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Nod for couple’s service to community ● Thomastown couple Beryl Marcia Patullo and Lindsay David Patullo were each recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours with the Medal (OAM)( of the Order of Australia.

Mrs Patullo has been involved with northern suburbs organisations including Whittlesea Historical Society, Aurora Support Services, Whittlesea Neighbourhood Watch Group,

Will Will Rook Cemetery, and Freemasons Victoria, with involvements in the Greensborough District Masonic Centre and the Berry Street Masonic Support Group.

Mr Patullo’s work has also included help for the Whittlesea Helping Hand Association, and as past Chairman of the United Preston Masonic Hall Trust.

NEW HOSPITAL ‘ON TIME, ON TRACK’

■ The new Eltham Community Hospital, promised prior to the 2019 State Election, is being re-promised prior to the November 2022 poll.

Eltham MLA Vicki Ward and Health Minister Martin Foley issued a media release on Saturday (June 11) to boast that land had been secured at 405 Ryans Rd, Diamond Creek, for the hospital.

The media release’s final line says that completion of the project is due in 2024. Plans and works are yet to begin on the project.

Eastern Metropolitan MLC Dr Matthew Bach held the State Government late last year, with a question about the yet-to-begin hospital. ● See report on Page 3

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80-kmh over limit

■ A speedster in North Essendon has been clocked by police travelling in excess of 80kmh over the speed limit. Police officers working on the Moonee Ponds van spotted the Mazda RX-8 travelling along Bulla Rd about 12.05am on Wednesday (June 8). The car was detected travelling at 147kmh in a 60kmh zone. Police intercepted the P-plate driver, a 19-yearold man, and impounded his car at a cost of $878. The Meadows Heights man will be charged on summons with speed dangerous, reckless driving, careless driving and driving at excessive speed.

Court Lists Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court Plaintiff / Informant / Applicant vs Defendant / Accused / Respondent. Information Division.

Criminal Case Listings Wednesday, June 15 Ah Chookoon, Sanele Ahmad, Jay Al Badri, Ali Aleksoski, Chris Ali, Mahad Archer, Sharee Louanne Arslanov, Senur Aserappa, Julie Atkinson, Howard Babic, Mirjana Baddeley, Kylie Bakdache, Samir Barnes, Raymons Barra, Micaela Batah, Ahmad Battaglini, Panfilo Benedetto, Rikki Di Bennett-Millson, Jackson Blair, William Stuart Boskovski, George Bourke, Shaun Boyd, Shannon Canevski, Boris Chrisomallis, Anastasios Clay, Korey Coffey, Adam Richard Compton-Robins, Lee Conadis, John Conforto, Giuseppe Constanzo, Eugenio James Cook, Rebecca Costanzo, Eugenio Cox, Andrew Crankshaw, Bradley Da Silva, Jaydan D'alessandro, Peter Simon Dall, Noel Delmo, Zackary Di Cello, Maria Dole, Mark Draper, Jeff Drew, Cameron Robert Eid, Brett El Hajje, Fedi Elias, Vady El-Sheikh, Michael Ericson, John Etienne, Marie-Claude Exadactylos, Andreas Faddoul, Ghanim Falco, Daniel Farquharson, Craig Fouki, Lampro Franco, Tony Gadsden, Shane Gauci, John Gazeas, James Godden, Ben Gonforto, Guiseppe Guinane, Olivia Hafda, Mohamed Hallsworth, Martyn Hanif, Umer Hassan, Ayden Hayes, Michael Joseph Hayward, Lodiesha Hurley, Luke Anthony Ignacio, Gil Ilievski, Dimi Indrayani, I Gusti Jones, Sarah Kadissa, Monsour Kanakaris, Zaharias Karakatsanis, Helina Kelada, Joshua Klaromenos, Mirjana Knight, Timothy Lee Kuhnke, Matthew Kyne, Jarrod

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Target on Minsters

■ State Cabinet ministers Jaclyn Symes and Ingrid Stitt will be targeted in a campaign led by United Firefighter Union secretary Peter Marshall, the Saturday Herald Sun reported. The campaigns follow Mr Marshall's estrangement from Premier Daniel Andrews's Socialist Left faction, noted journalists Mitch Clarke and Kieran Rooney.

The penny drops

■ After the Federal Election shellacking suffered by both Liberal and Labor candidates, State candidates have realised the importance of coverage in The Local Paper ahead of the Victorian poll on November 26, if enquiries about press advertising are any indication.

Comparisons to 99

■ Former Jeff Kennett was at the peak of his hubris and political arrogance just ahead of the 1999 State Election when the unthinkable happened. He lost. Current day comparisons about 2022 and 1999 are being drawn about a certain arrogance from Daniel Andrews. Veteran observers say that the Premier needs to keep that in mind in the crucial five months ahead of the State Poll.

‘Sno coincidence

■ Was it a coincidence that political types were making announcements about the Victorian snowfields, just ahead of the Queen’s Birthday holiday long weekend ... which coincidentally marks the opening of the snow season?

Yan Yean MLA Danielle Green made announcments about new pumpers for the Mt Hotham-Dinner Plain, Mt Buller and Falls Creek communities.

MLAs Mary-Anne Thomas and Jane Garrett joined Ms Green in making statements about a bike trail at Omeo.

Ms Thomas joined Jaclyn Symes with an announcement about fast-tracking works at Skyline Rd, Eildon.

Nod to the Queen

■ Colin Brooks, Labor’s Speaker in the Legislative Assembly, had a message for the Queen, in State Parliament last week: “ On the occasion of the Queen’s platinum jubilee, on behalf of the house I want to congratulate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on her lifetime of service. Throughout her reign Her Majesty has upheld her commitment to the people of the Commonwealth, and she is greatly admired for that.

“Early in her reign Her Majesty opened a session of the Victorian Parliament in 1954, and the warmth and gratitude shown by the people of Victoria on that occasion has endured to this day. On behalf of the Victorian Parliament we pay tribute to Her Majesty and express our admiration and gratitude for her dedication throughout her reign.”

Order in the House

■ Bentleigh MLA Nick Staikos was ejected from State Parliament for an hour by Speaker Colin Brooks on Tuesday last week (June 7). The Labor Bentleigh member interjected while Opposition Leader Matthew Guy was grilling Premier Daniel Andrews about the state of emergency care at the Austin and Northern Hospitals.

Swastika ban

■ There many speakers supporting the banning of the Nzai swastika, including the same Mr Staikos. He spoke of working as a 19year-old in the City of Glen Eira, which he said had the “has the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors in I think all of Australia”.

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Police crackdown on venues

● Craig Lloyd Whittlesea City CEO (former Murrindindi Council boss) Craig Lloyd turned up on the Alexandra Truck Show stage on Sunday to perform some country music.

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Darebin Council wishes to engage an artist or artist collective to develop concepts for and deliver a public mural outcome for the southern external wall and unpainted external west and east sides of the Regent Village Shopping Centre public facilities in J.S. Grey Reserve Preston. Applications that include artist collaborations and artist mentorships are strongly encouraged.

● Bicycle stations at Banyule.

Banyule Council has installed repair stations catering for bike riders at three new locations: ■ Ivanhoe Aquatic Centre, Ivanhoe ■ Ford Park, Bellfield ■ Macleod Railway Reserve, Macleod These join the existing bike repair stations at Malahang Reserve and outside the Possum Hollow Playground on the Main Yarra Trail. The repair stations include a pump and basic tools to help complete minor maintenance

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A large and expensive public notice has appeared in the Herald Sun with Darebin Council advertising a proposal to name the former Ruthven Primary School site at 74-76 Glasgow Ave, Reservoir. Three suggested names are: ■ Nganga Nyinguwa Park ■ War Gambo Park ■ Riik Guljin Wayi Park

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Aziza is one of Banyule’s newest Australian citizens at 101 years old.

After almost a century living in Syria, Aziza decided to relocate to Australia to be closer to her loved ones. Calling Greensborough home since she arrived in 2016, Aziza enjoys spending time in the parks, and equally admires the view from her garden. She spends time with her daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

● Aziza, 101

■ Police patrols have been renewing their focus on licensed venues, to ensure patrons are safe and venues are complying with their liquor licencing responsibilities.

Police were called to a venue on Smith St Collingwood after staff had ejected someone from the venue.

Police were told that staff asked the patron to slow down consumption of alcohol due to them showing signs of intoxication.

The patron and her friend responded aggressively and were escorted from the venue but continued to try and gain entry again. Staff had to physically stop the pair from entering.

Officers from the State Liquor Unit checked a venue on Canning St, Carlton North and discovered their Responsible Service of Alcohol certificate expired in 2018.

Police conducted a check on a venue on Smith St, Fitzroy, observing a queue that was blocking entrances to several other venues and causing amenity issues on the street.

Melbourne Divisional Commander, Superintendent Sharon McKinnon, said: “Melbourne venues are overwhelmingly safe places and pleasingly we are seeing the vast majority complying with their obligations - we just want to ensure this remains the case while Melbourne’s nightlife continues to thrive.”

● Superintendent Sharon McKinnon

● Dr Matthew Bach vices, including unplanned.

Strong links to specialists, community health and social support services will improve follow-up treatment and support for those requiring complex care.

“The Ryans Rd site is close to a range of community facilities and services including playgrounds, schools and sporting facilities, and is serviced by a number of bus routes connecting to surrounding areas including Eltham Station, Greensborough, Diamond Creek and Hurstbridge,” said the media release. “ This location is a great outcome for our local community, it’ll mean we’ll be able to get a number of everyday health services close to home, without having to travel in traffic to the Austin or Northern Health,” said Ms Ward.

“Once completed, the hospital will offer urgent care, general medical and specialist appointments, day surgery and chronic disease management, a huge benefit for locals.”

The project is due for completion in 2024.

Thefts from Watsonia, L. Plenty

■ Manningham Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested a pair following an ongoing investigation into a series of cosmetics thefts, valued at over $35,000.

Last Wednesday (June 8) detectives arrested a 40-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman in Mentone following a series of thefts from pharmacies and cosmetic stores across Melbourne dating back to January.

It is alleged there were more than 12 incidents of theft where cosmetics or fragrances were stolen from stores from Safety Beach, Doncaster, Lower Plenty, Mornington, Sunbury, Knox, Kew, Watsonia, Chadstone and Williamstown.

Following an extensive investigation Manningham Crime Investigation Unit arrested the pair in a carpark on Florence St, Mentone about 7.30pm on Wednesday.

The Rosebud man has been charged with 19 offences including theft and driving offences.

He was remanded to appear before Ringwood Magistrates’ Court last Friday.

The St Albans woman has been charged with 14 offences including theft and driving offences.

She was bailed to appear at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court on December 6.

■ The City of Whittlesea has The Chair of acknowledged and congratulated up-andcoming local tennis star Nikolas Baker on his recent success at the national titles in Canberra.

Chair Administrator Lydia Wilson said Nikolas won the 12 and under boys national singles and doubles which places him as the number one ranked player in Australia for his age group.

He has also been named in the Australian Team to tour Europe this month.

Nikolas lives in Bundoora and he, along with his whole family are members of the Norris Bank Tennis Club which has been an integral part of his growth and training.

With success like this comes hours and hours of practice and training and the Ms Wilson commended his incredible dedication and commitment at such a young age and commended Nikolas’ family and the Club for all they are doing to support this young man.

“Council will be keeping a close eye on Nikolas’ career and wishes him every success in Europe,” Ms Wilson said.

Council, in person

Hospital: heard it all before

■ Dr MatthewBach, Eastern Metropolitan MLC, late last year reminded State Parliament that the Andrews Labor Government had promised an Eltham Community Hospital prior to the 2019 State Election.

This month - June 2022, three years later - sees the State Government announcing that Eltham Community Hospital will be delivered “on track and on time”.

A media release, issued on Saturday (June 11), said Martin Foley, Minister for Health, and Vicki Ward, Eltham MLA, announced that a government-owned parcel of land at 405 Ryans Rd, Diamond Creek, will be home to the new multi-million-dollar facility.

“To be operated by Austin Health, the Eltham area Community Hospital (interim name) will be a public hospital providing a range of day hospital and primary health care ser-

Local Briefs Well done Nikolas

Principal charged

■ Loyola College Principal Joseph Favrin has been suspended by the Victorian Institute of Teachers while he faces charges brought by the Mernda Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation team.

A Victoria Police representative said: “A 67-year-old Mill Park man has been charged

by Mernda Sexual Offences and ChildAbuse Team detectives with two counts of sexual activity directed at a person and one charge of sexual exposure.”

He will appear in Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court on September 13. Loyola College parents received notification on Friday afternoon (June 10). Mr Favrin strongly denies the allegations.

■ Whittlesea CityAdministrator Lydia Wilson has indicated optimism that future Council meetings will be held in person.

“Welcome to this Council Meeting of the May 16 which is being livestreamed due to the continuing impacts of COVID and a recent increase in case numbers which are affecting staff at the City of Whittlesea,” Ms Wilson told the latest meeting.

“So, this is a required precautionary measure we are very optimistic, however, that we will be out and about again very soon and holding our next Council Meeting in person and it will be in a community setting at the Barry Road Community Activity Centre, in Thomastown,” Ms Wilson said.

Major roads talk

■ Major road projects around Whittlesea were discussed at last week’s Probus meeting.

Three representatives from Major Roads came to explain major roads reconstruction on main local thoroughfares.

Major Road Projects’ function is to oversee the delivery of major road projects around metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

First point addressed was the upgrade of Bridge Inn Rd. The project will:■ add extra lanes in each direction ■ install traffic lights at Cookes Rd and Garden Rd ■ build a bridge over Plenty River and turn the existing bridge into a shared walking and cycling path ■ install safety barriers along the road ■ upgrade the intersections at Schotters Rd, Vantage Point Boulevard and Painted Hills Rd ■ install traffic lights near Ivanhoe Grammar School, including a pedestrian crossing to improve access to local schools There is often a long time between planning and commencement contributes to construction fatigue. One major procedural change has been the introduction of 24 hour work on these major undertakings to reduce community constraints.

The extension of the upgrade of Yan Yean Rd has been in vogue since 2017 and has been subject to much scrutiny and community consultation and finally an Environmental Effects Study with the Statement and recommendations being released by the Minister for Planning in March last year. There were 69 submissions by the community.

There is concern about the ancient gum trees at the corner where the construction of stage two is to finish. The community won, the trees stay and the road sweeps around.

Other concerns were land acquisitions and the welfare of the Swift Parrot, and getting direct access to the Yarrambat School and Yarrambat Park.

Major Roads plan roads based on traffic projections expected for the year 2036. Planning has become more coordinated over time to ensure a project is “shovel ready” - Michael B. Halley

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“Suffering agonising abdominal and chest pain last month, Bec was sent by her GP straight to emergency,” Mr Guy told the LegislativeAssembly.

“The northern suburbs mum arrived at the packed Austin emergency department at 10am.

“An elderly lady also waiting told Bec she had been there from 6pm the day before and was still waiting to be called, so Bec left.

