife. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 2.00 Selling LA. (PG, R) 3.00 House Hunters Reno. (R) 4.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG) 5.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 6.00 My First Place. (PG) 6.30 Fixer Upper. (PG) 7.30 Five Day Flip. (PG) 8.30 Flip Or Flop. 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (PG) 10.30 Extreme Homes.

11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 1.00 Domestic Blitz. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 The Block Sky High. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia.

(PG) 10.00 WorldWatch. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News.

12.30 WorldWatch. 1.00 MOVIE: Wolf Children. (PG, R) (2012) 3.00 Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything? (R) 3.10 Benidorm Bastards. (PG, R, CC) 3.35 Lily Cole’s Art Matters. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 We Are Young. 5.35 The Brain: China.

7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Fameless. (PG, CC) Kat Von D inks an aspiring rapper.

8.55 Drunk History. (M, R) Hosted by Derek Waters.

9.20 South Park. (M, R, CC) Stan’s perceptions change after turning 10.

9.50 Uncle. (M) 10.25 Big Like Me. (MA15+, R) 11.30 Sex: An Unnatural History. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.00 In Her Skin. (PG) 1.45 Kurt Wallander. (M, R) 3.25 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 6.30 Secret Meat Business. (R) 7.00 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 8.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 9.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 9.30 Save My Bakery. (R) 10.30 Secret Meat Business. (R) 11.00 Bizarre Foods.

(PG, R) 12.00 Mystery Diners.

(PG, R) 12.30 Barefoot Contessa.

(R) 1.00 Chuck’s Eat The Street.

(R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 3.00 Save My Bakery. (R) 4.00 Barefoot Contessa. (R) 4.30 Giada At Home. (R) 5.00 Mystery Diners.

(PG, R) 5.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 6.30 Food Fortunes. 7.30 Secret Meat Business. 8.00 Chuck’s Eat The Street. 8.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 9.30 Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern. (PG, R) 10.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.

(R) 11.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 11.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 12.30 Bizarre Foods. (PG) 1.30 Chuck’s Eat The Street. (R) 2.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 2.30 Bizarre Foods. (PG, R) 3.30 Secret Meat Business. (R) 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Wapos Bay. 9.30 Move It Mob Style.

10.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 24. Melbourne City v Brisbane Roar. 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 MOVIE: The People Of The Kattawapiskak River. (PG) (2012) 2.00 Fraser’s Story. 3.00 One With Nature. (PG) 3.30 From The Western Frontier. 4.00 Native Planet. 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 Paddocks Alight. 6.00 Awaken. 7.00 Gideon’s Army. (PG) 9.00 Living Black. (CC) 9.30 The Tundra Book. (PG) 11.30 Kids To Coast.

12.00 Gideon’s Army. (PG) 2.00 The Tundra Book. (PG) 4.00 Innocence Betrayed. (PG) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival.

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FIND THE WORDS This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 16 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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DOWN 1. Essential (12) 2. Lubricate (3) 3. Keep (6) 4. Toy (9) 5. Banish (5) 6. Prove (12) 7. Precipitous (5) 10. Keep on (9) 13. Command (5) 14. Gap (6) 16. Pretend (5) 20. Write (3)

ACROSS 1. Cameraman (12) 7. Cleave (5)

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PRINCE VALIANT

CALIFORNIAN CROSSWORD

by Murphy & Gianni

From the pages of America’s most popular newspapers

ACROSS

POINT TAKEN

by Paul Dorin JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

1. Assistant 5. Praise to the skies 9. Banned bug spray 12. A-line originator 13. Choir member 14. Playwright Levin 15. Went on a tangent 17. Weep loudly 18. Approximately 19. Makes less intense 21. Military group 24. Sandwich shop 25. Colours 26. Sight-seers 30. Dadaist Jean 31. Debtors’ woes 32. Take to court 33. Type of parking 35. DNA carrier 36. And others (Lat.)

