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Bribie Island (Brisbane) residents Ken and Bronwyn Midson have been touring Australia as “grey nomads” for the past six years and were very happy with the facilities provided by the Cook Shire Council at its recently opened RV Trial Park in Adelaide Street. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON.

RV trial park gets thumbs up A BRIBIE Island couple, with six years on the road touring Australia as “Grey Nomads”, has given the facilities in the Cook Shire Council’s new RV Trial Park their seal of approval.

Ken and Bronwyn Midson arrived in Cooktown on Tuesday, with the intention of staying the allowable 48 hours in the park and looking to see what was on offer, but decided against a longer visit because of the rates, they say, being charged by the town’s caravan parks.

“At this time of the year, we can be in southern parks and pay $10 a night less than what is on offer here,” said Mr Midson.

“We don’t mind paying a fair rate, but it’s over-priced here.”

Officially made available on Monday, April 1, the park was recently given the status of being an RV Friendly town by the Campervan

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I’d like to encourage the residents and businesses of Cooktown to take the time to say hello to our RV visitors and give them a warm welcome to our community.

and Motorhome Club Australia - a mantle worn by nearly 200 other towns around the country.

Ken related a recent trip he and Bronwyn had made to Longreach, describing the burgeoning impact that Grey Nomads and RVs were having on Australia’s tourism.

“We got to Longreach and all the caravan parks were full; we didn’t think we’d have anywhere to stay, but we met some other Nomads in the supermarket.” he said.

“And they told us about a free park just outside of town.

“When we got there, there were about 150 RVs there.”

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And he offered advice to local businesses about the effect that having good facilities and being welcomed by a friendly community would have.

“Take us for example,” he said.

“We went to Taylor’s Beach, were made welcome and instead of staying a few days, stayed three weeks.

“Now we’re going back for a month and five RVs with our friends are going with us.

“Word of mouth is very powerful, but, unfortunately, word of mouth about being made unwelcome travels faster than the good news.

Brothers Jim and Ray Donnelly, with their wives, Barbary and Glenda, were the first two RV families to stay in the park.

“Cooktown is a bit of a one-way street for tourists with RVs,” said Cook Shire Mayor Peter Scott.

“As a community reliant on the tourist dollar, we need to do as much as we can to encourage these travellers to add Cooktown to their list of ‘must-see’ destinations.

“The Adelaide Street Rest Area gives them a couple of cheap night’s accommodation to get a taste of the town.

“If they like what they see, then there’s a good chance they’ll check into one of our great selection of caravan parks and stay a little longer.”

Mayor Scott said grey nomads were the type of tourists who often get together at rest areas and camp-

sites to discuss their travels and share positive experiences.

“By providing this 48-hour accommodation, it is hoped that it will significantly improve Cooktown’s reputation among the Grey Nomad community and offer flow on economic benefits to Cooktown’s tourism sector,” he said.

“I’d like to encourage the residents and businesses of Cooktown to take the time to say hello to our RV visitors and give them a warm welcome to our community.”

An eight-month trial period of the rest area is currently in effect, after which Council will assess the success of the service and determine how to proceed from there.

The newly developed rest area was instigated from the Cook Shire Tourism Strategy Action Plan, adopted by Council at the August 2012 monthly council meeting.

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Thu 11. Swim for Your Life at the Cooktown Pool from 9.30am to 10.30am.

Sat 13. Cooktown Junior Rugby League Sign-On Day

at the John Street Oval from 10am until noon. Take a copy of your birth certificate (not the original) and $40 for registration fees (more if uniform is required).

Sat 13. Cooktown Pool - Aqua Aerobics - from noon to 1pm.

Sat 13. Cape York SSAA Pistol Shoot from 1pm.

Sat 13. Cooktown SSAA Target Shoot from 1.30pm.

Sun 14. Cape York SSAA Rifle Shoot from 9am.

Sun 14. Cooktown SSAA Rimfire Silhouette Shoot from 9.30am.

Sun 14. Cooktown Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from 1.30pm in the CWA Hall in Charlotte Street. Call 4069 5626 for details.

Tue 16. Swim for Your Life at the Cooktown Pool from 9.30am to 10.30am.

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Sun 21. Cooktown Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from 1.30pm in the CWA Hall in Charlotte Street. Call 4069 5626 for details.

Tue 23. Swim for Your Life at the Cooktown Pool from 9.30am to 10.30am.

Tue 23. Endeavour Lions Club meeting at the Lions Hall in Amos Street from 7pm.

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 letters to the editor AS a bone found at North Shore not so long ago caused a deal of interest then perhaps the following discovery, albeit some 70 years ago, may create some curiosity.

In 1938 a visiting fisherman, E.L. Lewis and an unnamed mate, following inclement weather, came upon a large stone object, partly exposed, in the vicinity of Leprosy Creek, North Shore.

The object, heavy to the point

What is that object? so as to be immovable by two men, was donut in shape, smooth and bore Asian character all but worn away.

Perhaps the object was a junk anchor?

Mr Charles Tanner, the well known Cooktown herpetologist, was informed of this find in 1958.

When visiting North Shore in relationship to his profession, Mr

Kristy’s nocturnal visitor

THE Cooktown Breeze is back!

Whoopee! I have come back to life and want to bounce around the garden like the Easter Bunny, although I do not have the urge to lay large chocolate Easter eggs just yet.’

It is so nice to be living in a sensible climate again. You can go to bed in a reasonable temperature, and I have even pulled a blanket over me the last few nights.

I don’t feel cranky anymore, and the cat is in no danger of the good kicking he has been hiding from the last few months.

I am not even upset when I put down a piece of paper and forget to set something heavy on it. Let

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it blow around the house, I am happy again.

View Didn’t the sticky weather from go on and on the Hill this year?

Day after day of sitting under the fan and praying for the monsoon.

I reckon all those buggers down south used the rain before it could get to us. I heard the Top End got a good serve too. They’ve been breaking records over there, probably because they got our share too.

Still, everything is nice and green, we got a promise of a few more showers this week and all is well

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KRISTY Turner’s up close and personal capture of a “Night Time Visitor” really jumps out at you, so much so that her image is the winner of this week’s $25 meat voucher in the Cornett’s IGA Cooktown and Cooktown Local News photo competition.

Kristy also goes into the draw again for the end of year grand prize.

Along with our other winners, she can continue entering each week for as long as he pleases.

You now have until 5pm on Thursday, April 18, to submit your entry for this week’s stage of the competition, and remember, entries need to be full resolution - between 1mb and 10mb in size and they need to be forwarded as an email attachment to editor@ cooktownlocalnews.com. au .

And please include your contact numbers.

Kristy’s winning entry will be printed and displayed in a gallery the IGA has prepared in their store.

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Tanner kept an eye open for the old curio, but spotted nothing. It was not until 1975 that a shovel was brought into play Nought came of it due to the vast amount of sand involved.

All that was found were some bones, that were thought to have been that of a dugong, and some rusted heavy chains of a much later vintage than the sought item.

A sketch of the interesting stone article was supplied to Mr Tanner together with a mud-map of the location.

Anyone who knows anything further regarding the above may be sufficiently interested as to furnish the Cooktown Local News with their information regardless of how minor that information may seem.

Jim McJannett, Cooktown.

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Future milk delivery? with the world.

We just have to pray for the odd shower now and again through the rest of the year, and we’ll stay looking good.

I don’t know about that global warming stuff.

From what I see on the box, Europe is still under snow, and the tulips should be out by now. And North America had more snow than you could poke a stick at this year.

Perhaps that’s part of the new deal

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- hot summers and snowy winters.

I wonder what it will do for us.

I wouldn’t like to be on some of those farms down south. They are looking pretty dry, in spite of all the rain some people have had.

They had better figure out a way to farm sand dunes pretty quick, or they’ll go under.

It won’t be long before the first cartons of camel’s milk will be in the IGA. Does that go well in tea?

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Local tradies do the job at Bowls Club

By GARY HUTCHISON IN the middle of a Cooktown Bowls Club packed to capacity for its reopening last Friday night, President Bob Sullivan paid tribute to the local contractors who had been involved in the renovations and construction.

“They’ve given us a fantastic venue,” a beaming Bob Sullivan said.

With the exception of the air conditioning and kitchen, all other trade work involved in the approximately $1.38 million project was carried out by locals.

“We would have loved to be able to say it was all done by locals,” Bob said.

“But unfortunately, we had to source those skills and materials outside of Cooktown.”

The re-opening of the plush, new spacious venue only had one hiccup on the night, and that was a glitch in the exhaust system in the kitchen, which resulted in aroma-filled smoke wafting into the bistro’s dining area.

“That was just a problem with the wiring that was fixed next day,” he said.

“Everything’s fine now, and to be able to say we only had one hiccup with a project of this size

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Cooktown Bowls Club was packed to capacity on Friday night, when it reopened to new extensions and renovations. Photos: GARY HUTCHISON.

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“It was great,” chef mia Foundation’s Shave able to raise more than “We couldn’t have Clint Oberhauser said. for a Cure. $2000 in donations and asked for better.”

“And I think there Robbie’s luxuriant pledges on the night.

Friday night’s re- were more than 80 meals handlebar moustache had “We’re pretty pleased opening saw the Barra served up on the Saturday been specially dyed red with that,” Robbie said.

Businesses encouraged to join Chamber executive

By GARY HUTCHISON MORE business owners other than tourist operators is what outgoing Cooktown Chamber of Commerce and Tourism President Max Nulley would like to see involved in the Chamber’s operation.

With the Chamber’s annual general meeting being held next Thursday, April 18 at the River of Gold Motel, Max said he was hopeful other business owners would consider standing for election on to the Chamber’s exexutive.

“The Chamber is not just about tourism,” Max said.

“It’s vitally important for other businesses to become involved so that we can have a diverse membership, participating in a vibrant and active entity that will see businesses prosper.

“It’s all about networking, sharing ideas and giving mutual support to each other looking to introduce new ideas both locally and outside the region if necessary.”

Outgoing Chamber of Commerce and Tourism President Max Nulley would like to see business owners, other than tourism operators, invoved with in the Chamber, particularly at executive level after the AGM on Thursday, April 18. Photo submitted.

Membership of the Chamber has been extended to two levels, which now includes the capability for people who do not own businesses, but are interested in the Chamber’s activities, to join as individuals.

Yearly membership fees for a business are $120, while the fee for an individual is $60.

Max said Cooktown’s Chamber working together with the newly-formed Tourism Cape York was an exciting concept.

“Tourism Cape York is a new group with more than 60 tourism operators from as far south as Bustard Heads to north to Bamaga involved,” he said.

“It’s entirely separate to the Chamber, with its total focus on tourism.

“But I can see a line of communication between the Chamber and TCY having enormous potential for the growth of our economy here.”

TCY comes under the umbrellas of Tourism Australia, Tourism Queensland and Tourism Tropical North Queensland.

All positions for the Chamber’s committee will be declared open at next Thursday’s AGM, with nominations being taken from the floor.

And while at this stage Max said he was not nominating for re-election, he would not see the Chamber short if no one else nominated.

The meeting starts at 6pm.

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NEWS

Hope Vale pool re-opening Saturday

By GARY HUTCHISON IT has been a while coming, but Hope Vale’s Community Swimming Pool will re-open on Saturday.

Jointly funded by the state government and the Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council to the tune of $5 million and $1.3 million respectively, the complex was completed in mid-2011, but, for various reasons, has not been used to its full capacity since.

Along with the joint funding, Cape Flattery Silica Mine made a commitment of a 10-year, $50,000 per annum donation towards the maintenance of the pool.

Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council Chief Executive Officer Ross Higgins said the pool has been used since then, but there had been some mechanical and operational issues over the past summer period.

“These were subsequently rectified,” he said.

“And then the existing workers left Council’s employment.

“We have just been through a recruitment process for replacement people to work at the pool.”

