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Show your love for local Highton florist Jen Gross is urging locals to buy Australian-grown roses this Valentine’s Day, her 39th in the industry.

“I try to buy Australian roses,” she said.

“I want to support local as much as I can because we need to keep our economy growing.

“Flowers are imported from all over the world – a lot of people probably don’t realise that. They come from Kenya, Asia and all over the place.”

Business has bloomed for the floral industry amid COVID-19, according to Jen. “A lot of people can’t see each other, because of the lockdowns, and have been sending each other cheery-up flowers instead,” she said.

With a couple of sleeps yet to go, Jen was unsure how busy this Valentine’s Day would be.

“People don’t usually place the orders until the last minute,” she laughed.

“We’d love people to place orders early but they don’t. It will all happen toward the end of the week.”

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Refinery one of the last

By Luke Voogt and Goya Dmytryshchak Geelong’s Viva Energy refinery could be the last left operating in Australia by 2022, following ExxonMobil’s closure of its Altona refinery.

The oil giant on Wednesday announced to 300 workers that the refinery would close after 72 years of operation.

One of four remaining refineries in Australia, Mobil’s Altona operations have been affected by COVID-19 border closures, flight cancellations and stay home orders. Demand for jet fuel has dropped by up to 90 per cent.

ExxonMobil on Wednesday said the

Altona refinery was “no longer considered economically viable” and would be converted into an import terminal to “ensure ongoing, reliable fuel supply for Victoria”.

ExxonMobil said the Altona refinery would remain in operation while transition work was undertaken “to ensure continued, reliable fuel supply for our Mobil customers”.

The closure follows BP Australia’s decision to make its Kwinana site in Western Australia an import terminal in 2022. Ampol’s site at Lytton in Queensland is under review, with a decision expected to be announced in June.

Viva Energy chief executive Scott Wyatt said “while refining remains very challenging”,

the company was committed to working with the federal government to implement its fuel security package.

Viva was also committed to working on investments with the state government and its planned LNG regasification facility to improve the refinery’s “competitiveness and long-term sustainability”, he said.

While “a lot needs to be finalised”, Viva was making good progress and was encouraged by the support of government, business partners and the community for “the important role we play” in Australia’s energy security, Mr Wyatt said.

Victorian senator Sarah Henderson on

Wednesday said the Altona closure meant Geelong’s refinery would be eligible for a greater share of the federal government’s production payment grants.

Last December, the federal government announced an “accelerated” production payment, worth $83.5 million over six months.

Australia’s major oil refineries will receive one cent in taxpayer funding per litre of petrol, diesel and jet fuel.

The federal government initially announced a fuel security package worth a total of 1.15 cents per litre for July 1 but brought forward the one cent production payment component to January 1.

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Push to extend Covid supplement

By Luke Voogt

in March 2020.

In total, greater Geelong recorded a 56 per cent increase JobSeeker recipients and a 46 per cent increase in Youth Allowance payments.

Those figures have decreased slightly since December 2020. JobSeeker and Youth Allowance recipients are only two categories among those eligible for the supplement.

The government is also yet to announce an extension to JobKeeper beyond March, with thousands of Geelong businesses reliant on the payment to pay employees.

The latest available Treasury figures indicate that 9158 Geelong businesses were receiving

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More than 24,000 Geelong and Surf Coast residents could lose $3.6 million in coronavirus supplements, with the federal government yet to announce an extension beyond March 31.

On Wednesday, The Guardian reported 14,327 Corio electorate residents would lose $2,149,107 in weekly payments if the government did not renew the supplement.

Another 9753 Corangamite residents stand to lose $1,462,902, the publication reported.

Corio MP and deputy opposition leader Richard Marles urged the federal government

to extend the supplement.

“Taking this money out of the pockets of Geelong pensioners, carers, our youth and job-seekers, while we are still trying to recover, is nothing but cruel,” he said.

“This government doesn’t care that pensioners are deciding between food and medication.”

As of January 29, 2021, Geelong had 10575 residents on JobSeeker, 52.8 per cent higher than 6921 in March 2020, according to Department of Social Services data.

On the Bellarine Peninsula, 2237 residents were on JobSeeker, 74 per cent higher than 1282

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Charlie pulls strings at Australian Open Charlie Reid’s passion for stringing racquets has landed him in the same room as star player Nick Kyrgios – if only briefly.

“Kyrgios came into the stringing room the other day doing a promotional video,” the 16-year-old from Barwon Heads said. “He was just in and out – it was for his sponsor, Yonex.”

Charlie has been travelling by ferry four days a week to work in the Yonex stringing room at the Australian Open.

“It’s been awesome,” he said. “I’ve really loved being in there and meeting all the stringers – just learning more about stringing racquets

and how to string faster. I’m working 9am to 5pm … so that doesn’t leave much time to watch the games.”

But he hopes to continue the gig in future despite the limited time to watch games.

“It’s just about being around the sport that I love,” he said.

Charlie bought his own stringing machine at age 14 before starting a job with Surf Coast Racquets owner Tim Batty at Geelong Lawn Tennis Club.

“He’s a pretty handy tennis player and works for me part-time,” Tim said.

Organisers of the recently-cancelled Bells Beach Rip Curl Pro say they offered to pay quarantine costs before state government refused their charter flight.

World Surf League Australian general manager Andrew Stark told The Age this week his organisation tried to negotiate with government until late January.

But the league’s requests to land a private charter plane in Melbourne – with 125 staff and surfers on board – were denied.

“We were [offering] to pay for our flight, all our own quarantine, we weren’t asking the Victorian government for a dollar, we just needed them to allow us to land a plane and go through their quarantine system and they said ‘no’,” Mr Stark said.

“We love that event and we desperately wanted Bells to be the first opening event of the Australian leg, but it wasn’t possible and that wasn’t a decision that was in our control.”

The event will not be held at the Jan Juc break this Easter for tfirst time since 1961, with the event instead moving to Newcastle.

The World Surf League has not ruled out holding a similar major event at Bells Beach in winter to take advantage of storm swells.

“We are currently discussing multiple options to be best prepared to get the Championship Tour back on and running,” a spokesperson told the Independent.

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“He wanted to be involved in the open so I spoke to the guys up at Yonex and got him a job.”

This is the first time stringing at the open for both Charlie and Tim, who has worked in the industry on and off for 40 years.

Organisers were using more local stringers this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, Tim said.

Jonathon Zarb, from Centre Court in North Geelong, is working in the open’s statistics department while at least three local junior players are volunteering as ballkids.

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Victorian senator Sarah Henderson said despite the impact of the second wave, 734,000 jobs have been created over the past six months nationally and fewer businesses and their employees are in need of JobKeeper and other temporary economic supports like JobSeeker.

“This year, workforce challenges will be one of the biggest economic challenges we face as a nation.

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“Elaine has been an outstanding contributor to the Geelong community and has been an exemplar in showing through her actions the key tenets of leadership,” said Committee for Geelong chair Clive Pugh.

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Geelong Lutheran College’s three-year-old kinder kids had an early attempt at making pancakes on Wednesday, ahead of Shrove Tuesday next week.

Traditionally, the kinder celebrates the occasion with its four-year-old pupils instead, teacher Raelene Roede explained.

“The batter was very lumpy and not edible at all,” she laughed. “But it was good practice for next year.”

The college plans to celebrate the occasion next Monday and on the day itself in what will be more than an average Shrove Tuesday, according to Raelene.

“It’s our first community event in almost 12 months,” she said. “We haven’t been able to have parent helpers in since COVID hit. Last

year they could only say goodbye at the door.

Normally we have our hall packed for our Christmas concert in December. Of course last year we had to modify that into a video to share.”

Raelene enjoys watching the kids learn during the “hands on” celebration.

“We let them do all the mixing, crack the eggs, pour the milk and actually flip the pancakes,” she said. “The first time we hold the pan with them and help them flip it.

“Then it can get messy. Sometimes they can miss and it will fly out of the pan. It can be quite fun to watch – you never know where they’re going to land.”

VICSES has erected several “crucial” safety signs around Geelong, in a bid to warn locals and visitors about flood danger at various popular spots. The signs are located in areas including along the Barwon River and Hovells Creek, and suburbs including Belmont, Breakwater, Lara, Highton and Armstrong Creek.

Soot blowing Geelong’s refinery will carry out cleaning on its heat boiler – a process known internally as “soot blowing” – beginning next Monday, pending favourable conditions. During the two-week EPA-approved activity, some soot could be emitted from the refinery’s residual catalytic cracking unit stack, a refinery spokesperson said.

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Boost for commuter parking

By Luke Voogt More than 200 new car parks have opened at Waurn Ponds railway station as part of a $1 billion upgrade of the Geelong line.

Deputy prime minister and Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Minister Michael McCormack on Wednesday announced the opening – the latest step in the station’s upgrade.

The upgrade, including a new platform and second track at the station, lays the foundations for the future duplication of the Geelong line from Waurn Ponds to South Geelong.

The federal government has invested $843 million in total for the duplication, the station upgrade and stabling works at Waurn Ponds.

The state government contributed another $157 million to the projects, aimed at delivering more frequent and reliable services on Victoria’s busiest regional line.

Works began on the largest section of the carpark upgrade while patronage was low amid COVID-19 restrictions, to minimise disruption to passengers and speed up construction.

Construction contractor Downer used recycled asphalt to pave the new carpark, following the state government’s

recently-introduced Recycled First policy, Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said.

The asphalt included soft plastics from bags and packaging, and toner from print cartridges that would have otherwise gone to landfill, Ms Allan said. About 20 per cent of the asphalt for the carpark came from Downer’s other road maintenance and construction projects across Melbourne, she said.

More than 3500 tonnes of recycled concrete from a local recycling site was also used in the construction.

Construction has begun on the new platform, second track and an accessible overpass,

scheduled for completion in late 2021.

New carpark entrances off Sugargum Drive and at Rossack Drive have opened, serving as temporary access points with the main carpark and entrance now closed for piling works.

Workers are set to bore more than 70 piles with more than 500 metres of piling required for the new platform, pedestrian overpass, ramps, stairs and lift shafts.

The upgrade also includes extra lighting, CCTV cameras and landscaping, said federal senator Sarah Henderson, who joined South Barwon MP Darren Cheeseman at the announcement.

Harpo’s Valentine search Handsome Harpo hopes to fill a cat-shaped hole in the life of someone feline the love this Valentine’s Day. After being at Geelong Animal Welfare Society’s (GAWS) Moolap shelter for more than 100 days, the domestic short-haired tabby can’t wait to find the purr-fect fur-ever friend.

But his new companion might find themselves competing with Harpo’s other great love – food.

The cheeky eight-year-old kitty will do just about anything for food – looking at GAWS staff with big eyes and even dancing on two legs when he see his next meal coming.

Harpo has a heart murmur, feline immunodeficiency virus and is missing a couple of teeth, but he can still live a long, happy, healthy life indoors.

He is one of about 25 cats currently at the shelter who could be someone’s perfect

Valentine, according to GAWS’ Cara Kirwin.

“A companion animal can provide many health benefits to their owners and help improve their overall wellbeing,” she said.

“Animals can help reduce stress, provide companionship and alleviate feelings of loneliness and social isolation.”

Also looking for a fur-ever home is adorable four-year-old bull terrier-staffy cross Lani, who needs an owner that can give her plenty of attention.

Although she and Harpo are not destined to be star-crossed companions, as Lani is unsuitable for cats and pocket pets.

“Why not consider adopting an animal in care at GAWS like Lani or Harpo this Valentine’s Day?” Cara said.

“It could be just what the doctor ordered.”

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Rental vacancies hit all-time low

By Luke Voogt Geelong’s rental vacancy rates have plummeted to an all-time low amid an influx of Melburnians moving down the highway.

Vacancy rates hit 1.3 per cent in Geelong in December 2020, the lowest level since 2002 when the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) began recording them.

The figure is just over half the vacancy rate of 2.2 per cent in December 2019, well below 2.6 per cent in December 2015.

“Anything below that two per cent rate is critical,” REIV president Leah Calnan said.

“It will potentially continue to decrease.”

The Independent recently reported an influx of Melbourne buyers driving Geelong house prices up by 7.7 per cent in the year to December 2020.

The influx occurred amid Melbourne’s greatest net internal migration loss since the Australian Bureau of Statistics began recording that figure in 2001.

The influx resulted in part from Melburnians leaving the city amid COVID-19 and the resulting flexible working arrangements, according to Ms Calnan.

But many moving to Geelong were renting

before deciding whether to buy-in permanently, Ms Calnan said yesterday.

“It’s that try-before-you-buy thought process happening in Geelong and the Surf Coast.”

The decrease in vacancies came despite former Airbnb and holiday rentals coming on the market as permanent rentals, Ms Calnan said. “I think it really shows how quickly those properties were snapped up.”

Geelong rent prices have stagnated amid legislation preventing price rises until March 29, 2021, due to COVID-19.

Geelong and Surf Coast rentals remained level, compared to 20.2 and 12.5 per cent price

growth respectively over the past five years.

“As of March 29 we go into the new Residential Tenancy Amendment Act, which will allow rent increases but only once a year,” Ms Calnan explained. “Previously they were allowed every six months.

“We anticipate that rent increases in areas like Geelong and the Surf Coast will begin to take effect by the middle of the year, because you need to allow that 60-day notice period.

“Those on restricted incomes will be at risk as those rents increase. The emphasis has to be that government looks at additional funding in the social housing space.”

Locals to ‘marry’ on TV Herne Hill electrician Brett Helling and former Geelong Cats VFL player Jake Edwards are set to appear on Married at First Sight.

The popular reality TV series, which has attracted national audiences of more than a million viewers, airs on Nine next Monday, February 22.

Promoters described tradie and psychology student Helling as a bloke with “a real man-sized heart”.

“He volunteers with the Salvation Army to assist the homeless, and his dream is to open a treatment centre to help the vulnerable,” they said.

“When it comes to romantic love, Brett is looking for a naturally beautiful, funny, laidback girl.

“Thanks to a chance meeting with Gordon Ramsay, he now has a go-to meal to impress his dates.

“In his spare time he also makes funny videos in the kitchen, ‘Little Bretty Cooks’, or surfs and skates with the boys.

“Most of his mates are partnered up with kids and Brett can’t wait to be a dad, because family is very important to him.”

Former Carlton player Edwards, who joined the Cats VFL side in 2016, will also appear on the show.

Edwards now runs mental health charity Outside the Locker Room.

“Jake is an old-school type who grew up in the country with country manners,” promoters said.

“Jake struggles to find a girl who doesn’t try to take advantage of him; he wants someone to love him for himself, not for who he is.

“Jealous of his siblings who have their own families, Jake is looking for a partner to settle down and have kids with ASAP.”

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Festival of flavour Ice cream lovers can overcome their COVID-19 melon-choly in an annual Surf Coast festival featuring 144 flavours including watermelon and feta next week.

Aleesha Coots and Will Evans-Papinsky recently tasted the quirky concoction, one of 12 one-off flavours including parmesan and olive oil, siracha pretzels and black sticky rice banana.

French opera cake, Turkish Delight Pavlova, charcoal Cherry Ripe and the Star Wars-themed Stormtrooper also Aleesha Coots and Will Evans-Papinsky with the new watermelon and feta gelati. feature on the festival’s menu.

The Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery even has a few adults-only indulgences such as spiced backlogs due to the Victorian government’s Negroni and Yuzu whisky sour. By Luke Voogt management of the COVID-19 scenario,” the The backlog of pending criminal trials at Member for Western Victoria said.

