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Bid to stop police HQ ‘way too late’ Steve Spencer & Albert Elzinga

The $15 million upgrade of the Kinsgcliff police station into a local command centre looks set to go ahead after Tweed Shire Council failed to agree on an alternative site or a further push to stop it being built at Marine Parade.

An extraordinary meeting of council on Monday to stop the bid by police to build their new headquarters in Kingscliff followed a protest days earlier outside the Marine Parade station.

But the meeting, aimed at continuing the push for the NSW police minister to reverse the Joint Regional Planning Panel’s (JRPP) recent approval, turned into a fiasco with no clear decision on what to do next, and one councillor saying the bid was all too late.

After nearly two hours of debate, councillors rejected five proposed alternative sites, eventually deciding simply to accept a staff report and hold a workshop in February to try to find a suitable site for an integrated emergency services centre.

Cr Dot Holdom told her colleagues they were ‘months too late’ to stop the new HQ going ahead in Kingscliff and that ‘the horse has bolted.’

‘This is like a dog chasing its tail, it is a fait accompli, it’s done.

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Kingscliff artists Lorraine Abernethy and Ian Tremewen are chuffed at achieving one of their longtime dreams to open a new artspace/gallery in their coastal village, the only such one in town.

The couple have called their new ‘pop up’ venture in the Azure building, opposite the cinema, Artspace K. The award winning artists and teachers will run small classes and workshops, in a garden setting, in the new studio which doubles as a venue for their artwork as well as their studio space.

‘This is becoming the cultural hub of Kingscliff,’ Lorraine said.

Both artists are represented

Cr Polglase repeatedly told councillors that any approach to the state government needed to include just one preferred alternative site. He claimed that only the Cudgen site ‘ticked all the boxes’.

The Cudgen site was acquired by the Kingscliff Land Company (KLC) in 2004 from former Nationals state MP Don Beck’s wife Lynne, a former Tweed mayor, and her sisters for $4–5 million. The company, whose directors now include Mr Beck, also offered a further $5 million if it could be rezoned for urban purposes.

Cr Youngblutt said despite

derah could be built up along with the roadway to provide an evacuation route for 2,500 people in case of flood. Councillors also voted against that 5–2.

Cr Katie Milne said the police department was unlikely to fund an expensive road-raising scheme to solve Chinderah’s flood problem. She urged councillors to look for more potential sites as all five current options were ‘less than ideal’.

Mayor Barry Longland’s motion that ‘council seeks urgent representation through Tweed MP Geoff Provest and directly with the minister for police to discuss alternative sites for the police command headquarters’ also failed 5–2.

Marathon debate After the marathon debate, Cr Holdom’s motion to note the staff report and discuss the issue again in February managed to get unanimous support.

Last Saturday’s protest meeting was attended by around 50 people.

Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce president Rory Curtis said Kingscliff’s residents enjoyed an idyllic amenity but this would be destroyed by a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week police command centre housing around 108 staff. The centre also was at risk of being cut off from by flooding.

Award-winning Tweed artist Lorraine Abernethy in her new studio/gallery at Kingscliff.

Photo Jeff ‘Just Space’ Dawson

in museums and public galleries in Australia and overseas.

Next year they have been invited to hold a joint exhibiton in Hawaii. Ian has just been commissioned to provide the

artwork for the Victoria Maui International Yacht Race, a 2,683 nautical mile race.

‘All the artwork is being produced in Kingscliff at our studios and exported to the

United States,’ she said.

The gallery is also selling the Tweed River Art Gallery’s new t-shirt, which the couple designed, with proceeds going to the Murwillumbah gallery.

Six-year-old girl dies in car accident near Uki

The Echo was produced by the following people this year (apologies for omissions): Albert Elzinga, Alison Harman, Angela Cornell, Carmen Iredale, Dave Solano, David Lovejoy, Emma Keenan, Eve Jeffery, Felicity Gaze, Gordon Haynes, Janice Dutton, Jasmine Laing, Jeff Dawson, Jodie DiCostanzo, Julie Ray, Kate McIntosh, Ken Sapwell, Lilith Rochas, Luis Feliu, Mandy Nolan, Melanie Tongmar, Mungo MacCallum, Penny Bagshaw, Shelly Strange, Simon Haslam, Stephen Spencer, Tasman Lindsay, Tuppy Lang, Wendy Lovejoy, Ziggi Browning.

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Only Cudgen ‘ticked all the boxes’

the Cudgen site’s status as ‘state significant agricultural land’, it had not been farmed for 15 years and was ‘too small to be viable’.

But Cr Joan van Lieshout, who last week said the push for the Cudgen site appeared to be ‘another backdoor bid’ by local National Party figures to rezone the state significant farmland, said the future of Tweed agriculture was in small organic farming and the property could soon be viable farmland again.

‘The future is locally grown food and that means the survival of our best farmland; all we can hope for is to encourage the minister to think in the long term,’ Cr van Lieshout said.

She suggested a council delegation visit the police minister to discuss alternative sites but that strategy was also rejected by four votes to three.

Five potential sites were selected by councillors earlier this month: the Cudgen site, a second site at Cudgen near the Rural Fire Brigade, the Pacific Highway interchange at Cudgera Creek Road, the Clothiers Creek Road interchange and RTA land at Chinderah.

Cr Skinner also proposed a sixth site on RTA land on Sexton Hill at Banora Point during Monday’s meeting. He said the flood-prone RTA land at Chin-

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site [with the fire bridge ambulance and SES] we can’t make them want one,’ Cr Holdom said.

A bid by Cr Warren Polglase and deputy mayor Phil Youngblutt to resurrect the police service’s originally preferred site on prime agricultural land at Cudgen, previously knocked back by the former state government, failed by three votes to four, despite gaining support from Cr Kevin Skinner, who vowed he would ‘vote for anything that would keep the command centre away from the Kingscliff beachfront’.

Cover illustration by Ziggi Browning with assistance from Jeff Dawson

A six-year-old girl died and her grandmother was seriously injured after their car ran off the road near Uki on Monday afternoon.

Police say the 63-year-old Uki woman and her granddaughter were travelling west on the Kyogle Road at Dum Dum when their vehicle lost control as it approached a left-hand bend and crashed into a tree.

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Two cyclists who were riding past stopped to help and managed to free the young girl from the car.

Soon after police and an off-duty nurse arrived on the scene and began CPR on the child.

She was rushed to Tweed Heads Hospital but died. Her grandmother, who had also been trapped in the car, was

airlifted to hospital suffering serious leg injures.

The woman, well known in the local community, was reported to be in a stable condition yesterday.

Police are appealing for the two cyclists who stopped to help, or anyone who could help the investigation, to contact the Murwillumbah station on 02 6672 9499. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Leda implicated in illegal clearing Staff reporters

Authorities have implicated Bob Ell’s Leda Developments Pty Ltd in an alleged case of illegal vegetation clearing within the Cudgen Nature Reserve.

But the billionaire property player claims workmen bulldozed trees and other vegetation along a 300-metre stretch of creek inside the protected area by accident.

NSW environment minister Robyn Parker this week shed light on the ongoing investigation into the unauthorised dredging of Blacks Creek and removal of vegetation along both banks in a letter leaked to The Echo.

Ms Parker reveals the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) only learnt about the environmental destruction in a remote part of the reserve after Leda dobbed itself in.

She says that Leda ‘had contacted the NPWS in July this year to report that accidental vegetation clearing had occurred on the adjoining nature reserve’ next to its Kings Forest development.

The agency launched an immediate investigation following an on-site meeting with Mr Ell’s right-hand man, Reg van Rij, to inspect the clearing.

Ms Parker says she is concerned by what occurred inside the reserve and both the NPWS and the Department of Public Works were conducting ‘extensive investigations’, which included ‘interviews with various people.’

Hosing down fears The letter, which attempts to hose down fears that the fivemonth-old investigation may have stalled, says steps are being taken to rehabilitate the cleared area.

It’s the first official confirmation that Leda is the focus of investigations, although Upper House MP, Cate Faehrmann, told Parliament last month the company was under suspicion over what she described as a ‘shocking case’ of illegal vegetation clearing.

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Before and after aerial photos of the Cudgen Nature Reserve. The photo above was taken in mid 2009, and one below was taken last month, showing the extensive clearing. The cleared land on the left of the photos is the Kings Forest site. Photos Tweed Shire Council and nearmap.com

councillor Henry James says the work would improve drainage in the southeast corner of Kings Forest and facilitate development in low-lying areas of the 1100-hectare estate.

He has called for a freeze on further approvals for the 5,000lot development until the case is finalised, saying that assumptions about drainage and flooding and future maintenance of waterways are critical to the number of lots that can be developed.

Mr James says the letter indicates Leda may rely on a defence mounted by another Queensland developer, Godfrey Mantle, who escaped conviction after denying he ordered a contractor to chop and poison 1,200 trees on his Bilambil Heights estate. (The contractor received a $135,000 fine and 200 hours of community service.)

But he claims that if the government handles the case competently, the Mantle defence should not work because of provisions of the NPW Act

which did not apply at Bilambil Heights.

He said aerial photographs by nearmap.com indicate the banks of the creek between the estate boundary and its junction with Cudgen Creek were cleared, with work starting in May 2010, 14 months before it was reported.

‘Amazing coincidence’ It was ‘an amazing coincidence’ that Leda dobbed itself in just as the work was completed, said Mr James, who was hit with a defamation writ from Leda after raising concerns about the removal of vegetation and the drainage of wetlands on the estate itself five years ago.

The inquiry which led to the council’s sacking in 2005 also raised concerns about the council’s failure to take steps to stop ‘illegal clearing’ at Kings Forest, but Leda dismissed the claim as being ‘at odds with the facts’ in a controversial dossier two months ago.

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In her scathing attack in parliament, Ms Faehrmann said that if guilty, the property mogul should be hit with ‘the most severe penalty available’ to act as a serious deterrent.

She said Mr Ell and his Leda group had a past history of illegal clearing and used intimidation and bullying tactics against people to get their way.

The MP said a dossier which Leda selectively leaked to the media recently named people it considered hurdles to their two satellite cities planned for Kings Forest and Cobaki Lakes.

The document was given to councillors and government MPs last month following a public outcry after The Echo revealed details about the extent of the clearing in one of the shire’s few remaining koala sanctuaries.

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Sam mourned and celebrated

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Hundreds of people packed Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School at Terranora yesterday (Wednesday) to celebrate the life of 16-year-old Kenyan student Samuel Mwangi Macharia who drowned off Cabarita Beach earlier this month.

Members of Sam’s Kenyan family joined his Australian family, the Zietlows, their friends and the local community for the service.

Sam’s coach and coordinator of Tweed Council’s Kenya Mentoring Program, Olita Ogonjo, also made the special trip to join Sam’s Aussie ‘dad and mum’ Bernie and Sandra Zietlow, and their three sons Ricky, Kurt and Ryan to lay Sam to rest.

Most, if not all, mourners were moved to tears as Bernie, flanked by his family, read the eulogy for ‘our Sam, our son and brother, who gave us much more than we could have ever hoped to have given him’.

‘When Sam was doing something he loved like swimming, dancing or playing football he just radiated pure joy like a force field around him,’ Bernie said.

‘Sam had something that is missing in Bernie Zietlow, right, and Sam’s uncle Phillip Machamost Australian teenagers today and that ria carry his casket after the service. Photo supplied is a quiet respect for all adults. This was evident short of his year-10 graduation at Lindisfarne in his politeness and gentle patience, and explains School. his close relationships with his grandparents, The families have asked people wanting to coaches, teachers and mentors.’ send flowers to make a donation instead to Sam’s He concluded by saying ‘We all knew a little legacy. Donations can be made at any Commonboy from Kenya who changed our lives forever wealth Bank or online BSB: 062 580, Account and made us better people. Thank you Sammy. Number: 10231433.

We love you’.

Last Sunday afternoon, around 200 locals held Sam, a promising football player, came to Aus- a ‘paddle out’ in respect for Sam and his foster tralia as an orphan five years ago under the men- family. toring program and was billeted by the Zietlows, Paddlers and floaters, helped along by two who were in the process of adopting him when inflatable rescue boats, formed a circle about 500 he drowned on Sunday, December 4. He would metres off the main beach. The stirring ceremony have turned 17 two days later and was just days finished with cheering in and out of the water.

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Murwillumbah’s historic Regent Cinema, according to owner Sandra Flannery, has been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, with a new digital projection system replacing its old 35mm projector ‘and sadly the projectionist’.

Mrs Flannery, who runs the cinema with daughters Deborah and Erin, told The Echo the move into the digital age was necessary ‘otherwise the doors would be closed’.

This week the old projector, which had been operating since the cinema opened in the building over 60 years ago, was replaced by the computerised system which allows new movies to be downloaded from distributor companies at the click of a button.

Mrs Flannery said the new system meant the projectionist, who operated the old reels and monitored them during screening, was no longer needed as the cinema’s box office ticket sellers could now run the film from a laptop.

Sandra Flannery, the new operator of Murwillumbah’s ‘Eventually, films will be downloaded fabulous art deco Regent Cinema, with Barry Parsons straight from satellite,’ she said. who is decommissioning the cinema’s 1950s, 35-milliFrom 2013, film distributors will no metre projector and installing a state-of-the-art digital longer provide the 35mm reel films. system. Photo Jeff ‘X-Rated’ Dawson ‘It’s very simple system to operate and allows easier access to a wider choice of films, fundraising events,’ she said. especially art-house and special-interest movies Many towns have lost their iconic cinemas, as well as mainstream ones. It will also allow live replaced by large multiplex cinemas, but the Restreaming of special events and international film gent has survived through thick and thin and festivals,’ Mrs Flannery said. the remnants of the theatre’s glory days still re‘It makes for a better, clearer picture and im- main: interior decorations, wooden floors and proved, digital sound. art deco façade. The historic building is identified ‘We also want to encourage local filmmakers as a significant building in Tweed Shire Council’s to use the venue to show local movies and for community-based heritage study.

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Chinderah’s historic white fig tree in the local tavern carpark has finally been heavily pruned despite a last-minute protest.

The giant fig tree had been under threat since one of its limbs collapsed during bad weather last year.

Last Thursday a chainsaw gang, supervised by the arborist who recommend pruning two-thirds of the tree, got to work and were confronted

by Greens Cr Katie Milne, who had led several protests against the pruning in the past six months.

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Councillors have given the green light to the upgrade of the spillway on the Clarrie Hall Dam in order to prevent life and property being lost in a major flood.

The upgrade of the wall, which is now 27 years old, was ordered by the state government following the tightening of safety standards earlier this year.

The spillway will be widened from 22 metres to 35 metres so it can cope better with extreme flood events.

There will be no increase in the dam’s capacity from the upgrade.

Councillors recently voted against raising the dam wall, leading to the future of the

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A tree lopper at the base of the historic 132-year-old fig tree at the Chinderah Tavern carpark after hacking down a very healthy-looking limb during massive pruning last week.

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safety precautions.

But Ms Hammond dismissed Ms Milne’s protests and continued to supervise the removal of what management called ‘dangerous’ tree limbs on the iconic tree which needed a ‘hair cut’.

L o c a l ar b or i s t Lu ke McVeigh said the presence during the work of Cr Milne,

concerned locals and media representatives kept workers from removing an even larger part of the tree’s canopy.

President of the Chinderah District Residents Association, Felicia Cecil, said the infestation of cactus and umbrella plants would have been completely removed ‘if they were fair-dinkum’.

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‘Safety hazard’ Chinderah Tavern management claimed the tree posed a public safety hazard but Cr Milne and other arborists said the tree was not diseased but burdened by the weight of climbing cactus plants, which put extra strain on the limb, causing it to split and crash down.

Cr Milne confronted Brisbane horticulturalist Marian Hammond during the pruning work last Thursday.

She complained about excessive cutting and alleged improper work health and

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Tweed water supply potentially becoming the major issue at next year’s council election.

There is a danger the work could cause water restrictions across the shire because the dam level may need to be lowered during construction.

Tweed residents have not had to endure water restrictions since March 2003, when level-3 restrictions were in force for just one month.

An environmental impact study will not be carried out before the work, which is expected to start during 2013 and take six months. A council report said the reconstruction was not expected to ‘impact on the environment, habitat or threatened species’ in the Doon Doon Valley to an ‘unacceptable level’.

The report warns there will be noise and dust during construction and about 60 light vehicle movements per day and a total of 340 heavy vehicle journeys.

The nearby picnic ground will be closed to the public during construction. There may also be a reduction in water quality for some distance downstream at times.

Council’s water manager David Oxenham said a study had found there would be no cost saving by combining the spillway project with construction of a higher dam wall.

‘It’s more cost effective to do the spillway upgrade now,’ said Mr Oxenham.

‘There would be no saving at all by combining these projects.’

‘Our association applied for the tree to be heritage listed by the Tweed Shire Council in the late 80s or early 90s. We know that it was listed but is no longer heritage listed. We don’t know why the listing was removed,’ Ms Cecil said.

Cr Milne last week failed to get any support from fellow councillors for an interim heritage protection order for the tree.

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Poultry farm ordered to shut down Steve Spencer

An unauthorised 2,000-hen poultry farm which sparked numerous complaints from neighbouring landowners at Cudgen has been ordered to shut down by the NSW Land and Environment Court.

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The court has ordered Mr Sikiric to remove the birds by the end of this month and sheds by the end of next month and pay council’s legal and court costs.

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around the property and red sludge found in a nearby dam.

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Team Julia squares up to the new year

Volume 4 #17

December 22, 2011

Another festive season What incredibly interesting times we live in. The sun has reached the high-point of its yearly course, but summer seems hardly to have begun. For that matter it seems we have only just adjusted to 2011 and in a few days we will be greeting 2012, the year in which the Mayan calendar-makers ran out of space and stopped, thus panicking numerous new-age prophets into dire forecasts of doom.

While the world pauses, and holds its breath for a few days, let us peer into whatever passes for a crystal ball in this digital age and make a few predictions. You can come back to this space in a year’s time and laugh at us, but here goes.

The north and south polar ice melt will convert the last few climate-change sceptics who are not scientifically illiterate or clinically insane. It will be too late for remedial action.

The European financial crisis will get worse without actually tipping into global catastrophe. But it will mean economic depression, credit squeezes and general gloom for everyone except the greedy bankers and financial gamblers who precipitated it.

They will persist in milking the inequitable system they set up.

Julia Gillard will continue to run a successful minority government, and there will be grudging recognition that it has passed some useful legislation. The mass media will continue to focus on the colour of her hair.

In Macquarie Street premier O’Farrell will end the coal-seam gas moratorium and the mining companies will descend like locusts on the state. He will be forced to use the police to crush citizen revolt, and will request the PM to send in the army. After some tense confrontations the moratorium will be reinstated.

In Tweed Shire the council election in September will see Green and progressive candidates at last understanding the preferencing system, and they will convert their high primary vote into a majority on council. With the Daily News no longer available to run last-minute scare campaigns the election will actually reflect popular feeling against crass development and corrupt networks of influence.

At the end of 2012 portable cold-fusion power generators will flood the market and everything will change forever.

Tweed Shire Echo Publisher David Lovejoy Editor Luis Feliu Advertising Manager Angela Cornell Accounts Manager Simon Haslam Production Manager Ziggi Browning ‘The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne 1867–1936 © 2011 Echo Publications Pty Ltd Phone 02 6672 2280 email news/letters: editor@tweedecho.com.au email advertising: adcopy@tweedecho.com.au Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd

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ommentary on Julia Gillard’s ministerial reshuffle has tended to concentrate on the negatives – not just from the Nomadic Noman, Tony Abbott, but from more serious pundits as well.

And it is true that in the short term – from here to the next Newspoll, which is the attention span of most media these days – there is not too much to commend it.

Gillard’s apparent inability to sack or demote senior ministers has meant that her cabinet has now increased to an unwieldy 22; even in his misguided democratic heyday Gough Whitlam only had five more, and that was clearly unmanageable.

Gillard will be faced with a similar problem and will inevitably have to break another pre-election promise by setting up her own version of Kevin Rudd’s kitchen cabinet, an inner group which will make the key decisions and then take them to the full cabinet (or not, as the circumstances dictate) before submitting them to the wider ministry and finally to caucus for endorsement. This can only exacerbate the bitterness the reshuffle has already set festering.

Robert McClelland and Peter Garrett have both remained in cabinet and therefore taken the loss of their effective demotions with good grace, at least so far, as has Chris Evans who could not be pushed out because he remains the elected leader of the government in the senate.

However Kim Carr, who was banished to the outer ministry, now reduced to a mere eight against the inner’s 22, has made his unhappiness public.

He has a case; from the public point of view he has done very well, restraining his own protectionist instincts and treading a clever and effective line through the maze of Australia’s mendicant manufacturers. The

spin from Gillard’s camp is that he was suspected of leaking from Cabinet to boost his case with caucus and was also guilty of cosying up to Kevin Rudd; but even if these charges were true, they could have been dealt with by less drastic measures.

His demotion looks especially bad when contrasted with the survival of Joe Ludwig, a clear failure in his portfolio but apparently a protected species because of his factional warlord

man who knifed the leader he helped to install for personal advantage and crippled his party in the process. Making him assistant treasurer is, to put it mildly, not a good look.

Okay, that is the less than celebratory atmosphere in which Julia Gillard retires to enjoy her Christmas break.

But looking and moving forward, something of which she has always been fond, there are quite a few positives – or at least

There is no prime minister in history who has not given his (now her) own team a bit of a leg up.

by Mungo MacCallum father. Much has also been written about the promotion of Gillard’s own supporters, but this is hardly an unusual move; there is no prime minister in history who has not given his (now her) own team a bit of a leg up.

Certainly it is hard to argue that Bill Shorten’s rise is not based at least as much on talent as on loyalty; it would have been both unjust and foolish not to have promoted him.

And two of Gillard’s so-called faceless men, David Feeney and Don Farrell, continue to languish unnoticed and unmourned in the pool of parliamentary secretaries.

But Mark Arbib, the minister for sport who has retained that portfolio (according to the prime minister, because he wants to go to the London Olympics next year – is she serious?) is another matter.

