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Public consultation for eco-resort at Pinky’s beach
Rotto glamps it up PETER LAW VISITORS to Rottnest Island will late next year be able to sleep in “eco tents” costing between $100 and $350 a night, if new plans are approved. The Baileys Group, which operates Rottnest Express ferries, has submitted a development application to build the island’s first glamping resort in the dunes at Pinky’s beach. The Rottnest Island Authority yesterday launched a three-week public consultation on the Pinky’s Eco Retreat proposal. The RIA board is expected to make its determination next month.
If given the go-ahead, construction of 86 tents of varying sizes and styles will start in November. The anticipated opening is between October and December next year. The resort includes a “beach club nestled in the dunes”, which will include a tented pavilion with daybeds and a sand floor “to sit in the shade and relax after a day at the beach”. Anyone will be able to visit the retreat and beach club. The site is next to the campground behind Pinky’s beach, one of Rotto’s most popular. All public access routes to the beach will remain. Two extra boardwalks to Pinky’s
Camp in style: An artist’s impression of a twin tent proposed for Pinky’s Eco Retreat.
beach will be built, plus another to The Basin. There will be a dinghy tie-up jetty at the western corner of the bay. A requirement is that the tents cannot be visible when standing on the beach at the high watermark. The tents
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don’t require concrete slabs and “are simply screwed into the sand”, Baileys’ website says. The retreat “floats above the current flora via raised walkways and raised tents” and there will be no fences to keep the wildlife out.
S Some camp sites at the exis ex x existing campground will be repl e replaced by the new tents. B Baileys Group said the accc accommodation had been pric “to be accessible to all priced and n and provide an enhanced caam camping experience”. W When bookings open, budg tents will be priced at $100get $$12 per night, traditional tents $125 $ at $200-$225, family and group tents $200-$250 and premium at $300-$350. A public information session will be held on Wednesday, July 26 from 4.30pm-6pm at the Fremantle Maritime Museum’s boardroom. View the plans at ria.wa.gov.au.
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SHELLEY SEDDON AUSSIE model Robyn Lawley says she is “sick of the Kardashians” and urges parents to “empower” the minds of Australia’s girls. Lawley, who at size 12-14 was one of the nation’s first plus-size models, wants future generations to “perfect” their brains instead of their bodies. “I don’t want any little girl to hold herself back,” she tells STM today. “I’m so sick of the Kardashians. I’m so sick of all that bulls---. You’ve got to empower your mind. “I tell girls, ‘Start following people who actually use their brain. You need to be a trailblazer and change the way it is . . . because it won’t change otherwise.” Lawley takes a very un-Kardashian like approach to social media, positing untouched photographs of her stretch marks. “I’m covered in stretch marks,” she said. “I have them all over my body, all over my thighs, all over my hips. I have them everywhere and I don’t care. “I had Sports Illustrated shoots right after my baby. And my stomach was just covered. That’s life. I’m proud of my stomach. I birthed a 5kg baby. That’s what should matter.”
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JUST 11 great white sharks have been tagged in the past two years and detections have dropped 20 per cent, raising questions about the WA Government’s expansion of the shark detection network to Esperance. Two satellite-linked receivers that alert authorities when a tagged shark swims nearby have been installed at Kelp Beds and West Beach in Esperance, costing taxpayers $100,000. Fisheries Minister Dave Kelly touted the decision as a win for ocean users and said it would help them “make an informed choice before entering the water”. But Fisheries Department data shows only four sharks were tagged in 2016-17 and seven were tagged the year before, down from 19 in 201415. Fisheries officers also tagged two great whites off Fremantle this week, measuring 3.8m and 3.5m, as the animals feasted on a whale carcass. The data shows the number of white sharks detected by the receivers — which are also deployed off Perth, the South West and Albany — dropped to 158 in 2016-17, down from 199 the year before and 201 in 2014-15. Perth shark researcher Kim Allen suggested deploy-
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ing the Esperance buoys was a “knee-jerk reaction” to the fatal attack on teenage surfer Laeticia Brouwer — who was mauled at the Kelp Beds surf break — and said it would likely not improve ocean safety. That’s because only a tiny fraction of the great whites in WA waters have been tagged, and that fraction is likely to be declining because many satellite tags eventually fail or are dislodged, and so few new tags are being fitted.
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It’s done very little in relative terms to improve ocean safety. Kim Allen
“It’s done very little in relative terms to improve ocean safety,” Mr Allen said. “The sharks that are around might not have been tagged or they might not have been detected by the buoys. What’s the point?” The network was started in 2009 to research and monitor the movements of tagged white sharks off Perth, and to use the new satellite-linked technology as an early warning system. Warnings are uploaded to
the Government’s Shark Smart website and the Surf Life Saving WA Twitter feed, and sent by text message to beach lifeguards or rangers. There are now 27 satellitelinked receivers along the WA coast and 220 white sharks tagged in Australia, including 44 in WA. Professor Jessica Meeuwig, who heads the University of WA Centre for Marine Futures, said the extra receivers would help “improve our understanding of white sharks” but she said it should be accompanied by more tagging. “It’s great there are more receivers but if they want to get value for their investment, get out and tag more sharks,” Prof Meeuwig said. Fisheries Department Shark Response Unit spokesman Tony Cappelluti said only “opportunistic tagging” was being carried out, usually when a whale carcass attracted sharks. He said the satellite-linked receivers were used from 2009 to 2016 as part of a shark monitoring research program, and while data collection was complete, the “lasting public benefit” was alerts for beachgoers. A WA Government spokesman said the receivers at Esperance were part of a multi-faceted approach to shark mitigation. “So the community can make an informed decision about their water use,” he said
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Solemn vow: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. Below: Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin who were killed when MH17 was shot down three years ago.
Bishop’s pledge to families EXCLUSIVE JOE SPAGNOLO Political Editor
“My vow is that I and the Australian Government will do all we can to bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to account and that we will do all we can to support the families who want to tell their stories, who want justice on behalf of those whose lives were cut short.” It’s three years ago tomorrow that the Malaysia Airlines aircraft was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile. Families of some victims are travelling to the Netherlands for the opening of a memorial in Amsterdam, where the illfated flight departed on July 17, 2014, bound for Kuala Lumpur. On Friday, Ms Bishop condemned a “disinformation campaign” which had attempt-
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ed to “discredit the investigation” and said there had been “very disturbing reports that key witnesses had been detained”. “Australia calls on all countries — including Russia — to co-operate to achieve justice for those who suffered as a result of the downing of MH17,” the Perth-based politician said. “That includes protecting any persons who could be called to give evidence in trials. We are determined to hold people to account by an impartial and independent court. “We want to send a very strong message to the perpetrators of this act, and those who might consider committing similar acts, that they will be prosecuted.”
Ms Bishop said the Netherlands had a signed a treaty with Ukraine which gave the Dutch Government powers of extradition. She said the Australian Government would provide support for families to view and participate in proceedings. She said the investigation had taken “far longer than we thought” and she was unable to put a time frame on when it might conclude, adding: “You can’t take away the grief of those who lost loved ones, but we can do everything possible to ensure justice is done independently, fairly and transparently.” Russia has strongly denied any involvement in the downing of MH17. But international prosecutors last year said the airliner was hit by a Russianmade missile launched from a village held by rebels fighting Ukraine forces. Ms Bishop said she was still haunted by memories of the tragedy. Among those killed were Perth children Mo, 12, Evie, 10, and Otis Maslin, 8, and their grandfather Nick Norris. The children’s parents, Anthony Maslin and Rin Norris, as
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Julie Bishop today renews her vow to the families of the 38 Australians murdered on Flight MH17 that the killers will be brought to “justice”. Speaking to The Sunday Times from Belgrade, Ms Bishop called on Russia to cooperate with new moves to prosecute the suspects in the Netherlands, which she said was “an opportunity for the truth to be revealed”. She said the Dutch trial would compel suspects to give evidence and allow the families of the victims, who included nine West Australians, to “tell their stories”. On the eve of the third anniversary of the tragedy, Ms Bishop said the internationally backed criminal proceedings would “provide a sense of closure for grieving families”. “I am still committed to the promise that I made these families at the time of the tragedy, that we would bring to account Tribute: The site of the MH17 memorial at the National Monument those responsible,” she said. Park Vijfhuizen in the Netherlands which will be opened tomorrow.
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well as Mr Norris’ wife Lindy, reportedly settled a lawsuit with Malaysia Airlines in May. “I will never forget the moment (Australia) secured Russia’s support in the UN Security Council resolution when I had to confront the Russian Ambassador in New York,” Ms Bishop recalled. “It even brought tears to his eyes as I spoke about the Maslin family. I appealed to him as a father to do the decent thing and back that resolution. “I will never forget in Kiev when we had to persuade the president to recall the Ukraine Parliament, which had broken for the summer session, in order to pass the necessary legislation to allow federal police on site. “I will never forget when they were bringing the bodies in closed carriages from the crash site to a temporary morgue that had been set up in an old Soviet Union factory. “These are the type of memories that will stay with me for ever.”
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AFL chief Gillon McLachlan said two executives who quit over affairs may get “another chance” in the football industry. Simon Lethlean and Richard Simkiss resigned this week over inappropriate relationships with young female AFL staff members. McLachlan, who is friends with both men, said they were good administrators. “I know the industry is forgiving. They are highquality people and unbelievable executives,” he said on radio station SEN. “I feel confident they’ll get another chance.” McLachlan confirmed he had accepted the resignations of football operations manager Lethlean and general manager of commercial operations Simkiss. McLachlan said his executives were “role models and set a standard of behaviour for the rest of the organisation”. The affairs have now become one of the biggest scandals for the league since the Essendon supplements saga. There are now claims that a third manager at the AFL has been involved in an inappropriate relationship with an employee. It is understood the third manager was single at the time of the relationship. Lethlean, who was paid about $900,000 a year, had an affair with young Sydney-based AFL staffer Maddi Blomberg, girlfriend of rugby union star Kurtley Beale. Simkiss, a corporate business manager who conducted top-end deals for the league, had an affair with young female employee Ali Gronow, legal counsel at AFL House in the Docklands. The scandals come as the AFL considers a review of its respect and responsibility policy towards women.
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WHAT COPS COP Pictures that police say are proof they need a pay rise KATE CAMPBELL
Wounded at work: Images n released by the WA Police Union show some of the injuries suffered by officers on the job.
A BLOODIED face smashed in by a glass bottle. A chunk of leg ripped out in a dog attack. Bitten on the arm while trying to keep the peace at a music festival. This is the brutal reality faced by frontline police officers in WA. These confronting and graphic images of cops bashed, bitten and mauled on the job have been released by the WA Police Union as part of its escalating pay war with the McGowan Government. The union says these shocking pictures should be all the proof the Labor Government needs that police deserve a decent pay rise. It remains at loggerheads with the Government over its flat $1000 pay rise for the public sector, a backflip from the 1.5 per cent it was promised before the March election. The union’s three examples highlighting how dangerous policing is include: AN officer in Broome who was smashed in the face with a glass bottle without warning by a man he was trying to arrest for disorderly behaviour several years ago. The policeman suffered serious facial injuries and almost lost the sight in his left eye, and to this day still feels the aftermath both professionally and personally. “Being a police officer gives you some understanding of how to deal with victims, but unfortunately doesn’t prepare you for becoming one,” the officer told The Sunday Times. A FEMALE officer who was left with a big gash in her leg after a dog attacked her while she was attempting to arrest an offender in a domestic violence matter in Wiluna a few years ago. The offender then hit the under-siege policewoman, who was trying to get to the safetyy of a police vehicle p
and her off-duty colleagues, across the head with a five-litre water cooler. A SENIOR constable who was bitten on the bicep, allegedly by a woman he was speaking to after she was escorted out of the Origin Music Festival at Claremont Showgrounds in December for fighting with security officers. The union said other injuries included cuts to the body and face, bites from offenders that broke the skin and needed mandatory blood tests, broken noses, hands, fingers, arms and legs, and even spinal injuries and paralysis. “Policing is a difficult, dangerous profession with criminals intent on doing our members harm. This is what sets our members apart from the rest of the public service,” WA Police Union president George Tilbury said. “Our members are faced daily with dynamic situations and there is the cold, harsh reality that when they go to work, they may get injured or not come home at the end of their shift. These images . . . demonstrate that they put their bodies on the line for the benefit of the community.” Industrial Relations Minister Bill Johnston said it was disappointing the union had rejected a “fair offer that has bipartisan support”. Police Minister Michelle Roberts hoped the dispute would be resolved “as soon as possible”. She said the search for the next Police Commissioner was “progressing according to plan” and it was anticipated Karl O’Callaghan would retire in August. Before the election, Labor adopted the former Liberal government’s policy of capping public-sector pay rises at 1.5 per cent. But it backtracked in April, announcing massive public sector cuts also included a flat payy rise of $1000. p
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Violence in schools soars
Like mother: Stage star Lucy Durack says daughter Polly, 2, was born to perform. Picture: Michelle Holden.
Staff go on defensive KATE CAMPBELL WA TEACHERS are learning self-defence moves and how to physically restrain violent and aggressive students as a safe last resort, in a bid to combat the rising tide of violence in the classroom. About 2000 public school staff in WA undergo restraint and de-escalation training each year, offered by Queensland-based company Team Teach Asia Pacific. They are taught a variety of verbal, body language and physical techniques on how to manage students with challenging behaviour and defuse volatile situations. The proper use of restraint is allowed in emergency situations where students are at risk of harming themselves or others, or causing significant property damage. Student violence against teachers in WA schools has been increasing alarmingly in recent years, with 558 “physical incidents” reported last year — more than triple the number
Polly a chip off the Durack block LINDA PARRI PERTH musical theatre star Lucy Durack is convinced her “firecracker” daughter will follow her footsteps into the world of entertainment. Durack has a two-yearold daughter, Polly, with her choreographer husband Christopher Horsey. “She doesn’t have a hope of not getting into it,” Durack said. “I think everybody hopes that their child will be in a kind of more secure industry, but I think that we have a lovely life so if she wants to follow us we’ll be happy. Whatever she wants.”
The 34-year-old former John XXIII College pupil said raising Polly had been a good test of patience. “My daughter is absolutely divine, but very spirited,” she said. “By spirited, I mean she loves a good laugh and she doesn’t really seem to mind getting in trouble. And that has been quite an interesting challenge”. The Sydney-based star said that when she was a child she always tried to do the right thing and avoid getting in trouble. “It was something that I always got very stressed about ,” she said.
“Where as Polly seems to be a real firecracker who’s really happy to just go about life and she loves an adventure. “She sort of laughs in the face of danger or laughs in the face of getting told off.” Durack has just finished filming two TV shows in Sydney and will resume the role of Glinda in Wicked in December. Durack appears on Channel 7 show Behave Yourself on Tuesday at 7.30pm. She joins other celebrity panel members who will examine how we communicate, how easily fooled we are and how we deal with stress.
reported in 2014. From the start of the 2017 school year until mid-May, there were 172 reported incidents of students attacking students, 20 of which ended up with police being called. These cases allegedly involve students throwing rocks at teachers or punching, head-butting, pushing, scratching or pinching them. So far this year, more than 800 staff members from 43 schools had completed the selfdefence training. “Teachers only use this as a last resort when no other technique to calm the student will work,” WA Education Department executive director of Statewide services Lindsay Hale said. “The training is much more proactive than the idea of ‘self-defence’, it is about helping teachers understand the signs that a student is becoming highly agitated or volatile and learn ways to prevent the situation from getting worse.” Team Teach Asia Pacific director Nick Burnett said the WA department was a long-
time client, while the State’s Catholic education sector was also using his training techniques and WA independent schools were about to come on board too. He said “95 per cent” of his work, done through “train the trainer” workshops, was about non-physical ways to defuse situations, but in a minority of cases manual restraint was warranted. “There aren’t random martial art experts coming up with these techniques, it’s gone through a whole range of checks and balances to make sure it’s a last resort,” Mr Bur nett said. “The emphasis is on avoiding physical restraint. But sometimes that’s the safest option for the child, other children and staff so we teach (staff) how to do that as safely as possible ... it’s about good use of biomechanics and using minimum force.” He said physical holds worked to calm some students, but for others it could make it worse, adding: “It’s about knowing the individual child.”
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Amazing help: Quenton Leach with wife Shannan Taylor and their children Oliver, 6, Jackson, 2, and Ella, 9. Picture: Daniel Wilkins
Murray backs a derby JOE SPAGNOLO Political Editor
Y R O T IC V R E C N A C ’S R TA S R E K C DO JORDAN MCARDLE MORE than two decades since he played in the first western derby against West Coast, Quenton Leach has defeated the toughest opponent of his life — cancer. The Dockers foundation player was diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer in November after initially discovering a lump “the size of an avocado” behind his kidney a few months prior. Having had the primary cancer removed, the 44-year-old father of three said he felt “amazing” after undergoing two successful bouts of chemotherapy to treat the stage two and three cancer in his chest and abdomen. “I had two rounds of chemo late last year, I was supposed to have three but I only had two. I had a couple of CT scans and everything
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is on track, I feel amazing,” Leach said. “Thumbs up on that front — it was a bit of a concern and a shock to the system.” Leach, who made 56 appearances across the Dockers’ first four seasons, was “overwhelmed” by the support from WA people. A MyCause fundraising page set up by his brother Jason raised about $50,000 to go towards medical costs, nearly double its target. “Supporting three kids
(Ella, Oliver and d Jackson) k ) and a wife (Shannan) and being off work for a bit, it can get you down,” Leach said. “That really helped out, and it was just amazing some of the comments and the people who supported us. “The experience was a bit of a downer for me, but that was quite amazing.” Ahead of Subiaco Oval’s final derby this afternoon, Leach recalled Fremantle’s early struggles in the AFL without a place to call home.
The T Dockers used WAFL club cllub South Fremantle’s visitors’ change rooms, a far viisit cry crry from the state-of-the-art new neew facility at Cockburn. It I reflected in their performances, especially peer against cross-town rivals aga g West We Coast who won the W first fiirs nine western derbies. fi The T Claremont product, known for his after-the-siren kno k winner against Brisbane in win w 1997, 199 played in six derbies — 19 all ll losses from 1995 to 1998. “It was amateur hour and we were just a group of guys who wanted to have a crack,” Leach recalled of the first derby, described as the “Mother’s Day massacre”. “From a physical point of view, they were a much bigger and stronger side than us and they wanted to prove something, so we got bashed around a fair bit. It was a pretty tough game.”
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WA Sport Minister Mick Murray has declared he wants the western derby to be the first sporting event held at the new Perth Stadium when it opens next year. Mr Murray said he believed an Eagles-Dockers game to mark the opening of the stadium would be a boon not just for footy fans, but the venue itself. The Labor Government minister said he intended holding new talks with the Dockers, Eagles and the AFL about the proposal. But he admitted convincing the league would be tough after AFL boss Gillon McLachlan signalled earlier this year he wasn’t keen on the idea. “No decision has been made whatsoever on the first sporting event to be held at the new stadium, but I think (the western derby) would be apt because football has been such a big part of WA’s culture,” Mr Murray said. “A western derby would be huge. I’d expect every seat would be taken. Many people would be disappointed because they would not be able to get a seat at the 60,000-seat venue. “I will certainly be encouraging the Dockers and Eagles to think about a western derby and I’ll certainly have a chat to Gillon McLachlan about that. But I do realise there are issues surrounding home games and the financial aspects.” A spokesman for the AFL said on Friday football fixtures for next year would be worked out after the home-and-away season was concluded. He said a derby as the opener to the 2018 AFL season in Perth was currently “not on our radar”.
WACA chief executive Christina Matthews declared yesterday a one-day international match between Australia and England on January 28 should be the first sports fixture. Ms Matthews said the WACA and Cricket Australia were working closely with the State Government and VenuesLiveto play the match at Perth Stadium. “Opening Perth Stadium with the ODI would provide an opportunity to showcase our new world-class stadium internationally and put WA on the map as a tourism and entertainment destination for interstate and international visitors,” she said. “There is the additional benefit of an international cricket match against Australia and England receiving high national and international interest, which will assist the State in promoting our amazing new stadium to a worldwide audience. “We understand construction time lines must fall in to place for an ODI Perth Stadium opening to occur and are preparing for the opportunity.” Mr Murray said all avenues were being explored to make sure venue capacity would not have to be temporarily reduced on midweek game days. Bennell makes successful return Sport
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MYSTERY OF WOMAN’S BODY CLOGS FREEWAY KATE CAMPBELL THE Mitchell Freeway was a crime scene yesterday as police investigated a 35-yearold woman’s suspicious death, which was uncovered by officers in bizarre circumstances. Homicide squad detectives and forensic officers spent the day investigating after the woman’s body was found in a Mitsubishi Lancer at the freeway’s southbound Cedric Street off-ramp about 12.35am yesterday.
Detectives questioned a 49year-old man, who was the driver of the car and has been “assisting police with their inquiries”. Police also visited several address in Scarborough in relation to the death. Police were tight-lipped about the details of the grisly discovery, except to say the body was found in the car that was being driven on the Cedric Street exit. They refused to say how the woman died, where in the car her body was found or how
they came to discover her. A man without a shirt, who could be seen lying on the side of the road, was arrested soon after the woman’s body was found. It’s understood police were already at the scene dealing with a minor incident involving a car crashing into a freeway barrier when random circumstances led them to discover the body in a separate car. The cordoned-off crime scene caused traffic chaos on the freeway yesterday morn-
Driver’s ID crackdown DEMERIT DODGERS TARGETED KATE CAMPBELL HEFTIER fines and wheel clamping are being considered by the State Government in a bid to close a loophole that allows thousands of drivers every year to dodge demerit point penalties. The proposed changes are aimed at discouraging bosses from refusing to identify an offending driver. The Sunday Times revealed last year that nearly 63,000 drivers of company cars avoided demerit points for speeding or running a red light between 2012 and 2015 because they were not identified — which averaged about 15,750 penalties escaped each year. Police Minister Michelle Roberts refused to say how much the new fines would be. But WA Police and the Road Safety Commission have previously considered slapping unhelpful employers with maximum penalties of $25,000. Ms Roberts said police had highlighted deficiencies in the Road Traffic Act.
“It is not good enough that some individuals and companies continue to think they can try and dodge penalties,” she said. “I am working with Transport Minister (Rita) Saffioti on a range of measures, which would provide disincentives for companies or individuals not to identify a driver. This includes significantly increasing the multiplier for fines to create a greater disincentive. We’ll also look at what occurs in other jurisdictions. “Consideration will be given to wheel clamping an individual’s vehicle on the owner’s property to encourage a company or body corporate to reveal who the driver is.” If a business fails to identify a driver to police, it is forced to pay double the fine but the demerit points are unallocated. A person or company can be charged for failing to take “reasonable measures” to obey a driver identity request, with fines up to $1200 for individuals and $5000 for companies. Motor Trades Association of WA chief executive Stephen
Moir welcomed the proposed changes, urging the Government not to waste any more time in addressing the “massive” problem. “It’s ridiculous. Companies and those employees who are using company cars need to be accountable,” he said. “(A fine of up to $25,000) would send a very big message.” Mr Moir said anecdotally he had heard of deals being done within workplaces in which the offending employee could switch with a colleague who was willing to take the blame for them and accept the demerit points. He said he did not believe some companies were simply unable to identify a driver in a work car. “I’ve got a fleet of 20 cars and I know exactly who is driving those cars and when they’re driving them. I just don’t buy that excuse,” Mr Moir said. A WA Police spokeswoman said police supported “strengthening owner onus provisions for drivers and bodies corporate”.
ing, which was shut entirely between Karrinyup Road in Stirling and Hutton Street in Osborne Park until about 8am, when one lane was reopened. Motorists were warned to stay away from the area. A forensic tent was set up on the freeway as the woman’s body remained on site under a sheet for many hours. Police had packed up and left the scene by 2pm, with the freeway traffic returning to normal. Yesterday afternoon, no charges had been laid.
Grim scene: Police and forensics officers inspect the scene of the incident on Mitchell Freeway near Cedric Street yesterday. Below: A man lies on the hard shoulder of the freeeway after being questioned by police. Main picture: Marie Nirme
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Scott faces the future LUDLAM PLANS HIS NEXT MOVE JOE SPAGNOLO Political Editor S SCOTT Ludlam says he will never rule out a return to poln iitics, but for now he is facing aan uncertain future because o of an “avoidable” mistake. In an interview with The SSunday Times yesterday, the fformer WA Greens senator ssaid he only had himself to b blame for the sudden end to h his political career because h he had not renounced his N New Zealand citizenship. Mr Ludlam said he did not k know what he would do next b but he planned to return to ssome of his past passions, iincluding writing and art. “I have no idea, but it is n not frightening,” he said, addiing that he felt for his staffers w who were now unemployed. Mr Ludlam said it was “up tto others” to judge his contrib bution, but he was proud of h his achievements. These iincluded the “incredible ccampaign” against the Roe 8 rroad project and helping stop a radioactive waste dump in tthe Northern Territory. “Even if that was the only tthing we did in the last nine
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years, it would be worthwhile,” he said. The 47-year-old also threw his support behind Perth university student Jordon Steele-John, 22, who has cerebral palsy, taking his spot in the Senate. “In the immediate future I really feel like it’s time for somebody else to have a go,” Mr Ludlam said. He wouldn’t rule out a return to politics, adding: “Never say never.” Mr Ludlam resigned on Friday after Perth barrister John Cameron obtained evidence he was ineligible for politics as he retained his New Zealand citizenship when he sought pre-selection almost a decade ago. He left NZ with his family when he was three and in his mid-teens became an Australian citizen. He assumed “that was the end of my New Zealand citizenship”. But it wasn’t, as Dr Cameron — a barrister with a keen interest in the constitution — discovered when he applied for information from NZ’s Department of Internal Affairs. “At first I was a bit surprised and a bit shocked. To
be frank, I didn’t think it was real,” Mr Ludlam said, adding that he was “not at all” angry with Dr Cameron. “I feel like he did the due diligence I should have done nine years ago,” he said. “There is no point blaming him. He is obviously someone with attention to detail, and he acted in the public interest.” Mr Ludlam said it was a “concern” he may have to pay back the more than $1 million he earned during his parliamentary career. “If that were to happen I would be financially destroyed,” he said. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the money matter would be considered by Finance Minister Mathias Cormann. The Sunday Times understands an application for a debt waiver would be granted. Mr Ludlam said his “heart” was telling him he would renounce his Kiwi citizenship, something which he described as a “remarkable surprise”. “This is home,” he said. “Fremantle is home.”
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Apology on gay sex crime PREMIER Mark McGowan will this year deliver an apology to West Australians convicted over their sexuality. The Premier is planning to make the apology when he introduces legislation later this year which will wipe historical gay sex offences from criminal records. Homosexuality was finally decriminalised by the Carmen Lawrence government in 1990. Victoria, NSW, SA, Queensland, Tasmania and the ACT have all either enacted and or are considering similar legislation. The Law Society of WA said many West Australians “still bear these discriminatory convictions on their criminal records”. “Stigma and possible public persecution has prevented many Western Australians charged with these offences from campaigning for reform,” a recent Law Society paper said. Acting Premier Roger Cook said: “We expect the legislation will be introduced into Parliament this year. We will then move to have the convictions expunged as soon as possible. The Premier has indicated that he would offer an apology on behalf of the State to all those affected by the old legislation.” Peter Law
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NEW FAMILIES OF OLD PERTH TREVOR PADDENBURG MIGRANTS now comprise up to 60 per cent of residents in some Perth suburbs as the city continues to be transformed by new arrivals, census figures show. Foreign-born concentrations led by people from India and Malaysia are growing in middle-class suburbs, while more Chinese are moving into wealthy suburbs closer to the CBD — meaning Perth now rivals Melbourne for its ethnic diversity. According to the 2016 Census, Cannington, 12km south-east of the city, is WA’s migrant capital with 62 per cent of residents born abroad. More than 3600 residents from Cannington’s population of 5929 were born overseas, with Indians the biggest ethnic group, comprising 12 per cent of the suburb’s overall population. The next biggest migrant suburb was neighbouring Queens Park, with 59 per cent of residents born overseas, most hailing from India. Crawley, in Perth’s swanky western suburbs adjacent to Nedlands, also had a foreignborn population of 59 per cent, with Chinese making up the biggest community. Perth’s top five multicultural suburbs also included Glendalough, with a foreign-born population of 57 per cent led by Indian migrants, and Bentley, also with 57 per cent, topped by Malaysians. Perth’s most diverse suburbs are more ethnic than Greater Melbourne, which is 40 per cent migrant. The Census data also showed British migrants’ love affair with Perth continues, with people born in England
Historic tavern gutted THE South West has lost of one of its most iconic venues after the 67-year-old Quinninup Tavern went up in flames early yesterday. Dale Atkins bought “The Quinny” eight years ago and was yesterday in shock as she struggled to process the blaze. “Someone in town rang me at about 4.30am to tell me the tavern was on fire and I thought it was a joke at first,” she said. “I arrived just before the emergency services got there and the whole tavern was already engulfed. “When the fireys arrived they couldn’t get near the building because all the gas bottles we had on site were exploding.” The Department of Fire and Emergency Services said the fire had caused an estimated $500,000 in damage and left the tavern gutted. Built in 1950 to serve as the workers’ club for what was then a bustling logging industry, the Quinninup Tavern survived the closure of the town’s timber mill in 1982 and has served as a much-loved watering hole for locals and tourists alike ever since. Ms Atkins said the tavern was insured and that she intended to rebuild.
being the most represented foreign nations in Jindalee (56 per cent foreign-born), East Perth (54 per cent foreignborn), Iluka (53 per cent foreign-born) and Mindarie (53 per cent foreign-born). The Census data, compiled by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, also reveals the favourite suburbs for different nationalities based on the total population, including Australian-born and foreign-born residents. It shows Baldivis is home to the highest number of English migrants (3692 people) and is also the most New Zealander suburb in Perth, with 6 per cent hailing from across the Tasman. Waterford contains the highest proportion of Malaysian residents (8.2 per cent of the suburb’s population), but Winthrop has the most number of Malaysians (455 people). Winthrop also had the highest proportion of Indonesians (6.5 per cent). Mindarie is 7.5 per cent South African, Wellard is 7 per cent Filipino, Ballajura is 4.7 per cent Vietnamese, and Dianella remains Perth’s top suburb for Italians (2.9 per cent).
Twiggy backs a Force survival NICK TAYLOR THE Western Force’s bid for survival received a massive boost last night with mining magnate Andrew Forrest pledging to do whatever he can to ensure the Super Rugby franchise isn’t axed. The billionaire stood in the middle of the players’ huddle after the farewell match to Matt Hodgson and declared he would do “whatever it takes” to help keep the
club breathing. When asked whether that support would be financial, Mr Forrest said: “I don’t rule anything out.” It was an emotional evening at nib Stadium as foundation player Hodgson walked off a winner with the Force demolishing the NSW Waratahs 40-11. The Force hope to survive the Australian Rugby Union’s bid to axe either them or Melbourne Rebels from Super Rugby next season. The WA
club will face-off across the arbitration table with the ARU in two weeks after the club took legal action to keep its licence. But last night was about a local legend, not lawyers. Hodgson played in 141 of the Force’s 175 games, leaving blood and sweat on the paddock on every occasion — and tears last night. The former Wallabies flanker believes “common sense” will prevail and the franchise will
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be around at least until the broadcast deal ends. After the siren, Mr Forrest told non-playing members: “The people of WA are behind the Western Force. I will always support this team being owned by the people of WA. “The Australian Rugby Union should be encouraged to keep the Force strong and here in WA.”
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Whatever it takes : Andrew “Twiggy Forrest” with Force players last night, including Matt Hodgson, right.
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Skydive kills two TWO men plummeted to their death in the front yard of a rural property south of Sydney after their parachute failed to open during a tandem skydive yesterday. The family, including several children, was home when a skydiving instructor in his 60s and a Singaporean national in his 20s crashed on to the family’s property shortly after 2pm. Police and emergency services raced to the scene in Wilton after receiving a call from a resident but the men were dead at the scene. A seven-year-old girl who was at home at the time had to be counselled after seeing the bodies shortly after the accident. The Sydney-based instructor and the other man, in Australia on a work visa, were skydiving with well-known company Sydney Skydivers. Police were alerted by one the residents who is understood to have seen the victims hit the ground.
You’ve bin fined Family matters: Adele Forlani, 76, her daughter Lorena Rebeiro, 46, and grandson Louis Rebeiro, 11, at home in Dianella. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper
Dr Bob Birrell, head of the Australian Population Research Institute, said Perth’s flood of migrants was slowing in the wake of the resources downturn but he said it was still creating pressure in some suburbs. “When you get a situation with a very large number of migrants wanting familyfriendly housing, you get enormous pressure on these established locations,” Dr Birrell said. “What it does is drive those who have limited resources to go where housing prices are cheapest . . . which also usually happens to be where there are other people from similar backgrounds.” West Australian Multicultural Association secretary Franco Smargiassi, an Italian
who immigrated to Perth in 1954, said the ethnic diversity made Perth a vibrant city. “If people are interested in culture in Perth, they don’t have to travel too far — it’s all here,” he said. “However, very few people make a point of enjoying it and taking part in it. Multiculturalism has certainly taken off in terms of food but there is a lot more going on. The world is here, let’s enjoy it.” Acting Citizenship and Multicultural Interests Minister Peter Tinley said WA’s cultural diversity was creating “innovation, energy and momentum that benefits the whole community”. “WA’s thriving multicultural society is one of our greatest assets and strengths,” Mr Tinley said.
Police called to violent party PEOPLE fighting in the street prompted police to declare a party in Yangebup an out-of-control gathering. Police were called to the Harrier Place property about 9.30pm on Friday after receiving several complaints about antisocial behaviour at the party. About 100 young people were at the party, with police remaining in the area and monitoring it. About an hour later, further calls were made to police regarding several people who were fighting in the street. A police spokeswoman said police then declared the party an out-of-control gathering, with the dog squad, mounted section, air wing and other police resources sent in. Youths were fighting in the nearby area after leaving the party, and police successfully broke them up. Inquiries will continue into the incident.
Dianella’s Little Italy THERE’S a slice of Italy in Adele Forlani’s Dianella backyard, plain to see as she slides a freshly made pizza into her wood-fired oven and prepares a Mediterranean feast for her family. The 76-year-old is one of a legion of Italians who call Dianella home. The suburb has Perth’s highest concentration of people born in Italy, according to the latest census. Among them is Mrs Forlani’s daughter Lorena Rebeiro, 46, who lives just a few streets away. Mrs Rebeiro’s husband Sean was born in India and the couple’s 11-year-old son
Louis — a piano prodigy set to appear on Channel 7 show Little Big Shots — is growing up with Italian, Indian and Australian influences. “Oh my God, there are so many Italian people in Dianella but it is good because I have a lot of friends. I love cooking for my friends and my family, it’s what I do,” said Mrs Forlani, who has lived in Dianella for 28 years after migrating aged 21. When her husband died, the local community became a pivotal source of friendship and support. Her daughter said the family’s Italian roots and traditions
were treasured and preserved. “I’ve always maintained the Italian language and culture and traditions,” Mrs Rebeiro said. “Now Louis is learning Italian at school and the influence rubs off being around Mum, who is always cooking. “The whole family comes over and she fires up the pizza oven or makes fresh pasta. We run the Balcatta IGA and mum makes fresh biscuits to sell. “She’s always having parties and having people over, and she’s converted plenty of non-Italians too.” Trevor Paddenburg
RESIDENTS in one of Perth’s biggest council areas could soon be fined $100 for a raft of waste disposal offences, including placing items into the wrong bin or letting bins become excessively smelly. The City of Joondalup this week votes on adopting a new local waste law which could clear the way for rangers to begin dishing out fines for a wide range of offences. Depositing anything deemed “non-collectable” which includes electrical equipment, construction waste, paint or batteries would attract a $100 fine under the proposed scheme. Similar fines would apply for placing nonauthorised items in recycling and organic waste bins, failing to prevent offensive smells or allowing flies to breed in a bin. Joondalup mayor Troy Pickard said the council was focused on education rather than enforcement. “The vast majority of people are doing the right thing,” he said. Josh Zimmerman
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TH THE craft beer boom shows no sign of goin going flat. N New research by the Independent Brew Brewers Association found WA’s 49 craft brewers are pumping almost $100 craf million a year into the economy. mill Across the nation, the number of A independent breweries has increased in m more than 10-fold in a decade, from 30 in 2006 to 380 last year. The industry is now worth $740 million an annually to Australia’s economy. O in three breweries are in regionOne al areas, a including Colonial Brewing in Mar Margaret River, Eagle Bay Brewing at Cap Cape Naturalist and Denmark’s Boston Brew Brewing. F Fremantle’s Sail & Anchor and Mat Matilda Bay Brewing Company were among the industry pioneers in the 1980s.
Rhys Lopez, 30, of Otherside Brewing in Fremantle, is one of the new generation of young local brewers. He was studying journalism at university when he landed a job clearing tables at Little Creatures, where he said his “palate got too sophisticated for my wallet”. He “got serious” about brewing five years ago, working at The Monk and Hippocampus distillery, before helping to launch Otherside last year. “There is a revolution in the way people consume things. People are a lot more thoughtful with where their dollars are going,” he said. “When people are supporting local beer there are more jobs for each litre of beer sold.” Chris McNamara, of the IBA, added: “WA has got a reasonable claim to be the birthplace of independent brewing in Australia. “WA was well ahead of the curve.”
