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Walk to the Future arrives at hospital on Saturday

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 16.09.2016 to Sunday 18.09.2016 Walk to the Future to arrive at hospital PAGE 04

STREET ART The brand new BOOMDubbo street art installation PAGE 10

ISSUE Keeping the mallee from falling foul of the endangered species list PAGE 14

DAMI IM

PEOPLE

Move over Kylie, Australia has a new pop princess.

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RURAL

BUSINESS

Excess rain welcomed by some growers PAGE 26

HEALTH MATTERS

LIFESTYLE

Whooping cough on the rise PAGE 29

TRAVEL The wilds of Iceland PAGE 34

Regulars Seven Days Tony Webber Paul Dorin Watercooler What I Do Know Business & Rural

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Breaking the ice N Wednesday, September 20, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation will be running an ‘ice’ forum aimed at anyone in the community seeking to understand this malevolent drug and how any of us can help to prevent its scourge.

The gathering will also have a focus on destigmatising the user and “seeing the person, not the drug”.

It’s not one of humanity’s better traits when it comes to collective thinking that all drug users are losers when they can just as easily be mums, teachers, community leaders, sports heroes, gardeners, truck drivers, farmers.

There’s nothing wrong with batching or estimating groups, that comes from our better side and ability to make quick scientific assessments of situations or people.

But quite often community perceptions (casting the first stone) of other people who may be living in poverty, of different faith, who don’t have the right waist size or may have succumbed to drug addiction is devoid of any compassion and in that moment positions us as part of the problem.

Creating walls (sorry The Don) and barriers fosters more ignorance, misinterpretation and silence. A vacuum in which ideas and thinking mutate into self-justified apathy.

The very people who can make a difference for those who can’t help themselves can self righteously ignore the problems brewing around them and by proxy, perpetuate the very situation they despise.

The issue of crystalline methamphetamine or ‘ice’ is real for Wellington, and every other town and city this side of all the kitchens or backyard sheds where this insidious drug is produced.

The Wellington ice forum brings local community, health experts and governments together to start looking at the problem eating away at the fabric of our society - from a different perspective.

Data shows that in New South Wales the number of methamphetamine-related presentations to 56 public hospital emergency departments, increased approximately from 470 in 2009 to 2010, to 4,771 in 2015 to 2016.

This number compared to 13,042 emergency department presentations for alcohol problems in 2015 to 2016 and that is clearly an even bigger issue.

In response to ice distribution and use, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF) and the New South Wales Government are working with Community Drug Action Teams (CDATs) across the state to roll out a series of “Breaking the Ice” forums.

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Nikki Woolley has said local leaders and experts in drug prevention and harm reduction will be on hand to help attendees understand the issues and misconceptions surrounding ‘ice’.

Information will be evidence-based and include details on where to seek help, support and treatment in our region.

“The solution lies in the community’s hands and we will give ... some practical tools to deal with the issue,” Woolley said in a statement to media. “More importantly, we need to start seeing the person rather than just the drug and to encourage people to seek help early, rather than hide the problem.”

That’s a tricky ask when the drug production, sale and use are illegal, but there’s another entity at play. Stigma. It’s a cruel beast. When you think on the caste system in India where human beings - ‘untouchables’ - are suppressed and enslaved into the thinking that they were born to clean toilets, sweep driveways and be shunned by all, this is stigma manipulated to the extreme.

That’s Society saying ‘you can’t rise above your station’ because Society needs someone else to look down on because society is one insecure collective.

Sure, some people are born on their knees, already addicted to drugs or alcohol thanks to their At Risk mother but for institutions and governments and anyone else to stand around and conclude ‘that’s what someone else deserves’ or ‘they brought it on themselves’ or ‘if they can’t work it out alone, too bad’ they are delusional that we’re not all sitting on the same rock rolling around the sun trying to figure it out together.

The more people at risk, shunned by stigma, is a poor foundation on which to build strong communities which few can argue in regional New South Wales IS the key to all progress for regional Australia.

The forum will encourage this “seeing” of the person not the drug, of breaking down stigma and promoting connectedness and social inclusion in communities.

“Police, government and many communities across NSW are all saying the same thing — We can no longer arrest our way out of the problem,” Woolley said.

“This is a community problem which has a community solution. So come along and be informed about ‘ice’ and see how you can help reduce its use in your community,” she said.

Given that the NSW Government has invested $780,000 to educate the community about ‘ice’, it means we’ve all invested and there’s one way to be sure our money is being spent effectivel.

Turn up.

Forum details Data shows that in New South Wales the number of methamphetamine-related presentations to 56 public hospital emergency departments increased approximately from 470 in 2009 to 2010, to 4,771 in 2015 to 2016.

z Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2016 z Time: 6pm for a 6:30pm start to 8.30pm z Venue: Wellington Civic Hall, Swift St, Wellington (refreshments will be provided) z Register: adfm.eventbrite.com.au z www.adf.org.au/breakingtheice z The NSW Government’s Community Engagement and Action Program (CEAP) is administered by the Australian Drug Foundation. The program oversees the coordination and operation of Community Drug Action Teams (CDATs).

For more information about CDATs and drug and alcohol prevention go to www.adf.org.au/cdat

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Wellington Springfest ready to bloom

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

ELLINGTON may have been just as stunned by its forced amalgamation with Dubbo as anyone else in the new Local Government Area, but the town is determined it’s going to ‘keep on, keeping on’.

SpringFest 2016, staged next week from September 23 to 25, is already shaping up to be bigger and better than last year.

The annual event is a wonderful example of country town collaboration, with Rotary, Lions, Friends of Burrendong Arboretum, Quota and other local organisations banding together to make it happen.

This year there are plenty of “firsts”, including the brand new SpringFest

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Cycle Classic, featuring 70 ms of pure pleasure.

That event will be staged on Saturday, September 24, and organisers are hoping many from Dubbo’s keen cycling fraternity register for the ride.

The course starts and finishes next to Wellington’s Cameron Park and runs in an anticlockwise direction on sealed roads through some of the Wellington Valley’s most beautiful agricultural country.

The scenic route avoids highways and takes the riders along country roads with little traffic.

Participants wishing to push themselves will find the route sufficiently challenging while those who want to adopt a more leisurely approach can just potter along.

During the course riders will have an aggregate climb and descent of 542 meters, the event will see entrants elec-

tronically timed, with results posted to the website at the conclusion of the event.

There are four classes including open mens, open womens and veterans for men and women (over 35) – all for an entry fee of just $35.

Check out the SpringFest Cycle Classic page for all the details, including all the activities and events listed below.

z SpringFest Cycle Classic (10am start) z Chariot Races in Nanima Crescent (12 midday) z Drone Photographic Exhibition & “Vases in the Valley” Exhibition in Western Stores (8am-5pm) z Bands & sausage sizzle in the Park (4pm-6pm) in the Park z Snoopy under the Stars - for all the Family (6.30pm-late in the Sunken Garden)

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Sunday, September 25:

z Quota Charity Art Exhibition opening with music – 7pm Soldiers’ Club z SpringFest Drone Photographic Exhibition

z Breakfast & Bush Poetry on the banks of the Macquarie River (8am-9.30am) followed by the River Classic (9.30am-12pm) z Quota Charity Art Exhibition – Soldiers’ Club (10am-3pm) z Burrendong Arboretum - plant sale & guided tours (10am) z It will be a great family day down by the river with hovercrafts and bush poetry.

Anyone wanting information, or to participate, can contact Ian Law on 0416034106 or visit www.wellingtonspringfest

Saturday, September 24: z Quota Charity Art Exhibition – Soldiers’ Club (10am-6pm) z SpringFest Markets & Children's events (8am-3pm) z Street Parade (10am)– band, gophers, Fowler, cars, floats

Dubbo gets a seat in Shanghai dragon boat tournament ELL-KNOWN Dubbo breast cancer survivor and awareness advocate, Trish Taylor, left Dubbo this week on Tuesday, September 13, bound for Shanghai to attend a training and cultural program, hosted by the Shanghai Dragon Boat Association (SSBA).

Based at the Shanghai Second Polytechnic University (SSPU) for ten days, Taylor will be coached in dragon boating by Chinese sporting club instructors, before participating in 500 meter straight lane races and a 5000 meter circuit race in an SSBA regatta.

The member of Outback Dragons and Outback Dragons Abreast joins 16 paddlers who are all breast cancer survivors from Victoria, NSW, Canberra and Queensland .

“It’s like a cross cultural training trip. We’ll do a bit of sightseeing as well, just around Shanghai,” said Trish, who is also making her first trip overseas. “At the end of the trip we participate in a regatta, or they call it a tournament, where we’ll race 500 metre races and a 5 kilometre race.

“The idea is to promote breast cancer awareness because in China not many women who’ve had breast

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cancer, dragon boat, so it's sort of a promotion for breast cancer survivors and women in general,” said Taylor.

The opportunity to participate in the China activities started with Cairns paddler, Sharon Pederson, hearing the drums of a dragon boat while attending a cultural exchange trip in 2011. On her return we contacted Sim Hayward, the chair, of Sister City Program at Cairns Regional Council.

The Cairns paddlers, along with some from NSW and NZ attended a training and cultural program at SSPU in 2012. The following year both coaches, Lu and Zhao, made the trip to Cairns for a two week training program.

An invitation to attend the SDBA Tournament was offered to Breast Cancer Survivors for the first time in 2014.

“I’ve been dragon boating for three years. The Dubbo sporting club incorporates breast cancer survivors with Dragon’s Abreast. It’s definitely been a big contributor to my recovery because of the team spirit, camaraderie and getting back into fitness after breast cancer because it’s proven that women who exercise do

better after breast cancer. It’s a team sport that incorporates all ages and physical abilities.”

“Elaine Duncan from Dubbo went two years ago and she’s a lady who’s just turned 80!”

Taylor is mother to two 11 yearold sons, Joel and Sam. “They’re excited for me, telling me ‘mum, have you learnt this or done that. Read up on your geography mum. Sam was telling me how to read a Chinese book; upside down and back to front. Not that I can read Chinese.!”

“I think experiencing the culture and the food will be interesting. I do cook Chinese sometimes, but I think our version of Chinese is much different to there.”

“I don’t know how women are treated in China who have breast cancer or what support is available to them but I’m looking forward to finding out about that.

The Shanghai International Chinese Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament is a World class event. There are approximately 25 Dragon Boat teams, with eight to ten international teams from around the world converging on Shanghai to participate.

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Walk to the Future arrives at hospital on Saturday

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY EDITOR

UTTING their best foot forward to create awareness for a cancer centre in Dubbo, a group of regional locals will be joined by colleagues from Sydney to walk from Mudgee to the Dubbo Hospital arriving on Saturday, September 17 under the slogan ‘Walk to the Future’.

Leaving Mudgee at 6am on Thursday, the group is being lead by Heidi Stott and Amanda Comincioli, with 18 people booked in (as of Tuesday this week) to walk the distance with the message that a cancer centre in Dubbo to service the western region is more than just a great idea, it’s essential.

“The first leg is 45 kilometres to Goolma, then 42 from Goolma to Wellington, then it’s 48 into the hospital. We’re following the most direct route,” Stott told Dubbo Weekender.

“There’s four people from Sydney, one from Canowindra, three from Gulgong and the rest are Mudgee locals,” she said.

Both Stott and Comincioli have personal reasons for initiating the event, as Heidi’s father and Amanda’s mother have had or are undergoing treatment for cancer, respectively.

“My dad and Amanda’s mum both have cancer. For me personally we just need that PET CT scanner machine in Dubbo, because my parents have to travel to Sydney to have all that done. My dad was having treatment in Dubbo and it was really fantastic - I want to emphasise that - but any testing had to be done in Sydney,” Stott said of

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Planning the walk. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

her father’s illness, which was diagnosed 12 months ago.

“We had to go down to Sydney and it was a two day venture, especially with someone that’s sick, you know. I was lucky enough that my dad could have chemo in Dubbo and I used to drive him home after chemo.

“I couldn’t imagine driving back from Sydney with him given the way he was. It’s different for everyone but my dad lost all sense of feeling in his hands.

He’s only just getting that back and he’s been off chemo since December. His hands were very painful on the way back, so any bumps in the road sort of jolted him a fair bit. He was cold - cold to the bone - vomiting, all that sort of stuff.

“They say the chemo kills everything so in my dad’s case, which is not uncommon, it’s killed a lot of his nerves, so he lost all sense in his fingers. He’s got lot of pins and needles.”

Amanda’s mum was in remission and has just gone back onto treatment. She frequently trav-

els “It’s not the expense part that worries us because we’d go anywhere to get the treatment that we need. It’s the timing. I have a business with my husband here in Mudgee, Amanda has her own business, I’ve got three kids, she’s got two; so for us to offer support to our parents we have to get someone to look after our kids. It’s just all the timing sort of stuff, a two or three day venture really,” Stott said.

While the Walk to the Future is not a fundraiser local businesses have been generous by donating some money, water, Tshirts, shoes and even an iPad. “Westfund in Mudgee actually donated an iPad. We’re going to be forwarding that on to the Dubbo Oncology Unit. We’re hoping we’ll have enough cash

Mack and Kurt Ellis from Gulgong, aged 14 and 11, will be joining the walkers. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

left over to buy a second one.

We’ll just have to wait until after the walk to see how where we are.

“My thought was to put it there because that’s where my dad had his chemo. It’s hard for these people sometimes to read books because they’re sort of strapped up to the drip and stuff, so I thought iPads would be ok, because they could swipe it with their fingers.”

Everyone walking with the Walk to the Future group have been in training to prepare themselves for the 2 and-a-halfday trek.

“I’ve been lucky enough to walk 20 ks each day last week,

so close to 20 hours of walking.

I’ve got a very good friend who’s coming with me to Dubbo and she’s been phenomenal, she’s been walking 80ks a week for a few weeks now, so she’s going really well.

“The youngest is 11 and the oldest, well I’d hate to offend anybody, but I think the oldest would be pushing 60.

Walk for the Future is due to arrive at the Dubbo Hospital around 3.30pm on Saturday, September 17. The public are welcome to come down and cheer the walkers in and celebrate their gesture of creating awareness for a cancer centre in Dubbo.

` I couldn’t imagine driving back from Sydney with him given the way he was. It’s different for everyone but my dad lost all sense of feeling in his hands. He’s only just getting that back and he’s been off chemo since December. His hands were very painful on the way back, so any bumps in the road sort of jolted him a fair bit. He was cold - cold to the bone - vomiting.

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Seven Days NOAH’S ON THE MONEY I’M not going to say what level Burrendong dam is at because it seems to be changing by the half-second.

Let’s just say one side-effect of the high water levels is that there’s not much room to park vehicles and trailers near the tiny bit of concrete sticking out of the water where the boat ramp’s been for the past few years.

Maybe that bloke in the USA who’s building a giant version of Noah’s Ark isn’t quite as crazy as I initially thought.

If the high waters haven’t already arrived, expect more flooding.

I like rain, but after way way too much it just starts causing too many problems.

RAINED IN GRAINED IN SPARE a thought for farmers out west who are still trying to get their grain away from last year’s harvest.

I was talking to a mate this week who still has thousands of tonnes of sold grain in sheds and bags on his property which he can’t transport out because the dirt roads can’t take the weight.

This could see him lose up to $50 a tonne, that’s a shocking state of affairs if our poor public infrastructure allows this sort of thing to happen, it’s hard enough to grow decent crops in the first place without paying penalties when all’s done and seemed to end well at harvest time.

So many damaged and destroyed roads, it’s going to take a lot of money to fix them up – until the next floods.

Even worse, much of the state’s crop is currently under water, with grains like chickpeas and later sown cereals most susceptible to damage

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from the constant, relentless waterlogging.

DUBBO PROCLAIMED, AGAIN WITHOUT bothering to go back in time, congratulations to Dubbo for being proclaimed a city 50 years ago when it reached the required population threshold.

So history repeats itself, although this time we’ve managed to grab Wellington as well so any aspiring mayoral candidates will have even more subjects to lord themselves over.

There was plenty of talk that at least one former Dubbo councillor was totally against the forced amalgamation in public, but privately wanted it to happen so the council itself would be bigger and more powerful, with more subjects to rule over – who knows, listening to some of them speak is like reading weird stuff on the internet, and who know what’s true and what’s not.

This strategy of forced amalgamations may have hammered the coalition in the polls, but it certainly has been good for news stories, both real and imagined.

Anyway, we’re now officially Dubbo Regional Council (DRC) and have the latest ceremony to prove that.

It’d be great if we could just all now sit down, take a deep breath, let the two councils be pulled together far more easily than if we had councillors running that process, and hope we have some new quality candidates put their hands up at the next council election, we really need a super big clean out and some good people running the show – ratepayers and residents deserve no less.

On the logo side of things, most people don’t seem terribly impressed but at least it was done in-house, so it probably

cost a lot less than if it had been outsourced.

And at the end of the day, we could pay a fortune and still end up with something just as bad, or as good, depending on your outlook.

STREET ART ON ROAD BOOM Dubbo has been busy, with internationally renowned Adnate spending four days this week in the CBD working on a massive project.

Painting a double portrait, Adnate specializes in these sorts of works, large-scale and highly detailed, utilizing spray painting techniques.

He’s working on the concept with local artist Nathan Peckham, on the corner of Talbragar and darling Streets. (See more on this story on page 10 of this edition).

BUDDING KID ARTISTS GET in early to book the kids in to art classes at Western Plains

Cultural Centre during the upcoming school holidays.

We’ve often booked the boys into these workshops and they’ve always had a great time.

Choose from Animals in Print, paint your favorite place or make a zany animal portrait with plasticine and dress it up with quirky accessories, or try a course in magic mixed media – there are plenty of other options as well.

Visit: http://bit.ly/WPCCSHW to book online or call WPCC Reception 02 6801 4444.

MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT BEAT I’M wondering of bashing a drum could be a great cathartic activity for people forced to live in this fast-paced world.

If you think it could be the answer to your stresses, Macquarie Conservatorium may have the answer, in the form of workshops being run by one of Australia’s leading drummers, Kai “Kaya Boom” Tipping.

There are options for kids, teens and adults.

Early entry to uni for Dubbo College Year 12 students Annika Mestrom from Dubbo and Tom Broome, Nick Trappett and Alex Frances from Wellington all from Dubbo College Year 12 students have received early entry to Macquarie University as part of the Global Leadership Program, an initiative which recognises students who are active in their local and wider community, and have good results at school.

As well as ensuring early entry to degree courses, the Global Leadership Program will provide access to Macquarie University facilities and early access to Global Leadership Program (GLP) seminars and events.

“Drumming is a channel to express ourselves, it is soul food and helps us find harmony and balance in our lives. It is a powerful tool for communication and for bringing people together,” Kai said.

He’ll be in town for the Artlands Festival next month, to register for his tutorials go to www.macqcon.org.au for more info.

OPEN FOR MUSIC THE Conservatorium is a busy place, responsible as it is for much of the region’s musical learning.

Anyway, this Sunday, September 18, is its annual Open Day “Macquarie Conservatorium invites everyone in and around Dubbo to check out the music programs we have on offer at our Open Day on Sunday 18 September,” according to Macquarie Conservatorium Director Vivienne Winther.

“It’s a great opportunity to come along and see our students in action, and to find out more about what you might like to do in music.”

Visitors to Macquarie Conservatorium on Open Day will enjoy round-the clock student performances on a variety of instruments, hands-on Come and Try sessions, plus there will be refreshments on sale and information about all the tuition programs and music activities available.

COUNTRY AND WESTERN OUT WEST FOR those who like their musical entertainment laid back in the outback, get in early to book tickets for Riversmart’s Another night by the billabong - to be held at Warren’s Sporting and Cultural Centre on Friday 2nd of December 2016.

Sara and Greg Storer are once again the headline act for this concert which sees the proceeds

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BOOKS ARE FOOD FOR THOUGHT

JOIN WITH OUTBACK WRITERS AT WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE 7-9PM SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

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“ALL I SEE IS MUD” AVAILABLE NOW AT OUR BOOKSTORE

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RED HOT NEWS THE Red Hot Summer Tour is back in Dubbo next March after the huge success of last year’s event.

To be once again staged at Lazy river, the lineup will feature John Farnham, James Reyne, Daryl Braithwaite, Taxiride and Shannon Noll.

go straight back into projects along the mighty Macquarie River.

It’s great to see such high profile people volunteering to help raise money for such an important cause Tickets are only $30, and with the summer weather just kicking off, think about making it a camping expedition with family and friends.

Amazing that when the ticket sales were announced this week on radio, that they started selling immediately online.

These events are difficult and financially risky to organize so people have to support them if they want them to continue.

GROUP 11 OVER AND OUT DISAPPOINTING for CYMS but what a great result for a young Forbes Magpies outfit to win the group 11 rugby league grand final on the weekend.

Hats off as well to Macquarie Raiders stalwart Brett Warwick who’s hanging up the boots after a senior footy career spanning 30 years – it hurts just to think about that.

I did a yarn a while back on Kotoni Staggs, the young Wellington footballer who’s been snapped up by the Brisbane Broncos.

A great young fella, he led the Wello U18’s to their first premiership win in two decades, scoring a couple of tries himself and playing a hand in at least two more, as well as scoring with five of his six conversion attempts – best of luck with your move to Brissy and your new career.

Tyrone Onafull Gordon is another great yarn from Grand Final day. His last year playing rugby league, his wish come true to play and win in a grand final after a kidney transplant.

He came off the bench for CYMS and saved a try in the dying seconds that would have clinched it for Macquarie Raider, his team taking the title 12 – 10.

So many good yarns underlying the headlines.

Just one semi-sour note.

The area around Apex Oval was packed with cars on Sunday, so spare a thought for the businesses across the road

which had their staff on penalty rates, while footy goers stole all their car parks for the day.

I know people don’t like to walk, but this practice is unfair to businesses working hard to make ends meet – maybe council will have to police this area during the finals next year, and book any cars which are there for longer than an hour or two.

RECOGNISED HOMICIDE boss Mick Willing and former nationals MLC Judy Jakins are pretty well recognized around town, they were given gongs at Parliament House last week as part of the Queen’s Birthday awards.

Congrats to Judy Jakins for being appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for her significant service to NSW, particularly through local and State Government roles, the RFDS and the education of isolated children – I know from my reporting on the issue back in the last century that without her pushing, we probably still wouldn’t have a flying doctor base in Dubbo.

Well done also to detective Superintendent Mick Willing, he received his Australian Police Medal, and is currently the longest ever commander of the state’s elite Homicide Squad, a job that would have enormous amounts of stress due to the political and public expectations that come with having to solve the state’s highest profile cases.

Less well known are Brock Lawrence and Katie Abbott, who saved the life of local Jamie “Dodge” manning after pulling him from a burning car a couple of years ago.

There’s a long story behind this, including the fact Katie was 37 weeks pregnant at the time, so to my mind this was the least society could do for them.

Also involved in the rescue was Cobar man Charles Mitchell, who was passing by at the time, well done to all three.

BIN THIS POLICY FIREWORKS when it comes to the notorious “Three Bin” policy pushed for by the many previous Dubbo councilors and a whole bunch of senior staff, de-

Pictured (left to right), His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley, Brock Lawrence, Katie Abbott and Charles (Tom) Mitchell. PHOTO: DR. TUNG VU

spite resident surveys showing the overwhelming majority of people didn’t want it.

Former deputy mayor Ben Shields ok aim at former mayors Allan Smith and Greg Matthews who were apparently complaining about the alleged dictatorship at city hall, with administrator Michael Kneipp now ruling that the city will have three bins, on recommendation of senior staff.

“Alan Smith, Greg Matthews on 2DU right now saying how terrible it was the administrator are bringing in the third bin and extra costs,” Ben Shields posted.

“The hide of them!

“These guys were the ones pushing the bin and allowed to get this far when they were there - these guys have no shame at all,” he said.

There’s nothing like the endless rounds of political opportunism, egos and the rewriting of history.

SPRING IS IN THE AIR GET down to Wello next Friday through to Sunday as the town celebrates its annual Springfest event, it’s a great three days of fun-filled activities.

Also in Wellington this coming week is the “Breaking the Ice in our community” forum on Tuesday, September 20, it’ll run from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Civic hall on Swift St. The free education forum intends to provide support to the community in helping to deal with the harmful impacts of ice and the best defense against this insidious drug that is having a devastating effect is having a strong, informed and united community.

The forum will feature a panel of speakers, including representatives from local youth services, Family Drug Support and local non-government drug and alcohol services, as well as representatives from local police and community and family support services.

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WestWords 2017 WW17 is shaping up to be our biggest event ever, focussing on all genres of speculative fiction, particularly fantasy and sci-fi. Invite your friends and book it into your calendar— it’s promising to be jam-packed with unmissable writing workshops, publishing opportunities and great entertainment.

Outback Writers’ Centre Join the Outback Writers' Centre for writing workshops, networking, opportunities to meet, discuss and pitch your work to publishers as well as launch support, book promotion and sale opportunities throughout the year and at our annual festival, WestWords.

Orana Writers’ Hub Members are invited to attend Orana Writer's Hub's critique and discussion sessions and contribute to the quarterly newsletter. The Hub meets on the 1st Saturday of each month.

16-18 September Western Plains Cultural Centre (Community Arts Centre)

A celebration of words and writing

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WestWords 2016 Program

Workshop 3: Graeme Gibson Creative Non-Fiction Writ Large

We advise online bookings as some events have limited places.

To book an event or find out more, follow the WestWords 2016 links online at:

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Friday 16th, 3-5:45pm Studio 1 Friday 16th, 6pm-10pm Outlook Cafe Saturday 17th, 10-11am Drama Saturday 17th, 11:30am-12:30 Drama Saturday 17th, 12:30-1pm Drama Saturday 17th, 1-2pm Drama Saturday 17th, 2-5pm* Coolabah Room Saturday 17th, 2-5pm* Studio 1 Saturday 17th, 6-6:45pm Drama Saturday 17th, 7-9pm Mess Tents, WPCC Courtyard

Sunday 18th, 10am-1pm Drama Sunday 18th, 10am-1pm Coolabah Room Sunday 18th, 2-5pm Bindyite Room

Sunday 18th, 2-4pm Coolabah Room

Workshop 1: Beginner Writers—It’s Not Complicated. With Val Clark. A writing workshop designed for beginner writers. Award winning writer and experienced workshop presenter, Val Clark, will get you started and answer the question you want answered. $40 (+ $2.50 online booking fee) Festival Launch Night. Come join our guest writers and publishers for a night of good food and live music. Open mic opportunities for writers. Free Event Publishers Panel: What Children’s Books Are They Publishing and Why? With publishers David Reiter, Tracy Chen Xi and Ann Castle. What are publishers looking for? Is there a next best thing in children’s literature? Gold Coin Donation Author Panel: The Breakthrough Book. Four authors from five genres discuss their journey into publication and what they hope for the future, with Alissa Callen, Pat Clarke, Lachlan Meurer and Harold Hunt. Moderator: David Reiter. Gold Coin Donation Launch of Harold Hunt’s memoir Along My Way. See side panel for details.

Book sales and signings of guests’ and members’ books.

Workshop 2: Bringing the Shadows of History into the Light of Today. With fiction author Peter Watt. Peter Watt's workshop takes you on a journey into the shadows of history. Discover what it was like to have lived in the past and what it takes to write a colourful, engaging story that puts a human face on the cold hard facts of history. Author of over 20 meticulously researched, page turning, historical fiction novels, Peter Watt is not only Australia’s answer to Wilbur Smith but, when he's not writing he's at the forefront of rural fire fighting. $40 (+ $2.50 online booking fee) Workshop 3: Creative Non-Fiction Writ Large. With memoirist Graeme Gibson. $40 (+ $2.50 online booking fee) See side panel for details.

In Conversation: Perverting The Course of History Makes Liars of Writers. Join memoirist Andrew Dunkley, creative non-fiction writer, Yvette Aubusson-Foley, and fiction author, Peter Watt, for a spirited discussion on writing from history. Moderated by Jen Cowley. Gold Coin Donation Festival Dinner: The Mess Tent. Experience the best of Trench and Mess Food, music, and a story well told, as we launch the hard copy of Andrew Dunkley’s All I See is Mud. Cost: $25 *Simultaneous workshops. Attendees cannot participate in both.

