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GOD’S FAVOURITE IDIOT BLESSES LISMORE A CAST and crew of 300 are in the Northern Rivers to film the Netflix comedy, God’s Favourite Idiot.

Actor Melissa McCarthy (pictured), star of the film Hangover and Bridesmaids, was spotted in Lismore’s CDB while the production was filming inside Lismore’s museum on Molesworth Street. The series is expected to inject more than $74 million into the Australian economy, but a $10 million federal government grant helped lure it to our shores.

Ken Crouch the CEO of Screenworks, an organisation supporting more TV/film production on the north coast, says he doesn’t know exactly how much God’s Favourite Idiot will inject into the local economy, but the flow-on effects will be huge.

“Of course, this region gets bang for its buck, because when a production

comes to an area it’s not just the cast and crew who benefit but so many other industries – accommodation, hospitality (restaurants and cafes), hardware stores, even the contractors who install the temporary toilets,” he said.

God’s Favorite Idiot is a workplace comedy about an IT worker who falls for his co-worker Amily (McCarthy) at the same time as he becomes the unwitting messenger of God. Earlier in the year the US-backed series Nine Perfect Strangers was filmed around Mullumbimby and in the Byron hinterland. It is estimated to have injected $100 million into the state’s economy and created 250 full-time jobs and around 1,300 casual jobs – many Northern Rivers locals.

Mr Crouch said Screenworks had been trying to attract big budget films

Pic: SJ McKay / MEDIA MODE and TV series to the region for years, but the pandemic has also resulted in more US productions heading Downunder.

“We want to see ongoing jobs within the industry so that local industry people can stay at home with their family and in their community, and that’s the most exciting part about the level of production

in this industry – local jobs are being created.”

The Stan production, Eden, was also shot in the Northern Rivers earlier this year as well as the feature film Bosch and Rockit, starring Luke Hemsworth, and the movie Seriously Red, starring Rose Byrne.

New South Wales Minister for the Arts, Don Harwin said

he is delighted the state is the go-to destination to attract significant international productions, including God’s Favorite Idiot.

“With support from our Made in NSW fund, this exciting new Netflix series will provide highly skilled jobs, bring significant expenditure into regional areas and will showcase our beautiful Northern Rivers area.”

God’s Favorite Idiot will also use the services of some 1,000 Australian businesses.

To date, the Federal Government has provided $200 million of Location Incentive funding to attract 20 productions to Australia.

This is creating $1.5 billion of expenditure in the economy, providing an estimated 12,100 jobs for Aussie cast and crew, and generating work for more than 12,700 businesses nationally.

Clarence Way upgraded to support freight B-DOUBLE trucks are set to have unrestricted access from Grafton to the Bruxner Highway following the completion of a $7.96 million upgrade to seal the final 15-kilometre gravel section of Clarence Way. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Michael McCormack said the Australian Government was proud to support the important upgrades that will deliver better freight connectivity for the region.

“The upgrade is part of a broader Tabulam Agribusiness Precinct Infrastructure Improvement Project specifically designed to support sustained growth for key local business and the wider Tabulam Community,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.

“This is what the Australian Government’s $110 billion infrastructure pipeline is all about – supporting local economies, delivering efficiencies to our national

freight network and getting Australians home sooner and safer.”

New South Wales for Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole said the project, which included $4.16 million from the NSW Government’s Fixing Country Roads program, would benefit local producers and freight operators, by delivering more efficient and reliable road journeys.

“Clarence Way is an important link in the regional freight network, connecting local farmers at Tabulam to markets in Queensland and south to Grafton,” Mr Toole said.

“Not only will the sealing of this uneven, gravel road prevent the products and produce moving on this road from being damaged, it will mean lower operating costs and increased productivity for our freight industry, and a safer road network for all road users.”

The Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said the Federal Government’s contribution of $3.55 million helped deliver the project in a huge win for the local agricultural industry.

“This project will unlock the economic potential of the Tabulam Agribusiness Precinct and allow the community to

investment in this northern section of the Clarence Way would enhance connectivity for local residents and freight producers and promote tourism to the area.

“This is the first section of a much larger project of rehabilitating the Clarence Way, which has been identified in the Council’s newly released Freight and Supply Chain handle an increase in business Strategy as an alternative activity and population into the freight route,” Cr Mulholland future,” Mr Hogan said. said.

NSW State Member of The project is valued at more the Legislative Council than $7.96 million and is being Ben Franklin said on top of funded thanks to more than delivering a safer road, the $4.16 million from the NSW project was a huge win for the Government (Fixing Country local economy by creating 20 Roads), along with $3.55 local jobs during construction. million from the Australian “The upgrade to Clarence Government and $250,000 Way benefits everyone, from from Kyogle Council. the growers getting their The NSW Government’s produce and stock to market, to $543 million Fixing Country the many employed in freight Roads programme aims to and related industries, right unlock the economic potential through to the consumers at the of regional NSW. It looks to other end of the supply chain,” repair, strengthen, widen and Mr Franklin said. seal roads, building upon our Kyogle Council Mayor vision for a safer, stronger Danielle Mulholland said the regional NSW.

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A CENTRALISED national online appointment booking portal is planned for the near future. It is anticipated that people will be able to make a vaccination appointment through the portal, or simply by phoning their nearest participating clinic.

The national rollout commenced on Monday 22 February. Right now, we are in Phase 1a. Phase 1b is planned to start late March/early April.

In these phases, COVID-19 vaccinations are being offered to those who are at highest risk and are being organised by employers or care facilities.

Check with your employer or care facility if you feel you are eligible.

The rollout is expected to reach Phase 2a and Phase 2b around the middle of 2021.

The Australian Government has made it clear that the COVID-19 vaccination will be voluntary in Australia, however, strongly encourages people to get vaccinated.

Vaccination is free for everyone.

Healthy North Coast’s goal is for every person in our region who wishes to be vaccinated to

RACFs. In a welcome start to Phase1a of the vaccination program, as of yesterday (March 9), 545 residents have already been vaccinated.

There have been 315 in the Mid North Coast region, and 230 in the Far North Coast (Northern NSW) region. More residents will be vaccinated across both regions over coming weeks.

be able to do so by the end of this year.

To support this goal we are providing education, coordination, and mass vaccination planning support to residential aged care facilities (RACFs), general practices, GP respiratory clinics, Aboriginal medical services, pharmacies and residential disability facilities. This will ensure a timely and effective vaccine rollout in our communities from Port Macquarie to Tweed Heads.

People living in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs) Our region has about 6,000 aged care residents in 80

General population Healthy North Coast continues to work with general practices preparing for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination program for the general population.

Currently, more than 100 general practices in the Far North Coast (Northern NSW) and the Mid North Coast are planning to participate in the vaccine rollout.

Close to 13,000 vaccine doses for Phase 1b will start to be delivered to these general practices from late March/early April. More than 70 per cent of these supplies will be available from week 1 of the rollout.

The remainder of the Phase 1b vaccine supplies will be delivered in weeks 2, 3 and 4.

We are supporting hundreds of highly qualified, skilled and dedicated doctors, nurses, administrators, care workers and pharmacists pre paring to deliver all phases of the vaccine rollout to our local residents.

Aboriginal Health Services Healthy North Coast and the Northern NSW and Mid North Coast Local Health Districts are supporting local Aboriginal health services to ensure they are ready to participate in the vaccination rollout.

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BAD ROADS CAUSE UNTOLD DAMAGE THE Northern Rivers has some of the worst roads in the state, according to a new NRMA report and local mechanics can testify that bad roads are also taking a toll on our cars.

NRMA’s Rate Your Road report found that rural and regional areas are hardest hit by cost of road trauma and accidents.

In the five years from 2014 to 2018, Ballina recorded 640 road accidents including 13 fatals; Byron had 818, including 10 fatals; Lismore 936 with 12 fatals; and Tweed 1,507 accidents with 26 fatal accidents.

“It’s really a wake-up call that investment in road safety infrastructure for the regions

should not be an afterthought by government,” NRMA Spokesman Peter Khoury said.

“It’s clear from these results that poor road conditions aren’t isolated to any one region – it’s a much larger problem – one we believe is primarily driven by the budgetary constraints on councils.

“This is also why the NRMA supports the NSW Government’s policy of transferring more of the regional road network into the jurisdiction of the State Government, provided this has no negative impact on existing funding for councils – it’s about increasing and prioritising funding for the poorest roads across the state.”

Lismore mechanic Brian Lee has been working in the Northern Rivers for 45 years and says he see first-hand the damage bad roads causes to local cars.

“The main damage is usually tyres and rims and of course the other thing is suspension parts like shock absorbers, ball joints,

life span.

“We have cars coming in all the time, driven on poor roads with ongoing maintenance problems. We know the roads are behind this,” he said.

Mr Lee said he couldn’t determine how the percentage of accidents caused by poor roads but they often were a contributing factor.

“Many roads on the North control arms, which can be Coast exacerbate accidents, expensive,” he said. usually it’s a mixture of “A pothole can fracture a an inexperienced driver tyre, damage a rim and even on a poor road, and you impact wheel alignment, can’t expect those drivers which will in time cause your to properly navigate tough tyres to scrub out.” conditions.

Mr Lee said driving on bad “They are inclined to hit roads impact all parts of a car, potholes and run off the edges whereas a car driven on good of country roads then struggle bitumen roads has an infinite to right their steering.”

Fight on to strengthen rights of long-term park residents AN alliance of North Coast locals has joined forces with the Greens in a fight to give more rights to long-term caravan and residential park residents.

Residential parks or lifestyle villages are communities of homes typically marketed to people over 55. People who live in residential parks rent the ground but buy their building (like long-term caravan park residents), and have use of the shared areas in the park. The residents pay ongoing site fees after buying a home.

Ballina MP Tamara Smith said there are 27 such communities in her electorate and many residents are upset by a number of unfair even predatory practices not banned under the NSW Residential Communities Act. At a meeting with Ms Smith on Wednesday the residents explained that fees were rising at an extraordinary rate and the operators were not required to explain why, or where their

money was going.

In one Ballina park, fee increases had exceeded the CPI for nine consecutive years, netting the operator an extra $700,000.

“The operator is entitled to operate a profitable business, but not by using unfair, predatory tactics against a community with limited resources to defend itself,” said a group of Ballina residents.

The residents said the operators were also not required to consult them about inappropriate developments on park land, citing the example of one park operator which built a carwash next to a home.

“The parks are owned by large investment companies, often international organisations,” residents said.

“At the expense of homeowners, mainly selffunded retirees or pensioners it is becoming apparent, this new class of operator is now using their resources to find

of operators not caravan or residential park residents when designing the 2013 Residential (Land Lease) Communities Act. “They have put the foxes in charge of the hen house,” Ms Smith said. “We are talking about 5,000 communities in New South Wales and 40,000 older residents and the balance needs to be in their favour and not that of multinational corporations.” weaknesses in the RLLC, of strata apartment complexes.

Many of the retirees and through which they can “The vulnerability of pensioners at the Ballina maximise their returns.” residents in these communities, meeting said they enjoyed The residents said the only I’ve not seen anything like it,” the lifestyle the parks offered way they can fight fee increases Ms Smith said. but no longer wanted to be is to take the operators to the “We are talking about financially bled by operators.

NSW Fair Trading Tribunal, but homeowners who have invested One resident said he was even to do that they had to first hundreds of thousands of defenceless against a large find money for lawyers. dollars into buying a home, so cashed-up owner corporation, Many spoke of the impact the the idea is that they are then describing it as a ‘David and injustice was having on their at the whim and mercy of Goliath relationship’. mental health. operators without any oversight The NSW government Ms Smith said she was or any transparency is ludicrous is currently reviewing the distressed to learn what retirees and bizarre.”

Residential (Land Lease) and pensioners have been The Green MP said the Communities Act and calling subjected to. They had none of Berejiklian government had for submissions from the the rights of renters or residents clearly caved into the demands community.

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No bridge too far in Kyogle with massive grant boost

by Halden Boyd KYOGLE Shire Council will be able to replace 84 timber bridges across the Shire thanks to over $40 million in funding allocated by the NSW Government, and it has taken over 40 years of lobbying to do it.

The Fixing Country Bridges Programme has turned out to be a godsend Kyogle Council to replace ageing timber bridges and improve safety and access for the community.

And it took the Black Summer Bushfires which saw bridges damaged or destroyed to get action happening on a roll.

Before the bushfires Kyogle Shire topped the list of bridges needing repair in its boundaries.

That number still stands at over 350 bridges.

Local Nationals Member of the Legislative Council Ben Franklin in announcing the funds said with the Roads Minister Paul Toole for 84 Kyogle bridges said it was a long time coming and a huge level of investment that would make a considerable difference to people living in and around Kyogle, which for over 40 years has been pleading with

governments to have a thorough bridge replacement programme undertaken.

“Maintenance and repair costs on these old timber bridges are a financial burden to Council and ratepayers and this funding will remove that pressure,” Mr Franklin said.

“Kyogle Shire is receiving one of the most significant investments by the State Government in this round of funding and I’m proud to be announcing over $40 million to build better, safer bridges.”

“By replacing the State’s worst bridges with safer, modern bridges that will better

withstand events like floods and bushfire, we will keep our communities better connected.”

There are 423 successful projects across NSW in this round of funding of which bridges in Kyogle make up one fifth.

Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole said the NSW Government had accelerated funding for the program with more than $290 million shared across 54 councils in round one.

“That’s hundreds of fasttracked projects that will start across the state in the next 12 months, helping councils

I’d like to thank the State Government for this investment in the future of our area and for the faith they have shown in Council. This funding will go a long way to making life easier for many of our residents and local businesses as well as visitors to our area.”

“This is a big win for our Council and I am jumping for joy that we’ve received this funding because improved bridges means greater investment in the area, whether it be by industry, tourists, government or residents,” Cr Mulholland said.

“To receive such a huge to create and support jobs, chunk of this funding bucket drive productivity and keep reflects the state and federal our regional communities government confidence in connected,” Mr Toole said.

Kyogle Council to manage Mayor of Kyogle Danielle and effectively deliver such Mulholland described the projects.” funding announcement as truly “This is what happens when great news for our area. the three tiers of government “This is a huge leap forward work together, politics aside,” for Kyogle Council which has Cr Mulholland said. more bridges than any other Successful applications are local government area in NSW,” timber bridges, located on a Cr Mulholland said. council-managed road which “To have 84 bridges funded are not a heritage or truss in one hit is incredible and bridge and are a priority asset to something we lobbied for and council. hoped, beyond hope, would one A second round of the day happen.” programme will be offered later “On behalf of the community, this year.

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LOCAL POLICE BEAT MAN CHARGED OVER FIRE A CASINO man has been charged with lighting a house fire which damaged a property in the town on Monday 8th March.

He was arrested after emergency services attended the blaze in William Street Casino.

Police arrested a 33-year-old and charged him with causing fire damage to a property.

The fire seriously damaged the house which was unoccupied at the time. when we are burdened with the unnecessary costs and delays caused CHARGES OVER GLASSING by the vandalism of our machinery.

A MAN has been charged over “One of our crews have been an alleged glassing at South working in the Tullymorgan/ Murwillumbah.

Jackybulbin Road area where the At 11pm on Friday 12th March grader was vandalised,” a Clarence emergency services were called Valley Council spokesman said. to a licensed premise in South “Not only does this cost us all Murwillumbah where they found a financially but it also delays our road man with lacerations to his head. maintenance schedule.”

Officers from Tweed/Byron Police “Anyone who sees vandalism like District attended and were told the man this taking place please is asked call had been involved in an argument with the police straight away.” another patron before he was struck over the head with a glass.

ARMED SERVO ROBBERY The 39-year-old was taken to POLICE are investigating an armed Murwillumbah Hospital before being robbery at a Woolgoolga service airlifted to Gold Coast University station.

Hospital with serious facial injuries.

At 4pm on Saturday 13th March a A crime scene was established at man armed with a firearm – entered a the hotel, and an investigation into the service station on Solitary Islands Way incident commenced. at Woolgoolga.

A 56-year-old man was arrested at The man threatened a female the scene and taken to Tweed Heads employee before stealing cash and Police Station where he was charged leaving the area on foot. He was last with wounding a person with intent to seen heading south along Solitary cause grievous bodily harm.

Islands Way. The local man appeared before The employee was not physically Tweed Heads Court where he was injured during the incident. given bail to reappear at the same court Officers from Coffs/Clarence Police on 10th May 2021.

District were notified, established a crime scene and launched an GRADER TRASHED investigation into the circumstances THE Clarence Valley Council says surrounding the incident. it is shocked after a road grader was The man is described as being of a vandalised at Tabbimoble between medium build, about 180cm to 185cm New Italy and Harwood over the tall and aged in his 20s. weekend of 13-14th March.

He was last seen wearing a black Damaged included smashed hooded top, a blue face covering, black windows, stolen fuel, stolen and ripped tracksuit pants and white socks. tyres, stolen tools and equipment, and Anyone who may have seen or heard a cap being taken off off the hydraulic anything in the area between 3.30 pm tank with it being filled with water. and 4.30pm on Saturday 13th March Road maintenance is a high priority or who may have dashcam footage for all of us. from the nearby area is urged to It becomes very challenging for us contact Coffs Harbour Police or Crime to satisfy the needs of our community Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

New police victim card rollout NORTHERN Rivers Police Districts will receive new Victim Cards which they says are an important document that provides anyone who has been a victim of crime with essential information, including contact details of the PAC/PD, officer-in-charge of your matter and Event number.

The new cards feature QR codes for quick and easy access to services available to victims.

The NSW Police Force is responsible for keeping victims of crime informed and is dedicated to providing excellent customer service to the community.

The new version of the Victim Card has been developed following consultations with people who have been victims of crime, stakeholders and agencies within the Department of Communities and Justice and the Department of Customer Service.

SMS messaging used to find missing people THE NSW Police Force will commence utilising an SMS geotargeting alert system to assist them in locating high-risk missing people across the state.

Following a comprehensive review of operations the NSW Police Force announced the establishment of the Missing Persons Registry (MPR) and the implementation of new systems and procedures, which came into effect in July 2019.

Since that time the MPR has undertaken a review of all standard operating procedures, developing new protocols and identifying areas of improvement, including immediate operational response.

State Crime Command Director, Detective Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett, said the new geo-targeting tool would be invaluable to help police in locating missing people when there are serious concerns for their safety.

“We now have the capabilities to use this system when there is an operational need in NSW and therefore want the community to be aware these functions exist; in the event they receive an SMS in the future,” Det Ch Supt Bennett said.

“When this tool is used, a brief message can be sent out to all mobile devices within a defined area. The message can include a brief description of the missing person, as well as details of how to report a sighting.”

“This system is currently used by states and territories to send out alerts within specific areas in the event of likely emergency situations, such as flood, bush fire or other extreme weather conditions.”

“With the introduction of the new Missing Persons Registry operating systems, only 18 missing person cases reached 90 days and obtained longterm status last year.”

“This is a significant achievement from the previous missing persons cases becoming long term which averaged 147 per year between 2015 and 2019.”

“It is our hope, that with the introduction of the new geo-targeting tool that we are able to reduce this number even further,” Det Ch Supt Bennett said.

Missing Persons Registry Coordinator, Detective Inspector Glen Browne, said the circumstances in which people go missing are varied, as

are the associated risks.

“It is proposed that the use of geographically targeted SMS messages will only be used in high-risk circumstances, as determined by the new missing persons operating procedures which have been implemented state-wide,” Det Insp Browne said.

“An assessment of all available and relevant information will be made in consultation with the Missing Persons Registry and local Police Area Command or Police District, before an SMS can be sent.”

“Examples of missing persons considered high-risk include people living with dementia who may wander from their homes, children with developmental delays who are separated from their family or carers, and young children who go missing in large crowds.”

“In each of these situations, serious concerns are held for a person’s safety if they are not located quickly – making the SMS tool invaluable to first-responders,” Det Insp Browne said.

Minister for Police and Emergency Services David Elliott said there is no time to waste when someone is reported missing.

“Police always act as quickly as possible to find anyone who is reported missing and this tool will mean the public will be able to assist almost immediately,” Mr Elliott said.

“The community should never underestimate the crucial role they can play in potentially saving someone from harm and if you receive this message, we ask that you keep your eyes out and help police to reunite someone with their loved ones.”

The MPR have engaged telecommunications providers, Telstra, Optus and TPG to facilitate the use and implementation of the SMS geo-targeting tool, utilising the existing emergency alert framework.

John Ieraci, chief customer officer, Telstra Enterprise said technology innovation is crucial to improving community safety.

“We’re thrilled to be assisting the NSW Police Force Missing Persons Registry with the ability to notify the community in critical missing persons cases and hope it will help our first responders make some happy reunions,” Mr Ieraci said.

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ANZAC DAY TO GO AHEAD Community market to reopen ANZAC Day Dawn Services, marches and commemorations will go ahead under Coronavirus exemptions announced by the state government and RSL New South Wales.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way Australians commemorated ANZAC Day last year, and RSL NSW has been working with the NSW Government since September 2020 to ensure that commemorations can take place in regional areas in 2021.

An exemption to the Public Health Order issued to RSL NSW made on the 9th March 2021 stipulates that a maximum of 3000 people can participate in regional commemorations, however social distancing must not exceed one person per 2 square metres of space.

“The nominated organiser of an outdoor

ANZAC Day march or service must develop and comply with a COVID-19 Safety Plan required for outdoor events, a spokesman from RSL NSW told The Northern Rivers Times.

“Each person participating in an outdoor ANZAC Day March or service must provide their name, telephone number of email address to the nominated organiser and take reasonably practicable steps to comply with the COVID-19 Safety Plan developed by the nominated organiser.”

“The health and

safety of veterans, current serving members of the Australian Defence Force, and NSW communities is a priority for RSL NSW. As the COVID-19 landscape evolves in NSW, updates and changes may be made to ANZAC Day commemorations at any time.”

People requiring information on Dawn Services, Anzac Marches, and Commemorative Services should contact their local RSL Sub Branch. www.rslnsw. org.au/get-involved/ sub-branch-listing/

THE vibrant Lennox Head Community Market will reopen with new management under the Byron Community Centre. The market has been held at Lennox Head since the early 80s but shut down in March 2020 due to COVID-19.

“We’re really excited to bring this market back to the community,” says Kate Hardman, Byron Markets manager. “We want to make it bigger and better than ever to support the stallholders and the local Lennox community.”

Although the first market date is yet to be determined, the Lennox market will continue to be held on the second and fifth Sundays of each month.

“We will collaborate with stallholders to ensure that the Lennox market keeps its own unique vibe. It will provide locals and visitors with food, shopping and live music in a beautiful setting, while spending time with

friends and family,” says Kate.

The Community Centre operates the Byron Community Market every first Sunday of the month, the Byron Beachside Artisan Market four times a year, and the Byron Twilight Market in Railway Park from August to April.

Kate oversees all the markets run by Byron Community Centre and Greg Curry, who currently manages the Twilight Market, will be the new manager for the Lennox Head Community Market.

“I live in Lennox Head and am closely connected to the local

community,” says Greg.

“I’ve been going to the Lennox Market for years and have always loved it. I feel excited about the opportunity to manage the market, give back to my community and support small businesses.”

The market scene in Lennox is important as a social and community meeting place. “The markets play an essential role as a venue for local crafts people, small business entrepreneurs, musicians and others to create income in a high unemployment part of NSW,” says Geoff Haycraft, Lennox Market stallholder.

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NATIONALS HAVE SIGNED KOALA DEATH WARRANT THE original policy, introduced on March 1, 2020, had been five years in the making. It was based on five years of significant research, data collection, data analysis and inquiry by the chief scientist of New South Wales.

There were three logical improvements: first, it defined what core koala habitat was based on the science of koala behaviour and koala needs; second, it provided the most up-to-date tree species data.

Up until the new policy we’d only recognised a handful of tree species vital to core-koala habitat. The new policy recognised many more – up from 10 to 123, across NSW; third, and importantly, the policy provided mapping to help protect koalas across NSW. Alas it was also the maps that led to a lot of confusion and then fear. And unfortunately, this resulted in political outfall and so-called outrage from certain sectors.

State based mapping is a difficult exercise the policy was coupled with indicative mapping identifying where core koala habitat potentially occurs. Think of indicative maps as defining areas that

off the indicative map and would cease to be a problem.

This overall operation of the policy was based on bestpractice environmental policy, and there had been broad consultation with farmers, other landowners, koala experts and the community.

In January, 2021 after the National threated to split from their Liberal coalition partners, Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Planning Minister Rob Stokes devised a new koala state environmental planning policy. They completely threw the maps away as the Environmental lawyer, former CEO and principal solicitor of EDO NSW and former Greens candidate for Lismore, Sue basis for protecting koala Higginson, reviews the new NSW koala state environmental habitat and made all lands planning policy zoned rural exempt from this policy – that equates to 80 per could be core koala habitat, That provided the basis for cent of all private owned land but the areas need further irrational outrage, led by our in every local government investigation. Indicative or Nationals MPs. The system area in New South Wales. Yet investigative mapping must was designed to present an the department of planning come first, it is the starting indicative map and all the headed by Rob Stokes said to point and then we progress to landowner had to do was the deputy premier and leader ground-truth mapping. write in or phone in and say, of the Nationals, John Barilaro What happened after the “Could you please remove last year, excluding rural release of the maps, was this from the indicative map. zones on private land would that a number of landowners Here are some photos of what render the policy ineffective said, “Oh my gosh, my shed you’ve identified as core koala and leave koalas unprotected. and bamboo stand have been habitat, it is simply not core Together this is what they mapped as core koala habitat koala habitat.” And then, boom have done. on this indicative map!”

– it would have been taken It’s important to remember

North Coast ceramics creative mud trail experiences THE North Coast Ceramics Group (NCC) has several events in the North Coast in 2021 where people have a chance to view and buy handmade functional pieces, stunning sculptures and timeless artworks that spark joy in any space.

In April, the Newrybar Community will house the group’s annual Easter Mudtrail Market.

Twelve regional ceramicbased artists will showcase their works over Easter Saturday and Sunday.

It’s a chance to connect with the artists and own locally created ceramics.

This year the group has welcomed Brookies Gin and Harvest Newrybar as their partners, making the market a truly locally flavoured event.

The market runs from the 3rd to

4th April 2021.

In its ninth year, the popular Mudtrail is throwing twenty-one ceramic studios open to the public, some offering demonstrations and hands-on experience.

This year, the NCC is working on a new exhibition that involves the humble teapot.

Local artists are put to the test, creating visually delightful and possibly functional teapots. The teapot is the culmination of a potter’s craft.

The group says it be will releasing details at a later date.

Towards the end of the year, the NCC holds the Christmas Mudtrail Market for visitors.

It will be held in the village of Federal, and the markets operate from 27th to 28th November 2021.

For more information visit: www.northcoastmudtrail.com.au

that 10,000 koalas perished in last summer’s drought and fires, that’s a third of koalas in NSW . Here in the Northern Rivers, we lost three-quarters of our koalas and in some areas entire local populations were wiped out. The science and data show koalas are now on a trajectory to be extinct in New South Wales by 2050.

Extinction is a heinous and absolutely irreversible event.

It is unfathomable that our beautiful national icon is facing this.

Environmental law and policy should be based on the best available science and data. Unfortunately, I have seen all too often, environmental policy developed based on who has the most political influence at the time. The main beneficiaries of the new koala planning policy will be the timber industry, the sector that wants to promote private native forestry on private land and those who want to engage in land clearing for financial gain. If it is about jobs and growth Koalas are worth some $3.2 billion to the national economy and some 30,000 jobs rely on their existence.

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So much is still unclear in this new policy THE first incarnation of the environmental planning policy was dropped on us Christmas Eve, 2019. We had been consulted prior to that but we did not expect what was presented. The policy was an inappropriate mechanism to conserve koalas and the mapping was terrible.

The last time anyone in New South Wales did a map that was vaguely accurate it was Matthew Flinders and they didn’t present a method of recourse. They said it wasn’t going to inform regulation but that was rubbish. The mapping was so grossly inaccurate.

They even had camphor laurels down as key koala habitat and so many other mistakes, but what was even worse was that they didn’t outline an adequate appeals process. Once land was identified on the map, you were in hot water and the policy would have covered most of the state. We found it all contradictory and we were anything but happy. It

had agreed on a compromise.

Rural land would be carved out – the new policy would not apply to rural land but that does not mean koalas would be left unprotected. The NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act protects koalas on rural land. The act balances the relationship between agriculture and conservation, providing huge protection for koalas and koala habitat. We President of the NSW Farmers thought what we finally agreed on in October, leaving out Association, James Jackson, rural land, was pretty good. reviews the new NSW koala environmental planning policy. Essentially, it was targeted at urban-rural interface – was designed by people who designed to pick up destruction had in their heart that farmers of habitat in some specific were environmental vandals coastal situations on land and couldn’t be trusted looking earmarked for housing. Then after koalas. The idea that in November, MP Catherine using the coercive powers of Cusack crossed the floor and the state will improve bioscuttled it and now we have physical conservation is not another policy, drawn up in correct.

January.

For the first 10 months of This new policy has last year, we were involved in undefined changes to the furious negotiations with the Biodiversity Conservation Act government and by October we and we don’t know what they

are or what they look like. The government is flagging that they are going to put things in yet another act, and farmers aren’t happy about that. There was much in the Biodiversity Conservation Act that worked, good mechanisms like the Biodiversity Conservation Trust. Instead of punishing farmers for having koalas and koala habit on their land, they rewarded farmers – it drove stewardship and paid farmers to conserve land with high conservation value. There was $80 million in that trust and they’d been paying farmers to conserve land since 2016 with different types of stewardship payments. They would tender them out depending on how critical the ecosystem was.

That was great for farmers.

Instead of hurting farmers you pay them. That was our preferential way of dealing with this. Remember most of the koalas left in New South Wales are on public land, and consider also that the bushfires

were on Crown Land. The 2016 Biodiversity Conservation Act drove conservation on private land without putting people out of pocket. Isn’t that likely to have a more positive effect on koala conservation than punishing farmers?

Now I just don’t know how they are changing the Biodiversity Conservation Trust and the payment system for farmers. I’m very concerned that the Nationals are tinkering with this just to come up with some political fix to sell the policy to the Liberals. Farmers are the front line when it comes to environmental conservation.

The Farmers Association stands ready to work to develop a solution that will support farmers to take extra steps to look after koalas on their farms. We have consistently said that the NSW Biodiversity Conservation and land management framework provides a modern framework to deliver this.

NO ‘TICKET TO RECOVERY’ FOR REGIONAL AIRPORTS: ALGA THE Federal Government’s new tourism and aviation support package will do little to ease the crisis facing many regional airports, the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) said today.

While acknowledging the $1.2 billion package will help the struggling aviation and regional tourism sectors transition past the end of the JobKeeper program, ALGA said it offered nothing substantive to regional airports, many of which are struggling to survive.

Since the onset of the pandemic, revenues at some local council-owned airports

have collapsed by as much as 90 percent.

Moreover, despite sharply fewer regular airline flights, councils are still having to pay the full costs of compliance, safety, and maintenance for their airports.

ALGA President Cr Linda Scott said councils are grateful for ongoing federal and state government programs to support or enhance aviation safety and accessibility.

“There are almost 4000 jobs generated by regional and remote airport precincts across the country and given the uncertainties about when

the pandemic will be brought under control, federal and state governments need to reconsider their level of direct support for local government.

“Local government has been given little direct financial support during Covid-19, apart from subsidies to help meet the costs of governmentmandated security screening of passengers and freight,” Cr Scott said.

“Because of the rising costs of compliance, few regional airports came to this crisis in strong financial position.

“Nonetheless, they have waived landing fees

and passenger levies for airline operators so their communities can continue to travel for work, health or education.”

Cr Scott added that because local governments were not eligible for JobKeeper payments, councils have struggled to hold on to airport staff.

“There’s a real risk that without further direct support, these skilled people will leave their communities in search of work elsewhere – making a return to normal operations for regional airports extremely difficult in the short term.”

About 200 airports are

owned by councils, and besides keeping local communities connected with large urban centres, these facilities are needed for medical services and disaster emergencies.

Local government is committed to keeping its airports open, even where these are running at a loss and require cross-subsidies that hamper the ability to deliver essential services and functions.

“We’re now at a point, however, where councils are looking to have to cut community services to sustain their airports,” Cr Scott said.

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FIRST NATION ARTISTS CHOSEN FOR COUNCIL DESIGN PROJECT FIRST Nations’ arts practitioners Frances Belle Parker, Uncle Joe Walker and Deborah Taylor have been selected as the artists that will collaboratively create a design for Clarence Valley Council that reflects the rich Yaegl, Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr cultural heritage of the Clarence.

Frances Belle Parker, Deborah Taylor and Uncle Joe Walker innovatively fuse

traditional and contemporary arts and culture in their practice and will participate in this unique cultural exchange as representatives from each of the Nations.

General manager Ashley Lindsay said, “Once the project is completed, Clarence Valley Council will have a valuable tool which is respectful of the Yaegl, Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr people and

will help us to amplify their stories.”

“The rich cultural fabric and layered histories of Yaegl, Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr will provide the framework for the design.

We feel privileged that we are able to work with these exceptional artists and for the opportunity for the exchange of ideas that will lead to the culmination of this new work.”

LETTERS, FEEDBACK AND OPINION clearly have. He could start with the draft “NSW water strategy,” and the “NSW Productivity Commission Green Paper”, developed by the NSW Government.

Both focus on smart water options, not dams, to provide water security We’d love to hear and to grow our state and from you! regional economies.

It is time to move letters@nrtimes.com.au onto productive Please keep under 150 words discussions on achievable Water woes drought resilient smart Last week’s letter to the water options for our editor by the National community. We hope Mr Party candidate, Austin Curtin might join with us Curtin jnr., regrettably and Rous County Council ignored the core reasons in this endeavour, as water why the Dunoon Dam security is indeed an issue proposal is no longer that transcends political considered viable by Rous boundaries.

County Council. These David Ottina include: for Water Northern 1. Our existing water Rivers supply is almost entirely dependent on surface Magical thinking water, another dam will Everyone wants water do little to improve security. But those who our water security in believe that the Dunoon the next big drought.

