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The week’s major news stories around the region

Macquarie Raiders: The 50 year transformation

Bill Ferguson: Inspiring Civil Rights Leader

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FROM THE EDITOR

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Crashing on the information superhighway Y daughter came in for breakfast this morning to tell me a state of emergency had been declared in Turkey.

Occupied with the more pressing demand of making school lunches and ensuring the kids didn’t miss their buses, my reply was ‘uh-huh’ despite noting a tone of concern in her voice suggesting she needed some reassurance about what that means.

‘It’s not going to affect your day, so go get ready.’

In truth, in that moment, I had no idea what it meant for Turkey either, and relegated it that place I put bad news that finds you but which I don’t actively seek, into the ‘uh-huh’ basket in my brain.

Why? Why would a journalist park news like that?

It’s headline. It’s the lead story in news agencies around the world.

And the rise or fall on the NASDAC will be there too, along with the doggy on a surfboard.

Actually, though I work in media, I’m overwhelmed. There’s just too much of it to consume.

I’m one person, and at some point I have to start living my life in the here and now and not vicariously through the brave reporting of journalists ‘on the ground’ or agreeing to wallow in the woes of the world ALL THE TIME to validate the advertising revenues of global media conglomerates.

I also resent being bludgeoned at every given moment with information which I know will be yesterday’s news tomorrow despite being an ongoing nightmare for the people who are actually living it.

I empathise, I sympathise, I #prayfor, but that sense of making no difference whatsoever to the outcome except through what I can do at a local level, leaves me feeling drained, dissatisfied and frustrated.

I resent even more that my children are being force fed this diet of death, mayhem, destruction, chaos, anarchy, madness, political confusion, helplessness to help, the list goes on and on.

Without a whole lot of explanation this narrow cast of what is actually happening in the world right now is spoon feeding a generation who frankly ought to know better that you can’t always believe what you hear, see, read in the media.

Most of the time these days, don’t we find ourselves wishing what we hear, see, read in the media actually wasn’t true.

Knowing every minute detail about the terrible things people can and are doing to each other in every corner of the world serves, well, in the USA, the five or six companies which own 90 per cent of all media in that country.

Sex sells. Fear sells. Fear sells better than sex. If you’ve ever spent a prolonged period of time in the USA observing the leading stories and key messages in the media you will develop anxiety, and you will fall into that cycle of needing pills to keep you feeling “up” because there is so much in the world that’s getting you “down”.

Mainstream media are the Coles and Wool-

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lies of information, peddling, aisles of prepackaged headlines, nutritionally suspect products, for profit.

While there is misery in the world, it stands to reason there will be profiteers – if it’s not arms dealers, the banks and the media, it’s us.

We create the demand and consume.

And if you’ve been to a major chain supermarket recently you’ll understand the concept of choice. In Coles and Woollies there’s like 47 types of butter you can buy – and choose from.

No different to information. Celebrity weddings, footballers turning up at training. Sorry.

Not news.

That NASA accurately sent a space probe to Jupiter, keeping it on course for five years.

That’s news. People did that. Good people did that. Good driven dedicated passionate people did that.

That I can sit and watch Le Tour du France on SBS for I also resent three weeks straight being - the same France where bad things bludgeoned happen – and see at every given nothing bad - but moment with the occasional bike crash - awesome, information gorgeous scenery, which I know will great feats of human spirit, tenacity, be yesterday’s strength, comrad- news tomorrow ery, inspiring young people having a go, despite being and hundreds of kil- an ongoing ometres lined with happy, laughing, nightmare for smiling, race sup- the people who porters every step of the way (well in are actually Froomes’ case at living it. least).

These are two stories that celebrate the best humanity can do.

And there are thousands which do not appeal to our fears, but to our hopes.

Walid Aly had a point this week suggesting we #sendforgivenessviral, stop the frenzy of hate and step back for a moment and think hard and clear about what Australia’s going to do next on the issue of terror and Muslims, and their human rights.

I’m adding #keepitpositiveviral, #celebrategoodnewsstoriesviral, #keepitrealviral to the mix.

You cannot flatten the human experience to either black or white and ignore all the other fantastic, exciting, wondrous people and places this planet has to offer.

Diversity is something mainstream media isn’t very good at. There are one or two common themes.

I switched off my TV for ten years. Not much changed in the world, but I felt a whole lot better, making my choices about information I chose to consume.

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Rail crossing upgrade weathers wet winter

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

HE Wheelers Lane rail crossing upgrade is on track for its August completion date, despite the city experiencing the second wettest June on record.

Western Plains Regional Council’s works services manager Ian Bailey said last month’s 150mm recorded rainfall was preceded only by 194mm received in June 1916, century ago.

“It certainly has been a wet two months,” he said.

“When you get these sorts of conditions, it’s important to know how wet it is compared to other years and how planning can be arranged accordingly,” he said.

Despite the abundance of wet weather, Bailey said it had not caused a delay in the roadworks schedule, which has a $2M budget and a 12-week timeline.

“The rain has certainly been unhelpful but we have still been able to keep to the timetable. We allow for these things when planning.”

However, the soggy conditions have made it necessary to redo the road surface in some spots.

“There is some rework that has to be done before we finish but then it will be all good for many years.”

Bailey confirmed that knowing about weather patterns, including precipitation, was important in planning roadworks such as these.

The project will add two extra lanes to Wheelers Lane, allowing that section to match the rest of the four-lane road.

“Work commenced in May, when we did the pavement and railway signage.

The outer two lanes were reopened on June 18 and the median closed as a work zone although there is some business access,” he explained.

“Once that work is complete, we’ll have traffic going in the middle two lanes and then close the outer lanes to do the footpath.”

Work on rail signals and a new boom gate will be completed with the assistance of engineering firm John Holland.

Bailey confirmed that the project had been in the pipeline for quite a few years, saying it had ‘definitely been on the long-term wish list.’

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Western Plains Regional Council’s works services manager Ian Bailey. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

“This residential land will continue has been on the work schedule for some to develop over the next 20 years and time. Ten years ago, we started by widRoads and Maritime Services (RMS) ening the rail intersection.” have concurred with the roundabout as Apart from giving Wheelers Lane cothe preferred traffic management for hesion as a four-lane road, the new work the intersection,” he said. has an added feature.

“The roundabout is to be construct“The biggest benefit is safety at the ed approximately halfway between level crossing,” he said.

Sheraton Road and the intersection of “There’s new boom gates to prevent the Windsor Parade link road on the people sneaking across the line when a Mitchell Highway within the 70kmh train is coming. It’s really scary when speed zone.” that happens.”

Normal two-way traffic Another project, anflow will be maintained nounced this week, is throughout construction, the construction of a new with the exception of a roundabout to intersect night time road closure to the Mitchell Highway beinstall stormwater pipes tween the Sheraton Rd The project will and service conduits unroundabout and Windsor der the highway.

Parade link road. It will add two extra adjoin the future Capstan lanes to Wheelers He said maintaining Drive to give highway acnormal traffic flow was cess to Keswick Estate Lane, allowing essential during construcand the Royal Freema- that section to tion but motorists are still sons aged care developto be aware of match the rest of advised ment which is still under changed traffic conditions construction. the four-lane road. and reduced speed limits

in place.

“Safety barriers will be put in place, with changed traffic alignment to separate traffic from the work area while maintain a continual flow in both directions,” Mr Bailey said.

Tree removals compliant with road design standards have already commenced in preparation for construction to start later this month. The new roundabout’s anticipated completion date is December 2016, weather-permitting.

Council has also recently completed roadworks at the intersection of Bunglegumbie Road and the Mitchell Highway.

“This was a two-day job which was the last bit of the widening of the intersection to make it more suitable for long vehicles such as trucks to turn around.

The roadworks form the final phase of the Troy Bridge upgrade which stems from Boothenba Rd and included shifting the railway crossing at the Newell Highway intersection to allow for larger vehicles to pass safely.

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Film about Wiradjuri philosophy, Yindyamarra honoured by State

BY CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY FILM produced by a Charles Sturt University (CSU) PhD candidate in collaboration with Wiradjuri Elders was named a finalist in the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Media Awards, Best Creative and Innovative Design category.

The film, ‘Yindyamarra Yambuwan (Respecting Everything)’, is part of Bernard Sullivan’s doctoral research at CSU. It explores the Wiradjuri concept of “Yindyamarra�. This unique Wiradjuri word for a way of life based on deep respect, reminds us of our responsibilities and shows us how to get along with people and how to care for country.

The Premier’s Multicultural Media Awards showcase the outstanding work of media professionals who connect people to their culture, identity and language.

Sullivan’s research investigates how creative professionals may best engage in collaborative, culture-centred, Elderled projects. “From a personal point of view, a nonAboriginal man born on Wiradjuri country, I have spent my life looking for ways to live a balanced life,� Sullivan said. “I have studied European and Eastern philosophies and cultures that have taken me all around the world, but I don’t know anything like Yindyamarra. As an attitude to life based on deep respect, from the place I was born, it is the way to live in this country. Yindyamarra has brought me home.�

Whilst completing his PhD with CSU, Sullivan was also part of the first graduating cohort of students in CSU’s Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage.

The film ‘Yindyamarra Yambuwan (Respecting Everything)’ explores twenty different aspects of Yindyamarra built on years of deep conversations with Wiradjuri Elders. It includes a spoken monologue in Wiradjuri by Sullivan, based on these conversations, having learnt the language under the guidance of Dr Uncle Stan Grant as part of the process of making the film.

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Bernard Sullivan sharing and learning with elders, a major theme to his recent film about the Wiradjuri philosophy Yindyamarra. PHOTO: CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY

journey of personal discovery and immersion in Wiradjuri country, showing the birds, animals, rivers and trees of Wiradjuri country and how they amplify the multiple qualities of Yindyamarra.

Sullivan said: “In the not too distant past, within my lifetime, the Wiradjuri, their culture and their language were actively suppressed. This film is an act of respect and recognition. It is a way of standing in solidarity with the Wiradjuri people. The Elders and I wanted to share with others just how beautiful the Wiradjuri language and culture based on Yindyamarra still is. “As Dr Uncle Stan Grant has taught

me, language belongs to country, when we speak Wiradjuri on country, we show respect. Whether Aboriginal or nonAboriginal, Wiradjuri or non-Wiradjuri, through language we are able to connect to where we live in a richer fuller way.� “The film makes an eloquent and practical contribution to the multicultural debate by bringing-to-life the ancient Wiradjuri concept of Yindyamarra challenging many misconceptions. Through deep respect; this Wiradjuri philosophy reminds us of our responsibilities, it teaches us how to organise relationships and connect to country.� ‘Yindyamarra Yambuwan (Respecting

` The film makes an eloquent and practical contribution to the multicultural debate by bringingto-life the ancient Wiradjuri concept of Yindyamarra challenging many misconceptions. Through deep respect; this Wiradjuri philosophy reminds us of our responsibilities, it teaches us how to organise relationships and connect to country – Bernard Sullivan

Everything)’ is currently being used by Elders to support cultural presentations, and as a learning resource and cultural education tool for schools and universities. It will be a cultural asset for the Wiradjuri people into the future.

The film is also a record of transformational change and growth, both in the self-understanding of the filmmaker, and as part of the Wiradjuri community revitalisation now taking place, it is hoped it promotes deep healing and respectful relationships between cultures.

Yindyamarra-Yambuwan supports the recovery and renewal of Wiradjuri language, culture and heritage for modern times and rising generations, this production gives us all common ground from which to achieve greater social cohesion and community harmony.

An exhibition at the Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery titled ‘Burambabirra Yindyamarra’ (Sharing Yindyamarra) will begin on September 17, 2016. The exhibition will feature Sullivan’s film and accompanying language and culture videos, animations, books, photography and artwork that have been developed collaboratively with Wiradjuri and Nigyampaa Elders.

Sullivan is a non-Indigenous artist and has a background in a number of creative mediums having degrees in creative arts and animation. He has made a number of animated films and documentary video projects. He has travelled widely and been involved as an educator and course developer in Australia and overseas.

Throughout his current Doctoral studies at CSU he has worked collaboratively with Wiradjuri Elders investigating ways creative professionals can engage in culture centred, Elder focused and respectful approaches to empowering and supporting communities through creative media.

He is working with the Wiradjuri Language and Cultural Heritage Committee, a joint initiative from CSU and the Wiradjuri Council of Elders. In addition to the CSU School of Communication and Creative Industries, the research project is informally linked with other schools at CSU including Education and Indigenous Studies.

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Seven Days FINALLY ARRIVALS WHAT a great time for Dubbo’s Airport, it broke through the magical 200,000 passenger barrier for the first time in the 2015/2016 financial year, with 203,294 people through the gates.

This is fantastic considering the city for years has been serviced by two duopoly airlines who’ve given us the option of flying to Sydney, Sydney or Sydney.

This week saw the arrival of the first FlyPelican flight direct from Newcastle, great to see the smaller airlines having a crack.

It’s also great to see the solid response to JetGo’s Brisbane service, I’ve been on those flights and it makes things so easy.

The fact JetGo is flying into Essendon Airport is also a huge drawcard, it’s far more convenient than Avalon, which is in the middle of nowhere, and closer even than Tullamarine.

Well done to everyone making this happen, from Lindsay Mason and his airport staff right through the former Dubbo City Council and current interim council plus the passengers supporting these services to ensure they keep going.

ROUNDS AND BOUTS WET weather won’t be the only obstacle for people using the Mitchell Highway in Dubbo’s east, with work beginning this month on the long awaited roundabout which will be plonked (wish it was that easy) a bit to the west of Sheraton Rd. Everyone’s noticed the mud pool this side of Sheraton Rd opposite Bunnings, this roundabout will service that worksite which will eventually be the Royal Freemasons aged care, and will also provide a gateway to look after a future expansion of the Keswick Estate.

Council is predicting traffic disruptions to be minimal.

NSW FARMERS DROWNING IN POLICY MAYBE that headline should read NSW Farmers Association’s members are drowning

The week’s top stories from around the region by John Ryan the leagues club and the football club have a far brighter future.”

It must have been a relief to have one major decision which seemed to have been universally acclaimed, but there literally wasn’t a second to rest on that laurel, with a mad dash across the road to launch the book former deputy PM Tim Fischer wrote about Australia’s greatest citizen General, John Monash.

I’m a big fan of Monash, because he was smart, innovative, practical and he cared about his troops, unlike many of the British buffoons such as General Haig, who thought sending tens of thousands of soldiers “over the top” year after years to be slaughtered by German machines-guns was just the way things were done.

FlyPelican started flights between Dubbo and Newcastle on Monday, July 18. PHOTO: SUPPLIED.

in this incredible rainfall, but there’s been a fair bit of policy coming out of this week’s annual conference at Sydney’s Luna Park.

Quad bikes.

Q fever risks.

NSWfarmers push for q fever clinics.

NSW farmers backpacker tax.

Tractor movements.

Wants more rural cops.

GRAVE FEARS FOR GREYHOUNDS THE Greyhound industry is involved in yet another crisis, with Fairfax media reports of mass graves containing up to 99 dogs near Cessnock.

For an industry that has begun a campaign painting the sport as all sweetness and light to garner grassroots community support, this isn’t going to help.

The worst thing is the perception now of no doubt in many people’s minds, that there may well be plenty more mass graves out there.

After copping a lot of flak for closing the industry down, deputy premier Troy Grant held a press conference on the graves this week, and said the pictures in the media presented a far more graphic insight into the industry’s problems than the black and white of reading the actual report into the industry.

Deputy premier Troy Grant held a press conference in Dubbo this week on mass greyhound graves: “... they appeared to be healthy dogs before being killed.” PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

“It’s disturbing and I think it shows a clear picture of some of the issues that actually underpin the special commission of inquiry’s report,” Grant said.

He said he was concerned with the scale of the greyhound deaths, the fact they were systematically killed over at different times and that they appeared to be healthy dogs before being killed.

“I think there’s 99 all told, in different lots over a period of time, and the cause of deaths, the pathologist indicated by blunt trauma to the skull and/ or a gunshot wound, with no other indications as to why these dogs needed to be slaughtered,” he said.

There’ll be lots more to come on this story, but I’d hate to be the greyhound industry spin doctor trying to put the best face on this, and industry figures will now have to look over their shoulders hoping no more graves are dug up – any disenchanted people who took part in similar mass killings can now get their revenge on their former employers and their livelihood, just by dobbing them in and leading investigators to the graves.

WELLINGTON WINS WHILE we had him (Troy Grant), I asked if he’d heard any feedback that the former Wellington Shire Council was in far more trouble than had previously been disclosed – he said he had.

“There’s been some stark findings that the Wellington council in their capacity, particularly with planning decisions, had no capacity,” Grant said.

“I didn’t know before the decision was taken that they had 20 vacancies in Wellington and one of the key concerns from the Wellington community was that there’d be mass job losses out of Wellington council, they

didn’t have people in the jobs they had, which is a concern and is now being rectified.

“They subcontracted their planning approvals out to a company on the south coast and had very, very few approvals go through the DA process through council and that’s a big indication as to why Wellington was being held back and it hadn’t been progressing,” he said, saying that’s now turned around in a big way.

“People at Wellington have flooded the new council with development applications because they’re being dealt with by locals and are being dealt with quickly and efficiently and that’s the sort of outcomes we hoped the merger would create, and they’re being realised,” he said.

One mitigating factor is that some positions had been difficult to fill at Wello because people would have been awry about moving to a council around which rumors of a merger were swirling.

EELS BOARD PEELED I DIDN’T ask a question about his sacking of the Parramatta Eels board, but instead just said thanks, as a long-suffering Eels fan.

“Look, it’s been a big couple of weeks in my portfolios for decisions but the decision to ask the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority to consider whether the board at Parramatta was effectively managing the leagues club and ultimately the football club because they’re a common board, was one that overwhelmingly embraced by members and supporters of the club,” Grant said.

“What we’ve seen is decades of dysfunctionality there but hopefully now the administrator will be able to bring in a pathway, and bring the club together, unite the club, so both

COULTON TO SPEAK MARK Coulton, deputy speaker in the house of reps which is a great reward for a bloke who works incredibly long hours – even the hours he spends driving around this huge electorate would have to be greater than the average working week, and if wife Robyn wasn’t happy to travel with him as virtual unpaid commonwealth employee, it would be an almost impossible ask.

As deputy speaker, he gets to fill in whenever the speaker is absent, and it will be interesting to see how the role unfolds.

With such a slim majority, and a minority senate made up of more splinter groupings than usual, there’ll have to be far more discussion on legislation before it ever gets anywhere near the MPs or it will be doomed before it’s brought to a vote.

Let’s hope it gets Australia more centrist outcomes, and that somehow the radical left and loony right can be contained – if all the people towards the middle formed a new party, those fringe lunatics from both extreme sides of politics wouldn’t have a voice.

FLOOD RESCUES THE dams are full, water is running freely across the ground, rivers are swiftly flowing and roads are being cut across the new expanded shire.

And people are dumb, despite politicians constantly claiming otherwise in public statements.

The waters had barely risen above the surface of some roadways when it all started on Wednesday morning, police called to two flood rescues within 40 minutes.

I have to admit that I’ve been (dumb) guilty of driving through raging floodwaters in the past, luckily I’ve been lucky, but after seeing the dangers of people trapped, and how quick-

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ly a situation can turn serious, I won’t be doing it again any time soon.

The first incident was at Geurie where where the car on a flooded causeway, police rescued the female driver as the car started to rock from the flowing water.

The second incident was at one of the notorious Minore Road underpasses, they are really treacherous, the driver was trapped and rescued by SES volunteers.

Once again, police are appealing to people to exercise common sense and drive to the conditions.

On the plus side, even farmers have now had enough rain for a while.

Hopefully this will translate into some bloody water actually running into and filling up Burrendong Dam, so our summer croppers can get a few half decent seasons under their belts.

Ironically, plans for a proposed pipeline from Burrendong Dam to Wellington, Geurie and Dubbo have just been put on display for public comment, which illustrates not just the variability of climate in this wide brown land of ours, but also that strategic and visionary planning is important to ensure we’ll have what we need, when we need it, instead of expensive and ad hoc crisis management when a problem arises.

Friday 22.07.2016 to Sunday 24.07.2016 | Dubbo Weekender Police and SES were called to two flood rescues within 40 minutes on Wednesday.

Flooding caused road closures Thursday.

PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

COUNCIL COMMUNITY MEETINGS FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES GRANTS PROGRAMS GREAT to see our interim Western Plains Regional Council holding meetings at plenty of villages as well as just at Dubbo and Wello, to talk to community groups about the Stronger Community Grants Program.

It’s a $10 million fund to the interim council from the state government, and administrator Michael Kneipp has allocated one million of that to commu-

nity groups for local projects, that’ll be rolled out over three years.

I attended the meeting at Wongarbon and am involved and hopeful that many great things come out of this.

It was great to see sculptor Brett Garling at the Wongarbon meet. He’s keen to create a sculpture of pioneering Aboriginal civil rights advocate Bill Ferguson at cost for a group of locals who are hoping to have his story brought into the public domain – it really is a heritage all Dubbo residents should be proud of.

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Western Plains Regional Council held a meeting in Wongarbon this week to talk to community groups about the Stronger Community Grants Program. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

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Deputy premier Troy Grant gives an address to introduce former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer (inset) at an author talk at the Macquarie Regional Library Dubbo branch this week. Fischer talked about one of his many books, “Maestro John Monash”.

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NEWS & ANALYSIS.

967 was a memorable year for residents of the southern suburbs of the recently proclaimed City of Dubbo.

The rapidly developing residential estates were replacing orchards and farmland and students of South Dubbo High School who had spent their first two years as “guests” of the old Dubbo High School in Wingewarra St, were about to relocate to their own treasured space in Boundary Road.

It was no coincidence then that parents and rugby league officials embarked on a plan to form teams to reflect the area players would represent.

South Dubbo Junior League was established ahead of the 1967 season, the first training sessions held on the oval adjacent to the pristine South Dubbo High School (SDHS).

The first teams played in a green strip thought to have been the school’s football jerseys, although this remains unconfirmed.

In 1973 the club became the South Dubbo Tigers and thanks to the sponsorship from John Alexan-

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der at the Garden Hotel, the boys ran out in their brand new bright orange and black jerseys with the Tiger emblazoned on the front.

Coach Laurie McIntosh had the Under 9s that year – Scott Hull, Peter Gavin, David new, Alan Magill, Steven Neave, Paul Murray, mark Merritt, Anthony McIntosh, Greg Conway, Grant Dickson, Greg Trethowan, Graham Wheeler, Graeme Leach, Gavin Barrett and Wayne Merritt.

I wonder if any of those boys or their parents kept their tiny Tigers guernseys?

In the early ‘90s the club changed its name and branding to the South Dubbo Raiders, perhaps as a reflection of the powerful Canberra Raiders at the time, however Macquarie stalwarts Mark Murphy and Neil Milgate couldn’t countenance the Green Machine colours so a blue-on-blue jersey was selected with a logo based on the Canberra Raiders design.

The playing strip and logo have undergone some minor changes over the past 20 years however the striking Raider and the shades of blue remain!

The South Dubbo club will celebrate its 50 gold-

The Raiders have nurtured and moulded kids of all backgrounds and abilities over the years, providing a meeting place for newcomers to the city or the sport, a bond that transcends all of these and a spirit that promotes fairness, discipline, dedication and a strong work ethic.

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A 50th is a pretty important milestone, especially for a junior sporting club that has seen generations of young locals progress through the ranks, and all the community building that provides the individuals who’ve been helped and mentored along the way. WORDS Geoff Mann

en years on Saturday night at the Dubbo Showground. How fitting that they return to the spiritual home of junior rugby league in Dubbo. Photos, programs, trophies and lots of clippings and even some ancient guernseys and blazers will be on display at what promises to be a fabulous walk through the years .and old began all those years ago.

As a curtain-raiser to the function, the 2016 Raiders will tackle St Johns U16s at Caltex Park at 11.30 wearing commemorative orange and black

striped playing Tigers jerseys reflecting the 1970s and ‘80’s playing days.

The players’ jerseys will be raffled on Saturday night.

The Raiders have nurtured and moulded kids of all backgrounds and abilities over the years, providing a meeting place for newcomers to the city or the sport, a bond that transcends all of these and a spirit that promotes fairness, discipline, dedication and a strong work ethic.

Club Championship successes and grand final wins will

no doubt be replayed endlessly at the Golden Jubilee but it is fair to say that like all of these gatherings, be careful to sift the truth from the manure!

Remember – “the older they get, the better they were”!

Congratulations South Dubbo Raiders and all the best as you move towards your next milestone.

Any questions please email on SouthDubboJRL50thAnniversary@gmail.com or call Mr Brandon on 0422920805.

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PROFILE.

Friday 22.07.2016 to Sunday 24.07.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

LONG ROAD TO JUSTICE BILL FERGUSON (1882-1950) – INSPIRING CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER Bill Ferguson dreamed of a time when Indigenous Australians could live freely without prejudice and bigotry.

Since 1937 when he campaigned for full citizenship rights to be granted to the Aboriginal population to a packed Masonic Hall in Dubbo, plus more. WORDS John Ryan ILL FERGUSON isn’t well known, but he should be.

The fight for Indigenous rights in Australia really began on the day Captain James Cook landed at Botany Bay in 1770, but it wasn’t until 1938 that a popular movement could be said to have “arrived”.

On Australia Day of that year, while the attention focused on the 150th anniversary of Governor Phillip’s landing, a small, well-dressed group of Aboriginal people from widespread communities gathered quietly in protest outside Australia House in Elizabeth St to declare a Day of Mourning.

It was born from the despair they felt after years of lobbying to draw attention to the multiple injustices done to the indigenous people.

According to the Dictionary of Sydney, “It was the first national civil rights gathering and represents the most clearly identifiable beginning of the contemporary Aboriginal political movement”.

A driving force in the movement was Dubbo-based activist Bill Ferguson, born on July 24, 1882 at Waddai, Darlington Point, New South Wales, the second of seven children of William Ferguson, shearer and boundary rider from Scotland, and his wife Emily, née Ford, formerly an Aboriginal housemaid.

Bill became a shearer and unionist, once described by the minister of the Dubbo Presbyterian Church where he was an elder as “one of those intelligent but uneducated people with a real thirst for knowledge”.

While not denying his Scots heritage Bill chose to identify with the Aboriginals in their desperate need.

During thirty years of travelling and working in sheds across the west he formed a team who gathered a vast amount of evidence about poor schooling, rampant tuberculosis, low wages, alcohol addiction, trachoma, high infant mortality, physical abuse and degraded living conditions among the Aboriginal people.

