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School’s back

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Nurses and midwives hold grave concerns for safe patient care in Wyong Hospital’s new Block H building, after serious staffing shortfalls were not addressed.

See page 5

Out&About

A group of Central Coast women have come together to knit for climate action, crafting scarves.

See page 26

Education

Students from across the Coast have returned to face-to-face learning from October 18 after spending term three learning from home.

See page 29 Students returning to Tuggerah Public School

Future Sooner fights power station’s licence to pollute Environmental group, Future Sooner, is campaigning to have nitrogen oxide emissions halved at Vales Point Power Station, which it says is “one of the region’s dirtiest power stations” and putting children’s health at risk.

Spokesperson, Will Belford, said Future Sooner had collated data from 2019 and 2020 about children presenting to emergency departments with respiratory illnesses at the region’s five main hospitals – Wyong, Gosford, Belmont and John Hunter.

He said the data showed that 2,954 children presented with

Vales Point Power Station at Mannering Park

asthma and related conditions between January 2019 and December 2020.

“A study in January this year

by epidemiologist, Dr Ewald, found nitrogen (NO2) emissions from fired power stations

Ben oxide coalwere

responsible for up to five per cent of asthma cases in children on the Central Coast and six per cent in Lake

Macquarie,” Belford said.

“It’s not possible to say how many of the almost 3,000 emergency department presentations can be attributed to coal-fired power station emission, but they clearly play a role.

“The frustrating thing is that a number of these children would never have become ill if power stations had installed filters to stop NO2 emissions.”

The Future Sooner emergency department research data shows that at Wyong Hospital in 2019 there were 275 children presenting with asthma or respiratory illness, and 242 in 2020.

Continued page 10

Bateau Bay resident and teacher at Central Coast Community College, Erin Jacob, has been named Vocational Education Teacher of the Year at the 2021 Annual NSW Training Awards.

See page 27

Sport

On Saturday, October 23, the Central Coast Mariners played their opening pre-season match against the Western Sydney Wanderers at Wanderers Football Park, falling behind in the heat by 2-0.

See page 31

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First taste of freedom

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Over 1,500 local residents have signed a petition to voice their objection to Central Coast Council’s proposal to increase the foreshore building height at Ettalong Beach.

The Pearl Beach Progress Association is running a fundraiser throughout the month of October to help generate funds for the upkeep of the Memorial Hall.

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Business

The Central Coast is the only NSW location on the Top 100 list, and one of only five in Australia,alongside Bundaberg, Margaret River, Port Douglas/ Daintree and Townsville.

It’s a competition led by Green Destinations, which collects Good Practice Stories from all around the world to inspire travellers and tourism professionals, and then to

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shine the spotlight on the top 100 locations which are making promising progress toward a more sustainable tourism industry.

Emma Perham, of Destination Central Coast, said this was a wonderful accolade for the Central Coast and something everyone should be incredibly proud of.

“This good news story will lift spirits and help industry focus on the future, especially moving into recovery after COVID,” she said.

“Sustainable tourism is not a fleeting trend and eco-tourism values are becoming more important in shaping how

people decide to travel.

“This recognition just helps us to attract the kind of visitors we want to draw to the Coast, people who want to immerse themselves in the local culture and are more mindful of their environmental footprint.

“We’ve got such depth of tourism product and experience here on the Coast … a lot of people just think about beaches and national parks, they don’t realise we’ve got this beautiful hinterland, so many great operators, the food and beverage scene, so many great experiences, there’s so much more to discover than what people realise.

“We’re sending the message to everyone that if that’s your type of business, come here to set up or relocate and grow your business, you’ll be more visible and you’ll be among like-minded people in complementary endeavours.

“This is precisely the focus that we have exhibited in becoming an eco-certified destination and now being recognised on this international level, as one of only five locations in Australia, is just one more step in promoting ourselves as a destination of choice for both visitors and business opportunities.

Continued page 4

Business

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Sport

On the precipice of the most expansive season in the history of Australian women’s football, the Central Coast’s Mikayla Ryan has been confirmed as the A-League Women’s fourth official.

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Former Central Coast Council Interim Administrator, Dick Persson, called an article critical of his work at Central Coast Council “academic wankery” during his evidence at the Public Inquiry on October 13.

Mr Persson said the financial crisis that resulted in him being installed in November 2020 was “I don’t want to be crude – a cluster mess”.

Under cross examination, he warned his interrogator not to treat him in a “smart-arse” way.

He described suspended

Deputy Mayor Jane Smith as a fine environmental activist and said he considered himself a bit of one too.

Persson published three reports when he was Interim Administrator.

“Sometimes when you write a document, time passes, you look at it and you go ‘Ouch’, or whatever. Well, I’m very comfortable with every word in those documents,” Persson said.

Commissioner Roslyn McCulloch said: “Although you did change your opinion about whether an inquiry was appropriate?”

“No, no, I recommended an

inquiry,” Persson replied.

“Ultimately, yes,” the Commissioner said.

Persson said the Councillors weren’t up the job and gave special mention to suspended Councillors Greg Best and Jane Smith.

“He’d been around for a long time,” Persson said of Cr Best.

“Asking questions on notice was his modus operandi.

“I said to him – he probably showed you the 56 motions he’d moved, or whatever.

“I said, ‘Well, after the first 20 didn’t work, did you think about some other way of dealing with it, because clearly it wasn’t working, yet you claim to be

aware that there was a financial calamity?’.”

He said Cr Jane Smith acted to a large extent like a mayor from the 1990s when the mayor was chief executive under the Local Government Act. “In my view – and I’ve talked to all the Executive Leadership Team and quite a number of other people – Mayor Jane Smith, who I believe has a very fine record as an environmental activist, and I consider myself a bit of one as well – she came in determined to effect changes.

“She employed a person, and one of the Councillors on the Inquiry mentioned to me that

she wanted to employ a woman but, ‘If I can’t get a woman, I’m going to get a non-alpha-type male’.

“She acted to a large extent like a pre-’93 mayor.

“She attended ELT meetings, took over the meetings to a large extent, you know, was tough on staff directly.

“Mr Murphy (former CEO Gary Murphy) didn’t intervene, in my view, from all accounts, to provide the balance that the chief executive should do under the Act between that, and I think that was sort of the beginning of when it went off the rails.”

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Two homes in Calais Rd, Wamberal, have sold for a combined total of more than $5.5M. See page 31

Sport

The sixth event in this season’s Sail Grand Prix (SGP) has been won by the Australian team, helmed by Gosford Sailing Club Alumnus and Olympic Gold Medallist, Tom Slingsby.

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Where’s our precinct?

Train services will be disrupted on Wednesday, October 20, when rail workers take industrial action following the breakdown of negotiations between the NSW Government and the union...

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The $8.25M redevelopment of the Peninsula Recreation Precinct at Umina promised in the 2019 election campaign has not commenced and community groups are beginning to ask questions.

Public comment is being sought, under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act), in relation to a development proposal

The former Smokey Mountain and Grizzly Flats Railroad has closed after five decades of providing a place for locomotive enthusiasts, and tourists to enjoy the joys of steam trains.

Health

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Rob Noble, who took over as Acting CEO in 2016 when Central Coast Council was created, told the Public Inquiry he was surprised to discover a cash reward system in place for Gosford staff.

“I handed out cash rewards totalling about $166,000 in the first year because I had to and because it was a very nice thing to do, but a similar system wasn’t in place for people who might have been performing to the same level at Wyong,” he said.

Noble suggested that the Gosford Council staff had more anxiety and it was more of a feardriven culture than the Wyong Council where he had been CEO before the merger.

“As a result of that, they were

heavily unionised,” he said.

“I recall that at the time of the amalgamation, the Gosford Council had about 31 matters in front of the state Industrial Relations Commission, and Wyong had zero,” he said.

“It was very difficult and highly expensive to harmonise the salary and wages systems and conditions across the two councils.”

He said it was somewhere in the vicinity of “20-something million dollars”.

Noble revealed he had contemplated the idea of selling the water, sewerage and drainage system because of the massive backlog of infrastructure works at both former councils.

“I used to have regular meetings with the CEO of Hunter

Water,” Noble said.

“We had, you know, a shared water pipeline arrangement and other collaborations.

“I raised the idea as a potential for the future with him and he thought it was well worth pursuing.

“I suggested that one option might be to sell the business to either Hunter Water or to Sydney Water, if the complexities of the government’s permissions and all that sort of thing could be gotten through.

“If that could have been achieved, I thought that there might well be a multi-billion dollar benefit for the general fund to Council that would remain at the Central Coast, which would not only cover all of the infrastructure backlogs many, many times over, but provide a

See page 10 Max Green and Jakobie Gadd taking a break from home schooling want to know when the new facilities at the Peninsula Recreation Precinct will be built

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whole new lifestyle and way forward and quality of life for the citizens of the Central Coast with fabulous infrastructure and wonderful service levels and maintenance levels.

“I’m throwing that out there as something that, you know, the CouncilandtheStateGovernment may wish to think about into the future,” he said.

The inquiry continues this week.

Council commissioned an independent review of the model governing its water and sewer operations late last year.

CEO David Farmer said at the time that the review would explore if there are opportunities to produce better value and return on investment for the community.

He said Council’s water and sewer assets are valued at close to $4B. “Our obligation to the community is to ensure we are maximising the value of these assets, and improving efficiency and performance in how water and sewer services are delivered,” Farmer said.

“This review is about gathering and assessing all the data to get an informed view of all the possible operating structures.”

The United Services Union was concerned that the review could open the door to privatisation.

Administrator, Rik Hart, said in August last year that he was against any sell-off.

The review has yet to return to a public meeting.

Merilyn Vale

Two Central Coast nurses have travelled to the furthest reaches of outback NSW, as part of a COVID response health team to help the remote community of Wilcannia.

See page 31

Sport

Local fundraisers Bryan Dorfling and Matthew Johnstone were so impressed by Anton Nootenboom, also known as the Barefoot Dutchman, that they joined him when he passed through the Central Coast last week.

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Rob Noble, who took over as Acting CEO in 2016 when Central Coast Council was created, told the Public Inquiry he was surprised to discover a cash reward system in place for Gosford staff.

“I handed out cash rewards totalling about $166,000 in the first year because I had to and because it was a very nice thing to do, but a similar system wasn’t in place for people who might have been performing to the same level at Wyong,” he said.

Noble suggested that the Gosford Council staff had more anxiety and it was more of a fear-driven culture than the Wyong Council where he had been CEO before the merger.

“As a result of that, they were

heavily unionised,” he said.

“I recall that at the time of the amalgamation, the Gosford Council had about 31 matters in front of the state Industrial Relations Commission, and Wyong had zero,” he said.

“It was very difficult and highly expensive to harmonise the salary and wages systems and conditions across the two councils.”

He said it was somewhere in the vicinity of “20-something million dollars”.

Noble revealed he had contemplated the idea of selling the water, sewerage and drainage system because of the massive backlog of infrastructure works at both former councils.

“I used to have regular meetings with the CEO of Hunter Water,” Noble said.

“We had, you know, a shared water pipeline arrangement and other collaborations.

“I raised the idea as a potential for the future with him and he thought it was well worth pursuing.

“I suggested that one option might be to sell the business to either Hunter Water or to Sydney Water, if the complexities of the government’s permissions and all that sort of thing could be gotten through.

“If that could have been achieved, I thought that there might well be a multibillion dollar benefit for the general fund to Council that would remain at the Central Coast, which would not only cover all of the infrastructure backlogs many, many times over, but provide a whole new lifestyle

and way forward and quality of life for the citizens of the Central Coast with fabulous infrastructure and wonderful service levels and maintenance levels.

“I’m throwing that out there as something that, you know, the Council and the State Government may wish to think about into the future,” he said.

The inquiry continues this week.

Council commissioned an independent review of the model governing its water and sewer operations late last year.

CEO David Farmer said at the time that the review would explore if there are opportunities to produce better value and return on investment for the community.

He said Council’s water and sewer assets are valued at

close to $4B. “Our obligation to the community is to ensure we are maximising the value of these assets, and improving efficiency and performance in how water and sewer services are delivered,” Farmer said.

“This review is about gathering and assessing all the data to get an informed view of all the possible operating structures.”

The United Services Union was concerned that the review could open the door to privatisation.

Administrator, Rik Hart, said in August last year that he was against any sell-off.

The review has yet to return to a public meeting.

Merilyn Vale

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School’s back A $5,000 grant from O’Brien Electrical and Plumbing will help Coast Shelter keep its emergency accommodation in peak condition.

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In less than a year after moving to Lisarow and setting up a brewery five times larger than its previous operation, Hawkesbury Brewing Co (HBC) has grown to a staff of more than 70 employees, four of them engineering apprentices.

Health

See page 25

Out&About

Central Coast artist, Yuley Buist, has been painting since she was a child, but in the past five years her work has taken off, with a series of exhibitions at various venues.

See page 17

Business

News

Nurses and midwives hold grave concerns for safe patient care in Wyong Hospital’s new Block H building, after serious staffing shortfalls were not addressed.

See page 5

Out&About

Woy Woy’s Troubadour Folk Club will bring a carnival atmosphere to Woy Woy by hosting a night of live music from Australian-Brazilian band – Brazil and Beyond Trio – on October 30.

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A group of Central Coast women have come together to knit for climate action, crafting scarves.

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Education

Students from across the Coast have returned to face-to-face learning from October 18 after spending term three learning from home.

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Wicks votes against debating Bill to kill off PEP11 Local emergency doctor, Ash Bowden, also known as Doctor Do More, helped raise over $100,000 during September for Cancer Council Central Coast.

See page 31

Sport

The Central Coast Dragon Boat Club is welcoming new members, catering for those looking for a social experience as well as those with aspirations to compete in racing.

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Brewing up new engineers

Waiting times at the Services Australia Centre in Blackwall Road have soared over recent weeks as people have encountered difficulties accessing their COVID-19 vaccination certificates.

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Former Council CEO wanted to sell water assets

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Former Council CEO touts selling water assets

Complete ‘cluster mess’ The historical Woy Woy Hotel is set to undergo a facelift after being acquired by a regionally focused hospitality company.

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CCN employees, Harry Mulholland and Lucillia Eljuga, at Hotel Gosford

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Bakehouse 2000 at Kincumber has been keeping smiles on customers’ faces throughout lockdown with its zany theme days and intends to keep up the fun right through to December 1.

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Central Coast residents flocked to their favourite retail outlets, hairdressers, cafes, restaurants and watering holes as the region emerged from its 15week lockdown on October 11.

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“This Top 100 recognition is another step and ties in with our efforts for Eco Tourism Certification, all of which will help position us differently to all the other beachside towns up along the east coast,” Perham said.

Council’s Chief Financial Officer, Natalia Cowley, said that being the only NSW location on the Top 100 list flagged the Central Coast as an eco-tourism attraction to both visitors and business enterprises.

“We want to put ourselves on the map, that this is a hub for businesses focussing on nature-based eco-tourism and the environment,” she said.

Smokey Mountain facing the bulldozer

Out&About

Coast goes global as eco-tourism destination Local stories showcasing the Central Coast as an eco-tourism destination have captured international attention and a winning spot in the 2021 Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories competition.

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Despite fears that a major upgrade of the Tumbi Rd/Central Coast Hwy intersection at Wamberal could spell the demise of the nearby Valley Fruit, the popular fresh food outlet will remain and may gain a new carpark.

See page 3

Killcare Surf Lifesaving Club has warned residents to be aware of blue-ringed octopuses after a child nearly came into contact with the creature recently.

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1,500 locals ask Minister to save Ettalong from highrise

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At 11am in the Federal House of Representatives yesterday, (Thursday, October 21), the Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, rose to speak against a motion that would have paved the way for a Private Members’ Bill to permanently kill off the PEP11 offshore drilling permit.

Strongly opposed by the Central Coast community, Petroleum Exploration Permit 11, known as PEP11, is a work permit granted under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

PEP11 covers 4,575 square kilometres of ocean from Newcastle through the Central

Member for Warringah, Zali Steggall

Coast to Manly.

Wicks and Prime Minister Scott Morrison have said they will not allow PEP11 to be extended under a Morrison Government but yesterday Wicks voted with the government to stop the Bill from being considered.

Zali Steggall, Independent

Member for Warringah, moved to suspend standing orders so her Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021 could be given priority for debate.

“This motion must be debated today because it deals with vital issues: climate change; environmental destruction; and the fate of the economy for a significant portion of the east coast of Australia,” Steggall told the House.

“PEP11 comes as close as five kilometres to the shore in places.

“Human line of sight on the horizon is over five kilometres, so gas rigs may well be seen from our headlands and beaches.

Students returning to Tuggerah Public School

giving enough assurance to Advent Energy that they are An application to add a sixth seeking tenders for equipment storey to a development to drill the works on PEP11.” already underway at 5-7 Steggall said over 60,000 Church St Terrigal is once people had lent their names to more in the spotlight.

See page 27 a petition calling for PEP11 to be stopped.

“Our ecotourism, our tourism, our hospitality all need confidence and certainty, and having this risk hanging over Aerial Photograph (Note: This photograph shows the former Figure 2: Locality public car park on the subject site and pre-dates the current them is impacting construction their of shop-top housing on the site). confidence in the rebuild.”

Steggall saidApplication the Member for 8.3 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979 requesting 4 pursuant to Section Central Coast Council to review its decision to refuse DA 52083/2017 – Part 4 for shop top housing and car Robertson parking had on Lots told the7861, Nos. 5 & 7 Church Street, Terrigal.