“Still in severe pain, the 41-year-old then went to the Northern Hospital.

“The queue just to get to triage was out the door. Bec was crying. She said, ‘I’m in so much pain. I really need to see a doctor.

Could you please get a doctor for me?’.

“Eight hours later Bec was examined and told she needed emergency surgery to remove her gall bladder.

“She finally had surgery four days after she first sought medical attention. Will the Premier apologise to Bec, who suffered due to the government’s mismanagement of our health system, leading to dangerous clinical outcomes like this?”

Daniel Andrews, Premier, replied: “First of all I would offer a personal apology and an apology on behalf of the government. I do not want to see any patient right across our system getting anything other than first-

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“The Leader of the Opposition needs to acknowledge something just as I have acknowledged it—that anyone who is let down by the system is not only deserving of an apology but deserving of an email across so that we can follow up and learn from it.

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“But just as I have made that acknowledgement, the Leader of the Opposition surely must acknowledge there has been a global pandemic and it is not over yet.

“What it means is there are three records: there is record funding from our government, there are record patients who need treatment and there are record numbers of staff who are at home sick and not able to work.

“When you add those three things together, despite the best efforts - our recruitment, our investment over all our time in office and the most recent budget - there is still, because of record demand and record numbers of staff who cannot work, very, very significant pressure,” Mr Andrews said.

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Local Briefs Local honours

■ Monday (June 13) saw a number of Queen’s Birthday Honours announced in the readership area of the Northen Division of The Local Paper: Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia ■ Professor Suresh Kumar BHARGAVA, Viewbank. For significant service to tertiary education, and to Australia-India relations.

■ Mr Leighton James BOYD, Greensborough. For significant service to people who are blind or have low vision.

■ Mrs Sonya Fay CLANCY, Abbotsford.

For significant service to social enterprise, and to the financial sector.

■ Miss Gwenda Muriel LUCAS, Banyule.

For significant service to calisthenics, and to the community.

■ Professor Peter REVILL, Alphington.

For significant service to microbiology and immunology research.

Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division ■ Ms Rosemary Faye BOYD, Greensborough. For service to people who are blind or have low vision.

■ Mr Trevor Alan CARROLL, South Morang. For service to people with disability.

■ Mr Joe CHINDAMO, Fitzroy North. For service to music, and to the performing arts.

■ Ms Linda Elizabeth OKE, Fitzroy North. For service to occupational therapy.

■ Mrs Beryl Marcia PATULLO, Thomastown. For service to the community through a range of roles.

■ Mr Lindsay David PATULLO, Thomastown. For service to the community through a range of roles.

■ Mr Jeff RICHARDSON, Clifton Hill. For service ● to T the performing arts, and to radio.

■ Ms Judy RYAN, Abbotsford. For service to community health through a range of programs.

■ Ms Ingrid SVENDSEN, Alphington. For service to charitable organisations.

Public Service Medal ■ Mr David Julian STOCKMAN, Thornbury. For outstanding public service in the delivery of communications in Victoria, particularly for the COVID-19 response.

Australian Fire Service Medal ■ Mr John Laurence COWAN, Mernda.

Distinguished his contribution to the Country Fire Authority and the community throughout his 43 years of service, by demonstrating his exceptional leadership, energy, and enthusiasm in any role, task, or duty that he undertook. He is an exemplar of all those qualities and values espoused by CFA for adoption by its members.

Emergency Services Medal ■ Ms Josephine Ann HUNTER, Marysville. Outstanding Volunteer leader in Victoria State Emergency Service, and since 2004 specifically with the Marysville Unit.

Vale John Mansfield

■ The Ivanhoe Grammar School community is mourning the passing of ex-Old Boys footballer John Mansfield, at age 47.

John was eldest son of Jill and late Bruce Mansfield, and was raised in Eaglemont.

He started his playing career at the Old Ivanhoe Grammarians in 1993 in the Under 19s. He was part of the golden age for the Hoes, seeing the club rise from D-Grade to playing finals in A-Grade in 1999.

John’s career spanned from 1993 to 2000 then returning in 2009 and finally hanging up the boots in 2010.

“Over his career John played 150 games, including the winning 1995 Grand Final,” said a Club tribute.

“During that game, the commentator (Harry Beitzel) never referred to John by his real name, instead he was called “the son of Bruce” after John’s well known radio personality father.

“Somehow John would have preferred this as John never sought or wanted to be in the limelight. John was an incredibly durable and courageous football who Kevin McLean once said, ‘I never had to tell him what to do, I just gave him a number’. He knew John would ensure that player wouldn’t get a kick for the game.”

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● Billy Baxter, Andy Bellairs, Geoff Richardson, Greg Champion, ‘Torch McGee, Ian Cover.

■ Each of the current day Coodabeen Champions radio team has been awarded the medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Billy Baxter, Andrew Bellairs, Jeff Richardson, Greg Champion, Jeffrey ‘Torch’ McGee and Ian Cover have each been cited for the performing arts, and to radio.

Their weekly show is currently heard on Fridays on Mornington Peninsula radio station 3MP, and the ACE Radio Network.

The ‘troupe’ were first heard on Saturday mornings on Melbourne station 3RRR in the early 1980s, alongside shows such as Lawyers, Guns and Money co-hosted by ‘Ross Stevenson’ (Ross Campbell) and Punter-ToPunter.

Jeff Richardson and Simon Whelan came up with the concept for thr show in 1981, and Billy Baxter provided the name.

Along the way some team members have ● Early days: Tony Leonard, Ian Cover, Simon Whelan, Jeff Richardson included Tony Leonard, Simon Whelan (who with Greg Champion pictured at once. took an extended break whilst his daytime job was as a Supreme Court judge), Phil Cleary ... with even Darren James making guest appearances.

The team have worked at the ABC (twice), 3AW, and even had their own Sunday night national show on the ABC.

● Greg Champion, Ian Cover, Jeff Richardson, Jeff ‘Torch’ McGee, Billy Baxter, Andy Bellairs.

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Local Theatre AusDance forum

■ Youth dance leaders will gather in Melbourne for a series of workshops and seminars during the Australian Youth Dance Festival being held at the Victorian College of the Arts and presented by Ausdance VIC. A limited number of tickets are on sale for the event on Thursday, July 7 from 3.30pm 8pm at the Martin Myer Arena, Victorian College of the Arts.

The forum draws on the importance of youth dance and arts practice, its contribution to a healthy arts ecology, and its impact in shaping the future. This is a rare opportunity for youth dance leaders to participate in a dialogue with eminent national practitioners.

Facilitated by contemporary dance artist and AYDF alumni Adam Wheeler, the panel includes Access and Inclusion advocate, CEO and Artistic Director of Arts Access Victoria Caroline Bowditch, dance maker and independent producer of Filipino descent Efren Pamilacan, Taiwanese-Australian dancer and choreographer Jennifer Ma, the Artistic Director of Hobart based youth dance company DRILL Performance Isabella Stone, and Executive Director of Ausdance VIC Michelle Silby.

"I appreciate the invitation to be involved in the Industry Forum as part of AYDF, and I’m looking forward to the conversation,” says Efren Pamilican.

The Industry Forum on July 7 is open to anyone working in arts and creative industries, including local government authorities, and people working with youth.

The forum will be a site of learning and professional development for teachers, leaders, artists, and educators focused on supporting, promoting, and sustaining contemporary youth dance practice in Australia.

The industry forum will be followed by networking refreshments, and the (Re)Generate performance, a 90 minute, intimately presented journey showcasing the talents of youth dance from around the country.

Date: July 7, 3.30pm-8.00pm. Forum commences at 4pm, performance starts at 6.30pm Venue:Martin Myer Arena - Victorian College of the Arts, 234 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Forum, networking, and performance ticket $99; Forum and networking only ticket $59 Booking via Trybooking. Visit https:// ausdancevic.org.au/events/aydf-2022/ ?mc_cid=7ad7d5c17d&mc_eid=693a2634b2 - Cheryl Threadgold

Love’s Bitter Mystery

■ The year spanning 1903 to 1904 was momentous for writer James Joyce.

Considered possibly the most dazzling icon of literary modernism, Love’s Bitter Mystery interrogates the events that propelled Joyce to leave Ireland for Europe and set him on a path that would transform the idea of the novel utterly.

Two life-changing events In particular.

In 1903 Joyce witnesses his mother's (Rebecca Morton) slow, protracted death from cancer.

In June 1904, Joyce chances upon a young woman strolling down Nassau Street, Dublin, Nora Barnacle.

They arranged to meet on June 16, a day later immortalised as the setting of Joyce’s great work Ulysses.

Vivacious, charming and a willing co-conspirator, Nora threw her lot in with the ardent though feckless Jim Joyce embarking on an epic adventure.

Tobias Miller brings an intensity to Joyce, revealing a charismatic but self-consciously flawed man intent on escaping parochial Dublin's repressive social and moral conventions.

Jacqueline Whiting’s Nora is self-assured, bright and funny, a woman in full control of their own sexuality and power.

First imagined as a play, Love’s Bitter Mystery was reinvented as a film two weeks before its proposed opening night – a victim of the pandemic lockdowns.

Filmed in just six days, the setting is the magnificent nineteenth-century, crumbling, Gothic mansion, Villa Alba.

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Confidential Melbourne

Talk is cheap, gossip is priceless

My Self In That Moment ■ My Self in That Moment is a new work by Chamber Made featuring an ensemble of 49 tablets and a live solo vocalist, which is being presented from July 27 to 30 at The Substation, 1 Market St, Newport.

Exploring the fragmented and distributed self in the digital age, this electroacoustic work interrogates the themes surrounding identity, agency, ownership and the myriad systems that lie beneath the distribution of data.

Led by Chamber Made Artistic Director Tamara Saulwick and with composition by Peter Knight, My Self in That Moment expands on the company’s approach to experiment with different technologies that impact live performance and music forms.

My Self in That Moment has been created via a series of recorded interviews with the three vocalists: JessicaAszodi,Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and Tina Stefanou, who reflect on what it means to be digitally captured and archived.

Tina Stefanou explains that a right-wing French media company took a soundbite of her voice, “For over four years, my voice was used as the introduction for a video news channel. I had no idea they were using it. It was very strange.”

My Self in That Moment is a polyphonic piece – there is one live voice amongst a polyphony of pre-recorded voices spread across the speakers with the 49 devices.

Audiences experience this work through a series of digital tablets that are networked to function as a visual and sonic ensemble. There is a live soloist performed alternately throughout the season by Jessica Aszodi and Tina Stefanou.

“This presentation style opens up exciting possibilities for the spatialisation of image and sound. It feels strangely subversive to take these ubiquitous personal objects and to turn them into a kind of musical instrument,” said Saulwick.

Peter Knight has composed a complex and spatial sound design from recorded voices.

“Each vocalist has a very different approach to voice. It has been exciting to create something using their distinctive palette of individual sounds and extended vocal techniques,” said Knight.

Production Season: July 27 - 30 Time: 7pm and 9pm Wed. – Sat. Duration: 60 minutes Location: The Substation, 1 Market St, Newport Tickets: $20 – $30 Bookings: thesubstation.org.au Information: chambermade.org/works/ myselfinthatmoment/ - Cheryl Threadgold

The View From Up Here

■ The play The View From Up Here successfully achieves the Zeitgeist of a nation. Australians know all too well the negative effects of bushfires that blacken the earth, kill, and destroy

● Emily Tomlins (facing) and Brigid Gallacher in The View From Up Here.

Photo: Theresa Harrison

● Tina Stefanou in My Self in That Moment. Photo: Sarah Walker. life, wildlife habitats, and then pollute the air by releasing harmful carbon dioxide emission.

As the audience enters the darkened smokefilled room, they are confronted with a scene projecting horrific devastation.

We find Maggie living in a caravan alongside her home that has been burnt; to the ground; yet she is still stoically attending to her beloved vegetable garden.

Eve, her daughter, lives with her. Soon Lily, Maggie’s other daughter, arrives with her partner John (John Marc Desengano).

In a short space of time, the three females dramatically unleash their personal anger, their unresolved, uncomfortable, and uneasy relationship issues upon one another. The results are shockingly real and believable.

The use of theatre in the round structure provides an intimate setting, one where the audience feels strongly connected to what is going on right in front of them.

Spitzkowsky , the playwright, uses humour throughout the play to defuse tension and this comic relief, if only temporary, is warmly received by the audience.

Eve (Chanella Macri) and Lilly’s (Brigid Gallacher) characters are complex and both actors provide a magnificent balance in projecting the gamut of emotions demanded in their roles.

Maggie, played by Emily Tomlins. a seasoned and experienced actor, portrays the mother with conviction and strength.

As the play unfolds, we get to know Maggie as a resilient, stoic, hardened and damaged woman who has not given up.

This contemporary work is innovative and thought provoking, new and refreshingly different.

The total production team at Theatre Works and VIMH ought to be congratulated as the direction, staging, lighting – 'brilliant'.

- Review by Mary Downie

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What’s On Eclipse

■ NICA presents Eclipse, until Saturday, June 18 at the NICA National Circus Centre, Prahran, their first public-facing production since 2019.

Twelve students have triumphed over lockdowns to showcase acrobatics, cordelisse, trapeze, aerial hoop, tightwire, roue cyr, handstands, foot juggling and hula hoop.

Inspired by The Pandemic is a Portal by Arundhati Roy, Eclipse offers a gateway to a vision of what our future could, should, would and might just be.

Exploring unity, diversity, harmony, balance, trust, compromise, our humanity, and our fragility; what can we build and create together?

Devised with the graduating company, conceived by Sally Richardson (Director of Steamworks Arts, Artistic Director of Maxima Circus), directed by Meredith Kitchen (Associate Director at South Australian Circus Centre) and in-house performance studies coordinator Ben Sheen (Director/Founder of Periscope Productions 2011 – Present), Eclipse is a cross-faculty collaboration with Film Students from Swinburne University of Technology Film and Television and makeup students from Melbourne Polytechnic.

Eclipse features the pairing of live opera vocals from Judith Dodsworth (Greta in Brian Howard’s Metamorphosis with Victoria Opera,and the title role, and Mercedes in Carmen for OzOpera), with a live electronic and percussive score by Louis Frere-Harvey (Command Q, Structural Dependency) and visual set and costume design by Eloise Kent and Angelica Ru (The Darkening Sky, TheatreWorks in 2022).

NICA’s Head of Circus, James Brown (2015 – present), emphasises NICA’s excitement for bringing a live audience back to our space with such an auspicious show.

“These students have spent the last two years preparing and finessing their skills.

They are roaring and ready to present this unique piece to our audiences and we can’t wait for you to experience it yourself."

Performance Details: Until June 18, 2.30pm matinee and 7.30pm evenings Venue: NICA National Circus Centre, 39 – 59 Green St, Prahran Duration: 90 minutes Tickets: Adult: $35 Concession: $28 Family of 4: $112 Groups: $28 Seating: General Admissions Bookings: nica.com.au/performs Rating: PG - Cheryl Threadgold

Bocelli visits Melb.