Surviving Submission Spur. With publishers David Reiter, Tracey Chen Xi and Ann Castle. First chapters are read to the publishers and audience. How long will each survive before both panellists say STOP? Valuable, on the spot feedback from panellists will spur writers on to perfecting their manuscripts.

Authors submitting must be members of OWC. OWC Memberships: $25pa. Audience Free.

Workshop 4: Yarning. With Indigenous writer and published poet, Ken Canning. Tell, record, write or listen to Indigenous stories. $20 (+ $1.50 online booking fee) Workshop 5: Impress the Publisher. With David Reiter.

Publisher and award winning author, David Reiter, provides participants with an editor’s look at structure, characterisation, style and audience. You'll discover what gets to the top of the slush pile and why, plus learn how to distill your story into a professional pitch and synopsis that puts your work in the best light. David is the genius behind Interactive Press, a global, independent publisher of physical books, e-books and digital media under multiple imprints. $40 (+ $2.50 online booking fee) Pitches: 20 minute pitches with children’s book publisher Ann Castle of Little Steps Publishing. $20 (+ $1.50 online booking fee)

Graeme, memoirist and experienced writing workshop presenter, pitches his workshops to accommodate writers from beginner to advanced.

You’ll have a hands-on opportunity to learn how to shape the facts— not make them up—enabling you to tell the stories of your life. The workshop also offers an opportunity to participate in the life of WestWords by having your stories recorded and played in the WPCC and displayed in the Community Arts Centre. Graeme Gibson’s book "Beyond Fear and Loathing: Local politics at work," received an award for Journalism and Media Advocacy from the Illawarra News, an independent citizen journalism site. It takes the reader on ‘a fascinating “Rats in the Ranks” type journey, exploring the machinations of a small time council hypnotized by development dollars, forgetting its core purpose of serving the public interest.’

Harold Hunt Book Launch

The launch of Harold Hunt’s compelling book Along My Way. One of eight children raised by a single ‘half caste’ mum, Harold charts his story—country life in the Great Depression, a career as a stockman and shearer, parenthood, recovery from alcoholism and a life dedicated to helping those who were experiencing the hell he’d been through. Awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2014 for his services to the community, Harold’s story is a good yarn, told by an ordinary man who has led an extraordinary life.

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Pearl of UBBO WEEKENDER has written extensively about Bill Ferguson, a man way ahead of his time who founded the Aboriginal Progressive Association in Dubbo.

He was a giant when it came to advocating for the rights of Australia’s first peoples, and yet most people in the city have no idea he existed, a man who’s been dubbed “Australia’s Martin Luther King”.

Now another legendary Indigenous figure is being immortalised in a massive mural at one of Dubbo’s major intersections on the corner of Talbragar and Darling streets.

Aunty Pearl Gibbs’ portrait is being painted by Adnate, one of the nation’s leading figures who creates large-scale, highly detailed portraits in spray paint.

“I started off as a graffiti artist painting letters for 10 years and in the last five years I’ve moved into doing portraiture and most of my portraiture these days are done on a very large scale, sometimes up to 25 metres high and it’s certainly getting pretty big in terms of scale,” Adnate said.

“I was overseas, the approach [to do this mural] came through six months ago but they take a long time to get together, projects like this, because there are certain consultations with local indige-

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The Aboriginal Working Party with the BOOMDubbo supported portrait of Pearl Gibbs.

nous communities and councils and all that kind of thing, so you know, it’s a slow process, it’s not just necessarily rocking up and getting the paint and going for it.”

Adnate said painting from an image, and painting such an iconic figure, carries a huge raft of underlying complexity, he’s been buoyed and supported by his broad consultation with many community members to get a feel for the work.

“I’ve had some fantastic consultations so far and it’s certainly something that you’ve got to be very sensitive to, and cultural sensitivity is one thing I really got to learn and make a part of my practice since the very beginning when I started first doing Indigenous cultures,” Adnate said.

“Particularly culture, you know, they’ve gone through so much over the last couple of hundred years and me myself as a white guy painting what I’m doing, I have to be very very sensitive to everything that I paint.

“I’ve had cultural advisors since the beginning and they’ve really guided me and very strongly pointed me in the right direction which is fantastic so I’m really lucky to have that,” he said.

Dubbo Aboriginal Working party chairman Robert Salt said the group is over the moon about the mural, and that everyone in the community needs to understand the amazing contributions of people like Aunty Pearl.

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a portrait Immortalised in paint by muralist, Adnate, a new art installation has been created with the support of BOOMDubbo and the Aboriginal Working Party and features Pearl Gibb. Located on the corner of Talbragar and Darling Streets, Gibbs’ face done in a realist style is certain to generate a lot of conversation on the significant contribution of Indigenous men and women on the Australian political landscape.

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I was upfront earlier to a colleague that in relation to Pearl Gibbs, I’d heard of Pearl, I’d read bits and pieces but it’s also about our own learning and knowledge about what significance this lady has contributed towards, not only Aboriginal people, but also NSW and the country,” Salt said.

“On display, it’s at a junction point where cars will obviously see this painting, this mural, and hopefully sort of explore and learn for their own knowledge about who this lady is and also what her significance to this area is,” he said.

To this day, the man who made a name for himself painting subjects such as Aussie Rules footballer Adam Goodes and Redfern Tent Embassy founder Jenny Munro, doesn’t know how he came to have such a passion for creating portraits of outstanding indigenous Australians.

“To be honest, I’m not very sure why it started and why I started doing it, I mean it’s one of those things as an artist, I just felt like I really really wanted to do it, I don’t really know where it came from, it sort of came from somewhere inside me and then it’s very hard to explain,” Adnate said.

“Maybe in about 10 or 15 years I might be able to say oh yeah, that’s what it was, there’s some really intense spiritual stuff that happens when I paint, you know, this kind of subject matter and it has since the beginning.”

Adnate became inspired to create giant portraits after spending his early 20s in Berlin and Barcelona, where he saw this sort of artistic expression was becoming commonplace, and a great way to bridge the gap by bringing art to the streets so people had to notice it.

“I used to see large-scale portraits over there and they’d been doing that stuff for 10 or 15 years and when I came back to Australia I thought I want to try and do that and I started doing some in Melbourne and it was just never really looked back but it’s certainly something for everyone to enjoy and

Aboriginal Working Party chair Robert Salt

to get inspiration from,” Adnate said.

“I call myself a muralist, if the media prefers they can call me a street artist, I don’t mind, but what I see myself as doing is complete muralism.

Aunty Pearl Gibbs died in 1983 which means Adnate is working from a photograph to create his portrait.

“The reference image is very very very important, it’s very rare that I actually work from some-

Pearl commenced her working career in 1917 as a domestic servant at Potts Point where she met Aboriginal girls who had been unwillingly been removed from their country homes and indentured as domestic servants by the Aborigines Protection Board. Unhappy with the girl’s treatment Pearl’s political career commenced when she acted on their behalf as an advocate with the board.

body else’s photograph and obviously with Pearl Gibbs I had to. I have to be very very careful about the reference image that I use because there’s certain things that I look for in terms of the detail and the lighting and all that kind of thing,” he said.

Boom Dubbo, established just last year, has brought this project together, the latest in many giant murals being painted on buildings and walls around Dubbo’s CBD. Kim Goldsmith is the project manager, this particular work even more challenging than most.

“We had a very short timeframe to turn this work around because Adnate was only available for a very short space of time or we had to wait until next year,” Kim said.

“We knew that the Dubbo Aboriginal Working party was interested in this site, and we made the approach to see what they were thinking about in terms of that and they already had a significant amount of work underway in terms of the portraits that they had wanted done and give the timeframe we had to work in we could only choose one of

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Friday 16.09.2016 to Sunday 18.09.2016 | Dubbo Weekender those, so it was a matter of letting them decide then who that should be and I think everyone who’d been involved believed that Aunty Pearl Gibbs had been the ideal portrait subject for this wall and when the child portrait starts to take shape next to her, what we essentially have is a story that shows a child of today looking at her future because of the advocacy and the passion of a woman like Pearl Gibbs. “There’s nothing like portraiture to do that (inspire) and realism is another way of adding to that story-telling, it’s a very visual format, as they say a picture tells a thousand words, there is a whole story about past, present and future wrapped up in this mural and I think having the community on board has been critical to feeling the importance of that, not only for the community, but for Dubbo as a whole and our collective future,� she said.

Kim says it’s incredible that very few people in our city know about this rich Indigenous history of progressive Aboriginal advocacy, and believes this sort of high profile public art is a great way to raise awareness and pride about some of the amazing people who’ve put service before self. “Absolutely, and to put in in a high profile spot is even more important, it’s amazing how many people I’ve heard within the Aboriginal community who don’t know the story of Pearl Gibbs and the Aboriginal Progressive Association, so even within that community, which is part of the whole community, there’s still a lot of educating, there’s still a lot of learning to do and I think storytelling is a fabulous medium to do that in,�

Kim said.

The mural is being painted utilising the highest possible quality products, organisers are hoping it will endure for at least 10 years, and possibly many more after that.

Whatever happens to the portrait’s longevity, the story will now remain firmly entrenched in the city’s popular culture.

> PEARL GIBBS Pearl Mary “Gambanyi GIBBS (nee Brown) (1901-1983) was born in Botany Bay, NSW, the younger daughter of Mary Margaret Brown. Her mother Mary Margaret, was born in Brewarrina to white station worker George Brown and Maria an Aboriginal woman of the Ngemba or Murruwari language.

Pearl commenced her working career in 1917 as a domestic servant at Potts Point where she met Aboriginal girls who had been unwillingly been removed from their country homes and indentured as domestic servants by the Aborigines Protection Board. Unhappy with the girl’s treatment Pearl’s political career commenced when she acted on their behalf as an advocate with the board.

Pearl organised strikes among pea-pickers at Nowra

and then became a prominent organiser and public speaker in the Aboriginal protect campaign of the 1930s, including the Australia Day Protest being a member of the first deputation to the Prime Minister.

Pearl delivered and scripted radio talks in Sydney and Wollongong.

Pearl wrote for the press supporting the Northern Territory people in conflict with the Justice system, calling for Aboriginal Representation on the NSW Aboriginal Welfare Board. She was secretary of the Aboriginal Progressive Association (1942), vice president and then secretary of the Dubbo branch of the Australian Aborigines League (1946) and organising secretary of the Council of Aboriginal Rights (1953).

Pearl held the prestigious title of being the first and only female member of the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board (1954-57), a position in which she found herself denied access to board-controlled reserves and excluded from real decision making. In 1956 she found-

ed the Aboriginal Australian Fellowship. Subsequently she established the first hostel in NSW at Dubbo for rural Aborigines requiring hospital treatment.

Pearl was a passionate and fluent public speaker, fuelling a debate on Aboriginal politics, focusing on women’s issues and full citizen rights. Her fine organisational skills encouraged strong links between Aboriginal communities and organisations and their supporters. She nurtured many pioneering Aboriginal organisations through difficult times.

All this & Pearl still found time to marry English born Robert James Gibbs and raise two sons and a daughter. Pearl died in 28th April 1983 & is buried in Catholic section of the New Dubbo cemetery.

Because of Pearl’s contribution to society, her home at 8 Bembrose Lane, Dubbo has been listed as a Heritage building.

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ADNATE QUICK FACTS: Grew up in North Melbourne, stomping ground was Fitzroy and Carlton, an arty environment which he said had a major impact on him.

Spent a short time studying art at Vic Uni then quit to actually paint; When asked if his initial career as a graffiti artist was a legal career – no comment.

Muralist “Adnate” with the portrait of Pearl Gibbs he took less than a day to create on the corner of Talbragar and Darling Streets.

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Malleefowl on mound, private land, Nymagee area. PHOTO: MARC IRWIN

FOWL PLAY Keeping the mallee from falling foul of the endangered species list

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UGE numbers of native species have been wiped out since European colonisation, now there’s renewed interest in protecting one of Dubbo icons, the endangered Malleefowl.

While there’s a good supply of these ground-dwelling birds at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, they’re easy prey for introduced predatory species such as foxes when they live in the wild.

Five remote cameras have been set up near active malleefowl mounds in the central west as part of a project to save the endangered malleefowl and are funded under the NSW Government’s Saving Our Species (SoS) program according to Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) Team Leader Andy McQuie.

The aim has been to see what animals are visiting these nests and unlocking valuable secrets that NSW scientists will use to help save this endangered bird.

“The images taken by these

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motion-sensitive cameras that are set up near malleefowl mounds at Yathong Nature Reserve and private land in central NSW, show what animals visit the mounds, how often, and what they do while they’re there,” McQuie told Dubbo Weekender.

“Central bearded dragons, kangaroos, wallabies, lace monitors and echidnas are just a few of the native species that have been captured on camera,” he said.

Great news that native species are featuring so prominently, but the principal focus of researchers is to see what introduced predators are doing to

impact on the malleefowl.

“These images show a fascinating interaction between a fox and a pair of malleefowl,” he said.

“It starts with a fox digging into the egg chamber of an active mound, whilst the birds watch on nearby, but after more than an hour the fox leaves empty-handed and both birds return to the nest to start the rebuilding process.

“By studying the behaviour of other animals visiting the mounds we hope to learn more about how to manage and reduce the threats to malleefowl, to ensure this endangered species persists in the wild in the

long term,” he said.

National Parks and Wildlife Service personnel are heavily involved in the project and landholders adjoining the mounds are collaborating in fox control, utilising multiple strategies including aerial baiting, regular ground baiting or targeted mound baiting.

“The malleefowl is classified as an iconic species under the SoS program; it is highly valued by the community, is rare and has a unique appearance and behavior,” McQuie said.

The rapid digitisation of society is breaking new ground when it comes to the research, monitoring and protecting of so many endangered species.

All manner of new technologies are being designed and introduced to help gather data in real time and at far less cost than was previously possible.

Just as the sentinel camera at the south Dubbo fishway takes a picture every hour, and makes them immediately available online, these cameras are pushing new boundaries.

So far they’ve taken more than 50,000 images of the malleefowl mounds, they’ve been

uploaded to a website called Wildlife Spotter, at www.wildlifespotter.net.au.

OEH is calling for volunteers to analyse this wealth of data to see what species are visiting the mounds.

This is the sort of issue that could turn into a great class science project for schools, and an opportunity for any member of the public to become a citizen scientist.

McQuie said OEH was grateful for support from Western Local Land Services as well as Yarroma Station and Etiwanda Station, both private grazing properties south of Cobar.

The NSW Government’s SoS program is providing $100 million over the next five years to help protect almost a thousand animals and plants threatened from extinction in NSW. Meantime, the state government has recently made sweeping changes to the Biodiversity Act, environmental groups are hoping this will translate to far more onground works to protect NSW’s endangered wildlife and include funding for pest eradication as well as to create safe habitats.

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Move over Kylie, Australia has a new pop princess.

After winning X-Factor and placing second in the Eurovision song contest, the world is well and truly Dami Im’s oyster. She chatted to Weekender about fame, reality TV and cutting out junk food.

WORDS Natalie Holmes AKE sure you call her Dami, she doesn’t like her name mispronounced.” It’s sound advice received when a call to superstar songstress Dami Im is patched through on the second attempt.

Sensing that she might be a bit of a diva, it’s a pleasant surprise to find that the Eurovision sensation and Aussie ambassador is both warm and down to earth and happy to chat about everything from musical influences through to marriage.

Im grew up in South Korea and was born two weeks after the Seoul Olympics ended in October 1988. She had a happy, loving upbringing and her love of singing began at a young age.

“I’ve definitely had music around the home since I was little. Mum used to take me to classical concerts as a young child.

“The first concert I ever went to was orchestral and I was fascinated by all the different instruments.” Im went on to learn the piano and also loved to sing when she was a child.

It helped that mum Lee Hae-yun was a trained opera singer.

“That didn’t make me want to become a singer. I just wanted to get into pop music because it was cooler. But it certainly helped to have that musical link.”

It wasn’t long before the singer-songwriter started making her own music.

“I started recording on my computer. I had a basic program which I could use. I got pretty obsessed.”

Im practiced a lot and her drive and ambition is something for which she can now partly attribute her success.

“Mum said I was always sitting at the piano pretending to read music. And I wanted to sing. I wanted to become a performer.”

Two American divas became her inspiration.

“I listened to Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, and of course K-pop (Korean pop music).”

Im came to Australia when she was nine with her mum and younger brother. Dad, Im Dong-eal stayed in South Korea so that he could continue to provide for them while they created a new life for the family in Brisbane.

“Dad had to support us by working in Korea so we had to live apart for a while. I’m really lucky to have grown up in Australia, I had a good childhood.”

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Dami Im performing at Eurovision. PHOTO: ANDRES PUTTING

guage and cultural barriers.

“Not speaking English, as anyone in that situation would know, is difficult.

And most immigrants feel like they don’t belong. It’s challenging, but being in Australia, it’s one of the best countries to live. It’s safe, you can enjoy nature, there are so many opportunities.”

Would she have made the same name for herself if the family had stayed in Korea, or has Australia been Im’s lucky charm?

“It’s hard to say, pop music is pretty big in Korea and I was very determined.”

Im now feels as much an Aussie as she feels Korean.

In fact, she enjoys that she is a blend of both nationalities.

“Most people have come from somewhere else. Everyone can call themselves Aussie. For me, I feel both Korean and Australian. On one hand, I feel very lucky to have been able to embrace a new culture and at the same time, Korea is my heritage.”

Im’s earliest gigs were held in a place where she felt confident and found inspiration.

“I started singing at church, it was where I felt most comfortable because that’s where I started.

“Church was always like home. The congregation were always very nice about it, really encouraging.”

Fast forward a few years and Im is named the 2013 X Factor winner. Prior to that, she’d been working as a music and piano teacher after first studying

at the Young Conservatorium of Music, and then completing a Bachelor of Music and a Masters in contemporary voice at the University of Qld and Griffith University respectively.

Reality TV, she says, makes the audience believe that contestants are overnight sensations. In actual fact, she’d been working hard on her career for a long time.

“People don’t take you seriously,” she points out. “A lot of people that enter are not just walking in off the street and deciding to audition. For me, I’ve been working on it since I was young. All those years of practice and hard work.

Nobody really knows all that.”

At the same time, what the television show did for her career rivalled her many years of dedication. It gave her the exposure she needed to show the nation her talents.

“I was really grateful that I did it.

After that, I was able to record three albums.”

Im followed X Factor with a tilt at the most recognisable song contest on earth – Eurovision, finishing as runner up at the 2016 competition.

Being the Australian representative was a great honour for Im. “As a singer, it’s the biggest privilege to represent your country in front of 200 million people globally. It’s a lot of pressure for sure, particularly when you reach the semi-finals. There is pressure to do well and it’s such an intense experience. I lost a lot of weight just due to

the stress.”

After the contest, Im’s global profile as an artist rose dramatically.

“My song “Sound of Silence” topped the chart in more than 20 countries. It’s a huge bonus and great for your career.”

The 27 year-old is now working on a new album, her fourth, as well as embarking on a 38-date national tour.

“Nobody has one anything this big for a long time. It’s a big commitment.”

It’s a huge undertaking for the diminutive star, especially since her husband of four years, Noah Kim, stays at home most of the time.

“He’s got his own job back in Brisbane but he comes to all the shows.”

Of the tour, Im says it’s partly to thank her fans for their loyalty and support over the years.

“For me, it’s great. I’m grateful to have such an opportunity to go to different towns and to have audiences see me and to actually perform. That’s the best part of being a performer or artist. Every audience is different and they are all special to me. I love the people.”

Many of Im’s fans have already conveyed their excitement about the tour.

“People have expressed their gratitude that I’m coming.”

All the performing and travelling must put a strain on her. As such, Im tries to look after herself as much as possible, despite a weakness for junk food.

“I just try and do the right thing, by getting regular sleep and the basic things, although I do need to eat healthier!”

“You need to look after your voice, not catch a cold, try and stay healthy.”

Im needs to stay in top shape in order to catch up with her fans, who also provide some of the inspiration for songwriting.

“I’m doing a lot of sound work, recording. I’m inspired by everything in general. I often see things in the world that I think are interesting, and that I want to write about.

“Sometimes it’s the relationships I have with the different people I meet.”

On that note, Im is looking forward to meeting lots of new people in Dubbo when she arrives next month.

“Personally, I wanted to visit Dubbo.

People have told me all about it, especially the zoo. I’m really excited.”

Dami Im will perform at Dubbo RSL on October 8.

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber lived in New Mexico for the early part of the 1990s.

A presidential hopeful who once lost out to old Apache S presidential wannabe Gary Johnson not knowing where Aleppo is located is not my favourite Gary Johnson story.

Johnson is standing as an independent so-called “Libertarian” outsider against Trump and Clinton, and last week made a dope of himself in an interview by drawing a blank when asked about the situation in the city of Aleppo, the focal point of Syria’s ghastly civil war.

Newsflash: a political elite using affluence as selection criteria in an insular society is not very worldly. In other news: dogs bark.

Libertarianism is a privileged, middleaged white man’s cult that seeks to decorate the ideology tree with ornaments other than the lone star of self-interest, and that invariably boils down to the pressing need for that demographic to pay no tax.

In other words libertarianism therefore is really just the affluent arguing that it’s pointless for them to contribute to the tax pool because ultimately that money is increasingly destined for them anyway.

But back to Johnson. He was governor of New Mexico when I lived there in the 1990s.

Let’s say we didn’t hang out. He was a brash, young suit elected to lead a state where outside the artsy centres of Sante Fe and Taos, life was poor, old school Hispanic, and tough.

He was that sort of private sector narcissist that knows alllll about reforming government, and he fitted into New Mexico like Justin Timberlake on a chain gang.

In New Mexico there were also a number of native American groups who, thanks to a loophole in laws designed to exile them from society without actually deporting them, could run casinos on their reservations.

This highly lucrative initiative always irked mainstream America, where gambling is largely illegal.

One such group was New Mexico’s

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Mescalero Apache: and if you were making up a list of people who needed to harden up, Johnson might be on it, but the Mescalero certainly wouldn’t.

Historically they included among their number the guerrilla chieftain Geronimo, and were renowned for their resistance to Spanish, Mexican and American invaders.

Enter Governor Johnson, who quickly decided he had a solution to uppity injuns.

I watched what happened next on the dinky local news out of Albuquerque via a tiny black and white TV. If seasons have a name - like the Summer of Love – this was the winter of joblessness, drinking beer in a frigid caravan and wondering where my life was heading.

Anyway, Johnson fronts the cameras to say gamblers travelling to the reserva-

tion casino were using state roads to get there and so he would install toll booths at the entrance to the reservation to recoup maintenance costs.

The Mescalero opposed the move, and the debate played out on the local news each night.

“Now we cross to the Mescalero reservation for the latest on the stand-off” So the tensions escalate and the Mescalero counter that they will dismantle the toll booths.

Now Johnson flicks the switch to tough guy and comes on the news the next night to warn that if the Mescalero don’t co-operate he will call in the national guard.

The following night a wiry, old Mescalero spokesman appears before the microphone: an expressionless face like old shoe leather, jade eyes, wide headband holding waist-length, straight

grey hair.

Asked about the governor’s threat to call in soldiers he replied flatly: “Then we get the rifles: we have fought for 500 years; we can fight for 500 more.”

The young journo was momentarily dumbstruck as was I: here on local news, after footage of the new roundabout solving traffic congestion, and before the sports round up, the Mescalero Apaches had threatened war with the state of New Mexico.

He threw back to the studio, when the newsreader seemed equally stunned: “Now to the weather, snow clearing for Albuquerque …”

I heard no more from Johnson, the stand-off ended, spring came and somewhere in the ensuing years the governor decided he was presidential material.

Lawyers replaced by robots? Software company using AI to read documents

2016 LEGAL LIFE

LONDON: The entrepreneur behind British software company Autonomy has invested in a start-up called Luminance that uses artificial intelligence to read documents and speed up the legal process around deals, potentially cutting out some lawyers.

Mike Lynch, who founded technology investment fund Invoke Capital after leaving Autonomy, said on

Wednesday he saw great potential in Luminance, which was set up by Cambridge University students and has worked with lawyers at Slaughter and May to develop software to analyse documents.

“You can see the excitement around things like driverless cars, so this being all about contracts doesn’t sound quite as riveting, but I actually think it’s going to have a very big

impact” Lynch told Reuters.

“Lawyers will be able to do the things that matter rather than the grunt work, they can add better value by doing better analysis of what is found, rather than trying to plough through 50,000 documents.”

Founded by a combination of lawyers, experts in deals and mathematicians, Luminance has created software that it says can read and

understand hundreds of pages of documents every minute, with clients charged according to usage.

Lynch established Invoke Capital after he left Hewlett-Packard Co in 2012 in an acrimonious split over the $US11 billion ($A15 billion) acquisition of Autonomy by the US company less than a year earlier.

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Waste of medicine Dear Editor Australian parents are spending an estimated $67 million on cough and cold medicines that are known to be ineffective and in some cases potentially harmful. The Australian Child Health Poll found that a third of kids under six-years are being given cough and cold medicine even though they are not recommended for this age group.

What’s particularly disturbing is that among parents who are giving these products to their young children, 74 per cent said they were told to do so on the advice of a pharmacist, and 64 per cent on the advice of a doctor.

Parents of young children who are advised to use an over-thecounter cough or cold medicine should challenge the advice; if your child is under six years of age, don’t buy it.

We also found that an estimated $74 million a year is being spent on vitamins and supplements even though there’s no proven health benefits for kids on a normal diet and with no nutritional deficiencies.

Dr Anthea Rhodes, Director, Australian Child Health Poll •••

Natural Disaster Preparation

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BY JENNA MCKEOWN

NSW’s biggest reward EARLIER this week NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and the NSW Premier Mike Baird together announced a $1,000,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of missing toddler, William Tyrell.

It’s the largest reward ever offered in NSW, and Scipione said he hoped it was enough incentive to bring someone forward.

The size of the rewards has prompted campaigners to ask for equal amounts for all missing people or murder mysteries. In Victoria the same monetary val-

ue is offered for leads in murder cases and missing people, in an effort to not denote one life as more ‘valuable’ than another.

Broken Heel festival BROKEN HILL may best be known around the world for a small town that the characters of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert stopped in on their road trip. Last year, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the release of the Australian film, Broken Hill held a festival. It has become an annual event, and took place last weekend in the outback town.

The Broken Heel Festival includes a costume competition and a main street parade. It not only brings visitors to the town, but also celebrates diversity and the LGBTQI community.

Triple J’s Hottest 100 IT’S widely recognized as a main feature of the Australia Day holiday; kick back and listen to the nation’s favourite youth and alternative music station count down the publicly voted most popular songs of the previous year. Well,

a new day for the ritual may soon be found.

A Change.org petition has garnered more than 2,300 and support on social media with the hashtag #changethedate. Campaigners say they would like to see the countdown held on a day that is more inclusive and celebratory for Australia’s Indigenous people.

Triple J have announced that it is under review, but for now will continue to be aired on January 26.

Safer Online Spaces Instagram has rolled out a new security feature designed to keep users safer.

The social media site has released an update of the app that allows users to filter keywords and prevent them from being used in comments on their posts.

Verified users have been able to use this already, but now all users will be able to create a custom, or use a default list of words that bullies or trolls may use, such as explicative, threats and slurs. As an anti harassment tool, it is being celebrated by many users, in the hope that it will keep the social media site as a positive and friendly place.

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Dear Editor A staggering one in three of people reading this letter will face at least one natural disaster in their lifetime. And after the disaster hits, sadly there’s one thing most will also experience.

Regret about not being better prepared.

In Emergency Preparedness Week, Red Cross is calling on all Australians to take action before it’s too late. We want all Australians to be prepared for an emergency, whether it’s as large as a bushfire, cyclone or flood, or as personal as a family crisis .

Too many conversations after an emergency begin with “I wish I had…”. People wish they’d taken the kids’ baby photographs; kept their passports safe; upped their insurance; looked in on their neighbours.