Ta k i n g o n t h e

Rudi Soemes, Kynomii Saunders, Luke Palmer, Tykeerah Cobus, Ayesha Scotford and Shane Churchward at the Lifeguard Course held at the Hope Vale pool last week. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON. responsibilities of pool Life Guard trainer aged-care worker Rudi And for Luke and management will be Luke Shane Churchward said Soemes and Kynomii Ayesha, the course has Palmer, who will work he was very impressed by Saunders, who works with given them the opportufrom Monday to Friday, the commitment shown by children, said they took nity of employment. and Ayesha Scotford who the quartet. the course because the “We’re going to love will work on weekends.

“They’ve been great, people under their charge working here,” they said.

Luke and Ayesha were excellent,” Shane said. were often in environAs pool manager, Luke part of a group of four, “By the time they have ments which included said it was his ultimate who included Kynomii finished the course, they water. aim to offer a full range S a u n d e r s a n d R u d i will be competent and “We need to be able to of pool activities, but that Soemes, who completed confident.” have lifesaving skills for he needed training in other a Lifeguard Course held Although they will not the good of our clients,” areas before those plans last Thursday and Friday. be working at the pool, Rudi said. would come to fruition.

Behind bars for a good cause WILL Cook Shire Mayor Peter Scott and his cronies get out of jail on Saturday?

Basically, it is up to you to decide if Peter, James Cook Museum Manager Melanie Piddocke and Kiera Robertson are released after offering themselves up for incarceration in the name of a good cause - the annual, national PCYC Time For Kids program.

The trio will hear the clank of the padlock as their cell door closes on their specially erected jail near the markets at 9am on Saturday morning.

Each of the tragic three will be easily identified.

They will be the ones wearing prison garb behind the bars specially erected for the event.

Then it is up to you to make the donations to see them released.

PCYC Cooktown Officer-in-

Charge Sergeant Howard Pratt said this year’s participation is a first for Cooktown.

“We’re very grateful to Peter, Melanie and Kiera for being such good sports,” he said.

“There will be others, but we’re not sure who, just yet.

“It’ll all be in good fun, and we’re hoping for lots of people to come down.”

Kiera has already been taking donations at the Cornett’s IGA Cooktown store where she works, and anyone who wants to donate before April 13 can do so at any of the checkouts.

Early donations are also being taken at the PCYC Cooktown Events Centre reception.

For more information on the event, go to the at: http://www.everydayhero. com.au/pcyc_cooktown

PHOTO: PCYC Cooktown’s Officer-in-Charge of Saturday’s Time 4 Kids Lock Up at the markets, taking Kiera Robertson into custody at the screning of Sunrise, where she tried to plead her case. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON.

Eyes out for stolen car LOCALS are being asked to be on the lookout for a dark green, Hilux 4WD twin cab utility, registration number 778 CRE. Owned by Jacqui Sykes, the vehicle was stolen from the car park behind Nature’s PowerHouse while Ms Sykes was attending a classical piano concert at the venue on Monday night.

Fitted with a fibreglass canopy, the keys to the ute are on a circular

green key ring with the words, “Stoned Crow” written on it.

“I’d really appreciate it if someone either sees my car, or someone with that distinctive key ring, that they contact the police immediately,” Jacqui said.

Anyone with information on the theft of this vehicle is being asked to either contact Cooktown Police on 4069 5688 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

This Hilux 4WD utility, fitted with a fibreglass canopy and owned

by Jacqui Sykes, was stolen from the car park behind Nature’s PowerHouse on Monday night. Registration number of the vehicle is 778 CRE. Photo submitted.

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From farmer to baker, Jana’s had an interesting ride

Cooktown Bakery owner Jana Whittaker (centre) with some of her staff, Neng Pope and Dianne Coles.

Photo: ERIC GEORGE. Story and photo

By ERIC GEORGE ONE of Cooktown’s institutions is the bakery.

If we want the best bread, or pies, or special cakes, that is where most of us go. And if we need quick and nourishing food in a hurry, the bakery is the place for it.

The business owner is Jana Whittaker, who came to town about 10 years ago.

“I was born in Normanton. I was sent to Mareeba for high school, and Mareeba is where I married and started my adult life. I had two farms, mangos and bananas, and I had an import business in Cairns.

“We used to bring the children camping up here. You could camp anywhere, fish anywhere, it was great.

“I used to say to the kids, one day we are going to buy a block of land here and build a house, not thinking that it would really come true.”

Jana’s next move was to a shed manager’s position with Swiss Farms.

“It was fantastic, I enjoyed my time there.

I learned heaps. You just have to. Even from the backpackers. They are from Germany, Switzerland, France. It was very, very interesting.”

Lakeland is very hidden from passers-by - what was it like to live there?

“Phenomenal. There is something happening there seven days a week, 24 hours a day. It never stops. Something getting built all the time. Just amazing.

“It was nothing to get a radio message on a Sunday morning about a bush fire coming and

everyone would fight a fire all day Sunday.

Always something going on.”

How many people does Jana think live permanently in Lakeland?

“They are tucked away on all the little properties.

Oh gee, it would have to be 300. It would have to be close to that. It’s a very interesting place.”

Jana has been running the bakery for the past nine years.

“I had just finished four years with Swiss Farms, and we had bought a block of land at Esk Valley. I used to come into the bakery, and I thought I’m going to buy that.

“And that’s just what I did. It was run down.

There was no coffee shop, the bread sales were down, I think there were maybe four people working here.

“I have eight, and that’s not including me.”

But Jana is the boss and doesn’t actually work?

“Oh no, I work, unfortunately! But that’s good because you learn everything that way. I started building it up, new equipment, painted the place up, I put in a coffee shop straight away.”

Bakers are well known for having to get up very early in the morning to bake fresh bread - does Jana do that?

“That did happen, for the first two years.

I worked seven days a week, then I inherited two young grandchildren so I had to slow down a little bit.

“By then I had a really good team in place, and I could just do five days a week.

“The baker comes in at nine at night, and he is out of here by three-thirty.

“Then there’s a slicer comes in with the morning breakfast staff, they come in about 5am and we open the doors at six.

Usually we have plenty of customers at six, the roadies, Ergon, Telstra and all those sorts of people.”

Do they sit down for breakfast?

“No, breakfast in their hands, and go. Basically bacon and egg burgers on the run.

“Not so many pies, that comes later. The people who sit down and eat, that’s about eight-thirty.

We have a breakfast run until about eight-thirty, then we have the morning tea rush at about nine.

“Usually pies, sandwiches, meat and salad sandwiches. Then we start setting up for the lunch rush.

“We have a Chinese chef, and we serve hot meals. That’s when the pies start selling, and of course we have bread pretty much all day.

“We get a few sitting down for lunch, especially in the tourist season. We can be lined up to the door and they all want a table - it is pretty dramatic. We are all running all day.

“I usually go home around five thirty and the night staff come in.

And stay open until about seven-thirty or eight. The Chinese chef stays here, and we do pizza.”

Over the years, do peoples’ tastes change?

Does Jana notice fashions in food? “ Ye s , d e f i n i t e l y.

Definitely trends. Wraps are the in thing now - everyone is healthy. People want something different.

“We used to do brekky buns, and they never lost their popularity until a about a year and a half ago.

“Now we have changed to a bacon and egg wrap with a bit of lettuce and cheese in it - that is the trend.”

How much of Jana’s business comes from tourism?

“Over the year, about 40 per cent. We suffered badly with Cyclone Yasi.

“That was bad. Just like some-one put a gate across the highway.

“Now you have got

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to lift your game, and try to draw more tourists in.

Look at your service and your food.

“We have a wonderful car park and in the season you see all the trailers and the campers drawn up.

They sit outside and enjoy their food.”

What does Jana think of the current debate over RVs in Cooktown?

“They used to come here a lot, they were big

customers of ours. They all buy food, and drinks and bread.

“So they definitely bring income to the town.

But it was nothing for us to get three or four a day complaining that they could not get a space in the caravan parks, and they would have to go back to Lakeland.

“We heard that so many times. Do something about it! You can’t

turn people away.”

If Jana was queen for a day and could give Cooktown a present, what would it be?

“Definitely improve Archer Point. It is Cooktown’s hidden secret, but there are no camping facilities, no toilets, no showers.

“That place is a beautiful spot but it needs facilities. It could be a tourist Mecca.”

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These amazing photos of a crocodile feeding were taken by Western Cape Bulletin reader Aaron Howard. A logistics officer with Toll Marine, Aaron spotted the unusual sight from Humbug Wharf, Weipa, while at work on Thursday afternoon. He dashed home to grab his camera and returned to get these shots of something rarely witnessed in the wild. The spectacle lasted several hours and once the crocodile had finished dining between the shiploader and the wharf in the Embley River (circled), it made its way to shallower water close to Lorim Point for a well-deserved yawn and a rest. Aaron said he wouldn’t hazard a guess as to the size of the croc.

The only way is up? The northern Australian food bowl fantasy

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achieved the Coalition racing will Will wearound consider the and nation as the Weipa circles develop the north in a sus-to host the inaugural aim to “add flexibilityDirt to Kart Club prepares tainable Dirt way that land use controls and reduce Queensland Kartreflects Titles, from July 12 to 15. unnecessary regulation and and embraces the evoluThe Australian Independent Dirt Kart Association tion in our 21st century approval processes”.

Inc. Blue Ribbon Event is already The trap of the north is (AIDKA)-approved knowledge of this country’s attracting dirt karters from created by its appearance environmental limits? all corners of the country, and localOrenthusiasts revving up for an actionas an untouched backup will we blazeare on out across the savanna plains plan to failures in southern packed weekend of two-stroke action. with bulldozers and irriga- non-stop entertainlandscape management. TheSpectators are guaranteed tion pipes like the ranging pioneer from juniors to opens Institute of Public Affairs ment with categories highlight this perspective, cowboys of yesterday  full story page 20 tearing up the red-dirt track. stating “the north remains striving to demonstrate our underdeveloped and it is human ability to tame the fantastic that the Coalition harsh Australian landscape?

Ill-fated fantasy is looking to unleash its such as cyclones and higher non-Indigenous economic look like? A good start is A report by the NT intensity wildfires. potential.” and social well-being. The to develop policy from a By contrast, the NT Government in 2011 highSuch changes will have recent election commitment position of mutual respect Environment Centre point lighted that while there a detrimental impact on the by the WA liberal party to of the environment and out that “the north is a is some opportunity for pastoral industry and reduce create the largest national people that live there. As graveyard for failed agri- broadscale irrigation in the livestock carrying capacity. park in the Kimberley region the NALWT report on cultural projects inspired Katherine-Daly regions of As such, climate change is an encouraging move for sustainable development of by ‘visionary’ southern the NT, a food bowl for the adaptation is critical for land conservative politics. northern Australia nicely north is highly - perhaps use planning in the north politicians”.

Expanding agriculture puts it, good policy will If a coalition government naively - optimistic. over the coming decades. in the north will require demonstrate: Similar findings come does ride to victory in the From a social perspec- extensive clearing of existRespect for the rights and 2013 election as predicted, from asustainability report tive, agricultural and urban ing savanna woodlands, interests of the Indigenous it is likely a new battle will by the Northern Australia development that erodes producing large volumes Peoples of the north. Rebe played out on familiar Land and Water Taskforce natural capital is likely to of greenhouse gas emis- spect for the environment.

(NALWT): there is no have a significantnegative sions. Estimates of clearing Respect for the critical role ground. scientific evidence to sup- impact on Indigenous savanna woodlands range that land holders have in port a food bowl vision for people. Much of the recent from 140 to 220 tonnes caring for country. Respect the north. The landscape successes in Indigenous of CO2 per hectare. Such for Indigenous and western is limited by poor soils, economic development development would be knowledge. Respect for the water availability and harsh have related to land man- counterproductive to theNT communities of the north climatic conditions. agement and tourism. Much Climate Change Policy and the need to empower On top of the Fax: existing4069 of the8093 recent |successes of becoming a low land- them to create opportunities shop 6, memorial square, Rocky point | ph: 4069 8092 email: weipabiz@bigpond.net.au environmental limits to in Indigenous economic clearing jurisdiction. for their own future.