■ One of the world’s greatest classical stars, esteemed Tuscan tenor Andrea Bocelli, will appear in Melbourne with a 70-piece orchestra and 60-person choir, this November.

Bocelli will p[erform a selection of soulstirring arias, enduring love songs and beloved crossover hits.

He will appear at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday, November 2.

Les Miserables

■ Les Misérables - a most memorable experience performed by Centre/Stage at Geelong’s Costa Hall over a packed season. Les Misérables is a story of a prisoner that makes good, a love story and a French revolution in the mid 1800s. Adapted by Schonberg and Boublil from a Victor Hugo novel with English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. The sheer magnitude of this production can be understood considering 29 main cast, 24 ensemble all backed by a 35 person orchestra. Director Martin Croft clearly demanded "complete individuals” all capable of bringing their uniqueness to each scene. I could not fault the cast, nor the orchestra that allowed crystal clear vocals, superbly balanced against the volume of the continual orchestral renditions. There were endless memorable moments, reaching great heights of emotions that captivated the audience. Nick Addison as lead Jean Valjean compellingly moved from a brutalised convict to a stately citizen, an honourable mayor, and finally to a world-weary father figure. Shaun Kingma faultlessly played the abominable Javert while determined to bring Valjean to justice, only to lose out with his own demise. Erin Cornell as Fantine was strong throughout particularly with a gripping rendition of I Dreamed A Dream. Barry Mitchell as Hotel Keeper, Thenardier with Michele Marcu as Madame Thenardier at times took centre stage, as did Storm Randall playing Marius, but not all at the expense of the rest of the main cast and ensemble, who to a person combined seamlessly. Challenging performances were well handled by the young children, little Cosette played by Jessie Grinter (with rotation by Samantha Parker), Gavroche – who met his maker at the barricade - played by Campbell Van Elst (with rotations Daniel Lim and Emerson Hudson- Collins) and young Eponine played by Evie Walsh (with rotation Zoe Baker). All elements of this production stood tall under the leadership of the Producer, David Greenwood, set and staging, properties, costumes, hair and wigs to sound and lighting, all in the hands of Award winning practitioners. Must mention that the wellbeing of the cast was in the capable paws of Luna, Leading Lady in the Wellbeing Team who loved a good chest rub, pats and cuddles during the months of rehearsals providing a soothing and therapeutic presence.

- Graeme McCoubrie

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Local Theatre Shows

■ PEP Productions: The Great American Trailer Park Musical Until June 18 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Director: Justin Cleaver; Musical Director: Stuart Andrew; Choreographer: Natasha Harvey. Bookings: https:// w w w. t r y b o o k i n g . c o m / e v e n t s / landing?eid=766007& ■ The Basin Theatre Company: The Lady in the Van in association with Highway 1 Theatre Company (by Alan Bennett, June 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 at 8.00pm; June 18, 19, 25, 26 at 2.00pm at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Tracey Shields.

Bookings: https://authebasin.sales. ticketsearch.com/sales/sales ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Ladies in Retirement (by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham) June 17 – July 2 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Director: Martin Gibbs. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ SLAMS: Winter Concert Series June 17, 18, 24, 25 at 8.00pm at the Knox Community Arts Centre, Cnr. Mountain Hwy and Scoresby Rd, Bayswater. Four casts, four shows, four setlists for each show. Bookings: https:// w w w. t r y b o o k i n g . c o m / B Z O LY or 0412 605 182 ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Nobody’s Perfect (by Simon Williams) June 24 – July 9 at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern.

Director: Lisa McNiven. Bookings: 1300 131 552, or www.malverntheatre.com.au/booktickets ■ Babirra Music Theatre: Mamma Mia! Until June 19 at the Karralyka Theatre, Mines Rd., Ringwood. Director: Richard Perdriau; Musical Director: Mal Fawcett; Choreographer: Di Crough.

Bookings: www.babirra.org.au ■ Sale Theatre Company: Heathers – The Musical June 24 and 25 at the Gippsland Performing Arts Centre, 32 Kay St., Traralgon.

Bookings: https://www.latrobe.vic.gov.au/.../ Heathers_The_Musical ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Shirley Valentine June 29 – July 16 at Williamstown Little Theatre, 2 Albert St., Williamstown. Director: Brett Turner Valenta. Bookings: www.wlt.org/tickets ■ Encore Theatre Company: Alice’sAdventures in Wonderland (Original story by Lewis Carroll, adapted for the stage by Matthew CW) June 30 – July 9 (Thursday – Saturday 11am and 2pm shows) at the Clayton Theatre, Community Centre, Cooke Street, Clayton. Bookings: www.encoretheatre. com.au ■ Diamond Valley Singers: Beauty and the Beast July 1–9 at Warrandyte High School, Alexander Rd., Warrandyte. Director: Tam Smith. Bookings: www.dvsingers.org.au ■ Leongatha Lyric Theatre: Kinky Boots July 1 – 16 at Mesley Hall, Cnr Horn and Ogilvy Sts., Leongatha. Booking: leonathalyric.com.au 0490 525 482 ■ Geelong Repertory Theatre: Dick Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency July 1– 16 at the Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., Geelong West. Director: Xavier McGettigan. Bookings: www.geelongrep. com/season2022 ■ BATS Theatre: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Dale Wasserman) July 15 – 24 at the Cranbourne Community Centre.

Director: James McAllister. Bookings: www.batstheatre.org.au ■ PLOS Musical Productions: Chicago July 29-August 6 at the Frankston Arts Centre, Davey St., Frankston. Bookings: www.plos.asn.au

Auditions

■ Peridot Theatre: Curtain Up! (by Peter Quilter) July 4 at 7.30pm at Fleigner Hall, 31 Highland Avenue, Oakleigh East. Director: Tony Bird. Audition bookings and enquiries: birdtony50@gmail.com or call 0419 931 526 ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Ladies’ Day (by Amanda Whittington) July 17 and July 18 at 7.30pm at Malvern Theatre, 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Pip Le Blond. Audition enquiries: pipleblond@gmail.com M:0400 350 792 ■ The Mount Players: When the Rain Stops Falling (by Andrew Bovell) July 23, 24 at 10.00am at the Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith St., Mt Macedon. Director: Vicki Smith. Audition enquiries; stagestruck58@me.com

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Lady in the Van

● Cast and crew rehearse The Lady in the Van. From left: Michael Jewell (Alan Bennett 2), Rosey Cullinan (Miss Shepherd), John Latham (Alan Bennett), Reg Ellery (Underwood/Doctor/Leo Fairchild), Tracey Shields (Director), Peter Burke (Rufus/ Lout/Ambulance Driver), Monica White (Assistant Director), Michael Coe (Set Design), Peter Hatherley (Company President) and Jon Medlin (Stage Manager and Set Builder). Absent: Chelsea Rabl (Pauline/Social Worker).

Photo: Peter Bartlett ■ The Basin Theatre Group in association Cabaret (Fringe World 2019), Best Cabaret Prowith the Highway1 Theatre Company present duction and Best Cabaret Ensemble (Green Alan Bennett's award-winning play The Lady Room Awards 2018). in the Van until June 26 at The Basin Theatre, Season: June 22 – 25 Doongalla Rd, The Basin.

Times: 7pm Wed – Thu and 7.30pm and 9pm Directed by Tracey Shields, The Lady in Fri – Sat the Van tells the true story of Bennett's someDuration: 70 minutes what strained friendship with Miss Mary ShepVenue: Meat Market, 3 Blackwood Street, herd, a crabby, eccentric, and somewhat smelly North Melbourne homeless woman whom Bennett befriended in Tickets: $25 – $60 the 1970s.

Bookings: stickytickets.com.au He allowed her to park her Bedford van in - Cheryl Threeadgold the driveway of his Camden home "for three months", but she ended up residing there for 15 years.

As the story develops, Bennett learns Miss ■ La Mama presents Talking to the Future Shepherd's true identity - Margaret Fairchild - from June 22 to July 3 at La Mama Courthouse, Carlton. and about her unfortunate past.

Written and directed by Darryl Emmerson, Performance Details: Dates and Times: June 16 at 8pm (Opening Talking to the Future explores the complex poGala Supper), June 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 at 8pm; litical, personal and spiritual life of Alfred Deakin, regarded by some as Australia's greatJune 18, 19, 25, 26 at 2pm Venue: The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., est Prime Minister.

The play takes an in-depth look at some of The Basin the people who created Australia as a nation.

Bookings: www.thebasintheatre.org.au Idealistic, complex and energetic, yet to some - Cheryl Threeadgold modern eyes, limited by the beliefs of their era.

The causes they strove for, the dilemmas they faced, are relevant today, in a time of concern ■ The multi-award-winning cabaret legends, about globalisation, race, social inequality and Yummy, will return to Melbourne for a short national division. visit this June with its wild, salacious and Writer Darryl Emmerson says he became highcamp variety show, Iconic, before heading interested in Alfred Deakin in around 2016. to London for a four-week season and then re"This was the time of the Trump election in turning to kick off an Australian tour. the US, Brexit in the UK and what appeared to Iconic aims to bring back a heap of joy and be an increasing cynicism and apathy in Ausdeliver some upbeat moments, comedy and 'out- tralian politics, a partial loss of faith in our deof-this-world' costumes. There will also be bur- mocracy. lesque, circus and drag acts.

"My mind began to play around the FederaIconic is the mastermind of emcee: Valerie tion era, what its principal figures were trying to Hex, who blazed a massive trail of dance and do, what sort of people they were, what were drag cabaret to over 50 festivals around the world their words, dreams, fears and visions? What I and performed with queer performance jugger- found surprised me, and became the play.” nauts Taylor Mac, Glory Box, Briefs, David Talking to the Future presents an insight into Sedaris and many more. the life of Alfred Deakin and the people who The Iconic ensemble includes Jarred Dewey, helped create Australian democracy. the Polynesian burlesque princess Karlee Misi, The cast includes: Marco Lawrence, Chrisdrag extraordinaire Bendy Ben, Miss Burlesque tina McLachlan, Ezra Bix, Annie Ryall andAlex Victoria, Velma Vouloir and said to be the Thomson. world’s kinkiest sandwich maker, Jandruze.

Set/Costume design is by Madeline Nibali, “Yummy has won the hearts and minds of Lighting/ Sound by Shane Grant, Music by Brett people all around the globe. We cannot wait to Wake, Piano Joe Bourke, Choreography by share Iconic with Melbourne – it will definitely Janice Florence and Stage Manager, Katie Wilbe a sensory seeking experience. We’re confi- liams. dent you will fall in love and howl with laughPerformance Details: June 22 - July ; Wed ter,” said Valerie Hex. 6.30pm, Thu., Fri. and Sat .7.30pm, Sun 4pm.

From its humble beginning as a club night in Live Stream: Fri. June 24 at 7.30pm.

Melbourne, Yummy is now popular internationVenue: La Mama Courthouse, 349 ally.

Drummond St, Carlton Known for its slick burlesque atheistic, Duration: 80 minutes Yummy has earned huge critical acclaim and Tickets: $30 Full, $20 Conc., $10 Live received numerous awards: The People’s Stream. Bookings: 9347 6948 or Choice Award (Melbourne Fringe 2021), Best lamama.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

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Observations Inner Angels

● Elena Kats-Chernin ■ Melbourne audiences can enjoy a special premiere of a new work by acclaimed Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin in a forthcoming concert by Melbourne Youth Orchestra.

Called Inner Angels, the premiere of this Kats-Chernin work was scheduled for the famous St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna in 2020, as part of an international concert tour by the talented young players of MYO. But the advent of COVID lockdowns put paid to that grand plan, but thankfully this beautiful work will finally get its premiere in the Angels, Dreams and Fantasies concert at Melbourne Recital Centre on Sunday June 26.

Kats-Chernin is thrilled that Melbourne audiences can finally hear this new work, which was specially commissioned by MYO in 2019.

Also on the program is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony number 4, the Carmen fantasy

by Bizet and Sarasate, featuring young solo violinist Leon Fei and the stirring Hungarian march by Berlioz.

Since 1967, Melbourne Youth Orchestra has provide a pathway for the best young orchestral musicians in Melbourne to practise and showcase their craft, and many go on to successful professional musical careers.

MYO conductor Brett Kelly is delighted to be back on the podium, guiding his young players to concert excellence, saying there is always a tsunami of feelings among the orchestra when they take to the stage.

“Exuberance, concentration, pride, apprehension, and then ultimately the exhilaration of achievement. Come and experience this timeless music afresh, through the youthful lens of awe and wonder.” Kelly enthused.

Enjoy this Kats-Chernin premiere and the other musical delights on Sunday, June 26, at 5.30 pm atMelbourne Recital Centre, or watch a live stream via Melbourne Digital Concert Hall.

For bookings visit melbournerecital. com.au and australiandigitalconcerthall.com Julie Houghton ● From previous page

Love’s Bitter Mystery

■ Chapter titles structurally break up the narrative: act, scene, and dates frame the story either superimposed on-screen or wittily narrated through interjections by Moses (May Jasper).

With a screenplay written by playwright Steve Carey and director Carly Wilding, its shoestring budget occasionally shows through.

Nevertheless, the film is refreshingly charged and engaging.

It exposes some of the questions pinpointing the young Joyce’s creative frustration leading to his self-imposed exile from Ireland.

It also gives a taste of what is to come. www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au - Review by Kathryn Keeble

Media Flashes

■ Marnie Vinall is taking on a new role as a Sports Reporter at The Age. From Monday (June 20) she will be covering all things AFL and AFLW, as well as general sports.

Marnie is currently a freelance writer / journalist. She writes on subjects such as mental health, wellbeing, sports, social and women's issues, and has written for a range of publications, including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Women's Agenda and Eureka Street.

■ Samuel McGinn has joined the Hit Network's Carrie and Tommy program as a Producer, based in Melbourne.

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Anniversary for Sputnik Celebration of Swing

■ The Merchants of Bollywood Pty Ltd present The Celebration of Swing on Sunday, July 10 at 3pm at the Frankston Arts Centre.

The concert will honour the famous American Big Band leaders and their orchestras from the 1940s - the golden era of swing.

Featuring 15 Australian musicians and singers and showcasing singers Gregg Arthur and Jackie Cooper along with instrumental jazz soloists. Musical Director John Morrison is recognised as an Australian lead jazz drummer, band leader and educator.

The concert's music repertoire highlights the greatest Big Band hits of the 1940s, featuring the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Benny Goodman and more.

Bookings: https://artscentre. frankston.vic.gov.au/Whats-On/ Season-Shows/The-Celebrationof-Swing - Cheryl Threadgold

4 Peace Band

■ The 4 Peace Band returns to perform at the Mentone RSL on Friday, June 17 at 7.30pm.

Enjoy dancing to hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s and more. Drinks from bar. Book a meal by calling 9583 2841.

Event Details: Friday, June 17 at 7.30pm. Free Entry.

Venue: Mentone RSL, 9 Palermo St., Mentone Bookings Recommended: 9583 2841 - Cheryl Threadgold

Logies next weekend

■ The Logies will be telecast on Sunday (June 19) from 5pm.

