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$2 • PH: 1300 4895 00 • EDITORIAL: editor@cooktownlocalnews.com.au • Issue 625 • Thursday, July 25, 2013
Harbour dredging delayed until 2014
Teddy bear’s picnic . . .
. . . and Sweet Sea
By GARY HUTCHISON
MONDAY’S 0.0m tide further emphasized the desperate need to dredge the Endeavour River in Cooktown Harbour, but recent advice from the Department of Transport and Main Roads has confirmed the project will start later, rather than sooner. In the June 20 edition of the Cooktown Local News, the Cook Shire Council advised the project will be co-ordinated and run by DTMR, who had informed them the project could start as early as October this year. Cook Shire Council then told the Cooktown Local News they had been advised that the state government funding allocated for this project would be secured and rolled over into the 2013/2014 budget. “Council has also been informed by the Department that an application for dredging works in Cooktown Harbour, to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), will be completed soon,” a Council spokeswoman said at the time. “DTMR expect works to commence in October, 2013.” However, DTMR has since advised the Cooktown Local News that dredging will not in fact be undertaken until the first half of 2014 - weather permitting. A DTMR spokesperson says the Cooktown dredging project is part of the state-wide dredging program, which has not changed. Continued Page 4 >>
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letters to the editor: flouride debate
Council clarifies some issues in fluoride debate COOK Shire Council has a responsibility to act in the best interests of its constituents and under our democratic system of government, in the best interest of the majority. It is important that balanced and informed consideration be given to contentious issues such as the current Fluoride argument. Whilst Council respects all opinions, recent Letters to the Editor have presented a biased “anti” view and the attached article helps balance the debate. Cooktown/Shire issues also require clarification: Cost to ratepayers The Cooktown water supply was fluoridated on August 17, 2010, with the installation cost of approximately $360,000 being fully paid for by the then State Government who also made the introduction mandatory.
The ongoing operational and materials costs are $3500pa - or less than $10 per day across a user population of approximately 2100. Safety levels The final dosage level of 0.7 parts per million(ppm) is the State mandated level for all areas of Northern Queensland with a maximum dosage level of 1.5 ppm. The Annan water supply has a fail safe shutdown at 1.1 ppm. Northern latitudes have lower final dose rates that southern latitudes as a recognition of the higher consumption of water in our hotter climate. Almost all water supplies have a natural background level, which must be allowed for in the dosing regime to achieve the final recommended dose. Fluoride is naturally present
(at a higher %) in the unfluoridated water supply at Coen, which is Cook Shire’s second largest town. Dental statistics show that dental health in Coen
children is significantly better than similar Cape communities. Natural fluoride levels occurring in Cook Shire are: • Coen 1.0 ppm • Lakeland 0.4 ppm • Laura 0.2 ppm • Cooktown Bore fields 0.4 ppm Mass medication is a popularly accepted convention and includes: • All commercially available bread is fortified with folate for the prevention of birth defects such as neural tube defect, which could cause: spina bifida, anacephaly, microcephaly and cleft palate; • Table salt contains added iodine to avoid goitres; and • Children in Australia receive triple antigen vaccination at an early age. Peter Scott (pictured), Cook Shire Mayor.
WE would like to thank all the people who have encouraged and supported us by signing the petition to have Fluoride removed from the Cook Shire Council’s Reticulated Water Supply. We have been down at the markets and in the IGA giving people the opportunity to have their say and to find out more. Signing the petition is one way to let councillors know what you want, so they can best represent you on such important issues. We have been advised that with enough signatures, this issue will be raised in council as a community concern. We believe that everyone has the right and responsibility to make informed decisions about their health and the health of those they care, for including bottle fed babies and children. Many
people are following the debate in the “Letters to the Editor” each week so they can become more informed on this topic. We also have leaflets summarising why so many councils in Queensland and around the world have stopped adding fluoride to town water supplies. Many people living out of town, who are not on town water supply, are supporting the town people who have no choice in this mass medication issue. We have had some Cook Shire Council workers who support the petition, but are concerned about signing as it might cause problems for them in their work area. We have also been encouraged by the amount of young and older men who have come to us asking to sign the petition.
Many visitors to Cooktown have also stated to us that they have been active in their home town areas to have Fluoride removed from their water supply and are very supportive of our local petition as they do not want to drink or shower in fluoridated water. Many people have complained about the taste of the Cooktown water and stated that they only buy bottled water to drink. We are here to raise this as a community, national and worldwide concern. So “you can have your say” about what is added to the water “you” drink, bathe and swim in. The local fluoridated water used in manufacturing of foods, products, industry, agriculture, live stock, your pets and even when watering your home grown
vegetables are all then disposed of in our waste water, into “our” environments and river systems. The increased fluoride levels enter our food chain and this affects “us all”! The “good news” is that there is a “new” understanding about Fluoride, so people right across the globe are voicing their concerns and taking action. You can get information and petition signing at the following places: Video Shop, Nijskens Bargain Barn, Cooktown Orchid Caravan Park, Seabreeze Laundromat, the Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery or we will be at Cornett’s Cooktown IGA this Thursday pm, Saturday from 9am to 3 pm. Pure Water for Cooktown People Rhonda Holland, Cooktown.
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from 10am to noon. Sun 4. Cooktown Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from 1.30pm in the CWA Hall in Charlotte Street. Call 4069 5626 for details. Tue 6. Swim for Your Life at the Cooktown Pool from 11.30am to 12.30am. Tue 6. Cooktown Writers' Group meeting at Lions Hall, Amos Street from 6.30pm. Tue 6. Cooktown Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from 8pm in the CWA Hall in Charlotte Street. Call 4069 5626 for details. Wed 7. Cooktown Pool - Aqua Aerobics - from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. Thu 8. Swim for Your Life at the Cooktown Pool from 11.30am to 12.30am. Sat 10. Rossville P & C Markets from 9am at the Rossville Marketplace. Sat 10. Cooktown Pool - Aqua Aerobics - 9am to 10am. Sun 11. Cooktown Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from 1.30pm in the CWA Hall in Charlotte Street. Call 4069 5626 for details. Can club secretaries please send in a list of their events planned for the year to editor@cooktownlocalnews.com. au so they can be included in the What's On section.
Fluoride comparison between mum and daughter AS a mum of three, two of whom are going to require extensive dental and orthodontic work into the future, any help I can get with keeping their teeth in good condition is very welcome. Be it through the visiting dentists to the school or from a recommended and controlled amount of fluoride in the water they drink. I grew up in Cooktown when there was no fluoride in our water supply.
CHURCH SERVICES Baptist: Hogg Street, near IGA, 9.30am Sun. Phone 4069 5155. Cooktown Community Church (AOG/ACC): Gungarde Hall, 9.30am Sun; Home Group 7.30am Wed. Phone 4069 5070, 0427 756 793. Catholic: 6pm Sat and 8.30am Sun, St Mary's, Cooktown. Phone 4069 5730. Anglican: Christ Church Chapel, Sun 8.30am. Phone 4069 6778, 0428 696 493. Lutheran: Hope Vale at 9am on Sunday, Cooktown. Phone either 4060 9197 or 0419 023 114.
Through a lack of consistent dental services when I was young, genetic factors and the lack of fluoridated water to drink, my own teeth are now in very bad shape. I’ve actually just been told that due to the extent of damage and weakened structure, I would be better off getting all my teeth removed and have implants put in rather than spend upwards of $30,000 plus to get them
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all fixed (both dental and orthodontic work) and then have to face the same fate later down the track anyway I am 32-years-old. While I’m not saying that the addition of fluoride would have saved my teeth, I am sure it would have prevented them from being this bad this early in life. My mother on the other hand grew up “with” a fluoridated water supply in New South Wales.
Kimberley Sullivan, Cooktown.
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She has a similar diet to mine and apart from a few extractions, still has all her own teeth with very few fillings . . . she is in her 60s. For the benefit of all our children and young adults who will be the future leaders and decision-makers of our community, let’s make the right decisions now - keep fluoride “in” our drinking water.
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letters to the editor: flouride debate If in doubt, leave it out
Fluoride conspiracy theories WE humans are strange creatures. We need to be controlled, yet hate to be controlled. If things don’t shape up for us, or fickle fate thwarts us, we look for sinister forces. Which is why conspiracy theories (faked moon landings, John Howard hiring hit men to kill the people at Port Arthur etc.) get so much mileage. Being a simple man, I use simple tests to evaluate any unusual theory. I assume that the theory is true, then create some conclusions. If I use the two conspiracies - moon landings and Port Arthur as examples, then it follows that a lot of witnesses would have had to be killed by NASA and our Federal Government, plus a lot of other clearly absurd actions to conceal the “truth”. Oh, yeah - fluoride! The biggest conspiracy of all.
If the fluoride administered in public water did to people what is claimed, then: • The majority of doctors and dentists who approve of it, are evil or also victims of a conspiracy. Or they are duped by false information issued by other sinister forces: • Since it didn’t take very long to discover the problems with Thalidomide and Vioxx, then there must be a lot of people whose “scientifically validated” fluoride caused illnesses are being concealed by the same sinister forces; and • Following from the above, the longest drug trial in human history is flawed. In the case of “natural” fluoride, a 250,000 year trial (about how long humans have been around). In the case of fluoride being added to unnaturally farmed water (in which natural fluoride has not had the time to dissolve), a trial over 65 years.
Townsville kids have 40 to 60 per cent less tooth decay since fluoride. See “Nations B e s t Te e t h ” Townsville Bulletin 18/12/2007. C o n t r a r y to a statement i n l a s t w e e k ’s Cooktown Local News , the “2011 Tasmania Health Report” indicates ‘dramatic’ improvement in dental health since fluoride. Refer: http://www. dhhs.tas.gov.au/__data/ assets/pdf_file/0019/81802/ sect_7_Oral_health_2011. pdf It’s possible that in some remote communities, where there are many children with two heads, hence twice as many teeth, that they suffer from more cavities than normal. Or maybe it’s just the chronic shortage of dentists, and people with the money to afford them in Tas, post
MOST people believe what they’re told when it comes from what they see as a credible source. Organisations are not always right and there are vested interests. Blind faith in our manipulated world view doesn’t help. View both sides of the argument. In response to Lana Hab’s comments, there’s not a bee in the bonnet, it’s just unacceptable to be “force medicated”. If there is a risk to children’s brains and a connection to increased cancers etc., water fluoridation is highly questionable. We don’t have a pineal gland for no reason. Cook Shire Council should remove it from our water, and parents properly parent their children through education and good habits. The only thing that will keep their teeth cavity free is regular daily brushing that you should do for young children, using only the “pea sized” dose and importantly, not swallowing the toothpaste. Topical application of fluoride is far more effective than ingesting it. We should be able to choose whether w want it or not, and, of course, the consequences litigation impels authorities to back the safe argument. Jan Rock, Endeavour Valley.
GFC - also in a Tassy health report. BTW: “forces of evil” you owe me for this letter. I’m on Paypal, send my remittance forthwith. Serge Petelin, Cooktown.
What is the effect of bathing in fluoridated water? WHILST we are debating the pros and cons of fluoride in our local water, an area often overlooked is the effect of this toxic poison on our bodies through showering or bathing. Our skin, being the largest organ in our bodies, is bathed in this poison when bathing.
Whether or not people elect to drink or not drink our local reticulated water, it is unavoidable not to be dosed with fluoride in the shower or bath if the local water is used for this purpose. Surely someone among the executive staff of the local council can do the proper research, and
make a decision to cease this practice. There are obviously those whose interests lie in promoting and continuing the practice, I ask them to show us your proof that this has anything but a negative effect on human bodies. B. Noyce, Cooktown.
