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Baw Baw Shire Councillors before the next voted unanimously at last Blackwood said.
Wednesday’s mayoral elections to keep Warragul Ward Councillor Diane Blackwood as mayor in 2012. The council also voted unanimously for Drouin Ward Councillor Tricia Jones to become deputy mayor, replacing Warragul Ward Councillor Tony Wolfe. The special council meeting organised for the event lasted just 10 minutes, with the decisions having been made in a private meeting of councillors on Sunday the 4th.
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Cr Blackwood said the council’s budget is a primary concern for next year.
“We certainly have got a lot of work to do with our budget as a group. We need to come together and debate quite strongly where we’re going to spend the ratepayers’ money and be upfront and serious about informing the community on why and how we’re making our decisions,” Cr Blackwood said.
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Improvements to roads are a high priority in these considerations. “You can’t deny the fact the roads are the most important issue that the community are telling (Cont. Page 2.)
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In addition to electing the leadership team, councillors approved new councillor committee representatives. Cr Blackwood and Cr Kostos will sit on the new Baw Baw Business and Tourism Voice committee. Cr Blackwood told The Warragul Citizen she hopes her next term as mayor will be more stable than the last. “I think that we’re able to probably be a little bit more organised with our councillor group now going forward. I’m hoping that nobody else is planning on retiring any time soon and with the elections next October we will have to go into caretaker mode in September so we only have a short period of time to do some fairly significant things
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better understanding of the bigger picture I will learn more and us about, and we are listening,” Cr council through the position. be able to be a better councillor.” Blackwood said. “I know as mayor and deputy Community engagement was The replacement of the deputy mayor you get to understand raised as an issue in the mayoral mayor without promotion is a things that happen behind the response to the vote, with Cr break from the council’s recent scenes so you have a bit more Blackwood suggesting Warragul tradition of electing the deputy to depth to what’s going on in and Drouin Ward councillors were the mayor position, as has council, and that’s what really “not as active in [their] community happened since the deputy really (sic) interests me,” Cr Jones groups as [they] would like to be.” position was introduced in 2009. said. Cr Jones disagrees. Cr Wolfe said the decision was “I have some understanding, but I “I’m not so sure that I agree with made by the council, but said he is have more of an understanding of that statement in fact. I have a lot “happy not to be involved” with what I don’t know, and so I figure of community involvement… so I the position. the more that I can put myself in don’t feel that I’m not in touch Cr Jones said she hopes to gain a situations where I’m a part of a with my community,” Cr Jones said. TWC
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he Gippsland Local Government Network (GLGN) has used its Victorian State Budget submission to push for improved public transport in the region.
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The submission asks the State Government to consider $224 million in high priority and medium-term rail infrastructure, plus an additional $17 million per annum for operating expenses.
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Public transport improvements are the only funding requests made in the submission. Requested improvements include the duplication of tracks between Bunyip and Longwarry, an additional off-peak Traralgon line service, additional rolling stock to improve present service capacity and a third platform at Traralgon to allow three citybound trains to run each hour in peak periods. In a GLGN media release, Baw Baw Shire Mayor Councillor
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OVES FOR IMPROVED BLIC TRANSPORT Diane Blackwood said that the line Government MP and member for improvements are important for Narracan Gary Blackwood told The the region. Warragul Citizen in an email that “There is a need for more public he will support the submission. transport services and upgrades to meet the needs of a growing and ageing population and to capitalise on economic opportunities,” Cr Blackwood said.
“I will certainly be supporting the GLGN Submission but it will be assessed against a range of criteria including funding availability,” Mr Blackwood said.
“Patronage on the Gippsland corridor has increased by a massive 124.7% in just over 5 years. Without a new train order in next year’s budget, V/Line have projected standing room only on all interurban corridors within the next three years. This could impact on safety, reliability and comfort that will lead to widespread customer and community dissatisfaction.”
