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CONTENTS Jen FEATURED THIS WEEK

Cowley A word of advice, my son

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Ned Kelly: Villain or victim?

Steve Hodder asks who the real villains were, in the tale of Australian history’s most famous outlaw.

20 Hugh Beveridge 22 Centre stage

Hold your horses on knee-jerk calls for bans.

Meet the budding young star at the forefront of Dubbo’s feature film.

REGULARS 4 Tony Webber 6 Natalie Holmes 8 Sally Bryant 17 Greg Smart 18 James Eddy You’ll also love...

28 Hear See Do Etc. 30 Play: Puzzles & Stars Front cover image Milena Sallustio

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y baby, my little boy, our only son – yesterday you became a man.

The process began 18 years ago but in the eyes of the law, today you’re an adult – old enough to drink (officially), to vote (finally) and to fight for your country (terrifyingly).

Just as when your sister blew out 18 candles, I’m so sorely tempted to wrap myself around you like a human shield and protect you, as I did when you were still small enough to curl up into my lap with your little dark, feathery fringe resting on my neck.

But even if it were possible to see around fate’s corners, I’d be doing you a disservice because it’s the awful lows that make life’s highs even higher. As much as I wish for you smooth seas and calm sailing, I know it’s the storms that will determine what kind of human being you’ll become.

Time will tell, but your dad and I have tried hard – with varying results – to walk the line between wise counsel and colossal hypocrisy, and just because you can legally buy us a beer now, doesn’t mean we’ll stop offering you advice.

Some will be good, some will be shite and you’ll ignore all of it. There are some things I want you to know – take ‘em or leave ‘em – but they’re offered with love.

I want you to know all the usual stuff – like the fact that piercings come and go but tattoos are pretty much forever; and that the back of a ute isn’t necessarily the most romantic of places to find true love. I want you to know how to get stains out of a white shirt (then iron it); how to cook one great meal (fortunately, your father is helping in this department) and that buying flowers is never a bad idea (see previous parenthetical comment).

But there are other things I want to tell you – things you’ll hear but not really listen to until they’re reinforced by experience, bitter and sweet.

I want to tell you that “mates” will let you down, sometimes when it counts most – and that this helps you sort out your real friends. In 30 years’ time, all those hundreds of Facebook ‘friends’ will be reduced to a handful – and that’s a good thing. Because that handful are the ones who’ll be there when it counts.

You’ll be the sum of your choices – good and bad. And you’ll make some doozies – good and bad – so always know the consequences and be prepared to live or deal with them.

I want you to know that loyalty is more important than popularity; that principles are costly to maintain but worth it in the long run; that saying sorry costs nothing and that tears are healthy, whether they’re from joy or grief. And I want you to know that it’s okay to be a man; that men and women are wonderfully different, and those differences are worthy of celebration; but know also that people should be judged on merit and humanity, not gender.

Remember that no-one will stand up for you if you stand for nothing. I hope

you’ll always have the courage to face up to your responsibilities and mistakes, but I want you to have passion, and to feel a fire in your belly for the things you believe in. I want you to ask “why” when everyone else is asking “how”.

I want you to understand that you are privileged, and with that privilege comes a responsibility to share and to give something of yourself to make the lives of others safer, happier or healthier.

Remember that patriotism is fine – wave the flag, but never, ever hide behind it or use it as a weapon. And I want you to remember, always, that while you’re now old enough to fight for your country, there are effective ways to do that other than with a gun in your hand.

I want you to be naïve enough to see the good in people, but cynical enough to know that with blind faith comes betrayal; have the sense to keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I’m sorry for all the times I didn’t (and won’t) listen, for the times I was (or am) too busy, too tired, too wrapped up in myself. I want you to know that your dad and I won’t always be right, but we’ll always be right in your corner. And if the world ends tomorrow, I want you to know you are loved and that you are one of your father’s and my two greatest achievements.

There’s a big wide world beyond your garden gate – take a deep breath and dive right in. Travel. Explore. Question.

Taste. Feel. Do it all. See it all.

But I wish for you the comfort of having a sense of place, of belonging. And that no matter where you are you’ll always know how to find, and follow, the road home.

••• ’ve been genuinely humbled by the response I’ve had personally and professionally since being named winner of the Tom Barrass Memorial Award for Regional Journalism last weekend in Newcastle – the same state-wide awards for which Tony Webber was also a finalist in the opinion/commentary category.

While I would not usually blow my own trumpet, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the award for the simple fact that it’s acknowledgement of the extraordinary efforts of the small team that brings you Weekender each week. It’s not easy. A former colleague described Weekender this week as “the little paper that could” – and he’s spot on.

But I’d also like to acknowledge that the award was for a two part series – Call of Duty – in which I told of the very personal toll policing can take on regional coppers, and on three very special officers in particular; three people I’m proud to count as friends – Mick Willing, Mark Meredith and Sue-Ellen Scott. I would also like to acknowledge that the series was possible only because there are six little children whose mums, thanks to Malcolm Naden, will never come home.

Rest in peace, Lateesha and Kristy.

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“ I want you to know all the usual stuff – like the fact that piercings come and go but tattoos are pretty much forever; and that the back of a ute isn’t necessarily the most romantic of places to find true love.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS

Tony Webber

>> Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and irksome know-it-all.

No more Mr Nice Guy as nation calls Shorten to act D

ear Mr Shorten, After the rolling disaster of the Rudd-Gillard debacle, I understand you playing it low key, if that’s what you’re doing.

In fact, just to dwell, the debacle of the Rudd-Gillard egos rubbing against each other like tectonic plates of self-interest ended up more like a runaway stagecoach crashing down stairs into a swimming pool full of chandeliers while a thousand camels bawled Led Zeppelin covers.

But I digress. If your strategy as Opposition Leader has been of the small target variety, then it has brought you some criticism as a consequence.

In fact Shaun Micallef skewers you like a trussed hog most weeks, and to be fair he has a point, strategy or not.

I’ve seen clips of some of your more spirited speeches, but for the most part when called upon to vent on behalf of those whose interests you represent, you often sound like you just woke up.

Clever lines can come across as contrived but the occasional flash of wit would at least differentiate you from, say, the furniture.

Or drop the Oscar Wilde routine altogether – look what comedy’s done for Mathias Cormann’s credibility – and revert to impassioned sincerity, on schools equality, on free health care, on tertiary opportunity for more than high earners.

It’s true, you have been mentioning those topics, I just feel you could take the hand brake off and turn up the intensity, for the benefit of both your political prospects and the wellbeing of the nation.

There’s mountains of material, not just a federal budget with all the empathy and even-handedness of an unfaithful spouse and their lover looking at the former’s wedding photos.

There’s a ridiculous war in Iraq where our salivating enthusiasm for more conflict meant our troops got there before the paperwork was processed.

Take a punt mate, oppose the bloody war. Of course the government will bring up footage of ALP figures past backing the conflict, but you could reply that without a clear strategy our involvement only adds to the chaos.

Inconsistency is not the end of the world – the PM has made it

“ Clever lines can come across as contrived but the occasional flash of wit would at least differentiate you from, say, the furniture.

an art form – and more importantly it might well serve to rally the faithful.

Look at your advocacy for gay marriage, made in front of the Australian Christian Lobby no less, a group for whom “Australia Square” is both an address and mindset.

That’s the gravy, Mr Shorten: progressive issues that already have the support of progressive voters.

There’s no need to be reckless, just look for popular causes among the voting demographic you are looking to engage and you’re in with half a chance, and the country might even benefit to boot.

Climate change, man! Start every sentence with it and get it embroidered on your lapel. The longer Australia grovels to coal barons the better your argument will sound, unfortunately because it will be backed by the weather gods themselves.

And there’s no point just being the sort of risk-averse, probusiness, pro-war, pro-US lickspittle people could vote for if they weren’t sure about Mr Abbott and Co. for some reason.

Because the risk is that while

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you are wooing those hypothetical ditherers, you lose more lefties to the Greens and more blue-collar voters to Palmer United.

For all her gaffes, PUP Senator Jackie Lambie is stealing your thunder saying government must do more for the poor and vulnerable.

This from a woman who said she didn’t think Clive Palmer would wield so much influence in the party. A party called Palmer United.

That’s like being surprised Manchester United is based in Manchester.

With the government’s polling improving slightly as they back away from the worst excesses – pork barrel maternity leave, free market unis, free speech for bigots and starving the unemployed – there’s no time to waste.

The country needs you to start swinging, at least that part of the country that doesn’t consider Gordon Gecko a role model.

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08.11.2014 THE DAY IN HISTORY: In 1793, the Louvre in Paris, containing one of the world’s richest art collections, became a public museum after two centuries as a royal palace.

In 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays.

In 1907, Australian Arbitration Court Justice Higgins set the minimum wage: two guineas for a six-day week.

In 1935, Australian aviators Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Tommy Pethybridge, aboard Lady Southern Cross, reported missing over Bay of Bengal.

In 1942, as World War II raged on, more than 400,000 Allied soldiers invaded North Africa.

In 1996, Australia barred Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams from entering the country because of his “intimate association” with the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

In 2005, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared a state of emergency in a bid to quell the nation’s worst rioting in decades.

In 2011, the Gillard government’s controversial carbon tax passed parliament with Labor and the Australian Greens forcing the 18 cleaning energy bills through the Senate.

In 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, smashed into the Phillipines, causing death and destruction on island after island.

BIRTHDAYS: Those born on this date include British astronomer Edmond Halley in 1656; games producer Milton Bradley in 1836; Irish author Bram Stoker (“Dracula”) in 1847; author Margaret Mitchell (“Gone With the Wind”) in 1900; heart transplant pioneer Dr Christiaan Barnard in 1922; former Socceroos coach Guus Hiddink in 1946 (age 68); singer Bonnie Raitt in 1949 (age 65); singer Rickie Lee Jones in 1954 (age 60); TV chef Gordon Ramsay in 1966 (age 48); and actors Courtney ThorneSmith in 1967 (age 47) and Tara Reid in 1975 (age 39).

09.11.2014 THE DAY IN HISTORY: In 1888, Tamworth, NSW, became the first town in the Southern Hemisphere to be lit by electricity.

In 1918, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated as World War I drew to a close.

In 1995, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat visited Israel for the first time to offer personal condolences to the wife of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

In 2008, three men were executed by firing squad for 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, mostly tourists.

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Four seasons in one Derby Day F

our thousand punters braved four seasons for the annual Derby Day celebrations at Dubbo Turf Club. Dubbed Dubbo’s biggest meeting of the year, the colts and fillies donned black and white for the annual event, while the spring weather dished out wind, rain and changeable conditions.

Dubbo Turf Club acting general manager Ian Giffin was pleased with the event’s outcome.

“Despite the weather, it was a fantastic day,” he said.

“Everything was perfect, it was a great day’s racing.”

Basic Model, from the Garry Lunn stable and with Joe Saiki on board, was the winner of the Myer Plate run over 1600m.

The local track backed up for Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup non-TAB meeting.

“The track looks a treat at the moment, it looks a million dollars,” Giffin added.

Chrissy card competition Budding artists have been given the opportunity to design the Member for Dubbo’s annual Christmas card, with the 2014 competition announced this week.

MP Troy Grant launched the competition at Buninyong Public School, which is attended by students from Kindergarten to Year 6.

Grant encouraged youngsters to get started on their creations.

“I encourage primary school students across the region to enter this competition, the winning entry will take pride of place on the front of my official Christmas card which is sent to hundreds of people and organisations across NSW,” he said.

This year’s theme this year is ‘Christmas in the Country’.

Entry is open to all primary school students in the Dubbo electorate.

The winning entry will receive a $200 voucher to the store of their choice.

Minokamo hosts Dubbo delegates Delegates from Dubbo have winged their way to Japan and back as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of Dubbo’s Sister City relationship with Minokamo.

Mayor Mathew Dickerson, Cr Allan Smith, Council staff David Dwyer and Ian McAlister joined 10 Dubbo residents who are either members of the Sister City Advisory Committee or have hosted Minokamo delegates in the past.

The mayor said the trip, which was selffunded, included sightseeing excursions as well as the formal reception and official festivities.

Power plant investigation The AGL solar power plant being constructed at Nyngan has come under fire from the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) which has raised a number of safety concerns about the site, including the presence of venomous snakes and a lack of anti-venom kits on hand.

It was also suggested that workers were being forced to work in unsafe temperatures that were against safety regulations after the CFMEU said three employees collapsed on site when forced to work in temperatures of around 45 degrees Celsius.

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Halloween does the trick Goblins and ghouls gathered for trick or treating across the city as part of Halloween festivities. Parties were held at private dwellings, along with a disco organised by the Hear our Heart committee and a movie night at Old Dubbo Gaol. The tradition which originated in Europe and popularised by Americans has taken a firm hold in Australian culture, despite the objections of many residents.

Kerry and Thomas had fun at Old Dubbo Gaol as part of Halloween celebrations across the city. Photo: Dubbo Weekender/Kaitlyn Rennie

Multi-dwelling development approved

Harvest, weather keep firies busy

Dubbo City Council has granted approval for Ryals Holdings Pty Ltd to construct multi-dwelling housing and serviced apartments as part of a 43-lot community title subdivision on Cobbora Road and Pegasus Place following its October ordinary meeting.