On June 27, 1937, in a packed Masonic Hall in Dubbo, he launched the Aboriginals Progressive Association (APA) calling for “The abolition of the Aborigines Protection Board, full citizenship rights and direct representation in parliament”.

The A.P.A. resolutions, mostly Ferguson's work, were ahead of their time.

Fully twenty years before the Reverend Martin Luther King in the United States, Bill Ferguson articulated a dream of freedom for his people.

Ferguson had been aware since the early 1920s of the control imposed on the Aboriginal people by the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board, which expected Aborigines of mixed descent to “absorb” into society, and others to die out.

Young men expelled from reserves by managers became bush-workers.

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Bill Ferguson, campaigner for Indigenous rights. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Inspectors took girls away for training as domestic servants; “pocket-money” was held in trust.

In 1939, when parliament amended the Aborigines Protection Act (1909) to increase the powers of the board, Ferguson began organising the “dark people” as he called them.

Ferguson habitually checked his facts with reserve residents before attacking official policies on land, housing and control, and in the process he inspired young Aborigines to take up politics.

When the Protection Board dismissed

the manager of the government run mission at Brewarrina, Ferguson, with the assistance of Mark Davidson, Member for Cobar, provoked a Select Committee of Inquiry which uncovered a tragic story of mismanagement and consistent abuse.

When official interest at the Inquiry waned as the truth about the treatment of the Aboriginal people became evident, Ferguson and Davidson stacked the public gallery with a remarkable cross section of supporters – leading churchmen, feminists and the House-

` During thirty years of travelling and working in sheds across the west he formed a team who gathered a vast amount of evidence about poor schooling, rampant tuberculosis, low wages, alcohol addiction, trachoma, high infant mortality, physical abuse and degraded living conditions among the Aboriginal people.

wives’ Association along with members of the Aboriginal Progressive Association.

A host of specially invited reporters heard Ferguson declare forcefully that, “We must educate the minds of the white people, otherwise the thrusting back of my people which began 150 years ago will continue, until they are swept off the face of the earth!”

It was a landmark moment in civil rights history in Australia.

As vice-president of the NSW branch of the Australian Aborigines League, Ferguson drafted a list of administrative reforms that were presented to Prime Minister Ben Chifley’s unresponsive Minister for the Interior in February 1949.

Furious at being ignored by both political parties, Ferguson resigned from the Labor Party and stood as an Independent for Dubbo in the December elections.

Inspired by the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, he called for civil rights for all people.

His last speech, delivered a few weeks before he died was a ringing call for justice: “To all you people of Aboriginal blood, I say…I am fighting for your freedom.

“Aboriginals still live under laws meant only to control criminals and lunatics: they are not allowed ordinary human rights…I can promise you nothing but the will to work.”

Bill Ferguson collapsed as he left the platform, and died of hypertensive heart disease in Dubbo Base Hospital on January 4, 1950.

While he had gained a great deal for his people, he finished disillusioned, feeling he had failed after polling only 388 votes.

He remained a strong Christian to the end of his life, but found that apart from a few notable individuals, the churches were not yet sufficiently convicted to speak out on behalf of the Aboriginal people.

His loyal wife Margaret, of Scots - Aboriginal descent and like her husband, a woman of strong faith, remained with their 10 children, a number of whom became active in serving the Aboriginal people in the Western region.

Another 17 years passed before Bill Ferguson’s dream was realised when on the May 27, 1967, the highest YES vote ever recorded in a Federal referendum (90.77 per cent) saw section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution changed to shift Aboriginal people from unrecognised existence to be included as citizens of their native country.

Now a local group has a proposal to publicly recognise Ferguson and his outstanding advocacy for Aboriginal people.

They’re hoping to erect a statue of Bill Ferguson in the public square near the Masonic Hall - the site where the

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national civil rights movement was launched, and proponents believe it will add a noble element to the cityscape of Dubbo.

There are numerous rationales behind this project: It is timely – it accords with the current climate in Australia to include Aboriginal people and history in public cultural events. e.g. Adam Goodes as 2015 Australian of the Year and the Australia Day celebrations of 2016.

It offers proper recognition to a man who played a significant role in campaigning for justice and civil rights in Australia. He was a man ahead of his time - twenty years before Martin Luther King in America and thirty years before Australia recognized the Aboriginal people as full citizens.

It speaks of healing and reconciliation. The Ferguson family chose to live in Dubbo because of the ‘friendly tolerance’ they found in the town in the 1930’s. The story of a man with a Scots father who chose to identify with the struggles of his Aboriginal mother’s people is an important part of the town’s ethos worth building on for the future.

It is a powerful story of courage, faith, determination and character that belongs to all of Australia.

It should be a highly inspirational element in Dubbo’s public persona and challenge to future generations.

It would have a multiplier effect in terms of social capital.

It fits with the call from civic leaders for economic development, visitor attraction and meaningful public events. Owning a nationally significant figure of Bill Ferguson’s calibre would provoke a number of substantial initiatives that will raise Dubbo’s profile.

Many initiatives and partnerships have already been explored in a bid to make the project happen, as well as ensuring that its national significance is recognised.

“Riverbank” Frank Doolan has

been canvassing the Aboriginal community to gain support. Proper public recognition of an Aboriginal leader would have a restorative and constructive effect. The Ferguson descendants are scattered through the Western region.

NITV and SBS have indicated they will give this issue national coverage and other media organisations such as the ABC have also expressed interest. Local media outlets are also keen to highlight the story to Dubbo and the broader region.

Charles Sturt university (CSU) Dubbo will include the Bill Ferguson story into the Childhood Memories series of books with the view to incorporating it into the undergraduate material available to students.

Western Plains Cultural Centre has expressed interest in developing the Bill Ferguson story. The Back O’ Bourke Exhibition Centre is developing a permanent exhibition covering Ferguson’s work in the Western region.

Project proponents are looking at Crowdfunding as a supplement to public funding. This would give public ownership to the statue. Local sculptor Brett Garling would be an obvious candidate for the task. Brett has created some of the country’s most amazing sculptures and is keen to be involved.

An annual Bill Ferguson prize could be instituted, going beyond the black and white Australia debate to recognize anyone working to build positive cross cultural relationships. The keynotes could be hope and unity.

A public speaking event with a recognized speaker linked to other civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi and Nelson Mandela could gain profile nationally. The creative community could develop music, literature, drama, film and art to flesh out the story further.

William Cooper and William Ferguson were both men of Christian faith. Cooper launched a national

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

N 1995 I spent two months driving around Canada and the USA with some friends.

I’d done a 10,000 mile (16,000km) road trip 10 years before with other mates and had missed South Dakota the first time around after being outvoted on my detour plans.

Mt Rushmore in South Dakota is famous around the world because the heads of four US presidents have been carved into the side of a mountain in the Black Hills.

But far more inspiring for me was a mountain sculpture in progress less than half an hour away.

When the presidents’ heads were being planned local Indian tribes asked for one of their leaders to be placed into the mix, but that request was denied.

Six elderly chiefs, survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn where General George Custer’s command was wiped out, approached Connecticut sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski (who had assisted Gutzon Borglum with the Mt Rushmore carving) and asked him to sculpt a bust of Chief Crazy Horse into a sacred mountain in the Black Hills.

Lokota Chief Henry Standing Bear put it this way: “My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes too.”

Ziolkowski moved to the mountain in 1947 and

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Aboriginal Sunday in the churches in 1941 and called for a Day of Hope to follow the Day of Mourning. The church communities could revisit this initiative perhaps around the 27th of June each year. It might well gain national acceptance.

The Bill Ferguson story could be built into school curriculums as a positive role model of leadership.

Service clubs look for worthwhile community initiatives to get behind. This would readily fit their aspirations.

This story would be an attractive addition to the Dubbo tourist agenda. e.g. the statue, story in the Cultural Centre and visits to his gravesite.

Ferguson’s initiatives have morphed into NAIDOC Week. His story would make a strong basis for a community event in the town square.

Pearl Gibbs, the first Aboriginal spokeswoman who was part of Ferguson’s team is also buried in Dubbo.

This could be another powerful strand to be developed in future.

All the above could combine to bring visitors and enhance the public identity of the town as a city developing positive initiatives.

Bill Ferguson’s story is one that must be told to the nation, yet he remains unacknowledged in any public space.

2017 will be the 80th anniversary of the significant moment when the national civil rights movement was launched in Dubbo on June 27th 1937.

It will also be the 50th anniversary of the landmark vote that gave recognition to the Aboriginal people on May 27th 1967.

The above initiatives could be orchestrated over the next 12 months in a build up to a mid-2017 event.

Council could appoint a steering committee, provide seed funding and office support.

We commend this to the council as a timely initiative with the potential to lift the national profile of Dubbo.

began work on a 172 metre high by 195 metre long sculpture, planned to be the largest in the world.

The head alone would be larger in cubic area than all four presidents heads at Mt Rushmore.

It’s planned to be Crazy Horse sitting on his horse, with the horse’s head alone 22 stories tall.

Ziolkowski has since died and the work is being carried on by his wife, 10 children and numerous grandkids.

What inspired me was the dream of the project, with the Ziolkowski family not sure if it will be completed by the end of this century – but who cares, time isn’t important but getting the sculpture right is paramount.

The importance of this undertaking is all about having a dream bigger than day to day concerns, and honoring those who stood up for what they believed in.

So when I heard a local group was trying to raise funds to commission a sculpture of Bill Ferguson, a champion of Aboriginal rights, to be placed in a public place in Dubbo, I was immediately hooked.

He truly was a man before his time, and one who put service to his people before self.

Rod Towney is one local who’s supporting the project, Rod is well known as a former long-serving Dubbo City Councillor and has spent years involved with issues affecting local Aboriginal communities, the broader Wiradjuri region, and he was televised

Quest to honour Ferguson’s life A group of locals is working on a public memorial for this great man, the information on the project has been compiled by local historian and Cornerstone Community co-founder Dr Paul Roe, who along with members of the local Aboriginal community is working hard to create a lasting public memorial to honour Ferguson’s life.

Dr Roe first came across the story in Bourke 20 years ago after talking with John Ferguson, Bill’s son, here’s what’s driving his passion to ensure everyone knows this amazing slice of local history..

“I am a historian with an interest in resurfacing great stories of men and women of faith whose vision has shaped modern Australia.

I have been gripped by this story of a shearer with minimal education and few resources pioneering the cause of justice for the ‘dark people’ of Australia as he called them.

I admire Bill Ferguson’s character and determination.

Almost single-handedly he built an extensive network of people across the west who reported to him the abuses and neglect suffered by many indigenous people scattered through bush towns.

He wielded this information skillfully on public platforms, in the press and at the highest levels of government.

I see him standing astride the black–white divide in mid-20th century Australia pleading powerfully for justice.

He argued strongly, but maintained great dignity.

He believed that the Bible taught all men were God’s children and his appeal was simply that his people be recognized as citizens in their own country.

I believe his story could promote the themes of Hope, Justice and Unity at a critical time in our nation’s history.

I am moved by the pathos of a 68 year old man collapsing at his home in Wingewarra St following his final campaign speech standing as an independent for Federal Parliament in 1950 and dying disappointed a few days later after learning he only polled 388 votes.

But seventeen years later, 90 percent of Australia resoundingly endorsed his cause in the 1967 referendum.

It’s sad that his story has been neglected for so long in his home-town.

It’s the story of a hero whose time has come”.

to the world as he made a speech in the opening ceremony at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

“William Ferguson’s family have enlisted me to assist in raising funds to build a life size statue of the late Mr. William Ferguson,” Mr Towney said.

“We need to honour our own and given that he paved the way for our peoples, lived and died in Dubbo we are trying to raise the required funds $65,000 is needed and we are seeking assistance.

“The local sculptor will need at least six months to complete the statue and we are anxious that he’s given the ok to begin the work,” he said.

Bill Ferguson’s grandson Willie lives in Lightning Ridge and is pushing hard to ensure his grandfather’s legacy lives on.

“I was only a kid when he was alive but I’m trying to follow in his footsteps,” Willie said.

“I’m proud of my grandfather’s achievements, all that he did, he was given no favours and he worked for grassroots Aboriginal people.

“When he started his union off in the Riverina he was only 14 years-old and when he got up and spoke people just stopped and listened to him.”

Willie is particularly proud of Bill’s concept for Naidoc week, which he set down for July so it was a far away as possible from Australia Day on January 26.

Uncle Ray Peckham and Riverbank Frank are also involved in the project, working to get community support to fund the sculpture.

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Tony Webber Tips for the gardener who grows nothing and couldn’t be happier Tony Webber’s Dubbo residence is blooming with neglect.

HE Resentful Gardener offers advice on yard maintenance and cultivation during the winter months.

Dear RG, can a shrubbery be started in winter, and what varieties are best?

Yours, Soddy.

Dear Soddy, there are two times of year best for planting shrubs: never and ever. Shrubs require tending, watering and then tedious trimming as they grow.

They are an investment in prolonged misery. Try wine instead. As for varieties, I’d go for a lusty cab sav, or some merlot in a pinch.

Dear RG, how often should I mow my winter lawn? Yours, Shaggy.

Dear Shaggy, in winter lawn slows in growth so ignore it until it’s knee high and/or teeming with poisonous native reptiles. Then call your landlord to get him on the job, unless you have unwisely fallen victim to the home-buyer cult in which case I recommend administering pesticide liberally followed by a holiday somewhere warm.

Dear RG, do bulbs require attention during winter to ensure they regenerate? Yours, Housebound.

Dear Housebound, who knows or cares? The expression “let sleeping dogs lie” leaps to mind, followed by “no other plant needs a human cheer squad, why would bulbs be any different?” Try some warmed port in bed.

Dear RG, do succulents thrive in the cold months? Yours, Frosty.

Dear Frosty, succulents don’t thrive at the best of times, they just sit there looking like God ran out of ideas. They are the warthogs of the plant kingdom. If there’s nothing on TV have a hot bath.

Dear RG, what vegetables are suitable for winter planting and how do I shelter them from frost without reducing sunlight? Yours, Plucky.

Dear Plucky, you shelter vegetables from frost by keeping them in seed form in the packets. Nothing grows in winter except resentment and a sense of isolation. In depictions of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow you don’t see anyone eating carrots. Stoke the fire and put your feet up.

Dear RG, I am finding winter grass-

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es and weeds creeping through my lawn. What do you recommend? Yours, Unsuspecting.

Dear Unsuspecting, I recommend a thick layer of concrete across the entire area. It is much easier to manage, not prone to weeds of any description and your reduced mowing expenses will offset the cost. Concrete has the added advantage of not causing you to stumble when you return from a night out somewhat later than expected.

Dear RG, we are a young, attractive couple but my girlfriend is only drawn to portly, middle-aged layabouts. What should I do? Yours, Randy.

Dear Randy, your correspondence seems misdirected. Nevertheless forward your details.

Dear RG, how best should I prepare garden beds ready for spring, and is organic fertiliser best? Yours, The Nitro-

gen Kid. Dear Kid, leaving garden beds fallow for 12 months of the year is best for them and you. Resisting the urge towards spring planting should also be fastidiously observed year-round. Tormenting the ground only creates an expectation among household members and neighbours that you intend to further disrupt the topsoil with foliage or some other exercise in futility. As for organic ferti-

` Dear Frosty, succulents don’t thrive at the best of times, they just sit there looking like God ran out of ideas. They are the warthogs of the plant kingdom. If there’s nothing on TV have a hot bath.

liser I find that urine dispensed under cover of darkness upon returning from a night out somewhat later than expected is more than sufficient.

Dear RG, is it good etiquette to trim that part of a neighbour’s tree that hangs into my yard? Yours, Earnest.

Dear Earnest, next you’ll be mowing their lawn. It’s their tree, why pain yourself to go tearing at it like some sort of over-zealous woodpecker. I find snoozing on the lounge in the sun helps me mind my own business. I strongly recommend it to you. For the record, trees that require their leaves to be raked, their branches pruned or any other intrusion on reading time would ideally be trimmed close to ground level by a trained chainsaw professional.

Send your questions to: The Resentful Gardener, c/- the sunroom near the wine cupboard.

Many failing to screen for bowel cancer, second most common cancer

BY SARAH WIEDERSEHN

2016 LONGER LIFE

SYDNEY: Australians over the age of 50 are failing to participate in potentially life-saving bowel cancer screening.

The participation rate for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) remains “alarmingly” low, according to the latest data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

The AIHW report, released on Wednesday, shows just 37 per cent

of the 2.2 million eligible for screening between January 2013 and December 2014 participated in the screening program.

This is slightly higher than the previous two-year period, at 36 per cent, but participation has remained largely stagnant, a major fail according to Bowel Cancer Australia.

“With the money that’s been poured into the program now, with awareness programs specifically targeting this program we’re not seeing much of a blip for the invest-

ment,” said Julien Wiggins, Bowel Cancer Australia CEO. The NBCSP, aimed at reducing bowel cancer deaths in Australia, began in 2006. People aged between 50 and 74 are invited to take the screening test every two years.

Participation in the program has steadily declined following a high of 43.5 per cent in 2007, despite bowel cancer being the second most common cancer in both men and women in Australia.

According to the AIHW report, the

re-participation rate for people who had taken part in an earlier invitation round was 74 per cent.

In 2014, about 35,000 Australians returned a positive screening test.

Of this group 73 per cent reported a follow-up diagnostic assessment, and the average time from a positive screening test to diagnosis was 55 days.

The test may be messy and embarrassing to some but it could potentially save your life, Wiggins AAP said.

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A family tradition A love of writing and travel has allowed Dubbo woman Debbie Dixon to follow in her mother’s and grandmother’s footsteps, both figuratively and literally. She talked to NATALIE HOLMES about how these shared interests have led her to a new calling as a budding author.

IKE her mother and grandmother before her, Debbie Dixon loves to read, and she loves to write. She has already started turning her mother’s story into a book, and one day, hopes to do the same for her grandmother.

Debbie was always a lover of literature. Growing up in leafy Paddington, in Sydney’s now trendy inner eastern suburbs, she enjoyed losing herself in the world of books and was a regular at the local library.

“We rented a terrace house which used to be in a slum area, became a family area and it’s now trendy,” she explained.

“I read a lot, I loved writing stories and I’d go to the library every Saturday morning. It was in the Paddington Town Hall and I would walk there.

“It was the ‘60s and ‘70s so I read a lot about the space program. I also read historical fiction, about Henry VIII and the Stuart and Tudor era.”

Dancing was also a popular pastime and Debbie did ballet as a young girl.

Although she has two older sisters from her father’s first marriage, Debbie didn’t see them much as she was growing up and was very closer to her Mum and Gran.

“Dad was widowed and was a fair bit older than Mum. Janice was 15 and Dianne was 13 when Mum and Dad met.”

As such, she was very close to her mum Hilda and grandmother Mary, and there were many parallels between their lives, including their maternal relationships.

“Gran had one daughter and that was Mum, and then Mum had one daughter and that was me,” she said.

Debbie was just a toddler when her grandmother emigrated from England.

They would spend a lot of time together until her Gran’s death when Debbie was 13.

“Mum went back to work and Gran would look after me. She would help me get ready for school each day. I went to an all-girls Catholic school although boys were allowed in primary school.

English was my best subject and I did French too.”

After school, they would play draughts and go on bus trips together. Her grandmother loved a bargain lunch and would take her to less upmarket eateries than her mother.

She was thrifty after growing up in Yorkshire in England in a working class community called Bradford.

“It was a coal mining area, along with wool and textiles. It was very industrial,” Debbie explained.

It wasn’t the easiest start to life.

“She became an orphan at the age of eight after losing her mother when she was seven and her father the following year. She went to live with her aunt and uncle.

“She did service in Edwardian times and lived through two World Wars and the Depression.”

Many years later, her passage to Australia was by ship and lasted six weeks.

During that time, she wrote letters back home describing the journey. Some of these are now in Debbie’s possession.

“I’ve got a lot of Gran’s letters. She came out by ocean liner, it took several weeks. Gran used to travel a bit around

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England but she never flew around Eu“I wanted to get into nursing and berope or anything.” come a Registered Nurse.”

Her daughter Hilda’s shift to Australia She worked initially at St Vincent’s, some 15 years earlier was vastly differ- followed by the Prince of Wales, both ent in terms of travel.

Sydney-based hospitals.

“Mum came from England in 1948.

“I trained in surgical and patient care, That was a big deal and a big adventure but wanted to get into the operating for a 22-year-old,” Debbie said. theatre.”

“Her flight to AustralDebbie was working ia took five days and she in coronary care when ` came on Qantas Empire a theatre position came Mum’s Airways. They called it up. She got the job and grandmother the Kangaroo Route beworked there for many was a clairvoyant years before moving west cause it bounced from country to country. to Wallerawang and later who used to “They stopped in Rome Dubbo. deliver babies and Singapore, she talked During that time, she even though she about the food on the resumed dancing and met wasn’t a nurse plane, of having bacon, her first husband Geoff eggs, chocolate cake, through the ballroom or a midwife. white bread – all things style.

She would make that had been scarce in “We did a bit of comup a poultice if post-war England. peting and did reasonably someone had a “To my mother, Australwell dancing Latin Ameriia was a country that was can and New Vogue. “We wound and also like England except they had the costumes, the used to lay people weren’t rationed.” whole bit.”

In a highly unusual out after they died.

Travel was another pasmove for the time, Hilda’s sion the three generaBritish employer – a washing machine tions of women shared. Mary preferred repair company called Wilkins Servis – domestic trips go p while Hilda loved to g actually sponsored her to move to Ausoverseas. Debbie has travelled overseas tralia to work in their new w office. as well, and says Hawaii has been a “Job loyalty meant a lot in those days,” family favourite destination.

Debbie explained.

In 2014, two years after losing her be“They wanted to open an Australian loved mum, Debbie actually revisited office in Sydney and wanted ed someone to her home county of Yorkshire in northwork there. They knew she he could do the east England, spending two months in work and not let them down.” wn.” the country of her mother’s birth. She Young Hilda, who had gone to busialso visited Ireland, where her paterness school and been trained as a nal grandfather was born. shorthand typist, had nothing to tie “Mum was diagnosed with her down in England so she seized the cancer and died within a few opportunity. months. She was 85.”

“She told me that all herr teenage years “Nothing happened for a few were war years,” Debbie mused. years but then I decided that “It was a difficult time and ruined any I wanted to go there and see freedom they had.” where Mum had lived. I’d al“She had been engaged but that didn’t ready seen where she grew work out and her father died ied during the up.” war through illness.

Debbie saw that it was “England wasn’t in a good ood state and different than how she then she got the job offer.”” remembered.

Like Debbie, Hilda spent nt a lot of time “I saw Mum’s house, I with her grandmother as a child. got to see all of that “Her granny helped bring ng her up. A lot but Bradford had of women were working so o it wasn’t unchanged.” usual. Mum’s grandmother er was a clairDebbie went voyant who used to deliver er babies even to see her though she wasn’t a nursee or a midwife. mother’s She would make up a poultice ultice if somecousin Glaone had a wound and also so used to lay dys who people out after they died.” d.” was 92 Like her mother and her daughter, at the Hilda was a wordsmith.

“Mum was always a reader and a writer herself. She could read a book in a day. And nd she would write home to England ngland quite often. But there were no computers, only typewriters.” ers.”

Her letters were transcribed scribed and typed by a friend to give to her family.

“There were no emailss at that time and telephone calls were expensive. Even on the flight ight over here, she was writing the he whole time. She would also write ite to me after I left Sydney.”

After her schooling, Debbie ebbie was keen to enter the medical profession.

time.

“She told me she remembered pushing Mum in her pram as a baby.

“They had always remained in contact and would ring each other on birthdays and Christmas, as well as sending letters.”

Hilda also wrote stories when she was younger. “She said to me ‘I should write my memoirs.”

Last year, Debbie decided to honour her Mum’s wish to have her story told and started writing the Memoirs of Hilda: Memories of 85 Years Times Past.

Sadly, Hilda was diagnosed with macular degeneration which affected her sight to the point where she was almost blind, and it became impossible for her to accomplish reading and writing, knitting and crochet, activities which were sorely missed.

“I thought I should write them. She wanted to do it and couldn’t do it.

“She had told me anecdotes of civilians putting out fires during the war, of being in warehouses in the pitch black at night where you could hear the rats scratching and how you’d get to know the engines of the planes as they passed overhead.”

The book is now a work in progress and continues to grow.

“There’s a lot of richness there and I like writing so I’m enjoying it.”

“I’m writing what she was never able to do.

“Once I’ve got this one done, I want to do my grandmother’s story.”

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July 15, 2016

July 18, 2016

Asbestos register: time running out

“Meat” the new government

Dear Editor, These days, there’s a test for almost every health threat imaginable: mammograms; blood pressure checks; even bowel cancer screening kits you can mail in for testing.

But there’s one test you won’t read about in a doctor’s waiting room, and it could save your life.

Loose-fill asbestos testing is being offered by the State Government for free until August 1 across more than 60 local government areas, in a bid to eradicate the threat from New South Wales homes.

I deal with the effects of asbestos-related disease every day in my job – it is an invisible killer; a ticking time-bomb with no cure that only shows symptoms after it’s too late.

Taking up the government’s free loose-fill asbestos testing offer will save you more than $1,000, but could also potentially save you and your family’s lives.

Register before it’s too late: www. loosefillasbestos.nsw.gov.au or call 13 77 88.

Regards, Tim Gauci, Senior Asbestos Lawyer, Slater and Gordon •••

Dear Editor, If Prime Minister Turnbull and his new government want to have a lasting impact on Australia – and the world -he will campaign to cut Australia’s meat consumption by at least 50 per cent, much like the Chinese government is doing.

Australians eats more meat than people in any other country. We devoured more than 90 kilograms of meat per capita in 2014. That’s not something to be proud about. The Chinese eat about 60kg per capita and are planning a campaign to reduce that by half. Eating meat causes immense animal suffering, life-threatening health problems, and widespread environmental destruction.

Research shows that meat-eaters are responsible for approximately 2.5 times as many food-related greenhouse-gas emissions as vegans, and that the demand for meat will cause more worldwide species extinctions than any other factor.

The Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna believes that the only way to meet the expected global food demand in the year 2050 -- without sacrificing any more forests – is for everyone to go vegan.

Mr Turnbull’s new ministry should

start off on the right foot by encouraging Australians to do our part to stop animal suffering and save the environment by eating healthy meat-free meals.

For more information and free vegan recipes, see PETA.org.au.

