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PROFILE

The week’s major news stories around the region

Living Well with Dementia

Path to priesthood for Karl Sinclair

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 07.10.2016 to Sunday 09.10.2016 FEATURE

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LANDCARE Save our soil Part Two PAGE 16

BOGAN BUSH MOBILE Preschool in the paddock PAGE 18

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PEOPLE

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Build it and they will come (by plane) HE national announcement this week of a tri-government initiative to fund the further expansion of the Dubbo City Regional Airport and the Royal Flying Doctors Service aeromedical facility might be a bit of a mouthful but is nothing short of visionary.

Standing in the RFDS hangar after the news was made official by Federal Minister for Regional Development Fiona Nash joined by Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton, Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant, and interim Dubbo Regional Council administrator Michael Kneipp, there was a genuine sense of excitement from all stakeholders present.

A handful of RFDS volunteers were like Cheshire cats in their striped branded guernsey’s and rightly so too because their role in supporting the RFDS with essential funds and hours of dedicated time given lovingly is the first clue that this service is totally worth it.

Knowing that a $6.685 million dollar upgrade is now imminent too, and in addition to significant innovations already in the pipeline, the economic possibilities and knock-on effects for the region are tenfold and long term.

This is genuine investment which will linger for years after the last bolt on any new facility is tightened.

Aside from the immediate benefits of construction jobs; bigger and better facilities will require more staff and maintenance and with the establishment of a state of the art training centre the city is really poised to become an aviation hub, specialising in the aeromedical field and with possible military spin offs, but that’s well down the track.

Though there’s no clear direct line to the fact this region is benefitting thanks to two significant players (Coulton and Grant) being homed here, both iterated the funding is really about investing in a genuine opportunity not to be missed, but it doesn’t hurt anyone living in this region to know these blokes - and the teams of people working hard in the background to catch their eye with sincerely great, innovative, progressive ideas - are all in our corner.

They’re thinking about what opportunities will our kids and grand kids want as well.

In my view the lot of them are game changers. They’re taking that age old tradition of throwing great ideas at the Sandstone Curtain which in the past just haven’t stuck, and have persevered regardless for over 18 months behind the scenes, to dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’ to make sure that underlying prejudices regional communities have endured for so long, just didn’t have a leg to stand to on in the face of the Coalition Government’s National Stronger Regions Fund (NSRF) hand out.

There had to be a good business argument for this kind of spend and ironically Dubbo’s proximity - and despite being far from the coast

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- does it a service to become an epicentre of sorts for some fun stuff in aviation.

The USA is a great case study when you look at the development of regional and inland cities which have national importance. Of the top 10 most populated, five are inland.

They’re also home to regional airlines with global profiles. For example, American and Southwest Airlines are both hubbed at Dallas,Texas, (384 kilometres from the coast); Delta Airlines is hubbed in Atlanta, Georgia (400 kilometres from the nearest beach), and Skywest Airlines, hubbed at St George, Utah is 642 kilometres from the Pacific.

Their secret is infrastructure, first rail, then freeways and airports and as a country it might make disturbing presidential candidate choices, but when it comes to a ‘can do’ attitude, they can’t be beaten.

That confidence breeds confidence and for three tiers of government to stand side by side this week and say they have confidence that this region will deliver on their invest- But it is bold, ment said it all.

This week’s an- it is brave and nouncement has that it is innovative ‘let’s do this’ tone. It’s not that bold, not that because it brave, not that innova- takes tired tive because the busiold ideas of ness model is sound and by that we can probably what can’t assume, conservative. be achieved But it is bold, it is brave and it is innova- in a regional tive because it takes setting and tired old ideas of what can’t be achieved in a acknowledge regional setting and ac- that within knowledge that within reason, reason, anything can.

Looking out over the anything can. tarmac after interviewing the RFDS’s general manager, Darren Schiller, I felt I could see what he could see. The future. The buildings that are coming. The people that they will bring. The expertise, the opportunities, the growth, and for him, quite a busy working life to keep it all humming along!

Importantly, the keystone to all of this, is the impact on rural and regionally based residents in accessing quality health care. Aligned with post election funding announcements for a dedicated cancer centre at the Dubbo Hospital, this city is making an opportunity for itself to turn shameful health statistics in the western and far western regions completely on their heads, giving, in some cases, the greatest gift of all, a long and happy life.

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Funds put airport on track for growth and regional benefits

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY HE Dubbo Regional Council has been successful in its round three bid application for funding through the Coalition Government’s National Stronger Regions Fund (NSRF).

The Minister for Regional Development Fiona Nash, flew into Dubbo on Wednesday, September 5, to announce the news to media and stakeholders inside the Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) hangar at the Dubbo City Regional Airport which, along with the Aeromedical Facilities Project, has been earmarked to receive $6.685 million dollars. “I aim to help build the kinds of communities our children and grandchildren either want to stay in or come back to, and quality regional airports can be a big part of that,� Minister Nash said. “When the federal government invests in the regions, like here in the Dubbo region, it gives people and businesses the confidence to invest in the Dubbo region. “What we’re going to see here is expansion obviously and a general upgrade of the runway, lighting and services here of the RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) and I do want to acknowledge the work the RFDS does,� she said.

NSW Deputy Premier and Member of Dubbo Troy Grant expressed delight at news of the Commonwealth’s contribution towards proposed developments. “The Royal Flying Doctor’s South East Section have for years on end shown an amazing level of initiative to make sure that health provision to the most regional and remote parts of our state get second to none health services,� he said. “The vision that the Royal Flying Doctors have here is a significant one. Not only will it provide enhanced training here to not only pilots and medical staff but it will also have an increased visitor experience and a great opportunity to keep those 200,000 or more people flying into this regional airport, and with the simulator which the state government is very proudly co-funding with our partners in Israel and RFDS. “Put all of that together, this will make for a formidable base for service delivery for regional New South Wales for all the reasons that Senator Nash described. This isn’t about giving the region’s something they shouldn’t have,

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Royal Flying Doctor’s Service volunteers, Doug Pearce, Pauline McAllister, Geraldene Cheshire and Judy Jakins were all smile with news the RFDS facility will be expanded and services further enhanced. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/Maddie Connell

this is about making sure they have what they are entitled too, and that’s the same level of service, the same level of access to health services that everyone else across Australia should also be entitled to,� said.

CEO Regional Development Australia Felicity Taylor-Edwards, and Dubbo Regional Council’s corporate development acting director Natasha Comber, agreed the legitimacy of the business proposal which they assisted to prepare is representative of a deserving investment. “It’s a really good example of utilising regional infrastructure funds in the region in a way that facilitates growth,� said Comber. “It’s good to get investment in for some of those bigger picture things that are difficult for council sometimes to get the money to be able to do that.

When you’ve got things that need to be fixed and maintained it’s sometimes a hard decision to make. When you’ve got three levels of government working together that’s when you go yes, let’s work together to make this major investment possible, she said. “Also the fact that it’s cross sectoral,� said Taylor-Edwards, “so the compounding effect of the investment is beyond having an infrastructure fund that just fixes an airport or just builds a building, it actually exponentially leverages

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This isn’t about giving the region’s something they shouldn’t have, this is about making sure they have what they are entitled too, and that’s the same level of service, the same level of access to health services that everyone else across Australia should also be entitled to. - Troy Grant the fund.�.

General manager of the RFDS base Darren Schiller expressed excitement for the announcement. “With the proposed aeromedical terminal that will be built with the funding means that we’ll be able to provide an even better level of patient care. At the moment all our patient transfers from the aircraft to an

ambulance, happens out in the open. “The new facility will allow us to do that undercover so whether it’s 40 degrees and blazing hot, or pouring with rain like we’ve had lately, the new aircraft can just drive in, the ambulance will pull in, we’ll unload, and when we have another job, the plane just drives straight out again. It’ll just make life easier for crews and patients and it frees the existing hangar up for more engineering work,� Schiller said.

Federal Member for Parkes, Mark Coulton said the project will consolidate Dubbo City Regional Airport’s position as a key regional air provider for the Western and Orana Regions. “The future plan is to look at increasing the frequency of existing flights with possibly servicing Canberra and destinations even further afield, bringing tourists and jobs to the region.�

Interim Dubbo Regional Council administrator Michael Kneipp added: “The Airport Upgrade and Aeromedical Facility project has been jointly funded by Dubbo Regional council, Restart NSW Regional Tourism Infrastructure Airports and now with the contribution from Coalition Government and a direct result of all tiers of Government working together to improve the coordination of essential service delivery and infrastructure investment.�

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Farmer’s market woes

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

HE current wet weather is bad enough if the only consequence is some interference with your weekend plans, so spare a thought for those whose livelihoods are getting knocked around by the big wet.

There were obvious signs of the financial dislocations at last weekend’s Dubbo Farmers’ Markets, with all the stalls being relocated to the asphalt carpark next to the grassed area of the park where the event normally happens.

Added top that, many regulars were unable to make the market day because they were either flooded in or were unable to get produce ready in time because of the weather.

Matthew Cowley who puts in long hours to raise pastured free range pigs at Tickled Pink Pork not far outside Narromine says they’ve been heavily buffeted by the prolonged wet weather in so many ways.

“It’s mainly affecting our feed regime, we’ve got to feed every day and we have to keep the baby pigs when they’re farrowing alive but we’re probably feeding about 250 kilos of grain a day and we have to do it off the four-wheeler and trailer, can’t get the tractor out in the paddock, can’t even get the ute out in the paddock, it’s too wet, plus you have to mix all the feed in the first place,” Matthew said, pointing out that just getting the pigs to the processor had become far more difficult than just having to make the standard long drive.

“Going to Cowra’s getting tricky because we have to find a new way every time to the abattoirs because we can’t go through Forbes or Goolagong thanks to the floods.

“We’re also trying to get cows out which is hard, luckily we’ve got neighbours who have yards on the road,” he said.

Lyn Cowley said the constant puddles were proving a hazard for humans and animals.

“The mosquitoes are becoming a huge problem too,” Lyn said.

She’s also concerned that without lots

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Lyn Cowley, Michelle Welsh and Matthew Cowley. PHOTOS: DUBBO WEEKENDER

of human intervention, the pigs would be unable to survive.

“The pigs are so stupid you have to practically sit on them so they have their babies in a dry place otherwise they’re just as likely to go and have them in a big puddle and then they all die - “I think the pigs have been shedded for so long that they’ve lost all their instincts.”

“One had had five piglets and they were all dead in a puddle, and at another place the mother had lost five out of eight, she was very upset, but her little shed had gone under water, another she’d had blown over and landed on another little baby and killed it,” she said.

John Schmitt from Wellington’s Kurrajong Country Beef said the big picture for agriculture in the region was looking grim after one of the most promising starts to the season in living memory.

“If it keeps up there’ll be a lot of damaged crops which will affect the income of a lot of farmers,” John said.

“The wet becomes a problem with mustering cattle, they bog the places up, it’s a big problem too, you’ve got to have a regular supply of beef and so we’ve got to muster them whether it’s fine or wet.”

He says it’s tough to know that even with all the extra effort, when you actually get up early and drive to the mar-

` One had had five piglets and they were all dead in a puddle, and at another place the mother had lost five out of eight, she was very upset, but her little shed had gone under water, another she’d had blown over and landed on another little baby and killed it.

– Lyn Cowley, Tickled Pink Pork

kets, cloudy skies tend to make people stay away in droves.

“Oh yes, certainly, it takes a toll, when it’s wet people don’t go to the markets, it affects your sales,” he said.

Mel Hancock echoed those sentiments, she’s concerned not enough people value fresh and clean local produce enough to go that little bit extra to ensure farmers in the region creating that food remain viable.

“It is really tough and we need local people to support us through drought and floods, that’s what local farmers need, we need the support of the townspeople so we can keep coming here so they know when to expect us and so they know that we’ll be here for them and it’s just really important that they do that,” Mel said.

“Dubbo’s a great market, we’ve got people here from Orange, Bathurst and Mudgee and all over, it’s been a good market today but we’d certainly like to see more people shop local.”

Pic L-R, John Schmitt, Mel Hancock, Kurrajong Country Beef Wellington Even being in the high country hasn’t guaranteed a good run.

Steve Mastronardi operates Meadow View Orchards in Orange and while the flooding is generally a problem for country alongside rivers, he said the constant wet is creating all sorts of dramas.

“The ground is totally saturated and it’s just making life difficult getting in and around the farm, Steve said.

“With our spraying of crops coming up shortly it’s going to make things even more difficult, most of the guys have got a tractor stuck somewhere.

“The weather has also delayed the flowering of the apples and cherries so that could have ramifications later in the year, one good thing, we won’t have to irrigate,” he said.

He says if this wet weather keeps up there could be disease pressures, forcing orchardists to put out a lot of chemicals to try and control the disease, reminiscent of 2011 to 2012.

“If you’re not careful, you’ve only got to miss one spray and you can wreck the whole crop – if we get three days rain and we get one day of sunshine we’ll be out there regardless, we’ve gotta do it,” Steve said.

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Roo Poo for sale!

HE first thing that drew my attention as I walked into last weekend’s Farmers’ markets was Sebastian Hughes spruiking Roo Poo. “We’re just selling some Roo Poo, the finest of the lot,” he said, demonstrating his most professional TV modelling movements, complete with arm sweeps.

This stand is all about creating lasting memories, every two years the Dubbo Kangaroos Junior Rugby club takes both years of U15 players across the Tasman to play some fierce opposition.

“It’s lovely, just to go to a different country and play a different team, I can’t believe my luck, it’s a privilege – it makes it all worth it, and teaches you the value of making money,” Sebastian said.

James Austin coached the club’s U13 Reds team this season and will be a coach in the U15 Reds division on the 2018 tour year.

His son Harrison has already worked tending barbeques for the senior club towards the end of this season, James is pleased to see he’s learning to get his hands dirty.

“It’s really important that the kids actually do it, and earn the trip for themselves,” James said.

“We kick back and do nothing, they do the lot – I think that’s vital, they’ve got to earn the trip, it’s not about parents giving it to the boys, they need to earn it and part of it is the selling and the bagging of the Roo Poo, the picking it up, getting filthy dirty and they really do enjoy it actually, I was surprised, especially my young bloke, he’s really enjoying himself.

“We’ve got 32 kids signed up so far, need to raise $120,000 to $130,000 to get 32 kids and about eight adults over to NZ for the tour,” he said.

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Steve Mastronardi, Meadow View Orchards.

Your home, your lifestyle.

plenty of admin, ideas brainstorming, running around etc, for parents to do, but the belief in this group is powerful that the benefits of the rugby tour will go far beyond playing a few games of footy in a foreign land.

“All you hear about from previous tours groups, they still talk about the trips that they did three, four, five, six tour groups ago so it’s about forming those lifelong friendships with the boys and they can later on reminisce about when they were getting smashed by potential All Blacks, so I reckon it’s great,” James said, pointing out the array of fundraising activities will keep players and parents flat out until they get on the plane in 2018.

“We’ve got the Roo Poo, we’ve also got a battery drive so anyone out there that needs to get rid of some old car batteries, they can drop them off to Golden West Holden and we’ve also got firewood that’ll be starting up again so if anyone’s after a load of firewood give us a yell and then there’s the BBQs we’ll be cooking around the place and at functions, the kids will be doing clean-ups after some of our events here in Dubbo, and if anyone out there has a fleece they want to donate to us as well, we’ve got a fleece drive happening,” James said, adding the constant rain has made things tough for the current crew, with the 2016 tour group having just handed over the reins of the activities, they’re now in the Land of the Long White Cloud on their trip of a lifetime.

“The wet weather is challenging, definitely, getting access into the property where we actually get all our Roo Poo and then obviously shoveling it and those sorts of things, it’s been a bit tricky to actually get in and get enough over the last week but once we get a bit organized and get the right weather it’ll make things a lot easier,” he said.

` The wet weather is challenging, definitely, getting access into the property where we actually get all our Roo Poo and then obviously shoveling it and those sorts of things, it’s been a bit tricky to actually get in and get enough over the last week but once we get a bit organized and get the right weather it’ll make things a lot easier. – James Austin

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Friday 07.10.2016 to Sunday 09.10.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Greg Smart

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

Married at First Sight – where is the outrage?

HE sanctity of marriage must be preserved” is the strident argument pushed by the anti-same sex marriage activists and the religious zealots.

This sanctity is built around the premise that marriage is a sacred and enduring relationship between a man and a woman, under the judgemental eyes of god (and his earthbound disciples.)

The idea of a marriage between same sex couples in enough to outrage the dogma police. But where is the outrage about the threat to the sacred and enduring bond presented by the unreality television show Married at First Sight?

Married at First Sight is exactly that – pluck two vacant eyed attention seeking strangers from the suburbs and have them ‘married’ in a commitment ceremony on the set of television show. In the interests of public entertainment.

And of course being Reality Television, the emotional ‘journey’ of the bride and groom is scripted and edited for maximum voyeurism with confected conflict.

The public apparently laps this up, with the show recently airing the finale of its third season. Purely for research purposes, I watched a fragment of an episode, resulting in the loss of 20 IQ points.

Two of the thirteen couples who have participated have decided to stay together. Or, eleven couples decided that a phony marriage on a television show was just a frivolous fame seeking exercise that can be cast aside at will.

So it would appear that marriage is ok for same sex couples to caricature and debase without objection from the sanctity of marriage cheer squad, but the

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` The public apparently laps this up, with the show recently airing the finale of its third season. Purely for research purposes, I watched a fragment of an episode, resulting in the loss of 20 IQ points.

thought of committed same sex couples entering into marriage is an ideological step too far.

AST Sunday had the distinction of being both the best and worst day of the year.

To those of us with no interest in rugby league, the completion of the grand final then the disappearance of rugby league from the nightly news was a joy to behold.

Unfortunately, the grand final victory was seen as a fairytale, presumably the type where the main narrative is the ability to go from a team (aka franchise) fined $1 million for alleged performance enhancing supplement use, to a championship winning team in three years. It was apparently a victory for the True Believers – whoever they are.

This kept the victory in the news longer than was necessary, and necessitated the television remote control to remain close at hand. But finally, the off-season

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arrived and rugby league was out of the limelight – happy days!

Daylight saving on the other hand arrived too early and will saddle us with days that drag on, and finish with morning routines in darkness come April.

Add in multiple time zones, cross border confusion and disrupted body clocks and I think the imposition of six months of daylight savings is burdensome. Closer to the first Sunday of April, we’ll be eating breakfast in the dark and cursing the faded curtains.

Does Daylight Saving really need to go for so long? Surely it can be pared back a month at either end at least.

OTHING opens doors like being a ‘net worth individual.’

Banks will provide you with a personal banker to provide premium client service.

The New South Wales Government in conjunction with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection

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will welcome your migration to NSW under their Significant Investor Visa programme.

Eligibility criteria include having $5 Million in assets which can be transferred to Australia, investing $5 Million in Austrade defined investments, filling out a nomination form and paying an application fee. There are no English language requirements.

Once the criteria are meet, holders of a Significant Investor Provisional visa can then fast track their permanent residency in as little as four years.

Call me cynical, but doesn’t Australia demonise economic migrants?

Paying a people smuggler for passage on a boat to northern Australia labels a person an economic migrant and a ‘rorter’ of the ‘queue.’

Be a person of high net worth however, and the label “economic migrant” apparently doesn’t apply.

Money doesn’t talk, it screams.

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Seven Days

The week’s top stories from around the region by John Ryan

High water Sandy Beach and the Tamworth Street footbridge remained well underwater this week as waters remained high following continued heavy rainfall and large volumes of water being released from Burrendong Dam. PHOTOS: DUBBO WEEKENDER

KNIFE WIELDING KNOBS WHAT a gutless act, going into a fast food outlet where plenty of kids are working part-time while at school and threatening these staff with a knife just to get a few bucks – imagine the rage if someone did that to their family members.

Anyway, this piece of excrement, masquerading as a skinny tanned male in his 20s, got his cash before stealing a handbag, wallet and car keys then a staff members car and bolting into the night like the coward he is.

I’m amazed that in this age of social media, where everyone has a video camera tucked in their pockets, that there’s so few action shots taken of these sorts of incidents, it would make the job of the cops so much easier.

Dubbo used to have regular

armed robberies so one good thing is that the crime front is a lot quieter in this category than it was a few years ago.

The stolen getaway car was found on the east side of Dubbo.

Can anyone with any information on this loser please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or Dubbo police on 6883 1599.

MORE SURVEILLANCE NEEDED I’M philosophically not a fan of Big Brother type spy cameras but in this day and age they have solved a lot of mysteries.

Maybe if we had them on every building we could cut down on all sorts of crap, like the $60,000 vandalism bill facing Dubbo ratepayers this past year.

I could think of plenty of good ways to spend $60,000 that

would be of huge benefit to the community, but wrecking public stuff is not one of them.

REMEMBERING POLICE STILL on police matters, locals joined with their community cops at Holy Trinity Anglican

Church on September 29 to remember those who have fallen in the line of duty.

It’s a pretty scary occupation, imagine getting to a crime scene in progress and being stabbed by a psycho high on ICE, so that instead of going home to your family after a day at work you were being buried

by them instead.

Situations can escalate rapidly and for all the flak our coppers catch, it’s something everyone should remember.

It’d also be tough to always be in a pleasant mood when you’ve spent that shift, that week, months, years or decades dealing with so much crap.

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Volunteers at the National Trust’s Dundullimal Homestead are pictured at the northern and front gate of the historic property which reopened this week, on Tuesday, October 4. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

SEVERE CLIMATIC EVENTS THE NEW NORMAL I DON’T care what views people have, or don’t have on climate change or fossil fuels, there are a few things that anyone of sane mind should agree on.

The first is that extreme

weather events are increasing with incredible rapidity, just look at the storms which have hit South Australia and blacked out an entire state.

Reportedly deputy PM Barnaby Joyce initially blamed this on that state’s increasing reliance on alternative power sources, despite the fact the no power

of any kind can be transmitted through a network where so many power transmission lines have been knocked down.

This is playing politics at its worst.

And it clearly illustrates that the more decentralised and localised our power networks become, the more resilient we’ll

be when it comes to these sorts of natural disasters – if everyone was off the grid and generated their own power, if everyone had homes that used just a fraction of the power compared to these corporate-moneystream boxes we currently used as best practice, we’d have a lot less drama.

Years ago an eminent German professor told me about a giant swath of land in the Ukraine which had been a food bowl for centuries.

It had been turned into a giant monoculture wheat paddock with zero trees, just seas of wheat for millions of acres.

The locals had seen the weather change in their area, with crazy weather events smashing the crop just as it looked like it would be a bumper year.

This was because the wheat turned gold as it ripened and that sent up a huge mass of hot air above it, a gigantic heat signature, which then disrupted the cooler air flowing across it, creating insane storms.

They used a very simplistic solution, planting giant zigzags of trees which eventually covered 24 percent of the formerly bare land, yet there were so many climatic and soil benefits that productivity increased 46 percent, despite a quarter of the land no longer being used for traditional commercial production.

So what we need is biodiver-

sity, and the more biodiversity we have to combat climate by reinstating the earth’s natural climate control air-conditioning system, we also see co-benefits where farmers need far less chemical and superphosphate because that’s the way the system works.

