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New editor for News Of The Area newspaper group By Andrea FERRARI

EVE Nesmith has been named Editor of News Of The Area, the family-owned independent local newspaper group. The News Of The Area (NOTA) media group publishes eight local newspapers across the Hunter and Mid North Coast regions: Port Stephens, Myall Coast, Dungog, Gloucester, Camden Haven, Port Macquarie, Nambucca Valley and Coffs Coast. Ms Nesmith, a former Fairfax journalist/trainer/editor, former NSW and Federal political staffer and now Urunga resident said she felt a burst of butterflies when she saw the advertisement saying NOTA was looking for a new editor. NOTA owner Michael Wright said Ms Nesmith’s experience and understanding of the communities served by the newspaper group made her the ideal choice for the role. “When this position became

available, it was so important to have the right person behind the desk and in front of the community as their NOTA editor,” Mr Wright said. “Eve is so experienced, and she also has so much localised knowledge in each community. “Even in the first month since starting, it's clear Eve has quickly settled into what she knows and loves.” Ms Nesmith is “delighted to be back in print journalism”. She is passionate about regional news and believes that, for these communities, media should be both a window to the world and the voice of the local people. q

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Stratford renewable energy hub plan approved by NSW Govt but Yancoal yet to commit

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By John WATTS AS previously reported in News Of The Area, the Stratford Coal Mine has come to the end of its useful life and owners Yancoal lodged an application with the NSW

Department of Planning seeking to convert the area into a renewable energy hub, requiring the construction of 660,000 solar panels and a dam in the adjacent hills. The idea is that water will be pumped from existing voids to the upper dam using solar-generated CONTINUED Page 4

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Gloucester community invited to explore renewable energy conversations By John WATTS RELIGION, politics and football are well known as catalysts for fiery, often ill-informed arguments, and in recent years so has the mention of renewable energy. Local group Gloucester Transitions feels that it is important that any debate around the transition to renewable energy be based on the facts, and is therefore promoting a free community workshop designed to help people navigate the growing volume of information, and misinformation, surrounding renewable energy. The "Gloucester's Energy Future: Fighting Misinformation, Building People Power" workshop will be held on Sunday, 26 July, from 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm at Barrington Community Hall.

The event is being presented by Yes2Renewables in partnership with Gloucester Transitions. The workshop aims to provide practical tools to help community members identify misleading information, have constructive conversations and better understand the opportunities and challenges associated with the energy transition. “Participants will explore strategies for recognising and responding to misinformation, hear examples of communities successfully supporting renewable energy initiatives, and learn how local people can contribute to positive communityled campaigns,” said Coco Venaglia, from Yes2Renewables. Gloucester Transitions Vice Chair, Dominique Jacobs, encourages locals to come along

to this event. “The afternoon will provide an opportunity to connect with others who share an interest in shaping our region's future,” said Ms Jacobs. The workshop draws on the recently launched Yes2Renewables Toolkit, developed from more than a decade of community organising and campaigning. According to Ms Venaglia the resource is designed to help grassroots groups build confidence, strengthen community engagement and advocate for a renewable energy transition that also delivers benefits for local communities. Ms Venaglia, who has worked alongside regional communities for more than a decade, and recently co-authored the toolkit, will lead the session alongside

Anna Mackiewicz, also from Yes2Renewables. The workshop, which is particularly timely with the recent approval of the Stratford Renewable Energy Hub, is open to anyone interested in learning more about renewable energy, regardless of their level of knowledge or previous involvement. Organisers say the focus is on encouraging respectful discussion, improving access to reliable information and supporting informed community participation. The event is free to attend, although registrations are encouraged for planning purposes. For more information or to register, contact Anna Mackiewicz at anna.mackiewicz@foe.org.au

A lifetime on canvas: John Andrews retrospective opens in Gloucester By John WATTS ARTIST John Andrews has firm rural ties to Gloucester, with his family having a farming background going back seven generations. His paintings, created over nearly 60 years, reflect that influence. The John Andrews Retrospective exhibition opened at MidTown Gallery in Church Street, Gloucester on Saturday 11 July, with more than 50 viewers on the first day. John and partner Anne were joined at the opening by members of their family from Switzerland, Lane Cove and Gloucester to review his many years of paintings. “I love the Australian landscape and try to express the beauty of its unique flora on canvas as eloquently as I can in the medium of acrylic paint,” said John. “Sometimes I branch out into portraiture, nudes and events, but

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everything is painted from the heart with my own unique view and generally representative of pathways we all tread. “My family has lived on farms for seven generations, starting on the Bulga and Mt George, then Uralla and Walcha on the tablelands of NSW, and almost back to my roots in Gloucester.” John started his career after winning the Camden Haven Bicentenary art Award in 1970, as well as numerous shows in the towns near various rural properties. He also painted a series of studies from trips to Europe, and has made sales in Switzerland, Norway, Ireland and Australia. “John simply loves to paint and expresses his particular love of landscape and the birds and animals that inhabit rural areas, but has also branched out into portraits, figurative paintings and buildings (such as Sagrada Familia in Barcelona),” said Anne Andrews

Artist John Andrews with his family at the exhibition opening. Photo: Supplied.

“John gives of his time in art lessons at home and at the Waukivory Hall, nurturing many adults who did not realise or believe that they had hidden talents.” There are 40 works on display at the MidTown gallery, ranging from John’s earliest renditions

of traditional landscapes in oils on hard board, through many variations and themes from previous exhibitions in Uralla, Armidale, Newcastle, Walcha and Gloucester. The exhibition is open Wednesdays to Sundays from 10 am to 2 pm.

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Celebrating Fiji from Gloucester

Sandy Tebbet, Leonie Carson and Sue Salter.

By Marilyn SANDERSON GLOUCESTER CWA and Gloucester Evening Branch of the CWA combined their efforts to celebrate Fiji when they held their International Day on Saturday 18 July. Fiji is the New South Wales Country Women’s Association’s country of study for 2026. Nineteen members attended including special guests Chrys Boufler, Eunice Roberts and Katherine Jeanes, all office bearers who represented Mid North Coast CWA Group.

International Officers for 2026, Shayne Goode from Gloucester Branch and Jo Cadden from the Evening Branch, gave a fact-filled, interesting and visually appealing presentation punctuated with the opportunity to taste Fijiinspired food. The evening branch members excelled themselves, serving both fish and coconut chicken curries, chicken kebabs, roasted pineapple and sweet potato with coconut garnished salad. The Gloucester Branch

Doll in traditional Fijian dress, made by Shayne Goode.

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served coconut and pineapple tart, traditional panipopo coconut cream lolo buns, a Fijian custard slice, honey cake and cassava slice. Shayne Goode, who is an inveterate world traveler, told NOTA, “Fijians are such warm, welcoming people. “While this is important because of tourism, they are laid-back friendly people who work on Fijian time,” she said. “Hospitality is central to Fijian culture. “Offering refreshments to guests is customary and refusing them is considered impolite. “For instance, refusing kava outright may be seen as disrespectful. “Eco tourism gives visitors the opportunity to experience Fiji’s natural beauty, like the white sandy beaches and the stunning rainforest hikes, while also supporting sustainable practices and locals.” But, Shayne explained, Fiji faces several social and environmental challenges. “Poverty, drugs, gender inequality and violence, and poor water infrastructure in rural areas, are ongoing challenges, as are roads, bridges and other infrastructure, which are often impacted by tropical weather systems,” she said. “Health is another

International Officers Jo Cadden and Shayne Goode.

significant challenge. “Diabetes, heart disease and other non-communicable diseases account for 80 per cent of deaths. “Mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever and Zika virus, and waterborne diseases like typhoid, also put a strain on a public health system struggling with chronic staff shortages and limited resources. “Cases of HIV are also escalating. “Fijis is also highly vulnerable to climate change. “Intensified tropical cyclones, sea-level rise, coastal erosion and saltwater

intrusion jeopardize food security, infrastructure and water supplies.” On 6 July, 2026 Fijian Prime Minister Rabuka and Australian Prime Minister Albanese signed the “Vuvale Union” and the “Ocean of Peace Alliance”. According to the Fijian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, the aim was “to further strengthen cooperation across key priority areas, including economic growth, trade and investment, defence and security, climate action, labour mobility, development cooperation, and people-to-

people connections”. Reflecting on the International Day, Kelly Boyer told NOTA, “I found it very informative. I didn’t really know much about Fiji. I didn’t realise there were so many islands. “I thought Shayne did a wonderful job with the table decorations and the presentation.” Margery Phair observed: “Jo’s AV presentation was great. “And Shayne did the most wonderful job, above and beyond expectations. She deserves a gold medal.”.

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Stratford Energy Hub approved, but community questions remain

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electricity, and when electricity is needed for the grid, water will be released from the top dam to flow down the tunnel to the lower dam past an electricity-generating turbine. The NSW Planning Minister has now announced that the project has been approved by the Government. “This is the first pumped hydro project to secure final planning approval in NSW in six years,” said Planning Minister Paul Scully. “It’s a sign of our commitment to a clean energy future and the beginnings of an evolution of jobs and energy generation in the Hunter to power homes and businesses.” Despite the approval, Yancoal has yet to make a decision about whether to proceed with the project. “Yancoal will now progress with assessing the commercial viability of the Stratford Renewable Energy Hub and is also considering preferred ownership, funding and operating models for the project, which would be subject to Yancoal Board approval,” said a spokesperson for Yancoal. Several Gloucester locals made submissions to the Department of Planning identifying issues that should be dealt with before the project proceeds. One person who made a

submission was Megan Benson. “While it is vital that there be a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewables, there are several unresolved issues with this project, such as the clearing of over 100 hectares of bushland, the amount of traffic which will be generated, the social impacts, and accommodation for all the workers during construction,” said Ms Benson. “Yancoal has done a really poor job of communicating with the affected communities up and down the Bucketts Way. “While there are many positives, there are also issues that need to be

addressed.” MidCoast Mayor Claire Pontin welcomed the fact that the approval includes $18.2 million over the life of the project for community and infrastructure projects through an agreement with the Council. “It’s fabulous that it provides environmental benefits, and the Voluntary Planning Agreement, when signed, will see money coming back into Council over the life of the project,” said Mayor Pontin. “We will be talking to the community around Stratford and Gloucester on some projects that will benefit them locally.”

