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HISTORY From Gallipoli, with love

WHAT’S ON The region at a glance

From beach to bush Are we getting more seafood savvy?

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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 03.04.2015 to Monday 06.04.2015 Letters home

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From young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid PAGE 12

From beach to bush Are we getting more seafood savvy?

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Technology Separation anxiety and a head in the Cloud PAGE 00

Adam Dent

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Putting a Dent in emergency management in NSW PAGE 18

John Ryan

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Finessing a fine line to balance the budget PAGE 28

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A pain in the Arts Why some poeple just don’t “get” contemporary PAGE 58

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Midlife crisis?

On yer bike O, you know a little while back I was telling you I’d never make a biker’s moll?

Well, a funny thing happened to my husband on the way to his next birthday.

It’s been a big month for purchases in the Cowley household. The Princess bought her first house and moved out; the Son and Heir bought a one-way ticket to the furthest possible destination he could find without actually leaving the country; I bought bigger undies and a king-sized box of tissues... and The Oracle bought a motorbike.

This of course meant clearing a suitable perimeter in a garage already bursting at the seams with 30 years of collected flotsam and jetsam – making sure we could still follow a path to the beer fridge, mind. Which is handy given every visitor needs a beer and of course, therefore, an introduction to The Oracle’s new pride and joy.

It’s been a long time coming, this gleaming addition to the family stable (don’t ask me, boys – it has two wheels and a petrol tank, although I do know it’s not a Harley, having been roundly chastised for using the term “mild hog”).

Call it a mid-life crisis if you must (and most will), but it’s more the realisation of a dream that’s been on hold while parenting, mortgages and the realities of life’s other little responsibilities took precedence.

If he’s happy, I’m happy. Just don’t ask me to sit on the back of the thing any further than between decent coffee stops.

I’m not a twitchy pillion passenger – I just don’t find it particularly relaxing. For one thing, there’s the whole “wind in the hair” thing. Great if you don’t actually HAVE any hair. Then there’s the bugs/teeth scenario – although the full-face helmet arrangement helps, if you don’t mind looking like a blowfish and can stand the maddening urge to scratch your nose every five minutes thanks to not-sogood vibrations. And given the helmet is roughly the weight of the QE2, remembering to hold onto something when you get off the bike is important, lest you topple head-first in front of an appreciative crowd.

And exactly where am I supposed to put the hair dryer, the six “just in case” outfits and the five different pairs of shoes necessary for an overnight stay? In the paniers? Pffft. My handbag holds more.

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Still, I was persuaded to climb aboard for a trip back from a birthday party at Mudgee last weekend.

I hitched a lift over with friends – I wasn’t going to arrive at a swish soiree looking like a black Michelin man wearing helmet hair and eau-de-bug guts – but a Sunday morning whiz through the countryside on the way home wasn’t half bad.

I’d like to think I cut a pretty imposing dash clad head to toe in badass black – once I managed to actually get aboard the damn thing (which needs a step-ladder and far more forgiving jeans, apparently). Although it’s kinda hard to affect cool-dude nonchalance sitting above the numberplate “NAN 43” (I kid you not – at least someone at the RTA has a sense of humour).

And while it’s nice to cuddle up to my husband, conversation proves a little more difficult than when I have him all to myself in the car as a captive audience. Apparently there’s some kind of blue-tooth two-way thing he can get that would allow us to speak to each other while we’re cruising along the highways and byways, but he’s dragging the chain on investing in this gizmoery. I’m not sure what the hold-up is, but with that addition, I could sit there behind him and discuss all the little things that have been on my mind that I don’t usually get the chance to talk to him about unless we’re travelling together and I could tell him all the gossip and run through the lists of stuff he needs to do and ... heeeeyyy, wait a minute...

I caught up with some old friends recently and the discussion turned to The Oracle’s new purchase, with one gal telling me with a dismissive sniff that he was now a “temporary” Australian. Odd thing to say during lunch, I thought – “So your husband’s going to die soon, then? Another latte, darl?” – but it made me realise I’m happier if he does indeed come to grief on the bike than if he succumbs to a heart attack while he’s sitting on the lounge scoffing beer and pies in front of the footy.

Life’s short. My husband’s new baby represents a little hard-won freedom to spend time doing something for himself, something he enjoys and that gets his sense of adventure pumping again; something that helps clear his head and put a little perspective back into a crazy old world.

If that’s what a mid-life crisis looks like, I think I might just have one myself.

If he’s happy, I’m happy.

Just don’t ask me to sit on the back of the thing any further than between decent coffee stops.

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Region’s farmers hoping for wet Easter

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH JOURNALIST

ARMERS across the region aren’t just watching the skies at the moment, they’re monitoring all forms of weather reporting in the hope something takes shape in the form of life-giving rain – soon.

Senior biosecurity officer with Local Land Services (LLS) Central West, Craig Ridley is responsible for putting seasonal condition reports together based on water, agronomic and livestock conditions across the local government areas of lower Bogan, Coonamble, Dubbo, Forbes, Gilgandra, Lachlan, Narromine, Parkes, Warren, Warrumbungle, Weddin and Wellington.

He says the coming season is shaping up to be “pretty poor” and agrees the mood is sombre after little follow-up to general rains in January.

“It’s not looking good for winter croppers because there’s no soil moisture profile. For livestock producers the feed is running out and surface water is becoming a critical issue in quite a few areas.”

Since January, there have been isolated storms across the region, but they have produced little to ease the situation for the cooler months ahead.

Ridley says farmers across the Central West are now making hard decisions about their livestock and cropping programs.

“They’re asking themselves if they’ll put this crop in. If they’re going to put canola in, they’ll have a make that decision soon in some areas.

“If they don’t have the moisture, they’re going to have to change their cropping programs, probably going to a cereal instead. For those poor buggers around Coonamble and Walgett, it hasn’t rained there for that long now they’re just marking time and looking towards the sky.”

Ridley believes broadly there’s less moisture available this autumn than past years.

In general though, he says the condition of livestock is still good with farmers vigilant about feeding stock and

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LLS staff, Rhett Robinson, Lisa Thomas and Craig Ridley PHOTO: KIM V. GOLDSMITH

` For those poor buggers around Coonamble and Walgett, it hasn’t rained there for that long now they’re just marking time and looking towards the sky.” – Senior biosecurity officer with Local Land Services (LLS) Central West, Craig Ridley maintaining their health.

“They’re worth a fair bit of money and where things are starting to get dry, some are making the decision to sell now to reduce numbers and carry through a core breeding herd.

“There’ve been a lot of lessons learned from the 2000 drought – farmers are making the hard decisions earlier. The full-on croppers are mostly geared to be able change with the season. So, if it doesn’t rain early and canola isn’t an option, they just switch to more wheat and barley.”

NVASIVE species and plant health team leader with LLS Central West, Lisa Thomas and her colleague Rhett Robinson have been monitoring the locust situation across the region. They’re concerned.

Thomas says any storm rains that might eventuate in coming weeks will trigger an additional problem for farmers in the form of locusts, now on the move to areas where there has been storm activity.

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perate at the moment and a lot of farmers are looking at dry sowing in anticipation of rain. This in itself could have negative impacts if they have adult locusts around. We’re monitoring and surveying where the egg beds are because that will have an impact on any emerging crops.

“Impending rain will create hatchings in areas where they’ve laid.

Farmers are really going to have to keep a very close eye on areas where they saw adult locust activity to monitor any hatchings that occur out of that, because emerging crops will be subject to devastation straight away.”

Robinson says current hot spots for locusts are east of Dubbo, from Elong Elong to Dunedoo and south of Dunedoo, and from Mendooran to Mullaley, Purlewaugh and Binnaway, as well as some movements in the south of the region towards Forbes.

He stresses they are keen for farmers to continue reporting any sightings to them, even if it’s just a quick phone call.

James Hamilton (pictured top) runs

a cropping and livestock trading operation 42 kilometres southwest of Narromine where surface water is dwindling, locusts are present and he has observed mice numbers to be higher than normal.

He says things were looking good after the rain received in January, requiring him to spray for weeds on summer fallow in preparation for his winter cropping program.

“It hasn’t rained since then until May 24 when we had half an inch of rain. A day later, you could hardly see where it was.

“At this time of year, we’d like to see rain on the horizon – there’s none at the moment. We need to build up the moisture profile so we can sow into it. In our area, everyone would be hoping to kick off sowing on the Anzac weekend with canola and pulses.”

However, Hamilton is one of those farmers already working out his Plan B, using the Anzac weekend and the following weeks as a key dates in his decision-making.

“Should the rain come in the next fortnight to three weeks then potentially we could be looking at a fantastic year.”

Further north, 25 kilometres east of Coonamble, Anne Williams (poictured) runs cropping and livestock enterprises on her family farm that she currently describes as dry and unseasonably warm.

“We’ve been trying to save every little bit of subsoil moisture we have, which is costing us a fortune...but there’s not much there. It’s similar to the past couple of years for us.”

For the Williams family, winter crop insurance has been the only way they’ve been able to hedge their bets with unreliable seasons.

“You’re then guaranteed an income if you plant and it stops the worst case scenario of getting nothing. If it happens to rain later on when the crops are in, then it’s a bonus.

“If we had not had it (insurance) last year, we probably wouldn’t have planted. It made the decision to plant a lot easier.”

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Waste not, want not

BY NATALIE HOLMES JOURNALIST

ITH more than half of the average household bin composed of organic materials, Dubbo City Council’s proposed three-bin kerbside collection and regional processing facility heralds a new era in waste management for the city.

Council’s manager for civil infrastructure and solid waste Steve Clayton said the organisation hopes to add to its existing recycling structure in line with the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s Waste Less Recycle More program.

Although hefty costs are involved – the proposed Organics Processing Plant at Whylandra has a $6.93m price tag of which the state government will pay $3.2m and a private operator will be sought – the predicted benefits are expected to be both financial and environmental, with reduced landfill costs and emissions.

“This is part of a broader strategic plan to get greater diversity away from landfill,” Clayton said.

And while it’s trendy and well-intentioned, home composting just does not happen enough for councils not to consider organic bin disposal as an option.

“Everyone being part of the service is our aim,” he said.

“Composting – in the form of home waste and garden waste – forms 50 per cent of most household bins.”

With the service in place, the organic waste would turn into feedstock and have usage in agriculture as well as around the home and garden as compost matter.

Clayton said orchardists, viticulturists and landscapers would also provide a market for the material.

The concept of organic collection and processing is by no means groundbreaking, with plenty of other councils already undertaking this form of waste disposal.

“Councils on the coast are doing it such as Coffs Harbour and Grafton, and inland, Orange City Council is already in operation and Bathurst begins in

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Organic material is composed of food scraps including bones, fruit, fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables, dairy products, tea leaves and coffee grounds, as well as garden clippings and leaf mulch – not soil, hazardous waste, building materials, paint or used sanitary products.

The organic waste that’s currently binned is the equivalent of every household throwing away $1000 worth of food each year, enough to fill 80,000 garbage trucks The cost of food waste to businesses is also significant, with an estimated $36m spent on landfilled organics waste annually.

Waste Less Recycle More is a five-year $465.7m program that includes funding for business recycling, market development, managing problem waste, new waste infrastructure, local councils and programs to tackle illegal dumping and littering.

funding for the development of organics processing and collection infrastructure which would give Council the best possible chance of attracting interest from private industry to establish in Dubbo and facilitate the establishment of an organics collection service”.

“It’s been a very opportune time with the cost of landfilling rising. In terms of the regulatory framework, it’s in our best interest to change. As far as the current operation goes, the writing is on the wall.”

Council will now undertake a public consultation period before rolling out the project.

“We want to take the time to inform people about what it involves. Community feedback will be an essential part of the process.”

Further aspects of the project are expected to begin mid-year, with the aim of having the service fully operational by 2017. As for ratepayers, the new collection will add $63 to their Domestic Waste Management Charge each year.

BELOW | The concept plan of the proposed Dubbo Regional Organics Processing Plant. SOURCE: DUBBO CITY COUNCIL

2016. The councils in Parkes and Forbes are also planning to make the switch in the future.

“Both Council and Netwaste have within their respective strategic plans adopted strategies for augmenting waste services to incorporate organics collection,” Clayton observed.

“This is now regarded as an industry standard and a commonly practised level of service through numerous regional councils for the provision of a three bin service – garbage, recycling, organics.”

Clayton said council is well-positioned to move to this area of waste management, given its large population base, regional centre, geographical location, and ongoing development potential.

“It is working successfully in other areas although it does take a lot to kick off,” he pointed out.

According to Clayton “the State Government’s Waste Less Recycle More funding initiative now provides an opportunity to secure substantial capital

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Zoo favourites join

BY JEN COWLEY EDITOR

ANTAS CEO Alan Joyce flew into town on the day the federal government announced immediate regulations for cockpit security in the wake of the Germanwings air tragedy, but talk of safety measures wasn’t on the agenda.

The national carrier’s boss was in Dubbo to help unveil new Taronga Western Plains Zoo branding on the newest addition to the Qantaslink fleet – a sleek Q400 aircraft now emblazoned with a parade of giraffes, elephants and rhinos – which will in effect act as a flying billboard for the region’s premier tourist attraction.

The partnership between Qantas and the Zoo isn’t new – the first TWPZ-branded aircraft took to the skies in 2010 – but the design, colours and positioning of the decal have been upgraded, and now also features the zoo’s famed lodge accommodation.

As he embarked on an overnight stay at the zoo, Joyce told a crowd of assembled business people, council representatives and members of the travelling public the newly badged plane will be “flown all around Australia”, promoting not only the zoo but the city of Dubbo itself.

“The repainted aircraft will be a very popular sight at our airports around Australia and I know our customers are going to love it,” he said.

Dubbo Mayor Mathew Dickerson was grinning from ear to ear, particularly pleased to see the word “Dubbo” featuring so prominently on the plane’s fuselage.

“This plane is going to make a huge difference to the amount of exposure for Dubbo – and I love the fact that the word “Dubbo” is there.

This is absolutely fantastic – hugely exciting,” he said.

Joyce massaged a parochial nerve by citing Qantas’ long pedigree of country connections.

“Regional Australia is part of our DNA,” he said.

“We were founded in Longreach as a regional airline and we remain passionate about regional Australia.”

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That passion has extended as far as an $800 million investment in regional Australian air services on top of infrastructure development, and what Joyce said was more than $30million over the past few years towards promoting NSW, particularly its regions.

“No regional destination is more important than Dubbo,” he said. “We’re into long term partnerships, long term investment and long term commitment. We’ve seen great growth in our traffic to and from Dubbo.”

Asked about an increase in services to and from Dubbo, Joyce “We now have four flights a day into Dubbo from Sydney, and we’d like to keep growing.

We’d like to have more frequency and more destinations. Over the long run, you’ll see Qantas at the leading edge. When we see an opportunity, we’ll take it. We see more frequency and more destinations as the eventual outcome for Dubbo.”

Taronga Western Plains Zoo’s General Manager, Matthew Fuller, was well pleased with the decal and with the attention the plane will garner for the popular open-range zoo.

Hard to quantify the return in dollar terms, but the plane will be promoting Dubbo as a destination to ports of call all around the Qantas network – across Australia and into Australasia.

You can’t buy that sort of advertising.

“This is a return that comes back not just to the zoo, but to the city of Dubbo as a whole and to the region.”

There’s a certain gravitas for the city that comes with being able to partner with Qantas, according to Fuller.

“They don’t just partner with anyone – they partner in a particular and methodical way with attractions and destinations in which they have every confidence will deliver in terms of visitor experience and product.

“The Qantas brand is one of the most recognisable certainly in Australia, if not the world – so any opportunity to be presented alongside that is a particularly strong validation of their confidence in the Zoo and in Dubbo.”

Disclosure: Jen Cowley sits on the Taronga Conservation Society board of directors. » See more photos from the event on page 32.

When we see an opportunity, we’ll take it. We see more frequency and more destinations as the eventual outcome for Dubbo.” – Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce

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The week’s top stories from around the region Compiled by NATALIE HOLMES

City’s centre set to ignite COUNCILLORS, council staff, business owners and citizens gathered at the Cyril Flood Rotunda on Monday morning for the launch of Dubbo City Council’s newest promotions campaign, Ignite Our Centre.

The CBD Precincts Plan is apparently a community-led plan to improve the commercial centre of the city.

Mayor Mathew Dickerson said the aim is to create a program of achievable initiatives and activities to bring excitement and activity into the CBD for the benefit of the whole city. Balloons, breakfast and the exchange of big ideas marked the event’s launch.

“Dream big, because the sky’s the limit and the Ignition team want to hear your ideas,” Dickerson said.

Cockpit changes don’t go far enough: Rex THE nation’s largest independent regional airline, which operates a number of commercial flights in and out of Dubbo every day, says changes to cockpit security arrangements announced this week are not stringent enough.

In commenting on changes announced by the federal government in the wake of the Germanwings air tragedy last week, Regional Express (Rex) chief operating officer Neville Howell said while the requirement to have two crew on the flight deck at all times for aircraft with 50 or more seats was welcome, the security measures need to go further.

Rex has since 2012 mandated that two crew members be on the flight deck at all times during the flight, Howell said, and that the new regulations should be applied across the board rather than restricted to larger aircraft.

“Another crew member must be present on the flight deck when one of the required flight crew leaves the flight deck during flight and the flight deck door is locked.

“Rex agrees with the decision to mandate two crew members on the flight deck during flight, however, we believe this requirement should not be restricted to an aircraft with a seating capacity of 50 and above. All regular public transport flights requiring the carriage of a flight attendant should be subject to this requirement.”

However, a spokesperson for Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told media this week the decision to apply the rule only to flights with 50 or more seats was the result of consultation with the industry, and was seen as the most practical way of immediately addressing cockpit safety measures.

The regulation will be reviewed in 12 months’ time to determine its effectiveness.

Grant’s second go-round NATIONAL party leader Troy Grant was re-elected to parliament after attaining 60 per cent of the vote in the NSW Election on March 28. Grant defeated six other candidates to win the seat of Dubbo and be reinstated for his second term in office. Grant said he was not

cluding the Dubbo Group of the Embroiderers Guild of NSW.

Scholarships support students

LEFT | New Chamber of Commerce president Matt Wright with Council staff member Josie Howard at the launch. RIGHT | The rotunda was decorated as part of the Ignite launch. PHOTOS: DONNA FALCONER

only proud of his re-election but determined to continue doing the best possible job as the State Member for Dubbo.

To that end, the Deputy Premier said he is planning to give up some of his portfolios and was scheduled to meet with Premier Mike Baird to discuss a cabinet reshuffle this week.

Trees removed in Wellington beautification WELLINGTON Council is removing trees in Nanima Crescent and Percy Street this week as part of the town’s CBD beautification project funded by Infrastructure NSW. While it was planned to relocate the street trees, upon closer inspection, it has been determined that many have been damaged by vehicles over the years and are unlikely to survive the process.

As part of the project, new street trees will be planted in protected landscaped islands along the street.

Doc flies in to put on a show ALL the way from its rural outpost, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) flew in to the Royal Easter Show this week.

RFDS south eastern section chief executive officer Greg Sam said the service presence at the Sydney event always serves as a reminder of how much metropolitan areas rely on producers from rural and remote areas who rely on the RFDS to deliver emergency retrieval and primary healthcare services.

The theme of the RFDS stand at the show this year is ‘Can’t Live Without’ to illustrate that relationship and the delicate balance that must be preserved in order to continue the tradition.

rived biological materials for human health products, successfully exporting to more than 15 countries in Europe, North America, Oceania and Asia.

Illegal dumpers to be caught on camera SIX additional mobile security cameras will soon be used across the city to address the issue of illegal dumping in Dubbo City Council parks and reserves.

The moveable security cameras have previously been used to target a wide range of offences, proving to be effective in capturing footage both day and night.

When used in accordance with the Surveillance Devices Act 2007, evidence gathered by these cameras is suitable for prosecution cases.

The new moveable cameras will be used in those council reserves known as rubbish dumping hotspots in order to detect illegal activity.

Facelift for hospital ward THE restored hospital ward at Old Dubbo Gaol was unveiled this week, and will be open to the public from Good Friday onwards.

The room now contains articles bearing an 1880s theme in line with the gaol’s history. Artefacts have been sourced from across Australia, with some restored by local tradespeople in-

EIGHT TAFE Western students have each received $1000 from Macquarie Credit Union as part of the institution’s scholarship program. Students can use the funds for costs associated with their training such as fees and learning resources.

“We have a proud tradition of supporting our communities through sponsorships and donations. TAFE students are the future so when the opportunity arose to help change lives through education and training we were very exciting to partner with the region’s largest provider of vocational education and training,” MCU general manager Matthew Bow said.

Police appeal for help with missing Parkes woman Police renewed their appeal for information relating to a woman who went missing from Parkes more than 15 years ago, prior to an inquest into her disappearance.

Judith Ann Young nee Henry, 49, was reported missing in 2001, however it is believed she disappeared in December 1999.

Despite years of investigations, Operation Ullswater has failed to locate the Gunningbland woman.

It is believed that Young met with foul play and a brief has been presented to the State Coroner. The inquest was held at Glebe Coroners Court this week.

Railway crossings targeted in safety campaign TRAFFIC and Highway Patrol officers continue to target risky driver behaviour at level crossings. This week, the operation was held at Broken Hill in the state’s far west.

Police patrolled the Holten Drive level crossing as part of the ongoing safety

Hand-up for local bio-tech company DUBBO’S Maverick Biosciences will expand its operations in future, with financial support from the NSW Government’s Regional Industries Investment Fund.

The assistance will help the high-tech biological materials manufacturer to increase production, establish a cleanroom laboratory and create new, highlyskilled jobs.

The company produces animal-de-

Roxanne Peterie, Jane Dowling and Judy Whyfoon all made large contributions to the reopening of the infirmary at Old Dubbo Gaol. PHOTO: KAITLYN RENNIE

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Students with their certificates received as part of the Interrelate NSW anti-bullying poster competition.

campaign which aims to reduce the number of collisions at railway crossings.

Between 2001 and 2014, there were 118 collisions involving trains and road vehicles at level crossings across the state.

Crowdfunding to stamp out bullying INTERRELATE has launched a crowdfunding appeal to expand delivery of its bullying awareness program in primary schools.

The appeal was launched at the awards ceremony for Interrelate’s NSW anti-bullying poster competition at the Powerhouse Museum last Friday. More than 5000 students entered the competition from 174 primary schools across NSW.

Funding for two Wellington preschools WELLINGTON Community Children’s Centre and Nanima Preschool will each receive $5000 as part of NSW Government funding for 100 of the State’s most disadvantaged preschools.

Dubbo MP Troy Grant said the funds can be used to purchase educational resources and infrastructure improvements that support the delivery of the Early Years Learning Framework.

This includes acquisition of books or resources, meeting training and development costs for staff, renewal of infrastructure incorporating play equipment and building maintenance and assisting student participation in experiences such as incursions and excursions.

Education minister Adrian Piccoli said the extra funding will make a real difference to the children who need it most and enable preschools to provide new and exciting early learning opportunities and environments.

Dubbo MP Troy Grant was in Wellington to announce funding for two local preschools.

Mudgee drug dealers arrested A MAN and a woman have been arrested as part of an investigation into the manufacture and sale of drugs in Mudgee.

The trio were carrying cannabis and methylamphetamine when their car was stopped by police this week. A local residence was searched as a result of the discovery, with officers seizing 150 grams of cannabis and equipment associated with the manufacture of methylamphetamine.

As a result, a 53-year-old man and 43-yearold woman have been charged with manufacture and supply of commercial quantities of illicit drugs. The other woman, aged 22, has been charged for possession of the drugs found in the car.

Dubbo’s Jeremy Walsh won Champion Lightweight Steer at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

Locals celebrate show wins STAFF and students from St Johns College were celebrating after winning the School Steer and Carcase Championship at the Royal Easter Show this week.

They will take home the winning ribbons in the Heavyweight School Steer, Reserve Champion School Steer, Reserve Champion Lightweight Steer and Champion Middle-

weight Steer in the Middleweight Open Steer and Carcase Championship.

Local cattle breeders Jeremy and Philippa Walsh also won the Lightweight Open Steer and Carcase Championship, Champion Lightweight Steer and Grand Champion Steer at the annual competition showcasing the State’s best livestock and produce.

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BY ELLA MCMILLAN STUDENT

World champs! Howzat?

NOW I don’t know a lot about cricket, but there was an infectious buzz in the air when Australia was crowned World Cup Champions.

It’s pretty cool that we are currently the best in the world at cricket. For which other sports do we also hold that title? Australia also currently holds the world championship title for Rugby League, netball, field hockey, indoor cricket, endure-cycling, snowboarding cross, squash double and touch footy.

To what do we owe our competitive spirit? The Roar’s Glenn Mitchell thinks it’s Australia’s way of proving we’re no longer Mother England’s inferior convicts, cast as underdogs with a thirst to make a statement on the world stage.

Let’s hope we can bring home many more, including the Rugby World Cup later this year. Sorry NZ.

All-day brekkie?

I’m lovin’ it BREAKFAST has long been regarded as

the most important meal of the day, and it’s slowly gaining recognition with an ever expanding list of venues hosting an all-day brekkie. In other news, I’m moving to California.

McDonald’s customers in San Diego will trial the idea of extending breakfast hours in April and the world is going crazy. Their menu which usually finishes at 11am, will soon be able to target hotcake, hash brown and egg lovers alike.

Hangovers justt got a lot easier – what a time to be alive. e. Here’s hoping it catches on in the land Down Under.

With friends nds like these...

AS I write, it’s almost time for the Comedy Central ral Roast of Justin Bieber to air.

The Verge has as claimed the sad thing is not that hat he’ll be brutally teased, mocked ed and insulted but that he has no o friends. I can see the truth uth in it.

Last year, James Franco was subject to the same “roasting” however it was by roasters likee Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader and Aziz Ansari who all had personal connecnections to Franco. nco.

In contrast, Bieber’s panel connsists of Snoop p Dogg, Shaaquille O’Neal al and Martha ha Stewart for goodod-

ness sake, who by the way, (as comedian Natasha Legerro pointed out) had done the most gaol time of all her roasting counterparts. One thing’s for sure, Bieber has certainly given them plenty of content.

A mile in their shoes THEATRE production Origin-TransitDestination has spent the better part of this month putting Sydney-siders directseekers. ly in the shoes of asylum se The production phy physically takes its audience on a bus around Western Sydney a as real escapees tell their stories, stori finishing at Casula Powerh Powerhouse. Director Sally Sussman says it’s experiential theatre, immerstheat audienc within the ing the audience re journey of a refugee.

Creators are now in discussions with potential partners to s help take the show around the country, countr the importance of which is imminent. im Years of portray ing asylum a seeke ers as enemies has wrongly shaped nas tional attit and ttudes putting peop ple in touch p w with real voices and stories is a giant step to remedy this.

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Tony Webber is a long time Dubbo resident.

Elite schools sex abuse claims a symptom of business ethos IVING in West Dubbo in the 1980s meant going to the new Delroy High School for years 11 and 12.

St John’s only went to year 10 in those days so we Catholic kids who were so inclined had to finish the HSC years elsewhere.

Money was one of the things you didn’t talk about, so at the allotted time a few mates and other former class members simply just disappeared away “to boarding school”.

The next time we saw them they’d developed buff bodies from the athletic lifestyle, square dress sense from the institutional conformity, and an obsession with all things sexual from the enforced gender apartheid.

In contrast I’d cultivated a hacking cannabis cough and discovered sex and alcohol remarkably shortly after enrolling.

At this point I should add, this rapid transition to unambitious hedonist was no fault of the school, and came in spite of the best efforts of my teachers, but was instead the continuation of a less conventional worldview that has only in recent years pulled out of a nose-dive and which, if I am honest, is still remembered fondly whenever nostalgia beckons.

St John’s – not unlike Dubbo broader society generally – was largely white in those days, and although the school fees were very modest, there was not a large group of genuinely disadvantaged students, that I was aware of at least.

Delroy high, by contrast had a large population of Aboriginal children, and given the housing commission/working class neighbourhoods of 1980s west Dubbo, also had a much lower socio-economic student base.

It brought me into contact with some class mates nearer to the bottom of the ladder, and ex-

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posed me to the entrenched realities of existing on a low-income and how welfare poverty was anything but a desirable choice.

It is from this remote viewpoint that I have watched the procession of elite private schools making their humiliated way past the royal commission into institutional child abuse.

Knox Grammar recently held the nation somewhere between spellbound and mortified by allegations concerning more than one staff member, which included deliberately misleading a police investigation into child sexual assault and an incident where masked man groped a boy after emerging from under the terrified child’s bed.

It seems that while both staff and students knew the identity of the teacher responsible, no-one reported it to police, although the principal of the day lied to the school community saying that it had been, and what’s more, that a fictitious “Asian” man had been arrested for it.

Last week another ex-teacher from St Joseph’s was convicted after a trial lasting years and this week came the news that similar allegations at Riverview will also be examined. Closer to home up to a dozen former clergy and staff from private schools in the Central West, notably St Stanislaus, are at various stages in legal proceedings sparked by child sex accusations from former students.

While the precise allegations are not as extreme as those committed earlier last century in socalled boys and girls “homes” – especially where those children were Aboriginal – it is nonetheless astounding.

Unlike the forgotten children of the sadistic “homes” cum workhouses, the children sexually abused at elite private schools right up until recent times were

When push came to shove, many esteemed private schools turned out to hold their business reputation dearer than the victims’ welfare.

the progeny of the people valued by society: the affluent, largely white, privileged classes.

They paid a lot of money to these institutions to take near fulltime care of their children, yet as far as being infested with sex offenders, boys’ school especially appear to have fared no better than less well-off organisations like the Salvation Army or various orphanages.

It seems when push

came to shove, many esteemed private schools turned out to hold their business reputation dearer than the victims’ welfare.

