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Tenterfield Aerodrome funding boosts firefighting effort LISMORE MP Janelle Saffin says $50,000 allocated by the NSW Government towards a large capacity water tank at Tenterfield Aerodrome is already paying dividends, with water bombers using the tank water to fight bushfires in the area.

The funding is being delivered as part of the NSW Government’s $37.2 million Local Small Commitments Allocation Program.

“I am very pleased to be able to come through on my election commitment for this vital investment, which has

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FUNDS FLOW FOR KYOGLE FOOTBALL CLUB DRAINAGE UPGRADE

MP Janelle Saffin has welcomed news that Kyogle Football Club is set to receive $20,000 towards improved oval drainage as part of the NSW Government’s $37.2 million Local Small Commitments Allocation Program.

“This was one of my key election commitments to the Kyogle community and it is great that the funding has now been secured,” Ms Saffin said.

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“The Club’s grounds are in one of the lowest parts of Kyogle and the upgraded drainage will enable the grounds to be back in action more quickly after heavy rain or flooding in the adjacent Richmond River.”

Kyogle Football Club Treasurer and Registrar Glenn Rose said the Club was very appreciative of the new funding.

“The soccer field and athletics oval are always the first to go

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under in a flood and the last to resurface, so this funding will allow us to improve our usage during wet periods and flooding events,” he said.

“This will benefit all soccer clubs and all schools in our region.”

For further information on the Local Small Commitments Allocation Program visit https://www.nsw. gov.au/grants-andfunding/lsca-home

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providing water to the fixed wing aircraft tackling the ongoing fire emergency in the Tenterfield area, which is of enormous benefit to our firies on the ground and threatened communities.”

As well as facilitating the installation of the firefighting water tank, the funding is also being used to cover the cost of a pump, pipework and pump shed.

Friends of Tenterfield Aerodrome Association President Rob Evans said memories of the devasting 2019/20 bushfires were still fresh

in locals’ minds.

“This funding allocation has made the aerodrome disaster ready, and the current emergency is showing the value of this asset to the community,” he said.

“It has enabled fixed-wing aircraft to do a rapid turnaround on the firegrounds, which are very close to Tenterfield.”

For further information on the Local Small Commitments Allocation Program visit https:// www.nsw.gov.au/grantsand-funding/lsca-home

NORTHERN RIVERS TENDERS LISTED ON LIVE NORTHERN RIVERS. RDA Northern Rivers and NSW Reconstruction Authority have collaborated to list Northern Rivers tenders in one easy-to-find location. In response to business’ calls for an easier way to find tender opportunities across our seven local government areas, this feature will be accessed on the Live Northern Rivers website via https:// livenorthernrivers.com. au/tenders Live Northern Rivers is a liveability platform that was recently launched by RDA Northern Rivers with the aim of attracting a workforce from within and beyond the Northern Rivers. Businesses work hard to build and maintain a reliable team of employees in our region. Live Northern Rivers aims to support employers with information for relocators from outside

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the region, past residents considering returning to the region and residents interested in locating to other parts of the Northern Rivers.

This portal provides a feed of all the opportunities, that are open for tender, with the local councils and the NSW government tender portal. The information is sourced from official tender portals and links back to the relevant procurement platforms for tender submissions.

Nathan McGrath, RDA Northern Rivers Director of Regional Development said, “We want to make it easy for businesses to see at a glance, the projects that are open for tender across the Northern Rivers. With seven local council websites to track, the Live Northern Rivers platform is an opportunity to show these tenders together on one page.”

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The portal will aggregate the tenders that have a status of open, closed and awarded in the Northern Rivers local government areas of Richmond Valley, Clarence Valley, Lismore City, Kyogle, Ballina Shire, Byron Shire, and the Tweed Shire. NSW Government tenders relating to projects in the region will also be visible in the Live Northern Rivers tender portal.

Businesses that are interested in submitting tenders must still register with the relevant procurement platforms where detailed tender documents and applications must be made. Future enhancements to this tender portal page will include the ability to set up alerts, weekly notifications and shortlisting of tenders of interest.

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NEWS 3

Northern Rivers Rail Trail set to be the region’s top visitor attraction

By Sarah Waters More than 100,000 people have visited the Northern Rivers Rail Trail (NRRT) since it opened in March this year.

The 24km Tweed section, from Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek, is the first stage of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail project, which will eventually connect Murwillumbah and Casino.

On average, the trail is attracting 12,734 people per month or 415 people daily.

The busiest day is Sunday (with weekends the busiest overall) and Monday and Tuesday the quieter of the week.

Most people are out on the trail between 9am – 11am.

Mayor of Tweed Shire

The Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail has already attracted 108,829 users in its first seven months.

Chirs Cherry said the rail trail’s success could be attributed to the unique nature and outdoor recreation opportunities it provides, especially as a free, safe and familyfriendly experience.

“The rail trail provides an opportunity to reconnect with nature, breathe in fresh air and soak in the breathtaking

beauty of the Tweed’s landscapes and the charming village life at our seven rest stops,” Ms Cherry said.

“The popularity of this attraction reflects well for our destination as we showcase the strengths of nature and outdoor recreation that is accessible for all.”

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The Rail Trail provides unique nature and outdoor recreation opportunities, especially as a free, safe and family-friendly experience

neighbouring councils Byron Shire Council and Richmond Valley - are either considering or committed to connecting to the rail trail.

Ms Cherry said once the overall project is complete, it will enhance and connect communities, making the Northern Rivers Rail

Trail a regional asset for locals and visitors.

“This landmark success further highlights the benefits of this project in terms of community wellbeing, tourism and the economy.

“We are really proud of what we have achieved so far with more rail trail activations on the way as

we prepare for summer and peak periods,” she said.

The Richmond Valley section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail has made good progress and remains on schedule for a soft opening this December.

Byron Shire Council has resolved to move forward with planning and approvals for the rail trail expansion extending from Mullumbimby to Crabbes Creek, which will encompass the old Byron Bay station through Bangalow to Booyong.

Byron Shire Council is also exploring funding opportunities to revitalise the Byron Shire rail corridor.

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Small school comes out on top at the 2023 Tweed Sustainability Awards

By Sarah Waters A small school nestled in the Tweed which uses its surrounding natural environment as a learning tool has been recognised at a regional awards ceremony.

Stokers Siding Public School recently won the award for Sustainability in Education at the 2023 Tweed Sustainability Awards.

Judges acknowledged the extensive opportunities for the school’s 40 students to learn about the environment.

Through the school’s Nature Explorers program students have designed, installed and maintained fences to keep native wildlife safe from introduced pests.

They have also conducted water bug surveys, created frog hotels from recycled materials and made bee hotels to help repopulate the local native bee population.

Last term, the school connected with local Indigenous community members to build a native seed bank for future generations and also created a yarning circle.

Principal Justine Griffin said she was thrilled about the win and praised the staff and students for their commitment and enthusiasm when it comes to environmental education.

“Rod Hollis teaches our Nature Explorers program, and he has

Stokers Siding Public School was recognised for its sustainability achievements in education at the 2023 Tweed Sustainability Awards.

done a wonderful job with environmental education,” Ms Griffin said.

“When possums were eating the vegetables in our vegetable garden, the children decided to design and build a fence around it.

“We bought some materials, the students had to work out the design and measurements of the fence - it was a great learning opportunity.

“The classroom isn’t just inside, it’s all around us, and the students spend a lot of time outside learning.

“Learning in that context really encourages them to think outside the box and solve a variety

of problems in different ways,” she said.

The students often lead the way and use their own initiative when it comes to finding sustainable solutions for environmental challenges.

Recently, students setup a recycling system to help combat waste from the school’s breakfast program, to prevent drink cartons ending up in the landfill.

They have also been taught how to set up and maintain an efficient compost system following a visit from the Compost Queen.

The hands-on, outdoor learning style the school embraces, has encouraged other schools

in the region to adopt the same practices and programs.

It hasn’t just been a matter of stepping outside the classroom in an idyllic setting to learn, however.

Stokers Siding Public School has had to overcome many challenges since last year’s floods destroyed its two classrooms, including the resources and equipment that were in them.

Up until the start of the year, staff and students had no option but to use the school’s administration building as their ‘indoor’ classroom.

The school has still been in recovery mode and has only just received funding to replace its reading books that were among them many items ruined in the flood.

Ms Griffin said fortunately the small school was like a big family.

“The beauty of the school is that all the children play together, you just don’t find one alone, they all get on with each other so well.

“I try and meet the families when they arrive every morning, that’s something that is really important to build that trust and those relationships,” she said.

Stokers Siding Public School continues to grow and has become a leader in environmental education within the Tweed Shire..

SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR TWEED’S TREES: SHARE YOUR BEST SHOTS! Calling all tree enthusiasts in Tweed!

We invite residents to capture the beauty of their cherished trees or picturesque streetscapes as part of Council’s Cool Towns Urban Forest Program, a heartfelt ode to our leafy companions.

The primary objective of the Cool Towns Urban Forest Program is to enhance the green canopy of Tweed by planting more trees.

These trees not only offer shade but also help in cooling the surroundings where heat is typically absorbed and radiated by concrete, asphalt, and buildings.

As part of this wonderful initiative, Tweed residents are encouraged to capture the essence of their favorite tree in an urban setting within Tweed Shire. Share your photo on Council’s community engagement platform, Your Say Tweed, by Sunday, November 26. Every entry stands a chance to win an exciting prize package that includes vouchers for native trees, premium compost, and a set of gardening supplies (with two lucky winners to be chosen).

Once the submission window closes, the community will be invited to cast their votes for the most beloved tree and streetscape from the captivating selection of photos.

Tweed Shire’s Mayor, Chris Cherry, emphasizes the importance of this endeavour, saying, “Greening the Shire is one way Council is working to make a positive impact in our community.”

Research has shown that trees in urban environments yield various economic, environmental, public health, and social advantages. The Cool

Towns initiative aims to increase the quantity and quality of tree cover within the urban areas of Tweed. This includes providing natural shade for parks, playgrounds, and open spaces, as well as planting trees along streets and shared paths where tree cover is currently scarce.

“We hope the community will rally behind this initiative and collaborate with us to celebrate the beauty of Tweed’s trees while raising awareness about the vital role they play in our daily lives,” adds Mayor Cherry.

Community members are encouraged to share their deep affection for their beloved trees and streetscapes.

Share details about the location, unique features, and activities associated with these trees to provide a well-rounded perspective.

Urban trees offer a myriad of benefits to the community, the environment, and the economy. They have been proven to reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling by as much as 15%, boost property values by 5 to 30%, encourage outdoor activities like walking and cycling, and mitigate heat-related health issues.

This project reflects Council’s commitment to safeguard the Tweed’s globally significant environment for a sustainable and vibrant future.

Submit your tree and streetscape photos online by the stroke of midnight on Sunday, November 26, 2023, at yoursaytweed.com.au/ cool-towns. Voting for the most captivating tree and streetscape photos will commence on Monday, November 27.

For competition terms and conditions, please visit the website.

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NEWS 5

Long awaited breakthrough for Tyalgum community with access to flood-damaged road restored

Tyalgum’s temporary access road has finally opened saving residents a long drive.

By Sarah Waters Tyalgum residents can now save a lot of time getting to and from home following the long-awaited opening of Tyalgum Road.

A temporary access road, through the landslip site near Tyalgum Village, was opened on Monday, October 30.

Tyalgum resident Bruna Sutherland said it was an exciting development.

“It’s a huge change

The major landslide that took out a section of Tyalgum Road during the 2022 floods.

leaving residents of the hinterland village no choice but to travel the

Tyalgum resident Bruna Sutherland is pleased she no longer has to drive an alternative route via Chillingham to get back to her hinterland home.

… it’ll save me at least half an hour of time on the weekends,” Ms Sutherland said.

“It’s a better road too, it’s not that winding, so I’m very happy that it’s open again,” Ms Sutherland said.

An extreme landslide (100 meters in height) which occurred during the February-March 2022 flood took out a section of Tyalgum Road.

The severely damaged section of road was instantly closed to traffic,

longer alternative route via Chillingham.

In March this year, a local contractor was appointed to undertake the road’s major restoration.

The stabilisation and construction of the single-lane temporary access road was the first stage of fixing the flood-damaged road.

Tweed Shire Mayor Chris Cherry said it was a big relief for everyone to finally see it open again.

“The repair of the

extreme landslip just outside of Tyalgum is the biggest and most complex of all of our restoration jobs in the Tweed following last year’s devastating flood,” Ms Cherry said.

“But thankfully, we will see cars, motorbikes and bicycles travel through this important community connector road once again.

“It has been a difficult and complicated process for the project team and contractor SEE Civil to get to this point, but it has been even more difficult for residents who have been impacted by this road closure and we thank them for their patience,” she said.

Council’s Manager Infrastructure Delivery Tim Mackney said while the slip was currently stable, heavy rainfall had the potential to create movement.

In the event of detected ground movement or heavy rainfall in the coming months the new access road may have to be closed while the permanent work to fix

the slip continue.

Council will advise the community any changes or the need to temporarily close the access road should a concern arise.

The contractor remains on-site at Tyalgum Road, continuing work on the reconstruction of the permanent road which is due to open by March 2025.

ELEVATING SUPPORT FOR WOMEN IN AVIATION CAREERS The Albanese Government is inviting experienced suppliers to play a crucial role in supporting women’s careers in aviation.

Traditionally, the aviation industry has been male-dominated, and to address this, the government has launched the $8 million Women in the Aviation Industry Initiative. The initiative’s newly revealed Strategic Action Plan, guiding its efforts until 2026, outlines key focus areas: leadership and culture, visibility and awareness, and collaboration.

The government is seeking partnerships with qualified suppliers to execute projects aligned with these priorities. Leadership and culture initiatives may involve training, resources, and tools to foster cultural change, alongside mentorship and professional development. Research will be conducted to understand why women leave the aviation sector and to find ways to retain them.

Visibility and awareness projects are designed to introduce young girls and students to

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aviation careers through educational seminars, workshops, and events.

Targeted community outreach efforts will promote aviation careers to underrepresented groups, with media campaigns and guidance materials increasing awareness of aviation as a career path.

Collaboration projects include creating communities of practice, joint training programs, workshops, networking events, and online platforms for information sharing, addressing the historical underrepresentation of women in these areas.

The Department will host an information session to discuss the Approach to Market and present the Women in the Aviation Industry Initiative Strategic Action Plan. For more details, please register at womeninaviation@ infrastructure.gov. au. This collaborative effort underscores the government’s commitment to making the aviation industry more inclusive, encouraging women to enter and thrive in the field.

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Residents raging at Road Runner Village

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They have sent their concerns to the owners of the park who, they say, are not providing them with important information when it comes to changes where they live.

Resident Kevin Robson has lived at the park for the last 21 years, along with his wife and in-laws and has seen a number of changes, and not always good, according to him.

The biggest issue he and other residents have had has been the new barbed wire fence with double locked gates that was erected after the February 2022 floods.

“If there is a fire, they said they will get someone to open the gate for us,” he said.

“Before the flood there was an old fence with a turnstyle and single gate.

“The fire brigade said there needs to be a single gate for emergency exits but that’s never been done.”

In a formal complaint to the park owners, one resident wrote that they had not been notified where the keys are for use in an emergency.

The other issue, according to Kevin, is the state of the roads throughout the park. “(The) road is

Residents are not happy about the new fence installed where they live.

dangerous to walk on even with (a) wheelie walker,” wrote a different resident in another complaint.

Kevin said many of the residents are elderly and find it difficult to move around on the roads in the state they are in since the floods.

Another issue residents have raised is the inability for visitors to gain access to the park.

“Elderly people here have cleaners come in to do their homes and they are not able to enter the park,” said Kevin.

“There are also tradespeople, delivery drivers and ambulances that can’t get access.”

Kevin has outlined all these concerns made by at least 14 residents to the NSW Department of Fair Trading who received a response from the owners, Chris and Samantha Hughes, and the work they are doing to rectify many of the

issues.

Samantha Hughes responded to each of the concerns via the Department of Fair Trading, starting with the new fence.

“This is a replacement of a damaged boundary fence from the February 2022 floods, which secures the property for all the residents of the park,” she wrote.

“In an emergency a staff member will be notified and will open the gate as required.

“It is not for residents’ personal use.

“We do not need to give residents notice if we are replacing an already existing fence with a better quality fence as it was due for an upgrade.”

Ms Hughes also commented that other residents were pleased with the new fence.

In relation to the concern about emergency services not

having easy access to the park through the boom gates, Ms Hughes said they have been provided a code for access when needed.

Ms Hughes acknowledged the roads in the park were damaged in the February 2022 floods and had spent money cleaning off debris so residents could use them.

“As the park sustained most of the flooding in the front part, the roads where (the permanent residents) reside are still in good order,” she said. “(We) must prioritise which parts of the park to repair and maintain and this will take some time and a significant amount of money which will need to be budgeted over time.”

Ms Hughes said they have started filling in potholes in the roads and sought quotes ready to fix the worst of these in the near future.

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First item on the well attended Woodburn Business Chamber meeting two weeks ago, was the news that St Joseph’s Primary School would be coming back to Woodburn.

Since the February 2022 flood, the school has had temporary facilities at the Catholic Church grounds in Evans Head.

Parents and staff had fought for the location at Woodburn to be renovated, despite the Catholic diocese deciding against it, preferring to find a flood-free alternative. “(It is) a medium term solution for the next 5-10 years,” a spokesperson

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from the Chamber said.

“They still need to work out a long term solution.”

The RFS reported that there had been 120 callouts for Woodburn so far this year and the recent fire at the bombing range in Evans Head had an unknown cause.

A new spring fed fire pump for New Italy had

also been approved and was on its way.

The SES tabled the need for a new evacuation centre for Woodburn as the official place, the Woodburn Memorial Hall, is too small for 600 people and 400 animals and being next to a river, would defeat the purpose in times of flood.

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out of a flood area was also raised and a new emergency community radio is being set up that covers Broadwater, Coraki and Woodburn.

Plans for the new streetscape were discussed and disabled parking was a concern.

Final design for the streetscape should be delivered by the end of the year.

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NEWS 7

Inflatables pump up Jacaranda Thursday

By Tim Howard Jacaranda Thursday celebrations in Grafton hit their peak in the post pandemic period with crowds packing the market-stall filled CBD on Thursday.

And after a morning of fun and frivolities in Prince St and environs, the crowds flocked into Market Square to watch

local business houses compete for the the Gold and Silver cups for business shows.

Inflatable costumes hit peak usage on centre stage with three of the eight performances employing the devices.

But it was Clarence Valley Council which was able to defend its Gold Cup win in 2022 with a show stopping performance.

The staff reincarnated some stars who have left us, with Dame Edna Everage, Freddy Mercury and two versions of Tina Turner putting in surprisingly lively performances.

And they did fit or royalty with King Charles and Queen Camilla and the Sussexes, Harry and Meghan giving the show regal approval.

The council had to beat out some tough opponents in Dougherty Property and Westlawn Finance.

Dougherty Property’s Inflatable Talent Show put blow up costumes to inspired uses and told some appalling dad jokes.

Who would have thought a raffle held in space could have a constellation prize?

They also created another reincarnation of Tina Turner, who chose the more sedate role of a judge handing out scores for acts in their show.

Westlawn Finance double down on its Clarence Valley Monopoly promotion, recreating skits around the locations featured in the game.

Grafton July Carnival racing, the Jacaranda

Festival, the jail, Yamba lifesavers and many more places in the game featured prominently.

There was also fierce competition for the Silver Cup, open to smaller businesses, which this year went to disability services provider Wellways.

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Holding the Jacaranda Gold Cup for a second year in a row, the Clarence Valley Council cast celebrate their win stage on Thursday.

Wellways Grafton staff made great use of their inflatable costumes to win the Silver Cup on Jacaranda Thursday.

The Ballina Art Society

2023 Exhibition

Fierce rivals the Flameasaurus and the Jacasaurus battle it out for Jacaranda Thursday supremacy.

Each year since 1972, the members of Ballina Art Society have showcased their latest artworks for the public.

This year’s exhibition will again be held at the historic Tintenbar Hall where you can meet the local

May Reilly and Marnie Brighton about to tuck into a delicious Jacaranda ice cream from the I Scream mobile ice cream stall.

artists and enjoy refreshments and homemade treats.

Come to see over

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TINTENBAR HALL Tintenbar Road, Tintenbar FREE ENTRY Friday 17 November 1 - 5pm with the Exhibition Opening and Awards at 6 - 8 pm Saturday 18 Nov 10 - 5pm Sunday 19 Nov 10 - 4pm

160 artworks across a range of styles and mediums, created by both well-known and emerging local artists.

All artworks are for sale.

The Westlawn Finance performance was based on its Clarence Valley Monopoly game, featuring local places and events, which it released recently.

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Perhaps their “fiercest” competition came from Paper Daisies Florist, whose Jaca-Arassic Park show provided a few surprises for the cohort of young dancers in front of the stage.

The mystery began with the arrival onstage

of a massive egg from the Jacarassic period.

Scientists had found the eggs had a remarkable property, they only hatched on the Jacaranda Thursdays.

And this one did not disappoint with a three-metre jacasaurus bursting from the egg to the shrieks of fear and delight from the rapidly back-pedalling young

audience members.

They were also treated to a Jacarassic battle royal when a rare flameasaurus found its way onto the stage.

Earlier the staff and clients of NDIS service provider Liveable had kicked off the entertainment with a medley of energetic dance numbers.

Wesley Mission, the

major sponsor of the Jacaranda Festival, took attention away from the stage and back to the early days of Jacaranda, with a maypole set up nearby.

Staff danced merrily around the maypole weaving patterns with purple coloured streamers.

A partner at competition sponsor,

Findex, Glenn Thompson, was delighted to hand out the spoils to the winners.

He said the judges had been placed under plenty of pressure to award the Gold Cup. “It was very close between the last three acts, but I think the council’s last couple of items brought it home for them,” he said.

Jacaranda Festival manager Mark Blackadder was excited by the response to this year’s Jacaranda Thursday program.

“It feels like the crowd was bigger again this year and there have been no problems,” he said.

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The Wesley Mission maypole dance took the entertainment from the stage for a bit of audience participation.

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November 9, 2023

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Enjoy a taste of country at sunset this summer

By Samantha Elley Those in the know have probably already experienced the delights of Frida’s Field, a 120 acre regenerative farm and restaurant located in the tiny village of Nashua, just 10 minutes from Bangalow in the Byron Bay hinterland.

The three set menu lunch service has bolstered the establishment’s reputation for distinctive country cuisine, providing seasonal and local produce.

Frida’s Field is now offering a Summer Sundowners sitting starting this Saturday, November 11 from 4pm.

Come and enjoy the al fresco setting on the venue’s expansive lawns where you will enjoy casual snacks and drinks while you take in the colourful sunsets over the green pastures, framed by the orchardlined hills and the newly-planted 500 tree rainforest regenerations project.

With a selection of Ploughman’s Plates with house-made terrines, pickles, chutneys, locally-made cheese and

vegetable crudites, plus a selection of tartines (open-faced sourdough sandwiches), you will not go hungry.

There is also the grilled beef with café de Paris butter, fish rillette with farm pickles or grilled zucchini and ricotta.

orientation to see the sun setting and capture that incredible golden hour light which makes all the trees and fields sparkle.

“Our long lunches will always be our signature experience where Chef Ally’s talent absolutely shines, but we can’t wait

As the golden hour approaches, raise your glass with a range of cocktails made from local spirits and house-made syrups, using Frida’s grown ingredients of lemon myrtle, elderflower and fresh herbs.

Local beers and wines are also on offer.

“Those few hours around sunset are just the most magical time of day at Frida’s Field,” said co-founder Jeanie Wylie.

“The venue faces northwest, which is the perfect

to welcome people onto the terrace to enjoy a casual sundowner.”

Walk ins are welcome, but bookings are encouraged, so you don’t miss out on this amazing experience.

It is located at 76 Booyong Road, Nashua and bookings can be made for either the long lunches or Summer Sundowners at restaurant@fridasfield. com Find out more at www.fridasfield.com or Instagram @fridas.field

Diary of a Flood Survivor

We’ve just come back from a weekend away on the Gold Coast at a small family reunion.

We stayed at Broadbeach split between two apartments at one of the many high rises that clutter that strip of beach front.

I have to say, if you love shopping and gambling, then it was very convenient to Pacific Fair and the Star Casino, so once we’d parked our cars, we had no need to use them until we were going home.

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Ok, our town tends to flood, quite dramatically as last year attests, but it feeds the soul when all is well.

The Gold Coast was fun, but it gave me an appreciation of our half-finished house and the surroundings where we live.

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Inflation and Government Policy: A Growing Concern In recent times, inflation, a persistent economic concern, has assumed a new dimension. Many now view it not merely as a result of market forces but as a government-induced issue.

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One noteworthy contributor to this phenomenon is the government’s regular hike in petrol prices every 90 days, causing a ripple effect across the economy, inflating prices across the board.

The clarion call is evident it’s high time for state, local, and federal governments to re-evaluate and scale back these escalating charges.

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Retail spending has reached an all-time low, indicating that the strategy has indeed achieved its intended purpose. Voters have prudently tightened their financial belts, restraining their expenditures, and it’s now incumbent upon governments to follow suit by discontinuing

the unrelenting 7.5% tax increases.

A pivotal moment on the horizon is Melbourne Cup Day, prompting speculation about potential actions by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). This occasion offers a unique opportunity for the RBA to address the issue of government-induced inflation and capture widespread attention. It’s a chance to chart a new course, one aimed at alleviating the financial burdens faced by everyday Australians.

The first step in this direction could involve alleviating cash flow difficulties, offering much-needed relief to businesses and individuals grappling with escalating costs. By addressing these concerns collaboratively, the government and financial institutions can tackle the root causes of inflation and usher in much-needed economic stability. The time has come to transition towards fiscal responsibility and create a more consumerfriendly economic landscape.

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November 9, 2023

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2023 NSW What’s On 4 Kids Awards Best Parent and Child Activity, Best Sensory Experience, Best Kids Party Entertainer, and Best Kids Live Show.

Winners were announced at a gala dinner at Rydges World Square in Sydney on Saturday, 28th October

Lismore mobile business Fitness Kidz has won an incredible six awards in the inaugural 2023 NSW What’s On 4 Kids Awards - Recognising Excellence in Australian Kids Activity (or Party) Industry: •

State’s Best Preschooler Activity/ Class 3-5 years (People’s Choice) • State’s Best Primary School Activity/ Class 5-12 years (People’s Choice) • State’s Best Kids Party Entertainer (People’s Choice) • State’s Best School Holiday Activity (People’s Choice) • State’s Best Kids Party/ Live Entertainer Industry Leader of the Year ( People’s Choice & Judged Winner) Australia’s only industry event for the kids’ activity, family entertainment, and party businesses; the What’s On 4 Kids Awards.

The demand for

children’s activities continues to grow steadily, making the children’s activity and party industry one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy.

Amy Sales, Owner of What’s On 4 Kids comments “We are so privileged to have the opportunity to celebrate some amazing children’s activity and party providers at a state level for the first time ever.

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the industry recognition, increases team morale and workplace culture, and leads to building a strong community” Fitness Kidz owner Brad Hicks comments: “I’m incredibly grateful that Fitness Kidz has walked away with 6 awards! The Lismore & Northern Rivers community is very supportive of our services, and we thank everyone for voting for us!

To be awarded as the ‘state’s best’ for all of our services is really special!

Fitness Kidz is proud to be based on the Northern Rivers & we look forward to future growth & expansions & supporting the local economy!

Most importantly, the kids are the real winners as our services are only becoming better & stronger!”

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RECORD NUMBER OF NEW NURSES IN 2023, TAFE NSW GIVES YOUNG PEOPLE A CAREER HEAD-START

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AFE NSW is meeting the demand of the

healthcare workforce by providing a pipeline of skilled workers, including some bright young students looking to carve out a lifelong career in healthcare.

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at TAFE NSW to my

nursing workforce.

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NNSWLHD values our

rewarding, and I was

partnership with TAFE

able to help clients

NSW in providing

living with dementia.

education and training

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for nurses at certificate

about patience and

and diploma level.”

understanding, and how

Ms Duffy said 2023

to talk to and reassure

has seen a record

clients.”

number of new nurses

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and midwives enter the

NSW environment has

building as the third most

NNSWLHD.

prepared him to excel the

common non-school

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workforce.

qualification in Australia.

record 178 new

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nurses and midwives

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a simulated clinical

to grow by close to 14%

increase on the 163 new

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over the next three years.

graduates employed in

real hospital beds and

Katharine Duffy,

2022, and NNSWLHD

facilities that we use to

Director of Nursing and

expects to take on even

role play. My training

Midwifery, Northern

more graduate nurses in

has helped me become

NSW Local Health

2024,” she said.

more mindful of how

District (NNSWLHD),

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to deliver help and

said qualified nurses

when many young

assistance for my clients

play an integral role in

Australians are

in the workplace.

providing high-quality,

considering career

Ms Duffy said students

compassionate, and

pathways, 17 year-old

person-centred care to

TAFE NSW Lismore

all patients across the

student, John Ray, is

region.

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pack. The year 11

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like John are an essential

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field.”

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we were interested in.

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of knowledge and

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field, and my high school

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nurses and to supporting

capabilities, and Enrolled

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them as they transition

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and secure jobs in this

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into their roles,” she said.

future workforce.

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FULLY FUND THE FLOOD RECOVERY

State and federal Labor governments have found $11.1 billion dollars to subsidise the fossil fuel industry over the last financial year.

And yet, thousands of flood survivors are still waiting for the promised $0.7 billion for the Resilient Homes Program to pay for buybacks, retrofits and house-raises for flood-affected homes.

If we can afford to waste billions of dollars on coal and gas, we can afford to fully fund the flood recovery.

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November 9, 2023

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LETTERS & OPINIONS - OPEN LETTER TO RICHMOND VALLEY COUNCIL MAYOR AND COUNCILLORS

The world’s most shop-lifted book Title: The Bible Author: Many Price: Varies Publisher: God

By Samantha Elley You’ve more than likely heard of it, maybe even picked it up and flicked through it with mild curiosity, but have you ever actually delved into the most read book in the world – The Bible.

With its two sections, the Old and New Testament, and 66 core books, it contains all genres of literature.

There is history, poetry, wisdom, romance, self-help, teaching stories, drama, war, and some would even say, science fiction and fantasy.

Be warned, dealing with humans is always going to be messy, so there is of course, intrigue, polygamy, murder, incest, and all manner of depravity.

But on the flipside, there is hope, renewal, compassion, mercy and, of course, love written within its pages.

There is something for everyone and with the more modern versions and children’s picture versions, all levels are catered for.

While it is the best selling book of all time, it is also one of the most shoplifted. Thieves might need to take a little peek at Exodus 20:15.

It was the first book to be printed with moveable type by Johann Gutenberg, producing the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 in Germany.

Apparently, even the Bible is prone to mistakes, with the Sinner’s Bible, published in 1631, when the 7th commandment was mistakenly printed as “Thou shalt commit adultery”.

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To the Mayor and Councillors, We would like to express our concern at the recent action of the Richmond Valley Council (RVC) to advertise the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange (NRLX) for tender for a long-term Lease.

Again, we believe you are acting in haste without offering the community insight into a well-constructed business model, which clearly demonstrates to ratepayers and stakeholders the costs and benefits to the community.

Our primary desire for the NRLX is to see it shine as a local icon, built by the Northern Rivers community, for the community and supported by State and Federal Government Community development grants.

The character of Casino and outlying townships are strongly linked to the Beef Industry and the connections locals feel for it via personal, employment and cultural connections.

Your recent statements

which claim the community has made it clear they do not wish the RVC to manage the NRLX is totally erroneous.

What the community wants is for the NRLX to be well-managed, including with the input of stakeholders who hold genuine expertise with regards to the selling of stock, in a positive and cooperative manner.

