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Denise Russell MEET THE DIRECTOR OF THE FIRST THIRROUL READERS AND WRITERS FESTIVAL

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2515 CONTENTS NEWS 04 Cleaning time Looking after our ocean pools 07 Youth Talent Quest Calling singers and musicians LIFESTYLE 06 Then and Now D.H. Lawrence in Thirroul 08 Cover Feature Festival director Dr Denise Russell 10 Dr Rip How to stay safe on unpatrolled beaches 14 Gardening Romance is blossoming 16 Nature Wild ways of animal lovers 17 Bird of the Month

The rare Eastern Bristlebird 18 Pets Grooming advice BUSINESS 12 Solar specialist Meet Dan Belter 13 Small Business Know thy customers 19 Business Directory Find a local supplier SPORT 22 Tides 23 Austi tops Thunder The Open Women’s Crew is leading their class 24 BMX! Come and Try Day at Southlake Illawarra club

Cover image by Anthony Warry Photography; www.anthonywarry.tumblr.com

MEET OUR CONTRIBUTORS Annelies Voorthuis Dr Rob Brander

– aka ‘Dr Rip’ – is a coastal geomorphologist and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. A resident of Stanwell Park, he’s been studying beaches for 25 years, starting in Canada where water temperatures convinced him come to Australia to do his PhD. He is an international expert on rip currents and runs a beach safety education program called The Science of the Surf (www.scienceofthesurf. com). He wrote Dr Rip’s Essential Beach Book. Read his column on page 10.

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is a passionate horticulturist with nearly 20 years’ experience. Starting as a landscaper, she soon discovered a love for plants and design.

She has managed nurseries around Sydney. While raising four children, she worked and studied subjects such as natural area restoration. Sara now runs Creativescapes, a garden design and maintenance business (0451 196 646, creativescapes@iprimus.com.au).

Read her column on page 14.

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is a business advisor at the Enterprise & Training Company.

Prior to working for ETC, she ran her own business, In2Careers, which provided specialised recruitment services for Aboriginal people. This business won a NSW Health award for its innovation placing Aboriginal people in employment in General Practice. She has also worked for a not-for-profit establishing social enterprises and started her career as a primary school teacher in the Northern Territory. Read her article on page 13.

TIM ROBSON

With more than two decades in the commercial magazine trade behind him, Tim Robson recently made the decision to forsake the Sydney commute and start his own editorial production house called 032Media. With clients like Top Gear Australia, Australian Geographic/Outdoor, Audi Experience and others already on the books, no two days are the same any more! Tim is also a lifelong cyclist, and covers the world of two wheels for 2515. Check out 032media.com

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rock pool cleaning disappointed swimmers sent us shots of empty pools over summer, so we looked into cleaning times.

There are just four people in Wollongong City Council’s rock pool crew and they are responsible for cleaning all nine ocean pools. The crew inspects our pools each Monday morning. ““The crew will examine the pool for seaweed and rubbish, such as dumped bottles and paper litter, and test the water quality,” a council spokesperson said.

“After this inspection, a priority list of maintenance work for the week will be drawn up.

As part of this work schedule, the crew will take into consideration weather, tides and the availability of equipment such as bobcats and large diggers.”

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set schedule – tides and sea conditions dictate cleaning times.

“On average each of the pools are cleaned every three to four weeks,” the spokesperson said.

“However, if there have been big seas that result in, for example, a large dump of sand or seaweed in the pools, they will be cleaned more regularly.

“All of the pools except Woonona, which has a sea pump, are dependent on high tides to refill them after they’ve been cleaned.

“Maintenance of the rock pools is highly skilled work, and each of the crew members are highly qualified to carry out a range of duties including operating heavy machinery like a 20-tonne excavator, scraping oyster shells off the pool floor and sandblasting the pool using a high pressure hose.”

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Full… Wombarra Pool.

alone. That’s excluding funds for more complex works, such as repairing the 80- to 90-year-old twin pools at Austinmer.

After Specialised Marine Services, the contractors paid $500,000 to repair the pools, suddenly went into voluntary liquidation last year, Council hired a local contractor, Affective Ser-

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Empty… Coalcliff Pool on January 8, waiting for high tide to roll in and fill it. Photo: Chaya Bratoeva

vices, to patch up the sea walls for summer. This was successful, but there’s more to come.