Meanwhile the state’s secular public schools seem to have avoided this blight if the royal commission’s areas of inquiry are an indication.

Unfortunately it would seem the profit motive is the unspoken villain in the piece.

Just like us: Urban ants ‘enjoy junk food diet’, some even engage in turf wars

2015 ANT LIFE

LONDON: Streetwise urban ants from New York have developed a taste for the kind of diet frequently chosen by their human homies.

Tests on insects collected from pavements and traffic islands in Manhattan show that their bodies contain the molecular fingerprint of junk food.

The same was not true of more genteel ants that frequent leafy park areas.

Lead researcher Dr Clint Penick, from North Carolina State Universi-

ty, said: “Human foods clearly make up a significant portion of the diet in urban species. These are ants eating our garbage, and this may explain why pavement ants are able to achieve such large populations in cities.”

The scientists tested more than 100 ants representing 21 species from dozens of sites in the Big Apple.

Their diet was assessed by analysing the kind of carbon in their bodies. All animals, including hu-

mans, take in carbon from food, but the atomic “strain” of the element found in the ants was specifically associated with corn and sugar cane.

Corn and refined sugar are both abundant in human processed foods where they are used as sweeteners and flavour enhancers.

Evidence of the signature carbon-13 isotope indicated that the ants had adopted a junk food diet.

The species with the highest levels of carbon-13 was the most common ant on the street, the

“pavement ant” Tetramorium caespitum.

Like members of inner city gangs, Tetramorium soldiers engage in violent turf wars as rival colonies fight for territory. They also do a lot of breaking and entering of people’s homes, and are a recognised house pest.

The scientists, whose findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, discovered one street-living ant that turned its antennae up at human food.

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HISTORY.

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From Gallipoli, A Dubbo son’s Weekender presents the second of a five part series of excerpts from “letters home” from young Dubbo born and raised soldier, John Henry “Jack” Reid who was among those who stepped off the ships and straight into the hell of Suvla Bay on April 25, 1915. Last week, Jack told of his impressions of Egypt, and of the excitement and anticipation within the ranks for the coming “adventure”. In this week’s excerpts, as excitement grows Jack tells his parents back home in Dubbo that he feels they’ll soon be “on the move”.

THE COMING “ADVENTURE”

Cairo, February 20 THE 1st Brigade, consisting of the first four battalions, completed its brigade training with a four days’ bivouac. We had a route march of 10 miles to the camping ground, where we were under active service conditions. At 5 o’clock the first afternoon we marched out in battle array to prepare for an expected attack. This meant entrenching ourselves. We dug far into the night and about five feet into the desert, and made the discovery that the desert is not always sand, for a couple of feet from the surface the shovel bounced off a hard shale, which necessitated the use of the pick.

In our training, emphasis is laid on the construction of trenches, for to avoid heavy casualties in modern warfare an army must dig itself in; so if the Australians imitate the rabbit in its burrowing they will be well protected.

The trench was completed at about 2am and we were able to get forty winks before the hour of dawn arrived, when all stand to arms so as to be prepared for surprise attacks.

An armistice was called between the hours of six and nine, when we breakfasted. An attack on our position was made by the 4th Battalion, and it was rather interesting to see an approaching “enemy” alternately in the open and under cover.

By noon operations were over, and we returned to the bivouac ground. Here we washed out of our water bottle or mess tin for want of better conveniences, and at night slept soundly on the sand, covered with only a blanket, great coat, and a further unavoidable addition of a heavy dew.

On Sunday night, at 10 o’clock, the whole brigade marched into the darkness. It was a case of follow the leader, for it was impossible to distinguish anything at more than 20 yards’ distance.

We were on the move all through the night, with occasional spells, when we would drop down to rest, and it was remarkable the short time in which some lads could raise a snore.

At one spot we had to go in single file over a plank that led across an irrigation channel, and the pace be- came snail-like. The whole march, in fact went in fits and starts, something like the progress made by a nervous man walking bare-footed through a thistle patch.

At 4.30am the brigade massed in close formation and, with bayonets fixed, made a charge with the idea of surprising and routing a sup- posed enemy.

The platoon I’m in brought up the rear in the

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bayonet charge, a position which will do me in any actual charge. During the bivouac we were fed well and always had plenty to eat, the daily menu consisting of stew, potatoes, tea bread, jam and cheese.

The Brigadier, Colonel McLaurin, addressing the troops before the return to Mena Camp, expressed his pleasure at the success of the bivouac, and declared that the 1st Brigade was “fit for war.’’

And the signs of the time seem to foretell, and Dame Rumour has it too, that we shall soon make our departure from Egypt, though such event may possibly be delayed by a slight outbreak of smallpox.

And the signs of the time seem to foretell, and Dame Rumour has it too, that we shall soon make our departure from Egypt, though such event may possibly be delayed by a slight outbreak of smallpox.

Two cases have been reported, and there must at least be 21 clear days without a fresh case before we can leave here. There are no cases in the 1st Battalion, but the precaution has been taken to vaccinate us all again.

Camp life is now self-contained, and as far as living is concerned there is hardly any need to visit Cairo. We are shaved for a half-piastre (1¼d), and boots are cleaned at the same rate ; laundrymen call at the tent for washing, newsboys sell the daily papers as early as reveille, and shops and stalls of all descriptions have a place in the scheme of things.

At night we may consider whether we’ll go to the pictures, of which there are four shows, or to the YMCA tent, where interesting lectures are given by prominent men.

We have a large canteen in the Battalion grounds, at which all tastes are catered for between the limits of ice cream and beer, while one may buy eatables from a rath-

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with love letters home

Jack Reid

We were all glad to shake the sands of Egypt from off our feet, and although the future has a touch of uncertainty about it, we do not worry for the soldier is an optimist with no anticipated forebodings. er extensive menu; and the stock in the grocery department would do credit to Gregory’s store.

The business done on the night following pay day is enormous, especially in the beer canteen. The babble of voices can be heard within half a mile of it, and all stages from the first mug to dreamland are represented. Even the guardian of law and order – the sentry – is often drunk.

I accidently heard that Bob Munckton was in the 3rd Battalion, and on going across I also met Bob Holl. We had a yarn of old times. There are 12 with the force whose names are to be found on the old rolls of the Dubbo School, and it is possible that there are others I know not of.

HAVE NO FEARS

Mena, Cairo April 3, 1915 AT last! The order came out this morning that the 1st Battalion must pack up and entrain for Alexandria at 8 o’clock to-night. Everybody has to get a bustle on; we’ve had a medical parade, and are now waiting a medical inspection. We’ll embark at Alexandria for a destination not known to us; but I’ll let you know as soon as I possibly can. With this mail I am sending you, through registered post, a photo of the camp and another album of views taken by a lad in our company. I hope you receive them safely. Yesterday was Good Friday, and we each had a cold hot-cross bun for breakfast.

It was, of course, a holiday, and some of the preliminary heats of the sports were run but to-day’s order to move settles the sports.

The blight of the plagues still troubles Egypt.

The warm weather has brought swarms of flies, which are even a worse pest than the Arabs, which is saying a lot. This morning there were clouds of locusts flying far overhead, and they made a very curious

sight. The locusts make short work of the crops, and we often see hundreds of natives with palm boughs killing them.

As we have plenty to do I’ll conclude, and write again as soon as we get settled.

I am in the best of health, and will look after myself. I trust all will be well. Kindly remember me to all friends.

Alexandria April 4, 1915 I wrote to you yesterday prior to leaving Mena Camp.

We marched out at 6pm in full equipment, with the pack containing only the necessities of active service.

The march was a severe one of about 32 miles, and with only two spells of five minutes each we arrived at the Central Railway Station, Cairo, at 9.30.

As we passed through the city we were cheered by the French and English residents, while the multitude of Arabs remained neutral, expressing neither sorrow nor pleasure at our departure.

We marched direct on to the platform, and were aboard the train a quarter of an hour afterwards. The train did not steam out until 11.30, by which time the majority were asleep, huddled up in all manner of positions, for we were very tired. I discovered that I had raised a blister on each foot, so I used some Zambuk with good effect.

After a five hours journey we arrived at Alexandria at daybreak.

The train comes right down to the wharf, where the transport was awaiting us. We embarked after little delay on a large Trans-Atlantic liner, much bigger than our old troopship, The Afric. But it seems to have been brought into service quickly, and lacks many of the conveniences we enjoyed on the former.

There is no doubt we mean business this time, and from all appearances we shall be fighting long before you receive this letter.

Our black kitbags are being left at Alexandria, so

that all we carry with us will be a change of underclothing, soap, towel, shaving outfit, and tooth brush.

The sea journey is expected to be no more than three or four days, and the troopship carries two large pontoons, which goes to show that the landing will be made at some unusual spot, and that our enemy is the Turk somewhere in the region of the Dardanelles.

The 1st Battalion happens to be located on the flagship, for we have aboard the whole of the Divisional Headquarters staff, which includes all the generals and “heads” accompanying the Australian force. The harbour is full of transports, and crowds of Indian soldiers are also embarking today.

There is not the same interest in the port and its surroundings as there was when we arrived here nearly four months ago, for familiarity has worn off the novelty of the native and his ways.

We were all glad to shake the sands of Egypt from off our feet, and although the future has a touch of uncertainty about it, we do not worry for the soldier is an optimist with no anticipated forebodings.

Les (Dinning) and I have enjoyed the best of health in Egypt, and we trust that it may always be so with us. We have been together since the day of our enlistment, and have shared equally the ups and downs of our military existence. And this mutual comradeship will help us both in any hardships and burdens that may lie before us.

It is quite probable that the government will announce our destination in the papers before you receive this letter. I will write again at the earliest opportunity.

Have no fears; I shall take care of myself, and shall continue to look forward to the time of my home coming.

» Next week... Jack sets sail for Gallipoli: “The troops are very cheerful, and the general tone is one of great confidence; and I’m certain that we shall do our share nobly and well.”

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FEATURE.

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Regional Australians have embraced with gusto the idea of paddock to plate, but what about our food that comes from beach to bush? Are we as savvy when it comes to sustainable seafood?

WORDS Jen Cowley PHOTOGRAPHY Connor Coman-Sargent USTRALIANS are increasingly more conscious of exactly where their meat and three veg comes from, but when it comes to seafood, just how savvy are we?

We each eat on average around 25kg of the stuff and that’s growing – so too it seems is our consciousness of the country of origin of our festive prawns and Good Friday fish but finding Australian product on the shelves of major supermarket chains and on restaurant menus isn’t always easy.

It’s estimated that more than 70 per cent of the seafood that makes it to our dinner tables is imported – and with a growing Australian penchant for seafood, demand has outstripped our capacity for domestic consumption. More than 200 species of seafood are imported each year, with prawns, salmon and tuna making up the bulk of this foreign product.

However, after decades of declining stocks in our fisheries and changing market conditions, the last ABARES (Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics and Sciences) fishery status reports showed that for the first time in many years, no solely managed Commonwealth fishery was subject to overfishing – and domestic production is again on the rise.

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HAT’S music to the ears of Mark Knaggs, a Dubbo based supplier who has spent the best part of a decade building up a reliable and credible chain of supply for Australian seafood.

“It’s taken time, but we’ve established dependable sources for our seafood – suppliers we and our customers can trust,” says Knaggs, expertly wielding a razor sharp filleting knife through a magnificent whole Tasmanian salmon.

“The only fresh seafood we stock now is Australian.

We’re really pedantic about it – we want to support the domestic fishing industry, but we’re also responding to consumer demand – people are much more patriotic these days; they want product of Australia.”

This growing demand for Australian seafood has more to do with a desire to support domestic product than with any burning consciousness of environmental issues, Knaggs believes.

“People are more aware these days of exactly where their food is coming from – all kinds of food, not just meat and vegetables and fruit, it extends to seafood as well. And they want to support Australian industries.”

As if on cue, customer Joan Davies wanders up to the seafood counter, armed with an Easter order form, and peers closely at all the different products on offer. Our conversation pricks the local woman’s ears, and she’s more than happy to share her thoughts on the origin of seafood bound for her festive table.

“I just won’t buy it unless it’s Australian,” she says, with a determined toss of her head. “To be honest,

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that’s not so much about environmental concerns – it’s about supporting Australian industry. It’s about buying local and not sending our money overseas to support foreign industry.

“If we don’t support Aussie industries, we won’t have them will we? And that goes for our fishing industry as well.”

Buying Australian isn’t just a flex of patriotic muscle for Davies – it’s also about confidence in the safety of the product.

The only fresh seafood we stock now is Australian. We want to support the domestic fishing industry, but we’re also responding to consumer demand – people are much more patriotic these days; they want product of Australia.” – Mark Knaggs, seafood supplier

“I know that if I buy Australian, I’m getting quality.

It’s not polluted or treated, and I know there are strict regulations and standards in place. I’ll always ask the question – where’s this fish from?”

She casts an eye along the counter, where individual tickets clearly pronounce each of the products displayed as of Australian origin, and unashamedly saves me from asking the other obvious question.

“Yes, but how do we know it’s REALLY from Australia. Couldn’t you just...”

Knaggs jumps in before the words are even out of his savvy customer’s mouth.

“I can show you the paper trail. We need to be able to prove exactly where every piece of fish we sell comes from. We have a chain that can be followed – from when it leaves the sea to when it hits our deck here. We have invoices you can look at, and packaging and order forms and so on – and we’re able to produce those, in fact it’s a requirement, if any customer wants to see them.”

It’s a process, he says, that can and is audited without warning by Fisheries NSW. “They conduct random audits probably three or four times a year – in fact, I expect they’ll be ‘round this week.”

Knaggs takes us both – the delightfully frank customer is now as invested in the interview as I am – on a “tour” along the extensive seafood display counter – patiently explaining where each of the products come from, how they’re handled and what standards are in place to protect both him, as a supplier, and the consumers to whom he sells.

He picks up a lobster, pointing to the little blue NSW DPI (Department of Primary Industries) tag attached to one of its legs, explaining that the supply of lobsters to the market is tightly controlled to ensure the sustainability of stocks.

That could account for the fact that you’ll be paying more than $100 per kilo should you want lobster to grace your Easter table, but Knaggs says he’s already taken half a dozen orders this week.

“People save up so they can lash out and have lobster for a special occasion. And if they’re spending that kind of money, they want to know they’re getting a quality product.”

And that, says Knaggs, is the essence of his business’ determination to promote Australian product – it’s not just the regulatory requirements that prompt him to keep such robust paper-trails. It’s about reputation.

“People come here because they know our product is right. In a community this small, word would quickly go ‘round if we do the wrong thing – so we stake our reputation on doing the right thing.”

Doing the right thing also means ensuring freshness – so how can regional consumers of seafood be confi-

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dent in buying seafood so far away from the sea?

The days of shutting one eye and playing Russian roulette when you buy seafood in the bush are long gone, according to Knaggs, thanks to more efficient transport and refrigeration.

“We have a bloke at the Sydney fish markets at five o’clock every morning and I’m on the phone to him the whole time. By 11am, everything’s on a pallet and on its way here and it’ll be here by six o’clock the following morning. So it’s 24 hours go to whoa. Then we give it basically two days before we move it on. We’re very particular.

“That’s why we mostly fillet it ourselves – because then we know it’s fresh. As soon as I look at a whole fish, I know if it’s not fresh.”

HAT consumers are getting more savvy about their seafood’s country of origin is also linked to concern over foreign practices and processes, and the threat illegal fishing poses to the Australian industry.

“I think people do worry about other countries coming in and “raping and pillaging” our waters and our seafood stocks,” says Knaggs, citing the example of the controversial foreign “super-trawlers” that were recently slated for access to Australian waters, with a temporary ban imposed by the federal government in 2012 set to expire this month.

The government has recently announced an extension of that ban, thanks to an outcry from the Australian public, and that’s good news for suppliers like Knaggs.

“Those things basically wipe out one whole level of seafood – which is the food for the bigger stuff. They pull out not just tonnes, but hundreds of tonnes of seafood – it’s just madness.

“Australian fishers on the other hand, are monitoring themselves – it’s more or less a self-regulation, because they’re meeting a market. They’re not going to go out and catch 300 kilos of flathead a night, for instance, and bring it in because they know it’s not going to sell.”

It’s these kinds of sustainable practices that have un-

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derpinned the federal government’s strategy on fisheries management over the past decade.

Dr Nick Rayns, Executive Manager of Fisheries, says the recovery of fish stocks and the long-term implications of careful management are encouraging.

“If you’d asked me about our fish stocks 20 years ago, I’d have had to say they weren’t in great shape.

But over the past 20-30 years, we’ve progressively been improving the management of our fisheries to the point where, across Australia, we have a very high standard so people can be assured that if they’re buying Australian seafood, it’s from a sustainable source.”

Greater vigilance in keeping foreign fishing operations out of our waters has played a part in this turnaround.

“Ten or 15 years ago, we had a growing problem of illegal foreign fishing in Australian waters, and the government of the day set up a task force to make sure that over the following few years the threat was greatly diminished.

“We haven’t stopped keeping an eye on all our borders not just in the north. In the past five years or so, we’ve really managed to keep illegal foreign fishing at bay but we’re still chasing the odd boat around the ocean to make sure we capture those last few fishers who aren’t fishing according to the rules.”

The main aim of fisheries management authorities, says Rayns, is to make sure Australia has sustainable fisheries, which means employing measures that lead to sustainable fishing.

“Limits on catch, limits on effort, limits on net configuration – we do use and support those means.”

Rayns says Australia is lucky to have such a pristine marine environment – one that is recovering well from decades of over-fishing.

“The main problem 20-30 years ago was that we had too much being taken from some of our fisheries and they became depleted, meaning there was less stock available for harvest. So the Australian market wasn’t getting all the fish it should.

“We’ve turned that around, and now Australia has become one of the world leaders in how to manage fish stocks.”

A classic case of the impact of over-fishing is the Orange Roughy – once a staple for the Australian seafood diet.

“In the late 80s, early 90s, far too much was harvested and some of it was even wasted – and then we had to cut back the catches to very low levels. It’s taken from the mid-90s until now for us to be able to re-open some of our Orange Roughy fisheries for commercial harvesting. I hope that when we get it back on the market again in the near future the popularity of Orange Roughy will return.

“It’s a good lesson in what not to do, but it’s also an example of how you can recover if you get your fisheries management right.”

As for consumer awareness? Rayns says “we’re getting there”.

“We’re learning it’s important to know that if you ask for Australian product, that’s what you’re getting.

More people are being more careful – they’re asking questions about the origin of their seafood from their fishmongers, their restaurants. They want to know

Ask your supplier where the fish is from. At a restaurant, ask if it’s Australian barramundi. If we keep asking those questions, it encourages us all to think carefully about our seafood, including those who supply it to consumers.” – Dr Nick Rayns from the Australian Fisheries Management Authority

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where the fish is from.

“Ten years ago they wouldn’t have asked that question. But now, the fishing industry and seafood suppliers are having to respond to that demand for information.”

Rayns, who says Australian prawns and Ling (a white fish) will be on his Easter menu, is encouraging Australians to ask those questions.

“Ask your supplier where the fish is from.

At a restaurant, ask if it’s Australian barramundi. If we keep asking those questions, it encourages us all to think carefully about our seafood, including those who supply it to consumers.”

OR Anna Shearman, the decision to only buy Australian seafood is more than just patriotic – it’s personal.

The mother of three is also a farmer/ grazier, and she sees her support for the domestic seafood industry as a two way street.

“What it comes down to is the long-term sustainability of Australian agricultural industries and fishing comes under that umbrella. I’m a part of the agricultural sector – so I understand how important sustainability is.”

That sustainability, she says, relies on the education of the consumer.

“They need to know about supply and demand; about nutritional value of fresh product and the quality of Australian product that hasn’t had chemicals poured all over it to keep it looking good while it gets to Australian shelves from elsewhere in the world.

“They need to know about the life-cycle of their food from paddock – or in the case of seafood, sea to plate. Because I’m familiar with the processes that are involved with getting food from paddock to plate

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here on our farm, I want to know the same quality controls and sustainable processes are involved with the seafood I feed my family. And because I know what we do here to ensure our sustainability, I think I understand that Australian fishers, like Australian farmers, have similarly stringent processes to us.

“And like us, they rely on the consumers’ ability, and their willingness, to purchase locally (domestically) grown product.”

Shearman believes Australian consumers are increasingly better educated about the origins of their food, and their importance of their purchasing decisions in the sustainability equation.

“You only have to go down to the Farmers’ Markets every fortnight in Dubbo and see how many people are buying “home” grown products – people are supportive of local, and by extension, Aussie produce.

“It may seem a little more expensive to buy Australian grown and made, but in the long run, it works out to be beneficial and therefore cheaper, for everyone. The same is true for Australian seafood. There are people relying on the fishing industry to feed their own families and to in turn support their local food producers – it’s a real flow-on effect.”

Shearman says her family eats fish at least once a week and it’s always Australian. No exceptions.

“I’m confident I can buy Australian from independent suppliers locally and the quality will be good. If it’s not labelled Australian, I’ll ask – otherwise, I just won’t buy it.

I know it’s very tempting price wise to buy, for instance, the Vietnamese prawns, but I do wonder what their processing standards are – what structures are in place in terms of hygiene and how strict their standards are.”

Price is important to Shearman – “I have a family of five to feed” – but she says she’s simply not prepared to buy imported product.

“If I can’t afford Australian, we just don’t have seafood. When I can, I’m prepared to pay a little more to know that I’m feeding my family safely and supporting a sustainable industry – because I know that somewhere out there is another family like mine who’s relying on people like me to help feed their families too.”

ACK in the bustling office of his Dubbo-based business, Knaggs is preparing for the onslaught of seafood-seeking customers ahead of the coming Easter break.

But it’s not just the old favourites that will be on the menu this year.

“People are more adventurous with seafood these days. They’ll have a crack at anything and I think the cooking shows have prompted a lot of that. They’ll often come in and seek advice on how to cook certain fish or shellfish as well.

“It used to be just salmon, flathead and barra(mundi) but now we get all kinds off lines in. We have people asking for abalone, for example – five years ago, it was onlyy the occasional New Zealander that would come in asking for abalone. Now we get all kinds of requests. You name it, we can get it.

“At this time of year, our biggest seller, hands down, is salmon. Christmas is bigger than Easter for prawns, but at this time of year, it’s fresh fish people are after.

“It’s tradition to have fish on Good Fridayy – whether you’re religious or not, I guess.”

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SOURCES: SUSTAINABLESEAFOOD.ORG.AU; AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY (AFMA).

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If I can’t afford Australian, we just don’t have seafood. I know that somewhere out there is another family like mine who’s relying on people like me to help feed their families too.” – Anna Shearman

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TO THE RESCUE

He was part of the recovery effort for the Qld floods, Black Saturday and Cyclone Yasi. Now the new SES Commissioner is putting a Dent in emergency management in NSW. WORDS Natalie Holmes PHOTOGRAPHY Ella McMillan HE most noticeable thing about Adam Dent is his passion for people, closely followed by a sense of duty, efficiency and a desire to get things done.

That’s hugely reassuring given the Victorian native was appointed Commissioner of the NSW State Emergency Service (SES) at the beginning of the year.

The organisation is not only the state’s core emergency response unit for floods, storms and tsunamis, but it’s also volunteer-driven, with 90 per cent of its operations manned by people who donate their time.

It’s a role Dent knows well, after starting his own career as a volunteer in Morwell, in country Victoria.

“I’ve always been really interested in emergency management. I joined the St John Ambulance at 14, as part of their dis-plan emergency management team.

I was also volunteering at a local radio station at the age of 11.”

To this day, the highly-educated commissioner (who studied teaching, business and Information Technology at university and now holds a Master of Business Administration, a Graduate Diploma in Management, a Diploma of Finance and a BA in politics and sociology) continues that commitment, stating on his curriculum vitae that the causes he cares about are education, human rights, disaster and humanitarian relief and social services.

He’s still a volunteer too and is the executive director of StartOut Australia, an industry board member of Business Without Borders and active supporter of various charities including beyondblue, Whitelion, Minus18 Inc, Movember, Inspire Foundation and the Red Cross.

Explaining that while he initially joined St John just because his sister was a member and he wanted to annoy her, it soon became clear the service was his passion more than hers.

“I ended up building a career in it – so my career started out of spite,” he laughs.

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HE spite has long gone and Dent has the ability to laugh easily, which is important given the nature of his work.

Thrown into the deep end when he commenced in the role of state manager of emergency services with the Australian Red Cross in 2007, within six months he was in QLD dealing with the floods that devastated the state in 2008, closely followed by Victoria’s own nightmare on Black Saturday in 2009 and the after-effects of Cyclone Yasi in 2010-11.

They were career-defining events, Dent says, while at the same time acknowledging their magnitude in local communities.

“During Black Saturday, there were times when you would just sit with a colleague and cry.”

For his leadership of the humanitarian response to Australia’s worst ever fire catastrophe, he received both a National Emergency Medal and a Meritorious Service Award.

But for Dent, it’s not about accolades. Emergency management, as he sees it, is about care and compas-

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sion more than bureaucracy and bastardry (my words, not his), something he learned the hard way when, after seven years of leading 3000 volunteers with the Red Cross, he briefly undertook the role of Director of Relief and Recovery with Emergency Management Victoria.

“I tell people I spent six months as a bureaucrat, and I’m very glad,” he says.

Dent prefers his work to be hands-on, at the coalface of the situation from the moment it happens right through until the after-effects.

“Dealing with people during an emergency, they might not know what’s best, but it becomes your job to help them work that out.

“It’s often very sensitive and hugely emotional.

That’s why if you make a decision, you have to make it based on the task, make the judgement based on people rather than ticking a box – on what’s best for them.

It might be a cliché, but it’s about doing the right thing, not doing it right.

“When it comes to that, there’s a fair bit of balancing in order to stay on top of a situation but also to remain well-founded and up to speed.”

N terms of managing volunteers, Dent is clearly a “people person”.

“It’s about using goodwill. It really is about motivating people to get the best out of them, it’s about them knowing their contribution is worthwhile, and that they are doing a good job in the face of a disaster.

Volunteers in emergency have a significantly heightened commitment and a deep sense of community and a need to make a difference. And that is something I value.”

Dent also values community and maintaining empathy when it comes to dealing with disaster.

“When you walk into a situation, it’s okay to be emotional and it’s also important to remain human. I think you have to show a level of humanity and an emotional connection which is based on being there and being really committed to helping communities to regain resilience.”

In that regard, moving north and taking up his position with the SES is like joining a family.

“The SES is like coming home, I get to see people every day and help them.

“I have a passion for leadership, resilience-building and, in particular, working with volunteers so this new role gives me an incredible opportunity to lead a diverse and highly skilled volunteer organisation.”

Dent moved into the role in January, and one of his

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first stops was to visit Dubbo, the headquarters for Macquarie SES. “I was excited to visit the Dubbo region to see firsthand the fantastic work that our local volunteers do to help their community in times of emergencies,” he says.

“It’s really important to get into regional areas and connect with the volunteers working in those areas.”

Although raised in rural Victoria, he has spent the majority of his career life in Melbourne.

“I’ve seen both sides of country and city life and now call Wollongong home where the NSW SES head office is situated. I’m excited one of my first visits to NSW SES members was in country locations like Dubbo, Wellington, Gilgandra and Baradine,” he says.

OW that he’s a New South Welshman, Dent says the biggest difference he’s noted is the distance.

“If you drive five hours in NSW, you are still in NSW. But if you drive five hours in Victoria, you are in NSW.” However, he’s determined and so far Dent has visited 20 units in seven regions across the state.

“I’ve gone fairly far and wide, and seen that the level of dedication and professionalism is huge.”

In February, Dent also had some hands-on activity, visiting the Northern Rivers region after widespread flooding in that area following Qld’s Tropical Cyclone Marcia.

Seeing those men and women in action, Dent said ‘it’s good to see that the NSW SES is a strong, dedicated and professional organisation.’

With 200 units on his watch, Dent has to be careful not to adopt a ‘one size fits all’ approach to his duty.

“As I go forward, I want to build on what the organisation is and not believe that it’s all the same.

“The geography varies so much and there are so many different communities. “Downtown Wollongong is a lot different than downtown Dubbo.”

Visiting the places on his SES map is just one of the things Dent is doing as the new head of the organisation.

“It helps to get things into perspective. It’s very early days yet but we are on sure footing. There’s a lot of work to be done but there’s no reason we can’t be community leaders in emergency management. There are areas that we could gain credibility in terms of opportunity and capability. But it’s about putting systems in place so that people get what they need when they need it in terms of strength and leadership.”

In that regard, Dent also aims for solid relationships between the emergency services.

“There is certainly opportunity there for strong partnerships with NSW Police and Fire and Rescue and there has certainly been seamless collaborations in the past.”

And as his predecessor Murray Kear faced court this week after ICAC findings of corrupt behaviour which led to his resignation, Dent was just intent on focusing on the future.

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John Morris: On the road again He’s divided his life equally between the agriculture, transport and insurance industries and devoted just as much time to a host of committees. John Morris is now looking at semiretirement and hitting the road again... AS TOLD TO and PHOTOGRAPHY Natalie Holmes I was born and bred at Brocklehurst where we had a 1500 acre mixed family farm called Greengrove. We had wheat, oats, fat lambs and cattle.

I went to school at Brocklehurst and I was both school captain and dux in my final year. Then I went to Dubbo High School where I did the intermediate certificate. I left as soon as I could (laughs).

That was followed by a farm mechanics course, wool classing, and woolshed expert course.

I became president of the Dubbo regional branch of the Rural Youth Club, which I did for two years. I worked on the farm with Dad when I left school but we were too different. He was old school and I was new school. When I left the farm, I was earning $10 a week.

As a welder on the LH Ford Bridge my wages went up to $80 a week. I felt like a millionaire! The bridge was built between March and September 1969. I remember starting there five days after man landed on the moon. I went back to farming working for local families but that was during the Whitlam era and farming got a bit of a doing over.