Chocolaterie owner Leanne Neeland Geelong County Court has almost doubled “The County Court [of Victoria] has a since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the backlog of 1000 jury trials to be heard, with said her staff had heaps of fun inventing about 400 of these in regional Victoria.

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Ice cream lovers can overcome their COVID-19 melon-choly in an annual Surf Coast festival featuring 144 flavours including watermelon and feta next week.

Aleesha Coots and Will Evans-Papinsky recently tasted the quirky concoction, one of 12 one-off flavours including parmesan and olive oil, siracha pretzels and black sticky rice banana.

French opera cake, Turkish Delight Pavlova, charcoal Cherry Ripe and the Star Wars-themed Stormtrooper also feature on the festival’s menu.

The Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery even has a few adults-only indulgences such as spiced Negroni and Yuzu whisky sour.

Chocolaterie owner Leanne Neeland said her staff had heaps of fun inventing “adventurous flavour combinations” inspired by their kitchen garden and orchard, local suppliers and distillers, and favourite cakes.

The festival comes as the chocolaterie rebounds from the devastating effects of COVID-19 on local tourism last year.

The event runs at Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery, Bellbrae, from next Wednesday to February 21.

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Following the suspension of in-person circuit sittings, the County Court of Victoria implemented a new process for regional matters.

Under the process, all pleas and appeals against sentences are provided with a fixed listing date upon committal or appeal lodgement.

“The majority of these matters were conducted virtually using video conferencing software, with appearances in court permitted under limited circumstances,” a court spokesperson said.

“This has reduced the delay for these types of matters.”

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The Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services (Justice) shows that pending criminal matters in the Magistrates Court of Victoria have increased by 82 per cent from 2014-15 to 2019-20.

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New reefs to boost local fishing

By Luke Voogt Two newly-completed reef projects near Geelong are set to boost local anglers’ chances of reeling in a big catch, according to the state government.

Fishing Minister Melissa Horne on Wednesday announced the completion of the projects following a $2.5 million state government investment.

“Projects like these not only allow for more fishing, [they bring] people to regional communities, supporting local jobs,” she said.

The first project features three reefs in

Corio Bay near local landmarks, named with help from Geelong fishing clubs and other organisations. Workers constructed the reefs with 2000 tonnes of basalt as a base, sourced from the nearby Cherry Creek juvenile justice facility with help from VRFish, Victoria’s peak recreational fishing body.

The reefs were then topped with 100 tonnes of limestone and seeded with 400,000 native flat oysters from the Victorian Shellfish Hatchery at Queenscliff and 10 tonnes of blue mussels from local grower Advanced Mussel Supply.

The Outer Harbour reef will be called Moolap – the Wadawurrung name for Point

Henry meaning a place of men fishing with spears.

The reef near St Helens was named Merv’s Reef after the late Merv McGuire, the former head of VRFish. The reef is 62 metres from a break wall, making it ideal for land-based fishers, according to the government.

At Kirk Point, the reef will be called Wilson Reef, honouring Geelong fishing writer and identity Geoff Wilson.

The Nature Conservancy led the second project, which included restoring reefs at 9ft Bank in the Geelong Arm with 100 cubic metres of recycled shells from restaurants and

the seafood industry. The project also included new reefs at Wilson Spit in Corio Bay and other locations in Port Phillip Bay. The 3.5 hectares of new reefs were seeded with three million oysters and six tonnes of blue mussels. According to the government, the reefs will improve water quality and attract diverse fish and aquatic life, and are away from shipping channels and spoil grounds.

“These reefs will give even more local fishers the opportunity to chase key species like snapper, whiting and calamari, making Corio Bay’s fishing even better,” South Barwon MP Darren Cheeseman said.

Cancer mural recognised A Geelong West mural celebrating cancer survivors has made the finals of a national street art competition.

Surf Coast artist Kirsten Walsh’s mural, ‘The Brave and The Beautiful’, made the shortlist for the external mural category at the Australian Street Art Awards.

The “hyper-realism” artist was overjoyed and “honoured” to make the finals of the competition with her first-ever mural.

“I normally work with pencil, so it was out of my comfort zone,” she admitted.

“It’s more than 10 metres long and three metres high, so the scope was quite daunting.”

But Walsh was able to adapt her artistic skills onto the new medium.

“This wall is now a focal point for the community and locals of Geelong,” she said.

The mural spreads across the Weller Street wall of Bakers Delight Geelong West and

features a bald woman on a pink background representing breast cancer.

It also depicts a beanie-wearing woman in tribute to brain cancer survivors and a young child blowing a dandelion as a message of hope.

“The owner of the store, Suranga Sena, who commissioned the piece, is a cancer survivor.

So he’s quite passionate about it,” Walsh said.

“I have lost a family member to cancer, my mother-in-law, who fought a very long battle with breast cancer. I think everybody knows somebody affected by cancer.”

The winners in all eight Australian Street Art Awards categories will be announced on March 2 on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

“With COVID restrictions on indoor numbers… street and public art is a free gift to every traveller,” awards director Liz Rivers said.

Artist Kirsten Walsh with store owner and cancer survivor Suranga Sena. Inset: The mural. (Supplied)

EVERY TEST HELPS US KEEP CATCHING UP WITH MATES Every test keeps us on top of this virus.

And keeps us doing the things we love.

So even if your symptoms are mild, or you’ve been tested before, every test helps.

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Raising awareness of albinism

By Justin Flynn Almost four years after starting an Instagram account to raise awareness for albinism with her friend Sammy McCombe, Lucy Carpenter has been on a wild ride.

The 18-year-old from Ocean Grove was invited to contribute to a newly released book titled Growing Up Disabled in Australia’, has been an extra in a movie and has been in a music video, all while juggling study commitments.

The book, edited by Carly Findlay, is a collection of stories from more than 40 people about negotiating the world with a disability.

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In Lucy’s case, it’s albinism which causes problems with the development and function of the eyes.

Lucy’s eyesight, by her own admission, is poor. “I was 15 when I found out that M&M’s had a little white ‘M’ on them,” she laughed.

“I’d gone 15 years without knowing this.”

Lucy’s contribution to the book is about 1700 words. “I tried to focus on a little bit of every part of my life so far. Things I have experienced good and bad, and how I explain my vision to people,” she said.

Lucy was invited to speak at Geelong library yesterday about the book, where she spoke about herself and her journey.

Lucy and Sammy were extras in the Australian black comedy movie Judy and Punch and were in a music video for Big

Scary that was filmed at Redwood Forest near Warburton. They were also in a photo exhibition in Ballarat that Lucy said “portrayed different seasons and themes”.

Lucy is quite comfortable with the term ‘disabled’ being used to describe her condition, but can see why others might not like it.

“There are some people who don’t like the term disabled or being called disabled,” she said. “For me personally it’s a term that I don’t mind too much. I am disabled. I have a vision impairment.”

For now, Lucy will concentrate on completing a bachelor of professional communications at RMIT.

Grants bowl clubs over Norlane Bowling Club is set for a big upgrade after receiving a $350,000 council grant for a new synthetic bowling green.

The club was one of four recipients of the maximum amount under council’s $3 million 2020-21 Community Infrastructure Grants program.

Barwon Valley Golf Club also received $350,000 for a clubroom upgrade and refurbishment at its 18-hole course in Belmont.

Geelong Rangers Soccer Club received the same amount to upgrade lighting at Myers Reserve, Bell Post Hill, as did St Joseph’s Cricket Club for its Carey Oval pavilion upgrade.

The grants, starting at $2200, will support 49 community-led projects across greater Geelong.

Geelong High School received $33,000 for accessible toilets, change rooms, and light and

sound upgrades at Shenton Theatre.

Woodlands PreSchool, Ocean Grove, received $30,430 for stage one of its rear play space redevelopment and St Luke’s Uniting Church, Highton, received $20,000 to plan the future of the location.

More than half of the grants will support capital works ventures, with 21 to progress planning on community-led projects.

Successful applications totalled $3,000,567, part of a record grants budget of $5.1 million for 2020-21, according to finance portfolio chair Anthony Aitken.

Geelong mayor Stephanie Asher congratulated the recipients, describing local groups as the “backbone of our rich community life” and vital to the wellbeing of residents.

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Deputy mayor Trent Sullivan, Trish Bedggood, Neil Watson and Cr Anthony Aitken at Norlane Bowling Club. (Louisa Jones) 228197_02

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MY GEELONG Geelong Dragon Boat Club is set to compete in its first official regatta this weekend since COVID-19 hit. Club president Susannah Gillam speaks to Luke Voogt about the “rush” of dragon boating, ahead of the big event.

How are you coping with COVID-19?

COVID-19 had a big impact on dragon boating.

With a full boat of 22 people, we were unable to paddle for quite some time over 2020.

A lot of our members adapted though, by setting up home gyms or taking up paddling in single craft.

I took up kayaking during this period and have discovered another great water sport!

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What do you love about dragon boating?

The dragon boat regattas are loud, colourful and exciting.

There is such a rush when you feel the power

What are your favourite things to do locally?

Geelong is a wonderful place to live for anyone who loves the water. We have beautiful surf beaches nearby.

There is also the Barwon River for walking and boating and, of course, Corio Bay. I spend a lot of time at these places in boats or with my dog Kipper.

What’s something about you that people might not know?

I also work as a sailing instructor and coach around Geelong. I find in some water sports women are underrepresented, so I’m always looking to encourage more women onto the water.

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How did you become involved in dragon boating?

I love being active and in the water, so when a work colleague 14 years ago asked me if I would like to try dragon boating, I thought, “why not”.

Somehow, I have managed to fit it in alongside competitive racing in a small solo sailing boat.

For me, the two sports complement each other. In a dragon boat you have to work in a team with 21 other people, whereas racing solo every decision is your own.

I love being part of the Geelong dragon boat team but I also like the independence of racing solo.

of the 20 paddles working together and the boat surges forward.

Being part of a dragon boat team means being part of a community.

It’s not just the competition and training, but also a chance to get together socially and make new friends.

We are about to compete in a Lunar New Year Regatta in Docklands and everyone is really excited and looking forward to this. It will be our first regatta for 2021.

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Tell us about you…

I’m 62 and I live in Waurn Ponds.

I grew up in Geelong but lived overseas for several years, returning to Geelong with a husband and three boys.

My hobbies are dragon boating, dinghy sailing and, lately, kayaking. Since retiring from teaching I have taken up cycling with two local groups.

With my involvement in water sport, I was finding it hard to get technical clothing that fit me, and I soon realised other women were having similar problems. So, I started an online business called Selki Watersport to ensure that, as well as unisex sizes, I had a really good selection of technical clothing in female styles and sizes.

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YOUR SAY Zero emissions “Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic electricity usage will be rationed.

“Zero emissions” will also force closure of most cement plants, mechanised farms and feed lots and will demand nuclear or wind-powered submarines, destroyers and bulk carriers.

In the Zero Emissions world there can be no diesel buses, oil-powered cruise liners or jet aircraft. Moreover, 7.8 billion humans continuously emit a lot of carbon dioxide – maybe they plan to make the COVID masks airtight?

Zero Emissions would decimate mining, farming, forestry, fishing and tourism. As exports fall, imports must also fall. Without diesel fuel and lubricants there will be little surplus meat, milk, vegetables, cereals, sea food or timber for the cities, for export, or for immigrants or refugees. Rabbits, kangaroos, possums, koalas, Murray cod and wild pigs will become staple foods and wood/charcoal burners generating “green” gas will again fuel antique cars and utes. Wood-burning steam-powered traction engines may live again.

But we have the “Net Zero” loophole, which is green bait on a barbed hook. It provides five escape routes: 1. Buy dodgy carbon credits from dubious foreigners.

2. Cover our grasslands and open forests with carbon-absorbing bushfire-prone eucalypt weeds.

3. Build costly energy-hungry carbon-capture schemes.

4. Chase the hydrogen mirage.

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5. Log and replant old-growth forests. (New trees will grow and extract CO2 faster than old mature trees.)

Net zero has one bright prospect – freeloading cities like Canberra must shed population and convert their manicured parklands to lettuce farms, lucerne paddocks, cow bails and poultry runs.

Viv Forbes Washpool, Qld

Torplex explosives, was unsafe.

Kennedy dismissed his advice saying that experts has checked it out and said the plane was safe to fly. Unfortunately the advise of the layman proved to be correct.

There is no substitute for doing your thinking and research and not hiding under the label of consensus science. This is a lazy man’s way of trying to ascertain the truth which could sometimes lead one up the garden path.

There is no substitute for doing your own due diligence.

No substitute for due diligence Bob Zanker (letters 5/2) takes me to task for not supporting the science on climate change.

He then seeks to buttress his arguments about science by appealing to the findings from three multi-national oil company reports – go figure!

What Mr Zanker fails to realise is that the history of science is littered with examples of where the majority of experts have got it wrong.

A few classic examples include the discovery of the missing link – Piltdown Man, continental drift theory, and the transmission of infection.

Joseph Lister was vilified for his theory of germ transmission at the time but his theory is now universally accepted as fact.

Then there’s the expert security report which alleged that weapons of mass destruction were being held by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. This bogus report fooled world leaders including US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, not to mention our own Prime Minister.

Can a layman get it right where others have got it wrong? Yes. During World War Two, Joseph Kennedy Jnr, the older brother of John F. Kennedy, was advised by one of his junior officer’s Earl Olsen, not to fly the mission to bomb the U-Boat pens in Heligoland as he believed Kennedy’s B-24 drone packed with

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Get the wheels of justice turning

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The article titled “Court cases pile up” (5 February) is of grave concern.

There is a time-honoured saying “Justice delayed is justice denied”.

For both the victim and the perpetrator.

A log jam in the Court system – any court system – is totally unacceptable.

It is in the community interest that the necessary resources are allocated by the government to resolve the matter; to ensure that the wheels of justice move smoothly.

Without further delay, Mr Andrews.

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community to be surveyed throughout February.

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On a mission for stroke survivors Strokes in working-age Australians cost the national economy $2.9 billion in lost productivity each year, despite most people associating the disease with the elderly. Highton researcher Alyna Turner speaks to Luke Voogt about a new project to help stroke survivors get back into the workforce.

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wenty nine – that’s how many working-age Australians are devastated by stroke each day, Stroke Foundation estimates.

Strokes cost the Australian economy $2.9 billion annually from time off work, lost or lower employment ($1.8 billion alone) and premature death, according to the foundation.

But Highton single mum and researcher, Dr Alyna Turner, has recently begun a project that could make a dent in those figures.

Even more importantly for Dr Turner, she hopes her work will improve the quality of life of working-age stroke survivors.

“Depression, sensory issues and anxiety are common after stroke and can hinder efforts to earn a living,” she said. “The challenges include lost independence as a result of physical disability, financial pressures and difficulties resuming their roles in family and community.”

The clinical psychologist recently received a $75,000 Stroke Foundation grant to develop telehealth programs to help survivors work again. “I’m particularly delighted to have received this grant because of its focus on young stroke survivors,” Dr Turner said.

“It’s very exciting. What are the differences we make? Can we get higher rates of people returning to work?”

Telehealth – using telecommunications for healthcare and medical education – could greatly expand the reach of return-to-work programs, according to Dr Turner.

“It’s now vital that the research is delivered to maximise its benefits,” she said.

“We know survivors in regional and rural areas face additional barriers including service availability and support. We hope a telehealthdelivered service will increase rates of successful return to work after stroke for them.”

The project builds on Dr Turner’s work from 2017 to 2019, with Barwon Health and Stroke Foundation, helping survivors work again.

Dr Turner worked primarily on the “mental health side” of the face-to-face program, which had a 70 per cent success rate among its 42 participants, she said.

The participants ranged from office workers to tradespeople and manual labourers.