Concept image for the Stratford Renewable Energy Hub. Photo: Supplied

THE Space in Nature, the latest exhibition at Gloucester Gallery, brings together Jenny Catt’s paintings and Greg Salter’s sculptures. The artists’ love of nature is the common thread that weaves the different media together. “We are both inspired by nature. It’s fascinating to see how similar ideas can be expressed through different mediums,” Jenny said. “The range of materials makes the exhibition more fun and engaging for visitors.” The title of the exhibition was inspired by the notion that it is not only the obvious aspects of nature that are interesting, but also the gaps between trees and grass, and between water and earth. “The space between everything is where life happens,” said Greg. Greg discovered his passion for sculpture while studying for his Diploma of Fine Arts at Newcastle TAFE from 1991 to 1993, and he has been creating ever since. Greg’s art has always centred on animals, a source of inspiration since childhood. “I enjoy drawing and painting,” Gregsaid, “but it doesn’t feel as easy as sculpture for me. When I am doing a sculpture, the day

can just disappear, and the work evolves in front of me.” Greg often references animal images, but he is primarily guided by the unique shapes of the scrap metal he uses to create his sculptures. Jenny has been creating art for as long as she can remember; drawing has always been a part of her life. “It’s a necessity for me; it’s my way of feeling connected to my surroundings,” Jenny noted. “I live in Old Bar and feel very lucky to be able to easily escape into nature; it’s an always surprising and inspiring place to live.” Both artists hope their exhibition brings joy to viewers and inspires them to see nature from a fresh perspective. Jenny has exhibited her artwork in solo and group shows for over 20 years, but like Greg, this is her first time showing at Gloucester Gallery. Both artists described the Gloucester Gallery as a welcoming space in an ideal location. Jenny will be at the gallery on Saturdays from 11am to 2pm during the exhibition and welcomes visitors for a chat. The Space in Nature runs at Gloucester Gallery until 9 August 2026.

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Winter fire warning after two fatal house fires WINTER has claimed two more lives in separate house fires, prompting Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) to issue an urgent reminder for residents to check smoke alarms and take extra care with heating appliances. Two people, both believed to have been in their 70s, died in separate residential fires within five days of each other. The deaths have brought the number of people killed in NSW structure fires to six this winter and 19 since the beginning of 2026. Minister for Emergency Services Jihad Dib said the recent tragedies highlighted the increased risks during the colder months. “These two deaths are a stark and tragic reminder about home fire dangers in winter,” Mr Dib said. “We know that when temperatures drop, the risk of house fires increases as people use more electrical devices and heating appliances, raising the number of potential fire hazards. “Take today as an opportunity to make sure you have working smoke alarms

or to book in a free home fire safety visit with your local FRNSW crew.” Firefighters have attended 480 residential fires across NSW this winter, with 2,025 recorded so far this year. FRNSW is encouraging residents to take advantage of its free home fire safety visit program, where firefighters inspect or install smoke alarms and provide practical fire safety advice. FRNSW Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell said simple precautions could save lives. “I encourage residents to utilise our free home fire safety visit program which will have firefighters visit your home to check your smoke alarms and provide fire safety advice to keep yourself and your family safe this winter,” Commissioner Fewtrell said. He also urged households to regularly test smoke alarms, avoid overloading power boards, keep flammable items at least one metre from heaters and never leave cooking unattended. The warning follows another recent incident

STATE farmers will benefit from simpler vehicle registration rules after changes to primary producer concessional registrations came into effect on 1 July. NSW Farmers welcomed the updated eligibility requirements, which replace the previous 50 per cent primary production income rule introduced in 2021. The organisation said the former rule created barriers for genuine farming businesses that had diversified their income to manage seasonal and market risks. NSW Farmers President Xavier Martin said the changes were the result of several years of advocacy with the NSW Government and Transport for NSW. “We're really pleased that the NSW Government and Transport NSW have aligned with the ATO definition rather than using other income rules to determine

eligibility,” Mr Martin said. “Income diversification has such an important role in modern businesses to manage ups and downs, and the previous requirement created unnecessary barriers to this common risk management strategy.” The revised eligibility requirements now use the Australian Taxation Office's definition of a primary producer, providing greater consistency across government agencies. Mr Martin said concessional registrations remained an important support for farming businesses, particularly for vehicles used seasonally to transport produce and farm supplies. “Concessional registrations continue to be an important tool used by farm businesses including for vehicles that may only be used on a seasonal basis for the purpose of transporting

The damaged home where a woman died from injuries after escaping a fire that gutted an apartment. Photo: Andrew Stafford, AAP.

in Naremburn, where an electric blanket left switched on as a pet bed ignited after smouldering for several minutes. Firefighters extinguished the blaze before it spread, with FRNSW reminding residents to inspect electric blankets for frayed wires, scorch marks or damaged controllers before every use and replace them if they show signs of wear.

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their produced commodities and farm inputs,” he said. Mr Martin said NSW Farmers had consistently pushed for a practical and less complicated system. “That’s why NSW Farmers has been advocating for simplicity and consistency with other government primary producer definitions to seek a practical solution for the definition used for transport purposes,” he said. “The 50 percent income rule was not fit-for-purpose and it's positive that the government has listened to our feedback and focused on reducing eligibility complexity for farmers. “It’s a practical change that we’re pleased to have secured for farmers around the State.” More information on the primary producer registration concession scheme is available through the NSW Government. Stock and Station Agents

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Brace for beeping A NEW national warning system, AusAlert, is being rolled out and a test message will be sent next Monday, 27 July, at 2pm. Dave Layzell MP, Member for Upper Hunter, has issued a message to constituents, informing them to expect the message and reassuring people that the Monday afternoon

message is simply a test. “We are being asked to monitor our mobile devices for an alert next Monday afternoon, 27 July, at 2pm,” Mr Layzell wrote. “AusAlert, the new national warning system, will send important disaster and emergency alerts to compatible mobile devices including

compatible mobile phones, some tablets and smart watches. “Devices will vibrate and play a siren-like warning which sounds for about 10 seconds with a message appearing onscreen confirming it is a test.” AusAlert will be ready to use in October and in an actual disaster will likely tell you the type of emergency, where it is located, how serious it is, what to do, the name of the emergency organisation that has sent the AusAlert, and where to find more information about the emergency. “You don’t need to do anything if you receive a test alert and, even if you don’t receive the test, that is OK,” Mr Layzell said. “But if you want to provide feedback, you can contact AusAlert.” More information on the national test alert is available on the AusAlert website: www.ausalert.gov.au/ alerts-explained/nationaltest

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Island fishing hotspots revealed

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I AM continually amazed that so many residents of Port Stephens are yet to visit Broughton Island. I recently returned from a few days, fishing, swimming and wandering around the island, which I believe to be

a ‘jewel in the crown’ of this beautiful region. Despite the many times I have visited the island and carried out research, I still feel that there are so many questions unanswered. The island holds many secrets - from the Worimi, Greek, Italian, Chinese,

French and pioneer commercial fishermen who, at times, have called the island home. The rock structures are baffling and I continue to ask myself - why is the island treeless? An account of the island’s history can be found in my

book, ‘Broughton Islanders’, which was first printed in 2009. My hottest spots on Broughton Island: COD ROCK Cod Rock is one of the most- popular snapper spots around the island. “Coddie” refers more to a reef system

rather than a particular rock. The jagged structure, which can easily be picked up by a sounder, is ideal habitat for snapper. I anchor and berley on sundown, preferably in a north-easterly breeze. Floating a big prawn, fresh fillet of slimy mackerel

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or bonito on a 20lb line and 6/0 hook it is only a matter of time before a snapper takes notice. EAST HEAD For those who prefer to toss plastics, the drift along the East Head cliff face is perfect, particularly if there is some westerly in the breeze. The most action occurs towards the mosteasterly point of the headland where there is an increase in white water activity. Snapper, mulloway and kingfish can all be caught on this drift. As a Marine Park restriction, bait cannot be used in this area. THE GUTZ Snapper country between the main island and North Island. The same game plan as for East Head if you intend to use plastics. A steady westerly will push you along the inside wall of North Island. You do have the option of anchoring and floating baits down a berley trail. NORTH BEACH A cracker whiting and dusky flathead beach over the summer months. Best closer to the rocks where sand and rocks meet. Worms will do the job on whiting while pilchards on a gang of 3x4/0 or plastics will account for the flathead. Bring the worms to the island as they cannot be caught off any of the beaches.

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6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens. (Premiere) 8.30 Saint-Pierre. (Mav) Arch and Fitz search the island for an infamous bank robber who’s escaped to Saint-Pierre. 9.15 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R) Hosted by comedian Adam Hills. 9.50 Would I Lie To You? (PG) 10.15 ABC Late News. Coverage of the day’s events. 10.35 New Zealand Spy. (M, R) 11.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (Mv, R) 11.45 Rage New Music. (MA15+adhlnsv) 5.00 Rage. (PG)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 The Quest For Camelot. 8.40 Rebuilding Notre Dame Cathedral Pt 2. (R) 9.50 Cycling. Tour de France. Stage 19. 2.15 The Truth About Anxiety With Celia Pacquola. (Mad, R) 3.20 Michael Mosley Secrets Of The Superagers. (R) 4.20 Ireland In Music: Sclimpini. (R) 4.50 Destination Flavour China Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: Evening. 8.30 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: Night. 10.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: Late. 12.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: Overnight. 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: Pre-dawn. 4.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: Early morning.

6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Rugby League. NRL. Round 21. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Melbourne Storm. 9.55 NRL Friday Night Footy Post-Match. Post-match coverage of the NRL game. 10.45 MOVIE: Death Wish V. (1994, MA15+lv, R) A vigilante goes after mobsters. Charles Bronson. 12.40 Resident Alien. (Malv, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Postcards. (PG, R)

6.00 10 News+. 6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 Love It Or List It Australia. (R) A couple own a home in Brighton. 8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Malns, R) Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. 9.40 10’s Late News. Coverage of news, sport and weather. 10.40 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R) 11.30 10 News+. (R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R)

ABC FAMILY (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 3pm Play School. 3.25 Wiggle. 4.05 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 4.20 Santiago Of The Seas. 5.30 Talking Tom Heroes. 5.55 PJ Masks Power Heroes. 6.45 HexVets And Magic Pets. 7.05 Gardening Australia Junior. 7.35 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. 8.00 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 8.50 Steven Universe. 9.40 MythBusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 10.30 Merlin. 11.15 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 4.05 WorldWatch. 6.05 Inside The Huddle. 6.35 Over The Black Dot. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 Big Fat Quiz Best Bits: Dream Teams. 8.30 History’s Greatest Mysteries. 9.20 The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd. 10.10 The Expanse. 11.50 Vikings: The Rise And Fall. 1.40am NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs.

9.00 Animal Rescue. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Better Homes And Gardens. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 2.30 Weekender. 3.00 Feel Good Road Trips. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Americas. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Gideon’s Way. 7.00 Creflo. 7.30 CruiseAway. 8.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Poirot. 1.00 MOVIE: Mine Own Executioner. (1947, PG) 3.15 Antiques Roadshow. 3.45 MOVIE: Will Any Gentleman…? (1953) 5.30 Yorkshire Auction House. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Find My Country House Australia. (Return) 8.30 MOVIE: Spectre. (2015, M) 11.25 Late Programs.