For decades, we’ve seen firsthand the trauma, stress, and hardship that disasters bring; things many of us just aren’t prepared for like anxiety, grief and loss, relationship problems, and financial hardship that can go on for many years.

You can’t get back what you’ve lost after an emergency. But you can plan to protect what matters most. And that’s different for everyone. Our free guide can spare people much of the avoidable grief and trauma because we know that the better you are prepared, the better you will cope Download your RediPlan at redcross.org.au/prepare and get prepared.

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Paul Woodhead: The Ringmaster He’s the founding father of Circus West, but there’s a lot more to Paul Woodhead than just juggling and acrobatics.

He’s a dedicated semiretired teacher and father of five whose love of theatre and gymnastics has taken him around the world.

WORDS Natalie Holmes I grew up in the Blue Mountains. We were a Catholic family. My Dad was a professor in civil engineering and Mum had 10 kids. I really admired her as for most of her life, she lived with half a lung. It was the late 1950s. I spent a lot of time outdoors because we had a Carmichael wood stove so I was constantly cutting wood. It was the boys’ job.

I liked school, I don’t know if school liked me. I thought maths and theatre were pretty cool. I went to a Catholic primary school up until Year 6 then we went to the United States where Dad was teaching at the University of Illinois.

Getting there was very cool because we travelled by ship. It was one month each way on an old P&O liner stopping along the way in places like Manila and Hong Kong. The age range of the kids in our family was 2 to 12 at the time.

America was very different to Australia.

In America, the schools are funded by local property tax and run by a board.

So if you live in a wealthy neighbourhood, the school will be better.

It’s much more of a social education there. There is a much heavier focus on sports as the high schools there are the seed ground for college sports and professional sports. They also had a lot of clubs at school. There were 7,000 kids at my high school in Champaign, Illinois.

I got involved in sports in Junior High and did a year of gridiron. I wasn’t very good at it. I also did swimming which I liked. But I wasn’t much of a sporting type, despite my surroundings. I was in the choir and loved theatre as well. Professional theatre studies was taught in the school. We had a wonderful theatre teacher and a wonderful choral teacher as well. My range was baritone and I made a really good group of friends from choir.

We were in the States for five years.

In 1973, my oldest brother became eli-

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gible for the draft and Gough Whitlam was offering free university in Australia. I finished Year 11 in the US and then returned to Australia to do my HSC. I wanted to get into NIDA (the National Institute of Dramatic Art).

Theatre in Australia is so much different. It’s very amateur and in high school, it’s an extracurricular activity not taught as a subject. After I finished school, I wanted to be a mechanical engineer but as it turned out, I got a scholarship for teaching. I haven’t regretted it – things happen because of other things you’ve done. It’s just a matter of which opportunities you take.

I studied at Mitchell College, Bathurst. While there, I was a residential tutor at All Saints College; that’s where I started working with kids. I started teaching in 1979 and did it full-time for 36 years. With teaching, it’s nice to get results, but really, it’s all about the kids.

1. GEOGRAPHY: Which rivers flow into Burrinjuck Dam? 2. LITERATURE: Who wrote essays about attempting to speak French, titled “Me Talk Pretty One Day”?

3. AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERS: What political party did Alfred Deakin (pictured, inset) represent when elected?

4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How many time zones does China have?

5. MOVIES: Who starred in

If you don’t form a relationship with them, you can’t get very far.

I became involved in a program with the Red Cross Homes. We would take 10 to 20 kids to see Sydney as an experience. We started doing gymnastics as part of the program. The PCYC was just being built at the time and we used the old British Army Handbook on how to do gymnastics.

I started doing weekend courses and applied to do Sports Science in Canberra to make me a better coach and give myself the opportunity to teach in a specialist school. While I lived in Canberra, I ran a gymnastics club at the Belconnen YMCA for 35 hours a week.

It worked out well really because most of my lectures were in the morning, I would coach in the afternoon then study at night. Before I went, I had been working at Dubbo West Public School (I am primary-trained). At the same time, I was working at a national level

the movie “Mommie Dearest”, and what actress did she portray?

6. FOOD & DRINK: What ingredient gives gin its distinctive taste?

7. MYTHOLOGY: The Minotaur and his labyrinth were said to be located on which Greek island?

8. ACRONYMS: What does ROM stand for?

9. ANIMAL KINGDOM: About how many eggs can a queen bee lay each day?

10. TELEVISION: What was the name of the family dog

in gymnastics and working on a Level III Coaches Certificate. But it was hard to produce gymnasts at a national level.

Back in Dubbo, I later became involved in the Country Area Program promoting the arts in schools. We were pushing to have gymnastics in high schools and to re-educate PE teachers on general gymnastics, rather than Olympic gymnastics which 80 to 90 per cent of kids can’t do.

In 1989, the Danish spring rhythmic gymnastics team came to Dubbo and were offering an international study program which was as much cultural as it was sport. They even had lunchtime gym clubs. I did a 10 week course in Denmark and in 1990, completed a Diploma in Gymnastics from the Scandinavian Institute of Physical Culture.

I met my wife Anne after that. She already had two kids when we married and we had another three after we married. I became Assistant Principal at school and head coach at the RSL. Circus West started in 1991 and then I gave up coaching gymnastics in 1994, apart from coaching courses. I just had a lot going on and became really busy.

In 2000, Circus West was involved in the stormwater pollution show. Because of that, I received a Director-General’s Award and out of that came a Churchill Fellowship which involved going back to the States and the UK to study circus programs. All of these things happened because of doing stuff.

Teaching is not about learning stuff, it’s about touching the future. That’s a great quote.

I have retired now but still do bits and pieces. Circus is now an elective class for Years 9 and 10 and part of the Duke of Edinburgh program. I will work until the end of the year to keep it going and next year, we will kickstart the program at Dubbo West Primary School which is where it all began so that’s really cool.

I don’t have a bucket list. I have five grandkids now, nearly six. I am involved in the Minore Rural Fire Service because you need to do that. Not everyone can support the brigade but I like to do what I can. When my wife Anne retires, we would like to go to Scotland where she comes from and do more travelling – not by caravan though! We would love to go to Tasmania and visit whisky distilleries in Scotland and Ireland. I’d really like to go the States again too. And Circus West will be involved in Artlands on October 27 and we will be having a 25-year reunion on November 5.

on “The Simpsons” (pictured, right)?

11. FLASHBACK: Name the Rolling Stones album that includes the song “Dance Little Sister”.

12. SPORT: How many weight divisions did Jeff Fenech win world titles in?

13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “Starting from zero got nothing to lose, Maybe we’ll make something, But me myself I got nothing to prove.”

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Warren Frew FEBRUARY 21, 1951 - SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 Long serving St Johns College principal Warren Frew was farewelled this week by a huge number of colleagues and former students. He lead the school through enormous change and growth and was loved and respected by more than a generation of local kids and their parents.

The eulogy at his funeral at Dubbo’s St Brigid Church on Tuesday, September 13 was delivered - and is printed here with his kind permission - by Mark Barnes, who was initially mentored by Warren as a young teacher at St Johns, a working relationship which became a lasting friendship. Current principal, Kerry Morris also spoke, and again shares thoughts on the life of a community leader.

EULOGY BY MARK BARNES COUPLE of years ago, Warren and Kath were out at my home, with a group of friends, having a meal. At one stage in the night, each of us was asked to state our favourite movie, favourite novel, favourite album and most influential book.

Now while the rest of us were considering our answers, Warren jumped in and said Í’ll go first. Favourite movie – that’s easy – “Shawshank Redemption”.

Favourite novel – “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Atticus Finch, what a legend. Favourite album. That’s a toss-up between Neil Diamond’s “Hot August Night” and Harry Chapin’s “Variety and Balderdash”. Hmmm. Most influential book.

Yep, “The Art of War by Sun Tzu”. Now the funny thing is, as I look back now on his answers, they represent everything that made him the wonderful man that he was.

For example, the main character in the movie, Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne, had a quiet, humble strength.

His calm, cool collectedness, governed his interactions with the world around him. His leadership skills were based firmly around developing and showing a mutual respect for everyone he met.

This was Warren to a tee.

Also, just like Warren, Harry Chapin and Neil Diamond were story tellers.

They had a way of putting beautiful words together to get a powerful and everlasting message across. They are still loved by their fans, because of how they made their fans feel.

They brought joy and happiness through their words. And every time you think of them, you are brought back to a wonderful, nostalgic place.

In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the main character of Atticus Finch, showed how one man can make a difference. Just like Warren. How never losing your integrity and fighting for what you believe in, is one of the most powerful things we can do as a human being.

And finally Sun Tzu. An extraordinary leader who had this incredible insight in to the nature of human beings. His simple, yet profound wisdom was matched by his courage and determination.

When I first met Warren, back in 1990. He was one of the first teachers to go out of his way to pass on some words of advice. His advice – as became his nature – was simple and direct. “Barnsey, you should have been in radio. You have a voice that I could wake up to in the morning.” He then laughed, and said ‘On the radio I mean’. He then went on to give me advice that I have never forgotten. ‘You have chosen one of the greatest jobs in the world. I want you to never forget that. Every day when you come to school, you are going to make a difference to a student’s life. Most of the time, you will never witness the fruits of your labour, but understand this, you

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ARE making a difference. Never forget it.” With that, he put back on his faun coloured cardigan and walked out of the room.

When Warren came back to the College in 2000 as Principal, it was literally, the start of a new beginning. The College had been through some fairly difficult times and was in need of a re-

invigorated focus. Now Warren’s vision was simple. St Johns College was going to become one of the finest educational institutions in NSW. His grand plan was based around creating staff stability, putting the right people in the right jobs, broadening the College’s achievements, implementing a building plan that would set the College up for the

21st century and then getting everyone – staff, parents and students to embrace the plan.

Through his extraordinary leadership, the plan became a reality. Student numbers increased from 700 to 1100. Staff turnover plummeted. Massive building projects like the Music Centre and the Human Movement Centre were initi-

ated. And most importantly student results in the academia, the cultural and the sporting fronts soared, like never before. And through it all, Warren would ensure that all praise and acknowledgement would ALWAYS go to the students, their teachers and to the parents.

You see Warren had a gift.

He had the ability to make everyone around him feel important and wanted. He would do this through his warm, embracing conversations, his heartfelt gratitude, genuine respect and what can only be described as a cheeky Peter Pan smile.

His wicked sense of humor would be at its strongest, when people needed it the most. A potentially heated discussion in a meeting would be quickly diffused by one of Warren’s clever and humorous observations.

Now I would like to think, that when Warren completed his final full year as Principal of the College in 2010, he walked away having known, that he had created an extraordinary legacy. One that has impacted, and will continue to impact, on literally thousands of people. However, knowing Warren, I doubt he will have looked at it like that. In his own humble and modest way, he would have simply said to me, “Barnsey, I was just doing my job.”

To me and I’m sure to many of us here, Warren was so much more than an outstanding Principal of St Johns College. On a personal level, I will miss him dearly.

I will miss our movie nights, and his constant reminders to get the magnum ice blocks before we go in. I will miss his constant references to the movie True Grit and his love of saying the line, “I call that bold talk for a one eyed fat man”.

And I will miss watching his eyes light up with pride, when he would tell me constantly about the wonderful achievements of his two beautiful children.

To Kath, John and Ben. Your husband and your father was an extraordinary man. He achieved so much in his life, in so many areas. But without a doubt, his proudest achievement was you, his family. The enormous love and pride that he had, and continues to have for you, is beyond words.

Our love and our thoughts are with you, and the entire Frew family today.

As incredibly hard as it is, to have to say goodbye to Warren, I thank the good Lord, that all of us here, have had the opportunity to spend some time, and to walk this world, with this wonderful man. All of us here, are better people, for having had Warren in our life.

Frewy, as my final words to you today. You were and will always be, my Harry Chapin, my Atticus Finch and my Sun Tzu. You were my friend, my

mentor, my mate. I’m going to miss you big fella.

BY KERRY MORRIS ST JOHNS COLLEGE PRINCIPAL:

HE College community is suffering and coming to terms with the shock loss of Mr Warren Frew. He was the heart of St Johns College and was committed to the growth in academic standards, Catholicity, emphasis on Gospel values and a competitive sporting life for students. Warren was the ultimate professional and an engaging educator, he will be missed not only as a colleague but for many staff as a mentor and a dear friend.

Warren devoted 41 years to Catholic Education with 11 years as Principal of St Johns College. During that time he was a teacher, HSIE Coordinator, Sports Coordinator, assistant principal, principal at St Lawrence’s, Coonabarabran and St Peter’s in Maitland, as well as over the last few years Education Consultant with the Catholic Education Office, Bathurst. Catholic Education has lost a talented, clever educationalist who has added an enormous contribution to not only the success of St Johns College but also the Bathurst Diocese.

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Warren commenced teaching at St Johns with his wife Kathy in 1975. He loved his History, Economics, Geography and Sport. He played many games with CYMS as a speedy winger. His Principalship of over 11 years at the College, commencing in 2000, was the turning point for St Johns. His vision, commitment, educational genius and foresight made St Johns College the great school it is today. The College was his passion and his leadership inspired staff students and parents alike. Warren combined his disciplined work ethic with a strong Catholic faith. Always committed and tirelessly supporting others, he built a wonderful school community founded on Gospel values of love, service, humility and dignity.

Beyond all of this, however, he will be remembered for his wicked sense of humour, crazy jokes and cheeky smile.

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Warren will truly be missed as an educationalist, colleague and mentor, but also as a generous, empathetic and loving friend, husband, father and grandfather.

May he Rest In Peace and know we are all still singing the Beatles and laughing at this crazy jokes. The College sends sincere condolences to Kathy, John and Adele and family, and Ben and Jules.

Our prayers, thoughts and love are with you at this very sad time.

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Future of technology is anyone’s guess

BY MATHEW DICKERSON SON SMALL BUSINESS RULES CONSULTANT

HAT is the next ‘big thing’ in the world of technology?

Well, to quote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you! The reality is that I don’t really know.

I don’t believe that anyone truly knows exactly what is going to be the next item or thing or idea that is going to take the world by storm in a technological sense.

That doesn’t mean that there are not people trying though.

I constantly read a variety of Web sites and subscribe to various organisations to try and stay in touch with where the technological world is heading and I see new products every day. Some of them I shake my head at wonder how they received financial backers – and they end up selling millions. Others I think are going to be huge hits – and I never hear about them again. What seems to be common amongst many of the products is that they are solving problems that we didn’t know existed – but once solved we wonder how we ever did without them.

I remember trips to Sydney when I was a kid. Mum and Dad would pull out a Gregory’s (only a few years old) and Mum would sit in the passenger seat and direct while Dad would navigate through the traffic. It seemed

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to work and we got to where we microwave; and the list goes on. were going.

“Change is the only constant in Now of course we have Mum’s life” is a well-used quote. It is not voice replaced with a customis- originally from one of the visionable accented male/female that ary tech geniuses of our modern never gets angry and never gives day but in fact a quote from Herlip all-knowing all-seeing voice of aclitus, a Greek philosopher who satellite navigation from our car lived around 500 B.C. or device or phone. An absoluteWhen I do look at some of the ly wonderful soluproducts that are tion – but we didn’t appearing today, I ` know we had a see incredible vaproblem before the ...we have all heard riety. The path to first devices were market for these of self-driving available. cars but of greater products is relaSimilarly we tively simple in our importance didn’t know we modern connected will be the selfneeded access to world so it actually our e-mail at all driving shopping creates more innohours of the day vation and smalltrolleys that are from a device we er organisations, currently under carry in our hand – who are often more development; in fact at one stage agile, are able to we didn’t know facial recognition dream up ideas. we needed e-mail.

In products comto determine When e-mail starting (or possibly even if students are ed we still thought available now), conpaying attention; sider some of these facsimile machines were pretty cool the next revision items.

– which replaced Wireless earof connected snail-mail which, phones as small as homes; medical at the time, seemed hearing aids that testing from your are waterproof and quite adequate.

When we look smartphone and have hours of lisat the products tening time; transso many more we use today, it is parent glass Blueideas. hard to remember a tooth keyboards to time before we had use with PCs or tabthose products and our lives have lets; augmented and virtual realhopefully changed for the better ity headsets; drones with robotic as a result. There are some peo- arms to carry out a variety of tasks ple who tell me they don’t like remotely (not sure if they can carchange – yet they use a mobile; a ry a beer from the fridge to the TV remote; a keyless entry car; a lounge room but no doubt some-

one is working on that); we have all heard of self-driving cars but of greater importance will be the self-driving shopping trolleys that are currently under development; facial recognition to determine if students are paying attention; the next revision of connected homes; medical testing from your smartphone and so many more ideas.

To top it off, many of the gadgets you see advertised will not just be bought online and then shipped to you but you may just buy the design online and the ‘blueprint’ will be sent to the 3D printer in your house to create the device you just ordered.

The world of technology is exciting and constantly changing – but really that is just the world.

Keep an eye out for some of these products and try and predict the ones that will be big hits and the ones that we will never see again.

When I was younger and naïve, I used to make a habit of my first columns and radio programs for each year being dedicated to predicting what the world of technology would see by the end of that year.

When I would review my predictions at the end of the year, I realised that if I continued the practice I would quickly lose the tag of ‘technology expert’ because my predictions were so wrong.

It may be possible, but it is very difficult to make meaningful and specific tech predictions a year in advance. Imagine what we might see in the next five or ten!

Rural Women’s Award national winner OPHIE Hansen, a deer farmer, food blogger and author from Orange, NSW has been announced as the national winner of the 2016 RIRDC Rural Women’s Award. The award celebrates brilliant women and the positive impact they have on rural industries, businesses and communities.

The announcement was made

by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce in front of 300 industry leaders, parliamentarians and award alumnae at a gala dinner at Parliament House on Wednesday.

Sophie Hansen, as the NSW State winner, received $10,000 to develop her project ‘My Open Kitchen’, a unique online learning course assisting food producers to embrace the power of social media to share their food stories and better connect with their consumers.

As the national winner, she receives a further $10,000 to strengthen her leadership skills and share her experience with others around the country.

Sophie said celebrating Australian farmers and the prove-

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nance of quality local food is the inspiration for her project.

“My ever-constant goal is to support and celebrate Australian farmers by encouraging consumers to seek out their produce as directly as possible, then cook and share it!”

RIRDC managing director, John Harvey congratulated Sophie on winning the national Award and said her desire to support farmers to use social media to capture their stories is an example of rural leadership at its best.

“Sophie will be a brilliant ambassador for the RIRDC Rural Women’s Award.

She has the talent to create real change through influencing the

conversation around educating consumers on where their food comes from and to buy local.

“This is a really positive message that will benefit our farmers and the broader food industry.

Sophie’s passion is contagious,” he said.

Sophie, Kalyn and each of the 2016 state finalists will join an esteemed alumnae of more than 200 women recognised through this Award. Each are from diverse backgrounds around the nation who contribute in many different ways. They’re community volunteers, farmers, business leaders and industry representatives,” he said.

The Award’s Platinum Sponsor, Westpac Agribusiness also congratulated Sophie Hansen on taking out the national Award.

“Westpac Agribusiness congratulates Sophie for the innovative work she has done in developing My Open Kitchen. The Rural Women’s Award is highly recognised and regarded across rural, regional and remote Australia and held in high esteem by industry, government and community.

“The recognition the Award brings is important as it provides women with a strong platform to bring about innovative

change and help in continuing to build resilient rural, regional and remote communities. Importantly, the award highlights the vital leadership role women play across all levels of business and industry,” said Susan Bower, Head of Agribusiness.

“We are excited to support Sophie as she continues to build and grow My Open Kitchen, and look forward to seeing all she achieves in the next twelve months, and into the future. We congratulate all the state finalists on their achievements and look forward to following their future success.

Westpac Agribusiness is proud to once again be the Platinum Partner of the Rural Women’s Award. It is another way in which we can shine a light on the vital role women play and help to inspire and promote our future champions of change within Australian agriculture,” Ms Bower said. z Applications for the 2017 Rural Women’s Award are open. If you or someone you know has a strong commitment or desire to making a real difference to rural Australia, then apply or nominate them now.

It truly is a life changing opportunity. Applications close on Monday, 31 October 2016.

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When things go wrong in small business – shoot the sheriff or deputy?

BY PHIL COMERFORD D SCOLARI COMERFORD

’VE written here previously about the benefits having systems and how they can not only increase your small business valuation but generally allow you to have better business growth, customer retention and profitability. The fact is that things can, and still do, go wrong in business – so when they do what is the reaction of successful leaders?

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1. Seconds from disaster lessons If you have ever seen that show “Seconds From Disaster” or even “Air Crash Investigation”, authorities usually find that the disaster occurred after a series of events/mistakes that led to one almighty calamity. You can’t believe how one little thing led to another. One small error gets compounded until the ultimate disaster occurs. This can happen in any type of business, whether you are a firm of small business accountants or a transport company in

Wagga or Homebush.

It’s very tempting as a business owner to blow your cool and rant and rave at the people who were assigned to perform what seemed like a simple transaction with customers, suppliers, team members etc.

It could be things like: z a new customer was given credit and now they’ve gone bust owing your company plenty and seriously threatening your cash flow; z purchasing of supplies that were cheaper but have since been discovered to be faulty; z paying too much for something without following procurement; z employing the wrong person and giving them way too much responsibility without further vetting or training.

How did these things happen? What was the process and where did it break down?

2. Re-examine processes Once the series of events that led to the ‘disaster’ has been determined, it’s time to compare what happened with the processes you have in place with a

view to strengthening the weak links.

Identify the critical points that led to the unacceptable outcome.

3. Encourage team input Rather than berate everybody else, just maybe it might be better to ask them for input so that the new processes can be improved. Usually people on the floor will have some great ideas, but are rarely asked. Most times, by asking for feedback or input, this can actually build team morale.

4. Build into systems manual A mistake can often be identified as an opportunity. Use the process of working out what went wrong to create a new system and build it into your Policies & Procedures Manual. Nobody likes stress when things go wrong, but an attitude of “Okay, that’s not good but let’s find a way to help reduce the chance of it happening again” can only be positive, and by having a solid systems manual, you should find that not only have you fixed the weakness, but your small business valuation will also

be increased as business valuers look to see how your business has reduced risk, which will make it more appealing to potential purchasers.

5. Perform ‘what-if’ risk profiling Look at every facet of your business and sit down with your team in their relative groups and discuss potential disaster situations. This is sometimes called Disaster Recovery Procedures. Whilst you go through these scenarios, look back to your processes and determine if these could have been headed off at the pass, and then incorporate them back into the manual.

Conclusion: Leaders act (not react)! When things go wrong, yes sometimes it’s the team that need to stick their hand up, but at the end of the day you will be the one responsible. The way you handle yourself, and turn a negative into a positive, will be the definition of your ultimate success. Get on the front foot, as prevention is always better than the cure.

How will you react next time something goes wrong and what will you do about it?

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Excess rain welcomed by some growers

BY NATALIE HOLMES S JOURNALIST

HE third wettest winter on record has destroyed crops across the region, but some farmers are not letting that dampen their enthusiasm.

Fifth generation farmer Brian Giddings from Suntop near Wellington could only look on as his farm flooded and fences washed away in the most recent downpour.

Approximately 75mm was received at the property ‘Barney’s Gully’ in the space of a few days leaving paddocks underwater and livestock with limited options.

“Floods do cause problems,” the upbeat father of three said. “But you can get more money out of mud than dust.”

With so much wet ground underfoot, a major concern for animals has been maintaining good foot health.

Brian has a large flock of sheep he hopes to shear in a fortnight’s time.

“We don’t really get footrot around here, unless it was transferred from another property. But there is a lot of abscesses on the feet of sheep because the ground is so wet now. Their hoofs are wet and there is nothing you can do.”

If the rainy weather continues, there’s an additional concern once the weather warms up.

“The only thing I’m worried about with the ewes is if there’s flystrike

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around the corner. I’m hoping they’ll be right for a while.”

Over winter, the Wellington district received 307.6mm of rain, almost half the area’s annual precipitation in just three months. In the first few days of September, 75.4mm was received.

“We’ve had a hell of a lot of rain and because it was so dry, it’s taken a long time for the water to seep in.”

For now, Brian’s crops are faring well under the conditions and he hopes his good luck will continue. At the moment, he has oats and lupins planted.

“The crops here are holding up really well, we are looking at yielding 5T/ ha. But it’s very wet indeed particularly looking at areas south of here, around Parkes and Cudal, they are yellowing from being waterlogged.

As for his fences, Brian says they can always be mended.

“Floods do cause problems. Three times I put the flood fences up and three times they washed away, so I decided I’m not putting them up again.”

But what cheers Brian is to see all the dams full on his 1380 acre property, something which has been a rare sight in recent dry times.

“There’s a lot more dry days than wet days and the drought gets a lot of people down. All over the district, it’s been dry for two years and I was pumping water from a bore. It was quite a big strain, pumping water every day to a couple of thousand head of sheep and all the cattle.

“The wet weather is definitely a bonus for us and augers well for a good spring for the stock. The rain has also helped keep market prices high. It’s better to be wet than dry.”

Another farmer cheering is Russell Jones from ‘Needlewood’, 50km west of Condobolin. The township has received 289mm since June, more than half the annual rainfall. Just last week, they received another 30mm.

“We’ve had 14 to 15 inches for the year (380mm) and because the bulk of it fell in June, that’s kept it wet. The most we’ve ever had would be about 20 inches (508mm).”

At the recent agricultural show, Russell said that’s all everyone could talk about.

“We are usually crying out for rain, and then it rains on show day. But this year, sunshine was the order of the day

` We are usually crying out for rain, and then it rains on show day. But this year, sunshine was the order of the day and the crops are looking good. There was nothing to whinge about, that’s for sure – Russell Jones

and the crops are looking good. There was nothing to whinge about, that’s for sure.”

Russell said the downpours earlier in the season had more of an impact on crops planted late.

He has sown 8000 acres of wheat, barley and oats.

“We were affected a bit by the wet weather but it’s not so bad now. It didn’t affect the more advanced crops as much as those sown later.

“They did get very waterlogged and may or may not have shallow roots.

There is so much surface moisture at the moment, it’s hard to tell.”

Russell said the crops are slower to advance because they haven’t been pushed to seek moisture.

“We very rarely have enough moisture but this year I think we are going to finish crops and they will be about 12 bags to an acre (2.4T/ha).

“Last year was a better season but we couldn’t finish. This year, they will finish. On the eastern side of town, a lot of the crops don’t look too bad depending on how much rain they received.

“We look set for a November harvest because the crops aren’t under that much stress. Rain at harvest time, that’s the biggest concern particularly in areas that are wet and trying to dry out.

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Lifestyle

Going back to work while breastfeeding

BY DEBBIE DIXON ON DUBBO BREASTFEEDING AND PARENTING SUPPORT

Is it possible to keep breastfeeding when I return to work?

Yes, with some planning and support.

Am I legally allowed to breastfeed/express breastmilk at work?

You are perfectly within your legal rights to breastfeed/express while you are at work.

All Australian states and territories are covered by law stating that it is against the law to discriminate against a working woman who is breastfeeding or expressing breastmilk for her baby.

It is recommended that employers allow for lactation breaks, which may be 1-2 breaks during the working day or reduced working hours.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has further information on breastfeeding and working. www.hreoc.gov.au What can my employer do to support me as a breastfeeding mother?

The three accepted require-

ments for breastfeeding/expressing are: 1. A private space to feed/ express 2. Time to feed/express 3. Support for feeding/ expressing The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) runs a Breastfeeding Workplace programme and can provide guidance for employers.

ABA also awards Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace accreditation to organisations who successfully meet the required criteria. This may include having a breastfeeding policy, providing a private area, modification of working arrangements and other support.

Further information can be found at www.breastfeeding.asn. au/workplace What can I do to prepare for my return to work? z Check out the current facilities at your workplace z Begin planning and negotiating with your employer before you begin your maternity leave z Chat to other working mothers to share ideas and suggestions What are the possible topics I could discuss with my employer?

It is usually best to be upfront and be prepared to negotiate

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Since January 2016 the project has been working with hairdressers to help them start positive conversations with women in their salons about the importance of regular screening mammograms for the early detection of breast cancer for women aged 50 and over.