“We’ve got occupational therapists on the team who have been working with people returning to work for many years.”

Along with reaching more people in rural areas, telehealth could be vital in future pandemics, Dr Turner said.

Increasing the service’s reach could also help researchers identify different barriers to work and ways to overcome them.

“For example, we need to think about farmers and farmworkers, who are in a different position to office workers,” she said.

“We want to try to catch people early – as soon as possible after the event – and support them in their return to work journey.

“Some stroke survivors might want time off whereas others might want to jump straight into work, and both groups are important.

“For some, financial concerns and other stressors might make them return quicker than they should. They might have mood changes or struggle with fatigue, and might not have realised how much of an impact that was going to have on them.

“It can also be confusing for people to know how the stroke is going to affect their capacity.

“They may think they need to be fully-recovered before coming to work whereas it might be that they just need to make some adjustments to the workplace.”

At times current or potential employers might only think about the physical barriers, Dr Turner said.

“Every stroke is different. Obviously people have the changes that you can see – in their speech and movement – but there’s also the invisible effects that might include mood changes, fatigue and changes to cognition.”

As a senior lecturer at Deakin University, Dr

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Turner has studied the link between significant depression symptoms and conditions like stroke and cardiovascular disease occurring later in life. Stroke survivors in turn are more likely to suffer mental health problems, either resulting directly from their condition or its impacts, such as the loss of independence.

“In the current project we take a very broad view on stroke recovery,” Dr Turner said.

“We look at their overall health and wellbeing, including their mental health.”

While strokes might occur more in young people than some think, they are still far less common than in the elderly. “This means younger survivors don’t necessarily have peers that go through the same thing, so they can feel quite isolated,” Dr Turner said.

She said helping them to work again could include physio and strength-building exercises or simply helping employers understand how to best support their stroke-affected employee.

“For others it might not be possible to return to the job in its same form,” Dr Turner said.

“Then it’s helping the person consider a different role within the organisation or finding

a new career.”

Dr Turner hopes to expand and improve telehealth conferencing for stroke survivors with the help of her participants.

“We ask people to give us detailed feedback during the service so it helps us improve and refine what we do,” she said.

Stroke survivor Jasmine West, 29, understands the potential benefits of telehealth all too well. The former Warrnambool local moved to Whittington a few weeks ago, after relying heavily on online conferencing amid COVID-19 in 2020.

“I used it last year to connect with my psychologist and also for my connection to the outside world, because we couldn’t meet up,” she said.

Ms West survived a stroke at age 25 when she was working as a sterilisation technician in the operating theatre of a local hospital in 2016.

She was putting equipment away when she suddenly felt faint, and stumbled to the staff room for help. But the hospital said her balance issues were from vertigo and sent her home.

Later that night, she started to feel strange and could not get up to walk, so her then-boyfriend rushed her to the emergency department.

Doctors took a day to diagnose her stroke as her paralysis spread and she eventually lost the ability to talk, she said.

She was flown to St Vincent’s Hospital, where she remained for three months on life support due to locked-in-syndrome, a very rare neurological condition resulting from her brainstem stroke.

She was fully-paralysed, except for her eyes.

Finally, after three months, she began to wiggle her fingers and toes, and doctors removed the tracheostomy from her throat, allowing her to eat pureed food.

“I spent another two months in hospital re-learning how to walk, talk and eat,” she said.

Ms West believes her condition “definitely” would have been diagnosed faster if her local hospital had access to telehealth at the time.

“You can talk to neurologists there and then, rather than getting flown out for five hours to see them,” she said. “But sometimes you don’t mind being a bit of guinea pig so others don’t have to go through what you went though.”

Over the past few years she learned to walk with a walking stick, cook, clean, do washing

and drive again.

Last year she started her first year studying social work, when COVID-19 hit.

Her compromised immune system – she has had pneumonia twice as a result of her stroke – kept her at home for much of the pandemic.

“It was a nightmare,” she said.

“I had to defer study for the first trimester, I just couldn’t cope. I went from five days of physiotherapy a week to just nothing.”

But she continued to catch up with her exercise physiologist, other specialists and stroke survivors, and do Pilates online, before commencing remote study. “It’s very convenient and it’s a really nice way to connect with specialists that are miles away,” she said.

She moved to Geelong to be closer to Deakin University, have access to more stroke specialists and connect with more young survivors.

A qualified dental nurse, Ms West acknowledges both of her physicallydemanding “jobs are now undoable”.

“Dental nursing is so fast-paced. You’re running around like a headless chook some days,” she said. “Being a sterilisation technician is very physical and requires standing all day.”

But apart from “having my life torn apart”, her stroke had not affected her cognition, mental health or personality, she said.

Ms West reckons her stroke could actually help her better relate to others as a social worker once she finishes her degree. She said her barriers to working would be more physical, and that a mobility scooter and accessibility at her workplace could help her overcome these.

For Ms West, having someone advocate on her behalf, and feeling safe, respected and included, are just as important.

“It’s always really nice to have someone on your side,” she said. “It would good to get the word out there that we’re all capable.”

She is a big fan of Dr Turner’s plans to use telehealth to help survivors get back to work.

“If they need me, I would certainly do it,” she said. “It will help [survivors] reach a wider community and make them feel useful again – to give them a reason to want to get out of bed, rather than just doing therapy.

“By opening up those channels to full capacity to help people, it creates that inclusion that they need.”

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Jazz musicians star in soirées

By Luke Voogt Torquay piano prodigy Callum Watson will join Geelong’s most promising young jazz musicians and industry veterans for a series of garden soirées beginning tomorrow.

“It’s my first gig with a crowd for almost 12 months,” the 23-year-old told the Independent.

“I’m really excited to be playing with so many talented jazz musicians.”

Watson hoped the Geelong Jazz Soirées, a combined concert and livestream series at Geelong Botanic Gardens, would reveal some “hidden-secrets” of local jazz to Geelong and the world.

“It’s got a big focus on Geelong people that might have been struggling through COVID a bit, but have great promise,” he said. “Hopefully people find something new and interesting that they want to continue to support.”

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jazz is all about creating melodies

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- Callum Watson

Watson is no stranger to international exposure, having represented Australia at the 25th Young Composers Meeting in the Netherlands in February 2019.

The annual event features the world’s most promising jazz and classical composers, and was the latest milestone in Watson’s musical journey, which he began by learning piano at age five.

His interest in music then took off in grade 4, after he discovered jazz.

“I’ve always liked the nice melodies that jazz tunes have – they’re really catchy – and the opportunity to be creative with music,” he said.

“Jazz is all about creating melodies.”

In grade 6 his parents took him to perform at Torquay Cowrie Market.

“I just wanted to further my music and bring it to an audience that might appreciate it,” he said.

“It was fantastic. I got really big crowds and they were generous with their donations.

“They seemed to want me back, which was good. The funny thing is now I’m one of the co-ordinators of the Cowrie market.”

As he grew older, he began creating and improvising his own tunes on the piano.

“That probably gave me a sixth sense for composing,” he said.

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At age 16 he studied jazz at The Julliard School in New York City.

Then, in his last year of high school, he topped the state in composition in VCE music, earning a place at Monash University, and a grand piano from his parents.

“I got a scholarship so they made a bit of an investment, which was nice of them,” he said.

“I also had a few opportunities with the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

“I’ve found myself organising a lot of gigs, like this one, which have kind of built a jazz scene – especially in Geelong.”

In early 2020, Watson had been preparing to visit Germany and the Netherlands for

composing gigs and concerts.

“But COVID got in the way,” he said.

“Since then it’s been pretty slim pickings – just to keep everyone sane I’ve been doing a free Thursday night jazz session on Facebook.”

He also composed tunes with European artists online.

“But it’s not the same,” he said.

Watson’s latest live music project features up-and-coming vocalists Lucy Head, from Moriac, and Colac’s Michelle Benjamin – previously from Geelong.

Belmont and Bellarine bassists Rob Gador and Zac Barter and Grovedale saxophonist Michael Tinta will also join the four-concert

series. Bass veterans Sean Loughran (Geelong) and Evan Jones (Aireys Inlet), and Melbourne saxophonist and 2019 Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year nominee Flora Carbo round out the list of talented musicians.

The series, supported by a state government grant, has about 50 in-person tickets available per concert, according to Watson.

“We’ve managed to get the stage at the botanic gardens for a very small crowd but the focus is obviously still on the live stream,” he said.

The Geelong Jazz Soirées begin at 2pm tomorrow.

Details: callumwatson.com.au/geelongjazz

Shakespeare outlasts plague in the great outdoors

King Lear (Bruce Widdop) and his court jester (Matt Young) in OZACT’s production in Geelong Botanic Gardens. (Supplied)

Shakespearean plays outside during pandemics date back more than 400 years to – well, the Bard himself.

“In Shakespeare’s time, when plagues existed in London, performances were banned,” explained actor David Widdop, ahead of Ozacts’ A Feast of Shakespeare at Geelong Botanic Gardens.

“We’re kind of doing the same thing.”

Plagues swept through London in 1563, 1568-69, 1582 and 1592-93 carried by fleas on the backs of rats.

During the plague of 1592-93, Shakespeare’s heyday, the Crown ordered the complete closure of all London theatres.

The nobility fled London for the countryside and the Crown cancelled major events, much like today amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Half the companies would pack up and travel to the plague-free provinces, where they’d perform in market places, guild halls and the houses of the wealthy – anywhere they could find an opportunity,” Widdop said.

“If it was raining, they might find a nearby barn instead of the village square.

“What they would have understood was the difference between country areas and London, where theatre was banned, and people would be close together and in danger of catching the

plague.”

More than four centuries later, Widdop is set to perform as six different characters from four different plays in two afternoon shows at Geelong Botanic Gardens next weekend.

“It’s really challenging and exciting,” he said.

“A lot of work is done by the change of costume, but then there’s the change of accents, character, all that sort of thing. I love the challenge of playing different characters.”

Widdop also changes his mannerisms as he moves from character to character.

“King Lear is quite old and getting towards the end of his life,” he said.

“On the other hand, Prospero is a quite energised and active sort of character.”

The long-time actor has played Shakespearean characters for a quarter of a century after graduating the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney and teaching drama for decades at Federation University in Ballarat.

“Shakespeare holds a mirror up to human nature and gives the audience an experience of what it means to be human,” he said.

Widdop and daughter Lisa came up with the concept of performing Shakespeare in the great outdoors in 1996.

“I’ve always been interested in outdoor drama and I’m keen a bushwalker,” he said.

Ozact has toured Australia annually since its first performance of The Tempest at Port Campbell .

But the company’s schedule grinded to a halt in 2020 amid COVID-19.

“Last year we had to cancel our whole autumn season,” Widdop said.

“That’s about half a year’s work cut out because of the lockdown, but it feels a lot longer because time tends to go slower during a lockdown.”

In December, Ozact returned to the stage for the first time since the pandemic hit, performing outdoors in Ballarat.

“It was terrific, the audience response was really, really good,” Widdop said.

Like in Shakespeare’s time, Widdop said, Ozact’s modus operandi of outdoor theatre was safer amid COVID-19, with restrictions continuing to ease across Victoria.

He was thrilled to perform at Geelong Botanic Gardens in A Feast of Shakespeare next weekend. The shows, beginning at 4pm on February 20 and 21, feature abridged versions of Shakespearean classics Hamlet, Pericles, King Lear and The Tempest.

Details: ozact.com Luke Voogt 13 GEELONG INDEPENDENT Friday, 12 February, 2021

ENTERTAINMENT

Frecheville enters the canon

By Duncan Evans

and then Boris Johnson put the lockdown issue out, so we’re now sort of up here for series two of lockdown, because we were up here most of last year as well.”

When not in lockdown, Frecheville lives in London, having moved there from Los Angeles for a change in scene.

“I spent a lot of time in Los Angeles and ultimately wanted to try out a different setting.

I didn’t really want to spend all of my twenties there. And Europe’s great and I’ve got a lot of friends in London. And I have a very soft spot for Ireland.”

Asked whether he thinks the deep friendships that anchor The Dry are still possible in the age of Zoom, Frecheville replies: “I think it’s too early to say. I think sustaining deep friendships is easy. In a way, not much has changed for the way that I sustain my friendships, because I’ve got friends in all these different places.”

“But I’m just optimistic that things will get better. I can’t really see us holding into a sort of new lockdown paradigm for the next 10 years.

And thinking that a whole new generation of kids never go to school. I’m more optimistic than that. But maybe not, maybe this virus just keeps mutating forever and ever.”

Every actor dreams of appearing in a major film or theatre production. With it comes the possibility of fame and a pathway to secure employment. But more than that, to appear in a great film, one that takes a hold of the public’s imagination and enters the cinematic canon to be watched and re-watched for decades to come, is surely the mountain-top for any creative artist dedicated to the craft of film.

James Frecheville, a 29-year-old actor from Melbourne, can claim to have struck magic twice already in his short career with his small but crucial performance in this year’s remarkable Eric Bana-headlined film The Dry, which comes some 10 years after his breakout performance in the now-canonical Australian crime film Animal Kingdom.

Duncan Evans spoke at length with Frecheville in a wide-ranging conversation about his latest role in The Dry, why the film has been so well received by the public and critics alike and how he successfully navigates the tough and precarious world of acting.

The Dry The Dry is based on the debut novel by Jane Harper and Frecheville credits the popularity of the book, in part, for the film’s astonishing success.

“I think it’s a combination of the success of Jane’s book, and it having a sort of pre-established place in people’s heads. But also, last year was pretty terrible, on many fronts. And I think people just are eternally optimistic. I think people are really excited to get out of the house and do something that they were nostalgic about. Which sounds insane, to say that you’re nostalgic about going to the cinema, but nobody had any of it, for such a long time,” he said.

With critical acclaim and domestic box office receipts breaching $10 million, The Dry was the hit film for the month of January and suggests that there remains in people an entrenched desire to retain the full cinema experience, even in an age characterised by isolated online streaming.

“It’s all about a shared, disruption-free experience,” Frecheville said. “Being a part of a community, whether you know anybody or not, just in that kind of setting, it’s pretty important.”

Locked in a darkened space before a massive screen, cinema-goers are treated to an entrancing mystery film that unfurls carefully around two shocking events separated by decades. The film has about it the smack of greatness. Though ostensibly a police procedural, it builds to become a haunting meditation on the power of memory and the majesty of friendship, precisely acted, written and photographed across the desolate beauty of regional Victoria.

“It looks great and the film’s great, and it’s as simple as that,” Frecheville says.

Frecheville plays the role of Jamie Sullivan, a gruff young farmer struggling to keep his farm afloat while also looking after his grandmother.

Like the film itself, there is a degree of manipulation involved in how the audience perceives Sullivan, a product of Frecheville’s acting abilities and the careful planning of director Robert Connolly. Sullivan appears to us in a certain light at the beginning of the film, and then our perception of him shifts and changes as the film progresses.

“The trick wasn’t really up to me,” Frecheville said. “That’s in the coverage, that’s in the editing and the sound, and most of that falls on to Rob. What I tried to focus on was taking as much from the script and from the book as I could to find something to anchor the idea of Jamie Sullivan around. There was a part in the book where it said that he had his fists stuffed under his armpits. And I kind of thought that was interesting, just because, like many people within the film, they’ve all got secrets.

“He just had a pretty high guard. It’s not really a nice place to live. But, you know, he’s not one to complain.”

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A Natural Optimist

James Frecheville in The Dry, Black 47 and Animal Kingdom. (Pictures: Daniel Archer and supplied)

Initially, Frecheville auditioned for the role of Sergeant Greg Raco, played by Keir O’Donnell.