Graham Richardson claims Arbib is actually a serious and skilful administrator, and for all I know he is right. But to the voters, Arbib remains anathema: the archetypal sleazebag of the New South Wales Right, a ruthless and cynical numbers

shoulder when the vital question of a new funding system comes up for consideration.

This is an agenda which concentrates on Labor’s traditional strengths in health and education and puts many of its best and brightest to work on implementing popular and saleable reforms.

In other more troublesome areas Stephen Conroy in Communications, Chris Bowen in Immigration, Anthony Albanese in Transport and Infrastructure, Tony Burke in Water and Sustainability, Craig Emerson in Trade, Greg Combet in Climate Change, Martin Ferguson in Resources and Energy and Simon Crean in Regional Australia are joined by Shorten in Industrial Relations and Superannuation. Person for person it’s not a bad team; certainly it’s a clear class or two above Tony Abbott’s ragtag mob of zealots, ratbags, has-beens and never-will-bes.

But: it also has Kevin Rudd, probably the smartest of them all and certainly potentially the most dangerous.

If he can be kept in check and Abbott remains leader of the opposition, there is still some chance of a comeback. If not ... well, according to the Mayan calendar, the world is going to end next year anyway.

Indeed, it might well end sooner than the prediction; if the arse really falls out of Europe there won’t be much for Gillard’s ministers to do except cling to the wreckage, and they’ll be the lucky ones.

As for the rest of us ... no, that’s not a thought to nurse through the festive season.

And on that note, good wishes and good luck. And, of course, bah humbug.

there might be, if only the government can find some way to avoid stuffing them up. Gillard has, at last, got the beginnings of a program of her own, and potentially the team she wants to put it into play.

Probably the single unequivocally successful initiative of the last term was a universal disabilities scheme. Bill Shorten, who had the initial carriage of it, is now in cabinet with another portfolio but the experienced and reliable Jenny Macklin, a Gillard loyalist, has taken over the responsibility.

Gillard herself has retained overall control of mental health reform, but has drafted another useful newcomer to cabinet, Mark Butler, as her assistant.

Tanya Plibersek, yet another success story in the making, takes charge of the vital health portfolio with the stated ambition of putting a public dental health scheme in place, a longoverdue reform which would be a huge vote winner.

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Get your sub in

Recent advertising has suggested that Kings Forest was a ‘done deal’ in 1973, giving the impression that if you have moved here since then, you missed the debate. I was here, and I don’t think you have.

The current plan for 4,500 houses at Kings Forest (aka ‘Varsity Lakes by the Sea’) is really only being debated now. Years were spent trying to put 500 houses on five-acre blocks there, which Henry James, among others, managed to stave off.

The decision to have Kings Forest in its current form is still up for debate. The time to join in is now. A submission is just a fancy name for a letter, which needs only be two lines and your address. If you walked in the Save our Hospital March, consider the effects all these new people will have on our hospitals, schools and police numbers. To say nothing of the water issue. A decent eco development would provide many more jobs for locals.

Even sticking to our normal development code would help.

Just google NSW Dept of Planning and follow links to Kings Forest comment.

You may then sleep in the knowledge you have done the most useful thing possible to protect the Tweed. The wild card in all this is you.

Lisa Townsend

Murwillumbah

Airport hooha

There has been some hooha over the Gold Coast Airport. Just two things seem to be overlooked: Murwillumbah lies under the flight path and buildings will suffer from added vibration and pollution from the planes taking off and landing. This airport will expand with an increase in flights, and the Commonwealth Games will see it run faster and bigger over the coming years.

There is to be no expectation of noise relief. The reality is that there will be more noise, over longer periods, with the pollution that it brings. What will be the compensation for the homes that will now be affected by vibration? Buyer beware.

I still cannot fathom why they would put a university near such a facility. The constant noise I would consider a distraction, not only to students, but also to staff. How are people expected to concentrate while planes come over at a constant rate?

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Time to learn about Maccas before it’s too late I am writing to express my concern for the proposed McDonald’s development in South Murwillumbah. While I appreciate the efforts the Tweed Shire Council take to ensure there are developments to provide successful outcomes for the community, I believe this proposal is not one of them.

A primary reason I moved here from South Australia was because of the environmental awareness and sustainable focus this region has. The very nature of the region with its World Heritage Rainforests and strong community focus on sustainable employment and lifestyles is countered by such an ill-conceived development.

Murwillumbah is a delightful town. It has character, diversity and its own unique place in Australia. I hope those who have perhaps lived here longer

than me have not forgotten that.

Fast-food chains such as McDonald’s do not fit the character of the region and will impact negatively on small business. I would hate Main Street’s lively cafes and shops to disappear to become a ghost town as McDonald’s sucked away the life of the cafe district.

This development for seemingly short-term gains poses long-term threats to small business, community health and ultimately the reputation and culture of the region.

I am really happy to be here in the Tweed Valley. It is beautiful; its people are friendly and welcoming and the stunning vistas of the valley are truly unique.

I would hate to see that culture destroyed as Murwillumbah became just another town whose heart is killed by corpo-

rations given development approval by short-sighted councillors. This would be a short-cut to job creation rather than a long-term solution and would suggest they have forgotten where they are and who they represent.

in the 1980s when there was a location in Murwillumbah for such a facility. For those unaware there is an airport in Murwillumbah, those in the south are fully aware of the increase in pilot training that goes on there.

If this concerns you then drop a line to the federal government and let them know.

DCP were passed with no other councillors supporting improved consultation for Tweed residents despite key community groups’ requests and the groups’ numerous serious objections.

Cr Polglase successfully removed provision for a mandatory transport corridor on the old fire station site at the top of Bay Street, owned by council.

No protection for the controversial sites of Bay Street and Coral Street was supported. No amendments were allowed to provide for Tweed Heads to be a model sustainable city centre, or to showcase Tweed’s international environmental significance.

Cr Polglase successfully moved to gag all further debate on height limits or land uses.

Terranora Area E Development Control Plan was passed with a 200-lot reduction recommended by staff (now at 1,590 lots), and with less of the 250m2 small lot sizes, but the identified wildlife corridor running right across the middle of the site will be heavily affected, apparent from reports of two recent koala sightings, one adjacent to the site and one to the west.

Significant concerns also remain for the Terranora broadwater.

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Robyn Lemaire

Murwillumbah

No Christmas cheer

At the last council meeting no other councillor was willing make a request to the NSW planning department for a two-month extension or improved consultation for the community for Stage 1 of Kings Forest. This is the stage when much of the damage will be done with earthworks approvals across the whole site, and with these first subdivisions being in the sensitive areas of the eastern edges, previously deemed by numerous independent ecologists and even Tweed councillors as the minimum areas required to maintain biodiversity and koala habitat, along with Cudgen paddock to the south.

No other councillor supported an Interim Heritage Protection Order for the Chinderah fig tree, despite a new peer review again seriously disputing the findings of the Chinderah Tavern’s new report on the tree that recommended a reduction by at least two thirds.

The Community Heritage Study was also on the agenda to go out on exhibition but councillors refused to include the Chinderah fig in this process either, despite clear heritage significance established last year. Councillors also refused to give consideration for a call out for the community to nominate any other veteran trees in this heritage process.

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Cr Katie Milne

Cudgen land

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I write relative to the public protest meeting against the building of the police command centre at Kingscliff held Saturday, December 17.

We were told there were five preferred sites for the building; the most preferred by some Kingscliff speakers was prime agricultural land at Cudgen.

What these speakers overlook is during major floods the coast road north and

■ Many will rejoice at McDonald’s coming to town, cheap fast food and a gastronomic antidote to boredom. If supporting locally owned, small family business doing it tough doesn’t move you to question whether we really need another transnational corporation reaping profit from our community, then consider some deeper arguments…

Helena Norberg-Hodge’s film The Economics of Happiness illuminates the impact of

government-subsidised products sold by trans-national corporations on a once self-subsistent community (Ladakh).

This narrative has played out more slowly, and as a result less transparently, across the colonised world. What Helena has witnessed over 35 years in Ladakh has affected us all and plays out in our society on every level. The film highlights quite simply how we are all a product of an economic system that creates disconnection – a rationale which pervades our society, and benefits only corporations relying on a consumerist culture; the simplest example being our disconnection from the source of our food. Apart from the environmental devastation caused by the actions of these global corporations, the disconnect manifests in people as lack of

purpose, mental illness, and conflict, deeply affecting our young people, perhaps those most targeted by McDonald’s.

If you are a parent, teacher or friend of young people I urge you to go along and see the film. You will be moved and awakened to the bigger picture, but you will be much clearer about the simple decisions we can take to change this situation for ourselves, our children and future generations. The film will be screened at the Regent Cinema, Murwillumbah, on Thursday, February 2 at 7.30pm followed by an open forum with the filmmaker. Tickets purchased in advance are only $10 from the Caldera Environment Centre or the Regent Cinema. Or $15 at the door.

south of the Cudgen traffic lights is impassable.

If the essential services were located at Cudgen and an emergency arose at Wommin Bay or as far south as Potsville, vehicles would still have to travel via Kingscliff to be flood free. Kingscliff looks the better option of the two in that respect.

Are the advocates of the Cudgen site, including councillors, aware the coast road is currently carrying possibly

more traffic than the Tweed Valley Way, with plans for four lanes in the near future, once Kings Forest is developed: an estimated further 10,000 vehicle movements per day, all through the Cudgen road intersection.

Keep in mind there are five schools plus the Tafe college comprising hundreds of students who use the Cudgen road intersection daily whether being bussed, driven, cycling or walking to school.

Students’ and the travelling public’s safety should be paramount in the thinking of councillors, without adding to the problem by building a police command centre on the Cudgen road intersection.

Carolyn Pickering

Murwillumbah

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Two Tweed residents with a disability have called for an urgent access and inclusion strategy to cope with an increasing population.

Ben Dierikx, a Pottsville resident with impaired vision, and student Kristian Keogh, who can often be seen driving around Murwillumbah in his motorised wheelchair, believe Tweed Shire is relatively easy to get around, compared to other places they have experienced.

But they say it might not stay that way with the continuing rapid boost in the shire’s population.

The two locals have welcomed Tweed Shire Council’s initiative to create an access and inclusion strategy and are urging others to provide feedback.

‘It’s vital that people with a disability, their family members and carers provide input to the creation of this strategy,’ Ben said.

‘These people have to deal with issues of access and inclusion every day and often give a lot of thought to ways to overcome any difficulties.’

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munity engagement campaign until mid February, encouraging public input through online forums and a questionnaire on its consultation website at www. yoursaytweed.com.au/disabilityaccess.

Kristian, who recently completed year 10 at Murwillumbah High School, said the online op-

tions were an great way to encourage input from the public ‘particularly for people who had difficulty getting around’.

Ben has progressively suffered vision loss after contracting a parasite while working as a tour guide in Asia nearly 20 years ago.

He said his biggest access

problems since returning to the Tweed included getting his assistance dog, Kane, into public transport, cafes and restaurants.

For more information on council’s access strategy, call the aged and disability development officer, Karen Collins, on 02 6670 2442.

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An Australia Post-contracted semi trailer loaded with Christmas presents burst into flames and was completely destroyed soon after its driver pulled off the Pacific Highway near Crabbes Creek early on Sunday morning.

Locals living a kilometre away heard a loud explosion just before 6am and rushed to the scene after alerting emergency services. They stood back and watched as the truck, bound for Brisbane from Perth, was gutted by fire.

The B-double truck’s driver stopped just near the Tweed Valley Way overpass after seeing smoke coming from the engine of the truck.

The fire consumed the vehicle before fire crews attended some time later and extinguished the smouldering wreckage.

The northbound lanes of the highway were closed for most of the day and traffic heading north was diverted onto Tweed Valley Way.

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This spectaular photo by Yelgun resident Todd Cole shows the Australia Post-contracted semi-trailer being engulfed in flames after its driver pulled off the highway on the Tweed-Byron shire border near Crabbes Creek early on Sunday morning.

The truck contained Christmas gifts, letters and cards. An Australia Post spokesman said anyone who lost goods which

were uninsured would be compensated. For further information call Australia Post’s customer contact centre on 131318.

Extra help for teenage school-goers Richmond MP Justine Elliot has announced around 5,500 local families may benefit, if their teenager stays in school, from an increase in family payments.

From January 1, Family Tax Benefit Part A will increase for families with teenagers aged 16 to 19 years who are still in full-time secondary school or equivalent vocational training – this means families may receive a total up to $214 a fortnight for each teenager still in full-time secondary study.

‘All the evidence shows that young people who finish their education or get a trade are better off,’ said Mrs Elliot.

‘We want to encourage local teenagers to return to school next year, or get school-based apprenticeships if that’s what they want to do, because we know it will open doors and give them a big leg up in life.

‘This will be a big help to those families under financial pressure, who are finding it hard to support older teenagers to stay at school or in training.’

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The Op-Shop is an Australian Disability Enterprise, and provides employment opportunities for people living with mental illness. All workers are paid employees; every dollar made from sales supports the viability of this important service.

Support the Op-Shop to provide an increasingly soughtafter service to the community. A free pickup service of donations can be arranged; a delivery service is available too at a small fee.

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The Band Of Frequencies Australian touring band The Band Of Frequencies have been making waves in America and are set to return to Australia in December to launch their EP All I’ve Found.

International World Tour of surfing that meets at the famous Hawaiian Islands every December.

Band Of Frequencies recently joined the non-profit organisation Surfers for Cetaceans in USA on an ocean awareness campaign called Transparentsea Voyage travelling from Santa Barbara to San Diego in ocean kayaks to raise awareness about dozens of local coastal environmental issues on the Californian Coast. The Voyage and music was a huge success. Band Of Frequencies were the backbone of a new concept in music publishing by creating the song a day idea and releasing 23 new songs in 23 days with dozens of music collaborations with such artists as Angus Stone, Will Conner and Catherine Clark. Those songs were recorded each night and inspired by the environmental issues of the local area they were in, or the events surrounding that day at sea. Those songs and the album can be heard at: http://transparentseavoyage. bandcamp.com.

Surfing and the Band Of Frequencies is a familiar connection. They have recorded music for several surfing films and had their work published by American label Ubiquity Records for their contribution to the awardwinning film Under The Sun (Cyrus Sutton) and most recently the title track to the award-winning documentary Minds In The Water (Justin Krumb). Their roots in surfing have also recently extended way back to the 1960s and a film clip made by worldrenowned cameraman George Greenough (worked with Pink Floyd in the 1970s) for the title track to their new EP All I’ve Found which is being released in November by Vitamin Records.

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Kooii’s debut album Beads on a String (2005) is a landmark Brisbane release that captures their unique sound in a muchtreasured collection of songs.

Recorded in a humble West End studio, it showcases that brilliance of both the producer Paul Bromley (Beautiful Girls) and chief songwriter, Peter Hunt. It is an album of timeless quality that continues to generate interest and respect for Kooii, both locally and internationally.

Kooii began some seven years ago as a duo with the intention to sing simple songs and harmonise. The music still manifests this but reaches further into levels created by the mix of musicians now in the group. Currumbin SoundLounge Friday December 23.

A hillbilly Christmas

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album can also be purchased or downloaded through the vitamin website at www. vitamin.net.au. Kooii rises from Brisbane and shines a vibe of the city and it’s surrounds.

Its music strikes a chord with young and old. Songwriter, singer and trumpet player, Peter Hunt, provides the seeds of most of the groups songs. He is joined by Dom Hede (drums), Tom Hinchliffe (bass), Lachlan Mitchell (guitar), Conan Griffiths (guitar) and Darcy McNulty (sax). Together they create the groups’ distinctive flow and sound that reflects the members’ love for reggae, jazz, african and folk music.

Dragonfly Cafe

The Perch Creek Family Jugband and all their instruments will be rolling into old Uki town this week sporting big grins and a brand new

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with support acts Kooii (Reggae) and Step It Up (Funk) before four shows at The Woodford Fold Festival, with former Wolfmother drummer Dave Atkins. The Band Of Frequencies then have a much needed month off before touring again in Australia in Febuary/ March, including the Bleach Surfing Festival at Currumbin.

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Come along if frailing banjo, honky-tonk piano, jug, washboard, harmonica, saw, ukulele, guitar, double bass, tap dancing and 5-part vocal harmonies sound like a good time to you. There will also be a great set from Uki’s very own, very fabulous, Lil’ Fi. The Tall Tales summer album launch tour sees the disorganised siblings performing throughout Brisbane and the Northern Rivers this week, culminating at the Uki Hall this Friday night December 23 for their Hillbilly Christmas concert!

Stepping up to the mark Step It Up has been a premier instrumental groove band since the 90s in Australia. Their releases include their classic first album plus numerous compilation tracks on labels including Ubiquity, Creative Vibes and One Movement. They have received much airplay on JJJ, ABC and UK Jazz FM. Their instrumentals have been found perfect for movie, tv and multimedia synchronisations.

Live credits include supports for DIG (Directions In Groove), the legendary Gil Scott-Heron and Ronnie Jordan plus

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I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION The average human being farts 16 times a day, releasing an amazing half a litre of fart gas over a 24-hour period. We are fleshy gasbags – in fact, I’m surprised that the sustainableenergy mob haven’t cottoned on, harnessing the fart supply of a giardia sufferer. They could be chained to the house in pairs to power household energy requirements such as hot water and cooking. Why, up in areas like Federal where the locals live off tank water they’re so full of gas that in the future Santos may even consider fracking them.

Cutting the cheese is as much a part of normal human behaviour as sleeping; in fact in my experience most bed partners unknowingly launch the air biscuit while in repose, so why is farting still such a source of embarrassment? I’m not advocating that we replace the handshake with the botty burp. Public decorum is appreciated; I hold low regard for crop dusters. These are the flatulent infidels who silently pass gas while walking past a group of people and then quickly vacate the area, leaving others to suffer the consequences and in some unfortunate cases, suffer the blame. The most evil crop duster will do this when exiting a lift, knowing that when the door closes, although their identity may be revealed, it’s only retrospective as the occupants of the elevator will be left to swelter in a moving dutch oven of gaseous horror.

I have to admit that I once caused an asthma attack with my farting. I can’t claim sole responsibility: it was a doublebarrelled attack. On a holiday vacation to my grandmother’s house, my cousin Lisa and I mounted a post-stew knickerripping attack on her younger brother. For well over an hour we dropped our nighties over his head and let loose some major window rattlers. I don’t know what my grandmother had done to that stew, but until this day I have never had such a bountiful supply of natural gas available so readily on demand.

Laurence, the receiver of the stink clouds, thought it was hysterical. He laughed till he cried. And then he stopped

Since that murderous moment I’ve spent most of my life trying not to fart. I haven’t yet become a carpet slipper. These are old ladies who drop a cabbage curler and then pretend they can’t smell a thing. I am more prone to finding discreet locations to launch a cheek flapper. There is no greater pleasure for the lone farter than the car. Here one can fart freely without fear of losing favour.

Women are more repressed in this department than men, and in some occasions even manage to convince their partners they don’t fart at all. It’s not true. They fart alone. They enjoy long car trips scoring the stink velocity of their own putricity.

(I made up a word, take that, spell check!) I once let rip with an impressive carpet stainer, then stopped to pick up a hitchhiker.

I felt like Mrs Milat.

In parts of America farting is considered a crime. A 12-year-old boy was arrested in Florida for intentionally passing gas in class. Christ, if they brought that law in here there’d be no boys in second class. In West Virginia a man farted in the vicinity of a police officer and then fanned the offensive odour in his direction. He was arrested on ‘battery’. I’ve smelt some pretty bad drops in my time, but I’ve never thought it would take out a grown man!

I’m a comedian, and I have to admit I still find farting funny.

It’s the sound that I love. A farting application on iPhone netted $10,000 in just one day, proving that I am not alone!

The sound varies depending on the tightness of the sphincter and the velocity of the gas being propelled, as well as other factors, such as water and body fat. The auditory pitch (sound) of the flatulent outburst can also be affected by the anal embouchure. Meaning that fat people with cheek control rule the world. In fact there was even a French chap who could fart the national anthem. If we had that kind of talent in Australia, we wouldn’t keep stuffing up the second verse.

They are back with a developed sound.

Their new show has wide variety with world music influences – very danceable, more uptempo but still showing their roots in the jazzy tradition. Currumbin SoundLounge Friday December 23.

Gallery closed Christmas Day

Bessie Gibson: an artistic life A Tweed River Art Gallery initiative exhibition

Until 29 January

Robert Hannaford: Open Studio An initiative of the Regional Galleries Association of SA in association with Country Arts SA. The Incoming Touring Grant Program is assisted by the NSW Government through Arts NSW and is managed by Museums and Galleries NSW

Contemporary Wearables ‘11 A Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery Touring Exhibition

New Skin: Shayle Flesser Until 4 March

Jenny Sages: Paths to Portraiture PUBLIC PROGRAMS (DST) Fri 20 Jan 11pm Robert Hannaford: Open Studio - Seeing Things. The exhibition Curator John Neylon will present an illustrated lecture on the work of Robert Hannaford Sun 29 Jan 11am-3pm Artist Demonstration: Contemporary Wearables ‘11 Jeweller Shanna Muston will be working with sterling silver, found objects and recycled items which are often around themes of memory

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Jenkins shows benefit from years playing with the like of B.B. King and his sets include: everything from Ghost-riders in the Sky, a Creedance medley, Hank to Hendrix and various tunes from his original material, Bo has four albums out with the latest titled Bo Jenkins Roadtrain.

From Fingal to the deep south

A journeyman musician is a blast of the sweet heart of Arkansas in Queensland’s

On display until 8 July 2012

summer. Jenkins music reflects the richness of a life playing on river boats and in the bars and clubs of the famous Mississippi Delta region which has bred legends including Sonny Boy Williamson, Elvis Presley and Charlie Rich.

apppearances at Vibes on a Summer Day festivals. You can catch them live around Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Whether you are a blues/country lover, music lover or just a fan of a rockin’ night at your local – don’t miss the chance to sample deep south R & B with legendary guitarist Bo Jenkins.