37. Fragrant wood 38. Founded (on) 40. Ethereal 42. “Of course” 43. Talked over 48. Pirouette pivot 49. Great Lake 50. Architect Saarinen 51. Conclusion 52. Gridiron arbiters, for short 53. Anger

DOWN 1. Tack on 2. Midafternoon, in a way 3. Pooch 4. Mistakes 5. Highland girl 6. As well 7. Multipurpose truck 8. Walks feebly 9. Permitted to leave 10. Let fall

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STRANGE BUT TRUE

by Samantha Weaver z It was American political activist and revolutionary Thomas Paine who made the following sage observation: “He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” z Most people prefer to kiss with their eyes closed; however, of those who do prefer to keep their eyes open, the vast majority are men. z It’s well-known that a certain segment of native Londoners speak in a dialect known as Cockney, which makes frequent use of rhyming slang – some classic examples are “dog and bone” for “phone” and “apples and pears” for “stairs”. A more recent addition to the vocabulary is “Donald Trump”, which, for at least the past 15 years, has been used as an equivalent for going to the bathroom. z If you watch TV or movies at all, you’ve probably seen some variation

of the Humane Society disclaimer “No animals were harmed in the making of this program”. You may not have considered that it’s also applicable to insects, but those who make the programs certainly do. In fact, if you see a bug being destroyed in a contemporary movie, it’s a safe bet that the bug was dead before the scene was shot. There are even people who stuff dead bugs with a sort of cream to fill it out – and to ensure a satisfying squish for the camera. z You may be surprised to learn that many people never even feel it when they’re bitten by a venomous snake. (They certainly experience the aftereffects, though.)

Thought for the Day: “In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler

11. Filing aids 16. Before 20. “The Greatest” 21. Bloke 22. Emanation 23. Sad 24. Boring 26. Cash drawer 27. Bullring bravo 28. Albacore, e.g.

29. Palm reader, for one 31. Football lining 34. Chowed down 35. Old Faithful, e.g.

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) The more organised you are this week, the more progress you will make. Although it is a low energy time, your mind buzzes with ideas and enthusiasm. Teamwork will get you everywhere and reveal possibilities not considered before. Will you give yourself the chance to succeed? All it takes is the will. Have you been thinking of making new social contacts? Maybe asking someone out? You stand a good chance of success. sense of freedom you love is easier this week. By concentrating on your social life rather than just work, the most exciting path will become apparent.

New ideas pop in and out of your mind, topping up your enthusiasm. From Wednesday go over long-term plans and fine-tune them. Who have you not seen since last year? Why not? Don’t accept excuses and have some fun!

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) As long as things are going well socially, there is a good home-work balance. Start to take on too much, though, and home life could suffer. If someone seems to be fussing about nothing, maybe they know something you don’t! Take care of your health and have any checks that you feel are necessary. When things slow down, take the opportunity to have those loving conversations you never seem to have time for.

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Be willing to enrol someone into a pet project. Putting two brains together can make all the difference. Energy is up and down but, on those down days, get plotting and planning. Rather than throw money at a situation, consider taking things more slowly to save both cash and energy. Make sure the numbers add up when it comes to finances. An unexpected delay in cash flow is no problem – if you keep communications open.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Just when you thought that things were not going your way, along comes someone to help. Discuss your long-term hopes and dreams

for the week commencing March 21

BY CASSANDRA NYE decisions. Pick your time to let someone know how matters are progressing. Giving them a nice surprise can only add to their admiration.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) The chance to shine in the eyes of someone who is important to you comes along this week. Don’t be shy. Gather your talents and bask in the limelight! Someone needs you to be fun and inventive and that is something that you are very good at. Cash comes via social connections. There is a value to your talents that goes beyond the fun of performing.

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) Getting that without putting a price on them. The time is not yet right. A chance conversation with a friend throws up an interesting bit of gossip, but is it fact? The course of true love can have its bumps, that’s for sure. Keeping yours on an even keel means being extra charming.

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Speaking to the right person about your plans can turn things around for you this week.

Given the chance to chat, don’t hesitate!

There is a chance to mix business with romance, but it is your call. You have the ear of a very important person, make your pitch brief and heartfelt. Try not to over-think what is really a very simple situation.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Great communications are not restricted to work this week. Someone you have been trying to get close to is all ears! Consider what they want from you and make it clear that you value your talents. An opportunity that you feel is not in your usual comfort zone could be just what you need to grow. Be willing to accept that your efforts are worth cash and, sometimes, plenty of it!