It is deeply disappointing that all recent motions across two Public Meetings, and numerous other contacts, have been utterly dismissed without a genuine effort on your behalf to explain the Council’s position.

Again, we ask • why is the Council refusing Mediation?

• Why is the Council refusing to create an Advisory Committee?

• Why has the Council allowed the NRLX to remain closed rather than allow a continuation of the Agent Agreement while thoughtful decisions be made?

• Why didn’t the RVC take the opportunity

to speak about alternative visions for the NRLX at either Public Meeting?

• Why are we rushing to a long-term lease—possibly to outside interests—at breakneck speed?

Will the 2023 RVC Council be remembered as the Council who sold out the heartbeat of Casino for profits? Does this Council lack faith in local community expertise to further develop the NRLX at a local level in the manner of Norco, The Casino Food Co-op and numerous lighthouse businesses across Australia.

While the grants attained by the RVC for the NRLX are to be applauded, our greatest fear is that this Community Asset, built by cattlemen over decades and supported by numerous Councils over this time, is about to be tendered to the slickest tender, who will rip profits out of the local

community, motivated by the need to meet shareholder expectations.

Surely, we do not need to spell out where the profits of such a company will be derived – increased costs to cattle producers, increased fees to all users and diminished returns to the local community.

It is untenable to imagine a multinational corporation take over of the Casino stockyards.

For this reason, we are in the process of creating a Community Cooperative to tender for the NRLX. We would prefer to do this in partnership with the Council, as this would be the best outcome for the Northern Rivers as a whole.

We request the Council review the timeline for the tender period and support a Community Cooperative tender to be developed and submitted.

Regards, Allan Berry, Kasee Estreich, Neil and Penny Schneider, Roger Bailey and Jenifer Handford.

NO ENERGY-FROM-WASTE FACILITY PROPOSED FOR RICHMOND VALLEY DESPITE widespread misinformation, there is no proposal for an energyfrom-waste facility to be built in the Richmond Valley.

Richmond Valley Council’s General Manager Vaughan Macdonald said the Regional Job Precinct at Casino had been identified in the NSW Government’s Energy from Waste Infrastructure Plan as a site where an energyfrom-waste facility may be permissible, subject to development approval in the future.

However, Mr Macdonald said Council had no intention of building such a facility and no one else had come forward with a proposal to do so.

He said Council had investigated a range of options for dealing with residual waste because the current practice of landfilling waste and/or transporting it to Queensland was unsustainable.

“Despite our successful recycling and organics programs, our community still creates more than 9000 tonnes of residual waste each year,” Mr Macdonald said.

“We transport most of this waste to Queensland landfill sites, at an annual cost of more than $2 million.”

Mr Macdonald said most councils on the North Coast were experiencing similar challenges with waste and Richmond Valley Council had worked with 12 other councils to explore alternatives.

He said as part of this process, modern energyfrom-waste facilities were investigated as a possible solution, however, Richmond Valley Council resolved at its November 2022 meeting to pause any active investigation of energy-from-waste facilities and to focus on other waste streams such as food organics and recycling.

He said although energyfrom-waste facilities had been operating overseas for more than 20 years, they were new to Australia and both the Federal and State governments were still refining the regulatory issues around them, informed by detailed assessments by the NSW Government’s Chief Scientist and Engineer.

“Energy-from-waste

facilities are too hi-tech and expensive for Council to contemplate building, so any future proposal would need to come from private enterprise,” Mr Macdonald said.

“A private investor would first have to determine if such a facility was commercially viable, find a suitable block of land, and go through a lengthy assessment and approval process with the NSW Government.

“This would include extensive consultation with the community and environmental regulators to obtain a social licence for the facility.

“If a facility was approved, it would take several years to construct and commission and would then be subject to 24-hour emissions monitoring by regulators.”

Mr Macdonald said because there were many unknowns in this scenario, Council had no commitment to supporting the building of an energy-from-waste facility and continued to consider all options for its residual waste.

He said there were a lot of opinions about current waste issues and

Richmond Valley Council was keeping an open mind about possible solutions as it worked to resolve the community’s residual waste problem.

“Council is finalising the construction of a new landfill cell at its Nammoona facility, which will provide capacity for more than 10 years of residual waste from the Richmond Valley,” he said.

“We will continue to explore other technologies and processes to manage the waste generated by our residents and businesses.”

Mr Macdonald said Council would monitor any developments elsewhere in NSW, such as the Parkes Special Activation Precinct where a procurement process was underway for an energyfrom-waste facility.

“We have been transparent on this issue throughout and will continue to provide regular updates to our community through Council reports and other communications,” he said.

“However, we need to be clear on the fact there is currently no proposal for an energy-from-waste facility in the Richmond Valley.”

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The Northern Rivers Times

NEWS 15

SLOW POLITICIANS MUST RELEASE SECRET ROAD SAFETY RATINGS Australia’s peak motoring body is calling on the Federal Government to require states and territories to release secret ratings about the safety of the nation’s roads.

More than 450,000km of Australian roads have been assessed using a globally recognised starrating system designed by the International Road Assessment Program (iRAP).

Every Australian state and territory government uses this program to measure and describe the relative safety of roads. Yet not one has yet published the results derived and the data is kept secret.

The map below, obtained from iRAP, shows the extensive network of roads that it has rated across Australia. Unfortunately, the individual ratings are unavailable to the voters who use and fund these roads; and who want to be assured that

politicians are investing in roads to save lives, rather than marginal seats.

The AAA is calling for Federal Transport Minister Catherine King to compel states and territories to publish these star-ratings, as a condition of receiving their share of the $10 billion the Commonwealth allocates on roads each year.

Mr Bradley said: “Australian road deaths are increasing, and we don’t know why.

“To improve transparency, accountability, and to prevent future crashes, this iRAP data must be in the public domain”.

Australia’s road toll increased nearly 5% in the 12 months to 30 September 2023, with pedestrian deaths up 11%

and cycling deaths up more than 30%.

Mr Bradley said: “We cannot explain these dramatic increases or be confident about proposed solutions, simply because state governments are withholding crucial data.

“The AAA’s Data Saves Lives campaign is not calling for new data, but simply asking the Commonwealth to use its $10 billion in annual

road funding to compel the states and territories to release existing data on road quality, crash causes, and key law enforcement issues.

“Transparent management and reporting of existing data is a commonsense, inexpensive approach that would save lives.

“And if this data is not available to the Australian Government

and voters, road funding decisions will continue to be made in the backrooms of government and subject to the whims of politicians and the political cycle.’’ iRAP is a respected international organisation that has rated roads in 128 countries. Its assessors examine the design of roads and assign them a safety rating based on factors such as how many lanes they have, whether the road is divided or a single carriageway, the road surface and the presence of roadside hazards.

The Data Saves Lives campaign is urging the Federal Government to include data transparency obligations in the next five-year National Partnership Agreement on Land Transport Infrastructure Projects, due to commence next July.

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November 9, 2023

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Remembrance Day 2023 The City of Lismore RSL Sub-Branch will be conducting the official Remembrance Day service and wreath laying on Saturday11th November 2023 at the Lismore Cenotaph at the Memorial Baths Molesworth Street Lismore commencing at 1030hrs.

“The 11th hour of the11th Day of the 11th Month the moment the guns fell silent on the Western Front after WW1 is a time for us to pause and remember those who served and sacrificed in all wars and conflicts.

Busy lives and competing priorities mean that sometimes that moment passes by without recognition.

City of Lismore RSL Sub Branch President Ken Arnett is

asking the community to Remember to Remember to commit to pausing for just one minute to remember those who gave their lives in service to their country, those who returned home injured or ill, and those who bravely serve our country today”.

There will also be a smaller service and wreath laying at the North Lismore Memorial commencing at 1000hrs.

Volunteers from the Sub branch and Auxiliary will be selling Poppy Day Badges at Lismore Square, Lismore Central, Goonellabah Shopping Village and Bunnings. All funds raised remain in the local area.

NNSWLHD Excellence in Allied Health Awards Winners Announced Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD) is delighted to announce the winners of its 2023 Excellence in Allied Health Awards.

The annual awards, which were held on Friday, 13 October at Invercauld House in Lismore, are an opportunity to acknowledge the expertise and contribution of Allied Health professionals from across the District and to reflect on the impact they make to improve the patient experience and health outcomes.

The winners across the five categories of Awards were:

• Allied Health Professional of the Year - Leah Everingham, Exercise Physiologist, Tuckeroo, Byron. Highly commended - Anika Howard, Dietitian, Lismore • Allied Health Leader of the Year - Emma McDonald, Physiotherapist, Richmond Network.

Highly commended Rowena Prentice, Social Worker, NNSWLHD • Allied Health Educator of the Year - Donna Napier, Sonographer/ Radiographer, Grafton • Allied Health Assistant/Technician or Support Person of the Year - Sandra McCall, Allied Health Assistant,

Andrew Davison, Leah Everingham, Kathryn Watson, Tracey Maisey

Tweed • Early Career Allied Health Professional of the Year – Emily Fahey, Occupational Therapist, Grafton On hand to officiate the awards, NSW Health Chief Allied Health Officer, Andrew Davison, praised local allied health staff for their vital contribution to patient care.

“I’ve had the opportunity to meet many passionate, skilled people who make a real difference to the lives of local patients,” Mr Davison said.

“The work Allied Health professionals continue to provide to patients is an inspiration.”

NNSWLHD Chief Executive, Tracey Maisey said allied health staff were essential members of the health workforce, providing multidisciplinary care to patients of all ages.

“Thank you to all our outstanding allied health staff for their teamwork and collaboration, not to mention their clinical expertise which is an integral aspect of our patient care,” said Mrs Maisey.

The winners of the NNSWLHD awards will be put forward for the NSW Health Excellence in Allied Health Awards which will be held in Sydney in March 2024.

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WILLIAMSON CALLS FOR ACTION ON FIRE RECOVERY SUPPORT FOR LOCAL LANDOWNERS State Member for Clarence, Richie Williamson has written to the NSW Minister for Emergency Services, Jihad Dib, calling on the NSW Government to enact as a matter of urgency natural disaster assistance measures to landholders in the Clarence Valley and Richmond Valley local government areas (LGAs) in light of the impacts of recent bushfires.

Mr Williamson said a natural disaster declaration is an important first step in offering support for local communities under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements which are jointly funded by the NSW Government

and Commonwealth Government.

“I am seeking the same level of disaster assistance that was recently extended to Kempsey, Mid-Coast,

Port Macquarie, Kyogle and Tenterfield and Inverell local government areas in response to the impacts of bushfires,” Mr Williamson said.

“My electorate has seen a Section 44 fire emergency, along with several other bushfires, the most recent being at Nymboida, with two emergency warnings

issued this week resulting in significant firefighting operations to bring it under control to protect property,” Mr Williamson said.

“Earlier this month

firefighters spent several days trying to contain a large fire in Evans Head and crews have been called out to contain numerous other fires across parts on my electorate including at Lawrence and Glenreagh.

“The fires have burned many hectares across the Clarence and Richmond valleys with landowners impacted so activating immediate disaster recovery assistance is essential to help those who have been directly affected and are suffering personal hardship.

“I offer my gratitude to all emergency service personnel who are out there fighting fires to protect our local communities.”

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The Northern Rivers Times

NEWS 17

Northern Rivers Rail Trail welcomes over 100,000 guests in seven months The Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail (NRRT) has surpassed expectations with data revealing an astonishing 108,829 guests have visited the trail since its opening on 1 March.

Mayor of Tweed Shire Chris Cherry said the Tweed section of the NRRT, stretching from Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek, has led the way with quality experiences and amenities.

“Since the Rail Trail’s opening in March, the Tweed has hosted 108,829 trail guests. On

average, that’s 12,734 visitors per month, 2,907 people per week or 415 people daily. This achievement is nothing short of remarkable,” Cr Cherry said.

“Our busiest day is Sunday with weekends the busiest overall and Monday and Tuesday the quieter of the week.

Most people are out on the trail between 9 am – 11am on average.”

Cr Cherry said the success of the Tweed section of the NRRT could be attributed to the unique nature and outdoor recreation opportunities the trail

provides, especially as a free, safe and familyfriendly experience.

“The Rail Trail provides an opportunity to reconnect with nature, breathe in fresh air and soak in the breathtaking beauty of the Tweed’s landscapes and the charming village life at our seven rest stops,” she said.

“The popularity of this attraction reflects well for our destination as we showcase the strengths of nature and outdoor recreation that is accessible for all.

The Rail Trail fosters wellbeing and keeps the

community active and connected.”

The 24 km Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail is the first stage of the project, which will eventually connect Murwillumbah and Casino.

Cr Cherry said this landmark success would inspire confidence for neighbouring Councils who are either considering or committed to connecting to the Rail Trail.

“Co¬¬nnecting this project across the Northern Rivers region will enhance and connect our communities and

make the Rail Trail a regional asset for locals and visitors,” she said.

“This landmark success further highlights the benefits of this project in terms of community wellbeing, tourism and the economy. We are really proud of what we have achieved so far with more Rail Trail activations on the way as we prepare for summer and peak periods.”

The Richmond Valley section of the NRRT is making impressive progress and remains on schedule for a soft opening in December 2023.

Byron Shire Council has resolved to move forward with planning and approvals for the Rail Trail expansion extending from Mullumbimby to Crabbes Creek, encompassing the old Byron Bay station through Bangalow to Booyong.

Additionally, Byron Shire Council is actively exploring various funding opportunities to revitalise the Byron Shire rail corridor.

For more information on the Rail Trail, visit northernriversrailtrail. com.au/

The Rail Trail provides unique nature and outdoor recreation opportunities, especially as a free, safe and family-friendly experience.

The Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail has already attracted 108,829 users in its first seven months.

Time running out to apply to host a Landcare coordinator

Council opens tender process to lease NRLX

NSW Landcare groups, networks and regions planning to apply to host a Landcare coordinator have less than a week to get their application in through the NSW Landcare Enabling Program 2023-2027: Local and Regional Coordinator grants.

The grants program, valued at $33.12 million, will lead to the employment of up to 83 full-time equivalent local and regional Landcare coordinators and support staff across NSW. The Landcare coordinators will be the foundation of the NSW Landcare Enabling Program 2023-2027, improving facilitation and delivery of onground projects while also ensuring effective collaboration between local and regional Landcare groups and networks, and Local

Land Services and Landcare NSW. Local Land Services Business Partner – Landcare, Julie Busuttil has been pleased with the level of interest in the grants since they opened on 9 October, and is encouraging any interested parties yet to apply, to get an application in. “These grants are a fantastic opportunity and will ensure there are dedicated positions to help deliver more local projects over the next four years,” Julie said.

“Landcare coordinators are the backbone of the program, promoting partnerships and collaboration with other organisations, while also supporting Landcare and Landcare groups and networks to achieve positive environmental impacts and to become more sustainable.

“The work carried out by Landcare has many touchpoints, so whether you’re a farmer, landowner, industry group, Traditional Owner or a member of a Landcare or bushcare group, the chances are that you will receive benefit from this funding and the local projects and programs delivered in your community.”

Funding is available to eligible NSW Landcare groups, networks and regions to host a coordinator, or coordinators and newly created support roles.

Applications close on Friday 3 November at 11:59pm.

For more information including a recording of a webinar on the grants and application process, to view the program guidelines and to apply, visit www.nsw.gov.au/ lep.

Richmond Valley Council is moving forward with its decision to lease the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange (NRLX), with tenders to be called from tomorrow Thursday 26 October 2023.

Council has appointed global real estate experts JLL to manage the tender process independently.

The process will see JLL handle all inquiries, receive tenders from potential lessees, and evaluate them thoroughly for Council’s final consideration.

Richmond Valley Council General Manager Vaughan Macdonald said JLL’s experience would help Council to find a lessee with a shared vision for the NRLX. “With significant funding support from

the Australian and NSW Governments, Council has invested more than $15 million to transform the saleyards into a modern, professional facility and, under our management, the NRLX has progressed to be one of the leading saleyards in NSW,” Mr Macdonald said.

“We want to continue this journey by partnering with a lessee who is well-equipped to take the NRLX to the next level and develop the facility in a way that benefits our community and the broader livestock industry.

He said the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange played a crucial role in our region, supporting beef producers and buyers while contributing significantly to the regional economy.

“We believe that by inviting tenders and securing the right lessee, we can unlock the full potential of this facility and ensure its continued success for years to come,” Mr Macdonald said.

“We’re confident that JLL has the right experience to manage this process professionally and transparently and Council looks forward to receiving their final recommendations”.

Tenders close 30 November, with the aim to appoint a successful tenderer in December, who takes control of the NRLX business early in 2024.

Tender inquiries can be made to JLL representatives Chris Holger (0411 177 167) or Clayton Smith (0428 878 523).

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November 9, 2023

18 NEWS

“Leemo has views on just about anything”

‘THE CURLY HAIR & MANGO CHUTNEY CHAT’

It’s raining & a wee bit chilly to-day hence I’m snuggled up in favourite plush blue blankie wondering what time my next treats are due; I’m also pondering if I would perhaps look even more handsome with curly fur? Hmmm?

I’ll ask ‘Mum Jane’ her opinion. (it’s ‘Leemo Cat’ here.) ‘Mumsie, I saw photos of cats with curly fur recently and was most taken with the ‘look’; SO, may I get curly fur please and if I don’t like it can it be changed back to my current (also most pleasing) fur style?’

CRIKEY, the look I got to my most elementary request was as if I’d asked her for the Moon.

‘Leems, you have frankly, as much chance of me agreeing to your absurd request as you have of catching lightning in a bottle. ZILCH! I am exceedingly busy making Mango Chutney for our CWA Branch right now, so if you wish to continue this discussion you can get right in here & peel some mangoes & do something useful.’

YUK POOH, mangoes are slimy & hard to hold in my paws & my razor sharp claws tend to combine the skin with the flesh of the mango and my coat and my paws get messy & I get in trouble from ‘bossy bat’ Mum. NUP, I’m not doing it! I wonder if there’s anything easier?

‘Mumsie, perhaps I could just be the official “taster” of your Chutney? I will let you know if I believe it worthy of contributing as a Christmas Treat (to go with Ham &

Turkey, Chook & stuff) to sell at your CWA Stall...whaddya’ reckon?’ The ‘old woman’ spoke, aaaargh!

(LOUD VOICE!) ‘Leemo, are you aware of, as a supposed avid & intelligent feline follower of news, the discrepancies in the price of R2E2 mangoes right now!! If you think I’m wasting one weeny lick of this chutney on your ‘pretend’ culinary tasting skills you’re completely wrong.

And, I do not wish to even spare one tiny thought for your wish to have a PERM, gottit?’

A PERM…what IS she talking about? Do mangoes get permed?

Oh no; she continued.

‘Leems, I have been looking for reasonably priced mangoes recently.

One shop wanted $6.99 for ONE mango? The next shop was $3.40 each. The third shop had the same mangos for $1.57 each? Go figure?

AND, might I add, the cost of a PERM (which relates to your fur, not mangoes, you absurd cat) these days, for your fur length, is $150 to $180. So, you are not going to be a taster of the chutney and you ARE NOT getting a perm…gottit? Eeek, I STILL don’t know what a perm is but have figured it’s NOT mango related.

Should I ask? YEP, I surely will. ‘Mumsie, WHAT’S a PERM?’ ‘Leems, I was born with & afflicted by CURLY hair. This was AOK for a couple of years in the late 70’s and early 80’s when ‘AFRO’ hair was most popular. But, in general, my curly thin hair has been a torment.

I envied people with straight hair. What I found confounding Leems, was that some people actually WANTED curly hair so they had PERMS, which use strong chemicals to alter the natural shape of hair and texture. These chemicals cause long lasting damage to the hair (or fur) strand but provide temporary curls.

SO, you’re not having a PERM and I’m going back to my chutney with or without your help.

Gottit? Oopsie, time to quickly snuggle again in plushie blankie. Nitey for now, Leemo.

Local talent, global impact: Cameron’s Kia ad editing win As a film editor with a distinct music video style, successful SAE Creative Media Institute graduate Cameron Drew has collaborated with renowned brands like The Australian, Kellogg’s, Coopers, Asics, and a range of artists including Angus Stone, Tapz, and Chikazaza. Earlier this month, Cameron was recognised by the global SAE community for his outstanding work on the Kia Seltos international advertising campaign, winning Best Film & TV Production. Cameron discussed the creative process behind the award-winning project, the skills he learned at SAE, and how he’s made a meaningful career as a freelance film editor.

The Kia Seltos advertising campaign, which featured the music of American rapper and singer Jack Harlow, was played globally at the start of 2023. The editing process, which took two weeks to complete, Cameron explained was far from straightforward.

“It was a fun project to be a part of, but it was also the toughest job I’ve ever worked on,” Cameron said. “The director and I had about

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60 hours of footage to go through, and it wasn’t scripted either. When you watch the ad, it has a cool flow to it, but it took a lot of time to get it down to under a minute.

“The only original transition, from the creative treatment, that stayed in the final cut was where the camera flies out of the car window, and you have this big 3D segment where it flies around the car,” Cameron added.

“We had a lot of cool shots and footage, and it was just up to the director and I to piece it all together.”

On 12 October, the 18th annual SAE International Awards were held in Cologne, Germany. The awards celebrate the best alumni and student work from SAE’s 48 campuses around the world. With 16 categories and over 500 entries, Cameron’s editorial work on the Kia Seltos project was recognised for Best Film & TV Production, something which he was blown away by.

“I had just finished boxing, and I checked my phone, and I noticed I’d received this email that said I’d won - I was super stoked,” Cameron enthused. “It’s

pretty wild and quite an honour to say I’ve been recognised by the SAE international community.”

Looking back at his time at SAE Byron Bay, where he studied the accelerated two-year Bachelor of Film Production, Cameron explained how the degree prepared him for the industry.

“The most important thing I got from my time at SAE, aside from the skills, was the body of work and learning business skills, like how to set up a website,” he said. “I still use the same domain I created at SAE, and that was what secured my first job.”

After graduating in 2015, Cameron secured a role as an editor at Emmy Award winning creative production company, Infinity Squared, and in 2019 took the plunge to become a freelance editor.

“To start with, it was incredibly tough, as the pandemic had just begun, but things started to pick up and I’ve been busy ever since. Over the years I’ve built some good relationships with directors, and they’re the ones that ultimately

employ you,” Cameron said.

“Next week, I’m working with a director I’ve never spoken to, but I was recommended to him by another director I’d worked with, so there’s a lot of word of mouth that goes on in the industry.”

With a unique music video filmmaking style, Cameron said that even though he’s not influenced by other creatives, he does like to expose himself to as much content as possible. “I spend a lot of time watching a lot of ads and movies and if I get a good feeling about it, then that may be something I use as inspiration down the road,” he said.

Even though film editing can be a lonely business that involves many hours behind a computer screen, Cameron emphasised that there are some key traits any budding editor must have if they want to make it in the industry.

“You’ve got to have a passion for storytelling.

They can have simple narratives, but if you’re interested in changing the way people interpret the world, then that can be impactful.”

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November 9, 2023

20 NEWS Positively fine…by Nigel Dawe

Applications now open for Council Apprenticeship Program Kick off your local government career with opportunities commencing January 2024

WHEN it comes to those I most want to be surrounded by, nothing compares to those who exude positivity, especially under the most trying of circumstances.

Give me Monty Python’s 1975 “It’s just a flesh wound” Black Knight on the bridge, over a more easily defeated naysayer any day.

One of the first books I ever read (and one that was actually given to me by my late grandfather) was the era defining classic, The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. A book some might say is dated (being first released in 1952), and perhaps even cliched in places; but it is one that reminds every reader of the enormous value to having a positive outlook on life.

As Peale’s ever upward looking countryman Elbert Hubbard once said, “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” And being able to see where the road to possibility and abundance lies, even under the darkest of skies, separates the doers from your standard problem imbuers, every time. Thus, having the right frame of mind is so consequential and instrumental to the life we lead, that nothing determines our fate more than how this plays out between our ears.

Relatedly, Peale himself noted in his Power of Positive Thinking, “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.” Going on to further say, “[For] the way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.

Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this

for a week and you will be surprised.” Try it for a lifetime, and you won’t just be surprised, you’ll be living the type of life that outright reflects and breathes positivity, without any strain at all.

What’s more, as Joseph Campbell, the American author and professor of literature once noted, “Nothing can happen to you that is not positive.

Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.” Positivity is the ultimate lightning rod of the human condition.

I remember reading survivors of the holocaust say: those that made it through, found something (beyond all hope) to live for, to be positive about - despite the surrounding evidence, that bleakly suggested otherwise.

So much of what we either enjoy or suffer in life though, has a tremendous amount to do with us being in the right or wrong spot, at that exact moment in time. Little wonder, that the word positive stems from the Latin ‘positivus’, which means ‘placed’, as in something laid down specifically, and with certainty.

But locale and situations alone never outright determine our fortunes, they merely provide the forum for us to be courageous in the face of all that we encounter, and what we in turn choose to do. Or as Joel Osteen once said, “You’re going to go through tough times - that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.”

Keen to work for one of the Tweed’s largest employers? Applications are now open for Council’s Apprenticeship Program, commencing in January 2024.

Council has partnered with Programmed Training Services, who specialise in the employment of apprentices and trainees, to deliver the program.

Several opportunities are on offer across various areas of Council, including apprenticeships in Electrical, Parks & Gardens or Fabrication & Welding and a Business Traineeship.

Council’s Manager People and Culture Aimee Austin said the Apprenticeship Program would help kick off successful careers in local government.

“This is an incredible program for motivated individuals to start a new career in a sector that is full of opportunity,” Ms Austin said.

“The successful applicants will not only gain the skills and

qualifications needed to start a rewarding career but they’ll also see why people working in local government stay!”

Ms Austin said a successful apprenticeship and traineeship program would also help Council prepare for future workforce needs.

“Council delivers more than 50 services to the Tweed community, which means there are many sub-industries within the local government sector, each with their own recruitment challenges such as skill shortages, ageing workforces, lack of diversity or evolving technology,” Ms Austin said.

“Hiring skilled recruits and fostering their career development ensures we have the capacity to deliver reliable services to the community and make the Tweed better tomorrow tha¬¬n it is today.”

The program involves competency-based, nationally accredited training (apprenticeship

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Ms Austin said Council was encouraging people from all walks of life to apply.

“Whether you are a school leaver, matureage job hunter, or just looking for a career change, we want to hear from you,” she said.

Council is seeking applicants with: • competent numeracy and literacy skills • a positive attitude and self-motivation • current driver’s licence and reliable transport • completed Year 10 education, or completed Year 12 education (Electrical Apprenticeship only) • ideally completed a Cert II in Electrotechnology (Electrical Apprenticeship only) • OH&S construction card (white card) or willingness to obtain one

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and primary producers in the Kyogle and Tenterfield areas are already experiencing the adverse effects of an early onset to this year’s bushfire season and I want them to know we are pulling out all stops to support their recovery,” Ms Saffin said.

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the jointly funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) and will be administered through the NSW Rural Assistance Authority (RAA) to help communities and individuals directly affected by the fires.

The assistance measures include: • Concessional

interest rate loans for primary producers, small businesses and non-profit organisations, with interest rates currently set at 1.79% • Transport subsidies for primary producers of up to 50% of the total freight cost • Donated fodder transport subsidies for the costs of donating and transporting

donated fodder to affected properties or storage facilities in a central location up to a maximum distance of 1,500 kilometres.

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November 9, 2023

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NSW Budget a solid advance for essential workers Unions have commended the first Budget in more than a decade to be handed down without a cap restricting the wages of essential workers.

Critically, today’s Budget creates a substantial $3.6 billion fund, dedicated to higher wages for vital workers.

It also sets aside $3.5 billion for 15 new schools, $3 billion for Western Sydney hospitals, $1.4 billion for regional school upgrades, $572 million for additional health care workers and $438 million for an additional 500 regional paramedics.

Mark Morey, Unions NSW Secretary, said NSW Labor’s first budget laid solid foundations.

“Paying public sector workers enough to attract and retain them is absolutely critical to our state. The morale and goodwill of these workers was absolutely cratered by the Liberals.

This Budget is the beginning of the rebuild.

“Today’s Budget recognises just how critical essential workers are, both by lifting the public sector wage cap and creating a new $3.6 billion fund for decent pay rises for the people who keep our state functioning.

“This is a very solid foundation to begin stemming the flow of essential workers interstate after 12 years of wage suppression. We

won’t fix the essential worker shortage immediately, but we will make a dent in it.”

A previous Unions NSW survey of 2893 workers in the state’s schools, hospitals, prisons, transport network and emergency services outlined the dramatic impact of the Liberal wage cap.

27% of workers had considered or were considering moving and working in the public sector interstate, with 54% of workers that have considered or are considering moving interstate thinking about Queensland. An alarming 62% were considering leaving the public sector in the next five years, rising to 75% in education and 70% in healthcare The establishment of a $3.6 billion fund dedicated solely to providing higher wages demonstrates the State’s commitment to ensuring that the public sector remains competitive, attracting and retaining the best talent to serve the people of NSW. “This $3.6 billion fund is a significant step forward in ensuring that our public sector workers are compensated fairly and competitively. Our teachers, health care workers, firefighters, police and so many others are the backbone of our state.

“Their pay must reflect their skills, experience, and dedication.”

More Australian businesses can now access R&D funding from CSIRO More Australian small businesses can now access research and development (R&D) funding and expertise through Australia’s national science agency, as CSIRO broadens its Kick-Start program.

The program has now been expanded with an increase in eligibility to include businesses with a turnover of up to $10 million.

This marks a significant increase from the previous eligibility of companies with a turnover of up to $1.5 million.

The CSIRO KickStart program assists Australian small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and scale-ups by providing facilitation and dollar-matched funding to access CSIRO’s research expertise and capabilities for company-led R&D projects.

Since its inception in 2017, the CSIRO KickStart program has been a catalyst for over 260 small business projects, contributing just under $24 million in R&D activities. Collectively, these companies now hold a market value exceeding $2 billion.

Dr Doug Hilton, CSIRO’s newly

appointed Chief Executive, said the expansion of the program underscored CSIRO’s commitment to create benefit for Australia by supporting Australian entrepreneurship and innovation.

“CSIRO can absolutely play a role in supporting SMEs to embrace research and in stimulating entrepreneurship among our scientists and others in the community,” Dr Hilton said.

“Expanding the eligibility of the CSIRO

the CSIRO Kick-Start program connects visionary businesses with cutting-edge science and technology.

Key elements of the program include: • Facilitation to help refine the research question • Connecting businesses with relevant CSIRO researcher expertise and capability - think of us as your in-house R&D division • Dollar-matched funding support to improve the affordability or expand the scope of

The CSIRO Kick-Start Program connects SMEs with research expertise, acting as your in-house R&D division.

Kick-Start program means we can offer more Australian businesses, more Australian innovators, more Australian entrepreneurs’ access to the resources, knowledge, and support they need to flourish.”

From AI-powered tech to native skincare, hydrogen prototypes to Indigenous farming,

R&D services Dr Megan Sebben, CSIRO’s Kick-Start Program Manager, explained the program’s role in accelerating technologies to market.

“In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation is the lifeblood of success,” Dr Sebben said.

“Yet, many start-ups

and SMEs face barriers, such as limited expertise and insufficient funding, that hinder R&D access.

“Our program serves as a driver for change, providing comprehensive facilitation to overcome these challenges.”

Eyes of AI (EAI), a Sydney-based company, recently achieved groundbreaking progress in dental x-ray analysis and pathology detection in collaboration with CSIRO researchers, made possible through the CSIRO Kick-Start program.

Dr Sen Le, co-founder of EAI, dentist, and multiple practice owner expressed enthusiasm for the program.

“Thanks to Kick-Start, EAI’s award winning dental software sets a new standard in radiograph analysis,” Dr Le said.