‘Conservative but pro-active budget’ - Mayor COOK Shire Council signed off on its 2013/2014 Budget last week with an average total rates and utility charges increase of 2.7 per cent. Pensioner concessions and early payment discounts have been retained. Mayor Peter Scott said that in preparing the Budget, Council was mindful of a number of factors to develop a conservative and responsible approach to the coming financial year. These include: • Low socio-economic indicators in a large and diverse geographical area; • Government and industry related public fee increases (fire/disaster levies, electricity, insurance, etc); • A low number of rateable properties; • Smart spending for maximum return on investment through productivity
gains and cost savings; and • A corporate strategy to attract new business and increase the population of Cook Shire. Water and sewerage unit costs are locked in for another 12 months, with the continuation of the user-pay principle. Business owners who require a fire hydrant will be eligible for a concession on water connection and service charges. Mayor Scott said Council’s ongoing commitment to best practice waste management and recycling features strongly in the Budget. “The continued option of a 120L or 240L wheelie bin is available for property owners in a refuse collection area,” he said. “Commercial operators now have the option to use contractors for refuse collection or use their own
resources. “And an extension to the kerbside collection area has been introduced to minimise waste management costs and provide essential services to more residents.” He said Cook Shire is largely dependent on Government funding. “The budgeted operating deficit of $6.9m i s e ff e c t i v e l y $ 2 . 7 m after allowing for timing anomalies in grant funding delivery,” he said. “There is a five per cent reduction in employee expenses, however a major expense is depreciation of $7.8million of which 50 per cent is against our rural roads. “Our balance sheet will remain strong with projected total assets of $292.7m against liabilities of $7.8m - giving community equity of $284.9m
Key projects, services, initiatives Key projects, services and initiatives for the financial year ahead include: • Investments into new and existing infrastructure, resulting in long term savings and productivity gains- such as the Annan River Hydro Power Scheme, Lakeland washdown bay and a stores and archives facility for the Shire depot; comprising mainly roads, buildings, property and plant.” He said funds are tight across the board, and any new capital infrastructure in the next twelve months will be funded primarily through grants, external investment, asset sales or self-servicing loans.
• Continuing to develop and maintain community services and attractions - for example the Cooktown waterfront reclamation, harbour dredging and wharf renewal, water storage for Coen and upgrading our rural roads network; • Continuing to facilitate key tourism initiatives - including the Adelaide Street Rest Area, the
“Cook Shire is unique we have many challenges but also opportunities,” he said. “This Budget, although necessarily conservative, has a strong focus on economic growth and sustainability. “We have tried to get the balance right between be-
Cooktown and Cape York Visitor Information Centre and external marketing programs; • Promoting and facilitating investment within the Shire - such as the Cooktown Airport Subdivision and Catholic Education Special Assistance School; and • Supporting and encouraging community initiatives with local grant funding.
ing proactive and building for the future, while at the same time recognising and enhancing our treasured character and lifestyle.” Ratepayers and interested persons who would like to know more about the 2013/2014 Cook Shire Council Budget can access a ‘Frequently Asked
Questions’ sheet, available now from Council’s administration building and on its website www.cook. qld.gov.au. Any enquiries regarding rates can be directed to Council’s Rates Officer by phoning 4069 5444 or email: mail@cook.qld. gov.au.
Cooktown New-look logo for Cook Shire Bowls Club A NEW logo and branding package was adopted at last week’s monthly meeting of Cook Shire Council. Mayor Peter Scott said the new logo is reflective of our history, diverse landscapes and vision of striving ahead to future successes. “It is a welcome update to Council’s corporate identity,” he said. Continued Page 4 >>
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Harbour dredging delayed until 2014
LEFT: Some vessels berthed in the Endeavour River were left sitting on mud during Monday’s 0.0m low tide. RIGHT: The Endeavour River as seen from the boat ramp on Monday’s low tide. << From Page 1 “We had planned on disposing of the dredge material - which is made up of clean sand - at approved, offshore placement sites,” the spokesperson said. “However, Cook Shire Council indicated they have an approved reclamation area next to the harbour, and asked us to fill the area as part of our project. “Placing clean, dredged sand in this location will benefit Cook Shire and the local community, along with providing significant cost savings for the project.”
The spokesperson said the department is happy to co-operate with council’s suggestions. “We’re happy to work with Cook Shire Council and are currently waiting on state and federal government approval to use the new reclamation site,” the spokesperson said. “We’re also planning a dredging project at Port Douglas, which is waiting on some final environmental approvals before going out to tender. “We expect to include the Cooktown Project as an option within the
Port Douglas Tender, which should also provide cost savings.” Approvals and the appointment of a contractor will play a role in the commencement date of dredging. “The timing of the Cooktown dredging project is dependent on final approvals being gained and timing of the contractor, if both projects are awarded to one contractor,” the spokesperson said. “The reclamation area also needs to be finished by council. “We expect works will be underway in the first half of 2014, weather permitting.”
Another Endeavour River view from Grassy Hill.
New-look logo for Cook Shire << From Page 3 “The shield (logo) has served us well since 1988, but now it’s time for a change. “We want to position ourselves as a competitive player at all levels of industry and Government and create strong and lasting positive impressions on all those who deal with Council. “With a new look and new marketing plan we’re taking great steps towards achieving this” Mayor Scott said the new branding will be used across all Council documents, publications, promotions, media and other collateral (both internal and external).
“Implementation of the new logo and branding will take place immediately; however current resources (pre-printed stationery, etc) will be utilised first where appropriate, for a period of up to six (6) months,” he said. “Existing signage and
other fixed structures, where the previous logo is used, will remain until predetermined reviews are undertaken. “Full roll out of Council’s new logo and branding will be a gradual process and is expected to be completed by June, 2015.”
Two new grants programs A TOTAL of $40,000 has been set aside in the recently adopted 2013/2014 Cook shire Council Budget for economic development and community development grants. The Economic Development Grants Program will provide eligible applicants up to $5000 for small economic development projects in Cook Shire. Successful organisations will be delivering activities, events or projects that will result in direct economic benefit to the region. The Community Development Grants Program aims to provide assistance to not-for-profit organisations, groups or individuals who make a positive contribution to the quality of life of the community, or offer benefit to the shire as a whole through projects, activities and events. Successful grants will be capped at $2000; however Council reserves the right to award a higher amount of funding at its discretion. Organisers of major events that have an
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Event Agreement with Council will not be eligible for additional assistance under this funding program. Differing to the previous program offered by Council, both new grants will only have one round of funding per year. Successfully funded projects, activities and events are to commence and be completed within twelve months of the funding approval date. Applicants will be able to make submissions from Monday July 29 until the closing date of Friday, September 6, 2013. No out-of-round funding will be available for either program. For further information about the new grants programs contact Council’s Economic Development and Community Services team on 4069 5444 or email: mail@cook. qld.gov.au. Application forms and guidelines are available now from Council’s administration building or online at www.cook.qld. gov.au/grants.
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Fireworks will light up Show sky HOW would you like to see fireworks at this year’s Show? After six years of waiting for the right circumstances and an opportunity to be able to cover the cost, a fantastic fireworks display has just been booked to appear on Saturday, August 3 at 7.30pm. As part of the Cooktown Show’s affiliation with the Queensland Chamber of Agricultural Societies, Cooktown now has access to the Showman’s Guild; professional travelling showmen who bring their own selection of rides, both large and small, show bags and amusements. They are also the fireworks provider this year, so expect an amazing display that will leave you in awe. With only a few days to go, the Cooktown Racecourse will soon be buzzing with activity as committee members and volunteers set up exhibits, stall holders arrive to prepare their stalls, and rides and amusements are set up ready to entertain us all. Among the other fun activities for children is the return of the highly popular animal farm and the photo booth. The Show will be open to the public from 10am on Friday, August 2, closing around 4pm and then re-opening for our evening entertainment and opening celebrations at 6pm. Visitors to the Show will be paying $5 per person to each Friday and Saturday daytime event, as well as $5 for Friday night’s opening celebration, or a $10 all-access pass is available to cover the whole Show. Kids under 14 receive free entry. Entry wristbands can be purchased now from Council’s administration building or on the day at the gate. This year’s Show promises to be bigger and better than ever before so make sure you come along and join in the fun!
For the first time in six years, fireworks will light up the sky at this year’s Show. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON.
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Support for ‘music precinct’ continues to grow SUPPORT for a music precinct from the Top Pub to the Wharf has been building since the subject was broached in the July 11 edition of the Cookktown Local News. Concerns the local live music industry was in danger because of complaints about noise emanating from Cooktown’s hotels, caused musician Michael Shay to call for the establishment of the precinct. Since then, Michael has installed petitions at the Cooktown Bowls Club, the Sovereign Resort Hotel, the West Coast Hotel and the Cooktown Hotel (Top Pub), along with his own business, Cooktown Computer Stuff. He also established a facebook page, Cooktown Live Music Precinct. “I’m not exactly sure how many people have been signing the petitions at the pubs and the Bowls Club,” he said. “But I’ve got a few here and there have been 40 people who have joined the facebook page as well.” Sovereign Resort Hotel Manager Sally Kaye said only one “small” complaint had been received in the last fortnight. “We’ve been putting the bands playing late into the night back inside,” she said. “And when we’ve done that, there’s been no complaints. “But on Sunday we had a band on the verandah because they were finishing early and that was when we received the complaint.” Sally said the strong wind blowing down Charlotte Street on Sunday would have contributed to the noise travelling further than it normally would.
“Admittedly the band was a little loud, but the wind would have carried the sound,” she said. “But we’re trying our best to get along with everyone and do our best not to create any problems.” A Cook Shire Council spokesman said the suggestion of a music precinct has probably not been raised before. “Brief research into other Council’s who have implemented similar precincts, shows they have done so to revitalise an area of the community that has become a ‘dead spot’ for social activity,” the spokesman said. “Due to the close proximity of residential properties and other businesses, any proposed music precinct intended for an area on, or around Cooktown’s main street, would have to adhere to strict noise control guidelines. “An official request would need to be made outlining the need and support for such an area. “Council would then take action to investigate the “Big Wheel” rolling out the beats on the Sovvy’s verandah bar on Sunday afternoon. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON. proposal and ultimately it “music precinct” can do so by either town Hotel (Top Pub) or Cooktown tablishment of a dedicated “music would need to be recommended to and signing one of the copies of the petition Computer Stuff and by joining his precinct”? Express them as a letter to approved by Councillors.” he has started, which are held at the face book page: Cooktown Live Music the editor by either emailing editor@ Anyone wanting to support Michael Cooktown Bowls Club, Sovereign Precinct. cooktownlocalnews.com.au or by post Shay’s call for the establishment of a Resort Hotel, West Coast Hotel, CookWhat are your views on the es- to P O Box 36, Cooktown, 4895.
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Reports of race club success in 1913 in conflict
OVER the past two weeks, we have reported on the Annual Show of 1913, and the stories were full of glowing reports of the event. However, further searching has found conflicting reports on both the show and the races that were held on the two days after the show. As we have already read, the Cairns Post, Friday, July 18 1913, reported: “The annual Show for the year 1913 of the Cook District Pastoral, Agricultural, Mining and Industrial Association, held on the 9th and 10th instant, was an unqualified success in every way, . . . on Wednesday, the opening day, the attendance was very satisfactory. There were quite 600 people on the ground, and on the second day the attendance was nearly double of the first; including a large number of ladies, whose pleasing countenances and pretty frocks lent zest to the surroundings. The carnival races of the Cooktown Turf Club were run off on Friday and Saturday, 11th and 12th instant. There were eight events on each day, and Monday, the 14th was made an off-day, when four more events were decided. The attendance on the course on all days was similar to that of the Show days including the Herberton Band. Although the fields were small, the racing was clean and very enjoyable. The sum of £144/15 passed through the totalisator during the meeting, which is considered a fair sum. The Club will make a small profit on the meeting.” Just three weeks later the Cairns Post on Friday, August 8, 1913 published a conflicting report about the Cooktown Turf Club races: “The Turf Club has met with a loss over its annual meeting, and this is not to be wondered at when one takes into consideration the very liberal program issued, the poor nominations, the repairs to the course and grand stand and the expenses of the band, &c.. In a previous issue we pointed out that while the Show Committee were reaping the fruits of every entertainment, the Turf Club had to stand or fall on its own. This is not as it should be when two associations are running hand in hand for the benefit of the district and the enjoyment of the many visitors who come from all parts of the district and from the north and south to join in our festivities. As previously said, the Show on its own would be a failure, at least from an attendance point of view, because a country show, at the best is wearisome and monotonous. On the other hand, a race meeting will always command a large following, as is proved by the gate takings on the race days compared with the Show takings. The Turf Club should also be better patronised by our pastoralists, that is, if it is to continue localising its program. A breeder’s plate or a district derby with a sweep of five or ten guineas from nominators should be the main event of the program. It would not only be something to attract attention, but would be an advertisement for the district, and especially interesting to stock breeders.” So we wonder how successful it actually was, and we hope that 100 years later everyone has a wonderful time at the Cooktown Show and it won’t be reported on badly in another 100 years.