The approved development will be comprised of 27 multi-dwelling housing units

A combination of harvest and warm spring conditions kept NSW Rural Fire Service volunteers busy in the Orana region last weekend. On Friday afternoon, there was one fire after another, particularly in the Narromine district as farmers undertook harvesting activity.

NSW RFS Operations officer Laurie Douglas said the first callout was to a property on the Collie Rd in the Gilgandra area where a wheat crop had been harvested. Later in the afternoon, a second fire was detected 15km from Narromine on the Warren Rd. “A canola crop had been windrowed but not harvested. The fire was caused by a powerline going down,” he explained.

Douglas said firefighters were on their way home when a third blaze was reported. He believes it occurred when a utility was travelling through paddock stubble on a property located on Merritt’s Lane, 10km from Narromine.

“The driver was going towards the bin and header at the time,” Douglas said.

“Unfortunately, he lost the vehicle and a couple of hectares of stubble was burnt.”

Firefighters then awoke to news of a small fire in the locality of Eschol, Old Dubbo Rd, on Saturday morning. Although quickly extinguished, firefighters are suspicious of how it sparked.

“We are not sure, but a bit concerned.”

Sunday morning also brought news of fire, with strong winds aiding a blaze in a wheat crop 12km south-west of Eumungerie. A Wellington couple also es-

BIRTHDAYS: Those born on this date include astronomer Carl Sagan in 1934; folk singer Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) in 1936; Rock and Rool Hall of fame member Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), in 1941; bodybuilder/actor Lou Ferrigno (TV’s “Incredible Hulk”) in 1951 (age 63); athlete Jana Pittman in 1982 (age 32); and singeractress Delta Goodrem in 1984 (age 30).

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and 13 serviced apartments, a mix of one and two storey buildings.

Deputy Mayor Ben Shields said the development would contribute to the variety of housing available in Dubbo.

“The multi-dwelling housing units and serviced apartments could potentially appeal to seniors, busy professionals and even young families who are looking for a low-maintenance housing option, while seeking a sense of community,” he said.

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Jess Forrest, Tracy Letfallah and Jodie Kubski were all decked out for Dubbo’s Derby Day. Photo: Dubbo Weekender/Kaitlyn Rennie

caped injury after a fire in their home, which started in the bathroom in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Two separate smoke sightings were also reported on the weekend in the area between Wongarbon, Geurie and Comobella but turned out to be a false alarm.

A fire also burned land on either side of the Newell Highway, 8km north of Dubbo with 12 fire units responding to the blaze on Tuesday. The highway was closed for a short time due to the fire, which is suspected of being a deliberate act.

morning for the facility’s annual book sale. Hundreds of buyers were out and about as early as 8am all ready to pick up the bargains.

“It was extremely popular,” MRL manager of library services and collections Lindy Allan told Dubbo Weekender.

“Usually, there’s a rush at the beginning, but this time it was consistent for the whole morning. We had a very good response from the public.”

Thousands of books were made available for sale.

Road safety gong for roundabout

Hoods in the house

The roundabout at the intersection of Dubbo’s Talbragar and Brisbane streets is the toast of the town after picking up the Excellence in Road Safety Engineering gong at the NSW Engineering Excellence Awards.

Dubbo City Council’s Technical Services director Stewart McLeod said the roundabout’s construction was one of the outcomes of the Dubbo 2036 Community Strategic Plan and had dramatically improved traffic flow in the city‘s Central Business District.

He was pleased with the recognition garnered by the award.

“This project was identified by the community and I’m pleased council has been able to deliver infrastructure that meets the needs of residents, improves safety and contributes aesthetically to the CBD environment. I would like to congratulate my team on their great work.

“Despite weather setbacks, the project was completed on time and on budget with minimal disruption to surrounding residents.”

Gun theft in Narromine Another day, another firearm stolen – this time from a property at Narromine.

The gun and ammunition were stolen last Thursday after a male resident left his rifle in a shed behind the homestead overnight. When he returned the next morning, the firearm was gone.

Police from the Orana Local Area Command are investigating the theft.

Books snapped up by community Bibliophiles flocked to the Macquarie Regional Library ca-park on Saturday

Music lovers flooded Ollie Robins Oval to see Hilltop Hoods in concert on Saturday as the popular performers brought their unique style to town. Dubbo City Council’s city development project officer Kate Wright was among the concert-goers and was also part of the team which helped to deliver the music event to the city.

Council worked closely with Nine Touring and Events to secure the Hilltop Hoods as one of only five locations in the State to host the Cosby Sweater Tour.

Wright had been having a glass of red at the Monkey Bar with her husband when she was drawn by the event’s atmosphere.

“We were lured by the crowds and the music,” she laughed.

Being one of only a handful of inland destinations for the national tour was pretty special and having the concert beneath the gum trees by the river made for a unique experience.

“It was an amazing event,” she said.

“There was a couple of thousand people there. We really appreciated the younger crowd coming out to support it.

It was really great to see. Dubbo was one of the few inland locations on the touring program.”

With other events such as City versus Country and Artlands adding to Dubbo’s cultural and sporting landscape, Wright said the city’s location and infrastructure and support from local business have contributed to its positioning as a place to visit.

“Dubbo has a lot going for it as an event destination,” she said.

UGLY bartender raises thousands Josh Lang is not Wellington’s ugliest

bartender, but he proved to have what it took last Saturday when raising money as part of the UGLY Bartender of the Year event. Lang hosted a trivia night in the local RSL Club auditorium, and looks set to donate $3500 to the Leukaemia Foundation for his efforts.

“It was a great night,” he said.

“We didn’t actually set a target but we were pleased with the outcome. Everyone said it was a fantastic night. We had a good response.”

Lang pointed out that every $80 raised will pay for one night’s accommodation for a regional family to stay in the city if someone’s having treatment.

“A couple of people in Wellington have leukaemia so it’s close to home,” he said.

Cuttlesharks, composed of Dubbo and Wellington participants, won the night on 81 points, taking home vouchers, wine and chocolates.

Podium finish for Fearnley Central West product Kurt Fearnley showed he’s still very much a champion by winning his fifth New York Marathon this week. The Carcoar born wheelchair athlete, renowned for his strength and spirit, took the honours after a dramatic finish in which he broke clear of the pack in the last 100m to take the honours a full second clear of South African runner-up Ernst van Dyk in a time of one hour, 30 minutes and 55 seconds.

The 33-year-old has previously won Paralympic gold and crossed the Kokoda Trail.

HSC draws to a close The Higher School Certificate drew to a close this week, with students across the state breathing a collective sigh of relief at the major examination’s conclusion.

In Dubbo, there was a positive reaction from Christian School students following the English exam with Paper 1 described

by Head of Humanities Tracey Leaf as “fair and reasonable”.

Dubbo College Senior Campus maths teacher Jayne Ainsworth was relieved to see this year’s mathematics paper.

“It was really very fair and much better than the 2013 paper, which was heavily criticised for its level of difficulty,” she said. Students will now continue on their path to adulthood with further study or entry into the workforce.

Jen Cowley’s brief foray into the world of three-wheel motorbiking – or “triking” – drew this comment from online reader Debbie, who it seems is a kindred spirit: I am a female “triker” and I have a trike of my own. We are slowly growing in numbers. Most of us girls started on the back of our hubby’s/partner’s trike. Once you’re bitten by the trike bug you’re hooked.

••• A few weeks back, our Editor, Jen Cowley copped a caning from online reader and Ned Kelly-o-phile Mick following her comments about the famed outlaw’s place in Australian history (A skewed view of history, but such is life – Weekender 4/10/14) He (Mick, not Ned) took issue with the assertion that Kelly was more villain than hero. Last week, other online readers came to Weekender’s defence.

Roy had this to say about his fellow online reader and critic: Mick is a well-known internet serial pest and member of the pro-Ned Kelly Forum. He attacks anyone who dares to tell the truth about Ned. His Facebook page Unmasking “The Kelly Gang Unmasked” book tells a story of unwarranted and ignorant criticism of a book that earned excelled newspaper reviews including a full page in the London Times Literary Supplement.

Just ignore Mick. He won’t go away, but he doesn’t know much about Ned. Adam similarly agreed with the editorial comments: Well done for speaking up, Jen! At the time the killing of the three police was called the “police murders” – because that’s what they were. Today, Kelly apologists and even some prominent legal people talk of self-defence. Unfortunately for them, that was never raised at the trial. The courtroom evidence of sole survivor Constable Thomas McIntyre was unequivocal. He said Lonigan and Scanlan were killed without firing a shot. Ned chased Sergeant Kennedy through the bush exchanging shots before killing him as he lay dying on the ground.

What more to say?

And Sam had this to say: Gutsy journalism for a change!

The modern Kelly folklore is full of myths and legend. Ned was a poor icon then and now.

(Ed’s note: See Steve Hodder’s history feature about the Ned Kelly saga, and a different view of the history behind the notorious bushranger’s life and death on Page 11).

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Sally Bryant

Weekender regular Sally Bryant was born with her nose in a book and if no book is available, she finds herself reading Cornflakes packets, road signs and instruction manuals for microwaves. All that information has to go somewhere...

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here’s a lovely hint of moisture in the air as I type. I don’t want to get too excited because I wouldn’t want to jinx myself but there’s a lovely smell of rain coming. It’s a glorious smell, and all too infrequent just now. And even more infrequent right now is the equally delicious and equally welcome smell of wet earth.

Petrichor. Not the most musical word on earth, but still it somehow captures that rich earthy smell that comes from the welcome relief of rain after a long period of dry.

Official definition?

“A pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather: Other than the petrichor emanating from the rapidly drying grass, there was not a trace of evidence that it had rained at all”.

And if you type petrichor into your search engine, voila! There are all sorts of permutations, all sorts of references to petrichor. You can actually buy any number of perfumes, of scents that purport to smell of the earth after rain. I’m assuming that means the lovely smell of earth after rain rather than a decaying bog or a slush pond. There is any number of perfumers who say they’ve captured the essence of this wonderful smell and they’ll sell it to you in a bottle so you can douse yourself, or your house in the joy of recent rain. However, none quite as joyous as the real thing. And so we wait.

In the meantime, I’ve made a quite miraculous discovery in the kitchen. Who knew the addition of cinnamon to mince would give your meal an indefinably middle-eastern flavour? Some mince, some garlic and onion, and the addition of cinnamon all cooked up together; and then serve it up with home-made hummus and some toasted flat bread? You really do have to give that a crack. And I’m wondering if you could somehow add

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“ There should be a lawnmowing roster in the neighbourhood so that we stagger the smell and there’s always a hint of the freshly mown on the breeze.

that flavour to some little lamb chops?

Something worth trying. Especially on the barbecue in the evening, so the scent travels across the back fences and winds its way into other people’s lives.

I am loving the warmer weather; I’m loving the fact that the local pool is now open for business and I’m loving the spring and positivity in the air. I’m as happy as a clam that I can dry my clothes in the washing line in a matter of minutes most days, and most of all I’m loving the smell of sunshine that comes back inside with them. To dive into bed and press your face into pillow slips that smell of fresh sun and wind, to crawl out of bed in the morning and throw on clothes that are crisp and fragrant as toast. O, happy day.

And the scent of fresh cut grass. Particularly when someone else has mown their lawn. In fact there should be a lawn-mowing roster in the neighbourhood so that we stagger the smell and there’s always a hint of the freshly mown on the breeze. And the smell of fresh cut hay; how lovely, how refreshing and how filled with promise that is.

I’m working on a pomander at the present. Years ago I shared a house with a bloke who had a turn for the creative. He had a day job, but used to design and sell hats at the market, and also any amount of other canny little devices. And one year, he bought himself a heap of oranges and a heap of cloves, and made a series of pomanders to give to his friends. I was one of those lucky friends.

And, a few days ago, I was sorting out shirts in my wardrobe and found the old pomander hanging on a coat hanger, just as good as ever. And the scent was lovely. So, for my sins, I took myself down to the supermarket and purchased some oranges and lemons. And I purchased any amount of cloves. And I set to creating my pomander.

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It’s a lovely pastime. You poke little holes in the orange, and then you poke a whole clove into the hole. And the orange juice runs over your fingers. And the scent of the cloves and the scent of the juice and the stronger, oilier scent of the peel is all delightful as you work your way around the orange.

In retrospect, I possibly should have bought smaller oranges? And I’m still doing the research to work out the best and least chemical way to dry the pomanders so they don’t go manky and mouldy as they age. If I’m putting all this energy into making them, I’ll not be wanting to throw them out in a matter of weeks.

And as for making them for family and friends as jolly crafty Christmas gifts? Well, maybe not. I’m still half-way through the first one, my fingers are hurting and my circle of loved ones is too big. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

And, did you notice how neatly I slipped in the ‘C’ word? Suck it up folks, it’s just around the corner. There are Christmas songs on the radio playlists, there are decorations in the stores – taking up the space that had been filled by the tat for Halloween. The consumer juggernaut that is the nativity is almost upon us.

