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Is city reboot a blue screen of death, really? A HUNDRED and forty-four years ago, Dubbo got its first municipal council. Its inaugural election was held on April 22,

1872. Six councillors were chosen by a huge turnout of 246 voters (possibly the total sum of the town’s sober male adult population of the time). William Moffatt received 52 votes, James Samuels Jnr. (49), Thomas Frawley (47), Thomas Alexander (35), Narcisse Muller (34) and George Henry Taylor (29). James Samuels Jnr was elected mayor and must have a been a popular sod as he did not step out of the role for the next nine years. Under his leadership the Dubbo Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Association (the Dubbo Show) was formed, the first show was held, the Dubbo Advertiser began, the Methodist, Holy Trinity Anglican and Presbyterian church’s foundation stones were laid and built, the Bank of NSW Chambers was built, the city became a Circuit Court Town, Central Primary School was opened, Queen’s Park (Victoria) was developed, the Dubbo Fire Brigade formed along with other highlights including various industries starting, the odd hanging, and a policeman shot dead by his lover. On the whole, it was a community experiencing continuous, solid growth but the bulk of it would have been done by ordinary men and women, sleeves rolled up, tools in hand, their “lets get-it-done” attitude prevailing. No doubt there were community members who saw the system of local government at the time as flawed – possibly those without representation such as women but it was what it was. While change is always a surprise, no matter how long you’ve known it was coming and depending on the depth of your denial, it is inevitable. The amalgamation of Dubbo City Council and the Wellington Council, which is a pretty drastic change indeed, seemed like a done deal to me the minute the words, “if you don’t want it, you don’t have to have it,” fell from the public inquiry delegate, Dr Ian Tiley’s lips on Thursday, February 4, in Dubbo. It was a flippant thing to say but making $1,500 a day overseeing the inquiries means telling someone what they want to hear was probably not going to keep him awake at night. What may have caused him some distraction was thinking through chapters of the book he’s published called “Divided we Fall: An Insider’s Perspective on Local Government Amalgamations,”. Would he have been concerned a delegate who is a known advocate for amalgamation and charged with the job of reporting to the boundaries review might not actually be able to offer an impartial recommendation? “They don’t want it” is not that complicated a view to translate. Dr Tiley was appointed this week as administrator to the newly created Armidale Regional Council. While there’s something incredibly pompous and contrived about the amalgamation process, with far too many cracks in the path to enlightenment for the truth to fall through, such as the now infamous mystery KMPG report and why delegate reports have been withheld until after the announcements were made, the confusion and surprise are justified. The dent in the democratic process not so

much. But then what is democracy in Australia in 2016? Our right to elect officials swept aside in a clean sweep of the status quo without so much as a protest march? If this were the USA, there’d be pick up trucks parked in the foyer of city hall with angry citizens reminding governors of their place in the scheme of things. While the naysayers have stepped up to decry the affront to the system and share doubts about financial benefits, there is a big, big silence in the community. Complacency is the enemy of empires, greatness, success, you name, but in this case, is it? Has letting an amalgamation proceed without resistance been a silent ballot, a vote of sorts which says ‘agreed’. There are rumours aplenty from council level down suggesting that to have the opinion of supporting a merger was unfavourable in previous months and be careful who you say it to. Which in itself is not very democratic, when people with opposing views to the squeakiest wheels on an issue, fear the sound of their own voice or their right to express their view. Now of course those angered by disruption to the status quo, which is indeed problematic, despite reassurances from our new Administrator, Michael Kneipp, are vocal. Injustices have been done. We’re not the only ones to have noticed. Ku-ring-gai Council whose merger with Hornsby Shire, is still pending (at the time of writing), and took its case to the Land and Environment Court, then to the Supreme Court to get its delegate’s report released. NSW Local Government Minister Paul Toole’s decision to delay releasing the reports until after announcing the mergers implies they’ll never see the light of day. What would be the point of revealing their contents after the fact, knowing the truth about public submissions and a delegate’s recommendations were perhaps in opposition to what residents actually asked for. Not only has it been democracy getting a kick, common courtesy has been treated the same way – in a similar vein as how a corporation communicates? Bob Stewart, former mayor of the now dissolved Bombala Council heard about the decision to amalgamate his council with CoomaMonaro and Snowy River shires; on the radio. Sign of the times. It’s how people get fired these days. Though they could have at least sent him a text. As Stewart tearfully said in a radio interview with the ABC, “It’s a pretty brutal way of doing things but any way that’s life in New South Wales at the moment.” Tears aside, like an arranged marriage what seems to matter in a merger is the union, and its benefits. How the “couple” – Dubbo, Wellington and their outlying villages - ‘feel’ about it, is irrelevant. With choice removed, residents have little choice but to wait and see what the future holds and If the grand scheme of amalgamation will actually work. The truth of the matter is, the real work will be done by ordinary men and women of the area to maintain the status quo of progress, instilled by our recently sacked council and regardless of who is sitting at the top table.

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Merger prompts mixed response from council and residents BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HERE’S plenty of talk around town that Citizen (Mathew) Dickerson, the former mayor of the former Dubbo City Council (DCC), will stand as an independent at the next state election ostensibly in protest at the sacking of DCC and the formed amalgamation with Wellington Shire into Western Plains Regional Council. This week he wouldn’t confirm he’d be running, but wouldn’t deny either, leaving nothing ruled in and nothing ruled out, but he conceded the three years until the next state election was a long time off. It’s also far more difficult to keep up a public profile, keep yourself in the minds of the potential voters, if you’re not in the local media ten times each day because you hold the office of mayor - you really can’t buy that sort of free publicity, and the public’s collective memory is extremely short – no-one talks much these days about any former mayors prior to Dickerson’s reign. But it’s plain to see that he’s irked to the extreme by the forced amalgamation process. “There has been some talk that back in the days of McGrane and Fardell (former state independent MPs) they would have stuck up for the electorate and not let this happen,” Dickerson said. “Troy (Grant) didn’t fight for his electorate as I suspect the title of ‘deputy premier’ was more important. Maybe it is time to return the seat to an independent – it is coming,” he added. Dubbo MP, NSW deputy premier and minister for lots of things Troy Grant said he understood how the former mayor was essentially grieving, but wasn’t pleased about the personal nature of his attacks. “Individuals, in the case of the mayor from Dubbo in particular it’s been disappointing, he’s got to realise it’s not about him and he’s in the process of grieving I think at the moment and some of his public statements have been a little bit insulting and offensive,” Grant said. “He said that I put the deputy premiership ahead of my responsibilities as the local member, that’s offensive; that’s offensive and I look at my record of delivering in the last five years just under half a billion dollars of hospital capital investment, road funding in the hundreds of millions, new police stations, fire stations, school funding, like, he’s gotta be kidding, that’s offensive to say that sort of thing.” “He’s worried about his interests and that’s alright, he’s put a lot of effort and passion into Dubbo City Council and I thank him for the work he’s done but now he’s going from the sublime to the ridiculous in relation to his behavior and commentary, taking potshots at other people when he should be, if he wants to contribute to the community trying to make a positive contribution now to the new entity,” he said. Grant added he would be pleased to see the former mayor stand as an independent against him for the seat of Dubbo at the next state election. “He’s indicated he may have some interest to run as an independent in 2019, I welcome him to run, I encourage him to run because I will be asking residents in the seat of Dubbo to remember the days when we had independent representation, no slight on the individuals who tried their very best, but where were we before 2011 and where are we today, independent representation for our region will doom us for our future, it won’t enhance it,” Grant said. “I’ve heard his commentary that this wouldn’t have

happened if we had an independent member of parliament, well I got a text from Dawn Fardell, the former independent member on the day of the decision who said “this is the right decision, congratulations and having the courage” so the former mayor Dickerson’s comment that we’d have been better off with an independent member - wrong.” The deputy premier has been copping plenty of flak in recent days but says his reading of the public is at great variance from those involved in local government as elected representatives, he’d been talking to Wellington residents on the day of this particular interview. “Without doubt, those that oppose the mergers, and they’ve got every right to, I’ve got no criticism of anyone who opposes the merger and they believe what they are fighting for, but those who say no to something are the noisiest and will be heard louder,” Grant said. “Those that don’t care and/or are in favor will remain silent, and they’re far more representative in the community than those who oppose it will let you believe.” “That’s the sentiment I’m seeing. You bump into people here today in Wellington and they’re not unhappy because they can see a brighter future for their town as a result of this merger,” he said. I’ve been a harsh critic of Dubbo City Council across many issues for more than two decades but didn’t understand why such a seemingly blunt instrument was used to forcibly merge Dubbo and Wellington. So I asked Troy Grant to explain, keeping it brief and in layman’s terms, why this had to happen. “It gives us more punching power, more consolidation in effort for our region rather than having inconsistency in performance or service delivery in a very short space of area so the differential in services that you get in Wellington to Dubbo has been pretty onesided, there’s been significant growth and development in Dubbo where Wellington hasn’t had the capacity to provide those services.” “In order to rectify that we’ve looked at the merger between the two to give Wellington equal capacity to grow and succeed better than it currently has the capacity to do and people will suspect that Dubbo’s going to have to pick up the can for that but the reality is that if Wellington can’t succeed then you have two areas competing and state government and other government funding would need to come here to prop up Wellington rather than using Dubbo’s experience and

` He’s indicated he may have some interest to run as an independent in 2019, I welcome him to run, I encourage him to run because I will be asking residents in the seat of Dubbo to remember the days when we had independent representation, no slight on the individuals who tried their very best, but where were we before 2011 and where are we today, independent representation for our region will doom us for our future, it won’t enhance it.

Local Government workshops for merging councils LOCAL Government NSW is headed up by north coast councilor Keith Rhodes. For years Cr Rhodes has been a strident critic of the state coalition on just about every front so the forced merger mandate has him predictably seeing a new shade of red, and he’s joined in that sentiment by many traditional coalition supporters who have an interest or involvement in the process of local government. Now the LGNSW is running ‘special workshops in metropolitan and regional locations for all NSW councils being forcibly merged.” I wonder who’s paying for all that. Judging by the rorting that’s been well publicised at the local government annual conferences I hope the delegates to these workshops spend more time paying attention. Cr Rhodes has taken aim at local government minister Paul Toole, a Nationals MP who was a former Bathurst mayor. “Local Government is about a great deal more than roads, rates and rubbish,” Cr Rhoades said. “The Minister’s media release announcing the mergers was quick to claim that rubbish would still be collected on the same night, and that residents could still use the local public library. “That’s pretty disingenuous given local government is actually one of the biggest sectors in the NSW economy - NSW councils spend around $10 billion per year, manage non-financial assets (infrastructure and land) worth $120 billion, and employ more than 50,000 staff,” he said. Cr Rhodes said just trying to synthesise IT systems between merging councils is a massive and expensive task. Cr Rhodes media release has a long list of problems as he sees them. “Councils about to undertake the amalgamation process need to keep their operations going while finalising new governance and organisational structures, bringing together two or more large workplaces, harmonising service delivery and asset management across the new entities, preparing new financial and contractual arrangements, merging complex business systems, developing new strategic plans, and continuing to inform and engage their communities,” Cr Rhodes said. ‘At the same time, councils are being asked by the Government to respond to dramatic reform to planning legislation, an IPART inquiry into council ratings systems, and a move to overhaul the Local Government Act. “The Government is also pursuing new Coastal Management legislation, biodiversity reforms and the introduction of a new emergency services property levy, so it’s fair to say there is a lot on - that’s why LGNSW has developed an amalgamation toolkit for councils and will be sending subject matter experts into the field again to help make the process as smooth as possible,” he said. The closest workshops to Dubbo will be held at Raymond Terrace and Wagga Wagga.

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capacity to help the whole region rise and be more competitive for funding bids, service delivery, more efficiencies across the board.” “Prior to 2011 Dubbo City Council was lousy and very unsuccessful at attracting state and federal government grants, DCC’s piggy bank was pretty empty – you have a look at the change when you have a council working cohesively together with other levels of government and how that’s turned around,” he said. “You look at the funding grants that have gone to Dubbo via the council whether it be the airport, seven plus million, the single largest grant ever

given to Dubbo City Council, whether it’s for road crossing, rail crossings, interchange, a $50 million dollar bridge coming, all that was decades missing for Dubbo and Wellington is in a similar scenario, they haven’t had the capacity to be successful for grants so the amalgamation will give us a broader capacity to do things better for a broader region particularly when we’re looking at tourism assets,” Grant said. “We’ve got some beautiful tourism assets here in Wellington that just don’t have the capacity to be promoted on a grander scale so coming on board and connecting with the Dubbo tourism assets with the gaol and the zoo, the caves

here, the arboretum here and Burrendong Dam will be able to be packaged up into a much more attractive tourism offering for the broader state with some effective management of it, with some efficiencies to get better outcomes. “That’s what we’re hoping with the merger – it’s not, as everyone suspects to make anyone weaker, that’s not in our interest and I, as a local member would never ever support anything that I thought would weaken one of my communities, that just doesn’t make sense and I truly believe that this amalgamation in the better interests of every ratepayer across all the communities within the new council boundaries,” he said.

The battle is over, time to move on BY MARK GRIGGS FORMER WELLINGTON COUNCILLOR

HE battle, hard fought, has been won by the State Coalition Government so it is now appropriate to accept the result. I, like the majority of people in both council areas, was against the forced amalgamation, but the decision has been made, rightly or wrongly. The finality came last Thursday and we are now ruled by one man appointed by the victor who will be in charge until September next year. Hardly democratic, but fact. It is now ever so important that each and every ratepayer, each and every member of the new (combined) community gains an equitable right within the new council area. The proposed ward system for council elections in 18 months’ time doesn’t seem equitable to me with a proposed enormous majority of representatives coming from

the Dubbo city area. Surely people living outside the inner city boundaries have equal rights to those within. However, I hope time and common sense will rework this anomaly. The amalgamation now raises the opportunity for the chips on the shoulders of each area to fall. Those chips have been about for decades and now must drop off for the sake of a combined successful region under the “Western Plains” banner. I believe it is imperative

people from all communities within give the new council area the chance to survive and prosper. It will be hard work for those who put up their hands, but it has to happen for the region to succeed. The fight is now behind us, we now must build a successful region, economically and morally. The state government has demanded this, so I’m sure it will back it with more than the proposed millions of dollars it said it would throw around as enticements. It is a decision Macquarie

` The proposed ward system for elections in 18 months’ time council election doesn’t seem equitable doe to me with a proposed enormous majority en of representatives coming from the co Dubbo city area. Du – Mark Griggs former Wellington Councillor

Street now must make sure succeeds, but finally, it is up to the residents of this new region, you and me, to work towards an amicable future. I put my name forward to play a part in the transformation, for equitable representation and for some hard work to make this new council area the success we all want. I have been a proud resident of Wellington (27 years), my family owned Dubbo’s Amaroo Hotel during the 1980s which encouraged me and a brother, Simon, to purchase the Federal Hotel (Wellington) in 1989 to 1999. In that time I was president of the Wellington Business Association, a member of Wellington Hospital Board, elected to Wellington Council in 1995 and have been reelected four more times. Have served as Deputy Mayor and Mayor and was a councillor up until last Thursday. If the Administrator seeks assistance I most certainly believe I have the experience and knowledge to help cast a new beginning for the future of this new area.

THE ALP RESPONDS TO MERGERS MEANTIME, opposition leader Luke Foley and shadow local government minister Peter Primrose have put out a short and succinct press release opposing the forced amalgamations. They may have been caught by surprise just as most other people seemed to be, because if I was advising them in a PR sense, and this issue was of as much interest to the people as they claim, I’d have been on the first plane out to Dubbo, the hub of Western Plains Regional Council, to campaign at a grassroots level against deputy premier Troy Grant – it sounds like a God-sent opportunity. “Premier Baird’s decision to sack 42 councils demonstrates an incredible arrogance,” the release states, “It breaks an election promise not to forcibly merge local councils.” “Democratically elected mayors and councilors have been dismissed and boundaries re-drawn. The new councils will be run by administrators hand-picked by the premier. These administrators do not represent the community – they answer only to the premier. “In many areas the mergers proceeded despite widespread objections from the community,” it stated. The release also claimed that some proposed mergers in marginal federal seats have been ‘temporarily’ halted because of the election campaign, the seat belonging to deputy prime minister and federal Nationals’ leader Barnaby Joyce is the highest profile on that list, and there’s no doubt the nation’s second most powerful politician is fighting battles on many fronts, with former independent MP Tony Windsor breathing down his neck and challenging to win his old seat back. The release goes on to say that the political cynicism driving the forced mergers is ‘astonishing, but not surprising.” “Every step in this process, from the new boundaries to the timing of the announcement, has been driven by political considerations,” the release stated. “We believe that local government should be reformed, not by forced amalgamations, but by banning developers from office and capping political donations. “Labor is committed to returning democratic decision-making to local government and where communities want to overturn the forced mergers, we will provide them with the democratic opportunity to do so,” it stated.

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The day democracy died BY MATHEW DICKERSON FORMER MAYOR OF DUBBO

Democracy. It is a simple enough word. Kids learn how to say and spell it from a young age. There are very few words in the English language that can stir up such emotion and motivate mankind to commit acts which would otherwise never be considered. The concept of democracy is generally believed to have originated in Ancient Athens circa 500 B.C. although there is evidence to suggest that democratic forms of government may have existed before that time. WWI was a temporary victory for democracy in Europe and WWII was ultimately a victory for democracy in Western Europe. The movement of democracy has continued across the world and only 13 years ago the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq led to a new constitution with free and open elections. Those of us who live in Australia today are incredibly spoilt by the freedoms we enjoy. 102,820 Australians died in all wars â&#x20AC;&#x201C; largely defending the democracy we enjoy today. Even though we are accustomed to our democracy, it is not something to be taken for granted. The entire NSW amalgamation â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;consultationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; has relied on mistruths, lies, exaggerations and broken promises. Corporations have a strict code of practice when it comes to truth in advertising yet we seem to blindly accept that politicians tell lies with no consequences. In the old days, when there was honour among pollies, at least the lies were restricted to the election period. Now they seem to warble out 24 hours a day. No forced amalgamations was one of the promises this coalition government gave so we should have been outraged when they cut a swathe through local government last week with still no proof to back up their wild claims of amalgamation benefits. No unpleasant reductions can be made to staffing numbers and no rate structure changes can be made until, coincidentally, just after the next State Government election. If the benefits of amalgamation were so wonderful wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be advantageous to start gaining the benefits immediately? Why put a false protection on the new entity for any period of time. And if you thought the amalgamation process was bad, littered with its mistakes and lack of ability for discussion with our elected officials, worse was still to come. On May 12, 2016 at 12.30pm, democracy died in NSW to be replaced with an oligarchy. That was the moment when 44 Councils were reduced to 19. You may be OK with amalgamations. I accept that amalgamations make sense in some circumstances â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you have data to support the case. The 1980 amalgamation of Dubbo and Talbragar Shire made sense. The amalgamation of Dubbo and Wellington didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense

The Last Supper: councillors met on Friday, May 13, following the news that Dubbo City Council was to be dissolved. According to Mathew Dickerson, they were a demoralised group.

to me though and officially it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make sense to 80 per cent of our population. Once the amalgamations were announced a much bigger issue was about to be announced. Forty-four councils with 44 Mayors and some 400 Councillors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who were all duly elected in a fair and transparent democratic system that people have died to protect â&#x20AC;&#x201C; were summarily dismissed. No warning. No finish off your current projects. Hand in your access keys and your Council equipment while we escort you from the building. Well surely in the system we are accustomed to, the first order of business would be to hold an election immediately. No. Instead, those 44 Councils have been replaced by 19 hand-picked unelected Government-sympathetic servants to rule with all of the same powers as the previously democratically elected Councillors. And when I say servants I mean individuals paid about four times what Mayors were paid to ensure they are loyal to the Government paying them. Except the Government isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t paying them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we are. For 485 days. This is what our democracy has come to? All of the

power vested in 19 Administrators who take their orders from the Premier and the Deputy Premier. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember signing up to this when I voted last March. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but think what Tony McGrane or Dawn Fardell would have done. From 1999 to 2011 we enjoyed the luxury of Tony and then Dawn as dedicated independents for the seat of Dubbo. As independents they were never able to be Ministers or hold positions in Government but they could dedicate themselves totally to their electorate. They spent their time fighting for what the people of Dubbo wanted and they would not have stood for the situation we currently find ourselves in. Dubbo and Wellington will be negatively impacted by this process. Not because of each other but because of the loss of Councillors and because of the focus on the bringing together of two organisations. All the energy of the newly formed Council in the short term will be on organising a structure that will work into the future. And while you are looking inward it is hard to see what opportunities are out there. May 12, 2016 will be forever known in our Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history as the day democracy died.

` Forty-four councils with 44 Mayors and some 400 Councillors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who y were wer all duly elected in a fair and transparent democratic system sys that people have died to protect â&#x20AC;&#x201C; were summarily dismissed. dism No warning. No finish off your current projects. Hand Han in your access keys and your Council equipment while whi we escort you from the building. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mathew Dickerson, former Dubbo Mayor

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Administrator, Michael Kneipp OUNCIL’S new Administrator Michael Kneipp has been appointed by the state government and he will in effect be performing all the daily functions of the former mayor and elected councillors as well as supervising staff on the integration of the two local government areas. He’s been extraordinarily busy these past few days but had time for a quick chat with Dubbo Weekender as well as being able to answer a few written questions. Time will tell how successful the merger is, both from the administrative side of the actual integration, for which the state government has allocated $5 million and also as a functioning larger council into the future. Mr Kneipp has lived in Wellington for more than three decades and has spent years working out of Dubbo, so he knows the expanded council area from both sides. Dubbo MP Troy Grant is a fan. “I know Michael from his time as executive director of Crown Lands based in Dubbo,” Grant said. “He was responsible for significant reform to the Crown Lands department, unlocking years of bureaucratic backlog and community frustration. “He’s a man that gets things done – it’s great to have that skillset in the role,” he said.

HINGS have moved quickly for the experienced administrator, just a couple of weeks ago he got a phone call ‘out of the blue’ asking him if he’d take on the new role, he asked if he could think about it for a day and the rest is history. He’s pleased he has so much grassroots experience of both Dubbo and Wellington. “I think it’s good to understand the communities that are involved, at the same time I’ve worked in Dubbo for a good many of those years and so I believe I have a pretty good understanding of both communities, and it’s not as if I’m there to represent either side’s interests, I’m there to bring two communities into one,” he said. “There are always different challenges with different organisations but certainly the Crown Lands’ experience, we went five years of considerable restructure – that experience with organizational change I think

will help, but that’s not to say I won’t make mistakes here,” Mr Kneipp said. To me that’s a refreshingly honest self-appraisal, and makes me hopeful we’ll see a bit of transparency in this process. I for one am interested to see the new system in action, and everyone will have their chance at the Western Plains Regional council meeting, ironically at the foot of Mt Arthur in Wellington, country about as far from the ‘Plains’ as you can get in this area. The Proclamation proclaimed that the first meeting of the new council would be at the former Wellington Shire Council chambers on Wednesday, May 25. “The normal arrangements will prevail whereby staff will give reports and business will be brought forward but instead of a full council debating and voting on it, I’ll either approve or decline the requests,” Mr Kneipp said. I’ll be especially keen to look at the interplay between former Dubbo and Wellington staff. From a standing start Dubbo looks set to have some ascendancy thanks to a range of factors. The senior staff at Dubbo are mostly long-serving

` As an organisation, stability in management is important and I will be working closely with the Interim General Manager and his staff to ensure we have the structures, resources and expertise to deliver the Council’s programs. – Michael Kneipp

whereas many senior people at Wellington have been in an acting capacity, it’s difficult to recruit for those positions when you have merger talks hanging over your head. Dubbo also has far more staff employed than Wellington, so purely on numbers alone there’ll be an imbalance. It will also be interesting to see which of the former councilors from both organisations put their hands up to be considered for community advisory positions. I was surprised, given the seeming level of community angst, that so few accepted Dubbo Weekender’s invitation to write 500 words on the amalgamation in their own words. Already, it seems, people are moving on. Former Dubbo deputy mayor Ben Shields posted this on Facebook earlier this week: “So I now have some time on my hands. Looking for some sort of community organisation to get involved with. Are there any not for profit groups out there that need someone who rants, raves, screams and occasionally stamps his feet?” There were plenty of suggestions from the Midnite café to the Volunteer Rescue Association (VRA) and the Red Cross. It was a weird feeling to have former DCC staff answer the phone by saying ‘Western Plains Regional Council,” and I’ve been told that’s to have ‘Dubbo Branch’ tacked on to the end. I don’t have much time for generic names like ‘Western Plains,” Mudgee I believe has lost much of its identity by using Mid-Western Regional Council, although its elected councilors voted not to change that to Cudgegong council a few years back if memory serves me correctly. Dubbington is definitely not on – Citizen Dickerson tried that one and look where it got him. 10 of the 11 former Dubbo councilors had lunch last Friday and according to Mathew Dickerson they were a demoralised lot. I couldn’t help thinking of that lunch as The Last Supper – let’s hope the Resurrection happens sooner rather than later.