“It would not be appropriate for me to pre-empt any detail of the 2012 State Budget. However I can safely say that all of our preelection commitments for the Warragul/Drouin area have been funded in forward estimates and will be delivered.”
Although the GLGN’s Gippsland Regional Plan (2010) states that improved bus, train and ferry services are required in the region, the budget submission only requests money for rail projects.
Mr Blackwood also warned that funding options in the upcoming budget are “severely limited”. A regional economic outlook study conducted by Access Economics found that Gippsland’s transport network is “far less developed” than those of other Victorian regions. The GLGN includes all Gippsland councils. TWC
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STARS “It would be nice to see the other part of the town developed because it’s too congested in the centre and people are going out of town shopping, including myself... And I’ve got lots of friends who have got local businesses here and it’s just a real shame.”
“More infrastructure, more open council, that’s it basically.” ~ Carlo
“I work with young teenagers at risk, and a lot of them are on the streets a lot and there doesn’t seem to be a lot for them to do in town that they are interested in, so I would like to see things for young people, young teenagers to do to get them out of trouble.” ~ Annie
“I’d like to see the end of the Old Butter Factory in Queen Street.” ~ Joe
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Warragul boy wins Warragul Citizen award for go-karting launches new Warragul go-kart racer Troy regular news Alger has taken out this month’s junior Gippstar award website for his racing achievements. The Warragul Citizen’s newly The 12-year-old Mr Alger won redesigned news website is the bankmecu November now delivering regular local junior Gippstar award for his news, current affairs, opinion, first place at the Rookies creative and community articles Australasian kart titles and for around the clock. his solid results throughout The new website also allows for the year. Mr Alger also finished second overall in the Golden Power series Rookies class and second in the Bairnsdale open Rookies class.
Under the ‘Bogan’ Tree December 2011
An opinion piece by Fabian protected in, when so many Australian citizens are, from my Cannizzo. Tattered jeans, unclean, experience, racist Bogans?” (The flannelette and obscene, Warragul Citizen, Issue 1, ‘Ideas overtanned mucho man. Fingers from the Coffee Mug: Racism’ – June 10, 2011). Though Mr Hadley’s point – the Bogan. question directs attention towards There is something curious the injustice of racial bigotry, it gnashing beneath popular culture risks another kind of prejudice – in Australia. TWC Columnist that of simplifying the problem. Jackson Hadley asked “why is Australia seen as a country that Racism is not simply a matter of the others can move to and be ‘racists’ versus the rest, but is more complex. Racism has been built on
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The Warragul Citizen has also Mr Alger aspires to drive V8 introduced a local Web TV Supercars or in Formula One, platform called TWC TV. and gave a kart demonstration Anyone is welcome to produce The Gippstar awards are run any kind of programming, and by the Gippsland Sports The Warragul Citizen can help with casting and crew calls. Academy. at Sandown earlier this year.
The annual winner of the You can access The Warragul Gippstar awards will be Citizen’s website at: www.warragulcitizen.com announced next year. TWC
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December 2011 a culture of simplification – of a line drawn between ‘us’ and ‘them’, which is entirely unjustified. However, Jackson’s demand that “all racists should get out of MY country” risks the same vilification that racists use against, so-called, ‘non-Australians’. It is not simply enough to acknowledge racism and distance ourselves from its effects. A history of refusing to engage in the hardships facing Aborigines in Australia – and other countries – has bred a culture of uncertainty, fear and resentment. Unlike Kevin Rudd’s official apology to the Stolen Generation, a supportive speech given by Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson was met with protests, calls of “shame!” and people walking out. There was clearly a lot of fear towards acknowledging the wrongdoing of past Australians and the responsibility of present Australians towards their Indigenous counterparts. However, it would be rash and insensitive to suggest that this sense of fear, or caution, was an ‘Australia-wide’ phenomenon. Nor is it helpful to simply vilify those who were at odds with the actions of the former Prime Minister.