My survival technique is pretty simple. Identify which member of the clan is hosting the family gathering, make a vague offer to help with the gravy, review the stash of Christmas gifts I’ve been collecting for the past eight months (realising that I have found eight gifts for one family member and none for someone else). And then concentrate on the spiritual aspect of the event, and rise above the commercial crassness and family dysfunction that is endemic to the whole thing.

And think of the smells. And become inscents-ed.

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In my book... you know it makes scents

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The Watercooler Tacky is in the eye of the beholder

Goodbye to Gough

After a very public split earlier this year with wife Brynne Edelsten, millionaire former medico and businessman Geoffrey Edelsten is back off the marriage market after proposing – very publicly at this week’s Melbourne Cup – to 25 year old US Model girlfriend Gabi Grecko.

She told the media of her delightful surprise moments after 71 year old Geoffrey, resplendent in a shiny canary yellow suit, went down on bended knee in front of The Birdcage (the celeb area) and watching media.

Edelsten says the proposal was planned after the young model dared him – but it seems no-one else was surprised given she’s been calling herself the “next Mrs Edelsten”. She also changed her last name on Twitter and then proceeded to give her predecessor Brynne Edelsten a verbal bashing on national TV for continuing to use the Edelsten name.

The not-so-blushing bride to be took the opportunity for a swipe at her fiance’s former wife and her fashions style, calling it “obvious” and “tacky”. Umm... wonder if Gabi checked her own mirror before leaving for the races. Or gave her husband-to-be the once over? What’s that saying about pots and kettles and black?

Thousands gathered on Wednesday at Sydney’s Town Hall to pay their respects to a ‘giant’ of Australian politics, former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

With more than 6,000 people having registered to attend the funeral, most were turned away given there were only 1,700 seats.

Many travelled from Canberra and a group of 20 Gurindi people travelled from near Katherine in the Northern Territory to honor a man who has had such a massive impact on Australia. The number of reforms for which Gough Whitlam is credited is amazing, given his very short term as Prime Minister in the early 70s – he was at the helm for just three years.

The service was a real celebration as speaker after speaker regaled the audience with his accomplishments, his character and his commitment to reform.

Indigenous leader, Noel Pearson really gave a wonderful eulogy and questioned the focus of the current crop of pollies, saying they’re more focused on retaining power than on reforming Australia.

Not a site for sore eyes It had to happen sooner or later. It just happens that supermarket giant Coles is the first to take a hit. Sydney woman Gisele Mesnage, who is vision impaired,

Management consultant Natalie Bramble is as well known around the traps for her tireless community efforts and business acumen as for her unique and ready laugh. And you’d be surprised what she picks up around the ‘watercooler’ while she’s traversing this wide brown land in the name of work...

has launched what pundits are calling a landmark claim against Coles claiming the massive conglomerate is not providing an accessible online shopping experience for her.

Coles says it’s undergone consultation and sought expert advice to make the business’ online shopping site accessible and that it has the resources and funds to invest in making the website user-friendly for people who have vision impairment –unlike the many, many businesses out there that don’t have those same resources.

Why, in an increasingly technologydriven and dependent world, are there so many websites that ignore the rules of web accessibility? I’ll be watching the outcome of this case with interest – it should make everyone really think about their websites and hopefully see a return to accessibility rules that some seem to have misplaced.

The famed Paris icon of cabaret also holds two world records – can you guess which? No prizes – Moulin Rouge holds the record for high-kicks and jump-splits.

A real birthday knees up Oh la la! Moulin Rouge is celebrating its 125th birthday with a bevy of highkicking can-can dancing feathery costumed Doriss Girls dressed to the nines in glitter and bling.

With VIPs, royalty and tourists alike, the Moulin Rouge is definitely a must-see for any visitor to France and undoubtedly one of the worlds ‘social’ treasures.

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WHAT I DO KNOW

Alex Matthews: I’ll be back next year Winner of the inaugural Dubbo Stampede Rhino Ramble marathon, ALEX MATTHEWS, gives a blow by blow account of preparing for the race and finishing at the top of the winner’s podium. The emergency doctor is already looking forward to his next run in Dubbo. AS TOLD TO Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Rod Campbell The Dubbo Stampede Rhino Ramble had been on my calendar for some time and nothing was going to get in the way of attempting the first ever Dubbo Marathon. I had spent four months from May to August working in Dubbo Hospital and this provided the opportunity for running the tracks and suburbs with renowned Commonwealth Games Marathon runner and Dubbo local Jane Fardell. Jane was a wealth of knowledge when it came to running routes, athletics tracks and ovals and we hit out some solid sessions together over this period.

It was on one of our long 25km early morning runs in the middle of the cold Dubbo winter that Jane mentioned there was going to be a marathon added to this year’s running festival and that I should give it a go.

She said it was a chance to meet a great running community and experience a great country atmosphere with race HQ stationed at Taronga Western Plains Zoo. I instantly pencilled it in at the time but knew that the logistics and fitting it in to a busy work schedule might make it difficult.

Over the past month I had been back in Sydney building up the kilometres after a good hit-out at the Centennial Park Ultra 50km which doubled as the National 50km Championships. There I had run a solid 3:05 and felt that my consistent winter base training was paying dividends.

My weekly routine was getting some structure as I was no longer on shift work and I was able to fit in regular double days (undulating morning runs and evening tempo runs). I had completed a four-week block where I had remained injury-free and illness-free and building my weekly mileage. I was pleased with my consistency where I had run 160km/week minimum.

I knew I had set myself a busy schedule for the weekend. Working in the Dubbo Emergency Department on Saturday for a 10-hour shift (8-6pm) and Sunday for another 10 hour shift (1-11pm) after the marathon...but aren’t distance runners all a little insane!

After an early start to catch an early Saturday morning flight, I was glad to finish my 10 hour shift in emergency. What a better preparation for the marathon than a pre-race dinner with Jane Fardell and family, as well as with Sean Williams and Cindy King. After a perfect carbo-loading dinner, off for an early night and almost immediately, it was 5am and time to prepare for an exciting day at the zoo!

After arriving at race HQ at the zoo, it was time to get revved up by Mossy and Robbo (The Naked Runners) and get ready for a tough hit-out. At 7am, we were off with another 58 like-minded runners for the inaugural Rhino Ramble and after a short section through the zoo, we were off onto Obley Road and the race had begun.

I felt I was on local turf after numerous runs on this section of the course. The race was three laps of the Tracker Riley Cycleway (approximately 14km each loop), a mix of bitumen, concrete and sandy loose trail, all surfaces providing challenges as well as the magpies who were guarding their territory during the breeding season!

I felt strong for the entire first and second lap. I was trying to stay relaxed and maintain my pace and according to my TomTom Cardio GPS watch, all was on track for my targe time of around 2:30. This plan was slightly ambitious over the tough course with a headwind on each lap along Obley Road and as hard as I tried, my pace slowed on the third lap, despite trying to push a little harder.

The volunteers at each of the drink/aid stations provided great support when it started to pinch and plenty of local residents lined Macquarie Street outside

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their houses to provide support to all the entire race – a sign of great country community spirit! Towards the end of the race, at 38km, I was at 2:19 on my watch and I knew that I wasn’t going to run my goal time without running sub-3 minute/km and I would be better to enjoy the rest of the run and stay relaxed.

On entering the Taronga Western Plains Zoo at the end of the third loop, I was excited to get a cheer from all the participants who had completed the Zebra Zoom and the Cheetah Chase earlier in the day. I could hear Mossy and Robbo on the commentary, I was nearly there and ready for a much-needed rest!

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On crossing the finishing line in 2:36.17, I was pleased to have won the inaugural Dubbo Stampede Rhino Ramble Marathon and to have done it in the company of the Race Patron Andrew Lloyd (Australian Running Royalty). I was thrilled to have been a part of such a great occasion in Dubbo and to have shared the day with Jane Fardell who won the marathon for the girls!

After a quick recovery, I made it to work on time at 1pm in Dubbo Emergency and survived the 10 hour shift on my feet! A busy but great weekend and will be back next year for sure to defend the race record!

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It will be 134 years this week since notorious bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in a Victorian prison for the murder of police constable Thomas Lonigan.

At recent police remembrance services, Kelly has again been branded a psychopath but who, asks STEVE HODDER, were the real villains in the tale of Australian history’s most famous outlaw?

Ned Kelly armour at Old Melbourne Gaol. Photo: created by David Johns, Andrew Chapman, Peter Eve.

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well ramped up the slave trade during his tenure as Protector of Ireland; selling more than 100,000 Irish children aged between 10 and 14 to plantation owners and settlers in the West Indies and America.

This system of human trafficking was conducted under the guise of ‘indentured servitude’; a system to which the defenceless and illiterate Irish had no recourse.

The African slave trade; started by the English at the same time, became a lucrative venture, but it had its pros and cons. The Africans were larger in physique and free of the stain of Catholicism, but were much more expensive than the Irish. To overcome the high cost of purchasing large numbers of African slaves the plantation owners bred the male Africans with the Irish girls to produce highly prized ‘mulatto’ offspring, which increased their labour force and brought premium prices on the open market.

The practice of crossbreeding Africans and Irish became so widespread that legislation was passed in 1681 to ban it; however this only came about due to pressure from the English shipping owners, whose profits from the slave trade were being impacted.

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Ned Kelly at age 15. Photo taken by police at Kyneton. Image by Keith McMenomy.

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n a recent editorial highlighting National Police Remembrance Day, Victorian Police Association secretary Greg Davies referred to Australian bushranger Ned Kelly as a “psychopathic criminal misfit” for murdering three police officers at Stringybark Creek in 1878.

NSW Police commissioner Andrew Scipione spoke to the media on the day saying: “Our thoughts are with the extended police family of all those we have loved and lost. They will never be forgotten.”

Many Australians would have empathised with the commissioner given the cold-blooded killing of police officer and father of six David Rixon at Tamworth in 2012. But that is now, not the 19th century when Ned Kelly lived and died and relations between the general population and the law were markedly different.

It will be 134 years this week since the Victorian authorities hanged Ned Kelly for the murder of police constable Thomas Lonigan.

Kelly, 23, his brother Dan, 17, and their companions Steve Hart, 19, and Joe Byrne, 21, were also responsible for the deaths of Sergeant Michael Kennedy and Constable Michael Scanlon, and later a former friend turned police informer Aaron Sherritt.

Greg Davies reckons Kelly and his cohort were psychotic killers, but who were the real psychopaths in this case and where did the seeds of this calamity germinate?

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n essence, the unrest in northern Victoria at the time of the Kelly Outbreak was due in large part to centuries old hostilities between English authorities and Irish peasants.

The extent of ill-feeling between the English ruling class and the Irish poor is revealed with a quick history tour of Ireland going back almost a thousand years, when the impact of the English was first felt with the Norman Invasion of Ireland in 1177.

The English presence has remained to this day and been resisted and resented ever since.

In the 16th and 17th centuries the Crown implemented its ‘Plantation’ policy allowing thousands of English and Scottish Protestants to take over property previously owned and worked by Irish Catholics for centuries.

In 1613, the Irish Parliament was overrun by a gerrymander system allowing Protestant new settlers to take control. By the end of the 17th century Irish Catholics were banned from the Parliament even though they represented 85 per cent of the population. The Irish fought back in 1641 and 1689 but were roundly defeated; suffering extensive casualties and further dispossession. Estimates indicate a third of the population were exterminated or exiled under the authority of English ruler Oliver Cromwell, who governed Ireland from 1649-53.

The exiling of Ireland’s dispossessed was instigated in the early 1600s by English kings James II and Charles I, who sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to British settlers in ‘New World’ colonies. Crom-

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“ Certainly their wives and children are to be pitied but they must remember those men came after us with the intention of scattering pieces of me and my brother all over the bush.”

– Ned Kelly, in his “Jerilderie Letter” following the deaths of three Victorian police-officers.

nother black episode in English-Irish relations occurred in 184549 with Ireland’s potato famine that caused about one million deaths from starvation and disease and forced another million to migrate to America, Canada and Australia.

The famine was caused by phytophthora blight in the nation’s potato crop; the potato being the staple food product for about 85 per cent of the population. Many Irish were tenant famers on land owned by English landlords. These Irish farmers produced abundant cereal crops and other food products; most of which was shipped to England.

To compensate for the loss of the potatoes the English initially imported large quantities of cheap Indian corn as a food substitute for the Irish, which caused widespread dysentery and more deaths from disease.

In 1846, Charles Trevelyan was installed as overseer of famine relief in Ireland. Trevelyan was a staunch advocate of laissezfaire, believing the free market would sort things out; it didn’t.

A fundamental protestant and fastidious note taker, Trevelyan documented many of his thoughts including his belief that it was God’s will for the Irish to starve and be forced to leave the country. In England his efforts were deemed of the highest calibre resulting in a knighthood from Queen Victoria.

Trevelyan’s role in letting a million Irish die of starvation may have dissipated in the fog of time, had it not been for the popular folk song Fields of

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Athenry. The song details the plight of a young Irishman, who stole a bit of food to feed his starving children, but ends up getting caught and shipped to Botany Bay. The next wave of Irish deaths at the hands of the English came about with the 1798 Rebellion. Hostility toward the English had fomented for many years with groups of Irish rebels across the nation primed to take on their oppressors and liberate the country.

