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Saturday 6 March, 2021

VACCINATE OR NOT? To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

ISSUE No. 39

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with DAVID DIXON

• Councillors attending general meetings via Zoom is no novelty in this day and age, but Tony Mileto logged-in to the last Council meet; from his hospital bed!

“I had a knee replacement on my right knee, and I did the meeting via Zoom,” Cr Mileto explained.

I was down at the Mater Hospital in Sydney for five days, and then I transferred back to the Dudley where I am now.”

With rather patchy roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine in Australia, eventually we will all have to decide.

“Zoom is great in assisting people who can’t attend meetings; but there was a funny incident when I had a medical issue to attend to during the meeting and they didn’t know I was on air,” he added.

Straw-poll in Orange’s CBD found locals evenly-split between those who feel that the vaccine is the best way to protect against COVID-19, and those who have their doubts about an inoculation only developed in a few months.

There is also a range of views between those who says that “bio-passports” should be issued so that those not vaccinating can be excluded from international travel and even social events.

Exactly 12-months from the first lockdown, supposedly designed to “flatten the curve”, we are still talking COVID!

The sporting local is now back doing rehab to get the knee back to some normality.

“I can tell you, it hurts though,” Cr Mileto concluded.

• Newswatch’s unique Council Game is proving popular with many readers and we now have 11 players in total for our Mock Council.

• Turn to page 4-5 for our full story

HOME-SCHOOLING; IS IT THE WAY OF THE FUTURE…

SHE’S BACK!

For one recently-returned family, the coronavirus lockdowns were the last straw with their concerns about the modern education system. They took the increasingly-common step to home-school their children.

Orange’s most contentious columnist, Jeanine Bird is back with her latest Bird's-Eye View column.

• Turn to page 6 for our full story.

•Turn to page 15 and make-up your own mind!

There’s still one spot remaining, so anyone considering standing for Council in September (who’s not already on Council or standing or an existing Councillor's ticket), is eligible to play.

Contact Amanda Spalding at our office if you’re interested on 6361 3575.

• Second of the men’s health charity “Mr Perfect” barbecues is being held this Sunday (see story page 2.)

During a recent mental health media event at Bloomfield recently, Local member, Phil Donato opened-up about the men who had approached him during the first of these events in early February.

Blokes who had probably never discussed such personal issues as their mental state had approached, some with tears in their eyes, as they talked about their probably-secret battles against depression over the years.

The next event is on Sunday at Cook Park from 11.30am “It’s completely free of charge and all blokes are welcome along,” Mr Donato said.

WHO WILL YOU VOTE FOR IN SEPTEMBER? Between now and then, we’ll keep you up to date with who’s who and what’s what...

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New development announced for old Base Hospital site Developers at the old Orange Base Hospital site, adjacent to the new State Government office block in Prince Street, have been very busy.

The rather striking proposals for the old site that sits as a vacant block of soil at the moment is for a seven-story apartment complex and better still, it’s not going to be one of those brutalist monstrosities that we have all come to endure other the past 70 years or so!

The development will include a hotel, a corner pub, a large tower, and a row of terraces as well as a central park, on the site.

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Men’s health promoted in

“Mr Perfect” barbecues Local Member Phil Donato recently teamed-up with men’s health charity “Mr Perfect” as the official host of monthly men’s barbecues with the next barbecue on this Sunday, March 7.

“Men’s health is often overlooked, and blokes generally aren’t forthcoming or open about their mental health,” Mr Donato said.

“Blokes are notorious for bottling things up and neglecting their own physical and mental health.

“Statistically, males represent three out of every four suicide deaths.

Tragically, suicide occurs in every community, but more so out here in the country.

“Isolation is a huge issue, so a key to addressing this silent epidemic is getting guys coming together and opening up. I’ve found that gathering around a barbeque is a great activity to draw blokes together and the perfect atmosphere to get conversation flowing.

Local Clean Up Australia Day

Orange City Council is encouraging residents to roll up their sleeves and get involved in Clean Up Australia Day activities on Sunday 7 March.

Clean up Australia Day has been inspiring communities to clean-up and conserve the environment for more than 30 years and in 2021 the theme is ‘Step Up to Clean Up’.

Volunteers can simply turn up on the day and join in the clean-up at three Councilregistered sites:

“I’ve teamed-up with the charity Mr Perfect, which is a grassroots precrisis initiative aimed at gathering guys around the BBQ once a month to become community-connected, talking with one another and opening up.

• Elephant Park and surrounds including Moulder Park, with the focus being along Blackmans Swamp Creek. This site is being hosted by Orange City Council. Registration from 10am with a 12.30pm finish followed by a barbecue lunch.

“I’ve committed to hosting the monthly Mr Perfect barbecues in Orange for 2021, which will be cohosted by my friend and former colleague, Carl Smith (pictured with Mr Donato).

• Skate Park on the corner of Anson and Warrendine streets. This site is being hosted by the Environmentally Concerned Citizens of Orange (ECCO). Registration from 10am and finishing at noon. Heading over to Elephant Park afterwards to join in the barbecue lunch.

“The second barbecue will be held at Cook Park in Orange on Sunday March 7 from 11.30am. It’s completely free of charge and all blokes are welcome along,” Mr Donato said.

• Residents of Clifton Grove are hosting a clean-up day. Registrations at the mud hut from 10am and finishing at noon. Followed by a barbecue lunch.

Lords Place rank change, what happens to trolley bays?

When the great refurbishment of Lords Place sees the cab rank go around the corner into Summer St as part of Council’s Future City initiative, is the trolley bay going with it?

Plans to relocate the popular and picturesque taxi rank on the western side of Robertson Park to Summer Street were recently given the thumbs down by drivers who use the current rank.

The next question is, what will Council do

with this trolley bay when they move the rank to Summer Street?

Not a good look for the main street and all those people who do their shopping then take their trolley to catch a cab home aren’t going to disappear.

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WORD TO THE WISE FOR COUNCIL CANDIDATES… THINKING OF RUNNING FOR ORANGE CITY COUNCIL? Thinking of running for Orange City Council?

Don’t just run on one issue and be prepared to represent the whole of your community… that’s the advice from current councillors to those considering putting their hand-up in September.

Orange City Council next Thursday hosts the first in a series of prospective Councillor Workshops for those with a yen for leadership.

Current Mayor Councillor Reg Kidd says that, don’t run for Council because you have one issue that consumes your interest. “You cannot be a singleissue person,” Cr Kidd said. “Don’t be a one-horse pony, represent everyone’s interests.

He added that being on Council is not just about the fortnightly meetings.

“Be prepared to spend several hours reading reports, Council papers and attending briefing sessions, and be prepared to be on several of the 24 or so Council Advisory Committees,” he added. “Make yourself available, know what’s going on,” he said.

Cr Tony Mileto added that Council candidates must be prepared to go the distance. “They need to satisfy themselves that they can allocate the time to participate in Council community committees, there are 33 council committees and, as a councillor, you should be prepared to participate in these groups.”

“You have to be ready to have more than one agenda, not just sports or arts or whatever,” Cr Russell Turner said.

He said that some councillors often end-up opposing everything: “they run

the risk of being boring,” he added.

Cr Turner would also like to see a wider diversity of people on council, especially those with as busine ss background. “I’d like to see a cross-section of everybody, but particularly more businesspeople. We need, ideally more people with a busines background,” he added.

“I think everyone is the right fit…

I’d encourage anyone in running for council,” Cr Jason Hamling said.

“We really want people with a passion for seeing Orange grow. But remember, it’s not just you, to get anything done, you have to convince 11 other people that you are right, and that is the important thing.”

“Don’t run on one issue,” Cr Glenn Taylor said. “Don’t run just for trees or whatever your passion is. These issues will come and go and, when they’re settled, three years is a long time to wait,” he said.

“You have to love the city and be absolutely committed; people have to be genuinely, holistically, interested in this city. It’s a long- hard haul, it’s a hard gig with no glamour whatsoever,” he added.

Cr Stephen Nugent offered to personally advise anyone interested in running in September: “I’m happy to sit down and talk to anyone who wants to run.

“But be realistic about the commitment that you are making, it’s a significant commitment, but don’t be afraid to have a go — anyone has a right to be on Council as much as anyone else.”

“If people go on Council for one-thing, and it gets resolved or goes away, what are they there for then?” Cr Scott Munro asked.

“Some people are really passionate about chasing something, and then they lose interest,” he said.

“But you really want to be community-minded. “Everyone wants to start a committee on an issue, and then no-one wants to do the work, you have to be prepared to do the work,” he added.

“You’ve got to have a passion for Orange, not just a

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political person with a passion for one issue,” Cr Jeff Whitton said.

“But if you’re community-minded and think you can bring about change, by all means, put your hand-up,” he added.

Cr Joanne McRae advised the best way to decide if you want to run on Council, is to attend the Councillor Workshops being held over the next few months.

“I strongly-recommend that you attend, they are very valuable and will explain to you the pitfalls that potential candidates can face, if they are not prepared,” Cr McRae concluded.

YEN TO RUN? FIND-OUT WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT!

Yen to run for Council this year? Then sign-up for these invaluable candidate information sessions.

Prospective Councillor information sessions begin this Thursday, March 11 ahead of the statewide local government elections in September.

Orange City Council has announced the first in a series of prospective Councillor Workshops as the local government elections approach.

Local government elections are just over six months away with everyone enrolled to vote required to head to the polls on September 4 to elect 11 councillors and a new mayor for the Colour City.

Thursday’s event from 6–9pm in the Council Chambers is the first in a series of these workshops aimed at helping candidates understand the election process and the work of a Councillor.

Potential candidates must RSVP for these sessions with spaces limited because of COVID-19 restrictions: To find out more information or to confirm your place, go to: council@orange.nsw.gov. au or call 6393 8000.

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Elected leaders opine on the jab

TO VACC LOCALS H To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

With the rather patchy roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine in Australia, eventually everyone in the Colour City will all have to decide.

Are our elected leaders going to follow the advice from the medical experts and get the vaccine when it becomes available?

“Yes”, “yes”, and “probably” were the answers of our local reps in the three tiers of government.

“I’m waiting in the queue like everyone else and, when my turn comes, I will definitely be getting the jab,” Federal Member and Government Minister, Andrew Gee said.

On the more contentious issue of whether bio-passports to effectively punish those who refused the vaccine when it became available, Mr Gee said: “In regards to ‘vaccination certificates’, I don’t think we’ll see a situation where people who haven’t had the vaccine are not allowed into social events, but I would support a policy preventing international visitors entering Australia unless they’ve had the vaccine.

“The government is still forming its policy on this,” he said rather ominously.

Local State member Phil Donato was more circumspect on the vaccine. “I’m probably going to get it, but I won’t be rushing-out to get it. Ultimately, I

probably will, but I’m going to sit back and wait to see how it all goes,” he added, voicing the ‘wait-and-see’ approach of many locals spoken to.

He opposes however any regime to exclude or punish via lack of service those who refuse the vaccine on moral, health, or ethical grounds.

“I think there should always be a choice.

I know there may be requirement for some people in certain industries, but we live in a free, democratic country and people shouldn’t be restricted just because they don’t get the vaccine.”

Straw-poll in Orange’s CBD found locals evenly-split between those who feel that the vaccine is the best way to protect against COVID-19, and those who have their doubts about an inoculation only developed in a few months.

There is also a range of views between those who says that “bio-passports” or “vaccination certificates” should be issued so that those not vaccinating can be excluded from international travel and even social events.

Exactly 12-months from the first lockdown supposedly designed to “flatten the curve”, we are still talking COVID!

While everyone should be able “make up their own minds” on the vaccine, “I’d like to see them have it, everyone should have it,” she said.

...I’m from that era where you would have 10 kids in school with polio, so I’m for vaccines...

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd was more enthusiastic over the vaccine: “Most definitely, I’m all for it. I hate needles, but I’ll close my eyes and get it.”

He said that despite the “hiccups” with the vaccine, such as slow roll-out and the wrong dose given to elderly patients in Queensland, he was still a supporter.

“I’m very pro-vaccines, think about the thousands upon thousands of people whose lives have been saved through vaccines.

“Oh yes, I’ll be having it,” Daphne Wallace said. “I’ve got no concerns, it’s there for a reason, there to protect us all,” she added.

Cr Kidd baulks though at social and travel restrictions being placed on those who refuse the vaccine.

“I don’t think I’m going to get it.” Tayla Winbank said. I just don’t believe that it’s been tested near-enough to have it, it’s simply not long enough. We’re out in the country, we should wait here to see that there are no side-effects, we haven’t had many cases,” she added.

“I would rather educate people rather than legislate and, in the end, it isn’t compulsory,” Cr Kidd said.

“That we need it? I think that’s a bit of baloney,” Dylan Clarke added. I just don’t think it’s been proven enough,” he added.

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Taxi driver Doug Wallace said, “I think it’s the Taxi Co-op's view that we should all have it, we’re taking people around everywhere,” he said.

“I’m from that era where you would have 10 kids in school with polio, so I’m for vaccines,” he added. “If you don’t have it, I don’t think you should be able to travel overseas, you’re just taking a risk with other people,” he added.

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CINATE OR NOT? HAVE THEIR SAY Brad Weir said he has few worries about taking the vaccine: “It depends on the restrictions, but if it makes my life easier, I’ll get it,” he said. “Doesn’t mean I’m not sceptical, you’ve gotta wonder if the companies that are making it are in cahoots with those who released it.”

...I guess I’ll wait and see after other people try it...

Angus Cameron was more circumspect in his appraisal of the risk of the vaccine. “I guess I’ll wait and see after other people try it. I’m not really worried by it. I wouldn’t be too concerned by the virus,” he added.

On proposals to compel Australians to have it through bans or other inducements, he said: “It should be on a case-by-case basis, if you need to have it, you need to have it.”

“I might have it, but not yet. But I would take it eventually,” David Steele said. “At the moment, we just don’t know how it will affect people.”

If the vaccine is proven to be safe, though, he agrees with exclusionary measures for those who don’t get vaccinated over time. “I think that’s fair on everyone, yeah I support that,” he said.

“Yes, I’ll be getting it, I’m not stupid,” Kevin Peterson opined.

“But I’m not really for bans on those who refuse,” he said.

“No, you shouldn’t be able to have international travel at least, until you’ve had the vaccine,” Colleen Peterson added.

Brian Ferrier says that priority for the vaccine, should be those countries that have had the greatest death tolls and infection rates of COVID-19: “Of course overseas they should be taking it, but not necessarily here, we don’t have a problem much, we haven’t had anything like the infection rates.”

Yes, I would have it, but we just don’t know about the reaction, that’s the concerning thing.