OFFICE HOURS: 9am to 5pm • Nosa Gold Seal Accredited agricultural development, development have related Similarly, such an Critically, a future for the ke and Sandy Tarlinton climate change is likely approach would also conto land management and north should demonstrate INVITATION TO APPLY FOR FUNDING ading asThe Australian Government’s Volunteer Grants initiative recognises the valuable work to pose further challenges tourism. tradict policy efforts by the that we have learnt from of volunteers. for northern Australia. The It is important that Coalition’s Direct Action the mistakes and failures Volunteer Grants 2013 is now open - The Application Form and Application Guidelines north can expect chang- l a n d - u s e p l a n n i n g i n Plan to reduce Australia’s of the past. While visions are available at www.fahcsia.gov.au or by telephoning the Volunteer Grants 2013 Hotline ing rainfall patterns, northern Australia promotes emissions through more of what this looks like will on 1800 183 374. increasing temperatures, conservation in order to effective land management. and should be contested, Applications close on Wednesday 24 April 2013 at 5pm AEST. and increased likelihood continue to “close the gap” So what should a vi- a vision for a food bowl www.fahcsia.gov.au of extremeclimatic events between Indigenous and sion for northern Australia should be finally laid to rest.

By ROB LAW Researcher in carbon policy and science at University of Melbourne on theconversation.edu.au Two centuries of agriWITH the recently leaked discussion paper by the culture in the south east, Coalition reigniting old pas- plagued with droughts, sions for a northern irrigated poor soil management, food bowl, Australia must urban expansion and risagain contemplate its vision ing populations, has led to for the north. Is this our degradation of production chance to learn from what systems.

For many, the solution we’ve messed up down south? Or will we ignore the to this dilemma is to look north’s stark environmental north. However, as those limits and saddle up the that have lived and endured its history will understand, bulldozers regardless?

The vision for a northern northern Australia seems Australian food bowl is a more likely to reward those curious aspect of our na- that have respected and untion’s psyche. For the past derstood its harsh climatic century, the vast, largely extremes and environmental intact savanna ecosystems limits. across northern Western New visions Australia, the Northern In the Coalition discusTerritory and Queensland sion paper, the first “vision” have persisted in the minds is of “developing a food of southern developers, bowl…which could double politicians and other “vi- Australia’s agricultural outsionaries”. put”. In order for this to be

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New ATSIPP leader Landmark Reef research project sets sail OXFAM Australia has appointed Karrina Nolan as National Manager of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s Program (ATSIPP).

Karrina joined Oxfam in January, 2011, as coordinator of Straight Talk, a program that brings Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from throughout the country to Canberra to meet with women from all sides of politics.

She is an Irish/Aboriginal woman from Yorta Yorta country in Victoria.

Writing a family skill WE have the pleasure this week of verse written in 1938 (!) by Norman Bowditch, a cousin to local lady, Sylvia Geraghty.

Literary skills seem to run in that family. Norman gives us such a compelling picture of the small, but very real joys that were anticipated eagerly by many a bush child. He conveys also to us modern car-users the sight, sound and even smells of the oh so valued packhorse of old.

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“Happy With The Least” A barefoot boy runs inside and yells, “The packer’s coming! I hear the horse bells!”, And out the side window the kids look with glee For coming down the hill the packhorses they see.

And their hearts leap at the smell and sweat of leather; The team that comes each month in all kinds of weather.

They see Charlie gallop off and hear his whip crack As he heads off a horse and brings him back.

And they jump up and down with their eyes agleam As they see George and his boys working the team And they hear the hoof beats and snorts and bells and the cracking of whips and whistles and yells.

And now as they dismount at the front gate The kids in their excitement can hardly wait And now, being unpacked, two horses they see, A bag of flour and sugar and a tin of tea.

Two cases of groceries are next lifted down And a tin of kerosene is stood on the ground And before the team has left the clearing, And before the bells are out of hearing. . . . . .

The kids find a hammer and give it to their mother And then, in their excitement, fall over each other As, from a box, she removes a board.

The kids rush in and one is floored.

But, at last, they find it and their joy is great And the picture, as they sit down to crunch, is hard to relate For the packet of boiled lollies the storekeeper sends Gives those kids happiness that never ends!

I have thought of this throughout the years, Of those kids who had little but knew few tears.

As a boiled lolly to them was something great, A whole month for it they would happily wait!

By NORMAN BOWDITCH

A SPECIALLY built science laboratory installed on a Rio Tinto bauxite ship has completed its maiden voyage to collect research data along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

This is the first research of its kind to monitor ocean acidification along the length of the Great Barrier Reef.

In 2012, Rio Tinto Alcan, CSIRO and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation announced a landmark three-year, $1 million research project called Future Reef MAP. The project involves the deployment of an ocean sensor system on a Rio Tinto vessel that travels between Weipa and Gladstone.

The vessel, the RTM Wakmatha (pictured sailing on the Great Barrier Reef), will continuously collect samples and record data that will help in understanding the impacts of climate change on the Reef.

CSIRO ocean carbon research team leader Dr Bronte Tilbrook said the major difference between this reef research project and any other was that the data would be collected over a three-year period, along the same, 2000km route.

“The infrastructure has been installed, the sensors have been tested, and we are starting to receive data in our labs in Tasmania,” Dr Tilbrook said.

“For the first time we are able to collect data to map ocean acidification over the entire Great Barrier Reef and determine if there are parts of the Reef that are likely to be more exposed

to acidification changes.

“Data collected during the vessel’s travels will also help us determine how processes like the major flood and storm events recently experienced in Queensland influence longer term changes in ocean acidification.”

Rio Tinto Alcan president and chief executive officer, Bauxite and Alumina, Pat Fiore said Rio Tinto’s shipping operations provide the perfect opportunity to collect the vital data.

“The data collected will help Reef managers understand where and how acidification is having the most impact,” Mr Fiore said.

“Our ongoing collaboration with CSIRO and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation provides an important opportunity for Rio Tinto Alcan to assist with a critical area of climate-change research and is a great example of industry and science working together.”

Great Barrier Reef Foundation managing director Claire Hanratty said the innovation used in the Future Reef MAP project, both in terms of the use of a commercial vessel and the extensive data it gathers, has caught the imagination of many.

“Rio Tinto Alcan’s investment in the Future Reef MAP project is one we draw on regularly-the concept of using an existing vessel to collect data across a scale and range of habitats that would otherwise be impossible to reach is one that many relate to and consider a smart investment,” Ms Hanratty said

Love and affection flowing to the north HAVE you noticed all the love and affection flowing up to the north of Australia recently?

You can hardly open a newspaper or turn on the radio without finding more impressive people telling the world how important we are. And, of course, how the government should be spending more on infrastructure.

I’m not altogether sure what an infrastructure is, but I’m pretty sure we don’t have many of them up here. Looking at the people making the most noise makes me suspicious.

People like Rupert Murdoch, who is well known for working tirelessly for general well being and enrichment of Rupert Murdoch.

It’s time to seek God more HELLO people who trust God’s is necessary to please God faithfulness (Hebrews 11:6).

Luke 12:29-31 (NIV) “And Worry is a focus on our do not set your heart on what you needs (and sometimes wants), will eat or drink; do not worry while faith focuses on our about it.

From the Pulpit great God who is our Provider.

For the pagan world runs Philippians 4:19 (NIV) after all such things, and your Father “And my God will meet all your needs knows that you need them. But seek His according to the riches of His glory in kingdom, and these things will be given Christ Jesus.” to you as well.”

Our incredibly good, loving and It’s time to get back to seeking God’s faithful God is worthy of our focus and kingdom as our priority rather than attention. worrying about what we need.

It’s time to seek Him more, to focus In this passage, we are told not to on Him more and to acknowledge Him worry about what we will eat or drink. I more. It’s time to seek His authority in believe for each of us, worry could take and through our lives more than our own on this, or many other forms. wants and needs.

Maybe worry for you relates to your Have an AWESOME week! health, your relationships, your finances, God bless ya heaps! your future, your career or your calling.

Pastor Wayne Brennan Worry is an enemy to faith, and faith Cooktown Community Church.

Then there are the polies down south who want to set up a Northern Austral ‘special economic zone’, which would involve us working hard and sending stuff to China at special prices, while China sends the economic bit to - you’ve guessed - Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra. . . .

Even Tony Ears is extending the love. He wants to send us all the unwanted government offices from down there, presumably to teach them not to look too closely at what he is about to do with our economy.

Our pub has volunteered to host the Bureau of Statistics, and has put a carpet on the floor to make them feel at home.

The landlord reckons they

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will be big spenders once the heat has got to them.

Aren’t I cynical? How could I possibly doubt the good will of Gina Rinehart An irreverent, satirical (and totally fictional) comment and her side-kick upon the issues of life, by our faceless correspondent.

Twiggy Forrest to her if she’ll just stop banging when they say we deserve more on about infrastructure for a moinfrastructure, and special tax ment, and talk about getting us breaks for all those luxury roads that work twelve months second homes we want to build? a year. And plane tickets that I should be more trusting of don’t cost so much you need to her charming smile. take a second mortgage to fly to After all, one day I might the nearest town. have enough income to pay tax, And get us proper phones and then I’ll really appreciate a while she’s about it. big tax break.

Then I’ll sit down and talk I’ll tell you what, I’ll listen about her infrastructures.

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Along the BLOOMFIELD TRACK ‘Singapore Miracle’ comes to the Daintree

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First winter croc . . .

ABOVE: First winter croc at Bloomfield River. Photos Mike D’Arcy.

LEFT: Chee Chiu (left) with Singaporean friends plus Gloria Walker at Wujal Falls before the heavy rain.

RIGHT: Debra Arbuckle and Alison Greene from Alameda, USA with Francis (left) and Kath Walker.

THE “Singapore Miracle” is not a racehorse, but the description given to the incredible economic and social progress made by the charming, but tiny, South East island country close to Australia.

But until this week, the miracle didn’t extend much to travel in this part of Australia.

Chee Chiu Ng brought a party of his Singapore friends to the area. Ann Colquhoun reckoned they were the first Singaporeans to stay at the Cape Trib Campground.

In Chee Chiu’s words: “In Singapore, we’re a pretty independent lot these days.

We wanted to see the real Australia, so we hired two camper vans and drove up from Brisbane. Much of the trip was pretty boring, but there were some gems - Whitsunday and the Daintree.

“Singapore people are noted for their high-tech approach . . . and food!.

Everyone has some hightech device stuck onto their phones, and many of us have not experienced much of real nature.

“Actually, we have a really great Jurong Bird Park with 5000 birds from around the world, and its own waterfall. I have to say,

however, that Wujal Wujal Falls beats it by a long shot.”

They gave everything here the thumbs up. The pristine beaches, soldier crabs, red mangroves, the sense of isolation, nature itself . . . and the food.

If you won some free international airplane tickets in a lottery, where would you go?

When Alison rang her friend Debra with the good news, Debra had no hesitation. Australia! Then they sat down and thought about it.

Australia was still the answer.

“And, instead of staying near the cities we decided to see real nature. Staying right

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amongst it at the Exotic Fruit Farm, travelling the Whitsundays and taking a 4WD drive to Wujal Wujal to learn more about Indigenous culture has been just fantastic.

“We spent a long time with Francis and Kathleen Walker which was unforgettable. Seeing a croc in the wild was unbelievable!”

“Alameda is an island City off the coast of San Francisco, and it’s pretty nice for a city. We brought along a copy of the Alameda newspaper to show our loyalty to our home,

and brag to our friends and the community that we’ve actually been here.” In turn, Debra and Alison, you’ll have undisputable bragging rights as possibly the first Alamedians to visit Wujal Wujal.

The two sets of comments together show again the value and importance of wilderness, not just from an ecological perspective, but as a community business generator.

Good news travels like a flooded paddock and we are

A different meat loaf THIS recipe came about through having a mix of things to use up.