It’s infuriating that our society has been captured by these economic rationalists where everything is subordinate to corporate growth, with those few major companies with the great bulk of the money supply then the only ones who can fund scientific research, which is obviously written up to say what they want, which will no doubt be aligned with the business model which makes them the most profits.

It’s all related people, and we’re the ones getting screwed, it’s profits before people.

COAL GONE WHAT an unmitigated disaster the failed Cobbora coal mine has turned out to be.

In the first place the process seemed to be riddled with dodgy conduct, and the fact so many people left the land has hammered many social aspects of the local communities affected such as less schoolkids or Rural Fire Service volunteers.

Add to that, I’ve heard the eagerness to buy the properties in the first place saw confidential values paid, by us poor

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I know this was thanks to the former state ALP government but across the world people seem to believe that those who rule have abandoned any attempt to at least try and be seen to be transparent.

Look at the feds this week, one of PM Malcolm Turnbullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former hand-picked ministers, QLDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youthful Wyatt Roy, got into the middle of a firefight while visiting Syria.

Apparently he was on a personal mission over to the war torn nation so he could find the facts of the matter out for himself.

How scary is that, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being totally unreported by mainstream media, that a former senior government frontbencher has so little faith in the propaganda being peddled by the PM and foreign minister Julie Bishop, that he felt it necessary to put himself in harms way to find out for himself.

Just let that sink in for awhile.

Assad and Putin may not be good guys, but when it comes to the wars in the middle east my research is telling me that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at least better guys than us, Assad at least lives there and Putin is almost next door, so they have local and strategic interests at stake.

What the hell are we doing over there other than kowtow-

The paramedics liquid chalk campaign was joined by Dubboâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paramedics and supporters venting frustrating over working conditions, targeted at Premier, Mike Baird. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

ing to the demands of our US ally.

FLOODWATERS VERY close to home, and we all keep harping on about this rain but the big wet has shattered this region.

The lost opportunity costs through failed winter crops, the fact that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too wet to work up country to plant summer crops, the road network which has been destroyed or destabilized,

the cost is going to be enormous, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s without taking into account the more immediate costs of homes and businesses which have been inundated.

I wonder how much we could have saved over the years by never building anything on Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s giant floodplains, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so far along that track, we have so many trillions of dollars of vulnerable infrastructure, that we can afford to put the genie back in the bottle.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve caught up with builders and developers this week and many construction sites in Dubbo have been brought to a standstill â&#x20AC;&#x201C; again.

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Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Markets, those who could get there or had been able to get their produce off the farm, spoke of how difficult the wet weather is making things, as well as the extra costs itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adding to a range of activities.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to mention the locals who stayed away in their droves because of the inclement skies.

One stallholder told me about a large school in Canberra with plenty of undercover areas which is the new home to a market down there, and apparently itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going off because while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still outside, which is what customers seem to want, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far more comfortable in both the rain and on scorching summer days â&#x20AC;&#x201C; maybe Dubbo should have this sort of facility as we seem to be getting more extreme weather events at both ends of the scale.

This is a ripple effect on top of many ripple effects, and at this stage thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no end in sight.

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Living Well With Dementia PART THREE Dementia care requires that family members manage the bulk of support for their loved one with the condition, until such time this is no longer possible. Often however it’s partners who are themselves aging; making support and dementia friendly communities essential to helping them help others. Sue Wilson cares for her husband Chris and would be lost without the support and understanding of carers groups and special events catering to the needs of people with dementia. Sue shares her journey with Dubbo Weekender, to help others in similar situations understand, you are not alone. As told to Yvette Aubusson-Foley.

When did you first notice Chris’s condition?

I’d retired, and he was retiring. I’d retired from admin work at the Dubbo Base and Chris had a trophy business that he ran from home, engravings etc, so we planned to do the travel thing and all the rest of it like most people do and I realised it just wasn’t going to happen.

We were sitting out the back one morning and I said, “Now the weather’s warming up a bit, how about we do that trip to Longreach because he’d always had an involvement, he’d worked in airlines, and had an affiliation with airlines, and did a lot of engravings for the QANTAS museum in Longreach, of old airplanes which they sold them in their gift shop.

He just said, we’ve already been and I thought, oh? I said, we’d talked about it but we hadn’t got there yet.

He was very adamant that we’d been so I just let it go and that’s what you learn, is to just let things go because if you pull them up on things all the time it’s not the way to go. You just go with it. It’s less stressful for all concerned. I let it go, but just kept it filed.

A couple of months later I pushed that button again to see what the reaction was this time and he said we’d already been. I wasn’t quite as understanding this time and said we hadn’t been.

He said yes we had and I said, well, you must have gone with your girlfriend because you haven’t been with me (laughs). I just left it at that, but though oh dear.

You’re just telling yourself it can’t be that, but deep down you know it is. Suddenly all the plans you have go out the door.

Chris said his memory is causing him some grief and that he’d like to go and see someone. He’d never been someone to go to the doctor. We went to our GP about it. It was she who steered me toward Kath’s department* which has just been wonderful.

We’ve gone under Kath’s care and guidance ever since then. I go to the carer’s groups and that sort of thing.

Was it a relief to you to discover Kath Readford and the services available?

Oh, yes. Unless you’re involved in something or faced with the situation you have no idea what’s there, or what you can possibly get access too. There’s always somebody dealing with something every day. It’s not until you’re faced with something that you know you’ve got to find out what to do.

It’s a bit difficult sometimes. I don’t know whether I’m protective, but as a carer, you have to be aware of other people around you when you’re in a social situation in particular. Quite often the person, let’s say in Chris’s situation, he likes to talk about his life in the airlines, but a lot of things overlap and contradict one another, and so if he starts telling somebody, I’m watching for reactions and I’m listening to what he’s saying and I’m thinking, oh dear, I can’t let this go further because I don’t like him to be in a situation where

he (and he probably wouldn’t notice it himself) but from the other person’s perspective because there are people who will just say, ‘oh, for goodness sake, I don’t have to listen to all this rubbish’.

How do you think those people can be educated on what it means to have dementia and how to appropriately respond?

I don’t know how you do that. As the carer you learn to steer conversations or just avoid being in those situations, because you don’t want the person with the dementia to be made to feel, well nobody wants to listen to what I’m saying. I’ve heard the stories many times, and there’s always a bit of variation each time, but you can only let the conversation go for a certain length of time and then you’ve got to steer it away.

I just keep everything on a familiar territory and that’s the biggest thing. Familiarity and routine is a big thing. Taking them out of their zone is just aweful.

I’ve only done it once when we went on a bus trip to Inverell and Glen Innes to a ` Kelpie Festival and I was a bit worried about doing it, but we lived in Inverell before we came down here, so it was a familiar area for him.

Off we went on the coach. We got to Inverell and we were in the room, and he said, where are we?

What are we doing here? I told him we were in a motel in Inverell. He asked, where’s the car? I said it’s back in the depot in Dubbo.

He asked, how are we going to get it? I told him not to worry and the bus driver would be taking us back and he was fine with that.

He said what are we doing now? I told him we were going to dinner with the people from the bus and tomorrow we’ll work that out tomorrow. You have to cut it into small segments and don’t say well tomorrow we’re going to this and the next day we’re going to do that, it’s a waste of time.

It has just to be what’s happening now, because that’s as far as they can think. You’re the one who’s doing the planning ahead.

How has it changed your relationship?

It has. In the beginning you just feel pretty helpless.

When I first started going to Kath, I did a lot of crying.

It’s the emotional upheaval of it all. You’re thinking, this isn’t meant to be happening to us but you can’t plan your future so you just take what comes. I don’t do that now. I’m pretty good now. I don’t fall into a heap.

It’s OK to just have a cry. When I first went to Kath, she’s got a six week program, Creative Pathways to Care. That was fantastic. I makes you realise you’re not the only one with this situation. Everybody’s situation is a bit different to the next person’s but there all similarities just the same.

You can just feel relaxed with the other people because they’re not going to care if you fall down into a heap. You can just let out all your frustrations and anxieties. Nobody’s going to judge you and everyone’s there to support you, so it’s just been a wonderful thing.

You learn a lot of things, you get a lot of handouts and information, who to get in touch with or how to go about doing something. Everybody’s journey is different but the common thread is the same.

Do you think the issue of dementia care is being addressed sufficiently in the political realm?

I don’t think the people in politics have a big understanding of the requirements. Aged care nursing is very heavy and now there’s a push not to have registered nurses involved, which I think is a really dangerous situation.

If it was childcare, it wouldn’t even be considered, but because it’s aged care it seems to not matter so much because a lot of times when aged people in this situation can become disorientated about their surroundings and what’s going on around them, so you need trained people to make informed decisions if they have an event in the night.

That tends to be when they have these events.

What would you say to the relevant politicians about putting Chris into a care facility without a registered nurse on staff?

I think there’s only one facility here that doesn’t have an RN and that would be a factor when the time comes but that can also change at the whim of a political pen.

We can only just keep on to them about the necessity to have that sort of care in place.

It’s not at the top of their agenda. It’s like everything else. You’ve got to fight to get heard, and we have to keep pushing and keep in their ear about why it’s necessary. We’re an aging population so the facilities and services need to be in place.

How do you currently get respite?

Chris goes to respite one morning a week. Some-

It’s not at the top of their agenda. It’s like everything else. You’ve got to fight to get heard, and we have to keep pushing and keep in their ear about why it’s necessary. We’re an aging population so the facilities and services need to be in place.

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Chris and Sue Wilson. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER

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times it’s Mitch (Evans), sometimes it’s the other lovely lady from Catholic Community Care who come to get

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People have to admit they need the help and not try to soldier on because if the carer’s just about dead on their feet they can’t care for someone else and that’s what they need to realise.

I’ve said that to many people. Don’t try to be the martyr, just get some help.

Chris. They come and get him and bring him to town.

They go to morning tea. Sometimes they might link up with another person and their carer and they can chat away about what they want to chat about.

In a situation like this (The Friendship Group, meets monthly at the Outlook Cafe), I’m not worried about what he’s talking about because everybody knows, but if it was somewhere away, I’d be tuned in and just keeping an eye on the conversation.

What would life be like without those carer groups and support network?

It is too hard for people who care for people in that situation. Some don’t know how to go about getting the help. We don’t have any family in Dubbo so it’s just us. We don’t have any children and Chris as no family out here at all, he has two sisters in the UK and I’ve got one brother in Brisbane.

You do need a network. Even with the closest of

Chris and Sue Wilson.

PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER families, it’s really only the person closest to the person with dementia who knows really everything that’s happening. Usually when the family members see the person it’s usually in a social kind of setting so the person is relaxed and just taking everything as it comes.

They’re not dealing with the day to day events, they’re not making decisions because they can’t do that.

What have you learned along the way that you would share with people just finding out a loved one has dementia?

Just to go with the flow. It’s the best way. Don’t fight it because you won’t win, you just won’t. Accept what it is. Deal with it. Get the right help. Don’t be proud about it. There’s no stigma attached to reaching out to get the help you require for whatever your situation is.

It doesn’t matter if it’s alzheimer’s or other disabilities.

I’ve just watched some of the paralympic games.

Those people don’t consider they have a disability especially ones born the way they are. They just find their way around a situation to work out how to hold a table tennis bat. They’ve got no hands, so they hold it in their mouth. It doesn’t matter what you’re faced with. You can just deal with it in a good way. And it doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. It probably was some time ago, but these days, there’s so much help.

People have to admit they need the help and not try to soldier on because if the carer’s just about dead on their feet they can’t care for someone else and that’s what they need to realise. I’ve said that to many people. Don’t try to be the martyr, just get some help. *CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES DEMENTIA COUNSELLOR KATH READFORD

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How to talk to someone with dementia, from the perspective of people living with dementia 1. Talk to me Please talk to me, not my carer, family member or friend. Don’t prejudge my level of understanding.

2. Please speak clearly to me Make eye contact and speak clearly. Use short sentences, with one idea at a time. Avoid jargon, as I might misunderstand.

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Sometimes it takes a little longer for me to process information and find the right answer.

Don’t rush me. Allow me time to speak.

8. Break it down Providing information in smaller chunks will really help me.

9. Signage Please use clear and simple signage. *THIS INFORMATION IS SHARED WITH THE KIND PERMISSION OF ALZHEIMER’S AUSTRALIA WHO HAVE CREATED THESE TIPS BASED ON WHAT PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA HAVE ADVISED THEM WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THEIR LIVES. IT IS AVAILABLE IN A BROCHURE FORMAT.

3. Please keep questions simple Make sure I am listening and use simple questions and/or repetition, offered with sensitivity. It’s easier for me to answer direct questions, rather than open-ended questions, such as saying, ‘Wasn’t it lovely when we went out to the park yesterday?’ not just ‘Wasn’t it lovely yesterday?’

4. Treat me with dignity and respect I am still a person, so don’t patronise me. Respect and empathy are important to everyone. If I act differently it may be because I am having difficulty communicating or because of my disease.

5. Don’t question my diagnosis

Catholic Community Services offer respite solutions for carers and people living with dementia.

The symptoms of dementia are not always obvious. Listen to me and don’t minimise my feelings.

6. Distractions cause disruptions Less noise and fewer distractions, such as bright lights, will help me to focus.

7. Be patient and understanding

What is dementia?

Dementia describes a collection of symptoms that are caused by disorders affecting the brain.

It is not one specific disease. Dementia affects thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform everyday tasks and in time will interfere with the person’s normal, social and working life.

Everyone with dementia is unique. There are many different types of dementia and symptoms can present differently in different people.

Dementia in Australia There are currently 330,000 people in Australia who have dementia and many of these people are living and actively participating in their community.

There are some steps you can take to make your local community, business or organisation more dementia-friendly. To keep updated on the work, Alzheimer’s Australia is doing on Dementia-friendly communities, please visit: fightdementia.org.au.

SOURCE, ALZHEIMER’S AUSTRALIA

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SAVE OUR SOIL Part TWO Last month, National Advocate for Soil Health Major General the Honorable Michael Jeffrey addressed the 2016 National Landcare Conference in Melbourne. With his kind permission Part 2 of Save Our Soil features the second half of that address, which talks about the importance of land management and key areas of focus.

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AY I now address a few remarks to another key elements of a healthy soil and that is soil carbon. It is imperative that we work to improve soil carbon levels both for the future health of the soil and also to take advantage of the ability of the soil to hold a great deal of carbon as soil organic matter.

If more carbon can be drawn down from the atmosphere, it may prove advantageous in reducing the impact of climate change, as soil can hold more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined.

So how do we get the carbon into the soil?

Plants capture atmospheric carbon (carbon dioxide), combine it with water in the presence of sunlight to produce carbohydrate (glucose) and release oxygen through the fundamental life process called photosynthesis. The carbohydrate is then stored or used in the plant and of course, is what we eat either directly or indirectly as, for example, beef or lamb.

This is also the way the plant contributes to the health of the soil. Carbohydrate (Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen) moves through the plant to be stored in the roots with some carbon travelling into soil microaggregates. Organic matter from the breakdown of plants, animal manures and residues contains this same carbon which also becomes incorporated into the soil.

It is estimated that 150 to 200 billion tonnes of soil organic matter has been lost from planetary soil over the past century. However, with the implementation of regenerative landscape management practices, it has been suggested that soil organic matter might be restored to pre-industrial agricultural levels within 50 years.

We need to test this over the long term.

This is good to know as our national and global soil carbon levels have been depleted, in some cases severely. This carbon content is usually derived from organic matter and is a key indicator of soil health, structure and the soil’s ability to hold water. It is the carbon content of soil that governs its capacity to absorb, retain and supply moisture and to sustain active plant growth - a gram of soil organic carbon can facilitate the retention of up to 8 grams of water and vice versa. Soil organic matter is especially important in sandy soils where it helps to retain moisture and in loamy and clay soils it improves soil structure which contributes to better water filtration and retention.

Soil carbon helps support a healthy balance of nutrients, minerals and soil microbial and fungal ecologies and improves fertility. It is these constituents that ensure healthy soils and it is the healthy soil that promotes vigorous plant growth producing good nutritious food and high quality fibre.

Unfortunately, across the Australian dryland cropping and grazing sector, most actively farmed soils have a carbon content of 1.5 percent or less, yet to

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deliver its myriad of benefits, the soil carbon levels for quality agriculture should be around 3 percent to 5 percent.

A key requirement is finding the means to measure soil carbon levels quickly, accurately and cheaply across broad acreage. Some form of satellite system linked to ground sensors with an appropriate algorithm looks promising and should receive high priority research funding.

If we “fix the policy” “to restore and maintain the health of the Australian landscape such that it is fit for purpose” and governments agree to declare our soil, water and vegetation to be national natural strategic assets to be managed accordingly and in an integrated way, we must also “fix the paddock”.

Right now, although a lot of good work is being undertaken by Landcare groups, Natural Resource Management organisations, our farmers and soil scientists, much of our soil and water resources remain at risk.

So what is the situation?

Australia’s soil is mostly very old, strongly weathered, shallow and relatively infertile by world standards. z Around 60 percent of our arable land in the southern half of the continent is degraded in some way – some of it seriously, through wind and water erosion, feral animals, aridification, acidification, significant loss of soil organic carbon, structural decline and loss of nutrients, overgrazing and excessive use of chemicals, pesticides and herbicides. z The State of the Environment Report of 2011 notes that of our 39 soil types only four now have sufficient levels of carbon needed to hold water and support microbiological and fungal action in the soil. z Rates of soil erosion by wind and water across much of Australia continue to greatly exceed soil formation (about 0.01mm per year), and although we are improving this situation through better ground cover measures, we still have a long way to go. z Salinity is still a major problem in parts of the country although many areas have overcome this with appropriate planting of perennials and trees. z Erosion and excision of one million kilometres of our streams and rivers is affecting water flows, irrigation systems, fish and other wildlife. z The kidneys or filters of any river system, our wetlands, have been too often drained for farming and urbanisation purposes. z Urban growth and larger cities are taking up good agricultural land, acting as urban “hotspots” and negatively influencing our climate, z Climate change is bringing about more erratic and unreliable rainfall, bigger floods, extreme temperatures, longer droughts and hotter wildfires.

Henry Bolte said “We could not have made a bigger

mess of the soil of the country if its destruction had been carried out under supervision.”

Sir Henry highlighted the problem in this state which then encouraged some sensible and timely approaches to soil conservation.

Today, we continue to make improvements in the land and natural resource management areas including in agricultural land management, through practising no till sowing, pasture cropping, rotational grazing and cropping and reduced clearing and burning of stubble, but we have to move faster to be effective long term.

It is important to remember that whatever we plan to do for the overall Australian environment, it must go hand in hand with agriculture as an important export industry, as an employer, either directly or indirectly, of around 1.6 million people, and because agriculture utilizes around 60 percent of the Australian landscape.

When the 68th United Nations General Assembly declared 2015 to be the International Year of Soils, they did so with the realisation of the need to do something now about our global landscapes. The timing is right for Australia to take the lead on sustainable soil management through the export of knowledge in particular.

Further, just last December the French Agricultural Minister launched the 4/1000 Initiative: Soils for Food Security and Climate which has set a very ambitious target for the agricultural sector to increase and protect carbon stocks in soils.

Other leaders have also recognised the importance of healthy soil.

Franklin Roosevelt displayed strategic foresight when he said – “The history of every nation is eventually written in the way in which it cares for its soil” and “the nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself.”

In summary, Australia and large areas of the planet are facing a troubled future if sustained and coordinated efforts are not quickly made to restore and maintain the health of our landscapes. Apart from missing a key opportunity to adapt to climate change, it will mean an inability to sustainably feed the projected 9-10 billion global population by 2050, whilst our finite water supplies will continue to diminish and in some cases, disappear altogether. This scenario is a recipe for international insecurity.

Here in Australia we do have many farmers who are already implementing innovative and more holistic farming practices tices to achieve an economic, environmennvironmental and social benefit. nefit. We also have organisations, ations, research bodies and d universities looking at solutions lutions

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by Landcare groups, Natural Resource Management organisations, our farmers and soil scientists, much of our soil and water resources remain at risk. - National Advocate for or soil health Major General the Honourable Michael Jeffery, AC, AO(Mil), CVO, MC (Retd)

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National Advocate for Soil Health Major General the Honorable Michael Jeffrey addressing the 2016 National Landcare Conference in Melbourne last month attended by local Landcare coordinators. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

to our degraded landscapes. But we have to move faster and in a more coordinated fashion. Let me briefly explain what I am doing about agricultural landscape repair.

The Soils for Life organisation, of which I am Chairman, is a small not for profit, registered environmental organisation with the principal purpose of providing leadership to foster and facilitate the wider adoption of regenerative landscape management. We started with 21 best practice agricultural field study sites across the country and we are currently rolling out a proven mentoring program in western New South Wales. We hope to expand to 100 sites within the next three years.

The overall objective is to establish a long-term soil, water, agricultural research base where we can consistently measure triple bottom line performance and make this information readily available to other farmers, the soil science community, governments and the public and private sectors.

An important component of this process, is the need to reconnect urban Australia with its rural roots, to ensure that people know where their food and fibre comes from and the vital importance of healthy soil to sustain future generations. One way we can do this immediately and economically is through the establishment of a garden in every primary and junior high school in the country with a nationally agreed, integrated syllabus. The ACT government has agreed to support an appropriate pilot study.

I am working with the Stephanie Alexander group, had discussions with Gardening Australia Costa Georgiadis, spoken to Education Ministers and many others attending conferences similar to this and all agree that we desperately need to expand our public education on the importance of soil. Educating our children would be a very good start.

We can also encourage community gardens and greater community participation in the various land care activities.

We can implement processes that may be very old and largely forgotten, but still provide useful techniques for dealing with our ancient land. An example of this is the use of the Yeoman’s Plough in support of the Green Army in planting trees or shrubs more effectively without damaging the soil structure and ensuring better moisture retention.

Landcare NSW - Central West There are over 80 registered and active Landcare, environment and producer groups in the Central West, ranging from small Landcare groups looking after their local piece of bush to large groups working to protect their natural resources. Groups are supported regionally by the NRM Working Group.

This Working Group brings together local representatives to network and develop project ideas and to inform, advise and consult with one another. Training is carried out with the NRM Working group to increase their local capacity and can also coordinate regional, collaborative, partnership projects.

The Working Group fosters strength and collaboration in the region.

There are a variety of land uses in the region including grazing, cropping, mining, viticulture and tourism.

Key issues that Land Carers focus on in the Central West include: z Improving and increasing vegetation z Grazing management z Improving soil health z Rural mental health For more information visit the Landcare NSW website http://centralwest.lls.nsw.gov.au/our-region/communityparticipation, Facebook www.facebook.com/LandcareCentralWest or the “Find A Farmer” – joint CMA/Landcare web app: http://www.findafarmer.com.au/ * John Ryan is a council member and central west representative Landcare NSW

We also need to stocktake our soil/water/agricultural knowledge base, establish the consequent scientific shortfalls and then refocus our research priorities accordingly: e.g broad acre soil carbon measurement, reducing inorganic nitrogen leaching, reduction of evaporation/runoff, etc. There is also an imperative to look at the regulations governing our landscapes to ensure that good work is not inhibited by regulatory overburden.