Weaners were only selling for 20 cents a head. So I went truck driving instead.

A couple of fellows I went to school with were driving and I had decided I needed to get out and see the world. I started with Ray Holland Stock Transport driving all over the western side of Eastern Australia.

In those days, we had 200 horsepower trucks and two decks of sheep or cattle. I was there for two years, and after that, I was going to buy more land and I actually went back to the family farm.

But we were trying to raise three families on one farm and it just didn’t work.

I went and joined Phillip MacInnes and was his first commercial driver. He had a fleet of 20 trucks and he looked to be making a fortune. I thought, I can do this, so I joined the industry working on supply and demand. There was a niche market for the owner/driver and I had prime contracts rather than sub-con-

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tracting – I had learned that from Phil.

Ninety per cent of my work was prime contracts which was great. I did that for 14 years, earning $2000 a week – they’re not getting that these days.

It was the era of overloading, in those days, you could put double loads on.

Nobody had a log book. But that era ended in 1992 after a journalist was killed when a load of wool bales fell onto her car. You couldn’t overload anymore or you’d wind up in jail. It was at that time that the chain of responsibility and duty of care came in. By that time, I’d been on the road for 22 years.

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2. GEOGRAPHY: The Falkland Islands are located off which continent?

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It had been a lot of fun, I got to see the country, but a lot changed in that time.

One of the major things were advances in technology and by the time I left the industry, the need to pull up at a phone box with a Tupperware container full of coins was no longer there.

Mobile phones have been the biggest change. I was one of the first in Dubbo to have a mobile. It cost me $2500 and was the weight of a car battery. But it was worth it, you could keep in touch with clients and get extra income.

After leaving the transport industry behind, I didn’t know what I was going

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7. THEATRE: What was the name of the female protagonist in the play “West Side Story”?

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to do. But after about a month, I got into selling truck insurance. I didn’t think I was qualified.

I said “I’m not a salesman” but apparently every day in my truck, I was a salesman. By this stage, I’d met my second wife Trish. My first wife and I broke up in 1985 and I met Trish not long after that. She worked as a manager at Buttercup but joined me in the business.

Working with your wife? I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone (laughs)! We did it tough for a while but that’s any business. Ninety per cent of our business is word of mouth even though 50 per cent of our clients, we’ve never met.

In insurance, we work 50 or 60 hours a week each. I also do a lot of hours with the Australian Road Train Association among other groups. (Morris is a member of Dubbo 2036, Chamber of Commerce, the NSW Crown Holiday Parks community consultative committee, Newell Highway Taskforce, Dubbo Show Society and more. He is also the transport adviser for the Member for Dubbo and was the transport technical adviser on films Prime Mover and Road Train).

I’ve always been a person who like to help, I get a great deal of enjoyment out of helping others, particularly the battlers. I think that if I can point them in the right direction and help them fix things, then it’s good. One thing I’ve always been keen to do is to make a difference in the transport industry for clients – a lot relies on what I do. Nearly all the committees I’m on are hosted by some department and I am the public representative. I had dinner with Duncan Gay (NSW Minister for Roads and Freight) recently and am happy to speak to people about the industry and take their concerns to the politicians.

I am also the chairman of the National Road Transport Association Road Train and High Productivity Freight Vehicle Committee which is something we’ve been working on for 10 to 12 years.

In terms of getting funding from the Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program, some organisations are more proactive than others.

I’ve now spent equal amounts of time (approximately 21 years apiece) in farming, transport and insurance.

Hopefully, I will be able to spend 22 years in retirement! We have bought a new caravan and hope to travel around Australia. We have eight grandchildren so Trish wants to visit them regularly in between our travels. In the truck, I used to do long haul runs to Darwin and Adelaide but I haven’t been around Australia even though I have friends in every city.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Greg Smart

Friday 03.04.2015 to Monday 06.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

By his own admission, Greg Smart was born 40 years old and is in training to be a cranky old man. He spends his time avoiding commercial television and bad coffee.

Observations from a polling place near you HE local school hall: the venue for democracy in action. The place where the majority of people interact with the political process.

Far removed from the grandstanding and hubris that forms people’s view of modern politics, the local school hall is nevertheless an integral part of the political system.

As someone who has worked at many school halls in many elections, I can answer some commonly posed questions that arise on Election Day. 1. I arrived at the polling booth at 7.30am and voting starts at 8.00am.

Why won’t you let me in so I can vote?

At 8.00am, an independent witness makes sure the ballot boxes are empty and then closed with a numbered seal. Voting before this occurs is not permitted.

2. The line up to vote is too long. Why don’t you have more staff?

The polling place is staffed by members of the public, not Electoral Commission staff. The Electoral Commission decides how many staff each booth needs based on how many people used the booth at the last election and the number of voters who live in the area.

The polling booth staff are temporary paid workers.

3. So you lot are paid then? Bet you make heaps of money?

Considering the online training before the election, the two hours it takes to set up the booth the night before, the 7.00am start time and the 10.00pm finish time on Election Day, the pay seems fair.

4. The line is still long, though. Why is everyone here at once?

Not sure. Maybe the morning sport has finished and people are on the way home. It seems a long wait, but I have been timing people and they are getting from the rear of the queue to the front in 10 to 15 minutes.

5. That’s too long. I have better things to do.

I can appreciate that. Bear in mind though, voting is only half an hour of your time every second year or so it’s

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not really a big ask. People line up for hours to go on a rollercoaster at Disneyland after all. Besides, you can prepoll before Election Day if voting today is not convenient.

6. I still don’t see why I should vote though. Voting is just a scam.

Not in Australia. Australian elections are highly regulated and heavily scrutinised. Voting is part of the democratic process that typifies a free and open society.

As a secret ballot, Australian elections offer true freedom to everyone to do as their conscience determines.

Last weekend’s election in Nigeria was marked by armed militia harassing voters at gunpoint and destroying election material. Citizens still lined up for hours to vote. Australians shouldn’t take voting for granted.

7. Why do I have to go past those people out the front handing out flyers to get me to vote for their candidate?

Would you prefer armed militia?

8. What if I don’t want to vote for anyone?

That’s your choice, but remember there are millions of people in the world who would do anything for the chance

Voting is only half an hour of your time every second year or so it’s not really a big ask. People line up for hours to go on a rollercoaster at Disneyland after all.

to vote in a free and open elections.

9. On my ballot paper I drew a rude picture / told a politician to f@#k off / voted for Mickey Mouse. Have I achieved anything?

If you think you have, then yes; but please refer to the answer above.

10. Why can’t I just get my name marked off the list and not vote?

Again, that’s your choice, as is leaving the ballot paper blank. You can’t throw the ballot paper away though, as every ballot is counted and the staff have to account for every ballot paper that was issued. This ensures no ballots go missing or are added in to corrupt the result.

11. I have been voting for 30 years and now my name is not on the roll. Why did you do that?

It wouldn’t have been deliberate. Administrative or computer data errors are very rare but can occur. No one eligible to vote is denied a vote and it is easy to be put back on the roll.

12. How many trees died to make all these ballot papers?

Not sure. Electronic voting has been trialled around the world to varying degrees of success. It is susceptible to errors and data corruption. In many ways pen and paper is still the safest, most secure and tangible method of voting.

13. My friend/mother/father/uncle/ aunt can’t vote today. Is it okay if I pretend I am them and vote for them?

No. 14. I want to vote for the rich mining bloke from Queensland. Can I do that?

Not unless you move to his electorate in Queensland.

15. Why isn’t there a sausage sizzle?

I’m not here to sell sausages. Maybe next election.

16. Voting closes at 6.00pm. I arrived at the polling booth at 6.10pm was turned away. Why can’t I vote?

The doors are locked at 6.00pm when voting closes across the state and the ballot boxes are opened in preparation for the votes to be counted. Opened ballot boxes are a security risk so, yes you are too late.

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Sally Bryant

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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...

In my book, private health ain’t what it used to be ’VE been off work, with me health.

You might have noticed I haven’t been around. I’ve been away doing some market research on the difference between the public and private hospital systems.

You might remember this time last year, I went off to have a joint retrofitted. In fact, it was exactly this time last year because I spent Good Friday in theatre. I was a hit.

The first hip replacement was done under the public system. I had no private health insurance at the time, and therefore private surgery was financially beyond my means. However, I was in dire need and was considered to warrant being put close (ish) to the top of a public theatre list. And about that time I decided to avail myself of private health insurance, so I’d no longer be on a waiting list.

I cannot fault the public system under which I had my first joint replacement.

The hospital looked a bit sad and run down, the nurses were far too busy getting stuff done to be hovering over me with a hand soothing my fevered brow, and the food was pretty ordinary. I was in a ward with a group of elderly female patients, some of whom were at least partly doolally. But I was well-looked after, and came through the experience with no problems.

This second go at hospitalisation was very different. The hospital was Rather Grand. I was in a private room, with cable TV. The food was from a menu, with the offer of a glass of wine. And the attitude of the place was very different indeed.

In the public hospital there was an understanding that the staff were flat out and would do for you as much as they

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could. You’d get your medicine, if you rang your buzzer, then someone would come as quickly as they were able. If you needed help to have a shower, then they’d help you as soon as they could.

But if you could shower yourself? Hallelujah! Happy Days! In the public hospital, there were not too many frills, not so much of the “customer service”.

There was no time for them to stop and make sure you were chirpy, that nothing was worrying you. If you didn’t speak up, it was assumed you were doing pretty well.

The private hospital was a bit of a revelation. And not necessarily an experience you’d want to have on the road to Damascus, when you’ve just been under the knife.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a private hospital. I dimly remember having my appendix removed when I was about 13, in a very comfy private hospital in Randwick. I remember having my thumb reconstructed in a very zhoozhy private hospital in London, but that would have to be well over 20 years ago. And I remember visiting senior relatives in private hospitals that felt a bit like high value snow lodges at Gstaad.

Ah! The good old days.

Folks, let me tell you, either I drew the short straw, or times have changed

drastically.

I spend a week in a private hospital and this is the first time I have dealt with the health system and been made to feel like a commodity. The hospital was a weird combination of run down smart hotel and fast food outlet. There were customer feedback forms and mission statements everywhere, and that was about the strength of it.

There was a huge emphasis on the customer service approach, on the “hello, I’m Cindy, and I’ll be your nurse for today”. And then, I swear to God, she’d disappear, never to be seen again. You’d ring your buzzer to get some form of pain relief, and somebody else quite different would turn up and you’d have to explain the situation all over again to them.

In the public system everyone was very concerned to make sure you had enough pain relief, they’d remind you to push your little drug dispenser buzzer if you were in pain.

In the private system, you’d swear to God they were paying for the drugs themselves, they were so parsimonious with them. It’s as though I was some random junkie who had lobbed in off the streets and was demanding Class A drugs. At one stage, a nurse eyeballed me, nose to nose, and savagely told me

Folks, let me tell you, either I drew the short straw, or times have changed drastically.

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that my pupils were dilated and I wasn’t to push the pain relief button so much.

Well, I think you can imagine my response to that. I was pretty cross with her, and meant to have strong words but instead I happily drifted off to play with the unicorns.

I’ve long been in favour of allowing private businesses to run some elements of the health system, for me it makes good sense. But I don’t think we should put any part of the health system in the hands of the shameless gougers. I understand the profit motive, I get the concept of making a return on your investment, but it seems to me that in so many cases now that is the sole criteria that’s considered when people talk about running a good business.

There were good staff in the private hospital, and it wasn’t all bad news. But there was an overwhelming sense that the patients were being feedlotted to make a profit, rather than being cared for to help make them well.

During my seven day sojourn, a representative from the overarching owner company came to the hospital to give an “in-service” to the staff. And it was a bit like hearing a conversation at an Amway convention. Because I was eavesdropping from my room, still slightly high.

Like I say, I’m happy enough for private enterprise to be given the opportunity to run important services. I don’t think there is necessarily anything morally superior in the attitude of people who are in the public sector.

But you have to wonder who it is that’s being left in charge of developing the culture of the new model, and if they are being told the only yardstick to success is a massive profit.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS.

Friday 03.04.2015 to Monday 06.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Separation anxiety and a head in the Cloud

BY YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

JOURNALIST

LOST my phone.

Breathe in... hold, two, three, breathe out, two, three.

Panic, be gone. It’s just a phone, right?

So what if it contains precious, irreplaceable photos, an entire personal contact list years in the making, a calendar scheduled for the next umpteen weeks, mid-stream text conversations with interviewees for whom I haven’t yet saved phone numbers, voice memos (raw interviews for Weekender), my mobile wormhole to Facebook, my music, my apps... It categorically does not mean the world has stopped turning.

Just...my world.

Breathe in...

Yes, this is what it feels like to temporarily “lose” a child. Actually, I’ve had that feeling a couple of times already.

Okay, three times – the only difference I can see is children don’t come with a backup to the Cloud.

Imagine it, though: If backups of your children were saved in the Cloud you could just keep downloading them at that age before they suddenly know everything or discovered electronics.

Too bad for my progeny, because if you’re a data miser like me, you have backup and every other function switched off until required.

If only I required it the day before I lost my phone because without a phone – the portal to my personalised pearly Cloudy gate – there’s no stairway to personalised mobile heaven.

Who would believe 30 years ago this never happened?

No one lost his or her phone back then. Bring back 1986.

In 1986, if you said “I lost my phone”, it meant actually you’d lost your marbles. The only phone you could own hung fixed to the wall in the kitchen or was set proudly on a low table near the front door, unmoved and unmovable for decades.

All people had to worry about in that golden age of the home phone was missing a call if they couldn’t get to it in time because they were in the loo, chatting to a neighbour or they’d gone outside.

Remember that app? Gone Outside.

Free download. Free data. No batteries required. No need to recharge.

If they were “out” – as in, not at home – they installed answering machines to check on later because our forefathers and mothers were busy doing something else more important than waiting for the next call, message or Facebook post.

And how “chilled” was that? They sometimes even told themselves, “Nah, if it was really that important, they’ll ring back.”

How much easier would it have been if I’d lost my phone in 1987, when mobiles first sold in Australia?

I would have known the instant it wasn’t in my handbag anymore because it would have been the size and weight of a brick.

And I would probably be the only per-

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son in town who owned one and if I’d paid the going price of $4250 for it, I would as much wear a diamond tiara shopping as take my mobile brick with me in public.

And given how rare a mobile phone was back then ... who ya gonna call?

Back to the future.

I lost my phone this week.

The dawning realisation came when one of the brood asked with the irritation of pepper spray, “Mum, can I use your phone?” (repeat, repeat, repeat) which is fine but I was driving and an eyes-on-the-road search of my hand bag came up empty. This was followed by a nervous little butterfly flapping its wings in the South American rainforest of my stomach – heralding a tornado somewhere in the world. Probably Dubbo.

Parked at home, it was confirmed.

The phone is absent without leave.

Under the seats? Nada.

This. Is. Breathe. Really. Happening.

Breathe.

Actually I find it hard to panic. I’ve only had that emotion twice in my life – both times my hair was on fire.

So, taking the calm approach, let’s backtrack. I was at my desk before we went out. I read a text message, picked up the phone and we left.

Did I have it in my hand at the Officeworks checkout? That’s the thing. It’s often NOT in my hand and separated now, technically makes me an amputee, so is my memory thinking of a phantom limb?

Think, think...

The mall? Walking in. That group of kids behind me! They stole it. They must have stolen it. It was probably sticking out of my handbag like a “Free: Please take one” sign.

Let’s begin again: my phone’s been stolen.

Damn you, Steve Jobs, for spending squillions on global marketing campaigns to convince consumers Apple products dominate the world (which they don’t), are therefore coveted and valuable – bringing out the worst in some people who succumb to their need for greed.

It’s not the phone that’s important anyway – it’s my data, my content, my connections. Who else wants my photos, my contact list, my calendar?

Saved!! My phone tracker’s on. I can trace it.

“Yes mum,” says 11 year-old Electronics Jedi’s Apprentice: “Use my iPad. Download the tracking software, key in your number and you’ll find it.”

I pause to ponder: “How is it you have an iPad and I don’t?”

New problem. Tracking can be easily turned off. If I was a phone thief, that’s the first thing I’d do.

The Electronics Jedi, aged 16, all-

round Voice of Reason and young woman of few words says: “They won’t know the PIN.” How hard is that to hack, I wonder? It has to be on YouTube.

In the Hadron collider of my brain, two more particles of reality collide: firstly, I can’t ring the mall to tell them my phone has been stolen (Electronics Jedi’s phone has been left at home) and secondly, Electronics Jedi’s Apprentice has a sleepover birthday party starting in 30 minutes, out on the Narromine Road.

Officeworks is on the way, we’ll check there.

My son runs in while I keep the getaway car primed. The nice young man who’d served me earlier in the day, comes out zipping up a backpack with a smile on his face. What’s he smirking about? What’s he just put in his bag?

Not jumping to any conclusions I leap out to intercept him: “Excuse me...!”.

He says he hadn’t seen it on the counter but perhaps it’s still there. Apprentice emerges empty handed.

It’s a 14 kilometre drive to the birthday party so there’s plenty of time to stew on the possibilities of life sans phone.

Even the bright sunny day can’t keep thoughts of the things to which I don’t have instant access from hanging over the car like a brooding storm-front pregnant with treachery.

I label the losses in my head, and punctuate them with a staccato of choice words, out loud, apparently.

Appointments for all four members of the family: %&*@$! The contact for my interview tomorrow: %&*@$! My phone numbers: %&*@$!

With Apprentice installed at the party, I open the farm gate to leave, resolv-

I dash to the police station thinking I should buy a phone for my phone so it can call me if something like this ever happens again.

ing to return to the scene of the crime, the mall.

“What’s the point?” runs the dialogue.

If it is stolen it’s gone. You don’t get things like that back.

I get home. I know the kids have searched the car, but it’s time for a Mummy Look. Nothing.

Just to be sure it’s not at home, Electronics Jedi’s phone is employed to ring my number just in case, this whole time, my brain’s been having a Nanna Nap. We stand in the hallway of our house and dream of the possibilities.

It’s ringing, she says.

The house is silent, which raises a secret doubt: did I leave my phone on silent?

It keeps ringing. Electronics Jedi looks deeply into my eyes, pursed mouth, shaking her head from side to side with those barely perceptible movements, which scream, I’m feeling your pain but I there’s more to come.

“Hello?”

A man answers my phone!

“Hello?” replies Jedi, stunned and confused. A conversation ensues.

She hangs up her flip phone (it’s old, makes phone calls, writes texts and drops on the ground like a dream, is not coveted and will never be stolen; also is not vulnerable to dark forces like impregnable Clouds).

“That was the police,” she says, grinning, “Someone’s handed in your phone!”

What?

Humanity, my faith is restored.

As if to be reunited with a child missing without trace for two hours, I dash to the police station thinking I should buy a phone for my phone so it can call me if something like this ever happens again.

Thank you officer! Found at Officeworks and handed in anonymously.

Thank you Anonymous. You’ve done a good deed and that’s a reward for you.

You’ve resurrected my hope in humanity and that’s my reward.

I have my phone back too and I thank you for restoring my missing limb.

THE SOAPBOX.

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Living the uni dream ’M about halfway through my first semester studying at the Australian National University in Canberra. I wasn’t really sure what to say about it, to be honest – given many readers will probably have their own ideas and memories of university: lectures, parties and twominute noodles.

We don’t party too hard, although to be fair, yes, I do occasionally resort to two-minute noodles for dinner. They’re convenient, damn it. Though we do take a lot more care with them now since a friend inadvertently left them on the stove for eight hours. His room is now haunted with the ghosts of a thousand cremated noodles.

But let me share with you what embarking on a uni degree looks like from my perspective.

Staring out the window of my room on the fourth floor, I see the lifts zooming up and down in the office building across the road. I can see through the building’s darkly tinted windows just enough to notice people working at their desks, looking outwards for something interesting to distract them from printing and stapling and other office activities. Their windows are tinted, mine are not. It’s helpful to remind myself of this before I get changed in the morning.

I’m blessed with a rather short walk to my lectures, which has its advantages.

the search for a seat it’s like a search for polar bears in Antarctica. Blood bath, I tell you. Secondly, our lecturer is pretty incredible at both moistening the oftendry subject of economics and managing the 900 students taking his course this semester. But don’t take my word for it – ask one of the several hundred people who follow the appreciation society on Facebook made in his honour.

I’m also loving that frozen yoghurt is only a two-minute walk away. I’d easily walk two miles for Froyo, so this is truly wonderful. It’s an asset there for those days when I feel the need to eat something I can deceive myself into believing is healthier than ice cream. And when I come home next, this deception will continue – I’m coming for you, Yoghurtland.

Speaking of frozen yoghurt (what a segue!), the best way I can describe university so far is that it feels like a smorgasbord of infinite flavours. It’s teeming with oodles of interesting folks of very diverse nationalities, religions and political orientations. This aligns with the wisdom of a close friend, who once told me that university is a place where you find “your people”. But you also quickly begin to develop a greater understanding of who those people who are “yours” actually are. (And can I just add I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people

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Comment by MATT DOOHAN Matt Doohan has just embarked on his university career and so far, he’s living the dream.

One morning, when my alarm decided to remain comatose, I woke at 8:57 am – three minutes before my philosophy lecture was to start. I was inside the lecture theatre at 9:01 am. I too like to live on the edge.

Now that I think of it, going to lectures is normally fairly interesting because the lifts in my building sometimes make a momentary high-pitched shriek when you step inside. It’s a bit like Russian roulette – you know it’s going to happen at some point, and you know you will soil yourself. You just never know when.

On another note, I endeavour to never be late for any of my microeconomics lectures. Firstly because there are about six hundred students in these particular lectures, and if you’re not there early

flock to TV screens to watch Q&A on a Monday night.)

It never occurred to me that within half a day I could have established nearly instant friendships, and almost solely from meeting people with tastes in music nearly identical to mine. And from that, it ripples outwards – your new friend introduces you to one of their new friends, and so on. It really is true that when everyone is in the same boat, connection becomes easier. The most difficult part is making the first leap, but it’s the most important, because that’s your signal to everyone that you exist. Sometimes it’s as simple as opening the door to your room.

As much as I’m having a wonderful time here, I do miss home. Leading up to the Easter mid-semester break, I think I’m more excited to come home than I’ve ever been. I find it incredible that there are many small things about home that I miss but didn’t think I would to this extent. One of the walls in my room is scattered with pictures of friends, little reminders that we’re not going to be apart for too long, as cheesy as it sounds.

Only two months into my four-year degree, I’m living the university dream.

I can feel it getting better and better.

See you soon, Dubbo. Merry Easter and happy chocolate feasting.

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Minding mythology for a guilt-free Easter T surprises some people to know that I was raised a card carrying Catholic.

I’m taking church every Sunday until I was old enough to decide myself, Confirmation name, endless confessions, and even now as I refer to myself as a “reformed� Catholic, I still can’t shake that good old Catholic guilt.

But there is one thing I don’t feel guilty about, and that’s my assurance that giving up chocolate for Lent will not make me a better person.

As someone who grew up around the mythology of Easter, it surprises me that we have traditions like the Easter Bunny (clearly made up), but the ideas that are proposed in The Bible seem like a totally legitimate belief system? I apologise for offending, but to me it’s hard to not see it as a narrative, and just like the Greek, Roman and Norse gods before it, the mythology of Christianity will one day be mythbusted...although some may say Darwinism has done a good job of that already.

My disbelief began, somewhat ironically, in my religion class in high school.

In my 20s I never missed an opportunity to tell people that “religion is the opiate

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of the masses� (a quote attributed originally to Karl Marx) or that historically, organised religion had been created as a form of societal control.

While I was once a strident young atheist, in my later years I’ve become a lot more “live and let live� in my approach to other people’s beliefs. And be-

sides, I think today you can see quite easily from the census data, the rate of church goers, and probably even the divorce rate, that people are quietly choosing their own path outside these traditional confines.

But yet, the mythology remains. I remember begrudging the Christmas and Easter Catholics who would only show up to church twice a year, have their bread and eat it too, absolved of all sins and given a gold star just for participation. So unfair that I, a non-believer, had to sit through 50 minutes of mass every single Sunday, yet these guys could still get through the pearly gates after a minimum sentence.

But the biggest farce of modern Catholicism, if I may be so bold, is not these part-time church goers, but the distinctly un-Christian attitudes and be-

As far as mythological Gods go, I’d take Jesus over Zeus any day. Jesus helped the poor, he forgave, he gave starving people food AND he could perform miracles (water into wine anyone?).

liefs that can be seen within the ranks and congregations that make up the Church.

Child sexual abuse is the most obvious, but the exclusion of females as leaders, the outdated “moral� beliefs in relation to sex out of wedlock and contraception (relevant perhaps out of necessity 2000 years ago – but not today), and the archaic stance on gay relationships and marriage.

So perhaps instead of removing the mythology completely, we can start to realistically incorporate the fable of Jesus into our lives. Because as far as mythological Gods go, I’d take Jesus over Zeus any day. Jesus helped the poor, he forgave, he gave starving people food AND he could perform miracles (water into wine anyone?).

If we are to believe what was written about the man who died for our sins, then it is to believe he was a kind, giving, patient and progressive man. Someone who could move with the times, probably a lover of chocolate, definitely not a climate change denier, possibly a resident of Ballina, and, without a doubt, a big fan of the hipster beard.

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Friday 03.04.2015 to Monday 06.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Business

Finessing a fine line to balance the budget

BY JOHN RYAN JOURNALIST

OVERNMENTS, businesses large and small, families and individuals live by budgets, whether or not they consciously go through the task of preparing one.

The task is seen as theoretical – ensuring your outgoings don’t exceed your incomings – in other words, if you spend more than you earn, it’s all going to end in tears.

But whereas individuals and families can set themselves simple mechanisms to ensure they have enough weekly money for housing, food, electricity, fuel and so on, for governments it’s far more difficult.

Just ask federal treasurer Joe Hockey, who not only failed in framing his first budget as equitable, but followed that flawed document up with a sales pitch so bad he would have been sacked from selling tickets at a pub chook raffle.

I wasn’t surprised – of all the people I’ve ever interviewed, our current treasurer came across as the one least likely to take any advice, from anyone, about anything, more aloof even than Kevin Rudd.

Years ago in Dubbo, he was told how the Howard government’s baby bonus was being used to buy drugs, plasma TVs and being splurged on bingo and through the pokies but he was not only adamant none of this was happening, he aggressively pushed his own views while having zero knowledge of the local situation.

In this volatile political and social climate where people get upset if their fast food takes more than 30 seconds, a federal treasurer needs to be much smarter about playing the game than just assuming everything can be barged through both houses of parliament.

You have to get agreement and play to your strengths rather than alienating the very people you have to do business with next week.

As executive officer of a Landcare group that’s had no real income stream for 18 months, I know that everything is a balancing act of trying to stay afloat while somehow ensuring that a level of core activities are continued.

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF

Funny money no joke for businesses POLICE have warned business operators and individuals alike to be vigilant after counterfeit $50 and $100 notes were handed to a business in Moree this week. The fake notes were discovered during banking, according to Barwon Local Area Command’s Detective Inspector David Silversides. The counterfeit has a thicker feel and bright-

Our emphasis has been on driving down as much as possible any farmer inputs, with the rationale that if farmers in the lower valley are profitable that will flow through the local communities.

It’s the top priority because it’s a hugely difficult long term task to increase commodity prices and thus incomes – just as with the family budget we have to see how farmers can cut costs so those low prices they get for their commodities stack up at the end of June.

The only agricultural money is inside the Emissions Reduction Fund so we’ve been pushing for the easiest and simplest ways for large scale take-up of that complex scheme to ensure as many of the dollars from that $2.55 billion fund gets to our area as possible, instead of ending up in the hands of profiteering corporate “carbon-baggers” from metro areas.

After more than a year banging heads against the Canberran concrete, finally some good news.

Federal environment minister Greg Hunt has been very supportive of community benefits surrounding the Orana Carbon Project and last week signed off on a new ERF methodology called Industrial Electricity and Fuel Efficiency Methodology Determination 2015.

To get “direct action” dollars you have to either sequester CO2 into the soil or reduce emissions, and it has to be by way of an approved methodology.

This new method opens the way for irrigators to install huge solar arrays to power their irrigation pumps which currently use either electricity or diesel to run their pumps.

Some people in the lower valley spend more than $30,000 per month on fuel when their pumps are running and last year irrigators across the state said that power costs had become the most crippling input, and a concern second only to water availability.

Photovoltaic panel costs have been slashed in recent years thanks to huge uptakes driving new technology and changing to solar is within reach of becoming attractive to many irrigators as a purely commercial decision, with only a run of poor seasons stopping many from committing to a green change.

Now the ERF dollars can become part of a new income stream, it should tip many people over the line and that means those savings will flow back through our local communities.

If farmers can access loans to build these solar systems through the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, one of the agencies Joe Hockey wanted to scrap, many more should take the plunge.

This is an example where many individuals and agencies working together can help bring about real and lasting change to cut massive input costs and deliver real savings for the environment.

It’s about people looking proactively at the bigger picture and deciding where best to allocate their very finite resources.

If we can do it at a local and regional level with almost zero resources, I’m hopeful our federal treasurer can bring himself to work with people whose support he needs to get positive initiatives across the line.

I saw some incredibly cringe-worthy and awkward TV vision a while back of Joe Hockey pecking the cheek of independent senator Jackie Lambie when he was trying to win her vote for something or other so hopefully he can now turn the other cheek.

We have multitudes of tremendously exciting opportunities in Australia if treasury would just take the shackles off regional Australia, think outside the merchant bankerriddled cities where so much paper money is created and allow our productive capability to realise its full potential.

It’s about people looking proactively at the bigger picture and deciding where best to allocate their very finite resources.

er colouring than normal and at this stage has only been identified in $50 and $100 denominations. However, businesses across the region should take care and maintain scrutiny, and to check notes being exchanged.