I was considering making meatballs, but was too tired to do all that rolling, so I decided on making a meat loaf.

Half way through, I realised we didn’t have any eggs, but I proceeded anyway. The final product was yummy but a bit crumbly, which is why I’ve suggested the 2 eggs in the recipe below as it will help to bind the mixture together.

This is quite a spicy mixture, good for this time of year when the flu is roaming around as it will help warm you up and “burn out” any viruses trying to get a hold in your system.

Adjust the chilli downwards if you don’t like spicy food. Served with a salad or roast veggies this will serve about 8 people.

1kg kangaroo mince ½ cup flour 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 teaspoon salt 3 chillies, finely diced 1 tablespoon blachan sambal, chilli jam or chilli sambal 1-2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 2 eggs, lightly beaten 6-8 leaves of sawtooth (long-leafed) coriander, chopped finely Bunch of garlic chives, chopped finely 4 red shallots or 1 large red onion, diced finely

perhaps seeing the benefits again soon. of better promotion and an The Bloomfield Track has improving world economy. been in reasonable shape, but There have been plenty there are too many overhangof flooded paddocks, plus ing trees for safety. Parts roads, creeks and everything of the gravel road between else this week.

Ayton and Cooktown have Once again, nature again many (too many) huge showing its unpredictable potholes. Apparently, some force by dumping heavy rain roadwork is underway, so we on the area. might see an improvement All the waterfalls, soon.

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WITH CLARE RICHARDS

Kernels cut from one cob of corn (about ½ to 2/3 cup) 1 bunch (12-15) of snake beans, diced to size of corn kernels 6 medium sized mushrooms, sliced finely and diced Serve with roasted pumpkin and sweet potato and some extra finely chopped herbs.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the mince with the flour well then add the olive oil, salt, diced chillies, sambal, vinegar and eggs and mix well.

Then add the coriander and garlic chives and mix through well, then finally add the red onion, corn kernels, snake beans and mushrooms.

Turn a few more times to ensure ingredients are thoroughly mixed through and then press into a non-stick large loaf pan. Cook at 190 to 200oC (depending on how hot your oven runs) for 1 hour.

At the same time, roast some vegetables cut into large sections such as pumpkin and white sweet potato, which have been lightly brushed with olive oil.

Check the meat loaf at around 40 minutes and cover with foil if the top is browning too much.

Serve with the roast vegetables and a sprinkle of extra finely chopped herbs to finish.

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d Record ride for courier carrying joyful tidings

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Laura Station about 1900. Photo submitted.

AFTER a very wet season, as written about in earlier columns this year, one can only imagine the dismay which was felt in Laura as word went out, there was a little boy lost.

This story is extracted from the Cairns Post Monday, April 21, 1913.

A Child lost in the Bush At Battle Camp Station “On Tuesday night (April 8) shortly after 9 o’clock, the peaceful district of Laura was disturbed by the arrival of George Lowcock on his railway tricycle to report that Leslie, the seven-year-old son of Mr and Mrs J. Spreadborough of Battle Camp Station, was lost in the bush. It appears the child went for a ride on his pony early on Tuesday morning, attended by a station black boy, to meet his father, who was expected home.

After leaving the homestead some distance along the track, the pony became restive. The little chap got off, but the pony got away from him and made towards home. The black boy went after the pony, leaving the child in the bush to await his return. But on his arrival with the pony, the child was gone and he could not find him, so he returned to the homestead and reported the circumstances.

Mr Spreadborough was soon on the scene, and with all the black boys on the station, set out in search for his son. Being unsuccessful, as the day was drawing in, he despatched a messenger to Welcome railway siding, where the men engaged on railway line repairs were camped, asking that the lost child be reported to the police at Laura.

Ganger Lowcock volunteered to convey the report, and set off on his tricycle for Laura. Acting Sergeant Fitzgibbon immediately aroused his trackers, horses were got together, and within an hour after receiving the call, was in the saddle on the road to Battle Camp, attended by his tracker. Travelling through the night was a hazardous journey so soon after the wet season, with the crossings of the creeks and rivers washed out.

Arriving at Welcome as the day was breaking, the Acting Sergeant enlisted the services of a number of Aboriginals camped on the creek and conducted them, to the scene of operations, the spot where the child was last seen and set them looking for tracks or footprints.

The news that a child was lost soon travelled the district around, and all hands turned out in the search.

Mr Fergus O’Beirne of Laura Station, was soon on the scene with his station staff and black boys, and was joined by his brother, Mr Matthew O’Beirne, who left the mail train on its arrival at Welcome, he being on his return journey from the south.

Mr W. Saxby and Mr James McDarval, travelling with cattle to Cooktown, left the bullocks, and joined the search party. Mr Alfred J. Palmer, with his black boy from the Normanby, was prompt in attendance, and Mr Alfred .Young, rendered valuable assistance.

Under the direction of Acting Sergeant Fitzgibbon, the volunteers searched day and night for any sign until “about 9 o’clock, when about 22 miles from the homestead, the party under the Acting Sergeant and Mr Spreadborough, had the joy of seeing the object of their’ search a few yards ahead, not far from the Laura River. Yes, there was the boy safe, and apparently well, his hat on, but his clothes under his arm.

He had taken them off to wade through the swamps.

That which followed was too pathetic for description.

The little fellow, running up to his father, and as the latter hugged his child to his breast, it was too much.

Full hearts could only find relief in the moist eye.

Even the old Aboriginal had tears trickling down his swarthy cheeks.

Having looked around and surveyed the company, the child’s first question was, “Where is mamma?”

Though good news of the find was soon sent to the other search parties, and Mr Palmer set out for the homestead to acquaint the anxious mother, who was alone with her two younger children in her agony of suspense. It was a record ride Mr Palmer made; seldom has a courier travelled faster with joyful tidings.”

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OUT AND ABOUT IN COOKTOWN

PHOTOS: GARY HUTCHISON

ABOVE LEFT: Mitchell, Scott, Georgia and Jodi Johnson had just finished dinner at the Wog’s where they were celebrating Jodi’s birthday.

ABOVE RIGHT: The Danes were in town, with Dorte Colja and Wiesia Mortensen relaxing after dinner at the Bowls Club, LEFT: Tui Oberhauser with her three sons, Marcus and Heath (front) and Clint, the Cooktown Bowls Club Chef (back).

RIGHT: Cliodna and Hugh Hammer spend half their year in Cooktown and the other in Melbourne, but, on Tuesday night, they were having dinner at the Wog’s.

LEFT: A Cooktown Bowls Club dinner was on the itinerary for Melbourne visitors Bill Jaensch, Nathan Applebee and Angela Gadsby.

RIGHT: Francheska, Tony, Karmela and baby Katrina Bukowski in their corner of the world at the Wog’s.

BELOW LEFT: Julia and Adam Mitchell.

BELOW: Kat Dowding and Kiah Johnstone were at the Wog’s early, waiting for the rest of the party to arrive and celebrate Kat’s birthday.

BELOW RIGHT: English visitors Christopher Ricardo and Margie Bickford-Smith had an appetite for the Wog’s Italian menu.

Gary Lombardi, Paul Batistin and Adrian Dendenza at the Wog’s.

Likely lads waiting for a feed at the Bowls Club were Joe Marano, “Horse” and Todd Wentworth.

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Melbourne visitors Carl and Brianna Sherze will be staying in Cooktown for a couple of weeks for some jet ski action.

CONCERT AT NATURE’S POWERHOUSE

PHOTOS: GARY HUTCHISON

Barbera Habermann, Jean Stephan and Marj Robb.

ABOVE: Concert pianist Kirill Monorosi performing at Nature’s PowerHouse on Monday night.

RIGHT: Kath Schurcliff, Dave Houghton and Jeff Shellberg at intermission.

LEFT: Evelyn Henry and Richard Lee sharing a joke during intermission.

BELOW: Melanie Piddocke and Jacqui Sykes.

Local John Hill with concert promoter Herman Soenario.

ABOVE: Trevor Burton looking for some of Freda Glynn’s intermission snacks.

ABOVE: Concert pianist Kirill Monorosi and local Lou Norgard discussing classical music.

FAR LEFT: Viola Smith.

LEFT: Di Keller and Rene Munro.

RIGHT: Freda Glynn and Jo Wynter.

Cooktown Local News 11 - 17 April 2013 – 11

FRIDAY 12

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Planet Science 11:00 Foreign Correspondent 11:30 One Plus One 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Poirot 1:25 Last Of The Summer Wine 2:00 Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Grand Designs 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 QLD 8:00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House?: Gunning - Adam Ford heads to the small NSW town of Gunning where he investigates a home that played a key role in the history of rogue bushrangers.

8:30 Silent Witness: Change (Part 1) - Dr Nikki Alexander joins forces with forensic scientist Jack Hodgson to prove that the death of the wealthy owner of a confectionary company is due to murder, not natural causes.

9:30 Silk: Martha defends the driver of a high-security prison van accused of causing the death of one of the prisoners, and she must fight to get him to stand up for himself.

10:30 Lateline 11:05 Lowdown: Hart Of Darkness / 11:35 Rage

6:00 Today 9:00 Mornings 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Danoz Direct 2:00 Days Of Our Lives 3:00 National News Now 4:00 Extra 4:30 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:30 Imparja’s Live Friday Night Football: Brisbane Broncos Vs North Queensland Cowboys 9:30 Imparja’s Friday Night Football: Sydney Roosters Vs Canterbury Bulldogs 11:30 Any Which Way You Can 1:50 Movie: “Twilight Zone: The Movie” (PG h,v,l) - From stunning space imagery to in-your-face storm chasing, this series showcases the incredible power of our seasons and weather, and what drives them to both incredible creation and devastating destruction.

3:30 Extra 4:00 Home Shopping / 4:30 Good Morning America

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 The Midday Movie: “High School Musical 3” (G) 2:30 Mercurio’s Menu 3:30 Who’s Still Standing 4:30 Seven News 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Better Homes And Gardens 8:30 2013 AFL Premiership Season Rnd 3: Fremantle Vs Essendon - The Bombers travel west to Patersons Stadium for a huge Friday Night Football clash. Fremantle ended the year strongly in 2012 creating high expectation this year, while the Bombers have suffered the off season from hell after an injury-plagued 2012.

12:00 Movie: “Sione’s Wedding” (M s,l) - Four best friends nearing their 30th birthdays are given the ultimatum to find a girl and settle down. Will they be able to do it?

2:00 Special: This Rugged Coast - Ben Cropp seeks out sea snakes on the Great Barrier Reef and studies them in great detail.

3:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today

5:00 World News 1:00 The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia 1:30 Don Matteo: My Father Has Been In Jail 2:30 Living Black 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village: Mazabique 6:00 Wainwright Walks: Swaledale Uncovered 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 The Great Brittish Countryside: Highlands 8:30 Turn Back Time: The Family: The Great Depression 9:35 As It Happened: The Dark Charisma Of Adolf Hitler 10:40 World News Australia 11:15 Movie: “One For The Road” (MA l) - In Spanish. In an attempt to spice up an ordinary Friday night, three wealthy young men naively cross to ‘the wrong side of the tracks’ in Mexico City to have some fun. What they discover is a very different and sometimes dangerous reality hidden from their sheltered lives, but they also make friendships with people they would not usually have had any contact with.

12:55 Movie: “Princesses” (MA s) In Spanish. A compelling and poignant tale of friendship between two prostitutes struggling to survive life on the streets of Madrid.

2:55 Weatherwatch Overnight

SATURDAY 13

6:00 Rage 10:30 Rage: Guest Programmer 11:30 7.30 QLD 12:00 Australian Story 12:30 The Checkout 1:00 At The Movies 1:30 Eggheads: Philly At Fifty 2:00 How The Earth Was Made: Loch Ness 3:00 Movie: “Blackbeard The Pirate” (G) 4:55 Midsomer Murders: Midsomer Rhapsody 6:30 Gardening Australia 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Last Tango In Halifax: Gillian’s lover is badly beaten and is hardly able to walk and talk Alan and Celia visit the supposedly haunted Southowram Hall and are locked in overnight during a storm.