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New manager a perfect fit for the job IT would seem fate has smiled on Carmel Blann, with one of Cooktown’s newest residents virtually falling into her new role as Manager of the Cooktown Bowls Club. Seeking a sea change, Carmel and husband David bought a house here with the intentions of finding work after they had settled. “We bought the house, moved up from Mackay and moved in, then I saw the job advertised,” Carmel said. And after an adult life working in licensed premises, who better to fill the Bowls Club’s Manager’s role than Carmel? “In the early days I had a day job in office work, and worked in pubs at night,” she said. “More recently though, David and I have owned and operated the Alpha Hotel Motel and the Finch Hatton Hotel.” Wi t h t h e i r t h r e e children having flown the nest, a preference for small-town living and a love of the ocean and boating, the call to Cooktown was too strong to ignore. “We much prefer life in small country towns instead of big cities,” she said. “And we love the sea life too.
New Assistant Manager Mark Monaghan with customer service officer Annette Hearn and new Manager Carmel Blann - part of the team at the Cooktown Bowls Club. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON. “We’ve got an 18m “Quite impressive And while husband have found someone with boat we intend bringing r e a l l y, n o t j u s t t h e David is looking for work, Carmel’s qualifications to up here to berth in the establishment, but the Carmel said they were fill the vacant position so river.” committee too. hopeful his wait for a job quickly. Carmel only started on “They’re focused, will not be too long. “It’s not easy getting Monday, but has already progressive and already “As well as all his good staff, especially with been putting in some have some future plans experience in clubs and Carmel’s experience and long hours, familiarising in place. pubs, he’s also a truck qualifications,” he said. herself with her new role “Very importantly, driver and plant operator,” “We’d like to welcome and the team with which they’re acting in the best she said. Carmel and David to she will work. interests of the commuCooktown Bowls Club Cooktown and hope their “The Bowls Club is nity, which I am looking President Bob Sullivan stay here is enjoyable and just fabulous,” she said. forward too myself.” said the club was lucky to prosperous for them.”
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Humility leads to blessing
HASN’T there been a lot about fluoride in the paper recently? A thoughtful letter about it was followed by a deluge of earnest pleas for us to reject the whole idea of fluoride in the water, or risk turning blue and glowing in the dark. It’s just like climate change. No matter that 98% of the scientists agree about it (and the rest are mostly arguing details), a quick search of the internet will tell you it is not happening. And if it is, it is not man made. Just the natural cycle of events. And if it is man made, it can’t be our fault. It must be those countries who are still primitive enough to have a manufacturing industry, instead of just flipping hamburgers like we do. What is it about the internet that allows it to be dominated by the strident and the obsessive? I should mention here that The Flat Earth Society get really shirty about all the competition. They point out that they were strident and obsessive long before the internet was even invented, and all the new-comers should show some respect. Of course, you cannot get away from the fact that fluoride is poisonous. Put enough ammonium
Luke 14:7-11 THE Lord promises to exalt believers who live humbly, but we often look at our circumstances - job situation, finances or lack of material things - and question whether He’s coming through on this pledge. However, it’s important to view things From the Pulpit from His perspective rather than the world’s. While God may choose to give us material blessings, such benefits are hardly comparable to the greater rewards He longs to bestow, like a deeper understanding of who He is, or prayers answered beyond all imagination. Certain attitudes prevent our receiving the Father’s intended blessings: • Impatience. We want it now and are unwilling to trust that God is in control; • Insecurity. We feel that if certain things don’t happen, we simply cannot continue; • Identity in the wrong things. We feel good about ourselves only if we are a success by societal standards; • Ignorance of the Word. We decide for ourselves what is right; • Impure motives. Discontent or jealousy causes us to push ahead of God and use manipulation to get our way; • Impulsiveness. Without asking God, we assume every seeming opportunity is a door He has opened; and • Ingratitude. Lack of thankfulness for what He’s given skews our perspective. Notice these obstacles all start with “I”? Humility doesn’t come naturally. It requires deliberate, ongoing effort to remain in God’s presence so we can see how worthy He is of our total submission. Begin by “bowing” your heart before the Lord and surrendering everything. Then wait patiently for His promised blessing. Have an awesome week. Pastor Wayne Brennan Cooktown Community Church.
bifluoride in your tea, and they will View have to be careful how from they cremate the Hill you. You might wreck the place. Mind you, most of the other trace elements in our water would do funny things to you as well, if you were foolish enough to dine on them. Except the gold. That would leave you unharmed, although possibly a little heavier. No, in this case the enthusiasts have a point. You only have to look at European countries to see the disastrous effects fluoridation of water has had. England used to be a world leader in the manufacture of false teeth, but look at the industry now. We are in much better shape, and there is a thriving Australian market in false teeth futures. Apart from that, look at the average Brit. A lifetime of fluoridated water and he is skinny, weak and lacking hand-eye coordination. No wonder they make such terrible cricketers. Oh wait - I may have got that wrong . . .
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Another story in the amazing life of Vera Scarth-Johnson LAST month, Sandy Lloyd, on her popular weekly tour of the Botanic Gardens, was delighted when visitors Rob and Peggy Walker of Naracoorte, S.A., told Sandy that Peggy’s family had known Vera ScarthJohnson in W.A. in the early 1970s. They even have two paintings from that period. Since their return home, they have sent photos of the paintings and an interesting article by Carol Parker that appeared in Vogue Australia around 1973. It is yet another story in the life of this remarkable woman that is well worth retelling: “VERA SCARTHJOHNSON is an intrepid individual. Now sixtyone, full of energy, she scales mountains, tramps through rain forests, heads off into the desert. . . to paint the indigenous flowers in situ, holding a specimen in one hand, painting with the other, and sitting beside the flower on the ground should it be a particularly delicate one that wilts quickly. S h e d o e s n ’t t e r m herself an artist (in spite of a successful exhibition of gouaches in Melbourne last year) but “a botanical illustrator”. She has been this since she retired. ‘All my life I’ve been a farmer - it is hard work on a farm. When you are interested in plants, your eyes are open. Normally people walk through life with their eyes half-closed. Anyone can do it - I learnt the botany as I went along.’ Also the painting without formal tuition, though she’d spent some time drawing. Ve r a h a s l i v e d i n Australia for 26 years and runs a sugar farm in Queensland, producing
Lions’ handover ABOVE: Vera Scarth-Johnson. Photo submitted. BELOW: A Vera Scarth-Johnson illustration. 2500 tons a year. She says: ‘I go round seizing spends about ten months things just before they are each year travelling and bulldozed and send sacks painting, once did 22,000 of them to Honolulu; miles in two years. nobody wanted them in She travels fairly Queensland - nobody ofrough, often sleeping out fered, they were just plain in the open. apathetic’. Next winter Vera is tremendously she is off to Broome, concerned about the num- slowly going down the ber of plants unique to coast to Esperance. Australia now becoming She tells hilarious extinct through develop- stories about being the ment and the blanket use first person to botanize of weedkillers. an island off Tonga. ‘No ‘Seventy-five percent fresh water, I bathed in of the flowers of Australia the sea, and climbing are peculiar to here, so around and diving into that if they go, they are a bog by the roadside gone from the world. I nearly broke my neck haven’t had time to go many times.’ On trips back to England - I want she records everything to do all of this country that grows except fungus. and I’m getting so damn Five years ago she went old, there may not be to the Ord Dam in the time. One of these days, Kimberleys before it was I am going to get caught filled in. ‘Conservation on the hop!’ is the great thing with She gave 200 paint- me, but I do believe that ings to the library at Kew we should have some Gardens (London) and reason and not go too has been collecting for far. . . work in with the them for ages on her economy, work together. I travels, sending them cannot agree with clearing dried flowers. She is land - laying it bare to the very concerned about the bone - for no reason. We future of the rain forests, should try to keep in with ecology, not fight against nature, but live with it. The bush is one of our big exports. What’s the use of encouraging tourists to come here to Australia if there’s no bush left?’” Vera Scarth-Johnson settled in Cooktown in the late 1970s and gave her Endeavour River Series of botanical illustrations to the Cooktown community. Now on display at Nature’s PowerHouse, the collection, along with her life and work, was recently declared to be of “local, state and national significance” for its scientific and historical significance as well as its rarity.
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WEARABLE ART EXHIBITION
LEFT: Exotic dancing from the Tipsy Gypsies got the show started at the Wearable Art Exhibition.
Jazz Sieverding modelling a wedding dress designed by her mum Bronwyn. Titled, “From the Garden to the Sea”, it was the first design to be presented.
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RIGHT: Diana Burns was making a statement as she modelled her own design, “P.E.T. Bubbles”.
Pame Bruce models her design, “Pacifica”. A Bobbin Joy Designs fashion show was a highlight of the program.
Low lighting created an ambient “Tropical Waterfall”, a Trisha Allen atmosphere for the best display creation modelled by Tracey Cass. of Bobbin Joy Designs during the fashion show.
The grandmother and grand-daughter modelling duet of Heather and Viv Wilcox on stage, with Heather wearing, “Underwater Ballet” and Viv Somewhere under this creation titled, “Ghost wearing “Tropical Sea Nymph” - creations designed by Heather. Cooktown’s multi-cultural dance group, The Raibow Dancers, also provided some pre-exhibit entertainment. Net” is designer/model Wendy Snape.
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ENJOYING THE WEARABLE ART EXHIBITION
Karien Francois, Ori Mitchell-Albert and Fiona Mitchell.
Dad Darren Brejnak with son Dane.
Tess Jene with mum Cath.
Maureen Carruthers and Alison Booker.
Shaddha Pokharel, (baby) Princess Wheife with mum, Fe Domen and Pam Bruce.
Debbie and Finley McLean.
Renee Andrews, Rose Harrigan and Isobella Barker.
Jasmine Wilson and Ocean Mitchell-Croft.
Wendy Snape and Connie Zadow.
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Mum and daughter art enthusiasts Julie and Kirsty Frame.
Sandy Jones with mum Susan Forsyth.
Rosalie Andre and Tony George.
Art is a family affair for Jake, Amber, Holly and Jasper Farnan and their mum Emma McGovern.
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Labor and Coalition broadband policies - what’s the difference? By ROD TUCKER Director of the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) at University of Melbourne on theconversation.edu.au BROADBAND - in the shape of the National Broadband Network(NBN) remains a key point of difference between Labor and the Coalition’s policies going into the federal election. Our politicians are not paying lip service when it comes to these differences. There are significant variations in cost, in delivery types, in download and upload speeds, in business opportunities, customer experience and the so-called “future-proofing” of the network, depending on which version of the NBN we continue with. So what are they, and what do you need to know? At the 2010 election, Opposition leader Tony Abbott threatened to scrap the NBN. But under Malcolm Turnbull’s deft handling of the Shadow Communications Minister’s portfolio, the Coalition’s Broadband Policy, released in April this year, recognises the need for a national, wholesale broadband network and shares many characteristics with the existing NBN model as conceived under Labor. As with Labor’s NBN, an NBN under the Coalition will be a wholesale network, open to any retail service provider that can connect to the network. There are some differences in pricing strategies between the two policies, primarily around whether prices are uniform across the country (as in the Labor policy) or capped (as in the Coalition’s policy) but the service model is broadly the same. Both Labor and the Coalition will use newly-launched satellites to take
broadband to remote areas, and fixed wireless to cover rural areas, where wired access such as fibre or copper is either technically unfeasible or economically unviable. But the key difference between the two policies is the network technology to be used in urban areas. Labor will continue rolling out a Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) network - whereby optic fibre extends all the way to homes and businesses - while the Coalition policy calls for a shift to Fibre to the Node (FTTN) - whereby fibre is delivered to local “cabinets”, called nodes, and copper wire runs from these nodes to houses and businesses - in brownfield sites (i.e. established urban areas); and FTTP in greenfield sites (i.e. new housing estates). Despite some delays in the rollout of Labor’s FTTP network,NBNCo - the company tasked with building NBN infrastructure - says the completion date for the project remains fixed at 2021, and that the total cost will be A$44.1 billion. Cost differences The Coalition’s policy calls for completion of the rollout of its FTTN network by 2019, at a total cost of A$29.5 billion. The difference in cost between Labor’s network and the Coalition’s network per premises is about A$1,000. To put this in perspective, the recent rollout of smart electricity meters in Victoria cost about A$1,200 per premises. In essence, the Coalition’s FTTN network will cost two-thirds as much as Labor’s FTTP network, based on the official cost estimates in each policy, but will be only one-twentieth as fast.