Free admission Gallery open Wed-Sun 10am - 5pm (DST)

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breathing. Suddenly Lisa and I became aware that we could be held responsible for the choking death of her younger brother. We took the situation in hand. ‘We won’t get you any help unless you promise not to dob on us.’ The poor boy was turning blue but he managed a head nod, and not long after a helpful adult arrived bearing Ventolin. No one could establish why Laurence had suddenly fallen prey to such a violent attack, although my mother did notice that the windows needed opening as it smelt ‘like something’s died in the room’. He never dobbed.

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Bo has toured with and opened for BB King, Kansas, Survivor, Reba McIntyre to name a few and therefore his unique style is a mix of country, rock and blues with a rootsy/swampy feel and lots of slide guitar.

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■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30 INDER ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM ARCHIE RYE ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN 8PM PAUL AITKINS ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM CATFISH AND THE DEEJAYS ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8PM CHRIS BOINZ ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 7PM MARTIN WAY ■ CUDGEN SLSC KINGSCLIFF 6PM TONY LLEWELLIN ■ CURRUMBIN SOUNDLOUNGE 7.30PM BAND OF FREQUENCIES WITH KOOII & STEP IT UP ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM AKASA ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM TOMMY MEMPHIS ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH 8.30PM STOMP FX ■ MARTY’S @ CABA, CABARITA BEACH 7.30PM CANDICE MCLEOD ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM DENNIS DEAN ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF PRESTON TRAIN ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB NOON BOB MILDREN 7.30PM ELEPHANT ROCK ■ UKI HALL 7.30PM THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND

SATURDAY 24 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30PM KAFFENE ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN 3PM BILL JACOBI ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM DEEP CREEK ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8PM DAVE MURRAY ■ CUDGEN SURF CLUB KINGSCLIFF 4PM JON J BRADLEY

■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SONIIQ ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM ALIBI TRIO ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6PM JAYNE HENRY ■ RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 7PM MR TROY ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM THE ZONE ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE GLEN SHEILDS ■ SHEOAK SHACK BO JENKINS ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 5.30PM BUBBLE’S CHRISTMAS CRACKER ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM SUZIE JAY & THE ACE

SUNDAY 25 ■ MOST VENUES ARE CLOSED CHRISTAMS DAY

MONDAY 26 ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN 2PM BO JENKINS ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12 NOON FABIAN ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM RHYDIAN LEWIS 6PM DICK BARNS

TUESDAY 27 ■ MARTY’S AT CABA CABARITA BEACH 7.30PM JAM NIGHT WITH ANNETTE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM INDER

WEDNESDAY 28 ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM TREVOR RIX ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM DAVID LEE 6.30PM ROY DANIELS

THURSDAY 29 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 6PM PAUL ANTHONY ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM JEFF CAMILERRI ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES MACKA ■ CYRRUMBIN RSL MORNING MELODIES WITH GREG AND LAURA DOOLAN ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM MICHAEL KING

FRIDAY 30 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30 DAVO ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM CHESTER DUO ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN MARK EASTON

■ CLUB BANORA 7PM ROB ROSENLUND & TONY JEFFREY ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8PM TYNEY CHARLES ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 7PM SING STARR KARAOKE ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM TRACY VAUGHAN ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM HAPPY DAZE KARAOKE ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 8.30PM CAPTAIN WOW ■ MARTY’S @ CABA, CABARITA BEACH 7.30PM MARK FERRIS ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM SURF’S UP ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM SURF REPORT ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF DAVE MURRAY

SATURDAY 31 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30PM THE SECRET AGENTS ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM KENNEDY MANSION ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN DAVE MURRAY ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM STEVE CUMMINS & THE BAR STUDS SPECIAL APPEARANCE TOMMY MEMPHIS ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM DEAD LETTER CIRCUS ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8PM HAMISH DUTTON ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES NYE WITH VANYA ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM ALIBI ■ IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 9PM ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM ALDERMAN BROTHERS ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 9PM STONE THE CROWS ■ MARTY’S @ CABA, CABARITA BEACH 7.30PM ANGE ■ MOUNT WARNING HOTEL, UKI 8PM MR TROY ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM PHIL GUEST ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6PM DELISCH ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM BEACH PARTY ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 8PM COOL CHANGE ■ SHEOAK SHACK JAMES T AND DIRK DUBOIS ■ TUMBULGUM TAVERN PRESTON TRAIN ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM DANCE ON + DAVO & THE CONSPIRACY BAND

■ TWIN TOWNS 8.30PM GRINSPOON

SUNDAY 1 ■ BABALOU, KINGSCLIFF HOTEL, 2.30PM PETER COCKRELL ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN ROCHELLE LEES ■ CLUB BANORA 12.30PM GLENN BRACE ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM LOOSE TALK ■ JAKES @ KINGSCLIFF 1PM MR TROY ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 1PM AMOS ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 5PM SURF REPORT ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 4PM HAVE-AGO-KARAOKE ■ NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA EASY SUNDAYS ■ SHEOAK SHACK 4PM SABRINA AND THE RED VANS ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE MT BURRELL 2PM ELENA B WILLIAMS ■ SURFERS BEER GARDEN SUNDAY SESSIONS ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM DAVID J

MONDAY 2 ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12 DAVE BARRY ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM INDER 6.30PM PETER JOHNSON

TUESDAY 3 ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB JAYNE HENRY MARKET DAY ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE JOE ROBINSON ■ MARTY’S AT CABA CABARITA BEACH 7.30PM JAM NIGHT WITH ANNETTE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM PAUL ANTHONY

WEDNESDAY 4 ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM DEAN HEAZELWOOD ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 6.30PM AUSTEN TAYSHUS @ SIDE SPLITTING COMEDY ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM + 6.30PM CRAIG SHAW

THURSDAY 5 ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM NICKY CONDINE ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB LONEWOLF ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM ROY DANIELS

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Have a cackle at Bubble’s Christmas Cracker

This show stars Bubble – the multi-award winning pint-sized comedienne, and the lovely Leisa Kerris. Together they present a show full of all your favourite Christmas songs, punctuated with lots of comedy.

DEAD LETTER CIRCUS PLAY SATURDAY AT COOLANGATTA HOTEL ON NYE

Many different characters will make appearances, including the Sugar Bum Fairy, Granny Shufflebottom, Little John Thomas and or course Mrs Christmas.

The show has travelled all over Australia and New Zealand, and guarantees to get everyone into the Christmas spirit. Bubble has won many awards for her comedy and is one of the very few traditional comediennes in Australia – already well know for her other shows – Leisa Kerris presents the songs like no other – beautifully sung and with gorgeous costumes, you won’t be able to help yourself as you join in with the songs you know and love.

THE ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS PLAY AT THE IVORY HOTEL ON NYE

This is a Christmas Show in the true meaning of Christmas – costumes, songs and comedy. South Tweed Sports Club Saturday December 24.

Shaking up the scene It took a musical adventure spanning four continents for Grinspoon to find the key to shaking up the Australian rock scene. With all Live Music continued on page 17

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What do you get when you combine the biggest night of the year with the Bay’s biggest party?

You guessed it.

TRIP KICKS NEW YEARS EVE Sky trackers will be in full swing lighting up the last night of 2011’s sky fittingly with equally stunning disco balls spinning their coloured light from the insides of The Backroom outside onto Byron’s streets.

With this the finest DJ acts, performers, live artists, freaks and LED-laser spectacles – this show will have the high calibre of love and excitement only seen at your most memorable doublevisioned festival moment.

Spend the first party of 2012 with friends and randoms at this special event in the heart of Byron Bay. At only $66(+bf) you won’t find a better value NYE ticket anywhere.

Tickets are selling fast – get them from the

Great Northern Hotel or directly from oztix.com.au search “Trip Kicks” before they’re gone! facebook.com/tripkicks

Courtesy bus available!

Bring on 012 in Burlesque, Black Tie and/or Boardshorts This New Year's Eve the party will start at Greenhills on Tweed from 7.30pm to 1.00am

ONE FREE CHAMPAGNE OR BEER ON ARRIVAL Must be 18 years and over.

Special Burlesque show and entertainment

by Karen Oliver.

Hot and cold canapés and dessert buffet Only $80 – Bookings essential

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Bangalow Hotel Open 7 days Lunch: 12 – 3pm Dinner 5.30 – 9pm All day bistro menu

6687 1144

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Chinderah Tavern 66 Chinderah Bay Drive, Chinderah Ph 02 6674 1137 www.taphouse.com.au Open 7 days Lunch 12pm-2.30pm Dinner 5.30pm–8.30pm

Wilson’s by The Creek Open Fri, Sat, Sun Lunch 12-3pm Dinner 5-10pm 139 Newes Rd, Coorabell 6684 7348 Bookings essential

Alleys

The ‘Chindy’ is an ideal place to bring family and friends of all ages for a real country pub experience. Kick back and watch the kids play on our brand new playground while you enjoy an ice cold beer and a dozen of our famous $12 oysters on the deck overlooking the Tweed river. Open 7 days for lunch and dinner, with afternoon entertainment on the weekends. Come and see why everyone is talking about the new Chinderah Tavern.

Fins

Discover Wilson’s By The Creek Restaurant tucked away in the Byron hinterland. Newly open to the public, the elegant restaurant offers a truly gourmet experience, accompanied by Peppers renowned personal service.

Savour the incredible flavours of the hinterland for a romantic dinner or gathering with friends, as Head Chef Adam Hall inspires you with his seasonal menu brimming with local produce.

Blue Pacific Bistro

Alleys Opens Early

Horizons

Sheoak Shack 64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head Ph 07 5523 1130 Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-10pm Sun 9.30am-8pm www.sheoakshack.com

If you are looking for delicious food, coffee or a romantic sunset cocktail on the riverbank, the Sheoak Shack is the beach shack for you with a funky laid back daytime vibe and a party atmosphere with live music on Saturday nights at 7pm and Sundays at 4pm. This gallery/cafe showcases the work of high quality local artists and is available for private functions… more Byron than Byron, in sleepy Fingal Head.

Shop 5, 60 Marine Parade, SPECIAL Kingscliff (next to Subway) Mon – Fri 7am – 9am 6674 5822 Regular Coffee Open 7 days 9am-5pm

Fresh Juices

$250 $500

Live Music CONTINUED Grinspoon’s star arose fast after claiming triple J’s inaugural Unearthed competition in 1995. Two EPs paved the way for their for their double-Platinum 1997 smash-hit debut, Guide to Better Living. Two years on came the Platinumselling Easy, and in 2002 their Top 2 album New Detention garned four ARIA Award nominations for the band and their production team. An ARIA was in their grasp soon after, with 2004’s Top 5 Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills picking up Rock Album of the Year. And doing what they do best, the band’s live show has conquered stages across the country including multiple Big Day Out tours and Splendour In the Grass shows!

The band’s sixth and latest album Six To Midnight only reinforces their status as the premier rock act in the country. This is the album recorded live, for the first time in a decade. The result is a tight, frenetic and tense rock album, brimming with energy and buoyant enthusiasm.

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Open 7 days Lunch: 12pm-2:30pm Dinner: 6pm-8:30pm, 6pm-9pm Fri & Sat Marine Parade, Kingscliff 02 6674 1404 www.kbbc.com.au

From Canada to Spain, Amsterdam and Singapore, Six To Midnight now finds a home in Australia on Grinspoon’s new imprint, Chk Chk Boom records. It’s an exciting new era for a band whose endurance is as much to do with their immense talent as their sheer determination. What better way to bring the New Year on rocking out with Grinspoon and special guests Snakes and Daggers and the Redcoats! Twin Towns NYE – Sunday December 31.

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BO JENKINS PLAYS AT THE SHEOAK SHACK SATURDAY 24TH DECEMBER

Lunch from 10.30am Dinner from 5.00pm Brunch Sundays from 10am Phone: (07) 5536 2277 or visit www.twintowns.com.au

Mount Warning Hotel

Mt Warning Hotel Open 7 days 10am till late Bistro open daily 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki 02 6679 5111

Santos Trading Warehouse

The Beach Shack EARLY BIRD

four band members Joe Hansen, Pat Davern, Phil Jamieson and Kristian Hopes set out on a quest to find rock’s holy grail, which eventually led them home to make the best album of their fourteen-year career, cementing their position at the helm of the local rock scene.

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Throughout daylight saving Alleys will open at 11.30am (QLD time) Enjoy award winning, contemporary dining along the banks of the picturesque Currumbin Creek

Currumbin RSL Club Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Open 7 days lunch and dinner 07 5534 7999 www.currumbin.com.au

DJ Aqua LIVE every Sunday night in the Fins Bar. Join us for cocktails on our NEW SUNSET DECK daily from 5pm.

Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun

Stars WITH LILITH

Mon-Thurs 9 to 5 Fridays 9 to 4 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 3/7 Brigantine Street, Byron Arts & Industry Park (02) 6685 5685

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Fins

FINS is famous for serving the best seafood in Australia. We have now launched FINS EARTH. An exciting menu of the best steaks from Australia’s most premium producers. Choose your cut, choose how you would like it served.

NEW SUMMER MENU AVAILABLE

Monday night: Veal or Chicken Schnitzel + Middy – $14.00 Tues & Sun night: Traditional Roast Dinner + Dessert – $12.90 Wednesday night: Rump Steak, Chips & Salad Bar – $12.00 Thurs night: T-Bone Steak, Chips & Salad Bar + Middy – $14.00 Friday & Saturday night: SPECTACULAR DINNER SPECIALS Sat morning: Beachside Breakfast – cooked to order menu Sun morning: Beachside Breakfast – all you can eat hot & cold champagne buffet breakfast – $14.00

Overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour at Twin Towns is Horizons restaurant. Enjoy a friendly atmosphere with casual indoor or al fresco dining where you can take in our spectacular views. Bring a friend to Horizons for High Tea available Monday to Saturday in the afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm for an extra special afternoon delight!

One of the region’s great old country pubs. Delicious food, bistro open for lunch everyday from 12-2pm, dinner Thursday to Sunday from 6-8pm. Children’s playground, relaxing beer garden. Curry night on Thursday, raffles and member’s draw on Friday, punter’s draw on Saturday and on Sunday there is a delicious roast.

Small enough for personal care, large enough to offer competitive prices. Santos has been supplying high quality biodynamic, organic, natural foods, and healthy products since 1975. We continue our commitment to sourcing as locally as possible. Santos is the home of Rainfed Rice–zero irrigation, certified biodynamic, as local as you can get, and the most delicious rice you’re likely to find. Visit rainfedrice.com.au for more info, or visit our online store at santostrading.com.au. Eat well.

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Bangalow

The Bangalow Dining Rooms at the Bangalow Hotel produces great food using predominantly local produce. The beautiful restaurant space on the high verandah and intimate dining room hosts a modern menu. Enjoy our bistro menu in the pub all day. With reasonable prices, generous portions and a kids menu, our delicious menu will appeal to all.

www.stelmodining.com Enjoy great company, delicious food, tasteful wines and sophisticated cocktails. Our modern Spanish menu, combining fresh and flavoursome ingredients, goes hand in hand with our extensive and careful selected wine list - featuring a unique selection of locan and imported wines. Kick back with friends and share tapas, enjoy a main meal to yourself or relax at the bar.

There's something to please everyone.

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Aloha to readers for all your supportive feedback, and as midweek Venus moves into gregarious Aquarius may your celebrations be unrestrained and your festive smorgasbord joyous…

 ARIES: If you’re not (heaven help us) getting what you want when the seasonal wheels speed up, then you rebels need to do the opposite – as in refine your raw enthusiasm and stay very still until the right moves come to you. May they be divinely inspired…  TAURUS: Tauran dancer Martha Graham believed great dancers aren’t great because of their technique, they’re great because of their passion. So meet the silly season’s intense momentum with your own creative steps and individual rhythms. Unleash your finest stylings. Burn up the floor. Have a ball.  GEMINI: With effervescent Venus in your house of adventure you already know these won’t be any kind of restful holidays, so a less-is-more approach to celebratory pleasures is respectfully recommended. And with travel gremlins troublesome, you score bonus points for defensive driving. Boring? Doubt it, Twins.  CANCER: Ah, Cancerian moods: one minute wonderful, the next leaden. Crab muso Jason Mraz poses the pertinent question for these hols: If you find yourself in any old predicament / Try letting go of how it was and how it ought to be / And ask yourself what love would do now…?  LEO: Leo Patrick Swayze describes it in the movie Point Break: It’s a state of mind, it’s that place where you lose yourself and find yourself. Otherwise known as the zone, it’s the destination of meditators and the best address for achieving serenity in the season of unreason. Enjoy, Majesties.  VIRGO: The coming fortnight flirts with the offbeat, the unusual, the eccentric and unconventional. So choose the route less travelled, the surprise element, the unexpected answer. Abandon your usual routine, forget the rule book, give your habitual restrictions and restraints the flick. Experiment. Follow your nose. Honour organic inclinations.

 LIBRA: Your cosmic choreographer Venus moving to progressive Aquarius suggests ditching thinking that’s become retro (but not in a good way), and resuming your rightful role as zodiac peace police during the festive follies. That’s of course when you’re not swanning round just being Absolutely Fabulous, sweetie darlings.  SCORPIO: Relentless festivities need the balance of dedicated pleasure pauses. Why not kick off with anti-war activist Donna Sheehan’s worldwide drive for planetary serenity via a ‘Global Orgasm for Peace’ (http://www. globalorgasm.org/) on 22 December. No partner? No worries – simply focus on peace and go the Global O.  SAGITTARIUS: You’re presently being blessed with vigorous soul growth, involving sudden shifts and a moreor-less continual shedding of old skins. Trying to look cool while you’re morphing like a human chameleon makes great entertainment, so take it as it comes and everyone will enjoy the show.  CAPRICORN: Capricorns are highly organised list-writers who make plans and stick to programs. But if the next fortnight’s magical mystery ride rips your list to bits and chucks it in the air like confetti, so what? So invite life to do its wildest and revel in whatever creative chaos arrives.  AQUARIUS: Been overthinking things lately? That will change when this week’s Venus swishes into Aquarius requesting a full-body makeover, new do and wardrobe update… so far, so fantastic. Then it’s into that Aquarian scary place, your Emotional Zone brouhahaha! to round out the new you. Happy travels, Aquirkians.  PISCES: Venus flits into her most impersonal placement this week with a warning not to take other people’s behaviour personally, because it isn’t intentional.

Whoever said the best revenge is enjoying yourself wasn’t wrong, and how hard could that possibly be on the next fortnight’s perky party circuit?

The Tweed Shire Echo December 22, 2011 17

Live Music Continued

Year of 2012 at Currumbin RSL where the Club will come alive with festival atmosphere. Alibi Trio perform live from 8pm and will continue on until 2012. Alibi features Dan on guitar and sisters Angela and Leah on vocals. With industry experience spanning just under a decade this group’s genre of music exudes a blend of popular hits from yesterday and today. With the versatility of male and female vocals, a three-part harmony line and the electric guitar, they will bring a magnificent fun-filled night of entertainment guaranteed to get the dance floor pumping and your senses racing.

Don’t miss them, for the massive New Years Eve celebrations at Currumbin RSL NYE.

Mungo’s Crossword

T and Dubois rock in the new year the preston train play on saturday BUBBLE december 31st at tumbulgum hotel

CHESS

by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6pm When Yi Liu won the 2010 Queensland Championship at the age of 13 there was little fanfare. The youngster had topped a modest field, and in 2011 Liu could only manage third place.

However, this week’s win by Liu of the Australian Junior Masters tournament in Adelaide shows that the 14-year-old has improved dramatically over the past 12 months.

Seeded sixth in an exclusive field of 10 of Australia’s best players aged under 20 (including top seed IM Andrew Brown of Canberra), Liu completed the nine round tournament undefeated, winning four of his five games with the black pieces.

Liu’s never-say-die attitude saw him save one or two games that could safely have been resigned.

For example, in the top diagram Liu (White) is in desperate trouble against local hope Fedja Zulfic in a crucial seventh round game. Zulfic played 42..g4? but after 43.hxg4 fxg4 44.Kf2 Kd3 45.Kf1 Ke4 46.Ke2 Kf4 47.Kf2 Black could make no progress. The game finished 47... g3+ 48.Kg1 Kg4 49.Kh1 h3 50.Kg1! Kh4 51.Kh1 Kg4 52.Kg1 h2+ 53.Kh1 Kf5 Draw.

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James T (formerly in Canned Heat) and Dirk Dubois (best known for his work in Chain) will be performing together on New Years Eve at the Sheoak Shack from 7pm. Both based locally in the Tweed Valley, they are teaming up to showcase their talents as blues journeyman, performing a mix of boogie and blues that is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. If you enjoy the authentic blues sound of artists who have worked with some of the very best in the genre, then get your ears down for a listen and revel in guitar and harmonica and boogie the night away. Sheoak Shack NYE.

Rounding out the year with the Girls

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Coincidentally, one day earlier, World Champion Viswanathan Anand had won a game with exactly this technique at the London Classic; had Zulfic known about this game he could have won without effort. In the bottom diagram, Anand is Black against Nigel Short and he finished the game by playing 60...f3+! 61.gxf3+ Kf4 62.Kf2 f6! and Short resigned. a

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What better way to finish off 2011 and start 2012 than a night out with the Round Mountain Girls! After releasing their new album, One Step Closer, at the Ivory Tavern in January, could this possibly be a bigger night? The Girls are back in town and ready to bring their awesome blend of roots, country and rock to the Tweed.

Andy Finn will also be there, mixing party tracks into the New Year! OMG it’s RMG! Giddy up! to the Ivory Tavern NYE – Sunday December 31.

Don’t be late for the Train Preston Train warm up for their NYE gig at the Tumbulgum Tavern at the Saltbar Friday 23. With regular drummer Dave Bambach away on holidays over the Chrissy break Mick Mclennan from Pottsville will be filling in for both shows and will also join Terry Perkins on vocals, Geoff Loveday on bass and Marcus Rainford/Ian Rowe guitars. For some rock, blues and roll try and catch the Train.

What colour is that Van?

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Anand (Black) to play and win

Alice Dwyte is the first single taken from Sabrina and the Red Van’s debut album Cheap Romance, which is set for release March 2012.

With serious vocal prowess, dirty 70s rock guitar and driving drum and bass, all complemented with commanding vocal harmonies, this track is an exciting insight of what’s to come when Cheap Romance is released next year.