Landmark medicinal cannabis legislation to be further strengthened THE Turnbull Government introduced important legislation this week to ensure security and law and order is maintained, as the Coalition leads the way in allowing for the cultivation of a safe, legal and reliable local supply of

openly with your employer from the beginning to achieve the best balance between breastfeeding and working.

Is there a possibility to: z Extend your maternity leave z Work reduced hours z Job Share z Work from home z Work part-time/variable hours/flexible hours z Have someone bring baby in for feeds z Go home to breastfeed during working day What are my childcare options? z Partner sharing care z Private carer (family, friend, nanny) z Family Day Care z Day Care Centres Will I need a breast pump? What type of pump is best for me?

Personal preference and need z Direct breastfeeding only z Hand expressing z Hand pump z Personal use electric pump z Hospital grade electric pump z Combination of all What can make it all seem easier? z Creativity and novel approaches z Contact an ABA breastfeeding counsellor, lactation consultant, maternal and child health nurse for advice z Accept any offered help

z Ask for/pay for needed help z Talk to other mums for ideas and suggestions z When expressing away from your baby (to assist the letdown), carry a picture of your baby, a sound recording/video of your baby, an item of your baby’s clothing to smell z Start building your stock of expressed breastmilk (EBM) several weeks before you are due to start back at work z Wear suitable clothing at work (to make feeding/expressing easier) z Educate all carers on feeding breastmilk to a breastfed baby Refer to the ABA document –“Caregiver’s’ Guide to the Breastfed Baby” Are there any other factors I should consider when planning ahead? z Age of baby z Length of time we will be separated while I am at work z Nature of my work z Frequency of my work z Available support network What other general planning may be useful to help things go more smoothly? z Looking after other children z Cooking z Washing z General cleaning and housework z Shopping

cannabis for medicinal products.

Minister Sussan Ley said the amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act would enable the safe and legal distribution of cannabis products for medicinal use for painful and chronic conditions, by giving law enforcement agencies the confidence to provide sensitive information to the Commonwealth to assess the suitability of applicants to cultivate cannabis for medicinal purposes.

This important amendment is aimed at enshrining a respectful and mutual partnership between law enforcement agencies and Commonwealth health authorities as part of the transformational and ground-breaking medicinal cannabis framework.

The amendments would also ensure that the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal purposes is in accordance with Australia’s international obligations under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

“It’s vital that the cannabis grown under license through this Government-sanctioned scheme, which delivers the ‘missing piece’ for Australian patients and their doctors to manage chronic and painful conditions isn’t diverted for illicit uses,” Minister Ley said.

“We need to exclude people who look at the cannabis cultivation scheme as a way to profit from diverting cannabis to the black

market. This outcome can only be achieved if we work closely with law enforcement agencies to ensure appropriate legal safeguards are in place, so that the risks of criminal involvement in cannabis cultivation are minimised.

“Allowing the cultivation of legal medicinal cannabis crops in Australia under strict controls strikes the right balance between patient access, community protection and our international obligations.

“Allowing cultivation of cannabis for the treatment of very sick people, including children, is an important step. It is part of the Government’s commitment to improving health outcomes through world-class scientific research and innovative treatment approaches.

“We want to see this scheme become a success for the patients who want to access this medicine, but for that to happen protections need to be implemented to ensure those cultivating the medicinal cannabis are subject to strict ‘fit and proper persons’ requirements to ensure they are suitable to participate in this industry.”

The cost of issuing licenses and of official inspections to ensure compliance will be funded by annual charges on licence holders.

Medicinal cannabis treatment starts on 30 October 2016.

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Whooping cough on the rise z The coughing fits can be followed by a big gasping breath which causes a ‘whooping’ sound

BY DR AI-VEE CHUA z In older children and adults, it can cause an annoyGENERAL PRACTITIONER, DUBBO ing cough that lasts for many weeks, usually worse at FAMILY DOCTORS; SENIOR LECTURER, R, night SCHOOL OF RURAL HEALTH, UNIVERSITY SITY z In babies however it can cause a very serious illness OF SYDNEY; CHAIR, WESTERN CLINICAL AL including pauses in breathing, chest infections, probCOUNCIL, WESTERN NSW PRIMARY lems with feeding and weight loss, fitting, and brain HEALTH NETWORK damage If you think you may have whooping cough, see your HIS winter saw an increase GP as soon as able. Treatment with the right antibiotin the number of whooping cough cases recordics in the early stages of the illness can help prevent ed across the Western NSW Local Health District spreading whooping cough to others. It will help to (WNSW LHD), highlighting the importance of vaccinating against this respiratory infection and taking inform the reception staff at your GP surgery that you may have whooping cough: they may be able to offer the necessary steps to prevent the spread of pertussis an earlier appointment and provide a mask for you to bacteria. wear in the waiting room at the surgery.

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a resImmunisation still remains the best defence against piratory infection that can cause a long coughing illwhooping cough and the whooping cough vaccine is ness. The bacteria are spread easily, and worrying outa good one. Like other vaccines, it builds our body’s breaks of whooping cough occur about every 3 or 4 immune response, so if we come into contact with the years. pertussis bacteria, our immune system will respond Priscilla Stanley, WNSW LHD’s Co-ordinator of quickly to prevent us from becoming Communicable Diseases, states that sick. However, immunity can fade over the Dubbo region saw a sharp rise in time which means that boosters are the incidence of whooping cough in ` late June, with school aged children Whooping cough can needed.

It is recommended that babies and the most affected group. be deadly for babies young children are immunised at six The spread of whooping cough ocand young children. weeks, four months, six months and curs when an infected person coughs 18 months. Boosters are recommendbacteria into the air which can then be Ensure booster ed as part of the normal immunisaimmunisations are inhaled by people nearby. tion schedule at four years of age, and Whooping cough spreads easily up to date (Mum, with the high school immunisation through families, childcare centres and Dad, siblings and program. at school. The infection affects people In adults, boosters are recommended of all ages, but can be especially dan- grandparents!) and for try to avoid taking gerous for babies. z pregnant women in the later stages Knowledge and prevention is the newborn babies of pregnancy, preferably at 28 weeks best way to avoid an outbreak. Whilst out to public places of pregnancy – this vaccine is provided there are many reasons that people free cough, keep an eye out for the follow- (especially schools z adults who live in the same house, ing symptoms: and supermarkets) grandparents and carers of children z Whooping cough usually begins like until they’ve under 12 months of age a cold, with a blocked or runny nose, had their first tiredness, mild fever and a cough z adults who work with young children z The cough gets worse and coughing vaccination at six Keeping our community safe from fits may develop weeks of age. whooping cough is something that we

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can all contribute to. To avoid catching and passing on respiratory infections:

Stay at home if you are unwell z See your doctor and stay at home until you are no longer infectious. Ask your doctor when it’s safe to return to work, school or childcare. You’ll not only get better faster, but there’s less chance you’ll spread your infection.

Wash your hands z Regularly washing your hands with soap and running water (especially before preparing and eating food) very effectively washes away viruses or bacteria that may be present on your hands, and reduces your chance of catching a respiratory infection and spreading it to other people. Also try to avoid sharing cups, glasses and cutlery when eating or drinking.

Cover your cough z When someone with an infection coughs (or sneezes), viruses and bacteria become airborne in infectioncarrying droplets. When coughing or sneezing, use a tissue to cover the nose and mouth, throw it in a bin as soon as you have finished with it, then wash your hands with soap and water. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow. This stops infected droplets from becoming airborne and infecting others.

Protect our children z Whooping cough can be deadly for babies and young children. Ensure booster immunisations are up to date (Mum, Dad, siblings and grandparents!) and try to avoid taking newborn babies out to public places (especially schools and supermarkets) until they’ve had their first vaccination at six weeks of age.

It’s important to remember that anyone can get whooping cough. However, it is especially dangerous for babies and young children and all care must be taken not to expose them to infection. Immunisation is the best way to prevent whooping cough, so make sure everyone is up-to-date with their vaccinations.

SOURCES: NSW HEALTH FACT SHEET AND COUGH ETIQUETTE; DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WEBSITE

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EDUCATION.

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Macquarie excels in Da Vinci Decathlon WO teams from Macquarie Anglican Grammar School recently achieved some remarkable results in the 2016 Northern NSW Da Vinci Decathlon.

Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, the decathlon is a competition designed for gifted and talented students.

This year’s event was held in Armidale on August 24 to 26 with the theme of ‘Synergy’.

Students competed in teams of eight in a variety of academic challenges across mathematics and chess, english, science, code breaking, engineering challenge, philosophy, creative producer, art and poetry, cartography and general knowledge.

Craig Mansour, Headmaster of Macquarie Anglican Grammar School, is extending a huge congratulations to Amy L, Ella J, Jemima R, Sarah P, Rebecca H, Scarlett B, Araminta H, Lana B, Hugh S, Archie B, Nick B, Nick C, Mohammed A, Joe J and Gerald C.

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The Macquarie teams achieved some great results:

Team A Table design based on theme of Synergy: 1st place Philosophy: 1st place Creative Producers: 1st place English: 3rd place Cartography: 3rd place

Team B Overall winners of their section Science: 1st place Philosophy: 1st place Engineering: 1st place Cartography: 1st place Creative Producers: 2nd place Maths: 3rd place

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

Sally Bryant

The simple pleasures in life…

WAS in the doctor’s waiting room one day this week, somewhat patiently awaiting my turn and absorbed in my own thoughts and concerns. The door sprang open and through it, with all the cold air, dust and germs, came a little family trio full of purpose. Young mother, big sister (all of about eight) and little sister (who I’d place at about six).

Big sister led the expedition, bearing in front of her a Bandaged Finger, held aloft. It grabbed my attention as fully as if she had been bearing the Holy Grail.

It was the focus, the raison d’etre, the burning bush. Well, it was to her, and it certainly got my attention but hardly caused a ripple across the remainder of the room.

But this was clearly a Life Event, unfolding in front of my eyes.

I caught her eye. A feat in itself, because she was staring transfixed at the finger.

“That looks sore?”

Yes, it was very sore, but she had been very brave. She had slammed it in the door, very hard. And it had all happened only a couple of days ago. Her Dad had said that it was pretty serious and she had to be brave. So they wrapped it in a tissue and they had gone to the hospital to get it fixed up.

And she had gone to school the very next day. And the story came pouring out. It had been a very big deal indeed, and yes, she had cried, but not when it first happened.

And as I listened, I could see her eyes were full of the memory of just how much it had hurt. And also the recollection of how it felt to be the person at the centre of such a dramatic turn of events.

And the conflict between wanting to savour the fame but hating the pain.

And as I watched her, I could also see the eight-year-old me who had let one errant little finger get caught in a door jamb at home. Where it got itself jammed. And the top got squished off. It

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hurt a lot and there was blood.

That was the day that my big sister took me into the kitchen and installed me at the table and summoned our parents to come and deal with the disaster.

And while we waited for them to arrive, she administered first aid, in the form of liquorice all-sorts with the liquorice carefully removed. (I hate liquorice, but as it happens, my big sister is quite partial to it, so that worked out well for all concerned). And then the trip to town, to get it fixed.

And sitting in the doctor’s waiting room this week, it was like seeing the pattern of life repeating. The sisters, the injuries, the awe at how awesome it is to hurt yourself in such a way that you need to go to The Hospital. The pain.

We compared notes, bandages and scars, brave warriors both of us.

As we were talking, it struck me that it’s been a long time since I had a random conversation with an eight year-old and how it really is one of the great pleasures of life. I’m not talking about one of those one-way jobs where an adult will Hold Conversation with a child, the sort of Have You Been a Good Girl Jane conversation that seems to be the best some people can do. The sort of conversation that leaves a child wide eyed at the banality of it all.

I’m talking about the sort of conversation where you just connect over a shared experience and compare notes.

It’s not about how old you are; how smart you are or what sort of car you drive. It’s about talking and listening.

It’s a pure pleasure.

It’s such unalloyed joy to have a conversation with someone who is just clear and honest about what they want to tell you about. There’s no agenda there, they’re just telling their story. And as you watch them, you can see their thoughts take form, their ideas appear. They’re so generous with their time.

So when it was my turn to head in for

Growing awareness NE of Dubbo’s hidden secrets will be opened to the public’s prying eyes this Saturday, September 17.

Kathie and Bill Guelen have a magnificent native garden on a small block at 54R Durraween Rd, just a short drive out on the Dunedoo Rd past Mugga Hill and a turn to the right.

The amount of rain this year has been kind to local gardeners, if a bit too much for farming enterprises, so the Guelens’ pride and joy is nicely in flower with all the colors of the Aussie bush.

The garden will be open from 10am to 4pm and the $5 entry charge will go towards the cost to send William and Amy Guelen on a trek to Mt Everest Base Camp on their awarenessraising journey for Amnesty international.

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my appointment, and my blood pressure was duly taken, it was interesting to hear that it was vastly improved on all the readings that I have had in recent months. And when I was questioned, I wasn’t (sadly) able to put that improvement down to my sudden conversion to a teetotal yoga paleo vegan smugness lifestyle, you will be amazed to hear.

It’s just possible I have found the secret to the fountain of youth. Though I think there are parents of eight year-olds who would disagree.

I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch, but I am filled with pent-up excitement in anticipation of a blooming good time at some point in the coming weeks.

` That was the day that my big sister took me into the kitchen and installed me at the table and summoned our parents to come and deal with the disaster. And while we waited for them to arrive, she administered first aid, in the form of liquorice all-sorts with the liquorice carefully removed.

My new, new house, the one on the farm, where I share a paddock with a couple of hundred merino ewes; that house has a selection of roses planted at intervals along its front veranda. And climbing a rather ugly trellis over the front gate, two more roses have been trying to muster the energy to join hands at the top. They’ve been trying, and to do them credit, I guess you’d have to say they have managed a reasonable job.

They have spat out the odd flower along the way and they maintain a semblance of leaf. But that’s been the strength of them to date.

Well, as they say in the classics, just add water. But not just any water as it turns out. This ridunculously wet winter has sent them into a frenzy of new growth, of shoot, leaf and bud. Watching them is like seeing a Russian athlete consuming supplements, they’ve doubled or tripled in size in front of my eyes.

And each time I look at them, which is daily because I am so excited, they’ve put out a new bud.

Roll on the bloom, I say. Bring forth my budburst. It almost compensates for the hayfever.

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THE BIG PICTURE.

Unique Iceland Weekender contributing writer Jenna McKeown recently explored the rolling green hills of Iceland. Read all about it (and see more amazing pictures like this one!) over the page.

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The wilds of Iceland

BY JENNA MCKEOWN N AM laying on slightly damp grass, well fertilised with sheep poop with my head hanging over the edge of a very, very high cliff. Close to the Artic circle, there is no one around me, and cold winds remove any of the delicious warmth the high summer sun is trying to provide.

Excited as I am, I am desperately trying to be as silent as possible, as I watch a clumsy and reclusive bird below me, who is in turn, twisting it’s head sideways, trying to get a good look at me.

Fresh sheep droppings are far and away from my favorite smell and I am terrified of heights. How on earth did I end up here?

Well, like all good trips, this one started with a childhood fantasy: to go to Iceland. Why? I don’t ever really remember why. It must have featured in some childhood storybooks, and I have always, always wanted to see puffins in real life.

And then in 2010 when my then-boyfriend and I were planning on going to Turkey for ANZAC Day, Eyjafjallajokull blew her top leaving the boyfriend stranded in Ghana and me in the midlands of England. Once again, my attention, and imagination, turned to Iceland.

I wasn’t the only one. Icelanders will happily tell you that two events led to the tourism boom for their tiny, northern nation.

One was the global financial crisis of

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2008; Iceland had previously been prohibitively expensive, but with the financial crash, became much more affordable for visitors. And two, accidentally bringing European air travel to a standstill for roughly six days. The entire world was hearing about this place with unprecedented frequency, and images of its unbelievable beauty were being beamed to all corners of the globe.

The boyfriend turned into a husband and we have never stopped travelling.

After a one-month stint on safari in Africa, we decided the next place we absolutely had to see was Iceland. I needed to see those puffins, having missed them in Ireland and Scotland.

I needed to see the aurora borealis. I needed to see that landscape, and walk those mountains and volcanoes myself.

I need to feel the wilderness, and breath the clean air. It turns out I needed to make a choice, between the aurora borealis and the puffins – they are diva like in their need to be the star of the show, and appear at different times of the year. Puffins took priority.

We bundled ourselves up for a ‘summer’ trip, going late June and early July.

Driving (on the wrong side of the road) across the country in a tiny van, converted to a kind of camper, we could not stop ogling the scenery. Honestly we were continually gasping and making cliché-type comments like ‘My god, it's so beautiful’.

Even when we first arrived and were driven to the famous ‘Blue Lagoon (a naturally occurring geothermal pool) the landscape, which at first looked barren, on closer inspection was lava

` I followed the direction he was pointing at, and saw on a little ledge on the cliff, the bird of my dreams. And this, dear reader, is how I found myself laying in sheep feces, getting damp from the wet grass and trying to swallow my vertigo as I obsessed over my first sighting of a real live PUFFIN!

fields covered with an incredible moss, drew my attention and held it fully. I have never been so utterly captivated by rocks.

Iceland is tiny. The ring road of the main island is 1,332 kilometers, a road that will take you past glaciers, black sandy beaches and jaw dropping waterfalls. We stopped at the incredible Skogafoss (a 60 meter single drop waterfall which you can walk behind), the thunderous Dettifoss (the most powerful waterfall in Europe) and Godafoss (a charming set of waterfalls which play a significant part in Iceland’s religious history). We hiked up (dormant) volcanoes and rolling green hills. And we took a ferry across to the one place we were guaranteed by every. single. guidebook. to see puffins.

The ferry to the Vestmannaeyjar islands is very busy. We were headed to

Heimaey, an island that has actually grown in size thanks to a volcanic explosion in the 1970’s. The island is well populated with puffins for the months between April and August, because of its sheer cliff faces in which the reclusive birds make their homes. There are children’s books for sale telling the story of the island’s kids who each year, collect pufflings (baby puffins), accidentally drawn to the town lights, and release them to the ocean in an annual ritual which kind of makes me want to cry.

I *only* bought three different books telling this story.

Blindly following strange maps, we had both nearly been blown off or chased off cliff tops by wild looking crazy ewe’s, before I hear my husband say with a soft but urgent tone ‘Puffins!’.

I followed the direction he was pointing at, and saw on a little ledge on the

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cliff, the bird of my dreams.

And this, dear reader, is how I found myself laying in sheep feces, getting damp from the wet grass and trying to swallow my vertigo as I obsessed over my first sighting of a real live PUFFIN!!

We saw them many times after that of course. We sat on a slightly more welcoming cliff that was steadily grassed and watched the puffins fly around us. They are awkward fliers, and seem as aerodynamic as a fat human baby- their bodies are much larger than their wing span.

We visited a purpose built observation hut on the east coast of Iceland and coo-ed over flocks of them within arms reach for hours. Here we got to watch them come in to land birds used to landing on water for seven months of the year and look slightly terrified and ungainly as they approach solid land.

We watched them flapping with all their possible effort over the ocean as we sailed on a whale watching tour, beaks choc-full of fish for their partner and baby. And my, oh my, was it worth it!

Don’t get me wrong. Every single second of Iceland was worth it. They have mouthwatering bakeries scattered through the island, and the petrol stations have free Wi-Fi for you to use. The people are incredibly friendly and helpful, and they love sharing their history and customs.

Reindeer and sheep roam wildly, and Icelandic ponies are the sweetest things you will see. Many Hollywood movies are filmed there now, as is Game Of Thrones (GoT), so the landscape is oddly familiar yet breathtakingly remarkable. And you can visit the farm where the goats come from for specific scenes of GoT, if you so wish (and yes we did.)

The Icelandic goat can be traced back hundreds of years, and they are even friendlier than their human keepers. You can explore glaciers, lava fields, hike mountains or relax in the glorious, eternal sunshine.

Trust me. Google image search Iceland, and know it’s even more beautiful than that. Go. Even if it’s just to spot a puffin.

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School’ssout Martha School’ outforfor Martha

BY KEELEY BOLGER HE last two years have been rather dizzying for Martha Collison.

Back in 2014, aged 17, she competed in the fifth series of The Great British Bake Off, finishing a-not-so shabby fifth place. Since then, she’s baked for the Queen, given the Archbishop of Canterbury a cake masterclass, written her first cookbook, Twist, and put her sweet tooth to good effect as an afternoon tea advisor at Wimbledon.

All of which has been pulled off alongside studying for her AS and A-Levels, the British equivalent of our HSC. “It’s been challenging,” deadpans Collison, now 19, with a laugh. “My friends have to book days with me in advance.

“It’s strange being a teenager and having to do that, but it’s fine. It’s just like jumping into work life before I thought I would, but there’s nothing bad about that.”

If anything, she’s thrilled by her prospects.

Although she hails from a family of keen cooks, nobody in her immediate circle had been bitten by the baking bug, until Collison showed an interest aged eight. While her friends wanted bikes and Barbies for Christmas, she had her sights set on a blender.

“I was in the dark a little bit, but it made baking more fun because it was exploring new territory,” recalls Collison, who lives in the south east of England, in Berkshire, with her family.

At school, she’d daydream about the concoctions she’d try later on, stopping off to buy ingredients on her way home, and remembers her family “gritting their teeth and smiling” when she presented them with her early efforts.

“I think they thought it might be a phase,” she adds, grinning. “But it wasn’t. It’s a long phase!”

Collison’s original ambition was to become a food developer, but appearing on Bake Off changed everything.

“It’s just been unbelievable,” she says.

“I’ve had to re-imagine my life, but in a really good way. Bake Off has really helped shape my future, which I’m really grateful for.”

She hopes Twist, in which she details tasty ideas to reinvent a series of baking classics, will be the first of many books.

Given her successes since Bake Off, there’s little reason why this shouldn’t be the case – Collison still can’t quite get her head around how everything’s panned out.

“I planned all these things to say to the Queen,” she recalls of her time baking mini coffee and walnut, and lemon and elderflower cakes for the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations. “But by the

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time it actually got to me, I was a bit overwhelmed,” she adds with a giggle.

“She told me it was very kind of me to make the cakes for her birthday, and I feel like now I have to always be kind because the Queen has told me that I am!”

While on the whole, Collison’s experiences have been extremely positive, not everybody’s been kind to her, and she received some spiteful comments online during Bake Off. “Everyone has their opinions,” she says today. “Not everyone’s going to love you when you’ve put yourself out on national TV, and some people are really

STUFFING PERKS UP BLAND CUTS OF MEAT

BY ANGELA SHELF MEDEARIS

THE KITCHEN DIVA

Here’s an easy way to add flavour and flair to a boneless, skinless chicken breast: stuff it!

Flavour-boosters like chopped, sautéed vegetables, herbs, cheeses or spices can turn a lean, bland cut of meat from pork to beef into something special.

During the Roman Empire, recipes for stuffing chicken, rabbit, pork and dormouse were common. Stuffing in the Middle Ages was known as “farce”, from the

not shy in telling you that, which is really mean.

“But you just have to remember that the kind of people who are going to write tweets like that are probably people you’re not going to be friends with.”

Watching Bake Off now brings back memories of serving up her first bake on the show – a Swiss roll – and facing judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood give their feedback for the very first time.

“They’d placed me on a station right at the front, which meant I had to be judged first. Because I was so much younger than everyone, I was absolute-

Latin “farcire” (and the French “farcir”) meaning “to stuff”.

In the 13th century, light-hearted French farcirs or farce plays were “stuffed” in between lengthy religious productions to keep the audience from being bored.

“Forcemeat” and “farce” also were common terms referring to a spiced, chopped meat mixture, still in use when referring to sausage.

In 1538, the word “stuffing” first appeared in English print, but this uninspired term did not appeal to the Victorian upper class. After 1880, “stuffing” also became known as “dressing”.

ly petrified. I had no idea what it would feel like to be judged, especially with everyone else listening, it was just the weirdest thing.

“It was quite intense. But they liked my very first one, so that was a relief.”

Now, of course, she’s enjoying the fruits of her labour.

“For the first time in three years, I’m going to enjoy not having to study alongside all the baking,” says Collison.

“It’ll be really nice to have that time to fully enjoy and appreciate everything I get to do.”

Inspired? Here are three Twist recipes to give a whirl....

Today, “stuffing” is the term most often used in the west.

Stuffing, or dressing, is a seasoned mix of vegetables, starches and eggs that are cooked within the body cavity of an animal. Vegetables also are hollowed out and stuffed.

My recipe for Roasted Red Pepper Stuffed Chicken Breasts uses a savoury blend of bell peppers, herbs, spices, cheeses and lemon to add a burst of flavour to lean chicken breast.

ROASTED RED PEPPER STUFFED CHICKEN BREASTS (Makes 4 servings.)

4 chicken breasts, skinless, boneless, raw (about 170g each) 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 115g regular or low-fat cream cheese 1 medium lemon, juice and zest 1 jar roasted red bell peppers, packed in oil, reserve oil 8 slices Thin Provolone cheese (Provolone is a hard Italian cheese made in the North of Italy) 4 teaspoons ground flax seed 1/2 cup breadcrumbs (whole wheat or Panko) Cooking oil

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KEY LIME PIE CHEESECAKE

PISTACHIO AND LIME COURGETTE CAKE

(Serves 8) For the base: 200g ginger biscuits 75g butter, melted For the filling: 1 x 397g tin condensed milk 300g full-fat cream cheese Zest and juice of 4 unwaxed limes 200ml double cream 1. Line the base of a 20cm pie dish or a loose-bottomed cake tin with a circle of baking parchment.

2. To make the base, blitz the ginger biscuits in a food processor until they resemble very fine crumbs. Pour the melted butter into the crumbs and blitz again until all the biscuit crumbs are coated in butter. Alternatively, put the biscuits into a plastic bag, use a rolling pin to crush them to a fine powder then put the crumbs into a bowl and stir in the butter.

3. Press the mixture into the base and sides of the prepared tin, pressing firmly with the back of a teaspoon to make sure it sticks together, then chill for at least 30 minutes.

4. Whisk together the condensed milk and cream cheese until smooth. Stir in the lime juice and half the lime zest, then pour into the biscuit base. Ideally, refrigerate for at least two hours, but you could get away with serving this after 30 minutes if you are in a real rush!

5. Whip the double cream into soft peaks, and spoon or pipe it on top of the pie. Garnish with a sprinkle of the remaining lime zest before serving.

(Serves 8-10) Butter, for greasing 250g courgettes (around 2-3 small ones) 2 eggs 125ml vegetable oil 150g caster sugar 225g self-raising flour 1/2tsp baking powder 1/4tsp salt Zest of 1/2 an unwaxed lime For the icing: 100g full-fat cream cheese 250g icing sugar Zest and juice of 1/2 an unwaxed lime 30g pistachio nuts 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 then grease a 20cm tin and line with baking parchment.

2. Grate the courgettes coarsely (there is no need to peel them); if they are grated too finely, they will turn to mush.

3. Put the eggs, oil and sugar in a bowl then beat by hand until creamy.

4. Fold in the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in the courgette and the zest. The mixture does look unusual at this stage, but bear with it as it completely transforms when baked!

5. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 35-40 minutes, until golden on top and firm to touch, or a skewer inserted comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely in the tin before removing and decorating.

6. To make the icing, beat the cream cheese, icing sugar and lime juice together until smooth. Spread on the top of the cooled cake.

7. Chop the pistachio nuts and sprinkle them over the cake, then top with the remaining lime zest.

MELT-IN-THE-MIDDLE CHOCOLATE PUDDINGS

Twist by Martha Collison is published in hardback by HarperCollins.

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(Makes 8) 125g butter, plus extra for greasing Cocoa powder, to dust 200g dark chocolate, chopped 2 eggs plus 2 yolks 100g caster sugar 25g plain flour 1. Cream and berries, to serve 2. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.

3. Liberally butter eight mini pudding or dariole moulds and lightly dust the insides with cocoa powder. This makes the puddings easier to turn out once cooked. Cut a small circle of baking parchment the same size as the top of each mould and place inside each one to stop the puddings sticking.