Table 1: Key aspects of the Labor and Coalition policies ISSUE
Network technologies
Download speed
LABOR
COALITION
Wired
Fibre to the premises
71% fibre to the node and 22% fibre to the premises, primarily in greenfield sights
Other
Fixed wireless and satellite
Fixed wireless and satellite
Wired
1 Gbps
50 Mbps in 90% of homes
Wireless
25 Mbps
25 Mbps
Satellite
12 Mbps
12 Mbps
Wired
400 Mbps
10 Mbps
Wireless
5 Mbps
5 Mbps
Satellite
1 Mbps
1 Mbps
Rollout complettion
2021
2019
Totall funding required
$44.1 billion
$29.5 billion
Average funding required per premises*
$3470
$2450
Wholesale pricing structure
Fixed
Capped
Monopoly
NBN Co will remain the monopoly wholesale provider
Compering broadband access networks will be permitted
Upload speed
* Assuming 12.7 million premises
Speed differences The Coalition’s FTTN network will provide download speeds of 50 Mbps (allowing you to download an hour-long high-definition television show in a few minutes) to 90% of connected homes, while Labor’s FTTP network will initially provide download speeds up to 1 Gbps - 20 times faster than the Coalition’s FTTN network. Labor’s FTTP network will provide upload speeds of 400 Mbps - 40 times faster than FTTN. Upload speed is important for activities which require you to send data from your computer, such as video calls. The speed difference between the two networks comes down to the fact the Coalition’s FTTN model relies on the existing copper connections between the node and the premises, while in Labor’s FTTP network, the entire connection is by fibre. In recent years, engineers in laboratories around the world have developed technological marvels to extract the maximum capacity out of copper, and these marvels are to be incorporated in the Coalition’s network using very-highbit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) technology. VDSL’s higher speeds result from the use of different bands of frequency to voice calls, allowing data for multiple applications (such as internet connection and high-definition television) to be transmitted on the same copper wires. It builds upon - and is faster than - current technology used in asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) networks. But the download and upload speeds achievable with VDSL are a tiny fraction of the speeds achievable using FTTP. Additionally, with VDSL in FTTN networks, the further the premises are located from the node, the slower the speed. In addition, the speed can be degraded if water gets into the cables after heavy rain - as some users notice in today’s ADSL network. What the future holds While few households need 1 Gbps today (the average internet connection speed in Australia is currently 4.2 Mbps) the historical demand for broadband network bandwidth has grown at about 30% - 40% per annum. Today’s ADSL2+ networkprovides around 10-20 Mbps and many households find this to be barely sufficient, especially when two or three family members simultaneously access high-bandwidth applications, such as video on demand, gaming, or various kinds of home office applications. Using historical growth figures, and allowing for future generations of ultrahigh definition television, multi-view services, together with multiple TV displays in a single household, in-home
Table 2: Analysis of key issues not fully addressed in the available policy documents ISSUE
LABOR
COALITION
Potential for future upgrade
Upgrade to 10 Gps will not require any civil works
Upgrade to fibre to the premises will require extensive civil works
Cost of future upgrade
$100-$200 per premises (1 Gbps to 10 Gbps)
$2000 - $5000 per premises (FTTN to FTTP)
Potential to benefit the mobile network
FTTP technology is ideally suited to providing backhaul to new transmitters that fill blackspots and increase network capacity
Coalition policy is to make NBNCo assets available for filling blackspots. But FTTN is less suited for this than FTTP.
Date of obsolescence
Beyond 2035, possibly beyond 2050
Around 2020
Power consumption
Around 70 Megawatts
Around 140 Megawatts
video conferencing and so on, it’s likely that domestic broadband domestic customers will be seeking bandwidths of more than 100 Mbps by 2020 and about 1 Gbps by 2035. Many business customers will require these bandwidths much sooner, as they begin to take full advantage of new broadband applications and services, and to develop innovative new online products. Historically, the development of applications tends to follow the provision of infrastructure. Applications that use increased speed tend to be developed only when those speeds are in existence or imminent. Based on these numbers, the Coalition’s FTTN network will be obsolete by 2020, and will require major expensive upgrades after this. While it’s possible telecommunications engineers may find ways to squeeze a little bit more speed out of copper, the only way to move beyond the speed limitations of FTTN is to move the nodes closer to the home. In practice, this ultimately means an upgrade from FTTN to FTTP. Fibre on demand For those who need more than 50 Mbps from the FTTN network, the Coalition’s policy provides for a “fibre-on-demand” upgrade path, in which a customer pays for a fibre to be installed from the node in the street to the premises. The cost of this to the individual could be in the region of A$1,000-A$5,000, depending on the distance of the node from the premises. Future upgrades of Labor’s FTTP to 10 Gbps and beyond will require simple exchange of the user terminal in the home, at a cost typically in the region of A$100-A$200. The Coalition’s “fibre-on-demand” strategy raises the spectre of a digital divide between households, businesses and regions that can afford to pay for the upgrade and those that cannot. To illustrate this, a graphic design business that uploads and downloads data to its customers, and happens to be located close to a node, will be in a much better business position that a competitor 500 metres down the road. This will arguably impede the economic benefits of the network as a whole, limiting the application of health, education and productivity-boosting applications. This will mean the saving of A$1,000 per premise offered by the Coalition could easily be wiped out by the loss of long-term
economic benefits of a high-capacity FTTP network. Going mobile Some commentators have argued the increasing popularity of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets decreases the need for the NBN. But a FTTP broadband network will facilitate this rapid growth in mobile broadband. Telephone companies around the world are now enhancing their mobile networks with an ever-increasing number of small wireless base stations located on street corners, in shopping centres, offices, and even in customers’ homes, using fibre connections from the small base stations to their network. While NBNCo is not yet offering backhaul services(transporting data to a point that would allow it to be be distributed over a network) to mobile operators, Labor’s FTTP network is ideally suited for this. Because the Coalition’s FTTN network relies on existing copper cable to the home, it is generally unsuitable for wireless backhaul. Energy implications Energy consumption is often overlooked in communications network planning, but is becoming increasingly important. The power consumption of the Labor’s FTTN network will be about 70 Megawatts and the Coalition’s FTTN network will consume twice that - about 140 Megawatts. The cost of this extra power is relatively small compared with the installation cost of the network, and this comparison does not include end-user devices such as computers and TV displays. But the increased electrical power consumption of the Coalition’s FTTN network will have a greenhouse impact approaching that of a city the size of Launceston in Tasmania. What we know, in short … The Coalition’s broadband policy offers a lower-cost network that will provide customers with modest improvements in broadband services in the shorter term; whereas the Coalition’s network will create a new digital divide and require major upgrades soon after it is completed. The cost difference between these two alternatives is about A$1,000 per premises. Labor promises a more future-proof solution that will cost more at the outset, but will stimulate broadband developments in government, business, and entertainment, and has potential to serve Australia beyond 2050.
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Choir a wonderful Leslie's Elim Beach image for School WHAT a great front page on last fortnight's Cooktown Local News with the Cooktown State School Choir competing in the Eisteddfod at the Cairns Civic Theatre. Well done to all the students who have chosen to use two of their lunch breaks a week to learn the four choir songs involved and congratulations on receiving "Highly Commended" for every song. The Cooktown State School Parents and Citizens Association proudly supported the choir by supplying the excellent looking Choir shirts which can be used for future performances. If anyone would like to purchase a Choir shirt, they are for sale at the Events Centre reception at a cost of $35, although, the P & C does not endorse the shirts as part of the Cooktown State School uniform. Thank you to the P & C's magnificent uniform convenor, Ali Ward, for all her efforts in designing and acquiring the fantastic looking shirts. The P & C's AGM will be held next Tuesday, July 30 at 5.15pm in the Events Centre. If you would like to come along and get involved in your child's education for the benefit of the whole school then please make the effort to attend. You will find that the P & C not only fund raises for projects such as the Choir shirt, but it is also involved with the policies and procedures of the school. So if you would like to contribute to your local state school, the P & C would love to have you on board. Remember you are not required to have children attending the school to become a member of the P & C. Hope to see you there. Nikki Darvell President, Cooktown State School P & C.
Green ants attacking a beetle. Photos: MARTY PATTIE. SOMETIMES we can be symbiotic benefits. a bit too quick to eradicate Green Tree Ants live garden residents we con- in colonies which are sider to be pests. very similar to our social There can always be structure of living in towns a motive for removing or or cities. A mature colony disposing of any unwanted with a single Queen can pests - if you’ve got a tribe boast dozens of separate of feral porkers pig-rooting nests covering a number your lawn, or a 3-metre of trees with up to 100,000 Taipan in your veggie patch workers. They collaborate - it’s a pretty open and shut and work industriously as a team. case for removal. But some smaller creaThey build their nests by tures, that in comparison forming chains with their only cause mild discomfort bodies and bringing leaves - it’s always interesting to together, which they bind explore the benefits they with silk from their larvae. Some nests in the colony bring as well. Green Ants are syn- can be as large as footballs. onymous with backyard The surrounding trees bengardens in the tropics, and efit from the ant’s residence can be a pain in the arse . . . as they attack other leaf literally! But besides being eaters that may encroach protective of their terri- upon their territory. The green ants also prey tory and being ferocious little biters, they do have upon other small insects.
Green ants on a Morinda (Noni) flower.
Leslie Ryder’s image, “Elim Beach” is this week’s winner of the $25 meat voucher in the Cornett’s Cooktown IGA and Cooktown Local News photo competition.
Green ants not always a pain in the ...
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GARDENING with MARTY PATTIE
A green ant nest. nest.
They don’t possess a sting, but bite with their mandibles and squirt acid from their backsides. Being such a ferocious predator makes the Green Ant a real asset amongst fruit trees where they work as “biological control agents” - reducing the number of damaging insects on the trees they inhabit. Although fine amongst mature trees, a green ant infestation in very young trees may need to be discouraged as it can retard new growth. To do this, simply pull apart the nest to disturb the larvae and the ants will go elsewhere. There is also a form of mutualism between the ants and some blue butterflies.
LIGHT, texture and reflections are just three photographic components that have contributed to Leslie Ryder winning this w e e k ’s $ 2 5 m e a t voucher in the Cornett’s IGA Cooktown and Cooktown Local News photo competition. Photographers are reminded they now have until 5pm on Thursday, August 1 to submit their entries for this week’s stage of the competition. Remember, entries need to be in 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. Leslie’s winning entry will be printed and displayed in a gallery the IGA has prepared in their store.
The female prefers to lay her eggs near the correct food plant and where the ants are present. When the eggs hatch, the ants carry the little larvae into their nest and care for them by cleaning them and protecting them from other predators. In turn, the caterpillars reward the ants by the secretion of a sweet “honeydew” substance that comes from their skin pores. The ants also guide the caterpillars at night when they emerge from the nest to feed on leaves, and the caterpillars can actually call for the ants by mimicking the vibratory sound the ants make when communicating with each other. Certain birds also benefit from the presence of green ants. Honeyeaters, amongst other birds, will pick up an ant in their beak and run it over their plumage, especially the inside of their wing feathers. The formic acid of the ant helps kill parasites such as ticks,
lice and fungi. Besides all this, the green ants can also benefit us directly. They have been used traditionally by Aboriginal people for a long time to treat fevers, coughs and colds. This is done by eating them, inhaling the vapour or rubbing the ants and larvae into the skin.