DRAMA (51) 6am Home Shopping. 8.00 Days Of Our Lives. 8.45 The Young And The Restless. 9.30 The Living Room. 10.30 Building The Dream. 11.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. Noon Days Of Our Lives. 12.45 The Young And The Restless. 1.30 JAG. 3.30 Bull. 4.30 JAG. 6.30 Bull. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 Bull. 11.15 JAG. 1.15am Home Shopping.

SKY NEWS (53) 6am First Edition. 9.00 AM Agenda. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 11.00 NewsDay. Noon Fox Sports News. 1.00 Paul Murray Live. 2.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 The Bond Report. 6.00 Steve Price. 7.00 The World According To Rowan Dean. 8.00 Opinionated. 8.30 The US Report. 9.30 The Media Show. 10.15 Lefties Losing It. 10.45 NewsNight. Midnight News.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Movie Show. 6.20 The Ploughman’s Lunch. (1983, PG) 8.20 Satellite Boy. (2012, PG) 10.00 The Big Lebowski. (1998, M) 12.10pm After Hours. (1985, M) 2.00 Men In War. (1957, PG) 4.00 Dancing At Lughnasa. (1998, PG) 5.45 The Silver Brumby. (1993, PG) 7.30 Rogue Agent. (2022, M) 9.40 The Fisher King. (1991, M) 12.10am The Professor And The Madman. (2019, M) 2.35 Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs. 9.00 Mountain Men. 11.00 Storage Wars. 11.30 American Pickers: Best Of. 12.30pm Pawn Stars. 1.30 American Pickers: Best Of. 2.30 Kick Ons. 3.00 Timbersports. 3.30 Tougher In Alaska. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.00 AFL: Friday Night Countdown. 7.30 Football. AFL. Round 20. Melbourne v Geelong. 10.40 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm The Nanny. 3.30 Seinfeld. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.30 Bewitched. 6.30 The Nanny. 7.30 MOVIE: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. (2007, M) 10.15 MOVIE: Walking Tall. (2004, M) 11.50 Arrow. 2.20am The Summit. 4.00 Barbie: A Touch Of Magic. 4.30 Bubble’s Hotel. 4.50 LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter. 5.10 Hop. 5.30 Beyblade Burst: Quad Drive.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Wild, Smart And Deadly. 11.00 Going Places. Noon Namarali. 1.00 A Cedar Is Life. 2.00 Island Echoes. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Spartakus. 3.25 Cities Of Gold. 4.25 Chums. 4.40 Dreaming Big. 5.05 Harlem Globetrotters. 5.30 Nula. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Wild, Smart And Deadly. 7.30 MOVIE: Crackers. (1998, M) 9.20 MOVIE: Scrooged. (1988, M) 11.05 Late Programs.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat Please Note: Programs are correct at the time of print and are subject to change by the Networks.

Wednesday, 22 July 2026

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SATURDAY, July 25 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

ON THE Box NBN (8)

TEN (5)

6.00 Rage Charts. (PG) 7.00 Wknd Brekky. 9.00 Rage. (PG) 10.30 Rage Vault Guest Programmer. (PG) 12.00 News. 12.30 Cooper & Fry. (Ma, R) 2.00 Saint-Pierre. (Mav, R) 3.00 Bill Bailey’s Wild West Australia. (PG, R) 3.45 Griff’s Canadian Adventure. (PG, R) 4.35 Kitchen Cabinet. (R) 5.05 Aust Story. (R) 5.35 Landline. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 7.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 8.00 WorldWatch. 10.00 The World From Above. (Return) 11.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 12.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 1.00 WorldWatch. 3.00 Following The Flow. (PGal, R) 4.30 Grand Tours Of Scotland’s Rivers. (PG, R) 5.30 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights.

6.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: Morning. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Horse Racing. Industry Celebration Day and Caulfield Season Finale. 3.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 1: H’lights. 5.00 Seven News At 5. 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. (PG) 12.00 Great Australian Detour Snow. (R) 12.30 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Canberra Raiders v Cronulla Sharks. 2.30 NRLW Wrap. (PG) 3.15 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Canterbury Bulldogs v Dragons. 5.00 News. 5.30 Getaway. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Freshly Picked. (R) 10.30 Key Ingredient. (R) 11.00 Intrepid Adventures. (R) 11.30 Farm To Fork. (R) 12.00 MasterChef Australia. (PG, R) 1.00 Good Food Everyday. (Final, PGa) 1.30 Next Gen Dairy. (R) 2.00 Deal Or No Deal. (PG, R) 2.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 3.00 The Finish Line. (R) 4.00 Lingo. (R) 5.00 News.

6.05 Kath & Kim. (PGals, R) Brett plans a romantic trip away. 6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) Hosted by Tom Gleeson. 7.00 ABC News. A look at the top stories of the day. 7.30 Cooper & Fry. (Ma) A local photographer is found dead. 9.05 Doc Martin. (PG, R) Martin advises Mrs Moore to stop cold-water swimming until they’ve ruled out the cause of her migraines. 9.55 Believe Me. (R) The victims of a serial rapist fight for justice. 10.40 Little Disasters. (Mal, R) 11.25 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Cycling. Tour de France. Stage 20. Le Bourg d’Oisans to Alpe d’Huez. 170.9km mountain stage. From France. 1.00 Underground Army. (Ma, R) The underground blows up trains. 2.55 Michael Mosley Secrets Of The Superagers: Future Of Ageing. (PG, R) Dr Michael Mosley focuses on medicine. 3.50 Ireland In Music: Sclimpini. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 Euronews. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: Evening. 8.30 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: Night. 10.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: Late. 12.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: Overnight. 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: Pre-dawn. 4.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: Early morning.

6.00 9News Saturday. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 MOVIE: Legally Blonde. (2001, PGls, R) A ditzy blonde enrols in law school. Reese Witherspoon. 9.30 MOVIE: Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011, Mls, R) A middle-aged man’s wife asks for a divorce. Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling. 11.50 MOVIE: If I Stay. (2014, Ma, R) 1.50 My Way. 2.00 The Incredible Journey Presents. (PGa) 2.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.30 Global Shop. (R) 5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Helping Hands. (PG, R)

6.30 The Dog House Australia. (PGa, R) Narrated by Dr Chris Brown. 7.30 Love It Or List It Australia. A couple live in the “worst house on the best street”, in a space that is not conducive at all to their lifestyle. 9.50 Ambulance Australia. (Mal, R) In Brisbane, a bystander calls in a crash in the heart of Brisbane’s CBD involving a motorcyclist and taxi. 10.50 Ambulance UK. (Mlm, R) Paramedics deal with a hit-and-run accident. 12.00 FBI. (Madv, R) 1.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.00 Hour Of Power.

ABC FAMILY (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 2.30pm The Makery. 3.00 Play School. 3.30 Octonauts And The Ring Of Fire. 4.50 Gardening Australia Junior. 5.15 MOVIE: Tummy Tom 2: A New Friend For Tummy Tom. (2024) 6.25 Emerald. 7.05 Let’s Go Bananas! 7.30 Kids Baking Championship. (Final) 8.10 Kids BBQ Championship. 8.55 Chopped Junior. 10.00 Fresh Off The Boat. 10.40 Merlin. 11.25 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 4.05 WorldWatch. 6.05 Mastermind Australia. 6.40 The Mega-Brands That Built The World. 7.30 Record-Breaking Submarines. 8.35 Icons Unearthed: Harrison Ford. (Premiere) 9.30 MOVIE: Crossing Over. (2009, MA15+) 11.30 The Expanse. 1.15am WWE Legends. 2.10 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs. 10.30

Auction Squad. 11.30 Australia’s Amazing Homes. 12.30pm Feel Good Road Trips. 1.00 Animal Rescue. 1.30 Secrets Of Beautiful Gardens. 2.30 Harry’s Practice. 3.00 Horse Racing. Industry Celebration Day and Caulfield Season Finale. 5.00 Dog Patrol. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bondi Vet. 7.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Lewis. 10.30 Escape To The Country. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Helping Hands. 10.30 My Favorite Martian. 11.00 MOVIE: Poison Pen. (1939, PG) 12.35pm MOVIE: The Sound Barrier. (1952, PG) 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 15. Northern Suburbs v Gordon. 5.00 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Round 4. North Queensland Cowboys v Gold Coast Titans. 7.00 Customs. 7.30 To Be Advised. Midnight Late Programs.

DRAMA (51) 6am Home Shopping. 9.00 Reel Action. 9.30 So Help Me Todd. 12.30pm The Living Room. 2.30 JAG. 4.30 Reel Action. (Return) 5.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 5.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 Numb3rs. 12.15am JAG. 2.15 Home Shopping.

SKY NEWS (53) 6am Fox Sports News.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Silver Brumby. (1993, PG) 7.45 A River Runs Through It. (1992, PG) 10.00 The Fisher King. (1991, M) 12.30pm Only The Brave. (2017, M) 2.55 The Ploughman’s Lunch. (1983, PG) 4.55 The Amazing Mr. Blunden. (2021, PG) 6.30 Jumanji. (1995, PG) 8.30 Gone Girl. (2014, MA15+) 11.15 The Little Death. (2014, MA15+) 1am The Client. (1994, M) 3.15 Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs. 11.00 The 4WD Adventure Show. 11.30 Life Off Road. Noon Aussie Adventure Bike Show. 12.30 Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30 The Car Club. 2.00 Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 3.00 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. High Limits World Tour. Night 2. Replay. 4.00 American Resto. 4.30 Football. AFL. Round 20. GWS Giants v Sydney. 7.30 MOVIE: Gladiator. (2000, M) 10.40 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Morning Programs. 3.40pm MOVIE: Blueback. (2022, PG) 5.40 MOVIE: Red Dog. (2011, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. (2001, M) 11.05 The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power. 12.15am The Purge. (Premiere) 2.00 MOVIE: Sunflower. (2023, MA15+) 3.45 My Way. 4.00 Big Rigs Of Oz. 4.30 Barney’s World. 4.50 I Love VIP Pets. 5.30 Beyblade Burst: Quad Drive.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 The Last Ice Hunters. 11.15 Kids On Country. 12.10pm The Whole Table. 1.10 Nula. 1.40 Wild, Smart And Deadly. 2.30 Over The Black Dot. 3.00 Homesteads. 3.35 Stompem Ground 2022: Blekbala Mujik. 4.30 Faboriginal. 5.00 Murder In Big Horn. 6.00 Home, Land & Sea. 6.40 The Other Side. 7.30 Alone Australia. 9.40 MOVIE: Event Horizon. (1997, MA15+) 11.30 Late Programs.

7.00 Weekend First Edition. 10.00 Weekend Newsday. 11.00 Fox Sports News. Noon Weekend Newsday. 1.00 Fox Sports News. 2.00 Steve Price. 3.00 Weekend Newsday. 4.00 Fox Sports News. 5.00 NewsNight. 6.00 Opinionated. 6.30 The World According To Rowan Dean. 7.30 Lefties Losing It. 8.00 The Media Show. 8.45 The US Report. 9.45 NewsNight. 11.00 Fox Sports News.