19 & 20 DP community she opposed theLtd – August 2021.

Doug Sneddon Planning Pty An introduction to the world of project.

“Yet here we are: we are still ocean racing in outrigger canoes will be held at in the hands of Minister Pitt.”

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Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks

“As recently as October 20, comments in the media by David Breeze, the Executive Director of Advent Energy, indicated that Advent has every intention to proceed with the project.

“PEP11 is still on foot, and Minister Pitt, a Queensland Liberal-National MP, is still

Continued page 4

Gwandalan this weekend, as part Veterans’ Health Week.

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Vales Point Power Station at Mannering Park

asthma and related conditions between January 2019 and December 2020.

“A study in January this year

by epidemiologist, Dr Ben Ewald, found nitrogen oxide (NO2) emissions from coalfired power stations were

responsible for up to five per cent of asthma cases in children on the Central Coast and six per cent in Lake

Continued page 10

Bateau Bay resident and teacher at Central Coast Community College, Erin Jacob, has been named Vocational Education Teacher of the Year at the 2021 Annual NSW Training Awards.

See page 27

Sport

On Saturday, October 23, the Central Coast Mariners played their opening pre-season match against the Western Sydney Wanderers at Wanderers Football Park, falling behind in the heat by 2-0.

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Spokesperson, Will Belford, said Future Sooner had collated data from 2019 and 2020 about children presenting to emergency departments with respiratory illnesses at the region’s five main hospitals – Wyong, Gosford, Belmont and John Hunter.

He said the data showed that 2,954 children presented with

Macquarie,” Belford said.

“It’s not possible to say how many of the almost 3,000 emergency department presentations can be attributed to coal-fired power station emission, but they clearly play a role.

“The frustrating thing is that a number of these children would never have become ill if power stations had installed filters to stop NO2 emissions.”

The Future Sooner emergency department research data shows that at Wyong Hospital in 2019 there were 275 children presenting with asthma or respiratory illness, and 242 in 2020.

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Future Sooner fights power station’s licence to pollute Environmental group, Future Sooner, is campaigning to have nitrogen oxide emissions halved at Vales Point Power Station, which it says is “one of the region’s dirtiest power stations” and putting children’s health at risk.

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Nurses say staff problems have moved with patients into new building Nurses and midwives hold grave concerns for safe patient care in Wyong Hospital’s new Block H building, after serious staffing shortfalls were not addressed before moving into the new facility earlier this month.

The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) has requested urgent briefings with Central Coast Local Health District and in a letter to Health District Acting CEO, Brad Astill, the nurses described the staffing levels as “a disaster waiting to happen”.

NSWNMA Wyong Hospital Branch President,Kelly Falconer, said members had raised concerns about widespread nurse vacancies, heavy workloads and poor skill mix over several months but the issues were largely ignored.

“While the Local Health District focussed on moving into the new building, our members have been grappling with how they’re supposed to deliver patient care safely, alongside rising nurse vacancies and a fatigued casual staffing pool,” Falconer said.

“There are almost 20 full-time equivalent (FTE) vacancies in the emergency department,

Nurses protesting outside Wyong Hospital last week

while unplanned leave is often not replaced on many wards, leaving the remaining nurses short-staffed.

“This is not sustainable, and it compromises the ability of nurses and midwives to deliver a safe level of care to our patients.

“Health District management was alerted to our concerns at numerous ReasonableWorkload Committee meetings, yet they pressed on with shifting patients and services into Block H to meet a preferred timeline.

“They’ve simply transferred these staffing issues over as well.

“As an immediate solution, we’re calling on the Health District to cap the use of surge beds on several wards inside Block H, until nurse staffing levels are increased to safely meet the demand.

“We’ve been working tirelessly throughout the pandemic to keep our community safe, but nurses and midwives feel unsupported by the Health District for failing to listen or address these concerns,” Falconer said.

She said the NSWNMA’s campaign for nurse-to-patient ratios on every shift and safe staffing levels in maternity units would help to address

this issue.

“Mandated ratios would ensure staffing was adequately linked to the number of patients in a ward, rather than just to the number of beds typically open,” Falconer said.

Wyong nurses held a two-hour strike in mid-June over the same staffing issues.

Shadow Minister for Central Coast, Wyong MP David Harris, spoke in Parliament on October 20, welcoming the $200M hospital upgrade but he made the point that “it’s not just about shiny new buildings; we need staff.

“I have been supporting their

campaign to ensure adequate ratios and manageable workloads for our local health staff so they can deliver optimum care,” he said.

Harris said there was a recent meeting with Local Health District Acting CEO, Brad Astill, to discuss staff levels.

“He said they had started hiring the additional staff necessary to make the new facilities work … and we will continue to work to ensure there are sufficient staff to serve our growing community,” Harris said.

“We must make sure our community not only has

fantastic hospital facilities, but also has the right amount of staff to ensure that the necessary services are delivered appropriately.

“Our nurses and health staff have been under great strain, even before COVID, and we need to support them because over-worked staff can’t provide the best outcomes for the community,’ Harris said.

CCC approached the Local Health District for a response but they were unable to meet our deadline so we will report their statement in the next available edition.

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Council makes staff vaccination mandatory from January Vaccination will be mandatory for every staff member of Central Coast Council, with each employee required to be vaccinated by January 9, 2022.

Staff received the news in an email sent on Friday.

Mandatory vaccination will apply to staff, contractors, work experience participants and volunteers.

In an attached list of FAQs (frequently asked questions), Council said if a person refuses to get vaccinated, Council will meet with that person to discuss next steps and “most likely this will begin a conversation relating to cessation of your employment”.

Medically exempt staff will be considered on an individual basis to determine if a safe working environment can be provided but Council is giving no guarantees.

“I understand that this decision may be confronting for some staff and the attached FAQs are designed to provide you with the understanding as to how the decision was arrived at and answer some top-ofmind questions,” CEO, David

David Farmer

Farmer, said in the email.

“In advising staff now, this allows plenty of time for individuals to consider their options before the required vaccination date of January 9, 2022.”

The email went on to say that office-based staff were expected back in the office next year, transitioning from January 10.

“Staff will return to the office based on their neighbourhood locations and equipment setup times, which will be advised

over the next few weeks,” Farmer said.

“From December 6, 2021, some key front-facing services will return to the office, and other staff who are double vaccinated can also elect to return to the office at this time.

“From November 1, 2021, all office-based staff are able to apply for the “one day work from home” option which is our upfront commitment to flexibility.

“There is still a requirement to document these

arrangements and we also recognise that not everyone will want to work from home, hence the need to apply,” Farmer said.

The email said staff will need to return all previously utilised Council equipment including IT equipment to Council premises.

A working from home set-up will be the responsibility of the staff member, should they wish to apply to work from home.

The email says the Council’s next steps include the formulation of a policy to

support the vaccination decision and Council will work “closely with union representatives and staff to finalise this” over the coming weeks.

“In addition, whilst your GP is the best source of information and advice, Council will also be looking to connect staff with additional/supplementary information channels to help everyone become as informed as possible about vaccination,” the email said.

Luke Hutchinson from the United Services Union (USU) said it was a brave decision by Council to implement mandatory vaccination in its workforce.

“I’ve been having discussions with Council about their intentions for a period of time and we’ve raised a variety of issues, especially in relation to vaccine hesitancy and providing further supportive options for workers to consider,” he said.

“That includes Council getting independent advice from professional health services, as well as further extensions of time for people to be vaccinated and to gain information on

what is best for them.”

In terms of someone losing their job if they refused to be vaccinated, Hutchinson said that would only be acceptable to the USU if all options had been considered to comply with the relevant health, work and safety standard, other than a reasonable medical issue.

“It’s a complicated issue and a highly emotive issue, but whichever way you look at it, there’s a serious health, work and safety issue and there’s some very clear obligations on the employer to provide a safe workplace and minimise any risk in the workplace.

“This could be a vexed industrial issue to resolve, based upon the Work, Health and Safety Act, but ultimately there’s an inherent risk that needs to be managed and needs to be minimised as far as practicable.

“As far as the USU is aware, no legal challenges, in any jurisdiction, have overturned a mandate in relation to vaccination of COVID-19,” Hutchinson said.

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Council backs resource recovery facility while investigating clearing A site currently under investigation for vegetation clearing is the subject of a development application for a building material recycling business.

A $3.7M Resource Recovery Facility is proposed for 20 Jack Grant Ave, Warnervale, which is already home to a building materials storage/recycling centre.

The proposal will be assessed by the Local Planning Panel on October 28 and Central Coast Council has recommended approval.

Council and the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment are investigating clearing of vegetation from the site between May and October 2019, including vegetation from an area that is mapped on the NSW Biodiversity Values Map. Tricon Mining Equipment Pty Ltd wants to recycle and process waste produced by the construction, demolition, commercial and industrial sectors to produce products for resale.

The proposed facility will accept construction waste deliveries, and dispatch materials 24 hours per day, seven days per week; however,

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processing of waste material will be limited to 7am-6pm Monday to Friday and 7am4pm Saturdays.

No processing is proposed on Sundays or public holidays.

About 15 staff are anticipated to operate the proposed facility, according to the report to the Planning Panel.

It is intended that the proposed facility will primarily accept building and demolition waste; excavated soil; concrete waste from concrete batching plants; tiles and masonry; bricks, tiles and masonry seconds direct from the manufacturer.

The facility will not accept any other form of waste, including hazardous materials such as asbestos or chemical waste.

It will have the capacity to

process up to 99,000 tonnes of non-putrescible waste (consisting of soils, concrete, bricks, tiles and asphalt), for reuse in secondary markets.

Up to 15,000 tonnes of feed material and 15,000 tonnes of product is proposed to be stockpiled at any one time.

Recycled products will be sold back into the construction industry along with other markets.

The site is mapped as affected by flooding and within both the Porters Creek Catchment and the Wyong Employment Zone.

It adjoins Central Coast Airport at Warnervale to the west, industrial zoned land to the north, and environmental conservation zoned land to the east and south.

The proposal includes an

acoustic 1.8m-high Colorbond fence proposed along the eastern boundary.

Council said the proposal would create additional employment and business opportunities for the region and increase opportunities for minimising landfill.

The proposal was advertised in accordance with the designated development provisions and no submissions were received.

“The site is in a suitable context for the nature, scale and type of development proposed,” Council said.

“Appropriate measures to address potential environmental, amenity and safety impacts have been recommended as conditions of consent in order to mitigate any

short-term negative impacts.

“The proposal is recommended for approval subject to conditions.”

On December 12, 2018 the Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs) No. 1276 were issued by the Department of Planning Industry and Environment.

Between May 20, and October 19, 2019 (after the issue of the SEARs and the pre-DA meeting with Council), vegetation was cleared from the site, including vegetation that is mapped on the NSW Biodiversity Values Map. Council and the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment are investigating this matter, along with unauthorised work and structures.

The report to the Planning Panel said that earthwork activities, including the importation of filling material, occurred after the Preliminary Contamination Assessment had been completed and submitted to Council for consideration and, as such, the assessment did not reflect the current condition of the property and did not meet the requirements of SEPP55.

“Additionally, the preliminary

assessment identified that a detailed assessment is required to determine the extent of contamination identified on the subject property,” the report said.

“The detailed contamination assessment was undertaken and submitted to Council.

Council said this indicated that contamination in the form of friable asbestos (FA) and asbestos fines (AF) in a stockpile of soil (designated SP2), and fragments of bonded asbestos containing materials (ACM) on the site surface in two locations in the northern portion of the site.

Council said the site could be made suitable for the proposed development, provided a remediation action plan (RAP) was prepared and implemented for remediation and/or management of the AF and FA contaminated soil in stockpile SP2, as well as ACM visible on the site surface.

That plan could comprise removal of any type of asbestos from the site and an Asbestos Removal Plan (ARP) as part of the RAP as well as implementation of a Soil and Water Management Plan.

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McBride and Conroy back bid to debate PEP11 Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, has remained stoic against a barrage of criticism that she betrayed the Central Coast community by refusing to vote in favour of a motion to allow a debate in Parliament about PEP11.

Wicks reaffirmed her opposition to PEP11 and the Morrison Government’s “rock-solid guarantee” that an extension to the petroleum exploration permit would not go ahead but in the Federal House of Representatives on Thursday, October 21, she

spoke against a Motion that would have paved the way for a Private Members’ Bill to permanently kill off the PEP11 offshore drilling permit to Advent Energy.

Strongly opposed by the Central Coast community, Petroleum Exploration Permit 11, known as PEP11, is a work permit granted under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

PEP11 covers 4,575sq km of ocean from Newcastle through the Central Coast to Manly, with a target area called Baleen Prospect offshore from Lake Munmorah.

Wicks and the Prime Minister have said they would not allow PEP11 to be extended under a Morrison Government but last Thursday, Wicks voted with the government to stop the Bill from being considered.

Zali Steggall, Independent Member for Warringah, moved to suspend standing orders so her Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021 could be given priority to debate.

“This Motion must be debated because it deals with vital issues:

climate change; environmental destruction; and the fate of the economy for a significant portion of the east coast of Australia,” Steggall told the House last Thursday.

“As recently as October 20, comments in the media by David Breeze, the Executive Director of Advent Energy, indicated that Advent has every intention to proceed with the project.

“PEP11 is still on foot, and (Resources) Minister (Keith) Pitt, a Queensland Liberal-National MP, is still giving enough assurance to Advent Energy that they are

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seeking tenders for equipment to drill the works on PEP11.”

Meanwhile, Member for Shortland, Pat Conroy seconded the motion by Zali Steggall to suspend standing orders so her Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021 could be given priority to debate.

Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, also spoke in favour of the Steggall motion.

McBride said the Morrison Government had turned its back on people across the Coast after refusing to allow debate on the PEP11 Bill in Parliament.

“Minister Pitt still hasn’t made a decision, eight months after his original deadline, and we’ve been told not to be hasty, and the government is gagging debate,” she said.

In his speech supporting the Motion, Conroy said he had never seen a project more opposed to by the entire community than this project.

“The Member for Robertson has said that under a Morrison Government PEP11 will not go ahead.

“Hopefully she will get up and say the project is dead. Unless she votes for the suspension …. they are just hollow words, from a member of the government that so far is allowing offshore oil and gas drilling off our coast.”

After the vote Conroy said Wicks had betrayed the people up and down the NSW coast by refusing to suspend Standing Orders to allow debate and vote on the PEP11 Bill.

When Wicks rose to oppose Steggall’s Motion she said: “I firstly want to say very loudly that I remain firmly opposed to PEP11.

“The Member for Warringah’s Motion, supported by members of the opposition, to suspend standing orders is not the best way to achieve this outcome that they seek.

“It only adds to the cacophony of confusion and misinformation that has been surrounding this issue.”

Wicks said Steggall was politicising a community issue.

She acknowledged the importance of local beaches and oceans to the Coast’s way of life and repeated Morrison’s “rock-

solid guarantee” that his government would not allow the PEP11 permit to be extended.

“That is why the Motion before the House (last Thursday) really achieves nothing for communities up and down the NSW coast,” Wicks said.

“The best way to achieve the outcome that all of you and indeed many of us in this chamber seek is through the proper processes of government, not political stunts,” she said.

Save Our Coast committee member, Tim Heffernan, said the vote to suspend standing orders and debate the Steggall Bill was defeated 52 to 48.

“If Wicks, Sharma (Wentworth MP) and Falinski (Mackellar MP) had voted differently the debate would have ensued,” he said.

“The community has made it clear that PEP11 has no place off our coast and (last Thursday) our elected representatives let us down by supporting fossil fuel projects over our coastline.

“Ten days away from a global climate summit and the Liberal Government not only has no plan for net-zero, but they perverted democracy by disallowing a debate on a new Bill.”

In an interview with CCN after the vote, Steggall said: “We’ve had a lot of platitudes from especially Coalition and along the coast saying that this project won’t go ahead but the reality is that the licence holder is going ahead.

“The Bill seeks to basically decline the application for the licence and then, which is really important, it makes it that there can be no further licence approved in this area,” she said.

Later, in Parliament Question Time, McBride asked the Resources Minister, Keith Pitt, to reject extension of PEP11.

In response, the Minister said he would take advice from the regulator, National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator (NOPTA).

“We are considering this on balance, in regards to the law, in regards to the national interest and, of course, we’ll take into consideration the views of the community and will make a decision in due course,” Minister Pitt said.

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Boarding house proposal back to Court for third time The long running saga of the Glen Rd boarding house at Ourimbah continues with the developer once again taking his development application to the Land and Environment Court (LEC).

Central Coast Council did not assess the application within the required 60 days, therefore the developer considered it to be a deemed refusal.

This will be the third time the developer has taken his boarding house application to the Land and

A photo montage of how the boarding house might look positioned behind Ourimbah shopping centre

Environment Court.

Zenith Tuggerah Pty Limited is seeking consent to build a three-storey boarding house with 53 rooms at 2-6 Glen Rd. Council is opposing the application saying that the DA should be refused for a number of reasons but mainly related to its unsuitable bulk, scale and character, amenity, landscaping, engineering and public interest.

The Court was due to hold a conciliation conference on Monday, October 25, and Ourimbah Region Residents

Association (ORRA) is hopeful the outcome will, once again, be refusal.

“Although the development has been tweaked, the essential reasons that previous applications have been refused still remain,” said ORRA spokesperson, Allan Benson.