Let me summarise my remarks by asking these questions: Does it make sense to: z Agree a national objective to restore and maintain the health of the Australian landscape such that it is fit for purpose? z Agree that the three components of a healthy landscape; namely its soil, water and plants, be declared as key national, natural strategic assets, to be managed accordingly and in an integrated way? z Acknowledge that as 130,000 farmers are looking after 60 percent of the Australian continent on behalf of 24 million urban Australians, those farmers should be rewarded/incentivised as the primary carers of our agricultural landscape. z Reconnect urban Australia with its rural roots, including educating the young through the establish-

ment of a garden in every primary and junior high school in the country with an agreed syllabi and appropriately trained teachers. z Stocktake our current knowledge base on soil, water, plants and food nutrition and the location/s of such knowledge, with a view to defining key gaps in that knowledge and refocus our scientific research accordingly? Three key priorities might be to design the means to measure broadacre and soil carbon, to fix organic nitrogen from the air and to increase rainfall retention in the soil. z Ascertain and reduce regulatory overburden, and to z Establish a long term research base of 100 leading practice farming case studies Australia wide, based on Soils For Life methodologies, including annual performance measurement?

I think it does make sense. I hope you do too.

To conclude. A healthy soil is vital for sustainable life and it impacts all society. Indeed if you eat, you should be involved!

I’ve provided some thoughts on how we might both ‘fix the policy’ and ‘fix the paddock’.

In a nutshell, ‘to save the planet we must save the soil!’ z NOTE: Read the first half the Major Jeffery’s address in the Dubbo Weekender, September 30 edition.

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A 4WD ute filled with toys and games travels through rural and remote areas visiting children. It’s not Santa Claus, it’s the Bogan Bush Mobile! WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Nichole Jenkins HE first mobile children’s education vehicle travelled around the parks of Sydney’s trendy Newtown. It was a magic yellow bus which attracted up to 200 children each session. In its bush environs, the service is a 4WD ute laden with toys and parked in a paddock out the back o’ Bourke. It visits groups varying in size from three to 30.

In the Nyngan district, the Bogan Bush Mobile serves villages and tiny communities from Tottenham to Trangie, Collie to Collereina, Marra to Marthaguy.

Recent flooding and high rainfall in the shire has certainly presented its challenges.

“We can’t get out to Mungery at the moment, it’s underwater,” service director Nichole Jenkins laughs.

“But we try to go rain, hail or shine.”

Nichole’s full title is Bogan Shire Children’s Services director, which covers management of the newly-built Bogan Shire Early Learning Centre in Nyngan and the Bogan Bush Mobile.

But Nichole’s not one to stand on ceremony and quickly moves on to what the service provides in the community.

“It was established 26 years ago by those who saw a need for young isolated children in the zero to fiveyear age group, particularly in places like Girilambone and Collareina.

“My great-aunt was actually involved in seeking the original funding which is amazing considering we are not from this area.”

The service is federally-funded and budget-based.

Both the centre and outreach program are auspiced by the Bogan Shire Council, operating under the Children’s Services department.

“It’s not based on how many children we see which

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is perfect. Our minimum is two children from two different families,” Nichole explains.

At the moment, there’s 178 children on the books, the service visits 12 different venues across five shires and each of the four educators clocks up 1000km travel each week. It’s both flexible and versatile.

“We can set up anywhere the children are,” Nichole says. “A hall, a park, even in a paddock.”

Bogan Shire Council Children’s Services administration officer Emma McHattan says sessions generally run for two hours and the program was developed by qualified early childhood professionals, changing on a fortnightly basis to take into consideration the children’s interests and learning intentions.

“Children and families experience a wide range of developmentally appropriate learning experiences provided through learning studios within a flexible routine. Children are also free to flow from indoor to outdoor learning spaces.”

As well as education, which is vital in this age group, the service allows for social interaction which is equally important.

The educators say that parents are just as excited as the children when they see the bush mobile coming up the road.

“Children are provided with an environment to support valuable socialisation which otherwise may be limited within their rural and remote communities,” Emma says.

“Parents and carers utilise sessions as a wonderful environment to connect, share and support each other within their parenting roles.”

With many parents uncertain about which activities they should instigate with their children, Nichole says

the regular get-togethers present a good time for chats with others to occur.

“Parents get ideas from each other on what to do. We frequently have conversations with parents on activities which they can also discuss with each other.

For many of the families, a fortnightly visit from the Bogan Bush Mobile is the only opportunity they get to mix and mingle with other families. It’s also the only chance they have for early education for their children.

“The communities we visit don’t have access to early childhood services which is vital in the zero to three age group,” Nichole points out. “The first five years is vital as wiring of the brain starts from birth.”

She says access to the service helps them know what to expect at the different stages of development.

“It’s also important with their social interaction and cognitive skills. It’s an amazing resource in that way, offering guidance and assistance and building on what they know.”

Nichole says this mode of education, which also exists in the Far West communities of Cobar, Brewarrina, Walgett, Bourke and Broken Hill is certainly exceptional.

“Every mobile service is very, very unique. In that regard, we treat every community differently, we establish a different plan for what we do in each particular community depending on the needs of the children.

We offer whatever service is possible.”

The program can reflect what is offered in the early learning centre or be tailored to the needs of participants within reason. Special needs can also be addressed, including referrals to other services.

“It’s really vital for these families that don’t have access to any other service,” Nichole emphasises. “It’s

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also very affordable.”

The popularity of the Bogan Bush Mobile lies in some of the stories arising from the service.

“Hearing their stories and looking at photos from the sessions, it’s obvious that this is meaningful for the kids and meaningful for a lot of families. We don’t realise how much they love it.”

The service is certainly fulfilling its philosophy of ‘providing access to well-structured appropriate early childhood play sessions to power and influence every child’s development.’

“This service holds a special place in the hearts of our community, it was developed by a group of community-minded parents advocating for early childhood education services in the bush,” Emma said.

Even better, it is forging a stronghold for all families living in remote areas, both present and future.

“Today we are seeing the second generation of Bogan bush mobile kids attending as parents who once attended Bogan Bush Mobile as children, are bringing their own children to enjoy this fantastic service.”

What the service offers: For children z We believe every child is unique with their own interests, learning style, individual development timetable and culture. z We aim to reach all children especially those who are geographically, socially or otherwise isolated and provide them with the time, space and opportunity to interact in a meaningful, fun and educational environment. z Every child is encouraged to participate and benefit from social interaction with other children and adults.

For families z We actively encourage families to attend sessions and interact with each other, especially those who are geographically, socially or otherwise isolated.

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What is mobile learning?

Mobile children’s services are early learning services ‘on wheels’. Outreach educators visit communities to deliver quality early learning and care services where centre-based delivery is not readily available. Mobile children’s services take on many forms including pre-school, child care, toy libraries, play sessions and playgroups. Services generally work with children 0-6 years old.

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z We embrace diversity and respond to changing individual and family needs.

For staff z We will aim to create an inspirational environment which supports their motivation and commitment and which encourages and fosters continuous personal development. z We will endeavour to earn the respect of families through commitment, dedication, trust and educational expertise For the community z We will liaise with other services and resources to enrich our programs and support existing community programs z We will encourage and facilitate a sense of community ownership. z We will communicate with specialists to assist in planning and enriching programs for children with additional or special needs.

For the program z We will present a wide range of materials and experiences to form a positive framework in which children can develop in all areas that are based on the individual interests of each child. z We will provide an anti-bias, inclusive program caters to individual needs and supports culture and diversity.

Funding changes NICHOLE JENKINS: Our funding is under threat at the moment because the Department of Education is changing the funding model in line with the new childcare package. The budget-based funding will cease and this service will be treated as a long daycare. It’s a user-pay system, so for us it’s a very different viability. The new system is due to come out in 2018 but would not offer the best support for families. There’s a feasibility study being done at the moment and we have spoken to Mark Coulton about our concerns.

PARKES MP MARK COULTON: This mobile early childhood service is currently funded under the Budget-Based Funded Program (BBF). Funding under this program will continue until 30 June 2018 after which it will be replaced by a fairer system for all services.

This time frame gives all BBF services an additional 12 months to transition to the new funding arrangements. All mobile services currently funded under the BBF program will receive support to transition to the new funding program.

I understand fully the importance of the Bogan Bush Mobile and the excellent educational opportunities it provides for children. The mobile early childhood service model provided an opportunity for pre-school aged children, particularly those living in rural and isolated areas, to enjoy socialisation. I emphasised this when I met recently in Canberra with the Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham.

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PATH TO PRIESTHOOD Karl Sinclair’s decision to become a priest was the culmination of a number of events in his life. As the signs added up, he knew he’d made the right choice. He spoke to Weekender about making his religious beliefs his life’s work. WORDS Natalie Holmes ARL SINCLAIR is in Dubbo for 12 months as a seminarian. On his way to becoming a priest, this is the practical component of his study. He’s at home in the Catholic presbytery at St Brigid’s, and comfortable in his spiritual journey.

“Being here, I’m really cementing why I’m doing this and who I am,” he said.

Karl is kept busy most days, assisting Father Greg Kennedy and Father Joshy Kaithakulangara in their roles.

“I can’t do any of the priest’s duties but I am doing a lot of things like visiting the sick and infirm.

“I have also spent time at St Mary’s as the school chaplain and doing things around the parish.”

Karl grew up in Sydney in the western suburb of Toongabbie.

“It’s fairly middle class and incredibly diverse with a variety of nationalities,” he explains. “It was a good place to grow up. My parents are still there and my siblings.”

The eldest of four, Karl attended Baulkham Hills High, a school for gifted students.

“It’s a state school but it’s fully selective and you have to have done well enough to pass the exams,” Karl says.

“After I finished school, I went to the University of Sydney and studied a Bachelor of Science majoring in Maths.”

Although it was his strength, Karl wasn’t inspired.

“I was good at Maths, it always came easily to me but it didn’t fill me with passion.

“I got to the point where I didn’t know if I wanted to finish the degree. That’s what led me to become a teacher.”

Karl moved to Bathurst and enrolled in a Masters of Teaching.

“At the same time, I was the board master and maths tutor at Stannies (St Stanislaus) College.”

At that point, Karl came to a crossroads in life.

“The nature of my work changed and my career trajectory was falling. I was happy in the short-term, but there was nothing in the long-term.

“I enjoyed the work and living in Bathurst but I didn’t know where to go. In terms of my faith, I went to church all my life, I grew up in a Catholic family even though I wasn’t educated at a Catholic school. My family are still involved and my faith started to deepen because I wanted to follow my relationship with God.” When he moved to Bathurst, Karl made a commitment to go to Mass every week not just sporadically as he had done in the past.

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A major event also occurred in his closeknit family that deeply affected them all.

“My sister was just 15 when she had a heart attack and she was 10 days in a coma. It was during that time that I came to fall deeper in love with the parish community who went out of their way to help us through that period. People cooked meals for us, people were asking about my sister, they were praying for us.

“These were people we barely knew but they cared deeply about my sister’s plight.

It was putting it into perspective in a very real way. I wouldn’t call it an epiphany but it was a deep moment of being together with God. It was that moment of the relationship where the things you are doing start to make sense.”

The idea of becoming a priest really hit home with Karl when it was suggested by a friend. But it still took a long time before he made the commitment.

“It was a night at my mate’s place that put the idea of priesthood into my head – and he’s an atheist!”

Another friend from Stannies was joining the De La Salle brothers.

“Our mutual friend said, ‘why don’t you do something like him?”

“I was struck by the question and my immediate reaction was maybe it’s not a stupid idea. I spent the next month in deep contemplation to see if I could see myself doing this.”

The question for Karl was what made him the happiest in life.

“Helping others in the community and coming to know Jesus in faith. That’s what stood out and meant the most to me. The more I thought about it, the more it started to make sense.”

Along the way, Karl spoke to other friends and family members about his decision.

“The more people I spoke to, the more it made sense to me. Generally, people were very supportive of the idea. Mum was behind me from the get-go, Dad was worried it was a whim. He has had plenty of examples in my youth of me starting things and then not finishing them! My friends were supportive, my siblings didn’t have very much to say.”

It was still another eight or nine months before Karl made the final decision regarding the rest of his life. At the time, he was 22 years-old.

“It wasn’t an easy decision to make. But in the end, it just clicked. I had the sense that it was what God wanted me to do. It was my calling.”

Although he’d decided the priesthood

was the life for him, Karl then had to go through a selection process.

When asked what qualities are generally sought by the church, Karl says it is fairly straightforward. The basic requirements are being male and unmarried. Having a tertiary degree demonstrates dedication and ability. Involvement in the local parish is also looked upon favourably.

“I don’t think they are looking for anything in particular, they are looking for people with a genuine love of God.” Karl started on his seven years of training at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd at Homebush in Sydney in 2012. It’s one of just seven or eight seminaries across Australia.

Altering his lifestyle so dramatically was a big step for him.

“It is very heavily timetabled, beginning with prayer, mass, classes every morning, gardening in the afternoon. The first year was less academic, the next three years

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were more structured with a full academic load. We would also go out and do pastoral work. It’s a rigid lifestyle with communal meals and a lot of study. We’d have Friday nights and Saturdays off. It was a much more rigid lifestyle than I’d been living.”

This year has been a very fruitful time for the 29 year-old.

“What it has allowed me to do is set myself to getting to know the parish and the townspeople, become more sure of myself and be able to do a lot more tangible things in terms of giving back and seeing projects through.”

Karl described his year away from the seminary as a learning curve.

“It’s good to have a community to help steer, to show the power of love and lots of really positive experiences. It’s a very humbling thing to allow yourself to do.

The real gift has been learning from others. It’s been a moment of growth for me.”

The other aspect of Karl’s dedication to becoming a priest is adhering to the principles of commitment and celibacy.

“For me, this is a choice that means life is filled with the joy of God and the joy of the gospel,” he said.

“That’s the real calling. If you’re being called to the priesthood, you’re being called. It’s within yourself.

Karl describes the struggle as purifying.

“There’s a joy that comes with celibacy. We are called to have a level of restraint and a commitment to a higher calling. It’s serving a deeper thing.”

Karl says the necessary commitment is the ‘most sincere promise a person can make.’

“Obedience to the bishop and trusting in the world of God is having trust and recognising a legitimate authority in a world where freedom is a desired part of the culture of our society.”

For Karl, freeing himself from those social restraints has given him the greatest joy.

But it’s not for everyone. During his time at the seminary, he has observed other men leave to get engaged or married.

“Many brothers at the seminary have doubted it, whereas I haven’t had any doubts. You have a bad day, but you don’t quit your commitment. What I’m doing gives you a greater freedom to love all.”

Knowing that he won’t marry is not something that bothers Karl.

“It doesn’t fill me with sadness. It makes the joy of

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God known in families and it’s not a struggle.”

Karl is now looking forward to an exciting future where he will be able to fully explore his calling and help others in the community. Two areas where he hopes to become further involved is youth ministry and music ministry.

“Youth ministry is very important to me because it’s how I came to know God. At 15, I had joined Antioch, which was a move towards youth ministry, relating to one another and to God.” “Later, I started to get involved in Antioch leadership trying to bring the experience to others. For me, it was a real sense of leadership.

Karl has a musical background and plays guitar, piano and has a tenor vocal range.

“I’ve also been involved in the music ministry.”

Karl says the call to community is strong and something to which he needs to respond.

“A lot of my reward comes out of the church, coming through the ministry and parish.

“I have a deeper sense of God and what my role is in the priesthood. I hope my future in the priesthood gives more joy but enough fresh challenges.”

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and former journalist.

Clash of presidential try-hards still a spectacle too bad to miss DON’T want to harp.

It’s true the whole Trump circus has been done to death.

But like elephants humping, you just can’t look away.

And as atrocity follows so hard on the heels of the latest outrage it’s easy to lose perspective.

To recap on the week – that’s just this week – we discovered he hasn’t paid a cent in tax for 18 years, and that he and ex-New York mayor and Trump supporter (in the same way parasitic fish hitch a ride on a shark’s belly) Rudy Giuliani both consider it an act of genius.

Also, just this week, he dishonestly slut-shamed a former Miss Universe because she had the gall to remember him as a boorish prick (my words, not hers).

Then, again, just this week, he implied that returned soldiers with posttraumatic stress disorder were somehow weak, unlike his supporters, who could apparently muscle their way through psychological injury.

Compare this to Mitt Romney running against Obama when the two telling blows landed on him were that he went on holiday with his dog in a cage on the car roof, and he was taped spouting the usual rich-guy view of people receiving welfare.

Consider: Trump has consistently advocated violence against protesters at his rallies, twice suggested Hillary Clinton could be assassinated, mocked the disabled, called Mexicans rapist drugdealers, lied through his teeth about everything past and present and lustfully proclaimed that if his daughter wasn’t his daughter that he’d date her.

Any one of those episodes would get you disqualified from cage-fighting, but Trump swaggers on, albeit with poll popularity down somewhat after the tax revelation.

Trump said he could shoot people and it would cost him nothing in public support, which is both an astonishingly stupid thing to say, and on recent experience apparently not far from the truth.

But it’s just not the cartoon clownishness of a man “campaigning” for the

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highest public office on the planet.

It’s that up against this cartoon clown, in all his vulgar, violent bigotry, his chronic immaturity and complete unfamiliarity with fact, much less the truth, Hillary Clinton isn’t that far in front of him.

So the first question is how does an inept grub like Trump find his way through a rather sophisticated and prolonged process through which the Republicans identify their best candidate.

It’s not like he gamed the system, or was a darling of the power-brokers: in the case of the latter he was the exact opposite.

And you can bet that behind the scenes those power-brokers are seriously reconsidering how to re-wire the primaries to keep the goats out.

The second question is why does Clinton, whose gaffes have been few and minor (the “bucket of deplorables” descrip-

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tion of Trump supporters was her worst moment), struggle to put daylight between her and him?

If you were standing for election – be it school captain or president – and a genie offered you three wishes about your potential opponent, Trump is what you’d wish for, and you’d let the other two wishes slide because that would be enough in any other circumstances.

She’s up against an unqualified, deranged, openly racist ignoramus who

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treats women like play-meat and whose shocking narcissism could power a submarine if you had batteries that could hold down the charge without puking.

And yet she’s only just doing ok, and her best gains have been on the back of the Trump tax revelation, not really anything she’s done.

What’s changed so dramatically since the heady, optimistic days of the Obama campaign?

For that matter what’s changed on the Republican side that a graceless, godless, uncouth womaniser can be running for the party of the Bible Belt?

And is Clinton any more in the lap of corporate paymasters than anyone else doing the rounds of US politics?

Or are we witnessing a dramatic tipping point in contempt for government not present even in the last presidential campaign?

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Shane and Deb Whiley: The pet people Shane and Deb Whiley left their respective jobs in the police force and medical administration to establish the Central West’s first and only pet crematorium. Eleven years later since starting out, they are heartened by their huge leap of faith and the knowledge that they can offer help and healing to grieving pet owners. AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes Shane Whiley I’D been in the police force for 18 years and I was looking to get out of it. Deb and I had been looking for a franchise that we could do but they were all too much money. I was working at the PCYC at the time and in 2001 I rescued a puppy.

My police partner’s father had a farm and a litter of purebred kelpies. I told him to bring them into the PCYC where we gave them away – all except for one little girl.

We have a 10 acre block outside Orange so I took her home and called her Lucy. She was growing to be a great dog and would do things with me, even sitting on the lawn mower. One day, I was unloading a trailer when the jockey wheel collapsed. It was a hot day and I didn’t know that Lucy was under the trailer. Sadly, she was killed.

That was the crux that changed my life. I found the death of my dog was like losing a member of my family. I was totally unprepared and it brought me to a blubbering mess. I nursed my beautiful dog, apologising for her sudden death that I had caused.

Burying her was the hardest thing I had to do, and tears were pouring down my cheeks. It was the middle of the drought so the ground was also hard.

It took me some time to understand why this tragedy had occurred. I believe it was fate and Lucy’s death led both my wife Deb and I to where we are today.

When Lucy was killed, I had no knowledge of pet cremation. There were few options for country people so I buried Lucy in a spot we now call ‘Lucy’s Garden.’

Then one day, I was reading the paper.

As luck would have it, there was a Pets at Peace franchise in Dubbo for sale. I knew that there was one in Bathurst as well so I purchased both Bathurst and Dubbo, to cover the whole Central West.

I got them cheap as they weren’t doing anything with them. Prior to that, all the pets from this area were going to Narellan to be cremated there and then redistributed to owners. There was nothing like this in the Central West. I believe in fate and Lucy came in to my life to change it because the accident happened and my entire life changed.

My decision was based a lot on gut instinct.

A lot of people told me I was mad, but if you do the same as everyone else, you end up all the same. We needed Council approval to build the crematorium and it had to meet EPA regulation.

Once built, it took some time to learn how to use it and we had guidance from another Pets at Peace franchise. There was also a lot of late night research to find out information. There are only two other crematoriums for pets in NSW – in Narellan and Wollongong. We are the only ones in the Central West.

To start with, we were doing 10 to 12 pets per month, now we are doing 20 to

30 a week.

Back then I was doing the cremations and Deb was working full-time as well as helping in the business. That’s how we got started. It was a huge leap of faith and there were plenty of hidden costs. The cremator would break down even though it was new and it cost me a fortune to get someone to come to fix it.

Gradually, I found someone local to do it, and taught myself how to do maintenance as well.

To get our name out there, we went on the show circuit, targeting everyone. In the early days, we also wasted a lot on advertising. Now, we have a more strategic approach to targeting the market and do things like sponsoring the Million Paws Walk.

Three and-a-half years ago, I had a double knee reconstruction and became the office girl. Deb and my son were doing the cremations.

Being a former police officer, I am used to speaking to people. I’ve had some training in grief counselling in the police force. When people call, they are upset and you need to be able to talk to them in a way to distract them a little bit, to encourage them to go and have a coffee or a scotch, to get out the photos and reminisce about their pet because that is a good thing. Deb has learned to do this as well, just by listening.

She’s the smart one in the business.

Deb does all the accounts and bookwork. She’s always done it. I did it but I was messing it up so she took over. I would do the banking and it would be wrong. She used to work in the private hospital as a ward clerk and medical receptionist. Coming from that environment, she has empathy, which you have to have in this industry. She is good at talking to people on the phone.

We have pets of our own which include chooks, goats, budgies and Ellie the white Labrador and Jake, our chocolate Labrador. Our dogs are so much part of our family, they are just like our children.

Meeting them does help people, especially if they are dog people.

Lately I have found myself working in the business, not on the business so we have just employed a full-time person in the office.

We are now looking at expanding from a home-based business into the industrial area in Orange and importing a cremator from the UK.

Deb Whiley SHANE’S the talker in the business, I prefer him to do the talking. I do the paperwork side of things. He does a lot of the work. When Shane suggested we buy the business, I said no way.

I’m a very shy person and I didn’t think I could talk to people when they lost a pet. But I knew he was passionate about what he wanted so I went along with the idea.

I was in the background initially but there came a time when I had to step out of my comfort zone. I also had to do that when we moved to Cumnock to the oneman police station there. I’ve learned to go along with the business and talk to people and try to comfort them. I have worked for doctor’s reception and medical administration.