Dam would provide water Smarter options exist; security for the future 2. Traditional owners are falling for magical have rejected the thinking. dam because it would The Future Water 2060 destroy Indigenous plan incorporating the heritage. Let’s respect Dunoon Dam supposedly that; “future-proofs” the region.

3. The community For 39 years! That is the consultation process has same as boasting that a rejected the dam twice. large and expensive public Let’s respect that too; building will last for all and of 39 years before it falls 4. The dam will severely down. We need to think damage an Endangered much further ahead than Ecological Community that. What happens after with threatened plant 39 years? Find a site for and animal species, another dam? but protecting riparian Many people picture habitat mitigates flood a big full lake and effects and improves believe that must be the water quality. answer to water security.

Mr Curtin might study However, the Dunoon the complexities of Dam would be a drought achieving true water trap. Its meagre catchment security as the majority of situated downstream current Rous councillors from an existing dam

means it cannot fill in dry times. These periods have occurred in the past and are projected to become longer and more severe. Two dry dams do not provide water security.

Other regions in Australia, and the world, are increasingly recognising that long-term water solutions depend on using water wisely, collecting it where it is used, recycling it as much as possible and adopting the numerous modern technologies available. Sooner or later we will be forced to do the same. It is much smarter to do these things before we have a real crisis on our hands.

The eggs-in-one-basket approach to water security is being promoted inexplicably by some short-term thinkers. No financial planner would agree to that reckless approach with your savings.

Dams have been useful in the past but that doesn’t mean we should continue to depend on them alone. Pigeons were once practical for sending information but we moved on.

Nan Nicholson The Channon

Stalwart Saffin A great article from Lismore MP Janelle Saffin (NRT, March 4).

It now seems that rorting and pork-barrelling played a huge part in the return of the Berejiklian government at the 2019 election, polling showed they were heading for a narrow defeat but like Shifty Morrison, “miraculously” managed a narrow victory. The

Nationals however were devastated with the loss of Lismore to Labor, Murray, Orange and Barwon to the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, and the defection of Port Macquarie MP Lesley Williams to the Liberals, over Barilaro and Gulaptis’s koala killing bill.

Their once safe Central and North Coast seats are now under threat largely because of the Nationals Neolithic environmental policies; the outcome could be very problematic for the Nationals, if the increasingly popular SFFP ran candidates in ALL their seats. The Nationals know their future is on the line, hence the massive increase in porkbarrelling, that they’re now openly bragging about.

But it does not always work, some people just refuse to be bought. In Ballina Ben Franklin found that out, (with some help from us locals). The Nationals are becoming quite vulnerable both State and Federally, so keep the pressure on them Janelle, these North Coast seats need more progressive MPs, OUR future is also on the line.

Keith Duncan, Pimlico

Teachers valued Your comprehensive report in last week’s (4/03) Northern Rivers Times calls for changes to our teaching profession in New South Wales.

And the result of a recent independent inquiry ‘Valuing the Teaching Profession’ headed by Dr Geoff Gallop, former Western Australian

premier and education minister from 2001 to 2006 shows that today Australia certainly is not top of the class in education in New South Wales, our most populous state.

A recent survey of the 20 best educated countries in the world lists Denmark as top of the class, followed by Finland, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, Ireland, Hungary followed by Australia at number 14. Australia at number 14 - we’re hardly an Olympic champion in education which is such an important issue in our lives.

I must admit to a personal bias as to why I consider education to be so important as I am a parent and grandparent and I was a state school teacher for over 40 years.

Both in the UK, where I lived before I migrated to Australia, and during my teaching career in Australia, it appeared to me that teaching was viewed just “an ordinary job” but on lecture tours to Japan I was very surprised and gratified to find that teaching was a greatly revered profession, certainly not considered to be just “an ordinary job”.

So where might Australia’s approach to education differ from those countries at the top of the class?

35% of Australian students attend private schools, the OECD average is 18%, Canada 6% and Finland and Sweden less than 6%.

In today’s new Covid world, times are tough

for our children in our schools and with NSW teachers’ salaries having declined significantly compared to the average of other professions, is it any wonder that we have teacher shortages and difficulty in recruiting and retaining teachers?

Are these the sort of educational outcomes we really want to choose for all our children?

Harry Johnson Iluka

Parks pillaged Re letter in The NR Times (11/03) from Patrick Deegan who regards Casino as a small community – Imagine then how we feel in Iluka as we are facing the same fate.

Fight on Patrick and don’t give up. We tried but lost to greedy developers who have no regard or respect for the bush.

Sue Le Cornu Iluka

Plundering parties Once again the redneck Liberal stooge National Party have stuck to their mantra of “if it moves shoot it, if it doesn’t chop it down” and have sold out koalas and the environment. We all know the Liberal National Party want a concrete jungle all over the state and country.

They are hell bent on the destruction of our country.

The thing is, you destroy your environment, you destroy your economy.

Think about it – how much the Chinese and Japanese love koalas, not to mention the rest of the world. The billions lost in tourism dollars is insane.

Alan Mosley Yamba

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Regional housing strategy required to address Covid city exodus

By Christine Tondorf

People who are employed, with rental or home ownership DESPITE a growing number history, yet they have been of homeless people in the pushed out of the current Northern Rivers, the Federal rental market purely due to Government has cut funding high demand and very limited to emergency housing services supply.”

– now the NSW opposition With Jobseeker and is demanding the state Jobkeeper and the COVID-19 government develop a regional rental eviction moratorium housing strategy. finishing late March, the The pandemic has led to an nation’s 180 housing support unprecedented exodus of city services are predicting the people into regional areas. situation will worsen, but The Australian Bureau of the Morrison government is Statistics’ internal migration cutting $56.7 million from data recorded an all-time high homeless services. of number of city refugees Figures, just released, also relocating to regional areas show that Byron Bay has last year following the the second largest homeless outbreak of Covid19. population after Sydney.

Social Futures, a LismoreByron Shire has 198 rough based service delivering sleepers compared to Sydney’s low-cost housing, says it is 272, while in Lismore 48 overwhelmed by demand for people sleep on the streets. affordable housing.

Shadow Housing Minister “There is a waitlist for social Ryan Park said there is a need housing of between 10 to 15 for a regional housing strategy years with almost 3,000 on to address what is becoming a a housing waitlist as at June crisis on the North Coast. last year,” said Social Futures “We need all levels of CEO, Tony Davies. government to sit down in a “People are presenting with bipartisan way and begin to ever more complex needs focus on developing strategies requiring more intensive for both the short- and support and assistance. long-term challenges that “We have also seen a new the area is facing,” he said, cohort of homelessness arise. “otherwise we are going to

see more and more vulnerable residents join the growing number of homeless people that is emerging right across the North Coast.”

Mr Parks said Labor wants the NSW government to listen to the advice of Lismore MP Janelle Saffin and develop a regional housing strategy tailored specifically to address housing supply across the North Coast.

“I know from the advocacy that Janelle has made both to the Government as well as informing myself as the shadow minister that this issue needs to be a real priority for government at all levels to ensure we try and address the ongoing challenges that people renting as well as those looking to access social and affordable housing face.”

Ms Saffin said the state government needed to spend even more on housing, despite committing a record $823 million for social housing in the last budget.

“When you break that down across the regions that provides little housing and a lot of that money was also recurrent. We need a housing strategy and we need it over ten years,” she said.

“We need what they call the Greater Sydney area and then we have the regions (all of them combined), and we need plans for both of those – then we can drill down to localities.”

Ms Saffin said the housing strategy should be far reaching covering land releases, zoning, community housing and have industry input from developers, real estate agents and housing groups.

She also called on the Federal government to provide funding to alleviate the regional coastal housing shortage.

“The Federal government has to stump up too because it has abrogated all responsibility for housing to the state government … it no longer even has a federal housing minister.”

NSW Housing Minister Melinda Pavey declined to comment on the North Coast housing shortage but referred questions to the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.

A department spokesperson said in regional NSW, nine regional plans – as opposed to one overarching plan – were in place and they set a 20-year

vision for land use planning in each region, including housing provision.

“These include regional plans for the North Coast, New England North West and Hunter. These plans are currently being reviewed.

The reviews will address contemporary challenges including the changing demographic/migration patterns and the housing needs of regional communities in light of Covid-19,” the spokesman said.

“The draft NSW Housing Strategy is currently being finalised, which will outline a 20-year vision for unlocking housing supply and boosting the supply of affordable housing across NSW.” According to recent data, rental vacancies in the Northern Rivers are almost impossible to secure. The Real Estate Institute of New South Wales found the Northern Rivers has a rental vacancy of just 1.4 per cent in January.

Coffs Harbour’s rental vacancy rate is at a record low of 0.5 per cent, as is the Mid-North Coast’s, while in the southern suburbs of the Gold Coast, for example Currumbin, vacancies rates are down to 0.3 per cent.

STREET COUNT REVEALS REDUCTION IN ROUGH SLEEPERS IN TWEED HEADS THE number of people sleeping rough across the Tweed has reduced by 25 per cent in the last year thanks the NSW Government’s commitment to empowering people to break the cycle of homelessness.

Member for Tweed, Geoff Provest said in February 2020, 77 people were sleeping rough in the Tweed Shire, but this year that number is down to 58.

“The annual street count of rough sleepers is critical in understanding the needs of the community and targeting supports tailored to those needs,” Mr Provest said.

“The Government is working hard to get rough sleepers off the streets and into secure housing, providing them with the wraparound support they need to rebuild their lives.

“Seeing such a significant reduction in

rough sleepers across the community is a testament to the strong partnerships our Government has forged with local housing and homelessness organisations and I look forward to that good work continuing.”

The NSW Government expanded assertive outreach to Tweed Heads in 2019 and has invested $65 million in the new Together Home initiative, which providers secure housing and wraparound supports for people who were sleeping rough.

Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services said the second annual state-wide street count of rough sleepers had

recorded 1,128 people compared to 1,131 people last year – a reduction of 14 percent statewide.

“The work we’ve done in the last year has helped hundreds of rough sleepers secure housing and prevented thousands of people from becoming homeless by helping them maintain tenancies in the private rental market,” Mr Ward said.

“Pleasingly, the overall number of people sleeping rough has reduced, but we are determined to see it go down even further and will continue working hard to deliver housing outcomes for people across NSW.”

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New $16m bridge keeps up appearances

By Tim Howard THERE is a lot of love and heritage in the $15.9 million spent on upgrading the Briner Bridge on the Coldstream River linking the tiny Clarence Valley village of Tucabia to the world.

While the 113-year-old Dare truss-style bridge’s rattling structure might have kept villagers awake, they did not want to lose the iconic shape pot the gateway to their community.

Member for Clarence Chris Gulaptis recognised this when he arrived with Clarence Valley mayor Jim Simmons to open the bridge on Thursday last week.

“The new bridge is similar, but wider than what was here before,” Mr Gulaptis said.

Mr Gulaptis said all the hardwood used in the new trusses had been sourced from the Northern Rivers.

Mr Gulaptis, who is also Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Roads and Infrastructure, said the bridge, has strong associations with the growth in the road network and the boom in economic activity in the region beginning in the early 1900s.

Students from Tucabia and Ulmarra public schools join MP Chris Gulaptis to open the refurbished Briner Bridge last Thursday.

He said the new bridge’s capacity increased from 33 tonnes to 42.5 tonnes and widening the bridge deck from 4.5m, to 5.4m between barriers would improve traffic flow on Coldstream Terrace between Tucabia and Ulmarra.

Mr Gulaptis said that on top of benefiting local communities that relied on the bridge, the upgrade also sustained 20 full-time jobs and provided employment for 12 local suppliers while the work was carried out.

“Upgrading this 113-year-old structure has been a massive effort for the project team, replacing the Dare truss and the approach spans including new land-based piles that support its 113-metre length,” Mr Gulaptis said.

On Thursday students from Tucabia and Ulmarra, on either side of the bridge came to celebrate the opening.

Four students from the Ulmarra Public School cut the ribbon to officially open the bridge, even though the final

road surfacing for it has been delayed for a few days because of wet weather.

One of the engineering marvels at the bridge site has been the temporary “bridge in a box” that allowed residents to cross the river during bridge construction.

Residents were delighted to see the pre-made bridge go up as it saved them a 45-minute detour to get to the old Pacific Highway.

“This temporary bridge structure will be removed

before the crew carries out finishing work for Briner Bridge, including installing interpretive signage to describe the bridge’s history for locals and tourists.”

Saving thousands of microbats that had taken up residence in the old bridge was another challenge facing the modern bridge builders.

Workers relocated the colony from the temporary bridge onto the new bridge in bat boxes under the truss span.

Transport for NSW will also monitor the bat habitat designed into the approach span concrete under the kerbs, to see if the bats take up their new lodgings.

The timber from the old bridge has not been lost, but has required some special treatment to make it safe to use again.

Because it had been chemically treated, or had lead paint it has gone to a timber recycling contractor who can rehabilitate the wood for reuse.

Cr Simmons said in the past month the council has received an additional $32 million from the State Government to spend on replacing more than 30 of the 126 timber bridges it maintains.

KIDS BANNED FROM TRUCK ON OLD BRIDGE

By Tim Howard ACCOMPANYING her husband and Clarence Valley Mayor Jim Simmons to the opening of the Briner Bridge at Tucabia was a return to her old stamping grounds for his wife, Lexie.

Mrs Simmons, who grew up as Lexie Firth on the Tucabia side of the Coldstream River, had a stack of memories to share about the historic bridge which opened up the region.

“I remember dad driving the

big truck from the farm across the bridge with 100 boxes of bananas in the back,” she said.

“He never let us ride in the truck across the bridge with him in case the bridge collapsed.

“He thought it was ok for him to take the risk, but he didn’t want any of the kids to be in danger.”

While the bridge might have made a fearful rattle while trucks crossed, the 113-year history of the bridge showed it posed few dangers to its users.

She said the bridge was built in 1908, the same year her “Pop” was born.

She said her father, Reg Firth, was a councillor on the Ulmarra Shire Council and one of the things he was most proud of was getting the dirt roads “bitumened”.

She said the Coldstream River was a popular, if dangerous playground for the local community.

“We used to swim in the river all the time. There was even a diving board for us,”

she said.

But she didn’t elaborate on a story that she once almost drowned while swimming.

She said the bridge was a vital link to the bigger population centres.

“When I was young I was able to have a job at the Marble Bar cafe in Grafton and later pull beers at the Jacaranda Hotel,” she said.

“If you couldn’t get into town easily, you couldn’t have those sorts of opportunities,” she said.

Lexie Simmons, nee Firth, admires the new Briner Bridge linking her former home to the rest of the Clarence Valley at its opening last week.

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PANDEMIC PLIGHT OF THE TRAVEL AGENT

By Lesley Apps IF you were wondering what travel agents have been up since COVID-19 decimated their industry then here’s the answer — they’ve become debt collectors.

And not just any old debt collector, travel agents are doing it pro bono, for nothing, zip, nix, free, for the past 12 months, in order to honour their relationship with clients who have also been burned by the pandemic.

Managing director of the Casino Travel Shoppe Izaak du Plooy said despite losing all their revenue streams travel agents have still spent the past year working hard recouping money on behalf of their clients from providers.

“It’s basically been costing us money to get our clients’ money back. If we had just shut our doors those clients would have lost 100% of their money but instead they are getting 100% back but it’s costing travel agents to do that.”

Mr du Plooy said he appreciated the health of the community always came first

but travel agents are being made to pay a heavy price for something beyond their control.

“For most travel agents, 90% of their business comes from international travel with about 10% coming from domestic travel. This is because people are more confident booking their own holidays within Australia, so until the international borders are opened up again we are unable to ply our trade.”

With job keeper coming to a halt at the end of this month and no real indication of when international borders will be reopened, Mr du Plooy said many travel agents will just have to close their doors.

“We have had to refund in full, all trips we had worked to secure in the previous year including all our projected commissions.”

To put it in perspective Mr du Plooy said it would be like hiring a lawyer and having them work on a case where legislation changes so it can’t go ahead. “The lawyer then doesn’t have to refund the fees the client has paid for

the work done to that point but that’s what we are being expected to do.”

He said he was able to keep his four staff on to help with the ‘debt-collecting’ as JobKeeper provided a base wage but the initial package (last year) for travel agents fell well short of the mark and if JobKeeper comes to an end soon it is only going to get worse Mr du Plooy said one politician that had stood up for travel agents in particular was former opposition leader Bill Shorten who had become a champion for his industry with his continued Government lobbying through COVID-19.

In a recent parliamentary address Mr Shorten said the travel agents he had spoken to had recovered billions of dollars for their customers and their clients but feel the government had deserted them.

“Since March and February of last year when COVID hit and the international borders slammed shut, Australians had billions of dollars of holiday bookings. It hasn’t

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been the government chasing the money. It hasn’t been the Sheriff’s office chasing the money. It hasn’t been Mr Morrison chasing the money for the customers. It’s been, travel agents. What’s particularly cruel is that when they get the money back, they, of course, have to refund their commissions, in many cases…. They feel that they’ve been thrown onto the garbage heap,” Mr Shorten said in his address.

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced half price interstate flights to selected destinations and said the government was expanding a loan scheme for small and medium sized businesses and extending financial support for travel agents and zoos.

Member for Page Kevin Hogan said with JobKeeper running off at the end of this month, the Federal Government was giving targeted assistance to those businesses still affected.

“Last week we announced $130m for a second round of the Consumer Travel Support Program. This is on top of the

$128m support package last year. These are direct one-off payments to travel agents,” Mr Hogan said.

“This is temporary and targeted support and will assist businesses to transition from JobKeeper.”

Mr du Plooy said the Casino Travel Shoppe has managed to organise a few smaller specialist tours more recently to try and keep things going, “but with some state borders slamming close whenever there is local infection, people are nervous about booking anything too far ahead.”

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New sustainable life for old Bruns bridge BRUNSWICK Head’s iconic South Arm Bridge is fully restored and ready to face another 50 years, according to project engineer Josh Provis.

Mr Provis called it the most difficult project he has ever had to manage but he said he was proud to be able to bring the much used and loved bridge back to its former glory.

The restored bridge was officially opened Monday by the Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Honourable Kevin Hogan – with ribbon cutting duties assisted by Brunswick Heads Public School captains Aquila Evans Mackay, Franky Haberfield and Jack Harvey – along with Byron Shire Mayor, Simon Richardson and Tamara Smith, Member for Ballina.

The bridge is not only beloved by the community but is also the main beach access for the people of Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby and carries 3.5k cars a day.

The restoration was funded under the Australian Government’s Bridges Renewal ($607,530) and Roads to Recovery ($456,000) programs. Byron Shire Council also contributed $593,000.

“We are proud of this project on so many levels,” Byron Shire Mayor Simon Richardson said.

“The restoration of this bridge was essentially an entire rebuild from the ground up with intense traffic conditions at times which presented enormous challenges.

“Not only have we delivered a re-engineered and structurally superior bridge with a much higher load rating for Brunswick Heads and its visitors, the timber features are absolutely beautiful.

“On top of this, what a great recycling story this project has been!” Mayor Richardson said.

Mr Provis said it was one of the big challenges of his career to restore the bridge rather than replace it with a concrete structure while still keeping it operational to the three thousand cars that use it.

“All the timber bridges are getting replaced by concrete so it’s pretty rare you get to keep one,” he said of the project.

“So it’s pretty nice to be able to do that – particularly one that is so heavily used, I mean it’s pretty much unheard of that you get to renovate an old timber bridge with such a high use, it carries 3.5k cars a day so it’s pretty cool.

“It was about eight months of construction and a year of planning before that,” he said.

“The eight months doesn’t include the false start we had, we had to delay the start by

The bridge opening at Brunswick with Kevin Hogan, Brunswick Heads Public School captains Aquila Evans Mackay, Franky Haberfield and Jack Harvey, Mayor Simon Richardson and Tamara Smith. a couple months because of some nesting birds under the bridge – Welcome Swallows we waited until they had finished nest season and left.”

He said the existing timber bridge had been built in 1960, 65 metres long, two lanes – a pretty big timber bridge.

“Being built in 1960 it had deteriorated quite badly, and we had to put a load limit on it – each year the load limit was getting down and it got down to 10 tonnes. We were doing basic maintenance, but it got to the point where we had to do something quite serious about this because it got to the point that it was going to go from 10 tonnes to five tonnes.

“We looked at the options

and consulted with the community and found that talking to the community that they didn’t want a new concrete bridge which is fair enough because the bridge is quite beautiful, has heritage features and is kind of an iconic part of the town. We looked at what options we had to retain it and ended up choosing a specialist consultant called Wood Research and Development.”

They ended up rebuilding the bridge from the creek bed up – creating a new timber bridge in the image of the old but without hurting the creek ecosystem and in a sustainable way.

Thanks to some innovative thinking by Council’s

engineers, seasoned hardwood timbers recycled from bridge replacements in Bangalow were used in this upgrade, while new homes for the old South Arm Bridge timbers were found for other Council and community projects around the Shire.

The project also produced a range of environmental benefits because it was a timber reconstruction rather than a new concrete bridge. It is estimated that this design choice produced savings in the order of around 800 tonnes of CO2.

In addition, the impact on the marine park environment of Simpson’s Creek was very low compared to driving new piles and pouring concrete over the waterway for a new concrete bridge. The new timber used for the bridge’s decking was sourced from Australian Sustainable managed forestry.

“A big thank you to the local community for their support and patience throughout this project and our thanks to the Australian Government for their continued support to improve our local infrastructure,” Mayor Richardson said.

“We hope this iconic bridge will continue to be a muchloved asset for decades to come,” he said.

LISMORE WOMEN RECOGNISED ON IWD FIVE local women have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to the Lismore community at Lismore City Council’s International Women’s Day Luncheon.

At the well-attended lunch at Lismore City Hall former mayor Ros Irwin was recognised for her contribution to the community, with Sally Flannery (pictured) recognised for her contribution to the economic sector, Andrea Brooks for her contribution to the health sector, Gloria McPherson for her contribution to the sports sector and Jex Lopez for her contribution to the arts and entertainment sector.

The Luncheon’s MC, Lismore Council’s executive director of corporate services, Kate Webber, congratulated the winners and the nominees.

“It was so inspiring to spend International Women’s Day in the company of such exceptional women, who have

done such positive things for our community,” she said.

“Each of these women have made our community an even better place to live, and we thank them for that.”

“I would also like to thank our keynote speaker, sportswoman Karley Banks, who was inspiring and engaging.”

“This year’s International Women’s Day theme of ‘Choose to Challenge’ was exemplified by our winners, and our guest speaker Karley.

Each of them have shown their ability to challenge the status quo and make a difference.”

“Karley really is a remarkable woman who achieved greatness in the very male dominated world of a touch footy coach.

Her determination and good humour shined through her speech.”

The silent auction at the special event raised more than $2000 for The Winsome which provides among other things

reproductive and sexual health.

Contribution to the Sports Sector: Gloria McPherson’s commitment to the development of hockey in the local community since 1969 was honoured, including her role as a player and coach with Northern Star Hockey. Gloria has represented her club, the Far North Coast, NSW and Australia during her hockey career, and is still playing, support for homeless people in Sector: Sally Flannery was representing and supporting all the region. recognised for her innovative aspects of the game.

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North Coast women march for justice

Widjabul Wiabul traditional owner Cindy Roberts performed the opening address and smoking ceremony at the Lismore March4Justice on Monday. Photo: Christine Tondorf.

HUNDREDS of Northern Rivers women braved the rain to rally in Lismore and Mullumbimby on Monday as part of the March4Justice campaign.

The head of the organising committee for the Lismore march, Carol Shipard, describes herself as a survivor of sexual violence who felt compelled to do something concrete.

“The news out of Canberra over the past three weeks has been a kick in the guts for me and many other sexual abuse survivors. It brought up hard stuff to deal with, stuff I’ve been dealing with for decades,” she said.

Ms Shipard says the women – and men – who marched on Monday had their own reasons for supporting the cause.

“No one can speak for

everyone. This is about our own lived experiences … we all have our own reasons,” she said. “But it is also about making change – stopping sexual violence, pushing for 50 per cent female representation in parliament.”

Ms Shipard said the protest was definitely not about punishing or vilifying men.

“I commit to march with you in the halls of Parliament, taking the voices of all into the caucus rooms, onto the floor of the Parliament in debate, and to make the legislative and policy changes that will bring justice for women,” Janelle Saffin said in a statement.

Across Australia, there were 40 protests in cities and regional towns for equality and justice under the March4Justice flag. The main demonstration was outside Parliament House.

EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENT FOR LISMORE COUNCIL EBER Butron has been appointed as Lismore City Council’s Director of Partnerships, Planning and Engagement, Lismore Mayor Vanessa Ekins has announced.

“I would like to welcome Eber onboard and wish him well in this important role.

Eber is highly qualified for the role and will use his wealth of experience to help drive improvements at Lismore City Council,” she said.

Eber’s career spans over 28 years, with the majority of those years in Local Government.

For the past 15 years Eber has held various senior/ executive management roles as a manager, director and acting chief executive.

“Lismore Council is facing very similar issues that other councils face around Australia, not just NSW. Things like long-term

sustainability and how to get the right balance between growth and lifestyle from an environment perspective,” Eber said.

“In terms of my career goals, I was attracted by the professional challenge of coming to Lismore and taking on a directorship with the Council, and from a lifestyle perspective I enjoy living in the Northern Rivers having previously worked at

Tweed and Richmond Valley Councils.”

Eber was most recently the Director Planning, Environment and Cultural Services at Townsville City Council, where he also held the role of acting chief executive.

He has also worked in Sydney, Adelaide, the Whitsundays, the Pilbara region and the South West Coast of Western Australia.

Tweed’s seniors prepare for busy social calendar TWEED’S older residents are gearing up for a busy social calendar as part of the annual NSW Seniors Festival being held April 12-24.

There will be something for everyone as part of this year’s festival from garden tours to rock n roll exhibitions.

Member for Tweed Geoff Provest said as part of the event, Tweed Aboriginal Co-operative Society Limited had successfully acquired a $1000 grant for a Tweed Elders Gathering.

“This grant is an opportunity for older people in our area to get out into the community and be social, happy and active,” Mr Provest said.

“Seniors in our region lead the way as role models, carers and volunteers. We want to see them continue to be active participants and valued for

their contribution.”

This year’s theme, In Our Nature, highlights that it is human nature to connect with others, especially during challenging times.

The free COVIDSafe opening ceremony is on Wednesday, April 14 at 10am at the Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre and will feature the presentation of the Seniors Local Achievement Awards, entertainment from the Fasolati Singers and Chris Harvie as well as light refreshments.

This will mark the start of a program of activities around the Tweed providing seniors with opportunities to try a diverse range of activities from sports to dance classes, tours both around the Tweed and to neighbouring destinations and information sessions and morning teas.

The Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre will host the opening ceremony of the 2021 Tweed Seniors Festival. Bookings are required for this year’s event, which will be COVIDSafe.

Last year’s ceremony is pictured Venues including the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre, the Tweed Regional Museum, the Brett Street Cafe, sports clubs and venues and major shopping centres will be provide special events and packages for seniors.

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During the festival, there will be a series of free

webinars hosted by NBN Co on a range of subjects relating to internet use, including how to get online and scams awareness. Details of the webinars can be found in the program on Council’s website, www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/ SeniorsFestival The majority of events are free although bookings are essential for some, including the opening ceremony on Wednesday, April 14.

Print versions of the 2021 Tweed Seniors Festival program are available at Council offices in Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads, local library branches, the Banora Point Community Centre and the Brett Street Cafe at the Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre.

The program is available online at www.tweed.nsw.gov. au/SeniorsFestival

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SCU partners with Rolling Stone THE future is tuning up to be major for Southern Cross University Bachelor of Contemporary Music student Leon Holstegge who has been awarded the inaugural Rolling Stone sponsored scholarship.

Now in the second year of his degree, Leon couldn’t believe his luck after applying for the scholarship which will give him a total of $15,000 to help with his studies and align him with the internationallyacclaimed Rolling Stone publication.

“I was scrolling through Facebook and saw the link for the Rolling Stone Scholarship and thought ‘this could be nice’ and then just went for it. I thought I wouldn’t have much of a chance then I got an email saying I was one of the top 10 applicants,” Leon said.

“It’s a bit overwhelming, because it’s such a big business, the Rolling Stone magazine.”

Southern Cross Uni and Rolling Stone have partnered to offer similar scholarships to students for the next three years.

It’s open to commencing and current students undertaking

Dr Barry Hill – Senior Lecturer in Southern Cross University’s music degree with scholarship recipient Leon Holstegge. the Bachelor of Contemporary Music at the University’s flagship Lismore campus close to Byron Bay, and Coomera Creative Campus on the Gold Coast.

Senior lecturer in Southern Cross University’s music degree, Dr Barry Hill said this would be a lifechanging opportunity for Leon who displayed all the necessary attributes to secure the scholarship.

“Leon was a stand-out in the sense that both in his statement we asked for in the scholarship application and his university application where we witnessed his musicianship skills across many instruments including guitar, bass and drums – he especially makes his guitar sing,” Dr Hill said.

“The scholarship gives him $15,000 and having that connection to Rolling Stone gives him a marketing edge and a leverage into the industry where he’ll have a direct line to the editor of Rolling Stone.”

Leon is a versatile instrumentalist playing guitar, bass and drums, and aspires to be an accomplished session musician.

He saved up and purchased his genuine Fender Telecaster guitar when he was just 12 years old.

“Currently I’m playing drums, bass and guitar and I’ve been messing around with piano a bit. My main goal is to become a session musician. I just like to play with everyone and across all the styles as well.”

BIG BOOST FOR MARINE STUDIES KINGSCLIFF High School’s wellknown Marine Studies Program is set to receive a boost as part of a NSW Government $120 million Regional Renewal Program.

The school is one of six in the area receiving new and improved facilities as part of the program which was announced in October 2021.

The long-running Marine Studies program, which has boasted dedicated classrooms with fish tanks and other facilities over the years will receive money for both internal and external upgrades to its facilities.

Member for Tweed Geoff Provest welcomed the news the projects at a number of Tweed schools had been funded in tranche two of the regional renewal program. The other projects include upgrades to many of the local schools built or upscaled in the past 20-30 years.

The projects include upgrading the Block A front entrance at Bilambil Public School, upgrading the COLA and Shade Structures at Bogangar Public School which was built in the

mid 2000s, a shade structure over the Kindergarten play area at Centaur Primary at Banora, bus shelters at the rapidly expanding Pottsville Beach Public School and a new COLA at one of the area’s oldest schools Tweed Heads Public School.

“Delivery of these projects will be undertaken in the next 18 months as part of the NSW Government’s economic stimulus package for NSW schools,” Mr Provest said.

He said the Regional Renewal Program will provide a government co-contribution of between 50 to 80 per cent for school infrastructure improvements to high priority schools in regional NSW. “This program is part of the NSW Governments economic stimulus response to the pandemic, and will deliver educational benefits, community benefits and economic benefits as communities continue to recover,” Provest said.

“The NSW Government is investing $7 billion over the next four years,” he said.

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Archers target invasive North Coast carp

by Halden Boyd THE NSW Government has opened public discussion in efforts to introduce bowfishing in the hope it might slow up the invasive European Carp waters and to restrict the activity in mid and upper reaches of north coast river systems.

Bowfishing is a technique which could be used to help remove carp, a noxious pest fish species from NSW waterways, including rivers like the Clarence, The Richmond, the Wilsons River, the Brunswick and the Tweed River and their catchments on the North Coast.

The NSW government says there has been substantial interest from the community to have a full and open discussion about potentially legalising bowfishing in efforts to reduce carp numbers.

The public consultation period closes on Monday 12th April, and interested parties are encouraged to give their feedback and enter discussion.

A successful 18-month trial of bowfishing for carp in inland waters was undertaken in 2015 and 2016 and showed the technique was safe.

Over 200 experts took part in the trial programme and safely harvested more than

700 carp from waterways across the state.

The trial and its subsequent review identified that bowfishing was a safe and sustainable fishing technique to reduce the pest species dramatically.

If legalised, there would be strict regulations of the activity to ensure that safety is the number one priority. This includes how close bowfishers can be to people and public spaces.

Currently, bowfishing comes under the definition of spearfishing in the Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2010 and therefore can be lawfully undertaken in

the same areas as spearfishing, which is currently prohibited in inland waters.

To assist with ongoing education and awareness around the rules and regulations governing the activity a Bowfishing Guide is being developed by NSW DPI Fisheries and bowfishing stakeholders.

For more information and to provide feedback the NSW DPI has recommended members of the community to visit their website. www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/ fishing/commercial/open-forcomment/have-your-say-onbowfishing-for-carp The government in its report says Fisheries officers would regulate the activity with support from NSW Police.

FAMILY BUSINESS WINS AMBO STATION BUILD A WELL-known family small business in Ballina has won the contract to build Iluka’s first ever ambulance station, with construction to start in July, Clarence MP Chris Gulaptis has announced.

“It was a big deal getting the Nationals in NSW Government to commit to building the station and it is icing on the cake to have iconic Northern Rivers family company Bennett Constructions deliver the historic project,” Mr Gulaptis said.

Bennett Constructions was established in Lismore in 1938 and have constructed a large number of iconic buildings during their time including Lismore City Hall, Lismore Art Gallery and more recently Ballina Indoor Sports Centre, Ballina High

School and Oakes Oval Lismore.

Over time, its award winning team have amassed vast industry knowledge and skill to emerge as the Northern Rivers’ leading choice in commercial builders and a local employer of choice which endeavours to use Northern Rivers subcontractors and suppliers.

General manager Tim

Cohen said he looked forward to adding the new Iluka Ambulance Station to its impressive portfolio of successful government building projects.

“Design finalisation starts today and construction starts in July finishing up just before Christmas. Over that time we will have anywhere between 10 and 30 people on site at any one time providing

plenty of opportunity for our team, local subcontractors, new apprentices to deliver a well needed facility for the Iluka community,” Mr Cohen said.

“With the Iluka Bowling club next door and a beer after work each day, I’m expecting it to be an energetic and cohesive team effort.”

