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SURF SCHOOLS WIPE OUT by Christine Tondorf TOURISM operators who offer unique North Coast experiences, such as surfing lessons, hinterland bus trips, even skydiving are struggling to survive with no international tourists visiting the Northern Rivers. Chair of Destination North Coast, Cameron Arnold, says while accommodation and hospitality providers have benefited from more interstate visitors, surfing schools, bus tour businesses, even skydiving instructors, are suffering because the nation’s borders are closed. “For them it’s a struggle to survive, a continual struggle,” Mr Arnold said.
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Mr Arnold said the tourism sector that relied on domestic (Australian) visitors was doing okay – ie accommodation providers, restaurants and cafes. But the ‘experience’ tourism operators who needed international patronage, were facing hard times. “The domestic market is very different to the international market,” Mr Arnold said. Surf schools around the Northern Rivers have seen booking numbers fall by around 80%. Both companies that ran Byron to Nimbin bus tours have cancelled their services indefinitely and even skydiving operators have seen a big drop in takings. Sean Riley (pictured), who owns Soul Surfing in Byron
Bay offering surfing lessons, says he can’t see things improving for at least three years. “The problem is a lack of tourists and it’s a different kind of spender who comes to town now,” Mr Riley said. He said most of his business now comes from giving lessons to the children of Australian tourists, but he sorely misses the backpackers and international visitors. “In the school holidays we are lucky to have 10 busy days out of the 14 then everyone leaves on the last weekend but before Covid we had a steady flow of backpackers at this time of year and internationals holidaying,” he said. Continued on page 4 ☛
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Free hospitality training THE NSW Government has announced jobseekers across the state will have access to free hospitality training to address growing skills shortages in the regional hospitality industry. A partnership between the NSW Government and Clubs NSW will be piloted in clubs across the Upper Hunter, giving unemployed locals an opportunity to reskill for a job in a club. NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro said COVID-19 had intensified an already-acute skills shortage for jobs, with local unemployment and a lack of overseas workers such as chefs, bar attendants and kitchenhands. “The NSW Government is committed to working with the hospitality industry to get local people back in work and plug these skills gaps by providing hands-on experience in clubs across the state,” Mr Barilaro said. Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education Geoff Lee said the partnership with Clubs NSW will not only help train locals but match them to hospitality jobs. “This customised training employment program will deliver much-needed skills relief for clubs and regional economies, ensuring local jobs are filled by local workers,” Mr Lee said. “Clubs play an important role in regional communities so it’s fitting they will also become a training ground for registered training organisations to deliver industry-relevant, hands-on skills and mentoring right here in their local club or at their local TAFE NSW.” Clubs NSW Chief Executive Josh Landis said Clubs NSW welcomed the partnership with the NSW Government to create jobs in regional areas. “Registered clubs employ more than 43,000 people across the state and are often the largest employer in regional communities, providing an opportunity for country residents to live and work in the towns they grew up in,” Mr Landis said. The fee-free training will be funded by the NSW Government’s Smart and Skilled program with a pilot expected to begin from July 2021. For more information visit Training Services NSW.
Compost Awareness Week JOIN Lismore City Council and North East Waste staff for a morning of all things compost and gardening in celebration of International Compost Awareness Week (May 2-8). At council’s Environmental Education Centre, they will be running two composting workshop sessions – teaching you how to make your own compost bin, the basics of effective home composting and how to use your compost to nourish your plants. They will also host a beeswax wrap workshop and supply all the materials to make your own wrap to take home. Children’s activities include awardwinning storytelling to celebrate the earth, helping with the beeswax wraps, designing their own calico bag and mini tours of the surrounding Rainforest Botanic Gardens if weather permits. The event will be on Saturday, May 8 from 9am – 12pm at the Environmental Education Centre, at the Lismore Recycling & Resource Recovery Centre, 313 Wyrallah Rd, East Lismore. To register and select a workshop time, go to Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com.au and search for ‘composting workshop Lismore’.
BYRON’S MAYOR CALLS IT QUITS BYRON Shire mayor Simon Richardson has announced that he is retiring from the role at the end of April. Mr Richardson lost his wife, Jane, to cancer two years ago and is now raising their two daughters alone. He has been a councillor at Byron Shire Council since March 2008 and the mayor since September 2012. Mr Richardson announced his decision on Facebook, writing: “Though I love and am grateful for the ongoing support of me personally and for council’s efforts on your behalf more broadly, it’s time for me to move on. I will be ceasing my role as mayor, councillor and Council representative on Rous County Council on Friday, 30th of April. “The past nine years have been the most life changing period of my life. As a young activist living in the sand dunes of Belongil or in my tipi at Belongil Fields or on MO’s in the hills, and working on forest campaigns or creating Tribe magazine and One Tribe parties, it was inconceivable to me then that I would have the privilege to be my beloved Byron Shire’s mayor, and represent this incredible community. “As some of you will know, I have been ruminating over it for some time, but I now feel it is best for my family and for me that I depart stage left. It has been a particularly tough personal journey for me during this term, with dealing with acute episodic anxiety from the last year of the previous council to the end of the first year of this term. Then Jane’s 12-month illness and passing and finally trying to deal with grief (probably not as effectively as I should have) and most importantly, now navigating being a sole parent. As I stated last year, for me, as someone who goes in boots and all and gives anything I do 100%, I cannot strive to be a great mayor and a great sole parent of two girls – I choose my girls. “Though I wanted to leave at the end of September last year, I have enjoyed the last seven months and have been grateful to have been able to help ensure certain important projects can proceed – including the bypass, interchange, skatepark, housing and solar projects etc. I am really excited
about the direction of council – we are doing, creating and managing great things and I am excited too, about what may come for me next. “It has been a humbling, exasperating, difficult, and incredibly wonderful experience. “Within the Council prism, I inherited a Council and organisation that was at war with itself, broke and with no staff appetite to take risks in fear of being shot down and very low morale. We also had councillors at war, where it was seen as natural to attack and bully each other. And lastly, we had a community that largely took sides, dug trenches and attacked each-where civil discourse was largely absent and only the loud voices were heard. To my regret, in my first term when solely a councillor, I was a willing participant within these conditions. “I wanted to build three bridges when I took on the role as mayor. The bridge between councillors, between councillors and staff and between council and the community. I believe in all three areas, we are in a better place than where we were before I became mayor, and much of that has been due to the councillors, staff and the wider community – you all. Staff will still make mistakes, as will councillors and some within the community will and do continue to verbally, in print or online bully others or believe attacking those who don’t agree them is ok. However, ultimately, staff kick overwhelmingly more goals than they miss, councillors generally act with respect and collegiality with other and our community are far more broadly engaged with council than ever before. “I wish to thank those who have supported my journey.
In particular, those within Council, starting with my fellow councillors both past and present. Also, the amazing staff, from both GM’s I had the privilege to work alongside to the executive team and all the staff-from the depot crew to the A-team (the comms team), and those I’ve worked alongside more regularly such as the sustainability, coastal, open space and strategic planning teams. “One of the great and damaging and too often externally espoused myths is that somehow there should be a tension between we, the elected reps and staff, the professional arm. For me, doing a great job on behalf of our community starts and ends with relationships – making them, keeping them and enhancing them. “I also want to thank my friends, for not only supporting me, but for no doubt finding themselves at parties or elsewhere being drawn into discussions about me and feeling the loyal pull to choose to defend me- you guys are all now free! “I am absolutely stoked at what we achieved and what we have stood for as an elected body and an organisation and the list is too long to compile. This 9-year, and in fact 13-year, vocation has been the most wonderful part of my life and a chapter of which I’m proud, satisfied and happy. So, thank you everyone. “In my next guise, I am committed to keep working on solutions and positive outcomes for my community, creating sustainability and creative projects. Regardless, this Council, this organisation, this Byron Shire community will always have my support and my heart. Cheers, Simon.”
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People power put poppies on parade By Tania Spiers-Phillips MURWILLUMBAH have found a unique and eye-catching way to mark ANZAC Day with 7000 hand knitted and crocheted poppies adorning their local landmark bridge in the days leading up to (and immediately after) Anzac Day. Poppies On Parade was the brainchild of the Mt Warning AM Rotary club – starting back in September – inspired by one of the group member’s sons serving overseas. According to group spokesperson Kaileen Casey – the display – which is hoped to be an annual event – has taken on a life of it’s own. “We have a very vibrant energetic club – we meet in the morning and have 36 members – 30 of them are women and six are guys – the guys that we have are fabulous there’s no question about that,” she said. “We just thought this was a project that we can do but I never thought we could get it to the extreme that we did. There has to be close to
A line of love, time, devotion and remembrance. A local Murwillumbah Rotary – Mt Warning AM – spent the past six months preparing for this beautiful display of hand-made poppies. about 7000 poppies. What we wanted was about 3,000 but when went and put a couple of poppies – two X two on the bridge railing it was insignificant. We always knew we wanted to put it on the gutter guard so then we put four-five and it made a statement. “But what I’ve found, which was overwhelming is the amount of women that have wanted to be participants in it. Of a night time they sit and they watch television and
they crochet or they knit. I’m sorry but I don’t do either of those two things, they would be doing it with their eyes on the television and crocheting. They would crochet 50 and bring them in at work and I’d say great, that’s wonderful then they’d crochet another 50 and it just kept on going which was wonderful.” Kaileen said it had it’s germination back in September when it was put to the board. “I said if we do this can
your give us $300 so we can do packs up so people don’t have to buy anything,” she explained. “Well the packs just went straight away! And then people started buying their own wool but then we also got a grant from ITV (who film I’m a Celebrity in the Tweed). We applied for a grant through them and we got a $2,300 grant through then so we went and bought more wool. Normally have their own crocheting hooks but we’ve go
packs with crocheting hooks and the patterns.” However if you take a look at the poppies on the bridge you will see that they aren’t all the same size and style – something that the club was keen to encourage. “We said to them (the crochet and knitters) – don’t follow the pattern, if you don’t for comfortable, you crochet or knit what you want to,” Kaileen explained. “That’s why we have such a great variance. If you are having such a mass collection you don’t want none of this “oh no you didn’t do this right stuff” – little ones are great, big ones are great, it doesn’t really matter. “Just as long as we’ve made a statement and I think that’s what we’ve done.” The poppies went up two weeks ago and were taken down two days after Anzac day but don’t worry Kaileen said they will be back next year with the club and their merry band of artisans of all ages promising the display will be bigger and better! More ANZAC stories p21☛
Australia Post returns ‘food ban’ to sender AUSTRALIA Post has reversed a decision not to transport perishable foods around the country much to the relief of Northern Rivers food producers. The postage service said it would not allow people to post most foods. Northern Rivers food producers stood to lose millions of dollars if unable to post orders to customers. Ballina native food producer Rebecca Barnes, who owns the Playing with Foods company, is relieved Australia Post’s ban has been ‘stamped’ out because she sends 40% of her produce through the post. “For a small parcel within New South Wales you can’t beat Australia Post for time and money value, but when it come to interstate it depends what you are sending,” Ms Barnes said.
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Produce Ms Barnes posts includes native finger limes, bunya nuts, indigenous teas and bush herbs and spices. “Courier services while reliable are very slow,” she said. “They can take a week or so. We need to be able to use Australia Post.” Ms Barnes said Australia Post did not consult with food growers before moving to ban perishable goods at the end of
June and she’s relieved the decision has been reversed. “I’m sure nothing is surmountable with inventive packaging and things of that nature. If it’s a liability issue, there are ways around that as well,” she said. “I have never had an issue sending perishables through our national carrier and I do not think this should all be left to private enterprise.”
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EXPERIENCE-BASED TOURISM TAKES A DIVE Continued from front page “And in winter we were as busy as in summer because we used to do all the international students. Every weekend we’d have buses coming from Brisbane and the Gold Coast full of international students, but they just aren’t here anymore.” Mr Riley said he wasn’t impacted by the end of JobKeeper because toward the end of federal wage supplement he ‘didn’t even have any staff left on it because they needed to get new jobs’. “We couldn’t get staff now even if we wanted to, because it’s so expensive to rent in the Northern Rivers,” he said. “What surf coach can afford
$1,000 a week for a rental. “The guys who are working for us now are a younger crew, who are happy to live in caravan parks, but they are transient, still good staff, but
transient. In the past we had stable staff, who were around five, six, 10 years.” Mr Riley said he and his wife would give it their all to keep their surfing businesses
going. Many Northern Rivers tourism operators are also nervous that Australian tourists may now look to holiday in New Zealand not
the Northern Rivers. Australia has always been New Zealand’s largest international tourism market, accounting for about 1.5 million arrivals (about 40% of all of New Zealand’s international arrivals before COVID-19). Australian visitors spend around NZ$2.7 billion a year and stay 11 days on average. New Zealanders accounted for 1.3 million arrivals to Australia, contributing AU$2.6 billion to our national economy. But what Northern Rivers surf schools fear is that Australians will head to New Zealand to ski rather than visiting this region. Pre-pandemic, 71% of international skiers in New Zealand were Australian.
Norco number one, second year running AUSTRALIA’S only 100% farmer-owned dairy co-op, Norco, has scored top honours in Canstar Blue’s most satisfied customers awards for 2021. It’s the second year the co-op has won the award, with more than 3,000 Aussies giving Norco a five star rating across all categories including taste, freshness, and value for money. Established in 1895 in Byron Bay, Norco is now one of the only remaining true Australian farmer-owned dairy co-operatives, with more than 300 members across northern NSW and south east Queensland. Norco beat eight other brands, including national supermarkets, to take out the top position in the Fresh Full Cream Milk Category. “To see Norco rated best
for fresh milk is a real testament to the quality and value this Aussie brand brings to the market,” Canstar Blue’s Megan Birot, said.
“Fresh milk is such a staple for many households, making this FMCG category so competitive, with both bigname brands and supermarket labels to contend with. The
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fact that Norco also rated best for every single driver of satisfaction is an outstanding achievement,” she said. “To receive a five star rating for overall satisfaction
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from our customers, the highest score achievable, is a huge honour - especially in such a competitive category,” Norco chief executive, Michael Hampson, said. “It’s testament to the dedication and passion of all our Norco farmers and team members, who work to ensure that Norco’s range of delicious, high-quality dairy products are available to Australian households, day in and day out. “We are so grateful to all of our customers who continue to use their purchasing power to support our 126 year old, 100 percent Australian farmer-owned Norco Cooperative. It’s thanks to them that we are able to do what we do, and ensure the longterm sustainability of the dairy industry,” Mr Hampson said.
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Northern Rivers tops NSW for rental shortage THE Northern Rivers has the lowest rate of rental vacancies in the state – Tweed Council has now declared a housing emergency with other local councils looking set to follow. The NSW Real Estate has found that the Northern Rivers has a vacancy rate of just 0.3%, down from 0.6% in February – the lowest in New South Wales. In declaring the emergency on Friday, Tweed Council voted to write to the Federal and State governments asking for more social and affordable housing in the Tweed. Tweed Mayor Chris Cherry said a growing number of residents were finding they could no longer afford to live in the shire. “Council highlighted the lack of affordable and available housing in the Tweed back in 2018. COVID has accentuated this and what we are now seeing is a marked acceleration in this trend caused by people moving from cities and buying properties in the Tweed,” she said. “Local real estate agents are reporting record sales and the increase we’ve seen in rent is unprecedented. Given that we’re also experiencing historically low rental availability – it signifies that there is stress right across the rental market. This translates on the ground to families with two incomes who cannot afford to live in the Tweed.” Federal MP for Richmond, Justine Elliot, said the North Coast faced a huge housing affordability crisis, a rental crisis and a homelessness crisis. “In our region, we’ve seen the largest increases in housing prices across the nation and our rental vacancies are under one per cent. There is a serious need for more
social housing right across the country, especially here on the Northern NSW where the wait time for social housing is more than 10 years.” She called on the Morrison Government to put together a comprehensive housing stimulus plan including building more social housing. Social Futures, the main housing support organisation in the Northern Rivers, said it was genuinely concerned about the impact on communities if urgent investment in affordable and social housing didn’t arrive soon. “We are especially worried about young people in the region,” said Social Futures CEO Tony Davies. Social Futures has joined the national Everybody’s Home campaign lobbing the Federal Government to expand its HomeBuilder grant to social and affordable housing. Lismore MP Janelle Saffin said both the state and federal
governments had retreated from providing social housing. “I regularly advocate for more affordable housing, and will continue to do so, until Australian and NSW governments commit to a binding framework to deliver much more stock, particularly in our region,” Ms Saffin said. “We have over 19% of the State’s homeless people and get 3% of the available funding. The NSW Government has invested more than $1 billion since 2012 through its Housing Acceleration Fund for more than 50 projects in metropolitan and regional areas, but no projects have been carried out north of Port Macquarie. “The housing crisis is only getting worse, so we are all hoping for a real commitment in Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s 2021-22 Budget speech on Tuesday, May 11 and a substantial amount in the NSW Treasurer Dominic
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Perrottet’s Budget speech 2021-2022.” Page MP Kevin Hogan has previously defended the coalition’s record on housing saying they have delivered more than $8.2 billion in housing and homelessness programs, and the Government’s National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation approved almost $1.6 billion of loans to community housing plus an additional $1 billion of low-cost concessional loans for community housing providers. Mr Hogan has also called on local governments to speed up the process of releasing land for new housing estates. Meanwhile the Greens are angry the state government is not cracking down on holiday rentals in Byron Bay. Ballina MP Tamara Smith said the Premier made a personal commitment to her in 2019 that her electorate would be able to regulate Short Term
Holiday letting, particularly in Byron Shire. “We now have an exemption from the 180 days cap free holiday letting in regional areas until January 2022,” Ms Smith said. “However, unless our councils can set and receive the licensing fees to enforce the regulations for holiday letting, the new rules will be a paper tiger only. “3500 whole homes are on online accommodation platforms in Byron Shire most of the time. Our community needs those homes to live in and we need to offer landlords incentives from the State to make it more attractive to rent their properties to permanent residents. “All of our community housing providers know what we need - genuine affordable housing to be built and protected and rents set at genuinely affordable rates. It isn’t rocket science but the Liberals and Nationals seem immune to our plight.”
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LOCAL POLICE BEAT
Concerns for missing teen
Man charged over alleged public place shooting
THE disappearance of a teenage girl from the Glenreagh area for more than a week has raised concerns about her safety. Police said Sarah Le Claire-Minns (pictured), aged 14, was last seen leaving a home on Kingfisher Avenue, Glenreagh on Thursday, April 15. Officers from Coffs Harbour Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts. Police and family have concerns for Sarah’s welfare due to her age. Sarah is described as being of Aboriginal/
A man will face court following an alleged public place shooting in Rappville. About 4pm on Sunday 25 April, officers from Richmond Police District were called to Carwong Road, Rappville, following reports of gun shots being fired. Upon arrival, police located a black Subaru Forester alleged to be involved in the incident. Officers spoke with a 32-year-old male driver nearby. Police searched the car and located a twelve-gauge shot gun and empty cartridges. The man was arrested and taken to Casino Police Station where he was charged with fire firearm in/near public place and not keep firearm safe. There were no reports of any injuries. He was granted conditional bail to appear at Casino Local Court on Thursday 20 May.
unregistered motor vehicle. The Queensland man was granted conditional bail to appear at Coffs Harbour Local Court on Monday 17 May.
Wanted man arrested following police pursuit
A wanted man has been arrested following a police pursuit in Grafton, which was initiated after another man was hit by a car. About 3.30pm on Wednesday 21 April, officers from Coffs/Clarence Police District responded to reports a 35-year-old man had been hit by a car on Duke Street, Grafton. Police were told the man had been involved in a fight with another man, aged 38, who then got into a Holden Colorado and allegedly drove at the younger man, hitting him. When officers arrived in the street, the older man fled in the Colorado, and a police pursuit was initiated. The driver turned onto Prince Street and approached Dobie Street at speed, where the vehicle hit the roundabout, then mounted the curb Driver charged after pursuit before rolling and crashing into a A man has been charged following a tree (pictured, below). The man was pursuit with police.. then arrested. Just before 2pm on Saturday 24 Police rendered first aid to both April, police received reports of men until the arrival of NSW a Peugeot sedan travelling south Ambulance paramedics, who took the at excessive speed on the Pacific men to Coffs Harbour Health Campus Highway towards Coffs Harbour. – the older man under police guard. Officers from Coffs Harbour Traffic Following his release from hospital, and Highway Patrol saw the vehicle the 38-year-old man was taken to travelling above the 110 km/h speed Coffs Harbour Police Station where limit and attempted to stop the vehicle he was charged with outstanding near Sapphire Beach. warrants; two counts of assault The Peugeot failed to stop, and occasioning actual bodily harm (DV), a pursuit was initiated travelling common assault (DV), knowingly through Korora before being drive vehicle in manner menaces terminated due to safety concerns. other, and stalk/intimidate intend fear A short time later, police patrolling physical etc harm (domestic). the Coffs Harbour CBD saw the The Queanbeyan man has been Peugeot stopped in heavy traffic refused bail to appear at Coffs outside the police station. Harbour Local Court. The driver, a 30-year-old man, The 35-year-old man remains in was removed from the vehicle and hospital undergoing treatment for arrested. fractures to his lumbar and ribs. He was taken to Coffs Harbour Investigations into the Police Station and charged with circumstances surrounding the police pursuit - not stop - drive incident are continuing, and further dangerously, drive motor vehicle charges are expected. during disqualification period, and use
Torres Straight Islander appearance, about 150cm tall, of slim build, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing black trackpants and black hooded jumper. She is known to use the rail network and
possible in the Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Taree or Wagga Wagga area. Police are appealing for public information to find Sarah. They urge anyone with information about her whereabouts to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
204 police recruits sworn in THE NSW Police Force has welcomed 204 new probationary constables at the NSW Police Academy in Goulburn. Family and friends were able to watch on as Class 346 attested in a full attestation ceremony that featured the Police Band, Pipe Band, Mounted Unit and VIP cycles. Class 346 includes 149 men and 55 women who will undertake a year of on-the-job training and complete the Associate Degree in Policing Practice by distance education with Charles Sturt University before being confirmed to the rank of constable. Minister for Police and Emergency Services Mr David Elliott congratulated the newest recruits in Goulburn. “Police officers perform a crucial role in protecting the community. As the probationary constables of Class 346 step into their law enforcement duties they can know that they have the full support of this government,” Mr Elliott said. “I commend their choice to pursue a career in policing, where they will serve the community and keep this state safe.” In 2019 the NSW Government announced the delivery of 1500 additional officers
Sergeant Anthony Smith, Chris Gulaptis MP, Constable Douglas Woodhouse and Superintendent Scott Tanner at Casino. over four years, and the government has further committed to a $60 million upgrade to Goulburn Police Academy. Acting Police Commissioner David Hudson APM welcomed the latest intake of probationary constables. “Our newest probationary constables join the Force at a critical time, as we move beyond the trials of 2020,” he said. “As an organisation, we are constantly forced to face new and emerging challenges and I can assure our attesting police recruits that they are embarking on a satisfying and rewarding career. “I welcome Class 346 and wish them well as they start at their new stations next Monday. They will be a valuable addition to our policing
capabilities across the state.” Education and Training Commander, Assistant Commissioner Peter Barrie, acknowledged the dedication and achievement of the Class 346 recruits as they attest today. “Our attesting recruits will now head to their stations to take on their role as probationary constables and serve communities across the state,” Assistant Commissioner Barrie said. Six recruits are indigenous, with 1 recruit joining through the Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery (IPROWD) program. Four of the recruits will join Richmond PD, two for Tweed/ Byron and one for Coffs/ Clarence.
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Rail supporters group want voices heard THE Murwillumbah Northern Rivers Rail Supporters Group will hold an event at the Regent Cinema on Thursday, April 29 at 6pm. Group spokeperson Marie Luxford said the meeting is part of their campaign to save the railway tracks from being removed. She said they were advocating that the new rail trail bike track be put next to the closed railway line so “we don’t lose our railway forever.” “The people of Murwillumbah have not been consulted on whether they want to keep the Casino to Murwillumbah railway line for the future,” she said. “This question has not been asked of anyone along the whole 132 km of line.” Ms Luxford said the state government closed the section of the line from Condong/ Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek which effectively cut off any potential for future rail connections between the Northern Rivers and QLD. At the same time there are plans to bring the Gold Coast light
rail down to South Tweed. She said the Governments own website states that the NSW Government will undertake an independently facilitated community consultation session for each proposed rail trail. “This hasn’t happened. Tweed Shire Council only organised one small meeting with some of the landholders next to the rail corridor before the closure of our line,” Ms Luxford said. She said the assessment of the cost of the rail trail on the Casino to Murwillumbah railway line is $596,000 per km whereas the actual cost of the Byron Railway company to repair the line at Byron cost $660,000 per km. “A very slight difference. Destroying the railway line is not a good use of taxpayers’ money,” she added. “Driving up the M1 on the Easter weekend towards Tweed, I passed a few cyclists - pedalling away in the cycle lane,” group member Serena V Dolinska added. “Why is a 132km bike trail needed when there’s a
dedicated sealed cycle-path for long distance riders already there! Plus with the amount of concrete walking/ bike paths along the coast & through parklands, the Tweed Shire is well serviced already. “So why go to the extent of removing all the existing rail
infrastructure to create more paths? To install a gravel track that will need weeding & maintenance, constantly, in summer in this climate? How would the track bear up in rain like we’ve been having recently? A train could still run.”
The group believes that when looking at the tracks “you can see how wide the corridor is and there’s room to put the bike path beside”. They believe Council does not need to pull up the railway tracks in order to have a bike path.
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Byron brays against the Baes BYRON Bay locals are still optimistic they can stop Netflix making the reality TV show, Byron Baes, in their shire despite council warning it has limited power to refuse Netflix filming permission. Tess Hall, who has coordinated community protests, last week presented council with a petition signed by 8,692 people against the Netflix production. Many locals are concerned the show could portray the town as superficial and vacuous and not reflect residents’ true values. Mayor Simon Richardson has previously said councils do not have the authority to ‘withhold approval on the basis of content or moral grounds’ but Ms Hall says there could be other legal avenues to prevent filming. “This will not work for Netflix if the series is cancelled,” Ms Hall said, “and we’ve directly requested they do that.” Last week hundreds in the town held a paddle-out protest at the main beach (pictured) opposing the reality TV show. Byron Bay musician Ben Gordon joined the crowd. “We stood united to make a clear and loud statement that
we as local residents do not want our name or town to be exploited by the Byron Baes ‘docu-soap’ TV show,” Mr Gordon said. “The Byron community feels very strongly that cultural and visual pollution is as harmful to a community’s well-being as environmental pollution – we don’t allow other companies to dump garbage in our ocean or our backyard and therefore we are totally opposed to Netflix dumping on and polluting our
community with their proposed mock-you-drama.” The demonstration attracted media attention from Lismore to London, but some say the protesters may inadvertently be promoting the Netflix production. Associate Professor in Online Media at Sydney University, Fiona Martin, said protestors might be giving the series publicity, but they were making good points. “I think there are real
problems bringing big productions to small country towns without targeted government support,” A/Prof Martin said. Many in the Northern Rivers town of Alstonville are opposed to another Netflix production filming in their showground, as The Northern Rivers Times reported last week. “The question we should be asking the state and federal government is what infrastructure support can they
offer so the screen industry can effectively work there,” A/ Prof Martin said. “Is there, for example, building assistance or roads funding?” She also said that the film industry was pushing the federal government to demand streaming services like Netflix produce a quota of Australian content, but the cheapest way to do this might be for companies to make reality TV shows in regional areas where filming costs can be lower.
LAND COUNCIL BID TO SAVE COTTAGE By Tim Howard
month to allow the community a chance to resurrect the cottage. OUTRAGE and disbelief Last Tuesday a public that two State Government meeting at the headquarters departments would shut down of the Ngerrie LALC formed a treasured community centre a committee to gather in South Grafton has sparked a information for another bid to save it. meeting in three weeks to Camellia Cottage, created 20 formalise an LALC bid to years ago to provide a range resurrect Camellia Cottage. of services to the youth and At the meeting the land the wider community in South council’s development officer, Grafton, shut in July last year, Terry Wall, revealed a letter after its manager, the Citivue it received from the land and Church, ceased to auspice the housing corporation. operation. It required a new cottage Pastor Jon Baker, from the manager to enter a rental church, believed he had set agreement and provide $70,000 in place arrangement for the in maintenance costs, or buy management of the service to the property. transfer to the Ngerrie Local It also demanded a business Aboriginal Land Council. plan outlining all the services Instead the NSW Land and planned to use the building and Housing Corporation and how they would be funded. Department of Community The letter gave Ngerrie four and Justice decided to sell the weeks to provide answers to building at 3 Camellia Way, the department, a deadline the with an auction originally meeting decided would need to scheduled for April 27. be renegotiated. The community outrage over The tone of the letter and the sale has forced a delay, history of management of the with NSW Housing Minister property upset people at the Melinda Pavey ordering the meeting. auction to be delayed for a Several people who run
cottage in July, Ngerrie had not received any notification from the FACS or the building’s owners the Land and Housing Corporation. Programs ceased and then an auction notice was placed on the building earlier this year. It would have been a sad end to a community facility that has attracted its fair share of awards. Two of its volunteers have received Clarence Valley programs at the cottage said the housing corporation was in Citizen of the Year Awards department had been lax in its Coffs Harbour. and it also received the maintenance of the property, “What I think is they hardly Clarence Valley Community when items on the property, ever had people in Grafton, so Organisation of the Year award. like its solar panels, had been we seemed remote from them so It also received support from damaged but not repaired. they weren’t as concerned about organisations as diverse as the Several speakers noted when what happened here as they Yulgilbar Foundation and the the church ran the cottage, it could have been,” he said. Grafton District Services for paid a peppercorn rent and had “In June I had negotiations programs it ran. been able to source government with Family and Community The meeting set a three grants to fund its services, Services and said there were week deadline for a follow up without extensive oversight. three groups interested: meeting. In the meantime Mr Behind the scenes there CRANES, the New School of Wall said he would negotiate has a disturbing lack of Arts and Ngerrie. with Ms Pavey’s department for communication between the “FACS told me they wanted an extension of the deadline for community and the government an Aboriginal group to take a commitment to the project. departments who own or have over, so I contacted Ngerrie, “Overall I think it was oversight of the cottage. who said they were interested pretty good response from the Mr Baker said Family in it.” community,” he said. “We got and Community Services But when the church more than 20 people along was based in Ballina and the relinquished its auspice of the today at short notice.”
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April 29, 2021
NEWS PATCHING POTHOLES THE consistent sunny weather has helped Lismore City Council crews fill some potholes in the area. Some of the roads we focused on included the Bruxner Hwy, Wyrallah Rd, Terania St, Invercauld Rd, Cynthia Wilson Dr, Union St, Richmond Hill Rd, Taylor Rd, Nimbin Rd, Kyogle Rd, Cowlong Rd, Brewster St, Dunoon Rd, Keen St, Duncan Rd and Tuntable Creek Rd. More than 120 ton of hot mix was used for the week. With the weather outlook continuing to look good, council will continue to focus on attending to potholes as well as continuing work on unfinished projects such as Tregeagle Rd, Corndale Rd and various urban streets.
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SMALL BUSINESS REBATES SCHEME SMALL businesses including sole traders as well as not for profit groups in the Clarence and Richmond Valley now have the green light to claim $1500 in relief from NSW Government fees and charges. The Nationals in Government’s $500 million Small Business Fees and Charges Rebate is a COVID 19 recovery initiative that will benefit hundreds of self-employed people and charities in the Clarence and Richmond Valleys. The scheme includes not only NSW Govt charges like liquor and food authority licences, but also council rates and a raft of other impositions on small business. Small businesses who have total wages below the new 2020-21 $1.2 million payroll tax threshold, and have a turnover of at least $75,000 per year, will be able to register through their MyServiceNSW account and claim back eligible fees and charges. The rebate will be available until 30 June 2022. To apply and for more information, visit www.service.nsw.gov.au
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dogs in the area - it just means dogs are present, are moving through and probably in greater numbers than two. The koala corridors which would be destroyed are shown in the TEIA. Planting a koala corridor to mitigate loss of habitat We’d love to hear might be fine if the koalas from you! are happy to wait 20 years. letters@nrtimes.com.au Would you be OK about losing your house and Please keep under 150 words access to food as long Dam lies as you were assured that I am writing to repudiate replacements would be the claims of Col Baker provided in 20 years? in the Northern Rivers We are talking here Times (Letters, 21/4). I am about an animal that a rainforest botanist and faces extinction in 30 was a member of the Rous years. At this stage of its Public Reference Group decline every single lost which ran from 2008 to tree is significant. And 2011. I have lived here for this particular population 47 years. is important because it Koalas. The 2011 has been found to have study by SMEC, the a distinctive genetic Terrestrial Ecology Impact make-up that may help to Assessment (TEIA), strengthen other nearby shows that the approx. populations. 72ha of koala habitat in the Rainforest. Much of Dunoon Dam study area is the site is pasture and a broad swathe of wet and regrowth forest including dry sclerophyll (eucalypt) camphors. However, the forest which consists 34ha of rainforest which predominantly of koala would be destroyed is feed trees, tallowwood extremely important and flooded gum. The because it represents 6% map clearly shows the of the remaining 1% of the inundation line on this Big Scrub. The original forest, and koala trees extent clearly includes the would indeed be drowned. Dunoon Dam site. Most Koalas commonly use of the Big Scrub remnants other forest types to move are tiny pockets but the through or rest in and these rainforest in the Dunoon would be damaged or dam area is in large blocks. drowned also. Even if it were not part of The seven koala records the Big Scrub it is still an that Col Baker refers to Endangered Ecological are evidence of koala Community (EEC) of presence. It doesn’t mean Lowland Rainforest that that there are only seven requires protection. It koalas living there. If you includes 7ha of warmsee two lots of dog poo in temperate rainforest on the park it doesn’t mean sandstone, a very rare that there are only two occurrence in this region.
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92% would be destroyed by the dam. I am surprised that Col Baker could not identify any rainforest in the Gorge when the authors of the TEIA had no problem. I conducted a brief plant survey in the Gorge and found 139 rainforest species, four of them threatened. Some of the water gums and the grey myrtles are the largest on record. The gorge is close to The Channon so it has been called The Channon Gorge. Do you have a better name? The dam wall is not outside the gorge area as Col Baker states. Dams are usually placed in the narrowest point for a good reason and this is no exception. Destruction would occur downstream of the dam wall because of (a) the construction footprint of the wall, the associated infrastructure and roading, (b) the downstream movement of tonnes of sediment, (c) the radically altered flow regime and (d) the likelihood that extreme flash floods would be larger and more destructive with a dam, due to the “overspill effect”. Aboriginal Heritage – A very detailed Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment (CHIA) was completed in 2011. It suggested further work should be done to verify the burial sites which had been located. A second CHIA was completed in 2013, with an even more detailed assessment of the burial sites by consulting archaeologist Douglas Hobbs. He confirmed that they were “pre-historic”, ie. pre-European. In both CHIAs the Widjabul Wia-bal stakeholders unanimously stated that they would not accept any damage to the area, particularly the burial sites. They have repeatedly re-iterated this position. The sites have been likened by the Traditional Owners to the Juukan Cave desecration in WA by Rio Tinto. That is why Rous, which has already been dubbed “Rous Tinto” fears reputational damage if it proceeds.