A genuine banknote is printed on plastic and is difficult to tear and the “clear window” should be part of the note, not an addition. Look for the “star” – if you hold the note up to the light, diamond shaped patterns printed inside a circle form up perfectly to form a seven-pointed star.

Hold the banknote to the light and look for the Australian Coat of Arms, and feel for slightly raised printing on the main design of the banknote.

As a business owner, you are well within your rights to refuse a banknote you suspect may be counterfeit, however anyone

who receives what they suspect could be a fake note should handle the fake note as little as possible and store it in an envelope; note any relevant information about the person who presented the note, including their vehicle if possible and call police immediately. The RBA has an online guide to help with the detection of counterfeit notes – go to banknotes.rba.gov.au.

Traffic woes in business? Head west AS if we needed another reason to spruik the value of doing business in the Orana region, it’s been revealed that our city cousins are spending nearly twice as much time during their daily commute – wasting up to four full days a year (or 91 hours stuck in traffic.

Makers of the popular dashmounted device TomTom, this week released what it they call a “traffic index”, and while the company has a vested interest, the figures are telling. Our state’s capital once again ranks as the most congested city in Australia with Sydneysiders are spending an extra 24 minutes for an average 30 minute commute each day. Congestion levels for Perth, Adelaide and Canberra remained the same, while all other cities are steadily worsening. According to the survey, Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the worst days to commute through the city, with morning peak hour traffic worse than for the afternoon commute. So there – just another reason for city business and industry operators to go west.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 03.04.2015 to Monday 06.04.2015 ADVERTORIAL

Business in changing times with Phil Comerford, Scolari Comerford Dubbo

Sale-o! Sale-o!

Taking stock of the market’s value

BY ROSS MCCARTHY THY DUBBO CITY COUNCIL’S CIL’S CITY DEVELOPMENT T PROGRAM LEADER

ECENTLY Dubbo City Council (DCC) completed a $4.1M upgrade of the sheep selling facilities at Dubbo Regional Livestock Market on Boothenba Road.

The upgrade created yards with additional carrying capacity and a complex designed and constructed with ease of use and animal welfare in mind.

In addition, a grant of $285,740 was recently received by Council under the NSW Fixing Country Roads Program to upgrade the Mitchell Highway/Bunglegumbie Road intersection to road train standards.

This will complete the 20 year program of upgrading works required to create Bunglegumbie Road as the northern road train bypass route to the urban area.

Part of the transport upgrade (made possible by separate funding) is the relocation of the Troy Junction Rail Level Crossing at the Boothenba Road/Newell Highway intersection to enable road train access which is due for completion in June 2015.

So why all the attention? According to economic modelling undertaken by the AEC Group in 2014, it was indicated the DRLM provide a total contribution of $75.6 million in total output and supports 320 full time equivalent positions.

Some of these jobs include six council employees, stock agents, buyers, carriers, suppliers and people feeding the livestock.

The DRLM is located on 30 hectares of land and measured on a combined sheep and cattle annual throughput, has grown to become the largest saleyard in Australia.

In the first full year of operation in 1950, the Dubbo market handled 9,334 cattle, 145,843 sheep, 2,667 pigs and 109 horses.

That was a stark contrast to the last financial year where throughput was a record 271,453 cattle, 1,588,704 sheep and 12,447 goats.

What might be of interest to the Dubbo rate payer however, is the fact

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that the DRLM contributed $286,200 to rates and general revenue in the financial year 2013/14.

Livestock are sold at DRLM by auction. Essentially the farmer takes his stock, be it sheep, cattle or goats, in to the market by truck, either himself or by carrier.

The farmer will have booked his stock in with an agent to be sold before the sale.

The buyers know when the sale is on, and because the DRLM is so large they know they will be able to have a choice of stock and be able to buy them by the truck load, keeping their transport costs down.

The agent auctions the stock and the highest bidder gets to take them home. Simple enough, and let’s face it, auctions are nothing new, with the Romans favouring this method of selling for setting prices of goods.

Just to keep everyone on the ball, prime cattle (generally ones the butchers buy) are sold by live weight, which means you’re bidding on them on a cents per kilogram basis – for example, you bid $2 and the beast is weighed after the auction at 500kg, it will cost the buyer $1,000 plus GST. Store cattle (which generally need to be grown out or may include breeder cows) are sold on a per head basis which means that if the winning bid is $1,000, you will pay $1,000 plus GST. Sheep and lambs are also sold on a per head basis.

So how does the DRLM get paid?

Amongst other things, DRLM earns its revenue by yard dues on stock sold.

Some of these fees include $8.34 per head for cattle and sheep at $0.78 per head. The seller, generally the farmer pays this fee out of the value of the livestock sold, this is collected by the agent who also charges a commission to the farmer.

If you’re interested in having a look, sales for sheep and lambs take place from 11am on Mondays.

Cattle sales are on Thursdays from 8am for prime cattle and store cattle is on Fridays as required, generally every two weeks.

Goat sales are also held as required.

If you do go and have a look, be careful of the trucks, don’t worry about the aroma (it’s the smell of money) and drop in for an agents’ feed at the canteen, you won’t go hungry.

Thinking about starting a new business?

Is it right for you?

IT takes more than just a good idea to start a business. Commitment and dedication are also important because getting your idea off the ground can often involve long hours and many sacrifices – well worth it if you are passionate about your business.

You need to have good business management skills to keep the business running – especially since, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, many new enterprises fail within their first five years of operation!

Research your market MAKE sure you have a solid concept for the business, not just a vague idea.

Think about whether your business will be feasible. Is there a real need for your product or service? Who are your customers? Who are your competitors?

Initial market research to answer these questions will help you work out if your plan will succeed. Ongoing market research will ensure you keep in touch with the latest trends, industry changes and the economic condition – all factors that will impact the success of your business.

Adequate finance TAKE the time to count the cost. Financial planning and budgeting are essential for any business. Budgets are effectively your business plans expressed in

financial terms. Remember, in the early months of operation, you will need sufficient cash to carry you through until your business begins to generate a profit.

Seek reliable advice ADVICE from your accountant, financial planner and solicitor will prove highly valuable at the outset. Although the cost of good advice may be a concern, think of it this way: what would be the cost if your business were to fail because you didn’t seek expert advice early on.

Your action plan MAKE an appointment to get expert advice from your accountant, solicitor and financial planner, and talk to other business owners about their secrets to success! z Make a list of all the questions you need to ask, aim to take away as much information as possible before you embark on your business. z Contact the Scolari Comerford team today on 1300 852 980 for assistance with this Action Plan!

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Qantas and the Zoo flying high

BY CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT QANTAS CEO Alan Joyce was in Dubbo recently to help unveil new Taronga Western Plains Zoo branding on the newest addition to the Qantaslink fleet – a sleek Q400 aircraft now emblazoned with a parade of giraffes, elephants and rhinos – which will in effect act as a flying billboard for the region’s premier tourist attraction. » Read the full story back on page 6.

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Getting down to business with Google IT’S not every day one of the world’s most recognisable technology companies swings by Dubbo with the offer of free business training and tips – so it’s no wonder Google’s one-day visit to the city was so well subscribed.

More than 130 locals from a diverse cross section of the business community took up the offer of breakfast and an opportunity to “test drive” some of Google’s emerging technology as well as the business mentoring opportunities afforded by representatives from the company whose name has become part of the modern vernacular.

One of only five such events to be held across Australia, the Google Small Business Roadshow rolled into town at the invitation of Dubbo’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry and local Google partner AusClicks Dubbo, hosting a free breakfast event followed by a day of training, information sessions and personalised advice.

Google Australia’s head of small business, Rich Flanagan, said the day’s workshops were to help local business

owners to address an identified “knowledge gap” to ensure people are able to employ technology to work for their own businesses.

According to surveys completed by those business owners attending the event, more than 40 per cent said that while they understand the value of having an online presence, they fell short of knowing how to take the first steps to make that happen.

Michael Everett, retail operations manager for wellknown local business Village Hotbake, shared his insights on how technology and having an online presence has helped grow the business, while Google partner AusClicks’ Michael Quinn was on hand throughout the day as a local conduit to help get businesses started with taking advantage of both free and paid online products. » See next week’s Dubbo Weekender Business section for an in-depth and exclusive interview with Rich Flanagan, including tips for kick-starting your business’ online campaign.

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ADVERTORIAL

Media & Marketing Minute Compiled by the Sales & Marketing team at Dubbo Photo News/Dubbo Weekender

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in your ad before the phone number, business address and/or web address.

It brings your audience one step closer to buying from you.

Effective ad design tips

Make the channels for reaching you VERY clear.

HAVING asked yourself what you want the ad to do, if the answer is you want prospective customers to contact you via a particular method, then push that method hard! If you want to build website traffic, make the web address big enough to assume priority over other contact avenues. If you want the phone to ring, make the phone number bigger.

I and welcome to another Marketing Minute from Panscott Media Dubbo. We thought we’d keep it short and sweet this week, sharing some brief tips you can incorporate into your own marketing, or to inspire you to get over that pesky “marketer’s block”!

We hope this week’s opening ad (above) made you smile! This print ad for Macca’s milkshakes has been around for a while, and is another example of how a simple – and funny – idea can really grab the reader’s attention

Ross McCarthy, Peta Reardon and Charlotte Egan

Use words your audience knows.

IF you want the French to read your ad, write it in French! For your target market, consider their frame of reference and how familiar they are with your industry’s terminology. Avoid acronyms and confusion-creating jargon.

It’s always more effective if you can have them reading your ad instead of a dictionary.

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Tell your audience what you want them to do next.

ONCE you’ve grabbed their attention with your headline, then tell them about your product in the body copy.

Use phrases like: “Call now for more information” and, “Book your space now.” This is known as a “Call to Action” and is generally the last element

Wise words from the Ad Guru #1 BREAK copy into short sentences, a max of 17-20 words. Paragraphs should also be short; the universal newspaper standard for stories is one paragraph per sentence. The lead paragraph should be the shortest one – and carry the most impact.

Wise words from the Ad Guru #2 USE simple words when composing your ad message. Remember that comprehension suffers when the reading process is hampered by words with a lot of syllables.

– Until next time, sell well!

English author Joyce Cary once said: “It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know – and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.”

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Straighten up your sofa time

BY JEANANNE CRAIG

call instead of texting them?

T the end of a busy day, or even first thing on a Sunday morning, the sofa can seem an inviting place.

While some seats are merely practical, sofas are all about comfort and relaxation, right? Somewhere to slouch in front of your favourite TV show, or curl up with a good book.

Don’t forget about your posture, though.

We all know that sitting up straight is important when we’re sitting at a desk – and sofas are no different.

So show your spine some settee TLC, with these simple tips...

:: Don’t get stuck in a rut

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:: Don’t slump If you sit slouched, or slightly hunched over, you’re likely to be piling the pressure on your lower back as it has to cope with the weight of your upper body. You’ll need to strengthen your core and buttock muscles, so have a look for some advice on exercises you can try out

When there’s a particularly gripping TV show on, it can be easy to develop the kind of rigor mortis seen in a Silent Witness corpse. But try and move around a bit to boost blood circulation.

Shift position every half hour or so, or get up and walk around – even if it’s just over to the kettle and back.

:: Get the family involved Working on your posture takes time and effort – it feels a lot comfier lounging under your blanket than sitting up straight. Why not get your partner, kids or friends on board for the posture crusade? When one of you looks at risk of slumping like a soggy-bottomed cake on one those TV cooking shows, give each other a gentle nudge. Your backs will thank you for it.

:: Make sure your lower back is supported If there’s a big gap between your lower back and the chair you’re sitting on, you may need to make some adjustments (and this is something you should also keep an eye on if your job is a desk-bound one).

Try and make sure your knees are level with your hips by adjusting your seat, or find yourself a footrest.

:: Plant your feet flat on the floor It’s highly tempting to cross your legs nonchalantly, like that posh couple on Gogglebox, when you’re watching TV (particularly if you have a glass of G&T in your hand). But this can put pressure on your lower back over time. So try and keep your feet on the floor and resist the urge to cross them or tuck them under you.

:: Avoid ‘text neck’ Many of us go from spending our nine to five bent over a computer keyboard to whiling away the evening hunched over a phone or tablet. In fact, smartphone users now spend an average of two to four hours a day with their heads lowered.

This can lead to that all too common feeling of being stiff and sore around your upper back, shoulder blades and neck. Save yourself a fortune on pricey massages and try lengthening your neck as you tuck in your chin as an exercise. Alternatively, why not go old school and give someone a

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Taking health to heart

HEALTH IN BRIEF

WITH heart disease still a leading cause of death in NSW, regional residents are reminded there’s no room for complacency when it comes to their health.

This week’s release of the 2013 Cause of Death data from the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) shows that in the ten years between 2004-2013, more than 76,000 NSW residents lost their lives due to

heart disease.

The Heart Foundation says thousands of Aussie families are broken every year because of the loss of a loved one due to heart disease. One in seven Australians – our wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, friends and colleagues – will die as a result of heart disease. It transcends barriers of gender, culture, and age.

Based on the latest data, heart disease killed 6699 people in NSW

in 2013, and while death from heart disease has declined over the past decade, there’s a “flip side” to the statistics, with figures showing more people are living with damaged hearts and reduced capacity.

According to the Heart Foundation, the majority of Australians are at increased risk from heart disease due to lifestyle risk factors such as carrying excess weight, not eating a healthy diet, not exercising enough, sitting too much and smoking.

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Born to run HIS week, let’s talk about running.

Believe it or not we were made to run and if you don’t believe me have a look around your average school playground – it’s second nature for kids to run around laughing and running. Did I say running?

Running really is an extension of your walk and if any of you are old enough to remember a bloke by the name of Cliffy Young – the Victorian potato farmer who surprised everyone by winning the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne ultramarathon in 1983 at the age of 61 – you would see that this extension of walking is exactly what he did. Otherwise known as the Cliffy Young Shuffle, too many people start out running to fast too soon when they first take up running, and they quickly lose motivation because they think they’re not made for it.

The great thing about running is that it’s free and you can do it anywhere. But you will need a few things that will assist you to get started.

The first of these is good footwear. Please see someone who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to your shoes, because getting this wrong can cause you lots of pain and de-motivation.

Start with small distances. The rule of thumb is that if you are a pure beginner and

have been walking for quite some time, you should commence with a shuffle not a flat out run.

Run for short intervals initially of 15-30 seconds with a two minute break... and keep it consistent. Do this over a 30 minute period. A test of whether you are working too hard or not is your breathing, if you can’t talk while you run for that time frame you are working too hard.

Add 5 – 10 seconds on to your time each run each week and record that time. While your break decreases you will feel yourself running and achieving longer consistent runs and enjoying it to the max.

Ensure you do three runs per week for the best results – and try to run on a nice soft surface.

Running is a great calorie burner; it’s fantastic for exercising your heart and for releasing endorphins and strengthening muscles.

We have the perfect environment around our river to enjoy all these things.

Run with a friend! There are plenty of great groups out there doing exactly this and there a fun runs being held all over the state all the time – take, for instance, the fantastic Dubbo Stampede, along with local mud runs and colour runs. There’s plenty to choose from around the state.

Until next time – thanks for reading and may your days by ignited by passion, fuelled by laughter and challenged by creativity.

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The survey revealed almost two thirds of Aussie parents are concerned about their kids’ oral health this Easter, with a further 74 per cent of parents admitting they’re more lenient with their kids eating more sugary treats than usual. But with the world daily average consumption of sugar per person now at 17 teaspoons – up 45 per cent from 30 years ago – it’s important to practice good oral hygiene, especially during sugar filled occasions such as Easter.

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The internet is not the answer ecently, three senior students from a local school called at our sales counter asking if we sold Amazon Gift Vouchers. Their previous local source had sold out and they needed to buy them. The question arises whether Commerce Studies is still a subject for the HSC. Here were youngsters acting to export sales to amazon.com when, each week, we receive at least three job resumes from young people seeking employment.

Some people just haven’t worked out that with 20 per cent of the population under 25 not having a job, the internet has done much to make this statistic a reality. However “Business Studies” is still in the curriculum and the 2015 edition of the “Success One HSC Papers” arrived last week.

The element of customer service (i.e. personal interaction) you receive online compared to in-store is highlighted in the latest American Booksellers association analysis. It found that the number of jobs per $10 million spent if transacted through Amazon is 14 – whereas the same amount transacted though ‘bricks and mortar’ bookstores supported 57 employed people.

Canberra Treasury boffins are blind to the fact that online retail spending had hit $16.6 billion for the year ending January; and yet Treasury says it would be too difficult to collect the related GST (i.e. $1.6 billion in tax revenue) on imported purchases which would make overseas suppliers less attractive on price.

“Andrew Keen has written a very powerful and daring manifesto questioning whether the Internet lives up to its own espoused values. He is not an opponent of Internet culture, he is its conscience, and he must be heard.” Thus runs the introduction to his book “The Internet is Not the Answer”.

By tracing the history of the Internet from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the waves of start-ups and the rise of the big data companies to increasing attempts to monetise almost every human activity, this shows how the web has had a deeply negative effect on our culture, economy and society. Keen has been a long-time Silicon Valley observer and he argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives.

Books are just one of the items traded on the Internet. And working in the book industry provides an interesting observation about how people react.

One example is how a customer, having done their research can be better informed about their needs when they either phone or call to see us. If we don’t have their title on hand, we can order for them. Some people choose to buy it online – and that’s the challenge. Viewing major websites, sellers quote a delivery, for example “despatch occurs within 2-4 days” or “despatch from our warehouse will occur in approx 5 days”. On websites, where is the person who answers

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the question “do you have it?” and there is no evidence that they have the book on their premises at all – they will simply buy it in from a publisher and then ship it and the buyer doesn’t know the difference.

Interestingly, our special orders activity has increased dramatically in recent years. People who have been misled by inaccurate internet practices, or had problems with credit card charges, have chosen to come to us instead.

Here’s an example from one customer who had a bad experience: they placed an online order from the American business, had their card charged straight away – but the book came from Brussels six weeks later.

This is no different from a November 2014 report detailing that The Book Depository would have Australian publishers mailing directly to Australian buyers using paperwork originating in the UK. And paying no GST or any income tax as an Australian business is obliged to pay.

Dale Beaumont has written “Secrets of Internet Entrepreneurs Exposed”. In this he records the activities of 17 of the most successful internet business people in the USA. One factor emerging is that a business can have several websites with unconnected names that give the appearance of having no relationship to any other source. The electronics take care of the separate images and communications.

In a changing world, certainly we are acting to move with these times. Michael Cunningham has written “B2B – How to Build a Profitable e-commerce Strategy” in which he provides a blueprint for creating a business web strategy. It includes success stories of trailblazers with examples of how they navigated this process.

Another book in the Virgin Business Series is “Little e, Big Commerce – How to Make a Profit Online” by Timothy Cumming. It has a foreword by Sir Richard Branson. It discusses that “the first wave of dotcom mania has passed, the right way to run a website is becoming clearer”.

People seem to be suspicious of doing business with unprofitable businesses yet in January, Dow Jones announced that Amazon holdings lost $US7.4 billion in value the last year – its shares fell 22 per cent. In 2008, when Amazon shares plunged 80 per cent, some analysts speculated the firm would go bankrupt.

A Sydney press article last week, written by a “whistle-blower” in the NAB investments handling department, cited the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch.

Spike Milligan’s comment in the Goon Show (this is now available on audio CD) typifies the NAB and the CBA investigations as “scrutinising it with an intense scrute” – and this examples the lack of control government exercises on big business. The same applies to Amazon’s payment of tax on earnings.

With all the advances in the modern world, the internet is not the answer.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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The great grey takeBY SAM WYLIE-HARRIS

Armchair in Ash; Club Footstool in Granite

FIRST came the book, and now cinemas across the land are filling seats with movie-goers keen to see Mr Grey’s big entrance.

But, I bet you any money, the appeal of the colour grey can go on for much, much longer than the man himself...

Indeed, this is a shade that can be dressed up or pared down, and a moody grey palette can reinvent your favourite room and cast simple, contemporary pieces in a different light, or showcase more traditional furnishings to dramatic effect, with flourishes of velvet or a decorative piece that’s wildly beautiful.

Sophisticated and timeless, this versatile shade can veer from feminine and delicate to dark and handsome.

Easy on the eye, grey sits beautifully against other accent colours and can speak the language of love when it’s dressed in silk and satin; or be a tough talker when positioned against steel accessories and industrial living schemes.

“There are indeed 50 shades of grey, ranging from those with a warm undertone of pink, to the pure cold greys that look so wonderful with silver,” says interior designer Alison Cork.

“Understand the undertone and you can pick exactly the

right colour to accompany your grey base, and bring the room to life.”

From taffeta grey to platinum, and slate to battleship, the spectrum is an open invitation to enjoy a dalliance with some colour charts and accessorise those grey areas.

But if you usually shy from smoky hues, try using grey as the base for your chosen colour scheme.

“Far from being bland, grey is stylish, versatile and appeals to lots of different tastes, depending on how you style it,” says Kate Hassard, marketing manager at Sofa.com. “ Use bright accessories in bold colours for a playful, contemporary look; layer textured neutrals and other shades of grey for Scandinavian-inspired sophistication; or give it a masculine edge with dark accents and monochrome.”

SET THE STAGE FOR the ultimate backdrop, a textured wallpaper can add real drama and set the scene for your furniture and accessories to really shine. A trompe-l’oeil effect, such as Marcel Wanders’ in Heart and Tulip, has been used on furniture in some of the world’s top hotels and is available for the first time as a wallpaper. Although flat, it looks tactile and makes you want to reach out and touch it.

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MEANWHILE, if you’re passionate about paint, edgy dark walls can be seriously seductive and create the perfect ambience for a romantic corner.

Furnished with a vintage black leather chaise longue for instance, retro accessories will imbibe a masculine vibe, or to soften the look, a plush velvet cushion, sensual swathe of fabric and an exotic orchid will add some feminine detail.

As colour consultant Judy Smith points out: “Darker tones of charcoal can be used to add drama anywhere in the home,

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BY SAMANTHA MAZZOTTA

THIS IS WHY YOU D.I.Y.

Q: While I was away on a business trip, my roommate decided to buy a couple of floor plants and put the containers directly onto the hardwood floor with nothing under them. By the time I got back, a couple of waterings later, water had run out of the pots and across the floor.

Now there are two big water rings where the base of each pot was, and water stains along the path that the leaking water flowed. Can these be fixed, or does my roommate need to pay for repairs? – Vivian A: If the standing water around the vases hasn’t buckled the wood, you should be able to deal with the stains without too much effort.

Make sure the entire floor is dry, particularly where the pots stood.

You may want to borrow a dehumidifier from a friend for a few days to encourage the drying process. In some cases where water damage is minor, the water marks may disappear or diminish dramatically once the wood has dried completely.

If once the wood has dried, a white water stain is still evident, then it’s likely water stained the floor’s finish. This is easier to deal with. Heat up a clothes iron (use a “no steam” setting and empty out all the water from

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-over from a living room to a bedroom, or even a small hallway – with clever lighting and mirrors, you can create a look that is both strong and atmospheric. These dark greys are also a perfect strong background for small amounts of brighter colour, like chartreuse or mint.” z Whether you’re painting walls, wood or metal, lashings of grey can be edgy and seductive. z A comfy chair and footstool that doubles up as a coffee table can be accessorised with something sumptuous in red, for a subtle, sexy note.

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LIGHT SHOW IF you’ve tired of curtain calls, shutters can make a bedroom feel warm and inviting and offer the best of both worlds.

Unlike curtains, which are an open or closed book, cafe-style shutters cover just the lower half of your windows, for light and privacy, while tier on tier (double hung) shutters can be opened independently and adjusted to let light filter in, for a flattering effect that’s perfect if you’re in the mood for some pillow talk.

“Subtle grey has become a very popular shade for shutters,” says Chrissie Harper, operations manager at California Shutters. “Not only do they add interest, but they increase the curb appeal of your home too.” z Using shutters to trickle light in the bedroom sets the tone for an atmospheric scheme, especially when pared with an antique French bed, to achieve a boudoir feel.

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BARE ESSENTIALS A BRILLIANT way to update the bathroom, glass mosaic tiles add glamour, and if you love to indulge yourself with bath oils and scented candles, they can be used to great effect to show off your best beauty bits.

“When choosing wall and floor tiles, grey is an obvious enduring colour choice that will continue to work well no matter how often you wish to

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change your interior style,” advises tile expert Jeremy Harris. “While lighter shades offer a more feminine delicate feel, the darker tones are perfect for creating a more masculine, dramatic look.”

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the holding tank). Place a dry, lint-free white cloth over the stained area. Rub the iron over the cloth for two or three seconds, then lift the cloth away to check the spot.

Another method for white stains is to drench a super-fine steel wool pad with lemon oil, then gently rub the white marks with the pad to buff out the stain without scratching the finish.

However, if the stains are dark, then water likely penetrated through the finish and into the hardwood itself. This is more complex, particularly if your floor was installed in the past few years. Older hardwood floors seem to handle water staining and refinishing better.

Newer floors not only don’t handle water so well, but also have to be cleaned or repaired more carefully. Contact a flooring professional if you’re not sure.

To get to this type of stain you will need to sand away the finish – being careful not to sand the wood itself – and then try to lighten

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the stain. The most common recommendation is to carefully apply a 50-50 solution of water and bleach, or a professional wood bleach, directly to the stain using an old toothbrush. Use only a small amount (you may want to test it on one of the less-conspicuous stains), blot up any excess and let dry. Repeat until the colour matches the rest of the wood again, then let it dry for a couple of days before gently sanding, applying wood stain (if necessary) to finish matching the surrounding floor, and refinishing the damaged spots.

As to who should pay for the repair, I’ll leave that to you and the roommate to figure out.

At the very least, this should be a lesson that water and wood floors don’t mix.

HOME TIP: To keep a hardwood floor looking good, put furniture legs onto protective pads or “coasters” to keep them from gouging the finish. Dust mop at least once a week and wipe up spills immediately.

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BY JOANN DERSON z A good non-slip bathmat is essential in the tub to prevent accidents. Grab an extra one to drape over the edge of the tub for help when entering and exiting. z “To remove residue left over from price tags, use hairspray. Remove as much paper as possible, then give it a good squirt. Use a plastic scraper to lightly scrape off the adhesive.” – L.P. z Got bread ends? Store in a bag in the freezer until you need breadcrumbs for a recipe. Pulse frozen chunks in a chopper or blender for instantly useable crumbs. z “Guacamole is a precious com-

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modity at my house, but sometimes I want a snack, not a whole bowl. I have struggled with how to save the leftovers, because once it browns, it’s done. I learned a new trick, though.

Simply put the leftovers in the smallest container possible and tamp down to press out all the air. Then carefully add a thin layer of water. Seal and refrigerate for up to three days. When you’re ready to dip, pour off the water and stir!” – C.D. z “I have an old cedar chest from my grandmother that had lost its smell.

My husband removed all the contents and sanded it with superfine grit sandpaper. It smells wonderful now.” – J.K. z Need a quick measure? A $5 note is exactly 13cm long, and a $50 note is 15cm long.

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The St Augustine Garrison leave their post after demonstrating cannon fire. PHOTO: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY

Raising an unbeatable benchmark

Colonial quarter: 450 years of settlement will be celebrated this September PHOTO: FLORIDASHISTORICCOAST.COM

St Augustine in Florida USA is America’s oldest city and a popular destination for visitors ready to travel back in time to an age when Britain, France and Spain struggled to dominate the New World, and pirates lingered to pick off the spoils. There’s always plenty going on in this unique city, but September 2015 will be especially action packed when the city celebrates its 450th birthday.

WORDS Yvette Aubusson-Foley OUTH of Jacksonville, Florida, St Augustine sits high on the state’s historic coastline half way between Daytona Beach and the Georgia border.

It’s a little piece of Europe you don’t see everyday in the US, so set aside a few days to take in all the sights and sounds but if one day is all you have be sure to include a visit to a prominent attraction, the Castillo de San Marcos National Park and fortress.

This impressive garrison, built by the Spanish, dominates the landscape and makes for a dramatic change from anything else you’re likely to see on the drive into town.

There’s plenty of parking but spaces fill fast so you can park nearby along South Castillo Drive, or a fiveminute walk away, try inside the old town where you’ll find plenty of $US5 a day parking lots.

Seeing the old part of St Augustine town on foot is

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really the only way to go so wear comfortable shoes!

Approaching the Castillo from the northwest will also lead you straight into the reconstruction of a town wall, which you otherwise might miss. It gives you a sense of life in an outpost, Spain’s most northern for its New World deeds, but still isolated and vulnerable to enemy attack.

Construction on the town wall began after a 1586 attack lead by the too fast, too furious, Sir Francis Drake of England. He brought 23 ships and 2000 men who dueled in cannon fire against the then, wooden fort.

The Spanish fled and the rearguard was pushed out, leaving Drake free to burn St Augustine.

Undeterred however, the Spanish returned, reclaimed their settlement and rebuilt defenses increasingly bigger and better.

Though slower to realise, the immaculately main-

tained Castillo de San Marcos is impressive today but must have radiated untouchable authority and absolute power when it was finally finished in 1692 after 30 long years of construction.

Built on the banks of an inter-coastal waterway, known as the Matanzas River, the Spanish fort’s monolithic structure strategically faces east through a gap to the North Atlantic known as the St Augustine Inlet and which faces square on with Portugal and the motherland, Spain.

Wooden forts had already guarded the spot where the Castillo now stands since September 8, 1565 when the city was founded by Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles and 800 settlers Spanish settlers – more than 200 years before the American Revolution.

By the time the first English settlement in the New World was established at Jamestown, Virginia, St. Au-

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The Castillo de San Marcos fortress dominates the landscape at St Augustine in north Florida.