Mr Gulaptis said it wasn’t just the construction that was

locally sourced. The design was only finalised after input from local paramedics, and the site, formerly owned by the Iluka Bowling Club, was largely chosen by the local community.

“It is going to be a success because it is a team effort bringing together the Nationals in NSW Government, Clarence Valley Council, the Bowling Club, the Iluka Ambulance Action Group and just about everyone else in the town,” Mr Gulaptis said.

Located on Spenser Street, the new partially solar powered station will enable local NSW Ambulance paramedics to better meet demand for emergency medical care in Iluka, Woombah and rural surrounds.

Regional Seniors Travel Card brings millions to region THE State Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin estimates that the popular Regional Seniors Travel Card so far has injected more than $3.5 million into local economies within the electorate of Lismore.

While Ms Saffin still maintains that the NSW Government initiative should be extended to seniors with a disability and their senior carers, she says there is no doubting the strong take-up of the $250 prepaid Visa cards midway through a current two-year trial.

Last year, a total of 8536 eligible seniors in the Electorate of Lismore

successfully applied for a card, and so far this year, a total of 5462 have applied.

Eligible seniors still have until 30th November 2021 to apply through Service NSW. The breakdown is: • Lismore City Council LGA – 4593 eligible seniors in 2020; 2940 in 2021; • Kyogle LGA – 1139 in 2020; 757 in 2021; • Murwillumbah and surrounding district – 1877 in 2020; 1223 in 2021; and • Tenterfield Shire – 927 in 2020; 542 in 2021.

Ms Saffin said she welcomed any government initiative which gave seniors more

spending power, particularly to meet transport costs as the card is mostly spent on taxi fares and at servos for fuel.

“Our taxi operators and service station owners are directly benefitting but so too

must other local businesses indirectly when local seniors have a little more disposable income,” Ms Saffin said.

“I was glad to have been among a number of MPs who convinced the NSW

Government to include veterans groups under the trial, and have continued to lobby on behalf of the most vulnerable – seniors with a disability and their senior carers.”

To be eligible currently, seniors must be an age pensioner with a valid Pensioner Concession Card or hold a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card issued by either the Department of Human Services or Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Applications for the card are made online at www.service. nsw.gov.au, by calling 137788 or by visiting a Service NSW Service Centre.

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Caringa keeps Castle name for new HQ

By Tim Howard THE vibe was strong in Grafton when disability services provider Caringa Australia named its new administration building The Caste Centre.

A crowd of more than 50 people gathered at the front door at 144 Fitzroy St, Grafton last Wednesday, to witness Caringa name its new headquarters in honour of its former chairman of eight years, Vince Castle.

Caringa has been operating from the building for about a year, but COVID-19 restriction delayed its opening.

Many of the people present were local business people, representative of churches and other organisations who have supported Caringa since its birth in 1953 as a school for the region’s disabled children.

In the intervening 68 years it has grown into a disability services provider employing more than 300 people.

Mr Castle, a cane farmer, who served lengthy terms as president of both the Clarence and NSW canegrowers associations was able to turn his boardroom experience to the advantage of Caringa when he was elected to chair its board

when he just said. ‘when Vince and Pat depart, Stephen will be left high and dry’,” Mr Castle said.

“We looked around and decided he could come to Caringa. He started one day a week, then two, now he’s there all week and comes home to us at weekends.”

Mr Castle soon became a board member and in 2010 the presidency became vacant and his name came up for the president’s role.

“I was surprised, but I accepted straight away,” he said. “It’s

in 2010.

Mr Castle said he and his wife, Pat, could thank their son, Stephen, for introducing them to Caringa.

“Stephen was diagnosed with autism in Brisbane when he was about three,” Mr Castle recalled.

“He went to special schools three days a week and we cared for him at home.”

Everything seemed to working well until when Stephen was 30 years old he made a sudden announcement to his parents.

“We were talking with Stephen

something I’ve learned over the years in public life is never go into these things half-heartedly.”

Mr Castle paid tribute to his wife Pat, whose untiring support allowed him to dedicate so much time to the organisations he led.

He said Caringa had grown so much since its formation and he felt blessed to be a part of it.

“It’s great to have the recognition that this building will be called the Castle Centre,” he said.

“It might have Castle in it, but it all the people who have

contributed to it are all all part of it.

“We would never have got to where we are except for all your support.”

He said one of the things he was most pleased to have been part of was the recruitment of current CEO Rachel Choy to the position in 2017 at a time when the National Disability Insurance Scheme created huge changes for the organisation.

“Caringa has gone from strength to strength,” he said.

“That was one of the great successes of that board.

“In the four years has overseen tremendous growth. It’s now a $12-$13 million organisation now.”

Federal MP for Page Kevin Hogan said an indication of Mr Castle’s dedication was his 100% attendance record at 312 Caringa board meetings during his time there.

“And many of those meetings would not have been short,” he said.

But for Mr Castle the opportunity Stephen gave him to serve on the Caringa board was reward enough.

“Looking back, I just think, how lucky I was,” he said.

FROM MEAT WORKS TO MEETING PEOPLE

By Tim Howard

IF Caringa outcome and practice leader Paul McKenzie’s life had not been turned upside down in 2002, he might still be working in an abattoir as a boner.

Almost 20 years ago Paul was one of a number of workers dismissed unfairly by Ramsay Meats, which had just acquired the abattoir in South Grafton.

Mr McKenzie said his father

had worked for previous abattoir owners Gilbertsons and had moved from Victoria to work at South Grafton.

“Dad worked there and I got a job working in the boning room,” Mr McKenzie said.

He was one of 12 workers dismissed in 2002 and owed around $125,000 in entitlements.

Not even a Federal Court judge’s 2006 decision ordering Mr Ramsay’s companies to pay up made any difference.

By 2011 Mr McKenzie had not received any money due to him and the battles dragged on in the courts for years.

The good news for Mr McKenzie was joining Caringa as a support worker 18 years ago.

“I went from a meat job to a job meeting people,” he said. “You couldn’t get two occupations that were more different.”

He said Caringa was about a tenth of the size it was now

when he came on board.

“The big change has been the NDIS,” he said. “Since then it has grown and created more and more opportunities.

“It’s enabled me to put all those issues behind me and have a good career.”:

Losing his job at the Grafton abattoirs nearly 20 years ago has been a blessing for Caringa worker Paul McKenzie (pictured, right).

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Nationally-lauded mural artists’ addition cements dawning of a new arts precinct

By Lesley Apps IT took a couple of years to get to this point but it was the worth the wait according to Koori artist Blak Douglas because they now had the ultimate blank canvas to work on.

That canvas is the new Grafton Bridge, more specifically one of its high profile traffic underpasses.

The huge piece of infrastructure was only completed and opened to traffic at the end of 2019 and with COVID putting the brakes on a lot of diary dates, the planets finally aligned last week when two forces on the Australian contemporary art scene work arrived in the Clarence Valley for a special mural project.

Blak, who is a three-time Archibald finalist including the current 2020 exhibition, was joined by Aboriginal artist Jason Wing whose extraordinary bronze bust and political statement Captain James Crook is now held in the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW.

Sydney artists Blak Douglas, left, and Jason Wing in front of their partially completed mural at the Grafton Bridge Art Precinct.

The Sydney-based artists have been joined by local bridge art legend Kade Valja for the project, the trio working for more than a week on the bold and expansive, trafficslowing mural.

The visiting artists said they loved working in regional towns saying just about everywhere including urban centres could do with more murals and public art especially with a visual Aboriginal

presence.

“Having more safe, community spaces for youth to gather and be creative, practice walls which lead to experienced mural artists like ourselves setting standards for young artists to aspire to, but also training up the town to get to that point,” Jason said.

Bundjalung Elder Uncle Harry Walker welcomed the visiting artists to Country when they arrived and said they

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“We don’t want to parachute in and out. You have good agents on the ground here… and this project is a seed. We want mural festivals in this space, food trucks, skate parks.

The best programs are always ongoing, developing longer and deeper relationships,” Jason said.

“There’s a lot of potential

here and not much for the youth to do, there’s no real hub for them (outside the PCYC).

Everyone can enjoy this space and more public art is the way to do it.”

He said the lack of public art shouldn’t be a case of the amount of special funding being available.

“If you took 1% of the graffiti removal budget and turned that money into proactive programs like this to create more, better quality murals, that in itself deters graffiti by 99%.

“You don’t have to find money, you just spend less on removing it (graffiti) and invest more on programs to produce the quality work.”

Blak agreed with the sentiment gesturing his hand to point out to expanse of the new bridge precinct.

“This place right here is an amazing starter for public art, and there are six more pylons out there.”

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HOWEVER, Leemo, I have also come across situations much like you are doing to your buddies. It has been where I have been in paid work, and it has also in places where I volunteer. I have been, and am ‘still’ being bullied”. There are VOLUNTEERING people, like yourself “Leemo” who think Yes/no ? they run the whole show and others in THAT’S THE it. THEY don’t...a QUESTION!! workplace, be it paid or Volunteering, should be “Leemo Cat” again. where we show respect ‘Mum Jane’ told & kindness, gestures me that a few of my like smiles, niceness buddies from the and asking ‘how are neighbourhood came to see her to complain you...I’ve not seen you for a while?” Mum told about me. OMG... me that this does not shock horror. “This cannot be true?” Mum always happen...that told me that they were some people believe in “disguise”...one was that they are superior “CARINGcat”, another to others and can be bossy and unkind... was “SUPERcat”, AND THAT “LEEMO” another was “KINDcat”…they told is what you have been doing to your Mum I could be mean buddies.” CRIKEY...I and bossy, like I was in charge of just about am SO ashamed of myself, because she’s EVERYTHING, and correct. “Just Cos I am “thought I owned the handsome and have a neighbourhood in the Feline department” and magnificent tail and demeanour (“hmmm” at times I was horrid Mum murmured to and nasty. Well, I was upset by being told this, herself) doesn’t give me and went off to a bit of the right to be unkind.” feline meditation in my I take Mum’s advice seriously, and am about hidey hole. Hmmm. I came back some hours to round up my buddies and TRULY apologise. later and ‘Mum Jane” said to me, “LEEMO” Mum went on to tell me something she read would you like to talk once that SAYS… about this dilemma you have?”. I figured I ..”You NEVER look good yourself, trying should, and told Mum she could start but NOT to make someone else look BAD”. Nite and before I had ‘treats’. purrs...Leemo.

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SPEED ZONES ON CLARENCE WAY KYOGLE Shire Council will be establishing a temporary 60km/h speed zone over a section of Clarence Way from Monday 22nd March 2021 will workers put finishing touches on the fully sealed road.

Council will be working on numerous sites on Clarence Way, and the signage between sites will overlap.

To avoid confusion and in the interests of road user safety, a blanket speed zone will be put in place covering all sites.

The temporary speed zone will initially start at Urbenville at the border with Tenterfield Shire Council and continue north for six kilometres.

by Halden Boyd A NEW exciting Landcare project is being launched to improve habitat for native bass fish species in the Wilsons River upstream from Lismore.

“Saving Boatharbour Bass” is a Landcare project aimed at creating better habitat for native fish by planting Wilson riverbanks with local native plants.

These plants, the Boatharbour Landcare group says will bring insects to the riverbank and over the water.

Freshwater bass is a favourite recreational fish species in the Wilson River.

“Unfortunately bass is under threat from loss of habitat and poor water quality issues,” Dot Moller said.

The Boatharbour Landcare was awarded $32,270 in funds by NSW DPI Fisheries’ Recreational Fishing Trust’s, Habitat Action Grant programme to help address threats to Wilson River Bass.

“Bugs are part of the building blocks of life, and an integral part of he life of bass fish as well.”

“They’re an incredibly diverse bunch of creatures – from glorious dragonflies to ‘creepy crawlies’ of every shape and size, and a

little known fact is that native fish like the Australian bass rely on land terrestrial bugs for a large percentage of their diet.”

“The grant is assisting in the control of weeds and stabilising banks with vegetation along the river at Boatharbour and Eltham,” Dot said.

Bugs and Bass will be an educational and engaging day for families and Landcarers learning about fascinating water and land bugs, to get advice on freshwater fishing, native plant advice by experts, and nature games for youngsters.

There will also be demonstrations and music, and there will be plenty of family fun with BCF prizes, a casting competition, bug finding

activities, and information about canoeing.

‘Bugs and Bass’ is a Family Fun Field Day on Wilson River at Eltham, and will be held on Sunday March 28th, between 10am and 2pm.

Event supporters include OzFish, Rous County Council, BCF, Friends of the Koala Nursery, Firewheel Nursery, the North Coast Canoe Club, Eltham Pantry, Richmond Landcare Inc, Lismore City Council, and the NSW Recreational Fishing Trust.

It is a Covid compliant event.

For enquiries, Boatharbour Landcare can be contacted through Facebook www.facebook. com/boatharbourlandcare people can phone Dot Moller on 02 6628 4270.

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SCHOOL UPGRADE PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

Help for community halls

SEVENTEEN Tweed Schools are about to have new roofs as part of a $60 million NSW Government Roof Replacement Program.

State Member for Tweed Geoff Provest said the program uses the Local Trades Scheme, a new online platform allowing local tradespeople to engage directly with the government to bid for maintenance work at schools in their local area.

He said the NSW Government would invest $7 billion over the next four years, as part of it’s program to deliver more than 200 new and upgraded schools to support com-munities across NSW. “The NSW Government’s Roof Replacement Program is designed for regional com-munities, improving our

APPLICATIONS are now open for Essential Energy’s Community Hall Programme which aims to give back to the local halls that make up the social fabric of regional, rural and remote NSW and provide a valuable venue for the provision of localised services for their surrounding areas.

It’s part of an ongoing commitment to partnering with the local communities.

Applications close midnight Sunday 28th March.

Through the programme eligible halls will receive a $200 donation to put towards general maintenance costs for the hall.

To be eligible a hall must be located within Essential Energy’s network area, be a not-for-profit, non-commercial hall used by the general community and is being used for multiple events and by multiple groups, and be used

schools and supporting local businesses,” Mr Provest said.

“I’m thrilled a number of our local schools will be included in this program, and also that businesses in our area can also benefit from the investment, helping to stimulate economic growth and support regional communities as we recover from COVID-19.”

Minister for Education

Sarah Mitchell said the funding would also benefit local com-munities by supporting more than 300 jobs across regional NSW. “The Roof Replacement Program will benefit hundreds of our regional schools,” Ms Mitchell said.

“Schools do not need to apply, the program will be prioritised by the needs of the school and community benefits.”

by community groups for community functions and events, meetings and other community activities.

Other criteria are that Hall Committees are able to receive payment via electronic funds transfer, and the National Meter Identifier (NMI) which is a unique number assigned to the hall’s meter be provided.

Applicants will also need to provide content such as photos, videos and commentary about the stories happening in the hall, provide a photocopy of either a deposit slip or bank account header with financial details covered showing the BSB and the account name and account number for the group or hall along with their application form.

Applications can be made online. www.essentialenergy. com.au/web-forms/communityhall-application

Ecotourism pioneer rewarded for a trailblazing career

By Tim Howard WATCHING Paul Hogan’s character Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee romance a wealthy American journalist across Australia’s Top End in a popular movie, put an idea in the head of a young man looking to make his mark.

Thirty six years later that idea has blossomed to the extent Grafton businessman Rick Murray (pictured) has been awarded an Honorary Life Membership from Ecotourism Australia for his services to the organisation and the industry.

Mr Murray said the way the rest of the world fell in love with the Northern Australia showed him there was a lucrative business there for the person who could put all the pieces in place.

“The opportunity arose because of Paul Hogan,” Mr Murray said. “The idea was to target the upper end of the market with tailor-made tours to some of the out of the way place in Kakadu, the Kimberleys and Gulf Country.”

He said the African safaris were his other inspiration.

“The idea was we would take these people to these out of the way places – you would call it ‘glamping’ these days.

“It was a big thing in Africa but it had never really been tried in Australia.

“We would have a high ratio of staff to customers so all the cooking, setting up the camp

with tents and bedding was all taken care of.”

Mr Murray said the tours provided more than luxury getaways.

“When we took people out into the bush we had to experts about it everything that was out there,” he said.

“The staff had to know the country, what was interesting and also know the culture of the Aboriginal people of those places.

“In January 1988 we started up our own show.”

Almost at the same time, Mr Murray became involved in Ecotourism Australia.

“I thought it was important for there to be some leadership in this area of tourism,” he said.

“Ecotourism Australia developed standards and allowed operators to have become accredited and set benchmarks to measure themselves against.”

He said this was vital because it gave operators the ability to secure long-term rights to visit important destinations .

“The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority works with Ecotourism Australia,” he said.

“Because it promotes high level eco-tourism it can get access to special areas and long-term access.

“That sort of thing changes everything for tourism operators.”

Ecotourism Australia recognised Mr Murray’s

record when it made him just the fourth person to receive a life membership at a meeting earlier this month.

The EA board recognised him as a long-time chair and director, his untiring contribution to EA and the broader ecotourism industry.

His involvement spanned EA’s lifetime and included more than 14 years as a director from 2006 until his retirement in 2020.

In that time Mr Murray chairman for nearly five years and deputy chairman for two years.

The board also recognised what they described as “his pioneering experience-based, minimal impact tours in 1990s Australia with Odyssey Tours & Safaris”.

“Rick has been actively involved at the ‘coal face’ of nature-based tourism for over 30 years and has a detailed knowledge of the interaction between tourism and our natural and cultural heritage right across the north of the continent.

“Rick’s experience covers lands including Protected Areas, Aboriginal Freehold lands and Pastoral Leases.”

Mr Murray’s travelling experience also made him a valued speaker at ecotourism conferences, where he could advise on regions as diverse as Sabah Malaysia, Papua New Guinea’s Western Province, Tasmania, Central Australia, the Pilbara and the south and west coasts of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Over three decades Rick has served on several tourism industry committees and boards, particularly those focussed on issues affecting natural and cultural environment and on the continual improvement of industry standards among tour operators and guides.

He served as a member of the Advisory Board of Tourism NT from 2006 until 2011.

He was chair of the Kakadu Tourism Consultative Committee and a member of the Kakadu National Park Board of Management, from 2002 to 2015, and in 2018, Rick was awarded the NT Tourism Minister’s Perpetual Trophy.

Mr Murray’s biggest surprise was leaving the Northern Territory, but once he came to Grafton in 2012 he has never looked back.

“I had a friend in Grafton, Graham Cook who I had worked with in the Northern Territory,” he said.

“He invited me and my wife,

Kate, to stay it his place in the Clarence Valley.

“The river was impressive and I love sailing and anything to do with boats.

“It seemed an interesting place so we decided to stay and get a feel of the economic opportunities and the culture of the place.”

Mr Murray said he and Kate were impressed by the “genuineness” of Grafton.

“Coffs Harbour, Ballina, Port Macquarie – they’re all full of people from Sydney,” he said. “Coffs Harbour I call Parramatta by the Sea. “Grafton is a real Australian country town. It’s a genuine place with people who really love living here.

“In about 2013-14 a neighbour told us of a house she thought we might like and we decided to buy here.”

He continues to work in the industry providing business development services through his tourism consultancy, Middle Star Pty Ltd. Middle Star supports the development and sustainability of quality tourism businesses that are focussed on the natural and cultural environment in northern Australia and beyond.

“If you’re starting a business and you have someone who can use their experience to help you avoid the pitfalls, that’s a saleable item.

He has also become involved with the Grafton Chamber of Commerce and sat on the Clarence Valley Council Tourism Advisory Committee.

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Fresh front for familiar faces WHETHER you are Nimbin born and bred or you’re one of many who have made the area home there is a good chance you have crossed paths with one of the town’s most familiar and well loved faces, Johnny Wilcox, principal and owner of Nimbin Hills Real Estate.

Over the last 40 years John’s knowledge of the area, its people and properties has seen the fresh faced son of a well known local stock agent open two of the town’s most successful agencies.

After opening his first office (formerly Nimbin Lifestyle) John moved on to start up his present agency Nimbin Hills Real Estate which quickly became Number 1 agency in Nimbin for sales and just this month was again awarded # 1 agency and #1 sales person in Nimbin - Jacqueline Smith who has flourished since entering the industry only 6 years ago.

The rapid growth of the business has led John to team up with his new business partner Suzy Moody. Local

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John says ‘With this new partnership I know that the future of what we have built here is in good hands! And I can get on with doing what I do best, selling!’

Along with the new partnership Nimbin Hills has a fresh new look, recently renovating and rebranding the Nimbin office.

New co-owner Suzy says ‘It’s been a bit of a never ending project, but it is finally all starting to come together now.

We wanted our new logo to capture the uniqueness of the Nimbin landscape and hope that we have done it justice.

I think that our local residents have enjoyed watching the improvements come together’.

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• As There is also a beautifully-presented 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, timber clad, steel-frame home, which was constructed in 2009 ering large rooms, and a flowing open floor plan with floor-to-ceiling windows and doors, and access from most rooms to the verandah; • Off this house sits on an elevated level site and has been designed to make the most of the stunning views which surround it of the bedrooms have en suites, all have built-in robes and the master has a walk-in robe as well. The en suite to the master is the • Two height of lux with large floor-to-ceiling wall tiles, frameless glass shower and a deep soaking tub house has been freshly painted with new blinds, ceiling fans, and carpets and new white oak hybrid flooring flows throughout the main • The living areas SAMARA BURCHER 0429 806 288

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THURSDAY

WELLINGTON PARANORMAL

SBS VICELAND, 8.30pm

FRIDAY

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW

WIN, 8.30pm

Many of us have fond memories of watching Graham Norton’s (pictured above) famous guests squeeze onto his big red couch for a raucous chit-chat, but the pandemic has put an end to those shenanigans. For the moment, at least. While it’s still strange to see Norton’s set dotted with armchairs spaced 1.5m apart, or his guests phoning up on video chat, it’s comforting to know that cheeky banter and a good yarn aren’t a thing of the past. Tonight, Amy Poehler tells all about her rebellious new film Moxie, Minnie Driver promotes her podcast Minnie Questions and Jennifer Garner chats talks about her new family flick Yes Day.

Mix together deadpan humour, absurdist situations involving supernatural horror and an odd-couple police duo who can’t seem to do anything right in their investigations, and you have a frontrunner for one of the weirdest and most satisfying comedies of recent times. Created by director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), this unique, delightfully lowbrow comedy is going from strength to strength in its third season. Tonight, a neighbourhood watch group takes the law into their own hands after a meteor strike grants them superpowers.

How will bumbling officers Minogue (Mike Minogue) and O’Leary (Karen O’Leary, pictured with Minogue) handle them?

BACK ROADS

ABC, 8pm

A robust sense of hope and resilience has always been the backbone of Back Roads, along with a deep appreciation for the unique landscapes and people that make up the small towns dotted across our country. Tonight, presenter Heather Ewart (pictured above) embarks on an emotional return to Mallacoota, the Victorian town which was lashed by an unprecedented firestorm in 2019, which destroyed more than 120 buildings, for heartbreaking and enlightening stories of survival and grief. Ewart catches up with the people she met in the 2016 episode to find out how they are coping not only with the blaze’s aftermath, but also the pandemic.

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FRIDAY, March 19 ABC TV (2) 6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings.

10.00 Q+A. (R) 11.05 Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story. (Ma, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Back Roads. (PG, R) 1.30 Outback Ringer. (PG, R) 2.00 Poldark. (Msv, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons.

4.10 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.10 Grand Designs New Zealand. (R) 6.00 The Drum. Analysis of the day’s news.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 Gardening Australia. Sophie Thomson makes native bee hotels.

8.30 Vera. (Mav, R) Part 4 of 4. DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the mysterious death of a fisherman.

10.00 Mum. (Final, Ml) It is Derek’s birthday.

10.30 State Of The Union.

(Final, PG, R) Tom moves back in.

10.45 ABC Late News. Detailed coverage of the day’s events.

11.00 The Vaccine. (R) Looks at the COVID-19 vaccine.

11.15 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (R) A satirical news program.

11.45 Fisk. (Mls, R) 12.15 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

WIN (5)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.00 Spanish News.

11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24.

12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight.

1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.10 The Clinton Affair.

(Mas, R) 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Railway Journeys UK. (PG, R) 4.05 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: An Officer And A Murderer. (2012, Masv, R) 2.00 House Of Wellness. (PG) 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 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Amazing Grace. (Ma, R) 2.00 Desperate Housewives. (Mads, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (R)

6.00 Headline News. 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 The Living Room.

(PGs, R) 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey.

4.00 Farm To Fork. (PG) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

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

7.35 The Crucifixion Mystery. (Mav, R) 8.30 The Royals In Wartime: The Monarchy In World War II. Part 1 of 2.

9.25 Secrets Of Britain: Secrets Of Underground London. (PG, R) A look beneath modern-day London.

10.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (PG) 11.00 SBS World News Late.

11.30 Elvis Presley: The Searcher. (Ml, R) 1.30 Project Blue Book. (Mal, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour: Japan Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens.

Fast Ed joins Johanna Griggs as they experience the delights of the south coast of NSW. Charlie Albone makes a rolling veggie box. Adam Dovile shows which tools to keep handy at home.

8.30 MOVIE: Troy. (2004, Msv, R) After a young Trojan prince seduces a Greek queen, her furious husband raises an army and pursues the lovers, laying siege to the city of Troy where they have taken shelter. Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Diane Kruger.

11.45 Ambulance: Code Red. (Ma, R) Critical care paramedic Rob and Dr Adam fight to save the life of a boy who has been stabbed in the street.

1.00 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 2.

Gold Coast Titans v Brisbane Broncos.

From Cbus Super Stadium, Queensland.

9.55 Golden Point. A wrap-up of the Gold Coast Titans versus Brisbane Broncos match, with news and analysis.

10.40 MOVIE: Criminal. (2016, MA15+lv, R) After the death of a CIA operative, his consciousness is implanted into a death-row inmate to stop a hacker.

Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds.

12.40 New Amsterdam. (Madm, R) Sharpe lands in hot water.

1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Global Shop. Home shopping.

4.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 A Current Affair. (R)

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

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, R) The team visits the Biala Hostel, home to a group of Indigenous girls who are finishing high-school.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show.

Graham Norton chats with Amy Poehler, Nick Jonas, Jennifer Garner, Leonie Elliot and Rob Beckett. Music from singer-songwriter Tom Odell.

9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 Just For Laughs Australia.

(MA15+ls, R) Hosted by Tommy Little.

11.00 WIN’s All Australian News.

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

1.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R)

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. 7pm Dino Dana. 7.15 Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.00 Mary Rachel Brown’s The Dapto Chaser. 10.40 Brush With Fame. 11.10 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.

Midnight Catalyst. 12.55 Parks And Recreation.

1.20 Reno 911! 1.40 Finding Joy. 2.10 Josh. 2.35 News Update. 2.40 Close. 5.00 Bing. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.30 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.35 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon Inside Heston’s World. 2.00 MOVIE: Daria: Is It Fall Yet? (2000, PG) 3.15 Sloths Save The World.

3.40 WorldWatch. 5.05 The Joy Of Painting. 5.35 Shortland Street. 6.05 If You Are The One. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 The Great British Urine Test. 9.45 40 Kids By 20 Women. 10.40 Yokayi Footy. 11.15 News.

11.40 24 Hours In Police Custody. 12.35am Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo. 7.30 TV Shop. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Miracle Hospital. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Ship That Died Of Shame. (1955, PG) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet. 8.40 MOVIE: Bride Wars. (2009, PG) 10.30 MOVIE: The Wedding Planner. (2001, PG) 12.35am Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager.

11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges.

1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 L.A.’s Finest.

3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 12.30am Home Shopping. 2.00 Nash Bridges. 3.00 JAG. 4.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 Jake And The Fatman.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

2.10pm Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.30 Make It Pop! 2.55 Wow That’s Amazing. 3.30 Horrible Histories. 4.00 Step Up To The Plate. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch! Ouch!

Awards. 7.00 MOVIE: Odd Squad: The Movie.

(2016) 8.05 Odd Squad. 8.30 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.50 Voltron: Legendary Defender. (Final) 9.10 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.35 Radiant. 10.00 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Fame. Continued.

(2009, PG) 7.20 The Assassin. (2015, PG, Mandarin) 9.20 Coming Home. (2014, PG, Mandarin) 11.20 The Bookshop. (2017, PG) 1.25pm Heidi. (2015, PG, German) 3.30 Song Of Granite. (2017, PG, Gaelic) 5.20 Big Fish. (2003, PG) 7.40 Swiss Army Man. (2016, M) 9.30 Brooklyn. m(2015, M) 11.35 Elis.

(2016, M, Portuguese) 1.45am The Broken Circle Breakdown. (2012, MA15+, Flemish) 3.50 Through The Fire. (2018, M, French)

7MATE (63) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30

Fishy Business. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 Billion Dollar Wreck. 10.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Billion Dollar Wreck.

4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Shipping Wars. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Friday Night Countdown. 7.30 Football. AFL. Round 1.

Collingwood v Western Bulldogs. 10.30 AFL PostGame Show. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Royal Pains. 1.00 A Night With My Ex. 1.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

3.20 Malcolm. 4.20 The Nanny. 4.50 Young Sheldon. 5.50 MOVIE: The Emoji Movie. (2017) 7.30 MOVIE: Kung Fu Panda. (2008, PG) 9.15 MOVIE: Blades Of Glory. (2007, M) 11.15 Big Heads.

12.15am Generation X. 1.15 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Power Rangers Beast Morphers. 5.10 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Frasier. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker. 11.00 Frasier. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium. 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker. 5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 The Conners. 10.30 Charmed. 11.30 The Big Bang Theory. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 Judging Amy. 4.30 Home Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs.

3pm ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 4.30 Friday Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour.

6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News.

7.45 The Vaccine. 8.00 Planet America. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Close Of Business. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.15 Planet America. 1.10 ABC Late News.

1.30 Friday Briefing. 2.00 DW News. 2.15 ABC Late News. 2.30 The Drum. 3.30 DW Conflict Zone.

4.00 The World. 5.00 Planet America.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Big Name, No Blanket. 11.00 Buwarrala Aryah. Noon MOVIE: White Men Can’t Jump. (1992, M) 2.00 Intune 08. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked!

3.55 Little J And Big Cuz. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 6.30 On Country Kitchen. 7.00 NITV News: Nula. 7.30 MOVIE: Lord Of The Flies.

(1963, PG) 9.05 First Nations Bedtime Stories. 9.15 Lagau Danalaig: An Island Life. 10.10 Torres To The Thames. 11.10 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am House Hunters Int. 6.30 House Hunters. 7.00 First Time Flippers. 7.30 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 8.00 The Block. 9.30 House Hunters Int. 10.30 House Hunters. 11.00 Country House Hunters Australia. Noon Fixer Upper. 1.00 House Hunters Int. 2.00 Fixer To Fabulous. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 First Time Flippers. 4.30 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 5.00 Raising House. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Hidden Potential. 8.30 Lake Life. 9.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 10.30 Pool Kings. 11.00 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53) 6am Headline News. 8.30

10.00 Asia Unplated. 10.30 Palisa Anderson’s Water Heart Food. 11.00 Food Heroes. 11.30 Mystery Diners. 12.30pm Cook And The Chef.

1.30 Kitchen Hero Feast. 2.00 Cook’s Pantry. 2.30 Lidia’s Italy. 3.00 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen. 4.00 Instant Noodles Diary. 4.30 Mercurio’s Menu. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK Couples. 7.30 Rick Stein’s French Odyssey. 8.30 Rick Stein’s Spain. 9.40 Mystery Diners. 10.30 Cook And The Chef. 11.00 Late Programs.

Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Highway Cops. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 World’s Most Secret Homes. 10.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 11.30 Late Programs.

Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 NewsDay. 2.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 The Friday Showdown.

5.00 Fox Sports News. 5.30 The Serve. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 Bernardi. 8.00 Kenny On Media. 8.30 The McGregor Angle. 9.00 Hardgrave. 10.00 Full Time Live. 11.00 Late Programs.

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

SATURDAY, March 20 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

WIN (5)

6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.

10.00 Rage. (PG) 12.00 ABC News At Noon.

12.30 STC Wharf Revue: Celebrating 15 Years.

(Mals, R) 2.25 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. (R) 3.25 Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal. (PG, R) 4.30 Landline.

5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 13.

Macarthur FC v Western United.

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News.

12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 MOVIE: Hurricane. (2015, PG, R) 3.35 Cycling. AusCycling Mountain Bike National C’ships. H’lights. 4.35 The Story Of God With Morgan Freeman. (PGa, R) 5.35 Hitler’s Last Year. (PGw, R)

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 Horse Racing. Golden Slipper Day and Mornington Cup Day. 5.00 Seven News At 5.

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

6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. (PG) 12.00 Award Winning Tasmania. (R) 12.30 Destination WA. (PG) 1.00 My Way. (PG) 1.30 MOVIE: Sabrina. (1995, G, R) 4.00 The Pet Rescuers. (PG) 4.30 The Garden Gurus.

5.00 News: First At Five.

5.30 Getaway. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 9.30 St10. (PG) 12.00 GCBC. (R) 12.30 Luca’s Key Ingredient.

(R) 1.00 10 Minute Kitchen. 1.30 Buy To Build.

(Return) 2.00 Three Blue Ducks. (PGl, R) 2.30 Australia By Design: Innovations. (Final, PG) 3.00 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.30 Close Encounters Of The Animal Kind. (R) 4.00 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey. (R) 4.30 Farm To Fork. (PG) 5.00 News.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 Death In Paradise. (Mv) A hair salon owner is murdered.

8.30 Call The Midwife. (PG) Miss Higgins congratulates Kevin after he performs a forceps delivery, his final under supervision.

9.30 Harrow. (Mv, R) Harrow investigates the deaths of a teenager and a teacher, who both died from similar causes.

10.25 Miniseries: Apple Tree Yard. (Malsv, R) Part 4 of 4.

11.20 Press. (Mal, R) Ed gets a new colleague at the paper.

12.20 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) Music video clips.