“Being able to harness the AI and imaging expertise of CSIRO’s Data61 team, a global leader in the field, is both an honour and an exciting development for our company.”

Find out more, or submit an expression of interest. https://www. csiro.au/en/work-with-us/ funding-programs/SME/ CSIRO-Kick-Start/about

A quarter of young Australians estimated to have a chronic mental health condition, impacting participation in the workforce With the Australian population ageing, chronic disease is on the rise. Living with chronic conditions can have a substantial impact on an individual’s health, affect their quality of life and can impact their participation in the workforce.2 In 2022, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reported that chronic conditions are an ongoing cause of considerable burden and disability in Australia.

It estimated that almost half (47%) of Australians had at least one common chronic condition and a quarter (25%) of people aged 15–44 had chronic mental and behavioural conditions.

For many people, their

condition and resulting treatment may prompt them to reconsider next steps in their career.

Moreover, changes in physical capability, mental capability, or the length of time away from work, may make returning to a previous role more difficult.3 As someone who lives with a chronic health condition and successfully returned to the workforce, Morningside resident, Matthew, knows firsthand how difficult it can be.

Matthew, now aged 20 years old, is one of the 11.6 million Australians who live with a chronic health condition, living with multiple mental health conditions, including Post Traumatic

Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder.

Managing the symptoms of these conditions for much of his life, Matthew was advised to get in touch with atWork Australia after his recent diagnosis, where he was connected with a Job Coach for support.

“My Job Coach has been really understanding of my health conditions.

He has made me feel supported throughout the whole process. He treats me like a human being and understands that I can struggle with brain function and memory loss. He really makes an effort to work with me to make employment feel manageable,” Matthew

said.

Through support and mentorship, Matthew began to build the confidence he needed to take the next steps to secure employment.

Working collaboratively with Matthew, his Job Coach helped him to identify his key skills, what relevant experience he had, and what his main interests were.

Matthew is now job ready and working with his Job Coach to find work that fits his skills, experiences, and interests. atWork Australia believes that work is for everyone, recognising the importance of working alongside employers to connect them with eager and job-ready candidates like Matthew.

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WARWICK MC DOUGALL & SONS LIVESTOCK MARKETS WARWICK & DISTRICT WEEK ENDING 3/11/2023 Market numbers remained consistent throughout the week as we had a big build up to some tumultuous fires in the region as well as our main supply areas. The few vendors engulfed in the fires and also engulfed in helping to fight the fires and their results need our full support and thanks for their efforts.

Cattle and Lamb markets were firm to a shade dearer for the better fresher types and slightly weaker for the Mutton as well as any stock not up in condition.

Vealer steers av 202.5c/kg topping at 256.2c/kg or $514.33 to $686.34 Vealer heifers av 169.2c/kg topping at 258.2c/kg or $425.32 to $963.90 Feeder steers av 196.2c/kg topping at 232.2c/kg or $794.35 to $1210.17 Feder heifers av 164.7c/kg topping at 218.2c/kg or $561.17 to $1091.00 Yearling steers av 190c/kg topping at 239.2c/kg or $576.12 to $1000.65 Yearling heifers av 181c/kg topping at 382.2c/kg or $554.02 to $1724.68 Steers av 190.6c/kg topping at 230c/kg or $1067.51 to $1644.24 Heifers av 186.7c/kg topping at 244.2c/kg or $862.17 to

$1746.03 Manufacturing steers av 133.4c/kg topping at 134.2c/kg or $502.57 to $617.32 Cows av 158.9c/kg topping at 198c/kg or $858.10 to $1511.25 Bulls av 185.1c/kg topping at 213.2c/kg or $1025.68 to $2046.72 Sheep and Lamb numbers were consistent with last sale and saw the market firm for the better fresher types and also the heavy end of the Hogget and Mutton types.

Lambs topped at $115 to av $67.81 ($3up) Hoggets topped at $63 to av $31.21($Even) Ewes topped at $32 to av $13.92 ($4down) Wethers topped at $50 to av $3436 ($24 up) Rams topped at $50 to av $11.92 ($Even) Lamb Rams topped at $70 to av $24.23 ($14up) Sale yarding of 1840 head av $52.23 a rise of $8/head week on week.

MCDOUGALL & SONS SHEEP & LAMB REPORT Poultry numbers were slightly down with Roosters selling to $20, Hens to $42.50, Pullets to $42, Hen & Chicks to $35, Quails to $20, Geese to $20, Ducks to $12.50, Drakes to $20 Pork numbers are still down with Boars selling to $180, Sows selling from $55 to $370, Pork selling to $270, Light Pork selling to $228, Stores selling from $12.00 to $200.00. Sow and Litter selling to $260.

Agents today yarded 1840 head for the weekly sale which was approximately the same number as last week. The

market for the better lambs with finish and freshness was stronger than last week. The mutton market was down on last week with the mainly ewe portion copping the main downturn. The yarding was at an 80/20 % for lambs to mutton. The lambs were mainly older finished types with a few lighter fresh lambs. The hogget market had a fair % of older unfinished stock.

Widgeegoera Past Co sold a run of 1st x lambs with a third wool 53.3kg to Thomas Foods for $92, 49.3kg to Thomas Foods for $84, 49.5 and 48.5kg to Eversons for $70, 46.8kg to Warwick Meats for $55 Ennismore Farming Co sold Merino lambs 56.6kg to Thomas Foods for $90, Xbred lambs 59.2kg to Thomas Foods for $95 Sunnymount Farming sold Dorper lambs 48.5kg to restockers for $104 Robert Deans sold Dorper x lambs 45.3kg to Jock Young Meats for $98 Michael Longhurst sold 47.5kg Dorper x lambs to Restockers for $100 and Uniplaza Meats for $91, 46kg hoggets to Eversons for $36, 52.5kg to Eversons for $50 James Coupe sold Aussie White lambs 52.5kg to Eversons for $74, 50kg to Jock Young Meats for $95 MC Dougall Family sold Dorper x lambs 55.4kg to Eversons for $100, 49kg to Grants Quality Meats for $104 Andrew Clark Dickson sold Dorper x lambs 50kg to Jock Young Meats for $109 Hurley & Weiss sold Dorper ram lambs 62kg to restockers for $70 Les Holton sold Dorper lambs 36.2kg to Highchester Meats for $74

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Students perform & meet Troy Cassar Daley backstage at Jacca Festival Local school students got the opportunity to experience the big stage when they performed ‘Dream Out Loud’ by guest of honour Troy Cassar Daley at River Dreaming the opening day of the Grafton Jacaranda Festival.

Students from Gilwinga, Wooli, Rappville and Tucabia schools are participating in a music program by the Big Scrub Orchestra which introduces students to a range of instruments including keyboards, marimbas, guitar, ukulele, and drums.

One student had the exciting opportunity to interview singing

hero Troy Cassar Daley backstage.

When eleven year old Arthur asked Troy what his favourite gig was,

he told him how special the home town Grafton gig was and shared childhood memories of having fun in market

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square where he was about to perform.

When asked about the favourite song he had written, Troy shared

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Your ruler Venus transits through Libra (from This week (with Jupiter and Uranus activating Wednesday until December 4) which highlights your aspirations zone and your ruler Mercury food, fashion, wine and good times. But remember charging into confident Sagittarius) there’s adventurous Jupiter and disruptive Uranus are no room for false Virgo modesty or passive still charging through your sign, so expect some procrastination! The Sun, Mercury and Mars also thrills and spills along the way. Your motto for stimulate your thought processes and encourage the moment is from singer-songwriter-musician you to come up with a cracking plan and stick Neil Young (who turns 78 on Sunday): “As you go to it. Begin with a dream and then work hard to through life, you’ve got to see the valleys as well make it a robust reality. as the peaks.”

LIBRA (Sept 23 – Oct 23) GEMINI (May 21 – June 21) With Venus (your power planet) trining Pluto and Have you been wondering (and worrying) about then transiting into your sign, you’ll be at your your professional options in the future? The ideal magnetic and charming best! So it’s a wonderful is to follow your dreams and make your day-toweek to create, collaborate and communicate, day work a pleasure rather than a full-time chore. in your charming Libran way. As birthday great This week Neptune, Pluto and Saturn push you Albert Camus wrote: “Charm is the way of getting to turn an abstract idea into a rock-solid reality the answer ‘yes’, without having asked any clear via an inspiring vision and a strategic plan. From question.” But avoid making impulsive financial Friday onwards, you’ll find clear communication decisions. Take your time, do your research, and and lively conversation are the keys to get a second opinion. harmonious relationships.

SCORPIO (Oct 24 – Nov 21) CANCER (June 22 – July 22) Things are intense at Casa Scorpio as the Sun, With the Sun, Mercury and Mars all activating Mercury and Mars visit your sign. Pluto makes your entertainment sector, jump out of your Crab positive aspects to Venus and Mercury, so comfort zone, let your hair down and have some passion is high and you’re in the mood to listen fun! Plus, when it comes to your personal and and learn. But look out anyone who tries to knock professional friendships, strive to be extra patient, you off your chosen course! Wisdom for the week and keep the lines of communication and creativity is from Scorpio singer-songwriter Lorde (who wide open. Your motto for the moment is from turns 27 on Tuesday): “Take care of your thoughts birthday great, singer-songwriter-musician Joni when you are alone and take care of your words Mitchell: “I want to have fun, I want to shine like when you are with people.” the Sun.”

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SOLUTION Group projects and creative collaborations are favoured. But this week’s stars could also disrupt your daily routine or stir up an old health issue.

So do your best to get the balance right between being creative and being thorough; between having inspirational ideas and making practical progress.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) Fault-finding Saturn could exacerbate a problem with a friend, neighbour or family member. But hopefully Mercury and Venus will come to the rescue and teach you an important celestial lesson.

If you look for the best in the person involved, and work hard on improving your communication skills, then the relationship will gradually improve and have a good chance of longevity. It’s important to take baby steps, with a heart full of love and forgiveness.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) The Mars/Uranus opposition could stir up your restless and reckless side, as you unleash your Inner Rebel. But try to do so in appropriate ways that don’t upset loved ones, antagonise authority figures, or endanger your personal safety! A professional or domestic challenge could also test your mettle. Aim to approach problems with a brand-new perspective. Be inspired by singersongwriter (and birthday great) Neil Young: “One fresh take can change everything.”

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) With the Sun, Mercury and Mars activating your aspirations zone, it’s a wonderful week to dream big dreams and set ambitiousBarbara goals for theMidgley future.

But family and friends must be handled with an extra big dollop of diplomacy and discretion.

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SBS FOOD, 6.30pm

Fresh Off the Boat star Hudson Yang (pictured) is taking a crash course in cooking, with the help of acclaimed chefs, on a boisterous mission to learn what apprentice chefs spend years studying, in just a matter of months.

The teen actor’s enthusiasm is palpable in fast-paced cooking series. Primed with a fun attitude and an appetite for knowledge – as well as the spirit of youth – he delves into his Chinese American heritage getting his hands dirty in the kitchen. Tonight, Yang’s adventures are a little wilder and perhaps more confronting as he learns about nose-to-tail cooking. Featuring raw carcasses and oodles of offal, it’s a lesson in butchery… and overcoming queasiness.

He’s the consummate action hero: a muscled, street savvy lieutenant of the Los Angeles’ special weapons and a tactics team with a thirst for dangerous situations and a drive to help those in need. Shemar Moore (pictured, Criminal Minds) is the brawn and soul of this crime procedural as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson. So when the series was abruptly cancelled after season six and Moore called the decision a “mistake”, it’s understandable TV execs revoked their call…

No one messes with Hondo. In tonight’s double episode, a home invasion affects a famous gridiron player. Later, the team races to prevent a hostage situation from escalating on live TV. It’s reliably adrenaline-soaked popcorn fare.

ARIA AWARDS

NBN, 7.30pm

Whether you’re a loyal music fan or could quietly benefit from a brush-up on who’s making waves in the exciting realm of Australian music, tonight is the night to settle in for the spectacle of the ARIA Awards.

Music journalist Brooke Boney (pictured) and comedian Tommy Little host this annual musical extravaganza, which shines a light on the year’s most popular artists and songs. Prepare to boogie and belt out a tune from the couch; the guests’ creative, fashion-forward outfits promise to strike a chord, too. Live from Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, the nominees for Best Solo Artist include Budjerah, Dan Sultan, G Flip, Jen Cloher, Kylie Minogue and Meg Mac. 1011

FRIDAY, November 10 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 News. 10.00 And We Danced. (PG, R) 11.00 Don’t Stop The Music.

(R) 12.00 News. 1.00 Shetland. (Mal, R) 2.00 Countdown To War. (R) 2.45 The Beautiful Bush. (R) 3.10 Gardening Aust. (R) 4.10 All Creatures Great And Small. (PG, R) 4.55 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.15 Home Is Where The Art Is. (R) 10.10 Fantastical Factory Of Curious Craft. (PG, R) 11.05 Great Canal Journeys.

(PGa, R) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.10 Hidden Heroes: The Nisei Soldiers Of WW2. (PG, R) 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.45 The Cook Up. (R) 4.15 Secret Scotland. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy!

(R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Jesse Stone: No Remorse. (2010, Mav, R) 2.00 House Of Wellness. (PG) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Christmas By Chance. (2020, G) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (R)

6.00 The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 7.30 Ent. Tonight. 8.00 Everyday Gourmet.

(R) 8.30 GCBC. (R) 9.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 9.30 Bold. (PGa, R) 10.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 10 News First: Midday. 1.00 Dr Phil.

(Mdl, R) 2.00 The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition. (R) 3.00 Neighbours. (PGa, R) 4.00 Bold. (PGa) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum. Analysis of the day’s news.

7.00 ABC News. A look at the top stories of the day.

7.30 Gardening Australia. Clarence Slockee creates a native bouquet.

8.30 Under The Vines. (PG) Daisy gets asked out by the local doctor. Vic asks Louis to help him with a legal problem.

9.15 Midsomer Murders. (Mv, R) DCI Barnaby and DS Nelson investigate when an unpopular local stable owner dies under suspicious circumstances.

10.45 ABC Late News. Coverage of the day’s events.

11.05 Question Everything. (R) Presented by Wil Anderson and Jan Fran.

11.35 Silent Witness. (Mav, R) 12.40 Frayed. (MA15+l, R) 1.25 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Hunting Egypt’s Lost Treasures. (PGav) 8.30 Jack The Ripper: Hidden Victims. (MA15+v, R) Part 3 of 3.

9.25 Tony Robinson: Britain’s Greatest River: Southend. (R) 10.15 SBS World News Late.

10.45 Good People. (Premiere, MA15+v) 11.40 Tell Me Who I Am. (Mav, R) 2.10 Antidisturbios. (Malns, R) 4.05 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (R) 4.35 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning.

5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 7News Local.

6.30 7News @ 6:30.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

Johanna Griggs catches up with Joost Bakker, who built his home with eco-friendly materials.

8.30 MOVIE: Jurassic World.

(2015, Mv, R) Decades after the catastrophic failure of its predecessor, a theme park featuring dinosaurs as attractions, a genetically modified hybrid escapes containment, unleashing its fellow creatures and going on a killing spree. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins.

11.10 To Be Advised.

12.40 12 Monkeys. (MA15+av, R) Cole and Cassie embark on a time travel mission.

1.35 Harry’s Practice. (R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Beach House Hunters.

(PG) Hosted by Shelley Craft.

8.30 MOVIE: Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason. (2004, Mdls, R) Bridget Jones flees to Thailand on holiday. Renée Zellweger.

10.35 MOVIE: Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past. (2009, Ms) 12.25 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.15 Pointless. (PG, R) 2.10 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. (PG, R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Postcards. (PG, R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news and events.

7.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(R) Guests include Sarah Snook.

8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Malns, R) Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week.

9.30 The Graham Norton Show.

(PGlsv, R) Celebrity guests include Lesley Manville, Hugh Bonneville, Lashana Lynch and Big Zuu. 10.30 Road To The Melbourne Cup Carnival. A look at the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

11.00 The Project. (R) 12.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.00 Home Shopping. (R)

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.00 Shortland St. Noon Most Expensivest.

1.50 Australia Says Yes. 2.55 The Story Of. 3.25 WorldWatch. 4.20 PBS News. 5.20 Shortland St. 5.50 The Curse Of Oak Island. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Hoarders.

9.20 The Swiping Game. (Return) 10.20 Sex With Sunny Megatron. 11.20 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 1.20am Monogamish. 3.50 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs. 8.30

Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Better Homes. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Discover With RAA Travel. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.00 Harry’s Practice. 3.30 The Zoo. 4.00 Surf Patrol. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 10.30 Cliveden: A Very British Country House. 11.45 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Danger Man. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 Skippy. 8.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.50 Garden Gurus Moments. 2.05 Dr Quinn. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow.

3.35 MOVIE: It Shouldn’t Happen To A Vet. (1976) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Storm Rising. 8.30 Titanic: 20 Years Later With James Cameron. 9.30 Facing.

10.30 Major Crimes. 11.30 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 3. Newcastle Jets v Western Sydney Wanderers. Highlights. 8.30 Diagnosis Murder. 9.30 Jake And The Fatman.

10.30 JAG. 12.30pm NCIS. 1.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder.

5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Hawai’i.

10.20 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.15 Star Trek: Discovery.

12.15am Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder.

4.05 JAG.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Guns Of Navarone. Continued. (1961, PG) 8.45 Binti. (2019, PG, Dutch) 10.25 Bleed For This. (2016, M) 12.35pm Jasper Jones. (2017, M) 2.30 Belle. (2013, PG) 4.25 Emu Runner. (2018, PG) 6.15 The Caine Mutiny.

(1954, PG) 8.30 The Outpost. (2019) 10.45 De Gaulle. (2020, M) 12.45am Dom Hemingway. (2013, MA15+) 2.25 Rambo. (2008, MA15+) 4.10 Loving Vincent. (2017, M) 5.55 The Caine Mutiny. (1954, PG)

7MATE (64) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 7.30 Creek To Coast.

8.00 A Football Life. 9.00 WSL Wrapped. 10.00 Blokesworld. 10.30 The Car Club. 11.00 American Pickers. Noon Pawn Stars. 1.00 The Simpsons.

2.00 Down East Dickering. 3.00 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 32. Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Stars. 7.00 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 33. Sydney Sixers v Hobart Hurricanes. 10.30 MOVIE: Robin Hood. (2018, M) 12.45am Hardcore Pawn. 2.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs. Noon Motor Racing. SpeedSeries. Replay. 2.00 Raymond.

2.30 Full House. 3.00 MacGyver. 4.00 Family Ties.

4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 MOVIE: Hop. (2011) 7.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. (2009, M) 10.30 MOVIE: Chaos Walking. (2021, M) 12.30am Under The Dome. 1.30 Surviving The Stone Age. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 Bakugan: Geogan Rising. 3.30 Ninjago.

4.00 Ricky Zoom. 4.30 TV Shop. 5.00 Pokémon.

5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens.

PEACH (52) 6am The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 NBL Slam. 7.30 Becker.

8.00 Seinfeld. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier. Noon Becker. 1.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld.

11.00 Frasier. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 2.30 The King Of Queens. 3.30 Workaholics. 4.30 Home Shopping.

5.30 Joseph Prince: New Creation Church.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs.

2pm ABC News Day. 3.00 News. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News. 6.00 ABC Evening News.

7.00 ABC National News. 8.00 Planet America: Fireside Chat. 8.45 ABC News Tonight. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Close Of Business. 10.00 The World. 10.30 World This Week. 11.00 News. 11.30 The Drum. 12.30am News. 12.45 Planet America: Fireside Chat. 1.30 Close Of Business. 2.00 DW News. 2.30 News. 2.45 DW News Asia. 3.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Kenya Wildlife Diaries. 10.55 Going Places. 11.55 MOVIE: Lantana. (2001, M) 2pm Going Places.

2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Motown Magic. 3.25 Aussie Bush Tales. 3.40 Fresh Fairytales. 4.00 Crazy Smart Science. 4.30 Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea. 5.00 Our Stories. 5.30 NITV News: Nula. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Kenya Wildlife Diaries. 7.30 MOVIE: Tarzan. (2013, PG) 9.15 MOVIE: Bamboozled. (2000, MA15+) 11.45 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

8.30 The Block. 9.30 House Hunters Int. 10.30 Hello SA. 11.00 Hot Properties: San Diego. 11.30 Yard Crashers. Noon House Hunters Reno. 1.00 Unsellable Houses. 2.00 My Lottery Dream Home.

3.00 The Block. 4.00 Hot Properties: San Diego.

4.30 Yard Crashers. 5.00 Fixer Upper. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Island Of Bryan. 8.30 Building Off The Grid: Tiny House On A Lake. 9.30 Log Cabin Living. 10.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 11.00 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53) 6am Morning Programs.

Programs. 6.50pm Supertato. 6.55 Shaun The Sheep. 7.05 Gardening Australia Junior. 7.20 Bluey.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 MOVIE: The Inbetweeners. (2011, MA15+) 10.10 Would I Lie To You? 10.40 QI. 11.10 INXS: Live Baby Live. 12.50am Killing Eve. 1.35 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 2.20 ABC News Update.

2.25 Close. 5.00 Mini Kids. 5.20 Tik Tak. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.50 Late Programs.

3.15pm Winston Steinburger. 3.30 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.00 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 4.20 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 4.45 The Inbestigators. 5.00 Kung Fu Panda. 5.25 Miraculous. 5.45 Hotel Transylvania.

6.00 Turn Up The Volume. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

6.45 Merlin. 7.35 Horrible Histories. 8.05 Crazy Fun Park. 9.00 Good Game Spawn Point. 9.25 The Legend Of Korra. 10.15 Mimi On A Mission.

11.15 Close.

12.30pm Freshly Picked. 1.00 Food Safari. 1.30 The Chocolate Queen. 2.00 Barefoot Contessa.

2.30 Australia’s Food Bowl. 3.00 Just Jen. 3.30 Choccywoccy. 4.00 Dolce India. 4.30 India. 5.40 Freshly Picked. 6.05 Food Safari. 6.35 Lidia’s Kitchen. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Rick Stein’s Fruits Of The Sea. 8.00 Andrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen. 8.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall. 9.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 10.30 The Cook Up. 11.00 Late Programs.

9.00 News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 Chris Kenny Tonight. 2.00 Afternoon Agenda. 3.00 Paul Murray Live. 4.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 Erin. 6.00 Peta Credlin. 7.00 The Rita Panahi Show. 8.00 The US Report. 9.00 The Media Show. 9.30 NewsNight. 10.00 NewsNight.

11.00 Late Programs.

Please Note: Programs are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by the Networks.

SATURDAY, November 11 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

9.00 Rage AusMusic Month. (PG) 10.00 Weekend Breakfast. 10.45 Remembrance Day Memorial Service. 11.30 News. 12.00 News. 12.30 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R) 2.00 Annika. (Ma, R) 2.50 The Durrells. (PG, R) 4.40 Landline. (R) 5.10 Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Lap Of Luxury: Escapes Down Under. 10.00 Welcome To My Farm. 11.00 Outta Town Adventures.

(Premiere) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Grand Prix de France.

H’lights. 4.00 Such Was Life. (R) 4.20 Dylan Alcott: Sir Peter Cosgrove. (PG, R) 4.55 Fallen: A Tragic Story Of The Unnamed. 5.35 Underground Army.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 Horse Racing. Five Diamonds Ladies Day and Saturday Raceday.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

6.00 Hello SA. (PG, R) 6.30 ACA. (R) 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday.

(PG) 12.00 Arctic Vets. (PGm, R) 12.30 Great Australian Detour.

1.00 My Way. (PG, R) 1.30 The Block. (PGl, R) 3.30 ICC World Cup: Pre-Game.

4.00 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Group stage.

Australia v Bangladesh. First innings.

6.00 What’s Up Down Under. (R) 6.30 Leading The Way. 7.00 GCBC. (R) 7.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet.

(R) 8.30 Farm To Fork. (R) 9.00 Road To The Melbourne Cup Carnival. (R) 9.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (PG) 11.30 Glory Days.

12.00 Horse Racing. Melbourne Cup Carnival. Stakes Day.

6.00 Old People’s Home For Teenagers. (Final, R) 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Shakespeare And Hathaway. (PG) Frank and Lu investigate paranormal activity.

8.20 Vera. (Mav, R) Part 3 of 4.

DCI Vera Stanhope investigates a hit-and-run and a stabbing death.

9.45 Annika. (Ma, R) A newly released prisoner is found dead.

10.35 Under The Vines. (PG, R) 11.20 QI. (PGs, R) 11.55 Rage AusMusic Month. (MA15+adhlnsv) 5.00 Rage. (PG)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 The Cotswolds With Pam Ayres. (PG) 8.20 The Royals: A History Of Scandals. (PG) 9.20 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. (R) 10.10 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (PGs, R) 11.20 Rex In Rome. (PGav, R) 1.10 Face To Face. (Mals, R) 2.55 Going Places. (PG, R) 3.55 Bamay. (R) 4.55 Destination Flavour Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R) A backpack catches the attention of officers.

7.30 MOVIE: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. (2018, Mv, R) Two former staff of the Jurassic World theme park try to rescue dinosaurs from a volcanic eruption.

Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall.

10.05 MOVIE: X-Men: Apocalypse.

(2016, Mlv, R) With the re-emergence of the world’s first mutant, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinctionlevel plan. James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender.

1.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Group stage.

Australia v Bangladesh. First innings.

7.30 ICC World Cup: Innings Break.

8.00 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Group stage.

Australia v Bangladesh. Second innings.

11.30 MOVIE: Into The Blue. (2005, Mdlv, R) 1.45 Explore. (PG, R) 2.00 The Incredible Journey Presents. (PGa) 2.30 The Garden Gurus. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Helping Hands. (PG, R)

6.00 10 News First.

7.00 Jamie Cooks The Mediterranean. Part 3 of 4. Jamie Oliver heads to Spain, where he delves into the local cuisine including tapas, rice and seafood.

8.00 The Dog House. (PGa, R) Deaf parents and their mischievous boys meet a cheeky cockapoo puppy.

10.00 The Cheap Seats. (Mal, R) Presenters Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look at the week that was.

11.00 CSI: Vegas. (Msv, R) The unit investigates the murder of a dominatrix.

2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Authentic. (PG) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.05pm Karma’s World. 7.20 Bluey.

7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.15 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 9.40 A-ha: The Movie. 10.40 Mock The Week. (Final) 11.15 Staged. 11.35 MythBusters. 12.25am Portlandia.

1.15 Fleabag. 1.40 Blunt Talk. 2.10 Veneno. 4.00 ABC News Update. 4.05 Close. 5.00 Mini Kids. 5.20 Tik Tak. 5.30 Wallykazam! 5.50 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.00 Shortland St. Noon Noisey. 12.55 Planet A. 1.25 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 2.45 WorldWatch. 4.40 Mastermind Aust. 5.45 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. 6.40 Rock Legends. 7.10 The Artist’s View. 7.40 Impossible Engineering. 8.35 Dirty Rotten Cleaners. 9.30 Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films. 11.05 Why Women Kill. 11.55 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 The Zoo. 10.30 Surf Patrol. 11.00 Horses For Courses. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 2.00 I Escaped To The Country. 3.00 Escape To The Country. 5.00 Horse Racing. Five Diamonds Ladies Day and Saturday Raceday. 6.00 Heathrow. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet In Autumn. 7.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. 12.50pm Avengers.

2.00 Motor Racing. SpeedSeries. Round 8.

Supercheap Auto Bathurst International. 5.00 M*A*S*H. 6.00 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Group stage.

Australia v Bangladesh. First innings. 7.00 M*A*S*H. 7.30 MOVIE: When Harry Met Sally. (1989, M) 9.30 MOVIE: Sex And The City. (2008, MA15+) 12.30am Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 9.00 Snap Happy. 9.30 Diagnosis Murder. 11.30 On The Fly. Noon Escape Fishing With ET. 12.30 Australia

By Design: Architecture. 1.00 Jake And The Fatman. 2.00 JAG. 5.00 Reel Action. 5.30 iFish.

6.00 JAG. 7.00 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 4.

Adelaide United v Sydney FC. 10.15 NCIS. 11.10 48 Hours. 12.05am FBI: International. 1.00 Star Trek: Discovery. 2.00 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

2.35pm Operation Ouch! 3.35 Odd Squad. 4.00 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.30 Spooky Files.

4.50 Miraculous. 5.15 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.35 The Next Step. 6.00 Still So Awkward.

6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 7.35 The Fairly OddParents. 8.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.55 School Of Rock.

9.20 A Kind Of Spark. 11.15 Close.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Caine Mutiny. Continued. (1954, PG) 8.15 Emu Runner.

(2018, PG) 10.00 Vita And Virginia. (2018, M) 12.05pm De Gaulle. (2020, M) 2.05 The Guns Of Navarone. (1961, PG) 4.55 Modern Times. (1936, PG, No dialogue) 6.30 Breaker Morant. (1980, PG) 8.30 Beneath Hill 60. (2010, M) 10.45 Sexual Drive.

(2021, MA15+, Japanese) 12.05am Bleed For This.

(2016, M) 2.15 Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs.

11.00 The 4WD Adventure Show. 11.30 Life Off Road. Noon My Road To Adventure. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 Dipper’s Rigs.

2.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 3.00 To Be Advised. 5.00 Counting Cars. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 Pawn Stars. 7.00 To Be Advised. 9.15 MOVIE: King Arthur. (2004, M) 11.45 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.30pm MOVIE: A Unicorn For Christmas. (2021) 3.10 Motor Racing. FIA World Endurance C’ship.

8 Hours of Bahrain. H’lights. 4.15 A1: Highway Patrol. 5.15 Mr Mayor. 5.45 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. (2011) 7.30 MOVIE: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. (2013, M) 10.30 MOVIE: Inception. (2010, M) 1.30am Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Seinfeld. 8.00 Becker.

8.30 Seinfeld. 9.00 Neighbours. 11.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. 11.30 Frasier.

12.20pm The Masked Singer Australia. 1.30 The King Of Queens. 2.30 The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition. 3.40 Becker. 4.35 Seinfeld. 6.05 The Big Bang Theory. 10.00 Friends. 11.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 3pm News. 3.30 Breakfast Couch. 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 Close Of Business. 5.00 ABC News.

5.30 World This Week. 6.00 ABC Evening News.

6.30 Australian Story. 7.00 ABC National News.

7.30 Heywire. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.15 Four Corners. (Final) 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.15 Planet America: Fireside Chat. 10.00 ABC Late News Weekend. 10.30 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm Food Safari. 1.30 The Cook Up. 2.00 Bizarre Foods. 2.30 Cook And The Chef. 3.00 Mystery Diners. 3.30 Made In Italy. 4.30 Beyond River Cottage. 5.30 Born To Cook. 6.30 Order Up! 7.30 Selena + Chef. 8.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure. 9.40 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. 10.30 Anthony Bourdain: A Cook’s Tour. 11.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 MOVIE: Tarzan. (2013, PG) 11.40 MOVIE: Hunt For The Wilderpeople. (2016, PG) 1.25pm Going Places. 3.25 Kenya Wildlife Diaries. 4.15 MOVIE: Emu Runner. (2018, PG) 6.00 News. 6.10 First People’s Kitchen. 6.40 Ice Cowboys. 7.30 Great Australian Walks With Julia Zemiro. 8.30 MOVIE: Blacula. (1972, M) 10.10 Deadly Funny 2022. 11.20 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm My Lottery Dream Home. 1.30 Log Cabin Living.

2.30 Building Off The Grid: Tiny House On A Lake.

3.30 Restoration Man. 4.30 Island Of Bryan. 5.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 6.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 7.30 Escape To The Chateau. 8.30 House Hunters. 9.30 House Hunters International.

10.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am News. 6.30 News. 7.00 Gameday Live. 8.00 Gameday Live.