The single features Joe Cope (Eagle and the Worm) on keys.

Based in Melbourne, Sabrina and the Red Vans inject soul and groove into the hard-worn genre of rock ‘n’ roll.

The Red Vans are a first-class line-up headed by Sabrina Sandapa; nominee for best female vocalist at the Los Angeles Music Awards (2007), 1st place in the Folk/Acoustic sector of the Australian Songwriting Contest (2009), and winner of the 2007 CocaCola live and local unsigned competition. Sheoak Shack Sunday January 1.

Quick Clues

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 1. Demented (10) 7. Demented (4) 9. Not performing; in the wings (8) 10. Senile dementia (6) 11. Demented (6) 13. Brand of German beer (8) 14. Demented (3,2,1,6) 17 Demented (6,6) 20. Irascible, prone to anger (8) 21 Demented (6) 22. Citizen of Aden (6) 23. Dramatic choral composition, usually with religious theme (8) 25. Demented (4) 26. Demented (5,5)

ACROSS 1. Second on a small vehicle – 7across! (10) 7. Knock out back 25 (4) 9. Gates not performing (7) 10. Venetian ruler holds gratitude – a bit 11 in this! (6) 11. Feline in pen – a little 1 across perhaps? (6) 13. Man, popular and desperately keen – too much of it and you’ll turn into a 17! (8) 14. Detection system covers Thaiday, a non-drinking Pom, 26 (3,2,1,6) 17. Absurdly vain braggart, totally 21 down (6,6) 20. Fiery composition, or cliché?

Could turn 14! (8) 21. Furious cook follows copper 7 (6) 22. You old gents, I am a citizen of Aden (6) 23. O Betrayer, O Carnival Town (the musical) (8) 25. Pierce back 21 across (4) 26. Diver, with variable barrel directions – 21 down! (5,5)

DOWN 2. Formally authorised (8) 3. Numbers (abbrev) (3) 4. Lachrymose, weepy (5) 5. Conduit for urine and semen (7) 6. Younger female sibling (3,6) 7. Completely sane; not prone to emotional disorder (3,8) 8. Pulled, dragged (6) 12. Carts for taking light refreshments around offices (3,8) 15. Relating to words used as grammatical modifiers (9) 16. Wood fibre building material used in partitions, etc. (8)18. First name of Italian statesman Machiavelli (7) 19. Cartoon Queen of the Jungle (6) 21. Demented (5) 24. Organisation of African Unity (inits) (1,1,1)

Last week’s solution

DOWN 2. Side with ninety nine, one a lady – it’s authorised (8) 3. Negatives numbers? (3) 4. Make an effort about English and Australian – how lachrymose! (5) 5. Ear hurt badly, but it was another organ altogether! (7) 6. Tease a relative – a younger sibling (3,6) 7. Orient count – strange, but a long way from 25! (3,8) 8. Pulled fishing line up – good journalist below! (6) 12. Let real toys rumble – they rumble round offices every morning! (3,8) 15. Panic, dial B-R-A-V-E – it’s about modifiers! (9) 16. Is it used for constructing Lodges?

(8) 18. Number 99; cool disguise for Machiavelli (7) 19. Woman with two cardinals; a queen of the jungle! (6) 21. Two axes curve up for 14 (5) 24. Zero gold for African political grouping (1,1,1) Mungo’s Crossword first published in The Week.

A Very Austen Tayshus New Year There is nothing quite as exciting as an Austen Tayshus comedy performance. The Big Man of Australian comedy engages in a relentless, rapidfire satirical assault. It’s funny, frightening, fierce and informed.

Currumbin Creek Rd, Currumbin QLD www.currumbinrsl.com.au

18 December 22, 2011 The Tweed Shire Echo

This is not just a collection of gags thrown together with a couple of catchy punchlines.

Austen’s humour is about who we are and how we think and what happened in the cultural melting pot to make us that way. He plays provocateur to our values and measures them against our rather shaky identity as ‘Australian’. Wednesday January 4.

BUBBLE delights us with her christmas show at south tweed SPORTS CLUB ON SATURDAY 24TH DECEMbER

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Television Guide

SATURDAY 24 ABC 1

1. Christmas is usually a depressing time of the year movie-wise, with the old chestnuts dragged out and incinerated before the fire of hopeless sentimentality.

But this year there are a few decent flicks on offer.

Howl’s Moving Castle (SBS2, Saturday 24th, 8.30pm) is a charming Japanese animation based on the young adult fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, in which a girl finds herself transported from the mundane to the exceptional and back again with only one tea break.

2. Apart from the old classics involving Bing Crosby, Charles Dickens or snow, the best Christmas movie a cynic is likely to see is Bad Santa (NBN, Sunday 25th, 10.30pm), a wicked, laugh-out-loud comedy. Billy Bob Thornton gives one of his best performances as the Santa in question, ably assisted by the clever script by several writers, including the Coen Bros.

Director Terry Zwigoff also created a doco on the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb.

FRIDAY 23 ABC 1

4.00 rage (G) 5.00 Can We Help? 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 ABC News 10.00 River Cottage 11.00 Chopper Rescue 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Land Girls 2.10 The Art Of Fun 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Compass Caravan of hope 6.30 Kung Fu Panda Holiday 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 My Family 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.05 The Old Guys

10.35 Late Edition News 10.50 Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight (M) 11.45 rage (MA)

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 River Monsters 8.30 Friday Night Lights 9.30 Angry Boys (M)

10.55 Werewolves (M) 12.25 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 12.55 Blade Of The Immortal (M) 1.20 Root Of All Evil (M) 1.40 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 Weather Quarter 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 Weather Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Capital Hill 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 One Plus One

SBS 1

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Coast 8.30 As It Happened War for the Atlantic 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 The Pirelli Calendar Saga (M)

11.10 Movie: The Manual Of Love 2 (M 2007) Italian romantic comedy 1.20 Movie: Heartbreak Hotel (MA 2006) Swedish comedy 3.10 Weatherwatch

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Rick Stein’s Christmas Odyssey 12.00 My Family 1.00 Movie: It’s A Wonderful Life (PG 1946) US drama. James Stewart, Donna Reed 3.05 Skellig 5.00 My Family Christmas Special

6.00 Carols From St Andrews 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Going Postal TEN 9.05 The Jonathan Ross Show 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Hit Rater.

10.20 Wil Anderson’s Wilosophy (M) com 12.30 Movie: Miracle On 34th 11.15 Doctor Who 12.15 rage (MA) Street (G 1947) US comedy. Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara 3.00 Sailing ABC 2 Review 4.00 The Doctors 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Kids’ Program

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7.00 A Quiet Word Bill Bailey 7.30 The Royle Family 8.30 ABC2 Live (M) 10.00 Graham Norton Show

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12.30 NBL Basketball – Melbourne v Townsville 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 Arsenal 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.00 SBS 2 Wildfire 11.00 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Football 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment PRIME 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Feasts Mexico 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show Tonight 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 7.30 Brick City 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Five Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 8.30 The Staircase (M) Children And It (PG 2004) French 6.00 Evening News 9.30 Movie: Sparrow (PG adventure. Tara Fitzgerald, Freddie 6.30 A Current Affair 2008) Chinese drama Highmore 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: Fred Claus (PG 11.10 Movie: Untold Scandal (MA Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 2007) US comedy. Vince 2003) South Korean drama 1.25 6.00 Prime News Weatherwatch Vaughn, Paul Giamatti 6.30 Seven News 10.50 Movie: Jiminy Glick In 7.00 Drug Bust TEN Lalawood (M 2004) US comedy.

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 7.30 Better Homes & Gardens Martin Short, Jan Hooks 12.40 Movie: The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 8.30 Lewis (M) Mystery Woman (M 2003) US drama.

1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady 10.30 Maneaters Kellie Martin, Robert Wagner 2.30 The Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 11.30 Perfect Couples 12.00 Australia’s Avengers 3.30 Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold Endangered Species 2.00 Home 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Good Morning Shopping And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News America

6.30 The Project 7.30 Jamie’s Best Ever Christmas 9.30 Movie: September (M 2007) Australian drama.

Xavier Samuel, Clarence John Ryan

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6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Valentine 12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 Hart To (M) 1.30 Religion 2.30 Ally McBeal (M) Hart 2.00 Five Mile Creek 3.00 Murphy 3.30 Infomercials 5.00 Religion Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad About You 4.30 Who’s The Boss 5.00 ELEVEN Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 6.00 Bargain Hunt Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched 7.00 On The Buses

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 7.30 The Secret The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder Mediterranean 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 8.30 Escape To The Country 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 9.30 To The Manor Bowen 10.30 The Lakes The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 11.00 Movie: Hollywoodland (M 2006) 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond US biography. Adrien Brody, Diane Lane 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance 1.40 Mad About You 2.10 Who’s The 9.30 Sex And The City (M/MA) Boss 2.40 Hart To Hart 3.30 Shortland Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cash Call (M) 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD

6.00 Bundesliga Football 7.00 Magic Of The FA Cup 8.30 Goodwood Revival 9.30 Australian Rally Championship 10.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 11.00 NFL Total Access 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 National Football League – LIVE 3.30 Jeopardy! 4.00 Beach Patrol 4.30 Airline 5.00 4x4 Adventures

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Master Of Disaster 8.30 An Idiot Abroad (M) 9.30 Miami Swat (M) 10.30 NBL Basketball Sydney v

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Movie: King Ralph (PG 1991) US comedy. John Goodman, Peter O’Toole 5.00 Movie: Overboard (PG 1987) US comedy.

Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell

7.30 Movie: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (PG 1988) US comedy. Steve Martin, Michael Caine 9.50 Movie: Navy Seals (M 1990) US action. Charlie Sheen, Bill Paxton

12.00 South Park (M) 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 Reno 911 (M) 1.30 Rubicon (M) 2.30 Reno 911 (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotch!

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: All Creatures Great & Small (G 1974) UK comedy.

Anthony Hopkins, Simon Ward 2.00 7MATE Friends 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 Degeneres Show NBC Today 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 6.00 Friends Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 7.00 The Zoo 3.00 Xena 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 7.30 Richard Hammond’s

6.00 That ’70s Show 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Gene Simmons Family Jewels 8.30 My Name Is Earl 9.30 Reaper (M) 10.30 Jersey Shore (M)

Invisible Worlds 8.30 Law & Order (M) 9.30 The Commander (AV)

11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Psychic TV 2.00 Murder, She Wrote 3.00 Movie: Manuela (PG 1957) UK drama. Trevor Howard, Elsa Martinelli 5.00 The Golden Girls

12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 Quantum Leap 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 The A Team

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Earth 3.00 Movie: A Year Without PRIME Santa Claus (PG 2006) US comedy.

6.30 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend John Goodman, Eddie Griffin 5.00 6.30 Food Trip Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 NBN News 5.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 Who Do You Think You Movie: The Adventures of Charlotte 6.00 NBN News Are? And Henry (C 2008) Animation 3.10 8.30 Movie: Howl’s Moving Movie: Karroll’s Christmas (PG 2004) 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos Castle (PG 2004) US comedy. Tom Everett Scott, Wallace Japanese animation Shawn 5.05 The Christmas Elves In Prep 7.30 The Making Of Happy Feet 2 10.35 Movie: Monkey Magic (M & Landing 5.30 Sydney Weekender 8.00 Carols By Candlelight 2007) Japanese adventure 12.45 6.00 Seven News Weatherwatch – LIVE 6.30 No Leave No Life

6.00 Bondi Vet 6.30 Carols In The City 8.45 Movie: Romancing The Stone (M 1984) US adventure. Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner

11.00 Peep Show (M) 11.25 Misfits (MA) 12.15 Eco Pirate: Paul Watson 11.00 Movie: Ray (M 2004) US biogra2.05 Close phy. Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington 2.00 ABC NEWS 24 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 6.00 ELEVEN Tonic 6.30 Message Stick 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The News 8.45 Weather Quarter 9.00 ABC Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves News 9.45 Consumer Quarter 10.00 Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel ABC News 10.30 State To State 11.00 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love ABC News 11.30 Catalyst 12.00 ABC Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne ABC News 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 4.00 ABC News 4.30 State To State 5.00 The Brady Bunch ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance Four Corners 8.45 Food Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.30 State To State 10.00 9.30 Star Trek: Voyager ABC News 10.30 7.30 Select 11.00 ABC 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 3.00 1.30 Tonic 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven World News 3.30 Message Stick

SBS 1

5.00 World News 5.05 World News 1.00 Opera: La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein 3.45 Chopin 4.00 Tim Marlow Meets Nitin Sawhney 4.30 Newshour 5.30 The Legends Of Santa

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Big, Bigger, Biggest 8.30 Mythbusters 9.30 RocKwiz Christmas special

ONE HD

6.00 Serie A Football 8.00 Ironman Series 11.00 X Venture Corporate Games 12.00 NBL Basketball – Sydney v Townsville 2.00 Australian Rally Championship 3.00 NFL America’s Game 4.00 Airline At Christmas 5.00 M*A*S*H 5.30 I Fish

6.00 Save Point 6.30 The WWE Experience 7.30 Fear Factor 11.05 Movie: Iznogoud (M 2005) 8.30 Cops (M) French comedy 12.50 SOS (G/M) 1.50 9.30 48 Hours (M) Movie: Jade Warrior (M 2006) Finnish 10.30 UFC 109

7.00 Prep & Landing 7.30 Movie: Hannah Montana – The Movie (PG 2009) US comedy. Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus 9.35 Movie: Blue Crush (PG 2002) US drama. Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis

8.40 Lotto

11.00 Little Britain (M) 11.40 Movie: Snow Wonder (PG 2005) US drama.

Poppy Montgomery, Camryn Manhelm 1.35 Movie: A Carol Christmas (PG 2003) US comedy. Matthew Irmas, Tori Spelling 3.10 Spyforce 4.00 Infomercials

11.35 That ’70s Show 12.05 Movie: GO! Project – Alf (G 1996) US comedy. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 3.30 Just Shoot Martin Sheen, Miguel Ferrer 2.00 Me 4.30 Married With Children 5.30 Home Shopping Seinfeld

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6.30 Top Gear 7.30 Movie: Funny Farm (PG

6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Better Homes 1988) US comedy. Chevy And Gardens 10.00 The Great Outdoors Chase, Madolyn Smith 11.00 Queensland Weekender 11.30 Osborne Great South East 12.00 Creek To Coast 12.30 The Travel Bug 1.30 Weekend 9.30 Movie: Stripes (M 1981) US comedy. Bill Murray, Kitchen 4.30 Doctor At Large 5.00 Harold Ramis Rising Damp 5.30 Dancesport: Asian 11.40 South Park (MA) 12.10 Mad (M) Pacific Championships 12.20 Seinfeld 1.10 Just Shoot Me 6.30 Carols In The Domain 1.30 Married With Children 2.30 Top 9.15 Movie: Home For The Gear 3.30 Dukes Of Hazzard 4.30 Bratz Holidays (M 1995) US

comedy. Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr

11.20 Rome (M) 12.30 Movie: Face Of A Fugitive (PG 1959) Western.

Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy 2.15 Australian Open Tennis 1991: Lendl v Becker 5.00 The Travel Bug

7MATE

6.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 SCU: Serious Crash Unit 12.30 Panic Mechanics 1.00 Zoom TV 2.00 Riding With Rossi 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 Monster Fish

6.30 Mighty Structures 7.30 Mega Movers 8.30 Shockwave (M) 9.30 Mega Disasters 10.30 The Universe

11.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 12.30 Jeff Foxworthy Show 1.00 Riding With Rossi 2.00 The Incredible Hulk 3.00 Six 12.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 1.30 Million Dollar Man 4.00 Quantum Leap action 3.40 Weatherwatch Australian Rally Championship 2.30 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping SBS 2 Omnisport 3.00 Bundesliga Football NBN 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 4.00 NFL Total Access 5.00 National 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 Football League – LIVE 6.00 A Fork In The Road Kids’ Programs 2.30 Morning Of The

GEM

6.00 Movie: All Creatures Great & Small (G 1974) UK comedy. Anthony Hopkins, Simon Ward 8.00 Infomercials 9.00 Movie: The Old Man And The Sea (PG 1958) US adventure. Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos 10.45 Murder, She Wrote 11.45 Movie: Bonnie Prince Charlie (G 1948) UK biography. David Niven, Margaret Leighton 2.15 The Golden Girls 2.45 Movie: Gone With The Wind (PG 1939) US drama. Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable

7.30 Christmas With The Australian Women’s Weekly 8.30 CSI: NY (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI (M)

11.30 Conan (M) 12.20 Psychic TV 1.50 Movie: A Kind Of Loving (M 1965) UK drama. Alan Bates, Thora Hird 4.00 Dangerman 5.00 Murder, She Wrote

Seville

SUNDAY 25 ABC 1

5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 ABC News 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 Christianity: A History 11.00 Christmas Mass From Rome 1.00 Compass 1.30 Movie: Framed (PG 2009) UK drama. Trevor Eve 3.00 The Private Life Of A Christmas Masterpiece 3.50 Hugh Laurie 4.40 The NOW Now 5.00 World Champion Santa 5.30 Robbie And The Reindeer

6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Royal Jewels 8.40 Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (M 2000) Mandarin action

11.15 Omnisport 11.30 Volvo Ocean NBN Race 12.30 Airline 1.00 4x4 Adventures 2.00 Airline 3.00 Lost Prophets 4.00 6.00 Religion 6.30 Kids’ Programs 1.15 World Championship Sailing Review Carols By Candlelight 4.15 Movie: Unaccompanied Minors (PG 2006) US 5.00 Airline 5.30 I Fish drama. Wilmer Valderrama, Lewis Black

6.30 Megastructures 7.30 Fear Factor 8.30 Movie: Men Of Honor (M 2000) US biography. Cuba Gooding Jr, Robert De Niro

10.50 Movie: Kung Fu Hustle (M 2004) Cantonese action 12.35 Movie: VeerZaara (PG 2004) Indian drama 3.50 11.10 Fear Factor 12.10 Movie: In God’s Hands (M 1998) US action. Matt Weatherwatch George 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 Serie A SBS 2 Football 5.30 500 Great Goals 6.00 A Very Specky Christmas 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 7.00 ABC News

PRIME 7.20 Queen’s Christmas Message 6.00 More Than A Fiesta 6.00 Kids’ Programs & Christmas 6.35 Iron Chef 7.30 My Family 7.30 Movie: Jean de Florette Specials 5.30 New Zealand On A Plate 8.30 Movie: Easy Virtue (PG 6.00 Seven News (PG 1986) French drama 2008) UK comedy. Jessica 6.30 The Vicar Of Dibley Movie: Manon des Sources 9.40 Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas 7.40 Dog Patrol (PG 1986) French drama 10.05 Movie: Joyeux Noel 11.40 Movie: Fanfan la Tulipe 8.10 Coastwatch (M 2005) French drama.

(M 2003) French adventure 1.25 8.40 Bones (M) Diane Kruger 9.40 Castle (M) Weatherwatch 11.55 Doctor Who 1.00 My Family 1.55 Hungry Beast (M) 2.25 Movie: Easy Virtue

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 A Quiet Word Rhys Darby 7.30 The Royle Family 8.30 twentysomething (M) 9.00 The Bazura Project (M) 9.30 Angry Boys (M) 10.30 Summer Heights High (M)

11.00 Jonathan Ross Show 12.30 Extras (M) 1.55 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Australian Story 6.30 Message Stick 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Big Ideas 8.45 Arts Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 State To State 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Dispatches 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Tonic 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 ABC News 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 Return To Lake Eyre 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Tonic 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 7.30 Select 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Message Stick

SBS 1

5.00 World News 8.30 PopAsia 10.30 FIFA World Cup 2014 11.00 Football Feature 12.00 Futbol Mundial 12.30 Speedweek 2.00 World News 3.00 A Wagnerian Voyage 3.30 Katherine Jenkins In The Park 5.00 Cycling Central

6.00 NBN News 6.30 Movie: Deck The Halls (PG 2006) US comedy.

Danny De Vito, Matthew Broderick 8.30 Movie: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (PG 1989) US comedy. Chevy Chase 10.30 Movie: Bad Santa (MA 2003) US comedy. Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox

12.30 The Queen’s Christmas Message 12.30 Movie: The Brigand Of Kandahar (PG 1965) UK adventure. Oliver Reed, Ronald Lewis 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Home Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early 10.35 Royal Pains (M) 11.30 Love Morning News TEN Bites (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 GO! 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’Programs 12.00 Seven News 6.00 Kids’ Programs Movie: 12 Men Of Christmas (G 2009) 6.30 Movie: Flight Of The US comedy. Kristin Chenoweth, Josh 7TWO Navigator (G 1986) US Hopkins 2.00 Aust. Rally Championship 6.30 Movie: Karroll’s Christmas (PG adventure. Joey Cramer 4.00 The Gadget Show 4.30 Everybody 2004) US comedy. Tom Everett Scott, Wallace Shawn 8.30 Movie: Miracle (PG Hates Chris 5.00 Ten News 8.30 Movie: Stormbreaker 2004) US drama.

Kurt Russell, Patricia 6.00 Bondi Rescue (M 2006) US action. Alex Clarkson 11.30 Mad About You 12.00 6.30 Talkin’ ’Bout Your Gen Pettyfer, Robert Colbert Step By Step 12.30 The Hogan Family 7.50 It’s A Knockout 10.30 Movie: Little Shop Of 1.00 Kids’ Programs 2.00 Movie: A 8.50 Movie: There’s SomeHorrors (M 1986) US comRaisin In The Sun (G 1961) US drama. thing About Mary (M edy. Rick Moranis Claudia McNeil, Sidney Poitier 4.45 1998) US comedy. Ben Movie: Eloise At Christmastime (G 12.30 South Park (MA/M) 1.30 Seinfeld 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Stiller, Cameron Diaz 2003) UK comedy. Julie Andrews, Sofia Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With 11.20 Movie: Boytown (M 2005) Vassilieva 6.30 Rising Damp Children 5.30 The Flintstones Australian drama. Glenn Robbins, 7.00 Country Calendar Mick Molloy 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 GEM 7.30 Heartbeat Religion 8.30 Movie: Ladies In Laven- 6.00 Infomercials 6.30 Movie: Lady ELEVEN der (M 2004) UK drama. Godiva Rides Again (G 1951) UK Judi Dench, Maggie Smith comedy. Pauline Stroud, Diana Dors 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves 10.45 Homes Under The Hammer 8.30 Infomercials 9.30 Friends 10.15 Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 12.00 The World At War 1.00 No Gilligan’s Island 10.45 Movie: The 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat Going Back 2.00 Australian Open Holly And The Ivy (G 1953) UK comedy.