“Yes, I would have it, but we just don’t know about the reaction, that’s the concerning thing.” Robyn Kingham said. As for vaccine certificates, she said simply, “I don’t know, I just haven’t thought about it.”

“Probably not,” Paige Selton said about getting the vaccine. “it just doesn’t worry me, I’m so young I guess. I think it’s pretty fair though that, if you haven’t had it, you shouldn’t be able to do international travel,” she added.

“After about six months I might get it,” Leanne Kim said. “We just don’t know how effective the vaccine is,” she added. She said that a test for COVID-19 itself, rather than a vaccine certificate, should determine those allowed to travel overseas.

If you have the COVID test, that should be the main determinant about whether you can go, not the vaccine,” she believes.

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...I’ll just wait and see how it goes...

“Not just yet, I just don’t know,” Dave Pringle said about getting the vaccine. “I’ll just wait and see how it goes,” he said.

He said he “probably” supports bans on international travel for non-vaxers but not exclusion from events in their local community. “It’s probably a step too far,” he added.

“I just don’t think they’ve done enough tests,” Sarah Stephens believes. ”I won’t be having it.”

She strongly-opposes bans on those refusing the vaccine. “It’s a step too far, they’re taking away people’s free choice, it’s a free country and if they’re forcing people to have it, then it’s not a choice at all.”

...I’m 77 and I’m not having it...

“I’m 77 and I’m not having it,” Faye Gregory said.

“People should not be compelled to have it; that’s a step too far, it’s a personal choice and I’m against it,” she added.

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by DAVID DIXON

Art, cooking, and gardening all on Dan and Kate’s homecurriculum Happy together, home-schooling working wonders for Dan, Liv, and Kate McCutcheon.

Kids come first in the McCutcheon household.

Recently-returned to Orange, Liv and husband Tom have made the difficult but increasingly-common decision in our postCOVID world to home-school their son Dan and his pre-school sister, Kate.

With all the doubts, fears, and concerns for what — in the past — was seen as a radical departure from the standard 13year educational treadmill, Liv remembers vividly one incident that confirmed her decision.

“That was the moment when I knew that I had done the right thing. Month’s after the lockdown, one of Dan’s friends from school came-over and Dan went to hug him, but instead of their usual embrace, his friend pulled away from him and kept his distance.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”

For Liv — like many new home-schooling converts — the six-week coronavirus lockdown in early 2020 proved a catalyst.

Pre-coronavirus, the couple were happilydomiciled in Sydney’s south at Yarrawarrah with Dan seemingly-enjoying kindergarten at the local small school.

Now Liv says that, if someone had told her a year ago, she would be back in Orange and home-schooling: “I’d be like ‘what planet are you on?’, I don’t see that happening,” she smiled.

Spending a decade teaching at the Museum of Contemporary Art, she said that clouds had already appeared on the horizon in regards to the modern curriculum that Dan was on the first rung of.

“I was already very concerned and quite disquieted with the amount of screen time in school, especially via the ‘whiteboards’.

“I wasn’t aware of this from the start, but what the teacher’s referred to as the ‘whiteboard’ is actually a projector screen; an interactive computer screen and everything from roll-call to songs to reading are on it.”

Liv said that dropping Dan off late one morning, she saw his classmates sitting on the floor staring entranced at the screen as the teacher talked.

“I was shocked to the extent that Dan would say, ‘I’ve seen that movie already Mum’, later finding out that on rainy days all the students were taken inside the hall to

watch a movie at lunchtime,’.”

Tom and Liv had only moved to the Sutherland Shire suburb because of the small school atmosphere at Yarrawarrah Public. “It was a beautiful little community with the school having composite classes — all the parents knew each other, but there was just not much communication from the staff.”

She said that Dan, returning home exhausted and strung-out from a day’s schooling, was now drifting away from his younger sister who was also affected by the change .

“School drop-off was the worst time of the day; I was so stressed. Dan and Kate would get-up to play or read together first thing in the morning, and I’d have to come in and break it up, trying to get him ready in time.”

“I had already been considering homeschooling in the second term of last year, but then the lockdown happened, and I had a chance to give it a trial run. As I had suspected, it worked a lot better for us as a family.”

The order to return to school after first term with demands of a parentfree environment and sterile cleaning throughout all schools, was the final piece in the puzzle.

“It was the last straw for me,” Liv said. “No adults allowed in the school, drop-off at the gate, excessive cleaning... I didn’t want my son exposed to all that on a daily basis.”

With her previous doubts and the success of having Dan back at home for two months, Liv and Tom made the call. “I realised that it was achievable, for primary school at least, and that I could do this,” Liv said.

Without the daily round of school and home and sleep, she found her children far happier and settled. “Now we do baking in the morning with no rushing-off to get anywhere, and they are learning so much from day-to-day life... when Dan first came home for the lockdown, I was surprised that we were getting through his school worksheets in just a few hours - then have the rest of the day to play and explore.”

“When I thought about it, me giving Dan my full attention is very different to a teacher who has 30 other kids to organise,

support and supervise.”

The reaction of the school and the State’s Education Department to her clear-headed decision though verged on intimidation and harassment. “The school was not exactly supportive of our decision.

“I sent the principal an email, and was very clear that, with our lived experiences and the new scenario, I was no longer comfortable with Dan being at school and was applying for home-schooling.

“They were unwilling to support us in our transition and said, ‘Dan has to go to school until you get approval’, (which, in NSW can take weeks for them to process the paperwork). Following the lockdown, I did not believe it was in my son’s best interest to stop home-schooling, now that we were settled, and return to school for a few weeks, only to be pulled back out again — the year had already been traumatic enough, for all of us.

“Although I communicated our reasons and intentions quite clearly, the school saw fit to send the police to our house for a welfare check,” Liv explained.

“They then said they’d elevate the matter, making threatening mention of Children’s Court merely days before we were approved for home-schooling. I was very shocked and disappointed in the way we were treated.”

Finally getting Department approval, Liv and Tom and Dan have never looked back.

New technologies like Zoom have made meetings with officials much easier, and the Education Department now leaves Liv largely to enjoy her children’s schooling.

While Liv was intending to return to work last year, running a small business from home, she says that home-schooling does have a number of cost-benefits.

“We are learning to grow our own food

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in the garden, and cooking all of our meals at home, so we rarely get take-out these days. You’d be surprised at how much science, maths and creativity is involved in something simple like baking… we’re learning together to be a lot more self-sufficient, and saving money in the process,” she said.

She said that the implicit career-first message for many talented young women today was one obstacle that she had to face.

“I think for women my age, there’s a huge mental obstacle to overcome when choosing to stay at home and raise your family. You have to be prepared to re-evaluate what ‘achievement’ and ‘success’ really means to you. Home-schooling has also shown me how reliant I was on external validation — at home, if you want recognition and praise for your work, you have to be willing to give that to yourself,” “I quickly had to learn the importance of silencing my inner critic; to choose to focus on what went well, what was achieved, and what lessons could be extracted from the things that didn’t work so well,” Liv explained. The same has become the case for Dan and Kate, she believes.

“Being able to know, listen to, and trust yourself is such an important life skill; they’re learning a lot of stuff in the home environment that, for most of us as adults, would take a great deal of un-learning.”

The experience, Liv says, has changed not just her children but her own world-view.

“I’ve come to learn through our experience last year that the world is not what I thought it was, and what I thought was important in 2019, doesn’t really matter that much anymore. 2020 was a gift, because it taught me that life moves fast, and making family a priority was the best way to slow it down ” Liv concluded.

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WHY IS ORANGE SPENDING HALF A MILLION IN CABONNE SHIRE? Why are Orange ratepayers paying half a million dollars on a mountain biking proposal in another Shire?

time constraints, he agreed that the event had proved to be largely a talk-fest.

“The event was simply a PR exercise,” he said. “The exercise didn’t elicit any feedback of any worth from anybody.”

The money is for a proposal that has only luke-warm support within that Shire, a recent community forum on the proposed trails heard.

“Basically, Council is trying to avoid issues to do with biodiversity up there — they’re essentially of the opinion that the tracks can still go ahead,” he said.

Cabonne Council is undecided about support for a series of mountain bike trails at Mt Canobolas, Orange Council’s Chief Executive Officer Mr Waddell said.

Proponents and supporters of the bike trail proposal for the Mount held the floor for most of the recent forum designed to provide an update on the $500,000 consultancy designed to assess whether the Mount’s delicate ecology could be protected while mountain-biking tourism was exploited in the area.

Opponents of the proposal, the Canobolas Conservation Alliance has released a new report by environmental consultant, Dr Colin Bower, on the outstanding biodiversity values of the Mt Canobolas State Conservation Area (SCA) .

The report finds that rare, threatened, and endemic plant communities and species occur throughout the reserve and that significant harm to biodiversity by a mountain bike park is unavoidable.

However, the public forum heard from Council’s consultants, Bathurst-based firm, The Environmental Factor, who gave a progress briefing on their work at the forum stating it was possible to develop mountain bike tracks for Canobolas that avoided sensitive ecological areas.

The forum heard that the Environmental Factor had developed an authoritive series of colour-coded schematics that mapped-out what areas of the Mount could be used for mountain bike-riding, and what could not.

“We’re really looking at where we can’t go,” a spokesperson said.

Jason Lam from “Dirt Art”, a bike track designing firm working to develop trails that avoid sensitive ecological and environment areas around the Mount said: “We’re truly passionate about this, we live and breathe it… it’s something of a huge passion, to create something that’s sustainable and fits into the local environment.”

To a question on why the Mount is the preferred location for the trails rather than the adjoining State Forest, Mr Lam said that the Mount has far preferable gradients for modern mountain bikers.

The Canobolas Conservation Alliance released Dr Bower’s report following Council’s forum that argued there was plenty of room in the SCA for mountain biking tracks.

SUPPORTERS OF PROPOSED MOUNTAIN BIKE TRACKS ON MOUNT CANOBOLAS, LUKAS COOKE, JOSIAH COOKE AND DYLAN WHITE. “People prefer it, the longer descending experiences rather than gradual gradients.”

Mr Waddell used a ski-resort analogy to explain the advantage of Mount Canobolas’ 1400 metres in height and steep slopes. “We wanted some ski runs with black and blue and green runs (runs of varying descent and difficulty).

“Mt Canobolas is a great area for a world class trail centre,” he added.

Most interesting answer for some observers, involved when Mr Waddell was asked about Cabonne Council’s views on a mountain trail facility being proposed by another Council in their area.

“They’re keeping their views to themselves at this stage,” he said.

Orange Residents and Ratepayers Association has also now taken an interest in this tricky issue with a spokesperson asking: “Is Orange City Council the developer on land that is owned by Cabonne Council?”.

For Dr Bower, though, the environment and not Council boundaries is the issue at hand.

Attending the event but not asking any questions due to

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The CCA study finds rare, threatened, and endemic plant communities and species occur throughout the reserve and that significant harm to biodiversity by a mountain bike park is unavoidable.

The report compiles the results of decades of exploration by scientists and members of the Orange Field Naturalist and Conservation Society.

Thirteen maps show the distributions of sensitive biodiversity, highlighting the importance of the entire reserve for nature conservation.

‘This reserve was dedicated for the conservation of nature and that should remain its principal purpose’, Dr Bower said.

‘We believe it should not be too much to ask that this small area of the vast Orange region be set aside in perpetuity for the protection of the one thousand or more species whose lineages go back millions of years on the mountain’, he said.

‘The purpose of this report is to make available a large amount of unpublished information so that the people of Orange and the Council gain a better understanding of the natural treasure on our doorstep’, Dr Bower said.

‘We hope that Council will heed the growing calls to abandon plans for a mountain bike complex in the SCA and instead use one of the many alternative options available’.

Orange Council however welcomed preliminary indications from the environmental assessment team that there is enough space for an ecologically-sensitive mountain bike trail on Mount Canobolas.

Dr Bower said that issues to do with Orange ratepayers paying for reports on development in another Shire will have little relevance in the end. The declaration that the proposal a State Significant development will override any Council boundary issues on the matter.

“In truth, I don’t think that Cabonne is going to have much say on it,” he concluded.

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Ancient board game teaching our kids lost risk-taking skills swimming at the beach, going to a public park, or participating in contact sports for risk of injury.

“Later in life, this could also extend to adolescent behaviours such as drugs, smoking, truancy, involvement in crime and in romantic relationships.

Joe Cummins replicating a game between Chess world champ Magnus Carlsen from Norway against an Iranian opponent.

“In chess, you’ve also got to learn to lose, the best players in the world get beaten, and that’s a great quality.”

Tearing downhill on a dragster without a helmet, skinning your knees climbing trees and making Tarzan ropes and tree houses, and getting covered in mosquito bites and mud while catching tadpoles in the local creek, these are unique childhood pleasures largely denied children today.

more than two centuries ago wrote the same thing.

But could a board-game that was first developed in India and Persia in the 12th century, be the perfect antidote to our risk-averse, helicopter-parented generation?

Results showed that playing chess from a young age could decrease risk aversion through exposure to win/loss situations and competition, as well as teaching children the potential benefits of strategic risk-taking.

Local chess teacher and advocate, Joe Cummins thinks so. “Chess teaches adaptability, taking positive action, maximising opportunities and taking them when they arise,” he said.

“In chess, you’ve also got to learn to lose, the best players in the world get beaten, and that’s a great quality.”

Joe was commenting on a recent Monash and Deakin University study that found that children who played the game regularly were more likely to be less riskaverse than their peers. In more good news, the game also helps children boost arithmetic and rational thinking skills.

US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin,

He said by considering consequences before taking action and by not making chess moves too hastily, important life skills such as foresight and caution could be taught.

The researchers found those that had regular chess lessons and repeatedly played chess over time were less risk averse than their peers.

“In many life situations, it is also the case that with great risk often comes great reward. However, the line between necessary calculated risk-taking and reckless behaviour is sometimes difficult to determine. Learning chess can help bridge that gap.”

The research indicates that schools across Australia should strongly consider integrating the teaching of chess in the classroom to help young people deal with risk and reward later in life.

Which is no surprise to Joe, he has seen the benefits to young people of this ancient, complex game while teaching chess at a dozen local schools.

A recent study claimed that, out of a group of a dozen children offered the chance to go the local shop on their own, 11 of the children declined the opportunity.

“We haven’t got billy-carts and things that we had in our day, so chess teaches them many of the decisionmaking skills that we used to make on the fly,” he said.

The game teaches children how to take calculated risks without being reckless, he believes. “For instance, you have to teach some players to be more aggressive, and others who try to take pieces every move, more passive.”