“The work at Austinmer rock pool is ongoing,” Council’s spokesperson said. “The rock pools will need to be closed again later in the year to allow the refurbishment of the pools to be completed.” 2515

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Picnic at Loddon Falls on 30th July, 1922. Clockwise from left to right are unidentified driver, Mr and Mrs Marchbanks, Frieda Lawrence, Laura Forrester and D.H. Lawrence.

Photo: Denis Forrester

circa... 1922 Thirroul’s claim to literary fame was a visit by English author D.H. Lawrence in 1922.

Our seaside suburb still has a lively arts community, with the inaugural Thirroul Readers and Writers Festival launching next month on March 7 and 8.

Lawrence stayed at Wyewurk, 3 Craig Street, Thirroul, his home while writing the Australian novel Kangaroo. Instead of focusing on the obvious, the new literary festival will present “A brief history of the sex life of Frieda Lawrence”. The talk – by Joseph Davis, author of D.H. Lawrence at Thirroul (1989) – will be on Sunday, March 8.

Also on display will be a drawing exhibition on the Lawrences in Thirroul.

For a full Readers and Writers Festival program and to book tickets, see thirroulreaders andwritersfestival.org 2515

3 Craig Street, Wyewurk … from left: D.H. Lawrence, Mrs Marchbanks, Frieda Lawrence, Laura and Denis Forrester. Photo: Mr Marchbanks

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talent quest!

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Start warming up your vocal cords – the annual Youth Talent Quest is back. It’s part of next month’s Thirroul Seaside & Arts Festival, with trophies and cash prizes totally $1600 are up for grabs.

There are two categories. Junior Quest is for children under 15 years old (first prize is $300), Senior Quest is for those over 15 and under 21 years old (first prize is $500).

“Last year’s junior winner was an 11-year-old vocal/guitarist who sang Hallelujah,” organiser Julie Rowlands said. “A very accomplished vocalist and extremely confident young lady.

“The senior winner was a 16-year-old young man who did a comedy song with harmonica, which captivated the audience and again the confidence was key.

“We have one young man that enters every year who does a comedy act. He is not the best vocalist or actor, but has that stage presence that the audience respond to. He has won a couple of prizes over the years, including a first prize.”

Julie said the annual event provides an outlet for young talent in the community. “The only ‘tips’ are to have fun, be confident and enjoy the process. The money is just an incentive!” she added.

There are cash prizes for first, second and third places, plus a $100 encouragement prize in each category.

Heats 1 and 2 will be at Ryans Hotel on March 8 and March 15. The all-day final will be on Saturday, March 21 at IGA Beaches Stage, King Street, Thirroul. “The first placegetters in each category are also invited to perform onstage on the Sunday of the festival, which most do,” Julie said.

Youth Talent Quest is put together by volunteers and sponsored by local businesses, such as PRS Partners Chartered Accountants, Beaches Hotel, Ryans Hotel & IGA. The Thirroul Seaside & Arts Festival is a major fundraiser for the Austinmer/Thirroul Lions Club. All monies are donated to the local community. Go to thirroulfestival.com 2515

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Download a Youth Talent Quest entry form at thirroulfestival.com

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festival first!

For our cover photo shoot at Thirroul Library, Dr Denise Russell commandeers a red dog.

“He adds a touch of whimsy,” she insists.

Henceforth, the small plastic pooch is known as “Whimsy” – you may see him one day, bouncing away in the children’s section.

The creative use of Whimsy is an early clue that the director of Thirroul’s first Readers and Writers Festival in March is no staid academic.

Denise has written two non-fiction books, is an avid reader and adventurous traveller.

She’s been snorkelling in a dry suit in Norway, walked Spain’s Camino de Santiago and enjoyed a sound sleep on safari, despite a lion roaring and pacing outside her tent.

She is a philosopher fascinated by people; Denise ditched psychology after one year at Sydney University as then it was “more about flat worms and rats and statistics”. After taking two years off overseas “to recover”, she returned to Sydney to study philosophy to PhD level. “I was at Sydney Uni for 27 years, teaching philosophy,” says the former head of department. “Then I did a masters in geoscience and moved into environmental philosophy.” For the past decade, Denise has been an honorary research fellow at Wollongong University.

Denise lives in a house near Thirroul Beach bought in 1983. In an airy study, packed bookshelves indicate which way she will swing in the “Is the printed book doomed?” debate at next month’s festival. She cites three reasons for basing it in Thirroul. “We have a wonderful new community centre to have it in. And D.H. Lawrence came here, only for a very short time, but he wrote Kangaroo here, so it has got some sort of literary connection.