Contenders for the Gold Logie are Hamish Blake, Julia Morris, Karl Stefanovic, Melissa Leong, Ray Meagher, Sonia Kruger and Tom Gleeson.

Media Flashes

■ Paul Grabowsky and Lisa Gerrard unite with the MSO in the premiere of Immortal Diamond on Wednesday, October 5, at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne.

■ Lucy Durack will tour with with Rob Mills and Bert LaBonté, with Rom-Concert to be staged at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne on November 24.

■ Sputnik Russian Cultural and Television Association will celebrate its 25th ++ 2 anniversary on television with a free gala concert featuring world-class musicians at St Kilda Town Hall on Sunday (June 19) from 3pm-6 pm.

Classical and popular works by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Ysaÿe, and others will be performed by musicians and singers nearly all from the former Soviet Union: husband-and-wife duo Mark Mogilevski (violin) and Elena Mogilevski (piano); Alex Pokryshevsky (singer) and sons Max (xylophonist) and Anton (pianist/composer); pianists Boris Guslitser, Mikhail Solovei, Irina Cherkassky, Larissa Oberfeld and Nadejda Kushnir; violinists Tair Khisambeev and Paige Wu; cellist Elina Faskhi; singers Lara Khronovska ,Rada Tochalny; and folk singers Club Southern Cross.

Also on the bill are young dancers from the Inspiration Dance School and LIDER Sunday Russian School.

The concert will be compered by Lara Khronovska and Eugene Mogilevski.

Donations to the victims of the war in Ukraine will be collected. The program features Ukrainian composers Marc Karminsky and Igor Krutoy.

Husband and wife team, Gregory and Anna Vaisman, who set up Sputnik in 1995, are devastated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“We are particularly upset at the bombing of Odessa, our home town,” Gregory said.

“However, we are opposed to banning Russian culture. As the director of the New York Metropolitan Opera said, we should ‘ban Putin, not Pushkin’.”

Port Phillip Mayor, Cr Marcus Pearl, will introduce the concert. Martin Foley, the Member for Albert Park and Minister for Health. David Southwick, the Member for Caulfield, will also speak.

Over the past 27 years, Sputnik Russian Cultural and Television Association has produced over 2700 weekly Russian-language Sputnik television programs on Channel 31 and organised 16 concerts, each of which attracted more than 500 people.

Its first concert was held in 2008 to mark the re-opening of St Kilda Town Hall.

Sputnik received a festival grant from the City of Port Phillip to hold a 25th anniversary concert in 2020 but had to postpone due to the successive COVID lockdowns.

Sputnik President Gregory Vaisman arrived in Australia with his wife Anna Vaisman and one of their three children in 1991, part of a large group of Jews who left Ukraine in the dying days of the Soviet Union.

With 28 years’ experience as a telecommunications engineer, Gregory

25 years of TV program at Channel 31 expected to have no problems getting work.

“However, I came up against Keating’s ‘recession we had to have’ and couldn’t find a job. Nor could Anna, who was a science teacher.

That’s why we decided to set up Sputnik. It’s kept us busy – very busy – and we’ve been grateful for the opportunity. It’s been one way of paying back Australia,” he said.

“I was an amateur with a camera but had always wanted to make television. In 1958 – the year after the Sputnik satellite went up – I applied to the television faculty at university but although I got 23 out of a possible 25 marks in the entrance exams, I was excluded. It wasn’t until I went to a gathering of students who had passed the exam but didn’t get in that I discovered why – it was because I was Jewish. Everyone else in the room also happened to be Jewish.”

In 1995, the Sputnik team were able to take advantage of a federal grants program for ethnic television programs to set up their Russian-language program on Channel 31.

Over the years, they have secured grants from the Cities of Port Phillip and Glen Eira, the Victorian Multicultural Commission and other bodies. Sputnik is now the longest running program on C31.

‘Sputnik’, meaning ‘fellow-traveller’ or ‘spouse’ in Russian was an obvious choice for the program. The successful launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 was also a tremendous source of national pride back in the USSR as it symbolised victory in the space race.

For the past 27 years Sputnik TV has been on a mission to educate the Russian-speaking community about life in Australia.

Gregory said his family loves it here in Australia.

“It’s wonderful to be part of a multicultural society that works. What we really miss is the music but we’re doing our best to make up for that by producing concerts for everyone to enjoy,” he said.

The concert will be recorded for broadcast on Sputnik which goes to air for 30 minutes, 4pm on Sundays, and is repeated on 4.pm on Thursdays.

One World – Israel Weekly is broadcast under the Sputnik banner on Thursdays at 1pm. The program attracts over 200,000 unique viewers per annum according to OZTAM figures.

The concert is free but please book: https://www.trybooking.com/ BZYEW - Carmel Shute and Cheryl Threadgold

Rourke’s Reviews Drive My Car

■ (MA). 179 minutes. Now available on DVD. Deserved winner of two Academy Awards this year (Best International Feature and Best Adapted Screenplay), Drive My Car is now available on DVD, and is truly mustsee viewing.

The story centres on renowned actor Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who is married to screenwriter Oto (Reika Kirishima), and its a relationship that contains some particular oddities.

After an unexpected event, we now see Kafuku two years later, about to take on a theatre production of Uncle Vanya as director, with a multi-national cast which includes disgraced TV star Koji Takatsuki (Masaki Okada), who knew Oto. The producers inform Kafuku that he has to take on a chauffeur, a demand that initially upsets the seasoned performer, as he uses his drive time to practise various scripts via recorded audio cassette, read out by his wife.

His driver is Misaki (Toko Miura), a quiet, very guarded person who likes to keep her distance.

As rehearsals go on, the relationship develops between Kafuku and Misaki, who slowly open up about past grief, loss and guilt.

The short story by Haruki Murakami (whose work has been turned into other impressive films, such as Burning, Norwegian Wood and Tony Takitani) has been adapted with masterful skill by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Happy Hour, Asako I & II), and his direction is extraordinary, keeping everything beautifully low-key, and uses symbolism in a quiet, subtle manner.

Performances are outstanding.

Drive My Car does go three hours, but don’t let that deter you; this is a totally involving, very humane drama, and once you become fully immersed, the time goes by surprisingly quickly.

RATING - ****½

The Batman

■ (M). 175 minutes. Now available on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD. Wanting to dig deeper and darker than other adaptations of the DC comic creation, this admittedly intriguing production is hamstrung by a shallow script, ridiculous overlength, and a deliberate restraint to ensure maximum teen ticket sales, which is of course what happened.

Robert Pattinson plays Batman/Bruce Wayne, and the night time crime fighting is having a serious effect on both his mental health and views on human nature,

● Colin Farrell a situation that is worrying his butler, Alfred (Andy Serkis).

Gotham City is thrown into chaos when a mysterious psycho called The Riddler (Paul Dano) starts murdering notable politicians and law enforcers, who seem connected to a dark secret, a secret that may involve Wayne’s long dead parents.

Also complicating matters are Selina Kyle (Zoe Kravitz), The Penguin (an unrecognisable Colin Farrell), and his mobster boss Carmine Falcone (John Turturro).

Co-writer/director Matt Reeves, who scored strongly the recent Planet Of The Apes sequels, wants to take Batman in a decidedly more adult direction, with a psychological dissection of Wayne and his nemesis, exploring how similar they are in many ways; damaged people who no longer trust the system and the people who run it, leading to a distortion of justice, causing violence that will eventually hurt the innocent.

But Reeves and his producers make the huge mistake of wanting to do it within an audience friendly, PG-13 (the movie is rated M here) framework, robbing the material’s potential of truly walking down and confronting the most harrowing, disturbing aspects of modern society.

This film really needed to be rated either MA or R. As such, the script never digs very deep, and for a movie that runs almost three hours, that leaves quite a huge hole, one that is never satisfyingly filled.

Pattinson is okay, but all he really has to do is look glum, while Kravitz limited acting range cannot rise above a badly written role, complete with risible dialogue, and the moments of sexual tension between her and Pattinson is extremely clumsy.

Everyone else does what’s asked of them, but their characters are sketchy at best.

There is unnecessary narration (reminiscent of the one tacked on the theatrical cut of Blade Runner), and dialogue too often solely exists to spoon feed the audience, a la V ForVendetta.

Though slick, The Batman is so obsessed with surface level grimness, that it forgets to examine the gritty, unsettling details underneath, resulting in an incredibly frustrating viewing experience.

RATING - **½ - Aaron Rourke

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■ Lyon Himan Green was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 100 years ago.

He was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants and he was known as Hyman during his school years.

He started acting in drama productions whilst attending Queens University in Kingston.

After graduation Hyman accepted a fellowship at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.

He returned home two years later and started working as a news reader at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he became known as ‘The Voice of Canada’. He was now using the stage name of Lorne Greene.

In 1938 Lorne married Rita Hands and they had two children. During the war years Lorne served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

After the war he returned to radio and invented a stopwatch that worked backwards to allow announcers to gauge how much time they had time available to close a program.

In 1953 he was in a Broadway production of The Prescott Proposal and co-starring with Katharine Cornell at the Broadhurst Theatre.

Lorne scored roles in television dramas and then appeared in films such as The Silver Chalice, Autumn Leaves, Peyton Placeand The Trap.

After a guest role in the television series Wagon Train he was asked to play ‘Ben Cartwright’ in the new western Bonanza.

His hair was silver and he was perfectly cast

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By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

in the role. The series ran from 1959 till 1973 and it became one of the most popular shows on television.

He was a father to three sons living on a ranch called The Ponderosa sometime after the American Civil War. The sons were originally played by Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts and Dan Blocker.

Elvis Presley was a big fan of the show and visited the set.

Following his divorce from Rita he married Nancy Deale in 1961 and they had a son.

Lorne was earning a huge salary from Bonanza and became extremely wealthy through investments in real estate and other projects.

He built a house in Arizona which was a

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Lorne appeared as a guest on The Dean Martin Show. Dean and Lorne sang songs and did some ad-lib dialogue as they sat on two very undisciplined horses. It was brilliant television Dean said he wanted to be on Bonanza and Lorne replied that he would make a great guest star.

Dean quipped, "I don't want to be a guest star I want to be a son." It was hilarious.

After Bonanza finished Lorne went straight into a new television crime series Griff where he played a private detective.

He had a small role in the film Earthquake playing opposite Gregory Peck and Ava Gardiner.

Lorne found fame again when he starred as ‘Commander Adama’ in the futuristic television series Battlestar Galactica for several years.

He was a guest star on many television shows such as The Love Boat, Highway To Heaven and Police Squad. His last acting role was as a lawyer in Dallas.

Lorne Greene died in Santa Monica in 1987 at the age of 72 from pneumonia complications following surgery for an ulcer.

Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW ● Lorne Green The Time Tunnel - Remember When replica of The Ponderosa. In 1964 he had a Sundays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens. number one hit song titled Ringo and this led to a And on 96.5 FM series of popular albums.

That's Entertainment - Sundays Lorne Greene visited Australia several at 12 Noon. www.innerfm.org.au times.

Distant Shores at Linden New Art

Distant Shores.

A new exhibition project co-produced by Melbourne/Naam based photographic artist Morganna Magee and curator Anna Monea.

Developed in collaboration with members from the local community, Distant Shores combines documentary photography, family photos and written testimony to tell the story of the migrant experience through themes of cultural connection, memory, longing and loss.

For Distant Shores, Magee and Monea worked with recently arrived migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum based in the city of Port Phillip municipality to create a series of photographic profiles celebrating cultural heritage.

Exploring each participants cultural ties to their homeland in the wake of the connection imposed by the pandemic, Magee presents a personal image belonging to the participant alongside their portrait, which, captured by Magee, recreates the original photograph in an Australian context.

Exhibition closes Sunday July 31.

Linden New Art 26 Acland St, St Kilda

Picasso

The Picasso Century Programs, talks and events dive deep into Picasso’s work and world in the 20th century.

The NGV’s premiere exhibition.

The Picasso Century will be complimented by a rich calendar of events, talks, performances and hands-on workshops designed to deepen audiences understanding of the life, times and work of Pablo Picasso and his contemporaries.

Throughout the exhibition visitors will be able to join NGV guides in the Clemenger BBDO Auditorium at 10.30am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays for a 30-minuite introduction to the exhibition’s key themes and works.

Exhibition closes October 8.

National Gallery of Victoria 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne

At Heide

Bruce Munro: From Sunrise Road.

The Arts

with Peter Kemp Heide will present Bruce Munro: From Sunrise Road, the first museum exhibition in Australia of the work of internationally celebrated English/ Australian artist Bruce Munro, best known for his interactive, large-scale light installations inspired largely by his interest in shared huma experience.

The exhibition combines spectacular indoor and outdoor experimental works, with intimate knowledge story pieces, revealing the depth of the artist’s practice and the breadth of his sources, from personal and philosophical to the literary and spiritual.

Situated across Heide’s main galleries and sculpture park, the exhibition will present more than 20 key indoor works and an immersive outdoor light installation designed specially for the site that will activate Heide’s iconic parklands at night.

For the first time the museum will extend its opening hours until 8pm from Thursday to Sunday throughout the exhibition for visitors to experience Munro’s outdoor work after dark.

Exhibition opens June 25 and closes October 16.

Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Rd., Bulleen

At Benalla

Acts 1-V111 Oculi presents Acts 1-v111, a visual meditation on seven modes of

being. Reforming the Seven Year Life Stages, a concept of human development introduced by philosopher Rudolph Steiner in 1807, this exhibition explores seven universal experiences that lie at the heart of our existence, love and fear, trauma and grief, freedom and oppression, control and uncertainty, belonging and exclusion, science and spirit, Life and death.

Featuring new and existing work from members Acts 1-V11 marks Oculi’s third decade as a photography collective. Venue: Bennett Gallery Exhibition closes July 17.

BenallaArt Gallery Botanic Gardens Bridge St, Benalla - Peter Kemp

What’s On

■ Sunday, June 26 at the Melbourne Recital Centre from 5.30pm, the Melbourne Youth Orchestra performs a mouthwatering program of romantic favourites (Bizet, Berlioz, Tschaikovsky) plus the premiere of ‘Inner Angels’by Elana Kats-Chernin, commissioned by the MYO. ■ Saturday, July 2 at St Paul's Cathedral from 7.30pm (as well as in Ballarat's Uniting Church on Saturday, June 25 at 2.30pm), the Melbourne Bach Chamber Choir presents ‘A Concert for Peace’ featuring an inspiring program of choral (and instrumental) music, with a pronounced Ukranian theme. Plus a fundraising effort for humanitarian aid in that war-torn country.

Digital job

■ Molly Magennis has joined the 7NEWS Melbourne team as a Digital Journalist. Molly was previously a Cadet Journalist at the Maribyrnong & Hobsons Bay Star Weekly and an Entertainment Officer and News Reporter for RMIT's Catalyst.

Expecting

■ Vanessa Hughes has taken maternity leave from ABC Classic’s drive shift.