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R EENS Senator REENS Larissa Waters did omething this week something t’s probably safe to it’s ay no other say n politician has Australian achieved. It madee headlines around the world and gave her the reet cred most type of street n only dream of. Yes, pollies can ot a shout out on Waters got om none other than Twitter from op star Snoop Dogg, US hip-hop ayy be the coolest which may thing to happen in Australian nce . . . gosh. politics since n? Federation? Waterss did not drop-it-like-it’s-hot to get Snoop Dogg’s attention (as far as we know — what she does in her own time is her business). Nope, she did little more than feed her hungry baby. Waters is a Federal politician, and despite all our grumblings, they do work miserably long, antisocial hours. She also happens to have a baby who didn’t seem to give two hoots that mum had a long sitting day in Parliament. On June 22, Waters was breastfeeding her daughter Alia Joy when she rose in the Senate chamber to put forward a motion on black lung disease. And while there were plenty who applauded Waters for juggling motherhood with her parliamentary duties, she also received criticism on Twitter, much of which was along the tired old lines of “there is a time and a place for such things”. Try telling that to a hungry infant! She also received an anonymous text message calling her the “dumb b... with the big t...”. Charming. Waters has now joined a long list of women in the public eye who, when it comes to motherhood, suddenly discover that, no matter their other skills, a single misstep in the supposed “correct” way to be a parent and they will face some of the harshest criticism of their lives. Not from their children,
EVERYONE’S A CRITIC Whether REAL or REALITY, mums seem to be the easy target of every ‘expert’
Courting controversy: Greens Senator Larissa Waters breastfeeding daughter Alia Joy in the Senate. Inset: The cast of Yummy Mummies.
but the peanut gallery of public opinion. At first glance Waters might not have much in common with the women in new reality TV show Yummy Mummies, but like Waters, in recent weeks they have been slammed for committing that seemingly most outrageous of acts — mothering in public. Yummy Mummies, a show following four glamorous mothers-to-be as they navigate designer baby gear
and arrange seriously fabulous baby showers, is not claiming to be Shakespeare. It’s reality television, not high art. Their promo material promised controversy, and they delivered in spades. A petition to ban the show before it even aired attracted 24,500 signatures. There was a huge social media backlash to a promo clip of one of the show’s stars, Maria DeGeronimo, referring to breastfeeding as “illegal”, and
now that the show has aired, a multitude of reviews sniffily slamming it. But why? How is Yummy Mummies so different from any other so-bad-it’s-good reality television? In truth, it’s not. The biggest thing setting Yummy Mummies apart from the rest of reality fodder on the box is that the women on the show are about to be bestowed with that ultimate sacred label — mother. It is one thing for a woman
i to dress head-to-toe in designer labels, covet beauty, fame and money (there is plenty of that on television), but knock her up and suddenly she’s supposed to turn all Earth Mother? These women weren’t exactly making daisy chains and brewing kombucha before their third trimester. They might not come across as the type of people you want to hang out with, but nor do the Kardashians. Why the pearl
clutching now? The show is called Yummy Mummies, not Terribly Sensible Women Reproduce. These women’s crimes aren’t a few ill-considered comments about breast feeding, it’s being pregnant and visible, when we seem to want women to quietly spawn somewhere out of the way and then ping back into size 8, flawless hair-do perfection in a matter of hours. Just in time to post an appropriate social media shot and then go about raising their children in a screen-free, organic food-eating, low-carbon, spotlessly clean home. Women are supposed to reproduce (remember when senator Bill Heffernan described former PM Julia Gillard as “deliberately barren”? It wasn’t a compliment). But when they do, heaven forbid they talk about it. The Yummy Mummies have been on the end of a massive amount of self-righteous indignation, but in essence, they have done nothing more than commit a similar sin as the terribly sen se sensibly reproducing Waters — mothering in the open. The Yummy Mummies are aggh at breastfeeding, aghast Wa W Waters isn’t. They both cop o copped criticism. Women are in a lose-lose situation when it in cco comes to mothering in the pu p public eye. If you’re having a baby, you ne to love it and feed it and n need ba b bathe it and keep it safe. W Whether you are a Yummy M Mummy, a working mum or a b barely-keeping-it-together sl sloth, your kid doesn’t care as lo long as it’s getting fed, ccuddled and changed. Women are not one giant h homogeneous grouping. W Women are human, and each will approach motherhood in her own way. As much as we would like to think the moment a woman gets knocked up it transforms her into an all-knowing, wise, selfless martyr, in reality motherhood doesn’t bestow magic powers. For all the tut-tutting, the best advice comes from your doctor, midwife and possibly Snoop Dogg — not the peanut gallery.
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OK to talk: Jared Stone struggled with depression as a youngster but went on to become the Australian Apprentice of the Year. Picture: Daniel Wilkins
Mental ills stalk teens SHANNON MOLLOY BELLE TAYLOR THEY’RE healthier, better educated and more connected to a world of opportunity, but this generation’s teenagers are more depressed than ever. Mission Australia’s latest annual analysis found 22.8 per cent of Australians aged 15 to 19 exhibited symptoms of a serious psychological issue, up from 18.7 per cent in 2011. “We’re talking about an alarming number of young people facing serious mental illness, often in silence,” Mission Australia boss Catherine Yeomans said. Beyond Blue reports suicide as the biggest killer of young Aussies — more so than road accidents. In 2015, 391 people aged 15 to 24 died by suicide compared with 290 a decade earlier. Experts say a cocktail of unique modern stressors, dwindling socialisation and non-stop exposure to the planet’s many problems plays a big part in growing illness rates. Daniel Hermens, a psychologist and researcher at Sydney University’s Brain and Mind Centre, said 15-to-25-year-olds had the most significant mental illness burden — and it was getting worse. “Young people have better awareness and are intervening earlier to seek treatment, but that’s not the entire reason for the increase,” Dr Hermens said. “It’s the social pressures we see — cost of living, world affairs . . . a fall in socialisation ironically driven by social media. It’s new or different
TOP TEEN STRESSORS School/study problems Coping with stress Depression Bullying Family conflict Suicide Source: Mission Australia 2016 Youth Survey
MOST AT RISK 28.6 per cent of young women show signs of severe psychological distress Young indigenous people are 2.6 times more likely to take their life 31.6 per cent of young indigenous people battle psychological problems Lesbian, gay and bisexual youth are six times more likely to attempt suicide Source: Mission Australia, Headspace, Beyond Blue types of stress, and substance abuse remains an issue.” Teens across the board are struggling, and young men are still more prone to suicide, but girls are twice as likely to be in “severe psychological distress”, Mission Australia found. In 2016, 28.6 per cent of young women showed signs of severe mental illness, up 6 per cent in five years. Youth Focus ambassador Jared Stone said although rates of depression among young people were high, he didn’t think today’s generation struggled more than young people did in the past. “The society we have been
brought up in is far more accepting than we have ever been about talking about and discussing mental health issues in the community and in society,” the 25-year-old said. “My generation feels more free to talk about it than generations gone by. In generations gone by the rhetoric was ‘suck it up and get on with it’.” Mr Stone, who won Australian Apprentice of the Year in 2015 for his work with Western Power and plays drums in local band Sail On! Sail On!, speaks openly about his struggles with depression as a teenager. “I struggled for a while growing up and went through a rough patch as a teenager and I was fortunate enough to have a great support network and people around me, so I was fortunate in that regard and not everyone is,” he said. Studies in the US have found a significant uptick in mental illness rates occurred in the social media boom. Far from just an exercise in vanity, teens saw Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook as part of their identity, Dr Hermens explained, and compared themselves to peers online. “But they’re seeing a false version of others,” he said. Australian schools have taken a proactive approach. A 2014 University of WA report found that in 40 per cent of cases, a school staff member was the first to suggest a struggling young person sought help. If you or someone you know needs help, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au
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DESPERATE CHOICE SANDRA PETERSON
CHOOSING between eating and heating their homes is a crushing reality for many West Australians this winter. After electricity and water price hikes came into effect on July 1, charities and financial counsellors are braced for a surge in new requests for help when bigger bills start to land in letterboxes across the State. Financial Counsellors Association of WA (FCAWA) executive officer Bev Jowle said it was a “sad reality” that choosing between heating and eating has become a common experience. “There are so many people in stress. Utility and mortgage stress are some of the top issues we provide counselling for,” she said. “The downturn in the economy has really impacted on middle Australia. “There’s been a spike in people getting payday loans just to pay for essentials like electricity and then getting into more financial difficulty because of the high interest rates.” The National Debt Helpline, managed in this State by FCAWA, has seen 15 per cent increase in calls over the past year. “The slightest rise in utility costs can be a tipping point and we’re worried about our capacity to help,” Ms Jowle said. “We’re having to triage calls
to the hotline based on urgency. “It’s ironic because we want people to talk to us before things really get on top of them, but then we’re struggling as a service. “People are feeling suicidal and experiencing mental health issues like depression. “Lots want to go bankrupt.” Foodbank WA chief executive Greg Hebble said the charity had seen an 11 per cent increase in requests for help across WA so far this year.
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People are feeling suicidal and experiencing mental health issues like depression. Bev Jowle
Perth is up 15 per cent and Peel has experienced the highest growth at 24 per cent. “More people than ever before are turning to Foodbank and our charity partners for a meal — many for the first time,” he said. “We can no longer rely on donated food alone to meet the need, we are now needing to
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TO EAT OR HEAT purchase food so that no one is turned away empty-handed in times of crisis. “The most common reason people experience food insecurity is because they don’t have enough money in the first place. “Any increase in the cost of living will impact those who are already experiencing financial stress as they have nowhere to divert the finances from.” The fixed charge component of electricity bills has increased by $169 or 10.9 per cent for the “representative household” and there’s been a 6 per cent jump in water, sewerage and drainage charges. The Salvation Army is asking people to “give warmth this winter” as part of its Heat with Heart campaign. Donations will be used to provide blankets, clothing, food and even help pay heating and electricity bills for people who can’t. In a recent Salvation Army survey, 69 per cent indicated they couldn’t afford enough food, 49 per cent had delayed or had trouble paying bills, including utilities, and 56 per cent had to cut down on basic necessities. WA’s Salvation Army spokesperson Warren Palmer said inadequate income and increasing demands created a “deepening lack of capacity in the community”.
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Appy families: Elise Gaudieri and Aisha Pound with their kids Orlando and Frankii. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper
PENNY-PINCHING PARCELS MAKING LIFE EASIER THESE plucky Perth mums have come up with a way to help young families enjoy life without blowing their th i iincreasingly i l tight ti ht b budgets d t budgets. Parent Parcel subscription website and app offers discounts and deals on everything from kid-friendly cafes to haircuts and Bali holidays. “When you have kids, you have to
start cutting costs, especially if your income has diminished or disappeared while you’re on maternity lleave founder f d Aisha Ai h P Pound d who h leave,”” co co-founder Pound, started the site with her mothers’ group mates, Elise Gaudieri and Julianne Coker, said. “Deals on Parent Parcel range from two-for-one coffees to tradies
taking up to 20 per cent off their goods and services. You could save over $10,000 a year if you take advanttage off every offer ff ” offer.” Ms Pound, of Como, estimated she’d personally saved at least $1000 since the app was launched three months ago. Other ways Ms Pound pinches
pennies in her day-to-day life include taking her 18-month-old daughter, Frankii, to free community activities such h as rhyme h ti th local l l time att the library, drying all her laundry on the clothesline and writing a weekly shopping list, and sticking to it. A 12month subscription to Parent Parcel costs $39.95, visit parentparcel.com.
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Gee mum, how much can a baby koala bear? CLINGING on to her mother for dear life, this new koala joey has just made her public debut at Cohunu Koala Park — its latest star attraction and the first arrival in this season’s “baby boom” at the Byford wildlife sanctuary. At the start of this year, four babies were born to four koala mothers. Born the size of a jelly bean, they have spent the past six months growing in their mothers’ pouches. This as-yet-unnamed adorable girl joey, photographed by The Sunday Times this week with her mother Hannah, was the first baby to venture out of the pouch. Cohunu’s breeding program continues to be a success, with the four babies joining the park’s current colony of 12 adult koalas. Over the past 26 years, Cohunu has produced at least 80 koala babies. Perth Zoo last month announced it had welcomed its first koala joeys in 15 years. Cohunu co-owner Lucille Sorbello said despite the decades she and her husband Nardino had spent looking after koalas and oth o other animals, baby season was aalw always exciting. “We’re very proud (of our br b breeding program),” she said. “It’s aalw always exciting to have the babies, b bu but they’re not out of danger yet, tth things can happen, they can drop ou o out of the pouch, become separated aan and (be affected) by the freezing w weather . . . so it’s important we ke k keep a close eye on them. In aanother six months they’ll probably b be able to fend for themselves.” KATE CAMPBELL
Quite a handful: Mother koala Hannah, of Cohunu Koala Park, goes about her day as her baby tries to get a secure hold. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper
M th war Meth ramped up STATE FOLLOWS THE MONEY TRAIL KATE CAMPBELL WA POLICE are ramping up their war on ice, targeting organised crime syndicates and drug suppliers by tracking money trails, locking down major transport routes and creating a central meth intelligence desk. Various “meth teams” within the organised crime squad are already making headway in the multi-faceted fight against the deadly scourge, thanks to extra resources, equipment and new special powers. Police rolled out their latest weapon earlier this week — a $500,000 meth X-ray truck — but their behind-the-scenes work to stop the flow of ice into WA also includes: LOCKING down main drug supply road routes using new laws, which allows dedicated meth transport teams to declare 5km search zones which they suspect to be drug-run hotspots. Commander of State Crime Operations Pryce Scanlan said a focus of these new laws was the two main gateways into WA —
the Victoria Highway and Eyre Highway — as well as other major highways connected to WA’s ports. METH money teams, which are continuing to seize drug money and catch those profiting from the ice epidemic, deporting many, with the help of Commonwealth and State Government agencies. INTELLIGENCE surrounding the meth trade, which has been boosted with the launch of a dedicated “meth desk” which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. LABOR’S election centrepiece, a 100-strong Meth Border Force, in the process of being formed. Police Minister Michelle Roberts this week refused to say when the force would be operational or how many of the 100 members had already been recruited or redeployed, saying details would be revealed following the Budget process. Mr Scanlan said WA’s vast 12,500km coastline made the State vulnerable to drug smuggling, with most ice sneaking in
through sea cargo from China, Taiwan, South America and west Africa. Meth bought in China for about $6000 a kilogram sold on Perth streets for up to $1 million, he said. “These syndicates and their local distributors and suppliers do not care one iota about the misery they are inflicting on our community,” Mr Scanlan told a recent Federal parliamentary inquiry. “Their only interest is the incredible profit margins. “We, as a community, cannot underestimate the scale of the threat meth poses. No one is immune from this drug. It affects everyone, from children right up to people in their later years.” Mr Scanlan said authorities needed to create “an environment of greatest risk for the criminal”, with syndicates operating a “compartmentalised” business model. Police seized about 900kg of meth in WA during the past two years. Recent testing of raw sewage has indicated meth use in WA had dropped significantly.
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Funnyman in serious MS plea VETERAN comedian and long-term multiple sclerosis patient Tim Ferguson has delivered a serious message sag sage ag ge to Aussies to “help elp end the hell” for young men and women debilitated by disease and languishing in nursing homes designed for the elderly. Doug Anthony All Stars member Ferguson, pictured, lives independently but said many young patients weren’t as lucky. He is calling on people to sign a petition to help get young MS patients out of aged care facilities.
BROOME MasterChef Australia finalist Tamara Graffen may turn her back on the pristine coastal town once the reality cooking show is over. The engineering officer moved from Queensland to Broome with her husband Tim three years ago, after falling in love with the lifestyle on holiday. “I have fallen in love with Melbourne and the food scene there so I think we are, after the show has finished, potentially moving to Melbourne,” she said. But Graffen doesn’t want to miss Broome’s hottest social event, the Broome Cup, next month. “It’s the best event in Broome. I’d be really sad if I missed out,” she said. Graffen, 28, won the Kimberley Region heat
Kim cops flak for corset snap HER curvy figure and waist-cinching clothes have won her millions of admirers — but Kim Kardashian has shocked fans by posting a picture of her four-year-old daughter North in a corset on Instagram. The reality TV star, 36, defended the choice of clothing, saying she thought it was “really cute”. However, many on social media said it was not an appropriate outfit and accused her of sexualising her child, whose father is rapper Kanye West. In a Twitter video Kardashian, who runs children’s clothing brand Kids Supply with West, said it was not a boned corset but soft material layered over a dress.
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Nicole Kidman on the cover of magazine LOVE.
Nic racy in red NICOLE KIDMAN has posed for a magazine cover in a revealing one-piece red swimsuit, admitting she first thought the pictures were too “crazy” to publish. “I thought about this shoot afterwards. I was like ‘What was I doing? I lost my mind! How are the shots? Do they look crazy’,” Nicole is quoted as saying on LOVE magazine’s Instagram. The revealing one-piece had
crisscross lacing going up the front and was teamed with a cowboy hat. Kidman and her Big Little Lies co-star Reese Witherspoon will be facing off against each other in the outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or movie category at the upcoming Emmys. Kidman’s Big Little Lies is up for 16 nominations all up and the HBO show isup against Geoffrey Rush’s Genius in the best
limited series category. Kidman’s acting career is on a hot streak, with her new movie The Beguiled also out this week. New York-based Stacey Battat, the costume designer for Kidman and her co-stars in The Beguiled, told News Corp Australia she was “the ideal person to dress”. “She’s such a beautiful, tall statuesque woman. She looks great in everything,” she said.
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of the WA Country Cups Fashion on the Field Competition at Broome Turf Club last year. But her MasterChef commitments meant she couldn’t go to WA to compete for $25,000 at the final at Ascot Races in Perth. “It was not a bad choice,” she said. “I chose to go to MasterChef instead and it’s been amazing.” But she admits her journey has been very stressful. “I’m not even sure that most of the stress is even conveyed to be honest,” she said. “ I can tell you that in the moment it literally feels like life or death.” Graffen has pipped 18 rivals to become of the final six contestants in tonight’s episode of MasterChef on Channel Ten at 7.30pm.
Manu raises the heat in good food show kitchen CELEBRITY chef Manu Feildel had the ladies swooning at the Good Food and Wine Show at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday. One besotted fan even asked the saucy Frenchman to join her and a friend for champagne. But Feildel only had eyes for his gorgeous fiancee, Clarissa Weerasena, who joined him on stage to cook her Malaysian fried chicken recipe. Feildel, 43, and Weerasena, 36, had their two-year-old daughter Charlee in tow. Weerasena, a former Perth resident, told Confidential their daughter takes after
Feildel. “She’s y, cheeky, funny, really exactly like her father,” she said. “We say,, ‘Whose ou u cooking do you y’s’ or Papa’s?’ P a’s??’ and d like, Mummy’s pa’s’ Anything we she says, ‘Papa’s’. make she eats now.” But Feildel said his 12-year-old son Jonti was not so easily pleased. “He’s a pain in the a...,” Feildel joked. “It’s really frustrating for a chef to have a son who is difficult with food. It’s terrible because I think it’s all about testosterone for boys. They think they know everything. “They think they’re cool.”
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THIS is the moment Harry met Harry. Film fans at the premiere of Dunkirk were seeing double Harrys when the Prince and the singer both took to the red carpet. Prince Harry met and shook
hands with One Direction pop star Harry Styles, who makes his acting debut in the World War II film directed by Christopher Nolan. Ahead of the premiere, Prince Harry hosted a Kensington Palace reception for Dunkirk veterans.
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PERTH’S cake and confectionery queen Rochelle Adonis will soon be able to add international reality TV star to her list of achievements. The Highgate pastry chef, renowned for her decadent high teas, will be a celebrity judge on The Great Canadian Baking Show. A spin-off of the smash UK hit The Great British Bake Off, the series will see 10 amateur bakers pitted against each other. Adonis was born in Montreal but moved to Australia when she was 10.
SOUTH Fremantle-raised SSO su supermodel Bridget Malcolm h has ha revealed her early modelling days caused her so mo m much mu anxiety she needed to m return home to Perth. reet Malcolm opened up about her experience in ab her he blog this week, sharing he some so om sage advice with parents. pa She didn’t mince words
Bad boy moving in TATTOOS. Check. Buff body. Check. Cheeky smile. Check. Meet Jake Ryan, the new Home and Away bad boy who producers hope will fill the heart-throb void left when Stephen Peacocke’s much-loved character Brax left the bay in 2015. Ryan, a 33-year-old from Melbourne, will make his screen debut as Robbo on the Channel 7 soap in two weeks. Like Peacocke, he plays a bad boy cast as a love interest for the show’s leading lady. This time it’s Pia Miller. Until then the actor, who has also appeared in Wentworth and Underbelly, is enjoying his last days of anonymity. “I’m completely not
prepared for the fame,” the now Bondi-based Ryan said. “Sometimes these bad boy characters can work in your favour and maybe no one will like me.” He was the Australian heavyweight taekwondo champion for 10 consecutive years and missed Olympic glory in 2008 because a career-ending knee injury made him reconsider. “If someone said to me when I was 22 or 23 that I would have a career as an actor, I would have laughed at them. I mean, I hated drama at school. I was such a jock,” he said. “But I came across the late great actor Bill Hunter who planted the seed and over the years it grew.” †
when warning parents about the modelling industry. “This industry can suck. You get rejected a lot and it is all based on your looks,” she wrote. “You want your daughter to feel comfortable enough to come to you if she suffers a particularly bad hit.” Malcolm will strut her stuff at the David Jones Spring Summer Collections Launch on August 9.
Michael Klim accused his ex-wife Lindy of trolling his girlfriend on social media.
Yummy Mummies star Maria DiGeronimo copped a backlash for her bitchy and tacky behaviour.
Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller began her 366-day sentence for bankruptcy fraud.
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RUGGED REGIME FOR CHILLY DOGS
Price relief at bowser TREVOR PADDENBURG
Snuggle suits: Trisha Swann’s three rescue greyhounds Kandee, 7, Kanee, 7, and Maggie May, 3. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper
SANDRA PETERSON WEARING onesies is the best way for greyhounds to ward off winter’s biting cold. Trisha Swann, from Greyhound Adoptions WA, decks out her three rescue dogs, Kandee, Kanee, and Maggie May, in the groovy garments when the mercury drops.
“This year everyone wants onesies for their greyhounds,” she said. “Greyhounds are all muscle with no fat and feel the cold really easily, so you have to protect them in winter. “Coats can fall off, but the dog’s whole body is covered by the onesie. My girls sleep in theirs.”
Carefully placed openings let the pooches poop and pee freely without soiling their snuggle suits. Lesley Rouvray, who runs Muttrugs in Busselton, handmakes many of the onesies worn by WA’s increasingly glamorous greyhounds. “I’ve been pretty busy this winter,” she said.
“People will be waiting about four weeks for their order to arrive at this time of year.” Ms Rouvray said she started making onesies after she adopted her greyhound, Mene, about four years ago. Muttrugs’ onesies cost about $40, depending on choice of fabric.
PERTH petrol prices have dropped below $1 a litre for the first time since October — and bargain hunters can fill up for as little as 90¢ a litre tomorrow. The budget savings at the bowser are likely to continue, experts say, as international wholesale petrol prices nudge downwards and Perth petrol stations wage a price war. Fuel Watch data shows Perth’s cheapest unleaded petrol hit a low of 97.9¢ a litre this week — the first time it has gone below $1 a litre in nine months, when it bottomed out at 90.1¢ a litre. With discount coupons and shopping dockets that can offer as much as 8¢ a litre off, savvy commuters can fill up for less than 90¢ a litre tomorrow, with Monday the cheapest day of the week at many stations. But the weekly price cycle means big differences in cost depending on the day you fill up, with the average unleaded
fuel price for July $1.19 a litre and the highest price almost $1.36 a litre. Fuel Watch spokeswoman Lynne Gould said the low July prices for unleaded petrol were due to a drop in the wholesale price of fuel imported from Singapore and aggressive pricing among Perth retailers. “That means some real bargains for motorists,” she said. “Fill up on Sunday or Monday at the bottom of the weekly price cycle and you can actually pay very close to the wholesale price, or even below.” Despite the low prices, RAC general manager of corporate affairs Will Golsby warned that some servos could be slow to pass on savings to motorists when the wholesale price of fuel dropped. “Research undertaken by RAC has found . . . some WA service stations taking between six and 10 weeks to pass on the fall in oil prices to motorists,” Mr Golsby said.
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WA drivers most risky PETER LAW WA motorists are the most reckless in Australia, with three out of four admitting to idiotic driving habits. Half of the 318 West Australians surveyed admitted to eating takeaway food while in the driver’s seat, according to a finder.com.au national survey of 1800 motorists. Sending a text message (30 per cent), picking up a phone to answer a call (28 per cent), smoking (25 per cent) and
reaching back to deal with a child (25 per cent) were other common risky habits. Twelve per cent drove with their knees and almost one in 10 admitted to applying makeup or changing clothes behind the wheel. Alarmingly, 3 per cent of WA drivers had fallen asleep while driving. “These are disappointing figures and they show that we have work to do,” Police Minister Michelle Roberts said. “This is a problem that is not going away. So many of these distrac-
Pub fall: man critical A MAN was in a critical condition at Fiona Stanley Hospital last night after falling from a balcony at a Fremantle pub. It is believed he fell from the balcony of the Sail and Anchor at around 8.33pm. A witness said the man fell through plastic weather sheeting and received serious head injuries.
“There was lots of blood and he was lying on his face,” he said. “Some patrons turned him over and were giving him CPR before the ambulance arrived but he was unresponsive. “It was chaos” The man was taken to hospital by St John Ambulance in a critical condition.
most risky drivers, with 75 per cent reporting that they’ve participated in the listed danger-
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These are disappointing figures and they show that we have work to do. Michelle Roberts ous activities, compared with South Australians who were the safest (67 per cent). WA motorists were the most likely to pick up the
result, innocent people suffer. We need to continue to stress that the costs of those risks are carried by all of us.” West Australians were the
phone on the road, followed by Victorians and NSW drivers. In 2015-16, 14,685 motorists — more than 40 a day — were caught by WA Police using their phone while driving. Using a phone while driving costs WA drivers three demerits and a $400 fine. Retired WA Police traffic commander Alf Fordham has called for action such as seizing phones. A quarter of women admit to reaching into the back seat to deal with children, compared with 12 per cent of men.
Finder.com.au’s insights manager Graham Cooke urged motorists to consider the bigger picture when on the road. The WA Road Safety Commission warned distracted drivers not only put themselves at risk, but others too. “Plan your journey, switch your phone off, take regular breaks for food and drinks and make sure the kids can entertain themselves so all of your focus is on the road and your surroundings,” a spokeswoman said.
How a doctor almost 300km away helped save baby Chloe KATE CAMPBELL NOT knowing if her sick baby was still conscious and breathing in her back-seat capsule, the 25 minutes it took to race her five-week-old daughter Chloe to the nearest hospital was the scariest drive of Pip Gooding’s life. “I can remember saying aloud, ‘Please God, don’t let anything happen to our beautiful girl, we’ll do anything’,” the mother of two recalled of that awful day in February when her daughter, who had been struggling with a cough for a few days, went rapidly downhill. “And I just continued to sing her nursery rhymes, PlaySchool and Wiggles songs just to make sure she was comforted and could hear something.” With her baby in respiratory distress, Ms Gooding had to stop twice on the way from the family farm near Kukerin in the Wheatbelt to Dumbleyung Hospital 30km away, just to make sure Chloe was still breathing. Chloe’s life-threatening emergency had a happy ending but there’s every chance she wouldn’t be here today without the Emergency Telehealth Service, a Perth-based video-conferencing service that provides regional areas with immediate expert advice for emergencies. The ETS enabled a nurse at Dumbleyung to link up with Peter Leman, a paediatric emergency specialist based in Perth almost 300km away. Dr Leman was the ETS doctor on shift who quickly diagnosed Chloe with bronchiolitis and guided the nurse to provide emergency treatment and administer crucial antibiotics. Ms Gooding already knew about the ETS and called Dumbleyung Hospital in advance of her arrival. A short time later, Chloe was stabilised and taken to Narrogin Hospital where the Royal Flying Doctor Service and a member of the Newborn Emergency Transport Service were ᗄ
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Happy days: Pip Gooding and her daughter Chloe. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper
waiting to fly her to Princess Margaret Hospital. She then spent 24 hours in intensive care and another two days in the recovery ward. Dr Leman said Chloe “could easily have died” if she had not received the treatment she did at Dumbleyung. “ETS was a vital part of the chain of survival,” he said. “The combined services of the ETS, local registered nurse, volunteer St John
Ambulance, Narrogin Hospital team, RFDS and NETS prevented a potentially fatal event.” Ms Gooding said she dreaded to think what would have happened if the ETS was not available at Dumbleyung and she had to drive a further 70km to Narrogin. “This could have been tragic, it just shows you how time critical it is to be able to present to an emergency
department to be able to get the best course of action,” she said. She said Chloe, now five months old, returned to her normal bubbly and bright self in no time. Last month, the State Government announced funding for the ETS would continue for two years. Every week, ETS doctors conduct about 300 consultations at 76 sites across WA.
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Quay location: The Oyster Bar co-owners Kirsty and Jarrad Carter on the balcony of the business. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper
RELIEF FOR SHELL-SHUCKED DINERS LISA QUARTERMAIN ELIZABETH Quay visitors will ill gett a taste of the high life without shelling out a fortune. Kirsty and Jarrad Carter plan to deliver slippery, salty breath-of-the-sea oysters at family-friendly prices. Oyster Bar Elizabeth Quay, the fourth in the South Australian couple’s stable, is
set to open in October, specialising in fresh, chilled or oysters, y , grilled Pacific h k d fresh f shucked every morning, for about $25 a dozen. The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority chose Oyster Bar as the final food tenant at the quay because it would balance the options for visitors surrounded by highend eateries at private venues, such as The Ritz.
While oyster lovers paid at least $3.50 a mollusc at most Perth venues, Mr Carter said prices would be just over $2 a shell at the two-tiered, 220seat bar at the western corner of Elizabeth Quay, above BHP Billiton Water Park. An enclosed pergola on the rooftop, stone-topped bars and warm timber grains will showcase in-shell flavours. “We’re not fine dining and
we’re not fish and chips,” Mrs Carter said. Other development authauth ority food outlets at the quay include Isle of Voyage and Isle General Store in the Florence Hummerston Kiosk, V-Burger Bar, The Reveley and Gusto Gelato, which are open as builders continue piecing together the $500 million Ritz-Carlton over two years.
Prison payout claim KATE CAMPBELL A COMPENSATION bid will soon be launched by lawyers for the man wrongfully jailed over the death of Broome man Josh Warneke. It has been three months since Gene Gibson walked free from prison, where he had spent five years, with his lawyer Michael Lundberg confirming that an ex gratia application to the State Government for compensation was imminent. One of Mr Gibson’s biggest supporters in his ex gratia bid is Mr Warneke’s mother Ingrid Bishop, who said financial help was the least the young Aboriginal man and his family deserved after a “harrowing” and “traumatic” experience. Mr Lundberg, who met Mr Gibson in Alice Springs last week to discuss the ex gratia application, would not be drawn on exactly what kind of payout he was chasing. “Our position is that he has suffered immensely and that an application is appropriate and we would expect and hope the Government would be very sympathetic to the very unusual and sad circumstances of his position,” he said. In other compensation payouts, Andrew Mallard received $3.25 million in 2009 for the 12 years he languished in jail for a murder he did not commit, while the Mickelberg brothers were awarded $1 million for the up to eight years they spent behind bars over the Perth Mint gold swindle. “One has got to bear in mind the things he (Mr Gibson) has missed out on are different to the things a non-Aboriginal
person has missed out on. I would say a person in his circumstance being away from his country for five years, it’s a different set of issues that might go into the equation,” Mr Lundberg said. Mr Gibson, splitting his time between Alice Springs and the remote Western Desert community of Kiwirrkurra, was faring as well as could be expected, his lawyer said. Mr Gibson, a 25-year-old illiterate man with a limited grasp of English, had his manslaughter conviction over Mr Warneke’s 2010 death thrown out by the Court of Appeal in April. It ruled a series of bungles and Mr Gibson’s limited language skills and mental impairment had led to a serious miscarriage of justice. Police then launched a fresh probe into Mr Warneke’s murder, and last week boosted the reward to find the Broome man’s killer to $250,000. Ms Bishop said Mr Gibson and his family deserved an ex gratia payment to help them recover from their ordeal. “The Gibson family has had to endure harrowing and traumatic events over an extended period of time. Wrongful incarceration affects the whole family, not just the victim,” she said. “Financial support to help their healing would be extremely advantageous as the journey of recovery for Gene and his family will be a long, hard process. It’s the least we can do for a wrongly convicted young Aboriginal man.” A spokeswoman for Attorney-General John Quigley said he would consider the application when it arrived.
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Genes hold cancer key KARA VICKERY AUSTRALIAN scientists have discovered a molecule responsible for controlling a set of genes that, when “switched on”, can improve life expectancy for the most common form of breast cancer by up to a decade. Now, they’re hoping to take their research one step further by working with a pharmaceu pharmaceual company to develop a tical ug to target the molecule, drug
called G9a, after finding a similar drug halved the size of tumours in mice. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute’s Jason Lee said the G9a molecule controlled a set of genes that, when “switched on”, could extend the life of patients with oestrogenreceptor-positive (ER+) type breast cancer by between eight and 10 years. This sub-type is the most common form of the cancer.
Dr Lee said the research group also found that an available drug that targets G9a could be used to slow tumour growth by more than half. He said the drug used, a type of epigenetic enzyme modifying inhibitor, was unsuitable for human trials, but QIMR Berghofer was working with a pharmaceutical company to hopefully create a “more more stasta ble” version. He said there was also evi-
dence to suggest the drug could be useful in treating other kinds of breast cancer. Mum-of-two Natalie Guardala was first diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2010, suffering a recurrence four years later while 30 weeks’ pregnant with her second child. “That was an absolute nightmare, she said. “Because Because nightmare,” it was my second run at it they had to obviously treat it more
aggressively, so I had a mastectomy when I was 32 weeks’ pregnant, and then they had to induce the baby at 36 weeks and I started chemo eight days after that.” She is now in remission, but the experience was so lifechanging for Ms Guardala, whose mother has also survived breast cancer, it prompted her to give up her job as a lawyer for a career with QIMR Berghofer.
She welcomed the discovery of the genes, which Dr Lee said were predictors of whether a patient was likely to experience a cancer recurrence. “Recurrence is the greatest fear of any breast cancer survivor and in my case that fear has been exacerbated because I have already had one round of recurrence,” she said. If I was to have another anoth “If that would mean that it is terminal.”
Aboriginal nurses making their mark
Here to help: Aboriginal graduate nurses Melissa Lynch, Gningla Taylor, Deanna Hanson, Lateia Turner Biggs, Shari Pilkington and Marra Thorne. Picture: Ross Swanborough
A RECORD number of graduating Aboriginal nurses and midwives have secured jobs in the WA health system. This year 27 jobs in the public and private healthcare system across the State were offered to Aboriginal graduates, compared with 17 in 2016. Health Minister Roger Cook said the increase was due to WA Health’s nursing and midwifery office proactively recruiting Aboriginal nurses and midwives.
Mr Cook said the partnership was the first time WA Health had piloted the use of Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act to increase the Aboriginal workforce. Section 51 can be used by a government agency to increase the representation of a particular racial group, improving their employment opportunities. “Before the implementation of Section 51, 38 per cent of nurses and midwives who identified as Aboriginal secured graduate
positions within the WA health system, which increased to 66 per cent this year,” he said. Mr Cook said WA Health would continue to pilot Section 51 in recruitment to increase Aboriginal workforce numbers. “Having Aboriginal people working on the front line is incredibly important not only from a cultural perspective, but it gives people greater confidence in the treatment they’re getting,” he said. Aboriginal health senior
development officer Melanie Robinson said it was encouraging to see so many Aboriginal graduates entering the health system to provide a more positive experience for patients. “While there are lots of different language groups across the State, Aboriginal patients see a familiar face and it’s about having someone working there who understands them, you have that common ground,” she said. “They’re also teaching the non-Aboriginal staff
CT scanner to lift morgue work rate A $1.4 MILLION CT scanner needed for the State’s morgue, which will spare the need for many autopsies, will be funded as soon as there is money in the Budget, says Attorney-General John Quigley. Mr Quigley, pictured, said the piece of equipment would make a massive difference to the morgue and Coroner’s workload, with a five-minute scan expected to detect causes of death otherwise only confirmed through a full autopsy. “We’d like to be able to CAT-scan the body on arrival at the morgue. But that is expensive and there’s been a demand for them in hospitals,
but . . . that’s our ambition when money permits,” he said. “This will spare the need and the trauma for families of having the autopsy performed on the deceased.” The Government is also w pushing ahead with law reforms to remove the obligation for the Coroner to investigate, or continue to investigate, a death that was found to have been a result of natural causes. The changes, recommended by the Law Reform Commission in 2012, have been passed by the Lower House and Mr Quigley expects them to be given the full green light next month after Parliament resumes. †
about what is good care, what patients need and what families need, and about being inclusive.” Marra Thorne, 32, from near Jarrahdale, completed her graduate program at St John of God Subiaco Hospital and now works at Kalamunda Hospital in palliative care. With four young children and her nursing job, Ms Thorne is also studying at Curtin University to complete a conversion from enrolled to registered nursing. REGINA TITELIUS
Dusty homes a big fat risk THERE are plenty of good reasons to keep the house tidy and clean but now scientists have found another one. They say that household dust could be making you fat. Air fresheners, dishwashing liquid and flame retardants all contain chemicals which we breathe in after they build up in dust. Scientists have now found these chemicals may cause fat to accumulate in our cells. The findings mean keeping your house clean is vital. Researchers at Duke University in the US found 10 out of 11 samples of dust from households contained the harmful chemicals.
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Top dog: Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) gets a shot in the big chair in season seven of Game of Thrones. Inset: Fan favourite Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
DANIELLE LE MESSURIER AND LEXIE CARTWRIGHT EVER since Game Of Thrones began, the members of House Stark have been whispering the warning “winter is coming” — which became the show’s famous catchphrase. But winter is finally here. The Emmy award-winning fantasy epic is returning to the small screen for its penultimate season, airing at the same time as the US this Monday on Foxtel. As the show moves towards the endgame, with the eighth and final season to start shooting in September, series seven promises to be one of the most hair-raising yet as three major game players do battle for the Iron Throne. As Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) explains to twin brother-cum-boyfriend Jamie in the teaser, which dropped in May, “there are enemies everywhere”. We already know the show’s biggest parties Queen Cersei, the dragon queen Daenerys “Dany” Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and King of the North Jon Snow (Kit Harington) are all rumbling to rule the Seven Kingdoms, while the White Walkers are gathering north of The Wall to wipe out all of humanity. Actors and producers have kept tight-lipped on plot lines for the hugely anticipated seventh season but stalwart fans have speculated their own predictions based on where we left off. If you haven’t had time to binge-watch the last six
seasons before the premiere, you’ll probably need to get up to speed on what’s happened so far. We last left Queen Cersei — now queen of Westeros — bereft of children and sitting on the Iron Throne. Her youngest son, Tommen, killed himself after Cersei blew up the Sept of Baelor with wildfire. Tommen’s beloved spouse Margaery also perished in the explosion along with her brother, father, the fanatical High Sparrow and Cersei’s uncle Kevan. Serial killer Cersei assumes all power over the Seven Kingdoms and names creepy sycophant Qyburn as her hand. But the longevity of Cersei’s reign is in question as a number of major characters are poised to pull the throne out from under her — and Dany is leading the stakes. Dany dumped boy-toy Daario Naharis and left him in charge of Meereen, leaving her distraction-free as she sailed to Westeros to claim the Iron Throne.