12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 Tennis 2010: Roddick v Gonzalez 5.30 Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton 12.30 Movie: Mame (G 1974) US comMacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens Home Shopping edy. Lucille Ball, Robert Preston 3.00 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Getaway 4.00 The Golden Girls 4.30 Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 7MATE Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Movie: A Boyfriend For Christmas 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 Man (G 2004) US romance. Patrick Muldoon V Food 10.00 NWA – On Fire 11.00 6.30 Black Adder’s Christmas 7.30 The Simpsons Quantum Leap 12.00 SCU 12.30 Zoom Carol 8.00 Futurama TV 1.30 Panic Mechanics 2.00 Riding 7.30 Yes Minister 8.30 Movie: The Perfect Man With Rossi 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 8.30 Movie: Miss Pettigrew (PG 2005) US comedy. Hilary Drew Carey Show 5.30 Smash Lab 6.30 Lives For A Day (PG Duff, Heather Locklear Verminators 7.30 Mythbusters 2008) US comedy. Frances 10.35 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Movie: Smokey And The McDormand 11.00 Family Ties 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Bandit III (M 1983) US com10.30 Movie: The Jazz Singer (G Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina 1.00 The King edy. Jackie Gleason 1980) US drama. Neil Diamond 12.40 Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Black Adder’s Christmas Carol 1.35 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 10.30 Warehouse 13 (M) Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 12.30 Caprica (M) 2.30 Man V Food Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 3.00 Six Million Dollar Man 4.00 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow ONE HD Quantum Leap 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Country 5.30 Today 6.00 National Football League – LIVE Home Shopping

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MONDAY 26 ABC 1

4.00 rage (G) 5.00 Stuff 5.30 Collectors 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Best Of Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 The Free Range Cook 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs

7.30 Psych 8.30 Burn Notice (M) 9.30 Blue Bloods (M) SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 10.30 M*A*S*H 11.00 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 12.00 6.00 Global Village NFL America’s Game 1.00 National 6.40 Sarah Wiener In Italy Football League 3.30 MotoGP Classic 7.30 Foolproof Equations For 4.30 Omnisport 5.00 Magic Of The A Perfect Life FA Cup 8.30 Everest Doctors in the PRIME Death Zone 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 9.30 The World Game 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Hamilton 10.30 Movie: Persepolis (M 2007) French animation Island Yacht Racing Week 12.30 Sydney-

6.00 A Very Specky Christmas 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Outnumbered 9.10 Catherine Tate 12.15 Movie: The Fantastic Planet Hobart Yacht Race Start – LIVE 2.00 Christmas Special (M) (G 1973) French animation 1.35 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 10.00 Graham Norton Show Weatherwatch 11.00 Silent Witness (MA) 11.50 Doctor 6.00 Prime News TEN Who 12.55 Darling Buds Of May 1.55 6.30 Seven News Poirot (M) 3.00 What The Future 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 7.00 Wild Vets The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 7.30 Border Security Sounded Like 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady 8.00 Dog Patrol ABC 2 Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold 9.30 Air Crash Investigations 7.00 A Quiet Word Alan Davies And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 10.30 Royal Pains (M) 7.30 Spicks And Specks 6.30 The Project 11.30 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 8.30 twentysomething (M) 7.30 Modern Family (M) 12.00 Auction Squad 1.00 Home 9.00 The Bazura Project (M) 8.00 Rules Of Engagement Shopping 5.30 News 8.30 The Glades (M) 9.30 Angry Boys (M) 7TWO 9.30 The Almighty Johnsons 10.30 Summer Heights High (M) 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 11.00 Grahan Norton Show 11.45 (MA/M)

River Monsters 12.40 Zoo Days 1.00 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Scrapheap Challenge 1.50 Close 4.00 Religion Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale ABC NEWS 24 ELEVEN 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The World This 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Beautiful Homes And Great Estates Week 4.30 One Plus One 5.00 Newshour Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched 12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 Hart To 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 Hart 2.00 Five Mile Creek 3.00 Murphy News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King About You 4.30 Who’s The Boss 5.00 Capital Hill 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 6.00 Bargain Hunt Foreign Correspondent 8.00 ABC News The Brady Bunch 7.00 On The Buses 8.30 Dispatches 9.00 The World 9.30 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 7.30 Heartbeat State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.05 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Mistresses (M) Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 7.30 Futurama 9.30 The Bill (M) 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 8.30 Movie: Once (M 2006) 10.30 Six Feet Under (M) ABC News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 BBC Irish drama. Glen Hansard, 11.40 America’s Court 12.10 Mad News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Markéta Irglová About You 12.40 Who’s The Boss 1.10 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 10.30 The Late Late Show Movie: 5th Ave Girl (G 1939) US comDispatches 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 edy. Ginger Rogers, James Ellison 3.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The Room For Improvement 3.30 Shortland SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 1.00 Eurovision Song Contest Junior The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th 7MATE News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Heaven 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Global ONE HD Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Village 6.00 Bundesliga Football 7.00 World Today 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 6.00 Letters And Numbers Championship Ironman 8.00 Pro Quantum Leap 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 6.30 World News Australia Bull Riding 9.00 Serie A Football The A Team 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 7.30 Mythbusters 9.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 10.00 Rok 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena: Warrior 8.30 Man vs Wild Adventure 11.00 Megastructures Princess 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 9.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 Omnisport 12.20 National 5.30 That ’70s Show 10.00 Movie: District B13 (MAV Football League – LIVE 3.30 Airline 4.00 6.30 My Wife And Kids Jeopardy!

4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 2004) French action 11.30 The World Game 12.30 6.00 M*A*S*H 8.30 Family Guy (M) Movie: Wonderful Town (M 2007) 6.30 Get Smart 9.00 American Dad Thai drama 2.10 Weatherwatch 7.00 Cops 9.30 Family Guy (M)

TUESDAY 27 ABC 1

4.00 rage (G) 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 First Tuesday Book Club 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’Programs 11.00 Rivers 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Seven Ages Of Britain 1.30 Meerkat Manor 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Turn Back Time 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Nigella Kitchen 8.30 Nature’s Miracle Babies 9.25 This Way Of Life 10.20 Late Edition News 10.30 Spooks (M)

11.30 The Pursuit Of Excellence 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.25 Nature’s Miracle Babies 2.20 Movie: In Name Only (PG 1939) US drama. Cary Grant, Kay Francis

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 A Quiet Word Rob Brydon 7.30 Spicks And Specks 8.30 twentysomething (M) 9.00 The Bazura Project (M) 9.30 Angry Boys (M) 10.30 Summer Heights High (M)

11.00 Graham Norton Show 11.55 Torchwood (M) 12.45 Billable Hours (M) 1.10 Scrapheap Challenge 2.00 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.30 Dispatches 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 10.00 Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Dispatches

SBS 1

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Movie: 7 Dwarves (PG 2004) German comedy 2.40 Spacefiles 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Desperately Seeking Doctors 8.30 The Musical Brain 9.30 World News Australia 10.10 Hot Docs

12.10 Movie: Vampires (MA 2008) Swedish thriller 1.30 True Horror (M) 2.20 Weatherwatch

10.30 My Name Is Earl

11.00 Boston Legal (M) 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 Quantum Leap 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Boxing Day Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues

6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.25 Lotto 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) 10.30 Nothing Trivial (M)

11.30 Undercovers (AV) 12.30 The Avengers 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: Free Willy (G 1993) US adventure. Jason James Richter, Lori Petty

6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Wipeout USA 7.30 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 9.30 Movie: Beetlejuice (M 1988) US comedy. Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin

11.20 South Park (M/MA) 12.30 Ladette To Lady USA (MA) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Carry On Jack (PG 1963) UK comedy. Juliet Mills, Kenneth Williams 2.00 Yes Minister 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Denegeres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 8.30 Extreme Parental Guidance 9.30 Hell’s Kitchen (MA) 10.30 Secret Diary Of A Call Girl (MA)

11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 Today

11.30 M*A*S*H 12.00 24 (M) 1.00 The Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 League (MA) 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 NBL Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping Basketball – Melbourne v Townsville SBS 2 4.00 Ironman – Utah 5.00 Magic Of NBN 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News The FA Cup 5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 6.00 Global Village First Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India PRIME 6.40 Sarah Wiener In Italy 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show continues 7.30 Lost Worlds Secret of 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: 6.00 NBN News Zhao Ling 8.30 As It Happened Summer Jumping Ship (PG 2001) Australian 7.00 A Current Affair adventure. Joey Lawrence, Andy 7.30 The Big Bang Theory of Love – 1967 Lawrence 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 8.00 The Middle 9.30 Movie: Camaron (M 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 2005) Spanish biography Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 11.35 Movie: Kings And Queen (M 6.00 Prime News 9.00 Mike And Molly (M) 6.30 Seven News 2004) French drama 2.10 Weatherwatch 9.30 Survivor: South Pacific 7.00 Wild Vets 12.30 20/20 1.30 Home Shopping TEN 7.30 World’s Strictest Parents 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 8.40 Movie: Four Weddings Early Morning News The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil And A Funeral (M 1994) 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady UK comedy. Hugh Grant, GO! Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Andie MacDowell 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold 11.10 Keeping Up With The Kardashians Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News (M) 12.00 House Calls To The Rescue Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot 6.30 The Project Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News Free Willy 2 (G 1995) US adventure.

7.30 Modern Family 7TWO Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 6.00 Seinfeld 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 10.30 The Almighty Johnsons 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & 6.30 Wipeout USA Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 7.30 Movie: Honey I Shrunk (MA) The Kids (PG 1989) US 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 4.00 Religion comedy. Rick Moranis, Beautiful Homes And Great Estates Matt Frewer ELEVEN 12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 Hart To 9.30 Movie: Lethal Weapon 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Hart 2.00 Five Mile Creek 3.00 Murphy 2 (M 1989) US action. Mel Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad Gibson, Danny Glover

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 About You 4.30 Who’s The Boss 5.00 11.50 South Park (MA) 12.30 V (M) 1.30 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King 6.00 Bargain Hunt 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 7.00 On The Buses 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 7.30 Movie: Matilda (PG 1996) Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones The Brady Bunch

US comedy. Danny De 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Vito, Mara Wilson 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 9.30 The Bill (M) 7.30 The Simpsons 10.30 Six Feet Under (M) 8.00 Futurama 11.40 America’s Court 12.10 Mad 8.30 The Office About You 12.40 Who’s The Boss 9.30 American Horror Story (AV) 1.10 Movie: The Falcon’s Brother 10.30 The Late Late Show (PG 1942) US drama. George Sanders,

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Courage Of Lassie (G 1946) UK drama. Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan 2.00 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 3.00 McLeod’s 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Tom Conway 2.40 Hart To Hart 3.30 Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The Shortland Street 4.00 Coronation Street The Ellen Degeneres Show King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th 7MATE 7.30 As Time Goes By 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The 8.00 Yes Minister Heaven Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC 8.30 The Closer (M) ONE HD Today 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight 10.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M) 6.00 Pro Bull Riding 7.00 National Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Malcolm 11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She Football League 9.30 Omnisport 10.00 And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena: Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 NBL Basketball – Sydney v Townsville Warrior Princess 5.00 The Drew Carey Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 12.00 Goodwood Revival 1.00 MotoGP Show 5.30 That ’70s Show The Golden Girls 5.30 Today Classic 2.00 Fiberglass & Megapixels 6.30 My Wife And Kids 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Airline 4.00 7.00 How I Met Your Mother Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish 7.30 Freak Encounters

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Expedition Impossible 8.30 Cops (M) 9.30 Rush (M)

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8.30 Mythbusters 9.30 The Border 10.30 All Worked Up (M)

11.00 Stop Shouting At Me 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 Quantum Leap 3.00 The Incredible

WEDNESDAY 28 ABC 1

4.00 rage (G) 5.00 Strictly Speaking 5.30 Spicks And Specks 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 How Earth Made Us 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Henry VIII 1.30 Boxing For Palm Island 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Country House Rescue 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Outnumbered 8.30 QI 9.00 The Thick Of It (M) 9.35 Absolutely Fabulous 10.05 The Trip (M)

10.35 Late Edition News 10.50 Comedy Roadshow (M) 11.35 Bear Man Of Kamchatka 12.25 Absolutely Fabulous 12.55 The Trip (M) 1.25 Chaser’s War On Repeats (M) 2.00 Movie: Quadrophenia (MA 1979) UK drama.

Sting, Philip Davis 3.55 Can We Help?

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 A Quiet Word Lily Tomlin 7.30 Spicks And Specks 8.30 twentysomething (M) 9.00 The Bazura Project (M) 9.30 Angry Boys (M) 10.30 Summer Heights High (M)

11.00 ABC2 Live (M) 12.30 Animal Cops 1.20 Scrapheap Challenge 2.10 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Dispatches 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.05 Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Dispatches

SBS 1

8.30 Cops (M) 9.30 The Killing (M) 11.25 Movie: Teen Spirit (M 2007) 10.30 M*A*S*H

6.00 Global Village 6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy 7.30 Inspector Rex 8.30 The Killing (M) 9.35 Movie: Amal (M 2007) Canadian drama

11.30 Movie: Bamako (M 2006) French drama 1.30 Weatherwatch

TEN

PRIME

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Quints (G 2000) US comedy. Kimberly J Brown, Tim Burd 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Wild Vets 7.30 Four Weddings 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 The Pacific (M)

7.30 RBT 8.25 Lotto 8.30 Movie: Entrapment (M 1999) US action. Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones

10.50 True CSI (AV) 11.50 Memphis Beat (M) 12.50 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady 11.40 30 Rock 12.00 Sons And GO! Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial Daughters 1.00 Home Shopping 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold 5.30 News Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: 7TWO 6.30 The Project 7.30 Glee 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz Free Willy 3 (PG 1997) US adven8.30 Hawaii Five-O (M) 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & ture. Jason James Richter, August 10.30 The Almighty Johnsons Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Schellengerg Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 6.00 Seinfeld (MA) 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 6.30 Wipeout USA Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 7.30 Mike & Molly 4.00 Religion 12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 Hart To 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) ELEVEN Hart 2.00 Five Mile Creek 3.00 Murphy 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad 9.30 Movie: Police Academy Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves About You 4.30 Who’s The Boss 5.00 2 (M 1985) US comedy.

Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp Bubba Smith, Steve 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love 6.00 Bargain Hunt Guttenberg Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 7.00 On The Buses 11.30 South Park (M) 12.30 V (M) 1.30 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of 7.30 Heartbeat Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 8.30 Mistresses (M) 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 Married With Children 5.30 The 9.30 The Bill (M) The Brady Bunch Flintstones 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 10.30 Six Feet Under (M) 11.40 America’s Court 12.10 McCallum 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (M) 2.30 Hart To Hart 3.30 Shortland GEM 7.30 The Simpsons Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 8.00 Futurama The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Charro!

8.30 The Simpsons 7MATE (PG 1969) Western. Elvis Presley, Ina 9.00 Futurama 9.30 The Cleveland Show (M) 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Balin 2.00 As Time Goes By 2.30 Yes Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Minister 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Today 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Sabrina 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Malcolm Degeneres Show Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena: 6.00 Friends Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Princess Warrior 5.00 The Drew Carey 7.00 The Zoo Show 5.30 That ’70s Show 7.30 Movie: The Wizard Of Oz Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Movie: Strings (PG 2004) Danish fantasy 2.35 Spacefiles 3.00 Letters ONE HD And Numbers 3.30 World News 6.00 NFL America’s Game 7.00 National 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour Football League 9.30 Omnisport 5.30 Global Village 10.00 Pro Bull Riding 11.00 NASCAR 6.00 Letters And Numbers Nationwide Series 11.30 NASCAR 6.30 World News Australia Sprint Cup 12.00 Australian Rally 7.30 Explore Istanbul and Championship 2.00 NFL Total Access Anatolia 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Airline 4.00 8.30 Inside The Saudi Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

Kingdom 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: Kisses (MA 2009) Irish drama

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 French comedy 1.00 Movie: Dhoom (M 11.00 NFL Total Access 12.00 MotoGP First Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 2005) Bollywood 3.20 Weatherwatch Classic 1.00 Pro Bull Riding 2.00 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues Bundesliga Football 3.00 Arsenal SBS 2 6.00 NBN News Football 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 7.00 A Current Affair

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Fear Factor

THURSDAY 29

6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Pimp My Ride 8.30 Hardcore Pawn 9.30 American Pickers 10.30 Banged Up Abroad (M)

(G 1939) US adventure.

Judy Garland, Ray Bolger 9.45 Hoarders

10.45 My Strange Addiction 11.40 Conan (M) 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home 11.30 The Sexy Ads Show (MA) 12.00 Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 Today Knight Rider 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

7.30 Extreme Fishing 8.30 TBA

Home Shopping

10.05 Movie: Elite Squad (MAV 10.55 M*A*S*H 11.25 The Ultimate NBN 2007) Brazilian thriller Fighter (M) 12.20 Australian Rally 5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 4.00 rage (G) 5.00 Island Life 6.00 First Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India

ABC 1

12.10 Movie: Bullet Boy (MAV 2004) ABC News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 UK drama. Ashley Waters, Luke Fraser Country House Rescue 12.00 Midday 1.45 Weatherwatch Report 12.30 Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 1.30 My Family 2.00 Robin SBS 2 Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News

6.00 River Cottage 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Jimmy’s Food Factory 8.30 The People’s Supermarket 9.25 Greatest Cities Of The World Paris 10.10 Late Edition News 10.25 Bastard Boys (M)

11.20 Live From Abbey Road: Mika, Bloc Party, La Roux 12.10 A Tribute To Cliff Richard And The Shadows 1.10 Hungry Beast (M) 1.40 The People’s Supermarket 2.30 Men’s Champions Trophy Hockey Final

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

Championship 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket Liverpool Football continues

PRIME

TEN

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 Law & Order (M) 9.30 Movie: Crooked Business (M 2008) Australian comedy. Firass Dirani, Teo Gebert

7.30 Happy Endings 8.00 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Movie: Ghost Town (M 2008) UK comedy. Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear

7TWO

6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 Hart To Hart 2.00 Five Mile Creek 3.00 Murphy 4.00 Religion Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad ELEVEN About You 4.30 Who’s The Boss 5.00 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves 6.00 Bargain Hunt Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 7.00 On The Buses 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love 7.30 The Royal Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 9.30 The Bill (M) Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of 10.30 Six Feet Under (MA) Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 11.40 America’s Court 12.10 The Mole 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 1.10 Mad About You 1.40 Who’s The The Brady Bunch Boss 2.10 Room For Improvement 2.35 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Hart To Hart 3.30 Shortland Street 4.00 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 7.30 The Simpsons Home Shopping

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Dispatches 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.05 Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC 8.30 Star Trek Next Generation News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 10.30 The Late Late Show Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Dispatches Sabrina 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 SBS 1 5.00 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Guide To Australia 1.30 Inspector Angel 5.00 7th Heaven Rex 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 Letters And ONE HD Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The 6.00 NFL America’s Game 7.00 National Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Football League 9.30 Omnisport Village 10.00 Serie A Football 12.30 Guerrilla 6.00 Letters And Numbers Gardeners 1.00 Beach Patrol 1.30 6.30 World News Australia Jeopardy! 2.00 The Storming 3.00 7.30 My Sri Lanka Omnisport 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy!

8.00 One Man And His 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

Campervan 8.30 The Family (M) 9.30 World News Australia

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (PG 1991) 10.45 Outsourced 11.40 30 Rock 12.00 US comedy. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter Auction Squad 1.00 Home Shopping 6.00 Seinfeld 5.30 News

7.00 A Quiet Word Rob Sitch 7.30 Spicks And Specks 8.30 twentysomething (M) 9.00 The Bazura Project (M) 9.30 Angry Boys (M) 10.30 Summer Heights High (M) 11.35 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials

11.25 Psychoville (M) 11.55 Beautiful Noise: The Stills 12.55 Scrapheap Challenge 1.45 Close

6.00 NBN News

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 7.00 A Current Affair 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: 7.30 Getaway Mom’s Got A Date With A Vampire 8.30 Unforgettable (M) 6.00 Global Village (PG 2000) Canadian comedy. Matthew 9.30 CSI: NY (M) 6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy O’Leary, Laura Vandervoort 2.30 Kids’ 10.30 Nothing Trivial (M) 7.30 A History Of Scotland 8.35 Dancing With The Devil Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal 11.30 Rubicon (M) 12.30 The Baron 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 9.45 Movie: Bellamy (M 2009) Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning French mystery 6.30 Seven News America 5.00 Early Morning News 11.40 Movie: Murk (MAV 2005) Danish 7.00 Wild Vets thriller 1.55 Weatherwatch

7MATE

6.30 Wipeout USA 7.30 The Middle 8.30 My Dad Says 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Police Academy 3 (PG 1986) US comedy.

Bubba Smith, Steve Guttenberg

11.10 South Park (M) 12.00 Wipeout USA 1.00 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Elizabeth Of Ladymead (G 1948) UK drama.

Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams 2.00 Hoarders 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Friends 8.30 Movie: Pleasantville (M 1998) US comedy.

Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena: 11.00 Who Do You Think You Are? 12.00 Warrior Princess 5.00 The Drew Carey Conan (M) 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 2.00 Show 5.30 That ’70s Show Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The 6.30 My Wife And Kids Golden Girls 5.30 Today

7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Swamp People 8.30 Mighty Structures 9.30 Operation Repo (M) 10.30 Jail (M)

11.30 Campus PD (M) 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30

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SATURDAY 31 ABC 1

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Adventures In Architecture 12.00 My Family 12.30 Elders: Richard Dawkins 1.00 At The Movies 1.30 Movie: The Race (PG 2009) Irish comedy. Niamh McGirr 3.00 W-League Football: Sydney v Newcastle 5.00 Rick Stein’s Taste Of The Italian Opera

1. What better way to start the New Year than with horror? At least it’s cheerier than the TV news. Van Helsing (Prime, Saturday 31st, 9pm) is stuffed full of Australians including David Wenham (pictured), who gives a great comic turn as Van Helsing’s monk assistant. Hugh Jackman is Van Helsing and Richard Roxburgh is Dracula. One of the stunning vampiresses ended up as Richard’s wife in ‘real’ life.