Sincerely, Ashley Fruno, Associate Director PETA Australia ••• July 20, 2016

Embrace Humanity Dear Editor, The lens we choose to look through determines our perception of reality.

Over the last few days, I have watched and listened to some people quickly judging and abandoning our Muslim community.

People, who choose to view the world through the frame of one lens, have only a one dimensional view of reality.

One dimensional people have little experience with the Muslim community and perpetuate racism based on media commentary which only represents one experience and focuses on the extreme.

If we look through a one dimensional lens we risk becoming the voices of contempt, judgement, and irrationality.

The challenge for me is to view the world through many lenses to acknowledge the diversity within our country.

If I look through the lens of the evil acts of the Lindt Café, of a police accountant murdered, of the recent inci-

dents in France and Germany and the reality of I.S. – I see brutality and evil and denounce these acts with every fibre of my being.

If I look through the lens at our Border Protection I see a conflicting reality where we must ruthlessly scrutinise anyone who try to enter our country whilst keeping in mind those who need our refuge and support. If I look through the lens of the young Muslim people I see they feel judged and threatened, unsure whether they should venture outside their home because of the verbal abuse and racism of a small minority.

When I look through the lens of mainstream Australians I see the desire for peace and acceptance of all people.

When I look through the lens of mainstream Muslim community, I see decent people who value Australia and its values and we cannot label them with the experience of terrorists and pure evil.

I work across many communities and with many young Muslim kids. I have some of the best youth workers, some of whom are Muslim, and they work with all young people regardless of their backgrounds.

We must embrace our common humanity and as a united community, shout down the evil done around the world from extremists.

Father Chris Riley, CEO and Founder of Youth Off The Streets

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Steve Jewell: The Piano Man He may have chosen medicine as a career, but music has resonated throughout the life of retired GP Steve Jewell. He told NATALIE HOLMES that he’s been playing piano for more than 50 years and wouldn’t have it any other way.

I was born in 1948. My mother was an amateur piano player and we had a piano at home which I played. Dad was into country music and Mum was into more popular tunes. I learned little one note tunes as a kid at the age of about six or seven. I had lessons after going into high school but I was mainly self-taught.

At home, we would play music in the evenings. It was before television and music on the radio was the only entertainment we had.

The ‘50s was a big time for jazz. It was also a good time for popular tunes.

I used to play the hit parade at 6 o’clock every night. I was rushing home to the radio even when I was eight years old.

There are tunes that are everlasting, even today. Artists like Harry Belafonte, Paul Archer, the Everly Brothers. I think we had a greater appreciation for them because we didn’t have a television.

I went to school at the Fort Street High School at Petersham in Sydney. We had a really good teacher, his name was Denis Condon. He had the finest collection of 8000 piano rolls made in the early 20th century, between 1905 and 1930. The music students were invited to his place to listen to them, which was a real privilege. He had all the classics.

That was an important part of my musical education. An American university has now taken over his collection (since his death) providing a worthy home.

In my teenage years, I started playing in an Italian pop group. It was in 19681969. They used to send music over from Italy, I had to learn all my chords in Italian. I was about 20 at the time.

I was a friend of the bass player in the Herbie Marks Trio. He was a big Jewish man, a piano accordion player. I used to sit backstage at their gigs, just a nervous boy who loved music.

I moved to Dubbo in 1976 and we got the Dubbo Jazz Band together. We played together for 30 years. My experience with the Dubbo Jazz Band took us to lots of towns. I was also in the Antiquity Trio with Ross Tighe on drums and John Pike on clarinet/saxophone.

Jazz was already in regional areas by then. There were also dance bands such as Frank Bourke and the White Rose Orchestra. There’s been some sort of jazz

Steve Jewell pictured middle, as part of the Steve Jewell Trio. PHOTO: DUBBO JAZZ FESTIVAL/ FILE

in Australia for a long time, since the 1920s. Jazz can also be how you play a tune.

Myself and two others, Warwick Blowes and Geoff de la Lande, cofounded the Dubbo Jazz Festival in 1991. I was involved with that for about eight or nine years. Then Ross Tighe became the key organiser and he did a

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wonderful job. In bringing the music to Dubbo, we already had an active jazz band so it was the next step. Being a big inland city, there were lots of suitable venues. We started with a few pubs and then moved to the RSL. Over the years, we were able to attract a few international acts, from Hungary, Italy, Scandinavia and the Czech Republic. Another

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coup was hosting the Australian Jazz Convention, Dubbo had it in 1970. It’s up to the 71st convention now and is the longest running of its kind in the whole world.

We weren’t the first ones to have a jazz festival. Parkes had at least 18 festivals and Newcastle and Merimbula are big jazz venues. The jazz festival phenomenon is alive and well. I’ve been to hundreds of jazz festivals throughout Australia and played with many different musicians. Merimbula draws 140 bands while the Australian Jazz Convention featured 150 bands. The most famous person I met was Graeme Bell, a legend of Australian jazz, who died at the age of 97. We didn’t actually get to play together because we are both piano players but we shared the same stage.

He was the first person to take Australian jazz overseas. I have played in the South Pacific region – Fiji, Norfolk Island and New Zealand.

As a soloist, the highlight was to be one of 12 musicians to do a solo recital at the last Australian Jazz Convention in Ballarat last Christmas. We played for 20 minutes each and I did four pieces. One of my great moments recently was when I did a three-hour harbour cruise with a grand piano and a wonderful singer.

My favourite music is actually classical even though I have a wide appreciation of music. Chopin is my favourite classical composer. But what I love about jazz is that it’s got a basic melody and form but you are completely free to improvise, there’s a world of opportunity for that. I’m not classically trained and I’m largely music dependent. When I play, I can follow the progression of the melody and chords. Everything else you make up as you go.

I’ve been playing for over 50 years and my plan is to keep playing for as long as I can. What I really enjoy playing is the slightly forgotten piano tunes of yesteryear. One of my jobs in life is to find them and resurrect them. There’s about 300,000 tunes and I’ve played about 800 of them. People think jazz is dead but it’s not even close to dying. It’s alive and kicking.

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Business & Rural

DIGITALLY ENHANCED.

NBN speeds explained

BY MATHEW DICKERSON SMALL BUSINESS RULES CONSULTANT

HE 93.1 per cent of people in our region that use the Internet are mostly very excited about the current rollout of the NBN (National Broadband Network). With promises of cheaper connections that are more reliable it does sound fantastic. Speed is obviously a major attraction as well and this is the area I want to focus on. You will regularly see promises of download speeds of 100Mbps available with Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) NBN. What does this number actually mean? Most people in our area have been using a form of ADSL which has offered maximum theoretical download speeds of 8Mbps or 20Mbps. 100 is a bigger number than 20 so this NBN thing must be a good idea!

The Internet is a complicated beast. There are 75 million servers across the world that deliver the data that we request. How these servers are connected to the Internet is critical to the experience we all have as Internet users.

When we see speeds quoted as 100Mbps that is really just a measurement of the connection speed between our local exchange and the router in our home or business. The NBN speed means that suddenly the speed of delivery to our premises has increased by a factor of five to fifteen. That is not per cent – that is a multiple. In some areas of Dubbo, real-world download speeds have increased by over 30 times compared to the previous speeds.

This places increasing pressure on other areas of Internet

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infrastructure. Having speeds of water pipe.

The Internet works in a similar 100Mbps from your Exchange to your house is a waste of time if way and you will often hear conthe server farm you want to ac- tention rates quoted of 20:1 right cess information from has an up- up to 50:1 and higher. Contention load speed that is not capable of rates are also often called oversubscription rates. The logic is delivering this.

The world seems to like using that the infrastructure does not water analogies with the Internet need to be built to the level that so I won’t stray from the concept. every connected premises is usImagine that you have a 20mm ing the full potential of their link water pipe from the water tow- all the time. A 20:1 contention er to your house. If you install a rate means that if every connec100mm water pipe from your wa- tion was at its maximum capacity, ter meter to your bathroom, it will it would be 20 times the capacity not allow a sudden increase in the available. To keep infrastructure flow of water when you are belt- costs at a reasonable level, this ing out your morning tunes in the is sensible but you really see the shower. The bottleneck in this impact of this when school fincase is the water mains feeding ishes and students come home and jump straight the actual house. on their computers – What is more ` obviously to do their common in the The 4pm homework.

Internet world is the The 4pm slowconcept that not all slowdown is down is famous users on a link are famous across the across the nation and using the Internet to its maximum at nation and comes comes down to those down to those contention rates. the same time. To stay with the wacontention rates. At this time of day, the average number ter example, imagAt this time of of computers using ine a 100mm water day, the average all of the potential mains from a water bandwidth increastower that was used number of to service 50 houscomputers using es dramatically and the theoretical es with each house all of the potential hence capacity is not able having a 20mm wabandwidth to be delivered. ter pipe from the Going one step water meter into increases deeper into the the house. If only dramatically world of Internet inone house turned and hence the frastructure, if you on the shower, that theoretical assume your conperson would renection between the ceive the full volcapacity is Exchange and your ume of water as not able to be house is able to delivthere would be the delivered. available capacity er to your theoretical speed, consider the of 100mm flowing connection of the server farm you into a 20mm pipe.

Now imagine everyone having a are trying to access. Bandwidth shower at 7.30am. The 50 houses capabilities at this level also have would be sharing 100mm of wa- a contention rate but there are ter mains meaning that each po- times when demand outstrips the tential Pavarotti would receive a potential capabilities.

When you hear of a certain dribble of only an effective 2mm

trend or activity ‘crashing’ a Web site, it is normally a reference to the fact that the bandwidth capabilities of that server have been exceeded and the information is just not able to be accessed quickly enough.

The Internet is a global network.

That means that we don’t just look at Web sites or access data from within Australia. In fact, we don’t often think about where our data is coming from – we just want to access it.

Dragging data between continents is the current major challenge which faster end-user connections is presenting. Satellites may initially seem like a good idea, but the fact that geostationary satellites orbit at 35,786km above the earth results in very poor latency. This latency is simply unacceptable by the Internet community. The solution is an incredible network of undersea (or submarine) cables.

Many years ago Google saw that this was a major potential issue for their business model and started investing in undersea cables. In 2010 the trans-Pacific Unity cable was Google’s first investment and it had a capacity of 7.68Tbps (Terabits per second). This was massive capacity at the time but, with demand continuing to grow at incredible rates (41 per cent in Australia last year) the Faster Consortium – of which Google is the major player – has just announced their latest undersea cable.

The link between the US and Japan is the highest capacity undersea cable built to date with 60Tbps. That will soon be dwarfed though with a joint announcement by Microsoft and Facebook that they are about to start construction of ‘Marea’ which will offer speeds of 160Tbps.

All of this is being built so you don’t have to wait too long when you go hunting for Pikachu when playing Pokémon Go!

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Draft route plans for potential Burrendong pipeline on public exhibition T HE interim Western Plains Regional Council has placed draft route plans of a proposed future pipeline from Burrendong Dam to the John Gilbert Water Treatment Plant at Dubbo, via the Wellington Water Treatment Plant and Geurie on public exhibition for community comment.

The draft route plans can be viewed at Council’s administration centres in Dubbo and Wellington, the Dubbo and Wellington branch libraries, Geurie general store and are available on Council’s website www.westernplains.nsw.gov. au. Submissions close August 26, 2016.

Council’s director technical services Stewart McLeod said inviting comment on the draft routes is another step in the planning process for such a pipeline to be considered in the future.

“The Millennium drought which occurred from 2002 to 2010 was such a significant event, that the former Dubbo City Council started investigating water security strategies to secure water supply for such severe drought conditions,” McLeod said.

“One such strategy is the construction of a pipeline from the largest water source in the area, Burrendong Dam, to directly supply Wellington and Dubbo,”

McLeod said.

“Even in the most severe drought it is expected that enough rain would fall in the headwaters of the Macquarie and Cudgegong Rivers around Mudgee, Rylstone, Lithgow and Oberon to maintain at least a small pool in Burrendong Dam from which town water could be drawn,” he said.

“The pipeline routes tend to follow the direction of the river and will be within a few kilometres of the river,” he said.

Getting down to small business with new minister AUSTRALIAN Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) Kate Carnell has congratulated incoming Small Business Minister Michael McCormack on his new appointment, and has welcomed the Prime Minister’s pledge to make small business engagement a key performance measure of his Government.

Carnell said she will look to meet with the incoming Minister in the near future, to brief him on the work of the ASBFEO office, and the pressing issues facing the sector.

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“Mr McCormack will be a strong advocate for the sector, particularly in rural and regional areas; I congratulate him on his new role and look forward to working with him to assist in the continued creation of policy and legislation that allows this vital sector to grow, innovate and employ,” Ms Carnell said.

“I’d like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the outgoing Small Business Minister Kelly O’Dwyer who has done an outstanding job in raising the profile of small business issues, particularly in highlighting the impact the recent Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal’s (RSRT) Payments Order had on mum-and-dad small business operators,” she said.

Carnell said she expects the term of the 45th Parliament to be an exciting and productive one for the small business sector.

“Government is the art of the possible, and certainly the passage of legislation giving tax breaks to businesses with an annual turnover of up to $10 million will be a huge win and a strong vote of confidence for small business.

“I’m also optimistic about the implementation of the competition effects test, and am hopeful of seeing parliamentary support for the Government’s youth jobs PaTH programme,” she said.

Community Announcement – Salvation Army THE Salvation Army in Dubbo is offering help this year. If your tax affairs are simple and you earn around $50,000 this might be an easy way to have your tax return processed at no cost by a Tax Help Volunteer.

All you have to do is create a MyGov account linked to the ATO online then contact the Salvation Army Community Services Centre to make an appointment on 6884 3079 (ext. 102)

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Would your small business Business in pass its digital interview? changing times HE digital economy is here and you can either jump on the bus and enjoy the ride or you can ignore it and start going backwards.

As small business advisors, we recommend to our clients that they strongly assess their strategy or suffer the consequences. Whether you are a small business accountant or any other type of business, you need to look at what is going on around you and act where appropriate.

My mother is almost 76 years old and in 2004, having left the farm in Peak Hill with my father to retire, we decided that we should get her a computer and the internet. They had used the party line phones, as most had done in rural Australia up until the mid-1970s (you had to listen for your Morse Code type ring before answering), and

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you also knew that others could be listening to conversations as the lines were not secure.

Sometimes this was confirmed with the odd “Wow congratulations! (whoops – sorry)” from an uninvited caller unexpectedly joining the conversation, and sometimes a hearty burp could give them away also.

Apart from this, a fax machine and a mirror reflected into the sun from almost two miles away to let my father on the tractor know that lunch was ready, that was about it!

Today she is a technology warrior and has taught herself to stay in touch with the world with various modes of communication, most of them being digital, showing that anyone can take these up.

Here are some tips about why technology today is relevant and should never be underestimated.

1. Maintaining a great reputation MOST sites these days will have reviews about your business.

The first thing that most people do when considering to do business with you or not is to do a search on Google and look for feedback.

Try putting in your business name and see what feedback there is. Do you have any testimonials on your site as this will be one of the major areas that people seek.

2. Staying in touch with your existing customers MAINTAINING contact with existing customers is paramount to keeping their business and selling more of your products or services. Acquiring new customers is a much more expensive way to increase revenue so by using technology such

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How many of these do you use?

3. Failure to act will see your business left behind MOST companies that wish to stay ahead are using social media and have a strategy on how to best use these platforms.

Statistics show that these companies in small business are on the rise compared to their competitors.

Sticking your head in the sand is not a good idea when it comes to assessing technology.

4. Why digital is so important for data mining HAVING things such as a ‘sticky’ website that encourages people to sign up for newsletters, updates, etc. will often give you information about these potential customers so you can mine these accordingly. Location, age, interests, etc. can all be captured so that you can then follow them up with more rele-

vant marketing material specific to their needs, getting them to a converted sale. You can then use this information in a Customer Relationship Management System to sort through the data and use various filters which are usually via the internet these days.

5. Using cloud technology THE digital economy includes cloud technology and various accounting systems such as Xero that are making it easier and faster to assess the strength of a business’s financial performance and position. Your small business accountants should be all over this.

Adopting the cloud will almost invariably find efficiencies and improve the bottom line when it comes to profitability and cash flow.

Conclusion: Is your business keeping up with an ever changing technology world? What is your strategy and how are you implementing it?

Failure to assess is dangerous.

Failure to implement could be terminal.

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TREATED WELL Three of Dubbo’s newest chiropractors reflect on country living and healthcare

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

OR years Dubbo has been a backwater when it comes to attracting medical and allied health professionals.

Dubbo Base Hospital was in an endless cycle of spending much of its budget on fly-in, flyout locums at huge expense, which threatened continuity of care and the ability to keep funding specialists to use the city as a cash cow.

Now things have turned around, with the University of Sydney Clinical School introducing medical students to the city at the same time the hospital is undergoing multiple multimillion dollar upgrades to establish it as a real medical hub for western NSW. As Dubbo’s base of professional jobs grows, that attracts more and more professionals to the city.

In recent months, in just one practice, three new chiropractors have moved to town.

Sophie Parish grew up in the city but like many young people she went off to Sydney for university training.

“I went away for six years, five years studying and then I worked in Sydney for about seven months and decided it wasn’t exactly what I wanted and then decided to come back and give Dubbo a go,” Sophie said.

She didn’t arrive home alone, bringing her chiropractic boyfriend and another uni mate along for the early life tree change.

“I love it, like, chiropractic has been what I wanted to do since I was Year 10 at high school, it’s good having the boys’ support, we’ve come back to Dubbo and we really enjoy treating holistically, having a whole body approach, functional movement, functional bodies, I think is really important for a lot of people.”

She said she’s happy with how she’s slipped back into country life but is amazed how well her two workmates have adapted, with neither having any rural background at all.

“It’s really important that they’re enjoying it and I knew that they would, a lot of people in Sydney asked me how do you live in the country, it’s so boring and there’s nothing to do – especially when I decided to come back people were how are you going to cope without the lifestyle that you’ve been living - it’s just so different, yes, there’s a lot that Sydney has to offer but I think Dubbo still has a lot of that and I think you can lead a more active way of life out here than in the city,” Sophie said.

“In terms of quality of life, you’ve got a lot more in Dubbo, quality of life in terms of not being stuck in traffic, I used to up to an hour and a half every day, one-way to work, so that’s three hours out of my life that I wasn’t getting back, now I’ve got quality of life, I can get my gym in, I get time with my friends and I can save a lot more money here to go and travel not just to go to Sydney to visit people and do things but also around the world as well if I want to do that.”

Todd Daniels is an unlikely candidate for a

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Tree Change.

He grew up in a desirable Sydney suburb and studied for his chiropractic degree for y years, then up and moved to Dubbo after Sophie told him about the job.

“I grew up in Sydney on the northern beaches and there was a lot of traffic going on there and I thought I should try something different and my girlfriend used to work here so when I found out about the job I thought I’d come out and give it a bit of a go,” Daniels said.

“I came out and really liked it, it gelled with me and sat well with my heart so I thought it would be the best opportunity for me to get as much experience as I possibly could,” he said.

“I’d been to Dubbo a couple of times before, I’ve got a couple of mates with farms out here so I knew what it was like but I guess I didn’t know how big it was, and I think there’s a lot more to it now that I’m living here, I’m finding there’s a lot more to it so in terms of having ideas about it I really didn’t know what I was in for.

“I’m loving it so far, just to get to work in Sydney was anywhere between half an hour to an hour, anywhere between them, depending on how many car crashes along the way and right now it’s probably taking me about two minutes to get to work in Dubbo so that’s perfect, I love it.

Todd also loves the range of patients, the fact he can deal with such a diverse group of people and also see so many patients compared to the opportunities in a Sydney practice.

“I think a lot of our clients are appreciative of the fact that we were willing to move out to the country, and also give them the time to look at different things,” Mr Daniels said.

“What I love most about my job is I can spend 15 or 20 minutes extra with a patient to make sure they’re getting complete satisfaction, but also make sure I’m hitting all the points they want me to hit, as well, that’s what I love most of all.

Alvin Goh was brought up in Singapore and received a major cultural shock when he first moved to Sydney to start his five year chiropractic course at Macquarie University, four years for a bachelor and a final fifth year to

` Out in Dubbo you also get a lot of farmers, miners and other people from different manual occupations and you don’t really get a chance to treat cases like that in the city and as well as helping our patients, that varied experience also helps us grow as professionals because we have got to keep thinking on our feet all the time, every day is different and it’s a never-ending learning process

obtain his masters.

“When I moved from Singapore to Sydney you know, I thought the pace of life was a bit slow and then from there I’ve come up here,” Alvin said, thinking he’d like to make a country move to try a different style of life, “I just decided to stay on to get a bit more experience and see where life takes me.”

“All these different experiences help with my independence and adaptability as well and that’s sort of what I bring to my approach in treating clients as well – you don’t get the same person walking in for each appointment so you have to cater for each individual.

“I’m enjoying it. People are friendly here and sometimes you just really need to slow your pace down and take a step back and watch – technology’s a wonderful thing but sometimes you’ve got to remember not to be too immersed in that - there’s a reality to live in.”

Alvin said he’s always been interested in allied health and he believes in looking at whole of life problems rather than just a quick consultation to try and sort out the immediate problem that many patients present with.

“I believe there’s a place for different sorts of health care, you can’t just look at one problem and have one approach treating everything, one size doesn’t fit all and that’s what we try to do as well,” Alvin said.

“When clients come in we run them through a thorough checkup and examination and from then on we determine where the main issue lies and if there are other complicating factors as well and that’s why we enjoy spending a bit more time with our patients, getting to know each other better, getting to have a detailed look and see what the best method of treatment is.”

That’s where he likes the country practice, where he has the time to get to know about his clients’ lives, and about them as people, rather than just operate on the minimum appointments so favored by the financial imperatives of our modern day health system.

“Having time, this sort of setting gives us quality time, a lot of time when you go for a medical consultation they don’t even look you in the eye, you know, you talk to them and they’re just looking at the script writing down what you say and that’s good, alright, I’ve got my information, off you go,” Alvin said.

“What we do here, listening is part of the job as well and sometimes people get too focused and don’t look outside at the big picture – and the greatest satisfaction really comes from when we’ve got clients coming in saying how much they’ve improved and how well they’re feeling now after going through a whole heap of different health care providers.

“Out in Dubbo you also get a lot of farmers, miners and other people from different manual occupations and you don’t really get a chance to treat cases like that in the city and as well as helping our patients, that varied experience also helps us grow as professionals because we have got to keep thinking on our feet all the time, every day is different and it’s a never-ending learning process,” he said.

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HEALTH.

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Cancer Council NSW webinar tackles issue of often unspoken, ‘survivor guilt’ A S awareness of the often unspoken issue of ‘survivor guilt’ continues to grow in Australia, Cancer Council NSW invites all Western NSW cancer survivors to join a free webinar, “The Guilt of Surviving Cancer – ‘Why do I feel guilty?’”

Cancer Council NSW’s webinar comes as recent research identified that the issue of survivor guilt is becoming more common amongst cancer survivors, and that better support is needed to help them deal with the sense of guilt that can come with surviving the disease.

The webinar offers a platform for survivors to explore the issues surrounding survivor guilt and share their own experiences with others dealing with similar feelings.

Jill Mills, from the Survivorship team at Cancer Council NSW said that the feeling of ‘survivor guilt’ is more common than most people think.

“Surviving cancer and feeling guilty can be an unexpected emotion and many cancer patients struggle with feelings of guilt after their treatment has finished. In fact, there’s a common psychosocial challenge where the feelings of guilt are often mixed up with feelings of grief. We hear from many cancer survivors about the struggle to comprehend why they have survived while others don’t.

“Survivors in Western NSW who join the webinar will be able to hear medical experts discuss current ‘survivor guilt’ research and provide strategies on how to deal with feelings of guilt and where they can seek help to work through those feelings.

“They will also hear from a cancer survivor and his partner who will share their personal stories and offer tips on how to manage the feelings of survivor guilt, after cancer and into the future,” added Mills.

Esteemed international and national speakers will feature on the webinar panel, including; Ian Olver a medical oncologist, Maxine Rosenfield a psychotherapist, Ben Bravery a cancer survivor and Ben’s partner Sana Qadar.

“Survivorship is as important as ever with recent estimates showing the number of Australians living with cancer or having survived a diagnosis has exceeded one million. It’s important that as ‘survivor guilt’ gains more exposure, we continue the conversation on how to manage these feelings and offer our support to survivors,” continued Mills.

Cancer Council NSW’s webinar will take place on Thursday July 28 between 7pm and 8pm AEST. It is open to people of any age who have been affected by cancer, either as a patient, family member or carer and participants can log on from anywhere around Australia.

Following the live discussion from the speakers, participants will be able to take part in a live Q&A, and a link to the recorded webinar will be emailed to all registrants.

To register to take part in Cancer Council NSW’s webinar, or to find out about other upcoming Cancer Council NSW webinars visit: www.cancercouncil.com. au/get-support/webinars/

Doctors welcome new Assistant Minister for Rural Health THE Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has welcomed the appointment of Dr David Gillespie MP as the Federal Assistant Minister for Rural Health.

“We are pleased to see Dr Gillespie taking on the crucial portfolio responsibility of Rural Health” RDAA President, Dr Ewen McPhee, said.

“He and his family have lived in regional NSW for many years, and before entering Parliament he had a 33-year career in medical practice. Dr Gillespie was also active in Postgraduate Medical Training as director of physician training at Port Macquarie Base Hospital and also lectured and tutored at the UNSW Rural Medical School.

“Given a key issue for us going forward will be working with the Federal Government as it develops and implements a National Rural Generalist Pathway … it will be great to have someone with Dr Gillespie’s experience to drive this forward.

“We also look forward to working with Dr Gillespie to bring into place the role of National Rural Health Commissioner … and to drive forward many critical policy measures to attract and

Webinar guest speakers

Ben Bravery Ben was diagnosed with stage three colorectal cancer in 2011 at the age of 28. Ben had radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy and this July marks 5 years since the surgery that removed his primary tumour. Ben has been involved in a support group for young adults with colorectal cancer and volunteers as an advocate for people living with cancer across a variety of organisations. Ben is currently studying medicine but is no closer to working out why he survived cancer and others don’t.

Sana Qadar Sana was 22 when Ben Bravery, her partner of 5 months, was diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

She is a Canadian TV and radio journalist, currently a reporter at SBS. She often thinks about what it means for Ben to have survived cancer and the ongoing impact of the diagnosis and treatment on herself and their relationship. Her experience as Ben’s carer, and losing a close friend to melanoma two years ago, means that cancer is never far from her mind.