Further studies. The TEIA was extensive and detailed. It had some flaws but concluded that the loss of (a) the Lowland Rainforest EEC, (b) threatened flora species, (c) threatened fauna habitats and (d) wildlife corridors could not be minimised to acceptable levels. Further study would not reverse these findings, or find that the EEC is not there, or that threatened species are suddenly not threatened. Similarly, with the CHIAs, more studies can do nothing to weaken the evidence that this area is extremely important to the Traditional Owners. The burial sites have not gone anywhere. The second CHIA in 2013 was inexplicably called “preliminary”, causing some people to believe it is incomplete or lacks detail. Cynics are concluding that further studies could only mean further pressure on the Traditional Owners to concede. Those who are being swept along by pro-dam sentiment might not have read the completed studies and hence would not know what they have to lose. The natural and cultural heritage losses incurred by the dam would be forever. To risk a cliché, these things are not ours to destroy – we are supposed to be caring for them for future people and creatures who will need them. Our water security can be assured without such extremism. Wilfully destroying something that has been handed down to us is very close to mindless vandalism, especially when so much has already been lost. Nan Nicholson Terania (Edited for length)
Or a different option: What about those people in the world who aren’t “alright Jack”? IPAN, the Independent and Peaceful Australian Network (ipan.australia@ gmail.com) is a network of organisations around Australia of community, faith and peace groups and trade unions who are working towards a fossil fuel free future, not war. As this year’s extreme rainfall and flooding and last year’s Black Summer Bush Fires show us, failing to address climate change is not “alright Jack” for so many fellow Australians. Thankfully President Biden believes that business-as-usual is not “alright Jack”. America is now ensuring that all adult Americans are being vaccinated against this pandemic as quickly as possible. President Biden also has a determination to achieve a global minimum corporate tax rate. If successful, billions of unpaid company tax dollars that have been hidden in past decades will be used in a global effort to address climate change. My grandchildren are still too young to vote for their future and their future is certainly not “alright Jack”. So how long will it be before we elect a government that is as determined as America is about adequately protecting us from this pandemic and climate change? After all, the future depends on who you chose to elect to protect those you cherish. Harry Johnson Iluka
Bias balance
It beggars belief that your excellent paper Alright Jack? continues to allow Keith If you’re fortunate enough Duncan’s left leaning rants to live in Australia and you to dominate your letters value your children and section. “Disgraceful grandchildren as much as drivel”, says my brother you value yourself, and and he is not even a you’ve had an education die hard conservative that has put a roof over voter. I am sure many of your head, here are a your readers would take couple of options you offence at being referred might like to consider. to as “right wing nutters”, One option: “I’m alright “right wing clowns” Jack, so it’s business-asand “the mad right”. I usual.” do not believe this is the
terminology of a well reasoned letter. It is just an irrational emotive meaningless, uncivil diatribe. Amazingly he promotes the Labor states as leading the way in containing the breakout of the pandemic, I would say there is a very strong argument to suggest the state which has contained the pandemic and allowed the economy to move forward better than all the other states has been NSW. The Labor states have presented an excellent masterclass in duplicity as they have manipulated the pandemic for political gain. After internal polling they obviously realised the catch cry, “we will keep you safe” resonated with a significant percentage of the population, particularly those on the public purse. Bureaucrats, government workers and welfare recipients who were not effected by the shut downs all gave a resounding YES but of course not private enterprise who were and continue to be severely disadvantaged by the Labor shutdowns. And while on “shut downs” these states have been diving further into debt and now asking the Commonwealth to bail them out. I am sure Keith expects Labor to clean up in the next state and federal elections, but maybe he should take note of the recent poll conducted by the ALP pollster Redbridge, which indicated Jodi McKay would lose her seat and the party would suffer it worst primary vote in almost 120 years if a state election were held now. And Albo, with his approval rating of just 28%, has no chance of becoming our next prime minister. It would be more advantageous if Keith concentrates on assisting the Labor ailing cause instead of lambasting every LNP politician and just contributes to Echo, therefore allowing more considered letters to occupy the space available in your balanced letter section. Joff Johnson
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April 29, 2021
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WHY THE DUNOON DAM PROPOSAL SHOULD BE BACK ON TABLE by Phil Silver & Sue Meehan Former chairs, Rous Water THE Dunoon Dam policy of Rous Water was adopted in 1995 and has been reaffirmed by four successive Councils, including an extensive Community Reference Group over the years 2010 to 2014 and which included Indigenous spokespersons. The policy formed the basis of a Headworks Contribution Plan under the EP & A Act S.64, which enabled contributions to be levied on developers and land impacted to be purchased from the open market. The Headworks Contribution Plan itself had also undergone a statutory exhibition. The next public exhibition of the Dunoon Dam policy was in 2020, under the title Future Water Project 2060. The essence of that exhibition was that whilst Rous Water should continue to explore any and all opportunities of: 1. Demand management and water efficiency, (essentially education, providing flow restriction devices, water pricing and minimising leakage); 2. Reuse, including using treated effluent to replace potable water for gardening and toilet flushing and to investigate even further the use of highly treated effluent for potable use; 3. Use of ground water (bores); or 4. A new Dunoon Dam, with a capacity of either 20 or 50 gigalitres, once all of these opportunities had been fully developed. In relation to demand management, from 1991 to 2019, Rous Water in concert with its four constituent Councils (Ballina, Byron, Lismore City and Richmond Valley who are the retail distributors of Rous Water) has been able to reduce the usage per connection from 484 kilo litres to 247 kilo litres per annum. In relation to reuse, only the four constituent Councils have sewer plants to enable reuse and of those only Ballina had made progress in relation to house hold connections and displacement of potable use. This was largely because Ballina was prepared to fund the big increases in treatment costs
to be able to avoid ocean outfalls and had large green field residential developments to enable the expensive duplication of reservoirs, trunk mains and reticulation to enable a ‘purple pipe’ dual reticulation. Potable reuse continues to be prohibited (and why wouldn’t it be in a region with up to two meters of annual rainfall?). Without reverting to scare arguments, let’s not worry too much about faecal bacteria that may be trapped by hi tech membrane treatment but do worry about endocrine disrupters caused by antibiotic compounds and hormones which have entered the sewer system. We have not been told which parts of the Rous Water network would receive the “benefit” of this reuse water In relation to groundwater, at a cost of $1.96 M, the exhibition concluded, “Despite initial thoughts that a groundwater scheme was a viable and cost-effective option, the previous five years of extensive investigations have determined limitations to the groundwater operation. The water quality of most aquifer locations was determined to be poor with high salinity. This means increased costs to treat the water and less water availability. The groundwater scheme would not provide a sufficient volume of water to meet demand in 2060”. This was coming from engineers, hydrologists, town planners and meteorologists, not the opinions of politicians also it was before any environmental impact on surface streams and ecological consideration or community push back in relation to the massive
increase in extraction. The 2020 public exhibition then concluded: That after exploring all the options at a a cost of $3.83M, that none were capable of meeting future demand. That demand would exceed supply by 2030 and that by 2060 that shortfall would be over 5.6 gigalitres per year (that is the equivalent of 5,600 Olympic swimming pools ever year). That Rous Water should therefore move to progress the new 50 gigaliter dam at Dunoon. At the December Rous Water ordinary meeting, five of eight Rous Councillors not only declined that advice but also resolved to reject a new dam at Dunoon and to remove it from any further study or analysis. We are advised that the reasons for rejecting the staff advice were: 1. Public opinion – that because 95% of 1,000 responders to the public exhibition were opposed to the Dunoon Dam, therefore the community was opposed. When offered a motion for a referendum on the issue of a new Dunoon Dam at the September 2021 Council elections, the same majority voted against. 2. Cultural Issues are important and to be respected. The 50 square kilometre Water Catchment Protection Zone that would be created presents an opportunity for huge protection of cultural issues and the potent for the employment of Indigenous Water Catchment Rangers to ensure that only appropriate activity occurs in that 50 square kilometres. The nearest dams at Rocky
Creek in the Richmond and Shannon Creek in the Clarence are in fact monuments to Indigenous Culture and the environment. Let’s at least try to negotiate some positive cultural outcomes and not allow 110,000 people to run out of water. 3. Koala habitat – much of the inundation area is in fact over-grazed ex-dairying country, the proposed 224 hectares of compensatory eucalyptus forest planting would be a win fall for habitat not to mention the 50 square kilometres of Water Catchment Protection Zone. 4. Climate Change, “would result in not enough rain to fill the dam” – contraire, climate change will generate more weather extremes from very high to very low rain fall, increasing the need along with increasing population to store more water. Stanthorpe Queensland shall bear witness, for the last 15 months water has had to be trucked in at the rate of up to 50 truck movements per day at a cost of more than $10,000,000. Business and the community have suffered with restrictions as low as 80 litres per day. Their Storm King Dam is now spilling after 140 mm was received in the catchment in a 24 hour period, they did not have enough storage. A similar event occurred in our region at the end of the millennium drought , we were down to level 5 Restrictions banning all external use of water, there wasn’t a business that wasn’t effected and hospitals were overloaded with orthopedic injuries
from old people bucketing water, the next step was going to be putting raw water into the reticulation and issuing bottle water, and closing down hospitality and resorts. We have been told, it will happen again. 5. Dams are old technology – contraire, the new Dunoon Dam would be high tech, retaining water only during high rainfall events and able to replicate an environmental down stream flow superior to the current Rocky Creek Dam and perform a level of flood mitigation. Ironically it is the sinking of bores to pump out ground water that is old technology. Please consider that Rous Waters existing Rocky Creek Dam is a living testimony of what a reliable, world class potable water storage looks like. The proposed (until recently) 50 gigaliter new Dunoon Dam is clearly the most researched, cost effective, environmentally supportive , high quality water supply possible. The reliance on the “no dam” 2060 assortment of unproven, unreliable technologies and inefficient techniques not only threatens the integrity of our water supply, but also paves the way for spiralling costs and a sub standard scheme with unchartered environmental impacts. The current public exhibition has a revised time line for demand to exceed supply of 2024, we are already in near crisis territory. Local Government operates entirely at the behest of State Government and we need to hear from State Government which has Constitutional responsibility for our water. There can be no greater governmental failure than to allow a constituency to run out of water and we have been told it will happen. It is imperative that the broad community view be made known to Rous Water, (and thus to State Government). Please visit the Rous Water web site and make your views known within the exhibition period of 28 May 2021. The community has to tell Rous Water what we want or we will have to like what we get.
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April 29, 2021
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WHY IS MEDICINAL CANNABIS SO EXPENSIVE? Ahead of Nimbin’s MardiGrass next weekend (April 30-May 2), Michael Balderstone, President of the Nimbin HEMP Embassy and the Australian HEMP Party, puts the case for reforming laws controlling cannabis use in Australia. I’VE devoted much of life lobbying for the reform of the cannabis laws in Australia. Like so many others I’m labelled a criminal and have been ridiculed for saying cannabis is a great medicine – 50 years on, the medical experts agree with me, but we are still given a hard time for calling for the reform of laws that control the use of the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant. Let’s look at what medical research has discovered about medicinal marijuana. It can stop children’s epileptic seizures – this finding has been hard for some in authority to swallow but still it is the truth. Researchers are also studying whether medical cannabis can help treat a number of conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, Crohn’s disease, diseases effecting the immune system like HIV/ AIDS or multiple sclerosis (MS), eating disorders like anorexia, glaucoma, mental health conditions like schizophrenia and PTSD, muscle spasms, nausea, pain, and the wasting syndrome, cachexia. In fact scientists are finding that cannabis can be used to treat a wide variety of ailments, even anxiety and depression – and these disorders are today’s most common reasons for visiting a GP. What does that say about our society? And still cannabis users
are hunted and prosecuted the same as they have been for decades. Even while the benefits are being proven by research physicians, the authorities are becoming more determined to prosecute users, taking sniffer dogs to festivals and using saliva tests on drivers. The only people allowed to enjoy the benefits of cannabis are those who can afford to pay the high price asked for legal medical cannabis prescribed by a doctor. The rich benefit, but not everyday people. We have more cannabis users in jail than ever before, more facing court and more arrests than ever. How can this be when we now acknowledge its medicinal qualities? Simply because Big Business is ruthlessly pursuing profits to control medical cannabis. Big Business has convinced our government that cannabis is DANGEROUS!!! This is despite not one death in ten thousand years of recorded use! This amazing medicine was prominent in every natural healer’s manual and was used as a pain-relieving
medicine for centuries. The simple truth is that pain relief is the most profitable business on Earth. Again, what does that say about our world? If I can take your pain away and make you feel good, you will pay handsomely, right? And yet everyone could easily grow this herb in a pot on a balcony, or in their backyard, but then no one would make a profit, would they? Not so long ago, cannabis was the most used and useful plant on the planet. Not just as a medical treatment but also because it provides long strong fibres and high protein seeds. The word ‘canvas’ comes from cannabis. Australia, like America, was founded as a hemp colony among other things. The first record of common hemp seeds brought to Australia was with the First Fleet at the request of Sir Joseph Banks, who marked the cargo ‘for commerce’ in the hope that hemp would be produced commercially in the new colony. For 150 years early governments in Australia supported the growing of hemp through land grants.
The use of cannabis in Australia in the 19th century was widespread. Even the celebrated colonial writer Marcus Clarke, author of the great Australian novel For the Term of his Natural Life, experimented with cannabis to improve his writing. I didn’t discover cannabis until I was in my 20s and suffering from debilitating migraines. It was a magic pill for me and I’ve hardly had a headache since in fifty years. It was so effective I couldn’t believe it was illegal and had to find out why this was so. Now I have the answer. It is all about money. Our medical system has been highjacked by the pharmaceutical industry. Big Pharma writes the rules and using herbs is not on the curriculum at all. Today there is a pill for every disease and sorry about the side effects. Doctors are only taught one way to heal sickness, with pharma pills. It’s wonderful that some pills work wonders, but why outlaw nature’s best pain-relieving herbs? Simply to control the market, knock out the opposition. Standard business practise.
California has had legal medical cannabis since 1996. Half the other American states have followed them and Big Pharma pill sales for many ailments have collapsed, along with their profits. Like epileptic medication, and Parkinson’s treatment, depression and anxiety, nausea, insomnia....and just general wellbeing. No nasty side effects with pot! There are many extremely positive statistics from these states now. Suicides, car accidents, violence including domestic violence, crime of course is all down where there is legal pot. Alcohol use is down too. But here in Australia Big Pharma spends a fortune wining and dining our politicians and their advisors convincing them this is still a deadly dangerous drug and prohibition must be maintained with supply strictly controlled. The Murdoch press, which dominates Australia, supports them at every chance. The war on drugs sells papers I figure. It also supports massive industries like the police force, the courts, lawyers and jail systems. Truly, we could all be growing our own at no expense, in our big Aussie backyards. MardiGrass in Nimbin this weekend is all about education, our effort to undo some of the lies and propaganda that even our politicians and police have convinced themselves to believe. I suggest you do some research on the history of cannabis and the war against it. I don’t expect you to just believe me but I caution you not to believe everything you are told. Search for the truth yourself.
New drop off zone for St Mary’s Primary, Casino RICHMOND Valley Council has introduced a new school drop off zone for St Mary’s Primary School in Casino. It is located in North Street between Centre and West streets and is clearly marked by signage. This new zone allows a maximum of two minutes’ drop off time for regular vehicles, or five minutes for disability marked vehicles.
Please note this new zone is only in effect from 8am–9.30am school days. Other important rules for the zone are as follows: • Drivers may exit to assist children out of their vehicle but not go more than three meters away; • Vehicle must not be left unattended at anytime; and • Vehicles must travel and face the direction of travel.
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April 29, 2021
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Masters Games to breathe life into Lismore
Committee members and volunteers at the launch of the 12th Lismore Workers Masters Games at the Lismore Workers Club on Thursday. AN expected 1500 visitors will compete across 15 sports when the 12th Lismore Workers Masters Games comes back to town in September. The sporting event was launched by Lismore Mayor Vanessa Ekins at the Lismore Workers Club on Thursday, with special guests former Australian cricketing captain Lyn Larsen and Stan Gilchrist, father of cricketing legend and Games ambassador Adam Gilchrist, who was unable to attend. The mayor said she was very excited about the positive social and economic benefits the Games brought to the region. “This is our 12th biannual Lismore Workers Masters Games and we are very excited to have one of our
premier sporting events back,” Cr Ekins said. “The Games are about enjoyment and connection, being physically active and enjoying the hospitality of our great city which draws more than 1500 visitors to the city with an estimated more than $1 million into Lismore’s economy. “It’s a great opportunity for Lismore, not just for our accommodation houses and cafes and restaurants, but it also features Lismore promoted as more as a premier sporting destination. “It will add a real buzz to the city.” Lismore Workers Masters Games organising committee chairman Matt Barlow said the city’s premier sporting facilities would be utilised throughout the three days,
accommodation houses would be full, and support services would be ready to welcome the large influx of participants and supporters. “Generally, there is just as many supporters as there are participants, which is wonderful,” Mr Barlow said. “We have a huge, significant role to play in promoting this more as a sporting destination. “This year the Masters Games will be one of the best the region has prepared and a great way for participants to enjoy sport and the social aspect after what has been a tough year for sport surrounding COVID-19. “Sport is a cornerstone of a vibrant Lismore community and provides competitors a platform to test their skills but also enjoy the company of fellow competitors and
participants away from the field. “The economic benefits that we can see to the region and the local economies is just … it can’t be put into figures. “We’ve had our trials and tribulations over the last few years, but we’ve been able to continue the Games each and every two years. “2017, we all remember as locals, 2017 will go down in the history books. We were able to run our games, about six or seven months after one of the most devastating floods that the region has seen on the city. 2019 we had our bushfires and a lot of our sporting competitions got played out on concrete-ish grounds. But we managed to get through. “And now, obviously COVID has is changed the landscape forever. A lot of
small businesses around the region and locally are struggling after a very, very tough 15 months.” The Games, which are held every two years, have been hosted in Lismore since 1999 and will be held this year from September 24-26, the day after the Lismore Cup is planned for September 23. “It’ll be a big week on the local calendar,” Mr Barlow said. People aged 30+ can register across the sports of baseball, basketball, cricket, fitness challenge, five-a-side soccer, football, golf, hockey, lawn bowls, mini-Olympics, netball, Oztag, softball, swimming and tennis. Registrations for the Games are now open online at www. visitlismore.com.au and will close on Saturday, August 14.
Grants available for investing in women APPLICATIONS for the Investing in Women Funding Program in 2021 are being called for. The Investing in Women Funding Program funds NSW organisations to develop and implement projects that support: • Improve women’s financial wellbeing and security and support diverse and flexible employment opportunities for women and girls; • Promote and support a holistic approach to women’s health across the lifespan; • Support women’s engagement through social networks, access to information
and building confidence using diverse representation of women and girls. Increasing women’s participation leads to benefits for individuals, families and the community. Advancing the role, status and contribution of women and girls in our communities will grow the talent pool available for the workforce, encourage more diversity and flexibility for women and men in the workplace, and result in increased innovation, productivity and prosperity. More information about successful projects is available at www.women. nsw.gov.au.
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BluesFest hit hard by cancellation THE state and federal governments are being called on to rescue Blues Fest so that it can one day return to the Northern Rivers. Blues Festival organiser Peter Noble this week spoke to media about the devastating impact of the festival’s cancellation at Easter due to a local coronavirus case. “We’ve dropped $10 to 11 million, a day before the festival,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald. Mr Noble has owned the festival since 2008, but has been involved with it since 1994. “It was one case of COVID,” he told the Nine newspaper. “I’m not an irresponsible person. We did everything right. I don’t want to have to sell my event,
Pic: Gary Colby Jones. or even half my event, just to deal with this. And why should I?” Mr Noble wants the federal government to support the
arts and festivals thought a Business Interruption Fund, which would help cover expenses if an event is cancelled by a Covid
shutdown. Mr Noble says the arts/ music industry has a yearly turnover of $5.6 billion and must be supported by
government. His sentiments are echoed by NSW Shadow Minister for Music and the Night-Time Economy, John Graham. “Bluesfest has been cancelled now twice in a row, this time literally as the gates were due to swing open,” Mr Graham said. “That was a heartbreaking loss for music fans and the local community. We are calling for direct support for Bluesfest. Without that it is hard to see them bouncing back. “We also need a festival interruption fund that provides support in future for festivals that hit COVID restrictions. We know that is a fact of life right now, but it can’t be the festivals and the musicians bearing all the risk.”
YOUNGSTERS AND SENIORS HELPING ONE ANOTHER THROUGH TECHNOLOGY By Lesley Apps NAVIGATING modern technology isn’t easy for some seniors, especially if you have lived most of your life without it. Finding someone to help show you how to make the most of things like social media or pay a bill online isn’t always easy, and even when you have a friend or family member that can help, often that can lead to frustration and impatience from both sides. That’s where Youngster.co can help. This free program was recently launched in Grafton during the Seniors Festival with Clarence Valley libraries now offering the service as part of their Get Connected program. Youngster.co is an intergenerational program that employs local young people to teach seniors how to use technology and Clarence Valley seniors can now turn to their local library for free one-on-one tech help from a professionally trained youngster. Youngster.co founder Tony Rothacker was at the Clarence Valley launch at Grafton Shoppingworld during the Seniors Festival last week and said he was hopeful the program could be expanded right across the Northern Rivers to Lismore, Ballina and Byron Bay. Mr Rothacker founded the privately owned social
enterprise in the Coffs Harbour area, a result of an innovation challenge with local health district to address youth suicide. “Its sole purpose is to create jobs for the youth by helping seniors with technology,” Mr Rothacker said. The Youngster.co program is now available across all Clarence Valley libraries including Grafton, Maclean, Yamba and Iluka and they will also be partnering up with aged care facilities. “Youngsters are our under-utilised asset. Their technology skills is the asset we can use and benefit the elders,” he said. Mr Rothacker said they approve and provide training for the Youngsters and make sure they are rewarded when they do the job well. “They receive a base payment in order to teach them how to be on time, be kind polite, ask open questions, basically teach them great customer service. They can also be paid a bonus based on the feedback from the senior.” Mr Rothacker said Youngster.co applicants needed to be 16 years or older, and despite the program’s name there was no upper age limit for applicants. “We have one Youngster who’s 80 because she is so passionate about the program. She teaches other seniors about technology.” Mr Rothacker said the
Clarence Library staff, Jane Kreis (programs officer), Kathryn Breward (regional librarian) and Hayden Lowe (library assistant) with the founder of Youngsters .co Tony Rothacker at Grafton Shoppingworld during last week’s Seniors Festival. A new program was launched that brings youngsters and older residents together through technology. benefits of having youngsters mixing with elders teaching them how to communicate, how to listen and how to have patience. It’s also makes good financial sense according to Mr Rothacker. “Estimates on social return on investment is estimated around $4 for every dollar spent but when they include youngsters it goes up to $35 on every dollar spent.” He said young people were spending “far too much time” on devices, social media, gaming and not enough face-to-face time. “We are using the tech for good in this case.” “We teach life skills that ultimately give youngsters
vision for the future, what they can do with their life. Quite often young people ask ‘what is my life’s purpose?’. We believe one of the most rewarding things in life is to be of service and help others before you help yourself.” Mr Rothacker said the elders were also very willing to get out of their rooms, “incentivised to come to these sessions”, because isolation of older people was a big issue too. “With the aged care commission happening right now, and so many challenge with home care and aged care, we need to find new innovative ways to care for the seniors as well as care for the youngsters because they
can feel isolated as well.” He said elders normally get involved with the program because they have a tech issue they wanted to solve. “They want to claim their dine and discover voucher but they don’t know how. They want learn how to use the QR code or sometimes just get independent advice. Sometime their partners will get in touch on their behalf to help with technology because they get so frustrated.” Mr Rothacker said Youngsters participating in the program can also receive credits towards study units if they decide to go to university. “They’re called micro credentials. Learning skills like how to communicate, how to listen, how to present certain things, these are really important skills to have later on in the job. We believe all university degrees benefit from students having interpersonal and life skills.” Youngster.co are partners with the well known Duke of Edinburgh Awards, their values Mr Rothacker said were “very much aligned” with theirs”. “Once you are of service to others, helping others, you know you are needed. That’s the ultimate benefit of the program.” To apply to be a Youngster or to book a free tech session with a Youngster at your local library, visit www.youngster. co
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LAUNCH OF NIMBIN AND THE CHANNON COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE PLANS LISMORE City Council has announced the launch of the Nimbin and The Channon Community Disaster Resilience Plans. Council has been working in partnership with the Nimbin and The Channon communities following the bushfires in 2019/2020 to create community-led disaster resilience plans for each community. The project was possible with funding from the State and Federal governments Bushfire Community Resilience and Economic Recovery Fund (BCRERF). The aim of the project was to help build the resilience of each community and create a clear and actionable plan for each community to implement to mitigate the risks and impacts of
past and future natural disasters. The Nimbin and The Channon communities have worked incredibly hard over the past five months to understand their needs and identify actions they can take to recover from recent disasters and prepare for future ones. Each community will now have a tailored community disaster resilience plan which reflects their priorities and needs. The two events will take place on Saturday,
24 April 2021 with the following information: • Nimbin – 10am – 12pm at the Nimbin Town Hall; • The Channon – 2pm – 4pm at The Channon Hall. Council invites the Nimbin and The Channon communities to attend the launch of these plans and celebrate this significant milestone in your communities. For more information, contact Paula Newman from Lismore City Council on 6625 0500.
Massive fish magnet plan THE NSW Government should target the Northern Rivers coastline for their next multi-million dollar fish magnet, says Clarence MP Chris Gulaptis. Better known at as an Offshore Artificial Reef, there are already eight of the megastructures, including one at Tweed Heads. Mr Gulaptis said he wanted “people power” to be decisive in bringing the reef to the Clarence or Richmond coast. “Not surprisingly, there is a lot of competition for these reefs so I need to locals to help me convince the government that the next one should be sunk off one of our coastal towns such as Yamba or Evans Head,” he said. “Schools of sportfish swarm and dart around these reefs, giving keen anglers a great place to drop a bait and greatly enhancing local fishing and tourism opportunities.” The structures have a good track record.
“The Government has already installed eight of these megastructures including one off the Tweed coast and we know they quickly become a unique habitat for fish and aquatic organisms to call home,” Mr Gulaptis said. “So this is great environmental diversity but also great for the local recreational fishing and diving industries and tourist driven coastal economies.” Mr Gulaptis said to nominate locations for the next Offshore Artificial Reef, locals should complete the survey before June 17. The survey is available through the NSW Department Primary Industries (DPI) website and Survey Monkey. He said The Nationals ran a rigorous evaluation of the proposed reef locations through a comprehensive environmental assessment. These assessments included ecological, biological and socioeconomic impacts.
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Another happy Lismore NDIS customer ANY working mother will tell you that raising children and holding down a job is no easy feat, but can you imagine how hard it would be if you also grappled daily with a painful health condition? 39-year-old Lismore mother of two, Alicia, has cerebral palsy which affects her physically, but not intellectually. “Because of my disability, every day I am in pain. Something is sore every day and some days are worse than others,” Alicia said. “I’ll have random leg spasms or tightening of the muscle – some days it’s hard just to get out of bed. And then if my whole back goes into spasm – that’s just … awful.” Last year Alicia hooked up with Social Futures, the Lismore not-for-profit organisation co-ordinating the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in the Northern Rivers. Because of the NDIS, Alicia has been able to access therapies including
hydrotherapy, osteopathy, and treatment through NeuroMoves, based at Southern Cross University. “From where I started – I have come a long way,” said Alicia. “Even with hydrotherapy. That has helped a massive amount, especially with the back pain. I’m exhausted afterwards, but it really does help.” With her therapies locked in and health improving, Alicia decided to focus on her next goal – finding a rewarding job. She had been working parttime at a disability enterprise, and was grateful for the experience but wanted more. Local Northern Rivers business owner Michelle Garret decided to take a chance on Alicia and employed her part-time as an administrative assistant, but has now recognised that Alicia has a lot to offer and wants to help her through management training. “When Michelle told me she wants me to do plan management training I said, ‘are you serious?’, and she
if it better suits her – every mother’s wish! “My new employer is amazing,” Alicia said. “The NDIS has given me a better purpose in life. To have the support there that I’ve never had before. “Social Futures Local Area Coordinator (LAC), Laura Boorman is fantastic – she’s a Godsend. She listens and she understands. Life before the NDIS was pretty crap. You just survived basically. Having the NDIS has given me more opportunity to make my goals, to do what I want to do, to actually better my life.” Social Futures is a social said, ‘yes. I am, you’re quite dream. justice organisation delivering capable’,” Alicia said. “Now I actually like going Local Area Coordination Deep down, Alicia knew she to work because I have a services for the NDIS across could do more if she only had purpose,” she said. “I get to more than 50 per cent of the opportunity. help people with disabilities regional New South Wales. To “Michelle has got me doing achieve their goals and I’m talk to a local area coordinator all of the admin and invoices, really looking forward to doing about the NDIS, or to find so I now see the NDIS from the training in plan management in out how your school can take other side,” she said. the future.” part in inclusion awareness Alicia intends to be trained Michelle has also offered programs, email lac@ to help other NDIS participants Alicia flexible hours, allowing socialfutures.org.au or call our build their NDIS Plans and her to continue accessing her LAC Hotline on 1800 522 679 support them to reach their therapies and work from home (Mon-Fri 8.30am – 4.30pm)
COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS RE-TRIGGERED TRAUMA FOR SOME STOLEN GENERATIONS SURVIVORS NEW research released by The Healing Foundation shows that the strong and necessary public health restrictions introduced to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia since early 2020 re-triggered trauma for some Stolen Generations survivors. The research data suggests an increased and heightened sense of vulnerability; significant disconnection from family, community, and country; and significant impacts on mental health and wellbeing among an already vulnerable cohort of people. The Healing Foundation CEO Fiona Cornforth said the research results will assist governments and authorities in future pandemic planning to build on Australia’s worldleading public health efforts to ensure the most vulnerable in the community are protected. “The excellent work of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group on COVID-19 – as part of national efforts guided by the National Cabinet – ensured that infection rates were very low in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations,”
Ms Cornforth said. “There were only minor outbreaks, and they were quickly contained. “But the pandemic created unprecedented disruption to cultural practices and the normal relational and collective practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. “Physical distancing restrictions meant traditional celebrations and ceremonies such as births and funerals could not occur. “Being disconnected from family during Sorry Business and being unable to attend community functions or cultural gatherings such as NAIDOC Week was really challenging, especially for Stolen Generations survivors. “Isolation and loneliness, the inability to be with family, and strict government controls brought disturbing memories back for some survivors, and re-triggered trauma. “The Healing Foundation is working with survivors and communities to ensure healing. “Our involvement in the Coalition of the Peaks and participation in the National
Health Leadership Forum • More than 90 per cent demonstrates our commitment of Stolen Generations to Closing the Gap Agreement survivors reported feeling priority reforms and achieving disconnected from better life outcomes for Stolen family, community, and Generations survivors and culture, while 77 per cent descendants. felt disconnected from “Importantly, this research country. This is particularly provides a better understanding concerning given the degree of the pandemic’s impact and to which connection to will inform future pandemic family, community, culture, planning to ensure the mental and country enhances health health and wellbeing of and wellbeing for Aboriginal the most vulnerable in the and Torres Strait Islander community, including Stolen peoples, and all the more for Generations survivors,” Ms Stolen Generations survivors Cornforth said. and descendants; Across the 23 social and • It is not surprising, emotional wellbeing indicators therefore, that 66 per cent surveyed, the following were of respondents reported a important findings: decline in their physical • Stolen Generations survivors health during COVID-19, 75 had a significantly increased per cent reported a decline in sense of isolation and mental health and wellbeing, loneliness, with more than and 66 per cent reported a 90 per cent of respondents decreased ability to cope reporting an increased sense with stress; of isolation. More than 80 • Importantly, 66 per cent of per cent of respondents respondents said the degree had increased feelings of to which they felt safe was loneliness, with 65 per cent impacted by COVID-19, and reporting too much time more than 75 per cent were on their own and more worried about not being than 70 per cent reporting able to get to places, with feeling trapped in their own 50 per cent worried about thoughts; being able to get to a doctor/
hospital and/or access the services they require; • Less concerning is the degree to which employment and financial vulnerability increased during COVID-19, with 70 per cent not at all concerned about loss of employment and more than 50 per cent not feeling financially vulnerable; • In the context of the above, respondents have experienced an increase in family (almost 75 per cent) and cultural (70 per cent) responsibilities. Alongside this, more than 90 per cent of respondents experienced stress being placed on important relationships; and • Finally, 20 per cent of respondents reported they had no support during COVID-19, while 58 per cent reported having some support. The research project was undertaken by the Marumali Program on behalf of The Healing Foundation. The findings are based on 60 responses to an online survey in November 2020. The full report is available from https:// healingfoundation.org.au.
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PURPOSE-BUILT BREWERY FOR STONE AND WOOD By Tania Spiers-Phillips A BRAND-NEW purposebuilt brewery is set to be built in Murwillumbah under the watchful eye of Wollumbin (Mt Warning). The new $50millon facility, announced by Northern Rivers brewery Stone & Wood on Thursday, will be situated just a block from their main existing brewery and will include a visitors centre. Brewery co-founder Ross Jurisich said the 34,000 square metre site, will eventually be home to a 200 hectolitre fully automated brewhouse that includes a visitor’s centre for locals and tourists to the region. Mr Jurisich told the gathered media, Federal and Council representatives that the construction of the brewery was scheduled to take approximately two years and create new jobs for local construction and engineering teams as well as continue to provide roles for the Stone & Wood family that live and work in the Northern Rivers. “It’s critical to the success of our ongoing success, it gives us the opportunity to unlock a great deal of volume that we will be able to provide the market that we can’t currently provide,” he said. “In the initial build process we are looking to create 40 plus new jobs just in the building process and then on the other side of that we get to secure the 150 jobs that Stone & Wood already has here in the Northern Rivers. The focus of production for the company is now in the Tweed not Byron Bay where it originated. “Absolutely this facility here that we have is the engine room of our business and has been the past six years while we’ve been here,” he said. He said Byron Bay would always be their birth-place but the company considers itself part of Byron Bay, the Tweed Region and the whole Northern Rivers and saw the new facility as a way to give back to the community. “In 2013 we took possession of the site we’re currently operating here now and will still be keeping both sites going. When we first looked at that site it was so big that we thought there
was no opportunity that we would fill it at all and now six-seven years later we’ve out-grown it. “Having the opportunity to build a custom built brewery site is opportunity that you don’t get very often. Even though the site that we have over here is a great free-span building – ex Bunnings Trade centre – the concrete is really flat which is a real credit to the concreters but as a brewer it is really nice to have falls in some places because we so many liquids. So to be able to build something custom-made to our specs is arguably a once in a lifetime opportunity.” He said the company was currently looking at several options to fund the new building including bank loans and floating the company on the stock exchange. Member for Richmond Justine Eliot said she was very supportive of the company’s new plan and urged the Federal government to support the plan. “I think it’s really important that the Federal Government does invest in projects like this and that’s something that I will definitely be pursuing as they are now going to be applying for grants,” she said. “I am a hundred percent supportive of them because this is such a great initiative, it’s so good for our region and it’s a wonderful local product. An iconic Northern Rivers product but it’s not just the great product they make, it’s the local jobs, so good for the local economy. “It’s exactly the sort of projects that Federal and State Governments should be supporting and encouraging to grow. Support locals and keep producing the great beer they do. “And I should disclose, Stone & Wood is my favourite beer,” she quipped. Tweed mayor Chris Cherry said this announcement would be a major boost for the region. “I think it’s about jobs, local employment and supporting local businesses obviously the transport company that transports this beer is a local company and supporting Australian manufacturing as well,” she said. “So it’s all good basically.”
Tweed Shire Council general manager Troy Greenwood, Stone & Wood co-founder Ross Jursich and Federal member for Richmond Justine Elliot stand on the proposed site of the new brewery.
Concept drawing.
Local dignitaries check out the current operation.
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NEWS POLE dancing has become the latest fitness/dance craze to take off in the Northern Rivers, with one local studio offering 15 classes a week, including a mums and bubs class. Once considered risqué and provocative, pole dancing appears to have gone mainstream. Dance teacher Megan Phillips says she has lawyers, doctors and even school principals in her Lismore classes. Ms Phillips, the instructor, began dancing as a child and is trained in ballet, jazz and tap, but she also fell for pole dancing, saying it delivers the ultimate workout. She opened her Lismore studio in 2017 and only offered two pole dancing classes a week but they proved to be the most sought-after so now she runs 15 dance classes a week that include pole work. Ms Phillips said women love pole dancing because it is physically demanding and also gives dancers the chance to get in touch with the feminine and sexual selves. Her studio has 13 fitted brass poles. “I have all different types of women in my class,”
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she said. “The women in the class are also so lovely and supportive. It gives the women a chance to step outside their comfort zone. They come and say, ‘I could never do that’ then they come back and nail it.” Ms Phillips says the women dance in small pants and a crop top. “You wear this to stick to the pole,” she said. “You must be able to stick yourself to a pole. That won’t happen if you wear track-pants but we have women of all different body shapes and all different ages – from 18 to 57.” Ms Phillips also runs a class for mothers with young children. “They are allowed to bring the kids in, who play, while women do their pole work and the kids love it. They have their toys, run around and have the occasional swing on the pole. They think it’s like a playground and love the music, and the dancing we do is appropriate for this,” she said. If you’d like to join Megan’s class enrol on her webpage: www.facebook. com/RoxieRoseBurlesque/
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Inspiring music and arts at Renew Fest RENEW Fest, now less than two weeks away, has just released its full action-packed schedule of around 100 presenters, including its music and arts program. “We are really thrilled with all the musicians and artists coming together for Renew Fest this year. Our earthy and contemplative arts offer experiences to weave people’s big visions and learnings with their hearts and whole selves,” says musician and Renew Fest arts programmer Luke Jaaniste. The festival begins and ends with Indigenous performers and Elders. At the Opening Night both Delta Kay, Arakwal Bundjalung woman, and Uncle Magpie Yerrubilgin, Minyungbal Yugambeh song man, will offer a Welcome to Country, before Indigenous Elders Judy Atkinson and Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann open up a dialogue on deep listening and truth-telling. The closing ceremony, “Weaving Our Dreams Together”, will be led by the didgeridoo playing of Bundjalung Elder and Wahrla-Bal Custodian Uncle Lewis, along with Uncle Magpie and his dancing group. Natalli Rize and the Black Sistaz will be headlining the Saturday night music, poetry and fireside program. Natalli (pictured) is a global
powerhouse and conscious artist from Blue King Brown. “Nattali’s stripped back acoustic performance will showcase the power of her rich vocals, energising rhythms and inspiring lyrics. She and the Black Sistaz will be positive, all embracing, interactive, raw and emotive,” festival organisers say. Also appearing on the festival music lineup is the Batala Percussion Group, Laura Targett and Peter Hunt. The immersive “music for the Fig Trees” soundscape created by Luke Jaaniste will return, having been a festival favourite in 2018. The contemplative and interactive arts and performance program includes the Weaving Connection space led by Kim Tait, spinning wheel mediation by Joss Lewis, a labyrinth walk created by Jacqueline Wills and Jenni CargillStrong, morning movement sessions with WeMove and Noa Rotem, pop up performances from Byron Youth Theatre, with poetry and story-telling from Vashti Eastern, Paul Crebar, Thomas Keily and others. Children and young people can enjoy the Little People’s Nature Crafts program, and the Youth Zine Making space hosted by Byron Youth Service. The festival is free for Indigenous First Nations people, as well as children 16 years and under.