He said another important lesson chess offers is an understanding of how decisions you make now, can affect your future.

“Players have to learn it’s not what happens now that is important, but what happens in four moves that will determine the outcome of the game.”

The enduring appeal of chess is its infinite variety of outcomes. “They say

“Risk and reward is a concept that is articulated well in the game of chess.

Players often sacrifice pawns, knights and bishops if it helps checkmate the opponent’s king and win the game. Such sacrifices are inherently risky because if one’s calculations are faulty, the sacrifice could prove to be fatal, eventually leading to a quick loss,” Professor Asad Islam (Director, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability, Monash Business School) said.

“Children need to know how to take calculated risks. If children are too risk-averse, it might prevent them from

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there are more moves on a chess-board than stars in the universe or grains of sand on the world’s beaches … I’m not sure that that’s true, but there are literally millions of potential moves that can be made in a game.”

Co-organiser for the past 15 years of the central west junior chess tournament each school holidays, he says there’s “good news” on the horizon for the tournament that has been on a 14-month hiatus since the first coronavirus lockdowns.

“We normally have the tournament four times a year in Orange, but we weren’t allowed to play chess ‘over the board’ since the lockdowns, many players though kept up their skills in online games…there are literally hundreds of young chess players in the central west.”

“We hope this year however to be able to revive the Orange Junior Chess Tournament,” he said.

Like many board games and indoor activities, the game has witnessed a surge in interest since the first lockdowns 12-months ago.

“Last year there was a boom in chess worldwide, it was one of those indoor activities that just seemed to grab people’s interest.”

Which he says, will be great for kids throughout western NSW previously denied the special skills that this ancient game imbues.

“Children today are taught to be more cautious. But I love to see a kid taking risks on the chess board.”

The game is now taught in a number of local schools with chess clubs and interschool tournaments held throughout the region.

Millthorpe is one school that enjoys success in District, Regional and Statewide competitions with about a quarter of the school’s 260 students playing chess.

He believes that these figures will bounce-back once the COVID-19 restrictions are ultimately lifted. “It’s not about chess coming-back, it’s about chess going forward,” Joe concluded.

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NEW PETITION AIMS TO BOOST SAVE-TREE FIGHT New petition signals next stage in the fight to save 500 trees in south Orange.

A Change-org petition a year ago signalled the first opposition to removal of the trees for a proposed sports precinct in south Orange, this new petition aims to carry-on the fight.

Local Melanie Mcdonell recently launched the initiative at Orange Farmers Market and other locales to save the “Bloomfield Parkland” from destruction for a sports stadium.

Supported by local environment groups, Futuring Orange and ECCO, the petition opposes the sports precinct at the Bloomfield site, believing that it should be located at a north Orange site previously purchased by Council for the stadium facility.

A DA (development application) for removal of about 513 mixed introduced and native trees from the site, is likely to come-up before Council in April or May after about 70 submissions were received on the proposal.

But Ms Mcdonell says that opposition to the plan is growing.

“This petition reflects genuine local concerns regarding the siting of the proposed sports precinct for south Orange.

“A number of experts, including an internationally-renowned Professor of Urban Planning, together and community leaders and medical professionals have already expressed their opposition to the siting of the sports stadium so near to Bloomfield Hospital and in a regenerating natural area.”

Local opponents to the proposal, say that the stadium complex for which the State Government has already offered $25 million, should still go ahead, just not at Bloomfield, site of the de-commissioned Ex-Services Golf Course.

“We could still have an amazing sports precinct in its original location, off the Northern Distributer, on the edge of town, where most towns usually locate sporting complexes,” Ms McDonell said.

“The Bloomfield Parkland could then be conserved and enhanced to become a tourist drawcard and a healthy, multipurpose parkland, in keeping with the wellness precinct in which it’s located. It will also provide enough green space for the growing South Orange area.”

Creator of the original Change.org petition, Matilda Green is deeplysupportive of the new community-

led initiative. “It’s great to see people continuing the fight to save the trees… I remember when I established the petition, seeing the picture of the people with shovels as if they had already chosen the site.

Potential for Wonderful Parklands for Orange

“I remember saying that’s what spurned me on, this makes me mad as hell,” Ms Green said.

Proposed removal of the trees on the chopping block in south Orange has already elicited an overwhelming response from ratepayers.

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The DA is unlikely to come before Orange Council until April or even May with a number of “state layers” that have to be gone through plus consideration of the submissions from the public.

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Keep Bloomfield for Community Parkland.

Orange Mayor, Councillor Reg Kidd said that the DA is only the first stage in the process of approving the stadium.

“After we vote, there’s a few other steps to jump. It will have to go through the Heritage processes which will also provide for feedback from the community, and then there could be appeals to the Environmental Court, and don’t forget, it’s actually on Crown Land at the moment.”

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He added that getting the process done right was more important than getting it done quickly: “There’s no need to rush, it’s got to be done properly, this is a very important project,” Cr Kidd said.

Orange City Council believes that the $25 million sports precinct — which is to include an 8500-capacity rectangular sports stadium — is best-suited to the site adjacent to the former Bloomfield Hospital and incorporating the current Brabham Sport complex.

Opponents, however, say that a land parcel previously-purchased by Orange Council for the stadium on a semi-rural part of north Orange, will allow the regenerating natural area to become a special green space for the growing south Orange locale.

“As Orange continues to grow, this is exactly the type of venue that Orange will need in the future,” a spokesperson for the group opposed to the siting of the stadium said.

The parklands area is adjacent to the unrivalled Bloomfield estate that was designed by the head gardener from the famous Kew Gardens near London.

“We stand to lose this amazing

opportunity for a community parkland if Orange City Council proceeds with the Development Application (DA) to remove 513 trees,” the spokesperson added.

“This DA fails to consider a long-term vision for Orange, which would consider the importance of this site for tourist attraction for decades to come.

“Our natural beauty and environment work hand-in-hand with our food and wine branding bringing thousands every week,” the spokesperson said.

The stadium proposal had been a longterm but unfunded ambition of Council, until the 2019 State election saw Premier, Gladys Berejiklian propose full-funding on a flying visit to the Colour City in an (unsuccessful) attempt to unseat Shooters and Fishers’ local member, Phil Donato.

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State Nationals Leader John Barilaro then repeated the offer at a sod-turning event at Bloomfield site early last year which many saw as indicating the south Orange site was a fait accompli for the development.

The DA now up for public submission is the first stage in the sports precinct development with a decision to support the DA by Orange Council — also the proponent of the DA — likely to see the sport precinct become a reality.

Senior Council staff told the recent community forum that the Bloomfield site — a regenerating natural area once part of the de-commissioned Ex-Services Golf Club — was the perfect location for the proposed $25 million State Governmentfunded complex.

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Electric car station is charging ahead Kate Hook from Futuring Orange says that the NRMA’s electric vehicle charging station offers huge potential to attract high-end tourists to the district.

Dozens of vehicles each week are using the near two-year-old NRMA electronic vehicle fast-charging station at Orange Council, the NRMA says.

The facility is one of a number throughout country NSW designed to make rural areas more-accessible for electric vehicle owners, with the facility offering a “fastcharge” free of cost for electric vehicles 24-hours a day.

Environmentalist Kate Hook from Futuring Orange also believes that “fantastic” eco-tourism opportunities in the district are available from the service.

Despite its sometimes-forlorn and seeminglyabandoned-appearance, the free charging station is giving plenty of charge to passing motorists, NRMA spokesperson Peter Khoury said.

“Our charging station is providing about six fast charges a day, on average,” he said. “It depends on holidays and the like, but we had 180 charges in December of last year,” he explained.

The Orange facility was the 16th established by the motoring group outside of Sydney with about 40 now established with plans for up to 60 outside of the metropolitan area.

“The way we designed it, is to have at least one charging station for every 150km of highway outside of Sydney,” he explained.

He said that the arrangement with Orange City Council is based on a similar agreement with other country local government areas — the local council provides the location for the charging station, and the NRMA does the rest.

“The way our partnership works with councils, is that we pay for the installation and the maintenance, and the Council provides a location somewhere in the centre of town to host it,” Mr Khoury said.

“Owners of electric vehicles drive-up and attach the system to their vehicles; it’s not too dissimilar to charging your phone,” he added. “They pull-up, chargeup, and drive-off.”

The whole network, he said, is likely to be built with about $10 million from the NRMA’s Social Investment Fund. “The aim is to help attract visitors from out of town, and for others who live in Orange and have an electric vehicle.”

He added that the aim was not to promote electric vehicles use per se, but to lure most-wealthy owners of these vehicles who reside in the Harbour City to visit country areas.

“The reason we built these things regionally, was to encourage Sydney-based owners to visit regional NSW, most of these people are driving through the towns, and this is a way to make them want to stop here,” he added.

Kate Hook, who owns an electric vehicle that she has “filled-up” at the charging station, said that the facility offers huge potential to attract high-end tourists to the district.

“It offers an incredible opportunity for those people who would otherwise not come to Orange,” she said.

The fast charger will allow most motorists to charge their cars to an 80 per cent level in about 30 minutes.

Standard public EV chargers take between three and six hours, and traditional power outlets can take more than 12 hours.

The Orange charging station was the 16th of the NRMA’s electric vehicle fast charging stations to open to the public across the state, following Sydney Olympic Park, Wallsend near Newcastle, Jindabyne, Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley, Mittagong in the Southern Highlands, Narrandera, Berry, Young, West Wyalong, Bathurst, Parkes, Dubbo, Nabiac, Tamworth, and Batemans Bay. The NRMA uses renewable sources of electricity to power the chargers, where available, or buys renewable credits.

The fast-charging station also aims to reduce ‘range anxiety’ with other fast chargers allowing motorists to tour to towns like Orange, Parkes, and Dubbo and know that they will have all the amenities and services they need to stop, charge their car, enjoy the town, and safely continue on their journey.

Mr Khoury said that the NRMA had invested in a

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company, ChargeBox, to help make the system a reality.

While charging vehicles is “currently” free at the station, the final funding model will probably involve free-use for NRMA members, and a nominal cost for other users.

With the cheapest new electric vehicle model now retailing for around $43,000, the NRMA believes that likely reductions in their cost will see more of the cars on the road in the future.

He said that, while the national fleet is still tiny, this is likely to change: “The sales figures are minuscule, they’re about 14,000 cars sold last year. And, of course, we no longer have a car manufacturing industry.”

He said that, as government policies move towards encouraging reduced greenhouse gasses from vehicles and other industries, things may look different in five years.

“That’s going-on overseas and is likely to increase as more models come on the market. We want to get ahead of that in regional areas so that they don’t get left behind,” Mr Khoury said.

He said that, despite their high initial cost, electric vehicles have a lot of cost-advantages over conventional internal combustion fossil-fuel-powered cars.

“The ticket price at the moment is way too expensive for many people, but they have many benefits over traditional cars.

“They can be charged at home, they’re cheaper to service, and, if you’re trying to make comparisons to petrol, you might spend $70 to refuel on gas, but only a few dollars for a full charge of electricity.

“You’re saving yourself hundreds each month in costs to run the vehicle,” he added.

Mr Khoury added that the NRMA was not falling into the trap of so-many non-profit organisations in trying to “pick winners” in a field of commercial endeavour, but instead looking to serve their customers in a new and emerging technology.

“We’re trying to get in front of demand in a space that the NRMA would normally play in.

“This is new investment in new technology, and we don’t want to get left behind,” he concluded.

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PALLIATIVE CARE

BEDS ONLY START OF PUSH FOR DEDICATED FACILITY

Jenny Hazelton, got 10,000 signatures.

“It’s been a long haul, but so many people are passionate about this, committees, meetings, it took a long time to get those signatures,” he added.

This led to a four-bed trial being established in Orange, Mr Donato said.

“Together, our relentless lobbying of Government ultimately led to the Western NSW Local Health District announcing a public-private inpatient palliative care model being trialled at Uniting Care’s Parkwood facility “The trial was highly-successful, it was terrific and went for close to 18-months. However, the local health district didn’t renew the contract.”

Success of the four-bed trial at Parkwood, however, did pave the way for the newly-established beds opened earlier this year at the Hospital.

“It only opened-up in January; we’re meeting next week and having a tour of the facility,” Mr Donato said of the new Orange Hospital suites.

Local member Phil Donato — working collaboratively with “Orange Push for Palliative” to see return of inpatient palliative care services to the Orange Health Service.

He views the two beds at the Hospital as only the start of the campaign to get better end-of-life care for district locals. “The four beds trialled at Parkwood were full for a large proportion of the time.

“How many beds are needed? We’re looking at a Centre of Excellence for Palliative Care, with our increasing population, it will certainly be needed,” Mr Donato said.

“We’re certainly better than we were,” he added.

Inspection next week of two newly-dedicated palliative care suites at Orange Hospital is the end of one long-road for the local “Push for Palliative” group and the beginning of another.

been slow boring through hard boards.

Recent establishment of a dedicated palliative care Centre of Excellence at the hospital is a further win for the committee that worked so hard to make the service a reality.

“The old Base Hospital used to have two beds dedicated to palliative care, and the intention at the new hospital at Bloomfield was for a palliative care unit, but it just didn’t happen,” Mr Donato said.

There is much more to do, they say.

A stand-alone palliative care facility of up to a dozen beds is the group’s final goal, Jenny Hazelton from Orange Push for Palliative said.

Locals with family members facing end-of-life decisions, agree that the local offerings at present are simply not good enough for 2021.

Local member and committed supporter of the cause, Phil Donato, says though that battling the health bureaucracy to get some results has

“Well, it’s been a long, drawn-out process. It’s taken several years to finally get a dedicated palliative care unit in Orange,” he added.

Since the closing of the old Base Hospital in Orange exactly a decade ago, local services have gone backwards, he said.

He said that it took a community-led push for better services for the district to get any progress on the issue.

For Mrs Hazelton, this four-year long campaign for dedicated palliative care in Orange has a personal theme.

“I became passionate about palliative care when both of my parents died in the last five–six years,” she explained.

As a long-serving hospital social worker and president of local action group, Orange Push for Palliative, she said, “as our name says, we’ve been pushing for palliative care very hard.”

She said that the trial at Parkwood, although hugely-successful, saw a decision for the service to go back to the hospital where it had previously been based before the move to Bloomfield.

“The trial at Parkwood went wonderful, the feedback on the model though, was it was not sustainable,” she added.

“The Orange Palliative Working Group is comprised of community stakeholders and representatives all working collaboratively towards restoration of inpatient palliative services for Orange.

“Parkwood was a great start. Its success paved the way for the newlyestablished beds at Orange Hospital.