“In the last hearing, the Senior Commissioner, Susan Dixon, refused the application on a multitude of issues including character bulk, scale as well as environmental concerns.

“We are of the view that the precedents determined in that

hearing are still valid for this current DA. “The first DA for the boarding house was lodged in December 2013 and to date, ORRA, with the support of the wider Ourimbah community, has been successful in opposing every DA this developer has lodged for this site as they remain out of character with the Ourimbah village.

“However, we must continue the battle as the saga still has a long way to run,” Benson said.

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Public Inquiry hearings over but no timeframe for report The Public Inquiry into Central Coast Council will go back to its not-so-public position behind closed doors as both public and private hearings have now concluded.

The Office of the Commissioner confirmed on Wednesday, October 20, that private hearings have also concluded.

“The Commissioner has determined not to publish the names, or the transcripts of persons interviewed in private,” the Office said.

The Commissioner, Roslyn McCulloch, said after the last witness gave their evidence on Tuesday, October 19, that her final report would be handed down as soon as possible but she gave no indication of the time frame.

She has given submission writers and those who gave oral evidence a deadline of November 3 to submit any responses to the evidence heard at the hearings.

“From here, the inquiry will obtain further documentary information which has arisen from the evidence we have

received during the public hearings,” McCulloch said.

“Once that documentation and the submissions in reply are received,a report will be prepared and provided to the Minister for Local Government to be considered,” she said.

“It is not possible at this stage to say when that will occur but suffice to say that although there is a lot of information to assimilate and consider, I am very cognisant of the need to report to the Minister as soon as practicable to enable her to consider any recommendations

which I might make.”

More than 100 people made written submissions and of them 43 people also gave oral evidence – publicly.

The number of people who gave evidence privately is not known.

The public speakers included the current Chief Executive Officer, David Farmer, and Chief Financial Officer, Natalia Cowley, and the Administrator, Rik Hart, as well as his predecessor Dick Persson.

All 13 suspended Councillors

fronted the Inquiry and the two former Councillors who resigned days before suspension; Liberals Rebecca Gale and Troy Marquart.

The professional members of the Audit, Risk and Improvement Committee, Dr Col Gellatly, Carl Millington and John Gordon also spoke.

The final day saw Professor Graham Sansom, who had many years earlier chaired an independent review panel that raised the possibility of a merger of Gosford and Wyong, give his opinion on many of the main themes that have emerged

throughout the public hearings.

Two former Gosford employees Gary Chestnut and Razia Hassan and a Umina resident Tom Collosimo also spoke on the last day.

The previous day saw a Warringah resident, Brain Halstead who had sat on the Mosman Council’s Audit and Risk Committee give evidence.

Don’t miss next week’s paper for a wrap up of the common themes that the submissions and speakers addressed.

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The NSW government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million to our residents

The NSW government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million to our residents and Council - before the andtoCouncil - (again) before the Administrator tries to raise rates (again) Administrator tries raise rates Some of the NSW Government impact on Council budgets Cost of amalgamation

Suggested cost from former CEO, Rob Noble, at Public Inquiry (15/10/21)

Gosford CBD SEPP

Reduction in developer contributions to Council from 4% to 1%. In Oct 2018, the NSW Department of Planning valued the 3% decrease at approx. $190M

Local Planning Panel

Emergency works – Wamberal Beach / North Entrance

Cost shifting

$120-150 M

Up to $190 M

The LPP was established by NSW government to take decision making away from Council. A staff report (May 2020), estimated the cost to Council is in the order to $400,000 per annum

$ 400,000 per annum

July 2020 coastal erosion event State government directed Council to construct emergency toe protection works. In Feb 2021, the total cost was estimated at $2.866M. The NSW government has reimbursed $992,501 thus far.

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There have been various suggestions about the true cost of the There have been various suggestions about the true cost of the merger of Gosford and Wyong Councils - depending on whether you merger of Gosford and Wyong Councils - depending on whether include IT upgrades, equalising wages of the former Councils, you include IT upgrades, equalising redundancies and a range of other wages costs. of the former Councils, redundancies and a range of other costs.

At the Central Coast Council Public Inquiry, former Central Coast At the Central Coast Council Public Inquiry, former Central Interim CEO, Rob Noble, suggested that on top of IT costs, the merger Coast Interim CEO, Rob Noble, suggested that on top of IT costs, could cost in the order of “$120 to $150 million or thereabouts”. the merger could cost in the order of “$120 to $150 million or The NSW government provided $10 million towards merger thereabouts”. The NSW government provided $10 million costs. towards merger costs.

The State government has treated the Central Coast residents and The State government has treated the Central Coast residents ratepayers with contempt. Instead of properly funding the costs of and ratepayers with contempt. Instead of properly funding the the merger, the NSW government used a $252million Stronger costs of the merger, the NSW government used a $252million Communities Fund intended for merged councils to allocate $90 Stronger Communities Fund intended for merged councils to million to Hornsby Council (not merged). allocate $90 million to Hornsby Council (not merged).

Over recent years, the NSW has further impacted Council’s budget Over recent years, the NSW has further impacted Council’s through changes to planning rules, failure to reimburse for emergency budget through changes to planning rules, failure to reimburse for works and cost shifting. All of these costs are ultimately paid for by emergency works and cost shifting. All of these costs are ultimately residents and ratepayers—or services are cut and infrastructure paid for bydeclines. residents and ratepayers—or services are cut and provision infrastructure provision declines.

The NSW Government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million The NSW Government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million before there is a conversation about further rate rises. before there is a conversation about further rate rises.

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Future Sooner fights power station’s licence to pollute From page 1 At Gosford Hospital there were 368 in 2019 and 257 in 2020; Belmont Hospital 100 in 2019 and 74 in 2020 and at John Hunter Hospital, 959 in 2019 and 679 in 2020.

Belford said that Vales Point Power Station currently held an exemption licence from the EPA that allowed it to emit 1,500mg of NO2 per cubic metre of exhaust, while other facilities of the same age were

Vales Point Power Station at Mannering Park

restricted to the current NSW legal limit of 800mg of NO2 per cubic metre of exhaust.

“That licence expires in January 2022 and Vales Point has asked the EPA to extend it for another five years,” he said.

“We think it’s outrageous that this company is putting our children’s health at risk, which is why we have ramped up our campaign to make Vales Point clean up its act.

“For a decade, the EPA has granted Vales Point exemptions

from the Clean Air Regulation, while state law limits nitrous oxide air pollution for most industrial facilities at 800mg per cubic metre.

“The EPA has granted Vales Point two five-year exemptions from the healthier standard, and now they’ve applied for another five years to keep polluting at the more dangerous level.”

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EPA wants to hear from community about exemption An application from Delta Electricity for a further exemption to the set emission limit for nitrogen oxide (NOx) at Vales Point Power Station is now open for public comment.

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) came under pressure from the community, the Nature Conservation Council and local environmental group, Future Sooner, to let the public, health professionals and environmental groups have their say.

Spokesman for Future Sooner, Will Belford, said it was good news that for the first time ever, the EPA was offering the public the opportunity to make submissions.

“However, the EPA is only giving the community three weeks to respond while it’s allowed Delta nearly nine months to defend its polluting behaviour,” he said.

“Delta has admitted that it is technically feasible to clean up its power station, but it doesn’t want to spend the money.

“Over the past decade, the EPA has just rubber-stamped Delta’s applications but now that the EPA is going to take a closer look at the application and consult with the community it is very encouraging.

“The EPA needs to take a stand

and enforce the law instead of exempting Delta from it.

“We are calling on the EPA to reject the application,” Belford said.

The application submitted to the EPA seeks another exemption under the Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Regulation 2021 for five years until January 1, 2027.

Vales Point has an environment protection licence which requires the power station to meet legally enforceable conditions relating to noise, air, water, land contamination, waste and other operational matters, to protect the community and the environment.

Power stations are required to operate and maintain pollution control equipment in a proper and efficient manner and minimise the emission of air pollutants in accordance with strict conditions under the licence.

Until 2012 Vales Point Power Station was required to meet a NOx emission limit of 2,500 milligrams per cubic metre of exhaust.

Nitrogen oxides are gases formed when fuel is burned at high temperatures and comprise mainly of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide.

Since January 1, 2012, Vales Point has been classed in a group

of power stations required to meet a NOx emission of 800mg per cubic metre.

The Vales Point licence currently exempts the power station from needing to meet the 800mg per cubic metre limit and instead sets an alternative maximum limit of 1,500mg per cubic metre.

This exemption expires on January 1, 2022.

Delta Electricity has applied to continue to operate with 1,500mg per cubic metre for a further five years to January 1, 2027.

The EPA must consider the impact on local and regional air quality and amenity as part of the decision to grant the application, including any pollution reduction programs and control equipment in the power station operations.

EPA Executive Director Regulatory Operations, Steve Beaman, said the EPA was carefully considering and assessing the application in accordance with statutory obligations and it was also interested in community feedback on the proposal.

“While it is not a requirement under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 to consult publicly about this application, we are opening this up to comment because we are keen to hear what the

community has to say, as part of our considerations,” he said.

“The EPA is conducting a comprehensive review of the application, which seeks to extend an existing exemption for a further five years.

“As part of that, we’ve requested more information from Delta Electricity, including an air quality impact assessment which is now available as part of the public consultation.

“We’re also consulting with experts including from NSW

Health and the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.

“All of this information, as well as the submissions received in this consultation process, will be considered by the EPA before a final decision is made.”

Beaman said the EPA had a comprehensive and robust framework for regulating power stations in NSW including legally enforceable conditions relating to noise, air, water, land contamination, waste and other operational matters designed to

protect the community and the environment.

Power station licences and pollution monitoring results provided by licensed industry operators are available on the EPA’s Public Register.

More information about the Delta Electricity Vales Point emission exemption application can be found online at yoursay. epa.nsw.gov.au and submissions close on November 10.

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Pelican feeding under review It’s time to bring back the pelican feeding to the waterfront says The Entrance MP, David Mehan.

The daily pelican feeding had been a huge drawcard every afternoon for longer than most people can remember, until COVID health restrictions were put in place last year.

Now that health restrictions are easing, Mehan wants to see the town’s iconic tourist attraction recommence.

“They’ve done their bit during the pandemic, they looked after themselves and obtained their own food, they’ve been loyal to our area and we have to look after them,” he said.

Council says it has taken the opportunity during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to commence a review of this activity.

A spokesperson said that the long-term view was to deliver a unique local and visitor experience focussing on

education and the natural environment.

“This would work with the natural feeding behaviours of pelicans, in a sustainable and eco-friendly way,” the spokesperson said.

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Mountain bike accident in Ourimbah forest

A critical care medical team with the Westpac Rescue Helicopter service was winched down into bushland at Wyong Creek to help a man injured in a mountain bike accident.

The rescue helicopter team was alerted by NSW Ambulance at about 9:30am on Sunday, October 24, to the accident location in Ourimbah State

Forest, along Red Hill Rd. The 39-year-old man had a badly fractured leg after falling from his mountain bike.

He was treated on site by the helicopter medical team, and ambulance paramedics who had driven to the location in a 4WD vehicle.

Rural Fire Service brigades

The helicopter landed on the sand dunes and was on standby at about 4:00pm on October 21, while lifeguards and bystanders rescued two men, aged 18 and 21, who were dragged out to sea in the rip.

They were safely brought back to the beach and local ambulance paramedics assessed and treated the swimmers at the scene before the men were flown by

helicopter to John Hunter Hospital, escorted by the helicopter critical care medical team.

When the men were flown from the beach they were in a

and Central Coast Rescue Squad also responded due to the difficult location access.

When the man’s condition was stabilised he was driven out of the area to the waiting helicopter which had landed at a nearby property.

The man was flown to Royal North Shore Hospital in a stable condition, for further treatment.

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stable condition with non-lifethreatening injuries sustained during their ordeal but had swallowed a lot of water.

Source: Northern NSW Helicopter Rescue Service

Cybercrime Squad detectives have charged two men, from Watanobbi and Mardi, as investigations continued into fraudulent COVID-19 grants and drug supply offences.

In June 2021, detectives from State Crime Command’s Cybercrime Squad established Strike Force Orielton to investigate an alleged criminal syndicate involved in fraudulent activity and the supply of prohibited drugs.

During the investigation, detectives uncovered multiple alleged frauds against NSW Government COVID-19 related grant schemes.

Following extensive inquiries, strike force detectives executed a search warrant at a home at Mardi from 7am on Tuesday, October 19.

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Two men rescued The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was tasked by NSW Ambulance to Budgewoi Beach last Thursday to help in the rescue of two people caught in a rip.

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are doing geotechnical and utility investigation work to better understand the ground conditions in preparation for the upgrade to that stretch of road.

The work will be split between day and night shifts from Wednesday, October 27.

There will be lane closures and a reduced speed limit to 40km/h in place during the work and traffic control will be in place from Monday, November 1.

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During the search, detectives seized nearly 2.4kg of cannabis leaf, as well as documentation and electronic devices, which will undergo further forensic examination.

A 30-year-old man was arrested at the Mardi home, while a second man, aged 39, was arrested after officers attended a home at Watanobbi a short time later.

Both men were taken to Wyong Police Station, where the younger man was charged with 14 offences, including dishonestly obtain property by deception (x7); supply prohibited drug (x5); supply prohibited drugs on an ongoing basis and deal in identification information and use it to commit fraud.

Police will allege in court the man submitted

fraudulent COVID-19 JobSaver and business grant applications and facilitated fraudulent applications on behalf of others.

It will be further alleged the man supplied prohibited drugs including methylamphetamine (ice) and gammaHydroxybutyric (GHB) across the Central Coast in September this year.

He appeared at Wyong Local Court on October 19, where he was formally refused bail to reappear at the same court on Tuesday, November 2.

The older man was charged with dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception and give false information person or property in danger.

Police will allege in court the man falsely claimed he had tested positive for COVID-19, subsequently forcing the closure of multiple businesses on the Central Coast last month.

He was granted strict conditional bail to appear at Wyong Local Court on Wednesday, November 10.

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FORUM Page 12 Old farm could be donated 27 October 2021

I would like to remind readers about the current push by developers, to, once again, rezone and sub-divide the Old Farm site (per DA765/2021) at 414 Old Maitland Rd, Mardi, in contravention of a long established planning prohibition for the subdivision of land west of the M1.

With the impending effects of climate change fast approaching in the form of much hotter summers, more frequent droughts, incredibly intense

Former Premier Mike Baird is the political salesman that forced council mergers on Wyong and Gosford.

Baird is the person that wanted to stop greyhound racing in this state, before he reversed his decision.

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FORUM bush fires, frequent storms, extreme floods and rising sea levels, I fear that suburban expansion into the agricultural land here will become problematical and costly.

My suggestion is that the Joint Regional Planning Panel/Central Coast Council reject this DA and that the current owners consider donating the Old Farm – but now let’s call it the “Denton-Stevens Environmental Reserve” – to the Central Coast inhabitants, current and future, and let us

From the top FORUM Baird is the one who brought light rail to Newcastle and makes Hunter St look like a deserted street.

“Economic wankery” starts at the top.

continue to experience the pleasure of watching the ‘roos at sunset, listening to the birds, and discovering the elusive threatened species of the area.

A minimal fire trail through the 223ha property and a nice post and rail fence along the Old Maitland Rd with suitable explanatory signs would be good.

For years to come residents and tourists alike will be drawn to the area and marvel at this rare amenity.

Email, Oct 13 David Hollingsworth, Mardi

Mike Baird now works for a bank, which reminds me of the story of a guy telling his mate “don’t tell mum I work at a bank, she thinks I am a security guard at the local brothel”.

Email, Oct 16 Richard Ryan, Summerland Point

Federal ICAC ‘too horrible’ FORUM

Imagine if we had the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) watching over Federal Parliament.

It’s too horrible to imagine the

outcome.

Even Jesus was betrayed by Judas with a kiss – from a man,

not a woman.

I believe most traitors are men, not women, in politics.

Email, Oct 2 Richard Ryan, Summerland Point

FORUM

Advertising – good and bad It is absolutely wonderful to hear and see commercials on local radio and NSW television encouraging people to get their COVID-19 vaccinations.

disappointing to see so many commercials and advertisements on TV and in mainstream newspapers encouraging people to lose their money in gambling.

Appalling!

Fantastic!

Meanwhile, it is extremely

Email, Oct 8 Gary Balzola, Budgewoi

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Against ‘animal abuse’ FORUM

I was reading how proud and affiliated this new Central Coast Zoo is with the hideous circus that kept the lions as performing prisoners for years (“Six lions retire to Wyong Creek” Chronicle, p13,

Oct 6).

I’ve organised protests and protested outside of that circus many times over the years.

The Central Coast Zoo is

continually gushing about how wonderfully the circus looked after the animals.

Animal abuse can no longer be tolerated.

Email, Oct 7 Zoe Martin, Gosford

Out of the mouths of teens FORUM

I thought the days of old Mother Grundy were gone but apparently not.

If Phil Crowther is distressed by some of the language used in television broadcasts (“Wars and words both vile”, Chronicle Forum, Sep 29), all he has to do is stop watching.

As for his concern about 16-year-olds, I can’t think of

many words I hadn’t heard by the time I was 16 (including the Latin ones), and most of the 16-year-olds I meet these days are a lot more sophisticated than I ever was.

I’m sure they could enlighten him about a few words he’s

never heard of.

It reminds me of the old joke about a mother saying to her adolescent daughter, “It’s time we had a talk about sex”, and the daughter replying, “Yes, Mum, what did you want to know?”