OK. With John O’Keefe Blackers back in hospital

● John Blackman ■ John Blackman, the sharpest wit in Oz, has been re-admitted to hospital and underwent an eight-hour operation for recurring cancer. Every wish, Blackers.

BT stumbles over words

■ Channel 7 footy broadcaster Brian Taylor delivers his commentary in a most excitable fashion, so much so he dropped some clangers in a recent description. Instead of saying 'competitor', BT said 'com-peter'.

Seven has re-introduced 'Roving Brian' segment with BT catching players unawares. It's a fun, original segment and results in some unexpected answers.

Mum’s the word

■ A hot shot American talent manager of entertainers like Justin Bieber jetted into Australia last month to sign 18-year-old rapper known as The Kid Leroi who insisted his Mum be present in all contract discussions.

Mum asked some curly questions as she happens to be an expert in talent negotiations involving indigenous performers. All in order with contract, good on ye' Mum. Bedridden with a virus, The Kid Leroi was forced to postpone his Melbourne appearances, they were rescheduled.

Kylie big in the bubble business

■ Our resident singing budgie is just as successful in the wine business.

Over the past 12 months someone, somewhere in the world is drinking a glass of Kylie's wines every 1.5 seconds. Sales of her Yarra Valley Pinot Noir won the Global Noir Masters for the second time. Her Pink Prosecco Rose sales rose to $ A 13.5 million last 12 months.

The goss from the Queen of Pop is her intention to launch Kylie Champagne before year end.

Angelina, Brad legal battle

■ Next cab off the rank in celebrity disputations could be sale of a vineyard Ange and Brad jointly own in the south of France. Brad is all uptight because his ex-wife has sold her share to Yurri Shefer, a Russian billionaire without the knowledge of Brad. The vineyard is internationally known for its Rose wine.

- John O’Keefe

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Stateside with Gavin Wood in West Hollywood

Local hotel wins top award

■ Hi everyone, remotely from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites in West Hollywood comes this week’s news

Out and About

Emerald, jewel in the city

People of colour

■ The Emerald Hotel is an impressive hotel run by the Lewis family with a loyal and eclectic following. The food is excellent, the wine list extensive and the staff are friendly and efficient.

A comfortable, air-conditioned true-blue bar with all racing shown live with TAB facilities and all AFLgames live.

The bar service has been so well written up, you’ll have to come and experience it for yourself,a nd hearty bar meals are served daily.

This local hotel has won many awards over the years including recently the 2022 Nikakis Award recognising sustained performance and commitment to the hotel industry.

The Emerald Hotel, 415 Clarendon St, South Melbourne, has been named Australia’s favourite punting venue.

With the results of a recent nationwide survey by TAB fully revealed, The Emerald Hotel was ranked number one by punters who flock to the venue to get all the racing and sport they can.

Perfect sleep time

■ How much sleep is the perfect amount? Seven hours of sleep is the ‘Goldilocks’ amount for people in their middle age and upwards, according to new research out of the University of Cambridge in England.

In the study examining data from nearly half a million British and Chinese people aged 38 to 73, participants were asked about their sleeping patterns, mental health and wellbeing. They also took part in a series of cognitive tests.

Researchers report that both insufficient and excessive sleep duration were associated with impaired cognitive performance, such as processing speed, visual attention, memory and problem-solving skills.

Seven hours of sleep per night was the optimal amount of sleep for cognitive performance. It was also good for mental health, with people experiencing more symptoms of anxiety and depression, and worse overall wellbeing, if they reported sleeping for longer or shorter durations.

Researchers say one reason is that when ‘deep’ sleep is disrupted, it can cause a build-up of a protein called amyloid that can cause ‘tangles’ in the brain similar to some forms of dementia.

■ Now here is a tough one. People of Colour is the “in” thing to say. But not Coloured People.

AnAssistant Principal is suing the Virginia school board after she was forced out of her job for using the words “coloured people” during mandatory “anti-racism training”.

She said it was a slip of the tongue, as she was protesting mandatory anti-racism training which she claimed discriminated against White people. Of course, she was called a “racist bitch” by a colleague.

Generation Zzzz

● Pictured is Andy Lewis, who you will find in the front bar of the Emerald Hotelmost days, with Alan Johnson, Managing Director of Ramada Hotel and Suites in West Hollywood, congratulating Andy and the Lewis family for this prestigious award.

Commonly Used Amenities

GavinWood

From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

Breeding dogs for moods

■ The American Kennel Club website describes the ideal form and temperament of 204 dog breeds, from the affenpinscher (“loyal, curious and famously amusing”) to the Yorkshire terrier (“feisty, brave and sometimes bossy”).

The idea that certain breeds reliably exhibit distinct behaviours is widespread. Yet a detailed new study of dog behaviour and genetics suggests that breed is actually of little value in anticipating the behaviour or demeanour of any individual animal.

■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood

Can’t Make This Stuff Up

■ “Security is not allowed to touch me,” says shameless Manhattan shoplifter ‘Jackie’, as Woke Big Apple sees major crimes rocket 44 per cent.

She accused the store security guard of “manhandling” her when she stole fabric softener. She was banned from all of the stores in the chain. The proud shoplifter blamed the stores for all shoplifting incidents and said shoplifters are the victims. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up!

Chip shortage until 2024

■ Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger warned that the semiconductor shortage will last until 2024. Certain manufacturing tools remain unavailable, which threatens to constrain chipmaking capacity, the executive told CNBC. “That’s part of the reason that we believe the overall semiconductor shortage will now drift into 2024, from our earlier estimates in 2023, just because the shortages have now hit equipment and some of those factory ramps will be more challenged,” Gelsinger explained.

“We’ve really invested in those equipment relationships,” Gelsinger continued while discussing the diversification of chipmaking away from Asia, “but that will be tempering the buildout of capacity for us and everybody else, but we believe we’re positioned better than the rest of the industry.”

■ Feeling tired after work? Then you must be a member of Gen Zzzz. Younger employees find a day’s work more exhausting than their parents’ generation.

A study found that 46 per cent of Gen Z workers feel “fatigued” after a day at the office. They complained that their workload and the stress left them feeling drained. 40 per cent of Millennials said the same, while only 19 per cent of Baby Boomers agreed. Given what our colleges and universities are graduating these days, is anyone surprised?

■ One of the first things many of us do when we settle into a hotel room is reach for the packaged bar of soap on the bathroom counter.

These soaps are the single most-utilised amenity at hotel chains: 86 per cent of guests who stay at a hotel for 1-2 nights use it, handily outranking other popular offerings like the inroom TV (84 per cent), hair dryer (36 per cent), and valet parking (28 per cent).

Hotels take great pride in selecting their toiletries, and invest a tremendous amount of time and money into finding the right brand partners.

There is always the right amount of all the products above in your room at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

Get off social media

■ Doctors may soon be writing a very simple prescription to improve your mental health: “get off social media!” A new study finds avoiding social media platforms for just one week significantly improved a person’s well-being and also lowered levels of both anxiety and depression.

A team from the University of Bath found that social media users can sometimes spend up to nine hours on their favourite platforms in a single week. This includes endlessly scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. Previous studies have found conflicting data when it comes to the benefits and harms of social media. While some reports have disputed claims that social media is addictive (especially for children), others have noted up to 50 harmful effects of constantly browsing these platforms.

Working from home

● Emerald Hotel, South Melbourne.

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■ Most American workers are keeping something a secret from their employer and co-workers their “real” personality.

A new survey finds 64 per cent are fearful of being authentic around others in the workplace. In fact, seven in 10 say they adopt an entirely different personality when they’re at work, compared to their normal persona at home. The poll of more than 1900 American workers, commissioned by JobSage, also found that nearly two in three employees (64 per cent ) have experienced some sort of backlash from their colleagues when a private detail of their life became public knowledge.

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Killingworth Hill Cafe & Whisky Bar

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Cosy open fire.

Today’s Menu Charcuterie Boards:

Your choice of a meat platter, cheese platter, or fish platter all accompanied with fresh home grown and made produce, for example, vegetables, gluten free pesto’s, chutneys, nuts, etc,

All Products Home-Made.

Soups (Winter Only).

Tarts, Quiches and Sweets as per Specials Board.

Beef and Guinness Pies.

Sausage Rolls.

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We are a small boutique venue serving predominantly home-made product.

We run to bookings to private intimate customer service satisfaction with a maximum of 10 per group.

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ABC celebrates 90th anniversary

Crossroads

By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads com.au

Life is just a game

■ Melbourne musician Aaron Schembri has collaborated with former Melbourne FC legend turned musician Russell Robertson to raise awareness for Motor Neurons Disease.

Written by Schembri, ‘Life Is Just A Game’ was released on June 13, with a launch at Federation Square.

Coinciding with theAFLBig Freeze Round on the Queen’s Birthday, it was part of the Neale Daniher Walk, right before the Melbourne v Collingwood game.

Completely not-for-profit, the single release and funds raised will go towards raising awareness and fighting MND.

McNamarr Project

■ John McNamara and Andrea Marr’s McNamarr project will perform their award winning sweet soulful blues music on Sunday, July 3 at George Lane, St Kilda.

Tickets at www.trybooking.com/events/ landing

Lisa Mio sings

■ Lisa Mio is the voice behind Australia's #1 Linda Ronstadt Show (The Wild Dreamers) and she's excited to be performing with her new band, covering rock classics from the 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond.

Caulfield RSLSunday, July 17. 2.30pm6.30pm.

The dance floor will most definitely be open and ready for action is the warning.

Contact Sid for bookings 0409 699 311.

- Rob Foenander

■ The ABC’s 90th anniversary reinforces the commitment to provide distinctive, diverse Australian programs remains unrivalled.

ABC has announced a new slate of shows set to entertain throughout the year and into 2023.

New program highlights include: ■ A live two-hour special celebrating ABC’s 90th anniversary, ABC 90 Celebrate!

■ Magda’s Big Health Check Magda Szubanski takes a deep dive into the state of health while reflecting on her own.

■ A magical eight-part drama series The Messenger based on the best-selling book by Marcus Zusak.

■ Limbo, a comedy series about grief, ghosts and how hard it is to let go of those we love, especially when they’re taken too soon.

Six famous Australians revisit their pasts through moments drawn from the ABC archives in The ABC O f … hosted by David Wenham.

■ A reflective special celebrating Foreign Correspondent’s 30thAnniversary.

The ABC’s history of Indigenous programming is examined in a special one-off show Looking Black.

Highly anticipated new series of the smash hit drama The Newsreader.

■ The screen adaptation of the award-winning podcast Take 5 with Zan Rowe.

■ It’s a Jungle Out Here. Asevenpart live action and wildlife series

for ABC ME. New ABC Kids series Reef School, narrated by Emma Watkins.

Get ready to play Spicks and Speck with 10 new episodes.

ABC Chair Ita Buttrose said: “For 90 years the ABC has been a vibrant and crucial part of theAustralian way of life. We are not just celebrating 90 years since our first broadcast, but 90 years serving the people of Australia as their national broadcaster.

“This is an opportunity for Australians everywhere to celebrate an institution they rely on and love.”

ABC Director of Entertainment and Specialist Michael Carrington said: “With the increasing amount of global content available to audiences, ABC’s role as the home of Australian stories has never been more vital.

“Our commitment to supporting the local screen industry, nurturing new talent both on and behind the camera and connecting with all Australians through quality content continues to be our priority. The new programs highlighted today, showcase an impressive breadth of Australian storytelling, of which I’m immensely proud.”

■ The A B C Of ….

Tuesday June 28 at 8pm A six-part interview series, hosted by actor David Wenham, in which a range of prominent Australians, icons of one field or more, revisit their pasts through moments drawn from the vast ABC Archives.

Crossword Solution No 38 J U V E N I O Y E E U C A L Y A O R S A L I N E L L E I M P L O R A W I I N V I T E A L S S C U L P T W S A E V E N T F D R D I N C L I N S A O H E R E T I R M T O N S P E C I T H R E T Y P E E E A S I D E A S N T H C H E Y D A Y X H E S P R A I N E B A E L L I P S X E R P L A C E B A R V N O N F A T D E I S H R I L L O N E I M P E A C E X H B R O A D E U C R U N I T E S N N V M A D W O M E I K T R A P E Z

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S S H A G L E F O C E M P T U O I L E R C E C H I D H N A F I E R T A L I G D A E L L S S S Y A N I N E D N R D A H O L M I S P E N E N R E E T R A H A M S O O K S E O M B E R A T D M E A Z E D T X A T I O B C A C A K S N E T S O R M W A M I C T H E F T E L I A R O N R E G

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F L A P I D D O U E T X A R M S E M E E R N G E A N C A Y E R A O P S L A N N E D E N F E O C T L O R A S M B I L E M E N A T B A X H E

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B R A D I O B N L A Y A C T S U A S T R K S R N A T I V I R S T U N E F L C F E S T Y L L I Y L I N D W M D H E M M I E E S E A R T H L S R P L A Z E E W C A L L I T S I P L A S T E N U N E A O N M N O B O L E E E L U D I F N N T W A D D W W O I C A D O N R R G R E S S E T M A R A U E S B N O B B L U N E S A D I H B D A N H O L T O E E A R S D

Guests include Ita Buttrose, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Garry McDonald, Wil Anderson, John Howard and Sarah Ferguson.

■ ABC 90 Celebrate!

Thursday, June 30 at 8pm The ABC turns 90 this year and is inviting all Australians to celebrate the milestone with a special live two-hour television event.

Hosts Zan Rowe, Tony Armstrong and Craig Reucassel will lead a night filled with festivities, entertainment, and fun. With cast reunions, special guests, and performances from some of Australia’s biggest acts, it is set to be an incredible night.

■ Looking Black.

Tuesday July 5 at 8.30pm High profile First Nations Australians including Deborah Mailman, Leah Purcell, Bjorn Stewart, Miriam Corowa and Nakkiah Lui, reflect and examine ABC’s history of Indigenous programming.

■ Magda’s Big Health Check.

Over three episodes, national treasure Magda Szubanski embarks on an immersive and personal journey to discover what health looks like in Australia today. She is determined to find the answers she needs about how we can improve our chances of a healthy life in the lucky country.

In her inimitable style what she discovers is astounding, meeting everyday Australians and experts who offer real hope for us all to take action.

■ The Messenger. Based on the best-selling book written by Marcus Zusak, eight-part series The Messenger follows the story of Ed Kennedy who becomes an accidental hero when he stops an armed robbery. The next day he receives four playing cards, each with their own set of tasks. Who is sending them and why has he been chosen to receive them?

■ The Newsreader Series 2. The critically acclaimed, multi awardwinning drama is back. It’s 1987, and newsreaders Helen Norville and Dale Jennings are back on screen delivering the biggest stories of the day. Off screen they're contending with rising public profiles, intensifying office politics, and a ruthless new CEO. ■ Limbo. Six-part comedy series about grief, ghosts and how hard it is to let go of those we love, especially when they’re taken too soon.