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which some individuals are labelled as scapegoats to bear the blame for the hardship of others. For some, racism is a mechanism for coping with emotional stress. For others, racism is a tool to gain political favour and better or protect their economic status. For yet others, racism becomes part of their identity, where the most offensive forms of racism are experienced. However what all these strains of racial prejudice have in common is that they blame their condition on someone else, by reducing sentient beings to a pejorative term. Let us not do the same! If racism operates through labelling others as somehow ‘different,’ less than human or less worthy, then applying the same methods to racism will only mask its very unique causes by herding them under the ‘Bogan’ tree. This will assure the resurgence of racist sentiments when economic and political conflicts resurface. Meanwhile, the social systems which harbour racist ideologies will go unchecked. Whatever the path to managing racism in Australia, it is clear that we must acknowledge the complexity of the issue and not simply cast off racists as unAustralian.
Racism does not occur randomly. Let us not be ignorant of those we Its emergence is related to real perceive to be ignorant, for economic and political struggles, in ignorance will multiply. TWC
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Community Groups Baw Baw L2P is an initiative of VicRoads and funded by TAC. The L2P program has been up and running in the Baw Baw Shire since July 2009 and is coordinated by Beth Carr (well it would have to be with her surname!). It gives young Learner drivers aged 16-21 the opportunity to have additional driving time. Lots of young people just don't have the cars, family or are not in the right situation to get the 120 hours required to get their ‘P’ plates. People from our community volunteer to help and L2P is looking for more volunteers to run sessions in February. They must have a police check and Working With Children Check and supply referees. Volunteers then undertake 10 hours of training before being matched to and meeting the learners.
The learners gain hours of driving time, learn to communicate and share with people who start out as strangers, and become more confidant with their driving skill levels. Thanking the Mentors becomes automatic! L2P wants our young drivers to be safe. Beth is happy to talk to potential L2P learners and volunteers seeking more information. She is based at Warragul Community House at 138 Normanby St Warragul.
Leading Notes Youth Choir Leading Notes Youth Choir Inc. is a choir open to young singers between 9 and 21 years of age. We are an inclusive non-auditioned choir and attract singers from within the Baw Baw Shire area. We currently rehearse on a Wednesday night from 6pm to 7.15 and regularly perform for our community in concerts, at Aged Care Facilities, Eisteddfods, Carols By Candlelight in Drouin, and we recently performed with Dr Jonathon Welch AM and the highly acclaimed Choir of Hope and Inspiration at the West Gippsland Arts Centre for two sell-out concerts. We sing a range of music including folk, jazz, classical, world, pop and sometimes music from the musicals. Singing with Leading Notes
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Youth Choir will help boost your musical skills and self-confidence. It will teach you aspects of teamwork, respect and motivation and will be a positive social experience. According to Todd Estabrook, Chairman of Chorus America, “Simply put, if your’re searching for a group of talented, engaged, and generous community members, you would do well to start with a choir”. To contact us, phone Lynn Jones (Musical Director) on 56221113, or for more details, go to leadingnotesyouthchoir.com.au.
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By Aimee Richer. Metal reviews with Joshua Bulleid
Best Metal Albums Of 2011 20. Between The Buried And Me – Parallax: The Hyper Sleep Dialogues 19. Septic Flesh – The Great Mass 18. Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination 17. Exhumed – All Guts, No Glory 16. Elm Street – Barbed Wire Metal 15. The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual 14. Wolves In the Thorne Room – Celestial Lineage 13. A Million Dead Birds Laughing – Force Fed Enlightenment 12. Pagan’s Mind – Heavenly Ecstasy 11. Krisiun – The Great Execution 10. Symphony X - Iconoclast 9. Truth Corroded – Worship The Bled 8. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony 7. Decapitated – Carnival Is Forever 6. Origin - Entity
bowl. Add the cream corn and mash.