6.30 SBS World News.

7.35 The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE: The Blues Brothers. (1980, Mlv, R) 10.50 MOVIE: No Country For Old Men. (2007, MA15+v, R) 1.05 MOVIE: Qissa. (2013, Manv, R) 3.00 Caged. (MA15+l, R) 4.05 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 4.40 Destination Flavour: Singapore Bitesize.

5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R) A Colombian dance instructor steps out of line.

Compliance officers swoop on a factory suspected of harbouring an illegal worker. A putrid package gives officers a headache at the mail-handling unit.

7.30 Football. AFL. Round 1. Brisbane Lions v Sydney. From the Gabba, Brisbane.

10.30 To Be Advised.

12.40 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 2. Sandown SuperSprint. Highlights. From Sandown Raceway, Melbourne.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R)

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Space Invaders. (PG) 8.30 MOVIE: The Bourne Supremacy.

(2004, Mlv, R) A former CIA agent, suffering from amnesia, tries to clear his name after being framed for a botched assassination. Matt Damon, Franka Potente.

10.40 MOVIE: Michael Clayton.

(2007, MA15+ls, R) 1.00 Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. (Msv) 2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Wesley Impact. (R)

6.00 Three Blue Ducks. (Final) Culinary travel program.

6.30 To Be Advised.

7.30 Ambulance. (Ma) As protestors begin flooding London and blocking the roads, the entire computer system used to respond to 999 calls crashes.

9.50 To Be Advised.

10.20 999: What’s Your Emergency? (MA15+lv) 11.30 To Be Advised.

12.30 Inside The Children’s Hospital.

(PGm, R) Narrated by David Tennant.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

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. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Live At The Apollo. 9.15 Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 9.45 Sammy J. 9.50 Would I Lie To You? 10.25 Why Are You Like This.

(Final) 10.50 High Fidelity. 11.20 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 12.05am Escape From The City. 1.00 Romesh Ranganathan: Irrational Live. 1.55 This Country.

(Final) 2.25 Way To Go. 3.25 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

10.30 SBS Courtside. 11.00 Basketball. NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Golden State Warriors. 1.30pm VICE World Of Sports. 2.00 New Girl. 3.00 Insight.

4.00 WorldWatch. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. South East Melbourne Phoenix v Adelaide 36ers. 7.30 Australia In Colour. 8.30 The X-Files. 9.20 Romulus.

11.25 Dateline. 11.55 Insight. 12.55am MOVIE: Orgazmo. (1997, MA15+) 2.40 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 Winners. 11.00 Animal Rescue. Noon Weekender. 12.30 Creek To Coast. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Sydney Weekender. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.15 Animal Rescue. 3.45 Property Ladder UK. 5.00 Horse Racing. Golden Slipper Day and Mornington Cup Day. 6.00 Border Security: International. 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Newstyle Direct. 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 Edgar Wallace Mysteries. 11.50 The Avengers. 12.50pm MOVIE: The Bargee. (1964, PG) 3.00 MOVIE: Odette. (1950, PG) 5.25 MOVIE: Pony Express. (1953, PG) 7.30 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 5. Queensland Reds v Western Force.

9.45 Super Rugby Post-Match. 10.00 MOVIE: Platoon. (1986, MA15+) 12.25am Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Diagnosis Murder. Noon JAG. 1.00 The Doctors. 2.00 Jake And The Fatman.

4.00 iFish. 4.30 Mighty Machines. 5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 Scorpion. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 To Be Advised. 11.20 L.A.’s Finest. 12.15am Hawaii Five-0. 1.10 48 Hours.

2.10 Elementary. 3.10 The Doctors. 5.00 Home Shopping.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

2.20pm Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. 2.45 Radiant. 3.10 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.

3.35 Dragon Ball Super. 4.00 Step Up To The Plate.

4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.55 The Zoo. 7.40 All Hail King Julien. 8.05 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.35 Wishfart! 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Big Fish.

(2003, PG) 8.20 Heidi. (2015, PG, German) 10.25 Fame. (2009, PG) 12.40pm Coming Home. (2014, PG, Mandarin) 2.40 The Little Witch. (2018, PG, German) 4.35 Polina. (2016, PG, French) 6.35 Hunt For The Wilderpeople. (2016, PG) 8.30 All Is True.

(2018) 10.25 Through The Fire. (2018, M, French) 12.35am Angel-A. (2005, M, French) 2.15 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 Shipping Wars. 10.30 Fish’n With Mates.

11.00 WSL Presents. Noon On Tour With Allan Border. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 8. Geelong v GWS Giants. 3.00 Shipping Wars. 5.00 Billion Dollar Wreck. 6.00 Megastructures. 7.00 Border Security. 7.30 MOVIE: Godzilla. (2014, M) 10.00 MOVIE: Demolition Man. (1993, M) 12.25am Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.30pm Liquid Science. 2.00 Xtreme Collxtion.

3.00 MOVIE: Pokémon Ranger And The Temple Of The Sea. (2006) 5.10 MOVIE: Monsters Vs Aliens.

(2009, PG) 7.00 MOVIE: Minions. (2015, PG) 8.45 MOVIE: Johnny English. (2003, PG) 10.30 MOVIE: Mr. Bean’s Holiday. (2007, PG) 12.15am Big Heads.

1.15 After The Raves. 2.20 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.50 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Frasier. 7.00 Friends.

8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier.

10.00 Becker. 11.00 The Middle. 11.30 The Amazing Race Australia. 2pm Everybody Loves Raymond. 3.30 Friends. 6.00 Columbo. 7.30 Kojak.

8.30 Spyforce. 9.30 The Big Bang Theory. 10.30 The Middle. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 2 Broke Girls. 4.00 Mom. 4.30 Home Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 3pm ABC News. 3.30 Q+A Highlights.

4.00 ABC News. 4.30 The Mix. 5.00 ABC News Update. 5.05 Planet America. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 6.30 Australian Story. 7.00 ABC National News. 7.30 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.10 Four Corners. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Foreign Correspondent. 10.00 ABC News Weekend. 10.30 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Gok Cooks Chinese. 2.00 Cooking Up A Fortune. 3.00 Beautiful Baking.

4.00 Late Nite Eats. 4.30 Cook And The Chef.

5.30 Cheese Slices. 6.30 Inside Heston’s World.

7.30 Pacific Island Food Revolution. 8.30 Ainsley Eats The Streets. 9.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Mississippi Adventure. 10.30 Great British Road Trip. 11.25 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

2.05pm Lil Bois. 2.25 Basketball. Indigenous C’ships. Replay. 3.25 Boxing Night To Remember.

3.55 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. Men’s.

Waterloo Storm v WAC. Replay. 4.55 On The Road. 5.55 Going Places. 6.55 Yokayi Footy. 7.30 News. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 I Am Ali. 10.25 MOVIE: Once Were Warriors. (1994, MA15+) 12.10am Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 First Time Flippers. Noon Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 12.30 Getaway. 1.00 House Hunters Int. 1.30 Barnwood Builders. 2.30 Lake Life. 3.30 Pool Kings. 4.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 5.30 Hidden Potential. 6.30 Lawn & Order. 7.30 Country House Hunters Australia. 8.30 House Hunters. 9.30 House Hunters International. 10.30 House Hunters Reno.

11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

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

9.00 Racing Dreams. 10.00 Fox Sports News.

11.00 Fox Sports News. Noon Fox Sports News.

1.00 Fox Sports News. 2.00 Fox Sports News. 3.00 Fox Sports News. 4.00 Fox Sports News. 5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Fox Sports News. 7.00 Bernardi.

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

SUNDAY, March 21 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

WIN (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. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Gardening Aust. (R) 2.30 The Upside. (PG, R) 3.30 The Mix. (R) 4.00 Soccer. W-League. Round 13. Adelaide United v Western Sydney Wanderers.

6.00 WorldWatch. 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight.

1.00 Speedweek. 3.00 Sportswoman. 4.05 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Paris-Nice Race.

H’lights. 5.05 Travel Man. (PG, R) 5.35 The Secret History Of World War II. (Premiere, PG)

6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise.

10.00 Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 House Of Wellness. (PG, R) 1.00 Beach Cops. (PG, R) 1.30 MOVIE: Michael Jackson: Searching For Neverland. (2017, PGav) 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R) 5.00 Seven News At 5.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Easy Eats.

7.00 Weekend Today.

10.00 Sports Sunday. (PG) 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG) 1.00 Women’s Footy. (PG) 2.00 Driving Test. (PGl, R) 2.30 Motor Racing. Targa High Country.

3.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 2.

Wests Tigers v Sydney Roosters.

6.00 Morning Programs/ 7.30 Fishing Aust.

(R) 8.00 GCBC. (R) 8.30 My Market Kitchen.

(R) 9.00 Australia By Design: Innovations.

(PG, R) 9.30 St10. (PG) 12.00 All 4 Adventure.

(PGl, R) 12.50 The Offroad Adventure Show.

1.55 Taste Of Australia. (R) 2.30 Roads Less Travelled. (R) 3.00 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.15 To Be Advised. 4.30 Farm To Fork. (Final, PG) 5.00 News.

6.00 Gardening Australia Presents.

6.30 Compass. (PGa, R) 7.00 ABC News Sunday.

7.40 Grand Designs New Zealand. Hosted by Chris Moller.

8.30 Harrow. (Mav) Harrow investigates a hotel maid’s death.

9.20 Silent Witness. (Mav) The search for Jenny’s killer hits a wall.

10.25 Miniseries: Patrick Melrose. (Mdls, R) 11.20 Line Of Duty. (Mav, R) 12.25 Wentworth. (MA15+v, R) 1.10 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.10 Wentworth. (MA15+v, R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Inside The Orient Express. (Ma, R) 9.10 Railways Of The Western Front With Chris Tarrant. (PGav, R) 10.25 Prince Albert’s Secret Papers. (R) 11.20 24 Hours In Police Custody. (Masv, R) 12.15 Michael Mosley: A History Of Surgery.

(Ma, R) 1.15 The Restaurant That Burns Off Calories. (PG, R) 2.20 Charles Manson: The Final Words. (MA15+adsvw, R) 4.10 Railway Journeys UK. (R) 4.50 Destination Flavour: Singapore Bitesize. 4.55 Destination Flavour Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

6.00 Seven News.

7.00 7NEWS Presents: Ivan Milat – Buried Secrets. Part 2 of 2.

9.10 MOVIE: The Equalizer 2.

(2018, MA15+v) A retired CIA black ops operative is forced back into action when his friend is murdered and he seeks revenge on the culprits.

Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal.

11.40 World’s Deadliest. (Ma) 12.40 Motor Racing. Supercars Championship. Round 2. Sandown SuperSprint. Highlights.

2.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 Married At First Sight. (PGals) 8.30 60 Minutes. Current affairs program.

9.30 Nine News Late. A look at the latest news and events.

10.00 Australian Crime Stories: The X Factor. (Mv, R) 11.10 Forensics: The Real CSI. (Mav, R) 12.20 Young, Dumb And Banged Up In The Sun. (MA15+dlsv) 1.10 Motor Racing. Targa High Country. Replay.

1.35 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

4.00 Take Two. 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Sunday Project. Panellists dissect, digest and reconstitute the daily news, events and hottest topics.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

The teams’ latest challenge sees them locked up in the Old Dubbo Gaol.

8.30 FBI: Most Wanted. The team chases an unlikely serial killer whose endgame takes a shocking turn. Hana returns from medical leave. Jess and Sarah’s relationship continues to evolve.

10.30 The Sunday Project.

(R) A look at the day’s news.

11.30 Bull. (R) Izzy asks Bull for help.

12.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: Louis And The Brothel. 9.30 Pilgrimage: Road To Rome.

10.30 Catalyst. 11.30 Laura’s Choice. 12.30am You Can’t Ask That. 1.00 Restoration Australia. 1.55 Way To Go. 2.55 News Update. 3.00 Close. 5.00 Grandpa Honeyant. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Hoot Hoot Go! 5.35 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

11.30 SBS Courtside. Noon Basketball. NBA. Milwaukee Bucks v San Antonio Spurs. 2.30 WorldWatch. 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Melbourne United v Illawarra Hawks. 5.00 Basketball. NBL. Sydney Kings v Cairns Taipans. 7.00 Monty Python’s Flying Circus. 7.35 Abandoned Engineering. 8.30 Planet Expedition. 9.25 Wet Markets Exposed.

10.15 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 NBC Today. Noon The Great Outdoors: Greatest Escapes. 1.00 1 Man And A Bike. 1.30 The Zoo. 2.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.30 Escape To The Country. 8.30 Miniseries: Flesh And Blood. 10.30 Caught On Dashcam. 11.30 Property Ladder UK. 12.45am The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs.

7.30 In Touch. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey. 9.00 TV Shop. 10.00 MOVIE: The Dancing Years. (1950) Noon Garden Gurus.

12.30 Getaway. 1.00 The AFL Sunday Footy Show.

3.00 Customs. 3.30 MOVIE: War Drums. (1957, PG) 5.00 MOVIE: What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?

(1966, PG) 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 Chicago P.D. 9.40 Chicago Fire. 10.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 7.30 Key Of David. 8.00 Bondi Rescue. 8.30 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.30 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.00 Scorpion. 1pm The Doctors. 2.00 Australia By Design: Innovations. 2.30 Buy To Build. 3.00 Fishing Edge. 4.00 Fishing Australia. 5.00 iFish.

5.30 Bondi Rescue. 6.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 9.25 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 48 Hours.

11.20 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

2.40pm Prank You Very Much. 3.05 Top Chef Jr. 3.55 Step Up To The Plate. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Next Step. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Play Your Pets Right. 6.55 The Zoo. 7.20 Operation Ouch! 7.40 All Hail King Julien. 8.05 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.35 Wishfart! 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage.

10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 6.30 The Little Witch. (2018, PG, German) 8.25 Hunt For The Wilderpeople. (2016, PG) 10.20 Leave No Trace. (2018, PG) 12.20pm Polina. (2016, PG, French) 2.20 Bandslam. (2009, PG) 4.25 Broken Hill. (2009, PG) 6.25 Flash Gordon.

(1980, PG) 8.30 The Good Girls. (2018, M, Spanish) 10.25 The Broken Circle Breakdown. (2012, MA15+, Flemish) 12.30am Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

11.00 Fishing. Australian Championships. 11.30 River To Reef: Retro. Noon Sunday Footy Fest.

(Premiere) 12.30 Football. AFL Women’s. Round 8.

Richmond v West Coast. 2.30 AFL Pre-Game. 3.00 Football. AFL. Round 1. GWS Giants v St Kilda. 6.00 Last Car Garage. 6.30 Border Patrol. 7.00 Border Security. 8.30 MOVIE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers. (2002, M) 12.10am Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

1.45pm Dance Moms. 3.45 MOVIE: Aliens In The Attic. (2009, PG) 5.30 MOVIE: Meet Dave. (2008, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Star Trek Into Darkness. (2013, M) 10.05 MOVIE: Star Trek: Insurrection. (1998, PG) 12.10am Generation X. 1.10 Clarence. 1.20 Dance Moms. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. 3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Pokémon. 4.50 LEGO Friends: Girls On A Mission. 5.10 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am The Brady Bunch.

7.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Neighbours. 11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 1pm The Amazing Race Australia.

2.15 Everybody Loves Raymond. 3.30 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.00 Friends. 10.30 2 Broke Girls. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 Mom. 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.30 Home Shopping.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1pm ABC News. 1.30 The Mix. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Aust Story. 3.00 ABC News. 3.30 Offsiders. 4.00 Landline. 5.00 News. 5.30 World This Week. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 6.30 Foreign Correspondent. 7.00 ABC News Sunday. 7.40 Drum Beat. 8.00 Insiders. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 Australian Story. 10.00 ABC News Weekend. 10.30 Q+A Highlights. 11.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Gok Cooks Chinese. 2.00 Cooking Up A Fortune. 3.00 Beautiful Baking.

4.00 Late Nite Eats. 4.30 Cook And The Chef. 5.30 For The Love Of Bread. 6.00 Vanishing Foods.

(Premiere) 6.30 Sourced. 7.00 Asia Unplated. 7.30 Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking. 8.00 Michela’s Tuscan Kitchen. 8.30 Far Eastern Odyssey. 9.40 Top Of The Shop. 10.45 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 Rugby Union. NT Monsoon Rugby Union.

1pm Bowls. SA Super League. 1.30 Boxing Night To Remember. 2.00 Football. CAFL. 3.45 Football.

Monsoon AFL. 5.45 African News. 6.00 APTN National News. 6.30 Art + Soul. 7.30 NITV News Update. 7.40 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 8.40 The Fall. 10.20 Intune 08: Neil Murray And Shaz Lane. 11.20 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 Fixer Upper. 11.00 Maine Cabin Masters.

Noon House Hunters Reno. 1.00 Home Town. 2.00 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 2.30 Lawn & Order. 3.30 Fixer Upper. 4.30 Country House Hunters Australia.

5.30 House Hunters. 6.30 House Hunters Int. 7.30 Restored By The Fords. 8.30 Unsellable Houses.

9.30 My Lottery Dream Home. 10.30 Flip Or Flop.

11.00 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am News. 6.30 Fox Sports News. 7.00 Gameday Live. 8.00 Sunday Agenda. 9.00 Outsiders. 10.00 Outsiders. 11.00 Business Weekend. Noon Fox Sports News. 1.00 Fox Sports News. 2.00 Fox Sports News. 3.00 Fox Sports News. 4.00 Fox Sports News. 5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Sharri. 7.00 Chris Smith Tonight.

8.00 In My View. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Outsiders. 11.00 Late Programs.

MONDAY, March 22 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

WIN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Landline. (R) 11.00 Grand Designs NZ. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Death In Paradise. (Mv, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.10 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.10 Grand Designs New Zealand. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 6.30 This Week. 7.30 WorldWatch. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 Al Jazeera. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 The Clinton Affair. (Mas, R) 2.55 The Egg. (PGav, R) 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? (PGa, R) 4.05 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: Forgotten Evil. (2017, Mav, R) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. (Malv, 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 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R) 1.30 Married At First Sight. (PGals, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Headline News. 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 The Amazing Race Australia. (R) 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (Return) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Australian Story.

8.30 Four Corners.

9.15 Media Watch. (PG) 9.35 The Hunt For Gaddafi’s Billions. (Mal) 11.05 ABC Late News.

11.40 EXPOSED: The Ghost Train Fire. (Ma, R) 1.10 Wentworth. (MA15+asv, R) 2.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (MA15+asv, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

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

7.35 The Secret Life Of Lighthouses. (PG) 8.30 24 Hours In Emergency. (M) 9.25 The Story Of The Songs. (M) 10.20 SBS World News Late.

10.50 Outlander. (MA15+v) 11.55 Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games. (MA15+v, R) 1.40 Asylum City. (Mlv, R) 3.10 Bitter Rivals. (Mav, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour Scandinavia Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Declassified: The Royal Scandals.

(PGa) Examines the Queen’s reign.

8.30 9-1-1. (Ma) Athena discovers that quarantine has pushed a couple to their breaking point.

9.30 The Rookie. (Mav) John makes a shocking discovery.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News.

11.00 Station 19. (Mas) 12.00 The Guardian. (Madsv, R) 1.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Married At First Sight. (Mls) The social experiment continues.

9.00 Under Investigation: Jaidyn Leskie. Presented by Liz Hayes.

10.00 100% Footy. (M) 11.00 Nine News Late.

11.30 Prison Women. (Mav) 12.30 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

6.30 The Project.

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

Hosted by Beau Ryan.

8.40 Hughesy, We Have A Problem. Dave Hughes is assisted by celebrities to discuss solutions to problems experienced on a global scale.

9.40 Becky Lucas: Live At Enmore Cafe. (MA15+ls, R) 10.40 The Graham Norton Show. (R) 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.40 The Project. (R) 1.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.00 Earth’s Tropical Islands. 10.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.

10.50 Escape From The City. 11.50 Extras. 12.20am Would I Lie To You? 12.50 Parks And Recreation.

1.10 Reno 911! 1.35 Finding Joy. 2.00 Josh. 2.30 News Update. 2.35 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Basketball. NBA. Memphis Grizzlies v Golden State Warriors. Replay. 2.00 60 Days In. 2.50 The Curse Of Oak Island. 3.40 Tulip. 3.55 WorldWatch.

4.20 This Week. 5.15 The Joy Of Painting. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire Latin America.

7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 10.15 Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia. 11.05 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs.

8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.40 MOVIE: A Date With The Falcon. (1942, PG) Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 1 Man And A Bike. 4.00 Better Homes.

5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 Judge John Deed. 10.30 Autopsy USA. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres.

11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Death In Paradise.

1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Carlton-Browne Of The F.O. (1959) 5.20 Heartbeat.

6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 London Kills. 8.40 The Bill. (Return) 10.40 Three Days To Live. 11.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping.

8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Hawaii Five-0. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue.

7.30 NCIS. 10.20 To Be Advised. 12.10am Home Shopping. 2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder.

4.05 Instinct. 5.00 Nash Bridges.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

4.35pm Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

The Life Fix. 7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Bandslam.

Continued. (2009, PG) 7.35 Polina. (2016, PG, French) 9.35 Broken Hill. (2009, PG) 11.35 The Little Witch. (2018, PG, German) 1.30pm Flash Gordon.

(1980, PG) 3.35 Hunt For The Wilderpeople. (2016, PG) 5.30 Leave No Trace. (2018, PG) 7.30 Micmacs.

(2009, M, French) 9.30 Little Miss Sunshine. (2006, M) 11.25 The Good Girls. (2018, M, Spanish) 1.20am Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

2.00pm Counting Cars. 2.30 Last Car Garage.

3.00 American Restoration. 3.30 Motor Racing.

Supercars C’ship. Sandown SuperSprint. H’lights.

4.30 Motor Racing. Supercars C’ship. Sandown SuperSprint. H’lights. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Pawn Stars South Africa. 8.00 Pawn Stars UK. 8.30 MOVIE: The Rock. (1996, MA15+) 11.15 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. (Premiere) 1.00 A Night With My Ex. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

3.00 The Break Boys. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: John Wick. (2014, MA15+) 10.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 11.30 The Nanny.

Midnight Decades. 1.00 Big Heads. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Everybody Loves Raymond. 7.00 The Middle. 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 10.00 The Big Bang Theory.

11.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium.

3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker.

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

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1.40pm Capital Hill. 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 7.30. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.30 Q+A Highlights. 1.00 ABC Late News. 1.15 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1.45pm Kitchen Hero Feast. 2.15 Cook’s Pantry. 2.40 Lidia’s Italy. 3.05 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen. 4.00 Instant Noodles Diary. 4.30 Mercurio’s Menu. 5.30 Gourmet Farmer. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK Couples. 7.30 Bourdain: Parts Unknown. 8.30 Taste The Nation With Padma Lakshmi. 9.00 Tales From River Cottage. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm Art + Soul. 3.00 Jarjums. 3.55 Little J And Big Cuz. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 6.30 Cooking Hawaiian Style. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 Under Skin, In Blood. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 Karla Grant Presents. 9.00 Angels Gather Here. 10.00 News.

10.10 Footprints On Our Land. 11.00 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

11.30 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. Noon Cyrus Vs Cyrus: Design And Conquer. 1.00 My Lottery Dream Home. 2.00 Restored By The Fords. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 First Time Flippers. 4.30 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 5.00 Unsellable Houses. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 8.30 Fixer Upper.

9.30 Bargain Mansions. 10.30 Flipping Virgins.

11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Headline News. 8.30 News. 9.00 News. 10.00 AM Agenda.

11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 NewsDay. 2.00 Parliament Live. 3.15 Afternoon Agenda.

4.00 Paul Murray Live. 5.00 News. 5.30 The Serve.

6.00 Credlin. 7.00 AFL Tonight. 7.30 NRL Tonight.

8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 10.30 NRL Tonight. 11.00 Late Programs.

TUESDAY, March 23 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

WIN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Four Corners. (R) 10.45 Ward One. (PG, R) 11.00 To Be Advised. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Call The Midwife. (PG, R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.10 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.10 Grand Designs New Zealand. (PG, R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News.

12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (PG, R) 2.05 The Clinton Affair. (Mas, R) 3.00 Nulla Nulla. (PGn, R) 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R) 4.10 Mythical Beasts Unearthed.

(R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: Mommy, I Didn’t Do It. (2017, Mav, R) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. (Mlv, 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 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 The Garden Gurus. (R) 1.30 Married At First Sight. (Mls, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Headline News. 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 To Be Advised.

2.10 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 News.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Foreign Correspondent.

(Final) International affairs program.

8.30 EXPOSED: The Ghost Train Fire. (PG) Part 2 of 3.

10.00 To Be Advised.

11.00 ABC Late News.

11.35 Q+A. (R) 12.45 Wentworth. (MA15+al, R) 1.30 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (MA15+al, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

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

7.30 Great Australian Railway Journeys. (PGa, R) 8.30 Insight. Presented by Kumi Taguchi.

9.30 Dateline.

10.00 The Feed.

10.30 SBS World News Late.

11.00 The Point. (R) 12.00 The Pier. (MA15+as) 12.55 Borgen. (Mas, R) 4.25 Great British Railway Journeys. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature.

5.15 NHK World English News.

5.30 Deutsche Welle English News.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Britain’s Got Talent Best And Worst. (PGl) Hosted by Ant and Dec. 8.30 The Good Doctor. (Ma) The team treats a teenage gymnast who experiences complications from her intensive training regime.

9.30 The Resident. (Ma) Nic confronts her trauma head-on.

10.30 The Latest: Seven News.

11.00 Station 19. (Ma) 12.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Married At First Sight. (Mns) The social experiment continues.

9.10 Botched. (Malmn) Paul helps a boxer with a crushed nose.

10.10 Australian Scandal: Power And Passion. (Mdls) 11.10 Nine News Late.

11.40 Labour Of Love. (PGal) 12.30 Our Lives: Extraordinary People. (PGamn, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Take Two. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

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

7.30 The Amazing Race Australia.

In the race to the next Pit Stop, the teams need to muster the courage and embrace their inner performer.

8.30 NCIS. After the team uncover a dogfighting ring, it leads to an unexpected move by one of the members.

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

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

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

Morning news and talk show.

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. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.05 Staged. (Return) 9.25 Extras. 10.00 Fisk. 10.30 High Fidelity. 11.00 Brassic. (Final) 11.45 Live At The Apollo. 12.30am Ross Noble: Stand Up Series. 1.00 Parks And Recreation. 1.20 Reno 911! 1.45 Finding Joy. 2.10 Josh. 2.40 News Update. 2.45 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Basketball. NBA. Milwaukee Bucks v San Antonio Spurs. Replay. 2.00 60 Days In. 2.55 The Curse Of Oak Island. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Asia’s Next Top Model. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 VICE Investigates. 9.30 25 Siblings And Me. 10.35 Rise Up. (Premiere) 11.30 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Sydney Weekender. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 Suspects. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 TV Shop. 9.30 Danoz. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres.

11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon London Kills.

1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: Chase A Crooked Shadow. (1958, PG) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 The Closer. 9.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 10.40 Law & Order. 11.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (Final) 10.25 NCIS: New Orleans. 11.20 To Be Advised. 12.15am Shopping.

2.15 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

4.35pm Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Leave No Trace. Continued. (2018, PG) 7.00 Flash Gordon.

(1980, PG) 9.05 Bandslam. (2009, PG) 11.10 Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. (2018, PG, Hindi) 1.40pm Broken Hill. (2009, PG) 3.40 The Thief Of Bagdad. (1940, PG) 5.40 Whisky Galore. (2016, PG) 7.30 Into The White. (2012, M, Norwegian) 9.30 Wild. (2014, MA15+) 11.40 Micmacs. (2009, M, French) 1.40am Late Programs. 5.40 Whisky Galore. (2016, PG)

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

9.00 Pawn Stars. 9.30 Storage Wars. 10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life. 12.20pm Ultimate Tag. 2.00 Gold Fever. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Outback Opal Hunters. 10.30 Mighty Rivers. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 A Night With My Ex. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible. (1996, M) 9.45 MOVIE: S.W.A.T. (2003, M) 12.05am Decades. 1.00 Big Heads. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Surge. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker.

11.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium.

3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker.

5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Mom. 11.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1.40pm Capital Hill. 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 7.30. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.30 Aust Story.

1.00 ABC Late News. 1.15 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Kitchen Hero Feast. 2.00 Cook’s Pantry. 2.30 Lidia’s Italy. 3.00 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen. 4.00 Instant Noodles Diary. 4.30 Mercurio’s Menu. 5.30 Gourmet Farmer. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK Couples. 7.30 Food Safari. 8.00 Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites. 8.30 Rick Stein’s Fruits Of The Sea. 9.00 Luke Nguyen’s Food Trail.

9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

1.50pm From Sand To Celluloid. 2.00 Urban Native Girl. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Little J And Big Cuz. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 6.30 First Australians. 7.30 The Point. 8.30 Celtics/Lakers: Best Of Enemies. 9.30 Basketball.

NBL. Round 10. Brisbane Bullets v New Zealand Breakers. Replay. 11.40 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.30 House Hunters. 11.00 Barnwood Builders.

Noon House Hunters. 1.00 Flipping Virgins. 2.00 Fixer Upper. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 First Time Flippers. 4.30 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 5.00 Bargain Mansions. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Farmhouse Facelift. 8.30 Restoration Man. 9.30 Building Off The Grid. 10.30 Maine Cabin Masters. 11.30 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Headline News. 8.30 Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 NewsDay. 2.00 Parliament Live.

3.15 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Paul Murray Live.

5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 AFL Tonight. 7.30 NRL Tonight. 8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 10.30 NRL Tonight. 11.00 Late Programs.

WEDNESDAY, March 24 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

WIN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Foreign Correspondent. (Final, R) 10.30 One Plus One. (R) 11.00 Aussie Inventions That Changed The World. (PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Press Club. 1.40 Media Watch.

(PG, R) 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.10 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.10 Grand Designs New Zealand. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Dateline. (R) 2.30 Insight. (R) 3.30 Railway Journeys UK. (R) 4.05 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy!

(PG) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: A Surrogate’s Nightmare. (2017, Mav, R) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. (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 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 My Way. 1.30 Married At First Sight. (Mns, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Headline News. 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (Mal) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Hard Quiz.

8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering.

9.00 Fisk. (PG) 9.30 To Be Advised.

10.30 Staged. (Ml, R) 10.55 ABC Late News.

11.25 Four Corners. (R) 12.10 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.30 Wentworth. (Malsv, R) 1.15 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth. (Malsv, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

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

7.35 Tony Robinson: Britain’s Ancient Tracks. (PGw, R) 8.30 Australia In Colour. (PG) 9.30 Departure. (Mav) 10.20 SBS World News Late.

10.50 Romulus. (MA15+av, R) 12.45 The Night Manager. (Ma, R) 1.35 Counterpart. (MA15+asv, R) 3.35 The Murder Of Sadie Hartley. (Ma, R) 4.50 Destination Flavour Scandinavia Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG) 8.30 Ambulance: Code Red. (Malv) A supermarket worker collapses.

9.30 Born To Kill? Harold Shipman. (Mav, R) 10.30 The Latest: Seven News.

11.00 The Front Bar. (M) 12.00 MOVIE: Total Stranger.

(1999, Msv, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Married At First Sight. (Mal) The social experiment continues.

9.00 Amazing Grace. (Ma) Sasha and Laney face a shocking dilemma.

10.00 New Amsterdam. (Mamv) A doctor sets out to reform his hospital.

11.00 Nine News Late.

11.30 The Enemy Within. (Mav) 12.20 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

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

7.30 The Cube. Game show in which twins Kasey and Keats put their skills to the test by completing tasks in a perspex cube.

8.30 Bull. (Ma, R) Bull and the TAC team help Marissa’s restaurateur husband when he is charged with involuntary manslaughter after one of his employees dies in a kitchen fire, allegedly because of negligence.

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

11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Hosted by Stephen Colbert.

1.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.00 Laura’s Choice.

(Final) 10.00 Restoration Australia. 11.00 Pilgrimage: Road To Rome. Midnight Louis Theroux: Louis And The Brothel. 1.00 Parks And Recreation. 1.25 Reno 911! 1.45 Finding Joy. 2.10 Josh. 2.35 News Update. 2.40 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Sarah & Duck. 5.25 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Skate America. Replay. 2.05 60 Days In. 2.55 The Curse Of Oak Island. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Vs Arashi. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Wellington Paranormal.

9.00 MOVIE: Paper Moon. (1973, PG) 10.55 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Make It Yours. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Frankie Drake Mysteries. 8.30 A Touch Of Frost.

10.50 Dog Patrol. 11.20 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

10.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon New Tricks. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives.

2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Carry On Constable.

(1960) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow.

7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.50 Midsomer Murders.

10.50 The Nick. (Premiere) 11.50 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 10.20 NCIS. 12.10am Home Shopping.

2.10 48 Hours. 3.10 Diagnosis Murder. 4.05 Instinct.

5.00 JAG.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

4.35pm Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Whisky Galore. Continued. (2016, PG) 7.30 Wildwitch.

(2018, PG, Danish) 9.25 Cheerful Weather For The Wedding. (2012, PG) 11.15 The Thief Of Bagdad.

(1940, PG) 1.15pm Mr. Holmes. (2015, PG) 3.10 Belle & Sebastian. (2013, PG, French) 5.00 Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. (2018, PG, Hindi) 7.30 The Belier Family.

(2014, M, French) 9.30 Miller’s Crossing. (1990, MA15+) 11.40 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life.

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

4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Simpsons. 9.00 Family Guy. 9.30 American Dad! 10.30 Family Guy. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm.

4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm.

7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: Mercury Rising. (1998, M) 10.45 Police Ten 7. 11.45 The Nanny. 12.15am Decades. 1.15 Surfing Australia TV. 1.45 Clarence.

1.55 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker.

11.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium.

3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker.

5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 2 Broke Girls. 11.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 12.30pm Press Club. 1.35 Capital Hill.

2.00 Parliament. 3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 7.30. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.30 Foreign Correspondent. (Final) 1.00 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2.00pm Cook’s Pantry. 2.30 Lidia’s Italy. 3.00 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen. 4.00 Instant Noodles Diary. 4.30 Mercurio’s Menu.