“I wasn’t right for that part, but my name got thrown into the hat for Jamie Sullivan, and that was it.”

Asked whether he can sense a film’s potential for greatness from the script alone, he responds by saying that while a script may be redolent of something, it is always difficult to know how a film will turn out given the medium’s tendency to morph and shift across the multiple stages of the creative process.

“You do get a sense. A good script should convey imagery and thought. And then, you’re on set, and things change constantly. It’s just blueprints layered on blueprints until the edit, at which it could even change quite violently again. Sometimes I’ve seen that with films that I’ve done where the tone of what you thought you were being involved in just becomes completely different.”

Breakout Ten years before he would take on the role of Jamie Sullivan, Frecheville auditioned as a high schooler for the seminal role of Joshua Cody in David Michod’s operatic Animal Kingdom. Listed by Quentin Tarantino as one of his favourite films of the decade, it has since become the source material for a popular television show set in Southern California and is regularly listed by critics as one of Australia’s greatest films.

Frecheville’s stunning performance as an impressionable young man thrown suddenly into a dangerous world and then trying, in his limited way, to extricate himself from an escalating hurricane of violence anchors the film and imbues it with a complex moral code. The film isn’t nihilistic, but it’s brutally jaundiced about human nature and the reach of justice in this world.

The Dry, by contrast, offers a somewhat more hopeful view about the possibility of securing

justice, despite the shocking acts of violence that open and close the film and the shadow of abuse that permeates the story. A degree of clarity, at least, is granted to the audience by the end of the film, whereas Animal Kingdom leaves us in a more troubled state. We are as unsure of Frecheville’s Cody at the end of the film as we are at the beginning. His method of closing out the story is as much a recognition of terrible failure as it is an act of brute righteousness.

Australian Cinema Frecheville lists Wake in Fright, Bad Boy Bubby, Chopper, Two Hands, Babe, Happy Feet and Mad Max as some of his favourite Australian films.

“Australia makes great films. I just hope that the frequency of telling Australian stories can kind of speed up the more the borders open up.”

He is optimistic about the future of the Australian film industry.

“People need stories. I’m interested with what sort of emerging technologies can start making different sorts of stories possible. It seems to me that the Australian industry is just absolutely booming. In the sense that a lot of international productions are coming there because they know that people work well and that it’s suitable to make big movies on a sort of world-class level.”

What’s more, alongside Australia’s world-class human capital and technological sophistication, our relative success in containing the virus also makes us an increasingly attractive destination for film production. This year will see a number of major Hollywood productions shoot in Australia, including the Liam Neeson-helmed action blockbuster Blacklight.

From LA to the UK Frecheville spoke from Wales via Zoom, ‘trapped’ in Britain’s extended lockdown restrictions.

“My partner and I came up here for Christmas

Though The Dry and Animal Kingdom are perhaps his most widely-known contributions, Frecheville has appeared in an impressive roster of well-received films in a career that now spans more than 10 years. In 2018, he took on the lead role of Feeney in Black 47, an historical drama set in a famine-ravaged 19th century Ireland and in 2015, he appeared alongside Billy Crudup in the critically acclaimed Stanford Prison Experiment.

In regards to his own creative future, he hopes at some point to pursue writing and directing in addition to acting.

“But when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn’t ready or suitable enough to sort of get it to a point where it was fleshed out and out there,” he said.

“And tonally it’s quite different from my acting work. I’m kind of into a bit surreal, mad-cap comedy, sort of insane stuff. But yeah I’d totally want to explore that. But it’s just slowly slowly catchy monkey, is my idea the older I get, because I’m still learning. I’m still learning a lot.

“I came into it having done youth theatre.

Animal Kingdom was a baptism by fire.

And ever since then I’ve just sort of been a journeyman. I haven’t gone to a school. I didn’t go to university. I’ve sort of gone all in on this trade, and I’m just learning as much as I can.

Seems to be working, somewhat.”

The acting trade has a well-established patina of glamour, full of red carpets and flashing cameras. For many though, it’s a tough and precarious way to make a living, and Frecheville knows both sides of the coin; the struggle involved in simply making one’s way in the trade, and also its possibility for grandeur and genuine achievement.

“I’ve been living by the skin of my teeth for years, it feels like. There’s nothing stable about it, but there’s also much victory and revelries as well,” he said.

For other young Australians who love cinema and hope one day to be involved in something permanent, Frecheville has some advice.

“Be bold. Find like-minded people. Team up and make things. No one is going to sort of hand it to you. It’s always a great tip to be active.

If you want to be an actor, start finding some friends that want to be actors and write silly movies and make them. And keep it fun, I’d say, because you don’t want a learning experience to be too serious or hard-core. I think consume as much media as you can. If you want to learn how to do things technically, you could watch a film and then watch it right back immediately after you’ve finished watching it the first time and pick it apart. Just be bold and be active, that’s what I’d say.”

The Dry is playing now in cinemas and Animal Kingdom is streaming on Stan.

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THOR: THE DARK WORLD 7MATE, 7pm

SATURDAY

CALL THE MIDWIFE ABC TV, 8.30pm

As we join the midwives at Nonnatus House for season nine, we’re in 1965 and, while the fashions may be getting more daring, many birthing procedures are still stuck firmly in the past. Tonight, in the lead up to Mother’s Day, Fred (Cliff Parisi) and Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) are forced into some covert spying to catch a milk thief. Meanwhile, a romance is blooming between Miss Higgins (Georgie Glen, left) and Sergeant Woolf (Trevor Cooper).

MONDAY

HUGHESY, WE HAVE A PROBLEM TEN/WIN, 8.40pm

Sorting out the world’s issues during a pandemic is no easy task, so it stands to reason that Dave Hughes has brought in reinforcements for the fifth season of his problem-solving panel show.

Comedians Becky Lucas and Nazeem Hussain will join Hughesy (right) each week to share the burden and help guests near and far sort out life’s little conundrums. The season premiere last week set the bar for some epic guest stars, with Tiger King’s Carole Baskin and Hollywood enigma Gary Busey Zooming in with their dilemmas. From mundane everyday dramas to the hot-button topics of the day, no drama is too big, or too small, for Hughesy and his team.

SUNDAY

MINISERIES: S: BANCROFT 7TWO, 9.30pm

A ruthless police boss with a dark secret, Elizabeth Bancroftt (Sarah Parish, above) stunned viewers with the lengths she ncroft’s season one finale. would go to in Bancroft’s After a two-year wait, the second series opens with the antiheroine tiheroine enjoyingg her reputation as a ‘good cop’. cess However, her success comes at a cost – she is er son estranged from her Joe (Adam Long) and endangered by her er pact with a crime boss.

When Joe is implicated cated in a double-murder, er, Bancroft’s personal al and professional illusions come crashing shing down around her as she deals with a chilling new villain n in Joe’s fiancée Annabel abel (Charlotte Hope).

Aussie Chris Hemsworth (pictured) returns as Thor in this dark Marvel sequel that is peppered with welcome moments of humour. Back in the fantastical world of Asgard – and in a plot that doesn’t really make sense, but since when did that matter? – Loki (a fantastic Tom Hiddleston) is in prison, while on Earth scientist Jane (Natalie Portman) is trying to get on with life without Thor, but a normal existence is out of the question when she gets cursed with a powerful object.

Alas, Thor must come to the rescue to protect it before evil gets its dirty mitts on it and tries to take over Earth. Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaidss) brings some light to the dark plot as Jane’s possible new love, w wh ile Kat Dennings is while aalso al so entertaining as Jane’s new intern.

A fantastical action film, its real punch lies in its special effects – and Hemsworth’s muscles.

Chris Hemsworth stars in Thor: The Dark World

Friday, February 12 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NINE (5, 9)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Q+A. (R) 11.05 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill.

(PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Back Roads. (PG, R) 1.30 Outback Ringer. (PG, R) 2.00 Rake. (Ml, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (PG, R) 2.05 China From Above. (R) 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 China From Above. (R) 4.25 Great British Railway Journeys. (PG, R) 5.00 Letters And Numbers.

(R) 5.30 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Am I A Serial Killer?

(2019, Mv, R) Monroe Cline.

2.00 House Of Wellness. (PG) 3.00 The Chase. Hosted by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 5. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. [TEN] The Talk.

(PGa) 7.00 [TEN] Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 [TEN] The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, R) 8.00 [TEN] Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil.

(Md) 1.00 Jamie & The Nonnas. (R) 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum. Analysis of the day’s news.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 Gardening Australia. (Return) Jane Edmanson meets city-living bees.

8.30 Vera. (Mv, R) DCI Vera Stanhope and her team investigate the mysterious death of a John Doe. 10.00 Mum. (Return, Ml) Cathy and her family arrive in the countryside.

10.30 State Of The Union. (Ml, R) Tom moves out following a bad session.

10.45 ABC Late News.

11.00 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (R) 11.30 Aftertaste. (Mls, R) 12.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Secrets Of China’s Forbidden City. (PG, R) Explores the history of the Forbidden City.

8.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Kate Winslet. (PG) Kate Winslet follows a rumour of Scandinavian ancestry on her late mum’s side of the family.

9.35 My Grandparents’ War: Kristin Scott Thomas. (PGa, R) Part 2 of 4.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 8 Out Of 10 Cats. (MA15+l, R) 11.55 The Looming Tower. (Mlsv, R) 3.45 Great British Railway Journeys. (PG, R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

Hosted by Johanna Griggs.

8.30 MOVIE: Captain America: Civil War. (2016, Malv, R) After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political interference leads to an open fight between Iron Man and Captain America over the future of the team and an old friend. Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson.

11.30 To Be Advised.

1.00 Home Shopping.

[SEVEN] MOVIE: Taken Away. (1996, PGa, R) 3.00 [SEVEN] Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 [SEVEN] My Greek Odyssey. (PGln, R) 5.00 [SEVEN] NBC Today.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 5. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. (MA15+am, R) Will’s first task as a criminal informant puts a strain on his relationship with Natalie.

The father of Emily’s child ends up in the emergency department. Connor presses Ava for the identity of the donor.

1.00 Destination WA. (PG) Trevor Cochrane heads to the Cocos Islands where he learns how to kitesurf.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Global Shop. Home shopping.

4.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Customs. (PG, R) Follows customs officers at work.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, R) The team helps a single mother.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(Mals) Graham Norton chats with Dave Grohl, Rege-Jean Page, Daisy Haggard, Alan Carr and Siobhan McSweeney. Music from singer Jessie Ware, who performs her single Remember Where You Are. 9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

11.30 [TEN] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 12.30 [TEN] Home Shopping. (R)

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Rostelecom Cup. Replay. 2.00 Kingdom Of The Little People. 2.50 Huang’s World. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders. 9.20 City Porn.

10.10 Housos. 11.10 Monogamish. 12.10am VICE News Tonight. 12.35 MOVIE: Golden Job. (2018, MA15+) 2.25 NHK World English News. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News.

5.30 Indonesian News.

7TWO (62, 72) 6am Home Shopping.

6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Dog Patrol. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 1am The Fine Art Auction.

4.00 My Road To Adventure. 4.30 Escape To The Country. 5.30 Home Shopping.

9GEM (52, 92) 6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 11.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 5. 6pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 5. 11.00 Law & Order. Midnight Timeless. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

BOLD (81, 12) 6am Home Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise.

6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

12.30am Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges.

3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.00 Jake And The Fatman.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Eagle Has Landed. Continued. (1976, PG) 8.20 CJ7. (2008, PG, Cantonese) 10.00 Maudie. (2016, PG) 12.10pm Esio Trot. (2015, PG) 1.50 Jungle Book. (1942, PG) 3.50 This Beautiful Fantastic. (2016, PG) 5.30 When Marnie Was There. (2014, PG) 7.30 The Big Boss. (1971, Cantonese) 9.30 Fist Of Fury. (1972, Cantonese) 11.35 Wheels On Meals. (1984, M, Cantonese) 1.40am Delicacy. (2011, M, French) 3.40 The Big Boss. (1971, Cantonese) 5.40 This Beautiful Fantastic. (2016, PG)

7MATE (63, 73) 6am Home Shopping.

6.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 Hellfire Heroes. 9.00 American Pickers. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wild Ops. 3.00 Storage Wars. 3.30 Pawn Stars. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Road Hauks. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Alien Vs Predator. (2004, M) 9.30 MOVIE: Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem. (2007, MA15+) 11.30 Tattoo Nightmares. Midnight American Pickers. 1.00 Road Hauks. 2.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (53, 93) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Ironman. Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Series. 2.00 The Mindy Project. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team.

5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Zookeeper. (2011, PG) 9.30 MOVIE: Tower Heist.

(2011, M) 11.35 The Nanny. 12.05am Quantum Leap.

2.00 Mike Tyson Mysteries. 2.10 Dance Moms.

3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel. 5.10 Bakugan: Battle Planet. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

PEACH (82, 11) 6am Friends. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

11.00 Frasier. Noon WIN’s All Australian News.

1.00 Medium. 2.00 The King Of Queens. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 MOVIE: A Walk To Remember. (2002, PG) 11.30 MOVIE: Rock Of Ages. (2012, M) 1.50am Everybody Loves Raymond. 2.25 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

Programs. 5.50pm Peppa Pig. 5.55 Ben And Holly.

6.10 Brave Bunnies. 6.20 Bluey. 6.30 Kiri And Lou. 6.35 The Adventures Of Paddington. 6.45 Andy’s Safari Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Coppelia. 10.35 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 11.05 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 11.55 Catalyst.

12.55am Parks And Recreation. 1.15 Reno 911! 1.40 The IT Crowd. 2.25 News Update. 2.30 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.35 Miffy’s Adventures Big And Small. 5.40 Late Programs.

N ITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 7.35 Molly Of Denali. 8.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 8.10 Aussie Bush Tales. 8.20 Waabiny Time. 8.45 Wapos Bay. 9.05 Kagagi. 9.30 Bushwhacked!

10.00 Skindigenous. 11.00 Trading Cultures. Noon MOVIE: The Namesake. (2006, M) 2.00 Intune 08.

3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Red Chef Revival.

6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 NITV News: Nula.

7.30 MOVIE: Balto. (1995) 8.55 Bedtime Stories.

9.05 Milpirri: Winds Of Change. 10.05 My Life As I Live It. 11.05 Late Programs.

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CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

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SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NINE (5, 9)

WIN (8)

6am Morning Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Employable Me Australia.

(Mal, R) 1.30 Miniseries: Agatha Christie’s The Witness For The Prosecution. (Masv, R) 2.20 Making Child Prodigies. (R) 3.30 Dream Gardens. (R) 4.00 Ask The Doctor. (Final, PG, R) 4.30 Landline Summer. (R) 5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 8. Western United v Sydney FC.

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Figure Skating. 2019-2020 ISU European Championships. Replay. 3.00 Jupiter Revealed. (R) 4.00 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 4.35 Remarkable Places To Eat. (R) 5.35 Secret Nazi Bases. (PG)

6.00 Home Shopping. [SEVEN] NBC Today.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 Horse Racing. Black Caviar and Apollo Stakes Day. 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

SEVEN (7)

6.00 Easy Eats. (R) Advice on baking pies and pastries.

7.00 Weekend Today. News, current affairs and sports.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 6.

6am Morning Programs. 9.30 St10. (PG) 12.00 Beyond The Fire. (Final) 12.30 GCBC. (R) 1.00 10 Minute Kitchen. 1.30 Destination Dessert. (R) 2.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 2.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. (PG) 3.00 What’s Up Down Under. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. (R) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 4.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 5.00 News.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 Death In Paradise. (PG) DI Jack Mooney and the team are put to the test when a celebrated artist is poisoned in her studio.