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Dawn breaks and they are remembered at Cudgen By Tania Spiers-Phillips AS dawn broke over Cudgen more than 300 people inside the Cudgen Public school grounds and another 300 outside the fence paid tribute to those from the district who lost their lives in Wars from World War I to Afghanistan. Before the service – run by the Kingscliff RSL Sub Branch in conjunction with Cudgen Public School, Kingscliff High and Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar school – a march was held around the tall pines outside the school. Each of the pine trees was planted in memory of a soldier lost in War from Cudgen. This year no flowers were left at the base of each tree as in previous years however small tealights in glass jars were placed at the bottom of each tree in remembrance. A special plaque on the wall of the Cudgen memorial remembers the most recent Cudgen Primary school student lost in war – Sapper Rowan Robinson who was killed in Afghanistan a decade ago this year. His friends and
family were on-hand to place flowers and remember. The Service was held an hour later
than usual this year in place of the usual Kingscliff early morning event.
POTTSVILLE OUT IN FORCE FOR ANZAC DAY By Tania Spiers Phillips CROWDS lined the street, clapping as the returned service men and women of Pottsville marched through the streets. “We are back,” Pottsville RSL Sub-Branch president Merv Mason declared as he looked out on a sea of faces Socially distanced in front of the Cenotaph with the overflow well down on the oval behind. Taking pride of place at the ceremony was RSL member Roy Crossley who joined the armed forces as a boy soldier during the Second World War. Community groups from all walks of life were represented from Surf Clubs to Football and Service Clubs laid wreaths.
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Anzac Day ‘back to its best’ says local RSL By Tim Howard GRAFTON rolled back the clock to pre-COVID-19 days with an Anzac Day march and ceremony to rival any the Jacaranda City has seen said RSL sub-branch secretary Denis Benfield. “The turn out is as good as any I’ve seen in 15 years of involvement in Anzac Day ceremonies,” Mr Benfield said when he hundreds of people into Memorial Park for the 2021 ceremony. Local schools turned out in big numbers, despite a weekend Anzac Day date. “To see the kids come out in the numbers they did on a Sunday was unbelievable,” Mr Benfield said. He also paid tribute to veterans at the other end of the spectrum, 101-year-old Henry ‘Corky’ Caldwell (pictured) and two “sprightly”
99-year-olds George Smith and Arthur Hazeltine. “I have to thank Dennis Cropper and Michael Hershey for making their jeeps available allow for them,” Mr Benfield said. “It’s a tribute to them they were there this morning for the Dawn Service and a few drinks at the Gunfire
Breakfast afterwards,” he said. He said it was particularly great to see Corky Caldwell back up again on Anzac Day. Last year, after the RSL announced it would cancel the Anzac Day march and service, Mr Caldwell’s family took matters into its own hands and organised a
personal Anzac Day “march”. “It was great to see him back at the head of the march and walk out to lay a wreath,” Mr Benfield said. Mr Benfield said there had been some trepidation among organisers predicting the turn out for the day’s activities. “We weren’t sure what might happen after the year we had last year,” he said. “The GDSC asked us how many people we expected for the Dawn Service, so they could cater for the Gunfire Breakfast. “”We thought 100, maybe 120. Instead we had more than 140. Luckily it was just a matter of throwing on a few more eggs and a bit more bacon.” A feature of the ceremony was the address from Grafton High School captain Oliver Westman who gave an insight into the effect “holes” left in
families across generations when members made the supreme sacrifice. His compared the experience of that loss of his great great uncle, Harold Watkins, who died in battle on the Western Front, to the loss of a great friend of the family, Lieutenant Michael Fussell, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008. “He had just turned 20 when he died, just three years older than I am,” Oliver said. “For my grand mother and mother the hole that he left in the family resonated down the generations.” He said the death of Lieutenant Fussell, who was killed by a remotely detonated improvised explosive device was a reminder of the willingness of people of his own age and younger to make sacrifices to an ideal higher than caring for yourself.
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Kingscliff turns out in big numbers By Tania Spiers-Phillips KINGSCLIFF RSL Vice President Brian Vickery and fellow RSL member and Afghanistan Veteran Brad Butson estimated Sunday’s crowd at Rowan Robinson Park at 2000 – and that was without the large amount of school students who usually march. Brian said the event was meant to tug at the heartstrings and from Kingscliff High School Captain Jadzia Wolff’s heartfelt speech to laying of a special wreath for Sapper Rowan Robinson by his friends. Sapper Robinson was killed a decade ago in Afghanistan and the local community rallied to have the Park around the cenotaph and next to his beloved surf club named after him. Perhaps one of the most poignant moments of the day would have gone un-noticed by the majority of the crowd but the singing of the New Zealand National Anthem brought a tear to the eye of RSL members and regular ANZAC day participants.
The anthem is sung each year after the insistence of former president Robert Brumfit – the tamed Kiwi Brian Vickery
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The reach of great teachers in our lives SIMILAR to nurses, teachers are the tireless and yet quite often overlooked, albeit nonconsidered backbones of our society. The role they play surely places them in the realm of utmost importance, they are nothing short of our collective safeguards; without their presence, expertise and influence, where would any of us be? Incurably sick, and perhaps just a stone’s throw away from silly at all times? Some of my greatest personal heroes, and people I think of daily, were actual teachers of mine growing up in the far western throes of this state. From the booming St George, literature-loving year 5 teacher, not to mention times table maestro, Mr Goulding (who sadly didn’t get to see his Dragons win in 2010 because diabetes turned out to be the one foe, he just wasn’t able to beat) to Mrs Robinson, my French teacher in high school, who has remained a close friend and mentor long after persisting with a student that was far more inclined to daydream out of windows, than apply himself to fathoming the verbs and vernaculars of Français. It was Mark Twain who coined the term ‘miracle worker’ in honour of Anne Sullivan, the trail-blazing teacher in the 1880’s to one of history’s most tenacious and inspirational learners – Helen Keller (who was clinically deaf and blind from the age of two) going on to become an accomplished academic and teacher in her own right; but without the diligence and guidance of her own teacher, Helen may well have lived a life of abject torment, underachievement and certain anonymity. Whilst America (whether unjustly or not) does their fair share of things less than fantastic, one thing they do carry out and give incredible
RYAN ASHORE FOR ANZAC DAY By Tim Howard IT’S seven years since Ryan Cavanagh left the Jacaranda City to join the navy and see the world. The adventurous young man was not disappointed serving on ships that regularly sailed through South East Asia, sometimes for months at a time. “The shortest time I was away was a month, the longest was 120 days,” Lieutenant Cavanagh said. He came back to Grafton for a short holiday and found himself front and centre at the city’s
Thoughts ‘n’ things with Nigel Dawe honour to, is devoting the entire month of May to ‘National Teachers Month’; the Philippines have also been devoting their September’s to the same worthy cause since 2008. In Australia, we haven’t yet got our act together to lock in a fourweek block to raise our teachers to the deserved level of overall national reverence, maybe one day; but we are one of the 100 countries to recognise and celebrate ‘World Teacher’s Day’ on the 5th of October each year, which was a long overdue initiative commenced in 1994 by UNESCO. It is interesting, that in countries like Poland, they’ve been commemorating their teachers with ‘a day’ since the 1770’s, and it typically involves children taking flowers and sweets to school for their teachers. The students of Estonia apparently send their teachers home for the last class of that equivalent day and run the rest of the show themselves. It’s the same in Jamaica, minus the kids taking charge, because come that last class, everyone calls it quits and goes home ‘in honour’ of their teachers. Maybe it only rings poetically true in English, but the bulk of our word for those incredible people we refer to as teachers – is the word ‘each’; and as such, each and every one of us wouldn’t be nearly the people we are, if it weren’t for the invaluable time and attention afforded us by our teachers.
Anzac Day ceremony, standing proudly his naval uniform at the front of the parade. “I contacted the local RSL and asked if I could take part in the day’s activities,” he said. “They said yes and welcomed me to come along. But I was not expecting to be out the front.” For a Grafton born and bred boy chances to come home to see family and friends have been rare in recent times. “It’s been a great chance to catch up after everything that’s happened,” he said.
Unique Anzac wreath to become permanent part of Grafton memorial By Tim Howard THE wreath laying ceremony during the Grafton Anzac Day ceremony featured a wreath likely to be unique in Australia, when officers from the Clarence Correctional Facility were called to take part. Facility supervisor Damian Beeston, a 15-year army veteran and trade instructor Darren Ford, marched to the cenotaph to lay a spectacular metal addition that stood out among the many floral wreaths. The pair were inspired inmates at the jail to come up with something special for the 2021 Anzac Day Service. Mr Ford said inmates created a wreath of poppies for the Clarence Valley community using their newly acquired metal working skills. In a press release, Serco said it has partnered with RSL NSW to deliver this unique communitybased project aimed at supporting rehabilitation opportunities for inmates through skills-based training and qualifications. The inmates’ wreath was made from protected carbon steel, designed to withstand the elements and be on permanent display in Memorial Park Grafton. Chosen for its strength and durability steel symbolises the Anzac spirit and Serco’s commitment to establishing longlasting links between centre staff and inmates with the community. Mr Ford said 20 inmates were inspired by the project, actively giving their time outside work and study commitments to create the one metre diameter piece. “When we first introduced the concept, many inmates seemed perplexed by the idea of making a wreath from metal,” Mr Ford said. “It quickly became apparent
that these inmates who come from diverse backgrounds did not understand the significance of laying a wreath on Anzac Day. “In the workshop I started to share stories of the Anzacs as we worked, and virtually overnight we went from two active project participants to a workshop full of inmates wanting to contribute. “They loved learning about the significance of the red poppy and how it has become the emblem to honour those lost in military service.” With more than 35 years’ experience in metal fabrication, Mr Ford has seen first-hand the difference learning on the job and giving back to the community can make. “This project has given inmates the opportunity to be part of something they are really proud of. As a group they put into practice the skills they are developing through a Certificate II in Engineering and came up with innovative solutions as the project became more complex. No matter what, they were determined to work together and create a significant piece to gift to the community.” With more than 10% of staff at the centre registered as current
and ex-service men and women, inmates also took the time to learn more about the traditions of military service from Mr Ford who has a rich personal and family history in the Australian Defence Force. “Partnering with RSL NSW created the opportunity to learn about the experiences of others and helped inmates to share their own life experiences, which supports an increased level of empathy when working together to achieve an individual’s rehabilitation and reintegration milestones.” Grafton RSL Sub-Branch member Denis Benfield said that he and his fellow veteran volunteers are overjoyed by the time and consideration the inmates have dedicated to making the wreath to pay their respects. “Grafton RSL Sub-Branch is looking forward to an ongoing relationship with Serco and supporting veteran inmates and staff at the Clarence Correctional Centre,” Mr Benfield said. After the ceremony Clarence Correctional Centre staff presented the wreath on behalf of the inmates to the RSL club. The RSL said the wreath would become part of an Eternal Flame memorial to be built in the park.
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“Leemo’s View” “LEEMO has views on just about anything”
Gardening is SO GOOD… (for some people) Purrsie...‘Leemo Cat’ reporting...guess what? ‘Mum Jane’ told me last night I could help her in the garden today...oooh woohoo... how nifty that will be...we will have such fun together. We had a ‘pre-gardening’ planning meeting... my chore is to help gather the leaves “from the gum tree next door” which is not in our yard...but the leaves don’t care one iota where they land. Hmmm. Well, being short in stature, I can’t wield a rake... so Mum suggested I use my excellently sharp front paw claws to ‘spear’ some pesky leaves and put them in the pile she would be making. OK…I agreed to that. So far so good, but after a while I truly found this ‘spearing’ of stupid leaves somewhat mundane and with all the leaves stuck on my front claws, my paws looked like I was wearing truly shabby ugg boots...NUP, I’d rather dig in the soil to make holes for my feline toilet breaks. Oh well...!! Mum raked and raked and raked, and soon we had a
pile of leaves ever so high. Whoohoo! I decided it was time for a small rest, and located myself to a sunny, high viewpoint overlooking the huge mound of leaves, and determined how delectable it would be to leap right into them, frisk and leap and yowl and roll around. Hmmm. Perhaps not? Would Mum be cross? Nup...too late...the idea was fixed in my mind...I would do a truly magnificent leap right into the very equidistance of the pile, a Rudolf Nureyev kinda leap...but more graceful...I would land and whirl and twirl and rustle around, snuffle, mioaoow and yowl and stuff... so I DID IT! Oooh... it was rapturous... those leaves went just everywhere…. all over the yard... where they were before Mum raked them. My astute feline brain “told” me to stay under the leaf pile that was left and NOT MOVE... or even breathe. But Ooooh NO...I heard Mum calling for me...“Leemo, where are you..are you OK little buddy?”...I swear I saw wee tears in her eyes as I slyly peeked out...she called and called again so I opened one of my magnificent golden green eyes WIDE OPEN and SHE SAW ME...“Oh, Leemo, I was SO worried about you”. She picked me up, hugged me and got me a warm towel and some delicious food and let me watch ‘Bluey’. Crikey...paradise! She brushed me later and said “Never mind Leems, we can round the leaves up TOGETHER again tomorrow”. Arrrgh yuk...I feel a true nightmare coming on... nite...Leemo.
Close call in Tenterfield truck fire A B-Double caught fire early Friday morning, closing the Bruxner and New England highways in all directions in the Tenterfield CBD. Witnesses say they heard loud bangs about 1am, when it’s understood the bearings on the truck locked up, causing the tyres to overheat. Fortunately there’s only minor damage to the surrounding buildings. This post appeared on the Our Tenterfield Facebook page: “Wow that felt like a bad dream! The town of Tenterfield had a stroke of massive luck from something or someone last night when at 1am this morning a large b double truck coming through the centre of our town caught on fire. “With two loud bangs as the truck drove past Molesworth St and heading towards the CBD, apparently the bearings locked up in this truck and caused the wheels to lock and the heat caused them
to catch on fire. Quick thinking from the driver when he drove the main front part of the truck 100m ahead as the back carriage bursted (sic) into flames! (Note the finer details of what happened need to be confirmed by the police after further investigation). “The police were there in minutes and the firefighters
weren’t far behind. That’s one big close call for Tenterfield and maybe one step closer to making this bypass come in quicker to get these huge trucks out of town. “That’s one lucky night for our historic CBD and thankfully no one was injured just a few cold people caught out side in their pjs!! Great job police and fireys!”
Tabulam hosts SES storm training course
Last weekend the NSW SES Tabulam Unit hosted members from Casino, Coraki and Lismore units for a storm and water damage course. These are core skills in the NSW SES and the team enjoyed training up new members to help their communities when they were in need. Thanks to Tabulam members for welcoming the teams, and to trainers from NSW SES Casino and Northern Rivers Capability units.
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Imagine Childcare now open in Ballina
DELICIOUS chef-prepared meals, beautiful playgrounds and gardens to explore, and free barista coffee for parents to enjoy. Imagine Childcare & Preschool Ballina is now open and taking new enrolments! Located at 27-37 Kalinga St, the centre cares for children from 6-weeks to 6-years, and is conveniently open from 6.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday. Centre Director, Lizz Hensen, leads a team of passionate Educators, who are dedicated to creating a nurturing and supportive environment, where children thrive and families are welcome. “We love being a part of the amazing Ballina community, and we have been
so excited to meet so many wonderful families. The support from the community has been incredible. “Supporting families is a big focus of our service, and one of the ways we do this is through the amazing benefits we offer as part of our daily fee. “We are the only centre in the area to offer childcare loyalty rewards program, Nurch. Our parents can redeem points earned on their childcare fees for digital gift cards from their favourite retailers like Woolworths and Kmart. It’s a great way for families to reduce their household costs and treat their families to some special purchases. “We also offer delicious chefprepared meals for children and
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barista coffee for parents. Our children enjoy cooking lessons and gardening programs, and we are planning to add more incursions, extracurricular activities, and excursions into the community soon too. “Our large playgrounds are designed for learning and adventures. Featuring bike tracks, cubby houses, sandpits, vegetable gardens, and a water play river bed – it’s been so great to see our children exploring and learning in such a beautiful outdoor environment. “We have nine modern classrooms, equipped with natural resources that complement our play-based curriculum, and we offer a comprehensive Preschool Program to prepare children for formal schooling. “We recognise the important role that family and community plays in ensuring children reach their full
potential. “We work closely with families to build strong partnerships. We value open communication and parent input into our programs. We support our families and see our Imagine family as a community. We also send you daily updates of your child’s day through KindyHub. With a high level of interest in the centre from the Ballina community, Mrs Hensen encourages families to book in a tour of the centre. “We want to make the process as easy as possible for families, and we encourage you to book a tour to experience the centre first-hand and meet our friendly staff” she said. Phone 1300 001 154, message the centre on Facebook, or visit www. imagineelc.com.au/ballina to book a tour of the centre.
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Shark mitigation program supported at Evans Head By Tonia Dynan REMOVING drum lines from Evans Head beaches would be a “fatal error” according to a local boardrider. Halftide Boardriders secretary Brody Aleckson said the drum lines needed to stay as the great white shark was protected and shark populations were just going to increase. “If we take them out, then they’re just gonna come back and people start getting attacked,” Mr Aleckson said. “Put it this way, someone was attacked back in 2015 and since they’ve been implemented there hasn’t been an attack. “A hungry shark will take a bite, like they are scavengers so it’ll take something easy before they have to fight for it so having the baits in the water is going to attract the hungry sharks. “They will take the bait before they take someone hopefully. “If I had a choice, it’d be
drum lines every day of the week.” Mr Aleckson said the drone wasn’t necessarily going to save a life but was useful for surveillance and could potentially alert a nearby
lifeguard to danger. “A paid lifeguard would be a better option because you can have someone race over to Chinaman’s if there’s a problem, but I don’t know whether there’s any funding to
support anything like that.” Richmond Valley councillor Daniel Simpson joined the council in calling for the NSW Shark Program to be continued as it is due to finish on June 30.
“In the last 12 months, and these are just off the top of my head, there were fatalities at Kingscliff, Tweed, Wooli and Port Macquarie from shark attacks,” Cr Simpson said. “Obviously, we have a lot of tourists come to our area and utilise our beaches and things like the smart drum lines and the drones do help people feel safer and I think encourage people to continue to come here and it would be an absolute loss if that was to stop.” Mayor Robert Mustow recommended council write to the New South Wales Minister for Primary Industries and the DPI shark management team to let the Minister know how valuable this tool was for the area. “So it just doesn’t get lost in the bureaucratic world,” Cr Mustow said. The council would also provide feedback on shark mitigation measures and request the program be funded by the NSW Government on an ongoing basis.
MOJOSURF REACHES OUT TO INDONESIAN TOURISM OPERATORS BYRON Bay based tourism operator, Mojosurf, has launched a campaign to support Indonesian people suffering as a result of the downturn in international tourism in that county. With international travel not expected to return to Indonesia until at least 2022, Mojosurf is looking for ways to keep families fed, children educated, and beaches clean in Indonesia. Mojosurf had been running surf adventures in Indonesia, Australia and Portugal for 20 years but Mojosurf’s overseas surf camps were stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite also being financially impacted, Mojosurf is dedicated to supporting struggling Indonesian communities. More than 13.5 million Indonesians have lost their jobs due to COVID-19 and there is no JobKeeper or JobSeeker. Mojo has kept its Indonesian teams engaged and working on community projects. Local father of three and long-term Mojo staff member, Wyan Kariada, is grateful for the assistance Mojo has provided. “During the pandemic situation Mojo has been a
great help to us,” he said. “There have been no tourists to come and visit our beautiful Island and Mojo supports us with food packs. These are so important to us, I can supply food to my family. Without these food packs I would feel hopeless.” Mojosurf’s owner and founder, Nathan Folkes, is passionate about playing his part in the places where the Mojo camps are based. “Over the past six years we have funded a wide range of
community development and environmental programs,” he said “including repairing a local orphanage, ongoing funding for children’s education, cleaning up beaches, and helping
to establish sustainable businesses and housing for locals.” With Coronavirus devastating tourism operations globally, Mojosurf has remained steadfast to
these commitments and has worked to keep the majority of their staff employed, despite a 95 percent reduction in revenue. “With no international customers to take surfing or stay at our hotels, we have engaged our staff in cleaning beaches, caring for their communities, and helping out at the local orphanage,” Mr Folkes said. “We are also providing 96 families with emergency food packs every week to ensure they have enough food to eat and can make it through the pandemic. We hope that Australians who love Bali and beyond will step up and show them why Australians are renowned for lending a helping hand in times of crisis.” The GoFundMe campaign launched last week aims to raise $134,000 to cover the costs of the community programs in Indonesia for the next 12 months. To donate visit the website www. mojosurf.com or check out the GoFundMe campaign, https://au.gofundme. com/f/mojosurf-supportsindonesians-in-crisis
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Sit back, relax and enjoy the Harvest Trail on tour with Table Under a Tree! Come on our guided small group tour (Saturday only) and enjoy exclusive experiences at Trail stops, including access to farms not otherwise open to the public. You’ll meet some amazing characters and learn so much about the life of our local growers, producers and farmers. You’ll get an insight into seasonal, local produce, and the people behind it – and see the hinterland in a whole new light. Travelling in the comfort of our small coach, you will enjoy tastings and treats at each stop and feast on a lunch showcasing local food, washed down with the region’s best wines and beers. Featured locations will include Zentveld’s Coffee (where we will begin and end the tour), Suria Foods, Three Paddocks Farm and Wattle Tree Creek. And you never know who else might pop-up along the way too! TO BOOK: www.tableunderatree.com.au•Limited tickets, so don’t miss out!
tv listings BEST ON THE BOX SUNDAY
TUESDAY
LEGO MASTERS
NBN, 7pm
FRIDAY
GARDENING AUSTRALIA
ABC, 7.30pm
For those who are more green than green-thumbed when it comes to gardening, starting out can be a challenge. But if you want to see the potential payoff that this particular investment can bring, look no further than tonight’s episode of Gardening Australia. In Sydney’s Lavender Bay parklands, host Costa Georgiadis (pictured) returns to the garden of Wendy Whiteley. After moving into her home with her artist husband, the late Brett Whiteley, in 1970 she set about transforming the disused railway site below into a living artwork. Wendy is the first to admit she had no idea what she was doing at first, but 50 years on, it’s an incredible public space.
If any program should take the gong as Australia’s most cheerful and fun TV show, this is it. There are diehard LEGO fans aplenty, including the show’s contestants, but even ordinary folk who have never lifted a LEGO block in their lives enthusiastically get behind this wholesome competition. With a kaleidoscope of colourful blocks as a backdrop, and mirthful comedian Hamish Blake (pictured) as host, it’s a winner. Season three has arrived like a charm, and tonight the teams must build something that floats. Not only that, it must suspend from a hot-air balloon for 10 seconds. Judge Ryan “Brickman” McNaught is treated to some spectacular creations.
BIG BROTHER
PRIME7, 7.30pm
Whether you label it voyeurism, a comprehensive insight into human psychology, or simply a fun game, there’s something addictive about Big Brother. Having the unflappable and stylish Sonia Kruger as host only adds value to Seven’s ultra-competitive iteration of the fly-on-thewall reality staple. Strategy, physical strength and endurance are key in a game where the power shifts each and every day. Tonight, Surprise Week comes to an end with the biggest shock of all when Big Brother reveals his secret attic. But the drama doesn’t end there: after a double elimination leaves one alliance in tatters, the housemates face a crucial nomination challenge in “Drop and Pop”. 3004
FRIDAY, April 30 ABC TV (2) 6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 9.55 Q+A. (R) 11.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Back Roads. (PG, R) 1.30 That Pacific Sports Show. (R) 2.00 Doctor Foster. (Mals, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 International Jazz Day Melbourne. (R) 5.00 The Repair Shop. (Final, R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, 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 visits an Adelaide garden. 8.30 Vera. (Ma, R) Part 2 of 4. After DCI Vera Stanhope is called to the scene of a car crash, she discovers that it was no accident. 10.00 Keeping Faith. (Ml) Faith continues to look into Madlen’s case. 11.05 ABC Late News. Detailed coverage of the day’s events. 11.20 The Vaccine. (R) Looks at the COVID-19 vaccine. 11.35 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (R) 12.05 You Can’t Ask That: Cheaters. (Mal, R) 12.40 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)
SBS (3)
PRIME7 (6)
NBN (8, 80)
WIN (5)
6.00 WorldWatch. 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 Nazi Megastructures. (PGa, R) 3.00 NITV News: Nula. 3.30 Lucknow. (PG, R) 3.40 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. (PG, R) 4.10 Queen Victoria And Her Nine Children. (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: Jesse Stone: Sea Change. (2007, Msv, 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 MOVIE: St. Vincent. (2014, Malsv, R) Bill Murray. 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. (Ma) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 10 News First.
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Hunting Egypt’s Lost Treasures: Tomb Raiders. (PG, R) 8.30 London: 2,000 Years Of History. (PG, R) Part 3 of 4. 9.20 Patriot Brains. (M, R) Hosted by Bill Bailey. 10.15 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. (Mals, R) 11.10 SBS World News Late. 11.40 John And Yoko: Above Us Only Sky. (Ma, R) 1.20 Mr Mercedes. (MA15+av, R) 4.20 Food Safari. (R) 4.50 Poh & Co. 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. Johanna Griggs and Karen Martini jump in the car for a road trip along the mighty Murray River. Adam Dovile builds a stylish shelving unit from plywood. Ed Halmagyi makes caramelised apple pie roll-ups. 8.30 To Be Advised. 12.30 Home Shopping.
6.00 NBN News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 8. Brisbane Broncos v Gold Coast Titans. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane. 9.50 Golden Point. A wrap-up of the Brisbane Broncos versus Gold Coast Titans match, with NRL news and analysis. 10.35 MOVIE: Creed. (2015, Malv, R) The son of Apollo Creed seeks out the mentorship of his father’s former rival Rocky Balboa to train him. Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone. 1.05 Award Winning Tasmania. (R) An exploration of Tasmania’s West Coast. 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Global Shop. (R) 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. Miguel Maestre and Barry Du Bois rejuvenate a rental property with a bunch of semi-permanent tricks. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (Ma) Compilation of highlights from the series, featuring Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Gal Gadot, Hugh Grant, Dolly Parton, Kylie Minogue, Arsène Wenger, Bruce Springsteen, Michael J. Fox, Tina Fey and Bill Bailey. 9.30 To Be Advised. 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)
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
VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon MOVIE: One Hour Photo. (2002, M) 1.45 Butter Lamp. 2.05 States Of Undress. 2.55 Jungletown. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 If You Are The One. 7.10 Jeopardy! 7.40 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. 9.20 How Sex Changed The World. 10.10 Sex In The World’s Cities. 11.10 Yokayi Footy. 11.45 News. 12.10am 24 Hours In Police Custody. 1.05 Late Programs.
7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Peter
9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo. 7.30 TV Shop. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Australia’s Top Ten Of Everything. 1.00 Days Of Our Lives. 1.55 The Young And The Restless. 3.00 Antiques Roadshow. 3.30 MOVIE: The Brides Of Fu Manchu. (1966, PG) 5.30 The Secret Life Of The Zoo. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II. 8.40 MOVIE: The Green Mile. (1999, MA15+) 12.20am Late Programs.
BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 To Be Advised. 9.10 Diagnosis Murder. 10.05 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.05 MacGyver. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 1.00 WIN’s All Australian News. 2.00 Blue Bloods. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 5.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 Law & Order: SVU. 10.30 MOVIE: Reclaim. (2014, M) 12.30am Home Shopping. 2.00 Walker, Texas Ranger. 3.00 JAG. 4.00 Madam Secretary. 5.00 MacGyver.
ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs.
SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Amazonia. Continued. (2013, No dialogue) 6.30 The Red Turtle. (2016, PG, No dialogue) 8.00 Flash Gordon. (1980, PG) 10.05 A Monster Calls. (2016, PG) 12.05pm Just A Breath Away. (2018, M, French) 1.45 Belle & Sebastian. (2013, PG, French) 3.40 The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus. (2009, PG) 5.55 A Street Cat Named Bob. (2016, PG) 7.50 Chef. (2014, M) 9.30 Apocalypse Now Redux. (1979, MA15+) 1.20am A War. (2015, MA15+, Danish) 3.30 Late Programs.
7MATE (63) 6am Home Shopping. 6.30
Hook, Line And Sinker. 7.30 Creek To Coast. 8.00 American Pickers. 9.00 A Football Life. 10.00 NFL Draft. 1.30pm Highway Cops. 2.00 Carter’s W.A.R. 3.00 Bull Riding. PBR Australia. 3.30 The Food Dude. 4.00 Timbersports. 4.30 Shipping Wars. 5.00 Counting Cars. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Friday Night Countdown. 7.30 Football. AFL. Round 7. Richmond v Western Bulldogs. 10.30 AFL Post-Game Show. 11.00 Late Programs.
9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs. 11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 The Break Boys. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 The Nanny. 5.30 Children’s Programs. 5.45 MOVIE: Bee Movie. (2007) 7.30 MOVIE: Shrek. (2001, PG) 9.15 MOVIE: Daddy Day Care. (2003, PG) 11.10 Police Ten 7. 11.40 Love Island. 12.40am Bridezillas. 1.40 90 Day Fiance. 2.30 Surfing Australia TV. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Pokémon Journeys. 4.50 Late Programs.
PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 11.00 The Unicorn. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Seinfeld. 1.30 How To Stay Married. 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 Late Programs.
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 7.30 Special: Climate Emergency. 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 Strait To The Plate. 10.30 Going Places. 11.30 On The Road. 12.30pm MOVIE: Catch A Fire. (2006) 2.50 Anthem Sessions Interstitials. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Bino And Fino. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 The Storyteller. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 On Country Kitchen. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 NITV News: Nula. 7.30 MOVIE: Miriam Lies. (2018, M) 9.05 Bedtime Stories. 9.15 Stockman’s Strategy. 10.15 Collum Calling Canberra. 11.15 Late Programs.
9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. 7.30 Big Beach Builds. 8.00 Garden Gurus. 8.30 The Block. 9.30 House Hunters Int. 10.30 House Hunters. 11.00 Backyard Goldmine. Noon Fixer Upper. 1.00 House Hunters Int. 2.00 Fixer To Fabulous. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 How Close Can I Beach? 4.30 Big Beach Builds. 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
Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Doctor Who. 8.45 MOVIE: Animal Kingdom. (2010, MA15+) 10.35 Brush With Fame. 11.05 Would I Lie To You? The Unseen Bits. 11.35 Insert Name Here. 12.10am Catalyst. 1.05 Parks And Recreation. 1.30 Reno 911! 1.50 The IT Crowd. 2.15 Small Tales And True. 2.40 News Update. 2.45 Close. 5.05 Timmy Time. 5.20 Pocoyo. 5.25 The Furchester Hotel. 5.40 Late Programs.
2.05pm Find Me In Paris. 2.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation. 2.55 The Next Step. 3.15 Matilda And The Ramsay Bunch. 3.35 Ali-A’s Superchargers. 4.10 The Inbestigators. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Demon Headmaster. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 MOVIE: Ballerina. (2016) 8.30 Good Game Spawn Point. 8.50 Fruits Basket. 9.15 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 9.35 Radiant. 10.00 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.
11.30 New Scandi Cooking. Noon Martha Bakes. 12.30 Oliver’s Twist. 1.30 Simply Italian. 2.00 Cook’s Pantry. 2.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 3.00 Chefs’ Line. 3.30 New Scandi Cooking. 4.00 Martha Bakes. 4.30 Oliver’s Twist. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 7.30 River Cottage Australia. 8.30 Rick Stein’s Spain. 9.40 Mystery Diners. 10.05 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 10.35 Come Dine With Me UK. 11.05 Late Programs.
Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover. 8.00 Harry’s Practice. 8.30 Million Dollar Minute. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cop Squad. 2.00 ICU. 2.30 Weekender. 3.15 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Border Patrol. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 9.30 Selling Houses Australia. 10.30 Property Ladder UK. 1am The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 SA Weekender. 4.30 Escape To The Country. 5.30 Home Shopping.
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, May 1 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 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces. (R) 1.20 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. (R) 2.25 Love On The Spectrum. (R) 3.25 Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 3.55 Ask The Doctor. (R) 4.30 Landline. 5.00 Soccer. A-League. Round 19. Brisbane Roar v Wellington Phoenix.
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 Small Business Secrets. (PG, R) 2.30 The Untold Story Of Australian Wrestling. (R) 2.35 FIFA World Cup 2022 Magazine. 3.05 Sportswoman. 4.05 Travel Man. (R) 4.35 Planet Expedition. (PG, R) 5.35 Hunting Nazi Treasure. (PGa, R)
6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG) 12.00 To Be Advised. 2.00 Football. AFL. Round 7. Adelaide v GWS Giants. 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 Suncorp One House. (PG) 1.00 Desert Vet. (PG, R) 2.00 The Pet Rescuers. (PG) 2.30 Garden Gurus. 3.00 Netball. Super Netball. Round 1. Melbourne Vixens v West Coast Fever. 5.00 News: First At Five. 5.30 Getaway. (PG)
6.00 WhichCar. (PG, R) 6.30 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R) 7.00 Escape Fishing. (R) 7.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 8.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R) 9.30 St10. (PG) 12.00 GCBC. (R) 12.30 Luca’s Key Ingredient. (R) 1.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 1.30 To Be Advised. 2.30 Taste Of Australia. (R) 3.00 What’s Up Down Under. 3.30 To Be Advised. 4.30 Farm To Fork. (PG, R) 5.00 News.
7.00 ABC News. Takes a look at today’s top stories. 7.30 The Durrells. (PG, R) Just when life is looking up, Louisa learns her domineering aunt and her family will be visiting. 8.20 Finding Alice. (Mls) Having rejected Tanvi’s offer, Alice decides to try for a baby using the sperm Harry mysteriously stored. 9.10 Wakefield. (Mals, R) Raff’s loyalty to Genevieve is seriously tested when her sexual desire runs rampant. 10.10 The Split. (Mals, R) Hannah’s lives collide. 11.10 Doctor Foster. (Mals, R) 12.05 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) Music video clips.
6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys. (PGal, R) 8.30 Britain’s Most Historic Towns. (PGa, R) 9.25 MOVIE: Bleed For This. (2016, Malnv) 11.30 MOVIE: Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017, Malv, R) 1.40 MOVIE: The Last Temptation Of Christ. (1988, Mansv, R) 4.40 Poh & Co. Bitesize. (R) 4.50 Destination Flavour Down Under Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.
6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Football. AFL. Round 7. Sydney v Geelong. From the SCG. 10.30 AFL Post-Game Show. A wrap-up of the game, including panel discussion and interviews, with access to players, coaches and staff. 11.00 To Be Advised. 1.30 Home Shopping.