Ian Olver AM Ian Olver AM is a medical oncologist, bioethicist and researcher. He is currently Professor of Translational Cancer Research, Director, Sansom Institute for Health Research and Dean, Research Strategy in the Di- v ision of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, where he heads up a psycho-oncology research team. He currently chairs the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the NHMRC and sits on NHMRC Council. He is

HEALTH IN BRIEF retain more much-needed doctors in rural and remote areas.

“And while we are disappointed to see the Rural Health portfolio lost from Cabinet … We look forward to continuing to work with [Nash] in her wider Regional Development and Regional Communications portfolios,” McPhee said.

The inaugural 2016 Australian Mental Health Prize “ONE in five Australians will experience mental illness in any given year, with sixty-five per cent of people not accessing treatment to support them with this lived experience,” says Professor Philip Mitchell, Head of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) School of Psychiatry. “Mental illnesses are common and highly disabling. One in three of us will have a mental health issue in our lifetime.”

UNSW School of Psychiatry has established the Australian Mental Health Prize to recognise Australians who have made outstanding contributions to either the promotion of mental health, or

the President of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer.

Maxine Rosenfeld Maxine has over 20 years’ experience as a counsellor, supervisor, trainer, author and consultant with wide experience of working across a variety of organisations from hospitals and large non-governmental organisations to small volunteer based organisations and private corporations.

Maxine has successfully operated a parttime private counselling and supervision practice, conducting face to face, telephone or Skype sessions for individuals and groups.

She has extensive experience in preparing and delivering communication skills and counselling skills training courses. She teaches counselling students at the Australian College of Applied Psychology.

As a consultant she has worked with organisations during the establishment of a program or service, and with Boards and steering committees about the development of services. She also carries out quality audits as an independent external assessor across the health and not-for–profit sectors.

Maxine has written a number of cancer and self-help information brochures and cowrote ‘Cancer At Your Fingertips’ (McGrawHill, 2004) and Breast Cancer Answers At Your Fingertips (Class 2008).

She pioneered telephone counselling in the UK and wrote ‘Counselling by Telephone’ (Sage) 1997 and ‘Telephone Counselling: A Handbook for Practitioners’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). Maxine is vice president of the Cancer Counselling Professionals Association and a board member of the Australasian Association for Supervision. She is also a member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia’s (PACFA) Ethics Committee and Professional Standards Committee.

the prevention and treatment of mental illness in areas such as advocacy, research or service provision.

The Prize will be launched by former Governor General Dame Quentin Bryce on July 13, at the University’s Lowy Building.

“For far too long we have failed to recognise the hard work, innovation and dedication of professionals and researchers in mental health,” says Dame Quentin. “An award such as this is the least we can do to show our gratitude and respect for those working in this critical sector.”

Chair of the Australian Mental Health Prize Advisory Group, Ita Buttrose said: “It is unacceptable that suicide is the leading cause of death of 15 to 44 year olds. This must be seen as a national emergency.”

She hopes “this prestigious Prize will help reduce stigma and raise awareness of mental health and help improve care in Australia.

UNSW Professor Mitchell says that Australia has led the way internationally in many aspects of mental health, such as community awareness, public advocacy and innovative services.

“We call upon clinicians, health professionals and the public at large to nominate the people they feel should be recognised for their work,” he said.

Nomination forms can be obtained from: http://australianmentalhealthprize.org.au. Entries close August 31, 2016.

Western NSW schools on board with a healthy lunch WESTERN NSW primary schools are helping the next generation of parents pack healthy lunches for their children to provide students with lifelong cancer prevention benefits.

Cancer Council NSW nutrition program Eat It To Beat It delivered 75 Healthy Lunch Box sessions during the Western NSW kindergarten orientation period last year.

The free 25-minute sessions show parents how easy it can be to pack a healthy lunch box every day. Each family gets a free show bag filled with great resources, including a hands-on Healthy Lunch Box Kit. Western NSW Community Programs Coordinator, Camilla Thompson said including fruit and vegetables in the lunch box was an easy step towards eating the recommended two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables every day.

“Evidence tells us that diet is linked to cancer and that eating more fruit and vegetables can help reduce your cancer risk,” she said.

DOMAINE SERISIER.

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The grounds of Chateau Cadillac.

Richard and Shirley Serisier. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

The story of Chateau Cadillac In the 1860s and 70s, the founder of Dubbo, Bordeaux-native, Jean Emile Serisier, planted 70,000 vines on the outskirts of Dubbo. Several generations later his descendant, Richard Serisier has taken the family tradition full circle, returning to France where he is busy creating his own award winning wines. Dubbo Weekender welcomes Richard as a regular contributor who will write on wine making in the Bordeaux / St Emilion region in a column to be named Domaine Serisier. This week he introduces himself and his life in France.

BY RICHARD SERISIER OWNER, DOMAINE SERISIER

HATEAU CADILLAC is a late middle ages chateau/fort built in 1500 to 1502 and is, in fact, the second chateau on the site. The first chateau dated from the early 1200’s and one can see remnants of this in the walls of the ramparts and dry moat.

The property was for many years in the ‘English domaine’ with the first Baron de Cadillac, Pey de Montrevel, created

by Edward the Second in 1307.

Pey de Montrevel, who tired of the English taxes under Edward the Third after the start of the 100 Years War, went over to the French side in the 1340’s and forfeited the estate. The chateau was finally destroyed and all it’s inhabitants killed by the French in 1377 at which time it came under the control of the English peer, John Neville of Raby who was the Seneschal of Cascony at that time.

The site then remained a ruin until the present chateau was built when the heirs of the first Baron were finally re-instated in the 1490’s.

The chateau itself has, since it was rebuilt, undergone a gradual transformation from being ‘fortified’ to being a family home which it has been for the last two or three hundred years My ancestry is part French

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The last known bottle made by Serisier & Co., owned by Jean Emile Serisier (founder of Dubbo) and the first vintage of Domaine Serisier called Le Bout du Monde.

and part British with my French ancestor migrating to Australia from Bordeaux back in 1839.

So, Bordeaux has always

been of interest to me and in 2004 I decided to buy a property there. Chateau Cadillac was actually the first property

I inspected and, after visiting many others over some months of searching, I came back and settled on it.

It is also one of the rarest and oldest in the region as many of the other grand chateaux have much more recent histories which are involved with the wine industry.

What did I love about Cadillac? It has a certain feeling about it which is hard to describe, it just feels special. Even a French friend of mine from Dijon, who had ‘poo pooed’ the whole of idea of buying ‘old stones’ as he put it, was impressed and admitted Cadillac has ‘cache’. When we have visitors, whether they are from overseas or local, they all feel this ‘cache’ or special feeling that goes with the property.

When we first bought Cadillac in 2004 making a wine was not on the agenda. The property had some vines attached but these were ‘en fermage’ for which we received a rent.

So, although my family have been involved in the wine industry in various ways since before the French Revolution, first in Bordeaux and later in Australia, I am myself a new boy to the art of making and selling wine… my first vintage was only in 2012!

There is a certain inevitability I’m afraid about owning a property in Bordeaux and living amongst the vines… it gets you in and before you know it you want to try your hand at making wine as well!

The estate itself though has a very long history of wine

production.

In the early editions of Cocks et Ferret it seems that they were the amongst the largest wine producers on the Right Bank with some 600 tonneau per annum. This equates to about 700,000 bottles a year!

Times have changed and today I’m making about 50,000 bottles per annum from a much smaller estate and I’m wanting to make the best wines that the terroir is capable of… rather than to the prescription of my AOC which is Bordeaux Superior.

My wines are merlot based with some cabernet franc and cabernet sauvignon. The focus is to make wines that are fruit forward, fresh, supple and balanced, not over ripe, not over extracted, not over oaked and able to be enjoyed young but still with enough structure so as to also age well.

The wines have been described as modern or contemporary in style… but they are not ‘garargiste’.

I have several labels as follows: Chateau Montrevel (new to the 2014 vintage and the 'special cuvee') Named after the first Baron de Cadillac.

Le Bout du Monde (both red and rose) Named after the ancient name of the fields outside the chateau…the ‘Champs du Bout du Monde’ or ‘fields at the end of the world’…somewhat appropriate for an Australian proprietor?

La Romane by Chateau Meillac Chateau Meillac

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There’s no stopping Nadiya

BY ELLA WALKER I don’t do fat-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, because that means flavour-free, and I like flavour,” states Nadiya Hussain happily.

The latest TV cooking show winner to turn their success into a cookbook impressed the judges by not making cakes using chia seed egg substitutes!

“I love chips and I like carbs and I like to fry things every now and again – and I like green things, but it has to be with something that’s going to fill a hole,” she says, warming to her theme. “I’m all for being healthy, but ‘clean eating’ is not something I can ever see myself getting into, because I’m a cook and I love eating. I’m never going to start making green shakes and doing bone broth – unless it’s got pasta and been turned into a minestrone, no, I won’t be eating it.”

Characteristically frank and open, Nadiya beat fellow bakers on the BBC-TV show Great British Bake Off last year, thanks to a combination of pure charm, fantastic facial expressions (“I didn’t know my face did that by the way,” she admits with a laugh), and a knack for inventive bakes that sent saliva ducts up and down the country into overdrive.

A year on, she’s celebrating the launch of her first cook book, Nadiya’s Kitchen (“My fourth baby”), has made the Queen’s 90th birthday cake, and has her own TV show in the pipeline – the brilliantly titled The Chronicles Of Nadiya – exploring her Bangladeshi food heritage.

“I don’t know,” says the 31-year-old, when asked why people so instinctively warmed to her, during Bake Off and since. “I don’t even get it! Maybe because I just rattle on, talking to anyone like I’ve known them forever.

“The one thing my husband said when I went on was, ‘You don’t want to go on there and not be yourself. You’re not an actress, you’re not a showman, just go on and just be yourself’, and that’s what I do – I’m only ever myself.”

The mum-of-three, who wed husband Abdal in an arranged marriage when she was 19, struggles to get her shopping done these days without being accosted by affectionate fans.

“That’s what it comes with,” she says of the attention. “Everybody I meet is always really positive and somewhere in the sentence there’s always, ‘We’re really proud of you’, and for people I don’t know to say they’re proud of me, that’s a big deal.”

Nadiya still talks to her Bake Off

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Nadiya Hussain. Photos: PA Photo/Holly Pickering.

alumni almost every day (“We’ve got a group chat... usually for gossip”), and often turns to one particular fellow contestant in times of bread-related need: “I’ll ask (Paul) for advice on a sourdough that’s gone horribly wrong and he’ll help me. It’s not bad being friends with the best baker ever.”

Weirdly though, she might be the queen of Bake Off, but she’s not overly fussed by cake itself.

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I love confectionery,” says Nadiya, who goes giddy over marshmallows and boiled sweets, “but when it comes to cake, I love making it because my kids and my husband love it, but I very rarely go for a full slice.”

She prefers savoury to sweet, but ex-

LOSE THE SALT, KEEP THE FLAVOUR

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

Sodium overload is a major health problem in the Western World. The average American, for example, consumes about 3400 milligrams of sodium a day, more than twice the 1500 milligrams recommended by the American Heart Association. The average Australian consumes about nine grams of salt each day.

That’s largely due to our food choices. More than 75 percent of the sodium we eat comes from packaged and restaurant foods.

The American Heart Association has introduced the “Salty

plains: “My family, they’re all into savoury cooking, but I’m the only one that bakes – I’m the only one that can give them that pleasure, so I’m not willing to give that up!”

Some things have changed, though.

“The biggest thing that’s changed is me,” muses Nadiya. “Before winning Bake Off, I’d lost my confidence. When you’ve got children, I felt like I was always just their mum – although I loved being a housewife, it was consuming me slightly, in a sense that it was all I was doing.

“My love of writing and books – I was losing a little bit of everything. I stopped wearing high heels because I was a mum and I’d stopped using public transport because I was too afraid of go-

Six” to raise awareness of commonly eaten foods that may be loaded with sodium.

1) Breads and rolls – One slice can contain as much as 230 milligrams.

2) Cold cuts and cured meats – Deli or pre-packaged meats can have as much as 1050 milligrams.

3) Pizza with meat – one slice can contain up to 760 milligrams.

4) Poultry – Avoid poultry products “enhanced” with a sodium solution. Three ounces of chicken nuggets can contain almost 600 milligrams.

5) Canned soup – One cup of chicken noodle soup has up to 940 milligrams.

6) Sandwiches – Meat, cheese, condiments and bread, up to 1500

ing on with a buggy and it not fitting, or – God forbid – if I couldn’t dismantle the thing and everybody would watch me.

“The stupidest things would consume me; I’d become afraid of everything,” she remembers. “But the old Nadiya isn’t about to reappear any time soon, no, no, no, I like this me.”

So do we, Nadiya, so do we.

If you’d like to cook like a Bake Off winner yourself, try one of these three recipes from Nadiya’s Kitchen...you’ll want it like that. The less people eat all this crap meat, the less will be made, and the better it will be.”

Fancy some top-notch meat this weekend? Here are three recipes from Low And Slow to crack on with...

milligrams!

Here are a few tips on how to decrease your sodium intake.

When shopping for food: * Choose packaged and prepared foods carefully. Compare labels and choose the product with the lowest amount of sodium (per serving). * Pick fresh and frozen poultry that hasn’t been injected with a sodium solution. Check the fine print on the packaging for terms like “broth”, “saline” or “sodium solution”. In unseasoned fresh meats, typical sodium levels are 100 milligrams or less per 110g serving. * Choose condiments carefully.

For example, soy sauce, bottled salad dressings, dips, ketchup,

jarred salsas, capers, mustard, pickles, olives and relish can be sky-high in sodium. * Choose canned vegetables labelled “no salt added” and frozen vegetables without salty sauces.

When you add these to a casserole, soup or other mixed dish, there will be so many other ingredients involved that you won’t miss the salt.

When preparing food: * Use onions, garlic, herbs, spices, citrus juices and vinegars in place of some or all of the salt to add flavour to foods. * Drain and rinse canned beans (like chickpeas, kidney beans, etc.) and vegetables – this can cut the sodium by up to 40 per cent. * Cook pasta, rice and hot ce-

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FETA AND DILL SAVOURY MUFFINS

PARSNIP AND ORANGE SPICED CAKE

(Makes 12) 175g plain flour 50g wholewheat flour 2 1/2tsp baking powder 1tsp fine salt 275ml whole milk 1 medium egg 100g cottage cheese 75g unsalted butter, melted and cooled 50g feta cheese, crumbled 1/2tsp wholegrain mustard 2tbsp fresh dill, chopped 1tsp ground black pepper 8 sundried tomatoes, chopped 25g pumpkin seeds

(Serves 10) For the sponge: 230g self-raising flour 1tsp baking powder 1tsp ground cinnamon 1/2tsp ground nutmeg 2tsp ground mixed spice 200g caster sugar 100g walnuts, chopped, plus extra for topping 3 medium eggs 150ml sunflower oil 500g parsnips, peeled, ends trimmed and coarsely grated Zest of 2 oranges, plus extra for decoration For the frosting: 50g unsalted butter, softened 200g full-fat cream cheese 150g icing sugar Zest of 1 orange 1. To make the cake: Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160C. Grease and line the base of two 20.5cm sandwich tins with baking paper.

2. In a large bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and mixed spice. Add the caster sugar and chopped walnuts, mix through with a wooden spoon, and set aside.

3. Put the eggs and sunflower oil in a different bowl, and beat for a few minutes. Now mix all the dry ingredients into the egg and oil mixture, along with the grated parsnips and orange zest. Mix everything together until you have a thick batter (about two minutes).

4. Divide the mixture between the two cake tins, and level it off using a spatula. Bake for 25-30 minutes. The cakes should be golden, and a skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean.

5. Leave the cakes in the tins for 10 minutes, then turn out on to a wire rack and peel off the baking paper. Leave to cool completely.

6. To make the frosting: In a bowl, beat the butter with a wooden spoon then add the cream cheese and icing sugar. Beat until it all comes together, but be careful not to overdo it, or the frosting will become runny.

7. Leave the frosting in the fridge until you need it, if your kitchen is really warm.

8. Take your cooled cakes and sandwich them together using the frosting. Top the cake with lashings of frosting and sprinkle with walnuts, and some extra orange zest.

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/fan 180C. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with cases.

2. Put the flours, baking powder and salt in a bowl, and stir everything together.

3. Now add the milk, egg, cottage cheese, melted butter, feta cheese, mustard, dill and black pepper. Mix it all together and spoon into muffin cases.

4. Top each muffin with a little chopped sundried tomato and sprinkle with the pumpkin seeds.

5. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

COD AND CLEMENTINE (Serves 2) 5 tbsp olive oil 2 cloves of garlic, crushed 1/2 onion, diced 1tbsp tomato puree 1tsp fine sea salt 200ml water 1/2tsp turmeric 1tsp paprika 1tsp ground cumin 2 clementines, peel only, sliced Juice of 1 clementine 300g cod fillets 1. A large handful of coriander, finely chopped 2. Basmati rice, to serve 3. Heat the oil in a medium pan over a medium heat.

Once hot, add the crushed garlic and diced onion.

Turn the heat down and cook gently until the onions are soft.

4. Add the tomato puree, salt and water. Cook for a further five minutes over a low heat.

5. Now add the turmeric, paprika and cumin, and cook gently for another five minutes. Keep adding small amounts of water if it starts to catch on the bottom.

6. Add the clementine peel and cook for 10 minutes, until the peel is soft and almost falling apart.

7. Use a potato masher to mash all the peel – breaking it up will intensify the flavour.

8. Add the fish, cover and cook for 10 minutes over a low heat.

9. Squeeze in the clementine juice. Once the fish is cooked, take the pan off the heat and sprinkle over the chopped coriander.

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This dish is best eaten with hot basmati rice.

Nadiya’s Kitchen by Nadiya Hussain, photography by Holly Pickering, is published in hardback

by Michael Joseph.

real without salt. * Cook by grilling, braising, roasting, searing and sautéing to bring out the natural flavours in foods, reducing the need to add salt. * Incorporate foods with potassium, like sweet potatoes, potatoes, greens, tomatoes and lower-sodium tomato sauce, white beans, kidney beans, non-fat yogurt, oranges, bananas and cantaloupe.

Potassium helps counter the effects of sodium and may help lower your blood pressure.

At restaurants: * Request that your menu selection be prepared without salt. * Taste your food before adding salt. If you think it needs a boost of flavour, add freshly ground black pepper or a squeeze of fresh lemon or lime, and test it again before adding salt. Lemon and pepper

are especially good on fish, chicken and vegetables. * Watch out for foods described using the words pickled, brined, barbecued, cured, smoked, broth, au jus, soy sauce, miso or teriyaki sauce. These tend to be high in sodium. Foods that are steamed, baked, grilled, poached or roasted may have less sodium. * Sample the many salt substitutes on the market. Some of them replace part or all of the sodium with potassium. Talk with your health-care professional about whether a salt substitute is right for you.

Over time, your taste buds will adjust to prefer less salt. Studies have shown that when people are placed on a lower sodium diet for a period of time, they begin to prefer lower-sodium foods, and the foods they used to enjoy taste too salty. Try it and see for yourself!

SALT-FREE FLAVOR BOOSTER

PHOTO: DEPOSITPHOTOS.COM

(Makes about 1 1/4 cups.)

This combination of herbs and spices is a delicious way to replace salt without sacrificing flavour!

1/2 cup salt-free Italian seasoning 1/3 cup garlic powder 1/3 onion powder 1 tablespoon parsley flakes 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon stevia or sugar substitute 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves 1. Combine all of the ingredients and mix thoroughly. Store in an airtight container away from heat and light.

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Strings of water pearls Early morning dew drops cling to a spider’s web at Riverwood Downs in northern NSW as if threaded like tiny pearls to decorate the lacey lair. Some spider’s eat their web to recycle the energy it takes to make it. Remarkably there’s a rumour on the ‘web’ that a Boeing 747 could be stopped in flight by a single pencil-width strand of spider silk which is considered almost as strong as Kevlar, the toughest man-made polymer. Whatever the facts, webs can be beautiful. PHOTO: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

Epic pictures wanted!!

Got a great shot and want to share it to the world? Then you’re invited to send it in to be published on these pages for readers of Dubbo Weekender to enjoy. Please Include your name, a contact number and a brief description of where and when the photograph was taken. For best reproduction, images need to be 300dpi. Please email them to feedback@dubboweekender. com.au

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Find your marbles

BY GABRIELLE FAGAN VERY so often there’s a trend that rocks and this year, stone – the natural material or clever faux effects – is chiselling its mark in the decor stakes.

It was tipped as a winner back in 2015, and has amply fulfilled its promise to bring drama, luxury and personality to rooms.

Leading designers, including Matthew Williamson, Ted Baker and Tricia Guild, have embraced the material – especially marble (whose name derives from the Greek words for ‘shining stone’), and creatively captured the magic of its richly veined patterns and subtle shades.

“Marble’s very much proving to be the ‘material of the moment’ for interior schemes. Best-known for being teamed with a rustic style over the last few years, where natural materials from wood to stone have been celebrated, it’s now most frequently used alongside minimalist design, as it’s renowned for exuding a strong sense of luxury and classicism,” says Will Cawson, design manager for a sofa specialist, who have a new bespoke furniture collection by Matthew Williamson, featuring stunning upholstery incorporating a marbled effect and the designer’s signature butterfly motif.

“While marble and pale stones such as limestone are perfectly at home in the bleached wood and neutral palette settings characteristic of Scandinavia, there’s also been a surge in the use of coloured marble,” adds Cawson. “Geometric, coloured marble originally found favour in the Fifties, and its revival is a sign of the increasing exploration of the material’s pleasing visual qualities.”

AS WARM AS STONE Think again if you regard stone effects as cold! Lavish designs and rich colourways, from green through to dramatic black, used on wallpapers and fabrics have transformed the effect to stylishly cool rather than chilly.

Be aware, though, powerful and atmospheric shades or patterns are probably best reserved for a feature wall, with the other three walls in lighter, toning shades, otherwise you risk overpowering a space or making it too dark.

“We’ve been inspired by two key trends for our Marbled wallpaper, chosen as our Wallpaper of the Year: the natural simplicity of marbling in stone, complemented by metallic embellishment in blushing gold hues, which makes for a glamorous, handcrafted aesthetic,” says Maryanne Cartwright, senior stylist at Graham & Brown, whose Marbled paper, in charcoal and rose gold, has been created to celebrate their 70th anniversary.

“The natural, organic hues of pebble, stone and graphite ooze understated opulence and team harmoniously with either classic or contemporary accent colours, making them versatile for all tastes and rooms, and offering a cool canvas for interiors.”

GET THE LOOK: Matthew Williamson’s Duresta furniture collection, upholstered in Marble Butterfly, is available in vivid shades of jade, cranberry, raspberry, and electric blue. Tricia Guild’s created a Delahaye marbled collection of papers for Designers Guild, in cobalt, slate, emerald and magenta. If your taste leans towards monochrome, Limelace has an incredibly realistic Black Marble Wallpaper by Piet Hein Eek. STONE STARS: Complement a stone feature, or simply pay a nod to the look with appropriate accessories.

Set the style, and the time, with a Menu Marble Wall Clock. Dinosaur Designs work with resin and explore cutting-edge design, resulting in truly impressive stone-effect items including their black marble-effect

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Marbled charcoal and rose gold wallpaper. Photos: PA Photo

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

Getting things done

BY DONNA ERICKSON Have you ever been out in the middle of a lake in a fishing boat and there weren’t any hooks in your tackle box? Or have you ever started to sew on a button and didn’t have a needle?

Looking at the steps involved in getting something done – what educators call “task analysis” – is for all ages. Thinking ahead and planning what direction to take in accomplishing a task are skills we continue to develop throughout our lives.

Teachers in lower grades at school begin the process of helping students learn how to map out steps to complete a task.

As they grow older, students benefit from

these skills when they begin to write more formally, do research reports and study for exams.

Breaking large tasks down into smaller, more manageable parts takes practice and patience. This skill can be taught and reinforced at home, too, whether it’s planting a vegetable garden or baking a batch of chocolate-chip cookies.

Before your kids begin a craft project

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Grey marble tile, with distinctive black veining.

Margot chair, in Marble Butterfly Jade; Palais stool.

range. Small touches are effective, and Limelace has a Set of 6 Marble Cork Coasters, while Oliver Bonas has Agate Stone Book Ends, and a Marble Look Cushion.

PALE & INTERESTING White or grey marble is a classic choice, can make a small space appear larger and is versatile, suitable for a sleek contemporary interior, or to ramp up the luxe factor in a traditional setting.

“Marble’s synonymous with opulence. However, its muted tones and sleek finish means it lends itself to a plethora of interior trends,” says Sian O’Neill, head of marketing at a tile company.

“I particularly love the dramatic ‘wow’ factor of large format marble floor and wall tiles. Incorporating marbled touches, combined with all-white decor and bare wood, is an easy way to create the essential bones of the fashionable Skandi look, which is

ideal for those who desire a pared-back aesthetic.

“Porcelain tiles can be a hard-wearing alternative to using natural stone, and these days, techniques ensure a marble effect is indistinguishable from the real thing. If you opt for real marble, be aware it’s porous and needs sealing with a stone-specific treatment to protect it from stains and scratches.”

GET THE LOOK: Get the real deal with highly polished Italian grey marble tiles with distinctive black veinin. Make a feature of the floor with a marble rug. Or look up for inspiration and focus on lighting, often overlooked, but so important: a marble effect metal light pendant is an on-trend item.

Marble’s a favourite for side tables, or you could simply show you’re up to style speed with some affordable details, such as Marbled Ceramic Cereal Bowls, or a Marble Effect Porcelain Vase Plant Holder Votive.

or job, encourage them to ask, “What will it take to get this done?” Here are additional questions to guide them through the process: - How much time will the project take?

Discuss the time required to complete the task (including clean-up) and the time available.

Marble effect platter.

Will it be done before your piano lesson?

- What equipment is needed?

If you work in the yard, do you have garbage bags and brooms so you don’t have to run back and forth to the hardware store?

For a craft project or recipe, check for ingredients and utensils on hand, such as the right-

size pan, bowl and measuring cups. It’s hard to make two litres of lemonade in a one-litre container!

- Is an adult needed, and will that person be available?

Many activities require extra strength or supervision, for safety reasons, when using sharp objects, a hot iron or a stove.

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Escape the selfie sticks in Thailand

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BY KATIE WRIGHT VERY year, 25 million tourists flock to Thailand – many flying south from Bangkok for the sandy shores of palm tree-dappled islands.