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Cooktown Local News 25 - 31 July 2013 – 15
FRIDAY 26
6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Lockie Leonard 11:00 Kitchen Cabinet 11:30 One Plus One 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 1:00 Dalziel And Pascoe 2:30 The Wonder Years 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Restoration Man: Bath Lodge 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 QLD 8:00 Vet School: Follows the lives of eight young hopefuls who share the lifelong dream of becoming a vet. New series 8:30 Broadchurch: Fingerprints at the murder scene lead DI Hardy and DS Miller to a startling suspect in Danny’s murder. Meanwhile, Steve Connelly has a message for Beth. 9:20 Doc Martin: Martin and Portwenn’s new midwife, Molly, who will be looking after Louisa, do not hit it off. Louisa rejects Martin’s medical advice for Molly’s naturalistic route, but with unfortunate consequences. 10:05 Would I Lie To You? 10:35 Lateline 11:15 The Thick of It Special 11:45 Rage
6:00 Today 9:00 Mornings 11:00 National Morning News 12:00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1:00 Danoz Direct 2:00 The Block Sky High 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 Friday Night Football: North Queensland v Brisbane Broncos 9:30 Friday Night Football: Canterbury Bulldogs v Brisbane Broncos 11:30 Movie: “Cobra” (M v,l) 1:05 Movie: “Macbeth” (AV v,s,d) - It’s Shakespear meets “Underbelly” as the Bard’s immortal tragedy is re-told with a modern twist as the bloody drama is now set in Melbourne’s underworld. When Macbeth is told by witches that he will one day assume great power, he plots with his wife to kill his boss and take over the gang leadership but more blood will be split as all comes tumbling down. 3:30 Extra 4:00 Brand Developers 4:30 Good Morning America
6:00 Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30 Seven Morning News 12:00 Movie: “First Shot” (M v) 2:00 City Homicide 3:00 The Daily Edition 4:30 Seven News At 4.30 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight: The latest news and current social issues presented by a team of reporters. Hosted by Sharyn Ghidella. 7:00 Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 2013 AFL Premiership Season: Rnd 18: Essendon v Hawthorn - It’s a blockbuster from Etihad Stadium with both clubs desperately chasing down a top two spot and coveted home final. 11:00 TBA 12:00 Desperate Housewives: Excited And Scared/ A Humiliating Business - Susan is forced to tell Mike about her provocative side job. Then, Bree learns a secret about Keith. What could it be? Bree is embarrassed to tell Keith that she is beginning to go through menopause. 2:00 House Calls To The Rescue 3:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today
5:00 World News 1:00 Anthony Bourdian: No Reservations: Washington 2:00 Don Matteo: Behind The Curtain 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village: French Coastlines 6:00 TBA 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby: Breaking the Ice - Jonathan Dimbleby sets out to rediscover the close bond once shared by Britain and Russia as he explores 16,000 kilometres of one of the world’s most awe-inspiring countries. 8:35 The Story Of Science: What Is Out There? 9:40 As It Happened: The Men and the Machines That Beat Hitler 10:40 World News Australia 11:10 Movie: “Room In Rome” (MA n,s) - When Alba seduces Natasha in a bar, the two women agree to limit their passionate affair to a one-night encounter. However, as they begin to slowly reveal their true selves to each other, their lust is met with deeper emotions that open the door for what evolves into a poignant character study 1:05 Movie: “Time” (M l,s,a,v) In Korean. 2:55 Weatherwatch Overnight
SATURDAY 27
6:00 Rage 10:30 Fifty Shades Of Rage 11:30 7.30 QLD 12:00 Australian Story 12:30 Catalyst 1:00 The Bionic Vet 1:30 At The Movies 2:00 Movie: “Pony Express” (PG) 3:40 Movie: “Mohawk” (PG) 5:00 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: By The Pricking Of My Thumbs 6:30 Gardening Australia 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Father Brown: The Man In The Tree - When Lady Felicia finds a stripped and injured man stuck up a tree, Sid is implicated as the perpetrator. Can Father Brown prove his innocence, or has Sid gone too far this time? 8:20 Audrey’s Kitchen: Aromatic Lamb Shank Stew 8:30 Midsomer Murders: Dark Secrets - The reclusive life of elderly eccentrics William and Mary Bingham comes under scrutiny when a social services investigator is killed. And Barnaby’s wife Sarah arrives in Midsomer. 10:00 Adam Hills Tonight 11:00 Fifty Shades Of Rage 5:00 Rage
6:00 Bubble Guppies 6:30 Dora The Explorer 7:00 Weekend Today - Saturday 10:00 Mornings - Saturday 12:00 The Bottom Line Icon Series 12:30 Danoz 1:30 TBA 2:30 Movie: “Forever Young” (PG) 4:30 Discover Downunder 5:00 4WD TV 5:30 Getaway - India Special Part 2 6:00 National News Saturday 6:30 The Great Australian Bake Off 7:30 Movie: “Journey To The Centre Of The Earth” (PG) A hunch and the defunding of his lab prompts geology professor Trevor Anderson, whose outrageous theories have made him a laughingstock in academia - to set off for Iceland in search of a portal to Earth’s core. 9:30 Movie: “Lethal Weapon 3” (M l,v) - Riggs & Murtaugh set their sights on bringing down a former LA police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer with internal affairs sergeant, Lorna Cole catching Riggs’s eye along the way. 12:00 Movie: “Suspect Zero” (AV a,l,v) 1:55 Movie: “Main Event” (M l,s) 4:00 Brand Developers 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 12:00 Movie: “Space Buddies” (G) 2:00 TBA 3:00 2013 AFL Premiership Season Round 18: Gold Coast v Carlton 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Happy Endings 7:30 2013 AFL Premiership Season Round 18: Fremantle v Adelaide 11:00 TBA 12:00 Seven’s V8 Supercars 2013 Highlights 1:00 Desperate Housewives: Sorry Grateful - Gabrielle and Carlos invite the Sanchez’s to a Thanksgiving and learn some surprising news. 2:00 Desperate Housewives: Pleasant Little Kingdom - While Gabrielle devises a plan to keep grace in her life, Renee discloses a deep, dark secret to Susan. 3:00 Parking Wars 3:30 It Is Written Oceania 4:00 Home Shopiing 5:00 That ‘70s Show: Do You Think It’s Alright 5:30 That ‘70s Show: Substitute
5:00 World News 1:00 Daphnis and Chloe 1:45 Nina Conti: Her Masters Voice 2:50 Simon Schama: Shakespear And Us: This England 4:00 Photo: Intimate Photography 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Who Do You Think You Are?: Rupert Everett 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Walking Through History: The Birth Of Industry 8:30 RocKwiz: Steve Kilbey/Sherry Rich/Hungry Kids of Hungary 9:30 Movie: “No Country For Old Men” (MAV v) - Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. Winner of four Academy Awards in 2008, including Best Director and Best Film. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. 11:40 Movie: “District B13” (MAV l,d,v) - In French. Set in the ghettos of Paris in the near future, a righteous punk and an undercover cop try to infiltrate a ruthless gang in order to defuse a stolen neutron bomb. Written and produced by Luc Besson of Fifth Element fame and showcasing the contemporary action sport of Parkour aka ‘free running’. 1:10 Shameless 3:05 Weatherwatch Overnight 3:45 Dutch Super Cup 2013: AZ Alkmaar v Ajax
SUNDAY 28
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: Arundel 12:00 Landline 1:00 Gardening Australia 1:30 Vet School 2:00 Shamwari: A Wild Life 2:30 Meerkat Manor: The Next Generation 3:00 Typeface 4:00 Art Of Russia: Smashing The Mould 5:00 Deadly 60: South America 1 5:30 South Pacific: Ocean Of Volcanoes 6:30 Compass: Whatever Happened To The Kibbutzim? 7:00 ABC News 7:30 Dream Build: Model House 7:40 Grand Designs: Camden 8:30 The Time Of Our Lives 9:25 First Footprints: The Great Flood; 18,000 To 5,000 Years Ago From eighteen thousand years ago, melting polar ice caps began drowning 25% of Greater Australia 10:25 Art Of America: What Lies Beneath 11:25 The Art Of The Steal 1:05 Malcom 2:30 Movie: “These Are The Damned” (PG) 4:05 The New Inventors 4:35 Catalyst 5:00 Gardening Australia / 5:30 Travel Oz
6:00 Children’s Programs 7:00 Weekend Today 10:00 Financial Review Sunday 10:30 Wide World Of Sports 11:30 Sunday Footy Show 1:30 The Making Of The Great Gatsby 2:00 2013 Intrust Super Cup 4:00 Imparja’s Sunday Football: Warriors v Brisbane Broncos 6:00 National News Sunday 6:30 The Block Sky High 7:30 60 Minutes 8:30 House Husbands 9:30 The Mentalist: Devil’s Cherry - A girl claiming to be Jane’s late daughter surfaces. Meanwhile, a diamond cutter’s homicide is investigated by the CBI. 10:30 CSI: Miami: By The Book - A maid with vampire bites on her neck is found hanging from a chandelier in an empty mansion on a remote island. The investigation reveals all of her blood has been drained. 11:30 The Block Sky High 12:30 What Would You Do? 1:30 Spyforce 2:30 Danoz 3:00 Brand Developers 4:00 Good Morning America - Sunday 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today
6:00 Fish Hooks 6:30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 AFL Game Day 11:30 The Amazing Race 12:30 Happy Endings 1:00 2013 AFL Premiership Season Rnd 18: Port Adelaide Vs Brisbane 4:00 Footy Flashbacks 5:30 Great South East 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Sunday Night 7:30 TBA 11:30 Fairly Legal: Secret Love - James sees a psychiatrist who agrees to treat his sexuality. But James and Olivia’s hopes of a brighter future are challenged when George arrives and confronts his son. Anna is relieved when Gino believes that she miscarried and they decide to tell their families of their intention to marry. 12:30 I Just Want My Pants Back 1:00 Special: The Maple Leaf Express 2:00 Home Shopping 3:00 NBC Today 4:00 NBC Meet The Press 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News
6:00 Weatherwatch 6:10 World News 1:00 Al Jazeera News 1:30 Living Black 2:00 Speedweek 4:00 2013 Superbike World Championship 4:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5:05 ADbc 5:35 Inspector Rex: Children On The Run 6:00 Tour De France 2013 Daily Highlights 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Lost Worlds: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings: Life 8:30 The Observer Effect: What are Australia’s mavericks, powerbrokers and celebrities really like? In an age where 30 second sound-bites and social media dominate our view of the world, host Ellen Fanning uses the news events 9:30 Better Man: This compelling true story, filmed on location in Australia and Vietnam, looks at the remarkable life and death of Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese-Australian man who was convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore and executed for his crime in 2005. 11:25 Movie: “Warchild” (MA l) - In German & Bosnian. The second part of acclaimed filmmaker Christian Wagner’s Balkan Blues Trilogy tells the story of a woman’s efforts to find her daughter ten years after the girl was relocated to Germany during the Bosnian war. 1:15 Weatherwatch Overnight
MONDAY 29
SBS
6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Landline 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 As Time Goes By 1:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Restoration Man: Church 6:55 Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions: The Snowmanotron 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 Dalziel And Pascoe: Exit Lines - After a drunken evening at a top country restaurant with Arnie Bancroft and Major Kassell, there is an accident involving Dalziel’s car. An elderly cyclist is knocked over and killed. But who was driving? 1:10 Movie: “Samson And Delilah” (PG) - Delilah, rejected by religious strong man Samson, cuts his hair and delivers him to his enemies 3:30 Rugby Union: Shute Shield: Round 15: Teams TBA 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 The Block Sky High 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 The Block Sky High 8:00 TBA 10:30 Person Of Interest: In Extremis - A medical luminary is poisoned, and Finch and Reese must work quickly to determine the toxin’s origin and find the attacker. Elsewhere, an informant gives the Internal Affairs Bureau pertinent information on Det. Fusco. 11:30 The Block Sky High 12:30 Extra 1:00 The Avengers 2:00 Danoz Direct 2:30 Brand Developers 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: “All The Winters That Have Been” (PG a) 2:00 City Homicide 3:00 The Daily Edition 4:30 Seven News At 4.30 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Home And Away: Heath is upset Bianca went to the Principal’s dinner with Zac. Off the back of Spencer’s rejection, Sasha contemplates returning to Broken Hill. Maddy realises Spencer still has feelings for Sasha. Meanwhile, John has a rocky start to his new job at the diner. 7:30 TBA 12:00 Celebrity Juice 1:00 Home Shopping 3:30 Sons And Daughters: Patricia is at ‘breaking point’ as the unidentified intruder steps up his/her terrorising campaign. Katie is showing more than a passing interest in Terry. 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra / 5:30 Seven Early News