She gained a new host of followers after an impressive performance in Vaes Dothrak, emerging unburnt after torching a host of khals in the Temple of Dosh Khaleen. She also made a pact with the ironborn Yara Greyjoy, agreeing to help her and Theon defeat their uncle Euron and recognise the independence of the Iron Islands in exchange for 100 ships. Armed with the Unsullied, her trio of dragons, ironborn fleet and with Houses Martell and Tyrell at her back, Dany is touted to take back her ancestral land. The new season is very likely to introduce her to Jon Snow, with speculation the pair will hook up, but that is anyone’s guess. The other threats to Cersei’s rule include the calculating Petyr Baelish, also known as “Littlefinger” (Aidan Gillen), who viewers are aware is plotting to take the Iron Throne for himself — with intentions to make Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner)
Hot stuff: Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke).
his queen. He continues to chip away at Sansa’s trust in Jon, insinuating that she should rule the North instead. She might be unlucky in love, but Sansa Stark finally managed to claim some power for herself in season six. The time she spent with Ramsay Bolton being beaten, raped and hunted by his dogs kindled a fire in the eldest Stark daughter that has seen her transformed from victim to survivor. She saved the day in the Battle of the Bastards, arriving in the nick of time with Littlefinger and the Knights of the Vale to win the fight. Sansa and Jon defeated the Boltons and reclaimed Winterfell. And Ramsay got his due when Sansa fed him to the dogs. Another potential game-changer is Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), newly graduated from her training with the Faceless Men and back to crossing names off her kill list. Arya dropped Walder Frey
in the Riverlands as revenge for amily slaughtering her family ng in the Red Wedding (THAT episode) and ded appears to be headed h the for a reunion with remaining Starks. After being betrayed, stabbed to death and resurrected like Jesus, Jon Snow (or should we say Targaryen?) was proclaimed King in the North after defeating fellow bastard Ramsay Bolton. Unfortunately, he couldn’t save little Rickon who was too-easily struck down by Ramsay’s arrow when he made a beeline for his brother. Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) took a “greenseeing” trip into the past, where he discovered Jon is the child of Ned’s deceased sister Lyanna Stark and therefore most likely the son of Rhaegar Targaryen, giving him a true claim to the Iron Throne. This also makes Daenerys Jon’s aunty, which is just a tad weird, especially given rumours they might hook up. After all, the series is called A Song of Ice and Fire ... But the real chemistry will be between Cersei and Jaime, as, with all three of their children dead, Jaime questions how far he can follow his sister into “mad queen” territory. Cersei has become even more sadistic over the last
couple of seasons, and it is anticipated she will form an alliance with the equally unhinged Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbaek). At the Kingsmoot, Euron’s niece Yara Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan) put up her hand to claim the Salt Throne after her father, Balon, was killed by her uncle. When Euron turned up to the moot, Yara and her brother Theon (Alfie Allen) took their loyal supporters along with most of the ironborn fleet and sailed to Essos to meet Dany. Poor Theon, aka Reek, seemed as skittish as ever after having his manhood removed by Ramsay. After flying too close to the sun in his betrayal of Robb Stark, Theon follows at the heels of his sister and promises to help her control the Iron Islands.
Game of Thrones season seven premieres at 9am tomorrow on Foxtel’s Showcase channel
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IN A STATE GEORGIA HING THESE incredible shots may look out of this world, but they’re actually scenes from our own backyard. Aerial photographer Hulia Boz has captured some of WA’s breathtaking landscapes, hanging out of a helicopter, camera in hand. “I wanted to capture a photographic style that borders both fine art and travel photography,” she said. “WA is where I found the perfect combination of colours, lines and geometry. I wanted to create an artwork without resorting to image manipulation.” Boz has gone from shooting A-list celebrities the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey and
Prince to capturing the scenery of WA. “I think after a while I was getting bored with the red carpets and the world of celebrities,” she said. “I wanted to capture the real world, capture art and feel the adrenaline rush of hanging out of a helicopter. And appreciate how beautiful Australia is.” Boz initially discovered the colours and landscapes on Google Earth and spent hours n researching locations, often staying up until 3am. She started her 22-day journey in Perth, working her way to Shark Bay, Broome and Cape Leveque over Easter. Boz will be holding her inaugural solo photographic exhibition, Postcard from Australia, in Sydney this week.
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OF REAL BEAUTY Picture perfect: Some of the amazing WA images captured by Hulia Boz, including Blue Lagoon at Shark Bay, left, James Price Point, above, and pink salt waters, north of the mouth of Hutt River on the Coral Coast, below.
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Populate and perish warning RESEARCHERS have found one of the best ways for concerned citizens of Earth to save the planet from greenhouse gases is to stop having children. A new study says bringing new life into the world is easily th the most destructive thing you can do to the environment. By not having a child, the carbon footprint of individuals living in a developed country would be reduced, on average, by 58.6 tonnes of ccarbon dioxide every year, base based on current emission rates. The team from Sweden’s Lund University came to the conclusion after conducting an analysis of the things individuals can do to produce fewer greenhouse gases. But they found that while we are told to recycle, no government in the Western world is advising its citizens to limit their offspring. The other three main choices people can make to cut the carbon dioxide they produce are to eat less meat, ditch their car and fly less.
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Gangnam goes out in style GANGNAM Style, the quirky South Korean video that spawned a global dance craze and went so viral it nearly broke YouTube, has finally been dethroned as the world’s most w wa at watched video. A After 41⁄2 years as Yo Y ou o YouTube’s most viewed video, G Ga aan Gangnam Style slipped this w eee to No.2, replaced by See week Y Yo o ou Again by Wiz Khalifa You aand n nd Charlie Puth. G Gangnam Style, a satirical ttake ta ak ke on the nouveau riche rresidents eesi of the Seoul dist d di is district by the same name, su urprised i d even its i singer, singe Psy, with its sudden surprised global ascent in 2012. Psy, left, who was little-known outside of South Korea, found an avid fan base with the video’s equestrian-style dance moves set to its infectious pop beat. Gangnam Style was the first video to one billion views on YouTube and, as of Thursday, had 2.895 billion, just behind See You Again.
Just perfect: Megan Gale dressed stylishly at a David jones function in 2015. Below: Just two of the magazine covers the supermodel has graced over the years.
BABIE are egalitarians. BABIES d They don’t care if mum is a house household name, or if dad is a ffamous sportsman; they cry and feed without fear or favour. Ju ask Megan Gale, Just who found herself as ragg raggedly tired, stressed l and lonely as any new mothe mother after she gave birth s River. to her son It was footy season, so her A player Shaun partner, AFL Hampson had one day off for Hampson, River’s bi birth. Her mother was l in Perth looking after Gale’s fathe who had cancer. late father, Hampson own dad had died Hampson’s a month before River arrived, and his m mum was still grieving. Gale, who went to school in the working-class suburb of Kwinana, tried to soldier on alone. “I got so sleep-deprived I was a bit bonkers, and was not sh recalls. “I was happy,” she thankful and loving the fact that I was a mum, but I wasn’t myself. I wonder now whether I had a to touch of PND (postnata depression). (postnatal star “I started well on my first month of breastfeeding, then w all over the shop. my flow was I couldn’t get him back on the w berating myself boob. I was and cryin crying when I had to give formula. I’d pump, I’d feed, I’d him he’d sleep. And settle him, when he slept I would pump. It was ho horrible.” G sat sobbing over That Gale a breast p pump isn’t unusual — mum can relate. What most mums surprises is her willingness to talk abou about it. Celebrities rarely the struggles in this share their Instagram Instagram-perfect era, yet Gale speaks candidly about much that others won’t: her health, parenting challenges and career disappointments. She doesn’t drip with labels. She eats carbs. She has a broad accent and a hearty laugh. Gale has long been known for her beauty, but her most attractive feature might just be her honesty. Gale sits inside a luxury private property near Kerikeri on New Zealand’s North Island, watching rain descend on the sweeping cliffs outside. She is in a robe, waiting for a break so she can run outside for a photoshoot. She looks down at her swollen belly – she is nearly six months pregnant — and declares to the crew, “Let’s just do it. Come on, bub!” Upon reaching the rolling hills of Rangihoua Heritage Park, overlooking the bay below where her Maori ancestors may once have fished, Gale flicks the switch: she charms the camera, oblivious to the elements. Once the first shot is nailed, a stylist swoops in to pull a second outfit over the first. Again, Gale turns it on and transforms. It’s like there is nothing she’d rather do,
Megan Gale opens up on crying, coping and the tough times of trying to do it all
Proud: Megan Gale shows off her baby bump on Instagram.
nowhere else she’d rather be. The shoot done, we retire to her hotel room. Gale has been a good sport since the start of the day — she had pregnancy reflux at midnight, make-up at dawn, a shoot in windswept surroundings and now an interview, nearly 12 hours later. She doesn’t seem like the same woman who was rumoured to be a diva. In 2011, there were whispers of temper tantrums and even reports she refused to meet others’ eyes on jobs. Were they unfounded — or has she changed? Gale sighs and shakes her head. “(Those stories) blindsided me. I don’t know how or why it started. The only thing I could pinpoint it on was perhaps when I started seeing Shaun, (it) wasn’t long after I broke up with (comedian) Andy Lee. I’d just d doing ngg P Pr started Project Runway
Australia. I had a lot of media to do. They wanted me to push the show, but all anyone wanted to talk about was Andy and Shaun. I had to do my job and be professional. I wanted to protect my new partner. I still had a lot of respect for Andy — I wanted to protect him. “I was in a position where I had to shut it down. As a result there was probably a perception I was putting a wall up, but it was the best I could do at the time.” Gale has long since moved on from that difficult year. She’s still on good terms with Lee — “We have great respect for each other, he’s an amazing guy” — and has now been with Richmond ruckman Hampson for six years. There was fuss about their 12-year age difference when they got together, but Gale, 41, ssa says, “that all shifted w when I became pr p pregnant. It was less ‘a ffli with a younger guy’ fling aan more ‘they are a and ffa family’.” She says the only time ssh notices an age gap is she w when her gadgets die, lla laughing: “He’s more tte tech-savvy than me!”
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A ‘MODEL’ MUM S attraction: Star i Megan M Gale G l stands d out from f the h crowd d at llast year’s ’ Logie Awards, left. Above: An Instagram picture of her in a yoga pose relaxing. Below: With partner Shaun Hampson.
Asked about the prospect of marriage, Gale tells The Sunday Times they have no firm plans. “It’s a really lovely thing to do to celebrate your love and your relationship, but at the end of the day — not that I’m an anti-romantic; I love weddings — but to me, creating human lives together, that’s for life. You’ve bonded in the most incredible way, so to start a family is more of a commitment than walking down the aisle. “If we do celebrate our love in that way and formalise it and legalise it, it will be great, but I feel the commitment we have already taken far exceeds that.” Hampson is a hands-on dad, and no matter how tiring his day, always has energy to rumble with his boy. He looks after River on his day off, and together the couple manage so they rarely need a babysitter. They are deep in the parental trenches, and Gale is now encountering some of its politics. Take playgrounds. Hampson and Gale are not smackers, but will send River to timeout when needed. “From early on, we disciplined him; we are big on good manners.”
Other parents aren’t as keen on authority, and Gale is discovering the dilemmas that can cause. Recently, a kid threw a handful of sand in River’s face. The child’s parent had no response. “If River had done that, I would have given him an absolute earful,” she says. “I have seen a kid get him in a headlock, pinch him and wallop him, and there’s no disciplining going on! I’m at the point where I want to almost tell off someone else’s child, but I feel that is overstepping the mark.” The gap between her kids’ ages will be bigger than planned. Last year Gale fell pregnant again; in June, while filming Australia’s Next Top Model, she miscarried at nine weeks. She decided not to try again immediately, owing to “the worst health period I’ve had”. When she felt better in January, Gale became pregnant straight away. The first few months were difficult because of their loss, but now the bump is growing and kicking nicely. The couple know the gender, but intend to keep that a secret. Gale is not freaking out about having another child.
“People have three, four, eight — humans are adaptable, we get by. by.” This time around, round, Gale is changing ng her approach. “I should have ave asked (for help)) more (with River),” she he says. “We don’tt — we think we have ave to do it all; there’s re’s a level of guilt from handing itt over. This timee I’m much moree prepared.” Gale begins six months of maternity leave next month. Until then, she will stay busy with roles including Tourism New Zealand’s official al ambassador in Australia. The appointment iss a natural fit — her er mother, May, iss part-Maori, and d bequeathed Gale ale the dark colouring many incorrectly assume ume is Italian. “This wasn’tt
one of those things where you are clutching at straws,” she says. “My straws mum is from here, I have an amazing heritage, and it’s a her beautiful country.” bea May is from the Ngati Kahu Iwi N tribe. She grew up in Kaitaia, close to the Bay of Islands, where her daughter is at the moment. m This section of the Northland th coastline is an co historically significant hist region; it was the first regio place in New Zealand settled by Europeans. settle also close to It’s als Waitangi, the site of the Waitan treaty between first tre Maori cchiefs and the British. hasn’t been to her Gale ha birthplace; for years, mother’s bi neither has May, who settled and married Gale’s in Perth an decades ago. father deca suggested a family Gale sug visit to the region during a last-minute holiday to New last-minu Zealand with Hampson River last year, but and Riv demurred, so the May dem went without her. three we
“She said it’s somewhat a pilgrimage for her — it’s significant to go back, especially as a family,” Gale says. “With the Maoris as well, there’s a bit of a rite of passage, checking in with people in the area. She wanted to do it the appropriate way, which I respected. I’d like to try to hold off (visiting her village) until I can go with her.” Gale has long since commenced the transition from model to businesswoman. Her career is diverse — ambassadorships, a judge on Australia’s Next Top Model and a business venture that remains secret for now. Unlike many whose face is their fortune, Gale doesn’t seem worried about getting older. “One would probably make the assumption that (being a model) my biggest fear would be losing my looks . . . it’s not,” she says. “What scares me more than anything is losing my health, losing my mind, losing my body’s ability. Having seen my dad and Shaun’s dad go through disease . . . that stuff scares me.” She is keen to do more acting, and admits the success
of Wonder Woman is bittersweet, since it was the role she was set to play in director George Miller’s planned Justice League franchise a decade ago, before it was shelved. “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t,” she says. “She’s such a great role model for women, I am happy it’s doing well. But I’ll always wonder what our version would have been like.” In May, River turned three. Already, Gale and Hampson are being asked if he’ll be a model or a footballer. The answer is no and no — unless it’s something he wants. “(River) could be the best footballer on the planet in 20 years but that will be his choosing,” she says. “Shaun has seen how hard it is. Shaun’s body is broken. He’s 29. He’s going to be riddled with arthritis. We don’t want that for our son, necessarily. “Same for modelling. I loved my career, I’m thankful for it. It has been amazing. But it has been hard, and I’ve had some horrible experiences. At least I am armed with that knowledge, and can guide them in that world.”
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New Trump Russia link WASHINGTON A LOBBYIST who was once a Soviet counter-intelligence officer participated last year in a meeting with senior aides to US President Donald Trump, including his son, and a Russian lawyer, adding to allegations of possible connections between Moscow and the November election. NBC News, which did not identify the Russian-American lobbyist, said some US officials suspected him of still having ties to Russian intelligence, something he denied. The Associated Press said
the lobbyist, identified as Rinat Akhmetshin, confirmed he had attended the June 2016 meeting in New York’s Trump Tower. A source familiar with the participants of the meeting confirmed to Reuters that Mr Akhmetshin was in the room. The meeting appears to be the most tangible evidence of a connection between Mr Trump’s election campaign and Russia, a subject that has prompted investigations by congressional committees and a federal special counsel. Mr Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and former
campaign adviser Paul Manafort were also at the meeting, which Donald Trump Jr agreed to attend because he believed he could get damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Mr Trump Jr, the President’s eldest son, did not mention Mr Akhmetshin’s presence when he released a series of emails about the meeting this week. Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said the report about Mr Akhmet-
shin “if accurate, adds another deeply disturbing fact about this secret meeting”. Mr Akhmetshin was not available for comment. The White House had no immediate comment about the NBC News report. Mr Kushner’s spokesman did not respond to a request for comment and Manafort’s spokesman, Jason Maloni, said Manafort had no comment on the meeting. A former Trump campaign adviser, Michael Caputo, said after he testified to the House Intelligence Committee in closed session on Friday he had
no contact with Russians and never heard of anyone in the campaign “talking with Russians”. Accusations by US intelligence agencies that Moscow meddled in the election and colluded with the Trump campaign have dominated the Republican President’s first months in office. Russia denies the allegations and Mr Trump says there was no collusion. The agencies said earlier this year Russia sought to help Mr Trump win the election by hacking emails from Democratic Party officials and putting false information online.
Tower fire claims three in Honolulu HONOLULU THREE people died and at least five others suffered injuries and were taken to hospital after a fire consumed three floors of a 36-storey condominium tower in Honolulu, city officials say. The fire at the Marco Polo high-rise building was brought under control about 6.30pm (local time) on Friday, four hours after it broke out, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said. “We have a very tragic situation with three confirmed fatalities,” he said. “The good news is that the fire is now under control.” For hours, thick black smoke poured from the building as orange flames raged on several floors and debris fell
from windows in images broadcast by bystanders on the Periscope streaming service. More than 100 firefighters battled the blaze, spraying water on flames from nearby balconies as a helicopter circled above, images posted online showed. The fire began on the 26th floor of the building about 2.15pm and quickly spread to the two floors above, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper said. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. As many as three people died on the 26th floor, fire chief Manuel Neves said at the scene. The Marco Polo building did not have a sprinkler system, he said.
Dramatic blaze: A Honolulu Fire Department helicopter flies near a fire burning at the Marco Polo apartment complex in Honolulu. Inset: Survivors are treated. Picture: AP Photo/Marco Garcia
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MARK Hamill can’t believe he has received one of Disney’s highest honours and Carrie Fisher wasn’t there to see it. Hamill, pictured, and Star Wars co-star Fisher were named Disney Legends at the company’s biannual fan convention, the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California. The 65-year-old actor said Fisher would likely have been showing him the
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HAWAIIAN police have charged a mother, father and grandmother with murder after they allegedly starved a nine-year-old girl to death. Big Island police on Friday arrested 49-year-old Kevin Lehano, 33-year-old Tiffany Stone and 59-year-old Henrietta Stone over the girl’s death in June last year. Hawaii County prosecutor Mitch Roth said they were accused of denying the girl food, water and medical treatment for a year before she died.
THE head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, has been killed in a strike on the group’s headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said. Spokeswoman Dana White said other members of the Islamic State group were also killed in the strike on Tuesday. US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters: “The significance is you kill a leader of one of these groups and it sets them back . . . it is obviously a
victory on our side in terms of setting them back, it is the right direction.” Sayed is the third Islamic State leader in Afghanistan to be killed since July last year. Former leader Abdul Hasib was killed in a joint US and Afghan operation on April 27 in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Hasib’s predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan died in a US drone strike in 2016. The announcement came as Mattis said the US could prove Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead.
$15m award for shooting SEATTLE A US Federal jury in Seattle has awarded nearly $15 million to the family of an unarmed black man shot and killed by police in front of his young son near Tacoma, Washington, finding police had no reason to use deadly force. Leonard Thomas was shot outside his home in Fife, Washington, on May 23, 2013. Attorney Tiffany Cartwright, one of the lawyers representing Thomas’ parents and his now nine-year-old son, told the jury nothing that Thomas did warranted a massive police response on May 23, 2013, for a minor domestic violence offense.
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AN Egyptian man has stabbed two German tourists to death and wounded four other foreigners at a popular vacation spot on the Red Sea, officials and witnesses say. The man killed the two German women and wounded two other tourists at the Zahabia hotel in Hurghada, before swimming to a nearby beach to attack at least two more people at the Sunny Days El Palacio resort before he was arrested. “He had a knife with him and stabbed each of them three times in the chest. They died on the beach,” the security manager at El Palacio hotel, Saud Abdelaziz, told Reuters.
TWO pieces of debris found in the Seychelles do not come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Malaysian official says. Civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said investigators had analysed photographs of the debris and confirmed it was not from a Boeing 777 or from a RollsRoyce engine, the type used on the flight. Some pieces of wreckage from the plane have washed ashore on coastlines around the Indian Ocean since the jet disappeared on March 8, 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard.
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middle finger, just out of sight of the cameras. “It was one of her favourite gestures,” he said. “I really wish she were here. But she would also want us to be having a good time and not be sad.” Fisher died in December. The honour was given to Oprah Winfrey and Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee. Disney bought the rights to new Star Wars films in 2012.
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Home Shopping; ELEVEN; 2pm, The Bachelor Australia; 3.35pm, The King of Queens; 12.20am & 4.30am, Everybody Loves Raymond. Tuesday: SEVEN/GWN; 10.40pm, Ramsay’s Hotel Hell; 9GEM; 7.30pm, New Tricks; ELEVEN; 2pm, The Bachelor Australia; 7FLIX; 10am, Benson; 10.30am, Yummy Mummies; 7.30pm, 8.55pm, 9.20pm, 9.45pm, 10.10pm, 10.35pm and 11pm, The Big Bang Theory; 11.25pm, How to Get Away with Murder. Wednesday: ABC; 1pm, Joanna Lumley’s India; 12.30am, Australians of the Year: †
In Conversation. TEN; 2pm, Offspring. ABC2; 9.05pm, Extreme Brat Camp; 9.55pm, Banged up Abroad; 10.40pm, Welcome to the Mosque; 12.20am, Wild Things with Dom Monaghan; 1.10am, Dirty Jobs; 1.55am, News Update; 2am, Close. ELEVEN; 2pm, The Bachelor Australia; 3.05pm, The King of Queens; ABC 24 ; 1pm, News; 7FLIX; 8.55pm, 9.20pm, 9.45pm, 10.10pm, 10.35pm and 11pm, The Big Bang Theory; 11.25pm, Battle Creek; 12.25am, MOVIE: Count the
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Humanity to blame Humans are pretty much responsible for everything environmentally negative on this planet — mass species extinctions; overfishing and polluting the world’s oceans and river systems; destroying fertile forest land that results in reduced rainfall; stalling the Atlantic Gulf Stream; disrupting migratory bird routes; decimating honey bees; excessive groundwater extraction; and polluting the atmosphere with all sorts of gasses and soot. Given this, I find it almost hilarious that a certain few among us cling to the stubborn idea that humans could not possibly have anything to do with affecting climate. Sceptics must have a vested interest in planet-destroying industries. BRAD CAPES Coolbellup
Let people vote
So, WA Liberal Senator Dean Smith believes same-sex marriage equality has become an “embarrassment” for Australia (TST, July 9). Well, Dean, our politicians are an embarrassment for Australia. Who gives you the right to decide about issues such as this without the Australian population’s agreement? What makes you believe you are so special that you can make decisions on behalf of the majority of Australians? Australia has become an embarrassment to the rest of the world
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I read your column in defence of Bernard Tomic with interest (TST, July 9) but I don’t agree. Can you imagine the likes of Federer or Nadal offering up a tennis performance that was anything less than the very best they could give, even on a bad day? They have too much respect for the game and themselves. I am worried about Bernard. If he really has lost his desire for the game, for his wellbeing, he needs to find a new passion in his life, and I wish him well. MERRILL BONE Kingsley
Bored or lazy?
Bernard Tomic needs to grow up. There are things more important than money — because of politicians with attitudes like yours. ANDRE NEL Karakin
Sloppy analysis
The 2016 Census revealed that in Australia there are 47,000 people living in a same-sex relationship. That’s 0.38 per cent of the population. So, where are the supposed hundreds of thousands of people who will benefit from same-sex marriage? Peter van Onselen’s analysis (TST, July 9) was actually quite sloppy and inaccurate. The budget
Climate cluster Samuel Thompson of the ACT (Your Say, July 9) obviously has not read David Archibald’s 2010 book The Past and Future of Climate, nor Archibald’s subsequent analysis. He conveniently only refers to a short time frame so that he does not go anywhere near the Maunder Minimum. He is correct about different temperatures in different places not telling the full story. Of the 29 climates in the Koppen-Geiger climate classification for the world, Australia has seven. Present sunspot activity points to global cooling and an approaching food tragedy for African and Middle-Eastern countries. K DE COURTENAY Nedlands
Copping flak: Bernard Tomic after his outburst last Sunday.
self-respect and the respect of the community to begin with. He has neither. He is one of the lucky people who could have both. I am not jealous of him. Frankly, I feel sorry for him. I find him pathetic. History has a long memory. He will be
remembered as the tennis player who was too lazy or bored to contribute to the game and who misrepresented his country. Leave tennis and get a life! You won’t be missed. SANDRA LEVIS Victoria Park East
for a plebiscite on this issue is a third of the $200 million he quotes. Parliament will not be allowed to have a conscience vote because Labor and the Greens have locked their parliamentarians into a yes vote — hardly a free vote. And the idea a plebiscite “goes against the principles of representative democracy” is typical of the arrogance coming from our elected representatives and quite dangerous. Perhaps some don’t want a plebiscite because some inconvenient truths will come out. We need a plebiscite so both sides of the case can be
submitted, especially by the gay community who, you would think, would welcome the opportunity to present their case. We’re all grown-ups. We can handle it. TERRY DWYER Warwick The column by Tom Percy (TST, July 9) was excellent. Thank goodness we have someone with the guts to stand up for one of our church leaders who has been accused of child abuse. For any ordinary person not equipped with the educational skills to defend
themselves against the lynch-mob ravings, such accusations are bad enough. But for a church leader, there will be many salivating wolves waiting to pounce, and many others ready for the bandwagon ride. Those in the population who claim to be non-believers will see this as an opportunity to convince themselves they are right, while believers will be afraid to speak out in case they are accused of defending religion. In such a situation, logic will be trodden into the dirt. DP BANNER Coolbellup
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Bernard Tomic must be close to burnout to reveal, in front of a big audience at Wimbledon, that he is bored with tennis. Using medical time out to try to disrupt his opponent in order to improve his own motivation is grossly unfair, and a measure of Tomic’s desperation with his own mental state. I wonder if this young man will realise that at “only 24”, and feeling like he is “super old” after his super early start on the tennis circuit, that he can choose an alternative path in life? His dad might be “ashamed” of his son’s actions, but he realises his son needs help and needs to keep the “sharks” at bay. Pushing him to “get back on track” to become a top-ranked player is most likely not the answer. Money and fame have their limits. The passion has to come from within and, at this stage of his career, Bernard has lost it. Anger, exhaustion, depression, burnout — all mixed up in the mind of a man who needs extended time out. CAROLE PETERS Shenton Park
To Robert Brooks (Your Say, July 2) and Samuel Thompson (Your Say, July 9). I was born in WA on July 26, 1945, and aged eight I first noticed that it always rained on my birthday — and for weeks before and weeks after it. From then on the first thing I would do on my birthday was look out the window. It was the same old same old — always heavy, grey skies and lots of rain. I used to pray for a bright, sunny birthday. In 1969 I went to
the Eastern States and in 1970 I got my first sunny birthday. Since then I have had one birthday where it spat a few drops, and sunny days ever since. I now pray for rain on my birthday. I turn 72 this year. I do believe the sudden change can only be man-made. What happened in the world in that time? What did we do to cause this abrupt, unnatural change? JOAN DRANE Yangebup
Widow’s plight In reply to Julie Hayward of Beechboro who did not get her one-off widow’s allowance payment (Your Say, July 2). I went to the ATM to collect my $75 and was so disappointed I nearly cried. I have written to my MP about the widow’s pension, explaining that I am ill and at times can’t afford basic toiletries or medication. The reply I received was to apply for disability. I am not disabled. God says look after the children and then the widows. We are the most neglected people by the Australian Government. Shame on you. MARYANNE GLEDICH Champion Lakes
Clueless on koalas Re: the Who’s Hot/Not item about Katy Perry (Confidential, July 9). Apparently, Ms Perry has enraged animal rights groups by some words in her Myer ad. She said something like, “Let’s go chase some koalas”. Really! I’d like to know how anyone, or anything (her dog, a teacup poodle, was included in her dialogue), could chase a creature that sits high up in a tree and sleeps all day. A BUTLER Pinjarra
Cop out on pay The broken promise by Premier Mark McGowan and Police Minister Michelle Roberts over the 1.5 per cent increase for our police officers is a shame. A token offer of $1000 for their pay increase is totally unacceptable, considering what they have to deal with 24/7. Our police are the only thing between the criminals and the community and the McGowan Government thinks that’s not worth much. We want our police officers to be treated with respect and get what you promised them. S CRUDEN Kwinana
AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD ON PAGE ONE THIS WEEK
Channel 9 ends news production in Darwin, shifting the work to Queensland.
US President’s son caught in Russia saga, with email links to Clinton smear campaign.
Liberation of Mosul from IS lauded in Saudi Arabia as major breakthrough for Iraqi forces.
Malta’s parliament legalises same-sex marriage, making it the 15th EU country to do so.
Homes destroyed, thousands evacuated as bushfires sweep across British Columbia.
There’s no holding back Queensland joy as its league team wins the Origin series.
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Families deserve answers TOMORROW marks three years since Malaysia airline flight MH17 was shot out of the sky killing all 298 people on board. Of those victims, 38 were Australian citizens or residents. Nine called WA home. At the time it rocked us. The initial feeling was agony. There was also pain, heartache and a sense of helplessness. In particular, few of us have forgotten the faces of children Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, the three Scarborough siblings whose lives were cut short far too soon. But along the way has been a determination by Australia and other countries devastated by this tragedy to find those responsible and bring them to justice. Today, in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times, Federal Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop makes an even more personal vow to pursue the murderers who ruined so many people’s lives. “My vow is that I and the Australian Government will do all we can to bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to account and that we will do all we can to support the families who want to tell their stories, who want justice on behalf of those whose lives were cut short,” Ms Bishop said. They are sentiments The Sunday Times strongly supports. Innocent people losing their lives and no one being held to account is not the way a fair world works. The Sunday Times has regularly published stories on MH17, highlighting that no one has been brought to account for what happened. And that should not be forgotten. Over the past three years Australian diplomats have worked with the international community to pursue justice for the victims of MH17. The Kremlin has repeatedly stymied those efforts, and refused to take responsibility for the tragedy. The Russians have repeatedly rejected Dutch investigations that claim a Buk missile brought across the border from Russia into a separatist-controlled Ukrainian village downed the plane. In 2015, the Russians even used their veto power over the United Nations Security Council to halt any establishment of a tribunal to bring those responsible to trial. It was an outrageous move, and clearly not the action of a Government committed to justice. At the time Ms Bishop was clear in her disgust. “Russia has made a mockery of its commitment to accountability,” she said. Now, the Dutch Government is making moves to launch a criminal investigation against those responsible for this despicable act. It’s a move supported by Australia. “We are determined to hold people to account by an impartial and independent court that enforces the law,” Ms Bishop said. “We want to send a very strong message to the perpetrators of this act and those who might consider committing similar acts that they will be prosecuted.” Australian and Russian diplomatic relations are, at times, tense — and it’s difficult to see how they can move forward without resolution of an issue that goes to the core of what we value as Australians — justice, responsibility and respect for life. Tomorrow, Australians will join together with the international community to remember those lost. A memorial will open in Amsterdam, near Schiphol Airport, with the 298 victims each being marked by a tree. But we owe it to the victims and their families to give them more than just a memorial. They deserve to know how and why their loved ones were killed, they deserve justice, and our Government must do everything in its power to give it to them. Responsibility for editorial comment is taken by the editor, Michael Beach, 50 Hasler Road, Osborne Park, WA 6017. Postal address: PO Box 1769, Osborne Park DC, WA 6916.
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Courage, integrity on same-sex vote I T is often said that there is no greater love than that of a parent for their child. It is with this in mind dear reader, that today I would like to share with you part of a letter sent to same-sex-marriage advocate, WA Liberal Senator Dean Smith, this week. Smith, as I wrote last weekend, is an openly gay politician who intends introducing a private member’s Bill into the Federal Liberal party room in a desperate attempt to bring same-sex marriage to our nation. Among the letters he received from Australians was this one. The letter begins: “Strangely enough, I have never written to a Member of Parliament before now. Frankly, I have never felt the need or the passion. However, I feel I now need to reach out to you and say ‘thank you’. I have been following all the recent news around same-sex marriage, your personal story and your fight to have a conscience vote finally take place in Australia. “Reading your personal story reminded me a little of my only son’s story with us. “My son makes me so proud of him on every level and especially
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for being courageous enough to live the life that he has been born to live, despite the adversity which surrounds him. “Like you, he has our love and full support, however, we know all too well that this sadly is not the case for many young people. “I am so thankful for people like you who have the courage to stand up, be heard and, let’s pray, finally make the change despite the opposition. “As a mother, my world will never be a fully happy one until the day when I know my son will be able to live his life equally. “I never want anything more for my son. “I am a mother desperately wanting this change to come about for other parents, whose child is not fully acknowledged or recognised equally.” What a beautiful letter. For me, it touches upon the very essence of why it is time for our nation to follow other parts of
the world and allow same-sex couples to marry. Put simply: This is about equality, the right of all Australians — no matter what their sexuality or religion — to marry. It has been a tough week for Smith. He said he shed tears as he read our STM piece last week in which he recounted his own journey of self-discovery. Not all correspondence to Smith this week was positive. Clearly, there are many Australians who still believe that the traditional definition of marriage — a union between a man and a woman — should be retained. At one stage during the week, Smith abandoned office protocol whereby calls coming into the building are answered by a staffer. Smith decided to answer the calls directly and confronted questions on his same-sex-marriage stance. Did this sway the opinions of those who called his office to protest? Some yes. Some no. But it didn’t matter. Smith wanted to show that he
was prepared to confront his critics, as well as his supporters. In an era where people everywhere seem to have lost confidence in, and respect for, their political leaders and politicians, Smith’s courage and integrity should be applauded. Smith has taken a huge political gamble in opposing the position of many of his colleagues, and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, that the same-sex-marriage issue should be decided by a plebiscite. It is Smith’s view that the issue should be decided by the elected members of the Federal Parliament. Smith is now in the biggest fight of his political career so far. “You are absolutely not alone,” the mother ended her letter. “There are so many people right behind you desperately wanting this change, however, like me who simply feel powerless to have a voice. “I will continue to follow you with great interest.” I think this letter might be tucked into the inside pocket of his suit jacket the day Smith confronts his colleagues with a new Bill on same-sex marriage.
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Tim Hammond and, right, the documents showing the submission by WA MPs and senators to the Productivity Commission’s GST inquiry.
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ANDS up if you’re a WA MP but don’t stand up for the State you purport to represent? Hands up if you’re a new MP in the Federal Labor caucus but don’t put fairness first if it means upsetting Eastern States members of your party’s leadership team? I hope all Federal Labor MPs and Senators from this State have their hand in the air. To a person they have let WA down by not ensuring their submission to the Productivity Commission had something substantive in it for WA. All deserve to be named and shamed for merely using their submission to score cheap political points, with little or nothing by way of solutions.
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The submission to the Productivity Inquiry into the GST on behalf of WA Federal Labor MPs and Senators, signed by all of them, was nothing short of pathetic. They didn’t make any recommendations for improving WA’s 34¢ in the dollar share of GST it collects. They barely admit that the current distribution methodology is a problem. Federal Labor’s aim was to pacify Queensland, because it will be a key battleground State at the next election, and the WA team seems to have
been hamstrung by that reality. By not using their influence with Eastern States colleagues, WA Federal Labor MPs and Senators have not only hung WA out to dry, but also their State colleagues recently elected to government. Labor Premier Mark McGowan is demanding a shift to per capita returns — a view shared by a number of other State premiers. So what does Federal WA Labor say about that? Nothing. While I’ve been critical of limited action in Federal Liberal circles to fix the GST situation, at least they’ve tried. Federal Labor isn’t even saying the right thing, much less doing it. Ambition isn’t in short supply when it comes to the
likes of Tim Hammond, a frontbencher in just his first term in Parliament. That’s quite a rapid rise — and not surprising given his pre-parliamentary career. Yet he is now exposed as weak in advocacy for WA. Voters should remember that. Matt Keogh, Anne Aly, Josh Wilson and Madeleine King are all new backbenchers, ambitious for promotion to be sure, but none of them showed anything resembling leadership to beef up this weak submission to the Productivity Commission. And I can tell you their State colleagues aren’t impressed. Talk about a missed opportunity for each of these individuals — a chance to
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make a name for themselves standing up on an issue West Australians care about. Not one of them broke ranks and submitted their own hard-hitting recommendation to the PC. Labor now has four senators from the west — and don’t forget constitutionally the Senate is supposed to be a States’ house with representatives putting State interests first. It’s hard to think of a more obvious issue on which senators should act in the best interests of this State. Louise Pratt, Patrick Dodson, Sue Lines and Glenn Sterle all let their home State down. Senator Dodson needs to be singled out for his inaction. As a former shadow parliamentary secretary to the
Opposition Leader, he has Shorten’s ear. Yet Dodson didn’t use that influence to help his home State improve its share of GST with a tough submission. Dodson is now the shadow assistant minister for indigenous affairs, yet the undercutting of revenue for WA courtesy of the unfair GST distribution reduces available funds in this State for indigenous projects connected to the mining boom. The submission by WA Labor has no answers to fix this situation. No wonder voters are losing faith in their political representatives. Peter van Onselen is The Sunday Times’ political analyst and a professor at UWA.