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Women knit scarves for climate action

Kerry Kable (left) and Sandy Green

A group of Central Coast women has come together to knit for climate action, crafting scarves that represent the average global temperature from 1919-2019.

The group are a part of the nationwide initiative called Common Grace, a movement of Australian Christians who are fighting social injustices in the community.

Halekulani based member, Sandy Green, said the local group had created and sent out scarves to politicians to start a conversation about climate change.

“A number of Central Coast knitters responded to Common Grace’s call to draw our politicians’ attention to our rapidly warming world.

“There were at least 11 other people knitting scarves on the Central Coast.

“Recently Kerry Kable, Joy Dyer, Rosie Shorter and I met online with Federal Member for Shortland, Pat Conroy, and NSW Senator, Deborah O’Neill, to discuss the significance of the scarves.

“They both expressed their appreciation for the gift and supported the call for action on climate change.

“Knitting my scarf, which was sent to Mr Conroy, really brought home to me the rate at which our planet is warming.

“I am passionate about ensuring the future of our planet for my grandchildren, but as I knitted each band of colour, starting with dark blue which represented the average global temperature in 1919, then from blues to yellow, pink and finally dark red representing the temperature in 2019, and I was tragically reminded that our Earth is warming at an

alarming rate,” Green said.

Another member, Kerry Kable, said she shared her passion for the environment with her grandchildren.

“Even though I don’t love knitting, I was given needles, wool and encouragement.

“I took my efforts to Mackay when I visited my little grandchildren earlier in the year.

“Six-year-old Evie made one stitch after another… it was a moment of shared love for each other and this Earth.

“The label on my completed scarf, showing our name and password read, Made by Kerry 2251 and Evie 2740,” Kable said.

The group sent Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, and Member for Dawson, George Christensen scarves but did not receive responses from the MPs.

Politicians who received a scarf were also requested to wear them on the last day of sitting in Parliament on October 21.

Common Grace is an online Christian movement for justice that aims to inspire and organise Australian Christians.

Their campaigns aim to resolve social justice issues including Aboriginal deaths in custody, working towards a treaty for Reconciliation Week, Addressing climate change, campaigning for the end of detention for refugees and asylum seekers, as well as calling for better funding and more effective policies to address domestic and family violence.

The group launched in 2014 and has amassed more than 48,000 members.

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Yuley exhibits 40 original works Central Coast artist, Yuley Buist, has been painting since she was a child, but in the past five years her work has taken off, with a series of exhibitions at various venues.

She is now preparing for her first show at Tuggerah’s Red Tree Gallery from November 11 to December 24.

Change of Art by Yuli will feature around 40 original works, ranging in size and price.

“I don’t really characterise my artwork as any particular style,” Buist said.

“They are mostly landscapes or seascapes, but they are quirky, with lots of colour, and often contain a twist.

“There are two sides to me – the painter and the writer – so I find my artwork always has some kind of narrative.

“Whatever idea I have to begin with is not what I end up with - the artwork develops with its own narrative as ideas come to me whilst I’m painting.

“I might start out painting a

Yuley Buist at work

mountain and end up doing a stream.

“I like to add quirky elements.

“For example, I was painting a landscape when I somehow ended up painting in some rabbit ears.

“That took me to an Alice in Wonderland place and I ended up adding other elements of that story into the piece, including the eyes of a cat, a pocket watch and a Mad Hatter’s jacket.

“You have to look to find them

– they’re there but they’re not there.”

Born in Sydney, Buist moved to the Central Coast in the 1990s.

She has undergone formal training at TAFE and with

private tutors including Kadira Jennings.

“I attend a lot of art classes as I believe you must always learn and never stop,” she said.

“Though I do enjoy painting in different mediums most of the

works are in acrylic.

“I paint quickly to begin with, but the painting may take on many layers.

“The evolution requires me to rub back paint often revealing a character that becomes my ‘story’.”

Buist sometimes gains her inspiration from other artworks but most often from her surroundings.

“Every time you turn around on the Coast there’s inspiration – from the sea to the bush,” she said.

“The freer I am with the artwork, the better it turns out.

“The works are not always inspired locally.

“For example, I did one panting inspired by the multicoloured houses along the coastline of Spain.”

“My work is ever evolving; bold colour is its primary function and to explore what comes from within.”

Change of Art opens at Red Tree Gallery on November 11.

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Creative arts project funding closes October 31 Creative Art Central is an annual Council-led program open to local professional artists and producers across all art forms offering up to $15,000 per project for five successful applicants.

The program is supported by the Central Coast’s leading arts organisations and venues including Gosford Regional Gallery, Laycock Street Community Theatre, Central Coast Conservatorium of Music, NAISDA and The Art House Wyong.

Local artists are invited to pitch ideas to create original works for the region, with up to six commissions available to professional or emerging artisits.

Central Coast Council Director

of Community and Recreation Services, Julie Vaughan, said the program is seeking applications for works that are of a professional standard and provide an opportunity for the community to participate or collaborate in the creative process.

“Creative Art Central is an important action of the Central Coast Cultural Plan and supports the development of innovative and contemporary work across all art-forms.

“The program will commission a variety of new high-quality works that will lead to the local industry and enhance our creative identity.

“Creative Art Central has flow-on effects for the local economy and a focus on public programs offers the community

Creation in Isolation, written and directed by Andrew Lee

new opportunities to engage with art and culture on the Coast,” Vaughan said.

Council Administrator, Rik Hart, said a diverse mix of artists who are skilled in all mediums and from a range of backgrounds are encouraged

to apply.

“Creative partnerships build the footprint of creative industries on the Coast and deliver significant benefits across the arts, business and tourism sectors.

“I encourage local emerging

and professional creative practitioners to apply for the program to create works and share stories that inspire the Central Coast community,” Hart said.

Registrations opened on October 18 and they close on October 31.

Since the program’s inception in 2011, Creative Arts Central has funded new creative initiatives across a diverse range of artforms, and has provided employment for more than 275 artists, attracting audiences of over 24,000 people.

Some projects that have been funded in previous years include, a screenplay for a new film and workshops for local filmmakers created by Dean Russell, development of a new

performance work incorporating First Nations’ stories by Emily Flannery, a multidisciplinary arts project involving photography, film storytelling and mentoring by Sharon Aldrick.

Other projects that have been funded include the Naughty Noodle Fun House which delivered two pilot performances of Summer Sizzler and NAIDOC Nylon at Laycock Theatre, a concept development of a feature film drama set on the Central Coast by script writer, Andrew Lee, and a series of weaving workshops around the Coast for women from all backgrounds to connect, share stories, and build friendships by Lisa Edwards.

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Kathleen just fascinated with hats Kathleen Watson has a passion for fashion, crafting unique hats and fascinators from scratch.

The Toukley-based milliner said she has been a hatter for 12 years, learning the craft at Newcastle and Ultimo TAFE. “It’s an interesting story how I got into hat making.

“I originally applied to study fashion at TAFE in Tighes Hill, and they asked me if I wanted to study millinery, … I had no idea what it was, but I said yes and discovered a passion for it.

“I’m very passionate about it and it’s very satisfying.

“Once you know all the materials and know how they work together you can really play around with it to make it fit.

“In TAFE we had to make

Kathleen Watson making a statement with hats

projects for a fashion show, and I would always say to the other women to have fun and play around with it.

“I love to make a statement

with my hats,” Watson said.

Watson has been awarded internationally for her creations, picking up awards in France in 2010 and 2012, as well as

competing in hat competitions in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

“I won first prize in Paris, and I’ve visited Toulouse, France

where they have massive hat factories which I got to tour.

“I also run hat making courses, and on the P&O and Carnival Cruises ships I ran a course to show women how to make a fascinator.

“I’ve taught classes on how to design hats based on face profiles for hat making.

“Through COVID, I’ve been running hat making courses through Zoom here in Australia and overseas, my last one was actually for a group in Ireland.

“I’m also a part of the Milliners Association of Australia, and I work with schools as well.

“Twice a year I do the Spring Carnival, and I’ve also got my studio in Toukley where women can come along and have a hat designed,” Watson said.

Watson estimates she has made at least 500 hats.

“I’ve made quite a lot of hats over the years, and they all take a different amount of time to create.

“The time it takes to complete a hat really depends on the hat.

“The one I made for the Melbourne Cup took me a week to create by hand.

“I mould the hat, block it, stitch it together and then trim it.

“For fascinators, they usually take around two to three hours.

“They’re a lot of fun fascinators,” Watson said.

Watson creates an extensive range of head garments ranging from men’s and women’s hats in many shapes and styles as well as fascinators, costume hats, unisex hats and adornments.

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$50 tourism vouchers too little too late says Harris A $530M State Government support package announced on October 20 to revive the events and tourism industry has been applauded by Business NSW Central Coast, but Shadow Minister for Jobs, Investment and Tourism and Member for Wyong, David Harris, says a $50 voucher scheme which forms part of the package will be offered too late to help Coast businesses recover.

Major elements of the package include: $250M for an expanded Stay & Rediscover scheme providing a $50 voucher to all NSW adults; $150M to support the recovery of major event activity across the state including $50M for a Regional Events Package; $50M for a CBDs Revitalisation Program to support events and activations; an Event Saver Fund to provide immediate support to organisers if events are cancelled or disrupted by any public health orders during the 2021-22 summer; and a $25M Festival Relaunch package.

“Business NSW has been telling Government since the start of the pandemic that different industries were being impacted in different ways, but the tourism, hospitality and events sector has been the hardest hit,” said Business NSW Regional Director, Paula Martin.

“What is particularly pleasing is this is not a Sydney-centric package but recognises that all of NSW has a part to play in the economic recovery through regional events and tourism, with support for satellite CBDs

a cornerstone of this funding.

“Central Coast business in this sector will be delighted with the Event Saver Fund which allows for immediate financial support for organisers of events that are disrupted or cancelled due to a Public Health Order this summer.

“This will allow confidence in investment and employment without a fear of being left footing a huge bill.

“The exciting part about this support package is that it will actually encourage more business investment and drive a collaborative partnership between business and Government in securing events and once again making NSW the number one destination in the Asia Pacific region for both business and travel.

“What is crucial is the targeted approach the Government takes from here in deciding where the money is spent – this needs to be on a needs-based approach to ensure maximum return on investment.

“A united approach using insight from stakeholders on the ground will be crucial to ensuring this package delivers for all of NSW.” NSW Labor said the $50 voucher scheme, not set to be delivered until March next year, would be offered too late for tourism operators to recover, after being decimated over the last four months due to lockdowns and travel restrictions.

“The tourism industry in NSW, particularly in regional areas, has been hit extremely hard,” Shadow Minister for Jobs, Investment and Tourism and Member for Wyong,

David Harris, said.

“These are family businesses who rely on people visiting to put food on the table and pay the bills.

“A $50 voucher in six months’ time isn’t exactly the stimulus tourism operators and accommodation providers were expecting.

“Tourism operators can’t afford to wait until next year for relief.

“The Government should

have had these vouchers ready to go by November 1 when regional travel resumes and well ahead of the Christmas/ New Year holiday period when families will be able to travel.”

Harris said $50 vouchers fall short of the amount given in other states.

“For example, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory offered vouchers of up to $200,” he said.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said providing the vouchers in March would prolong the bumper summer season.

“The vouchers can be spent on accommodation anywhere in NSW and given our proximity to Sydney, this means that many thousands of people will choose our region as their destination of choice,” he said.

“We have some of NSW’s best

beaches and tourism attractions here on the Central Coast, and I am looking forward to seeing our local businesses come back with a bang.

“The Dine & Discover vouchers have already injected over $5M into the Central Coast economy, which just goes to show the impact that NSW Government-funded stimulus is having.”

Terry Collins

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Thursday 28 October

Wednesday 27 October

ABC (C20/21)

6:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 12:30 1:35 2:00 3:15 4:05 5:05 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:05 9:55 10:20 11:00 11:15 11:30 12:20 12:35 1:20 2:20 6:00 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:00 12:00 1:00 1:30 2:00 3:15 4:10 5:10 6:00 6:55 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:35 9:35 10:25 10:45 11:00 11:15

Friday 29 October

6:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 1:30 3:00 4:05 5:05 6:00 7:00 7:30

8:30 9:20 10:05 10:50 11:05

PRIME (C61/60)

News Breakfast [s] 6:00 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] Don’t Stop The Music [s] 11:30 Monty Don’s French Gardens 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] National Press Club Address Media Watch (PG) [s] Parliament Question Time [s] ABC News Afternoons [s] Escape From The City [s] Grand Designs Australia (PG) 2:00 The Drum [s] 3:00 ABC News [s] 7.30 [s] 4:00 Hard Quiz (PG) [s] 5:00 6:00 Gruen [s] 7:00 Frayed (MA15+) [s] 7:30 Back (MA15+) [s] Adam Hills: The Last Leg (M) ABC Late News [s] 8:30 The Business [s] Four Corners [s] 10:30 11:00 Media Watch (PG) [s] Father Brown (M v) [s] 12:00 Without Limits (PG) [s] Adam Hills: The Last Leg (M) 12:30 6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 11:30 Australian Story [s] 12:00 The Greek Islands [s] The Crown And Us - The Story Of The Royals In Australia [s] ABC News At Noon [s] Hard Quiz (PG) [s] How Deadly World (PG) [s] Parliament Question Time [s] ABC News Afternoons [s] 2:00 Escape From The City [s] Grand Designs Australia (PG) 2:30 The Drum [s] 3:00 Sammy J (PG) [s] 4:00 ABC News [s] 5:00 7.30 [s] 6:00 Foreign Correspondent [s] 7:00 Q&A [s] 8:30 Secrets Of The Museum [s] You Can’t Ask That (PG) [s] 10:30 ABC Late News [s] 11:00 The Business [s] 12:00 Big Weather (And How To 12:30 Survive It) [s] 6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 11:30 Q&A [s] 12:00 Australia Remastered: Wild Kakadu [s] 2:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 3:00 Back Roads [s] 4:00 Sherlock (M v) [s] 5:00 ABC News Afternoons [s] 6:00 Escape From The City [s] Grand Designs Australia (PG) 7:00 The Drum [s] ABC News [s] Gardening Australia [s] – Costa explains how to protect the veggie patch with plants; 8:30 Millie Ross visits a wildlife friendly garden; Tino Carnevale learns about the plants of subAntarctic Macquarie Island.

Annika (M v) [s] The Accident (M l,s,v) [s] Talking Heads: Her Big Chance (PG) [s] 11:15 ABC Late News [s] 1:00 The Vaccine [s]

Also see: ABC PLUS (Channel 22) ABC ME (Channel 23) ABC NEWS (Channel 24)

NINE (C81/80)

6:00 Sunrise [s] The Morning Show [s] 9:00 Seven Morning News [s] 11:30 Movie: “Her Last Will” (M v) 12:00 (’16) – Desperate for money, a 1:00 former con woman agrees to drive an old woman insane so 2:00 her children can inherit her 3:00 fortune. Stars: Rya Kihlstedt, 4:00 Patrick Fischler 5:00 Code Blue - Murder: The Murder Of John Williams (M) [s] 6:00 The Chase UK (PG) [s] 7:00 7:30 Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] Seven News [s] Home And Away (PG) [s] Highway Patrol: Motorbike Mayhem/ Burning Rubber (PG) 8:40 America’s Got Talent: Audition 5 (PG) [s] 9:40 The Latest Seven News [s] Chicago Fire: What Comes 10:40 11:10 Next (M) [s] The Windsors (M l,s) [s] 12:00 1:00 Home Shopping 6:00 Sunrise [s] 9:00 The Morning Show [s] 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] Movie: “Dying To Be Loved” 12:00 (M v) (’16) – Jill’s daughter takes up with a bad boy whose 1:00 violent behaviour lands the 2:00 couple in trouble. To avoid prison, they appear to commit a 3:00 double suicide, but Jill sets out 4:00 5:00 to prove they’ve gone on the 6:00 run. Stars: Lindsay Hartley Kochie’s Business Builders 7:00 7:30 Border Security 8:30 International (PG) [s] The Chase UK (PG) [s] Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] 9:30 Seven News [s] 10:30 Home And Away (PG) [s] America’s Got Talent: 11:00 Audition 6 (PG) [s] 11:30 The Latest Seven News [s] 12:40 Chicago Fire: (M) [s] 1:05 Black-ish (PG) [s] 1:30 Home Shopping 6:00 Sunrise [s] 9:00 The Morning Show [s] Seven Morning News [s] 11:30 Movie: “Fallen Hearts” (M s,v) 12:00 (’19) Stars: Annalise Basso House Of Wellness (PG) [s] The Chase UK (PG) [s] Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] 2:00 Seven News [s] 3:00 Better Homes And Gardens 4:00 [s] – Joh catches up with artist 5:00 6:00 Elise Cameron-Smith. Adam creates some curvy shelves.

7:00 Fast Ed makes a mango 7:30 no-bake cheesecake tart.

Movie: “Hacksaw Ridge” (M v) 8:30 (’16) – The extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss, an army medic in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, 10:50 who saved seventy five men without firing or carrying a gun.

Stars: Andrew Garfield Program To Be Advised 1:05 Home Shopping 1:30

Also see: 7TWO (Channel 62) 7MATE (Channel 63) 7FLIX (Channel 66)

Today [s] Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] Desperate Housewives: The Story Of Lucy And Jessie (M) Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] – The Blockheads are ecstatic as their families are coming to visit. The teams reflect on their time on The Block.