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St Augustine’s city gates. PHOTO: FLORIDASHISTORICCOAST.COM

gustine had already been a thriving coastal town for more than 40 years.

Control of the Castillo has changed hands between Hapsburg and Bourbon Spain, Great Britain, the Confederacy, and the United States yet it can claim to have never been captured in battle.

Before you go inside, it’s worth taking a stroll by the outer wall. If you time your arrival with a cannon-firing reenactment, which happen frequently on weekends you can experience the bone-shaking noise and billowing smoke from below.

From the outside, the Castillo is impenetrable as you stand beneath the razor straight, bleak grey, sloping walls, which are up to six metres thick at their base.

Made of coquina, a rare form of limestone consisting of tiny shells it is the stuff North Florida’s barrier islands sit on, and the only type of stone around.

Coquina contains millions of microscopic air pockets too, making it compressible so when fired upon, cannon balls burrow in instead of shattering the wall.

There is an incredible 400,000 blocks of coquina used to build the Castillo, which the Spanish cut and set by hand. Built to last the structure is North America’s oldest masonry and is the only surviving 17th century fort in the country.

Another structure built from coquina is the St Augustine city gates. Flanked by two pillars built in 1808, they were originally

trimmed with red plaster and topped with statues of pomegranates, a Spanish symbol of fertility. The original gate opened in 1739 and was the only access on the north of the city.

Today the gates lead you straight into the Colonial Quarter and the cobble-stones of St George Street, mostly accessible only on foot where you’ll find restaurants, galleries and shops housed in authentic and restored period buildings.

True to St Augustine’s dedication to bringing history alive, actors roam these streets daily, dressed as conquistadores, Aztecs and Spanish peasants.

Here you can also experience shipbuilding, archaeological investigations, black-

Castillo de San Marcos is impressive today but must have radiated untouchable authority and absolute power when it was finally finished in 1692 after 30 long years of construction!

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LEFT | Living history: Street performers in the colonial quarter post for photos after completing a traditional Spanish dance PHOTO: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY. ABOVE | Castillo de San Marcos courtyard built to house townspeople in the event of an attack on St Augustine.

PHOTO: YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY RIGHT | The largest cannon used at Castillo de San Marcos could shoot three and a half miles. PHOTO: FLORIDASHISTORICCOAST.COM

smith and gunsmith demonstrations including musket drills, climb a 10-metre replica watchtower from the 1600s and learn about life for all generations and nationalities who lived here.

With so much gold and valuable trade coming out of South America and the Caribbean that also meant pirates.

and Treasure Museum on the corner of Fort Alley and South Castillo Drive, and across the road from the Castillo de San Marcos.

AM-PACKED with fun experiences for the whole family, it raises an unbeatable benchmark for the quality of its historic displays, which include numerous authentic artefacts along with interactive technology.

There’s a “please touch” atmosphere and

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You will not find a better celebration of the pirate life than at the St. Augustine Pirate

To do list: • Swim with dolphins at Marineland Dolphin Adventure • Kayak the pristine estuaries and coastal waters • Fire a cannon at the Pirate and Treasure Museum • Deep-sea charter fishing • Climb 219 stairs to the top of the historic St. Augustine Lighthouse • Bird watch at one of many nature preserves and coastal parks • Hover over gators and crocs on the Crocodile Crossing zip line course at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park

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The Autumn calendar is busy with weddings each weekend and three events for Dubbo and the region to enjoy.

The farm museum is again open from Tuesday through to Saturday, 11am till 3pm.

Come along, enjoy the café and sit either inside or outside in the garden.

True to St Augustine’s dedication to bringing history alive, actors roam these streets daily, dressed as conquistadores, Aztecs and Spanish peasants.

Disney calibre audio-animatronics from the Smithsonian Institute plus rarely-seen artefacts from the state of Florida’s archaeology vault.

Divided into different rooms and spaces, a tall ships’ deck is at the heart of the museum. In Execution Dock among it’s many gruesome ‘treasures’ is the world’s oldest wanted poster.

On Shipwreck Island you can lift a gold bar and touch a real centuries old treasure chest.

The newest exhibit includes artefacts from Red Sea Pirates, an accolade reserved for buccaneers who travelled the West Indies risking the Cape of Good Hope to reach the Red Sea plundering ships loaded with exotic products from India. The exhibit includes Captain William Kidd’s treasure chest, recently featured on the History Channel.

Its little wonder with such determined pirates about there was just one way in and out of both the walled city and the Castillo de San Marcos.

To enter the Castillo you cross two narrow draw-bridges over a 40 foot wide dry moat which lead you into the Castillo’s inner sanctum and vast courtyard.

Several dimly lit rooms to your left and right as you enter are sparsely furnished as they would have been for soldiers and officers of the time, revealing a simple, severe lifestyle.

Etched graffiti carved into the gritty walls include detailed portraits of enemy tall ships possibly as a way to teach identification or perhaps notches in a belt?

Off the courtyard you’ll find a theatre, bookstore, munitions store, food store, chapel and many museum displays.

Replicas and reenactment’s are commonplace at St Augustine, which prides itself on being a living museum. Inside the Castillo there are talks and weapons demonstrations, including an exciting – and very loud – can-

non firing ritual on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays done by Saint Augustine Garrison.

The garrison is a group of re-enactors who live and breathe the life and times of Spanish soldiers and their families in the 1740s.

In 2001, the Garrison was proclaimed the King’s Guard by then reigning monarch of Spain, Juan Carlos 1 who visited St Augustine with is wife, Queen Sophia.

The gundeck, where visitors are invited to watch costumed soldiers prepare, light and fire the cannon, with a clear view over the sparkling Mantanzas Bay once boasted 74 cannons with the largest having a range of over three and a half miles. It’s hard to imagine an enemy getting close enough to engage in battle.

With a 450 year-old story to tell and which takes in the discovery of the New World, numerous wars, notorious pirates, revolutions and a shared history and bond with European nations, St Augustine is one of the more unusual destinations on the tourist map in the USA, but certainly has something to entertain everyone.

Happy 450th birthday Starting on September 4, St. Augustine will begin its festivities for the 450th Commemoration, which includes Founder’s Day ceremonies on September 8 and the 450th anniversary of the day Menéndez landed in St. Augustine in 1565.

Other highlights include a visit from the King and Queen of Spain.

For a complete guide to St. Augustine’s 450th Anniversary Commemorative events, visit www.StAugustine-450.com

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Friday, May 1 Dubbo Dundullimal Garden Expo dinner Have dinner with special guest speaker Clive Lucas, the Eminent Heritage architect who, along with a passionate group of Dubbo people, was instrumental in saving Dundullimal during the 1980s.

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Saturday and Sunday, May 2 and 3 Dubbo Dundullimal Garden Expo Time: 10am – 4pm Entry fee: gold coin donation Sunday, May 10 Mother’s Day high tea and recital Time: 2pm onwards Macquarie Conservatorium recital and High Tea – Mother’s Day Cost: $35 $30 National Trust/family/ Conservatorium students/ concession $15 children under 12 years

For those of you who like to plan ahead, save the date of Saturday, October 31, for the Dundullimal dinner/dance for a night of catching up with friends and dressing up (black tie), with a great evening of food and wine from the area and live music for those who enjoy dancing the night away.

Ticket numbers are limited, $100, so don’t miss out!

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Supergroup tribute strikes GOLD

BY NATALIE HOLMES CULTURE VULTURE

ITH her long blonde hair and pale complexion, Kathleen Maloney could easily pass for a Swede. In fact, the 23-year-old from Brisbane, who plays Agnetha Fältskog in GOLD The Ultimate ABBA Show, appears to have been born for the role.

“As soon as I put on the platform boots and blue eyeshadow, I get straight into character,” the bubbly singer says.

But this is not the first time that Maloney has played Scandinavian ‘70s dress-ups. Performing from the tender age of six, she and fellow Queenslander Kirsten Eliott (who plays Anna-Frid in the show) used to perform ABBA songs in the malls of Brisbane when they were 10.

“We’re just doing it on a bigger, grander scale now,” she laughs.

Big and grand is a good way of describing their current tour, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of hit song Mamma Mia and traverses the Australian countryside across four states over five months.

“We’ve just been to Perth, Adelaide and Qld in the past five weeks, and so far it’s been good. It’s been a lot of fun.”

That’s one assurance that audiences can

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have about an ABBA tribute show – they are guaranteed to enjoy themselves.

“Their music has been in lots of movies and it’s just a soundtrack for so many lives. We have fans of so many different ages. From five-year-olds to 90-year-olds, they all know the words to Mamma Mia.” And while the original band had a few ballads under their belts, Maloney says ABBA music is happy music.

“On the whole, it’s very upbeat, feel-good music. It allows people to let go and have a good time. With songs like Mamma Mia, Waterloo and Dancing Queen, they can lose their inhibitions, have a dance and enjoy themselves. It’s a buzz for us because it makes us feel that we’re doing a good job.”

Maloney said there are more than a few ‘closet’ ABBA fans who go along to the concert and have a ball.

“We get quite a few men in suits, husbands that say they were dragged along to the show but are actually really excited. I’m pretty sure there’s heaps of them,” she laughs.

As a performer, Maloney says it’s also exciting to be part of such a huge tribute show to a band that enjoyed global success and are still a household name more than 40 years later.

“They are one of the best pop groups of all time.”

As such, GOLD’s aim is to be true to the real musicians.

“We want to be authentic, give audiences an authentic experience, we don’t want to ridicule them or anything.”

To best emulate the superstars, the crew had to study their history, accents and style.

Fortunately for them, there is plenty of ABBA memorabilia to hand.

“Agnetha is a bit unco, but so am I!” she giggles.

Singing is her forte and Maloney said that was what she always wanted to do with her life.

“The only thing I was good at was singing so inevitably that led me to being a singer.”

She loves doing the ABBA show and her favourite song to perform is The Winner Takes it All as a solo number.

“It’s a great role and Agnetha has a massive vocal range so it’s a challenge. With The Winner Takes it All, I enjoy taking it back slightly.

It’s a very powerful song.”

And if she could imitate any other artist in the world?

“Katy Perry – I just love dressing up and over the top costumes and sparkles. I’m like a bird, anything sparkly and I’m there.”

When she’s not performing in GOLD, Maloney teachers music and singing. She also plays keyboard and guitar.

“I want to bring up the next generation of performers.” » GOLD The Ultimate ABBA Show will be at Dubbo Regional Theatre on May 23.

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Due to extenuating circumstances

BY CHERYL BURKE DRTCC

UE to unforeseen circumstances the words contributed by Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre (DRTCC) that occupy the Weekender Arts pages this week have been withdrawn…

Not really, just jokes. But for those who work in the industry of live entertainment the words associated with the cancellation of a performance are anything but funny when it comes to appeasing eager patrons who have booked for the show.

No theatre likes to attract negative publicity, including DRTCC, but we would be an exceptional venue in more ways than one if we’d never had a performance cancelled or rescheduled during the five years we have been operating. Being unable to present a show and disappointing patrons is not something we shout from the fly-tower, but if you have had a ticket to one of those shows, or know someone who did, or even if you’ve browsed our website you’d know that circumstances beyond our control are a reality, and on occasion the show mustn’t go on.

As humans we are curious by nature, and although at the end of the day it is not of any benefit, the first question patrons ask when a show is cancelled is “why?”

The words “unforseen” or “extenuating circumstances” are often not enough to satisfy inquisitive minds.

Being a human who wants to take advantage of my learning capacity I can understand the probing, but truth be told the information is sometimes on a needto-know basis, and even we are not privy to it. Patrons’ assumptions are as good as ours. On other occasions we stick to the standard, sometimes ambiguous statement, released by the promoters or producers at their request.

But the “whys?” still linger and we remain very sorry for the bother, however if it’s of any consolation the inconvenience also spreads to the other side of the box office counter as a flurry of emails between promoters, management and box office staff are communicated and we politely deflect the understandable discontent of patrons and set about contacting and consoling current ticket holders.

If they are desperate to see the show the options are more limited because cancelled shows are only occasionally rescheduled. Fortunately the quantity and quality of both our season and hirer/promoter shows makes re-selection of another event much easier.

Personally I’ve never held tickets to a show that has been cancelled, although I was almost a no-show at an Ed Sheeran gig because I let the default on my on-line airline booking screen automatically dictate my start destination as Sydney and not Dubbo. However, this is not likely to be a reason a performer would cancel a show, not least because few international artists fly out of Dubbo, but with a team of administration staff and

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personal assistants such a blunder would be unlikely.

So is there an acceptable reason for a cancellation of a performance or are some reasons more acceptable than others? In the late 80s I was employed at a booking agency in Sydney at a time when the live music scene was alive and well and before an entire gaming room of pokies replaced a handful of card machines in pubs. The bands we booked rarely played west of the Blue Mountains, the cost of touring wasn’t always financially viable, a lot of tickets had to be sold to break even let alone make a profit. Now in 2015, many performers and bands represented by that same booking agency and others do come to this city, and making a profit is as pertinent today as it was three decades ago.

In the population stakes it seems not all shows are created equal, audiences can be hard to read and fickle. A sold-out show in one city may flop in the next.

Our sell-out shows range from the Australian Tenors, Guy Sebastian, Peppa Pig, David Strassman, David Campbell, Kitty Flanagan, Harrison Craig, Don Quixote – The Dancer’s Company and Petula Clarke, and guaranteed every reader and potential patron would baulk at purchasing tickets for some of these shows but make a beeline to the Box Office for others.

Who would have imagined that one production of Jesus Christ Superstar, once the longest-running musical in London’s West End, had to be cancelled due to what was described as “horrific” ticket sales? Despite a star-studded line up that included John Lydon (Sex Pistols), JC Chasez (‘N Sync) and Michelle Williams (Destiny’s Child) the scheduled 50-city US arena tour was canned in June 2014. Familiar with playing to sell-out crowds, even Jon Bon Jovi cancelled the Cleveland Ohio leg of his ‘Because We Can’ 2013 tour

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due to poor sales. Consequently it is imaginable that lack of ticket sales is one reason behind a promoter’s decision to cancel a show.

Without tattle-taling and because we are not immune to it, performance cancellations at DRTCC ordinarily fall into the un-eventful low ticket sales category, performer illness or the needs-to-know we don’t even know group. The latter I am not sure I understand. Given that social media plays a huge role in the promotion of an artist, their shows, their albums and their lifestyle, and we live in an age where everything is in your face regardless of whether you want to know about it, so what’s with the secrecy?

Call it bizarre or brave, Selena Gomez cancelled her 2014 Australian tour because she wanted to apparently work on improving herself as stated in her official media announcement “But it has become clear to me and those close to me that after many years of putting my work first, I need to spend some time on myself in order to be the best person I can be”.

Whereas Lenny Kravitz may be the best person he wants to be, perhaps his Bluesfest cancellation announcement stating “contractual scheduling conflicts” should have simply read “someone in my entourage didn’t check my diary and I am double-booked”. As opposed to Madonna who no longer needs to divide her time between cooking, cleaning, caring and ferrying her children around and venturing to Australia. This year marks an important milestone for Madonna fans who were 23 years younger when she was last in the country with her Girlie Show: Live Down Under tour.

So if artists can cite double-bookings, kids and more importantly “me-time” as reasons to cancel a show, I feel any reason is better than no reason.

But for whatever reason, as an indication of how many shows we have had to cancel at DRTCC, box office staff are less practiced at processing refunds as opposed to selling tickets. And although we would prefer to give self explanatory statements like “due to serious illness / due to injury / due to the bus breakdown in Molong”, it doesn’t always happen that way.

So if you ever happen to have tickets to a cancelled show at DRTTC just remember one of the important reasons we aim to keep your contact details up to date or encourage you to “like” us on Facebook is because… “we are in the process of contacting customers to inform them of this cancellation. If you had tickets to the performance we will contact you to arrange a full refund or exchange. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience.”

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IM GOLDSMITH and I have been friends for years.

We have loads in common – a love of all things rural, of the central west in which we both grew up; of the written word, of social media, of dogs and decent coffee.

But there’s one fundamental difference between us – and it’s not just the hair.

When it comes to art, she’s oil and I’m water.

Despite her best efforts over the years to introduce (and convert?) me to contemporary genres, my tastes still run very much to the traditional, and while I’m far less inclined these days to roll my eyes at terms like “sensory installation” and “art practitioner”, I still struggle with the concept of art that doesn’t necessarily wind up hanging on someone’s wall.

I’m similarly clueless when it comes to interpretation of abstract works. If it matches my couch, I’m in.

I’ve tried to understand the “artists’ statements” that often accompany contemporary works, but most of the time I find myself standing in a gallery thinking, “I just don’t “get it”.

And therein lies my friend’s frustration. The idea that you need to “get” contemporary art to appreciate it is, well, bollocks essentially. It’s about the experience, she says – and that’s the point of art. Any art. It’s subjective – art is whatever you want it to be.

It’s this figurative mental-block on the part of a traditional-art loving public that makes it so hard for contemporary practitioners to get their message across, or to even promote their work... that and the fact that the defensive self-indulgence of many of her contemporaries in the genre adds to the divisive elitism that pushes all but the most receptive of potential audiences away.

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So she’s invited me along to experience what she calls a “test installation” in Dubbo ahead of Cementa15, a contemporary art festival to be held in Kandos over the coming week and to which Goldsmith is the only artist “west of Mudgee” to be invited to represent the region at the biennial gig.

Her work, Indicatus, involves a sensory experience – with birds and fire central to the theme. In a room upstairs from the funky gallery-cum-café set up in Dubbo’s old fire station, Goldsmith has made a mockup of the old chapel in which her work will exhibit during the Kandos festival.

There’s a table set up to replicate an altar, atop which is a TV screen showing footage of burning paper. On the floor is a rather impressive burnt-orange shag pile square of carpet, ringed by a number of motion-sensor sound boxes and a handful of tiny little toy birds. A cacophony of birdsong is triggered by my barefooted progress across the carpet (which feels synthetically wonderful, by the way) and there’s a faint scent of something burning.

But what does it all mean?

“Birds are what they call an indicator species,” says

“The thing is that people don’t see something like this as art. They don’t recognise it as an artwork, because to many people, art is something you hang on your wall.” – Kim Goldsmith.

the artist. “They’ve been used scientifically for many years now to indicate whether an environment is healthy. So what I did was look at the idea of birds burning within their environment – and I’ve deconstructed that into a number of sensory elements for this installation.

“Hang on,” I interrupt, needing things spelled out in layman’s (read: luddite) terms. “So you mean, you’re combining different senses – touch, sight, smell and sound – to make people think about destroying the environment?

“Weeelll, yeah, basically,” she says, and I can tell she’s resisting the urge to sigh. But she presses on.

“So it doesn’t matter what the change is to the environment – if you wipe out a bird species in that habitat, that’s the first indication that environment isn’t healthy. Doesn’t matter whether it’s urban development, farming, mining or even climate change – once you alter that environment and birds no longer thrive there, you can’t say it’s a healthy environment.

“That’s what I’m trying to say with this installation.”

What she’s trying to “say” is drowned out by the merciless twitter coming from the sound boxes.

“Can we turn those bloody birds off for a second,” I ask her.

She smiles and does so. And... bingo.

I’m left with silence – and the smell, which is suddenly much stronger and which I now recognise in that silence as burning leaves. The carpet still feels the same beneath my feet – but there’s no sound.

“Ah,” I think. “Now I get it.”

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T’S a recurring theme with contemporary art – the idea that if you don’t “understand” it, you’re somehow deficient – and it’s a notion that often comes from both the artists themselves as much as the viewer.

The problem, says Goldsmith, is that a lot of contemporary art can’t explained in a 30 second grab, and while she agrees that art should “speak for itself”, the experience of contemporary work can be enhanced greatly by at least some understanding of the motivation behind it.

“I just want people to come and have the experience – and I hope think about what they’re feeling and seeing and hearing and smelling and perhaps ask why I’ve done what I’ve done.”

The burning paper shown on the video loop turns out to be footage of Goldsmith’s very realistic charcoal sketches of birds.

“You did all these magnificent drawings of birds then burned them,” I squeal in horror. “How do you do that?

“People ask me that all the time. I could have sold each one of those bird drawings ten times over – but I knew what I was going to do with them before I started.

I see greater beauty in those drawings as they’re fed into the fire and they start to disintegrate and “fly” away!”

Didn’t she think, hmmm – maybe I’ll burn photocopies?

“No way,” she gasps. “There’s no ethics in doing that.

It would defeat the whole exercise.”

Goldsmith is used to the derision that often comes with exhibiting contemporary art, and to comments like, “My three year old could have done that!

“I just think, well, yeah, but they didn’t did they? I guess the thing is that people don’t see something like this as art. They don’t recognise it as an artwork, be-

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cause to many people, art is something you hang on your wall,” she says – and I smile and look at my feet.

“The other thing is that a lot of contemporary art, once the exhibition’s over, ceases to exist as an art work. For instance, this installation, once Cementa’s over, all these bits and pieces you see will go in different directions and never be seen again.

“Well, you could put that lovely shag pile carpet in your house,” I venture.

“I could – but I think it might be put up for sale,” she laughs. “So if anyone’s in the market for a nice rust coloured shag pile carpet, contact me. Soon.”

OLDSMITH is in fact quite accomplished in the traditional sense – her realistic sketches for instance, are quite lovely and in fact, two of them grace my own home’s walls – but there’s an impression, justified or otherwise, that contemporary artists on the whole lack traditional technique. A sort of “they would if they could” kind of judgement.

“That’s definitely been a criticism of contemporary art for a long time. It’s not always founded. Delve into the history of some of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists, and you’ll find a pretty solid foundation in a traditional medium of some sort – drawing, photography, painting.

“But for many of us, it’s simply about the challenge.”

There’s a fair bit of snobbery in the art world, yes?

“Ah, yes. You could say that,” says Goldsmith with a smile. “I’m not art-school trained, for instance, and even on that level there’s a great deal of snobbery. I often feel I sit on the outer from other contemporary artists because I don’t have that piece of paper. I’m self-taught through and through, but I’ve utilised eve-

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ry life-skill I have in the process.

“Within the art world, contemporary artists do tend to hold themselves above the traditionalists – and that happens everywhere. I don’t think it’s peculiar to the art world. But I’ve reached the point that I just do my own thing.”

But does she also have an appreciation for traditional art?

“My house is full of it. But contemporary art isn’t the kind of thing that always fits easily into a domestic environment. How do you make something like this a part of everyday life?”

Particularly that rug, I think.

“But what I hope it does is evoke memories – so you don’t have to physically see something in front of you to get the feeling. If people are still talking about it long after it’s been and gone, then that’s the power of art, isn’t it?”

For all her patience, Goldsmith is still clearly has some frustrations in trying to explain her work to people who either don’t “get it” or worse, refuse to try.

“I categorise people two ways – people who are interested enough to ask, and those who are so completely disinterested they don’t bother even asking. My family falls into the latter category,” she laughs.

“But if anyone shows interest, I’m happy to talk to them all day about what I do and why I do it. Some people are easier to get through to than others – some are more receptive than others,” she says.

At least I think that’s what she’s saying. I’m still busy wondering where I might be able to put that rug when she’s done with it.

Disclaimer: Jen Cowley sits on the advisory board of the Western Plains Cultural Centre.

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Melbourne’s Courtney Barnett is a musical mouthful

BY SHEREEN LOW

O ALBUM OF THE WEEK Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit SOMETIMES Courtney Barnett riffs like Kim Deal from the Breeders, and sometimes she just riffs. Words and guitar, she’s got it all.

Melbourne-based Barnett has been likened to totems of femme rock past, and the 27-year-old has had Bob Dylan comparisons flung her direction since double EP A Sea Of Split Peas launched her in 2013 as a charmingly intuitive wordsmith.

Her Avant Gardener was a radio hit, and this debut LP with its word-count-munching title delivers on all the early promise.

The beauty lies in the detail, from office job-bunking male character Oliver Paul in the opening Elevator Operator, telling his story from a tower block roof (“I’m not suicidal, just idling insignificantly/ I come up here for perception and clarity/ I like to imagine I’m playing Sim City”).

Pedestrian At Best begins with a squall of feedback – a likely reference to Cannonball

by Deal’s Breeders – and becomes a grungy self-deprecating romp, with Barnett’s wordflow recalling REM’s It’s The End Of The World..., that fast, fluent and eminently quotable.

Depreston has Barnett and her girlfriend house-hunting in Melbourne suburbia. A dry topic, you’d suppose, but the mundane is flipped on its head in these magical hands.

Rating: 9/10. Review by John Skilbeck James Bay – Chaos And The Calm IT’S been quite the whirlwind of late for 24-year-old singersongwriter James Bay. From performing on Burberry’s catwalk at London Fashion Week to supporting a plethora of acts including Hozier, John Newman, Tom Odell, and Jessie J at last year’s iTunes festival.

There is, of course, that Brits Critic Choice award to mention as well.

But it hasn’t just been overnight success for the Hitchinborn singer – he was first spotted by Republic Records after months of playing open mic nights when a fan uploaded a clip of him online.

His debut album has since been eagerly awaited, and it certainly doesn’t disappoint.

Tracks including lead single Hold Back The River, and other previous EP additions such as Move Together and Need The Sun To Break sit alongside fresh additions including album opener Craving.

Best Fake Smile and Get Out While You Can are punchy, while Scars and Incomplete take a more stripped-back approach.

The whole album is well-polished, with not a single track seeming out of place, and this can only signal great things for the artist’s future.

Rating: 9/10 Review by Rebecca Flitton The Staves – If I Was IF the holy grail of second albums is one that progresses a band’s sound without destroying what was precious about it in the first place, then this is

very close indeed.

The Staveley-Taylor sisters – Jessica, Camilla and Emily – made quite an impact with their 2012 debut Dead And Born And Grown, and while the follow-up doesn’t fizz with pop melodies in the same way, it’s every bit as beautiful.

The three-part harmonies are still there, increasingly employed as a weighty instrument on songs like No Me, No You, No More, while Black And White veers towards rock and elsewhere there are nods to country.

This is a band exploring and expanding their horizons – and doing it with style.

Rating: 8/10 Review by Alistair Mason Jermain Jackman – Jermain Jackman BEFORE the latest UK version of The Voice began, coach Will.i.am said the show needed to produce a star to “legitimise the talent search concept”. Last year’s soulful winner Jackman, 20, was Will’s protege, impressing with his vocal range on And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.

But while it’s good, it’s unlikely his self-titled debut album will make him a star.

Mostly original tracks which he co-wrote, on first listen, it

seems little more than overproduced muzak, but opener You Changed The Game has a summery vibe that will get your head bobbing in spite of yourself.

The stand-out track is The Home I Never Had, showing off his smooth, mature vocals and that incredible range, but at 2.19, it’s painfully short.

Who You Love is proper oldschool upbeat soul, while Only One is the closest to a One Direction-style anthemic crowd pleaser and would be a great dance remix.

A little safe, a little predictable but it will please his fans.

Rating: 7/10 Review by Kate Whiting The Go! Team – The Scene Between THE third album by this British indie pop act starts with the sound of a carbonated drink being poured into a glass – and fizzy pop is exactly what you get over the next 40 minutes.

Go! Team main man Ian Parton wrote, produced and performed all of the songs and, as a consequence, it’s a more cohesive album than 2011’s Rolling Blackouts. Gone are the cheerleader raps and hip-hop elements replaced with classic girl group pop, all sweetvoiced cool and heartbreaking hooks, propelled by Phil Spector-like Wall of Sound production.

Reason Left To Destroy and Blowtorch couple butterwouldn’t-melt vocals with the kitchen sink of pile-driving percussion – drums played loud and recorded even loud-

er. It works.

Best of all is the classic pop triptych which opens the album. If you ever need to blow the cobwebs away, What D’You Say, The Scene Between and Waking The Jetstream are pop perfection.

The soundtrack of next summer.

Rating: 8/10 Review by Mark Edwards The Cribs – For All My Sisters THE CRIBS briefly boasted Johnny Marr in their ranks but strikingly they are more potent as a band of brothers.

Twins Gary and Ryan Jarman, and younger drumming sibling Ross, crank out top-ofthe-class combustible, cockeyed guitar pop on their sixth album For All My Sisters.

Ric Ocasek, frontman of US hit-makers The Cars, produces, and his influence is apparent across an infectious set of songs, laced with byzantine guitar solos from Ryan Jarman who winningly channels his inner Brian May. Different Angle is a grubby, neurotic, somehow more agreeable cousin of The Killers’ Mr Brightside, while Burning For No One is an off-kilter kiss-off to an old love.

The Cribs become particularly interesting when they apply the brakes: Simple Story is a quivering, tambourinebacked trawl through a wandering consciousness. “It’s only my heart that’s bleeding,” Ryan Jarman sings softly, “I’m howling at the moon hoping that someone understands.”

Rating: 8/10 Review by John Skilbeck

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BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

O BOOK OF THE WEEK Soil by Jamie Kornegay is published in hardback by Two Roads WE all know we can be our own worst enemies, but in terms of the characters in Soil, that’s a severe understatement.

Whether it’s pride, paranoia or an unquenchable desire for revenge, everyone seems hellbent on destruction.

But despite the characters’ inherent unlikeability, debut author Jamie Kornegay has managed the tricky task of making them sympathetic too, so that the reader cares about them and their journey.

The main protagonist, Jay Mize, is an annoyingly idealistic young farmer doomed to failure, hounded by an egotistical and reckless deputy sheriff and a crippled elderly woodsman with a vendetta.

These three very different men are the driving force behind this novel, which is part Greek tragedy and part darkly comic Deep South romp. That’s not to say that women don’t play an important role, with Jay’s frustrated ex-wife Sandy providing the sole voice of reason amidst the chaos of the menfolk.

The language which Kornegay uses to describe the mud

plains of the Mississippi is wonderfully evocative, so much so that the landscape almost becomes a fifth character within the novel, providing a perfect grim backdrop for the brutal actions of those who inhabit it.