SUNDAY, July 26 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8)

TEN (5)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30 World This Week. (R) 11.00 Compass. (PG, R) 11.30 Praise. 12.00 News. 12.30 Landline. 1.30 Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens. (R) 2.30 Race Around The World. (M, R) 3.30 The Assembly. (PG, R) 4.10 Grand Designs. (PG, R) 5.00 Back Roads. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow.

6.00 WorldWatch. 7.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 8.00 WorldWatch. 10.00 The World From Above. (PG) 11.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 12.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 1.00 Motorcycle Racing. Aust ProMX C’ship. 4.00 WorldWatch. 5.00 Going Places. (PG, R) 5.30 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights.

6.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: Morning. Cont. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. 10.00 Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 Sunday Footy Feast. 1.00 MOVIE: Flushed Away. (2006, G, R) 3.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (R) 4.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 2: H’lights. 5.30 Sydney Weekender.

6.00 Hello SA. (PG, R) 6.30 ACA. (R) 7.00 Weekend Today. 10.00 Wide World Of Sports. (PG) 11.00 NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Eels v NZ Warriors. 1.30 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Broncos v Knights. 3.30 Rugby League. NRL. Manly Sea Eagles v Cronulla Sharks.

6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 GCBC. (R) 8.30 My Market Kitchen. (R) 9.00 Cook With Luke. (R) 9.30 Good Food Everyday. (PGa, R) 10.10 MasterChef Australia. (PG, R) 12.30 Boating. Aust IRB C’ships. 1.30 The Dog Hospital With Graeme Hall. (PGa, R) 2.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 3.00 The Finish Line. (R) 4.00 Lingo. (R) 5.00 News.

6.30 Compass: Faith, Power And Modi. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Race Around The World. William heads to Madagascar. 8.30 Treasure & Dirt. (Maln) Ivan and Nell finally catch up with Stanley. Nell gets a disturbing call from Phelan. 9.30 Believe Me. (Mals) Laila’s assault claim is dismissed by police. 10.15 Cooper & Fry. (Ma, R) 11.55 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 2.40 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road. (R) 3.10 Doc Martin. (PG, R) 4.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.00 Insiders. (R)

6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Paris Underground. 8.30 Arc De Triomphe: The Passion Of A Nation. (PG, R) 9.30 Castle Secrets. (Mav, R) 10.25 Kennedy. (PG, R) 11.20 Framed. (PGad, R) 11.50 this bond i and Bondi. (PGns, R) 12.00 Beautiful Game Changers. (R) 12.05 Cycling. Tour de France. Stage 21. 4.25 Bamay. (R) 4.55 China Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.15 Euronews. 5.30 PBS News Horizons.

6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 3: Evening. 8.30 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 3: Night. 10.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 3: Late. 12.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 3: Overnight. 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 3: Pre-dawn. 4.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 3: Early morning. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 9News Sunday. 7.00 LEGO Masters Bricktacular. (Final, PG) Hosted by Hamish Blake. 8.30 60 Minutes. Current affairs program, investigating, analysing and uncovering the issues affecting all Australians. 9.30 9News Late. 10.00 The First 48. (Mav) 11.00 Black Widow. (Premiere, MA15+a) 11.50 Murder In The 21st. (Mav) 12.40 For The Love Of Pets. (PGa, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 CampByMe. 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.

6.30 10 News+. Hosted by Denham Hitchcock and Amelia Brace. 7.00 MasterChef Australia. (PG) Special guest is Meghan Markle. 8.15 Watson. (Md) Watson’s father visits UHOP to introduce Watson and the fellows to his protégée, a saxophone prodigy with musically induced blackouts. 9.15 FBI. (Mav) When a large-scale explosion rocks a Brooklyn apartment complex, the team quickly locates the perpetrator and discovers he’s acting on the orders of a convicted felon currently serving time. 12.00 10 News+. (R) Hosted by Denham Hitchcock and Amelia Brace. 12.30 Home Shopping. (R)

ABC FAMILY (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 2.30pm The Makery. 2.45 Wiggle. 3.00 Play School. 3.25 The Wiggles. 4.25 Little J And Big Cuz. 4.50 Gardening Australia Junior. 5.15 Zog. 5.40 Super Monsters. 6.05 PJ Masks. 6.25 Emerald. 7.05 Let’s Go Bananas! 7.30 The Inbestigators. 7.45 The Lady Grace Mysteries. 8.10 Epic Adventures With Bertie Gregory. 8.55 Animal Park. 10.25 Secrets Of The Zoo. 11.10 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm Cycling. Tour de France. Stage 20. Highlights. 4.00 Bamay. 4.20 France 24. 4.55 PBS Washington Week. 5.20 PBS News Compass Points. 5.50 The Food That Built The World. 6.40 Abandoned Engineering. 8.30 MOVIE: Ready Player One. (2018) 11.00 Under The Bridge. 12.50am QAnon: The Search For Q. 1.45 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. 10.30 Australia’s Best Backyards. 11.30 Escape To The Country. 12.30pm Harry’s Practice. 1.00 The Master. 2.00 South Aussie With Cosi. 2.30 Better Homes. 3.30 The Yorkshire Vet. 4.30 My Greek Odyssey. 5.30 Australia’s Best Backyards. 6.30 Escape To The Country. 7.30 The Coroner. 8.30 Vera. 10.30 Landscapers. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs. 9.00 Turning Point. 9.30 TV Shop. 10.00 AFL Sunday Footy Show. Noon Getaway. 12.30 My Favorite Martian. 1.00 The Baron. 2.10 MOVIE: Operation Bullshine. (1959) 4.00 Midsomer Murders. 6.00 Rugby League. NRL Women’s Premiership. Round 4. Wests Tigers v Sydney Roosters. 8.00 David Attenborough’s Asia. 9.10 Paramedics. 10.10 Emergency. 11.10 Late Programs.

DRAMA (51) 6am Home Shopping. 7.30 Leading The Way. 8.00 Building The Dream. 10.00 So Help Me Todd. 11.00 Escape Fishing With ET. 11.30 So Help Me Todd. 1.30pm The Living Room. 3.30 JAG. 7.30 NCIS. 10.20 Boston Blue. 11.15 JAG. 1.15am Home Shopping.

SKY NEWS (53) 6am Morning Programs.

SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Amazing Mr. Blunden. Continued. (2021, PG) 6.40 Dancing At Lughnasa. (1998, PG) 8.25 Jumanji. (1995, PG) 10.20 The Professor And The Madman. (2019, M) 12.45pm Rogue Agent. (2022, M) 2.55 The Silver Brumby. (1993, PG) 4.40 A River Runs Through It. (1992, PG) 6.55 The Terror. (1963) 8.30 Arcadian. (2024, M) 10.10 Gangster Squad. (2013, MA15+) 12.15am Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs. 9.00 Counting Cars. 9.30 American Pickers. 10.30 Pawn Stars. 11.30 Step Outside. Noon The Fishing Show By AFN. 1.00 Fishing Addiction. 2.00 Fishy Business. 2.30 AFL Pre-Game. 3.00 Football. AFL. Round 20. North Melbourne v St Kilda. 6.00 Border Security: Int. 6.30 Border Security USA. 7.00 Border Security. 8.30 MOVIE: Free Guy. (2021, M) 10.50 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm The Toys That Built The World. 5.00 Cards And Collectables Australia. 5.30 MOVIE: The Lego Movie. (2014, PG) 7.30 MOVIE: DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story. (2004, M) 9.25 MOVIE: The Hangover. (2009, MA15+) 11.30 Top 20 Funniest. 12.25am Arrow. 2.55 The Summit. 4.00 Big Rigs Of Oz. 4.30 Lego Dreamzzz. 5.10 Hop. 5.30 Beyblade Burst: Quad Drive.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 11.00 Koori Knockout. Baryulgil Descendants v WAC Dragons. Replay. Noon Over The Black Dot. 12.30 Inside The Huddle. 1.00 FIFA World Cup Classic Matches. 3.00 Rebel Country. 4.25 Big Name, No Blanket. 5.40 Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man. 6.45 Wild, Smart And Deadly. 7.35 Earth Oven. 8.30 Seasick. 10.05 MOVIE: Mystic River. (2003, MA15+) 12.30am Late Programs.

8.00 Sunday Agenda. 9.00 Outsiders. 11.00 Business Weekend With Ross Greenwood. Noon Weekend Newsday. 1.00 News. 2.00 Weekend Newsday. 3.00 Business Weekend With Ross Greenwood. 4.00 News. 5.00 NewsNight. 6.00 Sunday Agenda. 7.00 The Jaimee Rogers Show. 8.00 The Macpherson Angle. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 11.00 Late Programs.

CONSUMER ADVICE (P) Pre-school (C) Children (PG) Parental Guidance Recommended (M) Mature Audiences (MA15+) Mature Audiences Only (AV15+) Extreme Adult Violence (R) Repeat

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MONDAY, July 27 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

NBN (8)

TEN (5)

6.00 News Breakfast. 9.00 News. 10.00 Cooper & Fry. (Ma, R) 11.35 Poh’s Kitchen. (R) 12.00 ABC News At Noon. 1.00 Landline. (R) 2.00 Back Roads. (R) 2.30 Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery. (R) 3.00 Restoration Australia. (PG, R) 4.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (PGa) 4.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)

6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 WorldWatch. 8.30 WorldWatch. 10.00 Canada’s National Parks. (PG, R) 11.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 12.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 1.10 WorldWatch. 3.00 Going Places. (R) 3.30 The Cook Up. (R) 4.00 Michael Mosley Secrets Of The Superagers. (PG, R) 5.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights.

6.00 Sunrise. 9.30 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 National News At Noon. 1.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 3: Highlights. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 LEGO Masters Bricktacular. (Final, PG, R) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30 NBN News.

6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story. 8.30 Four Corners. 9.25 Media Watch. (PG) 9.40 If You’re Listening. (R) 10.10 Foreign Correspondent. (R) 10.40 ABC Late News. 10.55 The Business. (R) 11.10 Murdoch Mysteries. (M, R) 12.00 Long Lost Family. (R) 12.40 Rage. (MA15+dhlnsv) 3.00 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Big Fat Quiz Of Telly 2026. 9.10 Alone Australia. (Ml, R) 10.20 SBS World News Late. 10.50 Gomorrah. (MA15+v, R) 2.25 Merrill’s Marauders: Burma WWII. (Mav, R) 3.25 The Kim Dynasty: A Family Affair. (PGa, R) 4.20 Bamay. (R) 4.55 China Bitesize. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 4: Evening. 8.30 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 4: Night. 10.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 4: Late. 12.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 4: Overnight. 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 4: Pre-dawn. 4.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 4: Early morning. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Travel Guides. (PGl) 8.40 100% Footy. (Mal) 9.40 9News Late. 10.10 Outback Opal Hunters. (PGl) 11.10 Footy Classified. (Ml) 12.10 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 1.05 Hello SA. (PG) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.