8:30 Inspector George Gently: Gently Northern Soul 10:00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL - Shaun Micallef is back and he’s MADDER than HELL! We really should have changed the name but it’d cost us a fortune in letterheads and show graphics. Anyway, he’s back and this time he knows what he’s doing (slightly).

10:30 Laid: When Roo decides the only way forward is for her to have sex with Marcus, EJ is less than on board. What if instead of Marcus healing Roo, Roo ends up killing Marcus 11:00 Rage: Guest Programmer 5:00 Rage

6:00 Bubble Guppies 6:30 Dora The Explorer 7:00 Weekend Today - Saturday 10:00 Mornings - Saturday 12:00 Danoz 1:00 Cook For The Family 1:15 Dave 3:30 Anthony Bourdian: No Reservations 4:30 Garden Gurus 5:00 4WD TV 5:30 Getaway 6:00 National News Saturday 6:30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7:30 TBA 9:30 TBA 11:30 Movie: “U-Turn” (AV a,v,s,l) - On his way to Las Vegas to pay back some bookies, a small-time gambler gets more than he bargained for when his car breaks down near a remote desert town.

2:00 Movie: “The Hunger” (M v,s,h) - Nothing Human Loves Forever. Centuries-old Egyptian vampire Miriam and her centuries-old lover, John feed on urban nightclub goers. But while Miriam can bestow a very long life on her lovers, she cannot grant them her immortality.

3:50 Nine Presents 4:00 Home Shopping 5:00 Life Today With James Robinson 5:30 Wesley Impact

6:00 Saturday Disney 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend 11:00 V8 Extra 11:30 Seven’s V8 Supercars 2013 5:00 Creek To Coast 5:30 Queensland Weekender 6:00 Seven News 6:30 2013 AFL Premiership Season Rnd 3: Gold Coast Vs Brisbane 10:40 World’s Wildest Police Videos 11:40 That ‘70s Show 12:10 Movie: “Borderline Normal” (M a,s) - Two sensitive teenagers from broken homes find comfort in each other’s arms as they help one another to cope with the emotional loss of their families.

2:05 Special: Ningaloo - Where Ocean Giants Meet 3:00 Harry’s Practice 3:30 It Is Written Oceania 4:00 Home Shopping 5:00 That ‘70s Show: Heartbreaker (Part 2) / Ramble On - Kitty gets startling news from the doctor. Eric and Donna’s relationship is strained when she buys him a gaudy, ugly ring that he immediately hates.

5:00 World News 1:00 The Zen Of Bennett 2:35 Simon and Garfunkel: The Harmony Game 3:55 Up To The Sky: The Torre Agbar 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Who Do You Think You Are?: Kim Cattrall 6:30 World News Australia 7:35 Salvage Hunters 8:35 Lilyhammer: Guantanamo Blues 9:30 Movie: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (M a) - In English and Spanish. Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamoured with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

11:15 Movie: “Volver” (M a,d,s) In Spanish. Raimunda, her teenage daughter and her hairdresser sister are coping as best they can since the death of their mother and also their grandmother, who died along with her husband, in a mysterious fire. However, all is not as it seems in their village, and unresolved matters within the family bubble to the surface.

1:20 The Fabulous Flag Sisters 2:25 Weatherwatch Overnight

SUNDAY 14

6:00 Rage 6:30 Children’s Programs 9:00 Insiders 10:00 Inside Business 10:30 Offsiders 11:00 Asia Pacific Focus 11:30 Songs Of Praise: School Choirs 2012: Senior Semi Final 12:00 Landline 1:00 Travel Oz 1:30 Cheese Slices: Seasonal Cheeses Of The Alps 2:00 How The Earth Was Made: New York 3:00 Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae 4:35 J.K. Rowling: Life After Harry Potter 5:00 Chris Humfrey’s Wild Life 5:30 Deadly 60: On A Mission: South Africa, Namibia 6:00 Antiques Master 6:30 Compass: Rags And Riches 7:00 ABC News 7:30 TBA 8:30 Call The Midwife 9:30 Miranda: The Dinner Party 10:00 Parkinson: Masterclass: Michael Morpurgo 10:55 Making War Horse 11:45 Vincent Van Gogh: Painted With Words 12:35 Movie: “To Catch A Thief” (PG) - A series of jewellery robberies take place on the French Riviera. The police suspect John Robie - an expert thief who was known as ‘The Cat’ before he retired from crime.

2:20 The Race 4:00 The New Inventors: Grand Final 5:00 Gardening Australia / 5:30 Antiques Master

6:00 Children’s Programs 7:00 Weekend Today 10:00 Wide World Of Sports 11:00 Sunday Footy Show 1:00 Getaway 1:30 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 2:00 2013 Intrust Super Cup 4:00 Imparja’s Sunday Football: Wests Tigers Vs St George Illawarra Dragons 6:00 National News Sunday 6:30 The Voice 8:00 60 Minutes 9:00 The Mentalist: Red, White and Blue 10:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: In Vani Veritas 11:00 CSI: Miami: Caged - Horatio tries to protect a mixed-martialarts fighter from his brother, who recently escaped from prison.

12:00 Flashpoint: Clean Hands - The SRU are shocked to discover that a federal agent they’re working with is sabotaging their mission during the transport of a serial killer.

1:00 What Would You Do? 2:00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 2:30 Danoz 3:00 Home Shopping 4:00 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News 5:30 Today

6:00 Stitch 6:30 Handy Manny 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 AFL Game Day 11:30 Wild Boys 1:30 Footy Flashbacks 3:00 Minute To Win It 4:00 2013 AFL Premiership Season Rnd 3: Port Adelaide Vs Adelaide 7:30 TBA 8:30 Downton Abbey - The Crawleys head to the Scottish highlands for Christmas to enjoy the hospitality of Rose’s family. Amid the hunting, fishing, and fine dining, tensions bubble over and a new crisis unfolds. The downstairs staff are left behind at Downton, where a trip to the local fair leads to trouble for Carson, and Branson also remains at home, taking care of baby Sybil, and feels his isolation even more acutely.

9:40 TBA 11:10 Catle: Always 12:00 Fat Family Diet 1:00 Special: Yindi - The Last Koala?

2:00 Home Shopping 3:00 NBC Today 4:00 NBC Meet The Press 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Al Jazeera News 1:30 Living Black 2:00 Speedweek 4:00 Football Asia 4:30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 5:00 Netball: ANZ Championship Highlights 5:30 Inspector Rex: Killer Toys 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Lost Worlds: Treasures Decoded: The Golden Raft Of El Dorado - Discover the remarkable secrets of five of the world’s greatest treasures. Using state-of-the art forensics, experts will unlock their hidden truths for the first time ever.

8:30 The Fabric Of The Cosmos: The Illusion Of Time - In this new four-part series, renowned physicist Brian Greene reveals a mind-boggling reality beneath the surface of our everyday world. Brian is going to let you in on a secret: We’ve all been deceived. Our perceptions of time and space have led us astray. Much of what we thought we knew about our universe - that the past has already happened and the future is yet to be, that space is just an empty void, that our universe is the only universe that exists - just might be wrong.

9:30 Death By Fire 10:30 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race 2013 2:05 Weatherwatch Overnight

MONDAY 15

SBS

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Planet Science 11:00 Landline 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Gardening Australia 1:00 Parkinson: Masterclass 2:00 Ella: A Meerkat’s Tale 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Grand Designs: The Radian House: Ipswich 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Australian Story 8:30 Four Corners 9:20 Media Watch 9:35 Q&A 10:35 Lateline 11:10 The Business 11:35 The Silence 12:35 Movie: “Madigan” (M s,v) - Dan Madigan is a New York detective with questionable ethics who runs into trouble with his moralistic commissioner.

2:10 Grand Designs: The Radian House: Ipswich 3:00 Rage 3:30 Rugby Union: Shute Shield: Round 2: Randwick Vs Parramatta 5:30 Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Mornings 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Danoz 2:00 Days Of Our Lives 3:00 National News Now 4:00 Extra 4:30 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 TBA 8:30 House Husbands 9:30 Person Of Interest: All In 10:30 Person Of Interest: 2-Pi-R 11:30 Worst Case Senario: Sinking Car / Rattlesnake Encounter 12:00 Extra - Co-hosts Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos reporting in front of a live audience from the shows hot location at The Grove in Los Angeles.

12:30 The Avengers 1:30 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 2:00 Danoz Direct 2:30 Home Shopping 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News 5:30 Today

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “Playing For Keeps” (M a,s) 2:00 Dr Oz 3:00 New Zealand On A Plate 3:30 Who’s Still Standing 4:30 Seven News 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Home And Away 7:30 TBA 8:30 Revenge: Collusion - With Emily by his side, Daniel goes toe to toe with his fiercest business rival, Jason Prosser, to land an important deal that Victoria is determined to block. Aiden takes a very dark turn, and Jack and Amanda’s future lands in the unlikely hands of Conrad Grayson.

9:30 TBA 11:45 Private Pactice: Life Support - In an episode told from Cooper’s point of view, we follow him from the moment of conception through a nasty fight with Charlotte, which inadvertently threatens the lives of their triplets.

1:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Sons And Daughters 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Movie: “Empty Nest” (PG) 2:35 Minnie Loves Junior 2:50 Birthday Boy 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5:00 Massive Moves: Pacific Palace 5:30 Global Village: Mexico’s Day Of The Dead 6:00 Wainwright Walks: Mowbray And The Moors 6:30 World News Australia 7:35 Mythbusters: Trench Torpedo 8:35 The Truth About Excersize 9:30 Mad Men: The Good News - As 1964 draws to a close, Don heads to Los Angeles to visit Anna - but learns her family is keeping a worrying secret from her. Back in New York, Joan finds it difficult to deal with an increasingly tetchy Lane, and struggles to cope with the pressures placed on her as a result of Greg’s new career in the Army.

10:30 World News Australia 11:00 The World Game: A-League Finals Special 11:30 The World Game: Global Edition 12:00 FA Cup 2013 Semi Final 1: Wigan Vs Millwall 1:00 FA Cup 2013 Semi Final 2: Manchester City Vs Chelsea / Manchester Utd 2:00 Weatherwatch Overnight

TUESDAY 16

7 CENTRAL

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Architects Of Change 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Q&A 1:30 Compass 2:00 Elements 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Grand Designs: The Scandinavian House: Lizard Peninusula 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Foreign Correspondent 8:30 New Tricks: Ice Cream Wars 9:30 At The Movies 10:00 Artscape: The Sharp Edge: The Art Of Martin Sharp - Martin Sharp has shaped pop art and culture in Australia and around the world for half a century.

10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:30 Four Corners 12:15 Media Watch 12:30 Risking Our Kids 1:25 Grand Designs: The Scandinavian House: Lizard Peninsula 2:30 Football: VFL: Round 2: Williamstown Vs Coburg 5:30 Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Mornings 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Danoz 2:00 Days Of Our Lives 3:00 National News Now 4:00 Extra 4:30 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 TBA 8:30 Two And A Half Men: The 9: 04 from Pemberton 10:00 Anger Management: Charlie Dates A Teacher 10:30 Anger Management: Charlie & Catholicism 11:00 TBA 12:00 Survivors: Abby searches for her son, Peter, after learning a group of teens are living in a nearby mansion. Meanwhile, Anya and Greg encounter some unwelcome visitors; and Al is kicked out of Samantha’s community.

1:00 Extra 1:30 Danoz Direct 2:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “The People Next Door” (M a,v) 2:00 Dr Oz 3:00 New Zealand On A Plate 3:30 Who’s Still Standing 4:30 Seven News 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Home And Away 7:30 TBA 8:30 Packed To The Rafters: Rewriting History - As Dave and Julie’s 30th wedding anniversary approaches, thoughts naturally turn to family and history. But Julie’s view of the past is rocked by a surprise admission from Ted. Meanwhile, Julie also assumes their celebration will be a small affair, but little does she realise, Ben and Nathan have returned for the occasion!