4. Melt the butter and chopped dark chocolate in a large heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir together until there are no lumps of either remaining and the mixture is smooth.

5. Crack the eggs into another large bowl and add the extra yolks and the sugar. Use an electric handheld whisk to whisk the mixture until it is thick, fluffy and very pale in colour. Fold in the melted chocolate using a spatula, then sift over the flour and mix well to combine. Don’t worry if you knock out the air; you don’t want the puddings to rise like a souffle.

6. Spoon the mixture into the prepared moulds, filling each one two-thirds full.

7. Bake the puddings for eight to 10 minutes. When they are ready, there should be a thin crust on the top but the centre should still have a slight wobble.

8. Leave the puddings to stand for two minutes before turning out. I run a small palette knife around the inside edge of each mould to loosen it slightly.

If they do not turn out properly, or you want to play it safe, you can always serve the puddings in the mould and just dive straight in with a spoon. Serve with a nice dollop of cream and a few fresh berries.

1. Heat oven to 175C/350F. 2. Spray a glass baking dish with the cooking oil. Place the chicken breast on half of a large sheet of plastic wrap on a cutting board. Fold the plastic wrap over the chicken. Using a meat mallet (or a heavybottomed skillet), flatten the breast to about 1/4 inch thick.

Remove the plastic. Season chicken on both sides with 1 tablespoon of the Italian seasoning, and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and black pepper, and the cayenne pepper.

3. Mix the cream cheese with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of

the salt and pepper. Remove the zest from the lemon and mix it into the cream cheese.

Squeeze the lemon juice into a small bowl. Mix in the reserved oil from the roasted red bell pepper (or use 3 tablespoons of olive oil) and set it aside.

4. Spread the cream cheese mixture across the inside of the breast. Layer two slices of the provolone, then the roasted red pepper. Beginning at the smallest end, roll the breast up, tucking in the peppers as needed.

Roll the chicken in the lemon and oil mixture.

5. Mix together the remain-

ing 1 tablespoon of Italian seasoning, the ground flax seeds and the breadcrumbs.

Sprinkle the chicken with the breadcrumb mixture. Place the chicken roll, seam side down, in the baking dish. No toothpicks are needed. Repeat the layering and rolling process with the remaining chicken.

6. Drizzle any remaining lemon and oil over the chicken to help it brown and crisp on top. Bake until chicken is cooked through (about 25 to 30 minutes) and no pink flesh remains.

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BY JULIA GRAY 1. Lighting should be at three levels in a room – the floor, walls and ceiling, so think about all three. Plan your scheme in advance – if you’re having electrical work done, make sure the sockets are fitted where you want your table and floor lamps, for example.

2. Lighting can be much more creative and useful than just an overhead light in each room. In bedrooms, do you want wall lights over the bed for reading, or will bedside lamps do? Don’t forget wall lights in the bathroom, perhaps for creating a relaxing atmosphere when you’re soaking in the tub, and on either side of the mirror for shaving and applying makeup. An illuminated mirror is another option.

3. Target lighting, especially in kitchens, can be both practical and attractive. Consider fitting statement pendant lights low over a kitchen island unit or dining table for a fantastic feature and, often, a softer way to light the room than with spotlights. If you enjoy cooking, lights to illuminate the kitchen worktops (fitted under the wall units) may work well, and think about having strip lights along the wall units and/or kick boards for a dramatic effect.

4. If you’re doing major building work, such as an ex-

tension or loft conversion, you may be surprised how early you need to decide on the position of everything electrical and the number of sockets, spotlights, switches, etc. In both extensions and loft conversions, recessed spotlights are often fitted throughout and although they’re not the cheapest, it’s a good idea to request LED bulbs. Some electricians and builders fit LEDs as standard, but not all, and some building control inspectors insist that LEDs are fitted, but again not all. LEDs are much cheaper to run than conventional bulbs and usually last much longer. They’ll also improve your home’s energy performance if you ever decide to sell or rent out your home, so they’re well worth investing in.

5. In rooms with lots of recessed spotlights, ask your electrician to zone them so each zone (sitting area, kitchen, dining area, etc) is on a different switch, which will give you more flexibility and control. You may also want dimmer switches so, again, the lighting’s fully controllable and you don’t have to sit and relax in bright overhead light. Another thing to consider is the colour of the LED bulbs because it will make a big difference to the overall effect – I recommend warm white bulbs for a cosy glow.

HOW-TO TIP To give garden decking some TLC before the weather turns, scrub it with a Decking Cleaner & Reviver (available from your local hardware store) and a stiff brush (leave for 15-20 minutes and then clean off with a pressure washer).

This liquid cleaner works quickly and is designed to remove moss, mould and algae, so it will spruce up decking ready for recoating (it opens the pores of the wood), or simply revive it if you’re happy with it as it is.

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

Creativity shines with a menu of nature finds

BY DONNA ERICKSON On a recent hike, I came upon a charming scene right out of a storybook. In front of me, 11-year-old Molly Hofer was busily preparing a smorgasbord of imaginative dishes

with a creative dose of nature finds in every “recipe” for her 5-year-old twin brothers.

Molly doesn’t just stop and smell the wild roses outside her grandparents’ cabin. She gathers them and anything else that catches her fancy from the forest floor (minus the poison ivy) for her imaginative culinary creations.

I perused her handwritten

“Molly’s Forest Cafe” menu offering “Mulch meatloaf sprinkled with sawdust”, bark French fries and tempting “Clover upside-down cakes”.

“My Danish grandmother had an old aebleskiver pan, so I stirred up dried pine needles, dirt and seeds with water from the creek, pressed the mixture in the rounds and topped them with wild clover,” she ex-

plained. They flip over nicely to look like muffins after they set for two hours, she adds with the confidence of an iron chef.

And they are gluten-free.

“I’ll take two,” I said, as she politely offered me a cup of mud tea.

The great outdoors provides a natural opportunity to bask in beautiful scenery and breathe good-for-you fresh air. On your

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5 tips for window privacy

BY JULIA GRAY 1. It can be fiddly and frustrating to fit, but frosted window film gives a smart, contemporary finish both inside and out. The effect is the same in daylight and at night when the light’s on in a room, giving you total privacy. The main disadvantage is that you can’t see through the film, so while people outside can’t see in, you can’t see out either. Frosted film works well on sash windows when confined to the lower window, but if you don’t have sashes, you can just frost the lower part of the glass. Another option is having a design, such as rows of cut-out circles or squares, incorporated into the film, which makes it more interesting and allows you to see out (and people outside to see in) a little. However, patterned film is more expensive and harder to fit than plain.

2. Blinds are another popular solution to privacy problems. Although quite costly, bottom-up blinds are ideal. These are roller blinds that go up from the window sill, rather than down from the top of the window, so you can cover as much of the glass as you want. Go for a sheer fabric and you’ll be able to see out, but people outside won’t be able to see in – unless the light’s on.

3. Standard roller blinds are often a cheaper option, but even a fairly see-through white or cream fabric will cut out light if you have the blinds down during the day. However, this may not matter in a really light and sunny room, and may even make the room more pleasant to be in when it’s hot and sunny.

4. Venetian blinds provide privacy during the day (as long as the slats are angled the right way) and at night (as long as the slats are closed), although they do cut out some daylight. If you have small children, consider fitting cordless venetian blinds which should be safer because they don’t have dangling cords, and give the window an uncluttered look.

5. Slatted shutters are similar to Venetian blinds and although they’re usually expensive, have become popular in recent years. Shutters are fitted to the window and so block out more light than blinds when the slats are closed (if the shutters cover the whole window).

They also let in less light when the slats are open because they have frames around them, but they do look great. Shutters come in different colours, materials, styles and sizes, so you can customise them to your taste and home – and they should add value.

HOW-TO TIP If you’re looking for inspiration for outdoor DIY projects while the weather’s still nice, check out the Gardening & Landscaping section at www.wickes.co.uk/

Photos: PA Photo/thinkstockphotos

how-to-guides. The Wickes projects include paving, decking and fences, plus more unusual ones like How to Build a Sandpit and How to Build a Bee Hotel. As well as step-by-step instructions, there’s a video for the bee hotel, which guides you through in an easy-to-follow way.

next outing to a beach, forest, farm, or city park, encourage your kids to imagine all the things they can do with the natural treasures they find from the ground. They might be inspired to open a restaurant like Molly’s, or enjoy one of these simple ideas: TOUCH AND FEEL GAME Place finds such as pine-

cones, feathers and gumnuts in different containers. Cover your eyes, feel an object and guess what it is. Encourage kids to use adjectives to describe how it feels.

FRAMES Glue shells, seeds and pods on an outdated picture frame, insert a new family photo or drawing

For more Australia-specific projects, go to www.mitre10.com.au and click on the “DIY & Ideas” tab – you’ll find many how-to tips. Look for the page “How To Create Shade In Your Outdoor Area” which has timely advice in the lead-up to the sunnier and warmer months.

and hang on the wall.

COLLECTIONS Kids of all ages like to collect things, whether they are rocks, shells or colourful leaves. Count and sort them by size and colour, and display on a tray for conversation starters when friends come by.

HAPPY OUTSIDE Set up a table on your

front verandah or under a backyard tree for an al fresco meal. Let the songs of birds above and beauty all around entertain you.

Identify the specific names of the bird perched on the branch above and the varieties of flowers growing in the garden.

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Prowling big cats in Brazil’s Pantanal

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BY SARAH MARSHALL UCKING beneath wispy palm fronds and crunching over spiky bromeliads, our Sunday drive through the grounds of Refugio Ecologico Caiman is anything but leisurely.

Holding aloft a telemetry device while twiddling dials on her radio receiver, field guide Lili Rampim is hoping to track one of the collared jaguars being monitored on the 53,000 hectare ranch in Brazilian state Mato Grosso do Sul. A series of bleeps leads us to a tangled mass of branches where even an elephant could be concealed from view.

“She’s definitely in there,” says Lili, looking at her readings. But it appears our big cat doesn’t want to come out today.

Even with the help of modern science, tracking jaguars is challenging. Brazil’s neighbouring states Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, however, are two of the best places to see these elusive cats.

Both areas form part of the Pantanal, a sprawling wetland almost as big as the state of Victoria, stretching into Bolivia and Paraguay. A network of rivers rises and falls with the seasons, giving way to vast grasslands and thick forests heaving with wildlife.

According to global wild cat conservation organisation Panthera, the jaguar density is high – up to eight jaguars per 100km2 of good habitat – and open areas make sightings much easier.

Subsequently, scientists, photographers and filmmakers come here in droves.

The latest BBC-TV nature documentary, Jaguars: Brazil’s Super Cats, is ready to screen soon as part of the Natural World series. Made by the team behind the BBC’s Wild Brazil and narrated by David Attenborough, it follows the work of Lili and jaguar conservation initiative Oncafari, based at Caiman.

Isa, the collared jaguar we’ve been following, is one of the central characters; orphaned when her mother was accidentally killed after wandering into an urban area, she and her sister, Fera, were rescued by Oncafari.

Over the course of 20 months, producer Joe Stevens filmed the ambitious re-wilding project never before undertaken in Brazil.

Lili shows me the one hectare enclosure where the young sisters spent a year learning to vocalise, catch live prey and familiarise with new surroundings. Much of this was captured by camera traps and forms part of a presentation Lili gives to tourists.

Anyone staying at Caiman can book one to three days on the field with Oncafari’s team of five biologists and local guide; opt for the longer package and Lili guarantees a jaguar sighting.

Another key aspect of the organisation’s work, also filmed by the BBC, is jaguar habituation. Oncafari’s founder Mario Haberfeld, an environmentalist and retired Formula 3 racing champion, was inspired after observing a similar strategy successfully used with leopards in South Africa’s Londolozi Game Reserve.

Hearing news of a fresh kill, we hurtle through fields

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ra i P otos PA P oto Sara Mars a Oncafari and forest to witness the process first-hand. Ninebanded armadillos scurry through shards of fading light and plump capybaras (the world’s largest rodent) wallow in swamps bathed with sunset reflections.

Even a bushy-tailed giant anteater with a baby draped across its back isn’t enough to distract us.

Mewing frogs whining like racing cars turning track corners spur us on.

When we arrive, Esperanca, who features in the BBC documentary, has emerged from the woods with her two large 16-month cubs Cema and Suricata. An iron stake driven into the carcass prevents them from dragging it away.

Over the course of an hour, we watch the family feast, play and belly roll like house cats, edging slowly closer by coughing first then starting the ignition so they feel comfortable with our presence. In the end, we’re just 30 metres away.

Caiman’s owner, Brazilian paper baron Roberto Klabin, started his ecotourism venture on family land 30 years ago, and provides free research space and accommodation to Oncafari.

There are two main high-end lodges and one private villa, but even at full capacity, less than 35 guests are on site. I stay at the six-room Baiazinha Lodge, peering over a lake where delicate, butterfly-winged jacanas flit between water hyacinth and the beady eyes of submerged, snorting caimans.

Every morning, I awake to find thousands of roosting snowy egrets clinging to a dome-shaped strangler fig tree and fluttering away like confetti as sunrays stretch beyond the horizon.

Klabin also rents his land to a cattle rancher, yet remarkably only one per cent of the 36,000 cattle is lost to jaguar predation. It’s a shining example of how wildlife conflict can be avoided with proper farm management.

Sadly, many jaguars are still shot by angry pantaneiros (cowboys) as retribution for loss of livestock or even to prevent future killings. In the Pantanal, where more than 90 per cent is private farmland, it’s a huge problem.

Panthera are working hard to create a safe jaguar corridor throughout Central and South America and to

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help farmers. Dr Rafael Hoogesteijn, Jaguar Program Conflict Director for the organisation, is eager not to demonise pantaneiros, pointing out they are also largely responsible for protecting the vast swathes of natural habitat.

Conservationists, film-makers and biologists agree tourism provides an obvious solution, generating income for the region and demonstrating a jaguar’s worth alive.

Further north, in Mato Grosso, ecotourism venture Pantanal Explorer is opening up new areas to visitors and hoping to change attitudes in the process. I stay at their Jaguar House Boat, anchored along the Paraguay River, on the edge of Taiama Ecological Reserve.

We take twice-daily trips on small motorboats, scouring sandbanks and unruly knots of mangrove roots for glimpses of those rosette-patterned pelts.

A grumpy giant river otter emerges from a den, clearly irritated by the commotion on his doorstep, and jabiru storks flounce on the shores, wafting their feathery white capes.

Two local fishermen guide us to a jaguar peering cautiously from behind a curtain of moss-matted vines; another more confident cat sprawls across a fallen tree trunk but doesn’t stick around for long. Sightings are short, but unlike other areas of Mato Grosso where boats jostle for position, they’re appealingly peaceful and wild.

Andre Thuronyi, owner of Pantanal Explorer, has been coming to the Pantanal since the mid-Seventies, but says it took 11 years to see his first jaguar. Thankfully the odds are much better today and although it’s hard to collate figures, biologists generally agree numbers are increasing.

Wildlife documentaries and projects like Oncafari are undoubtedly having a positive impact.

“This really is the poster animal for Brazil’s wildlife and it’s vital that new ways are found to ensure their survival,” says BBC’s Joe Stevens.

With everyone working on the same wavelength, even without the aid of a telemetry device, that message has been heard loud and clear.

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Lost in a Dutch time warp

BY SARAH MARSHALL T’S easy to get lost in Amsterdam, ambling along a grid of peaceful canals straddled by bridges fading into infinity. But rarely is the route from hotel lobby to bedroom such a mission.

It’s taken me several attempts to navigate the labyrinthine corridors of the city’s Pulitzer hotel, a property made up of 25 Golden Age canal houses, all connected to make a sumptuous five-star maze.

The popular property has just reopened following a major two-stage renovation, positioning it as one of the most exciting hotels in the Dutch city; an additional 145 guest rooms have been bolted to the original 80, and an inner courtyard garden provides a contemplative escape from jangling bike bells that typically soundtrack a city stroll.

Convenience and comfort have been drawing curious visitors for the past 45 years, but it’s the hotel’s colourful, character-filled past that will really appeal to future guests.

Merchants, musicians, art dealers and even pals of Rembrandt have swanned through the 400-year-old corridors, and their traces are evidently reflected in the Pulitzer’s charming ‘old meets new’ design.

I imagine wealthy patrons commissioning portraits to hang on the walls, where similar works collected from antique shops and auctions are now displayed.

In the Art Collector’s suite, flamboyant, modern pieces include a golden stool sculpted as a cupped palm and a tongue-in-cheek re-imagining of Frans Hals’ The Last Supper; in a Music Suite, one wall is decorated with rows of brass trumpets. Both rooms have private access to the canals, and although interior decoration is a riot of wacky furnishings, grand exteriors have been faithfully restored.

I wonder if original American owner Peter Pulitzer (who also happens to be the grandson of Pulitzer Prize founder Joseph Pulitzer) embarked on his 30year flurry of property purchasing simply because he couldn’t decide which house he’d like to live in most.

Starting in 1960 with 12 elegant houses along the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht canals, he opened Amsterdam’s first five-star hotel. Over the years, he continued to buy neighbouring houses, fuelled by the motto ‘Your neighbour’s house is only for sale once’, building up not only his empire but also a loyal following.

Although Pulitzer bowed out in 1990, the hotel and its art collection are still in private hands.

Standard seems an unfair term to describe my own room, decorated in the deep blues and robust greys that could easily have been brushed directly from Rembrandt’s palette. A triangular ‘sail ship’ bedstead

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Creative director Jacu Strauss claims he slept in every room to determine its appropriate personality and design, and he’s given each individually shaped space its own accent.

Common to most rooms, an art deco drinks trolley looped with tassels and bicycle repair kit peeping from a desk drawer, are typical of an endearing quirkiness that’s becoming Amsterdam’s signature style. (The concierge can even arrange a bike valet service, if you want to travel in the truly Dutch way.)

Another previous owner of these canal houses was 17th century copper smelter Volkert Jansz, after whom the hotel’s convivial restaurant is named.

Echoing its past as a former apothecary, the streetside entrance to Jansz is filled with brown bottles and large bell jars. Inside, guests can either sit on bronze velvet banquettes or take up a spectator’s pew opposite the open kitchen, ordering sophisticated dishes applauded for their flavoursome simplicity.

The neighbouring canal-facing bar is darker and

more conspiratorial, and designer drinks include a fermented pineapple cocktail presented on a bed of hay.

Embedded in the centre of town, the hotel offers storytelling sightseeing walks (25 Euros pp for three hours), but I choose to explore on national treasure, The Tourist.

Built in 1909, the small teak wood vessel has since been converted into fully electric but still retains her original grandeur. (Tours operate daily at 5pm, and also 11am from Friday to Sunday, and cost 38 Euros for 75 minutes.)

While we float, eye level, past a hotchpotch of houseboats and peer inquisitively through their windows, Captain Tony reveals Winston Churchill was once a passenger as a guest of Queen Wilhelmina.

Imaging tales of both near and distant past, I become entangled in my own daydreams as we drift lazily along the waterways sipping tea from china cups in the salon.

Once again, it would seem, I’m blissfully lost. * Sarah Marshall was a guest of Pulitzer Amsterdam (www.pulitzeramsterdam.com)

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RISE AGAIN On stage with Aussie rock icon Glenn Shorrock The name Glenn Shorrock define’s an era in Australian music and beyond, and at 72 he is still inspiring generations of fans with a new album release Rise Again this month and a tour which will include Mudgee in October to join the lineup of artists at the ‘a day on the green’ show. WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley What’s it like for you to look back on such a long career?

It’s strange at my time of life.

I’ve been doing this for fifty years. Sometimes I have to shake myself thinking about how many years it has been.

I’ve just had a long and lucky ride from the early days of rock’n’roll, growing up in Adelaide, in South Australia and then getting involved with the Twilights, moving to Melbourne then onto Axiom with Brian Cadd, then of course the LRB years were very profitable and very rewarding and set me up now for a lovely retirement should that come along, but it’s not coming along very soon.

I’m still in good shape and my voice is strong and I’ve got the songs to back me up and I’ll just keep doing it until they tell me to shut up.

You’ve had a lot of luck, but is 99 per cent of your ‘luck’ been blood, sweat and tears?

It takes effort to break into the international market which happened in the 70s and 80s in America. Then, it really was on the road constantly for weeks and months on end.

In this country, my life is taken up on the weekends playing around the country at various venues, so it’s not as demanding as it used to be.

I’ve never felt it really stressful. I was young in those days and I had the stamina to do those hard yards. Now my workload is a bit less than it was and luckily the songs are still supporting my lifestyle, which is considerable (laughs).

How do you think you’d fare starting out in a band today?

It’s a double edged sword. Back in the late 50s, early 60s when I was starting to just be a young upstart in Adelaide, there wasn’t much competition around, so it was easier in that respect, but we didn’t have the exposure that you have now.

It’s a very busy market out there these days for young creative people who want to get into music. There’s lots of ways to express yourself. TV especially is very influential in launching new talent, but it’s very crowded too. Every street’s got their pop star these days. People are trying to be famous and sometimes for the wrong reasons, but as long as you believe in your talent and you believe in the dynamics that are going to be ahead of you in a life of music and entertainment then you should be alright.

If you’re just trying to be famous then go and rob a bank. You’ll get famous very quickly (laughs).

How did you manage your fame?

The fame carrot was there, but I was mainly interested in trying to be good at what I did.

Once you get involved as a career, then obviously your fame is important because it’s publicity and you’ve got to reach people. That’s when the fame game comes in.

Pretty much those days are over for me. I don’t have to be famous anymore. I’ve got the runs on the board. I’ve got the songs in my arsenal and they’re good songs, good music, and people want to hear me do it, rather than look at me (laughs), which is a good idea.

Glen, you’re still telegenic. Do you think the importance of that has tainted the industry?

You do ask yourself sometimes how come someone is famous.

I just don’t like that music or they sound out of tune, but it’s up to the audience to decide. Television is king and if you’re not on TV you’re not famous.

It’s getting harder and harder to get radio play for new music but it’s evened up by the fact that you can reach a lot of people through social media these days. Downloading music is a good thing to reach people but sometimes it would be good to hear new music on radio once in awhile.

I can’t complain too much, because classic radios or class shows like ‘a day on the green’ in Mudgee, are what people want and I’ve got that classic music around me all the time.

Tell me about the new album, Rise Again?

It’s been a long while mainly because I’m pretty harsh on what I write. I write a lot of stuff, but I never get to finish a lot of things. Last year I found I’d finished off four or five songs, and I thought I’d give it a try and I put it out on social media and thought ‘see what happens’, put out an EP. Then low and behold, old colleagues and new colleagues started saying I’ve got a couple of songs, do you want to have a listen, and all of a sudden I found myself with about 13 songs and it pared down to 10 and I released the album on September 9, through iTunes and Sanity all those other reputable dealers… and some not so reputable dealers (laughs).

About four or five songs are mine and the rest are taken up by old colleagues and new colleagues (the writing). It’s all original, apart from one song which I’ve covered, a classic, a Dave Dobbyn song “Slice of Heaven”, which is an iconic New Zealand song.

How old were you when you came to Australia?

I was 10. We made our home in Adelaide then my mother took myself and my sister back to England because she couldn’t handle the heat and the dust and the flies and whatever, living in a migrant hostel on the outskirts of Adelaide, it was pretty grim.

Then she changed her mind and we came back out again, because dad stayed on I ended up spending my teenage years just outside of Adelaide in a place called Elizabeth. During that time, rock’n’roll came my way. It just swept me away. I was just seduced into it. I became a fan, I’m still a fan and found I could do it as well as other people, so it’s been in my life ever since.

Rock’n’roll was an escape. My parents generation which was dominant obviously. It was the Menzies era in Australia. Keith Richard, rock’n’roll turned everything from black and white into technicolour. That’s the way it felt for us teenagers.

I was 12 years-old when I first heard Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Little Richard and all the great rock’n’roll stars in my youth. I was ready made for

Glenn Shorrock and Wendy Matthews.

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it, in my youth, then I rode the wave, and of course the Beatles came along and I’m a contemporary of theirs as well, age-wise, and it all made sense for me to follow that path.

What are your earliest songwriting memories?

I wrote the first song the Twilights ever recorded. It was just a local hit in Adelaide and it’s called “I Don’t Know Where The Wind Will Blow Me” so it was a rather a prophetic title. Then I succumbed to just being the singer and singing the songs of Terry Britten and Brian Cadd who are much better songwriters than me during that time, until the time Axiom broke up in London and I started writing in earnest then and that material I began in England in the mid ‘70s became part of the LRB repertoire and … as the say… the rest is history.

A day on the green z Classic Hits All Day z Saturday, October 22, 2016 z Robert Oatley Vineyards z www.adayonthegreen.com.au

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In conversation with Jack Marx CADEMIC and irreverent are two words to describe author Jack Marx who has been booked for an author night on Tuesday, October 25, as part of the Dream Festival.

He’ll take to the stage with one of Dubbo Weekender’s contributing writer and former journalist, Tony Webber, for an informal chat probably not for the squeamish or easily offended.

Jack Marx has been writing professionally for a quarter of a century.

He has worked for every major news organisation in Australia, has been published in newspapers and magazines in the UK, the USA and Europe, and his work, described by the Sydney Morning Herald as “gonzo journalism at its best”, is now studied in university media courses both here and abroad.

He has written two critically-acclaimed books: “Sorry – the Wretched Tale of Little Stevie Wright”, described by The Bul-

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letin as “one of the most harrowing rock biographies ever published”; and “Australian Tragic”, a collection of true horror stories that moved The Weekend Australian to describe Marx as “one of our most skilled literary craftsmen”.

He has also ghost written books for notorious drug courier Warren Fellows, bank robber Anthony Prince and the occasional artist.

Marx is a recipient of Australia’s most prestigious journalism prize, the Walkley Award, and his online story, “I Was Russell Crowe’s Stooge”, remains the most clicked blog post in Australian media history.

But Marx has a renegade side.

A frequent attendee at Press Council tribunals, defending charges ranging from unethical conduct to offensive intent, Marx always courted controversy and derision, often from his own journalistic peers.

In 2007, he was sensationally fired by The Sydney Morning Herald for publishing a lurid and satirical blog about Kevin Rudd's visit to a New York strip club, and his tenure as a newsreader at ABC Radio ended when a clearly inebriated Marx appeared to interview himself about the weather on a morning news bulletin.

Described by Crikey's Margaret Simons as “a one-man ethical dilemma”, Marx currently lives in Broken Hill, where he continues to freelance for the national press while researching and writing a book about a 60-year-old murder mystery that still haunts the outback mining town.

An event not to be missed.

Dream Festival z Tony Webber in conversation with Jack Marx z Tuesday, October 25 z www.dreamfest.com.au

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‘An Unsafe Haven’ focuses on the ongoing refugee crisis born out of war-torn Syria

BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

BOOK OF THE WEEK

OO O An Unsafe Haven by Nada Awar Jarrar is published in hardback by Borough Press.

AN Unsafe Haven is the fourth novel from Lebanese author Nada Awar Jarrar, a previous Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner for her first book Somewhere, Home.

Based in contemporary Beirut, this latest release focuses on the ongoing refugee crisis born out of neighbouring war-torn Syria. Tackling this subject is certainly a bold undertaking and one that requires delicate handling – something that Jarrar is evidently most capable of.

The story is based around the lives of its main characters, married couple Hannah and Peter, and their artist friend Anas, who find themselves wrestling with the complexities of displacement; questioning their priorities and their loyalty in a way that brings home the heartbreaking reality of humanity caught in the crossfire of war.

Each character is portrayed in wonderfully vivid and intricate detail, each with a unique sense of identity and home that they find challenged and changed as the war rages on.

An Unsafe Haven is an absolute triumph for Jarrar who is able to truthfully depict the story in a way that very few other writers could. Bold, tender and personal – this is an absolute must-read.

9/10 (Review by Erin Bateman)

FICTION Out Of Bounds by Val McDermid is published in hardback by Little, Brown.

DCI Karen Pirie has an uncanny knack for treading on toes, but that is what makes her such a good police officer.

The head of Police Scotland’s Historic Case Unit, Pirie is like a dog with a bone when she gets the merest sniff of solving a case long buried in the unsolved files.