6.00 10 News+. 6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (PG) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 MasterChef Australia. (PG) Contestants receive letters from home. 8.40 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Malns) Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week. 9.40 10’s Late News. Coverage of news, sport and weather. 10.40 The Big Bang Theory. (PGs, R) 11.30 10 News+. (R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R)

ABC FAMILY (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 2.30pm The Makery. 3.00 Play School. 3.25 Wiggle. 4.05 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 4.20 Santiago Of The Seas. 5.30 Talking Tom Heroes. 5.55 PJ Masks Power Heroes. 6.45 HexVets And Magic Pets. 7.05 Batwheels. 7.40 Ninjago: Dragons Rising. 8.05 Young Sheldon. 8.30 Young Sheldon. 8.50 Badgers: Their Secret World. 10.20 Kids Baking Championship. 11.05 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 4.10 WorldWatch. 5.10 PBS News Compass Points. 5.40 Al Jazeera. 6.10 Mysteries From Above. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 History’s Greatest Mysteries. 9.20 The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd. 10.10 The Expanse. 11.50 Hells Angels: Kingdom Come. 1.40am NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs. 9.00

Animal Rescue. 9.30 NBC Today. 10.30 Better Homes. 11.30 The Great Australian Doorstep. Noon Better Homes. 1.00 My Greek Odyssey. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Auction Squad. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Doc Martin. 8.30 A Touch Of Frost. 10.50 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs. 9.30 Newstyle Direct. 10.00 Rainbow Country. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon David Attenborough’s Asia. 1.00 Midsomer Murders. 3.00 MOVIE: Nickelodeon. (1976, PG) 5.30 The Travelling Auctioneers. (Return) 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 Death In Paradise. 8.40 The Madame Blanc Mysteries. 9.40 The Good Karma Hospital. 10.40 Late Programs.

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SBS MOVIES (32) 6am The Terror. Continued. (1963, M) 6.45 Finding Altamira. (2016, PG) 8.25 All At Sea. (2010, PG) 10.00 Arcadian. (2024, M) 11.40 The Client. (1994, M) 1.55pm The Amazing Mr. Blunden. (2021, PG) 3.30 Mr. Holmes. (2015, PG) 5.25 Where Angels Fear To Tread. (1991, PG) 7.30 Michael Collins. (1996, M) 9.55 Seven Samurai. (1954, PG, Japanese) 1.35am Perrier’s Bounty. (2009, MA15+) 3.15 Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs. 1.30pm Rides Down Under: Workshop Wars. 2.30 Motor Racing. Night Thunder. High Limits World Tour. Night 2. Replay. 3.30 Counting Cars. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 The Agenda Setters: Rugby League. 8.30 Aussie Gold Hunters. 9.30 Gem Hunters Down Under. 10.30 The Agenda Setters: Rugby League. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Morning Programs. 3.30pm Seinfeld. 4.30 The Addams Family. 5.30 Bewitched. 6.30 Baywatch. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 MOVIE: The Hangover 2. (2011, MA15+) 10.35 Seinfeld. 11.35 The 100. 12.25am Winter House. 1.15 Below Deck. 2.05 Jeopardy! UK. 3.00 Surfing Australia. 3.30 Big Rigs Of Oz. 4.00 Barbie: A Touch Of Magic. 4.30 Bubble’s Hotel. 4.50 LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter. 5.10 Hop. 5.30 Late Programs.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 11.00 Earth Oven. Noon Seasick. 1.30 Yarrabah! 2.00 Island Echoes. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Spartakus. 3.25 Cities Of Gold. 4.35 Dreaming Big. 5.00 Harlem Globetrotters. 5.30 The 77 Percent. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Wild, Smart And Deadly. 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 Living Black. (Final) 9.00 Emmett Till: White Lies, Black Death. 10.00 MOVIE: 8 Seconds. (1994, M) 11.50 Late Programs.

6am First Edition. 9.00 AM Agenda. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 11.00 AM Agenda. Noon Fox Sports News. 1.00 Paul Murray Live. 2.00 NewsDay. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Politics Now. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 The Kenny Report. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 The Bolt Report. 8.00 Sharri. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 The Late Debate. 11.00 The Rita Panahi Show. Midnight Fox Sports News.

TUESDAY, July 28 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8)

TEN (5)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Aust Story. (R) 10.30 Kitchen Cabinet. (R) 11.00 Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club. (PGa, R) 12.00 News. 1.00 Better. (Final, Malv, R) 1.55 Back Roads. (PG, R) 2.25 Home Delivery. (R) 2.55 Race Around The World. (PG, R) 4.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (PGv) 4.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.00 For The Love Of Dogs. (PGa, R) 10.00 Canada’s National Parks. (R) 11.00 Cycling. Tour de France. H’lights. 12.00 WorldWatch. 2.00 Queens That Changed The World. (PG, R) 3.00 The Cook Up. (R) 3.30 Ireland’s Wild Islands. (PGa, R) 4.35 Jeopardy! 5.00 Letters And Numbers. (R) 5.30 North American Fan Feasts. (PG, R)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.30 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 National News At Noon. 1.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 4: Highlights. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 MOVIE: A Missed Connection. (2023, PGa, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30 NBN News.

6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. 8.30 Kitchen Cabinet. 9.00 The Assembly. (R) 9.45 Compass. (R) 10.15 ABC Late News. 10.30 The Business. (R) 10.50 Four Corners. (R) 11.45 Media Watch. (PG, R) 12.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (Mv, R) 12.50 Long Lost Family. (R) 1.35 Rage. (MA15+dhlnsv) 3.00 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.35 Portugal With Michael Portillo. (PG, R) 8.30 Insight. 9.30 Dateline. 10.00 SBS World News Late. 10.30 Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy. (R) 11.20 The Negotiator. (Malv) 12.55 MOVIE: Julia. (2021, Mals, R) 2.40 A Certain Mother. (PGan, R) 4.00 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 5: Evening. 8.30 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 5: Night. 10.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 5: Late. 12.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 5: Overnight. 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 5: Pre-dawn. 4.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 5: Early morning. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took On The World. (Mal, R) 9.25 9News Late. 9.55 A Killer Makes A Call. (Mav, R) 10.55 Footy Classified. (Ml) 11.50 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 12.40 Pointless. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Building Ideas. (PG, R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.

6.00 10 News+. 6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (PG) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 Love It Or List It Australia. A couple bought a compromised home over 12 years ago. 8.40 The Cheap Seats. (Mal) Presenters Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look at the week that was. 9.40 10’s Late News. Coverage of news, sport and weather. 10.40 The Big Bang Theory. (PGs, R) 11.30 10 News+. (R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R)

ABC FAMILY (22) 6am Children’s

VICELAND (31) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm Where Are You Really From? 3.30 Food Lovers’ Guide. 4.10 WorldWatch. 6.10 Mysteries From Above. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 History’s Greatest Mysteries. 9.20 The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd. 10.10 The Expanse. Midnight While The Men Are Away. 1.10 Dark Side Of The Ring. 2.05 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera.

7TWO (62) 6am Morning Programs. 7.30

Harry’s Practice. 8.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Animal Rescue. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Better Homes. 1.00 Escape To The Country. 2.00 Creek To Coast. 2.30 The Amazing Homemakers. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Call The Midwife. 8.45 Inspector Morse. 11.05 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Morning Programs. 9.30 Newstyle Direct. 10.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon Death In Paradise. 1.00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries. 2.00 Good Karma Hospital. 3.10 Antiques Roadshow. 3.40 MOVIE: Man About The House. (1974, PG) 5.30 The Travelling Auctioneers. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 New Tricks. 8.40 Agatha Christie’s Marple. 10.40 Late Programs.

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SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Mr. Holmes. Continued. (2015, PG) 6.55 Seven Samurai. (1954, PG, Japanese) 10.35 Princess Mononoke. (1997, M, Japanese) 1.05pm Finding Altamira. (2016, PG) 2.45 The Terror. (1963) 4.15 All At Sea. (2010, PG) 5.50 I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) 7.30 Resistance. (2020, M) 9.45 A Samurai In Time. (2023, PG, Japanese) 12.15am Darkland. (2017, MA15+, Danish) 2.20 Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 Australia ReDiscovered. 10.30 American Resto. 11.00 Storage Wars. 11.30 American Pickers. 12.30pm Pawn Stars. 1.30 Aussie Gold Hunters. 2.30 Gem Hunters Down Under. 3.30 Tougher In Alaska. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Outback Truckers. 10.30 The Agenda Setters. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Morning Programs. 3.30pm Seinfeld. 4.30 Addams Family. 5.30 Bewitched. 6.30 Baywatch. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 MOVIE: The Hangover Part III. (2013, MA15+) 10.35 Seinfeld. 11.35 The 100. 12.30am Winter House. 1.20 Below Deck. 2.10 The Summit. 3.30 Big Rigs Of Oz. 4.00 Barbie: A Touch Of Magic. 4.30 Bubble’s Hotel. 4.50 LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter. 5.10 Hop. 5.30 Beyblade Burst: Quad Drive.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 1.05pm Emmett Till: White Lies, Black Death. 2.00 Island Echoes. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Spartakus. 3.25 Cities Of Gold. 4.35 Dreaming Big. 5.00 Harlem Globetrotters. 5.30 Indian Country Today News. 6.00 Bamay. 6.40 Wild, Smart And Deadly. 7.30 The Point. 8.00 The Jury: Death On The Staircase. 9.05 MOVIE: The Power Of One. (1992, M) 11.20 Late Programs.

Programs. 4.05pm Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. 4.20 Santiago Of The Seas. 5.30 Talking Tom Heroes. 5.55 PJ Masks Power Heroes. 6.45 HexVets And Magic Pets. 7.05 Batwheels. 7.40 Ninjago: Dragons Rising. 8.05 Young Sheldon. 8.30 Young Sheldon. 8.50 Ice Age. 9.35 MythBusters “There’s Your Problem!”. 10.00 BattleBots. 10.45 Animals Up Close With Bertie Gregory. 11.25 Late Programs. 6am First Edition. 9.00 AM Agenda. 10.00 Fox Sports News. 11.00 AM Agenda. Noon Fox Sports News. 1.00 Paul Murray Live. 2.00 NewsDay. 3.00 Afternoon Agenda. 4.00 Politics Now. 4.30 Business Now With Ross Greenwood. 5.00 The Kenny Report. 6.00 Credlin. 7.00 The Bolt Report. 8.00 Sharri. 9.00 Paul Murray Live. 10.00 The Late Debate. 11.00 The Rita Panahi Show. Midnight Fox Sports News.