Competing with so many other holidaymakers, is it still possible to find hidden bays and unspoiled scenery in this South East Asian destination?

As my airport transfer winds through Chaweng, Koh Samui’s hectic main town, populated with a mass of biergartens and bistros, I’m beginning to wonder.

But an hour later, as I gaze out from the infinity pool across the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Thailand, all my fears subside.

I’m staying at the Silavadee Pool Spa Resort on the island’s quieter south east coast – less than five miles by car, it feels a world away from Chaweng.

The five-star property is spread across a hillside overlooking a private beach, the hotel’s main building and villas interspersed with lush greenery, so even at full capacity, it never feels crowded.

My ground floor room has its own terrace and outdoor Jacuzzi, making it tempting to stay resort-bound all day, but I’m keen to see what else Koh Samui has to offer, so I head out on a day’s guided sightseeing excursion.

First up is a visit to see Luong Pordaeng, a mummified monk whose body still hasn’t decomposed 30 years after his death.

Kneeling before the Ray Ban-wearing corpse, I take part in a fortune-telling ritual by shaking a pot of numbered wooden sticks until one falls out. Number 23, according to the descriptions nearby, is an excellent outcome, denoting guaranteed good luck and happiness for years to come.

The prophecy is fulfilled almost immediately, because we happen upon something very special at our next destination.

Angling for some off-the-beaten-track action, my guide takes us to the Samret Temple, a beautifully tranquil cluster of ornate buildings, including one he says he’s never seen open before.

Inside, three white-clad monks, surrounded by family and friends, are chanting intently.

A Buddhist ordination ceremony is taking place, during which the novice monks will pledge to keep 227 vows, as set out by Buddha himself.

I feel privileged to be witnessing this hallowed occasion – and there’s not even a souvenir or selfie sick in sight.

It’s not quite so serene over at the Plai Laem temple on the north coast. I’m soundtracked by a practising marching band as I climb the long flight of white stone steps to see the 12m tall Golden Buddha, and some stunning views across to Koh Phangan and Koh Tao, the other two islands that make up the Samui

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archipelago.

Also on the north-eastern tip, the Melati Resort offers an evening cocktail-making class that promises to introduce my taste buds to the authentic taste of Thailand, led by a mixologist affectionately nicknamed Monster.

Under Monster’s expert tutelage, I try my hand at classics like rum-laced Mai Tai and the fiery ginger and chilli-infused Siam Sunray, but I really fall in love with the Pomelo Mojito, which adds the grapefruit-like local fruit into the usual minty mix.

By the time I (somewhat reluctantly) relinquish the cocktail shaker, the sky has exploded into a heavenly haze of pink and mauve, so I head to the resort’s The View restaurant, which specialises in Mediterranean cuisine, to enjoy dinner as the sun sets.

But, naturally, being in the country renowned for blow-your-head-off-level spice, I want to experience Thailand’s best home-grown dishes, so I book onto a group cookery course at the nearby Renaissance, just round the corner from where I’m staying. (You don’t have to be staying at the resort to take part in a class.)

Lovely chef Nong demonstrates how to prepare crunchy papaya salad, a fragrant green chicken curry and tom yum goong, a lemongrass and chilli-flavoured seafood broth, then we set to work in pairs, before gobbling up the fruits of our labour for lunch.

The Santhiya pool villa.

All the dishes are delicious and surprisingly easy, so armed with recipe cards, I vow to put my new-found skills to good use at home.

Early the next morning, it’s time to set sail for Koh Phangan, the slightly smaller neighbouring island where hoards of party animals flock once a month for the infamous Full Moon Parties.

But there’s no sign of boozy backpackers as we jet past party town on the south coast – just turquoise seas, cloudless azure skies, and a hilly green landscape that looks like utter paradise.

By law, buildings can’t reach higher than the canopy level on Phangan, so the properties that are dotted sparingly on the isle are sympathetically hidden among the forest.

Thong Nai Pan Bay on the quieter northeast side, home to five high-end resorts, including mine, feels especially secluded.

Nestled on a steep, leafy hillside with rustic wooden paths winding between the traditional Thai style thatch-roofed villas (complete with outdoor showers), the Santhiya has a cool, rustic, tree-house vibe, albeit a very luxurious one.

My villa has its own pool and even a waterfall, but my favourite sunbathing spot quickly becomes the highest point of the resort, where loungers are positioned in stationary wooden boats on a raised ledge in

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I do manage to tear myself away for a trip to one of Phangan’s most famous sights: the Koh Mah sand bridge.

Wade across the shallow sandbank from Mae Heed beach and you’ll reach Koh Mah island, a stunning shoreline and some of the best snorkelling around. But be sure to wear sandals you don’t mind getting wet, because the sharp, crunchy sand is not pleasant to walk over barefoot.

Of the island’s 30-plus other beaches, the most beautiful are found on the north side, like Bottle Beach, which is only reachable by long boat from Chaloklum pier.

The scheduled boat is the cheapest, about 100 Baht per person for the 15-minute ride, or you can hire a private taxi boat.

You won’t have to share your white sand paradise with many other holidaymakers, but that could soon change, as Koh Phangan’s first airport is under construction, the opening date for the delayed project uncertain.

But even the island’s more accessible beaches don’t feel crowded – the further you go from the south coast, the better.

As long as you steer clear of the tourist-trap towns and backpacker hotspots, you can certainly still find the quiet life in the Land of Smiles – even on Thailand’s most notorious island. * Katie Wright was a guest of Hayes & Jarvis.

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The Anantara grounds.

Modern fixes to IS wreckage pondered

BY JAN KUHLMANN OME were destroyed because they were so closely linked to polytheism.

Others were left standing, but turned into the backdrops for gory executions.

Others were just the victims of war.

Now members of UNESCO are trying to see what they can salvage from the Syrian city of Palmyra after so much destruction during 10 months of Islamic State rule. The first job is figuring out what survived.

The second is figuring out if it’s responsible to resurrect what was lost.

Palmyra’s ruins date back to the first three centuries AD, when the city was a powerful centre on trade routes through the Syrian desert.

The city linked Persia, India and China with the Roman Empire.

“From the 1st to the 2nd century, the art and architecture of Palmyra married Graeco-Roman techniques with local traditions and Persian influences,” UNESCO says.

The city was prised from Islamic State’s control four months ago thanks to the combined efforts of Syrian and Russian forces. But much was lost before they could intervene.

The Temple of Bel, the Temple of Baalshamin and the Triumphal Arch are among the many historic buildings and artefacts severely damaged by Islamic State forces.

The head of UNESCO’s emergency response unit, Giovanni Boccardi, said in March the UN cultural organisation provided 2.7 million euros ($A3.93 million) for restoration in Syria.

The job is requiring the experts to think outside the box.

Using replica replacements of the monumental ruins – a copy of the Triumphal Arch was unveiled at London’s Trafalgar Square in April – would serve as a message to the terrorist militia Islamic State: history cannot be erased through terror.

Creating such replicas means using newish technologies like 3D printers to restore the site. One such printer made the arch with Egyptian marble, but it is roughly a third smaller than the damaged original.

To experts the replica in Trafalgar Square is a blessing and a curse of modern reconstruction methods.

Some experts view the romanticised replicas as a nightmare, comparing them to Disney theme parks.

The reconstruction showed the possibilities and limitations associated with 3D reconstructions, said Markus Hilgert, head of the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin.

He voiced concern about using “cheap reproductions,

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that are not appropriate at the site”. “They are suitable as monuments showing solidarity and resistance to the destruction of culture, but they are not suitable as a substitute for damaged buildings,” he continued.

The good news is that the damage is not as extensive as previously thought. Only 20 per cent of the site has been destroyed, according to the first inspection done

by Syrian experts.

Mechthild Roessler, director of the division for heritage and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, said she was relieved the damage was not as widespread as expected. Some monuments would be able to be reconstructed “relatively easily”, including the Triumphal Arch, of which whole pieces remained.

However, the two temples had been pulverised, she said.

Roessler was part of an expert delegation that visited the site in April after it was liberated from Islamic State to assess the extent of the damage. The ongoing civil war made it one of her most difficult missions, she said.

Many of the sites could be viewed only from a distance because Islamic State fighters had placed landmines throughout the city before fleeing.

The Russian army had removed at least 4000 mines from the area, Roessler said.

Despite Russia’s efforts, Palmyra isn’t safe enough for the experts to work there. And for those involved

in deciding Palmyra’s fate, one thing is certain: a thorough and detailed assessment of the damage is needed.

As a rule, “reconstruction is not allowed within the framework of the World Heritage Convention”, Roessler said.

Other possible restoration efforts without the use of replicas could include virtual simulations on smartphones, projections or a documentation centre.

Beyond the logistics of restoring the site, the debate is further complicated by political factors. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has a vested interest in restoring the heritage site as quickly as possible. Doing so would symbolise strength and power over the war-torn country.

That leads to suspicion among members of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.

“Neither should we forget the responsibility of the Syrian regime in the destruction of the heritage of its own country,” said Laurent Stefanini, France’s representative.

Stefanini wants to ensure that work carried out by UNESCO to restore Palmyra “is not instrumentalised by the Syrian regime in Damascus”. The same was true at the ancient city of Aleppo, also a UNESCO world heritage site and a regular target of Syrian airstrikes.

“If you look at the bombardments ordered by Damascus we need to maintain some clarity,” Stefanini said.

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The ruins of the ancient city Palmyra, Syria, as they looked in 2010, before the war.

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A Rolex watch which would have cost three or four month’s wages towards the end of World War I

FOR OLD TIMES’ SAKE Antique and Collectibles Fair returns

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HE sameness of shopping malls and syndicated franchise outlets was nowhere to be seen at this year’s Antiques and Collectables Fair at the Civic Centre, but then, shopping centres aren’t really set to display 4000 year old Egyptian antiquities.

Dubbo Rotaract, along with the Rotary club of Dubbo, organise the weekend and coordinator Carla Pittman says the strength of the fair is bolstered by the fact that people can find things at this annual one-stop shop that you won’t see anywhere else.

“We’ve been doing this for over 15 years now so we’ve just about got it down pat I hope, we still seem to be getting a lot of repeat customers, we do get a lot of repeat dealers but we do also look for at least a couple of new dealers each year just to keep that variety and mix it up a little bit,” Pittman said.

“We’ve got any sort of price range as well so if people are just coming in for wares at high level down to things like meccano sets.

“People like to find something unique and they like to find something individual and that’s the great thing about antique fairs, is that it isn’t going to be 1000 of the same item, or you’re not going to go around to your friend’s house and see the same thing there, it’s going to be a one-off,” she said.

She believes the one-off factor plays a key in the fair’s success, with people understanding that antique fairs not only offer something different, it’s different every year - so while you might see something this year, it may not be there next year.

All the fun of the fair also translates into a good cause.

“The money to be raised from this goes back in to the community, so this year we’ve been fundraising for the Dubbo Base Hospital’s Ultrasound Project to try and get the ultrasound machine they need for the Emergency Department up there,” Pittman said.

An early Rolex watch caught my eye, even better that this fine first example had such an interesting story behind it according to Melbourne antique dealer Robert Dennis, saying it would have cost three or four month’s wages back towards the end of World War I.

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“The first Rolex wristwatch ever made, 1918 inoes which went all the way up to nine inmodel, there was one made in 1908 but it was stead of the usual six dots. a fob watch, a pocket watch,” Dennis said.

“It is odd, that’s why I grabbed it because “That particular one was brought into the people do play dominoes and going up to nine, antique fair at Armidale, a man brought it in it’s just a bit of a challenge,” Crowley said, and it was presented to his father when he pleased at the numbers through the doors. came back from the Somme in the First World “I thought it‘s been good this year, lots more War. people than last year but I think the weather “It’s in the original box it came in, the watch helped, and I see the same faces come back itself is solid gold and the band’s solid gold year after year so obviously there’s a need for whereas the first one that was released comthe fair.” mercially was only done in sterling silver, so She says one of the biggest problems facthat would’ve been an upmarket version of the ing antique dealers is that people don’t underfirst Rolex wristwatch,” he said. stand they spend all their time sourcing and buying new stock that is, literalAlso from Melbourne, veteran ly, very old. dealer Mike Schultz was kept especially busy all weekend with ` “Time-consuming, it takes inquiries on his extensive horde Antiquities, a lot time and some people don’t apof Egyptian antiquities. preciate that you have to be paid of people don’t for that time, and shows like “Very good quality collecBargain Hunter makes it even tion, it came from a gentleman understand them harder – I love it, that’s why I’m by the name of Charles Kovacs but when you doing it, you wouldn’t be doing it who was an ambassador in Cai- actually get your for a return.” ro in the late 1930s and his colhead around it, lection went up for sale in MelHerman Oczenaschek from bourne and Sydney between six it’s three and four Old Bar was happy to pose for and seven months ago and we thousand year a picture with a phone that acquired a substantial amount old items here, younger generations wouldn’t of it,” Shultz said. as such, from back in you know, it’s just recognise the day when they were plugged “Some very important pieces, into the wall and were only used 1500 – 2000 BC, it’s a bit of a insane. for speaking to other people. privilege to be the custodian of them.”

Even so, this was a fancy model that hung He pointed to a carved mask made for a up itself when you sat the whole unit down. regal figure such as a prince which was unHe laughed and shrugged when I asked him earthed at Luxor, and said while it wasn’t rewhere he got all his great old stuff. ally for sale, that everything had its price.

“I can’t tell you because we get it all over the place, some of it even came from Dubbo last “The mask, I’ve got it earmarked for myself year,” he said. but if someone was looking at it, $25,000 $30,000, something like that,” Shultz said.

“You’ve just got to be in the right place at the “Antiquities, a lot of people don’t under- right time, we go around to swap meets and find a bit of stuff there, most of it comes out stand them but when you actually get your head around it, it’s three and four thousand of old houses.” year old items here, you know, it’s just insane.”

On the way out I spied Dubbo’s Fay Jorgensen clothes shopping.

He’s a huge fan of the fair, not least because it supports the Rotary ethos of “Service above “I just love all this old stuff and I was just Self.” looking for a special outfit but of course I’m too fat,” she laughed.

“I keep coming here each year to do the fair “Well it’s very nostalgic because these are for Rotaract because we’re Rotary people ourthe sort of things I wore when I was a young selves in Melbourne, it’s just a nice area and I girl but we’re not slender like we were then. enjoy coming up here,” he said.

“I love it, I come every year, it just gives me When I wandered past the stand run by Sydney dealer Sue Crowley, I thought I’d lost my an idea of the things I’ve got at home and what ability to count, noticing a set of antique dom- they’re worth,” she said.

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Fay Jorgensen: “...it’s very nostalgic because these are the sort of things I wore when I was a young girl.”

Herman Oczenaschek, antique dealer from Old Bar Sydney dealer Sue Crowley

4000 year old Egyptian antiquities

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THE ARTS.

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A picture worth a thousand words Seldom is that saying more poignant than with the expression of grief and loss. An upcoming photographic competition is aiming to encourage people to capture their feelings, and WEEKENDER spoke with the team at NALAG (National Association for Loss and Grief) about the value of creative expression in helping with the grieving process.

T’S often said that a picture can paint a thousand words.

That’s seldom more accurate than when it comes to the portrayal of emotion, and perhaps the deepest of human emotions is that of grief.

The power of creative endeavour has long been touted as an effective conduit for the expression of grief, and the healing potential of art is widely acknowledged by experts in the field.

At NALAG – the National Association for Loss and Grief – the team understands better than most how cathartic the process of making art can be for those struggling to overcome the often devastating impact of loss. They’ve taken the innovative step of harnessing a growing public interest in photography to help promote the idea of creative expression as part of the healing process.

The NALAG Annual Photo Treasure Hunt is another initiative introduced last year by the renowned Dubbo-based not-for-profit organisation to encourage an outward expression of grief through creativity.

The popularity of the inaugural competition last year has secured it a permanent place in the annual Grief Awareness Month events during August.

According to NALAG Promotions Officer Paula Hanson, photography can be a very powerful tool for expression.

“It seems to activate an inner process – every object or landscape is seen differently by each photographer. It’s often the same with grief – people can experience a similar loss but how individuals

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To join in the Photo Treasure Hunt this year, head to the Fire Station Arts Centre at 10am on Saturday 20th August to receive your “mission” where you will be given until 1.00pm to take four photos for each theme. This is a FREE community event.

A selection of the photographic entries will be published in Dubbo Weekender.

see, experience and heal from grief is incredibly different and individual.

“The photography process helps our clients recognise and express feelings; it’s an opportunity to explore creativity and become more self-aware. It narrows our perspective and removes the noise and clutter of grief. When grief takes your voice away, a picture often paints your expression of grief.”

NALAG Centre for Loss and Grief’s Manager Trudy Hanson has for many years seen clients bring personal photographs to their grief support sessions without prompting or suggestion, and actively encourages NALAG clients to do this.

NALAG has even developed a service whereby photos are printed onto candles and other objects so they can be used in the client’s home as an symbol of remembrance.

“While death or some loss is unfortunately permanent – grief is not. Grief is not a permanent state it is a journey we must pass through towards healing and

our new reality,” says the veteran grief can continue a healthy psychological recounsellor. lationship with the deceased.

“Photos are permanent; they are a “For example, a Remembrance Page permanent record of time. They sumwhere stories and photos and so forth mon memories and emotions that allow can be seen is a way in which healthy us to continue the bond with the pergrieving can be carried out. So we’re son who has died or with that which has encouraging people to explore that way been lost.” of expressing their feelings.”

She says she’s pleased to be able to The culture surrounding photography guide people towards another avenue and grief is also changing, according of assistance in dealing with their sense to Paula Hanson, who is herself a keen of loss, whatever form that loss takes. photographer.

“Expression of grief is often difficult.

“Sometimes people can’t find the “Securing a photographer for a wedright words to adequately convey how ding is a common thing and often their they feel. Sometimes a picture speaks a availability sets the wedding date. Howthousand words. ever, increasingly popular is funeral “NALAG Has found the use of photos photography – family overseas or unain the expression of grief beneficial for ble to make the funeral have an opporthose bereaved to have a “voice”. tunity to be present. Funerals celebrate “One of the things we’ve come to unand honour a life – is this celebration not derstand over recent also too important not years in this field is to be photographed?” ` that it’s important Over the years, NAL“When grief takes to understand the AG has held different idea of “continuing your voice away, a kinds of commemorabonds” in the propicture often paints tions, but the “Treascess of dealing with ure Hunt” competition grief,” says Trudy. your expression of is a way of involving “Photographs and the whole communigrief.” images of loved ones can help establish – Paula Hanson – NALAG ty, not just those who need help their jourthose continuing Promotions Officer ney with grief. bonds in a healthy way.”

Memories, according “The advent of technology – mobile to Paula, are what photographs are all phone cameras, the internet, social meabout, and as such can be a very powerdia and networks like Facebook – give ful tool for the expression of grief and us another platform where the bereaved sadness.

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John Sweeney’s “Cold”: ‘So engrossing and pacey that it made me miss my train stop’

BY KATE WHITING

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THE BOOKCASE

The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss is published in paperback by Granta.

BOOK OF THE WEEK

ADAM Goldschmidt is a stay-at-home dad whose world view changes dramatically when his 15-year-old daughter’s heart stops beating on the school playing field for no apparent reason.

Thrown into uncertainty, the family struggle through the frustration of waiting for answers and a return to ‘normality’, trying to adjust to the realisation that Miriam will never be truly safe again.

University professor Sarah Moss has a growing reputation for tackling difficult truths, such as the difficulties of motherhood in Night Waking, and continues in this vein. She is an astute storyteller, and in The Tidal Zone shares societal observations around her slowburning plot.

For example, Adam mainly rejoices in his child-raising role, while his wife Emma, a doctor, plays the breadwinner, but the switch in traditional gender roles underlines little resentments such as who has the ‘right’ to stay with Miriam.

She uses stories within the novel to explore these further: Adam muses on the Second World War; recounts his mother’s tales of selkie women; imagines his own father, Eli, telling Miriam about his time living in communes in the Sixties.

But the heartbeat of the book is trust – losing trust and rebuilding it – in authority, your body and relationships.

Moss taps into a range of experiences

Cold by John Sweeney is published in paperback by Thomas & Mercer.

RARELY is a book so engrossing and pacey that it makes me miss my train stop. But such is the case with BBC Newsnight reporter John Sweeney’s first thriller, Cold.

Irishman Joe Tiplady has a murky past involving training in North Korea, but now enjoys a quiet life as a special needs teacher in London – and walking his dog Reilly. When Reilly is dognapped, Joe finds himself drawn into the world of Russian beauty Katya Koremedova, who’s on the run from her psychopathic boyfriend Reikhman.

The action shifts effortlessly across the globe and between Sweeney’s cast of eerily convincing characters – many based on real experiences he had as an investigative reporter for Panorama.

We follow former CIA chief and Mormon Zeke Chandler in Utah, Reikhman on a grisly mission in Southern Russia, and return to Joe hunting for Reilly in London. Lurking behind them all is Russian ruler Zoba, an all-powerful puppetmaster who’s pulling the strings.

Sweeney’s written several explosive non-fiction books, including The Church Of Fear, about Scientology, and North Korea Undercover. His debut novel, Elephant Moon was well received and Cold is the first in a trilogy featuring Joe Tiplady. Definitely one to watch.

8/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

that you do not need to be a parent to feel and tackles this extremely uncomfortable subject with tact, plausibility and flowing prose.

8/10 (Review by Natalie Bowen) Umami by Laia Jufresa is published in hardback by Oneworld Publications.

ON the face of it, fans of contemporary fiction are in for a treat. Laia Jufresa’s novel, which won an English PEN Award, is constructed around a group of middle-class – verging on bohemian – families in Mexico City. It offers the enticing prospect of a vast, filthy and overcrowded megatropolis being opened up.

Jufresa herself is well-travelled. She was raised in the cloud forests of Veracruz and also grew up in Paris. But the Mexican households she writes about encircle a small courtyard in a modern housing complex.

The estate has been designed by the landlord, a semi-retired anthropologist who is an expert on pre-Spanish culti-

vation habits and the recently-discovered “fifth taste” of umami. And that shut-off-ness from the hum and throb of street life is reflected in the preoccupations of Jufresa’s inward-looking characters, as the story moves backwards in time to excavate a narrative that is mostly about death, absence, and loss.

7/10 (Review by Liz Ryan) Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman is published in paperback by Faber & Faber.

THE best selling author of over 20 novels including After I’m Gone and 2015’s Hush Hush returns with Wilde Lake, a evocative tale about the Brant family in Columbia, Maryland.

Louisa ‘Lu’ Brant is the first woman to be elected the State’s Attorney of Howard County Maryland, a position previously held by her father Andrew Brant.

She is prosecuting her first murder, a homeless man who killed a woman in her own apartment.

He seems to have no connection to his

“Wilde Lake” is the latest novel by master storyteller Laura Lippman. She was a reporter for 20 years, including 12 years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She left daily journalism in 2001 and has been a full time novelist since then. Her work has been awarded the Edgar, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. PHOTO: JAN COBB.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 22.07.2016 to Sunday 24.07.2016 victim, but as Lu digs deeper, she uncovers connections to a violent murder in the past that involved her own brother and finds that family and friends are not quite what she thought.

Wilde Lake is a psychologically complex story with plenty of secrets that are deftly woven into the plot. Lipman is a master story teller who creates strong characters and a narrative that keeps you racing to the last page.

8/10 (Review by Laura Wurzal)

delves beyond the mere covers of the sport, examining what motivated the former England and Middlesex batsman to continue playing in pursuit of his one hundredth hundred.

Whatever your interest in what makes men and women the world over stand in far flung fields for hours on end, The Meaning Of Cricket is a thorough examination of the noble art of leather on willow.

7/10 (Review by Roddy Brooks)

NON-FICTION The Meaning Of Cricket: Or How To Waste Your Life On An Inconsequential Sport by Jon Hotten is published in hardback by Yellow Jersey Press.

The Meaning Of Cricket is one man’s journey through a game that has captured his imagination for a lifetime.

Jon Hotten is a respected cricket writer and author who has been in love with the game from an early age. This book charts his sporting journey – from his personal playing perspective through to the heroes he has been lucky enough to encounter along the way.

Hotten also includes such luminaries of the game as WG Grace and Don Bradman, and even the story of when a team of one-armed players took on a team of one-legged players.

With chapters on the art of making a cricket bat and the careers of former players such as Mark Ramprakash, it

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK Blame by Simon Mayo is published in paperback by Corgi.

THIS is British radio presenter Simon Mayo’s first attempt at young adult fiction, and although it’s a solid attempt, it lacks the punch, nuance and – let’s be honest – the angsty romance that truly absorbing YA offers.

In a world post-EU world (yes, it’s a particularly apt read right now), justice is metered out not just to those who break the law, but their families too.

Bolshy Ant and her more level-headed little brother Mattie, whose gangster parents abandoned them, are locked up alongside their foster parents for their so-called “heritage crimes”, but Ant isn’t one for keeping schtum and as her anger at the unfairness of life as a ‘strutter’ escalates, so too does the peace inside the walls of HMP London.

Visceral and brutal at times, Blame doesn’t hold back on the violence, but the relationships between characters struggle to maintain depth and emotion, while our heroine’s recklessness gets increasingly irritating and implausible.

Still, it’s got bite and the questions

Indigenous contributions in current times OW does Indigenous policy signed off in Canberra work – or not – when implemented in remote Aboriginal communities? Authors Moran, Wright and Memmont have had experience in this area and they seek to find a balance between respecting local traditions and making improvements in area such as consumption, home ownership and revitalising cultural practices. The book “Serious Whitefella Stuff” reminds us that the balance between policy and practice is awkward and the change is not easy to achieve and make sustainable.

Aboriginal people have long been the basis of Dubbo as an entity. George Smith, was a convict who at age 16 arrived in Australia in 1825. He was granted a ticket of leave and was assigned to work at Wellington and then as head stockman at Dibalambil station – the stockyards were located where the Old Dubbo Gaol now stands.

In 1834 Smith married Aboriginal princess Mattie, daughter of Bilung Warrie, King of the Warrie tribe, in a full tribal ceremony. He also acted as a guide for Charles Sturt in 1828. Dubbo’s Smith Street is named after the convict, and his nick-name “Dusty Bob” is noted in Rolf Boldrewood’s text “Robbery Under Arms”.