9.00 Gameday Live. 10.00 News. 11.00 Weekend Live. Noon Weekend Live. 1.00 Weekend Live.

2.00 News. 2.30 News. 3.00 Weekend Live. 4.00 News. 5.00 News. 6.00 Fox Sports News. 7.00 The US Report. 8.00 The Media Show. 8.30 NewsNight.

9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 Full Time Live. 11.00 Late Programs.

SUNDAY, November 12 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 World This Week. (R) 11.00 Compass. (PG, R) 11.30 Praise. (PG, R) 12.00 News. 12.30 Landline.

1.30 Gardening Aust. (R) 2.30 Shakespeare And Hathaway. (PG, R) 3.15 Grand Designs.

(PG, R) 4.10 Martin Clunes: Islands Of The Pacific. (PG, R) 5.00 Take 5 With Zan Rowe.

(PG, R) 5.25 Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Lap Of Luxury: Escapes Down Under. (PG) 10.00 Welcome To My Farm. (PG) 11.00 Outta Town Adventures.

12.00 APAC Weekly. 12.30 France 24 English News. 1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 Figure Skating.

ISU Grand Prix. Grand Prix de France. H’lights.

5.00 The Point: Road To Referendum History Bites. (R) 5.05 Going Places. (R) 5.35 Underground Army.

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 36. Perth Scorchers v Sydney Thunder.

1.30 Cricket. Women’s Big Bash League. Game 37. Melbourne Renegades v Melbourne Stars.

5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Fishing Aust. (R) 6.30 Drive TV. (PG, R) 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Sports Sunday.

(PG) 11.00 Cross Court. 11.30 Ironman.

Coolangatta Gold. H’lights. 1.00 Fishing Aust.

1.30 Drive TV. (PG) 2.00 Bondi Lifeguard World Adventures. (PGl, R) 2.30 Beach House Hunters. (PG, R) 3.30 Maritime Masters: Expedition Antarctica. (PG) 4.30 Customs.

(PGa, R) 5.00 News. 5.30 Getaway. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.00 GCBC. (R) 9.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 10.00 St10.

(PG) 12.00 The Masked Singer Australia. (R) 1.10 My Market Kitchen. (R) 1.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 2.00 Food Trail: South Africa.

(R) 2.30 Australia By Design: Architecture.

3.00 Cook With Luke. 3.30 Destination Dessert. (R) 4.00 GCBC. (R) 4.30 Luxury Escapes. 5.00 News.

6.00 Antiques Roadshow.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure: Madagascar. (PG) Part 3 of 4.

8.20 Annika. (Ma) Annika and the team investigate when a Scottish millionaire is found dead in a shark tank.

9.10 Shetland. (Mal) Mounting evidence pushes Perez and the team to revise their view of Connor Cairns.

10.10 Total Control. (Final, Malv, R) 11.10 Troppo. (Malv, R) 12.05 Rage Vault. (MA15+adhlnsv) 2.05 Escape From The City. (R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Treasures Of India With Bettany Hughes. (PG) 8.25 MOVIE: JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass. (2021) 10.40 The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show. (PGa, R) 12.05 24 Hours In Emergency. (Ml, R) 1.55 A Short History Of Living Longer. (Ma, R) 2.55 Focus On Ability Film Festival 2022. (PGal, R) 4.05 Going Places. (PGa, R) 4.35 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 France 24 Feature. 5.30 Al Jazeera.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 The 1% Club. (PGls) 8.05 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG) Designer goods have officers suspicious.

8.35 Homicide: With Ron Iddles: Terry Floyd. (PGa, R) A look at the case of Terry Floyd.

9.40 Air Crash Investigations: Deadly Deception. (Mav) A look at Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 013.

10.40 Evil By Design. (M) 11.45 Autopsy USA. (MA15+l, R) 1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 My Mum Your Dad. (PGls) 8.30 60 Minutes.

9.30 Nine News Late.

10.00 Under Investigation. (Mav, R) 11.00 #TextMeWhenYouGetHome. (Mv) 11.50 The First 48. (Mav, R) 12.40 World’s Greatest Engineering Icons. (PG, R) 1.40 Cross Court. (R) 2.10 #TextMeWhenYouGetHome. (Mv, R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PGa) 4.30 Fishing Aust. (R) 5.00 News. 5.30 Today.

6.30 The Sunday Project.

A look at the day’s news.

7.30 Dessert Masters. (Premiere, PGl) Ten of Australia’s greatest pastry chefs, chocolate connoisseurs and baking experts compete.

9.00 FBI. (Mdv) FBI special agents Maggie Bell and Omar Adom “OA” Zidan search for a killer who shot a drug dealer.

10.00 NCIS: Hawai’i. (Mv, R) After a close call at a meth lab explosion, the NCIS team learns Kai is being targeted by an old friend.

11.00 The Sunday Project. (R) A look at the day’s news.

12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS Mornings.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 6.50pm Supertato. 6.55 Shaun The Sheep. 7.05 Karma’s World. 7.20 Bluey. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Altered States. 9.35 You Can’t Ask That. 10.10 Vera. (Final) 11.40 Civilisations. 12.40am Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 1.20 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 2.05 ABC News Update. 2.10 Close. 5.00 Clangers. 5.10 Peg + Cat. 5.25 Bing. 5.30 Sarah & Duck. 5.40 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

9.30 Small Business Secrets. 10.05 Shortland St. 12.05pm Patriot Brains. 1.00 MOVIE: Hunt For The Wilderpeople. (2016, PG) 2.50 Jungletown. 3.40 WorldWatch. 4.10 Shortland St. 5.10 Inside Sydney Airport. 6.10 Kars & Stars. 6.40 Mysteries From Above. 7.35 Abandoned Engineering. 8.30 Race For The Planet. 9.40 Women Beyond Bollywood.

10.40 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs.

1pm The Surgery Ship. 2.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Discover With RAA Travel. 3.00 The Bowls Show.

4.00 Escape To The Country. 5.00 Heathrow.

5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Escape To The Country. 7.30 World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. 8.30 Call The Midwife. 9.30 Miniseries: Bancroft. 10.30 Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railway Journeys. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Skippy. 6.30 Amazing Facts Presents. 7.00 Leading The Way. 7.30 In Touch. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey. 9.00 Turning Point. 9.30 TV Shop. 10.00 Avengers. 11.10 MOVIE: Pink String And Sealing Wax. (1945, PG) 1pm MOVIE: The Courtneys Of Curzon Street. (1947) 3.15 MOVIE: Hawaii. (1966, PG) 6.30 M*A*S*H. 8.30 MOVIE: The Silence Of The Lambs. (1991, MA15+) 11.00 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping.

7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Tough Tested. 9.00 All 4 Adventure. 10.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 JAG. 1pm Luxury Escapes. 2.00 iFish. 2.30 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 4. Melbourne City v Macarthur FC. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 Blue Bloods. 11.15 FBI: International. 12.15am Evil. 1.10 Star Trek: Discovery. 2.05 48 Hours. 4.00 JAG.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

3.30pm Odd Squad. 3.55 The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.25 Spooky Files. 4.50 Miraculous.

5.15 100 Things To Do Before High School. 5.35 The Next Step. 6.00 Still So Awkward. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Mythbusters “There’s Your Problem!”.

7.35 The Fairly OddParents. 7.55 Total DramaRama.

8.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.55 School Of Rock. 9.20 A Kind Of Spark. 9.45 Rage. 11.15 Close.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am A Hero.

Continued. (2021, PG, Farsi) 7.25 Anandi Gopal.

(2019, Marathi) 9.50 Redu. (2017, PG, Marathi) 11.55 The Lunchbox. (2013, PG, Hindi) 1.55pm Jersey.

(2019, Telugu) 4.40 The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir. (2018, PG) 6.30 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 8.30 India Sweets And Spices.

(2021, M) 10.25 The Warrior Queen Of Jhansi. (2019, MA15+) 12.20am Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Hook Me Up! 7.00 Step Outside With Paul Burt. 7.30 Home Shopping.

10.00 Counting Cars. 10.30 Storage Wars. 11.00 Pawn Stars. Noon The Fishing Show By AFN. 1.00 To Be Advised. 5.00 Storage Wars: Miami.

6.00 Border Security: International. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.00 Motorbike Cops. 8.30 MOVIE: Bad Boys For Life. (2020, MA15+) 11.05 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.30pm Mega Zoo. 2.30 Rich House, Poor House.

3.30 A1: Highway Patrol. 4.30 Abby’s. 5.00 MOVIE: The Pink Panther. (2006, PG) 7.00 MOVIE: The Lego Batman Movie. (2017, PG) 9.00 MOVIE: Batman Returns. (1992, M) 11.30 Duncanville.

Midnight Kardashians. 2.00 Rich House, Poor House. 3.00 Teen Titans Go! 3.30 Beyblade Burst QuadStrike. 4.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Friends. 10.30 To Be Advised. 11.40 The Big Bang Theory. 12.10pm Friends. 1.10 The Middle. 2.00 Basketball.

NBL. Round 7. South East Melbourne Phoenix v Melbourne United. 4.00 Basketball. NBL. Round 7.

Sydney Kings v Brisbane Bullets. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Two And A Half Men. 10.00 South Park. 11.00 Friends. Midnight Shopping. 1.30 A Million Little Things. 2.30 Bold. 4.30 Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1.30pm World This Week. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Aust Story. 3.00 News. 3.30 Offsiders.

4.00 Landline. 5.00 News. 5.30 If You’re Listening.

5.45 ABC News Video Lab. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 6.25 Kitchen Cabinet. 7.00 ABC National News. 7.30 Insiders. 8.30 ABC News Tonight. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Australian Story. 10.00 ABC Late News Weekend. 10.30 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2.30pm Made In Italy. 3.30 Asia Unplated. 4.30 Food In Our Time. 5.30 Paradise Kitchen Bali. 6.00 Flat Out Food. 6.30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat. 7.30 James Martin’s French Adventure. 8.30 Nadiya’s Asian Odyssey. 9.30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. 10.30 Anthony Bourdain: A Cook’s Tour. 11.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

1.45pm Niminjarra. 2.00 Around The Traps On NITV. 3.55 Anthem Sessions Interstitials. 4.10 Bamay. 4.55 Going Places. 5.55 Untold History Of The Pacific. (Premiere) 6.10 News. 6.20 Natural Born Rebels. 7.30 Could You Survive On The Breadline? 8.30 Audrey Napanangka. 10.00 MOVIE: The Black Balloon. (2008, M) 11.45 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.30 Restoration Man. 11.30 Rock The Block.

12.30pm Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 1.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 2.30 Log Cabin Living.

3.30 Self Made Mansions. 4.30 Escape To The Chateau. 5.30 House Hunters. 6.30 House Hunters Int. 7.30 Christina On The Coast. 8.30 Flipping 101 With Tarek El Moussa. 9.30 To Be Advised. 10.30 Bargain Mansions. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am News. 6.30 News. 7.00 Gameday Live. 8.00 Sunday Agenda.

9.00 Outsiders. 10.00 Outsiders. 11.00 Business Weekend With Ross Greenwood. Noon News.

1.00 Weekend Live. 2.00 News. 2.30 News. 3.00 Weekend Live. 4.00 News. 5.00 News. 6.00 NewsNight. 7.00 The Sunday Showdown. 8.00 Bernardi. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 NewsNight.

10.30 NewsNight. 11.00 Late Programs.

MONDAY, November 13 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 News. 10.00 Landline. (R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 12.00 News.

1.00 QI. (PG, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.10 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.10 All Creatures Great And Small. (PG, R) 4.55 Back Roads. (R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Destination Flavour.

(R) 9.15 Home Is Where The Art Is. (PG, R) 10.05 Victorian House Of Arts And Crafts.

(PGl, R) 11.15 Great Canal Journeys. (PGa, R) 12.10 WorldWatch. 2.00 Legends Of The Pharaohs. (PGasv, R) 23.15 Mastermind Aust. (R) 3.45 The Cook Up. (R) 4.15 Secret Scotland. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Evil Stepmom. (2021, Mav) 2.00 Autopsy USA: Davy Jones. (Mad, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 My Mum Your Dad. (PGls, R) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 Everyday Gourmet.

(R) 7.30 Ent. Tonight. 8.00 Farm To Fork.

(R) 8.30 GCBC. (R) 9.00 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 9.30 Bold. (PGa, R) 10.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 10 News First: Midday. 1.00 Dr Phil.

(Ma, R) 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.30 Farm To Fork. (Return) 4.00 Neighbours. (PGa) 4.30 Bold. (PGa) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Australian Story.

8.30 Evacuation. (Malv) 9.20 Media Watch. (PG) 9.35 Q+A. 10.40 ABC Late News.

10.55 The Business. (R) 11.10 The Trouble With Maggie Cole. (PG, R) 12.00 Parliament Question Time.

1.00 The China Century. (Mav, R) 2.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.00 One Plus One. (R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 The Secrets Of Coca-Cola: The Billion Dollar Beverage. (PGad, R) 8.35 JFK: The Making Of A President. (Mav) 9.30 Secrets Of The Tower Of London. (PGa, R) 10.20 SBS World News Late.

10.50 My Brilliant Friend. (Malv) 11.55 La Jauria. (MA15+av, R) 3.35 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (PGaw, R) 4.35 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 7News Local.

6.30 7News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGa) 7.30 Big Brother. (Mal) Hosted by Sonia Kruger.

8.45 S.W.A.T. (Mav) When the team responds to a home invasion, they uncover a murderous plot against a famous professional gridiron player.

Hicks gets a long-awaited lead on a Jane Doe case he worked 20 years ago.

10.45 The Latest: Seven News.

11.15 Chicago Fire. (Ma) 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 My Mum Your Dad. (PGls) 9.00 Million Dollar Murders: Gerard Ross. (Mv) 10.10 Reported Missing. (Mav) 11.20 Nine News Late.

11.50 Resident Alien. (Malsv, R) 12.40 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.35 Pointless. (PG, R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PGa) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news and events.

7.30 Dessert Masters. (PGl) Hosted by Melissa Leong and Amaury Guichon.

8.45 The Secrets She Keeps.

(Return, Mal) Two years after her child was kidnapped, someone is dead and Meghan Shaughnessy is being held for murder.

9.45 FBI: Most Wanted. (Mdv, R) The team heads to Washington, DC. 11.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news and events.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS Mornings.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22)

6am Children’s Programs. 7.05pm Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 7.20 Bluey. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 MythBusters. 9.20 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 10.10 Louis Theroux: By Reason Of Insanity. 11.10 Would I Lie To You? 11.40 QI. 12.15am Whose Line Is It Anyway?

12.35 Escape From The City. 1.35 Veneno. 3.25 ABC News Update. 3.30 Close. 5.00 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

9.30 Small Business Secrets. 10.05 Shortland St. 12.05pm Secrets Of America’s Shadow Government. 12.55 Lethal Ladies: NZ Female Fighters. 1.20 The Inside Story. 1.50 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. 3.40 WorldWatch.

5.20 Shortland St. 5.50 Curse Of Oak Island. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats. 8.30 Taskmaster.

9.25 Then You Run. 10.20 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs.

9.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Better Homes. 1pm Business Builders. 1.30 The Real Seachange. 2.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railway Journeys. 3.30 The Zoo. 4.00 Surf Patrol. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Endeavour. 10.30 Air Crash Investigations. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

9.30 Newstyle Direct. 10.00 Danoz. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless.

1.50 Garden Gurus Moments. 2.00 Dr Quinn. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Against The Wind. (1948, PG) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House.

6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Death In Paradise.

8.40 Agatha Raisin. 10.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Healthy Homes Australia. 8.30 All 4 Adventure.

9.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 10.30 JAG. 12.30pm NCIS. 1.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 10.20 Blue Bloods. 11.15 Jake And The Fatman. 12.15am Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

4pm Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 4.20 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 4.45 The Inbestigators. 5.00 Kung Fu Panda. 5.25 Miraculous. 5.45 Hotel Transylvania. 6.00 Turn Up The Volume. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin.

7.35 The Fairly OddParents. 8.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.55 School Of Rock. 9.20 A Kind Of Spark. 9.45 Rage. 11.15 Close.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Man Who Knew Infinity. Continued. (2015, PG) 7.20 Breaker Morant. (1980, PG) 9.20 Modern Times.

(1936, PG, No dialogue) 10.55 Beneath Hill 60.

(2010, M) 1.10pm Corpo Celeste. (2011, PG, Italian) 3.00 A Hero. (2021, PG, Farsi) 5.25 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. (1943, PG) 8.30 Queen Marie. (2019, MA15+) 10.30 Sunset. (2018, M, Hungarian) 1.10am Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs.

1pm Motorbike Cops. 1.30 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 2.30 Drag Racing. NDRC Top Fuel C’ship. Spring Nationals. H’lights. 3.30 Aussie Lobster Men. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Counting Cars. 8.30 Swamp People: Serpent Invasion. 9.30 Swamp People. 10.30 Mountain Men. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

Noon Medium. 1.00 Rich House, Poor House.

2.00 Bewitched. 2.30 Full House. 3.00 MacGyver.

4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The Addams Family.

5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Seinfeld.

8.30 Love Island Australia. 9.45 MOVIE: American Reunion. (2012, MA15+) Midnight Seinfeld. 1.00 Life After Lockup. 2.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Big Bang Theory.

8.30 The Middle. 10.30 Friends. Noon Charmed.

2.00 The Big Bang Theory. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.30 Frasier. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 The King Of Queens. 2.30 A Million Little Things. 3.30 Workaholics. 4.30 Home Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 2pm Parliament. 3.10 News. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 7.30 7.30.

8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Foreign Correspondent.

10.00 The World. 11.00 News. 11.30 The Drum.

12.30am News Overnight. 1.00 News. 1.15 The Business. 1.30 7.30. 2.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm Barefoot Contessa. 2.30 Australia’s Food Bowl. 3.00 The Italian Vegan Chef. (Premiere) 3.30 Choccywoccy. 4.00 Dolce India. 4.30 India.

5.40 Freshly Picked. 6.05 Food Safari. 6.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Luke Nguyen’s India. 8.30 Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy. 9.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 10.30 The Cook Up. 11.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

1.30pm Untold History Of The Pacific. 2.00 Songlines On Screen. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Jarjums. 5.00 Our Stories. 5.30 APTN National News. 6.00 Bamay. 6.30 News. 6.40 Kenya Wildlife Diaries. 7.35 Who The Bloody Hell Are We? 8.35 Singing Country. (Premiere) 9.05 Who We Are: Brave New Clan. 10.00 MOVIE: The Pursuit Of Happyness. (2006) 12.05am Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

11.00 Postcards. 11.30 Getaway. Noon Bargain Mansions. 1.00 Flipping 101 With Tarek El Moussa.

2.00 To Be Advised. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 Hot Properties: San Diego. 4.30 Yard Crashers. 5.00 Christina On The Coast. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 8.30 Christina On The Coast.

9.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation. 10.30 Hawaii Life. 11.00 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Morning Programs. 9.00 News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 News. 2.00 Parliament Live. 3.15 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 Sharri. 6.00 Peta Credlin. 7.00 Bolt Report. 8.00 Chris Kenny Tonight. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 The Late Debate. 10.30 The Late Debate: The Papers. 11.00 Late Programs.

TUESDAY, November 14 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 News. 10.00 Ask The Doctor. (PG, R) 10.30 Dream Gardens. (R) 11.00 Enslaved. (PG, R) 12.00 News. 12.30 Press Club. 1.30 Poh’s Kitchen. (R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.10 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.10 All Creatures Great And Small. (R) 4.55 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Home Is Where The Art Is. (PG, R) 9.55 Victorian House Of Arts And Crafts. (PGl, R) 11.05 Great Canal Journeys. (R) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Legends Of The Pharaohs. (Ms, R) 2.55 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 3.15 Mastermind Aust. (R) 3.45 The Cook Up. (PG, R) 4.15 Secret Scotland. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: A Job To Die For. (2022, Mav) 2.00 Autopsy USA. (Mav, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 My Mum Your Dad. (PGls, R) 1.30 Great Australian Detour. (R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 Everyday Gourmet.

(R) 7.30 Ent. Tonight. 8.00 Farm To Fork. (R) 8.30 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 9.00 Bold. (PGa, R) 9.30 Neighbours. (PGa, R) 10.00 Studio 10.

(PG) 12.00 10 News First: Midday. 1.00 Dr Phil. (Mas, R) 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.10 Ent. Tonight. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Neighbours.

(PGa) 4.30 Bold. (PGa) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Take 5 With Zan Rowe. (Final, Ml) 8.30 Rose Gold. (Ml) 9.55 Tom Gleeson’s Secrets Of The Australian Museum. (PG, R) 11.00 ABC Late News.

11.15 The Business. (R) 11.30 Evacuation. (Malv, R) 12.20 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.35 Parliament Question Time.

1.35 Laura’s Choice. (Madl, R) 2.35 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.00 One Plus One. (R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Great British Railway Journeys: Long Itchington To Moseley.

8.30 The Lost City Of Melbourne. (Md) 10.05 SBS World News Late.

10.35 Miniseries: The Dark Heart. (Mal) 11.25 Paris Police 1900. (MA15+asv, R) 3.50 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (PG, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour: Singapore Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning.

5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 7News Local.

6.30 7News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGa) 7.30 Big Brother. (M) Intruders Bella and Teejay are ready to explore their options for love inside the house.

8.45 The Endgame. (Malv) When a hostage’s life is threatened, Elena calls on a popular news anchor, known as America’s most trusted man, to negotiate her release.

10.45 The Latest: Seven News.

11.15 A Friend Of The Family. (MA15+a) Flashbacks reveal more about B. 12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 My Mum Your Dad. (Final, PGls) 9.00 Paramedics. (Ma, R) 10.00 Embarrassing Bodies. (MA15+mns, R) 11.00 Nine News Late.

11.30 New Amsterdam. (Mamv, R) 12.20 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.10 Pointless. (PG, R) 2.00 Hello SA. (PG) 2.30 Outdoors Indoors.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PGa) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 News. 5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news and events.

7.30 Dessert Masters. (PGl) Hosted by Melissa Leong and Amaury Guichon.

8.40 The Cheap Seats. (Mal) Presenters Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look at the week that was.

9.40 NCIS. (Mav, R) An old pal of Torres’ comes to him, disheveled and bloodied, for guidance before disappearing.

10.40 NCIS: Los Angeles. (Mv, R) 11.30 The Project. (R) 12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS Mornings.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.20pm Bluey. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (Return) 9.10 Ghosts. (Return) 9.40 Rosehaven. 10.10 Portlandia. 10.55 Blunt Talk.

11.25 Fleabag. 11.50 Would I Lie To You? 12.20am MOVIE: The Inbetweeners. (2011, MA15+) 2.00 Staged. 2.25 Mock The Week. (Final) 2.55 ABC News Update. 3.00 Close. 5.00 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.00 Shortland St. Noon In My Own World. 12.55 VICE. 1.30 Gaycation. 2.25 States Of Undress. 3.20 WorldWatch. 5.20 Shortland St. 5.50 Curse Of Oak Island. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 James Webb: $10 Billion Space Telescope. 9.30 Meet The Neighbours.

10.30 Shoresy. 11.25 Monogamish. 12.30am Black Market. 2.20 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs.

8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Harry’s Practice.

9.30 NBC Today. Noon Better Homes. 1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 To Be Advised. 2.30 Air Crash Investigations. 3.30 The Zoo. 4.00 Surf Patrol. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Coroner.

8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Law & Order: UK. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

7.30 Skippy. 8.00 TV Shop. 9.30 Newstyle Direct.

10.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.50 Dr Quinn. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: Eureka Stockade. (1949) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer. 9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 10.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Healthy Homes Australia. 8.30 Diagnosis Murder.

9.30 Jake And The Fatman. 10.30 JAG. 12.30pm NCIS. 1.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 9.25 FBI: International. 10.20 SEAL Team. 11.15 48 Hours. 12.15am Home Shopping.

2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs. 10.45 Deep Dive Into Australia’s Wild Odyssey. 11.05 Children’s Programs. 4.45pm The Inbestigators. 5.00 Kung Fu Panda. 5.20 Miraculous. 5.55 Turn Up The Volume. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin. 7.35 The Fairly OddParents. 8.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

8.55 School Of Rock. 9.20 A Kind Of Spark. 9.45 Rage. 11.15 Close.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 8.00 Corpo Celeste. (2011, PG, Italian) 9.55 Magnetic Fields. (2021, PG, Greek) 11.30 India Sweets And Spices. (2021, M) 1.20pm The Orphanage. (2019, M, Dari) 3.00 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 5.00 Belle And Sebastian 3. (2017, PG, French) 6.40 The Crossing. (2020, PG, Norwegian) 8.30 Waiting For Anya. (2020, M) 10.30 Zoo. (2017, M) 12.20am Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 American Pickers. 11.00 Pawn Stars. Noon Counting Cars. 1.00 Swamp People: Serpent Invasion. 2.00 Truck Night In America. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator. 3.30 Aussie Lobster Men. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Outback Truckers. 9.30 Heavy Tow Truckers Down Under.

10.30 Ice Road Truckers. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

Noon Medium. 1.00 Bewitched. 1.30 Raymond.

2.30 Full House. 3.00 MacGyver. 4.00 Family Ties.

4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 Love Island Australia.

9.40 MOVIE: Get Hard. (2015, MA15+) 11.40 Seinfeld. 12.40am Young Sheldon. 1.05 Life After Lockup. 2.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Becker. 8.00 Basketball.

NBL. Round 7. South East Melbourne Phoenix v Melbourne United. Replay. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier. Noon Becker. 1.00 Seinfeld.

3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.20 Two And A Half Men. 10.10 Seinfeld. 11.10 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 12.30pm Press Club. 1.30 ABC News Day. 2.00 Parliament. 3.10 News. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News. 6.00 ABC Evening News.

7.00 ABC National News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Compass. 10.00 The World. 11.00 News. 11.30 The Drum. 12.30am News Overnight.

12.45 Q+A. 1.45 The Business. 2.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm Barefoot Contessa. 2.30 Australia’s Food Bowl. 3.00 The Italian Vegan Chef. 3.30 Choccywoccy. 4.00 Dolce India. 4.30 India Unplated. 5.30 Freshly Picked. 6.00 Food Safari.

6.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Heston’s Feasts. 8.30 Fun’q With Spencer Watts.

9.00 Hidden Italy. 9.30 Dine With Me UK. 10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

2.15pm Niminjarra. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Motown Magic. 3.25 Aussie Bush Tales. 3.40 Fresh Fairytales. 4.00 Crazy Smart Science. 4.30 Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea. 5.00 Our Stories. 5.30 Indian Country Today News. 6.00 Bamay. 6.30 News. 6.40 Kenya Wildlife Diaries.

7.30 The Casketeers. 8.30 MOVIE: White Chicks.

(2004) 10.25 Faboriginal. 10.55 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 Yard Crashers. Noon Christina On The Coast.

1.00 House Hunters. 2.00 Hawaii Life. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 Hot Properties: San Diego. 4.30 Yard Crashers. 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Escape To The Chateau. 8.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 9.30 Restoration Man. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Morning Programs. 9.00 News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 Peta Credlin. 2.00 Parliament Live. 3.15 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 Sharri. 6.00 Peta Credlin. 7.00 Bolt Report. 8.00 Chris Kenny Tonight. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 The Late Debate. 10.30 The Late Debate: The Papers. 11.00 Late Programs.

WEDNESDAY, November 15 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 News. 10.00 Rick Stein’s Secret France. (R) 10.55 Q+A. (R) 12.00 News.

12.30 Press Club. 1.40 Media Watch. (PG, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.10 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.10 All Creatures Great And Small. (PG, R) 4.55 Back Roads. (R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Home Is Where The Art Is. (R) 9.55 Victorian House Of Arts And Crafts. (R) 11.05 Great Canal Journeys. (PGa, R) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Legends Of The Pharaohs. (Masv, R) 2.55 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 3.10 Mastermind Aust.

(R) 3.40 The Cook Up. (PG, R) 4.15 Secret Scotland. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Student Seduction. (2022, Mav) 2.00 Autopsy USA. (Ma, R) 3.00 The Chase.

4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 My Mum Your Dad. (PGls, R) 1.30 My Way. (R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 Everyday Gourmet.

(R) 7.30 Ent. Tonight. (R) 8.00 Farm To Fork.

(R) 8.30 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 9.00 Bold. (PGa, R) 9.30 Neighbours. (PGa, R) 10.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 10 News First: Midday. 1.00 Dr Phil. (Mad, R) 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.10 Ent. Tonight. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Neighbours.

(PGa) 4.30 Bold. (PGa) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 8.30 Question Everything.

9.00 Australian Epic. (PG) 9.30 Planet America.

10.05 QI. (Mls, R) 10.35 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (R) 11.15 ABC Late News.

11.30 The Business. (R) 11.45 The Line Of Beauty. (Mld, R) 12.45 Parliament Question Time.

1.45 The Trial Of Christine Keeler. (Mals, R) 2.45 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.00 One Plus One. (R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Meet The Neighbours. (M) 8.30 Alone UK. (Mal) 9.30 Boeing’s Fatal Flaw. (PGa, R) 10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 Miniseries: The Night Logan Woke Up. (MA15+d) 12.10 The Investigation. (Ma, R) 1.55 Before We Die. (Malv, R) 3.45 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (PG, R) 4.45 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 7News Local.

6.30 7News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGa) 7.30 Big Brother. (Maln) Hosted by Sonia Kruger.

8.40 A Year On Planet Earth: Compilation. (PGa) A look at the strategies animals like red squirrels, pikas and penguins use to cope with their changing worlds.

9.40 The Amazing Race. (PG) 11.10 The Latest: Seven News.

11.40 A Friend Of The Family. (MA15+a) 1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 ARIA Awards. (Ml) Hosted by Brooke Boney and Tommy Little.

9.30 MOVIE: The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart. (2020, Ml) An exploration of the Bee Gees. Barry Gibb.

11.40 La Brea. (Mv, R) 12.40 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.35 Pointless. (PG, R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. (PGa) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news and events.

7.30 Dessert Masters. (PGl) The contestants are split into three teams of three for a challenging team relay.

8.40 My Life Is Murder. (Return, Mav) Alexa Crowe finds herself in danger when she investigates the death of a tango club’s young teacher.

10.40 To Be Advised.

11.40 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news and events.

12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Hosted by Stephen Colbert.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS Mornings.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.05pm Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 7.20 Bluey. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Doc Martin. 9.20 Bay Of Fires. 10.15 Killing Eve. 11.00 Would I Lie To You? 11.30 Louis Theroux: Altered States. 12.35am Civilisations. 1.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 2.00 ABC News Update. 2.05 Close. 5.00 Clangers. 5.10 Peg + Cat. 5.25 Bing. 5.35 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.00 Shortland St. Noon How To Rob A Bank.

2.30 States Of Undress. 3.20 WorldWatch. 5.20 Shortland St. 5.50 The Curse Of Oak Island. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 Celebrity Letters And Numbers. 9.30 MOVIE: Subject. (2022, M) 11.20 MOVIE: Detective Chinatown 2. (2018, M) 1.30am Romulus. 4.35 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

7TWO (62) 6am Shopping. 6.30 I Escaped To The Country. 7.30 Surf Patrol. 8.00 Shopping. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Better Homes.

1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 To Be Advised.

2.30 The Bowls Show. 3.30 The Zoo. 4.00 Surf Patrol. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat. 8.45 Lewis. 10.45 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.50 Garden Gurus Moments. 2.00 Dr Quinn. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Wherever She Goes. (1951) 5.00 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.00 Antiques Roadshow. 7.00 ICC World Cup: Pre-Game. 7.30 Cricket. ICC World Cup. First semi-final. First innings. 11.00 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Healthy Homes Australia. 8.30 Diagnosis Murder.