Love Island Australia (M) [s] Botched: Most Memorable Celebrity Patients (M) [s] NINE News Late [s] Pearson: The Rival (M) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Today [s] Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] Desperate Housewives: A Spark. To Pierce The Dark (M) Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] RBT: Morning After (PG) [s] Paramedics (M) [s] – Cam responds to a call for help from parents desperate to save their son who is bleeding to death.

Love Island Australia (M) [s] Love Island Australia Afterparty (M) [s] NINE News Late [s] Reported Missing: Archie (M) Rivals [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Home Shopping Today [s] Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] Movie: “Benny & Joon” (PG) (’93) Stars: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt, CCH Pounder, William H Macy Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo: Giraffe Migration (PG) [s] Movie: “Marley & Me” (PG) (’08) Stars: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin Movie: “The Big Sick” (M l,s) (’17) Stars: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupam Kher Destination WA [s] Home Shopping

Also see: GEM (Channel 82) GO! (Channel 83/88) LIFE (Channel 84)

TEN (C10)

6:00 The Talk [s] 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] 12:00 Dr Phil (PG) [s] 1:00 The Bachelorette Australia (M) [s] 2:10 Entertainment Tonight [s] 2:30 Farm To Fork [s] 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] 4:00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bachelorette Australia (M) [s] 8:30 Bull: Bull Undone/ A Friend In Need/ Separation (M) [s] 11:30 The Project (PG) [s] 12:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] 1:30 Home Shopping 6:00 The Talk [s] 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] 12:00 Dr Phil (PG) [s] 1:00 Program To Be Advised 2:00 Entertainment Tonight [s] 2:30 Farm To Fork [s] 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] 4:00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bachelorette Australia (M) [s] 9:10 Gogglebox (PG) [s] 10:10 Program To Be Advised 11:10 The Project (PG) [s] 12:10 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] 1:00 Home Shopping 4:30 CBS Mornings [s] 6:00 The Talk [s] 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] 12:00 Dr Phil (PG) [s] 2:00 The Living Room [s] 2:30 Farm To Fork [s] 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] 4:00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 7:30 The Graham Norton Show (M) [s] 8:30 Program To Be Advised 9:30 Just For Laughs (M) [s] 10:30 Melbourne Cup Carnival Preview Show (MA15+) [s] 11:00 The Project (PG) [s] 12:00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] 1:00 Home Shopping

Also see: 10 PEACH (Channel 11) 10 BOLD (Channel 12)

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SBS (C30)

5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 2:00 2:30 3:30 3:40 4:10 5:05 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:30 8:35 9:30 10:45 11:15 12:15 4:35 5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 2:00 2:15 3:40 4:10 5:05 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:30 8:30 10:30 11:00 11:55 1:55 4:00 5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 2:00 3:00 3:40 4:10 5:05 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:35 8:30 10:00 11:00 11:30 12:25

France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour Dateline Insight Destination Flavour Japan Bitesize The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) Secrets Of The Railway (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Australia’s Health Revolution (M) 24 Hours In Emergency: Turn Back Time (M) Railways Of The Western Front (PG) SBS World News Atlantic Crossing (M v) (In Norwegian/ English) The Killing (M l) (In Danish) Vice Guide To Film (M l,v) France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour Destination Flavour China Bitesize The Eviction (PG) The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) Secrets Of The Railway: The Deadly Liverpool To Manchester Railway (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Coastal Devon And Cornwall With Michael Portillo (PG) Red Election (PG) SBS World News Gomorrah (MA15+) (In Italian) Mr Mercedes (MA15+) The Name Of The Rose (MA15+) Ainsley’s Australian Market Menu France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour Back To The Moon NITV News: Nula The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) Secrets Of The Railway: The Cairns Kuranda Mining Railway (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Legends Of The Pharaohs: Mystery Of The Great Pyramid (PG) Titanic’s Lost Evidence (PG) Hindenburg - The New Evidence (PG) SBS World News 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M l,s) The Eagle (M l,v) (In Danish/ Swedish)

Also see: SBS VICELAND (Channel 31) SBS MOVIES (Channel 32) SBS FOOD (Channel 33) SBS NITV (Channel 34)

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Saturday 30 October

ABC (C20/21)

6:00 7:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 12:30 1:30 3:00 3:55 4:30 5:00 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:20 9:20 10:10 11:10

Tuesday 2 November

Monday 1 November

Sunday 31 October

11:55 6:00 7:00 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:30 2:30 3:30 4:30 5:00 5:30 6:30 7:00 7:40 8:40 9:35 10:20 11:10 11:55

rage (PG) [s] Weekend Breakfast [s] rage (PG) [s] rage Guest Programmer (PG) ABC News At Noon [s] Annika (M v) [s] Midsomer Murders: Written In The Stars (M d,v) [s] Restoration Australia: Jack Clarke, Victoria (PG) [s] Dream Gardens: Connells Point (PG) [s] Landline [s] Rick Stein’s Secret France (PG) [s] Monty Don’s French Gardens [s] ABC News [s] Grantchester (PG) [s] Shetland (M l,v) [s] Fires (M l) [s] Call The Midwife (M) [s] Father Brown: The Passing Bell (M v) [s] rage Guest Programmer (MA15+) [s]

PRIME (C61/60)

6:00 7:00 10:00 12:00 5:00 5:30 6:00 7:00

8:30

11:15 12:15

6:00 rage (PG) [s] 7:00 Weekend Breakfast [s] 10:00 Insiders [s] 12:00 Offsiders [s] The World This Week [s] 12:30 Compass [s] Songs Of Praise [s] ABC News At Noon [s] 2:30 Landline [s] Gardening Australia [s] Rick Stein’s Secret France 5:30 (PG) [s] 6:00 Secrets Of The Museum [s] Roger Swainston: Drawn To 7:00 Water (PG) [s] 8:00 Art Works [s] Antiques Roadshow [s] 8:30 Back Roads [s] ABC News Sunday [s] 10:30 Restoration Australia [s] Fires (M) [s] We Hunt Together (MA15+) [s] 11:30 Stateless: Incognita (M l,v) [s] 12:30 Talking Heads (M) [s] Sherlock: The Final Problem 1:30 (M v) [s]

6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 11:30 Landline [s] 12:00 Restoration Australia [s] ABC News At Noon [s] Shetland (PG) [s] Doctor Foster (M l,s) [s] 2:00 ABC News Afternoons [s] Love On The Spectrum (PG) 3:00 Grand Designs Australia (PG) 4:00 5:00 The Drum [s] 6:00 ABC News [s] 7:00 7.30 [s] 7:30 Australian Story [s] 9:30 Four Corners [s] Media Watch (PG) [s] The Detectives (M) [s] ABC Late News [s] The Business [s] Big Deal (M l) [s] We Hunt Together (MA15+) [s] The Accident (M l,s,v) [s] How To Build A Time 11:45 Machine [s] 2:40 rage (MA15+) [s] 12:30 4:25 The Drum [s]

6:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:10 5:10 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:15 9:35 10:35 10:50 11:05 12:05 12:50 1:40

6:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:05 5:05 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:05 8:30 9:25 10:35 10:50 11:05 12:10 1:40 3:10 4:25 5:25

6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 11:30 Four Corners [s] 12:00 Antiques Roadshow [s] ABC News At Noon [s] Grantchester (M l,v) [s] 2:00 Doctor Foster (M l,s) [s] 3:00 ABC News Afternoons [s] Love On The Spectrum (PG) 4:00 Grand Designs Australia (PG) 5:00 6:00 The Drum [s] 7:00 ABC News [s] 7:30 7.30 [s] The Greek Islands With Julia 9:00 Bradbury: Rhodes [s] Going Country (PG) [s] Just Between Us: Family Is What You Make It (PG) [s] ABC Late News [s] The Business [s] Q&A [s] 11:00 Revelation (MA15+) [s] Midsomer Murders (M v) [s] 11:30 12:00 rage (MA15+) [s] The Drum [s] 1:00 7.30 [s]

Also see: ABC PLUS (Channel 22) ABC ME (Channel 23) ABC NEWS (Channel 24)

Home Shopping [s] Weekend Sunrise [s] The Morning Show [s] Seven’s Horse Racing: Rosehill/ Eagle Farm [s] Seven News At 5 [s] Border Security - Australia’s Front Line (PG) [s] Seven News [s] Repco Supercars Championship 2021: Sydney Supernight *Live* From Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek, NSW [s] Movie: “Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix” (PG) (’07) – With the wizarding community in denial over Voldermort’s return and a ghastly new teacher, Harry and his friends secretly help train their fellow students to combat evil. Stars: Daniel Radcliffe Program To Be Advised Repco Supercars Championship: Highlights [s]

6:00 7:00 10:00 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:30 2:00

Home Shopping Weekend Sunrise [s] The Morning Show Weekend Seven’s Motorsport Classic: Kiwi Classics [s] Repco Supercars Championship 2021: Sydney Supernight - Pre-Race [s] Repco Supercars Championship 2021: Sydney Supernight - Race [s] Sydney Weekender [s] Seven News [s] 7News Spotlight: Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pulli (M) [s] Border Security - Australia’s Front Line (PG) [s] Grace: Looking Good Dead (MA15+) [s] Criminal Confessions: Cold Justice Confessions (M v) [s] The Blacklist: Godwin Page (MA15+) [s] Repco Supercars Championship: Highlights [s] Home Shopping

6:00 7:00 10:00 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30

3:00 4:30 5:00 5:30 6:00 7:00 7:30 9:40 11:35 1:20 1:45

1:30 5:00 5:30 6:00 7:00 8:30 9:30 10:00 11:00 11:50 12:40 1:05

6:00 Sunrise [s] 9:00 The Morning Show [s] 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] Movie: “His Perfect Obsession” 12:00 (M v) (’18) Stars: Arianne 1:30 Zucker, Ali Skovbye, Mikael 2:00 Conde, Deborah Grover Police - Hour Of Duty (M) [s] 3:00 4:00 The Chase UK (PG) [s] 5:00 Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] 6:00 7:00 Seven News [s] 7:30 Home And Away (PG) [s] Program To Be Advised Movie: “The Meg” (M) (’18) – When the members of an underwater research facility are under threat owing to a seventy five feet prehistoric shark, Jonas Taylor, a deep sea diver, 9:00 10:00 is hired to save them. Stars: Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, Li Bingbing, Jessica McNamee 11:10 11:40 The Goldbergs: Dee-Vorced (M) [s] 12:30 Home Shopping Sunrise [s] The Morning Show [s] Seven Morning News [s] Movie: “Dangerous Matrimony” (M) (’18) Stars: Emily O’Brien, Rob Mayes, Sabina Gadecki Police - Hour Of Duty (M) [s] The Chase UK (PG) [s] Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] Seven News [s] Home And Away (PG) [s] Program To Be Advised Conjoined Twins (PG) [s] – This documentary explores the world of conjoined twins, discovering how families cope with the extraordinary circumstance of being parents to the rarest of babies - one of every 200,000 live births.

The Latest Seven News [s] The Goldbergs: Eracism (M) God Friended Me: Instant Karma (PG) [s] Home Shopping

Also see: 7TWO (Channel 62) 7MATE (Channel 63) 7FLIX (Channel 66)

TEN (C10)

NINE (C81/80)

6:00 9:00 11:30 12:00 1:30 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:40

9:40 10:40 11:10 12:05 1:00 1:30

Animal Tales (PG) [s] Weekend Today [s] Today Extra - Saturday (PG) Animal Embassy (PG) [s] Destination WA [s] Good Food Kitchen [s] My Way [s] Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo: Giraffe Migration (PG) [s] The Block: Garage, Study And Wine Cellar Week (PG) [s] The Garden Gurus [s] NINE News: First At Five [s] Getaway (PG) [s] NINE News Saturday [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Movie: “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again” (PG) (’18) Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Andy Garcia Movie: “Pitch Perfect 3” (PG) (’17) Stars: Anna Kendrick Movie: “40 Days And 40 Nights” (M l,s) (’02) Stars: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon A Current Affair (PG) [s] Explore [s]

6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 9:00 9:30 12:00 6:00 7:00

8:30 9:30

11:30 1:30 5:00 6:00 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 12:00 1:00

Today [s] Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week Reveal (PG) [s] Getaway (PG) [s] Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Parental Guidance (PG) [s] – Ally Langdon and parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson team up with ten brave sets of parents with very different parenting styles, putting their methods to the ultimate test.

Love Island Australia (M) [s] Kath & Kim: The Wedding/ The Announcement (PG) [s] NINE News Late [s] New Amsterdam: Cavitation (M) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s]

6:00 The Talk [s] 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] 12:00 Dr Phil (M) [s] 1:00 Program To Be Advised 2:30 Entertainment Tonight [s] 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] 4:00 Everyday Gourmet [s] 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 7:30 Celebrity MasterChef Australia (PG) [s] 8:40 Have You Been Paying Attention? (MA15+) [s] 9:40 Melbourne Cup Preview Show (PG) [s] 10:40 Program To Be Advised 11:40 The Project (PG) [s] 12:40 The Late Show (PG) [s] 1:30 Home Shopping 4:30 CBS Mornings [s]

2:30 3:00 4:10 4:30 5:00 6:30 7:30 9:10 10:00 11:00 12:00 4:30

Today [s] 6:00 Today Extra (PG) [s] 7:00 NINE’s Morning News [s] 10:00 Parental Guidance (PG) [s] Good Food Kitchen [s] Pointless (PG) [s] 5:30 Tipping Point (PG) [s] 6:30 NINE’s Afternoon News [s] 7:30 Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Parental Guidance (PG) [s] Love Island Australia (M) [s] – For the first time Love Island Australia will be filmed in Australia, in the stunning 8:30 location of northern NSW. 9:25 Hosted by Sophie Monk.

Travel Guides: Tropical North Queensland (PG) [s] NINE News Late [s] Damian Lewis - Spy Wars: A 11:25 Perfect Traitor (M v) [s] 12:25 Tipping Point (PG) [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] 1:30 Home Shopping 4:30

Also see: GEM (Channel 82) GO! (Channel 83/88) LIFE (Channel 84)

27 October 2021

SBS (C30)

Reel Action [s] 5:00 France 24 Feature News Religious Programs [s] 5:15 NHK World English News Healthy Homes [s] 5:30 Worldwatch Escape Fishing With ET [s] 1:00 PBS Newshour All 4 Adventure [s] 2:00 Small Business Secrets Taste Of Australia With 2:30 Athletics: Marathon De Paris Hayden Quinn [s] Highlights Studio 10 Saturday (PG) [s] 3:35 Going Places With Ernie Horse Racing: Penfolds Dingo Victoria Derby Day *Live* [s] 4:05 The Architecture Of Ra 10 News First [s] 5:35 The Buildings That Fought Making It Australia [s] – It is Hitler (PG) the semi final and there is only 6:30 SBS World News one more episode before one 7:30 Celebrity Letters And Maker wins the $100,000 and Numbers (M) the patch for Master Maker.

8:30 Dambusters With Dan Snow Program To Be Advised (PG) Ambulance UK (M d) [s] – A 9:25 Secret Life Of Lighthouses: cocaine binge, a horrifying The Bell Rock traffic collision and a shocking 10:20 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does accident are just some of the Countdown (M l,s) cases that the team of skilled 11:15 Movie: “Harry Brown” (MA15+) paramedics must attend to. (’09) Stars: Michael Caine Program To Be Advised 1:15 Movie: “Lost City Of Z” (M) Home Shopping (’16) Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Religious Programs Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller

Animal Tales (PG) [s] Weekend Today [s] Sports Sunday (PG) [s] The Xtreme CollXtion (PG) [s] Fishing Australia (PG) [s] Ultimate Rush (PG) [s] World’s Greatest Journeys (PG) [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] NINE News: First At Five [s] RBT: Banana Wine (PG) [s] NINE News Sunday [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week Reveal (PG) [s] 60 Minutes (M) [s] NINE News Late [s] The First 48: Deadly Morning (M) [s] Cold Case - New Leads Wanted: Jane Furlong (MA15+) [s] Chicago Med: Heavy Is The Head (M) [s] The Garden Gurus [s] The Xtreme CollXtion (PG) [s]

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Religious Programs [s] Three Veg And Meat [s] Left Off The Map [s] Destination Dessert (PG) [s] Studio 10 Sunday (PG) [s] Jamie & The Nonnas [s] Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn [s] Healthy Homes Australia [s] The People’s Cup - Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour [s] Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] Program To Be Advised My Market Kitchen [s] Farm To Fork [s] 10 News First [s] The Sunday Project (PG) [s] Celebrity MasterChef Australia (PG) [s] CSI: Vegas: Long Pig (M) [s] FBI: Never Trust A Stranger (M) [s] The Sunday Project (PG) [s] Home Shopping CBS Mornings [s]

The Talk [s] Studio 10 (PG) [s] Horse Racing: Lexus Melbourne Cup Day Early Session *Live* [s] 10 News First [s] The Project (PG) [s] The Dog House Australia (PG) [s] – How will flat mates Mercedes and Jason decide between exotic Catahoula pups Brynn and Bristol? And Is Vada a cattle x bull mastiff the right dog for Correan and her adorable son Rocco?