But when she comes across two unrelated cases, one linked firmly to a fresh death, even this tough Edinburgh lass has her work cut out.

Pirie has to unearth the connection between a new murder inquiry and a terrorist bombing from decades ago, at the same time as following a DNA trail to give the relatives and friends of a de-

ceased hairdresser closure.

Val McDermid is a much celebrated crime author with an attention to detail which makes her stories both gripping and totally authentic. In Out Of Bounds, multi-award winner McDermid is at the height of her game.

8/10 (Review by Roddy Brooks) The Schooldays Of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee is published in hardback by Harvill Secker.

J.M. Coetzee’s novels are generally bleak, unconventional, and full of hidden meanings. Yet most of the time this is a recipe for success. For instance, Disgrace, which examines post-apartheid South Africa, is a brilliant, unforgettable read that covers politics and the flaws of humanity in an utterly absorbing way.

But unfortunately, The Schooldays Of Jesus doesn’t quite match up. The tale follows Simon, Ines and their adopted son David, who have moved to the city of Estrella for a new life. David is then enrolled in the Academy Of Dance, and this prompts a rather uninteresting debate over whether it is better to learn through science or art.

Coetzee’s characters are normally not very likeable; David’s incessant questions are irritating and Simon’s attitude is often snobby and judgemental. Even the way Coetzee writes – “says he, Simon” – instead of just “says Simon” is a bit annoying.

If you loved The Childhood Of Jesus, the prequel to this tale, it’s certainly worth giving this a go. Keen Coetzee fans will also appreciate the many metaphors and themes in the writing.

However, this is undeniably tedious in places, and it certainly won’t be remembered as one of this brilliant writer’s finest works.

6/10 (Review by Harriet Shephard) The Art Teacher by Paul Read is published in paperback by Legend Press.

THE author of this debut thriller was himself a teacher and it shows. Read is very good on the mixture of drudgery and dread that characterises life at the chalk face. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the rest of The Art Teacher.

Although the book has some of the makings of a pacey thriller, it’s let down by a plot that doesn’t so much twist and turn as flail around in blind panic.

The action revolves around Patrick, a teacher with an interesting histo-

ry as an almost-made-it pop star, and his escalating conflict with a particularly unpleasant pupil. There’s a lot of stuff about drugs, gangs, guns, Patrick’s failed marriage and his sort-of-affair with a pupil’s mum.

But for the most part, it’s a bit of a mess. A shame, because the sink-school setting and Patrick’s surly, indifferent pupils are convincingly portrayed.

Could, and hopefully will, do better.

5/10 (Review by Jackie Kingsley) Set Me Free by Hina Belitz is published in paperback by Headline Review.

IN her debut novel, Pakistan-born discrimination lawyer Hina Belitz breaks the silence surrounding honour crimes and domestic violence in a deeply moving, quietly powerful story of one girl’s struggle to find hope and strength when confronted by oppression.

The arrival of a son is a cause for celebration in Lahore. But when Mani’s brother, Nu, is born, the colour of his skin soon makes him the subject of malicious rumours.

As the rumour mill intensifies, the siblings are forced to flee Pakistan with their mother to start a new life in London.

But theirs is only a temporary reprieve. When the past catches up with them, Mani is left to care for her younger brother.

Desperate to make things better, Mani thinks she has finally found salvation for her and Nu in the promise of marriage.

Belitz’s novel opens with a brutal bang, a moment that has the potential to define both the novel and its characters in a tragic vein. Yet this is a story not of surrender but of resilience, of hope overcoming adversity, of finding strength against powerlessness.

Belitz tackles difficult realities headon in a narrative that is necessarily hard-hitting. As upsetting and disturbing as Mani’s story is, ultimately its message is empowering and inspiring.

8/10 (Review by Jade Craddock) Brighton by Michael Harvey is published in hardback by Harper Collins.

KEVIN Pearce thought he had escaped the district of his Boston upbringing and a deadly secret forever. But something has drawn the honours student, schoolboy baseball star and Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist, back to the suburb of Brighton.

Carrying a guilty secret and trying to ensure it does not come back to bite him, drag Pearce back to his old stomping ground. But as he loses the battle to protect an old friend, he is left trying to work out if he can trust anyone – from his district attorney girlfriend to old team-mates and even family members.

Chicago-based and Brighton-born author Michael Harvey has drawn praise from the likes of Stephen King and John Grisham. His gritty descriptions married to an intimate knowledge of his setting make the latest offering from this celebrated writer and documentary maker a sure-fire hit with fans of his previous thrillers.

As the net tightens on a merciless serial killer and Pearce is haunted by the long-ago death of his beloved grandmother, it becomes increasingly difficult to protect the ones he loves.

Fans of Harvey will know what to expect and those new to his work will quickly be drawn into the web of intrigue and double dealing which will earn Brighton a deserved spot on their reading list.

8/10 (Review by Roddy Brooks)

NON-FICTION Queen Bees: Six Brilliant And Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between The Wars by Sian Evans is published in hardback by Two Roads.

THE ultra-rich “society hostess” was a phenomenon which developed in London and New York between the two world wars. This delightful book by prolific journalist and author Sian Evans tells the story of these formidable and intelligent women, who, by means of lavish entertaining, sought influence and power over leading politicians and famous people in the creative arts.

Three of the hostesses – Nancy Astor, Emerald Cunard and Laura Corrigan – were American in origin. In 1919, the eccentric and outspoken Nancy, who was a staunch teetotaller and campaigner against drink, became the firstever woman MP at Westminster.

Emerald Cunard’s expensive clothes and jewels failed to compensate for her lack of looks, but her outrageous wit and charm made up for it.

The three British-born hostesses were Lady Sybil Colefax, who backed the wrong horse in the 1936 Abdication Crisis, and paid a bitter price socially for her error of judgement. The other two were Lady Edith Londonderry and

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 16.09.2016 to Sunday 18.09.2016 Mrs Ronnie Greville – a close friend of King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth.

This book is crammed with fascinating anecdotes about people enjoying a privileged lifestyle, which would be changed permanently by the Second World War. 8/10 (Review by Anthony Looch) A Little History Of Religion by Richard Holloway is published in hardback by Yale University Press.

FROM Hinduism to Scientology and everything in between, Richard Holloway’s potted guide to world religions attempts to explain what religion is and where it came from.

As a former bishop who lost his faith, Holloway is a uniquely qualified and respectful guide. He neither preaches nor mocks, but objectively chronicles the origins of each religion, sets out its basic tenets and puts it in context.

Whether you’re a believer or a non-believer, this little book is a fascinating read. And at a time when religious attitudes seem to be hardening and religious violence is on the increase, it’s a timely reminder that, despite our differences, we have more in common than we think.

Rather than advocating religion per se, or one religion over another, Holloway urges us to be curious about yet tolerant of each other.

We’re all going to the same place; we’ve just go different ways of getting there.

8/10 (Review by Catherine Small)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE WEEK Snail Mail by Sharon King-Chai is published in hardback by Hodder Children’s Books.

Growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, one of my favourite children’s books was The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, in which our postie delivers letters to fairytale characters, including a funny apology from Goldilocks to the three bears.

The book’s clever design means every other page is an envelope, inside which are actual letters. The next best thing after receiving a real letter through the post, is reading one in a book.

In such a state of fuzzy warm nostalgia, I approached Sharon King-Chai’s Snail Mail, the tale of Sam the sea snail, whose surfing brother Tiger goes round the world to catch the perfect wave and sends Sam postcards of all his adventures in Brazil, America, India, Japan and France.

Each postcard teaches Sam (and children) a little about the country (including how to say hello) and inspires Sam to have mini adventures in his rock pool.

The postcards are too tightly stuck in their envelopes for little hands to easily pull out, but the illustrations and the tale are charming – and will surely encourage little ones to write postcodes from their travels.

7/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

Enough food to survive F OLLOWING last week’s theme of the evolution of human beings, this week’s selection of books relates to the subject of food. People often moved because their existing source of food failed – this was indicated in the article on the ancient Egyptian people moving from the green plains of Fairum, in what became the Sahara desert, to live on the Nile River shores where water could satisfy that basic need as well as be used to grow plants to eat.

John Newton has written “The Oldest Foods on Earth” which is a history of Australian native foods. It lists many fruit, edible flowers, and what we think of as vegetables with which we are familiar. The geographic regions and the seasons are noted as well as recipes that can be used today. Another title is “Dark Emu” by Bruce Pascoe which provides the evidence from explorers that Aboriginal people did sow, irrigate and till the land.

“The Biggest Estate on Earth”

by Bill Gammage analyses the Aboriginal practice of burning landscapes, done in a strategic manner with various effects. Read about acacia species which rely on fire passing over the seed pods to achieve germination. Gammage refers to Eric Rolls’ study of the Pilliga Scrub in “A Million Wild Acres” which describes the relatively open landscape of that region. When I was working in Kununurra in the 1970s, a farmer said that the fire in the far distance was a burning of landscape by Aboriginal people.

Vic Jurskis has written “Firestick Ecology” which describes how Aborigines burned the mega fauna whilst eucalypts, herbs grasses and mesofauna flourished. When Europeans arrived they doused the firestick, woodlands turned to scrub, mesofauna perished, megafires and tree-eaters irrupted. Ecological history shows that we must apply the firestick frequently, willingly and skilfully to restore a healthy, safe environment and economy.

In “The Celts” by Alice Roberts we read about the Celtic people providing their sources of food. Archaeologists have found that Bronze Age Sicilian axes made their way up to Brittany and the south coast of Britain. They also describe the provisions of stone walls that are thought to be designed to keep livestock. Around 600BC the landscape changed and, in the west of Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, well-defended homesteads indicated that cattle raiding may have been a problem for pastoral communities. And grain storage pits and

grinding grain equipment have been found.

Given that humans over time and around the world have been sensitive to the plant life – and we can consider that most animals rely on plants to live – modern day scientists and agronomists use the practices of early man in today’s agricultural practices. Alanna Moore is the author of “Stone Age Farming” which describes the principles of tapping nature’s subtle energies for farms or gardens.

It considers the natural elements that can be harnessed to enhance plant growth and animal vitality. The use of natural factors can produce healthy and pest-resistant foods.

What is the most important plant in the world? In terms of nutrient content, function within the ecosystem, and even medicinal properties, the answer may very well be grass. Charles Walters wrote “Grass: The Forgiveness of Nature” which explores the miracle of grass, pastures and grassland farming.

The author makes a case that grass is a nutritious food source for livestock which in turn is high quality food for humans.

As time passed, providing one’s own food transformed with food production becoming a specialised industry. Conor

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The Call by Peadar O’Guilin is published in hardback by David Fickling Books.

Even author Paeder O’Guilin admits this is a “grim” book, and it is. The systematic murder and mutilation of teenagers by an ancient, vindictive fairy race? Grim is something of an understatement, but it’s also gripping, intriguing and thoroughly ‘gets’ teenage friendship.

In O’Guilin’s reimagined Ireland, every young adolescent will get ‘the call’, during which, for three minutes and four seconds, they will disappear from this world and find themselves in a colourless hell, fighting for survival.

Their best chance is to run, but Nessa, who contracted polio as a child, can’t trust her legs to carry her.

No one rates her chances – not even her parents – but she’s got big plans, and no ‘call’ is going to get in the way of that.

Bold and straight-talking, The Call balances teenaged angst against fear, death and grief, and somehow manages to slip in slivers of hope and love that lighten the whole just enough to not leave you in tears.

It’s even witty, although the plot does jump inexpertly and unconvincingly at times in a race towards a conclusion that isn’t as satisfying as the build-up promises.

It’s easy to forgive though when so much effort has gone into creating a cast of such tough, impressive and fully-drawn female characters – you’ll want to be part of their gang.

7/10 (Review by Ella Walker)

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From the bookshelves

by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection Woodman has travelled around the world and reports on food production in countries such as Nicaragua, the Congo, Laos and Argentina. His book “Unfair Trade” reveals the shocking truth behind the so-called “ethical” business where what we see as favourite brands that have come from impoverished countries finish up on local supermarket shelves.

Harriet Lamb has written “Fighting the Banana Wars” which reveals how the Fairtrade organisation has taken on the corporate giants for a fairer deal for disadvantaged countries.

Whilst cotton is not a food source, it is an indicator of the way agricultural production and related revenues affect countries. In the 1970s Sudan was one of the world’s largest exporters of cotton yet, in 2012, it doesn’t rate a measure in a graph in “Empire of Cotton” by Sven Beckert. And during that period, Sudan was subject to major political disputes and civil wars, and poverty set in.

Fred Pearce is the author of “The Landgrabbers” in which he discusses the new fight over who owns the Earth. We learn how city financiers, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs and agribusinesses are buying up our hungry, crowded countries. It

is pertinent to Australia with recent political conflict shown when a Chinese bid to buy a major Queensland holding was refused by government intervention. That same country has already taken up leases on huge Kununurra holdings as well as now owning Darwin harbour facilities.

Just out of Dubbo foreign acquisition of prime farming country has occurred. But Pearce’s book is full of examples particularly in Africa, paddy fields of south-east Asia, Amazon jungle areas, and the prairies of Eastern Europe – huge tracts of land have been sold by locals, some by individuals, but substantial areas sold by governments, that contained villages, subsistence farmers and cattle herders. Page 191 notes that in mid-2011 Chinese operators purchased wheat farms in Western Australia, and a Chinese textile producer looked set to outbid a Bahrain entrepreneur for Cubby Station, a former cattle station turned cotton farm covering 80,000 hectares.

And all done with money – not a shot was fired.

Food is an essential commodity and it is recognised by some countries as a future source of extreme wealth.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Voci Stupende at St Andrew’s Chapel

BY BRENDA HUTCHINS

AN enthusiastic crowd was delighted by the voices of some of Australia’s top up and coming opera singers on Saturday, September 10. St Andrew’s Chapel was the venue for the two-hour concert.

Lee Cooper, Dot Cafe and Margaret Pickett

Una and Doug Elliott Wendy and Bruce Gray

Ian Bell and Ruth Owers

Voci Stupende

Mary Mathews and Noelene Kennedy

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SIDS Fundraiser at Autobarn

BY BRENDA HUTCHINS

AUTOBARN’S carpark was the place for a “sausage sanga” and a drink on Saturday as members of Dubbo 4WD Club and Mali Hopkins-Davies raised money for SIDS and Kids. Mali’s brother Riley was taken by SIDS so she is raising money to help fund research and help other families affected by SIDS.

Ashleigh Jones, Mali Hopkins-Davies and June Jones

Mel Mann, Mali Hopkins-Davies and Brad Harrison

Belinda Sayers and Callum Sayers

The Campbell family

The boys from Dubbo 4WD Club manning the barbecue

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H E A R EAR writers teach their craft at WestWords2016 from September 16 to 18. Peter Watt's will be in town hosting a workshop to take writers on journey into the shadows of history to discover what it was like to have lived in the past and what it takes to write a colourful, engaging story that puts a human face on the cold hard facts of history.

Author of over 20, meticulously researched page turning historical fiction novels, Peter Watt is not only Australia’s answer to Wilbur Smith but, when he's not writing he's at the forefront of fire fighting.

Ken Canning is an Aboriginal activist and poet, reading some of his poems at the launch and running an Indigenous stories Yarning workshop. His workshop invites participants to: “Sit around the table with Ken and tell, record, write, or listen to, Indigenous stories.”

Graeme Gibson hosts a workshop called “Creative Non-fiction Writ Large”. Memoirist and experienced writing workshop presenter accommodates writers from beginner to advanced. Writers will have a hands-on opportunity to learn how to shape the facts—not make them up—enabling you to tell the stories of their life.

The workshop also offers writers an opportunity to participate in the life of WestWords by having their stories recorded and played in the WPCC and displayed in the Community Arts Centre.

All the workshops cost $40+2.50 online booking fee.

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EAR The Screaming Jets, one of Australia’s hardest rockin’ bands - on their new tour – Go Hard or Go Chrome – an ode to their latest studio release, Chrome and unapologetically rockin’ live shows.

The band’s latest studio album – their first in eight years – was released in May, and not only saw the five-piece touring through metro centres, but also found them landing in the ARIA Top 30 and celebrating with a special Music Max Live album launch.

Keeping true to their reputation as one of Australia’s hardest working rock’n’roll bands, they are ready to take their new music - and all their biggest hits - to regional areas this October and November, including Dubbo on November 4.

Chrome was the band’s first studio album in eight years and not only impressed long - term Jets fans, but also garnered them a new audience base. Reaching #2 on the Independent Music Charts, #10 on the ARIA Australian Artist Chart and #30 on the ARIA Mainstream Charts, they showed that the band only gets better with age.

It is this classic rock ethos that has seen the band celebrate the longevity they have. Their 25th anniversary in 2014 certainly invigorated the band to head into the studio again and music lovers get to benefit from that rockin’ passion.

Heading out on the road again for a regional run was a natural progression. Regional Australia is the band’s heartland and there is nothing better than sharing new music with the people who want to hear it the most. With killer new tracks and The Screaming Jets’ incredible back catalogue, audiences are certainly in for a treat with this run of shows.

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SE E EE your filmmaking skills up on the big screen at the 2016 Dubbo One Eye Film Festival which is open to receive entries until midnight October 21. In partnership with the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo Filmmakers will host the 4th annual One Eye Film Festival at the brand new Black Box Theatre on November 11 and 12. Dubbo Filmmakers member and festival coordinator, Kellie Jennar says the One Eye Film Festival is open to all filmmakers who can demonstrate a link to Dubbo and surrounding regions.

“That link might be thematic, geographic or a delightful accident of birth. There is no entry fee, prizes or theme. The festival is all about promoting and showcasing local filmmaking.

All genres and styles of films are encouraged, however there is a time limit of seven minutes.

“It’s a great opportunity to showcase your films to enthusiastic local people.“ It’s a completely difference experience to upload a film into the silence of cyberspace, compared with the immediacy and warmth of watching your film with an audience.

“Filmmaking can be quite a solitary activity so it enables filmmakers to get out of the editing studio, see the diversity and creativity of films being made and network with other local filmmakers,” she said.

The One Eye Film Festival has grown in popularity both with filmmakers and audience in the past three years. Last year, 30 short films were shown to an audience of more than 350 people at three sittings.

Entry forms and further information is available at h t t p: //du b b o f i l m m a k e r s .w o r dp r e s s .c o m / one-eye-film-festival/

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EE what caring for the land can achieve, and showcased at the National Landcare Conference gets underway on September 21 to 23, 2016 in Melbourne. It’s Australia’s premier sustainability and biodiversity event. All community members interested in caring for the land and water that sustain us are encouraged to attend the three-day event.

The theme of the biennial conference is Collaborative Communities – Landcare in Action, and gives the Landcare community an opportunity to share information over a series of panel discussions and presentations that reveal the new and innovative practises that Landcarers can incorporate into their sustainability projects. Those who want to get involved and gain knowledge can register online at nationallandcareconference.org.au but need to hurry, as tickets are selling out quickly!

This year the conference will feature over 30 presentations, workshops, and panel discussions led by 50 respected speakers on subjects including rehabilitation of soil erosion, the challenges of climate change, landscape restoration, and grazing best management practices. In addition, discussions will be opened on government initiatives such as; 20 Million Trees projects, biosecurity, and opportunities for carbon sequestration. Attendees can also sign up for field trips organised across 11 regional sites and projects to witness local natural resource management all across Victoria.

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O check out the launch of the Community Courses Online Orana region launch ahead of a national launch 2017.

After two years of planning, experts have been recruited, online courses created, volunteers and groups enrolled cofounders Natalie Bramble, Glen Dunkley and Karen Saunders followed an intensive course through the School of Social Entrepreneurs in 2014.

Further refined from mentoring with Macquarie Bank executives as part of the Macquarie Group Foundation’s “Kick Starter” program. “It’s been pretty exciting just getting to this point, but now we’re hoping to help change the game for volunteers and organisations across the region, and across the country,” said Bramble.

Co-founder Karen Saunders said although the requirements faced by community groups are growing, their range of online training is providing the answers.

“The knowledge that people need in the everyday operation of a community organisation is huge. We already have courses on amending constitutions, marketing, social media strategy, and strategic planning.”

For more information, visit www.communitycoursesonline.org

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O book your kids in for the fun activities in the Western Plains Cultural Centres School Holiday Workshop program. On Monday, October 3, it’s “Animalia! Animals in Print” Create beautiful animal pictures using printing techniques. Follow art tutor Pauline Griffiths as she takes you on safari through the WPCC exhibition Cadence. Be intrigued and inspired by the beautiful animals in art before creating your own fabulous artwork. On Tuesday, October 4, it’s “Painting your place!” Paint a colourful and wondrous picture of your favourite place under the guidance of art tutor Alicia O’Connor. Be inspired by the landscapes in the WPCC exhibition Cadence before heading back to the art room to explore the potential of watercolours to depict the mood and hues of our special places. Morning sessions are for 5 to 8yrs, 10am to 12pm and afternoon sessions are for 8 to 12yrs, 1pm to 3pm, Cost: $30 ($25 for FOWPCC). There’s plenty of other options, so please Visit: http://bit.ly/WPCCSHW to book online or call WPCC Reception 02 6801 4444.

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ETC And…. on the subject of what your kids can do over the school holidays let’s look at what else the Western Plains Cultural Centre is doing in October for five to eight year-olds (10am to 12pm) and eight to 12 years, from 1pm to 3pm on October 5. It’s Plasticine Portraits. Make a zany animal portrait with plasticine!

The WPCC exhibition Cadence is full of interesting and peculiar animals. The kids will check it out with art tutor Alicia O’Connor before creating your own amazing collage using plasticine and dressing it up with quirky accessories. On Thursday, October 6 it’s Magic mixed media, so if you love the zoo kids can create a memento of your favourite zoo animal using paint and collage. Art tutor Nicky Dakin will take your budding Picasso you on an animal trail through the WPCC collection before helping you make the perfect picture for your wall. Something for 10 years and over only, is “Be spooked by Photography”. From 10am to 12pm on October 7, kids will create scary and spooky photograms of ghostly circus figures. They can take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn how to process black and white prints in a professional darkroom. We love old school. Visit:http://bit.ly/WPCCSHW to book online or call WPCC Reception 02 6801 4444.

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GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ͘KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

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

GROCERIES

THE SWISH GALLERY

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD

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THINGS TO DO

WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE

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

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Friday, September 16 Better Homes And Gardens

MOVIE: Pride & Prejudice ce

After the brothers’ massive fallingout in last week’s cliffhanger, it turns out Dean (Rob Lowe) has landed on his feet with new law firm Rozz & Landy. But when his new gig sees him pitted against Stewart (Fred Savage) in a divorce case, things really start to get awkward. With the already-tired storyline of “you only want me for my famous face, not my legal prowess” trotted out again, it turns out the new firm was using Dean for his celebrity status. Looks like a brotherly reconciliation could be on the cards, especially with Ethan (Connor Kalopsis) and Lizzie (Hana Hayes) suffering from the absence of their favourite uncle.

n’s Only the second time Jane Austen’s endearing novel has made it onto the big a screen, this adaptation stars Keira ng Knightley (right) as the headstrong n (TV’s Elizabeth and Matthew Macfadyen Spooks) as the dashing but snobbish sh Mr Darcy. Purist fans of Colin Firth’s famous ies may stint as Darcy in the BBC mini-series feel disappointed with this corner-cutting r-cutting ementt), adaptation from Joe Wright (Atonement but there are several saving graces. s.

Knightley’s tomboyish charm sits perfectly with the part, Elizabeth’ss nda four sisters are a delight, and Brenda l’s Blethyn steals the show as the girl’s know-it-all mother. Gorgeous i’s photography and Dario Marianelli’s score top it off splendidly.

ELEVEN, 8pm

PRIME7, 7pm

If you’ve got teenagers in the house, tune in tonight because Joh, Adam and Demi have some ideas for a teens’ retreat that are well worth stealing. They’re working with The Big Music Quiz host Darren McMullen (with a little network crosspromotion for his new show on the side, no doubt) on creating a hangout haven for a couple of deserving adolescent boys. If tasty recipes are more your cup of tea, Fast Ed has you covered. He’s whipping up a green pawpaw Thai beef salad and whole baked fish – perfect light and flavoursome fare for dishing up now that the days are starting to warm up.

ABC

The Grinder

PRIME7

ELEVEN, 8.30pm, G (2005)

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 From The Heart. (R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Pointless. (R, CC) 1.50 Our Zoo. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 2.45 Auction Room. (R, CC) 3.15 The Cook And The Chef.

(R, CC) 3.45 The Bill. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Murder, She Wrote.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 ABC News: Early Edition.

(CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC) Analysis of the day’s news.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 9.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Seven Morning News.

(CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Out Of Line.

(M, R, CC) (2001) A hit man is sprung from jail to kill a socialite, but strikes up a romance with a parole officer instead. Jennifer Beals, Holt McCallany.

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) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 Today. (CC) Presented by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG, CC) Presented by David Campbell and Sonia Kruger.

11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show.

1.00 MOVIE: Delirious.

(PG, R, CC) (1991) A writer who works on a soap opera is hit on the head and wakes up in the fictional world of the show. John Candy, Mariel Hemingway.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 Afternoon News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC) Hosted by Eddie McGuire.

6.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) 7.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 8.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight.

(CC) 2.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. (CC) 4.00 Ben’s Menu. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, CC) 5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 PBS NewsHour.

2.00 Focus On Ability Film Festival 2015. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Point Review.

3.30 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (R, CC) 4.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Zoë Wanamaker.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 One Plus One. (PG, R, CC) Jane Hutcheon interviews Bob Brown.

6.10 Pointless. (CC) Contestants try to score as few points as possible by coming up with answers no one else can think of.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) The best analysis of local, national and international events from an Australian perspective.

8.00 QI. (M, R, CC) Guests Phill Jupitus, Katherine Ryan and Josh Widdicombe join Stephen Fry for a “K”-inspired discussion.

8.30 Midsomer Murders.

(M, R, CC) Barnaby and Nelson uncover a conflict between a village church and the practice of ancient pagan traditions.

10.05 Birds Of A Feather.

(PG, CC) Tracey shows off Garth and Marcie’s pub.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton and Elysse Morgan.

11.15 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (M, R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring host Adam Hills taking an offbeat look at events of the week.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

(CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) With some help from The Big Music Quiz’s Darren McMullen, Joh, Adam and Demi create a hangout for two deserving teenage boys.

Fast Ed prepares green pawpaw Thai beef salad and whole baked fish.

8.30 MOVIE: Chef. (M, CC) (2014) After a chef quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant over his refusal to compromise his creative integrity, he teams up with his ex-wife and his son to launch a food truck.

Jon Favreau, Sofía Vergara, Robert Downey Jr. 11.00 The Big Music Quiz.

(PG, R, CC) Two teams of celebrities, including Joel Creasey and Kate Ceberano, face off on their knowledge of popular music in this next generation game show. Hosted by Darren McMullen.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 A Current Affair. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. First Semi-Final. North Queensland Cowboys v Brisbane Broncos.

From 1300Smiles Stadium, Queensland.

10.15 MOVIE: End Of Watch.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2012) Two young police officers patrol the streets of south central Los Angeles deal with gang members, human traffickers and personal problems, as they are followed around by a film crew who capture life on the beat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick.

6.00 WIN News. (CC) 6.30 The Project. (CC) Waleed Aly, Gorgi Coghlan, Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann and Jamila Rizvias take a look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) With the role of James Bond up for grabs, Dr Chris heads to Lord Howe Island to create an audition video.

8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Special guests include Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang, Jane Kennedy, Dilruk Jayasinha and Celia Pacquola.

9.30 All-Star Family Feud.

(PG, R, CC) The members of The Wiggles and Human Nature, led by team captains Anthony Field and Andrew Tierney, compete to raise money for charity by guessing responses to a survey of the public. Hosted

by Grant Denyer.

10.30 The Odd Couple. (PG, R, CC) Oscar faces a dilemma when he dates a young nanny who works for his neighbour, Charlotte.

11.00 The Odd Couple. (PG, R, CC) Oscar’s dream comes true when he is asked to throw the first pitch at a New York Mets baseball game.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

(CC)

6.00 The Little Paris Kitchen.

(R, CC) Food writer Rachel Khoo demonstrates the cuisine of Paris from her tiny Parisian kitchen.