9.30 Jake And The Fatman. 10.30 JAG. 12.30pm NCIS. 1.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman. 3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 9.25 Hawaii Five-0. 10.20 Evil. 11.15 Diagnosis Murder. 12.15am Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

3.25pm The Penguins Of Madagascar. 4.20 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 4.40 The Inbestigators. 4.55 Kung Fu Panda. 5.20 Miraculous. 5.45 Hotel Transylvania. 6.00 Turn Up The Volume. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin.

7.35 The Fairly OddParents. 8.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.55 School Of Rock. 9.20 A Kind Of Spark. 9.50 Rage. 11.15 Close.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Corpo Celeste. Continued. (2011, PG, Italian) 6.50 The Crossing. (2020, PG, Norwegian) 8.40 About Elly. (2009, PG, Persian) 10.50 Sunset. (2018, M, Hungarian) 1.30pm The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. (1943, PG) 4.30 The 400 Blows. (1959, PG, French) 6.25 Frantz. (2016, PG, French) 8.30 Churchill. (2017, M) 10.30 A Dangerous Method.

(2011, MA15+) 12.20am Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs.

9.00 America’s Game. 10.00 American Pickers.

11.00 Pawn Stars. Noon Outback Truckers. 2.00 Truck Night In America. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator.

3.30 Aussie Lobster Men. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 The Force: Behind The Line. 9.30 Busted In Bangkok. 10.30 Surveillance Oz: Dashcam. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

Noon Medium. 1.00 Bewitched. 1.30 Raymond.

2.30 Full House. 3.00 MacGyver. 4.00 Family Ties.

4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched. 5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 Love Island Australia.

9.40 MOVIE: Bad Neighbours. (2014, MA15+) 11.40 Seinfeld. 12.40am Young Sheldon. 1.05 Life After Lockup. 2.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Becker. 8.00 Seinfeld.

9.00 Friends. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier. Noon Becker. 1.00 NBL Slam. 1.30 The Big Bang Theory. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.20 Two And A Half Men. 10.10 Seinfeld.

11.10 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 12.30pm Press Club. 1.35 ABC News Day. 2.00 Parliament. 3.10 News. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News. 6.00 ABC Evening News.

7.00 ABC National News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Australian Story. 10.00 The World.

11.00 News. 11.30 The Drum. 12.30am News Overnight. 1.00 News. 1.15 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm Barefoot Contessa. 2.30 Big Appetite. (Premiere) 3.00 The Italian Vegan Chef.

3.30 Choccywoccy. 4.00 Dolce India. 4.30 No Reservations. 5.30 Freshly Picked. 6.00 Food Safari. 6.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Fruits Of The Sea. 8.00 The Chocolate Queen. 8.30 James Martin’s Spanish Adventures. (Premiere) 9.30 Dine With Me UK. 10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. Noon Faboriginal. 12.30 Going Places. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Motown Magic. 3.25 Aussie Bush Tales. 3.40 Fresh Fairytales. 4.00 Crazy Smart Science. 4.30 Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea. 5.00 Our Stories. 5.30 Te Ao With Moana. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 News. 6.50 Volcanic Odysseys. 7.40 BLK: An Origin Story. 8.30 MOVIE: Coextinction. (2021, PG) 10.10 Persons Of Interest. 11.10 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.30 House Hunters. 11.00 Hot Properties: San Diego. 11.30 Yard Crashers. Noon Restoration Man. 2.00 Escape To The Chateau. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 Hot Properties: San Diego. 4.30 Yard Crashers.

5.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Home Town.

8.30 Good Bones. (Return) 9.30 Fixer To Fabulous.

10.30 Self Made Mansions. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6am Morning Programs. 9.00 News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 Bolt Report. 2.00 Parliament Live. 3.15 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 Sharri. 6.00 Peta Credlin. 7.00 Bolt Report. 8.00 Chris Kenny Tonight. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 The Late Debate. 10.30 The Late Debate: The Papers. 11.00 Late Programs.

THURSDAY, November 16 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8, 80)

TEN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 News. 10.00 Aust Story.

(R) 10.30 That Pacific Sports Show. (R) 11.00 Planet America. (R) 11.30 Rosie Batty’s One Plus One. (R) 12.00 News. 12.55 Better Date Than Never. (PG, R) 1.30 Question Everything.

(R) 2.00 Parliament. 3.10 Gardening Aust. (R) 4.10 All Creatures Great And Small. (PG, R) 4.55 Back Roads. (R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 Home Is Where The Art Is. (R) 9.55 Victorian House Of Arts And Crafts. (R) 11.05 Great Canal Journeys.

(R) 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Dare To Hope.

(R) 3.10 The Point: Road To Referendum History Bites. (R) 3.15 Mastermind Aust. (R) 3.45 The Cook Up. (R) 4.15 Secret Scotland.

(PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (R) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost. (2011, Mav, R) 2.00 Kochie’s Business Builders.

2.30 Australia’s Deadliest. (PG, R) 3.00 The Chase. (R) 4.00 Seven News At 4.

5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today.

9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News.

12.00 MOVIE: The Christmas Setup. (2020, PGl) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 The Talk. (PGa) 7.00 Everyday Gourmet.

(R) 7.30 Ent. Tonight. (R) 8.00 Farm To Fork.

(R) 8.30 Judge Judy. (PG, R) 9.00 Bold. (PGa, R) 9.30 Neighbours. (PGa, R) 10.00 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 10 News First: Midday. 1.00 Dr Phil. (Mad, R) 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.10 Ent. Tonight. 3.30 Farm To Fork. 4.00 Neighbours.

(PGa) 4.30 Bold. (PGa) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Bill Bailey’s Wild West Australia. (PG) 8.50 Grand Designs. (Ml, R) 9.40 Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked. (Mln, R) 10.40 ABC Late News.

10.55 The Business. (R) 11.10 Rose Gold. (Ml, R) 12.35 Parliament Question Time.

1.35 Q+A. (R) 2.40 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.00 One Plus One. (R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R) 6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 Secret World Of Snacks. (Premiere, PGs) 8.30 Adam And Poh’s Great Australian Bites.

9.30 Erotic Stories. (MA15+als) 10.35 SBS World News Late.

11.05 Devils. (Mal) 12.55 The Stranger. (Malv, R) 4.15 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning.

5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 7News Local.

6.30 7News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Big Brother. (M) The house is in full swing, with housemates all coupled up. Hosted by Sonia Kruger.

8.50 MOVIE: Bridesmaids.

(2011, MA15+ls, R) Two best friends have a falling out after one of them asks another person to be her maid of honour. Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne.

11.25 The Latest: Seven News.

12.00 Pearson. (Malv, R) 1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 ICC World Cup: Pre-Game.

Hosted by Roz Kelly and Mark Taylor.

7.30 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Second semi-final. First innings. From Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India.

11.00 ICC World Cup: Innings Break. Takes a look at the play so far.

11.30 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Second semi-final. Second innings.

3.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Believer’s Voice Of Victory.

(PGa) Religious program.

4.30 Cross Court. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news and events.

7.30 Soccer. 2026 AFC Asian FIFA World Cup Qualifier. Round 2. Australia v Bangladesh. From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

10.30 The Cheap Seats.

(Mal, R) Presented by Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald.

11.30 Blue Bloods. (Mav, R) Danny’s friend is hospitalised after an attack.

12.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news and events.

1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Hosted by Stephen Colbert.

2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS Mornings.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions (a) Adult themes (d) Drug references (h) Horror (s) Sex references (l) Language (m) Medical procedures (n) Nudity (v) Violence.

ABC TV PLUS (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 7.20pm Bluey. 7.30 Spicks And Specks.

8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Hard Quiz. 9.00 Question Everything. 9.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 10.15 Australian Epic. 10.45 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 11.05 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 11.50 Would I Lie To You? 12.20am Adam Hills: The Last Leg. 1.05 Live At The Apollo. 1.50 Louis Theroux: By Reason Of Insanity. 2.50 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.00 Shortland St. Noon Land Of The Giants: Titans Of Tech. 12.50 Prison Experiment. 1.40 Hunters. 2.30 Munchies Guide To Sweden. 3.20 WorldWatch. 5.20 Shortland St. 5.50 Curse Of Oak Island. 6.40 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Beyond Oak Island. 10.10 Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons. 11.05 Murdered By A Mob. Midnight Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Shopping. 6.30 I Escaped To The Country. 7.30 Surf Patrol. 8.00 Shopping. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Harry’s Practice. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Better Homes.

1.00 I Escaped To The Country. 2.00 To Be Advised.

2.30 My Greek Odyssey. 3.30 The Zoo. 4.00 Surf Patrol. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 I Escaped To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown.

9.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

7.30 Skippy. 8.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Days Of Our Lives.

12.55 The Young And The Restless. 1.50 Garden Gurus Moments. 2.00 Dr Quinn. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: I Believe In You. (1952, PG) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Keeping Up Appearances. 8.40 The Brokenwood Mysteries. 10.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Soccer. A-League Men. Round 4. Adelaide United v Sydney FC. Highlights. 8.30 Diagnosis Murder. 9.30 Jake And The Fatman. 10.30 JAG. 12.30pm NCIS. 1.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 2.30 Jake And The Fatman.

3.30 Diagnosis Murder. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 Bull. 8.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 FBI. 11.15 FBI: International. 12.15am Home Shopping. 2.15 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 JAG.

ABC ME (23)

6am Children’s Programs.

4pm Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 4.20 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 4.45 The Inbestigators. 5.00 Kung Fu Panda. 5.25 Miraculous. 5.45 Hotel Transylvania. 6.00 Turn Up The Volume. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 6.45 Merlin.

7.35 The Fairly OddParents. 8.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 8.55 School Of Rock. 9.20 Yaz Queens. 9.50 Rage. 11.15 Close.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Magnetic Fields. Continued. (2021, PG, Greek) 6.40 Frantz.

(2016, PG, French) 8.50 Belle And Sebastian 3.

(2017, PG, French) 10.30 Zoo. (2017, M) 12.20pm Waiting For Anya. (2020, M) 2.20 The Crossing.

(2020, PG, Norwegian) 4.10 About Elly. (2009, PG, Persian) 6.20 From Here To Eternity. (1953, PG) 8.30 Hurricane. (2018, MA15+) 10.30 White Squall.

(1996, M) 12.55am Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 American Pickers. 11.00 Pawn Stars. Noon Highway Patrol. 1.00 The Force: BTL. 2.00 Truck Night In America. 3.00 Billy The Exterminator.

3.30 Aussie Lobster Men. 4.30 Storage Wars. 5.00 American Restoration. 5.30 American Pickers.

6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Family Guy. 8.30 American Dad! 9.30 Darradong Local Council. 10.45 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

Noon Medium. 1.00 Bewitched. 1.30 Raymond.

2.30 Full House. 3.00 MacGyver. 4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.00 Bewitched.

5.30 I Dream Of Jeannie. 6.00 Raymond. 7.00 Young Sheldon. 7.30 Survivor 45. 9.00 Love Island Australia. 10.15 I’ve Got A Text With Josh And Flex!

11.00 Botched By Nature. Midnight Under The Dome. 1.00 Life After Lockup. 2.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. 7.00 Becker. 8.00 Seinfeld. 9.00 Friends. 10.00 The King Of Queens. 11.00 Frasier.

Noon Becker. 1.00 The Big Bang Theory. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Seinfeld. 11.30 Frasier.

Midnight Shopping. 1.30 Stephen Colbert. 2.30 King Of Queens. 3.30 Workaholics. 4.30 Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 2pm Parliament. 3.10 News. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 7.30 7.30.

8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Planet America. 10.00 The World. 11.00 News. 11.30 The Drum. 12.30am News Overnight. 1.00 News. 1.15 The Business. 1.30 7.30. 2.00 DW News. 2.30 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm Barefoot Contessa. 2.30 Big Appetite. 3.00 The Italian Vegan Chef. 3.30 Choccywoccy. 4.00 Dolce India. 4.30 Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted. 5.30 Freshly Picked. 6.00 Food Safari. 6.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 7.00 The Cook Up. 7.30 Fruits Of The Sea. 8.00 Paula McIntyre’s Hamely Kitchen. 8.30 Guillaume’s Paris. 9.00 Paradise Kitchen Bali. 9.30 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

1.50pm Kutcha’s Carpool Koorioke. 2.00 Bamay.

2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Jarjums. 4.30 Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea. 5.00 Our Stories.

5.30 The 77 Percent. 6.00 Bamay. 6.30 News.

6.40 Volcanic Odysseys. 7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 8.30 The Panthers. 9.30 No Ordinary Black. 9.40 MOVIE: Jindabyne. (2006, M) 11.50 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 Yard Crashers. Noon Good Bones. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 Home Town. 2.30 The Block. 4.00 Hot Properties: San Diego. 4.30 Yard Crashers.

5.00 Fixer To Fabulous. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 House Hunters Renovation. 8.30 Fixer Upper. 9.30 My Lottery Dream Home. 10.30 Unsellable Houses. 11.30 Late Programs.

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6am Morning Programs. 9.00 News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 Sharri. 2.00 Parliament Live. 3.15 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 Sharri. 6.00 Peta Credlin. 7.00 Bolt Report. 8.00 Chris Kenny Tonight. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 The Late Debate. 10.30 The Late Debate: The Papers. 11.00 Late Programs.

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November 9, 2023

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The NR Times Rural News

RURAL NEWS 33

A good deal, or no deal for Aussie farmers in Europe CANEGROWERS, the peak representative body for Australia’s sugarcane farmers, has joined the National Farmers’ Federation in urging the Federal Government to step away from free trade negotiations with the European Union rather than sign a bad deal for Australian farmers.

Federal Trade Minister Don Farrell will meet with his EU counterpart in Japan later this week, to discuss and possibly even agree to a free trade deal.

However, there appears to be little of value to agriculture on the table, with CANEGROWERS Chairman Owen Menkens warning that “the current proposal could leave Australian farmers disadvantaged for at least a generation”.

“We haven’t seen a final offer from the Europeans, but if whispers out of Canberra are to be believed, meaningful tariff-free

access for agricultural produce is a long way off,” Mr Menkens said.

According to recent media reports, the tariff-free sugar quota being offered by the EU does not provide commercially meaningful access for Australian exporters.

“Contrast this with the recently signed AUS-UK Free Trade Agreement and the difference

couldn’t be more apparent,” Mr Menkens said.

“The Australian Government was successful in negotiating a deal with the UK that provided tariff free access for 80,000 tonnes of sugar in the first year, increasing by 20,000 tonnes per year for eight years, at which time all quotas and tariffs on Australian sugar would

be lifted.

“The EU needs sugar.

They regularly import two million tonnes of raw sugar per year to meet their domestic demand. And European sugar refiners are crying out for access to the type of high quality, sustainably produced sugar we produce here in Australia.

“However, the EU seems unwilling to

offer meaningful access that would benefit both the Australian and the European economies.

“While distance may mean that Europe may never be a major market, it most definitely could be a premium market for Australian sugar, with our high-quality and reliable supply justifying a premium price.

“Our position is consistent with the

National Farmers’ Federation and all other agricultural industries.

If the offer on the table does not improve, the Australian Government should step away from negotiations and continue discussions at another time.

“Rather than making a deal for the sake of expedience. We should continue discussions and get a better outcome. A delay is better than being saddled with a bad deal.

“Trade Minister Farrell and the Australian negotiators have been working night and day on this agreement, and they have consulted with industry and been strong as they look for the right outcome for Australia.

“CANEGROWERS will continue to work with the government on this issue, as we have done for the past five years, but now is not the time to agree to a deal that Europe wants but actually sends Australian agricultural exports backwards.”

Farmers fearful of 11th hour dud deal with EU Farmers are urging the Australian Government not to sign an impending trade deal with the European Union unless major improvements are put on the table for Aussie farmers.

Preliminary negotiations are underway in Brussels this week ahead of a meeting on the sidelines of the G7 Trade Ministers’ meeting in Osaka next week.

NFF President Fiona Simson said farmers were fearful of being sold out at the 11th hour.

“We have grave concerns that Minister Farrell is headed to Osaka with his signing pen at the ready.

“We’re yet to hear any indication that the EU is willing to put a commercially meaningful deal on the table.

“Everything we’ve

seen so far would actually send parts of our sector backwards.

We’ve never seen a proposed trade deal like it.”

Farmers urged the Trade Minister to exercise patience and restraint, given the long term impacts of the deal.

“The message from Australian farmers is clear and united: if it’s a dud deal, keep the signing pen in your

pocket.

“A photo op at the signing table lasts five minutes, but a dud deal will dictate our fortunes for a generation.”

Farmers have warned that recent proposals would put them at a disadvantage to commercial competitors like Canada, New Zealand and South America.

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“We appreciate their work, but we don’t want to agree a deal just because we’ve worked hard on it, or because the EU throws its weight around.

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“We want to see a good deal for everyone.

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The highly anticipated Fishers for Fish Habitat Forum 2023 in Mildura on the 3rd and 4th of November is set to put Mildura firmly on the map as the leading base of freshwater fish habitat conservation in Australia.

The event promises to bring together the fishing community and associated stakeholders to take a deep dive into how the community can help improve some of the issues facing the Murray Darling Basin.

Experts in the industry will share their knowledge and ideas about the latest developments in native fish management, fish habitat and what can be done to make it thrive.

Recreational fishers, landholders and interested community members are invited to converge on the picturesque town on the Murray River for the two-day free conference.

The annual conference is made available to the community through the NSW Recreational Fishing Trusts and is presented by the Fish Habitat Network and OzFish Unlimited, Australia’s recreational

fishing charity.

And the best part of the conference for anyone interested in coming along is that it’s free to attend and includes all meals on both days for those who register to attend.

Anyone interested in attending needs to sign up online with OzFish at ozfish.org.au/events by Tuesday, October 24 to guarantee a spot.

For everyone to learn, collaborate and act on initiatives which will activate further improvements on Australia’s waterways, both on land and under the surface.

Day one includes a boat trip and bus tour to see restoration works along the Murray River while day two features presentations from a range of speakers from fisheries research and the recreational fishing community, followed by a gala dinner.

Braeden Lampard, OzFish’s Murray-Darling Basin Program Manager, said it was a privilege to host the event in Mildura and this year’s event was on track to be the biggest and best ever.

“We want people to come together and discuss what’s next for their local fishery in the

Murray-Darling Basin,” he said.

“We’ve got a whole range of speakers to cover a wide variety of topics to kick-start that discussion.

“It’s a whole new line-up of speakers and it’s going to be the biggest one we’ve had yet. We’ve scaled it up so that even if you’ve attended one of these forums before, you’ll be hearing new topics and ideas.”

He added that several of the speakers will be focused on issues that affect the local region.

“We’ve got Sascha Healy from the Lower Murray Darling Wetland Working Group, she’s going to be speaking on the benefits of environmental water to wetlands, fish, vegetation, frogs and waterbirds in the area,” he said.

“Lubin Pfeiffer from The Full Scale Fishing Adventures will be speaking all things about catching Murray cod in the Murray River with a whole new presentation specifically for this forum, which I’m very eager to see.

“Travis Dowling, the chief executive of the Victorian Fisheries Authority, will discuss

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This event is also a Yabby Trap Drop Spot. Bring any old and unwanted opera house yabby traps to the Midway Centre, on the Saturday between 8:30am to 9:20am and 4:00pm to 4:45pm, and swap it for an Oar-Gee Plow lure to support sustainable fishing practices. These old traps will be broken down and recycled into new fishing gear by OzFish and their partners.

The forum is funded through the NSW Recreational Fishing Trusts and is presented by the Fish Habitat Network. The event is supported by the NSW Government, the Australian Government through the CRC Program, Murray Darling Basin Authority, Edward-Wakool Angling Association, Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group, the Murray Darling Healthy Rivers program, Victorian fisheries Authority, Women in Recreational Fishing and Boating, Barkindji Maraura Elders Environment Team and BCF – Boating, Camping in partnership with OzFish.

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RURAL NEWS 35

New President launches national campaign against anti-farming policies An unprecedented campaign against anti-farming policies has been launched today by new NFF President David Jochinke in his first day in the role.

Speaking in Canberra at the National Farmers’ Federation National Conference, Mr Jochinke called on parliamentarians to stand up against policies which threaten to slash billions from farm production.

“Farmers have always put food on the table for Australians and clothes on our backs, but decisions are being made in Canberra that will make it harder to do.

“They’re taking away the water, land and

workers needed to grow food. That means fewer farmers doing what they do and when farmers grow less, everyone pays more,” he said.

The national campaign, titled Keep Farmers Farming, will focus on key issues such as water buybacks in the Murray Darling Basin; the proposed ban of live sheep exports to the Middle East; worker shortages on farms and in the food supply chain; environment laws; transmission lines and competition policy.

Today’s campaign launch comes only weeks after a national survey of more than 1600 farmers revealed

falling confidence in the farming sector and reservations about the approach of the Albanese Government.

The survey found the majority of farmers (54.3 per cent) thought the Federal Government’s policies were harming

the industry, and only 31.2 per cent thought they were doing a good job for farmers.

Mr Jochinke urged farmers and consumers to unite behind the campaign and show their support by signing an open letter to the Prime

Minister, contacting their local MP or making a donation to the campaign.

“In the coming months, decisions by the Federal Government threaten to shave billions off farm production. We need support to ensure we have the right policies that help keep farmers farming,” he told the audience.

Specific outcomes sought as part of the “Keep Farmers Farming” campaign include: • Blockage of the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill, which lifts the cap on water buybacks in the Murray Darling Basin; • Abandonment of

plans to ban live sheep exports to the Middle East; • A shake-up of Australia’s competition laws to secure a fair deal for consumers and farmers; • A dedicated visa pathway for agricultural workers; • A mandatory code of conduct for transmission projects; and • Balanced reform of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) to maintain productive land use.

For more information, head to keepfarmersfarming. org.au.

Have your say on 10-year Trout Cod recovery roadmap The NSW Government is committed to recover Trout Cod populations in NSW, with the draft Trout Cod Action Plan 2023-2033 now open for public consultation.

NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Deputy Director General Fisheries, Sean Sloan, said the draft roadmap has been developed to provide a clear path forward for long-term recovery of this iconic native species.

“The draft plan includes short, medium and long-term priority actions to transition towards de-listing Trout Cod as a threatened species,” Mr Sloan said.

“Trout Cod only have a few small selfsustaining populations

left in the wild in NSW and are in significant decline; without a coordinated approach to recovering the species, there is a real risk of extinction in NSW.

“The goal of the draft action plan is to re-establish viable Trout Cod populations in priority areas across their former range to once again support cultural

and recreational fisheries over the long term.

“Recovery of a threatened species like Trout Cod doesn’t happen overnight – it takes a coordinated

approach between the government and our communities.

“Don’t miss this opportunity to have your say on the actions to support recovery of this

key threatened species over the next 10 years.”

In addition to the Have Your Say website, DPI Fisheries staff will also be undertaking a roadshow during November to consult directly with First Nation and recreational fishing communities on the draft action plan at key locations including Barooga, Wagga Wagga, Bathurst and Queanbeyan.

The public consultation will be open for five weeks, closing on Friday 17 November.

To view the draft Trout Cod Action Plan 20232033 and to provide feedback, visit https:// www.nsw.gov.au/haveyour-say/draft-trout-codaction-plan-2023-2033

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November 9, 2023

36 RURAL NEWS

Another Tough Season Ends with High Hopes for the Next The sugarcane crushing season has come to end with the Broadwater mill crushing the last of the 2023 crop.

The last bin was tipped at 3.45pm on Friday 3rd November, which took the annual crop for the Richmond River to 307,546 tonnes.

The Harwood sugar mill was the first to finish the year after crushing 404,799 tonnes of cane by 2.30am on Monday 23rd of October.

At Condong the mill finished crushing for the season on Thursday 2nd November at 10:21am, having crushed a total of 398,760 tonnes.

The 2023 season has been another year of mixed emotions as the region continues to work through crop recovery and decreased sugar supply.

Whilst a lengthy dry period made for ideal harvesting conditions and encouraged higher than average CCS (sugar

content) across all areas, it also created drier than ideal conditions for early planting.

The dry did delay planting of new crops for some growers keen to boost their production area and take advantage of the record high prices on offer. The rain that came in late October and early November, however, has provided a promising injection of moisture for both the ratoon crops and new plantings.

Sunshine Sugar CEO Mr Chris Connors said, “The positive outlook for sugar prices is playing a key role in sustaining the NSW sugar industry as it continues to rebuild from the flood events of 2022.”

“Whilst the 2023 season was a short one, we were prepared for it and had put measures in place to safeguard and support our growers and our business. We did this by supplementing our

raw sugar stocks with supply from Queensland to maintain production in our refinery, which in turn has enabled us to maintain sales to our domestic customers.”

Looking ahead, more crops are coming online as growers replant, and in some cases, expand their cropping area. As such, the three local sugar mills expect to see a much longer season next year as these new crops come online.

The NSW sugar indsutry has a track record spanning more than 150 years. The resilience demonstrated by local sugarcane growers and the industry as a whole continues to resonate across the Northern Rivers as increased production and higher prices see the industry go from strength to strength and demonstrate its ongoing capacity to generate jobs and income into the future.

Marquis Macadamias’ Historic Entry into India Celebrated at Australian Macadamia Festival in Mumbai Marquis Macadamias, a prominent name in the global macadamia industry, announces a historic achievement with its first shipment of macadamias to India under the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA). The inaugural shipment arrived in India just in time for the Australian Macadamia Festival, held from September 30 to October 14 in Mumbai, where Marquis Macadamias played a pivotal role as a key supplier.

“We were delighted to be a supplier of the Australian Macadamia Festival”, stated Claudia Lordao, Marketing Manager at Marquis Macadamias. “We firmly believe this marks the beginning of an exciting journey in India.”

The Australian Macadamia Festival, organised by the Australian Macadamia Society, was a two-week culinary celebration that showcased the rich history, culture, and flavours of Australian macadamias to the Indian audience. The event featured collaborations with skilled chefs from popular local restaurants,

engaging Indian media, chefs, food bloggers, social media influencers and trade partners. The immersive experience aimed to position Australian macadamias as a beloved and highly sought-after nut in the Indian market.

Funding for the Festival was provided under the Queensland Government’s Food and Fibre to Market: Industry Partnerships program, highlighting the importance of government support in promoting international trade.

“Our first shipment of macadamia products is now gracing the shelves of select Indian stores.

Witnessing the genuine interest and appreciation for our macadamias was truly special. Marquis is confident that our small,

nutrient-packed nuts will soon find a permanent place in the hearts and pantries of Indian consumers.”

“This milestone event marks a significant step in the Australian macadamia industry’s expansion into the Indian market and Marquis Macadamias looks forward to building a strong presence and establishing itself as a leading supplier of premium Australian macadamias in India”, conludes Mrs Lordao.

The Marquis Group is 100% grower-owned, processing over 34,000 tonnes per annum through Marquis Macadamias Australia and Marquis Macadamias Africa. Both regions are significantly ramping up capacity over the coming years.

NFF calls on crossbenchers to vote against Basin Plan rewrite As legislation to rewrite the Murray Darling Basin Plan is debated in the House of Representatives this week, farmers are calling on members of the crossbench to reject the Bill.

NFF Water Committee Chair Malcolm Holm said Parliament had a chance to force the Government back to the table to restore consensus.

“The bill is poorly

constructed and raises more concerns than it solves. It tears up the plan agreed by environmental experts and communities.

“It terminates bipartisan support for the Plan. It’s lost the support of the states, and it’s lost the support of community and farming groups who have always backed the Plan in good faith.”

The NFF said the Government needed

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to do its homework on options to improve river health before asking Parliament to sign a blank cheque on buybacks.

“We all want healthy rivers. But there are smart, cost effective interventions the Government can make to get the outcomes we all want.

“Things like carp eradication, fish breeding programs, bank restoration and better wetland management could be done without shutting down a single farm.

“Options to directly invest in outcomes, as well as water efficiency measures, are sitting on the Minister’s desk. If we’re going to fundamentally rewrite the plan these complementary measures should be counted if it’s a genuine attempt to meet strategic environmental outcomes.

“The Government has decided that listening to local knowledge

holders and bringing communities along is too burdensome.

Instead they’re trying to bulldoze through with a plan to remove socioeconomic protections from the Plan, so they can pursue unlimited and unnecessary buybacks.

“We know from Victorian Government modelling that this will cost up to 1,500 jobs and shave $855 million off farm output. That’s devastating for these small communities, and it’s a price every Australian will

ultimately pay at the supermarket checkout.

“To ask Parliament to sign a blank cheque for the Minister to shut down farms, squeeze supply and push up food prices, when there’s been no regulatory impact assessment, no consultation with communities, and no assessment of the alternatives is just so irresponsible.

“What this bill does is make our supply chains more vulnerable.

Supermarket shelves were empty during

COVID. Right now we’re facing the prospect of milk shortages. Once you take farms offline there’s no bringing them back, that’s the permanent impacts of buybacks.

“We’ve not even seen details on how communities would be supported through this painful exercise – just vague platitudes.

“No politician should want to be remembered for supporting this Bill,” Mr Holm concluded.

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The Northern Rivers Times

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K’gari – A sandy paradise

By Liam Jennings K’gari, (previously known as Fraser Island), is a captivating jewel off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. Boasting the title of the largest sand island globally, K’gari is a UNESCO World Heritage site that embraces an unparalleled amalgamation of natural wonders, cultural heritage, and diverse ecosystems. This 1,840 square-kilometre island is not only home to stunning landscapes

but also encapsulates a captivating history dating back thousands of years.

K’gari’s geography is a masterpiece crafted by the forces of nature over millions of years. The island’s foundations lie in colossal sand dunes that stretch up to 240 meters above sea level.

These ancient dunes, approximately 700,000 years old, set the stage for an astonishing array of landscapes that include lush rainforests, pristine freshwater lakes, and breath-taking coastal cliffs.

One of the island’s

most renowned features is its more than 100 freshwater lakes, scattered like glistening gems across the sandy terrain. Among these, Lake McKenzie stands out, a surreal spectacle of sapphire blue waters embraced by powderywhite silica sands. Lake Boomanjin, the largest perched lake in the world, amazes visitors with its mysterious tea-coloured waters, born from the accumulation of organic matter over the centuries.

K’gari’s rainforests offer a captivating

contradiction – a lush canopy of towering trees and vibrant undergrowth growing entirely on sandy soil. Here, unique plant species like Satinay, Brush Box, and the rare Fraser Island Turpentine thrive in conditions unlike any other rainforest on the planet. Strolling through these lush ecosystems provides a sense of wonder, immersing visitors in a world where nature defies the norm.

Beyond the incredible landscapes, K’gari boasts a rich and diverse range of wildlife. The

island is renowned for being the habitat of a purebred population of dingoes, which have roamed its sandy plains for thousands of years.

However, it’s essential for visitors to respect the coexistence guidelines to ensure both human and dingo safety.

Among the many other inhabitants, one can spot agile wallabies hopping through the forests, curious echidnas foraging for food, and a multitude of bird species soaring across the skies. The coastal waters surrounding

the indigenous name, K’gari. Their connection to the land, their culture, and their history are interwoven with the island’s natural beauty.

Visitors to K’gari can learn about the Butchulla people’s customs, traditions, and Dreamtime stories through guided tours and interpretive centres. It’s a chance to gain insight into a heritage that stretches back millennia and find a deeper appreciation for the land’s significance.

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K’gari are teeming with marine life, including dugongs, turtles, and a vibrant assortment of fish, offering a feast for the eyes and a testament to the island’s ecological significance.

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unparalleled journey through time and nature.

Its striking landscapes, diverse ecosystems, and rich cultural heritage create a haven for travellers seeking to explore a truly unique destination. As you walk through the rainforests of sand, dive into the crystal-clear lakes, and encounter the island’s fascinating wildlife, you can’t help but be captivated by the timeless allure of K’gari – a living testament to the beauty and fragility of our natural world.