Doing that has helped me deal with the public and talk to people. That part of my background is helping me with this business. Taking ashes back to people, they can get upset. Some people take them at the front door while others want to have a cup of tea and look

at photo albums. Either way, we respect their wishes.

It’s definitely an emotional time and it can be draining. At the moment, we have two old Labradors and have to face that they won’t be around much longer.

We have lost pets in the past, so can understand how people are feeling. When our labs have to be cremated will be a sad time. It was hard enough when my sister’s golden retriever died. We had known that dog since it was a pup.

The role we play certainly is rewarding. Some of our customers come back many times. People come back to tell us all the time how good our service is. To know the person who collects the pet and returns the ashes, they get to talk to us. That is special for them, knowing where their pet is going. From day one, we wanted to run a more personal service for people. We probably created a rod for our own back but that’s what we wanted. People can be apprehensive about the process, that’s why we like to meet them to reassure them. Knowing that our beautiful 10-acre block out of town is their pet’s final journey certainly helps.

Afterwards, they can have a barbecue, bury the ashes or have a celebration of their pet’s life. Dealing with death, it is very confronting for me. To be honest, I don’t do a lot in the crematorium. I put the ashes in the urns, we also take a lock of fur from each pet which started when someone asked for it and now we do it for everyone. Most people are overjoyed that we have given that to them.

We meet some really nice people in this business. Everyone is in the same situation and they are apprehensive about what we do. We try to do our best and 99 per cent of people are overwhelmed and happy. Expansion is in our plans. Never in our wildest dreams did we think that it would get as big as it has. I used to do the bookwork at night and go with Shane on weekends to meet with people.

Then when he was out of action I came in the business full-time. And now we have an employee, who is such a pet lover, which is good. It was a huge leap of faith for both of us to do this but it worked. Shane is a good talker, he’s dealt with people all his life in policing.

He was doing another job when we met but his goal was to get into the police force.

He’s got a lot of experience and is good at dealing with people, particularly those who are upset or grieving.

That’s why he’s so good at dealing with people from all walks of life. In my medical career, I would also deal with patients in the hospital or at the doctors from all parts of the community. Shane is also passionate about pets and so am I. z The Whileys have won several awards for their business acumen, including Master Professional of the Year at the 6th Master Dog Breeders and Associates (MDBA) annual awards last year.

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The business of running a modern phone company

BY MATHEW DICKERSON SMALL BUSINESS RULES CONSULTANT NT

T is a question I have often pondered. A person in a highlevel position makes a comment and people stop and listen. The comments are used in newspaper articles and on news broadcasts and as we read or listen to the words we nod and acknowledge that this person really is knowledgeable and is worth listening to.

My question is this. Does someone who has brilliant thoughts make it to the high position by virtue of their brilliance so we should stop and listen to their comments or is it just the fact that the person is in an influential position that suddenly their remarks are important?

I don’t know the correct answer but this week we were privileged to listen to the Telstra CEO attend a Dubbo Chamber of Commerce breakfast as the guest speaker.

There is no doubt that everyone in the room stopped and listened.

When it comes to the world of technology in Australia, there are not many that could claim to be as important as the Telstra CEO. With a market capitalisation of $63 billion, it sits as number six on the ASX200 with no other technology companies even in the top fifty. There are more private shareholders in Telstra than any other company in Australia and it would be hard to envisage a day

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g going by without every individual i Australia using some part of the in T Telstra network.

Andy Penn started working for T Telstra five years ago and was offic cially appointed as CEO on May 1, 2015. With all of that introduction, what did Andy have to say about the world of communications?

Andy presented some initial information to explain the complexity of the network we are dealing with. Most people don’t think too much about what happens on the other side of their telephone or computer. We simply pick up our phone and dial a number and expect to be speaking with someone a few seconds later.

If it doesn’t connect or work instantly we say “damned [insert carrier name]” and try again.

When you start to think about the complexity of what happens when we do make that call, maybe we should actually jump for joy each time a successful call is made rather than be annoyed when the occasional call is unsuccessful.

That is not so much trying to defend any carrier but to try and think about what an incredibly complicated network we have.

In 1858 the first inter-colony telegraph links were built when Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney were linked together with Brisbane being connected three years later. To emphasise the simplicity of the early networks, the Overland Telegraph Line was made from a single strand of iron wire.

That is a far cry from a modern

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network that goes via a complicated array of wireless; wired and fibre transmissions and is automatically routed at a number of points via a variety of switches and routers.

One point that Andy did make was that Telstra received heavy criticism earlier in the year when a part of its mobile network stopped operating for a two-hour period (it happened twice). The customer expectation has now been set so high that every person expects to be connected at all times of the day and night and we are immediately aware if our phone is not connected. Ten years ago if the mobile network was down for half

` To emphasise the simplicity of the early networks, the Overland Telegraph Line was made from a single strand of iron wire. That is a far cry from a modern network that goes via a complicated array of wireless; wired and fibre transmissions and is automatically routed at a number of points via a variety of switches and routers.

a day we may not have noticed but today the down time is measured in seconds.

After an overview of the actual network, Andy started to talk about broad business concepts.

Although he was talking specifically about the Telstra business, the one thing that has been bleedingly obvious about the CEO Series is that business concepts are business concepts with just the number of zeroes being different.

Andy spoke about investment in business infrastructure. He spoke of billions of dollars of investment – about seven billion per annum at the moment. Obviously businesses in the room are not about to invest billions but the point was made that without ongoing investment, businesses are doomed.

This investment was Telstra’s point of difference and there is no doubt that Telstra is regarded as having significantly better coverage than their competitors. For the business owners sitting in the room, the point made by Andy was that investment into your own business in infrastructure and in improving the customer experience will deliver long-term outcomes for the business.

The future of telecommunications, according to Andy, is in the increasing volume of data consumption; mobile usage and digitisation of businesses including the concept of digitising the core of businesses to positively touch the lives of customers.

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How a CEO used employee feedback to turn a small business into a behemoth

BY PHIL COMERFORD D SCOLARI COMERFORD

ECURRING problems with customers and employees can cost 40 per cent of employees’ time, let alone reduce cash flow, revenues and profits, according to Verne Harnish in his book “Mastering The Rockefeller Habits”. This is a great read and one I believe every small business owner should get acquainted with, particularly when it comes to business planning.

Michael Dell from Dell computers was smart enough to understand the concept of compound interest and if he could improve one per cent of problems and one per cent of products and service, the yields to the business’s bottom line would be enormous.

How did he do it? Well he asked employees to write down a hassle list each week. Every Thursday Dell would take these home and read them. This was the starting point in understanding the importance of employee feedback which

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all business advisors and small business accountants should be encouraging their clients to focus on in the quest for greater profits, revenues, cash flow and business valuations.

1. DO NOT BEAT AROUND THE BUSH – BE SPECIFIC When finding about what the problem is, be very careful when employees use the words ‘always’ and ‘never’. Ask them to be very specific as to who, what and when. Dancing around problems with general sweeping statements makes it difficult to work out what and how a problem needs to be fixed.

2. RELEVANCY Make sure that any feedback is relevant and is recurring. Most importantly does it affect the customer? If it does it’s also going to affect the employee! One off issues that are minor should be put to the bottom of the list as low priority.

3. ADDRESSING THE CAUSE You should be looking at the root cause, not just the symptoms, when understanding a problem within the business. Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice and will not necessarily

stop the problem from happening again.

Keep asking ‘why’ until you get to the bottom of the issue. As small business accountants, a good example of this is when we see clients that are struggling to get their debtors’ monies in. Clients will either ignore the problem and say “that’s just the way it is if we want business”, or they will sack the customer, when in fact a system was not in place to make sure the customer understood the terms and credit checks had not been performed on them. The problem was the system which then made the debtors’ clerk largely ineffective and part of the problem.

4. FOCUS ON WHAT, NOT WHO Never play the blame game. This will just show a lack of accountability and below the line behaviour, and rarely fixes things. Verne Harnish believes that 95 per cent of the time it’s a process problem, not the person. Ask yourself: “What did we do wrong to cause this person to fail?”

5. GET EVERYONE INVOLVED Instead of running around and getting 10 different answers from 10 dif-

ferent people, get all the people affected into a room together and thrash out solutions to the problems after the cause has been identified. Use these brainstorming sessions to create or improve your systems which will also increase your small business valuation when business valuers come knocking at the time of sale.

6. NEVER TALK ILL OF SOMEONE NOT PRESENT In order to create trust, never back stab somebody when something goes wrong. By all means, if they are part of the problem mention this in front of them but only in a constructive way that shows you are trying to fix the process.

If the process is fixed and they continue to fail to follow it, then this becomes a case of whether you have the right people for the right job.

CONCLUSION: Customer feedback is very important, but never forget the importance of the input your team can make to improve your business.

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How our economic future really looks

By Brian Hartzer, CEO Westpac Group* Why is there such a gap between what the economic facts are telling us, and how people feel about the future of the national economy?

Australia’s GDP is growing at 3.3 percent; unemployment is 5.6 percent. Over the past five years median income has risen by 20 percent, the average amount spent by households on servicing their debt has fallen by 8 percent, and the oil price has fallen by 45 percent.

Mortgage interest rates are at 50 year lows, and property prices are rising in major markets.

And yet a recent survey by JWS Research showed that only 14 percent of Australians believe the national economy is headed in the right direction.

This is more than a comment on politics, or regional variations due to mining. It shows up in Westpac’s survey of both business and consumer sentiment.

So how do we explain this mystery?

Before proposing an answer, and to give some context, I’d like to address three questions: First, what’s going on in the world economy, and what opportunities and challenges does this create for Australian businesses?

Second, what’s the role of banks in supporting this changing economic landscape?

And third, how is Westpac responding, especially given the current reputational issues that the industry faces?

Why the pessimism?

I’ll start with the world economy, which still hasn’t fully recovered from the GFC. As Glenn Stevens pointed out last month, over the last ten years GDP growth in the G7 economies averaged just under 1 percent.

This compares to 2.5 percent in the 10 years leading up to 2006.

Since 2008 central banks have been operating with “emergency monetary settings”. Money has been pumped in, and interest rates have been lowered dramatically—in some countries like Switzerland and Japan, they are actually negative.

At a recent conference I attended, a former central banker said “the problem is it’s not working… and we don’t really know why.”

That creates a feeling of uncertainty and unease.

The “king tide” of technology has clearly played a role as well.

In many industries it’s upsetting business models, changing cost structures, and creating new competition. This creates uncertainty for business leaders and job anxiety for employees.

Global media also contributes.

We’re all now just one click away from the latest attack by ISIS, the latest immigration battle in Europe, or the latest ‘wisdom’ from Donald Trump. That makes the world seem a much smaller place, and it leads us to project issues from one market onto our own.

All of this has created a growing anxiety about the future and political dislocation.

In the recent Federal election a record number of people voted for minor parties. That says that a sizeable minority of Australians are uneasy about the status quo.

They’re asking questions like: - Will I have a job in a year? Will I have enough for my retirement? - How will my children cope in this new world?

So that’s the expression of Australians’ pessimism. But back to my mystery. Why are Australians pessimistic?

I think we are witnessing what I would call an aspirations gap.

In the 2000s things felt easier.

The resource boom was in full swing. Up until 2008, median incomes rose 7 percent per year on average. House prices rose 10 percent per year on average. Retirement was a long way away, and the kids were still in school.

Now income is rising more slowly. We’ve renovated the house, but haven’t managed to pay off the debt. We’re worried about our jobs, and some fear immigration. Retirement looms closer, and stock markets are going sideways. That teenager is now 25 and still slumped on the couch. We’re worried about her future, and whether she’ll ever be able to buy a house.

Life hasn’t quite worked out the way many Australians expected. The dream of a bright future that they aspired to seems farther away.

Challenges and opportunities for Australia So, what do we do about this?

My first observation is that things are improving. The Australian dollar has come down, helping exports. Resource shipments—especially natural gas— are growing. The apartment construction boom is supporting growth in manufacturing, and rainfall points to a bumper crop season—although we’ve clearly had a bit too much rain (here in Victoria(.

The shift to a service economy is happening, with nearly 750,000 new jobs created in service industries in the last five years.

As a result, we think business conditions are improving as is

` There are many critics of the size of bank profits. And I understand the concern, given the size of the numbers at a time when people feel anxious about their own financial situation.

What I would say to those critics is this: These are very large businesses that play an important role in the health of the overall economy.

business confidence.

My second observation is that we can’t rely on central banks or governments to keep pumping money into the economy.

Much of that money has accumulated in short-term financial assets or in some cases property rather than more productive commercial loans or infrastructure.

It’s not about supply—it’s about demand. We have to address the demand gap.

The world economy can only grow when consumers spend and businesses invest.

Government has a role in this: Lower taxes give people more money to spend. Better roads and trains reduce transport costs, improve productivity, and encourage businesses to invest.

Plenty of people are telling politicians that it’s solely up to them to fix economic policy and get the country moving. That’s not my view. I’m saying that business also needs to do more.

Business needs to help fix the demand problem.

The opportunity is to spot the new sources of demand that are coming, and invest to get ahead of them.

To make sure that a disproportionate share of the world’s future spending happens here.

Now this plays to our strength: Australia has a long history of adapting to change— especially technological change.

For the past few years there’s been a lot of talk about disruption: Using technology to compete through lower costs, new channels to market, improved service, or getting around a protected position.

Think of Airbnb, one of the new global disruptors: Lower cost rooms, a digital sales platform, a better service experience; undermining the value of established hotels.

For the economy, disruption is a good thing because it improves productivity.

But disruption is about the supply side: taking cost and margin out of an existing supply chain.

What this disruption lens misses is that a company like Airbnb also creates demand.

It opens up new opportunities for people to travel who otherwise wouldn’t.

It creates new demand for cleaning services, property management, home renovation, local restaurants, and entertainment.

And it creates a potential new source of income for people whose home is a dormant asset.

In fact there is a world of opportunity if we get ahead of the

mega-trends driving new sources of demand.

Let me give you five examples, starting with the growth of Asia.

At current rates the Asian middle class will grow to over 3 billion people by 2030.

They will look to improve their lives through better health, education, travel, and entertainment.

Australia’s reputation for safe food gives us a real advantage here. We’ve all heard about Chinese demand for infant formula. Bega Cheese ...has partnered with Blackmores to sell infant formula directly in China.

They’re now taking this to the next level by developing dairy products specifically for a health-conscious middle class in Asia.

Another important megatrend is the aging baby boomers.

A child born in 1950 turned 65 last year. Over the next ten years 2.7 million people will pass that milestone in Australia. In general they are much healthier and wealthier than the generations that preceded them.

They are going to have very different spending habits and this will cascade through many industries.

They’re not ready for a retirement home. They’re active. They’ll want to travel.

They’ll want to eat out. They’ll downsize.

I recently drove by a new retirement village in Sydney. It looks like a six star hotel. Read their website and it even sounds like a holiday resort: wine tasting evenings, three restaurants, access to beaches, pools, gyms.

It’s not cheap, but it is tapping into a new source of demand.

The third trend is digital services: Using technology to deliver new, online services that people will pay for. Three years ago who knew they needed a Netflix account? Or an online FX trading platform? Or a site where they could get freelance home office support?

The opportunities are endless, whether in entertainment, education, finance, social activities, or B2B services. And for once our geographic distance isn’t an issue.

Another opportunity is in data collection and analysis. Thanks to drones, satellites, and the “Internet of Things”, we are on the cusp of an explosion in numeric, photographic, audio, and video data.

This data will help people manage their lives better, help businesses improve performance, and help governments deliver better services and measure environmental impacts, and

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Data collection devices need to be designed, built, run, and serviced. Data needs to be gathered, stored, analysed, and the insights distributed. There are legal, privacy, and competitive strategy issues to be resolved. Each of these creates a business opportunity.

We’re already seeing this in our business, where we’ve been able to help clients like David Jones understand customer purchasing behaviour to better plan the layout and product mix in their stores.

And finally there’s medical testing and personalised medicine. Personalised medicine for many diseases appears increasingly likely to become a reality. When it does, millions of people around the world will happily spend money to identify their risk factors and receive drugs or devices that are personalised to their own needs.

The trick is for business people to work with academia, governments, and young innovators to serve this new demand.

I recently visited one of our Westpac Bicentennial scholars, Dr. Antonio Tricoli, at his lab at the ANU. He and his team have developed tiny detectors that measure exposure to bad UV light, to help prevent skin cancer. All going well, they hope to embed these detectors in wearable devices and possibly even clothes. But he’ll need help to bring these ideas to market.

Hopefully that help will come from an Australian business.

Banks must adapt to the new economy as well.

Westpac recently became the #1 bank for small business in Australia: across all of our brands, 50 percent of Australian businesses have some relationship with us.

So we’ve begun to rethink the products and services we offer our customers.

As part of our 200th Anniversary next year we’ve launched the Businesses of Tomorrow program.

This followed research which showed that what drives sustainable business success isn’t really economic conditions, or access to the latest technology. Rather, what matters is leadership.

So the Businesses of Tomorrow program is not about providing financial support— it’s about helping our best businesses get the practical knowledge, mentoring, and networks they need to reach their full potential.

We’re on the hunt for 200 great Australian businesses of any size to take part in the program. They don’t even have to be Westpac customers—they just need to represent the sort of businesses that will drive our economy.

Some companies take their boards to Silicon Valley—we’ll take these businesses. Twenty of the top Businesses of Tomorrow will go on an international study tour to the US, Israel, and China.

They’ll also receive $100,000 in professional services as well as personal attention from a highly respected business mentor, like Pip Marlow and Carla Zampatti.

We think giving back through programs like this is a logical extension of our role as a bank.

And let me turn to that now.

The role of banks One of our core beliefs at Westpac is that banks exist to support economic development. That makes banks different to other businesses, and it brings with it a responsibility.

I say to our people that unless Australia does well, we don’t do well. We need to measure our success based on our customers’ success.

A bank like Westpac is part of the cir-

culatory system of the economy.

Instead of blood, we pump money around—from depositors to borrowers, who spend and invest, into businesses that employ people and redeposit the money.

4.1 million Australians have their salaries deposited into Westpac bank accounts.

Every month our debit cards are used to make 83 million purchases and cash withdrawals, worth a total of $6.4 billion.

Every month we help 16,000 Australians to buy a property or build a new home.

Every year we finance the purchase of 200,000 cars and trucks.

And just like the body needs a healthy heart, the economy needs a healthy banking system.

This means our banks need to be resilient.

Australia’s banks need to be part of the solution if the economy gets in trouble, not part of the problem—the heart needs to keep pumping.

For that to happen, banks need to be strong enough to absorb losses when parts of the economy are doing it tough.

That’s why it’s important for banks to have both strong capital and solid returns.

Australia has had a current account deficit for nearly 50 years.

In practice, this means that Australian banks raise money from overseas investors to fund the economy.

And overseas investors have choices.

Equity investors provide capital to support growth. They look at future returns, including dividends.

Debt investors provide funding for loans. They look at a bank’s debt rating, capital, and leverage. But they also look at returns, because the higher the returns are, the more cushion there is to absorb losses before the debt investor loses money.

Of course profitability is often an area of contention for Australia’s banks.

There are many critics of the size of bank profits. And I understand the concern, given the size of the numbers at a time when people feel anxious about their own financial situation.

What I would say to those critics is this: These are very large businesses that play an important role in the health of the overall economy.

Last year the Finance and Insurance sector was about 9 percent of the economy – this means it’s tied with mining as the largest industry.

It was also the second largest contributor to overall growth in GDP.3 These profits go back into the economy, through dividends and retained capital to support more loans to customers.

Four of the five largest taxpayers are banks. Last year the banking industry as a whole paid over $14 billion in taxes to the Federal Government.

And $14 billion buys a lot of services.

Every teacher, and all the support staff, in every public primary school in Australia.

2.75 million operations in public hospitals.

Or every police officer in Australia.

In other words, like the heart recycles blood around the body, so too the returns of banks are recycled in a number of ways through the economy.

The trust gap Having said all that, it is impossible to convince someone of the value you’re adding if they don’t trust you.

And we need to recognise, that, as an industry, we have a trust gap.

Trust is at the heart of banking. And trust in banking is like trust in any other relationship: It requires that we treat people fairly and honestly.

As a result of things some bankers have done, or the way banks have responded when things have gone wrong, some people have concluded that banks—and bankers—are only out for themselves.

And banks only have themselves to blame for that.

We need to recognise that at times we have not met the expectations of the community.

People are saying things need to change.

They do need to change.

The good news is they are changing.

Across the industry we are changing processes and we are changing behaviours.

At Westpac we are going back to basics and reviewing all of our products, policies, and processes, to make sure they are working in our customers’ interests.

I’ll give you one small example.

Last week some of you may have read about a mistake we made with one of our products.

We weren’t applying a discount properly on some accounts for younger customers.

The fees needed to be manually reversed and in some cases they weren’t.

Through our reviews we identified the mistake, reported it to ASIC, refunded the money, and have now put automated systems in place to make sure it won’t happen again.

Procedural mistakes like this are not acceptable.

And they do nothing to help banks regain trust from people who are already skeptical.

Yes, we found it and fixed it: Part of the Westpac ethos is that if we get it wrong we put things back on track.

But this small example shows the need for constant vigilance and continuous improvement on the part of the banking industry.

We’re also focusing on our culture more broadly, reinforcing our goal of being one of the world’s great service companies.

Let me be clear: I am proud of the 40,000 people who work at the Westpac Group. I know that overwhelmingly they come to work each day wanting to deliver great service and help their customers.

Across the company, complaints have fallen by over 70 per cent in the last four years.

Over the past three months we had three times as many compliments as complaints in our branch network.

This gives me confidence we are on the right track—but we know we need to do more.

We are putting our financial advisers through ethics training, and are incorporating the principles of the banking oath into our code of conduct for all employees.

We are also changing practices that might be seen as creating potential conflicts of interest.

Through the Australian Bankers’ Association we are working to agree on steps the industry can take to eliminate the perception of conflicts of interest in

the way front line staff are paid.

An independent expert is reviewing those practices and we will adopt whatever is agreed.

Having said that there are things Westpac can do on our own, and we’re moving ahead.

From next month we’re planning to remove all product related incentives across our 2,000 tellers in the Westpac branch network. Rather, their incentives will be based entirely on customer feedback about the quality of service they received in the branch.

We have also revisited the way we reward specialised sales roles in our network. We will no longer vary reward values based on different products; but rather our people will be rewarded for meeting the full range of our customers’ needs.

This is all part of making sure that when our customers walk into a branch, they don’t have cause to question the quality of service that they’re getting, or the motivation of our people.

At the same time we’re reinforcing standards of behaviour, and enforcing consequences when people fall short.

We’re appointing an independent customer advocate who is empowered to resolve issues for our customers. And who can overturn decisions made by our internal dispute resolution process.

And we’re investing more in our compliance and oversight capabilities, to make sure we can quickly spot and resolve issues when they occur.

We’re also continuing to give back to the community, through our support of the Westpac Rescue helicopters, the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation, which gives a hundred scholarships a year, volunteering leave and matching gifts for staff, and 200 Westpac community grants of $10,000 each this year alone.