“And I live here,” she adds, laughing. “So it’s easier for me to organise. “[Thirroul] is a really interesting community, it is quite eclectic. When I first came down here … it was a much older population. A lot of people had worked in the mines, might have

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retired from that, but increasingly it came to be populated by young families and also by artists and writers. Just a real mix of people.”

There are many book lovers (Denise knows of at least four book groups). She had a brainwave last year while reading a novel, Festival by the Sea, by Australian author June Loves. “I thought, my goodness me, we could do that.

“I am working on two other projects at the moment, which could take all my time, but they’re rather sad projects and I wanted to do something which was a bit lighter, more fun.”

Denise has confronted many tough topics during her career, from mental illness to animal testing.“I got involved in the anti-psychiatry movement in the ‘60s and ‘70s … the first book I wrote, in the 1990s, was Women, Madness and Medicine. That drew together ideas that I’d come to through my practical experiences of meeting a hell of a lot of people who had been in psych institutions and their ideas about the problems with them.”

Her second book was Who Rules the Waves?

Piracy, Overfishing and Mining the Oceans (Pluto Press, London, 2010). This also covered undersea discoveries (is finder’s keepers?), the law of the sea, whaling, indigenous sea rights and South-East Asia’s fascinating “sea gypsies”.

Denise is now working on the ethics of the Japanese whaling program in the Southern Ocean. “I had links with the lawyers who took the case for Australia against Japan… That was a great result, however, Japan is going to come back [in 2015] and proposes to kill more whales for their very dubious research.”

“The other sad project is I run a website on the alternatives to using animals in research (lha.uow.edu.au/hsi/research/raat/index. html). I really don’t like thinking about it. But not many people do, so I think it’s important to work in the area.”

Last year, Denise also took on the festival director’s role, using her local knowledge to pull together a diverse program of about 20 speakers. “The focus is local authors,” she says.

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Highlights

Four speakers you must see: NOEL BEDDOE: The author of ‘On Cringila Hill’ will give the opening address and talk about his awardnominated crime novel set in the Wollongong suburb.

SHADY COSGROVE: Author of ‘What the Ground Can’t Hold’. Denise says: “It’s a fascinating study of human relationships in a very tight situation of imminent danger.”

ADRIAN NEWSTEAD: Author of ‘The Dealer is the Devil’, about the Aboriginal art market.

LESLEY HEAD: Author of a book about climate change, ‘Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene’, to be published in November.

The festival will be at Thirroul Community Centre, March 7-8. Go to thirroulreadersandwritersfestival.org.

Next month: The complete Thirroul Readers and Writers Festival Guide!

Thirroul Readers and Writers Festival director Dr Denise Russell, with Whimsy the dog.

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2515 COLUMN

Dr Rip’s Science of the Surf To stay safe in the surf, it’s vital to understand how beaches work, writes Rob Brander.

The tragic drowning of a Helensburgh resident in January is another reminder about the importance of beach safety.

Like most drownings, it occurred on an unpatrolled beach and a large distance away from lifeguarding services. While we preach “swim between the flags”, the reality is that only 4 per cent of Australia’s 11,000 beaches are actually patrolled and many unpatrolled beaches are easily accessible and popular.

People will always swim in the absence of lifeguards. So what is keeping them safe?

Knowledge of beach and surf conditions is huge. The philosophy of my “Science of the Surf” community beach safety program is that the best way to have a safe and fun time at the beach is to understand how they work.

What causes rip currents? What do they look like? Which waves are dangerous? If you choose to swim at an unpatrolled beach, knowledge is absolutely the only safety net you have going for you, aside from luck.

If you don’t have this knowledge, you really shouldn’t be bathing past your waist.

For more info on spotting rips, check out scienceofthesurf.com.

Rarely, however, are popular unpatrolled beaches empty. Bystanders on the beach or in

the water often witness someone in trouble and offer assistance. These may include family or friends of the person in distress or other beachgoers and surfers. We recently did a study at the University of NSW showing that Australian surfers easily rescue as many people as Surf Life Saving Australia services.

However, many bystanders lack surfers’ experience with beach conditions and/or the skills to carry out a proper rescue, therefore placing themselves at risk. Many bystanders who enter the water are already in a heightened state of panic, while the people in trouble are often unaware of the situation. Tragically, this scenario can also end in drowning – of the original victim, the bystander, or both.

Last year bystanders represented 6 per cent of all Australian coastal drowning fatalities.

What would you do if you saw someone in trouble in a rip current on an unpatrolled beach? Would you first try to call 000 or enter the water to help them? What should you do?