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Mazda’s Iconic SP: A Revival of the RX-7 with the Possibility of Electric and Internal Combustion Power Options Not the NE MX-5, but rather, Mazda’s electrified sports car concept marks the revival of the iconic RX series...

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t the Japan Mobility show, Mazda, a company with a storied 103-year history, showcased its unwavering commitment to its sports car heritage, with a pronounced emphasis on the iconic MX-5. The booth featured a captivating line-up, including the original ‘NA’ MX-5, an updated ‘ND’ model, a hand-control variant for accessibility, and an adorable kids-sized roadster designed to capture hearts.

Amid the buzz and anticipation, the spotlight was also on the muchawaited NE MX-5, which is poised to stay

true to the brand’s triedand-true lightweight roadster formula, likely with minimal hybrid technology integration.

At the core of the NE MX-5’s powertrain is a twin-rotor combustion engine, serving as a generator for the battery and electric motors.

It’s a nod to Mazda’s legendary rotary engine heritage, with ‘RX’ signifying ‘Rotary Experimental.’

The 2023 Iconic SP, with its powertrain, closely mirrors the setup seen in the MX-30 R-EV, albeit with a substantial power boost, producing a robust 270kW (compared to the MX-30’s 125kW).

This is a technology that Mazda is keen on advancing, as Kotoro Minagawa, Mazda’s manager of product, planning, and corporate communications in Japan, shared with Wheels.

“We just launched the MX-30 REV, and we haven’t yet got feedback from the market. [The MX-30 REV] is going to be launched in Japan and Europe, and we’d like to see the feedback from the customers, and then we move further into development of the R-EV two-rotor system.”

However, the question remains: what if the R-EV system doesn’t

gain widespread approval? Mazda appears to be considering alternative powertrains for the Iconic SP, possibly including pure electric or hybridized internal combustion power.

“With this package, the [Iconic SP] can be an electric vehicle, or it can be an internal combustion engine with carbon-neutral fuel,” Minagawa explained, highlighting Mazda’s versatility in adapting to different powertrain options.

The Iconic SP fits into Mazda’s line-up somewhere between the ND MX-5 and the

legendary FD RX-7, although its proportions tend to lean closer to the latter. With twice the power and a target weight of 1430kg, it becomes evident that the Iconic SP is not merely an evolution of the ND MX-5 but represents a different breed of sports car.

Visually, the Iconic SP features elements reminiscent of the FD RX-7, including the iconic pop-up headlights and fluid, organic curves.

Mazda’s European design director, Jo Stenuit, went as far as to acknowledge the strong presence of RX-7 design cues in the Iconic SP. “For me, it’s an RX.

When I look at the design cues, especially in this colour, I see the RX-7… It’s wider, lower, and longer than an MX5,” Stenuit remarked, underscoring the model’s distinct identity.

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40 REAL ESTATE

Casino independent set to cash in with shift to Raine & Horne Rural Highlights • Prominent independent real estate firm Meridian Property Group, led by dynamic duo Kate Morgan and Gary Mortimer, joins forces with real estate powerhouse Raine & Horne.

• Raine & Horne Rural Casino will gain a competitive edge with access to first-to-market technology like Amplify, enhancing its marketing precision and reach.

• Raine & Horne Rural Casino has already scored several early wins, including listing a magnificent 560-acre property at 807 Tunglebung Creek Road, Tunglebung, for $2,850,000 Prominent Casino independent real estate firm Meridian Property Group has taken the significant commercial step to align with leading real estate powerhouse Raine & Horne.

This strategic decision coincides with Raine & Horne’s rapid expansion into the rural property market through their rapidly expanding brand, Raine & Horne Rural.

The Northern Riversbased real estate office, established in 2017, will now operate as Raine & Horne Rural Casino, as well as Raine & Horne Casino for residential sales and property

management.

The dynamic duo of Kate Morgan and Gary Mortimer will lead the new office. Other members of the team, Michael Downes, Gail Copper and Mathew Morgan, will continue to support Mrs Morgan and Mr Mortimer in their decision and are excited to be part of the next chapter for the business.

According to Mrs Morgan, the move to Raine & Horne Rural was a simple choice.

“We were finding it challenging to compete independently against offices associated with other brands.

“We’re predominantly a rural-based business, and we’re very interested in the direction Raine & Horne Rural is going with its aggressive push to expand,” she said.

“We can’t wait to get going and join the rush. We wanted to shift to Raine & Horne Rural months ago, but processes and steps exist to make it all happen.”

Travis Wentriro, NSW Network Manager, Raine & Horne Group, said he was excited about working with Raine & Horne Rural Casino as Mrs Morgan, Mr Mortimer, and the team embark on their new chapter of growth.

“Kate and Gary’s dedication to the rural

property market is commendable, and we anticipate great things from this partnership.

The future certainly looks promising for the rapidly expanding Raine & Horne Rural and our new Northern Rivers flagship, Raine & Horne Rural Casino.”

Early gains from association with Raine & Horne Rural Even before the official launch of Raine & Horne Rural Casino, Mrs Morgan and Mr Mortimer’s affiliation with the superbrand yielded substantial rewards. The office recently listed an increasingly scarce 560acre parcel of land at 807 Tunglebung Creek Road in Tunglebung for $2,850,000.

“There’s no denying that being part of Raine & Horne Rural positions us to compete for more significant rural property listings. This property is the cream of the crop in the Casino region and can run 185 cows and calves on its ear,” Mrs Morgan said.

Another primary reason for rebranding as Raine & Horne Rural Casino includes the opportunity to tap into Raine & Horne’s ecosystem of technology firsts, such as the AI-powered digital marketing platform Amplify.

“Amplify is a point of difference between us and the other agencies in town,” Mrs Morgan said.

“We love that Amplify will put more of our property listings in front of more people than we, or our competitors, can now.

“Another advantage of Amplify’s strategy is its precision in targeting, which enables us to reach individuals actively seeking properties of a specific nature. This service has not been readily available to vendors in our region up until now, and we are proud to be the ones to bring this offering to market.”

Mrs Morgan continued, “Interestingly, the owner of 807 Tunglebung Creek Road was drawn by Amplify. He extended an invitation to us “to come out, sit down around the table and have a yarn.

He said, “I want to know more about Amplify.”

Local farmers to lifestyle buyers drive Casino rural property markets According to Mrs Morgan, local farmers usually acquire most of the rural property between 800 and 1,000 hectares. In comparison, smaller parcels from around 100 to 200 acres tend to draw interest from individuals seeking a lifestyle change and

who often have minimal agricultural experience.

“We recently sold a lifestyle property of 350 acres at Ewingar for $520,000 that could run 40-50 heifers on it to a couple from the Central Coast of NSW with no farming experience. They fell in love with the area and were determined to have the property in question,” said Mrs Morgan.

“The rural property market has been pretty quiet, but over the last month, we have noticed many more enquiries, which could relate to more buyer confidence now that interest rates seem to be on hold.”

While NSW’s Northern Rivers has gained recognition for its prominent cattle industry, it boasts diverse rural property types.

“The agricultural sector in this region is not solely centred on cattle. It all depends on the specific areas you’re interested in exploring. If you venture out towards Ewingar and Drake, you’ll find more distinctive lifestyle properties,” said Mrs Morgan. “To the east of Casino, the focus shifts towards farming.”

Affordable family living and commuting convenience Regarding the residential market, Mrs Morgan says Casino,

conveniently located just 2.5 hours from Brisbane, is an ideal choice for prospective buyers seeking spacious and affordable properties, especially those with growing families.

For example, Raine & Horne Casino has listed a spacious 4-bedroom house for sale at 112 Sheppard Street, Casino.

This ideal family home with size, position and outlook that ticks all the boxes is for sale for a very affordable $565,000.

“Casino experienced an influx of buyers during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it seems that the market has now returned to a more normal state,” Mrs Morgan said.

“Nevertheless, some people still appreciate the advantages of making a green change by moving to a town like Casino.

“This allows for the flexibility of working from home a few days a week while maintaining the option of commuting to Brisbane for work when necessary.”

For all your rural and residential sales and property management needs in Casino and surrounding areas, contact Raine & Horne Rural Casino and Raine & Horne Casino on 02 6662 6666 or visit the office at 100-102 Walker Street, Casino.

Councils must be part of the housing density solution Councils are seeking urgent talks following reports that seven zones in the Sydney

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The President of Local Government NSW, Cr Darriea Turley AM, said that for the plan to succeed, councils needed to be part of the solution not sidelined.

“I urge the Government to cooperate and include local councils and their communities in any future planning decisions for these sites,” Cr Turley said.

Without community buy-in these plans will be very difficult to accomplish.

“Councils are the closest level of government to the community, and need to be a key voice in the process.

“We all want liveable communities with high quality housing.

“Home buyers investing their life savings in these higher density developments have a right to know the homes they buy are long-lasting quality builds. ”We need to ensure all these conditions are met to give communities fresh confidence in higher density housing.”

Cr Turley said an additional key requirement to get communities on board was a clear commitment by the Government to provide critical local infrastructure, including roads, public transport,

parks, public schools and hospitals before any housing is approved.

“It’s not acceptable to drastically increase housing supply and suburban populations without the infrastructure to support them,” she said.

She noted that the Government had offered the Opposition a full briefing on the proposal

in a bid to secure bipartisan support.

“I’m calling on the Premier to give councils the same briefing,” she said.

“We have consistently sought to take a collaborative and positive approach to working with the Government to help ease the housing crisis.”

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REAL ESTATE 41

Over 1.57 million Australians are now ‘At Risk’ of ‘mortgage stress’ representing 30.3% of mortgage holders.

New research from Roy Morgan shows a record high 1,573,000 mortgage holders (30.3%) were ‘At Risk’ of ‘mortgage stress’ in the three months to September 2023. This period encompassed three RBA meetings at which interest rates were left unchanged.

The figures for September represent a new record high, up 7,000 on a month ago.

Over 760,000 more households at risk of mortgage stress after a year of interest rate increases The number of Australians ‘At Risk’ of mortgage stress has increased by 766,000 since May 2022 when the RBA began a cycle of interest rate increases.

Official interest rates are now at 4.1% in October 2023, the highest official interest rates since May 2012, over a decade ago.

The number of Australians ‘At Risk’ of mortgage stress (1,573,000) is at a record high. The proportion of mortgage holders at 30.3% remains below the record highs reached during the Global Financial Crisis of 15 years ago because of the larger size of the Australian mortgage market today. The record high of 35.6% of mortgage holders in mortgage stress was reached in mid-2008.

The number of mortgage holders considered ‘Extremely At Risk’, is now numbered at 1,043,000 (20.5%) which is now

significantly above the long-term average over the last 15 years of 15.3%.

Mortgages ‘At Risk’ set to increase to over 1.58 million if RBA raises rates by +0.25% in November Roy Morgan has modelled the impact of two potential RBA interest rate increases of +0.25% in both November (+0.25% to 4.35%) and December (+0.25% to 4.6%).

In September, 30.3% of mortgage holders, 1,573,000, were considered ‘At Risk’ and this would increase to 30.4% of mortgage holders by November 2023 if the RBA increases interest rates next week.

If the RBA raises interest rates by +0.25% in November to 4.35%, there will be 30.4% (up 0.1% points) of mortgage holders, 1,581,000, considered ‘At Risk’ in November 2023 – an increase of 8,000.

If the RBA raises interest rates by a further +0.25% in December to 4.6%, there will be 31.0% (up 0.7% points) of mortgage holders, 1,612,000, considered ‘At Risk’ in December 2023 – an increase of 39,000.

How are mortgage holders considered ‘At Risk’ or ‘Extremely At Risk’ determined?

Roy Morgan considers the risk of ‘mortgage stress’ among Mortgage holders in two ways: Mortgage holders are considered ‘At Risk’[1] if their mortgage

repayments are greater than a certain percentage of household income – depending on income and spending.

Mortgage holders are considered ‘Extremely at Risk’[2] if even the ‘interest only’ is over a certain proportion of household income.

Unemployment is the key factor which has the largest impact on income and mortgage stress It is worth understanding that this is a conservative model, essentially assuming all other factors remain the same. The latest Roy Morgan unemployment estimates for September show almost one-infive Australian workers are either unemployed or under-employed – 2,893,000 (18.9% of the workforce); (‘Real’ unemployment drops to 10.2% in September – now 2.9 million are unemployed (1.6 million) or under-employed (1.3 million)) – an increase of 129,000 (+0.3% points) on a year ago.

While all eyes are on interest rates the greatest impact on an individual, or household’s, ability to pay their mortgage is not interest rates, it’s if they lose their job or main source of income.

Michele Levine, CEO Roy Morgan, says mortgage stress increased to a new record high in September with 1,573,000 mortgage holders considered ‘At Risk’ of mortgage stress as the RBA’s series of 12

Mortgage Stress – Owner-Occupied Mortgage-Holders

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source (Australia), average interviews per 3 month period April 2007 – September 2023, n=2,759.

Base: Australians 14+ with owner occupied home loan.

interest rate increases continue to flow through to the wider mortgage market: “The latest Roy Morgan data shows mortgage stress in the Australian housing market has increased to a new record high of 1,573,000 mortgage holders defined as ‘At Risk’ in September 2023. This represents a substantial increase of 766,000 mortgage holders since the RBA began a record-breaking series of interest rate increases nearly eighteen months ago in May 2022.

“The figures for September 2023 take into account all twelve RBA interest rate increases which lifted official interest rates from 0.1% in May last year to 4.1%

by June 2023. Since then, the RBA has decided to leave interest rates unchanged at its last four meetings.

“The RBA’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged in recent months came as inflation decreased compared to earlier this year.

However, in recent months inflation has ‘reaccelerated’ and moved upwards. The latest ABS CPI monthly figures for the year to September 2023 show Australian inflation at 5.6%, up 0.4% points from August and up 0.7% points over the last two months.

“This is the first time official inflation has increased for two straight months so far this year – the last time was at the cyclical peak in

December 2022 at 8.4%.

The increases to inflation are not surprising though considering the increase in energy and fuel prices in recent months.

“The average retail petrol price has averaged above $1.90 per litre for a record 12 straight weeks since early August – beating a previous record run at such a high price in May-July 2022. During mid-2022 Inflation Expectations increased rapidly from 5.3% to 5.9% - up 0.6% points. The latest weekly Inflation Expectations data for mid-October shows the measure at 5.2% for the week to October 29 – up 0.3% points since midSeptember and averaging 5.3% over the last four weeks.

“The increases to petrol prices are being driven by a decline in the value of the Australian Dollar which dropped below 63 US cents in midOctober to its lowest since November 2022.

As long as the Australian Dollar stays low, and petrol prices stay high and even increase further, there will be additional inflationary pressures in the economy.

“These pressures are adding to calls for the RBA to raise interest rates again and are a key factor for why we have modelled two further interest rate increases.

If the RBA does raise interest rates next week by 0.25%, Roy Morgan forecasts mortgage stress is set to increase to over 1.58 million mortgage

holders (30.4%) considered ‘At Risk’.

“Of even more concern is the rise in mortgage holders considered ‘Extremely At Risk’, now estimated at 1,043,000 in September 2023. This figure has more than doubled since the RBA began raising interest rates, representing an increase of over 560,000 mortgage holders.

“When considering the data on mortgage stress, it is always important to appreciate interest rates are only one of the variables that determines whether a mortgage holder is considered ‘At Risk’. The variable that has the largest impact on whether a borrower falls into the ‘At Risk’ category is related to household income – which is directly related to employment.

“The latest figures on mortgage stress show that rising interest rates are causing a large increase in the number of mortgage holders considered ‘At Risk’ and further increases will spike these numbers even further. If there is a sharp rise in unemployment, mortgage stress is set to increase even more.”

These are the latest findings from Roy Morgan’s Single Source Survey, based on in-depth interviews conducted with over 60,000 Australians each year including over 10,000 owner-occupied mortgage-holders.

Mortgage Risk at different level of interest rate increases in November & December 2023

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source (Australia), July – September 2023, n=3,836. Base: Australians 14+ with owner occupied home loan.

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November 9, 2023

42 WINE

Grape Expectations by Max Crus

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Phone fatale.

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he problem began exactly two years ago which I know because a friend told me a new one comes out every year. They’re up to number 15.

Back then a mate rang, excited, “Mate, get the new iPhone13, the camera is amazing”. So I ditched a decade of dedication to ‘Droids and did.

Later we were chatting on (what I thought were)

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our iPhone13s. “Mate, you were right, the camera is amazing but it’s a crap phone”, I opined.

“Oh, I don’t use it as a phone”, he replied.

I got the same feeling once when chatting to another friend - “Don’t tell me the score”, to which he replied, “Sure. Swans by ten goals”.

Strictly speaking he didn’t and strictly speaking it was a good camera too,

but I wanted something else. Namely a phone.

So, after two years of enduring a phone devised by marketing types for people who want to show off their packaging and couldn’t give two hoots about functionality unless it was weirdly eccentric and well, sometimes downright silly, I swapped back to the conspiratorial world of Bill Gates and Google, got myself

unvaccinated and a Samsung, again.

Okay, I am no longer welcome at book club and trendy wine bars and can’t be in a text group-chat with iPhone types, and okay, I could probably still use an ‘airdrop’ thingy, but I don’t know what it’s called, and anyway, I only used Apple’s twice in two years.

Okay, the face recognition was better, and the reception, but apart

from that, Mrs Lincoln, the play was pretty good.

Yes, my battery now lasts for days and calls and texts and anything associated with them is a cinch again, yoohoo, and I’m no longer under the spell of Apple High Priests who made my music, purchases and, well, life difficult…hey, is that coercive control?

Yet all is not as it seems.

In my absence, Samsung have changed a few other

things in their phones that used to be good, but they don’t tell you that when you buy it, do they?

Mate, you thought changing banks and electricity providers was fraught! Can’t go forward, can’t go back. Why can’t someone just make a phone with the best bits of both?

Struth, winemakers invented rosé with the best bits of red and white, how hard can it be?

Greenskin Margaret River Rosé (Grenache) 2022, $25 ($150 per six pack). Who doesn’t like a best before date? Oddly, the Greenskin syrah does but this doesn’t so will live forever. The packaging says it’s unbreakable and who doesn’t want to test that?

Very slurpable lunchtime, light, Provencal style rosé too, before the fun begins.

9.1/10.

Greenskin Margaret River Syrah 2020, $33 ($198 per sixpack). Okay the packaging isn’t as sexy as some unless you are a die-hard greenie (like us), and you need to be careful when first opening the pack but once you have cleaned up the mess you can feel good about yourself while making yourself feel

good indulging in very respectable WA syrah.

9.3/10.

Miss Zilm Clare Valley Fiano 2023, $28. As soon as you think there’s not enough interesting white wine around, you experiment and before you know it, you’re spoiled for choice. You can happily experiment with this one.

9.3/10.

Miss Zilm Clare Valley Watervale Riesling 2023, $28. Some rieslings, although lovely, are a bit too dry and acidic to encourage another glass.

This is not such a riesling.

Sharp enough but soft enough to over indulge if you’re not careful. Perhaps they could put a Goldilocks Zone on the riesling scale.

9.4/10.

Hinton’s Hundred Coonawarra Sauvignon Blanc 2023, $19.

The fragrant grassy, passionfruity palate of sauvignon blanc is staging a proper come back and we should all get on board the Pullman carriage as we head into summer. It’s so much more fun than any of the pinot greys. 9.3/10.

Hinton’s Hundred

Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2022, $19.

Pretty sure ‘Hundreds’ are some kind of land notation somewhere between a block and a district, although in the modern vernacular is perhaps a gambling term.

If the latter, spend your money on this instead… as the advertising suggests, “imagine what you could buy instead?”. 9.2/10.

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COOKING 43 51 COOKING

BREAKFAST EGG AND HAM MUFFINS CHICKEN POT PIES 5m prep 15m prep

8m cook 40m cook

44servings servings

5 INGREDIENTS 12 INGREDIENTS •• •• •• • •

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• 2 x 150g pkts Cauliflower & Broccoli • Mixed salad leaves, to serve Spray a frying pan with oil. Heat over medium Step 3 heat. Cook ham, turning, for 2 to 3 minutes or until Place 4 muffin halves on a baking tray lined with light golden. Transfer to a plate. Cover to keep foil. Place 1 egg on each muffin. Top each with warm.

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Add tomato, beans, and bouquet over a saucepan half-filled with simmering water, garni. Season. Change cooker setting to High. stirring occasionally, until smooth.

Set aside for Cover. Cook for 3-4 hours or until vegetables are5 minutes to cool.

Step 3 Stir the whisked egg into the chocolate mixture.

fresh sprigs thyme, 2 fresh sprigs rosemary) 200g cavalo nero (Tuscan cabbage), stem removed, leaves shredded servings 2 thick slices18 Italian bread (pane di casa), lightly toasted, torn into chunks 40g (1/2cup) finely grated parmesan, (or vegetarian hard cheese) 215g (1 cup) caster sugarplus extra shaved, to serve 115g (3/4 cup) plain flour 1 lemon, juiced, zested 35g (1/3 cup) cocoa powder Finely chopped continental parsley, to serve

Sift over the top the sugar, flour and cocoa powder, and stir tender. until just combined. almost Step4 Step 2 Stir inthe cavalo nero, bread and parmesan.

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Serve topped with parsley, lemon zest and extra Step 5 parmesan.

Bake for 40 minutes or until crumbs cling to a skewer inserted into the centre. Set aside in the pan for 6 hours or overnight to cool.

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Cancer tumour energy changes and how Lifestyle factors increase risk Article Five In the last article, I discussed angiogenesis processes by tumour cells (creating a line for food and energy) and how important nutrition is. In this article, I will show how tumour cells change our energy production and two common lifestyle factors that can increase risk to us, and the people close to us.

Cancer cell energy deregulation Cancer cells are always looking to grow, mutate and invade other regions in the body.

To do this, the cells need to have increased sources of energy available. Typically, our body produces energy, requiring oxygen to be present.

The energy produced this way is called aerobic metabolism, which makes energy at a slower rate, usually using a combination of lipids and glucose. This will produce energy for our normal activities; however, the tumour derails this process, using glucose as the main source (even if oxygen is present) allowing a higher rate

of energy replenishment (called the Warburg effect).

The downside of this process is higher lactic acid production, possible increased inflammatory responses, and, ultimately, the creation of an ideal environment

cardiovascular) helps in multiple ways by enabling the body to help our body find the tumour (discussed in previous articles) and maintaining our bodies natural immune system at the peak of its ability.

It will also help our body

consumption of alcohol.

These two lifestyle factors cause multiple changes that increase our risks, no matter how little we may consume.

Smoking According to the Australian Cancer Council, smoking is

to passive smoke. It has shown that in cases of lung cancer, a person who has a partner who smokes regularly may increase the risks of the non-smoker being diagnosed with lung cancer by up to 30%.

Smoking enables the

for a cancer tumour.

Unfortunately, this process allows the cells to dodge or evade normal cellular death (apoptosis) due to the tumour having enough energy to sustain defect or mutated cells.

Exercise (both resistance and

maintain normal energy processes, reducing the effect of the tumour deregulation.

Lifestyle factors Two of the most common lifestyle factors which are associated with several forms of cancer are smoking and

attributed to 20% our our national cancer burden.

Smoking is considered (by many countries) as the largest preventable factor causing cancer.

Not only does it affect the person who is smoking, it affects those that are exposed

damaging and mutation of cells which then increases the probability of uncontrolled tumour growth. Not only does it affect the smoker and those that passively smoke, it can alter our chromosomes that we pass onto our

children, creating an epigenerational increased susceptibility to multiple cancer types. Would you chose to continue knowing you could be affecting your children or grandchildren?

Alcohol Alcohol causes damage to cells in the same process that smoking does. Alcohol increases inflammatory responses in the body, which may help create a perfect microenvironment for cancer tumours. There is now comprehensive evidence that alcohol is also attributed to increased risks of multiple cancer types such as liver, breast, and colon.

Both these lifestyle factors do not have to be consumed in excess to increase risk of cancer.

Looking at our lifestyle, small changes can have an exponential reduction of the risk of cancer diagnosis.

In the next article I will look at some of the common chemotherapy treatments and how the medication used has effects on tumours.

Have a great week everyone and stay safe.

David

Govt funding breaks “treatment drought” for hardto-treat heart failure Ethical Strategies Government funding breaks “treatment drought” for hard-totreat heart failure A first-of-its-kind medicine for heart failure caused by a stiff heart muscle is now subsidised by the Federal Government for hundreds of thousands of Australians.

From today (1 November), Jardiance® (empagliflozin 10mg) is available through the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme (PBS) for adults living with symptomatic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction – a condition

with a five-year survival rate similar to some cancers, and for which

treatment options are extremely limited.

In people with heart

failure with preserved ejection fraction, the heart becomes too stiff

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction means the heart is too stiff to properly fill with blood.

to properly fill with blood, compromising the supply of oxygen to the

body. This debilitating condition accounts for around half of all chronic heart failure cases in Australia, leaving people fatigued, short of breath and at increased risk of being hospitalised and dying.

Professor Andrew Sindone, a cardiologist and heart failure expert from Sydney, said the PBS listing of Jardiance for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction “marks a turning point for a life-threatening heart condition which has proven incredibly hard to treat”.

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HEALTH & SENIORS NEWS 45

Wearable heart monitor ticks all the boxes for better healthcare: study

RMIT University A new compact, lightweight, gelfree and waterproof electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor offers more comfort and less skin irritation, compared to similar heart monitoring devices on the market.

ECGs help manage cardiovascular disease – which affects around 4 million Australians and kills more than 100 people every day – by

“Nearly half of the people who have heart attacks do not realise what’s happening until it’s too late,” Elango said.

“My dream is a world with zero preventable heart attacks.”

Elango was one of the top 10 competitors at the recent Falling Walls Lab Australia 2023 Final at the Australian Shine Dome in Canberra, where he gave a pitch about the ECG device.

devices are usually bulky, heavy and have 12 ‘wet’ electrodes connecting the patient to the device, whereas the RMIT invention can fit in the palm of your hand,” Bhaskaran said.

“The device has just three ‘dry’ electrodes that are almost invisibly thin, can sense even the slightest signals of a heart in distress, and can also be recycled.”

Wet electrodes contain a conductive gel to

monitoring ECG data recorded over time helps obtain important diagnostic information concerning the activity of the patient’s heart.

To conduct continuous monitoring, Elango said dry electrodes offered some significant advantages.

“Dry electrodes prioritise user comfort, remain durable over time and reduce the likelihood of skin irritation,”

such as swimming and showering – unlike other ECG monitors.

“These attributes make them ideal for continuous monitoring – a crucial feature for wearable ECG devices.”

After extensive experimentation, the team discovered that a hexagonal design was the “winning formula”, as it suits the curvy nature of skin and active lifestyles and more accurately captures ECG

– ideal for patients in the aged care sector, including for someone with dementia who may remove it from their chest.”

But it wasn’t all about design aesthetics, Elango said.

“We also dived into the nitty gritty of how different body areas influence ECG measurements. This yielded valuable insights to enhance sensor

An artist’s impression of the RMIT ECG device, showing the various layers including a dressing, Bluetooth module and dry electrodes. Credit- Supplied by the research team

Inventors PhD scholar Peter Elango and Professor Madhu Bhaskaran holding the dry electrodes, which are part of the RMIT ECG device. Credit- Seamus Daniel, RMIT University

The dry electrodes (foreground), dressing and Bluetooth module that form parts of the RMIT ECG device. Credit- Seamus Daniel, RMIT University

alerting users to seek medical care.

The team led by RMIT University in Australia has made the wearable ECG device that could be used to prevent heart attacks for people with cardiovascular disease, including in remote healthcare and ambulatory care settings.

While most wearable ECG monitors typically weigh a few hundred grams, the RMIT device weighs only 10 grams.

The latest research is published in AIP Applied Physics Reviews.

Lead author PhD scholar Peter Elango from RMIT said heart attacks often occurred with little or no warning, as signals were difficult to spot without continuous monitoring.

increase cardiac signals, while dry electrodes do not need this gel to operate effectively.

“Wet electrodes are uncomfortable, dry out over time and have been known to cause skin irritation,” Bhaskaran said.

The team’s experiments tested the RMIT miniaturised threeelectrode ECG device’s sensing performance against a 12-electrode wearable monitor on the market, demonstrating a comparable level of precision in capturing the heart’s electrical activity.

“The RMIT device efficiently captures the heart’s activity, whether the user is at rest or experiencing stress,” Bhaskaran said.

Enabling continuous

signals, compared with other wearable devices on the market.

“The device can capture ECG signals even when it is fitted behind a person’s neck

RMIT has filed an international patent (PCT) application to protect the ECG device that the team developed.

“RMIT is exploring ways to translate the work into a commercial product, and we are in discussions with partners regarding potential licensing opportunities,” Elango said.

Optimising design and comfort Professor Madhu Bhaskaran, Deputy Director (Research) of the ARC Hub for Connected Sensors for Health at RMIT said the team’s focus was on improving the electrode design and materials for increased performance as well as comfort.

“Commercially available wearable ECG

Elango said.

“The electrodes are also hydrophobic, meaning they don’t get wet, and so a user can wear the device while they do activities in the water

performance,” he said.

“The dry electrodes, which are less than one tenth the width of a human hair, are highly sensitive to the cardiac signals of the user.”

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46 GARDENING

Staying Sun Safe While Gardening

Gardening is a rewarding and therapeutic activity that many of us cherish.

It connects us to nature, offers physical exercise, and often results in beautiful and productive landscapes. However, in the excitement of planting and tending, it’s easy to forget that the sun, while essential for our plants, can pose risks to us. Sunburn, heat stress, and long-term UV damage are real concerns for gardeners. Here’s how to ensure you stay

sun safe while indulging in your green thumb passions.

Understanding the Risks • Sunburn: Direct sun exposure, especially during peak hours, can lead to painful burns which, over time, can increase the risk of skin cancers.

• Heat Exhaustion: Extended periods in the sun, coupled with physical exertion, can lead to symptoms like heavy sweating, rapid

pulse, dizziness, and even fainting.

• Long-term UV Exposure: Cumulative UV exposure is a significant factor in skin aging and has been linked to various skin cancers.

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pm, so it’s best to avoid outdoor tasks during these hours.

• Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of water throughout your gardening activities. This helps maintain body temperature and replaces any fluids lost through sweating.

• Create Shaded Areas: Install structures like pergolas, umbrellas, or shade cloths in parts of the garden where you work most. This way, you can enjoy gardening

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COMMUNITY NOTICES must be emailed to community@ heartlandmedia.com.au before 3pm Fridays Phone numbers only, no email addresses Get the word out about your Club, Membership, Events, etc ALSTONVILLE ALSTONVILLE RSL SUB-BRANCH meets on the second Saturday of the month, with morning tea at 10am followed by the meeting, then a light luncheon from 1200.

All ex-service persons and families are welcome to attend the lunch.

ALSTONVILLE BRANCH OF THE RED CROSS The Alstonville Red Cross branch meets monthly in Alstonville. As meeting dates sometimes vary, please call Carol on 0424 742 774 for details of our next meeting.

CRAWFORD HOUSE MUSEUM - Join Alstonville Plateau Historical Society for a celebration of all things gardening, past and present, from botanicals to gnomes.

Our latest exhibition, Spade Work, features the garden at Crawford House Museum through the ages, as well as the award-winning gardens of the Alstonville area. It will run until Friday 24th November.

Crawford House Museum is at 10 Wardell Road Alstonville and is open on Fridays 10am-4pm and Sundays 1pm - 4pm or at other times by appointment for groups. There are facilities for research about Ballina Shire families, as well as books about local history, including reprints of “Forgotten Railways”, “Rous Mill” and “Recognising Alstonville District Citizens Volume 1”.

For enquiries, call 6628 1829 or visit www.aphsmuseum. org.au. By the way, we have openings for people of any age to volunteer in administration or in the museum and, if you’re on a Jobseeker payment and 55 or older, it’s a great way to meet your mutual obligation requirements. If you’re interested, visit us at the museum or call us.