When Charlie's best friend dies at just 38, he is rudderless and alone… until the wise-cracking ghost of his dead friend begins ‘haunting’ him.

■ It’s a Jungle Out Here. A hybrid scripted-documentary series for ABC Kids, that weaves a funny live action narrative with quirky wildlife footage.

The series follows aspiring filmmakers, 14-year-olds Su and Pharrell behind the scenes of their fictional documentary series Australian Wild, as they try to find the best wildlife in Australia.

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Observations N G A T S S A Y S E S X U L A L E N E R A N G E E D L A S T E D A I D D S Y U D Y A N G R L E A R S E E S N D S L E D S S M O E S S A Y

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Top 5

THE TOP 5 COMMENTS YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD DURING THE QUEEN’S JUBILEE TELECAST. 5.“Look ... Andrew is trying to send a smoke signal from theTower”.

4.“Do you realise Rod Stewart’s jacket is worth more than some of our countries”.

3.“Tell the musos there’s a keg on after the show”.

2. “Boris ain’t happy ... the Queen told him to get a haircut”.

1.“I feel sorry for Her Maj – she doesn’t know who to ask for a reference”.

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Sport

Great afternoon at Yarra Valley

■ Picturesque Yarra Valley was the racing venue on Monday June 6 and although the weather was ordinary, a great program was held with patrons enjoying a great afternoon in the warm comfort of the Grandstand Dining area.

■ Heathcote horseman Jim O’Sullivan, a multiple Inter-Dominion winning trainer/driver was successful in taking the Yarra Glen Bakehouse Pace over 2150 metres with 8Y0 Live Or DieArt Bubble gelding Neander Guy who has been a great money earner for the stable.

It a real family affair, Neander Guy, raced by wife Terresa and driven by daughter Shannon, Neander Guy starting outside the front line better known as a speedster was taken back from outside the front line to settle the rear as Tasmanian visitor Border Cross led from gate three.

When the hot favourite Jemstone Glory (gate six) led up the outside division, Neander Guy followed him forward and after angling three wide on the final bend, the pair engaged in a head and head struggle all the way up the straight, with Neander Guy prevailing by a half neck returning a rate of 2-01.2. Border Cross held down third 9.2 metres back.

■ Moyreisk co-trainers Barry and Ashley Ainsworth landed the IGA Liquor 3Y0 Maiden Pace over 2150 metres with Danny BoucheaPalkia filly Boutika who was making her 10th race appearance.

Given a sweet trip by Ashley from the pole trailing the roughie Perfect Peak which flew away from gate five, Boutika travelled kindly before making full use of the sprint lane to gain the day by 5.2 metres over the pacemaker, with Da Prez battling on gamely for third albeit 36.1 metres away. The mile rate 2-05.4.

■ Kurunjang (Melton) training duo Maree and John Caldow snared the 1650 metre Ashmores Smash Repairs Vicbred Pace with Azterian, a 4Y0 gelded son of Sportswriter and Neishars Jet .

Beginning with a great turn of speed from outside the front line, Azterian was unable to cross polemarker Groom leaving him exposed.

With John able to angle to the back of the leader in the final circuit for a breather when Lotakevi couldn’t keep up, Azterian angled to the outside on turning and Azterian answered the call to return a strong half neck margin in 1-57.1 over Groom, with Myagi Boy (one/one) last lap third 15 metres back.

■ Torrumbarry part-owner/trainer Faye McEwan does a great job with her trotters and 4Y0 Skyvalley-Misty Elle gelding Watch And Act registered his 4th victory in 39 outings when leading for the majority of the 2150 metre journey of the Eastern Generator Hire Trotters Handicap.

Driven by underrated Kilmore reinsman Josh Duggan, Watch And Act began very fast from barrier four to lead and couldn’t be caught, reaching the wire by 3.9 metres in advance of Hes Themightyspin (barrier six) which trailed.

Meghan (barrier five) was third 1.9 metres away after following the pair. The mile rate 2-06.3.

Debut at Shepp.

■ Shepparton raced on Tuesday and Gillieston trainer Russ Thomson combined with Josh Aiken to land the Guardline Security Services Trotters Mobile over 2190 metres with 4Y0 Love You-Cloud Chaser mare Loves In The Air which was making her race debut.

Trailing the leader Starlight Storm (gate four) from the pole, Loves In The Air received a charmed passage before easing off the leaders back in the last lap to race clear approaching the home turn. Going strongly on straightening, Loves In The Air bred and raced by wife Pauleen recorded a 10.9 metre margin over Kyvalley Surfrider (gate seven) which ran home well from a mile back, with Berriesandcherries (four back the markers most of the race) third 1.5 metres away. The mile rate 2-02.3.

■ Tatura trainer Craig Turnbull landed the Central Tyre Service Maiden Pace over 2190 metres with 4Y0 Somebeachsomewhere-Ezee Duzit Lombo mare Florenceofkintail in a 2-03.1 rate.

Driven by daughter Abbey, Florenceofkintail starting from outside the front line ran home from three back in the moving line to defeat a

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with Len Baker game Roam which raced exposed by 1.5 metres.

Waitingnoruns which trailed the weakening leader Go George Go (gate 2) was third 4.7 metres away after appearing to be under pressure on the final bend.

■ Kaarimba trainer Darryl Hill made a welcome return to the winners list when 4Y0 Art Major-Pretty Interest gelding Upright scored in the 1690 metre Your Sold Real Estate Pace.

Raced by Darryl and wife Jeanette, Upright driven by Damian Wilson settled four back along the markers after starting from the extreme draw with Shawami Lass (gate 3) leading.

Using an inside run to be three back in the last lap before angling into the clear to follow Riverina Flash forward three wide approaching the final bend, Upright raced away in the straight to record a 8 metre margin in advance of Riverina Flash, with Lasting Bond 3 metres away third after being checked in the last lap when following the winner along the markers from the tail. The mile rate 1-58.1.

■ David Aiken enjoyed a profitable night after providing a stable double – Western TerrorMelisandre filly Shirleen taking the Saddleworld Shepparton 3Y0 Pace over 2190 metres and American Ideal-Brighty Valentine filly Patsy Valentine the 2190 metre Barastoc Pace. Shireen (Mark Pitt) running home along the sprint lane off the back of Mac Gibbs to gain the day from Alfresco (three markers) and a death-seating Always Locksley.

The margins 1.2 X 2.2 metres in two minutes even, while Patsy Valentine led all of the way from gate two, accounting for Mac Cheddar (one/two) and Ace Montana which raced exposed for the last half of the race. The mile rate 2-01.8.

■ Bolinda trainer Brent Lilley’s Love You-La Tonneralla 4Y0 gelding Maestro (Chris Alford – 10m) ran home late from mid-field to blouse Benji Hall and Kilarney Heidi in a thrilling finish to the Cottrells Electrical Trotters Handicap over 2190 metres. The margins a nose by a half head in 2-06.5) ■ Young Toolern Vale based reinsman Jordan Leedham can do nothing wrong at present and added another winner to his CV when guiding Bolinda trainer Vince Vallelong’s 5Y0 Art Major-Mes Cullen entire Major Mal to victory in the 2190 metre Barastoc Pace.

Given an easy time one/two, Major Mal powered home to defeat a death-seating Madam Reactor by 9 metres in 1-59.6. Roslyn Gaye was third 3.1 metres away off a one/one trip..

ing the Dr Sarah Gray-Newton Equine Trotters Mobile and 4Y0 Mach Three-Bella Joy gelding Goodtime Mach the Ararat Cancer Ward Day 21st August 2022 Pace, both races over 2195 metres.

Victree Hill driven by Mattie Craven was restrained from inside the second line to settle at the tail of the field asAllawart Bob led from gate five.

Going forward three wide in the last lap, Victree Hill joined the leaders Allawart Bob and Sierra Kea on straightening and ran home best to prevail in a thrilling finish by a half neck over Sierra Kea which wouldn’t give in, with Allawart Bob a head away third. The mile rate 2-02.

Goodtime Mach (Bailey McDonough) led throughout from the pole to register a 2.5 metre margin in advance of Puzzle Piece which raced uncovered for the last lap after moving three wide from the tail at the bell. Vinny Rock after trailing the winner was third along the sprint lane a nose away. The mile rate 2-02.2.

■ Passionate Western District harness devotee Terry Cahill was a winner when his 4Y0 Art Major-Lierre Noir gelding Classicmajor trained by great friend Terry Young inArarat scored in the Pacing For Pink Big Success Pace over 2195 metres in a mile rate of 2-02.5.

With Josh Duggan in the blke, Classicmajor was restrained from outside the front line as the start was effected, before going forward midrace to park outside the poleline leader Oscar Bravo.

Taking care of the pacemaker in the last lap to hold a handy margin on turning, Classicmajor greeted the judge by 9 metres in advance of Abbey Fields which trailed the leader after easing wide on turning. Bettorbewright (one/three) was third 3.3 metres away.

■ Bonny 4Y0 Shadow Play-Muckinbar Lady mare Muckinbar Diva landed the Alabar Platinum Mares Sprint Championship (heat 5) over 1790 metres following a brilliant drive by Kerryn Manning.

Starting from gate two on the second line, Muckinbar Diva was able to trail the heavily supported leader Delightful Nikky (gate two) after the polemarker Fullofit galloped away.

Using the sprint lane, Muckingbar Diva trained at Haven by Justin Lane for the Lane family dashed home along the sprint lane to blouse Delightful Nikky by a head in 1-59.3.

Bonnie Belle starting from the extreme draw went forward three wide to park in the open at the bell and battled on strongly for third 1.7 metres away.

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday – Melton, Thursday – Shepparton, Friday – Hamilton/Mildura, Saturday – Melton, Sunday – Cranbourne, Monday – Charlton, Tuesday – Kilmore.

Horses to follow

■ Tabcorp Park Melton will be closed for all of July for track redevelopment with the provincials racing in it’s place.

■ This will be my final column until the second week of July as I will be overseas on holiday.

Australian soil. A gelded son of Franco Ledger and Justasip driven by James Herbertson, Justalittlesip quickly away from inside the second line commenced a forward move three wide from five back in the final circuit, sustaining the run to record a most impressive 10.7 metre victory in advance of Pas Guarantee which led in the last lap after going forward from the extreme draw to race exposed. The Whole Package was third 3.5 metres away after following the winner home. The mile rate 1-58.2.

■ Toolern Vale trainer Adam Kelly was in the winners stall after Kiwi bred 4Y0 Bettors Delight-Asuka mare Lilibela was victorious in the $10,000 Beraldo Coffee Pace Final over 2180 metres.

Fourth in her heat a week earlier, Lalibela with Brad Chisholm in the sulky enjoyed a sweet one/one trip from gate five, running home strongly on turning to score from Lopez (one/ three – four wide home turn) and Galactic Gal from the tail. The margins 3.1 by a head in 158.6. The hot favourite Digyourheelsin was a disappointing fourth 7.2 metres away after leading.

■ Kurunjang co-trainers Maree and John Caldow’s lovely 4Y0 Bacardi Lindy-Titillate mare Tipsy Turvy John led throughout in the Buds & Branches Florist Trotters Mobile over 1690 metres.

Rated to perfection by John, Tipsy Turvy was never in any danger, greeting the judge 4.5 metres clear of Queen Invasion along the sprint ■ Kilmore raced on Thursday and Kilmore lane from three back the markers in a rate of 2reinsman Robbie Walters caused a major upset 01.2. Quake Proof showed a return to form by when successful aboard visiting Tasmanian coming from last to finish third 2.3 metres back. trainer Ben Yole’s much travelled 10Y0 Live Or Die-Gross Misconduct gelding Southern GNP ($51.00) in the 1690 metre Carlton & United ■ It’s not all that often that a horse handicapped Breweries Pace.

Pushing through from gate two on the second off a 30 metre backmark in a capacity field can line to settle three back in the moving line as win a 2200 metre trotting race, but Parwan partspeedy 12Y0 gelding Realy Under Fire crossed owner/trainer Phil Chircop’s delightfully honest another of the Yole runners Border Cross shortly 4Y0 Skyvalley-Poet Laureate gelding after the start, Southern GNP followed up So- Tennerson did exactly that when victorious in cial Writer three wide in the last lap and ever the Brandt Trotters Handicap at a very cold Ballarat on Friday. Driven by James Herbertson, wider on straightening.

Finishing best, Southern GNP at start num- Tennerson began swiftly as the tapes released ber 220 scored by 3 metres from White Star with Abundance (barrier two) pinging the tapes Village along the sprint lane from four back the to lead then easing to take a trail on Hurricane markers, with Border Cross also using the sprint Red (10m), with Highland Hill (10m) following lane for third 1.2 metres away. The mile rate 1- the pair. Tennerson settled a long way off the 59.9. It was Southern GNP’s first victory since leaders six back in the moving line. ApproachOctober last year. Ben Yole’s team are currently ing the home turn, Hurricane Ed was being tack■ Ararat was Wednesday’s venue and eleven stabled with Walters. led in earnest by Madeakillin which had vacated year old Safari-Jewel Of Cobargo gelding Johnny ■ Cardigan trainer Anton Golino’s smart Or- the one/one, with Icicle (one/three) making Redcoat proved that age is no bar when taking lando Vici-Muscles N Blues gelding Cravanche ground out wide being followed by Tennerson the Arcacia Caravan Park Pace over 1790 Dor first up since December was successful in which was moving into the race. When Hurrimetres. the Worlds Best Hoof Oil 3Y0 Trotters Mobile cane Ed kicked on turning he looked the winner, Trained at Hamilton by Jim Barker and driven over 2180 metres. with Madekillin battling away and Icicle out wide by granddaughter Jackie, Johnny Redcoach beWith Nathan Jack in the sulky, Cravanche joining in, while Tennerson still a long way off gan brilliantly from outside the front line and Dor was given the run of the race from gate four was angling to the centre of the track. Showing rated to perfection, held too many guns for Flam- trailing polemarker Arcee Phoenix before dash- a brilliant turn of speed, Tennerson sprouted ing Lucky one/two and Regal Reggae four back ing home along the sprint lane to register a half wings to prevail by a half head in a thrilling finthe markers. The margins 10 by 3.6 metres in a neck margin in 2-03.6. Mercenary ran home late ish over Abundance which gained an inside pasmile rate of 2-01.8. sage. Icicle was third a half neck back just nailfrom mid-field for third 9.8 metres away.

■ Beeac’s Courtney Slater took the training ■ The Jet Roofing Pace over 2180 metres saw ing Hurricane Ed and Madeakillin with Highhonors for the day after snaring a double – 5Y0 Harkness (Melton) trainer Joe Pace’s 3Y0 Kiwi land Hill sixth under a stranglehold looking for a Trixton-Sweet Pretense gelding Victree Hill tak- import Justalittlesip make it two from two on clear run. The mile rate 2-03.3.

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Change of luck for top trainer

■ It was great to see Queensland trainer, David Van Dyke, have a change of luck in Queensland winning the Oaks with his top three- year old filly, Gypsy Goddess.

It’s marvellous how you can be on top of the world one minute, then on the bottom the next.