There is presently no standard protocol about how bystanders should respond.

While more research needs to be done on bystander rescues, I think it makes sense that if you are going to try and save someone yourself, NEVER ENTER THE WATER WITHOUT A FLOATATION DEVICE. This could be someone’s boogie board, surfboard or even an esky… anything that floats! This gives both the rescuee and rescuer something to hold on to until emergency services arrive.

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Only about 4 per cent of Australia’s 11,000 beaches are patrolled.

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Why choose solar power?

There are lots of reasons for installing solar power to your home or business: it could be to add value to your property, it could be you want to reduce your carbon emissions or to reduce your electricity bill.

Currently batteries are still expensive, but when prices come down batteries can be added to a solar system so you can become independent from the grid or draw power from the batteries at night when the solar system is not producing power.

Is solar just for homes and businesses?

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Who are your customers?

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Gardening with sara This Valentine’s Day, romance is blossoming in Sara Newnham’s backyard.

Flowers are magical.

Whether they are in the garden or in a vase, the more you have, the happier you will feel. That’s why they are a perfect gift on Valentine’s – they not only show you care but they bring joy.

In the Victorian era, flowers were used to communicate. Red roses were a sign of true love and passion. Pink were for grace, white for purity and humility, and yellow for friendship or devotion. Red and white roses together meant unity.

Flowers have different meanings in various cultures and religions. White flowers are used in many cultures for funerals. Lilies are a

traditional European choice, whereas most Chinese funerals feature many yellow chrysanthemums as a sign of respect. Marigolds are used in wedding garlands in some Hindu ceremonies and in Mexico they are bought by the thousands to guide the spirits to altars built for the Day of the Dead celebrations.

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2515 OUTDOORS you joy. Why not grow some in the garden for year-round pleasure? Try a native flower display – these last for months in a vase and, if dried, can last for years. Examples include banksias, flannel flowers, waratahs and grevilleas. Proteas and leucadendron are often used in native mixes, even though they are South African.

Sunflowers brighten the darkest room and are very easy to grow from seed. All they require is rich soil, water and heaps of sun. They take only four to six weeks to grow. Be sure to pick the long stem when they first flower as if you wait too long every cockie in the area will be fighting over the yummy seed.

If you love the look of daisies, try growing feverfew. This herb flowers for months and its blooms will last for weeks when cut.

Lilies are beautiful – please be careful when handling them as most varieties are toxic. In the case of orientals or tiger lilies, if you are displaying them indoors, remove the

pollen-laden stamens with a tissue when the flower opens as the stamens can stain material and even your skin.

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2515 NATURE Photo courtesy of Jurgen Otto. Find more of Jurgen’s incredible spider shots online – follow him on Flickr, Peacock Spider or watch the mating dance on YouTube – search for Peacockspiderman.

Animal lovers Australian Museum naturalist Martyn Robinson introduces us to courtship in nature, where competition is fierce and mating can be deadly.

Strip away the bright colours, seductive songs and wild dancing, and courtship is a supremely practical matter.

“In many species, courtship is simply a means of identifying that you are courting a member of your own species, of the right sex.

It’s as simple as that,” Martyn says.

Mostly it is the males putting themselves out there, taking a risk. Females generally do the choosing, seeking the best for their offspring.

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One of the most colourful and agile displays is by the peacock spider, Australia’s little jumping spider. Amazing footage of the tiny males shaking their colourful booty was first filmed in bushland around Sydney by entomologist Jurgen Otto a few years ago.

“High-energy, long-lasting courtship displays tend to be favoured by the females,” Martyn says.

“Even in humans, even on the dance floors, it’s the flash dancers who are more popular than the ones who decide not to dance and just sit there and watch what’s going on.

“Those little peacock spiders keep it going for ages, and it’s a very spectacular display.

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DEAD SEXY

Life is tough for male redback spiders.

“The male’s first mating is his last mating,” Martyn says. “During the mating the male’s body is positioned directly in front of the female’s jaws, so all she really has to do is lean forward and bite him and that’s it.”

The male St Andrew’s Cross spider (“which I’m sure most of your readers would get in their gardens”) is another likely courtship fatality. “The male goes running around the web tickling the female’s feet... If you count his legs when he first starts up you’ll usually find he’s got eight and if you go back an hour later you may find he’s only got seven or six, or sometimes only four, and by the following day he’s not there any more. The female will actually try to trap the male against her body and wrap him up in silk while he’s mating with her. So she’s a particularly fierce prospect.”