“The Group got a petition going to get a palliative care unit for Orange that, after a lot of work from people like

She said that the two–four bed facility at the Orange Hospital is the start, not the end, of campaigning for

“The hospital beds are a positive move, but we must build from within and then go-out,” Mrs Hazelton said.

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better palliative care facilities in the Colour City.

“We want to build-up palliative care.

And get a hospice for Orange, but we need to build-up slowly,” she said, with a dedicated Visiting Medical Officer the next cab off the rank.

Recent establishment of a Centre of Excellence at Orange Hospital for Oncology, Haematology, and Palliative Care is next stage in the process.

“This is exciting, these three areas have come-together in Medical Ward A, with patients offered remarkable treatment that has been consolidated within one unit,” Ms Hazelton explained.

“I’d like to thank the members who worked very hard with many people from within the Orange Hospital community to create this next stage in providing dedicated palliative care beds for patients.”

Mrs Hazelton said that palliative care is a unique area within the medical profession, where the first instinct is often immediate treatment of symptoms and illnesses.

“It’s a very specialised field with different skills and nursing care with emphasis on pain-free symptom control.”

Ms Hazelton sees the ultimate goal as a dedicated facility for the district.

“What we would like to see is a 10–12 bed palliative care unit not just for end-of-life care, but for respite, symptom control and pain management.

“We would like to see people remain supported in their own homes for as long as possible and for the hospice to support the choices that patients and their families make at this very important time,” Mrs Hazelton said.

She pointed to the Clare Holland Hospice in Canberra as a model for what the Orange community should aim for in the future.

“You go in there, and it’s just so light and peaceful, it’s absolutely wonderful,” Mrs Hazelton concluded.

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Saturday, March 6

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6.00 Rage.

7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage.

11.00 Rage Mardi Gras Special.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Romeo & Juliet.

2.30 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds.

3.35 Prince Harry’s Story: Four Royal Weddings.

4.30 Landline.

5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 11. Brisbane Roar v Sydney FC. From Dolphin Stadium, Brisbane.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.30 Call The Midwife.

9.30 Harrow.

10.25 Miniseries: Apple Tree Yard.

11.20 Press.

12.20 Rage Mardi Gras Special.

5.00 Rage.

6.00 France 24 English News First Edition. 6.30 Al Jazeera. 7.00 BBC News. 7.30 Italian News.

8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News.

11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Figure Skating. 2019-2020 ISU European Championships. Replay.

3.35 Algeria From Above.

5.25 Who Do You Think You Are? UK. Final.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras 2021.

11.30 MOVIE: Call Me By Your Name. (2017) Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet. A teen falls for an older student. (M) 1.55 VICE Guide To Film.

2.45 MOVIE: Kiki, Love To Love. (2016) Natalia De Molina. Five tales of love and lust. (MA15+) 5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs.

12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.30 Wallykazam! 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.35 Go Jetters Special. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Pride: Live At The Apollo. 9.30 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 10.05 Would I Lie To You? 10.40 Why Are You Like This. 11.05 High Fidelity. 11.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 12.15 Escape From The City. 1.10 Chris Ramsey’s Stand Up Central. Final.

1.35 Would I Lie To You? 2.05 This Country.

2.35 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

10.00 Dutch News. 10.30 Hungarian News. 11.00 NHK Japanese News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 Basketball. NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Milwaukee Bucks. Replay. 2.00 Dead Set On Life. 2.30 Front Up. 3.00 Insight. 4.00 PBS News. 5.00 ABC America: World News Tonight. 5.30 Basketball.

NBL. Round 8. Adelaide 36ers v Cairns Taipans.

7.40 The Rise Of Trash TV. 8.30 The X-Files. 9.20 Romulus. 11.30 The Sunny Side Of Sex. 12.20 Vogue Williams: Wild Girls. 1.20 Gaycation. 2.05 Reversing Female Circumcision. 2.30 France 24.

3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.40 Deadly Pole To Pole. 1.10 The Dengineers. 1.40 Winston Steinburger. 2.05 Danger Mouse.

2.20 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.50 Radiant. 3.15 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 3.40 Dragon Ball Super. 4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Robot Wars. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Close. 5.45 Winston Steinburger.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 ZooMoo Wild Friends. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed.

10.00 SA Weekender. 10.30 Dance Boss.

12.00 The Amazing Race.

2.00 Britain’s Got Talent.

4.50 MOVIE: Muppets Most Wanted. (2014) 7.00 MOVIE: A Cinderella Story. (2004) Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge.

9.00 MOVIE: There’s Something About Mary.

(1998) Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller.

11.30 MOVIE: Entourage. (2015) Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara. 1.30 Home Shopping. 2.30 Britain’s Got Talent. 5.30 Dr. Ken.

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6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 The World This Week. 11.00 Compass. 11.30 Songs Of Praise.

12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 Landline.

1.30 Gardening Australia.

2.30 Australia Remastered.

3.30 The Mix. 4.00 Soccer. W-League.Round 11. Canberra United v Brisbane Roar.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Grand Designs New Zealand.

8.30 Harrow.

9.25 Silent Witness.

10.25 Miniseries: Patrick Melrose.

11.25 Line Of Duty.

12.25 Wentworth.

1.15 Rage.

4.10 Wentworth.

5.00 Insiders.

6.00 France 24 English News First Edition.

6.30 Al Jazeera. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 Speedweek.

3.00 The Death Of Hitler. 4.00 Sportswoman.

5.05 Soccer. Indigenous v National Premier Leagues. Koalas v Queensland. Highlights. 5.35 Hitler And Churchill.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime.

9.20 Killer Bridges.

10.20 Michael Mosley: Coronavirus Special.

11.20 Contagion.

12.30 Travel Man. 1.10 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Paris-Nice Race.

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3.10 Great British Railway Journeys.

5.00 CGTN English News.

5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

Kids’ (22) 6.00 Programs.

11.40 Sally And Possum. 12.00 Teletubbies.

12.15 In The Night Garden. 12.45 Clangers. 2.15 Get Grubby TV. 2.30 Wallykazam! 3.00 Curious George. 3.30 Play School. 4.10 Wiggle. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly.

6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Catie’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Mothers On The Edge. 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.25 Catalyst. 11.25 Devolution. 12.25 You Can’t Ask That. 12.55 Restoration Australia. 1.55 Would I Lie To You? 2.25 This Country. 3.00 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Waffle The Wonder Dog. 5.55 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

10.00 Portuguese News. 10.50 Urdu News. 11.35 Hindi News. 12.00 It’s A Match. 1.00 New Girl.

2.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 8. Melbourne United v Brisbane Bullets. 4.00 ABC America: World News Tonight. 4.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 8.

Illawarra Hawks v Perth Wildcats. 6.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 7.00 Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

7.35 Abandoned Engineering. 8.30 Why Women Kill. Final. 9.30 United Shades Of America. 10.20 Letterkenny. 10.45 Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras 2021. 2.45 France 24. 3.00 Thai News.

3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.25 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 11.50 Operation Ouch! 12.20 Gym Stars. 12.40 Deadly Pole To Pole. 1.10 The Dengineers. 2.00 Danger Mouse. 2.15 Thunderbirds Are Go. 2.35 Deadly Dinosaurs. 3.05 Teenage Boss. 3.35 Horrible Histories. 4.05 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad.

4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Robot Wars. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.45 Winston Steinburger.

6.00 It’s Academic.

(66) 7.00 ZooMoo Wild Friends. 8.00 News Of The Wild. 9.00 Flushed.

10.00 SA Weekender. 10.30 Creek To Coast. 11.00 Weekender. 11.30 Britain’s Got Talent. 2.30 The Big Music Quiz. 3.45 Instant Hotel. 5.00 MOVIE: A Cinderella Story. (2004) Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge.

7.00 Modern Family.

7.30 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta.

8.30 First Dates Australia.

10.50 Bridezillas.

11.50 Splitting Up Together. 1.00 MOVIE: Sea Devils. (1937) Victor McLaglen. 3.00 MOVIE: Little Jungle Boy. (1971) Rahman Rahman. 4.30 Dr. Ken.

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6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00 Destination WA. 12.30 Award Winning Tasmania. 1.00 My Way. 1.30 Driving Test. 2.00 Netball. Constellation Cup. Game 3. New Zealand Silver Ferns v Australian Diamonds. 4.00 The Pet Rescuers. New. 4.30 The Garden Gurus. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Getaway.

6.00 Nine News Saturday.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Space Invaders.

8.30 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

(2018) Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson. A secret agent allows stolen plutonium to fall into the hands of an arms dealer. (M) 11.30 MOVIE: Empire. (2002) John Leguizamo.

(MA15+) 1.10 My Way. 1.40 A Current Affair. 2.05 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 5.30 Wesley Impact.

6.00 WhichCar. 6.30 Entertainment Tonight. 7.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 7.30 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures. 8.30 The Offroad Adventure Show.

9.30 Studio 10: Saturday.

12.00 Bondi Rescue.

12.30 Destination Dessert.

1.00 10 Minute Kitchen.

1.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield.

2.00 Three Blue Ducks.

2.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. Final.

3.00 My Market Kitchen.

3.30 Jamie & The Nonnas.

4.30 Farm To Fork.

5.00 10 News First.

6.00 To Be Advised.

8.00 Ambulance.

10.20 To Be Advised.

10.50 NCIS: Los Angeles.

11.50 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Hour Of Power.

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(52) 6.00 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. 11.30 The Baron. 12.30 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 1.30 MOVIE: Mister Ten Per Cent. (1967) Charlie Drake. 3.20 MOVIE: West Of Zanzibar. (1954) Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim. 5.20 MOVIE: Flight From Ashiya. (1964) Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris.

7.30 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 3.

Melbourne Rebels v ACT Brumbies.

9.45 Super Rugby Post-Match.

10.00 MOVIE: Hang ’Em High. (1968) Clint Eastwood, Ed Begley, Inger Stevens. 12.20 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 12.30 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 1.30 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.30 Liquid Science. 3.30 MOVIE: Pokémon: Lucario And The Mystery Of Mew. (2005) 5.30 MOVIE: Stuart Little 2.

(2002) 7.00 MOVIE: Despicable Me 2. (2013) Steve Carell. 9.00 MOVIE: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. (2013) Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Christina Applegate. 11.30 Big Heads. 12.30 Lethal Weapon. 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. 2.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy. 4.50 Nexo Knights. 5.10 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 Winners. 11.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 12.00 Weekender. 12.30 Creek To Coast.

1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Sydney Weekender.

2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.15 RSPCA Animal Rescue. 3.45 Property Ladder UK. 5.00 Horse Racing. Super Saturday and Randwick Guineas Day. 6.00 Border Security: International.

6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

11.30 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes.

12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Weekender.

4.00 Creek To Coast. 4.30 Sydney Weekender.

5.00 Home Shopping.

Step Outside (63) 6.00 With Paul Burt.

6.30 Fishy Business. 7.30 American Pickers.

8.30 Home Shopping. 10.00 Freesurfer. 11.30 Your 4x4. 12.00 On Tour With Allan Border. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Aussie Dreamlivers Texas. 2.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 3.00 Football. AFL Women’s.

Round 6. GWS Giants v Brisbane Lions. 5.00 Shipping Wars. 6.00 Megastructures. 7.00 Building Giants. 8.00 Mighty Ships. 9.00 Mighty Cruise Ships. 10.00 Air Crash Investigation. 12.00 Storage Wars Canada. 1.00 Shipping Wars. 2.00 Megastructures. 3.00 Air Crash Investigation.

4.00 Gold Fever.

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12.00 JAG. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jake And The Fatman.

4.00 iFish.

4.30 Mighty Machines.

5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 Scorpion.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.

10.20 FBI: Most Wanted.

11.20 L.A.’s Finest. 12.15 Hawaii Five-0. 1.10 CSI: Miami. 2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 Elementary. 4.05 The Doctors. 5.00 Home Shopping.

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6.30 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 The Middle.

11.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 2.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

3.30 Friends.

6.00 Columbo.

7.30 Kojak.

8.30 Spyforce.

9.30 The Big Bang Theory.

10.30 The Middle.

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

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Beach Cops.

1.30 Highway Patrol.

2.00 MOVIE: Grown Ups 2. (2013) (PG) 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Ultimate Tag. New. 8.40 MOVIE: Kingsman: The Secret Service.

(2014) Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson. A troubled young man must prove his mettle and save the world from a billionaire, set on killing millions of people, after he is recruited as a candidate to join a secret British spy organisation. (MA15+) 11.10 World’s Deadliest: Bail Outs.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Sports Sunday. 11.00 Women’s Footy. 12.00 The Xtreme Collxtion. 1.00 Netball. Constellation Cup. Game 4. New Zealand Silver Ferns v Australian Diamonds. 3.00 Customs.

3.30 Driving Test.

4.00 David Attenborough’s Dynasties.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 Territory Cops.

6.00 Nine News.

7.00 Married At First Sight.

8.30 60 Minutes.

9.30 Nine News Late.

10.00 Uncovered: Killed By Hate.

11.45 Young, Dumb And Banged Up In The Sun. 12.35 My Way. 1.05 The Xtreme Collxtion.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.00 Mass For You At Home. 6.30 Hillsong. 7.00 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef.

7.30 Fishing Australia.

8.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

8.30 Australia By Design: Innovations.

9.00 Luca’s Key Ingredient.

9.30 Studio 10: Sunday.

12.00 All 4 Adventure.

1.00 The Offroad Adventure Show.

2.00 My Market Kitchen.

2.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey.

3.00 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn.

3.30 Roads Less Travelled.

4.00 The Amazing Race Australia.

5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

9.00 FBI: Most Wanted.

11.00 The Sunday Project.

12.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 CBS This Morning.

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8.30 The Incredible Journey Presents. 9.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 MOVIE: Seven Days To Noon. (1950) 12.00 My Favorite Martian.

12.30 The Garden Gurus. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. 2.00 MOVIE: Irma La Douce. (1963) 5.00 MOVIE: The Birds. (1963) Tippi Hedren. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Chicago P.D. 9.40 Chicago Fire. 10.40 Chicago Med. 11.35 Bizarre E.R. 12.30 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer. 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

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(53) 6.00 11.30 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 12.00 Kaijudo: Rise Of The Duel Masters. 12.30 Beyblade Burst Rise. 1.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 1.30 Liquid Science. 2.00 Dance Moms. 4.00 MOVIE: Marmaduke. (2010) 5.45 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. (2011) 7.30 MOVIE: The Matrix Revolutions. (2003) Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss. 10.00 MOVIE: Life. (2017) Ryan Reynolds. 12.00 Lethal Weapon. 1.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Tom And Jerry. 4.50 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.10 Lego Jurassic World: Legend Of Isla Nublar. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!