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VERY day there seems to be a new atrocity taking place in the world. A 24-hour news cycle means we can be exposed to these traumatic and tragic events as they are happening. No longer limited to the morning paper or the nightly news, images and discussions about world events can reach us immediately. Adults are mature enough to make decisions about what we expose ourselves to. If it gets too much, we can turn it off. But the children around us are also absorbing the same distressing content. My nine-year-old son recently told me he was half
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looking forward to becoming an adult. When I asked why, he said he didn’t want to meet any robbers or men that kill people. But in the same breath, also mentioned he was looking forward to becoming an adult so he could get a credit card, a car and a horse. Hopefully he has plans for his own house, as I’m not sure where the horse is going. His childhood logic showed it isn’t easy to see the world as a balanced place of
positive and negative when we’re exposed to so much tragedy. But this is the planet we live on, and always have. A planet with a history of traumatic events, but also a place of natural wonder and phenomenal human capabilities. Yes, we live in a world where people and natural forces can hurt and kill, but also a world where love can make a difference. Children need to know what is happening in the world as it’s essential for building resilience. If we cushion our kids too much now, they will be in for a rude shock when they enter adulthood. So how do we protect
them from the terrifying images and discussions surrounding crime, wars, terrorism and disasters, but also expose them to the realities of life? How do we inoculate them for what they will experience (or at least witness in the future) without distressing them? After all, adult life isn’t all Tinkerbell and Thomas the Tank Engine. For children, understanding how the world works better prepares them for the world they are going to live in. This starts with the way we communicate with them. Learning about what is going on in the world can often be a positive educational experience for
our kids and can promote realistic views of the world. But we have to be very mindful of the age that this exposure starts. Little ones don’t necessarily need to be exposed at all. But if they accidentally are, they may ask for more information about the plane crash, disaster or murder they heard about. They might not be able to comprehend the truth and feel frightened and worried. It’s hard to know how much truth to provide, but we need to be guided by the child’s questioning and not go into too much detail. Most children don’t want to know as much as adults and are quite satisfied with a
short, undetailed response. Other kids might want more, so keep providing small amounts of information until they’re content with the response. Regardless of the information released, they all need to feel safe in the present moment and assured that they’re OK. As adults, we need to be the ones to reassure. If, through our behaviour, we are exposing children to world events, then it is also adults that need to give our kids a healthy, balanced perspective. Marny Lishman is a Perth-based health and community psychologist
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Bedside manner: Andrew Clarke runs MIRA Clinic. Inset: Dr Clarke goes to work on House Rules 2014 runner-up Carole Bramston. Pictures: Daniel Wilkins
FRESH FACE ‘TOOL KIT’ WRINKLE RELAXERS (BOTOX)
What: An injection of a very small dose of bacteria. Why: “Expression lines” — wrinkles caused by movement. Where: Between the eyebrows. How much: $170. How often: Every three to four months. PETER MILNE ANDREW Clarke has served medical needs ranging from lifeor-death dashes to emergency departments, to optional cosmetic treatments for saggy skin, wrinkles and spots. He started in emergency medicine and, after time in research, now provides non-surgical cosmetic treatments from his West Perth practice, MIRA Clinic. As a cosmetic physician, he is serving a growing demand. Australia’s annual spend on non-surgical cosmetic treatments topped $1 billion for the first time in 2015, according to the Cosmetic Physicians College of Australasia. Dr Clarke said that in his eight
years of practice as a cosmetic physician, demand had grown enormously and the profession had achieved more naturallooking results. He said patients found it difficult to justify or afford major cosmetic surgery. Non-surgical cosmetic treatments cost significantly less. “Many people refer to it as life maintenance,” he said. “It’s not something you go and do a once-off and expect a makeover that requires no maintenance. They do sequential treatments over a period of time.” Dr Clarke said his patients’ primary motivation was not to look younger, but fresher. “People are less worried about
the age number that they appear to be, and they are more worried about not looking tired,” he said. Men usually want forehead wrinkles or frown lines fixed. Women make up more than 90 per cent of his patients, and their most common concern is looking angry or tired when they are not, Dr Clarke said. Carole Bramston, a House Rules runner-up in 2014, started anti-wrinkle treatment between the eyes when she thought the rigours of renovation were harming her appearance. She told her husband, Russell, she had facials. “He never knew until New Idea brought it out . . . he’s reading the magazine and said, ‘Do you get Botox?’”
Mrs Bramston, now a patient of Dr Clarke, is happy with the results and has continued the anti-wrinkle treatments, adding a thread lift and some filler as well. Dr Clarke said that the nonsurgical treatments were still medical procedures and a consultation with a doctor was required. He said side effects from nonsurgical procedures were possible, but generally would be less severe than those from surgical procedures. Dr Clarke didn’t want anyone to feel pressured to have treatments if, as procedures became more common, people saw their contemporaries looking younger.
DERMAL FILLERS
What: An injection of gel. Why: Wrinkles not caused by movement. Where: Many areas, especially lips. How much: Starts at $299 for a 0.5ml syringe. How often: Every six months to a few years.
THREADS
What: A thin, dissolving thread inserted under the skin to lift up tissue. Why: Sagginess. Where: Jowls. How much: $2500 for both sides. How often: Every couple of years.
LASERS
What: Focused energy at the right wavelength. Why: Pigment marks, blood vessels and wrinkles. Where: All over the face. How much: Starts at $150, $500 for a full face. How often: Can last many years.
Follow time-tested plan to healthy finance Hi Scott, I’ve just turned 28, and after reading your book I came to the realisation that my savings have been sitting in my bank account for several years doing nothing. I have $10,000 I could invest. I am looking to invest $5000 in AFIC and $5000 in Argo. Is this a good idea? And if I continue to add to them over time, is that better than adding the money to super? Hi Rick, If you’ve read my book, you’ll see that I set out a time-tested plan: do a monthly date night (step 1), set up your buckets (step 2), domino your debts (step 3), then start saving a 20 per cent deposit for a home (step 4). Step 4 is where you’re up to at the moment. So right now you have $10,000 sitting in a bank account. I want you to give that account a nickname;
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investments, but everything at the right time. Now, after you buy your home, you’re on to step 5, where you boost your pre-tax super contributions from the standard 9.5 per cent to 15 per cent (or up to the annual cap of $25,000). If you can do that before you’re 35, your retirement will be soupy.
Overwhelmed widow name it “my house deposit”. I know it sounds like I’m making you suck pea and ham soup, but make no mistake, the act of naming something is powerful. Naming it gives you clarity and purpose. If you’ve been Barefoot for a while, you’ll know that I love AFIC and Argo as
Hi Scott, It is with a heavy heart that I write for advice. Last week, my best mate of many years suddenly decided to end his life, leaving behind a young wife and two primary school-aged kids. He also left behind a financial mess. I have told his wife to call and get everything “frozen” while she comes to grips with it all, but is there
any other advice you can give her? Hi David, What a heartbreakingly sad situation. I’m so sorry for your loss. The admin that’s required after someone dies can be overwhelming, especially if you’re grieving. However, the first thing she should do is contact her husband’s super fund. The final payout is called a death benefit, and it’s a combination of his final balance and any insurance held at the time of his death. To get the ball rolling, she’ll need his death certificate (or, if that’s not yet available, the interim death certificate), his passport, his driver’s licence (or birth certificate), a copy of his will (if there is one), and letters of administration (if applicable). Generally, banks and other
financial institutions will need a death certificate before they can start the process of settling accounts. From experience, she (understandably) won’t be in any state to make rational financial decisions for at least a few months. What she needs is someone who can help her get a clearer picture of her financial situation. And that’s the job of a best mate. Note to the reader: I’ve offered to help David and his best mate’s wife through this process.
Shaky marriage Hi Scott, We have $300,000 in the bank, and owe $42,000 on our mortgage. We have two kids (six and seven) but our marriage is shaky. If it fails, I want to keep the
family home with my husband, and I would move, then we would split time with the kids equally. We are considering buying a block a one-minute walk away from the family home, and building there. If our marriage works out, the home would be an investment. If not, it would be my home, because being close would be important for me. I am worried that if we do not buy now, we might not be able to afford to do so later. Hi Sally, This is a terrible idea. After all, if you actually separate — and I think you know you’re going to — who’s to say he’ll follow the plan? My advice is to sort your relationship out first — before you commit to this purchase. Your best investment right now is relationship counselling.
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Beyond superannuation THE superannuation landscape changed on July 1 — the amount you can contribute has been reduced, as well as the amount you can hold in the tax-free pension area when you retire. What has not changed is the necessity to provide for your own retirement. Consequently the focus now will be how to build wealth outside the superannuation system. One product springs to mind: insurance bonds. I must confess, when I write about them, I feel like one of those people demonstrating a whiz-bang gadget at the shopping centre. These bonds have such a unique range of features that it is hard to know where to start. Just to refresh your memory, they are a tax-paid investment, with the bond fund paying tax of up to 30 per cent on your behalf. All money invested in them comes from after-tax dollars, but there is no
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limit on the amount you can invest and your money is accessible at any time. Because the earnings accrue within the fund there is no assessable income to declare on your tax return each year, and if you hold them for 10 years or more all proceeds can be redeemed tax-free. If the bond is redeemed early the proceeds are taxable as normal income but the holder is entitled to a rebate of 30 per cent, which effectively makes the bonds almost taxfree for most investors. Suppose an investor earns $65,000 a year and cashes in a bond for $50,000, which cost them $40,000. The tax on the $10,000 profit will be $3250, but the rebate will be $3000 so
ASK THE EXPERT Q A I have been bequeathed $20,000 and do not know how best to invest it. I am 68, female, retired, but work the odd day a month. My super account is still open with a balance of $8000, I get the full age pension and own my own home worth $450,000. I have no savings or funeral
the holder will have just $250 tax to pay. They also offer significant capital gains tax advantages. CASE STUDY Peter and Joan are a highincome couple — they invest $200,000 in an investment bond in Peter’s name where earnings will be taxed at just 30 per cent. They believe the share market is at a low point so ask for the entire investment to be placed in the Australian shares
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bonds. What do you suggest? The only purpose of super is to save tax and, as you are not paying tax, I see no point in adding the bequest to your super. It would make sense to withdraw the balance in super to save fees. This will
option. Three years later the market has surged and they decide to take some profits. All they have to do is make a free switch from the share-based option to the more conservative cash option. No CGT is payable. Four years later they have a major change in their circumstances and decide to redeem the bond to renovate their home as Joan has stopped work to have a baby. Before the bond is cashed in, Peter trans-
not affect your pension, so there is no need to tie up money in funeral bonds unless you are concerned that your estate or your family will be unable to pay for your funeral. Look for a bank account that pays a reasonable rate of interest, and keep enough funds at call account for expenses. fers it to Joan free of CGT — the result is that the entire proceeds are tax-free, as Joan earns no income in that year. Investment bonds are especially good for estate planning as they sit outside the will and cannot be challenged. Think about Harry, aged 80, a wealthy retiree now happily re-married after a nasty divorce, who wants to leave a range of bequests to children of both marriages. He is aware
that there is acrimony between some family members and it is extremely important to him that his assets on death be split in the way he wishes, and not eroded by family legal battles. He invests $250,000 in his own name in each of five separate investment bonds, naming each of the five children as the beneficiary of one bond upon his death. Because an investment bond is technically a life policy the distribution of the proceeds cannot be challenged. These case studies only scratch the surface. The bonds have many more unique, invaluable applications, but like all investment products they are not suitable for everybody, and expert advice should be taken.
Noel Whittaker is the author of Making Money Made Simple. His advice is general in nature and readers should seek their own professional advice before making financial decisions.
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SPECULATIVE BUY De Grey (DEG) $0.041 DEG’s announcement to acquire the Indee Gold Project is a strategic decision to gain size and potentially fast-track its development options. The combined resource base now stands at one million ounces. A scoping study is due in late Q3 or early Q4 and should include the recently drilled Mallina gold deposit which we estimate could add another 60,000 to 90,000oz. We maintain our speculative buy recommendation. ACCUMULATE Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC) $31.40 WBC is trading at the biggest discount to fair value compared to the other major banks and remains our preferred exposure on valuation grounds. WBC possesses marginally better earnings growth prospects than the other banks. WBC is expected to be well supported with its fully franked dividend of just under 6 per cent, and the stock trading under our fair value of $35.00. REDUCE GWA Group (GWA) $3.23 GWA is highly exposed to residential building cycles being a manufacturer and distributor of building and household fittings. We believe that the market is underestimating the impact of the continued slowdown in Australian building approvals, which is likely to put at risk management’s previous guidance that earnings in the second half would be at or slightly ahead of first half profits.
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BUY BT Investment Management (BTT) $11.18 BTT appears to be on track to deliver continued funds growth from its Australian and UK JO Hambro divisions. Growth in funds inflow should fuel double-digit earnings increase. Global markets experienced a strong half which may assist positive investor sentiment for the JO Hambro business. Potential key catalysts for BTT include robust net in-flow, unwinding of foreign exchange impact and normalisation of performance fees after some volatility. HOLD CYBG (CYB) $4.71 CYBG was formed from a spin-off of NAB’s UK arm. The UK economy and business confidence appear to be weakening and Brexit negotiations are about to begin. CYB has reduced costs and guided that it will continue to manage cost going forward. This should assist overall earnings. Bad debts have improved slightly as unemployment and interest rates in the UK are expected to remain at current levels. HOLD Flight Centre (FLT) $44.17 FLT has announced it expects to achieve the top end of its earnings guidance and above consensus. The better result is underpinned by strong trading in North America and improved sales volumes in Australia and NZ. There has also been an easing in international airfare discounting. Management is introducing a business transformation strategy intending to reduce costs and assist revenue.
UNDERWEIGHT Coca-Cola Amatil (CCL) $8.82 CCL has confirmed it has lost the Domino’s Pizza supply contract. By itself, the contract loss is manageable, but given the very strong Domino’s brand, we think that it may provide validation to the Pepsi-Schweppes portfolio such that smaller operators are also inclined to make the switch. At a minimum, we believe that quick service restaurants’ bargaining position with CCL will have improved . OVERWEIGHT IDP Education (IEL) $5.15 IEL’s high-quality businesses are well positioned in key international education segments. We forecast strong structural tailwinds, driven by China’s transition to a high-income economy, and IEL’s above-industry growth to continue. A low and falling dollar further increases Australia’s attractiveness as an education destination. We see a supportive regulatory environment for IEL and the stock is trading at an attractive valuation. OVERWEIGHT MNF Group (MNF) $4.84 MNF is a capital-light, high-growth software company (perceived as a telco) with a strong track record. MNF built its own Voice over IP network domestically and has since expanded globally. The key area of differentiation is the software and managed “unified comms as a service” that MNF develops and sells to telcos and business customers. We see MNF as a high-growth small cap with good earnings visibility.
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Tax office rules on employer super contribution
S there anyone an employee can approach if they know their employer is not paying their super into a fund? The young person is on a farm, so probably doesn’t have a union representative he can consult. The Australian Taxation Office has a step-by-step guide on this exact issue on its website at www.ato.gov.au/ Individuals/Super/ Unpaid -super-from-your-employer Steps include checking that you are eligible for superannuation in the first instance, as you need to be paid more than $450 in a calendar month.
Industry experts Tammy Tansley and Jaine Edge answer your HR questions The website allows you to calculate how much your employer should be contributing. And finally, if you have gone through all the steps, it allows you to report your employer. The tax office will then follow up with your employer and take action as necessary. I am getting married next year and want to cash out my long-service leave to
pay for the honeymoon. Can I do so? Yes, you and your employer can agree to cash out your long-service leave so long as you have completed the necessary service and sufficient leave has accrued. The agreement between you and your employer must be in writing, and you must receive an adequate benefit. That is, you can’t receive less than what you would
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HR help for small business have done had you taken the leave. So, as an example, you could choose to ask for four weeks of your long-service leave to be cashed out, and you’d receive four weeks in lieu. What maternity leave provisions do businesses provide these days? The National Employment Standards specify what
minimum entitlements employers must provide in terms of parental leave for all employees. Additional paid parental leave is also becoming more common and is certainly a highly valued employee benefit. Equally important, however, is how you support your employee during the period leading up to the parental leave, through their leave and on their return to work. This doesn’t need to be onerous or expensive — it’s more about being thoughtful and considerate. Have well-thought-out policies on parental leave and flexible working policies that
provide a framework and the freedom to work within that framework, depending on the individual needs of the employee and their team. It’s often the very smallest of considerations that make the most amount of difference to new parents, particularly when transitioning back to work on either a full-time or part-time basis. Often, employers find that a bit of compassion and understanding is repaid in spades once life returns to a more even keel for the employee.
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HEALTHIER TURKEY CHILLI CON CARNE
ARTICHOKE, CHICKEN AND FREEKEH ‘RISOTTO’
serves 4 / prep 15min / cook 45min 21⁄2 cups chicken stock 1 ⁄4 cup lemon juice 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves, plus extra to serve 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 chicken breast fillets 1 brown onion, sliced 2 garlic cloves, crushed 2 cups roasted cracked freekeh 1 ⁄3 cup dry white wine 230g jar marinated artichokes, drained
225g jar marinated antipasto, drained, chopped 60g baby rocket 1 ⁄3 cup fine-grated parmesan, plus extra to serve
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browned and just cooked through. Transfer to a plate. Cover to keep warm. Add onion to pan. Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until softened. Add garlic and freekeh. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Add wine. Simmer for 1 minute or until reduced by half. Reduce heat to medium-low. Add 1⁄3 cup stock mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until liquid is absorbed. Continue adding stock, in batches, stirring
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constantly, until liquid is absorbed after each addition and freekeh is just tender (this will take about 20 to 25 minutes). Slice chicken. Add to freekeh mixture with artichoke, antipasto, rocket and parmesan. Season with salt and pepper. Stir to combine. Serve topped with extra thyme and parmesan.
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SIMPLE, SENSATIONAL STEAK DIANE DINNER BOWL serves 4 / prep 20min / cook 45min 4 desiree potatoes, thickly sliced 1 ⁄4 cup extra virgin olive oil 275g cherry truss tomatoes 400g Swiss brown mushrooms, halved 1 ⁄2 bunch silverbeet, trimmed 600g beef rump steak 1 ⁄3 cup brandy 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 ⁄4 cup Worcestershire sauce 2 tsp Dijon mustard 300ml tub light thickened cream for cooking 200g green beans, trimmed, halved lengthways 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
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wilted. Transfer to a bowl. Cover to keep warm. Rub remaining oil over steak. Heat pan over medium-high heat. Add steak. Cook for 3 minutes each side for medium, or until cooked to your liking. Transfer to a plate. Cover loosely with foil. Stand for 5 minutest. Slice. Meanwhile, add brandy to pan. Bring to the boil. Add garlic, Worcestershire sauce, mustard and cream. Return to the boil. Add any juices from mushroom or steak.
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1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1 red capsicum, de-seeded, finely chopped 1 red onion, finely chopped, plus extra to serve 1 long fresh green chilli, chopped, plus extra to serve 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 500g turkey mince 2 tbsp tomato paste 400g can finely chopped tomatoes 375ml (1½ cups) salt-reduced chicken stock or water 1 tbsp dried oregano 3 tsp ground cumin 2 tsp smoked paprika 1 cinnamon stick 400g can black beans, rinsed, drained Steamed brown rice, to serve White corn chips, to serve Greek-style yoghurt, to serve Avocado, sliced, to serve Fresh coriander sprigs, to serve
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Born: December 19 Where: Fiona Stanley Hospital Weight: 1.05kg Temperance is the third great-grandchild of Kath Haines of Bunbury (pictured). Little Temperance was born 12 weeks early due to her mother’s health concerns. After delivery she spent time in King Edward Memorial Hospital and Joondalup special care nurseries. She finally went home to mum Melissa and dad Shane in early March. She is also the third grandchild for Phillip and Margaret Hetherington, of Narrogin.
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Tan the in-form man JULIO SANTARELLI BEAUFINE STAKES APPRENTICE Randy Tan scored the biggest win of his career when he guided It’s It to victory in the $100,000 Listed Beaufine Stakes (1000m) at Belmont yesterday. Sent straight to the front by Tan, It’s It held that position throughout and although he
was under siege over the concluding stages, he held on to score a determined win. First Among Equals, the $2.10 favourite, loomed as the danger to It’s It ($4.90) when he made a run on the inside, but with top weight of 61kg he fell a nose short. Lockroy ($27.30) ran a creditable third after racing wide.
metropolitan winners for the 2016-17 season and consolidates second position in the apprentices’ premiership. Tan said winning his first Listed race was a major confidence boost. “It feels really good but I have to thank trainer Sharon Miller and the owners for giving me the opportunity,” Tan said.
It’s It capped a memorable day for the Malaysian-born Tan, who posted a double after earlier guiding Profit Street to victory for Bunbury co-trainers Peter and Matt Giadresco. Since arriving and setting up base in Western Australia a few years ago, Tan has built a reputation as one of the State’s most talented young riders. Yesterday’s tally gave him 27
“It’s a pretty big achievement, but the horse goes all right and likes to race out in front. “It was pretty close at the end, but I thought he got there.” It’s It, who yesterday boosted his record to eight wins and 12 placings from 31 starts, is now the winner of $320,815 in stakes.
WHAT SANTA SAW
with Julio Santarelli
STEWARDS
An adjourned inquiry into race eight will continue next week.
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WA Derby winner Gatting cast aside last week’s horror run in the Aquanita Stakes (2000m) when he circled the field from last, getting his campaign back on track ahead of next Saturday’s Listed Belmont Classic (2200m) and giving trainer Darren McAuliffe the first leg of a double after By Decree snuck along the fence. Mizlecki might have been unfairly maligned after getting the job done impressively on debut in May, but the Lope De Vega filly showed why she could develop into a handy three-year-old for Fred Kersley when she ran behind the speed and worked home strongly to chase down the leaders. The 2kg claim of Randy Tan and the addition of winkers proved a winning move for Peter and Matt Giadresco’s Profit Street, the win earning him a shot at the upcoming Listed Bolton Sprint (1200m).
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Matthieu Autier had his critics last week, but he responded by booting home a double with stablemates, Gatting and By Decree. The day only got better for Randy Tan after he combined with Profit Street. The apprentice landed his first feature race success when leading on It’s It in the listed Beaufine Stakes (1000m).
WIN OF THE DAY
It’s It went out in front and although he was out on his feet close to the line, they couldn’t catch him, the Sharon Miller-trained gelding posting the best win of his 31-start career.
RIDE OF THE DAY
With Cognac and Salubrious out in front, William Pike was perfectly poised behind the good speed on Mizlecki.
WHAT THE WINNERS SAID
Matthieu Autier (Gatting): He felt better than last week. Karen Kersley (Mizlecki): She had a good run. Matt Giadresco (Profit Street): He’s ready to take on stakes races. Rob Harvey (A Knight Of Pro): He’s always shown ability. Jason Pateman (Atlanta Blue): He hit the line nice. Darren McAuliffe (By Decree): On soft ground she finds a length. Randy Tan (It’s It): It’s a big achievement. Vaughn Sigley (Friaresque): He’s got ability.
FASTEST 600M
Pretentious Chant ran 33.38sec. in the Beaufine Stakes.
HARD LUCK STORY
Messiah was blocked for the length of the straight, Showy Chloe had to be restrained at the 100m.
BELOW EXPECTATIONS
$2.70 favourite, Bold Success ran on for fourth, but the bird had flown and he had too much ground to recover from near last.
HORSES TO FOLLOW
Vaughn Sigley’s team is on fire and one of the leading charges is Friaresque who backed up successfully when he finished powerfully from midfield. A Knight Of Pro might be a bit better than his starting price of $15 suggested. He won with authority after tracking the leader into the straight for jockey Jason Brown. ††
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Kersley praises Pike for top ride JOHN ELSEGOOD BELMONT WILLIAM Pike’s ability in the saddle and a 4.5kg weight advantage for Mizlecki over Salubrious and Cognac made all the difference in yesterday’s Get the Tabtouch Plate (1200m) at Belmont Park. That was trainer Fred Kersley’s conclusion after Mizlecki won her second race from four starts. Yesterday Pike was content to slot in behind the two topweights, then set out after them at the 300m mark. It was only in the concluding stages that Salubrious (Jarrad Noske) and pacemaker Cognac (Craig Staples) surrendered to her after a dogged duel in the straight. Mizlecki’s win prevented Salubrious from completing a hat-trick while Cognac had been aiming for four straight wins. At her previous start, Mizlecki finished fourth to Cognac after leading in that race. Stewards had questioned Pike on that decision and the top jockey replied that as the filly had started well he rolled forward, crossing to lead. “Barrier draws are wonderful things,” was Pike’s reference to Mizlecki drawing the coveted barrier three in her clash with the two in-form gallopers. While Pike again had Mizlecki best away, he was then content to yield to Cognac and Salubrious. “But it was still hard to catch the two leaders who are both under-rated horses,” Pike said. Randy Tan gave a polished display on Profit Street, only leaving the rails in the home straight to win narrowly in a driving finish from Helms Gate (Glenn Smith) and Baraki Beats (Ryan Hill). The five-year-old now has an impressive eight wins and seven placings from 19 starts. Co-trainer Matt Giadresco said the gelding was now ready for stakes races and the HG Bolton Stakes would probably be his next assignment. A Knight Of Pro ended a lean spell for Jason Brown with a convincing victory in the fourth race over 1200m. The three-year-old chestnut, trained by Robert and Todd Harvey, simply ran away from his nearest opponents, More Aces and High Conviction, the latter hitting a flat spot in the home straight before snatching third late in the race. Troy Turner made it consecutive victories on promising galloper Friaresque when he was the best of the late “three chargers” in the last race of the day over 1400m. Racing midfield, Turner had Pike, on Presentatie, in his sights and those two slugged out the finish with Friaresque pulling away late to record a half-length victory. Royal Missile ( Joe Azzopardi) finished on to be a close third. Trainer Vaughn Sigley said Friaresque still had a lot to learn. “He is still not sure how to hit the line but he has ability,” Sigley said. †
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RACING Siege of Sydney sparkle CHRIS BARCLAY ROSEHILL TALTENTED colt Siege Of Quebec remains unbeaten after resisting a challenge by fellow rising star Calculated at Rosehill and taking another step towards Group 1 features in the spring. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained son of Fastnet Rock justified his $1.2 million price tag yesterday when he won his Sydney debut comfortably after being placed under duress. Hugh Bowman looked to have seized the initiative on the Chris Waller-trained Calculated but Siege Of Quebec – a first-up winner at Newcastle last month – rallied to score the two-year-old handicap (1400m) by half a length. Siege Of Quebec will now prepare for the Group 3 Ming Dynasty at Randwick on August 26, a stepping stone to the Group 1 Golden Rose a month later. “He looked under a bit of pressure at the top of the straight but when he’s challenged he knows exactly what to do,” said Bott after the $2.40 favourite surged to the line. “He’s such a naturally talented horse. There’s a lot of raw ability there at the moment and he’s still working out what it’s all about.” Tommy Berry, a stand in for the suspended Brenton Avdulla, agreed after an energy-sapping ride. “He felt like he was going half-paced the whole way round. I had to keep his mind on the job. “I hope he switches on more over a mile because I’m not fit enough to do what I did then over 1200,” he said. “It’s hard to say how good he is because he just does what he has to. He pulled up like he hadn’t gone around. That’s a good sign.” Berry was always confident Siege Of Quebec would respond when Calculated ($2.70) laid down the gauntlet.
Winning return: Luke Nolen sends the odds-on favourite Supido past Daytona Grey to win yesterday’s Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield. Picture: Getty
Supido shows class with Group victory MATHEW TOOGOOD SIR JOHN MONASH STAKES SUPIDO has shown his class in his return to racing to land an important Group race win in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield. The Mick Kent-trained sprinter has been placed at Group 1 and Group 2 level but a stakes win had eluded him until yersterday’s Group 3 1100m weight-for-age sprint. The five-year-old entire was sent out the $1.70 favourite in his return from a spell and after settling back in the eight-horse
field under Luke Nolen he angled into the clear in the straight before sprinting over the top of his rivals. “He’s got a really good turn of foot,” Kent said. “I said to Luke, ‘Don’t panic. Just be patient and try to give him some clear air’. “It’s good to get that win out of the way because it’s his first stakes win. He’s been Group 1 and Group 2 placed and I was dying to get him a stakes win. “He’s come back really well this time. It’s the happiest I’ve been with him for a while.” Supido was back in the ruck
as Lord Of The Sky led the field into the home straight but Nolen was able to get the favourite into the clear to make his winning run. Adelaide visitor Daytona Grey ($20) issued a challenge on the inside and finished three-quarters of a length away in second while Murt The Flirt ($9) was another neck away in third. Supido, which had not raced since he finished down the track in the Group 1 Galaxy in Sydney in March, took his record to seven wins from 13 starts. Kent plans to press on to the
Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield in two weeks before deciding his next move for the stallion prospect. Trying to notch a Group 1 win will be high on the agenda for the horse that finished third in last year’s Group 1 Goodwood. “I think he’s a Group 1 horse,” Kent said. “He’s had a few issues. He gets sore feet and hard ground niggles him a bit. “But he’s had a nice break and has come back really well.” Meanwhile, apprentice Beau Mertens kept his nose in
front in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership after maintaining a perfect record aboard the Ciaron Maher-trained Schism. Mertens remains unbeaten on the mare after guiding her to an all-the-way win in yesterday’s OTI Racing Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield in the final race of the day. It put Mertens back in front by one win in the Melbourne premiership with three meetings remaining after rival Craig Williams had drawn level with a winning double earlier in the program aboard Orient Line and Moonlites Choice.
Winning debut puts spring in the step for I Did It Again MATHEW TOOGOOD CAULFIELD TRAINER Greg Eurell will aim high in the spring with I Did It Again after the gelding made an impressive start to his racing career at Caulfield yesterday. I Did It Again was well supported in early markets for the John & Denise Cobcroft Handicap (1200m) yesterday and the two-year-old lived up to the hype with a strong debut win. I Did It Again bounced and raced on the speed on the rail, holding $3-favourite Bandipur one off the fence as Bandipur narrowly led to the turn.
Nikita Beriman
With Nikita Beriman in the saddle, I Did It Again levelled up to Bandipur at the 200m and then edged clear to beat him by 11⁄4 lengths, with another three-quarters of a length to Aljawzaa ($5) third.
Eurell bred I Did It Again, a gelding by Niconni out of Not That Innocent, and the rising three-year-old is raced by the trainer’s wife, Danielle. The Cox Plate-winning trainer is looking to target I Did It Again at the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) in October. Eurell plans to get a guide on that aspiration when he brings the gelding back from a freshen-up for races early in the spring. “It’s a big stepping stone to be a spring horse but they’ve got to start somewhere and he’s open to improvement from today,” he said. “There’s a couple of nice races on the way.”
Smart move: Nikita Beriman guides I Did It Again to victory at Caulfield yesterday. Pictures: Getty
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Being a #NSWBlues supporter is like setting 3 nights a year aside, to get kicked in the balls. #Origin2017 @leewoodbridge suffers another NSW Origin loss.
I failed my wife, my family, my friends.” AFL football operations boss Simon Lethlean resigns after an inappropriate workplace relationship.
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My love affair with Subi Karl Langdon
on a Tuesday for State of Origin as WA battled the Vics. I remember one of the best marks I have ever seen live, when Kevin Taylor stood vertical on an opponent’s shoulders in 1983. Gary Buckenara kicked seven goals in the same game as WA took the points as a packed house cheered with pride.
PUNTERS PAL ROBBOO
Only a couple of years later I got my chance to live out a childhood dream and play on the hallowed turf, in Subiaco’s 1986 grand final victory over East Fremantle, in only my fourth league game. We played East Fremantle who were littered with stars such as Brian Peake, Peter Wilson, Darren Bennett and Paul Harding, just to mention a few, and it ended in a victory I will never forget. It was so special for many of my teammates who had toiled away for years and after the disappointment of losing in 1985.
Neil and Brian Taylor, Dwayne and Phil Lamb, Laurie Keene and Phil Scott, Clinton Brown and Greg Wilkinson were veteran players in the team and the flag meant a lot to them. But it was September 6, 1992, when I truly fell in love with Subiaco with West Coast playing Hawthorn in the first elimination final on the way to winning the WA club’s first premiership. It was the day John Worsfold flattened Dermott Brereton and I kicked a goal from the right forward pocket and nearly 25 years later, I
Karl Langdon can be heard on 6PR's Sportsday weeknights from 6pm.
PETER CARTER’S 23 YEARS OF DERBIES QUIZ EASY (2.5 points each)
CHALLENGING (5 points each)
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The less said about my multi last week the better. Looking at today’s western derby and all the money has come for West Coast. By Friday they’d been crunched to $1.38 (in from $1.57) and their line drifted from 10.5 points to 18.5 points.
How many derbies did the Eagles win before the Dockers won their first: (A) 7; (B) 8; (C) 9; (D) 10?
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Which Eagle “dropped the F bomb” during his Ross Glendinning Medal acceptance speech?
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Which team has won most Western Derbies – Fremantle or West Coast?
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Freo got me the cash last week when I backed them as underdogs, but I’m reluctant to do the same today. I’m excited about this weekend’s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. Can you make a case for Aussies Jason Day ($17) and Adam Scott ($26)?
BEN
They’re perennial contenders but I expect Irish Open winner Jon Rahm to be right in the mix come Sunday. I’ll have 20 each way (top five) on the Spaniard at $16. The remaining $10 goes on Jeremy McGovern to win his first Ross Glendinning Medal, which will return $280.
CHRIS
I’ll have $5 each way on Jordan Spieth ($11), Rickie Fowler ($19) and Hideki Matsuyama ($21) to win or place top-five at The Open. With my remaining funds, I’ll have two $10 stabs at Andrew Gaff ($8) and Elliot Yeo ($11) to take home today’s Glendinning Medal.
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KARL'S SUNDAY ROAST To Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor. Why the unacceptable foul language at their first press conference? McGregor’s suit said it all about the Irishman. KARL'S SUNDAY TOAST To Hawthorn footballer Luke Hodge who yesterday played his 300th AFL game in the week he announced he will hang up his boots at the end of the season. The triple ton is a magnificent feat. Only the very best make it that far.
still don’t know how it went through. Running towards the boundary and a packed hill littered with people holding beer snakes, I put the ball on to the outside of the left boot and prayed and it boomeranged through. I couldn’t believe it as I charged back to half forward punching the air and the crowd went wild. It was why you played and why fans came to watch and it all happened at Subiaco Oval.
And who was Dockers coach when the ice was finally broken?
Who is the only player to kick 10 goals in a Western Derby?
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How many goals did Dockers cult figure Clivee Waterhouse, pictured, kickk in the “Demolition Derby”, in n Round 21, 2000: (A) 6; (B) B) 7; (C) 8; (D) 9?
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Who was Eagles coach for their record-breaking, 117-point derby win?
Who won the inaugural Glendinning Medal,, awarded in Round 4, 2001? Who is the only player to t win four Glendinning medals?
Who kicked the first of the t 1140 goals scored in 45 derbies?
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And who kicked five goals in the th inaugural derby, in Round Roun 7, 1995?
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Whic two men have Which each coached nine derby wins?
And what was Fremantle’s le’s winning margin in this game?
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Who has polled most total Brownlow Medal votes in western derbies: (A) Paul Hasleby; (B) Chris Judd; (C) Ch Daniel Kerr; (D) Dan Aaron Sandilands? S
Who won the Ross Glendinning ndinning Medal in Western Derby XLV earlier ier this year?
Which Docker narrowlyy missed winning the game for his is team when his after-the-siren shot hitt the padding on the right-hand goalpost? t?
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In what year did Fremantle mantle and West Coast enter their ir round 20 derby placed first and second ond on the AFL ladder: (A) 2003; (B) 2006; 6; (C) 2012; (D) 2015? (D) ((D D)
Which Docker did Whic NOT play his 200th AFL game in a derby: (A) Michael Johnson; (B) David John Mundy; (C) Matthew Pavlich; M Aaron Sandilands? Sandilan
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Which Eagle did NOT play his 200th AFL game in a derby: (A) Chris Lewis; (B) Chris Mainwaring; (C) Peter Matera; (D) Matt Priddis?
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Who kicked 0.5 for the Dockers, the five behinds equating to the Dockers’ winning margin in the Round 6, 2006, derby? (7pts)
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Eleven players have represented both clubs, but who are the only two to play in winning derbies for both? (8pts)
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Name the four players (two from each side) suspended in the fiery derby, in Round 21, 2000. (10pts)
SCORE 80-100: You’ve kicked a goal after the siren to win your team the game. 60-79: You’ve taken a “Leo Barry” match-saving mark. 40-59: You’ve forced a bounce in the centre of the ground, stopping a late forward surge. 20-39: You’ve conceded a free kick with your team five points up with a minute to play. 0-19: You’ve kicked across your defensive goal, straight to an opponent with your team five points up with 15 seconds to play. QUIZ ANSWERS
1. West Coast (25-20); 2. (C) 9; 3. Damian Drum (round 16, 1999); 4. Scott Cummings (R6, 2000); 5. (B) 7; 6. One point; 7. Josh Kennedy; 8. Hayden Ballantyne (R18, 2011); 9. Matthew Pavlich (61, from 34 games); 10. (D) 2015; 11. Ken Judge (R6, 2000); 12. Michael Braun (R3, 2007); 13. Drew Banfield; 14. Paul Haselby (2002, 2003, 2004, 2009); 15. Peter Miller; 16. Brett Heady; 17. Mick Malthouse, John Worsfold; 18. (C) Kerr (15, from 17 games); 19. (A) Michael Johnson (versus Richmond); 20. (C) Peter Matera (versus Carlton); 21. Paul Medhurst; 22. Trent Carroll, Brendon Fewster; 23. 7. Dale Kickett (nine matches); Brad Dodd, Michael Gardiner and Phil Read (each two matches).
PERTH Stadium might be the new home of footy, but Subiaco will always be the birth place of State of Origin. Today’s 46th western derby kicks off a two-month farewell to the grand old dame of footy and the game’s stakeholders – fans, players, administrators, the media – will all have their own take on what Domain Stadium means. For this columnist, there are three strong memories and countless others, the first in the early 1980s when I was a boarder at Guildford Grammar School and it was a tradition to go to the ground
History awaits if Giants draw a three-peat AFTER becoming the first VFL-AFL team in 96 years to draw successive games, against Geelong and Hawthorn, GWS still has ample time to achieve a unique piece of history in 2017. No team has drawn three games in the one AFL-VFL season (it’s happened twice in the WAFL: East Perth in 1937, and West Perth in 1960). And if the Giants were to draw with the Cats in round 23, it
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would be the first time in the league’s 121 years that two sides have tied with each other twice in the one season. Revisiting back-to-back drawn games, Carlton tied with Fitzroy and South Melbourne in rounds four and five, 1921, a season with a
record five draws including four in the first five rounds. The Blues also began 1911 with draws against Essendon and South, before a two-point loss in round three. Amazingly, the Blues and Dons finished all-square in both April 1911 and April 2011, 13 days short of exactly 100 years. There have been five rounds featuring two draws, most recently round seven, 1977. One of these games was Essendon-Richmond at
Waverley, notable for Tim Watson’s debut aged just 15 years and 305 days, the fourth-youngest player ever. All up, there have been 156 draws with eight in finals (excluding the 1994 North Melbourne-Hawthorn and 2007 Collingwood-West Coast games where extra time was played after scores were level at full-time). Of the eight drawn finals, the 2010 Magpies-Saints and 1977 Kangaroos-Magpies tied title
deciders are part of footy folklore, as is the 1948 drawn grand final between Melbourne and Essendon. The Bombers finished 3.5 games and 12.3 per cent clear of the second-placed Demons in 1948, before winning the second semifinal by 36 points. Alas, the Dons had the goalkicking yips when they met the Dees in the big one, the game ending all square at 7.27 (69) to 10.9 (69). This is one of only two draws where
one side scored three less goals (and 18 more behinds) than the other. Needless to say, Melbourne was untroubled to win the grand final replay by 39 points. The MCG has seen 28 draws in 2776 games, to just the one in 538 games at Subiaco Oval. That was round 11, 2003, when Ashley Sampi’s goal after the siren tied the scores at 19.10 (124) apiece between West Coast and Western Bulldogs.