It’s part of why the Dow Jones Sustainability Index has just recognised Westpac as the world’s most sustainable bank, for the third year in a row.

And we’ll continue to take action now, Royal Commission or not.

Conclusion Let me conclude by noting that Westpac was founded almost 200 years ago.

So we’ve been backing Australia and Australians for a very long time.

It means that over our history Westpac has had to be open to change.

The difference today is that banks— like any other successful business—have to be slightly ahead of how the world and our communities are changing.

I can promise you, all 40,000 of us at Westpac are committed to changing. We are committed to closing the trust gap.

Getting service right can help us close that gap.

We create value for Westpac when we help customers create value for themselves.

That’s why I believe that over the long term, there is no gap between the interests of Westpac and the interests of our customers.

Right now, those interests are best served by helping the economy adapt to the real challenges and opportunities that we face. By taking advantage of the mega-trends driving the world economy to close the demand gap.

And by supporting Australia’s economic growth, to reduce the aspiration gap.

I want the next Airbnb to be an Australian company, or at least to be led by an Australian.

And of course I’d like them to be proud to say they bank with Westpac.

Thank you. *FROM HIS SPEECH TO THE AUSTRALIA-ISRAEL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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Fighting the black dog

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

EPRESSION is a crippling condition under any circumstances, but for those living in rural and remote locations, the issue can be amplified by their isolation.

One local farmer, who bravely fought the illness and won, tells of his battle with the black dog.

At 62, Larry* says the last few years have finally given him a happiness which he’d never known before.

He has struggled with the dark depths of depression for most of his life but has finally found the light at the end of the tunnel.

“For a long time, I was down, I felt unhappy and anxious,” he says.

“I was 40 before I realised what was wrong with me. “ Larry tried a number of options on his road to recovery.

He sought professional help and says that while psychologists are helpful, they tend to expose you to your own problems.

Larry then went along to the Depression Recovery Group in Dubbo.

“At that point in time three years ago, I was really terrible,” he said.

“I was looking for the answer for years, so it was great to find what I was looking for. I rang Norm Dowton (one of the group’s coordinators) and he said ‘come around.’

“The next month or so was really great be-

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cause I had someone to talk to that was in the same situation.”

“They introduced me to a path out, learning the skills and tools to not let yourself go down which is really helpful, especially when you’re in the depths and haven’t got any answers.”

After a while, Larry felt that he didn’t want to go to the group sessions anymore.

“Then I met a lady called Lynn Field. She told me what was wrong and said that one day the penny will drop.”

Larry realised that he could be his own worst enemy. The harder he was on himself, the more the depression grew.

Now he has a better grip on what bothers him and what triggers negative feelings.

‘I’m learning the skills of being tactful, of not getting frustrated,” he said.

Larry says depression can impact on anyone’s life.

“I was brought up in a good family, and went to boarding school. For a long time, I didn’t know what was wrong. I never knew what it was all about.”

Farmers are particularly at risk for many reasons: they often work in isolated places, they have been taught to be resilient and their livelihoods are reliant on many external factors.

“Depression kills a lot of them,” Larry said.

“There are a lot of potential issues, financial difficulties and pressures.”

Larry believes that the answer to defeating depression is to focus on the triggers from a young age.

“There’s a percentage of kids in school who

will have a depressive event sometime in their lives. If you can get to them to minimise the damage, it would be better.”

Prevention is the best way forward.

“There’s a lot of money spent but not enough focus on what’s happening at the coalface.

There are people falling through the gaps.

“The thing that I would like to come out of it is early intervention.”

Depression Recovery Group coordinator Norm Dowton also had his own battle with depression.

“I had my experience with mental illness when I was 25 or 26 and studying in Sydney. I used to get anxiety and it got so bad that I had to see a psychiatrist.

“A lot of people will never get over it but I found help along the way.”

Nowadays, Norm helps others to overcome the illness.

“They have helped me, now I can help others.”

According to Beyond Blue, if left untreated, depression and anxiety can lead to thoughts of suicide. If there are no support systems in place for people facing hard times, the risk of dying by suicide may increase. In Australia, around eight people a day are lost to suicide, and too many are from farming communities.

October is Anxiety and Depression Awareness Month. If you or someone you know is experiencing anxiety or depression, contact beyond blue on 1300 224 636 or Lifeline on 13 11 14. *Larry is not his real name

Create a new garden with a raised garden bed

BY CHRIS BRAY RAY GARDENING GURU URU

ITH gardens becoming smaller due to residential allotments reducing in size or the fact that most of us are looking for easier alternatives to conventional gardening techniques, there is an increase in the availability of raised garden beds for domestic household use.

Raised garden beds are an easy, portable way to erect an instant garden in your backyard, particularly if space is at a minimum and can be planted out with most traditional varieties of vegetables, flowers and herbs.

When deciding a suitable raised garden bed to purchase, you will need to factor in location, with available space and adequate daylight hours of sunshine, to give your plants the best possible start. Other factors to consider are the size of the garden bed as there are many sizes available up to 2m in length in durable colourbond and can be purchased in colours to match existing fences and building finishes.

After you have constructed your new garden bed and you have a location in your yard, the all important task of filling with soil will be next on the list. Before you fill the bed, place a layer of weed mat at the base, as this will help to stop unwanted grasses from growing into the bed, especially if erected near an area

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Quality soil will give you the best possible result with your plants and give you satisfaction that you have succeeded in growing your own fresh vegetables and herbs or a colorful display of seasonal annuals.

If you're using a potting mix variety, make sure that it meets the Australian Standards for quality. You can also add if necessary

a mix of compost or composted manures to enrich the soil for an optimum result. If the soil is of light consistency, of which is sometimes found in cheaper potting mixes, your plants may suffer or not give you the crop that you may have been expecting, especially in vegetables.

Planting out your new garden bed is the same as ground planting, with particular attention needed for spacing of plantings that require room to grow.

If needed during the warmer

` If needed during the warmer months, an easy addition of a frame with a shade cloth cover, can give protection from the extremes of summer temperatures. Alternatively, the same can be used for an insect screen to keep unwanted seasonal pests out such as fruit fly in Tomato’s and other varieties susceptible to insect attack.

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Alternatively, the same can be used for an insect screen to keep unwanted seasonal pests out such as fruit fly in Tomato's and other varieties susceptible to insect attack.

For watering purposes, an easily constructed watering system can be an alternative to daily watering routines. With the use of low density poly pipe, risers and sprays or drippers, along with a quality water timer, your new raised garden bed will be user friendly and ready to provide you with all the home grown plantings you can enjoy.

Top 5 tips for this week: 1. Check watering systems as the days get warmer, making sure that sprays and drippers are working to full potential.

2. Trim hedges of new seasonal growth to maintain shape and appearance.

3. Check for insect attack on roses, especially aphids etc. Use a suitable insecticide where necessary.

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5. Plant new seasonal varieties of vegetables, herbs and annual colour to brighten your Spring garden.

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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

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not the only one, surelyâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x2122;M a tiny bit full of umbrage today, at the sort of language being used by the police to jolly us along after the long weekend. Their media team have been issuing fulsome praise to the citizens of NSW, at how well the masses have behaved throughout the holiday period.

They had been issuing reports on the number of speeding drivers, on some of the more newsworthy of the criminal behaviours that had taken place over the last few days. And then someone had the bright idea to put out a release, congratulating the general public for their good behaviour at the footy.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a fan of football, not by any stretch of the imagination, but even I arced up at the rather avuncular tone of the release. In the grand tradition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;have you been good girl Jane,â&#x20AC;? the release said that police were impressed at how well the public had behaved.

Nothing could be more sure to make me want to go and cut loose than to have some pompous ass commenting on how circumspect Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m being.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that I object to the recognition that the event has passed without incident or violence, that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t marred by any sort of ugly behaviour. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not objecting to a peaceful Grand Final; I would never suggest that an incidentfree event is anything but the ideal outcome.

But when some spin doctor thinks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good look for them to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;praising the majority of the crowdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for behaving appropriately, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the only one who gets a great desire to shirt-front said little gobshite and tell them to shove it up their jumper. At the risk of sounding childish, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing more calculated to make me behave badly than being told brightly how well I have comported myself.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m no rebel, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the most conformist of people, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something so intensely galling about being told that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;you have behaved.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an implication that it means â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve actually behaved above our somewhat limited

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expectationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;we, the sage and responsible members of society who get to wear badges and epaulettes, we are quite proud of you. You pack of sad, window-licking numpties.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I am not agin the police, per se, but at what point did the police force take the moral high ground and choose for themselves the privilege of talking down to the rest of us, as though we were recalcitrant children? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember signing up for being treated like some nonsentient being who needs to be shown how to not breathe through their mouth.

Surely Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not the only one who finds this both irritating and counterproductive, as a community engagement tool?

And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m equally sure Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not alone in having been thrilled to bits to see the grand final in two football codes over the weekend. Not just for the thrill of the spectacle either, not just for the fact that both matches were an exercise in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dreams becoming reality, for the battlers of the competitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Not just for that reason, though I must confess that even a football naysayer like me was a little bit excited about such a reversal of fortunes. (I even listened to the AFL match on Saturday evening. And was paying attention, and was pretty happy when the Western UnderDogs got up.)

However, all this emotion aside, my excitement about the footy grand finals lies more in the fact that it signals the end of the football season, and for that I cannot give sufficient thanks. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the most magnificent reprieve from a constant barrage of rugby league programming across radio stations in the central west. I feel positively festive at the thought of being able to turn on either the National Broadcaster or the local commercial station at random times of the day (and week) and find myself in a football-free zone. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like knowing I have all a heap of annual leave to look forward to. I feel like a squirrel with a tree full of nuts.

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` My excitement about the footy grand finals lies more in the fact that it signals the end of the football season, and for that I cannot give sufficient thanks. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the most magnificent reprieve from a constant barrage of rugby league programming across radio stations in the central west.

overload, a sort of invisibility shield that I would wrap around me as I drove around the countryside. It involved the Bluetooth connection on my car and my old phone. And lots and lots of talking books, downloaded as sound files to a handy app. I could seal myself off against the Rugby League gas that hovers over the airwaves every winter, like some sort of de-oxygenated cloud blocking the audio radiance (as Doug Mulray used to call us) from anything but football, for huge chunks of the day.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent my winter in my own little ivory tower of the senses, and it has been glorious. Every time I hear the theme music that could conceivably indicate someone wants to scream about balls being thrown around, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to plug in another world and tune out from the Mossopisation of the media.

I have been revisiting all the wonderful melancholy of George Smiley and his fractured world of post-war espionage and skulduggery, and that was a real treat. It was not so much a talking book as a series of BBC dramatizations for radio, and was done in that indescribably BBC way that is so perfect for stories by Le Carre.

And, inspired by that success, I downloaded every audio version of an Ian Rankin crime novel that I could get my hands on; that has been satisfactory as well. (I now speak with a slight Scottish burr, and that might also account for my slightly bolshie attitude to some members of the constabulary.)

Oh the places Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been stranded on Mars with Mark Whatney, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been at war with the small town minds of Dungotar with Tilly Dunnage and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve flounced around Hollywood with Orrie Kelly. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in my car, hiding from the footy and having a simply splendid time.

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Eggs-actly, what is free range?

New to town, Erin, of Erin Michele Photography, has big plans for life and business here in Dubbo.

Trading in the hustle and bustle for a life of simplicity, she finds that there’s no place like Dubbo.

The Brigadoon Harvest Team, From left: Ben Connor, Adelaide Joseph, John Joseph, Estelle Joseph, Clancy Joseph, Darcy Joseph, Piper Dunlop, Shelby Mathieson.

HERE’S something about waking up early on a Saturday morning, rugging up in my boots and scarf, and heading to the Dubbo Farmer’s Market.

Of course, we had Farmer’s Markets in Melbourne, but there’s something really special about a small town market.

Every first and third Saturday of the month we head over to Lions Park where my husband and I do the ‘breakfast split’ – he buys the coffee and hot chocolates whilst I make the trip to the heavily sought after Brigadoon Harvest Pastured Eggs stall.

It’s always nice to see the lovely girls at the stall front and their friendly smiles when they see the crazy girl with the camera, standing in line.

John and Estelle Joseph sell the most delicious bacon and egg rolls that you will ever sink your teeth into, and their fluffy golden omelettes are proof of the care and passion that go into their growing family business.

I had a chance to chat with John and Estelle about their family business and it was so refreshing to meet such a down-to-Earth family that have a genuine love for what they do and the products they produce.

That afternoon I took to my carton of Brigadoon Harvest eggs and decided that my craving for boiled eggs needed to be met.

I sat down with my perfectly boiled eggs, a magical talent that my husband swears is a craft he will never truly learn the ins and outs of, dipped

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my heavily buttered bread soldier into that golden yolk and declared that there was nothing better than pastured eggs.

You see, I have been that person, the one that stands in front of the eggs in the supermarket, weighing up whether the price of free range was worth the label, questioning if “free range” actually meant ‘FREE RANGE’?

Once, I researched a free range brand just to find that “free range” was a loosely used term. Maybe not everyone Googles the eggs that they purchase

` So, whilst there are companies packing in 10,000 hens to a hectare, Brigadoon Harvest Pastured Eggs are truly free-range, with a mere 35 hens per hectare. but I know that everyone, at one point or another, has felt a little guilty about buying caged eggs or a little ‘Mother Teresa’ about paying a couple of dollars more for free range, but how often have you wondered how “free range” your eggs actually are.

Well, my friends, I decided that it was only fair to provide you, the consumer, with a little information that you could find useful the next time you find yourself standing in front of the eggs, weigh-

ing up your options.

Most consumers will happily pay up to double for their ‘free range’ labelled eggs, with the belief that their eggs meet the ethical standards that are so prominently painted within society.

Did you know that for eggs to be labelled ‘free range’, there should be a maximum of 1500 hens per hectare? That’s 1500 hens to the ANZ Stadium’s field. Which seems all well and fine, but there are still companies out there that have up to 10,000 hens per ANZ Stadium and have found a way around the genuine labelling of their eggs.

So, whilst there are companies packing in 10,000 hens to a hectare, Brigadoon Harvest Pastured Eggs are truly freerange, with a mere 35 hens per hectare.

A little online research will quickly bring up the companies that are a little less “free range” and those whom are pastured, actually living outside, only in their houses to roost at night and escape the midday heat, Brigadoon Harvest Pastured Eggs landing at 11th place on Choice’s ‘Free-range egg brands that meet the Model Code’ list.

Reading this list made me a little proud. Every first and third Saturday of the month, we buy a bunch of bacon and egg rolls, eggs that are genuinely free-range, eggs from hens that aren’t crammed into cages or had their beaks trimmed. Hens that aren’t just labelled “free-range”, but are truly free to roam and stretch their wings through paddocks of open grass.

You know that feeling of putting the “free-range” eggs up on the counter?

Well imagine the feeling of, not only helping a local business, but knowing that the eggs you’re purchasing are coming from hens that are well cared for and loved so much that the family have even named many of them.

So the next time you’re at the Dubbo Farmer’s Market, make a swift turn at the “Breakfast with Brigadoon” sign, order up an amazing breakfast, grab yourself a dollop of that delicious chutney they have on the end table, and don’t forget to grab a carton of eggs. Know where your food is coming from and that your money is going to a business that is REAL free-range.

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Festival Launch Pianos on the Pavement Rotunda, Church St, Dubbo 5pm – 7pm Free entry

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Launch: Designer Decor & Gifts, 79 Talbragar St, Dubbo // Displayed: throughout Dubbo’s CBD. Visit dreamfest.com.au for more information.

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Shoyoen Gardens, Coronation Dr, Dubbo 6.00pm – 9.00pm Adults $12 pp Kids $6 pp

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The depreciation of democracy C ONSIDERED the world’s foremost intellectual activist, for 50 years Noam Chomsky has actively questioned the great global powers who govern our lives. He forensically scrutinises the policies and actions of our politicians, institutions and media in “Who Rules the World” and reveals his investigations into the major issues of our times.

In our series of books on the evolution of man, we consider whether the elected individuals are really the result of a majority poll count, and how the unelected elements of society have moved to have behaviours, beliefs and ethical standards that have modified, by attrition, our fundamental quality of life.

Chomsky examines how the world’s political and financial elite have become ever more insulated from democratic constraints on their actions, and shines a light on this inconvenient truth.

Philip Coggan wrote “The Last Vote” with subtitle “the Treats to Western Democracy”.

He writes that democracy seems to be enjoying a moment of triumph – almost half the world’s population now lives in a democratic state. Many believe that rising prosperity will eventually force China into that camp. But in the countries where modern democracy first took root, the picture seems to be much less healthy. Politicians are held in low esteem, support for extrem-

ist parties is on the rise. The result has seen countries with huge debts, near-zero interest rates and sluggish growth.

A clear indicator of these circumstances is summarised in Royce Kurmelov’s book “The Death of Holden” which analyses the Australian manufacturer of the Holden car and the closure of production in 2017.

Much of the problem, which runs parallel with most other industrial production in this country, involves ongoing union pressure impacting on the costs of manufacture, major government subsidies and weakening trade relationships.

The latest demands are for millions of dollars in subsidies to prop up the steel production operation in South Australia. If the decisions to allow imports without tariffs, to approve wage increases and other influences were put to the people for a vote, what would they vote for?

So much information about the way countries are being run is filtered by today’s media. Andrew Fowler, in “The War on Journalism”, writes how newspapers and TV networks that once led the world’s information distribution are not having the same credible effect. We form our own views on these but Fowler steps further into the subject by introducing WikiLeaks and the Snowden files.

With every mobile phone now being a tracking device, will our world be democratic or dominated by an executive government, spying on its citizens?

Read “The First Freedom” by Robert Hargreaves which deals with the history of free speech, and from these two books we can see that “free thinking” is becoming a thing of the past.

John Pilger, author of “The New Rulers of the World”, reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto’s seizure of power in the 1960s was part of a western design to impose a ‘global economy’ on Asia. A million Indonesians died as the price paid for being the World Bank’s ‘model pupil’.

In the chapter on Iraq, he examines the true nature of the West’s war against the people of that country. And he dissects the propaganda of the ’war on terror’ to expose the Orwellian truth. And then he looks behind the picture-postcard image of

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection his homeland (Australia) to illuminate an enduring legacy of imperialism; the subjugation of the First Australians.

When we look to the quality of wisdom in leaders today, a measure worth using is King Solomon. Read chapter 3 of 1 Kings in the Bible. The recent debate between Clinton and Trump is a sample of how potential leaders lack wisdom and rely on abusive comments to depreciate the other party. We see this in Australian TV daily, stimulated by those conducting the interviews – no real evidence of wisdom.

John Brockman has edited a collection of comments in “What Should We Be Worried About?” Included is discussion on the risk factors of war by Stephen Pinker. Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek laments our squandered opportunities to prevent global catastrophe. Alison Gopnik discusses the loss of childhood, Douglas Rushkoff fears humanity is losing its soul, and Susan Blackmore comments on the loss of manual skills. Intelligent thought is there but is it in the minds of the ruling class?

Alexis de Tocqueville (1841), in his book “Democracy in America”, wrote this: “Thus after taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and

kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole, it covers its surface with a network of small complicated, painstaking uniform rules through which the most original minds and most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd, it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them, it rarely forces one to act.

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This extract appears in Niall Ferguson’s “The Great Degeneration”, in which he identifies many elements which are contributing to the decay of institutions and how economies die. The book is based on the BBC Reith Lectures 2012. “The Times” considers Ferguson as the “most brilliant British historian of his generation”. The book certainly confronts the structure of what we think is our world today.

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St John’s 40th Reunion

BY BRENDA HUTCHINS

PAST students of St John’s College met up at Club Dubbo on Saturday, October 1, for their 40th Reunion.

Sue Ferguson, Louise Lawler, Kim McKenzie, Lyndell McGee, Cathy Spencer, Ann Lovett and Tricia Stack

Childhood sweethearts Jane and Glen Hangan and Margot and Rick Agnew. Between them they have 42 years together. They all said that you get longer for murder.

Rick Agnew, Norm O’Neill, John Fisher and Peter Amey

Margo Agnew, Bev Onley, Debbie Fisher, Leonie Atkins, Denise Power and Ann O’Neill

Steve Buckland, Wayne Warman and Glen Hangan

Peter O’Reilly, Kevin Walsh, Des Seaton, Denise Power, Patricia Spalding, Bev Anley, Norman Teelo, Ann O’Neill, Margo Agnew, Greg Walsh and Helen Akerstrom

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Kim Crawford and Don Anderson

School Captains Ann Murphy and Paul Hughes cutting the cake

Editors of the school paper John Walkom, Jane Hangan and Glen Hangan

Isobel Walsh and Ros Cross

Jane Hangan and Kevin Walsh, the shortest and tallest at the school

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West Primary School Reunion

BY BRENDA HUTCHINS

FORMER students of West Dubbo Primary School enjoying an evening of reminiscing about their school days at their reunion.

Valerie Pope, Peter Furney, Herb Shipp, Marlene Spittles and Bev Shipp

Valerie (Pope) Evans and Pat Darlington

Pat Darlington, Alice Bailey and Colin Darlington

Judi Wise, Judy Layard and Jenny Layard

Gary Dickson, Andrew Hipwell and Howard Bailey

John Thompson, Sandra Maloney, Dawn Thomson and Bob Thomson

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Roy and Judy Schneider

Bob Storch, Dot Primmer and Ron Heslin

Teacher Gillian (Collis) Haling and Don Haling

Cara Shipp and Percy Butterworth

Hamish Lees, Mervyn Bell and Bruce Astill

Peter Bishop and Terry Pritchard

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T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE H E A R EAR the oohs and aahs at the sight of the scultpure by nationally recognised and regional artists at the sixth annual outdoor art exhibition, “Sculptures In The Garden,” which is set to turn Mudgee into a cultural epicentre on TOMORROW SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 and 9.

Former Art Gallery of NSW director Edmund Capon will officially open the 2016 event and has already expressed his excitement at the calibre and diversity of submitted works.

“Sculpture is no longer the poor cousin in the story of Australian art but a lively, thriving centerpiece,” he said.

Featured artists for this year’s event include Sculptures By The Sea exhibitors Jimmy Rix and John Fitzmaurice, MONA’s ‘Cunts… and other conversations’ creator Greg Taylor, local artist and former Sculptures By The Sea exhibitor Nigel White, and Vivid exhibitor Alan Rose, among many others.

SIG artistic director Kay NortonKnight said she was particularly pleased that more than half of this year’s submissions are from new artists to Sculptures in the Garden.

“It is very exciting that the exhibition is attracting some big names in the Australian and international art world, but we are even more thrilled that SIG is a way for emerging artists to have their work displayed and their name in front of potential buyers and curators,” she said.

Hosted in the established gardens of Rosby vineyard, organisers are expecting more than 3,000 visitors this year, with the Mudgee Support Group for the Guide Dogs NSW/ACT assisting throughout the two days running the gate and providing catering for the event.

For more information visit www. sculpturesinthegarden.com.au

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EAR good conversation over a sumptuous lunch at the next Flavours on the Farm luncheon at Lazy River Estate,THIS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 from 11am to 4pm.