Why? She urgently needs protein to help make eggs. “If she eats that male he doubly contributes to the next generation … and she will keep on attracting males and killing them and eating them, so she doesn’t have to try as hard to catch food. The food comes to her.”

SEDUCED BY SONG

You can tell a lot from a male’s voice. “In the case of frogs, when the males do the singing, the females can tell if it’s a big, strong, healthy male or a little, weak male,” Martyn says.

Bird calls may tell others if the area is

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Or calls can affirm a pair bond. A good example of that is the whip bird. Listen for a whipcrack call, followed by a “choo choo” sound. “That’s the female, and it’s all run together so it sounds like one call. That’s known as a duetting call. It reaffirms the pair bond, but it also lets any other interlopers know that this area is occupied by a pair – you’ve got no chance here, so you’d better keep moving.”

Bird of the month Photo: Jodie Dunn

IT PAYS TO BE SNEAKY

It can be that some guy does all the work, while others have all the luck. “You can get courtships that are subverted somewhat,” Martyn says. For example, a male frog may defend his patch of pondage and do all the calling, while a group of satellite males sit quietly in the bush. “They are not going to make a sound, because he’ll attack them if they do, but when the females show up, they are the ones that hop out first and pretend that they’re the ones who have been doing all the calling, so the female actually meets the wrong male.”

TOUGHING IT OUT

Females like a show of strength. Some lizard and platypus males stake out large territories, chasing away interloping males and mating with the remaining females. “By defending a large territory, it shows that they’re strong males, they are robust and they’ll produce strong, large offspring,” says Martyn.

YOU CAN TAKE IT TOO FAR…

Being too attractive can be fatal.

“Sometimes it’ll lead the males into dead-end alleys … where the males have got their own survival to think about balanced against attracting mates.” Take the peacock, which walks a fine line between growing beautiful feathers and being too heavy to fly. Or bladder or bottle cicadas. “The kids call them pregnant rice bubbles because they are so puffed up. The hollow body acts as a resonator for the sound, so they are about as loud as a bus, but they are only about 5cm long.” Females are relatively normal shaped, whereas the males are virtually flightless. That’s sex appeal at the cost of agility.

Another problem for courting cicadas is their calls may attract peckish birds. So all the males gather together to shriek. “It’s so loud that it’s painful for predators to go into their midst and grab one. You’ll see the birds actually turning their heads away when they get close.” 2515

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By Australian Museum naturalist Martyn Robinson The Eastern Bristlebird, Dasyornis brachypterus, is a bit of an obvious choice for the Illawarra region as the area is one of its few remaining strongholds for the species – but how it will do in the future is anyone’s guess.

The southern populations of this species do best in areas of dense heathland, and woodland with a dense heathy understory, but usually in these areas only if they haven’t been burnt for around 15 years or so! Now fires are more frequent and more intense, which can severely reduce the available habitat for this species.

Interestingly, further north a slightly different population of the species seems to prefer more frequent fires of about 3-6 years, but these northern birds are in a decline and only 35 are thought to remain.

Control burns in and around the areas where the birds live must be done very carefully by NPWS staff to maintain the necessary habitat.

The bird is a medium-sized ground dweller with a long tail and can be mistaken for a rat if only a glimpse is seen.

It nests on or near the ground too, so foxes and feral cats are also a problem. Luckily if you are patient there is a good chance of seeing these unusual birds at Barren Grounds Nature Reserve. 2515

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1. Hair brushing A good brush is a necessity, Long-haired dogs require brushing daily, poodle mix breeds require brushing and combing frequently.

2. BATHING I recommend to bath your dog once a month with a soap-free moisturising shampoo, it prevents the skin from becoming dry. I also use a conditioner.

3. NAIL TRIMMING Most dogs need nail

trimming once a month, depending on the growth rate. Walking your dog on bitumen can help grind them down.

4. HAIRCUTS Dogs are continuously growing hair, mixed poodle breeds or shih tzu need their hair cut every four to eight weeks, they tend to matt quicker.

sibling rivalry It’s not just for human children, writes Philip Comans.

Some of us lucky ones share our homes with more than one dog.

However, without proper management chaos can break out.

Squabbling over food and toys, snapping at each other, even all-out brawls. We call this sibling rivalry, and it’s a very serious problem that requires immediate action.