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Frenchman salutes on Bastille Day SAM EDMUND FOIX FABIO Aru has withstood a Chris Froome barrage to retain the yellow jersey as a Frenchman saluted on Bastille Day. Warren Barguil beat Alberto Contador, Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa in a four-man sprint into Foix to delight the locals at the end of a thrilling 101km Stage 13 from SaintGirons. The short distance and three serious climbs sparked fireworks in a peloton eager to roll the dice in the pursuit of glory. Barguil, who thought he’d won Stage 9 before a photo finish revealed he’d been pipped by Rigoberto Uran, responded with venom when Contador launched his early assault for the finish. He is the first Frenchman to win on Bastille Day in 12 years. “This just felt so good today. I was really on top of it,” Barguil
Top up: Italy’s Fabio Aru, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, eats during Stage 13 of the Tour de France from Saint-Girons to Foix. Picture: AP
said. “Alberto Contador went on the attack (at the finish), I went on the outside of him and then back in and I knew that I would be the fastest. “Contador was my idol
when I was younger. I never would have believed that I could do this a few years ago.” Behind the leading quartet, Team Sky began its squeeze of Aru, who snatched the yellow
jersey off Froome on the ultrasteep Stage 12 finale. Froome attacked near the top of the Mur de Peguere — the last climb of the day — but Aru was on to it. The Italian
also absorbed several Froome raids on the downhill. But while Landa may not have taken stage honours, he finished 1min. 46sec. ahead of the yellow jersey group and moved up to fifth on general classification. It means Aru and his injury-hit Astana squad will have to respect Landa’s position on the road more, given he is an increasing danger and giving Sky another card to play. Aru’s strongest teammate Jakob Fuglsang abandoned the Tour half way through Friday when the fractures in his arm became too much to bear. His withdrawal came after another Astana rider, Dario Cataldo, pulled out a day earlier with a wrist injury. A week out from Paris, the top six riders still sit within 92 seconds of each other.
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Minjee close WEST Australian Minjee Lee is five shots off the pace set by China’s Shanshan Feng after the second round of the US Women’s Open at Trump National in New Jersey. Feng carded a 70 to move to eightunder and increase her lead at the top to two shots. Korean trio Amy Yang (71), Jeongeaun Lee (69) and amateur Hye Jin Choi (69) are tied second while their compatriot Seon Woo Bae (69) is fifth at five-under. CRICKET
Poms strike JAMES Anderson and Joe Root have starred for England on a manic second morning against South Africa at Trent Bridge. Anderson took four wickets in 16 balls and the tourists could add only 26 runs before being bowled out for 335. England then lost both openers with only three runs on the board, but captain Root (52 not out) and Gary Ballance produced a stand of 82 for a lunchtime score of 2-85. GOLF
McIlroy cut RORY McIlroy heads into next week’s British Open Championship on the back of a third missed cut in four events as his poor form continued at the Scottish Open. Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington (68) is nine under par and shares the lead with German Alexander Knappe (65) and England’s Callum Shinkwin (68). Australia’s Andrew Dodt and Englishman Ian Poulter (both 69) are tied for fourth. FOOTBALL
Thai Cup tie THE Socceroos will play Thailand at Melbourne’s AAMI Park on September 5 in their final World Cup-qualifying game. Australia coach Ange Postecoglou has said he hoped the pitch would give home advantage. Third-placed Socceroos are in a fight with Japan, who they play on August 31, and Saudi Arabia for automatic World Cup spots. Japan leads on 17 points, with Saudi Arabia and Australia both on 16.
GLEN QUARTERMAIN DAVID Bryant is an accidental running machine. A sports nutritonist first, triathlete second and distance runner third, Bryant turned to jogging as rehabilitation when he required specialised treatment for a club foot in his teens. “One leg is an inch and a half longer than the other and I have a three-size shoe difference,” the 28-year-old said. “When I got to 15 I realised the discrepancy between my left and right leg was becoming too big. “To try and counter act that, they stuck a growth plate in my left knee, which is my strong leg. “During the rehab I started doing some light jogs and 20minute jogs turned into 20km and 40km runs further down the track. “You could argue that if I never had a club foot I would never have got into running. I certainly don’t take it for granted and I love doing it.” Bryant is pretty good at it too. He’s run six marathons, five under three hours, including Berlin, Zurich, the Chevron City to Surf for Activ and Melbourne, where he ran a
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On track: David Bryant is competing in the half marathon in next month’s Chevron City to Surf for Activ. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper
personal best of 2 hours 48 minutes in 2012. But his priority right now is the marathon and he’s on track to lower his PB in Melbourne in October. “A mid-to-low 2:40s in Melbourne would be nice,” he said. “That’s how it’s shaping up at the moment.” In the lead up he’ll be among the contenders in a new-look Chevron City to Surf for Activ half marathon on Sunday, August 27. Bryant’s PB for the half marathon is 1:17 and that could be lowered this year given sweeping changes to the marathon and half marathon courses due
to redevelopment and traffic congestion issues. Both the marathon and half marathon will this year enter Kings Park at the university or southern end. “It’s an iconic event. Living in Perth it’s easy to take the scenery that we have for granted,” Bryant said. “If you were from overseas and you came to Perth and ran that route you would certainly be thinking Perth is a pretty cool and picturesque city. “And it’s great to support the Activ Foundation and help them to continue to service people with a disability. “It’s a challenging course, ◊
with a lot of uphill, and also a lot of downhill to change it up as well.” The club foot had Bryant on the verge of selection for Australia’s Rio Paralympics team but he narrowly missed out through the strict classification criteria. He also completed last year’s Busselton Ironman in 9 hours 19 minutes on debut. A level-one triathlon coach who has also been a personal trainer for eight years, Bryant works with Front Runner Sports in Perth and more recently has taken up a role with the Fremantle Dockers, where he advises the AFL ††
club’s Peel players on match day about nutrition. His advice to anyone competing in this year’s Chevron City to Surf for Activ is pay as much as attention to nutrition as they do to training. “There is a lot of evidence highlighting how important it is to trial your nutrition in training so that on race day it is not only your muscles that are conditioned to handle the distance and intensity, but your gut can also tolerate the stress of the run and also the consumption of fuel during that run as well,” he said.
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DANIEL Ricciardo’s run of five straight podium places is in danger of ending after his car’s gearbox was replaced ahead of the British Grand Prix, incurring an automatic five-place grid penalty. Gearboxes must last for six races and the one in the West Australian’s Red Bull, which was swapped out before last night’s final practice, had not done so. He will will start in 19th position behind pole-winner Lewis Hamilton. GOLF
Lee defence DEFENDING champion, Royal Fremantle’s Minwoo Lee, tees off tomorrow at Flint Hills in Kansas trying to join Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth as the only multiple winners of the US Junior Amateur title. Royal Perth’s Freddy Lee is also competing. In the warm-up, the Sahalee Players’ Championship in Washington, Minwoo came from seven shots behind in the last round, only to lose to a first playoff hole birdie.
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SWISS MASTER CHASES GR-EIGHTNESS ON ‘HOME’ COURT
FIRE AND ICE LEO SCHLINK LONDON
MARIN Cilic has been urged to turn nasty and intimidate Roger Federer as the Swiss master chases a record 19th major and eighth Wimbledon crown tonight. Renowned as a gentleman, Cilic has been ordered by coach Jonas Bjorkman to adopt a meaner persona as he tackles the extraordinary Federer on his best surface. But Cilic, bidding to add to his 2014 US Open crown, wants nothing of it. “People are asking always ‘Do you need to be more arrogant? Do you need to be more angry on the court, to be more selfish or stuff like that, to be able to win more constantly?’” Cilic said. “For me, I wouldn’t agree. There is not one formula for that. “I feel obviously that emotions are very important on the court, especially in my own case where I am from a quiet nature. “I try to, with Jonas, with my team, lift that up, lift that spirit up. I believe that’s helping me to play a little bit freer. “I’m still a nice guy on the court, too, I believe. You should ask players around.” Cilic, 28, will carry a 1-6 winloss record into battle against Federer, who is on the verge of becoming the first man to lift eight Wimbledon titles. But there are two outstanding matches in that tally. Cilic obliterated Federer in straight sets in New York three years ago and last season led the Swiss by two sets to love and held a match point at Wimbledon before losing. Anointed by 2001 champion Goran Ivanisevic as the likely champion two weeks before
Wimbledon started, Cilic knows precisely what he’s up against. “I believe this is his home court, place where he feels the best and knows that he can play the best game,” the Croat said. “Obviously I’m going to look back, as well, 12 months ago I was one point away from winning a match over here against him. “Definitely I believe that if I’m going to be playing him, in my own abilities to get through and to win it. “But I still know that it’s a big mountain to climb. Roger is playing maybe one of his best tennis of his career at the moment, having a great season. “So I know it’s going to be a huge challenge. But I believe I’m ready.” Federer, 35, is the oldest finalist since 39-year-old Ken Rosewall was destroyed by Jimmy Connors in the 1974 final. And he fears Cilic’s firepower. “So I’m in for a tough one. Plus we had a great one here last year. Also at the US Open, he played unreal there against me,” he said. “So I know it’s going to be tough. I have to play offensive. If you give Marin now time on the ball he can finish points nicely.” Federer embraces destiny. “I love this tournament. All my dreams came true here as a player,” he said. “To have another chance to go for No 8 eight now, be kind of so close now at this stage, is a great feeling.”
Muguruza the new queen of SW19 LEO SCHLINK SPAIN’S Garbine Muguruza last night clinically snuffed out Venus Williams’ Wimbledon dream, condemning the American to a harrowing defeat in the Wimbledon women’s final. The right-hander punished Williams 7-5 6-0 to notch her second major, adding it to the 2016 French Open crown.
Muguruza, 23, is only the second Spanish woman to claim the world’s most important title, joining her current coach Conchita Martinez (1994) on the honour roll. The classy baseliner preyed on Williams’ wonky forehand to terminate the veteran’s hopes of landing a sixth Wimbledon title. The Wimbledon champion
in 2000-01, ’05, ’07-08, Williams had also lost the title match in ’02-03 and ’09 to her sister Serena. Paying no heed to history or sentiment, Muguruza put Williams to the sword with 14 winners and only 11 unforced errors. Williams, 37, made 25 errors – forced and unforced – on her forehand alone. ◊
Beaten in the 2015 Wimbledon final by Serena, Muguruza was devastating as she made Venus look every bit of her 37 years and 29 days. The gap separating Williams’ first appearance in an All England Club final in 2000 and this season is an Open era record. Navratilova contested 12 deciders, winning nine, in 16 ††
years between 1978 and 1994 when, at 37 years and 258 days, she lost to Martinez. Britain’s Charlotte Dodd Sterry was 37 years and 282 days she triumphed here in 1908. In the end, Williams’ hopes of quelling Muguruza evaporated as her forehand steadily collapsed under the Spaniard’s arsenal of strokes.
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Force salutes Hodgo Fairytale end for skipper
Canes to play the Brumbies THE Hurricanes have booked a Super Rugby quarterfinal date with the Brumbies in Canberra after scoring a 31-22 win over the previously unbeaten Crusaders in yesterday’s Kiwi derby in Wellington. Despite being dominated for large chunks of the match, the Hurricanes were able to peg back a 12-7 half-time deficit and score three second-half tries to win. The victory sets the match for Friday night at GIO Stadium. The Chiefs, meanwhile, will play the Stormers in Cape Town next week. “The boys just kept in there,” Hurricanes skipper TJ Perenara said after the match. “We grouped together, came back and put in a good performance.” Missing their all-Test front-row of Joe Moody, Codie Taylor and Owen Franks, the Crusaders enjoyed all the running in the first half. Targeting Julian Savea’s left-edge defence, Crusaders fly-half Richie Mo’unga helped Seta Tamanivalu get over the line twice within 15 minutes. But the Hurricanes edged in front soon after the restart via a quick-thinking Savea, who batted down a cross-field kick to himself, before a Mo’unga penalty goal for the Crusaders. Earlier, Japan’s Sunwolves have left their best until last, crushing the three-time Super Rugby champion Auckland Blues 48-21.
NICK TAYLOR IT was Matt Hodgson’s night. It was never going to be anything else and it ended in a fairytale finish. Hodgson, the talisman who has held the Super Rugby club together in tough times, was given an incredible and passionate send-off in the 40-11 bonus point win over the Waratahs in his 140th game at nib Stadium. One of the club’s greatest players rode a huge wave of emotion in which the result was almost secondary — almost — because it put the Force second on the Australian conference and on the same number of wins as the Brumbies, Australia’s only finals qualifier. It was the final chapter of a script Hodgson would have written himself: playing his last game in front of the Sea of Blue against the Waratahs, the team who rejected him. And in two magical moments he notched his 100th point for the club with a second-half try and kicked the last penalty on the final siren. He was welcomed on to nib Stadium with his two sons Hunter and Buddy through a guard of honour of family, friends and former teammates. At seven minutes the 10,384 crowd stood as one to thank and honour the man in the No.7 jumper and not many left after the final whistle to watch his lap of honour as they chanted “Hodgo.Hodgo”. In between Hodgson made his side’s most tackles, producing a typical gutsy, hard-noseddisplay, leading from the front as always, dragging his bloodied and bruised body from the bottom of rucks before smashing into defenders with no thought for himself. He even had time for a few words of advice for his opposite No.7 and Wallabies captain
Ripper skipper: Matt Hodgson celebrates his conversion attempt last night. Picture Justin Benson-Cooper
Michael Hooper. The result also sent a big message to the Australian Rugby Union — threaten us at your peril. It was a message the governing body should take notice of as they line up to face a confident Force legal team in arbitration in two weeks as they bumble along the path
“fantastic”. “We’re hoping that’s not the last,” he said. “When Hodgo scored that try it was the highlight of the season, a special moment. “It was an easy week to be a coach because the boys played for Hodgo “Physically we dominated at all the contact areas.
trying to axe a side next season. The Force’s first 40 minutes was the best half of rugby they have played all year and the 26 points was the most scored in the first period for three years. The second half was pretty good too. Western Force coach Dave Wessels described the win as
Broncos bounce into top tier BRISBANE’S bid for a top-four NRL finish remains on track after surviving a scare to overcome struggling Newcastle 3422. Without Queensland State of Origin forwards Josh McGuire and Matt Gillett, the Broncos trailed 12-6 at halftime yesterday and suffered a second-term lapse before they powered home. The loss was the eighth time this season the Knights had blown a half-time lead as they inched closer to a third-consecutive wooden spoon with their seventh-straight loss. The win moves the Broncos provisionally back into the top four, ahead of Manly’s clash
today with the Wests Tigers. Five-eighth Anthony Milford also came through the McDonald Jones Stadium match unscathed on his return from a shoulder dislocation. “We didn’t play badly,” Broncos coach Wayne Bennett said. “We completed at about 85 per cent and we did a lot of things right.” After they trailed by six at the break, the match turned on a 70-metre James Roberts break to score after he scooped up a ball kicked at him by Knights utility Joe Wardle. It summed up the Knights’ season, who suffered a similar fate last week to Canterbury
when a ball was kicked into the Bulldogs’ Moses Mbye in the final minute to seal the result. “When we lose that momentum, we have that disappointment and then we don’t come together with our defence,” Knights coach Nathan Brown said. “And then we leak another try and were under the pump and then it’s here we go again. “We’ve got to get that mentality where we can really drop it, get over it and get back in the fight quickly.” The Broncos scored tries in two of their next three sets, and, in 10 minutes, swung the match 24-12 in their favour. ᔡ Gold Coast half-back Ash
Taylor orchestrated a 30-10 victory over defending NRL premiers Cronulla, mastering atrociously wet conditions at CBus Super Stadium. The 22-year-old crossed twice and laid on two more tries in last night’s rout of the second-placed Sharks, making light of the conditions while others struggled to adapt. Taylor rose above heavy rain and wet conditions, grubbering with composure for Konrad Hurrell to score in the ninth minute. ᔡ NSW State of Origin winger Brett Morris, who played 14 games for NSW, announced his immediate retirement on Instagram yesterday. ††
“That comes down to mentality and wanting to play for each other. “A lot of that comes down to Hodgo but a lot of it comes down to how they feel about each other.” After the game mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest told the players he would throw
his weight behind their fight for survival. Wessels said: “To have somebody of his stature come into the circle and tell the team he’s going to throw his weight behind us and wants us to remain is a special moment.” Twiggy pledge, P14
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Five goals does trick Taberner spurt sinks Royals ROYALS V THUNDER DALE MILLER FREMANTLE forward Matt Taberner produced a second straight dominant WAFL performance as Peel outmuscled East Perth by 28 points at Leederville Oval yesterday. In a contest played at stages in driving rain, Taberner defied the wet conditions to emerge as the match’s most influential figure in booting a game-high five goals. Four of those majors were kicked in succession in a 15minute burst during the third quarter that sealed a fifth consecutive win for Peel, who triumphed 12.7 (79) to 7.9 (51). It was a compelling performance from the 24-year-old forward, who has faced heavy criticism across his 50-game AFL career at being unable to string together consistent performances. Taberner finished with 27 disposals and 10 marks. He was coming off a career-
high six-goal haul against West Perth last weekend and has emerged as a key player in Peel’s drive towards successive premierships. The Thunder went into the contest with a trump card up forward in the form of a returning Harley Bennell, who was playing his first game in 16 months. But it was Fremantle teammate Cameron Sutcliffe who guaranteed Peel’s early edge in the contest, with the defender continuing to thrive in his new midfield role. Sutcliffe had 22 disposals to half-time alone, prompting Kurt Mutimer to be sent to him as a tagger. The experienced Docker sparked Peel in the second term by booting a goal from a contested mark to kick start a run of three successive majors that broke the shackles. Running majors by Michael Tassone and Josh Deluca guaranteed the visitors took a crucial two-goal buffer into
half-time before Taberner blew the margin out to 37 points at the final break. Aaron Naughton continued his strong form from the under-18s championships where he was named in the AllAustralian team with a strong league debut. The 17-year-old was used in defence and finished with 16 disposals and seven marks to play a significant role in the win. East Perth became the latest victim of Peel’s suffocating team defence as they were restricted to just four goals until the game’s final minutes. The Royals entered the contest knowing a win would push them inside the top five for the first time this season after opening their 2017 campaign with five successive losses. But despite boasting 11 Eagles-listed players, they battled to get any fluency in their ball movement as the dangerous Josh Hill was restricted to one goal.
Matt finish: Peel’s Matt Taberner goaled from this third-term mark. Picture: Daniel Wilkins
Lions roar in face of injuries TIGERS V LIONS BRIDGET LACY SIBIACO overcame more injury concerns to notch up a 14th straight victory at Ports Oval in Esperance yesterday. Last year’s grand finalists were simply too good for Claremont in windy conditions to further dampen their finals hopes in the 14.10 (94) to 7.12 (54) result. Already missing a raft of first-choice players, the Lions lost Jordan Lockyer (hamstring) and Scott Hancock (calf) as late withdrawals and then Justin Joyce went off in the first half with a suspected quad injury. But it didn’t stop them from ††
producing another solid fourquarter display. Adam Cockie (27 disposals, 10 inside 50s, one goal), Kyal Horsley (27 possessions, five inside 50s, two goals) and Leigh Kitchin (32 disposals, one goal) proved too strong in the midfield, while Ben Sokol bobbed up with four goals, with Liam Ryan settling for 1.4. Mitch Andrews (27 disposals, 28 hit-outs) made the most of his battle against Tim Sutherland, with Jye Bolton (31 possessions, one goal) and Kiefer Yu (27 disposals) strong contributors for the losing side. The Tigers drew first blood when a flying shot from Bailey Banfield into the wind sailed through.
Sokol answered at the other end with a long bomb and then won a free kick before the ball was bounced to give the Lions two quick ones. Alexander Manuel made the most of a tough set shot to level scores again before Horsley and Cockie both goaled to make it a 13-point Subiaco lead at quarter-time. But it was largely one-way traffic in the third term as the Lions slammed on three consecutive majors to storm away. Ryan looked very dangerous on the way to a 32-point lead at three-quarter time. Any hopes of a Claremont comeback were dashed when Subiaco slotted the first two majors of the final term.
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Dogs reverse deficit BULLDOGS V SWANS JOHN TOWNSEND SOUTH Fremantle took 100 minutes to forge a lead for the first time against Swan Districts at Fremantle Oval. Then they went to work. The Bulldogs ran out winners by 40 points, 15.13 (103) to 9.9 (63), after overcoming a 41point deficit midway through the second term and an opponent who challenged repeatedly until running out of petrol in the last quarter. The 81-point turnaround came as South won comfortably despite giving up a four-goal lead at the first break for the third consecutive time. And the victory came without dominant performances from stars Haiden Schloithe and Tim Kelly. Both midfielders revealed their class but it was lesser lights, such as back pocket Jason Maskos, who blanketed Taryce Stewart after the under 18 star kicked three brilliant goals in the first half, that kept Swans to just one goal in the second half. Veterans Ryan Cook and Ashton Hams stood up when required while spearhead Ben Saunders sparked the resur-
gence with his ferocious attack on the ball in the third term. Tony Notte was a colossus in defence for the visitors, earning a team-high 23 disposals, but he had too few supporters to match the home team’s class. The match became a tough scrap in the third term with South working hard enough to erase the deficit. Schloithe was used as a loose man in defence, where his sublime skills and weighted kicking brought his team-mates into the match. South managed five unanswered goals to slice the deficit from 41 points to just 10 at the long break. Jamie Bennell opened the scoring after hauling in a screamer close to goal in the opening minutes. Possession was reversed twice after infringements off the ball before Bennell regained the pill and completed the task. He added another from a strong mark, while Stewart converted both his opportunities, including an accurate long range shot after running the ball from the middle. He also dribbled a brilliant major from next to the behind post.
Ballroom juggling: South Freo's Blaine Johnson takes possession under pressure from Swan's Alex Howard. Picture: Stewart Allen.
Watson ace gives Schofield a Sharky smile SHARKS V DEMONS RUSSELL REID EAST Fremantle helped celebrate Jayden Schofield’s 100th game in style with a gritty 16point win against Perth at East Fremantle Oval. Running defender Schofield was one of his team’s best players in the 11.7 (73) to 8.9 (57) victory, their second for the season.
Tall utility player Matthew Watson proved to be the difference, the former Carlton squad member making the most of his chances to finish with four first-half goals from full forward in what was always going to be a low-scoring contest. Midfielders Cam Eardley, George Hampson, Sean Henson and and Dion Anthony also fared well for the winners along with ruckman Michael Cronan
soon after with Watson and Hampson edging the home team to a six-point lead at the six-minute mark. With rain falling the game slipped into an arm wrestle. Each side added two more goals for the term, the Sharks ahead by 12 points at the first change. Tall utility Anton Scotney kicked the first goal of the second quarter in the opening
and defenders Schofield and Matthew Jupp. Perth captain Clint Jones finished with a game high 36 possessions while fellow midfielder Aidan Tropiano was busy with 28 disposals, eight tackles and nine inside 20s. Perth midfielder Corey Byrne slotted the first goal three minutes into the first quarter. East Fremantle responded
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minute, Watson booting his second 10 minutes later to help East Fremantle restore a 10point buffer. Watson made the most of his chances with two more goals before half time. Perth couldn’t capitalise on their chances, ahead in the inside 50 count by 22 to 16 but trailing by 22 points at the long break. The Demons closed to within
16 points after consecutive goals to Gordon Narrier and Cody Ninyette early in the third quarter. The Sharks responded with goals to Jonathon Marsh, Andrew Stephen and Jack Perham to turn for home with a healthy 35-point lead. Perth won the final quarter 3.3 (21) to 0.2 (2) but were too far back to snatch an unlikely win.
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Legend Danger crashes party SAM LANDSBERGER PATRICK Dangerfield needs only one leg to win the Brownlow Medal and Coleman Medal. Yesterday’s game-breaking performance as an old-school full-forward was as brave as it was brilliant. “I’m not prepared to call it ‘The Legend’ just yet, but it’s getting there,” Cats coach Chris Scott gushed after the Cats’ nailbiting three-point win over Hawthorn at the MCG. Hawk Isaac Smith, who missed a shot after the siren in last year’s qualifying final against the Cats, missed once more with just five seconds left as Geelong held on for 13.10 (88) to 12.13 (85) win. When Dangerfield was carried from the field in the first term after colliding with Hawk captain Jarryd Roughead, it looked like a broken left leg. Minutes later, the reigning Brownlow medallist and backto-back fancy was jogging the boundary poised for a return. It appeared as if Scott had little choice but to plant his best player in the goalsquare. Turns out, that was Danger’s call. “I wasn’t going to move too much, so (I wanted to) just stay deep and try to get dangerous in the forward line,” Dangerfield said. What ensued was a performance straight out of the football time machine. He kicked the Cats’ final two goals of the first half and restored Geelong’s lead with his third in a row to start the second half.
Milestone man: Luke Hodge is carried off the MCG by Jarryd Roughead and Grant Birchall. Below, Hodge matches up on Patrick Dangerfield. Pictures: Getty
The agony Dangerfield was in became clear post-game as he slumped against the wall with his left foot floating in a bucket of ice. “I don’t know (if I’ll play next week). We’ll have to wait and see,” he said. He finished with 5.6, four contested marks and a heap of score involvements. Incredibly, he didn’t return to the bench in the second half. It forced coach Alastair Clarkson to make a move. After Dangerfield’s fourth goal it was 300-gamer Luke Hodge who rolled back. The next entry Hodge the full-back infringed and Dangerfield booted his fifth goal. Hodge could see the “irony” of how his mate from Moggs Creek was the main reason why his milestone match didn't end with a win. “I ran into him (Dangerfield) in that last quarter, and he was hard as well ... I felt it,” Hodge said after the match. ”I’ve had 16 years of loving football, and that's the reason I love it so much. There is the competitive side, but there is also the part where you go out and play against mates as hard as you can.” Clarkson meanwhile said Smith shouldn’t feel the weight of the world on his shoulders, with “hundreds of moments” prior to his fateful kick to win it. “It shouldn’t come down to the last seconds of the game. If we had played better in the earlier parts of the game we should have had a margin,” he said.
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INJURIES Geelong: Dangerfield (left leg) Hawthorn: Sicily (ankle), Burgoyne (thumb)
UMPIRES Simon Meredith, Ray Chamberlain, Craig Fleer.
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127 PORT ADELAIDE 8.1 11.4 14.9 19.13
57 NORTH MELBOURNE 2.0 5.3 6.5 8.9 GOALS Port Adelaide: S Gray 4 C Wingard 3 J Trengove 2 R Gray 2 S Powell-Pepper 2 C Dixon H Hartlett J Polec J Westhoff M White O Wines. North Melbourne: B Brown 3 S Atley 2 N Hrovat S Higgins T Garner.
BEST Port Adelaide: C Wingard P Ryder S Gray B Ebert O Wines J Westhoff S Powell-Pepper. North Melbourne: B Cunnington B Brown A Mullett S Higgins.
INJURIES Port Adelaide: Ryder (right foot). North Melbourne: Hibberd (shoulder).
UMPIRES Shaun Ryan, Andrew Mitchell, Hayden Gavine.
CROWD 34,138 at Adelaide Oval
One-way traffic: Hamish Hartlett, left, and Jackson Trengove celebrate another Port Adelaide goal against North Melbourne. Picture: Getty
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IT’S all in the mind at Port Adelaide. The big question of whether Port Adelaide can be “trusted” carrying red-hot favouritism was answered emphatically yesterday at Adelaide Oval against the 17th-ranked Kangaroos who are not a measuring stick in this year’s AFL race. Expectation did not weigh heavily on the Power players’ yesterday, in particular the long-sleeved Chad Wingard floating between the midfield and goal front and the sharp Robbie Gray inside 50. Gray’s intercept of North Melbourne defender Aaron Mullett’s handpass in the north-western pocket and stab kick to goal in the 17th minute of the second term captured just how Port Adelaide was sharper of mind and touch than the Kangaroos. Even the supposedly languid Justin Westhoff, who has now secured a contract for next season, made a statement covering so much ground and influencing so many plays that no one can question his motivation. Port Adelaide’s midfield strength again was built on the All-Australian contending ruck work of Patrick Ryder, who worked against Majak Daw and 2015 All-Australian ruckman Todd Goldstein. And the Power midfielder finding the greatest opportunities with striking clearances from Ryder’s deft tap work is Brad Ebert. Ryder’s day was complicated by a scare when he turned on his right ankle being crunched in a marking contest by Lindsay Thomas at half-forward in the the third term. He could not take his kick, opting to handpass to defender Dan Houston and then hobbled to the bench where he stayed for five minutes. He played on until midway through the final term when he
went to the bench and his ankle was iced. This was a game put away at quarter-time when the Power led by 37 points. And the Port Adelaide players will enjoy the video highlights at the team review tomorrow, as much as North Melbourne coach Brad Scott can cut the tape as an instructional guide to his group. Scott says he has no choice but to keep throwing young players into the AFL deep end. Scott, with 15 players on the injured list, fielded nine Roos with fewer than 30 AFL games’ experience – and six who had played 10 games or less. “It’s a challenge to find guys to come in at the moment just because there aren’t many (fit players) there,” Scott said. “There are some guys that we will continue to give opportunity to perhaps before they’re ready. “I have always said when we bring guys into our side, we want to make sure that we set them up to succeed – not fail. “But combined with where we’re at but also the injury list, there might be some guys we just need to throw in the deep end.” Scott said North’s lowly status was frustrating but was adamant the short-term pain would bring long-term gain. “We have got to continue building a really strong platform and not jumping at shadows,” he said. The result was effectively decided in a dozen minutes, when the Power kicked four unanswered goals and North lost defender Mitchell Hibberd to a shoulder injury. “We were home, and we were pretty experienced against a side that lacked a little bit of experience,” Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley said. “But we certainly made our intent known right at the start of the game. When you do that, you get to play the game more on your terms than the opposition.”
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Sloane blow sobers Crows RICHARD EARLE RORY Sloane and Tom Lynch epitomised courage under fire against Melbourne as Adelaide found another way to win without its club champion in a stirring, debut, Darwin triumph. The key talking points from the sellout clash will be a third term concussion to Sloane which could see the vice captain and Geelong’s Patrick Dangerfield sidelined from next Friday’s heavyweight bout at Adelaide Oval. Key defender Jake Lever also finished the game with a heavily iced hamstring. Bernie Vince again quelled Sloane but a clash early in the second term with Richard Douglas attracted the wrath of former Adelaide teammates and the Demons tagger will face the Match Review Panel. Douglas’ head was over the ball when Vince made contact with an elbow. Linkman Lynch (27 touches, three goals) made a remarkable return after missing two games with viral meningitis to boot crucial majors at the start and end of the final term after the Demons made a concerted charge. Skipper Taylor Walker’s two final term goals sealed the 46 point win and top spot for the Crows. Lynch’s resumption from viral meningitis meant Adelaide coach Don Pyke was able to collectively unleash his imposing forward quartet for just the second time this season. Closing down Lynch, Tay-
lor Walker, Josh Jenkins and Mitch McGovern was beyond a Melbourne defence deprived of shelter by a depleted midfield. A concussion to Sloane and a 70 metre after the siren long bomb from Jayden Hunt blew the game open with Adelaide holding a 22 point lead at the final change. Adelaide had led by 45 points after Josh Jenkins opened the third stanza with an easy goal but a sling tackle from Dean Kent saw Sloane appearing to be knocked out on impact with the surface. Courageous Sloane had to be compelled by skipper Walker and club medicos to leave the ground. Sloane did not return while goals from Alex NealeBullen and Max Gawn ignited the Demons as Adelaide lost momentum. Hunt’s third quarter knockout in round eight against the Crows had the catalyst for Melbourne’s surge and win and his Malcolm Blight-esque goal threatened to unsettle the Crows. Clayton Oliver, dynamic in Melbourne’s second half swamping of Adelaide two months ago, was impressive again but this time there would be a reduced chop out without Nathan Jones, Jack Viney and Dom Tyson. Vince had put time into Sloane with just eight touches but Matt (31 touches) and Brad Crouch (28) got off the chain and shared 26 contested possessions. The Crouch boys continue to silence the doubters
Walking wounded: Demon Dean Kent leaves the field with an injured shoulder last night. Below, a concusssed Rory Sloane. Pictures: Getty
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Melbourne: D Kent (shoulder). Adelaide: R Sloane (concussion) J Lever (hamstring)
BEST Adelaide: T Lynch R Laird D Talia B Crouch T Walker J Lever. Melbourne: C Oliver B Vince J Melksham J Lewis C Petracca.
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UMPIRES Chris Donlon, Ben Ryan, Brett Rosebury.
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Bucks gets respite Wounded in battle: Collingwood’s Alex Fasolo grimaces after colliding with Brodie Grundy during the match against the Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium. Picture Getty
ANDREW HAMILTON NATHAN Buckley can breathe easier for a week at least. Rodney Eade can’t. Collingwood snapped a four-game losing streak with a 15-point win in slippery conditions at Metricon Stadium last night, which means the spotlight may shine elsewhere than on their embattled coach for a few days. However the 15.13 (103) to 13.10 (88) win provided four points for the Pies but no real certainty to either the winning or losing coaches. “The footy gods were smiling on us tonight and we were able to take advantage of it in the last quarter,” Buckley said. “We’ve had our challenges over the last couple of weeks to maintain the rage across the four quarters.”
Basically, the side that made the least amount of mistakes won the game. Gold Coast had their chances to win the game but can point to being two men down for a half. The 17,275 crowd, the biggest at Metricon Stadium this year, were treated to another Gary Ablett masterclass. After a week out with a hamstring injury the little master collected 41 possessions and dominated the clearances. Collingwood had a more even spread, Taylor Adams was superb in the clinches, Steele Sidebottom got plenty of the footy and Daniel Wells and Alex Fasolo were dangerous. Collingwood had their chances to seal the win when they controlled the footy and dominated field position in the first half of the final quarter but just couldn’t put the Suns away.
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Sidebottom B Reid D Wells. Gold Coast: G Ablett J Martin D Swallow P Wright.
Collingwood: B Reid 3 A Fasolo 2 D Moore 2 D Wells 2 J Thomas 2 B Maynard J Blair J Elliott S Sidebottom. Gold Coast: P Wright 3 B Ainsworth 2 J Martin 2 T Lynch 2 A Hall D Swallow J Lyons M Rischitelli.
INJURIES Gold Coast: J Lyons (ankle) S May (hamstring).
UMPIRES Jacob Mollison, Leigh Haussen, Nathan Williamson.
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Will Hoskin-Elliott, Jarryd Blair, Josh Thomas and Brayden Maynard all missed shots. When the Suns finally got field position Ben Ainsworth
rose to the occasion. The youngest player on the ground earned a free kick for a hard attack on the footy and calmly drilled a goal from just inside
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50m. At that stage, it looked like the Suns would finish the stronger. But then the Pies lifted. Thomas and Ben Reid kicked two goals in two minutes and the game was over. Gold Coast started the game well, booting the first two goals and appearing to be all over the shell-shocked Pies. Collingwood’s only opportunities were coming from turnovers. And eventually they were gifted enough footy to work their way into the game. At the same time, just like last week, the Suns stopped cold. They barely touched the footy as Collingwood booted five goals in a row. Fasolo was terrorising Trent McKenzie while Wells didn’t even appear to have an opponent to frighten.
The rain came just before quarter-time and the 21-point quarter-time deficit suddenly looked insurmountable. However the Suns’ effort improved in the second term. Their pressure was superb and they played more directly too. Goals to Jack Martin and Tom Lynch were because they went in long. And Peter Wright’s came from a clean centre clearance. At half-time the scores were level. But the Suns played out the second half with only two men on the bench, after an injury to co-captain Steven May (hamstring) and the loss of inform midfielder Jarryd Lyons (ankle) at the long break. “I could be diplomatic and say it’s no excuse. But it has an effect, whether it gets us over the line or not,” Gold Coast coach Rodney Eade said.
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Buddy slays injured Giants BEN HORNE LANCE Franklin last night torpedoed Sydney from the edge of the eight into calculations for the AFL flag with a fourgoal masterclass that demoralised GWS at Spotless Stadium. The superstar’s turbocharged left boot was cranked up to the max in front of a record sold-out crowd out west, hammering three massive goals from outside 50m to lead the Swans to a potentially season-defining 13-point triumph. Sydney outworked and overpowered their cross-town rivals to end a run of threestraight derby losses and at the same time extend their current AFL winning streak to six. After dropping their opening half dozen games this season, the Swans are in the midst of one of the greatest turnarounds in the game’s history and could finish the round in sixth place on the ladder with a top-four finish incredibly not totally out of the question. Their prodigious talent kept the Giants in the contest all night and they trailed by just two goals at the start of the final term, however, in reality it was a poor performance in front of a record 21,924 fans from the favourites who have a mountain of work to do if they want to win a maiden premiership. Admittedly the Giants aren’t helped by a long injury list, with Jeremy Cameron out last night and midfielder Matt de Boer joining him with a nas-
ty concussion — but they don’t seem willing to get their hands dirty when it matters. Soft tackling and a lack of intensity at times around the ball was no match for a Sydney team that have proven this season that they never say die on anything and their 14 goals to 12 victory was flattering for GWS, who have slipped from the top of the table. Shane Mumford played up front in Cameron’s absence and kicked two in the last to give his side a sniff, but despite doubles from Josh Kelly, Jon Patton, Toby Greene and Steve Johnson, GWS didn’t do the little things well enough. Franklin led from the front in an awesome display that now has him again leading the race for the Coleman Medal, but fellow star Tom Papley wasn’t far behind him with three of Sydney’s goals. In an absorbing struggle, the Swans and Giants went blow for blow with three goals apiece in the second and third quarters and four each in the final term. Sydney earned the early advantage and never relented. At one point Franklin — the winner of the Kirk Medal — powered Sydney to a 23-point advantage, but big Patton and veteran Johnson with a goal either side of three-quarter time rallied GWS to close the gap to just six. There is clearly no love lost between the two teams and it didn’t take long for the niggle to become almost constant.