Throughout his career David, has always had some good horses in his stables.

Going back to the outstanding, Yankee Rose, a Group One winner and a good third in a Cox Plate. One of the best to race when in full flight.

In recent times he had the good galloper, Alligator Blood, who took all before him with Vandyke, culminating in winning the Magic Millions three- year old classic.

After Alligator Blood’s win, stewards found drugs were found in his system, and the horse and connections lost the race.

It shattered David, he couldn’t believe it, but he lost the Magic Millions event, plus the prize money worth plenty.

This knocked him around badly, as he had a giant reputation, in the harbour state.

He lost his best, Alligator Blood, who was transferred to Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott in Sydney.

It took Alligator Blood to bounce back after that, and was a good thing beaten in the BRC Sprint over 1300 metres at Eagle Farm back on May 28.

He came from a mile back flashing down the outside to just get beaten, by Soxagon.

Then the Sun started to shine again for David, with his top filly, Gypsy Goddess, winning the Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm.

This took Gypsy Goddess to her sixth win from only nine starts, with two seconds and a third.

She is by the Victoria Derby winner, Tarzino, trained by top Victorian trainer, Mick Price.

Gypsy Goddess was handled superbly by former Western Australian champion rider, Willie Pike.

I feel down the track a bit, Gypsy Goddess, is showing plenty of staying potential and could run in a Caulfield or Melbourne Cup. The Cox Plate is not out of the question.

Best of luck to David and the team with the Gypsy.

I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, Larysa, but Craig is one of the best people I have ever met in my racing life. Well done to both of you, from all of us., and thank you.

Riding for disabled

■ Once again it is great to see Racing Victoria extending its support for the Riding for the Disabled Association.

This once again provides new opportunities for retired thoroughbred horses and provide RDAV centres with additional horses to use in the therapeutic equestrian activities.

As part of the agreement, Racing Victoria, will commit a further $50,000 over the next 12 months (on top of its $50,000 contribution last year).

This will allow the RDAV to deliver and expand its personally enriching riding programs and to accommodate additional horses at its 35 centres across Victoria.

In addition to the financial support, RV, will conduct a series of five training sessions to en● David Van Dyke with Alligator Blood. Racing Photos. courage and showcase the use of off-the-track ing broadcast centered around showcasing Vic- horses in RDAV activity.

This is on top of providing sponsorship and torian racing. I have known Bernard for many years and not only is he a slick operator, but one prizes at RDAV competitions and events.

Racing Victoria will continue its tailored reof the best in the business. training as part of its RESET Program for those Good luck in the new position, Bernard.

RSN have certainly backed a winner there. retired racehorses identified as suitable for RDAV-such as former galloper, Go for Glory, better known as Tessie, who was a valued member of the RDAV team before retiring recently.

■ Sincere thanks must go to leading jockey, This specialised retraining is supported by a Craig Williams, and his lovely wife, Larysa, for select group of RVAcknowledged Retrainers their dedication in helping his wife’s country who provide a different pathway for those repeople in Ukraine. tired racehorses not suitable for equestrian purCraig and Larysa have worked tirelessly to suits- helping drive demand for Victorian thorhelp the Ukranian people, and Craig through oughbreds where previously not considered. all his contacts in the racing world, have given The partnership between RV and RDAV is generously to help their cause. made possible by the Victorian racing industry’s On several occasions Craig has flown into equine welfare fund. the Ukaraine even after riding at the track.

- Ted Ryan

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■ News that former, Racing Victoria Chief Executive, Bernard Saundry, would take over as the new Chief Executive of industry radio station RSN is a big win for racing.

Saundry spent time in a similar role over the last five years with the New Zealand thoroughbred racing after his time at Racing Victoria.

He starts his new role at RSN on July 11.

Racing Victoria took a controlling stake in RSN, acquiring a 72.5 per cent ownership in the radio broadcaster from the three metropolitan clubs and Country Racing Victoria.

Harness racing and Greyhound Racing Victoria share the remaining stake.

Saundry also played a big part in the establishment of Racing Victoria’s broadcaster Racing.Com. RSN Chairman, John Stewart, said: “We

have recently embarked on a review of our operations and programming”.

He added that one of Bernard’s first priorities will be to complete that important work and implement delivering an informative and engag-

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‘Monstrously severe’ 10-year sentences ■ Ten-year sentences of transportation were given to nine local Aboriginal men in 1841 after they were found guilty of robbery at Muddy Creek (Yea).

The Port Phillip Patriot newspaper (Jan. 7, 1841) reported: “The sittings of the Court of Quarter Sessions commenced on Monday, and terminated yesterday.

“The only case of any general interest which came be fore the Court was the following : “Tarruk-munnin, Nandermiel, Loger-ma-koon, Piengingoon, Kowin-yowlett, Waverong, and four other Aborigines were put to the bar, before a remarkably full bench of magistrates, charged with robbing a station belinging to Mr. P. Snodgrass, on the Muddy Creek, of some flour, mutton, nnd other articles.

“The information contained three counts.

“The first charging the prisoner Tarrak-munnin as a principal in the attack on the station; the second charging the other prisoners as accessories ; the third charging all the prisoners generally. : Mr. Assistant Protector Thomas, and a young man named Davis were sworn to in terpret: Mr. De Villiers was also subsequently sworn as interpreter.

“The Crown Prosecutor, in addressing the jury, said he should make no lengthened statements as to the circumstances connected with the assault and robbery, or attempt in any degree to aggravate the case against the prisoner.

“They were ignorant of our laws, and to a great extent unprotected. He should therefore merely state to the jury what was the law in reference to stealing with violence, and proceed to call witnesses to substantiate the charge.

“Francis McCarrick stated that on the 17 th March last, a party of Aborigines came to his hut, many of them armed with guns and pistols.

“He identified six of the prisoners as being present on the occasion.

“They pushed him and a man named. Deighton into the hut. He succeeded, in getting outside.

“One of the prisoners held him and another attempted to get his gun away.

“A black named Winberry said he commanded the party. They pointed their guns at them.

“Deighton at last got out, and called upon Winberry to protect them.

“Winberry said he was no good, "he" (mean ing Deighton,) " too much yabber to mas ter. He asked for sheep, we told him we could not give them.

“He said the sheep eat the grnss belonging to his kangaroo, and white fellow took kangaroo, and what-for not give him sheep.

“He then said some thing in his own language to the blacks and one of them fired - into the air.

“Winberry then said all gone sulky, and I went to my sheep.

“They afterwards took some flour and mutton.

“On cross-examination by Mr. Barry for the prisoners, he said that when they came up he told them if they booed white man he would boo them.

“The same blacks had been at the station may times before, but they had always been peaceable.

“They had visited the station

districts. “These ruffians were placed in irons and deposited in the jail, including Jagga Jagga or Jacky Jacky and Billy Hamilton.

“The remain der were locked up during Sunday and the night in the newly erected store of Mr. Rattenbury, at the back of the new church, being placed under the custody of only two constables.

“The consequence was, as might have been anticipa ted, from having so slender a guard, that some thirty or forty of the men effected their escape during the night.

“They had been deprived of all their tomahawks and other implements, but nevertheless they contrived to undermine the foundation of the building, and excavated a hole sufficiently large to enable one man at a time to creep through.

“It seems that when every thing was ready for escape, they had sufficient sagacity to resort to a ruse for the purpose of withdraw ing the attention of the constables from the spot, which was on one side of the store, whence they meant to effect their release.

“A small number, some three or four old decrepid men, made a rush towards the entrance to the stores, which having no door was barricaded with boards nailed across. ● Pioneering Yea settler Peter Snodgrass was ‘robbed’ by 10 Aboriginal men, a Court was told in 1841. since, but without hostility. the town (no mention of which “Deighton, on being examined, town), for the purpose of holding a corroborated the evidence of Corroborra (sic) previous to a battle, M'Carrick, and pointed out it was resolved to attempt their Piengingoon as the black who took capture; the more especially as it had the flour out of the hut. been made known that two or three “On cross-examination he stated of the most desperate character, that he had shot one of the blacks' (Jagga Jagga, Winberry, and Billy dogs the previous day: it was among Hamilton) were among the tribes. his sheep.

“Accordingly the Military under “There were no black women the command of Captain Smith and there that day. There might have been Lieutenant Vignolles of the 28th one at the hut the day before.

Regiment, with the Border Police :”This closed the case for the headed by Major Letsom and Mr. Crown.

Russell, and a number of Constables “Mr. Barry addressed the jury in proceeded about midnight to the behalf of the prisoners in a forcible scene of the natives' festivities, situand eloquent peech, of which we re- ated between two and three miles gret we have it not in our power to from the town. give a correct report.

“Upon seeing themselves sur“The Chairman summed up the rounded, the blacks were thrown into evidence, pointing out to the jury that considerable consternation; and findthe prisoner Waverong (who is a Port ing that their weapons had been Phillip native, all the others belong- seized, would have surrendered quiing to the Goulburn tribe) was not etly, but for the opposition made by identified by either of the witnesses. "Winberry," who, being thus en“The jury after a few minutes con- trapped, made a desperate blow at sultation found all the prisoners Mr. Vignolles. guilty, with the exception of “He, however, missed his aim; but Waverong, who was immediately recovering was about to repeat the discharged. attempt before that gentleman could “The sentence of the Court was even draw his sword to defend himthat the prisoners should be trans- self; whereupon the sergeant disported for ten years. charged his musket, and this noto “On this sentence, which we think rious murderer and robber instantly under the peculiar circumstances of fell. the case monstrously severe, we “It appeared that the ball had shall make some remarks in a fu- passed through a main artery of the ture number,” said the Editor of the head.

Port Phillip Patriot.

“The remainder of the gang were No record can be found of the secured, con sisting of between two Patriot Editor raising the subject and three hundred (including women again. and children) and were led captive The Port Phillip Gazette news- into town and placed in a yard in the paper said that the offences had taken rear of the Military Hospital for idenplace on October 11, 1840, and that tification, by any of the settlers as the aboriginal men had been con- having been concerned in any outfined in the interim. after the “cel- rages. ebrated capture” by Major Letsom.

“Thirty three were picked out as In October, 1840, the Gazette had having been aggressors in numerous reported: “In consequence of repre- cases of cattle and sheep stealing, sentations having been made to the as well as being concerned in sevAuthorities of the approach of seve eral of the murders which from time ral tribes of Natives to the vicinity of to time have occurred in the interior

“One of the constables conceiving that the blacks were intending to force their way through, and it being about two o'clock in the morning, at a time when there was no possibility of obtaining any assistance, fired his musket at the ringleader whom he killed, and this decisive measure had the effect of producing instant quiet “It was, however, very soon afterwards discovered that the whole of the men with the exception of those employed in this manoeuvre, had escaped.

“Those that remained were released at Twelve o'clock on Monday morning, and being rationed with small supplies were allowed to return to their Mia-Mia's in the bush.

“The whole of the spears and waddies found with the blacks were destroyed; and a number of muskets were taken from them.

“At the same time by direction of the government, the greater portion of their dogs were put to death.

“The thirty-three natives confined in the jail will be detained for trial, or subject to such orders as may issue from head quarters.

“In the mean time they are allowed to be inspected by those settlers who may have suffered from their depredations, for the purposes of identification,” the Gazette noted.

Lecture on Australian Aborigines ■ A lecture on the subject of Australian Aborigines was delivered

by Mr Stone Parker to the John Knox Young Men’s Association in 1854.

His beliefs, perhaps challenging for the times, were reported in The Banner: “The history of civilization in Australia is very recent. Not a century has passed since the civilizing, the Anglo-Saxon race looked upon its shores, and took possession of its soil;—not a fourth of that century has elapsed since the first house was raised in Victoria.

“It was a strange land English men then first looked upon—a land of sunny skies and fertile soil; animals un known in older worlds made unwieldy gambols in her virgin prairies; birds of strange note and gaudy plumage sported in the air; trees, whose hard unflexile leaves were ignorant of winter, and had kept the trunks below clad in the same garb for centuries, grew on the plains; and quaint flowers of rare beauty welcomed the gazing eye.

“But of the chang ing, ennobling hand of man there was no trace.

No house looked through its windows on the fair skies or the tall green trees.

“No towns reared their heads, where men did business one with another, selling, buying, giving money, taking money.

“The ground lay untilled and virgin, ignorant of spade or plough or harrow, even as it had been in Noah’s days.

“But though civilization wet awanting, man capable of civilization was not awanting. Australia was not unpeopled long centuries before Captain Cook took possession in the name of George the Third, or the first convict ship landed its rather ques tionable population at Sydney Cove. And among the many other strange creature

which civilised man found awaiting him in New Holland, —among the green parrots and black swans, the kangaroos, the emus, the opossums, that struck the stranger on his arrival, he found one creature whom, lower doubtless than himself in all attainments, he was forced to recognise as a fellow-man and a brother—one who, as he began to understand by and bye, could speak a language as fit for interpreting all the wants of the savage as his own more refined English was able to express his own,—one who had laws, though they might be of the rudest, which he was bound to obey, rules binding on that degraded heathen as the moral law was binding on the Christian.

“Or if his English visitor had learned to define man, as he has been defined, as a tool-making and tool using animal, lo ! this poor dark brother had nvented for himself, and was able to use, instruments which no then extant civilization, could have given him, and could assert his right to be regarded as a man even in this light.

“Yea ! However low in the scale of humanity—however ignorant, darkened, degraded he might be, this poor Australian was no brute ; he also was a man and a brother— a weaker, less cultivated, deeplier sunken brother.

“We are afraid that “white fellow” be haved rather cruelly at first to his darker compatriot. We fear that some of our earlier settlers were slow to believe, or to act on the belief, that those degraded abori gines were men after all, demanding from them the exercise of the Christian law, to “do unto others as we would‘they should do unto us.” Wo doubt whether the poor Australian fared much better sometimes at the hands of his more civilised fellow-man, than the kangaroo or the wild turkey,” The Banner reported.

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Sport Results Country Leagues

■ Goulburn Valley Football League.

Seniors. Tatura 14.7 (91) d Shepparton United 6.12 (48). Benalla 13.12 (90) d Shepparton Swans 10.11 (71). Euroa 12.11 (83) d Mansfield 2.7 (19). Echuca 14.6 (90) s Mooroopna 8.6 (54). Kyabram 5.15 (45) d Shepparton 5.4 (34). Seymour 13.11 (89) d Rochester 9.4 (58).

Reserves. Tatura 8.5 (53) d Shepparton United 5.5 (35). Shepparton Swans 17.10 (112) d Benalla Saints 6.4 (40).

Euroa 9.4 (58) d Mansfield 5.8 (38). Echuca 9.15 (69) d Mooroopna 2.7 (19). Kyabram 9.18 (72) d Shepparton 5.8 (38). Seymour 12.12 (84) d Rochester 5.8 (38).