6.00 Home (62) Shopping.

10.00 House Of Wellness.

11.00 NBC Today.

12.00 The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes.

1.00 1 Man And A Bike. New. 1.30 The Zoo. 2.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.30 Escape To The Country.

8.30 Wild Bill.

9.30 Bodyguard.

11.50 Escape To The Country.

12.50 The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 Harry’s Practice.

4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping.

Home (63) 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 The Next Level. 7.00 Fishy Business. 8.00 Home Shopping. 10.00 Shipping Wars. 10.30 River To Reef: Retro. 11.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 11.30 The Fishing Show. 12.30 Football.

AFL Women’s. Round 6. Carlton v Geelong. 2.30 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 6. Collingwood v Western Bulldogs. 4.30 Graveyard Carz. 5.30 Counting Cars. 6.00 Last Car Garage. 6.30 Border Patrol. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 MOVIE: The Hangover Part III. (2013) Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms.

10.40 MOVIE: A Million Ways To Die In The West.

(2014) 1.10 Blokesworld. 2.00 Late Programs.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 9.30 One Strange Rock. 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 Scorpion. 1.00 The Doctors.

2.00 Australia By Design: Innovations. 2.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. 3.30 Reel Action. 4.00 Fishing Australia. 5.00 iFish. 5.30 Bondi Rescue.

6.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 48 Hours.

11.20 Hawaii Five-0. 12.15 NCIS: New Orleans. 1.10 Instinct. 2.10 CSI: Miami. 3.05 Star Trek: Voyager.

4.05 Star Trek: Enterprise. 5.05 The Doctors.

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9.00 Neighbours.

11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond.

1.00 The Amazing Race Australia.

2.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

3.30 Friends.

6.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.00 Friends.

10.30 2 Broke Girls.

12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Mom. 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.30 Home Shopping. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

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Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Death In Paradise.

2.00 Rake. Final. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.00 Antiques Roadshow. 5.00 Restoration Australia. Final. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. 9.35 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill. Final. 10.20 You Can’t Ask That. 10.55 ABC Late News. 11.25 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 1.55 Hillary. 3.00 Warrior Women With Lupita Nyong’o. 4.05 Railway Journeys UK. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The Secret Life Of Lighthouses. 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.25 The Story Of The Songs.

10.20 SBS News. 10.50 Outlander. 11.55 Butter Lamp. 12.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Paris-Nice Race. Stage 2. 2.15 Late Programs.

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(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 To Be Advised. 1.40 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Ultimate Tag. 9.10 9-1-1. 10.10 The Rookie. 11.10 The Latest: Seven News. 11.40 Station 19. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Under Investigation. 10.00 Australian Crime Stories.

11.10 Nine News Late. 11.40 The First 48. 12.30 Tipping Point. 1.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 8.30 Hughesy, We Have A Problem.

9.30 The Graham Norton Show. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants. Final. 9.40 To Be Advised.

10.45 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 11.35 Escape From The City. 12.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 1.10 Would I Lie To You? 1.40 Parks And Recreation. 2.05 Reno 911! 2.25 Zapped.

3.05 Close. 5.05 Kids’ Programs.

World(31) 6.00 Watch. 12.00 Is Australia Sexist? 1.00 VICE. 1.35 NZ Female Fighters. 2.00 Insight. 3.00 Why Do Men Earn More Than Women? 3.55 WorldWatch. 4.20 This Week. 5.15 Painting. 5.45 Shortland St. 6.15 Forged In Fire Latin America. 7.05 Jeopardy!

7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster: Champion Of Champions. 9.25 RocKwiz. 10.20 Late Programs.

6.00 Morning (62) Programs. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 MOVIE: The Falcon In Hollywood. (1944) 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Brit Cops. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 1 Man And A Bike. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Judge John Deed.

10.30 Autopsy USA. 11.30 Late Programs.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless.

2.50 Garden Gurus Moments. 3.05 MOVIE: Orders To Kill. (1958) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 London Kills. 8.40 MOVIE: Agatha Raisin: The Quiche Of Death.

(2014) Ashley Jensen, Oliver Lansley. 10.40 Three Days To Live. 11.40 Late Programs.

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 11.15 NCIS: Los Angeles. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 CSI: Miami. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Instinct. 5.00 Nash Bridges.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 3.35 Shame. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Dogstar. Final. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly 60. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!

8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra.

9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Resident.

2.00 Deception. 3.00 Splitting Up Together.

3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.20 Ultimate Tag. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family. 8.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. 10.30 Ramsay’s Hotel Hell. 11.30 Hell’s Kitchen USA. 12.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs. 1.00 Buccaneers & Bones. 1.30 Gold Fever. 2.30 Graveyard Carz. 3.30 Counting Cars. 4.00 Last Car Garage. 4.30 Motor Racing. Dunlop Super2 Series. Highlights. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 8.00 Pawn Stars UK. 8.30 MOVIE: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. (2016) 11.00 Late Programs.

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 MOVIE: Madeline. (1998) 1.50 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Social Fabric. 4.00 Baywatch. 5.00 Knight Rider. 6.00 Malcolm.

7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Under Siege. (1992) Steven Seagal. 10.40 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.40 The Nanny. 12.10 Lethal Weapon. 1.10 Big Heads. 2.10 Dance Moms. 3.00 Kids’ Programs.

(82) 6.00 Morning Programs. 7.00 The Middle. 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory.

11.00 Frasier. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

1.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Two And A Half Men. 11.00 The Middle. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. 12.00 Horse Racing. Super Saturday and Randwick Guineas Day. 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

7.30 MOVIE: Men In Black: International. (2019) Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Liam Neeson. Two MIB agents uncover a sinister plot involving a traitor who is aiding an alien invasion. (M) 10.00 MOVIE: Wrath Of The Titans. (2012) Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson. After Zeus is imprisoned in the underworld, his son Perseus must rescue him before the Titan Kronos is released. (M) 12.00 MOVIE: Borderline Normal. (2001) Caterina Scorsone. Two teenagers deal with loss. (M) 2.00 Home Shopping.

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TV Guide News (2) 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. 10.55 Antiques Roadshow. 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

1.00 Call The Midwife. 2.00 Poldark. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow.

5.10 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. 8.30 Catalyst. Final.

9.30 The Truth About Getting Fit At Home.

10.30 QI. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.35 Q+A. 12.45 Wentworth. 1.35 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 1.55 (3) Hillary. 3.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.00 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Great Australian Railway Journeys.

8.40 24 Hours In Emergency. 9.35 Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain. 10.30 SBS News.

11.00 The Pier. 12.00 Calling. 12.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Paris-Nice Race. Stage 3. 2.15 VICE Guide To Film. 3.05 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Why Are You Like This. 9.10 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 9.50 High Fidelity. 10.20 Brassic. 11.05 Pride: Live At The Apollo. 12.05 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series.

12.35 Parks And Recreation. 1.00 Reno 911! 1.20 Zapped. Final. 2.00 Close. 5.05 Little Princess.

5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Inside Heston’s World. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.45 Noma Australia. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Asia’s Next Top Model. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 VICE Investigates.

New. 10.35 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. 11.30 News. 12.00 Stories From Norway: The Musical! 12.50 King Of The Road.

2.00 Slutever. 2.25 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage.

10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Resident. 2.00 Deception. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family.

8.30 MOVIE: Due Date. (2010) 10.30 MOVIE: Ride Along. (2014) 12.30 90210. 1.30 Deception. 2.30 The Resident. 4.30 Dr. Ken.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.35 Media Watch. 1.55 Poldark.

3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. 8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 9.00 Aftertaste. Final. 9.30 Why Are You Like This. 9.55 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 10.35 Staged. 11.00 ABC Late News.

11.35 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 1.55 Hillary. 3.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.05 Great British Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia.

6.30 News. 7.35 Tony Robinson: Britain’s Ancient Tracks. 8.30 Australia In Colour.

9.30 Departure. New. 10.20 SBS News. 10.50 Romulus. 11.50 Oh Lucy! 12.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Paris-Nice Race. Stage 4. 2.15 VICE Guide To Film. 3.05 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 CGTN English News. 5.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 4.45 Play School Art Time. 5.10 Luo Bao Bei. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Harry Seidler: Modernist. 9.45 Restoration Australia. 10.45 To Be Advised. 11.40 Louis Theroux: Mothers On The Edge. 12.45 Parks And Recreation. 1.05 Reno 911! 1.25 Chewing Gum. 1.50 Josh. 2.25 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Inside Heston’s World. 2.00 The Curse Of Oak Island. 2.50 Noma Australia. 3.20 Stories From Norway: The Musical! 3.45 WorldWatch.

5.10 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Vs Arashi. 7.05 Jeopardy!

7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Wellington Paranormal. 9.05 MOVIE: The Conversation. (1974) 11.10 MOVIE: Desperately Seeking Susan. (1985) 1.00 News. 1.25 Undressed. 2.25 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage.

10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Resident. 2.00 Deception. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama. 6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Modern Family.

8.30 MOVIE: Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters. (2013) 10.40 The Guardian. 2.00 Deception. 3.00 The Resident. 5.00 Dr. Ken.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 Australian Story. 10.30 Compass. 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering.

2.00 Poldark. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. 8.00 Back Roads. 8.30 Q+A. 9.35 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 10.05 Aussie Inventions That Changed The World. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.30 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch. 1.55 (3) Hillary. 3.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 4.00 Great Indian Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.35 The World’s Greatest Palaces. Final.

8.30 Michael Mosley: What’s My Diagnosis.

9.35 Shadowplay. 10.40 SBS News. 11.10 24 Hours In Police Custody. 12.00 Julian. 12.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Paris-Nice Race.

Stage 5. 2.15 VICE Guide To Film. 3.05 Railway Journeys UK. 5.00 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.25 Hard Quiz. 9.55 The Weekly. 10.25 You Can’t Ask That. 10.55 David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants. Final. 11.50 Parks And Recreation. 12.10 Reno 911! 12.30 Chewing Gum. 12.55 QI. 1.25 Brassic. 2.10 Josh. 2.45 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Round 4.

2020 NHK Trophy. Replay. 2.05 Gaycation. 2.55 Gaycation: United We Stand. 3.45 WorldWatch.

5.10 NBL: Overtime. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Taskmaster Norway. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. 10.10 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. 11.05 News. 11.30 The Longest Day In Chang’an. 12.20 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 The Legend Of Korra. 9.55 Rage.

10.55 Close. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Resident. 2.00 Deception. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama.

6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Cold Case.

8.30 The Mentalist.

11.30 Numb3rs. 12.30 Bones. 1.30 Deception.

2.30 The Resident. 4.30 Dr. Ken.

Morning (2) 6.00 Programs. 10.00 Q+A. 11.00 The Pacific: In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill. Final. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Back Roads. 1.30 Outback Ringer.

2.00 Poldark. 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.10 Antiques Roadshow. 5.10 Grand Designs: House Of The Year. 6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Gardening Australia. 8.30 Vera. 10.00 Mum. 10.30 State Of The Union. 10.45 ABC Late News. 11.00 The Vaccine. 11.15 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 11.45 Late Programs.

6.00 WorldWatch.

(3) 1.55 How Reagan And Thatcher Saved The World. 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Railway Journeys UK. 4.00 Great Indian Railway Journeys. 5.05 Jeopardy!

5.30 Letters And Numbers. 6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 News. 7.30 Mystery Of Rome’s Sunken City. 8.30 Going Places. 9.00 Who Do You Think You Are? UK. 10.10 The Royals And The Nazis. 11.10 SBS News. 11.40 Travel Man. 12.15 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Paris-Nice Race.

Stage 6. 2.15 Late Programs.

(22) 6.00 Kids’ Programs. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly. 6.45 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 7.00 Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 Geoffrey Atherden’s Liberty Equality Fraternity. 10.15 Brush With Fame. 10.40 To Be Advised. 11.45 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 12.35 Catalyst. 1.35 Parks And Recreation. 1.55 Reno 911! 2.20 Chewing Gum. 2.50 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.35 Kids’ Programs.

(31) 6.00 WorldWatch.

12.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Round 4. 2020 NHK Trophy. Replay. 2.05 Gaycation.

3.00 Climate Crisis: Make The World Greta Again. 3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 The Joy Of Painting. 5.35 Shortland Street. 6.05 If You Are The One. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Rhod Gilbert: Stand Up To Shyness. 9.35 Mums Make Porn Germany.

11.25 24 Hours In Police Custody. 12.20 Late Programs.

Kids’ (23) 6.00 Programs. 11.45 Tell Your Story, Change Your World. 12.00 Kids’ Programs. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Gym Stars. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free.

6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 MOVIE: The Midnight Gang. (2018) 8.05 Horrible Histories.

8.40 Good Game Spawn Point. 9.00 Voltron: Legendary Defender. 9.20 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.45 Radiant. 10.10 The Legend Of Korra. 10.35 Close. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 It’s (66) Academic. 7.00 Match It. 8.00 Flushed. 9.00 Home Shopping.

10.30 House Rules. 12.00 The Resident. 2.00 Deception. 3.00 The Goldbergs. 3.30 How I Met Your Mother. 4.30 Futurama. 5.00 The Simpsons. 6.00 Futurama.

6.30 The Simpsons.

7.30 Cold Case.

8.30 The Mentalist.

11.30 Numb3rs. 12.30 Bones. 1.30 Deception.

2.30 The Resident. 4.30 Dr. Ken.

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Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Fugitive At 17. (2012) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Ultimate Tag. 9.00 The Good Doctor. 10.00 The Resident. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News. 11.30 Station 19. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

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6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 8.30 NCIS. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping.

4.30 CBS This Morning.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 10.25 CSI: Miami. 12.15 Home Shopping. 2.15 CSI: Miami. 3.15 JAG. 4.10 Star Trek: Voyager. 5.05 Diagnosis Murder.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Frasier.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 Mom. 12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Cube.

8.30 Bull. 10.30 The Project. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 1.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 CBS This Morning.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Jake And The Fatman.

12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

10.20 NCIS. 12.10 Home Shopping. 2.10 CSI: Miami. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Instinct. 5.00 JAG.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Frasier.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours.

7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 2 Broke Girls.

12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First.

6.30 The Project. 7.30 Bondi Rescue. 8.00 Territory Cops. 8.30 Gogglebox. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Project. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 The Garden Gurus. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat.

5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Botched. 10.00 Australian Scandal. New. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 Labour Of Love. 12.20 Tipping Point. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Late Programs.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 9.30 Danoz Direct. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 London Kills. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Dentist On The Job. (1961) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer.