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BEST Sydney: L Franklin Z Jones L Parker J Kennedy J McVeigh D Hannebery GWS: J Kelly C Ward D Shiel S Mumford T Greene L Whitfield
INJURIES GWS: J Cameron (hamstring) replaced in selected side by T Mzungu, M de Boer (concussion)
UMPIRES Umpires: Troy Pannell, Jeff Dalgleish, David Harris.
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OACHING is an addiction. It rarely has more highs than lows, but there is a mountain you climb that you want to keep climbing every day. A winning feeling is fleeting because you have to move on quickly. It’s the same after a loss. Even after the heaviest of defeats, come Monday you look to the next game with supreme optimism. However, there is one certainty in coaching, and that is there is an end game. Scrutiny is inevitable. But once the speculation starts, in the media and among supporters, it almost always finishes badly. Coaches rarely retire of their own volition. There is always a nudge, sometimes subtle but most of the time with a very heavy hand. The assessments made are generally on win/loss records. Even if you’ve been relatively successful getting the team near or in finals each season, in some eyes it’s not good enough. As the coach at the centre of the speculation and scrutiny it can be overwhelming. It has such an enormous and negative effect on your psyche, team, and your family. In my third and last year at Carlton speculation about my future started even before round one. One senior player told me he’d done everything possible to find a different way into the clubrooms so he didn’t have to be confronted by the media each day about my job. He hated it. I hated it. It was one of the hardest times of my career, to see my team and family so profoundly affected by it, yet still trying to stay positive and focus in on the next game, trying so hard to win it. It was harder still to retain confidence in my own ability. The dark cloud that hangs over a club at these times is so hard to lift. It tires people out, everyone at the club. They get sick of the repetition of the speculation, and the uncertainty plays on their
Spotlight: Nathan Buckley fronts the media this week. Picture: Getty
I am a strong believer that coaches should never be sacked during a season. greatest marker for appointing a new coach is that he has already coached his own team. Ken Hinkley is the perfect example of this. He coached successfully at three country football clubs and also assisted at St Kilda, Geelong and the Gold Coast Suns. Premiership coach Luke Beveridge broke coaching records at amateur level before joining the Collingwood football department and then assisting at Hawthorn. Eagles premiership player Don Pyke coached in the WAFL before assisting at Adelaide and West Coast, and continued a career outside of football. He is now making a fantastic fist of it as coach of ladder leaders Adelaide. If coaching your own team can’t be achieved then a deep understanding of club life is essential. Two-time premiership captain John Worsfold was in cca the tth coaches’ box at Carlton before taking the senior role be b at a the Eagles. After winning a premiership he stepped away pr p from the game before taking ffr the tth helm at Essendon where, I believe, he is up there as be b coach of the year this season. cco We currently have two coaches in the league without cco AFL/VFL playing experience. A Chris Fagan at Brisbane and C Brendon Bolton at Carlton. B I hope any club looking for a new coach will look at the new ne list of Level 4 accredited n coaches. The calibre of young cco men m is outstanding. Names such ssu as Stuart Dew, Peter Sumich, John Barker, Adam Su S Kingsley, Matthew Nicks, K Scott Sc Burns, Blake Caracella, S Robert Harvey, Simon Lloyd, consistency in who can coach R Dean Solomon, Steven King, and who can’t because D Brett Kirk, Leigh Tudor and sometimes it’s not what’s on B Brendan Lade. paper, but a gut feel. B Then again it’s Coaching is about instinct. unfathomable to think that It’s It s understanding what you un u former senior coaches such as wantt and d putting tti that th t vision i i in i f Guy McKenna, Mark Neeld, front of the people at your Brenton Sanderson, Justin club. It’s knowing that no two Leppitsch, Mark Williams, people are the same, and still Mark Harvey, Matthew getting everyone on board Knights, Brett Ratten and sharing your vision and Brendan McCartney wouldn’t working together to achieve also be considered. I hope the same goal. I believe in today’s game the they are.
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minds. They become incapable of rallying against it. Collingwood are now playing different football to how they played two months ago. ago Nathan Buckley would be experiencing doubt i i d bt and d frustration. I know only too well what his family is going through. I imagine he is now hoping for a decision soon. The Magpie hierarchy have at least supported their coach this year and throughout his career.
Rodney Eade has been here before, he knows it well. Not that it makes it any easier. After yesterday’s game at least one coach can breathe in some short-lived short lived relief. relief I am a strong advocate t d t for f supporting coaches to do their job. So I believe that coaches should never be sacked during a season. It is just more disruption for the team to have an interim coach (who rarely goes on to get the main job) so why do it?
This year thankfully, as much as there have been coaches under pressure for a lot of it, there is no indication that their season will end prematurely. prematurely But the inevitability i it bilit off the th changing h i of the guard means we rarely start a new season with the same 18 coaches as the last one. The prerequisite for a senior coach is like shifting sands. It can depend on what is in vogue. There is no real
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F il ’ Family’s flight of fancy JORDAN MCARDLE “DAVE’S crook, dad” A three-word text message from Ryan Nyhuis to his father Michael last Saturday morning was enough for the family to prepare for a red-eye flight from Darwin to Melbourne. From boarding a flight at 2am on Sunday, with his son a “70-30” chance to replace ill teammate David Mundy and make his AFL debut against North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium later that afternoon, the next 30 hours were the stuff dreams are made of. Among a group of about 25 Territorians, including Nyhuis’ younger brothers Cody and Keegan, Michael and Glenda Nyhuis watched their eldest son go from an unknown rookie to the talk of Fremantle after he became the first Docker to kick four goals on debut — sealing a four-point win in the process. It was the second time in a month the Nightcliff product was the Dockers’ travelling emergency, after he made the trip to Brisbane but wasn’t required at the Gabba. The Nyhuis family postponed their long weekend drive “out bush” until the last minute in case their 20-year-old was a late call-up against the Lions, but this time they had to make an earlier call because of limited flights out of the Top End. “The thing that got us on the plane (to Melbourne) was
the text he sent on Saturday morning, but being David Mundy you’d give him every chance to be right,” Michael said. “Unfortunately for us our last opportunity to catch the game was a 2am flight out of Darwin. “We spoke to him about 7pm on the Saturday night, the team had got together for a walk and there was still no sign of Mundy. “We got the 70-30 assessment from Ryan and thought that’s going to be good enough, we better get ourselves down there. “If we’d have stayed in Darwin, I think I would’ve been kicking myself for a very long time.” Michael said the first real sign Fremantle rated his son was his elevation off the rookie list ahead of the Brisbane game on June 10. Before then it had been an emotional rollercoaster for the family, not knowing whether Nyhuis was going to be promoted from Fremantle’s WAFL affiliate Peel Thunder or even stay on their list beyond this season. “They blooded about six players by then and you sit there as a parent thinking maybe they’ve reached their quota that they’re going to debut this season,” Michael said. “We thought it was all about Ryan doing what he needs to do at WAFL level and get himself another year
at Fremantle and maybe his time would come (for a debut) next year.” Damian Hale, who coached Nyhuis at Northern Territory Football League side Nightcliff, said while he had set a high benchmark in his first AFL match, the defender-turned-forward wasn’t going to be a one-hit wonder. “I think being successful at AFL level has a lot to do with resilience and through Ryan’s junior years, he broke his arm badly twice at 16 and 17,” Hale said. 8th year he “In his 18 didn’t play any tive footy, representative rated on he concentrated his Year 12 results so he’s one of those guys who’s very good at sk setting a task and achieving what he’s set out to do. “In the 19th year he focused on (NT) nd getting Thunder and as far as hee can in nd ended up football, and winning a (North East Australian Football ag and League) flag ked up by getting picked ll. Freo as well. “He’s gott a history of being d and determined at he wants getting what ard work through hard
Draft day: Ryan Nyhuis with brothers Cody, left, and Keegan, right, and mum Glenda and father Michael on the day he was drafted in 2015. Below, Nyhuis last Sunday. Pictures: NT News, Getty
and talent, but he’s certainly got some resilience too which will hold him in good stead going forward.” Even as a teenager, Nyhuis was given some of the toughest defensive assignments in the NTFL and NEAFL against older, more experienced opponents. Hale sent him to former St Kilda goalsneak Stephen Milne, who had a stint with NTFL powerhouse St Mary’s s during the 2014-15 season, as roo Ross well as ex-Saints rookie sta Tungatalum and star Wanderers forward Thomas broth of Motlop, brother former Port Adelaide Ma player Marlon. Then came shut-d shut-down roles for on former North Melbou Melbourne forward Eddie Sansbury and Giant-turne Giant-turned-Blue du Jed Lamb during his NEAF season debut NEAFL und former in 2015 under St Kilda and Brisban Brisbane midfield Xavier midfielder Clarke. Desc Described by former NT Thund captain Thunder Aaro Motlop Aaron as the s success s story of
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the premiership season, Nyhuis finished second in the competition’s rising star award to fellow Dockers draftee Matt Uebergang, who was playing for Queensland side Redland. He played 13 games, including the one-point grand final win over Aspley at Darwin’s TIO Stadium, where he had the job on current Brisbane Lions forward Eric Hipwood.
If we’d have stayed in Darwin, I think I would’ve been kicking myself for a very long time.
Michael Nyhuis
“Ryan wasn’t a flashy player and he was quite happy to fly under the radar and do his job for the team,” Motlop said. “As a teenager coming in he was fantastic, I remember Xavier Clarke giving him some of the big jobs in the NEAFL, playing on Eddie Sansbury and those types of ex-AFL players who were still dominant at that stage. “Ryan would more often than not win those battles quite easily.
“You always knew that he could have really went a long way if he dedicated himself, like he has done.” Despite his breakout season in the NEAFL, Nyhuis had a “lead balloon” moment after his exceptional state combine. None of the 18 AFL clubs interviewed him at the screening, with his Plan B of moving to Adelaide for university looking more likely. The Dockers hadn’t heard of him until NT Thunder general manager Brendan Curry told the club’s list boss Brad Lloyd to watch him ahead of the 2015 AFL rookie draft. Nyhuis dominated across half-back in Nightcliff’s 115-point NTFL thrashing of Waratah in a best-afield performance before getting rookie-listed by Freo with pick 34. After starting in Peel’s reserves the next season, Nyhuis was taught a lesson by former Saint and Docker Brett Peake in his senior WAFL debut against East Fremantle. From there he continued to develop into a reliable defender. He had a negating role on star forward Liam Ryan in Peel’s drought-breaking grand final win, where he kept the Subiaco high-flyer to one goal to be among the best players.
WALTERS 1 MICHAEL
Oozes class and enters the derby as the most dangerous player on the field. In career-best form, kicking a team-high 20 goals despite splitting his time in the midfield. In contention for a first Doig Medal.
YEO 2 ELLIOT
Star utility will play his 100th game. Not quite in the same scintillating form as earlier in the season, but consistent and looms as a game changer anywhere on the field.
this season. Needs to run Darcy off his feet and try to expose him around the ground.
Key figures: Eagle Elliot Yeo and Docker Nat Fyfe square off in the Round 6 derby. Picture: Daniel Wilkins
SPURR 33 LEE
Tough defender returns from injury to add some experience to a young Freo defence. Has often been given the job on LeCras.
BALLANTYNE 34 HAYDEN
Huge day for the veteran goalsneak, who is part of derby folklore. Out of contract and needs a performance to ensure it won’t be his final derby.
NEALE 3 LACHIE
BARRASS 35 TOM
The dual Glendinning medallist is his team’s leading clearance winner. Numbers slightly down on last season, but still going at 28 touches a game and has been Freo’s most consistent player.
Emerging youngster has found himself out of favour a couple of times, but looks to have all the tools to become a quality key defender.
SHUEY 4 LUKE
TUCKER 36 DARCY
MCGOVERN 5 JEREMY
RYAN 37 LUKE
FYFE 6 NAT
SCHOFIELD 38 WILL
Young utility has kicked five of his 10 career goals over the past three weeks. Can play a role forward but will aim to develop into a genuine midfielder.
Explosive midfielder is his side’s leading clearance winner and a key man the Dockers have looked to shut down in the past. When he fires, the Eagles win.
Mature-age VFL pick-up will play in his first derby. Has gradually built since making his debut in round 11 and looks like making it at AFL level.
The team’s Mr Fixit appears set for a permanent return to defence given the return of Josh Kennedy. Uses his strong hands and footy brain to good effect at either end.
Brownlow medallist played his best game of the season last weekend. The skipper, who has a strong derby record without winning a Glendinning Medal, will be desperate to lead from the front.
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JOSH KENNEDY
A huge inclusion for his first game in seven weeks. Has won the past two Glendinning medals but would be a huge ask to repeat the dose.
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ANDREW GAFF
Hard-running link man is averaging a career-high 31 touches as his side’s leading ball winner. Would love to hit the scoreboard more.
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SAM MITCHELL
Former Hawthorn champion is averaging 27 disposals a game in a strong season. Has recently been deployed as a spare man across half-back and is a key on-field general.
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CONNOR BLAKELY
In the headlines for the wrong reasons, however the 21-year-old is developing into a fine player whether playing in the midfield or in defence.
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BRADLEY HILL
Running machine has had a strong first season in purple to justify his trade from Hawthorn. Going at a career-high 24 touches a game and has kicked 12 goals.
MUNDY 12 DAVID
Former captain will be the most experienced derby player on the
field, making his 23rd appearance. Back after missing with illness last week and could play forward.
JOEL 13 HAMLING
Key defender was beaten by Kennedy in their first derby match-up but will relish the chance for another shot. A quality player who can also intercept.
JETTA 14 LEWIS
Speedster has looked a new man since returning to the team in round 10. Has been used at kick-outs to take advantage of his silky right boot.
HILL 15 STEPHEN
Line-breaking midfielder has an excellent derby record, but has not been the same damaging player since returning from a hamstring injury.
JOHNSON 16 MICHAEL
Veteran defender will play in his 20th and possibly final derby. The 32-year-old has defied his body to play every game this season.
HURN 17 SHANNON
Skipper was quiet last week after returning from a severe head knock and should be better for the run. Booming kick always a weapon and an underrated one-on-one competitor.
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JACK DARLING
Forward is coming off his best two performances of the season and will hope he can continue that form alongside the returning Kennedy.
PRIDDIS 19 MATT
Champion veteran’s last 30-possession game came in the round six derby win. A third Glendinning Medal looks out of reach, but a gutsy competitor who deserves to be respected.
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SHEPPARD 26 BRAD
Defender is an important player capable of both lock-down jobs and offering rebound. Could get the vital task on Walters when the livewire goes forward.
HUTCHINGS 27 MARK
Quiet last week, but developing well in his fourth season. Inside midfielder is averaging 22 touches.
Midfielder will play his seventh straight game and appears to have found a niche as a tagger. Likely to get a big run-with job.
DARCY 21 SEAN
HUGHES 28 ETHAN
In just his fourth game, he looks capable of beating Nathan Vardy in the hit-outs to give the Freo onballers first use.
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DREW PETRIE
Veteran recruit will play in his first and only derby. Has been good value as a tall forward since coming back from a broken hand.
WELLER 23 LACHIE
Third-year youngster has played every game since the beginning of last season. Offers a rebounding outlet from defence.
LECRAS 24 MARK
Returned fit and fresh to break a long scoring drought with four goals last week. Has a fantastic record in derbies.
SUBAN 25 NICK
Midfielder will play his 150th game after being thrown a career lifeline as a tagger. Will play his fourth straight game after a long absence. Could get the job on Shuey. †
Defender had a career-high 30 possessions a fortnight ago to suggest he’s got some upside. Might have to take one of the Eagles’ talls.
NELSON 29 JACKSON
Rebounding defender returns from a hamstring injury. Has the ability to take on the game and can give the Eagles some dash off half-back.
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Defender returns to the team after being overlooked last week. Could get the job on a small should McGovern slot back into the defence.
COX 39 BRENNAN
Another Freo kid playing in his first derby. Unclear what position he will play long-term but has shown an appetite for the contest.
CRIPPS 40 JAMIE
Small forward’s numbers are similar to his past three seasons but hasn’t looked as effective this year. At his best adds plenty of bite with his attack and pressure.
LOGUE 41 GRIFFIN
First-round draft pick will play his fourth game since being recalled. Still finding his way but looks like a player with upside who will improve over time.
KERSTEN 42 SHANE
Experienced midfielder has been dropped twice since round 10, but is back today to add some run after the Eagles were overrun last week.
Key forward has not lived up to expectations. Dropped and then recalled due to Cam McCarthy’s suspension and is playing for his spot today.
DUGGAN 31 LIAM
NYHUIS 43 RYAN
Highly-regarded youngster has not come on quickly but was one of his team’s better performers last week. Has played in defence but looms as a blue-chip onballer in the long term.
VARDY 32 NATHAN
Imported ruckman has defied his injury history to play every game
Kicked four goals in a fairytale debut. Don’t bet on him repeating that impact, whether deployed as a defensive forward or in defence.
CROZIER 44 HAYDEN
Small forward has tricks but needs to do more. Has kicked just nine goals this season and has probably played his best footy in defence.
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THE inaugural western derby hero has revealed how early confidence against Fremantle got the better of him in one regrettable pre-game outburst. Dual West Coast premiership forward Brett Heady dominated in the first two derbies with consecutive five-goal hauls, picking up three Brownlow Medal votes in the historic opener. Despite not playing in a loss against the Dockers, the 47year-old said not all of his derby memories were good. “I think it was my third or
fourth derby, I’d played well the first couple of games and got ahead of myself,” Heady said this week. “I was lining up for the national anthem and there was just silence around the whole ground. “I don’t know what came over me but I yelled at the Fremantle team ‘look at these guys, they’ve got nothing, we’re going to flog them’, in probably more colourful terms. “Then for the first 15 or 20 minutes of that game, every Docker who ran past me, smashed me, whacked me in the back, punched me.
unhappy, I was just lucky he’s possibly the world’s worst fighter.” Heady tells his two children he was the reason West Coast’s western derby dominance ended in 1999. And while Madison, 15, and Joshua, 9, aren’t totally convinced, their dad has a case. A noted big-game player, Heady played in six derbies – all wins – including the first and last of the team’s nine-game winning run. Shortly after his 156-game AFL career ended due to injury, the Eagles suffered their first loss against their cross-
It was probably one of the silliest things I’ve ever done and they made me pay for it. Brett Heady
“I couldn’t get a sniff the whole game, it was probably one of the silliest things I’ve ever done and they made me pay for it. “I remember big Spider (Matthew) Burton being very
town rivals – a 47-point loss in round 16, 1999. “The first game we lost (against the Dockers) was just after I retired, so I tell my son and my daughter the reason they lost was because I wasn’t there anymore,” Heady said. “They just laugh at me so I’m sure it’s not the case. “My first two derbies were really memorable personally, I managed to kick five in both of them. “I sometimes wonder if they were the only good games I ever played because everybody seems to ring me and talk to me around derby time.”
Best ever? Bell wins on points FOUR-time Glendinning medallist Paul Hasleby and three-time winners Chris Judd, Michael Barlow and Matthew Pavlich are rightly regarded as among the best performers in western derby history. But Champion Data numbers reveal Peter Bell can consider himself unlucky not to be among that class of multiple winners. The former Fremantle skipper has produced four of
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THE QUOTE He's hard to play on. Even when he's having poor games, he's playing on the best defender.” West Coast coach Adam Simpson on Josh Kennedy.
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the top 15 individual derby performances since the AFL competition data provider began collecting the majority of statistics used to compile ranking points in 2003. But Bell owns just one Glendinning Medal after being edged out for the top award on multiple occasions, including the 2004 clash where he produced the best statistical derby performance in 14 years. Chris Robinson
LAST TIME Kennedy booted six majors to win his second straight Glendinning Medal. The Dockers were left to rue their slow start, conceding seven goals to one in the opening term. Votes: 3 Josh Kennedy 2 Jeremy McGovern 1 Elliot Yeo.
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Flashback: Peter Bell outpoints Adam Hunter in 2007.
Schofield backs West Coast’s youth policy CHRIS ROBINSON EXPERIENCED Eagle Will Schofield has endorsed the club’s push to get young players into the side — even if it comes at the expense of his own spot. West Coast coach Adam Simpson this week flagged an injection of youth toward the back end of the season, with potential debutants such as
Luke Partington and Willie Rioli firmly in the selection frame. It comes as 169-gamer Sharrod Wellingham was dropped to make way for Jackson Nelson in the Eagles’ backline ahead of today’s derby clash with Fremantle. West Coast entered the season as the oldest and most experienced side in the AFL, with
spots,” Schofield said. “As you move more to becoming an elder statesman — which unfortunately I’m probably getting towards, even though it’s hard to hear myself say that — you want to see these young guys push for spots. If that’s at the mercy of your own spot, then that’s how footy is.” But Schofield backed fellow defender Wellingham to
senior-listed players averaging 108 games at the beginning of the campaign. Eleven-year veteran Schofield said he was thrilled to see the next tier of talent making their case for selection, saying it helped motivate the club’s established group. “It’s a really healthy competition when you have younger guys pushing the older guys for ††
reclaim his place ahead of the late-season push for a finals berth. “Sharrod’s a proven performer, especially in big games,” he said. “He’s a premiership player at Collingwood and was player of the finals a couple of years back. So he steps up when he’s challenged. I don’t expect him to drop his bundle.”
IF you’ve found it hard to successfully tip the result of West Coast games over the past two months, you’re not alone. The Eagles have left bookmakers red-faced after defying the odds — for better and worse — in their past seven clashes. That run includes losses as favourite against Essendon, GWS, Gold Coast, Melbourne and Port Adelaide, while snaring upset wins while underdog against Geelong and the Western Bulldogs. The Eagles will be desperate to halt the streak this afternoon as they head into the derby as warm $1.38 favourites against Fremantle ($3). “Those tipping the favourite in matches involving West Coast this season have experienced a torrid run,” TabTouch’s Ben Pomatti said. “It’s definitely an unusual pattern to see emerge but it’s been a season for anomalies.” Last weekend’s home defeat to Port Adelaide is unlikely to dent the Eagles’ confidence this afternoon, with Adam Simpson’s side winning its past four derby clashes coming off losses the week prior.
Eagles win age old argument BRIDGET LACY AGE might only be a number, but it’s one of the key storylines heading into western derby 46. The game will have a big say on both team’s finals prospects, but shapes as a battle of boys versus men. West Coast will have nine players 28 or older and just three 21 or younger, while Fremantle will have only four players 28 and up and eight 21 or under, including three teenagers. The differential in game experience is massive — the Eagles boasting 3041 to Fremantle just 1823. Both teams have largely fielded experienced derby lineups in recent seasons, but Fremantle’s rebuild and the departure of a raft of senior players at the end of last season mean they go into this clash with West Coast both rich with youth, but poor in games played. History is against a Dockers win. The team with the higher average age has won 30 of the 45 derbies. Apart from in the early years when the mature West Coast team would regularly beat up on the younger and inexperienced Dockers, the Eagles have generally had the younger sides in derbies. And they have been more often able to overcome being the younger side. The closest comparison to how the teams will line up was western derby 15 in 2002 when Fremantle had nine 21 and under and West Coast just four. West Coast won that day by 19 points in a high-scoring affair.
Slip up: Sam Mitchell is tackled high by Darcy Tucker in the last western derby. Picture: Daniel Wilkins
Eagle Andrew Gaff said derbies were unpredictable and there was still plenty of experience in the Fremantle set up. “In the midfield they’ve still got lots of guys who are pretty senior and it’s more sort of up forward and down back they’ve got a lot of young guys,” he said.
“The midfield is their strength. “Derbies are funny games, it doesn’t matter where they are on the ladder, you’ve got to play well to beat Freo.” Lachie Neale is a dual Ross Glendinning Medal winner, and won his first at just 20 in 2014.
“As the game edges closer we might grab a couple (of the younger players) and give them a warning,” Neale said. “It’s probably just the start. It’s a bit more intense. The crowd will hopefully be roaring – 40,000 Freo fans packed out at Subi. That’s exciting.”
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Bennell back with injury-free hit-out DALE MILLER INJURY-plagued midfielder Harley Bennell was labelled in good spirits after emerging unscathed from his comeback match at Leederville Oval yesterday in a blessing for Fremantle. Playing his first game in 16 months with Peel Thunder, Bennell lacked his trademark polish, but was lively in playing exclusively at full-forward. He finished with 12 disposals and one goal from 60 minutes of restricted game time in Peel’s 28-point win over East Perth. The 2010 No.2 draft pick started the game on the ground and was used in seven-minute bursts throughout the contest. He enjoyed one short stint on the field in the final quarter before being pulled off and put in cotton wool.
obviously really strict with the time he came off the ground, but he got through. “He’s in really good spirits.” With Dockers coach Ross Lyon looking on from the stands, Bennell’s return was not without some nervous moments for Fremantle in a first half where his troublesome calves were put to the test in driving rain. The 24-year-old was at one point knocked to the ground as he attempted to lay a shepherd for teammate Gerald Ugle in the second term after a sustained run back towards goal. Bennell got back to his feet and continued to move freely, ultimately fulfilling Lyon’s pregame wish for the prized midfielder to simply get through the hit-out injury free. His goal came six minutes into the second half when he was awarded a free kick after
Game on: Peel’s Harley Bennell tangles with East Perth’s Jonathan Giles in their WAFL clash yesterday. Picture: Daniel Wilkins
Fremantle football manager Chris Bond said Bennell had got through his return match really well. “We obviously managed his minutes pretty well, but we also managed his distance and speed,” Bond said. “We’re really pleased.
He obviously played the deep forward and around the forward 50m role. It was important for Harley and great to see. “He obviously hasn’t played for such a long period of time that it was just about getting him on to the ground, which we were able to do. We were
being held by opponent Callum Hart in the forward pocket. Bennell took three steps and snapped truly from 25m out in a classy finish to put Peel back in control of the match. He showed signs of rustiness early, with his first four shots on goal returning just one behind. The former Gold Coast onballer showed his sublime skills in one brief passage in the opening term. He scooped up a loose ball off the ground with one hand and gave off a slick handball inside Peel’s forward 50m. Bond said the club would decide the next step for Bennell once the midfielder had completed his post-match recovery. “He was just really happy and it was good to see his family there as well because it’s been a long journey,” he said.
War of words: Adam Selwood and Des Headland clash in round three of 2007. Picture: Mal Fairclough
Hamling, Hill both starters JORDAN MCARDLE BRADLEY Hill has waved off injury concerns, confirming he is a starter in today’s 46th western derby after soreness prevented him from completing training on Wednesday. And his teammate Joel Hamling (hip) looks set for another tussle with West Coast’s dual Coleman medallist Josh Kennedy. Defender Sam Collins, one of three emergencies named on Friday, and fellow backman Zac Dawson both played for Fremantle’s WAFL affiliate Peel Thunder yesterday, meaning the premiership Bulldog is a near-certain starter. Hill, 24, will join his brother Stephen in a derby for the first time this afternoon. “I just had a little bit of general soreness so I thought I’d have a bit of a rest,” the younger Hill said. “I did some boxing instead of training so nothing to worry about, I should be right.” Stephen Hill, 27, missed his young brother’s maiden derby for Fremantle earlier this season with a hamstring injury. The pair did share a grand final experience together in 2013 — albeit on opposing teams during Bradley’s time at Hawthorn. It was one of three premierships won by the former Hawk before he joined the Dockers during last year’s trade period. Despite the magnitude of today’s clash, Bradley needed reminding his older brother wasn’t there last time. “I didn’t realise he didn’t play in the last one,” he said. “It will be good to play in a derby with my brother, hopefully it will be a different result too.” A lot has changed since the Dockers’ 41-point derby hiding earlier this season, with coach Ross Lyon blooding five debutants since. Four of those youngsters — defenders Luke Ryan and Ryan Nyhuis, swingman Brennan Cox and ruckman Sean Darcy — will line up in their first derby today, while eight more of the side are yet to win one. “It’s exciting having young guys come through, they’ve been playing terrific,” Hill said. “We’ve got four or five firstyear players in the side that are playing some good footy, and they’re only going to keep getting better.” Hill hasn’t missed a game since landing at the Dockers, averaging 24 disposals.
Derby sledge still haunts t sorry Selwood JORDAN MCARDLE TEN years on from the most explosive incident in western derby history, West Coast Adam Selwood has extended an olive branch to nemesis Des Headland. On the eve of the last derby at Subiaco Oval, Selwood said sledging the Docker about a tattoo of a female on his arm was the biggest regret of his
187-game AFL career. The 2006 premiership Eagle, who remains at the club in a game development role, was adamant he didn’t realise at the time the ink on Headland’s arm was of his six-year-old daughter Madisan. The incident, which happened in round three, 2007, and dragged well into the next week, was regarded as the lowest point of the relationship
between the two Western Australian clubs. Headland originally copped a three-match ban for striking Selwood, but it was overturned after the tribunal ruled that provocation from Selwood constituted “exceptional and compelling circumstances”. “If there’s something I could take back in my football career, it would be that incident because I am a big family man
and it’s something that was unnecessary,” Selwood told Mix 94.5 yesterday. “But we move on, we learn and I wish his family all the best.” Headland said on the Dead Set Legends show later that morning that while he had long moved on from the incident, it was good to hear Selwood had finally “taken ownership”. The 36-year-old, who finished his 166-game career at ††
Fremantle after winning a premiership with the Brisbane Lions in 2002, said he was happy with “a bit of banter” on the football field, as long as players’ children were kept out of it. Headland has three kids with his wife Chantelle — Madisan, Mason and Carson. “I haven’t spoken to Adam at all since that incident so if he’s come on radio and said he regrets it, it’s good that he’s
taken ownership after all these years that what he said was wrong,” Headland said. “It would be good if he gave me a call, or an apology — face to face would be even better. “At the end of the day, those things happen on the footy field (but) anything to do with kids should be left out of the game. “I’ve moved on from it. That happened ... 10 years ago.”
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BEN HORNE DESPERATE attempts to try and resuscitate the Australia A tour of South Africa fell flat yesterday as cricket’s pay war continues to drag on. The boycotting of the crucial Ashes audition 10 days ago was the single most crushing moment of the saga so far, with its unprecedented cancellation potentially jeopardising the Test aspirations of key players as well as Australia’s overall preparations to face England. For that reason, there was intent from both Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association to make an 11th hour breakthrough at the negotiating table yesterday that would have opened the way for players to head to South Africa tomorrow for a shortened version of the tour. However, not enough progress could be made and South African sources have said they have now been informed there is no hope of Usman Khawaja and his chargers turning up. It’s a bitter blow for players, selectors and the Australian coaching staff, all of whom are far from impressed that both parties couldn’t have done more to get the team on a plane with Ashes planning now compromised. Negotiations are mysteriously placed ahead of a resumption of talks tomorrow, with the two parties still frustratingly apart on key issues – but living in hope that one breakthrough could be all it takes to open the floodgates to a swift agreement being announced. Cricket Australia are encouraged by the progress, while the ACA are more cautious in their optimism. “The increased involvement of CA CEO James Sutherland has been pleasing,” said ACA boss Alistair Nicholson. “A better understanding has been established on both parties’ positions.” There is enormous pressure on both sides to end the war before the team heads to Bangladesh for Test cricket and the baggy green is sacrificed. For a wrap of Australia’s final group match in the Women’s World Cup go to perthnow.com.au
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Up to speed: Soccer player Danny da Silva trains in Albert Park, Melbourne. Picture: George Salpigtidis
WA starlet Danny De Silva revealed that he rejected a romantic return to his former club Perth Glory because he needed to make a calculated call. A pragmatic De Silva said that breaking into a Glory side alongside gun Diego Castro was less realistic than cracking Central Coast’s firstteam. At least two other A-League clubs were interested in De Silva, who reiterated the importance of regular games in a World Cup year, after two frustrating seasons with Dutch club Roda JC. The Mariners’ capture of De Silva was confirmed last week, reuniting him with his former Young Socceroos coach Paul Okon who blooded him at the 2013 FIFA U20 World Cup, age 16. De Silva was handed the coveted No.10 shirt at the Mariners, where he will be Okon’s first-choice attacking midfielder. While De Silva, who debuted for Glory under Alistair Edwards aged 15, played under Kenny Lowe, he conceded their attacking riches — which now also includes Mitch Nichols — would’ve made it hard for him to nail down a regular spot. “Glory’s my first club and they’ll always be close to my heart but for
me it was which club could give me the best opportunity to play,” De Silva said. “I have a lot of respect for Glory but with the players there like Castro, he’s a very good player. Maybe I would play every game, maybe I wouldn’t, but I couldn’t say that (for sure). “No one can 100 per cent guarantee (games) to you but you’ve got to make a good decision for yourself and for your career. Sometimes you do have to be a bit selfish. “I spoke to a few clubs and it was solely based on who I felt comfortable with and who could give me the best opportunities.” De Silva, 20, has impressed in pre-season and looks primed for a Mariners debut in the August 2 FFA Cup clash with Blacktown City. The attacker was ruled out from January with osteitis pubis with regular games on artificial pitches, including Roda JC’s home ground, playing a huge role. He’s still racked up 56 senior games (22 starts), including 20 for Roda JC in all competitions. With a solid foundation laid with a conditioning coach in pre-season and continued pilates and strengthening work, he’s confident of staying durable. “It’s difficult to play on artificial for your body, that’s probably a (reason) I got the injury, but they can’t change the ground for you,” he said. “I played some games, it was a learning experience in Europe. “First-team football is really important at my age and stage of my career, to develop my game and me as a player. “The best thing is for me to come back to the A-League and play, I didn’t play much in Holland last season.’’
Recovering Porte’s storm over descent SAM EDMUND FOIX THE Tour de France goes for 21 days, but Richie Porte won’t be able to walk for another 30. For the next month, the 32year-old will be trapped in a body more befitting of a 90year-old. The transformation from Tour de France favourite to badly-injured dependent couldn’t be more sudden or cruel. Confined to a wheelchair and unable to leave the house, the reminders of one of the worst crashes in Tour history,
hhe has a fractured collarbone, fractured hip, cuts and bruises – his dreams dramatically shattered on the bitumen of the Mont du Chat. “Not being able to walk is the hard one to take,” Porte said. “I can’t use crutches like you normally would and I can use a wheelchair at home, but I can’t really get out of the house. “I’m stuck. I just can’t do anything. I also took quite a lot of skin off which makes sleeping pretty uncomfortable.” When Porte’s coach went back through the data from his bike computer he found the
“It’s not like you’d happily jump out of a car going that fast so it was obviously a fair old impact. In some way I feel lucky to get away with the injuries I have,” Porte said. Yet the feeling of whatmight-have-been is almost as acute as the fractured bones. Porte was riding the Tour de France for BMC as the outright leader of a WorldTour team for the first time. He’d won Tour Down Under, Tour de Romandie, the Paris-Nice queen stage and was the strongest at the Criterium du Dauphine in a glittering 2017 season.
The crash: Richie Porte after the collision. Picture: AP
cyclist was doing 78kmh when he lost control, skidded across the road and into a rock wall where he collided with trailing Irishman Dan Martin. †
Porte is angry over some of the commentary surrounding his crash. The Tasmanian is eager to set the record straight. “I wasn’t going slower than the guys in front or faster than the guys behind. We weren’t going crazy, but the fact is when I touched my brakes to go around that corner, my rear wheel locked up and slipped,” he said. Porte didn’t apportion blame to race organisers for including such a dangerous descent at the end of a long day, but questioned the need for so many downhill finishes.
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sustainability, to housing design and Indigenous rights. More than 200 contributors will be taking part, making for interesting discussions and a movement towards positive change. It’s hosted by the Centre for Social Impact at the University of WA. Tues, 6pm-8.30pm; Wed, from 7.30am; Thurs and Fri from 9am; Sat, 11am-5pm, UWA and satellite sites. Free and ticketed events from $5. Continues until July 28. More at socialimpactfestival.org
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Charismatic songstress Banks will present a cheeky Perth side show before performing at this year’s Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay. Her rise to fame was sharp, landing a support slot for The Weeknd after her EP release, London, in 2013. Now hailed an indie-pop queen with her live shows likened to a religious experience, Banks tours her newest album The Altar. Tues, 8pm, Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley. Tickets $79.90 from astortheatreperth.com
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON – A COSMIC PERSPECTIVE
Have you ever wondered if we should be concerned about the rapid sophistication of artificial intelligence and if it poses a threat to the human race? Or if we encounter alien life, will it agree to the same ethical principles? Unpack these notions and more with everyone’s favourite astrophysicist, the energetic, passionate and enthusiastic science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, as he returns to our shores with A Cosmic Perspective. A champion for critical thinking and science, he will explore the universe in the era of alternative facts via a three-part event, including a presentation, a chat with a local media personality and a half-hour audience Q&A. Sat, 7pm, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. Tickets from $107.95 from Ticketek.
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The link between nature, creativity and wellbeing is celebrated in The Western Australian Association for Mental Health’s Embrace Nature photography exhibition. Highlighting the link between nature and humankind, the photo entries are uplifting and thought-provoking. Tues-Fri, 10am-2pm, WorkZone Foyer, 1 Nash Street, Perth. Continues on weekdays until July 28.
SOCIAL IMPACT FESTIVAL
Home, Land and Place are the three key themes for this year’s Social Impact Festival — a 10-day event where experts and influencers discuss society’s most complex issues, from homelessness and Andrea Demetriades 12 Carice van Houten 14 Game of Thrones 15
WEDNESDAY TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
Two Door Cinema Club’s brand of electro indie-pop provides the base for their new album Gameshow, recorded in California with renowned producer Jacknife Lee. Fans will also hear them branching out into the sounds of Prince, Chic, and neo soul and modernist pop. Joined by Last Dinosaurs and The Creases. Wed, 7pm, Metro City, Perth. Tickets $79.90 from Oztix.