The Cheap Seats (M l) [s] Movie: “Ride Like A Girl” (PG) (’19) – The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. Stars: Teresa Palmer The Project (PG) [s] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] Home Shopping CBS Mornings [s]

Also see: 10 PEACH (Channel 11) 10 BOLD (Channel 12)

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France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch Speedweek Motor Sports: The AusMoto Show/ W Series Highlights Bushfire Animal Rescue (PG) Small Business Secrets (PG) Inside The SS Intoxication (PG) (In English/ German) SBS World News Inside Central Station: Mardi Gras (M) Australia Uncovered: Incarceration Nation (PG) Marry Me, Marry My Family (M l) (In English/ Hindi/ Maori/ Urdu) Untold Australia: Lebanese Beauty Queens (PG) 24 Hours In Emergency: Too Close For Comfort (M) Kevin McCloud - Rough Guide To The Future (M l) (In English/ Japanese/ Mandarin) Ainsley’s Australian Market France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch Inside Central Station: Mardi Gras (M) Where Are You Really From?

(PG) The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) The Supervet (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Britain’s Most Historic Towns: Restoration London (PG) Saved By A Stranger (M) The Best Of 24 Hours In Emergency: World’s Collide (M) SBS World News Bosch: Triple Play (MA15+) An Ordinary Woman (M l) (In Russian) Deep State (MA15+) France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour The Queen And The Coup (M) Where Are You Really From?

(PG) The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) My Grandparents War: Helena Bonham Carter (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Great Canadian Railroad Journeys: Halifax To Prince Edward Island (M) Insight: I Still Do Dateline: Desperately Seeking Sperm The Feed SBS World News The Point Before We Die (M d,l,v) (In Swedish)

Also see: SBS VICELAND (Channel 31) SBS MOVIES (Channel 32) SBS FOOD (Channel 33) SBS NITV (Channel 34)

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OUT & ABOUT Page 20 DOWN IN THE GARDEN: Grow Frangipani, a Tropical Garden Favourite 27 October 2021

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How to Grow a Frangipani

CHERALYN DARCEY

While staying on our tropical journey, I thought we could explore the frangipani as it provides what many of us are looking for in a Coast Garden with a bit of jungle theme.

Unusual branching, glossy deep foliage, exotically perfumed flowers and when we want the sun’s warmth in winter, most species comply by shedding their leaves.

No wonder the frangipani has become almost synonymous with this part of the world, so much so that many believe this South American tree to be a Sydney native.

Although they only grow approximately 20cm a year, they do have a small noninvasive root-ball and can easily be grown in large containers.

They just love the conditions over here and have settled right at home and so let’s explore this rather lovely favourite indepth.

First up, a little housekeeping: frangipani sap is toxic and a skin irritant so care must be taken with placement and with handling during gardening.

You will also need to be aware that frangipani will take a few years until the first flowers appear and that the vast majority are deciduous, meaning they will lose all their foliage in winter.

Most standard types attain a height of up to 6m with an umbrella shape to them and while they will tolerate light frosts, frangipani do far better in frost-free areas.

They need a free-draining sandy soil and detest getting wet feet so be careful not to overwater.

In winter, watering should be ceased altogether unless a succession of usually dry or hot days occur.

If you have a clay soil, they will struggle, and this is the number one reason this beautiful tree fails to thrive and can even die and although they can grow in most places, sun is critical and full sun most of the day is required.

They also respond very well to a fishbased fertiliser and seaweed-based boosters.

You will also find that an increase in phosphorus in your soil can boost your summer flower show.

Ensure that the root area is well mulched but allow space around the trunk to avoid water pooling.

Cuttings can be taken at any time but will do best if removed in late spring to early summer.

Select a nice firm branch and cut a section about 30cm in length.

Carefully remove any flowers and leaves from the lower 6cm of your cutting

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and then place upright along an outside shaded wall or fence that is protected from rain and water for about a month.

Once the end has completely dried out, plant into a pot of course sand and water well.

Continue watering weekly and once roots form, transplant into your desired final position.

Never tip-prune a frangipani tree, always remove entire branches if needed.

This tree can suffer from what is known as ‘frangipani rust’.

A fungicide is the answer and must be applied to all surfaces and dropped leaves disposed of in the regular rubbish bin.

Using a copper-based fungicide can also slow the rate of spread but if the tree overly effected, unfortunately you may have to remove entirely.

If your frangipani is failing to flower it could just be that it is still too young or that it is not obtaining enough sunlight each day.

YOU AND YOUR GARDEN: Carol, Point Clare

Sadly, Carol lost her gardening partner when her husband passed and now all the work rests on her shoulders.

I had a delightful conversation with Carol about the ways she has adapted.

“I keep it going and while it is harder, it keeps me fit and I love it.

I grow all my own vegetables year-round and that also keeps me busy” She added that while she can’t do the heavy work that her husband used to do, she has found ways to get it done and I love it!

“I get together with my friends, and we make a day out of it. We go to each other’s homes and have a gardening day. We help each other with what needs to be done and it’s also a great way to catch up.” This gardening working

bee means that Carol, and her friends, don’t have to give up the type of garden they have previously enjoyed, and it saves a lot of money. Other tips we chatted about included having a smaller lawn and popping in raised garden beds instead to increase self-sufficiency, save money and cut down on lawn upkeep.

How do you find gardening friends if you don’t have any?

Try your local community garden. Joining up will help you find like-minded souls to garden alongside with and form your own gardening bees. Carol’s joy with her gardening and the sharing of tasks with friends was so uplifting to hear!

I am back on the road with ‘You and Your Garden’ so if you would like me to visit your plants and you, (private & public gardens) please drop me a line: gardeningcentralcoast@gmail.com

Another reason could be a lack of phosphorous.

Try These Frangipani Aside from its delectable perfume, frangipani is now available in over 300 identified colours.

They will generally flower across the Central Coast and much of Australia from late November through until mid-April.

From whites through to creams, yellows, oranges, apricots, pinks of all shades to vibrant reds and on to even purple shades.

Here are a few that you might consider for your garden.

A little tip, any named ‘ruba’ will have the strongest scent.

Common Frangipani (Plumeria alba) are big, beautiful trees and the stuff that millions of artworks, textile and home décor designs are based on.

Fruit Salad Frangipani (Pulmeria acutifolia ‘Rubra’) is what grows in my garden and is my firm favourite.

They are a tricolour plant variety that has a yellow centre melting to white and then tinged in pinks.

Petite Pink Frangipani (Plumeria obtusa Dwarf) a popular potted frangipani that also works well as a hedge.

Singapore Plumeria (Plumeria obtusa) also known as PagodaTree and Singapore Graveyard Tree; this frangipani grows sweetly fragrant flowers in bunches.

Darwin Blood Red Frangipani (Plumeria ruba) is probably a must for tropical inspired gardens with its brilliant re blossoms and deep coloured branches.

North Queensland Blue Frangipani (Plumeria spp) with its intoxicating fragrance and what appear to be blue flowers, this rare variety is much desired plant collectors and the frangipani obsessed.

The blooms are not blue but rather a light dusty purple that appear blue to the eye.

Native Frangipani (Hymenosporum flavum) is not related to what we think of as ‘frangipani’ and although the fragrance is similar, closer observation will bear this out.

The trees have a distinctive bark, are evergreen and the flowers are a lot smaller in size.

Do you need this book? Yes! Costa embodies all that is good about gardening with the earth and his book is a joyful companion for any gardener, would be gardener or complete brown thumb.

It is brimming with solid advice while every page brings a smile to the reader’s face.

Personally, I think every child should have a copy of this stuffed in their stocking as it speaks about gardening and the local things everyone can do to care for our planet in such a friendly, fun way that is inspiring without at all talking down to kids or alienating others.

Make no mistake, it’s not a kid’s book, it’s an ‘everyone’ book and I was impressed with the sections on garden design including exercises to help you determine your microclimate and test your soil along with brilliant planning advice to help your garden thrive and not waste your money when selecting plants and making landscaping decisions.

Easily gets my 5 leaf out of 5 rating.

TASKS & TIPS FOR YOU THIS WEEK Get that compost moving because now the days are warmer, your compost will be decomposing faster.

Turn more regularly to get that air in to do its job.

Just a few things you could plant this week include herbs, Asian greens, asparagus, globe and Jerusalem artichoke, beans, beetroot, broccoli, cabbages, capsicum, carrot, celeriac, celery, cucumber, eggplant, endive, fennel, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, marrow, mustard greens, okra, parsnip, potato, pumpkin, radish, rhubarb, rocket, salsify, silverbeet, spring onion, sweetcorn, sweet potato, taro, tomato, turnip, warrigal greens, zucchini, sunflower, aster, bedding begonia, calendula, California poppy, carnation, celosia, chrysanthemum, coleus, cosmos, dahlia, dianthus, everlasting daisy, gaillardia, gazania, gerbera, honesty, inpatients, kangaroo paw, marigold, nasturtium, phlox, portulaca, salvia, snapdragon, waratah, zinnia.

Next Week: Grow Your Own Christmas Lunch Cheralyn Darcey is a gardening author, community garden coordinator and along with Pete Little, hosts ‘At Home with The Gardening Gang’ 8 - 10am every Saturday on CoastFM963.

She is also co-host of @ MostlyAboutPlants a weekly gardening podcast with Vicki White.

Send your gardening questions, events, and news to: gardeningcentralcoast@ gmail.com

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Collective wants planning panel to refuse vertical village A large redevelopment of the Nareen Gardens Village at Bateau Bay has met with resistance from neighbours but those in favour say the plans will help meet the huge demand for suitable aged care accommodation.

The $148M redevelopment plans will quadruple the size of Nareen Gardens, an independent living and aged care facility at 19 Bias Ave, operated by Uniting Church of Australia Property Trust.

Neighbours of Nareen Gardens, in the newly-formed Bateau Community Collective, say they’re not opposed to any redevelopment of the site, however they believe that any proposal should be consistent with the existing low density scale of the area.

In their submission opposing the proposal, they say that any plans should avoid impacts on surrounding residents, rather than trying to justify impacts, to maximise redevelopment potential of the site.

Spokesperson for Bateau Community Collective, Erin Breneger, said they were also worried for the residents of Nareen Gardens.

“Some residents I spoke to, they are just distraught, they are scared to speak up, but their voice isn’t being heard.

“Some of the residents bought in only 12 months ago and didn’t know that their homes were going to be demolished and that they’d be forced to move somewhere else, let alone into a four-storey apartment.

“These people have been an integral part of our community for the past 50 years and will continue to be but putting them into four-storey apartments will basically shut them off

An artist’s impression of the proposed Nareen Gardens redevelopment

from the community.

“They’ve got the most beautiful gardens and they all sit outside their little homes and chat to each other, and to think they are going to be knocked down, it’s just heartbreaking,” Breneger said.

She said the first time most of the neighbours knew of the development application (882/2021) was when it was placed on public exhibition, there was no community consultation, they were unaware of the design planning and were not asked to voice any issues they had.

Uniting’s redevelopment plans will quadruple the size of Nareen Gardens to accommodate more than 400 people on the 3.7ha site.

The plan is to demolish the existing 62 single-storey buildings which currently include 114 independent living units, office and community centre.

Uniting wants to build six three-to-four-storey unit blocks, containing a total of 192 one-, two- and threebedroom units.

It also plans to build one, fourstorey residential aged care

facility with 160 beds on the first two levels and a further 40 independent living units on the top two storeys.

There will also be a range of community facilities including a chapel, café, hair and beauty salon, multi-purpose space, indoor swimming pool, club/ community room, seniors’ gym, cinema, a village green, barbecue are and children’s playground.

The project would be staggered over four stages with the demolition of 43 units and the construction of 84 new units done first.

Bateau Community Collective has lodged a petition in opposition with Central Coast Council with 425 local resident signatures.

They engaged professionals, SKM Planning, to prepare a submission on their behalf, to be presented to the decision makers, Hunter Central Coast Regional Planning Panel.

The comprehensive 33-page submission says the proposal lacks merit, has unacceptable impacts on neighbours and the broader Bateau Bay area, and as such should be refused by the Panel.

It said in the submission that there were too many significant issues and detrimental impacts on surrounding residents that needed to be addressed in a revised proposal.

Main objections were the bulk, scale and density causing an unacceptable and significant decline in standard of living for neighbours through the loss of privacy both visual and acoustic, over-shadowing, traffic and pedestrian safety, loss of vegetation as well as security and flood lighting all becoming a problem.

Residents say the overall density of the development is inappropriate and unsuitable for the locality and will result in a dramatic change in the landscape, particularly when viewed from Lakin St, Altona Ave, Bias Ave and surrounding streets.

This type of “vertical village” is suited to high density city or inner-city locations, not a coastal village setting such as Bateau Bay, the submission said.

Residents have raised environmental matters such as potential pollution risk in the treatment of acid sulphate

soils, the removal of a vegetation buffer between the Bateau Bay Sewer Treatment Plant which could cause an increase in odour, and the loss of 90 of the 216 trees on site and the possibility of another 43 during earthworks.

The benefit of the mature trees to wildlife and the neighbourhood cannot be compensated by the purchase of biodiversity credits off site, as suggested in the DA, and cannot be replicated with the proposed screening shrubs, the submission said.

It referred to the Bateau Bay Town Centre Plan which identifies this area as habitat for the critically endangered swift parrot.

SKM Planning noted that the proposal does not satisfy the objectives of the Wyong Local Environmental Plan nor the Development Control Plan, it falls short of the relevant Land and Environment Court planning principles and any redevelopment should be assessed against the New Housing SEPP. Apart from the SKM Planning submission on behalf of the Bateau Community Collective,

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so far there are 38 individual objections plus a petition containing 424 signatures.

The only public submission in favour of the proposal said there was a huge demand for suitable aged accommodation with many elderly people “making do” with limited services, generally leading to the deterioration of their health.

“As both the home support program and home care packages struggle to keep pace with demand, the level of need for residential aged care beds and independent living units will also increase,” the supporting submission said.

“When I read of neighbouring residents’ alleged fears of impacts regarding noise, pollution and privacy, I hope that they will also broaden their thinking to acknowledge the current and ongoing needs of the ageing population on the Central Coast.”

A Social Impact Assessment with the DA says that overall the proposal should have an overwhelmingly positive social impact, given that it increases the supply of dwellings specifically designed for seniors in a highly accessible and engaging environment, by more efficiently utilising the site.

The SIA says that prior to lodgement of the DA, Uniting had undertaken carefully planned community engagement including consultation with relevant stakeholders and community representatives, existing residents and neighbours to identify issues and any affected groups with regard to social impact.

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Using the Future Fund as a default fund is not the answer NSW Liberal senator Andrew Bragg last month renewed calls for the Future Fund to become the default super fund for all Australians, which would provide workers with access to high returns and some of the best investment talent. Yet new research from Rainmaker Information, publisher of Money magazine, shows that could be a “fool’s errand”.

Founded in 2006 and boasting $200 billion in assets under management, the Future Fund is the country’s wealth fund.

While its ostensive purpose is to help fund the whole of future Australia, its real purpose is to fund the future superannuation liabilities of Commonwealth public servants, forecast to be $428 billion by 2050.

But comparing the Future Fund to a regular future fund is apples and oranges: it doesn’t pay tax, has no fund members, and isn’t constrained by the same laws and regulations.

“Directly comparing the Future Fund’s investment returns to those of regular super funds is a fool’s errand,” says

Alex Dunnin, executive director of research and compliance at Rainmaker Information.

“Nevertheless, the Future Fund’s 22.2% annual return for 2020-21 was a remarkable result.

But Australia’s super fund sector also achieved remarkable results, delivering the best returns in 34 years.”

While this return is exceptional, it would by no means put it on the top of the superannuation leader board.

In fact, it would place it 10th.

The top MySuper product this year was CBA’s Essential Super, achieving an amazing return of

26.5%. If the Future Fund’s performance was then corrected for the tax paid by other super funds, this relative performance would drop further still.

It would also likely charge extremely high fees to members.

“For one of Australia’s leading investment groups and biggest fund managers, with so much scale on its side, to have such high costs is perplexing,” says Dunnin.

“There’s only a few MySuper products in Australia with fees so high. And let’s not forget that running a super fund equivalent of the Future Fund would come

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with even higher costs due to having to administer fund members, comply with the superannuation laws and act as a regulated fund.”

Rainmaker estimates that if the government was to establish and run a national default MySuper product, based on the Future Fund’s current costs and the member fees charged by the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, it would likely charge 1.3% per annum in annual fees.

“Fees this high mean the Future Fund Management Agency, the public sector

agency that runs the Future Fund, would most likely create a bespoke indexed investment solution. This would probably be assembled on indexed exchange traded funds with very low investment fees,” says Dunnin.

All told, a Future Fund dressed up as a MySuper product would probably perform as well, and cost as much, as to make the debate mute.

He says that “as a MySuper product where all the investments are indexed, its performance ranking would slip to around the middle of the pack”. DAVID THORNTON

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BUSINESS & PROPERTY

Affordable housing proposal near town centre A site opposite Toukley RSL Club has been earmarked for an affordable housing project in a four-storey building comprising 20 units.

Plans for 33-35 Athol St, on the corner of Hargraves St, 300m from Toukley town centre, will include seven specialist disability units.

The development application (1337/2021) involves construction of a four-storey building with 22 basement

parking spaces and three levels of residential units.

Dwellings will be made up of 10 units classified as affordable housing with six one-bedroom units and four two-bedders, and the other 10 will be “full market” rental units in the same bedroom configuration.

Under the State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) Affordable Rental Housing, nine of the units will be offered to Independent Living Villages and Pacific Link Housing under a commercial agreement for at

least 10 years.