Highlighting local producers; Tickled Pink Pork, Grassland Poultry and Second Mouse Cheese the five course degustation luncheon is going to send your tastebuds into overdrive!

Lazy River Estates’, functions coordinator, Kelly Reynolds said “the luncheon gives visitors and locals the opportunity to experience local produce straight from the farmers to your plate.

Our head Chef Stephanie Hendriks has created a mouth-watering menu which is sure to impress.”

“Gather together a group of your friends, family or colleagues to enjoy a local long lunch on the banks of the Macquarie River under the shade of the river gums and support your local producers.” She said.

Tickets to Flavours on the Farm are $99 per person and can be purchased at 123tix.com.au Phone 6882 2111, email events@lazyriverestate.com.au or visit www.lazyriverestate.com.au

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SE E EE your work on the big screen when you get your filmmaking skills together and 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 different 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 http:// dubb of i l m ma ker s.wordpre s s.com / one-eye-film-festival/

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EE and be gobsmacked at “Encoded” by Stalker Theatre which combinines Aerial Dance with Visual Technology, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 8pm, Dubbo Regional Theatre.

Encoded is an immersive aerial dance installation and performance that uses the latest interactive technologies to build a projected digital environment that responds to the movements of the performers.

Stalker’s artistic director and director of Encoded, David Clarkson said: ‘'It started with a desire to create a work with my nephew who had won various awards for his gaming design and direction of the interactive game, Casebook,” David Clarkson said.

A visually stunning work, Encoded creates a ravishing immersive world of shimmering images that dissolve and reform as performers sweep across the space.

“We have interactive fluid simulations being triggered by the infrared tracking of dancers and aerialists—and we are also using some very sophisticated VJ software to capture the wall we are performing on. Mixed with all of that technology are our wonderful virtu-

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al costumes—with self-mounted laser projectors that change the performers continually before your eyes,” Clarkson said.

DRTCC Manager, Linda Christof, said: ”The region is very fortunate to have this production visiting Dubbo as it is the only regional venue included in the tour. It was first performed in Sydney, then Korea, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Canberra and now Dubbo.’

‘It is something that has never been seen at Dubbo Regional Theatre before and has been technically challenging to accommodate but it will blow the minds of our patrons when they see it,’ Christof said.

Tickets are on sale now from drtcc. com.au or the Theatre Box Office on 6801 4378 Fb.com/dubboregionaltheatreandconventioncentre

DO O see 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 live at the Dubbo RSL club.

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 bring their new music - and all their biggest hits - to regional areas this October and November, including Dubbo on FRIDAY, 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.

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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HE Little River Weekender is a three-day event coinciding with Matilda Julian’s exhibition opening at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo. Titled A Room of Her Own, the exhibition is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay “A room of one’s own,” containing Woolf’s theory that for a woman to create a great work (in the arts), it is mandatory for her to have a degree of financial independence and a room of her own. The exhibition aims to set a tone or ‘room’ that is supportive (particularly to a woman), rather than the spaces we easily find ourselves in.

Most commonly, these external rooms are filled with images and simulacra that encourage us to critically compare ourselves to concepts of perfect bodies, and perfect lives.

Parallel to these ideas, the Little River Weekender aims to give residents and visitors to Dubbo an opportunity to partake in activities that can assist in navigating these metaphorical ‘rooms’.

Learning about and being amongst nature, being creative with others, and watching and discussing a film with a like-minded community. All activities are free and designed to be otherwise low expenditure activities.

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EVENTS: FRIDAY 14TH OCTOBER 6pm: Film Screening - The Dressmaker Western Plains Cultural Centre - FREE. SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER 7am - 8am: Macquarie River Walk with Dubbo town and Country Tours (meet below Club Dubbo near the lookout opposite Sandy Beach - see map for location).

9am - 11am: Visit the Dubbo Farmers Markets to grab a morning coffee and some fresh local produce.

From 9:30 congregate by the river opposite the markets for sketching. BYO morning tea, picnic blanket, and sketching materials (see map for location).

2pm - 4pm: Official Opening A room of Her Own - Western Plains Cultural Centre.

SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER 7am - 8am: Morning bush walk up Bald Hill, Geurie (meet at the corner of Payne and Chambers St Geurie - see below map for location).

Website link is http://littleriverguides. com/weekender/

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

WHAT’S ON.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 07.10.2016 to Sunday 09.10.2016

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OPEN WEEKENDER COFFEE & MEALS

'ƌĂď Ă ƐƉĞĐŝĂů Ăƚ tĞƐƚ ƵďďŽ /' ƚŚŝƐ ǁĞĞŬĞŶĚ͘

OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

REFLECTIONS RESTAURANT Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞLJ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

VELDT RESTAURANT Open for dinner Monday to Saturday ĨƌŽŵ ϲƉŵ͘ Under Quest Serviced Apartments ŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ DĞŶƵ 22 Bultje St, 6882 0926

CLUBS & PUBS PASTORAL HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

TED’S TAKEAWAY

Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Open Saturday and Sunday ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϴƉŵ dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

CLUB DUBBO VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

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

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

WYLDE BEAN THAI CAFE KƉĞŶ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ůƵŶĐŚ ϲĂŵ Ɵůů ůĂƚĞ 40 Bourke Street, 6885 5999

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

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

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'LJŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

SHOPPING THE BOOK CONNECTION KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰƉŵ͘ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ͘ EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ͘KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

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

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

GROCERIES

THE SWISH GALLERY

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD

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

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

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10 &Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϴĂŵͲϰƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϵĂŵͲϰƉŵ 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

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

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

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

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

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

THINGS TO DO

WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE

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

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

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

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

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

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE

Friday 07.10.2016 to Sunday 09.10.2016 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, October 7 Ready For Takeoff

MOVIE: Philomena

Miniseries: Code Of A Killer

NINE, 7.30pm

SBS, 8.30pm, (2013)

ABC, 8.30pm

The world’s most trusted airline – just ask Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man character – gives us an access-allareas pass with this observational reality series, which returns tonight.

Qantas funds the show, so it’s pretty positive about the flying kangaroo, but it’s interesting even so. The biggest surprise is that it’s not the stuff that those in well-known roles, such as pilots and flight attendants, do that is the most eye-opening for viewers – its great to see how those lesser lights who make sure everything runs like clockwork, from baggage handlers to weather watchers and maintenance mechanics really keep things moving.

Based on a powerful true story, this simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking tale focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee (Dame Judy Dench), an Irish-Catholic who gives birth to a boy conceived out of wedlock and gives him away for adoption. Years later Lee meets Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), a BBC reporter with whom she decides to discover her long-lost son, despite a contract with the church that stipulates she isn’t allowed any sort of inquiry. Touching on some of the thorniest issues of Catholic doctrine, the notoriously serious Dench and serial comedian Coogan somehow fit together perfectly.

ifference, this A British crime drama with a difference, two-parter focuses as much on the science es on the murder used to catch the killer as it does uestion is DNA mystery itself. The science in question girl gi irrlls – testing, the case the murder of two schoolgi schoolgirls chnique off the first ever to use the new technique examining DNA to try to catch a killer. John Simm (Life on Mars, he pictured) is Dr Alec Jeffreys, the hard-working boffin who invented DNA fingerprinting, now used worldwide. At the time, it had only been used in paternity and immigration cases, but DCS David Baker (David Threlfall, Shameless) thinks it could make a powerful forensic tool.

ABC

PRIME7

NINE

WIN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.30 Catalyst. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Devil Island. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News At Noon. (CC) 1.00 Pointless. (R, CC) 1.45 The Musketeers.

(M, R, CC) 2.45 Silvia’s Italian Table.

(PG, 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) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

(CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Kid Cop. (PG, R, CC) (1996) A boy’s obsession with becoming a policeman lands him in trouble when he inadvertently stumbles over a mystery. Alexandra Paul, Edward Albert.

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 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

1.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) Victoria meets JJ’s family.

2.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Scott Cam. 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.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) Ita Buttrose, Jessica Rowe, Joe Hildebrand, Denise Drysdale and Sarah Harris discuss all manner of topics.

11.00 The Talk. (CC) Hosts Sheryl Underwood, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Julie Chen discuss issues.

12.00 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Bathurst 1000. Qualifying.

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 Colour Theory: Teho Ropeyarn. (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? Kate Humble.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

6.00 One Plus One. (PG, R, CC) Jane Hutcheon interviews Colleen Hewett.

6.10 Pointless. (CC) Presented

by Alexander Armstrong.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program.

8.00 QI. (M, R, CC) Guests Jason Manford, Sandi Toksvig and Trevor Noah join Stephen Fry for a K-inspired discussion.

8.30 Miniseries: Code Of A Killer. (M, CC) Part 1 of 3.

A British detective turns to the new science of DNA “fingerprinting” to catch a killer.

9.20 DCI Banks. (M, R, CC) Banks and his team investigate a kidnapping.

However, the parents’ respective versions of events don’t match up.

10.10 Birds Of A Feather.

(PG, CC) Barry takes exception to Dorien’s memoir Sixty Shades of Green being sold in his shop.

10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program.

11.00 The Business. (R, CC) Hosted by Ticky Fullerton and Elysse Morgan.

11.20 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (MA15+, R, CC) Guests include Jason Manford.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

(CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh, Jason and Adam team up to show how to holiday at home, in style. Karen prepares barbecued pork.

8.30 Martin Clunes: Islands Of Australia. (PG, CC) Part 1 of 3. English actor Martin Clunes sets out on a quest to explore the many islands which make up Australia. He begins by heading to Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island and Restoration Island.

9.30 Selling Houses Australia.

(CC) A disco-inspired country estate which is coloured pink and purple is given a much-needed makeover.

Presented by Andrew Winter, with a team of experts including landscaper Charlie Albone and interior designer Shaynna Blaze.

10.40 The Secret Daughter.

(PG, R, CC) Finding herself in hot water, a country pub singer pretends to be the secret daughter of a wealthy tycoon.

11.40 Botched Up Bodies.

(MA15+, R, CC) Follows some of Britain’s top plastic surgeons from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 A Current Affair. (CC) 7.30 Ready For Takeoff.

(PG, CC) (Series return) A behind-the-scenes look at Qantas and the staff and crew, from pilots, cabin crew, engineers and caterers, whose job is to ensure the 160,000 passengers a day who pass through their hands have a smooth trip.

8.30 MOVIE: The Judge.

(M, CC) (2014) Having left his dysfunctional family behind years earlier to practise law in Chicago, a man returns to his hometown in Indiana when his father, the town’s judge, is accused of murdering a recently released killer.

Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga.

11.25 MOVIE: Stolen. (M, R, CC) (2012) A former thief searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi by a man who is convinced he is in possession of a small fortune from a heist he pulled nearly a decade earlier. Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman, Josh Lucas.

6.00 WIN News. (CC) 6.30 The Project. (CC) Waleed Aly, Gorgi Coghlan, Anthony “Lehmo” Lehmann and Meshel Laurie take a look at the day’s news.

Special guests include Craig Lowndes and Simona De Silvestro.

7.30 The Living Room.

(CC) Dr Chris heads to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland to swim with grey nurse sharks at Wolf Rock. Barry drops in on a couple to offer some muchneeded help on DIY jobs they have not managed to get to in years.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) (Series return) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with celebrity guests including Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Radcliffe and Robbie Williams.

9.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with Ed Kavalee, Sam Pang and a panel of celebrity guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week.

10.30 To Be Advised.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC)

6.00 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London.

(R, CC) (Final) Celebrity cook Rachel Khoo seeks out some of London’s luxurious treats, including champagne high tea in Mayfair.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 The Private Lives Of The Tudors: The Rise Of Henry VIII. (PG, CC) Part 1 of 3. An intimate look behind the closed doors of one of the most celebrated royal dynasties, the Tudors.

8.30 MOVIE: Philomena. (CC) (2013) A disgraced former journalist researches the story of a Catholic woman who gave birth out of wedlock in ‘50s Ireland, and was abandoned by her family. Forced to live in an abbey, the nuns sold her child. Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark.

10.20 SBS World News Late Edition. (CC) 10.55 MOVIE: Dom Hemingway. (MA15+, CC) (2013) After 12 years in prison, a safecracker travels to the south of France to reconnect with his daughter. Jude Law, Emilia Clarke.

12.00 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

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

12.40 The Neighbors. (PG, R, CC) The Weavers and BirdKersees are tasked with chaperoning Amber and Reggie’s school dance.

1.30 Home Shopping.

1.20 Nine Presents. (R, CC) Music special.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

3.00 The Avengers. (PG, R) Steed investigates the death of an agent.

4.00 Global Shop.

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.

12.35 The Bridge. (M, R, CC) 2.55 The Bridge.

(MA15+, R, CC) 4.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.35 So Very Cute. (M, R, CC) 4.50 Swim. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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DOCUMENTARY

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6.25pm Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Action. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron. Two veterans of the apocalypse try to outrun a ruthless warlord. (MA15+) Premiere

8.30pm Law & Order: SVU. A joint murder investigation heads to Manhattan. (MA15+) Universal Channel

7.30pm Original Sin: Sex. Explores sexualised images in consumer culture. (M) National Geographic

6.00am Soccer. 2018 FIFA World Cup UEFA Qualification.

Italy v Spain. ESPN

8.30pm Chappelle’s Show.

Dave takes a look at the latest TV gambling sensation, the World Series of Dice. (MA15+) Comedy Channel

8.30pm I Am Rebel. In the 1980s, Kevin Mitnick sent the FBI on a cat-and-mouse hunt.

(M) National Geographic

7.30pm Minions (2015) Animation. Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm. (PG) Family 10.25pm Ghostbusters (1984) Comedy. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd. Scientists become ghost hunters when strange things start happening in New York. (PG) Comedy

8.30pm Sleepy Hollow. Abbie and Ichabod’s battle may not be over. (MA15+) FOX8

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 5.25 Peg + Cat. 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 River Monsters.

(PG, R, CC) 8.20 #Shelfie With Dan Hong.

(R, CC) 8.30 The Midwives: A Baby At Any Cost. (M, R, CC) Documents the work of midwives.

9.30 The Fried Chicken Shop.

(M, R, CC) 10.20 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (PG, R, CC) 10.50 Airbnb: Dream Or Nightmare? (PG, R, CC) 11.40 TFI Friday. (M, R, CC) 12.25 River Monsters. (PG, R, CC) 1.15 Married Behind Bars. (M, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 Close. 5.00 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.10 Boj. (R, CC) 5.20 Mouk.

(R) 5.35 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC ME 6.00 Children’s Programs. 3.05 The Day My Butt Went Psycho.

(R, CC) 3.30 SheZow. (R, CC) 3.40 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 3.55 Screen Time. 4.00 Annedroids.

(CC) 4.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 5.00 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 5.05 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. 5.30 This Is Me. (R, CC) 5.35 The Deep. (CC) 5.55 Prisoner Zero. (PG, CC) 6.20 Dixi. (CC) 6.25 The Next Step. (PG, CC) 6.50 BtN Newsbreak. (CC) 7.00 You’re Skitting Me. (CC) 7.15 Game On. (R) 7.25 This Is Me. (R, CC) 7.30 Nature’s Microworlds.

(R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi: Next Class.

(PG, R, CC) 8.25 Yonderland. (R) A mum encounters an elf.

8.50 Stoked. (R, CC) The “groms” report for duty.

9.10 Lanfeust Quest.

(PG, R, CC) 9.35 Sword Art Online.

(PG, R, CC) 10.00 K-On! (PG, R, CC) 10.25 Close.

7.45pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Brisbane Roar v Melbourne Victory. Fox Sports 4 Tom Hardy stars in Mad Max: Fury Road

9GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Match It. (C, R, CC) 7.30 Bottersnikes And Gumbles. (C, CC) 8.00 Toybox. (P, R, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away: The Early Years. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 NBC Today. (R) 12.00 Better Homes. (R, CC) 1.00 Lovejoy. (PG, R) 2.00 The Great Outdoors. (R, CC) 3.00 Best Houses Australia. (R) 4.00 Medical Emergency. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. (R) 7.30 Mr Selfridge. (PG, CC) Gordon sparks press speculation about Harry’s age.

8.30 MOVIE: Sleepless In Seattle. (PG, R, CC) (1993) A boy tries to find a girlfriend for his dad. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan.

10.40 For The Love Of Dogs.

(PG, R) 11.10 SCU: Serious Crash Unit.

(PG, R, CC) 11.40 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 Psychic TV. (M) 4.00 Property Ladder UK Revisited. 5.00 Shopping. (R)

7MATE

6.00 Children’s Programs. 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 12.00 Little Charmers. (R) 12.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 1.00 LEGO Friends. (R) 1.30 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 2.00 SpongeBob. (R) 2.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG) 3.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 3.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (PG, R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10.

(PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 Regular Show. (PG, R) 6.30 Adventure Time. (PG) 7.00 MOVIE: Escape From Planet Earth. (PG, R, CC) (2013) 8.40 MOVIE: The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug.

(M, R, CC) (2013) Bilbo Baggins continues his epic quest. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen.

12.10 Forever. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 2.30 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 3.00 Little Charmers. (R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 Power Rangers.

(PG, R) 4.30 Batman. (PG, R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R)

9GEM

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG, R) 8.30 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.00 Goldfathers. (PG, R) 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. (R) 11.00 Forbidden Cargo. (PG, R) 12.00 SlideShow.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 Wipeout USA. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 3.00 Adventure Angler. (PG) 3.30 River To Reef. (PG, R) 4.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 5.00 Goldfathers.

(PG, R) 6.00 American Pickers. (PG, R) Mike becomes enamoured with a car.

7.00 MOVIE: The Karate Kid. (PG, R) (1984) Ralph Macchio.

9.40 MOVIE: Kick-Ass. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) A teenager decides to become a vigilante. Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage.

12.00 Men At Work. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 3.00 NFL. NFL. Week 4. Jacksonville Jaguars v Indianapolis Colts.

Replay.

6.00 News. (CC) 9.00 News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 ABC News Afternoons With The Business. 5.00 Grandstand. 6.00 ABC News Evenings. 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 ABC News Grandstand. 7.30 End Of The Line: The Last Australian Ford.

(CC) 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 BBC Impact. 1.30 Lateline. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera. 3.00 BBC World. 3.30 7.30. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World.

4.30 BBC Africa. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

ABC NEWS

9.30pm Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. (PG) Discovery Science

5.30pm Basketball. NBL. Round 1. New Zealand Breakers v Melbourne United.

Fox Sports 3

6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 This Is Your Day! 7.00 Creflo. (PG) 7.30 TV Shop. 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Carry On Cruising. (R, CC) (1962) 1.50 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 2.20 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 3.20 Monarch Of The Glen. (PG) 4.30 Ellen DeGeneres. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 David Attenborough’s Life In Cold Blood: Invaders Of The Land.

(PG, R, CC) A look at amphibians.

8.40 MOVIE: Blood Work.

(M, R, CC) (2002) A profiler pursues a serial killer. Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels.

10.55 MOVIE: The Mechanic.

(M, R) (1972) Charles Bronson.

12.30 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG, R) 1.00 Call And Win. (M) 3.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 4.00 TV Shop. 5.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 All 4 Adventure. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 9.30 Fishing Edge. (R, CC) 10.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 11.00 Hogan’s Heroes. (R) 12.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) 1.00 Raising Hope. (PG, R) 2.00 White Collar. (PG) 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) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) Charles keeps Hawkeye and BJ awake at night.

7.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) MacGyver is left in a coma.

8.30 Walker, Texas Ranger.

(M, R) Rustlers murder a cattle inspector.

9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: Vengeance Is Mine. (M, R) (2012) A cop sets out to get revenge. Steven Seagal.

11.30 Get Smart. (PG, R) 12.30 Shopping. (R) 2.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 3.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. (M, R) 4.00 MacGyver. (PG, R) 5.00 Vegas. (M, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Pound Puppies. (R) 6.30 Transformers Rescue Bots. 7.05 Transformers: Robots In Disguise. (R) 7.35 Pokémon. (R) 8.00 Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures. (C, R, CC) 8.35 My Little Pony. 9.00 Littlest Petshop. 9.30 Crocamole. (P, CC) 10.00 Dr Quinn. (PG, R) 11.00 JAG. (PG, R) 12.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Family Ties. (PG, R) 2.00 Becker. (PG, 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. (R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) 8.00 The Grinder. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE: The Other Woman. (M, R, CC) (2014) A woman discovers her boyfriend is married.

Cameron Diaz.

10.45 To Be Advised. 11.45 James Corden. (PG) 12.45 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.55 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 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Hawaii Life. (R) 8.00 The Block.

(PG, R, CC) 9.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 9.30 Hawaii Life. (R) 10.00 House Hunters Int. (R) 10.30 House Hunters. (R) 11.00 Tiny Luxury. (R) 12.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 1.00 The Millionaire Matchmaker. (PG, R) 2.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Block. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (PG) 5.00 Selling New York. (PG, R) 6.00 Hawaii Life.

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 House Hunters. (R) 12.30 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 Indonesian News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Bosnian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.00 Japanese News. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Urdu News. 1.30 Tamil News.

2.00 Thai News. 2.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 3.00 Bangla News. 3.30 Armenian News.

4.00 The Feed. (R) 4.30 Survive Aotearoa. (PG, R) 5.30 365: Every Day Documentaries. 5.35 Adam Ruins Everything. (PG, R) 6.00 If You Are The One. (R) 7.00 Gadget Man. (R) 7.30 Soccer. A-League. Round 1.

Brisbane Roar v Melbourne Victory. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

10.15 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 12.15 MOVIE: Thirteen Assassins. (AV15+, R) (2010) 2.30 PopAsia. (PG) 3.35 NHK World English News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 7.00 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 8.00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam. (R) 8.30 Kylie Kwong: Heart And Soul.

(R) 9.00 Mystery Diners. (R) 9.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia.

(R) 10.00 Kelsey’s Essentials. (R) 10.30 Guy’s Big Bite. (R) 11.00 Man Fire Food. (R) 11.30 Barefoot Contessa. (R) 12.00 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam. (R) 12.30 Kylie Kwong: Heart And Soul. (R) 1.00 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 2.00 Spring Baking Championship.

(PG, R) 3.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R) 3.30 Giada At Home. (R) 4.00 Trisha’s Southern Kitchen. (PG) 4.30 Guy’s Big Bite.

5.00 Pati’s Mexican Table. 5.30 No Reservations. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Spring Baking Championship. 7.30 Spring Baking Championship.

(PG) 8.30 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG) 9.30 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG) (Series return) 10.30 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 11.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 12.30 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG, R) 1.25 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 MOVIE: Jedda The Uncivilized.

(PG) (1955) 11.30 Our Stories. 11.50 Listen Up! 12.00 Once A Queen. 12.55 A Journey Of Hope. 1.35 Once A Queen.

2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Muso Magic. 4.30 Kagagi. (PG) 5.00 The Dreaming. 5.30 Tangaroa. 6.00 Our Songs. 6.30 Watchers Of The North.

(PG) 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 On The Edge. 8.00 Survive Aotearoa. (PG, CC) 9.00 The Point Review. 9.30 Chappelle’s Show. (M) 10.00 Shuga. (M) 10.30 Blackstone.