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WEDNESDAY, July 29 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

ON THE Box NBN (8)

TEN (5)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.00 Four Corners. (R) 10.55 Foreign Correspondent. (R) 11.25 Back Roads. (R) 12.00 News. 12.30 Press Club. 1.35 Media Watch. (PG, R) 1.55 Back Roads. (PG, R) 2.25 Home Delivery. (PG, R) 3.00 Race Around The World. (R) 4.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (Ma, R) 4.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.05 For The Love Of Dogs. (PGa, R) 10.05 Canada’s National Parks. (PG, R) 11.05 America’s Great Trails. (PGa, R) 12.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Dateline. (R) 2.30 Insight. (R) 3.30 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. (R) 4.05 Ireland’s Wild Islands. (PGa, R) 5.05 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.30 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 National News At Noon. 1.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 5: Highlights. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 MOVIE: Love, Fashion, Repeat. (2022, PGa, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG) 5.30 NBN News.

6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 Lingo. (R) 9.00 The Finish Line. (R) 10.00 Ent. Tonight. (R) 10.20 Attenborough’s Parenthood. (PGa, R) 11.30 Farm To Fork. (R) 12.00 Everyday Gourmet. 12.30 Family Feud. (PG, R) 1.00 News. 2.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG, R) 2.30 The Finish Line. (R) 3.30 Lingo. (R) 4.30 Bold. (PG) 5.00 News.

6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Hard Quiz. (PGa) 8.30 Spicks And Specks. (PG) 9.00 New Zealand Spy. (PG) 9.25 Race Around The World. (R) 10.30 ABC Late News. 10.45 The Business. (R) 11.00 Treasure & Dirt. (Maln, R) 12.00 Murdoch Mysteries. (Ma, R) 12.45 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 1.30 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.00 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

6.00 Mastermind Australia. 6.30 SBS World News. 7.30 Alone Australia. (Ml) 8.40 Titanic Sinks Tonight. (Premiere, PGa) 9.45 Six Four. (Premiere, Mv) 10.40 SBS World News Late. 11.10 Forest Of The Missing. (MA15+asv, R) 2.55 Children Of Chaos: What Became Of WWII Orphans. (PGa, R) 4.40 Bamay. (R) 5.00 NHK World English News Morning. 5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 Seven News. 7.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 6: Evening. 8.30 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 6: Night. 10.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 6: Late. 12.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 6: Overnight. 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 6: Pre-dawn. 4.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 6: Early morning. 5.30 Sunrise.

6.00 9News. 7.00 A Current Affair. 7.30 Live Aid: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took On The World. (Ml, R) 9.25 To Be Advised. 10.25 9News Late. 10.55 Freddy And The Eighth. (Ml) 11.50 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 12.40 Pointless. (PG, R) 1.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 2.30 Global Shop. (R) 3.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R) 4.30 A Current Affair. (R) 5.00 Today Early News. 5.30 Today.

6.00 10 News+. 6.30 Deal Or No Deal. (R) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 7.00 Millionaire Hot Seat. (PG) Hosted by Rebecca Gibney. 7.30 The Dog House Australia. (PGa, R) Karen is looking for a gentle companion. 8.40 Boston Blue. (Mv) With an assist from the NYPD, Danny and Lena hunt down a serial home invader. Sean’s budding romance faces unexpected complications. 9.40 10’s Late News. Coverage of news, sport and weather. 10.40 The Cheap Seats. (Mal, R) 11.40 10 News+. (R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (R)

ABC FAMILY (22) 6am Children’s Programs. 2.30pm The Makery. 3.00 Play School. 3.25 Wiggle. 4.05 Andy’s Aquatic Adventures. 4.20 Santiago Of The Seas. 5.30 Talking Tom Heroes. 5.55 PJ Masks Power Heroes. 6.45 HexVets And Magic Pets. 7.05 Batwheels. 7.40 Ninjago: Dragons Rising. 8.05 Young Sheldon. 8.30 Young Sheldon. 8.50 Steven Universe. 10.00 Pokémon: Diamond And Pearl. 10.55 Late Programs.

VICELAND (31) 6am Morning Programs. 3pm The Feed. 4.15 BBC News At Ten. 4.40 France 24. 5.10 PBS News. 6.10 Mysteries From Above. 7.05 Jeopardy! 7.35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. 8.30 History’s Greatest Mysteries. 9.20 The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd. 10.10 The Expanse. 11.50 Threesome. 12.50am Night Bloomers. 2.00 NHK World English News. 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

7TWO (62) 6am Room For Improvement.

6.30 Escape To The Country. 7.30 Harry’s Practice. 8.00 Million Dollar Minute. 9.00 Animal Rescue. 9.30 NBC Today. Noon Better Homes. 1.00 Secrets Of Beautiful Gardens. 2.00 Weekender. 2.30 Hornby: A Model Empire. 3.30 Harry’s Practice. 4.00 Animal Rescue. 4.30 Better Homes. 5.30 Escape To The Country. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat. 8.45 Foyle’s War. 11.00 Late Programs.

9GEM (82) 6am Gideon’s Way. 7.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. 7.30 CruiseAway. 8.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 10.30 Pointless. 11.30 My Favorite Martian. Noon New Tricks. 1.00 Agatha Christie’s Marple. 3.00 MOVIE: Lady Caroline Lamb. (1972, PG) 5.30 The Travelling Auctioneers. 6.30 Antiques Roadshow. 7.30 As Time Goes By. 8.40 Midsomer Murders. 10.40 Rizzoli & Isles. 11.40 Poirot. 12.40am Antiques Roadshow. 1.10 Late Programs.

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SBS MOVIES (32) 6am Where Angels Fear To Tread. (1991, PG) 8.05 A Samurai In Time. (2023, PG, Japanese) 10.30 Michael Collins. (1996, M) 12.55pm Once Upon A Time In China II. (1992, M, Cantonese) 3.00 The Movie Show. 3.35 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind. (1984, PG) 5.50 Brief Encounter. (1945, PG) 7.30 Dog Day Afternoon. (1975, M) 9.45 Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai. (1999, MA15+) 11.55 Late Programs.

7MATE (64) 6am Morning Programs. 10.00 The Car Club. 10.30 American Resto. 11.00 Storage Wars. 11.30 American Pickers. 12.30pm Pawn Stars. 1.30 Outback Truckers. 3.30 Tougher In Alaska. 4.30 American Resto. 5.00 Storage Wars. 5.30 American Pickers. 6.30 Pawn Stars. 7.30 Highway Patrol. 8.30 The Force: Behind The Line. 9.30 Caught On Dashcam. 10.30 The Agenda Setters. 11.30 Late Programs.

9GO! (83) 6am Morning Programs. 3.30pm Seinfeld. 4.30 Addams Family. 5.30 Bewitched. 6.30 Baywatch. 7.30 Seinfeld. 8.30 MOVIE: The Dark Knight Rises. (2012, M) 11.50 Seinfeld. 12.20am The 100. 1.10 Winter House. 2.00 Below Deck. 2.50 The Summit. 4.00 Barbie: A Touch Of Magic. 4.30 Bubble’s Hotel. 4.50 LEGO Friends: The Next Chapter. 5.10 Hop. 5.30 Beyblade Burst: Quad Drive.

NITV (34) 6am Morning Programs. 11.00 The Point. 11.30 Yagan. 12.35pm Etched In Bone. 2.00 Island Echoes. 2.30 The Cook Up. 3.00 Spartakus. 3.25 Cities Of Gold. 4.35 Dreaming Big. 5.00 Harlem Globetrotters. 5.35 News. 6.05 Bamay. 6.45 Tales From Zambia. 7.35 Breaking Wild. 8.30 Pro Bull Riding Australia. 9.30 Over The Black Dot. 10.00 Inside The Huddle. 10.30 MOVIE: The Dead Lands. (2014, MA15+) 12.20am Late Programs.

THURSDAY, July 30 ABC TV (2)

SBS (3)

SEVEN (6)

NBN (8)

TEN (5)

6.00 Morning Programs. 10.30 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R) 11.00 New Zealand Spy. (PG, R) 11.25 Dr Karl’s How Things Work. (R) 12.00 News. 1.00 Believe Me. (Mals, R) 1.55 Back Roads. (PG, R) 2.25 Home Delivery. (R) 2.55 Race Around The World. (PG, R) 3.55 Frankie Drake. (PG) 4.40 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 5.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R)

6.00 WorldWatch. 9.05 For The Love Of Dogs. (PGa, R) 10.05 Canada’s National Parks. (PGaw, R) 11.05 America’s Great Trails. (PG, R) 12.00 WorldWatch. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. 2.00 Queens That Changed The World. (Ms, R) 3.10 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw. (R) 3.40 Ireland’s Wild Islands. (PGa, R) 4.40 Jeopardy! 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R)

6.00 Sunrise. 9.30 The Morning Show. (PG) 12.00 National News At Noon. 1.00 Bridge Of Lies. (R) 2.00 Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Day 6: Highlights. 4.00 Seven News At 4. 5.00 The Chase Australia.

6.00 Today. 9.00 Today Extra. (PG) 11.30 9News Morning. 12.00 MOVIE: Love’s Fast Lane. (2023, PGa, R) 2.00 Pointless. (PG, R) 3.00 Tipping Point. (PG, R) 4.00 9News Afternoon. 4.30 Tipping Point Australia. (PG, R) 5.30 NBN News.

6.30 Hard Quiz. (PG, R) 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Back Roads. (PG) 8.30 Grand Designs: Stratford. (PG) A couple want to build a 21st-century castle. 9.15 Treasure & Dirt. (Maln, R) 10.15 ABC Late News. 10.30 The Business. (R) 10.50 Frankie Drake Mysteries. (PGv, R) 11.35 Long Lost Family. (PG, R) 12.20 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv) 3.00 Gardening Australia. (R) 4.00 Poh’s Kitchen On The Road. (R) 4.30 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 5.30 7.30. (R)

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the patriarchal summons to obey. may I suggest that it is your day and Several feminist heads swivelled any misgivings should not be yours in response (never a good look in a nor your husbands to bear. church). Talk together about what you It felt very Republic of Gilead. both want on your special day and Now, with reference to walking down the aisle, that was one tradition we managed to break. Both my mother and father walked me down the aisle, which seemed like a nice modern touch at the time, but we had great difficulty keeping our strides in synch. My father is a tall, notoriously fast-walker; mum is quite short with a delicate stride, so trying to accommodate both of them felt like a haphazard four-legged race. Also, with one person on either side of the bride, as you have suggested in your conundrum, I couldn't help but feel that it gave the impression of a suspect flanked by two law enforcement officers. Being frogmarched to 'Canon in D' is probably not the effect you want to achieve. Now I'm not sure if yours is a Release No. 3037 traditional marriage, Leanne, but

were enforced that made me wonder about our readiness for married life (though we still are married, almost a quarter of a century on). For starters, my to-be-betrothed and I (he, a casual Catholic, me, a passionate agnostic) had to attend wedding preparation classes. I can't tell you what they involved, because that particular priest went on extended sick leave after our first session (an ominous sign). Next we had to select Bible verses, which seemed like an easy enough task, but I found myself spending hours wading through some pretty confounding content, when I should have been focused on the Jukebox playlist and/or planning an elopement. 'It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am' and 'I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man' were among the quotes that jumped out at me for all the wrong reasons. Further, on the wedding day, our priest completely disregarded our Grid carefully prepared vows and L orated