Ingredients: Medium zucchini, grated. One tin of cream corn. ½ cup plain flour. ½ cup self raising flour. 1 tsp ground cumin. ½ tsp turmeric. 1 whole egg. 1 lightly beaten egg white. 2 tbsp oil. Tzatziki.
3. Sift together the flour and spices and add to the zucchini. Add the egg and mix to a stiff batter. Leave to sit for 20 minutes.
Directions: 1. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil. Add zucchini and bring back to boil. Cook for 6 minutes.
4. Heat oil in the frying pan over medium heat. Cook 2 heaped tablespoons of the mixture for 3-4 minutes each side or until golden brown and cooked through. Transfer to a plate with paper towel. Serve warm fritters with tzatziki.
5. Protest The Hero - Scurrilous 4. Vomitory – Opus Mortis VIII 3. Hate Eternal – Phoenix Amongst The Ashes 2. Machine Head – Unto The Locust 1. In Malice’s Wake – The Thrashening Check out Josh’s own band Karnage at Facebook.com/KarnageMetal and expanded reviews at deprofundismetalreview.blogspot.com. Skeleton mixes and two stunning ambient tracks: Skeleton (6-Track Single) Beauty Into Filth and The Apex. He Dreamt Of Ascension All-embracing Beauty Into Filth is a Reviewed by William Kulich motif-driven piece which carries the same feel as the title track. keleton is the first single from The All-embracing Apex is the standMissouri one-man-band He out of the B-sides. Hidden at the end Dreamt Of Ascension (HDOA), and is of the single it is like a cross between as interesting for its B-sides as it is for NASA’s Symphonies of the Planets and the B-sides from Radiohead’s the title track. Skeleton is a disjointed-yet-musical Amnesiac. This track demonstrates just rock song that somehow manages to how well HDOA blends wonderfully successfully evoke the feel of a controlled ambient music with Doctor skeleton walking. The song delves into Popular-like lead instrumentation. the listener’s hidden past, playing with The single is streaming on HDOA’s the idea of the skeleton of an umbrella website, with the option of a payin your mind hiding your secrets from what-you-think download of individual tracks or the entire single. the world. The Ungrateful mix of Skeleton is a www.hedreamtofascension.com. dance remix which digs up outtakes Direct link to the single: goo.gl/2sgHj from the original track. This revived content sometimes sounds like a mix of The Mighty Boosh and The Cure. The mix is not as musical as the original, but has a catchy rhythm that leaves you hanging on every beat. The remaining four tracks are two radio edits of the
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What Colour is Red? By Joan
Red is delicious when Strawberries I eat, The warmth I feel when I’m warming my feet. Fletcher. As I gaze at the flickering Red is as heavy, and as deep as flames in the grate the sea. and wonder at the blessings Red is excitement that surges bestowed on my plate. in me Rises and falls like the blood in The love in my heart if I’m my veins, given a treat. When I’m full of Arthritis, and When suddenly meeting a feeling the pains. friend on the street. When the rug on my bed is encircling me and a nightingale happily sings from a tree. The flame of a candle when dark is the night. The heartbeat of birds when hurried in flight. The pain you feel when taking a fall. Love is red, like anger or gall. More poetry overleaf...
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Lion gazed into her face, The Lion of Rothenburg The But could not see a thing. Part One of a poem by Ross Uren. His vision fogged, saw only hate, The Sun was rising in the sky, And not his wedding ring. He turned and walked, and knew full well, And darkness ran to hide. He would not return as king. The birds began to sing aloud On a kingdom vast and wide. They marched for many days and more, The Lion stirred to see his mate, Through forests, swamps and fields. The Lioness, beside. The soldiers’ oath, to follow the king; Upon their dying breath to yield. A placid day, yet something odd They’d follow him to Hell and back, About it, not the same. And then Hell was revealed. The Lion rose to search his realm, But saw nothing strange to blame. Until his eyes met with the West, To a shire alight in flame. The Lion acted without pause, And gathered up his men. They hunted through the iron gates, But too late they came, and then The Lion turned to face his troops, “The war must start again.” The time had come to seek revenge, The masses wanted none. The Lion called into the crowds, “Farewell to your loved ones.” With that, he left, with hundreds more,
With fathers and their sons. The Lion’s wife, The Lioness, Approached her erstwhile mate. She demanded that he stay with her, Because she would not wait. “Be here, with me. And see, as I, That war cannot create.”