Critics generally panned this bloodsucker but we reckon it’s a first rate piece of cheese.

FRIDAY 30 ABC 1

4.00 rage (G) 5.00 Can We Help? 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 ABC News 10.00 River Cottage 11.00 Chopper Rescue 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2011 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Grand Designs 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 My Family 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.05 Grumpy Guide To Romance

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Program

7.00 Schools Spectacular 2011 9.30 Graham Norton Show 10.15 Movie: Psycho (M 1960) Hitcock suspense.

Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

2

SBS 1

ELEVEN

6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 ONE HD Global Village 6.00 Arsenal Football 9.00 Pro Bull 6.00 Letters And Numbers Riding 10.00 NASCAR Nationwide 6.30 World News Australia Series 10.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 7.30 Coast 11.00 Asia Pacific Ironman 12.00 Save 8.30 As It Happened War for Point 12.30 Guerrilla Gardeners 1.00 the Atlantic Beach Patrol 1.30 Jeopardy! 2.00 Lost 9.30 World News Australia Prophets 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Airline 10.05 G-Spotting (MA) 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 11.05 Movie: Sakuran (MA 2006) 4x4 Adventures Japanese drama 1.05 Movie: 6.00 M*A*S*H Between Living And Dreaming (MA 6.30 Get Smart

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 First Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues

6.00 Evening News 6.30 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.30 CSI (M) 9.30 Movie: Three Blind Mice (M 2008) Australian comedy. Matthew Newton, Alex Dimitriades

11.30 Movie: Every Little Step (M 2008) US documentary. Bob Avian, Justin Bellero 2.00 Movie: Last Orders (M 2001) UK drama. Michael Caine, 8.30 Wallander (M) Bob Hoskins 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Good 10.30 Maneaters 11.30 That ’70s Show 12.00 Africa Alive Morning America 2.00 Home Shopping GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 7TWO 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Kids’ Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Programs 5.00 Movie: The Master Of Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale Disguise (PG 2002) US comedy. Dana 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Carvey, Brent Spiner Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 12.00 Ghost Whisperer 1.00 Hart To Hart 2.00 Five Mile Creek 3.00 Murphy Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad About You 4.30 Who’s The Boss 5.00 Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp

6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 The Secret Mediterranean 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Escape To The Country 7.30 Movie: Material Girls (PG 9.30 To The Manor Bowen 2006) US comedy. Hilary 10.30 The Lakes 11.00 Movie: Bob & Carol & Ted & Duff, Angelica Huston Alice (PG 1969) US comedy. Natalie 9.30 Sex And The City (MA)

10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

12.30 Malcolm And Eddie 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 The A Team

Wood, Elliott Gould 1.10 Mad About You 1.40 Who’s The Boss 2.10 Room For Improvement 2.40 Hart To Hart 3.30 Shortland Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping

7MATE

7.30 Movie: Honey I Blew Up The Kids (G 1992) US comedy. Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman 9.20 Movie: Risky Business (M 1983) US comedy.

Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay

11.20 South Park (M) 12.00 Undercovers (M) 1.00 Rubicon (M) 2.00 Reno 911 (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotch!

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: The Wackiest Ship In The Army (G 1960) US comedy.

Richard Murphy, Jack Lemmon 2.00 Friends 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible 6.00 Friends Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 7.00 The Zoo 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 7.30 Journey To The Centre Of The Planet 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena 5.00 8.30 Law & Order (M) The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s 9.30 The Commander (AV) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Psychic TV Show 2.00 Murder, She Wrote 3.00 Movie: 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother The Damned Don’t Cry (PG 1950) US 7.30 Gene Simmons Family drama. Joan Crawford, David Brian 5.00 The Golden Girls Jewels

8.30 My Name Is Earl

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ABC NEWS 24

4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.05 Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 One Plus One

Mrs Henderson Presents (M 2005) UK comedy. Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins 2.10 Valentine (M) 3.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

9.30 Reaper (M) 10.30 Jersey Shore (M)

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TEN

PRIME

6.00 Seven News 6.30 No Leave No Life 7.00 Movie: Meet The Robinsons (G 2007) Animation 9.00 Movie: Van Helsing (M 2004) US action. Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The Doctors 1.00 In Memory Of Maia 2.00 William & Kate: A Modern-Day Fairytale 4.00 Escape With ET 5.00 Ten News 11.45 That ’70s Show 12.15 Movie: 6.00 Bondi Vet Sleepover (G 2004) US comedy.

6.30 Movie: Back To The Elexa Vega, Mika Boorem 2.15 Home Future Part III (PG 1990) Shopping

US adventure. Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd 8.55 Movie: The Jewel Of The Nile (PG 1985) US adventure. Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner

8.30 Dinner For One 9.00 RocKwiz 9.45 Movie: Rab Ne Bana Di

6.30 The WWE Experience 7.30 Fear Factor 8.30 Cops (M)

SUNDAY 1 Feature 12.00 Futbol Mundial 12.30 ABC 1 Speedweek 2.00 World News 3.00 5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Space Sailors 4.00 My Mum Talks To ABC News 9.30 The World This Week Aliens 5.00 Cycling Central 10.00 ABC News 10.40 Christianity: A History 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 6.00 Thalassa Beachcomber Cottage 1.00 7.30 Select 6.30 World News Australia 1.30 Message Stick 2.00 The Story Of 7.30 Movie: Ponyo (G 2008) Japanese animation India 3.00 Seriously Singing 3.30 Last Night Of The Proms 5.00 Doctor Who 9.25 New Years Day Concert

6.00 Yellowstone 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grand Designs 8.30 Movie: Joe Maddison’s War (PG 2010) UK drama.

Robson Green, Kevin Whately 10.00 Movie: Inspector George Gently (M 2007) UK drama. Martin Shaw, Phil Davis

7TWO

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Video Killed The Radio Star Duran Duran 7.30 The Videos That Shaped the 80s 8.30 Sunday Best (M) 9.40 Peep Show (M) 10.05 Movie: The Birds (M 1963) Hitchcock thriller.

Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor

12.05 Beautiful Noise: Pilot Speed 1.00 Scrapheap Challenge 1.50 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Australian Story 6.30 Message Stick 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Big Ideas 8.45 Finance Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 State To State 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Dispatches 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Tonic 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 ABC News 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Eye On The Storm 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Tonic 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 7.30 Select 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Message Stick

ONE HD

6.00 Serie A Football 6.30 Bundesliga Football 7.30 Goodwood Revival 8.30 Ocean Race Highlights 9.30 Hopman Cup Tennis – LIVE 3.30 4 Adventures 4.30 Airline 5.00 Holiday Dream Team 5.30 I Fish

6.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE

PRIME

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Movie: 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News Earthquake (PG 1974) US action.

6.00 More Than A Fiesta Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner 3.30 6.40 Iron Chef Tour De Cure 2011 4.30 Susan Boyle 7.30 Ninja Warrior 5.30 New Zealand On A Plate

6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Vicar Of Dibley 7.30 Border Security 8.00 Coastwatch 8.30 Bones (M) 11.40 Movie: Torremolinos 73 9.30 Castle (M) (MA 2003) Spanish comedy 1.15 10.30 Royal Pains (M) Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Movie: The Phantom Of The Opera (PG 2004) UK drama. Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum 4.00 All 4 Adventure 4.30 Ozzie Holiday 5.00 Ten News

12.00 South Park (MA) 12.30 Gaga Live At Sydney Monster Hall 1.30 LMFAO 2.00 Panic At The Disco 2.30 Aloe Blacc At The New Motion Party 3.00 Live At The Chapel Presents Eskimo Joe, PNAU, The Temper Trap, The Vine, John Mayer

GEM

6.00 Movie: The Wackiest Ship In The Army (G 1960) US comedy.

Richard Murphy, Jack Lemmon 8.00 Infomercials 9.00 Murder, She Wrote 10.00 Movie: The Pure Hell Of St Trinians (G 1961) UK comedy. Cecil Parker, George Cole 12.00 Movie: Don’t Go Near The Water (G 1957) WWII drama. Glenn Ford, Mary Wickes 2.20 Movie: Northwest Passage (PG 1940) US adventure. Spencer Tracy, Robert Young 5.00 Movie: Splendor In The Grass (PG 1961) US romantic drama. Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty

7.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 CSI: NY (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI (M)

11.30 Conan (M) 12.20 Psychic TV 1.50 Movie: That’s Entertainment (G 1974) US documentary. Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra 4.30 Friends 5.00 Murder, She Wrote

NBN

6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Surfsport 11.00 Sri Lankan Airlines Pro Surfing 11.30 Australian Fishing Championships 12.00 Equestrian Grand Final 1.00 Gilligan’s Island 1.45 Movie: We Of The Never Never (G 1983) Australian drama. Angela Punch-McGregor, Arthur Dignam 4.30 Manly Surf 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Antiques Roadshow

6.00 NBN News 6.30 David Attenborough’s Madagascar 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI (M) 10.30 CSI: NY (M)

11.30 Flashpoint (M) 12.30 The Baron 1.30 Spyforce 2.30 Home Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Married With Children 3.30 The Bachelor 5.30 11.30 Love Bites (M) 12.30 Home Survivor: South Pacific Shopping 5.30 Seven News 6.30 Teen Mum

7TWO

6.30 Step By Step 7.00 Growing Pains 7.30 Head Of The Class 8.00 Perfect Strangers 8.30 The Hogan Family 9.00 Ugly Betty 10.00 Route 66 11.00 Naked 6.00 Bondi Rescue City 11.30 Movie: The Flying Missile 6.30 Merlin (G 1950) US drama. Glenn Ford, Viveca 7.30 It’s A Knockout Lindfors 1.30 Movie: Good Neighbor Sam (PG 1964) US comedy. Jack 8.30 Terra Nova (M) Lemmon, Romy Schneider 4.15 Movie: 9.30 Movie: Ten Empty (M 2008) Australian drama. Plainsong (PG 2004) Western. Rachel Brendan Cowell, Lucy Bell Griffiths, America Ferrera 11.35 Movie: Swept Away 6.20 Dad’s Army (M 2002) UK comedy. Bruce 7.00 Country Calendar Greenwood, Madonna 1.30 7.30 The Royal Infomercials 4.00 Religion 8.30 Escape To The Country

ELEVEN

7.00 Movie: Serving Sara (PG 2002) US comedy.

Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley 9.00 Movie: Sex And The City (MA 2008) US comedy.

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall

Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Magnum PI 5.00

By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

12.00 Omnisport 12.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 1.30 Serie A Football 3.30 12.00 Movie: The Rising – Ballad FA Cup Classic 4.00 NFL America’s Game Of Mangal Pandey (M 2005) Indian 5.00 National Football League – LIVE history 2.35 Weatherwatch

8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke 8.30 Movie: Girls On Top (M 11.30 Last Night Of The Proms 1.00 2001) German comedy Seriously Singing 1.30 Movie: Joe 10.05 Movie: Girls On Top 2 (M Maddison’s War 3.00 rage 2004) German comedy

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.00 Married With Children 3.00 Spin City 4.00 Just Shoot Me 5.00 Movie: Nancy Drew (PG 2007) US comedy. Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter

6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.30 Movie: Growing Pains 2 – Return Of The Seavers (PG

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SBS 2

Home Videos

6.30 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend 7.30 Two And A Half Men Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 8.30 New Years Eve LIVE Movie: Lilo & Stitch (G 2002) 9.30 Lotto Animation 3.30 Movie: Bring It On – 12.20 Movie: Can’t Stop The Music (PG All Or Nothing (PG 2006) US comedy.

1980) US comedy. Steve Guttenberg, Hayden Panettiere, Solange Knowles Paul Sand 2.35 The Avengers 3.35 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu Skippy 4.00 Infomercials

6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Better Homes And Gardens 10.00 The Great Outdoors 11.00 Queensland Weekender 11.30 Great South East 12.00 Creek To Coast ABC NEWS 24 12.30 The Travel Bug 1.30 Weekend 4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 6.00 11.10 Movie: Shine A Light (M 2008) Kitchen 4.45 Doctor At Large 5.15 Tonic 6.30 Message Stick 7.00 ABC UK documentary. The Rolling Stones Rising Damp 5.45 On The Buses News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 6.20 Dad’s Army News 8.45 Consumer Quarter 9.00 ABC ELEVEN 7.30 Heartbeat News 9.45 Weather Quarter 10.00 ABC 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 8.30 Taggart (M) News 10.30 State To State 11.00 ABC Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 10.40 Movie: Funny Lady (PG 1975) News 11.30 Catalyst 12.00 ABC News 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th US comedy. Barbara Streisand, James 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 1.00 Caan 1.30 Australian Open Tennis 2005: ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Hewitt v Nalbandian ABC News 3.30 Foreign Correspondent Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 7MATE 4.00 ABC News 4.30 State To State 5.00 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC 6.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 6.30 The Brady Bunch News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today Four Corners 8.45 Arts Quarter 9.00 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 SCU: Serious ABC News 9.30 State To State 10.00 7.30 Frasier Crash Unit 1.00 Zoom TV 1.30 Panic ABC News 10.30 7.30 Select 11.00 ABC 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond Mechanics 2.00 Riding With Rossi 3.00 News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Frasier Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond Show 5.30 Monster Fish 1.30 Tonic 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC 9.30 Star Trek: Voyager 6.30 Mighty Structures 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 7.30 Mega Movers World News 3.30 Message Stick Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King 8.30 Shockwave SBS 1 Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The 5.00 World News 5.05 World News 1.00 Love Boat 4.00 Touched By An Angel 9.30 Mega Disasters 10.30 The Universe Gustav Mahler Celebration 2.30 JMW 5.00 7th Heaven 11.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 12.30 Turner 3.30 Nobel Prize In Literature Jeff Foxworthy Show 1.00 SCU: Serious 2010 4.00 Tim Marlow Meets Peter ONE HD Blake 4.30 Newshour 5.30 The Royal 6.00 Liverpool Football 9.00 NFL Total Crash Unit 2.00 The Incredible Hulk Access 10.00 WWE Experience 11.00 X 3.00 Magnum PI 4.00 Wagon Train Jewels Venture Corporate Games 12.00 Save 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping 6.30 World News Australia Point 12.30 Hopman Cup Tennis – LIVE NBN 7.30 Big, Bigger, Biggest 12.05 Movie: Jamaica Inn (PG 1939) Hitchcock drama. Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara 1.45 Close

Ring Of Endless Light (G 2002) US TEN drama. Mischa Barton, Ryan Merriman 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 10.35 Late Edition News 10.45 Adam The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 5.30 Deal Or No Deal Hills In Gordon St Tonight 11.45 rage 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady 6.00 Prime News Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial (MA) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Drug Bust ABC 2 And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 7.30 Better Homes & Gardens 6.30 The Project 6.00 Kids’ Programs

11.30 Movie: The Incredible Shrinking Man (G 1957) US thriller.

Grant Williams, Randy Stuart 12.50 Blade Of The Immortal (M) 1.15 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 1.40 Close

6.00 A Fork In The Road Jamaica 6.40 Iron Chef 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 Movie: Cyrano De Bergerac (G 1990) French drama

10.35 Spicks And Specks: The Finale Weatherwatch 11.35 rage (MA)

7.00 Cops 7.30 Master Of Disaster 2004) Spanish romantic comedy 3.00 8.30 An Idiot Abroad (M) Weatherwatch 9.30 Miami Swat (M) 10.30 NBL Basketball Sydney v SBS 2 Adelaide 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 12.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 1.30 6.00 Global Village Omnisport 2.00 Pro Bull Riding 3.00 6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy NFL America’s Game 4.00 Bundesliga 7.30 Brick City Football 5.00 FA Cup Classic 5.30 Serie 8.30 The Staircase (M) A Football 9.30 Movie: The Host (M 2006) PRIME South Korean horror 11.35 Movie: Godzilla – Final Wars (M 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 2004) Japanese cult 1.50 Weatherwatch 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: A

7.00 A Quiet Word Ross Noble 7.30 Jamie’s Great Britain 9.30 Movie: Moulin Rouge!

7.30 Spicks And Specks (M 2001) Australian 8.30 twentysomething (M) drama. Nicole Kidman, 9.00 The Bazura Project (M) Ewan McGregor 9.30 Angry Boys (M) 10.30 Summer Heights High (M) 11.10 The Late Show 12.10 Movie:

2004) US comedy. Kirk Cameron, Alan Thicke 2.30 Movie: The Master Of Disguise (PG 2002) US comedy. Dana 12.35 SOS (G/M) 1.40 Dave Chappelle’s 12.30 UFC 141 Prelims 1.30 NBL Carvey, Brent Spiner 4.30 The Garden Block Party (M) 3.30 Weatherwatch Basketball – Sydney v Adelaide 3.30 Gurus 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Antiques Omnisport 4.00 Australian Rally Roadshow SBS 2 6.00 NBN News Championship 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest

6.00 Italian Gardens 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2011 9.05 Stephen Fry Live At The 10.55 Movie: The Dinner Game Sydney Opera House (M) (M 1998) French comedy 12.25

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2. Ornithophobes should go out of their way to avoid Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic The Birds (ABC2, Sunday January 1st, 10.05pm). A wealthy socialite played by Tippi Hedren travels to a Californian town in search of nookie with another Australian, Rod Taylor, but is set upon by a variety of feathered lunatics. If you don’t have time for the full film, check out the amusing 1m40s mash-up by KJEveryday on YouTube at http://bit.ly/k8gqL.

9.30 48 Hours (M) 10.30 NBL Basketball Gold Jodi (PG 2008) Bollywood Coast v Melbourne

8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: xXx – The Next Level (M 2005) US action.

Ice Cube, Samuel L Jackson

11.40 Gossip Girl (M) 12.30 Ladette To Lady USA (MA) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Infomercials 6.30 Movie: Laughter In Paradise (G 1951) UK comedy. Joyce Grenfell, Hugh Griffith 8.30 Infomercials 9.30 Movie: That’s 9.30 To The Manor Bowen Entertainment (G 1974) US documen10.30 Homes Under The tary. Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra 12.15 Movie: The Long Long Trailer (G 1954) Hammer 11.45 The World At War 12.50 2011 US comedy. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz Jr Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2.30 2.30 The Garden Gurus 3.00 Getaway Australian Open Tennis 1995: Sampras v 4.00 Movie: Gigi (G 1958) US comedy.

Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier Courier 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 6.30 Antiques Roadshow Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy 7MATE 7.30 As Time Goes By Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NWA – On Fire 8.00 Yes Minister 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 8.30 Movie: Being Julia (M 2004) Canadian comedy.

7.30 The Simpsons 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Man V Food 3.00 Annette Bening, Jeremy 8.00 Futurama Hercules And The Circle Of Fire 5.00 Irons 8.30 Movie: Just Visiting (PG Drew Carey Show 5.30 Smash Lab 6.30 10.45 Movie: Falling Down (M 1993) 2001) US comedy. Jean Verminators 7.30 Mythbusters French drama. Joel Schumacher, Reno, Christina Applegate 8.30 Movie: Fletch (M 1985) US Michael Douglas 1.00 Friends 2.00 10.30 Everybody Loves Raymond comedy. Chevy Chase, Tim Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 SBS 1 11.00 Family Ties 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Matheson Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 5.00 World News 8.30 PopAsia Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina 1.00 The King 10.30 Warehouse 13 (M) Today Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 Football 12.30 Caprica (M) 2.30 Man V Food

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MONDAY 2 ABC 1

6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 8.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE

6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 10.00 South Park (M) 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 10.30 World News Australia 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Arsenal Football 8.25 Lotto 11.05 The World Game 12.05 SOS 5.30 FA Cup Classic 8.30 The Mentalist (M) (PG/M) 1.05 Movie: Crazy Stone 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) (M 2006) Mandarin comedy 3.00 PRIME 10.30 Big 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show

4.00 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Best Of Weatherwatch Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 The Free SBS 2 Range Cook 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Kids’ Programs 6.00 Global Village

6.00 Turn Back Time 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House?

8.30 The History Of Safari 9.25 Kevin McCloud 10.15 Late Edition News

10.25 Silent Witness (MA) 11.20 Place Of Execution (M) 12.10 Darling Buds Of May 1.05 Movie: Another Man’s Poison (M 1952) UK drama. Bette Davis, Gary Merrill 2.30 Hungry Beast (M) 3.00 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Haven (M) 9.30 The Runaway (M) 10.15 Graham Norton Show

6.40 Sarah Wiener In Italy 7.30 The Secret Life Of Your Body Clock 8.30 The Dark Secret Of Hendrik Schön 9.30 The World Game 10.30 Movie: The Magic Blade (M 1976) Mandarin action 12.15 Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 9.30 The Glades (M) 11.00 Outnumbered 12.45 Zoo Days 10.30 The Almighty Johnsons 1.00 Scrapheap Challenge 1.50 Close (M)

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 ABC News 4.05 The World This Week 4.30 One Plus One 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Rural Quarter 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.15 Press Club Selection 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.05 Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Dispatches

SBS 1

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 ADbc 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Dakar Rally Highlights

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Freddie Flintoff Versus The World (M) 9.30 Wilfred (MA)

ABC 1

6.00 Turn Back Time 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Nigella Kitchen 8.30 Nature’s Miracle Babies 9.30 Twins 10.25 Late Edition News 10.35 Spooks (M)

11.30 The Story Of Bran Nue Dae 12.00 Luminous 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.15 Nature’s Miracle Babies 2.10 Kangaroo Island 3.00 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Phone Shop 9.00 Commercial Kings 9.30 Green Wing 10.20 Root Of All Evil (M)

8.00 Dog Patrol 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 Air Crash Investigations 10.30 Royal Pains (M)

11.30 Keeping Up With The Kardashians (M) 12.00 Auction Squad 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News

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6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Perfect Strangers 10.30 Night Court 11.00 Murphy Brown 11.30 Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE 5.00 Mad About You 5.30 Who’s The Boss

6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Heartbeat 8.00 Brisbane International Tennis LIVE

6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Wipeout USA 7.30 Top Gear 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) 9.30 Movie: A Life Less Ordinary (M 1997) UK romance. Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz

11.40 South Park (M) 12.00 Spin City 12.30 Ladette To Lady USA (MA) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Critic’s Choice 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 11.30 Taggart (M) 2.30 The Benny Hill (G 1963) US comedy. Bob Hope, Lucille 4.00 Religion Show 3.00 Australian Open Tennis: 2007 Ball 2.00 As Time Goes By 3.00 McLeod’s ELEVEN Gonzalez v Nadal 5.30 Home Shopping Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady The Ellen Denegeres Show Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7MATE 6.00 Friends 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible 7.00 Underdogs Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 7.30 Michaela’s Animal Road Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 Trip The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 8.30 Extreme Parental Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior Princess Guidance 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 9.30 Hell’s Kitchen (MA) 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show

6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Futurama 8.30 Family Guy (M) 8.30 Movie: Confetti (M 9.00 American Dad (M) 2006) UK comedy.