5:00 World News 1:00 Skin Deep 2:00 Science Under Attack 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5:00 Massive Moves: Ocean Odyssey 5:30 Global Village: The Bush Judge 6:00 TBA 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Mythbusters: Down and Dirty/Earthquake Survival 8:30 Pain, Pus and Poison: Pus - Dr Michael Mosley tells the extraordinary story of how scientists learnt to use the world around us to heal our bodies and conquer the common afflictions of pain, pus and poison. Diseases, like the Black Death and influenza, wiped out many millions around the globe. Nothing could stop these infections - until we discovered antibiotics. 9:30 Housos: Jailbreak 10:00 Bogan Pride: The Parachute of Healing 10:30 World News Australia 11:00 The Life And Times Of Tim: Hottest Babes on the Planet/Suck It Philly 12:00 Shorts On Screen: Peel 12:30 Dave In The Life 1:35 Weatherwatch Overnight
TUESDAY 30
7 CENTRAL
6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 Compass 1:00 Q&A 2:00 Inside Incredible Athletes 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Restoration Man: Windmill 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Kitchen Cabinet: Sussan Ley & Bill Heffernan 8:30 New Tricks: Couldn’t Organise One 9:30 At The Movies 10:00 Rock ‘n’ Roll Exposed: The Photography Of Bob Gruen 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:35 Four Corners 12:20 Media Watch 12:35 Movie: “The Collector” (M a,v) - A laid-back bank clerk whose prize possession is his butterfly collection falls for a student who wants nothing to do with him. 2:30 Football: VFL: Round 15: Teams TBA 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 The Block Sky High 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 The Block Sky High 8:00 The Big Bang Theory: The 43 Peculiarity - Howard and Raj try to get to the bottom of why Sheldon disappears every afternoon at 2:45. Meanwhile, Leonard and Penny wrestle with jealousy in their relationship. 8:30 TBA 11:30 The Block Sky High 12:30 Extra 1:00 Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo 1:30 Danoz Direct 2:00 Brand Developers 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: “Patricia Cornwell: The Front” (M v) 2:00 City Homicide 3:00 The Daily Edition 4:30 Seven News 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Home And Away: Ricky warns Brax that he can’t save her and he needs to testify at her trial. Tamara dreads testifying in court because Casey will find out her memory is returning. 7:30 TBA 8:30 Winners & Losers: When You Least Expect It 9:30 How I Met Your Mother: Something Old / Something New 10:30 Go On: Any Given Birthday / Videogame, Set, Match 11:30 Happy Endings: Brothas & Sisters 12:00 Always Sunny In Philadelphia: The Gang Goes To Jersey Shore 12:30 Harry’s Practice 1:00 Home Shopping 4:00 NBC Today 5:00 Sunrise Extra 5:30 Seven Early News
5:00 World News 1:00 Movie: “The Good Life” (M l,n,s) 2:50 Daughters 3:00 France 24 International News 3:30 Al Jazeera News 4:00 The Journal 4:30 PBS Newshour 5:30 Global Village: Hobetsu 6:00 TBA 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Who Do You Think You Are? Alan Carr 8:30 Insight 9:30 Dateline 10:30 World News Australia 11:05 The Killing: Denmark is the midst of a fiercely contested election race, set against the backdrop of the financial crisis. With ten days to go to the election, Detective Inspector Sarah Lund prepares to celebrate her 25th year in the police force. But her relative peace is shattered when body parts are found at Copenhagen dock only hours before a scheduled visit by the prime minister. (M s,l,v) 12:10 Shadow Billionaire DHL founder & billionaire Larry Hillblom seemed to have vanished into thin air when he failed to return from a routine flight in his vintage Seabee. Before he was officially declared dead, bar girls throughout Asia came forward claiming to have children by Larry and seeking a piece of his vast fortune. This program unravels the secretive life of this enigmatic and reclusive tycoon. (M a,l) 1:45 Weatherwatch Overnight
WEDNESDAY 31
IMPARJA
6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:05 Children’s Programs 11:00 Big Ideas 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 National Press Club Address 1:30 At The Movies 2:00 The Jonathon Ross Show 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Restoration Man: Towers 6:50 The Checkout: Snack Size: Trade Mags / Cadbury 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 QI: Hypothetical 8:30 Adam Hills Tonight 9:30 Wednesday Night Fever: The 100% topical live sketch comedy show where anything is possible, from viewer outrage and studio audience riots to outright attempts on the life of the entire cast. 10:00 The Hollowmen: Vulnerable To Attack 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:30 Spooks 12:30 Movie: “Family Plot” (M) 2:30 Football: SANFL: Round 17: North Adelaide Vs Port Adelaide 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 The Block Sky High 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 The Block Sky High 8:00 The Big Bang Theory: The Parking Spot Escalation - Sheldon gets all revved up when the university reassigns his parking space to returning space traveller Wolowitz, and the resulting battle affects the entire gang. 8:30 Arrow 9:30 What’s Your Emergency? 10:30 Embarrassing Bodies 11:30 The Block Sky High 12:30 20/20 1:30 Danoz Direct 2:00 Brand Developers 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: “Patricia Cornwell: At Risk” (M v,a) 2:00 City Homicide 3:00 The Daily Edition 4:30 Seven News 5:30 Deal Or No Deal 6:00 Seven News 6:30 Today Tonight 7:00 Home And Away: As Ricky’s trial comes to a close she prepares to accept her fate. Tamara deals with her returning memories while on the stand. Casey prepares to testify, and has to decide whether to condemn or save Ricky. Meanwhile, Jett and VJ suspect Nina of stealing. 7:30 TBA 11:45 I Shouldn’t Be Alive: Lost On A Volcano - Texan businessman Dewey Gaedcke is on a trip of a lifetime, planning a vacation for the super-wealthy in sun-drenched Hawaii. 12:30 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 Voice of Los Nevados 6:00 TBA 6:30 World News Australia 7:30 Elephant Whisperer - Thailand’s Sangduen Chailert (known as Lek) is on a mission to save the Asian elephant in her native country. This documentary looks at the plight of the Asian elephant, as it goes from being a widely used domestic animal, to a burden on modernising communities. 8:30 Australia With Simon Reeve 9:30 The Killing 10:40 World News Australia 11:10 Movie: “R” (MAV s,l,v,a) - This Danish film delves into the violent reality of prison life like few others have dared. Rune, a cocky young hood and recent arrival at a maximum security prison, struggles to comes to terms with his new existence at the bottom of the pecking order. 12:55 Movie: “In Mum’s Head” (M d,n,s,l) 2:45 Weatherwatch Overnight
THURSDAY 01
ABC
6:00 ABC News Breakfast 9:30 Business Today 10:00 Children’s Programs 11:00 World’s Greenest Homes 12:00 Midday Report 12:30 My Family 1:00 Museum Of Life 2:00 Mastercrafts 3:00 Children’s Programs 5:00 Eggheads 5:30 ABC News: Early Edition 6:00 Restoration Man: Field House 6:55 Clarke And Dawe 7:00 ABC News 7:30 7.30 8:00 Catalyst: Graham Phillips looks at what ancient teeth reveal about our dental health and Ruben Meerman sounds out who is really doing the composing - musician or machine. 8:30 Ten Bucks A Litre: Dick Smith explores Australia’s options as the era of cheap and abundant energy is replaced by an age of scarcity and high cost. 9:30 The Grumpy Guide To Food 10:30 Lateline 11:05 The Business 11:35 Three Men Go To Scotland 12:30 Pilot Guides: Nigeria 1:30 Movie: “Road Agent” (G) 2:30 Football: WAFL: Round 19: South Fremantle v East 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 The Block Sky High 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 The Block Sky High 8:00 The Block Sky High Unlocked 8:30 The NRL Footy Show 10:30 Arrow: Vendetta - Oliver trains the Huntress to be his ally, but Diggle disapproves and believes she can’t be trusted. Later, Helena’s thirst for revenge leads her to kill the head of the Triad. 11:30 The AFL Footy Show 1:30 Extra 2:00 Danoz Direct 2:30 Brand Developers 3:30 Good Morning America 5:00 National Early Morning News / 5:30 Today
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16 – Cooktown Local News 25 - 31 July 2013
CROSSWORD No. 158
SUDOKU No. 158
Your Lucky
Stars
CANCER (June 22nd - July 23rd) You may feel that everyone is treating you as their servant! Don’t allow yourself to be pushed into doing jobs which are not your responsibility. Romance. Your partner may be trying to arrange something you are not comfortable with. Fortunately, you will soon work out what is really happening.
LEO (July 24th - August 23rd) A few unexpected upheavals could threaten to spoil the good atmosphere at home. The solution is right in front of you. Romance. A chance to get away with your partner is closer than you think. You may need to be spontaneous in the coming week if you want this to work.
VIRGO (August 24th - September 23rd)
FOR KIDS
You will be able to get a great deal done this week, so long as you steer clear of arguments. A petty dispute may slow you down. Romance. The rather difficult aspect between the Moon and Mercury may make communications with your partner a little strained. Things will improve!
LIBRA (September 24th - October 23rd) You may not be getting all the attention that you need, but don’t feel that you have been forgotten. You will be remembered! Romance. A call from out of the blue may cheer you up. This person will want to talk for ages, but you will be glad that they phoned. Could there be more to this call?
SCORPIO (October 24th - November 22nd) A person that you met socially this week will eventually become a good friend. It may be a little difficult to get to know them at first, however. Romance. A meeting with a person who is much older than you could prove interesting. You will soon feel that you know this person extremely well.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23rd - December 21st) A colleague who has been irritating you must be dealt with as sensitively as possible. Try to find out the reason for this person’s hostile attitude. Romance. Your partner may be behaving a little strangely at the moment. Try to find out what is going on before making any accusations.
FINDWORD No. 158 A LAUGH WITH LOTSA
CAPRICORN (December 22nd - January 20th) Be honest. If you admit that something you have been asked to do is a little beyond your capabilities, no one will mind. Romance. You may be more concerned about the way you look than about other, more important things. Rearrange your priorities before the end of the week.
AQUARIUS (January 21st - February 19th)
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You must avoid getting into a situation in which another person tries to control you. They may not have your best interests at heart. Romance. Don’t get wrapped up in your own thoughts this week. Your partner will be upset if you keep them at length. Open up to them and you’ll feel better.
PISCES (February 20th - March 20th) You may be surprised about something that happens to you this week. What you make of the situation is up to you. There is no way to prepare for what is to come. Romance. Planned quiet time at home may not end up quite as placidly as it began! Are you ready for a wild weekend?
ARIES (March 21st - April 20th) Unfortunately, your job may be a little taxing this week. A burst of energy will help you to get everything out of the way and give yourself time to relax. Romance. This would be an excellent time to think about building a nest-egg for the future. Your partner can contribute to this as well.
TAURUS (April 21st - May 21st)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
– Vince Lombardi
SOLUTIONS No. 158
Recent events may have taken you by surprise. Try to adapt as much as you can. You may feel you are on the losing end at times. Romance. Don’t let your partner be too critical. You have been working hard and need some more support. Voice your needs and they’ll be met.