However the poorly armed Irish were bloodily defeated by the superior strength and armoury of the English. Some of the more renowned battles occurred at Carlow, Vinegar Hill and Antrim. The latter being the birthplace of Ned Kelly’s mother Ellen Quinn in 1832.

One of the great leaders of the 1798 Rebellion, Michael Dwyer carried out a guerrilla campaign against the English for several years from the Wicklow Mountains before surrendering and being exiled to Australia. Dwyer died in Liverpool, New South Wales in 1825. His final resting place is in the Tomb of the Irish Martyrs in the centre of Waverley Cemetery.

England’s retaliation for the Rebellion was swift and uncompromising. Many across the country suspected of involvement in the uprising were disembowelled and burned alive; their heads placed on spikes in the village squares. Catholic priest, Father John Murphy, who opposed the English at Enniscorthy was stripped, flogged, hanged and beheaded; his corpse burned in a barrel and his spiked head placed at the entrance of his church. Towns and villages the length and breadth of Ireland bear markers in their cemeteries commemorating those killed in 1798, about 25,000 in total.

The next round of punitive measures against the Irish occurred when slavery was abolished in England in 1807. This brought about a corresponding rise in the number of Irish convicted of petty offences and transported to Australia for a minimum of seven years. A quarter of the 162,000 convicts sent to Australia between 1788 and 1868, were Irish.

The 8300 word document outlines the reason he went to war against the authorities. He took full responsibility for the deaths of the police officers at Stringybark Creek and gave his version of the events of the night Constable Fitzpatrick accosted his family at their home at Greta.

Kelly declared the Queen of England was as guilty as the Victorian Police, and proclaimed: “There was never such a thing as justice in English laws, but any amount of injustice.” He spoke of Ireland’s blight under British rule and the torture of the convicts, “all of true blood, bone and beauty,” he argued; banished to Australia where, “many a blooming Irishman rather than subdue to the Saxon yoke, were flogged to death and bravely died in servile chains, but true to the shamrock and a credit to Paddy’s Land”.

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uch has been written about the Kelly Outbreak; the rights and wrongs of those on either side, but nearly all including the police, identify the actions of Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick on April 15, 1878 as the probable cause of the war that erupted.

A known womaniser, Fitzpatrick had his eye on Kelly’s 14 year-old sister Kate even though he had a fiancé at Frankston and had left another girl pregnant at Meredith.

Fitzpatrick was ambitious and keen to make a name for himself. He was advised by his superiors never to go near the Kelly homestead alone but on this day he ignored those commands in a bold attempt to arrest Dan Kelly for horse stealing.

The truth of what occurred at the Kelly homestead that day remains open to conjecture but the outcome

was clear; Kelly and his brother Dan were declared outlaws and their mother and two neighbours sent to prison, charged with the attempted murder of Fitzpatrick.

Fitzpatrick claimed he was shot in the arm by Ned, who was aided and abetted by his brother Dan, their mother Ellen and their neighbours Bill Skilling and William Williamson. The Kellys claim Fitzpatrick arrived at the home late in the afternoon, drunk and abusive, wanting to arrest Dan. At some stage Fitzpatrick was said to have made indecent advances towards Kate, which resulted in an assault from Dan and Ellen. Fitzpatrick sustained a minor injury to his forearm that a doctor later reported might have been caused by a bullet.

Ned and Dan Kelly cleared out, along with their friend Joe Byrne, who was also at the homestead at the time of the Fitzpatrick incident. The trio were later joined by another friend Steve Hart.

In the Jerilderie Letter, Kelly defended the killings at Stringybark Creek as a result of the outrages committed by the police against his mother and Skilling and Williamson, whom he claimed were wrongfully imprisoned on the false testimony of Fitzpatrick.

About 18 months after his fateful visit to the Kellys, Fitzpatrick was dismissed from the Victorian Police for ongoing laziness, incompetence and lies.

Ellen Kelly, with a new born baby on her breast, was jailed for three years; Skilling and Williamson were given six years each.

Sergeant Michael Kennedy and constables Thomas Lonigan, Michael Scanlon and Thomas McIntyre set out to track down and capture Kelly and his cohort, dead or

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ed Kelly’s father, John ‘Red’ Kelly was one of those; transported to Australia from his home in Tipperary in 1841. Aged 21, Red Kelly was sentenced to seven years hard labour in Van Diemen’s Land for the crime of stealing two pigs.

On completion of his sentence in 1848, Red Kelly moved to the district of Wallan about 30 miles from Melbourne, where he met Ellen Quinn; they married in 1850.

Their son, Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly was born in December 1854.

The Kellys were a poor family, like many of the freed convicts and labouring class immigrants in Australia at the time. And, like many of the poor of that era they were not averse to helping themselves to the wealthy squatters’ stock.

Kelly’s father, Red, died from heart failure aged 46 in December 1866.

At age 15, Kelly was sentenced to three years hard labour for “receiving” a stolen horse. Kelly recounted in his Jerilderie Letter how he was hogtied and bashed by the police during his arrest. It is true that the Kellys and many of their friends were thieves, but the actions of the police and the judiciary throughout the period remain questionable at least. It is not clearly understood what motivated the police to act so harshly toward the Kellys and the underclass to which they belonged, but the Jerilderie Letter provides some evidence of how the lower classes felt.

Kelly penned the letter with the assistance of fellow outlaw Joe Byrne while on the run from police in 1879. Kelly wanted the letter published to inform Australians what was happening to the poor in Northern Victoria. The authorities suppressed its publication; it was not released until 1930.

Reward poster for the Kelly Gang. Image

by Keith McMenomy.

Police re-enactment at Stringybark Creek. Photo by Arthur Burman. Image by Keith McMenomy.

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“ The British led authorities may have managed to get rid of another Irish rebel in the form of Ned Kelly but the greater Australian population retained a significant disrespect and distrust of the nation’s police.

alive. McIntyre survived the battle at Stringybark Creek and fled on horseback.

“I was compelled to shoot them or lie down and let them shoot me,” Kelly argued in the Jerilderie Letter. “They would have got great praise and a promotion but I am reckoned a brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie down for them. Certainly their wives and children are to be pitied but they must remember those men came after us with the intention of scattering pieces of me and my brother all over the bush.”

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significant amount of community support was behind Ned Kelly, which enabled the outlaws to evade the police for a further two years. But finally Kelly became tired of hiding and decided to take on the police in a bold attack at Glenrowan. Kelly was not alone; historians believe he had as many as 350 armed supporters ready to fight for a republic of Northern Victoria.

On June 27 1880, after the murder of police informant Aaron Sherritt, a special train was sent from Melbourne to Glenrowan with a contingent of heavily armed troopers and four journalists to prosecute and capture the downfall of Ned Kelly.

Some months before, Kelly and his companions (with the support of sympathisers) fashioned suits of armour out of plough shares, in readiness for their final showdown with the police.

On the night the police train was due the four outlaws rounded up Glenrowan’s 62 residents, many of them women and children, and herded them into the village’s small inn to prevent anyone warning the police.

When the train arrived Kelly, dressed in armour, left the inn to investigate, leaving his armoured comrades inside. Kelly could not get back inside before the police attacked. He was caught in a hail of gunfire and wounded twice in the left arm and once in the right foot and collapsed in the scrub from loss of blood; he was not seen in the dark.

The police surrounded the small weatherboard Inn and opened fire, killing 13 year-old Jack Jones, son of the innkeeper Ann Jones. Two other civilians were fatally wounded by police, quarryman George Metcalf and fettler Martin Cherry. After a lull in firing, the women and children in the inn tried to leave but were driven back by police fire.

Kelly regained consciousness a short while later and went to warn off the group of armed sympathisers waiting in the scrub ready to attack the police. Kelly declared it was his fight and did not want them involved.

During the next round of firing, a police bullet passed through the apron slit in Joe Byrne’s armour hitting him in the groin and severing his femoral artery; he died soon after. Kelly witnessed Byrne’s death then went back outside to single-handedly take on the police – his brother Dan and Steve Hart remained inside.

In the breaking dawn light, clad in armour, Kelly took on the police in a final showdown. After a blazing gun battle with bullets flying off his armour Kelly was finally brought down with a shotgun blast to the legs.

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In the daylight, the police allowed the civilians to leave the inn without firing on them; Dan Kelly and Steve Hart remained inside. The standoff dragged into the afternoon. Impatient to capture the outlaws the police set fire to the inn to burn them out.

Catholic priest, Dean Gibney rushed into the burning building to save Dan Kelly and Steve Hart but found them dead on the floor. Historians believe they had suicided well before the fire was set.

Ned Kelly was tried and convicted of murdering police Constable Thomas Lonigan and was hanged at Melbourne Gaol on November 11, 1880. His mother was housed in the same complex and visited her son on the night before his execution. She was not given the courtesy of spending a moment alone with him. Her parting words were reported as being: “Mind you die like a Kelly.”

Ellen Kelly was held in jail for the duration of her sentence and not released until February 1881.

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he Royal Commission on the Police Force of Victoria 1881 identified numerous faults with policing in northern Victoria during the Kelly era, but ultimately exonerated them from any wrongdoing.

The British led authorities may have managed to get rid of another Irish rebel in the form of Ned Kelly but the greater Australian population retained a significant disrespect and distrust of the nation’s police. This was evident in the popularity of the poetic works of C J Dennis, who regularly wrote of his characters stoushing johns and spending time in quad. The expression ‘stoushing johns’ is taken from the rhyming slang ‘john hops’ (cops) and quad, the slang term for jail (the quadrangle). Dennis’ books sold more than 300,000 copies during the war years from 1914-18. This was equivalent to about one in every third household in the country; bought by people who identified with fighting the police and being on the wrong side of the law.

Distrust of the police in Australia has been an enduring reality from the time of settlement to more recent history with the likes of the Lindy Chamberlain case, Queensland’s 1989 Fitzgerald Inquiry, Roger Rogerson and his cronies in NSW, and the widespread practice of “verballing” and charging people with the “trifecta”.

Until 1984 when the Police and Criminal Evidence Act was introduced, police could say a suspect had admitted guilt for a crime when no such admission had occurred; this was commonly known among the law fraternity as “verballing”. Police must now conduct formal recorded interviews to gather evidence for the court. Suspects’ copping “the trifecta” was also a common experience in years past. This involved charges of offensive language, resist arrest, assault police. The first of these charges was always questionable given the police’s own propensity for foul language, evident in the ages old expression “swear like a trooper”.

So to the events of 1878 and Ned Kelly: Was he a psychopath? Or a young petty thief caught up in an ongoing war between those in positions of authority and power and those without either? 

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AST week’s column began a twopart discussion about the importance of planning ahead to ensure that if you were to die, your super balance is paid to your loved ones according to your wishes. Remember, super is one of your biggest investments.

Last week I discussed what happens to your super after you die and the different types of super death nominations. Here’s part 2

Review your nomination regularly IT’S important to review your nomination regularly to ensure it is still appropriate for your personal circumstances and reflects your wishes. After making a nomination you should review it or contact your financial adviser if any of the following happens: l you marry l you separate or divorce l you enter a de-facto relationship l you have a child l someone you have nominated dies l someone becomes or ceases to become financially dependent upon you or in an interdependency relationship with you l you update your Will l there is a substantial change in your financial situation

Who can receive your super?

Ned Kelly taken at old Melbourne Gaol on the day before his execution.

Photo by Charles Nettleton. Image by Keith McMenomy.

SUPERANNUATION law puts restrictions on who can receive your super death benefit. Super death benefits must be paid directly to someone who is your “dependent” at the time of your death, or your estate.

Your dependents are: l Your current spouse – this includes the person at your death to whom you are married, in a de-facto relationship (whether of the same sex or a different sex) with, in a relationship with that is registered under a law of a State or Territory or with whom you’re living together in a relationship as a couple on a genuine domestic basis. l Your child (regardless of age) – this includes any person who at your death is your biological, step, adopted, exnuptial or current spouse’s child. l Any person financially dependent on you – this includes any person who at your death is wholly or partially financially dependent on you. Generally, this is the case if the person receives financial assistance or maintenance from you on a regular basis that the person relies on, or is dependent on you to maintain their standard of living at the time of your death. l Any person with whom you have an interdependency relationship – two people are classified as having an interdependency relationship if they have a close personal relationship, they live together, one of them provides the other with financial support, and one or each of them provides the other with domestic support and personal care.

If you are looking to leave your super death benefit to someone who you think is your financial dependent or is in an

interdependency relationship with you, you should consider keeping evidence that confirms such a relationship exists, as your super fund may require your beneficiary to prove their dependence on or interdependence with you before paying your super death benefit.

What if you want to leave your super to a nondependant?

IF you wish to leave your super death benefit to anyone other than a dependent, such as a parent, niece, nephew or a charity organisation, you can still do that. The way to do this is to nominate your legal personal representative (estate) as a binding death beneficiary which will ensure your super death benefit is paid to your estate and distributed in accordance with your Will.

You then provide for your intended recipient through your Will. Therefore, it is crucial that you have a valid Will in place that reflects your currents wishes.