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SHORT STORIES left anything to the My Way Home Is barely imagination and rosy red lips that could only be the product of a tube of Paved With Red lipstick. She was reading a battered copy of Lord of the Flies and every so Lipstick
often her lips would twitch upwards By Isabel Grant. She said to meet at the local cafe at making a small smile. quarter to three. I considered it a “2:47, record time” she pulled her red challenge she had so efficiently set lips to a smirk and indicated with a up: be early, too eager; be on time, nod of her head for me to take the The smoke rose through the morning anal retentive; be late, typical male. I seat opposite hers “You almost decided to go for the third option. I convinced me. But I saw you skulking mist, exited the grocery opposite the cafe around the grocery since half past And up into the sky. where I had been killing time at two” she took off her sunglasses and This forest held the enemy, exactly 2:45 pm so that after I cross revealed grass-on-honey eyes and Awaiting their reply. the road and scan the crowd for a winked at me. I felt my face get hot The Lion rose to give one rule; familiar head of long dark waves, I’d and hoped she would attribute it to “Leave no-one left alive.” And in those woods, so green and lush, have won her game of ‘who cares the weather. less’. The air would fill with rage. “How’s the city treating you?” I finally As creatures turned to brutes and fiends, The sun beat down on the exposed got around to asking after the barista, Integrity was caged. skin on my forearms and nape. I who I recognised as a student of The swords were drawn, the spears squinted through dark sunglasses to mine, set down a pair of steaming were placed, find her through the after-lunch mugs. She spooned a generous And flags and shields were raised. crowd of teenagers and single amount of sugar and cream into her The horns were blown and mortals mothers. And there she was: a straw cup of coffee and I felt myself hat perched on her long hair, involuntarily wince. After a moment charged. sunglasses sliding down the bridge of of cautious sipping, wiping lipstick off And then began the fray. The sky was lost to clouds and fear, her nose, a thin sheer sundress that the mug’s rim and toying with her hat And colour turned to grey. The Sun could bear no witness here, Get your poem or short story in print! The Warragul Citizen accepts work from anyone and writers are Distraught, he left the day. welcome to include a two-sentence bio and a web link. [Part Two will be in Issue 4 of TWC] Head to http://goo.gl/pVKUg to submit!
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she cleared her throat and, for once, looked like run out of things to say and it never failed to When I left the girl with the red lips and an amuse me. But today, of all days, she was at a ocean of brown hair that afternoon, I left a part she didn’t know what to say. of myself with her. Tucked within the pages of She had been a student of mine a few years ago; loss for words. loud, bubbly, outspoken and ever so eloquent. “It’s great,” she paused and drank her coffee for a mutual favourite book and lost within her soft Her English papers were of a high quality and a few minutes before continuing “I find myself hazel eyes was a youthful memory that stays only with her and a side of myself that only she regularly sought ‘help’ after class. Some of missing you.” the staff would remark that she had a crush on I quickly drank the rest of my coffee and heard exists when the corners of her red lips find their me and I pretended to not know. For all the my phone chirp. “Sorry, it’s my,” I sighed deeply way into a smile. TWC years I’ve taught and known her, she has never before finishing “wife. It’s my wife.”