5.30 Gourmet Farmer. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK Couples. 7.30 Island Feast. 8.00 French Food Safari. 8.30 Hemsley + Hemsley: Healthy & Delicious. 9.00 Rachel Khoo’s Cosmopolitan Cook.

9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 2pm On The Road. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked!

3.55 Little J And Big Cuz. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 6.30 Cooking Hawaiian Style.

7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 Wellington Paranormal. 8.00 Yokayi Footy. 8.35 Over The Black Dot. 9.30 NITV News Update. 9.40 Football.

Monsoon AFL. Replay. 11.30 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.30 House Hunters. 11.00 Maine Cabin Masters.

Noon Building Off The Grid. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 Farmhouse Facelift. 2.30 The Block. 4.00 First Time Flippers. 4.30 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 5.00 Restoration Man. 6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 Barnwood Builders. 8.30 Home Town. 9.30 Beachfront Bargain Hunt. 10.30 How Close Can I Beach? 11.00 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Headline News. 8.30 Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 NewsDay. 2.00 Parliament Live.

3.15 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Paul Murray Live.

5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 AFL Tonight. 7.30 NRL Tonight. 8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 10.30 NRL Tonight. 11.00 Late Programs.

THURSDAY, March 25 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

PRIME7 (6)

NBN (8, 80)

WIN (5)

6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Aust Story. (R) 10.30 To Be Advised. 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. (R) 1.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (R) 2.00 Parliament Question Time.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons.

4.10 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.10 Grand Designs. (PG)

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News.

12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 PBS News. 2.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 2.05 The Clinton Affair. (Mas, R) 2.55 Ralph. (PGa, R) 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R) 4.10 Mythical Beasts Unearthed. (PGahv, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! (PG) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise.

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

12.00 MOVIE: Fiancé Killer.

(2018, Masv, R) 2.00 Criminal Confessions. (Malv, 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 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Destination WA. (R) 1.30 Married At First Sight. (Mal, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG) 4.00 Afternoon News.

5.00 Millionaire Hot Seat.

6.00 Headline News. 8.30 Studio 10. (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PGal) 1.00 The Amazing Race Australia. (R) 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.

4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.

6.00 The Drum.

6.55 Sammy J. (PG) 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30.

8.00 Back Roads.

8.30 Q+A. 9.35 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 10.05 Aussie Inventions That Changed The World. (PG) 11.00 ABC Late News.

11.30 Prince, Son And Heir: Charles At 70. (R) 12.30 Wentworth. (Mals, R) 1.20 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.40 Wentworth.

(Mals, R) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.25 Sammy J. (PG, R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

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

7.35 The World’s Busiest Stations. (PGl, R) 8.30 Michael Mosley: What’s My Diagnosis. (M) 9.35 Shadowplay. (MA15+) 10.40 SBS World News Late.

11.10 24 Hours In Police Custody. (M) 12.05 The Good Fight. (Mal, R) 1.00 SS-GB. (MA15+v, R) 3.45 Great British Railway Journeys. (PG, R) 4.45 Destination Flavour. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.

6.00 PRIME7 News.

6.30 PRIME7 News @ 6:30.

7.00 Home And Away. (PGav) 7.30 MOVIE: Peter Rabbit. (2018, PGav, R) A man discovers a family of rabbits in his new home. Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne.

9.30 MOVIE: We’re The Millers.

(2013, MA15+lns, R) A small-time drug dealer, in trouble with his supplier, creates a fake family as part of a smuggling plan. Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts.

11.50 The Latest: Seven News.

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.00 Seven Early News.

5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 A Current Affair.

7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 3.

Penrith Panthers v Melbourne Storm.

9.55 Thursday Night Knock Off. Post-match NRL news and analysis.

10.40 Nine News Late.

11.10 Manifest. (Mav) 12.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. (Mav, R) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop.

3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 News Early Edition.

5.30 Today.

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

7.30 Bondi Rescue. (PGal) Lifeguards try to enforce social distancing.

8.00 Territory Cops.

8.30 Gogglebox. Opinionated viewers discuss TV shows.

9.30 Law & Order: SVU. (Mav) Benson teams up with the Bronx SVU to track down a serial rapist with victims in both boroughs.

10.30 This Is Us. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News.

12.30 The Project. (R) 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.

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. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 9.15 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.55 Hard Quiz. 10.25 The Weekly. 10.55 You Can’t Ask That. 11.25 Earth’s Tropical Islands.

12.25am Parks And Recreation. 12.50 Reno 911!

1.10 Finding Joy. (Final) 1.40 QI. 2.10 Brassic. (Final) 2.55 Josh. 3.20 News Update. 3.25 Close. 5.05 Little Princess. 5.20 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch.

Noon Figure Skating. ISU Grand Prix. Skate America. Replay. 2.05 60 Days In. 2.55 Jungletown.

3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 NBL: Overtime. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Taskmaster Norway. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 American Runestone: A Viking Mystery. 10.10 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. 11.05 Late Programs.

7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30 Travel Oz. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness.

1.00 World’s Most Amazing Videos. 2.00 Harry’s Practice. 2.30 Million Dollar Minute. 3.30 Creek To Coast. 4.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo.

7.30 TV Shop. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon As Time Goes By. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 2.50 Antiques Roadshow. 3.20 MOVIE: The Last Days Of Dolwyn. (1949) 5.20 Heartbeat. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo. 8.30 Emergency. 9.30 Call The Midwife. 10.40 See No Evil. 11.40 Late Programs.

BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 Jake And The Fatman. Noon Nash Bridges. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Elementary. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Hawaii Five-0.

9.30 L.A.’s Finest. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 Sherlock Holmes: Elementary. 12.30am Shopping.

2.00 Late Programs.

ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.

4.35pm Odd Squad. 4.55 Hank Zipzer. 5.20 Lost In Oz. 6.00 Spirit Riding Free. 6.30 Operation Ouch!

7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. 7.35 All Hail King Julien. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed! 8.55 The Rubbish World Of Dave Spud. 9.10 All Hail King Julien. 9.30 Sword Art Online. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Thief Of Bagdad. Continued. (1940, PG) 7.40 Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. (2018, PG, Hindi) 10.10 Belle & Sebastian. (2013, PG, French) Noon Florence Foster Jenkins. (2016, PG) 2.05 Whisky Galore. (2016, PG) 3.55 Wildwitch. (2018, PG, Danish) 5.50 Cheerful Weather For The Wedding. (2012, PG) 7.40 45 Years. (2015, M) 9.30 Sexy Beast. (2000, MA15+) 11.10 Late Programs.

7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs.

Noon Doomsday Preppers. 1.00 Ax Men. 2.00 So You Think You’d Survive? (Premiere) 3.00 The Simpsons. 4.00 Al McGlashan’s Fish’n With Mates.

4.30 American Restoration. 5.30 Storage Wars.

6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Football. AFL. Round 2. Carlton v Collingwood. 10.00 AFL Post-Game Show. 10.30 MOVIE: The Town. (2010, MA15+) 1.05am Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs.

11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Malcolm.

4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Baywatch. 6.00 Malcolm.

7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Young Sheldon. 8.30 MOVIE: Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. (2011, M) 11.35 Young Sheldon. Midnight Metro Sexual. 1.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 2.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Late Programs.

PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Becker.

11.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Judging Amy. 2.00 Medium.

3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Becker.

5.00 Frasier. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Friends.

11.00 Late Programs.

ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1.40pm Capital Hill. 2.00 Parliament.

3.15 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Afternoon Briefing. 5.00 ABC News Hour. 6.00 ABC Evening News. 7.00 ABC National News. 8.00 ABC News Tonight. 8.45 The Business. 9.00 ABC Nightly News. 9.30 7.30. 10.00 The World. 11.00 The Drum. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.30 Back Roads.

1.00 ABC Late News. 1.15 Late Programs.

SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Kitchen Hero Feast. 2.00 Cook’s Pantry. 2.30 Lidia’s Italy. 3.00 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen. 4.00 Instant Noodles Diary. 4.30 Mercurio’s Menu. 5.30 Gourmet Farmer. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK Couples. 7.30 Food Heroes.

8.00 Asia Unplated With Diana Chan. 8.30 Jamie’s Ultimate Veg. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.30 Gourmet Farmer. 11.00 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs.

1.50pm Gifts Of The Maarga. 2.35 Make It Right.

3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Little J And Big Cuz. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 6.30 Cooking Hawaiian Style. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 NITV News Update. 7.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 8.30 MOVIE: Friday Night Lights.

(2004, M) 10.30 The Point. 11.30 Late Programs.

9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs.

10.30 House Hunters. 11.00 Home Town. Noon Barnwood Builders. 2.00 How Close Can I Beach?

3.00 The Block. 4.00 First Time Flippers. 4.30 Flip Or Flop Fort Worth. 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt.

6.00 House Hunters Int. 7.00 House Hunters. 7.30 House Hunters International. 8.30 Fixer Upper.

9.30 Fixer To Fabulous. 10.30 Raising House. 11.00 Late Programs.

SKY NEWS (53)

6am Headline News. 8.30 Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 10.00 AM Agenda. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon NewsDay. 1.00 NewsDay. 2.00 Parliament Live.

3.15 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Paul Murray Live.

5.00 Fox Sports News. 5.30 NRL Tonight. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 Fox Sports News. 8.00 Alan Jones.

9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Fox Sports News.

10.30 Fox Sports News. 11.00 Late Programs.

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by Christine Tondorf JAZZ great James Morrison has been welcomed to the Northern Rivers by a cavalcade of vintage cars.

The Aria-award winning trumpeter flew into town on Friday for a sold-out concert in Lismore’s town hall but didn’t expect to be greeted by a fleet of automobiles dating back to the 1920s.

“Knowing James is a car enthusiast, we thought this would be a great way to welcome him to the Northern Rivers,” said Northern Rivers Conservatorium creative artist, Sean O’Boyle.

Mr O’Boyle has had a 25-year professional relationship with Mr Morrison writing music and con-ducting concerts, including gigs at London’s Queens Hall. Mr O’Boyle described his friend as a well-known car enthusiast who co-hosted Top Gear Australia.

After being chauffeured to Lismore in a fleet of vintage cars, Mr Morrison and his quartet got straight to it, teaching the region’s aspiring young jazz musicians at a

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“It is always inspirational to get together with young people, who are studying this music and want to play this music,” said Mr Morrison, who has his own academy in South Australia. “We are all passionate and it so exciting to be part of that.”

The 54-year-old’s stellar career has included performing in front of the Queen and with the London Symphony Orchestra and before three US Presidents – Clinton, Bush and Obama.

Lismore’s Friday night concert kicked off the Northern Rivers Conservatorium’s visiting artists program for 2021, and the bill also

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included renowned jazz vocalist, Emma Pask.

“After a quiet year last year we’re thrilled to again be blowing out trumpet,” said Anita Bellman, executive director of the conservatorium. “And we’re doing that with musicians of the calibre of James Morrison and Emma Pask.”

Under Covid regulations, only three-quarters of the seats at the town hall, could be offered for sale but they were quickly snapped up for the one-night Morrison-Pask concert, which also fea-tured appearances from the young musicians of the Northern Rivers Conservatorium.

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March 18, 2021

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 45

Live music in Coffs city centre THE Coffs Harbour City Square is live and local all through March.

Since mid-January the Coffs Harbour City Council and the City Centre Masterplan Committee has been supporting local and visiting artists by commissioning a live music series in City Square.

The feedback from the community has been extremely positive according to the council adding to the arts and culture buzz that is taking off in the city centre.

City centre businesses are also enjoying having more customers sit down eat, drink and stay longer to enjoy the

free live music.

This live and local music series will continue throughout March with musicians scheduled every Wednesday at 10.30am in City Square.

The March line-up included Raku One O’Gaia on March 10 with the musicians coming up including Sam Dyball (March 10), Looking for Lucy (March 24) and Alicia Parry (March 31).

Musician Sam Dyball (pictured) is a young singer songwriter from Nana Glen.

For the past five years he has been performing with family trio “D’boyzos” and has now decided to try out the

world of solo performance.

In this span of half a decade he has performed more than 450 shows including performances supporting bands and artists such as The Black Sorrows, Wendy Matthews, Kasey Chambers, Troy Cassar-Daley and Reece Mastin, just to name a few.

“Having this opportunity that gets me into a local and outdoor live space is perfect.

I can put myself out there and try out some of the new songs I’ve been writing,” he said.

“It is really refreshing to have access to a larger space like this as the social distancing rules have resulted

in much smaller crowds for musicians.

“I like to be able to reach more people and share the tunes and good vibes with Coffs Harbour locals.”

Busking is also back in the Coffs City Centre and free for locals to book a spot in the City Centre.

Council manages busking that occurs in public spaces with designated sites. Council does not look after busking that occurs on private property. Public liability and adherence to the booking terms & conditions is required.

For more info visit https:// www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/

and search ‘busking’.

In the event of wet weather Live and Local performers will be situated undercover in the Foot Court on Level 1 of Coffs Central.

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC IN BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS THIS weekend the inaugural Music in the Caldera Concert Series takes over some of Murwillumbah’s most beautiful and iconic Art Deco Venues.

Elegant music befitting elegant surroundings will fill the air in the shadow of Wollumbin from March 19-21 according to cofounder Nick Clow.

“Peita Gardiman and myself are involved in some other local projects – Peita runs the Makers and Finders market in Murwillumbah, we’re both involved with the Murwillumbah Arts Trail so we’ve worked together on other things,” he said.

“I’ve had a dream, being a musician myself, to get a musical concert series going up around here – we’ve got a lot of great musicians and I really wanted an up-market boutique music (I hesitate to use the word festival – it’s better to say concert series NSW Government don’t like you running festivals). We

got some money from Create NSW through a funding application – they really liked the idea, gave us the money in February 2020 and the next thing that happened was Covid.

“Covid impacted on all events so we suspended it and then it got to the tail end of last year – October – and the Covid situation appeared to be easing. Especially locally and we thought – Ok – let’s try and do it. We scheduled it for March in the hope that music events would be taking place again and that ours would be one of the first to take off again.

“It was a bit of a gamble at the time and I got all the

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And so here they are all ready to go again for the event.

Tenor Ben Reynolds, accompanied by Beth Brooks on piano, will open the weekend of music on Friday, March 19 at the newlyrefurbished, century-old Citadel.

There will be a free concert in Knox Park on the Saturday morning, when Shani Forrester, followed by the Trombone Kellie Gang will give the audience an

exhibition of jazz, swing, blues and soul at the Makers and Finders Market in Knox Park. Bring chairs or blankets and eat lunch while enjoying music in the park.

Saturday evening will feature a show at The Regent Cinema that pays tribute to tribute to Ella Fitzgerald – ‘The Queen of Jazz’.

This show is written and performed by the renowned singer, composer and music academic, Sharny Russell (pictured). She will be accompanied by renowned local saxophonist, Martha

Baartz alongside Steve Russell, Brett Canning and Dave Sanders.

A special feature follows this show when well-known local saxophonist and music teacher Jake Bryant will deliver a big, horn-driven sound with his speciallyformed jazz/swing ensemble!

The weekend rounds off with a classical concert on Sunday afternoon at The Regent Cinema with awardwinning young musical Charlie Priest (flute) and Hayden Mears (bassoon) supporting Louise King (cello). Louise King (pictured, right) will be playing an unmissable selection of music by contemporary and emerging composers for solo cello under the show title ‘Into the Dreaming’ alongside her CD release of the same name.

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March 18, 2021

46 EDUCATION FEATURE

A Centenary of Public Education at Old Bonalbo Public School IN 1842 J D McLean arrived by bullock team from the Hunter River & established “Bunalbo Station” (Bunalbo meaning place of the leaning bloodwood tree) at the watershed junction of Duck & Bean Creeks.

Then in 1910, a syndicate subdivided an area on Peacock Creek into town blocks & a Post Office called “Bonalbo” was gazetted.

Irate residents of the original “Bunalbo” then applied for their area to be named “Old Bonalbo” – thus the village name came into being.

After various owners, Bunalbo Station was eventually opened up for selection – & waves of new settlers came to the district with their families & belongings in drays or wagons ready to clear & work their new land.

As the population grew it was evident there was a desperate need for a school in the area.

Land was donated in the village to the community for the purpose of a school by Mr W R Johnston.

The citizens of the Old Bonalbo district applied to the Minister for Education to establish a public school. Eventually the Department approved & agreed to supply from Sydney - the roofing iron, a door, two windows & a water tank. The local hardworking & generous community prepared the site & built a 20’ X14’ (6m X 4.2m) room from donated materials at a value of 200 pounds.

Miss Arline Rees was appointed as teacher & school commenced 8th March 1920 with a composite class of around 35 children, aged 7 to 14.

Enrolments increased, up to 90 students caused significant overcrowding. In 1923 after much community pressure, the department agreed to extend by 10’ (3m) & added 2 verandas, improved the toilet & installed a fireplace/stove. Desks & stools seating 6 children were fixed to the floor, older students worked on the verandas.

In the early 1930’s the construction of the

road from Sandilands to Urbenville brought a large number of families to the school, many camping on the reserve in tents. At one time there were over 100 pupils being taught in the two rooms & verandas.

Many children had to ride horses to school because of the distances involved.

Up to 4 children per horse rode to school with plenty of adventures on the way. The paddock around the school was 78 acres & horses were tied to trees during the lessons a disaster if they got away - so the P&C built a horse paddock.

Children studied by rote & were tested on: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic. Later History & Geography were added. Learning results were reported as disappointing for these isolated, shy & hardworking children.

Absences were frequent due to bad weather, illness and work commitments - as children milked or helped harvest by hand. Older children would also provide care for younger ones. Contagious disease quarantine regulations caused long absences for the whole family.

Children died or were seriously debilitated from tetanus, polio, diphtheria and whooping cough. (Mass Immunisation eventually became available in the 50’s).

In 1938 a High School catering for the 3 years to the Intermediate Certificate began in Bonalbo. Some high school children worked on the Old Bonalbo verandas using correspondence leaflets until a bus run to Bonalbo commenced in 1958.

Most 14year old’s left to work on the farms.

Children were taught correct social behaviour & ballroom dancing with the aid of a gramophone.

P & C purchased - 1943). In 1944 the P&C purchased a sewing machine for the girls to learn to sew - & the first radio

broadcast “The World we Live In “was listened to by all. The P&C top dressed & fenced the Tennis court (once petrol rationing ceased in 1947).

By 1949 Radio broadcasts were part of the curriculum.

Empire Day Picnics became the focal point for children when the whole valley joined for food & fun.

The 1950’s was an era of prosperity & the P&C assisted in many improvements including a movie projector which enabled revenue raising Community Film Nights.

The Library was extended & lunch tables (still in use) were built. In 1954 a pine forest was planted which was the place of many games of hide & seek & imagination for the students. (The forest was eventually removed for safety reasons in 1989).

The office & storerooms were added in the 1960’s & Ball point pens replaced the ink, pen & nib. Children prepared & presented elaborate posters of information about the country of study to the Annual CWA International Night.

Bonalbo pool opened in 1962 enabling learn to swim classes.

The 1970’s saw septic toilets constructed.

3rd generation students were attending with regularity and punctuality – & there were excursions to exciting places. Music became important & instruments made available to students. Gymnastics, sport, music & drama were encouraged. Ancillary staff were employed to assist teachers. The addition of

the new library building in 1978 after the Old Koreelah Provisional School closed, cement tanks, vinyl, carpet and electric heaters & fans were added to classrooms.

1973 saw the inauguration of the annual Old Bonalbo P&C Fireworks & Bonfire night which still continues – although safety laws made its move to Bonalbo Showground necessary in 2001.

The advent of computer technology has seen many changes in the school – from teaching & learning methods to school finance & administration systems.

Technology is made available to all students with the advent of a STEMshare program between schools – drones, coding robots, & 3D Virtual Worlds.

Throughout the decades a strong & determined Old Bonalbo community, P&C & dedicated teachers have set an example of co-operation, support & pride for the school which has met the educational & social needs of their isolated children - initially by building & maintaining the school & grounds to keeping up with technology & giving them exposure to the World around them – encouraging them to realise their potential - to lead a full & rewarding life.

Old Bonalbo Public School invites any past students, staff or community members to help celebrate the school Centenary on Easter Saturday 3rd April 2021 – followed by a performance of the multi-award winning Haystack Mountain Hermits at the Old Bonalbo Memorial Hall.

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48 MOTORING TEST DRIVE

By Ewan Kennedy AUDI S7 Sportback is a large five-door hatchback that’s the semi-sports model in the Audi 7-series range.

It’s aimed at those who want the practicality of having good access to the back seats, but at the same time want to enjoy flair in their driving.

It can carry camping - or more likely glamping - gear for four adults and still have room to spare to bring back, or a case or two of your favourite wine if you follow the ever more popular tours of the winery regions.

STYLING Perhaps hatchback isn’t quite the right description as the S7 is more a sleek five-door coupe than hatch. It’s low and wide and with a swooping roofline and all our neighbours and friends who saw it loved the shape. Compared to the A7 the Audi S7 has a blacked-out grille, a body kit and rides on 21-inch alloy wheels.

Our test car for the week was in a metallic white that certainly mates beautifully with the blacked-out areas.

INTERIOR The cabin is elegant its style, with Valcona covered leather seats. There are Nappa trimmings on the centre console, armrests and dashboard.

The front seats are well shaped and comfortable.

The driver’s one has many adjustments to let you quickly tailor it to your exact needs.

We experimented with different settings to suit city and open road driving and soon learned to get the best for the condition and desires.

While there are seats for three in the rear, the Audi S7 really is better suited to two back there. There’s good legroom in the back but there are times when the person sitting behind a tall driver will have to do a deal on which person get the most comfort.

The extra-large boot opening gives access to a spacious 525-litre cargo area.

It’s comparatively shallow, understandably so due to the sleek styling.

INFOTAINMENT The premium Bang & Olufsen sound system is excellent. It has 3D satellite navigation and a DAB+ radio. As we live in an area with tall apartment building the DAB+ struggled to get a signal too often.

Which can be irritating.

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration is automatic and worked seamlessly.

ENGINES / TRANSMISSIONS Power is sent to all four wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission and a 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6.

There’s 331kW at 6700rpm and 600Nm over a huge spread from 1900 to 5000rpm. In other words, you have a torque plateau rather than peak so you have maximum grunt virtually all the time.

SAFETY The Audi S7 has a fivestar Australasian NCAP rating. It has autonomous emergency braking, blindspot monitoring, front and rear cross-traffic warning, adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, and exit warning. The latter alerts the driver to vehicles or cyclists approaching from behind their door.

DRIVING The big Audi seems to understand the driver’s desires as they change from moment to moment. The engine and transmission communicate with one another to come up with the ideal solution for what the driver needs.

Whether you want to potter along quietly with the family on board, or have a fang around your favourite hilly roads, or anything in between, the big Audi tailors itself to your commands.

This a large car so can feel a little cumbersome at times on very tight mountainous roads.

The ride from the air suspension is excellent, all the more so when you consider

it’s on big diameter wheels and low profile tyres. Credit for this goes to the cooperation between Audi’s and tyre engineers which begins in the initial days of the design.

Fuel consumption during our test week ranged from just six to seven litres per hundred km on open country roads, through eight to 11 litres on hilly areas, with around town driving often going over 12 litres.

“Long, low and sleek - the Audi S7 takes you by surprise when you realise it has four doors.”

This is a largish semi sporting machine to car that like to be driven hard and to take part in unofficial drag races when the lights turn green. So, you could better these figures if you are that way inclined - but are you?

The S7 Sportback uses Audi’s Virtual Cockpit driver display which can be set up to in several ways. My preference is a large stylised tachometer, with large numbers for the speedo below it.

As usual my kicking under the rear of the S7 didn’t open the huge tailgate - but others had no trouble…

SUMMING UP Audi does good sporty model throughout its range and it comes as no surprise that the big S7 with its coupe lines makes a statement both in styling and the way it demands to be driven. You do have pay a fair bit more for the Sportback than the equivalent sedan - your choice.

JULIE SAVILLE’S REPORT What a looker! My first view of the Audi S7 was from our balcony looking down on it and it looked very sleek.

When I finally got down to drive it, the side and front elevations did not disappoint.

This really is a good-looking car.

The interior is gorgeous. It feels like what I imagine the cockpit on a luxurious private jet looks like.

The seats are very comfortable and even though this is a low-slung car they can be raised enough to get a good leg bend which alleviates pressure on my lower back, so I am happy.

The transmission, air conditioning, radio and navigation are all easy to figure out and use and in no time at all I was on my way.

I felt like I was sitting on a beautifully trained racehorse, but sadly, walking down a busy bridle path. I mean this car has some serious power.

Is there anywhere I can use it? No. However, I am happy knowing it is there if I need it.

The intelligent cruise control was easy to figure out and selecting the distance behind the car in front was easy.

The ride was quiet and the vision afforded by the rear-

view mirrors and windows was good.

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FORD RANGER TRADIE SPECIAL EDITION

Tough and black. Ford Ranger Tradie certainly looks the part.

By Ewan Kennedy FORD Australia is introducing a special-edition, the Ford Ranger Tradie, featuring a range of factoryfitted items.

Based on the latest Ranger XL 4x4 Double Cab Pick-Up the Ranger Tradie has: • Genuine Ford Black nudge bar; • Lumen 20.5-inch slimline LED light bar; • Unique 16-inch black alloy wheels; • Black side steps; • Bedliner; • Tow bar`.

Standard features in the Ranger range SYNC 3 with 8.0-inch touchscreen, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone compatibility.

The Ford Ranger Tradie is available in Arctic White which complements the black alloys and black side steps beautifully.

Buyers can also specify True Red, or prestige paints Meteor Grey,

Aluminium Silver, Blue Lightning and Shadow Black.

Ford Ranger line-up has a five-star safety rating by the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).

Autonomous Emergency Braking is standard on every new Ford Ranger FordPass App is now available for download for Apple and Android devices. This unlocks a range of new connected services including remote locking/unlocking, remote vehicle start and vehicle status updates.

Ranger XL Tradie gives owners access to Ford Service Benefits program at participating Ford dealerships. With long 15,000km/12month service intervals, A and B log-book services for the first four years/60,000km are set at a maximum of $299 per service for Ranger owners.

Adding to the ownership experience for the Ranger Tradie, Ford Service Benefits also bring owners a Service Loan Car, Auto Club Membership including Roadside Assistance.

The new Ford Ranger Tradie special edition comes at a drive-away price of $47,990.

JEEP GLADIATOR SPORT S LAUNCHED Tough Jeep Gladiator Sport S is one tough off-roader.

By Ewan Kennedy JEEP Australia has added the Jeep Gladiator Sport S model to the line-up with an entry price-point at $65,450.

Featuring the capable Selec-Trac Active On-Demand 4x4 system, Jeep Gladiator Sport S has heavy-duty Dana front and rear axles, underbody skid plates, selectable tyre fill alert and a wash-out interior.

Comfort and convenience features include dual-zone climate control; UConnect 7.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto; LED exterior lighting; remote keyless entry; fourth-generation automatic headlamps; push-button start and a 7.0-inch driver information display cluster.

Active safety equipment, including Forward Collision Warning Plus, Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop,

Blind Spot Monitor and Rear Cross Path Detection.

The optional Lifestyle and Adventure package adds a roll-up tonneau cover, Cargo Management Group with trail rail system, lockable rear under-seat storage bin, spray-in bedliner, wireless Bluetooth speaker, Auxiliary Switch Bank (4 Programmable Switches), 240-Amp alternator and a 700-Amp maintenancefree battery.

A Comfort and Technology Group package can be added to the Gladiator Sport S specification, delivering premium convenience appointments including a fourth-generation Uconnect 8.4-inch touchscreen, deep tint sunscreen windows, hard top headliner, security alarm and remote start system.

The 2021 Jeep Gladiator Sport S is priced at $65,490 plus on-road costs and is available to order now.

High-tech efficiency sits under the bonnet of the latest Range Rover Sport.

RANGE ROVER SPORT

NEW PETROL SIX-CYLINDER

By Ewan Kennedy RANGE Rover Sport has a new P400 in-line high-tech six-cylinder in the SE and HSE ranges.

It has an electric supercharger to deliver immediate power response.

Able to spool fully in just 0.5 seconds at up to 65,000rpm it virtually eliminates turbo lag.

Supported by a twin-scroll turbocharger and Continuous Variable Valve Lift it optimises performance

and lowers fuel consumption and reduces.

The clever set-up is based around an all-new Start-Stop system that switches off when stationary and pairs the new 3.0-litre engine with an electric motor.

This allows the system to harvest energy whilst the vehicle is decelerating and store it in a 48V battery. This energy can then be re-deployed through torque-assist, reducing CO2 emissions by reducing the work load on the engine.

SKODA’S NEW GENERATION

OCTAVIA

Skoda Octavia has a shape that’s standout without going over the top.

by Ewan Kennedy

SKODA’S new generation Octavia will reach Australia in April. The A8 Octavia introduces a number of firsts for this model. These include a 10-inch infotainment screen with touch slider; the newest version of Virtual Cockpit; a head up display; wireless connection to Apple Carplay and Android auto.

It has LED Matrix headlights, LED fog and taillights, traffic jam assist, emergency assist and as many 10 airbags, depending on model.

Exterior and interior design treatments are intended to give it the appearance of

upmarket European prestige marques.

The Octavia 110TSI Ambition and Style have a 1.4-litre four-cylinder turbo-petrol engine with 110kW and 250Nm driving through an eight-speed automatic.

The high-performance Octavia RS uses a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo-petrol producing180kW and 370 Nm. It has a seven-speed wet clutch direct shift gearbox.

As the local importer has found the great majority of Skoda’s Australian customers select one or more option packages with their new vehicle, more standard equipment has been included in each variant to match the previous requests.

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March 18, 2021

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Farmers welcome funding for dairy industry THE NSW dairy industry is now eligible for a $6 million grant program that will further boost resilience and profitability.

The federal and state agriculture ministers jointly announced the opening of the $6 million Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund – Sector Development Grants today, which are part of a $16 million project to get the NSW dairy industry on the path to recovery following the 20192020 summer bushfires.

Chair of the NSW Farmers Dairy Committee Colin Thompson said this funding will help introduce certainty for dairy farmers after a long period of challenging and destabilising conditions.

“The funding is part of a collaborative research, development and extension

program supporting increased productivity and diversification within the industry to build business resilience,” Mr Thompson said.

“The NSW dairy industry

is constantly looking at how to better plan for the future.

Funding like this will enable research into intensive dairy farm management and tropical pasture growth to unlock the

full potential of the cow.”

“Recent productivity figures show what NSW dairy farms are capable of.

NSW Department of Primary Industries’ figures for

2019/20 show average farm business profit for dairy farms increased from $0.38/kg milk solids to $1.05/kg.”

“We want to keep the dairy industry on this positive trajectory. Fast-tracking recovery from the fires, which cost over 60 dairy farms around $15 million in losses, is vital.”

“The dairy industry contributes around $600 million to the state’s economy, so a faster recovery will benefit the state and will aid NSW agriculture’s pursuit of $30 billion in output by 2030.”

The $16 million program will be rolled out over five years and will be a collaborative co-investment between government, the University of Sydney, Dairy Australia, the private sector and industry.

Breeders give new research project a thumbs up

By Tim Howard A $7.3 MILLION research project aiming to provide cattle breeder detailed genetic information has sparked the interest of Northern NSW farmers.

More than 150 attended a field day at Grafton’s Trenayr DPI Research Station last Friday to hear about the Southern Multi Breed Project.

Head researcher Tom Granleese said the project involved NSW DPI and the University of New England being conducted on five NSW DPI research stations, and the UNE Research Feedlot over the five years, 2020 to 2025.

He said the project, co-funded by NSW DPI, UNE, Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and the Commonwealth Government through the MLA Donor Company (MDC), would provide an invaluable source of information for seedstock and commercial cattle breeders.

Mr Granleese described the Trenayr field day as a chance to communicate the project’s aims to cattle breeders.

“It’s early days in a five-year project, so we haven’t really got anything to show. That will come in years four

to five,” he said.

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across the six main cattle breeds in NSW: brahman, Angus, Wagyu, Hereford, short horn and charolais.

“We want to be able to compare the genetic variations across the breeds,” he said.

“At the moment we can rank cattle genetics within the breeds, but we don’t have a way of comparing them across the breeds.”

He said a way of comparing cattle across breeds would supply valuable information to the industry to allow better decision making in breeding operations.

The project got the thumbs up from the breeders who attended.

A co-owner of the Jomanda Brahman Stud south of Grafton, Max Johnson, said breeds like the Angus and his brahmans had plenty of information within breeds, but information on other breeds was not as detailed.

He said it would help breeders to be able to look at genetic factors that could influence breeders about which animals to stock.

Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit research officer Brad Walmsley said project aimed to produce about 2000 calves a year to provide a data base of information.

He said the research

might also provide answers to some aspects of cattle development that have eluded researchers, such as the occurrence of scurring in polled cattle.

Mr Walmsley said scurs, hornlike structures, that developed in some cattle, posed problems for graziers, even though they were only loosely attached to the animal.

“They can grow like a horn, but they hang down the side of the cattle. They can cause as much bruising in cattle as a real horn, so it’s something that can be a real problem.”

He said genetics could also provide answers to pest control as chemicals lost their efficacy.

“Looking at things like worm egg counts has been important in sheep and now we’re looking to see if it can important in cattle,” Mr Walmsley said.

He DPI researchers see this part of the project as stage one.

If funding became available he said the next step would be to look into creating cross breeds from the information the data on these animals revealed.

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Grafton Cattle Market Report THERE were 215 head yarded at Grafton Fat Cattle Sale 9th March 2021.

Another small yarding this week, 215 in total. The few bullocks on offer sold dearer by 20c/kg, with a major processor back in action after sitting out for a few weeks.

Cows held firm even though quality was back. Young cattle saw a price reduction, however, this was mainly due to the quality on offer.

Sale Highlights include: A/c AP Franklin sold an Angus Bullock 356.2c/kg weighed 685kg - $2,439.97.

A/c TC Hauville sold Brangus Cross Bullocks 365.2c/kg averaged 695kg $2,538.14 p/hd.