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Q&A with Administrator

Michael Kneipp Day to day, what will change with the nuts and bolts of council? Day to day it really is business as usual for the vast majority of projects and functions of Council. Effectively Western Plains Regional Council is the new organisation that assumes all the ownership, obligations and functions of the previous Dubbo and Wellington councils. As Administrator, I assume the functions of the former councillors and Mayors in the sense that I will be able to make formal and binding decisions on the Council as well as represent Council in the community. Going through a few key departments where council interacts with the public, say planning etc, will the experience be different? There has been no reduction in services as a result of this merger. Our Customer Service Centres in Dubbo and Wellington will continue to be essential in providing quality customer service and assisting the public with inquiries. Meetings with staff regarding development applications and other planning matters are still available. If someone has an issue, whereas before they could call one or more of the councillors directly, will there be any similar recourse while the council is in administration? I am available to the general public and will be active in seeking to understand community expectations. I see this as most important. I will also be considering the establishment of a framework for Local Representation Committees to provide advice to myself, and will also consider other means for engaging the community. Interim general manager Mark Riley had a conver-

sation when he saw some council workers painting lines on Macquarie St this morning, could you please share that? Council’s Interim General Manager Mark Riley has recounted to me a conversation he had with a Council crew undertaking line marking in Macquarie Street on Tuesday morning. Their comment to Mark as he stopped and asked them how they were going was ‘Mark, it’s business as usual.’ I was particularly pleased with this comment. The rubbish is still being collected, the playing fields are marked up for weekend sport, visitors are still coming in to the Visitors Information Centres in Wellington and Dubbo. It is great to see Council staff getting on with the jobs at hand, which is what our communities expect. What happens to the council committees and how will those vital roles be performed? The Proclamation stipulated that the Code of Meeting Practice for Western Plains Regional Council will follow that of the former Wellington Council until such time as it is amended by Council. As part of the agenda for the initial meeting of the new council, the code of meeting practice and schedule of meetings will be determined. The standing Committees of Council will be determined at this initial meeting with the various community committees being the subject of a report to the June meeting of Council. The committee structure of the former Dubbo City Council and Wellington Council are no longer in place and any meetings have been cancelled. The first meeting of the Western Plains Regional Council will be held on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at the Wellington Chambers starting at 5.30pm. This is an open meeting which will be chaired by myself, with Council staff being in attendance. The public and media are also very welcome to attend. How important is it from your perspective that the senior Dubbo management team is intact to ensure corporate knowledge is seamlessly passed on to the new council entity? It is evident that there is a significant amount of corporate knowledge that is available across both the

Wellington and Dubbo combined areas in terms of Council staff. As an organisation, stability in management is important and I will be working closely with the Interim General Manager and his staff to ensure we have the structures, resources and expertise to deliver the Council’s programs. Will the $5 million for the transition cover all the costs? The merger costs will need careful management, but at this stage, it is too early to tell what the actual costs will be. Obviously the cost will be managed and reported within regular budget reviews. If you can, just a few timelines on some of the more critical or important things to happen in the next 18 months? There is an absolute raft of actions and priorities to be achieved by the Council by September 2017. At this stage, some of the priorities for the next month include: Holding the initial meeting of the Western Plains Regional Council; Developing, exhibiting, inviting submissions and adopting a 2016/2017 Operational Plan and Budget for Western Plains Regional Council June 30, 2016; Considering the establishment of a framework for Local Representation Committees and advising the NSW Minister for Local Government of decisions relating to such committees; Undertaking all services, and completing major projects identified within the previously adopted 2015/2016 Operational Plan to reflect our ‘Business as usual’ approach. Anything you’d like to add? As Administrator, I would like to emphasise that all arrangements and contracts with and services provided by the former councils have now transferred to Western Plains Regional Council. This ensures continuity of service and operations. There is nothing that could be done by the former councils that, from a legal or legislative perspective, can not be done by the new Council. In this regard, Council’s doors are open for regular business.

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Biodiversity forum sprouts questions over native vegetation act BY JOHN RYAN N JOURNALIST

V footage of French farmers rioting in the street to protect their industry and cultural heritage show the passion they have for their traditional agricultural practices. Australian farmers have been a lot less militant, pursuing their aims through lobby organisations or the National Party, formerly known as the Country Party. One glaring exception was the farmer blockades around Tottenham and Nyngan, where groups of locals prevented departmental staff from entering properties to make inspections relating to the hated Native Vegetation Act. This debate has been raging for the two decades since the initial SEPP46 Legislation was handed down by the Carr Labor government, and an Office of Environment and Heritage officer was shot dead by a northern NSW farmer last year, amid claims the stress of living under the native veg regulations was a factor in the shooting. Now, after five years in office, the state coalition has finally released its new biodiversity reforms for public consultation, the first information session being held in Dubbo this week. The coalition says it’s taken an holistic approach and defended the delays as necessary to ensure they got the mix right the first time. The environment and agriculture ministers played pivotal roles but much of the work was done by Nationals MLC Rick Colless, who’s not only parliamentary secretary for natural resources and regional planning, but spent time working for Soil Conservation and helping deliver dual environmental and production outcomes for farmers on the ground. He was at the Dubbo forum. ‘We’re taking it out to the community to get their feedback on the various components of it and all the work that’s been done up until now has been done with small stakeholder groups to get their input into it so it’s been pretty well structured in that regard, that there’s been a lot of input by various groups up until this point that they’ve made their views clear and we’ve worked through that process with them to try and iron out all those difficulties that they were foreseeing with

it so hopefully we’ve got it to a stage now where it goes out to the wider community for general consultation,” Colless said. “We look forward to people still having an input into that but hopefully it’ll be, by the time it goes to parliament, the bills go into parliament we’ll have a lot of that stuff sorted out and they’ll present a workable package to the community. “That was the problem with the Native Veg Act, it was restricting farmers from actually doing their job and it wasn’t providing the biodiversity outcomes it was supposed to, anyway so it wasn’t winning on any measure really,” he said. Deputy Premier Troy Grant was also at the forum; he’s copped years of flak because

Greens candidate Matt Parmeter. PHOTOS: DUBBO WEEKENDER the process was fraught with sity outcomes, environmental outcomes which the current nadelays. It’s no doubt one of the great- tive vegetation acts perversely est land-use conflicts that need- don’t deliver and also increase ed to be resolved and a proper the opportunity for strategic balanced outcome to make sure productive enhancements to that we do get proper biodiver- farming land, without them being discriminated against by a piece of legislation that holds them to greater account than they do other land-users in the state,” Grant said. “I think the pendulum had swung too far and the advocacy has been swinging the pendulum all the way back again, well, everyone’s moved on, everyone’s a lot more mature in relation to natural resource management and land management, farming practices have evolved so there’s a greater knowledge base on which to operate on. Deputy Premier, Troy Grant with Nationals MLC Rick Colless. “The Nationals have been accused of over the last 20 years ` Dracula being let loose in the That was the problem with ith the Native Veg as blood bank, that’s certainly not what it is, this is a genuine balAct, it was restricting farmers mers anced approach,” he said. from actually doing theirr The act is enormously comjob and it wasn’t providing ng plex, so much so that many organisations such as NSW es the biodiversity outcomes Farmers and Landcare will be way it was supposed to, anyway holding workshops around the state, taking experts who can so it wasn’t winning on any impart their knowledge to afmeasure really. fected landholders and other interested groups and individuals. - Nationals MLC Rick Colless

NSW Farmers Caron Chester said it was a lot to get your head around. “It is complex and very confusing and that’s why NSW Farmers is actually having forums around the state and people need to come so they can actually understand it,” Chester said. “It’s also been done so it’s a good balance, so it’s helping biodiversity and helping the environment as well as the farmer so that it’s working both ways instead of just being more on one side’.” “It is very very involved, a lot more involved than it was previously,’ she said. Perennial Greens candidate Matt Parmeter has once again thrown his hat into the ring, contesting the seat of Parkes in the upcoming federal election with an emphasis on raising the profile of environmental issues. “I’m just here to get a bit of information about the proposed laws that are getting brought in,” Mr Parmeter said. “I can see that they’ve done a lot more computer analysis mapping of landscapes and that’s what they proposed to do, that’s good, it’s always good to have more data and better data, we’ll just see what the results are.” “I don’t know enough of the detail to know how it’s going to work out, the devil is always in the detail,” he said.

FAST FACTS: z The state government will invest $240 million over five years in private land conservation z $100 million dedicated to the ‘Saving Our Species’ program z A NSW Farmers campaign will blitz TV, Radio, newspapers and social media to inform the public about the biodiversity reforms, calling for a more ‘balanced, scientific and progressive approach to land reforms; z Greens NSW MP Dr Mehreen Faruqi has labelled the reforms as a ‘Blueprint for environmental destruction’. z NSW Farmers biodiversity workshops will be held in Nyngan on May 24 and Coonabarabran on May 25: check the website for details. z The reforms contain 43 recommendations, and are focused on conserving biodiversity at a bioregional and state level rather than a site by site, or individual paddock level. z The draft Biodiversity Conservation Bill and Local Land Services Bill have been released for comment until June 28. z This legislation and supporting materials can be viewed at https://www.landmanagement. nsw.gov.au/

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90,000 reasons for men to shed tears of joy in Wellington BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HRISTMAS in May was the theme for regional development minister John Barilaroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit to the region this week, and the biggest celebrations were in Wellington. The blokes at the Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shed were stoked when he handed over a giant $90,000 cheque so they could fit out the two sheds theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re building (which are brand new-old stock army surplus courtesy of the federal government via Parkes MP Mark Coulton). â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you fit out the sheds you can hang this cheque on the wall,â&#x20AC;? Mr Barilaro told the blokes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the land, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the sheds, this is so you can get on and complete the project â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it takes a lot of sausage sizzles to raise $90,000.â&#x20AC;? Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shed president Garry Hayes was over the moon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great feeling, unbelievable, the guys who have been working for the last six years have seen a dream come true and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward to being able to work in a good environment and enjoy some of the fruits of all their hard labours,â&#x20AC;? Hayes said, mentioning that much of the hard work had been put in by men in their â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing we think about is that the sheds will be here for generations, and already some of the tradies that have been helping this project are saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you know, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to being able to come and work in the shed,â&#x20AC;? so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for the future generations,â&#x20AC;? he said. The organisation also has its sights set on leveraging their soon-to-be-completed infrastructure, along with long lives of learning a variety of skills, to really help younger men and youth in the community who may be struggling. Deputy Premier Troy Grant, who attended the cheque handover in his role as local Dubbo MP, is keen to help design a program so government can leverage the shed holistically to create a stronger and more cohesive community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As I travel around and even in my own patch I see astonishing partner-

Deputy Premier Troy Grant, Michael White Binjang board member, Tony Graham Binjang Community Radio Station manager, Regional Development Minister John Barilaro, community radio announcer Mark Griggs. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

ships and individual efforts that occur to build capacity in our communities to make them better and pick up some of the gaps that exist in service delivery,â&#x20AC;? Grant said. The Dubbo MP is keen to look at successful youth programs like BackTrack, where mentoring can not only keep people out of jail or juvenile justice centres, but develop passive community frameworks rehabilitate them while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re living at home with family and friends.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shed will no doubt play a pivotal role in facilitating additional partnerships for these sorts of programs,â&#x20AC;? Grant said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I saw of the Backtrack Program was simply stunning to be frank, and I think that in the future thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very lively opportunity for a partnership between that group and the Wellington Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shed in the very important role of mentoring young people here in Wellington.â&#x20AC;? As skills minister along with his other

` The thing we think about is that the sheds will be here for generations, and already some of the tradies that have been helping this project are saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you know, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to being able to come and work in the shed,â&#x20AC;? so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for the future generations. - Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shed president Garry Hayes

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Seven Days WHAT’S IN A NAME? A LOT! IT felt strange for my first postamalgamation contact with Dubbo City Council to hear someone introducing themselves as being from Western Plains Regional Council and I’ve got to say, there’s not much ring to that. Later that same evening I was told staff had to introduce themselves with an extra ‘Dubbo Branch’ added to it – so it gets worse, not better. When you hear that former mayor Mathew Dickerson now refers to himself as ‘Citizen Dickerson’, things are looking uncannily other-dimensional. New resident’s evening still happened this week, a function where anyone who’s recently moved to Dubbo could attend the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre as guests of Western Plains Regional Council. In other words, as the guests of WPRC at the DRTCC – Kevin Rudd, eat your heart out.

WESTERN PLAINS REGIONAL TARONGA DUBBO BRANCH ZOO GOOD news at the WPRTDBZ this week, with news Asian elephant Thong Dee, impregnated at Sydney before making Dubvegas her home, is not far off giving birth, a first for our zoo. (See our Big Picture column in the centre pages). Hopefully Inland NSW Tourism isn’t handling any aspects of the birth and resultant national publicity. Still on tourism and while the national Trust is hell-bent on closing Dundullimal Homestead, the DREAM Team organising this year’s festival say a new event will make it bigger and better than ever. It seems extraordinary that more than a year of research and analysis was needed, but that amount of work has found that the Hangman’s collection and gallows at Old Dubbo Gaol are of ‘National Significance’. The fact we needed a year of academic work to tell us could be constituted as a crime in itself, and illustrates that the gallows really needed to welcome a few more victims before they were retired. Seriously though, the Gaol and everything in it is a fantastic asset for the city and well done to the scholars who have now documented this. Having been to the Gaol on numerous occasions it’s a great feeling to know that within an hour you can escape, but it must have done the head in of many prisoners who were incarcerated there over the years. So it’s with a great sense of

irony that Headspace Dubbo is screening ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ at the Gaol in conjunction with the sexual health unit to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. If you think back to the prevailing social attitudes when the Goal was in operation, you’d see community attitudes of acceptance have come a long way. That movie screening will happen on next Tuesday, May 24, at 5:30pm – Happy IDAHOT Day. Back to zoo news, and the construction work has started on a new safari experience, there’s been a lot of money poured into the zoo in recent times.

READ ALL ABOUT IT BOOKS were literally walking out the door at the Rotary Club of Dubbo Macquarie’s Michael Egan Memorial Book Fair on the weekend, I squeezed in a short and poorly-funded visit between some kids’ sport and managed to snaffle about ten cheap books from one of my favorite authors. Thanks to the kindly organiser who knocked off a couple of bucks from the cover price for my little bloke, this is a great day and one I look forward to each year.

LOW FLIERS WELL done to local police who were forced to chase the same stolen car three times. Policing these days really is a matter of fighting the crooks with three arms tied behind their backs, unable to continue what are classed as dangerous pursuits because of the offchance that someone innocent

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The week’s top stories from around the region with John Ryan will inadvertently be injured or killed – what the yanks call collateral damage. Allegedly travelling at up to five times the speed limit, numerous crossings to the incorrect side of the road, these idiots should have the book thrown at them (or 12,000 books from the Rotary book fair). Making matters worse, the car involved was one that had been stolen from Clancy Ford a few days earlier – these things just keep cascading, some people just need to be locked up for the protection of the general community. To top all that at least one of these low-lifes went on what police are calling a ‘crimespree’, committing robberies through town and intimidating local citizens, but apparently not the former mayor, Citizen Dickerson. Good intel saw three males arrested at a house in the Apollo Estate, numerous charges have been laid. Police now need more help from the public, they’re chasing information about some firearms which were stolen from a Burrabadine property last week. A side by side double barrel shotgun and a Winchester .3030 lever action rifle were stolen. Let’s hope these thieves haven’t had too much schooling in personal firearm safety, it’d be great to next week cover a yarn about a bloke presenting himself to Dubbo base after shooting himself in the foot. Call 000 if you can help. Maybe we could put all these crims in the square ring with the comedy boxers who are coming to town, and have them publicly humiliated. Riversmart has a fundraiser happening in Dubbo on Friday,

May 27, at Dubbo RSL, where The Laugh Mob are bringing it – ‘their unique brand of on-thespot improvised humor – comedy boxing’. This apparently consists of two comedians going toe-to-toe to try and out-do each other. Sounds like fun, we don’t get enough laughs in our very busy lives. Ha ha ha. Last crime news and how about the two abandoned cars on the way to Wello. Both cars were apparently quite intact when they were investigated by police and stickered by Dubbo City Council (before the sackings), but it beggars belief that we don’t have a better system in place. Now they’ve been stripped and smashed, meaning we’ll be the ones paying for the cleanup, not to mention the human and financial cost if a passing motorist crashes into the one that’s been lying derelict on the southern side of the Mitchell Highway just up the hill from the Tombstone Winery turn-off. They’re now a danger, and a mess, and it didn’t have to happen. I bet if they’d been abandoned out the front of Western Plains Regional Council, Citizen Dickerson’s house or the police station, that they wouldn’t have been left to rot. As the wise man once wrote, some pigs are more equal than others.

CUT-THROAT BUSHRANGERS PIC TRACEY MCDONAGH is one local lady living with cancer but she was able to smile this week thanks to her mates. Longtime friend Nick Ryan has spent almost six months growing a beard that would’ve

done Ned Kelly proud, and he raised about $2,000 to help Tracey and her family during this time of immense physical and emotional struggle. His workmates at Commonwealth Bank actually voted a while back for him to ‘Save, not Shave’, so that kept it going longer than expected but the financial benefits were there – trust a bank to make that happen. Anyway, Tracey was teary yesterday after mutual mate Kelly Knaggs used cut-throat razors for the first time in 30 years to trim things down to size. Making the most of this possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (wife Rahni isn’t a fan of beards) Nick had the complete right side of his face shaved first, and the iPhones were clicking away to capture the moment. Great to see that for this one day at least, Tracey’s tears were ones of happiness, and they were testament to the fact that friends are the most powerful medicine. As a by-the-way, Tracey is hugely supportive of Dubbo getting an Integrated Cancer Centre.

WELLING-TONNE IT’S been a long time between drinks but years ago Wellington set out on a collective community weight-loss program to shed a tonne in total from participating residents and from memory they went okay. This week it seems, Wellington’s had a tonne of good fortune. First up, $7,000 was presented to the town’s Committee for the Provision of Aged Persons Accommodation Incorporated to help instal CCTV cameras

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Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

PROTESTORS NOT ARRESTED GREAT to see activism is alive and well in Dubbo. A small group of passionate anti Coal Seam Gas (CSG) protesters campaigned outside Parkes MP Mark Coulton’s office this week and included a contingent of Knitting Nannas. They were also concerned about the proposed new at local premises, this funding was by way of the commonwealth government’s Stronger Communities Program. Apparently the CCTV set-up is much needed, as there’s been some damage done in the past, and the cameras often seem to be a good deterrent where they’re in action – they’ll be placed in four residential complexes and help many elderly residents feel more secure in their own homes. Then we have a double whammy from NSW regional development minister John Barilaro, who handed over $6,000 to Binjang Community Radio to help buy a new transmitter. Binjang does a great job of broadcasting way beyond the local area and it’s been well-supported by the former Wellington Shire Council, so hopefully the new merged Western Plains Regional Council (WPRC) will be at least as helpful. Binjang is an amazing service and kept alive only by untiring and unstinting volunteer efforts, these sorts of grassroots community organisations need the supportive framework only local government can provide to remain alive. Wello’s Mens’ Shed was the big winner this week, getting a giant cheque (literally, a giant cheque) for $90,000 to outfit the two new (40 year-old, new / old stock) Lysaght sheds gifted from the feds thanks to Parkes MP Mark Coulton. It’s no surprise to me this money has arrived, because for six years the blokes at the shed have been fundraising for their own block of land, then to build

slabs for the donated sheds. Government can back this organisation knowing that quite substantial seed money will create a lever to unlock far more in community participation. Already the Shed Blokes are talking about how they can help mentor the town’s troubled youth in areas of training them with practical skills and also being role models on how to live their lives. This is a wonderful organisation so it’s fantastic to see its capacity being so hugely expanded. Already, according to shed boss Garry Hayes, many of the tradies who have been helping build the new sheds say they’re looking forward to working on site when they retire – it’s great for people to have a dream.

A BRIDGE WAY TOO FAR THE RMS was in town this week, and will continue to be, seeking public input into where exactly a new flood-proof bridge promised by the state government should go. I was pretty dismayed when looking at the council proposals, which didn’t actually get trucks out of the city but did get the traffic to flow past its own industrial subdivisions. This is not a time for conflicts of interest, this is all about what’s best for the city and the best thing is to build a high level bridge at Troy to ensure a second high level crossing, and one which

will eventually be part of a freightway around the city. We need to look long term and get the heavy vehicles out of the built-up areas, so another highway bridge in town makes worse than zero sense. If we get the trucks out of Dubbo we can then look at an extra low level crossing, maybe Tamworth St, to ensure we have good capacity to prevent congestion there. I’ve even heard talk that one proposal wants a ring-road to come along Obley Road out the front entrance of the zoo – this is madness, it’s the west’s major tourist attraction and the last headlines we need are ‘Family run over by 110 tonne B-Triple’. Why anyone would want to mix thousands of heavy vehicles with families on holidays is absolutely beyond me. Hopefully common sense will prevail. The state government has allocated one million dollars for this initial scoping process so please have your say and call for a common sense solution. The LH Ford bridge will also be a problem into the future, as it doesn’t have the rating to carry these newer, heavier truck combinations, so the sooner we get them all out of town the better. Here are the current options for a new high level bridge, and none of them will do the right thing for the city into the future.. • Purvis Lane • River Street • Myall Street • LH Ford Duplication

coal mines south of Gunnedah, an area which is coming in to the vastly expanded Parkes electorate. The protesters were keen to use Mark Coulton’s support of the herpes virus aimed at wiping out carp as leverage, calling on him to unleash a herpes virus to wipe out CSG mining giant Santos, the company drilling for unconventional gas in the Pilliga.

• Baird Street • Tamworth Street. You can have feedback at the following places: z Orana Mall on Thursday 19 May, between 4pm and 8pm and on Wednesday, June 1, between 10am and 2pm z Dubbo Farmers Market on Saturday, May 21, between 8am and 12pm z Cyril Flood Rotunda on Friday, May 27, between 10am and 2pm and on Tuesday, June 7, between 10am and 2pm.

SHORT AND SWEET THE Holden Nationals will be staged at Dubbo on June 11 at Ollie Robbins Oval, for more information you can visit the website at http://hdhrholden.info/ hd-hr-nationals-2016 Great to see CSU get a three million dollar bequest to fund scholarships, a very generous donation from Carole and Stanley Droder. There’s an AFL Junior Gala Day this Sunday at South Dubbo Oval and already eight teams have entered, it’s not too late for individual kids to sign up, just go to the Facebook page ‘Dubbo Junior AFL’ or contact Kim Woodman on 0429 424 128. Police numbers in the Orana Local Area Command are once again at flashpoint, with claims there just aren’t enough cops to do a proper job. This will provide an interesting problem for former cop, current police minister, deputy premier and local MP Troy Grant.

NEWS.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016

New Safari coming soon to Taronga Western Plains Zoo ORK has begun on Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s $1.4 million Savannah Safari featuring tours aboard a safari truck among giraffe, ostrich and eland in the sprawling Savannah exhibit. The Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s Savannah Safari will take about four months to be upgraded. “When it opens the exciting ‘Savannah Safari’ experience, will be ready for guests to board a safari truck and tour the savannah exhibit, currently home to giraffe, eland, ostrich and blackbuck,” said Taronga Western Plains Zoo Director Matthew Fuller. It is the first project to begin at the Zoo from the broader Taronga Centenary Plan to revitalise both Taronga and Taronga Western Plains Zoos. The Centenary Visitor Experience program, announced by the NSW Government in March 2015, includes Taronga and NSW Government co-funded projects which will transform visitor experiences and create vital animal habitats at both zoos over the next 10 years. The project includes construction of an elevated viewing podium for visitors see the animals at a large landscaped waterhole. They will board the safari truck from a special embarkation platform for the safari-style tour. The surrounding public areas will be upgraded with shaded picnic tables to complement the existing viewing tower, and the whole area will have an African village feel. Additional seating will be installed, along with new landscaped planter beds, graded paths and interpre-

` Currently home to five giraffe, two species of antelope and ostrich, the savannah exhibit will be fitted with a new external perimeter fence that will enable White Rhino to be featured in the exhibit in the near future. tive signage. Currently home to five giraffe, two species of antelope and ostrich, the savannah exhibit will be fitted with a new external perimeter fence that will enable White Rhino to be featured in the exhibit in the near future. “This is a very exciting prospect and it will definitely add to the natural authenticity of the current exhibit already enjoyed by our Zoofari Lodge guests,” Fuller said. “Our Wild Africa and Zoofari Lodge guests already tour this exhibit, but we’re really looking forward to opening it up for more of our visitors to experience the savannah, and to learn about the species that call it home and their plight in the wild.” The project is due to be completed in August this year, and is scheduled to open in Spring. The work is being conducted by successful tenderer Dubbo Terrazzo and Concrete Industries. Taronga Western Plains Zoo is located in Dubbo in Central Western NSW.

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Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Protecting Aboriginal cultural traditions in the Western region BORIGINAL communities in Western NSW are building on their connection to country and preserving their cultural traditions with support from Local Land Services Western Region. “Aboriginal people are passionate about maintaining connection to traditional country,” said Ronni O’Donnell, Aboriginal Communities Officer. “Maintaining cultural traditions is a big part of this, so it’s important that skills and knowledge are passed on from generation to generation,” O’Donnell said. “We recently funded a workshop in partnership with Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation exploring traditional weaving techniques and knowledge of how craft evolved through maintaining the natural environment.” “The workshop was an opportunity for women to come together to share Aboriginal Ecological Knowledge through storytelling, song and dance.” Aboriginal people make up approximately 13 per cent of the population in the Western region, compared with the national average of three per cent. There are at least 16 current Aboriginal language groups identified.

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ELECTION.

Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Journalism students election in Australia’s Politics may be a turnoff for many young people, but journalism students at Charles Sturt University are finding there’s plenty to spark interest in the 2016 federal election through involvement in a ground-breaking project.

BY MARGARET VAN HEEKEREN EN SENIOR LECTURER JOURNALISM, CSU

N what is being called ‘Australia’s largest newsroom’, journalism students at Charles Sturt University are joining their peers at other universities around Australia to provide coverage of the federal election. The UniPollWatch project has united 28 Australian universities from all Australian states and the Australian Capital Territory. UniPollWatch is an online news site that aims to cover every lower house seat in the country with electorate and candidate profiles and reporting on key policy issues. It will also feature key Senate candidates and “explainer” articles to make politics accessible to readers and especially first-time voters. As UniPollWatch editor-in-chief Andrew Dodd, from Swinburne University of Technology, has said: “The project is a world first. It started with four universities covering the 2014 Victorian election. It worked so well we’re now replicating it on a larger scale. It is now the biggest university student journalism project ever undertaken in Australia.” For Charles Sturt University’s journalism program, with its long history of excellence in journalism education, the project brings a range of benefits, from reporting experience to a greater understanding of the roles of journalism and politics in a democratic society. The diverse coverage offered by UniPollWatch provides a range of opportunities for student reporters. Even before the election was formally announced, third year students were working to prepare profiles of electorates and candidates. Some results of their work are already published on the UniPollWatch website, with more to come as the campaign continues. Some are also developing articles on the parties policies, particularly on agriculture and education. Meanwhile, second year students are working on their own ground-breaking project, which will be included on the site after candidate nominations close in June. This project is an interactive map of electorates that shows, by colour coding, the margin by which each electorate is held, the number of voters in an electorate and the names of candidates. While many sites and publications feature coloured electoral maps, in blue, red, green and grey to show party affiliations, the student work will show, through gradations of colour, the ‘safety’ of each seat for a particular party. Through research and mapping students are being introduced to a cutting edge trend in journalism, data visualisation. It is skills in such areas, as well as social media reporting, that enhance the employability of CSU journalism graduates. As anyone who once communicated with distant friends and relatives by post but now uses Facebook knows, there are major differences between how information is shared in print and online. For young people seeking to make their living out of the sharing of information, these differences are cru-

cial elements in journalism education. Of course, accuracy, good grammar and spelling are still important but, in addition, online reporting includes more visual elements. Online audiences are also much less ‘captive’ than newspaper, radio and television news audiences and if a story is poorly written or not engaging, readers will ‘click’ elsewhere. With the students working in one of the hardest fields for public engagement – political journalism – the project pushes their writing and storytelling abilities even further. Online journalism also has the potential to reach a much greater number of people. Meanwhile, some student work will receive even further exposure through a UniPollWatch partnership with news site Guardian Australia. “We understand the constraints for political journalists in covering the whole nation, so UniPollWatch offers a mosaic of local stories, which will add to overall coverage, while giving journalism students around the nation a chance to actively report on the election,” An-

drew Dodd said. UniPollWatch is being published by the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA), the representative body of Australian journalism educators. JERAA president Matthew Ricketson, from the University of Canberra, said: “UniPollWatch is a great initiative for journalism students around the country. It brings the classroom to local campaign events, and (electronic) tally room, enabling students to learn-bydoing in a live environment that will sharpen their professional practice skills and ensure they contribute to a key national event. “This is where journalism education is heading in the 21st century. Journalism schools and their students can play an important role in providing comprehensive coverage of newsworthy events and issues in a way that no other media organisation in the country has resources to undertake.” For students at regional universities like Charles Sturt, the project offers the opportunity to foster rela-

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` We understand the constraints for political journalists in covering the whole nation, so UniPollWatch offers a mosaic of local stories, which will add to overall coverage, while giving journalism students around the nation a chance to actively report on the election. - Andrew Dodd, UniPollWatch editor-in-chief tionships with peers at other universities. As coverage develops over coming weeks it is expected collaborations will emerge as students identify similarities between issues in electorates they are covering with other parts of Australia. This too will help expand their political and general knowledge. At a time when many older journalists are being made redundant because of their lack of digital and social media skills and are being replaced by younger journalists, there is increasing pressure on graduate journalists to be as knowledgeable as someone

twice their age. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the luxury of learning through experience. In helping equip future journalists with political knowledge, UniPollWatch is also contributing to the strength of Australian democracy in producing an informed journalistic sector to report on government. This is not to overstate the importance of the project. Of course, many participating students will prefer to work in other areas of journalism, but even if a handful turn to political journalism and are better informed and prepared as a result of the project, then

it will also done a service for the future of Australian political debate.