Between the newspapers, TV reports and ads it’s easy to see why so many people are against the carbon tax. But the problem with the media coverage of the tax is the selective presentation of information. One ad claims that we will pay $17 billion worth of tax within the first six years, yet fails to mention that this is the best economic option – a tax that goes back to the people in the form of compensation. The alternative is paying similar billions worth of penalty payments to overseas jurisdictions. Another question we all seem to be asking is ‘will the carbon tax actually do anything?’ If you had heard Andrew Bolt interview Tim Flannery you would think the answer is ‘nothing.’ Bolt asked Flannery if global temperatures were likely to drop with the introduction of a carbon tax and subsequent cut of emissions, to which Flannery replied that they were not likely to drop for a thousand years.
This is an exciting time of year where so much is going on for people of all ages. For the younger ones Christmas is drawing closer and it is time to start writing letters to Santa, for the older ones it can be stressful and many hate dealing with seeing relatives and buying gifts. Then there are the inbetweeners. No I don't mean the television show, I mean the young adults and teenagers. We don't believe in Santa and most of us don't believe in having responsibilities, so what do we do this time of year? Thousands of students across the state finished High School forever last month, and many are either attending schoolies or partying every day. December is young people's party season. With many looking forward to New Year's Eve and enjoying not having to go to school, looking further into the future than is best saved for 2012.
December, I think, is the time of year for the class of '11 to work out where they stand in the world. Many of us are going to So that means that the carbon tax is useless, right? Wrong. The University next year, many are taking time off and going to Uni in a media covered Flannery’s answer as proof that the carbon tax is a later year, and even more are working and earning money. I truly waste of our time and money when the wrong question was asked. hope that everybody who has recently finished school, and At this stage we need to stop temperatures from rising. Whether or everyone else, can find their way. I found that after school was not they drop will remain to be seen, but that is irrelevant to our finished it took a lot of getting used to. It wasn't all fun and games; I current cause. That’s like asking ‘Will the car go into reverse if I put found myself feeling lonely having not seen my friends every day as the brakes on?’ No, you don’t want it to go in reverse. You just want I have been used to for the past thirteen years, and the lack of to stop the speeding car. routine was quietly disconcerting. After that big initial shift we get We all seem to forget that our cities were built on taxes. Because of used to it though; we value our friendships more and want them to last through our lives, no matter how far we travel, and we hope to taxes we have sanitation and roads – the foundations of a city that we now take for granted. The carbon tax will provide the foundation make more once we leave the nest and explore. Time we do spend with our friends is savoured and planned so that we have the most for a chance at a future. The media needs to cover that angle. fun possible. To get a better understanding of the carbon tax go to sites such as www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au and www.carbontax.net.au before I truly am grateful for the internet in this adjustment period; when friends are tied up with work or live far away, I can still converse you believe what the media tells you. TWC with them all, face-to-face or just textually. I can't help but wonder what it would be like before the internet, would we simply talk to our friends less or would we make more effort to make memories with them? I know I am going to make all the memories I can with those people that I like; getting lost in the city, sitting around a campfire and searching op-shops for big fluffy jumpers with your friends are the things you'll remember years from now. “Remember that day...” kinds of stories. I don't want to look back on my teenage years and remember a blur of intoxication, I want to be able to have a multitude of real stories, both sweet and humorous, of things I got up to with my chums. I propose you all do the same and take the time away from work to go to your friend’s house with a board game, organise to go to the beach together or simply watch bad television together. The internet is good for keeping in touch, but it can't sustain a friendship on its own. It may sound corny but sober times spent are good times indeed. You can always get your party on, just make sure you have good friends to party with. TWC
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The BOREDOM FILLER ! Cryptic Crossword #2 Samuel Killingsworth by
ACROSS CLUES: 1 Explain march (11) 8 Born with endless need (3) 9 Nipple like opal piles (9) 10 Region of last one (4) 12 I hear you smell of urine (4) 13 “Fearless”, I printed uncertainly (8) 15 Winning Alan without ceremony (8) 16 Slip forms a speech impediment (4) 17 Sounds like you were beaten with a trick (4) 20 Talk fluently in illegal den (9) 22 Pull gut back (3) 23 A docile aunt could teach you (11)
DOWN CLUES: 2 Scamper and hide age (3) 3 Stew fifty-one in book centre (4) 4 Element of bad line muse (8) 5 Pause for the players act last (4) 6 Finish or acid level in neurotransmitter (9) 7 Inspired yet confused by the faculty of good fortune (11) 9 I rue typical rogue characteristic (11) 11 Rifle page to find loot (9) 14 Patient tin plate rave (8) 18 A long film in the pictures (4) 19 The star is in a higher order (4) 21 Resort to shoot principal antagonist first (3)
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COMMUNITY RADIO GUIDE
Weekday programming only. Schedules may change due to unforeseen circumstances. (Weekend guide at www.3bbrfm.org.au)
West Gippsland Community Radio - 103.1 3BBR FM 7am – 6pm 6pm – 8pm 8pm – 10pm
10pm – 12am
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY The Sounds of West Gippsland (Includes News, Weather and Community Programs.)