A/c Tish & Robert Walker sold Angus & Charolais Bullocks 355.2c/kg averaged 605kg - $2,148.96 p/hd.

A/c Paul Van Den Berg sold Angus Steers 410.2c/kg averaged 420kg - $1,722.84 p/hd.

A/c Steve & Tammy Elks sold an Angus Cow 285.2c/kg weighed 590kg - $1,682.68.

A/c Lesley & Lindsay Eagles sold Brangus & Charolais Cows 281.2c/kg weighed 587.5kg - $1,652.05 p/hd.

Casino Cattle Market Report FROM FRIDAY 12 MARCH AGENTS yarded a reduced number of head totaling 935 at the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange regular prime sale on Wednesday 10 March.

The yarding consisted of a good supply of young cattle and cows with young cattle comprising mainly of vealers and weaners. Quality was mixed with a selection of well bred steers and heifers along with a number of crossbred lines, mostly in good condition.

Cow prices remained steady at an average of 273.4c/kg and top price of 300.2c/kg. 1 head sold for a top return of $1,995.00.

Cows and calves topped their market at $2,240.00. Heifer prices stayed consistent on last week reaching a top of 618.2c/kg and averages of 422.2c/kg and 288kg.

1 heifer sold achieved a return of $1,953.00.

A good number of bulls in the sale reached a top of 321.2c/kg and averaged 276.8c/kg and 623kg. Steer and bullock prices saw a slight increase in price with

209 head sold. Steers sold to a top of 696.2c/kg and averaged at 473.7c/kg and 269kg with 1 head selling for a return of $2,094.51.

Bullocks topped at 346.2c/kg with averages of 325.2c/kg and 638kg. 1 Brahman X bullock achieved a return of $2,632.00.

Vealer numbers and prices remained strong this week with 311 yarded. Prices reached 714.2c/kg and averages of 519.2c/kg and 243kg. 1 head sold saw a return of $1,912.50.

George and Fuhrmann held their annual Hereford weaner sale on Friday 12 March with over 1500 head on offer. Heifers reached a top of 612.0c/kg and averaged 529.6c/kg and 268kg.

Steers averaged 535.4c/kg and 293kg with a top price of 696.0c/kg. Open auction cows reached a top of $1,980 per head while cows and calves achieved a top return of $2,400.00.

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A/c Blair Russ & Nicholas Franklin sold an Angus Cow 282.2c/kg averaged 640kg $1,806.08.

A/c Steve & Tammy Elks sold Angus Vealer Steers 504.2c/kg averaged 257.5kg $1,298.32 p/hd.

A/c KJ & CT Cheers sold a Hereford Vealer Heifer 518.2c/kg weighed 190kg $984.58 p/hd.

A/c Chevbros sold Angus Vealer Heifers 506.2c/kg averaged 250kg - $1,265.50 p/hd.

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Lismore Cattle Market Report FROM TUESDAY 9 MARCH 170 CATTLE were sold at the Lismore Saleyards on Tuesday 9th March.

Prices were on a par with last week’s sale.

A good run of heavy weaner steers sold from $4.60 to $4.85/kg for returns of $1,350 to $1,695.

Gavin & Kathy Robb’s Angus $4.58/kg, $1695.

Gary Ross’ Murray Greys $4.66/kg, $1547.

Medium weaner steers & heifers sold from $5 to

$6/kg.

Bos Indicus steers sold at good rates $5.10 to $5.40/kg.

Cows sold to meat operators and restockers $2.10 to $2.80/kg.

Gino & Cheryl Cittolin’s red cow topped the day at $2105.

FROM SATURDAY 6 MARCH A GOOD quality yarding of 650 cattle were sold at the Lismore Saleyards on Saturday 6th March.

The yarding consisted of mainly good conditioned weaners & prices remained very strong although a little cheaper than last month’s sale.

Heavy weaner steers sold from $4.60 to $5.20/ kg for returns of $1,350 to $1,750. Barry Graham’s Angus $5.58/kg , $1662.

The Forzan family’s Brangus steers $4.86/kg $1,750.

Most medium weaner steers sold from $5 to $6.06/kg with the Anderson Estates Charolais’ selling for $6.02, $1422.

Lightweight Angus steers sold on behalf on Anthony Geraghty topped at $6.74/kg, $1,272.

Weaner heifers sold at good rates, in some cases better than their brothers.

The Forzan family’s Brangus heifers topped the day at $5.48/kg, $1781.

Euro breed heifers sold from $4.90 to $5.50/kg.

Lightweight weaner heifers sold from $5.50 to $5.70/kg.

The cows & calves yarded were generally good quality but without any real standouts. Most sold in the $2,200 to $2,700 range.

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The building blocks of our food and fibre future NSW Farmers is calling for regional infrastructure to be a high priority and core component of the NSW Government’s 2021-2022 Budget when it is handed down later in the year.

The key arteries connecting our 800,000 plus square kilometre state must be a priority if we are to capitalise on agriculture’s heightened productivity and forge a path toward $30 billion by 2030.

NSW Farmers president James Jackson (pictured) said the headline project for regional NSW is the Great Western Highway upgrade.

“We note the Coalition’s progress in duplicating parts of the highway, but we believe further funding is required to expedite the planning and construction stages,” Mr Jackson said.

“The Great Western Highway is a commonly traversed inland thoroughfare linking multiple regions, including the Central West, with the domestic hubs and export gateways of Sydney.”

“The NSW Government has spent $15 billion upgrading the Pacific Highway, a key coastal connector, but unfortunately this level of investment is not

replicated across the Great Dividing Range.”

“With the opening of the Western Sydney Airport and accompanying agri-precinct in 2026, we need to be in a position to transport high

export value perishable produce in a timely manner.

The aim should be to achieve a sub three-hour journey from the Central West to the new international airport.”

Mr Jackson said other vital infrastructure upgrades include the Newell Highway bypass of Dubbo and livestock underpasses.

“The Newell Highway is the longest highway in NSW. The NSW Government has committed $500 million to its upgrade, but has not planned for a bypass of major centres such as Dubbo,” Mr Jackson said.

“Freight along the Newell is expected to grow over the next 20 years. In the interests of efficiency, safety and productivity, it is best to bypass major centres.”

“The second round of the NSW Cattle Underpass Scheme should commence to make country roads safer and farms more efficient.”

“An improvement in seasonal conditions means important schemes such as underpasses postponed due to prolonged drought conditions, should be restarted as a priority,” Mr Jackson concluded.

INNOVATIVE PRODUCERS TO BE RECOGNISED MEAT & Livestock Australia (MLA) is inviting forward-thinking red meat producers to enter the MLA Producer Innovation Award to have their pioneering achievements in building a resilient and progressive red meat industry recognised.

The award forms part of the Rabobank Beef Industry Awards presented by Queensland Country Life, at Beef Australia 2021 in May. MLA managing director

Jason Strong said innovation in the red meat and livestock industry creates a really exciting future.

“Red meat producers are at the forefront of driving this innovation, on-farm and through the supply chain – and this award is an opportunity to recognise some of the best of our industry,” Mr Strong said.

“MLA’s theme for its activities at Beef Australia 2021 is ‘redefining

resilience’. Looking ahead, resilience will allow the red meat and livestock industry to be agile and ambitious, to see adversity as opportunity, and to be competitive on the global stage.

“Resilience will allow the industry to be innovative and lead the world in sustainability and delivering high value, high quality products to customers, consumers and the community.”

The MLA Producer Innovation Award will be awarded to a beef producer that can demonstrate excellence in one or more of the following themes: • Accelerated adoption of innovations to improve on-farm performance.

• Producer-led innovations resulting in new products, brands and value chains.

• Producer-led new ventures and start-ups.

The winner will be invited

to attend the Beef Industry Awards Dinner at Beef Australia 2021 on 3 May 2021, be presented a glass trophy, certificate and prize money of $1,000.00.

Additionally, the winner will be given entry passes to Beef Australia for 2 days and accommodation for 2 nights, with travel and accommodation costs for the winner to be included in the prize.

Connecting agribusinesses with global buyers and sellers online

NEW DIRECTOR FOR SUNSHINE SUGAR

AN exciting new online marketplace has been launched to connect agribusinesses with overseas buyers and sellers.

Founder Maree Santarossa said the business-to-business e-commerce platform, 8Corners, would help Agribusinesses to reach new markets and develop new products.

“8Corners is a comprehensive one-stop e-Commerce solution for both exporters and importers. Producers can not only find new customers; they can access finance, logistics, insurance, and inspections services. It’s easy, secure, and joining is free,” she said.

“Finding new trading opportunities has always been difficult, but it is even more complicated in the current environment of international travel restrictions. What’s more, online sales can be fraught with risk – especially when dealing with new customers and achieving guaranteed payments.

“That’s why a major focus of 8Corners is on providing certainty for both buyers and sellers.

“For example, 8Corners has partnered with Australian-based authentication firm Laava. The 8Corners platform also uses block-

SUNSHINE Sugar has appointed a new director following the tragic death of a cane farmer stalwart in October last year.

Thirty-nine-year-old Richmond River cane grower Marty Walsh (pictured) has been elected as a director on the NSW Sugar Milling Cooperative board.

Marty, his wife Donna and their three young children farm 110 hectares of cane land on their Coraki property.

In partnership with his parents Tom and Julie, the Walsh families grow sugarcane and soy bean on a total of 440 hectares of land in the Richmond Valley area.

A fifth-generation cane grower, Marty has been involved in sugarcane farming all of his life and his commitment to the NSW sugar industry also includes being an active member on the Richmond River Cane Growers Association Board.

“I am pleased to welcome Marty to the board. He will bring a fresh approach and has proven to be a great asset to both the Richmond River Cane Growers and the broader NSW sugar industry sector, and

chain technology for secured financial transactions, and users are verified.

“Sellers can have confidence they are dealing with real businesses, and buyers can have confidence they are purchasing real products.”

Ms Santarossa said 8Corners has been selected as one of six finalists in the Australian Future Agro Challenge 2021. Finalists are making their pitches to a panel of judges in Byron Bay on the 19 & 20 March.

“There is huge interest in Australian food and beverages right around the world, but anyone who has worked in agriculture knows that sales don’t happen by themselves.

“This platform is about taking Australian products and sending them to the eight corners of the world, so our agri-businesses can grow and thrive in the global marketplace.”

8Corners is a member of the Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce Industry, Korean Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Land to Market, Northern Rivers NSW and Northern Rivers Foods.

Agribusinesses interesting in join the 8Corners marketplace go to www.8corners.com.au

we look forward to working with a grower who has shown such great passion, commitment and vision to our industry,” the chairman of NSW Sugar and Sunshine Sugar Jim Sneesby said.

The appointment comes after the tragic death of Pimlico cane farmer and director Wayne Rodgers in 2020.

Mr Rodgers died after being pinned under machinery he was working on in a shed in October 2020.

The NSW Sugar Milling Cooperative board includes nine grower directors, with three representatives from each of the milling areas including the Tweed, Richmond and Clarence Valleys.

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March 18, 2021

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LAW COUNCIL SUPPORTING RRR COMMUNITIES THE launch of the Law Council of Australia’s Rural, Regional and Remote (RRR) National Strategic Plan 20212023, heralds the profession’s reinvigorated commitment to RRR lawyers.

Speaking at the Cooma Court House, Law Council president Dr Jacoba Brasch QC (pictured) said while close to 30 per cent of Australians live in RRR areas, only 10.5 per cent of the country’s solicitors practise outside an urban centre, limiting the options for those needing legal services.

“RRR communities are diverse and dynamic, and the kinds of legal needs experienced within vary substantially, from

water rights allocation, to environment and planning restrictions, to farm succession planning, and laws which have special relevance to First Nations people,” Dr Brasch said.

“Access to justice is undermined when there is a critical shortage of suitable legal representation in particular regions.”

“Many RRR communities are particularly vulnerable to cycles of natural disaster, such as fires, drought. Emergencies generate particular areas of legal need for people who are ineligible for publicly funded legal assistance and emergencies also exacerbate existing legal problems and directly trigger others,

including in relation to credit, debt or insurance.”

“But there is a clear disparity between remote and urban justice, which means people in difficulties living in RRR communities are missing out.”

“The COVID-19 pandemic has no doubt exacerbated

access to justice for RRR communities, with court hearings cancelled, difficulties in travelling to obtain legal services or attend court was made significantly more difficult or even impossible by few flights and state and territory border closures,” Dr Brasch said.

The Law Council’s National Strategic Plan focuses on five key areas for action which include building awareness, recruitment, retention and succession of lawyers, technology, and the promotion of RRR legal practice in education and advocacy.

“There is no doubt that the profession’s increased experience using technology

because of COVID-19 has created opportunities for the delivery of legal services in RRR areas,” Dr Brasch said.

“But we must remember to also address issues faced by people experiencing disadvantage who may, for a variety of reasons, experience difficulties in adapting to online legal service delivery.”

“For too long, there has been too little regional engagement in law and policy development, which has meant that laws and policies have become ‘urban centric’ and drafted with little consideration to their application in RRR communities. That is what the National Strategic Plan is addressing,” Dr Brasch said.

Global Agri Innovation comes to the Northern Rivers A UNIQUE agricultural innovation competition is coming to the Byron region on 19 and 20 March 2021.

AusFAC is the Australian arm of the global Future Agro Challenge, a competition for agripreneurs with the aim to find Australia’s best innovation to meet future global food challenges.

Six finalists from around Australia, will compete at the Byron Community Centre on Saturday 20 March.

Tim Williamson, RDA Northern Rivers director of regional development said “I’m proud to host the AusFAC 2021 event right here in the Northern Rivers.

“The competition will be amazing with some of Australia’s best young innovative agripreneurs looking to take the crown and represent Australia at next years international competition.”

More than just a pitch competition it is a two day event which will showcase the region. We kick off with the launch event at Harvest Newrybar on Friday evening 19th March with the main forum and event Saturday 20th March at Byron Community Centre from 12:30pm.

Between the heats and final pitch, you’ll hear from leading advisor to business on the future, strategy and innovation Steve Tighe and other startup and regenerative agriculture leaders, providing insight and innovation for the startup community.

In this unique competition finalists go head to head in pairs across three heats, pitching their future food innovation.

Judges will be looking for more than just a great idea, they want to see the passion behind it.

The final pitch will see the

three winners from the heats battle it out for the ultimate goal of taking their innovation to the Future Agro Challenge to compete for the International Agripreneur of the year in 2022.

“Competitors will be coming from across Australia and we even have one home grown competitor, 8Corners

participating” Said Mr Williamson.

Maree-Louise Santarossa of Lismore based 8Corners said she is looking forward to next week’s pitch challenge.

“The team at 8Corners can’t believe we have made the Australian final of the Future Agro Challenge” said Ms Satarossa

“We know there are great agri-tech startups in our area and are very humbled to have been chosen.

“Pitching at events such as FAC is crucial for startups to attract investors and promote their businesses.

“The fact that this year’s competition is in the Northern Rivers is a bonus.

“Local entrepreneurs, investors and aspiring business owners can participate in the event” Ms Satarossa said.

AusFAC is brought to the Northern Rivers by RDA Northern Rivers in partnership with Sourdough Business Pathways.

“I encourage everyone interested in what the agri sector will look like in the future to come along and see first hand” said Mr Williamson.

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The Northern Rivers Times

March 18, 2021

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Companion planting: Native plants for your herb garden ADDING native plants to your herb garden brings increased opportunities to attract native pollinating insects and adds variety in structure and foliage.

Many are perennial and very easy to grow.

Native ginger (Alpinia caerulea) is an attractive, easy to grow plant with wide, dark green leaves and bright blue berries. The clusters of berries are often an interesting mix of light green, pale blue and purple-blue (pictured).

Small fragrant white flowers appear in spring and summer. It grows up to two metres high and one metre wide, preferring a spot in the understorey, but can cope with a sunny position.

Native ginger is not frost tolerant, but kept in the understory where a warmer microclimate can be established, they will thrive. Prune untidy stems and leaves so new shoots keep the plant looking fresh.

As with the common ginger we know, cardamom, turmeric and galangal, the fruits, shoots and young roots can be eaten. Aboriginal people traditionally marked pathways with a trail of discarded seeds. The tips of the rhizomes are very nutritious and have a mild ginger-like flavour. The large leaves can be used to wrap food while cooking or steaming. The flowers and berries attract a variety of wildlife including lizards, birds, bees, butterflies and other insects.

Gymnostachys anceps or settler’s twine grows in an unusual grass-like tussock with narrow leaves, up to two metres tall (pictured). The tiny flowers appear on spikes from August to October, followed by a purplish-black berry in February to May. They are not edible, but the tough leaves have been used for the production of a strong twine.

For a larger eye-catching feature in the garden the Banksia ericifolia

(heath-leaved banksia) is a favourite.

It has large candlestick-like spikes of yellow to reddish-orange flowers which contrast perfectly with the delicate lightgreen to greyish-green leaves. Adding colour to our winter gardens, it flowers between autumn and continues through to early spring. Use them as cut or dried flowers. The flower spikes later form woody seed-bearing cones, which are also a distinctive feature in an Australian garden.

Strangely often overlooked because it quite common in our area, is Macaranga tanarius. It is a bushy, well-shaped tree to twelve metres, with large rounded dark green leaves and pretty clusters of yellow-green flowers from October to January (pictured). Female and male flowers grow on different trees.

Often seen as a pioneer plant, which arrives as one of the first to return to a disturbed rainforest, it is fast growing and protects and provides shade for natural regeneration or new plantings beneath it. Pictured are a few of the young plants found throughout the Botanic Gardens. More established trees are featured along Dawson Street in Lismore, beside the playing fields at the northern end.

Our next Guided Walk and Friends Work Day will be on Sunday 28th March at the Gardens at 313 Wyrallah Road, East Lismore. Starting at 9.30am, this one hour guided walk will take you on a swift tour of the whole Botanic Gardens site. Some paths will be unpaved and there will be some slight inclines. Wear a hat and sturdy shoes.

Stay for morning tea with the Friends.

Gold coin donation welcome.

Or come at 7.45am to help work in the gardens. Bring water, a hat, long sleeves and long pants. Ring 0450 596 705 for more information. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Email: publicity@ friendslrbg.com.au

Settlers Twine

Banksia ericifolia

Alpinia caerulea Native ginger

Macaranga tanarius flowers

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March 18, 2021

LET’S COOK 55

TUSCAN SALMON AND RISONI TRAY BAKE

This creamy delicious salmon tray bake will have dinner on the table in 30 minutes making it the perfect weeknight dinner.

CINNAMON-HONEY CREME BRULEE Create this perfectly balanced dessert, with sweet honey, rich custard and a crispy sugar top.

0:15 PREP

1:00 COOK

INGREDIENTS

0:10 PREP

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SERVES 4

EASY

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METHOD

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STEP 1

Carefully remove foil from the dish (careful of escaping steam).

Stir in the tomato strips and spinach through the risoni mixture. Add the broccolini. Press to submerge slightly.

Arrange the salmon, topside up, on to pressing gently into the mixture.

Cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until broccolini is tender.

Sprinkle with fried capers and lemon rind to serve.

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2 tbsp olive oil 4 (approx. 150g) skinless boneless salmon fillets 305g (1 1/2 cups) dried risoni pasta 3 garlic cloves, crushed 1 Tbsp finely chopped fresh rosemary leaves 2 massel chicken style stock cubes 300ml pouring cream 75g (1/2 cup) semi dried tomatoes strips (not in oil) 60g baby spinach 1 bunch broccolini 1 tbsp drained capers, fried 1 lemon, rined finely grated

Preheat oven to 200c/180c fan-forced.

Heat half oil in a large flameproof baking dish over medium-high heat.

Cook salmon, top-side down, for 2 minutes or until golden. Transfer to a plate.

STEP 2 Heat remaining 1 tbsp oil in the dish over high heat. Add the risoni, garlic and rosemary.

Cook, stirringfro 1 minute or until aromatic.

Add stock cubes, cream and 625ml (2 1/2 cups) water. Stir to combine.

Bring to boil. REmove from heat and cover dish tightly with foil. Bake for 12 minutes.

Top Tips: To fry the capers, heat 1-2 tablespoons oil into a small frying pan over medium- high heat. Cook capers for 3-5 minutes or until crispy and golden.

Transfer to a plate lined with paper towel to drain.

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3 cups thickened cream 1 cup of milk 4 cinnamon sticks 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup honey 1/2 cup caster sugar 9 large egg yolks 1/2 cup caster sugar, extra

METHOD STEP 1

Bring cream, milk, cinnamon sticks and salt to a simmerin a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring often. Remove fro heat. Set aside for 1 hour to allow flavours to develop.

STEP 2 Preheat oven to 150c/130c fan forced. Strain milk mixture througha fine sieve over a bowl. Return to Pan. Add honey and 1/4 cup sugar. Bring to a simmer, stirring to dissolve sugar. Whisk egg yolks and remaining sugar in a heatproof bowl. Gradually whisk hot milk mixture into egg mixture. Strain mixture through sieve over a heat proof jug.

SERVES 8

STEP 3 Divide custard evenly be tween 8 x 3/4-cup (180ml capacity) ramekins. Place in a large roasting pan. Pour enough boiling water into pan to come halfway up sides of dishes.

STEP 4 Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until set around the edges, but still wobbly in centres.

Carefully remove dishes from water and transfer to a wire rack to cool. Cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight (or up to 3 days).

STEP 5 Just before serving, place dishes in freezer for 20 minutes. Using half the extra sugar, sprinkle a thin layer over the top of each custard. Using a kitchen blowtorch or a preheated grill on medium-high, caramelise sugar for 1 to 2 minutes or until golden. Repeat with another layer of remaining sugar. Serve.

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March 18, 2021

58 STARS Aries Mar 21 - Apr 20 This week obstacles stand in your way, but calculated choices can help you keep moving forward. This Monday you will be sensitive to the motivations of others, these insights will help you understand their actions. Mid-week opportunity presents itself, move quickly as this could lead to a new career, a promotion or even financial success. By Friday a hurtle will stand it your way, and even though it may seem monumental, it’s really just a small bump in the road. On the weekend romance is on the menu, it could be the beginnings of a blossoming relationship or for those in a relationship it leads to increased intimacy and romantic ties.

Cancer Jun 24 - Jul 22 This week it’s all about going with the flow. As the week begins, your deep held beliefs may be challenged- don’t be too quick to dismiss this criticism, as there may just be a grain of truth in what they have to say. Self-growth is more important than holding on to outdated beliefs.

Mid-week you’ll be craving to let your creative energy flow, take time to admire the beauty of the world arounds you, whether that be, taking a stroll in nature or getting out the art supplies. By Friday your adventurous nature, will pull you towards new vistas. On the weekend it’s time to get exploring and turn those Friday daydreams into a reality.

Libra Sep 23 - Oct 23 This week words can sting but don’t let someone else’s mood ruin your week.

Monday has you feeling a little overwhelmed. It’s time to start letting others help you and make adjustment to ensure your day run smoothly.

Mid-week your confidence is at an all time high.

It’s time to raise the issues that have been bothering, start the new project you’ve been dreaming about, just take the risk and grab the reward. By the end of the week romance is what your craving, make time for a romantic get away or if not in a relationship, its time to put yourself out there.

Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 20 Without a strong foundation, a building can topple, spend this week ensuring your foundation is solid. On Monday the urge to find a quick an easy way to make money is getting the best of you.

- whilst you’re interested in making money, your more interested in keeping it, so avoid get-rich quick schemes as they are usually too good to be true.

Mid-week it’s a good time to listen and assess the objections people have about what you’re planning.

By Friday artistic inspiration strikes you’ll spend hours in creative contemplation- day dreaming of new projects and or a potential new business. On the weekend it’s time to do you, spend time with friends, go for a walk, visit the beach, it’s up to you.

Taurus Apr 21 - May 21 As this week begins, it may feel like everyone has a hoop for yo to jump through. On Monday confide your frustrations to friends. The process to success seems to take longer than you expected but you need to trust the process you’ve set into motion. Mid-week seek relief from your current stresses, with friends, family and good food. Friends will remind you of your worth, they see your potential and talents.

By Friday finances may be playing heavily on you mind. Work out a budget, it will help you feel in control. On the weekend, let get organised and redecorate, changing up your living space will bring a sense of renewal and have you feeling refreshed.

Leo Jul 23 - Aug 23 Friction this week can cause a wildfire, so it best to be aware of your emotions. On Monday your tendency to rush to the rescue may be suffocating the development of others -loosen your grip and see how it does on its own. Take time to observe before jumping in. By mid-week you become an observer, this will give you insights into your friends, family and colleagues. This newfound enlightenment will help in making important decisions. By the end of the week open yourself up to new ideas and a new more productive way of doing things. By the weekend it’s time to relax and not take anything too seriously, read a book, watch a movie, just do small things that bring you joy.

Scorpio Oct 24 - Nov 2 This week conflict may be running high - but a little foresight can resolve many issues.

Don’t let your spontaneity get the best of you, especially when your choices involve other people. It is best to consult those around you and approach things with a bit more consideration. By mid-week you may be looking to find a deeper meaning, but you may just end out making a mountain out of a mole hill, as for once things are be exactly what they seem.

This weekend take time to revaluate what you want and more importantly what want and more importantly what you need. Take time to focus on your mental health.

Aquarius Jan 21 - Feb 18 What you say this week has a deep effect, so this week be mindful of what you say.

On Monday brings disappointment as you are let down by a family member, whether this is a misunderstanding or a betrayal of trust. Whilst it’s upsetting, deep down you knew this was a possibility. Mid-week you turn the tide and pay it forward, work to be a force for good, with care and generosity. By Friday your thinking big,and planning for the future, whether deciding on a new career or planning for future study. This spark will grow and lights the way for your future. On the weekend leverage your talents and as long as you try your best, you are bound for success.

Gemini May 22 - June 23 This week you are busy, busy, busy, just remember to slow down before you burn out.

On Monday you will be bouncing between multiple projects, it will be your ability to priorities under pressure will ensure your success.

Mid-week you suddenly realise the value in sharing your ideas. You’re susceptible to the influence of other at the moment, so be sure to surround yourself with the right people.

Don’t be afraid to think laterally and ahead off piste on Friday. You are ready for a change.

On the weekend your friends have excellent advice.

Reaffirm your thought and enable you to enter the next week with a renewed sense of clarity.

Virgo Aug 24 - Sep 22 This week irritants are the mother of invention, use the obstacles that block your way as a jumping off point for innovation. On Monday you have an uncharacteristic urge to break the rules. But you can’t quite let yourself lose, there are consequences, and it may not be really be convenient. But it’s time to consider what you really want and take the risk to achieve it. Mid-week the details you thought were certain explode out of grasp. This would normally drive you crazy, but this week it delights you. By Friday friends are right by your side and encouraging you to embrace your talents. They have your back, all you have to do is trust. On the weekend sort through your finances and spend Sunday exploring a new area.

Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21 Having a lot of hot irons in the fire mean if something’s not available you can grab hold of something else. Take time to look at your options this week As the week begins it is a great time to put yourself out there and get to know someone new. And you are particularly receptive to new impute.

Mid-week your frustrated with a neighbour or colleague and are uncertain on how to best confront them. By the weekend communication will be important be clear and speak up and let others know what you need.

Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20 This week there could be misunderstanding and confusion, be mindful through the fog and stay on path. On Monday you’re a paragon of selflessness, if someone need help, your first to raise your hand. Mid-week you find yourself stuck in a dark mood. Be kind to yourself and treat yourself as you would a friend. By Friday you will be lost in daydreams- be mindful not to dream your life away. On the weekend a previous mistake turns out to be exactly the right decision, this lifts a weight of your shoulders and your able to bask in the glow of success.

MARKETS Casino Golf Club Markets – 2nd Sunday of every 2nd month.

Lismore Car boot Markets – now at Lismore Showground – 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month.

The Channon Craft Markets – 2nd Sunday of the month.

Ballina Markets – 3rd Sunday of the month.

FARMERS MARKETS Mullumbimby Community Market – 3rd Saturday of the month.

Ballina Farmers’ Market – Sundays 6am till 1pm at Commemoration Park Ballina.

Bangalow Farmers Market – Saturdays 7am till 11am at Bangalow Hotel Carpark.

Blue Knob Farmers Markets – Saturdays 8.30am till 12pm at Blue Knob Café, Lillian Rock.

Byron Bay Farmers Market – Thursdays 7am till 11am at Cavanbah Centre Byron Bay. Kyogle Farmer’s Market Saturday mornings Stratheden Street, Kyogle.

Lismore Farmers Market – Saturdays 8am till 11am at Lismore Showgrounds.

Lismore Produce Market – Thursdays 2.30pm till 6.30pm at Magellan & Carrington streets. Contact Tom on 0450 688 900.

Mullumbimby Farmers Market – Fridays 7am till 11am at Mullumbimby Showground. Contact Allie on 02 6677 1345 Murwillumbah Farmers Market – Wednesdays 7am till 11am at Murwillumbah Showgrounds. Contact Sue on 0498 733 766.

New Brighton Farmers MarketTuesday 8am-11am New Brighton Oval River Street, New Brighton Contact: Allie 02 6677 1345 North Byron Farmers Market Nimbin Farmers Market –

Wednesdays 3pm till 6pm at Green Bank Carpark.

Contact Jason on 02 6689 1512 Rainbow Region Organic Market – Tuesdays 7.30am till 11am at Lismore Showgrounds.

Uki Farmers Market – Saturdays 8am till 12.30pm at Uki Hall.

Yamba Farmers Market – Wednesdays 7am till 1pm at Whiting Beach carpark.

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IN MEMORIAM 59 Death Notice

HAYNES, Elaine

27 October 1933 – 11 March 2021

Elaine, late of Goonellabah, passed away peacefully on 11 March 2021

Aged 87 years.

Beloved wife of Gordon. (dec.)

Much loved Mum of Kathy, Jeff & Cath, Garry and their extended families.

A service has been held.

Funeral Notice

Memoriam

LEONARD JOHN SULLY

SLY, Gwenneth Joy

16.06.1934 – 23.03.2020 Late of Crowley, Ballina

28 October 1939 – 12 March 2021 Gwen passed away peacefully at Florence Price Gardens, Ballina.

Aged 81 years.

Dearly loved wife of Geoffrey (dec.), loved mother & mother-in-law of Robynne & Grant, David & Jo and Rod & Adriana.

Adored Nanna G of Tessa & Grant, Rachel & Ryan, Dain, Joshua, Niki & Thomas, Ethan & Alana, Olivia and Bronte.

Great Nanna G of Andrew, Neve, Isaac (dec.), Jane, Elodie and Willow.

Time passes by, it’s now a year but feels so near.

Your love and our memories will remain with us always.

You were my Husband and soul mate, A loving Father to Kerry and Leanne Grandfather to Kylie and Tony Great Grandfather to Blake, Bradley and Jamie-Lee, Great-Great Grandfather to Deklan, Naviah and Alana.

Beloved Brother of Alf (dec’d), Gordon, Kevin and Annette.

A friend to many.

May God watch over you until we are together again.

Love always Joy

A funeral service for Gwen will be held at the graveside on Friday, 19 March 2021 at 11:00am at Evans Head Cemetery.

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Funeral Notice

BELL, Patricia Corea “Nee Fotheringhame”

Passed away peacefully on the 11th March 2021.

Loved husband of Eric (Dec).

Much loved mother of Tony (Dec), Trish, Peter, Kevin, Joan and Margaret.

Cherished nanna to all her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Aged 104 years

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Requiem Mass for Patricia to be held at St Carthage’s Cathedral Leycester Street Lismore on Friday 19th March 2021 commencing at 2.00pm.

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Loved father and father-in-law of Bruce and Chieko, Sue and Terry Anderson, Charmaine and Michael Whyte, Gavin, Barry.

Loved and well respected friend of Beryl’s family. Proud Pop of his 17 grandchildren and 16 Great Grandchildren.

Barry will be sadly missed by his extended family and friends.

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SANTIN, FERNANDA 27.05.1927 ~ 14.03.2021

Formally of Dunoon.

Passed away peacefully at St Joseph’s Nursing Home Lismore on Sunday March 14, 2021, surrounded by her loving family.

Aged 93 years.

Loved wife of Egidio (dec).

Loved mother and mother- in-law of Enzo & Fran ; Evelyn & Gordon Vidler.

Loved nonna and bis-nonna of Tony, Emma, Scott, Melissa, Sara and Nicholas.

Loved sister of Evelina (Italy) and 6 other siblings (all dec).

AT PEACE

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FULLER, Robert Kenneth “Bob” “Slim” Late of Toowoomba and formerly of Lismore and Ballina NSW, passed away peacefully on 11th March 2021.

aged 77 years.

Beloved Husband of Leanne.

Dearly loved Father and Father-in-law of John, Crystal and Edwin, Thomas and Nikki.

Loving and proud Grandfather of Anastasia and Eden.

Dearly loved Son of Irene (dec’d) and Ken Fuller, Cleveland.

Much loved Son-in-law of Allan and Lenore Philp, Ballina.

Dearly loved Brother of Kaye.

Dearly loved Brother-in-law of Debra, Elizabeth and Grover.

Adored Uncle and Great Uncle of their respective families.

Member of TFNC, SGAP, ADFAS and Irish club.

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1800 809 336 Warwick Binney

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A funeral service for Robert will be held in the T.S. Burstow Chapel, 1020 Ruthven Street (south), Toowoomba, commencing at 12 noon, Monday, 22nd March 2021. If you wish to attend, please comply with the Qld State Health directive and register your details with Crystal (phone or text) 0468 648 707.

If unable to attend you may share in the service via webstream at www.burstows.com.au/tribute-centre “Forever Remembered”

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Call for an appointment

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March 18, 2021

CLASSIFIEDS Monumental Masons

Positions Vacant

ELLEM MONUMENTAL CASINO GRANITE HEADSTONES NEW & RESTORATION Gloria m 0457 976 491 Scott m 0481 170 218 Brian m 0433 905 601

Phone 66 626 066 Tenders

Subcontractors Pricing

Dynamic Qualified & ESSA Registered EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST REQUIRED Working in a fully equipped studio environment with Veterans, NDIS clients, and aged care organisations.