Dr Margaret Van Heekeren is a senior lecturer in journalism at Charles Sturt University and was formerly a news editor of WIN Western NSW. In addition to her role as a CSU Editor of UniPollWatch she is also a State Editor for NSW. UniPollWatch can be viewed at unipollwatch.org.au

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident who’d wear shorts to a coronation.

A man of a certain age should be chino clad and bedbug free S a man turning 50 this year I took interest in a recent magazine article advising men of my vintage what is now beyond us. Not the capacity to tie shoelaces without flatulence, or converse with under 30s; rather it was 10 things we should not choose to do. Here I suggest we evaluate the list as both a way of exploring what it means to be middle-aged and an opportunity to be a flippant smartarse. The first was riding a scooter, and the argument was basically because you’ll look like a pot-gutted juvenile (my words; not theirs). While this is probably true I had the immense thrill of riding a skateboard for the first time in about 35 years the other day and never has so much fun been had by a pot-gutted juvenile. Next they advised against taking ecstasy, the reason being that your overemotive gushing to your partner would embarrass your kids. I would think the come down would be enough to deter us these days, but if you do imbibe for god’s sake do something more interesting than spouse gush at home with the kids within earshot. Third was never wear shorts in the city, opting instead for lightweight chinos or cotton whatevers. I rate this bollocks on toast, in that such prudishness only draws us ever closer to the ranks of the neurotic, uptight, judgemental classes who think Steve Price is clever. Wear shorts to a funeral if you want to – the guest of honour won’t notice. Staying in a youth hostel was the next taboo, and while I agree, I’d rate that advice up there with don’t drink paint as far as usefulness. The circumstances in which a 50 yearold would find themselves sleepless, lousy with bed bugs and enduring the contempt of 20-something backpackers don’t bear contemplating. Sixth on the list was don’t vote Greens, because, the article argued, idealism was misplaced in the otherwise cynical worldview of someone aged 50, and that as people bereft of a decent suit, the

Greens had no answers. And the others do? The next no-no was trying to get a sixpack, which seems less like advice and more like the bleeding obvious for an age-group that came of pub age during the Cold War and whose idea of exercise is swearing at the TV. Baseball caps were the next forbidden fruit and I suspect that was because the authors could only think of nine things and had to pad out the list. Instead I suggest fitted shirts, or don’t let your partner dress you as this sticks out like paunch on a skateboarder, as does wearing matching pastel outfits for which you should be severely physically counselled. In eighth place was not wearing “cool” motif T-shirts. This too strikes me as pretentious wankery, when the real rule for T-shirts is make sure the artwork does

not inadvertently emphasise your manboobs when you put it on. Listening to FM radio for some reason came in as forbidden activity nine, though why and what a 50-year-old would do as an alternative is unclear. Having now been exiled from skateparks, youth hostels and ecstasy

` ...the middle-aged spread combined with chicken legs from half a century of sitting down at school/home/work leaves the average 50 yearold in stovepipe pants looking like a mutant emu...

raves they can hardly expect us to have cultivated suitably hip music taste, and the authors’ suggestion we tune in instead to sombre classical music suggests the physical counselling won’t just be confined to couples in matching outfits. Finally, the tenth item on the not-to-do table was wearing skinny jeans, a position with which I wholly concur: the middle-aged spread combined with chicken legs from half a century of sitting down at school/home/work leaves the average 50 year-old in stovepipe pants looking like a mutant emu: as if Dr Thoreau crossed a chimp with a flamingo. I’d also add if the 50 year-old writes a column by pilfering others’ ideas he is an unimaginative bore with the creative juices of chalk. And voting mainstream, wearing chinos and sensible T-shirts ensures he’ll also look the part.

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And with that incantation The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood came to life in front of an illuminated Hollywood sky last April. Potter fans have been dreaming of this for years – the opportunity to visit the magical world J.K. Rowling created and to walk the corridors of Hogwarts, which has been brought to life in a 60m

high castle. And despite being built in the Hollywood Hills, the town of Hogsmeade with its snowcovered rooftops actually feels like England. From the moment you enter the grounds of the Wizarding World you’re whisked into the magical world Potter and his friends Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley inhabit. Upon entering you’re greeted by the Hogwarts Express – just

don’t try running into the platform because all it will result in is a bruised shoulder. From there you can roam the grounds and it’s recommended you do so with a butterbeer in hand – it’s honestly little wonder Harry was so keen to get to Hogsmeade on a regular basis. The main attraction is The Forbidden Journey and what sets this ride apart aside from the high-definition, 3D experience and living out your Potter dreams

is the actual wait. Yes, that’s right, the wait. It’s not a ride you want to grab the fast pass for. The staircases may not move but the waiting area inside the castle is full of Potter memorabilia, some of it from the films and it gives you a real feeling of being in, to borrow from another iconic film “a world of pure imagination”. z The writer travelled as a guest of Virgin Australia and Universal AAP Studios.

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Live Long and Single I GUESS Bridget Jones can officially relax- the world’s oldest woman credits her long life to her singledom. Emma Morano officially became the world’s oldest living person last week, at age 116. Moran is the last living person on earth to have been born in the 19th century, and says if you cant be single, make sure you eat raw eggs everyday and drink brandy. Well, it can’t hurt, can it?

Hayne Change A ROLLING stone gathers no

moss. This seems to be Jarryd Hayne’s career philosophy, and the code hopper has announced he will quite pursuing his dream of playing for the American NFL in order to pursue a new, shinier dream; one with a golden hue, an Olympic golden hue to be precise. Hayne made the announcement earlier this week, surprising, well… anyone? No? Ok. Facing a career of striving to stay at the bottom of the ladder, it’s presumed Hayne saw his chance to jump before being pushed, and is now being courted by multiple Australian NRL teams. I, personally, am waiting for the dream that takes him to Eurovision.

Australi-vision DAMI IM did Australia so proud over the weekend, taking out the second spot in the most trashtastic, fun, pop culture event ever; the Eurovision Song Contest. Besting 2015’s attempt, Guy Sebastian, by about three spots, Im celebrated by drinking lemonade with her crew.

Her song “Sound of Silence” trended worldwide, and many industry experts are saying now is the time to start touring Europe. Meanwhile, she has sold out in Castle Hill, so I guess you never know where the next big opportunity is, hey kids?

Drone Fun NOT too long ago, filming everything you did through a GoPro was the way to go. Now, every man and his dog seems to need aerial footage of their escapades and are using drones to fill this need. Well, the crims have caught on, it seems. The BBC reported that prisoners in London facilities are using drones to scale the walls and cross the barbed wire in order to drop precious contraband such as drugs, mobile phones and ever valuable weapons. I can see school kids employing this ingenious idea to get Maccas runs dropped in at lunchtime. Oh, if I had my time again.

May 17, 2016 Dear Editor On behalf of the Rotary Club of Dubbo Macquarie I would like to express our sincere thanks to the Dubbo Weekender and the Dubbo Photo News for their generous support, promotion and coverage of the Michael Egan Memorial Book Fair last Saturday . Your publications have been great contributors to the success of this community event over many years. Your stories and photos have brought this regional activity to the attention of the people of Dubbo and surrounding towns. Final figures pushed the amount raised to well over $11,000 this year which will be split between the Dubbo Base of the RFDS and the Bill Walsh Cancer Research Centre . Over 8,000 books were sold and about 1200 people came through the doors of St Brigid’s Church Hall. We are also indebted to all other local media outlets, the Dubbo Men’s Shed, the RFDS volunteers, Aztec Signs, Henry Jom’s IGA West Dubbo Supermarket and the parish council of St Brigid’s Church as well as many others. Peter Bartley, Book Fair Coordinator ••• Dear Editor Premier Baird’s decision to sack 42 councils demonstrates an incredible arrogance. It breaks an election promise not to forcibly merge local councils. Democratically elected mayors and councillors have been dismissed and boundaries redrawn. The new councils will be run by administrators, handpicked by the Premier. These administrators do not represent the community - they answer only to the Premier. In many areas the mergers proceeded despite widespread objections from the community. But because we are in the middle of an election campaign, a couple of mergers in marginal seats have been temporarily halted. The political cynicism is astonishing, but not surprising. Every step in this process, from the new boundaries to the timing of the announcement, has been driven by political considerations. We believe that local

government should be reformed, not by forced amalgamations, but by banning developers from office and capping political donations. Labor is committed to returning democratic decision making to local government and where communities want to overturn the forced mergers, we will provide them with the democratic opportunity to do so. Yours sincerely Luke Foley, Leader of the Opposition Peter Primrose, Shadow Local Government Minister ••• May 19, 2016 Dear Editor, I cannot believe that people are being asked to buy more milk, and pay more for it, because dairy farmers might go broke. According to this logic, we should all smoke more cigarettes, to support the poor, struggling tobacco farmers. I grew up on a dairy farm and learned that, like humans, cows gestate for nine months, but calves are normally ripped from their distraught mothers a few hours after they are born; I remember lying in bed at night on the farm, hearing the mother cows bellowing sorrowfully, often for days. Anyone who has witnessed a cow returning again and again to the place her missing baby was born, and often refusing to eat, will never again doubt that these animals suffer and feel grief as we do. The male or “bobby” calves are usually sent for slaughter at five days old, terrified, cold and hungry, and can legally be transported for up to 30 hours, without food, to their grisly fate. The heifers are fed watered down milk until they can enter the same cycle of constant pregnancy and milking. When their bodies wear out and their milk production wanes, they are slaughtered as “spent” at the age of 5 to 7 years old, less than a quarter of their potential age. Humans don’t need to drink cows milk, and we’re healthier if we don’t. Let the invisible hand of the market do its work, and then the farmers can move (like the tobacco farmers did) into more ethical products that cause less suffering, less human disease, and less pollution. Desmond Bellamy, Special Projects Coordinator, PETA Australia

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Will mosquitos run rings around Rio’s Olympic games? HE four year cycle It is approaching fast. An event of national importance, fuelled by promises of commitment and dedication, its participants willing to put in the hard yards for the benefit of all The Nation. No, not the Federal Election – the Olympics. The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are less than three months away, and will coincide with the deepest recession in Brazil in 25 years plus the fall out of the impeachment of the Brazilian President. At least it makes a change from the inevitable speculation about whether the sporting facilities will be ready in time. The awarding of the Olympics to Rio was always controversial, but as usual, the chance to host the Olympics eclipses any semblance of common sense. Coming a mere two years after staging the 2014 Football World Cup, Brazil has had to dig deep as the total projected cost will vastly exceed the original $US14.5 billion budget. As with all these types of projects, the final cost will blow out. Other numbers predicted to change before the opening ceremony – 11 construction workers killed so far, and inflation currently running at over 11 percent. At street level, Brazilians are deeply divided over the benefit of the Games. In one of the world’s most ethnically diverse nations, the elites espouse the tourism benefits of staging the Games, no doubt because they own the businesses that will benefit. Meanwhile the residents of the favelas, the slums set amongst the urban areas, are being aggressively and unilaterally forced out in what residents have labelled a “relocation of the cities poorest in the service of real estate interests and business opportunities.” Official banners declaring “The Olympics bring more than just the Olympics” compete with street graffiti such as “The Olympics pass, justice remains dirty”, in this open contest between those who have a vested interest in the Olympic project, and the residents of the Vila

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Australian Olympic team members wearing the Australian Olympic team Opening Ceremony uniform for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The Opening Ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games takes place on August 5, 2016. PHOTO: AAP/DEAN LEWINS

Autodromo flavela, who continue to be forced from their homes without notice by the Municipal Guard police force. The residents of the favelas accuse the government of wanting to make their poverty invisible when the eyes are focused on the Olympics. The residents feel justified in asking why billions of dollars are spent on the ephemera of the Olympics, when the money could be better spent on poverty relief, basic sanitation, and the crumbling health and education sectors. But the Brazilian government have other issues at the moment. The democratically elected left-leaning President Dilma Rouseff of the PT Party was impeached last week on contrived charges of budget fraud. After failing in the last election to defeat the PT Party, the

right-leaning PSDB Party have used an alliance with sympathetic media outlets to taint the reputation of the President. With the President now suspended, the leader of PSDB, under an idiosyncrasy of Brazilian law, has been installed as President. The new President Michel Temer, 75, is from the old guard of Brazilian politics – white, tainted by corruption scandals (as is a third of his new all male cabinet,) a puppet of big business, and possessing a 30 year-old, ex-model trophy wife. Hardly the right representative of the Brazilian people to bask in the reflected glory of the opening ceremony. Is Mr Temer going to act on the health crises facing Rio residents, tourists and athletes – namely the Zika virus and

` The author of the article Professor Amir Attaran has publicly stated “Rio is ground zero of the epidemic…. why would anyone in their right mind send a half million people into the heart an epidemic to pick it up and return them to all corners of the world?”

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contaminated water? The contaminated waterways and ocean foreshore have long been an issue that evades solution. The Zika virus takes things to a different level. The mosquito borne Zika virus causes microcephaly, a condition where babies are born with a shrunken head and brain damage, and can cause nervous system damage in adults. A recently published article in the Harvard Public Health Review argued for moving or postponing the Games due to the public health threat posed by the Zika virus. The author of the article Professor Amir Attaran has publicly stated “Rio is ground zero of the epidemic…. why would anyone in their right mind send a half million people into the heart an epidemic to pick it up and return them to all corners of the world?” The professor went on to state that following the World Health Organisation advice of staying away from crowds, impoverished areas and places with bad sanitation in Rio was impossible. He lamented the impression that the financial imperative to hold the Olympics overrode public safety. Ultimately, hosting the Olympics is a mega vanity project that makes money for the Olympic brand – the second most valuable in the word after Apple – and the International Olympic Committee bears no financial risk. The 21st Century Olympics are a world away from the collection of amateurs in Athens in 1896, where Baron de Coubertin declared “the most important thing…is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.” I believe a point has been reached where the cost of staging the Olympics is simply beyond the resources of many countries and directly opposes from the needs of their citizens. The residents of the favelas won’t get the chance to take part, and will continue to suffer the consequences of this wilful disregard of their basic human needs. By all means have the Olympics continue, but stage them in Greece every 4 years. It would revive the Greek economy and return the Olympics to its roots.

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DANCING FOR A CAUSE Donations still needed The Stars of Dubbo Dance for Cancer gala fundraising event is one of the Cancer Council NSW’s big calendar moments, putting local stars, heroes and influential members of the public in the limelight to raise money for cancer research. With eight weeks to learn a routine, local dance schools Stepping Out Dance Factory, Fantasy Dubbo Dancesport, Zumba with Tracy and Orana Dance Centre have been putting participants through their paces. Dubbo Weekender caught up with the movers and shakers to find out why they’re taking to the dance floor on July 1. AS TOLD TO John Ryan Sheridan Wiatkowski HIS year I have the privilege of being a part of the Cancer Council’s ‘Dance for Cancer’ in Dubbo on Friday, July 1. I jumped at the opportunity as I have always loved dancing and what better excuse to learn something new for such a great cause. I’ll be performing a ballroom routine on the night which Cassie and Joel from Fantasy Dancesport have been very patient in helping me with, it’s been a fantastic experience and I highly encourage everyone to give ballroom a go! Being a part of ‘Stars of Dubbo’ really means alot to me as it is something that’s very close to my heart. It’s an illness that affects so many people on so many different levels, and it really means everything to be raising money towards finding a cure. All of us that are participating are doing it for our own reasons and have our own goals but I think it’s important to remember that at the end of the day we’re working toward a common goal and we’re all there to support one another. As I work at Ella Baché Dubbo, we are doing a raffle through the salon. The prize will include a gift voucher and body products amongst other things. Tickets are $10 each with all proceeds going to the Cancer Council. The Cancer Council put a lot back into the Dubbo community with preventative programs such as ‘Eat It To Beat It’ and ‘SunSmart’, they also provide support when patients need transport to treatments. Other programs include, the Cancer Information Support Line (13 11 20) and Living Well After Cancer, which is a free face-to-face program led by trained facilitators who have experienced cancer firsthand. One of the priorities that is high on the Cancer Council’s list is advocacy, which stands to “lobby the Government for improvements in the treatment and care of people with cancer and public health initiatives that reduce the incidence of cancer and increase cancer survival.” This particular topic is one that has been circulating over the past month, highlighting the need for a Cancer Centre in Dubbo. As Dubbo is central to so many surrounding districts, it’s vital that we are able to establish a centre so that support, treatment and management strategies are available to patients and their families. The more people that are made aware of the need for this facility, the strong-

er network we are able to create as a community and really force the state government to step up and take action. There is a petition circulating calling on the federal government for funding and organisers are hoping to get 20,000 signatures, the petition can currently be signed at: Dubbo City Council Civic Administration Building, Church Street, Dubbo Visitor Information Centre, Macquarie Street, Astley’s Plumbing and Hardware, Cobbora Road. Stars of Dubbo Dance for Cancer is going to be such a great night, the event has already sold out this year and it’s sure to get bigger in the years to come, which is a testament to our community. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone that will be there on the night and dancing my heart out for everyone that has ever dealt with the battles, grief and loss that are associated with cancer.

Rikki Slacksmith WORK for a cause, not for applause.” Stepping Out Dance Factory is very excited to be involved again in 2016 in the incredible fundraising endeavours of The Cancer Council with Stars of Dubbo- Dance for Cancer. We are firm believers that in the best of times and in the worst of times there is still always something to dance about and we are humbled to be working with five inspiring individuals who are stepping out of their comfort zones and putting their best feet forward to garner awareness, promote positivity and raise much needed funds for this insidious disease. In 2016, Stepping Out is enjoying limbering up with Lisa Clark, Nicholas Steepe, Rod Fardell, Warwick McCarthy and Amber Cavanagh. It’s an exciting and eclectic team who all bring a multitude of talents and personalities to the dance floor. Sadly, cancer does not discriminate. Each of us have our personal stories and most of us have felt first hand the ravages of this disease on our friends, family and our community. We intend to dance for all those who can’t and be catalysts for change and action. Stepping Out is overjoyed to have hundreds of children twirl and dance through our doors each week and we feel our involvement in this event is also to honour our students and our commitment to educating the whole person.

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We want all of these precious children and their children to have a healthy and happy future. We also wish for them to be empowered by the knowledge that they can be proactive and even the smallest steps when done with heart can make a big difference. Our students benefit enormously from our involvement with this very worthwhile cause and we love the ripple effect that is created by fostering this kind of climate within the studio. This year’s team promises to deliver lots of razzle, plenty of dazzle and some fun and entertaining routines. Cancer is serious business. Stamping this disease out is serious business. Dancing, however to raise money to defeat cancer does not need to be serious. We can guarantee that Stepping Out and their stars are going to bring lots of fun to the floor. Each of our five mega stars are dedicated to an array of genres and we know that the audience will be tapping their toes and dancing in their seats. We love the collective energy that permeates when people join together and extend our best wishes to the other dance studios and contestants for what is going to one amazing night on July 1. For all whom Stepping Out have loved and lost, we will dance on.

Lisa Clark HEN Dubbo Stars com m it tee m e m ber Ann-Maree Chandler asked me to be part of the Stars of Dubbo 2016 Cancer Council Fundraiser, I was shocked and honoured. To be an ambassador for the Dubbo Stars of 2016 is particularly close to my heart, having lost my dear girlfriend, Melissa Robinson to bowel cancer in 2008. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis earlier in the year of 2008, she was still coming terms with the management of this, only to discover that she also had bowel cancer. A 34 year-old mother of a beautiful daughter, who was only 9 years-old at the time, she could never have known how soon she would be soon leaving this world, and her daughter, behind. Mel sadly passed in December of 2008 just after her 35th Birthday. She was taken so young. Although our friendship was cut short, I believe the universe brought us together for a reason and hopefully Mel’s last few years of her life were filled with the same fun and laughter she brought to mine. Melissa loved to dance, and I like to

think she is now my dancing Angel and I know she will be with me while I’m up on that stage, dancing my heart out. So, here I am, only seven weeks to go before the big dance off and I am loving the dance class with Stepping Out Dance Factory Dubbo. I absolutely love Rikki Slack-Smith and Emma Trudgett and their passion for performance. I feel as though we are on the same wave length. I am also hugely appreciative of my friends and family getting involved to help me reach my quota of $2,500. The generosity of my friends and colleagues has been overwhelming and I am very blessed to have such great support. Only last week, I held a morning tea at work and with the help of my team baking some yummy homemade goodies and the support of the Staff I raised $430.00. I was absolutely blown away. So for the next seven weeks my challenge is to continue to raise much needed funds for Dubbo Cancer Council programs like SunSmart, Eat it to Beat it, Transport2Treatment and Living Well after Cancer. I plan to dance my way to July 1, 2016 and the “finale” of this adventure, Stars of Dubbo 2016 Dance for Cancer event, the show of all shows, held at the Dubbo Regional Convention Centre. I’m very excited about the event and can’t wait to hit the stage, chanting my motto under my breath “Dance like no-one is watching and live your life to the fullest”.

Scotty Turner AM one of the local celebrities that is participating in the second annual “Dance For Cancer” event raising money for Cancer Council of NSW. A lot of people in the last couple of months have come up to me asking the simple question, ‘why?’ Well secretly I am a dancer at heart, you may see me walking up and down the aisles at Woolworths and busting out in a dance while buying my groceries, but the main reason why I was happy to jump on board was to raise money for the cancer council. I attended last years event and I had an absolute blast, but the main reason I am doing the event is in the memory of my father Tony Turner who passed away on August 23 last year after fighting hard against melanoma. Each one of the star’s that are doing this years event is raising money to support the cancer council in the central

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west. The money raised is kept in the community to help with research, prevention programs and a service which I personally used when I found it tough. The support service helping people out answering your questions and checking up on you and loved ones when you need someone to talk to, they can be reached on 13 11 20. How can you help us raise money? Well we can officially say the event was a sell out, tickets went faster than free beer at a pub, but you can donate to any of the stars by going onto facebook and searching for Stars of Dubbo “Dance For Cancer” hit the like button and you will be kept up to date with all that is happening with fundraising for each star through to our profiles and Video’s of us trying to dance. If you wish to make a donation to your favourite star from Brentley Goodwin, Ian Burns, Amber Cavanagh, The Firemen, Nicholas Steepe, Sal Yeomans, Warwick McCarthy, Rod Fardell, Annabelle Amos, Sheridan Wiatkowski, Lisa Clark, The mysterious Wild Card, or myself Scotty Turner, go to www.everydayhero.com.au Search for stars of Dubbo 2016, pick your favourite star and make a donation. Thank you for your support Dubbo and the Central West for the cancer council and the Star’s of Dubbo charity night. We wouldn’t be able to do this without the much needed help of the dance schools donating their time, Fantasy Dancesport, Stepping Out Dance Factory, Orana Dance Centre, Zumba with Tracey I know we have been hard at work perfecting our routines. I look forward to the community support from everyone for a much needed charity for the area.

Warwick McCarthy HY do I support this cause? I begin where my introductory notes end... I REMAIN INCREDIBLY LUCKY… I have a beautiful, intelligent wife, five wonderful, talented children, supportive extended family and friends on both sides … few of whom have been touched or personally affected by any major health or cancer scares. I AM AWESTRUCK AND HUMBLED… by those who are not as lucky as me but pick themselves up each day in the course of having dealt with, or in dealing with, the big “C” every day.

I AM HAPPY … to do, donate, dance or make a ‘d….’ of myself for the cause….. AND feel very sore and sorry for myself once a week after training to support this worthy cause!

Rod Fardell RECEIVED a call about Dancing with the Stars by some of the organisers and at the time just went along with the concept as I thought it would be a great opportunity to just help out a great cause. As I started to get more involved in not only the dance practice but informing people that I will be dancing to raise awareness and money, I received so much feedback and thought more about how cancer has affected so many people. My grandmother died at just 53 when I was about 8 years old from breast cancer. It wasn’t a moment where my family really rallied in a cure for cancer, it was more the acceptance that it was inevitable to so many that battled with cancer and that there were little choices available. I don’t recall any real awareness of the plight of sufferers at all at that age. Fast forward to the present and as I said so many people that I have had involvement with have now given me their story of pain and hardship. The struggles of dealing with hope and then despair and the cycle that reverberates through everyone who is linked to anyone suffering from Cancer is hard to fathom. It is hard not to absorb their pain as they break down and you console them but I truly don’t understand that pain as I am not them. I only wish I could. What I can do for them and anyone else that is suffering is to do my best to bringing awareness and a small amount of fundraising by participating in this amazing group of people who are putting themselves out there for the sake of others. The committee, dance studios, dancers and all those amazing businesses and people who are assisting us right now for the sake of those suffering. When I step out there with my four left feet, my thoughts will be with those who have given and hopefully those who will benefit. DANCE ON BABY.