9:30 TBA 11:45 Against The Wall 1:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Victorian Pharmacy 2:00 Barbados At The Races 2:30 The Biggest Chinese Restaurant In The World: A Good Match 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village: Indonesia 6:00 Wainwright Walks: The End Of The Road 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Who Do You Think You Are? Don Hany 8:30 Insight 9:30 Dateline 10:30 World News Australia 11:05 Movie: “The Light Thief” (M l,n,a) In Kyrgyz.

12:35 Anna Pihl - In prison, Mads has a violent experience, which also affects Anna. A young convict, Dan, escapes to the roof of the prison building and threatens to jump off and commit suicide. This becomes Anna’s first assignment as a negotiator, but will she successfully talk Dan out of jumping? Meanwhile, Martin tries to get settled into his new job at the counter which turns out to be a bit difficult.

1:25 Weatherwatch Overnight

WEDNESDAY 17

IMPARJA

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Architects Of Change 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 National Press Club Address 1:30 At The Movies 2:00 Elements 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Grand Designs 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL 8:30 Tractor Monkeys: Fiona O’Loughlin, Joel Creasey, Ronny Chieng & Rob Carlton 9:00 The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide To Knife Fighting 9:30 Would I Lie To You?: The Unseen Bits 10:00 The Thick Of It 10:30 Lateline 11:00 The Business 11:30 Identity 12:20 Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime: The Clergyman’s Daughter - Tommy and Tuppence Beresford investigate some mysterious incidents occurring at a large country house.

1:15 Grand Designs: The Hi Tech Bungalow: Maidstone, Kent 2:05 The Artists Of Ali Curung 2:30 Football: SANFL: Round 3: Port Adelaide Vs Glenelg 5:30 Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Mornings 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Danoz 2:00 Days Of Our Lives 3:00 National News Now 4:00 Extra 4:30 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 6:30 A Current Affair - A Current Affair covers the realms of politics, crime, human rights, science, technology, celebrities and entertainment - all investigated by a dedicated team and hosted by Tracy Grimshaw.

7:00 TBA 9:30 What’s Your Emergency?

10:30 Embarrassing Bodies 11:30 Weeds: Dearborn Again - Nancy returns to her youthful stomping grounds and takes up with an old acquaintance while her sons curiously dig into their mother’s past.

12:00 20/20 1:00 Extra 1:30 Danoz Direct 2:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “The Good Times Are Killing Me” (M v) 2:00 Dr Oz 3:00 New Zealand On A Plate 3:30 Who’s Still Standing 4:30 Seven News 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Home And Away 7:30 TBA 11:45 Man Up!: Digging Deeper - When Kenny and Craig clash, Will suggests they try doing a project together, but that simple suggestion turns into the pair trying to dig their own swimming pool. Meanwhile Theresa, trying to promote some togetherness with Will, wants him to take an improv class with her, and Brenda is beginning to feel like she has a little too much togetherness with Grant.

12:15 Harry’s Practice 1:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Sons And Daughters 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 Insight 2:00 Dateline 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village: The Aces Of Recycling 6:00 German Wanderlust: The Rhine 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Wildest India: Ganges: River Of Life 8:30 World’s Most Dangerous Roads: Alaska 9:35 The End Of Men 10:35 World News Australia 11:05 Movie: “The Solitude Of Prime Numbers” (M l,n,a) In Italian.

Both Alice and Mattia are fated by childhood accidents to live as outsiders, outcast by those around them. After becoming friends as teenagers they go their separate ways, until one day they are reunited in Italy.

1:15 Movie: “After The Wedding” (M a,n,s) In Danish, Swedish and English. Jacob, who runs an orphanage in India, is faced with a near impossible choice when he’s called back to Denmark to meet a prospective benefactor.

3:00 Weatherwatch Overnight

THURSDAY 18

ABC

6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Architects Of Change 11:00 World’s Greenest Homes 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Family Footsteps 1:30 Cheese Slices 2:00 Elements 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Grand Designs 6:55 Clarke And Dawe 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 The Checkout 8:30 Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey - From stunning space imagery to in-your-face storm chasing, this series showcases the incredible power of our seasons and weather, and what drives them to both incredible creation and devastating destruction.

9:30 Scott And Bailey 10:20 Lateline 10:55 The Business 11:20 TBA 12:30 The Clinic 1:25 Grand Designs 2:30 Football: WAFL: Round 5: Districts Vs South Fremantle 5:30 Eggheads

6:00 Today 9:00 Mornings 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Danoz Direct 2:00 Days Of Our Lives 3:00 National News Now 4:00 Extra 4:30 National Afternoon News 5:30 Hot Seat 6:00 National News 6:30 A Current Affair 7:00 TBA 8:30 The NRL Footy Show - Join Fatty Vautin, Darryl Brohman, and Michael Slater for a wrap of all things footy and come inside the game with some of Rugby Leagues favourites.

10:30 Two And A Half Men: The Philly Cheesesteak 11:00 Two And A Half Men: That Darn Priest 11:30 The AFL Footy Show 1:30 Extra - The show takes viewers on a coast-to-coast trip in every episode, from Hollywood to hotspots at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas as well as Planet Hollywood and Times Square in New York City.

2:00 Danoz 2:30 Home Shopping 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today

6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery” (M v) 2:00 Dr Oz 3:00 New Zealand On A Plate 3:30 Who’s Still Standing 4:30 Seven News 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Home And Away 8:00 TBA 10:30 Billy Connolly’s Route 66: World-renowned comedian and motorbike enthusiast, Billy Connolly, follows his lifelong dream and makes the iconic 2488 mile journey from Chicago to Santa Monica on the iconic Route 66.

11:30 Man Up!: Wingmen - When Kenny admits he hasn’t had a date since his divorce from Brenda - and that Brenda is the only woman he has ever slept with - the guys, including Grant, take him clubbing to jump start his love life.

12:00 Fat Family Diet 1:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News

5:00 World News 1:00 The Food Lover’s Guide To Australia 1:30 William Shatner’s Weird Or What?: Medical Mysteries 2:30 My Family Feast: Cuban 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village: Sinulog, the Carnival Of Cebu 6:00 German Wanderlust: The Bavarian Alps 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Food Safari: Broome 8:00 Gourmet Farmer: Breaking Down A Pig: Matthew Evans is keen to use all parts of the pig to make sure that he’s adding as much value as possible to his future porkers. He has a plan for a ‘Breaking Down’ day, where one pig is broken down into its constituent parts, ready for cooking and preserving.

8:35 Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Wars 9:30 24 Hours in Emergency: Code Red 10:30 World News Australia 11:00 Transsecual Teen, Beauty Queen 12:10 Movie: “Kilometre 31” (MA H,v) In Spanish.

2:00 Weatherwatch Overnight

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CROSSWORD No. 143

SUDOKU No. 143

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ARIES (March 21st - April 20th) Although you will be concerned about your finances, you must be careful not to get things out of perspective. A simple budget will help. Romance. Be careful not to keep on making the same mistake. The answer to a recent problem is easy, so long as you take a different approach.

TAURUS (April 21st - May 21st)

The Moon/Ceres Midpoint moving through your sign will give your emotional energy a major boost. You may be surprised with your mood swings. Romance. You will have to make an important decision this week.

An animal’s intuition will help you to decide what should be done.

GEMINI (May 22nd - June 21st)

FOR KIDS

An encounter in an unexpected place will not disappoint you. You will be seeing this person again very shortly! Make the most of it. Romance. Make sure that you know what you’re getting into when accepting your partner’s idea. There may be hidden dangers that you’re not aware of.

CANCER (June 22nd - July 23rd)

You may be tempted to start something overly ambitious - perhaps a major redecorating job - which will have to be abandoned. Romance. You are very good at finding out the best way to criticise your partner.

Be careful that you don’t go too far this week! They are very sensitive.

LEO (July 24th - August 23rd)

A brief meeting with a stranger may be the start of something new. Don’t hold back. They have the same goals as you.

Romance. A new person entering your life will be different from other people that you know.

Embrace this difference and allow it to bring good change into your life.

VIRGO (August 24th - September 23rd)

An age gap may be less of a problem than you believe. You may have much more in common than you think. They are the best liaison for the project. Romance. You will be the centre of attention in your relationship. Don’t forget that your partner deserves special praise as well.

FINDWORD No. 143 A LAUGH WITH LOTSA

LIBRA (September 24th - October 23rd)

A flexible approach will help you to get what you want. Don’t let other people’s standards prevent you from looking at this from a fresh angle. Romance. A chance meeting may trigger a memory from your past. This will make you want to catch up with an old fling.

Go for it!

SCORPIO (October 24th - November 22nd)

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MUDDY RIVER

You may be getting a little bored with your present routine, but perhaps are not sure how to go about changing it. Model your change around someone you admire.

Romance. You will be unstoppable this week!

Whatever you do, make sure that you have an outlet for your energy.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23rd - December 21st)

You will be leading several groups at work. Be sure to take care of yourself so that you can continue on at this pace.

Romance. Use this week to get to the bottom of any issues which have been coming between you and your partner. No problems are too small to discuss!

CAPRICORN (December 22nd - January 20th)

A meeting which takes a while to warm up could have long-term potential. Be patient! Your potential financial gain is great. Romance. Somebody that you met recently would like to see you again. Unfortunately, they will be a little too shy to make the first move.

AQUARIUS (January 21st - February 19th)

QUOTE OF THE DAY

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As a well-spent day

brings happy sleep, so a life well-spent

brings happy death.

SOLUTIONS No. 143

You may soon become frustrated with a situation at work which does not seem to be progressing. Make sure that you look for other routes of enforcement.

Romance. Don’t get too absorbed in day-dreaming about how good your relationship could be. It already is pretty great. Realize this!

PISCES (February 20th - March 20th)

You may be surprised at something that happens to you this week. What you take away from the experience is up to you!

Romance. Your dreamy mood will make this a good time for a romantic outing. Try to relax as much as possible. Keeping things simple will aid in this undertaking.

– Leonardo Da Vinci

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Feral pig control must be ongoing to be effective, researchers say. Photo: Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

Accounting for feral pigs

BUSINESS principles are being used to find the most cost-effective means of controlling one of the Wet Tropics region’s most-estructive pests - feral pigs.

Dr David Smorfitt, a senior lecturer at James Cook University’s School of Business, has developed the Feral Pig Management Model.

The model uses cost-benefit analysis to determine whether the resources needed to manage feral pigs justify the end result.

“Feral pigs often live and hide in natural areas such as forestry land or national parks, but they also include agricultural areas in their relatively small home range,” Dr Smorfitt said.

“They can cause environmental damage in natural areas, but that’s hard to quantify. I have focused on the damage they do that’s more easily costed - damage to crops like sugar cane and banana farms.

“The researchers Bomford and Hart estimated the national annual agricultural crop damage from feral pigs at $100 million, a figure that is likely to be quite conservative.”

To develop the model, Dr Smorfitt examined crop damage and feral pig control efforts on 11 banana and 19 sugar cane farms in the Wet Tropics region.

He also analysed environmental, biological and horticultural data collected by officers of the Department of Environment and Resource Management (now Biosecurity Queensland).

“Using research undertaken by the Government and other researchers, I developed a feral pig bioeconomic model for the Wet Tropics region,” he said.

“The model takes into consideration the costs of control methods, such as trapping, poisoning and shooting, as well as the financial value of the crop damage that is prevented by those methods.”

Dr Smorfitt said his model showed that for feral pig control to be effective it had to be ongoing.

“It shows that irregular control of the feral pig population, say a big effort every five or 10 years, is little better than having no control measures at all.

“It also indicates that if we removed

70 per cent of the feral pig population in the Wet Tropics area, without ongoing controls the population would be back to its original size within two years.”

Dr Smorfitt stressed that he had no silver bullet to solve tropical Australia’s feral pig problem.

“In fact, eradication of feral pigs on a regional or national level is highly unlikely to be achieved, because the cost of achieving that would be unacceptable.