Under 18. Shepparton United 24.16 (160) d Tatura 1.3 (9). Shepparton Swans 12.11 (83) d Benalla 7.9 (51). Mansfield 11.6 (72) d Euroa 9.13 (67). Echuca 18.15 (123) d Mooroopna 3.3 (21). Shepparton 10.11 (71) d Kyabram 9.7 (61). Seymour 16.10 (106) d Rochester 3.0 (18).

■ Kyabram District Football League.

Saturday, June 18. Undera v Dookie united.

Rushworth v Violet Town. Girgarre v Nagambie. Lancaster v Stanhope.

Tallygaroopna v Murchison-Toolamba.

Longwood v Merrigum. Shepparton East v Avenel.

■ Riddell District Football League. Saturday, June 18. Diggers rest v Melton Centrals. Woodend-Hesket v Riddell. Wallan v Romsey. Macedon v Lancefield. Western Rams: Bye.

AFL Fixtures

■ Thursday, June 16. Richmond v Carlton at MCG (7.20pm). Friday, June 17. St Kilda v Essendon at Marvel Stadium (7.50pm). Saturday, June 18. Port Adelaide v Sydney Swans at Adelaide Oval (1.45pm). West Coast Eagles v Geelong Cats at Optus Stadium (4.35pm). GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs at Giants Stadium (7.25pm). Sunday, June 19. Gold Coast Suns v Adelaide Crows at Metricon Stadium (3.20pm). Byes: Brisbane Lions, Collingwood, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne

News The Hut Gallery

■ The July exhibition of the Ferntree Gully Arts Society includes ‘Print and Drawing’, a fine collection from Society members. July 1-29, 11am-4pm. The official opening will be held at 2pm, Sunday July 8. All welcome, free entry.

Life Drawing, Still Life, Print , Portraiture, Artist workshops and a Children’s afternoon art class. Private art courses are available as well. Members and non members are welcome.

The Ferntree Gully Arts Society at The Hull Gallery 157 Underwood Rd, Ferntree Gully. the_hutgallery.wordpress.com/

Ross D. Wyllie talk

■ Celebrity Ross D. Wyllie will be guest speaker at the Australian Marquee Entertainment Luncehon Club at South Melbourne on Tuesday, June 21.

Last month’s speaker was Glenn Shorrock. Convenor of the lunches is Jeff Joseph.

RSPCA prosecutes

■ RSPCA Victoria successfully prosecuted a ase of severe animal neglect in Geelong Magistrates’ Court resulting in a conviction, fines and a disqualification order.

Janelle Blackley who pleaded guilty to all charges, was convicted, penalised more than $1300 in fines and costs and also given a disqualification order which prohibits her from owning any dog for a period of ten years.

The case, heard before Magistrate John Bentley, involved two Jack Russell Terrier mixed breed dogs named Precious and Kimba.

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Scoreboard

Local football fixtures

■ Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League. Division 1. Seniors. Saturday, June 11. Sorrento 14.9 (93) d Rosebud 5.9 (39).

Sunday, June 12. Dromana v Red Hill, scores not to hand. Saturday, June 18. Bonbeach v Edithvale-Aspendale. Frankston Bombers v Mt Eliza. Frankston YCW v Pines. Reserves.

Sorrento 10.7 (67) d Rosebud 5.4 (34).

Division 2. Saturday, June 18. Pearcedale v Chelsea. Crib Point v Mornington. Langwarrin v Hastings. Somerville v Karingal. Tyabb v Rye. Devon Meadows v Seaford.

■ Outer Eastern Football Nettball League. Premier Division. Saturday, June 18. Officer v Natte Warren. Mt Evelyn v Woori Yallock. Olinda Ferny Creek v Wandin.

Pakenham v Monbulk. Upwey-Tecoma: Bye. Division 1. Saturday, June 18. Yarra Glen v Seville. Gembrook-Cockatoo v Emerald.

Belgrave v Healesville. Berwick Springs: Bye. Division 2. Seniors. Saturday, June 11.

Yarra Junction 8.8 (56) d Alexandra 7.10 (52).

Saturday, June 18. Kinglake v WarburtonMillgrove. Powelltown v Broadford-Yea. Reserves. Alexandra 12.5 (77) d Yarra Junction 7.4 (46).

Under 19 Boys. Saturday, June 18. Mt Evelyn v Healesville. Officer v Narre Warren.

Pakenham v Monbulk. Emerald v UpweyTecoma.Olinda-Ferny Creek: Bye. Under 18 Boys. Saturday, June 18.

Kinglake v Warburton. Seville v Alexandra.

Women. Saturday, June 18. Upwey-Tecoma v Yarra Junction. Olinda-Ferny Creek v Healesville. Pakenham v Thornton-Eildon. Belgrave v Monbulk. Seville: Bye. ■ Southern Football League. Division 1.

Saturday, June 18. Mordialloc v East Malvern.

Cranbourne Eagles v Springvale Districts. St Kilda City v Port Melbourne Colts. Bentleigh v St Paul’s McKinnon. Dingley v Cheltenham.

Division 2. Saturday, June 18. Hampton Park v Doveton Doves. Heatherton v Highett.

Keysborough v Caulfield Bears. East Brighton v Skye. Chelsea Heights: Bye. Division 3. Saturday, June 18. Enedavour Hills v Black Rock. Ashwood v Narre South Saints. South Yarra v Carrum Patterson Lakes.

Clayton v Murrumbeena.

Division 4. Saturday, June 18. Lyndale v Moorabbin Kangaroos. Hallam v Cerberus.

Lyndhurst v Doveton Eagles. Frankston Dolphins v Dandenong. Hampton v South Mornington.

■ Eastern Football League. Premier Division . Saturday, June 18. South Croydon v Noble Park. Berwick v Rowville. Norwood v North Ringwood. Doncaster v Park Orchards.

Vermont v Blackburn. Doncaster East v Balwyn.

Division 1. Saturday, June 18. Bayswater v Upper Ferntree Gully. East Ringwood v Montrose. Mooroolbark v Mitcham. Lilydale v Croydon. Wantirna South v Beaconsfield.

Division 2. Saturday, June 18. Heathmont v South Belgrave. Ringwood v The Basin. Knox v East Burwood. Templestowe v Oakeligh District. Boronia v Melgrave.

Division 3. Saturday, June 18. Glen Waverley v Scoresby. Donvale v Whitehorse Pioneers. Fairpark v Ferntree Gully. Waverley Blues v Warrandyte.

Division 4. Saturday, June 18. Forest Hill v Surrey Park. Kilsyth v Nunawading. Silvan v Chrinside Park. Croydon North MLOC: Bye. ■ Victorian Amateur Football Association. Premier Men’s. Saturday, June 18. Old Trinity v St Bernards. Old Melburnians v St Kevins OB. Collegians v Caulfield Grammarians. University Blues v Old Brighton. Old Xavierians v Old Scotch.

Premier B Men’s. Saturday, June 18.

StBede’s/Mentone Tigers v University Blacks.

Old carey v De La Salle. Old Haileybury v Beaumaris. Williamstown CYMS v AJAX. Fitzroy: Bye. Premier C Men’s. Saturday, June 18.

Hampton Rovers v Parkdale Vultures. Mazenod v Old Mentonians. UHS-VU v Old Geelong.

Preston Bullants v Ormond. Marcellin v Old Ivanhoe. Monash Blues: Bye. Divsion 1 Men’s. Saturday, June 18. St Mary’s Salesian v Kew. Old Camberwell Grammarians v PEGS. Peninsula OB v Oakleigh.

Thierry Penola v Prahran Assumption. Glen

General Bye for Queen’s Birthday long weekend Eira v Whitefriars.

Division 2 Men’s. Saturday, June 18.

Brunswick v Ivanhoe. Old Paradians v Manningham Cobras. Power House v Aquinas.

Bulleen Templestowe v West Brunswick.

MHSOB v Yarra Old Grammarians.

Division 3 Men’s. Saturday, June 18.

Canterbury v Emmaus St Leo’s. Richmond Central v North Brunswick. South Melbourne Districts v Elsternwick. Hawthorn v Parkside.

Wetsbourne Grammarians: Bye. Division 4 Men’s. Saturday, June 18.

Albert Park v Masala. Swinburne University v St johns. La Trobe University v Eley Park. Box Hill North: Bye. Premier Women’s. Saturday, June 18.

Marcellin v Kew. Caulfield Grammarians v Melbourne University Women’s. West Brunswick v St Mary’s Salesian. St Kevins v Old Xavierians.

Premier B Women’s. Saturday, June 18.

Old Geelong v Aquinas. Old Brighton v Fitzroy.

Yarra old Grammarians v Collegians. Monash Blues v Old Scotch.

Premier C Women’s. Saturday, June 18.

North Brunswick v Hawthorn. Parkdale Vultures v St Bedes/Mentone Tigers. Ivanhoe v Mazenod.

Richmond Central v Brunswick.

Division 1 Women’s. Saturday, June 18.

Beaumaris v Old Melburnians. Old Mentonians v Williamstown CYMS. Old Camberwell v Thierry Penola. Old Haileybury v Old Trinity.

Division 2 Women’s. Saturday, June 18.

Power House v Hampton Rovers. Oakleigh v AJAX. Whitefriars v Glen Eira. La Trobe University v Albert Park.

Division 3 Women’s. Saturday, June 18.

Emmaus St Leos v Canterbury. UHS-VU v Melbourne Cricket Club FC. South Melbourne Districts v Bulleen Templestowe. Parkside v Elsternwick. Preston Bullants v De La Salle.

Thirds Women’s. Saturday, June 18.

Melbourne University v St Kevins.

■ Northern Football League. Division 1.

Saturday, June 11. Macleod 9.13 (67) d North Heidelberg 9.8 (62). Saturday, June 18.

Northcote Park v Montmorency. Greensborough v Hurstbridge. Heidelberg v Whittlesea.

Bundoora v West Preston-Lakeside. Reserves.

North Heidelberg 13.11 (89) d Macleod 9.6 (60). Under 19. Saturday, June 18. Eltham 1 v Whittlesea. Greensborough v North Heidelberg. Heidelberg v Montmorency. Bundoora v West Preston-Lakeside 1. Diamond Creek: Bye. Division 2. Saturday, June 18. Banyule v Panton Hill. Diamond Creek v Thomastown.

Epping v Fitzroy Satrs. Lower Plenty v Eltham.

St Mary’s v Watsonia.

Division 3. Reservoir v Laurimar. Old Eltham Collegians v Heidelberg West. Kilmore v South Morang. Mernda v Lalor.

■ Western Region Football League. Division 1. Saturday, June 18. Deer Park v Caroline Springs. Hoppers Crossing v Sunshine.

Spotswood v Yarraville Seddon Eagles. St Albans v Altona. Werribee Districts v Point Cook.

Division 2. Saturday, June 18. Albion v Point Cook Centrals. Glen Orden v Wyndhamvale. Newport v Parkside. North Footscray v West Footscray.

Division 3. Braybrook v Albanvale. North Sunshine v Tarneit. Sunshine Heights v Laverton.

Suns: Bye. ■ Essendon District Football League.

Premier Division. Saturday, June 18.

Greenvale v Keilor. Strathmore v Avondale Heights. Maribyrnong Park v Aberfeldie.

Essendon Doutta Stars v East Keilor. Pascoe Vale v Glenroy.

Division 1. Saturday, June 18. Craigieburn v West Coiburg. Sunbury Kangaroos v Tullamarine. Hillside v Roxburgh Park. Rupertswood v Airport West. Westmeadows v Moonee Valley.

Division 2. Saturday, June 18. Burnside Heights v Hadfield. Jacana v Oak Park. Keilor Park v Coburg Districts. Taylors Lakes v Northern Saints.

Your Stars with Kerry Kulkens Aries: March 21- April 20.

Colour mauve Lucky day Friday Racing numbers 5.4.6.2.

Lotto numbers 13.15.26.36.34.40.

Do not let other people complicate your life and give you extra hassles. Now is not a good time to advise without being asked. Moving or travelling will be very much on the agenda.

Taurus: April 21- May 20.

Colour white Lucky day. Thursday Racing numbers 3.5.2.1.

Lotto numbers 13.15.24.40.22.10.

Try to sort out your career matters without too many.

Problems or your ideas might not be so welcome after all. Someone could be instrumental in increasing your income.

Gemini. May 21- June 21.

Colour lilac Lucky day Monday Racing numbers 6.5.2.1.

Lotto numbers 1.5.13.23.32.20.

Give a sympathetic ear to someone but do not tell them what to do. Sometimes it is the wisest thing to do. If planning changes in your career matters, best to keep quiet about it until well on the way.

Cancer. June 22- July 22.

Colour green Lucky day. Monday Racing numbers 6.6.2.1.

Lotto numbers 1.6.23.32.20.1.

If you need advice, go to the professionals, well-meaning people do not always know what they are talking about. —an excellent chance of a business venture, with an excellent opportunity to succeed.

Leo. July 23- august 22.

Colour white Lucky day Tuesday Racing numbers 5.6.2.3.

Lotto numbers 3.5.45.40.11.1 Outstanding period for romance and love affairs, but keep them separate from working life, or there could be complications. Someone would like to hear from you shortly.

Virgo. August 23- September 23.

Colour yellow Lucky day Wednesday Racing numbers 1.4.5.2.

Lotto numbers 1.5.13.24.40.22.

Someone from your past could bring some luck to you and make a few changes to your future. Problems you have been worrying about should be solved very quickly.

Libra. September 24- October 23.

Colour orange Lucky day Thursday Racing numbers 4.5.9.8.

Lotto numbers .8.9.15.23.32.10.

Some significant changes should be taken up, at the first, opportunity, to make a good profit—also, an excellent time to sort out your love life and friendship matters now.

Scorpio. October 24- November 22.

Colour beige Lucky day Friday Racing 5.2.4.1.

Lotto numbers 1.6.23.35.40.8.

Some slight problems in your travel plans should work out to your advantage and make you happier than you have ever been for some time. Romance is in the air, and good prospects for singles.

Sagittarius. November 23- December 20 Lucky colour pink Lucky day. Thursday Racing numbers 5.7.9.6.

Lotto numbers 5.4.19.27.38.36.

Relationship matters should be much better during this period, and many singles could be planning marriages and engagements. Something you did in the past should start to pay dividends.’

Capricorn. December 21- January 19.

Colour blue Lucky day Monday Racing 5.6.4.8.

Lotto numbers 1.6.17.45.40.22.

Good news and some excellent luck will boost your chances in financial matters a lot. People are looking for your company, and romantic indications are powerful also.’

Aquarius. January 20- February 19.

Lucky colour green Lucky day Monday Racing numbers 4.5.9.6.

Lotto numbers 13.15.24.40.11.8.

Not a reasonable period for confidence; keep your secrets to yourself just now. Also, a time for being careful on the roads and near machinery. Some luck with a person born in June.

Pisces. February 20- march 20.

Colour blue Lucky day. Sunday Racing 5.7.9.8.

Lotto numbers 1.9.17.45.40.22.

If you are sure that things at home are o.k., you can indulge a little outside, but make sure it does not expand your waistline. Financial matters should be moving towards a reasonable conclusion.

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