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) Be dynamic, organised and enthusiastic. Even if a plan is still in its early days you can move it forward in your mind. Are you able to talk to someone who has been there before? So much the better! Communications clearly tell you this is the time to make life-changing moves and

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) There is much to gain both socially and at work from being cheerful and optimistic. Remember though, there is a world of difference between being jokey and being supportive. A romantic response could well depend on what you say rather than what you do. Do you really know what they want? Do some background searches on someone you want to impress. What are their hobbies or childhood haunts?

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Don’t feel like making decisions or being too serious? That is fine as long as you are concentrating on your social life.

Business-wise, someone is looking for words of wisdom to fall from your lips.

Can’t find any? Look to the words of someone else to make a good impression. This weekend it is impossible to be too serious. Someone wants to see you smile. It is something that comes easily to you.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) A bit less energy does not suit your mood this week.

Still, make the most of it by planning ahead and drumming up some enthusiasm for a forthcoming event. A liaison midweek may see you making some special arrangements for the weekend. Although this may not be in your comfort zone, it brings personal growth.

Having the courage to try new things brings great satisfaction. It also spurs you on to do even better next time!

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Flashes of inspiration bring you in line with current thinking.

Something that you thought beyond your talents turns out to be just what you need right now. Being prepared to stretch yourself, Aries, may be scary but great fun.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Aries, this is a sensitive time for you. It is also one where your work is closely linked with your home life.

Getting a balance is not always easy but it is worth making a big effort. Factor in time to relax.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! When you are under some pressure, Aries, you often do your best work. Don’t be disappointed if you have to wait for that hard-earned praise. It will come at the right time! Be your own best friend.

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! At times you need to plod along, Aries. This is not your ideal situation. Even so, take this time to relax and look after your looks and health. When the time comes for things to start moving, you will be ready!

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! With home life and finances closely linked, you need to be at your best. Talk to your loved ones about how you feel and how you are doing.

In this way you will have understanding just when you need it, Aries.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! It all seems to be stop and start as this year unfolds, Aries. That can be unsettling unless you keep future goals firmly in view. Rather than put plans aside when things slow down, keep them moving in a less hectic timescale.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Aries, you can make charm positively ooze from you. If you can do that through the months ahead you really are on to a winner! Take nothing and no one for granted as you steadily follow your dreams.

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QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Photographer; 7 Split; 8 Adieu; 9 Eye; 10 Pointless; 11 Umpire; 12 DUAL CROSSWORD Mimosa; 15 Suffering; 17 18,976 Dot; 18 Twice; 19 Toper; 21 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Unreasonable.

Across: 1 Life sentence; 7 Down: 1 Prerequisite; 2 Oil; Minim; 8 Parka; 9 Tax; 10 3 Retain; 4 Plaything; 5 ExTheorises; 11 Rumpus; 12 ile; 6 Substantiate; 7 Steep; Geisha; 15 Farthings; 17 Dig; 10 Persevere; 13 Order; 14 18 Igloo; 19 Let on; 21 Scene Hiatus; 16 Feign; 20 Pen. stealer.

Down: 1 Light traffic; 2 Sin; THE BAKER’S DOZEN 3 Number; 4 Exporters; 5 TRIVIA TEST: Cares; 6 Manslaughter; 7 1. Apple Records. 2. Jupiter, Maxim; 10 Touchdown; 13 which rotates once in just Sedan; 14 Angles; 16 Relic; less than 10 hours. 3. Crick20 Tie. ets. 4. Peregrine falcon.

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South Africa. 8. Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things. 9. Low blood sugar.

10. Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. 11. Lou Rawls, in 1976. It was his only million-seller. 12. Ayrton Senna, with 41 victories. 13.

“A Groovy Kind of Love”, by the Mindbenders in 1965. It reached No.2 on both the US and UK charts (it didn’t perform as well in Australia), but Phil Collins took it to the top in 1988 with his version, a slow ballad, that was used in the film “Buster”.