Nicolas Steepe ANCER has the ability to affect each and every one of you – whether it is immediate family, extended, friends,

` Each of us have our personal stories and most of us have felt first hand the ravages of this disease on our friends, family and our community. We intend to dance for all those who can’t and be catalysts for change and action - Ricky Slacksmith peers, co-workers, neighbours. And that impact is devastating, and is like a small rock in a pond – it has continuous ripple effects outwards. It exposes inner vulnerabilities that even the strongest of us are not immune to. It does not discriminate, regardless of age, gender, sexuality or gender identity, nationality or ethnicity – cancer affects all. The word even within itself causes discomfort. However, those impacted by cancer in any way, are some of the most resilient and strong individuals I have ever met, and dedicate their lives to continue the ongoing fight against cancer. One of my friends, who tragically lost her Mum to cancer a few years ago, is the ongoing embodiment of this – she tirelessly volunteers her time each and every year for Relay for Life (one of the many campaigns dedicated to finding a cure). I see the motivation and the drive that she has turned her pain into. On the night, if I have half of the courage that she breathes day in day out, I know I will smash it! I originally was quite hesitant to do Stars of Dubbo, and declined at first, mainly due to being extremely uncoordinated. But after thinking about it, I decided to step completely out of my comfort zone and dance my heart out, and commit to raising much needed funds for the Cancer Council. The passion behind the Stars, the studios, the back-up dancers, the committee and all those that are supporting the event, is absolutely inspiring. The commitment and unification by all to support the Cancer Council is absolutely amazing. There is lots of fun and enjoyment to be had leading up to July 1. I’m fortunate enough to be paired with Rikki and Amber from Stepping Out, and I could not have asked for a more enthusiastic team. I’m honoured to be a part of Stars of Dubbo because we all need to play a part in this battle, and if I can make some small step (or dance move) towards raising funds, awareness and eradicating this disease, then we are all one step closer.

HOW TO DONATE If you wish to make a donation to your favourite star go to www. everydayhero.com.au and choose Brentley Goodwin, Ian Burns, Amber Cavanagh, The Firemen, Nicholas Steepe, Sal Yeomans, Warwick McCarthy, Rod Fardell, Annabelle Amos, Sheridan Wiatkowski, Lisa Clark, The mysterious Wild Card, or Scotty Turner to donate. Stay up to date at https://www. facebook.com/starsofdubbo/

Red Earth Healing Centre has changed hands. It’s now under new management. We have renovated and created some new things into the space. Susie and Trevor Webster are pleased to be carrying on Jan and John’s vision who have been the owners for 11 years. Susie has moved her own business Rebalance Mind Body Spirit from Awakening Health to Red Earth Healing Centre. Susie will be doing Kinesiology, Aura-Soma consultations, Hair Analysis, and Reiki. Debbie Rapley will be doing Hot stone and Remedial Massage. Cheryl Martin will continue to do Aura Drawings and Clairvoyant Readings as well as Reiki. Red Earth Healing Centre will be a place to calm and heal your mind body and spirit. Looking forward to helping our clients and customers, bring healing and peace to their lives. We have a great gift selection as well as crystal, books, cards, music and oils. Red Earth is the meaning of our beautiful city Dubbo. We would like to invite the people of Dubbo to call in and say “Hello”. We are having an opening ZHSL VM ¶ WLYJLU[ VɈ ZLSLJ[LK P[LT VU [OL Thursday to Saturday 12th,13th,14th May.

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Western Plains Regional Council business as usual WESTERN Plains Regional council administrator Michael Kneipp today advised that day-to-day Council services would experience no interruptions while Council addresses the structures and procedures in relation to meeting schedules and strategic planning that are required to be implemented following the Proclamation of the Council area last Thursday. Administrator Michael Kneipp said it is important for the communities of both Dubbo and Wellington to understand Western Plains Regional Council remains committed to implementing a program of services and projects consistent with that undertaken by the previous Councils. “A top priority is to ensure Council’s due processes continue under the specific actions described in the Proclamation,” Kneipp said. “All arrangements and contracts with and services provided by the former councils have now transferred to Western Plains Regional Council,” Kneipp said. “This ensures continuity of service and operations,” he said. “Structurally, one of the first actions was to confirm the first meeting of Western Plains Regional Council which is set for Wednesday, May 25, in Wellington. This is in accordance with the provisions of the Proclamation. As with

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all Ordinary Council meetings this is an open meeting at which reports from staff are considered and formal resolutions made in my capacity as Administrator,” Kneipp said.

Western Plains Regional Council meetings THE first meeting of the newly formed Western Plains Regional Council will be held at 5.30pm on Wednesday 25 May, 2016 at the Western Plains Regional Council Wellington Chambers. This is in accordance with Proclamation which directed the code of meeting practice of the former Wellington Council is to be the code of meeting practice of the new council until it is amended or replaced in accordance with the Local Government Act 1993. Committees of the former Dubbo City Council that would have been held on Monday, May 16, have been cancelled.

The draft 2016/2017 Operational Plan and Budget of the former Dubbo City Council has been removed from exhibition. Administrator, Michael Kneipp said adopting a 2016/2017 Operational Plan and Budget for Western Plains Regional Council is essential. “A new Operational Plan for the Western Plains Regional Council will be developed, adopted for exhibition, exhibited and submissions called for, and ultimately be adopted to commence the 2016/2017 financial year,” Kneipp said. “This process will consider the priorities, projects and budgets of the former Dubbo and Wellington councils and create a new Western Plains Regional Council Operational Plan for the coming year,” he said.

$3M scholarship donation for CSU students OVER the coming week, Carole and Stan Droder Scholarships will be awarded to a continuing undergraduate student at each CSU campus, including Dubbo. The scholarship funds are directed towards the cost of the student’s

degree, accommodation costs or other study expenses such as textbooks and equipment. Additional scholarships will be available from 2017 to continuing undergraduate students studying any course on campus at Dubbo, Orange,AlburyWodonga, Bathurst, Port Macquarie or Wagga Wagga. The late Carole and Stanley Droder have recently bequeathed more than $3 million to the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Foundation to provide scholarships to residential undergraduate students. Throughout their lives Mr and Mrs Droder provided a range of university scholarships to support CSU students from similar backgrounds to their own, and this legacy now continues. It was their hope they would be able to provide perpetual scholarships for students whose parents are tradespeople, small farmers or small business owners, or who are from single-parent households and to encourage students to participate in campus life at a regional university. CSU has committed its own $3 million to the CSU Foundation, bringing the total amount available to be invested for new scholarships to more than $6 million.

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Sally Bryant

I know it’s not very sporting of me… AS it a slow news day, that day this week when the story about the footballer led the main television news bulletin? That’s the story about a sportsman deciding to change codes (again) and continents (again) and make even more money doing something different. That story was the big story of the day, the bona fide news yarn that was thought to be important enough to be the electronic version of the headline. That was the story that was judged to be more pressing than actual news. So that’s more important than news about the economic situation, about scientific innovation, about funding for education or health services? More important than issues around human rights, war crimes, droughts and political crises? Football, apparently, Jarryd Bloody Haine. I don’t get it. I don’t think sport is actual news. It’s sport. I understand that there are people who are interested in sport and God knows there is a huge chunk of every evening bulletin in which they can indulge their interest. They can immerse themselves in details of the various attributes of the many, many people who make a living out of running faster or keeping more possession of a ball than someone else. And the end of the news is a great place for that information, because it means that people like me can go and make a cup of tea at that time, rather than having to listen to detail that’s not really necessary to know. I guess you could argue that none of what we see on the evening news is actually all that necessary to our healthy and happy existence in modern life. I’d reckon you could argue that point even more effectively just now, given the current election campaign. There are some who say you are going to be better off by just

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disengaging from the 24-hour news cycle and ignoring the daily grind of stories. (I’m not amongst those people, but then I work in the industry) I always feel a bit guilty if I don’t pay attention to the serious news of the day. When I was a child, we had to be quiet when the news was on. We listened seriously to what the national news stories were, it was considered to be the mark of a thinking person that they paid attention to the political, economic and societal issues of the day. And then, when the main bulletin was over, we were allowed to talk through the sport. Except for the cricket, or Davis Cup results. We had to shoosh for them. So I feel a bit resentful when some bloody footballer is getting real estate at the top of the news and I have this sense of moral obligation to listen to the detail of what he is doing in his life, that I need to know this stuff. I do not need to know this, I do not. You remember when the football made the news headlines, over issues like doping scandals? That’s news. That’s sport as a cultural marker, as a reflection of real life. But for some meathead to swap codes again? Meh. Not that I’m against the concept of physical activity. I’ve rejoined the ranks of the smug early morning gym goers, and I’m really enjoying the way it makes me feel. No, I don’t mean that frisson of moral superiority over the slugabed layabout sleeper- inners, thought that is very satisfactory too. No, no, no, what I’m referring to is that burst of energy you get as you leg it back down the stairs after your workout, and it lasts well into the day. I’m loving that gentle ache in my muscles at the end of the day, so when I stretch out in my bed in the evening, I feel my body doing that physical sigh of relief that it can just stop. And when your body is doing

` You remember when the football made the news headlines, over issues like doping scandals? That’s news. That’s sport as a cultural marker, as a reflection of real life. But for some meathead to swap codes again? Meh.

that melting into the mattress sort of tired relaxation, your mind seems to calm down and chill out as well. Because I work a split shift, I can only do my morning gym sessions part of the time, and that’s a bit of a pest. It’s a grand feeling to be up and about in the wee hours and get the exercise out of the way. It’s easier to factor it into your day when all you need to do, to fit it in, is to get up an hour earlier. Thank goodness for 24 hour fitness centres, with electronic access. It means you can be there, all by yourself, first thing in the morning. You can pound a treadmill (I tend to pat them gently, but no matter), pump weights and burn up the miles on a stationary bike, and you don’t have to do it in the company of all of the rest of the gym clientele. I’m sure they’re perfectly nice people but it’s much nicer to have the place to oneself. I’m a bit conflicted just now, about which sense of solitary splendour I get most pleasure out of, which do I love best? Is it that glorious feeling of being able to listen to music through my headphones at the gym, chewing up the treadmill miles while watching ABC News Breakfast on mute with the subtitles up (and snorting with laughter at the typos)? Of having the place to myself and not having to negotiate a non-commercial channel? This is my joy on those mornings when I don’t have to be at work at the crack of sparrow. But there are compensations to starting work before any other commuter hits my stretch of the highway. I love being King of the Road, not having to share the tar with other traffic, I can motor along in my own little world, with impunity. My grandmother used to talk about wanting to go and live on a desert island with Benji Bealer. I have no idea who he was, but I suspect I may be related to him, and all.

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High hopes for alcohol affects cut short by reality: poll HERE’S a big difference between how Australians expect to feel when drinking alcohol and the reality of how they actually feel after their last drinking episode, with the nation’s most comprehensive annual alcohol poll finding there’s less upside and more downside than drinkers imagine. Now in its seventh year, the Annual alcohol poll 2016: Attitudes and behaviours found the majority of those who drink to get drunk expect to feel happy (56 percent), and relaxed (54 percent), with 31 percent of drinkers expecting to feel a sense of social belonging. Yet in reality drinkers’ expectations fell well short; with only 28 percent of drinkers feeling happy after downing alcohol, 31 percent feeling relaxed and just 15 percent achieving that sense of belonging. And when it comes to negative impacts, the difference between expectation and reality is just as pronounced; with 29 percent of drinkers reporting feeling tired after the last time they were drunk, despite only 13 percent expecting to feel drowsy. Similarly, 17 percent were sick (although only five percent anticipated this), seven percent felt unattractive (in contrast to four percent) and 13 percent felt regret (where only six percent had predicted that outcome). Each year the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education’s (FARE) national alcohol poll provides valuable trend data and insights into community perspectives on alcohol. In 2016, it found that alcohol is consumed by 78 percent of Australian adults, with bottled wine continuing to be the beverage of choice (preferred by 33 percent), ahead of regular strength beer (19 percent) and spirits (16 percent). However, not all these people are responsible moderate drinkers, with 37 percent of Australians admitting they drink alcohol with the specific intent to get drunk.

Conducted by Galaxy Research, the 2016 poll also once again highlighted the nation’s concerns about alcohol; with almost eight in ten Australians indicating that our country has a problem with excess drinking or alcohol abuse (78 percent), and the majority calling for more to be done to reduce the harm that alcohol causes (78 percent). Awareness of the issue and a concern for the level of alcohol use and misuse in the community is reflected in Australians’ support for evidence-based policy measures that would reduce alcohol harms. More than eight in ten Australians (82 percent) support measures that would see pubs, clubs and bars close at 3am or earlier, 70 percent of Australians support a ban on alcohol advertising on television before 8:30pm, and for the first time in the history of the poll, more than half of those surveyed (51 percent) support increasing the tax on alcohol in order to pay for alcohol-related treatment and prevention initiatives. FARE chief executive Michael Thorn says the alcohol industry is fast finding itself out of step with community attitudes wanting change to Australia’s unhealthy relationship with booze and are ready and willing to embrace the measures which would reduce the harms. He believes FARE’s Annual alcohol poll contains an important message for policymakers and political leaders, both for jurisdictions that have already embraced effective and evidence-based

measures to reduce alcohol harms as well as those states and territories still considering how best to deal with the problem. “This is the nation’s most comprehensive poll to examine Australians’ attitudes towards alcohol and their drinking behaviours. Each year it consistently delivers three very clear messages: that Australians recognise we have a problem with alcohol in this country, that a clear majority support the evidencebased solutions which will reduce the harms, and that they want governments to embrace meaningful reform,” Mr Thorn said. 2016 was the first year that the poll examines the differences between how Australians presume they’ll feel when consuming alcohol and the reality of how they actually feel, with the findings suggesting that for most drinkers those expectations are not being met. FARE director of policy and research Caterina Giorgi says while alcohol industry advertising might try hard to suggest that Australians will find happiness, popularity and attractiveness in every bottle, the reality for most Australians is very different. “When we look at the poll we see that Aussies who drink to get drunk expect to feel happy and relaxed, and tend to downplay the chances of feeling tired, sick or unattractive. They tend to buy into the alcohol industry advertising spin. The reality is very different, with drinkers far more likely to have expe-

` When we look at the poll we see that Aussies who drink to get drunk expect to feel happy and relaxed, and tend to downplay the chances of feeling tired, sick or unattractive. They tend to buy into the alcohol industry advertising spin. The reality is very different, with drinkers far more likely to have experienced negative consequences, and far less likely to have felt happy or relaxed

Breathalyser to detect lung cancer A team of entrepreneurs from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a breathalyser capable of detecting early stages of lung cancer. The L CARD (Chemically Actuated Resonate Device) is a postage stamp-sized device capable of detecting gases indicative of the presence lung cancer. Users blow on a sensor which activates a companion mobile app which will turn a smartphone screen red if suspicious gases are detected, or green in they’re not. The L CARD picks up on specific volatile organic compounds that science has shown are uniquely present in lung cancer patients. These compounds modify the L CARD’s radio frequency identification signal, and this signal tells the smartphone whether to turn red or green.

Aboriginal Health slowly improving THE new report, called “Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status 2015” provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent indicators of the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It shows that the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continues to improve slowly and that there have been declines in infant mortality rates and increase in life expectancy.

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rienced negative consequences, and far less likely to have felt happy or relaxed,” Giorgi said. In addition to the emotional toll, Australians are engaging in a range of negative behaviours after knocking a few back; with reports of vomiting (40 percent), driving a car (19 percent), and having an argument (19 percent) under the influence. A further 29 percent have been affected by alcohol-related violence, six in every ten Australians regard the city centre to be unsafe on a Saturday night, and 23 percent of parents say their children have been harmed or put at risk because of someone else’s drinking. Mr Thorn says the poll provides an important but troubling insight into the extent of alcohol harms in Australia. “In Australia, alcohol is responsible for 15 deaths and 430 hospitalisations every day. The poll tells us that almost three in ten Australians have been affected by alcohol-related violence I think it is very clear that we still have a long way to go with changing Australia’s toxic relationship with alcohol that causes more harm than good,” Thorn said.

Under the agreement, Coviu and SunWo intend to collaborate around further tailoring the platform to support the sharing of medical expertise across borders. SunWo specialises in helping its clients source and access medical treatment and hospitals in the US, Germany, Japan, and hopefully Australia in the future.

Specialised child and youth mental health support need There have also been improvements in a number of areas contributing to health status such as increased immunisation coverage and a slight decrease in the prevalence of tobacco use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Coviu platform to help drive inbound medical tourism growth A POWERFUL audio-video platform developed by CSIRO’s Data61, called Coviu and SunWo Medical Management, a Chinese company which provides “medical tourism” services, have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement to support health consultations for Chinese citizens. This medical tourism sector is primed for growth as an increasing number of the Chinese public are seeking better quality healthcare overseas, particularly in cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and diabetes.

KIDS Helpline says any national mental health digital gateway must recognise the specialised and complex ways children and young people seek help and their need to access child and youth centred support. Kids Helpline is using its more than 25 years experience with children and young people to help inform the development of the proposed Digital Mental Health Gateway to ensure the specialised needs of young people are fully represented. yourtown CEO Tracy Adams said the organisation was working with the Government and other service providers on the Gateway project and was in a unique position to offer input about children and young people, particularly around their pathways into mental health services. “Last year, Kids Helpline responded to more than 200,000 contacts from children and young people. Of the 70,210 who received counselling, 22% were about a mental health issue,” Adams said.

THE BIG PICTURE.

Expecting big things Taronga Western Plains Zoo made an announcement this week that a baby elephant is due in November. Asian elephant Thong Dee is expecting. Taronga Zoo Sydney is also expecting a calf in April 2017. It will be the first time an elephant has been born at Taronga Western Plains Zoo and is a feather in the cap of the Zooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world class conservation breeding program. The happy news comes just one year after four Asian Elephants, Thong Dee, Porntip, Luk Chai and Pathi Ham were transferred from Sydney to Dubbo. Estimates put the Asian elephant population at around 33,000 and if declining numbers continue their extinction in the wild is expected by 2036. Your typical elephant calf is around 90 kg (200lbs and 1 metre (3 feet) long at birth. Pictured here is mother to be, Thong Dee. Photo by Rick Stevens.

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HEALTH.

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HALF OF CANCER PATIENTS SUFFERING EMOTIONAL DISTRESS ALONE Cancer Council NSW awards $4.5 million to world-first research to improve support for patients and survivors EW data reveals that up to 1 in 5 people receiving cancer care are never asked at their hospital appointments about their emotional wellbeing. While most are offered help to relieve physical symptoms such as pain, around 50 per cent of patients were not offered help to relieve emotional distress. The problem has been revealed by Laureate Professor Rob Sanson-Fisher and his team at the University of Newcastle, who have received a large funding boost, as part of Cancer Council NSW’s $4.5million dollar investment to improve support for people diagnosed with cancer. Professor Sanson-Fisher’s research will implement a new system of patient-centred care across cancer treatment centres in NSW, which aims to improve the quality of care in reducing cancer survivors’ levels of anxiety, depression and unmet needs, while improving quality of life. While a commitment to funding new treatments and therapies to reduce the impact of cancer remains essential, Cancer Council NSW is also focusing on cancer research which will improve support and care for people diagnosed with cancer. Complemented by Cancer Council NSW’s support services – for those who have just been diagnosed, through to long-term survivors of the disease – this focus area of research will lead to results and strategies which will have an imminent, positive impact for those currently affected by cancer. Prof Sanson-Fisher said, “Our recent data shows that many people diagnosed with cancer in Australia report an unmet need for help relating to their cancer. The five issues they most frequently identified as needing more help with were: knowing what type of financial assistance is available and how to obtain it, parking at the hos-

pital, lacking energy and feeling tired, fears about the disease getting worse, and uncertainty about the future. “We also know that about 1 in 4 people affected by cancer report possible depression and 1 in 5 report possible anxiety. However, we also know that the majority of patients do not volunteer information about their emotional health at hospital appointments. As a result, some patients may not receive aspects of care that may be of benefit to them,” said Prof Sanson-Fisher. “There is a gap between what occurs and what should occur in relation to the optimal care of patients and survivors. If we are to provide high quality care that meets these people’s needs and ultimately maximises their quality of life, we must modify the system in which care is provided. “While cancer research will always work to discover new cancer treatments into the future, this type of project is important to ensure that overall quality of life is improved for those who are impacted by the disease now,” he continued. Cancer Council NSW’s range of practical, emotional and informational support services offer help to fill the gap in unmet needs that many patients and survivors face. Annemaree Binger, Regional Manager at Cancer Council NSW Western Region said: “A cancer diagnosis can provide a myriad of challenges to the physical, emotional and social wellbeing of patients and their carers in regional NSW. Our support services offer more help for people at all stages of cancer; from our Cancer Connect peer support program for people who have completed treatment or are going through it, to Pro Bono legal and financial advice and survivorship programs which help people navigate life after cancer

“We want anyone affected by cancer in regional NSW to know that more information and support is out there. Those wishing to find out more about Cancer Council NSW’s support services can contact Cancer Council 13 11 20 Information and Support.” Professor Sanson-Fisher’s research, and Cancer Council NSW’s support services are helping to improve the quality of life of those affected by cancer. This May, you can help support Cancer Council NSW and the researchers it funds by hosting your own Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. Visit www.biggestmorningtea.com. au to find out more.

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` We also know that about 1 in 4 people affected by cancer report possible depression and 1 in 5 report possible anxiety. However, we also know that the majority of patients do not volunteer information about their emotional health at hospital appointments.

This program is the first in the world to implement and assess a new system of patient-focused care across cancer treatment units in NSW. This system of care is designed to improve cancer survivor outcomes by integrating treatment of the cancer with additional care strategies, which includes relief of physical discomfort, encouraging informed decision-making, and providing emotional support, education and information. Ultimately, these strategies are designed to improve the quality of care provided to survivors across their cancer journey and maximise their longterm outcomes. The research team predict that patient-focused care will be effective in reducing levels of anxiety and depression, and addressing the unmet needs of survivors. If this prediction proves correct, this system could be readily adopted by every cancer centre in NSW and Australia-wide, and have a profound impact on the way in which cancer care is delivered in Australia.

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Aussies urged to double the N the wake of research released last week showing that Australians are a long way from meeting their recommended daily serves of vegetables and dairy, The Dairy Kitchen has created a new collection of vegetable-packed, calcium-rich recipes to inspire and motivate. From lashings of bĂŠchamel sauce on a veggie pasta to crumbled feta over a tray of roast vegetables, dairy foods such as milk, cheese and yoghurt are the perfect partners to jazz up the humble veg. The research released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the Australian Health Survey showed that alarmingly more than 96 per cent of Australians are not eating enough vegetables and legumes, and 90 per cent are not having enough milk, cheese and yoghurt. Australians are being urged to combat this by doubling their vegetable intake and adding an extra cup of milk; or 3/4 cup of yoghurt; or two slices of cheese

to their daily diet â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and these recipes show people how easy it is to solve the problem. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tackling two birds with one stone, according to Amanda Menegazzo, food communications manager at Dairy Australia â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pairing dairy and vegetables is not only nutritious, it is absolutely delicious!â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dollop Greek yoghurt on soup, replace half the stock with milk in a veggie risotto or grate parmesan over-roasted zucchini for a cheesy side dish.â&#x20AC;? Experiment with your own flavour combinations or take a tip from The Dairy Kitchenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new collection of veg and dairy recipes. The Dairy Kitchenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5-ingredient Creamy Carrot Soup with Coriander and Yoghurt delivers both taste and nutrition. Easy and cheap, this warming winter meal can be created from fridge and pantry staples and is perfect for a busy weeknight.

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CREAMY CARROT SOUP WITH CORIANDER AND YOGHURT * 1 tablespoons olive oil * 1 teaspoon ground cumin * 1 small onion, chopped * 500g carrots, chopped * 1 cup vegetable stock * 1 cup milk * 2 tablespoons finely chopped coriander * 1/2 cup natural yoghurt Parmesan Toasts * 2 slices sourdough bread * 1 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese * 1 tablespoon grated cheddar cheese To prepare: Heat oil in a medium saucepan. Add on-

ion and cumin, sautĂŠ for 3 to 5 minutes or until softened. Add carrot and stock, cover and bring to the boil. Simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes, or until carrots are tender. Remove from heat and process with a stick blender until smooth. Return to heat and stir in milk and coriander. Reheat gently until warmed through. Serve with a dollop of yoghurt. For Parmesan Toasts: Grill bread on one side until golden. Turn over top with combined cheeses and grill until cheese is bubbly and brown. Serve warm with soup.

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veg and add a serve of dairy CHICKEN, CAULIFLOWER, WATERCRESS AND ALMOND SALAD * 1/2 medium cauliflower * 1 bunch baby radishes, thinly sliced * 1/4 cup currants * juice of 1 lemon * 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for frying * 400g chicken tenderloins * 200g haloumi, cut into thick slices * 1 bunch watercress * 1/2 cup greek style natural yoghurt * 1/4 cup natural flaked almonds To prepare: Process cauliflower in a food processor until it resembles cous cous. Place in a large mixing bowl with sliced radishes,

currants, lemon juice and olive oil. Season to taste. Preheat a grill or frying pan with 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat. Season chicken with salt and freshly ground black pepper, add to pan and cook for 3 to 5 minutes each side or until cooked through. Remove from heat and cover with foil to keep warm. Clean pan, return to heat and add 1 tablespoon oil. Pan-fry haloumi for 1 to 2 minutes each side or until golden brown. Remove from heat. Slice chicken and toss through cauliflower mixture along with the haloumi.

KALE, FETA AND PUMPKIN PIE * 300g (2 cups) peeled, cubed pumpkin (1cm x 1cm) * olive oil spray * 1/4 bunch kale, shredded (3 cups) * 2 spring onions, finely sliced * 3 eggs, lightly beaten * 1/2 cup milk * 100g feta, chopped * 2 tablespoons grated parmesan * 4 sheets filo pastry * 2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds (pepitas), optional To prepare: Spray pumpkin with olive oil and scatter over a baking paper lined oven tray. Bake at 200°C for 20-30 minutes until lightly

golden and cooked through. Place kale in a microwave safe bowl with 1 tablespoon water and microwave for 1 minute or until slightly wilted. Combine pumpkin, kale, spring onions, eggs, milk, feta and parmesan cheese in a bowl. Layer filo sheets in alternating pattern (lengthwise and widthwise), into a 1 litre baking dish, spraying between each layer with olive oil. Pour filling into pastry and fold over excess pastry to enclose pie. Spray with extra oil spray and top with pumpkin seeds. Bake at 200°C for 30to 40 minutes or until cooked through and set.