She begins by making a version of a croque madame, conjures up some madeleine cakes, shops in the Moroccan part of the capital’s oldest food market and explores the city’s rooftops.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Dancing Cheek To Cheek: The Devil’s Work? (PG, CC) Part 1 of 3.

Historian Lucy Worsley and dancer Len Goodman reveal the untold story of British dance.

8.35 MOVIE: Elizabeth: The Golden Age. (M, R, CC) (2007) Queen Elizabeth I finds herself fending off various threats to her reign. However, after a dashing seafarer captures her heart, she is forced to make what could be the hardest sacrifice of all for the good of her country.

Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Samantha Morton.

10.40 SBS World News Late Edition. (CC) 11.15 MOVIE: The Perfect Date. (M, R) (2010)

12.00 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

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

12.00 Family Tools. (PG, R, CC) Tony strikes up a romance only to have Jack discover his new girlfriend is cheating on him.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.30 MOVIE: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

(M, R, CC) (1974) 2.35 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) 3.30 Extra. (CC) 4.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.30 The Project. (CC) A look at the day’s news.

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

2.30 Home Shopping.

1.05 Hard. (MA15+, R) A housewife becomes a pornographer.

4.05 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.40 The Parakeets. (R) 4.55 GGG. (M, R) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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Friday, September 16 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.15pm He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) Comedy.

Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson. A group of women try to decode the signs transmitted by the men in (or not in) their lives, with hilarious results. (M) Romance

8.30pm Law & Order: SVU. An ex-con accuses a parole officer of assault. (MA15+) Universal Channel

7.30pm Original Sin: Sex. Rebels lead the charge to strike down restrictive rules. (M) National Geographic

8.30pm Chappelle’s Show.

Dave introduces a True Hollywood Stories segment featuring Rick James.

(MA15+) Comedy Channel

8.30pm Facing… Delves into the dark world of Vladimir Putin. (M) National Geographic

7.50pm Rugby League.

NRL Finals Series. First semi-final. North Queensland Cowboys v Brisbane Broncos.

From 1300Smiles Stadium, Queensland. Fox Sports 1

6.50pm The Artist (2011) Drama. Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo. (PG) World Movies

9.30pm Alaska Monsters.

(M) Animal Planet

10.30pm Jimmy Kimmel Live. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

7.50pm Football. AFL Finals Series. Second Semi-final.

Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs.

From the MCG. Fox Footy 10.00pm Tennis. Davis Cup. Semi-finals. Day 1. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Ghostbusters (1984) Comedy. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd. (PG) Comedy

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 5.25 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Kazoops! (R, CC) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Jamillah And Aladdin. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 River Monsters.

(PG, R, CC) 8.20 Gruen Rewind. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 The Midwives: Old Mum, Young Mum. (PG, R, CC) Documents the work of midwives.

9.30 Pot Cops. (M, R, CC) 10.15 Dirty Laundry. (M, R, CC) 11.10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (PG) 11.50 Welcome To The Mosque. (M, R, CC) 12.50 Sex Rehab With Dr Drew. (M, R, CC) 1.35 River Monsters. (PG, R, CC) 2.25 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R) 3.05 News Update. (R) 3.10 Close. 5.00 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.10 Boj: Flat As A Pancake. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.35 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.

(R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.00 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) (Final) 4.25 Game On. (R) (Final) 4.40 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) (Final) 5.00 Camp Lakebottom. (R) (Final) 5.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) (Final) 5.30 Slugterra. (PG, CC) (Final) 5.55 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 6.00 Make It Pop! 6.20 Secret Life Of Boys. (R, CC) (Final) 6.25 Backstage. (CC) (Final) 6.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 7.00 Deadly Mission: Madagascar. (R, CC) (Final) 7.30 Officially Amazing.

(R, CC) (Final) 8.00 Adventure Time. (R) (Final) 8.20 Total Drama All Stars.

(R, CC) 8.40 Degrassi: Next Class.

(PG, R, CC) Maya experiences sexism at a gig.

9.05 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 9.35 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And Cat Noir. (R) 9.55 Sword Art Online.

(PG, R, CC) 10.20 K-On! (PG, R, CC) 10.45 Close.

Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo star in The Artist

7TWO 6.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

(CC) Day 8: Highlights. Memorable moments of the eighth day of competition from Rio’s Paralympic Games. 7.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. (CC) Day 8: Finals.

Coverage of the eighth day of competition from Rio’s Paralympic Games. 11.00 Tennis. (CC) Davis Cup. World Group Play-Offs. Day 1.

Australia v Slovakia. 5.00 Medical Emergency. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) Contestants compete to make a profit.

7.30 The Border. (PG) A look at agents in the Rio Grande Valley.

8.30 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: Highlights. (CC) News, interviews and highlights from the 15th Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

11.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. (CC) Day 9: Heats.

2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, CC) 5.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. (CC) Day 9: Highlights.

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 12.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 1.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 1.30 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 2.00 Sonic Boom.

(PG, R) 2.30 SpongeBob. (R) 3.00 Little Charmers. (R) 3.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Joseph: King Of Dreams. (2000) 7.30 MOVIE: Legend Of The Guardians. (PG, R, CC) (2010) Hugo Weaving.

9.30 MOVIE: Horrible Bosses. (MA15+, R, CC) (2011) Friends decide to murder their bosses. Jason Bateman.

11.30 Two And A Half Men. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Forever. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 2.30 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 3.00 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers Dino.

(PG, R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Home Shopping. (R) 7.00 Match It. (C, R, CC) 7.30 Flushed.

(C, R, CC) 8.00 Toybox. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Zoom. (PG, R) 9.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. (R) 11.00 Australia’s Got Amazing Talent.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Blindspot. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 5.00 Mountain Men. (PG) 6.00 American Pickers.

(PG, R) Frank spots an alien spaceship.

7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) Pre-game coverage of the match.

7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Second Semi-final. Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs. From the MCG. 11.00 MOVIE: Death Race.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2008) An ex-con participates in a deadly road race. Jason Statham, Joan Allen.

1.00 Men At Work. (M, R, CC) 2.45 NFL. NFL. Week 1. Denver Broncos v Carolina Panthers. Replay.

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. 8.00 ABC News Evenings With The Business. 9.00 Planet America. 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. 2.25 ABC Open. (R) 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World. 3.25 ABC Open. (R) 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) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Creflo. 7.30 Infomercials. (PG) 10.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Dentist On The Job. (PG, R, CC) (1961) 1.50 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 2.20 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 3.20 Monarch Of The Glen.

(PG, R) 4.30 Ellen DeGeneres. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 As Time Goes By. (R) Sandy’s boyfriend has important news.

8.50 MOVIE: Terms Of Endearment. (M, R, CC) (1983) An eccentric widow fends off suitors. Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger.

11.20 MOVIE: Sunday.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2014) Dustin Clare.

12.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. (PG, R) 4.20 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 4.30 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 13. San Marino 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 Get Smart. (PG, R) 1.00 Matlock. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Vegas. (M, R) 3.00 Jake And The Fatman. (PG, R) 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 5.00 Star Trek. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Hosted

by Grant Denyer.

6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) MacGyver tries to rescue a musician.

8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger.

(M, R) (Final) Walker investigates a kidnapping.

9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Lethal Justice. (M, R) (2011) A remorseless cop searches for justice. Steven Seagal, Meghan Ory. 11.30 Get Smart. (PG, R) 12.00 Shopping. (R) 2.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 3.00 MacGyver. (PG, R) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. (M, R) 5.00 RPM. (R, CC)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 BeyRaiderz.

(R) 6.30 Transformers Rescue Bots. (R) 7.05 Transformers: Robots In Disguise. (R) 7.35 Pokémon. (R) 8.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 8.35 Littlest Petshop. (R) 9.00 My Little Pony. (R) 9.30 Crocamole.

(P, CC) 10.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 11.00 JAG. (PG, R) 12.00 The Good Wife. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 3.00 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.05 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 5.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.05 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(M, R) 8.00 The Grinder. (M) 8.30 MOVIE: Pride & Prejudice. (R, CC) (2005) Based on the novel by Jane Austen. Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike.

11.00 To Be Advised. 12.00 James Corden. (PG) 1.00 Dexter. (MA15+, R) 2.10 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (R)

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG, R) 8.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (PG, R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 Tiny Luxury. (R) 12.00 Housewives Of Beverly Hills. (M, R) 1.00 The Millionaire Matchmaker. (PG, R) 2.00 Postcards.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Selling New York. (R) 6.00 Tiny House, Big Living.

(R) 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

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Urdu News. 1.30 Tamil News. 2.00 Thai News.

2.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 3.00 Bangla News. 3.30 Armenian News. 4.00 The Feed.

(R) 4.30 Fameless. (PG, R) 5.00 Brain Games. (PG) 5.30 Street Genius. 6.00 365: Every Day Documentaries. (PG) 6.05 If You Are The One. (R) 7.05 Human Resources. (PG) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 RocketJump: Tip Jar. (Final) 8.35 South Park. (MA15+, R, CC) Satan throws a Halloween costume party.

9.30 Sex For Sale With Rupert Everett: Why People Sell Sex. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

10.25 Flying To The Ends Of The Earth. (PG, R, CC) 11.20 MOVIE: Last Dragon Master. (MA15+) (2012) Yun-Fat Chow, Xiaoming Huang, Francis Ng. 1.30 MOVIE: Backyard. (AV15+, R, CC) (2009) 3.40 PopAsia. (PG) 4.40 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Kids Baking Championship.

(R) 6.30 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam.

(R, CC) 7.00 Kylie Kwong: Heart And Soul. (R, CC) 7.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 8.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 9.30 Thieves, Inc. (R) 10.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. (R) 11.00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam.

(R, CC) 11.30 My Grandmother’s Ravioli. (PG, R) 12.30 Giada At Home. (R) 1.00 Dinner At Tiffani’s.

(R) 1.30 Junk Food Flip. (R) 2.30 My Grandmother’s Ravioli. (R) 3.30 Giada At Home. (R) 4.00 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 4.30 Junk Food Flip. (R) 5.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 6.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 8.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 9.30 Thieves, Inc. (PG, R) 10.00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. 10.30 No Reservations.

(PG, R, CC) 11.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 12.30 Junk Food Flip. (R) 1.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 2.30 My Grandmother’s Ravioli. (R) 3.30 Giada At Home.

(R) 4.00 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 4.30 Junk Food Flip. (R) 5.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R)

6.00 Morning Programs.

10.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 11.30 Our Stories. 11.50 The Mulka Project. (PG) 12.00 Heart Of The Fight. (PG) 12.30 MOVIE: Girlfight.

(M) (2000) 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Yamba’s Playtime. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Muso Magic. 4.30 Kagagi. (PG) 5.00 The Dreaming. 5.30 Tangaroa. 6.00 Fusion Feasts. 6.30 Watchers Of The North. (PG) 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News.

7.30 On The Edge. (PG) 8.00 Survive Aotearoa. (PG) 9.00 The Point Review. 9.30 Chappelle’s Show. (M) 10.00 Shuga.

(M) 10.30 Blackstone. (M) 11.20 The Other Side. (PG) 11.50 Destiny In The Dirt. 12.00 Volumz. 4.00 On The Road. (PG) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Barunga Festival. (PG) 1609

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Saturday, September 17 MOVIE: Megamind

Agatha Raisin

MOVIE: The Pursuit Off Happyness

Dreamworks animation turns the superhero concept on its head with this witty offering featuring the voice talents of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Tina Fey. Supervillain Megamind (Ferrell) has tried for years to conquer Metro City, but is perpetually thwarted by caped superhero Metro Man (Pitt). Until one day when, to his surprise, he defeats the handsome hero. But life isn’t much fun without a nemesis to fight, so Megamind creates a new one, Tighten (Jonah Hill), who then runs amok. With Metro City under threat from this new supervillain, will Megamind be able to turn hero himself and save the day? Worth a look.

PR-guru-slash-village-sleuth Agatha Raisin (Ashley Jensen) has a new mystery to get to the bottom of tonight, as a spat over the sale of a local spring to a mineral water company turns deadly. The man with the deciding vote is found dead at the source, and there are plenty of locals in the frame as potential killers. The water company, however, is more concerned about the damage this could do to its image, and suave owner Guy Freemont (Jules Knight) hires Agatha to put a positive spin on things. But distracted by the job, Guy’s romantic overtures, and James’ (Jamie Glover) rival investigation, is she about to make a big mistake?

Salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith, right) hrewish wife has fallen on hard times. His shrewish (Thandie Newton) has just left him and or the his son. Though he looks out for ation and count, Chris’s heart, determination brains will see him climb out off the depths of despair. How? That’s the n inspiring part of this “American Dream”-themed drama, based on a true story, which shows how perseverance, a gift for maths and a Rubik’s cube can make you a fortune. In his no-frills approach to the subject of poverty, Italian director Gabriele Muccino (The Last Kiss) makes a winning fist of Gardner’s desperate plight.

9GO!, 6.30pm, PG (2010)

ABC

ABC, 7.30pm

PRIME7

WIN, 10.15pm, M (2006)

NINE

WIN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.40 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 Birds Of A Feather.

(PG, R, CC) 12.30 QI. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Pointless. (R, CC) Presented by Alexander Armstrong.

1.50 The Men Who Made Us Thin. (R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

2.40 Restoration Man. (PG, R, CC) Presented by George Clarke.

3.30 The Lost Tools Of Henry Hoke. (R, CC) Narrated by Bryan Dawe.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A barrister is killed.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 Bewitched. (R, CC) Darrin and Samantha babysit a warlock.

12.30 To Be Advised.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh visits champion swimmer Giaan Rooney. Dr Harry visits a black sheep that acts very un-sheep like.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Today Extra: Saturday.

(PG, CC) Cybershack. (PG, CC) Fish’n With Mates.

(PG, CC) Al McGlashan meets a very special lady.

Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) Victoria and Melanie try to cope with Joy moving out.

Community. (PG, R, CC) The history of Greendale’s first dean is uncovered.

The Block. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Scott Cam. The Garden Gurus. (CC) News: First At Five. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 Fishing Edge. (CC) (Series return) 6.30 The Home Team. (R, CC) Experts renovate an Aussie home.

7.00 RPM. (R, CC) Hosted by Matt White.

8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer.

8.30 Weekend Feast. (R, CC) Hosted by Dani Venn.

9.30 Studio 10: Saturday.

(PG, CC) Highlights from Studio 10.

12.00 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Sandown 500. Qualifying.

From Sandown Raceway, Victoria.

5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Small Business Secrets. (R, CC) 2.30 Equestrian. FEI Classics Series. Burghley Horse Trials.

3.30 The Classic Car Show.

(R, CC) 4.25 The Greatest Knight: William The Marshal.

(PG, R, CC) 5.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia. (CC) Jane visits Melbourne Zoo’s butterfly house. Costa explores a quirky garden.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Agatha Raisin. (PG, CC) A squabble over the selling of water rights results in the death of the parish council chairman.

8.20 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime.

(M, R, CC) As their quest to find the missing young woman continues, the gang gives Tommy a new mission which he tries to keep secret from Tuppence. He must steal a specific file from MI5 which turns out to involve Carter.

9.15 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, R, CC) Greed and envy lie at the heart of a case involving the kidnapping of the winners of the first ever state lottery.

10.15 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) (Final) George expands the Warleggan empire by launching a new ship.

11.15 The Code. (M, R, CC) Racing to save Remsey from false imprisonment and find Callum, Jesse and Roth forge an unlikely alliance.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 Football. (CC) AFL. First Semi-final. Sydney v Adelaide. From the SCG. 10.30 MOVIE: Paul.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2011) Two sci-fi geeks, on a roadtrip across America’s UFO heartland, meet an alien who is being hunted by government agents who kept him imprisoned for decades. They agree to take him to the place where his people will be meeting him, in response to his call for help. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Second semi-final.

Canberra Raiders v Penrith Panthers. From GIO Stadium, Canberra.

10.00 MOVIE: Beverly Hills Cop. (M, R, CC) (1984) After a Detroit cop’s best friend is killed in front of him, he follows the murderer back to Beverly Hills to seek justice. With the help of two local detectives, he uncovers the existence of a drug operation which appears to have been the motive for the crime. Eddie Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, Judge Reinhold.

6.00 Travels With The Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) Bondi-based vet Dr Chris Brown meets some pets of a different kind in Abu Dhabi, journeys to the Outback for a singing lesson, and finds an Australian city experience that rivals the Big Apple.

6.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, R, CC) Bondi-based vet Dr Chris Brown needs to find a solution to give a brave puppy a second chance at life. Dr Lisa Chimes must urgently help a Siamese cat that was accidentally run over by its owner.

7.30 Rugby Union. (CC) Rugby Championship. Round 4.

Australia v Argentina. From nib Stadium, Perth.

Commentary from Matt White, Scott Mackinnon, Gordon Bray, Matt Burke and Nathan Sharpe.

10.15 MOVIE: The Pursuit Of Happyness. (M, R, CC) (2006) Based on a true story. A struggling, single parent who is determined to provide a better life for himself and his son, sets out to secure an internship with a stockbroking firm despite a host of problems. Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Million Dollar American Princesses: Queens Of The Screen. (CC) Part 1 of 4.

Elizabeth McGovern takes a look at American actresses who climbed the European social ladder. She begins by focusing on Hollywood stars Gloria Swanson, Rita Hayworth and Grace Kelly, who became royalty by marrying aristocrats.

8.30 MOVIE: The Look Of Love. (M, CC) (2013) Based on a true story. An adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur becomes one of the richest men in Britain.

However, his hedonistic lifestyle takes a heavy toll on his personal life and ends in tragedy. Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Matt Lucas.

10.25 RocKwiz. (M, R, CC) Music quiz show, featuring performances from two musical celebrities. Each performs one of their songs backed by the RocKwiz Orkestra, before combining for a duet at the end of the night. Hosted by Julia Zemiro, with special guest American singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell.

11.20 Soccer. EPL. Hull City v Arsenal.

12.15 Rage. (MA15+) Guest programmed by Melbourne duo REMI. 5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.10 MOVIE: Tequila Sunrise.

(M, R, CC) (1988) Michelle Pfeiffer.

2.15 MOVIE: Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula. (M, R) (1978) Michael Pataki.

3.50 Nine Presents. (R, CC) 4.00 Fish’n With Mates.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Infomercials. (PG, R)

12.40 48 Hours: Last Chance For Freedom. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the case of Crosley Green, who was convicted of the murder of Chip Flynn in 1989.

2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Inspiration Ministries.

(PG) Religious program.

2.15 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands. (R, CC) 2.45 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) A gay couple’s life is shaken up.

4.35 Long Distance Information. (M, R) 4.45 Caldera. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

12.00 12.30 1.00

1.30 2.00 4.30 5.00 5.30

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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SPORT

6.05pm Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015) Action. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans. A powerful artificial intelligence threatens all of humanity. (M) Premiere

8.30pm Dark Matter. (M) SyFy

6.30pm Income Property.

(PG) Lifestyle Home

9.25pm Brief Encounters.

Steph makes a life-changing decision. (M) BBC First

8.30pm Vacation (2015) Comedy. Ed Helms, Christina Applegate. Rusty Griswold takes his family to Walley World. (MA15+) Comedy

9.30pm Amy Schumer Presents Rachel Feinstein: Only Whores Wear Purple.

Rachel brings her blunt humour to a variety of topics, including her love of Christian sleepovers. (M) Comedy Channel

7.30pm Soundstage: John Fogerty. Best known as the lead singer/songwriter and guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival, rock legend and Grammy winner John Fogerty has made a phenomenal contribution to American music for decades.

(PG) Foxtel Arts

7.30pm AFL. AFL Finals Series.

First Semi-final. Sydney v Adelaide. From the SCG. Fox Footy

10.15pm Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (2009) Comedy. Matthew McConaughey. (M) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.55 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.00 Wallykazam! (R) 5.25 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Kazoops! (R, CC) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Jamillah And Aladdin. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Highway Thru Hell. (CC) 8.15 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 8.45 The Moaning Of Life: Vocation And Money.

(M, R, CC) 9.35 Live At The Apollo.

(PG, R, CC) 10.20 Catastrophe. (M, R, CC) 10.45 Broad City. (M, R, CC) 11.05 Episodes. (M, R, CC) 11.35 Breaking Bad. (M, R, CC) 1.10 Highway Thru Hell. (R, CC) 1.55 The Moaning Of Life. (M, R, CC) 2.45 News Update. (R) 2.50 Close. 5.00 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.10 Boj. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.35 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 9.25 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 10.10 Children’s Programs.

12.25 Game On. (R) 12.35 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street.

(R) 1.00 Eve. (R, CC) 1.25 Girls In Love. (R, CC) 1.50 The Next Step.

(R, CC) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.30 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (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) (Final) 7.30 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) (Final) 7.55 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) Dani and Max’s fighting reaches a climax.

9.30 World’s End. (R, CC) Noah and Luke compete against each other.

9.45 Close.

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9GO!

6.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

(CC) Day 9: Highlights. 7.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

(CC) Day 9: Finals. 11.00 Home In WA. (CC) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast.

(CC) 12.30 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.00 WA Weekender. (CC) 1.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 2.00 Horse Racing. Naturalism Stakes Day. 5.30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. (PG) 6.30 Mighty Cruise Ships: Avataq. (CC) Takes a look at the Avataq.

7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Denise Nurse heads to Gloucestershire.

8.30 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: Highlights. (CC) News, interviews and highlights from the 15th Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

11.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. (CC) Day 10: Heats.

2.00 No Reservations. (PG, R) 3.00 Dr Oz. (M, CC) 5.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. (CC) Day 10: Highlights.

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.00 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 1.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. (CC) 3.00 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 3.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.00 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited.

(PG, R) 5.30 Batman. (PG, R) 6.00 The Pig Who Cried Werewolf.

(PG) 6.10 Megamind: The Button Of Doom. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Megamind. (PG, R, CC) (2010) Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill.

8.30 MOVIE: Little Fockers.

(M, R, CC) (2010) An ailing former CIA agent visits his son-in-law. Ben Stiller, Teri Polo.

10.30 MOVIE: InAPPropriate Comedy. (MA15+, CC) (2013) Rob Schneider, Michelle Rodriguez.

12.05 Adult Swim. (MA15+, R) 1.05 The Almighty Johnsons. (M, R) 2.00 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 2.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 4.30 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds.

(R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. Sprintcar King Of Wings. Replay. 7.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series.

53rd Western Australian Sprintcar Championship. Replay. 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.00 Zoom. (PG) 9.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG) 10.00 Dream Car Garage. (PG, R) 11.30 Combat Dealers. (PG, R) 12.30 Timbersports. Australian Championship. Wildcard qualifying round. 1.00 Tennis. (CC) Davis Cup. World Group Play-Offs. Day 2. Australia v Slovakia. 4.00 Rocket City Rednecks. (PG, R) 4.30 Tricked. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 AFL Pre-Game Show.

(CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. (PG, R, CC) (2011) 9.50 MOVIE: The Punisher. (MA15+, R, CC) (2004) 12.20 Locked Up Abroad. (M, R) 1.30 Men At Work. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Rocket City Rednecks. (PG, R) 2.30 Harley-Davidson TV. (PG, R) 3.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. Sprintcar King Of Wings.

Replay. 4.00 Late Programs.

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 News. 1.30 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. (R, 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 Press Club. (R, CC) 1.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

9.30pm 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets. (M) Crime & Investigation

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.00 MOVIE: For Better, For Worse.

(R) (1954) Dirk Bogarde. 10.40 As Time Goes By. (R) 12.00 Your 4x4. (PG) 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen. (PG, R) 1.30 MOVIE: Mutiny On The Bounty. (PG, R, CC) (1962) Marlon Brando. 5.00 MOVIE: The Train Robbers. (PG, R, CC) (1973) 7.00 MOVIE: Nine Months.

(PG, R, CC) (1995) A young man struggles with impending fatherhood.

Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore.

9.00 MOVIE: Muriel’s Wedding. (M, R, CC) (1994) A young woman, who dreams of marriage, leaves her small town to find romance in the big city.

Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths.

11.10 Scott & Bailey. (M, R) 12.10 Are You Being Served? (PG, R, CC) 12.55 GEM Presents. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.00 MOVIE: The Train Robbers. (PG, R, CC) (1973) 4.45 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 5.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

7.50pm Rugby League.

NRL Finals Series. Second semi-final. Canberra Raiders v Penrith Panthers. From GIO Stadium, Canberra. Fox Sports 1 8.00pm Rugby Union.

The Rugby Championship.

Round 4. Australia v Argentina.

Fox Sports 2

ONE

SBS 2

6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) 8.30 Avon Descent.

(CC) 9.00 World Sport. (R) 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 10.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 11.00 Raising Hope. (PG, R) 12.00 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 1.00 Miniseries: King Of The Olympics. (PG, R) 3.00 The McCarthys. (PG) 3.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 5.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 6.00 The Renovation King. (CC) 6.30 Last Man Standing. (PG, R) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Animal Attraction.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Megafactories: Camaro.

(R) Take a look at the Chevrolet factory.

9.30 MOVIE: Another 48 Hrs. (M, R) (1990) A cop and an escaped convict team up.

Eddie Murphy.

11.30 Rosewood. (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 13. San Marino 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, R, CC) 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop.

(PG) 11.35 Neighbours. (R, CC) 2.05 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 6.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 The Great Australian Spelling Bee. (CC) (Final) Hosted by Grant Denyer and Chrissie Swan.

7.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

8.30 MOVIE: Never Been Kissed. (PG, R, CC) (1999) A sub-editor goes undercover at a school.

Drew Barrymore, David Arquette.

10.40 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R, CC) 11.20 American Gothic.

(M) A killer taunts the Hawthornes.

1.20 The Loop. (PG, R) 3.50 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Shopping. (R)

6.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 7.30 Tiny House Hunters. (PG, R) 8.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Flipping Out. (PG, R) 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (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 Masters Of Flip. (R) 2.00 Postcards. (PG, CC) 3.00 Selling LA. (PG, R) 4.00 Tiny House, Big Living. (R) 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. (R) 6.00 Tiny House Hunters.

(PG) 6.30 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.30 House Hunters. 8.30 House Hunters International. 9.30 House Hunters Renovation.

10.30 Vacation House For Free. 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 1.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

Christina Applegate stars in Vacation

6.00 WorldWatch. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Where Are We Going, Dad? (R) 2.50 Rebel Music. (M, R) 3.20 Don’t Tell My Mother… (PG, R) 5.05 Brain Games. 5.35 365: Every Day Documentaries. 5.40 MOVIE: The Cat Returns. (R) (2002) 7.00 Food, Booze And Tattoos.

(PG) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 What’s The Problem With Nudity? (M, R, CC) Attitudes towards nakedness are challenged.

9.30 Halfworlds. (New Series) Mythological creatures live alongside humanity.

10.00 12 Monkeys. (M) 10.50 Lost Girl. (M) 11.45 MOVIE: The Sex Of The Angels. (MA15+, R) (2011) Llorenç González, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Álvaro Cervantes. 1.40 MOVIE: Hemel. (MA15+, R) (2012) 3.10 MOVIE: Us. (MA15+, R) (2013) 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Kids Baking Championship.

(R) 6.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Beat Bobby Flay. (R) 8.30 Mystery Diners. (PG, R) 9.30 Thieves, Inc. (PG, R) 10.00 Brunch @ Bobby’s. (R) 11.30 My Grandmother’s Ravioli. (R) 12.30 Giada At Home. (R) 1.00 Dinner At Tiffani’s. (R) 1.30 Junk Food Flip. (R) 2.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 3.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 4.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 5.30 Kids Baking Championship.

(R) 6.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 7.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 8.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) Hosted by Alton Brown.

9.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) Hosted by Alton Brown.

10.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 11.30 Kids Baking Championship.

(R) 12.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 1.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 2.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 3.30 Brunch @ Bobby’s. (R) 4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia.