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How do you hide an oil tanker? HOW do you hide an oil tanker ? I thought the answer to a question like that might be “with a great deal of difficulty”. But it becomes a lot easier when you are not looking. There are literally hundreds of ships anchored in the Gulf of Hormuz and none of them are allowed in or out of that waterway by both sides of the warring entities. Iran’s land occupies the eastern side of the gulf and is using its strategic position to control who goes into or out from the straits, as a weapon to try to stop the USA from bombing their nation. Whereas the USA has stationed its armada of warships across the mouth of the Straits and has used its navy to prevent any ships from entering or exiting the Straits as a method of bringing economic pressure to bear on the Arab nation of Iran, in order to achieve certain objectives. However marine traffic observers have revealed that hundreds of commercial ships are making these journeys quite regularly by taking what is called “dark Journeys” through Iran’s tollbooth route, with their locator beacons switched off. This is the direct opposite to what we are all told, which is that neither Iran nor the USA are allowing any ships access to the Straits, especially when carrying oil for export, as produced by Iran. There are a number of marine intelligence agencies watching these waters and reporting on this no-go zone and what they see happening. One is saying that some 40 dark transits happened very quickly after it was announced by the USA that this would not be allowed to happen. While each of these watching organisations uses different parameters and methods for making these numbers available, it is clear that a good deal of oilcarrying traffic is happening, probably for political reasons. China still seems to have access to oil from Iran carried on these vessels that the USA says cannot escape their naval blockade. One intelligence company Kpler is reporting that 264 ships have recently passed through the straits since early June and that a few of those are Iranian flagged vessels and probably part of the dark fleet. They travel at night without any lights and switch off their navigation beacons, but surely they can be tracked by radar and satellites. What does that say for the US Navy’s ability, which is supposed to be stopping that traffic? What is really going on?

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THE Coopernook and Lansdowne Forest History (CALF) Group, in conjunction with the Mid North Coast Country Music Association, will soon present its annual Country Music Fundraising Weekend. This will be held at Forest Headquarters in the Coopernook State Forest, on Forest Road Coopernook, on August 9 and 9, 2026. There will be free camping in the Forest Headquarters Park and a kids playground, so get in early. A $2 gold coin entry donation will be appreciated, and walk-up country music artists are welcome. If you can sing or play country music, then come and have a go. Entry is by Forest Road, South Moorland; Pinchgut Road, via Lansdowne Rd; and Bangalow Road in Coopernook – all will be signposted. By donation there will be morning tea (cakes, biscuits, slices, sandwiches), BBQ lunches (steak, bacon, sausages, eggs), coffee/tea?cold drinks. No alcohol will be sold. Saturday night tea and Sunday breakfast will be available if wanted/ordered. There will be plenty of raffles drawn daily, with prizes donated/supported by local businesses and CALF members. All monies raised will go toward the Cottage Restoration Forest Museum Project. The cottage museum will be open for inspection daily for those wanting to peruse the history of the forest area and timber cutting workings. Old and new timber cutting movies can be seen in our movie area - bring a table and comfortable chair to enjoy the music. CALF is open for new members to participate and help with the project. Contact Bob Smith on 049316549 for further information. Regards, Bob Smith, Coopernook and Lansdowne Forest History.

Many questions yet to be answered DEAR News Of The Area, I AM writing after hearing of the news of the pumped hydro and solar project going in at Stratford. I have major concerns about what the actual plan looks like and what the scale is going to be and how the local areas are going to be affected. How many power lines? What is to be the scale of the fiasco? Who is the company going to do the work? Are they just going to build power lines through their properties with no consultation with the local communities who will be affected by this? Are there actual plans drawn up of what completed works will look like? What environmental impact studies have been done? I have recently moved to the area to get away from the city and enjoy country life. This is not in my plan.The roads are not built for this development. This brings destruction of rural life in our area and destroys the native environment. What kind of pollution will there be facing the communities who live around this area? Is this the repeat situation of the dam that was going to be at Dungog and failed? Where is the pre consultation with communities in the area? What land devaluation is going to happen in this area, and are we going to see destruction on the scale of the Bayswater power lines? Is this because we have a government election in the next two years? Regards, Name withheld, Wards River.

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Look up into the sky and you look back in time LOOK up at a clear night sky and you are not seeing the Universe as it is - you are seeing it as it was. Every point of light above you is a message from the past, carried across unimaginable distances at the speed of light. Even the unaided eye can reach back years, decades, sometimes centuries. With a telescope, that journey becomes even more dramatic: you are effectively looking across deep time. In a very real sense, your telescope is a time machine. The reason is simple, yet astonishing. Light does not arrive instantly. It travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second, which sounds fast - until you start measuring the Universe in kilometres. The numbers quickly become absurd. To describe the distance to even a nearby galaxy, you would need strings of digits so long they feel almost fictional. Astronomers solve this by using lightyears: the distance light travels in one year, roughly 10 trillion kilometres. Once you think in these terms, even the Solar System becomes a place of delayed vision and communication. The Moon you see tonight is not the Moon “now,” but the Moon as it was 1.3 seconds ago. Sunlight takes just over 8 minutes to reach Earth, meaning every sunset is slightly behind reality. A telescope does not shorten this journey. It simply collects more of the ancient light, making distant objects brighter and more detailed. What you gain in clarity, you do not gain in immediacy. You are always looking backward. Scale this up further and the effect becomes mind-bending. Some of the stars in familiar constellations like Orion’s “Saucepan” pattern are so far away that any dramatic change occurring there would not be known to us for hundreds of years. If one of those stars exploded tonight, Earth would continue to see its calm, unchanged light until the year 2900 or beyond. We would be living through a cosmic delay of centuries. Then there are galaxies - entire systems of billions of stars - whose light began its journey before humans even existed. When you observe them, you are witnessing the Universe in its deep history, not its present state. For many people, this idea becomes unforgettable the first time it truly sinks in. It did for me during the early days of the Space Age. The launch of Sputnik 1 - the first artificial satellite - changed everything. A polished metal sphere roughly the size of a beach ball, it circled Earth every 98 minutes, broadcasting simple radio “beeps” that could be picked up worldwide. To some, it was a curiosity. To others, it was a shock. To me, it was electrifying. I remember listening to those faint beeps on a radio as a young observer and believing

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“I HAVE just returned from a fantastic overseas holiday where the weather was perfect and the fishing excellent. Magnificent scenery and a fascinating local history. Travel time by boat around about 40 minutes from the entrance to Port Stephens. “Broughton Island is an absolute wonderland with high peaks rolling down to long golden beaches. The bird life is abundant with the mighty sea eagle being the top of the food chain.” No fishing book written about Port Stephens, the local beaches, islands and reefs can be complete without a focus on Broughton Island. Once a little-known NSW island, Broughton has become a ‘must visit’ destination for fishermen, boaties and day trippers. Over recent years the island has changed socially, for the better, with an influx of families rather than a domination of fishermen. Bird watching, hiking, photography, snorkelling and of course fishing are all part of the island experience. I have been fortunate to have been a regular visitor to the island since my first trip in 1978 on board the “Waranah” with the late Col Jenkins. It is pleasing to report that the fishing, on and around the island, remains excellent. The fishing is red hot however there is far more

to Broughton with whales, seals, turtles, giant sting rays and dolphins cruising through the opal blue water. Eight nautical miles (14km) north from the heads and two kilometres off the coast sits Broughton Island, three kilometres long and two kms wide. The island was named by Captain James Cook after his mate Captain William Broughton. The history of Broughton Island is rich and colorful, which I discovered while researching my book “Broughton Islanders” back in 2013. The first to arrive were Worimi folk. Ample evidence indicates the presence of Aboriginal people who may well have walked onto the “island” before the ice caps melted. European lobstermen were recorded back as far as the 1880s along with the Chinese who, after failing to find gold out west, moved to the coast. On the island the Chinese caught fish, trapped lobsters and collected muttonfish (abalone), which were salted and sent either to their countrymen, still at the diggings, or transported back to China. In the 1890s Italians were dropped off on the island by passing coastal traders to trap lobsters and were picked up, with their catch, on the return journey to Sydney. It is recorded that they set up to 900 pots around the island. The Italians never ventured onto the mainland. It was 1906 when French Scientist Dr Danzig, the nephew of Louis Pasteur, arrived on the island with his

entourage of assistants and researchers. A plague of rampaging rabbits was causing havoc in the pastures of sheep farmers in New South Wales, turning green fields into deserts. The aim of the French involvement was to introduce rabbits onto the island, as part of a controlled study, then inject them with a virus in the hope that it would spread from one rabbit to another. Unfortunately, the experiment failed miserably so the French team left the island - but the rabbits did not. The rabbits remained until 2009 when they were eradicated by National Parks and Wildlife. With the rabbits went the rats and cockroaches, resulting in a return of natural vegetation and an increase in the bird population from the tiny cisticolas, shorebirds, oystercatchers and quails to the apex predator, the sea eagle. Sometime around 1920 a small Greek settlement was established behind the first line of dunes on the northern aspect of the island, referred to as North Harbour. This was a semi-permanent community of lobstermen which was abandoned following a second fire in the late 1930s. A small gathering of privately owned huts, along with a National Parks and Wildlife Service building, remain nestled out of the conditions in Esmeralda Cove, known as East Harbour. One of the most frequent questions I am asked is where can I catch a fish around Broughton Island?