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Meet the salad saviour BY ELLA WALKER ALADS can be limp, boring and vinegary if the wrong chef made the dressing but, according to New Zealand-born chef Peter Gordon, there’s more to salad than sad leaves of iceberg lettuce. Now based permanently in London at his Marylebone restaurant, The Providores & Tapa Room, he’s celebrating the launch of his latest book, Savour, a tome dedicated entirely to salads, by laying on a whole spread of them. Canapes on china spoons circulate the room, delicately balanced with mouthfuls of seared salmon, duck and fig, and burrata topped with a tomato and mango dressing, before we pile into our seats and get cracking on the starters. There’s miso baked aubergine with feta, roast parsnips with halloumi and smoky shavings of apple, as well as puy lentils mixed with pomegranate, roasted grapes, chilli, mint and basil. As you can tell, these are not exactly your standard ‘garden salad on the side’, this is salad Peter – the “godfather” of fusion cuisine – Gordon-style. Over Thai-style gammon hock, with macadamia nuts in a hot and sour tamarind caramel, alongside kale and preserved lemon couscous (very moreish) and a bowl of chickpeas with feta and cumin, he tells me he’s been cooking since he was four years old. “As a child, animal carcasses would be hanging from hooks in the house,” he remembers. “We deep-fried everything in beef fat.” When Gordon was seven, he and his family were prepping for a barbecue when disaster struck. He was trying to get up high enough to look into a pot on the stove, when he slipped, grabbing hold of it on the way down, knocking the vat of boiling fat onto himself as he fell. He still bears the burn scars on the right side of his neck and arm. “I had to have a skin graft and I missed a year of school, but it didn’t put me off cooking,” he explains matterof-factly. “I never even liked the taste of beef fat, and I love deep-fat frying! When my parents divorced, my mum started deep-frying everything in sunflower oil and I was like, ‘Yes! That’s so much better’.” Although there are moments of deepfat frying in Savour – yes, even in a book about salad – if there’s one thing Gordon wants people to take from the new book, aside from the fact that salads are suitable whatever the season, it’s “not to pour boiling water on couscous”! “It’ll never stick together again if you use tepid water,” he promises in garrulous fashion. Gordon, in his early 50s, who is of Scottish and Maori descent, has no

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Pineapple Green Beans BY HEALTHY EXCHANGES A taste of Hawaii! 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 (225g) can pineapple tidbits, packed in fruit juice, drained and 1/4 cup liquid reserved 1/4 cup water 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 1/2 teaspoons reduced-sodium soy

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qualms about voicing how proud he is of Savour, and it’s rather refreshing. “I didn’t do very well at school. I got 50 per cent in English – the tests in New Zealand are different – which is bad. I was good at maths and cooking and geography, but now I’ve written eight books,” he says passionately. “I’m so happy,” he adds, almost clapping with glee.

sauce 2 cups frozen cut green beans, cooked, rinsed and drained Method: 1. In a large skillet sprayed with butterflavoured cooking spray, saute onion for 5 minutes. 2. In a covered jar, combine reserved pineapple liquid, water and cornstarch. Shake well to blend. Pour mixture into skillet with onion. Stir in soy sauce. Add green beans and pineapple tidbits. Mix gently to combine. 3. Continue to cook over medium

Perhaps the most controversial of the recipes in his new book is a very strange list of ingredients for mayonnaise that Gordon learnt to make as a child. Strangely there’s no egg or vinegar involved... “At 18, I became an apprentice chef and they were like, ‘Do you know how to make mayonnaise?’ I was like, ‘Yes, I do!’” he remembers with a deprecating

heat for 6-8 minutes or until mixture thickens and is heated through, stirring constantly. Divide into 4 servings.

TIP: If you can’t find tidbits, purchase pineapple chunks and coarsely chop. * Each serving equals: 76 calories, 0g fat, 1g protein, 18g carb., 68mg sodium, 37mg calcium, 2g fibre * Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Vegetable, 1/2 Fruit; Carb Choices: 1.

laugh. “I went around getting the ingredients together, but I couldn’t find their condensed milk...!” Yes, this acclaimed chef and restaurateur makes mayonnaise with condensed milk... but don’t let it put you off, the salads really are delicious. Why not try a few yourself? Here are three to get you started...

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CHILLI-ROAST SWEET POTATO, COURGETTE, ROAST GARLIC, HAZELNUTS AND PEARS

TUNA WITH COCONUT, CHILLI, MANGO, APPLE AND LIME

(Serves 8 as a side dish) 1 head garlic, broken into separate (unpeeled) cloves 1kg sweet potatoes, skins scrubbed, cut lengthways into wedges 2 large pears, halved, core removed, cut into thin wedges 1 or 2 red chillies, thinly sliced 1tbsp rosemary leaves 2tbsp olive oil 2tbsp sesame oil 3 courgettes, quartered lengthways 100g hazelnuts, skins off, roughly chopped 100g baby spinach (or use large-leaf spinach and coarsely shred it) Salt and pepper to taste 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas mark 4. 2. Put the garlic in a pan, cover with 3cm water and add half a teaspoon of fine salt. Bring to the boil, then cook over a medium heat until the water has almost evaporated. Drain. 3. Put the garlic, sweet potatoes, pears, chillies, rosemary, olive oil and half the sesame oil into a roasting dish. Sprinkle on one teaspoon of salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper. Roast in the oven for 45 minutes, tossing twice. 4. Add the courgettes, hazelnuts and remaining sesame oil and toss together, then cook until the pears and sweet potato are cooked through, about 20 minutes. 5. Remove from the oven and stir in the spinach.

(Serves 2 as a main, or 4 as a starter) 350g very fresh tuna loin, skin and bones removed 3tbsp lime (or lemon) juice 1 small red onion, halved and very thinly sliced 1/2tsp finely grated lime zest 1/2 medium-heat red chilli, finely chopped (use more or less to taste) 1tsp light brown sugar 1 ripe, sweet mango 100ml coconut milk 8 stalks coriander, leaves picked 1 spring onion, thinly sliced 1 crisp, sweet apple 2tbsp desiccated coconut, toasted Flaky Salt 1. Cut the fish into cubes about 1.5-2cm square. Mix with half the lime juice and a quarter of a teaspoon of flaky salt, then cover and leave in the fridge for 30 minutes. 2. Briefly rinse the sliced onion under cold water, then mix with the lime zest, chilli, sugar and remaining lime juice. Cover and place in the fridge until the fish is ready. 3. Peel the skin from one half of the mango and cut off the cheek (youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need only one cheek). Thinly slice the flesh. 4. Drain the juices from the fish. Toss gently with the onion mixture, coconut milk, mango, coriander and spring onion. Cover and leave for five minutes in the fridge. 5. Cut the apple (unpeeled) into juliennes and toss with the toasted coconut. 6. To serve, give the fish another gentle mix and taste for seasoning, adding extra salt if needed. Divide among your bowls or plates and sprinkle the apple and coconut on top.

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Savour: Salads For All Seasons by Peter Gordon is published in hardback by Jacqui Small.

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Easy Pita Pizzas With Vegetables Top whole-wheat pitas with ricotta cheese, garbanzo beans and sauteed vegetables for a fast dinner the whole family will love. 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 medium red onion, sliced 2 garlic cloves, crushed with press 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper 225g broccoli florets, cut into 4cm pieces 1/4 cup water

(Serves 6 as a main dish) 8 boneless chicken thighs 8 black garlic cloves, sliced 8 kumquats, unpeeled, thinly sliced (available from selected fruit and veg stores) 2tsp fresh rosemary (or fresh thyme or oregano or a mixture) 4tbsp sunflower seeds 2tbsp avocado oil 1 small red onion, thinly sliced into rings 200g kale, thick stem removed and discarded 2 avocados 2tbsp lemon juice 1 cucumber, ends discarded, thinly sliced Salt and pepper to taste 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas mark 4. 2. Place the chicken thighs, garlic, kumquats, rosemary and sunflower seeds in a roasting dish. Pour on the avocado oil and two tablespoons of water and season with salt and pepper. Toss everything together. Roast, turning the chicken several times while cooking, until the chicken is cooked through and the skin is golden and crispy, about 30-40 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave until cool enough to handle, then cut each thigh into four or five slices. 3. While the chicken is cooking, soak the onion in cold water for 10 minutes, then drain. 4. Meanwhile, blanch or steam the kale for three minutes. Tip it into a colander and, when it is cool enough to handle, squeeze out as much water as you can, then coarsely shred it. 5. Remove the flesh from the avocados and cut into chunks. Mix with the lemon juice to prevent it going brown. 6. To serve, toss the kale, onion, cucumber and avocado together and lay it on the bottom of a serving dish. Lay the chicken on top then spoon over the contents of the roasting dish.

Salt 1. 1 can (425 to 540g) garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained 2. 1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese 3. 4 (15cm) whole-wheat pitas, each split horizontally in half 4. 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 5. 2 medium plum tomatoes (350g), cut into 1.2cm chunks 6. 1. Heat oven to 230C/450F. In nonstick 12-inch skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat until hot. Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, 7 to 10 minutes. Add garlic and crushed

red pepper and cook, stirring, 30 seconds. Add broccoli, water and 1/4 teaspoon salt; heat to boiling. Reduce heat to medium and cook, covered, until broccoli is tender-crisp, about 5 minutes. 7. 2. Meanwhile, in small bowl, with potato masher or fork, mash beans with ricotta and 1/4 teaspoon salt until almost smooth. 8. 3. Arrange pita halves on 2 large cookie sheets. Bake until lightly toasted, about 3 minutes. Spread toasted pitas with bean mixture. Top with broccoli mixture and sprinkle with Parmesan.

Bake until heated though, 7 to 10 minutes longer. 9. 4. To serve, sprinkle pitas with tomatoes. Makes 4 main-dish servings. ON THE SIDE: For each person, toss 2 cups mixed greens with 1/2 teaspoon olive oil plus salt, pepper and lemon juice or vinegar to taste. * Each pizza: About 469 calories, 13g total fat (6g saturated), 27g protein, 64g carbohydrate, 10g fibre, 29mg cholesterol, 969mg sodium.

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Make your Eastern BY SAM WYLIE-HARRIS IMELESS and exotic, the vibrant palette and luxurious touches and details that embody Asianinspired interiors can transform a living space. A fusion of Japanese, Chinese and Indian influences, a Far Eastern theme masterfully combines grandeur and comfort, colour and calm, for stylish yet peaceful rooms. And while this is certainly a look that’s rich in vi-

brancy and mood, capturing it in your home needn’t be expensive – right now, there’s a wealth of Eastern touches available in stores and online, with more purse-friendly chain stores channelling the trend too. GLIMPSES OF GOLD “Each season, we’re dedicated to delivering a unique and eclectic offer to our customers,” says Julie Varma, a senior design director with a home décor company. “Taking into consideration the individual style of our shoppers and an increasingly daring approach to deco-

rating the home, we have worked hard to deliver varied and distinctive ranges at fantastic value.” Their Heiwa collection is inspired by the tranquillity of the Far East and sets the scene for a soothing ambience. Graceful and elegant, a serene spectrum of powder blues, gentle greys and pearlescent white is complemented by gold foil-effect finishes. Mixing old and new is also a key trend this season, which sits comfortably with this look – and sometimes, more is more...

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WHAT child isn’t thrilled to look out a window and see a bird or two peck-peck-pecking away at treats that were placed just for them in a feeder your family has created? You and your kids will have fun collecting natural supplies for decorating a plain two-litre (approximate) cardboard carton salvaged from the recycling bin. A pinecone here, crisscrossed twigs there. A few leaves tucked in between some bark, and acorns on the side. Then comes the food – a bird-friendly shish kebab!

Here’s the stuff you need: – One clean, two-litre cardboard juice or milk carton – 2 wooden skewers, or thin dowels 25cm long – Wire or twine for hanging – Food items for a kebab, such as chunks of orange, apple, watermelon, dried bread, bagels, etc. – Bird seed (optional) Here’s the fun: Depending on the style of the carton, close or glue the top shut. Cut out a 11-12cm-high and 6cm-wide opening on all four sides of the carton about 2.5cm up from the base. For a bird perch, poke a small hole below

a side opening. Poke a matching hole into the opposite side of the carton, then insert one of the dowels through both small holes. Make a hole and poke the other skewer through the top side edge of the feeder for the shish kebab. (If using a dowel, sharpen one end with a pencil sharpener.) For the time being, rest that end inside the feeder until you are ready to thread food on it. To hang the feeder, poke a hole in the top middle of the carton and loop a piece of wire or twine through the hole. It’s time to decorate. Using a low-temperature glue gun or household glue and brush, start applying twigs, pieces of bark, dried pods, leaves, etc., wherever your imagination says they belong. You might add

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contemporary edge that really adds drama. Gold is a big theme for 2016, and can be high shine or matt, with an antique, distressed finish.” PRECIOUS JEWELS Lavish rooms with a hint of mystic splendour: cascading fabrics can be complemented with glimpses of jade and onyx, while scattered ferns or bamboo plants will create uplifting vibes. “Take inspiration from the alluring ambience of the Far East and incorporate its rich heritage with eye-catching fabrics and soft furnishings,” suggests Tandine Rawkins, a design director. “From cool blue hues of the purest turquoise, to majestic purple and pinks, glamorous ‘sparkle-infused’ textiles are guaranteed to add a twinkle of exotic charm to any space, including courtyards, gardens and terraces.” Interior designer Julie Paul agrees: “For a simple way to bring a touch of the Orient into your home, choose luxe metallics and rich jewel tones. Gold ac-

cessories bring richness ric and warmth to your scheme, along with a hefty dose of glamour. “Updating cushions is an inexpensive way to breathe new life into a room. Use them to introduce vibrant colours, such as the colour of the moment, burnt orange.” CHINESE WHISPERS If minimalistic zen, with simple lines, is more your Eastern cup of tea, Japanese brand Issey Miyake has teamed up with design company Ittala to produce a sleek homeware collection, that includes origami-style napkins and ceramic tableware, coated in warm pastel tones. Perfect for entertaining, you could always limit Asian influences to the kitchen, with an industrial-style dining table and chairs and cherry blossom tableware. Elsewhere, the bedroom is a temple where you can retreat, relax and introduce stylish elements, such as chinoiserie upholstery, orchids, travel trunks and ceramics, such as an antique Chinese pot or Buddha.

Bling Teapots available in the shape of an elephant or camel with the choice of a shiny gold or silver finish

trinkets or a silk flower if the space seems right. For the shish kebab, reach through a side opening of the feeder and thread the fruit and bread chunks on the skewer, then poke the end at an angle in an inside corner of the carton. Pour some birdseed onto the base of the feeder, if you wish. Hang from a tree or bird feeder stand. As birds come to your feeder, identify them, take pictures and talk about your sightings.

NOW HERE’S A TIP BY JOANN DERSON z “If you use storage bins for kids’ toys, help them stay organised by labelling the bins with illustrations or even printed and laminated photos of the contents. It will make clean-up time a cinch, even for the little tykes who can’t read yet!” – Contributed by D.M. z Bobby pins are easily manageable in a magnetic

container meant for paper clips. They are inexpensive and can be found at big-box stores or at an office-supply store. z Save and organise scrap yarn and embroidery threads on clothespins. Wind around and use the clip to hold the end in place. When you need some thread or yarn, you’ll be able to find the end quickly to get what you need. z “Kids love getting water from the refrigerator dispenser, but we use far too many cups. Now, everybody

has his or her own cup for water only, and we attached magnets to the cups so they live on the side of the fridge. Get water, drink, replace cup. Easy!” – Contributed by A.L. z “Coil pipe cleaners around the outside of regular plastic hangers. They will keep tank tops and spaghetti straps from falling off the hanger. z Plastic wrap, parchment paper and foil can be stored easily in the same cabinet as pots and pans if you line them up in a magazine holder.

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What’s SUP in Slovenia? BY ABI JACKSON HAT would a dream holiday scene look like to you? For me, there would trees, mountains, water and unspoilt natural landscape.

Slovenia, I recently discovered, has this in spades – but I didn’t just get to stop and look at the view, I stepped into it. Well actually, I paddled into it, standing up, a little wobbly-kneed at first, on a floating board.

If you haven’t yet tried stand-up paddle-boarding, or SUP as it’s also known, chances are, it won’t be too long before you do. It may be far gentler than surfing, its more famous board-based water sport cousin, but SUP’s really gathering pace in the popularity stakes, and it turns out Slovenia is the perfect place to do it. Almost 60 per cent of this small south-eastern European country (you can drive from one side to the other in a few hours) is tree-covered, and while Slovenia only has 47km of coastline – it’s more or less one giant bay in the Adriatic Sea, tucked neatly between Croatia and Italy’s Gulf of Venice – the land itself boasts 27,000km of rivers, streams and lakes. It’s these that I’ve come to explore by paddleboard, an activity that’s becoming increasingly convenient and accessible thanks to SipaBoards, a Slovenian start-up whose small but passionate team have created the world’s first electric and self-inflating stand-up paddleboards. Traditionally, paddleboards are inflated manually requiring a fair bit of elbow-grease, which is fine if it’s just one board; not so fine if there’s a group of you or you’re out for the day with your family, and all that pumping takes a chunk out of your precious time and energy reserves.

“It was paddleboarding with my kids that inspired the designs,” explains SipaBoards founder Sebastjan Sitar. “It would take ages to pump up boards for the whole family. Our boards inflate in seconds, with zero effort.” The addition of motorised engines was another family-inspired brainwave, after Sebastjan’s young daughter struggled to paddle back to shore one day. Operated via a switch at the top of the paddle, the motor doesn’t exactly propel you along full-pelt, but the extra momentum certainly helps when you’re up against winds or currents, and helps stabilise the boards, too. As Josh Rocchio, from SipaBoards’ marketing team, explains: “These things don’t make doing the sport easier; they make it easier to do that sport.” You still have to paddle, and engage those core muscles to keep balanced (SUP is a great full-body workout), and you can switch the motor off whenever you want – it simply means that anybody, even those who are nervous of the water, a bit unsteady or who need that little push, can hop on board and enjoy it. We start with a paddle along Ljubljanica River, which runs through Ljubljana. It only takes a couple of minutes to get used to standing on the boards, then off we go, sailing past the capital city’s historical streets and under bridges, glancing up at the castle’s belvedere tower. It’s a novel way to take in the sights, and Ljubljana also makes a great base for exploring more of the country. We stay at the Antiq Hotel, perfectly situated a stone’s throw from the river, pretty squares and coffee shops. Right now, Ljubljana – along with the whole of Slovenia – is relatively quiet. It’s not an

Lake Bohinj. Photos: PA Photo/Nina Cavz/SipaBoards; Abi Jackson.

obvious spot on the tourist map, but that’s changing. The European Travel Commission recently reported that Slovenia is one of the countries which recorded the greatest increase in foreign tourists (by as much as 13 per cent) last year. It’s easy to see the appeal. Slovenia is running rings around much of Europe in the green stakes – the air, the water, the streets, everything is so clean and fresh. The vibe is fantastic too: relaxed, safe, and welcoming. Once you’re in Europe, flights into Slovenia are generally short and easy, but be warned you’ll immediately feel like you’ve been transported somewhere far further, to a land of Narnia-esque natural beauty where all your outdoorsy dreams come true. After getting to grips with the boards in Ljubljana, we spend the next couple of days exploring Slovenia’s lakes and coast. An essential stop on every itinerary is Lake Bled, nestled among the Julian Alps in the country’s northwestern region, overlooked by the medieval Bled Castle and made instantly recognisable by the tiny island that sits just off-centre, boldly sprouting a cluster of bushy trees, old buildings and a 52m-tall church tower. After a fuel stop at Sava Hotel’s Park Cafe, where I tuck into the famous ‘Original Bled Cream Cake’ (aka ‘kremsnita’), a doorstop slab of puff pastry, custard, cream and vanilla sugar, we find a quiet patch of shore to inflate our boards, then spend a blissful couple of hours on the water. It’s low-season, so we have the lake to ourselves (June to September is the most popular period). I paddle out, soaking up the peaceful wonder of it all, as twinkling ripples lap gen-

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tly at the sides of my board. Less well-known than Bled, but not to be missed, is Lake Bohinj. While Bled has the picture-postcard charm, Bohinj really draws the gasps; it is utterly dreamy. There are some great walks and hikes in the area too, including a trail leading to the Savica Waterfall in the heart of the Triglav National Park. Active holidays aren’t just a great way to see a country – working up a sweat means you can really indulge on the food front too. And while Slovenia doesn’t yet boast any Michelin-starred restaurants, there is a bounty of beautiful grub on offer. We treat ourselves to some fine-dining at Vila Podvin (7km from the centre of Bled) and sample outstanding seafood at AS Aperitivo and RiziBizi (both in the capital). Slovenia is also the only European country which connects the Alps, the Mediterranean and the Pannonian Plain, and our jaunt to the coast highlights that this little country really is a land of vast geographical contrasts. Mountain peaks and alpine forests give way to lush pastures, olive groves and vineyards, and the temperature cranks up a good few degrees as we make the hour-and-a-half drive from Ljubljana to Secovlje. The coast has a real Mediterranean feel, and you can paddle-board off the beach when the water’s calm enough, or explore near the Secovlje salt flats, where salt is still produced using 700-year-old traditional methods.

A group shot about to head along Ljubljanica river.

After a morning on the boards, we ditch our paddles for a stroll around Piran, an old coastal town that’s all painterly narrow streets and pretty squares, bordered by dazzling blue sea and bobbing fishing boats. Our trip ends with a visit to Kamnik, an unassuming little town nestled among some of the most breathtakingly stunning countryside I’ve ever seen. Similarly, from the outside, our hotel Gostilna Repnik looks cosy and traditional – and it is, but it’s also home to some super stylish rooms and supremely talented chef, who whip up an array of dishes showcasing local produce, including the famous ‘boob cheese’ (I’ll leave you to discover how it got the name!). We only have time for a short hike, but you

don’t have to venture far to lose yourself among the forests, shimmering rock faces and bright turquoise streams. This is the true beauty of Slovenia: it has everything, and all of it’s nearby. :: Abi Jackson was a guest of Wizz Air, SipaBoards and the Slovenia Tourist Board. :: SipaBoards are currently available to buy, with free worldwide shipping. For more info and enquiries, visit sipaboards.com :: SUP hire and guided tours are available via the Slovenian Tourist Board. Trips can be organised independently. For info and enquiries, visit www.slovenia.info

The care of koalas a serious business BY SARAH MOTHERWELL E joked it was just our luck that after hiking through Brisbane’s eucalypt woodland for an hour the only wild koala we saw was in the car park. But not just any koala – what sat on the branch was closer to a gremlin that had been fed after midnight than the adorable marsupial trotted out for hugs with dignitaries. We stood and watched, took a photo, talked about how this would make a funny story. The one thing we didn’t do, that I deeply regret today, is we didn’t call for help. We never thought the little fellow might have been injured or very ill – something I learned months later when I met Jacque. Jacque was recovering in intensive care at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. He had sustained serious neurological damage after he was attacked by two pitbulls. Vets said he could only walk in a circle when he was admitted. The tragedy was Jacque was a perfectly healthy, breedable male before the accident, free from the disease and injury that plagues much of the species in Queensland. Birds make up 80 per cent of the animals brought into the Wildlife Hospital but koalas take up the most care. The tree-dwelling marsupials are often hit by cars trying to cross the roads between their fragmented habitat. Brash was struck in Creek Rd in Mount Gravatt, south of Brisbane, and was having his one-week checkup during my visit. “You might want to stay back. Koalas have a habit of just waking up,” the vet nurse said as Brash came out sedation. I didn’t have to look twice at his claws to understand these cuddly-looking creatures could do some damage, although as I would learn, a cuddly koala in the wild is actually a sign the animal is desperately ill and in need

Brash the koala undergoes a check-up at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, Brisbane. Brash was admitted to the hospital with a swollen jaw after being hit by a car in Mount Gravatt, southeast of Brisbane. PHOTO: AAP IMAGE

of medical attention. Those sharp claws also do little to defend koalas against dogs, which are the second-biggest killers of koalas. Brash’s jaw was still swollen so he rejoined the other 100 or so koalas that can be found in the hospital’s care at any one time during the busy season. A lot of the care happens back of house where segregated enclosures allow koalas to recover without infectious diseases like chlamydia. Visitors have a small glimpse of what goes on at the hospital through viewing windows into the check-up room and intensive care unit. Allowing people to see what was happening was important to founder Steve Irwin, who created the hospital in memory of his mother and wildlife carer Lyn.

Since the facility opened in 2004, dedicated staff and volunteers have treated more than 62,000 animals, of which almost 8000 have been koalas. The hospital relies on the neighbouring zoo and donations from sponsors like AAT Kings to continue helping koalas, which cost on average $1500 to treat, with the most severe cases exceeding $5000. As I was touring the grounds I realised only seeing bright-eyed, healthy koalas in captivity had shielded me from the real threats these beloved Australian animals face. I would thoroughly encourage anyone who visits the Sunshine Coast to take time to visit the hospital for a gold coin donation to learn how to protect our native wildlife and spot when they need our help. AAP

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A must-read for every Francophile, and anyone who has ever thought of living abroad BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

BOOK OF THE WEEK We’ll Always Have Paris: A Memoir – Trying And Failing To Be French by Emma Beddington is published in hardback by Macmillan. WE’LL Always Have Paris is a memoir from journalist and award-winning blogger Emma Beddington. Obsessed with everything French since stumbling upon a copy of French Elle as a teenager, Beddington sets about doing all she can to leave her humble Yorkshire roots behind and embrace the French philosophy and way of life. She even eventually fulfils her lifelong dream of living in Paris, but can the reality live up to her expectations? Can it ever? Beddington’s memoir is a sumptuous ode to Gallic philosophy, Parisian patisserie and French joie de vivre. But it is also a candid and poignant account of grief, loss, relationships and identity. A must-read for anyone who’s ever lived, or thought about living, abroad, Francophile or otherwise. 8/10 (Review by Zahra Saeed

FICTION The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker is published in hardback by William Heinemann. ONLY one thing is for certain when reading Nicola Barker’s latest and totally brilliant, yet unclassifiable novel – you have absolutely no idea which direction the story is heading in. Barker’s writing is exuberant, chaotic and magical, but sometimes a little hard to follow. The Cauliflower is not for those who give up on books easily, but hold tight, you’re in for a pretty epic ride. The novel concerns itself with Sri Ramakrishna, a 19th century Indian mystic, who certainly doesn’t like to be referred to as a ‘guru’. The narrative jumps around, though is often told from the point of view of Ramakrishna’s nephew. The story unfolds in fragments as the reader gleans half-told tales of magical India. Barker’s writing is completely origi-

nal and insightful and bursting full of spirituality. The novel is thoroughly enjoyable; however the narrative becomes slightly messy at times as Barker runs away with herself. 7/10 (Review by Heather Doughty) We Go Around In The Night And Are Consumed By Flames by Jules Grant is published in paperback by Myriad Editions. STYLISTICALLY similar to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, the characters in Jules Grant’s debut novel do not only speak in dialect, they narrate in it too. Set in Manchester’s seedy crime underworld, We Go Around In The Night And Are Consumed By Flames follows the story of lesbian criminal Donna and her goddaughter Aurora. It’s a common case of warring gangs, drugs, gun crime and murder, but uniquely it’s presented from a distinctly female gaze, and although it’s unflinching in its gritty portrayal of Manchester, there are funny moments and tender passages that take the reader by surprise. The author has created brilliantly layered characters, especially in Donna, the hard-bitten head of the Bronte Close Gang and the 10-year-old goddaughter left in her care. By alternating chapters between the two, Grant develops her plot with different perspectives on events that unfold at breakneck speed. It’s a skilfully written story and impossible to put down, especially during tense confrontations. But while it’s certainly a fast-moving crime thriller, for those unfamiliar with Mancunian slang, the language can sometimes feel undecipherable. Grant’s book has it’s fair share of violence and vengeance, but it’s also a heartbreaking and tender read about love and the relationships that tie us together. 7/10 (Review by Alison Potter) Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower is published in paperback by Fair Acre Press. FOR a topical read that packs a punch, this is an angry and unapologetic first novel from the prize-winning short-story writer Lisa Blower. Set over five days of the May 2010 British General Election, the novel focuses on the Minton family from “Smoke-on-Trent” (Blower’s hometown).