CHIVAS WHISKY SCHOOL
Much more fun than your days learning about maths and science, the Chivas Whisky School’s first monthly master class will introduce students to members of the Chivas Regal family. Twelve to 25-year-old whiskies will be part of the curriculum, each tasting matched with Scottish-inspired small plates created by executive chef and Scotsman Grant Brown. Wed, 7pm-9.30pm, Ball & Chain, Fremantle. Tickets $49 from hotelesplanadefremantle.com Printed by: Colourpress, 54 Hasler Rd, Osborne Park, for the publisher, West Australian Newspapers.
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FRIDAY 2017 VARIETY OF CHEFS
A line-up of some of the country’s best chefs, headed by celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge, will cook up a six-course degustation meal in the name of WA charity Variety. Tantalise the taste buds, along with sommelier-matched wines, as leading chefs, including Stephen Clarke, Sean Marco, Naomi Bulner, Pete Manifis, Karmen Lu and Amanda Young serve up the goods. Fri, 7pm, Crown Towers Ballroom, Perth. Tickets from $290 from varietyofchefs.com.au
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Three artists explore the dual concepts between the real and imagined, political and personal. Consuelo Cavaniglia looks at distant horizons through backdrops used in photography. Yvette Hamilton manipulates light, aperture and mirrors to draw parallels about the illusion of self. Ellen Dahl’s photographic installations reflect on an island’s hard yet corroding boundaries. Fri, 10am-5pm, Perth Centre for Photography, Subiaco. Continues until August 19.
COMA LAND
With hip hop, rock and dance records under their belt, Bag Raiders duo Chris Stacey and Jack Glass say they write music to make them feel good. And their fans agree, following their journey from their first original track Fun Punch in 2008 to the recent resurgence of their 2009 single Shooting Stars, thanks to a wave of internet memes, a Jimmy Kimmel feature and loads of international press. Thurs, 8pm, Villa Nightclub, Perth. Tickets $39.90 from Moshtix. 4 The Sunday Times Guide
BROOKFIELD WINTER LIGHTS FESTIVAL
Brookfield Place will come alive with colour, light and performance for the Brookfield Winter Lights Festival. See projections on heritage buildings, interact with light installations and play with roving performers across the 10-day festival. Wed-next Sun, 6pm-11pm, Brookfield Place, Perth. Continues until July 29.
A bustling line-up of free family activities will take over Bathers Beach for a mid-winter’s blaze. Presented by Blazing Swan Inc. and the City of Fremantle, there will be workshops, food, drinks and a sunset bonfire, weather permitting. Sat, 3pm-9pm, Bathers Beach, Fremantle.
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Boon is a teenage genius who is caught between life and death. It is in this space she discovers a world of pianos, penguins, pandas and parental love. Directed by Will O’Mahony, this Black Swan Lab Production asks if it takes 10,000 hours to master something difficult, then why can it take a lifetime to accept something simple? Thurs and Fri, 8pm, Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Perth. Tickets from $34 from Ticketek. Continues until August 6.
Traipse the coldest corners of the Nordic region at The 2017 Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival. More than 20 films will cover an array of themes, starting with Danish director Charlotte Sieling’s The Man, which takes on intergenerational rivalry in the trendy Copenhagen arts scene. The opening-night screening will be accompanied by pre-film drinks, music by DJ Harvey Rae and a Scandinavian smorgasbord by Miss Maud. Thurs, 6pm, Cinema Paradiso, Northbridge. Openingnight tickets from $31.50 from lunapalace.com.au. Continues until August 2. Full program at scandinavianfilmfestival.com
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Perth-born artist Ian Strange returns home from his New York base to debut his exploration of the concept of “home” through the metaphor of a desert island. Created in the wake of the American housing crisis, Island offers an unsettling look at our psychological relationship to home — a place of refuge but also isolation. He splashes the words SOS, Help and Run across a typical American dream home, exposing a dark truth to the perfect exterior. Sat and next Sun, 10am-5pm, Fremantle Arts Centre. Continues until September 16.
SATURDAY HUSKY
Husky’s Punchbuzz tour, named after their third album, will be a performance in full band mode. The sets will feature their multi-layered sounds and include popular singles Late Night Store and Ghost, which has received plenty of airplay and playlist additions. They will be joined by Teischa. Sat, 8pm, Mojo’s, North Fremantle; next Sun, 6pm, Rosemount Hotel, North Perth. Tickets from $30.60 from Oztix.
SCOTLAND THE BRAVE
A good-old highland fling with almost 100 singers, dancers and musicians, including pipers, drummers and fiddlers, takes the stage for Scotland the Brave, including popular pieces, such as Amazing Grace, Highland Cathedral, The Gael and Auld Lang Syne. The Australian cast features soprano Cheryl Barker, tenor Gregory Moore, Celtic fiddler Marcus Holden and the WA Police Pipe Band. What a treat! Sat, 2pm and 8pm, Perth Concert Hall. Tickets from $59 from perthconcerthall.com.au
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ARTBUBS
Enjoying art with little ones in tow can be difficult, but ArtBubs allows parents to tour the Art Gallery of WA’s latest exhibition The Rise of Sneaker Culture guided by one of AGWA’s Guru Guides. Followed by coffee, cake and conversation in the Imagination Room. Wed, 10.30am-noon, Art Gallery of WA. Tickets $15 including morning tea from artgallery.wa.gov.au
WINTER MARKETS
Browse market stalls at Lollipops’ first winter market as the kids safely play the fun zones.
Thurs, 9am-1pm, Lollipops, Bayswater. Adults, $3.50, children, $7.
Lah-Lah and her Big Live Band
LAH-LAH HAVING FUN
Fun is guaranteed as Lah-Lah and her Big Live Band from hit ABC Kids TV show Lah-Lah’s Adventures, take their stripes and instruments on the Having Fun tour. Educating kids through music, the band create a fun learning environment where everyone can get involved. Sat, 12.30pm, Fremantle Town Hall; next Sun, 12.30pm, Morley Sport and Recreation Centre. Tickets $25.50 from kidspromotions.com.au
BOOK AHEAD SEPTEMBER KEVIN BRIDGES
Billy Connolly dubbed his comedy as “brilliant” and he is a constant sell-out performer. Scotland’s Kevin Bridges comes to Perth, but be quick to get tickets as he has a reputation for smashing box-office records for openingday sales. Sept 9-10, Riverside Theatre, Perth. Tickets $81.50 from Ticketek.
joined by their mates Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog and Henry the Octopus. And Santa Claus will even make a special trip all the way from Greenland. The toddler set will be in seventh heaven. Nov 18, Perth Arena. Tickets from $36.60 from Ticketek
OCTOBER MEG MAC
On the back of her debut long play Low Blows, Meg Mac will mesmerise audiences with her dynamic vocals, enveloping presence and piano rhythms. Named Triple J’s Unearthed artist of the year in 2014, the singer-songwriter garnered an international name playing tracks from her highly-acclaimed EP, including Roll Up Your Sleeves, which went on to feature on US TV show Girls. Oct 6, Rosemount Hotel, North Perth. Tickets $51 from Oztix.
NOVEMBER THE WIGGLES — WIGGLY CHRISTMAS BIG SHOW! TOUR
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DECEMBER CULTURE CLUB
Children of the 80s rejoice as one of the biggest bands of the era are heading our way. The band that brought us mega-hits Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? and Time will embark on a extensive tour of the country with a final pit stop at Perth Arena. Tom Bailey from the Thompson Twins and The Human League provide even more opportunity to revel in the 80s nostalgia. Dec 9, Perth Arena. Tickets from $127.10 from Ticketek.
JULY 2018 KATY PERRY
Perth will be the first stop for global superstar Katy Perry on the Australian leg of her aptly titled, Witness: The Tour. Her powerful performances delighted audiences on her last round of shows in 2014 — Rolling Stone describing them as shows “to damage retinas and blow minds”, and Witness will not disappoint, packed with themes of liberation, change and inspiration. July 24, 2018, Perth Arena. Tickets from $74 from Ticketek. On sale July 19.
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This female character is more complex than a multivitamin
T’S happening again. An unavoidable, incessant buzz around a new TV show that is almost impossible to ignore. I know this because, I admit, I’m the one doing most of the buzzing. I haven’t been this enthralled by a series since Stranger Things. I’m talking about The Handmaid’s Tale. Based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, The Handmaid’s Tale is part fantasy, part horror, part dystopian speculation and wholly captivating. The series is set in Gliead (what was formerly known as the United States), after an extremist Christian fundamentalist group called The Sons of Jacob have overthrown the government in a calculated effort to return their new nation to basic, fundamental values. The Sons of Jacob believe that a growing international infertility epidemic is God’s way of punishing his people for their sins of the past. To combat this, all remaining known fertile women are collected, trained and forced to serve high-ranking, barren Gileadian official couples as their handmaids by bearing their children. Twisted, right? Religious salutations are required by the laws of Gilead, residents acknowledging each other with chilling greetings, such as “Under his eye”, “Blessed be the fruit” (proper response May the Lord open”) and “Praise be”, which is usually uttered while walking past the hanging bodies of murdered traitors. This is a new world where piety is demanded and sex is a violation masked as a ceremony, where being caught reading costs a woman a finger and where a savage, brutal military presence overseas all. Highly stylised, the bleak and gruesome existence of the characters is mirrored in the sets, costumes and colours of the show. The Handmaid’s Tale boasts an all-star line-up, perfectly cast. Elisabeth Moss plays the fragile yet resilient lead Handmaiden, Offred (as she is no longer anything more than a piece of incubating property, her previous identity has been eradicated
and Kim Jong-un in North Korea! Kathryn, Beaconsfield
Y A S YOUR TALE FOR THE AGES Anyone who says there isn’t anything decent to watch on free-to-air television these days should take a moment to have a look at The Handmaid’s Tale on SBS On Demand. It’s astounding. And even though the novel was written by Margaret Atwood some years ago, it’s amazing how horrifyingly real it all seems in a world where we have Donald Trump as US President, Vladimir Putin in Russia
DOCO REVEALS HORRORS Young and Gay in Putin’s Russia was pretty hard to watch. While our country debates gay marriage, others are fighting for their personal freedoms. In Russia, violence against homosexuals is on the rise and homophobia is sanctioned by the state. It’s horrifying stuff. Well done SBS Viceland for presenting a glimpse into the bigotry and corruption that abounds in Russia. Tony, Bateman ACCIDENTAL FAN I accidentally watched an encore episode of Offspring, which I've avoided because I thought it was a medical soap opera. Why didn't anyone say that it is quirky? I have now ordered season one from my library. Susan, Wembley
Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid's Tale and she is merely the handmaid “of Fred”). In the lead role, Moss has much weight on her shoulders, and it is down to her portrayal of authentic humanity in the most unfathomable scenarios that the audience condones her many sufferings and delights in her few tiny victories. Joseph Fiennes plays Commander Fred Waterford, and is suitably menacing in a quiet, entitled and calculated way. Yet it’s Australian Yvonne Struhovski who steals every scene as Serena Joy Waterford, the Commander’s wife. This female character is more complex than a multivitamin, and she nails it. Never have I seen such a measured, malevolent, yet oddly justifiable, villain. Flashbacks are plentiful, which in most cases I find rather tedious. But in this case, each one slowly permits every unanswered piece of the puzzle to slip into place, gradually revealing the events that have led to such an unthinkable reality. If you like startling performances, spectacular styling and innovative storytelling, my suggestion is that you get The Handmaid’s Tale under your eyes at your very first opportunity. The Handmaid’s Tale is now streaming on SBS On Demand.
LOVING GOOD KARMA Finally some good entertainment — thank you ABC! I have so been enjoying The Good Karma Hospital, it makes for good Saturday night viewing. Please keep it coming. Beverley, Bunbury
MORE TIME IN THE BAY Why does Channel 7 like to show promos for two months before they are shown? Why has Home and Away been put back to 30 minutes on Thursdays? I was loving the one-hour format. Barry, Bunbury NOTHING WRONG WITH NOSTALGIA Sandra Peterson (Out of the Box, July 9) would do well to come out of her age time zone and realise there are untold numbers of older viewers who would welcome the nostalgia of old sitcoms. Night after night we sit and curse and
swear (under our collective breaths, of course) because we have no desire to watch stupid reality shows and anything decent is shown after our bedtime. Yes, I know we can record shows, but the problem is finding time to watch them as we are busy living in the real world during daylight hours. Margaret, Mandurah TENNIS ANYONE? I am enjoying escaping our cold nights by soaking up all the sunshine, glamour and action from Wimbledon on 7Two. To me, Wimbledon is the ultimate tennis tournament and it is great that the Seven Network has got behind it and presents it live to Australian audiences, despite the time difference. It will be exciting to see who triumphs and wins the coveted championship and which royals and celebs turn up to watch. Rita, Sorrento
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Lewis MacDougall in A Monster Calls
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IT COMES AT NIGHT ᗂᗂᗂᗂ (MA15+) 109 mins Creepy post-apocalyptic thriller starring Joel Edgerton.
KEDI ᗂᗂᗂᗂ (G)79 mins Beguiling and illuminating doco that follows the misadventures of seven stray cats in Istanbul.
A MONSTER CALLS STARRING: Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver DIRECTOR: J.A. Bayona ᗂᗂᗂ IN CINEMAS: July 27 (PG) 108 mins VERDICT: Fantasy with a bite
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OME problems are just too big for a 12-year-old boy to face alone. That’s where the eponymous tree monster in this keenly observed coming-of-age drama comes in. Conor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) lives with his mum, Lizzie (Felicity Jones), in a homely two-up, two-down on the edge of a mist-shrouded English town. His bedroom window overlooks a church and graveyard, dominated by an ancient yew tree. It’s a rich and evocative vista and one wonderfully ripe for allegory. Lately, Conor’s mum hasn’t been as available as either of them would have liked — chemotherapy is really knocking her about and she’s been sleeping a lot of the time. On a practical level, the stoic youngster is coping extremely well. The shadows under his eyes, however, suggest deep inner turmoil. School may have offered Connor a temporary distraction, were it not for a relentless bully who compounds his sense of isolation. Conor’s father (Toby Kebbell) has remarried and relocated to LA and his stern, buttoned-up grandmother (Signourney Weaver) is about as far removed from the cuddly, comforting 8 The Sunday Times Guide
archetype as a person can get. This child could definitely use a shoulder to lean on — not to mention some sage counsel. Lo and behold, as Conor sits drawing at his desk at the witching hour, unsettled by yet another nightmare, the wind blows, the floorboards rattle, and the yew tree transmogrifies into a gnarled and grizzled beast, with lava flowing through its veins and Liam Neeson’s voice. He’s a wild creature, but a good one to have on your side. The Monster tells Conor he will recount three stories (the first one is beautifully rendered in animated water-colours). A fourth, he says, will be expected in return. As is the case with all the best parables, the ones told by the creature aren’t straight forward or easy to read. But they do provide navigational tools for Conor’s emotional odyssey. A Monster Calls is the first of Patrick Ness’s prize-winning Young Adult novels to be adapted into a film. Chaos Walking, starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, is scheduled for a March 2019 release. He and J.A. Bayona, the Spanish director of The Orphanage (2007) and the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, are a natural fit. Darker than most films of its ilk, A Monster Calls doesn’t pussyfoot around the difficult bits. Bayona shifts easily between the raw, painful reality of Conor’s situation and the allegorical fantasies that help him make some kind of sense of it. VICKY ROACH
A QUIET PASSION ᗂᗂᗂᗂ (PG) 124 mins Visually exquisite biopic on 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson. HOTEL COOLGARDIE ᗂᗂᗂᗂ (MA15+)86 mins Fly-on-the-wall documentary set in a Coolgardie pub. SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING ᗂᗂᗂ (M) 133 mins This arachnid superhero reimagining features heart-stopping action sequences and set pieces. FIRST GIRL I LOVED ᗂᗂᗂ (M) 91 mins Bold and honest coming-of-age drama featuring naturalistic performances. HOUNDS OF LOVE ᗂᗂᗂ (MA15+) 108 mins Taut and unsettling locally made thriller. Not for the faint-hearted.
THE BEGUILED ᗂᗂᗂ (M) 94 mins Atmospheric Southern gothic melodrama and remake.
PARIS CAN WAIT DIRECTOR: Eleanor Coppola STARRING: Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin, Arnaud Viard IN CINEMAS: Thursday (PG) 92 mins ᗂᗂᗂ VERDICT: Light as a soufflé
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OT on the heels of Sofia Coppola’s latest movie The Beguiled, comes a movie from another member of the distinguished Coppola clan. Paris Can Wait marks the feature directorial debut of Sofia’s mother and wife of auteur Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Eleanor Coppola. The 81-year-old filmmaker has written and directed this beguiling comedy, that best works as a travelogue of rural France and appreciation of fine food and culture. As a piece of narrative fiction, however, Paris Can Wait is a meandering tale that proves ultimately unsubstantial. The evergreen Diane Lane (Under the Tuscan Sun, Man of Steel) stars as the glamorous but under-appreciated wife of big-wig film producer Michael (a charismatic but smarmy Alec Baldwin). Anne (Lane) has accompanied her hubby to France on a business trip, but soon learns he needs to head to Hungary to attend a last-minute meeting. Suffering from an ear infection, Anne agrees to meet up with her spouse in Paris after his trip, travelling by car with Michael’s accommodating business associate, Jacques (Arnaud Viard). Paris Can Wait then follows Anne’s scenic road trip from Cannes to the French capital as her charming but flirtatious host and “tour guide” takes her off the beaten track to savour mouth-watering cuisine and gaze at historical sights. During the sojourn, the protagonist reflects on her life, marriage and future. The charm of this leisurely jaunt lies in Coppola’s subtle direction and the seductive settings. GAVIN BOND
BABY DRIVER ᗂᗂᗂ (MA15+) 113 mins Super slick and frenetic heist thriller. Diane Lane in Paris Can Wait
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RAP a free-spirited beauty in a draughty, isolated mansion without industry or affection and things are unlikely to turn out well. Nor do they turn out as expected in this raw and visceral adaptation of a 19th Century Russian novel (Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,
which in turn was inspired by the Shakespearean classic). When the film opens, an impoverished Katherine (Florence Pugh) has been married off to the dour and lank-haired Alexander (Paul Hilton), son of a wealthy mine owner in northern England. Retiring to the marital bedroom, Katherine’s bullied and bitter new husband demands she disrobe, then sexually humiliates her — without consummating the marriage. It’s a brutal introduction to a cold new world of spying eyes and creaking floorboards. Katherine’s real tormentor, however, is her father-in-law, Boris (Christopher Fairbank), a mean, spiteful old man who demands submissiveness and compliance. The shots of Katherine sitting straight-backed on an overstuffed couch, trussed up in her corseted finery, so bored she is fighting off sleep, speak volumes. But she is no classic Victorian victim. When the men are called away on business, Katherine seizes the chance to range freely around the property.
Something shifts when she surprises a group of estate workers weighing the naked, traumatised black housemaid (Naomi Ackie) in a sling designed for pigs and cows. Katherine’s immediate physical attraction to the belligerent stable-hand Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis) is confronting. But their intense, lustful Lady Chatterley-style relationship is certainly mutual. An intoxicated Katherine extends her sexual liberation into a more general one, living openly with Sebastian in the house. When Boris returns, she literally gets away with murder. And in this first instance, her actions almost feel vindicated. Katherine’s second crime might also be explained as one of passion, but her third unspeakable act of transgression simply feels inexorable. Lady Macbeth is a riveting bodice-ripper that also manages to canvas issues of power, class, race and gender politics, without labouring any of the aforementioned points. VICKY ROACH
FILM Tom Glynn-Carney and Cillian Murphy, right, in Dunkirk. Below, Kenneth Branagh.
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LOOK of terror spread across the face of Irish actor Cillian Murphy as he was told his rescue boat would return to the horrors of Dunkirk beach. Shivering in a towel on the deck of a tiny boat, Murphy’s character — a war-torn soldier — had just been pulled from the water after his ship was bombarded by a squadron of aircraft. “No, I’m not going back,” he muttered with disbelief. The captain of the ship — played by Oscar winner Mark Rylance — calmly told him: “There’s no hiding from this son. We’ve got a job to do.” It was this scene in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming WWII epic, Dunkirk, that stunned a London theatre packed full of film critics. Murphy, 41, best known for playing the seemingly fearless gangster Tommy in the acclaimed television show Peaky Blinders, realit of how post-traumatic stress had tapped into the brutal reality disorder was once mistaken as cowardice. Sitting down for a chat in London, s Murphy speaks about how both Tommy s and the soldier he played in Dunkirk were hau both haunted by undiagnosed PTSD. “Tom “Tommy has PTSD as well, but that term didn’t exist back then, obvi obviously,” he says. “None of us here can inherently qu quantify what it was like to be st stuck there on that beach. “I guess my character thinks he’s escaped Dunkirk, but it looks like he’s heading back and for him, whatever state of
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mind he’s in, to get his head around that is very tricky. For all the physical damage that was done and the death, we still have to bear in mind the physiological damage that these guys went through, which was huge because they didn’t really know how to treat it back then. “They just sent them away to try and get well and they didn’t, and so back then we didn’t speak about it. We kept it all bottled up and we now know that’s probably not a healthy way of dealing with it. It was very interesting to read about that stuff and talk to Chris (Nolan) in order to understand my character.” The Battle of Dunkirk was one of the Allied force’s greatest defeats, but in true British spirit, it is celebrated today as a moment of triumph. Nearly 400,000 Allied soldiers were trapped in the French port of Dunkirk for nine gruelling days from May 26, 1940, surrounded by German troops. Murphy, like most who grew up in the UK, heard tales of heroics and sorrow from the Dunkirk evacuation as a child. But what stood out the most during his research was the role that the everyday Brit played in saving lives. “It was crazy because my character is
ALL-STAR CAST EXPLORES THE SPIRIT THAT HELPED TURN THE TIDE IN ONE OF BRITAIN’S DARKEST WWII MOMENTS, WRITES JACK HOUGHTON
rescued by civilians, which is extraordinary because he was trying to get out and non-military personnel were trying to get in,” he says. “The film explores the courage of all of those civilians and Chris brings all the different aspects of the conflict together brilliantly. It was great to be a part of.” If the Germans had moved their forces forward, most of the men on the beach would have died and the war could have ended. Historians believe they were saved by a “Halt Order” given by Nazi commanders worried about losing valuable tanks. It gave the Brits enough time to send a makeshift fleet of tugboats, fishing vessels and luxury yachts to ferry troops home. Kenneth Branagh, who plays a British naval commander, says the impact of those efforts, which saved 330,000 lives, cannot be underestimated more than 70 years later. “Your life and mine would have been profoundly changed had that courageous, brave, patient, impossible moment not been lived through by people who stuck at it, and in so doing protected all of our futures,” Branagh says. “Its place in our military, social, political, and emotional history that can never be underestimated.” Tom Hardy, who plays an heroic RAF pilot, had a personal reason for signing up for Dunkirk. “My grandad was at Dunkirk,” he says. “He told me about it.” And having worked with Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises and Inception, he had no hesitation about coming back for a third film with the master director. “Chris is the best at what he does,” Hardy says. “He pushes and inspires me as an actor. I’d jump on any role just to be in the company.” Dunkirk is in cinemas on Thursday.
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RANT Denyer has plenty of reasons to celebrate — just being alive, for a start. Then there is his 40th birthday on September 12 and the third anniversary of Channel Ten’s hit quiz show, Family Feud. He nearly wasn’t here to pop the champagne after narrowly escaping death in a horror rally car crash in March. After slamming his silver Lotus into a tree at 160km/h, it’s a miracle he escaped with just a broken sacrum, bruising and smashed hands. Family Feud fans would have noticed Denyer wearing bandages and a brace during recent episodes. He only got to April’s Logie Awards — where he was nominated for the gold — thanks to painkillers. “I’m back to 100 per cent, which is fantastic,” Denyer says. “Funnily enough, it is my wedding ring finger, which I also broke in the accident, that has been the slowest to heal.” His wife, Cheryl, nursed him back to health, with some hugs and help from the couple’s two children, Sailor and Scout. So, has the recent accident given the family man any second thoughts about motor racing? The answer is “no”. He has his sights set on round two of the Australian Endurance Championship in Sydney next month. “I’ll be back in the race car for sure,” Denyer says. “You don’t want your last experience to be a bad one . . . and what lesson would I be teaching my kids if you have a knock and then you give up? I’ve been jumping in motion simulators to try and make sure the body is OK and I’ve got the grip in my hand and can change gears, and it is fine. “Cheryl completely left the decision to me, which was wonderfully gracious. She comes to the track all the time with the kids and it is a big part of her life as well.” Well what about Channel 10? Didn’t they read him the riot act? After all, Denyer is the heart and soul of Family Feud. “Surprisingly, no,” Denyer says. “I thought I was going to get a sit-down chat, but it never happened. I think they understand that motorsport is part of the deal.” Family Feud fits Denyer like a glove and he has made the show his own. “When I did the audition, something clicked and I laughed my heart out,” he says. “It suits my personality perfectly. The unpredictability of the show makes it so rewarding.” Family Feud, weeknights, 6pm, Ten/WIN Grant Denyer
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T’S not every day you hold a heart in your hands in the name of acting. Not literally, anyway. But that was the case for West Australian actor Andrea Demetriades who stars as a surgical resident Dr Lou Tannis in ABC’s new medical drama, Pulse. Demetriades says it was an intense day on set when Lou got to hold the heart (which actually belonged to a pig) during a dramatic transplant procedure. “I was quite taken with that moment,” the 34-year-old says. “Luckily, I’m not squeamish. But to be able to do that, to resuscitate a heart with your hands, it’s an amazing thing. You can’t be reverent, it’s an amazing thing these doctors do.” The series, which also stars Broome actor Claire van der Boom in the lead role of Dr Frankie Bell, is based on the experiences of co-creator Mel Hill, who gave up a lucrative career in finance to become a doctor following a life-changing kidney transplant. Unsurprisingly, the issue of organ donation features heavily in first few episodes. Demetriades says it’s something that doesn’t get talked about enough and she is glad the show might stimulate discussion within families and the wider community. “It can be a hard thing to talk about, but organ transplants can give life to so many people,” she says. “I learnt a lot about it through the show. For instance, I wasn’t aware of altruistic donors — people that just go ‘I’m going to donate a kidney because I can’. That blows my mind.” The issue can be morally and politically fraught and Pulse doesn’t shy away for difficult matters, such as transplant lists and how emotions shouldn’t dictate who receives an organ. As a young doctor, Lou has to learn how to manage her feelings when it comes to these issues. “Lou has to learn to switch all that off,” Demetriades says. “She was a vet before she became a doctor, but it was very different saying to a family that their pet has died compared to saying ‘I’m sorry your mum has gone, did she speak about organ donation?’.” Politics, bed shortages and the life-and-death dramas of hospital life also provide a rich source of storylines for the staff at Sydney’s fictional City West Public Hospital. “There’s so many stories to tell,” Demetriades says. “There’s the patients and the families and then all the doctors and their relationships with one another. And ultimately, despite what is going on with the doctors and their personal lives, they can’t let 12 The Sunday Times Guide
Andrea Demetriades it permeate their work because there’s lives at stake.” Demetriades says this is another lesson the headstrong Lou, who makes the mistake of jumping into bed with senior surgeon Dr Rowan Mitri (Blessing Mokgohloa) in episode one, has to learn. While Lou’s decisions may be questionable, Demetriades says that just makes her more fun to play. “Lou wears her heart on her sleeve, she’s flawed and that’s what I love about her,” she says. Ultimately, Lou’s impulsive personality puts her at odds with surgeon Dr Maggie Cutter, played by Susie Porter. “Lou has to toughen up a bit and that’s why Cutter has a go at her,” Demetriades says. “She has to learn to be able to turn off
that emotion. So with Cutter she develops this interesting relationship. “Maybe Cutter sees a bit of herself in Lou and she is trying to push her into line.” Having worked with Porter on previous series, including Seven Types of Ambiguity and Janet King, Demetriades says she enjoyed the relationship the two characters have in Pulse. “Susie and I seem to keep following each other around,” she laughs. “I am constantly learning from her because she’s not only an extraordinary actress, but a really lovely person as well.” Demetriades, who grew up in Mount Lawley and studied dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) before pursuing acting at NIDA, says she also enjoyed working alongside fellow NIDA graduate van der Boom. “We got along straight away and I think it’s because we understand each other,” Demetriades says. “She’s from Broome and just very down-to-earth. She was actually the year above me at NIDA, but I hadn’t seen her since because she lives in the US, so it was nice to work together.” Pulse, Thurs, 8.30pm, ABC
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Seven Game of Thrones facts 1. You could watch every episode and still be unable to appreciate all the plot intricacies, which include everything from court intrigue, incest and murder, to the supernatural and beheadings. 2. You’ll need a strong stomach to handle the bloodshed, raunchy sex and diseases. 3. We know almost nothing about Jon Snow’s heritage, except it was revealed last season that his father was not Ned Stark, and he may be a Targaryen — which possibly makes Daenerys his half-sister. 4. Don’t get too attached to the characters. You never know when they’ll die. And they will die. 3. Accept characters can come back from the dead (we’re talking about you, Jon Snow), unlike in Stranger Things, where it seems there is no justice to be had for Barb in the The Upside Down. 4. Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf anti-hero, is one of the show’s most loved characters. He has been rejected by his family and killed his father, but he’s still flourishing. (We’re waiting with bated breath to see his return to Westeros with the Mother of Dragons, Daenerys.) 5. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) ate a stallion’s heart to cement her power and is on her way to claim the Iron Throne. With Tyrion as her adviser and dragons in her army, will she succeed? 6. Winter has come to the north. What havoc will the White Walkers wreak? 7. Change is the only constant in this wild, fantasy world.
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and Ba dw Ary ass no act and Wi tha at Carice van Houten as Melisandre in Game of Thrones Judging by Melisandre’s brief stint in the teaser clip, it appears she is set to make her way to Dragonstone, with hardcore fans speculating she could have dealings with Iron Throne contender Daenerys Taragaryen (Emilia Clarke). However, van Houten teased that viewers would witness a far more vulnerable side to her character, which we got a glimpse of towards the end of the sixth series after she was banished from the North for burning Shireen at the stake. “It was very hard to defend (Melisandre) for a long time, I was struggling hard,” she says. “I was always saying, ‘she’s doing it for the greater good’. I always tried not to play her as a villain, but someone who thought she was doing the right thing. But I was very happy when there was that moment when she actually confesses she was wrong and that made her human for me. “As an actor, that was the nicest thing to play, to finally let that bubble break a little bit. To show some sort of vulnerability.” Game Of Thrones Mon, 9am and 6.30pm, Foxtel Now and Showcase.
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Poor Theon Greyjoy. He had his gentleman’s sausage chopped off by Ramsay Bolton and was beaten into calling himself Reek and sleeping with the dogs. Still, he did betray Robb Stark, slaughter a garrison of his own people, chop the head off his old teacher Ser Rodrik and burn two boys. Yes, he did help rescue Sansa from Ramsay Bolton, but that doesn’t quite balance the ledger. He needs to redeem himself in battle and show he’s not such a silly sausage after all.
TOMORROW, SEASON SEVEN OF GAME OF THRONES HITS OUR SCREENS. FANS ACROSS THE WORLD ARE CROSSING THEIR FINGERS AND HOPING THE SEVEN-EPISODE SEASON WILL FEATURE THESE SEVEN EVENTS.
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1. THE STARK REUNION
Ah, the poor Starks. At first we thought patriarch Ned Stark was going to be the hero of this series, until his head was cut off in season one. Then we thought his son, Robb, was going to save the day. He was shot with arrows, stabbed and had his head cut off in season three. Matriarch Catelyn had her throat cut at the Red Wedding and youngest son, Rickon, was shot full of arrows in the Battle of the Bastards. Sansa has been betrothed and married off to kings, dwarfs and monsters, manipulated, humiliated and raped. Arya has been captured, blinded and learnt to be an assassin, while Bran has been wandering around the frozen north, learning to be the Three Eyed Raven. And then we come to Jon Snow who (spoiler alert) is not actually a Stark at all. Last season we saw an emotional reunion between Sansa and Jon. And finally it looks like Arya and Bran will return to Winterfell and the Starks will rise again. The old proverb says that revenge is a dish best served cold. And it’s bloody cold at Winterfell at the moment. n s n s
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2. LITTLEFINGER GETS THE CHOP
Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish started this whole game of thrones by persuading his secret lover, Lysa Arryn, to poison her husband Jon and blame it on the Lannisters. Since then he’s helped poison Cersei’s son Joffrey, betrayed Ned Stark to his death, thrown Lysa out of her Moon Door and married Sansa off to the evil rapist Ramsay Bolton. Now he’s in Winterfell, like a lecherous spider, spinning his webs around Jon and Sansa. Fans thought the way Sansa killed her scumbag husband Ramsay — feeding him to his own hounds — was brilliant. Now we hope she’ll find an even better way to get rid of Littlefinger.
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Ever since we met Sandor “The Hound” Clegane and his brother Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane, we’ve been longing for this. The brothers hate each, especially after Gregor stuck The Hound’s head in a fire as a child. While The Hound abandoned the cowardly Joffrey, saved Arya and amused us with his violent one-liners, The Mountain has been going around cutting the heads off horses. Now he’s Cersei’s pet killer, a half-zombie monster brought back from the dead. The Hound, meanwhile, is with
Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) and Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish (Aidan Gillen).
the Brotherhood Without Banners and likely to join son. up with Jon Snow this season. om filming suggest the Leaked photographs from eet in season seven. It’s Cleganes could actually meet possibly the only way The Mountain can die now.
4. JON AND DAENERYS LOCK LIPS
We know the White Walkers are heading south, we know the Night King wants to destroy everything living. He can’t do that while the magical Wall stands. But there is a way. He touched Bran Stark and that enables him to pass through any magical wards to follow the new Three Eyed Raven. And where is Bran heading? Why, to Winterfell and a Stark family reunion. Surely one of the last scenes of season seven will be The Wall falling and the Night King finally crossing into Westeros.
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Jon Snow has spent six seasons asons smouldering up at The Wall, while Daeny has been wandering around msy dresses. the east, rocking those flimsy Yes, he’s still pining for the sexy Wildling girl who died in his his arms, while she left her muscled mercenary lover back in thee East. We know they ut many also want to see join forces in this season, but chnically it’s quite likely them lock lips. All right, technically they are in fact cousins, butt when has that mattered in Westeros?
5. CERSEI GETS HER COMEUPPANCE MEUPPANCE
OK, she’s had a pretty rough gh time of it — all three of her children are dead, her father was shot (by her brother) while on the toilett and let’s not forget her memorable Walk of Shame through the capital. But me to blow up many of Cersei has also found the time unk of King’s Landing her enemies and a good chunk on Throne. before ascending to the Iron ing to do anything Utterly ruthless and willing able foe for to win, she will be a formidable ow. both Daenerys and Jon Snow. ack for the We all want some payback arks way she slaughtered the Starks ould and Tyrells. This season should ets be the one where Cersei gets what she deserves. Or it could be the one where she becomes an ally against the Night King.
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TALKIN’ ’BOUT MY GENERATION Of course, our parents’ generation criticised us soundly, because that is their job. It was the era of grunge, so our music and fashion choices were deemed depressing and ridiculous (to be honest, they kind of were). And we became increasingly disenchanted as the free university education our parents enjoyed was snatched from us. No wonder Gen X is widely viewed as the cynical generation. We lived in share houses. I once slept in a dining room that was converted into a bedroom to fit more people into the house. Its main feature was that it had excellent access to the kitchen. So of course Gen X is going to be critical of the millennials. They have such wildly different priorities. Twenty-somethings who still live at home, not paying any rent or expenses, are on yachts in Croatia. Croatia was barely even a country when I was their age, let alone an accessible tourist destination. And they have technology literally at their fingertips, so naturally the older generations think they’re lazy, when really they’re just using what’s at hand. It’s no wonder the millennials feel aggrieved by the constant criticism, because for most of their lives, they’ve been protected from it. This is the generation that’s been praised wildly for merely existing. They’ve been rewarded for participating, and their delicate psyches have been shielded from being beaten on the sporting field. They are the “everyone gets a go” generation. Imagine what a shock it must be to discover someone thinks there’s something wrong with you after all these years of being acclaimed. Don’t worry, millennials. Your turn will come. I give it 15 years before you’re sneering at the next generation, muttering that they have no idea about the hardships you endured. “Remember when we had to drive our cars ourselves?” you’ll say. Yes, your turn will come.