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The final say

FROM THE EDITOR-AT-LARGE Jen Cowley

Mixed emotions for a grown up coming home HERE is surely no more comforting human condition than to have a sense of belonging â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to have a place to call home, and a past and future populated by people who give that sense of home its roots.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been blessed throughout my life so far to have a number of places â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and indeed people â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that give me my sense of place: my family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; living and dead; the wonderful patch of dirt in â&#x20AC;&#x153;myâ&#x20AC;? Warrumbungle mountains that was home to generations of that family; this city, of course, where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve raised my own family (and hoping to help them build their sense of place)â&#x20AC;Ś and then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the town near which I grew up.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a regular visitor to my little home town and made a special trip recently to help bury an old friend â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a remarkable woman whose connection with my family stretches across four generations, and will stretch on through bonds that transcend the passing of time.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not usually given to spirituality, but as we stood beside the little church â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the one in which my parents married, in which my three brothers and I were baptised; through which so many of my lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s significant people have been dispatched, and where I took my own first steps into wedded bliss nearly three decades ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hard to imagine that the swish of the warm autumn breeze through the top of the gum trees resembled the benevolent, but insistent, whisper of ghosts.

On this bright summer day, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a familiar

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sun beating down on the now-stooped shoulders of people I still consider the â&#x20AC;&#x153;grown-upsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; friends who, one by one, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to bury over the years, some prematurely, some â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like the proud and dignified lady we honour today â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who go to their God with a full ledger.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strange thing to see time bearing down on these men and women â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the people who collectively helped to weave the fabric of my childhood â&#x20AC;&#x201C; people who became Godparents to my brothers and me; people whose houses I knew as well as my own; who have known me since before I was born but with whom Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never be on a first name basis; whose children shared my formative years and school bus days, whose gardens we played in (and whose houses our parents played in while we slept in freezing bloody station-wagons).

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stranger still, to see how the wheel turns so that those childhood friends and I are now the grown-ups â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s days like today that, perversely, given the nature of the occasion, give me a sense of continuity.

The ghosts are all around this town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just at the side of this little church as the hearse pulls away.

Yes, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re walking the aisle of this pretty little church, whose bells variously pealed and tolled to welcome and dispatch family members, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also hanging out the windows of the old primary school, waving as the afternoon buses carry a new generation home.

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They waft about on the upstairs balcony of the old Imperial Pub â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the â&#x20AC;&#x153;niceâ&#x20AC;? hotel in town, where a sit-down lunch in the dining room with my gloved grandmother was a special treat, and where festivities ground on well into the night after picnic race balls.

At the shiny new multi-national supermarket, I imagine the ghosts of my grandfather and the little old Chinese grocer, waving from the doorway of the deceptive little shop that was a veritable Aladdinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cave â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where you could buy anything from a baling hook to a fresh tomato, and where my Grandpa would buy us an occasional sweet.

The showground is deserted, but I can smell the horses and hear the whirr of the Ferris wheel at the annual show, where my father bought me a kewpie doll on a stick every year until he died.

In the park where my brothers and I once had our portrait photographs taken, their ghosts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for want of a better description â&#x20AC;&#x201C; feel palpably close as I sit here today with the scent of summer dust in the air and with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;thingamajigâ&#x20AC;? on my lap that my 12 year-old self couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t name as a laptop.

This is the town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that will always be home for me in a rosy-hued, nostalgic kind of a way. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll say I was born. Where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell people Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m originally from. Where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always feel the pull of my family roots.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strange feeling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; at once unnerving and comforting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to come home as a grown up.

` This is the town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my town â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that will always be home for me in a rosy-hued, nostalgic kind of a way.

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Enjoy barista-style coffee, chocolates and of course delicious hot cross buns, all served from our stunning Country Club.

Tours of the new Country Club and display homes will also be held and you’ll have the opportunity to mingle with like-minded people. So bring your family and friends as we welcome you with our Kintyre hospitality and complimentary Easter treats.

With resort-style facilities at the Country Club, you can take a dip in the indoor heated pool, enjoy a friendly game of tennis or display your prowess in a bowls tournament, refresh yourself with a drink at the bar/cafe or just relax in the library with a book, a game or access the internet. For those times when you’d rather turn off your mind why not

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