8.30 Call The Midwife. (PG) Leading up to Mother’s Day, the team are forced to give up more than just cigarettes and sugar for Lent. A romance blossoms between Miss Higgins and Sergeant Woolf. Nonnatus House has a problem with a thief.

9.30 Endeavour. (Mav, R) Part 4 of 4. When a librarian is murdered, Morse and Thursday investigate.

11.05 Harrow. (Mav, R) A homeless man is stabbed to death.

11.55 Call The Midwife. (Ma, R) Lucille gets ready for her second date.

12.55 Rage Retro Month. (MA15+adhlnsv) 5.00 Rage. (PG)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (PG) Ernie Dingo takes a trip to Bathurst Island.

8.05 Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain. (PG, R) Part 3 of 4. Michael Portillo continues his exploration of abandoned buildings in Shepton Mallet prison.

9.00 MOVIE: Harry Brown.

(2009, MA15+dlsv, R) An elderly ex-marine decides to take revenge on some local lowlifes after his best friend is murdered. Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley.

10.55 MOVIE: The Pianist.

(2002, MA15+av, R, France, Germany, Poland, ) Adrien Brody.

1.30 Atlanta. (Mdls, R) 4.00 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 MOVIE: Thor. (2011, Mv, R) The god of thunder is forced to live among mortals.

Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman.

9.20 MOVIE: Thor: The Dark World.

(2013, Mv, R) After Jane Foster falls victim to a mysterious force, Thor must battle to save Earth and the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself before a catastrophic prophecy can come to fruition. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston.

11.35 Surveillance Oz Dashcam.

(PG, R) Takes a look at dashcam footage.

12.05 MOVIE: The End Of Eden.

(1996, Mv, R) A pianist returns to his roots. Jennie Garth.

2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 [SEVEN] Get Arty. (R) 4.30 [SEVEN] Get Arty. (R) 5.00 [SEVEN] House Of Wellness. (PG, R)

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 6. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. (Mam, R) Natalie and Will must act fast to save the life of a physically abused wife. Ethan and April are shocked to learn the truth about their 14-year-old cirrhosis patient. Connor and James go head-to-head in the ER. 1.00 Customs. (PG, R) Follows customs officers as they investigate suspected drug traffickers and people smugglers.

1.30 Award Winning Tasmania. (PG, R) Ben Milbourne takes a tour of the city of Launceston with restaurateur Bianca Welsh.

2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Wesley Impact. (R) Religious program.

6.00 Bondi Rescue. (PGal, R) When a backpacker has a violent seizure, team leader Beardy fears for the long-term consequences.

7.00 Three Blue Ducks. (Premiere) Travel with “The Ducks”, including Andy Allen, Mark Labrooy and Darren Robertson, as they hunt for ingredients.

7.30 Ambulance. (Mad, R) Over a busy weekend in Manchester, North West Ambulance Service paramedics Andrea and Glynn attend to a car crash victim, while Debbie and Shaun try to persuade a homeless man to go to hospital.

11.00 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

(PG, R) David Tennant narrates a behind-the-scenes look at Scotland’s Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.

11.30 To Be Advised.

12.30 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Unprotected Sets. (Return) 9.20 Live At The Apollo. 10.15 Would I Lie To You? 10.45 Mock The Week. (Final) 11.15 Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley! Midnight Escape From The City. 12.55 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central.

1.50 News Update. 1.55 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31)

6am WorldWatch.

Noon MOVIE: Tank Girl. (1995, M) 1.50 Lee Lin Chin’s Fashionista. 2.00 New Girl. 3.00 Insight. 4.00 WorldWatch. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. Melbourne United v Cairns Taipans. 7.30 The Last Man On Earth. 7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 The X-Files. 11.00 Tent And Sex. 11.30 7 Days Of Sex. 12.20am MOVIE: Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings. (2018, MA15+) 2.45 Late Programs.

7TWO (62, 72) 6am Home Shopping.

9GEM (52, 92)

6am Newstyle Direct.

6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 6. 6pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 6. 11.00 Law & Order. Midnight Timeless. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

BOLD (81, 12) 6am Home Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 11.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. Noon Diagnosis Murder. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jake And The Fatman. 4.00 iFish. 4.30 Mighty Machines.

5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 Scorpion.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 To Be Advised. 11.20 L.A.’s Finest. 12.15am Hawaii Five-O. 1.10 CSI: Miami. 2.10 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm Mparntwe: Sacred Sites. 2.30 Softball. SA Premier League. Replay. 4.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. Men’s. Catlereigh All Blacks v Tingha Warriors. Replay. 5.00 On The Road. 6.00 Going Places. 7.00 Everyday Brave. 7.30 News. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman.

8.30 She Shears. 9.55 MOVIE: Cry Freedom. (1987, M) 12.35am Late Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am This Beautiful Fantastic. Continued. (2016, PG) 7.20 Esio Trot. (2015, PG) 9.00 Jungle Book. (1942, PG) 11.00 CJ7. (2008, PG, Cantonese) 12.40pm When Marnie Was There. (2014, PG) 2.40 Long Way North. (2015, PG) 4.10 The Crow’s Egg. (2014, PG, Tamil) 5.50 The Finishers. (2013, PG, French) 7.30 The Way Of The Dragon. (1972, M, Cantonese) 9.25 Game Of Death.

(1978, M, Cantonese) 11.25 Late Programs.

7MATE (63, 73) 6am Morning Programs.

9GO! (53, 93) 6am Children’s Programs.

PEACH (82, 11)

12.30pm Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Aussie Dreamlivers Alaska. 2.00 Travel Mates.

(Premiere) 2.30 Shipping Wars. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Desert Collectors.

6.00 Ultimate Factories. 7.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 3. Fremantle v North Melbourne.

9.00 Mighty Ships. 10.00 Air Crash Investigation.

11.00 Late Programs.

Noon Ironman. Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Series. 2.00 Surfing Australia TV. 2.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.30 Liquid Science. 4.00 Children’s Programs. 4.15 MOVIE: Norm Of The North. (2015, PG) 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 MOVIE: The Lost World: Jurassic Park. (1997, PG) 9.30 MOVIE: R.I.P.D. (2013, M) 11.20 Stunt Science. 12.20am Late Programs.

8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 NBC Today. 12.30pm Creek To Coast. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Sydney Weekender. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.

3.15 Dog Patrol. 3.45 Property Ladder UK. 5.00 Horse Racing. Black Caviar and Apollo Stakes Day. 5.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 Late Programs.

TEN (10)

6am Friends. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 The King Of Queens. 10.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

11.00 Frasier. Noon Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman.

1.00 The Neighborhood. 1.30 The Middle. 2.30 Friends. 6.00 Columbo. 7.30 Kojak. 8.30 Spyforce.

9.30 The Big Bang Theory. 10.30 The Middle.

Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 2 Broke Girls. 4.00 Mom. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 Brady Bunch.

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PRIME7 (6)

NINE (5, 9)

WIN (8)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 The World This Week. (R) 11.00 Compass. (R) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Gardening Australia. (R) 2.35 Australia Remastered. (R) 3.30 The Mix. (R) 4.00 Soccer. W-League. Round 8.

Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar.

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 Travel Man. (PG, R) 3.35 Cycling. Road National Championships.

Women’s Race. Highlights. 4.35 Cycling.

Road National Championships. Men’s Race.

Highlights. 5.35 Secret Nazi Bases. (PG)

6.00 Home Shopping. [SEVEN] NBC Today.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 House Of Wellness. (PG, R) 1.00 Football. AFL Women’s.

Round 3. Richmond v Geelong. 3.00 Football.

AFL Women’s. Round 3. Adelaide v Western Bulldogs. 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

6.00 Easy Eats. (R) Advice on cooking warmer recipes for winter.

7.00 Weekend Today. News, current affairs and sports.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 7.

6am Morning Programs. 8.00 GCBC. (R) 8.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. (PG, R) 9.00 Luca’s Key Ingredient. 9.30 St10.

(PG) 12.00 10 Minute Kitchen. (R) 12.30 Left Off The Map. (R) 1.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 1.30 Three Blue Ducks. (R) 2.00 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 2.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 3.00 Bondi Rescue. (PGal, R) 4.00 To Be Advised.

5.00 News.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

Hosted by Fiona Bruce.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Quoll Farm. The story of a family of quolls.

8.40 Harrow. (Mv) Harrow finds a distraction in one of the most bizarre cases he has ever encountered, the murder of a vampire.

9.30 Silent Witness. (Ma) The team finds a link between the death of a former US ambassador and the apparent suicide of a businessman.

10.35 Killing Eve. (MA15+v, R) Eve finds a lead.

11.15 Wentworth. (MA15+al, R) 12.05 Endeavour. (Final, Mav, R) 1.35 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.10 Wentworth. (MA15+al, R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Diana: Interview That Shocked The World. (M) A look at a candid interview of Princess Diana.

8.50 Princess Anne At 70. (PG, R) Filmed over more than a year, explores the life of Anne, Princess Royal, as she approaches her 70th birthday.

10.05 Filthy Rich And Homeless.

(Mal, R) Part 2 of 3.

11.15 24 Hours In Police Custody: Their Time Will Come. (Mal, R) 12.10 Michael Mosley: Guts. (Ma, R) 1.05 Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick? (PG, R) 2.05 Michael Mosley: Frontline Medicine.

(Mal, R) 4.20 Great British Railway Journeys.

(R) 4.55 Poh & Co. Bitesize. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Holey Moley Australia. (PG) Contestants battle for supremacy on an obstacle-filled supersized mini golf course.

8.30 To Be Advised.

11.00 World’s Deadliest: Twist Of Fate. (PGal) Takes a look at some of the world’s deadliest situations, including a pilot panicking after his engine stalls midair.

12.00 Medical Emergency. (PG, R) A motorbike racer crashes on Phillip Island.

12.30 Home Shopping.

[SEVEN] Medical Emergency. (PG, R) 1.00 [SEVEN] The Guardian. (Madsv, R) 2.00 [SEVEN] Home Shopping. (R) 3.30 [SEVEN] Million Dollar Minute. (R) 4.00 [SEVEN] NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 7. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. (MA15+am, R) After a deadly chemical spill, the ER goes into lockdown, threatening the lives of several patients and leaving one of Med’s own hanging in the balance. Rhodes and Manning must perform lifesaving surgeries.

1.00 Our State On A Plate. (PG, R) A look at the unique local produce that West Australia has to offer.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Take Two. Home shopping.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

6.30 The Sunday Project. Joins panellists for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

Fourteen teams of two people in a pre-existing relationship embark on a journey around Australia.

9.00 FBI: Most Wanted. (Mv) After a rogue militia group opens fire on teenagers who are crossing the Canadian border into the US, the team races to find the ringleader and his final target.

11.00 The Sunday Project. (R) Joins panellists for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

Morning news and talk show.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family In America. 9.30 Enslaved.

10.30 Catalyst. 11.25 Leaving Allen Street. 12.20am You Can’t Ask That. 12.45 Restoration Australia.

1.40 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central. 2.05 News Update. 2.10 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am Morning Programs. 7.00 Basketball. NBA. Suns v 76ers.

9.30 WorldWatch. Noon Untold Australia. 1.00 The Feed. 2.00 Dateline. 2.30 WorldWatch. 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Kings v Hawks. 5.00 Basketball.

NBL. Phoenix v Wildcats. 7.00 Abandoned Places.

(Final) 7.30 The Last Man On Earth. 7.55 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.35 Why Women Kill. 9.30 United Shades Of America. 10.20 Late Programs.

7TWO (62, 72) 6am Home Shopping.

10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 The Thrill Of The Chase. Noon The Yorkshire Vet. 2.15 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes. 3.15 Escape To The Country. 6.15 M*A*S*H. 8.30 Wild Bill. 9.30 Miniseries: Bancroft. (Return) 11.30 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 12.30am To Be Advised. 1.30 ICU. 2.00 Brit Cops. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping.

9GEM (52, 92) 6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 6.30 Amazing Facts Presents. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 In Touch Ministries. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 11.00 Tennis.

Australian Open. Day 7. 6pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 7. 8.00 Death In Paradise. 9.10 Chicago P.D. 10.10 Chicago Fire. 11.05 Late Programs.

BOLD (81, 12) 6am Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Roads Less Travelled. 8.30 ST: Voyager.

9.30 One Strange Rock. 10.30 Escape Fishing.

11.00 Scorpion. 1pm The Doctors. 2.00 Beyond The Fire. 2.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. 3.30 Reel Action. 4.30 What’s Up Down Under. 5.00 iFish Summer. 5.30 ST: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 48 Hours. 11.20 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 11.30

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Jungle Book. Continued. (1942, PG) 7.25 When Marnie Was There. (2014, PG) 9.25 Long Way North. (2015, PG) 10.55 The Finishers. (2013, PG, French) 12.35pm The Crow’s Egg. (2014, PG, Tamil) 2.15 Hotel Salvation. (2016, PG, Hindi) 4.10 Kiki’s Delivery Service. (1989) 6.10 Our Little Sister. (2015, PG, Japanese) 8.30 Loving Pablo. (2017, MA15+) 10.45 Late Programs.

7MATE (63, 73) 6am Morning Programs.

9GO! (53, 93) 6am Children’s Programs.

PEACH (82, 11)

Noon The Fishing Show. 1.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 1.30 Madfin Shark Series. 2.00 Shipping Wars. 3.00 Mighty Ships. 4.00 Graveyard Carz. 5.00 Counting Cars. 6.00 Last Car Garage.

6.30 Border Patrol. 7.00 MOVIE: Thor: The Dark World. (2013, PG) 9.15 MOVIE: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (2014, M) Midnight Late Programs.

Noon Ironman. Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Series. 2.00 Dance Moms. 4.00 MOVIE: Material Girls. (2006, PG) 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 MOVIE: Stargate. (1994, PG) 9.30 MOVIE: Stargate: The Ark Of Truth. (2008, M) 11.30 Lethal Weapon. 1.20am Surfing Australia TV. 1.50 Dance Moms. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon: BW Adventures In Unova And Beyond. 4.50 Late Programs.

Netball. SA Premier League. 12.40pm Hottest 7s In The World. 1.00 Bowls. SA Super League. 1.30 Over The Black Dot. 2.00 Football. CAFL. 3.45 Football. Monsoon AFL. 5.45 African News. 6.00 APTN National News. 6.30 Artefact. 7.30 NITV News Update. 7.40 Going Places With Ernie Dingo.

8.40 MOVIE: Backtrack Boys. (2018, MA15+) 10.30 Intune 08: The Flood Concert. 11.30 Late Programs.

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TEN (10)

6am Fam. 6.30 The Brady Bunch. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Neighbours. 11.30 The Neighborhood. 1pm To Be Advised. 2.00 The Middle. 3.30 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Friends. 10.30 2 Broke Girls.

Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 Mom. 3.30 The Neighborhood. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

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PRIME7 (6)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Landline. (R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Death In Paradise. (PG, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 Al Jazeera News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China. (PGw, R) 2.30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. (PGa, R) 3.00 Singapore 1942: End Of Empire. (PGv, R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Australian Story. Australians tell personal stories.

8.30 Four Corners. Investigative journalism program.

9.15 Media Watch. (PG) Hosted by Paul Barry.

9.35 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill: Endeavour And Australia. (PG) Sam Neill explores Australia.

10.25 You Can’t Ask That. (Mal, R) 10.55 ABC Late News.

11.25 Waltzing The Dragon With Benjamin Law. (Final, PG, R) 12.25 Wentworth. (Malsv, R) 1.10 Parliament Question Time. 2.10 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (Malsv, R) 4.30 The Drum.