You should seek legal advice so that the entitlement of beneficiaries can be addressed having regard to your broader estate planning objectives.

How is your super death benefit paid?

YOUR super death benefit can be paid as a lump sum, an income stream (e.g. account based pension) or a combination of both. Note, if it is paid to your estate it must be paid as a lump sum.

However, if your death benefit is paid to your child, it must be paid as a lump sum unless they are: l under age 18 l under age 25 and financially dependent on you, or l have a certain type of disability This means that independent adult children must receive any super death benefits as a lump sum. Furthermore, if a death benefit is paid as an income stream to a child, it must be cashed as a lump sum by no later than when they reach age 25 unless the child has a disability.

Reversionary beneficiary nominated (pensions only) YOUR pension will continue automatically to your reversionary beneficiary following your death.

How much is paid?

THE super death benefit your beneficiary or estate will receive is generally your total super balance at the time of death, plus any life insurance cover held through the same super fund, less any tax payable (where applicable).

If your super death benefit is paid as a lump sum to your spouse, former spouse or child (regardless of age), your beneficiary may have an additional amount called an “antidetriment payment” added to the death benefit they receive.

This payment aims to restore the benefit to the level it would have been if contributions tax had not been paid. Not all super funds pay this amount; speak to your financial adviser to find out more.

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Singing the same tune while history repeats

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his weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A quarter of a century since the huge concrete barrier that stood between East and West Germany was dismantled to the dulcet sounds of David Hasselhoff. It seems appropriate to take stock of how far we’ve come, as a planet, since 1989 (let’s just not mention The Hoff...).

A long list of humanity’s highs and lows have been brushed into the dustbin of history since the late 80s, all of which I have lived through via the advent of modern media. Some of it is foggy (Tiananmen Square) some of it all too clear (9/11, Iraq part II and now III). It’s easy to say things are worse. It’s also easy to say things are better.

Recently while watching the news I’ve started to sing a song in my head – to the tune of Billy Joel’s hit, We Didn’t Start the Fire, which was released, coincidentally, in 1989. The TV news goes

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on and on and on and I start peppering recent events into the lyrics, build up to the bridge and end in a crescendo: “RUSSIANS IN THE UKRAINE!”...too close to the original Russians in Afghanistan for comfort, actually. But wouldn’t it be great for someone with genuine poetic talent to release a cover of this song in 2014 – updating the lyrics to headlines from the past 25 years?

I’ve done some extensive research for

“ The chorus points out how the narrative of history seems to repeat itself, regardless of our hindsight, our foresight, or in fact, any sense of plain sight. ”

this piece (read: Wikipedia), and the story goes that Billy Joel met a friend of a friend who lamented that 1989 was “a terrible time to be 21”. Joel responded that he can remember feeling the same at 21, and then listed off a bunch of newspaper headlines from his childhood to the present day, wrote them all down chronologically, added a chorus and the rest, as they say, is billboard history.

As my “go to” karaoke song, this isn’t the first time I’ve pondered how excellent a modern day adaptation would be.

Billy Joel has already said he won’t write an updated version. My only other songwriting candidate, Taylor Swift, is busy promoting her own version of events since 1989. Mainly songs about falling in and out of love – in itself, a worthy universal theme which I am sure has a captive audience. My hopes of a professional cover are fading by the day.

Sadly, I’m no lyricist. My attempts to collate topical headlines from the past 25 years have seen me rhyme Lana Del Rey with Guantanamo Bay, or even worse, Internet and Sports Bet. I even tried on a verse that was made up of abbreviated political terms: G20, ISIS, Global Finan-

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cial Crisis, but it just sounded like a protest cry rather than a novelty song.

What makes up the verse doesn’t really matter. It’s the chorus that points out how the narrative of history seems to repeat itself, regardless of our hindsight, our foresight, or in fact, any sense of plain sight.

As Joel Sings: We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No we didn’t light it But we tried to fight it.

It’s now 2014. We fought the wall, we fought the wars, but the fire still seems to be burning. Old injustices seem to be replaced with new ones, new enemies replaced with old ones, to be repeated ad-nauseum.

It seems apt to leave the last word to the late, great Gough Whitlam, who called on the electorate to “maintain your rage and enthusiasm” in the face of adversity.

Failing that, you can always sing it out at karaoke.

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2. You are at the rugby league/ rugby union/car racing and Advance Australia Fair is being sung.

Do you: a. Ask yourself how you got lost and ended up at the rugby league/rugby union/car racing.

b. Mouth along to the first verse than give up at the second verse. c. Wonder aloud why Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes isn’t the national anthem.

b. Everyone is mandated to become an instant horse racing expect. c. It is acceptable to stop work from lunchtime until the results of the office sweep are given out.

3. Where do you most often see the Southern Cross? a. From any country in the Southern Hemisphere. b. Stuck on the back of your fully imported ute. c. In the mirror when looking at your back/arm/leg tattoo.

6. Name an Australian feminist icon: a. Germaine Greer. b. Kylie Minogue. c. Miranda Kerr.

4. What is the dress code when attending a BBQ at a mate’s house? a. Smart casual and nice shoes. b. A new T-shirt bought at the last Jimmy Barnes tour. c. Same as going to the supermarket, going-out thongs and singlet.

5. What happens on the first Tuesday of November? a. Elections in the United States.

7. Collectively, Thomo, Bluey, Davo and Blocker are? a. Brands of German industrial plumbing supplies. b. Contestants on The Block. c. Fellow members of your cricket team along with Shane, Mick and Brownie.

8. You’re in the line to see the completed The Block apartments with 10,000 other people. You soon realise: a. You’re lost again.

b. You’re could be waiting a while but it’s fine, you’ll still have time to go to Mitre 10 on the way home. c. Nothing is going to come between you and the chance to meet your idols.

9. Your favourite musician is: a. John Lennon b. John Farnham c. John Williamson 10. Real estate is being priced out of the reach of leaning Australians due to: a. Too many negative gearing benefits encouraging rampant property speculation. b. Too many overseas buyers in the marketplace and supply is short. c. Hard working, heavy lifting investors legitimately adding to their property portfolios.

Office use only: Mostly ‘a’ – Application unsuccessful; applicant not a team player and is borderline Un-Australian; watches too much ABC and SBS and will probably want free university education.

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Mostly ‘c’ – Approved. Loudly and proudly meets all criteria; mail out membership certificate and copy of John Howard’s Lazarus Rising.

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COMMENT

James Eddy

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Research and risks all part of a reach for the sky I

t’s been a big couple of weeks of science on our planet – a world that seems to increasingly exist in the science fiction future. Watching old James Bond movies with all the “new-fangled gadgetry” Hollywood could imagine at the time, generates a feeling of nostalgic quaintness in retrospect. There have been some pretty amazing steps forward in medical science in the past month, and one or two backwards for our aerospace engineers.

On the unfortunate subject of mishaps of the past month, I refer to the sad story of the pilot with Virgin Galactic who was tragically killed when the rocket thruster for the company’s shuttle exploded during a test flight. By no mean feat, the co-pilot was able to eject and escape with his life. From 40 000 metres up in the air, he was able to make it to the ground with his life.

Various engineers and experts have since come out to pan the project, condemning the enterprise as too dangerous; saying space flight is not for the faint-hearted or naïve; that the idea of space tourism is not practical.

In short, commercial space flight is fraught with peril.

Indeed, the project has had many of its engineers and safety officers walk off the job since 2007. Many of the concerns are based around use of the extremely high energy fuel, nitrous oxide, which can behave somewhat unpredictably. Three engineers lost their lives in 2007 during an engine test explosion, the cause of which still hasn’t been accounted for.

For those unaware, the enterprise –Virgin Galactic – is billed as the world’s first Spaceport. Based in New Mexico, tickets have been selling since about 2007 for about $250 000US a piece. For your money you get to joyride into space for about half an hour with five others, experiencing “weightlessness” and the 1000km radial views out the window. To date, the first 700 tickets have been sold (note that in all history, only 546 people have been to space so far since Yuri Gagarin made the first flight in 1961). The current ticket holders face a year-long delay and may not get to fly until some time in 2016.

In an ideal world in 2016, passengers would board the shuttle (SpaceShip2) which would then be lugged to the edge of our atmosphere by a carrier aeroplane,

named rather heroically, WhiteKnightTwo. From there the shuttle would be released with the launch rockets firing up to give the shuttle a little extra oomph to comfortably breach into space (or at least what NASA defines as ‘space’). It was at that crucial ‘slingshot’ stage that things went wrong for SpaceShip2 last Friday.

Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire dreamer behind Virgin, has always carried somewhat of a cowboy/cavalier attitude about the way he does things. Just Google “Richard Branson quotes” and you get a feel that this bloke has some drive and isn’t one to dwell on setbacks. The description “a dogged determination” to see his dreams realised brushes the surface. The question is; how far is he prepared to push, in order to see this dream come to fruition?

I hope a little further.

We have to presume that, considering the volume and the degree of expertise that packed up bags and fled the project, there are some significant worries about the whole affair. But then also consider that to get to this phase, approaching the cusp of the first commercial space flight, there also had to be enough talent remain-

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ing with Virgin Galactic to maintain the project’s momentum – no mean feat. Assuming of course, the enterprise consists of more than a band of backyard grease-monkeys slaving in the Mojave desert, assembling wings and rockets to old soapboxes, and hoping for the best. And, while some past test pilots have expressed grave concern about safety, clearly the two involved in this most recent incident knew of the danger but saw the possibility. A little research into Neil Armstrong and the history of the famous Apollo 11 moon landing will show that during several stages in the preparation and culmination of the mission, the difference between triumph and tragedy was but a whisker.

I wonder how many pilots died, how many prototypes failed and how many experts protested the impossibility, before Orville and Wilbur Wright had their Kitty Hawk take flight over the grassy slopes of the Kill Devil Hills, back in 1903.

Rockets are successfully launched with enough regularity these days to make the layman understandably complacent. It seems normal to launch spacecraft. We forget that to do this a humungous weight needs to be propelled with an enormous acceleration to achieve an orbital velocity of about 30 000 km/h, or otherwise the whole thing fails and crashes to the ground.

We forget that we need an enormous amount of really, really explosive fuel

to give it enough energy to do this.

The pioneers of space travel, by perching themselves atop the early rockets, were doing something phenomenally brave (or foolhardy). How many loyal readers this Saturday morning, would comfortably straddle a box of C4 plastic explosive, say, the size of a bag of dog food? Gagarin might have scoffed that C4 was for wusses. Yet, there have been thousands and thousands of rocket launches since, and comparatively very few failures.

An unmanned supply rocket bound for the International Space Station failed shortly after launch on October 28, further proof that there is very little that is straightforward about the process. Together with the Virgin Galactic tragedy, it hasn’t been a highlight week for space enthusiasts.

In light of this, there has been a growing amount of media centred about the danger of allowing commercial pressure to drive this field of science forward. There is a fear that the need to sell tickets will accelerate a process that requires such deep attention to detail, and force risk taking beyond reason. All this considered, a big part of me really wishes I had a spare $250K. There is much to be gleaned from the successes and the failures of the operations of Virgin Galactic and the road to our technological destiny remains excitingly, one without a horizon.

“ I wonder how many pilots died, how many prototypes failed and how many experts protested the impossibility, before Orville and Wilbur Wright had their Kitty Hawk take flight? ”

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COMMENT

Hold your horses on knee-jerk calls for bans S

o another Melbourne Cup passes and for many, it’s another year of making the wrong bet. I listened to all the advice given to us regarding problem gambling in the media. Then listened to all the media’s advice on how to gamble on the cup. I still lost.

With another Melbourne cup run and won came another dead horse. Not one but two this year. I’m sad for the owners and trainers and those “close” to the horse but for the majority (there’s a word you don’t hear much anymore) it’s something you’d put down to what Tony Abbott once said: “Shit happens”.

Basically a horse died of a heart attack after running really fast just so the public can bet if that horse is faster than the other ones. That’s pretty much it. A young man died this year after doing the City to Surf and crossing the finish line.

He had a dodgy ticker, but I didn’t hear anything about the need to ban fun runs due to worries over cruelty to humans.

People die of heart attacks – a lot. So do animals. But why, why, why does the press give so much time to animal activists who have no understanding or experience in any of the animal-based industries they demand be shut down?

One incident happens, as it did on Tuesday, and they’re calling for the demise of the racing industry. Do they know how many people are employed, directly and indirectly, by this sporting industry? How much money the government makes from racing? How highly regulated and scrutinised the racing industry is?

People in the racing industry are now having to defend the sport. They

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shouldn’t have to. I’ve never known anyone who is “into” horses – whether that be pony club, stock horses, polo ponies or thoroughbreds – who do not treat their animals with the utmost care and attention. People involved with horses love their animals and will do or spend what it takes to look after them. In fact, my mother once gave me some great advice: “Stay away from women who love horses. They’ll love the horse more than you.”

The fact that horses died at this week’s “great race” is the animal libbers’ dream come true. I can see them all sitting at around listing the Top Five animal cruelty incidents that would help get maximum exposure in the media. Second on the list would be for a horse to drop dead during the Melbourne Cup. But at Number One would surely be if that horse happened to be owned by a group of farmers.