John Nolan, a long-term friend of mine and one-time co-worker in a manufacturing business, called recently and showed me his father’s Certifi-

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cate of Exemption, a certificate issued under the NSW Aborigines Protection Act. It was issued to William Thomas Nolan in 1951 when he was 26 years old, thus making him no longer subject to conditions of the Act. The document affected Aboriginal people up to 1967 when the Referendum for Citizenship for Aborigines was passed.

It was a type of passport document, allowing an Aboriginal person into white society.

In theory they could get a job, drink at a hotel and get their children into the public school system. But on gaining the certificate, William Nolan could not access buildings and services that were normally reserved for Aboriginal people.

If one needs a model of achievement by an Indigenous person, his son John provides that example. In the early 1970s he completed his apprenticeship as a welder at Jack Baxter’s Welding Works at Troy. In his final year he achieved first in the state in the Boiler Making level of welding.

John later came to work at the farm machinery manufacturing business I was involved with.

Much later we were discussing his interesting trade and it began when he was attending school in Bourke. At the time the local council was constructing a

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new steel water tower and, as he walked to school, he was fascinated by the bright arc light that welding created.

John later became a school teacher, and in time began teaching at Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs. When being shown around the school they walked past a room fitted with metal processing equipment and was told that it had never been used because nobody there knew anything about that trade. After two years of John’s teaching, several students and community members were well trained – some gained employment at mines located further north. Such was his influence that the Elders of the local tribe had him join their senior’s group. Until recently he was attached to Charles Sturt University.

The autobiography by Chris Sarra is entitled “Good Morning Mr Sarra” in which he relates his life working for a stronger, smarter future for Aboriginal children. He was the first Abo-

it raises about justice, hate and scapegoating are ones we should be asking ourselves anyway, before our own realities become blurred with dystopian fiction.

6/10 (Review by Ella Walker)

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From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection riginal principal of Cherbourg State School in 1998. It was a time of high hopes but low expectations in indigenous education. Over the next six years he transformed the school into a national success story, but not without controversy along the way.

From his childhood as the youngest in a large Italian-Aboriginal family, Chris was taught to be proud of who he was and where he came from. But he only began to understand that not every Aboriginal child grew up with this sense of worth when he started working as a teacher. He became determined to defy expectations of being Aboriginal and in doing so, to change them for others. His role in Cherbourg finally gave him a chance to put his philosophy into practice. Along the way he battled the media, the education system and a culture of complacency.

Stan Grant is the author of “Talking to My Country”. It is considered a very personal meditation on race, identity and history. It takes a rare approach that talks to every Australian about their country, what it is and what it should be. Direct, honest and forthright talks to the community – he doesn’t claim to have all the answers but he wants to keep us asking

the questions: is this the country we want to have? And how can we be better?

Back in my machinery days, on visits to the Perth factory I would sometimes meet up with Bill Dunn. From the Jigalong people located around the Nulagine area, he was the first Aboriginal person to be granted a lease on cattle station country in Western Australia. His story is told in “Pilbara Bushman” which covers his role as stockman and station manager, Black Tracker, and on one occasion, taking an American visitor through the desert country to an isolated site hundreds of kilometres to the east. The American was amazed that this was achieved without maps – when he inquired how could this happen, Bill explained that in good seasons they would take cattle east, across the desert area, to grasses country near the Northern Territory border.

When we observe the intent, the achievement, the ability of Aboriginal people such as John, his father William, Chris, Stan and Bill, it is clear that our community at large needs to continue to provide encouragement, and even provide disciplines, for indigenous youth to aim for a positive role in society.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Entertaining art talk

by UK art speaker Over 60 people gathered at the Wesley Hall on Monday, July 18, to hear UK art history expert from the Manchester Metropolitan University wax lyrical about the lives and legacies of art greats Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Supported by a visual presentation, Michael Howard, entertained the crowd with personal insights, including experiences consulting on the feature film “Degas”. Sponsored by ADFAS (Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society), Howard’s wife and renowned artist, Ghislaine Howard also attended. The next ADFAS talk is on August 22, by Oxford professor, James Allan, called “Taj Mahal: The Garden Tomb”. (See their Facebook page for details – ADFAS Dubbo.)

Bob North, Andrew Foley and Ritchie McKay

Geoff Wise and Allan Clarke

Thea Miller, Sally Coddington, Dinah Logan and Fitz McKay

Phyllis Carthy and Sally O’Connell

Bev Winters (winner of the Moet raffle) and Vicki Aland

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Grace Aubusson, Cynthia Foley, Shirley Colless and Sandra Carr

Anne Burns, Jean Richardson, Pam Clark

Ghislaine and Michael Howard

Michael Howard chats with guests after the talk

Beverley, Camilla and Frank Brennan

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One man’s trash is another man’s treasure PHOTOS BY MADDIE CONNELL

THE annual Antiques and Collectables Fair was held over June 15, 16, and 17 at the DRTCC. The fair was open to the public, and exhibitors travelled from around Dubbo and the Central West and further to bring their antique goodies to the Dubbo community.

Margaret Illman from Mostly Glass Antiques

Marie Jackman

Edie Spicer and Joan Boyle

George and Fran Philipson

Yvette Aubusson- Foley and Andrew Foley

Nurses Terri Cross, Kathy Mumford and Kate Hudson

Terry Wrist and Phil Davis

Joanne and Wayne Medlin

Night out at the Old Bank

BY HAYLEY FERRIS

THE Old Bank Restaurant was well and truly alive on Saturday, July 16, with locals enjoying dinner and drinks with family and friends. With the fireplace roaring it was lovely and toasty for patrons.

Amelia and John Lundholm

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Lust 4 Live

BY HAYLEY FERRIS

Patrons, local musicians and music fans gathered at the Macquarie Inn on Saturday, July 16, for Lust 4 Live. The monthly music event drew a large crowd as usual and it was off to a great start with young talent Shane Riley kicking off the night.

Back, Daniel Perkins, Nathan Anderson, Johnny Seitz, front, Guy Collins, May Harbin, Peter, Brian Ferguson and Paul Rhodes

Daniel and Lucas Bradley

Dallas Memorey and Rod Keens

Justine Kuhner and Sally Sklenar

James Russo, Matt Buckler and Scott Davey

Scott Davey and Mark Werry

Fred Randell, Tim Hosking and Terry Lyons

Shane Riley

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

H E A R EAR yourself shout with joy at winning the interim Western Plains Regional Council’s giveaway coinciding with FlyPelican launching its flights between Dubbo and Newcastle.

The prize for residents of Western Plains Regional Council is a two-night stay for a family of four at the Newcastle Beach Hotel with tours and experiences that showcase Newcastle’s diverse dining, cultural and entertainment options.

“Overlooking Newcastle’s most famous surf break, the Newcastle Beach Hotel is a landmark when it comes to beachside dining and entertainment, and as part of your prize Moonshadow - TQC Cruises are giving you and your family an opportunity to get up close and personal aboard a Whale Watching Cruise,” said Council’s interim administrator Michael Kneipp.

Other activities will include a tunnel tour of Fort Scratchley, a National Historic Landmark and a structured wine tasting at Inner City Winemakers.

Newcastle prize winners will get the chance to win a two-night stay at Zoofari Lodge at the Taronga Plains Western Plains Zoo with two dinners, breakfasts, tours and bike hire included as well as a family pass to the Old Dubbo Gaol.

Prizes include return flights for a family of four.

To enter, visit www.dubbo.com.au simply tell us in 25 words or less why you want to fly to Newcastle or Dubbo thanks to FlyPelican. Entries close Sunday, July 31, 2016.

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EAR the applause when a worthy winner is announced in November for the inaugural 2016 Australian Mental Health Prize.

Nominations are now open and forms can be obtained from http://australianmentalhealthprize.org.au and entries close August 31, 2016. Six finalists will be chosen and the big announcement made on November 28.

So what do you have to do?

First, acknowledge that sadly one in five Australians will experience mental illness in any given year, with sixty-five per cent of people not accessing treatment to support them with this lived experience, according to Professor Philip Mitchell, Head of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) School of Psychiatry.

“Many Australians are doing important and ground-breaking work. We must give them the acknowledgement that they deserve and share what is working for the sake of those who are living with the burden of mental illness every day,” said Mitchell.

So, nominating the people you feel should be recognised for their work. http://australianmentalhealthprize. org.au

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EE a new art exhibition which opens today (July 22), at the WOW Centre in Warren. Works by Jenny Beach collectively called “A metaphorical journey” is contemporary and conceptual art inspired by nature and natural forms. Sounds like a great getaway.

For anyone feeling like a slap-up dinner, don't miss Christmas in July at the Kookaburra Kiosk this Saturday, July 23 also at the WOW Centre. You get a three course meal (with some wine tasting thrown in courtesy of Tilley's Wines) plus lots of laughs. Adults $30, Children $15. Bookings essential on 6847 3720 or 0417 463 335

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EE pregnant women belly dance?

Well you probably won’t but if you’re pregnant and interested in how belly dancing can help you with your pregnancy and birth, then join other women on Saturday, July 30, 2016 from 3pm to 5pm (includes afternoon tea though they’re not promising to satisfying all cravings), for just $25.

Your teacher will belly dancer extraordinaire, Linda Christof and the location is The Yoga Room, Harmony Centre, 43 Macquarie Street, Dubbo. You’ll be safely guided to work with your body and baby, learn to centre and calm your mind with soft, nurturing moves, introduce baby to the hypnotic sounds of belly cance music, and more. Suitable for pregnant mums 12 weeks to 40+ weeks, coin belts and veils will be provided. Sounds fun. Contact Cath Brennan on 0419 229 666 or email info@ calmbeginnings.net.au.

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DO O write to get well. Pardon? On Sunday, July 24, clinical psychologist and former forensic psychologist, David Roland will be hosting an all day workshop at the Western Plains Cultural Centre’s Community Arts Centre called “Writing for Wellness”.

Burnt out by 20 years of seeing the worst people could do and suffer, Roland had a break down which was later diagnosed as a stroke. To return to “normal” he had to start from scratch and writing helped him to get well again.

Hosted by Outback Writers Centre David who is also the author of “How I Rescued My Brain” the workshop will run from 10am to 4pm for just $20.

Bookings online via the Outback Writers Centre website or Facebook page.

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O apply for a NSW government grant for funding that will put you, or a talented muso you know, in front of overseas producers or develop contracts that could open the door to an international music career.

Member for Dubbo & Arts Minister Troy Grant said the “Opportunity Development Grants Program” can help local musicians and their managers develop the business and networking skills required to make it onto the world stage.

“Our local musicians can apply for funding to help them land major tour support slots, take advantage of a unique performance opportunity or attend workshops that develop the professional skills necessary to operate at an international level,” Grant said.

Musicians can apply for up to $850 for each person named in an application, to a maximum total of $5,500 per group. Round 2 applications are already open and close on Tuesday, September 6. Full application details are available at www.musicnsw.com

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HE Australia Day Council of NSW invites residents from the interim Western Plains Regional Council local government area to nominate inspirational Australians from their community for the 2017 Australian of the Year Awards.

Council’s interim administrator Michael Kneipp said the awards are a great way to recognise Australians doing great things in the community locally, nationally and globally.

“This region is full of inspirational people who contribute daily to our communities and this is a perfect chance to give them the recognition they deserve,” said Kneipp.

The Awards are now open for nominations and there are four categories in which you can nominate – Australian of the Year; Senior Australian of the Year (65 years and over); Young Australian of the Year (16 to 30 years) and Australia’s Local Hero.

Finalists from each State and Territory are selected in each of the four categories.

“There are 32 State and Territory recipients who then become National Finalists for the Australia of the Year Awards which will be announced in January, 2017.”

Nominations can be made online at www.australianoftheyear.gov.au or phoning 1300 655 193.

Alternatively, you can pop into your local Council office and pick up a postcard to mail your nomination. Nominations will close on Sunday, August 7, 2016.

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TRAVEL GIVEAWAY WRITING FOR WELLNESS FUNDING GRANTS AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR

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CLUB DUBBO VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES 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

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Friday 22.07.2016 to Sunday 24.07.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, July 22 Human Resources

MOVIE: Under The Tuscan Sun

SBS 2, 7.05pm The quirky US docu-series returns for a second season tonight, with the team at Trenton’s TerraCycle still eager to eliminate rubbish and make the world a better place. This is no small-time, big-dreams operation – with 150-plus employees and raking in multi-million dollar profits every year, they’re in a position to make a real difference. Not everyone is as on board with the mission as founder Tom Szaky is, though ... and that’s where the fun starts. Tonight, it’s time to expand the Zero Waste box project to smaller businesses, but that’s not as easy as it sounds.

Meanwhile, Canadian import Tony is trying to make friends.

ABC

MOVIE: Anger Management ement PRIME7, 10.50pm, M (2003)

PRIME7, 8.30pm, M (2003)

Nights in Rodanthe star Diane Lane features in this inconsequential but charming foreign production as a recently divorced San Francisco writer who impulsively buys an Italian villa while on a 10-day tour of Tuscany. She soon endears herself to the locals, finds romance with a hunky suitor (Raoul Bova) and learns to start her life anew. Writer-director Audrey Wells (Shall We Dance?) capitalises on Lane’s naturally sunny disposition, crafting a love letter to the Italian town through her sweet mix of gentle comedy and warmhearted romance.

PRIME7

Life’s pretty sweet for mild-mannered nnered New k (Adam York business clerk Dave Buznik Sandler) and his girlfriend Linda da (Marisa Tomei), until he is wrongly ongly arrested for being unruly on a flight. Sentenced to therapy with ith a famed anger specialist, the overactive Dr Buddy Rydell (a flat Jack Nicholson), Dave is constantly misunderstood and his life becomes a round-theclock nightmare. A good concept is poorly executed, leaving support players John Turturro, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson and Heather Graham to pick up the pieces.

NINE

WIN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

(CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 11.00 Croc College. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.50 The Cook And The Chef.

(R, CC) 3.20 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote.

(PG, R, CC) Cabot Cove’s mayor gets a surprise.

5.00 ABC News: Early Edition.

(CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) Analysis of the day’s news.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

(CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Ike: Countdown To D-Day. (PG, CC) (2004) A look at the lead-up to D-Day. Tom Selleck, James Remar.

2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) The hottest issues from the day’s news.

3.00 The Chase. (CC) Hosted by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 Seven News At 4. (CC) 5.00 The Chase Australia. (CC) Contestants race to answer quiz questions correctly to avoid being caught by The Chaser.

6.00 9.00 11.30 12.00

Today. (CC) Today Extra. (PG, CC) Morning News. (CC) The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show featuring celebrities, musical guests and ordinary people with interesting tales to tell.

MOVIE: Summer Catch.

(PG, R, CC) (2001) A man dreams of becoming a professional baseball player by attracting the attention of big-league scouts. Freddie Prinze Jr, Jessica Biel, Fred Ward.

News Now. (CC) Afternoon News. (CC) Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 6.30 Everyday Health. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 WIN News. (R, CC) 8.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10.

(PG, CC) 11.00 The Talk. (CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, R, CC) 2.10 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 2.30 Everyday Health. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Entertainment Tonight.

(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 Tour De France: Daily Update. 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 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 18. Replay.

3.00 Who Do You Think You Are? (R, CC) 4.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) Coverage of the National Conventions.

5.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 18.

Highlights.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) The best analysis of local, national and international events from an Australian perspective.

8.00 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks: Wellington. (CC) Tony Robinson explores Wellington, the tiny capital of New Zealand which is located on the South Island.

8.30 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) With Sasha back in fighting form, the team investigates the death of a talented cricket prodigy.

9.30 Scott & Bailey. (M, CC) Part 1 of 3. Rachel steps up to acting DI on a case that is bigger and more sinister than it first seemed.

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 and Elysse Morgan.

11.05 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) Paul helps a woman in distress.

11.55 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

(CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Johanna Griggs visits the home of champion swimmer Giaan Rooney. Fast Ed heads to Mt Buller to prepare some warming recipes for winter. Dr Harry visits a black sheep that acts very un-sheep like.

8.30 MOVIE: Under The Tuscan Sun. (M, R, CC) (2003) A 35 year-old writer travels to Tuscany, following her divorce, and surprises herself by offering to buy a rundown villa, which she brings to life with the help of a real estate agent and a contractor. Diane Lane.

10.50 MOVIE: Anger Management. (M, R, CC) (2003) A businessman attending a court-ordered, anger management class is assigned a therapist.

However, after it becomes obvious the man to whose care he has been entrusted has issues of his own, he begins to wonder if he would have been better off spending his time behind bars. Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 A Current Affair. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 20. Brisbane Broncos v Penrith Panthers.

From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

10.10 The NRL Rookie.

(PG, R, CC) Contestants compete in a series of challenges to land the prize of a contract with one of the 16 NRL clubs.

11.10 MOVIE: Rocky Balboa.

(M, R, CC) (2006) After a virtual boxing match declares Rocky Balboa the victor over current champion Mason “The Line” Dixon, the former heavyweight steps out of retirement pitting himself against a new rival.

Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia.

6.00 WIN News. (CC) 6.30 The Project. (CC) Waleed Aly, Gorgi Coghlan, Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann and Meshel Laurie take a look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Living Room. (CC) Dr Chris Brown reveals his top five shark-diving spots. Barry Du Bois provides do-it-yourself tips to creating better lighting conditions in a home.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Take a look back at some of the celebrity guests, including Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Kate Winslet, Tom Hanks, Johnny Depp and Jennifer Lawrence, who have graced Irish comedian Graham Norton’s chat show.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Kate Langbroek, Dave Hughes and Anne Edmonds competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week.

10.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC)

6.00 Nigella Bites. (R, CC) (Final) English TV personality Nigella Lawson prepares a host of rich and spicy recipes, from saffronscented chicken pilaf to Middle Eastern flatbread pizzas, Moroccan roast lamb, and a semifreddo frozen dessert.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 The Easter Island Heads.

(R, CC) Explores the world’s most recognisable statues, the giant stone heads of Easter Island, with a look at how and why they were made, as well as investigating what prompted the locals to topple all of them, except one.

8.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 19.

Albertville to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc. 146km mountain stage. From France. Hosted by Mike Tomalaris, Robbie McEwan, Dave McKenzie and Henk Vogels, with commentary from Matthew Keenan, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen.

1.10 MOVIE: Stigmata.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1999) A young hairdresser develops stigmata. Patricia Arquette.

3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Extra. (CC) 4.00 Global Shop.

4.30 Good Morning America.

(CC)

12.30 The Project. (R, CC) A look at the day’s news.

1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG, CC) Comedian Stephen Colbert interviews Seth Rogen and Krysten Ritter. Musical performance by Wolf Parade.

2.30 Home Shopping.

2.00 The Hunt For The Book Of Spells. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Raider Ron And The Lost Ark. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.30 Braise. (MA15+, R, CC) 4.40 A Cautionary Tail. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

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

1.00 Home Shopping.

1.00

3.00 4.00 5.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, July 22 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm San Andreas (2015) Action. Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino. A rescue helicopter pilot searches for his daughter after a devastating earthquake.

(M) Premiere

6.40pm The People’s Court.

Real-life courtroom drama.

(PG) Arena

7.30pm World War One: The People’s Story. A famous young cast gives fresh voice to the original words of men and women caught in a conflict that changed the world forever.

(PG) History

6.00am Golf. USPGA Tour.

Canadian Open. First round.

Fox Sports 3

8.30pm Murder Among Friends. A teenager is found slain in a park. (M) Discovery

7.50pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 20. Brisbane Broncos v Penrith Panthers. Fox Sports 1

9.30pm MasterChef: The Professionals. (PG) Lifestyle Food

7.50pm Football. AFL. Round 18. Collingwood v North Melbourne. Fox Footy

8.30pm Good Will Hunting (1997) Drama. Matt Damon, Robin Williams. (M) Masterpiece

8.30pm Law & Order: SVU. Rollins pursues a serial criminal. (MA15+) Universal Channel 9.20pm Saving Hope.

(MA15+) SoHo

8.30pm Top Five (2014) Comedy. Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson. A former comedy legend is forced to confront his past. (MA15+) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Sydney Sailboat. (R, CC) 5.00 Play School.

(CC) 5.05 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 5.25 Sarah And Duck. (R) 5.35 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Teacup Travels. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep.

(R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (M, R, CC) 8.15 Fresh Blood. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 The Hoarder Next Door.

(PG, R, CC) A look at extreme hoarders.

9.20 Alex James: The Cocaine Diaries. (M, R, CC) 10.10 Dirty Laundry Live. (M, R, CC) 10.45 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.30 Sherlock. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Doctor Who. (M, R, CC) 1.45 Jimmy Fallon.

(PG, R) 2.30 News Update. (R) 2.35 Close. 5.00 Franklin And Friends.

(R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers.

(R, CC) 5.30 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 5.40 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.

(R, CC) (Final) 12.40 Children’s Programs. 1.55 Matilda And Me. (R, CC) 2.00 Children’s Programs.

4.40 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 5.05 Camp Lakebottom. (R) 5.20 Kung Fu Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness. 5.40 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 5.45 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) (Final) 6.20 Eve. (CC) 6.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 7.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing.

(R, CC) 8.00 The Haunting Hour.

(PG, R, CC) 8.20 Adventure Time. (R) 8.45 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) Zoe is left devastated by her new movie.

9.05 The Sleepover Club.

(R, CC) 9.30 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. (R) 9.50 Sword Art Online.

(PG, R, CC) 10.15 Kamisama Kiss. (PG, R, CC) 10.40 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Flushed.

(C, CC) 7.30 It’s Academic. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Pipsqueaks. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away: The Early Years.

(PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R) 12.00 Better Homes. (R, CC) 1.00 Mr Selfridge. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Dealers. (PG, R) 3.00 Australia’s Best Backyards. (R, CC) 3.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie.

(R, CC) 4.00 Best Houses Australia.

(R) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 The Border. (PG) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

Prospective buyers find their dream home.

9.30 The Art Of The Architect.

Hosted by Matt Brew.

10.30 Best Houses Australia.

11.00 Cook Me The Money. (PG, R) 12.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 1.00 Australia’s Best Backyards. (R, CC) 1.30 The Outdoor Room With Jamie Durie. (R, CC) 2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 4.00 Reflections In The River. (R) 5.00 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 7.00 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 7.30 Crunch Time.

(C, CC) 8.00 Children’s Programs.

11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 12.00 Children’s Programs. 1.30 Sooty.

(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 Children’s Programs. 4.05 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 4.30 Gumball. (R) 5.00 Clarence. (PG) 5.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: The Iron Giant.

(PG, R) (1999) 7.40 MOVIE: Free Birds. (CC) (2013) Woody Harrelson.

9.40 MOVIE: Death At A Funeral. (M, R, CC) (2010) Martin Lawrence.

11.30 American Digger. (PG, R) 12.00 Way Stranger Than Fiction.

(M) 1.00 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 1.30 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (PG, R) 2.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 2.30 Sooty. (R) 3.00 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 4.30 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Fishing Western Australia. (R) 7.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 8.30 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 9.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 10.00 Classic Car Rescue. (PG, R) 11.00 Starsky & Hutch. (PG, R) 12.00 S.W.A.T. (PG, R) 1.00 Ultimate Factories.

(R) 2.00 Wipeout USA. (PG, R) 3.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 5.00 American Restoration. (PG, R) 6.00 American Pickers. (PG, R) Frank and Danielle pick a former trading post.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Collingwood v North Melbourne. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

11.00 Friday Front Bar. (M, CC) A unique look at the AFL. 11.30 Olympians: Off The Record: Jess Fox. (R, CC) 12.00 Locked Up Abroad. (MA15+) 2.30 Urban Tarzan. (PG, R) 3.00 Ultimate Factories. (R) 4.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 5.00 Dream Car Garage. (PG, R)

6.00 News. (CC) 9.00 News Mornings. (CC) 11.55 Heywire.

12.00 News. (CC) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 ABC News Afternoons With The Business. 5.00 Grandstand. 5.55 Heywire. (R) 6.00 ABC News Evenings. 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Grandstand. (CC) 8.00 Planet America.

9.00 ABC National News.

9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. 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. 5.25 Lateline. (R, CC) 5.55 Heywire. (R)

ABC NEWS

9GO!

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (PG) 7.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 10.30 Come Dine With Me. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: The Gentle Gunman. (R, CC) (1952) John Mills, Dirk Bogarde. 1.50 Come Dine With Me. (PG, R) 2.20 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.30 River Cottage: Spring. (PG, R) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) Ross wants to be with Rachel.

7.30 MOVIE: 42. (PG, R, CC) (2013) The story of Jackie Robinson. Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman.

10.00 Soccer. International Champions Cup. Manchester United v Borussia Dortmund.

From Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, China.

12.00 Infomercials. (PG) 2.00 MOVIE: Scott Of The Antarctic. (R, CC) (1948) John Mills. 4.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

5.30pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. First quarter-final. Fox Sports 2

ONE

SBS 2

6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 9. German Grand Prix. Replay. 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 10.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 12.00 Raising Hope.

(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. (PG, R) 5.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) Hot Lips sets a date for her wedding.

7.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) MacGyver helps a rock star.

8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger.

(M, R) A country singer needs Walker’s protection.

9.30 MOVIE: Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn. (MA15+) (2013) A man returns to a life of crime. William Demeo.

12.00 Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.

(M, R) 1.00 Shopping. (R) 2.00 Star Trek: Voyager. (PG, R) 3.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. (M, R) 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 5.00 The Doctors. (M, CC)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Beyblade: Shogun Steel. (R) 6.30 Transformers Rescue Bots. (R) 7.00 Transformers Prime. (R) 7.30 Pokémon. (R) 8.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Littlest Petshop. (R) 9.00 Buzzy Bee And Friends.

9.30 Crocamole. (P, CC) 10.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 11.00 JAG. (PG, R) 12.00 Judging Amy. (PG, R) 1.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 4.05 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.05 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) 8.00 MOVIE: Sabrina. (PG, R) (1995) 10.40 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 11.40 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 1.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 2.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

6.00 Morning Programs. 7.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG, R) 8.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG, R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 The Millionaire Matchmaker. (PG, R) 12.00 Domestic Blitz. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Explore Canada. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Rehab Addict. (PG, R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 6.00 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG) 6.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 7.00 House Hunters. (R) 7.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 8.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 9.30 Island Life. 10.30 Extreme Homes. (R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

Robin Williams stars in Good Will Hunting.

6.00 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 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 18. Replay. 5.00 Brain Games. 5.30 Street Genius.

6.00 365: Every Day Documentaries.

6.05 If You Are The One. (R) 7.05 Human Resources.

7.35 Friday Feed.

8.05 Adam Ruins Everything.

(M, R) Presented by Adam Conover.