(R) 5.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.30 Survive Aotearoa. (PG) 11.30 Tangaroa. 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 Our Stories. 2.20 Destiny In The Dirt. 2.30 Watchers Of The North. (PG) 3.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 4.30 Unearthed. 4.50 The Mulka Project. (PG) 5.00 One With Nature. 5.30 Fusion Feasts. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 6.30 Garma Documentary. 7.00 Our Stories.

7.30 Black Music: An American (R)evolution. (PG) 8.30 Born To Run. 9.30 The Tour: Blunder Down Under. (PG) 11.00 Stockman’s Strategy. (PG) 12.00 Yothu Yindi Tribute Concert.

1.30 NITV On The Road: Barunga Festival. 3.00 On The Road. (PG) 4.00 Bush Bands Bash.

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Sunday, September 18 Australian Survivor

Obama: Eight Years Of Power

WIN, 7.30pm

Even if you’ve never really warmed to the Survivor series, you can not deny that the competition locations are exquisite – and the latest Australian version of the franchise is no exception. You’d think living in the gorgeous surrounds of Samoa must make things easier for the castaways, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

When you’re living under such intense and competitive conditions, the smallest things can cause the biggest problems, as we see in tonight’s episode, when a disagreement over sleeping arrangements sees two contestants very nearly come to blows. Will the tension spill over into tribal council?

ABC

MOVIE: Divergent WIN, 8.40pm, M (2014)

SBS, 8.35pm

“Yes we can” he promised. But did Barack Obama deliver? This documentary from the UK, the second half of which screens next Sunday, looks back on his US presidency, charting its highs and lows. This first half (actually two episodes screened back-to-back) focuses on his first 100 days in power when, faced the more pressing matter of an economic crash, he was forced to put aside his plans to close Guantamano Bay. Then it looks at his push to pass the Obamacare healthcare reforms. Featuring an interview with the president himself, it’s interesting, if a bit idealistic.

PRIME7

There’s no hiding from the similarities ilarities to tarring blockbuster The Hunger Games, starring Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence. ce. Both films are based on young adult novels ager in a following a strong female teenager e bleak, futuristic world. Shailene een Woodley (right) plays Tris, a teen cago. living in a post-apocalyptic Chicago. ive Society has been divided into five nner in factions, but Tris throws a spanner tless (the the works by joining the Dauntless hat she is brave). Hiding her discovery that n’t a Divergent, meaning she doesn’t belong in any faction, she and a group of allies risk their lives to find out what makes Divergents such a threat to the social order. Fans of the books

by Veronica Roth will lap it up.

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 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime.

(M, R, CC) 3.00 Poldark. (PG, R, CC) (Final) 4.10 Australian Story: The Flow On Effect. (R, CC) 4.40 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Ruth Jones.

(PG, R, CC) 5.10 Agatha Raisin. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Tinkerbell And The Secret Of The Wings.

(R, CC) (2012) Tinkerbell visits the winter woods.

Mae Whitman.

1.30 Bewitched. (R, CC) Samantha loses her magic ability.

2.00 MOVIE: The Sting.

(PG, R, CC) (1973) Two conmen trick a crime boss. Paul Newman.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender.

(CC) Mike checks out the Gosford Classic Car Museum.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame: Kate Ceberano.

(PG, R, CC) Anh Do paints Kate Ceberano.

6.30 Compass: Into India. (CC) Meet a dedicated group of Australian Jesuits who have been working in India for close to 60 years.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

(CC) Local, national and international news, featuring an extended report exploring in depth state-based issues.

7.40 Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia. (CC) Part 1 of 2.

Former PM John Howard takes a look at the history and legacy of the Menzies era.

8.40 Vera. (M, CC) Part 4 of 4.

DCI Vera Stanhope and her team investigate the death of a family man.

10.10 The Bletchley Circle.

(PG, R, CC) Part 4 of 4.

Jean reports the murder to the police, only to discover all the evidence has vanished.

10.55 The Honourable Woman. (MA15+, R, CC) A look back at past events.

11.55 Meet The Mavericks: Osamah Sami And Benjamin Law. (M, R, CC) Part 4 of 5.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 The Big Music Quiz.

(PG, CC) Two teams of celebrities, including Em Rusciano and Lawrence Mooney, face off on their knowledge of popular music in this next generation game show. Hosted by Darren McMullen.

8.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

9.00 Criminal Minds. (M, CC) The team becomes involved in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, with a serial killer, after guards at a Virginia prison intercept a package with evidence relating to a kidnapping several years earlier.

10.00 Criminal Minds. (M, R, CC) The team deals with the aftermath of a deadly germ-warfare attack after a killer unleashes an anthrax virus.

11.00 Motive. (M, CC) It appears a free-spirited tarot-card reader failed to predict her own untimely demise when her body is discovered, hidden in the wall of a warehouse. Vega gets some unsettling news from the doctor.

12.25 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by a special guest programmer.

1.55 Agatha Christie’s Poirot.

(M, R, CC) Poirot heads to the Swiss Alps.

3.30 Vera. (M, R, CC) Part 4 of 4.

5.00 Insiders. (R, CC) Hosted

by Barrie Cassidy.

12.00 Scandal. (M, R, CC) The team tries to deal with a billionaire businessman who seems to have lost his sanity.

1.00 Home Shopping.

5.30 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather.

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(PG, CC) Full Cycle. (CC) Hosted by Scott McGrory and Bradley McGee. The Block. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Scott Cam. Human Planet: Cities – Surviving The Urban Jungle. (PG, R, CC) Explores how nature thrives in cities.

News: First At Five. (CC) Customs. (PG, R, CC) Follows Customs officers at work.

WIN

SBS

6.00 Mass For You At Home.

(CC) Religious program.

6.30 Hillsong. (CC) Religious program.

7.00 Athletics. (CC) Sydney Running Festival. From Sydney.

10.30 The Talk. (PG, R, CC) Hosts Sheryl Underwood, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Julie Chen discuss issues.

11.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Sandown 500. Race 20.

From Sandown Raceway, Victoria. Commentary from Matt White, Mark Larkham, Rick Kelly and Kate Peck.

5.00 TEN Eyewitness News.

(CC)

6.00 France 24 English News.

6.30 Deutsche Welle English News. 6.50 Futsal.

8.15 Filipino News.

8.40 French News.

9.30 Soccer. EPL. Hull City v Arsenal. Replay.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 The Bowls Show.

2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Cycling. Port To Port MTB. Highlights. From Newcastle, NSW. 5.00 Small Business Secrets.

(CC) Hosted by Ricardo Goncalves.

5.30 Nazi Megastructures: U-Boat Base. (PG, R, CC) Takes a look at a Nazi U-boat base.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 The Block. (PG, CC) The guest bedrooms are revealed, with four of the walk-in wardrobes and an ensuite impressing the judges. However, for one couple, the feedback they receive is devastating with things going from bad to worse when the all-important scores are revealed. Hosted by Scott Cam. 8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

9.30 Doctor Doctor. (M, R, CC) After a spectacular fall from grace, a high-flying heart surgeon is forced to work as a country GP in his former home town of Whyhope.

10.30 Killer On The Line: Jacqueline Crymble.

(M, CC) Documents the case of Jacqueline Crymble, who was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for murdering her husband Paul in June of 2004 with the help of her lover to claim his life insurance.

11.30 Unforgettable. (M, CC)

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family. (PG, R, CC) Claire, Haley and Luke seize the perfect opportunity to help the ducklings leave the nest.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, R, CC) Before Claire officially takes over Jay’s closet business, she decides she must get the house in order.

7.30 Australian Survivor. (CC) Tribal tensions continue to escalate when two people come to blows over their sleeping arrangements.

8.40 MOVIE: Divergent. (M, CC) (2014) In a dystopian future where people are divided into factions based on their virtues, a teenager uncovers a conspiracy by one of her community leaders to destroy people, including herself, who have been labelled “divergent” due to the fact they fit into multiple groups. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet.

11.25 48 Hours: The Soldier’s Wife. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the death of Danielle Nemetz, whose soldier husband was convicted of her murder.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 The Celts. (PG, CC) Part 2 of 3. Anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Neil Oliver go in search of the Celts. They explore the golden age of the La Tene Celtic warrior before revealing how, by the middle of the first Century BC, their society came under threat from the Roman Empire.

8.35 Obama: Eight Years Of Power. (CC) Part 1 of 2.

Takes a look back at the Obama presidency and his efforts to introduce a new era of change. During his term, his administration found themselves dealing an economic collapse, steadfast opposition from the Republicans, and the rise of the Tea Party movement.

10.50 Satudarah: One Blood.

(M, CC) Takes a look at the notorious Satudarah, the Netherlands’ most violent and feared biker gang. Founded in Moordrecht in 1990, they have grown from humble roots into an international conglomerate, linked with worldwide drug trafficking, extortion and murder.

12.30 1.30 2.00 3.00 3.30

12.25 48 Hours: Shadow Of Death. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the murder of Andra and Brad Sachs, a wealthy couple from San Juan Capistrano, California.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show.

12.25 MOVIE: Revolutionary Road. (M, R, CC) (2008) Kate Winslet.

2.30 MOVIE: Aftershock.

(M, R) (2010) Fan Xu. 5.00 CCTV English News.

News from China.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

11.00 1.00 1.30 3.50

5.00 5.30

Constantine. (M, CC) Full Cycle. (R, CC) The Baron. (PG, R) Infomercials. (PG, R) Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.30pm Wild (2014) Biography. Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern. (MA15+) Masterpiece

6.30pm So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation. FOX8

7.30pm Nureyev & Friends: A Gala Tribute. Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet dancer of ballet and modern dance, one of the most celebrated of the 20th century.

(NC) Foxtel Arts

8.00am Golf. PGA Champions Tour. First Tee Open. Second round. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Weather Gone Viral.

(PG) Discovery Science

11.30pm Tennis. Davis Cup. Semi-finals. Final day. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) Sci-fi. Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley. (M) Premiere 8.30pm The Piano (1993) Drama. Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin. In the mid-1800s, Ada arrives on the stormy shores of New Zealand, a mute bride sold by her father to a British emigrant. (M) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs.

4.45 Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.55 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.00 Mike The Knight. (CC) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Jamillah And Aladdin. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Seconds From Disaster.

(PG, R, CC) (Final) 8.20 Swamp Brothers.

(PG, R, CC) 8.40 Trump’s Angry America.

(M, CC) A look at Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.

9.15 Welcome To Leith.

(MA15+, CC) 10.40 Dumb, Drunk And Racist.

(MA15+, R, CC) 11.10 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Men Who Made Us Spend. (R, CC) 12.50 Seconds From Disaster. (PG, R, CC) 1.40 News Update. (R) 1.45 Close. 5.00 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.10 Boj. (R) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) 5.35 Sally And Possum. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 9.25 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (PG, R, CC) 10.10 Children’s Programs.

1.00 Eve. (R, CC) (Final) 1.30 Girls In Love. (R, CC) (Final) 1.50 The Next Step. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly 60. (R, CC) (Final) 3.30 WAC. (R, CC) (Final) 3.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 4.20 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) (Final) 4.40 Numb Chucks. (R) (Final) 4.50 SheZow. (R, CC) (Final) 5.05 Endangered Species. (R, CC) (Final) 5.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) (Final) 5.55 Scream Street. (R) (Final) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) (Final) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) (Final) 7.00 MOVIE: The House Of Magic. (CC) (2014) 8.25 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) Zoe grows concerned about the trial.

9.05 Dani’s House. (R, CC) (Final) Dani is asked to go on a chat show.

9.35 World’s End. (R, CC) (Final) 9.50 Rage. (PG, R) 2.20 Close.

8.30pm A Place To Call Home. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia. Showcase 9.30pm Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper. Paints an intimate portrait of one of America’s most fascinating families. Showcase

7TWO

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.00 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 1.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.00 LEGO Friends. (R) 2.30 Nexo Knights. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 3.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.00 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino. (PG, R) 5.00 Justice League Unlimited. (PG, R) 5.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 6.00 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: The Phantom.

(PG, R) (1996) 8.30 MOVIE: Quantum Of Solace. (M, R, CC) (2008) Bond seeks revenge for the death of a lover. Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko.

10.40 MOVIE: The Last Stand.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2013) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville. 12.50 Adult Swim.

(MA15+) 1.50 GO Surround Sound.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Wild Kratts. (R) 2.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 SpongeBob. (R) 4.00 Little Charmers. (R) 4.30 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds.

(R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Home Shopping. (R) 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Home Shopping. (R) 9.30 Adventure Angler. (PG) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (CC) 11.30 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 1.00 Big Australia. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 3.00 Selling Big. (PG, R) 4.00 Seinfeld.

(PG, R, CC) 6.00 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Shanghai Noon. (PG, R, CC) (2000) An imperial guard tries to rescue a princess. Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson.

9.15 MOVIE: The Bourne Legacy. (M, R, CC) (2012) A top-secret government project, involving the creation of super soldiers is threatened with exposure.

Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton.

12.00 Jail. (M) 1.00 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 2.00 Bull Riding.

2015 Pro Tour. Replay. 3.00 NFL. NFL. Week 2. New England Patriots v Miami Dolphins.

6.00 Planet America. (R) 6.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum Weekly. (R) 1.00 News. 1.30 Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 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 News. 10.30 Planet America. (R) 11.00 News. (CC) 11.30 Conflict Zone. 12.00 Late Programs.

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9.30pm Alaska Monsters.

The team investigates reports of a massive wolf that folklore claims has the ability to bite off the heads of its unsuspecting victims. (M) Animal Planet

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6.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

(CC) Day 10: Highlights. 7.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. (CC) Day 10: Finals. 11.00 Tennis. (CC) Davis Cup. World Group Play-Offs. Day 3. Australia v Slovakia. 5.00 SCU: Serious Crash Unit. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Intolerant Cooks.

6.00 Mighty Cruise Ships: Norwegian Breakaway – The Voyage. (R, CC) Takes a look at the Norwegian Breakaway.

7.00 For The Love Of Dogs.

(PG) A look at dogs being brought back to health.

7.30 World’s Most Extreme Waterways. (PG, R, CC) A look at the most extreme waterways.

8.30 In Rio Today. (CC) News, interviews and highlights from the 15th Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

11.00 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. (CC) Day 11: Heats.

3.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 4.00 This Rugged Coast. (R) 5.00 Shopping.

2.30pm Rugby Union. Mitre 10 Cup. Round 5. Waikato v Taranaki. Fox Sports 4

6.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 10.00 The Baron. (PG, R) 11.10 Are You Being Served? (PG, R, CC) 11.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 12.00 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Vera Cruz. (PG, R, CC) (1954) 3.00 MOVIE: The Great Escape. (PG, R) (1963) 6.30 Clash Of The Collectables. (PG) 7.30 Death In Paradise. (M, R) A woman confesses to murder.

8.40 Major Crimes. (M, CC) Buzz’s first night on duty as a reserve officer includes his discovery of the body of a murder victim.

9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. (M, CC) Jane and Maura investigate a thief’s murder.

10.40 The Closer. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Murder In The First. (M, CC) 12.40 Death In Paradise. (M, R) 1.50 GEM Presents. (R, CC) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 MOVIE: All Neat In Black Stockings. (M, R) (1969) 4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

Daisy Ridley stars in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Rugby Union. (CC) Rugby Championship.

Round 4. Australia v Argentina.

Replay. 10.45 World Sport. (R) 11.00 Reel Action. (R) 11.30 Healthy Homes Australia. (R, CC) 12.00 4x4 Adventures. (R, CC) 1.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.00 Monster Jam. (R) 3.00 Megafactories. (R) 4.00 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 5.00 What’s Up Down Under. (R, CC) 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Scorpion. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Attenborough’s Tiger: Spy In The Jungle. (PG, R) Part 2 of 3.

9.30 MOVIE: Turkey Shoot.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2014) A US Navy SEAL takes part in a reality-TV show. Dominic Purcell.

11.25 Megastructures. (PG, R) 12.25 World Sport. 12.55 Homeland. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Vegas.

(M, R, CC) 5.00 Driven Not Hidden.

(R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Invizimals.

(R) 6.30 MOVIE: Barbie: Dreamtopia. (2016) 7.35 Pokémon.

8.30 Ninja Turtles. (R) 10.00 Totally Wild. (C, R, CC) 10.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 11.00 Family Ties.

(PG, R) 11.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 12.00 Raymond. (R, CC) 12.30 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 1.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.00 Australian Survivor. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) 8.00 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: Runaway Jury.

(M, R) (2003) A juror has a hidden agenda. John Cusack.

11.00 Sex And The City. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.20 Nurse Jackie. (MA15+, R) 12.55 Raymond. (R, CC) 1.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 2.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 3.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 3.30 Sabrina. (PG, R) 4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (R) 5.00 Kenneth Copeland. 5.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG)

6.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.00 Vacation House For Free. (R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (R) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (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. (R) 4.00 Come Dine With Me. (PG) 5.00 Vacation House For Free. (R) 6.00 Tiny House Hunters. (PG) 6.30 Tiny Luxury. 7.30 Escape To The Country. 8.30 Masters Of Flip. 9.30 Flipping Boston. (PG) 10.30 Flip This House.

(PG) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 1.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Late Programs.

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SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 8.30 Macedonian News. 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 The Brain: China. (R) 2.55 Friday Feed. (R) 3.25 Community.

(PG, R) 4.20 Web. (PG, R) 5.40 365: Every Day Documentaries. 5.45 Where Are We Going, Dad? 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 MythBusters. (PG, CC) The team tackles a daunting challenge.

9.30 Travel Man: Barcelona.

(R) Part 1 of 4.

9.55 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. (M) Hosted by Samantha Bee. 10.25 I’m A Stripper. (M, R) 11.20 Savage U. (M, R) 11.50 Pervert Park. (M, R) 1.15 MOVIE: Norwegian Wood. (MA15+, R) (2010) Kenichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara.

3.40 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 7.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 8.00 Cutthroat Kitchen.

(PG, R) 9.00 Cutthroat Kitchen.

(PG, R) 10.00 Brunch @ Bobby’s. (R) 11.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 12.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 1.30 Kids Baking Championship. (R) 2.30 Kids Baking Championship.

(R) 3.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 4.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 5.30 Food Network Star. (PG) 6.30 Food Network Star. (PG) 7.30 Last Cake Standing.

(PG, R) 8.30 Last Cake Standing.

(PG, R) The competitors create a cake for a talent show.

9.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) The competitors design Marvel-inspired cakes.

10.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 11.30 Food Network Star. (PG, R) 12.30 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 1.30 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 2.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 3.30 Brunch @ Bobby’s. (R) 5.00 Food Network Star. (PG, R)

6.00 Tipi Tales. 6.30 The Dreaming. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Kagagi. (PG) 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Wapos Bay. 9.30 Move It Mob Style.

10.00 Our Stories. 10.30 Meeting Place. 11.00 Stockman’s Strategy. (PG) 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 Born To Run. 1.30 Fusion Feasts. 2.00 Bush Bands Bash. 3.00 The Tour: Blunder Down Under. (PG) 4.30 Our Songs. 5.00 Te Kaea.

5.30 The Medicine Line. 6.00 Noongar Dandjoo. (PG) 6.30 Australian Biography. 7.00 Dene A Journey. 8.00 Talking Hands: Marumpu Wangkal. 8.30 First Australians. (PG) 9.30 Pacific Warriors. 11.00 Who We Are: Brave New Clan. (PG) 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 1809

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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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26 Firmament 27 Explanation 30 At the home of 31 Feathery accessory 32 Oliver Twist’s request 33 Heavy weight 34 Saute 35 River barrier

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by Samantha Weaver z In the Talmud, a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, sneezing is called “pleasure sent from God”. z The largest single dormitory in the world is at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

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For instance, in the 1990s a man in Iran, while trying to capture a snake, placed the butt of his shotgun against the snake’s neck behind its head. In attempting to escape, the snake wrapped the length of its body around the gun, pulling the trigger in the process – and killing its would-be captor. z According to historians, Native Americans who lived on the Pacific coast often weaned their babies on caviar.

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YOUR STARS ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) A surge

able to project your mind easily into the future. What you think you see can be confusing. Sagittarius, it is mostly guesswork. This week, stay in the here and now to find the best and most enjoyable way forward. This moment in time is for you to fully enjoy.

People talk about living in the ‘here and now’ but how often do we truly do it?

a sensitive soul and this period shows that sensitivity to the full.

Concern for others seems to be taking up a big chunk of your thinking time. This is a week for seeking solutions to long and shortterm problems. Consider, if someone else came to you with these questions, what you would tell them? Write yourself a letter if necessary. Here you will find the way forward.

proaches and Mercury the messenger turns direct, have those probing conversations. Ask questions and push for answers. Yes, you are easy-going, Leo. That doesn’t mean that you should be taken for granted.

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) The feeling that

CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Aim to be sincere in your communications this week.

Mercury the messenger turns direct by the weekend. Meetings go better then and any explanations are more easily understood. Use this to your advantage.

A chance comment by someone you admire gives hope of more contact in the future. Choosing the right time and place, whatever you are doing, is crucial.

LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) There are passions all around but some remain hidden to you. Being aware of what others are thinking is to your advantage even if you see no immediate benefit. Cut out the small talk and, as the weekend ap-

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Being a far-seeing sign, you are

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) You can be

your past, you feel, still needs a solution. Why? Perhaps it doesn’t! Having too much time to think can be counterproductive. Move forward this week rather than go back. See today as the beginning and not as part of anything else. You are newborn. Where will you go? What will you do? The beginning of spring brings with it analysis of what has gone before. Don’t dwell on this.

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you think of quite different ways to achieve your goals. Some will make real sense and others will be non-starters. An open mind is a beautiful thing. Imagination and desire flow freely through it. The result is often a joy that only the truly liberated can experience.

of physical energy and activity sees you bounding through this week. Heading towards something new and exciting? Someone may say that you are running away from the real world, but are you? Rather more you are trying to find that world with a fresh attitude and set of beliefs.

Be sure to put negative comments behind you and concentrate on the positive results you can achieve.

progress is slowing down, either at work or in a relationship, can be irritating.

However, show others that you are moving forward and being creative. They will soon get the message that you could move on without their help. There is a lovely spark about you this week. This can give a golden glow to those around you if you set the right example. When you feel love or gratitude, show it.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) In a perfect

world you just know that you would be happy. Is that right? People see you as being placid and peace-loving, and you are. Even you though, Libra, can be bored. Meeting someone who is not perfect fires your imagination and makes your week exciting. What does that tell you? Be prepared to try something new even if you feel that it is not perfect. Perhaps you can make it so?

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) Others

look to you for guidance and leadership this week. Some may even look to you for entertainment! As several celebrities and commentators have found out already this year, ‘putting it out there’ can be scary but very successful. So many of your talents and gifts are little used.

Why not develop them more? In the process you can make friends, influence others and spark happy memories.

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) Making

a list of what you need and another of what you want can be very interesting, even enlightening. Do it this week and get a more balanced view of your life. Instead of regretting what you do not have, consider what you do have.

You even have the option of ‘what you hope for’. If reality and logic seem to be holding you down, try using a little imagination.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Firing up your brain, this week, could take the form of a brisk country walk or a short, sharp game challenge. Either way you should aim to get the edge on others mentally.

What cannot be solved by a physical or monetary approach can possibly be solved with logic. Consider something that everyone needs and you could find this a starting point.

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Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Overindulgence will make you sluggish going into the spring, Virgo. Sharpen your body and mind for the best results. Business may be slow but cash flow should be reasonable. Just be sure to cut your coat according to your cloth.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Virgo, you work and play hard, of course. That makes you such fun to be with. In the coming months, however, you need to get on the wagon of success by indulging a little less in flippant activities. You can still have fun but be serious too.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! A changeable time ahead means that you will need to be flexible, Virgo. The need to rely on yourself rather than others sharpens your mind. As far as your body is concerned, look after it!

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You have great entertainment value at times, Virgo. In the months ahead, however, you will be asked to be a little more serious in your approach. Someone who you have considered a good partner could slow down.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Finding the amount of love and success that you need may take a little more effort than usual. Stay optimistic while realising that you will achieve your goals eventually.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Seek to work with people who have many things in common with you, Libra. For you it is not enough to be a success, you need to feel a success. That comes with the praise of others.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Although spring gets off to a slow start, Libra, the months ahead are full of promise. Undeveloped talents must be honed and used for you to feel real satisfaction. You know what you need. Seek it.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 16.09.2016 to Sunday 18.09.2016

OPINION & ANALYSIS.

The final say

FROM THE EDITOR-AT-LARGE Jen Cowley

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If you don’t snooze, you lose HAVE a rascally old uncle (doesn’t everyone) who used to delight in tormenting my paternal grandmother – an avowed and round-vowelled WASP – by telling everyone who would listen that the dark-hair, dark-eye gene so prominently handed down through the generations came originally from a roguish Spaniard forbear who floated across the Atlantic on a rum barrel to Cornwall in the 1600s, after being summarily chased out of his homeland for drunken debauchery.

Wildly untrue, of course – it was an orange crate.

My grandmother’s outraged protests about the purity of the ancestral line never failed to amuse – but I’ve always thought there might be just a sliver of truth to the yarn.

Not just because I too have inherited the Moorish colouring (sadly, not the olive skin – that’s the pasty Cornish gene, right there, folks) and an irrepressible penchant for wearing nothing but black and red and various combinations thereof – I’m also hard wired for a devotion to siesta.

Sigh. The afternoon nap. Cracking idea, Great Uncle Fernando.

It seems 21st century workplace harmony consultants and emotional health experts are “discovering” what our old amigos, the Spaniards, have known for centuries – and that I could have told them for the price of a decent, rejuvenating latte – to wit: a short zizz in the afternoon can restore mental capacity, boost productivity and bolster general health.

And as a stress management tool, a little post-lunch kip is cheaper than throwing one’s computer and somewhat less complicated than manually choking the breath from a disinterested receptionist.

According to conventional wisdom, more than 85 per cent of mammalian species are polyphasic sleepers, meaning they sleep for short periods throughout the day, while humans are apparently among the minority of warm blooded

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creatures for whom sleep is monophasic, with the average person’s day divided into two distinct periods – asleep and awake. (Although this figure may vary depending on the telecommunications organisation from which the sample cohort is taken.)

It’s always nice to know I’m above average. Because my day is neatly divided into three - morning; afternoon nap; and night. And should the routine be interrupted… well, it ain’t pretty.

I’ve long been a fan of rising ahead of the sun – and my day will often start at 4.30 or five in the morning. I discovered some time ago that I can achieve more in those pre-civilisation hours than in five hours during which the world’s demands intrude.

But the routine necessitates a wee mid-afternoon toes-up – a siesta, if you will – without which I can barely remember my own name, let alone the password to the computer or indeed how to handle sharp objects.

By the time 2pm rolls around, I’m

ready to sleep – no matter where I am (which can make for some interesting interviews). Put me in a car and it’s no different – I’m like the dormouse.

Ooops. Asleep. Not so bad when I’m a passenger…

I overheard some learned media-industry colleagues this week discussing the pros and cons of the afternoon snooze, and was aghast at the scorn heaped on those for whom the humble power-nap is a professional necessity.

Experts to the rescue. Health promotion consultant Thea O’Connor took to local airwaves this week to expound the virtues of post-midday doze, and to exhort forward thinking employers to allow their minions not only the time, but the space, to exercise this revolutionary new workplace practice.

Workplaces are happy to allow breaks for artificial stimulation, she argues (and she’s talking about coffee, people), “So why not also give the nod to some true rejuvenation?”

Of course, the jury is still out as to

what constitutes the optimum length for this restorative repose – is it 10, 20 minutes? Can just five minutes of mid-workday sleep re-start an engine that’s genetically primed to start winding down at around two in the afternoon? My new best friend Thea (she of the napping wisdom) says research indicates that just ten minutes curled up with your blankie in the corner next to the photocopier is the ideal nap length for restoring alertness.

In my workplace – where the cosy haven of my own bed is but a few short strides away down the hall – the nap is an occupational requirement, but ten minutes simply isn’t going to cut the mustard. I simply don’t function without an hour’s afternoon shut-eye.

However, on deadline days, like today, I sometimes have to forgo my nap. The show must go on, even without my genetically programmed siesta.

But it’s okay…I have it all under contr zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *From the ‘Best of Jen’ files

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