Australian farmers have had enough of animal activists pushing their agenda through left wing media outlets in the inner city Ultimo area of Sydney. They

“ Why does the press give so much time to animal activists who have no understanding or experience in any of the animal-based industries they demand be shut down? ”

see us as an easy target and an easy ratings win. Australian farmers who grow animals to make a living keep their animals in best possible condition – why wouldn’t they? Th’s how they make a living. In any industry there are “bad apples”. From the unions to politicians to farmers... even to journalists. Is every pollie corrupt? Does every journo hack phones? Is every person involved with the horse racing industry cruel? Does every farmer treat their animals badly?

No no no and no. But animal activists don’t see it that way. They pounce on isolated incidents in any animal husbandry sector and claim this is normal practice across the entire industry. Then they demand that industry’s shutdown without considering the consequences it will bring to humans. Maybe one day the media will stand up for the farmer and get his/her story first. Or maybe just not give the animal extremists so much air.

As with the live export debacle, will the ABC Four Corners program do a “hidden camera expose” on the horse racing industry? And when it does, will they cross promote the story across all mediums to get full ratings numbers out of the exclusive vision that they’ve

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We all agree that the cruelty to those animals shown in the footage that kicked off the live-export debacle – filmed in another country by the way – was pretty crook but at least these animals were destined to feed people. In that instance the ABC and the Labor government joined forces to have the whole export industry shut down leaving a lot of farmers with cattle they couldn’t sell or feed and bills they couldn’t pay.

Now legal proceedings have begun to try to seek compensation for those farmers for the ridiculous knee jerk reaction from the former Labor government – another mess the Coalition has to clean up.

They’ve only just finished cleaning up after Gough’s three years in power.

I wonder if the ABC has any sympathy for those farmers in NT and QLD for the role it played in ruining their businesses. Probably not. But maybe those journos are at the races cheering on a horse with the dodgy ticker or trying to get an interview with a Home and Away actress or maybe, just maybe... they’re busy hacking people’s phones.

It’s not very nice to be tarred with the same brush is it?

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he Palin house is at times noisy. More importantly, it’s creative to the core with theatre and music at its heart.

Mother, Brigid (with ample assistance from dad, Harley) not only manages the various and multiple commitments of the family, she also runs several community and public art projects and businesses herself.

Billie Palin sits side-lit by a nearby window, make-up free, hair out, wearing a summery outfit, talking easily over a cappuccino about her family and love the arts.

It’s easy to imagine she’s 10 years older than she really is, but her mother taxied her to the interview and is sitting just outside.

As the eldest, Palin is the protective big sister to four little brothers ranging in age from 14 to three.

She smiles as she recalls how they tried to form a family band at one stage.

“Jonas plays drums, Finn plays guitar and I play an array of strange instruments – accordion, banjolin, ukulele and piano.

“It gets very loud, particularly when Jo’s

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on his drums out the back.”

Palin says there’s little competition between them, with each having their own interests and strengths.

Laughing, she does concede that brother Finn might one day have a theatrical edge on her.

When you’re an “almost” 17 year old, there’s not a lot of history to recall. For Palin it’s all relatively recent, starting with her first taste of drama four years ago when she was in Year 8.

Since then she has also taken up singing – opera, blues, jazz and musical theatre, crediting her classical training for bringing her to where she is today.

Joining Dubbo Theatre Company (still affectionately known as DATS to many) for the Narnia pantomime several years ago brought it all together for her, forging a determination to make musical theatre centre stage.

Palin has also played piano for the past five years, and while she admits she’s not particularly good at the formal aspects

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“ Then I stop and I remember I’m only 16. I still have a long way to go.

of learning the instrument, she’s mastered it well enough to accompany herself when singing.

It’s when she starts to talk about the “weirdest” instruments she’s collected over the years that her voice becomes excited, seguing easily into the influence her grandparents have had on her pursuits and ambition.

“My grandmother gave me the banjolin and my grandpa gave me an accordion for my birthday – a massive piano accordion,” she says stretching her arms wide.

“My grandmother, Helen Logan, religiously comes to everything I perform at. She drives me around.

“My grandfather, Michael Logan, passed away about two years ago but he told me I have to follow my dreams and show everyone what I’ve got – that I need to go forth and do what I love.

“You can’t regret it at the end of the day.”

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anaging school and her current creative commitments is already a juggle at times, with Palin admitting to missing time at school and her schedule sometimes being tiring.

This is the yearshe promised her mother would be a year “on hold”.

With only one year of high school left, Palin al-

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ready acknowledges that as much as she’s committed to pursuing her dream of a career in the arts, you’re either good enough or you’re not - and there had better be a Plan B. “I’m thinking I’ll do something as a backup first, because the arts are not reliable.

“Musical theatre is very hard – you either get it or you don’t make it.

“After school, the best way is to go and try out for lots of musical theatre schools and beg them to take me!” she laughs.

While she’s adamant musical theatre is her first love, her recent foray into screen acting as the lead character in the Dubbo Filmmakers short film, Kandy, has given her a taste of other paths she may explore.

“I’ve done a lot of screen acting workshops and it’s evident if you want an acting career, screen acting is the best one.

“Theatre in Australia, even though it’s good, is not the best place to be.”

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aving been involved in theatre over the past four years, Palin has developed some stage skills to great effect.

She’s frank though about her screen acting ability, knowing she needs to be more flexible in front of the

cameras; something she was able to practise during the rehearsals and shooting of Kandy.

“I always feel like I’m still being a little unrealistic – I have to work on being more believable. I’m just so used to going out on stage and the big faces. It’s difficult to turn that down.”

Kandy, the character, was a challenging persona for Palin to test this out on.

“She’s kind of the opposite to me; I’m very extroverted but not in a trashy way.

“All my friends have been making jokes (about Kandy) because it’s me.”

There’s been a large amount of attention on Palin in her role as the central character of Kandy, particularly as the publicity machine sees her face plastered across the city, in cafes and meeting places, and widely across social media.

Palin is a Year 11 student who still has to front up to school each day, to face the ‘music’ of her peers.

“It’s a bit scary especially when people say they’ve seen the poster in a shop.”

She recounts how her friends had her pose with her poster in a shop front on the main street.

“They’re all excited for me. I’ve got a big tribe of friends who want to come to the premiere.”

While Palin is not quite so sure she wants the atten-

tion that the premiere may bring, this very attention is a double-edged sword for artists – it’s often the very thing that drives creativity.

“I always want to produce something that people are going to love. Who doesn’t want to do that?

“Kandy was difficult because when you’re doing screen acting you can’t see yourself. You don’t know what you’re doing, you can’t see your body…you just have to trust that what you’re doing is right.

“When I watch it myself, I find it cringe-worthy because I know I wouldn’t act like that in real life.

“People who know me know I wouldn’t flick my hair like that.

“For people who don’t know me personally, I’m hoping it will be a good performance.”

Throughout the conversation, Palin makes observations that sound like they come from decades of experience, like how she has to consciously remove herself from the character of the moment.

“Whatever criticism I get, it’s not for me, it’s for the character.

“It’s difficult, but it’s the best way to deal with it.”

Being a small production, the Kandy film preparations and shoot gave Palin an insight into the back-end workings of a film – from screen writing through to producing and directing.

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“ She’s kind of the opposite to me; I’m very extroverted but not in a trashy way. – Billie Palin on “Kandy”, the title role she plays in the upcoming Dubbo Filmmakers’ short film of the same name.

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“That’s got me thinking, especially about directing.

“I’d really like the idea of being able to create something without having to be in it.

“I talked to Kandy’s screen writer, Kellie Jennar, for a while about how she had written it and became really interested in that process.

“It’s got me interested in screen writing and script writing for plays.”

She’s since worked ‘back of stage’ on Dubbo College South Campus’ theatre production, also involving brother Finn in the lead role.

It was also her opportunity to share some her performance wisdom with younger performers.

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t’s all too often reported that Dubbo is disadvantaged when it comes to opportunities for developing artistic talent. However, Palin isn’t feeling it yet.

This year, she was awarded the soprano vocal scholarship at Macquarie Conservatorium.

“My singing teacher, Dawn Walsh, was an understudy for Dame Joan Sutherland. Without her, I don’t know what I’d be doing right now.”

“My drama teacher, Julia Marshall, has been with me since Year 8

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and she’s always updating us on opportunities and workshops, taking us to Sydney for excursions to see plays and do workshops with the Australia Theatre for Young People and NIDA. “Without those influential people providing this encouragement I don’t know where I’d be.

“People say Dubbo is disadvantaged, but if you look hard enough there are opportunities available.”

The premiere of Kandy in a week’s time is the eve of Palin’s 17th birthday – a time of celebration for an ambitious young woman from Dubbo who has already gone a long way to sharing the depth of her talents across her community.

“Sometimes I get frustrated with my abilities – you know, that I’m not as good as I want to be, or I can’t sing this song because it’s too high, or I can’t do this theatre piece because I’m not old enough.

“Then I stop and I remember I’m only 16. I still have a long way to go.

“There’s still time to learn to dance,” she laughs.

“Then there’s Evita, which DATS is doing next year…it’s so frustrating they’re doing it now. But it’s just too wonderful not to have a go…”

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Mayor Mathew Dickerson was born and bred in Dubbo and is married with four children.

Will to serve means all things to all people I

received a call this week from a person who receives their TV signal from either the Mount Cenn Cruaich transmission site near Coonabarabran or the Mount Canobolas transmission site near Orange but not the transmitter on Buninyong Hill in Dubbo. The caller wasn’t happy with their TV reception and wanted me to help improve it.

During the gripping first half of the NRL Grand Final last month with the Rabbitohs up 4-0 and 4.65 million people across the nation tuned in, I received a phone call from someone wanting to know the phone number of a specific business in Dubbo.

Several months ago a resident rang to say a light bulb in her house was blown and she wasn’t sure how to change – she asked if I could come over and change it for her.

Recently a fellow mayor in a nearby town told me he had received a call from a resident early on a Sunday morning inviting him to look at the window of this resident’s business, which had been smashed overnight, and advise how he should deal with this.

I don’t tell you these true stories by way of complaint – merely to demonstrate where local government sits in the minds of a community’s residents.

Even though these examples are quite obviously outside the areas of direct responsibility of councils across the state, residents don’t care. They typically see their council as the potential solution to all problems. The message was particularly driven home to me at the recent Local Government Conference in Coffs Harbour.

I had the chance to discuss local government issues with councillors and staff from across the state and if I had to use a single word to describe the general ‘vibe’ from those conversations it would be passion. All those I spoke with were passionate about their city, town or region and are mostly all trying to do the best they can for their local government area (LGA). The main thrust was not whether to amalgamate or stand alone, the focus was on making the area the represent better for their involvement.

Possibly the greatest frustration many have is linked to anecdotes such as I mention above. Councils want to enhance their LGA but are not in full control of all aspects. As much as councils would love to have more control of all aspects, our powers are somewhat limited. Keep in mind that local governments are but a whim of state government and we don’t actually exist in the constitution.

This can lead to frustration from the sector in accessing capital for expenditure on major items of infrastructure (think major sporting or cultural facilities) or in building infrastructure that spans multiple LGAs (think Very Fast Trains or major tunnels) or in improving access to health facilities (think hospitals) or in improving educational outcomes (think of school funding) or in aspects involving law and order (think laws; police; sentencing; prisons). When a resident calls their local council, the last thing they want to hear is, “that’s not an area we have control over, please ring a different department and have a nice day”...click. Council staff and councillors are always keen to ty to help develop a solution for a resident but many of the areas that impact our residents on a day to day basis are controlled by the state government.

The best a local council can hope to achieve is to bring problem areas to the attention of the government and hope to start conversations in the community to allow problems to be addressed. The last thing a community should do is to ignore areas of concern. The first step to solving a problem is to admit there is a problem and then start the process of working towards a solution. We are very lucky in Australia to have such an open and free democracy where we are not vilified for having an opinion (although sometimes during the footy season I do feel vilified when I admit I follow the Sea Eagles) and we are not imprisoned for exercising our rights to freedom of speech. Even today, there are still many countries in the world where to speak out against a government would equate to imprisonment – or worse.

Having just returned from a trip to Minokamo, our sister-city in Japan, I witnessed an example of a council area with different levels of control. The schools within Minokamo, for example, are controlled by the city’s council not the Gifu Prefecture. On the one hand, I think having councils in control of more aspect of their local community is a good thing but for things such as schooling, a higher level of government should be able to deliver more consistency across a larger area.

There is no absolute right and wrong answer with different models being employed across the world but we have our current system in place and councils across this state will continue to represent the views of their local communities and work hard to further enhance their LGAs.

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ELCOME to another Marketing Minute. We’ve chosen the above as our opening print ad this week simply because it leaps out from the page so well – thanks to the interesting and dominant visual element. It’s an ad for a British telco that wants its customers to know they can answer all sorts of tech questions.

Onya Jen! WE mentioned last week that our Dubbo Weekender editor Jen Cowley was a finalist in the 2014 Regional Media Awards. The fantastic news is that, on Saturday night in Newcastle, she was announced the winner! Read more about it in this week’s Dubbo Photo News and today’s Weekender.