The beaches around the island are spectacular with excellent fishing for whiting and flathead in the summer months. It is the surrounding reef system that provides ideal habitat for snapper, mulloway, teraglin, a growing population of pearl perch and kingfish that gets the recreational fishers very excited. There are literally hundreds of spots to drop the anchor or drift around the island. It all depends on the direction of the current, the wind direction and strength and the size and direction of the swell. There is no X marks the spot. Generally speaking, in a strong southerly wind, target the north side of the island and the opposite applies. Island GPS marks are freely available on the internet. I do prefer to chase snapper in a solid northeasterly breeze on the extensive reef system south off Cod Rock. I anchor, berley heavily and float an unweighted king prawn, fillet of bonito or slimy mackerel down, just on sundown. Rarely do I go home empty handed. I’m sure if you drifted and tossed plastics you would have equal success. Maybe do better. Give it a shot. Another spot I would suggest is to drift along the inner wall on East Head working plastics close in to the rock face. Other spots I have had success are the Gutz, North Island and The Sisters. Ask your local Bait and Tackle outlet to identify these spots. Like I said, there are hundreds of spots where snapper can be caught - in the

right conditions. It must be realised that Broughton Island is part of the Port Stephens - Great Lakes Marine Park and a significant area has been classified as Sanctuary Zone. As mentioned, the restrictions and zonings within the marine park are currently being reviewed. Maps are available throughout Port Stephens. If you are considering visiting the island there are a few precautions to consider. Firstly, a boat that can handle the conditions, preferably over 16 foot. Contact Marine Rescue on your departure and arrival at the island. There are shallow reefs that need to be avoided and of course you must also be prepared for a change in weather conditions. Basic, but adequate, camping facilities are

provided by NPWS, who you will need to contact if you intend staying overnight as a camping fee does apply. Travelling by private boat will require an understanding of the shallow reef system and the availability of mooring facilities. Running up onto the beach also requires thought. A dinghy would be recommended to ferry supplies from the moored boat onto the island. Keep in close contact with Port Stephens Marine Rescue and be aware of changes in the weather patterns. Broughton Island is a wonderland however it can become quite inhospitable if the weather turns. An alternative is to engage one of the charter vessels based in Nelson Bay to ferry you to the island and to pick you up at the end of your stay.

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“It is NOTA's job to ensure that people in our regional communities have access to the information, debates and decisions that shape the places where they work, live and play,” she said. “It is also NOTA's job to channel people's questions, seek out answers, and, where necessary, take action to amplify and promote the voices of the community.” Communities without newspapers lose cohesion, she believes. "They often lose their unity and sense of pride," she said. Ms Nesmith said it had been proven that people in communities without newspapers also disengaged

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with democracy and showed less interest in their local governance. “Those communities are then left without a watchdog,” she said. From her early days as a cadet reporter to all manner of editorial roles across newspapers, Ms Nesmith has channelled her personal, emotional reaction to news. “I don't do the objective 'bearing witness' thing well at all,” Ms Nesmith said. “I'm a fighter; a campaigner. I am confident that I'm decidedly average and, if I have a strong reaction to something, others probably will too.” She has a passion to share the stories of love, altruism and triumph, to support those who rally against ugliness, injustice and dishonesty and “to respect readers enough to simply give them all the facts and let them make up their own minds”. After almost a quarter of a century in newsrooms and coaching countless interns and cadets, Ms Nesmith has a head full of acronyms that help make the essentials stick. In a nutshell, good journalism starts with ABC. “A is for accuracy. Above all else, content must be accurate. Facts: check them, then verify them from another source if possible,” she said.

Atkinson in Great Golf Round By Peter WILDBLOOD IT WAS Scott Atkinson’s day at the Gloucester Golf Course on Saturday 18 July with an outstanding round some five points inside his handicap, the leading score across the field. The event, played in cool conditions and on a course a tad on the heavy side, was an Individual Stableford sponsored by Gloucester Valley Landscaping. The top score in A grade was a 36, turned in by Club Captain Nathan McInnes. In B grade the best score was a modest 33 by Matt Peters, but it was in C garde

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son Angus, Ms Nesmith lives a fulfilling life with tendrils of connection throughout the community. “We moved up from the Hunter Valley in the middle of COVID,” she said. “Angus is at Southern Cross University studying nursing, and he plays firstgrade rugby union for the Coffs Harbour Snappers. “My beloved stepmother Toby, who most recently lived in Dungog, came up to Coffs to be with us and lives downstairs in her own selfcontained space.” Her two elder sons are identical twins. “My eldest son Miles is a registered nurse and lives at Gladstone with my beautiful granddaughter Elsie. “My son Jack lives here in Coffs Harbour and is a small engine/motorcycle mechanic. He has given me two wonderful grandsons Clinton and Patrick.” Fittingly for an Urunga dweller, where a diverse avian community flourishes, Ms Nesmith is a bird lover “especially native raptors”. She is currently bonded for life with a once-wounded pigeon. “I scooped him up off the pavement in Coffs CBD a couple of summers ago and treated him for pigeon fly and bird pox, which took a long

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where the big scores were registered. The winner in that grade was Scott Atkinson with 41 Stableford points. That score saw him lead the ball winners followed by John Nicolson 40, Nathan McInnes 36, and by Matt Peters, Paul Griffiths and Bill Murray, all scoring 33 points. The Nearest-to-the-Pin trophies at the 4th and 13th holes were won by Paul Blanch in A grade, Geoff Reynolds in B grade and John Nicolson in C grade. At the shorter 6th and 15th holes the three grades were represented by Steve Williams, Geoff Reynolds

and Scott Atkinson. The long drive trophies at the 8th and 17th holes were won by Nathan McInnes, Matt Peters, and Stroud visitor, Geoff Freeman. The winner of the Super Sevens for the week ending Friday 17 July was Peter Markley with 17 Stableford points. Peter was three points ahead of a modest sized field with balls won by Derek Wand and Will Bosma 14, Simon Fox 13, and Max Shepherd on a count back with 12 points. On Saturday 25 July there is a Four Ball Better Ball Aggregate evet sponsored by the Yates Family, The following Saturday there will the August Monthly Medal an Individual Stroke event sponsored by Arkwood Organic Recycling.

the "girls" from enjoying 3 matches of Versatile Triples ie after each 6 ends each player swapped positions in their drawn team for the Point Score Voucher of the day. Debbie

Cushway,Julie Kriss and Bev Germon 15 defeated Fiona Bogaerts,Denise Redman and Bev Murray 10: Marge Moore,Di Pritchard and Cheryl West 18 accounted for Jill Carson,Helen Banks and Jenny Stevens 4: Ruth Redman,Val Pritchard and Judy Sheely 13 defeated Joy Hurworth, Suzanne Cross and Jenny Burley 10

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“B is for balance. Ensure all sides of an issue are covered. “And C is credibility speak to people who are positioned as experts or have lived experience. “Be mindful of Vs when people talk to you. Are they saying this stuff because they have a vested interest? Are they looking for vengeance? Can you verify what they are saying?” Ms Nesmith is passionate about regional journalism. She worked at the Newcastle Herald for almost 20 years, then served as the Lower Hunter editor for Fairfax and headed the daily Maitland Mercury newspaper and weekly papers The Lower Hunter Star, Cessnock Advertiser and Dungog Chronicle. She also spent time as a training executive at Fairfax which, after purchasing Rural Press, had more than 140 sites across Australia and New Zealand. “I was constantly on the road, or in the air, off to coach and train photographers, journalists and editors in newsrooms around the country - including Port Stephens, Port Macquarie, Nambucca and Coffs Harbour,” Ms Nesmith said. Now an established resident of Urunga with her husband Johnny and youngest

Freckle, the sick little bird who grew up and identified as a homing pigeon, with his rescuer. Photo: Angus Cheetham.

time,” Ms Nesmith said. In reacclimatising him she began to take him out for walks, expecting him to take wing at any moment. “I totally forgot that he’s likely a homing pigeon,” Ms Nesmith said. “He's not going anywhere, except for a lovely long fly to places unknown for the first half of every day and then back home to coo seductively at me from the front verandah for hours on end.” When Ms Nesmith joined NOTA, she joined an established publishing company, founded by Mr Wright in 2014 with one newspaper in Tea Gardens. That company now has

eight mastheads. As NOTA grew, Mr Wright's wife Rochelle, joined the company full time in 2020 taking on the general manager role. “While the big companies have been closing newspapers down, NOTA presses on launching new editions,” Ms Nesmith said. “I’m now learning to do things the NOTA way. It’s a business model that works, and it’s keeping newsprint and local journalism in the lives and homes of tens of thousands of readers. “I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to play a role in that essential service.”

Davies Wins Vets Golf By Peter WILDBLOOD

IT WAS a cool, sunny and generally pleasant morning for the Gloucester Veteran Golfers on Tuesday 14 July with Carolyn Davies taking the top prize on the day albeit with a pack of fellow players close at heel. The occasion was an Individual Stroke event sponsored by Gai Falla and the winner, in a medium sized

field was Carolyn Davies with an under-par net round of 70. Runner up on a count back was Tony Berecry 71 and he was followed by two additional players on that same score: Johanna Ware and Roy Crichton. The remaining ball winners were Will Bosma 75, Liam Wamsley 76, with Trevor Sharp and Derek Wand picking up the last two ball with their 77 each. The top putter on the day was Cariolyn

Davies, 27, … on a count back. The Nearest-to-the-Pin trophies at the 6th and 15th holes were won by Debbie Sate and Greg Young. On Tuesday 21 July the Gloucester Veteran Golfers were due to play an Individual Stableford sponsored by Gary Peters. Next Tuesday, 28 July, they will play another Individual Stableford this time sponsored by Max Shepherd.

greens. The players opted for a number of strategies to deal with the elements, including puffer jackets for the cold wind, and umbrellas for the rain, sun and the seasonallyconfused magpie already swooping players on the first hole. It was clearly Debbie Sate's day! She sponsored the day itself, won Division 1 with a handicap-bettering net score of 70, was Nearest-tothe-Pin on the 4th and 13th holes and won the prize for the putting competition with

a total of 26 putts across her 18 holes. The rest of the field had to be content with the remaining prizes. Moya Harris won Division 2 with a score of 78, with balls going to Carolyn Davies, 75, Anne Wand, 77, and Evelyn Blanch and Dale Rabbett 78. Evelyn also took out the Nearest-to-the-Pin prize for Division 1 on the 6th and 15th holes, while Lesly Harrison returned from her holiday to snaffle the prize for Division 2 on the same hole. This Wednesday, 22 July, the Gloucester Golf Ladies play a Par event sponsored by Johanna Ware and next Wednesday 29 July there will be an Individual Stableford..

Sate Shines in Women’s Golf By Carolyn DAVIES

LAST Wednesday, 15 July, the Gloucester Golf Ladies headed out for another Individual Stroke round for the month’s Women's Golf NSW Medal and it was Debbie Sate’s all-round performance that so well marked the day. The weather couldn't decide what it wanted to do. Showers were followed by patches of sunshine producing rainbows along the horizon, with southerly winds testing the putter's concentration on the exposed

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By Trudy SCHULTZ THE Gloucester Under 14 Scorpions' impressive eightgame unbeaten run came to an end last Saturday, going down 1-0 to the Wingham Warriors in a thrilling contest at Gloucester. The catch-up fixture kicked off at 9am in wet conditions, with steady rain making for a fast-paced and entertaining match. Gloucester created several opportunities during the opening half but found it difficult to break down Wingham's tall, well-organised defensive line. Most of the Scorpions' efforts came from long range or bounced comfortably through to the goalkeeper, who handled them with ease. Both teams pressed strongly and defended with determination, resulting in a scoreless first half. Aiden Peters continued his excellent form in the defensive midfield role, while Gloucester's dangerous wingers, Eli Soupidis and River Cowley, were repeatedly contained by a disciplined Wingham defence. The Scorpions also struggled to maintain possession through the middle of the park against

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