Soil is invariably a rich metaphor and it’s one, which is deftly exploited to maximum effect, with the author using it to explore philosophical ideas about life, death, the futility of man and the constantly cyclical process of Mother Nature.

Kornegay’s keenly observed novel is a bit of a slow burner at first, but it soon builds into a page-turning crescendo and a suspense-filled finale which will make your heart pound and leave you opened-mouthed in horror.

This is definitely not one for the faint-hearted or squeamish, but it’s incredibly enjoyable nonetheless.

9/10 Review by Alison Potter

Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini is published in hardback

by Oneworld Publications THE Mediterranean, 2010. As rebels battle loyalists, Farid and his mother flee the wreckage of Tripoli for the coast, pinning their hopes on a trafficker’s rusting boat and the perilous crossing to Italy.

Across the water, in Sicily, 18-year-old Vito has been raised on stories of a Libya he has never known, his mother one of the Italians exiled when Gaddafi came to power. He ponders where he belongs and what to make of his life as he picks through the flotsam of past shipwrecks that wash up upon the shore.

These lives kept apart by the sea at their centre are narrated in sparse and sensuous prose in Mazzantini’s important, timely novel.

Against a portrait of two mothers’ love for their sons, it tells the story of humanity’s constant flux and the forces that drive migrations. Home is never fixed, but a fluid and precarious concept that could at any time be upturned.

9/10 Review by Adam Weymouth Before The Fire by Sarah Butler is published in hardback by Picador IT’S Manchester in the summer of 2011 and best friends Mac

and Stick have a great adventure planned – a road trip to Spain, where they will drink, dance, turn 18 and, most importantly, escape Manchester.

But the trip gets cancelled when Stick receives the devastating news that Mac has been fatally stabbed. From this early point in the book, we hear the story of a grief-stricken Stick who struggles with his feelings of anger, disbelief and hopelessness. One ray of light comes in the form a J, an adventurous and self-assured fellow teen who Stick quickly falls for.

The riots, which feature at the end of the book, are almost irrelevant to the story.

This is more a tale about grief, and though the main character might not be likeable at times, it is a well-researched and interesting snapshot story.

7/10 Review by Sophie Herdman

The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer is published in hardback by Bantam Press THE Shut Eye weaves together so many strands of a compelling murder mystery that it is sometimes easy to get too tangled up in its disparate plots and sub-plots. Jumping from one line to the next leaves the reader fighting for oxygen as much as some of the characters, coming up for air after each chapter as the different angles threaten to overwhelm.

The disappearance of Daniel Buck and the whereabouts of Edie Evans play on the minds of the police as well as those of the parents left behind. A shut eye is that between-worlds figure who can see what has happened to the lost and tries desperately to tell their story to those left behind.

Daniel’s mother, Anna Buck, battles with the things she sees which a disbelieving world dismisses as the ramblings of a crazy woman.

Not even Bauer’s skill as a writer, bringing together different cultures and joining them with colourful storytell-

ing can save what ultimately proves to be a flawed process.

Sadly for all those involved, Bauer leaves one major question unanswered and that fatally flaws an otherwise exciting read.

6/10 Review by Roddy Brooks

The Pocket Wife by Susan Crawford is published in trade paperback by Faber & Faber WITH a central character in the middle of a bipolar breakdown, The Pocket Wife follows in the footsteps of bestsellers like Elizabeth Is Missing and Before I Go To Sleep, both of which feature mentally disturbed protagonists.

Sadly though, it lacks their page-turning power. Dana Catrell, the book’s rather attractively unstable heroine, is starting to unravel when her neighbour Celia is murdered.

Unfortunately, Dana can’t remember much about their last meeting apart from a drunken row, and starts to believe she might be the killer. A shifty husband, a rugged cop and a sexy assistant prosecutor are added to the mix, but they can’t disguise the fact that, for long stretches of this book, nothing much happens. It’s a lack of pace that’s fatal in a thriller – a shame, because Dana’s teetering on the brink of brilliance and insanity is a convincing portrayal of madness.

5/10 Review by Jackie Kingsley

O NON-FICTION Once Upon A Time In The West Country by Tony Hawks is published in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton COMEDIAN Tony Hawks and his partner Fran realised many an urban dweller’s dream when they left London for a country cottage in Devon.

But how would Hawks – best known for his appearances on panel shows like Have I Got News For You and Just A Minute – cope with rural life where the biggest excitements are tractor runs (what it sounds like, pottering around on trac-

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Rather well, according to this diverting book, which covers Hawks’ bucolic adventures, including a cycle around the Devon coast with a micro pig (well, this is the man who went Round Ireland With A Fridge).

While it doesn’t contain any great insights into city vs country life, or many belly laughs for that matter, this gently humorous account raises a wry smile or two and might even make city folk consider getting out of the rat race, if only for a mini-break.

7/10 Review by Jackie Kingsley Honourable Friends? Parliament And The Fight For Change by Caroline Lucas MP is published in trade paperback by Portobello Books DID you know that on general election night in the UK, the candidates are told who’s won before they stand together as the returning officer reads out the numbers? That’s the first (and least troubling) of many surprises within the British political system in Caroline Lucas MP’s book.

As the UK’s only Green MP, she writes as an outsider on the inside, shocked at how British Parliament’s arcane rules and clubby attitude restrict opportunities for change.

Lucas claims the book is no manifesto – although it hits all the major topics one would – and it’s at its best when weaving her level-headed policy ideas with real experiences (attending an arms trade exhibition and being arrested at an anti-fracking protest are highlights in this regard).

She is not above comparing George Osborne, a British Conservative Party politician and the Treasury to “practised assassins”, but it’s such frank individuality that makes this book the most engaging piece of electioneering in the lead up to the UK’s next general election on May 7.

8/10 Review by Stephen Wood

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O CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK The Accidental Prime Minister by Tom McLaughlin is published in paperback by Oxford SOME readers will know Tom McLaughlin for his picture books like The Diabolical Mr Tiddles and Captain Buckleboots, and now he has written his first children’s novel.

Grown-ups have had their turn at running the country and Joe thinks that more than anyone!

The schoolboy manages to get the current Prime Minister sacked, and he gets the job.

He and his best friend Ajay have a great time making the country happy. But trouble starts brewing when his evil assistant starts saying that having fun is wrong!

Will Joe be able to stop her and her Anti-Silliness League turning the country against him?

I enjoyed this book and it made me laugh out loud quite a lot! But it was a bit unrealistic in parts. Like, how can an aeroplane fit a library in it? The author went a bit off track at times. But I still thought it was very funny and had a good storyline. Maybe the author could have kept his head in reality because books have to be a good read but still believable.

7/10 Review by Noah Sanders, aged 9

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Andrew Scott recently released his latest book “Northern Lights”. It is an interesting analysis on the positive social and economic policy example of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. The book is written from an Australian perspective and uses the experience of those countries to show that economic prosperity can be combined with social equality and environmental responsibility.

In terms of income distribution their achievements are much more equal than Australia, Britain, New Zealand and Canada. Workforce participation rates are higher and working hours remain within reasonable limits so that there is genuine work-life balance. The way they work to improve wellbeing, poverty, schools, skills training and taxation, can be a lesson for us.

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Stephen Church has written “King John – England, Magna Carta, and the making of a Tyrant”. No English king has suffered worse press coverage down the ages than King John.

He was the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane. It was a fiercely competitive and dysfunctional John who eventually inherited the family fortune, but by his death in 1215 he had squandered the lot – treasury was empty. Step forward 800 years and we as a nation have learned little from the behaviour, structure and choices made.

Reading obituaries of Lee Kwan Yew, we see an island state that passed through the horrors of Japanese occupation, emerged from a period of Malaysian control and then, standing alone, was ruled by one leader. Details suggest his style was autocratic – the result though is that Singapore is a comparatively wealthy entity, where everyone has a job and somewhere to live, crime is tightly controlled and behavioural discipline well regimented.

Lee Kwan Yew’s approach was unforgiving to law-breakers, an example in total contrast to

Australia where rehabilitation and counselling is the ineffective answer. A recent letter to the Editor of a Sydney paper raised his objection to the way the public purse is applied to the soft approach for those who, by their own choice, decide to become drug or alcohol addicts.

Thus the country continues in a social decline.

“What Next?” by Chris Patten deals with us surviving the 21st century. It tackles the big questions about the global condition and the collective future of countries. They all, to some degree, generally tackle issues of energy, food, water, crime, weapons proliferation, drug trafficking, climate change, epidemic disease, migration and, even with those challenges, economics is still to be introduced.

The book looks at one problem after another and the answers given are clear. The challenge is not “What is to be done? But rather, who is to do it and how? Capacity to act is the problem and not to muddle through”.

Jeffrey Sachs’ “The Age of Sustainable Development” has attracted favourable comments.

Sachs analyses global development and presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens use a holistic way to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice.

Sustainable development with this background is nigh impossible. Published by the Columbia University Press,

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by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection Sachs’s text is a most comprehensive study using dozens of graphs and models showing subjects ranging from international listings of government developmental assistance, global analysis of number of children per woman, and subjective well-being in countries, to gender inequality indexes, research and development indexes and incomes of various occupations in various countries.

There are even graphs on the way university student costs have risen in the USA and hospital spending per discharge in the top 12 countries – both examples indicating that institutions’ operating costs are out of control.

Seen by commentators as an ‘ambitious book’ is Michael Shermer’s “Age of Reason”. He considers that “we are living in the most moral period of our species history. Ever since the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment, thinkers consciously applied the methods of science to solve social and moral problems.” This has helped create the modern world of liberal democracies, civil rights and civil liberties, equal justice under the law, open political and economic borders, free minds and free markets. However those assigned the responsibility for the administration keep proving that they lack the level of com-

petence to administer them.

A recent press article provided an analysis of what is happening in small business. According to numbers last year there were approximately 350,000 small businesses in Australia.

But according to the statistics provided as at late 2014 there were 41,200 small businesses for sale. Retirement is the most overwhelming reason given for the decision to sell. And these had a collective asking price of $8 billion. Outside government services, collectively small business is the largest employment sector in the country.

Ten years ago Joseph Pearce wrote “Small Is Still Beautiful” in which he examines the economic structure of the western world. His conclusions rage against rampart consumerism, arguing that is has resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental degradation, and dispossessed and alienated populations. We should consider these assessments against the way governments in many countries have handed the power of finance and commerce to a few mega-businesses.

It could be time to track down the Kings Johns of the world and get a new Magna Carta signed and put into practice to emulate the Scandinavian model.

Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst.

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Joseph Simons performs in Dubbo

BY KAITLYN RENNIE JOSEPH Simons performed his one-man show, First Things First, at the DRTCC on Saturday, March 21.

The performance explored doing things for the first time, but as we do them over and over, how they become second nature with us getting used to doing them.

Joseph grew up in Dubbo and his dancing career has taken him all over the world.

Deb Haysom, Di Cole, Jude and Stewart McLeod

Bethany Clayton and Alyssa Terrey

Kathy and Ben Oldroyd

Betty and Evan Elliott

Margaret Hughes and Lawrie Donoghue

Helen, Josie and Mae Harvey

Helen Walsh and Jan Fletcher

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Open Day at MAGS

BY KAITLYN RENNIE PARENTS of possible students of Macquarie Anglican Grammar School (MAGS) were invited to the school on Thursday, March 26, to see what really goes on at the Kindergarten to Year 12 private school.

Parents had the opportunity to talk to the principal, the teaching staff and each other over morning tea and coffee, after a tour of the school grounds.

Principal Craig Mansour, Charlie Quilty, Julianne Gore and Jennie Everist Andrew and Azaria Munro with Mandi Randell

Darren Mann and Lanis Collier

Mandi Randell and Simon Murphy

Jason Fearnley and Dan Compton

Wesley House production a hit

BY KAITLYN RENNIE MICHAEL Gow’s iconic Australian play – called “Away” – was performed by Welsey House players over two weekends, with the final show on Saturday, March 21.

The play is set in the Vietnam war era, looking through the eyes of three families, hoping to resolve issues which are still relevant today such as racism, death and relationships.

Jayden Riley, Kellen Moore and Drew Playford

Justine Kuhner and Kate Ellem

Jennifer Bertolani, Carrigan Baker and Sheridan Baker

Dan and Myrna Eaton

Chris and Kay Owens

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Ding Dong at Dubbo Theatre

BY KAITLYN RENNIE DENISE Drysdale, affectionately known as “Ding Dong” Drysdale to many of her fans, performed at the Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre on Friday, March 20, putting on an hilarious show.

With a career that spans more than four decades, Denise has touched the lives of millions of people, from being a TV personality and dancer to comedian.

Her Dubbo audience left the theatre delighted by the show.

Carlie Browne, Lyn Andrews and Lisa Walsh

Jane Miller and Muriel Reynolds

Glynis Taylor and Wendy Willis

Marion and Ron Anderson

Kath Ashby and Janice Fisher

Karen Decarle and Joan Day

Jenny and Boy Harland and Margaret Paulter

Jackie London and Sharon McDermott

Johnine Griffith and Wayne Stiles

Kathy Ross and Deeann Grosser

Pam Ridley, Betty Bruce and Gail Elvidge

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Open day for Trainlink

BY KAITLYN RENNIE TRAINLINK NSW had an open day in Dubbo on Tuesday, March 24, to celebrate the transformation of their four buses, and to introduce themselves to Dubbo locals.

The day consisted of a free barbecue, complimentary tea and coffee, face painting, and information about methods of travel with the company.

The company employs local bus drivers to operate the vehicles and uses local services to maintain the vehicles.

The Trainlink team

Rodney Smith cooking the barbecue for their guests

Kim Barling, Ivan Diggs and Michelle Pope

Michael Milburn, Doug Upcroft and Peter Pickering

Sylvia and Michael Murphy

Graham and Yvonne Evans

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COMMENCING Thursday, April 2, will be a weekend feast of country music in Dubbo.

Highlights of the Easter long weekend’s program include muso nights at various locations, a talent quest, walkup concert and tribute shows to some of country music’s most legendary performers. For more information, visit

Flavours from the Farm FLAVOURS from the Farm is a series of events allowing you to talk preserving, farming and food with the experts. Experience the food and wine from our lush region, which produces an abundance of fruit and vegetables, wine, milk and gourmet products such as ol-

ives, jams, oils and relishes. Highlights include a producer Q&A, specifically designed recipes with matched wines and take-home recipes. There are four events in total, beginning on April 19 at Lazy River Estate.

Rodney Vincent AS the saying goes “we’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time” and that’s the title track of Rodney Vin-

cent’s latest release. His standing in the Australian entertainment scene is no accident. It is the result of a long, hard apprenticeship which he says “started a while a go”. From his first engagement playing guitar in an old time dance band at his local hall, to New Faces where he got his first big break, Rodney has survived the highs and the lows of the industry. Catch his upcoming performance at Dubbo RSL Club on April 22, from 10.30am.

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The One Day of the Year

THE Toyota Nationals is Australia’s premiere all-Toyota car event presented by Dubbo City Toyota. The event includes an opportunity for car enthusiasts from all over Australia to catch up, a Show ‘N’ Shine, Tarmac Motorkhana and Drag Racing. If you love Toyotas and love a good long weekend away then see you at the Toyota Nationals in 2015 on April 4 and 5 at Ollie Robins Oval. Visit www.toyota-nationals.org.au for more information.

ALAN SEYMOUR’S iconic play looks at the meaning of ANZAC Day through the eyes of war veterans like Alf Cook and his friend Wacka Dawson. It’s the chance to commemorate history, celebrate heroism and conjure national pride. For Alf’s son Hughie, Anzac Day flies the flag for a very different reality, one that brings the dignity of our Diggers to its knees and into the gutter – via one too many down the pub. The One Day of the Year looks at our national

legend through the eyes of generation, class and character. The play is on an Australia-wide tour by HIT Productions and will be at Dubbo Regional Theatre from 8pm on April 11.

Fighting Silence CHRIS KUNKO’S recent paintings are a result of investigating emotions triggered by two words ‘Fighting Silence’, his exhibition title.

Twelve of the fifteen paintings are portraits while the three remaining works are metaphors used to link an-

swers for the viewer’s questions. Chris has been inspired by Lucian Freud, Edvard Munch and Francis Bacon for many years and there are hints of this in his new body of work. Chris’s paintings are representations of his own photography, some recent images and some files.

These stored memories along with a dream/trance-like state helped create a meaningful narrative that evokes differing emotions and the questions related to ‘Fighting Silence’. On display at the Fire Station Arts Centre until April 18, gallery hours are 8am to 5pm.

do Winter Touch

Easter Family Fun Day

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REGISTRATIONS are now open for the winter competition. Play touch and get fit, have fun and learn new skills. Visit dubbotouch.com to download the online registration guide and sign up for the 2015 mixed, men’s and women’s touch winter competition. Registrations close on April 17 with the competition to commence on May 4.

OLD DUBBO GAOL is a great place to take the family this Easter weekend.

Along with the usual tour and information about Dubbo’s criminal history, this event on Sunday, April 5, includes lots of great activities for kids including a jumping castle, face painting, reptile show and visits from the Easter Bunny.

For more information, visit www.old-

ANZAC Sleep-out

ment, strong leadership skills and a vision for our region are encouraged to submit an expression of interest by Tuesday, April 7.

Further information, including an Expression of Interest form and information booklet, can be found at www.rda. gov.au

There will be more than 80 street stalls including food, shopping, art display, doll, bear and craft expo, street parade, amusement and helicopter rides, live entertainment in the street, billy boiling and Coo-ee competition, the Best-dressed Man from Ironbark prize and poetry at the pub. There will be an XPT service from Orange along with the Lachlan Vintage Railway Service from Parkes, Manildra, Molong and Orange.

Entry is by gold coin and camping is available at the oval. For more information, contact Ben Penhall on 0418 669 867.

TO mark the centenary of ANZAC this year, there will be a regional sleep-out at Victoria Park’s No 1 Oval on April 24.

Beginning at 4pm and going through the night until dawn, the sleep-out is intended to give participants a sense of sleeping in the outdoors, as the ANZACs did. Bring your swag and sleep un-

der the stars just as the ANZACs did 100 years ago.

There will be entertainment including live Australian music, games and activities, storytelling, World War I memorabilia, parades and movies on the big screen. This is an alcohol and smoking-free event with children under 18 to be accompanied by an adult. Contact the Council on 6801 4000 for more information.

etc.

Join Regional Development network EXPRESSIONS of interest are being sought from business and community leaders to join Regional Development Australia (RDA) committees in NSW. RDA committees are part of a national network composed of local leaders who assist in the economic development of their region, volunteering their time and energy to develop solutions to local issues.

Community members with commit-

Man from Ironbark Festival THE village of Stuart Town will host the Man from Ironbark Festival on Easter Saturday, April 4, commencing at 9am.

Body Mind Spirit Festival The Body Mind Spirit Festival returns to the city once again on April 26. Between 10am and 4pm at Dundullimal Homestead, you can come along and have a massage, tea leaf reading, palm reading, kinesiology or eat something delicious. There will be candles on sale along with other healing remedies and products. There will also be yoga demonstrations and some good music to enjoy or something delicious from the Shed Cafe. Drinks will be available from the bar. No BYO will be permitted.

To add your event to HSDE, email whatson@dubboweekender.com.au

WHAT’S ON.

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OPEN WEEKENDER SHOPPING

DUBBO ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLES Open Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 3pm ŶƟƋƵĞ ĨƵƌŶŝƚƵƌĞ͕ ĐŚŝŶĂ͕ ĐĂƐƚ ŝƌŽŶ͕ ŽůĚ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ĐŽůůĞĐƚĂďůĞƐ͘ 4 Depot Road, 6885 4400

ŽŵĞ ĂůŽŶŐ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ĂƐƚĞƌ &Ăŝƌ ƚŚŝƐ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ Ăƚ DĂŐŶŽůŝĂ ĂĨĞ

COFFEE & MEALS

CLUBS & PUBS

THE BOOK CONNECTION Open Saturday 8.30am to 4pm.

Sunday 10am to 2pm.

EĞǁ ĂŶĚ ƵƐĞĚ ďŽŽŬƐ KǀĞƌ ϲϬ͕ϬϬϬ ŬƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ͘ 178 Macquarie St, 6882 3311

OLD BANK RESTAURANT

PASTORAL HOTEL

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

Open Saturday 10am to 4am, Sunday 10am to 9pm.

ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ ůů ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ŚŽŵĞ ŵĂĚĞ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶLJ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ 8am - 11.30am ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

Saturday and Sunday from 5am- 1pm.

EĞǁƐƉĂƉĞƌƐ͕ ŵĂŐĂnjŝŶĞƐ͕ ƐƚĂƟŽŶĞƌLJ ƐƵƉƉůŝĞƐ͘ 272 Myall St, 6882 0688

DUBBO RSL CLUB RESORT

THE SWISH GALLERY

TED’S TAKEAWAY Open Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-8pm dŚĞ ďŝŐ ǀĂůƵĞ ŝŶ ƚĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ ĨŽŽĚ͘ 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ͘ 26 Victoria St, 6882 7899

VILLAGE BAKERY CAFE Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to 5.30pm.

Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂLJ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝnjnjĂƐ Homemade pastas ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ ŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ ůů ĚŝƐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞ ŵĂĚĞ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ďĞƐƚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌĞƐŚĞƐƚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ƚŽ ĞŶƐƵƌĞ ƚŚĞ ĮŶĞƐƚ ŇĂǀŽƵƌƐ ĨŽƌ ĞǀĞƌLJ ŵĞĂů͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE Saturday and Sunday 8.30am-4pm 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

HOG’S BREATH BREKKY Open Saturday and Sunday ϴĂŵ ʹ ϭϭĂŵ ,ŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ WĂŶĐĂŬĞƐ ŽƐƐ ,ŽŐ͛Ɛ ŝŐ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ EŽǁ ƐĞƌǀŝŶŐ ZŽďƵƐƚĂ ĂŶĚ ƌĂďŝĐĂ ĐŽīĞĞ ďĞĂŶƐ ĨƌŽŵ EĞǁ 'ƵŝŶĞĂ ĂŶĚ ŽƐƚĂ ZŝĐĂ͘ 193 Macquarie Street, 6882 4477

QUINN’S MYALL ST NEWSAGENCY

GROCERIES

DMC MEAT AND SEAFOOD Open Saturday 6am to 3pm ,ƵŐĞ ǀĂƌŝĞƚLJ͕ ďƵůŬ ďƵLJƐ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĚ ŚŽƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ǁĞĞŬůLJ͘ 55 Wheelers Lane, 6882 1504

IGA WEST DUBBO KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵ ƚŽ 6pm. 'ƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ƐĞƌǀŝĐĞ͘ 38-40 Victoria Street, 6882 3466

THINGS TO DO EASTER FAIR AT “THE MAGNOLIA” ^d Z ^ dhZ z 9am - 1pm &ĂŶƚĂƐƟĐ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ĂĐƌŽƐƐ ƚŚĞ EƵƌƐĞƌLJ Θ 'ŝŌ ^ŚŽƉ 'ƌĞĂƚ &ŽŽĚ Θ ŽīĞĞ ZĂŋĞ WƌŝnjĞƐ Ͳ ĂƐƚĞƌ ŐŐ ,ƵŶƚ Ͳ &ĂĐĞ WĂŝŶƟŶŐ Ͳ DĂƌŬĞƚ ^ƚĂůůƐ D 'EK>/ & Θ EhZ^ Zz 73 Wheelers Lane Dubbo Ph: Cafe - 0268 845997 Nursery - 0268 822580

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

YƵĂůŝƚLJ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

Open Saturday 9am to 12pm. ŝƐƟŶĐƟǀĞ ũĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ͕ ĐƌĞĂƟǀĞ ĐŽŶƚĞŵƉŽƌĂƌLJ ĚĞĐŽƌ ĨŽƌ LJŽƵƌ ŚŽŵĞ ĂŶĚ ƐƚLJůŝƐŚ ŐŝŌƐ͘ 29 Talbragar St, 6882 9528

BRENNAN’S MITRE 10

WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE

CLUB DUBBO

&Žƌ Ăůů LJŽƵƌ /z ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ͕ ŚĂƌĚǁĂƌĞ͕ ƚŽŽůƐ ĂŶĚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƉƌŽĚƵĐƚƐ ^ĞĞ ƵƐ ŝŶ ƐƚŽƌĞ ĨŽƌ ŐƌĞĂƚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ Saturday 8am-4pm Sunday 9am-4pm 64-70 Macquarie Street, 6882 6133

KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůĂƌŐĞƐƚ ŐĂůůĞƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ museums in NSW Ŷ ĞǀĞƌͲĐŚĂŶŐŝŶŐ ĂƌƌĂLJ ŽĨ ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ ĂŶĚ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ƚŽƉ ŶĂƟŽŶĂů ĞdžŚŝďŝƟŽŶƐ͘ 76 Wingewarra Street, 6801 4444

Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am.

ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ 6pm to 9pm.

ZĞůĂdžĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůLJ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL Open Saturday 10am to 2am, Sunday ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂLJƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ ŽŵĞ ĚŽǁŶ ĂŶĚ ĞŶũŽLJ Ă ĚƌŝŶŬ ǁŝƚŚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚƐ ŝŶ ŽƵƌ ďĞĞƌ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ͕ Ă ƌŽƵŶĚ ŽĨ ƉŽŽů ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ĨƌŽŶƚ ďĂƌ Žƌ ŽŶĞ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ĚĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ĐŽƵŶƚƌLJ ƐƚLJůĞ ŵĞĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ restaurant.

Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES Open Saturday and Sunday from 9am ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ and 5.45-9pm.

101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ Open Sunday 8.30am-3pm Gym /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů Sauna Steam room ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

ORANA MALL SHOPPING CENTRE ϱϮ ^ƉĞĐŝĂůƚLJ ^ƚŽƌĞƐ͕ ŝŐ t͕ tŽŽůǁŽƌƚŚƐ and Bernardi’s SUPA IGA. ĂƐLJ WĂƌŬŝŶŐ͕ ŶŽǁ ĂůƐŽ ǁŝƚŚ ĂƉƉƌŽdž͘ ϭϲϬ ƵŶĚĞƌĐŽǀĞƌ͘ Food Court ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϱ͘ϬϬƉŵ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ϭϬ͘ϬϬĂŵ ʹ ϰ͘ϬϬƉŵ ǁǁǁ͘ŽƌĂŶĂŵĂůů͘ĐŽŵ͘ĂƵ Cnr Mitchell Highway & Wheelers Lane, 6882 7766

THE PARTY STOP Open Saturday 9am-4pm Party Costumes ĞĐŽƌĂƟŽŶƐ ĂůůŽŽŶƐ 'ŝŌƐ ĨŽƌ ŵŝůĞƐƚŽŶĞ ĞǀĞŶƚƐ dŚĞŵĞĚ ƉĂƌƟĞƐ 142 Darling Street, 6885 6188

DUBBO GROVE PHARMACY KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϭϮ ŶŽŽŶ 'ŝŌǁĂƌĞ͕ :ĞǁĞůůĞƌLJ ,ŽŵĞǁĂƌĞƐ 59A Boundary Road, 6882 3723

THE ATHLETES FOOT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌLJƚŚŝŶŐ LJŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

OLD DUBBO GAOL Open Saturday and Sunday 9-5pm >ĂƌŐĞ ĚŝƐƉůĂLJ ŽĨ ĂŶŝŵĂƚƌŽŶŝĐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŽůŽŐƌĂƉŚƐ ƉƌŽǀŝĚŝŶŐ Ă ƌĞĂůŝƐƟĐ ŝŶƐŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ďLJŐŽŶĞ ĞƌĂ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐŽŶ ůŝĨĞ͘ 90 Macquarie Street, near the old clock tower, 6801 4460

TARONGA WESTERN PLAINS ZOO Open Saturday and Sunday 9-4pm. dŚĞ njŽŽ͛Ɛ ĞŶĐŽƵŶƚĞƌƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŚŽǁƐ ŽīĞƌ ǀŝƐŝƚŽƌƐ ƚƌƵůLJ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ĞdžƉĞƌŝĞŶĐĞƐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ĨĂǀŽƵƌŝƚĞ ĂŶŝŵĂůƐ͘ Obley Road, off the Newell Hwy, 6881 1400

TRIKE ADVENTURES ŽŽŬ Ă ƌŝĚĞ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂLJ Žƌ ^ƵŶĚĂLJ ǀĂŝůĂďůĞ ĨŽƌ ƚŽǁŶ ƚŽƵƌƐ͕ ƐƉĞĐŝĂů ŽĐĐĂƐƐŝŽŶƐ͕ ŽƵƚďĂĐŬ ƉƵď ůƵŶĐŚĞƐ Žƌ ũƵƐƚ ďůĂƐƟŶŐ ĂůŽŶŐ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ǁŝŶĚ ŝŶ your face 1300 TRIKES (1300 87 45 37)

READINGS CINEMA ŽŵĨŽƌƚ͕ ƐƚLJůĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĂůƵĞ ΨϭϬ ƟĐŬĞƚƐ ϯ ĞdžƚƌĂ͘ ĂŶĚLJ ďĂƌ͖ ϱ ƐĐƌĞĞŶ ĐŝŶĞŵĂ ĐŽŵƉůĞdž͖ ŝŐŝƚĂů ƐŽƵŶĚ ŽůďLJ ŝŐŝƚĂů ϯ ƉƌŽũĞĐƟŽŶ >ƵdžƵƌLJ ĂƌŵĐŚĂŝƌ ĐŽŵĨŽƌƚ 49 Macquarie St,6881 8600

CALL FOR A GREAT RATE ON A LIST FOR YOUR BUSINESS HERE! 6885 4433.