Helping consumers make buying decisions IMPULSE buying aside, consumers go through several “stages” when making a purchase. First, they like to absorb information. Second, they start planning their purchase. And thirdly, they “obtain” – that is, they act on the information they’ve absorbed, and their planning, and go ahead with the actual purchase.

New research by a Canadian marketing group looked into how much consumers rely on the various media in this process. It’s a very detailed study so we’ll just give you the stats summarised here.

The question: “Which traditional media did you use to make your purchase decision?”

The results: l Any newspaper 48% l Magazine 20% l TV 18% l Radio 9% l Billboard 5%

Case Study: IKEA WE refer to IKEA semi-regularly here in the Marketing Minute – mainly be-

cause their marketing people seem pretty switched on, and so we can learn from their experiences.

When the furniture company was opening a new store recently it wanted to inform the community about the date of the opening. IKEA also wanted to get people excited about its offerings and encourage them to come in.

Newspapers were the perfect way to deliver both messages. The ads, which started to run three to four weeks beforehand, highlighted the opening date – creating some early buzz.

The print ads allowed for communication of many different elements such as: enticing visuals of the products, pricing information, details on its warranty program and special offers.

When you write: Tip #3 HERE’S another in our series of handy copywriting tips from Richard Bayan’s book “Words That Sell”.

3. Arouse interest. From the headline to the ordering statements, your copy should continually pique the reader’s curiosity. As you unfold the benefits, keep seasoning your copy with human interest, helpful tips, curious facts, colourful phrases – anything to heighten involvement in your story. And write so that your audience actually looks forward to hearing from you again – an accomplishment that means more in the long run than a one-time sale.

In the news...

WE’RE not sure if the keepers at Dubbo’s zoo have ever had this problem...

Keepers at Los Angeles Zoo have just had a big surprise. Mara the hippo gave birth to a baby, despite being on birth control. It was the first time in 26 years a baby hippo has been born there.

- Until next week, expect the unexpected, and keep up the great marketing!

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection, Dubbo

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Time to start gnawing the bone D oing what I love energises me.

Seeing other people get excited about what they love – especially if it’s writing – sends my energy levels out into the stratosphere.

Learning about the drama of storytelling for film, from Billy Marshall Stoneking, was one of those events.

Thanks to the generosity of Western College and a Country Arts Support grant, we had a great place to meet, learn, discuss, write and try out our ideas.

Here are some of the gems that fell sparkling into my lap during the weekend: • The audience is a character in script or fiction writing. The writer wants to affect the audience in some way so they can see what you are getting at in a way they couldn’t see before; not to convince but to remind that we are part of a common experience. This isn’t about telling the audience-character what they don’t know, but reminding them of or helping them to connect to what they do know.

I need to re-read my work, and keep in mind when writing new work, who that character is – stick a picture of them on my office wall and think of them as an antagonistic, rather than a friendly audience.

• The audience as character is also your “tribe”. The group of people you are born into and identify with. The writer is the custodian of the dream of their tribe.

At this time in Australian history I see the dreams of my tribe being shattered by a minority. I see the dreams of my tribe being twisted to be and say something they were never meant to be or say. I see the dreams of my tribe being slowly buried. The writer’s challenge is to understand what’s going wrong and seduce the tribe back to the core of who we are, or hope to be.

• The writer is a character who is as much a fiction as any character in

“ Great books have been written by people who only had time to write a page a day.

your novel or film script. The writer assumes an identity when they sit down and write. The writer gets in the way of the characters and has to let go, step aside and liberate the characters to be what they are.

For NaNoWriMo I have extensively researched characters – you can check that process out on line in The Write Stuff for October.

I don’t need to throw that work out.

That was a place to start. I have to give characters room to become who they were meant to become and trust that somewhere in my subconscious, that place from which story emanates, this new direction or thought will be worked out during the course of the writing. In the first book of my, as yet unpublished, young adult trilogy Blood Crystal, Orleon walked onto my page. I accepted his flamboyant presence. At the moment he’s very much a support character but I’m trusting that, in a subsequent book in the series, he will be more than that.

I came away from the weekend encouraged that I was on the right track, both in my own writing, and in finding ways to build vibrant writing communities of all types in our region.

American author, poet, philosopher and naturalist, David Henry Thoreau wrote: “Do what you love.

Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”

If you love writing, if writing is the thing that brings you alive and you’ve neglected it, now might be the time to “unearth the bone”. Great books have been written by people who only had time to write a page a day.

Every page adds up. Is it time to start “gnawing the bone”?

What’s on for writers in Dubbo: • ABC Open 500 discussion group; bring your draft for the October theme My Secret Fear – Community Arts Centre, WPCC 5.30-7.00pm; Tuesday, November 11.

• NaNoWriMo Write-In dates at the library in the conference room: Sunday, November 9: 11am-3pm; Saturday, November 22: 10am-3pm and Sunday, November 30: 11am-3pm.

Come join us even if you are not writing for NaNoWriMo.

Val Clark has published short stories, articles and poems in national and international magazines and anthologies, placed and won in writing competitions and written and directed plays for adults and students. She is passionate about creativity and encouraging new and emerging writers. Val regularly runs creative writing workshops for adults, teenagers and children.

ECENTLY there was a TV presentation featuring a concert conducted by Andre Rieu. An audience that occupies more than a city block is wrapped in the singing, and the orchestra – the sum of which is beautiful music.

In our minds, music ranges in form from whistling a tune to a symphony orchestra. The book by Andre Rieu “My Music, My Life” demonstrates that this charismatic Dutch violinist has become an international phenomenon, filling theatres across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. His success lies in his ability to bring to life the romance of classical music.

Tim Low has just released “Where Song Began” which examines the role of Australian birds and how they changed the world. He writes that, unlike the mammals, more than half the world’s birds, including all its songbirds and parrots, can be traced back to Australia. As we walk through the bush, the calls of the birds have a sound and even a melody of their own. Is this where our sense of tone originated?

What does music do in societies? It is used in various circumstances – as an anthem in many countries, to celebrate marriages, to comfort at funerals, to motivate through marches in military occasions, as background to set scenes in all manner of social circumstances.

Featured in the book “Beethoven” by Martin Geck is the life of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) who is one of the key classical composers. An example of his devotion to tone and style is characterised in the tuning fork given to him and preserved in a museum. His compositions of sonatas, symphonies, concertos and so on continue as music of significance today. He also influenced other composers of the time such as Czerny and Liszt.

Philip Shepherd has written “Music Makes Your Child Smarter” and he uses the agenda that music helps every child’s development. He encourages parents to understand how music can help a child’s mental development, physical co-ordination and maths ability. It helps the development of memory, and when playing duets or playing accompanying vocal performances, teamwork skills come into play.

How much thought do we give to the composition of a piece of music? Those who study music theory learn to compose pieces – examiners set questions where a melody is provided and the answer requires an accompaniment in four parts to be composed. Another question can be where a bass is provided and baritone, alto and soprano voices are to be added.

“Music Theory for Dummies” brings clarity on that matter to the layperson – suitable for those who want to learn to compose, deconstruct and comprehend music. Using the keyboard as fundamental, it shows how to read a music score and how to relate that to notes on the keyboard. Chord building,

scales, major and minor keys, the beat or tempo, and even using a metronome to maintain a steady time is explained.

Walt Disney provided a logical explanation of the structure of the sound of music. It showed a pool table measured off in eight equal parts, and then applied a sound or tone against each of the eight points. The eighth point sounded one octave above the first, the third and fifth points sounding to complete a chord, and this demonstrated the basis of the “four parts” voices that are used for harmony.

Jerry Kovarsky is the author of “Keyboard for Dummies” which teaches playing and performing a wide variety of keyboard effects. Keyboards are used on a number of instruments – early times included the clavichord, moving through the piano and pipe organ, and in later years the electronic keyboard.

Give some thought to the ‘beat’ of the music. When a waltz is played the dancing partners respond in a particular “step” pattern. A quickstep responds to a different beat of music. And there is no mistaking the discipline that sounds when a march is played.

Pianos come in so many different qualities, but the basics are explained in “Pianos for Dummies” and working though the content an understanding is formed of notes and rhythms, of how to explore the different styles; and the various practice exercises such as scales, arpeggios and chords are demonstrated.

As time progresses, practice develops a skill in performance. With that, the recognition of the tonal quality of music of various pianos or even electronic keyboards is gained.

Richard Clapton wrote “The Best Years of Our Lives”, an autobiography of life in modern music. When he was 16 he contacted the Rolling Stones in a Sydney hotel, and from that moment he knew he was going to be a rock star.

Through the years of rock’n’roll he toured cities from Sydney to Paris, Los Angeles to Berlin to become one of the big names in the Australian and international music world.

Peter Gabriel is another star, starting out as a high profile rock performer with a penchant for theatre costumes and moving on to work with Amnesty International and Richard Branson in the structure of WOMAD (World Music).

Music brings opportunity to unexpected careers – a Tamil-Hindu schoolboy arrived in Adelaide in 1953 after a childhood under Japanese occupation.

His name is Kamahl – his biography is entitled “An Impossible Dream”, written

by Christopher Day, and it records an amazing career.

And in the Australian country music scene, Slim Dusty made a major contribution. His wife Joy McKean wrote “Riding This Road” which is her autobiography of making music and life with him.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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WEEKENDER DIARY hear ll Dragon in the ‘Bungles Headline act Dragon is set to rock the Warrumbungles as the band joins an exciting lineup including Smith and Jones, The O Trio and The Capulets at tonight’s Crooked Mountain concert (Saturday, November 8). Dragon are wellknown for anthems including April Sun in Cuba, Are You Old Enough?, Rain, Speak No Evil and Young Years. The concert will be set in the natural amphitheatre of Canyon picnic area, against the magnificent backdrop of Warrumbungle National Park. The evening of entertainment under the stars will begin with music and kids’ activities from 5pm, with locally-produced food and non-alcoholic drinks available. Visitors can bring

their own picnic rugs, chairs, food and alcohol to the concert. ll Adam Harvey and the Sunny Cowgirls Three of country music’s biggest acts will be heading to Dubbo for a concert on Friday, November 14. Adam Harvey is one of Australia’s most popular and enduring recording artists. His new album Family Life, released on August 22, follows the outstanding success of The Great Country Songbook, his platinum-selling album with Troy Cassar-Daley. Joining Adam on his Family Life Tour are The Sunny Cowgirls and WA golden guitar winner Chelsea Basham. Catch them live at Dubbo RSL Club. Doors open at 7.30pm and showtime is at 8pm.

see ll One Eye Film Festival Dubbo Film Group is presenting the One Eye Film Festival, which celebrates and encourages local Dubbo filmmakers. This year, it will be an open air event, in the courtyard of the Western Plains Cultural Centre. It is a free entry and family-friendly festival. The premiere of Kandy, a short feature film, will also be held on the night.

Be among the local cinema buffs with popcorn in hand all set to enjoy a fun night of film! The festival begins at 7pm on Friday, November 14,

for 8pm screening. ll Western College Art Prize While at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, check out the Western College Art Prize.

Now in its third year, this acquisitive art prize is open to artists in the Dubbo area and features a general award, an indigenous prize and a student prize. The theme this year is ‘Inclusion’ and selected artists will be judged on this theme. The Western College Art Prize was established with the intention of exhibiting emerging artists in the region. On display until November 30.

do ll Free health checks Dubbo RSL Club Resort is set to offer free health checks as part of a community partnership between the National Stroke Foundation and RSL & Services Clubs.

The health checks will be carried out by a health professional and will include blood pressure and a diabetes risk assessment. The free health checks will be available at Dubbo RSL Club Resort on November 10-14. Check with the

club for times. ll Not your normal Thursday Head to the Old Bank Restaurant for Nacho Thursday each week. Featuring delicious nachos for lunch or dinner and jugs of sangria all day, it’s the place to be for a fix of Mexican in downtown Dubvegas. Mick Picton also provides live entertainment on the night. Dinner is served from 6pm.

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Artwork by Graham Mackie

ll My Yamba Former Dubbo teacher Graham Mackie is hosting My Yamba at The Old Kirk, Yamba Museum until November 19. The exhibition is a retrospective from when he arrived from Dubbo in 1981 until 2014. All 60 works depict Yamba and the surrounding areas and is a mixture of paintings, drawings and photographs. So if you are heading to Yamba in the near future, drop in to see some of Graham’s work.

ll MAGS Spring Fair Be at Macquarie Anglican Grammar School on Saturday, November 8 (today) for their annual Spring Fair.

Featuring music, rides, sumo wrestling, boutique market stalls, food court, live entertainment and a busking competition, the event is jam-packed with fun for all the family.

The fair begins at 3.30pm at 11 Currawong Rd, Dubbo.

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PUZZLES & PLAY FIND THE WORDS

WEEKENDER SUPER CROSSWORD This week’s theme: PUZZLING BEHAVIOUR

This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 17 letters left over.