(MA15+) 11.20 The Other Side. (PG) 11.50 Dead Creek. (PG) 12.00 Volumz. (MA15+) 4.00 On The Road. (PG) 5.00 NITV On The Road: Barunga Festival.

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Saturday, October 8 MOVIE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NINE, 7pm, PG (2014) Based on the ’80s cartoon characters, this rather limp adventure film is about the green hard-shelled heroes, who want to save New York from The Shredder and his evil Foot Clan with their iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The Turtles work with reporter April O’Neil (played poorly by Megan Fox) and her cameraman Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett). It’s blandly cartoonish with a shockingly weak storyline, but if you’re a child, or an adult with a weakness for popular culture of the 1980s, it’s worth checking out – maybe, if you’re very, very bored.

ABC

MacGyver

MOVIE: Clueless

WIN, 7.30pm

9GO!, 7.30pm, PG (1995)

What he could achieve with some ordinary objects saw his name became a byword for making something from nothing. Yep, MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, was a true ‘80s icon. How will such a cult character fare when given the reboot treatment? Lucas Till (X-Men: First Class) certainly has some big shoes to fill as the resourceful secret agent, and with the original pilot episode binned before it saw the light of day, you have to admit it doesn’t look promising. Still, could be worth a look if only for the nostalgia factor, and to see what former CSI star George Eads is up to these days.

ed on Jane This teen classic of the ‘90s, based ry funny Austen’s Emma, is a sharp and very r, the satire. As prissy 16-year-old Cher, delectable Alicia Silverstone (pictured) takes a grand tour of self-discovery beneath the shallow surface of Beverly Hills superficiality and finds there’s more to life than facials, BMWs and silicone. Cher provides us with the perfect antidote to the world of celebrity-obsessed vacuousness, lightheartedly analysing the falsehood that surrounds her, with wit, charm and the cutest smirk since the 20-something Shirley MacLaine.

PRIME7

NINE

WIN

SBS

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.35 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) 12.05 Birds Of A Feather.

(PG, R, CC) 12.30 QI. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Stephen Fry. 1.05 Pointless. (R, CC) Presented by Alexander Armstrong.

1.50 The Men Who Made Us Spend. (R, CC) Part 1 of 3.

2.40 Restoration Man. (R, CC) Hosted by George Clarke.

3.30 Great Southern Land: Great Australian Bite.

(R, CC) Part 1 of 4.

4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A teenager is attacked while eloping.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Join Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies as they present highlights from the past week.

12.00 Horse Racing. (CC) Caulfield Guineas Day. Featuring three Group 1 races, including the $1,000,000 Caulfield Guineas (1600m), $500,000 Thousand Guineas (1600m) and $500,000 Toorak Handicap (1600m). From Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne.

Spring Champion Stakes Day. Featuring the Group 1 $500,000 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m).

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) Ground Floor. (PG, CC) A rival begins luring away Mansfield’s top people.

Fish’n With Mates.

(PG, CC) Presented by Al McGlashan.

Hot In Cleveland. (PG, CC) Joy and Bob’s Paris wedding plans get derailed.

The Block. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Scott Cam. The Garden Gurus. (CC) Advice on caring for roses in spring.

News: First At Five. (CC) Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 Fishing Edge. (CC) Lee Rayner goes in pursuit of swordfish.

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 the past week’s episodes of Studio 10.

11.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Bathurst 1000. Top 10 Shootout. From Mount Panorama, Bathurst, NSW.

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 Cats Uncovered.

(PG, R, CC) 3.30 The Classic Car Show.

(PG, R, CC) 4.20 Sacred Creatures: Egypt’s Darkest Secret.

(PG, R, CC) 5.25 Who Do You Think You Are? (R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Tino Carnevale demonstrates layering.

Sophie Thomson explores a garden inspired by world travels.

7.00 ABC News. (CC) 7.30 Agatha Raisin. (M, CC) After a young bride is found dead, the apparent victim of a flash flood, Agatha decides to investigate.

8.20 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime.

(PG, R, CC) (Final) Tommy and Tuppence discover the whereabouts of the key to the bomb.

9.15 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (M, R, CC) After a reporter’s body is discovered on a local golf course, Dr Blake is called in to investigate.

10.15 Miniseries: Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond. (M, R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

11.00 The Code. (M, R, CC) (Final) Roth, determined to show the world what it feels like to be brutalised, sets his shocking plan in motion.

11.55 Rage. (PG, CC) Music videos chosen by special guest programmer Sticky Fingers.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 The X Factor. (PG, R, CC) The search for the new sound in Australian music returns in front of judges Guy Sebastian, Iggy Azalea and Adam Lambert, beginning with the first round of auditions. Hosted

by Jason Dundas.

10.30 MOVIE: The Grey.

(MA15+, R, CC) (2011) After their plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness, a roughneck group of oil drillers is forced to find a way back to civilisation. However, their path is blocked by a pack of wolves which will do anything to defend their territory against the interlopers. Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (PG, CC) (2014) With the help of a dedicated local reporter, four teenage mutant turtle brothers who have been trained as ninjas, battle a gang of criminals, known as the Foot Clan, which is threatening New York City.

Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner.

9.00 MOVIE: Man Of Steel.

(M, R, CC) (2013) Having grown up in Kansas, a young man with extraordinary powers discovers he was sent to Earth to escape the destruction of his home planet. It is not long before his abilities are put to the test against another extraterrestrial and his super-powered henchmen.

11.45 MOVIE: Enter The Dragon. (MA15+, R, CC) (1973) Determined to avenge the death of his sister, a martial artist enters a tournament held by a disgraced Shaolin student.

He also agrees to serve as a spy for the British government, who suspect the reclusive man is a crime lord. Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih.

6.00 Territory Cops. (PG, R, CC) Officers undertake a nerve-wracking stakeout at Katherine Airport.

6.30 Scorpion. (PG, CC) (Series return) To help fund Walter’s research into saving his sister’s life, the team takes a job to find a top-secret aircraft in Area 51.

7.30 MacGyver. (M, CC) (New Series) Two special agents from the Department of External Services join forces to recover a missing bioweapon.

8.30 Hawaii Five-0. (M, CC) (Series return) After the bodies of two serial killers are found on Five-0 property, with chess pieces in their mouths, McGarrett and the team hunt for a vigilante as fear grows that tourists are not safe in Hawaii.

9.30 MOVIE: The A-Team.

(M, R, CC) (2010) Members of an eccentric special forces group are courtmartialled, for a crime they did not commit. Liam Neeson, Jessica Biel.

11.50 48 Hours: The Dog Trainer, The Heiress And The Bodyguard. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the 2009 murder of celebrity dog trainer Mark Stover.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.35 Million Dollar American Princesses: Leading Ladies. (CC) Part 4 of 4.

Elizabeth McGovern explores the stories of three extraordinary women, Nancy Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the British Parliament, Nancy Lancaster, the creator of the English country-house look, and international style icon Pauline de Rothschild.

8.30 Miniseries: Deep Water.

(R, CC) Part 1 of 4.

9.35 Miniseries: Deep Water.

(R, CC) Part 2 of 4. Detective Tori Lustigman and her partner Nick Manning continue to investigate the murder of a young man.

However, the case takes an unexpected twist when another body is found and evidence surfaces linking a former football legend to past crimes.

10.40 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) Henry makes a final, desperate bid to win his old boyfriend back.

11.35 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) After Henry, Freddie and Dean become trapped together, some longburied truths rise to the surface.

1.50 Nine Presents. (PG, R, CC) Music special.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

3.00 The Baron. (PG, R) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 Fish’n With Mates.

(PG, R, CC) 5.30 Wesley Impact. (CC)

1.50 Home Shopping. (R) 4.20 Inspiration Ministries.

(PG) Religious program.

5.20 Rugby Union. (CC) Rugby Championship. Round 6.

Argentina v Australia. From Twickenham Stadium, London, England.

12.35 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) (Final) Everyone gets caught up in Henry’s grand scheme.

1.30 Real Humans. (MA15+, R) 2.40 Real Humans. (M, R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

1.00 Home Shopping.

12.00 12.30 1.00 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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8.30pm Animal Kingdom (2010) Crime. Jacki Weaver, Guy Pearce. A teenager moves in with his estranged relatives.

(MA15+) Masterpiece

6.30pm The Amazing Race.

Returns for its 27th season – hosted by Phil Keoghan. (PG) FOX8

7.30pm Elvis: Complete King Of Rock ’N’ Roll. To celebrate Elvis’s birthday, four hours of the best footage and performances have been compiled with rare and exclusive interviews from his early days. (PG) Foxtel Arts

5.00pm Motor Racing.

Formula 1. Round 17. Japanese Grand Prix. Qualifying. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm The Night Before (2015) Comedy. Seth Rogen. Three childhood friends embark on a night of debauchery in the search for the ultimate party. (MA15+) Comedy 10.15pm Trainwreck (2015) Comedy. Amy Schumer, Bill Hader. (MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.10 Wiggle. (R, CC) 4.20 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 4.45 Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.55 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.00 Wallykazam! (R) 5.25 Peg + Cat. 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.50 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Highway Thru Hell.

(PG, CC) 8.15 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 8.50 Life’s Too Short. (M, R, CC) 9.45 Live At The Apollo.

(M, R, CC) 10.35 Catastrophe. (M, R, CC) 11.05 Episodes. (M, R, CC) 11.35 Bad Education. (M, R, CC) 12.05 Outland. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Highway Thru Hell. (PG, R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close. 5.00 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.10 Boj. (R, CC) 5.20 The Koala Brothers. (R, CC) (Final) 5.35 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC ME 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.00 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 3.25 Cartoon It Up. (R) 3.30 SheZow. (R, CC) 3.40 The Flamin’ Thongs.

(R, CC) 3.55 Screen Time. 4.00 Annedroids. (CC) 4.30 Operation Ouch! (CC) 5.00 News To Me Featurettes. 5.05 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street.

5.30 This Is Me. (R, CC) 5.35 The Deep. (CC) 5.55 Prisoner Zero.

(CC) 6.20 Dixi. (CC) 6.25 The Next Step. (CC) 6.50 Ultimate Goal. 6.55 You’re Skitting Me. (CC) 7.10 Game On. (R) 7.20 This Is Me. (R, CC) 7.25 Nature’s Microworlds.

(R, CC) 7.55 The Adventures Of Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 8.05 Degrassi: Next Class.

(PG, R, CC) 8.25 Yonderland. (R) A mum encounters an elf.

8.50 Stoked. (R, CC) The groms are determined to keep their jobs.

9.10 Move It Mob Style. (R, CC) 9.35 Close.

7.30pm The Bachelor NZ. Jordan Mauger – a 32-yearold Canterbury lad with a passion for travel, cars and film production – seeks the love of his life to share in further adventures. (M) Lifestyle You 10.05pm Adam DeVine’s House Party. Comedy Channel

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6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.30 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 11.00 Dennis & Gnasher. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Pirate Express. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.30 Wild Kratts. (R) 1.00 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 1.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Sonic Boom. (PG, R) 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 MOVIE: The Secret Garden. (R, CC) (1993) 7.30 MOVIE: Clueless. (PG, R) (1995) Alicia Silverstone.

9.30 MOVIE: Failure To Launch. (M, R, CC) (2006) A couple try to get their son to move out. Matthew McConaughey.

11.30 Adult Swim. (MA15+, R) 12.30 The Almighty Johnsons. (MA15+, R) 1.30 Man And Machine. (PG, R) 2.30 Yo-Kai Watch. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! Arc-V. (PG, R) 4.00 Wild Kratts.

(R) 4.30 Kate And Mim-Mim. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R)

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6.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. The 11th Annual Sprintcar Muster. Replay. 7.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series.

Australia Day Weekend. Demo Derby. Replay. 8.00 Shopping. (R) 9.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 9.30 Morning Programs. 10.00 Dream Car Garage. (R) 10.30 Morning Programs. 11.00 MXTV. (PG) (New Series) 11.30 Combat Dealers. (PG, R) 12.30 Timbersports. Australian Championship. Grand Final.

Continued. 1.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 2.00 Goldfathers. (PG, R) 3.00 Storage: Flog The Lot! (PG, R) 4.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 5.00 Gator Boys. (PG, R) 6.00 MythBusters.

(PG, R, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: The Karate Kid Part II. (PG, R) (1986) 9.20 MOVIE: Kick-Ass 2. (MA15+, CC) (2013) Chloë Grace Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. 11.30 1000 Ways To Die. (MA15+, R) 12.00 Late Programs. 1.00 Storage: Flog The Lot! (PG, R) 2.00 Late Programs.

4.00 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. Australia Day Weekend.

Demo Derby. Replay. 5.00 Late Programs.

5.30pm Basketball. NBL. Round 1. Sydney Kings v Brisbane Bullets. Fox Sports 3 Amu Schumer stars in Trainwreck.

9.30pm The Demon Files.

(M) TLC

9GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 House Calls To The Rescue. (R, CC) 9.00 Going Bush. 10.00 Shopping. (R) 11.00 Hot Property. (R, CC) 11.30 To Be Advised. 12.00 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 The Travel Bug. (PG) 2.30 Going Bush. (PG) 3.00 Great South East. (CC) 3.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG, R) 4.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 4.30 WA Weekender. (CC) 5.00 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 5.30 No Reservations. (PG, R) 6.30 Islands On The Edge. (PG) 7.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure. (PG) The Hairy Bikers travel to Russia.

8.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Alistair Appleton heads to Norfolk.

9.30 Selling Houses Australia.

(R, CC) 10.30 To Build Or Not To Build.

11.30 Best Houses Australia.

12.30 Psychic TV. (M) 3.30 Great South East. (R, CC) 4.00 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 4.30 WA Weekender. (R, CC) 5.00 Shopping.

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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

8.30pm A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen. This recording brings together a stellar list of artists paying tribute to Bruce and his music. (M) Foxtel Arts

5.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne City. Fox Sports 4

6.00 MOVIE: Carry On Cruising.

(R, CC) (1962) 8.00 Danoz. 8.30 TV Shop. 9.00 David Attenborough’s Life In Cold Blood. (PG, R, CC) 10.00 MOVIE: Swallows And Amazons. (R, CC) (1974) 12.00 Your 4x4. (PG) 12.30 MOVIE: Beachhead. (PG, CC) (1954) Tony Curtis. 2.30 Cricket. One-Day Cup. Western Warriors v Victorian Bushrangers. Afternoon session.

From the WACA, Perth.

6.00 Customs. (PG, R, CC) Follows Customs officers at work.

6.30 Cricket. One-Day Cup. Western Warriors v Victorian Bushrangers.

Evening session. From the WACA, Perth.

10.00 MOVIE: Rocky III. (PG, R, CC) (1982) A boxer defends his world heavyweight title. Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire.

12.00 Scott & Bailey. (MA15+, R) 1.00 Call And Win. (M) 3.00 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 4.00 TV Shop. 5.00 Customs. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Your 4x4. (PG, R)

ONE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Get Smart. (PG, R) 9.00 World Sport.

(R) 9.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 10.00 Raising Hope. (PG, R) 11.00 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 12.00 Australian Survivor. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 MacGyver. (PG, R) 3.30 The McCarthys. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Driven Not Hidden.

5.30 Escape Fishing With ET. (R, CC) 6.00 Jamie & Jimmy’s Food Fight Club. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Attenborough’s Tiger: Spy In The Jungle. (PG, R) 8.00 Caught On Camera: Heroes And Villains.

(M, R) A look at crashes, escapes and bad driving.

9.00 Megastructures: Italian Superlink. (R) A look at the construction of a highway.

10.00 Zoo. (M) 11.00 Crisis. (M, R) (Final) 12.00 Rosewood. (M, R) 1.00 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 3.00 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 4.00 RPM GP. (R, CC) 4.30 RPM. (R, CC) 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 To Be Advised. 4.05 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Frasier. (PG, R) 6.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Frank and Marie visit a retirement home.

7.00 Rules Of Engagement.

(PG, R, CC) Jeff learns how much Audrey is paid.

8.00 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

9.00 Jane The Virgin. (M) Rafael gets news about his biological mother. Petra seeks assistance from Michael.

10.00 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) Ted thinks he has found his soulmate.

11.00 The Loop. (PG, R) 1.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 2.00 Neighbours. (R, CC) 4.30 Frasier.

(PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 6.30 House Hunters. (R) 7.00 Garden Gurus. (R) 7.30 Hawaii Life. (R) 8.00 In The Garden. (R, CC) 8.30 Flipping Out. (PG, R) 9.30 Hawaii Life. (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 In The Garden. (R, CC) 2.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Cyndi Lauper: Still So Unusual. (PG) (New Series) 4.00 Hawaii Life. (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 Reno. 10.30 Vacation House For Free. 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

SBS 2 6.00 WorldWatch. 11.35 Punjabi News. 12.05 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Soccer.

A-League. Round 1. Brisbane Roar v Melbourne Victory. Replay. 3.00 Motorcycle Racing. (CC) Superbike World Championship. Round 11.

3.55 The Numbers Game. (PG, R) 4.20 Speed With Guy Martin. (PG, R) 5.15 Hipsters. (PG, R) 5.40 365: Every Day Documentaries. 5.45 Survivor Games With Bear Grylls.

(PG) 7.00 Food, Booze And Tattoos.

(PG) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 Royal Navy School.

(M, R, CC) Follows the UK’s Royal Navy recruits.

9.25 Halfworlds. (M) Barata takes shelter in Sarah’s loft.

10.00 12 Monkeys. (MA15+) 10.50 Lost Girl. (MA15+) 11.40 MOVIE: The Deep. (M) (2012) Olafur Darri Olafsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson.

1.20 MOVIE: Presumed Guilty. (M, R) (2011) 3.10 MOVIE: Declaration Of War. (M, R) (2011) 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 7.00 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 8.00 Restaurant: Impossible. (PG, R) 9.00 Restaurant: Impossible.

(PG, R) 10.00 Barefoot Contessa.

(R) 10.30 Guilty Pleasures. (R) 11.00 Tia Mowry At Home. (R) 11.30 Guy’s Big Bite. (R) 12.00 Pati’s Mexican Table. (R) 12.30 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 1.30 Spring Baking Championship.

(R) 2.30 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 3.30 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 4.30 Spring Baking Championship.

(PG, R) 5.30 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 6.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG) 7.30 Spring Baking Championship.

(PG) 8.30 Cutthroat Kitchen.

(PG, R) 9.30 Cutthroat Kitchen.

(PG, R) 10.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 11.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 12.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 1.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 2.30 Spring Baking Championship.

(R) 3.30 Barefoot Contessa. (R) 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 UnderExposed. 10.30 Survive Aotearoa. (PG, CC) 11.30 Tangaroa. 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 League Nation Live. 2.00 Our Stories. 2.20 Custodians. 2.30 Watchers Of The North. (PG) 3.00 Colour Me. (PG) 4.00 We Stop Here.

(PG) 4.30 Unearthed. 4.50 The Mulka Project. (PG) 5.00 One With Nature. (PG) 5.30 Colour Theory. (CC) 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 6.30 Noongar Dandjoo. (PG) 7.00 Nulla Nulla. (PG) 7.10 Ngarritj. 7.30 Fonko. (PG, CC) 8.30 Catfight.

(M) 9.30 MOVIE: Lucky. (M) (2011) Sihle Dlamini. 11.15 The Loner. (M) 11.50 Nulla Nulla. (PG) 12.00 Volumz. (MA15+) 4.00 On The Road. (PG) 5.00 Bush Bands Bash.

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Sunday, October 9 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda 9GO!, 6.30pm, PG (2008) This high-concept entry is one of the finest in the computer-animated genre. Jack Black showcases his goofy charm as the voice of panda Po. Po’s fantasy of becoming a martial arts warrior incredibly comes true when a wise elder inexplicably anoints him as the “Dragon Warrior” – the kingdom’s so-called chosen one.

Under the tutelage of his gruff master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), Po takes the tentative steps to becoming a kung fu hero, training for battle against mountain cat Tai Lung (Ian McShane), who has broken out of prison. With the mix of warmth, energy and action on offer, this is definitely a knockout combination.

ABC

The Not So Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive: 10 Years On ABC2, 8.30pm Following up on the documentary he made a decade ago, this special sees actor and TV presenter Stephen Fry open up again about the disease – now called bipolar – that he and so many others live with. How much has changed since he first started the conversation? Are people getting more help? Have the treatments improved? Is the stigma still there?

While things are still not perfect, Fry finds that there has been much improvement, and is optimistic about the future of mental health treatment and acceptance. It’s confrontingly confessional, but rewarding.

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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.

(PG, R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Fake Or Fortune? (R, CC) 4.10 Australian Story: Tough Love. (R, CC) 4.40 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery: Leigh Sales.

(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) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 Kochie’s Business Builders. (PG, CC) (Series return) Information and advice for businesses.

12.30 The Franchise Show.

(PG, CC) Takes a look at franchising.

1.00 The X Factor. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Jason Dundas.

4.30 Motorway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) A cattle truck needs a kick start.

5.00 Seven News At 5. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Mike heads to Newcastle.

6.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame: Kyle Sandilands.

(PG, R, CC) Anh Do paints Kyle Sandilands.

6.30 Compass: Mum’s Boy, Dad’s Girl Pt 1. (CC) Jane Caro delves into the bond between fathers and daughters and mothers and sons.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

(CC) Local, national and international news, featuring an extended report exploring in depth state-based issues.

7.40 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. (CC) Part 1 of 4. Host Kevin McCloud visits five homes built for country living.

8.30 Poldark. (M, CC) Ross plans to expand Wheal Leisure and persuades other shareholders to invest in a new tunnelling scheme.

9.30 Wolf Hall. (M, CC) Although he has no official title, Cromwell finds himself running more and more of the king’s affairs.

10.30 The Honourable Woman. (M, R, CC) Kasim’s life hangs in the balance.

11.30 The Honourable Woman. (M, R, CC) (Final) Nessa fights to save the kidnapped child.

6.00 Seven News. (CC) 7.00 The X Factor. (PG, CC) The search for Australia’s next singing sensation continues in front of judges with one of the most inspiring schoolgirls in Australia taking to the stage. Hosted by Jason Dundas.

8.10 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program, hosted by Melissa Doyle.

9.10 MOVIE: The HundredFoot Journey. (PG, CC) (2014) After a displaced Indian family settles in the village of Saint-AntoninNoble-Val in the south of France and open an Indian restaurant, they go to war with a rival French establishment across the road from them. Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Charlotte Le Bon. 11.45 The Secret Daughter.

(PG, R, CC) Finding herself in hot water with some local thugs, a country pub singer pretends to be the secret daughter of a tycoon in order to escape town, which suddenly lands her in the middle of a grieving family.

12.30 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos.

2.55 Wolf Hall. (M, R, CC) Cromwell manoeuvres a bill through parliament.

4.00 Fake Or Fortune?

Gainsborough. (R, CC) Part 4 of 4.

5.00 Insiders. (R, CC) Hosted

by Barrie Cassidy.