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 03.04.2015 to Monday 06.04.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Friday, April 3 MOVIE: The Sting

The Bold And The Beautiful

PRIME7, 12pm, PG (1973) Robert Redford and Paul Newman are irresistible as the con men planning the sting to end them all in Chicago, 1936. Their meticulously laid plot is to swindle bad-guy Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) out of a fortune via a complicated betting parlour scam and how they pull it off is sheer movie magic. A huge hit that inspired a much less satisfying sequel, this won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for George Roy Hill who reunited with his Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid stars for this splendid romp. Also with Charles Durning, Ray Walston and Eileen Brennan.

ABC

Heston’s In Search Of Perfection erfection SBS ONE, 6pm

TEN, 4.30pm This long-running soapie has pumped out more than 7000 episodes since it hit the small screen back in 1987.

Let’s face it, it’s crap, but it’s crap in a good way. At least there is a some creativity and care that goes into the outrageous scandals and cheesy stories . You know what to expect here: someone’s wealth is at risk, someone’s relationship is in trouble, and someone else is making out with someone they probably shouldn’t be.

Case in point: Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) lets it be known that she isn’t happy about Caroline’s (Linsey Godfrey) relationship with Ridge (Ron Moss). Guilty pleasure.

PRIME7

You can have your cake and eat itt too, tonight, if you are willing to join English chef Heston Blumenthal (right) on his journey y to Germany’s Black Forest in an attempt to revitalise the region’s famous gateau and transform it from tired ’70s favourite to 21st-century taste-bud tingling sensation. Heston visits the 250-year-old Café Konig, which claims to have invented the Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (aka Black Forest gâteau). Fired up with inspiration, he returns to his own kitchen lab in the UK, where he experiments with the layering of the cake – with the help of a vacuum nozzle.

WIN

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 How We Got To Now. (R, CC) (Final) 11.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Brother Sun, Sister Moon. (PG, R, CC) (1973) Graham Faulkner.

3.05 MOVIE: Jesus Christ Superstar. (PG, R, CC) (1973) A retelling of Jesus Christ’s last weeks.

Ted Neeley.

4.50 Royal Variety Performance 2014.

(PG, R, CC) Hosted by Michael McIntyre.

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show.

(PG, CC) The latest news and views.

11.30 Morning News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: The Sting.

(PG, R, CC) (1973) Two conmen trick a crime boss. Paul Newman, Robert Redford.

3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted

by Bradley Walsh.

4.00 News At 4. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Contestants play for the chance to win up to $200,000. Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

5.30 Million Dollar Minute.

(CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) Presented by Karl Stefanovic.

9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews.

11.00 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, CC) Variety show.

2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program.

2.30 Alive And Cooking. (CC) Easy-to-cook recipes.

3.00 News Now. (CC) 3.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 5. Canterbury Bulldogs v South Sydney Rabbitohs. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

6.00 Entertainment Tonight. (R, CC) 6.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 7.00 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 7.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (PG, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. (CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 NITV News Week In Review.

1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Rex In Rome. (PG, R) 4.25 Indian Ocean With Simon Reeve. (R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers.

(R, CC)

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona and the team visit Chatham’s historic dockyard for the chance to examine some collectables.

8.30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries. (CC) (Final) Investigating the murder of a local magistrate, Dr Blake realises the answers to the crime are linked to the death of his mother 40 years earlier. Jean prepares to move to Adelaide.

9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Nikki and Jack suspect they have uncovered a conspiracy as they close in on the murderer of the eco-housing project victim. Leo finds someone willing to confirm his fear about the mysterious local health hazard.

10.30 The Moodys. (M, R, CC) The clan heads to the NSW south coast for the annual Moody family Easter weekend.

11.00 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) In a turn of events she could have never foreseen, Ellie finds herself exposed and alone.

11.50 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh and Ed head to Queensland’s Capricorn Coast to sample produce and meet the locals. Tips on how to remove wallpaper. Tara and Jason transform an old deck. Dr Harry meets a horse with an identity crisis.

8.30 MOVIE: Maid In Manhattan. (PG, R, CC) (2002) A US senatorial candidate falls for a mysterious woman he met while visiting New York. However, unknown to him at the time she is a single mother who works as a maid at the hotel he is staying at. Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson.

10.50 MOVIE: Baby Mama.

(M, R, CC) (2008) After a successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and is unable to adopt a child, due to her marital status, she decides to hire a surrogate as her last chance at motherhood.

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) A socially awkward Sheldon develops a scientific procedure for making friends in order to gain access to a computer his professional nemesis Barry Kripke controls.

Leonard lends Penny a hand with her email.

8.00 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Sheldon’s “simple” solution to Penny’s financial problem leads to some unexpected complications. Leonard, having learnt how Penny’s boyfriend owes her money, is convinced he can help her out and decides to confront the man about the debt.

8.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 5. Gold Coast Titans v Brisbane Broncos.

From Cbus Super Stadium, Queensland.

10.45 MOVIE: Stolen. (M, CC) (2012) A former thief searches for his missing daughter, who has been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi.

Nicolas Cage, Malin Akerman, Josh Lucas.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics.

7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Vet Chris Brown heads to Christmas Island to witness the annual red crab migration.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, CC) Irish comedian Graham Norton chats with three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, Scottish actor James McAvoy, and actor Mark Ruffalo. Music is provided by Hozier.

9.30 Shark Tank. (PG, R, CC) A panel of multimillionaires is pitched ideas and innovations, including an Italian fast food franchise, a natural deodorant for teenagers, a plastic tongue scraper and a coursebooking website. Hosted by Sarah Harris.

10.30 NCIS: Los Angeles.

(M, R, CC) Callen, his fellow agents and the Red Team continue their search for a suspected terrorist.

11.30 The Project. (R, CC)

6.00 Heston’s In Search Of Perfection. (CC) Heston Blumenthal travels to Germany’s Black Forest in an effort to revitalise the region’s famous gateau and transform it from a tired ’70s favourite to a 21st-century taste sensation. His journey begins in Baden Baden where he visits the 250-year-old Café Konig.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 24. Western Sydney Wanderers v Melbourne City. From Pirtek Stadium, Sydney.

10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Jake invites his girlfriend, as well as Amy and her boyfriend, to join him at a B&B. 10.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

(PG, R, CC) Jake and Rosa find themselves matching wits once more with the Pontiac Bandit.

11.00 MOVIE: My Awkward Sexual Adventure.

(M, R) (2012) In order to win back his ex-girlfriend, an accountant enlists the help of an exotic dancer to educate him about sex. Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Sarah Manninen.

12.45 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.45 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 2.15 Spyforce. (PG, R) 3.15 WIN Presents. (R, CC) 3.30 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (PG) Join David Letterman and special guests for his Top 10 and more.

1.30 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.50 Mad Men. (M, CC) The firm prepares to go public.

1.45 Mad Men. (PG, CC) 2.35 Mad Men. (M, CC) Sally walks in on an intruder.

4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

1.00 Home Shopping.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.00pm The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Action.

Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth. Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games but she senses a rebellion is simmering. (M) Premiere

7.30pm The Carbonaro Effect. While working at a toy store, Michael startles his co-worker as he brings a teddy bear to life. (M) FOX8

6.30pm The Agony Of Life.

Biography

6.00am Golf. USPGA. Houston Open. Round 1. Fox Sports 2

7.00pm Australian Story.

Michael Stone was delighted to return to East Timor, but he didn’t realise that he would soon be plunged into the biggest drama of his career, a life-or-death crisis that made headlines around the world.

(PG) Biography

7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 24. Western Sydney Wanderers v Melbourne City.

Fox Sports 4

6.15pm The Butler (2013) Biography. Forest Whitaker.

(M) Masterpiece 10.55pm 12 Years A Slave (2013) Drama. (MA15+) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld.

(R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 4.25 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Dinosaur Train. 5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Mouk. 6.15 Rastamouse.

(R, CC) (Final) 6.25 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) (Final) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.40 We Won’t Drop The Baby. (M, R, CC) 9.30 Catfish: The TV Show.

(PG, CC) 10.30 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, CC) 11.10 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 World’s Toughest Jobs. (M, R, CC) 12.30 Pineapple Dance Studios. (PG, R, CC) 1.15 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 News Update. (R) 2.05 Close. 5.00 What’s The Big Idea? (R, CC) 5.05 Kioka. (R, CC) (Final) 5.15 Franklin And Friends. (R, CC) (Final) 5.40 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) (Final) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.50 Vic The Viking. (R, CC) 7.05 Tashi.

(R, CC) 7.15 Jamie’s Got Tentacles.

(R, CC) 7.30 SheZow. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 Nerds And Monsters. (R, CC) 8.20 Get Ace. (R, CC) 8.30 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 9.30 Wallace And Gromit: A Grand Day Out. (R, CC) 9.55 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 11.30 Wallace And Gromit: The Wrong Trousers. (R, CC) 12.00 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 1.30 Wallace And Gromit: A Close Shave. (R, CC) 2.00 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 3.20 Wallace And Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death. (R, CC) 3.50 Vic The Viking. (CC) 4.00 Tashi.

(CC) 4.15 Steam Punks! (R, CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (CC) 5.10 Endangered Species. (R, CC) 5.25 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 5.50 Nowhere Boys. (PG, R, CC) 6.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 6.40 Big Babies.

(CC) 7.00 Deadly 60 On A Mission: Pole To Pole. (PG, CC) 7.30 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Lanfeust Quest. (R, CC) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.30 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe.

(R, CC) 9.55 Close.

8.00pm Killer Magic. Five magicians compete to avoid facing the perilous killer trick, which is the infamous Bullet Catch. (M) FOX8 8.30pm The Real Housewives Of Melbourne.

(M) Arena

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Flushed. (C, CC) 7.30 Spit It Out. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Jay’s Jungle.

(P, CC) 8.30 Man About The House. (PG, R) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.00 Kingswood Country. (PG, R) 11.30 George And Mildred. (PG, R) 12.00 Pie In The Sky. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 How The Other Half Live. (PG, R) 2.00 Air Crash Investigations. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

4.00 60 Minute Makeover. (PG, R) 5.00 Best Houses Australia. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer.

6.30 Bargain Hunt.

7.30 The Indian Doctor.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Escape To The Country.

9.30 The House That $100K Built: Tricks Of The Trade.

11.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG) 11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 Man About The House. (PG, R) 1.30 George And Mildred. (PG, R) 2.00 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.00 The Indian Doctor. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The Martha Stewart Show.

(R) 5.00 Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (PG) 7.00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West. (CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates.

(R, CC) 8.00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (R) 8.30 Sofia The First. (R, CC) 9.00 NBC Today. (R, CC) 11.00 Motor Mate. (R) 1.30 Just Shoot Me! (PG, R) 2.30 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 3.30 SlideShow. (PG, CC) 5.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 MOVIE: The Italian Job. (PG, R) (1969) A team of experts steals a gold shipment. Michael Caine, Noël Coward.

8.30 MOVIE: Scrooged. (M, R) (1988) A narcissistic and arrogant TV executive is haunted by three ghosts during Christmas Eve. Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Glover.

10.30 MOVIE: Desperado.

(AV15+, R) (1995) A drifter starts a war with gangsters.

Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek.

12.45 Big Easy Justice. (M, R) 1.15 Inside West Coast Customs. (PG, R) 2.30 SlideShow. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Motor Mate. (R)

10.00pm Rugby Union. Super Rugby. Round 8. Hurricanes v Stormers. Fox Sports 2

7.30pm Spirits Of The Somme. (PG) History

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Move It. (C, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Surprises. (P, R, CC) 9.30 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 10.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra. (CC) 12.30 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Super Fun Night. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 Suburgatory. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Auction Hunters. (PG, R) 3.00 SpongeBob. 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. (R) 4.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Material Girls. (PG, R) (2006) Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff.

8.00 MOVIE: Raise Your Voice.

(PG, R, CC) (2004) 10.10 MOVIE: Whip It! (M, R) (2009) Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore. 12.30 MAD. (M) 1.00 Robotomy. (M, R) 1.30 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. 3.00 TMZ. 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.30 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 4.50 Digimon. (PG, R) 5.10 Thunderbirds. (R, CC) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Hoarding: Buried Alive. (PG, R) 8.00 Gilmore Girls.

(PG, R, CC) 9.00 Shopping.

10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Supernanny USA. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: April In Paris. (R, CC) (1952) Doris Day. 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 3.30 David Attenborough’s Life. (R, CC) 4.30 Ellen. (PG, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls.

(PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 A Current Affair. (CC) 8.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Fiona Bruce heads to Hever Castle.

8.30 MOVIE: Defiance. (M, CC) (2009) Fleeing the Nazis, four Jewish brothers come across a group of refugees in the forests of Eastern Europe. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell.

11.15 MOVIE: Mad City. (M, CC) (1997) 1.35 MOVIE: The Reptile.

(M, R) (1966) 3.20 MOVIE: Don’t Bother To Knock. (PG, R, CC) (1961) Richard Todd, Elke Sommer. 5.05 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R)

Socialite Chyka Keebaugh, one of the Real Housewives of Melbourne.

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 10.00 The Spirit Of The Snowy. (R) 11.00 Extreme Collectors. (PG, R) 11.30 Extreme Collectors. (R) 12.00 Psych. (PG) 1.00 White Collar. (PG, R) 2.00 The Biggest Loser Australia. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 4.00 Fishing. (R, CC) 4.30 Wild Racers.

(PG, R) 5.00 Reel Action. (R) 5.30 iFish. (R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud.

(CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Megafactories: Mercedes Overhaul. (R) 8.30 Gold Coast Cops. (R, CC) 9.00 Bondi Rescue. (R, CC) Lifesaver Matt Dee patrols the beach.

9.30 Swimming. Australian Championships. Day 1.

10.35 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 11.35 Kickboxing. Glory 18 Superfight Series. From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Motor Racing.

Formula 1. Malaysian Grand Prix.

Race 2. Replay. From Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 3.00 Ross Kemp: Afghanistan. (M, R) 4.00 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 5.00 The Pits.

(PG, R, CC)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (R, CC) 11.30 Frasier. (PG, R) 12.00 Charmed.

(PG, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Sabrina. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Caroline In The City. (PG) 3.00 Infomercials.

(PG, R) 3.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker.

(PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 American Idol. (PG) 9.30 Glee. Sue has a change of heart.

10.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid?

(PG, R) 11.10 Movie Juice. (R) 11.40 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(PG, R, CC) 12.10 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.40 Frasier. (PG, R) 1.05 Caroline In The City. (PG, R) 1.30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 3.00 Charmed. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping. (R)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News.

4.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.45 Vs Arashi. (R) 5.40 American Ninja Warrior. (R) 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed.

8.00 Parks And Recreation.

(PG, R) Ann throws a hen’s party.

8.30 Adam Looking For Eve. (MA15+) A couple go on a naked date.

9.20 The Story Of Playboy.

(MA15+, R, CC) A quirky history of Playboy magazine.

10.30 Banana. (MA15+) 11.05 Cucumber. (MA15+, R, CC) 12.00 Friday Feed. (R) 12.30 Real Humans. (M, R) 1.35 PopAsia.

(PG, R) 3.35 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Waabiny Time. 9.00 Go Lingo.

9.30 Bushwhacked! 10.00 Fusion Feasts. 10.30 Around The Campfire. 11.00 Football.

NEAFL. 1.10 Destiny In The Dirt.

1.20 Twelve Canoes. (PG) 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Bizou. 3.30 Bushwhacked! 4.00 Go Lingo.

4.30 Move It Mob Style. 5.00 Mysterious Cities Of Gold. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 The Medicine Line. 6.30 Fusion Feasts. 7.00 NITV News.

7.30 Waru, Kuka And Everything.

8.30 Our Songs.

9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 Colour Change. (M) 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 The Medicine Line. 12.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater.

(PG) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. 2.00 Rugby League.

Queensland Murri Carnival.

3.00 Rugby Sevens. 4.00 Rugby League. 2011 Lightning Cup. Nyirripi v Plenty Hwy. 5.00 Defining Moments. 5.30 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Saturday Landline. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 8.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Foreign Correspondent. (CC) 12.30 Compass. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 BBC Impact.

1.25 ABC Open. (R) 1.30 Saturday Landline. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 4.25 ABC Open. (R) 4.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 4.55 ABC Open. (R) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

ABC NEWS

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MOVIE: Buried

Jamie’s Food Fight Club ub

SBS ONE, 7.30pm

7MATE, 10.30pm, MA15+ (2010)

TEN, 6.30pm

Dedicated followers of this wonderful British series, which explores the natural and social history of the island’s magnificent coastline, should tune in to tonight’s season finale, as there promises to be a dramatic, storm-lashed climax, when the team explore what becomes of our coast in winter. The shores are battered by wild weather – but they are teeming with life if you know where to look. Nick Crane visits Cornwall and discovers that wild winter seas bring surprising benefits to the Cornish coast, while Neil Oliver experiences the extraordinary Viking Fire Festival on Shetland.

Claustrophobes might want to give this experiment in real-time filmmaking a miss, but if you can handle the chest-squeezing terror, it’s a winner. Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés plunges the audience into a world of panic as we experience the nightmare of being buried alive. Paul (Ryan Reynolds), a US contractor working in Iraq, awakes in a coffin after being abducted. With only a few tools and his mobile phone, it’s a race against time to escape the death trap.

Wringing a seemingly impossible amount of drama out of its gripping premise, this Hitchcock-esque offering is a nerve-wracking showcase for Reynolds’ talent.

staurateur Globally renowned TV chef, restaurateur amie and healthy eating advocate Jamie Oliver (right) and his long-time e friend and farm shop owner Jimmy Doherty oherty have opened a pop-up cafe at home in Essex, where they serve up the best off British ial food. Add in the treat of a special neth guest every week,such as Gwyneth w Paltrow, Alan Carr, Gary Barlow and Jonathan Ross, and you have the recipe for success.

Tonight, Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville is helping to carve up the menu. He relives g his Far Eastern travels, treating diners to an authentic Pad Thai. i.

Be warned, it will leave your tastebuds wanting more.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 Two On The Great Divide. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) 2.00 Kitchen Cabinet. (R, CC) Annabel chats with Jenny Macklin.

2.30 Kirstie’s Vintage Home.

(R, CC) Presented by Kirstie Allsopp.

3.30 The Manor Reborn.

(R, CC) Part 3 of 4.

4.30 Saturday Landline.

(R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney.

5.00 Midsomer Murders.

(PG, R, CC) A barrister is killed.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week.

12.00 Horse Racing. (CC) The Championships. Day 1.

Featuring four Group 1 races, including the $3 million Doncaster Mile (1600m), $2.5 million Darley TJ Smith Stakes (1200m), $2 million Australian Derby (2400m) and $1 million Sires Produce Stakes (1400m).

From Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney.

5.30 Sydney Weekender.

Hosted by Mike Whitney.

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday.

(PG, CC) 12.00 Recipes That Rock. (R, CC) Presented by Alex James and Matt Stone.

12.30 Who Do You Think You Are? Edie Falco. (PG, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Men Don’t Leave. (PG, R, CC) (1990) Jessica Lange.

4.00 Les Misérables: Behind The Scenes.

(CC) Presented by David Campbell.

4.30 Fishing Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 6.30 Fishing Edge.

(R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics.

(R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef.

(R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Healthy Homes TV. (CC) 1.30 The Hotel Inspector.

(PG, R, CC) 2.30 Huey’s Kitchen. (R, CC) 3.00 Car Torque. (PG, CC) 3.30 iFish. (R, CC) 4.30 Escape With ET. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 Messiah At The Foundling Hospital. (CC) 3.10 Hopper Stories. (CC) 3.20 Simon Schama: Shakespeare And Us. (PG, CC) 4.30 Leonardo Da Vinci: The Restoration Of The Century. (R) 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG, R, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia.

(CC) Down-to-earth advice for the home gardener from host Costa Georgiadis and his team of experts.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 New Tricks. (PG, CC) After a teen is caught throwing a brick from a bridge, his DNA proves to be a partial match with a murderer.

8.30 Grantchester. (M, CC) Sidney and Geordie travel to London for a night at a jazz club owned by Jennifer’s boyfriend, but they soon discover that police and clergymen can never truly be off duty when they get mixed up in a murder.

9.20 Grantchester. (M, CC) (Final) With Amanda and Guy’s wedding fast approaching, Sidney finds himself thrown into a crisis.

10.05 Miniseries: Paper Giants: Magazine Wars.

(M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

Charts the battle between women’s magazine editors Nene King and Dulcie Boling.

11.40 Rage. (MA15+) Music videos chosen by special guest programmer, composer Caribou.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Hop. (R, CC) (2011) After a slacker accidentally injures the son of the Easter Bunny, he takes the talking rabbit into his home as a guest while he recovers, in the process providing them both with the chance to grow up.

James Marsden, Elizabeth Perkins, Russell Brand.

9.00 MOVIE: The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift.

(M, R, CC) (2006) To avoid jail time after one crash too many, a rebellious American teen is sent to live with his estranged father in Tokyo. He promptly enters the local underground world of drift racing, where tricked-out cars slide through hairpin turns, defying gravity for the “ultimate” road rush.

Lucas Black, Zachery Bryan, Bow Wow. 11.00 World’s Wildest Police Videos. (M, R, CC) A gunman at a protest rally triggers a violent confrontation with police. The authorities embark on a deadly chase through mountains after a paramilitary-trained assassin. A petrol tanker catches fire on the road.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, CC) Host Scott Cam goes behind-thescenes, revealing the auditions from the chosen contestants, as well as entries from some of the thousands of people who auditioned.

8.00 MOVIE: Two Weeks Notice. (PG, R, CC) (2002) After leaving a wedding to come to the aid of her troublesome boss, a lawyer decides she is fed up with his immature behaviour and quits her job. He, however, decides he is not willing to live without her, and sets out to woo her back by changing his ways.

Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock, Alicia Witt.

10.00 MOVIE: Hope Springs.

(M, CC) (2012) After 30 years of marriage, a devoted middle-aged couple who have been gradually growing apart since their son went to university, attend a counselling weekend hoping to reignite the spark in their relationship.

Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell.

6.00 Gold Coast Cops.

(PG, R, CC) Documents the work of police officers of the Rapid Action and Patrols squad on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

A driver is stopped middinner, but the search of her boot unveils some truly eye-opening finds.

6.30 Jamie’s Food Fight Club.

(PG, CC) Hugh Bonneville, treats the café diners to authentic pad thai.

7.30 Bondi Vet. (PG, CC) A young rottweiler has been rushed to emergency with fears its bloated stomach is beginning to twist.

8.30 MOVIE: E.T. The ExtraTerrestrial. (PG, R, CC) (1982) After an alien spacecraft is disturbed in a Los Angeles suburb, one of its crew members is accidentally left behind and befriended by a 10-year-old boy who helps in his quest to find a way back home.

Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace.

10.30 MOVIE: Kiss The Girls.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1997) A detective and forensic psychologist go on the trail of a psychopath.

Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Coast: Winter. (CC) (Final) Nick and the team explore what becomes of Britain’s coast in winter, beginning with a visit to Cornwall, the storm central of the island’s rugged coastline. He also explores the tragic events surrounding the Penlee lifeboat disaster, the worst such tragedy within the last 60 years.

8.30 MOVIE: Apocalypse Now Redux.

(MA15+, R, CC) (1979) During the Vietnam War, a disenchanted US Army captain is sent on a secret mission to assassinate an out-ofcontrol special forces colonel who has set up his own kingdom, deep in the jungle. However, as he approaches his goal, he finds himself pushed to his limits.

Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall.

12.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) Dr Mehmet Oz and other leading doctors, hospitals, associations and authors answer the public’s health questions.

1.00 Home Shopping.

12.05 MOVIE: Bandits. (M, R, CC) (2001) Bruce Willis.

2.25 MOVIE: Rock Star.

(M, R, CC) (2001) 3.25 The Avengers. (PG, R) 4.25 WIN Presents. (CC) 4.30 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program.

5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.15 Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. (R, CC) 2.00 Operation Crossbow.

(PG, CC) Documents Operation Crossbow.

3.00 Mad Men. (M, CC) 4.45 Jack Attack. (MA15+) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.20pm Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) Adventure. Harrison Ford, Sean Connery. (PG) Action

6.30pm A Touch Of Frost.

The past is catching up in more ways than one as a series of copycat crimes convinces Superintendent Mullett that Frost’s life is in danger. (M) UKTV

6.30pm Decoded: Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol. Tony Robinson’s hopes for hidden truths are constantly raised and dashed as he investigates the Masonic influence on past and present. (PG) History

5.30pm Rugby League.

NRL. Round 5. Sea Eagles v Raiders. Fox Sports 1

7.35pm Grey’s Anatomy.

Cristina presses Owen over his affair. (M) SoHo

7.00pm Johnny Cash: Song By Song. (PG) Biography

8.30pm Banshee. FOX8

8.30pm Killing Jesus.

Recounts the events that made Jesus’ death inevitable, and changed the world forever. (M) National Geographic

7.30pm The Lego Movie (2014) Animation. Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks. Family 10.40pm True Lies (1994) Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis. A secret agent learns his wife might be having an affair and soon his family is caught up in a terrorist plot.

(M) Action

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.10 Gaspard And Lisa. (R, CC) 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Olivia.

(R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack.

(R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo. (R, CC) 5.00 Sarah And Duck. (R, CC) 5.10 The Hive. (R, CC) 5.25 Dinosaur Train.

5.40 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.45 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.00 Mouk.

6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 Build A New Life In The Country. (PG, CC) 9.15 Live At The Apollo. (M, CC) 10.00 Buzzcocks. (M, R, CC) (Final) 10.30 The Inbetweeners. (M, R) 11.00 Plebs. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.25 The Awesomes. (M, R, CC) 11.45 Portlandia. (PG, R, CC) 12.10 The Armstrong And Miller Show. (M, R, CC) 1.10 News Update. (R) 1.15 Close. 5.00 What’s The Big Idea?

(R, CC) 5.05 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout.

(R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 8.00 YooHoo & Friends. (R, CC) (Final) 8.15 Endangered Species. (R, CC) (Final) 8.25 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama World Tour. (R, CC) 9.55 Slugterra. (R, CC) 10.40 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 11.15 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 11.35 Lockie Leonard. (R, CC) 12.00 Mortified. (R, CC) 12.20 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 12.30 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (R, CC) (Final) 2.20 Slugterra. (R, CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Leonardo.

(R, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 You’re Skitting Me. (R, CC) 4.15 Iron Man: Armored Adventures. (R, CC) 4.35 Detentionaire. (R, CC) 5.00 Young Dracula. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 5.45 MY:24. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 The Haunting Hour.

(PG, CC) 7.15 Wolfblood. (PG, R, CC) 7.40 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 7.55 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 8.20 Naruto. (PG, CC) 8.45 Lanfeust Quest. (PG, R, CC) 9.10 Deltora Quest. (R, CC) 9.30 Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. (R, CC) 9.55 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Shopping.

7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. 11.00 Animal Academy. (PG) 11.30 Great South East. (R, CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast.

(R, CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender.

(R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (R, CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Coxy’s Big Break. (R) 2.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast. 3.00 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Round 3. Easts v Manly.

5.00 SCU. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Horse Racing. (CC) The Championships.

Day 1. 6.00 Make My Home Bigger.

(PG, R) 6.30 The New Reclaimers.

(PG, R) 7.30 Storage Hoarders.

8.30 Taggart. (M, CC) A restaurant critic is found murdered.

10.00 Wire In The Blood.

(AV15+, R, CC) 12.00 The Kitchen Job. (PG, R) 1.00 Taggart. (M, R, CC) 2.30 Across The Sea Of Galilee. 3.30 The Real Seachange. (R, CC) 4.00 Animal Academy. (PG, R) 4.30 The Food Truck. (PG, R) 5.00 Country Calendar. (PG, R) 5.30 Lyndey And Herbie’s Movable Feast. (R)

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Shopping. (PG) 9.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 11.00 Zoom TV. (PG) 11.30 Motor Racing.

AHG Sprintcar Series. Battery All Types Southern Thunder Series.

12.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 1.30 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 2.30 Turtleman. (PG) 3.30 Gator Boys.

(PG, R) 4.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 1. Sydney v Essendon. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

7.15 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 1. Brisbane Lions v Collingwood. From the Gabba.

10.30 MOVIE: Buried. (MA15+, R) (2010) A man wakes trapped in a coffin. Ryan Reynolds.

12.30 Operation Repo. (M, R) 1.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 2.00 Swamp Men. (PG, R) 3.00 Hook, Line And Sinker.

(PG, R) 4.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 4.30 Motor Racing. AHG Sprintcar Series. Battery All Types Southern Thunder Series. Round 3. Replay.

From Perth Motorplex Speedway.

5.30 Home Shopping.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Dogstar. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 Heidi. (C, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 2.30 Search4hurt. (PG, CC) (Final) 3.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 3.30 America’s Got Talent. (PG, CC) (Final) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Snowflake, The White Gorilla. (PG, R) (2011) Claudia Abate.

7.45 MOVIE: Short Circuit.

(PG, R) (1986) 9.45 MOVIE: The Last Starfighter. (PG, R) (1984) 11.45 MOVIE: Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. (PG, R, CC) (1987) Christopher Reeve. 1.30 America’s Got Talent. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Robotomy. (M, R) 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 4.30 Tenkai Knights. (PG, R) 4.50 Digimon. (PG, R) 5.10 Thunderbirds. (R, CC) 5.30 Yu-GiOh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: April In Paris. (R, CC) (1952) 8.00 Shopping. 9.30 MOVIE: Wherever She Goes. (R) (1951) 11.00 MOVIE: Turned Out Nice Again. (R, CC) (1941) 12.40 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 1.10 MOVIE: Pat And Mike. (R, CC) (1952) 3.10 MOVIE: Ben-Hur. (PG, R, CC) (1959) Charlton Heston.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow.

(R, CC) Items are presented for appraisal.

8.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M, R, CC) A teenager is killed at a rave.