(R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

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NINE (5, 9)

WIN (8)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Killing Mommy. (2016, Msv, R) 2.00 What The Killer Did Next: Norma Bell. (Mav, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 8. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. [TEN] The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 [TEN] Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 [TEN] The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG, R) 8.00 [TEN] Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 The Architecture The Railways Built: Broadway.

(PG) Presented by Tim Dunn.

8.30 24 Hours In Emergency: One Of The Family. (M) A woman is brought into St George’s after her car collides with a lamp post on her way home from some hospital treatment.

9.25 The Story Of The Songs: Police And Sting. (M) A look at the music of the band Police.

10.20 SBS World News Late.

10.50 Outlander. (MA15+s, R) 2.00 Cocaine Trade Exposed: The Invisibles.

(Madl, R) 3.45 Great Irish Railway Journeys.

(R) 4.25 Great British Railway Journeys.

(R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGas) 7.30 Holey Moley Australia. (PGl) Contestants tackle a mini golf course.

9.00 9-1-1. (M) The 118 races to save a man under siege by his high-tech smart home and a yoga teacher who has lost her vision.

10.00 The Rookie. (Madv) Nolan finds out his identity has been stolen.

11.00 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught On Camera. (PGa) Stories of devastating natural phenomena.

12.00 Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence: The Double Axe Murderer – Dennis Smalley. (Ma, R) 1.00 Home Shopping.

[SEVEN] The Guardian. (Madsv, R) 2.00 [SEVEN] Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 [SEVEN] NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 8. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. (Mam, R) Ethan and Charles use trickery to help a patient with an itch she cannot help but scratch.

Will and Natalie argue over how to treat a comatose father with a “do not resuscitate” tattoo. Connor goes against orders.

1.00 Our State On A Plate. (PG, R) Stuart heads up to Carnarvon to learn about Western Australia’s flourishing prawn industry.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) Home shopping.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

Hosted by Beau Ryan.

8.40 Hughesy, We Have A Problem. Dave Hughes is joined by celebrities to discuss solutions to problems experienced in modern life.

9.40 The Graham Norton Show. (als, R) Graham Norton chats with Dave Grohl, Rege-Jean Page, Daisy Haggard, Alan Carr and Siobhan McSweeney.

10.40 The Project. (R) 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News.

11.40 [TEN] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 12.30 [TEN] Home Shopping. (R) 12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Quoll Farm. 9.45 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. (Final) 10.35 Escape From The City. 11.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 12.20am Would I Lie To You? 12.50 Parks And Recreation. 1.10 Reno 911! 1.35 W1A. 2.05 Back In Very Small Business. 2.35 News Update. 2.40 Close.

5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Late Programs.

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6am WorldWatch.

11.00 SBS Courtside. 11.30 Basketball. NBA. Denver Nuggets v Los Angeles Lakers. 2pm The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.55 Hunting Hitler. 3.45 WorldWatch.

4.10 This Week. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 Taskmaster. 9.25 RocKwiz. 10.20 Late Programs.

7TWO (62, 72) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30

9GEM (52, 92)

6am TV Shop: Home Shopping. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. 11.00 Tennis.

Australian Open. Day 8. 6pm Tennis. Australian Open. Night 8. 8.00 Grantchester. 9.10 DCI Banks.

11.10 Three Days To Live. (Premiere) 12.05am Live Well For Longer. 1.00 TV Shop. 1.30 Gideon’s Way. 2.30 TV Shop. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop.

BOLD (81, 12) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00

Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.45 MOVIE: The Falcon Takes Over. (1942, PG) Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin.

8.30 Foyle’s War. 10.40 Autopsy USA. 11.50 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.50pm Artefact. 2.50 Bamay. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Red Chef Revival. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 A Woman’s Calling. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 Living Black. 9.00 After The Apology. 10.30 News. 10.40 Late Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Crow’s Egg. Continued. (2014, PG, Tamil) 6.40 Long Way North. (2015, PG) 8.10 Kiki’s Delivery Service.

(1989) 10.10 The Bookshop. (2017, PG) 12.15pm Our Little Sister. (2015, PG, Japanese) 2.35 The Finishers. (2013, PG, French) 4.15 The Little Witch.

(2018, PG, German) 6.10 Hotel Salvation. (2016, PG, Hindi) 8.05 The Pigeon. (2018, M, Turkish) 9.30 The Graduate. (1967, M) 11.30 Late Programs.

7MATE (63, 73) 6am Morning Programs.

9GO! (53, 93) 6am Children’s Programs.

PEACH (82, 11)

10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Last Car Garage.

2.30 Motor Racing. TCR Australia Touring Car Series.

Round 1. Highlights. 3.30 Counting Cars. 4.30 Road Hauks. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers.

7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Restoration Workshop. 8.30 MOVIE: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.

(2016, M) 11.30 Late Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Monster Croc Wrangler. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team.

5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Tennis. Austn Open. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Den Of Thieves. (2018, MA15+) 11.15 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 12.15am Late Programs.

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Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder.

10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. Noon Nash Bridges.

1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami.

3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 To Be Advised. 12.10am Shopping. 2.10 CSI: Miami.

3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Late Programs.

6am Friends. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 The Neighborhood.

9.30 The Big Bang Theory. 11.00 Cheers. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 Late Programs.

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Tuesday, February 16 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NINE (5, 9)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. (R) 11.00 Our Dementia Choir. (PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Call The Midwife. (PG, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 Destination Flavour China.

(R) 2.35 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. (R) 3.10 David Baddiel On The Silk Road. (PG, R) 4.05 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: I’ll Be Watching.

(2018, Mav, R) 2.00 What The Killer Did Next: Kate Prout. (Mav, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 9. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. [TEN] The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 [TEN] Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 [TEN] The Bold And The Beautiful. (R) 8.00 [TEN] Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.10 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. Presented by Leigh Sales.

8.00 Foreign Correspondent.

International affairs program.

8.30 Catalyst: Are We Killing Our Koalas? Professor Tim Flannery investigates how a national icon, the koala, is facing extinction in the near future.

9.30 Australia Remastered: Desert.

Presented by Aaron Pedersen.

10.25 To Be Advised.

10.55 ABC Late News.

11.30 Q+A. (R) 12.35 Wentworth. (Malsv, R) 1.20 Parliament Question Time. 2.20 Rage.

(MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (Malsv, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) Presented by Jennifer Byrne.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (Final, PG) Hosted by Michael Portillo.

8.35 24 Hours In Emergency: Count My Blessings. (M) A 95-year-old is brought to St George’s after falling down a flight of stairs when she lost her balance.

9.30 Dog Tales. (PG, R) Follows scientists as they try to find out what domestication really means for dogs.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 The Pier. (Return, Mlns) 12.00 Borgen. (Mals, R) 4.30 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGav) 7.30 Holey Moley Australia. (PGl) Contestants tackle a mini golf course.

9.00 The Good Doctor. (M) Lim tasks Shaun, Claire and Park with mentoring the top first-year resident contenders.

10.00 The Resident. (Ma) Cain is struck by a car.

11.00 Station 19. (Ma) Ryan organises a ride-along.

12.00 Splitting Up Together. (PGas, R) 12.30 Home Shopping.

[SEVEN] Splitting Up Together. (PGas, R) 1.00 [SEVEN] RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R) 1.30 [SEVEN] RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R) 2.00 [SEVEN] Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 [SEVEN] NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 9. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. (MA15+amv, R) Will and Natalie prepare for their big day, but an unsuspecting Will soon finds himself sidetracked. Daniel disagrees with Sharon on how to best handle a patient’s treatment.

Ethan and April help deliver a baby.

1.00 Our State On A Plate. (PG, R) Stuart Laws visits Blackwood Valley Beef to learn about regenerative farming.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) Home shopping.

5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

Hosted by Beau Ryan.

8.40 NCIS. (Mv) Following a tip about smuggled weapons, Bishop and Torres engage in a shootout in a former sheriff’s residence.

9.40 NCIS: Los Angeles. Sam’s daughter is kidnapped.

10.40 The Project. (R) 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News.

11.40 [TEN] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 12.30 [TEN] Home Shopping. (R) 12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Why Are You Like This. (Premiere) 9.35 To Be Advised. 10.20 Brassic.

(Return) 11.05 To Be Advised. Midnight Live At The Apollo. 12.40 Parks And Recreation. 1.00 Reno 911!

1.30 W1A. 2.00 Back In Very Small Business. 2.35 News Update. 2.40 Close. 5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Inside Heston’s World. 1.00 WorldWatch.

1.30 SBS Courtside. 2.00 Basketball. NBA. Los Angeles Clippers v Miami Heat. 4.30 Lee Lin Chin’s Fashionista. 4.40 WorldWatch. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 Monty Python: The Meaning Of Live. 10.15 Late Programs.

7TWO (62, 72) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Jonathan Creek. 12.30am Late Programs.

9GEM (52, 92) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres.

11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Grantchester.

1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 MOVIE: The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery. (1966) 4.50 Heartbeat. 6.00 Tennis.

Australian Open. Day 9. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow.

7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 To Be Advised. 11.00 Late Programs.

BOLD (81, 12) 6am Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 10.25 CSI: Miami. 11.20 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 2.30pm

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Our Little Sister. Continued. (2015, PG, Japanese) 7.35 Fame.

(2009, PG) 9.50 Hotel Salvation. (2016, PG, Hindi) 11.45 The Little Witch. (2018, PG, German) 1.40pm Kiki’s Delivery Service. (1989) 3.40 Polina. (2016, PG, French) 5.40 The Bookshop. (2017, PG) 7.45 Lost In Armenia. (2015, M, French) 9.30 Chinatown.

(1974, M) 11.55 The Pigeon. (2018, M, Turkish) 1.20am Late Programs.

7MATE (63, 73) 6am Morning Programs.

9GO! (53, 93) 6am Children’s Programs.

PEACH (82, 11)

10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes.

(Premiere) 3.00 Restoration Workshop. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography.

5.00 Pawn Stars. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Outback Opal Hunters. 10.30 Yukon Gold. 11.30 Late Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: The Italian Job. (2003, M) 9.45 MOVIE: The Punisher. (2004, MA15+) 12.10am Quantum Leap. 1.10 Urbex: Enter At Your Own Risk. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Late Programs.

Wild Kai Legends. 3.00 Jarjums. 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style.

5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Red Chef Revival. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News.

7.30 African American: Many Rivers To Cross.

8.30 Superstition. 9.20 NITV News Update. 9.30 Hunting Aotearoa. 10.00 Football. Monsoon AFL. Replay. Midnight Late Programs.

SEVEN (7)

TEN (10)

6am Cheers. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier.

11.00 Cheers. Noon WIN’s All Australian News.

1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Mom. 11.00 Late Programs.

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Wednesday, February 17 SECTION GEELONGINDY.COM.AU ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NINE (5, 9)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Foreign Correspondent.

(R) 10.30 Stan Grant’s One Plus One. (R) 11.00 Quoll Farm. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address.

1.40 Media Watch. (PG, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads.

(PG, R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 Destination Flavour China. (R) 2.35 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam. (PG, R) 3.05 David Baddiel On The Silk Road. (PGa, R) 4.00 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Family Pictures. (2019, Mas, R) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. (PGa, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia. (R)

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 10. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. [TEN] The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 [TEN] Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 [TEN] Bold. (PG, R) 8.00 [TEN] Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 To Be Advised.

2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. Presented by Leigh Sales.

8.00 Hard Quiz. (PG) Presented

by Tom Gleeson.

8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. A satirical news program exposing the humorous, absurd and downright hypocritical.

9.00 Aftertaste. (Mls) Easton and Diana set about cleaning out Jim’s hoard to make room for their restaurant.

9.30 Why Are You Like This.

(MA15+ls, R) Two best friends struggle in life.

10.20 To Be Advised.

11.05 ABC Late News.

11.35 Four Corners. (R) 12.20 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.35 Wentworth.

(Mlv, R) 1.25 Parliament Question Time. 2.25 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (Mlv, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Britain’s Most Historic Towns: Industrial Revolution Manchester. (Final, PG) 8.30 Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime. (PG) A look at Michael Palin’s next series.

9.25 Vikings. (MA15+) Ubbe and the settlers find land.

10.15 SBS World News Late.

10.45 24 Hours In Emergency. (Ma, R) 11.40 MOVIE: Arctic. (2018, Mal, R, Iceland, ) Mads Mikkelsen, María Thelma, Tintrinai Thikhasuk. 1.25 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents. (Mav, R) 2.30 Fourth Estate: The NY Times And Trump. (Malv, R) 3.30 Great British Railway Journeys. (PG, R) 4.45 Destination Flavour Down Under Bitesize. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGav) 7.30 Ambulance: Code Red. (Ma) Follows the work of an ambulance service.

8.30 The Bay. (Malv) As the evidence builds, Lisa discovers the victim had secrets of their own.

10.30 Criminal Confessions: Vanished In The Night. (MA15+alv) Sheriffs launch an investigation into a missing woman.

11.30 Celebrity Obsessed: Bjork. (MA15+alv) 12.30 Home Shopping.

[SEVEN] Code Black. (Ma, R) 1.30 [SEVEN] Harry’s Practice. (R) 2.00 [SEVEN] Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 [SEVEN] NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 10. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. (MA15+amv, R) A shooting outside the hospital injures April and leaves the emergency department shaken up. Charles and Elsa have a confrontation. Will returns after a stint in the witness relocation program.

1.00 Our State On A Plate. (PG, R) Foni highlights an up-and-coming white grape that is perfect for summer.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 Jamie’s Easy Meals For Every Day. Jamie reinvents some family favourites, including jerk chicken, hummus and rocky road.

8.30 Bull. (Ma, R) TAC represents a train engineer with no memory of the fatal crash he allegedly caused. Knowing his client’s missing memory will help the prosecution, Bull searches for jurors inclined against the employer.

10.30 The Project. (R) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

11.30 [TEN] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 12.30 [TEN] Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Quilty: Painting The Shadows. 9.45 Restoration Australia. (Final) 10.40 Enslaved. 11.40 Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family In America. 12.40am Parks And Recreation. 1.05 Reno 911! 1.25 W1A. 2.00 Back In Very Small Business. 2.30 News Update. 2.35 Close.

5.00 The Day Henry Met. 5.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31)

6am WorldWatch.

Noon Basketball. NBA. Phoenix Suns v Philadelphia 76ers. Replay. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island.

2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Only Connect. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Abandoned Engineering. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 MOVIE: Legend. (1985, PG) 10.15 MOVIE: John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A. (1996, M) 12.05am Late Programs.

7TWO (62, 72) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30

9GEM (52, 92)

6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo. 7.30 TV Shop. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon New Tricks.

1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 MOVIE: The Man Upstairs. (1958, PG) 4.50 Heartbeat. 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 10. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 Silent Witness. 12.05am Late Programs.

BOLD (81, 12) 6am Home Shopping.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.50pm Freshwater Dreaming. 2.00 On The Road. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style.

5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Red Chef Revival. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 NITV News Update. 7.30 First Australians. 8.30 Ghosts Of Our Forests. 9.30 Outlier: The Story Of Katherine Johnson. 10.30 News. 10.40 Late Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Little Witch. Continued. (2018, PG, German) 7.15 The Bookshop. (2017, PG) 9.20 Heidi. (2015, PG, German) 11.25 Polina. (2016, PG, French) 1.25pm Asterix And Obelix Vs Caesar. (1999, PG, French) 3.30 Fame. (2009, PG) 5.45 The Assassin. (2015, PG, Mandarin) 7.45 Two Days, One Night. (2014, M, French) 9.30 Amélie. (2001, M, French) 11.45 Late Programs.