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

Hyde & Seek NINE, 9.30pm The new Aussie dramas are coming thick and fast at the moment, with this thriller, which debuted last week, taking king on a modern-day bogeyman of terrorism. It gets bonus points for o marking the return to TV of Packed to d the Rafters favourite Zoe Ventoura and Wolverine’s missus Deborra-Lee e Furness (Correlli). After his best mate and fellow police officer Nick was killed in an attack last week, tonight Gary (Matt Nable, pictured) and his Kiwi sidekick Claire (Emma Hamilton) n) are off to Hong Kong, following a trail ail that leads from the terrorists to a former New Zealand passport official al who seems to be a bit too flush with cash for an ex-public servant.

NINE 6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) In Conversation With Alex Malley. (CC) Wide World Of Sports.

(PG, CC) Full Cycle. (CC) Surfing. (CC) World League. Men’s Championship Tour.

Round 7. Billabong Pro Teahupoo. Highlights.

Neighbours At War. (PG, R, CC) The Block. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Scott Cam. Wild Patagonia: Heat And Dust. (PG, R, CC) News: First At Five. (CC) Customs. (PG, R, CC)

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6.00 Rugby Union. (CC) Rugby Championship.

Round 6. Argentina v Australia. Continued.

From Twickenham Stadium, London, England.

Commentary from Matt White, Scott Mackinnon, Gordon Bray, Matt Burke and Nathan Sharpe.

7.30 Motor Racing. (CC) Supercars Championship.

Bathurst 1000. Race 21.

From Mount Panorama, Bathurst, NSW. Commentary from Matt White, Mark Larkham, Rick Kelly, Mark Howard and Kate Peck.

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 Speedweek. (CC) 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 1.

Melbourne United v Adelaide 36ers.

5.00 Small Business Secrets.

(CC) 5.30 Nazi Megastructures: Hitler’s Jet Caves.

(PG, R, CC) A look at the Messerschmitt Me 262.

6.00 Nine News. (CC) 7.00 The Block. (PG, CC) Tempers fray as it becomes clear that some of the teams may not finish in time for the room reveals.

However, despite the setbacks, there is still plenty of from the judges, with one of the groups walking away with the $10,000 prize.

8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Charles Wooley and Ross Coulthart.

9.30 Hyde & Seek. (M, R, CC) After a detective’s best friend and partner is killed in a random attack, he and his new partner investigate and uncover a mystery involving murder and identity fraud that could potentially threaten national security.

10.30 Killer On The Line: Anthony Mitchell.

(M, CC) Documents the case of 17-year-old Anthony Mitchell from Minnesota, who murdered his girlfriend after an argument before calling the authorities and blaming the attack on a mysterious assailant.

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) Phil attempts to prove that he is useful during an electrical storm.

Jay tries to make an appointment at a bar.

7.00 Modern Family. (PG, CC) Jay goes out of his way to make a good impression with his neighbour.

7.30 Australian Survivor. (CC) As tribal politics continue to escalate, one of the tribesmen is convinced their back is against the wall.

8.30 Miniseries: Brock. (M, CC) Part 1 of 2. Charts the life of Australian motor racing legend, Peter Brock.

10.30 Todd Sampson’s Body Hack: Mixed Martial Arts Fighter. (M, R, CC) Presenter Todd Sampson tackles some of the biggest challenges of his life using science as his guide.

11.30 48 Hours: What Happened In Apt. 1601?

(M, R, CC) Takes a look at the murder of Mark Waugh in 2013, who was found dead in a Washington, D.C. apartment.

6.30 SBS World News. (CC) 7.30 Treasures Of Ancient Greece: The Classical Revolution. (PG, R, CC) Part 2 of 3. Journalist Alastair Sooke explores the riches and unique legacy of Greek art.

8.35 The Other Pompeii: Life And Death In Herculaneum. (PG, R, CC) Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores what life was like in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum moments before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. 9.40 The Sex Changes That Made History. (M, CC) The story of three pioneers in the field of gender reassignment surgery.

10.40 The Amina Profile.

(CC) Takes a look at the true story behind Amina Arraf, the popular blogger known as A Gay Girl in Damascus.

11.40 MOVIE: Queen To Play. (M, R) (2009) A chambermaid’s obsession with the game of chess leads her to seek the tutelage of a reclusive expat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline.

12.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) 1.00 Full Cycle. (R, CC) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 The Baron. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

12.30 48 Hours: A Mother Accused. (M, R, CC) Takes a look at the case of Lacey Spears, a mother who was convicted of murdering her five-year-old son.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show.

1.30 MOVIE: The Way. (PG, R, CC) (2010) Emilio Estevez.

3.45 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 4.50 Gourmet Farmer Afloat Bitesize. (R, CC) 5.00 CCTV English News.

5.30 NHK World English News.

5.45 France 24 Feature.

10.30 11.30 12.00

1.00 1.30 3.50 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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Sunday, October 9 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.10pm Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) Sci-fi. Daisy Ridley.

Princess Leia and Han Solo work with the New Republic against a new potential menace. (M) Premiere

6.30pm Dance Moms. The season begins with a newly motivated Abby Lee promising to no longer overlook her remaining dancers now that her star, Maddie, is gone. (M) Arena

7.30pm Tomorrow’s Food.

Chris discovers how greens can be grown without sunlight.

Lifestyle Food

6.00am Rugby Union.

Rugby Championship. Round 6. Argentina v Australia. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm In Bruges (2008) Crime. Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson. (MA15+) Masterpiece

7.30pm Modern Family.

Mitch takes a job with Jay’s biggest rival. (PG) FOX8

7.30pm The Cowboy. The Old West is an enduring chapter of the American story. (PG) Discovery

4.00pm Motor Racing.

Formula 1. Round 17. Japanese Grand Prix. Race. Fox Sports 1

10.20pm Wild (2014) Biography. Reese Witherspoon.

A former drug addict hikes alone on America’s Pacific Crest Trail. (MA15+) Masterpiece

8.30pm Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. Hosted by Lee Mack. (M) UKTV

ABC2/ABC KIDS

7TWO

6.00 Children’s Programs. 4.10 Wiggle. (R, CC) 4.20 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 4.45 Pocoyo. (R, CC) 5.00 MOVIE: Fireman Sam: Alien Alert.

(CC) (2016) 6.00 Hey Duggee. (R, CC) 6.10 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.20 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.35 Charlie And Lola. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 Stan Lee’s Superhumans.

(PG, CC) 8.15 Speak Your Mind: Tyson’s Masquerade. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 The Not So Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive: 10 Years On. (MA15+, CC) Stephen Fry speaks about living with manic depression.

9.30 Inside My Mind. (M, R, CC) 10.30 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (M, R, CC) 11.20 Hack Live. (M, R, CC) 12.20 Diaries Of A Broken Mind. (M, R, CC) 1.50 News Update. (R) 1.55 Close. 5.00 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 5.10 Boj. (R) 5.20 Mouk. (R) 5.35 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.45 Children’s Programs.

ABC ME 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 2.55 News To Me. (R) 3.15 Winston Steinburger And Sir Dudley Ding Dong. (R, CC) 3.30 SheZow. (R, CC) 3.40 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 4.00 Annedroids. 4.30 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 5.00 Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street. (R) 5.30 This Is Me. (R, CC) 5.35 The Deep. (CC) 5.55 Prisoner Zero. (PG, CC) 6.20 Dixi. (CC) 6.25 The Next Step. (PG, CC) 6.50 Let’s Go! (R) 6.55 Secret Life Of Boys. (R, CC) 7.00 You’re Skitting Me. (CC) 7.15 Game On. (R) 7.25 This Is Me. (R, CC) 7.30 Nature’s Microworlds.

(R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi: Next Class.

(PG, R, CC) 8.25 Yonderland. (PG, R) Debbie upsets Peter.

8.45 Stoked. (R, CC) The groms think the worst is over.

9.10 Move It Mob Style. (R, CC) A youth health and fitness program.

9.35 Rage. (PG, R) 2.05 Close.

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 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 2.30 Problem Solverz. (PG, R) 3.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 3.30 Yo-Kai. (PG, R) 4.00 Teen Titans. (PG, R) 4.30 Power Rangers Dino. (PG) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Batman. (PG, R) 6.00 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets Of The Furious Five. (R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda.

(PG, R, CC) (2008) 8.30 MOVIE: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. (M, R, CC) (2009) A teenager is pursued by giant robots. Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox. 11.30 MOVIE: The Final Destination. (MA15+, R, CC) (2009) Nick Zano, Richard T. Jones. 1.00 Adult Swim. (MA15+) 2.00 Surfing Australia TV. (R, CC) 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 MimMim. (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 The Neighbors. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 The AFN Fishing Show. (PG) 11.30 Adventure Angler. (PG) 12.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 1.00 Big Australia. (R, CC) 2.00 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 3.00 MythBusters. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. (PG, R, CC) (2006) A man searches for a pirate. Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley.

10.00 MOVIE: Rambo.

(MA15+, R) (2008) A veteran rescues aid workers. Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz.

11.45 1000 Ways To Die. (MA15+, R) 12.45 Doomsday Preppers. (PG, R) 2.00 Operation Repo. (M, R) 3.00 Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 4.00 NFL. NFL. Week 5. Pittsburgh Steelers v New York Jets.

5.00pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 1. Newcastle Jets v Adelaide United. Fox Sports 4 7.00pm Cricket. One-day International Series. South Africa v Australia. Game 4. Fox Sports 2

9GO!

6.00 Shopping. (R) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG, R) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping.

(R) 9.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 10.00 Home And Away CatchUp. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Storage Hoarders. (R) 1.30 Islands On The Edge. (PG, R) 2.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure. (PG, R) 3.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 5.30 Intolerant Cooks.

6.00 Mighty Cruise Ships. (CC) 7.00 For The Love Of Dogs.

(PG) 7.30 Around The World With Manu. (PG) (New Series) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Presented by Jules Hudson.

9.30 The House That £100K Built: Tricks Of The Trade. Piers works on a former butcher’s shop.

10.45 Islands On The Edge.

(PG, R) 11.45 Mighty Cruise Ships. (R, CC) 12.45 Psychic TV. (M) 3.45 Escape To The Country. (R) 5.00 Shopping.

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) 3.00 News. 3.30 Offsiders. (R, 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 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS

10.30pm Killing Spree. (M) Crime & Investigation

6.00 TV Shop. 6.30 Leading The Way. 7.00 New Hope Ministries: New Hope On The Road. (PG) 7.30 Beyond Today. 8.00 Key Of David.

(PG) 8.30 TV Shop. 10.00 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.30 Avengers. (PG, R) 11.30 Garden Gurus. (R, CC) 12.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 MOVIE: Attack On The Iron Coast.

(PG, R, CC) (1968) 2.30 Cricket.

One-Day Cup. Queensland Bulls v Southern Redbacks. Afternoon session.

6.00 Border Rico. (PG, R, CC) Officers patrol the Puerto Rican border of the US. 6.30 Cricket. One-Day Cup. Queensland Bulls v Southern Redbacks.

Evening session. From Drummoyne Oval, Sydney.

10.00 MOVIE: Rocky IV. (PG, R, CC) (1985) Rocky takes on a Russian boxer.

Sylvester Stallone.

12.00 Murder In The First. (M, CC) 1.00 TV Shop. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 4.00 TV Shop.

4.30 Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE

SBS 2

6.00 Shopping. (R) 8.00 Rugby Union. (CC) Rugby Championship.

Round 6. Argentina v Australia.

Replay. 10.10 World Sport. (R) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 11.30 Healthy Homes Australia. (R, CC) 12.00 4x4 Adventures. (R, CC) 1.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 2.00 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 2.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 3.30 Netball. Constellation Cup. Game 1. Australia v New Zealand. 5.30 iFish.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 MOVIE: Goodbye, Farewell And Amen.

(PG, R) (1983) Alan Alda.

10.00 Caught On Camera: Heroes And Villains.

(M, R) 11.00 Moments Of Impact.

(PG, R) 12.00 World Sport. 12.30 Monster Jam. (R) 1.30 Race To The Sky. (PG, R) 2.30 Operation Repo. (PG, R) 3.00 Vegas. (M, R) 5.00 Driven Not Hidden. (R) 5.30 Whacked Out Sports. (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Invizimals.

(R) 6.30 Victorious. (R) 7.05 Transformers: Robots In Disguise.

7.35 Pokémon. 8.30 Scaredy Squirrel. (R) 9.00 Teenage Mutant 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.

(PG, R, CC) 12.30 King Of Queens.

(PG, R) 1.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 3.30 Australian Survivor. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother.

(PG, R) Ted receives an unexpected call.

8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) 8.30 To Be Advised.

9.30 Joel Creasey’s Comedy Offensive. (MA15+, R, CC) 10.30 Sex And The City. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.10 Family Ties. (PG, R) 12.35 Sabrina. (PG, R) 1.00 Cheers.

(PG, R) 1.30 Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 3.00 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Frasier.

(PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (R)

6.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 7.00 Vacation House For Free. (R) 8.00 House Hunters Reno. (R) 9.00 In The Garden. (R, CC) 9.30 Tiny House Hunters. (PG, R) 10.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 10.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 11.00 Extreme Homes. (R) 12.00 House Hunters. (R) 2.00 Flip Or Flop. (R) 3.00 House Hunters Reno. (R) 4.00 Come Dine With Me UK. (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. (R) 9.30 Zombie House Flipping. (PG) (New Series) 10.30 Flip This House. (PG) 11.30 House Hunters Int. (R) 12.00 Masters Of Flip. (R) 1.00 Postcards. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 In The Garden. (R, CC) 2.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE

Stormtroopers in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

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 We Are Young. (PG, R) 2.05 Geeks. (PG, R) 3.00 Billy On The Street. (PG, R) 4.00 Community.

(PG, R) 4.25 Survivor Games With Bear Grylls. (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. (M, CC) The boys pay homage to their volunteers.

9.30 Travel Man: Marrakech.

(R) Part 4 of 4.

10.00 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. (M) 10.25 The Green Room With Paul Provenza. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Savage U. (M, R) 11.55 Room 237. (M, R, CC) 1.50 MOVIE: Even The Rain. (M, R, CC) (2010) 3.45 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 Korean News.

5.30 Indonesian News.

FOOD 6.00 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 7.00 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 8.00 Spring Baking Championship. (R) 9.00 Spring Baking Championship.

(PG, R) 10.00 Sandwich King. (R) 10.30 Valerie’s Home Cooking. (R) 11.00 Good Eats. (R) 11.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 12.30 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 1.30 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 2.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 3.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 4.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 5.30 Last Cake Standing. (R) 6.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG) 7.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG) 8.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) Hosted by Alton Brown.

9.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 10.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 11.30 Spring Baking Championship. (PG, R) 12.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 1.30 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R) 2.30 Sandwich King. (R) 3.00 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 4.00 Last Cake Standing. (PG, R) 5.00 Cutthroat Kitchen. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 7.30 Kagagi. (PG) 8.00 Mugu Kids.

8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Wapos Bay. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Small Business Secrets. (CC) 10.30 Noongar Dandjoo. (PG) 11.00 Bush To Belly. (PG) 12.00 The Point Review. 12.30 Colour Theory. (CC) 1.00 Back To Munda. 1.45 Seeking Salvation. 3.45 A Journey Of Hope. 4.30 Our Songs.

(PG) 5.00 Te Kaea. 5.30 The Medicine Line. 6.00 Ngurra.

6.30 Australian Biography. (PG) 7.00 Dene A Journey.

(PG) 8.00 Nyurruwiyi Yurrampi. 8.30 Standing On Sacred Ground. 9.30 MOVIE: Dave Chappelle’s Block Party. (M, CC) (2005) Dave Chappelle. 11.15 Froth. 11.45 Australia’s Got Language. 12.00 Volumz. (PG) 0910

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FIND THE WORDS This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 11 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Football

OUT ON A LIMB

by Gary Kopervas

FLASH GORDON

by Jim Keefe

action ankle strap ball barge bomb boots centre coach code flag first grade

five-eight forward full-back gate goal grand final group half-back half-time headgear ice

jumper lock manager moves off out pace play referee reserve run

scrum second row sideline tackle take train try water whistle wing

Š australianwordgames.com.au 925

WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

GO FIGURE

GRIN & BEAR IT

by Wagner

LAFF-A-DAY

>> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

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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ACROSS 1. Royal headdress 6. Carve 10. Motorist’s aid 15. Nettle’s cousin 16. Rub hard 17. Jiffy 18. Limber 19. Mild cigar 20. Extend (a subscription) 21. Dole out 22. Sheep’s stomach, to a chef 23. Make like Greg Lemond 24. Soak, as a tea bag 26. Type of jacket 27. Nile menace 30. Sniggler’s quarry 33. Turns left 34. Pose 35. Carpenter’s curve 36. Stringed instrument 38. ‘Peter, Peter, pumpkin ____...’

40. Penny, e.g.

41. Word for Gatsby 42. Disposition

44. Fountainhead 46. Bombard with current 47. Daisy colour 51. Stages 53. Cotton cloth 54. Besides 57. ____ beef 59. Reach 60. Evening frock 61. Nothing 62. Do a yard chore 64. Straight stick 65. Chopping tool 66. Coagulate 67. In flames 69. Bear necessity?

71. Kiddie cart 73. Blow one’s cool 77. Aquarium denizen 79. Barry Levinson film 80. Arctic shelter 81. Groom 82. Positive electrode 83. Clan emblem 84. Measure of gold 85. Withhold 86. Shoulder scarf

DOWN 1. Prepare for a test 2. Fly off the handle 3. Fail to include 4. Tricks 5. Previously known as 6. Overshadow 7. Catch 8. Remedy 9. Cable channel 10. Heart chambers 11. Journey 12. Genealogy 13. Perfect tennis serve 14. Embroider 16. Nail’s cousin 22. Slice 23. Double-cross 25. Roofing straw 26. Dock 28. Yen component 29. Goldfish, e.g.

30. Fowl balls?

31. Continental currency 32. Stead 34. Call it quits 35. Wildcat 37. Sport fish 39. Bring together

43. Pen pal’s product 45. Breadwinner 46. Passion 48. Con man 49. Melange 50. Go along 52. Farmer’s concern 54. Eastern title 55. Bagel topper 56. Suffer from heat 58. Disaster 59. Alike 63. Prior to, in Dogpatch 66. Jack’s foe 68. Rye fungus 70. Region 71. Champagne or sherry 72. Immediately 74. Certain choir member 75. December air 76. Big book 77. Major hwy.

78. Period of time 79. Family member 80. Possessive pronoun PUZZLE NO. 384

MEGA MAZE

>> AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW: One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each week the code letters are different.

z Thoughts for the Day: “In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable and necessary.” – Kathleen Norris z It was the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy who made the following sage observation: “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

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SESSIONS FROM THU 6 OCTOBER UNTIL WED 12 OCTOBER

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INSANITY STREAK

by Tony Lopes

PRINCE VALIANT

by Murphy & Gianni

YOUR WEEKLY STARS For the week commencing Monday, October 10 ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) Someone from your past could arrive with welcome news concerning your future. Meanwhile, avoid taking sides in a workplace confrontation until you have more facts to go on.

TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) A decision about a relationship could have longer-lasting consequences than you might imagine, so be sure of your facts before you act. A trusted friend can help.

GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 22) A strained relationship could be restored with more personal contact between the two of you. Letting others act as your go-between only adds to the ongoing estrangement.

CANCER (JUN 23-JUL 23) New facts could mean taking a new path toward a goal you’ve been hoping to reach.

However, be sure all your questions are answered before you undertake to shift directions.

LEO (JUL 24-AUG 23) This is a good week for all you fine Felines to turn your attention to some important considerations, such as your health, your job situation and the status of important relationships.

VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Avoid making a quick decision about a matter that needs more study.

Keep your mind open for possibilities, even if they don’t seem plausible – at least not yet.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) You might welcome the emphasis on openness in relationships that mark this period. But it’s a good idea to avoid sharing personal secrets with people you hardly know.

SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)

THE CASHIER

POINT TAKEN

by Ricardo Galvão

by Judge

JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS

by Dave T. Phipps

STRANGE BUT TRUE z The earliest known brothel was located in Sumer (now southeastern Iraq), all the way back in 3300BC. z The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which took place in Tombstone, Arizona at about 3pm on October 26, 1881, is probably the most famous shootout in the history of the USA Old West. You might be surprised to learn, though, that the gunfight didn’t actually happen at the O.K. Corral, or even next to it – the gunfight took place in an empty lot six doors down.

by Samantha Weaver z A futurist in the 1950s made the following prediction: “There will come a time when every country in the world will have a computer.” z Etymology – the study of words’ history, their origins and how their form and meaning have changed over time – is fascinating. For example, take the term “shilly-shally”, meaning to vacillate. In the 18th century, “shill” was another form of “shall”, and people trying to make a difficult decision might ask them-

selves “Shill I? Shall I?” Over time it was shortened to the form we use today. z If your scissors are getting dull, don’t waste time and effort with sharpening stones; all you have to do is cut up sheets of sandpaper to hone the cutting edges. z Those who study such things say that if you added up the body masses of all the people on the planet right now, it would amount to more than 340 million tonnes.

There are still some questions that need to be asked and answered before you can feel confident enough to make a potentially life-changing decision.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Some lingering effects from a now largely resolved workplace confrontation could make things difficult for you. Act on this before it becomes serious.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20) You feel you’re finally in control of your own life after months of making compromises and concessions you never felt comfortable with. Congratulations.

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19) No sooner do you decide to pass on one job offer than another suddenly turns up. This one might not have everything you’re looking for, but it’s worth checking out.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20) Congratulations. With Jupiter’s strong influence dominating this week, don’t be surprised to get some good news about a troubling financial matter.

BORN THIS WEEK: You are usually kind and loving. But you can be highly critical of those who don’t measure up to your high standards.

HOCUS-FOCUS

by Henry Boltinoff

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AMBER WAVES

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by Dave T. Phipps

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by Jeff Pickering

Can you, in eight moves, turn the top word into the bottom one? You may alter only one letter at a time to make another word. We have entered the centre word to keep you on the right track.

D

O

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R

D

E

A

R

B

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L

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CONTRACT BRIDGE by Steve Becker A STITCH IN TIME A defender should always think in terms of how many tricks his side needs to set the contract.

This becomes his goal for that hand, and if he absentmindedly loses sight of it, disaster might soon follow.

Consider this deal where West led a spade against four hearts. Dummy’s king took the trick, and declarer led a low trump to his hand, to which East followed low.

South won with the queen and cashed the ace of spades, discarding a diamond from dummy. He then conceded a trump to East’s ace, but the defenders could no longer collect more than a diamond and

a club, so declarer made the contract.

It is easy to see that if East had gone up with his ace on the first heart lead from dummy and returned a diamond, South would have gone down one.

The question, therefore, is whether East should have made this play without having seen all four hands.

The answer lies in the principle set forth above.

As soon as dummy appears, East should ask himself how and where his side might get the four tricks needed to defeat the contract. He can reasonably count on a club trick and a trump trick, but his only real chance of stopping the contract lies in the

hope that his partner can score two diamond tricks.

The trouble with playing low on the first heart lead is that it allows declarer to get to his hand and discard a diamond from dummy on the ace of spades (South is marked with the spade ace, since West would not underlead an ace at trick one.)

East should therefore rise with the heart ace at trick two and shift to a diamond as the one and only chance to set the contract.

In doing so, he abandons the usual practice of “second hand low” because the circumstances indicate that in this case it is the wrong thing to do.

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