6.00 NBN News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Space Invaders. (PGa) Experts help people declutter their lives. 8.30 MOVIE: Rocketman. (2019, Madls) Follows the life of Elton John, from his years as a prodigy to his musical partnership with Bernie Taupin. Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden. 11.00 Elton John Uncensored. (Madl, R) 12.00 MOVIE: Begin Again. (2013, Ml, R) Keira Knightley. 2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Wesley Impact. (PG, R)
6.00 Advancing Australia. Presented by Guy Pearce. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. (PGl, R) Lifeguards investigate a floating object. 7.00 The Dog House. (PG) Dogs are matched with companions. 8.00 Ambulance. (Final, Mav) Friday night takes its toll on crews as paramedics deal with news of an armed male and two stabbings. 10.20 999: What’s Your Emergency? (MA15+al, R) A quickthinking boy helps his mum. 11.30 To Be Advised. 12.30 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 The Set. 8.30 Unprotected Sets. 9.25 Live From The BBC. 10.10 Sammy J. 10.15 Insert Name Here. 10.45 Staged. 11.10 High Fidelity. (Final) 11.35 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 12.20am Russell Kane: Smokescreens And Castles. 1.15 Escape From The City. 2.15 Gruen XL. 2.55 News Update. 3.00 Close. 5.05 Timmy Time. 5.20 Late Programs.
VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. 9.00 SBS Courtside. 9.30 Basketball. NBA. Cleveland Cavaliers v Washington Wizards. Noon The Movie Show. 12.30 MOVIE: Black Sea. (2014, M) 2.35 New Girl. 4.00 WorldWatch. 5.30 Basketball. NBL. NZ Breakers v Perth Wildcats. 7.30 Impossible Engineering. 8.30 The X-Files. 11.00 Dateline. 11.30 Insight. 12.30am MOVIE: Scorpion In Love. (2013, MA15+) 2.20 Late Programs.
7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz. 10.00 NBC Today. Noon Weekender. 12.30 Creek To Coast. 1.00 House Of Wellness. 2.00 Sydney Weekender. 2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. 3.00 Property Ladder UK. 5.30 Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters. (Premiere) 6.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters. 12.30am The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Late Programs.
9GEM (82) 6am Newstyle Direct. 6.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite Martian. 10.30 The Baron. 11.30 MOVIE: The Big Job. (1965) 1.15pm MOVIE: A Hill In Korea. (1956, PG) 2.45 MOVIE: Vera Cruz. (1954, PG) 4.45 MOVIE: The Train. (1964, PG) 7.30 Rugby Union. Super Rugby. 9.45 Super Rugby Post-Match. 10.00 MOVIE: Guns Of The Magnificent Seven. (1969, M) 12.10am Late Programs.
BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 10.00 Diagnosis Murder. Noon JAG. 2.00 The Doctors. 3.00 Diagnosis Murder. 4.00 Bondi Rescue. 4.30 iFish. 5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 Scorpion. 7.30 NCIS. 8.30 NCIS: New Orleans. 10.20 To Be Advised. 11.20 Hawaii Five-0. 1.10am 48 Hours. 2.10 Elementary. 3.10 Madam Secretary. 4.05 The Doctors. 5.00 Home Shopping.
ABC ME (23)
6am Children’s Programs. 4.10pm The Inbestigators. (Final) 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Demon Headmaster. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Top Jobs For Dogs. 7.00 Horrible Histories. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss In Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.55 Moka’s Fabulous Adventures! 9.10 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 9.30 Cleopatra In Space. 9.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.
SBS MOVIES (32) 6am A Street Cat Named Bob. Continued. (2016, PG) 6.55 Belle & Sebastian. (2013, PG, French) 8.50 Selkie. (2000, PG) 10.30 The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus. (2009, PG) 12.45pm Tom Thumb. (2001, PG, French) 2.25 Flash Gordon. (1980, PG) 4.30 A Monster Calls. (2016, PG) 6.30 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 8.30 Never Look Away. (2018, German) Midnight Late Programs.
7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs. 8.00 Shopping. 10.00 Step Outside. 10.30 Fish’n With Mates. 11.00 Motor Racing. TCR Australia Touring Car Series. Round 4. 2pm The Food Dude. 2.30 Blokesworld. 3.00 Life Off Road. 3.30 Heavy Rescue: 401. 4.30 Counting Cars. 5.30 Megastructures. 6.30 AFL Pre-Game. 7.00 MOVIE: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. (2012, PG) 9.00 MOVIE: Die Hard 2. (1990, M) 11.30 Late Programs.
9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs. 1.30pm Social Fabric. 2.00 Road Trick. 2.30 Race Across The World. 3.45 Children’s Programs. 3.55 MOVIE: Pokémon: The Power Of One. (1999) 5.30 MOVIE: Goosebumps. (2015, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Snow White And The Huntsman. (2012, M) 10.00 MOVIE: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. (2013, MA15+) 11.45 Love Island: Unseen Bits. 12.45am Bad Teen To Ballroom Queen. 1.40 Late Programs.
PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 Carol’s Second Act. 10.00 To Be Advised. 3.15pm Frasier. 4.05 Friends. 6.00 Columbo. 7.30 Kojak. 8.25 Spyforce. 9.20 The Big Bang Theory. 9.45 Friends. 10.35 MOVIE: Analyze This. (1999, M) 12.40am Home Shopping. 1.40 Charmed. 2.35 Supernatural. 3.30 100% Hotter. 4.30 Home Shopping.
ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1pm ABC News. 1.05 Planet America. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 The Vaccine. 2.45 Drum Beat. 3.00 ABC News. 3.30 The Breakfast Couch. 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 Q+A Highlights. 5.00 ABC News. 5.15 The Vaccine. 5.30 Tasmania Votes. 10.00 ABC News Weekend. 10.30 Aust Story. 11.00 ABC Late News. 11.30 ABC News Regional. Midnight ABC Late News. 12.15 Four Corners. 1.00 Late Programs.
SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Come Dine With Me UK. 2.00 The Big Family Cooking Showdown. 3.10 Nadia’s Family Feasts. 4.00 Secret Meat Business. 4.30 Cook And The Chef. 5.00 The Perfect Serve. 5.30 Cheese Slices. 6.30 Heston’s Fantastical Food. 7.30 Jamie’s American Road Trip. 8.30 Ainsley Eats The Streets. 9.30 Hairy Bikers’ Asian Adventure. 10.35 Late Programs.
NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.40pm Bamay. 2.25 Gridiron. West Bowl. Finals. 3.55 Rugby League. NRL Perth Nines. Harmony Cup. 4.40 African News. 4.55 APTN National News. 5.25 Te Ao With Moana. 5.55 NITV News: Nula. 6.25 Going Places. 6.55 Yokayi Footy. 7.30 News. 7.40 Through The Wormhole. 8.30 MOVIE: The Tall Man. (2011, M) 10.00 MOVIE: Loving. (2016, PG) Midnight Late Programs.
9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. 10.30 Restored By The Fords. 11.30 Postcards. Noon Big Beach Builds. 12.30 Getaway. 1.00 House Hunters Int. 1.30 Raising House. 2.30 Lake Life. 3.30 Pool Kings. 4.30 Lakefront Bargain Hunt. 5.30 Hidden Potential. 6.30 Our Yorkshire Farm. 7.30 Making It Home With Kortney And Dave. 8.30 House Hunters. 9.30 House Hunters International. 10.30 House Hunters Reno. 11.30 Late Programs.
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6am News. 6.30 News. 7.00 Gameday Live. 8.00 Gameday Live. 9.00 Racing Dreams. 10.00 News. 11.00 News. Noon News. 1.00 News. 2.00 News. 3.00 News. 4.00 News. 5.00 News. 5.30 News. 6.00 Fox Sports News. 7.00 Bernardi. 8.00 Fox Sports News. 8.30 Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 9.30 Fox Sports News. 10.00 Full Time Live. 11.00 Late Programs.
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6.00 Rage. (PG) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 World This Week. (R) 11.00 Compass. (R) 11.30 Praise. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Gardening Aust. (R) 2.35 Australia Remastered. (R) 3.30 Restoration Australia. (PG, R) 4.30 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.00 Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow.
6.00 WorldWatch. 11.30 Turkish News. 12.00 Arabic News F24. 12.30 ABC America: World News Tonight. 1.00 Motorcycle Racing. Australian Motocross C’ship. Round 2. 3.30 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Liege-BastogneLiege. Women’s race. H’lights. 4.30 Sportswoman. 5.00 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 5.05 Travel Man. (R) 5.35 Hunting Nazi Treasure. (PGa, R)
6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 House Of Wellness. (PG, R) 1.00 Kochie’s Your Money & Your Life. (Premiere) 1.30 To Be Advised. 3.15 Highway Cops. (PGl, R) 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) A discussion of all things NRL. 1.00 Netball. Super Netball. Round 1. Queensland Firebirds v NSW Swifts. 3.00 Rugby League. NRL. Round 8. St George Illawarra Dragons v Wests Tigers.
6.00 Morning Programs. 8.30 Freshly Picked. (R) 9.00 Australia By Design: Architecture. (R) 9.30 St10. (PG) 12.00 Advancing Australia. (R) 12.30 Left Off The Map. (R) 1.00 My Market Kitchen. (R) 1.30 GCBC. (R) 2.00 To Be Advised. 3.10 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.30 Roads Less Travelled. (R) 4.00 Fishing Aust. (R) 4.30 Taste Of Australia. 5.00 News.
6.30 Compass. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News Sunday. 7.40 Spicks And Specks. (PG) 8.30 Wakefield. (Mal) Nik searches for a missing ring. 9.25 MOVIE: Strictly Ballroom. (1992, PG, R) A dancer goes against the establishment. Paul Mercurio. 11.00 Top Of The Lake: China Girl. (Madlsv, R) 12.05 Keeping Faith. (Ml, R) 1.05 Rake. (Madl, R) 2.05 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.55 Top Of The Lake: China Girl. (Madlsv, R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)
6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Egypt’s Top Ten Treasures. (PGa, R) 9.15 Sydney’s Super Tunnel. (R) 10.15 American Insurrection. (M) 11.45 Who Gets To Stay In Australia? (PGa, R) 12.45 Michael Mosley: Make Me. (PG, R) 3.30 Alex Polizzi: The Fixer. (PGal, R) 4.40 Destination Flavour: Japan Bitesize. (R) 4.50 Destination Flavour Down Under Bitesize. (R) 5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle.
6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Big Brother. (PGl) 8.30 Crime Investigation Australia: Most Infamous: Date With A Serial Killer – Rodney Francis Cameron. (MA15+av) Takes a look at the case of The Lonely Hearts Killer, Rodney Francis Cameron. 9.50 Manhunt: The Raoul Moat Story. (Mav) A look at the hunt for Raoul Moat. 10.55 The Blacklist. (Return, MA15+) 12.00 MOVIE: Lizzie Borden Took An Ax. (2014, MA15+v, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 NBN News. 7.00 LEGO Masters. (PGl) 8.50 60 Minutes. Current affairs program, investigating, analysing and uncovering the issues affecting all Australians. 9.50 Australian Crime Stories: The Chinese Takeaway. (Mdlv, R) Takes a look at an infamous bank robbery. 10.50 Shallow Grave. (Mav) 11.40 The First 48. (Mav, R) 12.30 The Xtreme CollXtion. (PG, R) 1.00 Destination WA. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.00 Take Two. (R) 5.00 Customs. (PG, R) 5.30 Today.
6.30 The Sunday Project. Panellists dissect, digest and reconstitute the daily news, events and hottest topics. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. MasterChef alumni Poh, Callum and Reynold present the contestants with three dishes from their venues. 9.10 FBI: Most Wanted. The team goes after the vigilante who relies on internet sleuths to identify his targets. 10.10 FBI. (Mv, R) A bomb detonates at a restaurant. 11.10 The Sunday Project. (R) A look at the day’s news. 12.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 CBS This Morning.
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6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 Louis Theroux: A Place For Paedophiles. 9.30 Last Woman On The Planet. 10.30 Catalyst. 11.25 The Romantics And Us. 12.25am You Can’t Ask That. 1.00 Restoration Australia. 1.55 Gruen XL. 2.40 News Update. 2.45 Close. 5.00 Rainbow Chicks. 5.05 Timmy Time. 5.20 Pocoyo. 5.25 Late Programs.
VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. 10.30 SBS Courtside. 11.00 Basketball. NBA. Wizards v Mavericks. 1.30pm New Girl. 2.30 WorldWatch. 3.00 Basketball. NBL. Taipans v Phoenix. 5.00 Basketball. NBL. Melbourne United v Sydney Kings. 7.00 Monty Python’s Flying Circus. 7.35 Abandoned Engineering. 8.30 The UnXplained With William Shatner. (Premiere) 9.20 Wet Markets Exposed. 10.10 Late Programs.
7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 10.00 House Of Wellness. 11.00 NBC Today. Noon Dr Harry’s Animal Encounters. 1.00 The Zoo. 1.30 Our Town. (Return) 2.00 The Bowls Show. (Return) 3.00 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.00 Escape To The Country. 7.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. 8.30 Air Crash Investigation. 11.30 Mighty Cruise Ships. 12.30am The Fine Art Auction. 3.30 Late Programs.
9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs. 7.30 In Touch. 8.00 Beyond Today. 8.30 The Incredible Journey. 9.00 TV Shop. 10.00 The AFL Sunday Footy Show. Noon Garden Gurus. 12.30 Getaway. 1.00 MOVIE: Up The Chastity Belt. (1971, PG) 3.00 MOVIE: Arabian Adventure. (1979) 5.00 MOVIE: The 7th Dawn. (1964, 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 Diagnosis Murder. 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. 4.00 Pooches At Play. 4.30 What’s Up Down Under. 5.00 iFish. 5.30 Bondi Rescue. 6.00 JAG. 7.00 Bondi Rescue. 7.30 NCIS. 9.30 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 4. Grand Prix of Spain. 11.15 Late Programs.
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6am Children’s Programs. 4pm The Dengineers. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Demon Headmaster. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Top Jobs For Dogs. 7.00 Horrible Histories. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss In Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.55 Moka’s Fabulous Adventures! 9.10 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 9.30 Cleopatra In Space. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.
SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 11.15 Belle & Sebastian. (2013, PG, French) 1.10pm Selkie. (2000, PG) 2.50 The Thief Of Bagdad. (1940, PG) 4.50 Tom Thumb. (2001, PG, French) 6.30 Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back. (2017, PG, Mandarin) 8.30 As Tears Go By. (1988, MA15+, Cantonese) 10.25 Days Of Being Wild. (1990, M, Cantonese) 12.05am Late Programs.
7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs. 8.00 Shopping. 9.30 Fishing. Australian Championships. 10.30 Fishing. International Series. 11.00 Motor Racing. TCR Australia Touring Car Series. Round 4. 2pm Fish’n With Mates. 2.30 Step Outside. 3.00 Football. AFL. Round 7. Essendon v Carlton. 6.00 Towies. 6.15 MOVIE: Firefox. (1982, PG) 8.45 MOVIE: Kingsman: The Secret Service. (2014, MA15+) 11.20 Late Programs.
9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs. 1.30pm Dance Moms. 3.30 MOVIE: Alvin And The Chipmunks. (2007) 5.20 MOVIE: Rango. (2011, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: Oblivion. (2013, M) 9.55 MOVIE: Stealth. (2005, M) 12.20am Love Island. 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 Lego City Adventures. 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!
PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 The Neighborhood. 8.00 Neighbours. 10.30 To Be Advised. 12.50pm Carol’s Second Act. 2.30 Friends. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 8.30 Friends. 10.00 2 Broke Girls. 11.30 Mom. Midnight Home Shopping. 1.30 Posh Frock Shop. 2.30 Charmed. 3.30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 4.30 Home Shopping.
ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 1pm ABC News. 1.30 Q+A Highlights. 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 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One. 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 Late Programs.
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NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Football. QAFLW. 11.30 Football. AFL. Heartland Footy. Murray League. 1.30pm Rugby League. NRL NT. 3.00 Rugby League. NRL. WA Premiership. 4.30 Football. NT Women’s Premier League. 6.00 NITV News: Nula. 6.30 Behind The Brush. 7.30 NITV News Update. 7.40 Jackie Robinson. 8.40 Long Distance Revolutionary. 10.40 Late Programs.
9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Fixer Upper. 11.00 Boise Boys. Noon House Hunters Reno. 1.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation. 2.00 Suncorp One House. 2.30 Our Yorkshire Farm. 3.30 Fixer Upper. 4.30 Making It Home With Kortney And Dave. 5.30 House Hunters. 6.30 House Hunters Int. 7.30 Good Bones. 8.30 Flipping Across America. 9.30 My Lottery Dream Home. 10.30 Flip Or Flop. 11.00 Late Programs.
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6am Morning Programs. 12.40pm Nadia’s Family Feasts. 1.30 Secret Meat Business. 2.00 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 4.30 Cook And The Chef. 5.30 Vanishing Foods. 6.30 Coastal Kitchen. 7.00 Cook Like An Italian. 7.30 Secrets Of The Factories. 8.30 Rick Stein: From Venice To Istanbul. 9.40 Amazing Wedding Cakes. 10.30 Vanishing Foods. 11.00 Late Programs.
6am News. 6.30 News. 7.00 Gameday Live. 8.00 Sunday Agenda. 9.00 Outsiders. 10.00 Outsiders. 11.00 Business Weekend. Noon News. 1.00 News. 2.00 Fox Sports News. 3.00 Fox Sports News. 4.00 Fox Sports News. 4.30 Fox Sports News. 5.00 Fox Sports News. 5.30 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.
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6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Explore. 1.10 LEGO Masters. (PGl, 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. (PGds) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.40 Entertainment Tonight. 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 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 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.15 Media Watch. (PG) 9.35 Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World. (PG) 10.35 ABC Late News. 11.05 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. (R) 12.05 Trump Takes On The World. (PG, R) 1.05 Rake. (Mal, R) 2.00 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 Secrets Of The Tower Of London. (PG) 8.30 Secret Scotland: Borders. (PG) 9.25 24 Hours In Emergency: Ever Decreasing Circles. (M) 10.20 SBS World News Late. 10.50 Outlander. (MA15+) 12.50 Miniseries: On The Ropes. (Mlsv, R) 4.40 Destination Flavour Down Under 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 Home And Away. (PG) 7.30 Big Brother. (PGl) As one housemate’s position hangs in the balance, he fears his big mouth could be his downfall. 9.00 9-1-1. (M) Athena and the 118 race to save lives after a drunk driver causes a deadly pile-up on the freeway. 10.00 S.W.A.T. (Return, Mv) The team works to stop a serial bomber. 11.00 The Latest: Seven News. 11.30 Station 19. (Mas) 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 NBN News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 LEGO Masters. (PG) 8.50 Law & Order: Organized Crime. (Mv) Bell investigates an accidental death. 9.50 100% Footy. (M) 10.50 Nine News Late. 11.20 The Arrangement. (Premiere, Mals) 12.05 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 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 MasterChef Australia. The teams are tasked with cooking the same six dishes within the time allocated. 8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Return) Panelists include Mel Bracewell, Marty Sheargold, Celia Pacquola, Sam Pang and Ed Kavalee. 9.40 To Be Advised. 10.40 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news. 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 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 QI. 8.30 David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef. 9.30 Doctor Who. 10.15 Back In Time For Dinner. 11.20 The Set. 11.50 Escape From The City. 12.50am Extras. 1.20 Parks And Recreation. 1.40 Reno 911! 2.05 The IT Crowd. 2.30 Small Tales And True. 2.55 News Update. 3.00 Close. 5.00 Rainbow Chicks. 5.05 Late Programs.
VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. 9.30 SBS Courtside. 10.00 Basketball. NBA. 76ers v Spurs. 12.30pm Flavour Swap. 12.50 Front Up. 2.20 States Of Undress. 3.10 The Curse Of Oak Island. 3.55 WorldWatch. 4.20 This Week. 5.15 The Joy Of Painting. 5.45 Shortland Street. 6.15 Forged In Fire. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.30 News. 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Taskmaster. 10.20 Late Programs.
7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Kochie’s Your Money & Your Life. 11.00 The Bowls Show. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cop Squad. 2.00 ICU. 2.30 Our Town. 3.15 M*A*S*H. 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 Cop Squad. 12.30am Doc Martin. 1.30 The Zoo. 2.00 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: Crooks In Cloisters. (1964) 5.30 The Secret Life Of The Zoo. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 To Be Advised. 8.40 The Bill. 10.40 Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 11.40 Late Programs.
BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 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 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 3. Portuguese Grand Prix. Highlights. 11.20 To Be Advised. 12.15am Shopping. 2.15 Late Programs.
ABC ME (23)
6am Children’s Programs. 4pm The Dengineers. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Demon Headmaster. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss In Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.55 Moka’s Fabulous Adventures! 9.10 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 9.30 Cleopatra In Space. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.
SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 9.10 From Up On Poppy Hill. (2011, PG) 10.50 Tom Thumb. (2001, PG, French) 12.30pm Orchestra Class. (2017, M, French) 2.25 The Man Who Knew Infinity. (2015, PG) 4.25 The Circle. (2000, PG, Farsi) 6.05 Tony Takitani. (2004, PG, Japanese) 7.35 All Three Of Us. (2015, M, French) 9.30 Incarnation. (2016, MA15+, Serbian) 11.05 Late Programs.
7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs. 9.00 Graveyard Carz. 10.00 America’s Game. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Canadian Pickers. 2.00 Caught On Dashcam. 3.00 Counting Cars. 4.30 Motor Racing. Supercars Support Races. Stadium Super Trucks. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Aussie Lobster Men. 8.30 MOVIE: Terminator Genisys. (2015, M) 11.05 Late Programs.
9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs. 11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Xtreme Collxtion. 3.00 Liquid Science. 4.00 Children’s Programs. 4.10 LEGO Masters. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 RBT. 8.30 MOVIE: Collateral. (2004, MA15+) 11.00 Paranormal Caught On Camera. Midnight Love Island. 1.00 Bad Teen To Ballroom Queen. 2.00 90 Day Fiance. 2.50 Late Programs.
PEACH (52) 6am The Neighborhood. 7.00 Friends. 8.00 Cheers. 9.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 11.00 Friends. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Charmed. 2.00 How To Stay Married. 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 Seinfeld. 11.00 The Conners. Midnight Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.
ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 3pm 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. 12.15 The Business. 12.30 Q+A Highlights. 1.00 ABC Late News. 1.30 7.30. 2.00 Late Programs.
SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 3.00pm Chefs’ Line. 3.30 New Scandi Cooking. 4.00 Martha Bakes. 4.30 Oliver’s Twist. 5.00 Mary’s Kitchen Crush. (Premiere) 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 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 Behind The Brush. 3.00 Jarjums. 3.55 Bino And Fino. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 The Storyteller. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 On Country Kitchen. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 News. 7.30 Follow The Rock. 7.40 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman. 8.30 Living Black. 9.00 In My Own Words. 10.00 News. 10.10 Gifts Of The Maarga. 11.00 Late Programs.
9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. 9.00 Boise Boys. 10.00 Raising House. 11.00 Postcards. 11.30 Big Beach Builds. Noon Good Bones. 1.00 My Lottery Dream Home. 2.00 Flipping Across America. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 How Close Can I Beach? 4.30 Big Beach Builds. 5.00 Good Bones. 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 WIN News. 3.00 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 AFL Tonight. 11.00 Late Programs.
TUESDAY, May 4 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 First Nation Farmers. (R) 11.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Finding Alice. (Mls, R) 2.00 Informer. (Malv, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Think Tank. (PG, R) 4.55 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. (R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (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 Nazi Megastructures. (PGav, R) 3.00 Living Black Conversations. (R) 3.30 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. (PG, R) 4.00 Michael Mosley: Queen Victoria’s Slum. (PG, 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: Last Man Standing. (2011, Mv, R) 2.00 Autopsy USA. (Mad, R) 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Garden Gurus Moments. (R) 1.10 Getaway. (PG, R) 1.40 LEGO Masters. (PG, 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. (Ma) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.10 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 GCBC. 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (PG) 5.00 News.
6.00 The Drum. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. (PG) 8.30 Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds. (Final) 9.35 The Day Will And Kate Got Married. (PG) 10.25 ABC Late News. 10.55 Q+A. (R) 12.00 Black Comedy. (Final, Malv, R) 12.30 Back In Very Small Business. (Mls, R) 1.00 Rake. (Mlsv, R) 2.05 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R) 8.30 Insight. 9.30 Dateline. 10.00 The Feed. 10.30 SBS World News Late. 11.00 The Point. (R) 12.00 Box 21. (MA15+v, R) 1.50 Miniseries: The Salisbury Poisonings. (Mal, R) 3.40 Alex Polizzi: The Fixer. (PGl, R) 4.50 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. (PG) 7.30 Big Brother. (PGl) Big Brother pits the meat-eaters of the house against the vegans. Hosted by Sonia Kruger. 9.15 The Good Doctor. (M) After a political protest turns violent, the team races to save two young gunshot victims. 10.15 The Resident. (M) A tornado touches down in Atlanta. 11.15 The Latest: Seven News. 11.45 Station 19. (Ma) 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 NBN News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 LEGO Masters. (PG) 8.50 The Weakest Link. (Return) Hosted by Magda Szubanski. 9.50 Botched: Most Memorable Celebrity Patients. (Mamn) A countdown of celebrity patients. 10.50 Nine News Late. 11.20 Australian Scandal. (Mdls) 12.10 Emergence. (Mhv, R) 1.00 A Current Affair. (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. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. The chefs must prepare a tart. 8.40 How To Stay Married. (Return, Ms) Greg spies an older boy eating Chloe’s lunch and instantly concludes his daughter is being bullied. 9.10 NCIS. (Mv) Torres meets his estranged father. 10.10 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.10 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.10 The Project. (R) 1.10 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 2.00 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. 8.25 Staged. 8.50 Back. 9.15 Doctor Who. 10.15 Extras. 10.45 In The Long Run. (Final) 11.10 The Games. 11.40 Live From The BBC. 12.25am Unprotected Sets. 1.15 Parks And Recreation. 1.40 Reno 911! 2.00 The IT Crowd. 2.25 Small Tales And True. 2.55 News Update. 3.00 Close. 5.00 Rainbow Chicks. 5.05 Timmy Time. 5.20 Late Programs.
VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon Basketball. NBA. Wizards v Cavaliers. 2.00 Basketball. NBA. Wizards v Mavericks. 4.00 Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything? 4.10 WorldWatch. 5.10 The Joy Of Painting. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Asia’s Next Top Model. (Final) 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.30 News. 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 Patriot Brains. 9.25 The Casketeers. 9.55 Travel Man. 10.25 Late Programs.
7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cop Squad. 2.00 ICU. 2.30 Sydney Weekender. 3.15 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Pie In The Sky. 8.30 Inspector George Gently. 10.30 World’s Most Extreme. 11.30 Cop Squad. 12.30am Pie In The Sky. 1.30 Medical Rookies. 2.00 Escape To The Country. 3.00 Bargain Hunt. 4.00 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 To Be Advised. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: Catch Us If You Can. (1965) 5.30 The Secret Life Of The Zoo. 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 MacGyver. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 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 Blue Bloods. 9.25 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 10.25 NCIS: New Orleans. 11.20 To Be Advised. 12.15am Shopping. 2.15 Late Programs.
ABC ME (23) 6am Children’s Programs. 4pm The Dengineers. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Demon Headmaster. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss In Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.55 Moka’s Fabulous Adventures! 9.10 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 9.30 Cleopatra In Space. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.
SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 10.55 Hotel Salvation. (2016, PG, Hindi) 12.50pm Days Of Being Wild. (1990, M, Cantonese) 2.30 Journey To The West: The Demons Strike Back. (2017, PG, Mandarin) 4.30 From Up On Poppy Hill. (2011, PG) 6.10 Operation Arctic. (2014, PG, Norwegian) 7.50 Buoyancy. (2019, M, Thai) 9.30 Harry, He’s Here To Help. (2000, M, French) 11.40 Late Programs.
7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm Canadian Pickers. 2.00 Caught On Dashcam. 3.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 4.00 Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Shipping Wars. 5.00 Counting Cars. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 Outback Truckers. (Return) 9.30 MegaTruckers. 10.30 Supertruckers. 11.30 Late Programs.
9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs. 11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Sliders. 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Peaking. 4.40 LEGO Masters. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: The Hunt For Red October. (1990, PG) 10.15 MOVIE: Death Wish V. (1994, MA15+) 12.15am Love Island. 1.15 Bridezillas. 2.10 90 Day Fiance. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Surge. 3.30 Ninjago. 4.00 Pokémon. 4.30 Late Programs.
PEACH (52) 6am Cheers. 7.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 Becker. 10.00 Frasier. 11.00 Friends. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Seinfeld. 1.30 How To Stay Married. 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. 3pm 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. 12.15 The Business. 12.30 Aust Story. 1.00 ABC Late News. 1.30 7.30. 2.00 Late Programs.
SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 3.30pm New Scandi Cooking. 4.00 Martha Bakes. 4.30 Oliver’s Twist. 5.00 Mary’s Kitchen Crush. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 7.30 Food Safari. 8.00 Mary Berry’s Absolute Christmas Favourites. 8.30 Rick Stein’s Seafood Odyssey. 9.00 Red Chef Revival. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.
NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 12.30pm Gifts Of The Maarga. 1.20 Bamay. 2.00 Haunted: The Other Side. 2.30 The Other Side. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Bino And Fino. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 The Storyteller. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 On Country Kitchen. 6.30 Blood Brothers. 7.30 The Point. 8.30 Mighty Ruthie. 9.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 14. Melbourne United v Illawarra Hawks. 11.30 Late Programs.
9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. 10.30 Beach Hunters. 11.30 House Hunters. 12.30pm Flipping Virgins. 1.30 Fixer Upper. 2.30 The Block. 4.00 How Close Can I Beach? 4.30 Renovate To Rent. 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 Off The Grid On The 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 WIN’s All Australian News. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Paul Murray Live. 5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 Fox Sports News. 7.30 NRL Tonight. 8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 10.30 AFL Tonight. 11.00 Late Programs.
WEDNESDAY, May 5 ABC TV (2)
SBS (3)
PRIME7 (6)
NBN (8, 80)
WIN (5)
6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Stan Grant’s One Plus One. (Final, R) 10.30 Gardening Aust. (R) 11.00 The Day Will And Kate Got Married. (PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 12.30 Press Club. 1.35 Media Watch. (PG, R) 1.55 Informer. (Mlv, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Think Tank. (PG, R) 4.55 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. (R) 5.25 Hard Quiz. (PG, R)
6.00 WorldWatch. 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 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. (PG, R) 4.00 Michael Mosley: Queen Victoria’s Slum. (PG, 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: Surrender, Dorothy. (2006, Mads, R) 2.00 Autopsy USA. (Mad, R) 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Explore. (R) 1.10 Driving Test. (PGl, R) 1.40 LEGO Masters. (PG, 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. (Ma) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.10 Ent. Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 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. (PG) 8.30 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 9.00 You Can’t Ask That. (Mal) 9.30 QI. (PG) 10.00 The Set. (R) 10.35 ABC Late News. 11.05 Four Corners. (R) 11.50 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.05 Insert Name Here. (Mas, R) 12.40 Back In Very Small Business. (Mls, R) 1.05 Rake. (Mlv, R) 2.05 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 Tony Robinson’s History Of Britain. (PG) 8.30 See What You Made Me Do. (M) 9.30 Miniseries: Deadwater Fell. (MA15+) 10.25 SBS World News Late. 10.55 The Crimson Rivers. (Manv) 12.45 Miniseries: Hungry Ghosts. (Mahlv, R) 2.50 George Clarke’s Shed Of The Year. (R) 3.45 Alex Polizzi: The Fixer. (PGl, R) 4.55 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. (PG) 7.30 Big Brother. (PG) Hosted by Sonia Kruger. 9.00 Reckoning. (MA15+alv) Mike launches back into his old investigation. 10.00 7NEWS Presents: Murder In The Outback – The Falconio And Lees Mystery. (M, R) 11.00 The Latest: Seven News. 11.30 Autopsy USA: Corey Haim. (Mad, R) 12.30 Home Shopping. 5.00 Seven Early News. 5.30 Sunrise.
6.00 NBN News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Travel Guides. (PGls) 8.30 Doctor Doctor. (Mas) Hugh and Penny help a young mother. 9.30 New Amsterdam. (Mamv) Max reckons with New Amsterdam’s past. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 The Enemy Within. (Mav) 11.50 Timeless. (Mv, R) 12.35 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 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 MasterChef Australia. The chefs create a dish with garden ingredients. 8.40 Bull. Chunk does his daughter a favour and convinces Bull to represent a teenager on trial for robbery. Taylor’s forced to lean on her ex-husband’s girlfriend as childcare when the trial has her working around the clock. 10.40 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news. 11.40 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.40 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) 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 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Art Works. 9.00 Tate Britain’s Great British Walks. (Premiere) 9.45 Doctor Who. 10.35 Restoration Australia. 11.35 Last Woman On The Planet. 12.35am Louis Theroux: A Place For Paedophiles. 1.35 Parks And Recreation. 2.00 Reno 911! 2.20 The IT Crowd. 2.45 News Update. 2.50 Close. 5.00 Late Programs.
VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. 9.30 Serbian News. 10.00 Dutch News. 10.30 African News. 11.00 NHK Japanese News. 11.35 Hindi News. Noon MOVIE: The Fifth Element. (1997, PG) 1.45am VICE News Tonight. 2.10 Shortland Street. 2.40 France 24 News In English From Paris. 3.00 Thai News. 3.30 Bangla News. 4.00 Punjabi News. 4.30 Sri Lankan Sinhalese News. 5.00 Korean News. 5.30 Indonesian News.
7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 2.30 Kochie’s Your Money & Your Life. 3.15 M*A*S*H. 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. 11.50 Property Ladder UK. 2.30am Home Shopping.
9GEM (82) 6am TV Shop. 7.00 Creflo. 7.30 TV Shop. 10.30 Ellen DeGeneres. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon New Tricks. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.10 Antiques Roadshow. 3.40 MOVIE: Twice Round The Daffodils. (1962, PG) 5.30 The Secret Life Of The Zoo. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Keeping Up Appearances. 8.50 Midsomer Murders. 10.50 Late Programs.
BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 JAG. 9.00 Diagnosis Murder. 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.00 MacGyver. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 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 Shopping. 2.10 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Race 3. Portuguese Grand Prix. Highlights. 3.10 Late Programs.
ABC ME (23)
6am Children’s Programs. 4pm The Dengineers. 4.30 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Demon Headmaster. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss In Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.55 Moka’s Fabulous Adventures! 9.10 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 9.30 Cleopatra In Space. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.
SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Morning Programs. 6.45 From Up On Poppy Hill. (2011, PG) 8.25 Bandslam. (2009, PG) 10.30 The Circle. (2000, PG, Farsi) 12.10pm All Three Of Us. (2015, M, French) 2.05 Tony Takitani. (2004, PG, Japanese) 3.35 The Orator. (2011, PG, Samoan) 5.40 Hotel Salvation. (2016, PG, Hindi) 7.35 Equity. (2016, M) 9.30 The Skin I Live In. (2011, MA15+, Spanish) 11.45 Late Programs.
7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs. 11.00 A Football Life. Noon Ax Men. 1.00 Canadian Pickers. 2.00 Caught On Dashcam. 3.00 Classic Restos: USA Edition. 3.30 Blokesworld. 4.00 Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Shipping Wars. 5.00 Counting Cars. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 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 Sliders. 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Peaking. 4.40 LEGO Masters. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 Paranormal Caught On Camera. 8.30 MOVIE: The Host. (2013, M) 11.00 Police Ten 7. 11.30 The Nanny. Midnight Love Island. 1.10 Bridezillas. 2.10 Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta. 3.00 Beyblade Burst Turbo. 3.30 Late Programs.
PEACH (52) 6am The Unicorn. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 11.00 Friends. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 Mom. 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. Midnight Shopping. 1.30 Raymond. 2.00 Late Programs.
ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 12.30pm Press Club. 1.35 ABC News Day. 3.00 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. 12.15 The Business. 12.30 One Plus One. 1.00 Late Programs.
SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 4.00pm Martha Bakes. 4.30 Oliver’s Twist. 5.00 Mary’s Kitchen Crush. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 7.30 Gino’s Italian Coastal Escape. 8.00 French Food Safari. 8.30 Hemsley + Hemsley: Healthy & Delicious. 9.00 Rick Stein’s Food Heroes: Another Helping. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.
NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm Mighty Ruthie. 2.00 Blood Brothers. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Bino And Fino. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 The Storyteller. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 On Country Kitchen. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 NITV News Update. 7.30 Over The Black Dot. 8.00 Yokayi Footy. 8.30 See What You Made Me Do. 9.30 Not Just Numbers. 10.30 News. 10.40 Late Programs.