Author and futurist Richard Watson warns that most of us live in a digital bubble.

The characters, once part of the local pottery industry, now fight for survival. The book’s chapters are renamed “Rounds”. Constance Minton is clinging on to the council house she has lived in

for 73 years, while her wayward son Totty rails against everyone around him, including social workers, the job centre, and the ex-wife who is trying to get their two kids back.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 Much of the book’s political bite is directed at the Conservatives’ housing policies – including the “bedroom tax” and the mass sell-off of social housing to private landlords, who then convert streets of “houses” into broken bedsits. Sitting Ducks rejects the logic of aspiration and right-to-buy. “If you’re not angry, you’re not listening” says the novel’s strapline. This is an Angry Young Woman to watch. 7/10 (Review by Nicola Wilson)

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The Black Prince Of Florence: The Spectacular Life And Treacherous World Of Alessandro de’ Medici by Catherine Fletcher is published in hardback by Bodley Head. FLETCHER, a historian specialising in the Renaissance and whose work has been praised by Hilary Mantel, here excavates the intriguing figure of Florence’s first Medici Duke, born a bastard and possibly of mixed race origin. The evidence on this last point is inconclusive, as an afterword admits and, in any case, the era’s understanding of race was not one we’d recognise; Alessandro was mocked as a ‘mule’, but similar jibes were directed at other potentates over being part Italian and part Dutch. Alessandro’s life was brief, turbulent and (like much Italian politics of the time) largely defined by the twin poles of the Papacy and Holy Roman Empire, to which he had advantageously close ties; Pope Clement VII was his uncle and Emperor Charles V, eventually, his father-in-law. Alas, Alessandro himself never wholly comes alive; unavoidable when most of his papers are lost and history was largely written by his enemies. 7/10 (Review by Alex Sarll)

Freddie Mole, Lion Tamer by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by Kate Hindley, is published in hardback by Bloomsbury Children’s Books. THE author who brought us the cosy tales of Mma Ramotswe and The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency has written another tale for children, which plays on the childhood fantasy of running away to the circus. In the grand tradition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie Bucket, Freddie Mole comes from a penniless family. His father mends washing machines and the only job his mum can get is cleaning on cruise ships, which keeps her away at sea for long swathes of time. When Freddie tags along with his dad to fix a machine at the Big Top, he finds himself offering to fill the ringmaster’s vacancy for a ‘hard-working youngster’. Little does he know that besides cleaning up, his duties will involve death-defying trapeze acts and standing in for the lion tamer at the last minute. McCall Smith sets his story ‘quite a few years ago’ and adds the disclaimer on page 17 that, back in those days, there were still lions in circuses, before

The book BOOK is all things to all men, a means of discovering reality, escaping from it, a tool, a mirror, an eyewitness. So much so that generalities about it become platitudes, which can only be avoided by a specific approach. “The book, that we never notice because it is so common – telephone directory, dictionary, do-it-yourself manual, cookery book – has its particular role in daily life. “The text has enabled a section of the world to conquer poverty and hunger, but all the same there is a pejorative connotation in the word ‘bookish.’ In a volume of poems the writer achieves a universal truth in the measure that the feelings he expresses are his own. Each time, the book reflects a different aspect of life.” So runs the opening paragraph in “The Book Through 5000 Years” with H.D.L. Vervlier as its general editor. Published in 1975, it is a magnificent book that takes us through the ages with an illustrated history covering four continents, and tracing the development of the written and printed word, from the incised clay tables of Mesopotamia to the finely illustrated limited editions as well as the mass-produced books of our time. An extract from “The Book” runs, “Throughout the world, it is really the strongly held beliefs that have produced the greatest number of books: the Bible, the Koran, Das Kapital, codes of law, certainly, and

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innumerable works of propaganda and polemics... The beautiful colophons of the early printers were setting up typography against artillery, the word of God against the works of the Devil.” Stepping forward to last year, the German government authorised the sale of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” which had been prohibited trade since the 1940s. Its initial printing sold out in two days.

Ten years ago the development of the electronic, handheld ipad and its derivatives had media expressing opinions about the end of the printed word on paper, and whilst changes have occurred, the paper format reading device has prevailed in even higher demand. Also over the past decade, a revolution of sorts transpired due to internet sales, with major US chain bookstores such as

‘they were all sent off to nicer places’. It’s almost a shame that within such a fantastical tale, the ‘PC’ message needs to be drummed home, but it doesn’t detract from McCall Smith’s joyful celebration of the circus. 7/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

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Barnes & Noble and Borders, as well as some book retailers in this country, either radically reducing the extent of their bricks and mortar stores or closing. So did hundreds of private booksellers. But a resurgence in bookstores has since occurred. The first section of “The Book” deals with the pre-history of books and writing. The texts and records of writings in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Maya and Aztec are illustrated. Examples of Islam and Koran texts follow, the book as it was in China and later in India. The final section of the text examines the evolution of the book in the West, stepping through the 600 years of refinements that have occurred. Books have their own physical character. “The Book Through 5000 Years” is a mighty 350mm down the spine, 275mm wide, will occupy 70mm shelf space, and comprises 495 heavy paper pages. It is an example of books from past years that motivated us 20 years ago to trade in second-hand books. Talking with a customer about it, he commented that it would be an idea to look at Powells Bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Booksellers in America are close to the face of Amazon which has an impact book selling world-wide. The American Booksellers Association has released a study of Amazon’s impact on communities across America. During the calendar year 2014, Amazon sold $44.1 billion of retail

From the bookshelves by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection goods (not just books) in that country with over $1 billion lost in state and local government taxes. This distribution system saw 30,000 shopfronts close, representing 107 million square feet of commercial space. It incurred a net loss of 135,973 jobs. With Amazon.com’s first Australian accounts declaring local turnover last year of $1.5 million – senior Australian publishing figures say the real figure for local turnover is approximately $250 million, 166 times the reported figure. Accounting firm PwC shows that Amazon sidesteps the 30 per cent tax that local players face. Almost all of its income outside the US ends up in a Luxembourg company which last year notched up $7.9 billion of sales in the UK and paid only 4.2 million pounds in income tax. Where those sorts of businesses simply make every move to dominate the world market, regular bookstores play a positive role in their communities and contribute to the local culture. An article circulated to booksellers is “From Papyrus to Pixels” which describes the evolution of the printed word. Modern book publishing has grown dramatically. It is no longer dominated by the ma-

jor publishers; today an author can write a book, have it printed in small quantities, offer it for sale on the internet, and approach the major internet sellers, which in turn makes the latter appear a comprehensive distributor. Our bookstore participates with such authors and, generally, demand continues. Having a combination of new and used books in a bookstore attracts readers. And to avoid having that old book odour in the premises, we clean each book to improve presentation. John Mortimer is the author of books featuring Rumpole of the Bailey. On one occasion his daughter in real life was included in the cast on a TV presentation in the series. One of the senior members of chambers took a shine to the daughter who was playing the part of a junior lawyer. He said to her one day, “What is that lovely perfume you are wearing?” To which she replied “Old Books”. “The Book Through 5000 Years” was given to me by a valued customer – it has become a prized possession. Those readers passionate about books would have their own prize possessions and this will see the printed book persist well into the future. Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Old Bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good vibes BY CHARNIE TUCKEY THE Old Bank Restaurant set the mood with delicious meals and the sounds of amazing music played live by Sarah Head for all gathered on Friday, May 13. Couples and family groups thoroughly enjoyed all that The Old Bank has to offer.

Stewart and Jane Morrow

Damon, Ben, Jake, Kris, Elaine and Graham from Northside Smash Repairs

Denice Crowley and Mick Comber

Trish and Barry Green with Bree and Caitlin Adam

Karen and Tom Butler

Matt and Cassandra

Sarah Head live entertainment

Laurence and Ben

Adi, Lucas, Jaye, Bonnie and Simon

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Pearl: The Janis Joplin Story BY CHARNIE TUCKEY THE Dubbo Regional Theatre had everyone eager to get through the doors for a great show and a wonderful performance of the Janis Joplin Story on Saturday, May 14. Known as “Pearl”, the show delivered in words and music the late artist’s tumultuous outlook on life, love and being the first lady of rock and roll.

Shan Hizadeh and Sarah Upton

Kelly Hunter and Robyn Toynton

Josephine Zola and Angela Coker

Kim and Sue Miller

Heather, Beth, Leanne, Reli, Margarat and Penny

David and Janen Thuaux and Debra Wheeler

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Boarding School Expo BY CHARNIE TUCKEY

Emily and Sharanne

Sonya, Loise, Michelle and Anita

Jolene and Gillian from Glennies School Toowoomba, Queensland

Susannah and Pip Warrick from The Armidale School (TAS)

Kylie and Sue from Kincoppal, Rose Bay

Georgie and Victoria from Kinross Wolaroi School Orange

Leighton and Warren from Dubbo Christian School

Lucas and Jaye from John Paul College

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Keeping Warm at Pivot Stove and Heating BY CHARNIE TUCKEY

PIVOT Stove and Heating customers kept warm and get educated on the latest way to use and maintain their wood fire stoves and heaters on Friday, May 13. Greg Parker- Hill (6th generation Pivot Stove and Heating CEO) had loads of handy tips for all attending this night of laughter, fun facts and great food, all cooked and created by Greg himself. Lucky there is another Esse Pop Up Event coming in August 2016 because there is so much to know!

Helen and Matthew Whalley

Graham, Emma-Jane and Kelly Lovell

Ned and Danny

Tim and Kathy Webb

Cathy and Stuart Murphy from Scone

Greg Parker-Hill with Tammy

Lorraine and Peter Croft with James and Tammy

James Freeman and Tammy Haywood (store owners)

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE EAR “Athol Guy and Friends—The Seekers Story” live in concert at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre on Saturday, May 21 from 8pm. Written and narrated by Athol Guy, one of the group’s founding members, the show takes the audience on an audio-visual journey that begins in the Sixties through to modern day, as The Seekers celebrate their 50th Anniversary with sold-out shows in Australia, the UK and New Zealand. The production features unique and rarely seen footage from The Seekers history and live performances of their big hits, as well as hit songs from other iconic Sixties artists that influenced Athol and the group in their early years. It also includes a special performance by Sixties pop star Buddy England, who joins the rest of the cast to pump out the big hits from Australia’s first “supergroup”.

EE the “The 52-Storey Treehouse” on Friday, May 20 in three sessions at 9.30 am, 11.30 am, 1.30 pm. Andy and Terry’s Treehouse is now 52 storeys high, with yet more fantastic inventions: the disguise-omatic 5000, a rocket powered carrot launcher, even a Ninja Snail Training Academy! It’s Andy’s birthday, but Terry has forgotten! To make matters worse, Mr Big Nose has mysteriously disappeared, and to top it all off, Jill has fallen into a deep sleep and they just can’t wake her up. So Andy and Terry set off on a crazy adventure tackling a world of startling obstacles, including a hungry caterpillar, an angry vegetable kingdom, and a 100 year ninja-snail epic voyage. Will they solve the mysteries and survive the dangers that test even their ingenuity? Andy Griffiths’ and Terry Denton’s bestseller comes to life on the stage at Dubbo Regional Theatre as the team behind the hit adaptations of “The 13-Storey Treehouse” and “The 26-Storey Treehouse” returns with this crazy, imaginative and engaging play. “We have partnered with the Western Plains Cultural Centre and their Mini-Makers Group who participated in art activities focused on the story where one lucky winner received a family pass to the show. The Book Connection has also come on board by of-

O get yourself to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) particularly if you’re an eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander to guarantee you can vote ahead at the federal election on Saturday, July 2. AEC Indigenous community engagement officer and Elder, Brett Hill, has said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can enrol up until the close of rolls deadline of 8pm, Monday, May 23, 2016. Although a person is not required to identify as Indigenous on the electoral roll, data available to the AEC suggests only around 58 per cent of Indigenous Australians are currently enrolled. Getting in early is especially important for Indigenous Australians who are much less likely to enrol than other Australians,” Hill said. “Your vote is your voice on the laws and decisions that affect you and your community so don’t miss out on having your say about who represents you in the Parliament,” he said. Jump online to www.aec.gov.au/indigenous and

Wheelers Gardens puts the kettle on for cancer research OCAL seniors are invited to kick back and have a cuppa with residents of Wheelers Gardens, at 490 Wheelers Lane, Dubbo, to raise money

Don’t miss the opportunity to join Athol and his friends as they take you on their musical journey sometimes emotional, sometimes funny, but always uplifting. Be prepared to sing along and celebrate The Seekers Story. Tickets are on sale now and selling fast from drtcc. com.au or the Theatre Box Office on 6801 4378 EAR those planes roar into the future at Mudgee Regional Airport which is receiving $945,000 from the state coffers to improve Mudgee airport facilities and accommodate increased visitor numbers and stimulate the local regional economy for the years to come. “This funding will go towards upgrades to the airport including taxiway extension, ground handling support, road realignment and terminal fit out,” Deputy Premier Troy Grant said. “I am pleased to see the continued investment be-

fering a 10 percent discount on their Treehouse merchandise when a theatre ticket to the show is shown at the time of purchase,” said manager of Dubbo Regional Theatre, Linda Christof. “We have a huge following from school groups now who have attended both the 13-Storey and 26-Story Treehouse stage shows at Dubbo Regional Theatre,” she said. The show is suitable for ages 0 - 12 years and their families. The three performances are nearly sold out, so make sure you don’t miss out! Tickets are on sale now from drtcc.com.au or the Theatre Box Office on 6801 4378 EE that the “Treehouse” isn’t included in Essential Energy’s comprehensive “vegetation management program” in Dubbo, while the safety and reliability of the local electricity network is assured by lopping trees. The vegetation program will be undertaken by qualified contractors in compliance with the Australian Standard AS 4373 “Pruning of Amenity Trees” where possible. Occasionally, however, their practices can vary to accommodate the physical location and regrowth pattern of particular vegetation, or to comply with the Electrical Safety Rules and legislation such as the

use your computer, tablet or smartphone to enrol in just a few simple steps. If you’re already on the roll but have moved since the last election, or changed your name, you will need to update your enrolment details. You can also pick up a paper enrolment application at any AEC office or Australia Post outlet but make sure you return a correctly filled out application to the AEC by the close of rolls deadline at 8pm, Monday, May 23. The AEC’s Indigenous Electoral Participation Program is a Closing the Gap initiative. It engages with communities to provide culturally appropriate information, education and awareness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voters.

ing made across the regions by the NSW Government and I will continue to work with local communities in the Dubbo electorate to secure new opportunities for economic growth and job creation.” Minister for Regional Development John Barilaro said the Mudgee Airport project is the first of a number of regional airports which will receive upgrades as part of the second round of funding under the Regional Tourism Infrastructure Fund with more announcements to follow in the coming weeks. “In December last year we announced $35 million in funding for 17 regional airport infrastructure projects, including Dubbo, Armidale and Moree,” Barilaro said. “The NSW Government is committed to investing in infrastructure which will create jobs, drive economic growth and deliver the services that will unleash the economic potential of regional NSW.”

Electricity Supply Act 1995. “Trees coming into contact with overhead powerlines pose serious hazards to people, wildlife and the surrounding environment, with potential for bushfires, damage to property, injury and unplanned power outages,” said Regional manager Northern, Mark Summers. “Our comprehensive vegetation management program ensures minimum safety clearances are maintained between trees and overhead power lines and helps to minimise the trimming required in the future, while also securing a more reliable power supply.” Essential Energy uses directional pruning techniques that remove branches growing towards a powerline and encourage re-growth away from the power network. While this can affect visual amenity, these techniques are considered best practice throughout the arboriculture industry and are used by most power companies in Australia. Customers can download Essential Energy’s Tree Planting Guide at essentialenergy.com.au/trees for helpful tips on appropriate species for planting nearpowerlines or contact 13 23 91 for more information. The vegetation program will commence in late May and is expected to be complete by early July 2016, weather permitting.

O support the Riversmart fundraiser in less than two weeks, which is hosting Comedy Boxing. The Laugh Mob are performing in Dubbo and Warren with their unique brand of on-the-spot impro-

vised humour - Comedy Boxing. Two comedians going toe-to-toe to try and out-do each other...should be lots of laughs and it’s all for a good cause. For the Dubbo show (Friday, May 27 at 7.30pm at the Dubbo RSL Theaterette) tickets can be purchased on-line through www.dubborsl.com.au or at club reception. They are $25 for Club members or $30 for non-members. For the Warren shows (Saturday, May 28 - kids matinee at 2.30pm followed by adults show at 7.30pm) tickets can be bought online through Sticky Tickets (www.stickytickets.com.au) or at the Kookaburra Kiosk at the Window on the Wetlands Centre. Both evening sessions are for adults (15 and over) while Saturday’s matinee will be a ‘G rated’ show for the kids. Tickets for the matinee are $5 each or $15 per family. Tickets for the evening session in Warren are $25 for RiverSmart members or $30 for non-members. For more information go to www.riversmart.org. au or check out the attached flyer.

for cancer research at the rental retirement community’s Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea event on Wednesday, June 8. Friends and family are also welcome to come along and enjoy a fun-filled morning of delicious food and great company, all in support of an admirable cause.

All money raised will go directly to the Cancer Council in support of vital research, prevention and support services. Garden Villages communities across the country will take part in the fundraiser to help beat last year’s donation of $2,300. RSVP to Pip on 6881 6333.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

WHAT’S ON.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016

OPEN WEEKENDER COFFEE & MEALS

ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Ăƚ tǇůĚĞ ĞĂŶ ĂĨĞ ĨŽƌ Ă ĚĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ĚĞůŝŐŚƚ͘

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 ďŽŽŬƐ 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

THINGS TO DO

WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE

KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŵƵƐĞƵŵƐ ŝŶ E^t Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂǇ ŽĨ ĞǆŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞǆŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

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

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

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

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

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, May 20 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone

MOVIE: Alice In Wonderland

This story vividly renders the incredibly successful novel about orphan Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), whose mysterious powers flourish after he arrives at the prestigious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, upon invitation. Heading the spot-on, allBritish cast is Robbie Coltrane as the burly, bearded Hagrid, Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore, and stealing the show is a deliciously Machiavellian Alan Rickman as Harry’s nemesis Prof. Snape. Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are terrific as Harry’s cohorts Ron and Hermione. An instant kids’ classic.

Canberra’s Mia Wasikowska takes the title role in maverick genius Tim Burton’s much-anticipated adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s iconic fantasy adventure. Naturally, being a Burton project, serial collaborators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are also on board, as The Mad Hatter and bratty Red Queen respectively, while Anne Hathaway steps into the pristine shoes of The White Queen. An impressive line-up of British voice talent – from Stephen Fry as the charming Cheshire Cat to Little Britain’s Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum – makes Alice’s mysterious trip down the rabbit hole that much more fun.

GO!, 7.45pm, PG (2001)

ABC

MOVIE: Two Weeks Notice GEM, 8.50pm, PG (2002)

PRIME7, 8.30pm, PG (2010)

PRIME7

Sometimes all you want from a romantic comedy is, well, formula. The math here isn’t complicated as Hugh Grant (pictured) and Sandra Bullock star and director Marc Lawrence has no trouble finding some chemistry. Grant lays on his usual charm as a New York land developer who offers a hefty salary to Bullock, a gold-hearted Harvard law graduate. The put-upon Lucy (Bullock) grows fed up with George (Grant), and hands in her notice. However, one undeniable truth exists between them – they’re crazy about each other. Blessed with quartz-crystal comic timing, Grant and Bullock make a delicious double-act as they flit through scene after witty scene.

WIN

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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 Wild Life At The Zoo. (R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Serangoon Road. (M, R, CC) 1.55 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 2.55 The Cook And The Chef. (R, CC) 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 John Barron.

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: Captive. (M, R, CC) (1998) An advertising executive, in dire financial straits, is drawn into a plot to kidnap the son of his boss. Richard Grieco, MarieJosée Croze. 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) Easy-to-cook recipes. 3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 Afternoon News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.30 Bold. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Talk. (CC) 12.00 Jamie’s Comfort Food. (R, CC) 1.00 MasterChef Australia. (PG, R, CC) 2.10 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals. (R, CC) 2.40 Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals. (PG, R, CC) 3.10 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.40 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (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 Lily Cole’s Art Matters. (PG, R, CC) 2.50 Swim. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Point Review. 3.30 Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong. (R, CC) (Final) 3.55 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 12. 182km. Highlights. 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the experts pay a return visit to The Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park, London. 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 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks. (PG, CC) Tony Robinson sets out to uncover the history of Carlton, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne. 8.30 Silent Witness. (M, CC) The sniper continues to pick off victims, and the team has concerns that he may next target a school. 9.30 Scott & Bailey. (M, R, CC) The duo tackles a case involving the murder of a pub landlord and his wife. 10.20 Lateline. (R, CC) Emma Alberici hosts a news analysis program featuring coverage of current events. 10.50 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton. 11.10 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) UK-based panel show. 11.40 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Karen visit the Yarra Valley on a foodie adventure. Adam uses rose gold detailing to revamp an old sideboard. Graham shares ideas for growing greens. 8.30 MOVIE: Alice In Wonderland. (PG, R, CC) (2010) A grown-up Alice returns to Wonderland, the magical world she first encountered as a girl. However, she seems to lack any clear memories of her past adventures and instead must tackle the challenge of ending the Red Queen’s reign of terror, while learning the rules of the land anew. Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter. 10.40 To Be Advised.

6.00 Nine News. 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 11. North Queensland Cowboys v Brisbane Broncos. From 1300SMILES Stadium, Queensland. 10.10 MOVIE: The Fighter. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) Based on a true story. With the help of his brother, a boxer claws his way from obscurity to compete for the welterweight title during the ’80s. Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams.

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) Lifestyle program, hosted by Amanda Keller, with co-hosts Chris Brown, Barry Du Bois and Miguel Maestre. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Graham Norton chats with special guests, including John Malkovich, Samuel L. Jackson and Tom Hiddleston. Music is provided by Scottish synthpop band Chvrches. 9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with special guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. 10.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A panel of business people are shown inventions and innovations by everyday Australians. 11.30 The Project. (R, CC) A look at the day’s news.

6.00 Food Safari. (R, CC) Maeve O’Meara joins her friend restaurateur Omar Majdi for a look at Moroccan cuisine. 6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Blood And Gold: The Making Of Spain: Conquest. (CC) Part 1 of 3. Simon Sebag Montefiore uncovers the surprising and thrilling history of Spain. 8.30 Dan Snow: Birth Of Empire – The East India Company. (PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 2. Presenter Dan Snow travels through India chronicling the rise and fall of the East India Company. A business which started out as a humble trading post, it went on to help create the British Empire and lay the foundations for today’s global trading systems. 9.35 Rise Of The Machines: Mega Truck. (R, CC) Take a look at how some of the most extraordinary machines on the planet operate. 10.30 SBS World News Late Edition. (CC) 11.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 13. Palmanova to Cividale del Friuli. 170km. From Italy.

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

12.20 Desperate Housewives. (M, R, CC) Gaby begins to suspect Carlos may have had something to do with Detective Vance’s murder. 1.30 Home Shopping. (PG, R) Home Shopping

12.40 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.40 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 2.10 MOVIE: The Darkest Hour. (M, CC) (2011) Survivors of an alien attack fight back. Emile Hirsch. 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. (PG, R) Home Shopping

2.00 Project Nim. (M, R, CC) The story of Nim the chimpanzee. 3.45 Food Factory: Supersized. (R, CC) 4.55 SBS Flashback. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.30 NHK World English News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence. (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks. 2005

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016

Friday, May 20 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

7.30pm Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) Adventure. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson. Harry searches for the Horcruxes. (M) Family

8.30pm Inside Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer talks sex, relationships and life in her unﬁltered way. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

7.30pm Digging For Britain. The hit archaeology series is back, ready to explore the best archaeological ﬁnds from across Britain. (PG) History

5.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 13. Crusaders v NSW Waratahs. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Banshee. (MA15+) FOX8

9.30pm The Willis Family. (PG) TLC

9.00pm Adam DeVine’s House Party. Performances and sketches from stand-up comedian Adam DeVine. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

9.30pm RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked! (M) Lifestyle You

8.30pm Boyhood (2014) Drama. Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette. (M) Masterpiece 10.25pm Terminator: Genisys (2015) Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger. A soldier sends his right-hand man back in time to protect his mother in the past. (M) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 5.25 The Hive. (R) 5.30 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) 6.00 Peg + Cat. (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) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.25 Doctor Who: Confidential. (R, CC) 8.35 I’m Having Their Baby. (PG, R, CC) 9.15 Unsafe Sex In The City. (M, R, CC) 10.15 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (M) 10.55 Tattoo Disasters UK. (PG, R) 11.20 The Tiny Tots Talent Agency. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Doctor Who: Confidential. (R, CC) 1.15 Jimmy Fallon. (M, R) 1.55 News Update. (R) 2.00 Close. 5.00 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.10 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. (R, CC) 5.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.20 Open Heart. (PG, R, CC) 12.40 Children’s Programs. 2.50 Dennis The Menace And Gnasher. (R, CC) 3.15 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 3.25 Vic The Viking. (R, CC) 3.40 Sea Princesses. (R, CC) 3.50 Jamillah And Aladdin. 4.00 Odd Squad. (R) 4.25 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 4.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.00 Camp Lakebottom. 5.25 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 5.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 5.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 6.25 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 6.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 8.15 Adventure Time. (R) 8.35 Degrassi: Next Class. (PG, CC) Maya becomes a feminist. 9.00 World’s End. (R, CC) 9.30 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. (R) 9.50 Lanfeust Quest. (R, CC) 10.15 Ouran High School Host Club. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 10.35 Close.

7.50pm Football. AFL. Round 9. Hawthorn v Sydney. Fox Footy Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in Terminator: Genisys.

7TWO

GO!