9.30 Family Guy (M) Martin Freeman, Jessica 10.30 My Name Is Earl Stevenson

10.35 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD

6.00 National Football League – LIVE 11.15 World Of Free Sports 11.45 Omnisport 12.20 National Football League – LIVE 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

6.00 M*A*S*H

TUESDAY 3 4.00 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Rivers 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Seven Ages Of Britain 1.30 Meerkat Manor 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs

11.30 Undercovers (AV) 12.30 The 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Dr Oz 11.30 Avengers 1.30 Entertainment Tonight Morning News 12.00 Movie: Hounded 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning (G 2001) US comedy. Tahj Mowry, Shia America 5.00 Early Morning News Labeouf 2.00 Kids’Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal GO! 6.00 Prime News 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 6.30 Seven News Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 7.00 Highway Patrol NZ Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot 7.30 Border Security Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.00 Wildfire 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat

PRIME

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Highway Patrol NZ 7.30 World’s Strictest Parents 8.40 Movie: The Guardian (M 2006) US drama. Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher

11.40 Movie: Samaritan Girl (M 2004) South Korean drama 1.25 11.30 Keeping Up With The Kardashians (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 NCIS (M) 10.30 The Almighty Johnsons (MA)

11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 Today

11.00 Punk’d (M) 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show Weatherwatch 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Dr Oz 11.30 SBS 2 Morning News 12.00 Movie: You Wish!

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News (G 2003) NZ comedy. AJ Trauth, Spencer Breslin 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven 6.00 Global Village News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.40 Sarah Wiener In Italy

7.30 Lost Worlds Secrets of the First Emperor 8.30 As It Happened The Wild West Uncovered 9.30 Movie: The Message (M 2009) Mandarin mystery

10.30 Secret Diary Of A Call Girl (MA)

7TWO

6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Perfect Strangers 10.30 Night Court 11.00 Murphy Brown 11.30 Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE 5.00 Mad About You 5.30 Who’s The Boss

6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 60 Minute Makeover 8.00 Brisbane International Tennis LIVE

6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 The Middle 6.00 M*A*S*H 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 6.30 Get Smart 9.00 Mike And Molly (M) 7.00 Cops 8.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE 9.30 Person Of Interest (AV) 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Liverpool Football 10.30 Nothing Trivial (M) 9.00 Hopman Cup Tennis 2.00 Fear Factor 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

11.05 Movie: Queen To Play (M 2009) 5.30 FA Cup Classic French drama 1.00 True Horror (M) 1.50

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11.30 The Unusuals (M) 12.30 20/20 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 Good

ABC 1

4.00 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 How Earth Made Us 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Henry VIII 1.30 Boxing For Palm Island 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Country House Rescue 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Outnumbered 8.30 QI (M) 9.00 The Thick Of It (M) 9.35 Absolutely Fabulous 10.05 The Trip (M)

10.35 Late Edition News 10.45 Comedy Roadshow (M) 11.35 Raw Comedy 2009 (M) 12.25 Movie: The Brighton Strangler (PG 1945) UK horror. John Loder, June Duprez 1.45 Absolutely Fabulous 2.15 The Trip (M) 2.45 Chaser’s War On Repeats (M) 3.10 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Misbehaving Mums To Be (M) 9.30 Fast Food Baby 10.30 Sunday Best

Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: Michael (PG 1996) US comedy. John Travolta, Andie MacDowell

6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Wipeout USA 7.30 Movie: Are We There Yet? (PG 2005) US comedy. Ice Cube, Nia Long 9.30 Movie: Deep Blue Sea (M 1999) US thriller. Samuel L Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie

11.40 South Park (M) 12.00 Spin City 12.30 V (M) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

8.30 The Spy Factory 9.30 Outback Fight Club (M) 10.30 World News Australia

2010) Danish drama

11.40 Movie: Intimate Enemies (MAV 2007) French war 1.35 Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 Hawaii Five-O (M) 10.30 The Almighty Johnsons (MA)

6.00 M*A*S*H

THURSDAY 5 ABC 1

11.25 Live From Abbey Road: Michael Buble, The Temper Trap, Little Boots 12.15 Hungry Beast (M) 12.45 The Clinic (M) 1.35 The People’s Supermarket 2.25 Jennifer Byrne Presents Brave New Worlds 3.00 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.30 My Sri Lanka 8.00 One Man And His

SBS 2

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News

6.00 Global Village 6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy 7.30 A History Of Scotland 8.35 Behind The Photo War zone 9.35 Movie: Eden Is West (M 2009) French drama

11.35 Movie: A Touch Of Spice (M 2003) Greek drama 1.30 Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 6.30 The Project 8.30 Arrested Development 7.30 Modern Family 9.00 The Warehouse Comedy 8.00 Rules Of Engagement Festival (M) 8.30 Law & Order (M) 9.30 Graham Norton Show 10.30 Medium (M) 10.15 Ideal 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials

10.45 Peep Show (M) 11.15 4.00 Religion Misbehaving Mums To Be (M) 12.15 Commercial Kings 12.45 Phone Shop ELEVEN 1.10 Scrapheap Challenge 2.00 Close 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond ABC NEWS 24 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 News 2.30 Australia Network News Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Arts Quarter Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 ABC 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond Australian Story 9.00 The World 9.30 7.30 The Simpsons State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.05 8.30 Star Trek Next Generation Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News Sabrina 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Charmed 4.00 Touched By An Angel Australian Story 5.00 7th Heaven

SBS 1

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Dakar Rally Highlights

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia

7.30 RBT 8.25 Lotto 8.30 Movie: Lethal Weapon 4 (M 1998) US action. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover

7.00 Highway Patrol NZ 7.30 Four Weddings 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 The Pacific (AV)

6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Wipeout USA 7.30 Mike & Molly 8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Mike & Molly(M) 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Tomcats (MA 2001) US comedy. Jerry O’Connell, Shannon Elizabeth

11.40 30 Rock 12.00 Sons And Daughters 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News

7TWO

6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Perfect Strangers 10.30 Night Court 11.00 Murphy Brown 11.30 Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE 5.00 Mad About You 5.30 Who’s The Boss

6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 The Benny Hill Show 8.00 Brisbane International Tennis LIVE

11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 Spin City 12.30 V (M) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Protocol (PG 1984) US comedy. Goldie Hawn, Cliff 11.30 Taggart (M) 2.30 The Benny Hill De Young 2.00 As Time Goes By 2.30 Show 2.30 Australian Open Tennis: Yes Minister 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 1993 Seles v Graf 5.30 Home Shopping 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

7MATE

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Xena: Princess Warrior 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show

6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Pimp My Ride 8.30 Hardcore Pawn (M) 9.30 American Pickers 10.30 Banged Up Abroad (M)

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Movie: Take The Lead (PG 2006) US drama.

Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard 10.00 Hoarders

11.00 My Strange Addiction 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 Today

11.30 The Sexy Ads Show (MA) 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues

6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair

PRIME

4.00 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) Campervan 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC 8.30 The Family (M) News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Country 9.30 24 Hours In Emergency (M) House Rescue 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 10.30 World News Australia 1.30 My Family 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 11.05 Stripping At The Pink Paradise (M) 12.35 Movie: The Girl By The Lake (M Kids’ Programs 2007) Italian thriller 2.20 Weatherwatch 6.00 River Cottage

7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Jimmy’s Food Factory 8.30 The People’s Supermarket 9.25 Greatest Cities Of The World Rome 10.15 Late Edition News 10.25 Stephen Fry In America

6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 8.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE

2.00 Omnisport 2.30 NFL Total Access 3.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 4.30 11.05 Movie: Somersault (MA 2003) Bundesliga Football 5.30 500 Great 11.00 True CSI (AV) 12.00 Memphis Australian drama. Abbie Cornich, Sam Goals Beat (M) 1.00 Entertainment Tonight Worthington 1.00 Movie: Have Mercy 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 Good On Us All (M 2007) French mystery 3.05 PRIME Morning America 5.00 Early Morning 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show News Weatherwatch 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Dr Oz 11.30 SBS 2 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Tiger GO! 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Cruise (G 2004) US drama. Hayden 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Panettiere, Bill Pullman 2.00 Kids’ Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 6.00 Global Village Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot 6.30 Sarah Wiener In Italy Or No Deal Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: 7.30 Rex In Rome 6.00 Prime News Summer Catch (PG 2001) US comedy.

8.30 The Killing (M) 6.30 Seven News Freddie Prinze Jr, Jessica Biel 9.35 Movie: Submarino (M

11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 11.40 The Baby Borrowers (M) 12.35 4.00 Religion How Do They Do It? 1.00 Scrapheap ELEVEN Challenge 1.50 Close 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady ABC NEWS 24 Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 News 2.30 Australia Network News The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Indigenous Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Quarter 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 7.30 The Simpsons 10.05 Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC 8.00 Futurama News 11.30 Australia Network News 8.30 The Simpsons 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC 9.00 Futurama News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 9.30 The Cleveland Show (M) 10.30 The Late Late Show One Plus One 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 SBS 1 Sabrina 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 News 1.00 Movie: The Maiden Charmed 4.00 Touched By An Angel And The Wolves (PG 2008) French 5.00 7th Heaven drama 3.00 Letters And Numbers ONE HD 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Dakar Rally 6.00 MotoGP Classic 7.00 NBL Basketball – Sydney v Adelaide 9.00 Highlights Hopman Cup Tennis 2.00 NFL Total 6.00 Letters And Numbers Access 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Airline 6.30 World News Australia 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 7.30 Explore Manila to 5.00 I Fish

Mindanao

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: The Company (PG 2003) German drama. Neve Campbell, 11.30 On The Buses 12.30 The Benny Malcolm McDowell 2.00 Michaela’s Hill Show 1.00 Mad About You 1.30 Animal Road Trip 3.00 McLeod’s 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials Australian Open Tennis: 1987 Cash v Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 10.45 Arrested Development 11.10 4.00 Religion Edberg 5.30 Home Shopping The Ellen Degeneres Show Torchwood (M) 11.55 No Way San Jose 6.00 Friends 12.25 Planet Rock Profiles: James Blunt ELEVEN 7MATE 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 7.00 The Zoo 12.50 Green Wing 1.45 Close 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 As Time Goes By Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today ABC NEWS 24 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 8.00 Yes Minister 4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 8.30 The Closer (M) Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior 10.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M) Australia Network News 1.00 ABC The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Princess 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The 11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She News 2.30 Australia Network News Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 6.30 My Wife And Kids 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Health Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Quarter 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 7.00 How I Met Your Mother The Golden Girls 5.30 Today 7.30 Freak Encounters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.30 Foreign 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Mythbusters Correspondent 9.00 The World 10.00 7.30 The Simpsons Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 8.00 Futurama 9.30 The Border Australia Network News 12.00 ABC 8.30 The Office 10.30 All Worked Up (M) News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 9.30 American Horror Story (AV) 11.00 FBI: Takedown (M) 12.00 Knight Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum 10.30 The Late Late Show 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Dispatches 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 SBS 1 Home Shopping 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 NBN 1.00 Movie: The Dinner Guest (PG 2007) French comedy 2.30 ADbc 3.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News ONE HD Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 6.00 NFL America’s Game 7.00 NBL v India 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Dakar Rally Highlights Basketball – Gold Coast v Melbourne Cricket continues

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 The Great Sperm Race 9.30 Strange Birds In Paradise 10.30 World News Australia

WEDNESDAY 4

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Dr Oz 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Right On Track (G 2003) US biography. Beverley Mitchell, Jon Robert Lindstrom 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Highway Patrol NZ 7.30 Happy Endings 8.00 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Movie: Eagle Eye (M 2008) US action. Shia Labeouf, Michelle Monaghan

11.00 30 Rock 12.00 Auction Squad 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News

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6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Perfect Strangers 10.30 Night Court 11.00 Murphy Brown 11.30 Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE 5.00 Mad About You 5.30 Who’s The Boss

6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 The Benny Hill Show 8.00 Brisbane International Tennis LIVE

11.30 Taggart (M) 2.30 Mad About You 3.00 Australian Open Tennis: 2003 Serena Williams v Clisters 5.30 Home Shopping

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6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show

6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Swamp People 8.30 Mega Structures 9.30 Operation Repo (M) 10.30 Jail (M)

11.30 Campus PD 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia ONE HD 6.00 National Football League 8.30 v India 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 World Of Free Sports 9.00 Hopman Cricket continues Cup Tennis 2.00 Airline 2.30 Beach 6.00 NBN News Patrol 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Airline 7.00 A Current Affair 4.00 Hopman Cup Tennis – LIVE 12.00 7.30 Getaway Omnisport 12.30 MotoGP Classic 1.30 8.30 Unforgettable (M) Liverpool Football 4.30 Magic Of The 9.30 CSI: NY (M) FA Cup 10.30 Nothing Trivial (M)

11.30 Southland (AV) 12.30 The Baron 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Movie: A League Of Their Own (PG 1992) US comedy. Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell

6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Wipeout USA 7.30 The Middle 8.30 My Dad Says 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Payback (M 1999) US action. Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry

11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 Spin City 12.30 V (M) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: The Iron Maiden (G 1962) UK comedy. Michael Craig, Alan Hale Jr 2.00 Hoarders 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Friends 8.30 Movie: Sleepless In Seattle (PG 1993) US comedy. Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan

10.40 The Big C (M) 11.40 Conan (M) 12.30 The Golden Girls 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 Today

PLEASE NOTE The Echo takes great care producing this guide, but unfortunately TV stations like to tinker with things at the last minute and sometimes make changes after we have gone to print.

Channel 9 (NBN, Gem and Go!) is the worst offender – they frequently change their prime-time movies and other shows just before screening, and Channel 7 (Prime7, 7two and 7mate) is not much better.

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Surfing awards open Nominations are open for the 2012 Australian Surfing Awards incorporating the Hall of Fame. Surfing’s night of nights will be held in Manly, Sydney, on February 16 during the Australian Open of Surfing and will feature the who’s who of the Australian surfing community.

Four-time Women’s World Champion Stephanie Gilmore and two-time Men’s World Champion Mick Fanning took the honours last year for the Female and Male Surfer of the

Year awards, while legendary filmmaker Alby Falzon became the 33rd inductee into the Hall of Fame.

Other awards to be presented on the night will be the Rising Star Award, Waterman of the Year, ASB Surfing Spirit Award, Peter Troy Lifestyle Award, Surf Culture Award and the Simon Anderson Club Award.

In an exciting addition, the Australian Surfing Awards will now also feature the much-anticipated Nikon Surf Photo of the Year and Nikon Surf Movie

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of the Year, which will showcase the finest work taken by Australia’s best surf photographers and videographers.

The prize in each award will be RRP $6000 worth of Nikon photographic equipment.

For more information and to nominate visit www.australiansurfingawards.com or for information on the Nikon Surf Photo and Movie of the Year visit www.mynikonlife.com. au/surfingaustralia. Nominations close at 5pm, January 6, 2012.

What ‘SUP in paddleboarding?

Surfing Australia has announced a historic new StandUp Paddleboard (SUP) national series to uncover the country’s top exponents.

SUP has experienced explosive growth in recent years and the Surfing Australia SUP Series will showcase the sport’s best competitors.

The series will be held across three divisions – surfing; Technical Race following a Battle of the Paddle style format 4–8km; and 20km Marathon.

The Technical Race will be held on boards 12’6” and under, and the Marathon will be held on boards 14ʹ and under.

The Battle of the Paddle for-

mat involves several laps of a course paddling in and back out through the surf.

Each State – Victoria, WA, SA, NSW and Queensland – will host their own SUP titles before the series culminates in the Australian SUP titles to be held at Port Macquarie August 19–20, 2012.

The winners at the Australian SUP titles will represent Australia at the annual International Surfing Association (ISA) World SUP Titles.

Surfing Australia CEO Andrew Stark said there were exciting times ahead for Australian SUP competitors. ‘In partnership with our state branches

and the International Surfing Association we are absolutely committed to developing Stand-Up Paddleboarding in this country and ensure that participants are provided a strong pathway from club level through to international competition through the ISA World Titles,’ says Stark. ‘SUP has experienced incredible growth and Surfing Australia as the official governing body for the sport in Australia are very excited to work with the key stakeholders to ensure we provide the absolute best possible platform for them to enjoy their sport’.

SPORT RESULTS

Tweed Heads Ladies Wednesday Pairs: M. Wright, C. Hawkins def.

V. Moore, R. Curtis * B. Makin, S. O’Toole def.

M. Rodgers, I. Muldoon * B. Bryant, A. Ebsworth def. J. Smith, M. Dare * S. Hanlon, H. Ramsay, def. K,. Figura, F. Hewitt * S. Lusby, P. Griffith def. G. Gorgeny, J. Lyons * V. Young, R. Griffith, def. M. Purcell, C. Graver.

Thursday: J. Youle, Y. Wolstencroft, A. Vermeulan, G. Harrop def. J. Patton, S. Jackson, J. Green, P. Houghton * C. Davis, L, Rayward, E. Bartrim, J. Smith def. D. Rynolds, H. Reid, L Wilson, M. Gunton * B. LeBOuef, N. Matheson, J. Ware, P. Reedy def. J. Gilroy, B. Jacobsen, M. Purcell * N. Wise, G. Evans, S. Asser, H. Bardsley def. J. Ryan, B. Orchard, S. Jackson, A. Plowright * J. Redman, R, Whalebone, S, Isles, V. Pridham def. N. Craig, B. Rodger, J. White, B. Fox * B. Everson, C. Graver, L. Elsey, D. Fysh def. J. Milburn, R. Ash, M. Croghan, J. Fisher * M. Jarick, A. Nash, N. Bell, P. Henderson def. T. Congdon, D. Kerwitz, M. Heydt, V. Robinson * K. Henshaw, G. Spencer, M, Marquis, H. Ramsay def. E. Lindwall, E. Heath, J. Leather, A. Lovasi * K. Cusack, D. Evans, S. Cook, I. Muldoon def. W. Kelly, D. Crabb, D. Hunt, L. Spencer * J. Lyon, N. Ward, P. Govett, S. Taylor def. J. Hoffman, D. King, H. Mason, D. Turner.

Tweed Heads Men National RSL Lawn Bowls Carnival To all bowlers in the area that this is another reminder that the 45th National RSL Lawn BowlsCarnival will be held at Tweed Heads Bowls Club from December 27 until January 6, 2012.

Social Results Sun Dec 11: Green 1: Josie and Pat Ryan; r/ up: Linda and Tony Kattenberg, Trevor Bauerochse, Phil Dwyer Green 2: Peter and Stephanie Goldsmith; r/ up: Bruce and Margaret Dare Tues Dec 13: Winners Men: Ray White, Ted Hughes, Oscar Cunningham; r/up: Roger Bell, John LeBoeuf, Ean Quested, Jim A. Smith Winners Ladies: Hazel Bardsley, Sylvia Jackson, Jean Green, Pauline Houghton; r/up: Norma Bell, Kath Sieben, Margaret Heydt, Phil Henderson Wed Dec 14: Random Rink Draw Green 1: Don Shoobert, Terry Sullivan; r/up: Hayden Soulsby, Mike Nedjati Green 2: George Mynott, Mike Kirker, Jim Bryant; r/up: Ken Calvert, Ron Edwards Green 3: Con Impellizzeri, Ron Taylor; r/up: Tony Nichols, John Reid Green 4: Stan Loeber, John Asser; r/up: Brian

Bevan, Fred Peel Fri Dec 16: Green 1: Guy Amiconi, Peter Harris, Leigh Tynan; r/up: Michael McDowell, Ray Connell, Pat Daley Green 2: Ted Ryan, Norm Picking, Bill Grose; r/up: Mike Armstrong, George Brooks, Ross Cali Green 3: Rob Henshaw, Sam Ramsay, George Hanlon; r/up: Ron Hodsdon, Elwyne Rigby, Ivan Mackay.

Sat Dec 17: Jackpot Saturday Green 1: Barry Milburn, Roger Graf; r/up: Jack Maloney, John Brabham Green 2: Jim Croghan, Ron Edwards; r/up: Trevor Smith, George Rebacher Green 3: Peter Barns, Terry Sullivan, Gerry Mountain; r/up: Bob and Yvonne McKenna, Bob Foster Green 4: Norm Bradbrook, Ken Schmidt; r/ up: Karen Fenson, Fred Kovaleff The Jackpot of $1,000.00 was won by Colleen Graver and Bill Grose on a count back.