Work will be as a contractor on above award payments with the progression plan to possible long-term employment and studio management options.

Position to start early April 2021.

Applications to David by email: dhandl@bigpond.net.au

by COB Saturday 22 May 2021

QBCC No. 1218054

INTERMEDIATE TAX ACCOUNTANT

Public Notices Lic. 010807

SOUTH LISMORE STUDIO

CLOSING MARCH 6th

RE-OPENING IN CASINO at a date to be announced

Phone (02) 6621 8020 Answering machine on after hours

Positions Vacant

Cross Country Taxation is looking for a part-time accountant in our Ballina Office.

Essential skill & attribute criteria required for this role: • Degree qualified • Excellent written & verbal communication skills • Self motivated and have enthusiasm to work to deadlines • 2-4 Years experience in an accountant practice • MYOB, AE Tax & Accounting, Quickbooks and Excel • Preparation of Financial Statements and Tax Returns To apply please email resume and cover letter to Staff Partner: bd@cctax.com.au

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COORDINATOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Make a difference to Richmond Valley’s future As the Richmond Valley continues to grow and prosper, Richmond Valley Council is seeking an experienced Coordinator Economic Development to help drive its progressive stimulus agenda.

The primary purpose of this role is to contribute to the effective operation of Richmond Valley Council’s Economic Development team through the implementation of Council’s strategies and the delivery of the Regional Job Precincts program.

With a focus on building stronger communities through employment, investment and infrastructure, we are looking for a proactive team member to lead the planning and implementation of key economic development projects, bringing innovation and collaboration to this important role.

Salary Range: $72,467 to $92,466 pa The Richmond Valley local government area is located in the heart of the Northern Rivers region of NSW; around three hours from Brisbane. As one of regional NSW’s fastest-growing areas, the Richmond Valley provides many reasons to relocate with great lifestyle benefits and the opportunity to escape the hustle and bustle of city life. The region’s community is welcoming and friendly, which is why it has become a popular location for sea and tree changers who have had enough of traffic jams, congestion and long work hours.

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TERMS: Bid Card System. Cash or cheque day of sale.

DIRECTIONS: Turn off the Bruxner Highway into Sandiland Street & right into Pine Street.

CATERING AVAILABLE: Light Refreshments.

Contact: Mike Perkins 02 6660 0326 Applications close 11:30pm Sunday 28 March

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SATURDAY, MARCH 27 CATTLE SALE LISMORE SALEYARDS 10AM

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Friday 9th April 2021 Commencing 10.00am

Bookings invited for this forthcoming sale

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CLASSIFIEDS 61 Livestock For Sale

Lifestock For Sale

4000 WEANERS – OVER 2 DAYS Thursday 18th March

Tenterfield & Stanthorpe Weaner Sale Friday 19th March

AIR CONDITIONING

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Sat, 20th March 21 10:00am DST

500 Head

Sponsored by Riverina Casino

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FOR FUTURE SALES & EVENTS DETAILS

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SPECIAL LINES INCLUDE A/C De Wit Pastoral – Mallanganee - EU 70 Charolais X weaner steers 30 Charolais X weaner heifers A/C A & E Hill – Urbenville - EU 30 Charolais X weaner steers 30 Charolais X weaner heifers A/C Bymbic Farms – Byron Bay 40 Charolais X steers 40 Charolais X heifers A/C Bymbic Farms – Byron Bay 40 Charolais X steers 40 Charolais X heifers

A/C Bowkett Family - Murwillumbah 30 Angus mixed sex weaners A/C Trouser Point Pastoral - Murwillumbah 30 Angus mixed sex weaners A/C Bulmer Partnership - Kyogle 25 mixed sex F1 weaners A/C Carinya Park Brangus - Kyogle 1 rising 4 year old Brangus bull A/C T & A McKenna - Bentley 50 Brangus & Brangus Baldy heifers PTIC to Brangus bulls A/C Annandale Holdings – Tenterfield 3x3 F1 Brahman Hereford Cow & Calves – 2nd calf 5x5 Charbray Heifers & Calves 2x2 Brangus Cows & Calves 3x2 Santa X Cows & Calves (Good quality young breeders running back with the Angus Bull) A/C D Hill - Urbenville 8 Hereford Cows - EU (PTIC to Hereford Bulls) A/C Owner 15 Hereford Heifers PTIC to Poll Hereford bulls

Strict curfew 8pm Thursday 18th March Contact RAY WHITE RURAL Casino/Kyogle

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CASINO’S PREMIER EVENT FOR 2021 - 46TH ANNUAL THREE DAY WEANER SALE Day 2 - Thursday 25th March & Day 3 - Friday 26th March 2021 Casino Saleyards - 10:00am DST - 3500 “EU” Weaners Over Both Days DAY TWO

Thursday 25th March 2021 10:00am DST European Breeds Sale

3500 HEAD Weaners Comprising: 1500 Charolais x weaner steers 100 Limousin x weaner steers 400 Simmental weaner steers 1000 Charolais x weaner heifers 300 Simmental x weaner heifers 50 Limousin x weaner heifers

Feature Draft A/c: A/c McCabe Family, Murwillumbah, EU Acc 60 Charolais x weaner steers A/c Boland Family, Coraki, EU Acc 100 Charolais x Hereford weaner steers 30 Charolais x Hereford weaner heifers A/c LW & KM Hellyar, Wiangaree 30 Charolais x weaner steers 25 Charolais x weaner heifers A/c J & J Stuart, Cedar Point 35 Charolais x weaner steers 35 Charolais x weaner heifers A/c Oakburn, Ettrick 175 Charolais x weaner steers 175 Charolais x weaner heifers A/c A & N Charters , Coraki, EU Acc 50 Charolais x weaner steers 15 Charolais x weaner heifers A/c PJ & SA Fuhrmann, Mummulgum 95 Charolais x weaner steers 45 Charolais x weaner heifers

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A/c P & L Hannigan, Numulgi, EU Acc 250 Charolais x weaner steers 250 Charolais x weaner heifers

By Palgrove & Ascot Charolais bulls A/c IM Hewetson, Mallanganee, EU Acc 200 Simmental x weaner steers 200 Simmental x weaner heifers A/c P & J Fuhrmann & Family, Mummulgum, EU Acc

300 Charolais x weaner steers 300 Charolais x weaner heifers

A/c BD, JB & WD Cooke, Stratheden 75 Charolais x weaner steers 75 Charolais x weaner heifers A/c R & C Dean, Culmaran Crk, EU Acc 70 Hereford Simmental weaner steers A/c Blue Dog Ag, Codrington 30 Charolais x weaner steers 30 Charolais x weaner heifers A/c MKR Family Partnership, Shannonbrook 30 Simmental x weaner steers 30 Simmental x weaner heifers

DAY THREE Friday 26th March 2021 10:00am DST Bos Indicus Sale

Feature Draft A/c: A/c JW & M Smith, Woodenbong, EU Acc 300 Santa Hereford x weaner steers 300 Santa Hereford x weaner heifers A/c JS & V Smith, Upper Tooloom, EU Acc PCAS Eligable 150 Santa Hereford weaner steers 160 Santa Hereford weaner heifers A/c Townview Pastoral Co, Urbenville, EU Acc 125 Santa Hereford x weaner steers 125 Santa Hereford x weaner heifers A/c NE Bryant, Tuncester 50 Hereford Santa x weaner steers 50 Hereford Santa x weaner heifers

6000 HEAD

A/c IM Hewetson, Mallanganee, EU Acc 100 Brangus x weaner steers 50 Brangus x weaner heifers A/c J & P Hewetson, Mallanganee, EU Acc 35 Santa Hereford weaner steers 30 Santa Hereford weaner heifers A Majority Of Stock On Offer At Both Sales Will Be PCAS Eligable

** NOTE ** A strict curfew of 9pm has been set for all classes of livestock to be yarded

A/c P & J Fuhrmann & Family, Mummulgum, EU Acc

A/c Tallawa Partnership, Mummulgum, EU Acc 85 Brangus Ultra Black x weaner steers 15 Brangus Ultra Black x weaner heifers 10 Brangus Limousin x weaner heifers A/c KC & JA Larsson, Culmaran Crk, EU Acc 40 Brahman x Hereford weaner steers

$500 Yulgilbar Bull rebate for the Best Pen of Santa x Weaners, steers & heifers

DAY TWO & THREE SALES SPONSORED BY

2500 HEAD

Weaners Comprising: 1000 Santa Hereford weaner steers 300 Brangus weaner steers 200 F1 Brahman x weaner steers 800 Santa Hereford weaner heifers 100 F1 Brahman Hereford weaner heifers 50 Droughtmaster x weaner steers 150 Brangus & Brangus x weaner heifers

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COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD 63 Tree Services

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3.00pm Nimbin, 54 Cullen St (between Enviro Ctr & Apothecary) 3.30pm Byron Bay, church hall, Ruskin St 1hr Mens Mtg 3.30pm Byron Bay, Community Cabin - Carlyle St & ZOOM 6077766231 Pwd 026887 Nicole 0413358457 Womens Mtg

5.00pm Murwillumbah, ConXions Ch, 19 Prince St 6.30pm Lismore, ZOOM 657706645 Pwd AA 7.00pm Byron Bay ZOOM 6457636476 Pwd 951276, enquiries 0491101484 byronbrotha@gmail.com Sunday 9 00am Ballina, St Marys Church Cnr Burnet & Norton Sts 1hr 10.00am Lismore, Uniting Ch Hall, Cnr Woodlark St & Church Ln (entry at back) 66213745 Ina 12.15pm Alstonville, ch hall, The Avenue (entry via car park at back) alstonvillesundaybbs@gmail.com 6.30pm Yamba, Community Ctr, Treelands Dr 7.00pm Brunswick Hds, Uniting Ch, Cnr Fingal & Byron Sts, 1hr, Jo 0413720771, & ZOOM 9875553 164 PW 645162 AA CONTACTS Northern Rivers Central District – 0468360160 nrcdofaa@gmail.com Byron Shire District 1800423431 or 0401945671 Iluka 0428303074 (Di) / Tabulum 0457812962 (Sarah) National Website http://www.aa.org.au

AL-ANON Family Groups (families / friends of Alcoholics) 1300 252 666 - www.al-anon.org.au Monday 6:30pm Banora Point Salvation Army Tweed Ctr, Cnr Woodlands/Leisure Dr Tuesday 12.00PM Grafton CWA Rooms, Cnr Duke / Pound St. 1:00pm Lismore Z Block 1st Floor Room 82 Sthrn Cross Uni, Rifle Range Rd off rear verandah & ZOOM ID 252 666 0000 Wednesday 6.30pm Ballina– Anglican Ch Admin Building, 24 Burnet St & ZOOM 2526660000 Thursday 12:30pm Yamba Community Ctr, 24 Treelands Dr 5:00pm (QLD time) (with Alateen) Tweed Hds Anglican Ch, 13 Powell St Friday 12.00pm (QLD time) Tweed-Coolangatta St Augustine Parish Ctr, 58 McLean St 2:00pm Bangalow ZOOM 2526660000 Sunday 4:00pm Chinderah 7th Day Adventist Ch, 83 Phillip St.

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ALSTONVILLE INNER WHEEL CLUB Meet socially 3rd Wed of every month Contact President Carol Vidal 0427326832.

CRAWFORD HOUSE MUSEUM The latest exhibition at Crawford House Museum is “At Home with the Crawfords”.

It’s the story of the William Ambrose Crawford family who lived in “Olivene” (now Crawford House Museum) and features family objects, memorabilia and photographs which give an insight into the larger history of the period from 1910 ‘til 1980. It runs ‘til 25/4/21. The museum is at 10 Wardell Road Alstonville and is open Fridays 10am-4pm and Sundays 1pm-4pm.

Enquiries 66281829 aphs2477@yahoo.com.au or www.aphsmuseum.org.au.

THE ALSTONVILLE BRANCH OF AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS will meet on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 1.30 p.m. at 3 Newbon Street , Alstonville. Apologies and enquiries to Colleen 0418623994. New members most welcome.

SQUARE DANCING Summerland Larrikins Squares Alstonville, Fridays 7.30pm-9.30pm at Uniting Church Hall, 59 Main Street, Alstonville. Contact 0407663017 for further information. New dancers welcome.

NORTHERN RIVERS PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP Meets the 2nd Friday of each month for a Coffee Catch-up. February get together is on Friday 12th from 10am-11.30am at Summerland Farm, Wardell Road, Alstonville. This group spans from Wollongbar to Ocean Shores and surrounding areas. All those living with Parkinson’s Disease or those supporting them are most welcome.

Come along for a friendly, relaxed chat.

Please RSVP to Helen 0400385476 or Yvonne 66285884.

BALLINA BALLINA NORTHERN RIVERS FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS The next meeting of the Northern Rivers Fellowship of First Fleeters will be held on Sunday 28th March 2021 at the Cherry Street Sports Club, Ballina at 11.15am. The guest speaker will be talking about convict John Millard aka John Millwood. All visitors are welcome.If you wish to attend please contact Roddy Jordan on 66875339 or via email hollybuddy1@bigpond.com IN FOCUS TOASTMASTERS CLUB How about 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. For more information please contact: President Udo Moerig email tmumoerig@gmail.com or Vice President Membership email Jan Coleman janetlcoleman@ gmail.com Webpage: https://3209990. toastmastersclubs.org/ THE BALLINA COMMUNITY MARKET will take place on Sunday 21st March at Canal Road Ballina at 7:00am until 1:00pm. The Ballina Shire Concert Band will be playing in the Café Under the Trees at 9:15am and there will be live music throughout the morning. Ballina Councillor Sharon Cadwallader will be at the market from 8:30am to offer her free services as a J.P. To use this service proof of identity will be needed. The stalls will be offering a wide range of goods for sale and the East Ballina Lions will be serving their full $8:00 plated breakfast. Stall fees $15:00 Ring Wayne 0422094338 Email ballinalionsmarket@gmail.com BALLINA SHIRE MEALS ON WHEELS Technology information and classes BSMOW Ballina Shire Meals on Wheels offer free technology help and training for people 65 and over. Using QR Scanners – information session and practical help. 9.30-10.30am Tuesday 16 March. Bookings essential phone Kristen: 0419679719 Introduction to technology- small group sessions to cover the basics of the internet, equipment, terminology and understanding phone and internet plans. Bookings essential contact Mark: 0431122 057 BALLINA LIFEBALL Each Tuesday (9:30-11am) at Ballina Indoor Sports Centre. Come and join us for exercise, fun

CASINO CROQU Monday & Wednesd 8.30am to start play BALLINA MAHJONG 12 MAR 21 Susan Allan 1, Jan Williams 2, Betty 66621971 for furthe Penklis 3, Shirley Coleman 4, Gail McDonogh 5, Diana Auret 6, Sally Lowry 7, Alison Kelly 8, CASINO LADIES Joy Lowien 9, Jan Small 10, Jeanette Henwood, CRAFT GROUP Meets 1st & 3rd Tue Janene Jarvis 11, Pauline Bolte, Rosemary Russell 13, Bev Lasater 15, Shirley Henry 16, tea and wear a mask time Mon. Phone V Wendy Thornton 17, Kath Hubbard 18,Jenny 66626424.

Lang 19, Leslie Richie 20, Pauline Kearney 21, Val Heinritz 22, Jan Boardman 23, Valda McLerie 24, Pam Farrell 25, Shirley Atkinson CASINO MIXED 26, Yvonne Weddup 27, Gladys D’Anna, June Meeting 4th Thurs o Grebert 28, Joan Murphy 30, June Greenaway information call the 31, Jan Henley, Lisa Wong 32. Mahjong is played on Friday at 12:30pm at the Ballina Bridge Club THE CASINO & D on North Creek Road. Enquiries phone Vanessa SOCIETY MUSEU Sun, Mon, Wed and on 66874181. casinohistorymuseu information. Check BALLINA TOY LIBRARY Welcomes families from Ballina Shire, 9 CASINO & DISTR Regatta Ave, Ballina. Open Saturday 10am1pm, By appointment only on Tues & Wed. Ph. GROUP INC Casino & District F 0411719074. open again – Norma information phone R BALLINA CWA Cherryl 049014990 Ballina CWA Handicraft & Friendship mornings are held every Wednesday morning from 9am CASINO EVENIN until 12noon in our rooms on River Street.

Meets first Thurs of Numbers are covid safe limited so could Church at 6pm and you please ring our Handicraft Officer Barb ring Alison 0400956 0428116668 on Monday night to book a place.

Ballina CWA meetings are held on the 3rd CWA MEETING D Monday of the month at 9am in our rooms, Meeting on the 3rd please ring our Secretary Janet 0435323079 for Casino Community more information. Mahjong is being played once Next meeting is Thu again in The Ballina CWA rooms on River Street, and join us for a Cu Wednesdays & Thursdays starting at 12:15, for great organisation. C more information please ring David 0473587412. 95th Birthday this m the Casino commun BRUNSWICK HEADS please contact Jan o BRUNSWICK HEADS 66621746.

BRUNSWICK VALLEY VIEW CLUB VIEW club continues to support seven GRAFTON disadvantaged students in The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program. Info: President GRAFTON & DIS Margaret Alderton 0429966894.

We would love to w and see what we hav CASINO 3rd Monday of ever CASINO Masonic Centre, 10 CASINO MEALS ON WHEELS 3.30pm for afternoo WEEK 3 Visit private garden MON: V Gray & N Nowlan M Hartley minded people, buy TUE: D Coleman M Newstead fun ! Further enquir 0418685728.

WED: J & J Boyd, N & K Ryan FRI: L Barton & J Cornell, H Elford & own help GRAFTON SENIO Grafton Seniors AG CASINO SENIOR CITIZENS All welcome, our activities currently are, Wed 11. President report: afternoons at casino RSM 1.00pm to play Hoy, committee, & memb euchre, we have group play on Thurs afternoons meeting minutes pre 1.00pm. Contact Jan Danaher on 0414625680. Financial details giv covid, one trip, 2020 area, February. From OLD TIME DANCE Practice, revision and walkthroughs McKees Hill cancelled. Trips resu Hall Friday 19 Mar with Ann & Bill Friday 26th Innes, Emmaville. T Iluka, March; Coffs Mar with diamond Duo now on sale; 8 day t CASINO RICHMOND RIVER COUNTRY August. Publicity : i noticeboards, newsl MUSIC CLUB : Chaired, Bob McF Will hold our next sing-along on March 21st C. Doggett; Vice Pr 2021 upstairs in the main auditorium Casino A. Campbell; Secre RSM club starting 10am. All Welcome.

Assist. Secretary : A Come and listen to some great artists. For Publicity: S. Connel more information call Gloria on 66622625 or B. Doggett; N. De A 0412910884 Moran; K. Smidt; G Worrell; J. Haggarty RICHMOND WILSON COMBINED 2021, 10.30am, Rac WATER USERS ASSOCIATION AGM 66427720.

Thursday 25th March 2021 at 7.00 pm at the Casino RSM. Issues for discussion include KYOGLE IPART pricing review, Coastal Harvestable Rights, Metering Policy and Water Sharing Plan KYOGLE SUNSH review. Enquiries: Chris 0409631412 or Rhonda Meets every Thurs a 0423935832. contact 0499824274 and friendship. Contact Yvonne 0448004161.

LION’S CLUB CASINO Lion’s Club meeting is held on the 2nd and 4th Wed each month at Casino RSM Club from 6.30 for a 7.00pm start.

CASINO COMMUNITY MEN’S SHED Mon, Tues, Wed, attendance limited to 25 members, 8am-1.30pm. Contact 66626423 DH or casmenshed@live.com.au CASINO MINI RAIL Every Sunday 10am to 4pm. Weather permitting.

West Street Casino. Phone 0472638044.

CASINO VIEW CLUB Monthly luncheon meeting at Casino RSM Club at 11am, second Thursday of every month.

Contact Barbra on 66612530 or 0448969498.

KYOGLE GARDE The display will be Saturday 17th April Wiangarie St. Kyog entry $2 + Raffles. L Our club members &

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CASINO CROQUET CLUB Monday & Wednesday sign in time now before 8.30am to start play by 9am. Contact Mary on n Williams 2, Betty 66621971 for further information.

Gail McDonogh y 7, Alison Kelly 8, CASINO LADIES AND FRIEND eanette Henwood, CRAFT GROUP Meets 1st & 3rd Tues. bring your own morning e, Rosemary hirley Henry 16, tea and wear a mask. Names to be in by Lunch time Mon. Phone Vivian on 66621838 or Jan on bbard 18,Jenny 66626424. uline Kearney dman 23, Valda Shirley Atkinson CASINO MIXED PROBUS CLUB ys D’Anna, June Meeting 4th Thurs of the month. For more June Greenaway information call the secretary on 0419886119. . Mahjong is played allina Bridge Club THE CASINO & DISTRICT HISTORICAL ies phone Vanessa SOCIETY MUSEUM Sun, Mon, Wed and Fri 10am to 2pm. Email casinohistorymuseum@outlook.com for further information. Check us out on Facebook. na Shire, 9 CASINO & DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY aturday 10amTues & Wed. Ph. GROUP INC Casino & District Family History Group Inc. is open again – Normal opening hours. For more information phone Research Room 66628114 or Cherryl 0490149905. iendship mornings rning from 9am CASINO EVENING CWA River Street.

Meets first Thurs of month. Casino Uniting d so could Church at 6pm and for further information please t Officer Barb ring Alison 0400956404 or Penny 0422301799. t to book a place. ld on the 3rd CWA MEETING DATES in our rooms, Meeting on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the t 0435323079 for Casino Community Cultural Centre at 9.00am. being played once Next meeting is Thursday 18th March. Come oms on River Street, and join us for a Cuppa and learn more about this rting at 12:15, for great organisation. Casino Branch celebrates its David 0473587412. 95th Birthday this month. All those years helping the Casino community. For more information please contact Jan on 66626424 or Marg. on DS 66621746.

EW CLUB ort seven GRAFTON GRAFTON Smith Family’s fo: President GRAFTON & DISTRICT GARDEN CLUB 94.

We would love to welcome new members, come and see what we have to offer. Meeting on the 3rd Monday of every month. At the Grafton Masonic Centre, 104 Bacon St Grafton.Gather at EELS 3.30pm for afternoon tea, meeting starts 4.30pm Visit private gardens, enjoy bus trips with likeM Hartley minded people, buy or swap plants and have fun ! Further enquiries please text Rhonda on d 0418685728. an Elford & own help GRAFTON SENIOR CITIZENS Grafton Seniors AGM, attendance 57, apologies NS rrently are, Wed 11. President report: Thanks hard working 0pm to play Hoy, committee, & members for support. Previous n Thurs afternoons meeting minutes presented. Treasurer Report : on 0414625680. Financial details given. Trips Report : Due to covid, one trip, 2020, dahlia garden, Bangalow area, February. From March, all activities, trips oughs McKees Hill cancelled. Trips resumed Feb 2021, day, Glen & Bill Friday 26th Innes, Emmaville. Trips planned to Peach Farm, Iluka, March; Coffs Harbour attractions, May, now on sale; 8 day tour to Queensland from 14 VER COUNTRY August. Publicity : in local newspapers, group noticeboards, newsletter. Committee Election : Chaired, Bob McFarlane, results: President: on March 21st C. Doggett; Vice President & Assist. Treasurer: torium Casino A. Campbell; Secretary / Treasurer: B. Hall; Welcome.

Assist. Secretary : A. Douglas; Trips Organisor / t artists. For Publicity: S. Connelly; Committee: J. Campbell; on 66622625 or B. Doggett; N. De Amyand; K. Lawson; A. Moran; K. Smidt; G. Watters; K. Whiteman; R. Worrell; J. Haggarty. Next meeting 13 April, MBINED 2021, 10.30am, Racecourse. Enquiries: Sandra TION AGM 66427720.

7.00 pm at the ssion include KYOGLE KYOGLE l Harvestable Water Sharing Plan KYOGLE SUNSHINE CLUB: 631412 or Rhonda Meets every Thurs at 9.30am. For more details contact 0499824274.

ne 0448004161.

KYOGLE GARDEN CLUB n the 2nd and 4th The display will be held on Friday 16th & SM Club from 6.30 Saturday 17th April in St Brigid’s School Hall Wiangarie St. Kyogle- 8am-4pm both days – entry $2 + Raffles. Light refreshments available.

EN’S SHED Our club members & other local businesses will imited to 25 act 66626423 DH

Weather permitting.

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Casino RSM ay of every month. or 0448969498.

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be displaying & selling garden products – plants, garden art, garden furniture, fertilizers, tools & lots more garden related items.

RICHMOND RIVER BEEF PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION Meet on the 2nd Wed of every month at Kyogle Showgrounds in the luncheon room at 7pm. For more details Phone Jan on 0427293455.

LION’S CLUB OF KYOGLE Meeting is held on the 1st & 3rd Tues each Month at the Kyogle Lion’s shed from 6.307.00pm. For more information contact Neville Moon on 66322233.

LENNOX HEAD LENNOX HEAX 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.

LENNOX HEAD DAY VIEW CLUB The Lennox Head Day VIEW Club meets on the first Monday of each month at the Lennox Head Community Centre. with the meeting starting at 11:00am 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 CWA Handy Craft Mornings on Mondays 9.30am12noon in the community centre at Lennox Head, Call Jan on 66816150.

PROBUS CLUB OF LENNOX HEAD The Probus Club of Lennox Head meets 9.30 for 10.00am at Club Lennox, 10 Stewart Street, on the 1st. 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. Phone Jan 66876859.

LISMORE LISMORE NR U3A LISMORE INC. (UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE) Retired? Make new friends, gain knowledge, laugh and learn,enjoy a richer retirement. U3A offers over 30 classes and activities each week.

One yearly fee of $50 entitles you to attend all classes / activities of your choice. Interested?

Check out our webpage http://www.u3anriv.org. au for course list, times and venues or contact 66227408. Follow us on Facebook.

COUNTRY CARNA VARIETY CONCERT At Lismore Workers Club Auditorium. Next concert will be Sun Mar 28 from 11am, great artists, all welcome, free concert ROTARY CLUB OF SUMMERLAND SUNRISE Meets every Friday at 7.05 am for breakfast at Coffee Shots Molesworth St, Lismore. Interested in contributing to community? Local and international? Join us please. Phone 0435 990 919 for more details.

TABLE TENNIS AT GOONELLABAH Tuesday and Thursday mornings social playing 9.00-12noon; Monday and Wednesday nights social playing 7.00-9.00pm; Training Monday mornings 9.00-12noon; Junior coaching after school Wed 3.30-4.45pm; $6.00 a game Everybody is welcome – all levels. Phone centre on 66251602 Mon-Thur 9.00-1.00pm or visit website www.fnctabletennis.com.au LISMORE GIRL GUIDES Lismore Girl Guides meet every Tuesday during school terms from 5.30-7.30pm at our hall,

Magellan Street Lismore. Any girl aged from 7 to 17 is most welcome to attend for two nights free, but please make contact first. AND Any adult female aged 18 and over interested in becoming a volunteer with youth, are encouraged to contact Leonie on mobile number 0412866766, for further details. AND Our hall is also available to hire.

“MAINLY MUSIC” IN LISMORE FOR 2021 mainlymusic.org An interactive session for 0-5 year olds & parents/carers using fun songs and actions to help develop co-ordination and motor skills, followed by home cooked morning tea for adults while children enjoy supervised play time. uesdays 9.30-11.30 in school term. Anglican Parish Hall, Zadoc St Lismore. Enquiries 66213200 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 fortnightly on Wednesdays at the Rous Hotel, Keen Street, Lismore at 5.30pm. For more information contact Rita on 0413300578 or Gae 0412742095 LISMORE REGIONAL PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP Lismore Regional Parkinson’s Support group meets every third Friday of the month at 10 am Lismore Workers’ Club, Keen St, Lismore .This Friday, 19th March, our special guest speaker will be Edgar Cook from Lismore Continence Clinic. There is always an opportunity to share in a confidential, non-judgemental, positive and welcoming environment. All members of the Parkinson’s Community and their carers are most welcome. Contact: Di: 02 66227959 0r John: 0490332268 or visit Lismore Regional Parkinson’s Support Group’s FaceBook Page https://www.facebook.com/ParkinsonsLismore” ROTARY CLUB OF LISMORE WEST INC is in its 60th year and meets at the East Lismore Bowling Club each Thursday at 6.00 pm. New members would be made most welcome. Further information available on 0428151934.

COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES NORTHERN NSW Compassionate Communities of NSW are taking a break from the Ballina Coffee and Community and Cafe Catch Up gatherings for the next few months. Threshold Choir rehearsals, Lismore Coffee and Community and Walks in Nature will continue. Please check this paper for and our facebook page for more information on when the coffee gatherings will resume.

TABLE TENNIS AT GOONELLABAH Tuesday and Thursday mornings social playing 9.00am-12noon; Monday and Wednesday nights social playing 7.00-9.00pm; Training Monday mornings 9.00am-12noon; Junior coaching after school Wed 3.30-4.45pm; $6.00 a game Everybody is welcome – all levels. Phone centre on 66251602 Mon-Thur 9.00am-1.00pm or visit website www.fnctabletennis.com.au EMBROIDERS GROUP Meetings are 9.30am-2.30pm 1st and 3rd Wednesdays and 3rd Saturday of each month, Red Dove Centre, Keen Street, Lismore. We welcome embroiderers of all ability levels from all towns and districts in the Northern Rivers.

PROBUS CLUB OF GOONELLABAH The Goonellabah Probus club meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Workers Sports Club Oliver Ave Goonellabah. Meetings commence at 10am. New members welcome. Contact Gloria Francis 66291442.

MACLEAN MACLEAN MACLEAN VIEW CLUB Monthly Meetings again, after months of Lock Down. It will start as usual 3rd, Thurs of month at 11am Contact Ruth Toyer on: 0409844212 by

Mons, no later than 7pm. Numbers are required for catering purposes.

MURWILLUMBAH MURWILLUMBAH COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH Fine art printmakers. Meet at studio space. 224 Stokers Rd. Stokers Siding. Prints, gallery, workshops and more! E: cpmmurwillumbah@ hotmail.comT: Peter 0498399640 or Sue 0408493253. Find us on Facebook & Instagram.

POTTSVILLE POTTSVILLE 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. We will have a new starting time at the end of daylight saving. We will begin play at 9.30am commencing on Tuesday, 6th April and Thursday, 8th April. We play at Black Rocks Sports Field. New members are welcome. For further enquires please ring Jean on 0431606375.

TWEED HEADS TWEED HEADS TWIN TOWNS DAY VIEW CLUB hold their monthly luncheon on the first Thursday of every month at the South Tweed Sports Club from 11am. with a short meeting, followed by a Guest Speaker and then lunch which is purchased from the Bistro or the Coffee Shop. For more information re our April 1st. luncheon please ring Freda 0755241357.

WOLLONGBAR WOLLONGBAR THE PROBUS CLUB OF WOLLONGBAR Will be holding the regular monthly meeting on Thursday March 18th beginning at 10am at the Alstonville Bowls and Sports Club Deegan Drive Alstonville followed by the club’s AGM and after that all members are invited to a change over lunch at the Club. For further details contact Ron on 0421069504.

YAMBA YAMBA YAMBA DAY VIEW CLUB’S Monthly luncheons are held at Yamba Bowling Club on 3rd Monday of month, starting 10 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, com. 7 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. The Yamba Lions Club is holding their first Art & Craft Fair 2021 at the Bowlo Sports & Leisure Yamba on Saturday & Sunday 10 & 11 April, commencing 10am each day. If you wish to book a site, please phone Leonie 0401669290.

ALL RIVERS ALLNORTHERN NORTHERN RIVERS NORTHERN RIVERS PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP The Northern Rivers Parkinson’s Support Group covers an area from Wollongbar to Ocean Shores and surrounding districts. Northern Rivers Parkinson’s Support Group is holding their monthly coffee get together on Friday 12th March from 10am at Summerland Farm.

This month we will have a guest speaker, Mimi Zenzmaier who will discuss Advanced Care Directives and End of Life plans to coincide with Advanced Care Planning month. Mimi is an End of Life Doula and local holistic funeral director. This will be a general informal chat.

All those living with Parkinson’s Disease and those supporting them are most welcome. Please RSVP to either Helen 0400385476 or Yvonne 66285884.

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FISHING / TIDES/ WEATHER 65 Ballina Plenty of rain combined with strong winds is going to make most fishing options very difficult for most of this week.

The river continues to be discolored which is keeping most species close to the mouth of the river. The rocks and break walls will be good options if you want to chase some mulloway.

Large hard body lures or soft plastics will be a popular choice, especially in colors such as white or a red head/ white body combination, or even a silver body/ black back color to imitate a mullet. There have been some good numbers of bream along the walls below the ferry with baits such as chicken or mullet gut, and mullet or bonito fillets. Small hard body lures with a rattle in them will also be worth trying. The beach

FISHING NEWS

and rock platforms north of the river mouth have been holding some tailor but the conditions will probably make them very difficult to fish this week. There has been a few mud crabs either side of the ferry but keep a good eye on your equipment as a few pots have been lost to debris lately. Tight lines. Brett.

Evans Head Snapper, trag jew, spanish and spotty mackerel on Kahors Reef and North Ground, bream, whiting and flathead along Airforce and Main Beaches, bream and luderick along the rock walls at the Evans River mouth, bream, whiting and flathead in the lower reaches and mud crabs in the upper reaches.

Pottsville Mack tuna, spanish and spotty mackerel on the close reefs, dart, flathead and tailor along the beaches, bream, whiting and flathead in the mid to lower reaches of the creeks, luderick around the rock walls in the lower reaches and mud crabs in the upper reaches.

Tweed Coast Bream, flathead and trevally on the making tide in the mid to lower reaches of the Tweed River.