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 Hairy Legs. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle. (P, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away: The Early Years. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R) 12.00 Better Homes. (R, CC) 1.00 Dealers. (PG, R) 2.00 House Doctor (A To Z Of Design) 2.30 Drug Bust. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Medical Emergency. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 4.00 The Zoo. (R, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 9.30 To Build Or Not To Build. (PG) A landscape gardener builds his own home. 10.30 Front Of House. (R) 11.00 Fawlty Towers. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Before And After. (R) 12.00 House Doctor (A To Z Of Design) (R) 12.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 1.30 To Build Or Not To Build. (PG, R) 2.30 Front Of House. (R) 3.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 3.30 Dr Oz. (M, R, CC) 5.30 Shopping.

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.00 SpongeBob. (R) 10.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 11.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 12.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 12.30 Batman. (PG, R) 1.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 1.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 2.30 SpongeBob. (R) 3.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 3.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans. (PG) 6.00 MOVIE: The Ant Bully. (R, CC) (2006) 7.45 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone. (PG, R, CC) (2001) An 11-year-old boy learns he is a wizard. Daniel Radcliffe. 10.55 MOVIE: The Woman In Black. (M, CC) (2012) 12.55 The Originals. (MA15+, R) 2.45 GO Surround Sound. (R, CC) 3.00 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Super Megaforce. (PG, R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 7.00 Fishing Western Australia. (R) 7.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 8.00 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG, R) 8.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (R) 10.00 Motorcycle Racing. Australian Superbike Championship. Replay. 11.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 12.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 1.00 Bomb Hunters. (PG) 2.00 Bizarre ER. (M, R) 2.30 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG, R) 4.30 American Restoration. (PG, R) 5.30 American Pickers. (PG, R) 6.30 Drug Bust. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 9. Hawthorn v Sydney. From the MCG. 11.00 Friday Front Bar. (M, CC) 11.30 Olympians: Off The Record. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Bomb Hunters. (PG, R) 1.00 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG, R) 2.00 Jail. (M, R) 2.30 Bizarre ER. (M, R) 3.00 Combat Dealers. (PG, R) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing. Australian Superbike Championship. Replay. 5.00 American Pickers. (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. (CC) 4.00 ABC News Afternoons With The Business. (CC) 5.00 Grandstand. (CC) 6.00 ABC News Evenings. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 ABC News Evenings With The Business. (CC) 9.00 Planet America. 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 ABC National News. (CC) 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World. 3.30 BBC Africa. 4.00 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC Business Live. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

ABC NEWS

7.50pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 11. North Queensland Cowboys v Brisbane Broncos. Fox Sports 1

6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 The Great British Bake Off. (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: Carry On Teacher. (R, CC) (1959) 2.50 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 3.20 Monarch Of The Glen. (PG, R) 4.30 Ellen DeGeneres. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 As Time Goes By. (R) Jean does her best to remain composed. 8.50 MOVIE: Two Weeks Notice. (PG, R, CC) (2002) A lawyer decides to quit her job. Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock. 10.50 MOVIE: Friends With Kids. (MA15+, CC) (2011) 1.00 MOVIE: Entertaining Mr Sloane. (M, R, CC) (1970) 2.50 MOVIE: A Kind Of Loving. (M, R, CC) (1962) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 8.00 Reel Action. (R) 8.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 9.00 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 10.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 12.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) 1.00 Matlock. (M, R) 2.00 Nash Bridges. (M, R) 3.00 Jake And The Fatman. (PG, R) 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. (R) 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger. (PG, R) 9.30 MOVIE: Maximum Conviction. (MA15+, R) (2012) Mercenaries take over a prison. Steven Seagal, Steve Austin. 11.35 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Round 5. Spanish Grand Prix. Highlights. From Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. 12.35 Shopping. (PG, R) 2.05 Diagnosis Murder. (R) 3.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. (PG, R) 4.00 Matlock. (M, 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) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 12.00 Judging Amy. (PG, R) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. (PG, R, CC) Audrey and Jeff entertain a ghostly visitor. 8.30 MOVIE: First Knight. (M, R, CC) (1995) A future queen falls in love with a knight. Sean Connery, Richard Gere. 11.10 To Be Advised. 12.10 James Corden. (PG) 1.10 Sleepy Hollow. (M, R, CC) 2.10 JAG. (PG, R) 3.05 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (PG)

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 8.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 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 Millionaire Matchmaker. (PG, R) 12.00 Housewives Of Beverly Hills. (M, R) 2.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG) 5.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 6.00 My First Place. (PG, R) 6.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 7.00 House Hunters. (R) 7.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 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. 7.00 Cycling. UCI America Tour. Tour Of California. Stage 5. Lodi to South Lake Tahoe. 9.05 WorldWatch. 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 India’s Dancing Superstar. (R) 5.40 Brain Games. 6.05 Street Genius. (PG) 6.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Friday Feed. 8.00 Illusions Of Grandeur: Detroit. (PG) Zack Mirza heads to Detroit. 8.30 Release The Hounds. Hosted by Reggie Yates. 9.25 Adam Looking For Eve (Germany) Couples go on naked dates. 10.15 MOVIE: Ip Man. (M, R) (2008) 12.10 MOVIE: 20th Century Boys. (MA15+, R) (2008) 2.45 PopAsia. (PG) 3.50 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 6.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 7.30 Spice Of Life. (R) 8.00 Anjum’s Australian Spice Stories. (R) 8.30 Outrageous Food. (R) 9.00 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction. (R) 9.30 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 10.30 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 11.00 Ching’s Restaurant Redemption. (R) 11.30 Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction. (R) 12.00 Spice Of Life. (R) 12.30 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 1.00 Giada In Italy. (R) 1.30 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 2.30 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 3.00 Reza: Spice Prince. (R) 3.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 4.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 5.30 Anjum’s Australian Spice Stories. (R) 6.00 Dinner At Tiffani’s. 6.30 Outrageous Food. (R) 7.00 Spice Of Life. (R) 7.30 Giada In Italy. 8.00 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 8.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 9.30 All-Star Academy. (R) 10.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 11.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 12.30 Giada In Italy. (R) 1.00 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 1.25 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 MOVIE: Wrong Side Of The Road. (1980) 1.30 Fit First. 2.00 Rez Rides. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 The Dreaming. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Muso Magic Outback Tracks. 4.30 Kagagi, The Raven. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 Samaqan: Water Stories. 6.00 Tangaroa. 6.30 UnderExposed. 7.00 Unearthed. 7.20 News. 7.30 Cafe Niugini. 8.00 Forgotten Bird Of Paradise. (PG) 8.30 Noah’s Ark. (PG) 9.00 The Point Review. 9.30 Chappelle’s Show. (MA15+) 10.00 Shuga. (PG) 10.30 From The Western Frontier. 11.00 Destiny In The Dirt. 11.15 The Dream Of Love. (PG, CC) 12.00 Volumz. (MA15+) 4.00 Away From Country. (PG) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. 2005

NITV

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Saturday, May 21 MOVIE: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

MOVIE: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Scrat, the acorn-obsessed squirrel, is back, and this time he has discovered global warming. Manny the mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), Diego the tiger (Denis Leary) and Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) are still inexplicably co-existing, and are thrilled when the thawing ice pack brings a little sunshine into their lives. But they soon discover it will flood their valley. In their quest to save their home, they encounter a female mammoth (Queen Latifah), a turtle (voiced by Jay Leno) and some thawed-out sea monsters bent on destruction. The same spot-on mix of children’s and veiled adult humour as the original make this a delight.

It takes a special kind of man to make George Clooney look like a blubbering mess in the seduction stakes, but No Country For Old Men baddie Javier Bardem does just that in Woody Allen’s glorious return to form. During a summer holiday in Spain, New Yorkers Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) and Vicky (Rebecca Hall) both become enamoured with smouldering painter Juan Antonio (Bardem), unaware that his fiery ex-wife Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz), with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the frame.

TEN, 7.40pm, PG (2006)

ABC

MOVIE: Shrek The Third rd GO!, 6.40pm, PG (2007)

SBS 2, 10.20pm, M (2008)

PRIME7

d in The green ogre gets royally stiffed r-inhis third outing when his frogger-inlaw, King Harold (voice of John Cleese), suddenly croaks and a reluctant Shrek (Mike Myers) is fitted for the crown. As if he didn’t have enough on his plate, his missus Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) has her own little surprise on the way. It’s business as usual for the Shrek clan as sidekicks Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) again provide the backbone of the humour, with further comic relief in the form ). of inept wizard Merlin (Eric Idle).

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Reality Check. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 Sporting Nation. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Scott & Bailey. (M, R, CC) 1.45 The Bill. (M, R, CC) Follows daily life at Sun Hill police station. 2.10 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 3.10 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks. (PG, R, CC) 3.40 Animal Super Senses: Sight. (R, CC) Examines animals’ extraordinary sense of sight. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) 5.00 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC) Barnaby investigates a widow’s murder.

6.00 Home Shopping. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Olympians: Off The Record: Anna Meares. (PG, R, CC) Takes a look at Anna Meares. 12.30 Bewitched. (R, CC) Samantha is involved in a local election. 1.00 To Be Advised. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh vists Tina Arena in her new Melbourne home. 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.30 Gardening Australia. (CC) Costa visits a productive plot. John explores a French-styled garden. Josh plants a wildflower meadow. 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) A 13-year-old cannot contain her dismay when her mother marries her father’s brother. 8.15 Indian Summers. (M, CC) (New Series) In India, 1932, a British diplomat and the rest of the Indian Civil Service commence their annual move to Simla for the summer. 9.30 QI. (M, R, CC) Guests Cariad Lloyd, Noel Fielding and Rhod Gilbert join Stephen Fry for a letter “M”-inspired discussion. 10.00 Rake. (M, R, CC) After falling from a hot air balloon, Cleaver lands in the clutches of his former mentor, Edgar Thompson. 11.00 Comedy Showroom. (M, R, CC) A husband and father is unsure whether the absurdity he sees around him is a middleclass suburban plot against him. 11.30 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by a special guest programmer.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Cars 2. (PG, R, CC) (2011) Race car Lightning McQueen and his friend, the tow truck Mater, become unwittingly involved in an international espionage plot after McQueen heads overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix. Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine. 9.10 MOVIE: Need For Speed. (M, CC) (2014) In a final attempt to save his struggling garage, a bluecollar mechanic partners with an ex-NASCAR driver, a choice he may live to regret. Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) With some help from coaches Ronan Keating, Jessie J, Delta Goodrem and the Madden brothers, a group of contestants sets out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation. Hosted by Sonia Kruger. 8.30 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) With some help from coaches Ronan Keating, Jessie J, Delta Goodrem and the Madden brothers, a group of contestants sets out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation. Hosted by Sonia Kruger. 10.00 MOVIE: The Lake House. (PG, R, CC) (2006) Two long-distance lovers discover they are separated by more than just distance, when they learn that one is living two years ahead of the other. Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dylan Walsh.

6.00 MOVIE: Ice Age. (R, CC) (2002) A troupe of Ice Age animals roams the snowfields in an attempt to return a human baby to its tribe. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary. 7.40 MOVIE: Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. (PG, R, CC) (2006) After a trio of prehistoric animals discovers melting ice will flood their valley, they set out to warn other inhabitants and organise an evacuation. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary. 9.30 MOVIE: A Good Day To Die Hard. (M, R, CC) (2013) After learning his estranged son is in trouble, a New York cop heads to Russia to lend a hand. When he discovers he is in reality a CIA operative working undercover the trip takes a deadly twist. Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch. 11.30 Motor Racing. (CC) V8 Supercars. Round 5. Winton SuperSprint. Highlights. From Winton Motor Raceway, Victoria.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Tamzin Outhwaite. (PG, CC) Tamzin Outhwaite investigates her Italian ancestry, as although she remembers her grandfather Remo, she knows very little about his family. 8.30 RocKwiz Salutes The Legends. (CC) RocKwiz pays homage to the best the US has to offer. Features performances by Ms Murphy, Eskimo Joe’s Kav Temperley, and Mojo Juju. 9.30 MOVIE: The Commitments. (M, R) (1991) A young Irishman, who dreams of fame and fortune in the music world, sets out to manage his own soul band, The Commitments. Having recruited the performers from among his fellow Dubliners, he whips them into shape with the help of a veteran musician. Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball. 11.30 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 14. Alpago to Corvara. 210km. From Italy.

12.00 Desperate Housewives. (M, R, CC) With Carlos still in rehab, Gaby asks for Lynette’s help in wooing a high-stakes company. 1.00 Home Shopping. (PG, R) Home Shopping

12.00 MOVIE: The Deer Hunter. (MA15+, R, CC) (1978) Three friends are captured by the Viet Cong. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken. 3.30 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.30 48 Hours: The Doctor’s Daughter. (M, R, CC) A look at the death of Leslie Neulander in 2012, and claims her death was not an accident but a murder. 1.30 Home Shopping. (PG, R) Home Shopping 5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

2.00 Soccer. FA Cup. Final. Manchester United v Crystal Palace. From Wembley Stadium, London. 4.45 Soccer. Coppa Italia. Final. Milan v Juventus. From Stadio Olimpico, Rome.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

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PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday. (PG, CC) The Investment Series. (CC) The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (CC) Hot In Cleveland. (PG, R, CC) Melanie questions her neighbour. Fishing Australia. (R, CC) Rob’s adventure continues. MOVIE: Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes. (PG, R, CC) (1984) Ralph Richardson. The Garden Gurus. (CC) News: First At Five. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC)

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Fishing Edge. (R, CC) The Home Team. (R, CC) RPM. (R, CC) Family Feud. (R, CC) Studio 10: Saturday. (PG, CC) The Living Room. (R, CC) All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) Just Go. (R, CC) The Doctors. (PG, CC) Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) Weekend Feast. (R, CC) What’s Up Down Under. (CC) Escape Fishing With ET. (CC) Hosted by Andrew Ettingshausen. 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 Equestrian. FEI Jumping World Cup. 3.00 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC) 4.05 Monster Moves. (R, CC) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 13. Palmanova to Cividale del Friuli. 170km. Highlights. 5.30 The Lost City Of El Dorado. (R, CC)

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016

Saturday, May 21 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm Sweeney Todd (2007) Musical. (MA15+) Masterpiece

7.30pm American Ninja Warrior. Fitness fanatics are put to the test on the ultimate obstacle course. (PG) FOX8

6.00pm Broadway Bonanza. Foxtel Arts

3.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 11. Wests Tigers v Newcastle Knights. Fox Sports 1

6.45pm Get Hard (2015) Comedy. Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart. An imprisoned millionaire hires a man he suspects to be a gangster to harden him up. (MA15+) Premiere 10.20pm The Birdcage (1996) A gay club owner pretends to be straight when he meets his son’s straight-laced future in-laws. (M) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.25 Mister Maker Comes To Town. (R, CC) 4.45 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 5.00 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 5.25 The Hive. (R) 5.30 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) 6.00 Peg + Cat. (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) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Highway Thru Hell. (PG, CC) 8.15 Would I Lie To You? (R, CC) 8.45 Adam Hills: The Last Leg Down Under. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 2. 9.30 Live At The Apollo. (M, R, CC) 10.15 Comedy Up Late. (M, R, CC) 10.45 Broad City. (M, R, CC) 11.05 Episodes. (M, R, CC) 11.35 Louie. (M, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 Close. 5.00 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.10 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. (R, CC) 5.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.45 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 11.05 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 11.30 Life With Boys. (R, CC) (Final) 11.50 So Awkward. (R, CC) 12.20 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (PG, R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) 4.45 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 4.55 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 5.05 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.30 Roy. (R) 5.55 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 6.10 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.30 Tomorrow When The War Began. (PG, CC) 8.15 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) Alice destroys the talisman. 8.40 World’s End. (R, CC) Noah and Cat discover a hi-tech elevator. 9.10 House Of Anubis. (R) A group of students uncovers a mystery. 9.35 Close.

8.30pm Whose Line Is It Anyway? The show where everything is made up and the points don’t matter. (M) Comedy Channel 9.45pm Teen Wolf. (MA15+) FOX8

11.30pm The Mafia With Trevor McDonald. An eyeopening two-part journey into the infamous organised crime organisation. (M) Crime & Investigation

4.30pm Football. AFL. Round 9. Port Adelaide v West Coast. Fox Footy 5.15pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 8. West Coast Fever v Melbourne Vixens. Fox Sports 3 Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart star in Get Hard.

7TWO

GO!

6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Hot Property. (R, CC) 8.30 Dealers. (PG, R) 9.30 House Doctor (A To Z Of Design) (R) 10.00 Before And After. (R) 10.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 11.00 The Lucky Country. (PG, R) 11.30 SA Life Favourites. (CC) 12.00 Home In WA. (CC) 12.30 Great South East. (CC) 1.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 1.30 Qld Weekender. (CC) 2.00 WA Weekender. (CC) 2.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 10. Northern Suburbs v Randwick. 5.00 Sean’s Kitchen. (CC) 5.30 Secret Location. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Maid In Manhattan. (PG, R, CC) (2002) 8.30 MOVIE: The Holiday. (M, R) (2006) Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet. 11.20 Air Crash Investigation. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 WA Weekender. (R, CC) 1.30 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 2.00 Creek To Coast. (R, CC) 2.30 Great South East. (R, CC) 3.00 Home In WA. (R, CC) 3.30 SA Life Favourites. (R, CC) 4.00 The Lucky Country. (PG, R) 4.30 Late Programs.

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.30 Pirate Express. (C, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. (CC) 3.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 3.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 4.00 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 6.00 B.O.B’s Big Break. (PG) 6.20 Shrek 4D. (PG, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: Shrek The Third. (PG, R, CC) (2007) 8.30 MOVIE: The Host. (M, R) (2013) An alien race takes over Earth. Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons. 11.00 MOVIE: Daybreakers. (MA15+, R, CC) (2009) Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill. 1.00 The Cube. (PG, R) 2.00 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 SpongeBob. (R) 4.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 4.30 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Motor Racing. Australian Drifting Grand Prix. Replay. 7.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. Gold Cup. Grand Final. Replay. 8.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 9.00 Bull Riding. 2015 Pro Tour. Replay. 10.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. AHG Sprintcar Series. Season Review. Highlights. 11.00 Big Shrimpin’. (PG, R) 12.00 Rocket City Rednecks. (PG, R) 1.00 Abandoned. (PG, R) 1.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 9. Collingwood v Geelong. 4.30 Abandoned. (PG, R) 5.30 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 9. Fremantle v Richmond. From Domain Stadium, Perth. 11.00 MOVIE: Get The Gringo. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) Mel Gibson. 1.00 Friday Front Bar. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Big Shrimpin’. (PG, R) 2.30 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 3.30 Abandoned. (PG, R) 4.30 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. AHG Sprintcar Series. Season Review. Highlights. 5.30 Shopping. (PG, R)

6.00 Landline. (CC) 6.30 World This Week. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 News. 1.30 Planet America. (R) 2.00 News. 2.30 ABC News Special. (CC) 3.30 News. (R, CC) 4.30 The Drum Weekly. 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (CC) 6.00 ABC News Weekend. 6.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Weekend. 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 One Plus One Redux. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News Weekend. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 News. 10.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 Press Club. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

8.30pm Dallas Car Sharks. Follows all the drama and action at an auto auction in Texas. (PG) Discovery Turbo

6.00 MOVIE: Arabian Adventure. (R, CC) (1979) Christopher Lee. 8.00 Danoz Direct. 8.30 The Baron. (PG, R) 9.30 As Time Goes By. (R) 10.50 MOVIE: The Long & The Short & The Tall. (PG, R) (1961) Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd. 1.00 MOVIE: Splendour In The Grass. (PG, R, CC) (1961) Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty. 3.30 MOVIE: Doctor Dolittle. (R) (1967) 6.30 Heartbeat. (PG, R) The village is plagued by a series of explosions. 8.45 Silent Witness. (MA15+, R) Harry and Nikki are called out to a London dogs’ home where the naked body of a teenage girl has been found. 11.00 Dalziel And Pascoe. (M, R) A Falklands veteran takes hostages. 12.10 MOVIE: Rasputin: The Mad Monk. (M, R, CC) (1966) Christopher Lee. 2.05 MOVIE: Splendour In The Grass. (PG, R, CC) (1961) Natalie Wood. 4.20 MOVIE: Carry On Spying. (R, CC) (1964)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 8.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 9.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 10.00 World Sport. (R) 10.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 11.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 12.00 Rugby Sevens. World Series. Round 9. Highlights. 12.30 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. (PG, R) 3.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 4.00 Reel Action. (R) 4.30 Merv Hughes Fishing. 5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 David Attenborough’s Planet Earth. (PG, R) 6.30 Last Man Standing. (PG) 7.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) V8 Supercars. Round 5. Winton SuperSprint. Highlights. 9.30 When We Go To War. (M) Follows six young men and women. 10.30 Zoo. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 2.10 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 3.10 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 4.10 Race To The Sky. (PG, R) 5.10 Loaded. (PG, R) 5.40 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 7.30 Kuu-Kuu Harajuku. (C, CC) 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) Adventure and wildlife program. 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Neighbours. (R, CC) Toadie struggles to protect Sonya. 2.05 Cristela. (PG) 2.35 To Be Advised. 8.45 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham Norton chats with Dame Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Jack O’Connell, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney. 9.45 Sex And The City. (MA15+, R) Miranda goes on a sex strike and soon turns instead to sweets and TV, becoming a chocoholic. 11.45 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted by Scott Tweedie and Olivia Phyland. 2.15 Neighbours. (R, CC) 4.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (PG)

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 7.30 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Nashville Flipped. (R) 9.30 My First Place. (PG, R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.00 Hotel Impossible. (PG, R) 2.00 Postcards. (PG, CC) 3.00 My First Place. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Bones. (PG, R) 5.00 Million Dollar Rooms. (PG, R) 6.00 My First Place. (PG, R) 6.30 Masters Of Flip. (R) 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 Masters Of Flip. (R) 1.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 7.00 Cycling. UCI America Tour. Tour of California. Stage 6. Folsom Time Trial. 9.05 WorldWatch. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (PG, R) 1.50 Kung Fu Motion. (R) 2.45 Motorcycle Racing. (CC) Superbike World Championship. Round 6. 3.45 Celebrity Chef. (R) 5.05 Brain Games. (R) 5.35 MOVIE: Wolf. (PG, R) (2009) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 7 Days In Hell. (M) Brett and Cliff head to Roatan Island. 9.20 Survive Aotearoa: Escape And Evasion – Rimutaka Forest Park. (M) Barrie and Chris demonstrate survival skills. 10.20 MOVIE: Vicky Cristina Barcelona. (M, R, CC) (2008) 12.05 MOVIE: The Vicious Kind. (MA15+) (2009) 1.50 MOVIE: The Tree Of Life. (PG, R, CC) (2011) 4.45 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 6.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 7.30 Spice Of Life. (R) 8.00 Anjum’s Australian Spice Stories. (R) 8.30 Outrageous Food. (R) 9.00 Reza: Spice Prince. (R) 9.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 10.30 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 11.00 AllStar Academy. (R) 12.00 Spice Of Life. (R) 12.30 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 1.00 Giada In Italy. (R) 1.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 2.30 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 3.00 Reza: Spice Prince. (R) 3.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 4.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 5.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 6.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Inferno With Curtis Stone. (R) 8.30 Last Cake Standing: Magic Cakes. (R) 9.30 The Freshman Class. (PG, R) 10.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 11.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 12.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 1.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 2.30 The Freshman Class. (PG, R) 3.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 4.30 Reza: Spice Prince. (R) 5.00 Chopped. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Wapos Bay. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Forgotten Bird Of Paradise. (PG) 10.30 Kids To Coast. 11.00 Rose Against The Odds. (PG) 11.45 Surviving. 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 The Medicine Line. 2.30 Indians And Aliens. 3.00 Tribal Scent. 4.00 Torres To The Thames. (PG) 5.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 5.30 Move It Mob Style. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 6.30 Down 2 Earth. (PG) 7.00 One With Nature. 7.30 Take Heart. (PG) 8.30 Being Mary Jane. (M) 9.20 Custodians. 9.30 A Band Called Death. (M) 11.10 Back To Munda. 12.00 Volumz. (MA15+) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. 5.00 Bush Bands Bash. 2105

NITV

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 20.05.2016 to Sunday 22.05.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Sunday, May 22 MOVIE: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

DNA Nation

GO!, 6.30pm, PG (2012)

The sequel to Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an exotic, tropical, rainbow of fantasy adventure. Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games) partners with his mum’s boyfriend (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson) to find his grandfather (Michael Caine), who they believe is missing on a mythical island. Using Jules Verne’s sci-fi novels as a blueprint, don’t expect edgy narrative and characters of pluck and depth, but do sit down and lose yourself in scenes of giant bees, pocket-sized elephants, a gigantic sea-snake and enjoy “The Rock” singing What a Wonderful World. Also stars Vanessa Hudgens.

ABC

MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda

SBS, 8.30pm

This is genealogy on steroids, and it’s touching and funny to boot. We all know the standard format of shows such as Who Do You Think You Are – trace back your family history a few generations to see what strange and compelling things are waiting to be found. But DNA Nation, premiering tonight, has much grander ambitions. We follow RocKwiz presenter Julia Zemiro, swimming champion Ian Thorpe and veteran actor Ernie Dingo as they go on a journey tracing their ancestry through more than 200,000 years. Tonight, they head towards the Serengeti plains in northern Tanzania to trace the beginnings of humankind.

PRIME7

7MATE, 6.40pm, PG (2008)

This high-concept entry is one of the finest in the computer-animated genre. Jack Black showcases his goofy charm harm as the voice of sweet but ungainly inly panda Po. Po’s fantasy of becoming g a martial arts warrior incredibly comes es true when a wise elder inexplicably anoints oints him as the “Dragon Warrior” – the kingdom’s so-called chosen one. Underr the tutelage of his gruff master, Shifu (Dustin tin Hoffman), Po takes the tentative steps to becoming a kung fu hero, training for battle against inst mountain cat Tai Lung (Ian McShane), who has broken out of prison. With the mix of warmth, energy ergy and action on offer, this is definitely a knockout combination.