9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. Noon Building Off The Grid. 1.00 Getaway. 1.30 Flip Or Flop. 2.00 Farmhouse Facelift. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 How Close Can I Beach? 4.30 Renovate To Rent. 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: Renovation. 10.30 Hawaii Life. 11.00 Late Programs.
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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 WIN’s All Australian News. 3.00 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 AFL Tonight. 11.00 Late Programs.
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6.00 News. 9.00 ABC News Mornings. 10.00 Aust Story. (R) 10.30 Brush With Fame. (PG, R) 11.00 Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World. (PG, R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 1.30 The Weekly. (R) 2.00 Informer. (Final, Mlv, R) 3.00 ABC News Afternoons. 4.00 Think Tank. (PG, R) 4.55 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. (PG, R) 5.30 Hard Quiz. (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. (R) 2.05 Nazi Megastructures. (PGav, R) 3.00 The Perfect Serve. (PG, R) 3.30 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. (PG, R) 4.00 Michael Mosley: Queen Victoria’s Slum. (PG, 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: The Grim Sleeper. (2014, Mav, R) 2.00 Autopsy USA. (Ma, R) 3.00 The Chase. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.
6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 Morning News. 12.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG) 1.00 Doctor Doctor. (Mas, R) 2.00 Desperate Housewives. (Ma, 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. (Ma) 1.00 To Be Advised. 2.10 Entertainment Tonight. 2.30 Everyday Gourmet. (R) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG) 3.30 My Market Kitchen. 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. 4.30 Bold. (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. Hosted by Hamish Macdonald. 9.35 Trump Takes On The World. (PG) 10.35 ABC Late News. 11.10 Employable Me Australia. (Ml, R) 12.10 Insert Name Here. (PG, R) 12.40 Back In Very Small Business. (Final, Mls, R) 1.10 Rake. (Ml, R) 2.10 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 4.30 The Drum. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)
6.00 Mastermind Australia. (PG) 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 World’s Greatest Bridges: Brooklyn Bridge. (R) 8.30 The Handmaid’s Tale. (MA15+) June faces a vengeful Aunt Lydia. 10.25 SBS World News Late. 10.55 Baghdad Central. (Malv) 12.45 Miniseries: The Hunting. (Malns, R) 2.55 Cruising With Jane McDonald. (PG, R) 3.50 Alex Polizzi: The Fixer. (PGl, 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. (PGa) 8.30 Ramsay’s 24 Hours To Hell And Back. (Ml) British chef Gordon Ramsay and his team transform Social, a bar and bistro in Los Angeles. 9.30 The Clown And The Candyman. (MA15+av) Part 3 of 4. 10.30 The Latest: Seven News. 11.00 The Front Bar. (M) Takes a lighter look at all things AFL. 12.00 Zumbo’s Just Desserts. (PG, R) 1.30 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 9. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Melbourne Storm. 9.45 Thursday Night Knock Off. Post-match NRL news and analysis. 10.30 Nine News Late. 11.00 Manifest. (Madv) 11.50 The First 48: Game Over/ Long Walk Home. (Mav, R) 12.40 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 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 MasterChef Australia. Contestants must choose an ingredient they would like to feature in a dish. 9.30 Law & Order: SVU. (Mav) The unit comes to the aid of an activist who suspects her sister has been kidnapped by a hate group. Garland and Benson push for change with NYPD brass. Kat gets some good news. 11.30 WIN’s All Australian News. 12.30 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news. 1.30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG) Late night talk show. 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.
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6am Children’s Programs. 7.15pm Odd Squad. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.25 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. 9.10 Hard Quiz. 9.40 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. 10.10 Doctor Who. 10.55 That Pacific Sports Show. 11.25 You Can’t Ask That. 11.55 David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef. 12.55am Back. 1.20 In The Long Run. (Final) 1.45 Parks And Recreation. 2.10 Reno 911! 2.30 Late Programs.
VICELAND (31) 6am WorldWatch. Noon Basketball. NBA. Philadelphia 76ers v San Antonio Spurs. 2.00 States Of Undress. 3.45 WorldWatch. 5.10 NBL: Overtime. 5.40 Shortland Street. 6.10 Taskmaster Norway. (Final) 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 The Curse Of Oak Island. 9.20 Future Man. 10.30 Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. 11.20 The Feed. 11.50 Late Programs.
7TWO (62) 6am Home Shopping. 7.00 Property Ladder UK. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon House Of Wellness. 1.00 Cop Squad. 2.00 ICU. 2.30 Creek To Coast. 3.15 M*A*S*H. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Father Brown. 8.30 Inspector Morse. 10.50 Murdoch Mysteries. 11.50 Andrew Denton’s Interview. 12.50am The Fine Art Auction. 4.00 Harry’s Practice. 4.30 Million Dollar Minute. 5.00 Home Shopping.
9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Keeping Up Appearances. 1.10 Days Of Our Lives. 2.05 The Young And The Restless. 3.05 Antiques Roadshow. 3.35 MOVIE: It Always Rains On Sunday. (1947, PG) 5.30 The Secret Life Of The Zoo. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Taronga: Who’s Who In The Zoo. 8.30 Emergency. 9.30 The Equalizer. 10.30 A+E After Dark. 11.30 Late Programs.
BOLD (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Motorcycle Racing. MotoGP. Race 4. Grand Prix of Spain. Replay. 9.35 Stories Of Bikes. 10.05 Star Trek: Voyager. 11.05 MacGyver. Noon Walker, Texas Ranger. 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. 10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles. 11.30 Sherlock Holmes: Elementary. 12.30am Late Programs.
ABC ME (23)
6am Children’s Programs. 4pm The Dengineers. 4.35 Odd Squad. 4.55 The Demon Headmaster. 5.25 Miraculous. 6.00 The Deep. 6.30 Operation Ouch! 7.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss In Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.55 Moka’s Fabulous Adventures! 9.10 Dragons: Riders Of Berk. 9.30 Cleopatra In Space. 9.55 Rage. 10.55 Close. 5.30am Children’s Programs.
SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Orator. Continued. (2011, PG, Samoan) 7.35 Hotel Salvation. (2016, PG, Hindi) 9.30 The Tree Of Life. (2011, PG) Noon Harry, He’s Here To Help. (2000, M, French) 2.10 Operation Arctic. (2014, PG, Norwegian) 3.50 Bandslam. (2009, PG) 5.55 Roxane. (2019, PG, French) 7.30 The Duchess. (2008, M) 9.35 The Wedding Guest. (2018) 11.25 The Wave. (2008, MA15+, German) 1.25am Late Programs.
7MATE (63) 6am Morning Programs. 1pm Canadian Pickers. 2.00 Caught On Dashcam. 3.00 Storage Wars: Texas. 3.30 Pawn Stars. 4.00 Fish’n With Mates. 4.30 Shipping Wars. 5.00 Counting Cars. 5.30 Storage Wars: Texas. 6.00 American Pickers. 7.00 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Towies. 8.30 MOVIE: Transporter 2. (2005, M) 10.15 MOVIE: 300: Rise Of An Empire. (2014, MA15+) 12.30am Late Programs.
9GO! (83) 6am Children’s Programs. 11.00 Dance Moms. Noon Parenthood. 1.00 Bridezillas. 2.00 Sliders. 3.00 Malcolm. 4.00 Dance Moms. 5.00 Monster Croc Wrangler. 6.00 Malcolm. 7.00 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. (1994, M) 9.15 MOVIE: American Pie. (1999, MA15+) 11.10 Japandemonium. 11.40 Police Ten 7. 12.10am Love Island. 1.20 Bridezillas. 2.20 Late Programs.
PEACH (52) 6am Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 8.00 Becker. 9.00 Frasier. 10.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 11.00 Friends. Noon WIN’s All Australian News. 1.00 2 Broke Girls. 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 Seinfeld. 11.00 The Unicorn. Midnight Shopping. 1.30 Late Programs.
ABC NEWS (24) 6am News Programs. 3pm 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. 12.15 The Business. 12.30 Back Roads. 1.00 ABC Late News. 1.30 7.30. 2.00 Late Programs.
SBS FOOD (33) 6am Morning Programs. 2.00pm Cook’s Pantry. 2.30 Lidia’s Kitchen. 3.00 Chefs’ Line. 3.30 New Scandi Cooking. 4.00 Martha Bakes. 4.30 Oliver’s Twist. 5.00 Mary’s Kitchen Crush. 5.30 Cook And The Chef. 6.30 Come Dine With Me UK. 7.00 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. 7.30 Strait To The Plate. 8.00 Cook Like An Italian. 8.30 Jamie’s Great Italian Escape. 9.30 Mystery Diners. 10.00 Late Programs.
NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.50pm Not Just Numbers. 2.50 Freshwater Dreaming. 3.00 Wapos Bay. 3.25 Bushwhacked! 3.55 Bino And Fino. 4.00 Musomagic. 4.30 The Storyteller. 5.00 Fraggle Rock. 6.00 On Country Kitchen. 6.30 Pete & Pio’s Kai Safari. 7.00 Our Stories. 7.20 NITV News Update. 7.30 Strait To The Plate. 8.00 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. 8.30 MOVIE: Clockers. (1995) 10.50 Late Programs.
9LIFE (84) 6am Morning Programs. 11.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation. Noon Barnwood Builders. 1.00 Home Town. 2.00 Hawaii Life. 3.00 The Block. 4.00 How Close Can I Beach? 4.30 Renovate To Rent. 5.00 Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation. 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 Flip Or Flop. 11.00 Late Programs.
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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 WIN’s All Australian News. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Paul Murray Live. 5.00 Fox Sports News. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 AFL Tonight. 7.30 Fox Sports News. 8.00 Alan Jones. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 10.30 AFL Tonight. 11.00 Late Programs.
1. Husk Distillers•1152 Dulguigan Road, North Tumbulgum NSW 2490
13. Beach Byron Bay•Clarkes Beach, 2 Massinger Street, Byron Bay NSW 2481
OPEN: Saturday & Sunday•11am – 4pm Connected to our working distillery is the Husk Cellar Door, nestled into the landscape on our family farm in North Tumbulgum. At the cellar door you’ll discover new ways to enjoy craft spirits and discover the new taste of Australian rum. Stroll the grounds and stay for cocktails and lunch from our simple seasonal menu with Ballina king prawns and Murwillumbah lamb on the menu.
SPECIAL TASTING: Saturday•8am – 11am Join us on the balcony for special tastings from three of our local producers – Byron Bay Tea, Byron Bay Mozzarella and Salumi Australia. Or drop into the Beach kiosk over the weekend from 7am for breakfast, brunch and lunch, Byron Bay Coffee Company coffee and freshly baked cakes and pastries.
2. Sunshine Sugar at Twohill Farm•8750 Tweed Valley Way, Tumbulgum NSW 2490 TOUR: Sunday•One tour only at 10am (This is a working farm - please wear covered flat walking shoes) Not normally open to the public, we’re excited to offer a special Harvest Food Trail tour for you & your family to experience the workings of a real sugar cane farm. Meet Kevin and Peter Twohill at their 250 hectare Twohill Farm for an authentic, first hand introduction to the local sugar industry. TO BOOK: https://bit.ly/3eJT8oB•Free entry but bookings essential
3. Tropical Fruit World•29 Duranbah Road, Duranbah NSW 2487 OPEN: Saturday & Sunday•10am – 3pm Drop in to see, taste and learn about seasonal native produce at Tropical Fruit World. Book into the award winning tractor tour through the property including a fruit tasting session, bushland boat cruise and more. Our Chef Claire Pietersen is offering a special Harvest Trail locally produced tapas plate for two for just $50. Harvest Trail special available Saturday & Sunday from 11.30am-3pm. TO BOOK FARM TOURS: (02) 6677 7222 and via website www.tropicalfruitworld.com.au
4. Doña Cholita•33 Broadway, Burringbar NSW 2483 OPEN: Saturday•11am – 1pm•4 tours, 25 minutes long•$25pp Come and meet the makers to see how a real corn tortilla is made and enjoy a fresh tortilla straight from the oven, just like in a neighbourhood tortilleria in Mexico. Tours include a goodie bag, with a bag of fresh totopos, a jar of our house made salsa, corn tortillas and a recipe book with dishes from our kitchen. Mercado Juarez is open 10am – 4pm, Saturday & Sunday with a Saturday Mexican BBQ from 1 – 4pm. TO BOOK: www.donacholita.com.au
14. Bay Grocer•63 Tennyson Street, Byron Bay NSW 2481 MEET THE PRODUCERS: Sunday•10am – 12 noon Meet a handful of local producers in our courtyard. Enjoy chat, tastings, treats and a whole lot of interactive fun from Cheeses Loves You, Byron Bay Mozzarella, Grumpy Grandma’s Olives, Pyewacket’s Shrubs, Salumi Australia, the Bread Social and I Love a Dog.
15. Byron at Byron•77-97 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay NSW 2481 TAPAS & PINOT NOIR SPECIAL: Saturday & Sunday•from 12 noon on the Verandah MEET THE MAKER EVENT: Saturday, from 1pm – 3pm•$90pp (bookings essential) Join us for a special 3 course Bangalow Sweet Pork long lunch featuring matching wines from Gilbert Family Wines. Chat to Bangalow Sweet Pork owner Damien Dougherty and the Gilbert Wine team. For a more casual affair, drop in for pork and pinot tapas all weekend. TO BOOK: www.crystalbrookcollection.com/Byron/Forest
16. Brookfarm•Brookfarm Macadamia orchard, 80 St Helena Road, McLeod’s Shoot NSW 2479 TALK & TOUR: Saturday•10am & 11:30am•$15pp (bookings essential, children under 12 free entry) Enjoy morning tea from gourmet food producers Brookfarm amongst the macadamia orchards of the Brook family farm and hear from Martin Brook – a trail blazer in regenerative farming. He will educate, inspire and entertain you as he takes you through the regenerative transformation of the farm and importance of regen for our climates future, followed by a farm tour to witness the flourishing local biodiversity. TO BOOK: https://bit.ly/3tsdeHY
17. Cape Byron Distillery•80 St Helena Road, McLeod’s Shoot NSW 2479
TOUR: Saturday•One tour only at 9am (This is a working farm - please wear covered flat walking shoes) Not normally open to the public, we’re excited to offer a special Harvest Food Trail tour for you & your family to experience the workings of a real sugar cane farm. Meet John Harbison on his Cowell Park farm for an authentic, first hand introduction to the local sugar industry. TO BOOK: https://bit.ly/3vvNU5H•Free entry but bookings essential.
BOTANICAL CLASS: Saturday 11.30am, 2pm & 4pm•Sunday 11.30am & 2pm COCKTAIL CLASS: Sunday 3pm & 5pm Cape Byron Distillery is offering classes and tasting flights that pair our spirits with the edible and fragrant botanicals used in our range. In the Botanical Class hear our story and learn about the ingredients used to make our products. Includes a dish of Australian native ingredients that help to create our unique flavours. In our Cocktail Class learn how to create and drink two Brookie’s signature cocktails. TO BOOK: https://bit.ly/2PSNRjZ•cellardoor @capebyrondistillery.com or (02) 6684 7961
6. Forage Byron Bay•746 Myocum Road, Myocum NSW 2481
18. Zentveld’s Coffee•193 Broken Head Road, Newrybar NSW 2479
5. Sunshine Sugar at Cowell Park Farm•Cowell Park, 250 Pottsville Rd, Mooball NSW 2483
TOURS: Saturday & Sunday, on the hour•10am – 4pm We welcome you to our farm for on the hour activities and demonstrations including; foraging for wild edibles, pickling, and a beginners introduction to beekeeping with honey tasting. Honey and other homegrown farm produce, as well as resources for foraging and preserving, will be available at our pop-up farm door shop over the weekend.
OPEN: Saturday•8am – 3pm•FARM TOURS: On the hour starting at 10am & finishing at 3pm. We are opening our farmgates to offer you a special full crop to cup on-farm coffee experience, with guided farm walks and roastery tour. Taste coffee grown organically right here – and learn how we care for our soils, bees and wildlife. Enjoy superb views overlooking our farm and rainforest creekline from the verandah or under the Poinciana tree. Sample coffee fruit fresh from the trees.
7. The Farm•11 Ewingsdale Road, Ewingsdale NSW 2481
19. Harvest Newrybar•18-22 Old Pacific Highway, Newrybar NSW 2479
TOURS: Saturday•1pm – 4pm•$55pp Walk with us and see how we grow, feed, educate and give back and hear from our amazing growers Bunya, Evan and Venetia from Hungry Earth Agroecology. Enjoy some of our produce harvested here on our Farm and curated by the team at Three Blue Ducks. Leave feeling inspired to make even the smallest change towards a healthier, more harmonious existence with our land, our animals and our communities. TO BOOK: https://bit.ly/3bXsC9u
LONG LUNCH SPECIAL: Sunday, 1pm – 4pm•$120pp (bookings essential) Join us for a special Harvest Food Trail Sunday Long Lunch in the Bakery. Includes: Whole local sustainable meats cooked in the wood fired bakery oven with sides, condiments and harvest sourdough. Showcasing local producers with a chat by our sommelier and chef. We also offer a three hour beverage package starting with a Harvest cocktail/native ingredients on arrival. TO BOOK: https://bit.ly/399NWXq
8. Stone & Wood Brewery•100 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay NSW 2481
20. Duck Creek Macadamias•145 Brooklet Rd, Newrybar NSW 2479
OPEN: Saturday & Sunday•12 noon – 4pm Born and raised in Byron Bay, we’re proud to be local and independent. Come and treat yourself to a paddle here in our spiritual home; housing 31 brewing tanks, a canteen serving locally produced delights run by local legends 100 Mile Table, and a spacious beer garden.
9. Bun Coffee•15-17, 1A Banksia Drive, Byron Arts & Industry, Byron Bay NSW 2481 OPEN: Saturday morning•8am – 12 noon Visit artisan roaster Bun Coffee and discover how to choose your coffee, different brew methods and how to brew at home as well exploring and tasting unique and interesting flavour profiles of single origin coffee from Ethiopia, Brazil and Papua New Guinea. You will also have the opportunity to taste and discuss the unique and interesting flavour profiles of single origin coffee with master roaster and owner David.
10. Lord Byron Distillery•7/4 Banksia Drive, Byron Arts & Industry, Byron Bay NSW 2481 OPEN: Saturday•10am – 5pm Family owned Lord Byron Distillery invites you to drop in to taste our world-class rums that are distilled and aged right here in the heart of Byron Bay. Choose either a tasting paddle with a choice of three spirits from our huge range of 12 products or a delicious mixed drink by our skilled staff. There will also be free tours with any tasting or drink purchased.
11. Santos Organics•105 Jonson Street, Byron Bay NSW 2481 OPEN: Saturday 8:30am – 5pm•Sunday 10am – 4pm Drop into the Santos Organics Byron Town Shop to sample products from some of our favourite local suppliers between 11am - 3pm each day. Our café will be also be serving delicious Harvest Trail organic treats.
12. Karkalla Byron Bay•10/8 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay NSW 2481 OPEN: Saturday•11am – 12 noon Discover and experience indigenous foods with Mindy Woods, proud Bundjalung woman and owner of Karkalla. Watch and participate in a special Harvest Food Trail Native Indigenous cooking demonstration of one of Karkalla’s signature dishes. Recipes, cooking packs and products will be available for purchase.
OPEN: Saturday•9am – 3pm We are offering a special Duck’s Creek Macadamias Harvest Food Trail Experience with free tastings. Our farm gate store will be open with products available for tasting and purchase. Operating for 30 years, Duck Creek Macadamias have built a reputation of being one of Australia’s finest producers of premium macadamia products – we grow, chocolate coat and flavour our delicious macadamias.
21. Wattle Tree Creek•507 Duncan Road, Numulgi NSW 2480 TOURS: Saturday•10:30am & 2:30pm Enjoy a guided tour through our gorgeous orchards which include mango, custard apple, macadamias, limes, jaboticaba, lychee, avocado, bananas ending at our bountiful Bushfood Gardens. We will also be conducting a live cooking demonstration using Native Australian ingredients followed by tastings.
22. Barefoot Farm•712 Boatharbour Road, Eltham NSW 2480 TOURS: Saturday & Sunday•9:30am, 11:30am & 1:30pm Barefoot Farm is opening it’s farm gate this weekend for a special Harvest Food Trail weekend. Experience a real working pecan farm in harvest season; hear what’s involved with growing pecans in this region and meet owners Ash and Matt. Taste the their delicious paddock to plate products.
23. Rock Chic Eggs•Sugar Beach Ranch, 259 Keith Hall Lane, Keith Hall NSW 2478 OPEN: Saturday & Sunday•12 noon – 3pm See first hand how a chicken ‘seriously free ranges’ amongst the natural vegetation in the sand dunes of South Ballina. We’ll provide groovy DJ tunes and Rock Chic Prosciutto and Truffle Egg Cups. Then chill on your picnic blanket with your favourite bevy and watch the waves roll in or even help collect a few Rock Chic Eggs of your own.
24. Hotel Illawong•15-19 Oak Street, Evans Head NSW 2473 OPEN: Saturday & Sunday•12 noon – close Visit Hotel Illawong over the weekend to enjoy our special Harvest Food Trail local mezze tasting plate for two for $30. We will be sourcing and providing all local produce on our mezze plate, including pickled vegetables from Eltham Valley Fresh and local farmers markets, toasted and fresh breads from Wurlitzer bakery and of course beautiful, cured meats from local butcher Metcalfs Meats and Salumi Australia.
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GREAT TIMES AT GRAFTON SHOW
From left: Tween Showgirl contestant Angel Robinson, Man of the Land entrant Lachlan Foster and Junior Showgirl entrants Grace McLachlan and Logan Robb waiting for the ring events to start at the Grafton Show on Friday.
Where would you find a local hero? At the Grafton Show where Lawrence RFS captain and 2020 Clarence Valley Local Hero Scott Campbell, centre, worked with brigade members Paul Sampson, left and Brendan Whalan on the gate at Grafton Show.
Chief steward for the the main pavilion Yvonne Robards with the centrepiece exhibit mermaid made by the Dementia Specific Unit at Whiddon Group aged care.
Kelly and Zac Walsh check out the poultry exhibits with kids Jimmy and Annie.
Poultry section judge Ted Vaughan with this year’s Bird of Show an old English game duckwing female and Barry Reeves with the Reserve Bird of Show, at Australorp cockerel, which was the Champion Soft Feather large breed.
Grafton Showgirl contestant Shannon Delaforce on a chip run for her friends near the main area at Grafton Showground on Friday.
Sachi Brookes, Hayley White and Tansy Brooks came down to Grafton from Clunes to spend a day at the Grafton Show.
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NRAR to attend Tocal, Riverina and Norco Primex field days THROUGHOUT April and May, officers from the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) will attend the Tocal, Riverina and Norco Primex field days to speak to the community about the NSW water rules. Tim Gilbert, NRAR’s Director of Regulatory Capability & Coordination, says the field days are an excellent opportunity for the regulator to talk directly with the water community about its operations. “At all three field days, we will have NRAR staff onsite to talk to attendees about our approach to water compliance. We have ‘bootson-the-ground’ and ‘eyes-inthe-sky’ to ensure that water is used lawfully,” Mr Gilbert said. “Water is our most precious natural resource. We can only protect it when we all follow the rules.”
NRAR’s staff will also discuss the regulator’s Know the Rules campaign, which encourages water users to learn about the state’s water laws. The first video in this campaign encourages
water users to understand the conditions of their water licences and approvals. The field days will focus on other important topics including metering, harvestable rights, controlled
AUSTRALIAN BEEF’S ANNUAL SUSTAINABILITY UPDATE TO BE RELEASED AT BEEF AUSTRALIA THE Australian Beef industry’s annual sustainability update will be launched at Beef Australia 2021 in Rockhampton at a special Australian Beef Sustainability Framework (ABSF) seminar. The seminar will focus on the importance of sustainability along the beef value chain, and how the ABSF is supporting the industry’s goal of doubling its value by 2030. Speakers and panel members will discuss how they have utilised a sustainable narrative and data to improve market access, promote continuous improvement and productivity, foster relationships, and protect investments. The ABSF 2021 Annual Update will also be launched at the event. The fourth annual update will outline how the beef industry is progressing on indicators that were developed through extensive consultation with industry and other key external stakeholders. Chair of the Sustainability Steering Group, Tess Herbert, said the update transparently acknowledges achievements as well as where there is more work to be done, and importantly, outlines activity that will deliver continual improvement. “We need to be able to tell our story, whilst clearly setting the vision for the industry to show our customers, the community and interested stakeholders that we not only produce the best beef in the world, but we also have the most
sustainable production systems,” Ms Herbert said. “The annual update is used by industry to guide and track performance on-farm and through the supply chain to ensure that Australia continues to be recognised as a global leader in sustainable beef production. “A focus on aligning environmental, welfare, social and economic practices with best evidence and community expectations, while growing profitability will help ensure continued access to markets and capital for Australian beef businesses.” The Australian Beef Sustainability Framework 2021 Annual Update seminar will be held Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from 8am – 9am at Paterson Room, Rockhampton State High School. The free seminar will feature speakers and a panel discussion including, Tess Herbert (Chair, Sustainability Steering Group), Stacey Wordsworth (President, Rural Press Club of Queensland), Dalene Wray (Managing Director, OBE Organic), Trevor Moore (Group Systems & Compliance Manager, Northern Co-Operative Meat Company), Bel Quince (National Australia Bank), Ali Hart (Stockyard Beef), and Martin Bouchier (Celebrity Chef). For more information and to register, visit https://beefaustralia. com.au/
they would like to see and what we can do to make it easier for them to understand and follow the rules.” Staff will demonstrate the suite of e-tools available to water users and provide fact sheets and advice to help water users carry out self-assessments of their operations. NRAR’s staff will be at Tocal Field Days 30 April – 2 May, Riverina Field Days on 14 and 15 May, and at Norco Primex Field Days between 20 – 22 May. To see the work NRAR does, go to its public register on the NRAR website industry.nsw.gov.au/nrar. Go to ‘Reports and data’, then ‘NRAR Public Register’. To make a confidential report on suspected water misuse, contact the NRAR Hotline on 1800 633 362 or email nrar.enquiries@nrar. nsw.gov.au.
activities, logbooks and floodworks. “We will be on the ground to listen to feedback from the community. It’s an opportunity for them to tell us what other tools or resources
Farmers want PM to commit to deep and rapid emissions cuts FARMERS are calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to deliver a credible net-zero target that includes making deep and rapid cuts to Australia’s emissions this decade. The calls come following the PM’s earlier suggestions that regional Australians don’t care about climate change, which the group labels untrue and unhelpful, and ahead of the Biden Global Climate Summit next week. “I’m no latte sipper, but as a farmer I want to see the Federal Government show leadership on climate change,” Crookwell farmer Charlie Prell said. “Farmers are on the frontline of climate change impacts and solutions. On the one hand we’re grappling with fires, droughts and floods and on the other hand our regions are in the box seat to benefit from the jobs and investment that will come with the clean energy transition. “Like many other farmers, I proudly
supply my produce to the cafes, dinner parties and wine bars of our inner cities. Let’s stop muddying the waters with false divides, and unite - urban and regional Australians together - to ensure that we do everything we can to prevent catastrophic climate change.” “While the rest of the world is stepping up ambition, Australia is dragging its heels and risks missing out on decades of a climate-related economic boom. Agriculture is reliant on trading and Prime Minister Morrison’s stance on climate change is a threat to our industry,” Farmers for Climate Action acting CEO Fiona Davis said. “Regardless of any net-zero date the Federal Government sets, what we need to see is a clear plan for getting there that includes making deep and rapid emissions cuts this decade. That means a stronger 2030 target and a pathway for net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest.”
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Grafton Cattle Market Report THERE were 459 head yarded at Grafton Fat Cattle Sale 20th April 2021 Numbers were up once again this week, as the growing season starts to slow and winter is fast approaching. All the usual buyers were in attendance and operating strongly on a very good quality yarding right throughout the Sale. Export cattle sale firm to dearer whilst restocker and trade cattle sold similar to previous weeks. Sale Highlights include: A/c Springwood sold Brahman Cross Bullocks 354.2c/kg averaged 752.5kg $2,665.36 p/hd.
A/c Springwood sold Brahman Cross Bullocks 359.2c/kg averaged 633.1kg $2,274.19 p/hd. A/c WD & PM Browning sold Angus Cross Bullocks 351.2c/kg averaged 695.8kg - $2,443.77 p/hd. A/c WH & SL Clay sold an Angus Steer 400c/kg weighed 510kg - $2,040.00. A/c Far Stump Pty Ltd sold Angus Steers 436.2c/kg averaged 413kg - $1,801.51 p/hd A/c Brad McLennan sold Brangus Heifers 408.2c/kg averaged 396.7kg - $1,619.19 p/hd. A/c William Ellem sold a Brahman Cow
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293.2c/kg weighed 570kg - $1,671.24 p/hd. A/c PJ & WJ Beel sold Charolais Cows 297.2c/kg averaged 690kg - $2,050.68 p/hd. A/c LAD Investments sold a Brahman Cross Cow 295.2c/kg weighed 780kg $2,305.56 p/hd. A/c LR & VB Franey sold an Angus Bull 291.2c/kg weighed 860kg - $2,504.32. A/c Errol McLaughlin sold a Charolais Steer 510.2c/kg weighed 310kg - $1,581.62. A/c LR & VB Franey sold Charolais Cross Vealer Steers 540.2c/kg averaged 310kg - $1,674.62 p/hd. A/c Errol McLaughlin sold Charolais
Vealer Heifers 550.2c/kg averaged 240kg $1,320.48 p/hd. A/c Karangi Capital Pty Ltd sold Angus Vealer Steers 624.2c/kg averaged 250kg $1,560.50 p/hd. A/c BJ Slarke sold Angus Vealer Steers 600.2c/kg averaged 274.4kg - $1,647.22 p/hd. A/c R & M Smith sold Angus Cross Vealer Heifers 580.2c/kg averaged 191kg $1,108.18 p/hd. A/c JW & OPD Golding sold an Angus Cross Vealer Steer 706.2c/kg weighed 145kg - $1,023.99.
Lismore Cattle Market REPORT FROM 17 & 24 APRIL
Casino Cattle Market Report FROM SATURDAY 21 & 24 APRIL NUMBERS remained strong at the Northern Rivers Livestock Exchange regular prime sale on Wednesday 21 April with 1,267 head yarded. The yarding consisted mainly of weaners and vealers along with a fair number of yearlings also on offer. Quality was good with the majority of the well-bred steers and heifers purchased by restockers and backgrounders. Export cattle were mostly dominated by heavier cows along with a fair number of bullocks. Cow prices held firm this week with an average of 272.3c/kg and top price of 330.2c/kg. 1 head sold for a top return of $2,309.62. Cows and calves topped their market at $2,420.00. Heifer prices were up this week with a top of 634.2c/kg and averages of 472.9c/kg and 274kg. 1 heifer sold achieved a return of $1,963.00. A decent number of 34 bulls in the sale reached a top of 338.2c/kg and averaged 275.9c/kg and 677kg. Steer and bullock prices remained strong with 323 head sold. Steers sold to a top of 718.2c/kg and averaged at 501.8c/kg and 280kg with 1 head selling for a return of $2,241.86. Bullocks averaged 331.2c/kg and 698kg. A number of yearling steers sold on the day saw an average price of 436.8c/kg and
weight of 339kg with 1 head selling for $1,661.31. Vealer prices were slightly down on last week with 463 head yarded. Prices reached 746.2c/kg and averaged 524.2c/kg and 244kg. 1 head sold achieved a return of $1,815.12. Ray White Rural Casino & Kyogle held a store sale on Friday 23 April with 1,405 head sold. Heifers reached a top of 606.2c/ kg and averaged 502.0c/kg and 254kg. Steers averaged 514.6c/kg and 278kg with a top price of 714.2c/kg. Cows reached a top price of $2,260.00 whilst Cows & Calves achieved a top return of $3,040.00. On Saturday 24 April 2021, Ramsey & Bulmer and George & Furhmann held their annual Brahman Stud & F1 Commercial Female sale at the NRLX with 355 quality heifers sold. The day was a success with nearly 100 potential buyers in attendance. The top stud price went to local vendor Mogul Brahman Stud selling a top quality Brahman heifer for $6,000.00 while the average sale price was $2,049.66 per head. Friday 30 April will see T&W McCormack and Ramsey & Bulmer hold a special store sale at the NRLX with over 1,600 head booked in.
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A GOOD quality yarding of 260 female cattle were sold at the Lismore Saleyards on Saturday 17/4. Local cattle producers were keen to purchase breeders and prices were exceptionally good. X breed cows & calves sold well with a standout line of Charbray Heifers with young calves ringing the bell at $4,000. Brahman cows made to $3950. Angus cows & calves sold $3450 with most in the $3200 to $3400 bracket. Preg tested in calf heifers topped at $2600 for Charbray X heifers with most in the $2000 to $2400 range. Joined cows ranged between $1800 to $2200. 240 CATTLE were sold at the Lismore Saleyards on Tuesday 20th April. It was a good quality yarding with most cows and vealers being the product of a good season. Heavy cows sold from $2.70 to $2.82/kg for returns of $1640 to a top of $2222 for Earle Smiths Angus cow. Once again most of the vealers/weaners were showing plenty of finish and weight and weaner buyers had to make adjustments to their rates. Heavy weaners sold from $4.40 to $5.54.
Col & Barry Martins 9½ month old Charolais steer sold for $4.98/kg, $1893. Medium weaner steers sold from $5.10 to $5.75/kg, $1200 to $1464. Heifers sold from $4.20 to $5.70 depending on breed, weight and quality. Strong Demand for Beef Breeders 1180 Cattle were sold at the Lismore Saleyards on Saturday the 24th April The yarding consisted of 180 feeder steers, 950 mixed sex weaners and a handful of cows and calves and dry cows. Feeder steers 380- 470kg sold from $4.22 to $4.70 c/kg for returns of between $1577 - $2125. The Auckram’s family’s Simmental cross steers $4.52 c/kg, $2125. Ron Durheims bullock sold for $3.58 c/kg, $2238. A good line up of weaner steers sold to buyers from Glenn Innes, Southern Queensland and the western slopes. Heavy weaners sold from $4.60 to $5.20 c/kg, medium weights $4.80 to $5.95 c/kg and light weights up to $6.95 c/kg. Heifers sold for good returns but a little cheaper then last weeks sale, with most in the $4.70 to $5.10 c/kg range.
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FARMERS WELCOME END TO LIVERPOOL PLAINS COAL MINE NSW Farmers has welcomed news that the Shenhua Watermark Coal Project will not go ahead in the fertile Liverpool Plains. The NSW Government will cancel the exploration license after reaching an agreement with Shenhua. NSW Farmers Vice President and Liverpool Plains farmer Xavier Martin
said the agreement ends 13 years of uncertainty for the region’s farmers. “It was the wrong mine in the wrong place,” Mr Martin said. “This area has some of the best soils and water in Australia and as a nation, short term energy extraction gains should never compromise long term food
and fibre production goals.” Mr Martin said the Shenhua project also had an “unmanageable risk” factor on the quality and quantity of groundwater resources. “What many people may not know about this landscape is that almost every town, village and farm in this region relies on this groundwater for human consumption in
addition to it being vital for agricultural production.” “The potential risk in compromising this groundwater resource should have been enough to stop this project in its track’s year ago,as it had really affected confidence in our rural community.” “We are not opposed to mining projects, but we
must protect both our soil and water resources as a first priority. That is the policy of NSW Farmers and why we have opposed other projects such as the Narrabri Coal Seam Gas Project.” “We now look forward to the NSW Government moving ahead with cancelling the eleven expired Petroleum Exploration Licenses.”
Australian dairy weathers global storm with strong return to profitability THE Australian dairy industry has weathered the “severe global storm” and emerged in good shape with the southern export sector on track to report healthy profitability for the third consecutive season, according to Rabobank’s just-released dairy seasonal outlook. In its annual Australian Dairy Seasonal Outlook - In Pursuit of History, the agribusiness banking specialist says the industry, which has been plagued by market and climatic disruptions, is now “staring down history” with the prospect of a trifecta of profitable annual returns for dairy producers in the southern export region. Using the Australian Dairy Plan target – at AUD$1.50 EBIT/kgMS – as the profitability measure, the report says Victorian farmer margins exceeded industry targets in 2019/20 and are expected to again in 2020/21. And things are on track for a similarly strong result in 2021/22 in the majority of dairying regions in Australia. Rabobank senior dairy analyst Michael Harvey says “if successful, it would be the first time since benchmarking began in 2006/07 that three consecutive years have exceeded industry targets”. Effectively marking the end
of an extended period of lowmargin volatility, this return to profitability is “remarkable”, Mr Harvey says, “given the challenges the industry has had in previous seasons and that they have just come through a pandemic”. “The elevated outlook for the milk price is key to profitability,” he says, “but also favourable seasonal conditions and livestock trading conditions.” Mr Harvey says while many dairying regions in Australia are enjoying favourable seasonal conditions, there are some northern areas now grappling with floods.