7MATE (63, 73) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life.

Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes. 3.00 Shipping Wars. 3.30 Blokesworld.

4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.00 Pawn Stars. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (53, 93) 6am Children’s Programs.

PEACH (82, 11)

We

SEVEN (7)

Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Make It Yours. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries.

8.30 A Touch Of Frost. 10.50 Jonathan Creek.

Midnight Late Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny.

5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera.

8.30 MOVIE: Ghost In The Shell. (2017, M) 10.30 MOVIE: The Purge. (2013, MA15+) 12.10am Late Programs.

TEN (10)

8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 NCIS. 11.15 Late Programs.

6am Cheers. 7.00 Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier.

11.00 Cheers. Noon WIN’s All Australian News.

1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 2 Broke Girls. 11.00 Late Programs.

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Thursday, February 18 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NINE (5, 9)

WIN (8)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Australian Story. (R) 10.30 How Deadly World. (PG) 11.00 Australia Remastered. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 The Heights. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads.

(PG, R) 5.00 Restoration Australia. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Destination Flavour China.

(R) 3.00 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam.

(R) 3.30 David Baddiel On The Silk Road.

(PG, R) 5.05 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.35 Jeopardy! (PG)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Mommy’s Little Angel. (2018, Mav, R) 2.00 Gold Coast Medical. (PGa, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

10.00 Australian Open Tennis Pre-Show. Reviews, previews, interviews, highlights and opinions from the Australian Open at Melbourne Park.

11.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Day 11. From Melbourne Park.

6.00 Headline News. [TEN] The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 [TEN] Judge Judy. (PG, R) 7.30 [TEN] Bold. (PG, R) 8.00 [TEN] Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 To Be Advised.

2.10 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Left Off The Map. 4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

6.55 Sammy J. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Back Roads: Coober Pedy, South Australia. Poh Ling Yeow explores Coober Pedy.

8.30 Q+A. Hosted by Hamish Macdonald.

9.35 The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty: The Comeback.

(Ms, R) Part 3 of 3.

10.35 ABC Late News.

11.05 The Royal Wives Of Windsor. (PG, R) 11.50 Wentworth. (MA15+ad, R) 12.40 Killing Eve. (MA15+v, R) 1.25 Parliament Question Time. 2.25 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (MA15+ad, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 The World’s Greatest Palaces: Peles Castle. (PG) 8.30 Michael Mosley: The Truth About Cosmetic Treatments. (M) Part 2 of 2.

9.30 Cornwall With Simon Reeve. (PG) Part 1 of 2.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 24 Hours In Police Custody. (Malv, R) 11.55 M: The City Hunts A Murderer. (MA15+l, R) 1.45 The Little Drummer Girl. (Malsv, R) 3.30 Inside North Korea’s Dynasty. (PGaw, R) 4.25 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGv) 8.30 Wife Swap Australia. (PGal) A lenient mum of unruly quadruplets and a no-nonsense mum of two highly-disciplined kids swap lives, turning their families upside down.

10.00 Busted In Bangkok. (Mal) Follows Thailand’s tourist police as they deal with tourists from all over the world.

11.00 Gordon Ramsay On Cocaine. (Mdlv, R) Part 2 of 2.

12.00 MOVIE: Breaking The Surface. (1997, Mav, R) A diver recalls his rise to fame. Mario López.

2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 [SEVEN] NBC Today.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Tennis. Australian Open.

Night 11. From Melbourne Park.

12.00 Chicago Med. (Mam, R) Will takes heat for making an unauthorised move to treat a pregnant woman. Ethan becomes personally invested when caring for a homeless veteran. Connor and Ava deal with a patient who needs a transplant.

1.00 Our State On A Plate. (PG, R) Stuart Laws heads to Carnarvon to learn about Western Australia’s world-famous scallops.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. Home shopping.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport, politics, entertainment, fashion, health and lifestyle.

6.00 WIN News.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Ambulance Australia. (Ma, R) After a motorbike rider falls travelling at high speed, his injuries are severe.

8.30 Gogglebox. (Return) TV fanatics open up their living rooms to reveal their reactions to popular and topical TV shows.

9.30 Law & Order: SVU. (Msv) The team investigates when a role-play session on a camming website turns violent.

10.30 This Is Us. The Pearsons navigate family milestones.

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

11.30 [TEN] The Project. (R) 12.30 [TEN] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 [TEN] Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. (Return) 9.35 Hard Quiz. 10.05 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 10.35 You Can’t Ask That.

10.55 Quoll Farm. 11.55 Parks And Recreation.

12.20am Reno 911! 12.40 W1A. 1.15 Back In Very Small Business. 1.40 QI. 2.15 Brassic. 3.00 News Update. 3.05 Close. 5.00 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Basketball. NBA. Denver Nuggets v Los Angeles Lakers. Replay. 2.00 Post Radical. 2.50 Hunting Hitler. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 Lee Lin Chin’s Fashionista. 5.15 NBL: Overtime. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Abandoned Engineering. 7.10 Jeopardy! 7.40 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films. 10.55 Late Programs.

7TWO (62, 72) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 Cold Feet. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown.

8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Andrew Denton’s Interview. 12.30am Late Programs.

9GEM (52, 92) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo. 7.30 TV Shop. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres.

11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon As Time Goes By. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 MOVIE: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. (1974, PG) 4.50 Heartbeat. 6.00 Tennis. Australian Open. Day 11. 7.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Poirot. 9.30 The First 48. 10.30 The Disappearance. 11.30 Late Programs.

BOLD (81, 12) 6am Shopping. 8.00 Star Trek: Enterprise. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 CSI: Miami. 3.00 Bondi Rescue. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 4.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.30 Star Trek: Enterprise. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 9.30 L.A.’s Finest. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.55pm

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Fame.

Continued. (2009, PG) 7.35 Polina. (2016, PG, French) 9.35 Asterix And Obelix Vs Caesar.

(1999, PG, French) 11.40 The Assassin. (2015, PG, Mandarin) 1.40pm April And The Extraordinary World. (2015, PG, French) 3.40 Heidi. (2015, PG, German) 5.45 Romeo And Juliet. (2013, PG) 7.55 Slow West. (2015, M) 9.30 The Godfather: Part II. (1974, MA15+) 1.10am Late Programs.

7MATE (63, 73) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Swamp People. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Wildlife Heroes.

3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.00 Pawn Stars.

5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2. (2011, M) 10.05 MOVIE: 10,000 BC. (2008, M) 12.15am Late Programs.

9GO! (53, 93) 6am Children’s Programs.

PEACH (82, 11)

Anthem Sessions Interstitials. 2.00 Red Earth Uncovered. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked!

3.55 Aussie Bush Tales. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Foreign Flavours. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 NITV News Update. 7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 8.30 MOVIE: Notorious. (2009, MA15+) 10.40 Late Programs.

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11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project. 2.00 Malcolm. 3.00 The Six Million Dollar Man. 4.00 The A-Team. 5.00 The Nanny.

5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: Happy Gilmore. (1996, M) 10.30 MOVIE: EuroTrip. (2004, MA15+) 12.30am Quantum Leap. 1.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Late Programs.

TEN (10)

6am Cheers. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Cheers. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 2.00 Two And A Half Men. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Friends. Midnight Home Shopping.

1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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Explore Central Geelong’s Art Scene To celebrate the much anticipated RONE in Geelong exhibition coming to the Geelong Gallery this month, Central Geelong Marketing thought it was a timely excuse to explore the incredible street art, 3D and augmented reality murals that call Central Geelong home.

Not only does Central Geelong have a variety of galleries and museums, it’s overflowing with exciting street art hidden in the laneways and streets.

But first, if you haven’t already heard, RONE in Geelong is coming to the Geelong Gallery.

Over the past two decades, Geelong-born artist RONE has built an exceptional reputation for large-scale wall paintings and immersive installations that explore concepts of beauty and decay. RONE’s latest site-specific installation will transform Geelong Gallery’s rooms in response to the architecture and history of the building, and the gallery’s collection.

The first comprehensive survey of RONE’s career to date will also be presented, charting the artist’s practice from early stencil works and street art, to photographs documenting major installations that have transformed abandoned spaces.

For tickets and to find out more visit www. geelonggallery.org.au/whats-on/exhibitions/ rone. Love Central Geelong is a proud supporter of the RONE exhibition.

Now, put on your walking shoes and start exploring some of the incredible street art in Central Geelong. Make sure you have your smart phone handy to capture your experience to share using hashtag #LoveCentralGeelong on Instagram.

There are 15 extraordinary artworks throughout Central Geelong: 1. In Wright Place you will find a Botanical beauty piece by Simon ‘Chippa’ Chiovitti.

Left to right: RONE; Chrissy Amphlett by artist Glen Smith; Mountain Girl by artist Laura Alice. (Pictures: Supplied)

2. The Platform Arts laneway off Gheringhap Street is home to the Platform Arts Laneway Gallery mural.

3. In the Civic Centre Car Park (via the Gheringhap Street entrance) you will find the Very Hungry Caterpillar/Storybook Mural by artist Michael Cassar.

4. In the Civic Centre Car Park (via the Lt Malop Street entrance) is the Jungle City Mural

by artist Tina Mose.

5. Head to James Street to experience Mountain Girl by artist Laura Alice.

6. The popular Chrissy Amphlett mural and augmented reality experience is located in McLarty Place. The artist of this mural is Ian Lowe with the augmented reality feature by Pillowfort Creative and Codeacious. Download the Geelong Arts & Culture App to discover

the Augmented Reality feature.

7. In Dennys Place you will find the King Billy and Chrissy Amphlett piece. King Billy Artist: Cam Scale, Chrissy Amphlett Artist: Glen Smith 8. Moi-Yo Miller Mural by artist Michael Cassar can be found on the corner of James Street and Minns Lane. Geelong-born Miller was considered the most beautiful woman in

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9. Located in Shorts Place is the Virtual Reality Family mural by artist Baby Guerilla.

This mural was commissioned by the City of Greater Geelong Public Art Project.

10. Also in Shorts Place, immerse yourself in the 3D Butterfly Wall Mural by artist Scott Jansen. Commissioned by Love Central Geelong.

11. Jay Z & Beyonce mural by artist Danielle Webber can be found at 12-14 Union Street.

12. Also in Union Street, the Union Street Mural.

13. ‘Petit St. Jean’ by artist Michael Cessar is located in the car park at the back of Bistrot St.

Jean (239 Moorabool Street).

14. The Unknown Mariner by artist Cam Scale can be located down the laneway stairs of 65 Brougham Street.

15. Immerse yourself in the giant 3D ‘Geelong Globe’ located on The Carousel at 1 Eastern Beach Road.

So, make a day of it in Central Geelong, whether it’s by visiting the RONE in Geelong exhibition or discovering Central Geelong’s wall art scene.

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MINI BURGERS Ingredients 500g lean beef mince 1 small carrot, grated 1 small red onion, grated 1/2 cup grated cheese 1 zucchini, grated 1 egg, lightly beaten

2 Weetbix, crushed 1 tablespoon tomato sauce 1 tablespoon olive oil Mini burger buns (or 8 slices bread) Lettuce 4 cherry tomatoes, halved

Method 1. Combine mince, carrot, onion, cheese, zucchini, egg, Weetbix and sauce in a bowl. Mix well.

2. Form into small balls and press flat with the palm of your hand.

3. Heat oil in a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Cook burgers for 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until cooked through.

4. Toast buns (optional) and top each with a burger, lettuce, tomato and any other salads you like. Serve.

TIP: Bread slices can be used instead of buns - remove the crusts and cut each piece into 4 squares or use a shape cutter to create circles. *Uncooked burgers can be frozen, roll in flour and place between baking paper sheets to avoid sticking.

Recipe from www.taste.com.au

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Method 1. Using a ratio of 1 part warm water to 1 1/2 parts Plaster of Paris, stir together as much wet chalk as you want in a certain colour.

2. Add paint, squirt by squirt, until you get the shade you want. Keep stirring until the colour is evenly distributed and any lumps have been mashed away.

3. Roll tubes of wax paper to the width you want your chalk at and tape one end closed using masking tape.

4. Spoon wet chalk mixture into a ziplock bag, close it and snip the corner to make a piping bag.

5. Pour the mixture into the prepared wax tubes (add extra tape if you need to) and stand upright in a jar or box to dry.

6. Leave chalk for 24 hours to dry.

7. Undo tape and remove paper on each tube to reveal your chalk stick - and it’s ready to use!

TIP: Toilet paper rolls are great moulds for sidewalk chalk sticks, just line with wax paper.

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Ingredients Plaster of Paris Warm water Tempera or acrylic paint Wax paper Masking tape Small ziplock bags

PUZZLES No. 015

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Lawless crowd (3) Large winged insects (11) Shortens (9) Empty; use up (5) Heavenly bodies (5) Thief (9) Creatures (7) Playground items (7) Gnawers (7) Boils (7) Display (9) Inexpensive (5) Makes level (5) At puberty (9) Carrier (11) Dairy alternative (3)

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Valentine’s Challenge CROSSWORD

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See 13-across (7) A thin sheer fabric (7) Inebriating spirit (7) To inspire with unreasoning love (9) Dressed to the — (5) To produce feelings (5) — in love (4) Social events (6) Fancy date attire (3) Lovers who are meant to be (9) Cane spirit (3) Happenings (6) Expressing feelings (7) Raw fish (7) Snogging (7) Spiritual messenger (5) Holiday transport (5) Dinner preparer (4)

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Affection for another person Teen– Evil Bond character (2,2) — the table for a romantic dinner date

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5 LETTERS APRIL CIVIL DRONE HOOTS PETER SPEND TULIP VEERS

4 LETTERS AGES AIRS DAUB GODS GORE ICES IOTA MIEN MITE NEON OAKS SLED STIR SUCK TILT TREE VINE

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ACROSS: 1. Love, 5. Ager, 6. Dr No, 7. Sets.

DOWN: 1. Lads, 2. Ogre, 3. Vent, 4. Eros.

To solve the Valentine’s Day Sudoku puzzle, every letter from the word LOVEBIRDS must appear in each of the nine vertical columns, each of the nine horizontal rows and each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes. Remember, no letter can occur more than once in any row, column or box.

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Who was Valentine’s Day named after?

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What date is Valentine’s Day held on?

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What is the most popular gift given on Valentine’s Day?

Junior crossword Solve all the clues and an eight-letter phrase will be spelled out.

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What colour represents Valentine’s Day?

6. What does Cupid use to make people fall in love?

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Who declared Valentine’s Day an official holiday in 1537?

8. Who released the album Changes on Valentine’s Day in 2020?

10. What are the most popular flowers given on Valentine’s Day?

WHEEL OF LOVE Can you work out what the missing letter is that spells an eightletter word? It could read either clockwise or anti-clockwise.

ANSWERS: 1. St Valentine 2. February 14 3. Chocolate 4. Aphrodite 5. Red 6. Arrows 7. King Henry VII 8. Justin Bieber 9. William Shakespeare 10. Red roses

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7. Venus 8. Movie (Hidden phrase: True love)

9. The 2011 film Gnomeo and Juliet (pictured) is based on a play by which famous English playwright?

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CHOCOLATE BOX Find all the chocolates hidden in the box.

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A. I love bee-ing with you, honey.

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There may be more than one possible word step answer.

ANSWERS: ROSES, POSES, POSTS, PASTS, PASTY, PARTY

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Qashqai fades to black

By Derek Ogden, Marque Motoring With a completely new Qashqai waiting in the wings, Nissan has come up with something special as a swansong to the present generation of the top-selling crossover vehicle – the Qashqai Midnight Edition.