WIN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Getting Frank Gehry. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Tim Winton’s The Turning. (R, CC) 3.20 Jennifer Byrne Presents. (R, CC) 3.50 Australian Story. (R, CC) 4.20 David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants. (R, CC) 5.15 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping. (PG, R, CC) Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week. 12.00 Bewitched. (R, CC) Samantha helps a pizza store owner. 12.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Phil Keoghan. 1.30 To Be Advised. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Fast Ed heads to Vietnam. 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

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6.00 Surfing The Menu: The Next Generation. (CC) (New Series) Dan and Hayden head to Noosa. 6.30 Compass: Prison Chaplains Pt 2. (CC) Chaplain Suzie Johnson is an Evangelical Christian who works at the Dillwynia Correctional Centre, in NSW. 7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (CC) Kevin McCloud meets Angelo Mastropietro who wants to become a 21st century British caveman. 8.30 Midsomer Murders. (M, CC) The discovery of a saint’s bones at an archaeological dig causes a stir in the village. 10.00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) Host Shaun Micallef presents a round-up of important news stories of the week. 10.30 Hiding. (M, R, CC) Tara makes an awful discovery causing her to wind up in a fight. Bec has a terrifying encounter with an intruder. 11.30 Whitechapel. (M, R, CC) DI Chandler and DS Miles investigate the discovery of human remains on display in an art gallery in Whitechapel.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 House Rules. (PG, CC) In Queensland, teams scramble to the finish line to transform Luke and Cody’s tiny country cottage. However, not all teams get it right, and one will end up in the tent. 8.45 Sunday Night. (CC) Melissa Doyle leads a team of Australia’s best reporters, breaking the stories that matter. 9.45 The Blacklist. (M, CC) The FBI task force’s hunt for revenge nears its endgame. Red and the team close in on the mysterious criminal responsible for recent tragic events. 10.45 The Blacklist. (M, CC) (Final) As the task force closes in on the person responsible for Liz’s death, a shocking betrayal leaves them racing to save one of their own. 11.45 Odyssey. (M, CC) While in Algeria with Luc and Aslam, Odelle gets used to a new life, only to ultimately be brought back to reality. Peter learns that Sophia is being forced to work with Jennifer Wachtel.

12.15 MOVIE: The Combination. (MA15+, R, CC) (2009) An ex-con tries to help his brother. George Basha. 1.50 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos. 3.30 Midsomer Murders. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Insiders. (R, CC)

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

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports. (PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG, CC) Full Cycle. (CC) Hosted by Scott McGrory and Bradley McGee. Surfing. (CC) World League. Margaret River Pro. From Margaret River, WA. The Real Jaws. (PG, R, CC) An investigation of shark attacks. Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 11. Canterbury Bulldogs v Sydney Roosters. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

TEN

SBS

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home. 7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (PG, CC) 11.00 Let’s Do Coffee. (CC) 11.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 12.00 Netball. (CC) 2.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 2.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.00 iFish. (R, CC) 3.30 RPM GP. (CC) 4.00 Motor Racing. (CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Soccer. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 The Bowls Show. 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Voxwomen Cycling. (CC) 4.30 InCycle. (CC) 5.00 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 14. Highlights. Alpago to Corvara. 210km. From Italy. 5.30 Gallipoli: When Murdoch Went To War. (PG, R) A look at the story behind the Gallipoli letter.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, CC) With some help from coaches Ronan Keating, Jessie J, Delta Goodrem and the Madden brothers, a group of contestants sets out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation. Hosted by Sonia Kruger. 8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart. 9.30 Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons: Honduras. (PG, CC) (New Series) Paul Connolly heads to Honduras to spend a week living inside Danli Prison, which is filled with war criminals, gangland executioners, rapists and psychopaths. 10.30 Las Vegas With Trevor McDonald. (M) Part 2 of 2. Host Trevor McDonald looks at the secret life of Sin City, including the tourists who flock there. 11.30 Major Crimes. (M, R, CC) A turf war erupts between the Major Crimes division and the Special Operations Bureau.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public. 6.30 Modern Family. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Claire can’t seem to find the right time to fire one of her employees. Jay is in denial about his return to work. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. (CC) Contestants have 75 minutes to create a dish based on Nigella Lawson’s favourite indulgences. 9.00 Shark Tank. (PG, CC) The Sharks meet a Queensland inventor who thinks he has a new bike design that will bring in $5 billion, from an investment of $5 million. Hosted by Sarah Harris. 10.00 NCIS: New Orleans. (M, CC) Special Agent Pride and Sonja are ambushed while escorting a key witness for the trial of an infamous arms dealer. 11.00 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include John Malkovich, Samuel L. Jackson and Tom Hiddleston.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb. (PG) A look at the work of archaeologist Dr Kathleen Martinez, who has made it her life’s mission to locate Cleopatra’s tomb. Kathleen’s radical new theory led to her uncovering a previously unknown network of tunnels. 8.30 DNA Nation. (PG) (New Series) Part 1 of 3. Ian Thorpe, Ernie Dingo and Julia Zemiro head to the Serengeti, in northern Tanzania, for a look back 20,000 years to the beginnings of humankind. 9.30 Uranium: Twisting The Dragon’s Tail. (PG, R, CC) Part 1 of 3. Australian-born physicist Dr Derek Muller tells the story of the “rock” which helped shape the modern world, uranium. From its creation in an exploding star before the Earth was even formed, to its use in nuclear weapons, power and medicine, its history is revealed. 10.30 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 15. Castelrotto to Alpe di Siusi. 210km. From Italy.

12.30 Step Dave. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Westside. (M, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) News and current affairs program. 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.00 48 Hours: Vengeance In Vegas. (M, R, CC) A look at the murder of Shauna Tiaffay. 1.00 Infomercials. (PG) 2.00 Home Shopping. (PG, R) Home Shopping 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC)

2.00 MOVIE: The Children Of Diyarbakir. (M, R) (2009) Two siblings are forced to live on the street. Senay Orak. 3.50 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News. 5.15 Soccer. Copa Del Rey. Final. Barcelona v Sevilla.

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8.30pm Trainwreck (2015) Comedy. Amy Schumer, Bill Hader. A journalist ﬁnds herself falling in love for the ﬁrst time. (MA15+) Premiere

7.30pm Wilfred. Ryan withholds information from Jenna. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

6.00pm Colour Theory. A look at Adelaide-based photographic artist and curator Nici Cumpston. (PG) Foxtel Arts

8.30pm Archer. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

8.30pm Oprah’s Master Class. Celebrities share what has made them successful. (PG) TLC

12.15pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 8. Queensland Firebirds v Adelaide Thunderbirds. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015) Action. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans. A powerful artiﬁcial intelligence threatens all of humanity. (M) Premiere

8.30pm Strike Back. Section 20 go after Shiro and Mei Foster. (MA15+) FOX8

8.30pm Animal Maternity. Lifestyle

10.40pm Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) Comedy. Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis. (MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 5.00 Thomas And Friends: King Of The Railway. (R, CC) 6.00 Peg + Cat. (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) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Seconds From Disaster. (R, CC) 8.20 The Daters: Sooz’s First Date. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah Live In London. (M, R, CC) Dylan Moran performs stand-up. 9.45 Louis Theroux: African Hunting Holiday. (M, R, CC) 10.45 Bodyshockers. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Never Mind The Buzzcocks. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Adam Hills: The Last Leg Down Under. (M, R, CC) 12.45 The Home Show. (R, CC) 1.35 News Update. (R) 1.40 Close. 5.00 Toby’s Travelling Circus. (R, CC) 5.10 Lily’s Driftwood Bay. (R, CC) 5.15 Rastamouse. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.25 Dance Academy. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.25 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) 4.45 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 4.55 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 5.05 Grojband. (R, CC) 5.30 Roy. (PG, R) 5.55 Little Lunch. (R, CC) 6.10 Thunderbirds Are Go. (R, CC) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 7.30 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 8.00 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.30 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) Sam and Roland accidentally swap bodies. 8.55 World’s End. (R, CC) Lexy raids her mum’s filing cabinet. 9.25 House Of Anubis. (R) A group of students uncover a mystery. 9.45 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.55 Rage. (PG, R) 2.25 Close.

3.00pm Football. AFL. Round 9. GWS v Western Bulldogs. Fox Sports 3 7.00pm Tennis. French Open. Day 1. Fox Sports 4

7TWO

GO!

6.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. (PG, R) 9.30 Australia’s Best Houses. (PG, R) 10.00 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Dealers. (PG) 2.30 Storage Hoarders. 3.30 Secret Location. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 5.30 Catch Phrase. 6.15 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 For The Love Of Dogs. (PG) 7.30 Hercules: The Human Bear. (PG, R, CC) The story of Hercules the grizzly bear. 8.30 Escape To The Country. Prospective buyers find their dream home. 9.30 Escape To The Continent. A look at homes. 10.45 Air Crash Investigation. (PG, R, CC) 11.45 Before And After. 12.15 Dealers. (PG, R) 1.45 Escape To The Continent. (R) 3.00 Hercules: The Human Bear. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Shopping. (PG)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.00 Pirate Express. (C, CC) 11.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 12.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.00 LEGO Friends. (New Series) 2.30 Nexo Knights. (New Series) 3.00 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 3.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 4.00 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 5.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 6.00 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. (PG, R, CC) (2012) 8.30 MOVIE: Limitless. (M, R, CC) (2011) An author takes a new drug. Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper. 10.35 MOVIE: L.A. Confidential. (M, R, CC) (1997) 1.10 The Cube. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-GiOh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 SpongeBob SquarePants. (R) 4.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 4.30 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

GEM

6.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 6.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Shopping. (PG, R) 9.30 Rocket City Rednecks. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) 11.30 My Fishing Place. (PG) (New Series) 12.00 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 12.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 1.00 Footy Flashbacks. 2.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 3.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 9. GWS v Western Bulldogs. 6.00 What Went Down. (PG, R) Examines wins and fails. 6.40 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda. (PG, R, CC) (2008) Jack Black. 8.30 MOVIE: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (M, R, CC) (2014) Captain America is threatened by a new enemy. Chris Evans, Samuel L Jackson. 11.15 Family Guns. (M, R) The staff blows off steam. 12.15 Eagle Vision. (CC) 1.00 Football. (CC) WAFL. Round 10. Peel Thunder v East Perth. 4.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 5.00 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG, R) 5.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (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. 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. 3.30 Offsiders. (CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 6.00 ABC News Weekend. 6.30 Foreign Corre. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Weekend. 7.10 IQ2. 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News Weekend. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. 10.30 Planet America. (R) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Conflict Zone. 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

2.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 11. Penrith Panthers v Gold Coast Titans. Fox Sports 1

6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 MOVIE: Some People. (R) (1962) 8.30 Danoz Direct. 9.30 New Style Direct. 10.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.30 MOVIE: Crooks In Cloisters. (R, CC) (1964) 12.30 The Investment Series. (R, CC) 1.00 The Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: The Wonderful Country. (PG, R) (1959) Robert Mitchum, Julie London. 4.00 MOVIE: Cheyenne Autumn. (PG, R, CC) (1964) Richard Widmark. 7.00 Bangkok Airport. (PG, R, CC) Meet Dr Geng, the airport doctor. 8.00 Wild Patagonia: Heat And Dust. (PG, CC) A look at Patagonia. 9.10 MOVIE: Prisoners. (MA15+, CC) (2013) A man’s daughter goes missing. Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano. 12.20 Rizzoli & Isles. (M, R, CC) 1.20 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 GEM Presents. (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

SBS 2

6.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 8.00 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 13. Crusaders v NSW Waratahs. Replay. 10.00 Rugby Sevens. World Series. Round 9. Highlights. 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 11.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 11.30 Loaded. (PG, R) 12.00 Snap Happy. (R) 12.30 Undercover Boss. (R) 1.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 2.30 World Sport. (R) 3.00 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 4.00 Megastructures Breakdown. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up Down Under. (CC) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, R, CC) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) V8 Supercars. Round 5. Winton SuperSprint. Highlights. From Winton Motor Raceway, Victoria. 9.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Italian Grand Prix. Race 6. From Autodromo Del Mugello, Italy. 11.00 World Sport. 11.30 The Killing. (M, R) (Final) 12.30 Late Programs. 1.00 Rugby Sevens. World Series. Round 9. Highlights. 1.30 Late Programs. 2.30 Adventure Angler. (R) 3.00 Late Programs.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 11.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 2.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.50 To Be Advised. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R) 8.00 New Girl. (M, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Empire Records. (M, R) (1995) Employees at a record store raise money. Liv Tyler, Johnny Whitworth. 10.30 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG, R) 11.30 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 2.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 3.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 4.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (PG)

6.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 7.00 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (R) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 9.30 My First Place. (PG, R) 10.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 12.00 House Hunters. (R) 1.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 2.00 Masters Of Flip. (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, R) 6.30 Good Bones. (PG) 7.30 Nashville Flipped. 8.30 Flip Or Flop. 9.30 Good Bones. (PG) 10.30 Extreme Homes. 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Good Bones. (PG, R) 1.00 Nashville Flipped. (R) 2.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 5.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 5.30 My First Place. (PG, R)

9LIFE

Amy Schumer stars in Trainwreck.

6.00 WorldWatch. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Cycling. UCI America Tour. Tour of California. Stage 7. Santa Rosa Stage. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 10.00 Croatian News. 10.30 Serbian News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 MOVIE: Wolf. (PG, R) (2009) 3.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 3.50 Friday Feed. (R) 4.25 Space Dandy. (PG, R) 4.55 The Brain: China. (R) 6.40 Ninja Warrior Sweden. 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 The Spoils Before Dying. (M) Rock contacts a secret source. 9.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) Cartman owns up to being fat. 10.20 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. (M, R) 10.50 How To Lose Your Virginity. (M, R, CC) 12.05 All Of Me. (PG, R) 1.10 Kurt Wallander. (M, R) 2.50 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 7.00 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 8.00 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 9.00 Last Cake Standing. (R) 10.00 Iron Chef America. (R) 11.00 The Freshman Class. (PG, R) 12.00 Chopped. (PG, R) 1.00 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.00 Last Cake Standing. (R) 3.00 Reza: Spice Prince. (R) 3.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 4.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 5.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 7.30 Kids Baking Championship. 8.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) Competitors search for people celebrating. 9.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG) Robert Irvine heads to Blue Jay, California. 10.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 11.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 12.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 1.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 2.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R) 3.30 Iron Chef America. (R) 4.30 Reza: Spice Prince. (R) 5.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.30 Rachael Ray’s Week In A Day. (R)

6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 Wapos Bay. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Wapos Bay. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. OFC Champions League. 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 Take Heart. (PG) 1.30 Bush To Belly. (PG) 2.30 Rugby Sevens. 3.30 Down 2 Earth. 4.00 Sitting Bull: A Stone In My Heart. (PG) 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 Colour Theory. (CC) 6.00 Awaken. 7.00 Message From Mungo. 8.20 Destiny In The Dirt. 8.30 My Legacy. 11.10 Boat People. (PG) 11.15 Cooking In Kalkarindji. 11.20 Yorta Yorta Youth. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 2205

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From the pages of America’s most popular newspapers

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STRANGE BUT TRUE

by Paul Dorin

z It was 20th-century American politician and diplomat Adlai Stevenson who made the following sage observation: “The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.” z According to a 2015 survey, more adults would rather admit their weight than disclose their salary. z You might be surprised to learn that actor James Doohan, best known for his role as Scotty in the original “Star Trek” series, served in the Royal Canadian Artillery during World War II. He saw combat for the first time at the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, where he led his men through a field of anti-tank mines to reach higher ground. After defensive positions had been established that night, he was crossing between command posts when he was shot six times – by a Canadian sentry. One of the bullets hit his chest, but it was stopped by a silver cigarette case that his brother had given him. z Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed what they’re calling the “SlugBog” – a robot that eats slugs and is powered by the bio-gas created by their decay. z If you’ve ever had to explain yourself the morning after a raucous night out, you might be glad to know that the Tsonga people of southern Africa have a word that can be useful in certain of these circumstances. “Rhwe” means to sleep on the floor without a mat, while drunk and naked. z The University of Gottingen, in Germany, is in possession of a rare Bible – it’s printed on 2470 palm leaves.

JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

by Samantha Weaver

Thought for the Day: “A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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45. Siege 47. Sickly sentimental 49. Mrs. Gorbachev 52. Cooperstown Giant 53. Soccer star Hamm 54. Plus-column entry 55. Ph. bk. info 56. Skillet 57. Giggly sound

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) There has been a feeling over the last few weeks that life was, in some ways, passing you by. All of that changes now as it whizzes by, grabbing you by the shirttails! All you can do is go with it and enjoy the ride. There is a sense of relief as, by the weekend, you see that everything that seemed to be in a rut is moving on.

have no doubt noticed that things are livening up. Lucky you, with so much to grab your attention. Be aware that passion and love reach a peak as the week begins. If someone isn’t getting your attention now, they never will! Turn any disagreement into a passionately loving moment. Offer and give something special for the weekend. Accused of bribery? So what!

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) Passions flare

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) After a fairly quiet time you may think the last thing to do is tuck yourself away. Yes, but it does rather depend who you are tucking yourself away with, doesn’t it? Close physical encounters mix with intimate talks and emotional fireworks. Those who enjoy sparky relationships will be in their element and you do appreciate a bit of honesty! Brooding and pouting are not your style. LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Your powers of at-

traction are strong this week and there won’t be much chance of sidestepping some pretty tempting offers. Those who have partners may decide to make some offers of their own and up the game. This could range from a proposal to a weekend away. Why not combine the two? Try to plan any important conversations ahead of time. Why? Because passions can flare at a moment’s notice.

BY CASSANDRA NYE

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) You

for finishing projects that have been rather slow-moving and even annoying. A practical time, then, when dealing with job offers and domestic matters takes priority. Of course, once that is done (and the sooner the better) a surge of personal power begins. It is not the best week to make firm decisions, although they are there to consider.

as this week begins. Offers are made that bring a flush to your face but spark a twinkle in your eye. Maybe someone has decided to speak out about their feelings for you – and not before time. Being forewarned, try not to miss the signs. Love, romance, physical passion: all of these and more shoot through the week by the time the weekend arrives.

for the week commencing May 23

Just pace yourself. Could this be a grand time to hole up with your loved one and take some cosy time out (or in) together? Yes, relaxation is so much easier when shared, don’t you think? Give yourself every chance to succeed by paying attention to details.

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) This is a time

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Using that

wonderful, happy charm of yours can really work this week. Don’t let others get too serious as then their picture is clouded. Someone wants more attention than they are getting. Reassure them you will give that at the weekend. Then some highly charged conversations could take place. You cannot please everyone but make sure you are generous with your love and praise.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Passionate feelings and romantic offers continue this week. However, you will need to make a special effort to please a lover or partner. It is natural for love to have its own ebb and flow. Certainly, you may have been distracted by finances recently and want to get those in order. This is a good time for consolidation. What a grand word that is! SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22) When passions roar and finances need attention, the whole darned thing can be pretty exhausting! Still, you love a challenge.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) Fiery encounters midweek can be both passionate and delightful. They could go any way, so take charge (carefully). Actions really do speak louder than words and could lead to a more permanent and loving future. Someone reminds you of how close you used to be. Why did this change? Time can make us realise so many things. Give yourself the gift of clear thought by taking a loving approach. AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Hearth

and home are taking up your thoughts. Some changes may need cash but try to be creative by reusing as much as possible. This is a great time to look for bargains at auctions and boot sales. Any big financial decisions are best left until after Sunday. Make the first few days of this week count by making romantic gestures and discussing future plans.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Demands on

the work front take up a good chunk of your time. Insist that others do their fair share and don’t worry about delegating. Paying extra attention to loved ones may be hard if you are tired. However, the right words can be important and given in a loving way. Someone needs reassuring but first you need to know that you will see an encouraging sign.

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Charm and charisma see you speeding through the months ahead, Gemini. With a strong mind and energy, it is easier to act on plans. Gain as much knowledge as possible about your chosen field. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Happy Gemini with the chance to spring ahead and get a jump start. Yes, work done in the past now shows its worth. With a natural eye for detail, not much gets past you. This gives you a head start. Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Practical matters are your forte, Gemini. A natural restlessness spurs you on to make the most of opportunities. Some of these seem minor but they are a stepping stone to bigger things. Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Sometimes it is hard to believe that consistent work in the background can be so effective, Gemini. It is, though, and success is your reward. When you share this success with others, that is your real joy. Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Look to increase fitness and general wellbeing to stay on top. Just small tweaks to diet and activities make a huge difference. Being in such demand is great but energy needs topping up, Gemini. Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Taking care of yourself means being more able to take care of others, Gemini. Some chances to succeed may seem small fry. Even so, small successes build into a satisfying and lucrative future. Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Overall success depends on two things in the months to come. One is good health and energy and the other is determination, Gemini. This is where you will succeed where others fail. Keep at it!

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Across: 7 Molar; 8 Process; 9 Lighten; 10 Gleam; 12 Vegetation; 15 Adulterate; 18 Elfin; 19 Drastic; 21 DUAL CROSSWORD Bucolic; 22 Liken. 18,985 Down: 1 Amalgamate; 2 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Elegy; 3 Brat; 4 Sponge; Across: 7 Irish; 8 Actress; 5 Poignant; 6 Benefit; 11 9 Tripped; 10 Emend; 12 Munificent; 13 Entangle; Loveliness; 15 Second14 Suffice; 16 Reduce; 17 hand; 18 Denim; 19 Stake; 20 Ally. Advance; 21 Attends; 22 Cleft. The Baker’s Dozen Down: 1 Distressed; 2 Trivia Test: Rigid; 3 Ship; 4 Saddle; 5 1. 42. 2. Australia, South Athenian; 6 Severed; 11 America and Africa. 3. Dishonesty; 13 Ornament; Phoenix, Arizona. 4. “The 14 Aconite; 16 Hoarse; 17 King and I”. 5. Mercury. Andes; 20 Vice. 6. Tintagel. 7. French. 8. QUICK SOLUTIONS The United States. 9. Egg-

plant. 10. Alcoholism. 11. “Teen Angel”. Only Dinning’s version was successful, despite radio stations banning the song because it was so sad. 12. Jimmy Connors, with 233 victories. 13. “Atlantis”, by Donovan in 1969. The theme is the idea that Atlantis was a pre-flood (under the ocean) civilization and that his true love might be down there waiting. References to the song abound: In the film “Goodfellas”, Stephen King’s “Hearts in Atlantis” novel, an episode of “Futurama” and more.

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V8 Supercar legend visits Dubbo TAFE Auto students EGENDARY V8 Supercar driver Steve Richards was a special guest at TAFE Western’s Automotive department in Dubbo this week. Steve and his Laser Plumbing and Electrical Porsche pulled into the Narromine Road site on their way back from the Tamworth Motor Show en route to Melbourne. “It was great to have Steve stop off and not only show off his Porsche and transporter to many adoring students, but also talk to them about how the car runs and highlights of his car racing career,” TAFE Western light automotive department head teacher Paul Chaseling said. “His presence at the TAFE Western College was a real highlight for the students.” Steve, who currently drives the Porsche in the Australian Carrera Cup Championship, has a huge following in the central west as a four-time Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercar Championship winner. He also won the Bathurst 12-hour race back in 2002. “We’d just like to thank Laser Plumbing and Electrical Dubbo for making this opportunity possible,” Paul said.

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The final say

FROM THE EDITOR-AT-LARGE Jen Cowley

Not all mental illness is created equal H ANDS up if you knew it was Schizophrenia Week this week. Didn’t think so. More power and as much kudos as I can muster to those brave high-profile folk who have stepped forward to publicly shine a light on depression, but I wish someone – anyone – with the power of celebrity would stand up and shout to the world that schizophrenia is a beast and a burden and a right bastard of a disease and that we should be doing more to try to cure it. Or at the very least understand it, and at the very, very least be kind to and supportive of those who have it. It’s ten times more common than AIDS, SIDS and melanoma combined and it directly costs this country somewhere in the vicinity of $2.5 billion every year. That’s the conservative estimate of a mercurial entity whose impact is almost impossible to actually measure. Fifteen people in every 1000 in Australia have schizophrenia, but many countless more suffer. I know this because I’m one of them. My brother drew the short straw in our family’s lottery – and has suffered lifelong and unspeakably tragic imprisonment with insanity his captor. It’s his disease, but we’ve all suffered. Over the years, I’ve waved the flag and pounded the pavement and alternately begged and shouted at politicians and doctors and powers that be. I’ve cried – and laughed – and been ultimately dispirited at how little ground

knowledge the sufferers of these kinds society has genuinely made towards of mental illness as deserving of our real empathy with the sufferers of seriunderstanding and support. These colous mental illness. umn inches have regularly been devotPerhaps I’ll be shot down in flames for daring to suggest that not all mental ed to that very cause. But let’s not kid ourselves we have the illnesses are created equal in terms of same level of consideration or even inthe need for empathy and the allocation terest in schizophrenia, shall we? of resources. Let ‘em come. Let me lay out the facts of my brother’s life and the It’s still mentioned in the media only living death to which he’s now – at the as a screaming 72-point headline or six age of 56 – consigned. I’ll show them a o’clock news grab, mostly in the combloke who has never had a real friend, pany of the word “murderer”. let alone a girlfriend, or a Just to recap: this is a partner or children. A man disease that affects more who has never known the people than melanoma in pleasure, security or satAustralia – the spiritual isfaction of holding a job; home of skin cancer – and a bloke who’s suffered the It’s still mentioned I’ll bet London to a brick humiliation and cruelty the aforementioned Schizof small town ignorance, in the media only ophrenia Awareness Week of big city invisibility and as a screaming didn’t even blip on most the apathy of those who radars. 72-point headline people’s should know better. A survey conducted reThen let my detractors or six o’clock cently by the Schizophretell me they empathise as news grab, nia Fellowship showed much with him, and the that nearly 47 per cent of nearly 300,000 Austral- mostly in the people still associate the ians like him, as they do company of the disease as being characwith the high profile ceterised by violent tendenlebrity whose battle with word “murderer”. cies. Ironic, given people depression brings a public with schizophrenia are outpouring of sympathy. Or that there among the most vulnerable and are ofare equitable resources allocated to ten the target of violence and abuse. research. That same survey showed 44 per cent of respondents think people who have It’s great we’ve come so far in the batschizophrenia can “self-manage” the tle to recognise depression and bi-polar disease – that’s a polite way of saying as the potentially debilitating condithey should just get over it and get on tions they are – and that we now ac-

with it. And there’s still a misconception that the disease is brought on exclusively through drug use. Again, it’s this kind of ignorance that further entrenches existing prejudices. But perhaps the most damning statistic of all, in terms of our self-delusion of empathy with mental illness, is the aforementioned study’s finding that more than 40 per cent of people said they would not welcome a person with schizophrenia into their workplace. I’m not so fanatical I can’t understand that there are certain workplaces where hiring someone with schizophrenia might not be the sharpest move – but it’s academic anyway, given the poor buggers are rarely able to hold down a job. It’s just sad that if they wanted to, they’d not be welcome in most settings. More power to the breast cancer lobby – that it’s managed to raise such incredible awareness and therefore raise the survival rate is magnificent, and a lesson in lobbying for every worthy cause. But when was the last time you went to a fundraiser for schizophrenia research? The resources allocated to the pursuit of a cure are woefully inadequate, but with government coffers perpetually bare, it’s not likely they’ll come without significant public pressure. And that pressure won’t be exerted by a public that’s still so ignorant about schizophrenia. It’s time to change that.

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