Mr Harvey says global freight and logistical challenges, which are complicating the outlook and market dynamics, are set to recede by mid-2021. But Chinese import demand, which has been robust, looks set to soften in the second half of the year. “This should see the global dairy commodity market near its peak when the 2021/22 season gets underway, however it should be a soft landing as global milk supply growth remains moderate, demand dynamics look set to improve and manageable inventory levels are held across supply chains,” he says. Favourable milk price Mr Harvey cautions that outlook while the global outlook is Releasing the bank’s milk price favourable, there are some forecast for the 2021/22 season, downside risks associated with Mr Harvey says Rabobank’s Chinese buying behaviour global market forecast points – in terms of potential trade to an indicative weighted disruptions and inventory average farmgate milk price in levels – or if there was a the southern export region of renewed wave of COVID-19 AUD6.65/kgMS – in line with infections in key markets current season expectations. before widespread vaccination “Price signals ahead of occurs. the 2021/22 season remain favourable,” he says, “with Trading conditions to support the upside and downside farmgate margins risks to the global outlook The report says Australian more balanced then they were dairy farmers are looking this time last year. That said, at a very favourable supply while the pandemic-related of home-grown feed in uncertainty has subsided, it has the 2021/22 season while certainly not disappeared.” improved water availability
will give irrigators increased flexibility as they plan for the season ahead. Livestock trading conditions are also expected to remain buoyant with cull cow prices forecast to continue to trade above the long-term average – stabilising non-milk income – while the livestock export sector, for dairy heifers into China, is set to continue at pace for the next three years or more. Mr Harvey says given the stable milk price outlook, feed prices may pose the key risk to farmers’ margins ahead of the new season. While another big local winter grain crop is anticipated, following the good autumn break, there is upside risk to the local price outlook with weather-related production issues in offshore markets, robust global demand and low stocks in key regions, he says. “The global fertiliser price spike is also a watching brief,” he says, “as the global market
has been hit by a demand-led rally, exacerbated further by some short-term supply issues. While prices are expected to peak by mid-year, dairy farm businesses will need to budget for a lift in fertiliser spend.” Milk supply outlook Mr Harvey says sustained profitability of the Australian farmgate sector will flow through to milk production, with signs of recovery evident in the current season despite some hurdles. In 2021/22, Rabobank is forecasting Australian milk production to expand by 1.3 per cent to 8.8 billion litres, with Tasmania to lead this growth. “That said, yield improvement will be the key driver across the sector as herd constrains remain,” he says. “And with the cautious response to rebuilding the low national herd, it could constrain production in the short to more medium-term.”
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MISO BUTTER SNAPPER WITH BROCCOLINI
Forget the line-up of and pans and try this simple one-dish roasted miso butter snapper with broccolini GOOD FRIDAY RECIPE 0:10 Prep 0:20 Cook Serves 2 INGREDIENTS • 1 tbsp white miso paste • 25g soften butter unsalted • 2 x 180g skinless snapper fillets • 1 tsp sesame oil • 2 small red chillies, thinly sliced, plus extra to serve • 1 tbsp soy sauce • 1 tbsp peanut oil • 2 bunches broccolini halved lengthways • 150g mixed mushrooms (shimeji and enoki) stalks trimmed • Juice of ½ lime • Thinly sliced spring onion, to garnish METHOD
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Step 2 Combined miso and butter, then spread over snapper. Combine sesame oil. Chilli soy and peanut butter oil in bowl. Add broccolini, mushroom and sesame seeds, toss to combine, then spread over the base of prepared baking dish. Top with snapper. Roast for 18 to 20 minutes until snapper is just cooked and the broccolini is tender. Step 3 To serve, squeeze over lime juiced and scatter with spring onion and extra chilli.
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ROAST LEG OF LAMB WITH GARLIC AND WATERCRESS BUTTER EASTER SUNDAY RECIPE 0:30 Prep 1:40 Cook EASY Serves 6-8 Seasoned leg of lamb with watercress and garlic butter for a new take on an easter favourite. Parmesan breadcrumbs also add a lovely crunch and depth of flavour. INGREDIENTS • 2 kg bone-in leg of lamb • 100g watercress • 3 large garlic cloves, crushed • 4 anchovy fillets, in oil drained and finely chopped • 70g unsalted butter, softened • 3 rosemary sprigs FOR CRUMB • 100g sourdough bread, torn • ½ tbsp olive oil • 30g finely grated parmesan
METHOD Step 1 Remove the lamb from fridge 1 hr before cooking. Heat oven to 200c or 180c fan-forced. Use the tip of a knife to make 20-25 small slits in the lamb, then set aside in a roasting tin. Blitz the watercress, garlic and anchovies in a food processor until smooth, then add the butter and pulse to combined. Step 2 Season the lamb, then spread over half the butter mixture, pushing into slits as well. Break the rosemary sprigs into pieces and tuck into slits. Season cover with foil and cook for 1 hr 20 mins for medium (a thermometer should read 55C) or 1hr 40 mins, if you prefer the meat well done. Uncover the lamb
halfway through cooking and spread over the remaining butter, then place back in the oven uncovered for remaining time. Step 3 Meanwhile, blitz the sourdough in a food processor to make coarse crumbs. Toss with the oil and parmesan and spread out flat on a baking sheet. Put in the oven underneath the lamb for the last 20 minutes of cooking, or until lightly golden and crunchy. Leave the lamb to rest, covered, for 30 minutes, then slice and sprinkle over the crumbs Top tips: if the peppery flavour of watercress, swap it out for the same quantity of soft herbs, such as flat-leaf parsley.
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Step 3 Whisk the egg, milk, cream and sugar in a large bowl, then strain through a fine sieve into a jug. Pour the custard mixture evenly over the buns. Set aside for 15 minutes to soak. Step 4 Place the dish in a large roasting pan. Pour enough boiling water into a pan to come halfway up the side of the dish. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until custard is just set. Set aside for 5 minutes to cool slightly before serving. Top tips: You can use tradition fruit hot buns instead of chocolate if preferred.
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FIRST HUMAN TRIALS UNDER WAY FOR SCAR-LESS WOUND HEALING CREAM RESEARCHERS from The University of Western Australia have partnered with industry to conduct a world-first study to investigate a new product that has the potential to prevent or reduce scars forming after trauma and particularly following burn injury. Dr Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts Dr Mark Fear and Professor Fiona Wood, from UWA Medical School and the Skin Integrity Research Institute UWA, are working with industry partner pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis Ltd, clinical trials facility Linear Clinical, the Burn Injury Research Unit and Burns Service at Fiona Stanley Hospital. Dr Sandy-Hodgetts said skin scars placed a substantial physical and psychological burden on patients. “Current treatments aim to rectify the scar in the acute phase such as during wound healing and scar maturation through options such as compression therapy, silicone gel sheeting or when the scar is established by cryotherapy, scar revision or laser with limited outcomes at times,” Dr SandyHodgetts said. “This new compound may potentially avoid the need for invasive procedures such as further surgery or laser procedures.” The world-first human trial led, by Professor Wood and Dr SandyHodgetts, aims to to determine the
safety and tolerability of the product in healthy volunteers, which will lead to further trials in burns and surgical patients. “Scar formation following surgery has a huge impact on patient wellbeing and how they feel about themselves,” Dr Sandy-Hodgetts said. “What we’re hoping is that this new cream may have the potential to improve scar outcomes in patients following surgery. Professor Fiona Wood said it was exciting for the research team to explore a novel path to reduce scarring and to be moving closer to that goal. “Scar-less healing is the vision that has motivated our work over many decades,” Professor Wood said. Pharmaxis CEO Gary Phillips said the company was very excited to see its expertise in fibrosis being applied to help patients with scarring. “We have had a long and productive collaboration with researchers at UWA and this worldfirst trial of our drug PXS-6302 will establish whether the remarkable results seen in the pre-clinical models can be replicated in patients,” Mr Phillips said. “Scarring can have a devastating and life-long impact on people who have suffered traumatic injuries. A topical cream to reduce scarring would have a significant role in treatment”.
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THE Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is calling for patients to switch off social media and turn to their GP for vaccine information. The call comes in World Immunisation Week, and at a time when GPs across Australia are working hard on the twin rollouts of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines. General practice and primary care have now passed the 1 million milestone for COVID-19 vaccinations. It is a timely reminder of the importance of vaccinations, as GPs have been dealing with rising vaccine hesitancy regarding COVID-19 vaccines. An ANU study found a significant increase in uncertainty about COVID-19 vaccines among Australian adults – from 5% unwilling to be vaccinated and 7 % hesitant in August 2020, to 8% unwilling and 13% hesitant in January 2021. RACGP President Dr Karen Price said World Immunisation Week was an opportunity to remind patients of the importance of seeking expert medical advice. “General practice passing the 1 million milestone for COVID-19 vaccinations is a historic achievement. We should be celebrating it and thanking those on the frontline and the patients who’ve come forward and put their hand up to protect themselves and their community. “However, we know that rapidly circulating misinformation about vaccinations, particularly on social media, remains a serious threat to our community. “We can and must all do our bit to fight misinformation about vaccines. “Remind your family, friends and colleagues about what vaccines have done for us – for over 200 years, vaccines have protected our community against some of the world’s worst diseases, including polio and smallpox. “We take it for granted that such terrible diseases are no longer a threat in Australia, but we shouldn’t. “Vaccine hesitancy is seeing patients in Australia succumbing to diseases we shouldn’t need to deal with. We have readily available measles vaccines, yet in 2019 some 286 measles cases were notified – nearly three times higher than the previous year.” “I strongly encourage patients who are feeling uncertain about vaccinations to turn to their GP. Your GP will give you expert medical advice that’s personalised, according to your unique health history, any current concerns, or medications. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there, so please don’t hesitate to ask us if you have any concerns, no question is wrong. The RACGP President also commended GPs for their role in building vaccine confidence in the
community. “Vaccines are business as usual for general practice, but with the twin rollouts of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines on top of routine immunisations, GPs have been working harder than ever. “An essential part of our job is talking to our patients and empowering them with evidence-based knowledge so they can make an informed decision. This has no doubt contributed to us passing the 1 million milestone for COVID-19 vaccinations in general practice. “We listen to our patients if they have concerns, and our patients listen to us because they trust their GP. This is why general practice plays such a vital role in building vaccine confidence in our community. “I want to thank all GPs for their efforts. It is your hard work that protects our community and improves health and wellbeing for everyone.” Patients can check when they are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine and see if their usual general practice is delivering COVID-19 vaccinations in the Government’s Vaccine Eligibility Checker, online here: https://covidvaccine.healthdirect.gov.au/ Patients should contact their usual general practice about receiving a flu vaccine. Many practices will alert patients when flu vaccines are available, and patients should check their usual clinic’s website. The annual influenza vaccine is recommended for all patients over 6-months to prevent influenza. For those aged over 65 years, the adjuvanted influenza vaccine, Fluad® Quad, is recommended over the standard influenza vaccine. The influenza vaccine and COVID-19 vaccine should be administered at least 14-days apart, as per advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. The AstraZeneca vaccine should be administered in two doses, with a recommended interval of 12 weeks between doses.
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CINEMAS & MOVIE GUIDE 47 MOVIE REVIEW by Andy Gough Mortal Combat (R) Director: Simon McQuoid Cast: Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Hiroyuki Sanada. 110 minutes IT is always a dubious venture seeing a movie based on a video game, so I went into this one with low expectations. I have vague memories of playing the original game in video arcades back in the 90s – when it came out it was like Karate Champ on steroids – so I had some expectation that the characters and basic premise would be familiar. And yes, it was all pretty predictable and formulaic, but with Tarantino level graphic violence. What I really wasn’t expecting was the comic relief provided by Kano (Josh Lawson, pictured), a foul mouthed Aussie mercenary, and he really carries the show with his witty dialogue. Turns out Mortal Kombat was actually filmed in South Australia in late 2019, prior to the Covid outbreak. It all starts out in 17th century Japan, where assassins attack and kill Hanzo Hasashi’s wife and son. Hanzo repels the attackers before falling himself. Raiden, god of thunder (not the Hemsworth variety), arrives and carries Hanzo’s infant daughter to safety. Fast forward to the present, where the realm of Outworld has
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THE Piano Mill strikes again over Autumn with a boutique event called Ambient Light on Saturday, May 15. This event will be held in Lagavulin which is a small building on the Piano Mill property that is focussed on intimate performances of music created as “chamber music”. In keeping with the intimacy of chamber music, the space accommodates a small audience, about 40 inside, opening up for an additional 40 outside. The stage sets the performers with a backdrop of the mountains in the distance but the special arrangement of the glass ensures the acoustic performance remains the priority. Ambient Light, pianist Colin Noble presents Philip Glass’ delicate and rarely performed early work including How Now (1968)...a slowly transforming masterpiece of alterations in harmony and pulse. This recital also includes the premiere of Piano Sounds, written by Noble during last year’s lockdown.
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Reyne prepares to light up the stage again Eighties teen Tania SpiersPhillips caught up by phone with James Reyne late this past week as he tours with his The Boys Light Up 41 tour (yes it really has been 41 years since that song came out). AUSTRALIAN Crawl’s iconic song The Boys Light Up chalked up its 40th anniversary last year but we were all too busy staving off a pandemic to celebrate the milestone. The accompanying tour planned out for venues around Australia had to be delayed by Covid – until now. The Boys Light Up 41 – has seen the Byron Bay-based James Reyne traversing the country from April through to June to mark the occasion and it’s so popular he will be still on the road into August with more dates being added. He has already played the Miami Marketta once this year but will be back, by popular demand on August 15 now in a just announced second show. Mind you it’s not too far away for James whose wife is a long-term Byron resident (pre-Hemsworths even). “I feel like a local – my wife has had the place here twenty years or so,” he laughed.
“I’m a local by proxy – she is, and I’m with her so by proxy I am.” Fresh from a swim at the pool and ready for a dip in the surf, James was keen to chat about his on-going tour. “It’s good they keep adding dates – we had this big tour last year but obviously we couldn’t do it, so we’ve started doing it again this year and they just keep adding dates because it’s doing well,” he said. “We’ve done a couple of shows, but I’m going to Sydney tomorrow. We have a couple in Sydney and then
we’re coming back up here a few times - we’re going everywhere really. We’re going all over the country and really its great and fantastic. We played the Miami Marketta on Sunday night and we’re coming back to do another one on the 15th of August.” After lockdown people are obviously chomping at the bit and keen to see live music again. “Yes, I think so – we are in the lucky position that once things start to open up a bit people are eager to go out and see live music – that helps us,” he said.
JON STEVENS BRINGS THE INXS AND NOISEWORKS HITS TO LIFE THE songs of Noiseworks and INXS come to life in one show at Twin Towns Services Club Tweed Heads this week. In 2018 INXS’ Andrew Farriss surprised Jon Stevens by entering the band room after not seeing each other in 15 years to say, “That was an awesome gig Jon, but you really need to do more INXS songs”. Jon was on The Best of Jon Stevens Tour reflecting on his 40year career, performing songs from Noiseworks, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Dead Daisies and his solo collection with just a couple of INXS classics. This reunion with his old friend with whom he’d shared the stage with around the world fronting INXS from 2000-2005 formed the idea for his new tour Jon Stevens | The Noiseworks and INXS Collection Tour. The tour brings hits Take Me Back, New Sensation, Touch, Don’t Change, Hot Chilli Woman, Never Tear Us Apart, No Lies and more to the stage. This show is an assault of the senses, with nothing but relentless hits! A visceral charge of emotion that will transport you back to 1987
and beyond including the INXS songs that were such a huge part of the soundtrack of our lives. Jon Stevens plays the Twin Towns Services Club April 30. To book visit www.twintowns.com.au/ showroom/
“I can’t complain.” Creative people seemed to fall into two camps last year – those who were incredibly busy and those who weren’t – so where did James fit into that mix? “People think if you are stuck at home you should try to utilize it and I tried, but I can’t be that creative when I have to think – ‘Now I have to be creative’ – I did have a go – I tried and I got things done but a lot of it was juggling,” he explained. “Things were on and then they were off. We’ve had things that have been on
and off three times – as has everybody else - a lot of it has been having to learn to be reactive to whatever the particular government regulations might suddenly come in or suddenly go out.” Covid aside – it’s hard to believe that it really has been more than 40 years since The Boys Light Up turned up on our airwaves. “I’m just lucky I’ve been doing this at a good level for a long time,” James chuckled. “Last year was going to be the 40th anniversary of that album and we thought we can’t do it even though the tour is all booked out and done – so we’re doing it this year and it’s turned 41. “Basically, it’s a 90 minute set and we do all sorts of songs – songs that everybody knows, lots of my solo stuff, lots of the Crawl stuff – just do everything. “Everybody knows all the songs, the band’s great and we’ve done this for a long time, so we know what we’re doing, and its good.” The Boys Light Up – 41st anniversary show will play the Miami Marketta again on Sunday, August 15. Check with the venue for more information.
Neighbour watching in Lismore KNOWING our neighbours is recognised as part of being a strong, safe and resilient community but often in our suburbs, neighbours remain strangers. In Neighbourhood Watch, an Australian play by Lally Katz which debuted in 2011, two neighbours in a suburban street connect despite their vastly different life experiences. Neighbourhood Watch is a comedy about life, death and what unlikely friendships can teach us. Ana, an elderly HungarianAustralian widow befriends Catherine, a young would-be actor who lives on the opposite side of Mary Street. The role of Ana has been played by Robyn Nevin and Miriam Margolyes. In this production, Melanie Doriean is Ana and Adrienne Megan Lester plays Catherine. Director Daniel Sassi, a local thespian and drama teacher, said the ensemble cast features many regulars from Lismore Theatre Company and several newcomers- and Bella, the dog. “I selected this play which is on the HSC curriculum for LTC to give local students an opportunity to see a script brought to life from the page to the stage,” he said. “I think it’s important to bring a sense of multiculturalism to the
community. This is also a fantastic opportunity to work with local people who are passionate about theatre. “In past productions of Neighbourhood Watch, there has been a maximum of seven actors, many playing multiple roles but I’ve been more liberal, so we have 12 actors. “The play is about a neighbourhood and I wanted to reflect that on stage.” He said schools across the region have already booked out the three school matinees and there is one evening show specifically for schools. There are six shows for the general public from May 28-June 6. Bookings are available through www.Lismoretheatrecompany.org.au ($25/$20)
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BYRON BALLET BOUNCES BACK INTO ACTION BYRON Ballet is set to bounce back from a year of great change and challenge as it prepares to celebrate fifteen years. Director Yvonne Hall said 2020 was a tough year but there has been a silver lining for the group with New York ballerina Nicole Corea joining Byron Ballet after being stranded in Byron Bay. “She has now joined forces with Byron Ballet. She had planned to be dancing in New York at this time, though she is relieved to have found a beautiful ballet home in Byron Bay. Nicole is an inspirational dancer / teacher and has been a wonderful influence and mentor for the students so far,” Yvonne said. Yvonne said the Covid period had been challenging but they were now looking forward with new ideas and old favourites. “After closing doors, cancelling ballet seasons and losing our studio lease we have been brainstorming new
creative ideas,”she said. “To celebrate our 15th anniversary we are now happy to announce that plans are underway for two inspirational ballet seasons in 2021. “This year’s seasons will include two of Byron Ballet’s original creations, Shakespeare’s ever popular tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the dynamic contemporary work, Rite of Spring.” She said principal dancer Michael Braun will return to grace the stage with his “brilliant jumps, turns and stunning artistic flourish”. “He will be dancing the role of Oberon, the benevolent ruler of the spirit world who is determined to get his way and who has endless power struggles with Titania, the Queen of the Fairies,” Yvonne explained. “Audiences will delight in this comedic drama as the themes of mistaken identity unfold for the mischievous Puck and the star-crossed
“The Matisse festival will be taking place in Sydney during November, so we are also hoping to involve this piece with other Matisse events”. She said the new shows would be a step in the right direction after 2020 but they still had little way to go. “Longer term recovery for this resourceful company includes finding a new studio in a central location, (perhaps a shared investment) working with an orchestra and eventually taking our company on tour,” Yvonne said. lovers. history – music, theatre and “To help fulfill the dreams “Rite of Spring dance would never be the of local dancers, Byron Ballet Stravinsky’s infamous and same again.” will be launching a Patreon iconoclastic ballet is one of the Byron Ballet will pay tribute fundraiser page where ballet most influential performance to these masters with their lovers may become patrons to masterpieces of the twentieth own original “family friendly” the company from the cost of a century. production which has been weekly coffee.” “Stravinsky‘s avant created by Yvonne. Yvonne urged anyone garde score and Nijinsky’s “Our final project for the interested in auditioning for sacrilegious choreography year involves a delightful short the upcoming seasons to make caused outrage and rioting work under creation with artist contact byronballet@gmail. at the Paris premier in 1913! Vianney Pinon based on the com. It was the beginning of the iconic Matisse artwork of the “There will also be some modern era, and one of the famous circle of dance,” she limited roles for children,” she most famous nights in arts said. explained.
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Internationally renowned Magician James Galea returns to NORPA.
JAMES Galea brings the sorcery of magical comedy to NORPA with his new show Poof! Secrets of a Magician on Friday and Saturday, June 4-5. Through wizardry, story, and original songs (Are All Magicians Gay?, If I Really Could Do Magic), James back the curtain in an outrageous magical cabaret. “There are some deeply personal stories shared and secrets brought into the light. It’s exciting to be challenged and nervous again. I miss that,” James said. “I remember being at a magic convention and looking around and then having a moment where I just thought,
‘Hold on - are all magicians gay?’ It served as a jumping off point for a ridiculous world to live inside.” “I’ve always been fascinated that the word ‘poof’ in Australia (where I grew up) can have such a negative and visceral reaction— whereas ‘poof’ in the USA (pronounced ‘pouf’) is the most magical word in the vocabulary!” Galea said he is thrilled to be back in his home country and a region close to his heart. “Having got a big break at NORPA a decade ago, it’s pretty thrilling to be showcasing this show back where it all started.”
Constant television appearances, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, TODAY, The Late Late Show, Access Hollywood, his own series Urban Magic and the Discovery Channel series Breaking Magic have seen James in constant demand as a headliner internationally - including seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The World Famous Hollywood Magic Castle, Tropicana Las Vegas and the Sydney Opera House. James’ signature card trick 673 King Street was a viral hit, amassing over 10 million views on YouTube and was
featured on TV’s 50 Greatest Magic Tricks, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Ellen’s Somewhat Special Special. His latest series (created/ written by/EP/starring), James Galea’s Best Trick Ever premiered on the ABC TV and was released globally this year. See James Galea in POOF! Secrets of a Magician, Friday 4 June and Saturday 5 June, 7.30pm at NORPA at Lismore City Hall. Tickets are $25 - $54. For bookings: www. norpa.org.au *Warning: This is not a family magic show and contains frequent coarse language. Recommended for adults 18+
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
NO EGGS FOR BREAKFAST,
BUT I WOULDN’T MIND SOME BUBBLES By Tania Spiers-Phillips
WHAT is life like for funny women once the eggs are gone? That’s the question comedian Mandy Nolan will be posing at this year’s Byron Comedy Festival Breakfast on Sunday, May 16. Over a glass of bubbles and a BLT Mandy will join with arguably two of Australia’s funniest comedians Jean Kittson and Fiona O’Loughlin to talk about life after fertility. Mandy said the breakfast was always one of the highlights of the festival. “Yeah, it’s great, I think there’s something about coming together on a Sunday morning up at the Surf Club at Byron on the beach and then listening to some pretty impressive comedians having a bit of bacon and a coffee,” she said. “We had Denise Scott last time – it’s probably a pretty favourite time for us older women we don’t like late nights but we do like Sunday morning brekkie particularly listening to fabulous women comedians in our age groups. “That’s why I thought it would be great for me to
sit down – kind of like a writers festival style – in conversation with Jean and Fiona. Fiona’s career started later but Jean started in The Big Gig which was a big deal. She started way back then, and she’s seen the industry change. She doesn’t work as a stand-up, but my god she is a very funny woman, she’s an incredible writer, she’s a commentator, she’s often on panels because she’s so brilliantly funny and intelligent.” Mandy said she had a fabulous perspective writing You’re Still Hot to Me, demystifying menopause with humour and insight and some pretty impressive medical research. More recently she’s written We need to talk about Mum and Dad, a book about supporting ageing parents. “She’s got a lot to offer – the panel is about life after fertility and a lot of comics talk about being a mum, but what is the comedy now after being mums (well we’re still mums – a lot of us) but what’s this next bit look like, looking after aged parents, going through menopause, what does our life look like now?
Jean Kittson
Fiona O’Loughlin
Are we seen? How do these manage their careers?” Fiona O’Loughlin is a mother of five who found her way to comedy royalty in record time. She might have been a late starter but her honesty, her insight and her insanely good story telling has won hearts around the nation. She even won the 2018 I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here. “Fiona O’Loughlin has very publicly gone through the highs and lows of comedy and her comedy journey and her personal journey have intersected in a spectacular, at times thrilling and often painful way,” Mandy said. “Fiona has been very
honest and open about her addiction which saw her end in a rehab after almost dying at some point when she was in a coma. She tells this story in her book – it’s a fairly new release. She is remarkably blunt about her experience. “What’s amazing about this panel is that these are very funny women but we’re going to be talking (including myself) about very real topics. This isn’t like a walk through the roses, these are women who have had complex journeys themselves – Fiona in particular.” Mandy said this panel was about what it was like navigating those complex journeys and life as a
woman and a performer and entertainer. “Fiona went on to become Queen of the Jungle when she won I’m a Celebrity get me Out of here which is kind of amazing because she’d pretty much come straight out of rehab – I think going to the jungle was easy after rehab,” she laughed. “They’re really funny women, you don’t need to ask them funny questions you need to ask them real questions and you’ll get real answers, but they’ll be funny because they’re both incredibly insightful, self-deprecating, intelligent, experienced and world-weary women who have made a career in what is to a degree a man’s world – and a young man’s world – so what is it to be a woman over 55 in our career!” Join Mandy Nolan in conversation with Jean Kittson and Fiona O’Loughlin for No Eggs for Breakfast one of the highlights of the Byron Comedy Fest. Sunday 16 May, arrive at 9am for a BLT and a glass of bubbles, followed by a 10am show. Tickets $55 on byroncomedyfest.com
Hidden gems at Byron Comedy Festival ONE of the strengths of the Byron Comedy Festival is the depth of the programing. This bespoke beachfront comedy festival aims to provide a diverse comedy program that speaks across demographics. There are shows for everyone. For lovers of science, rational thought and the inspired genius of Dr Karl, on Saturday 15 May Dr Karl Kruszelnicki presents Great Moments in Q&A. In this intimate show with Karl, the good doctor will traverse a multitude of topics, while touching on some of the most hysterical things that have happened over his decades enthusing kids and the general public about science. He’s hugely funny, and you always leave a show with Karl feeling like you just got a PhD. For lovers of love there’s ABC TV’s Agony Aunts creator Adam Zwar’s show Modern Love Live. This is a fast paced conversation
Adam Zwar, Andy Saunders and Zoe Combs Marr will have audiences in stitches. hosted by Adam where he interviews Glenn Robbins, Fiona O’Loughlin, Jean Kitson and Dave O’Neil abou their wisdom on the cycle of love from meeting to falling in love to giving them your house. So, book in for Saturday 15 May for an epic romantic road trip with four of the funniest peeps in your back seat. Lovers of The Block get to meet Andy Saunders.
The First Nations comedian who appeared on the series and went on to satirise his experience with his show ‘The Black’, a satirical dig at his inclusion. Saunders tours with the smash hit of the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars the smash hit of the Edinburgh Fringe. His observations are sharp, his on-stage style is energetic and explosive. He is clearly a rising star in the comedy
circuit – Saunders performs Friday 14th May with the dark wit of Singaporean born Ting Lim as support. Lovers of Women in Comedy will be blown away by the double header of Geraldine Hickey and Zoe Coombs Marr. Winner of Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Piece of Wood for Peoples Choice, Geraldine is a natural born storyteller who is a regular on shows
like The Project, Tonightly with Tom Ballard, Have You Been Paying Attention and Hughesy, We have a Problem. Zoe has taken out The Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and is lauded amongst fellow comics for being a boundary pusher. She was the support of choice for Hannah Gadsby for her Netflix taping. Geraldine and Zoe perform on Sunday 16 May. And for lovers of Hen’s Nights… Rebel Lyons performs Same Penis Forever, a solo performance art debut where she muses on matrimony, monogamy and masturbation. Catch this Queen of Kook for the late show on Friday 14th May. These are just some of the gems for comedy lovers at the Byron Comedy Fest, 13-16 May at the Byron Surf Club. For the full program go to byroncomedyfest.com
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Filling the void at Tweed Regional Gallery AN exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal artists is the latest exhibition to open at the Tweed Regional Gallery. Void is a touring exhibition bringing together contemporary Aboriginal artistic practice from across the country. The exhibition features existing works across the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, video and photography by artists including Pepai Jangala Carroll, Jonathan Jones, Mabel Juli, John Mawurndjul AM, Hayley Millar-Baker, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Mr R Peters, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Andy Snelgar, Dr. Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher AO, Freddie Timms, James Tylor, Jennifer Wurrkidj and Josephine Wurrkidj. “The void is a complex space of exclusion and inclusion, definition and deliberate ambiguity. But as these artists demonstrate, the void is always lived upon, navigated and known even as it remains unseen, unknown and undefined,” Void Curator Emily McDaniel said. Emily McDaniel is an independent curator, writer and educator passionate about storytelling and facilitating conversations, and is from the Kalari Clan of the Wiradjuri nation in central New South Wales. She recently held the position of Coordinator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Learning Programs at the Museum of Contemporary
Art Australia. Writer Bruce Pascoe explained the importance of the exhibition in his introductory essay about it. “These images and objects are not to be glanced at, one more demand on our crowded attention, they are to be looked at, considered, absorbed,” he said. “They are of country, our shared country. We share this country now. All of us. It is too late to pretend that the past theft of land can be completely reversed, we are all in it together now.” On Friday. 7 May at 5.15pm, Emily McDaniel will host a floor talk on the exhibition Void, providing insights into the concept of the void in Indigenous ways of knowing and seeing. Following the talk, the exhibition will be officially opened at 6pm. Bookings are essential due to capacity limits and tickets cost $20: https:// mayopenings.eventbrite.com. au Void will be on display at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre from Friday, May 7 until Sunday, July 4. The exhibition is in conjunction with UTS Gallery and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, presented nationally by Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program and through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Hayley Millar-Baker, Meeyn Meerreeng (Country at Night), 2017. Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery VIC. Photo: Campbell Henderson
James Tylor, (Deleted Scenes) From an Untouched Landscape #7 Knocklofty Reserve, West Hobart, Palawa Land, 2013. Photo: Campbell Henderson
NORPA OPENS ITS DOORS TO NEW PERFORMERS
Wildskin by NORPA. Photo credit Darcy Grant.
PERFORMERS across the Northern Rivers have the chance to join NORPA with the region’s leading theatre company set to hold auditions. NORPA artistic director and CEO Julian Louis said this was an opportunity for performers to meet the NORPA team and showcase their skills and interests. The group is welcoming performers from across different performance practices but are specifically looking for those who are comfortable working with text. “This is a really exciting time for NORPA with a number of creative projects heading into development
this year. We are looking for performers who are inventive and versatile. The cast help shape the work, generating content which comes from the stories and characters around us,” Julian said. Individual auditions will be held on Thursday May 13 at NORPA at Lismore City Hall. Each performer will need to prepare a performance piece no longer than four minutes in duration that includes some text/dialogue. This could be a monologue, a physical theatre piece with text or a short self-devised performance. Following the individual audition, selected performers will be invited to a call back session on Friday, May 14. Two sessions will be available
on Friday, May 14, either 3pm – 5pm or 6pm – 8pm. NORPA has a national and international reputation for making exciting, original Australian theatre works including Railway Wonderland staged on the Lismore Railway Station (2012, 2015), Dreamland staged in the Eureka Hall (2016) and Bangalow A&I Hall (2019), Djurra (2017), Wildskin (2018) and Fold: A Domestic Circus (2019) among many others. NORPA works are adventurous, collaborative and take inspiration from the country and stories of this area. For more info and to book an audition go to www.norpa. org.au/open-auditions
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April 29, 2021
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AUDI R8 By EWAN KENNEDY
Audi has reintroduced its R8 sportscar after an absence of several years. Though the company won’t say so in answer to our questions it’s probably come back to take on recently introduced sports models from its German, British and Japanese competitors. We’ve just spent an enjoyable week road testing one, though sadly we didn’t have a chance to test it to its limits at a race track - perhaps later… STYLING The first thing that you look at in the Audi R8 is the back window because there’s a gloriously looking V10 under the glass! The front end is reasonably low, with a the very-Audi large grille with honeycomb styling. The doors have large openings that taper towards their rear to let air into the intakes. The side pods aren’t as standout in their look as in earlier editions of the R8, but still seems to be a lot of car behind the doors. INTERIOR The bucket seats are supportive and pretty comfortable for this class. If your backside isn’t as narrow as it used to be perhaps do a test sit before buying the car. The front luggage boot is better than some in this class and can take a couple of overnight bags. There’s also some space
on a high mounted shelf behind the seats.
INFOTAINMENT Virtual Cockpit means all the controls run through the driver’s screen and you can set the display to suit your taste. We preferred the sports setting with a large tacho sitting slap bang in the centre. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone connectivity are there for the asking. ENGINES / TRANSMISSIONS The Audi’s V10 engine produces 606 horsepower (449kW) at 8250rpm, the sort of revs that are almost race-car like, and 560Nm at 6500rpm. A seven-speed S tronic transmission takes power to all four wheels. SAFETY Primary safety, that is the ability to avoid a crash, is excellent as the R8 has excellent brakes, handling and easy controllability. Should something still go wrong there are airbags for driver and front passenger that inflate in two stages depending on seriousness of collision; side airbags that are seat-mounted; and head level curtain airbag, the latter only on the coupe. DRIVING The red start button inside the steering wheel is an excellent idea. The V10 engine sound just magnificent with a loud roar before it settles
into a very fast idle to build up to operating temperature as soon as possible. The neighbours may not like it if you’re about to head out on an early morning fang on your favourite roads. There’s the option of Comfort and Sport settings. As keen drivers we kept it in Sport most of the time. Amongst other things it lets you make many of your own decisions. For example, it will spin the wheels (yes, all four of them!) if you floor it off the line so you need to back off just a fraction to get maximum traction and minimum times. Acceleration is all-but instantaneous because the big capacity V10 isn’t held back by a small turbocharged engine that takes time to spool up. At about 5000 revs you feel it really coming on hard as the engineers have reasoned that once you’re up there you’re very serious.
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Purposeful looks show the Audi R8 is a serious sports machine. It keeps on going hard till it’s just past the 8500 redline. Gearchanges are very fast and there’s no feeling the engine is backed of electronically during them. Cornering balance is excellent due to the mid-mounted engine. It takes bends way over the suggested speeds and is neutral and easy to control with plenty of feedback through the steering wheel. Track days may be necessary if you really want to get the best bang for your bucks. Keep an eye on what local car clubs are doing and you may be able to join in with them In Sport the ride is pretty harsh and a passenger with a bad back suffered serious discomfort. Bump-thump on the expansion joints of concrete roads is a pain.
However, as these are generally on motorways it might makes sense to switch back to Comfort mode. SUMMING UP A brilliant piece of automotive engineering, the Audi R8 V10 may be getting on in years, but it’s reintroduction and changes to improve it have given it a new lease on life.
kW @ 8250 rpm Maximum Torque: 560 Nm @ 6500 rpm Fuel Type: Premium unleaded Combined Fuel Cycle (ADR 81/02): 13.4 L/100km CO2 Emissions: 314 g/ km DRIVELINE: Sevenspeed automatic
MODEL RANGE Note: These prices do not include government or dealer delivery charges. Contact your local Audi dealer for drive-away prices.