A Social Impact Assessment (SIA) says that the most notable positive outcome of the proposal is an increase, and diversity, in housing opportunities as well as meeting growing demand for purpose-built disability accommodation.

The SIA says that specifically in Toukley, there is a need for a greater diversity of smaller, more affordable dwellings.

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Food industry hydrogen collaboration a world first A new industry-led hydrogen cluster will be established on the Central Coast to provide a carbonfree heat source for food manufacturing.

Berkeley Vale-based Star Scientific and Central Coast Industry Connect have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will pioneer the use of Star Scientific’s awardwinning Hydrogen Energy Release Optimiser (HERO®) technology.

The venture will be known as the Central Coast Hydrogen Food Cluster.

It will involve Star Scientific working with food companies to provide carbon-free heat with Central Coast Industry Connect running the cluster and providing the governance structure.

Global Group Chairman of Star Scientific,Andrew Horvath, said he was excited that the first commercial application of

Andrew Horvath (left) and Frank Summut sign the MoU

HERO in the world would be on the Coast.

“Food manufacturers all over the world are looking for solutions to remove carbon from industrial processes such as heating, drying and cleaning,” he said.

“The Central Coast region is home to some of Australia’s biggest household brands and global food manufacturers,

many of whom are realising the potential of hydrogen and our HERO technology to meet their heating needs.

“We have already commenced work under this MoU providing heat for industrial-scale cleaning purposes in the food hub.

“This exciting work will demonstrate how our HERO can pave the way for Australian

food manufacturers to reduce emissions.

“The gazetting by the NSW Government of the Central Coast as a Renewable Energy Zone and the recent release of a visionary hydrogen strategy for NSW is the icing on the cake.”

Executive Director of the Central Coast Industry Connect, Frank Sammut, said taking

steps to decarbonise was important for the manufacturing sector including food and beverage manufacturing.

“Manufacturers have turned to renewable electricity sources to reduce their carbon footprint but alternatives to gas for heating and cooking continue to be a challenge across a number of uses,” he said.

“The MoU with Star Scientific provides the opportunity for developing that alternative carbon free heat source.”

Horvath said the cluster would be designed to be as inclusive as possible and hoped to engage and share knowledge with similar ventures emerging across Australia and New Zealand.

“Knowledge and skills sharing with similar clusters emerging around Australia and New Zealand is of paramount importance to increase efficiency around these

processes,” he said.

“We want this cluster to be an ‘incubator’ of regulatory issues for the hydrogen supply chain, and more specifically, ‘green’ hydrogen made from renewable energy.

“Regulators are coming to grips with the use of green hydrogen and we hope the cluster will enable us to identify those issues early in the process and deal with them.”

Star Scientific is a leading hydrogen research and development company with a global reach and scope.

Central Coast Industry Connect (CCIC) is a not-forprofit organisation which supports the region’s manufacturing sector to unlock opportunities through collaboration.

Source: Media release, Oct 19 Star Scientific

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Headspace helps build careers but not in Wyong Headspace Lake Haven and Gosford are using Mental Health Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about their Individual Placement and Support (IPS) program.

This program helps clients of the service find meaningful employment and study opportunities no matter where they are in their mental health journey.

The service includes vocational support planning, professional resume writing and skills building, and ongoing employment support and mentoring.

The IPS program works in with the client’s clinician throughout their entire employment journey.

Rosemary Tropiano is one client who has found work through the program, becoming involved when she turned to headspace to seek help for anxiety, which was compounded by the loss of her job.

Thanks to the service and

encouragement from her IPS Vocational Specialist, she has now landed her dream job in IT support.

“I really wanted a job in the IT industry, but I thought my standards for a job were way too high.

“When I called her, all worried about the interview, she relieved my anxiety and made me feel confident.

“She really made the difference.

“Against all the odds, I got my dream job in IT support.

“I now work for an amazing company that is willing to train me from the ground up and that values my input.

“I’ll always be grateful for how the team at headspace let me make my own decisions and considered my feelings when helping me make decisions,” Tropiano said.

Tropiano is one of more than 200 local young people on the Central Coast who have found employment and study

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opportunities through th IPS program, which is funded by the Department of Social Services.

Headspace also offers a Work a Study Service where participants can receive support from a Work and Study Specialist with searching and applying for jobs, preparing resumes and cover letters, career planning, support for transitioning from school to the workforce, navigating Centrelink and other government support options as well as balancing mental health and

wellbeing with work or study.

They have a Career Mentoring Service where participants work with a mentor to develop industry specific skills, access advice around work, employer expectations and career progression as well as growing professional networks, understanding the recruitment process and improving professional communications skills and career confidence.

More information about these programs can be found at https://

headspace.org.au/.

Federal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, said she was still trying to get answers from the Government about when headspace would open in Wyong “It’s been two long years since the Morrison Government first promised a headspace at Wyong but despite the long wait, we still don’t have an opening date,” she said.

“In the week before the 2019 election, the Government announced $1.5M for headspace Wyong, and they’ve since confirmed it would be up and running by 2021/22.

“It’s now October, which is nationalMentalHealthAwareness Month, and Coasties still don’t know when headspace Wyong will open.

“There is a desperate need for more mental health services on the Coast, especially for young people,” McBride said.

“It’s been more than two years since the announcement,

demand is surging, waiting times are growing and we still don’t have a date.

“In the middle of a pandemic, demand for mental health services has never been greater and long wait times for headspace at Lake Haven and Gosford mean more young people are at risk.

“It’s particularly tough for Year 12 students who are getting ready for their HSC exams, and McBride says lockdown is only adding to their stress.

“These students need support and certainty, now.

“To mark the start of Mental Health Awareness month, I’m asking the Government to step up and be clear about when headspace Wyong will open.

“Coasties can’t afford to wait any longer, this is urgent.”

A response to inquiries by the Chronicle to government departments was not received before publication.

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Two-year payment trial may help women flee violence Women on the Central Coast who are in the process of leaving a violent relationship may have access to a oneoff payment of up to $5,000 to help them establish a life free of violence.

UndertheFederalGovernment’s two-year Escaping Violence Payment trial, women may receive financial assistance of up to $1,500 in cash with the remainder available for goods and services or direct payments of bonds, school fees or other support to help establish a safe home.

The EscapingViolence Payment trial will not be considered taxable or reportable income and

will not impact on any other social security payments a recipient may be receiving.

Eligibility includes financial stress and evidence of domestic violence including, but not limited to, a referral from a family and domestic violence service provider with a risk assessment and safety plan, an AVO, court order or a police report.

Minister for Women’s Safety, Anne Ruston, said the payments would help address the financial barriers that may stop women leaving violent relationships.

“We know that financial hardship as well as economic abuse, which may involve interfering with work or controlling or withholding money,

reduces women’s ability to acquire and use money and makes it difficult to leave violent relationships,” Ruston said.

“The new Escaping Violence Payment aims to help address those issues, so women have more security when making that brave decision to leave any form of intimate partner violence – including physical violence, coercive control and financial abuse.”

Women can apply for the payment through the UnitingCare Network, with more information available at unitingvictas.org.au/ escaping-violence-payment The UnitingCare Australia Consortium has been selected as the service provider to deliver the

payments and will support women to engage with other relevant Commonwealth or state funded community services.

Last week the NSW Government announced domestic violence funding over four years to expand the Core and Cluster Program ($426.6M), Community Housing Innovation Fund ($52.5M) and a trial in two districts to support accompanied children and young people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.

Central Coast Labor MPs have called on the NSW Government to detail how this new funding will be allocated to support organisations on the Central Coast who are struggling to support victims of

domestic violence.

They said the Coast continued to be a hotspot for domestic violence and there should be significant funding applied from this money to support local organisations.

There are local concerns that funding and solutions will not arrive immediately, nor have the flexibility to deliver locallyappropriate support programs.

Shadow Minister for Central Coast, David Harris, said there was a dire shortage of affordable accommodation on the Central Coast, so there was urgent need for additional funding to activate existing housing that could be repaired and utilised in the short term.

“Our local services are drowning which impacts on our whole community – schools, health, police etc,” he said.

“The Coast can’t miss out on this important funding to boost services … our region needs its fair share of funding to help support these community services on the frontline supporting victims of domestic violence,” he said.

If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, call 1800 737 732 or visit www.1800RESPECT.org.au Sue Murray

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Doctor Do More helps raise $100,000 Local emergency doctor, Ash Bowden, also known as Doctor Do More, helped raise over $100,000 during September for Cancer Council Central Coast.

Bowden’s Move Against Cancer initiative aimed to encourage people to take as many steps as possible in September, both individually and in teams, to win prizes.

In just four weeks, 818 participants completed over 190 million steps and raised a total of $101,176, a feat Bowden said would be hard to beat next year.

“It is the second year we have run the Move Against Cancer step challenge,” he said.

“I am so impressed with how many people got involved and how much money we raised.

“The community have been so generous considering the pandemic and the hardship it has caused so many.

“This pandemic has caused so much stress and anxiety … with the loss of incomes and so much uncertainty.

“Getting outside and staying active massively helps your headspace, helping us to stay positive as we move forward.”

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“Raising $100,000 is a massive achievement and it will have a profound impact on the cancer patients who need it the most,” Moloney said.

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benefits gained from those participating, the funds raised will support local cancer patients and fund critical research.”

For the last three years,

Bowden said he had been on a mission to inspire people to move more to improve their health and happiness.

His main initiative has been creating an ‘Exercise Search

Engine’, which showcases all the businesses and community groups in his region that get people moving in any way, shape, or form.

“Moving more has unbelievable benefits on your health – reduced risk of cancers, reduced risk of cardiorespiratory disease, improved cognition and more.

Importantly, it has a huge impact on our mental health, something we all need right now,” he said.

“Do More is about improving health and happiness through physical activity.

“My own experience with exercise and research into the effects of physical activity on health shows an incredible relationship between the two.

“The goal is as simple as increasing the amount of movement we do and I’m confident this will improve health.”

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Bateau Bay resident and teacher at Central Coast Community College, Erin Jacob, has been named Vocational Education Teacher of the Year at the 2021 Annual NSW Training Awards.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said he congratulated Erin for being recognised as one of the state’s top teachers.

“Erin’s innovative Step Forward and Keep on Stepping programs successfully re-engage students

in learning and help facilitate a pathway towards employment.

“Erin’s award is also a welldeserved recognition for the entire team of staff Central Coast Community College,” Crouch said.

Jacob, who teaches horticulture and life skills at Central Coast Community College, said she was thrilled to receive the award.

“It’s absolutely amazing I can’t even put into words how much it means to me.

“Many of my students experience a multitude of barriers to education and employment.

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“Students are typically unemployed, living in shelters, at risk of homelessness and or escaping domestic violence.

“With a focus on work-based skills as well as art therapy,

students can reflect, explore their identity and think about the future.

“Step Forward and Keep on Stepping were developed with

Coast Shelter.

“It took a few months to plan it and we had to run a pilot program to see if it worked, which thankfully it did.

“It’s now been running for four years,” Jacob said.

Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education, Geoff Lee, congratulated Jacob on receiving the prestigious award while also completing her Certificate IV in Community Services.

“It is a great honour to be recognised on a State level and I have no doubt Jacob will go on to be a great ambassador for

vocational education and training.

“The students, educators and training providers represented at the NSW Training Awards are living proof that NSW’s training system is gold standard,” Lee said.

The NSW Training Awards are conducted annually by the NSW Department of Education in recognition of outstanding achievements in VET. More information can be found at www.training.nsw.gov.au/ training_awards.

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Lake Munmorah Public School joins solar trial Lake Munmorah Public School is among 25 NSW schools, and the only one on the Central Coast taking part in a pilot aimed at making NSW public schools energy sufficient by installing a solar photovoltaic system.

The $20M Schools Renewable

Energy Infrastructure Pilot Program will assess the benefits and costs of a large-scale implementation of solar systems and batteries, together with other initiatives that have the potential to reduce demand on the electricity network.

Treasurer and Minister for Energy and Environment, Matt Kean, said the pilot project

supports the efforts of the NSW Government towards meeting net zero emissions by 2050.

“There is more than eight million square metres of NSW public school roof space and this pilot will allow us to understand how we can use it to support the next generation of renewable energy on a larger scale.

“This $20M investment will

allow us to assess the benefits of the large-scale implementation of solar PV systems and batteries to generate electricity to run our schools, but also store and sell energy back into the grid,” Kean said.

Minister for Education, Sarah Mitchell, said the initiative was groundbreaking and exciting, allowing schools to reduce their

power bills and their carbon footprint.

“Our public schools are leading the way in student outcomes and soon they could be leading the charge in green energy.

“The tender is open to qualified applicants who can design, supply and install the solar PV systems and batteries with work expected to start during the

summer holiday period,” Mitchell said.

Businesses can take part in the tender process for the program via tenderlink at https://www. tenders.nsw.gov.au/.

Source: Media release, Oct 24 Minister for Education, Sarah Mitchell

More funding to help students catch up The NSW Government has announced the extension of the COVID Intensive Learning Support Program into next year as students have returned to Central Coast schools for face-toface learning.

Minister for Education, Sarah Mitchell, said a further $383M would see the program extended.

It was first introduced in Term 1 this year to help students who had fallen behind after last year’s disruptions improve their core knowledge and skills.

Central Coast District P&C (CCDP&C) applauded the

announcement.

“The program was very successful in supporting students after the loss of learning in the previous COVID lockdown environment,” CCDP&C spokesperson Sharryn Brownlee said.

“Due to the massive disruptions of home learning the injection of $383M into this program will help ensure no child slips though the cracks.

“It will ensure the resources schools need are available directly to them, to help the small groups of students and endure no further learning is lost.

“Schools have done their very best to stay connected with individual students and their families but for reasons such as complexities around ages and stages of learning, individual children and their siblings needs, family issues as well as technology issues have played a part in students falling behind and gaps in learning.

“This program helps ensures those gaps are analysed and rectified.

“It is reassuring for the Central Coast families and the wider community to see the new NSW government leadership team

move quickly to build on successful programs and act quickly to support those in need.

“P&Cs are very pleased to see this injection of funds and look forward to a continuing focus on the educational needs of our community.”

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said the move would help students who had “slipped through the cracks”.

“Research shows that small group tuition, particularly in literacy and numeracy, makes a big difference at helping children catch up,” he said.

“All 52 public primary schools on the Central Coast will benefit from this $383M program as well assomeCatholicandindependent schools in areas of highest need.

“All of our public schools have already been benefitting since the COVID Intensive Learning Support Program commenced in Term 1 this year.

“7,500 additional casual teachers, retired teachers, final year University students and learning support staff will be employed across NSW to deliver this tuition.”

Premier Dominic Perrottet said 2021 had been a tough year, with

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many students learning from home for twice as long as they did last year.

“Early insights from the ongoing evaluation of the program show that students are bouncing back thanks to the intensive tutoring delivered through the program, and we are committed to helping them do so again next year,” he said.

The Department of Education will work with schools and key stakeholder groups during Term 4 to refine the program to ensure the greatest benefit is delivered for students who need it most.

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Starting over in Spring: mindset ‘big rocks’

GEORGIA LIENEMANN This is the fourth part of our post-lockdown wholistic health reset.

We’re focusing on simple mindset and lifestyle shifts that have the power to create significant results.

Recently we introduced the concept of ‘big rocks’ and the benefits associated with ‘crowding out’ unproductive or harmful habits with beneficial ones.

This week we’re applying it to

lifestyle shifts and the small steps we can take in this area, to radically improve our health.

Now, don’t get your hopes up for some trendy new hack that you haven’t yet tried that promises to finally resolve everything. The two areas I couldn’t bring myself to sidestep are those we already know we’re supposed to be prioritising: sleep and movement.

However here we are in postlockdown Spring and if you’ve been engaged in this series at all, you’re probably keen to clamber back onto the wagon in some area of your life. And if that’s the case, perhaps you need a reminder of why these ‘big rocks’ are indeed big rocks.

And look, don’t get me wrong, I have lots of time for hacks. But if we can apply them to the fundamentals instead of thinking we can hack our way out of actually doing what works, we’ll be miles ahead.

So, let’s take a look at these two areas with a fresh

perspective signals to our bodies that it is peak daylight and time to be alert. This completely messes with our circadian rhythm and prevents deep sleep across the board.

So, the worst thing we can do is to look at a screen prior to bedtime (although TV is the best of the worst, if you must).

Ways we can lessen the impact:

perspective and see if we can’t inspire a little inclination to upgrade your existing relationship with them.

Sleep As someone who routinely used to glaze over at this suggestion, I’ve finally come to appreciate how crucial good quality sleep is to health. As a type A personality and former night owl, I had my head in the sand with this for many years, because I thought I could cheat – by ticking all the other health and lifestyle boxes and ignoring this one.

It turns out, you can’t.

There are hacks to be had, here, though!

The most important thing to realise is that quality sleep isn’t determined by the amount of time you spend sleeping, but by how long your brain is in its deepest brainwave state.

And the majority of us aren’t getting much deep sleep at all.

By redirecting your focus to facilitating better quality sleep, you can likely get away with a slight reduction in the total hours you’ve always been told is ideal (8-9 hours).

So, how do we set ourselves up to achieve deeper, more restorative sleep?

Timing The most important window of sleep is 10pm-2am. Anything that prevents the deeper

brainwave states being accessed within this window drastically decreases overall sleep quality and has huge, accumulative impacts on our hormones, energy and health.