Sweet Soul Music / Music Café* The Catch Up / The Herbie J Show* Night Sounds of West Gippsland
12am – 7am
Geof’s Country Night Sounds of West Gippsland/Classic Rock Corner*
Move’n Groove / Sam’s Alternatives* Prog Spectrum / Wednesday Night Live*
Night Sounds of West Night Sounds of West Gippsland Gippsland Night Sounds of West Gippsland
FRIDAY
Turn Up Your Radio / All Stars Jazz Festival*
Soul Connection
Night Sounds of West Gippsland /Trad Jazz@Oak Street*
The Dance of Life
Play It One More Time
Night Sounds of West Gippsland
*Shows alternate every month or every fortnight. For fortnightly shows, the show listed first is on the first week of the month. Vision Australia Radio (Warragul) – 93.5 FM (RL) = Repeated Later (R) = Repeat Weekend guide at www.visionaustralia.org.au)
MONDAY
6am 6.30 7.30 8am 8.55 9am 9.05 10am 10.05 10.30 11am 11.05 12pm 12.10 12.50 1pm 1.05
2pm 2.05 3pm 3.05 3.30
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Insight for Living Eye Opener with Robyn Winslow: early news, TV highlights, newspaper previews and special features The Age News Movement to Music News The Herald Sun News The Herald Sun (continued) A Morning Conversation (RL)
Hear This (RL)
News The Australian The World: News Round-Up The Australian Financial Review Stock Market Report News Letters to the Editor: from Gippsland newspapers
Warragul and Drouin Gazette/Trader
Pakenham and Berwick Gazette
South Gippsland Sentinel Times
The Weekly Times: Gippsland news
News Afternoon Live: Short Story at 2.05 and Horoscopes at 2.50 News Bits and Bytes Time of Your Life (RL)
Latrobe Valley Express
Wednesday Feature(RL) Talking Vision
West Gippsland History
Talking to Gippsland Philip Island and San Remo Advertiser
Today in Focus with Arthur Higgins: includes Community Spotlight with Stock Market report at 5.50 4pm Vic News 6pm Today in Focus: (continued) sport and special features The AFL Show 6.15 Opinion Hour: Letters to the Editor from The Age and Herald Sun 7pm Music World Get About Age Green Guide Travel (RL) 8pm Talking Law: includes ‘Rumpole’ reading Health 8.15 New Horizons Consumer Talk 8.30 Planes, Trains & Automobiles The Uncertainty 8.30 Don’t Hold Back The World Around 9pm Behind the Scenes(RL) Principle Us As it Happened... Education 9.30 Book at Bedtime 10pm People of Note The Entertainers People of Note 10.30 A Morning Conversation (R) The Funny Side (R) 11pm Money,Money,Money(R) Wednesday Feature (R) Hear This (R) Time of Your Life (R) Hear This (R) 11.30 BBC World Service (until 6am) 12am
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