GOLF Murwillumbah Sunday 11th December Women’s winner S.Gorton 32 pts, Members G.Chadwick 37 pts b.r.d. to Members 35 pts c.b. Monday 12th December Veteran’s winner M.Chilcott 38 pts r.up B.Bolt 37 pts c.b N.Piins 2nd L.Reynolds 8th B.Bolt 10th L.Rynolds 14th C.Hulme b.r.d. to 34 pts c.b Wednesday 9 hole sporters Winner A.McLean 22 pts n.pin 8th R.Rattray 14th C.Evesson b.r.d. to 20 pts. Friday 16th Women’s Winner S.Gorton 35 pts Members W.Kendrigan 39 pts b.r.d. to 35 pts Saturday 17th Individual Stroke Winner A.Grade T.Taylor 70 nett R.Up J.Brown 71 nett B.G L.McCormack 72 nett c.b R.Up B.Latnutt 72 nett C.Grade M.Rayner 70 nett R.Up A.Dempster 71 nett D.Grade R.Brown 70 nett R.Up J.Thackray 71 nett Medal ofMedal winner A.Dempster 71 nett N.Pin 2nd R.Baldock 8th D.Hobday 10th A.Harrison 14th B.Woodham B.R.D. to 74 nett c.b SHOOTING Murwillumbah Rifle Club Fullbore: 600 yards- W Shoobridge 99.9, 2, 101.9; A Cronk 96.10, 3, 99.10; S Waddell 94.7, 4, 98.7; D Phippard 96.11, 1, 97.11.

Scope: G Morris 112.7, 7, 119.7; M Sforcina 99, 15, 114; P Loxley-Lewis 107.2, 6, 113.2; R Ishvara 94.2, 18, 112.2; P Turner 101.

Visitors: J Gulia-rye 103; Emma Briggs 93.2; Zoe Helyer 93.2.

BOWLS Cabarita Beach Men Wednesday, December 14 winners with a score of 24 plus 13-Ray Tonkin and Jim Hay.T hey came up from Ocean Shores club to take the Cabba money-very cheeky! Runners Up were Victor Lewis and Kevin Liddington who finished with a scoreline of 22 plus 20-a great effort.The Consolation prize went to Danny Vegtor and Bob Gormly.

Monday,December 19 winners were Bernie Lamberton and Abdul Latif with a score of 28 plus 17.They were followed closely

by Geoff Westall and Julian Richards who produced a scoreline of 26 plus 15. Consolation went to Ken Coyte and Barry Shepherd with a most impressive outcome -26 plus 19.”Potty” bowlers taking Cabba money again.

Major/ Minor Championship Ian Crabb and Greg Goode defeated Mario Azzarpardi and Jason Clarke 18 to 9 in a 21 end battle.

Kingscliff Ladies Christmas Party, Wednesday, December 14: D. Greenwell, B. Lane, E.Claybourn, J. Dalmeyer, J. Duffy, S. Wood, B. Jack, M. Brown, B. Massey, J. Hegarty.

Raffle Winners: 1st: Janny Scher, 2nd: Joyce Buchanan; 3rd: Heather Peate, 4th: June Scott.

Bowls resumes January 11 at 9.30a.m.

Kingscliff Men 18th December 2011 Social Bowls Results: Tuesday 29th November Open Pairs: Winners: T Halloran, K Liddington. Runners Up: B Woods, I Thompson. Plate Winners: J Hansen, P Clancy.

Thursday 15th December: Highest Winning Margin: R Dark, T King, G Barrack. Second Highest Winning Margin: S Wilson, J Hansen, R Julius. Lowest Winning Margin: B Massey, H DeVries, N Peacock. Bowls over Christmas and New Year will not change.

South Tweed Wed. A.M. Pairs: 1st A Frith & D Phillips. 2nd E Kooymans & T Houghton.

P.M.Social: Winning Rink T Cottam, G Roberts & J Shaw. Losing Rink J Lewis,T Tierney & G Bradshaw.

Thurs. P.M.Pairs : 1st G Coste & J Gower Chapman. Winners of Losers: S Cancller & D o Neil.

Sat.P.M.Pairs: 1st K Stanley & R Tarrant. Winners of Losers: K McMahon & R Hickman.

Sat.P.M.Social; Winning Rink: K Treloar & J Brown. Losing Rink: O KInnane, J Lewis & G Bradshaw.

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Story & photo David Solano

Have you ever jinxed yourself before? Well I think I did it with last week’s yarn. I’d mentioned how I’ve been catching schoolies week in and week out but I didn’t get a bite on the weekend. Everyone around me was catching fish yet I, ‘Iget-’em-all-the-time-Dave’, got zippo.

I arrived at the hole just before first light Saturday morning and for the first time ever someone had beaten me there.

As I pedalled madly away, I could slowly make out another craft in among the oyster leases. It turned out to be a fellow yak fisho who I run into most weeks; his name is Guy. Together we fished the hole and surrounding areas. Guy got nailed just near the white post. I gave him a hand netting the fish which was a 90 cm plus lizard. After a quick photo he let it go. I said good bye to Guy and headed into the canals but on my way back I could see him waving and yelling at me from a distant shore line. I thought maybe he was in trouble, lost his paddle or

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff 0406 724 323 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham 0437 041 023 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 3rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Ballina (02) 6687 4328 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 3rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 5921 4th Sat Kingscliff 0406 724 323 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 5th Sun 5th Sun

Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

WEEKLY FARMERS MARKETS Each Tue New Brighton (02)6684 5390 Each Wed 7-11am Mur’bah (02) 6684 7834 Each Thu 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137 Each Sat 8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137 8am-1pm Uki (02) 6679 5438 Each Sat

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something, but no, he’d just caught another monster lizard, 92cm to the tail. That’s a good morning’s fishing there Guy. Well done, mate.

Now it gets even better though not for me. My brother Tony, pictured, called me Saturday night to see if I wanted to go jack fishing under Boyds

Bay Bridge. Enzo (Tony) jack fishing? He’s never caught one.

‘Amateur’, I thought. ‘No mate I’m busy’. Anyway, I get the call.

‘Come over and check out my 59cm mangrove jack!’ ‘Oh no!’ says I. ‘My brother’s first jack and a monster at that – anyone can catch jack on bait. I reckon I want one that size on a lure’.

I had to say that because he’s continually paying me out about the midget (as he calls them) jewfish I’ve been catching.

Speaking of this species, Pete Kyvetos caught his first schoolie on a plastic and I had the pleasure of watching him land it! Another instant addict.

When those bigger fish hook up everything changes. Pete handled himself well under the pressure and had a sore face for about a week from smiling so much.

Merry Christmas everyone and stay safe over the holidays, cheers – DS.

From everyone here at the sports department of The Echo, we would like to wish you a merry and safe festive season and a happy and healthy 2012.

See you all on January 5!

Daily surf reports with Rusty Miller!

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NETDAILY DEC 2011-JAN 2012 Astronomical data and tides

High tide, height (m) 0545,1.67; 1814,1.34 0642,1.78; 1917,1.35 0737,1.88; 2015,1.37 0830,1.94; 2110,1.38 0920,1.97; 2200,1.39 1008,1.94; 2248,1.39 1054,1.88; 2334,1.37 1137,1.77 0020,1.36; 1219,1.64 0105,1.34; 1300,1.51 0151,1.34; 1342,1.38 0240,1.35; 1430,1.28 0322,1.37; 1530,1.20 0427,1.41; 1638,1.15 0522,1.46; 1746,1.15 0614,1.53; 1845,1.17 0600,1.60; 1934,1.21 0743,1.67; 2017,1.25 0825,1.74; 2058,1.29 0903,1.80; 2137,1.33 0943,1.83; 2217,1.37 1024,1.84; 2300,1.41 1105,1.82; 2344,1.44 1149,1.75 0030,1.46; 1235,1.65 0121,1.49; 1326,1.53 0216,1.51; 1424,1.40 0316,1.54; 1533,1.29 0421,1.59; 1652,1.23 0528,1.66; 1808,1.24 0630,1.74; 1914,1.28

Low tide, height (m) 1220,0.42 0005,0.39; 1325,0.31 0100,0.38; 1422,0.22 0153,0.37; 1515,0.17 0245,0.36; 1603,0.15 0335,0.38; 1649,0.17 0425,0.41; 1733,0.22 0513,0.46; 1815,0.29 0600,0.52; 1855,0.37 0648,0.59; 1934,0.44 0739.0.66; 2014,0.49 0836,0.71; 2057,0.55 0944,0.73; 2146,0.58 1057,0.71; 2240,0.59 1205,0.65; 2333,0.59 1301,0.57 0022,0.59; 1347,0.49 0108,0.54; 1429,0.42 0150,0.50; 1506,0.35 0231,0.46; 1543,0.30 0313,0.43; 1620,0.26 0356,0.41; 1659,0.23 0442,0.40; 1738,0.23 0530,0.42; 1818,0.26 0622,0.45; 1901,0.30 0719,0.49; 1948,0.36 0825,0.53; 2040,0.42 0940,0.55; 2140,0.47 1100,0.52; 2245,0.49 1216,0.44; 2349,0.48 1321,0.35

Times Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Highway Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

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6686 5586

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Flatten boxes Squash containers Don’t put recyclables in plastic bags

Don’t break glass Rinse and clean all bottles and cans

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Would you like to become a carer and work from home? Free training & financial support is provided, to enable you to provide accredited high quality care in a home environment. You will be supported by the largest scheme in NSW. Flexible hours. Childcare benefit available. Phone Northern Rivers Family Day Care for more info on 07 5536 1865.

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Full-time Breakfast Chef and Chef de Partie are required for our busy kitchen at The Byron at Byron Resort with immediate start.

Full qualifications and previous experience with breakfast buffet and in a high volume kitchen is desirable. Availability to work 3840 hpw including early mornings, weekends and public holidays is a must.

The Resort offers a professional environment, award-based pay, a modern, clean & well equipped kitchen, access to the best regional produce and career opportunities. Visit Careers tab on our website www.thebyronatbyron.com.au for further information. Apply with CV & cover letter to Human Resources careers@thebyronatbyron.com.au.

Wommin Bay Auxiliary Major Xmas raffle raised nearly $1,000. First prize (a huge hamper) was won by Sylvia Coombe, second (knitted teddy bear) Dot Holdom and third prize (wok set) Alex Campbell. For info call Kay 02 6674 1259.

Hospital auxiliary Over the Christmas holiday period the hospital gift shop will be open normal hours except for Saturday Dec 24 and Boxing Day when the shop will shut at 1pm. A reminder to members that we are not having our regular monthly meeting in January, next meeting Monday, February 6.

Garden club Murwillumbah and District Garden Club next meeting Monday, January 23, at the Jesse McMillan Hall,

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New members welcome. AGM on Monday, February 27.

Library friends Friends of the Tweed Library raffle was drawn on Wednesday Dec 14, won by Joy Waight. Monthly meetings resume January 25. We meet at the Tweed Heads Library at 10.30am, new members welcome, for info call Beverly on 07 5590 7435.

Red Cross Tweed Heads Red Cross gift wrapping is being carried out at Tweed City shopping centre every day until Christmas, donation a gold coin.

ZONTA ZONTA Club of Southern Gold Coast/Tweed meets 3rd Monday of each month in Secret Garden Room, South Tweed Sports Club, 4 Minjungbal Drive, South Tweed. For info on community and interna-

ZAHLI is an 11 month old, desexed female, short haired dark tabby. She is very friendly and playful – she loves to roll around hoping someone will give her a pat!

Zahli is suitable for a young family and will make a very loving pet. The price ($120) includes vaccination and microchip. If you can give Zahli a permanent, loving home please contact Sonia at the FoP Rehoming Centre on 07 5524 8590.

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tional projects call Marie-Elise 0412 632 304 or Carolyn 0416 637 771.

U3A U3A Twin Towns in recess from tomorrow and returns January 16.

Anyone wishing to join can call 07 5534 7333.

Banora Pt community Banora Point Community Centre senior program has various groups available on Tuesday afternoons and all day Fridays. If you are interested in card playing, Stretch your Mind, Tai Chi, Mah Jong, Scrapbooking, Art, Scrabble, Gentle exercise with weights call Lyn on 0755 232030. The centre is on the corner of Leisure and Woodland Drives, Banora Point.

Book club Tweed Heads Friends of the Library meet every fourth Wednesday of the month in the library at 10.30am.

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Have your say on strata and community title laws The NSW minister for fair trading Anthony Roberts has announced a three-month online consultation project on strata and community title scheme issues to be hosted by public policy thinktank Global Access Partners (GAP).

Mr Roberts said the NSW government welcomed the GAP initiative, which will provide a valuable source of information for the government’s planned review of strata and community title laws in 2012.

‘2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the world’s first strata title law, which commenced right here in NSW on 1 July 1961,’ Minister Roberts said. ‘In 1989, NSW was again a world leader when it introduced laws enabling the development of community schemes, which allow for multiple dwellings on one piece of land.’

Minister Roberts said original strata and community title laws had been copied and improved

around Australia and the world.

‘Regrettably, NSW laws have not kept pace with the issues facing strata and community scheme residents,’ he said.

‘The laws are outdated and no longer effectively support owners in the day to day management of their scheme or address the issues associated with ageing buildings, changing demographics and accountability for annual budgets that can amount to millions of dollars.

‘Since the first strata scheme was registered, strata has developed into the fastest growing form of residential property ownership.

‘More than two million people now live in over 70,000 strata and 1500 community schemes in NSW. Within 20 years, half the state’s population is expected to be living in strata and community schemes.’

Mr Roberts said the current laws were designed primarily

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‘Strata and community schemes now include city high rises, townhouses, dual occupancies, offices, retirement villages and mixed-use, recreational and Tourism-focused developments,’ he said.

‘There is a general view in the community and it is one accepted by the government that the laws need to be reformed to more effectively meet the diverse needs of today’s owners and residents.

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give all strata and community scheme stakeholders an opportunity to share their experiences, raise specific issues or concerns and suggest possible solutions in advance of the formal review of the legislation next year.’

The online consultation period will run until 29 February 2012.

Comments can be made directly online on the GAP open forum website at www.openforum.com.au or by following the link from the NSW Fair Trading website at www.fairtrading.nsw. gov.au.

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burringbar.home@gmail.com | www.beautifulproperty.net If you enjoy reading and sharing ideas with others please come along and join in. Books are provided and lent out by the library.

For info call Beverly 07 5590 7435 or Rosalind 07 5524 3342.

edy, then come and join Men Wot Sing a’cappella singers. We perform at various functions, weddings, corporate gigs, festivals, and charities.

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ers needed, sessions every Thursday 9.30am to 11.30am at Pottsville Community Hall, Coast Road, Pottsville.

For info call Ruth 02 6676 0411.

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Friends of Tweed Heads Library need storage space for books accumulated by donations for our annual book sale. An unneeded lockable, easily assessable dry garage would be ideal. All profits from our book sale are spent on improving library facilities. Friends of Library meet 4th Wed. of the month at 10.30am at library to discuss recently reads books. New members welcome. If you can help call Rosalind on 07 5524 3342.

People interested in trying to establish a Toastmasters Club based near the NSW/Qld border, as well as being members of the start-up committee working towards a Toastmasters convention to be held at Twin Towns in May 2013, are urged to visit www.high-tevents. zoomshare.com

Low cost groceries. Finding it tough going? come and see us at Elevation Care 56 Caloola Drive, Tweed Heads, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10am to 2pm. Huge variety and quality food. Bring your bags. For info call 07 5507 6999.

Horse skills volunteers Volunteers with horse skills or willing to learn to lead and exercise horses are needed at Riding for the Disabled, Tweed Valley Centre, Murwillumbah. Riding sessions are held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings during school terms. Lots of jobs for willing workers. Make lots of friends and have fun in a caring atmosphere. For info call Sylvia 0419 437 217.

Men’s a’cappella Are you of the male variety, can sing and possess a sense of com-

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Computers for seniors Computer Association Tweed Seniors meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 10.30am in the Seagulls Club. Get computer advice and learn computer skills at your own pace in a friendly social environment. All welcome. For info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939 bh.

Lifeball Lifeball is an exercise sport similar to netball but played at walking pace by senior men and women.

At Chinderah: sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at Tweed Supersports Centre, Chinderah, for info call Jill 02 6674 0636 or George 02 6624 4558.

At Pottsville: men and women play-

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Justices of the Peace Tweed Justices of the Peace returning on January 19 at Tweed City and Centro on December 13, returning on January 17. For info call Donna on 0414 894368.

Also, JP witnessing at Red Monkey Cafe, Kingscliff, Tuesday and Thursday 9am-midday, call Norman on 0412 473 575.

End of life choices For information about end of life choices workshops and meetings that will be held during the rest of the year, call Elaine on 0421 796 713.

Nashos Tweed Valley Murwillumbah branch meets the third Tuesday of every month except January at our new location Murwillumbah Sporties (bowling club), cnr Brisbane and Condong Streets, Murwil-

lumbah at 10am.We have guest speakers, activities and welcome new members. For info call Peter on 0458 060765.

The Gold Coast South-Twin Towns branch next general meeting Sunday, January 15, at 11am (DST) 10am (Qld) in the new Anzac Room, Twin Towns Services Club. For info call John on 07 5535 2484.

Museum Tweed River Regional Museum (Tweed Heads) closed till Tuesday, January 13.

Breast cancer The 2012 YWCA Encore Program, an innovative and inspiring approach to recovery from breast cancer surgery, starts in Murwillumbah in February and runs for eight weeks until March 28, each Wednesday from 12.30pm-2.30pm. To register call 02 9285 6264 or 1800 305 150.

Participation is free.

Dragons Abreast Mt Warning Dragons Abreast aims to improve the quality of life of its members, who are breast cancer survivors and their supporters.

Dragon Boat paddling with the club provides a sense of purpose and support for breast cancer survivors.

They paddle on the Tweed River, Condong. For info call Robyn on 0427 368 819.

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone

EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE............... 000 AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah .... 131 233 MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL ............................02 6672 1822 EMERGENCY ....................................02 6672 0230 TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ...............................07 5536 1133 FIRE BRIGADE Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 1271 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 8305 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 2222 Tweed Rural Fire Service.......................02 6672 7888 POLICE NON-EMERGENCIES 24/7 ............................ 131 444 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 0999 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 9499 Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 9399 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ................................ 132 500 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5524 1349 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6676 7355 LIFELINE .......................................................... 131 114 GOLD COAST HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE .....07 5598 0222 TWEED COAST AIR SEA RESCUE......................07 5536 9333 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line .............1800 656 463 ANIMAL WELFARE (RSPCA) .............................07 5536 5135 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES) .02 6628 1898 WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ...................02 6672 4789 CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY ...............................07 5534 1266 SEA WORLD ................................................07 5588 2222

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Backburner In a story last week, it was incorrectly stated that both Lacey brothers are serving lengthy jail sentences for manslaughter, torture and kidnapping, whereas in fact only one was convicted for manslaughter.

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Just as council votes to widen the Clarrie Hall Dam spillway, we hear councillors and staff are not happy that a recent YouTube clip shows people surfing the spillway on a blowup dinghy and boogie boards.

They will now make the extreme activity harder to pursue by restricting access with some tough mesh fencing. Mayor Barry Longland says it’s trespassing and warns people do it at their own peril.

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In a rare policy reversal, the Tweed Echo has decided to allow its hacks to see family over Christmas, so we will be taking a week off after this issue and return on Thursday, January 5.

Our email machines don’t take a break though, so copy and ads can still be sent to the usual addresses on page 6.

Murwillumbah High School HSC students Jasmine Russ and Jack Dignan are all smiles after their outstanding scores in this year’s HSC. Photo supplied

Jack Dignan did himself proud in this year’s Higher School Certificate (HSC) examinations, scoring better than every private and public HSC student on the Far North Coast with an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) score of 99.45 ■ ■ ■ ■ per cent.

A report this week on the imJack excelled across the pact on businesses of the world board scoring in the highest rally event held in Coffs Harbour in September appears to was that the event should nevback the strident opposition er have received support from against it being held on the the state government and local north coast, according to the councils as it was ‘more trouble Northern Rivers Guardians than it is worth’.

■ ■ ■ ■ (NRG). Spokesman Michael McNamara said the Southern The Jack Evans Boat Harbour Cross University study reflect- parkland was officially opened ed ‘very closely the messages months ago, but it’s not finwe got after the 2009 event in ished yet. Both children and the Tweed when we conducted adults will be pleased to see a similar survey’. Mr McNama- extra facilities being built there ra said it was ‘good for some, this week. Council workers bad for others and had negli- have been busy pouring congible impact for most’. The re- crete pathways and erecting view, he said, highlighted a net covered barbecue areas ready economic impact of $84,000 for the festive season and will for the 2011 event, which was be building a children’s play‘hardly the economic boom ground and installing extra times promised by rally organ- picnic tables for use in the new isers’ while ‘one business even year. A nice prezzie for locals reported a $25,000 loss over and visitors alike.

■ ■ ■ ■ the weekend’. NRG says the basic message from the study Cr Kevin Skinner, who has

band for every subject including 98 per cent for both his Maths and Extension 1 English HSC subjects.

A Murwillumbah High School spokeswoman said it was no surprise that the exemplary all-round student, a ‘quiet achiever’, received early entry into Bio-Medical Science at Griffith University and looks

forward to a bright academic future.

Other MHS students who scored over 90 per cent include Jasmine Russ (Drama and Music), Chris Daly (Maths), Bernie Van Tiel (Drama), Ally Burnham (Drama and Music), Jarod Lesleighter (Industrial Technology) and Mitchell Hall (Industrial Technology).

recently been busy organising mini-protest rallies and sausage sizzles to save Kingscliff ’s Marine Parade from a police invasion, on Monday proudly told colleagues at council that $80 had been raised to fund a Land and Environment Court challenge against the project.

But the wad of cash didn’t impress some, with Cr Dot Holdom overheard saying ‘That will get you a long way’. At current rates, probably about 10 minutes of a barrister’s day.

Maybe the green fields of Cudgen remind Warren of an embryonic future mega-suburb.

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While unsuccessfully seeking to sway fellow councillors into backing the Cudgen site as council’s preference for a police command centre, Cr Warren Polglase went down memory lane to when the urban sprawl of Robina was in its infancy.

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Christmas came early for Tweed councillors this year.

After their debate on the Kingscliff cop shop this week, a special Christmas DVD was played. Apparently council staff have all been good boys and girls and got a special visit.

Truth be known the DVD went on a little too long, featuring Santa armed with an outdoor vacuum cleaner, posing next to wheelie bins and taking a tour of the offices. Highlights included a shot for GM Mike Rayner with his feet perched on his desk and Santa diving fully clothed (thankfully) into the Murwillumbah swimming pool.

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