9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 10.40 Shades Of Blue. 11.40 Law & Order. 12.35 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm.

7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Sherlock Holmes.

(2009) 10.05 MOVIE: The Dictator. (2012) 11.45 The Nanny. 12.15 Lethal Weapon. 1.10 Urbex: Enter At Your Own Risk. 2.10 Baywatch. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Brit Cops. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Jonathan Creek. 2.30 ICU. 3.00 Bargain Hunt. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers.

9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

11.00 A Football Life. 12.20 Ultimate Tag. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Pawn Stars South Africa. 3.30 Pawn Stars UK. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Outback Opal Hunters.

10.30 Mighty Rivers. 11.30 Late Programs.

PRIME7

Morning (6) 6.00 Programs. 12.00 MOVIE: Dreamhouse Nightmare. (2017) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. 7.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 Miniseries: The Pembrokeshire Murders. 9.30 Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching The Gameshow Killer.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 Criminal Confessions. 12.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Driving Test. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Married At First Sight. 9.00 Amazing Grace. 10.00 New Amsterdam. 11.00 Nine News Late. 11.30 Chicago Med. 12.20 Tipping Point. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

2.30 Late Programs.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 New Tricks. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow.

3.35 MOVIE: Sailors Three. (1940) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 Silent Witness. 12.10 My Favorite Martian. 12.35 Antiques Roadshow. 1.00 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm.

7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Sicario. (2015) Emily Blunt. 11.00 Police Ten 7. 11.30 The Nanny.

12.00 Lethal Weapon. 1.00 The Horn. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Destination WA. 1.30 Married At First Sight. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. 5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 1.

Melbourne Storm v South Sydney Rabbitohs.

9.55 Thursday Night Knock Off. 10.40 Nine News Late. 11.10 Manifest. 12.00 New Amsterdam. 1.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Brit Cops. 2.00 Harry’s Practice.

2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Make It Yours.

4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries.

8.30 A Touch Of Frost.

10.50 Jonathan Creek. 1.15 ICU. 2.00 Home Shopping.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life.

12.20 Ultimate Tag. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Classic Restos: USA Edition. 3.30 Blokesworld.

4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.30 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: Dead At 17. (2008) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News. 6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30. 7.00 Home And Away. 8.30 Wife Swap Australia. 9.45 Ant Middleton & Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking.

10.45 The Latest: Seven News. 11.15 Celebrity Obsessed. 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.

7TWO

TV Shop: (52) 6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 As Time Goes By. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.55 Antiques Roadshow. 3.25 MOVIE: The Maggie. (1954) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

7.30 Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo. 8.30 The Equalizer. 9.30 Murder For Hire. 10.30 See No Evil. 11.30 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm.

7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: The Longest Yard. (2005) Adam Sandler. 10.45 MOVIE: Ted. (2012) 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

PRIME7

6.00 Today. 9.00 (5) Today Extra. 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 1.00 Amazing Grace. 2.00 Desperate Housewives. 3.00 Tipping Point. 4.00 Afternoon News. 4.30 Millionaire Hot Seat.

5.30 Nine News Local. 6.00 Nine News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 1. Brisbane Broncos v Parramatta Eels. 9.55 Golden Point. 10.40 MOVIE: The Mechanic.

(2011) 12.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Late Programs.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Brit Cops. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Andrew Denton’s Interview. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction.

3.30 My Road To Adventure. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Late Programs.

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions.

11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Billion Dollar Wreck. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Pawnography. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Pacific Rim. (2013) Charlie Hunnam. 10.00 MOVIE: Collateral Damage. (2002) 12.20 Late Programs.

Sunrise.

(6) 6.00 9.00 The Morning Show. 11.30 Seven Morning News. 12.00 MOVIE: The Perfect Boss. (2013) Jamie Luner, Ashley Leggat. 2.00 House Of Wellness. 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia. 6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

8.30 MOVIE: Ladies In Black. (2018) Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor.

10.50 To Be Advised. 1.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 Home (62) Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 12.00 House Of Wellness. 1.00 Miniseries: Madoff. 3.00 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Highway Cops. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 1.00 The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 My Road To Adventure. 4.30 Home Shopping.

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Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0. 9.30 L.A.’s Finest. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 Elementary. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Late Programs.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Frasier.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 Friends.

12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

NINE

6.00 Headline News.

(8) 8.30 Studio 10. 12.00 Dr Phil. 1.00 The Living Room. 2.00 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 3.00 Judge Judy. 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. 4.00 Farm To Fork. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. 5.00 10 News First. 6.30 The Project. 7.30 The Living Room.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.30 Just For Laughs. 11.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.00 The Project. 1.00 Late Programs.

9GEM

Home (81) 6.00 Shopping.

8.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

11.00 Jake And The Fatman. 12.00 Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 12.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges. 3.00 JAG. 4.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation. 5.00 Jake And The Fatman.

9GO!

(82) 6.00 Frasier.

7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond.

9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Frasier. 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

9.30 The Conners.

10.30 Charmed. 11.30 The Big Bang Theory.

12.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Medium. 3.30 Frasier. 4.30 Home Shopping.

Morning (52) 6.00 Programs. 10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. 12.00 Miracle Hospital. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless.

2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.25 MOVIE: Charley Moon. (1956) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet. 8.40 MOVIE: Shooter. (2007) Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Kate Mara. 11.10 Lethal Weapon. 12.10 Late Programs.

7MATE

Kids’ Programs.

(53) 6.00 11.00 Dance Moms.

12.00 Royal Pains. 1.00 The Mindy Project.

2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 The Nanny. 4.30 Young Sheldon. 5.30 MOVIE: Ella Enchanted. (2004) 7.30 MOVIE: Stick It. (2006) 9.35 MOVIE: Bring It On. (2000) 11.35 Big Heads. 12.35 Lethal Weapon. 1.30 Surfing Australia TV. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Kids’ Programs.

| Saturday 6 March, 2021 |

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7TWO

Morning (63) 6.00 Programs.

9.00 Pawnography. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.00 Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Pawn Stars. 1.30 Storage Wars. 2.00 Gold Fever.

3.00 Billion Dollar Wreck. 4.00 Timbersports.

4.30 Pawnography. 5.00 Shipping Wars. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 MOVIE: Men In Black 3. (2012) Will Smith. 9.40 MOVIE: Predators. (2010) Adrien Brody. 11.50 Late Programs.

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of current faves, a relatively new I’m alone again this week, working Aussie band called Ocean Alley – and from home. Weird. Fun. Novel. Am I screamed out the lyrics at the top of gonna get sick of it? Who knows. Am my lungs whilst mowing for almost 2 I sick of my own company yet? Nope.

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Who would have, could have, known?

Ivermectin claims are now accepted!

(For all links, go to online version of this article) WELCOME TO THE “ADULTS SEALED SECTION” — FOR ROBUST THINKERS ONLY — IF YOU DARE! On Ivermectin and COVID-19

Recently, there have been some interesting developments on our political scene. The Liberal Party decided to carpet Craig Kelly, telling him he wouldn’t be supported in contesting his seat of Hughes at the next election if he didn’t “shut-up” about Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin treatments for COVID-19. Oh, and he was told to get rid of his staffer who is accused of questionable behaviour (Kelly says he deserves the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise).

On COVID-19, all Kelly ever asked was for some major trials of these alternate drugs to be investigated by our Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Task Force (NCCETF) which makes recommendations to governments, State chief medical officers, and the Prime Minister. This followed the NCCETF’s website recommending against Ivermectin, (6.8.22) after relying on just seven studies. This was despite 42 studies showing an 82 per cent reduction for early treatment and 75 per cent lower mortality with Ivermectin. (NCCETF also recommends against Hydroxychloroquine) I believe that, looking at these other studies, it’s negligent of the TGA and the NCCETF not to recommend something that is harmless and that will save lives.

Also, on the Ivermectin front, Prof Thomas Borody’s views on this have been vindicated — as has Craig Kelly’s — with the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development (BIRD) meeting concluding that, using Ivermectin reduced deaths by an average of 83 per cent (between 67–92 per cent). The BIRD panel — with dozens of multinational scientists and doctors — issued “sweeping recommendations for the immediate global use of Ivermectin” (20/2/21).

Likewise, the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), says Ivermectin has proven highlyefficacious in pre, post, early, and even, late stage patients.

The UK Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd counts its biggest clients as the (UK) National Health Service and the WHO. Director Dr Tess Lawrie authored a report concluding “The evidence that ivermectin prevents morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 is so compelling, that further placebo-

controlled clinical trials of ivermectin (versus no ivermectin) for treatment of COVID-19 are unethical”.

Dr Lawrie said this in a video message to Boris Johnson in January; confirming our own pioneering Prof Borody’s assertion last August: ‘’The good news is that we now have solid evidence of an effective treatment for COVID-19, it is called IVERMECTIN. ‘’The evidence is consistent and unequivocal.

Ivermectin works well in preventing COVID-19 infections and preventing deaths. ‘’Ivermectin should be adopted globally & systematically for the prevention & treatment of COVID-19.”

However, for whatever reasons, we are stupidly and blindly following the World Health Organisation (WHO), which is more about the health of their bank account than our health.

Wouldn’t you think that our trusty governments would want to reduce OUR deaths by 83 per cent? If not, why not? It’s far less risky than untried vaccines!

What’s the agenda if they can’t use something tried and true, to stop the flu?

That’s the question I, Craig Kelly and many others have been asking — all based on many world experts’ research — although, perhaps, not those dependent on funding from governments and Big Pharma!

I wonder whether Tanya Plibersek will have the guts to apologise to Kelly? As is usual for those who can’t put up a good argument, Plibersek just put Kelly down rather than argue facts in their hall-way confrontation. Now, once more, he’s been vindicated, although our governments are too stupid, or too tied to Big Pharma, to accept what they should have accepted when our clever Prof Borody gifted this information to the world last August to try to save many people.

It’s estimated that, globally, 47,683 lives could be saved weekly if Ivermectin is used. Other countries use it, we don’t!

Imagine how many people could have been saved from an awful death here, if only Ivermectin had been used – or hydroxychloroquine, for that matter, instead of our medical bureaucracy banning doctors from prescribing it. The problem, of course, is that it only costs a couple of dollars, and there’s no “big bucks” in it for Big Pharma and all those who get kick-backs along the way for doling-out the research grants or contracts. We really should look into that to see what’s going on here around all those issues. I think we might be shocked! How culpable are our governments?

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a preventative immediately upon the first flu-like sign? Or for those in quarantine? We wouldn’t have had to lock down! Businesses would have been saved humungous debt burdens. The whole nation – and world – would have been much better off.

Yes, the Libs thought they were smart black-mailing Craig Kelly, but it back-fired. They only have a majority now with his support. It will be interesting if the cabinet minister (the Attorney-General) under a sexual misconduct cloud at the moment, is ultimately forced to resign. Where will that leave them? Do we smell an election?

Back to the UN

Back to the United Nations (UN) and the WHO; thinking they can control us with fear of COVID-19, climate change, finance, or scaring poor kids who think they’ll get into trouble for calling a “boy” a “boy” or a “girl” a “girl!” All this stupid spin started with the UN who are aiming for a coup with their World Economic Forum’s total control whereby the elite own everything, and we bunnies work for them.

The UN has NEVER changed its communist spots!

Recently, I wondered what G Edward Griffin thought about something (or even if he was still alive!). I found one of his websites and got totally waylaid with The Untold Story of UN Betrayal from 1960. The video-clip tells of the fate of Katanga (now part of the Congo) a Christian nation, highly-industrious and productive, and fairly self-sufficient; destroyed by a communist UN. I was transfixed, because I’d known people who escaped from there, telling of the ghastly “friendly fire” on a hospital by the UN in the country. Doctors desperately telegrammed the UN, the US, and the world to try to stop the killing of innocent people by UN forces in Katanga. The people were ignored — and destroyed.

Fast forward, and we now have proof of something the UN denied for years. UN emails have been leaked which confirm that UN “human rights” officials gave the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) names of Chinese dissidents about to testify in Geneva against the CCP’s treatment of the Uyghurs, Hong Kong and Tibet.

The Epoch Times reports this was “normal practice”; consequently, at least one person detained prior to leaving for Geneva is known to have died in detention.

Something which has always stuck in my mind is one of the Rothschild’s (banking empire) comments that the “higher road to communism is capitalism”. Couple that with Fabian Bob Hawke’s famous assertion that gradualism was the way to con people into acceptance: you can see where we are today and how successful the UN and their co-conspirators have been through embracing communism to infiltrate and usurp our way of life by various forms of gradualism.

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The Council Game What happened at Council on 2nd March 2021?

The answer is that not a lot happened at Council on 2nd March.

This is the Council meeting where the minutes of all of the Policy Committees are considered, and unfortunately that seems to give some kind of signal to Councillors that they can raise operational issues, and generally sound like a bunch of old men in the pub having a yarn!

It also seems to give a signal to the Mayor to give everyone a lecture about the good old days. There was

understandable lamenting about

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Amanda Spalding

Not a lot happened at the Council meeting on 2nd March. I was watching the Livestream at home and my internet connection disappeared, so I had to listen to the remainder the next morning. I have discovered that watching the recording at double speed makes the meeting go a lot quicker!

Last night’s meeting was a non-entity. One of my favourite activities is going to the pub for a yarn, but it is not good that our Orange City Council meetings sound like a bunch of old blokes having a yarn in the pub.

The implementation of Future City plans was a late item on the agenda. I am a big supporter of the intentions of the Future City plans and think Council should be applauded for commissioning the study and moving forward with implementation. Some of the individual proposals will be controversial, but the general concept of making the CBD more pedestrian friendly is needed, as at present it is a fairly dangerous place for pedestrians and particularly people with disabilities.

It seems that the proposal to move the Lords Place taxi rank to Summer Street is causing some concerns among taxi drivers. No doubt

there will also be concerns from customers who do their shopping at Coles and currently take their shopping trollies across Lords Place to get a taxi. It is not clear whether the new arrangements with the taxi rank on Summer Street will be better for customers and their trollies.

On another matter, I attended the Community Forum about the proposed Mountain Biking Trail on Mount Canobolas. These Public Forums are a great idea.

What struck me was the lack of creative thinking about the areas that are owned and managed by different parts of the NSW Government.

There is the State Conservation Area and then there is the State Forest on Mount Canobolas.

The description of State Conservation Areas is: ‘lands reserved to protect and conserve significant or representative ecosystems, landforms, natural phenomena or places of cultural significance. They provide opportunities for sustainable visitation, public enjoyment, and research’.