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igh above the city streets, Robyn Lawley is perched on a rooftop, swaying playfully and sensually to the beat of a hip-hop song. The surprisingly bright winter sun beats down on the 28-year-old Australian, who expertly tilts her head as a photographer snaps away. She looks comfortable and happy — disarmingly so, given that despite the sun it is cold and blustery. And Lawley is not wearing any pants. It is a wholly abnormal situation, but Lawley’s career has always been about beating back expectations and redefining what’s “normal” in modelling. In theory, she hits the trifecta. She has gorgeous bone structure, a mane of luxurious hair and legs that go on for days. But because she is not a sample size six, instead wearing a 12–14, she is labelled plus-size. And for more than a decade she has happily claimed the mantle, knocking down barriers for fellow “big girls” and looking great while doing it. Lawley was one of the first plus-size models to appear on the cover of French Elle and Vogue Italia. She was among the first to appear in campaigns for Ralph Lauren and Pantene. And while Ashley Graham may have been the first
plus-size model to cover Sports Illustrated’s coveted swimsuit issue this year, Lawley ostensibly helped gain her entrée when, back in 2015, she was the first plus-size model to feature in an editorial spread for the edition. Even she seems flummoxed by where she’s landed, modestly saying: “I didn’t expect any of it, to be honest. You go into it hoping you’ll do well, but it’s one of those jobs you can’t predict at all. I really hit at the perfect time.” When the average Australian woman hits the shops, she searches for a size 14-16. Lawley brings facts like this, along with a healthy dose of brio and bravado, to what can sometimes be an ugly debate. She wants to be — and is already at — the forefront of efforts to change public perceptions about body image and beauty standards. And she does not mince words when she talks about it. “Why in the hell haven’t we seen regular-sized women in mainstream media before,” Lawley asks STM. “It just doesn’t make sense to me. I think we got really obsessed with one type of frame for a really long time.” She sounds incredulous when she notes: “Everyone’s acting so surprised that these (plus-size) girls are beautiful. It’s just more representative of people that we see every day. “It’s such a stupid ideal we follow. Why can’t we just empower women to love their bodies as they are? It »
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sounds clichéd, but that’s been my message from the start — and always will be.” Former Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clements says that when Lawley showed up to shoot an editorial spread for the magazine in 2011 — she was the first plus-size model to feature in its then 52-year history — she was astounded by the disconnect. “It made me stop in my tracks. We were all like, ‘If that’s what a plus-size model looks like, then we’re all out of our minds’. It’s silly. I remember thinking, ‘Hang on a second, everybody’s got to readjust their focus’.” Lawley pursues the same goal when she reaches out to young girls. One of the key messages she wants to send to future generations is that “perfecting” their bodies should never come at the expense of perfecting their brains. She wants them to find pride in learning, aim to be smarter and develop hobbies and interests. She encourages them to embrace what’s unique and different about themselves, instead of trying to attain an unrealistic ideal of perfection. “I don’t want any little girl to hold herself back. That’s the only thing I care about,” she says. “I’m so sick of the Kardashians. I’m so sick of all that bulls... You’ve got to empower your mind. I tell girls, ‘Start following people who actually use their brain. You need to be a trailblazer and change the way it is . . . because it won’t change otherwise.’” To that end, Lawley takes a very un-Kardashian approach to her social media accounts. After giving birth to her daughter in 2015, she posted photos of her stretch marks. It was a calculated move, since she had previously come under fire when she was misquoted as saying that she didn’t want to have a baby because she didn’t want stretch marks. “I’ve never been more mad in my whole life because I never said that,” she says. “I knew stretch marks were coming because I had them already and I know that with a baby comes change. “I’m covered in stretch marks! I have them all over my body, all over my thighs, all over my hips . . . I have them everywhere and I don’t care. I had Sports Illustrated shoots right after my baby and my stomach was just covered. That’s life. I’m proud of my stomach. I birthed a 5kg baby. That’s what should matter.” When Lawley was growing up in the western Sydney suburb of Girraween, she was taken by sci-fi and fantasy movies. One of her earliest role models was Ripley, the iconic, tough protagonist played by Sigourney Weaver in the original Alien movies. Years later, Lawley met her childhood idol — and was uncharacteristically tongue-tied. “I was flabbergasted talking to her,” Lawley recalls. “She was awesome. I was like, ‘If I ever have a daughter I’m going to name her Ripley!’ I was in love with that movie. Then I got pregnant pretty soon after. And when I found out I was having a daughter, I was like, ‘Great! I get to call her Ripley!’” True to her word, Lawley and her partner, Everest Schmidt, named their daughter Ripley and went one better. Beyond just her name, they have chosen to raise her in a completely gender-neutral environment. “She wears pink but she also wears blue and green,” Lawley says. “I’ll put whatever colour on her. She has a
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From left: On the runway during Miami Swim Week last year; trailblazing for plus-sized models on the covers of 2011 Vogue Italia and Elle France magazines; embracing post-baby stretch marks.
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rubber snake that she carries around and she loves. “I’m adamant about not giving her a Barbie doll because I hate Barbie dolls. If I had a boy it would be the same. If he wanted to play with a doll — not a Barbie — then that’s fine. Or a dinosaur. That’s fine. “We should be giving them both options and then let them decide.” Schmidt is a stay-at-home dad. As Lawley puts it with pride, Ripley is “raised by a feminist father. He’s hands-on and it’s a beautiful thing. He’s really involved”. It isn’t the first time the pair have flipped the script. They met in their early 20s in New York when they attended a modelling industry event. Reflecting on her first encounter with Schmidt, a former US college basketball player, Lawley laughs. “I actually picked him up! Back in the days before Tinder. He was really tall and he was beautiful and I was like, ‘I want a hunk of that spunk!’ So I went up to him and said, ‘Hi, I’m Robyn’.” They live a quiet life in Upstate New York, coming home for special visits. This shoot coincided with a trip home to attend her sister’s wedding. But don’t think the nuptials left her itching to walk down the aisle any time soon. “It’s the opposite,” she laughs. “And if we ever did (get married) we would go down to a courthouse and do it. I just don’t see the need. We love each other, we’re committed to each other, we’re not religious. I get dressed up all the time — it’s my idea of work. Having a kid with someone? That’s commitment enough.” Soon after Ripley was born, Lawley had a terrifying medical scare, suffering loss of vision, the ability to lift her arms and even talk. She was alone in Los Angeles at the time, fearful she was suffering a severe case of postnatal depression. As her symptoms worsened and she began to experience excruciating pain, her family
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rushed to her side and put her on a plane home to Australia. By this point, she could barely walk. “I had to get wheel-chaired off the plane and straight into MRIs, blood tests, spinal taps,” she says. Doctors were baffled, but after numerous tests she was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a rare and potentially fatal autoimmune disease for which there is no cure. She is able to manage her condition, but says she’ll never give birth again for fear the disease will flare up. “I’m pretty sure that after the baby was born I’d go into freefall,” she says. Given Ripley, who is 21⁄2, has two parents of Amazonian height — Schmidt is 2m tall and Lawley stands at 1.9m — it’s natural to wonder if she’ll follow her mum into modelling. Lawley predicts Ripley will land somewhere between her and Schmidt, height-wise, pointing out that “she’s got the energy of a five-year-old — she’s already the size of one!” But she remains wary. If Ripley does want to model, Lawley, who was encouraged to slim down when she first started out, will be ferociously protective. “It’s stupid to make girls lose weight at 16 to model for an effing catwalk. It gets me so mad. If any agent told Ripley (to lose weight) I don’t know what I’d do. I’d lose my mind. I don’t want my daughter feeling like that.” In fact, the mere mention of the word “diet” makes Lawley defiant. “I love to eat, I have to eat,” she says. “I
Above: Robyn Lawley with her daughter Ripley, and right, partner Everest Schmidt. had a Nutella donut the other day. I don’t care. As soon as you start to deny yourself you will become obsessed. Fat-free is terrible. Calorie counting. All that s.... Terrible. I would never diet again. I’ve never even thought about it. I’m not going to starve.” Lawley celebrates her appetite so much that in 2014 she published a cookbook, Robyn Lawley Eats. Her website also features a food-focused blog, but she has no plans to expand that aspect of her business. Once Lawley sets a goal,
she smashes it, then moves on to the next thing. Having just finished production on her last swimsuit range, she reveals she and Schmidt are working on a screenplay. “The film industry will be next,” Lawley declares. There’s no doubt she’ll see it through. For years, Lawley has redefined what it means to model and in the process she changed a few minds, moved some goalposts and kicked down a few doors. But while she effected change by refusing to conform to somebody else’s standards, she has an idea for her next big venture — on the other side of the lens. Once they knock out that screenplay, Lawley wants to direct any resulting film. As she reasons: “I see more power in being behind the camera.”
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ART IS Using abandoned suburban houses as a blank canvas, New York-based artist Ian Strange is inspired by his own Perth upbringing to explore what home means to each of us. Story Belle Taylor Photography Jessie English
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t was late at night in Christchurch’s red zone and Ian Strange and his crew were waiting for sunrise. Over the previous week they had taken over a house that had been destroyed in New Zealand’s devastating 2011 earthquake. Externally, they returned it to its former glory, while gutting the inside, painting it white and cutting big holes in the roof. They then lit the former home from the inside, the light bouncing off the white interior and beaming into the night sky, creating a massive, illuminated vision. The work, envisioned by Strange, had taken a team of 20 people to realise, including legendary New Zealand cinematographer Alun Bollinger, who was set to shoot the lit-up house at dawn. The crew waited for daylight, listening to the eerie silence of the abandoned suburb, the birds, the crickets . . . and fire alarm batteries. “There were thousands of homes all around us. The power had gone, they had been abandoned for three years, so there’s just nothing,” Strange says. “There was this big crew of 20 people waiting around for this light to come up and all you can hear is the beeps of all the thousands of fire alarm batteries that need to be replaced in all the houses. It was very surreal being in these empty suburbs that are normally full of light and life.” It was, says Strange, one of the strangest moments in his dogged pursuit to bring his bold artistic visions to life using abandoned homes. He has burnt down houses in the US rust belt. He has wallpapered the exterior of an entire building in Poland and visited the homes of the people who refuse to leave the nuclear contaminated areas of Japan’s »
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Left: Number Twelve, one of four earthquake-damaged houses in Christchurch, New Zealand, that Ian Strange worked on as part of his 2013 film, photography and installation project, FINAL ACT. Above: The 2011 installation HOME on Sydney’s Cockatoo Island was based on Strange’s childhood memories of his family home in Perth. Right: SOS 2015-2017, is part of Strange’s new exhibition ISLAND, at the Fremantle Arts Centre from next weekend. Fukushima. He’s built a house that has seemingly fallen from the sky and become lodged in the pavement in Adelaide. In a warehouse in Sydney, he rebuilt his childhood suburban Perth home from memory, spray painted a giant creepy skull on it, put three Holden Commodores out the front and filmed himself destroying the cars with a sledgehammer, eventually setting them on fire. “The big reaction I often get is that people think I hate (suburbia) or loathe it, and I don’t. I’m completely fascinated by it,” Strange says. Strange, 35, has been based in New York since 2009, but he spends half the year travelling for his work, an ongoing artistic exploration of the idea of home. His focus on suburbs, and the stability, isolation, comfort and claustrophobia they represent, has in no small part been inspired by his upbringing in Perth. He has held major exhibitions in Australia, the US and Europe, and his work sits in public and private collections in the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Art Gallery of WA and the Canterbury Museum. His work is global in scope and universal in its appeal. But for an artist who has become known for exploring the concept of home, he’s a little reluctant to talk about his own. “I try to keep my biographical details a little vague,” he says. “The worst thing that can happen with the work is it becomes so attached to the identity of the artist it loses its ability to be interpreted by people.” Strange grew up in Perth and after high school studied film at TAFE. He put together off-beat and ambitious student film projects, wrote hundreds of scripts, played with photography and cartooning. But it was his graffiti that saw him first noticed. Using the pseudonym Kid Zoom, he became known for his cartoon images with a sinister edge and realistic images rendered in spray paint. “Anyone who has done graffiti understands how good Ian is because it’s a very, very difficult medium,” US artist Ron English says in the documentary HOME: The Art of Ian Strange, which is airing on ABC on Tuesday. “I think before Ian it was unthought of to do something that photo realistic with a spray can. Hang it next to Banksy and Swoon and all the iconic figures of
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that movement, Ian became very famous as Kid Zoom and I think that didn’t fit with the persona of what he ultimately wanted to be.” Strange arrived in New York in 2009, a kid from Perth with a spray can being lauded as the next big thing in international street art. He could, he admits, still be making a comfortable life for himself selling paintings, but he soon realised the gritty urban history of graffiti was at odds with his own lived experience. As an artist he soon realised that he had to put part of himself into his work. “I grew up in Perth, and I tried to escape for so long and I finally end up in New York, and then the first thing I want to do is to make work about the place I came from,” he says in HOME. “I was never a tough inner-city kid — I was anything
PEOPLE THINK I HATE (SUBURBIA) OR LOATHE IT, AND I DON’T, I’M COMPLETELY FASCINATED BY IT. but,” he admits. “I think a lot of people have that experience, once you leave you have a blank slate to work out who you are and you kind of get the perspective to think about the place you grew up in a lot more. That led to a lot of work, and that starting point of thinking about what home means to people and what it means to me.” Strange quickly realised that he wasn’t a product of the urban grit of New York, but a boy from the sun-baked ’burbs of WA. “It’s not that sexy to be from the suburbs,” he laughs. But he points out that some of Australia’s most celebrated artists are products of the ’burbs — from Howard Arkley to Nick Cave. In 2011, with Strange’s reputation as a street artist growing, he was invited to create a work in Turbine Hall on Cockatoo Island in Sydney. A cavernous space,
he knew only a big, bold work would have serious impact. He decided to rebuild his childhood home from memory, smashed a few Commodores and created a video piece titled HOME that marked him as an artist willing to execute bold visions and big ideas. It was a turning point for Strange, who had discovered a new thirst to create bigger, more ambitious works. He was also bolstered by the experience of working with collaborators. For someone with a background in film production, working in a team of people — artists, architects, builders — who each brought their own talents to the project, was exciting. “I just like being around people,” Strange says. “I get lonely in a studio. It’s not something that’s fun after a while. It’s nice to go in there and I make drawings for a couple of months and then I’m itching to get out and spend time around people and collaborate and make art. “The reality of making that scale of work and not having huge budgets, and sometimes pretty much no budget, you kind of need to be a pied piper in many ways. You have to sell an idea to a lot of people in a lot of different ways and really lead a team of people to make things. And that, in itself, is a really great creative process.” Back in the US, the fall-out of the global financial crisis led to a glut of abandoned suburban houses. Strange and his long-time creative producer and collaborator, Jedda Andrews, also from Perth, left the
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Big Apple and started to hunt out places that looked a little more like . . . home. They discovered abandoned houses in Ohio, Alabama, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire and Detroit, and went about contacting the local communities and asking if they could take the neglected buildings and paint them black, or red, or just set them on fire. “The first ones were very hard to explain what the hell was going on,” Strange says with a laugh. He spent months scouring the US looking for the kind of houses that would fit his vision. “I wanted to find typical American homes, the kind of homes that looked like the ones in TV shows and sitcoms, and as they were a mass culture,” Strange says. They were the kind of homes that spoke to an aspirational, middle-class American ideal that Strange had grown up watching on the small screen, but he soon found that the financial crisis had shaken these communities to the core. In Detroit, armed guards had to be stationed at each end of the street Strange and his crew were working in to guard their valuable film
equipment. He describes the fall-out of the GFC on US communities as a “slow-motion crisis with no direct point of intervention”. “Once, I flew out of America from Detroit to Perth,” Strange recalls. “I went from a place that was reeling. The city at the time was actually declared bankrupt, couldn’t afford to put the street lights on at night . . . and this was once the economic powerhouse of America and industry. And then you fly into Perth and see it at peak boom and it was a very dramatic contrast.” Working in these struggling communities opened up another way of looking at the idea of home for Strange. For him, the suburbs and his own upbringing in them, was always rooted in stability. But in the rust belt of America, that middle-class ideal of the quarter acre was coming apart at the seams. “I think people are starting to feel that anxiety now, in Perth in particular, where the stability that the home once represented to everybody is being revealed as slightly vulnerable,” Strange says. “It’s interesting, how much we put on the home as being this really stable object. Financially and emotionally we load it up so much and when there are these seismic shifts economically, or it could be a natural disaster, it reveals the home to be less stable.” Those works formed the basis of a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2013 called Suburban, with NGV curator David Hurlston describing it as “ground-breaking”. “People will come up to me and tell me what it’s about and tell me these incredible stories from their experience of home,” Strange says. “Everyone brings
their own understanding and interpretation of home to it, which makes me continue to work on it and make these projects, because it connects with people in such a big way.” His latest exhibition, Island, opens on Friday at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Strange has again returned to suburbia, using text in his work for the first time. A comfortable-looking home is emblazoned with a giant SOS, another HELP. “That is what you would write if you are trapped on a desert island, if you want to escape.” Strange says. “(A house) is this patch of land, and the inverse of that is a desert island. It becomes a place where you are trapped and wish to escape as well. The home can have both those things in it, and I think that is quite a universal experience.” Strange has a number of new projects in the pipeline. He is working on a collaboration with Melbourne dance company Chunky Move and a feature documentary called Hold Out that will see him travel the world meeting people who are refusing to leave their homes, despite impending developments, natural disaster or economic crisis. He says the work will take him to more extreme places. “That’s where the work is going, it’s going to non-English-speaking places with very different cultures,” he says. “As the work expands, it’s going to challenge the ideas I have about home even more.” It’s a life on the road, always searching for home. Island is on at Fremantle Arts Centre July 22 - Sept 16. HOME: The Art of Ian Strange is on ABC on Tuesday, 9:52pm and on iview.
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LAUGH A few years ago, Australian stand-up comic Claudia O’Doherty was posting her videos on YouTube. Then along came Amy Schumer. Story Shelley Seddon Photography Ramona Rosales
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t’s the kind of career domino effect every hungry Australian actor in Hollywood dreams of setting in motion. First, you land a tiny but memorable role in a blockbuster Hollywood movie starring Amy Schumer. This in turn leads to a high-powered director creating a character on his new TV series just for you. Then Schumer invites you on a beach holiday with her posse. After that? You join the writing team of her television show, and soon earn your first Emmy nomination. Too good to be true? Not for Claudia O’Doherty, the Sydney-born stand-up comedian whose rise (and rise and rise) is the end result of hard work, real talent and simply being in the right place at the right time. A few years ago, the 33-year-old was posting her comedy videos to YouTube. Now Schumer’s Trainwreck is an entry on her IMDB page and she is the breakout scene stealer on Netflix’s quirky dramedy Love.
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O’Doherty first landed on the right person’s radar during casting of Trainwreck, when co-star Bill Hader showed Schumer the online videos O’Doherty — who lived in London for a spell — had made for Britain’s Channel 4. Schumer’s reaction: “I have to work with this girl. She’s so funny.” As O’Doherty tells STM: “Amy sent me a direct message. I was already a fan of hers, so it shocked me.” A mutual admiration society blossomed. “We said we loved each other, she tweeted my videos and the next day I got an email asking me to come to the table read for Trainwreck.” Soon enough, she was sitting in a room with 300 people, among them director Judd Apatow. O’Doherty was so new to the process she thought she had been invited merely to listen and perhaps give an opinion of the script; she didn’t realise she was actually there to read for a role. Once the confusion was sorted, O’Doherty auditioned for the part of Dianna, an intimidating magazine editor. “I’m sure they never seriously considered giving me that part,” O’Doherty says. “They were just kind of like, ‘We’ll put her in something, we’re not quite sure what yet, so just get her to read.’” Tilda Swinton ultimately got the role, a decision O’Doherty can look back and laugh about now. “It’s natural that Tilda and I are being considered for the same roles. We have a very similar energy.” O’Doherty still left a lasting, Swinton-style impression — on screen and on the set. She nabbed a brief appearance of a baby shower guest who initiates an embarrassing parlour game, and when it came time to cast Love, Apatow put her near the top of his list. “There aren’t many people who are that generous with their power where they’re, like, a career-maker,” says O’Doherty. “But he is. He’s quite good at plucking people out of obscurity and saying, ‘I think people would enjoy you!’” In Love, O’Doherty plays Bertie, a fresh-off-the-boat Aussie who arrives in Los Angeles and moves in with Mickey, the troubled main character played by Gillian Jacobs. Apatow wrote the part just for her; as with Trainwreck, she was not forced to put on an American accent. “I feel really lucky that Judd and Amy were repulsed by the idea,” she explains. “They were like, ‘Definitely, do your voice! We hate it when people do
Her father is Reg Mombassa, the founding member of Australian band Mental as Anything, who later turned to artwork and designing for his surf wear company Mambo. It was normal for her to cross paths with the likes of Ewan McGregor or Johnny Rotten, who would stop in to purchase some of her dad’s artwork. “It was pretty cool having him as a dad,” she says. “He’s very sweet, supportive and kind.” O’Doherty launched her comedy career at the Sydney University Arts Revue, and won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. At the arts revue, she met Nick Coyle and Charlie Garber; the trio began writing and performing skits under the name Pig Island. Claudia O’Doherty with Amy Schumer. Coyle explains her appeal: “Her comedy Picture: @dingdongitsclaudiaodoherty / Instagram doesn’t rely on familiar tropes or cliches, but it’s so accessible, which is exciting to watch. You feel you’re seeing something new. She’s unapologetic. She’s not rude, but she won’t chat to you if she doesn’t want to chat to you.” It may also explain why even the sharpest of sleuths would be hard-pressed to unearth much personal information beyond her lineage. Asked why this is the case, O’Doherty says: “I don’t have one, that’s why.” Pushed to explain, she still deflects: “It’s all secret, scandalous stuff.” That’s it? “I’ve learned from people who are much more famous than me that it never does anything good to talk about who you are kissing or who you have kissed. accents.’” After filming wrapped on So I’m not going to do it. I will just say I’m an the first series of Love, O’Doherty incredible kisser.” went on that beach holiday with The cast of Love was coming to the end of shooting Schumer. That’s when the star for a third season when O’Doherty spoke to STM. invited her to join the writing staff Before it returns, you might catch her in The Circle, a of her hit sketch comedy series cyber-thriller film headlined by Tom Hanks and Emma Inside Amy Schumer. Watson that is set inside an ominous (and O’Doherty recalls, “She was like omnipresent) Facebook-like social media empire. ‘Do you want to write on my show? Or maybe you won’t. She has an uncredited role as You have to be in New York in three “High Powered Circler” on the film’s IMDB page, and weeks.” Her response? “I was like, when we speak to O’Doherty she has yet to see the film to confirm she did not end up on the cutting-room ‘Yes, please!’” Writers’ rooms are floor. She does say it was “a thrilling thing to be part known to emit heavy stenches of of ” and recalls shooting with Watson. “It was very testosterone, off-colour politics and bizarre — Hermione herself! She was . . . magical.” greasy food. Yet growing up in the Critical reception to the film, not so much. The Circle inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe, they opened to bleak reviews in the US and O’Doherty were the places O’Doherty most seems eager to keep the blame off her more famous wanted to be. Her mother’s cousin co-stars. “I’m very busy,” she cracks, “but I take full was a talent booker for Saturday responsibility for the bad reviews.” Night Live in the 80s, and she And if she never gets around to seeing the film? She dreamt of writing jokes with its has a good excuse. O’Doherty, who is on record about staff. her obsession with pasta, explains: “My sister won a “A lot of people in my family are Brett Whiteley scholarship, so she will be painting in very creative,” O’Doherty explains. Europe (this summer). So I’m trying to get my whole “So it didn’t seem like a rebellious family to Italy. Because I love spaghetti. I want us all to thing to want to be in comedy. I eat spaghetti together in Italy! That’s the dream.” pretty much lucked out.”
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Scandinavian Film The 2017 Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival began with cinema-goers enjoying drinks and smorrebrod, a popular Scandanavian dish, before watching Swedish film Sami Blood. Among guests were Norwegian consul Anne-Britt Sjøflot, Republic of Estonia consul Anu Van Hattem and former honorary Finnish consul David Greatwich. The festival is at Cinema Paradiso until August 2.
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WA Business of the Year The Great Southern Distilling Company took out the top gong and the Small Business award at the 2017 Telstra Western Australian Business of the Year Awards at Crown Perth’s Astral Ballroom. The company is behind premium WA spirits and liqueurs including Limeburners whisky, which was this year judged the world’s best craft whisky by the American Distilling Institute. A highlight of the event was when biomedical engineer Jordan Nguyen helped performance artist Jess Irwin, who has high-level cerebral palsy, use cutting-edge technology to play music controlled by her eyes.
Amy Peterson and Alison Obszanski Robyn Holmes and Pixie Elzen Nang Nguyen and Liz Phan
Mel Ziepe and Julie Purcell
Caitlin Costello, Mason Pearce and Steffanie Sparkes
Jono and Tara Dalla Pria
Rachel Davison and Ata Gumusay
Kirby Bonavita and Lucy Gibson
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SUNSHINE ON A PLATE New to baking? This sweet and nutty dessert is the perfect way to start and an instant crowd-pleaser!
RECIPES: DH FOOD TEAM / STYLING: GEORGIE ESDAILE / PHOTOGRAPHY: WILLIAM MEPPEM
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whole orange cake 2 small oranges (about 350g), unpeeled ½ cup (85g) instant polenta ¾ cup (90g) almond meal ¼ cup (35g) plain flour ½ teaspoon baking powder 3 eggs, at room temperature ½ cup (110g) caster sugar orange syrup ⅔ cup (150g) caster sugar 2 tablespoons water ⅓ cup (80ml) orange juice Step 1 Preheat oven to 180C. Line the base and sides of a lightly greased 20cm springform tin with non-stick baking paper. Place the oranges in a small saucepan over high heat, cover with water and cover with a small lid or plate to submerge the oranges. Bring to the boil and cook for 1 hour or until soft. Remove from the saucepan and set aside to cool slightly. Chop the oranges, removing the seeds, place in a small food processor and process until pureed. Set aside. Step 2 Place the polenta, almond meal, flour and baking powder in a large bowl and mix to combine. Place the eggs and sugar in the
bowl of an electric mixer and whisk for 6–8 minutes or until thick and tripled in volume. Fold the orange puree and almond meal mixture through the egg mixture. Pour into the tin and smooth the top with a palette knife. Cook for 35–40 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Set aside to cool completely in the tin. Step 3 While the cake is cooling, make the orange syrup. Place the sugar and water in a saucepan over medium heat and stir until just combined. Bring to the boil and cook, without stirring, for 7–8 minutes or until golden. Carefully add the orange juice and stir to combine. Set aside to cool slightly. Step 4 Spoon the orange syrup over the cake to serve. Serves 8–10
tips&tricks + The oranges can be boiled and kept refrigerated in an airtight container up to two days in advance. Bring to room temperature when ready to use. + If oranges are unavailable, you can use mandarins instead.
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SAFE AND FORGETTABLE . . . FOR NOW
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otel restaurants never used to be places where you wanted to eat. They were conveniences, somewhere to refuel after you dragged your weary bod to the dining room. Rarely were they worth the bill. Crown Perth altered that scene when it introduced glitzy venues such as Nobu and Rockpool. Alex Hotel opened its svelte Shadow Wine Bar, and Como the Treasury aced hotel dining with Wildflower, arguably Perth’s best restaurant. A mere two-minute motor from playground Crown, Springs Kitchen is the recently opened Aloft Perth hotel eatery. At ground level, it’s light and breezy with concrete floors and tables, white-brushed timber chairs and pastel-hued tiles. It feels more daytime café than evening destination, but fits the Aloft brand’s modern and unconventional style. Yet the menu is as safe as houses. Croquettes, chorizo, roast chook, steak and salmon. There are no surprises. Perhaps that’s what guests want. But will it entice locals to turn left instead of right? Our waiter, who asks our names after introducing himself and manages to remember them, suggests a tasting board of entrée items. It’s not listed on the menu, so people have to rely on their waitperson to mention it — risky move. As we sip on a delightful Aloft creation — the “Perth native” cocktail ($18), which combines gin and vodka with lemon myrtle — two boards ($35) arrive. Naked calamari curls dressed in a tangy lemon and soy sauce, earthy chicken liver pate and comfortingly oozy croquettes are the stand-outs. Cold, seaweedy mussels in a jar are
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Springs Kitchen Address 27 Rowe Avenue, The Springs, Rivervale Phone 6147 2468 Open daily, 6am to late Web springskitchen.com.au Licenced Yes Booking phone and online
THE VERDICT
a questionable inclusion, given the arctic weather. Beetroot dip is sound, but uninspiring. Winter is duly ignored with the beautifully presented salmon fillet and salad ($32). The fish is rolled in black sumac and sliced in thirds so the translucent pink centre is revealed in all its rare-cooked glory. Cold chickpeas and peeled tomatoes are scattered through the middle on a bed of herb yoghurt. It wins on the flavour and texture front, but, like the décor, it feels daytime and at odds with the current season. A brick of pork belly ($30) is rightly in the winter warmer camp. Its crackled lid is crisp to the teeth, although not to the knife, and the tender meat is lapped by pumpkin purée. Wilted greens are doused in transforming Asian sauce. There’s little to critique here, there’s just nothing exciting going on. A cold meringue sandwich finale ($12) is perplexing. Moist, vanilla
layers interspersed with white chocolate cream are there, raspberries too, but the meringue is MIA. The flourless milk chocolate cake with house-made jaffa ice-cream ($18) is pleasant in a 1970s kind of way. It’s offensively overpriced. Towards the end of the night, the executive chef visits our table and others. It turns out the credentialled Italian gent responsible for the menu has exited stage left. Instead, Oliver Buenviaje has scrambled aboard and by mid-spring, funnily enough, he plans to revitalise the food offering. Inspired by frenetically fun Chin Chin in Melbourne, he’s got modern Australian-Asian fusion and communal dining in his sights. So, if you love unchallenging, well-executed food, go now. But, if you’re after something you’ll still remember the next day, I tip waiting for the warmer weather.
Easy-sell, flavoursome and forgettable food that’s set to get a springtime makeover, thanks to the recent arrival of a new head chef, whose background includes Crown Melbourne and Four Seasons Macau. I’ll wait until then for a revisit.
13/20 1-4 THE LESS SAID ABOUT THIS THE BETTER 5-9 CONSIDER TAKEAWAY PIZZA INSTEAD 10-12 WORTH A VISIT, BUT NO RUSH 13-15 DEFINITELY WORTH A VISIT 16-18 AN ABSOLUTE GEM 19-20 A FOODLOVER’S RITE OF PASSAGE
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here are those who believe it’s possible to take the temperature of Perth simply by going for a lunchtime stroll down the Terrace. They have a point. Rewind a decade and the city’s major thoroughfare had a palpable sense of energy and optimism. It’s amazing what a resources boom does for a city’s mood. That buoyancy, alas, has since been replaced with a more guarded approach. The long lunches have — as a rule — become shorter. The tone of HR department memos about drinking in company hours is a little firmer. Profit margins and suit cuts are noticeably tighter.
If one was desperate to find some silver lining among the grey clouds of economic slow-down, perhaps you’d point to the new sense of urgency in the city’s hospitality sector. The tightening of belts and lopsided supply-versus-demand ratio means hanging out an open sign is no longer enough to guarantee sales. Cafes, bars and restaurants now hustle hard for those PayPass taps. Sentinel, a gently masculine, stained-timber marvel that landmarks the city’s William Street and St Georges Terrace nexus, is the definition of a white-collar stronghold. Original owner Steve Scaffidi has left the building, but
you wouldn’t know it by observing the bar in action. This isn’t a bad thing, especially if business-as-usual means accessible good times pitched at a mainly corporate clientele. So, while the drinks list sports a touch of the blokey — a reasonable amount of brown spirits, a serviceable beer range — there’s enough diversity to keep the entire after-work party happy. Fruit features through the cocktail list, from Cosmopolitans spiked with elderflower to a passionfruit-enhanced Caipirinia. Sharply dressed staff are happy to play hosts and work the room with good grace, offering advice on the wine list and keeping water glasses full. Sentinel isn’t the edgiest watering hole in the city, but it knows what its clients want and continues to nail the brief. A solid performer.
On a budget
Out to impress
A piece of Italy
MADFISH PINOT NOIR 2015 ($18) 90/100 This is pretty darned good for a pinot noir selling for less than $20. Cherry and light raspberry notes on the nose with a little spicy licorice character. The palate is medium-bodied, but there is excellent fruit intensity held with fine, chalky tannins and finegrained oak. Attractive varietal purity.
SWINGS & ROUNDABOUTS BACKYARD STORIES CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2015 ($45) 94/100 This is a gold medal-winner from the national show circuit. Perfectly integrated with rich, chocolatey black fruit worked with cedary savoury oak, it has a delicious, sweet ripe fruit. The tannins are finely integrated and angular. First class.
ZONTES FOOTSTEP CANTO DI LAGO SANGIOVESE BARBERA LAGREIN 2015 ($25) 89/100 Three famous Italian varieties come together in this excellent, juicy and plump little offering. Compelling mix of savoury spices with a linear acid feel and deep, fleshy fruit. Really made for current drinking while the primary characters are pronounced.
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TRAVEL
wanderlust
MAGNIFICENT MYANMAR
Addicted travellers and STM readers Avan and Heather Davey discover a land unspoilt by tourism. Q. What was it about Myanmar that captured your imagination? A. The beauty and accessibility of a gold leaf Buddha over 2000 years old in Mandalay, the leg rowing fishermen of Inle Lake, the more than 3000 temples spread as far as the eye can see in Bagan, and the dazzling Shwedagon Paya in Yangon, make this country like no other. “This is Burma, and it is quite unlike any pling place you know about,” Rudyard Kipling said over 100 years ago. Spot on. Q. What was the one thing you will never forget about this trip? A. Picking up a tiny hitch-hiking monk on the road to Bagan in 40C heat was a heartfelt and unforgettable experience. His alms bowl was passed around the bus for donations and he couldn’t believe the weight of the bowl when he alighted at his monastery 6km later. Q. Where did you meet the most interesting people? A. Everywhere. Our tour guide, A Kay, a proud Burmese, made sure we had all the chances possible to interact with locals. The Burmese are gentle, engaging, spiritual and devout. Men and women wear the traditional longyi and women paint their faces with thanaka, a bark paste, for decoration, to soften skin and act as a sunscreen. Refreshingly, Western-style clothing is rarely seen and we travelled in areas where neck stretching coils are still worn. Q. How did you get around? A. By all means possible. In Myanmar, this was by bus, truck, thoun bein (a type of three-wheel tuktuk), river boat, lake boat, taxi, air and on foot. The best transport adventure was a journey in an ancient cattle truck carrying at least 40 crammed and jammed locals, up a switchback track to Golden Rock. Coming down again, it was like the scariest rollercoaster imaginable. Q. Where did you stay? A. Thankfully, the usual franchise hotels are not in evidence. We enjoyed stays in small, locally owned-and-run hotels, and guest houses.
Q. What was your favourite food experience? A. The quirkily named Be kind to animals the Moon, a vegetarian restaurant at Old Bagan, rates by its name alone, but the food was just divine, too. Q. Where is your wanderlust taking you next? A. We are in a constant state of wanderlust. Our next adventure is a two-month trip in the outback in our trusty camper van. We’ll take roads less travelled and attend the iconic Birdsville races this September.
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with Oscar Cainer er Aries
(Mar 21 — Apr 20)
Cancer
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We’ve all made decisions that would have been easier if we’d only known what we know now. And some of our choices might have been different. But, you learn from every step of your life. What’s gone before has made you who you are. There’s no point looking back. You can’t change the past, but you can change the present. Mercury’s movements turn your gaze to now. For more, call 1902 222 900.
Taurus
Although Mars may be leaving your sign this week, it departs with a bang. Just as the Sun joins it in Leo next weekend, the new moon is close enough to be considered conjunct to the fiery planet. You may be tired of the extremes you’ve experienced over the past six weeks, but the cosmos will allow you to enjoy the scenery. For more, call 1902 222 900.
(Apr 21 — May 21)
Leo
( Jul 24 — Aug 23)
When I was a kid, Jim Carrey was the star my friends and I flocked to see at the cinema. The Mask was our favourite film. It was based on an ancient mask that gave superpowers to whoever wore it. At the film’s climax, the hero defused an explosive situation by swallowing a bomb and declaring, ‘That’s a spicy meatball!’ As Mars enters your sign, it’ll take great strength to swallow your pride. Remain calm and decisive. For more, call 1902 222 900.
We all like to think of ourselves as sensible, rational creatures. But what space does that leave for our intuition? Is it a strength to think with our heads more than our hearts? Is it rational? Not only is our heart the seat of our emotions — of love, friendship, generosity — but it’s also the home of insight and perceptions that have kept us alive and thriving for years. If something has been nagging at you recently, heed what it’s saying. For more, call 1902 222 900.
Gemini
( Jun 23 — Jul 23)
(May 22 — Jun 22)
Virgo
(Aug 24 — Sep 23)
Often, when you’ve almost reached your goal, it can be tempting to take your foot off the accelerator. You’re almost there, what’s the rush? That can be a good attitude. But while the pursuit of dreams shouldn’t stop you enjoying the journey, complacency is unhelpful. ‘Almost’ isn’t enough — you have the tools to achieve what you want. For more, call 1902 222 900.
People have a funny way of gauging their own significance. We’re aware our time here on Earth is limited, but we can’t shake off the notion of our own self-importance. Deep down, we believe in our indestructibility. But eternal life is only available to the gods of our faiths. Recently you’ve been feeling god-like powers. Use them well. For more, call 1902 222 900.
Libra
(Sep 24 — Oct 23)
We’re taught as children to distinguish between things: blue not red; big not small; good not bad. When we become adults this leads to us to make comparisons: am I more or less successful than that person? Happier? Sadder? It becomes unhealthy thinking. No one ever knows the reality of somebody else’s life. The only thing that matters is you, your progress and your happiness. For more, call 1902 222 900.
Scorpio
(Oct 24 — Nov 22)
It’s tempting to race through life with a tick-list. Unless we’ve achieved that, seen this, and beaten someone else, are we even living? If you can complete this list in the shortest possible time, then surely that’s the ultimate success? But in the scramble to be the best, the highest achieving and the most successful, the purpose of life slips away. Life’s not a competition. The only winners are those confident to be who they are For more, call 1902 222 900.
Sagittarius
(Nov 23 — Dec 21)
Some people are born worriers. They’ll fret about everything. As an outsider, it’s easy to be baffled by their capacity to overthink things. But we should never laugh. Worry is accumulative. Your concerns have been building up. This week, step back and evaluate whether you need to expend so much effort thinking things through. For more, call 1902 222 900.
Capricorn
(Dec 22 — Jan 20)
We all know wind-up merchants. The folk who press you just to get a reaction. Like wasps, they buzz around making a nuisance of themselves. Though it’s not always easy to do, the best way to deal with these people is to ignore them. To do so takes strength, resilience and not a little bravery. But you have these qualities in spades. Use them and you’ll watch your troubles fly away. For more, call 1902 222 900.
Aquarius
(Jan 21 — Feb 19)
The late, great Rik Mayall played Lord Flashheart in the classic sitcom Blackadder. He’d crash through ceilings, win hearts and steal scenes. With feisty Mars squaring up to your ruler before bounding into your opposite sign, it could be someone’s making a similar impression on you. Despite yourself, you’ll be swept up in a moment. But don’t forget you’re known for your clarity. Let this be enhanced by your emotions. For more, call 1902 222 900.
Pisces
(Feb 20 — Mar 20)
Appearances are deceptive. How often has an offer turned out to be what it said on the tin? Don’t take things at face value. Even when things seem straightforward, the weight often lies in the detail. And this isn’t negative. An apparent threat in your emotional life is an example. Don’t be blind to the reconciliation it conceals. For more, call 1902 222 900.
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Ache by Eliza Henry-Jones, Fourth Estate, paperback, $29.99 In WA, we know how devastating bushfires can be. So this story of the aftermath of a deadly fire in rural Victoria may resonate locally. Ache describes the effects of the disaster on Annie, a Melbourne vet who was visiting family with her daughter Pip
at the time of the fire. Author Eliza Henry-Jones captures the grief, anger, pain and frustration of the residents, but also delves deeper to consider the damage to flora and fauna. The attention to detail of place is a strength of the novel.
The portrayal of family dynamics, capturing the good and bad that can be passed between generations, is another impressive feature. There is much sadness in this novel, but it also chronicles the survivors’ healing and their gradual return to joy.
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