They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Wild and wet

angling aquaball aquatics ballet boating canoes dams event fins fishing

fitness fun heat jet skis lagoons lakes lotions mast oars ocean

parasailing polo pools race raft rowing sailboards sand scuba sharks

skindiving snorkelling surfing swim throw training tube volleyball waves

© australianwordgames.com.au 828 n Solution at bottom

WEEKENDER SUDOKU Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

ACROSS

1. Stored up 8. Redirects 15. A little off 20. “I was wrong... big deal!”

21. Single-issue publication 22. First extra inning 23. Place to stay apart from others 25. Aquarium growth 26. Store away 27. Swine 28. X-ray cousin 29. Furrow 30. Cities, informally 32. Schubert’s “Trout,” e.g.

35. Select for jury duty 39. City near Cologne 40. “Fee, fi, fo, -!”

41. Certain job line-up for a computer 43. R&B legend Marvin 45. Ultimate 49. Cry from churchgoers 50. Robotic rock group 51. Office missive 52. This or that 54. Ten: Prefix 55. Irish New Ager 57. Lifted-out, boldfaced article excerpt 59. – Jeanne d’Arc: Abbr.

60. Ski lift 63. Like some hygiene 65. Appropriated 66. Something often dodged 69. Camp David 72. Brother of Fidel Castro 73. Sidelong look

74. PC screen type 77. Tiara-winning teen 79. Emmy-winning Falco 81. Catch wind of 82. De-intensify 83. Ascend 85. “The Waltons” actor Will 88. Sleek, briefly 89. Place for GIs 90. Jenny Craig regimen 91. Schoolroom surprises 93. Make mad 94. As blind as -

96. Throws from a saddle 97. Spat 103. Puente or Jackson 104. Island greetings 105. Always, in verse 106. Fissure 107. Soprano Tetrazzini 112. Less wild 113. Fitting exhortation to someone solving this puzzle?

117. Harsh 118. In the best case

8. Illusionist Henning 9. With 81-Down, confused 10. Mice and lice 11. Make hostile 12. Köln’s river DOWN 13. Rocky peak 1. Vipers 14. Rd. crossers 2. Humourist 15. Game maker Sahl since 1972 3. Oman locale 16. Casaba, e.g.

4. Yukons and 17. Gold block Xterras 18. Ward (off) 5. Old Lloyd Bridges TV series 19. Bed cover 24. Sue Grafton’s 6. 911 agt.

“- for Quarry” 7. IBM’s old 29. Breath mint chess-playing alternative computer

119. Prizes highly 120. Responses of consent 121. Frightful flies 122. Wear

31. Not optional: Abbr.

32. “The Raven” writer 33. “I Get a Kick Out -” 34. Juan’s “what” 35. 2010 Apple debuts 36. Citi Field mascot 37. Fragment 38. Faris of films 39. “- giorno!”

42. Tennis great Chris 44. Plentiful 45. Booze 46. Take – for the worse

47. Galleria unit 48. Head, in Québec 51. Place for movie titles 52. Decorator de Wolfe 53. Like ketchup 56. “Star Wars” guru 58. Guitar’s ancestor 60. Rotational force 61. Raise in price by successive offers 62. “As I Lay Dying” father 64. The – Sod

(Ireland) 66. Apples and pears 67. Baseballer Banks 68. Doze 69. Chest beater 70. Curmudgeon 71. – Nostra (Mafia’s kin) 74. Gibbons of TV talk 75. Insertion mark 76. Smelting waste 78. Eleniak of “Baywatch” 80. Jim Croce’s “- a Name” 81. See 9-Down 84. Eyed intently 86. Accoutred 87. Smallest litter member 90. R&B’s – Hill 91. Good buddy 92. Put in solitary 93. High figs. for Einsteins 95. Green gem minerals 97. “Crazy” singer Cline 98. Give a big lift 99. Very big books 100. “Voilà!”

101. Knitting balls 102. Adorée of silent films 103. Road crew goo 106. Dudes 108. Les – (French for “some”) 109. – of March 110. 640-acre unit: Abbr.

111. The “A” of PTA: Abbr.

113. “Good Will Hunting” sch.

114. Age-verifying docs.

115. Corrida holler 116. Bygone Russ. state

Tip: This is an international crossword. To add an extra challenge it occasionally uses the US spelling for answers. 1027 n Solution next week

GO FIGURE

>> AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW: One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each week the code letters are different.

1027 n Solution next week

TRIVIA TIME 1. LITERATURE: What famous character lived in the village of Little Whinging?

2. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “pan” mean?

3. SCIENCE: What is the primary substance that makes up most of a plant’s cell walls?

4. MOVIES: What 1990s comedy movie had the tagline, “You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl”?

5. MYTHOLOGY: What does the Greek goddess Iris personify?

6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is the collective noun for a group of mosquitoes?

7. ENTERTAINERS: What

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was the name of singer Michael Jackson’s famous California ranch?

8. ANATOMY: What is the correct medical name of the shoulder blade?

9. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 20th-century doctor and theologian once said, “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory”?

10. MUSIC: How many keys are on most standard pianos?

11. FLASHBACK: “The Logical Song” came from which Supertramp album?

12. TENNIS: In 2014, John Isner won the second-highest-scoring tiebreaker (19-17) in Wimbledon history. Who won the highest one? n Answers next page

1027 n Solution next week

OUT ON A LIMB

DUBBO WEEKENDER The Dubbo Photo News Weekend News Magazine 08.11.2014

>> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

1027 n Solution next week

by Gary Kopervas

Except where otherwise noted, all Puzzles&Play material © 2014 King Features Syndicate

CRYPTO-QUOTE

PUZZLES & PLAY THE WEEK AHEAD

week commencing 10.11.2014

ARIES

LIBRA

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magnolia cafe

sPoRties • Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am • Restaurant open from 11.45am2pm and 5.45-9pm.

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• Warm up and enjoy a steaming hot drink with; Breakfast, lunch, morning or afternoon tea • Delicious variety of gluten free options • Relaxing, Friendly atmosphere • Open 7 days 9-4 • Take away available

MAR 21-APR 19 A rejection of your attempt to be friendly leaves you with two choices: Try again, or give up. If you want to make another effort, go slowly. Let things develop without pressure.

SEP 23-OCT 22 Holiday plans could be a challenge because of shifting circumstances. But a more settled period starts by midweek, allowing you to firm up your plan-making once and for all.

TAURUS

SCORPIO

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APR 20-MAY 20 It could be a problem dealing with unfamiliar people who do things differently from what you’re used to. But rely on that strong sense of purpose to get you through this difficult period.

OCT 23-NOV 21 The facts continue to be on your side. So make use of them in dealing with any challenge to your stated position. Also, open your mind to the offer of help from an unlikely source.

GEMINI

SAGITTARIUS

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MAY 21-JUN 20 To avoid neglecting a personal matter because of a demanding new workplace schedule, start prioritising immediately. Knowing how to apportion your time takes a little while to set up.

NOV 22-DEC 21 There could still be a communication problem holding up the resolution of a troublesome situation.

Stay with it, and eventually your message will get through and be understood.

CANCER

CAPRICORN

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JUN 21-JUL 22 It won’t be easy to avoid some of the pressures that come with change. Best advice: Take things a step at a time, and you’ll be less likely to trip up while things are in a chaotic state.

DEC 22-JAN 19 A possible change in your workplace schedule might create a chaotic situation for a while. But once things begin to settle down, you might find that this could work to your advantage.

LEO

AQUARIUS

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JUL 23-AUG 22 A much-talked-about workplace change could be coming soon. Be sure to get all the details involved in the process, and once you have them, you can decide how you want to deal with it.

VIRGO

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AUG 23-SEP 22 You might still believe that your trust was betrayed, although the facts would appear to prove the opposite. But by the week’s end you should learn something that will help set the record straight.

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JAN 20-FEB 18 A recent job-linked decision might need to be reassessed because of the possibility of finding benefits you might have overlooked.

Check out all related data to help in the search.

PISCES

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FEB 19-MAR 20 A personal situation you agreed to might not be as acceptable to the other person involved in the matter. Avoid pressuring and bullying.

Instead, seek common ground by talking things through.

BORN THIS WEEK: You have a gift for touching people’s minds as well as their hearts. You would make an outstanding educator.

Be creative in applying your forecast to the actual circumstances of your life. For entertainment purposes only.

THE ANSWERS & SOLUTIONS Last week’s Super Crossword 1020

Open Weekender

Last week’s Go Figure 1020

Coffee & meals

73 Wheelers Lane, 6884 5997

old Bank RestauRant • Open Saturday 12 til late • Good food • Good music • Good times • $12 lunch specials

232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

ted’s takeaway • Open Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-8pm • The big value in takeaway food.

• Great weekly specials.

26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

Village BakeRy cafe • Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to 5.30pm.

• Gourmet pies • Mouth-watering cakes • Delicious pastries • Gourmet French garden salad baguettes and salads.

• Perfect breakfast and brunch • Morning tea • Lunch • Afternoon tea

113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

Clubs & Pubs PastoRal Hotel • Open Saturday 10am to 4am, Sunday 10am to 9pm.

• Restaurant open for lunch and dinner.

• All desserts home made.

• Open Saturday and Sunday for balcony breakfast’s from 8am - 11.30am • Serving Bill’s Beans Coffee

Birch Avenue, 6884 1955

Gyms

81 Macquarie St, 6882 3533

commeRcial Hotel • Restaurant open 12-2pm and 6-9pm • Free function room hire • Huge beer garden • Kids playground • Large screen broadcasting all major sporting events

161 Brisbane Street, 6882 4488

• Open Saturday 9am til 12 noon • Giftware • Jewellery • Homewares

59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

tHe atHletes foot • Open Saturday 9am til 2pm • Everything you need for the perfect fit for your foot

176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

GroCeries caRlo’s iga soutH duBBo

95 Tamworth St, 6882 2029

Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

shoPPinG

• Saturday 7am-8pm • Sunday 8am-8am • Weekly specials, friendly service, • delicatessen, fruit and vegetables, grocery items

dmc meat and seafood • Open Saturday 6am to 3pm • Huge variety, bulk buys and red hot specials weekly.

duBBo antique & collectaBles

55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

• Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 3pm • Antique furniture, china, cast iron, old tools and collectables.

• Open Saturday and Sunday 7.30am to 6pm.

• Great weekly specials and friendly service.

4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

tHe Book connection • Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

• Sunday 10am to 2pm.

• New and used books • Over 60,000 books in store.

178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

quinn’s myall st newsagency • Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

• Newspapers, magazines, stationery supplies.

29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

• Open Saturday and Sunday from 10am • Bistro specials everyday for lunch and dinner • Night club

duBBo gRoVe PHaRmacy

• Open Saturday 7.30am-5pm • Open Sunday 8.30am-3pm • Gym • Indoor pool • Sauna • Steam room • Squash courts

• Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday 8am to 10pm.

• Quality entertainment, blackboard specials in the bistro.

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tHe swisH galleRy

Whylandra St, 6884 2396

This week’s TRIVIA TIME answers: 1. Harry Potter. 2. All. 3. Cellulose.

4. “Wayne’s World”. 5. The rainbow. 6. A scourge. 7. Neverland. 8. Scapula. 9. Albert Schweitzer. 10. 88. 11. ”Breakfast in America,” 1979. The album included “Goodbye Stranger,” “Take the Long Way Home” and “Breakfast in America.” 12. Bjorn Borg beat Premjit Lall, 20-18, in 1973.

• Open 10am-1pm on Saturday and 10am-10pm on Sunday • Restaurant open 12-3pm and 6-9pm

duBBo Rsl cluB ResoRt

• Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

• Riverview Bistro 12pm to 2pm and 6pm to 9pm.

• Relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Last week’s Crypto-Quip 1020

macqauRie inn

272 Myall St, 6882 0688

cluB duBBo

This week’s Find the Words solution 828 And plenty of action

101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Last week’s Sudoku 1020

Clubs & Pubs

• Open Saturday 9am to 12pm.

• Distinctive jewellery, creative contemporary decor for your home and stylish gifts.

BRennan’s mitRe 10 • For all your DIY projects, hardware, tools and garden products • See us in store for great specials • Saturday 8am-4pm • Sunday 9am-4pm

64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

oRana mall sHoPPing centRe • 52 Specialty Stores, Big W, Woolworths and Bernardi’s SUPA IGA. • Easy Parking, now also with approx. 160 undercover.

• Food Court • Saturday 9.00am – 5.00pm • Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm • www.oranamall.com.au

Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

magnolia nuRseRy • Open Sunday, 9am til 4pm • Quality plants • Garden decor • Giftware

iga west duBBo

38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

thinGs to Do westeRn Plains cultuRal centRe • One of the largest galleries and museums in NSW • An ever-changing array of exhibitions and events including top national exhibitions.

76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

old duBBo gaol • Open Saturday and Sunday 9-5pm • Large display of animatronics and holographs providing a realistic insight into a bygone era of prison life.

90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

taRonga westeRn Plains Zoo • Open Saturday and Sunday 9-4pm.

• The zoo’s encounters and shows offer visitors truly special experiences with their favourite animals.

Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

tRike adVentuRes • Book a ride Saturday or Sunday • Available for town tours, special occassions, outback pub lunches or just blasting along with the wind in your face

1300 TRIKES (1300 87 45 37)

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73 Wheelers Lane, 6882 25

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