DIMENSIONS, WEIGHT AND CAPACITIES: Length: 4429 mm Wheelbase: 2650 mm Width: 1940 mm Height: 1246 mm Turning Circle: 11.2 metres Kerb Mass: 1595 kg Fuel Tank Capacity: 73 litres
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ENGINE: Capacity: 5.204 litres Configuration: V10 Maximum Power: 449
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There’s no mistaking the antecedents of the shape of the upcoming new Nissan GT-R Nis
NEW NISSAN GT-R NISMO FIRST DETAILS By Ewan Kennedy NISSAN has unveiled the newest iteration of the Nissan GT-R Nismo. It’s planned to be launched in Japan in October. A special edition will be introduced at the same time. Both models will be offered in the new, NISMOexclusive NISMO Stealth
Grey body colour, which was inspired by track tarmacs GT-Rs have set records and competed on. The special edition features a NISMO-exclusive clearcoated carbon fibre bonnet. The clear coat not only exposes the intricate carbon fibre weave, it also sheds 100 grams from the weight. The edition-exclusive 20-
inch Rays aluminium forged wheels have a red accent that matches existing accents around the body. Large Brembo calipers and carbon ceramic rotors are the biggest ever fitted to a Japanese performance car, at 410 mm in the front and 390 mm at the rear. The GT-R NISMO’s VR38DETT 3.8-litre twin-
turbo V6 with GT3 racecarsupplied turbochargers remains the heart of the GT-R’s drivetrain. It is rated at 600 horsepower (441 kW). The built-to-order GT-R NISMO special edition has high-precision, weightbalanced parts including the piston rings, connecting rods, crankshaft, flywheel, crank pulley and valve springs.
Each engine is handcrafted by its own takumi technician. The takumi certification plate on the engine is also in an exclusive colour. More details will be announced later and we very much look forward to getting into the driver’s seat of the latest edition of one of our all-time favourite highperformance machines.
HYUNDAI STARIA: ADVANCE DETAILS the third row. Staria’s generous legroom can be converted into additional cargo space when all seats are pushed together made possible by the versatile long sliding seat function. Powertrain options are a 2.2-litre turbo-diesel with 130kW of power and 431Nm of torque. The petrol 3.5-litre V6 has an impressive 200kW and 331Nm of torque. Staria will have seven airbags for Australia in and all seats come with three-point seat belts and headrests. The Staria has Hyundai’s
Hyundai Staria shows that people movers can look exciting By EWAN KENNEDY Hyundai has launched details of its upcoming Staria peoplemover line-up that will go on sale in some markets starting from the second half of 2021. It will available in two variants, Staria and Staria Premium, the latter with exclusive finishes for a more luxurious look and feel. Staria’s front has a wide radiator grille. There are horizontal daytime running lights and a positioning lamp, together running across the width of the vehicle. Staria Premium features a variant-exclusive tinted brass
chrome treatment, applied to the Hyundai emblem, grille, headlamp bezels, front and rear bumpers, wheels, side mirrors and door handles. Large side windows improve overall visibility and create a feeling of openness. The seven-seat Staria Premium has Relaxation Seats in the second row that recline electronically. Even when the seats are reclined, there is enough room for an adult passenger to sit comfortably in the third row. The nine-seat Premium model’s individual seats in the second row can swivel 180 degrees to face passengers in
smart infotainment system. This system allows the driver and front passenger to communicate with rear passengers using a speaker function that allows all occupants to clearly hear one another.
HYUNDAI AUSTRALIA advises: Design details and features provided in this global press release and attached images may only be available in certain markets/regions.”
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MILD MANNERED INTRO TO MAZDA NEW WORLD By DEREK OGDEN It’s an open-and-shut case: either you love the horizontally opposed doors on the new Mazda MX-30 G20e, or you don’t. I lean towards the former having just spent a week living with its quirks. The doors combine to open up a huge entry and exit, or do they? In a less-than-generous parking spot, say the average shopping-centre space, limited opening presents a chore to negotiate the slot between the pair of doors. Other niggles are set out in the Driving section below. There’s nothing new about the set-up, having been around since saloon cars came onto the market. The so-called ‘freestyle’, aka ‘suicide’, doors last saw the light of day in the Mazda RX-8 sports car late last century. Now they’re back in crossover guise. “The MX-30 is the bold next step of Mazda’s Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030 strategy,” says Mazda Australia managing director, Vinesh Bhindi. Two ‘green powertrains will initially be on offer – the e-Skyactiv G, featuring mild hybrid technology, and later in the year the fully electric e-Skyactiv system. With three specification levels – Evolve, Touring and Astina – prices start at $33,990 for the entry-level variant and progress through $36,490 (Touring) to the top-of-range Astina at $40,990. All figures are without on-road costs. The Touring, with its mild hybrid system and advanced keyless entry, exterior mirrors with two-position memory, auto dimming on driver’s side, Pure White Maztex with grey cloth upholstery,
driver’s seat with 10-way adjustment including lumbar support and two-position memory over the entry-level Evolve, was on test. STYLING Mazda says the design team focused on new values and lifestyles of its target audience – young, metro and forward thinking – by cutting out unwanted clutter. The MX-30 eschews the Mazda hallmark front with its ‘big gob’ radiator grille, a smile now playing across the face focusing on the company brand. In profile, strong features are the result of upright A-pillars, curved side panels and steeply raked roofline to D-pillars. A black roof section and metallic upper body sections are available, producing a stand-out triple tone contrast. INTERIOR A light and airy MX-30 cabin has been given a position beyond its ‘pay grade’, with Pure White Maztex / grey cloth upholstery and soft-touch plastic among a wide range of sustainable materials.
While maintaining the Mazda Kodo design philosophy, the MX-30 has broken away upfront and under the bonnet. Heritage cork harks back to Mazda’s founding as the Toyo Kogyo company, with surfaces made from sustainable materials derived trees without felling them. A unique coating applied by Mazda ensures durability, especially in door grips and centre console surfaces. Upper door trims are finished in a breathable fabric, made from recycled PET bottles and even seat trim fabric uses up to 20 per cent recycled thread. INFOTAINMENT Interior layout and packaging are designed to appeal to the modern tech-savvy owner. A new 7-inch touchscreen is integrated into the centre stack, adapting its display to suit the temperature and time of day. The climate control air-conditioning and seat heating are operated via this screen. An 8.8-inch central display, shared with the Mazda CX-30, supplies a raft of information via an
easy-to-reach command control knob on the centre console, and a 7-inch TFT LCD meter panel is situated in front of the driver. The latest generation Mazda Connect is incorporated in the info package. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto access are offered. ENGINES / TRANSMISSIONS This first Mazda MX-30 M range mates a 114 kW 2-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with the maker’s own M Hybrid system, driving the front wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission. The hybrid system works with regenerative braking to store energy, which is intelligently controlled to boost engine torque, enhance braking, or extend idle stop time, all with improving fuel efficiency. SAFETY The MX-30 matched latest stiff standards set last year to earn a five-star top ANCAP safety rating.
Adult occupant and child protection rated 93 and 87 per cent, respectively. The Mazda i-Activsense system now adds a turn-across traffic function to the smart brake support system, helping to prevent crashes when turning across traffic. Also included are road keep assist, which maintains the right track even without lane markings, along with emergency lane keeping with blind spot assist. DRIVING When it comes to action, mild seems to be the operative word, with the MX-30 a little wanting. Performance boost and fuel economy seem nothing out of the ordinary. The peak power of 114 kW comes in the upper reaches of the rev spectrum at 6000 rpm, while a more accessible 200 Nm of torque arrives at 4000 revs. All systems interact smoothly, so smoothly, in fact as to appear to have little advantage over petrol power alone. Mazda has the MX-30 consuming 6.4 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres in the combined urban /
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highway cycle. In stop / go holiday traffic chaos the MX-30 on test slurped 8.2 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres, while joining the motorway had the Touring down to sipping 5.2 litres per 100 kilometres. There’s little free and easy about the so-called freestyle doors: the front has to be opened first to get to the rear door handle. While there’s no B-pillar, the front seat backs and low roofline make access to the back awkward, depending on occupant body bulk. When seated, limited width means three abreast should be limited to short journeys. The rear has reasonable leg room but there’s little natural light due to tiny side windows. The black surroundings of the RX-8 made for a claustrophobic atmosphere, saved somewhat here by the grey decor. Convenience features are sparse, with little more than a fold-down armrest with two cup holders and a door mounted bottle holder. The boot, at 311 litres capacity, is under done but can be expanded to 876 litres with the rear seat back folded. Loading area is limited. Up front, the ‘floating’ cork-lined centre console is a nod to sustainable materials, being merely bark stripped from the tree. A lower level has a large storage spot, plus two USB-A ports and a 12V power outlet. Two cup holders in the middle of the large centre console can be covered with cork lids to provide enough space for a smartphone. The front door slots are made to take average-size bottles.
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The Northern Rivers Times
April 29, 2021
58 GARDENING
12 BEST WINTER FLOWERS Brighten up a gloomy winter day with some of these stunning flowers that thrive in cool conditions.
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The flowers of Cyclamen are dormant throughout summer but they come alive and show their true colours in autumn. LAVENDER
Plant Bergenia under trees and in shady locations. In sunnier areas flowers dominate at the expense of foliage. Flowers grow in clusters on large stems and open during winter. PROTECT YOUR GARDEN AND PLANTS Frost Protection Winter frosts can damage plant foliage and shoots, particularly if unseasonable weather has resulted in tender new growth.
Daphne needs morning sun and protection from cold wind. It also likes moist, cool soil that is well drained and slightly acidic. Susceptible to viruses, however. It’s a good idea to water with Yates Anti Rot.
Snowdrops like to grow in the shade. They’re a great addition to any balcony garden as they flourish in containers. LILLY OF THE VALLEY SHRUB
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Proactive pest & disease control During the depths of winter, it’s an ideal time to break the life cycle of a range of common pests and diseases, which are lying in wait on deciduous plant stems during winter, ready to infect new spring foliage and flower buds. Spray leafless stone fruit and apple trees, grapevines, roses and other deciduous shrubs like hydrangeas with the higher winter rate of Yates® Lime Sulfur. It has a strong smell but is a very important winter clean up technique. Winter Feeding There’s a wonderful range of fabulous flowering plants that at their busiest during winter and will really appreciate a good feed to keep them healthy and promote a gorgeous floral display. Feed plants like camellias, daphne, dianthus, calendula, cornflower, English daisies and spring flowering bulbs like hyacinths and daffodils with Yates Thrive® Natural Roses & Flowers Liquid Plant Food every 1–2 weeks. It’s as easy as diluting 1–2 capfuls in a 9L watering can and applying over the plant and surrounding soil.
The Northern Rivers Times
April 29, 2021
STARS AND MARKETS 59 Aries Mar 21 - Apr 20 You’re feeling yourself, and there’s a pep in your step, Aries. Granted, the sun is currently igniting your sensually driven second house of comfort and value systems, and it’s in harmony with the moon in your responsible sixth house of due diligence. Keep in mind—considering this is the astro highlight of the day—Venus will be making a vivacious conjunction with rebellious Uranus in this area of your birth chart. This could potentially lead to a series of unexpected changes. For instance, the electric synergy stemming from both of these heavenly bodies could create everything from a shocking new attraction to the desire for freedom in a relationship.
Cancer Jun 24 - Jul 22 Spruce up your social media presence, Cancer. In addition to your planetary ruler transiting through your third house of communication, it will be making a harmonious alignment with the sun via your eleventh house of associations, community, and sense of belonging in the world—but there’s more. Luscious Venus will join forces with rebellious Uranus in your eleventh house of friendship, teamwork, social media, and extended community, and this could very well come with a surprise, or two. Single? This could be the day you sign up for a Dating App or kick off a spontaneous romance with someone who isn’t your usual type. The shock value is almost inevitable.
Libra Sep 23 - Oct 23 The moon’s shaking up your karmic twelfth house of secrets, subconscious patterns, hidden agendas, and all things behind the scenes, so you’ll more than likely feel the need to retreat during this time. Although, given today’s highly anticipated Venus-Uranus conjunction (a.k.a, your planetary ruler), chances are you’ll be given no choice but to confront a situation straight away. Keep in mind that the sun, Venus, and Uranus are all activating your erotic eighth house of intimacy, mergers, and soul-to-soul connections. But the electric synergy of Venus and Uranus adds a layer of shock to the equation. Single or taken, this could be a sudden attraction nearly that’s impossible to resist, Libra.
Capricorn Dec 22 - Jan 20 You’re ready to take things to the next level, Capricorn. The moon rules your relationship sector and it’s lighting up your expansive ninth house of adventure, wisdom, and unknown territory—all the while linking up with the sun in your romantic fifth house of love. Keep in mind, the sun governs your erotic eighth house of intimate unions—so, there’s definitely an opportunity for growth and renewal when regarding your connections. This, of course, intensifies Venus’ conjunction with freedom-loving Uranus in your romantic fifth house of pleasure today, inspiring you to take the unconventional route and level-up romantically. It’s time to set yourself free.
Taurus Apr 21 - May 21 Love is most certainly in the air, but it’s up to you to claim it as yours, Taurus. Slow and steady wins the race, but what if you’ve already reached the finish line? In addition to the sun and moon’s harmonious alignment—the sun igniting your fixed earth and the moon illuminating your romantic fifth house of love, passion, and pleasure—your planetary ruler, Venus, will be joining forces with rebellious Uranus in your sign today. Single or attached, this combination of energies could be equally gratifying as it is shocking. Themes surrounding your individual freedom in a relationship could also come up for review… but you’re liberating yourself simultaneously.
Leo Jul 23 - Aug 23 Expect the unexpected, Leo. For the most part, you could be preoccupied with themes surrounding your career and money-making abilities—and it’s all thanks to the moon’s transit through your stabilityseeking second house. Although, in the midst of this cosmic level-up, a vivacious reunion between Venus and freedom-loving Uranus could shake things up a bit. Single? Given that this rare meeting will be taking place in your tenth house of authority, you could experience an impromptu attraction or become suddenly smitten by someone in the workplace. Perhaps this is with a superior, or someone older than you.
Scorpio Oct 24 - Nov 2 Change is the only thing that’s constant, Scorpio. And despite whether you’re single or already smitten in love, today’s astro weather is bound to catch you off guard, perhaps in more ways than you’re comfortable with. For instance, in addition to the moon lighting up your experimental eleventh house of community— encouraging you to prioritize your individual freedom—it will link up with the sun in your relationship sector. Lady Venus will join forces with revolutionary Uranus in your committed seventh house of significant others, and the effects will likely come as a surprise. However, bottom line here is: This is an opportunity for you to liberate yourself, especially when it comes to romance.
Aquarius Jan 21 - Feb 18 La Luna is activating your eighth house of sex, intimate unions, adding a layer of emotional intensity to themes surrounding joint ventures and romantic collaborations. This, of course, goes hand-in-hand with today’s Venus-Uranus conjunction—and since Uranus also happens to be your modern ruler, the effects are bound to trigger you. This doesn’t have to be negative, so don’t overthink it. Nevertheless, this will occur in your cozy fourth house of home, family, and emotional foundations, so expect the unexpected. Although, you could suddenly decide to start a family with someone or perhaps move in together. This could possibly be considered a “disruption” to family members, but you’re prioritizing your freedom, Aquarius.
Gemini May 22 - June 23 You’re starting to let go of what no longer serves you, and let’s just say: This has been a long time coming, Gemini. Single or already taken, today’s revolutionary conjunction between coquettish Venus and disruptive Uranus will activate your karmic twelfth house of closure, dreams… and the skeletons in your closet. Uranus is unconventional and erratic, but Venus is looking for harmony and stability. For some of you, this could bring a long overdue “Tower” moment—especially with past burdens weighing over your psyche, or perhaps residual energies keeping you stagnant. You’re healing, so take as much time as you need.
Virgo Aug 24 - Sep 22 The risk is worth it, Virgo. The moon is glimmering through your sign as we speak, but it’s also in harmony with the sun in your expansive ninth house of adventure, opportunity, and unknown territory. Keep in mind, the sun rules your secretive twelfth house of karma, hidden agendas, and all things behind the scenes—so you could be moving forward with a plan you kept under wraps, if you haven’t already. More importantly, today’s colorful VenusUranus conjunction will simultaneously light up your ninth house, encouraging you to explore your romantic horizons and take a leap of faith. This new journey of love, however, could come as a surprise, so go with the flow.
Sagittarius Nov 22 - Dec 21 The moon governs your eighth house of intimacy and soulmate connections, and it will be hovering over your tenth house of authority, career, legacy, and reputation in the world. For some of you, this could have something to do with taking initiative and/ or control of something in your relationship. Although, Venus will join Uranus in a vivacious conjunction, bestowing you with the opportunity to break free and reinvent yourself when in regards to your love life. Keep in mind, this conjunction will take place via your dutiful sixth house of responsibility, which means it’s going to take hard work and dedication. But anything’s possible with the right mindset, Sag.
Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20 The moon rules your fifth house of love, passion, and pleasure, and it’s illuminating your committed seventh house of significant others and one-onone relationships today. Single or taken, this provides you with the opportunity to get more hands-on with your crush or lover, especially if you’re just starting to get to know them. By “hands-on” I mean, doing things together like cooking, exercising, or spending time outdoors. Now, Venus will be joining forces with freedom-loving Uranus in your chatty third house of communication as well— which is excellent for expressing your desires, fearlessly and unapologetically. It’s also ideal for finding love on social media (with perhaps with someone who isn’t your usual type, Pisces).
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The Northern Rivers Times
April 29, 2021
60 IN MEMORIAM Death Notice
PFAEFFLI Jakob Passed away peacefully,
age 70 years,
at his home in the care of his loving family. Loving husband of Julie, beloved father of Isabelle, Kia and Tingha and much-loved grandpa to his five grandchildren.
The celebration of Jakob’s life was held at the Chapel of the Lismore Memorial Gardens, Skyline Road Goonellabah, Tuesday 20th April 2021.
Memoriam
Return Thanks
The family of Fernanva Santin would like to thank the staff of Simplicity Funerals for their services, care and words of reassurance. We would also like to thanks staff at St Joseph’s Nursing Home in Lismore, for all of their care Fernanva has received for the past 4 years. Fernanva was also there in the last weeks of her life. We are very appreciative and thank you to all staff of St. Carthage’s Cathedral of Lismore for helping with the funeral service, especially Father Munyao for the beautiful service he did for Fernanva and thank you for everyone involved on the day at the Church and the service.
Funeral Notice
JOHNSON, Noela Doris
Passed away peacefully 22nd of April 2021. Much loved wife to Herb (dec). Loved mother to Debbie, Jennie and Karel and their families. Adored Nan and Grannan.
Aged 90 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend Noela’s graveside funeral service to be held at the Evans Head Cemetery, Cemetery Road Evans Head TOMORROW Friday 30th of April 2021 commencing at 11am.
Thank you to all the neighbours, friends and extended family for their words of sympathy, care and flowers.
Please accept this as our Forever Thank You
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In memory of
Wesley Atkinson 23-06-1988 to 27-04-2014
Think of him as living In the hearts of those he touched For nothing loved is ever lost And he was loved so much.
Memoriam In Loving Memory
Malcolm Robert Garraway 10-3-1959 - 28-4-2020
1 year has passed so quickly, I still wait for your return, I know its not possible as God had other plans. You are always on my mind, but forever in my heart. My love my soulmate.
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BRADBURY, MARIE MAY 21. 07. 1924 ~ 19. 04. 2021
Passed away peacefully at Caroona ‘Jarman’ Nursing Home, Goonellabah.
Aged 96 years.
Beloved Wife Doug (dec). Beloved Mother and Mother in-law of Geoffrey & Pamela, Christine & Phillip Rose, Stephen and Narelle Fahey. Loved Nana, Nana Brad and Great Nana Brad. A Funeral Service was held on Wednesday 28th April with Family and Friends.
Remembered, loved and treasured always Mum, Dad (dec) and your loving family and Pop and Granma (dec)
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KENNETH (KEN) LAWRENCE KAEHLER 15.03.1940 ~ 20.04.2021
Passed away peacefully at Crowley Care in Ballina (formerly of Tintenbar). Loving husband of Nola for 58 years. Much loved Father and Father-in-law of Leanne (dec) & Philip, John & Joan, Scott & Kate and Pa / Pop of Ben, Brooke, Jessica, Brett, Ewan, Morgan & Dylan. Missed brother, brother-in-law and uncle and their extended family.
Will be sadly missed by all of his family and friends. A Funeral Service was held for Ken.
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Rita Helen Gobbe
Passed away peacefully on Wednesday, 21st April 2021.
Aged 92 years.
Beloved wife of Allan (dec’d). Much loved mother and mother in law of Terry and Mark & Kim. Loved Nanna to Matthew, Ryan, Charlotte, Will and Great Nanna to Mimi.
A celebration of Rita’s life will be held at Parkview Funeral Home, 21 Kalinga St, Ballina, on Monday, 3rd May 2021, commencing at 11.00am.
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Darryl John Halpin
14/8/1940 – 25/4/2021 Passed away peacefully at St Andrew’s Nursing Home, Ballina on Sunday, 25th April, 2021. Dearly loved father and father in law of Tony & Annette, Leanne & Peter and Alan & Noi; Treasured Poppy of Nicholas, Joel, Tamika and Alif; loved Great Poppy to Aurora and Boe.
‘Forever in our hearts’
Family and friends are invited to attend Darryl’s funeral service to be held at Parkview Funeral Home, 21 Kalinga Street, Ballina on Thursday, 29th April, 2021 commencing at 10:30am. In lieu of flowers, donations to Parkinson’s NSW would be greatly appreciated and may be left at the service.
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April 29, 2021
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64 COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD is free. The lucky door prize is a beautiful equine sculpture donated by Sue Fraser. EAST BALLINA LIONS Since the East Ballina Lions Club was formed over 30 years ago, Lions have been involved in an array of community programs & initiatives. The Club believes it has made a big difference to many lives over this time and this would not have been possible without the incredible dedication from Lions volunteers and support from the local community. The Lions thank everyone for their support. The Lions volunteers, would also like to thank the community for the opportunity. Whilst they have provided vital help to people in need, they have found new friends, connected with their community and learnt new skills. The East Ballina Lions Club has now reached a tipping point. The Club cannot continue past the end of this financial year if they don’t recruit more members. Last year the Club sadly had four members pass away and already six current members have been hospitalised. The Club is in a very strong financial position and many varied projects that members can become involved in.The depleted membership numbers and health concerns means the Club cannot continue to operate the BALLINA COMMUNITY MARKETS without help. East Ballina Lions are asking members of the community to consider joining the Lions Club or to speak to a friend or relative who would benefit from joining the Lions? With busy lives, we know it can be hard to find time to volunteer. However, the Lions are asking for help and asking everyone to consider their request for volunteers. Members are only asked do what they can and when they can to help with Club projects. If you are able to assist, please contact the East Ballina Lions Club. 0466717435 (Dawn Sword). BALLINA MAHJONG 23RD APRIL 2021 Sally Lowry 1, Judy Brent 2, June Greenaway 3, Helen Young 4, Lorna Simpson 5, Shirley Coleman 6, Carol Meyer 7, Wendy Thornton 8, Susan Allan 9, Joy Lowien 10, Jan Henley 11, Kath Hubbard, Yvonne Weddup 12, Coral Lavelle 14, Jenny Lang 15, Janice Jemison 16, Gail McDonagh 17, Betty Penklis 18, Gladys D’Anna 19, Lesley Richie, Rosemary Russell 20, Shirley Atkinson 22, Annette O’Connor 23, Diana Auret 24, Kathy Pickles 25, Pam Farrell 26, Pauline Kearney 27, Jan Small 28, Valda McLerie 29. Mahjong is played on Friday at 12:30pm at the Ballina Bridge Club North Creek Road. Enquiries for new players phone Vanessa on 66874181. BALLINA CWA Ballina CWA Handicraft & Friendship mornings are held every Wednesday morning from 9 until 12 in our rooms on River Street. Numbers are covid safe limited so could you please ring our Handicraft Officer Barb 0428116668 on Monday night to book a place. Ballina CWA meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of the month at 9am in our rooms, please ring our Secretary Janet 0435323079 for more information. Mahjong is being played once again in The Ballina CWA rooms on River Street, Wednesdays & Thursdays starting at 12:15, for more information please ring David 0473587412. BALLINA HOSPITAL AUXILLIARY We have a forthcoming event on Tuesday 4th May where we will have a craft stall at Ballina Fair. I would be grateful if you could put this on your community page to advertise to our general community to come along and support us. Craft Stall from 9am till 2pm at Ballina Fair, Ballina. Raising funds to provide extras and equipment for Ballina Hospital. BALLINA COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB G’day to all, The Ballina Country Music Club’s next “LIVE MUSIC SAY” is Sunday 2nd May at the Ballina RSL Club staring at 10.45am to 5pm. A wonderful a-ray of walk-up artists will be heard, so why not come along and enjoy the facilities and a day of Country Music and the talents of the band “SAND FIRE”. We would appreciate it if you could in details of our in your
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GRAFTON SENIORS April meeting, with trade table, attendance 59, apologies 17.Guest speaker: Mark Butler & Simon Evans, Independent Living Specialists, spoke on various aids. Birthdays: wishes to those celebrating, & unwell. New members : Nil Correspondence in: Westlawn Investment statement; return thanks, Ellen M; public liability insurance. Correspondence out : welcome letters, new members; cards for sympathy, get well, special birthdays; thanks to Bob McF, AGM help. General business: members reminded must enter main entrance, race days; wear badge; wreath for Anzac day; newsletter being prepared, May meeting. Trips: Day to Coffs Harbour attractions, 21 May, need more. Trip to mystery venue, June, just on sale. 8 Day tour to Queensland, some spare seats. Competition winners: M. Townsend; A. Preac; G. Cooper; F. Wratten; S. Gibson; J. Campbell; J. Schulz; L. Sewell. Next meeting: Tues. 11 May, 2021, 10.30am, Racecourse. Guest speaker, Helen Dobra, Pain Relief. Enquiries: Publicity Officer Sandra 66427720. GRAFTON & DISTRICT GARDEN CLUB 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. Next meeting is Monday 19th April. Gather at 3.30pm for afternoon tea, meeting starts 4.30pm. Visit private gardens, enjoy bus trips with like-minded people, buy or swap plants and have fun ! Further enquiries please text Rhonda on 0418685728. You can also find and follow us on Facebook. GRAFTON’S MIGHTY CLARENCE TOASTMASTERS CLUB Perhaps its time to find out what its all about!!! If you would like to improve your communication and leadership skills. Make new friends and have fun, you are warmly invited to attend the Mighty Clarence Toastmasters Club. We meet on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday evening of each month. You may attend either from the comfort of your own home via zoom or join us in person at the Joan Muir Community Centre 194 Turf Street Grafton. For more information please contact: Vice President Membership email Jan Coleman janetlcoleman@gmail.com Face Book page:https://www.facebook.com/ graftontoastmasters KYOGLE KYOGLE KYOGLE SUNSHINE CLUB Meets every Thurs at 9.30am. For more details contact 0499824274. 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. WORKSHOP – PAT COLLINS, TOTAL HEALTH & EDUCATION CENTRE WEEDS & THEIR USES Ever wanted to know what uses the weeds have that grow in your own garden? You will learn to identify these plants, medicinal, cosmetic and culinary uses and how they balance our soil, then use them to make a variety of items. Sat 8 May – Bookings Essential, Ettrick Hall, Knights Rd. Cost $120pp incl ingredients, containers, morning tea & lunch. Pat Collins Total & Health Education Centre – Enquiries and bookings Kaye 0418509954 or Salley 040634987. KYOGLE COUNTRY MUSIC Next day is on at 11am on Sunday 13th June. (No day in May due to previous booking of KYOGLE GOLF CLUB) It will begin with a short meeting with music shortly after. Lunch, Afternoon Tea and Drinks available. ALL WELCOME LION’S CLUB OF KYOGLE Meeting is held on the 1st & 3rd Tues each Month at the Kyogle Lion’s shed from 6.30–7.00pm For more information contact Neville Moon on 66322233.
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April 29, 2021
LENNOXHEAD HEAD attendance LENNOX Mark LENNOX HEAD LIONS CLUB dent Living New members welcome to join our close-knit ds. Birthdays: club where the emphasis is on community nwell. service in a fun environment. Meetings are dence in: on the first and Third Wednesday of each t; return month at Club Lennox starting at 6.30pm. insurance. Members do what they can, when they can to letters, new facilitate the needs of our club. et well, b McF, AGM LENNOX HEAD DAY VIEW CLUB rs reminded The Lennox Head Day VIEW Club meets days; wear on the first Monday of each month at the ewsletter Lennox Head Community Centre. with the Trips: Day meeting starting at 11:00am and includes 1 May, need an interesting speaker and concludes with ne, just on a light lunch. An informal Coffee and Chat some spare meeting is held on the third Monday of the Townsend; month. The Club sponsors three students ; S. Gibson; J. through The Smith Family Learning for Next meeting: Life scholarship program that provides acecourse. educational items for disadvantaged in Relief. Australian children. New members and dra 66427720.guests are most warmly welcomed and enquiries may be made to Enid 047 187 511 RDEN CLUB or Dawn 0466717435 members, offer. Meeting LENNOX HEAD CWA onth. At Handy Craft Mornings on Mondays 9.30am 04 Bacon St -12pm in the community centre at Lennox ay 19th April. Head, Call Jan on 66816150. tea, meeting dens, enjoy PROBUS CLUB OF LENNOX HEAD ple, buy or The Probus Club of Lennox Head meets her enquiries 9.30 for 10.00 a.m at Club Lennox, 10 728. You can Stewart Street, on the 1st. Thursday of each book. month. Visitors are welcome. Also, retired or semi-retired people wishing to join our RENCE non-service. Club to hear interesting guest speakers and to join in trips and outings are at its all invited along. Phone Jan 66876859. prove your skills. Make LISMORE LISMORE are warmly arence LISMORE BASE HOSPITAL AUXILLIARY the 1st & Thank you to everyone who supported our h month. You Stall at The Lismore, Cruise and Travel in mfort of your Woodlark St Lismore for the last two weeks. in person at A big thank you to the Owners of the Shop. tre 194 Turf Stall raised $8,343.00. Raffle made $2,432.85. mation please Won by Liz Hay Lismore. Also thank you rship email to our sewers , crocherers, and members mail.com who worked on the stall and Raffle . Due to cebook.com/ the renovations at the LBH we are unable to have our Hospital Shop till 2022. We are looking for venues that might support us to hold pop up stalls. Contact our President Rita 0428395967. May Fundraiser is a two day Craft Market at Lismore Hts, Sports or more ,Recreation & Community Club in High St Lismore 9.30 TILL 3.30 Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd May. Meals and coffee and drinks available at the club. There will be a ATION silent Auction of a Rocking Horse, Mother’s month at Day Raffle. Hundred Club. Plants and cheon room Homemade cooking and lots of beautiful Jan on craft items ready for Mother’s Day. Cash only. We ask people to respect safe distancing and COVID-19 requirements. Rhonda Powell S, Secretary Lismore Base Hospital Aux. ION USES COMMUNITY CAFE the weeds Tuesday 4th May from 10am at Duck Pond den? You Espresso Bar, 71 Union St, South Lismore. ts, medicinal, Are you experiencing grief or caring for how they someone dealing with a life limiting illness. to make Maybe you have been given a diagnosis Bookings that sees you wanting to know more about Rd. Cost getting your End of Life plans in order. If so ners, morning join us for a relaxed, informal, confidential Health chat and together we can discuss what’s on nd bookings your mind. This Compassionate Cafe is held 634987. monthly on the first Tuesday of each month by Compassionate Communities Northern NSW. For more info call Mimi 0478 600778 day 13th June. or Cheryl 0428 286753. s booking of begin with HUGE CRAFT MARKET rtly after. Beautiful handmade clothes, aprons, toys nks available. and craft items for that special gift also a vast array of plants, cooking, mothers day raffles and 100 club, (cash only please) WHEN 9.30am-3pm Saturday and Sunday d Tues each 1st and 2nd of MAY. WHERE Lismore Heights Sports and Community Club, High d from tion contact St., Lismore Heights. All Money raised will go towards purchasing equipment for the
COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD 65 Lismore Base Hospital. Love to see you there. LISMORE TARGET RIFLE CLUB For .22 calibre rifles, meets Mon & Wed nights from 6.30 pm & the 1st & 3rd Sat of each month from 12 noon. Air Rifle shooting for .22 & 177 air rifles will also be available at the Saturday shoots. For more info please phone Derek on 66282082 (AH). LADIES INDOOR BOWLS Played at Lismore Workers club, Mon mornings 9am, New members welcome. Info Rosemary 0434611520 or Veronica 0417004622. 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. 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 9.00am-12noon; Monday and Wednesday nights social playing 7.009.00pm; Training Monday mornings 9.00am12noon; Junior coaching after school Wed 3.30pm-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 JIGGI-GEORGICA RED CROSS The members of Jiggi-Georgica Branch of Red Cross would love the chance to welcome some new members to our meetings held in the R/Cross Rooms (next to Tea Rooms) in Keen St, Lismore @ 11am on the 2nd Friday of each month. Lunch available from T/ Rooms. Any inquiries please contact Joan 66888127. LISMORE GIRL GUIDES Lismore Girl Guides meet every Tuesday during school terms from 5.30 to 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. SUMMERLAND AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Meetings of the club are normally held on the second Sunday of each month at the clubrooms: 412 Richmond Hill Road, Richmond Hill, 2480 at 1.00 pm. Visitors are welcome. The clubrooms are usually open on Sunday afternoons from about 1pm onwards. We are primarily amateur radio enthusiasts and welcome persons interested in radio, electronics, astronomy and similar subjects. For more details about the club and its activities,see the club’s website: https://sarc.org.au/ or check us out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ SummerlandARC “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. Tuesdays 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 . The group gatherings alternate each month between a more formal meeting, complete with guest speaker one month , and the next month, a more social Coffee Catch-up. 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 66227959 or John 0490332268 or visit Lismore Regional Parkinson’s Support Group’s FaceBook Page https://www.facebook.com/ ParkinsonsLismore” NORTHERN RIVERS EVENING PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The next meeting of the Northern Rivers Evening Prostate Cancer Support Group is to be held on Wednesday May 5th 7pm until 9pm Lismore Workers Club, Keen Street, Lismore. Men previously or newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and their partners or carers are most welcome to attend -These meetings are a wonderful opportunity to share, learn and benefit from other people’s experiences. Guest Speakers are occasionally present at these meetings Enquiries phone Bob Johnson (02) 66225792. 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. 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 10 am. 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 7 pm. Numbers are required for catering purposes. MURWILLUMBAH MURWILLUMBAH MURWILLUMBAH COMMUNITY GARDEN members and visitors are invited to join the group for activities and gardening tips most Sundays. Time 3-5pm NSW Street
parking Byo covered footwear, comfy clothing, hat and water. Children ok with strict supervision Covid plan operating Enq: Murbahcommunitygardens@ gmail.com Follow us on Facebook #MurwillumbahCommunityGarden COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH Fine art printmakers. Meet at studio space. 224 Stokers Rd. Stokers Siding 2484. 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 will be celebrating their 53rd. birthday on Thursday May 6th. Joining us in this milestone will be ladies from our sister clubs from Casino, Kingscliff, Coolangatta, Twin Towns and the Gold Coast observing all Covid rules regarding distancing and limited amount of guests, but we will still have a good time. ‘Bling’ is the word and the dress code – the more the better. Entertainment will be provided by the one and only Chris Harvey so we are assured of a good time. The venue will be the South Tweed Sports Club, time 10.30am. for 11.00. The formal meeting will be short, followed by celebrations and entertainment, lunch at either the bistro or bar area, followed by more entertainment and a catch-up with friends of long standing. For more information re our Birthday celebrations or work we commit to for The Smith Family, ring Freda on (07) 55241357, or Kathie on 0407709629. YAMBA YAMBA YAMBA DAY VIEW CLUB 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. ALL RIVERS ALLNORTHERN NORTHERN RIVERS TOASTMASTERS CAN HELP! Would you like to become better at socialising? Then Toastmasters Speechcraft can help. Do you need to make an important Speech? Then Toastmasters Speechcraft can help. Are you wanting to apply for that important promotion at work?Then Toastmasters Speechcraft can help. In Focus Toastmasters club will be running a 6-week Speechcraft course commencing 17 th May at 7:30 pm. The course will be run online through zoom Cost: $ 100 (if you decide to join Toastmasters after the course, to continue your journey, this cost will pay for your membership and fees up to September). For details, please contact Donna on Ph: 0428878421.