“Therefore the more relevant question is what resources are needed to keep feral pig damage to a manageable level. And that’s what the model can help with.

“It can be used to assess which strategies will achieve the most cost-effective feral pig control over a 20-year period.

“Whether that’s done via trapping, baiting or shooting, the model shows that our efforts to control feral pigs need to be ongoing and at a relatively high intensity.”

Dr Smorfitt said his bioeconomic model could be adapted for use with different pest mammals in other regions.

“It would need population data specific to that animal, and information on the crops it damages and the region it is in,” he said.

“However, there are still substantial gaps in the information needed for a comprehensive socioeconomic analysis of the impact of feral pests in Australia.”

“Here in the Wet Tropics we still don’t have answers to questions such as how many pigs a square kilometre of forest can support, or whether there are some environmental factors that might be helping to limit population growth.”

Dr Smorfitt said he was concerned that new research would not be undertaken, following the recent loss of scientific staff at Biosecurity Queensland.

“A lot of my modelling is based on the data gathered by Queensland Government researchers over 32 years, but these positions have now been made redundant.”

An accountant with an interest in natural resources, Dr Smorfitt did much of the work for his PhD through the University of Queensland. He teaches in the School of Business at James Cook University in Cairns.

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TV’s SUNRISE COMES TO COOKTOWN

ABOVE: The Sunrise program came to Cooktown last Friday, with weatherman James Tobin (saluting) and all the locals who got up early to say hello to the rest of Australia.

Photo: GARY HUTCHISON. ABOVE RIGHT: Cooktown Re-enactment Association members Loretta Sullivan (President), Cynthia Deeral, Erica Deeral, Sunrise weatherman James Tobin, Penny Johnson, Donella Gibson, Alberta Hornsby and Soloman Gibson after the program finished last Friday.

LEFT: Sunrise program weatherman James Tobin (centre) with big fans Danielle Matthews (left) and Katie Watkins.

Locals with Sunrise weatherman James Tobin sending an explanatory message to the result of Australia last Friday morning. Photo: WAYNE BRENNAN.

CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL NOTICE ANY persons having any claim, whether as creditor or beneficiary or otherwise in regard to the estate of the undermentioned deceased persons are hereby required to send their claims to the Regional Manager, Public Trust Office, Cairns on or before the 2ND May 2013.

After that date The Public Trustee may distribute such Estate to the persons entitled there to having regard only to the claims of which he shall then have had notice.

EDWARDS, MAX ROSS also known as EDWARDS, PIRATE – Pensioner, late of 583 Bloomfield Road, Rossville 4895, who died on the 31st day of December 2012.

Fiona Justin, Regional Manager PO Box 656, Cairns QLD 4870 Blaze008287

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The Minister for Natural Resources and Mines intends to appoint: (a) Cape Melville, Flinders & Howick Islands Aboriginal Corporation ICN7847 as grantee of: • Lot 4 on DP252501, lots 1 to 9 on DP220299, lots 1 to 9 on DP220300, lot 3 on DP252519, lot 5 on DP252520, lot 4 on DP252521, lots 1 and 2 on DP252522, lot 1 on DP252523, and lot 2 on DP252524;

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Otto Basson is pretty pleased with this barra he caught.

Jannie Basson with a tasty barra. Photo: COOKTOWN Photo: COOKTOWN BARRA CHARTERS. BARRA CHARTERS. WELL, after some reasonable weather The Endeavour river is currently proat Easter, Mother Nature is letting us feel ducing barra and fingermark, along with her might. grunter and trevally. Hardy heads, poddy We might be able to look forward to mullett and sardines have been the best lighter winds over the next few days, but it live baits with the wreck and deeper holes is still marginal until after the weekend, so producing fish. the estuary will have to satisfy your fishing When the hardy heads are working passion. along the rock wall, it is a great time to

The South Easterlies are here

Story and photos

By ALF WILSON HOPE VALE 15-year-old Ryhin Flinders is representing Queensland at the Australian Rules under-15 National KickStart Championships in Townsville, with the first ball bounced on Monday and the final whistle to be blown tomorrow.

Supported by the Coles AFL Indigenous Program, each team selected the best 25 Indigenous players from their state KickStart Camps with Victoria/ Tasmania combined as well as NSW/ ACT and teams from Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Queensland faced a baptism of fire in their first match on Monday when they lost 62-12 to a much bigger, powerhouse Victoria/Tasmania outfit.

But Ryhin played well on a half back flank and impressed Queensland official Jesse Green.

“He did well,” Jesse told the Cooktown Local News.

Queensland’s coach was former AFL star Che Cockatoo-Collins who passed on many tips to Ryhin, who also met former AFL player Xavier Clarke.

Ryhin said he played under-16 football in the strong Cairns competition and gets back to Hope Vale on most weekends.

“I play on the wing in the Cairns Australian Rules junior comp and enjoy it,” he said.

Even though Ryhin enjoys Aussie Rules, he still supports the Cowboys in the rival NRL because Hope Vale product Matt Bowen is one of the stars.

The under-15 KickStart Championships structure has been developed to provide a supported talented player pathway that complements the National under-16 Championships and exposes Indigenous coaches, doctors, physiotherapists and trainers to an elite AFL Program environment.

AFL National Community Engagement manager Jason Mifsud said the carnival is the first stage for players to be involved in a high -performance environment.

“The KickStart Championships will provide players with an opportunity to test themselves against the best emerging Indigenous players from across the country,” Mifsud said.

“Twenty-five of the best performing players will be selected for the Indigenous Flying Boomerangs squad.

“In addition to supporting talent, the KickStart program uses Australian football as a vehicle for education, employment, health and participation outcomes for Indigenous people.”

Lionel Kirby from Brisbane with a 55cm mangrove Jack. Photo submitted. cast lures, both hard and soft, around the turn of the tide. Grunter on the flood tide on peeled prawns are also worth a try, and with the forecast of rain, we might run a few crab pots again.

Land-based fishing in Cooktown is still a great easy option, whether soaking a prawn for grunter or sending out a live

bait - you just never know what will pick up the bait. It could be the fish of a life time, a bait-thieving stingray or just a big sea toad, but it is a great way to relax and you might just bag something to feed the family.

Tight lines Russell Bowman The Lure Shop

Bright AFL future for Hope Vale’s Ryhin

ABOVE: The Queensland team competing at the National Kickstart Championships in Townsville.

LEFT: Former AFL star Xavier Clarke with Ryhin Flinders at the under-15 National KickStart Championships carnival in Townsville.

RIGHT: Rhyin Flinders with former AFL star Che Cockatoo- Collins who passed on valuable tips during the under-15 National KickStart Championships carnival to the lad from Hope Vale.

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Hope Vale to Weipa to Rocky for a game of footy Story by ALF WILSON JEROME Woibo from Hope Vale faced a marathon journey to compete at the fifth Central Queensland Indigenous Reconciliation All Blacks carnival in Rockhampton on Easter Saturday and Sunday.

Woibo works for Rio Tinto in Weipa and lined up for one of two Descendants teams at the carnival.

Sixteen teams battled it out for honours and Woibo lined up for Descendants number two team.

The carnival was to be held over the Australia Day long weekend in January, but was postponed due to floods in central Queensland.

Team organizer Elia Ware said Woibo caught a plane from Weipa to Cairns and then travelled the 1100km to Rockhampton in one of two, 25-seat buses.

“It was a marathon road journey, but Jerome starred for the Descendants number two side.

He really went well. Jerome travelled the longest of any of the players at the carnival as far as I know,” Ware told the Cooktown Local News.

In round one, Descendants number two defeated Cliff Ambrum Memorial 26-6.

In their scheduled second match on day one, Descendants number two and one sides were drawn to clash.

However, Ware said in a tactical move, it was decided that Descendants number two would forfeit, which relegated them into the loser’s plate division.

“We didn’t want to suffer any injuries as we were confident one of our sides could win the carnival and it was a tactical decision,” Ware said.

The number two Descendants team lost their plate quarter-final 8-6 to the Woorabinda Warriors.

“They only lost that in the final 10 seconds,” Ware said.

In the semi-final, Descendants number one

defeated Curacoa Crusaders, which won the Cairns All Blacks carnival last October, 28-24.

The Descendants number one went on to win the carnival beating CQ Warriors 54-12 in the grand final, pocketing $20,000.

Ware said both teams travelled back from Rockhampton to Cairns in the buses on Easter Monday during which time they celebrated together.

Ware said that Three Rivers players Stanton Bowen, Nigel Bowen and Ritchie Ford were going to play for Descendants, but withdrew before the carnival.

In the Rockhampton women’s grand final, the star studded Highlanders, with numerous representative players defeated AKS Memorial 16-12.

Cherbourg Brothers United had a 36-18 victory over Gladstone Goori United in the men’s plate division, and Yarrabah team Guyala just pipped Dja Dja Belbendi 22-20 in golden point in the bowl section.

Jerome Woibo on the bus to the All Blacks carnival in Rockhampton over Easter. Photo submitted.

Sport, Tom Waterhouse and the ‘gamblification’ of everyday life

By CHARLES LIVINGSTONE Senior Lecturer, Global Health and Society at Monash University on theconversation.edu.au OVER the Easter weekend in Australia the furore around gambling and sport intensified. Prominent racehorse trainer Gai Waterhouse defended her son Tom’s gambling business in the tabloids, and legislation was proposed to limit gambling’s intrusion into coverage of sport.

Channel Nine, meanwhile, agreed with a parliamentary committee that it had overstepped the mark by blending commentary and marketing by engaging Tom Waterhouse in their NRL telecasts this season.

TV ads, hoardings around the ground and club websites as well as the jerseys, shorts, and - in the case of the NRL, the name of the ground on which the sport is played - are all used to promote gambling.

It’s clear that the promotion of gambling is omnipresent in Australian sport, and now presents a supreme irritant for fans.

In the face of this, it’s important to realise that sports betting - although the current focus of public ire - accounts for only $350 million or so of Australia’s $18.5 billion expenditure (that is to say, losses) on gambling in 2009-10, the most-recent year for which we have comprehensive data.

Of this, $10.2 billion went into poker machines in local clubs and pubs.

Horse racing consumed $2.7 billion, casinos $3.6 billion.

Nonetheless, sports betting is the fastest-growing segment of the gambling market. It is focused on a new generation of potential gamblers, for whom the pokies hold few attractions.

This is perhaps why Clubs Australia wants its members to be monopoly licensed to operate online gambling sites. They can see that the future of gambling is online and mobile.

At the heart of the present furore is that Australians, like many other nationalities, love sport.

To see it “polluted” by crass commercialism is something many people find greatly offensive.

Along with this, a big difference between, say, the pokies and sports betting is that pokies are largely concentrated in areas of disadvantage.

Most people - 70% or more of the adult population - never use pokies, and avoid their habitat.

Similarly with casinos and the races: if you’re not interested, they are relatively avoidable, save for the occasional racing carnival.

Sports betting is in your face, on TV, at the ground and in the sports pages of newspapers.

More importantly, it’s in the faces of your children, on footy tipping

Tom Waterhouse, the image that infuriated many viewers. Photo courtesy Sydney Morning Herald. websites, on the uniforms of their heroes, and endlessly promoted during coverage of their favourite games.

We don’t know with certainty what the results of this will be. We do however hear numerous accounts of children able to recite the odds of various betting possibilities, as they once recited the game statistics of favoured players.

We do know that ready accessibility to gambling is a major risk factor for gambling problems.

Sports betting could hardly be more available, and the knowledge of how, and where, to do it is ubiquitous in mediums where children are at home. It is not hard to deduce the likely consequences of this new preoccupation.

Since a High Court decision in 2008 authorised interstate marketing of online bookies, we have witnessed the “gamblification” of sport, and to a certain extent everyday life, as the bookies take advantage of a perfect storm of intensified marketing opportunities, technological innovation, and ineffective regulation.

The bookies promote themselves by offering odds on novelty bets whether the trains will run on time, who the next Pope will be, whether the prime minister will make it to the election. In most cases, these are simply ploys for free media coverage.