8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) Couples go on naked dates.

9.20 Matrix Of Desire: The Secrets Of Sexual Arousal. (M, R) A look at the “secrets” of desire.

10.25 MOVIE: Tai Chi 0.

(MA15+, R) (2012) 12.10 MOVIE: My Dear Enemy.

(PG, R) (2008) 2.30 PopAsia.

(PG) 3.30 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 6.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 7.30 Pizza Masters. (R) 8.30 Outrageous Food. (R) 9.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 9.30 Farmhouse Rules. (R) 10.00 Secret Meat Business. (R) 10.30 The Best Thing I Ever Made. (R) 11.00 Boys Weekend. (R) 11.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 12.30 Pizza Masters.

(R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 3.30 The Best Thing I Ever Made. (R) 4.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.

(R) 4.30 Boys Weekend. (PG, R) 5.00 Farmhouse Rules. 5.30 Pizza Masters. (R) 6.30 No Reservations.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 The Best In Australia. (PG) 8.30 Kitchen Inferno With Curtis Stone. (R) 9.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 10.00 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 10.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 The Best In Australia. (PG, R) 12.30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives.

(R) 1.00 Boys Weekend. (PG, R) 1.30 Farmhouse Rules. (R) 2.00 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 2.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 3.25 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 12.00 Wapos Bay. 1.30 Fit First. 2.00 Flying Boomerangs. 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 The Medicine Line. 6.00 Tangaroa. 6.30 Cafe Niugini. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 Aunty Moves In. 8.00 Mohawk Girls. (M) 8.30 Happy Birthday To A Beautiful Woman. (PG) 9.00 Defining Moments. 9.30 Chappelle’s Show. (M) 10.00 Shuga. (PG) 10.30 Blackstone. (MA15+) 11.20 Symbol Of Strength. 11.30 Mohawk Girls. (M) 12.00 Volumz. (MA15+) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (PG) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 2207

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Saturday, July 23 MOVIE: The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor PRIME7, 7pm, PG (2008) Spirited and hugely successful, the Mummy franchise has never pretended to be anything more than the poor man’s Indiana Jones, and this third instalment is no different. Brendan Fraser once again hits the adventure trail as intrepid explorer Rick O’Connell who heads to post-war China for a supernatural smackdown with Jet Li’s shape-shifting, power-crazed Emperor Han. Rick’s wife (Maria Bello), son (The Black Balloon’s Luke Ford) and brotherin-law (John Hannah) join forces as action specialist Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, xXx) ups the special effects at the expense of a decent yarn.

ABC

Spotless

Getaway

SBS 2, 9.30pm

NINE, 5.30pm

Canadian Marc-André Grondin (C.R.A.Z.Y) stars in this French-British black comedy about a crime scene cleaner who is drawn into his brother’s shady life of gangsters, drugs and corruption. Frenchman Jean Bastiere (Grondin) is trying to run a legit business in London, but the interests of his outlaw brother Martin (Denis Ménochet, Inglourious Basterds) keep interfering. In tonight’s double episode, Jean puts his foot down and refuses to do a clean for mob boss Nelson (Downton Abbey’s Brendan Coyle). In trying to fix things, Martin only makes them worse. It’s a little bit Breaking Bad, a little bit outrageous, and bloody good fun.

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NINE

WIN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 The Checkout: Factory Seconds. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Rise Of The Continents: Africa. (R, CC) 1.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 3.00 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks: Wellington.

(R, CC) Hosted by Tony Robinson.

3.35 Time Scanners: Machu Picchu. (R, CC) Presented

by Dallas Campbell.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A social services investigator is killed.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Road To Rio. (CC) 12.30 Olympians: Off The Record: Luc Longley.

(PG, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Morning Light.

(PG, R, CC) (2008) Fifteen young people compete in a yacht race. Chris Branning.

3.00 Air Crash Investigation: The Invisible Plane.

(PG, R, CC) 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) 5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Tino shows how to control rainfall on sloped ground. Costa explores a collector’s garden.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 The Coroner. (PG, CC) After a treasure hunter is found dead, Jane wonders whether he was murdered by one of his colleagues.

8.20 Indian Summers. (M, CC) As Simla prepares for the arrival of a powerful noble, Madeleine is dealt some devastating news.

9.10 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, R, CC) (Final) Dr Blake realises a murder he is investigating is linked to the death of his mother 40 years earlier.

10.10 Miniseries: Arthur & George. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 3. British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle agrees to help a man unjustly accused of murder.

10.55 8MMM. (M, R, CC) (Final) Determined to improve inter-racial relations, Jake tries to organise an “action plan”.

11.25 Jennifer Byrne Presents Great War Stories. (CC) Jennifer Byrne is joined by a panel of guests for a look at books about World War I.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor. (PG, R, CC) (2008) After a 2000-yearold curse is broken, a notorious Chinese emperor returns to life and sets out to conquer the world with the help of his terracotta army. He is opposed by a married couple and their son, whose previous adventures had pitted them against a magical mummy. Brendan Fraser.

9.15 MOVIE: Knowing.

(M, R, CC) (2009) After uncovering a time capsule, a university professor discovers it contains an encoded message which predicts a series of impending disasters.

However, when the authorities refuse to listen to his warnings, the man decides to take the fate of humanity into his own hands. Nicolas Cage.

11.50 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) On the eve of the high school talent show, Barry announces his intention to perform his karate routine.

However, he faces some opposition in the form of the rules which do not recognise martial arts as a “talent”.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

(PG, R, CC) (2005) A poor, young British boy wins a tour of a massive chocolate factory, conducted by the factory’s eccentric owner.

Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly.

9.20 MOVIE: Clear And Present Danger.

(M, R, CC) (1994) After a businessman and his family are murdered by Colombian drug dealers, the US President orders the CIA to take action against the people responsible.

However, it is not long before the agent in charge realises the situation is more complicated than it appeared. Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer.

6.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) In the wake of the death of Phil’s mother, the gang heads to Florida for her funeral.

6.30 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) A group of young people are put through their paces as they compete in a spelling bee.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) (Final) Bondi-based Dr Chris Brown heads to Queensland where he treats Aku the Fijian iguana at a busy Cairns clinic. At the Reptile Park, Tim and his team have to carry out one of their most dangerous jobs to date.

8.30 MOVIE: Star Trek.

(M, R, CC) (2009) The young and inexperienced crew of the starship Enterprise, embarks on a rescue mission to an alien planet. On their arrival, they discover a madman has attacked the world as part of his quest to gain vengeance for the death of his family in the far future.

11.00 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Ipswich SuperSprint.

Race 16. Highlights. From Queensland Raceway.

6.00 Grand Tours Of Scotland: Keeping It All Together. (R, CC) Presenter Paul Murton explores the Orkney archipelago. He heads from North Ronaldsay to Papa Stronsay and then onto Egislay before ending his journey at the most southerly of the Orkneys, the island of Stroma which sadly is no longer inhabited.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 The Six Queens Of Henry VIII. (CC) Part 3 of 4. Historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones explore the reign of Henry VIII from the perspective of his six wives. They continue by looking at his union to Jane Seymour, which resulted in a shortlived boy child, and to the German princess Anne of Cleves.

8.30 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 20. Megève to Morzine. 146.5km mountain stage. From France. Hosted by Mike Tomalaris, Robbie McEwan, Dave McKenzie and Henk Vogels, with commentary from Matthew Keenan, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen.

12.00 Australia Remembers: Pozieres Centenary Commemoration. (CC) Coverage of The Pozieres Service.

1.15 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by a special guest programmer.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.20 Home Shopping.

12.20 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.50 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) Lacey is sentenced to house arrest.

3.20 The Baron. (PG, R) The duo is pursued by enemy agents.

4.20 Nine Presents. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 Infomercials. (PG, R)

12.00 48 Hours: Gone. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the disappearance and murder of Michelle Warner in 2012.

1.00 Home Shopping. (R)

2.00 Masters Of Sex. (MA15+, R, CC) 3.05 Masters Of Sex. (M, R, CC) 4.10 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.45 Perfect Drug. (MA15+, R) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

12.00 12.30 1.00 1.15 1.45 2.15

5.00 5.30

PAW Patrol. (CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday.

(PG, CC) In Conversation With Alex Malley. (R, CC) Cybershack. (PG, CC) A look at the latest in gadgets and games.

Nine Presents. (R, CC) Hot In Cleveland. (PG, CC) Community. (PG, R, CC) A mischief maker strikes Greendale.

MOVIE: The Bridges Of Madison County.

(PG, R, CC) (1995) Clint Eastwood.

News: First At Five. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 8.30 9.30 12.00 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.00 4.30 5.00

Fishing Edge. (R, CC) The Home Team. (R, CC) RPM. (R, CC) Family Feud. (R, CC) Weekend Feast. (R, CC) Studio 10: Saturday.

(PG, CC) The Living Room. (R, CC) Healthy Homes Australia. (R, CC) The Doctors. (PG, CC) Fishing Australia. (R, CC) Cruise Mode. (CC) (New Series) Puppy Academy. (CC) (New Series) Storm Season. (PG, R, CC) Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Tour De France: Daily Update. 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 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 19. Replay.

3.00 The Classic Car Show.

(PG, R, CC) Takes a look at the world of classic cars.

3.55 Crash Test Dummies.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 19.

Highlights.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Saturday, July 23 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.10pm Mystic River (2003) Drama. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins. (MA15+) Masterpiece

6.30pm The Amazing Race.

Teams of two solve clues to reveal their next destination in a race around the world. (PG) FOX8

6.30pm Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown. (M) TLC

7.20pm Football. AFL. Round 18. Geelong v Adelaide. Fox Footy

8.30pm Outcast. (MA15+) FX

7.30pm Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day. Foxtel Arts

8.30pm Girl, Interrupted (1999) Drama. Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie. A teenage girl is institutionalised. (MA15+) Masterpiece 10.40pm Southpaw (2015) Drama. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams. A boxer tries to get his life back on track after a family tragedy.

(MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.45 Sydney Sailboat. (R, CC) 5.00 Play School. (R, CC) 5.05 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 5.25 Sarah And Duck.

(R) 5.35 Hoot Hoot Go! (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Go Jetters. (R) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Teacup Travels. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep.

(R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Highway Thru Hell.

(PG, R, CC) 8.15 Mock The Week.

(M, R, CC) 8.50 Live From The BBC. (M, CC) 9.20 Live At The Apollo.

(M, R, CC) 10.05 Comedy Up Late. (M, R, CC) 10.35 Broad City. (M, R, CC) 11.00 Episodes. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) 2.20 Highway Thru Hell. (PG, R, CC) 3.05 News Update. (R) 3.10 Close.

5.00 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.30 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 5.40 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 12.00 Worst Year Of My Life, Again. (R, CC) 12.25 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. (R) 12.55 Eve. (R, CC) 1.25 Girls In Love. (R, CC) 1.50 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.30 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) 4.40 Numb Chucks. (R) 4.50 SheZow. (R, CC) 5.05 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 5.30 Hank Zipzer.

(R, CC) 5.55 Scream Street. (R) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: Next Class.

(PG, R, CC) 9.05 The Sleepover Club.

(R, CC) Fliss helps Lyndz prepare for her gymkhana at the stables.

9.30 MY:24: Mikey. (R, CC) Mikey’s parents suffered from mental illnesses.

9.40 Close.

7.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 20. Melbourne Storm v Sydney Roosters. Fox Sports 1 7.58pm Cricket. Second Test.

England v Pakistan. Day 2. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Winners & Losers.

Jack tells Sophie he loves her.

(M) SoHo

Patrick Fugit stars in Outcast.

7TWO

9GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Room For Improvement. (R, CC) 9.00 The Real Seachange. (R, CC) 10.00 Travel Oz. (CC) 11.30 Dealers. (PG, R) 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.

Qualifying final. Southern Districts v Randwick. 5.00 Road To Rio. (R, CC) 5.30 No Reservations. (PG, R) 6.30 A Touch Of Frost. (PG, R, CC) 8.50 Escape To The Country.

Prospective buyers find their dream home.

9.50 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. (R) 10.50 Terror In The Skies. (PG, R, CC) 11.50 Sydney Weekender.

(R, CC) 12.20 WA Weekender. (R, CC) 12.50 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 1.20 Creek To Coast. (R, CC) 2.00 Great South East. (R, CC) 2.30 Home In WA. (CC) 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG, R) 3.30 The Travel Bug. (PG, R) 4.30 No Reservations. (PG, R) 5.30 Shopping. (R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 9.30 Batman. (PG, R) 10.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Dennis & Gnasher. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Pirate Express. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 1.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 2.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 3.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 3.30 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitzu. (PG) 4.00 Teen Titans.

(PG, R) 4.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 5.30 MOVIE: Just My Luck. (PG, R, CC) (2006) 7.30 MOVIE: Mean Girls.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) Lindsay Lohan.

9.30 MOVIE: Just Friends.

(M, R, CC) (2005) A man falls for his high-school sweetheart. Ryan Reynolds.

11.40 Adult Swim. (M, R) 12.40 Go Girls. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch.

(PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V. (PG, R) 4.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds.

(R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder.

Scardifields Smash Repairs Sprintcar. Replay. 7.00 Zoom.

(PG, R) 7.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG, R) 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.00 Zoom. (PG) 9.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG) 10.00 Running. Tarawera Ultra Marathon. 10.30 Triathlon.

Challenge Wanaka. 11.00 Cycling.

The Pioneer. Highlights. 12.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 1.00 Urban Tarzan. (PG, R) 1.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Sydney v Carlton.

4.30 Billy The Exterminator. (PG) 5.30 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Geelong v Adelaide.

10.30 MOVIE: That’s My Boy. (MA15+, R, CC) (2012) Adam Sandler.

1.00 Friday Front Bar. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Billy The Exterminator. (PG, R) 2.00 Cycling. The Pioneer.

Highlights. 3.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 4.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder.

Scardifields Smash Repairs Sprintcar. Replay. 5.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 5.30 Shopping. (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. 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Planet America. (R) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. 3.30 Foreign Corre.

(R, CC) 4.00 News. 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. 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 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

6.30pm Room To Improve.

(PG) Lifestyle Home

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.00 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 9.15 Adventures In Rainbow Country. (R) 9.45 Destination WA. (CC) 10.15 MOVIE: Jules Verne’s Rocket To The Moon.

(R, CC) (1967) Burl Ives.

12.45 MOVIE: The Vikings.

(PG, R) (1958) Kirk Douglas.

3.15 MOVIE: The Alamo.

(PG, R) (1960) A small group of men defends a fort. John Wayne.

6.30 Soccer. (CC) International Champions Cup. Melbourne Victory v Juventus. From the MCG. 9.00 MOVIE: The Last Samurai. (M, R, CC) (2003) During the 19th century, an American soldier is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his soldiers. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton.

12.00 Infomercials. (PG) 3.15 MOVIE: The Gentle Gunman. (R, CC) (1952) 5.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (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 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 12.30 Golf. The Open Championship.

Highlights. 2.30 Operation Repo.

(PG, R) 3.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 4.00 The McCarthys. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 6.00 The Renovation King. (R, CC) 6.30 Last Man Standing. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Ipswich SuperSprint.

Race 16. Highlights.

9.30 Minority Report. (M) Dash investigates a murder on his own.

10.30 Crisis. (M, R) 11.30 Legends.

(M, R) 12.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 2.30 RPM GP. (R, CC) 3.00 RPM. (R, CC) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing.

MotoGP. Race 9. German Grand Prix. Replay. 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Pokémon.

(R) 7.00 Jar Dwellers SOS. (C, R, CC) 7.30 Kuu-Kuu Harajuku. (C, CC) 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 Neighbours. (R, CC) 2.05 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 3.05 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) 6.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) Presented by Ellie Taylor.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Take a look back at some of the celebrity guests who have graced Irish comedian Graham Norton’s chat show.

9.30 Sex And The City. (M, R) Carrie and Stanford attend a baby shower thrown by their friends, Kyra and Chuck.

10.50 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.20 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 7.30 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Flipping Out. (PG, R) 9.30 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG, R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. (R) 12.00 Island Life. (R) 1.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 2.00 Postcards. (PG, CC) 3.00 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG, R) 4.00 Mega Mansions.

(R) 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. (R) 6.00 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG) 6.30 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.30 House Hunters.

(R) 8.30 House Hunters International. (R) 9.30 House Hunters Reno. (PG) 10.30 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy.

(PG, R) 2.55 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 19. Replay. 4.55 Brain Games. (PG, R) 5.20 365: Every Day Documentaries. 5.25 MOVIE: My Neighbour Totoro.

(PG, R) (1988) 7.00 Des Bishop: Breaking China.

7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 The Island With Bear Grylls. (M, R, CC) The men and women are barely surviving.

9.30 Spotless. (MA15+) Jean decides it is time to make a stand.

11.40 Miniseries: Public Enemy Number 1. (MA15+, R) 4.15 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 6.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 7.30 The Best In Australia. (PG, R) 8.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Farmhouse Rules. (R) 10.00 Boys Weekend. (PG, R) 10.30 The Best Thing I Ever Made. (R) 11.00 Burgers, Brew & ‘Que. (R) 11.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 12.30 The Best In Australia.

(PG, R) 1.30 Kitchen Inferno. (R) 2.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 3.30 The Best Thing I Ever Made.

(R) 4.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 4.30 Boys Weekend.

(R) 5.00 Farmhouse Rules. 5.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 6.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (R) 7.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 8.25 Best Thing I Ever Ate Bitesize. (R) 9.30 Taco Trip. (R) 10.30 Restaurant: Impossible. (R) 11.25 Lyndey Milan’s Taste Of... (R) 12.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 1.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 2.30 Taco Trip.

(R) 3.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 4.30 The Best Thing I Ever Made.

(R) 5.00 Boys Weekend. (R) 5.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Our Songs. 10.30 Kai Time On The Road. 11.00 Deadly Thinking. (PG) 11.30 Kriol Kitchen.

12.00 Talking Language. 12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 Our Stories. 2.20 Cash Money. 2.25 Jeffrey’s Healthy Tips.

2.30 Aunty Moves In. 3.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 4.30 Unearthed. 4.50 Cash Money. 4.55 Jeffrey’s Healthy Tips. 5.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 5.30 Move It Mob Style.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 6.30 Sacred Buffalo People.

7.30 My Louisiana Love. (PG) 8.45 Being Mary Jane. (PG) 9.35 NAIDOC Awards 2016. 11.30 Australian Biography.

12.00 Volumz. (MA15+) 4.00 NITV On The Road: Barunga Festival. 5.00 NITV On The Road: Yabun.

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Sunday, July 24 Barracuda

MOVIE: Hulk

Ice Station Antarctica

ABC, 8.30pm

7MATE, 10pm, M (2003)

SBS, 8.30pm

A world record to his name and a spot on the Commonwealth Games team, everything seems to be going according to plan for Danny (Elias Anton) in this great adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’s novel. But he’s starting to feel like the school’s swim team is not going to be enough to take him all the way though, and life with the other elite swimmers at the Victorian institute of Sport beckons.

It’s a whole new world again for the boy from the ‘burbs. For Martin (Ben Kindon), seeing his friend’s success is a struggle, and he’s starting to regret giving up swimming. Success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, though, as Danny is about to find out.

A not-so-jolly green giant cuts a menacing yet strangely endearing figure in Ang Lee’s respectful treatment of the time-honoured Marvel superhero. Star Eric Bana has a firm grip on Bruce Banner, the afflicted scientist whose overdose on gamma radiation causes him to turn into a brutish giant when angered.

Serviced by ILM’s dazzling effects and a clever script rooted in psychological drama, Brokeback Mountain director Lee preserves the brains and brawn of the comic book, but jettisons the camp.

Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas and Nick Nolte give mighty support in a fantasy spectacle you’d be mad to miss.

You think it’s cold here? Spare a thought for the folks living down in Antarctica. ica. The sun doesn’t even bother getting up there here for more than three months of the year, and temperatures rarely rise above a somewhat chilly -20C in winter.

Britain’s Halley Research Station n is home to up to 70, mostly scientists ists studying everything from climate te change to space travel, and BBC C weatherman Peter Gibbs used to o be one of them. Now, he’s making the nest 4800km journey on the RSS Ernest unt Shackleton back to his former haunt obe on the farthest reaches of the globe to see what they’re up to. Hopefully fully he’ll get there before the station n becomes iceberg-borne.

ABC

PRIME7

NINE

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 Opera On Sydney Harbour: Madama Butterfly. (PG, R, CC) 4.35 Australian Story: The Heart Bus. (R, CC) 5.10 David Attenborough’s Micro Monsters: Colony.

(R, CC) (Final) A look at the world of bugs.

6.00 Home Shopping. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 Air Crash Investigation: Fight To The Death.

(PG, R, CC) Investigates a flight that crashed.

1.00 MOVIE: The Eagle Has Landed. (PG, R, CC) (1976) A squad of German paratroopers is sent to England to kidnap the Prime Minister. Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh and Karen visit the Yarra Valley.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike hits Sydney Harbour.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Surfing The Menu: The Next Generation. (CC) Dan and Hayden head to Shark Bay. 6.30 Compass: The Little Church That Grew.

(PG, CC) The story of a massive influx of devout Lutheran refugees from Africa to a church in country Victoria.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs New Zealand. (CC) Architect Chris Moller meets a couple building an Earthship, a house constructed from recycled materials.

8.30 Barracuda. (M, CC) Part 3 of 4. Danny’s obsession with improving his times puts him at odds with his family.

9.25 Stop Laughing… This Is Serious: Look At Moi, Look At Moi. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 3. Explores the development of Australian comedy through social and political change.

10.25 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Shaun Micallef.

10.55 MOVIE: Healing.

(M, R, CC) (2014) A prisoner takes part in a rehabilitation program.

Don Hany, Hugo Weaving.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

8.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, CC) Officers catch a Vietnamese student with a stash of seafood infested by exotic pests.

8.30 Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America. (PG, CC) Part 3 of 3. Scottish comedian Billy Connolly concludes his epic trip across America. He arrives in Texas where he celebrates the local passion for Friday night football, before meeting frog princesses of Rayne in Louisiana and a moving tribute to Hank Williams.

9.30 Bones. (M, CC) The team investigates the death of a popular professional hockey player whose body was dumped in a river.

10.30 Bones. (M, CC) After the remains of a wealthy explorer are found in Antarctica, the case is brought to Brennan and Booth.

11.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) After the assistant to a fashion magazine’s editor is found murdered, Beckett and Castle investigate.

12.55 Our Girl. (M, R, CC) Molly is deployed to Afghanistan.

1.55 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

3.20 MOVIE: The Spanish Main. (R, CC) (1945) A Spanish viceroy’s fiancée is kidnapped by a pirate.

Paul Henreid.

5.00 Insiders. (R, CC)

12.30 Beauty And The Geek Australia. (PG, R, CC) (Final) Discover which of the boys will transform into their partner’s Prince Charming and claim the crown.

2.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather.

PAW Patrol. (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. Human Planet: Oceans – Into The Blue. (PG, R, CC) A look at the sea.

The NRL Rookie.

(PG, R, CC) Contestants vie for an NRL contract.

Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 20. St George Illawarra Dragons v Wests Tigers. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

WIN

SBS

6.00 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 To Be Advised.

8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 9.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 1.00 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (R, CC) 2.00 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 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Tour De France: Daily Update.

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 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 20. Replay.

3.00 The Bowls Show.

4.00 Speedweek. (CC) 5.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 20. Megève to Morzine. 146.5km mountain stage.

Highlights. From France.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

8.00 David Attenborough’s The Hunt: Race Against Time. (PG, CC) Takes a look at the strategies of predators in the dynamic border between land and sea, the coast. In this region of constant change, opportunities never last long, leaving hunters in a race against time.

Presented by Sir David Attenborough.

9.10 MOVIE: The Expendables 3. (M, CC) (2014) After one of his old friends is severely injured in their latest mission, a mercenary decides to disband his squad and instead recruit a new group of operatives to stop the man responsible, a notorious arms dealer.

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Mel Gibson.

11.45 Major Crimes.

(MA15+, R, CC) The team works against the clock to catch the killer before he claims his third and final victim.

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.

Hosted by Grant Denyer.

6.30 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (CC) A group of some of Australia’s brightest young people, aged between eight and 13 years, are put through their paces as they compete in a spelling bee. Hosted by Chrissie Swan and Grant Denyer.

7.30 MasterChef Australia.

(PG, CC) The contestants tackle the quarter-final mystery box challenge and invention test.

9.00 MOVIE: Star Trek Into Darkness. (M, R, CC) (2013) Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise return to Earth to deal with a terrorist who has attacked the heart of Starfleet, only to encounter a seemingly unstoppable enemy with a plan of his own. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana.

11.35 48 Hours: Love And Death In Alaska. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the case of Mechele Linehan, who was accused of murdering Kent Leppink in 1996.

6.00 Grand Tours Of Scotland: Atlantic Twins.

(R, CC) (Final) Presenter Paul Murton concludes his exploration of Scotland.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Rome: Empire Without Limit: Imperium. (PG, CC) Part 3 of 4. English historian Mary Beard explores the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.

8.30 Ice Station Antarctica.

(CC) BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs pays a visit to the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley Research Station.

9.30 Grand Tours Of Scotland: West Is Best – From Lewis To Harris.

(CC) (Series return) Paul Murton once again embarks on a tour of Scotland, visiting the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.

Along the way he tries his hand at weaving Harris Tweed, meets the family behind the famous Stornoway black pudding and uncovers a story about a chess set.

10.00 Cycling. (CC) UCI Women’s World Tour.

La Course by Le Tour de France. 89km course.

From Paris, France.

12.40 Constantine. (M, CC) John travels to Atlanta.

1.35 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 Global Shop.

3.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning talk show. Hosted

by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

12.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Final stage.

Chantilly to Paris, Champs Elysees. 113km flat stage.

From France.

5.00 CCTV English News.

News from China.

5.30 NHK World English News. News from Japan.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

11.00 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Sunday, July 24 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

8.30pm The Martian (2015) Drama. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain. An astronaut is left for dead on Mars after a terrible accident. (M) Premiere

6.30pm So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation. (PG) FOX8

7.30pm From Vienna to Broadway. (NC) Foxtel Arts

12.18pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Australianbased semi-final. Fox Sports 3

8.30pm The Wedding Ringer (2015) Comedy. Kevin Hart, Josh Gad. A groom hires a best man for his wedding. (MA15+) Comedy

8.00pm Bob’s Burgers. Linda suffers through a horrible rash.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel 8.30pm 800 Words.