The Northern Rivers Times
April 29, 2021
66 FISHING / TIDES/ WEATHER Ballina A week of showers and strong winds towards the end of the week is going to make the fishing difficult and uncomfortable. There is a few live baits showing up in the lower reaches of the river which is great news if you want to target some mulloway or this week. The tides will be better earlier in the week for the live baits and it will be worth trying some lures from the walls later in the week. There has been a few luderick showing up and there is still plenty of bream being caught from the ferry to the mouth of the river. Try baits such as squid, mullet or prawns. The
FISHING NEWS
flathead have been a little on the quiet side, with a few fish taking prawns and pilchards as well as metal blades and bright coloured soft plastics. The mud crabs should be good this week with the larger tides around the full moon. Offshore will be a difficult proposition for most people with the wind and swell predicted to get up. There is still the odd tailor being taken from the beaches, so it will be worth trying Shelley’s to Seven Mile Beach with the usual baits such as pilchards and mullet. Tight lines. Brett Evans Head Snapper, trag jew and longtail tuna on Kahors
Reef, dart, mulloway and chopper tailor along the beaches, trevally along the rock walls at the Evans River mouth and bream, flathead and whiting in the lower reaches.
in the middle reaches of the Tweed River.
Pottsville Spanish mackerel, longtail tuna, tuskfish and snapper on the inshore reefs, dart, bream and tarwhine along the beaches, a few tailor at dawn and dusk off the headlands, bream, whiting and flathead in the lower reaches of the creeks, luderick around the rock walls near the mouth and mud crabs in the mid to upper reaches. Tweed Coast Flathead, bream and trevally
Currumbin Spanish and spotty mackerel on the Gravel Patch east of Burleigh, dart and whiting in the low tide gutters along the beaches, flathead on the ebb tide at the mouth of the creeks and mud crabs in the mid to upper reaches. Southport Snapper and mack tuna on the 24s, school mackerel on Diamond reef, bream and mulloway in Southport Seaway, flathead, whiting and bream in Southport Broadwater and trevally around the bridge pylons and jetties.
NORTHERN RIVERS TEMPERATURE & RAINFALL PREDICTIONS AREA GRAFTON EVANS KYOGLE BALLINA MULLUM TWEED
Thurs 29nd April 22 - 14 21o - 17o 22o - 14o 21o - 17o 21o - 17o 21o - 16o o
o
Fri 30th April
97% 73% 74% 73% 71% 69%
21 - 14 21o - 17o 22o - 13o 21o - 17o 21o - 17o 21o - 16o o
MOON PHASES Fri 30 April
Mon 3 May
Thu 6 May
o
74% 81% 72% 81% 80% 82%
Sat 1st May 19 - 10 21o - 16o 20o - 13o 21o - 16o 21o - 16o 22o - 15o o
o
83% 97% 95% 97% 94% 99%
Sun 2nd May 20 - 12 20o - 17o 19o - 12o 20o - 17o 20o - 16o 21o - 17o o
o
63% 91% 94% 91% 90% 91%
Mon 3rd May 19 - 12 20o - 15o 20o - 12o 20o - 15o 20o - 15o 20o - 15o o
o
75% 92% 93% 92% 94% 89%
Tues 4th May 19 - 12 19o - 16o 18o - 13o 19o - 16o 19o - 15o 19o - 15o o
o
64% 85% 81% 85% 83% 82%
Wed 5th May 19o - 12o 19o - 16o 18o - 13o 19o - 16o 19o - 15o 24o - 14o
14% 42% 42% 42% 43% 05%
TIDE TIMES & HEIGHTS CLARENCE - RIVER ENTRANCE
Waning Gibbous 84% Visible
Waning Gibbous 54% Visible
Waning Crescent 24% Visible
Sunrise & Sunset
DAY Thursday 29th April Friday 30th April Saturday 1st May Sunday 2nd May Monday 3rd May Tuesday 4th May Wednesday 5th May
DAY Thursday 29th April Friday 30th April Saturday 1st May Sunday 2nd May Monday 3rd May Tuesday 4th May Wednesday 5th May
SUNRISE 6:14 am 6:14 am 6:15 am 6:16 am 6:16 am 6:17 am 6:17 am
LOW 4:07 am 0.29m 5:06 am 0.35m 6:12 am 0.42m 7:22 am 0.49m 8:33 am 0.53m 9:40 am 0.54m 10:38 am 0.53m
HIGH 10:33 pm 1.85m 11:26 pm 1.81m
LOW 4:05 am 0.21m 5:00 am 0.27m 5:57 am 0.35m 6:58 am 0.45m 8:04 am 0.53m 9:19 am 0.58m 10:30 am 0.59m
HIGH 10:13 pm 1.97m 11:04 pm 1.93m
LOW 4:09 am 0.34m 5:09 am 0.39m 6:14 am 0.45m 7:26 am 0.5m 8:37 am 0.54m 9:44 am 0.56m 10:43 am 0.56m
HIGH 10:34 pm 1.89m 11:25 pm 1.84m
12:55 pm 1.13m 2:18 pm 1.1m 3:40 pm 1.13m 4:45 pm 1.2m
LOW 3:51 pm 0.33m 4:32 pm 0.43m 5:18 pm 0.53m 6:13 pm 0.63m 7:25 pm 0.71m 8:51 pm 0.74m 10:12 pm 0.72m
EVANS HEAD - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 29th April Friday 30th April Saturday 1st May Sunday 2nd May Monday 3rd May Tuesday 4th May Wednesday 5th May
NORTHERN RIVERS AREA
HIGH 9:56 am 1.44m 10:48 am 1.32m 11:45 am 1.21m 12:24 am 1.73m 1:29 am 1.64m 2:39 am 1.57m 3:47 am 1.53m
HIGH 9:40 am 1.49m 10:31 am 1.38m 11:27 am 1.28m 12:01 am 1.85m 1:03 am 1.76m 2:14 am 1.69m 3:25 am 1.65m
12:30 pm 1.2m 1:46 pm 1.17m 3:10 pm 1.19m 4:24 pm 1.27m
LOW 3:52 pm 0.26m 4:38 pm 0.35m 5:29 pm 0.46m 6:27 pm 0.57m 7:34 pm 0.66m 8:52 pm 0.71m 10:12 pm 0.71m
BALLINA - RIVER ENTRANCE SUNSET 5:16 pm 5:15 pm 5:14 pm 5:13 pm 5:12 pm 5:11 pm 5:11 pm
DAY Thursday 29th April Friday 30th April Saturday 1st May Sunday 2nd May Monday 3rd May Tuesday 4th May Wednesday 5th May
HIGH 10:00 am 1.43m 10:53 am 1.3m 11:49 am 1.17m 12:22 am 1.76m 1:24 am 1.67m 2:35 am 1.59m 3:45 am 1.55m
12:54 pm 1.09m 2:12 pm 1.06m 3:33 pm 1.1m 4:40 pm 1.19m
LOW 3:50 pm 0.33m 4:33 pm 0.41m 5:21 pm 0.51m 6:17 pm 0.6m 7:29 pm 0.67m 8:51 pm 0.71m 10:12 pm 0.71m
BRUNSWICK HEADS - RIVER ENTRANCE
BE SEEN IN THE NORTHERN RIVERS TIMES BY OVER 200,000 READERS EACH WEEK TO ADVERTISE CALL 6662 6222 OR EMAIL sales@nrtimes.com.au
DAY Thursday 29th April Friday 30th April Saturday 1st May Sunday 2nd May Monday 3rd May Tuesday 4th May Wednesday 5th May
HIGH 9:48 am 1.45m 10:37 am 1.32m 11:31 am 1.2m 12:15 am 1.79m 1:18 am 1.7m 2:29 am 1.62m 3:37 am 1.57m
LOW 3:53 am 0.3m 4:53 am 0.36m 5:59 am 0.43m 7:08 am 0.49m 8:18 am 0.52m 9:25 am 0.52m 10:23 am 0.5m
HIGH 10:28 pm 1.93m 11:18 pm 1.88m
LOW 3:42 am 0.36m 4:40 am 0.42m 5:44 am 0.5m 6:55 am 0.56m 8:09 am 0.59m 9:17 am 0.59m 10:15 am 0.56m
HIGH 10:23 pm 1.87m 11:18 pm 1.83m
12:37 pm 1.11m 1:58 pm 1.08m 3:19 pm 1.12m 4:28 pm 1.21m
LOW 3:34 pm 0.23m 4:17 pm 0.32m 5:05 pm 0.43m 6:01 pm 0.54m 7:15 pm 0.63m 8:41 pm 0.67m 10:00 pm 0.66m
TWEED HEADS - RIVER ENTRANCE DAY Thursday 29th April Friday 30th April Saturday 1st May Sunday 2nd May Monday 3rd May Tuesday 4th May Wednesday 5th May
HIGH 9:37 am 1.45m 10:30 am 1.33m 11:29 am 1.21m 12:17 am 1.75m 1:23 am 1.67m 2:31 am 1.61m 3:38 am 1.57m
12:41 pm 1.13m 2:01 pm 1.1m 3:23 pm 1.14m 4:32 pm 1.22m
LOW 3:28 pm 0.31m 4:12 pm 0.4m 5:01 pm 0.51m 6:00 pm 0.62m 7:15 pm 0.7m 8:41 pm 0.73m 9:59 pm 0.72m
April 29, 2021
SPORTS RESULTS 67 SPEEDWAY Results April 24, 2021 Lismore Speedway
RSA 4 Cylinders. Heat 1: Brodie King, 1; Matt Weir, 2; Nathan Deuchar, 3. Heat 2: Nathan Deuchar, 1; Matt Weir, 2; Brodie King, 3. Heat 3: Brodie King, 1; Kyle Armstrong, 2; Nathan Deuchar, 3. Feature: Matt Weir, 1; Brodie King, 2; Kyle Armstrong, 3. Stock Rods. Heat 1: Steve Bateman, 1; Wayne Rienke, 2. Heat 2: Sam Bateman, 1; Graeme Rangihuna, 2; Peter Hosking, 3. Feature: Kevin Healy, 1; James McEwen, 2; Justin Burr, 3. Production Sedans. Heat 1: Myles White, 1; Josh Boyd, 2; Aaron Hall, 3. Heat 2: Jordan Biviano, 1; Aaron Hall, 2; Mark Quirk, 3. Heat 3: Jordan Biviano, 1; Matthew Layton, 2; Aaron Hall, 3. Feature: Jordan Biviano, 1; Matthew Layton, 2; Aaron Hall, 3. Wingless Sprints. Heat 1: Jacob Jolley, 1; Seiton Young, 2; Trent Martin, 3. Heat 2: Trent Young, 1; Errol Campbell, 2; Masen Cattell, 3. Heat 3: Seiton Young, 1; Robert Mazzer, 2; Michael Butcher, 3. Feature: Seiton Young, 1; Jacob Jolley, 2; Robert Mazzer, 3. Northern Rivers AMCA Nationals Classic. Heat 1: Shane Newstead, 1; Darren Miller, 2; Tim Gamble, 3. Heat 2: Tony Blanch, 1; Matt Hardy, 2; Daniel Brooks, 3. Heat 3: Brett Robotham, 1; Tim Gamble, 2; Shane Newstead, 3. Heat 4: Daniel Brooks, 1; Steve Price, 2; Matt Hardy, 3. Dash: Daniel Brooks, 1; Matt Hardy, 2; Shane Newstead, 3. Feature: Daniel Brooks, 1; Shane Newstead, 2; Matt Hardy, 3. V8 Dirt Modifieds (Mr Modified). Heat 1: Mitch Randall, 1; Matt Pascoe, 2; Luke Dunn, 3. Heat 2: Mark Robinson, 1; Scott Quirk, 2; Phil McNamara, 3. Heat 3: Geoff Phillips, 1; Mark Robinson, 2; Joshua Rose, 3. Heat 4: Matt Pascoe, 1; Mark Connolly 2; Philip Roberts, 3. Dash: Matt Pascoe, 1; Geoff Phillips, 2; Scott Quirk, 3. Feature (40 laps): Mitch Randall, 1; Matt Pascoe, 2; Mark Robinson, 3. Mr Modified Top Ten final results after 2 rounds: Mitch Randall, 1; Mark Robinson, 2; Trent Scofield, 3; Mark Connolly, 4; Luke Dunn, 5; Joshua Rose, 6; Andrew Pezzutti, 7; Taylah Firth (Sportsman), 8; Phil McNamara, 9; Matt Pascoe, 10. Mr Modified Series (Sportsman): Taylah Firth, 1. CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS 18/04/2021 May 2nd is a Special Day – The Ted Batterham Memorial
Run and we will be havinga BBQ and Presentation following the l Run. Remember the date!! Best of the improvers were: 1K Michael Davis, Heidi and Molly Miller 3KElishia Lethorn, Torresde-O and Georgina Davis 6K Peter Eckersley, Scott Batterham Rhys Flack. 1K Results 7 & under Female A Batterham 1,H O’Connor 2,M Miller 3 8-14 Female S Lethorn 1,M Hampson 2,L Lachmann 3 15-55 Female H Miller 1,J Cowan 2,S Brasher 3 56 + Female J Fulkerson 1,L Tsikleas 2,J Williams 3 9 & under Male O Reed 1,J Drew 2,G Wrightson 3 10 + Male M Davis II 1,M Davis I 2,I Woods 3 3K Results 10 & under Female E Lethorn 1,E Drew 2,I Davis 3 11-21 Female A Delaney 1,B Delaney 2,C McEwan 3 22-41 Female G Davis 1,S Lethorn 2,E Wailes 3 42-50 Female I Torres-de-Oliveira 1,A Tittleton 2,C Drew 3 51 + Female M Holmes 1,R Bambrook 2,L Hackett 3 10 & under Male B Delaney-Tittleton 1,I Lethorn 2,O Donald 3 11-14 Male T Oxland 1,J Clark 2,O Brisbane 3 15-40 Male J Clark 1,S Russell 2,A Slattery 3 41-64 Male B Brockhill 1,R Van Wyk 2,C Hackett 3 65 + Male N Headford 1,R Buckley 2,J Baxter-Wright 3 6K Results 45 & under Female M Taylor 1,E Stalenberg 2,M Flack 3 46 + Female P Kaurra 1,K Oxland 2,C Hall 3 45 & under Male R Flack 1,A Wright 2,D Wilson 3 46-59 Male P Eckersley 1,J Drew 2,M Parker 3 60 + Male D Howard 1,G Simes 2,A Johnson 3 Cross Country is held on Shelly Beach East Ballina every Sunday until early September. All ages and abilities catered For. Enquiries 66864401 or Facebook ballinaathleticsclubNSW LISMORE WORKERS SPORTS BOWLING CLUB RESULTS Tuesday 20/4 Davis, gary rose 191 d L Church, S Roberts 9 J Rose, B Turner, R Walker 15 d G Clark, j jacobson, W partridge 14 j quinlan, l menin, d pearce 14 d m moss, w bavis, j fowler 10 Fri 23/4 w partridge, a wilson 30 d m moss, j kennedy 10 j rose, l kennedy, d morrow 24 d r partridge, g moss, s savins 17 l bryant, j fowler 18 drew j davis, g rose 18 Sat 24/4 n mcdonald, gary rose 30 d r campbell, b hutchinson 17 l church, s smart 22 d l kennedy, g moss 18 k morrow, m rose, w davis 18 d r partridge, greg rose, j f owler 15 joan rose, w woods, r walker 21 d m taylor, j jacobson, d pearce 16 a davis, d morrow, w partridge 23 d j
davis, b turner , p coulson 13 LAWN BOWLS TWEED BYRON DISTRICT WOMEN’S recently conducted Open Singles championship at Pottsville evolved into a grand tournament of top quality bowling displays throughout all rounds. Following on from their successful tour of the preliminary rounds, Pottsville’s George Moore and Cabarita’s Sue Goode faced off in Semi One. Whilst Goode opened the card, Moore soon evened the score and then took control. Scoring in this game certainly didn’t reflect the quality of bowls on display as Moore continuously thwarted Goode’s shots to go forward and grab a final’s berth with a reasonable margin. Kingscliff’s Dawn Barnes and Byron Bay’s Kym Quinnell both survived hard close scoring quarter finals to go forward to Semi Two. Barnes opened the card but was overtaken on the seventh. Whilst Dawn produced an excellent bowling display, the experience of long time campaigner, Quinnell, was to be seen as she collected several multiples and soon built up a comfy buffer to carry her forward to a final’s berth. The George Moore Vs. Kym Quinnell final began on a fairly even keel until George claimed a count of four on the sixth and another on the ninth. Kym then answered with several counts of two as she restricted Moore to only one shot during the following seven ends. With her score then reduced to a three shot buffer, Moore rejuvenated as a battle royal emerged. Super top quality bowls from both contestants delighted spectators during the final ends as George snatched the last three ends of the game to claim victory. Congratulations to both ladies on a first class performance.
PHOTO : George Moore – Winner – TBDWBA 2021 Open Singles Championship CHERRY STREET CROQUET CLUB SPORTS RESULTS Pennants: Cherry Street 5 d Lismore 1 Ricochet : P.Doyle N.Watts 16 d P.Scott 8 B.Wellings 17 d J Hannigan 15 J.Murphy J.Doust 18 d P.Bolte 17 A.Kelly B.Wellings 22 d M.Field 10 J.Doust 13 d J.Murphy R.Allen 9 P Scott P.Doyle 13 d M.Field R.Chapman 10 Championship games: R.Poynting 22 d D.Scott 14 H N.Watts 20 d N.Barnes 18 H Association: L.Turner K.Duffey 18 d S.Hume 17 B.Reedy 24 d B.Hardy 7 R.Poynting 16 d R.Chapman 14 E.Thorman B.Reedy 14 d S.Hume
L.Hardy 14 Championship games: G.Porter 26 d R.Chapman 8 H L.Hardy 16 d P.Hume 12 L L.Turner 23 d D.Scott 14 L N.Poynting 23 d G.Porter 14 Golf : Div 2 championships 1st round winners : N.Poynting, N.Watts, G.Drew, G.Frederiksen, B.Wellings, W.Peters, N.Barnes. 2nd round winners: W.Peters, G.Frederiksen, N.Watts. Winner division 2 Ricochet championship final Greg Porter with runner up Gloria Drew. A very tough final played in good spirit throughout. Final score 21 / 12. Winner division 1 Association championship final Lance Turner going through undefeated to take the title from runner up Ray Chapman. CASINO RSM WOMEN’S BOWLS RESULTS On Wednesday 21/4 there weren’t any bowls as a lot of the ladies went on a bus trip, our first stop was a cheese factory outlet in the Tweed Valley area where we had morning tea which was lovely. Then we went to a hotel in the village of Uki for a nice lunch. The trip was a very enjoyable day. Thank you to our bus driver Shirley from Bennett’s Bus Company for all her help throughout the trip. Results from Friday 23/4 were: J. Newell & I. Watson def C. Doyle & P. Lyon SOUTH TWEED SPORTS (Bowls Section) aka South Tweed Sharks Bowls Results Week Date: Saturday…17th April to Friday 23rd April 2021 Saturday Open Bowls Winners: Ted Robinson, Peter Johnston, Ian Whitehall Runner Up: Judy Sharpe, Barry Mclennan, Elmo Koelmeyer Saturday Open Pairs: Winners: Rowan Norris & Darren Black Runners Up: Ray Riddle & Rob Sellar Tuesday Open Bowls: Winner: Sue Johnston, David Sharpe, Rob Sellar Runner Up: Ted Robinson & Robyn Charles Wednesday Morning Open Pairs: Winners: Rex Wildash & Shane Knight Runner Up: Jim Chapman & Les Smith Wednesday Open Bowls: Winners: Jim McBain, David Sharpe, Ian Whitehall Runners Up: ted Robinson, Keith Ward, Mike Hardinge Thursday Sharkies Singles: Winner of Winners: Rob Sellar Runner Up of Winners: Pauline Mee Winner of Losers: Bill Greenway Runner Up Winner of Losers: Ken lewis
L to R Rob Sellar Pauline Mee Bill Greenway Ken lewis
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CASINO JUNIOR RUGBY LEAGUE NUMBERS SURGE
WITH record registrations pouring in, the Casino RSM Cougars Junior Rugby League Football Club (JRLFC) is fast becoming one the State’s largest junior rugby league clubs. Having this week cracked 300 registrations, it is definitely the code’s biggest club in the North Coast region. The surge in participation is concentrated in the Under 7s, 8s and 9s, which means the Casino RSM Cougars JRLFC will be fielding 24 teams this season from Under 6s through to Under 16s, including a girls’ tackle team and two girls’ tag teams. Casino RSM Cougars JRLFC president Adam Hickey said junior participation was one of the most important areas of grassroots rugby league and following last years’ COVIDaffected season, it was terrific
to see numbers were exploding this year. Mr Hickey said it was also pleasing to see an increase in junior female participation, which he put down to the burgeoning NRL Women’s Premiership, which is Australia’s national rugby
league competition for female players, as well as growing interest in the Northern Rivers Female Tackle competition. He said although the season was still two weeks away, training days were full of excitement as players and coaches prepared for a return-
to-normal season. “It’s all systems go,” Mr Hickey said. “The Casino RSM Cougars JRLFC is ready to go, the kids are keen to get on the ground, and parents are eager to see their kids swap screen time for footy - it can’t come quick enough.”
Mr Hickey thanked the Casino RSM Club and other sponsors for their ongoing support, saying without this financial backing junior rugby league players in Casino would not be able to reach their full potential. He also thanked Richmond Valley Council for its continuing work in providing top-quality grounds and facilities. “Community support is so important for the success of our club; without our sponsors we wouldn’t have the best junior rugby league players and facilities in the group,” Mr Hickey said. “We are also grateful to the volunteers and the parents who worked really hard last year to keep the season going, and who are really keen to get involved this year – we couldn’t do it without them.”
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Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh with Bellingen Brewers’ Tyler Schofield at Coffs Harbour and District Baseball Association game day today.
Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh said a $17,000 State Government grant will bring enormous benefits for years to come at Coffs Harbour and District Baseball Association. Mr Singh said the Community Building Partnership funds are being used to build scorer’s boxes at local baseball’s Stadium Drive headquarters. “The Association members are welcoming
construction of a new concrete slab and scorer’s box on Diamond 2, and replacement of the scorer’s box on Diamond 1,” Mr Singh said. “This grassroots project is part of the association’s blueprint to further upgrade and develop facilities for their 200-plus players and four clubs – Woolgoolga Bluesox, Coffs Harbour All Stars, Sawtell Dodgers and Bellingen Brewers.” Mr Singh said the Baseball Association also
celebrates the start of their 2021 competition today. “Teams, players and officials were extremely disappointed to have no season last year due to COVID, while the recent run of wet weather has made competition impossible. Until now,” Mr Singh said. “It’s fantastic to see our baseballers back in action, and I was honoured to be invited to throw the honorary first pitch before A Grade.”
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AIS LAUNCHES RESOURCES TO PRIORITISE FEMALE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE • Female Performance •
& Health Initiative to spark open conversation about female health of women athletes Online learning modules developed by AIS, specialist medical practitioners, and highperformance athletes and coaches
Two-time freestyle aerial skiing world champion Laura Peel says the conversations being sparked by the Australian Institute of Sport’s new Female Performance and Health Initiative (FPHI) will have a huge impact on the future success and wellbeing of female athletes. Peel added her voice and personal experience to a webinar held to launch the FPHI, which shines a light on female health and how it impacts the performance of athletes. The AIS partnered with subject matter experts and high-performance athletes and
coaches to develop the suite of online learning modules that make up the FPHI. The initial seven modules now available on the AIS website focus on the menstrual cycle, menstrual abnormalities, puberty, and hormonal contraception, topics Peel admits that she has spent little time examining during her sporting career. “Elite athletes spend so much time, energy, effort and even money trying to find that edge, the one per cent,” Peel said. “But we have this entire part of ourselves that has more or less been left untapped. As an athlete, I have never considered that female health considerations may help me in my performance, and I don’t know a lot of athletes who have done so. “I think if we started to approach female health more as something that we could use to our advantage, rather than that we need to overcome it, then I think there’s a lot of possibilities and I think it’s
exciting to see some more progress in female sport.” FPHI Program Lead Dr Rachel Harris, also Chief Medical Officer of Paralympics Australia and Water Polo Australia, says it’s crucial conversations about female health become common place among athletes, coaches and medical professionals. “The AIS FPHI was developed as a result of overwhelming need in the Australian high-performance sport environment for better support and management of our female athletes,” Dr Harris said. “Overwhelmingly we heard athletes and coaches were unsure where to go to for relevant information and we have aimed to make the FPHI website a one-stop-shop. “The aim is to help assist athletes understand that these issues are normal and it’s OK to ask for help. Normalisation of these subjects will encourage future athletes to understand their unique
physiology and open up conversations.” Joining Dr Harris and Peel on the FPHI webinar panel were AusCycling’s Olympic Fast Track Program Head Lynne Munro and Hockey Australia’s Acting Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement Manager Rohan McHugh, both of whom have already seen big benefits from the conversations started by the AIS’s initiative. “I think any level of understanding that we can get about this is going to help with camaraderie and cohesion,” McHugh said. “We’ve already seen that some of our female athletes, who may have been a little bit apprehensive to have the conversation, when they sat down and Dr Rachel Harris presented to them it opened up a number of conversations. “Athletes can see the staff are really investing in this and really educating themselves and are much more comfortable to have a conversation.”
Munro added: “It’s about understanding and encouraging women athletes to be uniquely themselves.” Australian Sports Commission Chair Josephine Sukkar attended the webinar and says the FPHI shows the AIS’s commitment to supporting women athletes. “The important work, led by the AIS in partnership with many sporting organisations and the National Institute Network, paves the way for female health to be researched and understood by role holders across all levels and areas of Australian high-performance sport.” A second phase of the FPHI coaching and medical practitioner modules will be released later this year, with other topics such as pelvic floor health and relative energy deficiency to also be included. For more information about the FPHI modules, visit www.ais.gov.au/fphi/ education
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Byron Coastal Charity Walk Launch! The Westpac Rescue Helicopter is thrilled to be hosting its annual Byron Coastal Charity Walk for the 9th time on Saturday the 22nd of May. The event was postponed last year due to COVID 19 however over 600 entrants have already registered to take part in this iconic trek down the beautiful coastline from Byron Bay to Ballina. Today, with the backdrop of the aircraft conducting a winch training exercise in the Bay, the Service
launched the event inviting the community to jump online and get their registration in. Spokesperson for the Rescue Helicopter, Zeke Huish (Regional Marketing Manager) commented “With just under one month till the Walk, now is the time to gather your friends to take on the challenge of either the 12km distance to Broken Head, the 24km to Lennox Head or the 36km all the way to Ballina”. The Service is hoping to have over 1,000 people
take part and invites anyone who might be interested to help as a Volunteer on the day at a checkpoint to visit the event website to register their interest. The Walk is not a race making it a very social and fun way to support the Rescue Helicopter will all proceeds staying local to directly support the Lismore based operation. To find out more visit www.coastalcharitywalk. com.au
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GOLD COAST OPEN FOR SURFING
High profile surfing returns Queensland in May for the Gold Coast Open at Burleigh Heads. The competition, to be held from May 1-3, is the highest-profile surfing event in Queensland this year and will include a mixture of upcoming talent, current high flyers and past champions. With prize money of $20,000, the event has attracted top competitors including Kehu Butler (NEW ZEALAND), Mitch Crews (COOLANGATTA), Sophie McCulloch (MAROOCHYDORE) and India Robinson (TORQUAY), with more to follow. In a first for the Gold Coast Open, a Longboard Invitational contest will be included, featuring some of Australia’s finest longboarders, including sisters Emily and Charlotte Lethbridge (NOOSA), Harley Ingleby (EMERALD BEACH) and Bowie Pollard (CALOUNDRA), all vying for $4,000 in prize money. In addition to the competition in the water, there’s plenty happening for spectators and fans on land. Stab Media will run its famed Electric Acid Surfboard Test during the event - an exploration of alternative board design, pairing world-class surfers with cutting-edge surfboards.
as well as other World Championship Tour surfers Taj Burrow, Sally Fitzgibbons and Owen Wright. For more information on the event, please visit the 2021 Gold Coast Open webpage, and follow Surfing Queensland on social media. SCHEDULE SATURDAY MAY 1 Men Surfing: 8am – 1pm Longboard Invitational: 2pm – 4pm Live Music (Ondre Davis): 4pm – 6pm Cinema (‘Surfing’ by Dan Scott): 6pm – 7pm Skate clinics and BMX demonstrations throughout the day
High Profile surfing action returns to the Gold Coast.
Expect to see local superstars Josh Kerr, Mitch Crews, Asher Pacey, Lungi Slabb, Louie Hynd and Harley Walters. Stab Media will show its Stab In The Dark surf film on the big screen, showcasing former world number two Taj Burrow riding a range of mystery surfboards while Gold
Coast local Dan Scott will also be show his newly released film ‘Surfing’. Level Up Skatepark and Training Facility will host free skate clinics and BMX demonstrations on dedicated ramps. Athletes include Olympic ranked skater, Dani Campbell, and former world BMX champion, Logan Martin.
There will be something for everyone including sunrise yoga sessions with Karalee Reed each morning of the event, with live music in the afternoons with Jack Botts and Ondre Davis. Previous winners of the Burleigh-based event include Queenslanders Julian Wilson and Isabella Nichols,
SUNDAY MAY 2 Women Surfing: 8am – 11am Men Surfing: 11am – 1pm STAB Electric Acid Surfboard Test: 1pm – 3pm Live Music (Jack Botts): 4pm – 6pm Cinema (STAB In The Dark with Taj Burrow): 6pm – 7pm Skate clinics and BMX demonstrations throughout the day MONDAY 3 MAY Men Surfing Finals: 8am – 4pm Women Surfing Finals: 8am – 4pm *Daily schedules subject to change
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Our local Northern Rivers pro surfers Owen Wright from Byron Bay and Connor O’Leary from Lennox Head both had poor results at the Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic with Wright finishing in equal 17th place and O’Leary with an equal 33rd finish. Owen got off to a good start winning his seeding round heat while Connor came last in that round and was then was eliminated in the next via lacking a solid back up wave. Wright was out surfed by young gun Ethan Ewing in the round of 32 to end his campaign. With three events run and
Pictured: Connor O’Leary Photographer: WSL/Dunbar
done Wright sits in 27th place on the WSL ratings with
O’Leary in 32. The event was exciting for spectators
and competitors with some controversial judging
decisions, broken boards, cat and mouse hustling, close calls and last-minute hail Mary’s. Gabriel Medina dominated throughout the men’s final against a hapless Conner Coffin while Caroline Marks won a back-and-forth battle against Tatiana WestonWebb. More events have been added to the WSL 2021 tour including competitions in California (back at the Surf Ranch wave pool), Tahiti and Brazil. A surprise inclusion is Barra de la Cruz in Mexico, which infamously hosted a CT contest in 2006 when Rip Curl ran a Search event there under the moniker ‘la Jolla’ (the jewel).
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RAINBOW DRAGONS ARE RACING INTO 2021 Lennox Head’s Rainbow Dragons have picked up 2nd place for its Womens 20s team at Currumbin Regatta, less than three weeks out from the national Coast to Coast Dragon Boat Festival on the Sunshine Coast , 7-9 May. The Currumbin Regatta was 500m racing in Womens, Mixed and Opens in small (10) and standard (20) crews on Currumbin Creek, Gold Coast. Head Coach, Mary Davis had predicted “The racing against the Gold Coast Clubs is always strong and we can benchmark ourselves against younger teams-” important because Rainbow Dragons would then be racing in their own 40+ & 55+ yrs divisions at Coast to Coast. The other Currumbin results were consistently 1st or 2nd in their heats but the younger teams out-timed Rainbow Dragons for the finals. Their competitors complimented the club for maintaining their power the entire 500 metres. COVID uncertainty
had cancelled the 2021 Australian Dragon Championships in Perth but the dragon boat community still wanted to come together, therefore the Coast to Coast was announced in early February. The club coaches gave members a 12 week challenge to get fit, competitive and ready for racing again. 42 members have signed up for the three day festival in 2km, 1km, 500m and 200m, small (10) and standard (20) boats – Mixed, Womens, Opens and Breast Cancer Survivors (BCS). COVID meant race practice had become rare so the club has squeezed in Currumbin then Urunga Titivators Regatta (1-2 May) in the three weeks prior to Coast to Coast. Rainbow Dragon coaches are fired-up because they believe the club is fielding their strongest national team ever. rainbowdragons.com.au
Rainbow Dragons at Currumbin Regatta
Rainbow Dragons 500m Womens 20s 2nd. Photo Brooke Harris
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“Then Toby Sexton finally bowed to the sternum injury that was troubling him and that obviously threw our attack out. But Liam Hampson and Brent Woolf really stood up for us, swapping between half and hooker and overcoming fatigue from their workload. “It was a tremendous team effort again and the way we defended our line when Redcliffe threw some good shape at us for long periods and we were able to dig in and ward them off. And Redcliffe’s line speed and physicality was top class too; it was a really tough 80 minutes.” Amid the grit was also some brilliance, again coming from slightly built fullback Jayden Campbell who scored the try of the match in the 30th minute to give the Seagulls a 10-4 lead. Campbell fielded a bomb on his own line but weaved his way past several Dolphins defenders through outstanding footwork and speed before getting to fullback Trai Fuller, who he stepped and then beat for pace. It was no fluke from the son of Dally M Medal winner Preston Campbell – he scored a similar try in round
three against the Magpies. After Redcliffe had opened the scoring with a try out wide to centre Jeremy Hawkins after just three minutes before Vuna responded the set after a Lindon McGrady 40-20, Campbell’s try broke a relentless grinding deadlock between the two sides. A try to winger O’Neill just over a minute before the break gave Tweed an 18-4 half-time lead but Sexton’s injury and Redcliffe’s consistent high quality attack under the direction of skipper Cameron Cullen ensured the match was far from over. A converted try to Dolphins
lock Jackson Frei made it 18-10 before Lindon McGrady broke Redcliffe’s stride against the run of play, a la Campbell, when he charged down a kick and ran 80 metres to just make the line before the cover converged. That took the score 22-10 but the Dolphins kept piling on pressure and were rewarded when Brayden Dee crossed in the 63rd minute with Justin Worley’s conversion taking Redcliffe to within six points of the Gulls. But it was the brave Seagulls who iced the result. Hampson floated from dummy half close to the line and
Ese-ese pushed up into the space Hampton created and crashed over. Campbell was outstanding for the Seagulls, positioning himself well to smother Cullen’s accurate short kicking game and withstanding some heavy defence while Woolf (who played the final 57 minutes) was first-class, tackling himself to a standstill yet still finding energy to shine in attack with great support from Hampson who played 58 minutes in two stints. The Seagulls, who have won four of their first five games and 10 of their past 13, face their third game on the road next weekend when they travel to North Ipswich to take
on the Jets.
TWEED SEAGULLS 28 (E O’Neill, J Vuna, B Campbell, L McGrady, H Ese’ese tries: L McGrady 4 goals) def. REDCLIFFE DOLPHINS 16 (J Hawkins, J Frei, B Dee tries; J Worley 2 goals) at Moreton Daily Stadium.
Pics: All the action from the Seagulls-Redcliffe round five match. Pictures Dylan Parker Photography.
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Pictures Dylan Parker Photography. By Neil Cadigan, Seagulls correspondent The Campbell Construction Company Tweed Seagulls showed enormous character to overcome adversity and break a second long-standing hoodoo in two-weeks with their 28-16 victory at Redcliffe on Saturday
night. The Gulls made a late surge to win the round five clash of the QRL Intrust Super Cup. Displaying all the ANZAC characteristics that were being celebrated nationwide at the weekend, the Seagulls dug in defensively and refused to
surrender against a disciplined and aggressive Dolphins side, only securing the victory with a Herman Ese’ese try in the 73rd minute. Tweed had not won at Redcliffe since 2015 and had not got within 20 points of the Dolphins in their previous
four visits, copping some hammerings along the way (74-6, 30-4, 42-16 and 26-6). They lost experienced winger Talor Walters, who was bedridden with illness, the day before the game with Ethan O’Neill a worthy replacement. Already they were without their
best player of recent weeks, Sam McIntyre, who played superbly in his NRL return with the Titans on Friday night. Then chief playmaker, halfback Toby Sexton, surrendered to a sternum injury in the 55th minute, meaning hookers Liam Hampson and Brent Woolf had to cover the No. 7 role despite obvious fatigue in a match where Tweed did most of the defending. “It was a really gutsy effort,” said a delighted coach Ben Woolf, a week after his side broke an eight-game losing streak against Burleigh Bears. “Redcliffe completed 18 from 20 sets in the second half and threw everything at us all game, so we really had to hang in there. “And we overcame some adversity too. “First, Joe Vuna had to come off with a shoulder injury after 25 minutes but then went back on for the last 15. “We had to keep both our starting props, Jai Whitbread and JJ Collins, on the field for nearly 50 minutes (Whitbread returned for the last nine) in a really tough game but they just keep going.
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