Then there is the State Forest. State Forests are described as: ‘there are over 2-million hectares of State forest in NSW, with many declared and open to licensed hunting.

State forests are working forests that must accommodate a range of recreational activities, primary production such as grazing and apiary, and timber harvesting alongside hunting’.

Many of the 140 people at the meeting were perplexed about the concept of building a

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here was a late item about the implementation of Future City plans, and Council decided that work should go ahead on McNamara and Byng Streets and Lords Place. Those plans include festoon lighting, new trees, removal of some trees, pop-up shops, median strips and changing the roundabout at Byng Street and Lords Place to a single-lane roundabout. The plans also include moving the Lords Place taxi rank to Summer Street.

A masterplan for Glenroi Oval was considered and will be put on public exhibition for community comment.

Mountain Bike Trail in a State Conservation Area.

I could not find the Mount Canobolas State Forest on the Forestry Corporation maps, but did find a lot of NSW State Forests with Mountain Bike Trails.

When it was suggested to the panel, of Council’s CEO and the three consultants, that the MBT (if there is to be one) should be built in the State Forest on Mount Canobolas, rather than the State Conservation Area, the panel said that it could only be a temporary Trail as it could be built when the trees had been chopped down, but would have to be removed when new trees are planted.

I was told by someone that the environment of this State Conservation Area is already seriously degraded and by others that there is very rare flora there that need to be protected, and considerable evidence of Aboriginal cultural heritage. It does seem to me that if the environment is seriously degraded, it should be looked after better by its Government owners and managers, not used as a reason to further damage the environment by building a MBT. If there is to be a MBT built on Mount Canobolas

by Orange City Council as a developer in the Cabonne Council area, it seems that it would be preferable to put it in the State Forest with the new planting of trees to work around the MBT. I am no expert, but it appears likely that this solution would result in an improvement in the environment in both areas.

THE COUNCIL GAME The Council Game welcomes our latest player…

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Nicolaas Drage Name: Nicolaas Drage Occupation: Owner/Director of Games n More Interests/hobbies: Cricket, Rugby League, Card and Tabletop Gaming, Video Gaming, Fishing

In this month’s Planning and Development Committee, there is a proposal to further develop Shiralee Estate along Park and Rifle Range Road which will add approximately 300 lots to this vastly growing estate. We are only going to see more and more development proposals such as these in the coming months and years ahead. I support growing both our city and our region only if we have the infrastructure in place to accommodate our growth and only if our council is adequately resourced and efficient to process all development and building applications, both big and small, in a timely and efficient fashion.

Political Party: Independent Mission Statement: To provide transparent, independent, and honest decisions that are in the best interest of Orange to have sustainable growth.

I aim to facilitate constructive debate and discussion amongst councillors and the community, and while there will be a difference of opinion, it is imperative that those differences can be discussed civilly and constructively to ultimately provide an outcome that benefits Orange.

Expertise/experience: I have 15 years of experience in sales and marketing in both Sydney and Orange.

I currently run my own business in the retail sector that I have been doing for the last 4 years. I am also currently studying a Bachelor of Legal studies through the University on New England. I currently sit as the Vice-President of the Orange Business Chamber as well as having served on many association committees in the past.

Are there any new or existing projects or issues you’d like to see considered seriously by Council?

- I would like to see more traction with us addressing CBD parking in the short term. To do this, I have proposed making the car park off Hill Street better signposted and more secure with lighting and CCTV. This can then be used as all day parking for CBD staff rather than parking in places which could be used for people shopping in the CBD.

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Steve Peterson At the council meeting 2nd of March, I was pleased with the discussion about the Glenroi master plan.

This includes increasing lighting and sports facilities at Glenroi oval which has recently had the addition of a BMX pump track. I used to run or ride through that area on route to work at the Orange Aboriginal medical service. The additional equipment will increase the number of people using the area and make the location feel safer. I want Orange to be the best it can be for everybody. This means resources need to be spread to all areas of our City, like through this masterplan or similar.

The accepted motion for location maps of automated external defibrillators is an interesting idea. As a doctor with many hours spent in emergency departments in Orange and elsewhere, the only people I have ever seen survive a heart attack was when their heart attack occurred close to a defibrillator. Defibrillators are coming cheaper and more widespread. The people using them will be members of the general public who have never used one before and who just happen to be at the right place at the right time. Delays in finding a defibrillator and instructions for their use reduce survival dramatically. An app that can help people discover the closest one will save lives over time no doubt about it.

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Josh Girle-Bennett I would like to take this opportunity to share my personal struggles with Orange City Council.

In June last year, my wife and I purchased a parcel of land in North Orange. On the 19th January this year, our builder submitted plans to Orange City Council for approval. As we are needing to build a retaining wall, this needed to be submitted as a Development Application.

When tracking our DA via council’s online portal, the target approval date for this application was 27/01/2021. Even if you look on the Council website as of this week, the target date for completion is still 27/01/2021. This is one month overdue. Putting this matter into perspective, we are only seeking approval to build a retaining wall and a standard size house on a standard size suburban block. We are not building the Taj Mahal or anything overly complex.

Is Orange City Council’s Planning Department severely under-resourced or is it grossly-inefficient? I personally believe it is both. Our council is clearly not well-resourced and efficient enough to process the volume of small, medium and large scale DA’s being submitted.

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Melanie McDonnell This week’s meeting was… uninspiring to say the least. Again.

At the risk of poking the proverbial bear, let me say this – it is increasingly clear that our elected Council lacks real and effective leadership. Meeting efficiency and effectiveness ultimately comes down to the ability of the Chair to manage the room. Yet despite all his years on Council, Councillor Kidd’s chairing style might best be described as laissez-faire.

Why does this matter?

Because, this week, half the meeting was taken up by things better dealt with outside of the meeting – questions a Councillor should have asked of Council staff any time before the meeting; and general chest-thumping and reminiscing about the grand-old days of Orange, probably best suited to a Sunday afternoon pub session of the old boys’ club rather than a formal meeting of the city’s elected Councillors.

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fuel by the motion about AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) where Greg Page’s (original Yellow Wiggle) ‘recent’ heart attack was referenced.

It was over a year ago that Greg had a cardiac arrest on stage and was revived (and saved) by an AED. Following this, there was a significant, substantial public campaign around the importance of AEDs in public places. In Orange, barring any leadership from the same Councillor(s) at the time, it was private businesses and individuals who stepped up into the vacuum and did it themselves.

All this aside, AEDs are vital. Easy access to one can mean the difference between survival and death for the individual who has an arrest. Anything which makes locating and accessing an AED in an emergency easier is fantastic, even if it’s somewhat overdue.

Not to be a complete ‘negative nelly’, I’ll finish on a positive note – the next Future City stage was approved, and while the plans are not at all perfect (e.g. losing a few established trees, and the lack of disability access/parking in that area), at least there will be some action.

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Frances Kinghorne This week I would like to talk about the proposal to construct a mountain bike trail network on Mt Canobolas. I attended the forum last week, and listened to the relevant podcast today. I also walked the Federal Falls loop on Saturday which helped me to ‘get in the zone’.

The proposal has two main aspects. Similar constructions in other places appear to have generated significant economic benefits for their locales, but there are concerns in relation to the potential impact on local ecological systems. Finding the right balance does matter. If Orange was struggling economically, there might be an argument to be less considerate of environmental concerns, but we’re actually doing pretty well so that swings the pendulum back to ensuring that our amazing Canobolas environment is valued appropriately.

I think the council podcast was a little misleading in that it suggested that the forum had generated questions and comments for and against the proposal. I heard every speaker at the forum, and every comment or question from the public seemed to be concerned about possible negative implications of such a construction. The trail designer, when asked during the podcast about soil erosion, dismissed it as a non issue. I am not a soil scientist, but I have been married to one for many years, and he thinks it definitely is an issue. Concerns about adverse effects on native fauna were similarly dismissed in the podcast because a mountain biker would only be in any one spot for a fraction of a second. I would be very surprised if the vast majority of local people were not concerned about our native animals in this context.

No actual decision has been made about whether to commence construction. The investigative and consultative processes continue. Let’s hope we get the balance right.

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Gerald Power Glenroi Oval to become a city park with 200 trees, sports facilities.

I want to say; I support this plan and the United Club as a community sporting association that has a lot of their members from within the Glenroi community.

But with some reservations around sustaining the park in a condition that attracts community to use it as a family gathering and sporting facility.

My thoughts- 1) to provide a community area that has an investment from the community with the community being a part of the journey from the architects drawing to community workshops that provided information and ideas of how it may look like.

Some of the Key investors involved: Parents and children from the area, Glenroi Primary Heights School, Services- Orange Aboriginal Lands Council, Orange Aboriginal Medical Service, Live Better, Centa Care, Glenroi Community Group, Marang Gunya Community Hub, Community and Justice to only name a few….

Planting and building 2) Employment opportunity for those in and around the Glenroi area with TAFE involvement that could create certificates for future employment.

Long term Sustaining 3) United Sports Club have many (Men and Women) sporting teams involved- Netball, Basketball, Football and Rugby League are looking for a home base (Club House) it would be a win/win situation to have them involved.

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Theodore Crane I recall playing cricket on Glenroi Oval some years ago, and seeing an obvious community dislike for the facility. The game I was scheduled to play was impacted by a burnt and melted garbage bin in the middle of the pitch. A very clear signal as to the feelings of the local community, or at least a part of it!

During the Council meeting, I listened to the all too brief discussion of the masterplan, which took second place behind substantial concerns about whether social media was providing accurate information.

However, I also read the documents, and noticed some crucial information that might assist the area being developed into a community defining facility.

Firstly, consultation has already occurred, with the local school and the hockey centre and other key interest groups. Priorities were identified including youth friendly, and generally more inclusive spaces.

Secondly, it is no secret that there are some challenging crime related considerations that can arise in the area around Glenroi Oval. Too often the majority of the population have facilities impacted by a small core of negative persons. I was very pleased to see practical and realistic consideration was given the minimising the risk of crime through the environmental design process.

Finally, the masterplan has now been forwarded on for public exhibition, and further public consultation.

When we are engaging the community, the more consultation and buy-in, the better. It was noticed the Counsellor Nugent acknowledged the lower likelihood of formal submissions from the local community being received. As a result, he had implied that a wider catchment strategy for community input would be implemented.

I was thrilled that the masterplan appears well developed, considered and ready for provision to the local community.

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Daniel McGregor This week’s Council meeting raised a couple of interesting topics.

The first was defibrillators. It would be great to see more of these dotted around the city and I’d fully support any initiative to roll out more of these lifesaving devices.

The second issue I found interesting was the discussion around the Shiralee development.

The Mayor pointed out that it was supposed to be “a wonderful green estate”, it was going to be “the environmental winner for Australia”. “What’s happened, lots have got smaller and smaller and smaller”.

I assume the Mayor was correct in saying that the reason for lots getting smaller and smaller and smaller was because of the developers and their ability to circumnavigate the Council via State planning laws. However, would this be different in future scenarios if Council became the developer of the land, rather than selling the land to developers?

It’s our city, so let’s make sure it’s our Council that dictates the future of it wherever possible.

As the Mayor questioned, “Is it planning or at-time planning?” We need a vision and plan for Orange that looks 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years into the future.

Lastly, one councillor declared he’d been on Council for 26 years “and the last upgrade of the CBD was before I was even elected”. Is this because of a lack of planning?

In fairness to the current Council, there does appear to be all sorts of things going on around town all of sudden. I would love to be involved in continuing that momentum going forward.

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Greater Good At a Council meeting some time back, when the toilet and kiosk addition to the Naylor Pavilion at the Showground was being discussed, the figure quoted I think was somewhere around the $800,000 mark. I recall Councillor Taylor commenting he could never understand why some of these costs were so high.

I agree! Over recent times, there have been many decisions by Council where the cost of things has left me wondering. If I were on Council I wouldn’t just “wonder” or throw in a loose comment, I’d find out!

I often feel our Council appears too quick to spend ratepayer’s money and, at times, wonder if better deals were not possible. A couple of examples…

Council has recently allocated $200,000 to be distributed in $5,000 or $10,000 grants to CBD property owners to tidy up their properties. I consider

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that a less than wise option. Had I been involved in the discussions; I would have first suggested that Council identify buildings they considered needed attention and then approached the property owners asking them to do any suggested work. They own the property; the owners are probably millionaires and you’d think they’d want their properties in good shape. Did anyone think to do this first, before committing $200,000 of ratepayer’s money that would benefit the wealthier among us?

Then there’s the $500,000 for consultants to do a report on the Mount Canobolas Bike proposal. My questions are - who arrived at $500,000? Even at $500 an hour, that’s 1000 hours or 6 months of 40 hour working weeks. Seems very excessive to me.

The other question I have is why our Council is spending $500,000 on a study for a project that’s not even in our Council area? There are other examples too, but the point has been made.

These are questions I’d be asking if I was on Council, and before any commitments were made.

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POT STIRRER

After another hard night of listening to our Councillors go about their meeting business, I feel compelled to give a candid assessment of each Councillor’s contribution to our City. For this exercise, I’m going to rate them between 1 and 10 based on my observations of each of them and how they have performed in their various roles over many months. My assessment considers what their overall contribution to the City during say the last 12-24 months has been, any entrepreneurial ideas they have suggested and the merit of these, the local issues they attach themselves to, what they do about them and any outcomes from this, and finally, how they handle themselves at Council meetings, in other words, when they speak, the value of what they say.

Here we go, let’s start at the top Mayor Kidd - 3 Councillor McRae - 3 Councillor Whitton -3 Councillor Taylor -2 Councillor Nugent - 4 Councillor Duffy - 1 Councillor Hamling - 3 Councillor Munro - 2 Councillor Romano - 2 Councillor Mileto - 2 Councillor Turner - 4 You can see that I rate all of our present Councillors very low. I’m satisfied to do that purely on what they’ve actually achieved as Councillors. Claiming to have fought for a toilet for 20 years doesn’t cut it for me, neither does seeing a Councillor in a photo in the CWD over some small housekeeping matter, neither does listening to Councillors “agree in principle with everything but have concerns about….(everything)”, neither does listening to them say things that clearly suggest they just like hearing the sound of their own voice, and so on. Unless I miss my guess, this Council hasn’t had any great ideas and followed them to a result, but rather they’ve rubber stamped most things and accepted the accolades for many things that are simply other people’s work.

Many discussions at Council meetings suggest Councillors aren’t fully over what is being discussed and the meeting procedure overall often looks very unprofessional.

Councillors Nugent and Turner get an extra point from me simply because I judge that when they open their mouths to speak at Council meetings, they talk more sense than most.