Selling more than a million units since its introduction in Europe in 2014, the new Qashqai will introduce to the motoring world Nissan’s ePower drive system, which offers full electric drive to the wheels.

A high-output battery and powertrain integrated with the petrol engine, power generator, inverter and a motor, in a conventional hybrid the wheels are driven by electric motor and petrol engine combined.

With ePower, the petrol engine is not connected to the wheels, it simply charges the battery and unlike a full electric vehicle, the power source is the engine, rather than battery only.

However, I digress. While the third generation of the Qashqai is clocking up the kilometres in testing on European roads in preparation for a world launch in the northern spring, Nissan Down Under is maintaining interest in the present model with the addition of the Midnight Edition.

Slotting in between the N-Sport and Ti variants, at $35,900, plus on-road costs, the compact SUV, as the name suggests, takes on dramatic gloss black highlights in contrast to its five body colours.

Standard features offered across the range include Intelligent Key with keyless entry and close, push button ignition, electronic park brake, handsfree phone system, cruise control, manual tilt-and-reach adjustable steering column, 60 / 40 split fold second-row seating, ISOFIX child restraint anchorage points and four rear cargo area luggage hooks.

reversing camera and front and rear parking sensors.

The Midnight Edition also takes advantage of Nissan’s Intelligent Mobility active system, which includes blind spot and lane departure warning, emergency braking, rear cross-traffic alert and Intelligent Driver Alert.

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AT A GLANCE MODEL RANGE Nissan Qashqai 2.0 ST $28,290 Nissan Qashqai 2.0 ST+ automatic $32,290 Nissan Qashqai 2.0 ST-L auto $34,300 Nissan Qashqai 2.0 N-Sport auto $35,000 Nissan Qashqai Midnight Edition auto $35,900 Nissan Qashqai Ti auto $38,790

Note: This pricing does not include government or dealer delivery charges. Contact your local Nissan dealer for drive-away prices.

centre, complemented by body-coloured front and rear bumpers and side mouldings, all with gloss black inserts, roof rails and side mirrors.

Darkened LED headlights with integrated LED turn indicators, 19-inch Black Wind alloy wheels, fitted with unique 225 / 45 low profile tyres complete the Midnight Edition picture.

In contrast to the dark theme, LED headlights, sensing dusk, spring into action and as with the range-topping Ti, Nissan’s adaptive low beam tracks the steering angle, illuminating around corners.

Interior Styling In keeping with the Midnight moniker, the Qashqai pays homage to darkness, with the gloss black signature V-motion grille front and

The cabin lets in some light with illuminated Qashqai kick plates. However, it’s back to black with the interior: brushed black accents across the dashboard and door trims, plus black

headliner and air vents defined in gloss black.

The steering wheel, gearshift knob and stick surround are accented in black, while a similar design is carried by a leather centre console lid. Alcantara and leather accented seats are standard on the Midnight Edition, with the driver and front passenger seats manually adjustable six ways. A two-way lumbar support tops off the lot.

The 60 / 40 split rear seat set-up incorporates a centre armrest, which folds down to provide two extra cup holders.

Infotainment Class-leading audio and connectivity set the standard here with DAB+ digital radio, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, Bluetooth streaming with voice recognition and satellite navigation with traffic tracking.

All are controlled through a 7-inch colour touch-screen display, which sadly at times, because of the angle at which it is set, loses definition through reflection of exterior light.

Engines / transmissions As with all other models in the Qashqai range, the Midnight Edition relies on the carried-over 2-litre direct injection petrol engine, mated with an Xtronic continuously variable automatic transmission with shift and Eco modes.

Safety Standard safety specification includes a 360-degree surround view camera system with

Midnight’s performance on test was par for the Qashqai course. At cruising speed, so long as there was no call for instant response to the accelerator pedal, the car fairly skipped along.

The motor was generally quiet, unless pushed, when there was a resulting rasp.

Unlike some CVTs with an intrusive whine at high revs, the Xtronic acts like a traditional automatic gearbox, stepping through the changes under hard acceleration. It also uses Intelligent Engine Braking to mimic standard shifting to a lower gear to deliver smooth deceleration.

With a maker’s claim of combined urban / highway fuel consumption of 6.9 litres per 100 kilometres the test car a couple of times tipped over 10 litres per 100 kilometres around town, while 6.2 litres per 100 kilometres, popped up on a motorway run.

The ride was on the firm side, a consequence of the low profile tyres on 19-inch rims, but there was plenty of grip and little body roll on bends. However, the car did pick up plenty of road noise and every blemish was noted on uneven surfaces.

The boot capacity of the Qashqai is good, with 430 litres of cargo space. There is a space-saver spare wheel under the boot floor.

Towing capacity is 729 kg unbraked, 1200 kg braked.

Summary It all comes down to a straight choice: sticking with the striking looks but dated technology of the Midnight Edition, or hanging in there for the next-gen Qashqai with the possibility of owning the ePower petrol / electric hybrid option.

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Cats fall to star-studded Demons

By Luke Voogt Paceman Brody Couch’s four-wicket haul and Eamonn Vines’ 90 runs were not enough to get Geelong the victory against reigning premiers Melbourne on Saturday.

Geelong won the toss and sent in the star-studded Melbourne side featuring several Big Bash League players.

The Demons started well with Melbourne Renegades keeper Sam Harper and Blake Thomson putting on 85 for the first wicket.

Leg-spinner Tom O’Connell made the much-needed breakthrough when Harper looped a pull shot to Josh Larkin on the boundary.

Left-arm finger spinner Hayden Butterworth struck next when Melbourne Stars player Seb Gotch attempted a big off-drive on 6.

Couch, who spent a few months on the Renegades squad without playing, bowled Thomson for 74 with the Demons now at 3/145.

Dom McGlinchey snared Renegade Cameron White on 34 (4/195) while fellow paceman Josh Garner dismissed Campbell Kellaway for 5 (5/200).

Couch dismissed Fergus O’Neill caught behind to put the pressure back on the Demons at 6/216.

But Renegade Jack Prestwidge’s run-a-ball 47 helped Melbourne to 239 before he skyed O’Connell to Larkin at deep midwicket.

The Demons made it to 252 before losing their last three wickets for just one run, with Couch picking another two.

O’Connell ran out number 11 Glenn Hannah with a direct hit in the last over, despite having little more than one stump to aim at.

In response, Geelong lost Butterworth early for a duck followed by Josh McDonald for 2, putting the Cats under pressure at 2/7.

Vines and Tom Jackson fought back, getting the Cats to 71 before Jackson was bowled for 26 attempting to reverse sweep South African leg spinner Kyle Williamson.

Vines continued his stand alongside Gus Boyd, who made 44 before Harper stumped him off Williamson (4/176).

Williamson also bowled Vines on 90, just 10 runs short of his second consecutive century with the Cats on 187.

The Cats managed just 26 for the next five

Campbell and Hurrell win at Indigenous surf comp Indigenous surfers gathered on Wadawurrung Country at Urquhart Bluff, Aireys Inlet, for the annual Woorangalook Koori Surfing Titles at the weekend.

The annual tradition has run for more than 20 years and features Indigenous Victorian surfers catching up, competing and sharing stories from the past 12 months.

COVID-19 restrictions meant a slightly modified format for 2021, with the 130 competitors spaced out into smaller groups to ensure minimal contact between competitors.

Surfing Victoria’s Indigenous aquatics manager Jordie Campbell took out the open men’s competition in a field of about a dozen surfers.

“After the year we’ve had, this event means more than ever now,” the Torquay local said.

“It was amazing to catch up with the crew, have a yarn and go for a surf.

“Although the event ran slightly different to normal, the vibe was still the same and everyone was there to have a good time.”

Fellow Torquay local Linley Hurrell won the women’s open championship in her first time at the event.

“I loved every minute of the weekend,” she said. “It really reminded me of being at my nan’s with all of my cousins. I’ll be back every year from now on, for sure.”

The community event includes lessons for beginners, along with heats for more experienced competitors.

Sean O’Neill made his third century on Saturday. (Supplied)

wickets, falling 40 runs short on 213.

Geelong remains in the top eight despite the loss, two games ahead of ninth-placed Ringwood.

The Cats have an excellent chance to rebound tomorrow at home against Camberwell Magpies, who have won only two games this season.

Meanwhile, in the GCA firsts, East Belmont opener Sean O’Neill hit his third century of the season helping his side (205) to a thrilling six-run victory over Newtown-Chilwell (199).

Lara, North Geelong, Highton and Grovedale also picked up wins. North Geelong sits atop the ladder followed by Lara, South Barwon and East Belmont.

In the seconds, Newtown-Chilwell’s Darren Fleet was expensive but impactful, taking 5/59 off nine overs in his side’s eight-wicket win against East Belmont. Highton, North Geelong, Lara and Grovedale also won.

Ladder leader Grovedale is three games ahead of East Belmont, followed by North Geelong and Highton.

In the thirds, Newtown-Chilwell, St Joseph’s, North Geelong, Leopold and Murgheboluc were victorious.

North Geelong leads the ladder, followed by South Barwon, St Joseph’s and Newtown-Chilwell.

Winners Under-6 mixed – Lielea Tuitupa Under-10 girls – Keilisha McIntosh Under-10 boys – Kieran Wellington Under-13 girls – Taylah Rodaugham Under-13 boys – Malakai Miller Under-16 girls – Lenella Collins Under-16 boys – Charlie Carlson Under-18 girls – Trephy Grant Under-18 boys – Neil Miller Open women – Linley Hurrell Open men – Jordie Campbell Over-35 women – Corrina Eccles Over-35 men – Rhys Collins Teams – CFMEU

Main: Jordie Campbell surfs to victory. Above: Harvey Malibirr enjoys the Woorangalook Koori Surfing Titles at Aireys Inlet; Winners Jordie Campbell and Linley Hurrell. (Pictures: Ellie Harrison/Surfing Victoria) 30 GEELONG INDEPENDENT Friday, 12 February, 2021

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Stars cycling in Geelong Australian time trial cycling champion Luke Plapp and world track champion Kelland O’Brien are set to headline a major road race passing through Geelong’s north tomorrow.

The Melbourne to Warrnambool Cyclic Classic leaves Avalon Airport at 7.45am with an official start time of 8am when the peloton reaches Princes Freeway.

Police will enforce a rolling road closure as the peloton travels down the Freeway and along Geelong Ring Road.

Police will close all Geelong-bound lanes on Princess Freeway and south-bound lanes on Geelong Ring Road for the riders, with motorists required to travel behind the peloton or find an alternative route.

Organisers expect the last of the cyclists to exit Geelong Ring Road onto Hamilton Highway by 8.45am.

Plapp, 20, will join the race less than a fortnight after toppling four-time time trial champion Luke Durbridge at the national championships in Ballarat on February 3.

The new Australian champion finished a minute faster than his rival and will join TMX MAKE teammate O’Brien, who finished third

Luke Plapp after his win at the national championships in Ballarat. (Supplied)

in the trials. Both ride for Australia in the team pursuit squad aiming for gold at the Tokyo Olympics in July.

The pair will be under the guidance of Inform sports director Pat Lane for the 267 kilometre race tomorrow.

“We’ve never won it, we had Nathan Elliott with the team, unfortunately he won it before he came to us,” Lane said.

Plapp shapes as the team’s trump card, with

the 20-year-old phenom winning a series of races in recent weeks.

“He’s a really impressive athlete, this is his third year with the team,” said Lane.

“He can drive us nuts at times with doing every little one percenter, that’s the reason he’s so good. The effort he puts in and gets out of himself is so impressive.

“That’s why you see him at 20-years-old winning the elite time trial, it’s great to be part of it.”

But the time trial specialist is used to shorter efforts. The classic is the longest one-day race in Australia and about 67 times the length of Plapp’s event at the Olympics.

“He’s pretty into the road for these two weeks, he likes to take these opportunities, and I’m sure he’ll be desperate to do well,” Lane said.

Teams focusing on Plapp could provide opportunities for TMX MAKE’s other riders, according to Lane.

“Hopefully, they sit around and look at Luke and the other guys can slip away,” said Lane.

“All seven of our guys can win the race, so we have a lot of cards to play there. Kell O’Brien, Mark O’Brien, those guys are also favourites.”

Inner harbour holding plenty of fish ON THE BITE Peri Stavropoulos There are some quality fish showing up around all parts of the bay this week, with pinky snapper dominating the reports from the inner and outer harbour.

The inner harbour has been holding good numbers of fish, tight to the structure from the Yacht Club right through to north shore being the best location. Worm-style plastics, such as gulp turtleback worms, are a safe bet when targeting snapper in these areas and it’s heaps of fun pulling them out of the sticks. There’s also great access for smaller boats, kayaks or if you’re trying to escape the weather.

The outer harbour has also had a few quality fish on the go with Clifton Springs being the current hot spot with snapper to 60cm showing up in reasonable numbers.

Calamari are also still holding in good numbers along the Curlewis bank and towards Portarlington. Over weed beds between 3-4.5 metres is going to be the safest bet in finding squid and, once again, natural-coloured jigs work very well.

Offshore is still giving anglers plenty of options with multiple species biting very well. The tuna are still generating lots of attention and, with plenty of success being had among the boats, trolling skirted lures behind spreader bars remains the most successful technique. Casting stick baits into the schools of fish on the surface has also been producing the goods, with plenty of tuna still being caught. Once again, Maria pop queens are proving the number one slayer.

Kingfish reports are still coming through and showing no sign of easing up with plenty of good captures getting around. Marking fish holding deep and dropping jigs on their heads has been very effective in getting stuck into the action, with depths between 25-50 metres over reef holding plenty of fish.

As well as jigging, dropping live baits and squid strips down should result in plenty of fish also.

The Otway streams have been a fantastic option as of late, allowing you to escape the average weather we have been copping and still get your fishing fix. The Cumberland River has been a popular location for brown trout, casting small shallow-running minnow lures upstream is definitely the way to go and is plenty of fun.

Allan Lamb, Matt Jones, Kathy Hose, Tom Crosbie, Bob Keating and Georgia Cowdery face off in St Mary’s versus Anglesea. (Supplied)

Section six serves up stiff competition Geelong’s section six mixed competition produced some of the most competitive tennis of the round, with all three matches at three sets all and decided on games.

With only four points separating second and fifth on the ladder, finals places are still up for grabs.

The weekend’s results showed just how close the teams are.

First-placed St Mary’s started strong with an early lead against fourth-placed Anglesea, winning the first three sets.

But the ladder leaders were unable to hold onto their advantage, dropping the fourth in a tiebreaker.

Anglesea continued to fight back in the second half of the match, winning the remaining two sets by wide margins.

Ultimately, the day ended with the teams equal on sets and games for a draw.

Following a bye the previous weekend, third-placed Aireys Inlet hit the road to take on second-placed Lara.

“We took the long drive up the highway, hoping for a victory against Lara but we were nervous,” Aireys Inlet’s Melanie Delmo said.

“This was our first weekend back to tennis after a long summer break. The first two sets confirmed how rusty we were.

“Andy [Brown] and I went down 6-1 and so

did Kelly [Turner] and Jason [Stanley] 6-2. It was over before we started.

“The second sets became more interesting.

The Aireys men won 6-3 and Lara pipped us ladies 6-4.

“In the last sets, Aireys got a win in both, 6-4 and 6-3. We’d finally warmed up!”

But Aireys fell just short in the end, tied on sets with Lara winning by three games.

In the final match of the weekend, seventh-placed Grovedale won against Highton by two games.

St Mary’s and Anglesea still have a bye left in the home-and-away season, meaning all of the top five teams are in contention for finals.

Zeph Lamperd with a snapper.

(Supplied)

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