If this occurs regularly in midlife, we’re drastically increasing the likelihood of degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer, later in life.

To state the obvious, you can’t access deep sleep if you’re not actually asleep within this window. And if you’re hitting the sack at midnight, chances are that you’re foregoing deep sleep altogether.

You might have heard the phrase ‘every hour before midnight is worth two’ – well, it’s actually a great way to think about it. The impact of facilitating deeper brainwave states in this window can’t be overstated. Getting to bed as early as possible is worth everything you can throw at it.

Priming ourselves for deep rest To achieve a state of deep sleep within the 10pm-2am window, your body needs to be physiologically primed to get there, shortly after you fall asleep.

Unfortunately, many of our modern habits greatly undermine this process. Our screens and devices emit blue light,which from an evolutionary

• Aim to lengthen the gap between screen time and bedtime as much as you possibly can. Ideally, aim for a window of two hours.

• If you can’t avoid screen time at night, buy a pair of blueblocking glasses and wear them after sundown. (And early morning if screen-time is part of the routine, then.)

• Use the ‘nightshift’ setting on your devices, which can be automatically set to reduce the blue light emission in favour of warmer tones from a certain time of day.

Other ways to improve sleep: • Move electronic devices out of the bedroom where possible (or switch your phone on airplane mode if it’s beside your bed) to reduce the electromagnetic radiation in that space, which has been shown to interfere with sleep quality.

• Have a cool or tepid shower in the evening to reduce body temperature prior to sleeping.

Keeping your body temperature on the cool side during the night also facilitates better quality sleep.

• Natural fibre bedding such as cotton, wool and down go a long way in helping to achieve this. On this note: avoid polyester at all costs. It’s hard to comprehend how we arrived at the idea of sleeping wrapped in plastic!

• For the last 30 minutes before bedtime, try switching your light source to candlelight or have a red coloured light globe in a bedside lamp.

Surely, you’ve noticed during extended power outages how unusually relaxed and sleepy you feel by midevening? The complete removal of blue light (which

is also emitted by standard globes) makes a radical, very noticeable difference to sleep quality. If you have any issues with sleep – try this one hack and see for yourself.

• Aim to go to bed and wake earlier, at a consistent time as often as possible.

Movement One of the pitfalls of living in the information age and being relentlessly bombarded with theories and data, is the risk of disempowerment. When you’re out of the habit of moving regularly, there’s a tendency to overthink what needs to be done and create self-imposed barriers that interfere with actually getting started.

Stories like: “I need to join the gym to start exercising” or “I need to workout for 30 minutes for it to ‘count’”. All these ridiculous, arbitrary rules, when the truth is, if we look to the oldest, fittest people on the planet, it’s obvious that consistent, very low-impact movement is extremely effective. No gyms or active wear in sight.

The best way to reboot your routine is to start with just one thing – today. Donning your headphones and dancing to a single song. Running down and up a short flight of stairs. Doing a few squats whilst you clean your teeth in the morning.

It might seem inconsequential, but the dopamine hit from kicking that small goal, the endorphins released from that tiny sliver of movement is enough to invigorate and restore motivation. Then you can build on it, with ease.

If you have any resistance in this area, start by banishing the word ‘exercise’ from your vocabulary and replace it with ‘movement’. It evokes an entirely different response.

Find ways you love to move your body and simply build them into your daily life. As your fitness level starts to improve and the associated feel-good chemicals become a more natural state, you’ll instinctively desire more of both – and the need for discipline and regimented routine will become obsolete.

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EDUCATION & SCIENCE

New school on track to open in 2022 Construction is powering along at Warnervale’s new public primary school, with $16.1M committed by the NSW Government in this year’s Budget to complete the project.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said Porters Creek Public School located at 75 Warnervale Rd, Warnervale would accommodate up to 460 students.

“The brand-new facilities will include 20 airconditioned learning spaces, an administration and staff building, a hall, before and after school care facilities, a library, two special programs rooms, landscaped external play spaces and a mini sports field.pro

Work is powering on at Porters Creek Public School, expected to be completed before the 2022 school year begins

“Unfortunately, some construction work was delayed during the recent lockdown, however I know the project team are working

as hard as possible to get the school built before day one of the 2022 school year.

“The current construction work is delivering 110 jobs

to local tradesman, with 10 per cent of these being firstor second-year apprentices,” Crouch said.

Crouch said the school

facilities would be custombuilt to accommodate future growth.

“Porters Creek Public School is being initially built

for 460 students, but this can be expanded to 1,000 in the decades to come.

“With 95,250 additional people expected to call our community home by 2041, we must ensure that our local infrastructure keeps up with this growth,” Crouch said.

The NSW Government is investing $7.9B over the next four years, continuing its program to deliver 215 new and upgraded schools to support communities across NSW. This is the largest investment in public education infrastructure in the history of NSW. Source: Parliamentary Secretary for Central Coast, Adam Crouch

School’s back Students from across the Coast have returned to face-to-face learning from October 18 after spending term three learning from home.

This return to the classroom has been staggered with kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 12 returning on October 18, and grades two, six and 11 returning on October 25, with the remaining grades returning on November 1.

Central Coast District P&C Spokesperson, Sharryn Brownlee, said she was excited to see students returning to the classroom.

“All the principals are really

excited to see students return.

“They’re really pulling out the red carpet for the students, and I think term four will be a great one.

“Parents are feeling an incredible relief as well knowing their children will be back with their teachers, and I think the experience of homeschooling has given them a new sense of respect for their children’s teachers,” Brownlee said.

She said schools have been proactive in incorporating the COVID safe measures into classrooms.

“The schools are trying to encourage students to wear

masks, some teachers have been making masks part of the learning by painting on them and making them into superheroes like Batman.

“The high schools are also being proactive by teaching lessons outdoors if possible, so the students don’t have to wear their mask all day, and they’re being proactive about good ventilation.

“Fresh air, being outside and being at school is safer for students than being anywhere else except their homes.

“I want to reassure everyone that schools are the safest place for our students to be.

“Every member of staff in a

public school, all classroom teachers, administration staff, and cleaners have all been double-vaccinated.

“Only a handful of staff on the Central Coast have been stood down for not getting vaccinated.

“The teachers have been proactive and productive in using this new opportunity to try some new things with classroom learning.

“For instance, teachers have been team teaching cross curriculum content like incorporating maths and sports to really try some new things.

“If you can do activities outside, then why not take advantage of our beautiful

weather,” Brownlee said.

While everyone is thrilled to be back in the classroom, Brownlee said some students have not engaged with any learning at all during term three.

“Some students and families have not engaged with any of the home learning at all which we can see, so they will be playing catch up this term.

“The schools know who hasn’t been engaging, so there will be extra support in place for those students.

“For some students, it might feel like their first day of school again.

“Learning from home has

been such a different experience and I think we will see a lot of wellbeing issues, and issues with students returning to that structure.

“Some parents have also raised concerns about sending their children if they have health issues, which they can discuss with the schools to work out an arrangement,” Brownlee said.

She said staff who lost their jobs due to thm not getting vaccinated will not be eligible to return to their positions in the future, even if there are no COVID outbreaks.

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If you are lucky enough to spot a whale, seal or dolphin, please text or call the Project on 0490 401 969 or email centralcoastdolphins@gmail.com

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Times are in local standard time (UTC +10:00) or daylight savings time (UTC +11:00) when in effect.

We are now in the peak of the humpback whale southern migration.

It’s still a wonderful time of year

to head to the coast and get a glimpse of these magnificent creatures on their 5000 klm trek south.

Unfortunately, now that the shark nets are back out, it’s another obstacle that these whales have to negotiate.

If you think you see a whale caught in netting, or if you think it is in trouble call 13 000 72757 (then option 4).

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People have been enjoying passing whales this week from Norah Head, Soldiers Beach, the Entrance and Crackneck Lookout.

Seals are still making themselves known around Norah Head, North Entrance and Bateau Bay. Some large pods of common dolphins have been observed off the coast.

Inshore, bottlenose dolphins have been seen at Lakes Beach

and Soldiers Beach.

If you’re planning to go whale watching, remember to comply with Health Regulations and police/government directions.

Let us know if you see a whale, seal or dolphin by text or call 0490 401 969. You can also email us at centralcoastdolphins@gmail. com

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Toohey in running for U-19’s world cup with scholarship in hand CRICKET Central Coast teenager, Nicholas Toohey has chalked up another impressive achievement, selected as a 2021-22 Basil Sellers Scholarship recipient.

The 17-year-old fast bowler, who plays for Terrigal Matcham Cricket Club, first represented NSW at the National Under 15s Championship in 2018-19, before competing in the ACT/ NSW Country Under-19s Squad.

Despite a lack of cricket last season due to injury, Toohey has been included in the Australian Under 19s World Cup extended Preliminary Squad for the Youth World Cup to be help in the West Indies in January 2022.

Toohey is one of 12 players that have been awarded with a Basil Sellers Scholarship in 2021-22, all the recipients have gone through the Cricket NSW Pathway System, representing either NSW Metropolitan or ACT/NSW Country at various Underage National Championships.

The 17-year-old from Holgate said that he was thrilled to receive

the scholarship that will help him transition from school into university and a professional career in cricket.

“I’ve been playing with Terrigal Matcham since I was eight, my Dad really got me interested in cricket as he used to play and growing up we were always playing cricket in the back yard.

“He was also the President of Terrigal Matcham Cricket Club a few years ago.

“I love training and I love the game and I love the people that I play with.

“As the bowler, I am really inspired by Pat Cummings.

“I’ve always been inspired by how smooth his bowling is.

“I train twice a week and play on Saturday, and I go to the gym five days a week to work on my fitness,” Toohey said.

Toohey, who is in Year 12 at St Edward’s College in East Gosford, said that after he completes the HSC, he wishes to take a gap year to travel and work on his cricket skills.

“The scholarship will help me with the transition from school into university and into a

Nicholas Toohey

professional career.

“I plan on taking a gap year next year and focusing on travelling and my cricket before heading to university.

“I’m considering studying Sports Science or Construction Management, or even a business degree.

“I’d love to go professional and

land a rookie contract and hopefully one day play for Australia,” Toohey said.

A big fan of the Sydney Sixers, Toohey said that he’s planning to play in the Central Coast Under 21’s competition as well as the Sydney premier league.

“Next year I want to play here on the Central Coast on Saturdays and play down in Sydney on Sundays.

“I’m really looking forward to playing down there,” Toohey said.

The Basil Sellers Scholarship is in its 16th year, and the program awards scholarships to promising male and female cricketers under 19 and supports scholars and their families with expenses such as education, travel and the cost of relocation from regional areas.

The Scholars are offered a twoyearTeam Kookaburra equipment sponsorship, through the support of Kookaburra, one of Cricket NSW’s longstanding partners.

Founder and philanthropist, Basil Sellers, said each of the 12 Scholars have a great opportunity to pursue their dream of becoming elite cricketers.

“It’s been a challenging 18

months for the state’s best emerging cricketers, but it has also been a character-building time for these eleven recipients in their pursuit to represent their state and country at the highest level.

“The perfect cricketing allrounder is not just someone who performs in the middle but understand the importance of personal development away from the sport arena through education.

“By their actions, they are revered as role models and leaders amongst their peers, while conducting themselves in a manner which is in keeping with the spirit of our great game.

“I look forward to following with keen interest the progress of the year’s recipients and encourage all to seize upon the support and opportunities they have been afforded as they look to follow in the footpath of previous scholarship holders who have gone on to not only represent, but captain Australia,” Sellers said.

Harry Mulholland

Friendly loss a learning experience for Montgomery’s squad

Mariners centre back in defence, Daniel Hall

FOOTBALL On Saturday, October 23, the Central Coast Mariners played their opening preseason match against the Western Sydney Wanderers at Wanderers Football Park, falling behind in the heat by 2-0.

It was the first chance for many new faces to get their opening minutes of game time, both for the handful of new signings and academy graduates and the new Head Coach, Nick Montgomery.

“It was a great run out for the boys against a quality A-League opponent in Western Sydney, in what turned into some testing conditions,” Montgomery said.

“We played a lot of young players today including the likes of Jacob Farrell and Harry Steele, both born in 2002 and products

of the Central Coast Mariners academy, who have not yet featured in the A-League, plus the new recruits who performed really well against an experienced Wanderers side.

“These minutes will be really valuable for their development.”

Of the six players to have joined the Mariners this year from elsewhere in the world, four were added into the starting XI. Midfield signings, Storm Roux and Cy Goddard, started the game with a lot of energy and tested the Wanderers’ penalty box defence multiple times with dangerous deliveries from the right-hand side.

Yaren Sözer was also given his goalkeeping debut and was called upon for top notch saves throughout the game.

The forward pairing of Matt Simon and Marcos Ureña

returned with their signature high energy pressure play on the ball and the former of these was able to force a penalty whilst the game was still deadlocked.

Captain Oliver Bozanic took the spot kick which connected with the upright to the relief of Daniel Margush in goal.

The momentum started to shift in the favour of the hosts, who returned from half-time to score their first goal before the hour mark.

The initial block by Sözer was unfortunate to fall well for Thomas

Aquilina who converted on the follow up strike.

The Mariners kept pushing for an equaliser, with more quality play generated between midfielder, Joshua Nisbet and forward signing, Béni N’Kololo.

Young talents, Matt Hatch and Damian Tsekenis were given the chance as late substitutes, but the Wanderers capitalised once more as the late-game and choking heat fatigue set in.

Their second goal came from Daniel Wilmering’s cross into Jordan Swibel who fired the ball

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The loss was disappointing, but not one that Montgomery will take to heart as he focuses on the FFA Cup elimination match against Blacktown City FC, on November 13.

“We will use this match as a great learning opportunity as we move through our pre-season

preparations and onto our FFA Cup match and with Nicolai [Muller] and Birraz [Mark Birighitti] returning to the squad next week, I am happy with where we are at.”

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Picklum shines in Pro France Molly Picklum earlier this year winning the Tweed Coast Pro, June 2021 Photo: WSL / Matt Dunbar

SURFING A fifth-place finish for Shelly Beach’s Molly Picklum in the Pro France was the best result so far from the Central Coast trio competing in this season’s Challenger Series.

Avoca Beach’s Wade Carmichael and Macy Callaghan made positive steps towards the event’s finals but were eliminated, Carmichael in the Round of 24 and Callaghan in the Round of 16.

The competition ran from October 16 to 23, with multiple pauses due to unfavourable conditions.

The event was won by Lennox Head’s Connor O’Leary and Costa Rican Brisa Hennessy.

Hennessy eliminated Callaghan from the running in their Round of 16 encounter,

winning the heat by 15.43 to 14.27.

The highlight for Picklum was her underdog comeuppance in the Round of 16 contest against French woman, Johanne Defay, currently seeded fourth in the world.

Picklum eliminated Defay in convincing style on October 20 finishing ahead by 2.66 points with a two-wave score of 14.26.

Both surfers started slow until a 5.43 wave score and the lead was given to Defay which she held until the final 10 minutes.

Picklum then took off with two solid waves in a row: first a 6.83, followed by a 7.43.

This final wave attempt took Molly all the way to the shore where the wave finally crashed down, but not before a pumpaction backhand turn to the top of the lip impressed

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“I really look up to Johanne, she’s an incredible surfer,” Picklum said.

“I think there were enough waves for us both to have opportunities and I’m really stoked to come out on top.

“With the tide quite high you had to be a little bit picky, I ended up in the sand and I was fully committed to win that heat.”

In the Men’s event, Wade Carmichael put in a strong performance up to his exit in the Round of 24, when Northern Beaches surfer, Jordan Lawler and Brazilian, Samuel Pupo, advanced instead.

Carmichael achieved his own personal best in the Series by winning his two opening heats: the Round of 94 and 48.

The powerfully built carver has yet to encounter the large

surf conditions he thrives in; for in California, Portugal and France, the waves have been mostly underwhelming.

A 17th place finish and 2,000 qualifying points towards the top tier Championship Tour is the best result he has posted so far.

Macy Callaghan picked up another 3.500 points in her third – out of three – ninth place finish in this Series.

She is the highest ranked Central Coast surfer in the Series with one event left to go.

Five thousand points have been rewarded to Picklum for reaching up to the quarter finals where she was narrowly beaten by Victorian, India Robinson, who went on to challenge Hennessy unsuccessfully in the Grand Final.

Robinson started strong

against Picklum with a front hand line involving a trio of snaps earning a score of 6.67.

Her following attempt with the same technique started confidently but ended with the nose of her board sinking within the wave for a score of 3.83.

Picklum remained patient throughout the opening 20 minutes, waiting on the right moment to strike.

When it came she took it with great prowess, scoring herself an 8.17 on her second attempt.

Taking on the same front hand line as her competitor, Molly excelled with two wide carves along the wave’s lip, landing her final air with expert balance.

This is Picklum’s highest scoring wave in the Series and the highest scoring wave within the Quarter final heats.

The young prodigy was unable to seal the win with a second wave despite only requiring a 2.33 score in the final minute.

Her fourth and last attempt was given 1.90 by the judges, reflecting their dissatisfaction with surfing – or floating – atop the wave’s white water.

It was a lack of experience in the crucial moment that ultimately defeated the Shelly Beach representative, and yet her earlier showings in this Quarter final provide a clear insight into her massive overall potential.

All three surfers are determined to do better in the Series’ final event, the Haleiwa Challenger, in Hawaii from November 26 to December 7.

Source: Media releases, October 20-4 World Surf League

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