Southport Bream, flathead and trevally on the making tide in the mid

NORTHERN RIVERS TEMPERATURE & RAINFALL PREDICTIONS AREA !!!!!!! Thurs 18th Mar

Fri 19th Mar

Sat 20th Mar

Sun 21st Mar

Mon 22nd Mar

GRAFTON EVANS KYOGLE BALLINA MULLUM TWEED

23o-19o 24o-21o 23o-18o 23o-18o 24o-22o 25o-21o

26o-17o 24o-19o 23o-15o 23o-15o 24o-19o 24o-19o

27o-19o 22o-20o 23o-15o 21o-15o 21o-20o 24o-20o

26o-17o 26o-18o 25o-13o 25o-13o 26o-18o 25o-19o

24o-18o 25o-22o 24o-19o 24o-19o 25o-22o 25o-21o

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Sunrise & Sunset on the Northern Rivers

71% 99% 89% 99% 90% 99%

89% 86% 85% 86% 85% 99%

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Tues 23rd Mar 24o-17o 21o-18o 20o-16o 23o-15o 21o-18o 21o-18o

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72% 87% 77% 87% 87% 88%

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66% 59% 60% 60% 58% 57%

to lower reaches of the Tweed River.

Gold Coast Blue marlin in 650 to 900 metres east of Southport, black marlin and wahoo at Spot X, snapper, spanish and spotty mackerel on the 24s, Gravel Patch east of Burleigh, on Palm Beach and Mermaid Reefs, silver jew on the 18s, trevally, mangrove jack and school jew along the Seaway rock walls, dart and whiting along the beaches, flathead, bream and sand crabs in Southport Broadwater and bream, mangrove jack and mud crabs in the rivers and creeks.

MOON PHASES Thurs 18 Mar

Waxing Crescent 22% Visible

Sat 20 Mar

Mon 22 Mar

Wed 24 Mar

Waxing Crescent 39% Visible

First Quarter 50% Visible

Waxing Gibbous 78% Visible

TIDE TIMES & HEIGHTS CLARENCE - RIVER ENTRANCE

GRAFTON AREA DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

SUNRISE 6:50am 6:51am 6:51am 6:52am 6:53am 6:53am 6:54am

SUNSET 7:01pm 7:00pm 6:59pm 6:58pm 6:59pm 6:55pm 6:54pm

SUNRISE 6:49am 6:49am 6:50am 6:51am 6:51am 6:52am 6:52am

SUNSET 7:00pm 6:59pm 6:57pm 6:56pm 6:55pm 6:54pm 6:53pm

LISMORE AREA DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

TWEED HEADS AREA DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

SUNRISE 6:48am 6:48am 6:49am 6:50am 6:50am 6:51am 6:51am

SUNSET 6:59pm 6:58pm 6:56pm 6:55pm 6:54pm 6:53pm 6:52pm

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DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

HIGH 12:07am 1.45m 12:45am 1.43m 1:30am 1.4m 2:26am 1.36m 3:38am 1.35m 4:58am 1.38m 6:04am 1.45m

LOW 6:16am 0.56m 7:01am 0.63m 7:55am 0.69m 9:07am 0.74m 10:40am 0.73m 12:00pm 0.67m 12:55pm 0.58m

HIGH 12:14pm 1.29m 12:50pm 1.19m 1:35pm 1.1m 2:40pm 1.03m 4:13pm 1m 5:38pm 1.04m 6:38pm 1.12m

LOW 6:16pm 0.51m 6:46pm 0.57m 7:23pm 0.64m 8:17pm 0.7m 9:37pm 0.72m 11:05pm 0.69m

LOW 6:12am 0.52m 6:68am 0.6m 7:50am 0.68m 8:53am 0.74m 10:14am 0.75m 11:38am 0.71m 12:37pm 1.57m

HIGH 12:11pm 1.42m 12:50pm 1.31m 1:37pm 1.21m 2:39pm 1.13m 4:00pm 1.09m 5:23pm 1.11m 6:25pm 1.17m

LOW 6:22pm 0.48m 6:58pm 0.55m 7:40pm 0.62m 8:32pm 0.67m 9:38pm 0.69m 10:53pm 0.65m

LOW 6:22am 0.53m 7:10am 0.6m 8:07am 0.66m 9:21am 0.69m 10:47am 0.96m 12:06pm 0.63m 1:00pm 0.55m

HIGH 12:14pm 1.25m 12:51pm 1.14m 1:35pm 1.04m 2:39pm 0.96m 4:10pm 0.94m 5:40pm 0.98m 6:45pm 1.07m

LOW 6:16pm 0.45m 6:16pm 0.45m 7:27pm 0.57m 8:20pm 0.62m 9:38pm 0.66m 11:03pm 0.63m

EVANS HEAD - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

HIGH 12:04am 1.58m 12:45pm 1.56m 1:30am 1.53m 2:22am 1.51m 3:24am 1.49m 4:34am 1.51m 5:40am 1.57m

BALLINA - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

HIGH 12:11am 1.44m 12:50am 1.42m 1:36am 1.38m 2:31am 1.35m 3:41am 1.34m 4:56am 1.37m 6:02am 1.45m

BRUNSWICK HEADS - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

HIGH 12:00am 1.5m 12:38am 1.47m 1:23am 1.44m 2:19am 1.4m 3:33am 1.39m 4:25am 1.43m 5:58am 1.51m

LOW 6:00am 0.55m 6:47am 0.63m 7:45am 0.69m 9:00am 0.74m 10:36am 0.72m 11:53am 0.66m 12:45am 0.57m

HIGH 12:02pm 1.32m 12:37pm 1.21m 1:18pm 1.11m 2:18pm 1.02m 3:50pm 0.99m 5:23pm 1.03m 6:28pm 1.12m

LOW 6:03pm 0.44m 6:35pm 0.5m 7:15pm 0.57m 8:11pm 0.64m 9:31pm 0.66m 10:54pm 0.63m

LOW 5:52am 0.55m 6:47am 0.63m 7:45am 0.69m 9:00am 0.74m 10:36am 0.72m 11:53am 0.66m 12:45am 0.57m

HIGH 12:02pm 1.32m 12:37pm 1.32m 1:18pm 1.11m 2:18pm 1.02m 3:50pm 0.99m 5:23pm 1.03m 6:28pm 1.12m

LOW 6:03pm 0.44m 6:31pm 0.61m 7:15pm 0.57m 8:11pm 0.64m 9:31pm 0.66m 10:54pm 0.63m

TWEED HEADS - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 18th March Friday 19th March Saturday 20th March Sunday 21st March Monday 22nd March Tuesday 23rd March Wednesday 24th March

HIGH 12:00am 1.36m 12:38am 1.47m 1:23am 1.44m 2:19am 1.4m 3:33am 1.39m 4:52am 11:52m 5:58am 1.51m

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March 18, 2021

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Sun’s Academy kicks off for a new year

FORTY players have progressed through to the AFL/AFLW since the inception of the Sun’s Academy.

Northern Rivers Development Co-ordinator Julian Vandendriest said the academy aims to introduce and maintain high training standards while improving skill develop-ment for male/ female athletes aged 12-19.

“Kids attended a skill and agility testing day at metricon stadium earlier this year or were identified by their local junior club as a talented player,” he said.

“Three academy hubs have been formed, located at Coomera in the North, Metricon Stadium and Cabarita in the south to cater for the Northern Rivers region.”

Vandendriest said more than 400 kids are currently registered for the program that kicked off on Monday, March 8.

“Kids will attend 16 training sessions throughout the year culminating in a hub championships where they will showcase their development in games!” he said.

The young players attended

a testing day or were identified by their local club as tal-ented player.

The 16 sessions throughout year are held on a Monday evening, each 1.5 hr session includes a strength/ conditioning component.

“Academy staff create/ write skills drills sessions to be delivered,” Vandendriest said. “We also deploy local coaches wishing to further their coaching skills.

“It was created in 2011 to provide a clear pathway for talented athletes in our zone to progress to the AFL/aflw, state league or community football.

Young players take part in drills.

CHERRY STREET CROQUET CLUB BALLINA Ricochet J.Hannigan 26 d M.Field 24.

J.Doust B.Wellings 19 d P.Bolte 16.

R.Chapman N.Barnes 17 d N.Watts G.Kerr 14.

R.Poynting B.Wellings 11 d M.Russell 10.

N.Watts P.Bolte 11 d P.Scott R.Allen 11.

R.Chapman J.Hannigan 13 d G.Drew Nev 12.

N.Barnes 13 d J.Doust 12.

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Club Championships: Handicap singles : M.Russell 12 d R.Poynting 10 div 3 H N.Poynting 26 d P. Scott 11 div 2 H

NORTHERN RIVERS CROQUET PENNANTS Cherry Street Croquet Club & Casino Club players get ready to play in the Pennants after a 2 year absence.

Clubs competing: Alstonville, Ballina, Byron Bay, Casino, Cherry Street, Lismore.

Association: E.Thorman K.Clarke 13 d B.Creary P. Hume 9.

M.Gidding 26 d R.Chapman 22.

Club Championships : N.Poynting 17 d S.Hume 12 H. R.Poynting 17 d B.Reedy

Golf : L.Whiteman C.Edlund 3 d E.Astley D.Jones 3 J.Murphy J.Hodgson 6 d J. Saunders J Campbell 5 J Saunders 7 d C.Edlund 4 D.Jones J.Hodgson 5 d E.Astley L.Whiteman 4 C.EdlundJ.Saunders4 d L Whiteman J.Murphy 3 D.Jones 6 d J.Hodgson

Results of round one : Casino 34/3 d Cherry Street 34/3 Lismore 37/4 d Ballina 31/2 Byron Bay 37/5 d Alstonville 26/1.

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SWIMMING AUSTRALIA OPEN WATER CHAMPIONSHIPS

Proof positive that the Kyogle Bowling Club is a family friendly club as Mrs Plover sets up home beside the green.

KYOGLE BOWLS Wednesday March 10 - K Hayes S Colley d D Condon R Goebel + 17, M Brown T Burgess S Hall d P Anderson D Warren P Doyle + 5, B Ryan R Felton G Miller d R Crawford J Arnold N Bodycote + 4,

J Coston G King B Hyde drew with W Farrell R McKenna T Winkler 20 all. Saturday March 13 - J Coston S Hall d G Knapp S Colley + 14, P Anderson R Crawford R McKenna d B Ellis J Arnold G Miller + 5, D Williams D Condon R Goebel d W Farrell G

Noonan N Bodycote + 4, T Hoffman T Burgess D Farrell d P Bywater R Felton T Holder + 3, B Ryan G King R Goebel d M Windsor K Hayes D Zelcer + 1. Singles championship L Condon d J Holland 31 to 1, J King d T Winkler 31 to 17.

Casino Social Golf results THE winners of the four ball best ball stableford was Trevis Jenkins & Darren Diews with a score of 31 points from Nathan Rose & R.Horseman with 23 on a countback. 3rd,

Stephen Shephard & Fred Bruni also 23.

The players draw went to B.Christensen.

Nearest to pins: 1st & 18th, G.Randall. 2nd, R.ruttley. 4th G.Skennar.

6th, N.Bolt. 7th,

M.Gooding.

There will be no social golf played at Casino next Sunday as the club is off to Yamba to play 18 holes and hit off will be prior to 8am and the sponsor is realestate.com

SWIMMING North Coast had 7 swimmers at this event, held at Coolam Beach, Queensland 13th and 14th March, swimming 9 swims.

Five K, 7.5 and 10 were swum over 2 days. The 7.5K and 10K were swum on 13th and the more popular 5K was swum on 14th.

Lucas Kloosterhof from Taree, 18 years, was placed 5th in the 10K and 10th in 5K. Isiaha Phlllips from Trinity

Lismore, 17, was placed 7th in 7.5K. Lilly Geddes also from Trinity Lismore, 15, was placed 8th in 5K. Mitchell Hickey also from Trinity Lismore, 17, was 9th in 7.5K and 9th in the 5K. Abbie Yourell from Lismore Workers, 14, was 12th in the 5K. Sylas Phillips from Trinity Lismore, 15, was 15th in 5K. Charlotte Shepherd from Trinity Lismore, 15, was 22nd in 5K.

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March 18, 2021

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Brothers clinch GF spot with ruthless outright win

By Tim Howard BROTHERS Crown Hotel has booked itself a grand final berth in the GDSC Premier League Cricket competition with a ruthless outright win over South Services at Ellem Oval.

The Brethren efficiently disposed of an understrength South Services outfit on the second day after declaring at 8-205 last week.

Resuming at 2-31 Souths were already in deep trouble with key players, the Cleaver brothers, Dylan and Chris and top order batter Joe Pigg, unavailable before a ball was bowled.

The problems deepened straight away when Tom Kroehnert, 9, was out to the spin of Andy Kinnane, failing to add to his overnight score.

Adrian Boyd followed a run later and Anthony Dickson, 10, fell with the score at 38 to open up the game for the Brethren.

Fast bowler Matt Dalton showed the rest of the batters how to apply themselves defending solidly to be the last wicket to fall for 26 and the total on 93.

On a wicket softened by midweek rain, Kinnane was in his element, snaring three top order wickets for just 17 runs.

Left-arm quick Ethan Lucas had 2-32 had the next best figures with the other wickets shared around.

Asked to bat again Dalton opened with Kroehnert, but could not repeat his first innings heroics, caught for 1 off the bowling of Jack

Weatherstone.

Kroehnert fell for 5 to the bowling of Billy Weatherstone and the premiers were well on the way to an outright loss, an ignominious end to their season.

But Souths had two batters prepared to make Brothers work hard for their wickets.

Adrian Boyd was undefeated on 38 and Josh Amos battled to put together a 45-run partnership. But when Josh Newman bent back Amos’s off stump, the end came quickly, with Kinnane enticing a wild swing from Jack Blanch which looped up for an easy catch to gully.

At the Ulmarra Showground there were a lot more twists and turns as Ulmarra Hotel Tucabia Copmanhurst overcame a first innings deficit to record an outright win over GDSC Easts/Westlawn Crown Hotel.

Tucabia were in a lot of trouble at 6-57 chasing Easts’ first day total of 88 and ended up just three runs shy of the total.

The Easts/Westlawn opening attack of Nathan Blanch, 6-53, and Shane Connor, 3-22, did most of the damage.

Batting again Easts/ Westlawn could only manage 80 with Connor hitting three sixes in 25 and Ben Shipman 16, the only batters to hit double figures.

Left-arm fast bowler Rohan Hackett ripped the top order apart, taking 4-6 in eight overs.

The target of 84 for an outright win was no gimme on a wicket where neither

side had hit three figures and when Tucabia slumped to 3-8, the Easts/Westlawn were confident of snaring outright points.

The turning point came when Hackett, 18 and veteran Bob McKenzie, 16no, put on a partnership of 48 to halt the

Easts/Westlawn momentum.

Dan Cootes chipped in with a vital 12 runs and although wickets continued to fall, the victory target was passed in the 18th over.

Blanch added another three wickets to give him nine for the game and Matt Lobsey,

with 4-23, was also dangerous.

The weekend results mean Tucabia Copmanhurst and Easts/Westlawn slug it out next weekend at cricket HQ, Ellem Oval for the right to play minor premiers Brothers in the decider the following weekend.

GREYHOUND TRACK UPGRADE UNDERWAY WITHOUT TRACK STANDARDS BEING RELEASED PUBLICLY GREYHOUND racing clubs across NSW will receive $23 million in taxpayers’ money, despite the state government having failed to release the track safety standards on which the expenditure decisions have been made.

The minimum tracks standards document (produced by Greyhound Racing NSW) has been approved by the government, but kept secret.

“When this amount of public money is being spent, the standards document should be publicly available so the community and the media can review it,”

said Mr Dennis Anderson, president, the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds (CPG).

CPG asked GRNSW for the document last month, but was told only the Minister could release it.

“Why is this document being kept secret? When will the State Government and the greyhound racing industry learn to be transparent about issues related to animal welfare?”

He said the Government’s claim today to have world-leading standards of welfare and care for racing greyhounds was not supported

by the facts.

“For example, the NSW greyhound welfare code approved by the Government last year, allows a dog to be kept locked up in its cage for 23 hours every day,” Mr Anderson said.

“Also, the University of Technology recommended three years ago that six-dog

racing be introduced, but it still hasn’t been done.”

Mr Anderson said the UTS research and CPG’s own analysis confirm six-dog racing would halve the death and injury rate of greyhounds on track.

“In New South Wales last year, 48 racing dogs died due to racing and 202 died

Australia- wide,” he said.

He said it remains to be seen if the new industry track standards have adopted all of the recommendations by the University of Technology, Sydney.

“Given what the facts reveal about the true nature of animal welfare in the greyhound racing industry to date, the track standards must be released,” Mr Anderson said.

Currently, 31 greyhounds have been killed nation-wide while racing in 2021. Note that 13 of these dogs were in NSW; for the same period last year, 10 had died.

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New lights for Westside Tennis Club courts THE lives of Coffs Harbour Tennis players have been lit up thanks to a $25,266 NSW Govern-ment grant.

Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh said the grant from the Community Building Part-nership Program would help the Westside Tennis Club undertake a lighting upgrade.

“The club successfully applied for funds for its Let There Be LED Light 2020 project and I am extremely pleased the State Government is able to provide this support,” Mr Singh said.

“The club can now proceed with its plans to supply and install 10 state-of-the-art LED lights while upgrading six existing light poles to allow the fitting of new LED lights for courts five and six.

“Westside Tennis Club is a popular and well-used

facility in Coffs Harbour, and I congratulate the hardworking committee and all the members on this exciting news.

“They are highly regarded for their programs and competitions which cater for all ages and all abilities, encouraging people to be active.

“The club is particularly proud of its strong and positive involvement in our community, and I wish them well as they continue to grow.”

The Community Building Partnership Program provides grassroots funding for local organisa-tions to improve their facilities, in turn creating a more vibrant and inclusive community.

This program has funded more than 15,000 community projects statewide since it started in 2009. For more, visit www.nsw.gov.au/cbp

Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh at Westside Tennis Club today with (from left) committee member Lorraine Booth, club secretary Kate Blackman and complex manager Allan Pade.

OUTRIGGER CANOE CLUB WINS BRONZE IN OPEN OCEAN EVENT THE Ballina based Northern Rivers Outrigger Canoe Club recently travelled north to the Sunshine Coast to compete in the Mooloolaba Marathon.

Being only the 2nd regatta in 14-month hiatus, our NSW club entered 3 divisions in a predominantly Queensland heavy field.

18 Crew members from NROCC competed in Saturdays short course event (8 km) and long course event (14km) in clean rolling swells of open ocean off Mooloolaba.

The senior master men’s team (50 years+) of 6 paddlers, placed a respectable 5th in their division with the open women’s team (20 years+) battling out 4th

po-sition against Noosa. The accolade of the day went to the Golden Masters Mixed crew (60 years+) of 6 paddlers with a presentable 3rd

placing.

Head coach Denise Cooper described the event as “an easy course and great event for all levels of paddling”.

The day was no exception with fantastic weather, light breeze, and small swell.

Sunday saw the next phase of the marathon with single

outriggers and surf skis. The downwinder event of 14 kms had NROCC coach Mike Jones putting in an immense effort to place 6th in his Golden Masters division. His message to his fellow paddlers that day was” You’ve just got to get out there and do it!”

Now with the 2nd event under their belt, NROCC are keen to immerse them-selves back into intense training for the Sydney Harbour Challenge 26km and the Kalang River Classic 15km later this month.

If this kind of water sport appeals to you and you would like to give it a go, please contact asecretarynrocc@ gmail.com for more information.

Applications open now for AIS Talent program supporting women in sport and STEMM THE Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has today launched a Talent Program to help advance the professional development of women in sport science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine.

Applications are open until 26 March 2021 for the leadership program, which meets the demands of Australia’s high performance sporting system to increase the depth of diversity of its workforce.

The program also complements the Australian Government’s Advancing Women in STEM strategy that

aims to increase education and career opportunities for women in these specialist fields.

The AIS will manage the program, funded by the Australian Government, in partnership with Sport Australia and the Office for Women.

AIS CEO Peter Conde said: “Our aim is to be a world-leading sport system and that includes being at the cutting- edge of sport science, technology and medicine. A 21st century sporting system needs a modern, diverse and highly- skilled workforce that continues to break new ground

and challenge the status quo.

“This AIS Talent Program is about supporting women leaders in STEMM to further progress their careers and it’s also an incentive for young aspiring women to know that we’re strongly committed to creating greater career opportunities like this in Australian sport.

“The type of roles this program will appeal to include sports medicine, physiotherapy, psychology, nutrition, strength and conditioning, physiology, biomechanics, skill acquisition, performance analysis, performance data

analytics and engineering, just to name a few.

“The AIS is anticipating up to 18 places on this program and I encourage women currently in these roles at National Sporting Organisations and within the National Institute Network to apply.”

The AIS, Sport Australia and the Office for Women are partnering on a suite of programs to enhance opportunities for women in sport across all roles. The Women Leaders in Sport grants program is currently open for applications until 17 March 2021.

The AIS continues

to address the underrepresentation of women in areas such as high performance coaching.

Conde said: “Another area the AIS is looking at very closely is how to give women athletes more incentive and opportunity to pursue professional career options in sport beyond their athletic career. An important part of having more diversity in the sporting workforce is about retaining and developing women who are already part of our industry.”

Applications are available at www.ais.gov.au/peopledevelopment/talent-programs

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BRITTEN GOES BACK TO BACK WITH TITLE WINS A GOOD crowd turned out for the running of the NSW V8 Dirt Modified Title at Hessions Auto Parts Grafton Speedway last Saturday night.

Each driver contesting three heats to qualify for the 30-lap title event.

Troyer V8 Dirt Modified of Kevin Britten was here to defend his title and that is just what he accomplished leading from the drop of the green flag to the chequered flag and also winning the second round of the 5 Star Dirt Series.

David Clark tried every manoeuvre to overtake Mark Robinson for second place but to no avail with Clark retiring to the infield with seven laps remaining.

Scott Cannon moved into third from fourth. Mitch Randall running in fifth place also retired to the infield with a handful of laps remaining.

Andrew Firth just missed a top three finish in fourth, with Joshua Rose coming from eleventh on the starting grid to place fifth. Zak Blanch, Chris Corbett, Luke

Speedway Results Grafton March 13 RSA 4 Cylinder Sedans.

Heat 1: Brock Armstrong, 1; Nathan Deuchar, 2; Josh Boyd, 3. Heat 2: Shanae Smith, 1; Brock Armstrong, 2; Josh Boyd, 3. Heat 3: Brock Armstrong, 1; Shanae Smith, 2; Nathan Deuchar, 3.

Feature: Brock Armstrong, 1; Josh Boyd, 2; Nathan Deuchar, 3.

RSA Junior Sedans All Stars. Heat 1: Connor Reeves, 1; Josh Weir, 2; Ryley Smith, 3. Heat 2: Connor Reeves, 1;

Queenslander Kevin Britten took out the NSW V8 Dirt Modified title at Grafton on Saturday night. Photo: Shaq’s Speedway Pics.

Dunn, Phil McNamara, Chris Polsen, Brent Hall, Colin O’Toole and Scott Quirk were the other drivers to finish out of the nineteen V8 Dirt Modifieds that started on the grid.

RSA 4 Cylinders have either modified engines or

standard engines. Brock Armstrong (mod) and Shanae Smith (std) qualified on the front row.

Armstrong powered away from the field, Smith on the pace in second place spun in turn one with 5 laps remaining sitting the

remainder of the race on the infield. Josh Boyd (std) just edging out Nathan Deuchar (mod) by .023 secs to grab second place.

Connor Reeves had a good lead to win the RSA Junior Sedans All Stars feature from Ryley Smith, Harley Graham,

Josh Weir, 2; Ryley Smith, 3. Heat 3: Ryley Smith, 1; Connor Reeves, 2; Sam Mooney, 3. Feature: Connor Reeves, 1; Ryley Smith, 2; Harley Graham, 3.

RSA Juniors Sedans New Stars. Heat 1: Jack Betts, 1; Deagen Howard, 2; Hayden Fleming, 3. Heat 2: Jack Betts, 1; Jack Walker, 2; Deagen Howard, 3. Heat 3: Jack Betts (2nd outright), 1; Thomas Effer, 2; Hayden Fleming, 3. Feature: Jack Betts, 1; Deagen Howard, 2; Hayden Fleming, 3.

Productions Sedans. Heat

1: Madison Harkin, 1; Demi Clarke, 2; Kaleb Daley, 3.

Heat 2: Madison Harkin, 1; Ashley Graham, 2; Ian Bell, 3. Heat 3: Demi Clarke, 1; Madison Harkin, 2; Ian Bell, 3. Feature: Madison Harkin, 1; Ashley Graham, 2.

Street Stockers. Heat 1: Trent Dhu, 1; Damian Rose, 2; Luke Gray, 3. Heat 2: Luke Gray, 1; Wayne Arthur, 2; Damian Rose, 3. Heat 3: Luke Gray, 1; Damian Rose, 2; Adam Grill, 3. Feature: Luke Gray, 1; Damian Rose, 2; Trent Dhu, 3.

Wingless Sprints. Heat

1: Seiton Young, 1; Jamie Dicker, 2; Masen Cattell, 3.

Heat 2: Jacob Jolley, 1; Jamie Dicker, 2; Bailey Goodwin, 3. Heat 3: Trent Martin, 1; Tom Keats, 2; Jacob Jolley, 3. Feature: Jacob Jolley, 1; Jamie Dicker, 2; Seiton Young, 3.

Stock Rods. Feature: Justin Burr, 1; Peter Hosking, 2; Sam Bateman, 3.

V8 Dirt Modifieds. Heat 1: Chris Corbett, 1; David Clark, 2; Mark Robinson, 3. Heat 2: Kevin Britten, 1; Joshua Rose, 2; Dale Corbett, 3. Heat 3: Andrew Firth, 1; Chris

Brenden Hayes and Sam Mooney.

Jack Betts won the RSA Junior Sedans New Stars from Deagen Howard who travelled down from Queensland to compete.

Hayden Fleming was third.

Luke Gray added another first place trophy to his cabinet winning the RSA Street Stockers division from the Motortorque Automotive/ TNT Towing racecars of Damian Rose second and Trent Dhu third.

Madison Harkin first and Ashley Graham second were the only two drivers to finish the Production Sedan feature.

Stock Rods (Queensland) main event was won by Justin Burr from Peter Hosking and Sam Bateman.

Next meeting at Hessions Auto Parts Grafton Speedway is the two night Easter Spectacular April 2 and April 3: V8 Dirt Modifieds, RSA Street Stockers and AMCA Nationals plus support classes (night 1); RSA Street Stockers (100 laps) plus support classes.

Polsen, 2; Scott Cannon, 3.

Heat 4: Zak Blanch, 1; Mark Robinson, 2; Kevin Britten, 3. Heat 5: Mitch Randall, 1; Darren Tindal, 2, Phil McNamara, 3. Heat 6: Luke Dunn, 1; Scott Cannon, 2; Andrew Pezzutti, 3. Heat 7: Mark Robinson, 1; Mitch Randall, 2; Chris Corbett, 3. Heat 8: Scott Cannon, 1; Andrew Firth, 2; Andrew Pezzutti, 3. Heat 9: David Clark, 1; Kevin Britten, 2; Marley Weller, 3. NSW V8 Dirt Modified Title: Kevin Britten, 1; Mark Robinson, 2; Scott Cannon, 3.

SWIMMING NSW SPEEDO SPRINT FINALS THE Swimming North Coast team did very well in very strong competition at the Olympic Pool in Homebush on 6th March. The strong Metropolitan Areas domi-nated the competition in most strokes and ages.

All for strokes were swum over 50 metres, in ages from 8-13 male and female. Most of the swimmers had never swum at the Olympic Pool.

North Coast was placed 6th overall with a total of 311 points Harrison Tancred, 12, from the Forster club won the Gold medal in 50 Breast and Finn Pengelly, 12, from Trinity

Lismore came 2nd in 50 Back.

Top Ten places Hannah Carmichael, 12, Forster 10th Free and 6th Breast. Tiggi Groves, 12, Kingscliff 10th free, Billy

Backhouse, 8, Coffs Harbour 4th Free and 8th Back.

Thomas Mc Cormack, 8, Casino 9th free, Hammish Carmichael, 9, Forster 9th Breast.

Coco Becker, 9, Coffs Harbour 9th Breast, 6th Butterfly and 10th Back. Jett Burke, 12, Mclean 6th Butterfly and Bella Wall, 12, Casino 7th in the Butterfly.

Further swimmers from Casino - Abby Bower, Taylor Hancock, Elle Hannigan, Chloe Kemp, Brieanne Parker, Hayden Griffin, Billy McGrath, Michael Turner and Jack Wornes.

Swimmers for Lismore Workers—Jacqueline and Laifa Button, Bella McMahon Willott, Rahni Pope, Aidan Arnison and William Bulpitt.

Swimmers for Alstonville— Ellen Miller, Jacob Rowe, Thomas Bowker and Coco Robinson.

Swimmers for Trinity—Zoe Farmer, Emma Green, Luke Barnett, Jamyson Ellis and Finlay Stevenson.

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SURFING WITH MAX PERROT

Pictured: Nyxie Ryan Photographer: Bennett/WSL

Pictured: Dakoda Walters Photographer: Bennett/WSL

RICHMOND RIVER RAPIDS Sailing with Trent Morgan

many unaware, resulting in capsizes in the gennaker, ONGOING rain and the catamaran and monohull fleets. timing of a large run out tide A capsized boat would combined to make for some either make or lose significant interesting sailing in Ballina ground, depending which last Sunday. end of the river they were The Richmond River Sailing aiming – the speed of each and Rowing Club’s race was upturned boat in the torrent held in the stretch of river off quite startling. the boat harbour, and the water Despite these challenges it funnelled out of there in a great would be fair to say all who rush to meet the sea. ventured out still enjoyed The northerly wind, themselves – which says sometimes with a bit of East, something about the inherent sometimes with a bit of West enjoyable qualities of sailing. churned it up too, rubbing the current the wrong way, causing Personal Handicap Results short steep chop to form.

Trailer sailors - 1. Andrew Progress east was fast with McInnes/Todd Goldsmith current, but boats would often – Spider 550, 2. Matt almost be brought to a ‘stop’ Cartwight/John Kulas – after barrages of consecutive RL24, 3. Julie Ferguson/Ian waves coming in head on.

Bowles – Castle 550.

The downwind leg heading Catamarans - 1. Michael up river was very slow, Cocks – A Class Cat, 2. especially as there were Anthony Goddard – NACRA pockets of low wind strength 4.5, 3. Jonathan Horsley/ on the course, which at times Ethan Tebbut – NACRA 5.8. would mean boats were Monohulls - 1. Trent/Daisy travelling backwards.

Morgan – NS14, 2. Evan This occurred most often Williams – Laser, 3. Reuben with the monohull fleet, Adlington – Laser Radial. especially nearing the bottom Gennakers - 1. Duncan rounding buoy where a wind Dey – RS100, 2. Liam/Ewan shadow extended in that region Channer – 49er FX, 3. Tom/ of the river.

Brendan McKeown – Formula At other times, the wind 15. was strong and gusty, catching Photos Jane Morgan

THE recent Australia/Oceania regional QS tour wrapped up and from the several Northern Rivers surfers who gave it a shot it was Dakoda Walters from Angourie who has qualified for the Challenger Series (CS), which gives him ultimately an opportunity to get on the Championship Tour this year.

The Challenger Series will run from August through to December. The Australia/ Oceania region received an allocation of ten men’s and eight women’s spots onto the Challenger Series based on the regional QS rankings.

Walters finished in 11th position but due to three Championship Tour surfers being higher in the rankings this elevated him to eighth spot overall for the purposes of qualification to the Challenger Series.

This is how our other Northern Rivers surfers finished: Kyuss King 17th, Callum Robson 19th, Soli Bailey 20th, Chris Zaffis 28th, Mikey McDonagh 32nd.

In the women’s our highest placed surfer was Lennox Head’s Nyxie Ryan was 41st with her best result a quarter final finish at the Mad Mex Maroubra Pro. Surfing NSW and surf brand Roxy have come together on International Women’s Day to announce a new partnership that will see the two parties support female participation in the sport.

The partnership will see Roxy working alongside Surfing NSW’s female participation program Her Wave to roll out the Roxy Get Her Onboard campaign, a series of surf lessons for women looking to begin surfing.

With over 20 participating affiliated Surfing NSW surf schools on board, entrants will sign up and receive heavily discounted surf lessons, the aim of the partnership is to see both parties increase female surfers in NSW waters and build a community of female surfers and ultimately drive participation.

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Team Labrador with the under 11 and under 13 groups.

LAST weekend Ballina Hockey Club hosted hockey clinics at the Ballina Turf for kids from under 11 to under 13 and under 15 to under 18.

With only four weeks till the start of the 2021 season, the boys from Labrador’s first grade side, who are the current and consecutive Champions of Brisbane’s 1st

division league, came down to do some coaching.

The Labrador group consists of some of Far North Coasts best players that have moved up North for the competition. In the Labrador team is Kookaburra players Brent Livermore (originally from Grafton) and

Dylan Wotherspoon (Murwillumbah).

FNC Local players now playing for Labrador who came down were: Tyler Arundell – Ballina, Luca Brown – Coraki, Ethan White – Coraki, Cooper Stahl – East Lismore, Brad Hughes – Northern Star and Reece Gaddes – Grafton.

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24 PK

24 PK

Tooheys New Stubbies

$46.99 EA

1 LTR

$81.99 EA

24 PK

Hahn Super Dry Stubbies

$56.99 EA

1 LTR

$48.99 CTN

Canadian Club & Dry Cube

$35.99 EA

$35.99 EA

700 ML

700 ML

10 PK

Bundy Rum & Cola Cube

Jim Beam & Cola Cube

Bundaberg Rum

Smirnoff Red Vodka

Bundy OP Rum & Cola Cans

Midori

Teacher’s Scotch Wiskey

$29.99 EA

$24.99 EA

$18.99 EA

$16.99 EA

$12.99 EA

$8.99 EA

2 FOR $17.00

700 ML

Kahlua Liqueur

10 PK

Somersby Cider Range

5 LTR

Berri Estates Variety Casks

700 ML

Squealing Pig Range

750 ML

19 Crimes Range

750 ML

750 ML

Yellowglen Colours Range

Yellowtail Range

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