GEMINI (May 22nd - June 21st) Something you did recently has impressed your colleagues. However, there are others who also deserve to be complimented for their work. Romance. An accidental remark may have had more truth in it than you realise. Now that it has been brought to light, be sure to talk more about it.
Cooktown Local News 25 - 31 July 2013 – 17
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18 – Cooktown Local News 25 - 31 July 2013
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Female prison inmates celebrate NAIDOC Week Women’s Correctional Centre, said the inmates included some from the Cooktown Local News readership area. “Yes, we have inmates from the INMATES from Hope Vale and Wujal Wujal and surrounds were amongst Hope Vale and Wujal Wujal areas,” Mr those who enjoyed NAIDOC Week cel- Emanuel said on July 24. The Cooktown Local News was ebrations at the Townsville Women’s allowed to take photos provided they Correctional Centre on July 17. The Cooktown Local News was did not show inmates’ faces and not given permission to attend and more enabling them to be identified. Guests were welcomed to country than 100 inmates were in attendance. Centre General Manager Andrew by Auntie Jenny Pryor on behalf Pike said the Centre had women of the Bindal people and she also offenders from a wide area including acknowledged the Wulgurukaba tribe. “We should celebrate our culture some Torres Strait Islands. “Our area covers from Mackay to and who we are every day, and not just Mount Isa and the Northern Territory during NAIDOC,” Mrs Pryor said, “We border and up to Cape York and the love you our sisters.” Centre Cultural Development Torres Strait Islands,” Mr Pike said. Barrie Emanuel, the Acting Deputy Officer Dean Saunders said the celebraGeneral Manager of the Townsville tions were special. LEFT: Inmates at the Townsville Women’s Correctional Centre at recent NAIDOC celebrations. BELOW: Jenny Pryor welcomes guests to country flanked by Correctional Centre officers during recent NAIDOC celebrations for inmates of the Townsville Women’s Correctional Centre. Story and photos By ALF WILSON
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Along the BLOOMFIELD TRACK The power of nature - the joy of one
Fluffy Croc at Wujal Wujal Falls. Photos: MIKE D’ARCY. “THERE’S a Ulysses butterfly!” Impressive, Rosie. Over the day, Rosie proceeded to reel off and accurately pronounce several other “spots” during the day - a hurtling cassowary, a cassowary plum, a barramundi at Nature’s PowerHouse, a snake, a scrub turkey and a crocodile. Not bad for any visitor, especially one that’s just four-years-old. Some children, even as young as Rosie, can get so much joy out of travel. She brought Darrell the Dad and Sonya the Mum (who works in Animal technology) with her from Melbourne to take a 4WD Tour from
Cape Trib to Cooktown. So what were Rosie’s big likes? How child-friendly is Cooktown? She spent about half an hour playing and having lunch on Cooktown’s Musical Ship. Rosie was completely unafraid of the 8 metre python, hewn beautifully out of a single piece of timber, at Nature’s PowerHouse. She seemed intent on wrestling it before it wrestled her. Inside the museum, Charlie Tanner’s collection of snakes, birds and barramundi kept her twirling knobs and racing from exhibit to exhibit. That’s a good sign. At the James Cook Museum,
Rosie wrestling eight-metre python at Nature’s PowerHhouse she immediately made a beeline for the new Children’s Play Area near the HMB Endeavour’s huge Bower Anchor. I didn’t even see it, but it’s obviously cleverly designed for eyes that are only one metre above ground level. Rosie and Darrell the Dad read, “How Kangaroos Got their Tails” among the Dreaming Books. The Play Area was funded by the Gambling Community Benefit Fund and is still being developed. Rosie’s stated favourite of the day was the croc on the rock up near the Wujal Falls. She thought it was just magic. It had been back for a few days,
before higher waters sent it downstream. Sonya the Mum explained that while her visiting friends wanted to watch Playschool and other kiddie shows, Rosie determinedly preferred David Attenborough and Harry Butler. Amazing that anyone remembers Harry Butler, let alone watches old episodes. The power of nature. The Joy of One. I asked Rosie what she would like when she’s left school. “I want a Big Girls’ Bike”. Just bring us down to earth, Rosie. Children should enjoy childhood. Back on the Bloomfield Track,
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more sun, still seas and very low afternoon tides (in fact, among the lowest all year) have provided wonderful sea views and great beach walking. Wujal Falls are tremendous. The Track itself is getting pretty rough with increasing potholes and corrugations with the constant traffic. We’ll all look forward to the annual grading by Cairns Council. Please check out our Blog stories on www.darcyofdaintree.blogspot. com.au Happy travelling Mike and Trish D’Arcy D’Arcy of Daintree 4WD Tours Phone: +61 7 40989180 www.darcyofdaintree.com.au
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Week 6 Challenge Goal - Adjust your portion sizes at main meals to ensure you meet your recommended needs. The Food Groups If you are sedentary and/or small to average size use the lower number of serves suggested. If you are active and or average to larger size use higher number. Protein foods - meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts, legumes. A sample serve of meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts or legumes is: 65 - 100 g cooked meat, chicken, eg 1/2 cup lean mince, 2 small chops; or 2 slices roast meat (about the size
of a deck of cards); or 1/2 cup cooked (dried) beans, lentils, chick peas, split peas or canned beans; or 80 - 120 g cooked fish fillet; or 2 small eggs; or 1/3 cup peanuts or almonds. How many serves per day is recommended for me? 1 - 2 serves per day for men; and 1 - 1 ½ serves per day for women. Bread, cereal, rice, pasta, noodles. A sample serve of bread, cereal, rice, pasta, noodles is: 2 slices of bread; 1 medium bread roll; 1 cup cooked rice, pasta, noodles; 1 cup porridge, 1, 1/3 cup breakfast cereal flakes or 1/2 cup muesli.
1 1/2tablespoons sultanas. How many serves per day is recommended for me? 3 - 4 serves per day for men; and 2 - 3 serves per day for women. Note - 2 n 5 campaign is based on the minimum intake of fruit and vegetables recommended for the general population. An example of planning out your number of serves from the Breads and Cereals Group: I am a small female. Therefore I am recommended four serves from the Breads and cereals group over the day. Plan - 1 serve at each meal and 1 serve in snacks Breakfast - 1 bowl cereal flakes (1 & 1/3 cup); Lunch - sandwich with 2 slices of bread; My Wearable Tropical Water Fantasy Dinner - main meal with 1 cup of cooked rice; Was invited to a party, Snacks - wholemeal A fancy “do” at a millionaire’s seaside shack. muffin or low sugar/fat Was all excited and aglow muesli bar. But all I had to wear was my old basic black. The Australian guide Daydreaming of tropical climes, to Healthy Eating can be I immersed myself and my sweet sewing machine accessed on the internet In blues, greens and pearls of the sea if you wish for more Until, voila, I surfaced in information on this: www. “My Wearable Tropical Water Fantasy”! nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines/ By DIANNE KELLER publications/n55
How many serves per day is recommended for me? 5 - 7 serves per day for men; and 4 - 6 serves per day for women. Dairy products A sample serve of milk, yoghurt, cheese is: 250 ml (one cup) fresh, long-life or reconstituted dried milk; 1/2cup evaporated milk; 40 g (2 slices) cheese; 200g (1 small carton) yoghurt. How many serves per day is recommended for me? 2 - 4 serves per day for men; and 2 - 3 serves per day for women. Vegetables and legumes A sample serve of vegetables and legumes is:
75 g or 1/2 cup cooked vegetables; 75g or 1/2 cup cooked dried beans, peas or lentils; 1 cup salad vegetables; 1 potato. How many serves per day is recommended for me? 6 - 8 serves per day for men; and 4 - 7 serves per day for women. Fruit A sample serve of fruit is: 1 medium piece, eg apple, banana, orange, pear; 2 small pieces, eg apricots, kiwi fruit, plums; 1 cup diced pieces or canned fruit; 1/2cup juice; dried fruit, eg 4 dried apricot halves;
The four F’s of the Wearable Art evening Fashion is Fun! Fashion is fun! Everything under the sun Struts down the catwalk, Strolls along the boardwalk. Comely colours divine, Scintillating styles sublime All add to the mix That is fashion’s “bag of tricks”. Don’t hesitate! Proudly participate! By DIANNE KELLER
ON Saturday evening, at the “Wearable Art” evening in the Old Shire Hall, our little town was treated to the “Four F’s” - ‘Fashion, Fantasy, Fun and Food’ - each a winner in itself for adding enjoyment to life. A big thank you to Diana Burns, the organiser, and her merry band of helpers! Were you inspired by the event to put pen to paper for our column? Email either: editor@cooktown.localnews. com.au or thekellers@bigpond.com or post to: P O Box 645, Cooktown, 4895. Dianne Keller Cooktown Writers’ Group.
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New calendar shows good results Golf links closed for SSAA Cape York Branch approved a new calendar of shoots for the Cameron Creek Range at July’s monthly meeting, with club members enthusiastic for changes to set times, extra dates and type of events. This has already been reflected in good attendances as well as good scores during last weekend’s shoots - the challenge of good competition as well as camaraderie. The priority for this Saturday’s working bee is to cut down saplings/ trees on the shooting mound at the Rifle Range, so chainsaws as well as helpers will make a huge difference to the job. Contact Toby on 0438 695 663. Machinery can then be booked to extend the Rifle Range to 500 metres. This extension will enable long range events such as Centre Fire Silhouette, Centre Fire Benchest and Fly Shoot, as well as a number of events in the Combined Services Class. Then on Sunday, there is a scheduled Black Powder Shoot at 9am. Contact Karl on 4069 6492 for details. Archery can a be conducted if interested. Night Shoots are now scheduled for the Saturday on the fourth weekend of every month. This month, it will be held on Saturday at sunset. All disciplines - Pistol, Rifle, Black Powder and Shotgun can be shot simultaneously on either Range 2 or Range 3. Shooters and visitors are welcome. Current ID and suitable footwear are required. Pistol Discipline Captain, Darren Maudsley reports a good turn out of eight shooters last Saturday. A Falling Plate Match in both Rimfire
and Centrefire was shot at 15m, and it came down to a shoot-off to decide first place. In Rimfire, Ken was first with Toby in second, while Dizzy won the Centrefire, relegating Gopher into second place. After the match, Dizzy’s new Rimfire swinging plate targets were tested, ready for upcoming pistol shoots with more details to be announced in the Cooktown Local News. Toby Graves, Rifle Discipline Captain reported memorable shoots at Sunday’s Combined Services Rifle event. Two highlights of the day were scored on the 300 metre target, with Andy Hill achieving his personal best with 21 from 25.5 points and Toby Graves hitting five bulls with 25 from 25 points. This is the first time five bulls have been achieved at 300 metres on our range. From a possible score of 150.30 points, the results were: Accurised Class: 1st - Toby Graves 136.7 and 2nd - Bernie Snape 95. Standard Class: - 1st - Toby Graves 135.8 and 2nd - Andy Hill 113.1. Martini Cadet Rifle: - Toby Graves 132.8. For the 300 metre Deliberate Event from a possible of 50.10 points, the results were: Tactical: Andy Hill 42. Standard: Toby Graves 37. Accurised: Bernie Snape 33 and Toby 44. Anne Williams Secretary
Ladies shoot well on Wednesday FIVE ladies were among the 12 competitors who contested last Wednesday’s 3P Service Shoot. From a possible score of 360, Janne won the night with 347, Toby was second with 344 and Clint was third with 343. Ironically though, if the competition had been a contest between the genders with the top scores of the top two males compared with the top two females, the ladies would have come out the winners. Add Lina’s 341 to Janne’s 347 for 688 and they beat Toby and Clint’s combined total of 687 by one. Food for thought for future club nights perhaps? A Firearms Safety Course is to be held on Saturday, August 24.