CRAWFORD HOUSE MUSEUM - Calling all gnome enthusiasts! November is “Gnomevember” at Crawford House Museum’s “Spade Work” exhibition and on Sunday 12th November from 1.00pm to 4pm we’re holding a Gnome Jamboree. Join us for a fun-filled afternoon to celebrate all things garden gnome. Bring along a garden gnome for entry into the Known Gnome, Unknown Gnome and Ungnome competition and dance the Garden Gnome Macarena.

Refreshments will include fairy bread and green slime punch and the cost will be a gold coin donation payable at the gate.

Crawford House Museum is at 10 Wardell Road Alstonville. enquiries, call 6628 1829 ALSTONVILLE PROBUS CLUB meets on the last Thursday of each month at Plateau Sports Club at 10.00 am. This commences with a cupper and chat, with the formal meeting commencing at 10.30 which includes an interesting guest speaker. All visitors are welcome.

ALSTONVILLE QUOTA CLUB- A local women’s service club that meets on the

1st Tuesday of the month at the Plateau Sports Club. Quota is committed to supporting and improving the physical and mental wellbeing of the disadvantaged in our community through local projects.

We are called PLATEAU QUILTERS ALSTONVILLE we meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the Month at the RSL Hall Alstonville from 1pm until 4pm New members would be most welcome. Rhonda Bonner 66298267 EMBROIDERERS GROUP Meetings are 9.30am-2.30pm 1st and 3rd Wednesdays and 2nd Saturday of each month except December and January.

Our venue is the Resource Centre at the rear of Crawford House Museum, Alstonville.

We welcome embroiderers of all ability levels to meet, share and learn.

MCLEANS RIDGES CRAFT GROUP meet at the McLeans Ridges Hall, Cowlong Road, McLeans Ridges on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 9.30am to 3.30pm.

Scrapbooking, card making, paper craft, knitting whatever takes your fancy. Come along for an enjoyable day.

Bring your own morning tea and lunch. Coffee, tea, milk provided. A small fee to cover hall hire. Ph 0401 047 513.

THE RETURNED AND SERVICES LEAGUE OF AUSTRALIA (NSW Branch ALSTONVILLE SUBBRANCH - Alstonville RSL sub-Branch will now hold their monthly meetings on the second Wednesday of the month at 11am at the RSL Hall, 13 Bugden Ave (next door to the Alstonville Medical Centre). All ex-Service persons are welcome to attend, and we have a convivial morning tea on completion of the meeting.

Alstonville RSL sub-Branch have a ‘Lower Deck Luncheon’ at 1200 each Friday, everyone is welcome, we sit out the back of the Hall, order lunch from local suppliers, and have great conversations with good mates.

There is always plenty of support & advice on any issue!

BALLINA BALLINA BRANCH OF INNER WHEEL AUSTRALIA meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 11.30. Our objective is to share friendship and passion for community service in our local area as well international projects. If you would like more information, please contact our President Joan Hetherington on 0402 885091 or Secretary Chris Penn on 0427 807135 Anyone interested in their convict family history from any of the many fleets who journeyed here are very welcome to join our group.

This includes spouses and friends of any descendants interested in history. We meet every two months and our next meeting will be held on Sunday 26th November at the Cherry Street Sports Club, Ballina at 10. 30am.If you are interested

please contact Roddy Jordan on 66875339 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A NEW HOBBY???

COME AND JOIN THE HEADLINERS CHORUS We are an all-female group of all ages who love to sing “Acappella” in 4-part Barbershop harmony. We are well known in the Northern Rivers community and would love you to join us. Come along to a rehearsal on Monday nights from 7pm and for more information see our website or enquire to Tracey Ezzy on 0438 446 809 BALLINA ARTS & CRAFTS CENTRE INC. (BACCI) - We are a diverse group of Artists and Crafters that participate in wonderful group exhibitions.

Over 50 members are from all over the Northern Rivers.

Meetings are usually on the 1st Monday of every month at the Cherry Street Sports Club.

Social gathering at 5, for a 5.30 start.

Ph: Deb on 0432105540 BALLINA BRIDGE CLUB “Social play every Monday 9-11.30am”. Sessions for all levels of players on Mon, Wed, Sat from 1pm to about 5pm. Be seated at 12:45.

Restricted session (under 300 Masterpoints) Thu 1pm – about 5pm. Friday mornings, Help with Play. Open to anyone who would like some help with their game from teachers on duty. 9am to about 11:15pm.

Sessions are $5 for members and $7 for visitors at 13 North Ck Rd, Ballina.

Call Judy Forsyth: 0407664337.

BALLINA CWA Branch - Ladies who are at a loose end on a Wednesday morning might like to come and join our happy band of members and friends. We meet every Wednesday from 9:00 am to noon at the Ballina CWA Rooms on River Street (next to the RSL) and you will have the opportunity to learn many crafts from fellow ladies.

Gai, our Handicraft Officer, is there to lend a hand when help is needed. She also teaches us new handicraft techniques. If you have any UFOs (unfinished objects), why not call in to see us for the morning? For any queries relating to our Wednesday gatherings, please contact Ballina Branch Handicraft Officer: Gai Mason – 0433 129 339 Morning tea is served at a cost of just $3. All are welcome. Mahjong is played in our rooms every Wednesday and Thursday from 12:30 pm at a cost of $4. Everyone is welcome. Ballina CWA Rooms will be closed from Thursday, 30 November, through to Friday, 15 December inclusive for major repair works to the building and no access will be available. There will be no MahJong during this period – we apologise for any inconvenience.

Our final Handicraft/Friendship Morning for 2023 will be on Wednesday, 29 November, which will be our Christmas Lunch for our CWA Members and Handicraft Friends.

Please contact Branch President: Lyn Davidson 0404 034 654 for meeting information.

BALLINA COASTAL QUILTERS - We meet at the North Lakes Community Hall in Whiting Way, Ballina on a Wednesday twice a month from 9 am to 2 pm.

The group gives opportunities for friendship, support, and socialisation. and to celebrate our creative achievements in the area of quilting and related stitchery. We encourage our members to seek and share knowledge of their skills.

New members would be most welcome. The cost is $5 per session Georgia 66876834 BALLINA LADIES PROBUS CLUB - We are taking a bus to Pacific Fair for a shopping trip on Wednesday, November 29th. Cost is $26.00. The bus

will pick up at Alstonville, West Ballina, and the Ballina RSL. For more information and to book a seat, call Pamela 0405 776 977 Our last meeting of the year will be at Ballina RSL Club on Wednesday Dec. 6 at 10am, followed by a Christmas Lunch at one of the Club’s dining rooms. For further information call Beryl on 0419 258 282 BALLINA EVENING VIEW CLUB Meets on the second Wednesday of each month at the Ballina RSL Club at 6.30 for dinner at 7pm - Guests are always welcome. Our members support the education of disadvantaged children in Australia by fundraising activities and social events in our local community for The Smith Family - by sponsoring 5 Learning for Life students. Ph: Julie Stephan 0434988770.

BALLINA FREE COMMUNITY HOT BRUNCH First Saturday of each month.

Everyone is invited to come and enjoy a hot brunch of sausages, rissoles bacon & eggs, cereal, tea and coffee.

Or just come for a chat.

Frozen take away meals available. Held at the Ballina Presbyterian Hall Corner of Cherry & Crane st Ballina 10AM TO 12PM Carol: 0438812235 BALLINA LADIES PROBUS CLUB welcomes new members, and visitors are welcome to attend a meeting to see what we are like. We meet at the Ballina RSL Club the first Wednesday of the month at 10am. After the business meeting and a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit or two, we listen to a guest speaker. For more information call Wendy 0410 560 916 or Beryl 0419 285 282 This year we are having a Friendship Coffee Morning once a month at a variety of cafes around Ballina.

BALLINA LIGHTHOUSE RSL DAY CLUB - A Day Club for elderly and isolated people in our community, held every Thursday at the Richmond Room Ballina. Enjoy morning tea and a mental stimulation exercise like Tai Chi, followed by lunch and afternoon musical entertainment.

Every Thursday 10am to 2pm cost $10 Richmond Room, Regatta Avenue Ballina RSVP Lorraine Fox 66874350, 0439301249 BALLINA SENIOR CITIZENS BRIDGE CLUB Social Bridge Play in Seniors Hall. Swift Street Ballina on Wednesday & Saturdays @ 12.05 pm Enquiries Phone: 0493425002 for details.

BALLINA TOY LIBRARY Welcomes families from Ballina Shire. 9 Regatta Avenue, Ballina.

Open Tuesdays 1pm - 3pm, and Saturdays 10am - 1pm.

Ph. 0411719074.

IN FOCUS TOASTMASTERS CLUB How about trying something different? If you would like to improve your communication and leadership skills or simply make new friends and have fun, you are warmly invited to attend the In Focus Toastmasters Club. We meet the 3rd Wednesday evening of each month. You may attend either from the comfort of your own home via zoom or join us in person at the Cherry Street Sports Club, Ballina.

PROBUS CLUB OF BALLINA WATERS The Probus Club of Ballina Waters will hold its next monthly meeting on Wednesday 15th November at the Cherry Street Sports Club commencing at 10.00 a.m. and will feature an interesting guest speaker from the Ballina Library. There will be a Happy Hour on Friday 10th November and the end of month luncheon will be on Friday 24th November. This club is a

mixed club and both men and women are invited to join us for a range of interesting social functions. Further information is available from the Secretary Brian on 0432277170.

BRUNSWICK HEADS BRUNSWICK VALLEY VIEW CLUB monthly luncheons are held at Brunswick Heads Bowling Club on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 10.30am for 11am.

Apologies to Wenda on 0449 563 580 no later than the Monday before. VIEW stands for Voice, Interests and Education of Women. The club supports seven disadvantaged students in The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program.

1800 805 366 CASINO CASINO MEALS ON WHEELS - If you would be interested in volunteering your time to help with meals on wheels give the office a call on 66621217.

WEEK 2 MONDAY B.McEnerny & C.Moulden J. Yates TUESDAY B.Bennett K.O’Reilly & L&N O’Reilly WEDNESDAY M.&M. Ayshford G.Mannix THURSDAY J.Crooks S. Garrard & E. Grogan FRIDAY M.Anderson J.Connell CASINO COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB INC will be held upstairs at the Casino RSM Club on Sunday the 19th of November from 10.00am Come along and enjoy some great country music. and take advantage of the meals & drinks offered by the RSM Club.

New Artists always welcome.

Free entry, raffles and lucky door prize More Info contact Carole 0438641500 DYRAABA BUS TRIP - The Dyraaba Hall committee will host a bus trip to Robina Shopping centre on Saturday 18th November.

Cost is $30 and includes morning tea. There will also be raffles.

Bus will leave Dyraaba Hall 7am, Charcoal cnr. 7:20, Casino Post Office 7:30.

Can also pick up in Lismore, Alstonville, and Ballina on Hwy. Bookings and enquiries phone Veronica on 66671101.

Al proceeds after expenses will go towards the maintenance of the hall.

CASINO COMMUNITY MEN’S SHED Mon, Tues, Wed, attendance limited to 50 members, 8am1.30pm. Contact 66626423 CASINO & DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP INCW are open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 2pm, Wednesdays from 12pm to 4pm and every third Saturday from 9 am to 11.30 am. We are in Room 5, Upstairs in the School of Arts building in Walker Street, Casino.

Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at 10 am.

For a small fee we can do research for you as well.

Call 6664 1118 CASINO EVENING BRANCH OF CWA The Casino Evening Branch of the CWA meets on the first Thursday of the month at the Casino Uniting Church Hall at 6pm. Come along and have supper and find out what we do.

All welcome.

Enquiries to: Jo 0417798622 CASINO GALLERY-ART at the CASSINO GALLERY. The Casino Art Group meets here every Thursday

to Saturdays 10am to 3pm Interested in promoting YOUR medium? Come to the gallery for information.

CASINO LADIES AND FRIEND CRAFT GROUP Meets 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month. Bring your own morning tea. Names to be in by lunch time Monday. Phone Vivian on 66621838 or Jan on 66626424.

CASINO & DISTRICT ORCHID SOCIETY Meet the 4th Thursday each month.

At St Marks Anglican Hall @ 6:30pm THE CWA CASINO Day’s next monthly meeting is at the Casino Community Centre 9.00am Thursday November 16st (3rd Thursday of the Month) 2023. Rita Nicholls will be giving a Cake Decorating Demonstration on how to make Royal Icing Flowers. The Land Cookery entry for November is a Ginger Fluff Sponge, you do not have to be a member to submit an entry. All cookery/ recipe enquiries -Rita Nicholls 0429364160. All welcome, come and have a cuppa and see what we are about. Enquires Margaret Good 66621746, Jennifer Baker 043892060.

CASINO MINI RAIL Every Sunday 10am to 4pm. Weather permitting.

West Street Casino. Phone 0455673722.

CASINO MIXED PROBUS CLUB - Our Meeting is on fourth Thursday of each month at Casino RSM Club at 10:00am.

Contact Kathleen Griffins, President phone 0427622470 or Daphne Boyd, Secretary phone 0400070085.

CASINO UNITING CHURCH CAFÉ PRAISE…. Every Wednesday @ 10-11am. All Welcome 10am Morning Tea Fellowship.

Welcome and Chat 10.30am Praise and Worship CASINO VIEW CLUB Monthly luncheon meeting at Casino RSM Club at 11am, second Thurs of every month.

Contact Jan on 0418715374 AA-LIVING SOBER MEETING is held every Tuesday 12:00-1:30pm At the Casino Baptist Church Cnr. West & Canterbury Streets Casino each week. The group will discuss a chapter on living sober out of the AA Living Sober Book. Contact George 0427133372 LION’S CLUB CASINO Lion’s Club meeting is held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday each month at Casino RSM Club from 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.

Secretary: Denise Green 0448014682 LISMORE CASINO NAVAL ASSOCIATION Meets bimonthly at Casino RSM, new members welcome. Ph: Chris 66293269 or Jim 0427400625.

ST MARKS OLD TIME NEW VOGUE DANCE CLUB - St Marks Anglican church hall Barker Street Casino. Old Time and New Vogue. Revision & Beginners.

Every Tuesday from 3pm5.30pm @ $5 per head.

First Saturday night of each month from 7pm -10pm @ $10 per person.

Live music Judy Johnson New members, all ages most welcome.

Bring a plate to share in a supper.

Contact Ronald: 66623328 / mob: 0449710552.

THE PLATYPUS RSL DAY CLUB operates every Tuesday at the Community Centre from 10am to 2pm. The day consists of gentle exercises, mental stimulation, games, and entertainment. Members are asked to pay $7 for their morning tea and lunch.

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COMUNITY NOTICES 51 or just need a day out, please contact Robyn on 66623871.

New members are welcome.

ELTHAM ELTHAM MASONIC LODGE - The Eltham Masonic Lodge welcomes all masons, to attend their monthly meetings, which are held on the fourth Tuesday, each month (except in January, at the Eltham Masonic Temple. The meetings commence at 7.30 pm, but we have a few savouries & a drinks beforehand, as a welcome. Information ring Col 0416530456 EVANS HEAD EVANS HEAD CWA BRANCH meets every third Tuesday for lunch at noon.

New members welcome. More info Roz 0427825560 THE EVANS RIVER RSL DAY CLUB meets each Monday in the Remembrance Room at Club Evans RSL Evans Head from 10am until 2pm Cost $10 includes Morning Tea and Lunch. We have several vacancies for volunteers and members, anyone who is feeling in need of some company are welcome to attend. Come along and join in the fun. Contact Merilyn on 0401493316.

EVANS HEAD SEAGULLS CRAFT & QUILTERS GROUP Meet every Tuesday 9am12noon in the Recreation Hall (opposite the Kiosk).

We invite you to join us for a relaxing morning of crafting, friendship and sharing ideas.

Beginners are very welcome.

Finishing UFO’s, Embroidery, Gold Work, Hexagons, & Group Projects are just some of the crafts done.

GOONELLABAH TABLE TENNIS AT GOONELLABAH Tuesday and Thursday mornings social playing: 9am-12noon; Monday and Wednesday nights social playing: 7-9pm; Training Monday mornings: 9am12noon; Junior coaching after school Wednesday 3.30pm-4.45pm, $6 a session.

Everybody is welcome – all levels. Phone centre on 66251602. Mon-Thurs 9.00am1.00pm THE PROBUS CLUB of Goonellabah meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at the Workers Sports Club in Oliver Ave. All welcome.

Goonellabah Probus is solely a social club. We have a guest speaker each month and go for outings throughout the year. Meetings on Thursday commence at 10am and finish at midday. For further information, please contact Gloria Francis on 02 6629 1442.

GRAFTON SCHAEFFER HOUSE is looking fresh after the weeks of hard work inside to rearrange the furniture and clean and restore the cabinets that hold so much of our history on display. We are also preparing the next display for the Jacaranda Festival at the end of October. The gardens have been especially attended to so that we can present a beautiful floral display for all our visitors. Thanks to the staff of Clarence Valley Council for making repairs to Schaeffer House so that our Historical Society & Museum continues to protect and conserve our great collection for 92 years!

Please pay us a visit to see why so many who come here say “It’s one of the best we have seen” Open Tues, Wed, Thurs and Sunday 1 – 4pm.

A big thank you from GRAFTON CWA to everyone who supported our Morning Tea on Jacaranda Thursday.

We had lots of people who enjoyed being able to sit down for a relaxing morning tea and sample our CWA baking.

Thank you to Narelle for all your work organising the morning tea, also thank you to all the cooks and helpers! The handicraft and cake stall were also a success, many people were able to buy Christmas gifts as well as items for themselves. Raffle winners were 1st prize A. McLellan, 2nd prize T. Smyth, 3rd prize J. Morrow. Winners have been notified. Congratulations to these people and thank you to all who bought tickets. Our next meeting will be on Friday, 10th November in CWA Rooms, starting with morning tea at 9.30am, followed by the meeting at 10am. New members are always welcome.

The next craft morning is on Monday, 13th November, at 9.30am GRAFTON AND DISTRICT GARDEN CLUB - Connecting people with an interest in gardening, plants, flowers, and nature. 38-degree days and strong winds are never welcome and can quickly decimate a garden, but it does help us appreciate the good times and sorts out the tough plants from the rest, I guess.

Fortunately, the Hospital Garden is doing really well with regular watering from one of our members. Our next meeting will be on Thursday 9th November at the Joan Muir Centre, 194 Turf St Grafton.

10am to midday. Entry is $2, please bring small change and morning tea to share if you are able. We will supply coffee, tea etc.There will also be the regular Bring and Buy table so if you have some plants, cuttings or produce you would like to donate, they are greatly appreciated. Please label plants and cuttings to help others know what they are buying. Paper and pens will be made available. All proceeds go to our Club. Rosie will have her Table of Interest and there will be time for Ask Rosie.

Please bring along anything you would like her to talk about, or just a little something that is growing in your garden at the moment for others to see If you are not a member you are most welcome to attend as a visitor and just pay the $2 entry fee. However, the $10 Membership Fee is payable on your second visit.

Our Christmas lunch is on Thursday 7th December, keep an eye on your email for more details.

GRAFTON’S MIGHTY CLARENCE TOASTMASTERS CLUB Perhaps it’s time to find out what it’s all about! If you would like to improve your communication and leadership skills. Make new friends and have fun, you are warmly invited to attend the Mighty Clarence Toastmasters Club.

We meet on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday evening of each month. You may attend either from the comfort of your own home via zoom or join us in person at the Joan Muir Community Centre: 194 Turf Street, Grafton.

GRAFTON SENIORS BE FIT EXERCISE CLASSES Every Friday at the Uniting Church, Prince Street. Join us for gentle exercises designed for Seniors.

We meet at 10.30a.m. for a cuppa and a chat with the exercises commencing at 11.

All equipment is provided and there is no cost to the participants.

Further information can be obtained from Joan or Brian on 66447347 or 0416067315, or from Dot on 66423248 or 0477213017 GRAFTON VIEW CLUB Grafton VIEW Club meets on the 4th Tuesday each month at Grafton District Services Club, Mary Street, commencing at 10.30am. Please come along, enjoy yourself with a tasty meal, a motivated guest speaker & ultimately disadvantaged children will be helped. Please phone Vorna at 66424719 for catering purposes no later than the Friday before

the meeting. As well, a social outing is held each month. You are warmly invited to come along to the next meeting to have some fun & help disadvantaged children. See you there.

CLARENCE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY SCHAEFFER HOUSE MUSEUM, 190 PRINCE STREET, Grafton, NSW Many items are being ‘rested’ and replaced with different interesting historical photographs, paintings, and objects. Come to see if you can “spot” the changes!

Our museum is constantly changing, just like the lovely garden that surrounds it!When did you last “drop in? All our museums have different collections and are entertaining so check out the opening times for Alumy Creek, Iluka,Yamba, Glenreagh, Maclean, Lawrence and Copmanhurst.Schaeffer House hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs, and Sun 1-4pm Admission Family of four $12.00 Adults $5.00 and children $2.00 We have been welcoming many new members lately, if you would like to join our historical society, you too, can receive our quarterly newsletters and receive many benefits in the Research Area.

HASTINGS POINT HASTINGS POINT COMMUNITY CHOIR Do you enjoy singing. Our repertoire covers a variety of music styles – both unison and part singing We would love you to join us. New members needed. You will be made most welcome When: Tuesday Evenings from 7pm – 8.30pm Where: Tricare Residential Village Community Room Tweed Coast Road, next to Shell Petrol Station. For more information, contact Jean Berry 0414794380 PROBUS CLUB OF HASTINGS POINT The Probus Club of Hastings Point Tweed Coast meets at 10am on 3rd Tuesday each month, in the residents’ lounge at Hastings Point Tricare.

Retirees and seniors are welcome to join this happy social group. Phone the Probus president 0409872773 for additional information.

KINGSCLIFF TWEED COAST U3A (University of 3rd Age) established with the aim of providing a supportive and engaging environment for people over 45 years not working full-time, in promoting active aging, fostering social connections, and empowering older adults to lead fulfilling lives. At the heart of our community are the friendships that bloom and flourish.

There are over 44 Classes available for example – art, craft, book chat, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, canasta, brain games, languages, writing life stories, walks, cycling Membership for Term 3 & 4 (July to Dec 2023) only $40 – No limit on number of classes you can attend.

Join us to create meaningful connections, share stories, laughter, and create lasting memories.

Julia 07 5524 8995 KINGSCLIFF 500 CARD CLUB- Monday and Wednesday afternoons 1pm to 4pm Cudgen Surf Club New players WELCOME Contact: GARY 0499869992 KYOGLE KYOGLE COUNTRY MUSIC’S next day is on 12th November commencing at 11am with a short meeting followed by the music. Kyogle Bowling Club’s Bistro will be open from 12 noon till 2pm.

All drinks available at the bar including tea and coffee. ALL WELCOME. KYOGLE SUNSHINE CLUB Meets every Thursday at 9.30am. For more details

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KYOGLE TIDY TOWNS FARMERS MARKET Held every Saturday morning in Stratheden Street from 8am -12. Come along grab some local fruit & veggies, experience all Kyogle has to offer. New Stall Holders welcome. Ph: Anne 66321851 LION’S CLUB OF KYOGLE Meeting is held on the 1st & 3rd Tuesday each month at the Kyogle Lion’s shed from 6.30–7pm.

Contact Neville Moon on 0448222334.

RICHMOND RIVER BEEF PRODUCER’S ASSOCIATION Meet on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Kyogle Showgrounds in the luncheon room at 7pm.

Ph: Jan on 0427293455.

ROTARY KYOGLE BAZAAR Fourth Saturday of every month.

See Rotary Kyogle Bazaar on social media for all the details or call 0459512249.

LENNOX HEAD LENNOX HEAD CWA Handy Craft Mornings on Mondays 9.30am-12noon in the community centre at Lennox Head.

Call Jan on 66816150.

LENNOX HEAD DAY VIEW CLUB meets on the first Monday of each month at the Lennox Head Community Centre with the meeting starting at 11am and includes an interesting speaker and concludes with a light lunch. An informal Coffee and Chat meeting is held on the third Monday of the month. The Club sponsors three students through The Smith Family Learning for Life scholarship program that provides educational items for disadvantaged Australian children. New members and guests are most warmly welcomed, and enquiries may be made to Enid 047187511 or Dawn 0466717435.

LENNOX HEAD EVENING VIEW CLUB Meets on the second Tuesday of each month upstairs at the Lennox Hotel at 6.30pm for dinner at 7pm.

Guests are welcome. “VIEW members support the education of disadvantaged Australian children by raising much needed funds for The Smith Family. Through fundraising activities and social events in local communities, members raise money that goes directly to The Smith Family’s learning and mentoring programs for disadvantaged. students.” Lennox Head Evening VIEW Club currently sponsors two Learning for Life students.

Ph: Sue Brennan 0409728814.

LENNOX HEAD LIONS CLUB New members welcome to join our close-knit club where the emphasis is on community service in a fun environment. Meetings are on the first and Third Wednesday of each month at Club Lennox starting at 6.30pm. Members do what they can, when they can to facilitate the needs of our club.

PROBUS CLUB OF LENNOX HEAD Meets 9.30 for 10 at Club Lennox, 10 Stewart Street, on the first Thursday of each month. Visitors are welcome, also retired, or semi-retired people wishing to join our non-service club to hear interesting guest speakers and to join in trips and outings are invited along. Ph: June Zentveld on 66871004 LISMORE LISMORE HOME GARDEN AND EDUCATION CLUB next Meeting will be held on Thursday 9th November at the East Lismore Bowling Club . Special for November is Lilly please bench items by 12.30pm. bring and Buy Table. Membership Fees now due. New Members welcome.

Further info please contact Secretary 0448294496 LISMORE CROQUET CLUB inc - Become a NEW Member call Fay on 0412910487.

18th November - Blue Beard Comp for NEW members and members that have not won a trophy for last 3 years. All members welcome - Call Fay to entre on 0412910487.

6th December 2023, at 11am - Next monthly meeting for members at the Molesworth Street Club House.

LISMORE BASE HOSPITAL AUXILIARY are holding their Made from the Heart Craft Fair.

On Sat 9th December 10am to 3pm and Sunday 10th December 10am to 2pm. at Goonellabah Workers Sports Club 202 Oliver Avenue Goonellabah.

Local Artisans and the Auxiliary will have a large variety of wares for sale.

Our Christmas Raffle is starting in November and tickets will be for sale at the Lismore Square. at Gift Shop LBH and the weekend of the Craft Market being drawn on Sunday 10th .

First Prize $500.00. Our Auxiliary has purchased a Wheelchair for DTU Department cost $1,701.00.

Waffle cushions for Allied Health cost $2,243.93.C-Mac Machine for Operating Theatres cost $32,790.00.

We have ordered A Stryker Compression System for Emergency Department which assists in Cardiac Arrests at the cost of $23,219.01. We would like to thank the Community for their ongoing support. Put these dates in your diary. Will be great to see you.

LISMORE PARKINSON’S DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP. We meet every third Friday of the month. Next group Meeting is Friday, 17th of November Commences at 10am to 12pm at the South Lismore Bowls Club, 25 Wilson Street South Lismore. New members welcomed. Snacks & cold drinks available. Tea and Coffee with a Gold Coin Donation. Social Networking with Tea and Coffee, Companion Support Group.

Any inquiries contact Marie 0448871290 LISMORE LIONS CLUB Please save your used stamps to raise funds for The Australian Lions Children’s Mobility Foundation. Stamps are collected & forwarded on to be sorted & sold at Auction, to raise money for Children’s Mobility For further information, please contact Margaret Boxsell on 0427141425 LISMORE CITY BOWLING AND RECREATION CLUB Community BINGO every Monday morning 10 am to 12 noon. Morning tea and Progressive Jackpot. All welcome. Phone 66 21 5991.

LISMORE CITY CONCERT BAND - Rehearsals are held during school terms on Mondays, 6.15-7.45pm at Southern Cross University. If you can play a concert band instrument: brass, woodwind, or percussion, please come and join us! All ages welcome.

We have some instruments available for loan. Ph: 0432575911 LISMORE CWA - We would like YOU to join us for the opportunity to be involved with a truly friendly group of fun, diverse & interesting women of all ages. You will make new friends who will support you, plus you’ll be part of contributing to the lives of Women and Children in our area through our fundraising endeavours. PLEASE THINK ABOUT IT! Why not come along as a ‘guest’ to see how you feel and experience the difference. being a CWA Member could bring to you and your life. We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 9:30am for a 10am start.

FOR MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION call our President.

Helen Dargin on 0438 828 619 We also run CRAFT meetings each Friday.

You’ll learn new things, once again meet new friends, and enjoy creating beautiful craft in great company.

FOR CRAFT INFORMATION call Vicki Boyle 0437465642.

LISMORE LIBRARY NEW LOCATION IN THE CBD While the Lismore Library is under repair, you can find a Pop-Up Library at 146 Molesworth Street (Was Williams Shoes), for all your reading, watching and information needs. The library has a fresh collection of donated community books, DVD’s, Puzzles and more, with weekly programs and events.

The library is open 7 days a week Free Tech Help Lismore Pop-up Library every Tuesday and Thursday by appointment.

Our tech team can help you master your phone, tablet, or laptop. Email, Facebook, Apps, Photos…even how to turn the thing on!Make sure to book a one-on-one, 45-minute session, that can be tailored to your individual needs! Phone Lismore Pop-up Library on 0266212464.

LISMORE MEN & COMMUNITY SHED President: Don Abrahams 0437576837 Vice President: Bob Greig 0404860504 Opening Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 9.00am – 3.00pm We are a community based non-profit organisation.

Everybody is welcome: men, women & people with a disability of all ages. We encourage social inclusion.

Our aim is to promote the mental, physical & emotional well-being of people in our community. Shed Activities Members work on their own projects, Mentoring is available, General woodworking, Welding & light engineering, Repair & restoration of items for the public Constructing projects, of items for the public Constructing projects for preschools, hospitals & other organisations Assembling flatpack, Minor maintenance work for the elderly & disabled, working with the disabled, talking with other members or simply having company.

Memberships: $40-year Attendance Fee: $3 tea/coffee 15 Industry Drive East Lismore LISMORE ORCHID SOCIETY INC. now meets 3rd Wednesday each month, 1:30pm to 4:00pm at Goonellabah Community Centre in the Goonellabah Public Library, 27 Oliver Ave Goonellabah. Ph: Bev on 0400326289 LISMORE SENIOR CITIZENS Meet at the Goonellabah Community Centre every second Thursday starting at 9am where we have morning tea followed by games bingo how etc we play cards Monday and Friday and play bowls Tuesdays and craft every second Tuesday afternoons come and join our friendly group you will be very welcome.

LISMORE ANGLICANS’ ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SHOP DATES: Monday, November 20 to Friday, December 8, 2023.

VENUE: 70 Magellan Street, LISMORE. Opposite LifeLine Shop.

Come and buy your Christmas treats. All home-made Christmas cakes and puddings, slices, biscuits, scones and handicraft items. Potted plants galore. Monster Hamper and lots of cheer. Cash or card.

M-F: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm. Sat: 9:00 am – 12:00 Noon. TEL: 02 6621 3200.

LISMORE SPINNERS & WEAVERS - Please join us…... Weaving, Spinning, Felting, Dyeing, Knitting, Crochet, Workshops, Chat….

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52 COMMUNITY NOTICES Sharing Craft & Ideas.

From 10am, on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Fridays of each month.

(Formal business meeting is 10.30-11.30 every 1st Friday) McLeans Ridges Hall Cnr Cowlong and McLeans Ridges Rds. (off Bruxner Hwy) Morning Tea provided. Bring your lunch (and a mug) Contac: Kim: 0423935060, Linda: 0419489987 LISMORE TARGET RIFLE CLUB for .22 calibre rifles, meets Wed nights from 6.30pm & the 1st & 3rd Sat of each month from 1.00 pm. Air rifle shooting for .22 & 177 air rifles will also be available at the Saturday shoots. For more information, please phone Derek on 66282082 (ah).