Questions are raised over Laura’s death. (M) SoHo

7.30pm Australia Doesn’t Just Want To Kill You. Tarantula venom is revolutionising the livestock industry. (PG) Discovery 9.30pm Killing Spree. A look at the story of Steven Wright.

(M) Crime & Investigation

2.00pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 20. Cronulla Sharks v Newcastle Knights. Fox Sports 1 4.30pm Football. AFL. Round 18. Port Adelaide v GWS. Fox Footy

10.45pm The Peacemaker (1997) Thriller. George Clooney, Nicole Kidman. (M) Action

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs.

6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Teacup Travels. 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Seconds From Disaster.

(PG, R, CC) 8.20 The Daters: Anna Meets Gumby. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow.

(M, R, CC) Michael McIntyre continues the roadshow in Brighton.

9.15 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Porn.

(MA15+, R, CC) 10.05 Alex James: The Cocaine Diaries. (M, R, CC) 10.55 Never Mind The Buzzcocks. (M, R, CC) 11.25 Confessions Of A Nurse.

(M, R, CC) 12.15 Seconds From Disaster. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 The Home Show. (R, CC) 1.55 News Update. (R) 2.00 Close. 5.00 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.30 Bert And Ernie. (R, CC) 5.40 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Worst Year Of My Life, Again.

(R, CC) 12.25 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. (R) 12.50 Eve. (R, CC) 1.25 Girls In Love. (R, CC) 1.50 The Next Step. (R, CC) 2.35 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.30 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Spectacular Spider-Man. (R, CC) 4.40 Numb Chucks. (R) 4.50 SheZow. (R, CC) 5.05 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 5.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 5.55 Scream Street. (R) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 7.55 Degrassi: Next Class.

(PG, R, CC) 9.05 The Sleepover Club.

(R, CC) 9.30 MY:24. (R, CC) Young people tell their stories.

9.40 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Rage. (PG, R) 2.25 Close.

Matt Damon stars in The Martian.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG, R) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. (R) 9.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 10.00 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Dealers. (PG, R) 2.00 Storage Hoarders. (R) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield.

Qualifying Final. Northern Suburbs v Warringah. 5.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 6.00 Mighty Ships. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 For The Love Of Dogs.

(PG) 7.30 Border Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

(PG) Prospective buyers find their dream home.

9.30 Escape To The Continent.

A look at homes overseas.

10.45 Escape To The Country. (R) 11.45 Mighty Ships. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Best Houses Australia. (R) 1.15 Escape To The Country. (R) 2.15 Dealers. (PG, R) 3.45 Storage Hoarders. (R) 4.45 Escape To The Continent. (R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Little Charmers.

(R) 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. (R) 2.30 Nexo Knights.

(PG) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Ninjago: Masters Of Spinjitzu. (PG) 4.00 MOVIE: The Pink Panther.

(PG, R, CC) (2006) 6.00 MOVIE: Marmaduke.

(PG, R, CC) (2010) 7.45 MOVIE: Rango. (PG, R, CC) (2011) A lizard becomes a sheriff. Johnny Depp.

9.55 MOVIE: The Inbetweeners Movie.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2011) James Buckley.

11.50 Adult Swim. (M) 1.20 The NRL Rookie. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 GO Surround Sound. (R, CC) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-GiOh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 SpongeBob SquarePants. (R) 4.00 Little Charmers. (R) 4.30 Sonic Boom.

(PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Home Shopping. (R) 9.30 Road To Rio. (R, CC) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) 11.30 The AFN Fishing Show.

(PG) 12.00 American Chainsaw.

(PG, R) 1.00 Mudcats. (PG, R) 2.00 Big Shrimpin’. (PG, R) 3.00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Port Adelaide v GWS. 7.15 MOVIE: Godzilla.

(PG, R, CC) (1998) A monster of gigantic proportions attacks New York City after it is awakened by nuclear testing in the Pacific.

10.00 MOVIE: Hulk. (M, R, CC) (2003) A mishandled experiment causes a geneticist to become an angry green giant when put under emotional stress.

12.45 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18.

Hawthorn v Richmond. 3.15 Repo.

(M, R) 4.00 Shannon’s Legends Of Motorsport. (PG, R)

6.00 Planet America. (R) 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. 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News.

2.25 One Plus One. (R, CC) 2.55 Heywire. (R) 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. 7.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 8.00 Insiders. (R, CC) 9.00 ABC News Weekend. 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 Planet America.

(R) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Conflict Zone. 12.00 Landline.

(CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 BBC World. 2.30 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

9GO!

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 10.00 Fish’n With Mates. (PG, R, CC) 10.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 11.00 MOVIE: The Day The Earth Caught Fire. (PG, R, CC) (1961) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Betrayed. (PG, R) (1954) 3.50 MOVIE: Ocean’s Eleven. (PG, R, CC) (1960) Frank Sinatra.

6.30 MOVIE: The Last Starfighter. (PG, R) (1984) A teenager is recruited by aliens. Lance Guest.

8.30 MOVIE: Licence To Kill.

(M, R, CC) (1989) James Bond leaves MI6 and goes after the drug dealer who destroyed the life of his best friend. Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi.

11.15 Person Of Interest.

(M, R, CC) 12.15 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.40 Destination WA. (R, CC) 1.05 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 MOVIE: The Day The Earth Caught Fire.

(PG, R, CC) (1961) 4.20 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Quarter-final.

Brumbies v Highlanders. Replay.

10.00 Healthy Homes Australia.

(R, CC) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 4x4 Adventures. (R, CC) 12.00 Puppy Academy. (R, CC) 12.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 1.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 2.30 World Sport. (R) 3.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 3.30 Megacities. (PG, R) 4.30 Cruise Mode. (R, CC) 5.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Ipswich SuperSprint.

Race 17. Highlights.

9.30 MOVIE: The Frozen Ground.

(MA15+) (2013) Nicolas Cage. 11.35 Megafactories. (R) 12.35 World Sport. 1.05 The Killing. (M, R) 2.00 Late Programs. 3.00 Adventure Angler. (R) 4.00 Monster Jam. (R) 5.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Invizimals.

(R) 6.30 Victorious. (R) 7.05 Fairly Odd Parents. (R) 7.35 Pokémon.

(R) 8.05 Scaredy Squirrel. (R) 9.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.30 Family Ties. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers.

(PG, R) 2.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.00 To Be Advised. 6.00 Family Feud.

(CC) 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Steel Magnolias.

(PG, R) (1989) A close-knit circle of friends come together. Sally Field, Dolly Parton.

10.55 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG, R) 11.55 Nurse Jackie. (M, R) 12.30 Don’t Trust The B----. (PG, R) 1.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 3.00 Cheers. (PG, R) 4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.30 Kenneth Copeland.

6.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.00 Fixer Upper. (PG, R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (PG, R) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 Million Dollar Contractor. (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 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 House Hunters Reno. (PG, R) 4.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG) 5.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 6.00 Million Dollar Contractor. (PG) 6.30 Tiny House, Big Living. 7.30 Rehab Addict. (PG) 8.30 Flip Or Flop.

9.30 Mega Mansions. 10.30 Extreme Homes. 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Tiny House, Big Living. (R) 1.00 Rehab Addict. (PG, R) 2.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Late Programs.

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SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 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: The Legend Of Sarila. (PG, R) (2013) 2.30 Friday Feed. (R) 3.00 Cycling. (CC) Tour de France. Stage 20. Replay. 5.00 In Transit. (R, CC) 5.15 Space Dandy. (PG, R) 5.45 365: Every Day Documentaries. (PG) 5.50 Where Are We Going, Dad? (New Series) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Drunk History UK. (M) A retelling of historical events.

9.00 South Park. (MA15+, R) Cartman announces he is transgender.

9.30 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. (M) Hosted by Samantha Bee. 10.30 Sex Box USA. (M) 11.20 Shot By Kern. (MA15+, R) 12.20 Craigslist Joe. (M, R) 2.05 MOVIE: 20 Cigarettes. (MA15+, CC) (2010) 3.50 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 6.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 7.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 8.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 9.30 Farmhouse Rules. (R) 10.00 Boys Weekend.

(R) 10.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 11.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 12.30 Chopped. (PG, R) 1.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 2.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 3.30 Taco Trip. (R) 4.30 Boys Weekend. (R) 5.00 Farmhouse Rules. 5.30 Beat Bobby Flay. 6.30 All-Star Academy.

(PG) 7.30 Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern. (PG, R) 8.25 Best Thing I Ever Ate Bitesize. (R) 9.30 Food Network Star.

(PG, R) 10.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 11.25 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne Bitesize. (R, CC) 12.30 All-Star Academy. (PG, R) 1.30 Bizarre Foods. (PG, R) 2.30 Boys Weekend. (R) 3.00 Farmhouse Rules. (R) 3.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 4.30 Beat Bobby Flay.

(R) 5.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.30 Farmhouse Rules. (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 Talking Language. (PG) 12.30 Football. NTFL. 2.30 Sacred Buffalo People. 3.30 Listen Up! 3.45 In The Frame. (PG) 4.15 Yorta Yorta Youth. 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 The Medicine Line. 6.00 Australian Biography. (PG) 6.30 Message Stick.

7.00 Seeking Salvation. (PG) 8.00 We Shall Remain. (PG) 9.30 MOVIE: Shooting Dogs. (MA15+) (2005) John Hurt.

11.30 Ngurra. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 2407

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They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

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LAFF-A-DAY SNOWFLAKES There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the numbers 1 to 6 around each of them. No number can be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle.

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1. Pealed 5. Work with 8. “Ali -” 12. Gin flavouring 13. “Kidding!”

14. Hollywood clashers 15. Eight on a sundial 16. Ratatouille ingredient 18. Carrot cousin 20. Redhead’s secret?

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DOWN 1. Answer an invite 2. Inter 3. Type of film 4. Oriental companion 5. Loosen, in a way 6. First course 7. And so on (Abbr.)

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published academic works in science and mathematics. His prolific life is detailed in three works of autobiography, and he and his wife, Janet, even found time to co-author a self-help book titled “How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and Comfort”. z Though the ukulele is commonly associated with the Hawaiian Islands, it didn’t originate there. The instrument actually came from Portugal, where it was known as a machete, and was introduced to the islands around 1870 by sailors.

Thought for the Day: “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” – Josh Billings

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MARCH 21–APRIL 20) In a week of plotting, planning and intrigue there is never a dull moment. A bit of juggling your cash flow keeps things on an even keel, but longer-term planning in this area would be a good idea. Fun is running all through, especially at the weekend.

Young members of the family figure in your everyday thoughts more than usual.

See how this makes you feel.

TAURUS (APRIL 21-MAY 21) Family and friends take up your time this week and you are pleased. A gathering is far more enjoyable than expected. Perhaps you should do it more often? A disagreement of the past is now behind you and there are big changes afoot. Certainly relationships are better. If you want romance this weekend you need to go out and look around. Excitement and fun will not come to you.

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with those you love. Feed your soul and spirit with a visit to somewhere special.

Breathe in the atmosphere of your favourite place.

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mance, money and home run alongside each other this week. Of course it is a time for marriages, romance and house moves. If some of this affects you, try not to get to strung out. Look upon challenges as a time to show your abilities.

Don’t think you have many? Wrong!

Character-building times such as these are a blessing in disguise. Soon you will feel great satisfaction.

Ask some questions! Those you want to spend time with may be busy but don’t lose heart. Don’t, either, give a ‘maybe some other time’ response. Arrange a firm time to be together and make it fun.

SAGITTARIUS (NOVEMBER 23-DE-

CEMBER 21) Time out with friends and cosy nights in are on the cards for you. Shuffle that pack, though, to get the most out of this time of year. Aim to do something new every week alone or with someone who is fun. It may be easier to make someone understand how you feel with a letter or email. Sometimes words can get jumbled up face to face or on the phone. Who makes you so nervous?

CAPRICORN (DECEMBER

22-JANUARY 20) Passions are rising this week, especially where money is concerned. Perhaps someone close does not realise that there are more important things in life? The need for personal power seems to be growing in society when really we should work together. You will grow closer to someone because you have a shared problem. The solution may not be simple but it will come swiftly.

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUNE 21) There is a lot

to be said this week but do be tactful.

The outcome of any discussion depends so much on the way you approach others. Yes, there are some sensitive souls around! Concerns around your work soon melt away when news comes through midweek. Give generously of your time rather than go on a spending spree. It is easy to show how much you appreciate and love someone without breaking the bank.

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ARY 19) Getting to the heart of a loved

CANCER (JUNE 22-JULY 22) Although you prefer to put others first, this is a time for a little bit of self-indulgence. Feed your mind and body by taking some moments to look after your body and soul.

Reflexology, massage or simply getting your partner to rub in some of that fruity cream on your toes? Someone is waiting to look after and spoil you, Cancer. Be aware of their needs and at the same time feed your own.

LIBRA (SEPTEMBER 24-OCTOBER 23) It would be hard to miss out on the romantic aura this week, Libra. Although you often look for romance, at this moment in time it can fall into your lap! Travel, even small journeys, turn up unexpected people and events. A gathering you have not been to before is real fun. You could end the week asking why you ‘did not do this before!’ someone who really cares will say ‘I told you so!’

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time with family is often a problem for you, hard-working Leo! Still, what is the point of all that work if loved ones miss out on your company? Priorities need adjusting now and again for all of us. This week give yourself a little leeway to be

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Friends and relatives may not behave as usual and may appear confused.

Someone is not getting their message over very clearly. Could that be you or your partner? A bit of analysis is needed.

one’s need may not be easy. Making the effort to listen and be optimistic, though, is what is needed. This is where your charm and genuine interest really show. How many people are lucky enough to have a friend like you, Aquarius? Juggling with cash flow can be trying but, again, you will be pleased that you made the effort.

PISCES (FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 20) Great support from your family and friends shows itself this week when you feel the need. Keep stress away by realising that you can deal with anything that comes your way. Someone who offers advice could turn out to be someone special in your life. Can’t think of love at the moment? Later! Realise that there is so much love and caring around you. You are not alone.

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Make the most of your natural talents in the period ahead. If there is something in the arts that you would like to develop, do so. There is no time like the present, Leo. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Letting your imagination run away with you is all very well in love but watch it in finances. The best way to impress others is with your talents rather than splashing the cash, Leo. Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Leo, you can outperform anyone when it comes to the social scene. You may find, in the months ahead, that someone close needs a different approach.

Quieter and more intimate perhaps?

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Enjoy being the centre of attention, Leo. Don’t forget, however, who puts the wind in your sails! Give praise and thanks where they are due and without hesitation.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Many people look up to you, Leo, and they can also rely on your wisdom. So, never make light of their concerns even though you may feel they are a storm in a teacup. Not everyone is as resilient as you are.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Being a little more self-effacing brings out the best in others, Leo. Sometimes it is possible to appear all-knowing and even pompous. That is not an ideal way to win friends.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Sharing means different things to different people, Leo. To you in the months ahead it should mean giving more of your time in personal situations. Not everything is a performance!

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Down: 1 Direct speech; 2 Run; 3 Beside; 4 Tolerance; 5 Ratio; 6 Getting ahead; 7 Rowan; 10 Untrodden; 13 Issue; 14 Mascot; 16 Anglo; 20 Ore.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Over the limit; 7 Cowed; 8 Sheer; 9 Eat; 10 Contacted; 11 Ethnic; 12 Stroll; 15 Legendary; 17 Arc; 18 Nerve; 19 Imbue; 21 Repercussion.

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Ron Perlman. 6. Epistaxis.

7. Walt Whitman. 8. Seven (the eighth note duplicates the first at double its frequency). 9. Omega. 10. A ring-shaped coral island surrounding a central lagoon.

11. Pink (Common) Heath, “Epacris impressa”. 12. True – he won seven Grand Slam singles titles, nine doubles title and one mixed doubles title. 13. “Crazy for You” by Madonna, first released in 1985. It featured on the soundtrack album to the 1985 film “Vision Quest”.

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SPORT.

Thomas Slater crossing the finishing line in the 9km.

Friday 22.07.2016 to Sunday 24.07.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

The youngest runner, three year-old Xavier Harrison with interim Western Plains Regional Council administrator, Michael Kneipp.

Blazing the Mt Arthur trails

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

AST years Arctic conditions were a dim memory for competitors and volunteers at the 2016 Mt Arthur Challenge, as weeks of cold weather were brushed aside by a brief high system passing through the region.

Here are some quick facts, but first a huge well done to the tiniest runner, three year-old Xavier Harrison who had a crack at the Wallaby Run with his parents.

The little tacker was rewarded at the end, with Western Plains Regional Council administrator Michael Kneipp presenting him with a toy wallaby for his efforts.

That’s a picture which will be a keepsake for him.

A total of 309 people registered to compete, broken down into 53 competitors for the 50km Limestone Ride, 110 regos for the 5km Wallaby Run and 146 in the 9km Wedgetail Challenge, the one straight up the mountain that really hurts (in a good way, so I’m told).

Money raised by the event is still being assessed but it will be put back in to this amazing natural attraction of Mt Arthur that’s right in our backyard.

The Mt Arthur Reserve covers 2000ha of mountainous bushland and the area is managed by the Mt Arthur Reserve Trust, a small group of local volunteers who manage the Reserve on behalf of the Department of Primary Industries (Crown Lands).

The Trust has no regular, reliable source of income and is largely dependent on government grants when available.

Each year any profit made from the annual Mt Arthur Challenge goes straight back into funding the annual maintenance costs such as maintaining the walking trails and facilities and other land management tasks such as managing weeds.

It’s also put towards special projects as they arise such as specific walking track upgrades, new signage or picnic area improvements.

People who want to know more about the Reserve can check out www.mrarthurreserve.org.au.

There were 30 hard-working volunteers helping to make the event run smoothly and duties included escort and sweep vehicle drivers for the cycling event, traffic controllers, drink station attendants, safety officers, and volunteers working at the showground setting up and packing up and running the race bib collection desk etc.

As always, organisers received fantastic feedback from competitors on how friendly and helpful the volunteers are (this was true also of last year when the freezing and wet conditions made it a harsh environ-

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ment, but they came back again to back up this year.)

Organisers were also keen to thank the broader community for helping to make the event possible, with St John’s Ambulance and SES volunteers in attendance.

Erica Bagent doubles as secretary for the Trust which looks after the reserve as well as being co-secretary on the Challenge Committee, she says the huge help is not only appreciated, but that without it there’d be no event in the first place.

“Well, firstly there is no way we could put on this event without the support of our sponsors - in a small community the local businesses are hit up for sponsorship all the time, so we really appreciated the fact that our local sponsors chose to support our event along with their other commitments,” Bagent said.

“Some of our 2016 sponsors were returning for the second and third time and we appreciate their ongoing support.

“Our Platinum Sponsor this year, Brennan’s Welding, created our fantastic new start/finish line arch, which we love, they showed off their creativity by designing it themselves and even incorporated the Reserve’s cypress pines in the design - when viewed from the right angle at the marshalling area it framed the mountain beautifully,” she said.

She said the former Wellington Shire Council was a solid supporter in-kind and as a sponsor and that the new interim Western Plains Regional Council, Wellington Branch, was a huge help in the lead-up to the event, along with help from the Wellington Correctional Centre to set up for the event.

“Cherie Hughes once again donated her services free of charge to be our on-the-course photographer and Wellington Junior Rugby put on a fantastic BBQ keeping both the competitors and spectators well fed,” Bagent said.

“Angela Hutchinson had her Delectables and Homemade Treats coffee cart on site and even donated free hot drinks to the volunteers.

“Coates Hire, Infigen Energy and Wellington Race Club donated equipment for us to use, and Infigen Energy, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Old Dubbo Gaol and the Bell River Estate Winery donated items and vouchers for us to give out to competitors as spot prizes,” she said.

I don’t often list sponsors ad infinitum, but when such a great event is run by a hard-working committee of just five people, and it achieves so many social, economic and environmental aims, it’s important to let people know who helped out so they’ll realise there’s a lot at stake here, and kick the can for events over the next years.

Wello’s community radio Binjang 91.5 FM, helped out with community service announcements in the lead up to the day and also did a live broadcast from

the Showground during the event, that’s another great effort by local volunteers helping a local cause.

The committee is working on sending the annual survey to competitors for feedback, but already the comments coming through have been heart-warming according to Erica Bagent.

“The comments that really mean a lot are those which praised the ‘family friendliness’ of the event, telling us what a great time their kids had - seeing little three year old Xavier Harrison powering across the finish line like a pro was one of the highlights of the day,” she said.

“We were also delighted by the number of people commenting on how beautiful the Mt Arthur Reserve is and how much they enjoyed being in that environment, particularly in such lovely weather this time.

“Three years ago we set out to promote the Mt Arthur Reserve and encourage more people to get out and enjoy it, and to bring benefits to Wellington. It is really encouraging to see the Mt Arthur Challenge achieving those objectives, we hope it will continue to grow,” she said.

Seasoned trail runners have already commented on their enthusiasm about the design and challenge of the 9km running course.

Another pleasing note was the sharing nature of major sponsors, with Brennan’s Welding, Infigen Energy and the council opting to donate their free sponsor entries to local schools.

Students from St Mary’s Catholic School in Wellington were able to use these to enter the 5km run.

2016 - WEDGETAIL CHALLENGE - 9KM WINNERS King of the Mountain, Ben Matthews - 00:39:54 Queen of the Mountain, Meg Reeves - 00:45:44 Junior Female, Maggie Smith - 1:02:39 Junior Male, Thomas Slater - 00:51:07 Open Female, Meg Reeves - 00:45:44 Open Male, Ben Matthews - 00:39:54 Veteran Female, Denise Reynolds - 00:54:04 Veteran Male, Mike Cooper - 00:49:31

2016 - WALLABY RUN - 5KM WINNERS Junior Female, Bronte Clifford - 00:26:27 Junior Male, Lachlan Ross - 00:24:16 Open Female, Alicia Ross - 00:25:51 Open Male, Trevor Kratzman - 00:26:46

2016 - 50KM LIMESTONE RIDE WINNERS Open Champion Male, Marty Tink - 1:39:49 Open Champion Female, Julia Graham - 1:43:05 Veteran Male, Mick Harvey - 1:24:57 Veteran Female, Simone Grounds - 1:39:48

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

The final say

FROM THE EDITOR-AT-LARGE Jen Cowley

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Literacy is important, but maths is importanter T’S been more decades than I’d care to remember since 17 year-old me sat down to do the HSC – which I was reliably informed at the time would make all the difference between changing the world and serving it fries for the rest of my adult working life.

Piffle, of course. It’s been a combination of luck – good and bad – and choices – ditto – that’s brought me to where I am in 2016, for better or worse. (And what’s wrong with serving fries, anyway?)

But while I’ve changed (see above re: good and bad) over the 35 years since I sat those infernal exams, it seems they haven’t… much.

It’s been nigh on 20 years since the single yardstick by which we unfortunately seem to measure our young people’s net educational worth has itself been properly re-examined – despite those two decades having seen history’s greatest technological changes and all that implies for education and learning.

So a closer inspection of the system is long overdue, and bravo to those behind the announcement by the NSW government this week that, from 2020, the state’s school students will be required to reach a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy if they’re to walk out the school gates with that piece of paper under their arms. (By then it’ll probably be a microchip inserted behind their ears, but you get my drift.)

I imagine there’ll be some to-ing and fro-ing over finer details, but at first blush it’s a big fat gold star from me.

Wouldn’t it be nice if coming generations were to actually know where and how to correctly use “there, they’re and their” and “your/you’re” and that capital letters can mean the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse (thank you Facebook for this coarse but effective example).

But as one who learned the hard way, it’s numerical ignorance from which I now believe we have just as much to fear.

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There’s a list longer than a Senate ballot paper of advice I wish I’d taken as a young’un. Apart from “do your pelvic floor exercises” and “keep an eye out for shares in a little company called Apple”, it’s this little gem of ignored wisdom that’s haunted me into middleage: “Maths is actually kinda important”.

I wish I’d known in my mid-school years how handy I’d find it to be able to work out my European shoe size without a calculator; or determine the time on a 24hour clock without using my fingers… or hey, here’s one: do the weekly grocery shop without needing a defibrillator at the check-out.

I didn’t do maths for the HSC. There didn’t seem much point at the time. Put a maths exam in front of me, and I could rearrange the questions into flawless sentences with punctuation, spelling and grammar all deliciously perfect, but they might as well have been in Cyrillic for all the sense they made to me.

Not that the teachers didn’t try, and if any of those educators are still out there, please accept my belated apology.

Particularly the delightful Mr K – an unfailingly cheery Hungarian gentleman with a chocolatey accent and an unflappable demeanour – who had the unenviable task of taking 4F thrice weekly (uh-huh, that’s an “F” right there – as in, sixth class from the top of “fourth form” – Year 9 – and yes, I did have to just stop typing to use my fingers).

` Faced with a cohort of clueless rightbrainers, he knew he was casting his line into the hopelessly shallow end of the mathematical gene pool.

Faced with a cohort of clueless right-brainers, he knew he was casting his line into the hopelessly shallow end of the mathematical gene pool. So he tried instead to make the lessons as painless as they could be – and we loved him.

He’d start each class with the same question: “Welcome giiirls! Come, come – tell me, how many cigaaarettes you smoke to-daaaiiy?” (Hey, we were boarders, and it was the ‘70s…)

And we’d somehow make it to the end of the lesson without feeling as arithmetically challenged as we really were. But when the time came, I dropped the subject faster than you can say two plus two equals five.

So William Shakespeare and I whistled our way through the HSC unencumbered by the pedestrian chains of mathematics. Fat lot of good Bill’s been since.

A pleasant companion, yes, and he was particularly useful in the halcyon days of Trivial Pursuit and for witty comebacks – but he hasn’t helped one little bit as I’ve struggled to come to terms with a world where – shock horror – we use maths in some form every day.

Had the learned folk who arranged the 1979 syllabus for the not-so-mathematically gifted been able to show that 4F gaggle how they’d actually be able to USE basic maths in life, it might have made all the difference.

Algebra isn’t for everyone. Neither is Shakespeare.

But the need to demonstrably understand the need for basic literacy and numeracy as a functioning adult is.

Make the learning relevant, make it mean something, make it applicable to everyday life – make it fun – and the education will come.

In this coming rejig of the HSC, and the necessary re-examination of learning styles and the educational landscape, I sincerely hope there’s room for a greater acknowledgement of the folly of shoving square pegs into round holes.

If you want the peg to fit, adjust the hole, not the peg.

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