9.30 CSI: NY. (M, R, CC) A street vendor’s food truck explodes.

10.30 Unforgettable. (M, CC) A district attorney is murdered.

11.20 Golden Boy. (M, R, CC) 12.20 MOVIE: Meteor.

(PG, R, CC) (1979) Sean Connery.

2.20 MOVIE: Pat And Mike. (R, CC) (1952) Spencer Tracy.

3.10 Gideon’s Way. (PG, R) 4.10 MOVIE: Not Now, Comrade. (PG, R, CC) (1976) Ray Cooney, Windsor Davies.

7.00pm Football.

Round 1. Western Bulldogs v West Coast Eagles. Fox Sports 3 7.30pm Soccer. A-League.

Round 24. Sydney FC v Adelaide United. Fox Sports 4 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis star in True Lies

ONE 6.00 Football’s Greatest Managers. (R) 6.30 Football’s Greatest Teams. (R) 6.55 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Round 5. West Coast Fever v Adelaide Thunderbirds. Replay.

8.55 Swimming. Australian Championships. Day 1. Replay.

10.00 Where It All Began. (R, CC) 10.30 Big Fish, Small Boats. (R) 11.00 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 12.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. Round 5. Miami ePrix. Highlights. 1.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars.

2.00 To Be Advised. 3.00 International Fishing Series. 3.30 Megafactories. (R) 4.30 Reel Action. (R) 5.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 6.00 Garage Gold. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) Holmes investigates a bomb explosion.

9.30 Swimming. Australian Championships. Day 2.

11.00 Gang Related. (AV15+, R) 1.00 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 1.30 48 Hours. (M, R) 2.30 Cops. (PG, R) 3.30 Football’s Greatest Managers.

(R) 4.00 The Road To 2015. (R) 5.00 The Pits. (R, CC)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 12.00 Diagnosis Murder. (PG, R) 2.00 Brady Bunch.

(R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 The King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 Laverne & Shirley. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Marie starts treating Robert better than Ray. 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) Marie covers for Debra.

8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Guests include Meryl Streep.

9.30 Sex And The City.

(MA15+, R) Big pays a visit to New York.

10.50 Empire. (M, R, CC) 11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) 2.25 Everybody Loves Raymond.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 American Idol.

(PG, R) 4.00 Diagnosis Murder.

(PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping. (R) 5.30 Mass For You At Home. (CC)

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News.

9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News.

11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News.

12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Soccer.

(CC) A-League. Round 24. Western Sydney Wanderers v Melbourne City. Replay. 3.00 Urban Freestyler.

3.10 Ultimate Parkour Challenge.

(PG, R) 3.40 Venice 24/7. (PG, R, CC) 4.10 Beyond Survival. (PG, R) 5.05 Planet Sport. (R) 6.05 Urban Freestyler: Dan Magness. (R) 6.10 Knife Fight. (PG, R) 6.40 No Kitchen Required.

(PG, R) 7.30 If You Are The One. Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.30 Vikings. (R, CC) The Viking camp is awash with bitterness.

9.20 No Limit. (MA15+) Vincent battles the drone threat.

10.20 Orphan Black. (MA15+, R) 1.40 MOVIE: The Mermaid.

(MA15+, R) (2007) 3.45 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 NITV On The Road: Boomerang Festival. 11.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review.

12.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 2.00 Fusion Feasts.

2.30 Surviving. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint.

4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. (Final) 7.00 Unearthed.

7.30 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival.

8.30 Ningla A-Na. (M) A look at the activisim of the Black movements.

9.50 Custodians.

10.00 Yothu Yindi Tribute Concert.

11.30 Unearthed.

12.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 2.00 NITV On The Road: Saltwater Freshwater. (PG) 4.00 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC)

6.00 Big Ideas. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 Compass. 3.00 News. 3.30 Saturday Landline. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 The World This Week. (CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Catalyst. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. (CC) 10.30 Landline. (R) 11.00 News. 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 BBC World News. 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 3.00 BBC World News. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. (R) 5.00 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 0404

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Sunday, April 5 The Block Triple Threat WIN, 7pm Home renovations are stressful enough at the best of times, but when you combine that with being placed in competition with other super keen renovators and being followed around constantly by a camera crew who are watching your every move to play back to the nation, it’s not surprising sparks tend to fly on these reality TV shows. Tonight, join host Scott Cam and Challenge Master Shelley Craft for kitchen week. For Tim and Anastasia, it gets off to a rocky start, and Dea and Darren argue with Keith about their budget.

Meanwhile, the jury votes are questionable as one team is favoured and awarded the $5000 cash.

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Rome: The World’s First Superpower SBS ONE, 7.35pm Renowned as one of the world’s most romantic cities, Italy’s capital city, Rome, is a dream destination for many thanks to its beauty, rich history and fascinating European culture. For those of us who want to learn a little bit more about the place from the comfort of our own homes, this four-part series, starting tonight, is perfect viewing. Presented by award-winning actor Larry Lamb (Gavin and Stacey). A life-long Roman history geek, Larry traces the dramatic story of Rome’s spectacular rise from a city to a republic and then a mighty empire. It’s interesting and educational Sunday night viewing.

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Broadchurch ABC, 8.40pm Fans have become addicted to this British wed the crime thriller that has followed investigation to track down the killer of a ide town of the young boy in the small seaside ed up title. The second series picked munity where it left off, as the community ps with of Broadchurch came to grips the shocking fact that Joe Miller sband (Matthew Gravelle), the husband via of local cop Ellie Miller (Olivia d of the Colman, right), was accused hly boy’s death. In tonight’s highly anticipated final, decisions are nd made, truths are revealed and anged lives in Broadchurch are changed forever. The shocking truth about the Newbery Gillespie case is finally revealed. Not to be missed.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 10.00 Attitude. (R, CC) (Final) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week.

(R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Possum Wars. (PG, R, C) 1.00 Gardening Australia.

(R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) Hosted

by James Valentine.

2.00 Shakespeare Uncovered. (R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Show Me The Magic: Don McAlpine. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Restoration Home.

(R, CC) 5.00 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) A teen is linked to an old murder.

6.00 Home Shopping.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 11.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) Dr Oz looks at weight loss.

12.00 The Amazing Race.

(PG, R, CC) Hosted by Phil Keoghan.

2.00 World’s Strictest Parents.

(PG, R, CC) Two Aussie teens are sent to the US. 3.00 MOVIE: A Walton Easter.

(PG, R, CC) (1997) A family gathers for a wedding anniversary. Ellen Corby, Richard Thomas.

5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line.

(PG, R, CC)

6.00 Easter Sunrise Service. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Today. (CC) 10.00 The Bottom Line: Father Chris Riley. (PG, R, CC) Alex chats with Father Chris Riley.

10.30 NRL Sunday Footy Show.

(CC) Hosted by Peter Sterling.

1.30 MOVIE: Monkey Trouble.

(R, CC) (1994) A young girl adopts a light-fingered monkey and cures him of his thieving ways, to the annoyance of his owner.

Thora Birch, Harvey Keitel.

3.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 5. Sydney Roosters v Cronulla Sharks. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home.

7.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.00 Where It All Began. (CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 All 4 Adventure.

(PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) Guests include Terry Crews.

1.00 MOVIE: The Accidental Husband. (PG, R, CC) (2008) Uma Thurman.

3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew Bolt.

4.00 RPM. (CC) Race previews and reviews.

5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 The Book Club. (PG, CC) Hosted by Jennifer Byrne.

6.30 Compass: Easter In Jerusalem. (CC) Geraldine Doogue travels to Jerusalem.

7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Inside The Commons: Upstairs, Downstairs.

(CC) Part 2 of 4. Michael explores the upstairsdownstairs world of the UK’s House of Commons.

8.40 Broadchurch. (M, CC) (Final) The shocking truth about who killed the Sandbrook girls, and why, is finally revealed.

9.30 Fortitude. (MA15+, CC) In the wake of the attack on Doc Allardyce, her daughter Shirley goes missing.

10.20 Shaun Micallef’s MAD AS HELL. (M, R, CC) Host Shaun Micallef presents a round-up of important news stories of the week.

10.50 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Rob Brydon.

11.20 The Writers’ Room: New Girl. (PG, R, CC) A look at New Girl.

11.45 MOVIE: The Beguiled.

(M, R, CC) (1971) A girl shelters a wounded soldier. Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Highway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) A man suspected of driving under the influence of drugs, gets in trouble with his partner.

7.30 Highway Patrol.

(PG, R, CC) An officer is furious after a woman in an unregistered car deliberately disobeys him and drives off.

8.00 Border Patrol. (PG, CC) An irate Chinese tourist expounds her views on New Zealand after being caught bringing in a biosecurity threat.

8.30 Castle. (M, CC) After an astronaut taking part in a simulated mission to Mars is killed, Castle and Beckett investigate. However, in order to come to grips with the case, they are forced to don spacesuits and join the adventure.

9.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) After a baker is found dead, Castle and Beckett trace the murder to an Irish gang based on Staten Island.

10.30 MOVIE: The Sweetest Thing. (MA15+, R, CC) (2002) A woman who spent years avoiding men, suddenly meets her perfect match. Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Block Triple Threat.

(PG, CC) As the exterior begins to take shape, the jury votes are in, and it appears the results have been rigged in favour of one of the teams. Kitchen week gets off to a rocky start for Tim and Anastasia, even as Dea and Darren argue with Keith about their budget woes. Hosted

by Scott Cam. 8.30 60 Minutes. (CC) Current affairs program. Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley.

9.30 MOVIE: Contagion.

(M, R, CC) (2011) As a deadly virus slowly spreads throughout the world, the Centres for Disease Control must develop a vaccine before it is too late. However, claims of a possible homeopathic cure by a US conspiracy theorist threatens to make the situation worse. Matt Damon, Kate Winslet.

11.40 Anger Management.

(M, R, CC) One of Charlie’s patients from his prison anger-therapy group shows up on his doorstep.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday.

(CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public.

6.30 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Alex causes tension in the family.

Mitch and Cam get back from their honeymoon, but Cam seems to be having a tougher time reacclimatising to “real life” than Mitch.

7.00 Modern Family.

(PG, R, CC) Lily decides it is time for a new family portrait, as she is not in the one currently hanging over the mantel.

7.30 MOVIE: Thor. (PG, R, CC) (2011) After being cast out of the mythical realm of Asgard by his father for his overweening pride and arrogance, Thor, the god of thunder, finds himself bereft of his powers and forced to live among mortals. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman.

9.50 Empire. (M, CC) Jamal’s newfound drive and ambition threatens to stir up trouble.

10.50 MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Bees. (M, R, CC) (2008) Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah.

1.25 Broadchurch. (M, R, CC) 2.10 Fortitude. (MA15+, R, CC) 3.00 Inside The Commons.

(R, CC) 4.05 A Quiet Word With Shaun Micallef. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Would I Lie To You? (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Can We Help? (R, CC) 5.30 Best Of Collectors. (R, CC)

12.30 Home Shopping.

5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

12.10 Impractical Jokers.

(M, CC) 12.40 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 1.30 Spyforce. (PG, R) 2.30 Hot In Cleveland.

(PG, R, CC) 3.00 20/20. (M, R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG) 2.00 Home Shopping. (R) 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG) Religious program.

4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

SBS ONE 6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News.

7.00 Al Jazeera English News.

(CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News.

9.30 Greek News From Cyprus.

10.30 German News.

11.00 Spanish News.

12.00 Arabic News.

12.30 Turkish News.

1.00 Salvage Hunters.

(PG, R, CC) 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Football Asia. (CC) 4.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine. (CC) 5.00 World Of Cycling. (CC) 5.30 Singapore 1942: End Of Empire. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 2.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Rome: The World’s First Superpower: City Of Blood. (PG, CC) Part 1 of 4.

Larry Lamb traces the story of Rome’s transition from a city state to a republic, and eventually empire.

8.30 Jesus: Rise To Power: Messiahs. (M, CC) Part 1 of 3. Dr Michael Scott and a team of biblical scholars explore the rise of Christianity, uncovering how a small Jewish sect managed to co-opt one of the most powerful empires in the world.

9.30 MOVIE: Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. (M, R, CC) (1979) A young man, motivated as much by his attraction towards a fellow conspirator as his idealism, joins a resistance group opposed to the Roman occupation of Judea. His actions gain him an unexpected following, however, after he is mistaken for the Messiah. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin.

11.15 MOVIE: Welcome To The Sticks. (PG, R) (2008) Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix.

1.10 Mad Men. (PG, CC) 2.05 Mad Men. (M, CC) (Final) 3.00 First Australians.

(PG, R, CC) 3.55 Jerusalem: The Making Of A Holy City: Invasion, Invasion, Invasion.

(PG, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News.

5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence.

(R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks.

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6.35pm 22 Jump Street (2014) Comedy. Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill. Officers Schmidt and Jenko take on their former fake student identities to go undercover at a local college. (MA15+) Premiere

6.00pm The Simpsons. Using Grampa as a front, Lisa and Bart write their own Itchy & Scratchy cartoons. (PG) FOX8

8.30pm Dial H For Hitchcock. A fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. (PG) Biography

2.00pm Netball. ANZ Championship. Round 6.

Firebirds v Thunderbirds. Fox Sports 1

8.30pm Noah (2014) Adventure. Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone. Premiere 9.05pm Night At The Museum (2006) Comedy. Ben Stiller. Family

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 2.00 Ha Ha Hairies. (R, CC) 2.10 Ella The Elephant. (R, CC) 2.25 Rob The Robot. (R, CC) 2.40 Hilltop Hospital. (R, CC) 2.50 Yo Gabba Gabba! (R, CC) 3.15 dirtgirlworld.

(R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 4.25 Joe & Jack. (R, CC) 4.30 Let’s Go Pocoyo. (R, CC) 4.40 Bookaboo.

(R, CC) 5.00 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 5.25 Olivia And The Treasure Hunt.

(R, CC) 5.50 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 6.00 Octonauts. (R, CC) 6.15 Tree Fu Tom. (R, CC) 6.35 Octonauts.

(R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.40 Seconds From Disaster.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 MOVIE: The Twilight Saga: New Moon. (M, R, CC) (2009) 10.30 Tattoo Tales. (M, R, CC) 11.00 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. (M, R, CC) 11.50 Catfish: The TV Show. (PG, R, CC) 12.35 The Real Hustle: New Recruits. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Raw Comedy 2012. (M, R, CC) 2.05 News Update. (R) 2.10 Close. 5.00 What’s The Big Idea?

(R, CC) 5.05 Tilly And Friends. (R, CC) 5.15 Waybuloo. (R, CC) 5.35 The Magic Roundabout. (R, CC) 5.50 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.55 Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist.

(R, CC) 7.20 Canimals. (R) 7.25 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) (Final) 7.40 Grojband. (R, CC) 8.00 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 8.25 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 8.55 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 9.30 Yonderland. (R) 10.15 Yonderland. (PG, R) 11.00 Yonderland. 11.25 Yonderland.

(PG) 12.05 Yonderland. (R) 12.30 Nowhere Boys. (R, CC) 12.55 Nowhere Boys. (PG, CC) 2.20 Nowhere Boys. (CC) 2.45 Deadly 60. (R, CC) 3.15 Leonardo. (PG, R, CC) 3.45 Studio 3. 3.50 Sorry, I’ve Got No Head. (R, CC) 4.15 Roy. (R, CC) 4.45 Big Babies. (R, CC) 5.00 Studio 3. 5.05 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 5.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 6.00 Dragons: Defenders Of Berk. (R, CC) 6.25 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 6.30 The Haunting Hour. (PG, CC) 7.15 Wolfblood. (R, CC) 7.40 Annoying Orange. (R, CC) 7.55 Figaro Pho. (R, CC) 8.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 8.25 Good Game: Pocket Edition.

(PG, R, CC) 8.30 Total Drama Island. (R, CC) 9.10 Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (PG, R, CC) 9.35 Rage.

(PG, R) 2.10 Close.

6.30pm Gogglebox Australia. (PG) LifeStyle 8.30pm Law & Order. When a family of four is found murdered in their home, detectives Lupo and Bernard discover their deaths may be related to one of the family’s troubled friends. (M) TV1

8.30pm Serial Killers. After 15 years on the run, repeatedly escaping justice, Robert Spahalski does something completely unexpected – he hands himself in and admits to five unsolved murders.

(MA15+) Crime & Investigation

3.00pm Football. AFL. Round 1. Adelaide v North Melbourne. Fox Footy 7.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Round 5. Roosters v Sharks.

Fox Sports 1 Ben Stiller stars in Night at the Museum

10.30pm Epic Bars. (PG) Discovery

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Amazing Facts. (PG) 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Leading The Way. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R) 1.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG) 3.30 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 4.00 The Bunker. (PG) (Final) 4.30 Bush Pilots. (PG) 5.30 Mighty Ships. (R, CC) 6.30 Vicious. (PG, R) 7.00 Keeping Up Appearances. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Escape To The Country.

(R) Jonnie helps a young family find a home.

9.30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features. Nick looks at a Victorian house in Bath.

10.30 Best Houses Australia. (PG) 11.00 Front Of House.

11.30 Bush Pilots. (PG, R) 12.30 The Bunker. (PG, R) 1.00 The Great Australian Doorstep. (PG, R) 1.30 Best Houses Australia. (PG, R) 2.00 Front Of House. (R) 2.30 Travel Oz. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 Neighbours At War. (PG, R) 4.30 The Real Seachange. (R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping.

9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Urban Tarzan. (PG) 12.00 Triathlon. Ironman Asia-Pacific Championship Melbourne. 1.00 Football. AFL. Round 1. St Kilda v Greater Western Sydney. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. 4.00 Seinfeld. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 MOVIE: Look Who’s Talking. (PG, R, CC) (1989) John Travolta, Kirstie Alley.

7.30 MOVIE: Look Who’s Talking Too. (PG, R) (1990) A wisecracking baby deals with his new sister. John Travolta, Kirstie Alley.

9.15 MOVIE: K-19: The Widowmaker. (M, R, CC) (2002) Officers aboard a crippled Soviet nuclear submarine, in the North Atlantic, try to avert a catastrophe. Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard.

12.15 Locked Up Abroad: Saddam’s Iraq. (M) 1.30 Urban Tarzan. (PG, R) 2.00 Fifth Gear. (PG, R) 3.00 Motor Mate. (R) 4.30 Motor Mate. (R)

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes.

7.30 The Skinner Boys. (C, CC) 8.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (R) 11.00 Rabbids.

(PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz.

2.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 4.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: The Adventures Of Milo & Otis. (R) (1986) Dudley Moore.

8.30 The Big Bang Theory.

(PG, R, CC) Bernadette delivers an ultimatum.

9.30 MOVIE: Seven.

(AV15+, R, CC) (1995) Two cops investigate themed murders. Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman.

12.00 Arrow. (AV15+, R, CC) 2.00 The Darren Sanders Show. (M, R) 2.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 3.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.00 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 Tasty Conversations. (R, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: Twice Round The Daffodils. (PG, R, CC) (1962) 8.30 Shopping. 10.00 MOVIE: Went The Day Well? (PG, R, CC) (1942) 12.00 Cycling. Men’s National Road Series. Tour de Perth.

Highlights. 12.30 Garden Gurus.

(R, CC) 1.00 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.30 MOVIE: Parrish. (PG, R) (1961) 4.20 MOVIE: Easter Parade. (R, CC) (1948) 6.30 River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way. (PG) 7.30 Kalgoorlie Cops.

(PG, R, CC) A look at the Kalgoorlie cops.

8.30 MOVIE: The Time Machine. (M, R, CC) (2002) A 19th-century inventor creates a machine which propels him 800,000 years into the future. Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law. 10.30 Cold Case. (M, R, CC) 11.30 Longmire. (M, CC) (Final) 12.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Enjoying Everyday Life With Joyce Meyer. (PG) 5.00 Seaway. (PG, R, CC)

ONE 6.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 7.00 Healthy Homes TV. (R, CC) 7.30 Fit ‘N’ Flexed. (R) 8.00 Sport Science. (PG, R) 9.00 Escape With ET. (R, CC) 9.30 Reel Action.

(R) 10.00 Garage Gold. (PG, R) 10.30 Swimming. Australian Championships. Day 2. Replay.

12.00 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Round 6. Queensland Firebirds v Adelaide Thunderbirds. 2.00 Car Torque. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Extreme Collectors. (PG, R) 3.00 Extreme Collectors. (R) 3.30 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.30 International Fishing Series. (R) 5.00 Bowerbirds: The Art Of Seduction.

(R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge. (PG, R) 8.30 Cops. Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 Swimming. Australian Championships. Day 3.

From Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.

11.00 Sons Of Anarchy. (AV15+, R) 12.00 RPM. (R, CC) 1.00 48 Hours.

(M, R, CC) 2.00 International Fishing Series. (R) 2.30 The Pits.

(PG, R, CC) 4.30 Wild Racers. (PG, R) 5.00 Reel Action. (R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, CC) 10.30 Brady Bunch. (R) 11.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 2.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Homer is kicked out of the house.

7.30 Futurama. (PG, R, CC) Fry and Bender are fired.

8.00 The Simpsons. (R, CC) Mr Burns’ long-lost son reappears.

8.30 MOVIE: The Love Guru.

(M, R) (2008) A man tries to break into the self-help business. Mike Myers, Jessica Alba.

10.20 Wilfred. (M) 10.50 Becker. (PG, R, CC) Becker is asked to speak at a graduation ceremony.

11.20 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 1.30 Mork & Mindy. (R) 2.00 The Brady Bunch. (R) 3.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation.

(PG, R) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News.

8.30 Macedonian News. 9.00 PopAsia. (PG) 11.00 Portuguese News. 11.30 Croatian News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News.

1.00 Urban Freestyler. (R) 1.10 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) (Final) 2.00 Foodie Planet. (R) 3.05 Toughest Place To Be A… (PG, R, CC) 4.05 Bunk. (PG, R) 4.35 19 Reasons To Love If You Are The One: Bitesize. (R) 4.40 The Pitch.

(PG, R) 5.35 Brazil’s Next Top Model. (PG, R) 6.30 Parks And Recreation. (PG, R) 7.00 Benidorm Bastards.

(PG, R, CC) 7.30 If You Are The One. 8.30 South Park. (M, R, CC) Cartman steals thousands of ballot papers.

9.00 Cockroaches.

9.30 A-League Extra Time.

Highlights of the weekend’s A-League matches.

10.30 Cycling. UCI World Tour.

Tour Of Flanders. From Belgium.

2.00 Death Row. (M, R, CC) 3.00 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Bushwhacked! 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Soccer. (CC) A-League.

Round 24. Western Sydney Wanderers v Melbourne City. From Pirtek Stadium, Sydney. 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Fusion With Casey Donovan. (CC) 1.30 Our Spirit To C-Gen. 2.00 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.00 Rugby League. 2014 Murri Carnival. 4.00 Toonooba Voices. 4.30 Yarrabah! The Musical. 5.00 Te Kaea 2014. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review.

6.00 Awaken. Hosted by Stan Grant.

7.00 Ngurra.

7.30 Fit First. (PG) 8.00 The Blues: The Road To Memphis. (PG) The story behind blues music.

9.30 MOVIE: The Strength Of Water. (M) (2009) The lives of twins are changed by a stranger.

Isaac Barber, Hato Paparoa.

11.00 Good Tucker.

11.30 Ngurra.

12.00 Volumz. (PG)

6.00 Big Ideas Arts. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Big Ideas. (R) 1.00 News.

1.30 #TalkAboutIt. 2.00 News. 2.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 Compass. (PG, R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) 5.00 News. 5.30 News Update. 5.35 The Mix. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Australian Story. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 News Update. (CC) 7.35 The World This Week. (R, CC) 8.00 Mawson: Science And Survival. (R, CC) 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 10.00 News. (CC) 10.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 Big Ideas. (R) 12.00 Big Ideas Arts. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.00 Big Ideas Arts. (PG, R, CC) 0504

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) This week you have every reason to feel strong and optimistic. A loving influence is all around you.

Although a recent conversation had you wondering about the intentions of a friend, these now become clear. Midweek you are offered an insight into the feelings of someone close. Listen carefully to do both of you a favour. Gossip is not something that you want to be listening to. Facts and figures keep you on the right path.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Why do others always disturb what could be a nice quiet week? Is this a regular pattern in your life? Look on the brighter side. It is lovely to be needed so much and be so much in demand.

Although others may at times get on your nerves, it is not their intention. Look forward to a memorable weekend when magic happens. Accepting life as it flows brings you to a good place this weekend.

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charming and eventful week is ahead. That is, unless you let a fly get into your ointment. Yes, someone may try to stir things up. If you ignore them then they cannot get to you.

In any case, haven’t you more loving and relaxing things to do? Make midweek special by giving someone close a treat. Put your best face on and relax. If you haven’t had an invitation by Thursday, then issue one yourself.

certain amount of chaos at the moment can become confusing.

Will things ever settle properly again? Yes, they will, but you need some patience. Other people have to act before you get the chance to make your entrance.

Soon your cue will come. Be ready with the right words and have confidence in your talents. When an emotional fog clears near the weekend, all will be revealed.

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one needs a lighter approach this week. Perhaps they seem, in general, to be insensitive.

They are not! Reading between the lines is something that you excel at. This is a time to use that talent. A younger family member also needs some extra attention. The importance of your input will not be known until much later. That you are important to others cannot be disputed. That you feel this certainly can.

LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) Love may not always come when we wish it to. Of course, being born under your sign you always want it to! What you need now is not so much patience but determination. By getting out and being with people something is sure to come along. Will it be a lifelong love?

Probably not, but it could be fun. Being optimistic and jolly makes you much more fun to be with. You don’t feel gay? Well, a sour expression will impress no-one!

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) When passions are aroused it is not always easy to get them to calm down again. A hornets’ nest may have been stirred into life. What should you do about it?

Take yourself out of the picture and keep a low profile? Possibly. On the other hand you could have that long overdue conversation. Your choice. Life really should be simple but it rarely is. We are all creatures of emotion and flesh. Things go well, things go wrong. It seems like shifting sand.

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you had to put everyone in your life in order of popularity, it could be a struggle. Everything seems to be on an even keel, so why the feeling of something being missing? Something wants to stir you into action and show you that there is much more to life than what you are experiencing at the moment. Ask your friends what they would do if they were you. You will be surprised at their answers. Can there be some good suggestions here?

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you thinking. Something that you thought far behind you is creeping back again. Is this good or bad? Can it be that simple? No. Until it is clear what you really want, there is no definite answer.

Look ahead at where you want to be in five years’ time. How does the current situation fit in, if at all? A great chunk of imagination mixed together with a spoonful of possibility sees you heading in the right direction this weekend.

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By ploughing ahead with your own pet projects this week you could be upsetting someone close. Would they like to be consulted?

Maybe they expected to be working alongside you? A bit of compromise is needed unless you really don’t want them along.

Here comes the chance to be a hero, however, don’t be a martyr! There really isn’t time to look back. Even so that does not stop you from learning from the past.

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the beginning of this week you seem to have some niggling problems. By the weekend you may wonder what you were worrying about. What comes in between? Determination and confidence, that is what! Not only do you need to show these traits but you will be doing others a favour. Instead of thinking that you can achieve nothing, think that you can achieve everything.

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others telling you what you should be doing and where you should be going? In a creative week, this may not be what you want to hear. If you feel like shutting out the world and getting on by yourself, then do it. Allowing yourself the time and space to do your own thing is now essential. Live with others but not for them. When your world is your own it is possible to achieve great things.

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your day with US actor Zach Braff (above) from TV show Scrubs who turns 40.

Where you seek adventure you will also find romance, Aries. The urge to move forward is strong and even urgent.

We all have our best times and this could be one of yours. Be prepared to shine.

Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Also celebrating is Noah actor Russell Crowe (pictured below), 51. Be ready to see real progress now and in the months ahead, Aries. There is more balance coming into your life. By that I do not mean that things will get boring, because they won’t! Be at your best.

Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: A lovely phase of your future is now ahead of you, Aries. If you thought that the best had come and gone, think again. All you have to do now is to look out for the best chances of success and grab them!

Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Take a long, hard look at where you are going, Aries. Make any adjustments now rather than later. Expect others to be flexible if that means changing place of home or work. The heart must follow the mind.

Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! An amazing rush of chances to shine are coming your way. Already you have had a taste of this, Aries. Bump up your social life now to gather a supporting cast!

When things start to happen they are best shared.

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Over and above your ambitions is a need to belong, Aries. It is so good that you know your hopes and dreams, many people do not.

Take up the sword of opportunity and cut down all of the negative thoughts.

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! As a song or film can bring back memories, so, this year, you bring back an old friend. They may not be physically present. Even so they are able to inspire and lead, Aries. Your ideas are very much alive.

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Down: 2 Tonnage; 3 Rapiers; 4 Long-suffering; 6 Drilled; 7 Artisan; 8 Landau; 13 Boatman; 14 Adverse; 15 Tinpot; 16 Release; 17 Elation.

QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Sanction; 5 Solo; 9 Burn; 10 Delegate; 11 Adieu; 12 Edifice; 13 Presentiments; 18 Maritime; 19 Drop; 20 Outcast; 21 Image; 22 Sack; 23 Advocate.

Down: 2 Asunder; 3 Confess; 4 Overestimated; 6 Oration; 7 Oneness; 8 Tedium; 13 Pompous; 14 Erratic; 15 Entrap; 16 Endemic; 17 Thought.

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The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test 1. 22 2. South America 3. Love and beauty 4. December 1991 5. Nosebleed 6. The Sunday after Easter 7. Maria 8. Muddy or cloudy 9. Queensland 10. The English rock band Mott the Hoople. The lyrics had to be changed before it played on UK radio and television, deleting the reference to British store Marks & Spencer. 11. Five (Australia is the sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, USA and Brazil) 12. Joern Utzon 13. “If You Don’t Know Me By Now,” by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, 1972.

It originally was written for Patti LaBelle, but she didn’t release it and only started using the song in her concerts in 1982.

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