CO-DEPENDANTS ANONYMOUS (CoDA) Co-Dependants Anonymous is a Twelve Step Fellowship of people whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy relationships.

The CoDA meeting in the Lismore area meets on Mondays from 6.30pm to 7.30pm at Riverland’s Drug and Alcohol Centre. 75 Hunter Street, Lismore. For further information call 0456178826 or 0408336143 EAST LISMORE BOWLING CLUB Community Bingo Tuesday night 7.30pm start. 20 games of bingo + progressive jackpot Neilson Street East Lismore. Everyone Welcome EAST LISMORE SOCIAL TENNIS is played at East Lismore Tennis Club, Cnr Neilson St & Oakley Avenue every Tuesday from 8am.

We invite social players of all abilities to join us, we are a mixed group who enjoy a morning’s tennis without the commitment of competition.

Ph: Fay Ross 0412910487.

Everyone welcome.

MAINLY MUSIC - Fun, interactive, music sessions for young children [birth to school age] and their parents/ caregivers in a relaxed setting on Tuesdays starting at 9:30am during School Terms. Children will be introduced to music, creativity and more. They will develop gross motor skills, as well as socialise with others in a loving, shared family environment. Morning tea with snacks included. Mainly Music at Lismore Anglican Parish Centre, 10 Zadoc Street, LISMORE. T: 0266213200 NR U3A LISMORE INC. (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE) - Have you retired or just about to, from the workforce?

Are you looking to exercise your mind and body and keep both well oiled?

Well, Lismore U3A [university of the third age} could be just the place for you. This worldwide organisation has been running in Lismore for the past 30 years and thousands of local people have benefited from its programmes. It’s a great place to meet like-minded people and make new friends.

The last three years have been difficult for us as they have for everyone, and we are on a recruitment drive to meet and greet you!We start 2023 with a choice of at least 30 classes, which include, Languages, Photography, Science, History, Qigong, genealogy, and many others. We also have a social calendar each term.U3A is entirely run by volunteers, with the committee and tutors coming from our membership.

The joining fee Is $50 for 1 year and entitles you to attend any course you choose throughout the year; you can go every day if you wish. Why not peruse our site to see if there is a course that would be of interest to you.There is an online enrolment form that you can complete and any queries you have can be directed to our secretary, Pat, McLaren- Smith

Ph. 66227408 PROBUS CLUB OF LISMORE HEIGHTS - Our mixed group meets on the 1st Tuesday of each month at the Lismore Heights Bowling Club in High St. Our brief meeting is followed by morning tea and a guest speaker. Senior’s lunch for $15 at noon is optional. Guests and visitors are welcome. Ring/text Pam on 0418766247 for details of our other monthly social gatherings and outings.

ROTARY CLUB OF LISMORE NETWORKING Want to be part of an innovative, interesting, and inclusive networking group who meet fortnightly to share ideas, meet other professionals and work together to make a difference in your community?

Then Rotary Club of Lismore Networking could be the answer for you! Meets on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month at 5.30pm at The Civic Hotel (210 Molesworth Street Lismore). Ph: Rita on 0413300578 or Gae 0412742095.

ROTARY CLUB OF LISMORE WEST INC East Lismore Bowling Club each Thursday at 6pm. New members would be made most welcome. Further information available on 0428151934.

ROTARY CLUB OF SUMMERLAND SUNRISE Interested in contributing to community? Local and international?

The Rotary Club of Summerland Sunrise meets every Friday at 7.05am for Breakfast at Options Cafe, Main St. Alstonville until further notice. Join us at Options please. Ph: 0435990919 SUMMERLAND AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Meetings of the club are normally held on the second Sunday of each month at the clubrooms: 412 Richmond Hill Road, Richmond Hill at 1pm.

Visitors are welcome. The clubrooms are usually open on Sunday afternoons from about 1pm onwards. We are primarily amateur radio enthusiasts and welcome persons interested in radio, electronics, astronomy, and similar subjects.

SUMMERLAND BONSAI SOCIETY INC. Come and learn an addictive hobby with us.

We provide personal support from experienced teachers as well as demonstrations and Bonsai information.

Club days are held on the second Saturday of every month at 1pm in the Arts Pavillion at Lismore Showgrounds.Be inspired about the art of creating little trees. Ph: 0438103601 ZEN AND INSIGHT MEDITATION – LISMORE HEIGHTS - INSIGHT (VIPASSANA) MEDITATION and practice: This mindfulness-based meditation group sits on Wednesdays from 7:008:30pm. The evening includes meditation instructions, sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks and discussion.

For further details, please contact Rosie - 0402682925 ZEN MEDITATION and practice The Zen meditation group sits on Mondays from 6:30pm-8:15pm. The evening includes instructions, sitting meditation, Dharma talks and individual interviews with the teacher.

For further details, please phone: 0427778837 Beginners and experienced meditations are warmly welcomed at both groups.

MACLEAN MACLEAN VIEW CLUB Monthly meetings the 3rd Thursdays of each month at 11am. Contact Ruth Toyer on 0409844212 by Mondays, no

later than 7pm. Numbers are required for catering purposes.

MURWILLUMBAH MURWILLUMBAH TWEED COAST U3A (University of 3rd Age) established with the aim of providing a supportive and engaging environment for people over 45 years not working full-time, in promoting active aging, fostering social connections, and empowering older adults to lead fulfilling lives. At the heart of our community are the friendships that bloom and flourish.

There are over 44 Classes available for example – art, craft, book chat, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, canasta, brain games, languages, writing life stories, walks, cycling. Membership for Term 3 & 4 (July to Dec 2023) only $40 – No limit on number of classes you can attend.

Join us to create meaningful connections, share stories, laughter, and create lasting memories. Contact Julia 07 5524 8995 COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH - Fine art printmakers. Meet at studio space 224 Stokers Rd, Stokers Siding. Prints, gallery, workshops and more!

Ph: Peter 0498399640 or Sue 0408493253.

MURWILLUMBAH COMMUNITY GARDEN Members and visitors are invited to join the group for activities and gardening tips most Sundays. Time 3-5pm, street parking, BYO, covered footwear, comfy clothing, hat, and water. Children ok with strict supervision. Covid plan operating. Ph: Bob Johnson (02)66225792.

Mummulgum MULLUMBIMBY MULLUMBIMBY BRANCH OF CWA of NSW meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 10am at the CWA Rooms. New members are always welcome. France is the new country of study. For more information, call secretary Jenny on 6684 7282.

POTTSVILLE ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Is drinking costing you more than money?

AA works and is very active in Pottsville. We meet every Thursday 7pm at St Marks 15A Coronation Ave Pottsville and local contact 1800 423 431 or 04019 45671 POTTSVILLE TWEED COAST U3A (University of 3rd Age) established with the aim of providing a supportive and engaging environment for people over 45 years not working full-time, in promoting active aging, fostering social connections, and empowering older adults to lead fulfilling lives. At the heart of our community are the friendships that bloom and flourish.

There are over 44 Classes available for example – art, craft, book chat, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, canasta, brain games, languages, writing life stories, walks, cycling. Membership for Term 3 & 4 (July to Dec 2023) only $40 – No limit on number of classes you can attend. Join us to create meaningful connections, share stories, laughter, and create lasting memories.

Contact Julia 07 5524 8995 POTTSVILLE FUN CROQUET CLUB Meets at Black Rocks Sports Fields on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30am. New members are welcome to come and join us for a hit and a bit of fun. For any further enquires please call Jean on 0431606375.

POTTSVILLE LADIES LIFEBALL - Every Thursday

morning 9.30am to 11.30am.

Pottsville Community Hall, $5 per session includes morning tea. No joining fees. Ph: Jan 0431909760.

TWEED HEADS TWEED COAST U3A (University of 3rd Age) established with the aim of providing a supportive and engaging environment for people over 45 years not working full-time, in promoting active aging, fostering social connections, and empowering older adults to lead fulfilling lives.At the heart of our community are the friendships that bloom and flourish.

There are over 44 Classes available for example – art, craft, book chat, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, canasta, brain games, languages, writing life stories, walks, cycling. Membership for Term 3 & 4 (July to Dec 2023) only $40 – No limit on number of classes you can attend. Join us to create meaningful connections, share stories, laughter, and create lasting memories. Contact Julia 07 5524 8995 POETS AND WRITERS ON THE TWEED meet every Tuesday at the South Tweed Sports Club 1.30-3.30pm.

Beginners welcome. Phone 0755248035.

TWEED HEADS PROBUS CLUB - Probus Club, Coolangatta/Tweed Heads.

Be at Club Tweed at 10-00am on the first Wednesday of the Month. Visitors and new members are very welcome.

TWEED PATCHWORK GROUP Meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at South Tweed Community Center from 9-1pm at 18 Heffron Street Tweed Heads south all beginners welcome phone Moira on 0418686643.

A friendly group of people with common interest in seeing, quilting and related craft.

TWIN TOWNS DAY VIEW CLUB V I E W as in Voice, Interests, Education of Women (Not many people are aware of what ‘VIEW’ club stands for!)

AND NOT ONLY IN NAME: We are a group of ladies who care what will become of our youth! Our heritage – Their heritage – It is sad but true that many of our young people have no direction in their lives. Every morning we wake to the news that violence has occurred overnight in what was once considered a safe neighbourhood. How do these offending children/ youth feel the next morning knowing they have caused so much heartache - is this why we also hear of youth harming themselves so they can spread the pain? So, this is where VIEW Clubs and other similar clubs are starting from the bottom of the ladder by providing much needed funds to educate our youngsters so they will WANT to become the very best person they can not only in education but in their community and being proud of themselves and giving their parents hope for their child’s future. We at TWIN TOWNS DAY VIEW CLUB PROVIDE THE NECESSARY FUNDS to educate just 7 of these children.

We know not where they come from, but someone in their community has contacted THE SMITH FAMILY and they in turn contact VIEW CLUBS OF AUSTRALIA who anonymously contact a VIEW Club who in turn take over the responsibility for these worthy children’s fees and so year after year their tertiary fees are paid. These fees are raised by VIEW Club members who attend meetings, listen to interesting guest speakers and regularly have days out at each other’s homes – so FUN and a tremendous satisfaction of knowing we are helping our future generation. More information can be gleaned

by contacting our President Kathie on 0407709629.

WOLLONGBAR WOLLONGBAR PROBUS CLUB meets on the third Thursday of the month at the Alstonville Plateau Bowls and Sports Club, 10 - 14 Deegan Drive Alstonville, at 10am.

Visitors are always welcomed.

Contact Keith on 66280393.

Our last meeting for 2023 will be on Thursday 16th November and will be followed by a Christmas Lunch at the Ballina Jockey Club YAMBA YAMBA DAY VIEW CLUB Yamba Day View Club’s monthly luncheons are held at Yamba Bowling Club on 3rd Monday of month, starting 10am for 10.30am. Acceptance and apologies to President Lyn 66463164 by Friday prior to luncheon for catering purposes. We hold a monthly social outing either for lunch or morning tea and visitors are always welcome.

YAMBA LIONS CLUB Yamba Lions Club’s meetings are held 2nd & 4th Thursdays of month at Yamba Bowling Club, commencing at 7pm for 7.30pm. For further information, please contact the Secretary Peter 0417546097.

Social outings also held at various time and visitors and new members’ welcome.

ALL NORTHERN RIVERS DYRAABA BUS TRIP The Dyraaba Hall committee will host a bus trip to Robina Shopping centre on Saturday 18th November.

Cost is $30 and includes morning tea. There will also be raffles.

Bus will leave Dyraaba Hall 7am, Charcoal cnr. 7:20, Casino Post Office 7:30.

Can also pick up in Lismore, Alstonville, and Ballina on Hwy. Bookings and enquiries phone Veronica on 66671101.

Al proceeds after expenses will go towards the maintenance of the hall.

NRCF WOMEN’S GIVING CIRCLE - The Northern Rivers Community Foundation (NRFC) is inviting Northern Rivers women to play an active role in empowering vulnerable women and girls in our region. The newly formed NRFC’s Women’s Giving Circle brings Northern Rivers women together to achieve equality and human rights for women and girls in our region and enable them to realise their full potential. Ph: 0499862886 The NORTHERN RIVERS HASH HOUSE HARRIERS is a non-profit community group that is part of a worldwide organisation. The Hash House Harriers meet every Monday at 6pm for a run/walk from various locations around Lismore, Alstonville, and Ballina. The run/walk lasts for approximately an hour, followed by friendship, banter and grub. We are very friendly and welcome new members.

NORTHERN RIVERS PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP - Covering Wollongbar to Ocean Shores.

Meets 2nd Friday of each month at Summerland Farm, Wardell Road, Alstonville.

A general catch up & chat with the opportunity to join in a casual Q&A session with Rebecca, our Parkinson’s nurse. She will be there to answer any questions that you may have about anything to do with living with Parkinson’s or supporting or caring for a loved one. Maybe you want to know about symptoms, medication, treatments, or services etc.

Rebecca is there to support us and help you manage your disease so that you live your best life. All those living with Parkinson’s Disease or those

supporting them are most welcome.

Please RSVP Cheryl 0428286753.

NORTHERN RIVERS NAVAL & MARINERS ASSOCIATION - This association was formed to attract veterans for companionship, wellbeing and to supply advocacy to veterans.

We hold an informal gathering every Friday, 2.30pm at Ballina Angling Club (families are welcome). Ph: Allan Watt: 0402 749 582 ALL AREAS - AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: 1300 252 666 * al-anon.org.au * Not everyone trapped by alcohol is an alcoholic. Family and friends are suffering too.

Al-Anon and Alateen can help.

BALLINA, WEDNESDAY, 6.30pm, St Mary’s Anglican Church Admin Building, 24 Burnet St (also via Zoom Meeting, ID 25260000, dial-in option: +61 2 8015 6011) BANORA POINT, MONDAY, 6.30pm, Salvation Army, The Community Centre, cnr Woodlands and Leisure Drives BANGALOW, FRIDAY 2.00PM, via Zoom Meeting, ID 25260000, dial-in option: +61 2 8015 6011 CHINDERAH, SUNDAY 4.00pm, Seventh Day Adventist Church, 83 Phillip St GRAFTON, TUESDAY, 12.00 noon, CWA Rooms, Market Square, Duke St ILUKA, MONDAY 11.00am, Iluka CWA Hall, 2 Charles Street (behind Iluka Museum) LISMORE/GOONELLABAH, TUESDAY, 1.00pm, The Studio, 14 Pleasant St, Goonellabah (also via Zoom Meeting, ID 25260000, dial-in option: +61 2 8015 6011) MURWILLUMBAH, WEDNESDAY, 1.00pm, Church of Christ, 18 William St, Murwillumbah TWEED HEADS, THURSDAY, 5.00pm, NSW TIME, St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell St (cnr Florence St) TWEED HEADS, ALATEEN, THURSDAY, 5.00pm, St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell St (cnr Florence St) CONNECT YOU TOO OCTOBER WRAP UP Connect You Too (Connectu2) has been busy helping the community get out and about during October 2023In October 2023, we did a total of 2,488 trips with a total of 89,011 service kms. Our popular destinations included 76 trips to Ballina; 127 trips to Coffs Harbour; 9 trips to the Gold Coast; 729 trips to Grafton; 119 trips to Lismore and 223 trips to the Yomba/ Maclean area. We managed to get the community to 1012 Specialist and GP appointments; 204 Hospital visits (Day Surgery drop off/ pick-up); 391 social trips & 662 shopping trips. In October, our social trips travelled to Byron Bay & Lennox Head.

This month we are off to Kingscliff and in December we are heading to Alstonville.

Our new social and shopping calendars for January to March 2024 will be out soon.

Our Clarence Meals service delivered 1581 meals and 422 desserts during October 2023.

We were able to do welfare checks, have a quick chat and help our customers see a friendly face. Clarence Meals provides delivered meals to Iluka, Maclean and Yamba and surrounds from suppliers including Gourmet Meals, Lite n’ Easy and Meals on Wheels Grafton. For more information call 6646 6742.Looking for a new home care package provider? HART Services is available via our Townsend Connect You Too offices. For more information, call 1300 874 278.If you need help with transport or meals, call Connect You Too at Townsend on 6645 3200 to see if you qualify for any subsidies or assistance.

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Showers more likely along the ranges and western slopes and plains in the afternoon and evening. Daytime temperature a little below average in the north and above average in the far west and south. Northeast to northwesterly winds, fresh along the coast in the afternoon. A southwesterly change entering the west in the day.

Thursday. A few showers and possible storms across most districts, more likely about the southern and central ranges and inland in the afternoon and evening. Daytime temperatures a little above average in the southwest and near average elsewhere. Northeast to northwesterly winds, freshening along the coast in the afternoon. Southeast to southwesterly winds in the far west.

Warnings See www.bom.gov.au/australia/warnings Northern Rivers District: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of a shower. Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the day then becoming light in the evening.

Thursday. Partly cloudy. The chance of a storm in the south in the afternoon and evening. Light winds becoming northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the day then becoming light in the evening.

Northern Tablelands District: Partly cloudy. High chance of showers in the south, medium chance elsewhere. The chance of a storm. Light winds.

Thursday. Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers in the south, slight chance elsewhere. The chance of a storm. Light winds becoming northwest to northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the morning then tending east to northeasterly in the day.

Byron Coast: Winds: Northeasterly about 10 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the day. Seas: Below 1 m, increasing to 1 to 1.5 m south of Cape Byron in the afternoon or evening. Swell: Easterly around 1 m. Weather: Partly cloudy.

Coffs Coast: Winds: North to northeasterly 15 to 25 knots. Seas: Below 1 m, increasing to 1 to 2 m in the afternoon. Swell: South to southeasterly below 1 m. Weather: Partly cloudy.

Gold Coast Waters: Winds: Easterly 10 to 15 knots turning northeasterly in the afternoon. Seas: Below 1 m. 1st Swell: Easterly below 1 m inshore, increasing to 1 to 1.5 m offshore. 2nd Swell: Southeasterly around 1 m. Weather: Partly cloudy.

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The Northern Rivers Times

November 9, 2023

54 SPORT NEWS

!"#$$"%%&$'(%%&)#**'+%,,-./&/0$'&%')0.0(/&' ("%,'1213'4%,0.5$'4%"*6'7-8'*09#+: The success of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023TM continues to leave a legacy for football in NSW following the awarding of more than $3.2 million in the NSW Football Legacy Fund.

More than 90 community football projects received funding for new facilities and participation initiatives that will benefit all levels of the game.

The funding is part of the NSW Government’s $10 million NSW Football Legacy Program that is supporting the construction of new and upgraded facilities, participation initiatives, high performance, leadership and development programs as well as tourism and international engagement as a direct result of NSW hosting games at the tournament.

The NSW Football Legacy Fund is a collaboration between the NSW Office of Sport Football Australia,

Football NSW and Northern NSW Football with $6.3 million awarded for almost 200 projects across the two rounds of the Fund.

The Minns Government also recently launched the Level the Playing Field program, delivering more than $30 million dollars to improve female sporting infrastructure across the state; the Football in Schools program, a $14.6 million program delivering a wide range of initiatives to get more students participating in sport and living healthier lives; and the Local Sports Grants providing $4.65 million to grassroots sporting clubs across the state.

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 tournament set new records with more than 1.9 million spectators attending games and almost 750,000 fans attending FIFA Fan Festivals throughout the tournament with the Matildas Semi-Final appearance and fourth-

placed finish Australia’s best ever result at a FIFA World Cup. Minister for Sport Steve Kamper said: “The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 took women’s sport in Australia to new levels.

“The NSW Government is committed to ensuring the momentum created by the Matildas success leaves a positive legacy for women and girls at all levels of football.

“The $3.2 million awarded today for new facilities and participation initiatives through the NSW Football Legacy Fund will ensure that women’s football in NSW benefits

from NSW hosting games long after the final ball is kicked.”

Minister for Women Jodie Harrison said: “The success of the tournament and the Matildas results helped to unlock the potential of women’s and girl’s sport in this country.

“Programs like the NSW Football Legacy Fund will make sure that everyone involved in the sport, from young girls lacing up their boots for the first time, to experienced players, coaches and officials will be able to build on the momentum that has been created and realise their potential.

“While there is still considerable work to be done, projects delivered through this program will help level the playing field for women’s sport.”

Football NSW CEO John Tsatsimas said: “Football NSW is excited to see further football projects come to fruition thanks to the announcement of recipients of the 2nd round of the NSW Football Legacy Fund.

“The excitement from the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 is already evident with huge increases in registration numbers for summer football.

“The infrastructure projects will focus on improving player experiences and safety through facility upgrades including lighting and drainage and creating more modern and accessible amenities for local communities.

“The participation funding initiatives support the statement ‘You can’t be what you

can’t see’, targeting female growth towards gender parity in all aspects of the game including players, coaches, referees, and leadership roles.”

Northern NSW Football CEO Peter Haynes: “The nation was captivated and inspired by the success of the Matildas at the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, demonstrating the desire for expansion within female football in our country.

“This funding will allow for new facilities and participation initiatives to be implemented, which will significantly improve the experience of women and girls within our game which is a big win within the northern NSW football community.”

For further information on the NSW Football Legacy Fund including the full list of recipients visit: https:// www.sport.nsw.gov.au/ grants/nsw-footballlegacy-fund

!""#$%&'()*+'&*"',$+' BALLINA MAHJONG 03.10.2023 1. Pauline Kearney , 2.

Lorna Simpson, 3. Jan Henley, 4. Lynda Lovett, 5. Jeanette Henwood, 6. Pauline Bolte, 7.

Vanessa Reynolds, 8.

Jan Small, 9. Sarah Bull, 10. June Greenaway, 11.

Alison Kelly, 12. Carol Meyer, 13. Jan Rhodes, 14. Sally Lowry, 15.

Shirley Coleman, 16.

Gail McDonagh, 17.

Janene Jarvis, 18.

Bev Lasater, 19. Eve Chapman, 20. Shirley Atkinson, Ramsay Roper, 22. Margaret Bryant, 23. Cindy Smith, 24. Joy Lowien, 25. Pam Farrell, 26.

Val Heinritz, 27. Lisa Wong, 28.Susan Scott, Lesley Ritchie, 30.

Kath Hubbard, 31 Valda McLerie, Coral Lavelle , 33. Rosemary Russell, 34. Kathy Pickles, 35.

Diana Auret, 36. Jane Fenech, 37. Jeanette McGuiness CASINO SOCIAL GOLF RESULTS 05-11-2023 The winner of the monthly medal last

Sunday was John Vinecombe with a net score of 28 on a count back from Troy Hook also 28. The putting trophy went to D. Roberts with 15 putts and W. Jackson won the players draw.

Nearest to pins: 8th, G. Randall. 9th & 15th, Vinny.10th & 12th, D.Hampson.11th, J. Rankin.

13th & 18th, W. Jackson. 14th, L. Moss.

16th, T. Jenkins. 17th, T. Hook. Next Sunday’s event sponsored by DIY Home Timber & Hardware Casino is yet to be decided but visitors are welcome to play with hit off from 6-30m till 7-30am.

CHERRY STREET CROQUET CLUB SPORTS RESULTS ASSOCIATION CROQUET : S.Hume 16 d C.Woodlands 1 T.Hume 18 d B.Hardy 13 G.Drew 20 d L.Hardy 9 RICOCHET CROQUET :

N.Barnes N.Poynting 12 d R.Allen N.Watts 10 C.Copeland P.Bolte 14 d J.Hannigan C.Lane 12 TOURNAMENTS : Northern Rivers Area Association Croquet Championships 2023 Handicap Doubles : Peter Singh & Doug Turner Coolangatta 1st Dave Luxmoore & Malcolm Campbell Burleigh / Palm Beach 2nd Phyllis Waters & Greg Porter Cherry Street Ballina 3rd.

Peter Martin & Gillian Martin Urunga 4th HANDICAP SINGLES: Greg Porter Cherry Street 1st Phyllis Waters Cherry Street 2nd Sue Hume Cherry Street 3rd Cheryl Woodlands Cherry Street 4th Jennifer Johnston Ballina 5th Level Play Singles: Mike Gidding Ballina 1st Mary Hughes Ballina 2nd Richard Hughes Ballina 3rd.

Mums Cup:

Mike Gidding Ballina & Yuni Rowell Coolangatta 1st Lance Turner Coolum & Robert Smillie Coolangatta 2nd Ray Chapman Cherry Street & Mary Hughes Ballina 3rd Phyllis Waters Cherry Street & Greg Porter Cherry Street 4th.

Mike Gidding & Yuni Rowell Mums Cup Doubles Champions 2023 Congratulations CORAKI VETERANS GOLF RESULTS THURSDAY 2/11/23 Today we played the medal of medals playoff for 2023, Winner J Lassig also the Monthly medal for November was contested Winner M Fairfull ham, vets winner S Reddell ham, luckey card draw D Vagne ham, 2nd G Brown, 3rd B,Mdonald, J Nilsson free game, chicken/ball winners A Ganter, D Vagne, T Doyle, C Knox, G Flaherty. Nearest pins 3rd/12th S Toms 6th/15th G Flaherty, putting comp S Toms This Thursday will

be an 18hole single stableford commencing with a shot gun start at 8.30am. From now till Christmas, we will be playing for hams club handicap winner Vets handicap winner and luckey card draw for a ham.

AS USUAL TILL THEN GOOD GOLFING EVANS HEAD WOMENS BOWLS Ladies Social Day - 11-10-23 - Highest Margin - Winners - J. Beckett, A. Eyles, K. Robson, E. Gollan.

25-10-23 - Closest Margin - Winners - B. Hancock, L. Sivewright, K. Riely. 01-11-23 - 2 Bowl Triples - Highest Margin - Winners - B. Hancock, M. Adams, K. Robson. 3 Bowl Pairs Winners - M. Carey, K. Hickey.

Consistency 2023 commenced on 11-1023 First Round - P. Freeman defeated J. Fernance. K. Townsend defeated M. Gibson.

Quarter Final

played 18-10-23 & recommended on 01-11-23 - E. Gollan defeated L. Stratton. 3 more games will resume on 08-11-23 after being washed out on 18-10-23.

LISMORE CROQUET CLUB Clubs from Casino, Alstonville, Cherry St Ballina, Ballina Inc and Byron Bay come together for a Friendship Day at Lismore Croquet Club 26th October.

Golf Croquet, and fun Lawn Games were played.

Closest to the Centre Peg with a ball.

Winner- Denise (Byron Bay) Runner Up - Loraine (with Sonja Alstonville and Robyn (Cherry St).

Hearts on the lawn, with Flamingo’s.

Winner Sharon (Ballina) Runner Up Denise (Byron Bay) with Sonja and Robyn.

Good weather and games made a for a perfect day.

November 9, 2023

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By Tim Howard Harwood has brushed aside a short-handed Souths/Westlawn in their CRCA Premier League cricket match at Ellem Oval.

The game, reduced to a one-day fixture after a first day wash-out, was almost over as a contest when Souths, a player short, slumped to 6/33 in the face of accurate bowling from Harwood’s attack.

Harwood won the toss and bowled and opening bowlers Duncan Fisher, 2/18 and Corey Lewis, 2/12, didn’t let the skipper down, taking five of the first six wickets to fall.

There was no let up from Harwood’s change bowlers.

Ben McMahon used the short ball liberally

to snare 2/13 from eight overs and Troy Turner finished with 2/23.

Souths/Westlawn were saved from total embarrassment by a belligerent 20 from wicketkeeper Luke Sullivan, batting at No 9 and the Stanton brothers Riley, 4 and and Liam, 2no, who stuck around with Sullivan to get the score to 9/83.

The total was never going to be competitive and although South Westlawn opening bowler Adrian Boyd picked opener Evan Lewis, 2, with just four on the board, Harwood were almost home when the second wicket fell at 62 when Maison Simmons was caught behind for 26 including two fours and a six.

Matthew Farrell batted through the innings to finish with 36no as

Harwood passed South Westlawn score in the 15th over.

In the CRCA/LCCA combined first grade competition GDSC Easts chased down Iluka’s 139 in 35.5 overs with five overs and two wickets to spare.

The chase was built around a typically vigorous 74 from Shannon Connor who hit 10 fours and two sixes in his 55-ball knock.

Iluka’s opening attack performed well with Glenn Ayres 2/23 from eight overs and Dean Bartlett 3/23 from his eight bowling tightly and reducing Easts to 2/5 early on.

But the support bowlers were punished, going for more than five an over as Connor’s innings built.

Connor started the

South Westlawn batter Riley Stanton aims a big drive at a Jake McMahon spinner but the ball sail safely off the outside edge for a couple of runs.

day well with the ball taking 3/28 opening the bowling and left-arm spinner David BrutonDuroux just pipped him for best figures with 3/21 off eight.

Yamba Oval witness a run-fest when Yamba hosted Aussie Hotel Coutts Crossing.

Sent in to bat, Coutts smashed 7/266 in 40 overs with opener Tim Tilse, 89 and Lewis Chevalley, 84, putting on 177 for the second wicket.

None of the bowlers escaped punishment, although Nick Smart did pick up a couple to finish with 2/16 from four overs.

Yamba charged out of the blocks in the run chase with Smart hitting 55 from just 22 balls in a display of clean hitting that stunned the Coutts bowling attack.

He clubbed eight fours and two sixes in an opening stand of 77 with Alex Moffit, 18.

There was no reprieve for Coutts when No 4, James Feaver came to the crease.

He also took a liking to the Coutts bowling, hitting 12 fours and a six.

Unfortunately a thrilling finish fizzled out into a washed out draw as the rain closed in with Coutts needing a wicket and Yamba another 27 runs.

Tucabia Copmanhurst batter Jaye Yardy just missed a century as he held his team’s inning together in the game against Harwood at Harwood Oval.

The No 3 was dismissed for 95 and was the sixth wicket to fall as Tucabia struggled to 9/174 in 40 overs.

Billy Blanch, 16 and Rohan Hackett, 12, were the only other batters to post double figures, although extras racked up 26.

Colby Vallette wrought havoc with the Tucabia top order take 4/38.

There was no information on the Harwood innings, although a wash out was likely.

On Saturday in Premier League Harwood host Brothers at Harwood Oval in a two-day game.

In the CRCA/LCCA first grade competition, Iluka and Lawrence play at Iluka Sportsground, Maclean United host Tucabia Copmanhurst at Barry Watts Oval.

Coutts Crowing and Harwood play at Ellem Oval and GDSC East and Yamba clash at Lower Fisher Turf.

The end for South Westlawn’s top scorer Luke Sullivan who feathered this attempted drive to the keeper from the bowling of Ben McMahon. Sullivan made 20.

5")*6%$'7#"8%*-'$)*'6#%*9,':;'"+' </-+#"3)"*'="-+,#-'>"(,-?'<&,3")&, Rainbow Region Dragon Boat Club (Lennox Head & Ballina) recently returned from the Adelaide Masters Games very proud of their three bronze medals and overall results.

Thirty five members attended and competed in 10 categories, with 26 of the members returning with a medal.

The Senior A and B Women’s teams were most successful winning a bronze medal each, with the Senior C Opens team missing a bronze by 100th of a second.

The third Bronze

medal was won by the Rainbows Breast Cancer Survivor team. Each

team had three races and the winners were selected on the two best

times.

To add to the challenge, cold gale force

crosswinds dominated the two days of racing and Rainbow Dragon

steerers had to draw on all their paddling skills to hold their line from the pontoon starts to the 200m finish.

Lots of the teams that entered were combined crews of the best competitive paddler from three or more clubs – whereas Rainbows entered as a standalone club. This made the results even more remarkable and special for the club.

The camaraderie and Rainbow team spirit showed up and took us over the finish line.

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