More common with two female dogs than with a male/female mix at home, the triggers for this issue are numerous. Favouritism of one dog over another, a new dog coming into the home, or perhaps one dog that is entering its senior years are all factors. Even a sick or

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Deb Rogers has four dogs and their favourite spot for a walk is Sharkeys, the offleash beach at Coledale.

5. EAR CARE Your dog’s ears can be a haven for bacteria, routine ear cleaning is essential.

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injured dog can become the focus of unwanted aggression from its housemate.

The solution can include training (of the humans more than the dogs!), separating the dogs either temporarily or permanently, avoiding creating trigger situations (feeding them in different rooms, not giving them toys when they are together, for example) and establishing a clear hierarchy within the family, with humans at the top.

It’s imperative that you know how to communicate with your dogs and show your displeasure at this behaviour. Just as the leader in a dog pack would not allow her subordinates to bicker, you must be quick to do the same.

Many owners don’t know what their dogs are capable of and sadly in very rare cases one much-loved pet kills its housemate, so at the first sign of sibling rivalry you should seek help. But don’t despair: in most cases peace can be restored with the correct management. 2515 Philip Comans is a dog behaviour therapist and trainer with Bark Busters Illawarra & Southern Highlands, 1800 067 710.

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austi tops thunder The Austi surf club’s open women’s crew is leading their class in the Ocean Thunder Pro Surf Boat Series after winning round 3 on january 10.

The Austi rowers – Jack Patison (sweep), Tess Harris (stroke), Morgan Davies (second stroke), Renee Patison (second bow) and Belinda Down (bow) – only have to repeat their sterling on-water performances of late to cement their hold on the series title.

According to Ocean Thunder officials, after round 3 at Dee Why, “Austinmer take a two-point lead over Helensburgh-Stanwell Park in the cumulative series point score.

“The winners of the Don McManus trophy appear certain to come from one of these crews.”

Renee told 2515 that the crew were all feeling quietly confident.

“Touch wood, we’re all good, no injuries.

“The worst we can finish, I think, is third [in the overall point scores].”

She said the relatively new crew combination “works well” together. (Renee and Belinda have rowed together before but Tess and

The Austi crew after their Round 3 win.

Both photos this page: Lindenau Images / www.lindenau.com.au / natalie@lindenau.com.au Morgan came up from the 23s this year.)

She said geography was a tricky obstacle with regards to scheduling boat sessions – “Tess lives in Milton so there’s a bit of juggling to get training in” – but perhaps that worked in the crew’s favour.

“We probably don’t spend as much time in the boat as other crews but it’s quality training.”

Renee said she enjoyed working with her husband, Jack, who was named Australian Surf Sports Coach of the Year in 2014.

“He’s a very relaxed coach; he puts a positive spin on everything.”

The fourth and final round of the 2014/15 season’s Ocean Thunder Pro Surf Boat Series will be held at Dee Why on February 7. 2515

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The Austi open women’s crew gunning for a win in Round 2 of the Ocean Thunder series.

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2515 SPORT

BMX OPEN DAY

Fancy having a crack at BMX? Of course you do. Who wouldn’t?

Tim Robson reports on an awesome initiative at the Southlake Illawarra BMX Club’s home track on February 14.

The Southlake Illawarra BMX Club has a strong junior crew but the Come and Try Day isn’t just for junior riders.

Far left: Home-grown BMX stars (from left in photo) Kai and Saya Sakakibara, and Max Robson in action Left: Kai and Saya Sakakibara will be at the Southlake Illawarra BMX Club Come and Try Day on February 14.

All photos: 032Media/ Tim Robson The Come and Try Day will be held on Saturday, February 14 at the Southlake Illawarra BMX Club’s home track at the Croome Road Sporting Complex in Albion Park.

The track will be opened from 10am to 1pm, and participants will need to bring a bike that’s in good order. The club will have a limited number of full-face helmets and gloves to borrow if you don’t have your own, and riders should wear long sleeves and jeans as a minimum.

The Come and Try Day isn’t just for junior riders – the club has a healthy number of racers who are 30 or older. Southlake Illawarra has

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also traditionally enjoyed a strong presence of female riders.

The club will have coaches, club members and pro riders on hand to show keen riders the ropes. Best of all, the day is free! There’s no need to pre-register; just turn up on the day.

The Club will also open its canteen. You can find out more info at facebook.com/ southlakeillawarrabmx The Southlake Illawarra club is the only one in the area, and its facility is one of NSW’s best.

With transponder timing, tarmac berms and a unique polymer film holding the dirt together, the Croome Road track is home to several National and World Plate holders. 2515

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