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Irish for a day, to be sure!

With what is generally-acknowledged as Ireland’s national celebration, St Patrick’s Day, coming-up in a few weeks (Wednesday, March 17), local stores are already getting-in with their Celtic-kitsch shamrock-green wigs, clothes, and leprechaun outfits.

The Irish themselves are one of the few peoples that seem unoffended by the national stereotypes often promoted at these events — particularly those held in the Irish diaspora — in which “The Land of Saints and Scholars” is often portrayed as home to a nation of cheery, singing, simple-minded drunkards.

Making Orange more welcoming As welcome as an invitation to an infant’s birthday party, as the old saying goes, Orange Council is plugging-away at brightening-up the entrance to Orange where the Mitchell Highway adjoins the Northern Distributor.

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Unfortunate before, Lucknow Seemingly on its death-bed a few month’s ago with its pub and petrol station shutdown and Anglican Church sold, Lucknow is on the bounce-back.

Speedy construction of a slick new petrol franchise to replace its decrepit 1960s weatherboard predecessor is being matched by refurbishment of the hotel adjacent that was most-recently known as “Ma Baker’s”.

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With rough-hewn timbers and a coarse-mortar finish going into the remodelled bar; Newswatch has been told that the new look (and, likely, newly-named) pub is aiming to create an English-style inn with no less than 10 different taps of beer on sale!

ROLL OF HONOUR

KENT’S HARDWARE supplying the local building-boom For more than three decades, our next addition to the Newswatch Roll of Honour — Kent’s Hardware — has been there to meet the needs of local tradies — not even a global pandemic could slow them down!

From a small corner hardware store, David Kent and son Brendan, have grown the business to become a large, local trade supplier with around 25 staff, and are founders and key players in the 750-plus member national buying group Hardware and Building Trader (HBT).

But business didn’t slow down; quite the opposite.

“Those first three weeks we were flat out! All the tradies were paint-buying, thinking we were going to shut and they didn’t want to stop working. Then, after that, it got busier still and it’s stayed busy until even now. January is normally our quietest month and we had a record month — it has just been madness!”

And it’s not just timber, paint and trade goods that have kept Kent’s staff on the run; Weber barbecues and their newly-added range of Yeti coolers and drinkware have also been running out the door.

Kent’s Hardware have had to increase staff levels in the last 12 months to keep-up with the demand and are actually on the lookout for more people to join their team as it doesn’t look like things will be slowing down anytime in the near future.

“I think we are on track to have another crazy year this year,” said Brendan. “Talking to all our regulars, they’ve all got a lot of work to get to, so I think it will be another fullon year for the construction industry in Orange.”

With the hardware industry dominated by some big players, it is quite a testament to Kent’s that their business is continuing to grow and thrive.

When the coronavirus outbreak occurred early last year, nobody in business knew what to expect, but Kent’s certainly didn’t anticipate what was to happen next.

“It has shocked all of us here how popular that brand has been. It has just been madness! I don’t know how else to describe it,” said Brendan.

“It was crazy! I think like most people when COVID kicked-off it was doom and gloom and everyone thought all businesses will be shutting,” said Brendan Kent.

For the first time ever, Kent’s shut the doors between Christmas and the New Year, just to give their staff some much-needed time off.

“Customer service,” said Brendan. “Deliveries are a major thing for us; we do between 30 and 40 deliveries a day with our trucks and utes. Also, it’s knowing the products, knowing what our customers want…

“We started planning jobs to do and I even joked with the guys that we’d want to shut for a month just to catch up on all these jobs, we’ve been saying for years we need to.”

“We were glad to close at Christmas. We normally only shut public holidays, but everyone was burnt-out and needed a break.”

“And we like to have fun here too! I think that’s important because life can be too serious at times, but customer service is the big thing for us.”

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SPORTSwatch

“HAVING A GO” THE AIM OF SPORT; WITH TOOLKIT’S HELP not been the case everywhere, with the coronavirus pandemic hitting participation rates in a number of areas.

“We know from our research that COVID-19 has led people away from sport to physical activity or less activity all together,” Sport Australia Acting CEO Rob Dalton said.

“While 93 per cent of Australian children aged 5–13 participated in physical activity, only one in four said sport was a main interest or hobby, and more than half (52 per cent) of children surveyed said sport needed to fit in with other things they do, highlighting the competition sport is facing from other interests and activities.”

“By working with sports to design participation experiences that are fun, inclusive and participant-centred, we can improve Australians’ attitudes towards club sport and encourage more people to be active.”

Playing sport teaches young people vital skills that will serve them well throughout their lives, Councillor Jason Hamling believes.

With the cross-over in coming weeks from summer to winter sports, now is the time for young people to be encouraged to get out and have a go, Orange City Council’s Sports and Recreation Committee Chair added.

“Definitely, participation is the most important thing, it teaches them lasting lessons in life that will serve them well into the future.”

Cr Hamling supported release of a Sport Australia’s Participation Design Toolkit designed to increase sporting participation numbers for junior sports in Australia and also among volunteers.

The toolkit includes information, resources, and tools to help sports develop effective participation plans and design products that focus on creating an enjoyable experience for all participants and volunteers.

“Playing sport teaches them how to take defeat, working together as a team, and physical fitness,” he explained.

He disagrees with the doom and gloom around participation numbers, saying that they are not that different than in the past for the Colour City.

“I don’t think so, I just think that there are far more sports to play and ways to participate than in the past. When we were young, there was nothing else to do but play sport,” he added.

As a longtime volunteer, he says that

his greatest memories in sport are not trophies and grand finals and victories, but seeing young people develop skills through commitment and hard-work.

“There’s nothing better than going-out and trying.

“I’ve coached a lot of junior rugby, and my greatest satisfaction is not about winning grand finals, it’s the kids who turned-up and couldn’t kick or pass and the skills they’ve learnt, and they can’t wait to come back the next year,” he said.

To help increase local participation in football (soccer), Orange and District Football Association this year ran a Women’s Summer Football competition.

“It’s gone very well, we’ve doubled the numbers since last year and the feedback has been very positive,” organiser Brett Hazzard said.

Local Football chief, Tony Mileto, added that: “the way we look at it, we’re aiming for participation in football in its broadest sense, to try and get as many people playing as possible.

Mr Dalton said the toolkit can help sports evolve their existing products or design new programs that meet the needs of today’s sporting participants through COVID-19 and beyond.

Examples include products that aren’t competitive and require a low commitment to appeal to the growing market of adults looking for social sport, and junior programs that help build fundamental motor skills, confidence, and the motivation to be active.

Minister for Sport, Senator Richard Colbeck said the toolkit is another example of how the Australian Government is supporting sport in a challenging environment.

“We know sport is crucial for Australia’s recovery and this toolkit, along with Sport Australia’s Game Plan gives clubs and sporting organisations the knowledge, resources and tools they need to develop new products and programs to not only entice participants back to sport but keep them playing for longer and enjoying the

“We do this by creating a safe environment to play in, that’s what parents’ expectation is, a safe environment.

“We do that by being fairly firm in regard to player and spectator conduct. And that’s why our number are continuing to increase,” he added.

He added that the importance of sport was witnessed last year by the decision of most football codes to run abridged competitions despite the restrictions caused by COVID-19.

“You only have to see how people affected by the lockdowns were so keen to get out and get back into it.”

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physical and mental benefits playing sport brings.”

Developed in consultation with national sporting organisations and VicHealth, the toolkit includes market and life stage insights and evidence-based enabling approaches to participation design.

General Manager Growth and Development at Athletics Australia Adam Bishop said: “The Participation Design Toolkit is an excellent resource for sports looking to develop or refine their participation product offerings. The toolkit is particularly valuable in that it pulls together existing Sport Australia resources and demonstrates how they can be used to inform the design of new participation products, refining existing products, or as thought starters when approaching participation planning.”

General Manager Growth, Legal and Strategy at Hockey Australia Michael Johnston said: “Having the breadth of Sport Australia’s quality participation design resources in one place is invaluable to sporting organisations undertaking participation design and planning. With the launch of Hockey’s new National Participation and Engagement Plan, we see huge opportunities to access the toolkit and promote it among our stakeholders in bringing our plan to life.”

Sport Australia is responsible for driving greater participation, engagement, and capability in Australian sport. Sport Australia invests in national sporting organisations, including organisations for people with a disability, to champion the value of sport and encourage Australians of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities to get involved in sport. Sport Australia is focused on improving the capability of sporting organisations to create an effective and sustainable national sport sector.

Sport Australia’s Participation Design Toolkit can be found at: sportaus.gov.au/ participation.

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Explosion in water polo player numbers at Orange Aquatic Centre has been rewarded with a visit this weekend by two Australian Olympic champion players.

OLYMPIANS VISIT REFLECTS WATER POLO PLAYER INCREASING NUMBERS Explosion in water polo payer numbers at Orange Aquatic Centre has been rewarded with a visit this weekend by two Australian Olympic champion players.

The visit is designed to offer local teams a leading edge in the skills needed to improve their game.

Local swimmers need not worry, though — much the facility will still be open during the clinic with only half the Olympic Pool closed for the coaching clinic.

The Aquatic Centre will host water polo players Alicia Smith, who represented Australia in the Athens 2004 Olympics, Beijing 2008 Olympics, and London 2012 Olympics, as well as Nikita Williams who represented Australia also in Athens and Beijing.

Orange City Council’s Sports and Recreation Committee Chair, Councillor Jason Hamling said that water polo is one of the growth sports in the Colour City, reflected in the visit by the Australian champions.

He said that since the centre had initiated a water polo competition only three years ago, the interest had “swelled” each year.

...Staff jumped on board with the idea and, only three seasons later, the competition has expanded to more than 200 players...

“Initially there were a couple of teams who had approached the centre to get a competition going,” Cr Hamling said.

“Staff jumped on board with the idea and, only three seasons later, the competition has expanded to more than 200 players, six junior teams and eight senior teams with players from as young as 12 to 65.

“Our Aquatic Centre is a great facility, which offers a variety of programs, activities, lessons and therapy sessions for people with a range of needs and requirements. It’s wonderful we’ve been able

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to include water polo as part of the Orange Aquatic Centre community.

“Competition games are held on Thursday afternoons and anyone who is interested in giving it a go should call the Aquatic Centre,” Cr Hamling added.

Orange Mayor, Cr Reg Kidd added that it was a privilege to have the Olympians grace the city.

“Our water polo competition, at Orange Aquatic Centre, is going from strength to strength every year,” Cr Kidd said.

“Training sessions from sports people of this calibre will do wonders to increases the sport’s popularity and the skills of our local players.”

The Water Polo Skills Clinic is on Saturday and Sunday, March 6–7 from 10–3pm. It includes a range of water and land training sessions and costs $50 per person. If you’re quick and still interested, call the centre on 6363 3000.

The 50-metre pool will be used during the skills clinic but four lanes will be open to the general public for lap swimming as well as a section of the shallow end of the pool for general recreation.

The indoor centre will be open as normal.

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HAIL THE HAPPY WARRIOR; OUR OWN MASK-LESS HERO! Finally, Orange has a warrior that we can be proud of.

Our very own David Dixon of Newswatch, has declared his act of civil disobedience by resisting the wearing of a mask, (Newswatch 37), even on Sydney Public Transport.

Like Gandhi, Mandela, Rosa Parks, Franz Jägerstätter, and the “shopping bag guy” who stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square, Dixon has undertaken this selfless act of civil disobedience as he has found “how difficult the simplest tasks such as walking, and speaking are in such safety garb.”

He has begun what should be a wave of action through our society in response to anti-populous government pronouncements.

We need true leaders in this time of Fake COVID, The Rise of the UN, Big Pharma conspiracies, rigged US elections, The Deep State, COVID vaccine population control, Bill Gates, and Chinese missiles in Walmart carparks.

Did I leave anything out, Ms Bird? Don’t let him fight the good fight by himself.

You know it is Fake News.

Darryl West

SUZANNE GETS HER WISH IN JEANINE CONTROVERSY I read with great interest the accidental controversialist, Jeanine Bird’s views.

As the Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus enter into the realms of Aquarius, major change is on its way in the Age of Aquarius.

I have now had to take a long, hard look at my belief system and what I base it on. I didn’t like what I found.

Our democratic rights to civil liberties, freedom of speech, and diversity of opinion is under threat by authoritarians.

How easy it is to draw conclusions and beliefs from what we are being fed by what is, ultimately, a very tightly-controlled system of information release from the MSM, be it on-line or in print. I realise, after the last few days, I have gone through of not-only reading back issues of ‘Bird’s-eye View’, but also a concentrated effort of investigating other alternate, unbiased sources of current information that — unless we look further — we are all being controlled by the propaganda that a very few and select group of individuals in the MSM wants us to believe and which we use as a base for all our thoughts, words, and actions.

It is yet to be revealed as to whether the maturity of Saturn, the luck of Jupiter, and the love from Venus, will see DEMOCRACY survive in this country, we all call home, Australia.

A test is coming to all Australians to champion democracy.

Ian Donald

FLYING WITH BIRD ON AN “UNEXPECTED JOURNEY”

Quite scary how easy it is to fall into the trap of being one of the ‘sheeple’ as the herd is often referred to.

No need to think, investigate, or analyse anything for ourselves as we buy the local and international narrative so freely and easily available. After all, if it’s in one of the ‘big’ ‘trusted’ newspapers it must be true, right? I always thought so, but am now fast changing my mind and questioning everything I hear and read.

I have been on, what I see as just the start of a veryinteresting and eye-opening journey since I picked-up the last edition of Newswatch on Saturday, February 27.

I’d never taken much notice of Jeanine Bird’s articles in her regular ‘Bird’s-eye View’, as I’d always relied on more Main Stream Media (MSM) sources for information on the subjects she covered, but not anymore.

I think what really started it was when Zuckerberg decided that HE was the most powerful human on the planet and started deciding what we can and can’t read and listen to and who can or can’t post information on what should be a freedom-of-information platform.

After yet-another excellent piece of journalism by David Dixon in the introduction to, and the actual interview with, Jeanine Bird and after reading her quite amazing background to date, I took myself on an unexpected journey when I decided to pull out backissues of Newswatch from my newspaper recycling stack and have a good, hard look at what Jeanine had been writing.

I now look forward to the return of ‘Bird’s-eye View’ and am thankful to Bob Holland for giving us locals in Orange the free gift of Newswatch every week.

Penelope Pape

I was amazed and am in awe of the depth of information in each page and the many hours of research that must have gone into each of her articles — which I found jam-packed with intense, condensed information to the point I am suffering from information overload and need to take a few days to recover before I continue on my new-found journey.

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