For further information and to register, contact 0419 695 799. Cooktown SSAA dates for the rest of this month for your diary include: Wednesday, 31 - Sunset Shoots from 5.30pm; Sunday, 28 - Practidal Shoot from 9.30am; and Wednesday, 31 - General Meeting from 5.30pm. Members are also advised we will be holding our annual general meeting on Saturday, August 17 from 1.30pm. Janne Stewart Secretary/Treasurer.
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NO one managed to return a score better than Otto Hirsch of the Cairns Golf Club for last week’s Italian Restaurant Weekly Stableford competition. Otto returned a score of 41 Stableford points. Runner-up went to Kim Haskell with 34 on a count-back between Ian Keller and visiting player Lance Midgley from Midlands Golf Club. A good field turned out last Saturday for the Cooktown Hardware and Italian Restaurant Monthly Medal competition. Graham Burton managed to claim his second Monthly Medal for the year with a nett score of 65.
Men’s runner up was Rick Butler with 66, on a count-back from Robyn McDonald. Marilyn Clark surprised herself to claim the ladies division with her nett score of 74. Alice Burton was next in line for runner-up position with 75. Nearest-the-pins were landed by Steve Butler for 2/11, Lyle Nicholson from Gailes Golf Club for 14 and Graham Burton 9/18. Lowest gross score for the day was Graham Burton’s, who hit 76 off the stick. Not a single member nor visitor competed in the Cape York Tyres Sunday 9 Hole Stroke competition
In the Bunker
and the same with The Italian Restaurant Weekly Stroke Competition which is being played off the red tees. The Club Captain has advised this week’s competition will be played with “no preferred lies” to get those members ready for this Saturday’s Cooktown Cup. This Saturday is the annual Cooktown Cup Invitational. Best of luck to the members who are playing in this year’s Cooktown Cup. The Cooktown team have won the Cup a total of 10 times and the Patron’s team only three times, while in 2010 it was a draw. Bring it home again Cooktown! I will hopefully be able to let you know your tee time and your playing opponent as soon as John has done the draw, which will probably be sometime today. I will email or telephone you to advise you of these times. As this is a private function, the course is closed to any member who is not playing in the Cup and also to visitor players. The course will re-open to the general public on Sunday. Happy golfing everyone. Kelly Barnett Manager Cooktown Golf Links
Radical measures used for Hash trail THIS week’s run was hosted by Thermo and F&*t, from their house in the middle of town. Handy for the shops and pubs, but with a distinct shortage of suitably bushy places to take the Hash. To add interest to what would possibly be a boring trail, F&*t decided radical measures were needed. He laid a lot of false trails, and he tied seven light green ribbons in the trees. Somewhere near each ribbon, he hid a wooden tongue depressor. Collecting enough of them would win a prize for the lucky Hasher. Why tongue depressors? What are you asking me for? The only person who might know is F&*t, and good luck with getting any sense out of him . . . The trail, mostly marked in chalk on the pavement, zigged and
zagged but generally held true for Ida Street. We zigged and zagged with, searching for light green ribbons, until we reached Thermo’s car parked in the bush on what might someday be Boundary Street. Here was some refreshing pineapple and ginger punch to help us on our way. Only when we had collected “all” the tongue depressors, were we allowed to head for home. Back at the bash, there was a lot to celebrate. Saddlebags and Matchbox had been great successes at the Wearable Art competition, Soggy had a birthday and Fingerling had run in new shoes. Saddlebags and Matchbox were on their feet again for reaching their 14 and 10 cartons runs respectively. We had two virgin runners
to welcome, and Sewezy was punished for being unimaginative and generally letting the Hash down at the Wearable Art competition. It was a cold night and the cold beer was not helping, so we cuddled up to the fire, waiting for dinner. When it came, it was just what we needed - stuffed pumpkin and corned beef in white sauce - very welcome. Next week’s run will be at Whizz and Matchbox’s place. Just turn up at 5.30pm on Monday, July 29 to join the fun. Contact Moses on either 4069 6864 or 0409 686 043 for details. On-on! Lye Bak
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Boat ramp completed on lowest tide
Workers use heavy machinery to put the finishing touches to the new boat ramp. Photo: GARY HUTCHISON.
Three Rivers an endangered species RUGBY league in the district was the loser last Saturday, with only the Cooktown Crocs turning up for their scheduled match in the Three Rivers competition. If the competition was an animal, it could only be described as an "endangered species" after the Wujal Wujal Yindili, Hope Vale Red Soil Rebels and Hope Vale Backstreet Warriors all failing to show. Three Rivers President Peter Scott had contacted team representatives during the week, with all confirming their intentions of competing - the Yindili against the Crocs at 5.30pm and the two Hope Vale outfits clashing at 7pm.
Not only did the teams fail to front, they failed to advise the Crocs, Three Rivers officials and referee Scott Thomason (who performs his duties for free), but also some of their own team faithfuls who made their respective journeys into John Street Oval for nothing. For the second week in a row, the Crocs recorded an easy victory with the Yindili forfeit gifting the Cooktown outfit two competition points and a 20-0 scoreline to add to their points for-and-against averages. At this stage, there have been no games scheduled for the next round of what is already a very shortened competition.
Marton march into T20 final
Marton batsman Rob McLean and umpire Mitch Roe watch the flight of this delivery from Hope Vale bowler Selwyn McIvor. Photos: GARY HUTCHISON. line on the last ball of the innings. Forward added 13 runs each before From Page 24 >> being dismissed. Council made 145 off After a quick break, Marton set What a great game? about the chase with Dom Aprile and Maranti King was Man of the Match the allotted 20 overs. Mitch Roe, but lost the latter with the for his heroics with the ball. BMP opened with Geoffrey Kulka Game two saw the Council Diggers and Adrian Kulka and these boys looked first ball of the innings. Dom was out in the next over for five and this brought and the Black Mountain Panthers face untroubled as they chased down the Mick Serginson and T20 specialist Rob up with the Diggers winning the toss entire score inside 15 overs. McLean to the crease. and electing to bat. Mark Whitman and This has put Marton straight into Mick was out for 12 with the score Jayde McGowan opening, but Mark’s the Grand Final this Sunday, while at 49 in the eighth over as Pat Sorensen stay at the crease wasn’t very long - out BMP will clash wih Hope Vale in the semi-final to decide who will oppose joined Rob to get Marton back into the for nine in the third over. game. Rob was stumped by Harry off Scott Stallan joined Jayde on the to Marton. It should be a great day of cricket. Timmy’s bowling for 55 with the game pitch and this pair added 80 runs before in the balance. Both Maranti and Snelly Scott was caught by Wade for 39. Jayde Thanks to all who helped out on failed to bother the scorers as Kevin, was out for 33 with no addition to the the day and to those who supported along with Pat saw Marton across the score as Craig Wason and Cameron the cricket.
ABOVE: Marg with a dusky flathead. MONDAY’S low tide allowed the work needed to complete the low water work, which saw the council crew lay the last link slabs at the bottom of the boat ramp. We just need the floating pontoon now and the project will be complete. Endeavour River anglers have had a great run of grunter this week with the big tides. The best fish reported was 65cm with plenty around the 50cm mark. Mixed in with these were golden and diamond trevally and some large cat fish - some around one metre long. Local prawns have been the best bait. Presented on a light outfit, this adds to the fun. Fingermark and mangrove Jack have been reported in good numbers, along with the odd barra on the bite as well. The Annan River has had a good run of bream and big queen fish on the flood tides. A small weather window opened for the offshore anglers last Friday and Saturday, and a couple of bigger boats enjoyed a trip to the reef. The results were mixed, but at least they had a fishing fix. The rest of us will have to settle for a river trip as the long range forecast has strong winds blowing for the next 7-10 days. B e s t t a rg e t s o m e estuary fishing, so a few golden trevally or grunter might have to do. Tight Lines Russell Bowman The Lure Shop
BELOW: Mary from Rockhampton is happy with this capture. Photos submitted.
Tom from England with a barra.
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G’day again. What a feeling it was to be back on the paddock again after being out with my knee injury? And crossing for that early try against the Manly Sea Eagles? Well, I think you would have seen the elation on my face if you were watching the game on TV. There’s nothing better than getting across that stripe. In the lead up to the game, I hadn’t even been listed in the 18 to take on the Sea Eagles, but Neil (coach Neil Henry) gave me right up until the last training on the Sunday before the Monday night game to test my fitness. I was able to run freely at training, with very little soreness afterwards, so I was right to go. It was just so good to finally get out there, I was pumped and confident and was satisfied with my performance on the night. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get the two competition points on the night, which puts us in a very precarious position on the competition ladder on 16 points - six points out of the final eight and only seven fixture games to go before the regular season finishes. But we’ve got four of those last seven games at home, which should give us the advantage in those matches. Theoretically, the pressure is on us now to win all of our last games if we are any chance. However, much depends on the results of other games during that period. We might be able to drop a game or we might even go through the rest of the season undefeated and still miss out on the finals. All we can do is focus on our performances to be sure we win our games and not worry about what is happening with the rest of the competition. We want to finish the season on the highest note possible, regardless of the ladder and that means racking up the victories. We’re under no illusions about the enormity of the task, but we’re all very confident we’re up to the challenges. And this Friday night’s battle with our old foe, the Broncos, at our home ground of 1300SMILES is the first of seven desperate clashes. The Broncs are in the same position on the ladder, so they will be just as hungry for the victory as we will. We’ll be going into the game with our best squad. My knee has had the benefit of a couple of weeks off after last week’s bye, so I’m itching to get out there again and build on my game I had against the Sea Eagles. With so much riding on these last few weeks, we’ll be relying on your support to help get us home. So don’t forget to tune into Imparja for Friday night footy. - Matt Bowen
Hope Vale bowler Tim Rosendale got plenty of flight in his deliveries on Sunday. Here his technique is under close scrutiny from Marton batsman Pat Sorensen and keeper Mitch Roe.
Marton march into T20 final By WAL WELSH
IT was another double header of T20 cricket played at the Queens Oval on Sunday. Game one saw Marton take on Hope Vale in what turned out to be the game of the day. Hope Vale won the toss and elected to bat with Preston Demaal and Phillip Walker opening, but a superb over from Maranti King saw both of those boys as well as Harry Bowen all back in the pavilion with only 18 runs on the board. This brought captain Selwyn McIvor and Timmy Rosendale to the crease as they tried to consolidate the innings. Kevin Dukes had other ideas as he sent both Timmy and then Darren off without either of them registering a run. Ring-in Brendon Payne and Selwyn had a solid 103 run partnership to bring the score to 131 before Payney was out for 32. Hope Vale made 145 from their 20 overs with Selwyn remaining not out on 75. Best bowlers for Marton were Maranti 3-13 and Kevin 2-14. << Continued Page 23
Is wombat_101 out of reach in tipping comp.? IS wombat_101’s lead now becoming almost unassailable after round 19 of the Cooktown Local News/Hinterland Aviation/Inn Cairns NRL footy tipping competition on the weekend. Wombat_101 now leads by six wins, after extending the lead from five to six, as one of only four tipsters who nominated five of the six winners. No one forecast the Saints’ upset win on Monday night against the Rabbitohs, but tipsters also struggled with the Knights’ win against the Panthers. Wombat_101 was joined by Wazza, TheFantasticMrs Fox and Matthew Thompson with five wins, while Eye of the Tiger, Beagleb2 and Gracie
recorded four. This week’s statistics take in last week’s Stateof-Origin result. Wombat_101 (5 wins) has crashed through the century with 104, six ahead of Eye of the Tiger (4) on 98. Beagleb2 (4) and TheFantasticMrsFox (5) are together on 97, while Nikki with only three winners dropped to 96. There is then another six-win gap to the rest of the field. 90: Pootie Tang (3), Camf (3). 89: Wazza (5), Prickly (3),
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88: Maggie_P (2), 87: Matthew Thompson (5), 86: Kintaine (0). 85: bubsie1981 (3). 82: Whiteyfunk (3). The winner of the Cooktown Local News/ Hintertland Aviation and Inn Cairns NRL footy tipping competition will received a return flight to Cairns with Hinterland Aviation and three nights’ accommodation in Inn Cairns right in the heart of Cairns. The runner-up will receive $250 from the Cooktown Local News.
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