The media generally oblige, hungry for free copy.

But this is not simply marketing.

A critical element of the “perfect storm” is reflexivity - the social fact that we change our perceptions of reality and our associated social practices as a consequence of how reality is presented to us.

Betting companies like Centrebet have lucrative sponsorship deals with sporting organisations, covering stadium hoardings to players’ shorts.

The generation that grows up with sports betting, pokie apps, online casinos and football clubs desperate to profit from and market gambling is likely to produce problem gamblers in record numbers.

This will not be because they

are any more venal or flawed than any other generation. Rather, the world they inhabit will be - if it is not already - one where gambling is portrayed as the epitome of a normal healthy life.

Once upon a time, the tobacco industry successfully sought to normalise smoking by its sponsorship of sport.

That endedwhen we realised the harm that was done by allowing “the best and soundest thing” (as Sherlock Holmes put it) in society to become dependent on tobacco dollars.

Gambling doesn’t yet have sport in a stranglehold, as the pokies lobby does with Australia’s state and territory governments.

We can act to limit the promotion of gambling during broadcasts watched by children, and the sporting codes can wean themselves off the still-modest dollars they make from associating themselves with bookies.

By and large, state governments have not been up to the challenge of sensibly regulating the promotion of sports betting.

If there is to be an effective response, it must come from Canberra.

Against the recent onslaught from Clubs Australia over pokie reform, the current government turned to water.

Perhaps the backlash against the bookies will empower them to act.

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ROUND 5 RESULTS (home team first) 6

Bulldogs

Sea Eagles

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12

Titans

Broncos

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13

Eels

Sharks

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Cowboys

Panthers

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Dragons

Knights

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Warriors

Rabbitohs

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Raiders

Roosters

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11 Dragons

4 Knights

12 W Tigers

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15 Panthers

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16 Warriors

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Who took the high road and who took the low road?

Gary Johnstone played his last game at Cootown Golf Club on Saturday with Monthly Medal winner Mick Mason. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON.

Butler brothers dominate FIRSTLY, I would like to welcome our newest member to the club, Ahmed Elfeki. Ahmed is our new Pharmacist at the chemist. Welcome Ahmed.

Sadly, two members are leaving us for chances at different lives. Bret Crosby is moving to the Tablelands, while Gary Johnstone and his wife Karen have sold up and are off to the chilly climate of Tasmania. I’m sure everyone wishes them all the best in their new ventures.

Rick Cowe managed to hold onto his winning position to claim the pizza in The Italian Restaurant Weekly Stroke competition last week. Rick had a pretty good round with 67 off the stick.

Runner-up position went to Steve Butler who had a 69 off the stick.

You would think that having a score of 40 Stableford points would be a sure thing to take out the first prize in Saturday’s Hope Vale Butcher Shop Stableford competition.

But that was not the case for Rick Cowe. His playing partner Grant Holmes wiped the smile off his face by beating him with a score of 43.

Rick did get the last laugh though, as Grant’s handicap has dropped seven strokes as a result.

The Butler brothers dominated in claiming all the nearest-the-pins. Rick was just shy of landing a hole in one to claim 2/11 and landed 14 as well, and little brother Steve landed NTP for 9/18.

Only three members competed in the Cape York Tyres Sunday 9-Hole Stableford competition, with Alice Burton the day’s winner with 19 points.

Alice is also leading the field for The Italian Restaurant Weekly Stableford

with 37.

This year’s Cooktown Open will be held on Saturday and In the Sunday, May 25 and 26.

Bunker Nomination forms have been sent by email and for those members without email, forms have been posted. Nomination closing date is May 5. Only 35 spots remain available.

Specific tee time and playing partner requests are not guaranteed. If you are not going to be playing in this year’s Open, please remember that volunteers are greatly needed for that weekend, Friday afternoon included.

Daniel from Drummond Golf Cairns will be coming to Cooktown again to conduct some golf lessons. The lessons will be held on the afternoons of Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 and then again on the morning of Sunday, April 21).

Only a handful of members have registered their interest so far, so all other members, please let me know if you want a lesson ($50 for individual half hour or $80 for 2-person hour lesson), and for which day you would like it so I can pencil you in the schedule.

There are two spots available on the Friday and Saturday afternoons and one half-hour spot left for Sunday.

We also have a brand new pair men’s size 9.5 Niblick golf shoes for sale. $75 ono. Contact Kelly if interested.

Happy golfing everyone Kelly Barnett, Manager, Cooktown Golf Club.

THIS week, the run was hosted

by Thermo and F*&t and, at the very last minute, F*&t sent out an email saying that the run would not start from his home in town.

Instead, we should meet at Culvert No. 18 on Endeavour Valley Road. Hands up anyone who knows where the hell that is. . .?

The only other clue was that we were not to park at the Mount Tully gravel pit. Oh, and the run start would be marked by pieces of green tape.

As you might expect (this is the Hash we are talking about), the late and arcane instructions resulted in a screw-up, with vehicles wandering through the bush searching the (green) forest and the (green) hillsides for the mythical green tape.

A group of runners did find

the right place, and half of them started off up Mount Tully. The other half took the low road and went in search of a drink stop. On the way, they picked up another group of runners who had not found the starting point.

The run was a pleasant walk through the bush in the rain, starting with a nice view of the insides of the clouds on Mount Tully. After the drink stop on the other side, the trail wound along the firebreaks back to Oakey Creek Road and the cars.

Back at the Bash, Thermo donned her crown and got stuck into various Hashers. Hotdog, for getting caught being a Bad Boy, F*&t for losing his hat on the run, and Nostrildumass for wearing the cheapest of new shoes.

Then came Muff and Moses,

for not finding the start of the run, and we welcomed a virgin runner who sat in stunned silence all evening.

Thermo has come over all Mexican, and we ate home-made guacamole, refried beans, corn chips followed by tacos and burritos, with a side order of tasty chillies as F*&t gets excitable if they are included in his food.

Next week’s run will be at Sew Ezy’s (and not at Culvert No 18).

Turn up at 5.30 pm on Monday, April 15 to join the fun. Call Moses on 4069 5854 or 0409 686 032 for details.

On-on! Lye Bak

Cape York SSAA member Bill Payne getting ready for last Saturday’s Shotgun shoot. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON.

Three locals contest Trap National titles CONDITIONS were breezy for the small number of shooters who contested last Saturday’s DTL Shotgun Shoot - situation normal for this time of year.

Those conditions make it very challenging for the shooters as the wind gets under the flying targets. No possibles were scored.

Jim, Jason and Kristin are currently competing at the 2013 Trap Nationals with Jason already managing to

get into a shoot-off for ninth place in one event, with an initial score of 49 out of 50 targets. Tough competition!

A Pistol Shoot will be held this Saturday, April 13 from 1pm, and then on Sunday, a Rifle Shoot will be held from 9am.

Contact your Discipline Captain for details.

Anne Williams Secretary

Mal wins yet again LAST Wednesday’s 25m Service Core 3-position match saw Mal victorious once again with 344 from a possible score of 360. In second was Ross with 341 and Evelyn with 331.

If you would like to try this sport, you are welcome to come along on any Wednesday at 5.30pm. Bring photo ID and wear closed-in shoes.

Remember, the next firearms safety course will be held in May - date to be advised.

April dates for your diary include: Saturday 13 - Target Shoot from 1.30pm; Sunday 14 - Rimfire Silhouette Shoot from 9.30am; Wednesday 17 - Standard Shoot from 5.30pm; Wednesday 24 - General meeting and Service Core Air Pistol Match from 5.30pm; and Sunday 28 - Practical shoot from 9am.

Janne Stewart Secretary/Treasurer

• Boys 9 years – 16 years (Sorry if you are turning 17 this year then sadly you can’t play in the junior league)

• Girls 9 years – 12 years

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 10AM TO 12 NOON AT THE JOHN STREET OVAL What you will need to bring…

$40 registration fees (Uniform extra if required)

Cape York SSAA member Bill McCann ready to step up to the line for his event on Saturday.

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Chat with Matt G’DAY again.

It’s so good to have another win on the board after our victory against the Penrith Panthers at home last Saturday night.

That gives us two wins from five starts, which hasn’t been a good start to the season.

You could pretty much say we caught the Panthers in an ambush, scoring 22 points in the first 20 minutes off the back of 10 completions from 10 (sets of six tackles). But then it was like we were playing an entirely new game, with our completion rate dropping to a dismal five from 11.

There was too much dropped ball and loss of possession along with too many penalties from then on. Our discipline flew out the door during that period We started so well, but lost concentration, that’s the only reason I can give for it, but that’s not good enough if we are going to enjoy any level of success in this year’s NRL season.

You have be intense, disciplined and consistent for the whole 80 minutes, regardless of who you’re playing and how far up on the scoreboard you might be.

Consistency at our level is crucial.

One very pleasing aspect that came out of our game was the fact we kept the Panthers scoreless.

We pride ourselves on our defence.

It’s our main goal every time we take the field, so to achieve that against Penrith, who despite their current position on the premiership ladder, are very capable of racking up big scores against the best sides, is a real achievement.

For myself, I was pretty happy

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with my own game, achieving some of my own personal goals, especially with the amount and quality of my involvement.

There is still a lot more work to be done before I’ll be fully happy though.

Another thing about the game against the Panthers, I’ve been asked how much influence our home town crowd played in getting us “up” for that game as opposed to the importance of the game. We knew it was critical to get back into winning form, but definitely our crowd played a part. It was a bit of both.

I reckon we’ve got the best supporters in the NRL. They’re so loyal and playing at home is always a huge buzz.

As far as the team goes, I think everyone’s pulled up fit for the local derby against the Broncos at Lang Park on Friday night.

I have, and am really looking forward to the game.

We know it’s going to be an incredibly tough game against the Broncs, they always are, no matter where we play them or how either of us are going in the competition. It’s just the nature of local derbies I guess.

I hear the Three Rivers boys are playing some trial games at John Street

League fans struggle to find winners in tipping competition

this Friday night, so if you’re not down there enjoying the local footy, remember to set yourself up in front of the TV. We always enjoy your support.

- Matt Bowen

TIPSTERS struggled to find form in round five of the Cooktown Local News/Hinterland Aviation/Inn Cairns NRL tipping competition from the weekend.

The best performance was five from the eight winners, and only Superstar, Beagleb2, Vinnie, FNQ_Chris, Dogs of War!!!! and Pootie Tang managed that feat.

There were three results which played havoc with the tipsters.

Only FNQ_Chris tipped the Raiders to down the Roosters, five selected the Dragons to account for the Knights, and only five chose the Broncos to down the Titans.

After all that, Wombat_101 on 31 still leads by three although getting only four correct.

TheFantasticMrsFox and Prickly are both on 28, with Superstar and Maggie_P on 26 and Nikki, Eye of the Tiger and Kintaine on 25.

The winner will receive a return flight to Cairns for one, courtesy of Hinterland Aviation and three nights’ accommodation in the heart of Cairns at Inn Cairns – a prize worth more than

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COOKTOWN’S Three Rivers Rugby League competition has been given a short reprieve, with trial games planned for tomorrow night for the purpose of selecting a side to contest the Remote Area Rugby League Challenge.

Representatives from all four clubs involved in the Three Rivers League - Cooktown Crocs, Hope Vale Red Soil Rebels, Hope Vale Backstreet Warriors and the Wujal Wujal Yindili - met at the

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Cooktown RSL Memorial Club to discuss the issue of the payment of player insurance, which is threatening the future of the competition.

While it was agreed at the league’s annual general meeting this year, that players be responsible for paying half their insurance, moneys received from players so far, are insufficient to foot the insurance bills.

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Although no immediate, definitive resolution to the problem was found at Wednesday night’s meeting, fund raising will be started at tomorrow night’s games, for which an alternative, short-term fix has been found to ensure players are covered by insurance.

To m o r r o w n i g h t ’s games, which will be held at the John Street Oval, will start at 6pm.

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